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Row crop farmers who have been struggling to get a handle on abbreviations like DP and DCP and MAL may soon have two to decipher if a National Corn Growers Association proposal begins to gain traction.
The new abbreviations are BRP, which stands for Base Revenue Protection, and RCCP, which is short for Revenue Counter-cyclical Program. BRP and RCCP, which would work in complementary fashion, would compensate growers when market revenue declines below target levels, according to NCGA leaders.
"BRP provides coverage against declines in farm-level crop net income," said Gerald Tumbleson, NCGA president and a producer from southern Minnesota. "RCCP builds on this base and provides protection against declines in revenue at the county level, similar to Group Risk Income Protection in federal crop insurance." Tumbleson outlined the two programs and other positions the corn growers have adopted on the next farm bill during a House Agricultural Committee farm policy review hearing in Washington Sept. 20.
Like most farm group leaders who testified at the hearing, Tumbleson said the National Corn Growers Association believes the current farm bill has worked. He said the 2002 farm bill is considered a critical component of most producers' risk management plans.
"The changes in farm support programs adopted in May of 2002 have proven to be more effective in delivering assistance to farmers when it is most needed; during periods of low commodity prices, adverse weather conditions and crop disease," he said in the farm bill analysis paper delivered to the committee.
"The new counter-cyclical payments (DCP) combined with direct payments (DP) and the marketing assistance loan (MAL) program have enhanced producers' ability to make long-term business decisions, including investments in ethanol production and other agriculture value-added opportunities."
Federal crop insurance also continues to be an important part of the safety net, he said, noting that following changes authorized by Congress in 2000, the program has seen a substantial increase in enrolled acreage and the average level of protection for multi-peril and revenue-based policies.
"Many of our members continue to express concern, however, that federal crop insurance remains too costly or provides insufficient protection," he said. "Because of the diverse production conditions across the Corn Belt, NCGA urges the committee to advance policy changes to expedite the research and development of enhanced revenue-based products or innovative program options."
Although the 2002 farm bill has performed well for most corn growers, Tumbleson said, the NCGA also believes the law has a serious flaw or "hole" in the safety net in three key areas:
For producers who have sustained large crop losses or repetitive years of shallow losses during the recent years of record harvests and low prices, the combination of direct payments, marketing loan deficiency payments and counter-cyclical payments have provided insufficient income protection, even with the purchase of crop insurance coverage at higher levels.
Growers who have found themselves in isolated areas of drought or other adverse weather conditions and unable to fully benefit from higher market prices, "cannot look to counter-cyclical payments to lessen the adverse impact of lost income and the drain on their financial assets," Tumbleson said.
NCGA also remains concerned about the traditional formula of crop disaster assistance in current and past legislation, which does little to fill those gaps in the farm safety net.
"By re-directing payments for losses already covered by federal crop insurance to a portion of uninsured losses, we believe reforms proposed by Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., would provide a more effective, sensible delivery of aid without compromising the objectives of our federal crop insurance program," he said.
Anticipating continued budget pressures and the timetable for writing a new farm bill, Tumbleson said, the NCGA undertook a careful review and analysis of the farm safety net in the 2002 farm law.
"Under the current structure, the distribution of support from direct payments, loan deficiency payments and counter-cyclical payments appears to be relatively balanced over time," he said. "Looking forward, changes in the corn industry, particularly an expanding ethanol industry, suggest a significant reduction in price-based support from loan deficiency payments and counter-cyclical payments.
"Projections for corn and other commodity markets by the Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute and other experts have underscored the need for NCGA and several affiliated state associations to investigate alternate safety net concepts for our members' consideration."
From those investigations, NCGA and the state associations have developed a preliminary proposal for a revenue-based safety net that "our initial analysis indicates would provide more effective net farm income protection factoring in price, yield and variable production expenses." The proposal includes the BRP and RCCP programs.
Tumbleson said the Base Revenue Protection program would guarantee that a grower's per acre, crop-specific net revenue would not fall below 70 percent of the previous five-year "Olympic" average of per-acre net revenue on a farm.
"The actual per-acre net revenue in any one year would be calculated by multiplying the actual farm level yield by a national market price and subtracting the variable costs of production estimated by USDA's Economic Research Service. A producer would then receive assistance if his net revenue falls below the guarantee."
Revenue Counter-cyclical Program payments would be triggered whenever the actual county revenue falls below the county revenue guarantee. The county guarantee under the NCGA proposal is set at 100 percent of the product of the effective target price — the target price less the direct payment — and the expected county yield.
The actual county revenue is determined using the season average price and the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service county yield, Tumbleson notes. Because RCCP and BRP are a package of programs, the maximum payment for RCCP is capped when the actual county revenue falls to 70 percent of the county revenue guarantee.
Coupled with the current direct payments and a recourse marketing loan program, the NCGA says, the BRP and RCCP programs would establish a more effective safety net structured to transfer considerable trade distorting support into a program exempt from WTO domestic support limits.
"In fact, BRP is designed to meet current WTO rules for income insurance and safety-net programs in the (WTO's) Green Box while the RCCP fits in the Amber Box," said Tumbleson. "This reform, alone, could potentially offer greater flexibility for other agriculture support spending reported as Amber Box support."
The revenue-based concept remains a work-in-progress, he said, "but NCGA is committed to reaching out to the other commodity groups to address their concerns as we further refine our proposal."
Among those concerns? Some group leaders have said they believe the 70-percent guarantee would also become the cap for farm income support, leaving producers far short of the income protection they need during times of low prices.
Although the agriculture committees of both houses of Congress have held field hearings, the farm policy review hearing in Washington was considered the kick-off for the real work of the committees in writing a farm bill to replace the 2000 law that expires Sept. 30, 2007.
Besides testimony from the leaders of the major farm organizations, the House Agriculture Committee's General Commodities Subcommittee also heard presentations from a number of leading agricultural economists.


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You have to walk before you can run, and before you can learn to walk, you have to take baby steps. Maybe that's what just happened in Washington with President Obama's budget proposal.
His 2014 plan, two months late and no doubt dead on arrival, includes "cuts" to Medicare and Social Security – "cuts" meaning that spending still would increase, but not as much as it would otherwise.
One notable change is in the way that Social Security benefit increases would be calculated. Currently, those amounts rely on the consumer price index, or CPI, and are based on inflation. If the price of steak increases a dollar, then the payments increase accordingly.
Obama's budget uses a formula known as "chained CPI," which takes into account the way consumers behave in real life. If the price of steak increases, then people buy more hamburger or chicken.
Predictably, the proposal has created a backlash among many Democrats and among seniors groups. A lot of seniors need that money, particularly for pharmaceuticals. Even before the proposal was released, the AARP for months has been running ads criticizing any CPI change.
By including chained CPI in his budget, Obama is making official a stance he lately has been taking when talking with Republican leaders. They have been saying for a while, at great political risk, that something needs to be done about Medicare and Social Security and even voted twice to change Medicare quite a bit. Those programs are growing unsustainably because we are aging as a society, living longer, and paying more for health care. Money would be available to deal with this, but the programs' trust funds have been raided for decades to pay for other government spending.
