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Romney campaign says women were hit hard by job losses under Obama
Editor's note: After this item was published on April 11, 2012, we received an email from the Romney campaign raising several issues about our analysis and asking that we review our work and retract the ruling. Lanhee J. Chen, Romney's policy director, wrote that our analysis contradicted another ruling written by our partners at PolitiFact Georgia. Chen also criticized us for citing the opinions of two economists with ties to the Obama administration.
We considered the complaint and interviewed four other economists, none of whom have formal or financial ties to any campaigns. Our additional reporting found no reason to change our ruling, which remains at Mostly False. Here is our fact-check, with an addendum at the bottom reflecting our new research and reporting.
Mitt Romney's campaign wants you to know that the same president who argues for contraceptive coverage and suggests that a Congress with more female members would get more accomplished has also presided over disproportionate job losses among women.
On April 6, 2012, Romney's press secretary Andrea Saul tweeted, "FACT: Women account for 92.3% of the jobs lost under @BarackObama, a claim also made on Romney's website.
She followed it up a few hours later with this: "@BarackObama touts policies for women & 92.3% jobs lost under him r women's. He's even more clueless than we thought."
When we asked for backup for the claim, the campaign cited national employment figures spanning four years. We found that though the numbers are accurate, their reading of them isn't.
'Total nonfarm payroll jobs'
Romney's campaign pointed to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment figures from January 2009, when Obama took office, and March 2012, for all employees and for female employees.
Here they are:
* Total Nonfarm Payroll Jobs:
January 2009: 133,561,000
March 2012: 132,821,000
Net loss: 740,000 jobs.
* Total Female Nonfarm Payroll Jobs
January 2009: 66,122,000
March 2012: 65,439,000
Net loss: 683,000 jobs.
They then divided the net loss among women by the total net loss and came up with 92.3 percent.
Beyond the numbers
The first problem we find with Saul's tweet is that it begins counting job losses the first month Obama was in office. We have taken points off previous claims for blaming officeholders for situations that existed at the beginning of their administrations, before their policies have had time to take effect. One could reasonably argue that January 2009 employment figures are more a result of President George W. Bush's policies, at least as far as any president can be blamed or credited for private-sector hiring.
We reached out to Gary Steinberg, spokesman for the BLS, for his take on the claim. He pointed out that women's job losses are high for that period of time because millions of men had already lost their jobs. Women were next.
"Between January 2009 and March 2012 men lost 57,000 jobs, while women lost 683,000 jobs. This is the reverse of the recession period of December 2007-June 2009 (with an overlap of six months) which saw men lose 5,355,000 jobs and women lose 2,124,000 jobs," Steinberg told us in an email.
So timing was important. And if you count all those jobs lost beginning in 2007, women account for just 39.7 percent of the total.
Gary Burtless, a labor market expert with the Brookings Institution, explained the gender disparity.
"I think males were disproportionately hurt by employment losses in manufacturing and especially construction, which is particularly male-dominated. A lot of job losses in those two industries had already occurred before Obama took office," he said. "Industries where women are more likely to be employed – education, health, the government – fared better in terms of job loss. In fact, health and education employment continued to grow in the recession and in the subsequent recovery. Government employment only began to fall after the private economy (and private employment) began growing again."
(Burtless contributed $750 to Obama's campaign in 2011. However, in 2008 he provided advice on aspects of labor policy to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and he has worked as a government economist and served on federal advisory panels under presidents of both parties.)
Betsey Stevenson, a business and public policy professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and visiting economics professor at Princeton University, who previously served as chief economist for Obama's labor secretary, also pointed out that "in every recession men's job loss occurs first and most, with unemployment rates for men being more cyclical than those of women's."
She added that many of women's job losses have been government jobs -- teachers and civil servants -- which have been slower to come back because they require greater government spending.
So have Obama's policies been especially bad for women?
Said Stevenson: "I don't think you could point to a single piece of evidence that the pattern of job loss: men first then women, is due to the president's policies. It's a historical pattern that has held in previous recessions."
Our ruling
Romney's website said that women account for 92.3 percent of jobs lost under Obama.
By comparing job figures with January 2009 and March 2012 and weighing them against women's job figures from the same periods, Saul came up with 92.3 percent. The numbers are accurate but quite misleading. First, Obama cannot be held entirely accountable for the employment picture on the day he took office, just as he could not be given credit if times had been booming. Second, by choosing figures from January 2009, months into the recession, the statement ignored the millions of jobs lost before then, when most of the job loss fell on men. In every recession, men are the first to take the hit, followed by women. It's a historical pattern, Stevenson told us, not an effect of Obama's policies.
There is a small amount of truth to the claim, but it ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it Mostly False.
We considered the Romney campaign's complaints but do not see any evidence that warrants changing our ruling.
The other economists agreed the statement was misleading and, for the most part, said it wrongly blamed Obama for broad trends that were part of a long, deep recession.
Bruce Bartlett, a former official in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, said much of the decline for women was in the public sector.
"To the extent there have been excessive job losses among women, a lot of it has to do with the fact that there has been an enormous reduction in state and local government employment," Bartlett said. "The decline ... has been especially pronounced in this recession as opposed to other recessions."
This chart from the Economic Policy Institute, a labor-backed group, bears that out. In earlier recessions, public-sector jobs began increasing again as the economy stabilized. After the most recent recession, they have continued to disappear. Again, these are jobs heavily held by women.
Bartlett added that many of those government jobs were eliminated in states controlled by Republican governors and legislatures.
This story in the Atlantic cited a study by the liberal Roosevelt Institute finding that the 11 states that went Republican in 2010 accounted for 40.5 percent of all state and local government job losses.
Jeff Hayes is a senior research analyst with the Institute for Women's Policy Research, an organization affiliated with George Washington University's public policy graduate program that receives contributions from groups including the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Hayes added that "there's a lag before the lost tax revenue catches up and government jobs are lost.
"If you break out the 683,000 jobs women lost between January 2009 and March 2012, 64 percent were in government and only 36 percent in the private sector."
That leads us to a point made by Eileen Appelbaum with the left-leaning Center on Economic and Policy Research. She noted that after the first wave of money in the president's stimulus bill had run out, Obama asked for another $23 billion in "emergency aid" for state and local governments. The money was sought to avert the layoffs of as many as 300,000 public school teachers, but House Republican leaders stripped it.
"You could hardly blame Obama for that," Appelbaum said.
As for the comparison with the PolitiFact Georgia item, such direct comparisons are tricky. In this case, the Georgia ruling was on the simpler question of the job creation under President Ronald Reagan, while the Romney claim omitted the critical detail of the loss of jobs for men before Obama took office.
Other fact-checking organizations have examined Romney's claim and come to similar conclusions.
The Associated Press said using the 92.3 percent figure as a measure of Obama's record on women was "dubious at best."
First Read, a politics blog by NBC News, had this to say: "Does anyone believe, with a straight face, that nine in 10 job losses over the past three years have been women workers?"
And the New York Times disputed the emphasis on the job losses occurring "under Obama."
