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ECB's Draghi: Spain is 'on the right track'
MADRID (AP) — Spain has succeeded in stabilizing a banking system that almost collapsed last year and is well-positioned for better economic times going forward, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said Tuesday.
Draghi delivered the upbeat assessment to Spanish politicians behind closed doors in Parliament, later telling reporters that "Spain is on the right track."
The country has had to make a host of painful austerity measures and received a bailout package for its banks funded by the eurozone. In exchange for the loans, Spain has been merging, shutting, or nationalizing its weaker banks and requiring them to hold larger capital buffers.
"Today Spanish banks are properly capitalized by and large, so in a position to give credit," Draghi said.
Though many Spanish individuals and businesses say they are still unable to get loans except to buy property that the banks want to unload from their balance sheets, Draghi said "borrowers who have no debt or little debt are actually able to get credit."
He suggested that borrowers who have existing debt may see their ability to get credit improve toward the end of this year as the 17-nation zone that uses the common euro currency experiences a slow and modest economic recovery.
"We will see credit flows picking up at that time as well," Draghi said.
Draghi praised Spain for passing labor laws making it cheaper for companies to hire and fire workers while acknowledging that the nation is going through deep economic pain with 26 percent unemployment and a much higher rate for adults under age 25. Spain also hiked taxes and made deep cuts to cherished education and national health care.
He didn't comment about Spain specifically when asked if the country needs more reforms but said that all eurozone countries must still outline detailed plans on how they intend to cut government spending and increase revenue.
"This is a complex path and none of the countries in the euro area has finished on these issues," Draghi said.
Draghi's appearance in Parliament became a hot topic in the media after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's ruling Popular Party refused to allow the session to be televised and used special equipment to ban cellphone signals, denying liberal lawmakers a chance to tweet the proceedings as they had pledged. Some used their cellphones to tape it so it could be put online later.
Addressing the increasing value of the euro compared to other currencies, Draghi said it is "inappropriate" and "fruitless" for politicians to push the ECB to influence the euro's exchange rate.
French President Francois Hollande last suggested having an exchange rate policy to keep the euro from rising too high, hurting exporters. Draghi noted there have been "comments about the exchange rate from a lot of people" and that "they are inappropriate if they are meant to instruct the ECB to achieve a certain exchange rate."
"They are fruitless and frankly increase the confusion around exchange rates, and frankly we don't need that," Draghi said.
The ECB is forbidden by treaty from taking instructions from politicians. Draghi says the bank doesn't target any particular exchange rate. He said last week, however, that the ECB is monitoring the stronger euro's effects on inflation and the economy — remarks that investors interpreted as a warning the ECB might someday intervene if the euro rises too steeply.
Some observers have discussed the possibility of a destructive "currency war" in which countries compete at trying to devalue their currencies. Concern over the issue has increased since the new government of Japan adopted policies seen as aimed at lowering the yen.
The euro has risen 20 percent against the Japanese yen in the past 90 days, but Draghi said the world was a long way from a currency war.
"I think the term currency war is way, way overdone," he said. "We are not witnessing anything like that."
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What hope is there for liberty if truth becomes a plaything of militant lobbyists?
Tobacco was unfortunately very much in the news again recently with the BMA launching a campaign to ban smoking in cars probably as a prelude to what will then seem a more reasonable move to get it banned when children are present. I want to focus here not on the ban but on the methods being used by its advocates.
On Radio 4s Today programme Vivienne Nathanson of the BMA was questioned about her evidence:
Nathanson: Well, the evidence is, in fact, that the levels of toxins that can build up in a car do reach 23 times the levels in a smoky bar…
Interviewer: And that is—sorry to interrupt you—but that is peer-reviewed?
Nathanson: Yes, absolutely.
Interviewer: Everyone in the scientific community accepts that it's true?
Nathanson: Absolutely.
The BMA has since issued a major correction and apology with the explanation that the mistake was caused by human error. These things happen but as Head of Science and Ethics, Nathanson has a duty to check. I find her glib assertions regarding peer review and scientific consensus indefensible. It is hard to see how they could be made in error.
The same day over on Radio 5, a phone in caller queried the general evidence base for passive smoke harm and Deborah Arnott of ASH countered by emphasizing claims that heart attacks have been reduced by smoking bans:
"There's very good evidence supported by the BMA, the Royal College of Physicians, the World Health Organisation, the Standing Committee on Tobacco & Health which reported to the Department of Health. The Coalition Government very recently conducted a review of smokefree legislation, and what we've seen is a significant decline in heart attacks following the implementation of the legislation. The evidence is incontrovertible."
In response to criticism that a fall in heart attacks in England post the 2006 Health Act was part of an existing trend, she said:
"Yes, but the decline is greater than trend. And that's in a peer-reviewed article published in a very reputable journal, and it's been found not just in England, Scotland, but everywhere that smokefree legislation in public places has been brought in."
The statistics on heart attack hospital admissions in the UK are freely available to all on line. Here is a link to the NHS data for Scotland.
