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CINCINNATI -- This is one way to erase any and every memory of a seven-game skid.
Just let the bats do the venting. Again.View Full Game Coverage
CINCINNATI -- This is one way to erase any and every memory of a seven-game skid.
Just let the bats do the venting. Again.View Full Game Coverage
During their seven-game skid, which allowed Pittsburgh to seize the top spot in the National League Central, the Cardinals totaled only 10 runs. They exploded for 13 runs in a slump-busting thumping of the Pirates on Thursday and they matched that mark on Friday at Great American Ball Park, where they walloped the Reds, 13-3.
The win inched the Cardinals to within a half-game of the Pirates in the battle for the division crown.
Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said Friday afternoon that his players never submitted to the emotional drain forced upon them by the losing streak, though he admitted that Thursday's win provided them a significant sense of relief. Friday's drubbing was doubly enjoyable.
After a pair of convincing victories, the Cardinals appear to be more than back on track.
"Being able to go through what we went through and being able to win the last two games," said right fielder Carlos Beltran, "[is] huge for us."
St. Louis pieced together three innings of three or more runs in the series opener in Cincinnati. The Cardinals pounced for four in the first, thanks in large part to a three-run double by David Freese.
"That was huge," Beltran said. "That really dictated the whole game right there."
Jon Jay followed with an RBI single and Allen Craig plated another run with a two-out single in the second to push the lead to 5-0. Craig, who leads the Majors with a .476 average (50-for-105) with runners in scoring position, went 2-for-2 in such situations on Friday.
"With a lineup like this, when you give up four in the first inning, as good as they can be and as much as they grind at-bats, it's very difficult to kind of keep those guys down," said Reds hurler Bronson Arroyo, who only lasted 3 2/3 innings. "Because when they get momentum going, they really start to turn the heat up on you."
St. Louis poured on four more runs in the fourth. Reds pitchers issued a trio of two-out walks, the latter two pushing home a run each. Jay capped the frame with a two-run double.
Arroyo surrendered seven runs on eight hits, including three to Beltran, who upped his career average against the veteran to .400 (14-for-35).
"It's usually feast or famine with these guys," Arroyo said. "They got a good ballclub, and they just beat me around the ballpark today."
The Cardinals extended their advantage to 12-0 in the fifth, as Daniel Descalso opened the inning with a home run and Craig followed with a two-run shot four batters later. Descalso logged his first career multi-homer game, as he led off the seventh with a line drive into the visiting bullpen.
Shelby Miller had all of the backing he needed before he dug his cleats into the dirt in the center of the diamond. The rookie right-hander surrendered a single to the first batter he encountered, Shin-Soo Choo, but proceeded to tally eight strikeouts while not yielding another hit until the fifth.
Miller ran into trouble in the sixth as he served up a three-run homer to Joey Votto, and departed the contest before he could record another out. By then, though, the Cardinals had produced enough offensive output to keep the intrigue to a minimum.
"It was my own fault, just kind of letting off the gas pedal," Miller said. "Figuring I already had this game, I was going to go deep into the game. I already had it figured out and I stopped executing pitches and I think that was the killer for me tonight."
The Cardinals' patience proved killer for the Reds. Cincinnati skipper Dusty Baker lamented the fact that he used all but two of his relievers, as his bullpen awarded St. Louis batters seven walks over 5 1/3 innings.
Matheny, on the other hand, praised his pitching staff, which held the Reds' lineup to six hits. Miller said he had "some of the best stuff" he has possessed on the mound all season, a campaign in which the 22-year-old has racked up 11 wins while averaging more than a strikeout per inning.
It was the offense, however, that contributed most heavily to the club's recent woes. Those troubles now seem to be but a distant memory.
"It was frustrating there for a few days," Matheny said. "It's good to see some energy. The results really keep the confidence going and hopefully we can ride it for a while."
Zack Meisel is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @zackmeisel.


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St. Patrick's Day brings out baseball's truest color
"I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun."
-Bart Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind"
Happy St. Patrick's Day. It is a big day in baseball, where the fields are green and the game lasts forever. It is a day as big as the Green Monstah and Phillie Phanatic, and let's begin the festivities by introducing a few players around Spring Training fields now:
"I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun."
-Bart Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind"
Happy St. Patrick's Day. It is a big day in baseball, where the fields are green and the game lasts forever. It is a day as big as the Green Monstah and Phillie Phanatic, and let's begin the festivities by introducing a few players around Spring Training fields now:
• Outfielders Grant Green of the A's and Tyler Green of the Astros are intent on breaking camp with their parent clubs. Brewers third baseman Taylor Green is back with his club after playing for Canada in the World Baseball Classic.
• There's second baseman Nick Green and pitcher Shane Green, non-roster invitees with the Marlins and Yankees, respectively. There's second baseman Brodie Green, a Minor Leaguer in Reds camp.
• Prospects include Chris Green (Orioles), Cole Green (Reds), Dean Green (Tigers), Tyler Green (D-backs), Zach Green (Phillies), Justin Greene (White Sox), Larry Greene (Phillies), Tyler Greene (Phillies), Shaq Green-Thompson (Red Sox), Bo Greenwell (Indians) and Nick Greenwood (Cardinals).
• Remember Adam Greenberg's at-bat -- seven years in the making -- last Oct. 2 for the Marlins? Read our story by Tom Green -- naturally.
Green, green, green. It is the gorgeous hue of seats people will fill for the next All-Star Game at Citi Field. It is that bright lime flavor inside Marlins Park. It is Green Collar Baseball in Oakland.
It is the color you will see Major Leaguers and fans alike wearing on Sunday, per tradition.
St. Patrick's Day has become so big in baseball, it lives on after the games are done. Take Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Fla., where it is Go Green Day. Orioles split-squad players will wear green cartoon bird caps at both games.
You can bid on those game-worn and autographed caps in an MLB.com auction. Proceeds benefit Mote Marine Laboratory Animal Hospitals in the area.
You can also save a lot of green by ordering St. Paddy's gear before the end of the month. Fans have been stocking up on the holiday looks -- ranging from the Braves Women's Tri-Natural Tee from 5th & Ocean to the Rockies Kelly Green Signature Hooded Sweatshirt to the Mariners Webster Clean Up Adjustable Cap from '47 Brand.
We love the green ivy of Wrigley. We wonder if we will see that ivy change in late autumn, like it did 10 years ago, when it appeared the Cubs might end the longest and most perplexing drought in sports.
It's the green light for Billy Hamilton on base. The Reds prospect smashed the professional baseball record with 155 steals last year.
We love a green batter's eye in center field, and we find ourselves looking at it from a seat at the ballpark because we clicked a one of those little green boxes with the letter "T" inside it, found on every team's schedule page on MLB.com.
(That seat was green if you were in Comerica Park as last season ended.)
Maybe it will end there again. The Tigers are supposedly World Series contenders again. While we wait to see, we drift back in time to appreciate a Tigers legend. The new book "Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes" is authored by John Rosengren and depicts how one of the most revered and sometimes controversial symbols of Jewish-American identity triumphed over adversity, served 47 months in the military during World War II and remains a lasting portrait of integrity.
Green is the color of the great outdoor game. The interminable winter is winding down, revealing the lush greenery that forms our backdrop as we listen to an Astros game in the American League or a Stephen Strasburg start in the nation's capital. Baseball will soon be back in full bloom -- two weeks from St. Patrick's Day is Rangers at Astros on ESPN.
St. Patrick's Day is a lot more than green. It is named after Saint Patrick (AD 385-461), the most commonly recognized of the patron saints of Ireland. It is a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Newfoundland, Labrador and Montserrat.
Baseball fans made it even more fun. We can thank Tug McGraw for that, after he waltzed out onto the field one day in a green uni. An ump promptly sent him back, but the fashion statement was made: Everyone wears some green.
And how can we not mention MLB.com/green? That kind of green thinking is 365 days a year.
Green is the color we can't do without as baseball fans. It is a visit to a child in the stands from Pirate Parrot sometime in June, a photo with Wally the Green Monster when the kids are out of school. It is the slow roller over perfectly manicured blades of real grass that leaves stains and memories of a lifetime.
Soon enough, as Giamatti wrote, we are "counting on the game's deep patterns, three strikes, three outs, three times three innings, and its deepest impulse, to go out and back, to leave and to return home, to set the order of the day and to organize the daylight."