"Presidents get too much credit or blame for changes in the business cycle. Contrary to what seems to be popular opinion, neither Mr. Bush nor Mr. Obama had or have the unilateral ability to steer the country into good or bad job markets. Neither would a President Romney," Times economics writer Catherine Rampell wrote in the Economix blog.
We'll conclude with this point: Experts agree that the economic recovery has not helped women as much as men. Howard Wall, an economics professor at Lindenwood University, said it's fair to fault Obama for that. But he took issue with the timeframe of the Romney campaign's claim -- starting in January 2009 while the recession was still on.
"I think you have to kind of divide the timeline. Call it the Bush recession and the Obama recovery," Wall said. "I don't give them (the Obama administration) credit for stopping the fall or causing the fall. They had nothing to do with that. But they own the recovery."
Does all this mean that Obama's policies have brought hard times to women?
Said Bartlett, the conservative: "There's no reason to think so."

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Thanks to Michael of MindLoveMisery's Menagerie for hosting Tale Weaver Prompt #135 in Princess Charming, a female heroine saving Prince Charming. Also, thanks to Grace of Poet's Pub for hosting open link night.
They say that,
Real heros have capes, tights;
Uniforms and Bat lights.
They shoot webs,
Like spiders but from,
Their palms.
Flying and leaping,
Over tall buildings.
Their technology is —
Top of the line.
They're stoic, tough,
Male bonding and showmanship.
Strong shields guard,
Robatic armour too.
Glowing hearts of uranium,
And flying suits.
Hands pulsing lasors.
With green hoods,
Piercing arrows.
Strength that's incalculable.
They're ages old,
Hundreds or Thousands.
There human or from,
Other dimensions, worlds.
Becoming angry,
Mean and green.
Are blinded but powerful.
Yet few will notice,
Female superheroes,
Their tough outer layers.
They've a solid insistence,
For the good of mankind.
They sacrifice as a —
Black Widow or a mutant,
Causing storms.
The Mockingbird or a Scarlet Witch.
The Wolverine's friend, Rogue.
Women know,
How being gentle,
Is as mighty as Thor's hammer.
How sensitivity with honed,
Physical skills,
Has an authentic glory.
Not understanding,
Why men keep warring.
Even though —
They know they must.
So, they do too,
Wonder Womans and —
Super girls,
Their skirts shorter.
Slipping into —
Dark corners,
To hide their tears;
Heroic tears
As in a man's world —
Most men don't recognize,
The first Wonder Woman,
In their life,
Gave birth to them.
Nurtured them,
Their superpowers hidden,
To be the best —
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Ive just got a new machine and one of my gestures doesnt seem to be working properly as it does with my home machine.
The gesture is:
Search & Middle Click/Drag on right hand 'release' which I have set to 'Left Alt' with a duration of 50.
This enables me to orbit in maya after panning with 2 fingers and thumb dragging.
Now the 'Left alt' on release doesnt work on my work machine and yet does at home.
If anyone has any idea as to why this isnt working I would appreciate it.


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How to Treat Neck Pain for Soccer Players
When you're a soccer player, you'll experience neck pain sooner or later. The pain may be caused by heading the ball incorrectly or too hard, or you may hurt your neck some other way. No matter how you injure your neck, you want the pain to go away quickly.
If you experience severe neck pain after practice or a game, check with your doctor immediately. Also consult a physician if you have constant or recurring neck pain.
You may first experience discomfort in your neck when the muscles of your neck, upper back, and/or shoulders get tight. You can gauge how tight your neck muscles are by pressing a finger into the area between your shoulder and neck; if there's very little give, your muscles are tight.
The best way to relieve tightness in your neck is to gently stretch the muscles. If your muscles are tight on the right, slowly bend your head and neck to the left while stretching your right arm down and out to the side. A gentle massage can also help ease tension in the neck and shoulder muscles.
Many times ice is applied to treat an injury. However, ice isn't recommended for neck pain because the coldness can cause your muscles to tense up even more. Instead, apply moist heat with a warm washcloth or a soak in a hot tub.


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Which? –the UK consumer site/organization/magazine — has put tablet battery life to the test. Tablets were split into two size groups, has their screens set to the exact same brightness (using an external calibration tool) and were used to browse the web until they died.
And surprise! The iPad not only won in each category, but won by a landslide.
The Retina iPad came tops in the full-sized tablet category, scoring 811 minutes (yeah, minutes are a pain but they're also a much better way to see the differences between devices). In second place was the iPad 2 (590 minutes). The best of the rest is the Sony Tablet S (534 minutes), followed by the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.
And as you can see from the chart, things get pretty laughable after that.
As for "7"-inch tablets, the iPad Mini thrashes the competition, despite having a screen that is 35% bigger than its rivals. Next best is the Kindle Fire HD, with 591 minutes.
Not listed (but available if you subscribe) are the charging tests, which tells you how long it takes to fully juice your device. My guess is that the Retina iPAd will win there, too – but not in a good way.
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As many health club operators try to determine how to reach the deconditioned market, Snap Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, is trying something new in that area. The company is opening 960-square-foot modular fitness centers at Pilot Flying J travel centers. The Snap Fitness Rolling Strong clubs will target the 4 million Americans who make their living as professional truck drivers.
"Most people don't really look at that as a target market," Gary Findley, COO at Snap Fitness, says of truckers.
Bob Perry, who is president of Rolling Strong, a company that provides health and wellness services to trucking companies and their drivers, approached Findley and Peter Taunton, CEO of Snap Fitness, with the idea, and they said yes.
"From the first time that I met Peter and Gary, I knew this was the right fit," Perry says. "I can't say enough [about] how great they were. Snap just got it. Peter was the right person. He knew truck drivers. They said, 'Wow, yes, this is a population that clearly is not being served.'"
Perry, who also is the chairman for the American Trucking Association's Safety Management Council's Health & Wellness Working Group, is known in the trucking industry as "The Trucker Trainer" because of his late-night fitness- and nutrition-oriented radio show and because of his Rolling Strong company.
Perry's family has been in the trucking industry for 70 years, which has led Perry to a long relationship with Pilot Flying J, which has about 500 travel centers across the country that cater to truckers. Many truckers "live" at the centers during their required down time using services such as showers, laundry facilities, movie-viewing areas and restaurants.
The three groups have entered into a partnership in which Snap Fitness corporate would own the modular facilities and rent space from Pilot Flying J, Knoxville, TN, to "drop" the modular units in their parking lots. Rolling Strong would market the clubs to truckers.
The first of the facilities is scheduled to open this month in Dallas. Snap has committed to opening another 10 facilities in the first quarter of 2012, possibly culminating in 50 or more facilities eventually, depending on how the concept is received, Findley says.
"We will do as many of these as we need to get the coverage," Findley says.
Location of future facilities will be on the north/south and east/west highways that are most traveled by truckers, some of which Snap has already targeted. Findley declined to specify where those facilities will be, as the locations may still change.
Snap franchisees should not worry about these facilities competing with theirs, he says.
"Most travel centers are on the highway, typically on the outskirts of town," Findley says. "We'll make sure we don't put one where we have a Snap already."