Using the measure preferred by the tobacco control industry and the hospital admissions data from NHS statisticians (table AC5) we can calculate emergency admissions for heart attacks as follows:
12 months pre ban: 7905
0-12 months post ban: 7250 (-8.29%)
12-24 months post ban: 8913 (+12.75%)
24-36 months post ban: 7707 (-2.50%)
() = % change from pre ban baseline
The word Arnott used was incontrovertible, the claim is a 17% reduction and the intervention was presented by some supporters as certain to have an immediate major impact on public health. Taking all that into account we should see a consistent, trend independent effect in the public record but whichever table or measure we use it is impossible to objectively claim that such an effect exists.
I value sober analysis of NHS statistics more than I do articles authored by tobacco control activists, peer reviewed or otherwise. I am not alone in this view and it is unlikely that Arnott is unaware of the serious credibility issues facing all the studies that support her claim or indeed of the existence of other work that contradicts it. The evidence is very far from incontrovertible.
Arnott is a skilled professional propagandist who is all too aware that, whatever the actual truth; provided that she sounds convincing her version will be believed by enough otherwise ill-informed people to achieve her objective. An article here gives some insight into her personality and the nature of her campaign.
Arnott is correct in saying that there has been a peer reviewed publication in the BMJ that supports her claim. It claims a 2.4% decrease in heart attacks due to the ban but fails to adequately explain how the result was arrived at. This approach is sadly increasingly common in medical journals. Bearing in mind Arnott's comment on trends, it is notable that, according to the NHS, the overall decline in heart attacks for the 12 months post ban was 4.26% compared to a 5.19% decline 2 years before the ban. The post ban decline was in fact neither large nor significant. The BMJ paper was produced by a team led by Anna Gilmore.
Arnott is also correct in saying that there has been a review of the 2006 Health Act. It was written by Linda Bauld.
The authorship of both these papers throws up some very searching questions about ethics at the Department of Health. Surely in a society that allegedly values honesty and transparency we have a right to expect government to review policy and measure its efficacy using the most qualified, objective and unimpeachable resources available. Why then did the DH directly commission two not especially qualified people both of whom have a notable history of anti-tobacco activism? The results were hardly likely to be seen as either credible or objective.
ASH is largely funded by the Department of Health and appears to be in firm control of the government's agenda.
How can we possibly have a free and liberal society if we allow the truth to become the property of pressure groups directly funded by government departments? The principles at stake here radiate way beyond tobacco. We urgently need to reform the charity sector and I would suggest also the Department of Health.
Thanks to Chris Snowdon and Frank Davis for giving their time to transcribe the radio interviews.
Written by Chris Oakley.Tags: Andrew Lansley, ASH, BMA, Deborah Arnott, Department of health, Smoking in cars, tobacco, Vivienne Nathanson

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Organizations continue to face the challenge of designing compensation packages to attract and retain top talent.
This hasn't changed since the financial crisis and subsequent recovery. And it isn't likely to change in the future because of organizations' fierce competition for talent, especially executives.
Executive pay in for-profit businesses continues to increase despite weak profit growth. In fact, many companies aren't making the necessary profits to cover executive compensation levels so they're looking to fund these packages in other ways.
Some are cutting expenses to provide the executive pay at competitive levels. Methods of reducing expenses include trimming benefits or other expense items. For some companies, this means more job cuts.
The financial services industry—particularly Wall Street firms—are among the companies using these compensation strategies.
Total compensation on Wall Street increased 4% in 2011, according to a New York state comptroller report, the highest increase since 2008. But at the same time, Wall Street firms are boosting profitability by decreasing the number of employees on their payroll, the report notes.
Because compensation and benefits typically account for about half of organizational operating expenses, fewer employees would significantly reduce expenses. And many employers are operating at staff levels as low as they can go following cutbacks during the recession.
CU staffing & benefits
The number of layoffs at credit unions has tapered off since the onset of the recession. Few credit unions let employees go in 2011, and few expected to do so as well in 2012.
Unlike some other industries, financial services firms face a growing regulatory burden. The result is increasing operating and compliance costs.
These cost increases, along with low profitability growth, make it difficult for credit unions and other financial institutions to offer the compensation and benefits necessary to attract and retain top talent.
Because these elements play a starring role in recruitment and retention efforts, credit unions must be more creative when putting together compensation and benefit packages.
Compensation is a fixed cost, so organizations often turn to the benefits package to find ways to reduce overall costs.
Among credit unions with $5 million or more in assets, overall 2011 benefits expenses averaged $420,532, according to CUNA's 2012-2013 Credit Union Staff Benefits Survey. In addition, the average benefits expense per full-time employee was $12,838.
Health-care benefits expenses accounted for more than half of overall benefits expenses. In 2011, health-care benefits specifically averaged $239,415.
Credit unions paid an average of $6,711 per full-time employee for health-care coverage.
The cost of providing health-care insurance to employees continues to increase, and it's expected to climb at more than twice the rate of inflation in 2012, according to the National Business Group on Health.
Among credit unions offering health benefits to employees, 83% experienced an increase in healthcare costs from 2011 to 2012. And of these credit unions, the average increase was 11%.
A common method of controlling the costs of health-care coverage is requiring employees to pay a higher portion of premiums. Credit unions are quite likely to use this method. In fact, when asked what actions they expect to take to control 2013 health-care coverage costs, 43% of credit unions say they'll increase employees' share of these costs or ask employees to share in these costs.
Other ways credit unions plan to reduce 2013 health-care coverage costs include:
BETH SOLTIS is CUNA's senior research analyst. Contact her at 608-231-4056.
