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Submission + - Acer Rethinks the "Tablet Bubble", Launching $99 Tablet (digitalspy.com)
retroworks writes: "In August 2011, Acer Chairman JT Wang declared that the consumer affection for tablets had already begun to cool, basically labelling it a fad (Slashdot). What a difference a year (and a half) makes. Acer now plans to introduce a "category killer" $99 tablet. "In the past few months, we've made project roadmap changes in response to big changes in the tablet market," according to a source at the Wall Street Journal [Eva Dou blog] . "The launch of the Nexus 10 has changed the outlook for what makes competitive pricing." Acer is aiming the new tablet at emerging markets, competing with Chinese "white box" tablets (already available in Shenzhen at $45 each) ."


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Music and Technology Professor Andy Brick Conducts Video Game Symphony in Omaha, Nebraska
Professor Andy Brick (Distinguished Industry Associate Professor, Music and Technology) from the College of Arts & Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology conducted a performance of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony, a popular concert series featuring virtuoso renditions of orchestral video game scores, on October 12, 2013 at the Holland Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
Professor Brick is the Music Director and Principal Conductor of PLAY!, a highly successful series of multimedia-rich concerts that has entertained audiences around the world. Performed by full orchestra and choir, the concert features award-winning music from a catalogue of blockbuster video game titles. To accompany the scores, crowd-pleasing screens throughout the concert space highlight memorable moments from the video games.
"This spectacular concert attracts people of all generations to some of the world's greatest concert halls," says Maestro Andy Brick, who made history by conducting the world's first symphonic game music concert, with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, in 2003. Sold-out venues and enthusiastic crowds have been a hallmark of PLAY! since the series was founded five years ago, demonstrating that video game fans and music lovers alike are intrigued by this inventive performance.
Andy Brick is a prolific symphonist. He has composed, conducted and orchestrated music for such blockbuster film and video game titles as The Little Mermaid II, The Lady and The Tramp II, Sim City: Rush Hour, Stranglehold, Sims 2, Warhammer, Civilization V, and Mafia 2. His score for the animated short "Runaway" helped that film earn a 2012 Academy Award nomination and his score for the independent film SHIFT can be heard as part of the permanent film exhibition at the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2003 Brick set a historic milestone conducting the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in the world's first symphonic game music concert at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig Germany. Since then he has performed in concert with many world renowned orchestras including The Seattle Symphony, The National Symphony of the United State, The North Carolina Symphony, The Vancouver Symphony, and The Calgary Philharmonic. At Stevens, Brick has been honored as the 2013 recipient of the Student Government's Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award and is currently the Director of the Music and Technology Program.
For more information about Professor Brick, visit his Web site http://www.andybrick.com.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University®, is a premier, private research university situated in Hoboken, N.J. overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Founded in 1870, technological innovation has been the hallmark and legacy of Stevens' education and research programs for more than 140 years. Within the university's three schools and one college, more than 6,100 undergraduate and graduate students collaborate with more than 350 faculty members in an interdisciplinary, student-centric, entrepreneurial environment to advance the frontiers of science and leverage technology to confront global challenges. Stevens is home to three national research centers of excellence, as well as joint research programs focused on critical industries such as healthcare, energy, finance, defense and STEM education and coastal sustainability. The university is consistently ranked among the nation's elite for return on investment for students, career services programs and mid-career salaries of alumni. Stevens is in the midst of a 10-year strategic plan, The Future. Ours to Create., designed to further extend the Stevens legacy to create a forward-looking and far-reaching institution with global impact.

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Arts Calendar
Second Annual Northfield Film Festival
Beat the heat and enjoy a summer movie! This years' series are four Hitchcock films; free and open to the public.
This event takes place each week on Tuesday from July 9th, 2013 to July 30th, 2013.
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The Cannon Valley Elder Collegium and Carleton College are again pleased to offer the Northfield Film Festival. The first movie, Vertigo, with James Stewart and Kim Novak, is on July 9. The others are Shadow of a Doubt, July 16; North by Northwest, July 23; and Psycho, July 30.
Each movie will be followed the morning after by a seminar led by faculty experts, 9:30-11:30 AM, also at the Weitz Center. Registration for these seminars begins on June 15 at the Northfield Senior Center, and $25 covers all four movies. The first seminar will be led by Carol Donelan, Chair of Cinema and Media Studies, Carleton.
To register or for more information, visit the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium Web site
Sponsored by Office of the Director of the Arts and the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium. Contact: Rich Noer, Cannon Valley Elder Collegium, x4383
Office of the Director of the Arts and the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium Second Annual Northfield Film Festival


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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Bud Light: Real Men of Genius - Hopeless ND Fan
6 comments:
- Corey said...
cracked up laughing at the BC has better christians comment.
Good Stuff!
- October 16, 2007 9:40 AM
- WingRG said...
Now, this is hilarious ... I think that next time a marketing position opens up at Anheiseur (sic) Busch they should hire whoever did this without even interviewing him. This is way better than anything else Bud Light does for their ads.
- October 16, 2007 10:42 AM
- Crazyswordsman said...
Except that they're not the winningest program of all time. We are.
- October 16, 2007 11:42 AM
- TitleIX said...
that was funny. how did they get the real men of genius guu's voice imitated so well?
and, my favorite part....
the last pic with the young studs in the corner wearing their button-down shirts open with short shorts, cowboy hats and ties. either WAY hot, or WAY gay.
You make the call
- October 16, 2007 3:30 PM
- Merrick 561 said...
Am I the only one who notied that during the "when the Irish loose to yet another grosly inferior opponent" they show a Picture of us stomping the shit out of the 47-21?
Just How are we inferior, We are 20-14-1 all time and lead them in # of wins AND Winning Percentage haha. but still a great piece
- October 16, 2007 4:38 PM
- dtro said...
I think that was part of the joke, the Michigan scoreboard. That was pretty funny stuff
- October 17, 2007 1:24 AM


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Imagine one of your co-workers disappeared during her shift. Imagine the chaos that ensues as everyone rushes to find her. Imagine the worry as you wonder whether or not she's still alive. Imagine if you find out that the kidnapper may have wanted YOU instead.
That's the scenario that Gabie faces in April Henry's The Night She Disappeared. Quiet Gabie didn't think it would be a big deal when she switched shifts at Pete's Pizza with the boisterous Kayla. After Kayla disappears while making a delivery to a nonexistent address, Gabie learns from Drew (the only other person working that night) that the caller asked for her first. Gabie feels a connection to Kayla, not necessarily because they worked together, but because it should have been her. Convinced that Kayla is still alive, Gabie works with Drew to find the missing girl before it's too late.
'You know what the strangest thing is?" I whisper. 'I feel like she's alive. I'm not talking about her spirit. I'm talking about the real Kayla. It feels like she's alive.
This book definitely had me sprinting to the end–I just had to know what happened! It's told from multiple points of view as well as with police reports and other notes from the investigation which, while they didn't necessarily help you piece together the mystery, was an interesting way of breaking up the story. I do admit for a minute there, things got a little farfetched, but all in all I thought this book was difficult to put down. If you like thrillers and/or mysteries, you may enjoy The Night She Disappeared. But…uhm…in real life you should probably leave chasing the bad guys down to the police. I'm just saying. 🙂


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Perry: Romney abortion flip was for 'convenience'
GREENVILLE, S.C.—Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that Mitt Romney changed his position on legalized abortion out of political convenience, one of the sharpest allegations leveled yet in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary.
Romney, who had supported legalized abortion while Massachusetts governor, says he changed his mind after weighing legislation that "would have created new embryos for the purpose of destroying them."
Perry, who is struggling to keep his presidential hopes alive, has criticized Romney before, but not always so pointedly. He told an anti-abortion forum in Greenville, S.C., that it's hard to understand how a public official could change his views on something as fundamental as abortion in his 50s, after decades to think about it.
"This is a decision that Gov. Romney made for political convenience, not an issue of his heart," Perry said.
Perry has shifted his own views on abortion somewhat. He recently said he no longer supports legal abortions in cases of rape and incest.
"If you're going to be pro-life," he said Wednesday, "then you've got to be pro-life all the way."
Presidential contenders Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum also spoke at the forum, and Ron Paul spoke by video feed from Washington. All three said human life begins at conception.
Romney declined to attend the "Presidential Pro-life Forum."
Gingrich, the former House speaker, said, "we are fully human upon conception" and that all constitutional rights "should attach at that moment."
Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, said he doesn't merely believe human life begins at conception, he knows it. "It's a biological fact," he said.
Paul, a Texas congressman, said he delivered thousands of babies during his years in medical practice. The invention of the ultra-sound, he said, made it far easier to show pregnant women the human life growing inside them.


