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ST. CHARLES, Mo., August 29, 2012 – It's no secret – spaying and neutering improves the quality of life for both cats and their owners – providing America's 76 million pet cats with longer lives, preventing unwanted litters and creating a friendlier disposition. However, most owners don't know that the procedure can also lead to hormonal and behavioral changes that can cause cats to become overweight, due to decreased energy needs and an increase in appetite. Fortunately, Royal Canin, a leader in science-based nutrition for pets, is introducing its new SPAYED/NEUTERED™ line of feline formulas that includes balanced nutrition and appetite control to help manage these changes – providing a new way to feed cats in the U.S.
To celebrate the product introduction, Royal Canin is launching a national campaign called You Share, We Give, which benefits the American Humane Association. The program, found on Facebook.com/RoyalCanin.us, encourages cat owners to "share" information about spaying and neutering, in exchange for free SPAYED/NEUTERED food samples. Beginning today, each time a fan "shares" the Royal Canin infographic, the company will provide the owner with a free sample of the SPAYED/NEUTERED canned formula (up to 25,000 cans), and also is donating $25,000 to the American Humane Association in support of feline health research.
"We are proud to team up with Royal Canin in this effort to share valuable knowledge with cat owners that can help improve their pet's quality of life," says Robin Ganzert, President and CEO of the American Humane Association. "We share a common goal for the better health of all pets, and we're proud to accept this donation to help fund future feline health research."
To further educate pet owners about the lesser-known effects of spaying and neutering and the solutions provided by the new SPAYED/NEUTERED foods, Royal Canin is teaming up with nationally-known pet behaviorist, radio host and syndicated columnist Steve Dale to launch the You Share, We Give campaign.
"Many owners may notice that their cat seems lazy, has an insatiable appetite or begs for food. What they don't understand is that decreased energy and increased appetite are a major side effect of spaying and neutering," says Dale, host of Steve Dale's Pet World radio show. "This new food from Royal Canin is the simple solution to help spayed and neutered cats maintain weight and therefore promote better health throughout their lives."
Independent research has shown that spaying and neutering can, in many cases, cause up to a 30 percent decrease in energy1 among cats, and up to a 20 percent increase in appetite2 as early as the week following surgery. This means that spayed or neutered cats are about 3.5 times more likely to be overweight3 than other cats, putting them at increased risk for obesity. In addition, obese cats are more likely to develop additional health problems, such as diabetes, arthritis and non-allergic skin conditions.
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"Since the vast majority of America's pet cats – 88 percent, in fact – are spayed or neutered, there is a great need for a diet that addresses the decreased energy and increased appetite that result from the procedure," says Dr. Brent Mayabb, veterinarian and manager of education and development at Royal Canin. "We are proud to introduce the most comprehensive health nutrition solution that can help control appetite and support a cat's decreased energy needs, which is now available at your local pet specialty store."
All of the new SPAYED/NEUTERED formulas contain controlled fat levels to maintain weight and added antioxidants promote health through every life stage. The line features four dry formulas for cats and kittens, as well as a canned formula that can be used as a meal or as a complement to the dry kibble. The SPAYED/NEUTERED formulas include:
- Royal Canin® KITTEN SPAYED/NEUTERED formula promotes growth, while supporting healthy weight , natural defenses and digestive health for spayed and neutered kittens between the ages of 6 – 12 months
- Royal Canin® SPAYED/NEUTERED Appetite Control contains a unique blend of fibers to help cats between the ages of 1 – 7 years feel fuller longer, in response to their decreased energy and increased appetite
- Royal Canin® SPAYED/NEUTERED Appetite Control 7+ formula promotes appetite control, increased vitality and weight maintenance for spayed and neutered between the ages of 7 – 12 years
- Royal Canin® SPAYED/NEUTERED 12+ formula promotes weight maintenance and healthy aging and joint support while helping to support kidney health for spayed and neutered cats 12 years and older
- Royal Canin® SPAYED/NEUTERED Canned Formula can be fed as a meal, or as a complement to dry kibble, the formula features an ideal balance of vitamins and minerals and a moderate energy level to help spayed or neutered cats over 1 year maintain a healthy weight.
Royal Canin's SPAYED/NEUTERED formulas are available now at pet specialty stores such as PetSmart and PETCO, as well as independent pet stores nationwide. For more information on the You Share, We Give program, visit facebook.com/RoyalCanin.us.
About Royal Canin USA
Royal Canin USA is a forerunner of nutritional and technological advancement in dog and cat food. With more than 40 years of experience in the animal health and nutrition industry, the company prides itself on putting knowledge and respect for the animal first. Royal Canin collaborates with nutritionists, breeders and veterinarians from around the world on impartial and relevant research to ensure dogs and cats receive the best nutrition. For more information, find Royal Canin at www.facebook.com/RoyalCanin.us or visit http://www.royalcanin.us/.
About American Humane Association
Since 1877, the historic American Humane Association has been at the forefront of every major advancement in protecting children, pets and farm animals from cruelty and abuse and neglect. Today we're also leading the way in understanding human-animal interaction and its role in society. As the nation's voice for the protection of children and animals, American Humane Association reaches millions of people every day through groundbreaking research, education, training and services that span a wide network of organizations, agencies and businesses. You can help make a difference, too. Visit American Humane Association at www.americanhumane.org today.


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However I don't think these are 'Oy'.
What do you think of the little metal plugs in Ruth's initial photo? I've never thought of having these vases (or perhaps candleholders) upside down - do you think that was the intention?
Here is a comparision. One, one way up and the other, the other.
I'm very grateful for all the information and discussion.
One last point is that the label was placed such that it would be read downwards from the one on the right! That suggests that the labeller regarded the ' bowl' as going at the top.
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Readers everywhere celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss
My favorite Dr. Seuss book is The Cat in the Hat. It was fun reading it as a bedtime story for your child. Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss.
Diana Barnum
Dr. Seuss' book, Bartholomew and the Oobleck is a favorite of mine. It impresses upon us the great power of some very simple, yet magic words: "I am Sorry" and "It is all My Fault". I often conjure up the magic recipe for Oobleck straight from the cave on Mystic Mountain Neeka-tave, bringing sheer delight to the children for whom I read the book.
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My fafrit Dr. Seuss book is Green Eggs and Ham. I like green eggs and ham becuse it ceps on saing the same words over and over
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My favorite Dr. Seuss book is "Green Eggs And Ham". I like that book because it is about someone not thinking they like something and are begged to try it. After trying it they decide they like it.
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My favorite Dr. Seuss book is "Fox in Socks". I like the book because it is a tongue twister. I like tongue twisters because they sound cool.
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Scott Bourne needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 60 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
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High end brides and families who want portraiture.
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Bangor Homeowners Lose Home to Fire During Renovations
When Bangor fire fighters arrived on scene last night flames were showing from all of the windows of the three-story home on Patten Street in Bangor.
Assistant Fire Chief Anthony Riitano says the call came in around 10:30 from the home of Charlton Butler at 44 Patten Street.
"With the amount of fire we did an offensive attack and used lots of water to knock it down and spent a lot of time looking for hot spots in the building," stated Riitano.
No one was inside the home when fire fighters arrived because the homeowners were renovating the home and were staying in the back yard in a camper.
One fire fighter was transported to the hospital for an ankle injury but no other injuries were reported.
Assistant Chief Riitano says investigators with the state Fire Marshall's Office will be on scene today looking for a cause.
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I basically agree with Kevin. Saturday leagues are a casual round. If you start adding the sanction aspect then it will become far more competitive and people will become rule sticklers. Plus the main reason I come out even though I have sucked lately is that its at least a fun round. If it is rated I will be less inclined to.
That's exactly what I equate a less competitive round to be!Guess those who play Saturday morning bag tags are just a bunch of cheaters and rule breakers!


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The three musketeers Note: As McGruff states — D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis — inseparable friends who live by the motto, "One for all, and all for one".
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An incredibly low-quality screencap of the 50th anniversary special has leaked online today. The image was taken from a clip shown at the Edinburgh TV Festival. The image gives us a first glimpse of Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt together in the special.
