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PALERMO — Butte County sheriff's investigators responded to a call Thursday morning about a break-in at the Palermo post office that happened sometime during the previous night.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Miranda Bowersox said dispatchers received a call at 7:39 a.m. from the postmaster-in-charge, Mona Long.
Long reported she found four mailboxes that were vandalized, Bowersox said.
One of the boxes was vacant. The other three boxes are being rented, but sheriff's deputies haven't been able to reach the renters to know whether any mail was inside the boxes.
Bowersox said the extent of the damage isn't known at this time, but the mailboxes were forced open.
Until authorities know whether anything was taken, the incident is being considered as vandalism.
This newspaper was referred to a Sacramento postal authority who did not return a phone call by deadline.
The incident is under investigation.
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Lisa Dominguez tried to ignore the thoughts while she was at work and school during the day.
But as her head hit the pillow at night, she would often lie awake worrying about the golf-ball size tumor growing on her neck.
ORANGE CITY — Lisa Dominguez tried to ignore the thoughts while she was at work and school during the day.
But as her head hit the pillow at night, she would often lie awake worrying about the golf-ball size tumor growing on her neck.
As an 18-year-old senior at DeLand High School, Dominguez, now 21, found herself living on her own. And while Dominguez's grandmother would often visit, she found herself struggling to pay bills and survive.
It was during that time that Dominguez noticed a small lump on the left side of her neck. But that concern seemed trivial to the mounting question: How would she provide for herself?
"I basically ignored it," Dominguez said. "I was in denial and thought it was going to go away."
Dominguez shuffled between her friends' houses until she could afford a place of her own from money she earned as a cashier at Moe's Southwest Grill in Orange City. Her chorus teacher Melinda O'Neill helped Dominguez apply for college and even let her borrow clothes to try out for chorus auditions at Stetson University.
"This was all going on when she was 17 and 18 when other girls are worried about prom dresses and nails," O'Neill said.
After graduating high school, she enrolled at Seminole State Community College and started working toward her goal of becoming a social worker. The tumor on her neck, however, remained.
At 18, Dominguez was phased out of Medicaid's Healthy Kids program and found it difficult to obtain affordable treatment for the mass growing on her neck. She applied for Medicaid but was denied because she was a single adult. As the tumor grew, Dominguez became increasingly self-conscious. She grew out her hair so that the mass would not be as noticeable. Free community clinics could not help her because she needed to see a specialist, Dominguez said.
"After a while I just thought that I didn't want to know what it was," she said. "It was easier that way because then I couldn't stress about it if the news was bad."
Sue Monti, owner of Medicaid Eligibility & Denial Solutions in Orange City, was compelled to help Dominguez after learning about her struggle from her daughter. Monti's company helps clients navigate the bureaucracy of Medicaid and charity care programs.
"I thought: here she is working her way through school and can't afford to get the help she needs," Monti said. "I couldn't let it go. I felt a burden on my heart."
Monti called her colleague Susan Lawman, director of patient financial services at Florida Hospital Fish Memorial.
Lawman helped Dominguez apply for charity care through the West Volusia Hospital Authority, but the application was denied because Dominguez made $300 more than the income requirement. She also reapplied to Medicaid, but was once again denied.
Lawman said that it's common for young adults like Dominguez and 18-year-olds leaving the foster care system to fall into the cracks of the health care system.
"I think it would be wonderful if we could raise funds for other young people who are in this situation," Lawman said. "They find themselves with no support, funds or someone who can help them navigate the system."
Dominguez wanted to give up but Lawman wouldn't let her.
"I sent her (Lawman) an email and told her that I didn't have the fight anymore to fill out 18 pages of an application just to get denied," Dominguez said.
She did, however, qualify for Florida Hospital's charity program for diagnostic services, where hematologist/onocologist Dr. Mohammed Masri diagnosed the mass as a benign tumor of the parotid gland. Even though the tumor was cancer-free, it would cause disfigurement and hearing loss if it continued to grow.
After another round of denied applications to Medicaid, Lawman took Dominguez's case to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville to see if charity care was available. After weeks of waiting, Dominguez was eventually approved for surgery. A month after her 21st birthday in March, Dominguez had the tumor removed and the Mayo Clinic covered the costs of the $37,000 surgery.
Along with the tumor, Dominguez said that the burden of worrying was also gone. In many ways, she got her life back.
"It changed me," she said. "It's weird looking back — how I felt then and how I feel now. I feel like I'm getting to be the kid in me — the one whose innocence and beauty got lost along the way."
Dominguez's positive attitude and perseverance impressed Monti. She recruited Dominguez to work at MEDS, where she now helps others obtain the affordable care they need.
"It's a matter of being able to tell my clients that I went through a similar situation and now I have options and control over my life again," said Dominguez, who is now a senior at the University of Central Florida. "It was one of the hardest things I've been through. It feels like all the information is behind a curtain. It's all there, it's just hidden."


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As I'm writing this post, snow is swirling on my balcony, and my usually quaint view of downtown Toronto has become a blur. There's something quite soothing about watching this unravel, from the warmth of my living room. And what more suiting way to really welcome winter than with a deliciously steamy soup? This soup is perfect to enjoy at this time of year, but also delicious cold in the summertime. Instead of using canned tomatoes, this soup is made with pureed, slowly roasted tomatoes. Tomatoes become so incredibly flavourful and sweet when roasted and work wonderfully in this soup. A simple garnish of mozarella and fresh basil finish off the soup.
15 tomatoes, quartered
Preheat oven to 375F. Place the quartered tomatoes and diced shallots in a bowl. Drizzle with 3 tbsp of olive oil, the dried oregano, and a good pinch of salt and pepper. Transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet and spread out to create an even layer of tomatoes. If there are too many tomatoes to create one layer, use two baking sheets.


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If you're visiting Fruitlands Museum for the art and scenery, stop by the white "Elephant Oracle" near the entrance for comfort and wisdom. Resembling an imposing Parcheesi piece meditating in a field, the 8-foot cement and Styrofoam sculpture by Donna Dodson is one of the more visibly striking works in the 2013 Art in Nature Sculpture Show.
If you're visiting Fruitlands Museum for the art and scenery, stop by the white "Elephant Oracle" near the entrance for comfort and wisdom.
Resembling an imposing Parcheesi piece meditating in a field, the 8-foot cement and Styrofoam sculpture by Donna Dodson is one of the more visibly striking works in the 2013 Art in Nature Sculpture Show.
Selected by a panel of three artists and curator Michael Volmar, this year's exhibit features 12 fascinating works strategically placed around the grounds in ways that enhance visitors' views of nature.
Volmar said the 90-acre site with open fields, gently sloping hills and forests provides "a perfect natural setting'' for "art that responds to Fruitland's diverse environment.''
Working with panelists Linda Hoffman of Harvard, Murray Dewart of Brookline, and Andy Moerlein, last year's artist-in-residence from Bow, N.H., he said they "selected sculptures that add a contemporary dimension for visitors to Fruitlands.''
"We spent a lot of time selecting 10 artists whose work provides an interesting contrast that's hopefully thought-provoking,'' he said.
As the first outdoor sculpture most visitors will see, Dodson's 2010 "Elephant Oracle" adds an intriguing dimension to roaming around the grounds.
A Wellesley College graduate now living in Jamaica Plain, Dodson said, "The 'Elephant Oracle' is the wise old one to whom we turn in times of confusion, doubt and indecision. The elephant has a memory that never forgets. Perhaps it is a paradox that one who knows so much says so little. Yet, in its presence, we find the courage in ourselves to listen.''