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Douglas Adams
Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001) was a cult British comic radio dramatist, amateur musician and author, most notably of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Adams was a self-declared "radical atheist", though he used the term for emphasis, so that he would not be asked if he in fact meant agnostic. He stated in an interview with American Atheists that this made things easier, but most importantly that it conveyed the fact that he really meant it, had thought about it a great deal, and that it was an opinion he held seriously. He was convinced that there is no God, having never seen one shred of evidence to convince him otherwise, and devoted himself instead to secular causes such as environmentalism. Despite this, he did state in the same interview that he was "fascinated by religion." [...] "I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing." His fascination he ascribed to the fact that so many "otherwise rational... intelligent people... nevertheless take it [the existence of God] seriously".
Adams is credited with introducing a fan and later friend of his, the zoologist Richard Dawkins, to Dawkins' future wife, Lalla Ward, who had played the part of Romana in Doctor Who.
- . . . imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
- As quoted in Richard Dawkins' Eulogy for Douglas Adams
- So, I was already familiar with and (I'm afraid) accepting of, the view that you couldn't apply the logic of physics to religion, that they were dealing with different types of 'truth'. (I now think this is baloney, but to continue...) What astonished me, however, was the realization that the arguments in favor of religious ideas were so feeble and silly next to the robust arguments of something as interpretative and opinionated as history. In fact they were embarrassingly childish. They were never subject to the kind of outright challenge which was the normal stock in trade of any other area of intellectual endeavor whatsoever. Why not? Because they wouldn't stand up to it.


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Despite shooting over 50 percent from the floor and hitting 14 threes as a team, Southeastern suffered its first loss of the season, 89-80, to Dallas Baptist on Tuesday night in Dallas, Texas.
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 4-1 on the season heading into the St. Mary's Thanksgiving Classic where they will face Emporia State at 5 p.m. on Nov. 29 and Central Missouri at 5 p.m. on Nov. 30. The games will be played in San Antonio, Texas.
SE put three players in double figures led by John Balwigaire who posted a season-high 21 points, while Taylor Smaller and Quinton Threadgill each turned in 18 points.
Balwigaire was 7-of-13 from the field with three three-point buckets, while Smaller hit 6-of-13 along with six threes and Threadgill shot 6-of-8 and 5-of-7 from long range.
That was unfortunately not enough to overcome the night the Patriots' Jonathan Perry posted, hitting 15-of-20 from the field with five threes to go with a 12-for-14 night at the free throw line and finish with 47 points. He was the only DBU player in double-digits.
As a team, SE held a shooting advantage by hitting 53.8 percent of its shots, while the Patriots shot 51.8 percent, while both squads also shot better than 45 percent from behind the arc.
With both teams making shots, neither team had much in the way of rebounds with the clubs each posting 25 boards.
SE was led by Smaller and Urald King who each tallied five rebounds, while DBU's Perry completed a double-double with 10 boards.
Threadgill dished out a team-best four assists as the Storm finished with 15 on the night, but struggled to take care of the ball, committing 20 turnovers which led to a 34-6 advantage for DBU in points off those miscues.
SE trailed in the major analysis categories, with DBU also holding the edge in second chance points and points in the paint.
The Patriots wasted little time getting out in front in the game, pushing its lead to seven points before the first media timeout of the ball game.
They would lead for the rest of the first half, pushing the edge out to 14 points before SE whittled away and scored the last four points of the half to trail 37-30 at the break.
The second half started out worse than the first as the seven point deficit ballooned to a 54-32 gap when DBU opened on a 17-2 run.
The Storm trailed by 18 points with 10:39 to play when they began chipping away at the deficit, closing out a 25-11 run with nine-straight points in just over a minute to make the score 77-73 with 3:55 to play.
SE would still trail by four with 2:51 to go, but the Patriots would score the next seven points to make the score 86-75 with 26 seconds to play and the Storm would go on to fall 89-80.


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In the first licensed Adventure Time video game, Finn and Jake wake up one morning to find their trash stolen by the Ice King. Jake couldn't care less about half-eaten bananas, crumpled up burrito wrappers, and old chicken diapers – but when they find out the Ice King is using their stolen goods to construct a Garbage Princess, the heroes embark on a fantastical adventure to teach him a lesson!
Working alongside the game's developer is the series' creator Pendleton Ward, who is designing a new storyline and quests for the game.
Adventure Time is the pop culture sensation, Emmy-nominated, top-rated show among kids, and its popularity continues to soar both on air and at retail. The series follows Finn, an adventure-seeking kid and Jake, his shape-shifting canine best friend, on their adventures in the Land of Ooo. The awesome duo save princesses, battle the notorious princess-kidnapper, the Ice King, party in Lumpy Space, fight in dungeons, and even befriend Marceline the Vampire Queen. Since the start of its fourth season, Adventure Time is the #1 program on Mondays on all television with kids 6-11.
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For a moment on Thursday, it looked like Jay Cutler could be ready to make his return from a high-ankle sprain after getting in a limited practice session. However, that did not turn out to be the case, leaving Josh McCown as the Chicago Bears starter for at least one more week.
The Bears did fantasy owners a huge favor by ruling Cutler out early, enabling both his owners, and anyone who wanted to gamble on McCown facing a lousy Cowboys secondary, a clear situation. What is going to be less clear is the weather for Monday night.
Wunderground.com's current forecast is for it to be cold with winds around 15 miles per hour. While games have been played under windier conditions, those types of conditions can have an effect on the passing game. Also keep in mind that at this point in his career, McCown doesn't have a huge arm.
Keep an eye on the reports. If the forecasts for Monday don't look promising on Sunday morning, you may want to consider an alternative, even with the good matchup.
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Palmer's elbow flares again
One of those alternatives would likely be the red-hot Carson Palmer. As I mentioned in the Rams-Cardinals matchup, Palmer has put up three straight games over 20 fantasy points. Those three games came against mediocre or bad pass defenses however, meaning Palmer was going to have tougher sledding regardless.
But news has now come out that Palmer is dealing with an elbow injury, which by his own admission, affected him in last week's contest against the Eagles. Also keep in mind that Palmer's right elbow has given him problems over the years.
We would be shocked if Palmer actually sat out the contest with the Cardinals in the NFC wild card hunt. But that doesn't mean he'll be effective. The Eagles lousy secondary has been gifting good outings to almost everyone this year, so a hurt Palmer could still post a solid game against them. Meanwhile, the Rams have allowed the tenth-fewest fantasy points to quarterbacks.
Owners who want to ride the hot streak should consider other options. A tough matchup combined with a quarterback's elbow injury is a recipe for fantasy disappointment.
The Raiders RB situation
Rashad Jennings suffered a concussion at the end of the Raiders-Cowboys game on Thanksgiving but has been getting in limited practices. That makes it more likely he'll be cleared before a tough matchup with the New York Jets' dominating run defense. Darren McFadden (ankle) looks very dicey to play, so if Jennings does suit up, he'll get most of the work.
The McFadden injury actually provides a handcuffing opportunity. Marcel Reece would likely be the guy to own if Jennings can't get cleared or suffers a set back ala Jordan Reed last week. He wouldn't be a great play against the Jets, but if you don't have another RB option, it's better than starting no one.