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Earlier this week I suggested things could heat up in the Hot Stove and this might be the time for the New York Mets to strike.
And, I didn't mean Prince Fielder, or Brandon Allen for that matter.
Mets general manager Sandy Alderson agreed the other day things could get warm, but wouldn't say how close he'd get to the "Stove.''
"We have to be realistic about the market and not sort of deny the inevitable,'' Alderson said. "If the market is as robust as it seems to be, I think we have to acknowledge that.''
OK, he acknowledges it. Then what?
"And, consistent with that acknowledgement, if we're going to participate, we have to recognize that,'' Alderson added.
The operative word in all that was "if.''
Well, are the Mets going to participate? A robust market means spending and Alderson's checkbook is still under wraps.
Alderson said the team has been more active, but that has to mean working the phones because we're not seeing anything public outside of Allen, the departures of Mike Baxter and LaTroy Hawkins, and, of course, the ones who got away – or are about to.
Because we're not going to see Matt Harvey outside of a courtside shot of him at the Knicks game Wednesday night, the Mets are in need of pitching first and foremost. I'm aware of the crying for a power outfielder and the need of a shortstop, but the Mets only have three starters. Nothing happens without pitching.
It would have been sweet to get Josh Johnson, but that wasn't going to happen. Meanwhile, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Aaron Harang could get away. Late season pick-ups last year, both provided quality innings at the back end of the rotation. In a combined 11 starts, only twice – both times by Matsuzaka – did they not get out of the fifth.
Alderson said he wanted veteran innings at the back end, and these two are as veteran as you can get. And, what they gave the Mets is what they are seeking now. Sure, the Mets want to do better. But, better means spending more.
Matsuzaka pitched well in September after pitching coach Dan Warthen tinkered with his mechanics and got him to speed up his delivery. My concern is he pitched well enough for him to catch another team's eye and might be willing to give him two years. The presumption is the most the Mets will offer is one year plus an option. That would mean the Mets would lose him.
It's still November, and there's plenty of time remaining, but that's not the issue. It's a matter of who will be remaining when the Mets are ready to do more than talk on the phone.
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On maps, it starts in Chicago and ends, about 2,400 miles later, in Santa Monica, Calif. But as an idea, Route 66 runs through the heart of American pop culture. Synonymous with the adventure of the open road, the old federal highway has been immortalized in song, on TV, in books, and in movies.
The route has been decertified as a highway, but its still identified as Route 66 in many towns along its original course. And while there might be faster ways to get from Chicago to Santa Monica and points in between, there are still travelers who prefer to explore the small towns and Main Streets of America by sticking to the old road.
Part of the draw for these travelers, says David Listokin, a professor at Rutgers University, is the unique businesses that line the old route. In 2011, Listokin co-authored a study with the National Park Service about the economic opportunities for businesses along the road. "It's America the way it used to be," said Listokin. "The restaurants are individually owned, they're not chains. People can speak to the proprietor. The small business aspect is one of the distinguishing features of Route 66, and why people travel it. Otherwise, why not just take the interstate?"
Those visitors to America's Main Streets are spending nearly $132 million annually, and support about 2,400 jobs. In some cases, these route-side businesses are what keep the town on the map. In others, they have been the linchpin to a Main Street revival.Click ahead to read about some of the unique businesses that have survived — or been revived on — Route 66.
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Catherine on 01/30/2016
I want to rent a 1 bedroom in 341 boor street west starting May 2016, can some one tell me how to rent it? Or anyone have a room available, please contact me, thank you!
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Anonymous on 10/21/2015
Does anyone know Wilfred, Yo Bobby and/or Raymond Cseda? I am desperately trying to locate them>
Anonymous on 06/20/2015
2014: Horrific infestation of bedbugs which started in the bedroom and spread to the closets and almost everything in the living room. Finally got rid of them, although they come in from between the walls where they are safe from pesticides and they return after spraying before three months is up. I'm moving out in a week, before they come back. Nice location, but it isn't worth being tormented by bloodsucking bedbugs.
Anonymous on 01/06/2015
I lived in this building in 2011-2012. There were really serious bedbug issue in this building. When I first moved in, a guy from the same floor warned me that this building is full of pets (bedbugs, mouse and cockroach). My apartment got cockroach 2 months after I moved in and got bedbugs in 2012. My friend is also living there and she has bedbug issues as well. I also asked the super about whether the building has mouse issues. He checked the wall close to the heat of my apartment and said as
long as there's no holes on the wall, the mouse should not be able to get into my apartment...
I understand that this building is really affordable considering the location. But I sincerely recommend people to avoid this building. The pet issue is severe.
dad on 02/04/2013
Angelica Zhou, I am looking for you. Your mon has hidden you away in Canada. This is your dad.
I believe I will find you soon. Tell your mom to give you my phone number, so we can talk.
I have always....and will always love you,
Your Dad
Susan Matyasi on 01/11/2012
I reported a problem with bedbugs in my unit and the pest control guy said i wasn't ready and call to super when I was. i've dealt with this problem before but don't know how the bugs are getting into the apartment. I keep my place clean and tidy but still I have the problem. Management isn't reporting the problem of bedbug infestations in this building comnplex. I thought management needs to report any bedbug problems in this building. it's sad when we pay so much for an apartment and they
don't do anything about it. I also reported about seeing a mouse, they said they sprayed but i still kept seeing a mouse until I bought a mouse trap and caught the mouse. It shouldn't have to be this way. I'm looking for another apartment to move into because this place sucks like hell. it's like living in squallor and they don't care at all. 01/11/2012
Angrybird on 10/07/2011
This OLD building has a lot of units that have the bedbugs. My friend's unit found out bedbugs few months ago and reported to their office. The action was too slow. Sprayed several times already & don't know if the bugs will return or not. Mice & cockroaches also rampant all around the building. I don't know why the management doesn't do anything for the whole building. It is very important to avoid the other units to be affected.
Management of this building is VERY POOR and NEVER get any IM
PROVEMENT so far.
Mark on 09/03/2011
I am sorry to use this as a searching for.. mechanism. I am trying any way poosible to reach someone. I am looking for Ying Zhou. Also known as Melinda.
She used to live with her parents in this building. I guess 905 would be a unit number. Her parents might still live here.
I live in California, and can not travel right now. Please e-mail me if you know anything.
[email protected] I would apreciate the good deed
Mark T. Pasadena Ca.
anonymous on 12/06/2010
This place is fuckin shitty. I keep my room clean and neat. But a few bedbugs manage to crawl into my room, probably from neighbouring. After i got repetivie bites, i decide to take action, asking Toronto Housing to kill begbugs. It took them 2 weeks to come. However, with such shitty environment and people's unwareness of begbugs, this problem will come to you soon or later. Donot fucken move in! Go rent decent apartments. The money and time you will spend on begbugs are enough to pay you a goo
d living environment.
Anonymous on 11/13/2010
I moved out this building earlier this summer due to the bedbug issue.
The unit next to mine got FULLY infected. yes, i mean FULLY. the old lady didn't know about this, and just keep sleeping on the floor until she got wheeled to hospital. no one knows about this problem until the lady keep staying in the hospital to aviod coming back. the pest company came and found gerenations of live bedbugs in her unit.
I found 2 live ones in my unit. i freaked out. the rental office is not helpful at
all. keep going back and forth, they keep saying i am telling a lie. Come on, i thought Toronto Co-op Housing is part of City of Toronto.
they arrange sprays in both of the unit , and i can still found 1 live bug after the second spray.
I took 3 weeks off from work to try to find a new place and move. throw out all the bed , chair , everything. Send all my clothes to dry clean which cost me almost $1000.
I think other than it is costly ( buying all new bed and stuff ), it is more like the mental torture.
After one week i moved, i heard that new tentant moved in .... good luck with that ~!
Croll Tenant on 09/30/2010
Senator Croll Bldg has always struggled with cockroach problems which the Toronto Housing Company has never been able to solve ...and now there are several apartments with bedbugs.