Once works were selected, Volmar said he picked several possible sites out that seemed to suit suited particular works. Other placements involved "negotiations'' with artists who had their own ideas about where to place their pieces.
Aiming for a "cool synergy,'' he placed Geoff Nelson's "Edge of the Wild'' off to the side of the Art Museum "on the edge of the lawn where we mow the grass so it'll look like a weird invasive plant.''
Several placements seem especially intuitive.
Philip Marshall's "Watching'' transforms a grove of pear trees into a magical aviary on the museum's boundary with a neighboring farm.
Born in East Kent, England and now based in Grafton, he's installed five big blue "eyes'' made from aluminum mesh painted with acrylic at different heights that seem to come alive when sunlight streams through them.
While Marshall told Volmar he'd been inspired by George Orwell's novel "1984'' about intrusive government, Richard Stein, a medical student visiting from Sitka, Alaska, said it reminded him on a "five-eyed bird perched in the branches.''
Whatever it is, perhaps it's watching Buddy Quinn's huge brown metallic bear titled "Ursus'' standing upright in a nearby field as if sniffing for honey.
Beside the farmhouse where "Little Women'' author Louisa May Alcott spent time during her father's failed Utopian venture, Alicia Dwyer's five "Armor Dresses'' stand guard as if waiting for future generations of women warriors.
When Dwyer, who lives in the village of Still River by Harvard, was selected, she asked to place the three "Armored Dresses'' she had around the Fruitlands farmhouse.
But Volmar asked for a fourth sculpture so there'd be one for each of the Alcott sisters, Louisa, Anna, Abigail and Elizabeth.
"I really like that Alicia's work responds not just to the place but to its sense of history. Her Armor Dresses are like spectral forms of the Alcott sisters,'' he said.
Not far from the Shaker house where members of the religious sect once prophesized the Second Coming, Liz Fletcher's skyward-gazing frog, titled "Prayer of Rana,'' cups its webbed hands in its own benediction.
Visitors have to take a modest hike to view Gillian Christy's "American Dreams'' and Jim Sheehan's "Cause and Effect'' in a grassy field a few hundred yards from the Visitor's Center.
Seeming about to topple, Christy's 9-foot-tall work rises from the grass like a shaky skyscraper that, when viewed from the side, appears more precarious than when seen from the front.
The remotest work in the show, Sheehan's minimalist work comprises a metal beam curved like a swan's neck with a round gear fixed like an eye near its beak.
Upon a closer look, several works offer surprises that provide hints to their meaning.
Set in a field near the farmhouse, Scott Cunningham's "Forge Flare'' initially resembles a mobile comprised of abstract forms. But, Stein, the visiting medical student, noticed, it might be seen as a symbolic representation of the artist at his forge hammering out a new work.
Similarly, Cunningham's "Orion'' figuratively suggests the mythological hunter of Greek mythology and points to the spot where it rises in the night sky.
A furniture maker from Springfield, Peter Dellert constructed his towering "Inheritance'' from furnace casings and auto parts that stand in stark contrast to the field where it's placed. Resembling a metallic monolith that might be found in a post-apocalyptic Stonehenge, it bears in its center a red Plexiglas "eye'' that glows in the sunlight.
At the season's end, Volmar and the three panelists will select first, second and third place winners for the show and visitors are given a ballot to vote for their choices. Winners will receive a cash award.
"2013 Art in Nature Sculpture Show''
WHEN: Through Nov. 3
WHERE: Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard
INFO: 978-456-3924; www.fruitlands.org


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A wagon is a multipurpose vehicle that provides the same amount of passenger room as a similarly-sized sedan, but with additional cargo space. It's also easier to drive and tends to offer better fuel economy than most sport utility vehicles (SUVs).
About Wagons
The first wagons were called "station wagons," which were typically commercial vehicles employed as taxis in and around train stations. Durant Motors mass produced the first station wagon in 1923. However, Ford came to dominate the station wagon market because it owned forest land and mills that produced lumber for the wood components in early "woodie" station wagons.
Despite being technically regarded as commercial vehicles, woodie station wagons became popular with affluent drivers in the 1930s. Chrysler took notice and began to manufacture the original Chrysler Town and Country by 1941. Woodies continued to grow in popularity until they were replaced with all-steel wagons following World War II. however, THEY enjoyed something of a renaissance in the 1950s and 1960s when members of the flourishing surf culture in California and Florida adopted them.
Jeep introduced the first factory-built all-steel wagon in 1946. Three years later, Plymouth began producing an all-steel wagon, and discontinued their line of woodie wagons in 1950. Three years later, all station wagons made in the U.S. adapted the all-steel body. However, beginning in the early 1960s with wagons like the Ford Country Squire, many new wagons came with simulated wood paneling.
Station wagons continued to grow with suburban families across the U.S. throughout the 1970s. But the wagon's popularity rose and fell many times over the years, beginning with the 1973 oil crisis. This led to the traditional American station wagons becoming too expensive for many families to operate.
Wagon Variations
Over the years, buyers have been able to choose from a wide variety of different wagon models.
Full-size wagons were popular in the 1950s and 1960s. While it was able to seat up to nine passengers and still have space for their belongings, they decreased in popularity in the 1970s because of poor fuel economy. Slightly more compact two-door wagons date back to the 1950s and can still be found on the road today in various newer incarnations.
In recent decades and in an effort to provide a more affordable alternative to minivans and SUVs, automakers have introduced the subcompact station wagon, beginning with the 1993 Toyota Corolla wagon.
We have also seen the introduction of raised wagon vehicles that could be considered crossovers between wagons and SUVs, as well as sport wagons engineered to offer similar styling and performance to a sport sedan.
Wagon Brands
While it's true wagons have seen their market share diminished by SUVs and minivans over the years, there are still a number of popular wagons on the market today.
Among the increasing number of luxury wagons on the market are the Audi A4 Wagon, the BMW 3 Series Wagon, the Mercedes-Benz R-Class, the Saab 9-3, and the Volvo XC70. These types of wagons offer many of the same comforts and extras as would be found in a comparable luxury sedan; however, they have the added benefit of extra interior space for cargo or passengers.
Popular compact wagons include the Volkswagen Jetta Wagon, the Nissan Cube, and the Toyota Venza. Toyota's top selling hybrid, the Prius, is also available as a wagon.
Currently there are also a number of sport wagons on the market including the Acura TSX Wagon and the Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen.
Who Drives Wagons?
Wagons could be regarded as something of a well-kept secret in today's SUV and minivan dominated auto market. Smaller and more economical, wagons offer the same extra space that can be used for passengers or cargo. This means wagons are still ideally suited for families.
The versatility of wagons makes them great cars for professionals who need to transport equipment or supplies with them for work. Many of today's wagons offer the comforts of a luxury sedans, which makes them great commuter vehicles that have the added benefit of extra cargo room or space for additional passengers. Certain models of sport wagons and crossover vehicles may be good for outdoor enthusiasts.


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Mayor Don Wesely and city recycling officials remind Lincoln residents that beginning April 1, yard waste cannot be mixed with household trash headed for the city landfill. State law prohibits disposal of grass and leaves in landfills between April 1 and November 30, and communities that violate the law are subject to a fine of $5,000 a day.
"The law prompted the city to start a very successful composting program, now in its eighth year," Mayor Wesely said. "Because of the state law and our composting program, we have saved landfill space and money and produced a very beneficial product."
In the first seven years of the program, the city has diverted 98,300 tons of grass and leaves and 159,300 tons of brush from the landfill. That includes the wood chips resulting from the 1993 and 1997 storms. On average, the compost facility receives over 14,500 tons of grass and leaves and 6,500 tons of brush per growing season. Over the last seven years, composting has added about 1.6 years to the landfill's life. If the current levels continue over the remaining life of the landfill, another 5.7 years will be added to its life.