The Snap Fitness Rolling Strong clubs will cost about $150,000 to build and equip, which is about $100,000 to $150,000 less than a typical Snap Fitness center, Findley says. The facilities will include about 10 pieces of equipment, including treadmills, bikes, cable machines and dumbbells.
The facilities will be staffed at times. Truckers can sign up online for memberships at $29.95 per month. Once they receive their membership/key card in the mail, they can access the Snap facilities at anytime.
Truckers who join the Snap Fitness Rolling Strong facilities have access to any other Snap Fitness clubs. Likewise, Snap Fitness members can access these Snap Fitness Rolling Strong clubs when they are on the road.
These facilities will not only change the trucking industry, Perry says, but they also will infuse a new burst of membership into the club industry from a group that normally would not belong to a gym.
For years, Perry has talked about bringing workout facilities to truckers, but he was often met with resistance from people who said that truckers would not exercise.
"They say that these drivers are not going to work out, but that's ignorant thinking," Perry says. "These people want to do it; it's just no one has brought it to them. This is a population that is underserved."
But if all goes well with these new centers, that may soon change.


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Turkeys forage for food Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in a yard on Silverthorn Drive in Rockford. Photo by Amy J. Correnti
Weather ideal for wild turkeys to survive in Rockford area this year
Rockford Register Star
ROCKFORD — Two young turkeys slowly worked their way to the ever-busy corner of Spring Creek and Alpine roads during a recent morning's rush hour.
They paid the oncoming traffic no attention as they foraged for food a few feet away from the scores of passing cars near the grounds of the Christian Science Church. Across the street, high on a hill, a flock of at least eight more turkeys lumbered across the front lawn of an office complex.
It's not unusual for all four lanes of Spring Creek Road to come to a standstill as a line of turkeys plod single-file across traffic.
It's a sight that would have been unheard of anywhere in Illinois just a generation ago, before one of the most successful conservation efforts and species reintroductions in American history.
Nearly stamped out
Deforestation and unregulated hunting decimated turkey populations across America in the late 19th century. By 1920, the birds had been wiped out except for a few remote pockets in the Ozark and Appalachian mountains.
The turkeys we see in the Rock River Valley today are the descendents of the precious few that survived in the harshest parts of the Missouri Ozarks, where their habitat wasn't cut down and where settlers didn't dare to hunt.
Despite the growth of cities, populations, homes and roadways over the last 100 years, there's more habitable land now for wildlife than there was then, said Doug Dufford, wildlife biologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
"Think about what northern Illinois looked like in the latter half of the 1800s," Dufford said. "Settlers came in and would look at the prairies and say, 'Well, obviously that can't be good soil because it doesn't even support trees.' So forests were converted to farmland. Timber was the main source of fuel. They needed wood for steam engines and to heat homes and for construction."
And when people had to provide their own food, a turkey was a good thing to bring home.
Back from the brink
Early reintroduction efforts failed in the 20th century.
Over several decades, biologists bred domestic turkeys with wild turkeys.
Hundreds of thousands of turkeys were bred in a coop and turned free in the wild across the country, Dufford said.
It worked about as well as releasing a litter of puppies into the wild and expecting them to turn into a wolf pack.
The method that ultimately worked, that brought sustainable turkey populations back to Illinois and the country, seems more likely thought up by Wile E. Coyote to catch the Road Runner than from wildlife biologists.
"They shot a net, attached with weights at the end, out of a cannon," Dufford said.
Biologists knew they had to catch wild turkeys. And so, they painstakingly used propelled nets and bait traps to capture large numbers of wild turkeys that had the survival skills a domestic bird could never learn.
The Illinois DNR started releasing the wild birds in Jo Daviess County in 1980. When it worked, they reintroduced the turkeys to the rest of northern Illinois.
'Stable' locally
The turkeys were reintroduced to Winnebago County in the 1990s.
The population here has its highs and lows, Dufford said.
For the past several years, it had been declining because of a string of wet and cold springs.
In the spring, newborn birds are particularly vulnerable to rain, Dufford said.
"It's like when a sleeping bag gets wet - it loses all of its insulating qualities," Dufford said.
Populations are expected to climb this year, thanks to one of the driest and hottest springs on record.
The turkeys have now been reintroduced to nearly every corner of the state. The last turkey was stocked - captured and released - in Illinois in 2000. The largest populations survive in the southern parts of the state.
The DNR doesn't keep a population count and Dufford said they couldn't begin to guess how many wild turkeys are in the area now.
"We keep track of signs that show if the population is increasing or decreasing," he said. "Now we're seeing that it's stable."


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MARIN COUNTY — Max Wade, the 18-year-old San Rafael man charged with a Lamborghini theft in San Francisco and an attempted murder case in Mill Valley, cannot get a fair trial in Marin because of the intense publicity surrounding the case, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Defense attorney Charles Dresow filed motions seeking both a change of venue for the trial and a severance of the Marin and San Francisco charges.
Dresow argued that the sensational media coverage about the stolen $200,000 Lamborghini — which belonged to restaurateur and television chef Guy Fieri — threatens to "poison the jury pool" in Marin.
He said the relatively minor matter of the auto theft is overshadowing the extremely serious charges of attempted murder.
"Mr. Wade has been vilified as everything that is wrong with the overprivileged youth of Marin County," Dresow wrote. "So much emotion and passion surrounds the issue that Mr. Wade will be unable to find a fair and impartial jury in Marin County."
Dresow, with Wade at his side, filed the motions during a brief hearing Tuesday before Judge Kelly Simmons. The judge set a hearing on the motions for March 28, then scheduled jury selection for May 16.
Prosecutor Yvette Martinez-Shaw said she expects the trial to last four to six weeks.
Wade remains in custody in lieu of $2 million bail.
Wade is charged with two counts of attempted murder for a shooting on April 13 in Mill Valley. Authorities said he rode a motorcycle up to a pickup truck and fired at a teenage couple inside because the girl has rejected him romantically. The victims escaped with minor injuries from flying glass.
After sheriff's investigators identified Wade as the suspect, they tailed him to a storage facility in Richmond and found, among other evidence, Fieri's yellow Lamborghini. It was stolen from a dealership in San Francisco 10 months earlier, when the thief entered through a high window and rapelled down to the car, police said.
Authorities said Wade, who grew up in Tiburon, was known for driving a yellow Lamborghini around Marin County and supplying counterfeit IDs to local teens.
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has developed the All-Terrain Hex-Limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer (ATHLETE) robot. As a multi-purpose vehicle, each of the ATHLETE's six limbs is attached to a wheel, enabling the vehicle to travel across various types of terrain—ranging from smooth surfaces to rolling hills to ruggedly steep terrain. However, the wheels can also be locked to transform the limbs into general purpose legs that can be used as feet. The ATHLETE robot can also be used for loading, unloading, and transporting cargo for long distances.
As part of the Desert Research and Training Studies (D-RATS), NASA/JPL performs annual field tests on the ATHLETE robot in conjunction with robots from other NASA centers. While driving the robots, operators depend on high-resolution satellite images for guidance, positioning, and situational awareness. To streamline the processing of the satellite images, NASA/JPL engineers developed an application that takes advantage of the parallel nature of the workflow. NASA/JPL relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for this effort.