Mark Newman is enterprise editor of MLB.com. Read and join other baseball fans on his MLB.com community blog.

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Mayor Don Wesely today helped unveil a new larger than life-size bronze elk sculpture at the north entrance to Pioneers Park. The Mayor was joined by sculptor Rich Haines, Parks and Recreation Director Lynn Johnson and donor Angeleen Stransky. Mrs. Stransky and her late husband Leonard, a prominent Lincoln grocer and businessman, donated $111,000 for the sculpture as part of a 1994 gift totaling more than $1 million to the Parks and Recreation Department.
"Mr. and Mrs. Stransky developed a great love for Lincoln and its parks, and all of us in the city are very fortunate that they chose to donate to our community," said Mayor Wesely. "This beautiful sculpture is just one of the ways the Stransky family legacy will live in our community for many years."
"The original design for Pioneer's Park included a sculpture on the north entrance to complement the buffalo sculpture at the east entrance," said Johnson. "This outstanding addition to one of our most popular parks is a project we could not have completed without the generosity of the Stransky family."
Johnson said the couple also wanted to give the citizens of Lincoln a special park. As a result of their gift, Stransky Park at South 17th and Harrison streets will be enhanced with a naturalized stone fountain, a gazebo, a toddler playground and landscaping. The improvements are expected to cost more than $500,000, and an endowment was also provided for maintenance. The park improvements will be dedicated in the summer of 2002.
In addition to the grocery business, Leonard Stransky was also involved in real estate and other investments. He died in March 1998. Mr. and Mrs. Stransky's other donations have included $100,000 to the Capital Humane Society; $100,000 for a scholarship at UNL; and $100,000 for the building fund at Milligan High School, Mrs. Stransky's alma mater.
The sculptor, Haines, was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and has galleries in Jackson, Wyoming
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- This week's featured article is Ambulance which details the main casualty-carrying vehicle in Grand Theft Auto games, as well as Paramedic missions
The Ambulance hasn't evolved much during the Grand Theft Auto series. It has appeared in every GTA game except Grand Theft Auto 2, where a paramedic car is featured instead, called the Medicar. You can be sure to find an ambulance at the nearest hospital. If multiple people are killed an ambulance will arrive and two paramedics will get out and attempt to revive the wounded. Typically if paramedics are killed it creates more police attention than other civilians.
Paramedic missions can be toggled on or off when in the ambulance in all GTA III-era games. These require the player to find, pick up and deliver patients to the hospital within a time limit. With every level comes another patient to deliver, increasing the difficulty. Usually when the player beats level 12 the mission is complete (but can be carried on and replayed later) and a reward is achieved, e.g. infinite sprint or extra health.
If the ambulance is left during the mission the player has failed and must restart from level one, similarly if they kill the patient or run out of time. Three patients can be carried in an ambulance at any one time.


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Stones River is the better of the two. It is just a swap meet. I will be set up at this one. If you decide to go to this one feel free to stop by and look or buy some of my junk; and that goes for everyone. Ill be at the corner were the large canvas tunnel is located. See map. There will be a couple others at this one as well. Last year was a little weaker than ones in the past but all 4 buildings will have parts and then there will be outside spots as well. This is a one day only. Sunday.


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Former Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, Sheriff's Deputy Indicted for Civil Rights, Bank Fraud, Computer Fraud, Aggravated Identity Theft and Obstruction of Justice Violations
An indictment against former Jefferson Parish, La., Sheriff's Deputy Mark Hebert, 48, was announced today by Roy L. Austin Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division; Dana J. Boente, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Michael J. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI New Orleans Field Office; and Sheriff Newell Normand from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.
According to the indictment, Hebert engaged in a scheme to defraud J.P. Morgan Chase Bank from Aug. 2, 2007, until Nov. 21, 2007. The scheme began when Hebert, in his capacity as a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Deputy, responded to an automobile accident involving Albert Bloch and stole, among other things, Bloch's Visa debit card. The indictment alleges that Hebert then used that debit card to make unauthorized purchases of merchandise and to withdraw funds from Bloch's Chase Bank account using ATMs. After Chase Bank cancelled the debit card due to Bloch filing a dispute with the bank, Hebert continued his scheme to defraud by negotiating and attempting to negotiate forged checks drawn on Bloch's Chase Bank account. It is also alleged that Hebert obtained the replacement debit card that Chase Bank sent to Bloch and used that card to make unauthorized transactions at ATMs.
The indictment charges that Hebert, while acting under color of law, deprived Bloch of his constitutional rights by seizing and converting funds that Bloch had on deposit with Chase Bank. In addition, the indictment alleges that Hebert committed 48 counts of bank fraud from Aug. 2, 2007, to Nov. 21, 2007. The indictment also charges Hebert with four counts of computer fraud for accessing the National Crime Information Center to obtain non-public information about Bloch in furtherance of his scheme to defraud. Furthermore, Hebert is charged with two counts of aggravated identity theft for using a means of identification of Bloch during, and in relation to, the bank fraud violations. Finally, Hebert is charged with five counts of obstruction of justice for knowingly concealing and covering up physical evidence with the intent to impede any investigation into the underlying criminal allegations against Hebert.
For each of the 48 counts of bank fraud, Hebert faces a statutory maximum term of imprisonment of 30 years . For each of the five counts of obstruction of justice, Hebert faces a statutory maximum term of 20 years in prison. For each of the four counts of computer fraud, Hebert faces a statutory maximum term of five years in prison. For each of the two counts of aggravated identity theft, Hebert faces a term of two years in prison. For the count charging a civil rights violation, Hebert faces a statutory maximum penalty of one year in prison .
An indictment is merely a charge and the defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
The investigation was conducted by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Detective's Bureau and the FBI. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Parker and Civil Rights Division Trial Attorney Shan Patel.


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most influential leaders and thinkers. Click on the videos below to watch the interviews:
Australian Broker speaks to AMAs 2013 winner Wayne Macartney of Loanworks Technologies who believes that brokers must focus on how technology can really help their business.
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Wayne Macartney, Manager, Loanworks Technologies
Wayne Macartney: You can get out there and you can get lost in things that at the end of the day aren't going to make a difference to your business. I think it's really a challenge to look at technology, look at strategy and then make sure that you are lining up so that technology is actually driving your strategy.
I think that the most significant changes have probably already occurred. I think what we are seeing at the moment is, people getting to a level of technology where any benefits are incremental and it's more about leveraging that technology and getting value from it. I think it's no different than other software that you buy. You probably are out of the box, using that 5% or 20% or 10%, you know a small percentage of features set. It's really about getting down into the next level of feature setting, getting the people on board so your whole organisation is leveraging it. One of the blockages we see quite often is you know perhaps some of these sales guys, you know how many sales myself you know, the last thing you want to do is, be tied to a piece of software. But rather than explore the feature set of the software that is in front of them, you know it's a knee jerk reaction, so we need a basic kit that does blah and then there is a knee jerk kind of reaction to that. So I think getting software fully rolled out and fully embedded in and fully exploring the value of the software you've got is a first step. If it's not doing it for you then, then certainly there is an opportunity to look and see what else is out there. I am not a big fan of technology for technology's sake. Having said that, we are seeing now I think the next generation coming through that are more, most probably called digital natives, they just think, get technology in a different way and I think that will drive the next evolution.
In terms of things to watch, I mean part of it is more looking at the opportunities that are coming up or the threats in a business context and then looking at how your technology maps to that. So for instance 2014 comprehensive credit reporting is coming in, what does that mean, what does that mean for my processes, what does that mean for my software. I guess it's a question of just seeing what's out there in the environment, keeping an eye on it, you don't always want to be an early adopter, maybe let someone else make your mistakes, I think the buzz word at the moment is maybe a fast follower, we look at what other people are doing, you learn from that and then you make your own decisions.


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Horrible. Almost got into a fight watching the super bowl with some thug that just lost $ and was looking to throw for no reason. I was too drunk to even know why I was at IP to begin with, but I know I didnt do anything to piss the guy off, next thing I know some white kid and his posse of friends wanted to fight with me and my wife. Security was no where to be seen for a good 5 minutes till I just told my wife to start walking towards the exit.