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Asia Society Arts and Museum Network Launched At U.S.-China Forum On the Arts and Culture In Beijing
Contact: Elaine Merguerian, 212-327-9313
Beijing, November 15, 2012 — Fifteen museum directors from across the United States will meet with their counterparts at Chinese museums during the U.S.-China Forum on the Arts and Culture, November 15–17, 2012, in Beijing, which aims to advance cultural understanding between the United States and China.
The event marks the formal launch of the Asia Society Arts and Museum Network,a new five-year initiative of Asia Society designed to strengthen arts communities across Asia and encourage collaboration and exchange between art institutions and professionals in Asia and the United States. The initiative is the first effort of its kind, and will lead up to a major summit next October in Hong Kong, where Asia Society recently opened a new cultural center and exhibition space designed by architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.
"There has been an enormous increase in the number of museums in China and there is a great desire on their part to build partnerships with American museums and understand more about how museums can become larger cultural centers in their communities," says Asia Society Museum Director Melissa Chiu. "The launch of the Arts and Museum Network at the U.S.-China Forum on the Arts and Culture is the beginning of a series of conversations between museum directors in the United States and in Asia."
Participants from the United States are: Stephen Allee, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), Maxwell Anderson, Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas), Neal Benezra, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco), Melissa Chiu, Asia Society Museum (New York), Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Frye Art Museum (Seattle), Derek Gillman, Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Dorothy Kosinski, The Phillips Collection (Washington, DC), Dan Monroe, Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA),
Jock Reynolds, Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven), Jennifer Russell, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Roxana Velasquez, The San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego), Olga Viso, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Adam Weinberg, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Jay Xu, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (San Francisco) and Julián Zugazagoitia, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City).
Chinese participants include: Mr. Bao Dongbo, Director, Hubei Museum, Mr. Bao Zewei, Director, Zhuhai Gu Yuan Arts Museum, Mr. Chen Jianning, Deputy Director, Guangdong Art Museum, Mr. Chen Xiejun, Director, Shanghai Museum, Mr. Cheng Jianzheng, Director, Shaanxi History Museum, Mr. Fan Di'an, Director, National Art Museum of China, Mr. Fan Feng, Director, Wuhan Art Museum, Mr. Gong Mingguang, Director, Shanghai Contemporary Arts Museum, Mr. Guo Xiaoling, Director, Capital Museum, Mr. Lu Zhangshen, Director, National Museum of China, Ms. Nan Nan, Deputy Director, Today's Art Museum, Ms. Shao Shan, Deputy Director, Guangdong Art Museum, Mr. Shan Jixiang, Director, The Palace Museum, Mr. Wang Huangsheng, Director, Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and Mr. Zhang Wenjun, Director, Henan Museum.
The Forum will open with a series of welcome events including a dinner hosted by U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a series of discussions and preview an exciting new artistic collaboration between Pan Gongkai, artist and President of China's Central Academy of Fine Arts, and American photographer Clifford Ross.
About Asia Society Museum
Asia Society Museum organizes groundbreaking exhibitions of traditional, modern and contemporary Asian and Asian American art. The Museum is known for its Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Collection of masterpiece-quality traditional Asian works and for its cutting-edge Contemporary Art Collection of videos and new media art by Asian and Asian American artists. The permanent collections are on occasional view.
Asia Society Museum was one of the first American museums to establish a program of contemporary Asian art in the early 1990s, and was the first U.S. museum to organize solo shows of now widely recognized artists Montien Boonma, Cai Guo-Qiang, Dinh Q. Lê, Yuken Teruya, and Zhang Huan.
The Museum is located on Park Avenue in New York City; its exhibitions are shown at Asia Society's new cultural centers in Hong Kong and Houston, and in museums around the world.
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The 2011 Rangers, gunning for a repeat run to World Series, were led in relief appearances by Neftali Feliz, Darren Oliver, Mark Lowe, Yoshinori Tateyama, and Arthur Rhodes.
Think about that.
It's not as if the club had a Phillies-like rotation full of horses.
Knowing that the club needed to be a lot stronger out of the bullpen down the stretch and into October, Texas gave up Chris Davis, Tommy Hunter, Robbie Erlin, and Joe Wieland on the final two days of July for Koji Uehara and Mike Adams, and a relief corps was instantly remade.
And not just for three months, since Uehara and Adams were controllable for an extra year as well.
This year, the Rangers will add two impact arms to the bullpen after the season is underway. And it won't cost a controllable, high-upside corner bat, or a controllable back-of-rotation innings-eater, or two promising pitching prospects on the doorstep to the big leagues.
Feliz should join the bullpen sometime in the season's middle third. And so should Joakim Soria.
And both are under club control for the next three years.
There might even be a third impact arm added to the bullpen at mid-season, should Colby Lewis return and supplant someone from the rotation, as expected, but Feliz and Soria are pretty sure bets.
Soria may not be a completely familiar name to the casual fan, but neither were Adams and Uehara – closing games for the Royals is probably as far off the front page as pitching in middle relief for the Padres or Orioles – and he's been one of baseball's best relief pitchers for a long time.
From his Rule 5 season of 2007 through 2010, Soria appeared in 238 games for the Royals, finishing 192 of them, allowing a scant 6.4 hits and 2.5 walks per nine innings while fanning 9.9 per nine. Opponents hit an anemic .197/.259/.287 over those four years, during which the righthander's ERA was 2.01. He saved 132 games in 145 chances, stranded 71 percent of the baserunners he inherited, and allowed only three would-be thieves to steal a base – while an equal number were cut down.
Soria's 2011 season was not as clean – he put up his customary walk and strikeout rates but allowed 62 hits in 58 innings and had a 4.50 ERA – and 2012, a year in which Kansas City realistically would have had the chance to move the impending free agent in July for a haul of young players, was wiped out when he was shut down in mid-March with elbow pain that led to Tommy John surgery (his second) in April.
Rather than exercise a club option for 2013 at $8 million (the Royals also held an $8.75 million option for 2014), Kansas City bought Soria out ($750,000) in October. Texas has signed him for two years at $8 million – combined – and has a club option to keep him around in 2015 as well.
There's a very good chance that Soria is this team's next closer. No telling when a transition from Joe Nathan (on whom Texas has a club option for $9 million in 2014 – which he can opt out of if he finishes 55 games this year) could take place, but Soria is 10 years younger than Nathan and, if he returns to form as Nathan has, gives Texas a natural successor without the club having to depend on Tanner Scheppers or Wilmer Font, for instance, developing into a ninth-inning answer.
For what it's worth, Jim Bowden of ESPN/XM thinks Nathan will be setting Soria up by this October. That's probably a bit ambitious – but it's certainly not out of the question.
Still, the greatness of this deal is that – unlike the Angels' deal with Ryan Madson – it's not a one-year shot that would allow Soria to reestablish his worth and head right back out into free agency. He's here for a long time.
Soria is younger than Alexi Ogando. He's younger than Craig Gentry.
He's had those two elbow surgeries, the first at age 19 while in the Dodgers system (at a time when both A.J. Preller and Don Welke were with that organization), but so did Brian Wilson and Jason Isringhausen and others. There was reportedly plenty of interest in Soria this winter, including from the Angels, but this is where he wanted to be, even though he'd suggested he was looking for a club who would let him close games this year.
There have long been suggestions that Soria's repertoire could work in a starting role, but that's not the plan here. He's going to join the bullpen mix whenever he's ready, possibly as soon as May, and then Texas gets the 28-year-old for the rest of 2013, and then 2014, and then, if it chooses, 2015.
This is a window-extending move. Get used to that.
Soria saved two Zack Greinke starts in his 2007 rookie season, including his first career save.
He saved four Greinke starts in 2008.
He saved six Greinke starts in 2009.
He saved eight Greinke starts in 2010 – in fact, he saved eight of Greinke's 10 wins.
There's some mathematical symmetry there, and though Greinke's departure from Kansas City interrupted the progression, I'm very interested in the possibility that things pick back up in Texas between the two, but that's fodder for another day that may never come.
If it doesn't, it will be because Greinke chose to pitch for many years somewhere else – unlike Soria, whose decision to pitch in Texas for many years, a stretch that ought to begin sometime during the 2013 season without the cost of a couple key prospects, fires me up a whole lot.


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WACO, Texas – Baylor's fifteenth-ranked women's tennis team will begin play against third-ranked Duke in the first round of the ITA National Team Indoor Championship on Friday at 8 a.m. in Charlottesville, Va.
Baylor (3-1) is unseeded in the tournament, and will face second-seeded Duke (4-0) at 8 a.m. CT/9 a.m. ET. The winner of the match will face the winner of seventh-seeded Alabama and No. 14 Northwestern on Saturday.
BU earned its seventh consecutive qualifying berth two weeks ago after defeating both No. 29 Florida State and No. 20 Texas Tech in the ITA Kickoff Weekend.
The 16-team national tournament is set to run Friday through Monday, Feb. 8-11, hosted by the University of Virginia at the Boar's Head Sports Club.
"Obviously all the teams that are in a national championship event are all very strong," head coach Joey Scrivano said. "The biggest key for us is that we can't focus on who we play. We have to go and improve. This event gives us a great opportunity to continue to develop as a team and make positive strides forward."
BU enters the weekend after a 7-0 loss to No. 1 Florida. Ema Burgic, Megan Horter, and Jordaan Sanford all lost in singles for this first time this season against the Gators. The Lady Bears' lineup features one ranked singles player, No. 16 Burgic, who has tallied a 3-1 record at the No. 1 singles position. In doubles, BU tandems have notched a 4-5 record.
Duke enters the match with three victories over ranked opponents. The Blue Devils earned their berth into the tournament with wins against No. 75 Wisconsin and No. 63 Wyoming. Duke's lineup features four singles players ranked in the top 70, including No. 10 Hanna Mar, and two doubles tandems ranked in the top 20.
Baylor is 0-3 all-time against Duke, most recently with a 4-3 loss in 2009.
The ITA National Team Indoor Championship tournament central page is located at www.itatennis.com and features links to live scoring and other event information.
Follow @BaylorWTennis for updates on the team all season.