This article first appeared in Directors Newsletter.


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"Do no evil" has its limits when it comes to the environment.
Critics of Google are latching onto a report in The San Jose Mercury News over the weekend that the top three executives of the search company have eight jets between them.
The irony of course being that the Mountain View-based search company prides itself on doing good for the world, which of course applies to be going and green towards Mother Earth.
Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt use eight jets between the three of them for all their travel and the Google executives would like to be able to house those planes at nearby Moffett Federal Field.
The trio is willing to pay up to $33 million towards a renovation project already underway at the joint military and civilian airfield.
Google wants to be able to use 75 percent of the floorspace to house their jets in return for the investment.
Beyond the green factor, not everyone is thrilled with Google's generosity.
"We don't want to see 'Google' in 200-foot letters on that hangar," Steve Williams of the Save Hangar One Committee told the paper.
But officials with the airfield say Google doesn't want that either -- just the parking space.
Google Willing to Pay Millions to House 8 Jets at Moffett Field
"Do no evil" has its limits when it comes to the environment.


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CRESTVIEW � The Crestview Public Library says, "Laissez les bons temps rouler! Let the good times roll!"
CRESTVIEW � The Crestview Public Library says, "Laissez les bons temps rouler! Let the good times roll!"
With a display of Carnival masks, throws and harlequins behind the circulation desk and a decorated Mardi Gras tree in the rear lounge area, you can almost hear the strains of "Mardi Gras Mambo" playing at the Crestview Public Library.
The library staff got into the carnival spirit again this year, with Library Director Jean Lewis and staff members Audrey Milcarek and Peggy Beiring providing decorations for the display shelves behind the circulation desk.
Milcarek started the tradition a couple of years ago with a few harlequin dolls in Mardi Gras costumes sitting among beads atop two sets of shelves. This year, the display fills two whole cases.
For her Mardi Gras tree, Milcarek said she pounced on after-Christmas sales for the trimmings. A fan of peacock plumes tops the tree. Ornaments include masks and balls in the colors of Carnival.
"We try to get festive and patrons enjoy it," Milcarek said. "Oh, you know me � just give me a reason to decorate!"
On Fat Tuesday, Feb. 12, the library staff will "be masking as the 'Krewe ex Libris Jean,'" or Jean's Krewe at the Library, throughout the day, Milcarek said.
"We'll be in beads and everything. Hopefully, we can find some Zapp's to put out," she said, referring to chips made in Gramercy, La.
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Ahem. Anyway.
I've already said most of the things I want to say about this game, I think, though I was a little disappointed that
That last mission was great though. Completely unlike the rest of the game, but that's what made it effective; you had to use the skills you had built up through the rest of the game to finish the job in a distinctly unconventional manner. Massively enjoyable.
This game does a great job of making you feel like a badass fighter pilot. I've already mentioned the gradual change in the radio chatter as the game progresses -- from you being just another pilot to being someone whose ribbon insignia strikes fear into the hearts of your enemies. But the game has a good sense of more subtle drama, too; whoever determined that most planes need two missiles to shoot down has an inherent understanding of the fact that it's much more satisfying (and looks far cooler in the replay) to fire off two at once. Along the same lines, the planes' use of Hammerspace to carry several hundred times their own body weight in ordnance makes for a fast-paced game in which you can blow things up with gay abandon -- though the facility is still there for you to return to base, repair, restock and then return to the fight, too, and I was pleased to have the non-mandatory opportunity to manually land the plane on both runways and carriers whenever this happened.
All in all, then, fantastic stuff. Going to boot up Ace Combat 5 for a quick look now... see you in a few hours, no doubt!


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Dow Futures Point To Possible Record Close
Chris Dieterich has news on positive signs at the market open and traders eyeing Apple and Google stocks. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... we turned to markets we have to read stocks all swung more actually get on a stock ... that you should be watching out for today here to tell us more is Chris Dietrich ... Christie so much for joining us this morning of solution with this fine morning ... Dell DELL teachers telling ... Telenor ... that is no deal but the Dow Jones industrial average of around which the whisper away from an all-time high and actually Futures pointing toward what will be in Oakland that is essentially that ... the record of course to get a close above that were to be an official in the record ... books for the folks up slowly in the onthe on the Dow Jones industrial average pay of Christ and his beloved talk about this record some people say the media mean you are thinking about what I think is the isthe during the twenty twenty make of that when you make that claim I think what's been a lot of good for the day on Thursday and for the New York Stock Exchange with traders say is is Islam next look there ... um what one person told me Xalkori gone by new car because the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches an all time high that it's the it's a benchmark that is over a century old so it's undoubtedly the fact that ... notes reaching new highs aam ... instills a lot of momentum in the market at the same time ... look it's an existential debate about the extent to which central banks are pumping ... stocks up and whether the fundamentals match but you know it's a century old looking on the last people are to be watching for freight and today what three stocks should investors be watching for nearly a calm person focusing his J C Penney the retailer their own are down about three percent in premarket trading what we have is one other top shareholders last night announces this is Vornado Realty Trust a town ... shopping malls in such or to sell ... it sold overnight ... ten million shares so its really un loading kind of a sign of non conference in JC penny stock when the worst performing stocks on the NASA SB five hundred this year ... ALM so they're down pre sharply ... ok and then ... Apple we have two more these right and we're looking at them in tandem it's one of the pair even of a standalone the one Apple ... divergent paths absolutely over the last four or five months will continues to hit an all-time high ... it's an all-time yesterday Apple ... slumping almost a foreigner dollars Shearson was at seven hundred not too long ago so I think in focus for those in the tax base ... of silly Guinea get one up on the past the taking ... um interesting segue way into our unless I write ... I was so concentrated on on Apple and I will be on this that we're itself ... the economics of all aam force made the chips that ... run Apple's own and XOM the Samsung phones that run ... Google's Android operating system ... they get ... a dividend raise that they announced that end up in the quarterly dividend from quarter to thirty five cents forty percent so that that sucks up about two percent ... in premarket people ... investors love and an income ... aren't wonderful Chris Dietrich think you so


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Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith has been arrested and charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct, the fifth arrest for a Ravens player this offseason.