The only approved containers for yard waste are paper lawn bags, 32-gallon containers with tight fitting lids or larger containers provided by the waste hauler. Many local waste haulers can provide 90-gallon carts for grass and leaves that are emptied mechanically to reduce injuries.
"Those who mix grass and leaves with household trash or who use plastic bags instead of the approved waste containers or paper bags for yard waste, may have the material left at their curbs with a card explaining why," said Mike Palmer, President of the Lincoln Solid Waste Management Association. "They may also have the material left if they use containers larger than 32 gallons because these are very difficult to empty manually without the risk of injury."
"Yard waste is defined as grass and leaves, and that includes material such as crab grass and pine needles," said Gene Hanlon, City Recycling Coordinator. "Tree trimmings, brush and garden waste can be collected with yard waste, but the tree trimmings must be smaller that one inch in diameter and be bundled in lengths of four to five feet."
Those who do not wish to have grass and leaves collected separately by the garbage haulers have three options: haul the yard waste themselves to the 48th Street Transfer Station, hire a lawn service or mulch and compost their grass and leaves. A series of backyard composting workshops are held each month, and a schedule is available by calling the Lancaster County Cooperative Extension Service at 441-7180. A free backyard composting bin is given to each participant in the workshop.


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The lineup is initiated by the offensive catalyst of the Philadelphia Phillies, who, until now, has been Jimmy Rollins. Is there a changing of the guard on the immediate horizon?
My articles are designed to represent a baseball man's thinking, the view from the dugout and the GM's box. Most fans do not consider the budget, prospects on the radar, the club's weaknesses, the track record, the competition and the other intangibles. Please go to my author archives or Phillies page for my most recent coverage. Scroll down to Tal's Handy Links at the bottom. Thank you.
Check out the companion piece: Philadelphia Phillies storyline: The best half
I will continue the process of the previous Monday's approach, if appropriate. For early birds Sunday evening is post time. Due to a strong response and a complicated offseason, my reviews will be weekly until spring training ends. The new summer schedule will allow me to publish the best 3 storylines each week, but there will be an updated calendar included with each feature: Posts involving commentary, polls and stats will be listed for the upcoming 7 days.
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This review is an additional posting.
The Next Chapter:
Since Rollins has been a Phillie, he has never put his seal of approval on a successor for the leadoff spot, which incudes Shane Victorino and Juan Pierre. Victorino was roughly less effective and Pierre started only against right-handers.
There is a unique situation this season with Ben Revere and Michael Young on the squad. Revere has put-the-ball-in-play ability with the speed to swipe bags and accumulate infield squeakers. The 3rd sacker is a potential .300 stick and an excellent opposite-field hitter, which are qualities that favor the 2 hole. However, the second spot sees a lot of fastballs, which is Rollins' favorite pitch, and even more with a stolen-base threat on first.
Last year half of the core four were recuperating, and only 1 leader was there from beginning to end. The other 3 had demons to battle. Ryan Howard basically was a one-legged warrior, and Chase Utley fixed one knee only to be hindered by the other. Doc Halladay compensated for his balky back which led to shoulder problems.
The numbers in the below table are a reminder of the characters on this club. Granted, they will not win 100 decisions but they are not a .500 organization either. There are a lot of fans who think they will only finish 3rd in the division with 85 victories. However, these stars don't seem willing to accept a 85-77 mark (.525) or anything less than 90 triumphs.
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Not only will Utley, Howard and Halladay reenergize the Bank, but Mike Adams will plug the 8th-inning leak. There were a dozen losses that developed about 3 outs short of Jonathan Papelbon. If Adams and Papelbon turn that into 9 wins, it would boost the Phils to a 90-72 record. And that one change among the calamity of 2012 would have captured the second wild card.
In other words, this franchise will have more than 90 victories but not 100, because they have proven they are a cohesive unit. That number from 1 to 9 will also be predicated on the contributions of Revere, Rollins, Michael and Delmon Young. However, until the 2 sidelined players join the party, the center fielder, the shortstop and the 3rd baseman will bat 1st, 2nd or 5th. It was recently reported that Rollins was willing to move from the leadoff slot, which would be a first and the telltale verification of a special chemistry.
- Revere will swing first or 2nd, while Michael could protect Howard in the 5 spot. Of course, he would fit nicely between Revere or Rollins and Utley. Rollins hits from both sides. and has the power to produce behind Howard, while first or second in the order is plausible as well. This lineup has possibilities: Revere (L), Rollins (S), Utley (L), Howard (L) and 3B Young (R).
- The Nationals will be tested, because our game-hardened champions want to recapture the NL East pennant.
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The Amazing Screw-On Head
Mike Mignola is best known as the creator of the immensely popular comic and film franchise, 'Hellboy'. But in 2002, Mike created a short story called 'The Amazing Screw-On Head' which has since gone on to become many of his fans favorite works of his.
Published by Dark Horse Comics in 2002, starring the character of the same name, The Amazing Screw-On Head is a quirky story about a robot whose head can be attached to different bodies, each with different tactical abilities. The Amazing Screw-On Head functions as an agent of the U.S. Government, and is tasked with keeping President Abraham Lincoln safe from Occult threats.
The comic was met with great success, and was optioned as an animated series. The Sci-Fi Channel even went as far as producing a pilot episode. Sadly, the show wasn't picked up, but we can still enjoy the 22 minute pilot, which does a fantastic job of emulating Mignola's style and stars actors like Paul Giamatti and David Hyde Pierce.
You can watch the full episode below:
In addition to the original publication, you can also find a special Artist's Edition of 'The Amazing Screw-On Head', published by IDW. This enormous book (12x17 inches) reproduces all the original art at it's original size, without it's digital colorization. However, the black and white pages are actually reproduced in color regardless, which gives an amazing representation of what the original pages look like without and digital level adjustments. You can variations in the type of ink he uses, and even the pencil work behind the inks. It's a true feast for artists.
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Former QB Steve McNair Found Shot To Death
POSTED: Saturday, July 4, 2009
UPDATED: 4:02 pm CDT July 4, 2009
NASHVILLE -- Nashville fire officials and Tennessee Titans sources are confirming to affiliate station WSMV that former Titans quarterback Steve McNair has been found shot to death at an apartment in downtown Nashville.
Another woman was also found shot to death in the apartment, but her identity has not been confirmed, Metro Police reported.
WSMV has crews at the scene. Check back for more details as soon as they become available.
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Ex-NFL QB McNair found shot to death in condo
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Updated: July 4, 2009, 8:53 PM EDT
Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair, whose most noted drive was the final one of the 2000 Super Bowl, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Saturday afternoon in a downtown condominium. Police said a woman was also shot dead.
McNair was 36 and played 13 seasons before retiring in April 2008. Police spokesman Don Aaron said officials tentatively identified the woman, but did not release her name. He confirmed she wasn't McNair's wife, Mechelle.
He said authorities were still investigating the shootings and that no suspects were in custody.
"I don't have any answers for you now as to what's happened, who's responsible," Aaron said.
"There are persons who were around the complex today, visitors, who have been taken to headquarters for questioning, just to see what they know, what they may have seen," he said.
Aaron said officers went to the scene after receiving a call about injured persons inside the condo.
"When police officers arrived in response to that call, they found two individuals who had been shot to death inside the residence," he said.
The condominium is one that McNair was known to frequent, but police spokeswoman Kristin Mumford said she didn't know if he was the owner.