The application is built on Polyphony, which is a modular workflow orchestration framework designed to streamline the process of leveraging hundreds of nodes on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). By accommodating excess capacity on local machines and spare resources in the supercomputing center, Polyphony meshes perfectly with the AWS Cloud. Most important, Polyphony enables the resources to work together to achieve a common goal. By using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), NASA/JPL developers can deploy massive computations on Amazon EC2 by writing as little as a single class.
NASA/JPL had previously used Polyphony to validate the utility of cloud computing for processing hundreds of thousands of small images in an Amazon EC2 environment. However, NASA/JPL has adopted the cluster compute environment for processing huge images and recently processed a 3.2 giga-pixel image to support the ATHLETE robot operations in its 2010 D-RATS field test. Khawaja Shams, Senior Solution Architect, reports that "AWS resources completed the work in less than two hours on a cluster of 30 Cluster Compute Instances. This demonstrates a significant improvement over previous implementations."
In addition to its support for the ATHLETE robot, Polyphony has been delivered to the Mars Science Laboratory to serve as one of the primary data processing and delivery pipelines that process data downloaded from Mars. Shams explains that the application "allowed us to process nearly 200,000 Cassini images within a few hours under $200 on AWS." Due to the lack of elasticity available internally before switching to AWS, Shams says that "we were only able to use a single machine locally and spent more than 15 days on the same task." The efficiency and cost-savings offered by AWS has proven invaluable.
To learn more about building Web Applications on the AWS Cloud, visit: http://aws.amazon.com/web-mobile-social/.
For more information about how NASA/JPL uses the AWS Cloud for other missions and studies, see: NASA/JPL's MER and CARVE Missions and NASA/JPL's Mars Curiosity Mission customer success stories.


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The story of the Purple Heart goes back to the Revolutionary War, when it was awarded to only three recipients.
Those three Badges of Military Merit, today known as the Purple Heart, were the unique honor a soldier could receive, and their stories are truly fascinating.
Sergeant Elijah Churchill, of the 2nd Continental Light Dragoons, received his award for gallantry in action during a raid on Fort George and the forage depot at Coran, Long Island, in November 1780.
The second recipient was Sergeant William Brown, of the 5th Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Line. Later, the third and final known award was presented to Sergeant Daniel Bissell. In his case, the usual detailed supporting documentation was not required to explain and justify the award to George Washington. He well knew the important service the sergeant had performed.
His citation is an eloquent clue to his inclusion in this most exclusive trio:
"I, George Washington, Commander — in — Chief of the American Army,
"To all to whom These Presents shall come sendeth Greeting:
"Whereas it hath ever been an established maxim in The American Service, that the Road to Glory was open to all, that Honorary Rewards and Distinctions were the greatest Stimuli to virtuous actions, and whereas Sergeant Daniel Bissell of the Second Connecticut Regiment, has performed some important service, within the
immediate knowledge of the Commander-in Chief, in which his fidelity, perseverance and good sense, were not only conspicuously manifested, but his general line of conduct throughout a long course of service, having been not only unspotted but highly deserving of commendation. Now therefore, Know Ye, that the aforesaid Sergeant Bissell, hath fully and truly deserved, and hath been properly invested with the Honorary Badge of Military Merit, and is entitled to pass and repass all Guards and Military Posts. As freely and as simply as any Commissioned Officer whatever; and it is further Recommended to that Notice which a Brave and Faithful Soldier deserves from his Countrymen, Given under my hand and seal, in the Highlands of New York, this Ninth day of May, A.D. 1783.
"George Washington"
The Purple Heart was revived on Washington's 200th birthday in 1932 by order of then-Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur; its use was narrowed to an award for wounds or death suffered in combat.
Source Material: "Secret New England, Spies of the American Revolution," edited by Edmund R. Thompson.
The following veterans' services, activities and special events are planned for March in the Sanford-Springvale area.
■ Sunday, March 3: The Southern Maine Chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America will hold its general meeting from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Sanford Elks Lodge at 13 Elm Street. Also, the VFW will host "Bingo" on this day and every Sunday at the VFW Hall on School Street starting at 6 p.m. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m.
■ Monday, March 4: American Legion Auxiliary Post 19 will hold a meeting at 6 p.m. at its Main Street headquarters.
■ Tuesday, March 5: The Sons of the American Legion, Post 19, will hold a meeting at 6 p.m. at their Main Street headquarters.
■ Wednesday. March 6: VFW Post 9935 will hold a general meeting at its School Street headquarters at 7 p.m.
■ Sunday, March 10: Rolling Thunder will hold a general meeting at AMVETS Post 3 on School Street from noon to 2 p.m.
■ Wednesday, March 13: AMVETS Post 3 and Auxiliary will hold their general meetings at their School Street headquarters at 7 p.m.
■ Monday, March 18: American Legion Post 19 will hold its general meeting at 6 p.m. at its Main Street headquarters. Also, the VFW Auxiliary will hold a meeting at the VFW Post on School Street at 6:30 p.m.
■ Wednesday, March 20: The Marine League Detachment will hold a general meeting at the AMVETS Post 3 on School Street at 6 p.m.
■ Tuesday. March 26: Disabled American Veterans Chapter 19 will hold a general meeting at VFW Post 9935 on School Street at 7 p.m. Active and inactive members are welcome to attend.
■ The Marine Corps League Detachment 1341 will hold a "Spring Sweethearts Dance" at the American Legion Post on Main Street in Springvale on Saturday, April 13, at 6 p.m.
■ A job fair will be held at the Nasson Community Center at 457 Main Street on Friday, April 19, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
■ Rolling Thunder will hold its annual "Bowl-A-Thon" on Saturday, April 27, at the Bowl-A-Rama on Main Street.
Counseling and Referral Services for Veterans and their Families
Sanford Vet Center
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The center's hours of operation are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays through Thursdays and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Appointments with counselors can be arranged by calling the center.
Sanford Free Meals Kitchen
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, free hot meals are served from noon to 1 p.m. at the Masonic Lodge on Elm Street in Sanford. All veterans are welcome. These meals are provided by York County Shelter Programs in Alfred.
Veterans Job Assistance
The York County Career Center at 3 Bodwell Street offers veterans' job services in Springvale. The center is open Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The center is one of 12 located across the state to assist veterans with finding employment, making career changes, receiving job Information, training and benefits and meeting other needs. Priority services are provided for all veterans who identify themselves as such.
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Veterans Clothing Assistance
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Attention all veterans: If you haven't joined any of the local veteran's organizations in the Sanford-Springvale area, you are missing a great opportunity for assistance and camaraderie.
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Long Ball Saves Phils
Having not scored more than four runs since April 9, a 3-0 deficit after five innings seemed insurmountable for the Phillies.
Hitless innings were the norm (10.2 before Mayberry's fifth-inning double) and then the missing long ball returned and the Phillies pulled out a 4-3 win yesterday afternoon to run their day game record this year to 7-0.
The Brewers were on the verge of their first series sweep ever in Philly until Polly and Shane went deep. Polly's sixth inning three-run homer ended a string of 17 scoreless innings.