The Baltimore Sun reports that Smith was cited for failure to obey a lawful order of a police officer after authorities arrived at a bar, responding to a call about an unconscious woman in a bathroom. When police arrived, Smith was with the woman and said he was trying to assist her, but he would not move way after police repeatedly asked him to step aside so paramedics could attend to her.
"We're gathering information about this," Ravens spokesman Kevin Byrne told the paper.
Smith was released from custody at 11:15 p.m. on Saturday. The woman was taken to a hospital, and police say she was intoxicated.
The Ravens' other arrests this offseason: Lorenzo Taliaferro for destruction of property and public intoxication, Jah Reid for two counts of battery, Deonte Thompson for suspicion of possession of marijuana and Ray Rice for assault.
Although Smith has stayed out of trouble previously in his NFL career, he had several off-field incidents in both high school and college that led him to drop to the end of the first round of the 2011 NFL draft. Smith has looked like a good draft pick in the three seasons since then, but this arrest only adds to a disappointing offseason in Baltimore.


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Steampunk Author Emilie P. Bush Drops In To The Child Finder Trilogy
MA: My very special guest today is the former host of Georgia Public Radio's "Georgia Gazette," Emilie P. Bush. Emilie has traded in writing the news for writing Steampunk. For those not familiar with this type of writing, it is a sub-genre of science fiction that typically takes place in the 19th Century, but features anachronistic technologies (like digital electronics during the industrial revolution).
Emilie's debut novel, Chenda and the Airship Brofman, sends Chenda and her companions up in the air, across a desert, through a mountain and under the sea in a thrilling adventure. Emilie P. Bush lives and writes in Atlanta. Welcome to the Child Finder Trilogy! Read More
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Quick Lasagna Rolls
Makes 4 to 6 servings
If you're in the mood for lasagna but not in the mood to spend over an hour putting it together, try this simplified version. Because no sautéing is required, these fancy rolls are ready for the oven in less than thirty minutes.
8 whole-grain lasagna noodles
41⁄2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 jar (about 25 ounces) marinara sauce
14 to 16 ounces firm regular tofu, drained
1 cup chopped fresh basil
1⁄2 cup chopped fresh parsley
1⁄2 teaspoon reduced-sodium tamari
5 to 6 large green olives, preferably queen or sevillano, pitted and chopped (optional)
5 cloves garlic, chopped
2 tablespoons toasted wheat germ
2 cups shredded vegan cheese (optional, see note)
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over medium-high heat. Add the noodles. Decrease the heat to medium-low and cook, stirring occasionally, until the noodles are almost tender. Drain and rinse under cool water, then drain well. Transfer to a large bowl. Drizzle with 1 teaspoon of the oil and gently toss to coat. Allow the noodles to cool.
Meanwhile, stir 3 teaspoons of the oil into 1 cup of the marinara sauce. Spread the mixture in the bottom of an 11 x 7-inch glass or ceramic baking pan. Put the tofu, 1⁄2 cup of the basil, and the parsley, tamari, and remaining 1⁄2 teaspoon of oil in a medium bowl and mash with a potato masher until the mixture has the consistency of ricotta cheese. Add the optional olives and the garlic and stir until thoroughly combined.
Lay a noodle on a large cutting board. Spoon about 1⁄4 cup of the tofu mixture along the length of the noodle, spreading it evenly with the back of the spoon. Gently roll into a spiral shape. Set the roll in the baking pan seam-side down. Continue with the remaining noodles and filling, arranging them snugly in the pan.
Set aside 3⁄4 cup of the remaining marinara sauce. Spoon the remainder over the rolls, distributing it evenly. Sprinkle 1⁄4 cup of the basil over the top.
Cover the pan with foil and bake for about 40 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven but do not turn the oven off. Spoon the remaining marinara sauce over the rolls, then sprinkle with the wheat germ, vegan cheese (if using), and remaining 1⁄4 cup of basil. Bake for about 15 minutes, until the sauce is bubbling and the top is slightly browned.
Put the pan on a wire rack. Let cool for 15 minutes. Serve 1 to 2 rolls per person, spooning the sauce from the bottom of the pan over top of the rolls.
NOTE: If you do not want to use the vegan cheese, just add a bit more wheat germ to the top of the casserole.