The government is now $16.8 trillion in debt and adding another $1 trillion each year lately – about $3,000 more debt annually for every American man, woman and child for a total debt of more than $50,000 for each of us.
In 2012, the federal government spent about $3.5 trillion. Of that, $1.2 trillion was spent on Social Security and Medicare. Add Medicaid, defense and interest on the national debt, and the total is $2.4 trillion – almost the same amount as was collected in taxes.
That means the federal government borrowed money to pay for almost everything else it did last year – the FBI, cancer research, Pell grants, highway construction, etc.
That's the spending perspective. On the tax side, we paid $2.4 trillion in 2012 and spent $3.5 trillion. That means we all were paying only two-thirds the taxes we should have, considering we as voters refuse to make Congress cut spending. That remaining one-third will be repaid, with interest, by our kids.
We should be ashamed.
You might think Republicans would be pleased that Obama has partly endorsed their way of thinking, but many say, correctly, that his proposals don't go far enough. On the other hand, Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, who leads the House Republicans' campaign committee, is going the other direction and saying Obama is attacking seniors. Obama's budget also includes tax increases on the wealthy, which Republicans are no longer in the mood to talk about after taxes on the wealthy were increased earlier this year.
So Democrats and Republicans, as usual, are not in a cooperative mood. That's why I called this a baby step.
Really, the most important thing that's happening isn't that Obama is proposing a particular policy change to Medicare and Social Security. It's that he's talking about the national debt in a serious way at all. This is a subject that ought to come up in presidential election years. It didn't, much, in 2012. In non-presidential election years, only the president can lay out such big picture challenges to the American people. So far, Obama often has chosen to capitalize on these problems rather than solve them.
At least we might actually have a national conversation about the national debt instead of all this baby talk. At this point, I could live with any combination of spending cuts and tax increases so long as it gets us to a balanced budget before too long so we can start paying down the debt. If the American people don't want to touch Social Security and Medicare, then that's fine, really. We'll have to increase taxes a lot and cut everything else a lot.
Either way, it's going to involve many difficult choices. But we're all adults, not babies, so we ought to be able to make them.
Steve Brawner is an independent journalist in Arkansas. His blog — Independent Arkansas — is linked at arkansasnews.com. His e-mail address is email@example.com

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The Rose Revolution
At just 23, Derrick Rose already has an MVP award, a $95 million contract, and a direct line to the White House, home of his number one fan. He also has Chicago—the city where he was born and bred—convinced that it's witnessing the second coming of you-know-who
Derrick Rose, the reigning NBA MVP, lives on the eighty-fourth floor of the Trump building in Chicago, one of the tallest buildings in the country, right up near the roof, with wall-length windows overlooking the city he rules, the only city he has ever known. The view is disorienting and all-encompassing, sort of like he's living on an observation deck of the Willis Tower, which happens to be right over there, one of the only points above us in the mess of verticals downtown.
Rose also has a home in Northbrook, by the Bulls' training complex, but he says he has that place mostly for convenience, so he doesn't have to drive back into the city after practice. Someday he'd like to have a house, "my real house," where he'll "have kids and just live in my spot." But he can't do that now, not even close. This condo, the one he just moved into about a month ago—it is almost entirely unfurnished; two of his bedrooms have no sheets on the beds and are filled with stacks of unopened bos—this is his escape for now. Eighty-four stories up in the sky, secured away.
"I like living here," he says. "They just try to make you comfortable. The people here, they are mostly from out of town; they don't know who I am. That's why I picked this place." (It's easy to understand why one would enjoy working in this building, too. When Rose orders two bottled waters for us during our chat, he hands the bellhop two $50 bills.) Presidents talk about how the White House begins to feel like a prison. Rose speaks the same way about the town that adores him. "It gets on my nerves that I just can't go out," he says. "It's just boundaries now. People are like, 'You can't go here, you can't go there, you got to let that person know where you're going.' It's just weird. I'm never alone. Ever."
The afternoon I visit his condo is a rare one for Rose during this truncated, lockout-compressed NBA schedule: a day off. Last night he played his first game in almost two weeks, and in the locker room post-buzzer, everyone desperately wanted to pick his brain. Rose had missed the last five Bulls outings with back spasms, but he certainly didn't look to be too agonized, scoring twenty-three points and notching six assists in a breezy 90–79 victory over the Atlanta Hawks. In one memorable sequence, he sidewinded himself through several Hawks defenders, pulled the ball above his head, absorbed contact, and then spun it just so, kissing the backboard and splashing through. He fell hard to the floor, popped up, and sunk the free throw. The back was feeling better.
Postgame, there were probably three dozen media members laser-focused on Rose's locker, from WGN to the Chicago Tribune to someone whose credentials seemed to say "MARS." Before too long the crowd grew even more robust, at least five people deep in a semicircle around Rose's chair. With the mess of Fourth Estaters spreading farther and farther out to the middle of the room, the odds I'd hear a word Rose said were approaching zero. I strained, I jumped, I peered, but nothing.
Just then, a Bulls rep burst into the room. "He's not coming, you guys," he said. "He already left." The media horde did this collective shoulder sag and, like the ripple from a drop of water, dispersed randomly in all directions from Rose's locker. They'd been packed in so tightly in anticipation of his appearance that I'd had no idea he was not, in fact, at his locker. Derrick Rose is surrounded even when he isn't there.
Nick Friedell, the Bulls beat reporter for ESPN Chicago, walked toward me and looked as though he'd seen some mythical creature, maybe a chupacabra. "He has almost never done that since I started working this beat," he said. "I'm stunned." Friedell joined some of his regular colleagues, and the conversation turned to how Michael Jordan never pulled this, how he always made an appearance no matter what. Off to the side, reserve point guard John Lucas III, the unfortunate soul saddled with the locker next to Rose's, politely nudged his way through the morass and dropped his towel.
In his condo, I ask Rose why he blew off the media the night before. He sighs and forces a wan smile. He has been expecting this question, if not necessarily so soon. "It was just too much," he says. "I just couldn't do it. I just couldn't deal with it. There were so many people. I saw them there from the other room. And when I thought about having to go in there, I just couldn't work my way up to it." He pauses and takes a sip of water. His eyes go somewhere beyond my left ear. "There were so many of them. I hope they'll forget about it."
A little later, Rose shifts to thinking about the twenty-four hours he has entirely to himself. "This is gonna be the best day," he says, smiling widely. "Some friends may come over. I might get on the phone. That's it. It makes me superhappy to have this whole day to myself, to be a little selfish, to eat whatever I want, to not have anyone asking me to do things. When you get a chance to have a day like today, you have to take advantage of it." But after I leave, he plans to exploit this rare opportunity by going nowhere.