I will never ever set foot in that place again. I learned a valuable lesson that trip, stick to the upscale casinos at all times, it might cost a bit more but its safety. I dont give a darn if you are jackie chan, you cant do anything about 10 guys that want to kill you.
Slumming sounds like fun till you are rolling around with a ferw dimes in your pocket and some gang that sees you as a mark.
there motto should be we cater to scum, but dollar loan center has that marketing slogan.
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as a diamond member got room for very cheap with balcony on top floor great view of strip and sunrise over mountains and ceasars....nice smoking spot on balcony,,,,room clean nice flat screen few channel but has sports.....hash house is great....great casino connected to IP at harrahs.....nice small sportsbook and tons of toable games....world class poker at venetian very short walk....
lots of construction so noisy and old air unit but quiet.....
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Why Would Israel Downsize Its Military Arsenal?
Josh Mitnick explains why the Israeli is downsizing and revamping its conventional arsenal while increasing its technological prowess. Photo: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 104 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
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Our school colors are black, gold, and red so we will be using the "cardinal" colored shirts provided by the manufacteurer, "Next Level Apparel" since it is the color closest to Red . Other shirt color recommendations will be accepted however we prefer the "cardinal" color.
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- Walk on Water / Drive on Water [Page Up / Page Down Off]
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Developer Interviews
Tonight we will take a look at two interviews, Cory Stockton (Lead Content Designer) at WarcraftPets and Dave Kosak (Lead Quest Designer) at the Darkmoon Herald. A summary of the main points is below, but listening to the full interview is worth it if you want to hear the full answers!
- The large number of pets added in Patch 5.1 was a reaction to the gaps in pet levels and families, such as the Mechanical, Dragonkin, and Undead pets. It is unlikely that we will see that many added in any of the future Mists of Pandaria patches.
- The Pet Battle system worked out really well and feels like it is part of WoW, rather than a tacked on minigame. Players have given overwhelmingly positive feedback.
- Account Wide Quests and Achievements had some issues that made the experience less smooth than they would have liked, but that is the side effect of all the new tech that went in to the system.
- More than half of the population in WoW has at least tried Pet Battles.
- Pets don't get as much balancing as classes do for PvP.
- Pet battles were designed to be fun, but simple. The tooltips and other information were added to make it easier for players to take part without needing to spend a lot of time learning about pet battles first.
- Anyone on the team can come up with a pet and create it, then work with the pet battle group to make it into a battle pet.
- The internal editor tool is made more for creating content and not looking up information, so fansites are helpful for looking up things, even for the devs!
- One of the early ideas for a new pet system was a dog collecting system. It would allow you to collect different types of dogs and teach them tricks.
Future Pet Changes
- More dog pets are coming in the future when they feel appropriate, most likely as achievement rewards.
- There are no current plans for releasing Pet Battles as a mobile game, but it is something that has been talked about. Currently the system is being polished and observed in the main game to figure out where to go next with it. Creating a mobile version would be a very large amount of work and a commitment that requires some serious consideration.
- Pets will be upgradeable to Epic quality in the future when it feels like an appropriate time.
- Pets have a breed and gender id in case Blizzard wants to use them in the future, but there are no current plans to use them.
- Similar pets may get new models in the future. For example, all of the frog pets currently share the same model with different skins, but in the future more frog models could be added.
- Trading Wild Pets is definitely a possibility for the future, but the game didn't feel ready for it in Patch 5.1. There are a lot of people still collecting pets and working on building up their teams. Allowing players to trade wild pets will reduce that excitement.
- It is possible that a few wild pets will be tradeable in Patch 5.2 and then further changes will be decided upon after that.
- Something being worked on for Patch 5.2 or later is wild pets that are like a boss. When encountering them, they would be bigger than normal pets, and you would only fight them, but they would be much stronger than a normal pet. There may be an achievement for defeating all of the "boss" pets in the world, similar to Glorious! that rewards a unique pet.
- When creating the quests for a zone the main storyline of a zone is the first thing decided upon. Then the individual quest designers have some more freedom to further the story through the quests they create for that part of the zone.
- Li Li's Day Off will let Li Li follow you all over Valley of the Four Winds and Krasarang Wilds providing some commentary.
- The quests or things added by the Make a Wish children are really important to Blizzard. One recent example is Owen's Wishing Well. You can read his story here.
- Phasing was utilized less this time around, only for the major events. This helped to keep players together, which was a problem in Cataclysm.
- Blizzard tries not to change quests unless they are really broken. Instead they are used as a learning experience.
- Players who don't read quest text are taken into account when designing quests. You should be able to have a general idea of what is going on when questing through the gameplay, even without reading the quests.
- The Golden Lotus quests starting at the same hub every day didn't feel fun, but the Tiller's questline did turn out well.
- Daily quests are mainly designed for people that enjoy solo progression and don't want to raid, giving them a way to advance their character. Unfortunately the daily quests felt mandatory for some players, causing them to try and do all of the quests every day. This continued until the players realized that they wouldn't earn enough Valor Points to buy everything they were earning access to.
- A class quest for every class would have reduced the number of zones in Pandaria by at least one due to all of the time it would have taken to create that content.
- The feedback for opening more of the Patch 5.1 quest line based on your reputation level has been generally positive after players understood how it worked.
Future Questing
- Questing in Patch 5.2 will use more space so that players are not bumping in to each other and constantly fighting each other for mobs. (Avoiding Fatty Goatsteak)
- In the future, the rewards from daily quests will be adjusted to make them feel less required to the hardcore raiders who aren't interested in them.
- The increased reputation leveling speed after Revered was a good step towards making the reputations more alt friendly, but it still could use some work.
- Patch 5.1 has brought back some World PvP in the new questing area.
Trinket Burst Damage Adjustments
World PvP Feedback
Blue Posts
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SWTOR Free to Play Changes
The SWTOR team recognized that some of the free to play restrictions were too much, so they relaxed a few.
Originally Posted by SWTORWhen Game Update 1.5 hit Public Test Server (PTS), we listened to your concerns and we increased Quickbars from one to two for Free-to-Play Players, increased Warzones from three to five per week, and reduced the temporary bind on Cartel Market items.
We want you to know that this is an ongoing dialogue. Recently, we've seen your feedback on some of the other aspects of our Free-to-Play option and once again, we are working to improve the experience for all of our players.
Starting today, Preferred Status Players will see an increase to their default Quickbars from two (2) to four (4). If you've already purchased additional Quickbars, don't worry: we will be refunding your Cartel Coins for any Quickbar-related purchase.
Additionally, in an upcoming patch (no exact date yet, but players won't have to wait long), Preferred Status Players will be given four (4) additional character slots, which means that they will have a total of six character slots. As always, Free-to-Play Players can reach Preferred Status simply by purchasing anything from our online store or purchasing a physical copy of the game.
Last but not least, I wanted to share the news that the 50 character limit on Global Active Characters for Subscribers will be removed and increased substantially in the same, aforementioned patch. If you wanted to, you can truly create your own army of Troopers or a legion of Sith Warriors.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (Oct. 16, 2013) – Emerging from a pool of some of the nation's most outstanding student-athletes, ETSU senior midfielder Itode Fubara (Ogbema, Nigeria) has been selected as one of ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award. Fubara becomes the first player in program history to reach the final stage of voting for the award, one of the most prestigious awards in college athletics.
An acronym for "Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®," the Senior CLASS Award honors the attributes of NCAA Division I senior student-athletes in four areas: community, classroom, character, and competition. Learn more about the award here.
Growing up in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, as one of twelve children, Fubara dreamt of attaining a collegiate scholarship while playing soccer. Since arriving at ETSU in 2010, Fubara has made the most of his opportunity in Johnson City, excelling both on and off the field.
Aside from helping lead the Buccaneers to three consecutive seasons with 10 or more victories, including four wins over Top 25 opponents, Fubara has been an active member of the Johnson City community. The Ogbema, Nigeria, native has volunteered extensively with several local schools and youth organizations, including Town Acres Elementary School, the Hispanic-American Student Community Alliance, and 'Sports 4 All.'
Fubara, the 2010 Atlantic Sun Freshman of the Year, is the only ETSU player to ever eclipse the 6,000 minutes-played mark. The senior midfielder has twice been named to the All-Atlantic Sun First Team and ranks second in program history for career assists (12) and fourth for career goals (8).