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IT Management
For the first time in an Apple environment, IT departments have been given the ability to fully manage encryption on Apple devices from a central IT console. According to JAMF's Wudi, the technology has been around in previous versions of the operating system, but it hasn't been fully available to IT administrators. "You can now have confidence that there are no snooping eyes that are getting into your system," Wudi said. Additionally, IT administrators are able to report on and remediate issues that arise in their corporate environment. IT departments also have built in access to corporate data through the VPN. According to Wudi, central IT departments can also manage third-party corporate apps with account settings like Facebook and Twitter.


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Milton Hershey School selects 10th president
A Milton Hershey School alumnus now serves as its president after the school's board appointed Peter G. Gurt as the school's 10th president Thursday.
Gurt succeeds Anthony J. Colistra, who retired in July 2103. John Estey, who was interim president for the 2013-14 school year, will return to his role as executive vice president of administration for the Hershey Trust Co., according to a school news release.
Gurt is being promoted from senior vice president and chief operating officer, a position the 46-year-old had held since 2009.
In his former position, he was responsible for admissions and family relations, curriculum and instruction, the office of alumni relations and other areas. Previously he had been vice president of administration and vice president of student life.
A Palmyra resident, Gurt started at the school when he was 5 years old and attended Temple University after graduation. He received a bachelor's degree in business administration, then a master's in education from Penn State University.
Between school and his career, Gurt has spent about 33 years at the school.
"I have spent virtually my entire career serving with the very dedicated staff at Milton Hershey School," he said. "Together we have ensured that our students are provided the best opportunities for success in life."
The school, in Derry Township and started by Hershey Co. founder Milton Hershey, provides cost-free education in a private-school format for children of low-income families.


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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
Learn more about AILA's official statements on immigration issues.Read Now
AILA Doc. No. 13041702 | Dated April 22, 2013
On 4/22/13 at 10:00 am (ET) the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing entitled: "Hearing on Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation."
Written congressional testimony by AILA President Laura Lichter (AILA Doc. No. 13042240.)
Live Summary of Hearing (See full witness list at the bottom of this page)
10:07am Committee Chairman Leahy (D-VT) kicks of the hearing on the importance of immigration. He also addresses Boston: "let no one be so cruel so as to use Boston to derail the dreams of millions of hardworking people."
10:10am Ranking Minority Member Senator Grassley (R-IA) delivers opening remarks. He calls on Congress to keep Boston in their thoughts as they consider immigration reform. He expresses grave concerns about the bill.
10:20am First panel begins.
10:35am Q&A Section begins
Sen. Leahy Q: How this bill will help protect workers from being exploited and whether this will be good for agriculture.
Connor A: Protects farmworkers' interests and also allows U.S. agriculture to produce low cost high quality products. It's the right balance.
Sen. Grassley Q: Goes over the legalization of agricultural workers in the bill-that border security doesn't have to be addressed before legalization, specifically citizenship. How do we avoid making the mistake of 1986?
Connor A: This is why we did the hard negotiations of the guest worker program that is both contract and at will to meet the future needs of American agricultural.
Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) Q: How will famers respond to the mandate for all famers to use E-Verify?
Connor A: It will be difficult, but we're going to do everything we can, especially for small farm owners, to make it the least cumbersome as possible.
Sen. Feinstein: Arturo, you were really outnumbered in these negotiations, but you held your own. I want to thank both of you for your efforts in these negotiations.
Sen. Sessions (R-AL) Q: Expresses concerns about the effect this bill will have on the wages of legal U.S. workers and unemployment. I don't believe these are jobs that Americans won't do. How many people would be legalized under the Ag "Blue Card" program?
Rodriguez A: Somewhere between 800,000 and 1.1 million people are estimated to be legalized and will be eligible for LPR status after five years. They will be able to stabilize their families and the agricultural industry.
Sen. Sessions Q: How long will guest workers be able to stay in the country in the future?
Rodriguez A: The new visa program would allow people to apply for three year visas that can be renewed once and they would not be allowed to bring their families. During that three year period they must spend at least 3 months in their home country.
Sen. Schumer (D-NY): We can't allow Boston to derail this immigration bill, in fact this bill will make us safer. The three witnesses here today that opposed to this bill do not represent the mainstream views of America.
Sen. Cornyn (R-TX): Expresses admiration for many portions of the bill, but grave concern for: the border security portions of this bill, including highlighting the "high priority" sectors identified in the bill, the need for more resources at the land ports of entry, the lack of a current exit-entry system and the ability of waivers for criminal aliens.
Sen. Klobuchar (D-MN): Why is important for the Ag Dept to oversee the program rather than the Labor Dept.
Connor A: There is a structure already in place for state level USDA and in every county in America who already deal with agricultural producers.
Sen. Lee (R-UT): The nature of agricultural worker can deter many workers. I introduced DASH Act to expand H-2A program.
Sen. Flake (R-AZ): What will the costs be if we can't reach an agreement here?
Connor A: The status quo means that a large percentage of the agricultural workforce will continue to be undocumented, this is untenable to the American producer. We do have labor shortages in this country, which results in crops going unharvested and agricultural moving overseas.
Sen. Cruz (R-TX): Any bill that includes a path to citizenship is too divisive to be able to be passed, we should focus on the issues that have broad bipartisan support like H-2A reforms.
Sen. Graham (R-SC): I think as a nation we've reached consensus that: the current system is not working, that what we have right now is amnesty, that trying to access legal labor is too difficult, that people want the border security, visa control for overstays, guest worker program, the 11 million are not going to go away and 70% of public are ok with a pathway to citizenship if it's earned.
12:05pm Second panel begins.
Question and Answer section begins.
Sen. Franken (D-MN) Q: Speaks on the current situation of unaccompanied children being forced to represent themselves in immigration court hearings and is glad that the bill addresses this issue. He also expresses concern that same-sex couples are forced to choose between their careers and lives in the U.S. and the people they love.
Sen. Grassley Q: Why is the business industry against the provisions of good faith recruitment requirements included in the Grassley-Brown pending bill?
Hira A: I don't know, it's a good idea to protect American workers.
Sen. Klobuchar Q: How would the Supreme Court decision on DOMA effect UAFA?
Kolbe A: UAFA would not affect DOMA at all, or same-sex marriage. It would only apply in the context of immigration.
Sen. Sessions: Immigration reform will weaken Social Security and Medicare by millions of dollars.
Sen. Graham Q: I want American businesses to have access to a labor we can't find here at home after they've tried to find an American worker at a competitive price. From the Microsoft perspective do you prefer to hire an American worker?
Smith A: We do 85% of our research in the United States, but key to having a world class center in the U.S. is being able to recruit worldwide.
Jacoby A: The majority of businesses hiring essential workers would rather hire American workers.
Judson A: All things being equal, yes, we would hire American workers.
1:50pm Third panel begins.
Senator Durbin personally thanks Gaby Pacheco for her advocacy and work to pass the DREAM Act.
Question and Answer section begins.
Sen. Leahy Q: Gaby, what inspires you to do the work you do for immigration reform?
Pacheco A: Love.
Sen. Leahy Q: Is the legalization proposal in this bill straightforward and achievable?
Murguia A: This bill modernizes our legal immigration system.
Sen. Leahy: Do you think this will pull people out of the shadows?
Lichter A: Absolutely, people want to come forward and be a part of their communities.
Sen. Grassley: This president has taken more advantage of the authority given to him under the law, so I want to be careful about the waivers included in the bill.
Sen. Klobuchar Q: Focuses on the U Visa.
Lichter: This is an important tool for law enforcement as immigrant victims of crime can step forward and help prosecute their abusers.
Sen. Klobuchar Q: The U.S. is facing a daunting shortage of doctors, especially in rural and inner city areas. In the last decade alone my state has recruited 200 doctors to serve our community-can you talk about how important this is?
Lichter A: We have a high number of foreign born graduates.
Sen. Klobuchar Q: Can you talk about the provisions in the bill that combat fraud in the visa process.
Lichter A: These are very important provisions that needs to be fair and balanced.
Sen. Sessions Q: What is the number that will be legalized under this bill? The amnesty itself will be 11 million, clearing the backlogs will be 4.5 million, and future flow provisions will be 15 million over the next 10 years. That doesn't include chain migration or other family migration.
Sen. Durbin Q: Mr. Kobach, as a matter of principle, justice and fairness, do you think the DREAMers deserve a chance to become legal in America?
Kobach A: I was going to go the Biblical metaphor, but we shouldn't reward the children for the sins of the parents, we should treat them neutrally. We shouldn't allow them to jump the line, so they should go back to their home country, we could talk about getting rid of the 3 and 10 year bars for DREAMers.
Sen. Durbin: What you are suggesting is punishment when they've never done anything wrong. To suggest they are guilty or should pay a price for what they did wrong just defies basic compassion. This notion we heard of "self-deportation," overlooking the obvious, America will be a stronger country when we recognize who we are. People who resist immigration are ignoring America's birthright. This notion that immigrants are negative or bad for America. When it comes right down to it, we're talking about Gaby Pacheco. We're a better nation when these 11 million come forward.
Kobach A: Arizona has proven that when you ratchet up the penalties, illegal immigrants leave-this is not a radical idea.
Sen. Cornyn Q: Is there anything short of removal that you would consider not to be called amnesty?
Krikorian A: No, it's a legal term.
Kobach A: Not only that, but declining to remove an unlawful alien is amnesty plus.
Sen. Cornyn Q: Does the status quo represent defacto amnesty?
Krikorian A: Yes, the current administration has failed to enforce the laws.
Kobach A: The DACA directive is ignoring the immigration laws.
Sen. Cornyn Q: Do you believe the bill will ensure that the borders will be secure and we will address visa overstays?
Lichter A: In order to avoid the disenchantment with enforcement going forward, the real reason is the lack of legal immigration options. We've had three hours of testimony why our current legal system is inadequate, the current bill will provide people alternate options that will help ease the pressure on our enforcement systems.
Sen. Franken Q: The bill we're debating will make E-Verify mandatory for almost everyone within the next 5 years, but it rejects a legal worker 1 in every 141 times. I'm worried about how it will affect Minnesota small businesses. In Feb. AILA issues a press release that E-verify should protect the interests of small businesses.
Lichter A: We continue to stand by those recommendations, this is not only an issue for the employer, but also for the workforce. It does sound like a small percentage, but we are talking about millions of people who are told they are not eligible. We have a good chance to look at slowing this down, to readily reporting and correcting errors. This sort of regulation has a disproportionate effect on small businesses.
Sen. Coons Q: More than 80% of detainees do not have access to counsel which makes it harder for immigration to do their job and the harmfulness of aggravated felonies for minor crimes.
Lichter A: This is one of the most complicated areas of law and we throw people who don't have a legal background into the system. Legal Orientation Programs advises people for general information have been extremely successful for both fairness and efficiency. We have individuals coming to removal proceedings because of old, minor crimes. Aggravated felonies can involve something for which the individual never spent a day in jail, for a crime that was 40 years ago, but the current system does not provide a way out for these individuals.
Sen. Blumenthal: I will be very proud to vote for immigration reform. Mr. Kobach, do you believe in birthright citizenship?
Kobach A: Some of the bills introduced in Congress have merit, for example, requiring at least one parent is LPR or USC.
Sen. Schumer Q: Mr. Krikorian, you want the legal level of immigration to be lower?
Krikorian A: Yes.
3:50pm Fourth (and last) panel begins.
Question and Answer section begins.
Sen. Leahy Q: Is this going to help local law enforcement?
Shurtleff A: Absolutely. People need to feel safe that they can work with law enforcement. They must have trust.
Sen. Grassley Q: Mr. Grover, I usually agree with you, but I'm surprised that you are backing a bill that has emergency funding.
Norquist A: This isn't actually amnesty, there are fees and fines and hoops to jump through. We need to move forward and encourage these people to continue to work, protect them from exploitation and get control of the border.
Sen. Cornyn Q: What about border security?
Norquist A: The best thing you can do is implement a legal temporary guest worker program so the officers on the border can focus on the bad guys coming across the border, rather than those who are just coming to work. This reform is a jobs program, this is how our country grew. More people don't make us poorer, people are an asset, not a liability.
Sen. Lee: I am very concerned about the discretion that will be granted to the DHS Secretary, specifically on the border security aspects.
Sen. Flake: Mr. Norquist, what are you hearing as you travel the country?
Grover A: Regan Republicans and the center-right understand that this is something that will make Americans stronger. In the 1980s the Heritage Foundation released a set of myths about immigration that focused on the reasons why people didn't like the Irish or the Jews or the Asian, why they would use welfare benefits, how they were criminals and they didn't want to work. It wasn't true, and it's not true now.
Sen. Schumer: Would you support giving a green card to STEM Master's graduates?
Cararota A: I would do it for Ph.Ds, but not Masters.
Arturo Rodriguez
President, United Farm Workers
Keene, CA
Charles Conner
President & CEO, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Washington, DC
Alyson Eastman
President, Book-Ends Associates
Orwell, VT
Megan Smith
Commissioner, Vermont Dept. of Tourism & Marketing
Montpelier, VT
The Honorable Jim Kolbe
Former United States Representative (R-AZ-5)
Washington, DC
Brad Smith
General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft
Seattle, WA
Tamar Jacoby
President & CEO, Immigration Works USA
Washington, DC
Rich Judson
Chairman of the Board, National Association of Home Builders
Washington, DC
Professor Ron Hira
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
Neeraj Gupta
Chief Executive Officer, Systems In Motion
Newark, CA
Fred Benjamin
Chief Operating Officer, Medicalodges, Inc.
Coffeyville, KS
Gaby Pacheco
Immigrant Rights Leader
Director, Bridge Project
Miami, FL
Janet Murguía
President and CEO, National Council of La Raza
Washington, DC
Dr. David Fleming
Senior Pastor, Champion Forest Baptist Church
Houston, TX
Mark Krikorian
Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies
Washington, DC
Laura L. Lichter, Esq.
President, American Immigration Lawyers Association
Denver, CO
The Honorable Kris Kobach
Secretary of State, State of Kansas
Topeka, KS
Mark Shurtleff
Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP
Former Utah Attorney General
Washington, DC
The Honorable Bill Vidal
Former Mayor of Denver
President and CEO, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Denver
Denver, CO
Janice L. Kephart
Former Counsel, September 11 Commission
Principal, 911 Security Solutions
Washington, DC
Chris Crane
President, National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council 118
Of the American Federation of Government Employees
Washington, DC
Dr. Steven Camarota
Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies
Washington, DC
Grover Norquist
President, Americans for Tax Reform
Washington, DC
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 13041702.
American Immigration Lawyers Association
1331 G Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
Copyright © 1993-2018
American Immigration Lawyers Association.