About 50 people crowded just beyond police tape outside the complex in the upscale Rutledge Hill neighborhood, some wearing Titans hats. The condominium is located within walking distance of an area filled with restaurants and nightspots, a few blocks from the Cumberland River and within view of the Titans' stadium.
In June, McNair opened a restaurant near the Tennessee State University campus. It was closed Saturday evening, but had become a small memorial, where flowers, candles and notes had been placed outside the door.
On the restaurant's windows were messages: "We will miss you Steve" and "We love you Steve."
A note attached to a small blue teddy bear read, "We will never forget you, Steve. Once a Titan, always a Titan."
McNair, a four-time Pro Bowler, led the Titans within a yard of forcing overtime in the 2000 Super Bowl, which they lost 23-16 to the St. Louis Rams. He also played for the Baltimore Ravens before retiring in April 2008.
His most noted drive, the last one in that Super Bowl, came when he led the Titans 87 yards in the final minute and 48 seconds, only to come up a yard short of the tying touchdown. Kevin Dyson caught his 9-yard pass, but was tackled at the 1-yard line by the Rams' Mike Jones.
McNair accounted for all of Tennessee's yards in that drive, throwing for 48 yards and rushing for 14. The rest of the yardage came on penalties against the Rams. Before that, he brought the Titans back from a 16-0 deficit to tie the game.
"We don't know the details, but it is a terrible tragedy and our hearts go out to the families involved," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.
"We are saddened and shocked to hear the news of Steve McNair's passing today," Titans owner Bud Adams said in a statement. "He was one of the finest players to play for our organization and one of the most beloved players by our fans. He played with unquestioned heart and leadership and led us to places that we had never reached, including our only Super Bowl."
"If you were going to draw a football player, the physical part, the mental part, everything about being a professional, he is your guy," former Ravens and Titans teammate Samari Rolle said. "I can't even wrap my arms around it. It is a sad, sad day. The world lost a great man today."
McNair became a nationally known college football star playing for Alcorn State, a Division I-AA school in his home state. His performance in the Southwestern Athletic Conference was so dominant, he became a Heisman Trophy contender and national media flocked to the school in Lorman, Miss., to get look at "Air McNair." He still holds the Division I-AA (now known as Football Championship Subdivision) records for career yards passing (14,496) and total offense (16,823).
McNair began his NFL career in 1995 with the Houston Oilers, who eventually became the Titans, and finished with 31,304 yards passing and 174 touchdowns. McNair played with pain for several years, and the injuries ultimately forced him to retire.
"On the field, there isn't player that was as tough as him, especially at the quarterback position," the Ravens' Derrick Mason said. "What I have seen him play through on the field, and what he dealt with during the week to get ready for a game, I have never known a better teammate."
During a five-game stretch at the end of the 2002 season, McNair was so bruised he couldn't practice. But he started all five games and won them, leading the Titans to an 11-5 finish and a berth in the AFC championship game for the second time in four seasons.
McNair played all 16 games in 2006, his first season in Baltimore, and guided the Ravens to a 13-3 record. But he injured his groin during the season opener last season and never regained the form that put him in those Pro Bowls.
"I am deeply saddened to learn of today's tragic news regarding the death of Steve McNair. He was a player who I admired a great deal," said New England Patriots senior football adviser Floyd Reese, who was GM of the Titans when McNair played for them. "He was a tremendous leader and an absolute warrior. He felt like it was his responsibility to lead by working hard every day, no matter what."
Titans coach Jeff Fisher was out of the country, taking part in the first NFL-USO coaches tour to Iraq.
Ozzie Newsome, Ravens executive vice president and general manager, said he immediately thought of McNair's four sons.
"This is so, so sad. We immediately think of his family, his boys. They are all in our thoughts and prayers," he said "What we admired most about Steve when we played against him was his competitive spirit, and we were lucky enough to have that with us for two years. He is one of the best players in the NFL over the last 20 years."
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UPDATED 10 p.m.: Steve McNair and Sahel Kazemi killed | tennessean.com | The Tennessean
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Former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair was killed in an apparent murder-suicide with a young woman he met at a local restaurant and have been dating for at least a few months.
McNair, the hometown hero who did extensive charity work in Nashville, died of several gunshots and was found on the sofa, police said. Sahel Kazemi, 20, was found alongside him in a Second Avenue condo he rented. She had a single gunshot wound to her head; a pistol was found near her body.
Metro police spokesman Don Aaron said they were leaning toward certain scenarios based on the evidence, but they hadn't ruled anything out. Still, they were not actively looking for suspects Saturday night.
"The medical examiner will be conducting autopsies (Sunday)," Aaron said. "We expect to make additional conclusions after the autopsy process."
Though much of the attention was on the Second Avenue crime scene, police also swarmed at the Cherry Creek apartment complex in Hermitage. They were questioning neighbors who said they often saw McNair visiting Kazemi. Sometimes, neighbors said, she would arrive home in a limousine in the early morning hours. She showed up with a new black car she said was a gift from her boyfriend.
She was arrested in that car, a black Cadillac Escalade registered to she and McNair, just two days before the deaths. She was charged with driving under the influence and refusing to take a breath test.
Keith Norfleet, Kazemi's boyfriend for four years before they broke up five months ago, said he came to pick up the car for Kazemi.
Norfleet said McNair was in the car with her when the stop occurred, a fact that was not in the police affadavit but was confirmed by police Saturday night. McNair later bailed Kazemi out, according to bail bondsmen.
Norfleet said she told him she was seeing McNair, who she met while working as a waitress at Dave & Busters. He was worried about her dating a married man and hopeful they'd get back together. They had been living together for four years, since they moved from her family's home in Jacksonville, Fla., to Nashville.
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No I don't hate Raja Bell, but I pity the fool.
Personally, I think that the young girl and McNair had a confrontation, and I guess that she shot him, and then she shot herself. All this stemming from the dispute that they had on Thursday night. If not, I do hope that the killer gets life in Jail.
here is the woman who may have killed him
Sahel Kazemi Identified as Second Victim In McNair Tragedy
Sahel Kazemi Identified as Second Victim In McNair Tragedy -- NFL FanHouse
Tenn. police rule ex-QB McNair's death a homicide
By TERESA M. WALKER, AP Sports Writer Teresa M. Walker, Ap Sports Writer – 11 mins ago
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Shot twice in the head and two more times in the chest, former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was the victim of a homicide, police declared Sunday. But authorities wouldn't say it was a murder-suicide — even with his 20-year-old girlfriend dead at his feet from a single bullet.
McNair had been dating Saleh Kazemi for several months, and Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said Sunday that a semiautomatic pistol was found under her body. She was shot in the head.
McNair, who was married with four sons, had a permit to carry a handgun in Tennessee, and he was arrested once before with a 9mm weapon although charges in the case were dropped. Police said they had not yet determined who owned the gun found at the scene.
Investigators weren't looking for a suspect but were questioning friends of the couple as well as Kazemi's ex-boyfriend. They were also waiting for results of drug and other laboratory tests before deciding whether McNair was killed in a lovers' quarrel.
"That's a very important part of the investigation as we work to ultimately classify Miss Kazemi's death," Aaron said.
The details surfacing after McNair's death stand in stark contrast to the public persona he enjoyed during his career.
McNair repeatedly played through serious injuries and pain to win, though he came up a yard short of forcing overtime on the Tennessee Titans' famous drive to lose the 2000 Super Bowl.
Generous, he frequently took part in charity work for both the Titans and later the Baltimore Ravens after a 2006 trade. McNair even helped load donated food, water and clothes onto tractor-trailers that he had arranged for Hurricane Katrina victims, and paid for three football camps for children himself this year.