Having earned conference All-Academic honors each of his first three seasons at ETSU, Fubara has helped the Bucs win consecutive NSCAA Team Academic Awards in 2011 and 2012.
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MONKTON — The Monkton selectboard unanimously approved a memorandum of understanding with Vermont Gas Systems at a hastily scheduled special meeting on Wednesday night. The board had rejected an earlier draft of the agreement in a 3-2 decision just nine days earlier.
MONKTON — Nine teachers at the Monkton Central School have chosen to leave the school, according to Monkton Central parents and the school's May newsletter. Along with an administrative decision not to rehire a 10th, that would shrink the elementary school's 18-person faculty by over 50 percent.
VERGENNES — Vergennes Union High School celebrated the many achievements of the 111 members of the class of 2013 in a moving commencement ceremony this past Friday evening at the high school gymnasium.
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BRISTOL — Last week's cleaning of the septic system on the Bristol Recreation Field raised eyebrows when workers found many condoms and what town officials were told were at least five hypodermic needles in waste pumped from a separate tank belonging to the Hub Teen Center.
Workers informed Recreation Club officials, who in turn brought the findings to town administrator Bill Bryant, the recreation department, the police department and the staff of the Hub.
The Recreation Club also wrote a letter asking Hub officials to address the situation.
BRISTOL — This Saturday beginning at 8 p.m., Smart Growth for Bristol will host a community storytelling event in Holley Hall modeled after the Moth Radio Hour, a popular weekly show heard on National Public Radio in which regular people tell stories from their lives.
The Moth's storytelling model has each storyteller speak without notes, a strategy that often results in a variety of stories that range from tragic to hysterically funny, according to event organizer and Smart Growth member Caroline Engvall.
LINCOLN — Fifteen years ago this month, on a stormy Saturday, the waters of the New Haven River rose dramatically and washed over the center of Lincoln village, including Burnham Hall. The lower levels, which housed the town library, were completely flooded.
ADDISON COUNTY — Berry growers across New England are on high alert for a new invasive insect species this year.
"We've been hearing all about it for the last few years," said Jon Satz, whose Wood's Market Garden in Brandon sells berries, along with many other vegetables, herbs and flowers.
BRISTOL/VERGENNES — Local schools will be out for the summer this week, but in community centers and summer camp programs across the northern half of Addison County, the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union Food Co-op will be hard at work providing free, healthy lunches to children for the third year running.
BRISTOL — After all the caps fly into the air at Mount Abraham Union High School this Saturday, the members of its graduating senior class will scatter to various locations in pursuit of jobs, travel or further education.
One will travel farther than most. Jan Liegmann, Mount Abe's only exchange student this year, will be returning to his home country of Switzerland in June.
MONKTON — Once again, it's back to the drawing board for Vermont Gas Systems and the town of Monkton.
After several hours of impassioned discussion at a special meeting on Monday night, Monkton's selectboard rejected a Memorandum of Understanding negotiated between VGS officials and Monkton Selectmen John Phillips and Stephen Pilcher by a 3-2 vote, with Phillips and Pilcher dissenting. Around 70 citizens attended the meeting.
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Another day, another putrid offensive performance, another loss.
I know, I know, the bullpen blew it in the 7th inning but when the offense continues to score three runs or less, you put tremendous pressure on a pitching staff to be letter perfect, and that's not possible. The Sox offense is giving the pitching staff no room for error. None, nada, nyet.
10 more strikeouts today...five lousy hits.
That's nine losses in the last 12 games.
For the season the Sox have now scored three runs or less in 50% (9 of 18) of their games.
For the season the Sox are now 17-100 with RISP (.170 worst in the A.L.)
The only solace I can find is what the guy in the Sun-Times wrote this morning (paraphrasing) "It's hard to judge the Sox right now because they've played half their games in football weather..."
But honestly I don't see this bunch getting any better (or much better) even when the temperature hits 95.
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My son is allergic to dairy, corn, and soy (among other things). Many of the milk-substitutes on the market contain xanthan gum, which is usually derived from corn. It is used to bind, thicken and integrate ingredients. Soy Lecithin is often used as an emulsifier to prevent ingredients from separating.
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NWSB Insider and Seattle Storm blogger Ben Tole reports on the great WNBA playoff game last night. After forcing two extra periods with late 3-pointers, the Seattle Storm grabbed the momentum. Sue Bird scored 22 points, including two 3-pointers in the second overtime, and the Storm beat the Minnesota Lynx 86-79. They forced a deciding Game 3 in their Western Conference semifinal series.
Seattle Storm stay alive with miraculous double OT win
Seattle Storm set to take on defending champs in Western Conference Semi-Finals
Seattle Storm Playoff Preview The Seattle Storm completed the roller coaster that was the 2012 regular season on Sunday with a convincing 71-57 victory over the Phoenix Mercury. Now the team will set its sights on the defending WNBA champion Minnesota Lynx in the first round of the 2012 WNBA Playoffs. The Storm finished the season […]
Storm Roundup: Seattle builds momentum for strong second half
NWSB Insider and Seattle Storm blogger Ben Tole fills us all in on the Seattle Storm's final two games of the first half before the Olympic Break. Plus, get Ben's insight on how the Storm are in the perfect place at the perfect time to pounce on the rest of the Western Conference heading into the playoffs. With seven straight home games coming up, plus the return of Lauren Jackson, Ben thinks the WNBA Championship is within reach!
Seattle Storm bounce back for big win after loss in New York
NWSB Insider and Seattle Storm blogger Ben Tole tells us less then one month ago the Storm were sitting at 1-7 with the worst start in franchise history but after winning 6 of its last 7 games are sky rocketing in the power rankings and the Western Conference standings. After the Olympic break they will see the return of three time WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson.
Storm Roundup: Seattle stay hot and extend winning streak
NWSB Insider and Seattle Storm blogger Ben Tole tells us the Storm have realed off five consecutive wins boosting them to 6-7 on this season after a franchise worst 1-7 start. Last game out Tanisha Wright and Sue Bird made some clutch free throws in the final minute of the game to seal an 82-76 win.
Storm Roundup: Seattle win big game at home after tough road trip
NWSB Insider and Seattle Storm blogger Ben Tole tells us the Storm are still only 3-7 but got a much needed boost of confidence with the win against Minnesota Sunday and is hoping to carry that momentum into its two upcoming home games this week. The Storm will play the bulk of their home schedule and will get Lauren Jackson back into the lineup.
Seattle Storm have reason for optimism even with a 1-5 start
NWSB Insider and Seattle Storm blogger Ben Tole tells us to get our fingers off the panic button for the WNBA's Storm and their 1-5 early season record. 10 of the last 15 games are at home for the Storm, which is 33-3 at home since the beginning of the 2010 season. WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson will return after the Olympics. Good times are ahead Seattle.
Seattle Storm 2012 WNBA Schedule is Released
Jason Green one of our Seattle Storm bloggers today lets us know the Storm 2012 WNBA schedule was released this week, and this years ladies hoops season starts off with the Storm playing L.A. The Storm have high hopes this season and look to get back to the Finals, which they won in 2010. Lauren Jackson will be playing for the Australian national team shooting for gold in London.
WNBA News: Storm trade Swin Cash and Le'coe Willingham to Chicago
WNBA All-Star forward Swin Cash is moving from the Emerald City to the Windy City. Swin Cash, a three-time WNBA champion and four-time All-Star has been traded. It's the first blockbuster trade of the offseason, the Storm traded Cash, reserve forward Le'coe Willingham and a 2012 second-round draft pick to the Chicago Sky on Monday for the No. 2 overall pick in April's draft.