Furthermore, disposed items (furniture, mattresses etc.) are not tagged as being infested and so some people take items from the garbage and bring them into their own apartments!
Anonymous on 08/25/2010
a lot of bed bugs here, its hard to kill them, even you sprayed , they will return again, don't move to here!
Anonymous on 04/12/2010
I'm finally moving out after repeated bedbug infestations. The administration is slow to act and some tenants seem to be fine living with the pests... meaning they take forever to get the suites sprayed. Meanwhile, they spread to the neighbouring units and there's nothing you can do about it.
Senator A. Kroll on 09/23/2008
DO NOT LIVE HERE!!! SO many bedbugs in various units--sprayed several times and they always return because the building is so poorly managed.
Mice and cockroaches also rampant.
767 bedbug reports near this address:
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Trouble in Tin Town Review
Trouble in Tin Town takes Toy Story, separates the toys into factions, and sets them at war against each other for a variety of silly reasons. In fact, it has the same sense of humor found in Pixar's classic franchise. Although we were hoping for multiplayer and skirmish options, the three campaigns currently available are highly enjoyable.
For the most part, Trouble in Tin Town holds true to the fundamental turn-based strategy formula. Some maps have other mechanics at play, such as a train that runs through the middle of the map, or cannons to clear rows of enemies. But most of the time you'll be building units and moving them into enemy territory to take down their base.
Clunky menus often mar TBS games. To avoid this, unit control in Trouble in Tin Town is completely touch-based: You simply touch where you want your unit to move and what you want it to attack. It's simple and efficient.
I spy with my little eye an intruder.
One nice touch in Trouble in Tin Town is that you'll scatter coins around the screen for killing an enemy or opening a treasure chest. These coins can be picked up with a tap. Any money you don't spend on buying units can be used for upgrading units across all three campaigns. Most levels have plenty of extra funds available, and one tactic is to send cheap infantry to open treasure chests when they spawn.
Each of the three campaigns stars a different faction. The storylines are silly, with well-written dialogue for the characters. Our favorite faction was the Historicals, consisting of historical figures like Abraham Lincoln, William Shakespeare, and H.P. Lovecaft (with Cthulhu tentacles for arms). Each character's dialogue satirizes themselves, which always made us smile. If you've played Civilization Revolution, you know just how fun it can be when different time periods clash.
The campaigns offer a challenging difficulty curve when played in order. The Historicals campaign, which kicks off the game, is pretty easy straight through, while the other two get progressively more difficult. Even at its toughest, Trouble in Tin Town is still very forgiving, and battles don't stretch out for hours.
A historical reenactment of when Cavemen almost destroyed Earth.
The lack of multiplayer and skirmish modes hurt Trouble in Tin Town's lasting appeal. Once you complete all three campaigns, there is no incentive to keep playing. These two features are promised in an 'upcoming' screen, and we hope the developer keeps this promise.
Also on the downside, the game's larger maps can cause the frame rate to drop nearly in half. Besides making the graphics choppy, it also causes a noticeable control delay. This isn't a huge deal, since you aren't dealing with twitchy controls, but it still feels rough. There are also occasions where the game crashes and level progress is lost.
Trouble in Tin Town has a strong enough single-player component that these few oversights didn't bother us. We look forward to whatever updates are coming down the pipeline, as Trouble in Tin Town has the potential to be one of the best strategy games on the App Store.


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Price's rah-rah attitude sets him apart
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Joe Maddon recently had the opportunity to watch a video of the Rays' win over the Red Sox in Game 7 of the 2008 American League Championship Series.
Most Rays fans would call the game the biggest in team history, and all of them would remember how David Price finished off the game in dominant fashion as the Rays closer. The Rays manager is not one to live in the past, so he didn't dwell on what he saw while watching the video. Only, he did comment how calm Price appeared to be in that moment.
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Joe Maddon recently had the opportunity to watch a video of the Rays' win over the Red Sox in Game 7 of the 2008 American League Championship Series.
Most Rays fans would call the game the biggest in team history, and all of them would remember how David Price finished off the game in dominant fashion as the Rays closer. The Rays manager is not one to live in the past, so he didn't dwell on what he saw while watching the video. Only, he did comment how calm Price appeared to be in that moment.
"My takeaway was there's pretty much no difference from that moment and the way he is now," Maddon said. "That's pretty impressive to be able to walk in the door under those circumstances and do what he did. And here he is a couple of years later with a Cy Young in his pocket and he's the same cat. You realize how special he was by rolling back the clock a couple of years and seeing what he did to put us on the map."
Price, who will be the Rays' Opening Day starter Monday against the Blue Jays, smiled when asked about that special moment in his career, noting that he wasn't scared or nervous at the time.
"I was pretty dad-gum calm at that moment," Price said. "I felt good. It was a situation I was in as a kid. I put myself in that situation all the time. It's a situation you put yourself into. It might not be to go to the World Series; it might be to win it. But it's still a situation like one you envisioned as a kid. I'm probably more nervous riding to the field."
Price is still calm on the mound when the game gets hot. That hasn't changed a bit. What has changed is Price the pitcher. And those changes have been significant.
"In 2008 I was a two-pitch guy, with a four-seam fastball and a slider," Price said. "Now I've got a four-seam, a two-seam, a slider, a curveball and a changeup I can throw when I want to. So I'm a much different pitcher. In '08 I wanted to strike everybody out. That situation was a good time for a strikeout. But it still didn't matter if it was the first hitter or fifth hitter of the game. I still wanted to strike everybody out.
"I think I have a better grasp of what type of pitcher I am and what type of pitcher I want to be. I think that's helped me out a lot, understanding that."
Price became the first Rays pitcher to win 20 games in 2012, resulting in a Cy Young Award, and though he didn't have his best season in 2013, he came through when the team needed him by pitching a complete game against the Rangers in the playoff game that put the Rays in the AL Wild Card game. The sky is the limit as far as what he can do on the field. But according to teammates and manager Joe Maddon, Price's ability on the field will never reach the level he's reached as a teammate.
Maddon noted that he's been in the Major Leagues since 1994 and Price is "one of the Top 10 teammates, ever."
Evan Longoria called Price the "No. 1 cheerleader" on the team and he was sincere when pointing out said praise was a compliment. Fellow starter Alex Cobb said that Price gives off a vibe that tells others he wants them to succeed more than he wants to succeed himself.
For a visual, just look in the Rays' dugout during a game when Price is not pitching and one will quickly notice the rangy 6-foot-6 dude standing on the dugout steps who never stops chirping.
Obviously, a part of that is just who Price is. But another part of that comes from Price's college background, where rah-rah is more ingrained.
"Coming out of high school and talking to scouts and talking to college coaches, they said college is probably your last chance to really have the feeling on the baseball field that you'll have," Price said. "It's like a band of brothers out there with you.
"Guys that are going to be in class with you, in study hall with you, out there on the field, eat together. A couple of you are probably staying in the same dorm room, stuff like that. That was awesome. Having guys that can pull together for one common goal -- kind of like we do here with the Rays -- and then just have fun together. That's something I feel everybody should have. It makes everybody feel better; it makes everybody play baseball better. If you can genuinely care about the guys you're surrounded by, it makes going to work a lot more fun."
Cobb, who could have gone to Clemson, but signed with the Rays out of high school instead, said he never knew how unusual it was to have a college-type atmosphere in the clubhouse until recently.
"It really wasn't brought to my attention until the newer guys started coming in and really pointed out the fact that we were a close-knit group and the camaraderie among ourselves, we're all about the same ages," Cobb said. "We kind of came up together, that really helps that fact. I think when we're rooting people on, that really dates back to when [James] Shields was here, and along with Price, and they really established that mentality among the rotation members, to really root on each other.
"When these new guys came in and said how weird it was, it was odd to me to hear that other teams don't do that. It's very odd and awkward for me to see an opposing pitcher walk off the mound after a questionable outing and not be picked up by the other members of the rotation, or teammates for that matter. I guess the unusual for us is absolutely normal."