Basil Roasted Peppers
Makes 4 to 6 servings
6 large colored bell peppers (red, orange, yellow, or a combination), each cut into 4 or 5 pieces
1⁄2 cup chopped fresh basil, or 21⁄2 tablespoons dried
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus more as needed
1⁄4 teaspoon sea salt
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a large, rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
Put the peppers, basil, oil, and salt in a large bowl. Toss to sparingly coat the peppers with the oil, adding a bit more oil if needed. Spread the peppers in a single layer on the lined baking sheet, skin-side up. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until soft to the touch and slightly browned along the edges.
Let cool for at least 10 minutes. Serve hot, at room temperature, or chilled.
Balsamic Strawberry Delight
Makes 3 to 4 servings
In this delectable dessert with a true Italian flair, the tart balsamic vinegar combines with the sweet brown sugar to produce a thick syrup that flavors and coats tender strawberries. This dish is wonderfully light and refreshing.
2 cups (1 pint) strawberries, halved
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
Put all the ingredients in a medium bowl and stir gently until thoroughly combined. Cover and let sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes. Serve at room temperature or chilled.
Grandma's Garlic Bread
This recipe is based on my grandmother's version, which was always a favorite of mine. I've updated it to use fresh garlic and whole-grain bread, as it's more nutritious and hearty. This tantalizing loaf, with its crispy crust and herbed, soft, and steamy inside, is bursting with flavor. In other words . . . perfection!
1 large loaf whole-grain italian bread
1⁄2 cup vegan margarine, at room temperature
6 to 8 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon italian seasoning (see note)
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Put the bread on a cutting board. Use a serrated bread knife to slice 1⁄2- to 1-inch-thick slices diagonally across the entire loaf, but don't cut all the way through the bottom crust; leave the bottom of the loaf intact.
Put the margarine, garlic, and italian seasoning in a small bowl and mash with the back of a fork until thoroughly combined. Working carefully so as not to separate the slices, spread the margarine mixture on each side of each slice. Wrap tightly in foil, crimping the edges to form a tight seal (see note).
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the crust is crispy and the interior is hot and steamy. Remove the foil and serve the bread in a bread basket or large bowl, wrapped in a large cloth napkin to keep it warm.
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2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more as needed
1 bunch broccoli rabe, trimmed and cut into bite-sized pieces
3 cloves garlic, chopped
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|Nathan Chown is one of a group of Canadians who have gone to Europe to race cyclo-cross over the next three weeks. Here is his report (and photos) from the first event, held earlier today.
Did my first race today in Antwerp. Over here we have a group on 7 of us racing and helping out. We are staying at the cycling center in Hertzberg. We have a great set up and took a really cool van to the course. A lot of riders have huge buses / Winnebago's as their transport and more bikes and wheels then you can shake a stick at. So I have now started my own supporters group and will be making up some clothes at a later date. I have attached a picture of the groups president.
In the women's race Wendy [Simms] rode strong for a solid fourth and was with current world TT and former cyclo-cross champion Hanka Kupfernagel for a lap. Other results in the women's race were Barb Howe in ninth and Natasha Elliot in 13th. Highlighting the women's race was the worst false start ever seen, as the gun went off about 5 seconds after the field had left and this caused a lot of confusion for some riders who had slowed thinking they were being called back. But in the end it was game on.
In the men's race I managed to finish on the same lap as the leaders, as did Derrick St. John. I got a great start and threw a few elbows and was in the top 20 for a 1/2 lap until a Colstrop Palmans rider did an endo in the sand and I had no choice but to plow into him. The cool part was that after I got up a Belgian fan righted my bike and I was on my way. This set me back about 10 spots. From there I rode steady and lost about 2 spots a lap to finish 43. Technically the course was not bad and surprisingly I rode the sand not too bad.
The only downer was a hard crash on the ice with 3 to go. I went down really hard and decided to back off from here as I was still feeling some jetlag and I still have 4 more races to go.
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Jennifer Lopez may be an A-lister, but so far an Oscar has eluded the actress.
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"I feel like I had that [Oscar worthy role] in 'El Cantante,' but I don't even think the academy members saw it," she told the mag of the 2007 bio-pic in which she starred opposite real-life love Marc Anthony. "I feel like it's their responsibility to do that, to see everything that's out there, everything that could be great."
Jennifer welcomed her twins, Max and Emme, in February of 2008, but Jennifer revealed she watched the Oscars that year with a longing for the trophy.
"Well, it is a little bit frustrating. It was funny; when the Oscars were on, I had just given birth on the 22nd, and the Oscars, I think, were a day or two later. I was sitting there with my twins — I couldn't have been happier — but I was like, 'How dope would it have been if I would've won the Oscar and been here in my hospital bed accepting the award?' 'Thank you so much! I just want to thank the academy!'" Jennifer said. "But we joked about it. It's all good. Things will happen when they're supposed to happen. I have the utmost faith and no doubt that it will one day, when and if it's supposed to. You can't get all crazy twisted over it."
While she still holds out hopes of getting an Oscar, one thing Jennifer is truly happy with is her relationship with Marc.
"Everything is great about my marriage. First and foremost, we love each other, truly love each other in a way that's very deep and meaningful, not in a superficial sort of way. There's a deep respect, admiration and love for each other," she said. "We honestly believe that we make each other better people…We force each other to be better, and I think in a relationship, that's how it should be. You shouldn't be with somebody if he makes you feel less than who you are."