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Listen up Seattle Storm fans, we've got a good read here for you. Fun take by Jason Green as he weighs in with his top five Seattle Storm players in the great history of Seattle ladies basketball. Tanisha Wright, Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Lauren Jackson and Betty Lennox to name a few…


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Wanna Be Veep? Okay, but This Is Going to Hurt
For months, Mitt Romney's most trusted dirt-diggers have been scouring the secret histories of several Republicans—including punchy Chris Christie, sexy Marco Rubio, snoozy Rob Portman—as they jockey to be his running mate. It's veep-vetting season, and it's the most invasive process in politics. Just how squeamish does it get? We sent Jason Zengerle to one of Washington's top vetters to find out if he's got what it takes to be the next (God help us all) Sarah Palin
Less than an hour after I meet the vetter for the first time, he asks me if I've always been faithful to my wife. Next he wants to know if I've ever been accused of sexual harassment. And then whether I've ever paid for sex. Before long he's asking me about any past history I might have with sadomasochism. Internet-porn memberships? Sexting? We are on the top floor of an anonymous glass-and-steel office building in Washington, D.C.—the kind of place where, far more than the marble halls of Congress, the real business of America's capital gets done. The National Cathedral looms out the window over his shoulder. As he grills me about my sexual history, he does not dull the awkwardness by looking down at his desk and hiding in the papers in front of him. He stares me hard in the eye. So far, I've answered "yes" to the question about my fidelity and "no" to all of the other ones. I don't text much, and when I do, it's usually to my wife, checking on whose turn it is to pick up the kids at preschool. But he is far from done.
"Have you ever," he asks, "had a homosexual encounter?"
"Could a rogue IT guy have access to a sex tape or anything like that?"
He makes a check mark on his sheet of paper, and then there's a long pause. I start to think I'm finally out of the woods. But no, he has a follow-up, a loophole in his last question that needs closing. He looks right at me. "Is there a sex tape?"
No! No to all of it! I am dull as dirt! I'm a happily married dad with pitifully little to hide! So... Why am I so nervous? Why is my heart racing? Have I done something bad? Inquisitions, I'm discovering, are scary even when you're kind of a square.
Pugilistic New Jersey governor Chris Christie
The fallout from the Sarah Palin experiment has cast a long shadow over Mitt Romney's search this summer for a running mate. The list of candidates that his Boston team is rumored to be vetting—which includes Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, Ohio senator Rob Portman, and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty—does not feature any game changers, at least none on the order of Palin. In fact, the conventional wisdom around Washington is that Romney will go with an anti-Palin—or as one GOP official told Politico in May, an "incredibly boring white guy." The "white guy" part should be easy enough to verify. But when it comes to "incredibly boring," well, reckless people sometimes come in the dullest packages. Just ask Larry Craig. In this post-Palin season, the Romney campaign is surely conducting the most exhaustive vet in political history to make sure the boss's running mate is every bit as bland as advertised.
To get a sense of how it feels to have your life history poked, probed, and peeled back, GQ sent me to Washington so I could be put through the wringer myself. "You just have to know going in," former Indiana senator Evan Bayh told me, "that it's totally invasive. It's like having a colonoscopy, except they use the Hubble telescope on you." Until he retired from the Senate in 2010, Bayh was just the sort of bland yet ambitious Democrat who invariably wound up on vice presidential lists before invariably getting passed over for someone else. Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barack Obama all considered him; according to Obama's 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, Bayh lost out to Joe Biden on "a coin toss." (Biden's foreign-policy experience—which shored up a perceived liability for Obama—was widely seen as the difference maker.)
A few hours before my first meeting with my vetter, I visited Bayh at his K Street lobbying firm. He'd been through repeated vets, all for naught, so I figured he might have some expert advice for me. "There are some catchall questions at the very end," he warned, recalling something Obama put to him directly during their top-secret meeting at a St. Louis hotel. (Bayh rode the freight elevator to the room.) "He said, 'Look, they're talking to people I went to first grade with, so if there's anything about you that we haven't asked that's going to come out, you should tell me.' I said, 'Well, there are one or two things I should probably tell you about,' and I did." Bayh declined to share with me what he revealed to Obama, but it sounds like they weren't exactly smoking guns: "[Obama] said, 'That's it? Well, you haven't lived much of a life, have you?' "
The man who was conducting my vet, Ted Frank, built his career as an attorney defending automakers and pharmaceutical giants from product-liability suits. Now he represents consumers who are dissatisfied with class-action settlements. The next time a Republican takes the White House, he'll probably get an important Justice Department job, maybe even a federal judgeship. He is 43, has slicked-back hair, favors dark suits, and looks altogether like a member of the Federalist Society, which he is.
In April 2008, a colleague at his old law firm, O'Melveny Myers, asked Frank if he wanted to work on a sensitive matter: helping John McCain find a running mate. The firm's then chairman, A. B. Culvahouse Jr., had been tasked with the job and needed assistance. Along with a team of about thirty other lawyers, Frank spent the next five months poring over the private lives, voting records, and tax returns of Joe Lieberman and Sarah Palin, among others. He was now a veep vetter—one of a handful of dirt-diggers and interrogators who, every four years, help fill out the bottom half of presidential tickets.
And in short order, Frank would become a minor political celebrity as well: He was the author of what is surely the most infamous document in veep-vetting history—the forty-five-page report he produced on Palin, assembled over the course of forty-three frantic hours in August after she was added at the last minute to McCain's short list. If you've seen Game Change, the HBO movie about the Palin soap opera, Frank is played by Brian d'Arcy James, who doesn't have any speaking lines but does a very good job of looking so nervous and exhausted that he might puke.
Technically my vet—a junior-varsity version of the real thing—had already begun a few weeks before our first meeting, when Frank sent me a fifty-four-part biographical questionnaire. Most of the information required was reasonably mundane: my mother-in-law's birthday, my Selective Service number, a list of foreign countries I'd visited "other than for vacation or a governmental capacity." (Translation: Had I perhaps adopted a child and/or fomented a revolution in Honduras?) Of course, my questionnaire wasn't as extensive as the seventy-nine-part document Frank and his colleagues had sent to McCain's potential veeps four years ago. I'm not a politician, so I have no voting record to dissect or speeches to review. Also, as a journalist, my financial situation—unlike that of the average senator, whose net worth is around $2.5 million—is depressingly straightforward. Save for a few questions (like, say, number 31: "Have you ever used marijuana, cocaine, narcotics, hallucinogenics, or other illegal drugs? If yes, please identify the substance(s) used, the time period and frequency of use, and any other details you deem relevant...."), the questionnaire was more irritating to complete (do you remember your SAT scores?) than invasive.
The in-person meeting, on the other hand, is very different. It starts unobtrusively enough. "So you're the vice president, and the president is visiting Seoul," Frank begins, unspooling an elaborate scenario in which the president's hotel gets decimated by a car bomb, 200,000 North Korean troops cross the DMZ, and the Joint Chiefs urge me to take out Pyongyang with a tactical nuclear weapon. "Do you authorize the strike?" he asks, trying to get a sense of my political judgment (as much a part of the vet now as excavating secrets). I wonder if the question is also a reaction to Frank's Palin experience, recalling the scene in Game Change in which Palin reveals that she doesn't even know that there are two Koreas. But I push those thoughts aside and dodge the question by asking for more military options, trying to cover my fecklessness by name-dropping Seal Team Six. Next, Frank hits me with an easier hypothetical, about a deadlocked Senate and a Supreme Court nominee who appears to be against gay marriage. "Do you support the president and cast the tiebreaker in favor of the president's nominee?" he asks. Of course I do, I respond. _I'm a team player. The president can always count on me. _
As I field Frank's softballs—"What would your professors and classmates say about your performance at Swarthmore?"—I begin to think that maybe Bayh isn't just boring, he's also a wuss. Colonoscopy? Hubble telescope? Come on. This isn't so bad! In my head, I'm already measuring the hypothetical drapes in the hypothetical West Wing office I'll hypothetically demand when Frank's hypothetical boss begs me to be his hypothetical running mate.
But then Frank's questions take a sudden turn. We are no longer talking about my junior-year Gothic-art-and-architecture seminar. Now it's my sex life. And my drug history. And the lowest moments of my journalism career. "It's an intrusive process," Frank advised me at the outset, "but if you've lived a clean life, it won't be that embarrassing for either of us." Easy for him to say.
_Men Who Might've Behaved Badly
If you were vetting the politicians rumored to be on Mitt Romney's vice presidential short list, where would you start digging? Here's Ted Frank's take._
Chris Christie
_governor, New Jersey _
The Risk Area
Prosecutorial deal-making
"As a U.S. attorney, Christie negotiated at least one deferred agreement where a defendant gave money to Christie's alma mater and avoided criminal prosecution." Are there more?