McNair and Kazemi were found dead at a Nashville condominium — which overlooks the Titans stadium — that he rented with his friend Wayne Neeley. Police believe both died early Saturday. Neeley found the bodies hours later, and called a friend, Robert Gaddy, who played at Alcorn State with McNair. Gaddy dialed 911.
"People have certain things that they do in life," Gaddy said. "We don't need to look on the situation at this time (but) on the fact we just lost a great member of society."
The quarterback's agent, Bus Cook, said he had never heard Kazemi's name until news of the shooting broke Saturday. What McNair's wife knew wasn't clear Sunday. Cook said Mechelle McNair was "in and out of it." He said she had no comment after the police called his death a homicide.
"It doesn't make any sense. I don't know what to say," Cook said.
Mechelle was "very upset, very distraught" Sunday, Cook said. She was preparing to finish funeral arrangements Monday.
McNair split his time between Nashville and his farm in Mount Olive, Miss. He recently opened a restaurant near Tennessee State University that was aimed at serving healthy, affordable food to college students.
McNair was also seen so often at Kazemi's apartment that a neighbor thought he lived there.
McNair met Kazemi when his family ate often at the Dave & Buster's restaurant she worked at as a server, and the two began dating in a relationship that included a vacation with parasailing. Photos posted on TMZ.com showed McNair gazing and smiling at the young Kazemi.
"She pretty obviously got mixed up way over her head with folks," said Reagan Howard, a neighbor of Kazemi's.
A man who answered the door at a house in the Jacksonville, Fla., suburb of Orange Park said it was the home of Kazemi's family, but said her relatives did not want to comment.
"We don't have anything to say, please leave us alone," he said.
The victim's sister, Soheyla Kazemi, told the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville that the young woman had expected McNair to get a divorce. "She said they were planning to get married."
Kazemi often was dropped off by limousine in the early morning hours and recently went from driving a Kia to a 2007 Cadillac Escalade registered to both herself and McNair. Her niece told The Tennessean that Kazemi thought McNair was divorcing his wife of 12 years soon.
Nashville courts had no record of a McNair divorce case, but a home he owned in Nashville is on the market for $3 million.
The real estate agent declined to comment. Her online listing for property described it as a "gigantic house" of more than 14,000 square feet and photos showed a pool, home theater, baby grand piano and ornate furnishings throughout.
McNair and Kazemi were together Thursday night when she was pulled over driving that Escalade. She was arrested on a DUI charges, and he was allowed to leave in a taxi even though he was charged with drunken driving in 2007 when his brother-in-law was stopped for DUI while driving McNair's pickup truck.
McNair led the Titans to the 2000 Super Bowl, which they lost 23-16 to the St. Louis Rams despite his 87-yard drive in the final minute and 48 seconds. He was co-MVP of the NFL with Colts quarterback Peyton Manning in 2003.
Manning said in a statement Sunday that he had some great battles with the quarterback.
"Sharing the NFL MVP honor with him in 2003 was special because of what a great football player he was," Manning said. "I had the opportunity to play in a couple of Pro Bowls with him, and the time spent with him in Hawaii I'll never forget. I'll truly miss him."
The Titans drafted Vince Young in 2006 to replace McNair, who had mentored him since he was a teenager. They never played together but did play against each other that year.
"He was like a father to me. I hear his advice in my head with everything I do. Life will be very different without him," Young said in a statement Sunday.
McNair grew up in Mount Olive, Miss., and became a football star at Alcorn State, the Division I-AA school in his home state as he dominated the Southwestern Athletic Conference. He became a Heisman Trophy contender as reporters flocked to little Lorman to watch the man known as "Air McNair.
He still holds the Division I-AA (now known as Football Championship Subdivision) records for career yards passing (14,496) and total offense (16,823). McNair was drafted in 1995 by the Houston Oilers, who eventually became the Titans.
Picked four times for the Pro Bowl, McNair finished with 31,304 yards passing and 174 touchdowns. He led both the Titans and Ravens to playoff berths, including two AFC championship game appearances with Tennessee. Injuries finally led to his retirement after the 2007 season
Besides his wife, McNair is survived his sons Junior, Steven, Tyler and Trenton.
Associated Press writers contributing to this report include: Ron Word in Jacksonville, Fla., Travis Loller, Lucas L. Johnson II and Joe Edwards in Nashville.
Tenn. police rule ex-QB McNair's death a homicide - Yahoo! News
Sympathy for the families of all involved. This is looking more and more like a murder suicide, and to think it all could have been avoided if he'd only stayed faithful to his wife and if she'd never gone out with a married man.
Sounds to me like McNair was telling her was going to get a divorce so they could move into together . . . This is looking more and more like possibly McNair was going to try to break it off?
"Abdi said Kazemi believed McNair was divorcing his wife and she was preparing to sell her furniture to move in with him."
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BALTIMORE, Dec. 21 -- Elrod Hendricks, who spent a team-record 37 years with the Baltimore Orioles as a player and coach, died Wednesday of a heart attack at a local hospital, a source with the team confirmed. Hendricks would have turned 65 on Thursday.
Hendricks was attending a dinner at the BWI Marriott in Linthicum when he fell unconscious. He was taken to the Baltimore-Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie, where he died shortly after arriving. He is survived by his wife, Merle, and six children, four from a previous marriage.
"I'm shocked," Orioles Manager Sam Perlozzo said when reached late Wednesday night. Hendricks had left a message on Perlozzo's phone earlier on Wednesday.
"He sounded just as peachy and perky as ever," Perlozzo said. "You wouldn't believe how good he sounded."
Perlozzo said he saved the message because it had not come in clearly and he wanted to replay it later. "I'm probably now going to keep it on my phone," he said.
The popular Hendricks, who had been the longest tenured on-field member of the organization, suffered through various health problems the past two years, including a stroke on April 14 of this year and testicular cancer in 2003. Though he appeared to be fully recovered from the stroke, the Orioles, citing health concerns, decided at the end of this season not to renew his contract as bullpen coach.
"Everybody was worried after the stroke, but he seemed fine and was his normal self," Orioles outfielder Jay Gibbons said on Wednesday night.
Hendricks, who had been the bullpen coach for the past 28 seasons, was disappointed with the decision. At the time, he said he would not accept a position with the team in community relations.
But Hendricks, who had spent much of his time in Baltimore promoting the Orioles in the community, eventually relented and accepted the position. On Monday, Hendricks, dressed as Santa Claus, appeared in downtown Baltimore with several players at an Orioles Christmas party for 100 children from the Harriet Tubman Elementary School and the City Springs Elementary School.
"He played Santa and was yelling 'Ho ho ho' and was as happy as can be giving out presents," said Gibbons, who attended the event. "Obviously this comes as a shock and out of nowhere. My respects go out to his family and his children."
Hendricks began his playing career with the Orioles in 1968, hitting .202 in 79 games. Perhaps his best moments on the field came in 1970, when he hit .364 against Cincinnati in the World Series, which Baltimore won in five games. Hendricks hit .273 in 24 postseason games with the Orioles and New York Yankees.
He played in the majors for 12 years, accumulating a .222 batting average in 658 games. For all but one of those seasons, Hendricks wore an Orioles uniform.
"I shed some tears over it," Perlozzo said in October about the decision not to renew Hendricks's contract. "He's a great man, no question about it. He represents everything the Orioles represent."
Hendricks became Earl Weaver's bullpen coach in 1977. He was inducted into the Orioles' Hall of Fame in 2001, becoming the first person still active with the team to be enshrined.