Milwaukee had timely hitting, strong pitching and terrific defense in winning the first two games. They had stymied the Phillies 1-through-5 hitters (7-40) in that pair of games. Five of the six hits yesterday game from those five hitters.
One thing about this bunch of Phillies, they just keep grinding and grinding.
Madson Climbing
Ryan picked up the win, his 37th, sixth on the club's all-time list for wins by a reliever: Jack Baldschun (39), Jim Konstanty (40), Dick Farrell (47), Tug McGraw (49) and Ron Reed (54).
The Brewers' first-inning run was the first off Phillies pitchers this season; Phillies first-inning runs: 16 . . . Lee threw 99 pitches in his previous complete game win and 93 in six innings yesterday . . . Sellout streak now at 134 . . . Four-game series in San Diego starts tonight. Padres are last in hitting (.222) and first in ERA (2.97) . . . After southern California, it's on to Phoenix and three games with the Diamondbacks starting Monday night.
Down On The Farm
SWB blanked Lehigh Valley, 6-0 . . . Reading boarded a bus for a seven-game road trip that starts tonight in Akron and ends in Erie . . . RHP Tyler Cloyd allowed one hit in six scoreless innings but Brevard County got to Clearwater's bullpen for a 5-4 win . . . Lakewood, which could muster only 11 runs on 24 hits through the first seven games, exploded at Asheville, a 21-hit attack that produced an 18-8 win. The first eight players in the lineup had multiple hits. 1B Stephen Batts had two homers, drove in five. LF Miguel Alvarez, four hits including three doubles.


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Show Dogs
Starring Will Arnett, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Natasha Lyonne, Jordin Sparks, Gabriel Iglesias, Shaquille O'Neal, Alan Cumming, and Stanley Tucci, SHOWDOGS is a family comedy about the unlikely pairing of a human detective (Arnett) and his canine partner (voice of Chris "Ludacris" Bridges), who has to go undercover at the world's most exclusive dog show to solve his biggest case yet.'
First Reformed
Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence. From writer-director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver; American Gigolo; Affliction) comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary.'
On Chesil Beach
Adapted by Ian McEwan from his bestselling novel, the drama centers on a young couple of drastically different backgrounds in the summer of 1962. Following the pair through their idyllic courtship, the film explores sex and the societal pressure that can accompany physical intimacy, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough, Emily Watson, and Samuel West.'
That Summer
Welcome to Grey Gardens...as you've never seen it before. Three years before the Maysles' landmark documentary introduced the world to Edith and Edie Beale - the unforgettable mother-daughter (and Jackie O. relatives) living in a daycare dream world on Long Island - renowned photographer Peter Beard chronicled life at their crumbling estate during one summer in 1972. For the first time ever, director Goran Olsson (The black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975) assembles this long-lost footage - featuring glimpses of luminaries like Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, and Truman Capote - into a one-of-a-kind family portrait bursting with the loving squabbles, quotable bon mots, and impromptu musical numbers that would make Big and Little Edie beloved cultural icons.'
Pope Francis - A Man Of His Word
Pope Francis - A Man of His Word is intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, rather than a biographical documentary about him. The pope's ideas and his message are central to this documentary, which sets out to present his work of reform and his answers to today's global questions. '
Book Club
Diane (Diane Keaton) is recently widowed after 40 years of marriage. Vivian (Jane Fonda) enjoys her men with no strings attached. Sharon (Candice Bergen) is still working through a decades-old divorce. Carol's (Mary Steenburgen) marriage is in a slump after 35 years. Four lifelong friends' lives are turned upside down to hilarious ends when their book club tackles the infamous Fifty Shades of Grey. From discovering new romance to rekindling old flames, they inspire each other to make their next chapter the best chapter.'
Breaking In
Gabrielle Union stars as a woman who will stop at nothing to rescue her two children being held hostage in a house designed with impenetrable security. No trap, no trick and especially no man inside can match a mother with a mission when she is determined on Breaking In.'
Deadpool 2
After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry's hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor - finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World's Best Lover. '
Life of the Party
When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna (Melissa McCarthy) turns regret into re-set by going back to college…landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna—now Dee Rock—embraces freedom, fun and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected. '
At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But without a definitive Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey of this diminutive, quiet warrior's rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans – until now.'


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The Queen's Guard Plays 'Games of Thrones' Theme Song at Buckingham Palace [VIDEO]by Mandi Salerno | PopCrush
'Game of Thrones' fans doubted Queen Elizabeth II's dedication to her fellow royals when she declined a chance to sit on the TV show's famed throne of swords, but it turns out they had nothing to worry about.
Over the last month the Queen's visit to the set of the hit HBO series has turned into a running internet joke, with a photo of her looking disdainfully at the Iron Throne becoming a monarchical meme. Fans of the show would die — figuratively — for that honor! (To be fair, she does have a throne of her own.)
Rest easy, 'GOT' viewers. The Queen made it pretty obvious she is a fan after all, since she had the Queen's Guard perform the theme song at Buckingham Palace. They played an orchestral version during the Changing of the Guard, captured on camera by some lucky tourists who witnessed it in person.
If you've watched the show, then you know the music is already a brilliant part of its production. But played by official royal guards in uniform outside of a real-life palace makes it unbelievably awesome.
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Team captain ... Finished the season with a 9-8 overall record, going 5-4 at the No. 2 ... Started the season with a 3-0 win over Brown's William Bryan … Defeated Jeremy Herrmann of Williams in three games … Swept Cornell's David Hilton Dec. 4 ... Downed Albert Shoihet of Western Ontario, 3-0 ... Won two matches from the No. 2 spot against St. Lawrence and Hamilton ... Helped Harvard capture fifth at the 2011 CSA National Team Championship winning matches against Dartmouth and Cornell.
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Qualified for CSA Individual Championships ... Went 7-7 overall on the season .... Won seven matches, all at the No. 4 slot, going 7-5.
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Held a 1-0 record at the No. 6 position and stood at 4-8 overall.
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One of just four Harvard players with a winning overall record (6-5) ... A perfect 3-0 at No. 4 and 1-0 at No. 3 ... Claimed a 3-0 win at No. 3 in Crimson victory against Cornell (Dec. 1) ... Earned a 3-0 win at No. 6 against Western Ontario in first round of CSA National Championships.
Hails from Rye, N.Y. where he attended Rye Country Day School... Earned four letters in squash and was team co-captain his sophomore, junior and senior year... Named team MVP in squash all four years on the team... He earned four varsity letters in golf including an All-League selection... Was also team co-captain his senior year... Was a member of the the varsity soccer team for two years... Ranked first in the region and fourth nationally U19 in 2007... Finished second in the U15 and U17 USSRA National Jr. Championships... Received the National Latin Examination Cum Laude Award in 2006... Volunteers at City Squash where he teaches inner city kids the game and tutors them... Other interests include business, politics, sports and travel... Sister (Blair) graduated from Harvard in 2000 and was a four year member of the squash team while brother-in-law Edouard Metrailler graduated fro Harvard in 1997... Sister (Leigh) played varsity squash at Trinity College.