While Price sets the tone with his enthusiasm; he does likewise with his competitiveness. He's never satisfied with an outing and likely would find something wrong if he pitched a perfect game and struck out 27 batters on three pitches each.
"That's quote, unquote, setting the bar," Cobb said. "That's a great mentality. Why would you ever be happy with anything when there's always something you can get better at?"
That's just David Price and one of the many reasons why he's one of the best pitchers in baseball.
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com.


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SCRUBGRASS, Venango County — An Ohio trucker died Thursday night in a four-rig pileup that closed a portion of Interstate 80 for several hours, authorities said.
Joseph P. Bieganowski, 54, of Warren was killed when the car carrier he was driving eastbound about 6:30 p.m. slammed into the back of a box tractor-trailer, some two miles west of Emlenton.
The collision set off two more rear-end collisions between the Clintonville exit in Venango County and the St. Petersburg/Emlenton exit in Clarion County.
Police said Bieganowski failed to stop in time when he hit the back of a rig driven by James Beatty, 64, of Nicktown, Cambria County that was stopped for a traffic backlog about three miles west of a bridge construction project.
Investigators think Bieganowski's truck was hauling seven cars and was headed to Dubois, Clearfield County.
The collision caused Beatty's truck to ram into a tractor-trailer driven by Calvin Tartt, 61, of Canton, Ohio. In turn, police said, Tartt's truck hit the back of a rig driven by Alonzo Pipkin, 37, of Columbus.
None of the other truckers was injured.
The crash left Bieganowski trapped inside his vehicle. Emlenton volunteer firefighters had to cut open the truck to get to get to him.
But authorities think he likely died of head and chest injuries on impact.


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Molestation allegations against Toth led to commissioners' decision
EASTON -- Parks and Recreation commissioners unanimously agreed to change the name of Toth Park on Thursday night.
"I think it's wonderful," said James DiCuffa, a longtime Easton resident.
Toth Park has been named after Stephen Toth since his death in 1985. Toth was Parks and Recreation commissioner known for helping children and volunteering his time to the Boy Scouts, Little League and other recreational programs in the town.
Residents have been urging officials to change the name of the park since 2004 because several people said Toth molested them when they were children.
Commissioner Steven Lichtman said the commission has received numerous emails and petitions from residents who are in favor of changing the park's name.
Elizabeth Wenzel, a resident, said she collected more than 700 signatures on a petition she created in September.
The name of the park will continue to be Toth Park for now, and the commission plans to come up with a new name at a later date, officials said. Residents have suggested changing the park's name back to Easton Town Park or Aspetuck Park, Wenzel said.
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First Thoughts: How gay marriage has disappeared as a political issue (for now)
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A protester raises a flag outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, March 26, 2013.
How gay marriage has disappeared as a political issue (at least for now)… The power (and limits) of public opinion… Tim Johnson is expected not to seek re-election in 2014… Bill Clinton endorses HRC backer Wendy Greuel in LA mayoral race… NYT writes about "volatile" and "temperamental" Christine Quinn… And more SENATE MADNESS….
*** How gay marriage has disappeared as a political issue (for now): This time a year ago, when the Supreme Court was beginning oral arguments to decide the fate of President Obama's health-care law, the political world was engaged in all-out conflict. Democrats and the White House fiercely backed the law on constitutional merits, while Republicans and the Romney campaign vociferously opposed it. But as the Supreme Court begins two days of oral arguments for this year's two high profile cases -- on the topic of gay marriage -- it's worth observing how it's largely disappeared as a true political issue between the parties.
Chad Griffin, a plaintiff in the case against California's Proposition 8, speaks about the importance of the day before heading to the Supreme Court Tuesday.
While Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans spent millions to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which the court considers tomorrow, you haven't seen them recently hold a press conference outside the court to support the law and denounce gay marriage (though Boehner did comment on the matter last Thursday). While the 2012 Republican national platform maintained that "the union of one man and one woman must be upheld as the national standard," the Republican National Committee hasn't been blasting out press releases. Ditto the Democratic National Committee, whose 2012 platform supported gay marriage. Part of this is due to the change in public opinion (see below). And part of it is that we're not in the midst of a presidential campaign. Of course, politics can always change, but the relative silence -- at least for now, and compared with health care a year ago -- is deafening.
As the Supreme Court begins two days of oral arguments on the topic of gay marriage, NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro discuss how it has disappeared as a true political issue between the parties, and the notable change in public opinion on the topic over the past several years.
*** The power (and limits) of public opinion: It's also notable how quickly public opinion has changed on this subject. Back in 2004 -- when it was used as a wedge issue in that year's presidential election -- just 30% of Americans favored gay marriage, while 62% opposed it, according to the NBC/WSJ poll. In 2009, those supporting it increased to 41%, and the percentage jumped to 49% in March 2012. And most recently, in Dec. 2012, a majority of respondents (51%) for the first time in the poll said they backed gay marriage. That's an increase of 21 percentage points in just one year. What's more, a March 2013 Washington Post/ABC poll found nearly six in 10 (58%) supporting gay marriage. This helps explain why so many national politicians -- President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Rob Portman, Claire McCaskill, and Mark Warner -- now support gay marriage; in fact, Obama's reversal came less than a year ago. But it's equally important to note the limits of this change in public opinion. As Georgetown University law professor David Cole writes in the New York Times, "Same-sex marriage is legal in nine states and the District of Columbia, but is the country ready for a decision requiring all 50 states to recognize such unions immediately?" Cole also asks if there would be a backlash (like what occurred after Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade) among the 40% who oppose gay marriage.
*** Tim Johnson isn't expected to seek re-election in 2014: At 4:00 pm ET today in South Dakota, Sen. Tim Johnson is holding a press conference to announce his intentions about 2014, when his Senate term expires. And as First Read reported yesterday, Johnson is expected to announce that he WON'T be seeking re-election, according to a top Democratic aide. Democrats are hoping to be able to recruit former Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D-SD). But make no mistake: This is a top GOP pick-up opportunity, especially in a midterm year. Here's our retirement watch for 2014: The Democrats -- so far -- have to defend six open seats (West Virginia's Jay Rockefeller, Massachusetts' John Kerry, Iowa's Tom Harkin, New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg, Michigan's Carl Levin, and South Dakota's Tim Johnson), versus two for Republicans (Nebraska's Johanns and Georgia's Saxby Chambliss).
*** Bill Clinton endorses HRC backer Greuel in LA mayoral race: It's amazing to think that the Obama-vs.-Hillary Democratic primary was five years ago, but Bill Clinton is still endorsing candidates who backed his wife over Obama. The latest example: L.A. mayoral hopeful Wendy Greuel. "Former President Bill Clinton on Monday endorsed Wendy Greuel for Los Angeles mayor, saying the city controller's proven track record makes her the right candidate to confront the city's problems," the Los Angeles Times says. "Clinton has often endorsed people who have been loyal to his family, either helpful during his time at the White House or supporters of his wife's unsuccessful 2008 presidential run. Greuel fits both categories -- in addition to being an early and active backer of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, she worked in the Clinton administration at the Department of Housing and Urban Development." Meanwhile, Greuel's run-off opponent is Eric Garcetti, who was a big supporter of Barack Obama's in 2008.
*** "Volatile" and "temperamental"? And speaking of this year's mayoral races, the New York Times writes this piece on NYC mayoral front-runner Christine Quinn. "As she pursues a high-profile bid for mayor, Ms. Quinn, a Democrat, has proudly promoted her boisterous personality, hoping that voters will embrace her blend of brashness and personal charm. But in private, friends and colleagues say, another Ms. Quinn can emerge: controlling, temperamental and surprisingly volatile, with a habit of hair-trigger eruptions of unchecked, face-to-face wrath. She has threatened, repeatedly, to slice off the private parts of those who cross her." But here's our question: Isn't it unusual in politics -- especially New York City politics!!! -- if a politician didn't have a temper and didn't threaten those that cross them?