"Elrod was always a smiling face," Gibbons said. "I remember he yelled at me if I walked by him and didn't say hello."


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Poorer lung cancer patients 'less likely to receive treatment'
Poorer people with lung cancer are less likely to receive treatment for their disease than wealthier people, a new international study has revealed.
This difference is not just down to poorer patients being diagnosed later, nor differences between national healthcare systems, according to research published in PLOS Medicine.
Researchers, led by Lynne Forrest from Newcastle University, reviewed 23 studies on how lung cancer treatment varies by socioeconomic status from the UK, US, Canada, Sweden, Australia, Italy, France and New Zealand.
They found that lung cancer patients from the lowest socioeconomic groups were a fifth (21 per cent) less likely to receive any treatment than those from the highest socioeconomic groups.
Lung cancer patients from less well-off backgrounds were around a third (32 per cent) less likely to have surgery and a fifth (18 per cent) less likely to be given chemotherapy. There was not a major difference in access to radiotherapy.
The link between social deprivation and a lower chance of receiving treatment was similar across countries with free healthcare systems, such as the UK, and those with private insurance systems like the US.
Lung cancer is the most common cause of death from cancer. More than 40,000 people are diagnosed with the disease in the UK each year, and almost 35,000 people die from the disease.
Research has shown that people from lower income backgrounds tend to have lower cancer survival rates. But differences in behaviours linked to ill health such as smoking, increased alcohol consumption and poor diet do not completely explain this difference.
Professor Greg Rubin, a Cancer Research UK researcher based at Durham University who was involved in the research, said: "In the UK, and across the world, poorer people are more likely to develop and die from lung cancer. Our research shows that they're also less likely to receive any kind of treatment.
"It's not a huge leap to conclude that these lower levels of treatment are contributing to lower survival in less well-off people. But we need to understand why these differences exist. For example, are doctors failing to offer their poorer patients suitable treatments? Do poorer patients have other illnesses that make them less suitable for treatment? Or are they more likely to decline treatment when it is offered?"
He added that researchers need to answer such questions so that all lung cancer patients are given the best treatments and so have the best chance of surviving their disease.
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Forrest L.F. et al. (2013). Socioeconomic Inequalities in Lung Cancer Treatment: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, PLoS Medicine, 10 (2) e1001376. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001376


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This is an extreme honor for me and I can't thank BOOM Kids and Disney Comics and The Muppets Studio enough for this tremendous honor. Never in my life did I expect to be quoted on the back of an official Muppet product. It's really just a surreal experience and I'm proud to stand by my quote still! Grace Randolph's hilarious writing combined with Amy Mebberson's nearly-flawless artwork made Muppet Peter Pan the best of the Muppet comics that I've read.
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Thanks again to BOOM Kids and Disney Comics for the great honor!
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Apr 18, 2010
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I can't believe I didn't see that! I never read endorsements on the back of covers! Sheesh...ReplyDelete
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First there's denial, then, eventually, there's acceptance. After current R32 enthusiasts get over the fact that the new Golf R won't be powered by their much-loved VR6, they'll start to come to their senses. Yes, the VR6's sinister snarl is a thing of the past, relegated to the scrap heap of progress. In its place is the same turbocharged, 2.0-liter TFSI engine that motivates the Audi TTS, detuned just a bit from 266 to 256 hp, because the United States is considered a "hot" country (with states like Arizona) and there are different airflow and cooling characteristics between the TTS and Golf R.
What Golf R owners will get is a car with less weight up front and 250 pounds lighter overall, approximately 3,300 pounds versus the R32's 3,550. That gives the new Golf R a better power-to-weight ratio (12.9 lb/hp vs. 14.2 lb/hp), and the lighter front end helps it turn in, hold its line better and squirt out of corners with more verve. Zero-to-60 times should be in the mid-to-high 5-second range and fuel consumption is estimated at 21/26 mpg.
Volkswagen let us loose on Central California's Buttonwillow Raceway in a Euro-spec Golf R during a SoCal R32 club track day, and, although I suspect I was running with a novice or intermediate group, I noticed that I was braking later, coming into the corners faster, and gained on the Mk IV and Mk V R32s out of the corners thanks to 243 lb-ft of torque from 2200 to 5100 rpm. In other words, it was faster everywhere.
The Golf R is just as forgiving as its predecessors and you can still feel the back end rotate after the apex. It will scrub the fronts if you come in too hot but it's just a lift of the throttle to get them to start biting again. If you get the corner right, you can feel both the front and rear tires sliding after the apex for a more neutral attitude. The reduced weight also makes it more flickable in side-to-side transitions.
The brakes use 13.6-inch rotors up front and 12.2 inchers in back, same as the last R32. The pedal is firm with good feel and modulation. Steering with the nicely sculpted D-shaped wheel is a delight—direct, informative, perfectly weighted and practically telepathic.
Some may bemoan the fact that the Golf R is only available with a six-speed manual. Perhaps this will separate the real enthusiasts from the wannabes. VW says its research showed that a majority of those surveyed said they'd opt for the stick. The VW group in the U.S. was probably given a choice between the DSG and the manual for cost reasons and decided to go with the numbers. It's a light and easy-to-row gearbox and clutch engagement is buttery smooth and progressive.
U.S. models will sit 10mm higher than the European versions in order to meet crash test standards, but the damper settings will be exactly the same. That's great because the Golf R's ride is a near-perfect blend of elastic compliance and taut body control.
The fourth-gen Haldex AWD system has been programmed to predict slip before it happens and sends the appropriate amount of power to the front or rear. Like the previous Haldex system, it can send 100 percent of drive to front or rear wheels, but the new system has quicker reflexes.
So if a lighter package that beats its predecessor in all areas isn't enough to convince prospective buyers, then they may want to consider that a well-programmed ECU flash will easily bring power up to and over 300 hp. That's an easier and less-expensive way to make power compared with the R32's VR6, which needed either a supercharger or a turbo to produce similar power levels. And while 5,000 copies of a niche car that starts at $33,000 won't exactly mean you have to run to your dealer to put down a deposit, you don't want to be caught sleeping either. It's that good.
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Glaesfaet Sceawere is the name gifted to the mother river that flows through the center of Blossom Forest, bringing life and sustenance to all of the lands. It breaks off in many places, giving birth to smaller streams and estuaries, but the main body flows from the lake high in the north in Dierne Hrof all the way south down through Uyaraut to empty into the ocean. It is a fresh water river, but down through Uyaraut, the salt water does taint it. In places, parts of the river are underground and run through caverns unseen from aboveground.
Water buffalo grace these shores - with plenty of meat, though at a dangerous cost. Many river trout leap upstream daily.


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Friday, November 06, 2009
Pickoff Moves
Tony Reagins Signs
Per MLB.com, Tony Reagins has signed a
3-Year Deal Long-Term Extension
Dodgers Purge More Jamie McCourt HiresIn the Times:
Six front-office employees who were hired by former Dodgers vice president Charles Steinberg were fired. They were public relations officers Mark Rogoff and Drew Merle, vice president of creative services Tom Catlin, graphics manager Courtney Cowsill, fan services and hospitality director Jahaan Blake and supervisor of the Ambassadors program Alyssa Shuman.Interesting anonymous comment in the DT thread where I first heard about this:
Steinberg, who was hired by Jamie McCourt, was essentially fired by the team last month by her estranged husband, owner Frank McCourt.
The people mentioned got hired for the same reason they got fired. They came over from Boston with Dr. Steinberg, they were given elaborate titles, they were promoted over other worthy candidates for no better reason than they were "Dr. Charles' people". Once Dr. Charles left the building, everyone knew who was next.Frank, is that you?