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Patrick Nyarko sounded confused in the Chicago Fire locker room, trying to explain why his team conceded a late goal to drop Saturday night's home opener against the San Jose Earthquakes 2-1. The Virginia Tech product said he thought the Fire outplayed the Earthquakes, and he wasn't exactly sure why the match finished the way it did.
"It's just a real disappointment," Nyarko said. "I was telling the other players that ever since last year we played the best soccer at home, we dominated the game and eventually end up losing and it just sucks. It's very strange because we get punished by any mistake we make. It's weird."
One answer that Nyarko—and everyone else for that matter—can rule out as a possible explanation of the Fire's defeat is the individual play of the third-year winger out of Virginia Tech.
Nyarko once again dazzled Saturday night, consistently tormenting the San Jose back line with dangerous run after dangerous run down the right flank. The 24-year-old Ghanaian winger played the role of provider to near perfection in the Fire's home opener, starting the movement that led to Marco Pappa's goal and providing forward Collins John with two fantastic chances to score.
"I was pleased with my performance," Nyarko said. "I hope I keep getting better every week and try to create more chances, get more scoring chances, and bang in some goals to help my team win."
At this point, Nyarko playing well hardly comes as a surprise. He made 28 regular-season appearances for the Fire last season and—for the most part—he looked good. Whether it was off the bench or in a starter's role, Nyarko always outhustled and outworked every player on the pitch, and often his determination would pay dividends for the Fire attack.
But Nyarko's solid play of 2009 is nothing compared to his first three games of 2010. He has been a revelation on the wing, one of the lone bright spots for head coach Carlos de los Cobos during the Fire's dismal 0-2-1 start to the season.
"It's two things," Nyarko said of the reasons for his hot start. "I think one is maturity and the other one is confidence. … The last couple of years I didn't think my play was that bad, but there were some times that I was a little conservative in my play. But this year I've decided to be more aggressive and I think it's pretty much working."
Indeed it is. But Nyarko will need a little help from his teammates if the Fire is to improve on their early season struggles. He has been a bright spot, but the club needs all its players to play well if they want to right the ship sometime soon.


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According to the complaint in U.S. District Court in Kansas, Byrnes was a good student and was attending a lab course off-site at Olathe Medical Center on Nov. 10 to examine a human placenta. The lab session was supervised by Johnson County Community College nursing instructor Amber Delphia.
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Byrnes, who was shown standing next to a human placenta in a tray and smiling in nursing scrubs, chose not to speak publicly, but her lawyer, Clifford Cohen, said that Byrnes was a good student and had plans to graduate in May and move to Virginia. The nursing director said she would support Byrnes readmission to the program in fall, but Cohen said her nursing career is at stake if she is not reinstated before classes start Jan. 19.
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Brooks Hamby's high school graduation speech got kicked back three times. The reason? He persisted in talking about his faith.
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"I presented three drafts of my speech," he said, "all of them denied on account of my desire to share with you my personal thoughts and inspiration to you: My faith in Jesus Christ."
You can hear a murmur from the crowd and sense consternation on the dais behind him as he continued.
Rumors have evidently circulated that the school denied Mr Hamby his diploma, but according to an interview he gave the Desert News, this is not true. But he did say that the school and their attorney's told him they would shut off the microphone if he gave a speech mentioning Jesus.
Here is the text of the letter the school district sent him before he gave his speech. This letter is a lot of force to bring down on a graduating high school senior. I think Mr Hamby showed remarkable courage. How many of us would have the guts to do the same?
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This is probably my most successful piece of outreach in terms of time spent and conversion rate. I have to also admit that it wasnÂt planned at all; I saw an opportunity and got to work without really thinking too much about it.
Background: My client operates in a very technical industry. It has a decent community of active bloggers and a wider appeal to technology websites, so link targets arenÂt in short supply. However, I was having problems with making this client link worthy  their website was quite old and in all honesty, didnÂt deserve links, so outreach was really hard.
That was until the client called me one afternoon and told me that the BBC had picked up on one of the stories from their PR company but not included a link. The client was asking if we had any BBC contacts that we may be able to hit up, so I started the process here to try and get in touch with someone.
The hook: While this was happening, I took a closer look at the coverage and the reason why the BBC had covered my client. The reason was that they had a genuine news story connected to the London 2012 Olympics, so it was pretty timely. But more importantly, I noticed that theyÂd republished a photo that my client owned the rights to.
I had my hook!
What I did: When someone republishes a photo that belongs to you but doesnÂt link to you, you have a perfectly legitimate reason to contact them and ask for a link. So I set about finding other websites that had also used the photos and coverage the clientÂs story.
I used three techniques to do this:
1) I ran basic Google searches for the clientÂs name plus the headline of the story, along with a few variations 2) I ran the photos through Google image reverse search 3) I setup Google Alerts for the clientÂs name plus the headline of the story
Through all of these methods I was able to find loads of websites that had covered the stories and used the photos. I went through these one by one and checked to see if they were linking to the client. A fair few were already linking, but I found 16 websites who werenÂt.
The outreach: I managed to find contact details for all of these and quickly started to email them. I thanked them for covering the story and using the photos; then politely asked for them to add a credit link for the photos to the homepage of my client.
Result: Out of the 16 emails I sent, 15 linked to me. I was pretty happy with that! The only reason that I missed out on one of them was because heÂd already linked to a press release from my client which was hosted somewhere else. Otherwise, IÂm sure IÂd have gotten 100%.