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A deadly CIA drone kills 26 in Pakistan.
Termites ate a bunch of money in an Indian bank.
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So yeah, that would make us into animals in a zoo, in a sense - but we would also be the guardians of the zoo, and there aren't any fences. Its just people looking in on what we give them to look at.
You can't be both the animals in the zoo and the guardians of the zoo. It is just not in harmony with reality.
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China has begun to build a parallel international order, centered on itself. If the European Union aids in its construction – even just by positioning itself on the fault line between China and the United States – it risks toppling key pillars of its own edifice and, eventually, collapsing altogether.
Now that the old rules governing macroeconomic cycles no longer seem to apply, it remains to be seen what might cause the next recession in the United States. But if recent history is our guide, the biggest threat stems not from the US Federal Reserve or any one sector of the economy, but rather from the White House.
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His royal highness … Everyone's friend Brad Klein, by channeling Elvis at the Mr. Habitat 2011 competition, won the crown. His first costume was as Elvis in white, and the second Elvis costume was in black and silver — with blue suede shoes! First runner up with his beer-can tool belt was Clark Winslow, and coming in second and third were Ronnie Ramirez and Mike Blueitt. People's Choice award went to Kevin Steele. Also working their stuff on stage were Gordon Williams, Chuck King, James Johnson and Shane Howard. Cheering and encouraging their favorite contestants were Katherine Klein, Heather and Mark Petkovsek, Casey Winslow, Erika and Jefferson Winslow, Dana and Tony Archibald, Maureen Croley, Jennifer and Kirk Smith, Melissa and Lenny Caballero, Delores and Mack Golson, Blair and Charlie Foxworth, Frankie Randazzo, Mike Pennington, Hester and Milton Bell, Dalanna and Braxton Bennett, Iris and Jerry Nathan, Laura Sport, Derek Akins, Annie Green, Leslie Edwards, Chris Bean, Annie Tyner, Nicole Clark, Michael Sparks, Jacqueline Wing, Joy and Will Crenshaw, Lisa and Zack Pickett, and Robin and Lee Williams, to name a few. Super supporter of her offspring Anne Winslow was front and center after having breast cancer surgery a week earlier (Her mantra is get a mammogram!). Ashley Gaston and Brian Glenn did a great job keeping the contestants on task as organized judges Bobbie Applegate, Barbara Quinn and Christine Stetson tallied the votes for the guys. Organizing this worthwhile event was a fete in itself, but an easy task for Shelley Filla, Nancy McGrade, Uliana Trylowski, Shelly Vitanza and Carolyn McGuire. Can't wait to see who will receive the gold hammer and hardhat in 2012!
Supporting CASA … Judge Randy Shelton of the 279th District Court administered the CASA oath to seven community members and two new CASA staff members who completed 33 hours of intensive training to become special advocates for children in the Jefferson County foster care system. Kudos to Deborah Madar, Evelyn Delacruz, Edith Partlow, Lasonne Lester, Elizabeth Wright, Brandon Aten, Rebecca Howard, Irish Lewis and Wendy Frederick. And congrats!
Elements of entertainment … Christus Health Foundation-Southeast Texas announced recently that Earth, Wind and Fire will headline the foundation's 31st annual Benefit Gala, set for Saturday, April 9, at the Beaumont Civic Center. This fabulous group is one of the most musically accomplished, critically acclaimed bands of all times, winning six Grammy and four American Music Awards. They are members of both the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Earth, Wind and Fire continues to engage new audiences while remaining an all time favorite of their loyal fans. Because of their unique sound and wide appeal, this one time intimate performance is expected to sell out quickly! The foundation, along with gala chairs Cindy and Jamie Dishman, will pay tribute to Valero for its support of renovations at the pediatric unit at Christus Hospital-St. Mary. The black tie benefit will provide an unforgettable evening of entertainment starting with cocktails at 7 p.m. followed by a gourmet meal at 8 p.m., all leading to Earth, Wind and Fire's performance at 9:30 p.m. Tables for eight start at $3,000. Seating is limited. To learn more or to receive a personalized invitation, call (409) 899-7555.
Magical Mamma Mia … Beaumont native Barbara Knight was thrilled to witness daughter Chloe Tucker in one of the leading roles as Sophia in the road company production of "Mamma Mia," performed this past weekend in Orange at the Lutcher Theater. Proud grandparents Betty and Harvey Knight and great uncle Ralph Knight attended the performance Saturday evening. Barbara's good friend Paige Windham was allowed backstage for a visit with Chloe after the Saturday matinee performance.
Wedded bliss and staying power...diva Betty Greenberg and hubby Sheldon celebrated 65 years of marriage last week. Congratulations to one of Beaumont's most fun loving couples!
Candles and cakes … Champagne toasts to Robby Tortorice, Ally Rayzor, Butch Wenner, Mike Phelan, Kyle Hayes, Will Crenshaw, Sandy Eaves, Paula Ede, Tanner Hunt, Lula Potter, Jennifer Swantner and Denise Truncale.
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One of the most highly anticipated events of the year is the Christus Health Foundation Southeast Texas Annual Benefit Gala—in addition to raising much needed funds for the renovations of the local Christus hospitals, the black tie event is very simply one heck of a party. Past entertainers who have appeared at the local event include Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Michael Bolton, Ray Charles, Lionel Richie and last year's band, Chicago.
For the 31st annual black tie event scheduled for Saturday, April 9 at the Beaumont Civic Center, expect nothing less as far as entertainment and brace yourselves for the elements—Earth, Wind & Fire.
One of the most musically accomplished bands in American history, Earth Wind & Fire has won four American Music Awards, six Grammy Awards, and the band shares memberships in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Radio hits include "Boogie Wonderland," "September," "Sing a Song," "Shining Star" and of course, "Let's Groove."
The band has a soulful funk-feel with its blend of rhythm, blues and rock and roll—an award winning combination that will have everyone out of their seats when the band hits the stage.
"There is no other venue quite like this one," said Ivy Pate, Christus Southeast Texas regional vice president of philanthropy. "At a typical concert, you can wind up pretty far away from the band unless you're in the front row. But here at the Civic Center, there's really not a bad seat."
Pate explained that organizers turn the stage to take full advantage of visibility in the facility.
"The seating is closer in, so it's an intimate environment, and there's really not many places you can go where the seating is this up close and personal. Even the back row is close."
Carrying a nick-name as the 'Academy Awards' of fashion in Southeast Texas, the gala event features a gourmet dinner and, of course, some of the biggest names in entertainment to grace the center stage. Pate, who handpicks the entertainment, said she looks forward to the evening every year but is most delighted with the community's support.
"The entertainment is thrilling, but I'm more thrilled about the end result from these funds," said Pate. "We try to keep up with the latest advancements in medical care here in Southeast Texas so that our community has the best we can offer, and part of that means having the best equipment that money can buy. We are really so appreciative of the people who support this benefit, so we make sure to show them a good time."
The event begins at 7 p.m. with an opening reception cocktail hour, until 8 p.m. when everyone is seated for dinner. Soon following dinner is a short program as the foundation and gala chairs Cindy and Jamie Dishman honor Valero for their support of the Pediatric Unit renovations at Christus St. Mary in Port Arthur.