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Hood River
is home
This month I celebrated my one-year anniversary of living in the Gorge and working at the Hood River County Chamber of Commerce. A lot has happened over this year - some challenging, some great, and some surprising.
And what strikes me most when looking back over this last year are the amazing people I have encountered here. This no doubt sounds clichéd, but it is absolutely true: From the first day I arrived, so many people here have been kind, enthusiastic, helpful and supportive.
People like Andrew McElderry, who set the foundation for making the chamber the vibrant organization it is today. Or Susan Lutton, who offered much-needed emotional support in my early days here when things were a little rocky.
People who continue to lend their time and patience to mentor me about Hood River, like Maui Meyer and Bob Francis. People who regularly share their expertise, like Steve Gates, Camille Hukari, Brian Shortt, Michael Peterson and Bob Fox. And those individuals who were simply kind and listened while I sorted out my role at the chamber, like Michael Barthmus, Stu Watson and Michelle Dowdy.
I lived in Portland for many years, and I got used to being relatively anonymous. Before moving here permanently, I knew two people in Hood River. Now I'm guessing I know at least 2,000, and yet it can still take me by surprise that I seem to see someone I know most everywhere I go.
I admit when we first moved here, my husband and I were sometimes amused by the whole notion of a small-town community. But now we find ourselves moved by things like a Heights Fourth of July parade, a Memorial Day service, and the endless generosity of the people here who find the most creative ways to support local people in need.
People say if you haven't lived here at least 50 years then you're still a newcomer; so if that's true, I guess I won't live long enough to call myself a real resident. But in my heart, this is now my home, and I'm proud to say that this is my Hood River.
Kerry Cobb
Executive director, Hood River County Chamber of Commerce
Hospital cares
Recently I had shoulder surgery at Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital. It was not my first surgery there. Last year the same surgeon, Dr. John Durkan, gave me a new right knee.
I went into this operation full of confidence in my doctor and in the outstanding care I expected to receive at the hospital. The excellent, caring staff did not disappoint. Care could not have been more comforting and personal.
After I discovered I had left a library book at the hospital, we went back to look for it. The staff turned over every stone, but it could not be found. That night, I got a call that it had been found - and would I like to pick it up or have the finder return it to the library?
I challenge anyone to find a more patient-centered hospital anywhere. We're so happy with the hospital! Our thanks to everyone there.
Sharon Benveniste
Lyle, Wash.
Support concerts
Kudos to Gil Seeley who is bringing exciting and quality music to the Columbia Gorge through his Gorge Music Festival. The concert at Riverside Church last night (Saturday, July 23), a repeat of Friday's concert in White Salmon, was brilliantly played by Oregon Symphony musicians and others and featured music by Schubert, Schumann and Piazzola.
There are two more concerts in the series, a Duo-piano Spectacular, Aug. 5 and 6, and flamenco music on Aug. 12 and 13. Don't miss them!
Let's support this fledgling endeavor.
Jeanine Jacobson
Hood River
Road damages
Dear Mayor, I sincerely hope the city council will take a moment to come look at the last road project attempted on my border at Stonehedge. Pretty dismal result.
"Eliminating the bid process"? Yikes! Red Alert! Red Alert! "Fast track." Yikes, again!
Slow down, take a walk around my property, enjoy the tall, endangered trees and enjoy a glass of local wine. Then take a look at the east side of our property that is dying from a lack of water.
There's a slow stream of water flowing down the road now, creating a huge weed problem on the east side of Mt. Adams drive. That water used to stay in the roots of my now-dying tall firs.
This new road will do worse, according to professional arborists, unless an appropriate retaining wall is built - which may or may not happen, right?
Blow up the land, crush the rock, sell the rock, walk away, leave the canyon to future developers.
The good news is that they're destroying my trees to the north, so they can kill the trees to my west, to match my dead trees on the east. Whew! For a second there, I was worried.
Mike Caldwell
Hood River
Male grief
As quoted in the Saturday (July 23) Hood River News, the statement to the judge from the teenager in the Odell vandalism incident as to his reason for the vandalism being the death of Forest, the teen killed in the truck/skateboarding accident, deserves further listening.
It is no justification or excuse for the actions, but it may well be the tip of the iceberg. Unresolved grief can lay dormant for decades, but that doesn't mean it isn't having dire effects in the present.
One of the most requested shows to be rerun in the early 1990s was Bill Moyer's interview of Robert Bly called "A Gathering of Men" (available at the Hood River library).
Bly talks in it and also in his book "Iron John" about the complications and challenges for male grief and loss, and how, with the loss of initiation rites over time, it affects young men. In my mind, the current horror in Norway has echoes of something similar that gets twisted.
Tom Hons
Hood River
Tongue Twister kudos
The tongue twister event at the SMART (Start Making A Reader Today) fundraiser at Hood River Valley High School last weekend was great. The participants should get a big round of applause (they did!). Style points for all!
And "The Schonz" - he's still got it!
The venerated broadcaster for the Portland Trail Blazers, Bill Schonley, brought a professional air and a generous touch of graciousness to the event. And his age-old wisdom (ya gotta make yer free-throws) is still as applicable as ever!
Well done! Looking forward to next year's event.
Phil and Judy Jensen
Hood River
Save Social Security
People, we are about to be suckered again. Remember when the government, already deeply in debt from two unfunded wars, told us that the big banks and Wall Street had to be bailed out because they were just too big to let fail? That put us deeper in debt.
Now the Tea Party, which has control of the house, is holding the country hostage by refusing to raise the debt floor unless their demands are met. All the pundits agree that defaulting on the debt would be disastrous for our country and the whole world. So we will be told that it is necessary to appease the Tea Party so they will allow the government to raise the debt limit, and this without one cent more in taxes or even to let the tax breaks for the wealthy expire.
So, to avoid default (which is unthinkable) it will be necessary to make deep cuts to programs for the poor, the elderly and the disabled, and also to our schools and other social programs. And, by the way, if the government does default that means that Social Security checks and government pensions for the military will probably not be paid in August.
Nothing was said, of course, about withholding the president's or Congress's pay.
But that doesn't affect me, you may think. I'm not on Social Security or a pension, and I'm not poor, so why should I care? I can only look out for myself and my family.
But which of you doesn't have parents on Social Security? And who is immune from unforeseen circumstances, like losing a job, or becoming seriously ill?
And what about your own retirement? Do you make enough money to save for it if Social Security is eliminated or decimated to the point where it cannot support even a modest level of security? That seems to be the Tea Party's ultimate goal. If they win on this, they will feel justified in feeling that they can go even further to impose their agenda on the country.
It's too late to write! Let's flood the White House with calls to President Obama to not give in to hostage takers!
Anne Vance
Hood River
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Wait, so Demosthenes9 is the "killer cop"?
And I have direct family who are Police. And we ALL know full DAMN well how corrupt that branch of Govt is.
If YOU are one of these corrupt police, well, I won't feel sorry if you eventually get what you deserve.
He likes Tebow? Hope the drone kills his ass right now.
BTW even if what koo koo balls says is accurate he wasn't driven to kill. The people that so wronged him are not responsible for his snow balling into becoming a cold blooded murderer.
BTW what is your "direct family who are police" doing about the blatant and widespread corruption in their respective department(s)?
I would like to clarify that I do not condone the killings this guy carried out...
But I also wonder if the officers who shot up those trucks will face jail time, like they should. I doubt it. Their "Administrative Leave with PAY" must just be HORRIBLE punishment for them!
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want (mayer)
fact is i am sure they will spin it even more to make it sound like he was nuts that still don't excuse the lapd from being corrupt.
your not LAPD i am assuming all cities and stations are different, but i have had first hand exp with someone who was a cop a friend of mine and he was forced to resign because he wouldn't let a judge go for speeding. Plenty of other times a judge or bigwig asked him to leave his friends alone and if he see's them don't pull them over and such............happens alot more than you think usually in smaller cities but I could see the LAPD being like this.
When the level of corruption is THAT deep, there really isn't much you can do about it without being labeled a "terrorist" much like the late Mr Dorner, who tried all of the right avenues and went through the processes as far as they'd go.
Dude just snapped and got revenge on the corrupt people who ruined his life.
Can you *really* expect much different from a trained killer, who sacrificed for basically his entire life?
And anyone who doesn't believe what he claimed about the LAPD is a fool.