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Jordan Haviland is one of four seniors that will be honored Sunday (photo Harvard Athletic Communications).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard baseball team will culminate its Ivy League slate with doubleheaders Saturday and Sunday against Dartmouth. Saturday's games will be played in Hanover, N.H., while Harvard will host the Big Green Sunday at O'Donnell Field.
Ivy League Update (Conference Page)
Harvard (10-26, 7-9 Ivy) is in need of a four-game sweep to prolong its regular season, as the Crimson enters the weekend four games back of Dartmouth (27-7, 11-5 Ivy) in the Red Rolfe Division. On the other side, Columbia (20-19, 12-4 Ivy) leads the Lou Gerhig Division by three games over Cornell (21-15, 9-7 Ivy) and Princeton (12-26, 9-7 Ivy) coming into the weekend.
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Follow @HarvardCrimson, the official Twitter handle of Harvard Athletics, for all the latest news and notes on your favorite Crimson student-athletes and teams. To receive updates from the baseball team, follow @HarvardBaseball. Use the hashtag#GoCrimson to see what fans are saying about Crimson athletics.
Last Time Out
Starting pitchers Tanner Anderson and Baron Davis kept Harvard close in both ends of a doubleheader at Brown Sunday afternoon, but the Crimson could not capitalize in Game 2 and came away with a split for the seventh straight time in Ivy League play. Anderson threw 10 innings to help Harvard win, 4-2, in extras in Game 1, before Brown took Game 2 by an identical score. Anderson (2-4) threw 138 pitches to get through 10 innings in Game 1, while scattering six hits, striking out five and allowing two runs, none of which were earned.
Related Link: Harvard Baseball, Brown Trade 4-2 Decisions to Split Season Series
Pitcher of the Week
Harvard sophomore Tanner Anderson was named the Ivy League Pitcher of the Week, the league office announced April 23. The Tampa, Fla., native tossed 10 innings and fanned five while allowing just six hits and two unearned runs to earn his second victory of the season against Brown April 21. It is the third weekly award won by the Crimson this season. He joins Sean Poppen, who won Pitcher of the Week March 26, and DJ Link, who garnered the Rookie of the Week nod April 9, as conference award recipients this season.
Related Link: Tanner Anderson Named Ivy League Pitcher of the Week
Senior Day
Harvard will honor its four seniors that have contributed to the baseball program during the last four years. Matt Doyle, Greg Davey, Jordan Haviland and Robert Wineski will be recognized during a special pregame ceremony on Sunday before their last doubleheader at O'Donnell Field.
Sophomore's Produce
The Crimson is led by sophomore Brandon Kregel, who enters the weekend hitting .305 to lead the team. Kregel also owns a .454 slugging, which is first on the Crimson, as he has belted 12 doubles, two triples and two home runs. Classmates Tanner Anderson and Mike Martin have also been impressive at the plate, coming in with .288 and .286 averages, respectively. Anderson has a chance to win the conference's batting crown, as he is hitting .396 during Ancient Eight games, which is four points behind Princeton's Alec Keller, who sits at .400.
Related Link: Sophomores Lead Harvard Baseball (The Crimson)
On the Hill
Harvard owns a 6.38 team ERA during the 2013 campaign. Matt Sanders and Shaun Rubin have the best earned-run averages out of the bullpen, at 4.15 and 4.34, respectively. In a starting role, Sam Dodge has thrown the most innings with 43 2/3, while allowing 5.15 earned runs per game. Dodge (2-6) is one of three pitchers with multiple wins this season as Tanner Anderson (2-4) and Baron Davis (2-3), who are also regular starters, have picked up two wins apiece.
Scouting Dartmouth (Team Page | Stats)
The Big Green has produced the Ivy League's best overall record at 27-7 by hitting .310 in 2013. The mark is the highest in the league and 38 points better than second place Penn. Jeff Keller is second in the conference with a .406 overall, behind only Penn's Ryan Deitrich at .406. Keller is not the only threat in Dartmouth's lineup, as seven of the team's regular starters are batting over .300.
On the mound, Michael Johnson is a candidate for the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year award, as he is a perfect 6-0 with a 1.30 ERA. Johson has allowed 33 hits in 48 1/3 innings, while striking out 40 and walking just nine batters. The rest of the rotation includes Kyle Hunter (3-1, 1.94 ERA), Mitch Horacek (5-2, 2.37 ERA) and Cole Sulser (4-2, 2.51). Thomas Olson has acted as the Big Green's closer and comes into the weekend having thrown 13 innings without allowing a run. Olson has struck out nine, while opponents hit .191 off of him, to have a 2-0 record with six saves.
Series History
Harvard leads the storied history with Dartmouth, 127-110, since the team's first met in 1869. The Crimson won the first meeting, 38-0, on its way to three straight wins to open the series. Recently, Dartmouth has stormed back, winning nine of the last 10 games dating back to 2010. The only win for Harvard during the stretch came last season during an 8-7 decision in Hanover, N.H. Dartmouth has swept the Crimson in each of the teams' last two doubleheaders in Cambridge.
Up Next
Harvard's last regular season game of the year is scheduled for April 29 in the Beanpot consolation game against Boston College. Tickets are $10, with proceeds benefiting the Pete Frates #3 Fund, and are available here.