*** Senate Madness -- results from yesterday's contests: Not surprisingly, all our No. 1 seeds -- Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, LBJ, and Ted Kennedy -- easily advanced yesterday to the next round. In addition, William Seward defeated John Sherman in the 19th Century bracket; Sam Ervin topped Harry Byrd in the Mixed Era bracket; Robert Wagner bested Hugo Black in the 20th Century bracket; and Robert Byrd triumphed over Tom Daschle in the Modern Era. Our second-round contests start next week.
*** Senate Madness -- today's first-round match ups: Meanwhile, these are the contests that are taking place today (see here and here). In the 19th Century era, #2 seed John C. Calhoun faces off against #15 seed Marcus Hanna, and #7 Thomas Hart Benton competes against #10 James G. Blaine… In the Mixed Era region, #2 Henry Cabot Lodge battles #15 Phil Hart, while #7 Arthur Vandenberg takes on #10 Gerald Nye… In the 20th Century, it's #2 Everett Dirksen vs. #15 Margaret Chase Smith, and #7 Robert Taft vs. #10 William Fulbright… And in the Modern Era region, it's #2 Daniel Patrick Moynihan vs. #15 George Mitchell, and #7 Ed Muskie vs. #10 Bob Dole. We'll have more first-round match ups tomorrow.


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I am still amazed in this day and age that I still get asked — or told — that what I do for a living isn't real … that it's fake.
Yes, the outcomes are predetermined, but I feel most people cannot comprehend the physicality it takes to perform the feats that they see during matches or on TV so they assume it's fake. They also cannot grasp the commitment it takes to endure the lifestyle of a professional wrestler. But rather than get angry at such ignorance, I prefer to educate.
My own life, for example, has been incredibly hectic in the weeks since living through hurricane Sandy. Consider:
• I flew to Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, where I wrestled that day and then back home the same day.
• The next day, I drove to an event some 100 miles (160 km for my Canadian friends) away and back that same night.
• After a few days off, I received my Japanese visa, which I need in order to go wrestle there (more on that later and in future columns). I travelled to the Japanese consulate in New York City the next day to get it approved. There, I was told that it takes four days to get it approved and that I was required to leave my passport with them. That couldn't happen as I was scheduled to fly to Holland the next day to wrestle, and I couldn't leave the country without my passport.
• Once home, I engaged in a series of email exchanges with my contact in Japan to rectify the problems.
• I then flew to Holland. I was awake for the entire seven-hour trip. After I cleared customs, I waited for two other wrestlers to arrive and we then went for breakfast. After I finally arrived at the hotel, I had been up 24 straight hours, if you count the time difference. I proceeded to fall asleep (during the daylight hours), naturally, woke up in the middle of the night — wide awake. Eventually, I managed one more hour of sleep before leaving for the event, where I participated in a meet-and-greet with fans, then travelled to the wrestling event itself. There, I had a really good match. It's nice to wrestle someone who has a different style and whom I've never faced before. I left the show around midnight, headed for the hotel, packed up and caught a few hours of sleep before heading to airport for 5:30 a.m. Following the usual airport issues — lineups, customs, etc. — I departed for the eight-hour flight home.
• After arriving in New York City and enduring the usual New York traffic, I arrived home 11 hours later. That night was spent working out, paying bills, returning phone calls and text messages ... trying to be a normal person.
• The next day, I did a media and speaking tour in my hometown to promote a wrestling event in my local area to raise money for a school fundraiser (I wish they had something like this when I was at school; the best fundraiser we ever had was a soup drive and bake sale … lame). I appeared at six schools between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., then drove into Manhattan to the Japanese consulate to retrieve my visa for my trip to Japan.
• After getting all the paperwork done, including leaving my passport with them, they tell me to come back the next day. The Japanese company that hired me told officials at the consulate the urgency of the matter, so I was spared the usual wait.
• I went home, did some laundry, went to the gym, and spent the evening being a father. That night, I couldn't sleep due to jet lag, so spent most of the night awake. I packed for my Japan trip, hoping I would get my visa without issues. If I didn't get it, besides the monetary financial loss I would incur, thousands of wrestling fans would be disappointed and the company that hired me would face financial losses and a hit to its reputation. I wouldn't risk trying to enter the country on a pleasure trip. That would raise red flags and I didn't want to fly 13 hours only to be detained by customs and then deported and sent back on a 13-hour flight home.
On a side note, I have had eight passports filled with extra pages added in my lifetime. I normally have two working passports at one time, but one recently expired. Unless you're working for WWE, it is hard to carry two passports at one time. A passport is valid for 10 years. To put it in perspective, my non-wrestling friends have had one or two passports in their entire lifetimes. But I digress.
• I awoke after about two hours of sleep, spent some time with my daughters, then planned to drive to New York City in morning rush-hour traffic to be at the Japanese consulate for 9:30 a.m. when it opened. The plan then was to drive to JFK airport, where my flight was scheduled to leave at 12:45 p.m. For an international flight, passengers are required to arrive two hours beforehand. You do the math. My planning meant I had precisely an hour and 15 minutes to accomplish all of this. Distance-wise, the consulate and airport aren't far. But when you take into account New York City traffic, it's a nightmare.
• I set out for the consulate at 8:15 a.m., and arrived at 9:25. Naturally, there was a lineup. Apparently a bunch of people also needed visas for future travel. My "future travel" was hours away. I got my visa, which really is a miracle considering that even the mighty WWE has to wait about three days to get them. I rushed to the airport, dodging New York City buses and taxi cabs, and arrived at the airport at 10:50. I was starved, having been up five hours and only having a protein shake up to that point, so I grabbed the breakfast of airport champions — McDonald's (beggars can't be choosers). I endured a 13-hour flight, in which I didn't sleep a wink, instead watching six movies.
• I cleared customs and endured a three-hour bus trip to my hotel, where I finally got some rest.
• A press conference the next morning kicked off an eight-day tour, which opened with an eight-hour bus ride, a fanfest appearance, wrestling an opponent who spoke zero English and wrestled a different style.
Are you sensing a pattern here? I will get to my Japanese tour in next week's column, after I arrive home on Thursday, fly right back on Friday and Saturday, am back home until the following Thursday, when I participate in that aforementioned cool fundraiser, which is 10 minutes from my house. Time to relax, right? Not quite. I then have to drive six hours on Friday to Altoona, Pa., six hours back, then detour an hour to Connecticut, then drive the hour back home, leave the next day at 6 a.m. to perform at a show in Puerto Rico on that Sunday. I then fly home again on Monday.
So that's Canada, the United States, Holland, Japan, U.S., Puerto Rico — in a span of four weeks. If I were still with WWE, you could multiply my schedule by five.
On another side note, I was told by a back specialist that some of the worst things for someone with back troubles to do are driving in a car, sitting in an airplane and sleeping. Check, check and check. That doesn't even take into account getting thrown on my back more times than I can count and the extreme wear and tear I have endured fighting for 23 years of my life. This is the life of a pro wrestler. We do this for the love of the business, to entertain the people and to be able to make a living for ourselves and our families. My recent travel schedule would take its toll any normal person.
Fake? I don't think so.
Thanks for reading.
Tommy Dreamer is a legendary and influential pro wrestler and a father and husband who has worked for World Wrestling Entertainment, Extreme Championship Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action. His column appears in the Kingston Whig-Standard and on SLAM! Wrestling. Follow him on Twitter @THETOMMYDREAMER and check out his website at thetommydreamer.com. He can be booked for live appearances through his website. Check out his new, custom-designed T-shirts and merchandise on his website as well.


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He had just one meeting to go.
That meeting was a board meeting to be held that day in a large conference room on the first floor of Yahoo's Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters. Yahoo called the room "Phish Food" — a funky room with lots of glass and white leather couches and chairs.
The agenda for the meeting: Levinsohn was going to brief the directors on his plan for Yahoo, should he be named permanent CEO.
Levinsohn walked into the room; all of his top executives followed.