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nuff said
I've always told people that our red neighbor is almost certainly fragrant of cinnamon.
nuff said
It's too cold for sand worms. Besides, sand worms would have to contend with the Ice Warriors, and they'd probably find the waters of Mars to be rather inhospitable as well.
Hipster UFO conspiracy theorist says "I was abducted and probed by Martians when they were still underground"
Wait. What?
reports all coming in from all from all over the world flying saucers are attacking from mars it's a attack from mars.
reports all coming in from all from all over the world flying saucers are attacking from mars it's a attack from mars.
Why don't we just direct them to Uranus?
Hipster martians were totally underground, which is why you've never heard of them before
Nicely done.
Yes, for a second there I kept reading that they had tons of marsian minerals and soil...
Since we're only a month into the new fiscal year, and debates for next years budget aren't anytime soon... time to adjust the tinfoil.
There was new data this year indicating subsurface water ice from two synthetic radars (SHARAD and MARSIS at different frequencies on two different landers).
They have estimates for the volume and placement of the ice as well.
http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/feats/2010/mars_glaciers.html [utexas.edu]
An original finding from 2002 based on a single Gamma Ray Spectrometer instrument showed excess Hydrogen...
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/28may_marsice/ [nasa.gov]
And now even more extensive results from long term surface studies... I find the recent subsurface radar measurements most compelling.
indicating subsurface water ice from two synthetic radars
What other kind is there?
I have seen some photos from the Mars Explorer that clearly show Thoat, Calot, and Mad Zitidar tracks. Nasa refuses to acknowledge this. If you look at the pictures from the Valley Dor, just above the lost sea of Korus, it's obvious.
who thinks this was pretty obvious without a NASA funded study?
Anyone who's ever played X-Com has known for years that the alien HQ on Mars was underground.
Time to hunt some Sectoids...
Well, obviously--canals are built below ground level.
Welcome our new underground martian overlords!
The absent ones are always at fault.


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A CONTROVERSIAL subdivision will be the first decision facing the new Ballarat City Council.
At its meeting tomorrow night, the council will vote on amended plans for a 20-lot subdivision in Rodier Street, Ballarat East.
Plans lodged in August 2011 were rejected by the previous council on January 19 because they were inappropriate for the site, did not meet Ballarat Planning Scheme objectives and would face unacceptable flooding risks.
Thirty-two objections were also received which ranged from neighbourhood amenity impacts to removal of street trees and inadequate on-site car parking.
Developers TGM Group Pty Ltd have since amended the plans for a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal hearing on Thursday, November 22.
But the council's growth and development director, Eric Braslis, said in a report it was still recommended the subdivision be knocked back.
"It is recommended that council does not support the amended proposal ... on the basis of unacceptable flood risk ... heritage and neighbourhood characters impacts and inadequate vehicle access and waste collection arrangement," he said.
Ten objections were received to the amended plans, citing driveway sizes, no on-site stormwater storage provision, inadequate open spaces, small garages and development density creating a "ghetto".
The Corangamite Catchment Management Authority also objected to the proposal.