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IRWINDALE — After five consecutive victories to start the season in two divisions at Irwindale Speedway, Ryan Partridge of Rancho Cucamonga finally was beaten and it took a pole-to-pole victory from 28-year-old Travis Irving in the second of two 30-lap mains in the Lucas Oil Late Models before 3,823 on Saturday.
Irving won for the first time since 2011.
"I got a call from (car owner) Joe Nava of the PP1M race team on Wednesday night and was testing the next day," Irving said.
"Joe has given me a great opportunity and it was a fantastic feeling to drive and he promised me a ride if we can come up with something (sponsorship).
The Southwest Tour Truck Series made its first of five stops this season at Irwindale and Zack Green of Long Beach won his first race of the season.
But the story of the night in the SWTT division was the second-place finisher, Ronnie Davis, Jr. The Whittier resident, racing in the No. 83 truck of his close friend Mike Gilboy who recently passed away, dedicated the race in his memory and came close to winning the 30-lap main. Green took the lead on lap 10 and held off Davis for the remainder of the race.
"Mike was a good friend of mine, who was rookie of the year in the division last year. (He) died last week and his crew and family said why not race in his truck in his memory," Davis said.
"This race was a tribute to him, but I'll be back in my truck in the next race.
Green takes over the points lead over Neil Conrad of Arcadia, who finished third.
Green quickly jumped into his Super Stock car and won that division, holding off Gary Read of La Verne. In the first Lucas Oil Late Model 30-lap mains, Partridge won his third straight LM race of the young racing season. It was Partridge's fifth consecutive win at the half-mile banked oval. The other two victories were in the Irwindale Race Trucks division.
Partridge extended his lead over the final laps in the all green-flag race, finishing ten car lengths ahead of Porter.
"It was great competition," Partridge said. "How about that Andrew Porter? He almost caught us, but we pressured him to the center a little bit and let him wear himself out a little bit and we took it to them."
Johnson had a solo spin in turn four, but it didn't bring out a yellow flag and Partridge won easily.
Trevor Huddleston, son of former Late Model champion Tim Huddleston, won the Spears S2 30-lap main. The 18-year-old Huddleston took the lead on lap six and never looked back
Huddleston, who raced in two divisions, quickly was escorted by the pace car to his number 50 Chevy Monte Carlo SS for the first Lucas Oil Late Model races.
The 35-lap Legends race had a green-white-checker finish as Brent Scheidemantle (Alta Loma), who started in the third row, held off Zane Smith of Huntington Beach on the last lap to win.
In the Bandoleros division, Ryan Vargas of La Mirada won for the second night in a row, running from the pole in a 20-lap green-flag race.


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Untapped Cities has just published a brand-spanking-new article, written by Lisa Santoro, exploring the history of Marx Brothers Place and celebrating its cultural prominence in the cultural mecca of the world: NYC.
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Why is there blue in the Christmas theme?I thought christmas was all about the red and green
are you addressing each RGB Led pin separately?
I'm assuming that the led pins are all in a paralell circuit, right? Otherwise what are you using to power the whole thing?
Well i mean a series circuit is, for example, having leds one after another on one line of power. Where as a paralell would be more having 1 led part off into its own line and then reconnect.Are you using any capacitors on your project?


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It will either be Colorado and Utah coming in together as new members of the Pac-10 or there will be no expansion by that conference.
That's the feeling of Ken Goe, a respected, veteran sports writer of the Portland Oregonian newspaper. Goe has covered the Pac-10 for decades. And in addition to being knowledgeable, he has a unique perspective. Goe grew up in the Denver metro area before heading off to the great Northwest for college, more years ago than he'd like to admit.
I chatted with Ken for a half hour on the phone. He phoned me, wanting to pick my brain about expansion. I told him that Colorado, if asked, would probably jump at the chance to join the Pac-10. It would be a great fit academically, culturally, philosophically, I said. CU is a top research institution, a significant portion in the aerospace industry. Doesn't that sound like a Pac-10 school?
And, with CU averaging about 40 percent of its student body from out of state, there are a lot of alumni – some deep-pocketed — along the West Coast and especially in California.
Ken agreed, and said he could picture no other potential scenario than Colorado and Utah coming in as a package.
BYU, Goe said, probably would not be a fit ideologically, and BYU's stance on not participating in athletic endeavors on Sundays could be an issue. Goe doubted that California university-system members UCLA and the University of California would allow California state-system schools San Diego State or Fresno State in. Boise State doesn't bring many TV eyeballs. UNLV never seems to be in the conversation.
Two of the biggest television markets missing from the Pac-10's domain are Denver and Salt Lake City.
Plus, Utah and CU could be "travel partners." The Pac-10 lines up perfectly with geographically compatible travel partners: USC-UCLA, Arizona-Arizona State, Cal-Stanford, Oregon-Oregon State and Washington-Washington State.
Being travel partners means that in a sport, say, like basketball, CU and Utah would both travel at the same time to play a two-game road trip against Cal and Stanford, for example. After the first game, Colorado and Utah would switch opponents before heading home.
Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott is adamant, Goe said, that the league retain its travel-partner format.
But the bottom line, Goe told me, will be what scenario brings more TV eyeballs.
Hello Denver. Hello Salt Lake City.