"Every year this fundraiser recognizes those who have been generous to the foundation's area hospitals, and Valero has given us a significant contribution towards the renovations of the pediatric wing at St. Mary's Hospital. Individuals and businesses have provided a better, brighter and healthier future for the people of southeast Texas through their patronage of this event," said Pate. This year's goal is set at $500,000 to be distributed to providing both equipment and renovations to three area hospitals: Christus St. Elizabeth, Christus St. Mary and Christus Jasper Memorial.
Pate added that those unable to attend the event but would like to make a tax-deductible donation to the foundation are welcome to do so.
Individual tickets to the event are $375, and a table for eight guests starts at $3,000.
To learn more or to receive a personalized invitation, please call (409) 899-7555. For more information about the foundation or the event please visit www.christushealthfoundationsetx.org.


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Bethlehem, Pa. – UMBC freshman guard Rodney Elliott (Baltimore, Md./John Carroll) and senior forward Chase Plummer (Plainfield, N.J./St. Patrick) sparked a furious second-half rally, but the effort fell just short, as the Retrievers fell at Lehigh, 70-68.
Elliott scored 13 of his 17 points in the second half, including a steal with 12 seconds left that cut the deficit to 69-68. After Lehigh hit just one of two free throws two seconds later, Elliott drove to the lane, but his five-footer was too strong and Lehigh secured the rebound with 0.7 seconds to play.
Lehigh forward Jesse Chuku missed both free throws, but a court-long attempt by Plummer was wide of the mark.
Plummer led UMBC for the second consecutive game with 21 points.
Five Lehigh (5-5) players scored in double figures, as the Mountain Hawks won their third consecutive game.
UMBC (3-7) opened the second half on a 7-3 run to take its biggest lead at 33-28 with 16:57 remaining. But Lehigh countered with the key run of the game, scored 11 consecutive points to garner a 39-33 advantage at the 11:43 mark.
The Retrievers closed to a one-possession game on five occasions before getting their first opportunity to have the ball with a chance to tie. Trailing 60-57 with 1:16 remaining, Plummer drew a foul, but converted just one of two from the line to cut the deficit to two points.
After a Lehigh field goal, UMBC turnover and two free throws by the Mountain Hawks, Plummer banked in a trey from the top of the key to slice the margin to 64-61 with 39 seconds remaining.
Lehigh answered with four consecutive free throws made before UMBC senior guardQuentin Jones (Baltimore, Md./Mount St. Joseph) hit a left-wing trey with 20 seconds to. Two seconds later, Elliott stole the inbounds pass and converted a layup to bring the visitors to within two points, setting up the final game sequence.
The Retrievers recovered from poor shooting in the first half to hit 14-of-26 attempts in the final 20 minutes. But UMBC missed seven critical second half free throws, while the hosts hit key free throws down the stretch to improve to 26-4 at home since the 2011-12 season.
Neither team could get much offensive traction going in the first half as both squads shot below 40 percent. UMBC dominated the boards, outrebounding LU, 11-0, on the offensive glass, but could only get to the free throw line seven times. The Retrievers also committed 11 first-half turnovers.
The largest lead enjoyed by either side was four points. Lehigh grabbed a17-13 advantage with 6:56 to play in the half, but, after a 12-4 surge by UMBC, the visitors led, 25-21, with less than three minutes to play. UMBC took its second halftime lead of the season, at 26-25, into the locker room.
Jones scored 12 points for UMBC. Plummer led a balanced rebounding effort with seven, while Elliott stuffed the stat sheet with five assists and two steals.
The Retrievers return to action on Wednesday when they travel a short distance to face Coppin State.


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This workshop probes the living nature of the novel by illustrating how each reader makes a novel his or her own. It shows how the interpretation of a novel can change, depending on the reader's culture, class, generation, gender, and personality. Go to this unit.
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This workshop explores how an author spins a story and why it is the most important aspect of the novel. In the program, participants examine the importance of the hook, and the "why" behind the events. They also consider various ways into difficult novels. Go to this unit.
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Must a novel's setting and characters and the characters' motivations and stories bear some likeness to reality? This program explores how novels connect with readers. Teachers, students, and novelists probe the origins of stories. Go to this unit.
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A reader can take on a number of roles in a novel: the protagonist, the narrator, the author, or another character. In this program, students and novelists examine the complex ways readers may identify with characters in a novel. Go to this unit.
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Writers discuss the importance of research and of having an editor. They dispense advice for teachers on getting students to love literature. Includes: Orson Scott Card, Nora Roberts, Katherine Paterson, Arthur Golden, Daniel Keyes and others.
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Lean Manufacturing Fuels Recessionary Rebound
|Talan Products' supervisor Frank Lowe grabs a tool off one of the firm's die carts designed as part of the firm's recent 5S and quick-die-change initiatives.
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None of the above-mentioned issues were a problem for executives at metalformer Talan Products, Cleveland, OH, where CEO Steve Peplin, president Pete Accorti and VP of manufacturing Pat Parziale explained their recent success implementing lean strategies.
"We had been discussing a move toward lean methods for several years," says Peplin. "We've als had a participative work environment, so we thought we had the right culture. There wasn't much doubt in our minds that we could implement lean methods in our shop, but we also knew we needed help staying on track."
Accorti adds, "We had actually made some small efforts to implement lean-manufacturing methods in the past. That experience told us that lean methods weren't rocket science, but that they do take a lot of discipline to sustain. And, we recognized that we needed somebody from the outside to educate us and help us keep our noses to the grindstone."
For outside expertise, the firm contracted with Chagrin River Consulting, also in Cleveland, bringing in Rick Bohan to help with implementation. "The first thing Rick did," says Accorti, "was spend a few days in the shop getting to know our people and operations. After that, we scheduled a series of planning sessions for the senior leadership, to set some targets and develop an action plan for rolling lean methods out across the shop."
Planning Key to Getting Everyone on the Same Page
No lean-implementation project can be successful without careful planning, which Talan's management undertook only after allowing Bohan to interview managers and employees about Talan's operations. Says Parziale, reporting on early management planning sessions: "Our discussions showed that we had some differing views around the shop regarding prioritizing our efforts, but we were able to agree on what was important and what we should be working on. I think that helped management present a united team to the rest of the company and see that we were serious about this project and committed to it."
The leadership team developed a set of measures used throughout the project to gauge performance improvement. Among the metrics: inventory turnaround, measures of equipment, tooling, and personnel availability, scrap and direct labor efficiency.
"The work we did developing and refining our metrics optimized the effectiveness of the lean implementation," says Accorti. "Some of our most energetic discussions as a leadership team involved metrics. These discussions helped us understand that lean manufacturing isn't just applying some tools to the shop floor and hoping for the best."
The leadership team committed to posting, every month, easy-to-read charts to track the metrics. In addition, the team still meets to discuss progress on the metrics at the start of each month.
"The charts drive a lot of energy and action," says Peplin. "They help us identify problems and opportunities early rather than when it's too late to solve or take advantage of them."