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Even with Toll Bros.' recent record selling homes in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Center City, and other urban centers, the Horsham-based company has continued buying up suburban property for eventual conversion into the next generation of McMansions, as home prices slowly rebound from the late 2000s collapse, while failed projects remain cheap and ripe for conversion.
Last week Toll Bros.' Gibraltar Capital and Asset Management LLC subsidiary said it has spent $33 million buying four packages of loans gone bad, at discount prices, from banks holding property in Florida, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Georgia.
Toll didn't list the properties -- which it said include "retail shopping centers, residential land, and golf courses" -- but Gibraltar boss Roger Brush told me one of the tracts, "capable of being develped into a residential subdivision should we end up with title," is in Chester County, where Toll is also managing the Applebrook Meadows project in Malvern, the Preserve at Chadds Ford, Creekside at Byers Station in Chester Springs, plus big homes at the former du Pont estate north of Newtown Square in neighboring Delco.


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U.S. retail sales increased a meager 0.1% in January, the government reported Wednesday, but it could have been worse.
That\'s the view of economist Sal Guatieri of BMO, who was one of 13 forecasters surveyed by MarketWatch who correctly predicted the retail sales number. \"It dampens fears of a much larger pullback in spending,\" he said, given that paychecks were 2% lower because of the expiration of the payroll tax holiday.
The 0.1% gain was in line with the median forecast in the MarketWatch survey. See our economic calendar and consensus forecast.
Guatieri said the retail report shows that consumer spending is still stuck in a subpar range of around 2% growth per year.
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Is Rondo gonna bring back the headband this season?!
he says only if he can wear it upside down!!!
I hate the headband, he looks like a little kid with it on.
The worst part of the game lol
The team looks pretty good whilst playing ourselves. I really hope we can pull off a good season with all the trades...
Jermaine's looking good.
Nice alley-oop Rondo to E;Twaun!
I wish Rondo wears the headband again, he looks cooler with it.
JO looking good and trimmed up. Baby Jesus still hasn't missed a beat......so pumped for the season!!!!!


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The greatest trade in Raiders history, according to former Raiders coach Hue Jackson -- giving up first- and second-round picks for Carson Palmer -- has resulted in a 1-4 start. Epic fail?
Now you know why Hue Jackson is a former Raiders coach.
That's why Palmer isn't long-term. This move was done before Reggie McKenzie and Dennis Allen got there. Palmer isn't playing bad, but the team is.
He's been almost passable by the standards of recent Raiders QBs: 19 INTs, 19 TDs since the trade. Problem is, Oakland is no closer to winning now than it was when it traded for him.
This Raiders have holes because McKenzie took over a team in salary-cap hell -- and no draft picks. The good thing is, Oakland could end up with a high first-round pick to draft a QB.
Are you kidding me? This deal already cost them in the draft. Not only do they still need a QB, but neither Darrius Heyward-Bey nor Denarius Moore are any closer to being franchise-level receivers.
It's going to take the new regime time, and that process will be moving on from Palmer. He re-did his contract to help the team gain cap space, but he's due $13 million in base salary in 2013.
Mike Brown looks like the executive of the year. He got a franchise QB in the second round last year, a corner with the 17th pick this year, and a second-rounder next year. Goodnight.
Sad part is, Palmer was brought in to be a savior, which for the Raiders is almost Biblical. The season's not over, but I've seen nothing to make me think things will get better.