As the star of a top team in a league that markets individuals more than any other sport in America (a league that has long had a reputation of harboring the hardest-partying athletes in America), Rose bristles at the thought of going out. In one way, this is refreshing. He just wants to do his own thing. But the more I think about it—the more I hear Rose talk about how little he enjoys interacting with strangers, how desperately he misses being able to walk around unnoticed, how mournful he gets when the topic of "attention" is breached, how obviously uncomfortable he is even in basic social situations outside his immediate circle—it strikes me as unbearably sad.
It's another reason his one salvation is on a basketball court, where he can focus on winning and nothing else. ("He came packaged like that," his agent, BJ Armstrong, says. "That box was already packaged. That is who he is.") But even that's becoming a problem. Because the thing that Derrick Rose likes to do more than anything else in the world—winning basketball games—is making it more and more dicult to avoid the thing he dislikes more than anything in the world. "Don't get me wrong. I don't take anything for granted," he says. "But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can't get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I'm in a bind. The more you win, the more they come."
Rose has gone from wide-eyed freshman at the University of Memphis to one of the most recognizable athletes in the world in the span of about four years. Only Jeremy Lin, who made a comparable journey in approximately ten days, can possibly eclipse that sort of rise to megafame, and even he's older than Rose. Last season, at 22, Rose became the youngest ever NBA MVP; he has played in three All-Star games in his first four seasons; he is the signature star and unquestioned leader of one of the best teams in the NBA.
And he is doing all this in the city where he was born, where he sprouted his first mustache, a place he has really only ever left for away games. Chicago has a proud, historic basketball tradition, from Isiah Thomas to Dwyane Wade to George Mikan. But none of those guys ever played for the Bulls. And none of them, not even Wade, are nearly as electrifying. Derrick Rose is as much a Chicago hero today as Barack Obama.
When you watch a Chicago Bulls game, your eyes immediately smash-cut to Rose, no matter what else is going on, no matter where the ball is. It's as if he's glowing. Rose has an extra, automatic step, a palpable pep that often creates the illusion that he has tiny pogo sticks in his shoes. (One suspects Adidas, which just signed Rose to a "lifetime" contract reportedly worth more than $200 million, would like it if I claimed that he does.) Rose can pass and shoot and rebound (despite standing "just" six-feet-three), but Derrick Rose is Derrick Rose because of the way he drives the lane.
Simply put, Rose does things in midair leaps to the basket that break physical laws of accepted human behavior. To watch those moves in real time is to not do them justice. Rose's brilliance is such that slow motion is required to understand what, exactly, is going on up there—the same way you need to change frame rate to comprehend fully how a gun fires a bullet or a hummingbird flaps its wings. Rose seems able to control every muscle of his body while in midair: He's able to move past, over, and sometimes under defenders, almost always drawing contact. And he still finishes the play; Rose spins the ball on layups as if he's bowling on ice. My favorite ever was a dunk over then Knick Danilo Gallinari last season in which Rose appeared to speed up three-quarters of the way to the rim; it looked like someone dropped him from the rafters. His ability to finish is such a leap in basketball evolution that it feels like a mutation.
"When we used to play in the park," he says, "there were no fouls, so that's why I shoot the crazy shots I do. Because I knew I was gonna get fouled, but I still got to make the shot."
Rose grew up on the South Side of Chicago, in the Englewood neighborhood, one of the most notoriously dangerous communities in the country. (In 1991, when Rose was 2 years old, Englewood suffered ninety-nine murders. It's also the childhood home of Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, whose mother, brother, and 7-year-old nephew were murdered there in 2008.) Rose is the youngest of four brothers raised by a single mother. His talent was apparent at once and, by a family in challenging circumstances, nurtured and harbored as if it were the only hope on earth. "The people who are there for me have always been there for me," he says.
The stories of how Rose's family—his mother, Brenda, and his three brothers, Dwayne, Reggie, and Allan—protected him and one another are part of the Rose Legend at this point. How drug dealers were often more afraid of Brenda than any rival gangs, how the three brothers made certain Derrick was never left alone with untoward outside influences, how they created their own AAU team for Derrick so they'd be able to monitor all his comings and goings. The family heavily influenced his choice of both high school and college, protecting Rose against hardship and failure to such a degree that it's suspected someone else took his SATs. (Based on this charge, the University of Memphis vacated all its wins in Rose's one season with the team.) You can make a strong argument that Rose has been under protection since the moment he picked up a basketball.
"I was the best kid in my neighborhood at a young age," he says. "My whole life. I was always the one everyone was talking about. I've never really wanted the attention, but it has always been there."
The way the story is generally told, this attention and shelter is what saved Derrick from suffering the same sad fate as many Chicago basketball prospects—from Ben Wilson (a top-tier high school recruit who was shot and killed in 1984) to Ronnie Fields (the Chicago Public League legend who suffered a serious car accident, lost his shot at a scholarship, and never made the NBA) to Jereme Richmond (the former Illinois forward who pleaded guilty to unlawful use of a weapon just this year). And yet for better or worse, Rose has essentially been walled off from the rest of the planet his entire life. He has always been the person around whom pieces have revolved, but he has never been the one actively commanding those pieces to move. It has turned him into a quiet person, the one guy in any room who's always listening. This has brought its own advantages.
"I have said his greatest asset, his greatest quality, is that he is a phenomenal, phenomenal listener," BJ Armstrong says. Armstrong, who played on three of those Jordan championship teams, is now one of Rose's closest mentors. "He listens. He is able to take information, decipher what is important, decipher what is not important, and gets to the crux, right to the heart of what is going on right there."
Rose calls this going into stealth mode. "I was always the kid who didn't say too much, and people didn't think I knew that much," he says. "But I always knew everything that was going on in the room and always knew my surroundings."
I suggest that this is the sort of skill that might benefit someone who plays his particular position. "Oh, for sure. Paying attention to detail, that's part of being a point guard."
Rose is in charge when he's on the basketball court, but not in the way Michael Jordan, or even Magic Johnson, was. Jordan was the alpha dog who willed his teammates into submission; Magic was the host of a perpetual party everyone desperately wanted to be invited to. Rose's game is that of the covert observer, the assessor, the one who sits back, takes stock of the situation, finds the holes to attack, and then pounces. His game is aggressive, but only in a reactive fashion; he waits for you to show him your hand. Every game he is reading the defense the way you might survey strangers at a party.
"I can read people very well just from watching the things you do, just by how people talk," he says. "I'm quiet, so I'll sit here and not say anything and watch you for a couple of minutes, and I can tell what you're about." I ask the question I think anyone would in this situation. "I'm not a dick, am I?"
Rose smiles. "Oh no. Trust me: I'm very good at reading people."
This actually makes me feel better.
The people of Chicago love Derrick Rose like he is family. I mean that in a literal sense. They have watched him grow up.