John Thune
_U.S. senator, South Dakota _
The Risk Area
Religious affiliations
Though Frank believes it's probably harmless, he'd want to check into Thune's membership in "The Family," a secretive Christian influence group. Could spook independent voters.
Rob Portman
U.S. senator, Ohio
The Risk Area
Ties to Bush 43
He was Bush's budget director, and that name's still radioactive. Also, he worked for bare-knuckle lobbying firm Patton Boggs; "vetters will want to scrutinize his work there carefully."
Tim Pawlenty
_former governor, Minnesota _
The Risk Area
Attacks on Romney
Because he ran for president, Pawlenty "has given dozens of speeches where he might've spoken ill of Romney," so the boss's campaign "will need to prep for the inevitable viral videos."
Marco Rubio
U.S. senator, Florida
The Risk Area
Unproven policy chops
"Republicans without an Ivy League pedigree are presumed by the media to be of subpar intelligence," so it'll be crucial to know "how he'd respond to Palin-level scrutiny on policy minutiae."
Bobby Jindal
governor, Louisiana
The Risk Area
Faith-based extremism
Frank says Dems will pounce on an article Jindal once wrote for the New Oord Review about "spiritual warfare" and attending an exorcism. Also, he'd scrutinize Jindal's ties to trial lawyers.
"No skeletons rattling in your closet?"
With those six words, the process of selecting vice presidents changed forever, giving birth to an entire veep-vetting industry and, eventually, to multipart questions about sex tapes.
It was the afternoon of July 13, 1972—the last day of the Democratic National Convention—and Frank Mankiewicz, the political director for George McGovern's presidential campaign, was on the phone with Missouri senator Thomas Eagleton. Moments earlier, the party's newly minted nominee had placed a call from his Miami hotel suite to Eagleton's room two miles away and offered him the number two spot on the ticket. "George, before you change your mind, I accept," Eagleton replied, surrounded by family, friends, and reporters. Now, as Joshua Glasser recounts in his new book The Eighteen-Day Running Mate, Mankiewicz had come on the line to do a little pro forma housekeeping.
For years, this was how veep vetting was done. Which is to say, not done. Until 1944, when FDR dumped Henry Wallace for Harry Truman, the presidential candidate didn't even pick his own running mate; that job typically fell to convention delegates. Even after Roosevelt changed the game, the selection process was still informal and ad hoc—partly because it tended to happen at the last minute, with the top of the ticket not being decided until the convention, but also because of etiquette. Politicians just weren't in the habit of asking one another nosy personal questions. "I'm a United States senator," Alabama segregationist John Sparkman, who was Adlai Stevenson's 1952 running mate, later told McGovern about his gentle vetting. "I'm not going to be interrogated on my personal life."
Then came Tom Eagleton. When Mankiewicz asked him if he had any skeletons—or rather, sought reassurance that he didn't—Eagleton failed to mention that he'd been hospitalized three times for depression and had received electroshock therapy. Almost immediately after Eagleton was added to the ticket, the information leaked to the media, causing a firestorm. "Since you have conceded election to Nixon by selection of a psychotic running mate," one irate Democratic donor wrote in a telegram to McGovern, "I would like a refund of money contributed when you were a viable candidate." McGovern had to dump Eagleton less than three weeks later.
The Eagleton debacle was still fresh in Jimmy Carter's mind by the time he effectively wrapped up the Democratic presidential nomination in April 1976. He tapped his consigliere, Georgia lawyer Charlie Kirbo, to dig up as much information as he could about the seven men he was considering for VP. Kirbo conducted extensive background interviews, requested tax returns and medical histories, then met with each prospective candidate in person. Walter Mondale still remembers the day Kirbo showed up in his Senate office and didn't leave for three hours. "He came in with a yellow legal pad full of questions, and he hit me with everything he could think of," Mondale told me. "When it was over, I felt like I'd passed some sort of test. I wasn't going to jail." Mondale had one subsequent meeting with Carter, and then he was on the ticket.
Former Minnesota governor (and vanquished Romney foe) Tim Pawlenty
There's very little about Jimmy Carter that American politicians emulate now, but his vetting process set the standard. To this day, future presidents themselves don't face the level of scrutiny experienced by their potential veeps. "Even when you run for office, nobody has access to everything you give them when you go through the vetting," Bayh says. The clever dodges that can rescue a presidential candidacy—Bill Clinton answering adultery allegations by saying he'd "caused pain" in his marriage; George W. Bush addressing cocaine use by saying, "When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible"—won't cut it in a veep vet. Every affair, every line of blow, has to be disclosed and explained in detail. For some politicians, the scrutiny can be too much. Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, who ran for the White House in 2008, declined to be considered for the job of John Kerry's running mate in 2004. "Richardson wanted to be mentioned," Bob Shrum, Kerry's top strategist, told me, "but he didn't want to go through the vetting." Considering the ethical cloud that now hangs over Richardson—who's spent the past three years dealing with corruption and adultery allegations—that was probably a prudent move.
Politicians who do subject themselves to a veep vet soon find it taking over their lives. When Bayh was under consideration by Obama, he had been suffering from a stomach ailment that, despite his doctors' best efforts—cancer tests, full-body imaging, radioisotope gastric-emptying scans—remained undiagnosed. Obama's vetting team, led by Eric Holder, demanded an answer. "They wanted to make sure I wasn't dying," Bayh says now. He wasn't. After several thousand dollars more for tests and a trip to a specialist in Massachusetts—Bayh had to pay for all of it—he finally got a diagnosis: adult-onset gluten sensitivity. And then he didn't get the job.
Until Palin came along, the most notorious vetting saga was the 2000 Republican process led by Dick Cheney, who, of course, ended up recommending himself. In that year, Cheney vetted at least ten potential running mates for George W. Bush, including then Oklahoma governor Frank Keating. Keating was a former FBI agent, and by 2000 he'd been through four separate Senate confirmation processes. In other words, he was used to people poking around in his life. But nothing prepared him for the scope of Cheney's inquiry. The questionnaire contained nearly 200 questions under seventy-nine headings. In addition to the typical queries about infidelity, drug use, and psychiatric treatment, Keating was also asked whether there was anything in his past or present that might make him "vulnerable to blackmail or coercion." Cheney even required Keating to sign a notarized authorization for "Richard B. Cheney or...any person designated by him" to obtain "all information and records relating to my physical or mental health...during any time period."
Keating's responses totaled more than a thousand pages and filled two massive three-ring binders, which he generously lugged out of storage when I visited him at his Washington office, where he now works as the president of the American Bankers Association. As we flipped through the files twelve years later, Keating was still in awe of the undertaking. ("Just stunning," he said.) He was also bitter. For one thing, he felt like he was never really being considered; after he submitted his binders, he didn't hear again from the Bush campaign until seven weeks later—when Bush called to tell Keating that he'd picked Cheney. "There was never even a follow-up question or a phone call," he groused. "To make people go through that kind of labor—and you're not even pregnant—was no fun."
Even worse was what happened after Bush was elected. Keating was up for attorney general, but Cheney reportedly favored John Ashcroft for the job. Keating's chances ultimately flamed out over some financial details—specifically, $250,000 in personal (and perfectly legal) gifts he'd accepted from an eccentric philanthropist friend—that he had disclosed during his vet. As Keating told Barton Gellman for his book about Cheney, Angler, "It obviously came from Dick Cheney or one of his people.... To say that it was chickenshit, excuse the expression, is an understatement.... Dick Cheney coming into my life has been like a black cloud." When he saw me, Keating went for a joke. "I gave Cheney all of that," he said, nodding to the binders, "and he's never even sent me a Christmas card."
The first rule of being a veep vetter—if you're not Dick Cheney, anyway—is that you do not talk about being a veep vetter. So Ted Frank is wary of saying too much about his Sarah Palin experience. Still, he knows the perception is out there that his team blew it. When I told Evan Bayh that the guy who vetted Palin was vetting me, he replied with a smirk, "I'm not sure that'd be the place I'd go to for a strenuous vet."