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Cappies review #1
Janina Valencia
Jasper Place High School
Under the sea lies a whole new world, with mermaids that roam the waters. Mermaid tales are forever immortalized in literature, most famous among them the work of the legendary Hans Christian Andersen. Harry Ainlay High School staged a musical adaptation of The Little Mermaid recently, carrying on the magic of the Andersen tale, which has enthralled audiences for generations.
Little mermaid Leira longs to leave the security of the sea kingdom where she grew up to experience human life above. After falling in love with a human prince, she strikes a deal with the sea witch so that she can finally be with him. The stakes are high for this gutsy heroine as she ventures into the unknown human world.
Harry Ainlay's production was a visual spectacle. The lights, costumes, makeup and special effects brought the show to a whole new level. The cast's hard work and effort were palpable, enabling them to develop characters that were full of subtlety and charm.
Marika Friesen (Leira) was exquisite, both as a mermaid and as a human. She created a naive but spunky character and at the same time maintained the poise and delicacy of a mermaid princess. The way she moved on stage was captivating, using graceful arm and hand movements to imitate water movement. Her crystalline vocals were irresistibly alluring. As a human without a voice, she radiated heartfelt expressions with clarity and assurance. It was not hard to feel sympathetic for the little mermaid in her adversity. The scene where she held the dagger, ready to kill the prince, was heart-wrenching.
Another noteworthy actress was Katrina Lister (the sea witch), who gave a scintillating performance as the notorious villainess. Complete with an overwhelmingly campy hairstyle, she commanded the stage with her ominous smile, maniacal laugh and pompous movements. Terezia Mizerova (the grandmother) as well as Andrew Harrison (the sea king) effectively embodied their wise characters. The chorus was engrossing to watch as they both narrated parts of the show and became genuine statues in tableaus. The harmonious voices of the sea princesses were delightful to hear. In addition, Carolyn Howe and Kyle Pretzlaff danced flawlessly in their dream sequence duet.
The varying levels of lighting underscored the vivid atmosphere of the show. The use of black light effectively illuminated props and costumes. Shadow lighting was highly used in this show and it heightened moments in the play. The special effects were masterfully handled by Misha Hlebnicov and Andrew Chichak. The moon, stars, flowers, rain and church projections all intensified the scenes in which they were used. Though some parts were a bit slow and dragging, the story was still told in an impressively spellbinding way.
It was not hard to get immersed in Harry Ainlay's revival of the Andersen classic. Indeed, the magic lives on!
Cappies review #2
Sarah Dussome
Louis St. Laurent High School
All lingering thoughts of Walt Disney's beloved fairy tale were banished as a classic tale of heartbreak and sacrifice unfurled across the stage. Harry Ainlay's haunting production of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid anchored the audience to a story that has been neglected by so many for the sake of happy endings.
Residing deep below the ocean's surface in an opulent shell palace are the sea king (Andrew Harrison), his elderly mother (Terezia Mizerova) and the king's seven beautiful daughters; Josephine (Sarah Culkin), Judith (Meghan Lucky), Miranda (Chloe Burns), Marina (Claire Brandenbarg), Harmonie (Delaney Lothian), Grace (Carolyn Howe) and Leira (Marika Friesen). On their 15th birthday, each princess is given the opportunity to rise above the water and take in the human world. Leira's first sight of this enrapturing new place flings her into an entanglement of affections revolving around the human prince (Ryan Schmitt). These undying passions lead the youngest mermaid to exchange her voice for the meagre opportunity of gaining the prince's love.
Marika Friesen flawlessly embodied the endearing and innocent mermaid Leira. Her beautiful voice flowed over the audience like gently undulating waves, capturing the audience in all of her various affections, fears and dreams. It was accompanied with naive facial expressions that tangibly revealed these emotions, particularly during the second act when she was unable to speak. Leira and her sisters captured the hearts of the audience. Their lovely voices crafted intricate melodies that complemented one another's vocal abilities. Numbers such as Follow Me and the Serbian folksong Zubor voda zubodvila were captivating. Terezia Mizerova portrayed the grandmother with an impeccably characterized voice and strong stage presence. As the malevolent sea witch, Katrina Lister emanated a diva-like aura with her fantastic singing voice and extravagant costume.
The exceptional quality of dancing maintained a solid presence throughout the performance. Courtiers and powder-white statues alike were enmeshed in a whirlwind of simple yet graceful choreography in Human Ball (choreographed by Kyle Pretzlaff and Dora Gyenes). During the number Dream Duet, Pretzlaff and Carolyn Howe mesmerized the audience with a beautiful dance that shimmered with professional quality.
From the oysters adorning the mermaids' glimmering green tails to the sea witch's extraordinary hair, the costumes were thoroughly creative and memorable. The lighting bathed the stage in myriad stunning hues; a ripe silver moon and stars patterned the theatre walls as Leira came above the surface for the first time. Although it was difficult to hear some characters at times, the sound was crystal clear throughout the show.
From the beginning of the statue chorus's speaking number to the final curtain, The Little Mermaid was a tidal wave of creative setting and emotion.
Cappies review #3
Izzy Bergquist
St Joseph High School
Harry Ainlay's production of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid brought the well-known tale back to its roots and transformed the children's story into a breathtaking production featuring live music, special effects and fluid choreography. To aid in the illusion of these mythical underwater creatures the makeup crew, headed by Natasha Corbett, created a cast of beautiful and vivid creatures.
Although slow at times, this original tale was enlivened by the composer Binaifer Kapadia and the variety of musicians, including two creative students, Damon Goberdhan-Pitcher and Terezia Mizerova, who played the piccolo and the violin respectively.
Katrina Lister's bluesy performance as the sea witch in Song of The Sea Witch was energetic and thrilling. Her characterization was spot on and she delivered a chilling performance. Another song that stood out was Follow Me, performed by the mermaid sisters. The seven young ladies (Sarah Culkin, Meghan Lucky, Chloe Burns, Claire Brandenbarg, Delaney Lothian, Carolyn Howe and Marika Friesen) bewitched the audience with a haunting and skilful seven-part harmony and captivated the audience. Sarah Culkin, who played the eldest sister Josephine, sang and played the part with confidence and charisma.
A multitude of dance styles was effortlessly incorporated into the production, such as ballet, contemporary and ballroom. The dance number Dream Duet, choreographed and performed by Carolyn Howe and Kyle Pretzlaff, was breathtaking and truly displayed the technical skill of these young dancers. In fact, many of the routines in the production were choreographed by the students themselves, including a team of dedicated production assistants.
A production of this size could not succeed as it did without the skill of a truly talented backstage and running crew. The discreet and quietly proficient running crew gracefully set and struck the props, swiftly running from one end of the stage to the other.
Overall, the production was a blend of theatre's most technical sides and the primal beauty of dance. Despite period inconsistencies, the play managed to feel both emotionally challenging and hopeful. The story of Leira, the littlest mermaid, and her quest for an immortal soul led the audience through a deep and complicated emotional journey that will not soon be forgotten.
Cappies review #4
Dimitri Muzychenko
Ross Sheppard High School
People today have certain expectations for a production, and nowhere is this more true than with The Little Mermaid. But this is no familiar Disney fairy tale. This is the original Hans Christian Andersen story, adapted for the stage by Heather Taschuk and performed recently as a musical by students of Harry Ainlay's Fine Arts Department.
Complete with great vocals, expert lighting and creative use of technology, this adaptation tells the story of Leira, a mermaid who falls in love with a human prince. Using a potion given to her by the sea witch — not without a heavy price — she becomes human and must marry the prince if she is to live until the next sunrise.
Marika Friesen as the little mermaid won the audience over with her strong voice and her ability to convey emotion without words. Terezia Mizerova was completely in character as the mermaid grandmother, as was the sea king, expertly played by Andrew Harrison.
Adding to the success of the show was the supporting cast. As the sea witch, Katrina Lister made a sinister impression with her excellent rendition of Song of the Sea Witch, not to mention her crazy hair. The violin and piccolo players, Terezia Mizerova and Damon Goberdhan-Pitcher, added a wonderful spin to the production. Dances were beautifully choreographed and gave the story an emotional depth, especially during a shipwreck scene where dancers became the waves of the sea.
From an artistic and technical standpoint, use of set pieces and lighting made the play a masterpiece. The idea of having half-a-dozen mermaids on set may seem like a challenge, but the Harry Ainlay production tackled it masterfully. Beautiful costumes, great sets and glowing fish all added to the creation of the environment. The stage was further enhanced by the use of projections of starry skies, rain and other elements. Lighting and set changes were always on cue.
Needless to say, Harry Ainlay's production of The Little Mermaid dazzled with creativity and innovation. Actors, musicians, and technical crew offered up their many talents to provide audiences with a lavish musical that proved to be nothing less than enchanting.
Cappies review #5
Jada Bruer
Memorial Composite High School
This tragic tale of love and loss sent the audience through a tidal wave of emotions under the sea. Harry Ainlay's staged version of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid was a well-executed endeavour. The countless hours of effort and devotion that were poured into this adaptation of the classic children's tale were extremely evident.
The tale was written by the Danish author and poet Hans Christian Andersen in the 1800s. This popular fairy tale takes us on a mermaid's journey to gain the love of a prince and a human soul at the risk of losing everything.
Overall, the production was well executed. The energy of the cast at times took a noticeable dip, but this was easily recovered from by two ensembles in particular. The chorus of statue-like narrators always brought with them a strong narrative stage presence which commanded the audience. In addition, the seven mermaid sisters not only had the audience in awe with their intricate costumes and elaborate makeup, but their vocals gave the audience chills as they harmonized perfectly with their hauntingly beautiful melodies.
The littlest mermaid, Leira, was especially captivating to watch. Marika Friesen captured the emotional journey of Leira with a charming simplicity. As the audience watched her transition from mermaid to human, it could easily be seen that Friesen was constantly in the moment. Even when the focus wasn't on her, it was almost impossible not to watch her. It was fascinating how easily she continued to portray the mermaid's journey with nothing more than her eyes and body language.
The student-choreographed numbers were all extremely well constructed; however, at times it seemed the dancers could have been more sharp with the execution of the moves. One number in particular that shone was the Dream Duet, choreographed and danced by Carolyn Howe and Kyle Pretzlaff. It was stunning to watch the dancers gracefully take control of the stage and to see Leira's dream come to life.
One song that was particularly entertaining to watch was the Song of the Sea Witch. Katrina Lister not only had an exceptionally well-characterized vocal style, but her overwhelming stage presence gave the audience a number they wouldn't soon forget. From her frightening cackle to her gravity-defying hair style, she portrayed a sea witch you wouldn't soon cross.
The technical aspects of this show were also extremely effective. Never overdone, the projections and lighting created an amazing experience. From the creation of the storm to the projection of the stormy sky, the audience continually was taken away from the theatre and into the tragic world of the mermaids.
Harry Ainlay's adaptation of this classic fairy tale would have made Hans Christian Andersen proud. From its stunning special effects to its enchanting choreography, it was a pleasure to watch. It was an emotional adventure under and above the sea that won't soon be forgotten.
The Journal and 25 area high schools are participating in the Cappies, a Washington, D.C.-based program that uses high school critics to review high school theatre. The 20th show of the season was Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, performed by students of Harry Ainlay High School on April 14th. The critic discussions were mentored by Elizabeth Tremblay and SerenaRae Stein, both of Millwoods Christian School.
The reviews on this page were edited and selected for publication by teachers who could see only the reviews, not the names or the schools of the reviewers. Awards for actors, those be-hind the scenes and critics will be presented at a celebration at the Citadel Theatre in June.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Aug 2013 20:35 UTC
Early this morning on Google+, he showed off his latest project, which will allow any audio or video file to be casted to your TV using a CyanogenMod-powered device and the Chromecast dongle. In his demo above he shows it off using the Twit.TV app, but he explains that the process should be the same for any media you can play through any app.
This is exactly what I want out of the Chromecast.
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The San Manuel Miners varsity basketball team is ready to hit the hard wood for the 2012-2013 season with second year Head Coach Ryan Sichting at the helm along with Varsity Assistant William Smith, and Junior Varsity/ Varsity Assistant Coach Steve Elmore.
The Miners will look to improve on last year's overall record 8 – 8 during regular season.
San Manuel lost nine seniors from last year's team along with four starters but the Miners will return two starting seniors in guardAndres Sierra and forward Andy Monfred.
The top newcomers are junior forward Jordan Peasley, junior guard Alvaro Alvarez, and sophomore guard Andres Moreno.
Coach Sichting said, "Andy Monfred and Andres Sierra are probably the two best basketball players coming back from last year. Those are the only two players with varsity experience. So our biggest weakness is definitely experience. I think we are a much better shooting team than last year. We don't have much size this year. Andy is really the only true post player at 6'3".
"The team is very coachable this year and work hard in practices. I don't know how many games we will win, but they will work hard," he continued.
San Manuel started the season at the Boyd Baker Tournament last week and took on Immaculate Heart on Tuesday of this week.
The Miners will travel to Canyon Del Oro in Oro Valley today with the JV playing at 5 p.m. with the Varsity squad playing at 6:30 p.m. and then they will host Thatcher this Thursday with the JV playing at 5 p.m. with the varsity squad taking the court at 6:30 p.m.
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