A new feature on the Bulls JumboTron repeatedly flashes the word Pooh—Rose's nickname as a kid. It is part Rose highlight video, part yearbook montage. Natalie Cole's "This Will Be" plays in the background as we see Rose transform from local high school standout to NBA MVP. The team also plays a sequence of videos that show a history of Bulls greats before transitioning to the current stars. This allows the not-so-subtle jump to be made from Michael Jordan to Derrick Rose on a nightly basis, especially when one of Rose's highlights shows him pulling off a signature layup and the camera pans to Jordan, who's sitting courtside. Michael Jordan was never of Chicago—his goal was to be more of a global superstar—but the city loved how he essentially became Chicago's public face nonetheless. With Rose, though, it's different. With Rose, you sense that the city, like everyone else in his life, feels obliged to protect him.
Unlike every other basketball player I've ever spoken to, Rose does not shy from comparisons to Jordan. "I've run into him a couple of times, but we don't have a relationship," he says. "His titles drive me. I'm not scared of him; if anything, it makes me work harder when I do train."
One Chicago icon for whom Rose does genuflect? President Obama. The famously Bulls-crazy POTUS has an open dialogue with Rose. "I know that if I really wanted him to come out and support an event I'm going to in Chicago," Rose says, "I know it could probably get done."
Last year, the president asked Rose to introduce him at a fund-raising event. Rose sweated it in a way he's never sweated a game. "That was my first time ever speaking to that type of crowd," he says. "I was so nervous and scared. Just a two- or three-minute thing, but, like, thousands of people were there. I was nervous as hell...but I got it done, and it helped me being more vocal, too, by doing that." One difference between Rose and other athletes who have palled around with the prez is that Rose has known him since back when. "I remember when he wasn't our president, when I was a kid, when he'd just be walking down the street, a state senator. He was just always there. I didn't appreciate it then. I was in high school and just wanted to see rappers."
Anytime his Englewood days come up, we return to the matter of Rose's inner circle. He has an actual physical number of people he says he trusts most—ten. "There's seven of us," he says of himself and his oldest friends, plus his brothers and his mom. That's it. "Longest I've known one of my friends is third grade. Most recent, seven years. They tell me the truth. They're not yes-men."
And even though the story of where he's from is part of his lore, he estimates it's been the better part of a year since he's been in the old neighborhood. "I just remember being there my rookie year, going back and being parked outside my friend's house," he says. "All of a sudden everybody within a couple of blocks just came to where I was. It was crazy. I appreciated it. I felt good. But you're not the same person, and that's what you've got to realize."
The problem now is that he's not just a child of Englewood—the sentiment extends to the greater city, as well. "Sometimes it's too much. Chicago..." He pauses. He is careful to say this just right. "Chicago isn't used to stardom. Back when Michael was here, everyone was used to actors and singers and people being at the games. But there's been a drought since then, and even celebrities, they'll stop here to film a movie and then pop right back out. They don't know how to act toward celebrity. So I always have someone with me. I can have a hat on, glasses on, whatever. People still notice me. If I go outside without a hat on, I feel like I'm naked." Rose can have the entire world, as long as he doesn't leave his home. "This life doesn't fit my personality."
This year, the playoffs, particularly in the Eastern Conference, come down to two teams: the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat. They claim two of the NBA's best records, three of the league's most marketable superstars, and, most notably, an inflamed recent history: Last year, the Heat blasted Rose's Bulls in the Eastern Conference finals, the most crushing loss of Rose's nascent career. It's clear he's still not over it and that it has driven him every minute since.
It's all about Bulls vs. Heat, and this'll probably be the case for the next four or five years. Both teams are young, hypertalented, and standing firmly in each other's way. Rose says he wants to win multiple championships with the Bulls. Of course, those Miami guys are thinking the same thing. "They're a team that we're not going to be able to go around," Rose says. "For us to win, we're going to have to go through them every year."
In January, the Bulls traveled to Miami to play their highest-profile game of the season, a precursor to the series everyone knows is destined. It was also the kind of game the NBA lives to market: superstar vs. superstar. Even better, it was Phenom Who Does It the Right Way (Rose) vs. the Black Hat of the NBA (LeBron). (This is also known as the game in which LeBron, forever looking for public-relations scores, famously rode his bike to the arena.) LeBron doesn't yet seem to comprehend why the sports world has turned on him, but Rose, who says he doesn't really know LeBron, understands the tale as a cautionary one. He grasps that it was The Decision alone that created LeBron's new reality. "It happened overnight with him, and it was sad to see somebody go through that," he says. "It would hurt anyone to see your hometown turn on you like that. I don't know how I would have dealt with it. He is obviously playing great still...but everybody's different."
From the opening tip, AmericanAirlines Arena was ablaze. "You could just tell at the beginning that this was going to be an exciting, playoff-atmosphere game," Rose says later. "The players were into it, the coaches were into it, and the buzz of the game was crazy. That's why I love playing the sport."
Rose picked up two fouls early and was forced to sit, while the first quarter was highlighted by an alley-oop in which LeBron literally jumped over poor John Lucas III—who I'm starting to realize is a bit of an unwitting foil in this story. Rose eventually returned and took control, driving, twisting, doing those reckless-but-not-really contortions at the rim that not even LeBron (who has five inches and at least sixty pounds on Rose) can contest.
It is worth noting, by the way, that Heat fans demonstratively prefer Dwyane Wade to LeBron James. James may be the best player in the league by the numbers, but he's not first (and maybe not even second) in his own fans' hearts. Fans can always tell, really.
With six minutes left, Bulls trailing, an audible murmur came up from the crowd when, in a defensive switch, LeBron moved over to guard Rose. I straightened up in my own seat...
And then both players managed to stink up the joint. Rose missed a couple of key foul shots, and then LeBron missed two free throws of his own. Just before time expired, Bulls down two, Rose missed a heavily guarded turnaround jumper to finish off the anticlimactic comedy of errors.
After the game, LeBron signed on to Twitter to tell the world, "Man what a game! So fun and blessed to be apart of it! C'mon #6 make your d*mn free-throws!! Bulls are a great team!! Dog fight every time!" (Rose isn't on Twitter. "One of my friends, he's on there because of girls," he says. "But I don't got Twitter.")
The contrast with LeBron is one everyone loves to make, and Rose doesn't mind it himself. But Rose is as beloved now as LeBron was before The Decision. Does he worry that someday he might get LeBron'd himself?
"I won't ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me," he says. "I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason. I'm very mature for 23 years old, and I know that whatever I do can hurt someone."
The day before the Miami game, I talked with Rose in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel. It was the first time I met him, and he was obviously exhausted from a late-arriving flight and the endless travel of this year's NBA season. It was more an introduction than an interview, but we chatted for twenty minutes anyway. Various Bulls walked past us in the lobby, heading out for a night on the town. I asked Rose if he'd be joining them later.
"Oh God, no," he said. "I absolutely cannot wait until I get up to that room." This got me thinking: When was the last time that Rose—a man who lives with two friends in his condo, who is constantly being told where he needs to be and when—was actually alone in a room? He paused and frowned. "I really don't know. Right now, I guess. As soon as I head up." I ended our conversation there. It seemed like the least I could do.
As I walked out onto the street, I ran into a group of about fifteen people who hadn't been there when I'd walked in. While Rose and I had been talking, the gaggle of fans had run up to the window to snap camera pics and wave and scream. I'd been facing Rose and had no idea they'd been there.