And yet Frank insists that the Palin vet was exhaustive, even considering the unhelpful circumstances. Working under terrible time pressure, as well as constraints imposed by the McCain campaign's secrecy concerns—to avoid tipping off anyone that Palin was under consideration, the vetters didn't interview anyone outside of her staff about her—Frank submitted a forty-five-page report cataloging almost everything that would eventually dog her on the campaign trail. Todd Palin's DUI arrest (which she revealed on the questionnaire), her teenage daughter Bristol's pregnancy (which she confided during a three-hour phone interview with Culvahouse, Frank, and a third vetter), and Troopergate (which Frank pieced together through public documents and conversations with Palin's private attorney) were all uncovered by the vet. The only thing the report missed was Todd's membership in the Alaska Independence Party.
"We had things in there that never came out," Frank tells me. "We had things that Palin didn't even know about." Still, Frank admits he saw the same upside in Palin that McCain's political team did. "I wasn't sick to my stomach about her," he says, getting in a dig at the portrayal of him on HBO. After all, it was Frank's vetting report that his boss, Culvahouse, was largely relying upon when he offered up to McCain his assessment of Palin's potential as a running mate: "High risk, high reward."
Occasionally during our first meeting, I get the sense that Frank has taken on my vet as a shot at redemption—to show the world, which will likely never see the Palin report, that he's a pro at this. On my questionnaire, I'd copped to smoking way too much pot in college. Now Frank asks me to elaborate. I recall for him my sophomore year and my job as a pizza deliverer, which involved my getting stoned with some co-workers and then driving pies to customers.
"Have you ever been pulled over for driving impaired?" Frank asks.
"Nope, never," I reply.
"Have you ever had an auto accident that was caused where anyone was hurt?" No, I say—but I do mention the telephone pole I backed into one night. He moves on to more fertile territory. On my questionnaire, I wrote that I had "supplied" pot to friends. Frank smells blood.
"I want to go into the verb supplied," he says. "What did that entail?"
"Letting friends use it," I say.
"How much were you purchasing and distributing?"
"Not much." I explain that I never actually purchased the pot myself but would pay back a friend who bought it for me.
"How much were you spending, say, a month?" Frank asks.
"Not more than fifty bucks," I reply, explaining that I didn't need to spend more because I could usually just smoke my friends'. I have no troublesome history of dealing weed—just mooching it. Based on Frank's bemused expression, I gather this is not a fatal character flaw, at least for a potential veep.
Next he zeroes in on a woman my wife and I had hired a couple of years ago to clean our apartment occasionally.
"Was she an American citizen?" Frank wants to know.
"I never asked," I tell him, though I note that she spoke English with a Portuguese accent.
"Did she have a green card?"
"I never looked. I never inquired."
Frank asks the same questions about a babysitter who would occasionally pick up our son at preschool when my wife and I were busy at work. She spoke unaccented English, but when Frank asks if we gave her a 1099 tax form, I admit that we didn't.
"Did you pay her more than $600 a year?"
Yes, I think we did. Frank's eyebrows arch.
"So, potentially, a few tax problems," he says, scribbling on his sheet of paper.
Louisiana governor (and Indian-American political trailblazer) Bobby Jindal
On issue after issue, Frank digs and quickly hits bedrock. He doesn't just want to know whether I was bar mitzvahed but also whether we had a bris for our son. Yes to both. He turns up a particularly tasteless haiku I'd written for my college humor magazine—"the blood stained carpet / reeks of brains and gun powder / smells like teen spirit" (sorry)—and wonders if there are more. There aren't. He even gets into what I've dressed up as for Halloween: "Are there photos of you, or can anybody testify about or make claims about you doing something offensive, dressing up as a Nazi or something racist or sexist?" Nope.
Finally, Frank gets to the question Bayh had warned me about: "Is there anything I haven't asked you that might come out in Gawker or Daily Kos or some horrible right-wing blog?" I decide to confess the big family secret: that my octogenarian grandfather was once a bookie connected to the Philadelphia mob and was convicted of illegal gambling activity. (His sentence: probation, plus he had to have a party telephone line in his house for a number of years.) Even this, to my surprise, doesn't faze Frank. Too long ago. He tells me that he'll hire an investigator to interview my friends, enemies, even an ex-girlfriend, to look into a few of the potential problems the vet has raised. But he appears convinced that there's no deep dark secret—much less a sex tape—to be found. Of course, that doesn't necessarily make me fit to fill Spiro Agnew's shoes.
"The problem with these vetting processes," Bob Shrum had told me, "is that you're always vetting for the last problem." After Eagleton, for instance, everyone was on the lookout for medical anomalies; after Dan Quayle, vetters fixated on draft records. But a good vetter doesn't just take cues from the past; he anticipates fresh dangers.
Frank tells me that if he were vetting veep prospects for Mitt Romney, he knows exactly where he'd dig carefully: mortgages. "Someone could get tripped up by a liar loan," he says, referring to mortgages in which the borrower overstates his or her income. Given how prevalent the practice was during the housing bubble, Frank thinks it's possible that somebody on Romney's list did it, especially if he hails from a state where the bubble was especially outrageous. (Like, say, Florida or Nevada.)
Similarly, Frank says he'd spend a lot of time on a potential Romney veep's religious beliefs—and not just their current ones. Has the candidate always been an evangelical (John Thune) or a Catholic (Chris Christie)? Or has his path been circuitous, like that of Marco Rubio, who spent his childhood as a Mormon before converting to, and sticking with, Catholicism? Spiritual questing could be a problem, Frank explains, "because there's going to be skepticism about Romney's religion, and you don't want skepticism about both halves of the ticket."
Peering even farther into the future, Frank wonders about the types of questions that will be asked of the potential veeps in 2020 and beyond—people who are now in their twenties and thirties. "Right now the politicians we're dealing with are largely people who married their high school or college sweetheart," he says. "They don't have a history of being single in their twenties." The next generation of politicians probably will, which means vetters will want to know more about their sex lives as single adults. "Are there whips? Are there chains? To what extent do people kiss and tell?" Frank wonders. "We're learning with the David Maraniss book, here's Obama's ex-girlfriend turning over her diaries. And here's one of Christine O'Donnell's former hookups going to Gawker. I think future vetters are going to have to think about this."
And what about me? Am I vice presidential material? When we meet for the final time, Frank tells me that his investigator didn't turn up much. Even one of my es had mostly nice things to say about me. A college pal told the investigator something I'd forgotten—that I'd named my bong after my grandfather—but Frank doesn't care about that. What does he care about? Well... My tax returns showed that I've made very few charitable contributions. ("There'd be a one-day story about how you don't give much.") My financial records revealed that I have way too much money in my checking account. ("Someone's going to say, 'Oh, he doesn't know how to manage his money. How can somebody who clearly knows so little be put in charge of our economy?' ") My medical history disclosed that ten years ago I had testicular cancer. ("People understand that.") My college drug use. ("Ideally, you're a politician already and somebody's asked you six years ago, and you said, 'Oh yeah, I used in college and I stopped after.' ") My grandfather. (The bookmaking, not the bong I named after him. "It comes up as an interesting story, but it doesn't get used against you. We have somebody research that and then feed it to a journalist: 'Hey, here's an interesting slice of Americana.' ")
"Skipping over the fact that you have no experience and we don't know where you stand on any issues," Frank says, it turns out my biggest problems are two that hadn't even crossed my mind: the tas we haven't paid on babysitters, and the housecleaner who might've been here illegally. Frank sums up the report he'd give to the guy at the top of the ticket. "We would say, 'He's got the domestic-help issue, and that has torpedoed candidacies in the past. You're going to have to make a judgment call, Governor, whether you want Jason Zengerle enough to weather that storm.' "
The real problem with Jason Zengerle, though, is one that Frank is too polite to say to me: I'm too boring—even for Mitt Romney. I'm Tim Pawlenty without the truck-driver father. I'm John Thune minus the tan. I'm Rob Portman without Ohio's eighteen electoral votes. There's no getting around what I am, and in modern politics, it's a killer: low risk, low reward.
Jason Zengerle is a GQ contributing editor.


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Methamphetamine is stimulant drug. A strong form of the drug is illegally sold on the streets. A much weaker form of the drug comes as a prescription for the treatment of narcolepsy and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Medications which are legally used to treat cold symptoms, such as decongestants, can be chemically altered into methamphetamines .