There was Jim Heckman, Levinsohn's top dealmaker, who'd spent months negotiating a huge deal with Microsoft. There was Shashi Seth, Yahoo's top product management executive, already planning a long-needed update to Yahoo Mail and the Yahoo homepage. There was chief financial officer Tim Morse, who'd just completed a critical, company-saving deal to sell a portion of Yahoo subsidiary Alibaba. There was Mickie Rosen, a News Corp. veteran whom Levinsohn had hired to run Yahoo's media business. And there was Mollie Spillman, whom he'd just made CMO.
Heckman, Seth, Morse, Rosen, Spillman, and handful of others sat off to the side.
They had good reason to be confident. For the two months prior, the chairman of Yahoo's board, Fred Amoroso, had made it clear that he was going to do everything he could to make sure Levinsohn and his team would be running the company for the foreseeable future.
Amoroso told Levinsohn this in private. He told Yahoo employees this during an all-hands meeting in May. He'd even joined a sales call to express support for Levinsohn to Yahoo advertisers — an oddly hands-on move for a chairman.
In June, Amoroso helped Levinsohn recruit a high-profile Google executive named Michael Barrett into Yahoo. During the recruiting process, Amoroso promised Barrett that Levinsohn's "interim" title was only temporary — that it was safe to leave Google.
Levinsohn had another reason to be hopeful: For the past few months, he'd been speaking with two of Yahoo's most important new directors, Dan Loeb and Michael Wolf, almost every day. As important as it was for Levinsohn to have Amoroso's support, he needed Loeb's more. Loeb ran a hedge fund called Third Point, which owned more than 5 percent of Yahoo and had, only months before, forced the resignation of Yahoo's previous CEO. Wolf was an important ally for Levinsohn to have, too. Wolf, a former president of MTV, was consulting for Third Point on media investments when Loeb asked him to join the Yahoo board and lead its search committee for a new CEO.
Levinsohn began his presentation. It was going to be a doozy, as he planned to seriously alter the direction of Yahoo.
He wanted it to stop competing with technology businesses like Google and Microsoft and focus entirely on competing with media and content businesses like Disney, Time Warner, and News Corporation. As part of this transition, Levinsohn wanted to spin off, sell, or shut down several Yahoo business units. He said doing so would reduce Yahoo's head count by as many as 10,000 employees, and increase its earnings before taxes and interest by as much as 50 percent.
In fact, Levinsohn announced during his presentation that he and his team had already started down this road.
Levinsohn told the board that, under his direction, Heckman had begun negotiating a deal with Microsoft to exchange Yahoo's search business for Microsoft's portal, MSN.com, and large payments in cash. Levinsohn and Heckman had also been talking with Google executive Henrique De Castro about turning over some of Yahoo's advertising inventory. There was also talk of unloading some of Yahoo's enterprise-facing advertising-technology businesses into a joint venture involving New York-based ad tech startup AppNexus.
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Others in the room got the same sinking feeling.
Wolf, the man in charge of the committee tasked with hiring a permanent CEO, began to question the wisdom of the deal.
Wolf asked, in a loud voice with a sharp tone, "I understand why this is good for Microsoft, but why is it good for Yahoo?"
Harry Wilson, another director brought onto the board by Loeb, joined Wolf in his criticism of the deal as "short-sighted."
Their cross-examination of the deal eventually boiled down to one question: Had Levinsohn and Heckman made any irreversible commitments to either Microsoft or Google?
It was obvious to several people in the room that Wolf and Wilson wanted to make sure another candidate for the CEO job would not be forced to follow through on a deal they had not negotiated.
This was a bad sign for Levinsohn's candidacy.
But Wilson and Wolf's loud complaints about the Microsoft deal weren't the worst sign for Levinsohn's chances; Loeb's behavior during the meeting was.
Loeb is the suited, slick, and handsome Wall Street type. He wears his salt-and-pepper hair short and messy on purpose. He's actually from Southern California, and sometimes he puts off a surfer vibe.
During Levinsohn's presentation, Loeb looked bored. He wasn't paying full attention. As the interim CEO talked, Loeb stood at the back of the room and played with his BlackBerry.
One person in the room remembers watching Loeb texting for a while and then, "during the most important part of the presentation," getting up and going to the bathroom for ten minutes.
This person remembers thinking: "Oh, OK. Sorry, Ross, you're not CEO anymore."
After the meeting, Barrett, the Google executive Amoroso had helped Levinsohn poach, called Levinsohn to ask how it went. Levinsohn told him he no longer felt like he was getting the job.
But who was?
That night, Levinsohn flew to Sun Valley, Idaho, where investment bank Allen & Co. holds an annual retreat for big-name media and technology executives.
Over the weekend, Levinsohn played a guessing game with venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Square CEO Jack Dorsey, and Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. With each of them, Levinsohn and the other Silicon Valley bigwigs ran through a long list of names, trying to figure out who might be getting the job Levinsohn had so hoped for. For each name they came up with, they came up with a persuasive reason why that person could not be it.
Whom had Wolf and Loeb so clearly already decided on?
Finally, late Sunday night, Levinsohn got a call from a friend of his at Google.
This person asked: Had Levinsohn heard that Marissa Mayer had interviewed for the Yahoo job the Wednesday prior?
Levinsohn realized everything all at once.
Levinsohn now knew who Yahoo's next CEO would be.
Soon, so would everyone else.
On Monday, July 16, four days after Levinsohn's last board meeting, Yahoo made it official: Thirty-seven-year-old Marissa Mayer was Yahoo's new CEO.
The board had indeed already made Mayer an offer by the time Levinsohn went into that final meeting to present his plan for Yahoo.
After the news broke in public, Levinsohn admitted to friends that he was disappointed. He had really wanted the job, and believed he would have done very well with it. He also felt bad for the team he put in place, who would now have to report to an unfamiliar leader.
But Levinsohn was also at peace. If he had to lose out to someone, at least he lost out to an icon.
Now 38 years old, she is a wife, a mother, an engineer, and the CEO of a 30-billion-dollar company. She is a woman in an industry dominated by men. In a world where corporations are expected to serve shareholders before anyone else, she is obsessed with putting the customer experience first.
Worth at least $300 million, she isn't afraid to show off her wealth. Steve Jobs may have lived in a small, suburban home with an apple tree out front, but Marissa Mayer lives in the penthouse of San Francisco's Four Seasons Hotel.
While rival CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Larry Page of Google wear flip-flops, hoodies, and T-shirts, Mayer wears Oscar De La Renta on the red carpet.
Mayer calls herself a geek, but she doesn't look the part. With her blonde hair, blue eyes, and glamorous style, she has Hollywood-actress good looks.
Young, powerful, rich, and brilliant, Mayer is a role model for millions of women. And yet, unlike Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, Mayer resists calling herself a feminist. She even infuriated working mothers across the world when she banned Yahoo employees from working from home.
Widely admired by the public at large, Mayer has many enemies within her industry. They say she is robotic, stuck up, and absurd in her obsession with detail. They say her obsession with the user experience masks a disdain for the money-making side of the technology industry.
There is some truth to what they say.
And yet, a year after Mayer took over Yahoo, the company's stock price was up 100 percent. Engineers wanted to work for Yahoo again. More importantly, so did sought-after startup CEOs like Tumblr founder David Karp, who agreed to sell his company to Yahoo for $1.1 billion.
Questions persistMost CEOs of Mayer's stature — people running multi-billion-dollar public companies the size of Yahoo — are gregarious, outgoing types — the kind of person who might have been a politician if the world of business and money hadn't beckoned. Baby-kissers. Back-slappers. Schmoozers. Mayer is not that type. Peers from every stage of her life — from her early childhood days to her first year at Yahoo — say Mayer is a shy, socially awkward person.
How in the world has she overcome such a disadvantage to rise so far, so fast?
To a public casually interested in her career, Mayer's career before Yahoo — spent entirely at Google — is remembered as one success after another. It wasn't.
Mayer started off at Google spectacularly well, designing its homepage, creating its product management structure, and becoming the face of the company. She became one of the most powerful people at one of the world's most powerful companies.