One of the fans, who actually asked for my autograph (brief proximity to celebrity being what it is on the open market), was surprisingly pissy about his "interaction" with Rose. "I dunno, he looked like kind of an asshole," Jon said. (He said his name was Jon. That's all I got.) "We stood there for fifteen minutes trying to get his attention, and he didn't even look at us. Guys like that never remember the fans."
The next time I see Rose, in Philadelphia three days later, I ask if he'd caught a glimpse of the crowd. "Oh, I saw them," he says, shaking his head. Waving and snorting, right over my shoulder, was the antagonist that makes him sometimes wonder whether basketball is worth it, the reason he's afraid to leave his home; he'd been facing them the whole time. And yet he hadn't let on in the slightest. He'd bottled up the anxiety and stared, stone-faced, right back.
_Will Leitch is a contributing editor at _New York magazine.


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WSJ medical reporter Ron Winslow looks at the causes of and prognosis for a broken tibia, the injury suffered by University of Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware. Photo: Getty Images
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"During this dark time of year, we see lights everywhere," Elizabeth House chaplain Jane McKown said Friday night as Four Seasons illuminated the hospice for the 23rd annual Tree of Lights celebration.
"We light candles to celebrate our religious traditions of celebrating love and light," McKown said. "These candles not only bring beauty to our surroundings, but also a flicker of hope."
Each year, Four Seasons hosts a holiday event and fundraiser for its patients and families. Six hundred luminaries were inscribed with the names of loved ones who have passed, in a show of remembrance.
"While some of us are caught up in the excitement of the holiday season, others may be finding ourselves wishing we could just go to sleep and awaken sometime after January," McKown said. "Holiday traditions may bring us comfort and joy, but others bring sadness because they remind us of a loved one who is not celebrating with us this year."
The event raised $80,000 to support the cost of care and programs provided by the hospice.
"When you really consider (that) the cost of care for a patient a day is about $150, it allows us to do a lot within our community, especially for those who don't have the means," Vice President of Sustainable Resources Derek Groves said.
This is the second year Four Seasons has hosted the event at the hospice.
"The event is really emotional for our families every year," Groves said. "When we were on Main Street, we needed to clean up because it wasn't our home."
Moving back to their homestead, Groves said, allows families to meet with bereavement counselors and spend as much time as they want with their luminary.
"We miss being on Main Street and loved being a part of that, but it was just the right thing for our families at the time," Groves added.
State Farm agent Judy Stroud found herself trying to navigate her mother's end-of-life care earlier in the year. Her mother, Mary Stroud Pittman, was living in Marion, but because Buncombe County's hospice facility was full, she was able to be taken care of at Four Seasons, close to Stroud's home.
"When you have someone that's been in a long-term care facility - my mom had been for five-and-a-half years - and they did relatively well, but the last month they really just sort of forgot her, and so when we got here she was at that point that we knew the end was inevitable and it was close," Stroud said.
Stroud's mother lived out her last eight days at Elizabeth House.
"She passed easily and they made everything very comforting, and they were always concerned with her needs and our needs as a family, and they couldn't have done more," Stroud said.
Her mother passed on Valentine's Day. Since then, Stroud has joined the board of directors for Four Seasons and said she wants to give back to the community that gave so much to her family.
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Ridgway native Brian T. Bowers is now an Associate Director at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital Pharmacy at Oregon State University, College of Veterinary Medicine in Corvallis, Oreg. A 2003 Ridgway Area High School graduation, Bowers continued his education by attending St. Vincent College in Latrobe. He then did his Pharmacy program at Duquesne University. Bowers graduated in 2009 as a PharmD from Duquesne University, Mylan School of Pharmacy.Currently, Bowers resides in Albany, Oreg. He works as a Veterinary Pharmacist. Bowers says a large part of his job is to verify prescription orders written by the veterinarians at the college. "The prescription orders I fill and verify are for a variety of patients; among them are dogs, cats, horses, cows, goats and llamas," Bowers said. "One of the best parts of my day is just reading the names of the animals that the prescriptions are written for." In addition to verifying prescriptions, Bowers is also an unclassified faculty member for the college. "I have currently taught two lectures up until this point to the sophomore veterinary students about regulatory/legal concepts and drug compounding," Bowers said. "This job also provides much potential for me as a pharmacist, because Oregon State University also has a Pharmacy School, where I may have occasional duties there."Thankful for where he is now, Bowers credits the work he has done up until this point. "Much of the reason why I am here is due to my career background on what I have done up until this point," said Bowers. "I worked as an intern for CVS/pharmacy during my student years at Duquesne University and worked for them as a pharmacist upon graduation."Bowers elaborates further on the steps he took before his career and how it helped decipher what he wanted to do with his education. "I worked in Southern Ohio as a floater/staff pharmacist for CVS/pharmacy and decided that I wanted to do a residency to help further my career options," he said. "I came back to Duquesne University to become a Clinical Ambulatory Care Resident."Here, Bowers said he became accustomed with giving immunizations, teaching lectures, presenting patient cases and working in other fields of pharmacy practice. "This allowed me to broaden my experience as a pharmacist and it proved to be very beneficial to get me to where I am at now," Bowers said. "I also could not have gotten to this point without the many great co-workers I have gotten to know and work with throughout my time at these positions." Growing up in Elk County has played a vital role in creating who Bowers is today. "Growing up in this county meant a lot to me and still does," Bowers said. "There are many things that I loved about growing up in Elk County; I will always remember certain parts of my life that are irreplaceable and consider myself lucky to have lived them." Thinking of growing up in Elk County brings about many memories for Bowers. "Playing the game of soccer, learning what it means to pray and go to church, working at Fox's Pizza, coming home to see my dogs and my family, having two brothers to fight with, going for truck rides out in the woods, shooting a basketball around, cooking food on the grill, having a campfire, riding the four-wheeler just to name a few," Bowers said. "When I wasn't doing these, you could probably count on me being out in the woods. I would always be hunting and fishing with my mother, father, brothers or uncles."This has all helped me to recognize the value of what I do in life and to not take it for granted. It helped shape my character of who I am today." When he gets home to visit, Bowers says he wants the opportunity to enjoy the fine outdoors by hunting and fishing with his family. "Deer hunting has always been a fun time or maybe a fishing trip up Toby Creek," Bowers said. "These trips would not be too focused, but just to pass some time and relax. I also would like to sit around and visit with family, our pets, and friends."Those who remain in Elk County are his grandmother, Catherine Bowers, and grandmother Sonya Wright, who both reside in Ridgway, along with many aunts and uncles. Bowers' parents, Thomas and Susan Bowers, along with his brother Paul, live in Brookville. His other brother, David Bowers, lives in Akron, Ohio.


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About 80 percent of the roads in the Town of Niagara will be repaved in a five-year plan proposed by Supervisor Steve Richards at Tuesday's Town Board meeting.
The plan also would bring improvements to town parks and upgrades at the town's Highway Department building.