Fact is the Boston contingent that came over with Dr. Steinberg caused a rift in the Dodger front office. The aura of superiority they had, didn't appeal to many of the Dodger staffers that have been there and had put in their time. Many refused to assimilate with Dodger staffers and instead formed cliques.
A lot of good people left the organization when this group came in prior to the 2008 season. I am sure most will land on their feet wherever Dr. Steinberg lands, as they are often referred to as his entourage.
Bottom line is most of these "Boston" staffers failed to pull their weight.
Problem with Dr. Steinberg is that he tried to make the Dodgers into the Boston Dodgers. He was full of hot gas and empty promises, and he absolutely killed anything resembling a budget.
There are a couple of good people in that group, and they will be missed. However, can't say the same for all of them.
Good Luck to them.
Rangers Hire Ex-Rockies Skipper Clint Hurdle As Hitting CoachPer the same LAT piece above.
Randy Wolf, Five Others File For Free Agency; Manny Returns In 2010MLB.com shows Randy Wolf, Jon Garland, Orlando Hudson, Ronnie Belliard, Doug Mientkiewicz, and Eric Milton as the six. Manny Ramirez has yet to inform the club whether he will exercise a $20M player option for 2010. Not having contacted the club but still eligible for free agency: Brad Ausmus, C; Juan Castro, SS; Mark Loretta, INF; Guillermo Mota, RHP; Will Ohman, LHP; Vicente Padilla, RHP; Jason Schmidt, RHP; Jim Thome, PH and Jeff Weaver, RHP.
Wolf and Hudson are both Type A free agents. Type B free agents are Belliard, Padilla, Garland, Mota and Ohman.
Update: True Blue LA passes on a Tweet (oh, God, not another) from Dylan Hernandez saying that Manny Ramirez' return has been confirmed by Scott Boras.
Update 2: Dylan Hernandez at the Times:
"Obviously, he enjoys L.A.," Boras said. "If he went into the marketplace, the real negative was that he could end up playing in a place he wasn't comfortable playing."*cough*bullshit*cough
The Yankees' Payroll SucksJoe Posnanski says so:
But the Yankees are a whole different argument. They are their own argument. The Yankees are not a big market team. They DWARF big market teams. They are quantitatively different from every other team in baseball and every other team in American sports. They don't just spend more money than every other team. They spend A LOT more money than every other team. The Boston Red Sox spend $50 million more than the Kansas City Royals? Who cares? The Yankees spend $80 million more than the Boston Red Sox.Via Dodger Divorce.
Slightly OT: Angels Fan Volunteers To Be Lieutenant GovIn the Times:
Your other question probably is this: Why is it in your political interest to pick me? Here are four reasons:Actually pretty funny.
I'll never upstage you. Remember how, during your first term, Cruz Bustamante made his own speeches right before your State of the State address each January? I'll never do that. I'll show up -- if I must -- wearing my usual writing attire: shorts, T-shirt and Angels cap. I will introduce you ("And now, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger"), and then I'll retire to a quiet corner of the Capitol where I can open up my laptop and get some writing done.
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Donald Obst on a cold March day, 2011 at Ramsey Creek
The IBSCC is a club made up of some of the most fanatical windsurfers you'll find east of Maui. Our club has over 100 members with members as far away as Texas. We are located in Charlotte, North Carolina, about 200 miles from the coast. Every year we schedule trips to Oregon, Hatteras, Wilmington, or Charleston. In addition, we have individuals within our club who enjoy traveling to really exotic locations. Recently, members traveled to Maui, Venezuela, Costa Rica, The Dominican Republic and Lake Garda, Italy.
Locally, we sail on Lake Norman. Lake Norman has several sailing sites with Ramsey Creek Access in Cornelius being our primary launch site. Unfortunately, other sailing sites are somewhat difficult to find at Lake Norman. We enjoy approximately 20-30 short board days of sailing on Lake Norman annually. Sometimes we have 3.5 days and since Lake Norman has a nuclear power facility with discharge pipes near our launch sites we seldom have water temperatures below 55 degrees. Any of the members of the IBSCC will be glad to give you directions to the good launch sites.
I often receive emails from people interested in trying to learn to windsurf. Although our club doesn't formally offer lessons, there are several within the group who can give you a couple of hours of instruction for the price of a beer. If you would like to read up on the sport before attempting it there is a publication that put out a special edition for beginners. It is downloadable in pdf format: http://windsurfingmag.com/WF_BegGuide_052.pdf
We have discontinued our monthly meetings for the time and are not collecting dues anymore. If you are interested in hearing from individuals within the group on anything from past weekend sailing adventures to possible items for sale please drop the chatboard. (above link)
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School funding lags behind inflation
Kremena Spengler, New Ulm Journal, December 17, 2012 – Per-pupil revenue in Minnesota for the fiscal year 2013-14 is projected to be $401 below the 2004-05 inflation-adjusted amount, according to a tax information presented by District 88 Business Manager Myrna Meunier last week.
Conversely, most districts' expenses will likely increase without budget cuts, by at least 2-3 percent annually, according to the report.
If adjusted for inflation, next year's state basic (formula-determined) school funding of $5,224 per pupil would be $5,625, according to the report.
School funding has consistently lagged behind inflation (as measured by the consumer price index) since 2007-08, showed the report.
The year taken as base was 2004-05.
With minimum or no increases in state funding expected, many districts are facing projected budget shortfalls for fiscal years 2014 and 2015, and anticipate the need for budget cuts, Meunier said.
To address local school budget shortfalls, 297, or 88 percent, of Minnesota districts have approved an operating referendum levy. The state average amount is $899 per pupil.
Meunier also presented mandated information on revenues and expenditures for 2012-13:
District 88 operating revenues are expected to amount to $19.6 million this fiscal year, down from $20 million in 2011-2012, she said.
Operating revenues amount to 86 percent of all revenues. Other major revenue categories include: debt service, 7 percent; food service, 4 percent; and community service (commonly, community education), 3 percent.
In 2012-13, state aid is projected to make up $15.4 million, or 79 percent, of District 88's operating revenues. Local taxes will amount to $3 million, or 16 percent; local fees and other sources, about $600,000, or 3 percent; and federal revenues, about $400,000, or 2 percent.
Approximately 78 percent of all 2012-13 operating expenditures in District 88 are for instruction or instructional support, according to Meunier's report. More specifically, of these expenditures, regular instruction accounts for 43 percent; special education, 19 percent; pupil support services (counselors, nurse, etc.), 10 percent; instructional support (staff development and curriculum development), 5 percent; and vocational instruction, 1 percent.
The balance of operating expenditures includes: sites and buildings, 12 percent; administration, 6 percent; district support services, 2 percent; and fiscal and other fixed costs, 1 percent.
Approximately 72 percent of operating expenditures in 2012-13 will go toward salaries and benefits. Salaries amount to 50 percent of operating expenditures, and benefits to 22 percent.
Other operating expenditure categories include: purchased services, 22 percent; supplies and materials, 3 percent; and capital expenditures, 3 percent.
All numbers were rounded.


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Rob Ford: Police singled me out for jaywalking
TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says police singled him out for a jaywalking ticket in British Columbia last weekend because of who he is.
Ford was in a Vancouver suburb, where he attended the funeral of a friend's mother, when he received the $109 ticket late Friday.
Ford on Wednesday said 15 people were with him, but the officer "picked me out and said, 'You're Rob Ford, come with me.'"
Ford last year made international headlines when he admitted to having smoked crack cocaine while in a drunken stupor. He's drawn attention for other erratic behavior, but he has resisted pressure to step down and is seeking re-election.