During the planning sessions, the senior leaders also developed a 12-month calendar of activities for the lean implementation. The team's decisions were based on their own knowledge of what was needed in the plant coupled with the results of the consultant's report. First, a series of 5S action workshops were scheduled; each press was to have its own 5S workshop. The workshops addressed two objectives: teach supervisors and operators the principles of 5S, and actually get the presses and the areas surrounding them organized
|Supervisor Miguel Lugo (left) and press operator Mark Adams discuss Mark's real-time hour-by-hour performance as marked on the chart. Hourly, Mark notes on the chart any problems he might be experiencing and supervisors review the charts and collaborate with the operators to solve the problems.
The 5S tool addresses workplace flow and organization, focused on sorting, straightening, shining, standardizing and sustaining. More than a housekeeping program, 5S initiatives address a variety of important factors including workplace safety, material and information flow, preventive maintenance, standardized work instructions, inventory control and purchasing procedures.
"We were very interested in starting with 5S," explains Parziale, "to get everyone involved, develop a teamwork approach and make a visible difference. The 5S workshops were a good start to the overall initiative."
The 5S workshops highlighted the importance of preventive maintenance on presses and auxiliary equipment. They also focused on the importance of organizing and standardizing die-change tooling. For example, the 5S teams put into use a series of die carts, and also color-coded clamps and other tooling.
"We also found that we had to audit weekly to keep the 5S program energized," adds Parziale.
Creating a Visual Factory
The 5S workshops introduced visual factory methods at Talan Products. For example, operators were expected to record oil pressures each hour. In doing so, many stated that the gauges were too small and were located such that they were hard to read. As a result of 5S, the firm invested in larger gauges that were relocated so that they became easier to see and read. Operator compliance with the task of recording hourly pressures increased.
In yet another example of developing a visual factory, large charts were posted at each press so that operators can easily record, hour by hour, production statistics. The charts also provide space to write comments and problems. And, not to be overlooked, the charts were designed to be clearly seen at a distance. Checking the charts throughout the day, supervisors and managers can see how each operator is doing and quickly identify any problem areas. "The charts have helped us identify and address operating problems much more quickly that we did in the past," admits Parziale.
Next Up: Quick-Change
Talan's Gene Sawyer takes an hourly reading from a press's oil-pressure gauge. As part of the firm's directive to implement a "visual factory," it replaced its previous gauges with larger gauges, and repositioned them to allow easier and more accurate readings.
Quick-die change (QDC) is another important lean tool, focusing on reducing eliminating delays and errors. Talan worked to reduce changeover times not by admonishing operators to work faster, but by asking for and implementing their ideas to simplify changeovers.
"We received good feedback after each of our QDC workshops," reports Peplin, "which were all very hands-on and participative." Parziale agrees: "The workshops didn't just cover theoretical principles where we just hoped that our operators and supervisors would apply them at some point. Instead, they actually went to the presses and conducted die changes, returned to the conference room to discuss ideas for improving the procedures, and then went back out to the floor to try them out.
"Being successful at lean is all about engaging the operators," continues Parziale. "And the workshops went a long toward accomplishing that."
The QDC workshops illustrated the importance of coordinating activities between several departments within Talan Products. In the end, the company found that actually changing dies didn't take a lot of time, particularly after implementing 5S activities and organizing die-change carts. Instead, big reductions in changeover time came thanks to coordination among production, tooling and quality control.
Last but Not Least—Value-Steam Mapping
With 5S and QDC initiatives successfully under its belt, Talan Products' management team then set its sights toward value-stream mapping (VSM)—creating a process flow map that it can use to highlight and contrast value-added and non-value-added steps. Parts sitting on the shop floor awaiting material handling is a nonvalue-added step, as is waiting for a die to become available. Following a brief introductory lesson on VSM, the firm's steering committee chose a target product and selected a VSM team, which included Accorti.
"We had completed similar exercises in the past," says Accorti, explaining why the company didn't begin its lean journey by developing a value-stream map, as some consultants suggest. "We were pretty confident that we knew where our opportunities for improvement were, so we started on those—5S and QDC. Then we started the VSM process, to identify other opportunities to improve."
The VSM team, facilitated by Bohan, met weekly to gather information and develop a map for one of Talan's highest contribution products. Says Bohan, "We happily found that raw-material and finished-product inventory turns for that product were very high and that nonvalue-added time was being controlled, showing that the company had paid close attention to good flow."
Concludes Peplin, "Since committing to implementing lean initiatives, we've seen all of the metrics we decided to focus on head in the right direction. I'm convinced we're rebounding from the recession more quickly than we would have thanks to our commitment to lean manufacturing." MF
See also: Chagrin River Consulting
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Mr Obama and Mr Netanyahu spoke for an hour on Tuesday night. The White House said in a statement later that the two men agreed to continue "close consultations going forward" regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions.
The White House denied published reports that Mr Obama had rejected Mr Netanyahu's request to meet with him in Washington next week. No such request was made or rejected, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said.
The unusual, late-night announcement from the White House comes after Netanyahu criticised what he called the world's failure to spell out what would provoke a US-led military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. Netanyahu has urged the US to set "red lines" for Tehran and the Obama administration refused.
"Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel," Mr Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
Netanyahu says peaceful methods against Iran are not working, and he has warned repeatedly that Iran is getting perilously close to acquiring a nuclear bomb. His remarks have generated speculation Israel is readying to strike on its own to prevent that from happening.
Tehran insists its nuclear program is peaceful. Although the United States has accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapon capability under the cover of a peaceful program, the Obama administration has said it does not believe Iran has yet decided whether to build an atom bomb – if it in fact develops the ability to do so.
Mr Netanyahu's strong words risk antagonising Obama in the midst of a closely fought a re-election campaign and could strain relations with the US, Israel's closest and most important ally. Relations between the two leaders have often been tense in the past.
Differences between the two counties over how to deal with Iran have boiled over into palpable tensions in recent weeks.
On Monday State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said "it is not useful" to set deadlines or declare "red lines." She and White House press secretary Jay Carney also noted that Mr Obama has stated unequivocally that the United States will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.
On Tuesday, Ms Nuland said the Iranian situation is a matter of "intense discussion" with Israel. She declined to elaborate, saying she did not want to conduct diplomacy in public.
Some US officials have bristled at what they see is Netanyahu's attempts to exploit the US campaign season to push Obama into a difficult position. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing a sensitive diplomatic matter.
The US officials stopped short of accusing Netanyahu of taking sides in the election, but the Israeli prime minister has a longtime relationship with Republican candidate Mitt Romney and with Sheldon Adelson, a casino magnate and top donor to the Republican Party. Romney, who visited Israel in July, has repeatedly criticised Obama's handling of the nuclear issue.
Obama and Netanyahu have long had a rocky relationship because of policy differences and a lack of personal chemistry. In one notable incident, a frustrated Obama left a White House meeting with Netanyahu to go eat dinner with his family.
US and Israeli officials confirmed on Tuesday that Obama would not meet with Netanyahu when the Israeli leader goes to New York for the UN General Assembly later this month. Both sides cited scheduling issues and rejected suggestions that Netanyahu had been snubbed.
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