Richards indicated the plan would not be a burden to taxpayers, and added that he intends to be around to see the project to fruition.
Shoppers paying sales tax in the town's growing business districts, not residents, would help pay for the project, Richards said. He noted that new businesses are in the works and to expect some press releases by about the middle of September.
"It's a great idea. I wholeheartedly support it," said Councilman Danny Sklarski. "This benefits not only the taxpayers, but businesses."
The road repair project would be the biggest in the town since 1980, Richards said. He and the town engineer and highway superintendent will meet to analyze all town roads, prioritize repairs by road condition and develop a master plan that "takes the politics out of road repairs," he said. A bond anticipation note would be sought to start to pay for the project, and everything should be in place to begin work in the spring of 2013.
Richards pointed out that the town's recent audit showed that the town's pay-as-you-go philosophy has given it one of the lowest long-term debt loads in the county. As of Dec. 31, 2011, long-term debt was $1.135 million and short-term debt was $650,000.
Richards plans road repaving and upgrades to outlying parks in each of the five years between 2013 and 2017. In addition, in 2014, grants would be sought for energy efficiency upgrades to the town garage. In 2015, the town garage roof would be replaced.
Also, the community center project in Veterans Memorial Park on Lockport Road, delayed this year after bids came in higher than expected, will be revived under Richards' plan. Currently, there is $2.5 million in the town's community center fund. Richards expects that amount to be $4.1 million by 2016.
"We will embark on our planned expansion of our community center by paying half of the project with cash and the remaining payments will be paid by proceeds from our settlement with NYPA (New York Power Authority), at no cost to our taxpayers," he said.
Richards said he and the board will continue to try to keep the town budgets as low as possible. Residents will only see property taxes increase in the future due to increased costs such as employee benefits, wages and unfunded state mandates, he said.
Richards said he plans on seeing these projects through and, health permitting, beyond.
In his 17th year and fifth term in office, he is the town's longest-serving supervisor.
"Over the last several months, I have received many letters, phone calls and personal notes asking me to stay and see my dream through," he said. "This year's bicentennial celebration gave me new energy and recharged me to move this town forward to a brighter tomorrow."
In other matters:
•Two resolutions narrowly passed by a 3-2 vote, with Councilman Charles Teixeira and Robert Clark voting against them.
The first was a resolution to donate the use of the community center in Veterans Memorial Park for a Sept. 29 benefit to be held for Vincent Parker, a youth injured in an automobile accident.
Teixeira and Clark said they were afraid that donating the use of the facility would set a precedent, which could cause problems in the future. Teixeira said he didn't think that would be fair to taxpayers. He said that because the event was a good cause, he was willing to personally donate $25 toward the $100 rental fee.
The second resolution that met opposition was allowing Joe Cecconi's Chrysler Complex to park cars on a lot the company is purchasing in front of the former Rosa's store.
Clark said a special use permit should be required. Teixeira wanted to know if the lot would be secured. Councilman Marc Carpenter's suggestion was approved, providing that instead of tabling the resolution, a three-month limit be put on the resolution so a representative of the business could come in and discuss the matter with the board.
•The board accepted the resignation of Terry Eisemann from its Planning Board. Eisemann has moved out of town. Richards said anyone interested in filling the vacant seat should send a resume to the town clerk.
The board also appointed Kimberly Meisenburg as secretary to the Planning Board.
•The board approved the request of Ronald J. Hogan, project manager of Geo-Marine Inc. to use Haseley Drive while construction of the new fire training tower at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station is under way.
•The board approved the court settlement of the tax case for 2740 Service Road (Expressway Village). Town Attorney Michael Risman said the facility went from 120 to 95 pads, so the fair market assessment was reduced from $2.7 million to $2.1 million.
•The board approved the highest bid of $900 from Firth Jewelers for unclaimed jewelry recovered by the police department.
•The board approved the request of Helmel Engineering Products Inc. to construct an addition to be used for storage space at the existing building at 6520 Lockport Road.
•The board approved the requests of Richard Kindzia for four special use permits to operate a detail shop, an auto mechanic shop, a boat wrapping shop and to sell used cars at 8821 Porter Road.


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Saturday, June 22, 2013
Italy vs Brazil
One of the most anticipated matches of the Confederations Cup will take place Saturday in Salvador when Group A co-leaders Italy and Brazil clash in Salvador.
Italy will be without Daniele de Rossi through suspension, and Andrea Pirlo is also likely to miss out after picking up a muscle injury.
On the other side of the ball, Brazil will have to make do without Paulinho, who has an ankle problem, while David Luiz (broken nose) is also unlikely to feature.
Having picked up yellow cards against both Mexico and Japan, Daniele De Rossi is suspended for the Azzurri whilst Andrea Pirlo is ruled out with a calf injury.
Claudio Marchisio and Alberto Aquilani are likely to deputise in the duo's absence whilst Prandelli must also decide who to play behind Mario Balotelli.
The 55-year-old coach could opt to rest Emanuele Giaccherini with Stephan El Shaarawy, Alessandro Diamanti and Sebastian Giovinco, who scored the winning goal against Japan, all vying for starting berths.
As for Brazil, David Luiz has been declared fit to start despite breaking his nose in the 2-0 win over Mexico and there is further good news for the Selecao as the in-form Neymar has shaken off a slight thigh injury.
However, Paulinho is unlikely to be risked by Scolari after the Corinthians midfielder suffered a minor ankle sprain and his place could be taken by Lazio's Hernanes.
Elsewhere, Hulk has failed to impress in the opening two matches and his spot on the right wing could be taken by PSG youngster Lucas Moura as Scolari looks to give some of his younger players international experience.
Italy have not tasted victory against the Selecao for over 30 years. A Paolo Rossi hat-trick guided the Azzurri to a 3-2 win in the 1982 World Cup.
A double from Luis Fabiano (pictured, right) and an own goal from Andrea Dossena gave Brazil a 3-0 victory over Italy in the 2009 Confederations Cup - a tournament they later went on to win.
A 2-1 victory against Mexico before Wednesday's 4-3 thriller against Japan ensured that Italy advanced to the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup for the first time in their history.
Current holders Brazil are the most successful side in the history of the tournament, with Luiz Felipe Scolari's team bidding for their fourth title.
The Selecao famously defeated the Azzurri on penalties to win the World Cup in 1994.
Brazil have only suffered one competitive defeat on home soil in the last 50 years - a 3-1 defeat to Peru in Belo Horizante at the 1975 Copa America.
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In Win has become well known lately, having released some great cases within the last year or two. Today Legit Reviews has a look at In-Win's latest addition from their "Destiny Extreme Series" line up, the Dragon Rider. Drawing its look from the medieval age, the Dragon Rider is designed to protect and keep even the most demanding components cool. This beast is prepared for E-ATX motherboards along with great features such as USB 3.0 capability, a 220mm side fan and an enlarged CPU cutout hole. The In-Win Dragon Rider is also priced at $159.99, which puts it directly in competition with other full tower cases such as the HAF series and Antec's full towers.