This article focuses on the illegal street drug. The street drug is usually a white crystal-like powder, called "crystal meth." This powder can be snorted up the nose, smoked, swallowed, or dissolved and injected into a vein.
A methamphetamine overdose may be acute (sudden) or chronic (long-term).
- An acute methamphetamine overdose occurs when someone accidentally or intentionally takes this drug and has side effects, which can be life-threatening.
- A chronic methamphetamine overdose refers to the health effects seen in someone who uses the drug on a regular basis.
This is for information only and not for use in the treatment or management of an actual poison exposure. If you have an exposure, you should call your local emergency number (such as 911) or the National Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222.
Alternative Names
Intoxication – amphetamines; Intoxication – uppers; Amphetamine intoxication; Uppers overdose; Overdose – methamphetamine; Crank overdose; Meth overdose; Crystal meth overdose; Speed overdose; Ice overdose; MDMA overdose
Poisonous Ingredient
Where Found
Methamphetamine is a common but illegal drug sold on the streets. It may be called meth, crank, speed, crystal meth, and ice.
A much weaker form of methamphetamine is sold as a prescription under the brand name Desoxyn. It is used to treat narcolepsy. However, it is not often used. Adderall, a brand name drug containing amphetamine, is used to treat ADHD.
Methamphetamine most often causes a general feeling of wellness (euphoria) that is usually called "a rush." Other symptoms increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, and large wide pupils.
If you take a large amount of the drug, you will likely have some more dangerous side effects, including:
- Agitation
- Chest pain
- Heart attack
- Heart stops (in extreme cases)
- Coma (in extreme cases)
- Difficulty breathing
- Kidney damage and possibly kidney failure
- Paranoia
- Seizures
- Severe stomach pain
- Stroke
Long-term use of methamphetamine can lead to significant psychological problems, including:
- Severe inability to sleep (insomnia)
- Major mood swings
- Delusional behavior
- Extreme paranoia
Other symptoms may include:
- Repeated infections
- Missing and rotted teeth (called "meth mouth")
- Heart attack
- Severe weight loss
- Skin sores (boils)
- Stroke
Home Care
If you believe someone has taken methamphetamine and they are having bad symptoms, immediately get them medical help. Take extreme caution around them, especially if they appear to be extremely excited or paranoid.
If they are having a seizure, gently hold the back of the person's head to prevent injury. If possible, turn the head to the side in case they vomit. DO NOT try to stop their arms and legs from shaking.
Before Calling Emergency
If possible, determine the following information:
- Patient's approximate age and weight
- How much of the drug was taken?
- How was the drug taken? (For example, was it smoked or snorted?)
- How long has it been since the person took the drug?
If the patient is actively seizing, becoming violent, or having difficulty breathing, do not delay. Call your local emergency number (such as 911).
Poison Control
The National Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222) can be called from anywhere in the United States. This national hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. All local poison control centers in the United States use this national number. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What to Expect at the Emergency Room
The health care provider will measure and monitor the patient's vital signs, including temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and blood pressure. Symptoms will be treated as appropriate. The patient may receive:
- Fluids through a vein
- Medications to calm him or her down, and get heart rate and blood pressure back to normal
- Blood and urine tests
- Electrocardiogram (EKG) to check for heart damage
- Activated charcoal and laxative if the drug was taken by mouth
- CT scan of the head if associated head injury is suspected
Outlook (Prognosis)
How well a patient does depends on the amount of drug taken and how quickly treatment was received. The faster a patient gets medical help, the better the chance for recovery.
Psychosis and paranoia may last up to 1 year despite aggressive medical treatment. Memory loss and difficulty sleeping may be permanent. Skin changes and tooth loss are permanent unless the person has cosmetic surgery to correct the problems.
An extremely large overdose can cause death.


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Seeking out food from your local farmers is a wonderful thing to do. Fresh fruits and vegetables connect us in a literal and visceral way to our land, and buying them is good for our local farmers and local economy. And they taste great, and are good for you, too.
Seeking out food from your local farmers is a wonderful thing to do. Fresh fruits and vegetables connect us in a literal and visceral way to our land, and buying them is good for our local farmers and local economy. And they taste great, and are good for you, too.
So this year, declare your independence from high-fat, high-sugar crackers, chips, dips, cookies, and other processed foods. Swap them out for low-calorie, high-nutrition fruits and vegetables from local farms, and this will be your best summer ever!
From cool drinks to grilled vegetable side dishes to grilled peaches for desert, here are four ways to add fresh local foods to your celebration.
Cool Mint Soda
Mint is an all-time favorite for keeping cool in the summer, but chamomile, or lemon verbena, or any herb that strikes your fancy will also work in this recipe. Double it if you're expecting a crowd.
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 cup fresh mint leaves, coarsely chopped
Mint sprigs for garnishing
Sparkling water
1. Make simple syrup by dissolving the sugar in the water in a saucepan over medium heat.
2. Turn the heat off and stir in the chopped mint leaves. Let sit for a couple of minutes. When the mixture is cool, strain the mint leaves out.
3. Add two to four tablespoons (to taste) of the mint syrup to a glass of sparkling water. Add a mint sprig as a garnish.
Grilled Stuffed Peppers
Use red, yellow, or green bell peppers, or Italian or Hungarian sweet peppers.
3 sweet peppers, halved
8 oz mozzarella cheese (sliced)
1 large tomato, chopped
6 sprigs basil
Salt and pepper to taste
Olive Oil
1. Cut each pepper in half and remove seeds. Fill each pepper with the chopped tomato, and drizzle olive oil over the top of the tomatoes.
2. Add a slice of mozzarella on top of the tomatoes, and then add a dash of salt and pepper and a sprig of basil.
3. Place the filled pepper halves on a hot grill, but not directly over the flame. Cover and grill for about 30 minutes, or until the pepper is soft.
Parsley Pesto Potatoes, Grilled
Herb pesto is quick and easy to make in a food processor. Make a double batch, and use the extra on crackers or sandwiches.
1 cup fresh parsley, removed from the stems
1 cup pecans (you can substitute walnuts or pine nuts)
¼ cup hard cheese such as romano, grated
¼ cup olive oil
1 clove garlic, minced
Salt, to taste
1 to 2 pounds small new potatoes (or large potatoes cut into chunks)
1. To make the parsley pesto, put all the ingredients, except the potatoes, into a food processor and blend until well mixed.
2. In a large mixing bowl, toss the potatoes with the pesto.
3. Place the potatoes on a piece of foil on a hot grill, away from the direct flame. Cover the grill and cook until tender, about 30 to 45 minutes, depending on the size of the potatoes. When you can easily pierce them with a fork, they're done.
Grilled Peaches with Tart Cherries
While the grill is still hot, make this quick, easy, and delicious dessert. If you have a big group, slice up some local watermelons, muskmelons, and honeydew melons on the dessert table alongside these peaches.
3 peaches
1 cup tart cherries, pitted
½ cup honey
Olive oil
1. Cut the peaches in half and remove the pits. Coat the peaches in olive oil. If you have a citrus-infused olive oil, that is particularly nice!
2. Fill each peach half with some cherries, and drizzle with honey.
3. Place the peaches on the medium-hot grill for 10 to 15 minutes, or until soft.


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4. Yelling "Don't touch the pie! I have to take a picture of it!" and oh yeah, you have to take a picture of it with a slice out too.
5. Spending more time blogging than actually crafting or cooking.
6. Cleaning just the part of the house you are taking pictures of while the rest of the house is a disaster zone.
7. Making way more DIY projects than you normally would- just so you can make a tutorial.
8. Neglecting taking care of your kids/husband/pets while you are making something for them.
9. Taking self portraits out on the porch so your neighbors think you are crazy!
10. Pinterest Addictions!!
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Funeral services are set for the pilot who was flying a UPS cargo jet when it crashed in Birmingham last week.
Cerea Beal Jr. will be laid to rest Tuesday in North Carolina, where he lived.
The 58-year-old Mississippi native is survived by a wife and three children. He lived in Matthews, N.C.
Services were held previously for the co-pilot, 37-year-old Shanda Fanning of Lynchburg, Tenn.
Investigators say Beal was at the controls of an A300 cargo plane when it crashed while attempting to land at Birmingham's airport last Wednesday.
The National Transportation Safety Board is still investigating the cause of the crash.
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