Ford said Toronto police don't give jaywalking tickets, and he's perplexed.
"Maybe I've broken the law a lot of times," Ford said with a laugh. "Everybody jaywalks."
Doug Ford, Rob's brother and a city councilor, said his brother was "targeted."
"If his name was John Smith, he wouldn't have gotten that ticket," Doug Ford said. "The police officer had to wait for her supervisor for a jaywalking ticket. They waited 20 minutes for her supervisor to come over for a jaywalking ticket. You've got to be kidding me."
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Every one a loser
What an election this has been. Each of the main parties seems to have lost. New Labour has lost. Whole swathes of England have turned blue. Yet, despite the enormity of the errors of New Labour, the Tories have not had the runaway victory you might have expected of any electable opposition. The reasons are clear. They were, in so many ways, an opposition only in name. When it came to New Labour's biggest mistakes - Iraq, Afghanistan, the banks, the blind worship of markets - the Tories were not even an opposition in name. Mostly they were there egging our misguided leaders on. As for the Liberal Democrats, there is no argument. They too have lost. In short we have elected a bunch of losers.
What will come out of this? Dr Grumble thinks that our next Prime Minister, whoever that may be, will find himself drinking from a poisoned chalice. Things may seem bad now but they are only going to get worse. How much worse how quickly remains to be seen. Inevitable though it is, the next administration will have to take the blame for the consequences of the stringent measures they will have to impose. What will the consequences be? It will depend. If the Conservatives dominant the next government will New Labour regroup? Will they recognise the mistakes they have made? Will they make some clear blue water by inching themselves to the left? Could we hope for some of the principles, valued now only in the devolved nations, to be brought back? Or, with all these swathes of blue in England, are the parties going to go on drifting further and further to the right so that England becomes more and more like America and less and less like our European neighbours?


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The market's biggest investors were put to the test in the second quarter, with their latest regulatory findings showing a variety of moves to combat a falling stock market.
The second quarter was a difficult one for stocks and hedge funds. The benchmark S&P 500 fell 3.3 percent in the period, while funds on average lost 2.7 percent in the quarter.
The filings from hedge funds, submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission throughout the day Tuesday, will no doubt reveal some of that tumult in the stock market.
Hedge fund giant Leon Cooperman pulled back large stakes he had in some of America's biggest banks and took a big position in energy exploration in the second quarter, according to his latest regulatory findings.
In the period ended June 30, the head of Omega Advisors exited his position in Bank of America, slashed his holdings in JPMorgan Chase by about two-thirds and slightly pared his stake in Wells Fargo.
JPMorgan has had a difficult quarter after revealing its losses from the so-called London Whale's trading debacle.
The positions were revealed in Cooperman's latest 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which had to be submitted Tuesday.
Besides his dimmed view on banks, Cooperman scooped up more than 7.1 million shares in McMoRan Exploration, which saw its shares surge 60 percent since mid-May.
Cooperman's largest positions in valuation terms remained with Atlas Pipeline (5.2 million shares), Linn Energy (4.7 million) and Apple (266,000 shares).
Earlier indicators from the quarter pointed to the big investors — "whales" — having a rough quarter as the stock market stumbled.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reported increased stakes in Viacom and Liberty Media, while it cut its allocations toward Johnson & Johnson, UPS and General Electric. Berkshire dissolved its interest in Intel.
Read More: Buffett's Berkshire Slashes Stock Holdings
Also, Jim Chanos at Kynikos Associates, reflecting the disaprity of opinions among the big investors, upped shares in JPMorgan and Citigroup while adding technology exposure through Microsoft and Oracle.
Despite Cooperman's moves, the flavor of the second quarter for big U.S. money managers was bank stocks, including Morgan Stanley and Citi.
Hedge funds Eton Park Capital and BlueMountain Capital Management were among investors that scooped up financials, which as a group are up 15 percent this year.
Energy companies were also in the spotlight. Activist hedge fund Jana Partners soured on energy stocks as the firm dumped shares of Marathon Petroleum and Hess, while Eton Park's Eric Mindich revealed that he has an option to buy 4.5 million shares of natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy at an undisclosed price.
Carl Icahn also added a sizeable stake in Chesapeake Energy and dissolved his stake in Motorola Mobility Holdings but had few changes otherwise.
BP Capital, the investment management firm led by billionaire energy investor T. Boone Pickens, sold all of its holdings in number two U.S. gas producer Chesapeake Energy and oil major BP .
The firm also sold its full holdings in two oilfield services companies and a liquefied natural gas tanker operator, filings showed.
BP Capital sold 499,055 shares in Chesapeake, valued at $11.56 million as of March 31, between the first and second quarters.
Pickens had said in May, after the firm filed its first-quarter holdings with the SEC, that he was selling all his Chesapeake shares because of falling natural gas prices, CNBC reported.
New York Mercantile Exchange natural gas prices hit decade lows in the spring.
A spokesman for BP Capital did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
BP Capital's total stock holdings between the first and second quarters declined by about 25 percent to $130 million at the end of the second quarter.
George Soros also picked up energy shares, buying stock in Anadarko Petroleum and purchasing 700,000 shares of Ancestry.com, while exiting his position in CapitalOne Financial .
For more on how big money managers traded in the sector quarter, here is a breakdown by sectors and high-profile stocks.
Eton Park's Mindich said he owned 5.1 million shares of Morgan Stanley and had the right to acquire another 21.5 million shares at an undisclosed price. At the end of the first quarter, he owned 15 million shares.
Mindich also made changes in his holding in Citigroup, in which he owned 5.5 million shares at the end of the first quarter and said he had the right to acquire 12.7 million shares at an undisclosed price at the end of second quarter. At the end of the second quarter, he still held warrants to acquire 102.4 million shares, the same number he held at the end of the first quarter.
BlueMountain Capital initiated a new position in Citi, roughly 623,000 shares, and increased its stake in Flagstar Bancorp by 250,000 shares. It owned 233,505 shares of JPMorgan Chase at the end of the second quarter, up from 80,910 shares.
Not everyone was a fan of banks, however.
Dinakar Singh's TPG-Axon Capital Management sold its holdings in JPMorgan, which reported an unexpected and enormous trading loss this year from the infamous "London Whale" trade. Singh no longer listed JPMorgan as a holding after owning 3.1 million shares during the first quarter.
Blue Mountain Capital appeared to be betting on a revival of the housing market and opened a new position in the quarter in KB Home , buying 876,165 shares of the home builder. Meanwhile, Jana bought 6.2 million shares of American Realty Capital, a real estate investment trust.
Jana, led by Barry Rosenstein, exited its position in Marathon Petroleum , which had been the fund's largest stock holding at the end of the first quarter. The fund also sold all of it shares in Hess, another oil company.
Tom Steyer's Farallon Capital made a big adjustment to its holding of gas pipeline company Kinder Morgan. In the first quarter it held 22.5 million shares but at the end of the second quarter it owned 4 million shares and had warrants to acquire an additional 5.2 million shares.
Food and Agriculture
Jana opened a new position in Canadian fertilizer company Agrium, buying 6.5 million shares.
Philippe Laffont's Coatue Management was bullish on burritos and tacos in the second quarter, adding 185,000 shares of Mexican restaurant chain Chipotle , bringing its total holdings to 567,102 shares.
The first well-known fund to disclose a significant position in Facebook in the period was Chase Coleman's Tiger Global Management with 1.96 million shares. The hedge fund was a pre-IPO investor in the social networking company. George Soros also reported owning 341,000 shares in Facebook.