Here's a little about In-Win and their view on the Dragon Rider:
"With elegance, power and control firmly in its grasp, the Dragon Rider is designed to protect and cool even the most demanding of components. Enveloped totally in black, the dark design is only punctuated with bolts of striking yellow to create a subtle but distinct appearance. The unique side panel shield design creates the necessary space for tidy cable routing and multiple fan mounting points for up to 11x 120mm fans make it the ultimate chassis for cooling customization. Pre-fitted with a large 220mm side fan for effective graphics card cooling, the Dragon Rider also features additional front, top and rear fans for fantastic cooling potential. With the latest eSATA and USB 3.0 front panel ports, a back-supported CPU cooler removal hole, anti-vibration hard drive rails and tool-free installation, the large E-ATX Dragon Rider is packed with the latest enthusiast-class case features."
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One may look and see that the In-Win Dragon Rider looks familiar to another case we reviewed earlier this year, the In Win Dragon Slayer. Obviously, size is a big difference between the two but they do share the same medieval theme which, I have to say, looks pretty cool.
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The first eliminations: 20 dancers enter, 16 leave -- or four dancers leave, however you'd like to put it.
The six dancers with the least support from the voting audience, will be at risk tonight. The judges will save one boy and one girl from the long sad walk home.
Cat Deeley welcomes us and leaves us to the tender mercies of Cyrus in creepy half-skull makeup demanding to be shown beauty in a wicked way. All 20 dancers are on the floor; the girls are in flowy bits of red or black and the boys appear to be wearing black sequins and half a jacket. I
'm calling the dance a steampunk-inspired worship of Zuul. Graveyard setting is implied.
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JOICO to Launch Interactive Training, Award Prizes
Joico's new JET program (Joico Education Technology) takes a page from the world of fun – and addictive – interactive gaming. The Joico JET program is dedicated to improving product knowledge at the first tier of influential product experts: retail sales professionals. When consumers decide what to buy the last person they consult, the one at the point of decision is the retail sales professional.
The Joico JET platform builds effective product knowledge in retail sales professionals with highly effective, online training services. Designed as a fun and interactive, on-line learning platform, Joico JET is meant to encourage Joico education and training via engaging bite-sized learning modules designed to graduate Joico store employees, DSCs and educators through various product-focused learning modules easily accessible on-line, through either their home or office PC.
"In our industry, it's really a small group of influential product experts that affect almost all consumer purchase decisions. They're the retail sales professionals at your favorite store, employees of the company that makes products you love, or the people whose livelihood depends on the quality of products they use every day," says Angelia Polsinelli, Sr. Director of North American Education for Joico/ISO/Minardi, and spearhead for this new program. "When deciding what to buy, consumers want these trusted experts - armed with deep product knowledge that comes from effective training and first-hand experience - to guide them to the products that are best for them, and JET will help train and continuously support them to truly be these experts."
Users receive prizes for completing each training learning module, and daily active users are automatically submitted in quarterly grand prize drawings. With this simple yet engaging tool, members receive the benefit of becoming product experts, leading to better sales, as well as wealth of prizes and give-a-way incentives, just for learning about Joico products.
Joico JET launches in March first to personnel at stores, and district sales consultants for BSG as well as Armstrong McCall, State Beauty, Peerless, Emiliani, Paramount and others. The program launches to National Accounts later in the summer.
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NWSportsBeat.com senior editor "Q" is back with another college basketball preview for this weekend. This time its the Seattle Redhawks (2-6) vs Utah State Aggies (4-5) on Saturday from Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. Utah State's best player is guard Brockeith Pane. He is leading the Aggies in scoring.
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Super Bowl 'Noah' Trailer Makes Waves Online
The new trailer for Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" will be featured during this weekend's Super Bowl, but the clip of Russell Crowe's Biblical epic can already be seen online.
Crowe stars as Noah, who builds an ark for his family and the world's animals to save them from an impending flood. Emma Watson plays Ila, Noah's daughter, and Jennifer Connolly plays Naameh, Noah's wife (reunited Crowe and Connolly, who played husband and wife in the 2001 film "A Beautiful Mind"). Ray Winstone is Tubal Cain, Noah's nemesis, and Anthony Hopkins stars as Methuselah, Noah's grandfather.
Filmed in New York and Iceland, the Paramount film is set for release March 28. Watch the trailer after the jump.


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This is an activity about the properties and characteristics of Earth's magnetic field as shown through magnetometer data and its 3D vector nature. This resource builds understanding of conceptual tools such as the addition of vectors and... (View More) interpreting contour maps displaying magnetic signature data. Learners will make several paper 3D vector addition models, watch podcasts on how to analyze magnetometer data, and employ 3D vector plots to create a model of the 3D magnetic field in the location of the magnetometer closest to their town. This is a multi-step activity with corresponding worksheets for each step. The activity uses data from the THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) GEONS magnetometer, and requires the use of a computer with internet access and speakers, 2-inch polystyrene balls and bamboo skewers. This is activity 16 from Exploring Magnetism: Earth's Magnetic Personality. (View Less)
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The following is a press release from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs demonstrating once again Israel's disproportionate contribution to scientific research aimed at benefiting all mankind.
Meteorite fragments that caused injuries and panic in the former Soviet Union in February alerted international governments to the importance of interstellar warning systems to help avert the next catastrophe.
Now new research from Israel exposes and partially explains a previously unknown phenomenon in the universe that could have people in the future packing up and moving to another solar system before our sun explodes into a supernova – a dying star that brightens as it ejects most of its mass.
Led by Eran Ofek of the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Israeli researchers discovered that before stars get to the supernova stage, they undergo a "mini-explosion," tossing out a chunk of their mass into outer space. Never before have scientists tracked this mini-explosion down to weeks before a star dies.
Considered the most powerful explosions in the universe, star burnouts happen for two reasons: the star runs out of fuel suddenly, or consumes too much mass from a nearby star. Up until now, astrophysicists were able to "see" and record these rare events in the cosmos, but were not able to predict in advance when these powerful explosions would happen.
For scientists, this new research provides insight into the end of stars' lives and suggests a new early-warning alert system could be in place to detect when a star will die - about 40 days before it goes supernova.
In the study, Ofek and an international team looked at four supernovas and then pored over retroactive data to find a link to a previous event. Their analysis found that a small outburst could be detected 40 days before the star fatally exploded.
This model may be used in the future to predict fairly accurately when a star will explode. For now, it is of interest to stargazers and astrophysicists, but in the future knowing when a star explodes could open the door to new realms of possibilities -- for renewable energy, for instance.
That's because the "small" preliminary explosion amounts to a huge energy "leak" resulting from a buildup of radiation inside the star.
According to data Ofek and his team described in the February issue of Nature, some 40 days before the final explosion, a star they were observing released as much matter as 3,330 Earths, or one percent of the sun. The energy was traveling at 7.2 million km/h.