But then, suddenly, her peers were promoted past her. Responsibility for the look and feel of Google's entire suite of consumer-facing products, including the Google homepage, was taken away from her. She was moved to a less important product: Google Maps. She was removed from a council of executives that met with Google's CEO. To industry insiders, this sudden change was a demotion for Mayer. Was it actually? If it was, why did it happen? How did Mayer recover?
Mayer's move to the top of Yahoo during the summer of 2012 was a shock for almost everyone — including the people who convinced her to do it. How did the board pull it off?
Then there's the biggest question about Mayer: Can she save Yahoo?


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The weather was dreadful on Halloween night this year. Some people said they had no trick-or-treaters! Did that happen to you?
About 1,800 little cartons were distributed to our youngsters through Jennifer Kropidlowski at Huth Road Elementary School, Maria Siebert at Kaegebein Elementary School, Linda Samland at Sidway School, Jayne Schaber at the Veronica Connor Middle School and also to the Grand Island Cooperative Nursery School and to St. Stephen School.
This is the 34th year that Grand Island Boy Scouts have opened and sorted all the coins. This is the first year that high school students from classes of Cheryl Chamberlain volunteered to spend a Saturday morning at the Grand Island KeyBank counting and rolling all those sorted coins. So, how did we do this year of the stormy weather? Short of matching our goal of $2,000 as of last year, we did collect $1,700. You can still add to this. Children in Syria and other crucial locations around the world are suffering the horrors of war now. A check to U.S. Fund for UNICEF mailed to Lee Tetkowski, UNICEF chairman, at 1530 Whitehaven Road, Grand Island, will immediately be rushed to support UNICEF's efforts. Thanks to all of you who have already helped.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. -- The folks at Tommy's Country Ham House in Greenville are expecting a record crowd Saturday morning, and the mob's not coming for the grits.
In a state famous for its bizarre brand of Republican politics, mere hours after polls open in South Carolina, the primary's two frontrunners are hosting dueling campaign events at the restaurant over breakfast. Same time. Same place.
Call it the Ham House Showdown.
Incredulous reporters first thought there was a mistake. Both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney scheduled events at Tommy's Country Ham House in Greenville, S.C., at 10:45 a.m. ET Saturday. For Romney, the event will be his final public appearance before results are announced Saturday night.
Not quite a duel at high noon, but close.
The Gingrich campaign put their public schedule on their website roughly an hour before the Romney campaign emailed out theirs to reporters. Now, neither campaign is backing down.
"We have had this event on the books. Our schedule went out first. We are confirmed at our event," Gingrich campaign spokesman, Nathan Naidu, told reporters aboard the USS Yorktown following a Gingrich event. "We are more than happy if Gov. Romney would like to join us at our event and have some ham."
A Romney aide said: "It is pure coincidence the events were scheduled at the same time and we are not changing our schedule."
The Gingrich spokesman added, "We are more than happy to treat Gov. Romney to ham at our event."
Reporters were told that Caroline Vinvick, Gingrich's Greenville regional director, called and woke up the owner of the restaurant, Tommy Stevenson, Friday night. He said none of Romney's people has contacted him about an event. The Gingrich campaign is confirmed for 10:45 a.m. ET, Stevenson reassured Vinvick. Meanwhile, outside Romney's rally Friday night in Greenville, volunteers were overheard telling supporters to head to Tommy's Saturday morning to support Romney.
National media -- seizing on the opportunity for pithy, ham-related headlines and the potential for a political showdown that could rival any from the debate stage this season -- are preparing to flock to the restaurant Saturday morning.
Some may want to bring helmets to prepare for what could be a dangerously packed house. All will bring their appetites.


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Wagner, IDEA Create Opportunities for Studentsby Richard Paige • May 14, 2014 Share:
The bus was supposed to take I-57 in Memphis. Instead, it stayed on I-55 toward St. Louis. All it took was that one missed turn and the memories came flooding back for David Wagner '05.
Memories of high school in Belleville, Ill., and his time at Wabash. All those trips back and forth.
"I was getting antsy coming up here," Wagner recalled Tuesday afternoon as he took a break from shepherding a group of high school juniors around the Wabash campus. "Driving through there, I really started to get nostalgic of everything I was seeing. It was weird being back and thinking back to all the times I've had in Belleville and here. It makes you appreciate what others have sacrificed for you and makes me want to give back more."
Wagner is giving back now. He's Principal-In-Residence at IDEA College Preparatory School in Donna, Texas, and that busload of high school juniors he was leading is on tour of the Midwest to explore options for college. In addition to Wabash, the itinerary included schools like the University of Chicago, Wheaton, Maryville University, and Saint Louis University.
Located in the Rio Grande Valley, a part of Southern Texas that sees a high school graduation rate of approximately 50 percent, the IDEA campus is certainly an outlier. Although 78 percent of the students enrolled at IDEA have parents who did not attend college, this K-12 school of 1,400 students, 99% of whom are Hispanic/Latino, boasts a college-going culture that anyone would envy.
IDEA is working. The school was just rated fifth in the state of Texas and 30th nationally by U.S. News & World Reports. More importantly, every one of IDEA's graduates since 2007 have gone on to college.
Wagner feels that success is rooted in the expectation that college is a realistic expectation and that individuals have the power to make that choice. This trip is an opportunity to broaden their horizons.
"We want to open opportunities up to everybody," said Wagner, a 2012 Alumni Admissions Fellow. "It's been a goal from the beginning to put these students in a position where they can make their own choice of where to go to college. This trip is a great opportunity for kids to branch out of the Valley and gain their own independence. It's important to establish their own identity."
Look no further than the Wabash student body for proof of that, as there is at least one IDEA alum in each class. One of those students is Isidro "Sid" Vargas '14, a native of Alamo, Texas, who took the chance to branch out of the Valley four years ago and will graduate Sunday.
"I just wanted to be focused on my studies," Vargas said of his decision to attend Wabash. "I wasn't thinking of leaving Texas, but it was time to take a new step in my life, and I was going to get a good education."
For Wagner, it was a pair of experiences abroad that placed him outside of his comfort zone that gave him the confidence to succeed in unfamiliar territory. He studied in Greece as a rising junior and in Ecuador as a rising senior. That boost in confidence propelled him to a Teach For America assignment in the Rio Grande Valley following graduation, a place he's been ever since.
"Wabash prepared me for this," Wagner explained. "The summers abroad opened my eyes to what was possible. That gave me the confidence to go to the RGV and stay in the RGV. I knew I could go to a whole new environment and feel comfortable."
Carlos De La Cerda '15 says that Wagner was influential to opening his eyes to possibilities of Wabash and for his future.
"That's one reason I chose this place, there is more than a so-called college experience," said the psychology major from Edcouch, Texas. "There is a benefit to what happens after. I knew from the clues that he gave me that it was going to be interesting and worthwhile and character building. I am convinced that this place will provide me with the tools to go out and make an impact."
The IDEA model builds on the idea of malleable intelligence, where you can achieve anything from hard work, dedication and being diligent with your studies.
"That's the culture we've set in the high and middle schools," said Wagner. "We want the college-going atmosphere. We're working on the through-college aspect. Finishing matters. Really, it's students, parents, and the school working together."
It certainly matters to Vargas, who hopes to return to IDEA and teach biology in the fall.
"I feel accomplished," Vargas said. "I'm proud of myself. This is the next chapter in my life and I'm excited to see what comes next. I know that I can do anything if I put my mind to it."
That confidence has helped Wagner's students teach him a valuable lesson.
"They've taught me that it doesn't matter where you come from," he said." What matters is building the relationships around you and really pushing for the change you want to see."


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On one hand, it's refreshing to the see that the NFL has become willing to call B.S. on something everyone knows to have been B.S. On the other hand, the situation still has a strange smell to it.
Regarding the finding that Steelers receiver Emmanuel Sanders faked an injury during a game against the Bengals, the league's statement makes clear the fact that the NFL rejected Sanders' claim that he was truly injured — and that Sanders stuck to his story when he met with the NFL on November 2.
In other words, the NFL believes Sanders lied to the league.
So why was he fined only $15,000? Two years ago, Brett Favre was fined $50,000 for lying to the league in connection with its investigation regarding the very specific use of his cell phone. (Allegedly.) Earlier this year, the league suspended former Saints defensive end Anthony Hargrove eight games for, in part, lying to investigators who were exploring the possible existence of a bounty program in 2010.
If, as the league necessarily concluded, Sanders was lying about being injured, he should have received a more significant punishment than the $15,000 for faking an injury.
Also, does anyone really believe the behavior wasn't coached? The league's statement completely ignores the fact that Sanders got a sudden cramp only after it was obvious that quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was mildly shaken up, and that if Roethlisberger hadn't been able to continue, he'd have to leave the field for at least one play, which also happened to be a third down. (Alternatively, the Steelers would have had to burn a time out.)
That suggests the existence of coordination that comes either from Roethlisberger telling Sanders to take a knee, or the coaching staff conveying that message to Roethlisberger.
So the league accepted the Steelers' claim that the tactic wasn't coached, and they rejected Sanders' claim that he was actually injured.
Maybe Sanders didn't get punished for lying to the league due to concerns that, at some point, he would have explained he was merely doing what he was told to do — from faking the injury to lying about it.


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26th Annual Police Memorial Service honoring Fallen Police Officers.
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Sigmoidoscopy is a procedure used to see inside the sigmoid colon and rectum. The sigmoid colon is the area of the large intestine nearest the rectum.
Alternative Names
Flexible sigmoidoscopy; Sigmoidoscopy – flexible; Proctoscopy; Proctosigmoidoscopy; Rigid sigmoidoscopy
How the Test is Performed
During the test:
- You lie on your left side with your knees drawn up to your chest.
- The doctor gently places a gloved and lubricated finger into your rectum to check for blockage and gently enlarge (dilate) the anus. This is called a digital rectal exam.
- Next, the sigmoidoscope is placed through the anus. The scope is a flexible tube with a camera at its end. The scope is gently moved into your colon. Air is inserted into the colon to enlarge the area and help the doctor view the area better. The air may cause the urge to have a bowel movement or pass gas. Suction may be used to remove fluid or stool.
- The doctor may take tissue samples with a tiny
biopsytool inserted through the scope. Heat (electrocautery) may be used to remove polyps. Photos of the inside of your colon may be taken.
Sigmoidoscopy using a rigid scope may be done to treat problems of the anus or rectum.
How to Prepare for the Test
Your doctor or nurse will tell you how to prepare for the exam. You will use an enema to empty your bowels. This is usually done 1 hour before the sigmoidoscopy.
On the morning of the procedure, eat a light breakfast.
How the Test will Feel
During the exam you may feel:
- Pressure during the digital rectal exam or when the scope is placed in your rectum
- The need to have a bowel movement
- Some bloating or cramping caused by the air or by stretching of the bowel by the sigmoidoscope
After the test, your body will pass the air that was put into your colon.
Children may be given medicine to make them sleep lightly (sedated) for this procedure.
Why the Test is Performed
Your doctor may recommend this test to look for the cause of:
Abdominal pain
Diarrhea, constipation, or other changes in bowel habits
Blood, mucus, or pus in the stool
This test can also be used to:
- Confirm findings of another test or x-rays
Screenfor colorectal cancer or polyps
- Take a biopsy of a growth
Normal Results
A normal test result will show no problems with the color, texture, and size of the lining of the sigmoid colon, rectal mucosa, rectum, and anus.
What Abnormal Results Mean
Abnormal results can indicate:
Anal fissures Anorectal abscess
- Blockage of the large intestine (
Hirschsprung disease) Cancer Colorectal polyps
- Diverticulosis (abnormal pouches on the lining of the intestines)
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Inflammation or infection (
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At least two groups are making progress.
Computer Program Recognizes Any Language
New technology that allows computers to recognise any language without pre-learning stands to revolutionise automatic speech recognition.
...Professor Torbjørn Svendsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and fellow research colleagues have been testing an innovative approach to creating next-generation speech recognition technology.
The next step for the Norwegian researchers is to develop a language-independent module for use in designing competitive speech recognition products.
Microsoft Is Developing A Universal Translator. Yes, That Thing Fro...
According to Technology Review, a Microsoft researcher is close to creating a real one. "In a demonstration at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, campus on Tuesday, Microsoft research scientist Frank Soong showed how his software could read out text in Spanish using the voice of his boss, Rick Rashid, who leads Microsoft's research efforts," they reported. "In a second demonstration, Soong used his software to grant Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, the ability to speak Mandarin."
The website has sound files on Soong's demonstration and they're pretty impressive. "In English, a synthetic version of Mundie's voice welcomed the audience to an open day held by Microsoft Research, concluding, 'With the help of this system, now I can speak Mandarin.' The phrase was repeated in Mandarin Chinese, in what was still recognizably Mundie's voice," wrote TR.
Soon has been developing the universal translator technology with fellow colleagues from Microsoft Research Asia...
The system can read text in an individuals own voice with about an hour of training, similar to dictation software years ago. As of right now, the technology can translate between any pair of 26 languages.
"The word is just one part of what a person is saying," says Shrikanth Narayanan, "Preserving voice, preserving intonation, those things matter, and this project clearly knows that. Our systems need to capture the expression a person is trying to convey, who they are, and how they're saying it."
Microsoft's universal translator (they aren't actually calling it that) is still being perfected so there's no date yet as to when it would be available for public consumption.
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With Google Translate as available and facile as it is, and with voice and speech recognition a regular feature on many smart phones, I suppose it's not too surprising to see the integration of those two technologies plus some additional tweaks give rise to one of Star Trek's favorite toys. I would be concerned about mistranslation and pattern recognition failures (which I see happen here and there), but this is yet one more powerful technology which Star Trek suggested and which has come to fruition two centuries earlier than that show predicted.
The Transporter, however, is liable to be a very different matter!
Photons don't count, right?
Photons are ONE thing. PROTONS are quite another ... as is the whole business of E=MC2. Transporting ANYTHING, never mind a human, you're dealing with a whole lot of matter, which means ALL that matter has to be converted to one HELL of a lot of energy, moved in a coherent fashion to some other location, then PRECISELY reassembled, right down to the last atom.
Lawrence Krauss dealt with this issue in his book, The Physics of Star Trek. A fun read and well worth your time.
That would be so awesome!
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TSU Has Strong Showing at Baskin Weems Relays
Columbia, S.C. – The Tennessee State men's and women's track teams competed against 29 opponents in Saturday's Baskin Weems Relays and secured 12 top-five finishes.
In the field events, Ashontae Jackson won the women's long jump with a leap of 5.52 meters, which was nearly half a meter farther than the competition.
The Tigerbelles also performed well in the triple jump as Ja'Lyn Burr and Felicia Oladakun placed second and fourth, respectively, with hops of 11.4 and 11.33 meters.
Angel Davis was another standout performer for TSU, as the freshman had the second-longest discus toss of the day at 38.99 meters.
For the Flying Tigers, Jason Griffin cracked the top-five in the 110-meter hurdles by placing fourth with a final time of 15.18 seconds.
In the men's high jump, Tennessee State dominated the competition as Daryl Rice won the event with a leap of two meters and Sean Jenkins took second with a jump of 1.95 meters.
The Flying Tigers were nearly just as successful in the long jump as Tyler Anderson won the event with a final of 6.71 meters. Teammate Royce Dates leapt 6.46 meters, which was good enough for fifth place.
Anderson also finished fifth in the triple jump, skipping 13.53 meters.
In the track events, Quanisha Sales placed third in the women's 200-meter dash with a time of 25.52 seconds. She then paired with Jackson, Clairwin Dameus and Diera Taylor to take home second in the 4x100 meter relay.
Oteia Prince also finished second in the women's 3000-meter steeplechase, completing the event in 10:29.35.
TSU will take a weekend off of competitions to prepare for the Pepsi- Florida Relays in Gainesville, Fla. on April 5.
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