Yet there are no textbooks that can describe this new phenomenon, and in the scheme of things it may not be earth-shattering. "It's big, but it's not monumental," says Ofek. "This whole subject is pretty new and we don't understand it very well. And it's too early to say what will come from it. First we want to understand the physical mechanism [of the mini-explosion], and continue to speculate about a possible mechanism."
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2011 Wabash Day - Coloradoby John Panozzo, '89 • October 17, 2011 Share:
The Colorado Association of Wabash Men enjoyed another successful Wabash Day on a glorious fall afternoon in Golden, Colorado. This was our third year partnering with the Jeffco Action Center, a non-profit organization which provides human services and basic needs to the less fortunate in Jefferson County. We had 14 hard-working Wabash Men perform the repacking of unsold goods and clean up for the Action Center's Annual "Beautiful Junk Sale". Our group saw the project to its completion logging in a combined 56 hours of service.
After the work was completed the alumni gathered at the Old Capitol Grill in downtown Golden for dinner and stories. A great time was had by all. Hopefully not too many sore backs on Sunday morning.
Roster of Volunteers:
1. John Panozzo '89
2. Tony Caldwell '07
3. Tim Gagen '76
4. Todd Mikesell '87
5. Jack Mikesell (2019)
6. Doug Ross '05
7. Jerry Schaefer '67
8. Eric Vaughn '11
9. Alex Barefoot '04
10. Adam Boushie '00
11. Al Hart '69
12. Paul Day '70
13. Lee Sutton '00
14. Stan Miller '61
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In Photo: John Panozzo,'89, Jerry Schafer '67, Eric Vaughn '11, Doug Ross '05, Adam Boushie '00, Alex Barefoot '04 and Tim Gagen '76


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It was definitely time to revisit nutella, which I have previously used in cupcakes and swirl biscuits. This elegant sponge seemed the perfect addition to my growing collection of nutella recipes. If you happen to read the link I've provided to the Wikipedia page you will notice the sage advice that "Nutella is generally not recommended for people with an allergy to nuts" – who'd have thought?
This cake is light and creamy all the way. The sponge is super soft and the melt in the mouth whipped, almost moussey, topping is a perfect match for it.
For the cake:
4 large eggs, separated
115g caster sugar
60g self raising flour
75g ground hazelnuts (I couldn't find these to buy so bought chopped hazelnuts and blitzed them in the food processor)
20g unsalted butter
2 tablespoons boiling water
For the topping/filling:
170g nutella
130g unsalted butter, at room temperature
60g icing sugar
3 teaspoons boiling water
How to make:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan oven 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.
- Line one 20cm loose bottomed square tins with baking paper.
- Whisk the egg whites until at the soft peak stage.
- Gradually whisk in the sugar until you have a thick, glossy meringue.
- Whisk in the egg yolks one at a time.
- Sift the flour over the mixture and fold in.
- Fold in the ground hazelnuts.
- Melt the butter in the two tablespoons of boiling water, then fold into the batter.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for approximately 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Mine took exactly 25 minutes.
- Leave the cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes or so, before removing from the tin and leaving to cool completely on a wire rack.
- Now make the filling: beat the nutella and butter together until soft and creamy.
- Beat in the icing sugar and then gradually beat in the boiling water.
- Cut the sponge cake in half horizontally. I have to confess that my sponge was so soft and sticky that I didn't dare do this and merely piped the icing on top of the whole sponge.
- If you have cut the sponge through, spread the filling over the bottom half and then replace the top layer of sponge.
- Refrigerate until the filling is firm.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
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Out of the half-dozen brews on draft at Goldie's, there's only one tap handle that bartender Jason Grigsby kept pulling on a recent Tuesday night, and it belonged to Pabst Blue Ribbon.
"Tonight it's been nothing been PBR; I'll definitely go through a keg tonight," said Grigsby as he filled another pint glass with the pale-gold lager.
So much for the long-awaited PBR backlash.
Despite some feelings that it's lost its cool appeal and compares poorly taste-wise to the hundreds of exotic and flavorful microbrews eating into the U.S. beer market, PBR, the beer most often associated with working-class stiffs and work-deprived twentysomething hipsters, still attracts a devoted following at many Chicago bars.
The most cited reason for its continued success? Economics. Pabst Blue Ribbon once earned its famous blue ribbon at the Chicago's World Fair because of its taste, but in 2013 it's sipped, chugged and shotgunned by college students and recession-weary young people because of its bargain-basement price.
"I drink it four or five times a week, and it's the price that does it for me," said Simon Willums, 36, of Bucktown.
Goldie's, a laid-back, single-room saloon in North Center, has become something of a mecca for thrifty drinkers since it started serving $1-for-a-pint PBRs in 2007. A sandwich board sign that sits outside the bar often bears cheeky handmade slogans like "Hollar, Holler, PBR's for a dollar!" or "Let's Make Bad Decisions Together--PBR" to promote the daily special.
"The neighborhood was changing, and we were losing a lot of business," Grigsby said. "(The owners) decided to go to $1 PBRs to try to bring people in."
Now, PBR makes up about half of the beverages sold at Goldie's, and Grisby estimates they fly through 9 to 12 kegs of it a week.
The same is true at Green Eye Lounge in Logan Square, a bar that goes through about eight kegs a week of its PBR--which it sells at $2.50 a pint. Their next biggest seller, hoppy craft brew Lagunitas IPA ($5.50 a glass), empties only about three kegs a week.
"I have some regulars that start out drinking something like Stella (Artois), but they end up eventually changing to PBR because of the low cost," Green Eye bartender Eric Houser said.
The $3 PBR tallboys also are a main attraction for twentysomethings at the Windy City Inn, a cozy neighborhood bar in North Center.
"Seems to be more popular than ever here," owner Andrea Kardaras said. "It's one of our top three beers consistently."
PBR's continued success flies in the face of conventional wisdom that says the same trendiness that associated it with irony-drenched hipsters attracted to its downscale, retro-chic in the early 2000s would make it passé by now.
"To me it's a hipster/'Portandia' thing and it's getting a little old," said Angie Chen, 43, of Lakeview.
The brand also took a hit to its street cred when it sold out for $250 million to food investor C. Dean Metropoulos in 2010 and bolted from its headquarters in a Chicago suburb to L.A. in 2011.
But rumors of PBRs demise have been greatly exaggerated, Houser said.
"I've been hearing about this backlash thing for five years now, and it hasn't really happened," he said. "It's not a fad, it's just cheap. People here don't drink it to be cool, because there's no one to be cool too."
Clark Fowler, co-owner of craft-beer-friendly Lakeview bar The Long Room, which serves $1 PBR cans on Tuesdays, agreed.
"People joke about it, but I don't see any sign of a backlash or people going away from it," he said. "We get a lot of people that come in just for our special."
Of course, there's also the matter of its taste, which occasional PBR drinker Eva Fleming describes as "flat, boring and generic."
"It's especially bad when it gets warm, gross," said Fleming, 23, of Lakeshore East.
Even Grigsby said he doesn't drink PBR because of the poor taste compared to his favorite IPAs and porters, but understands why so many Chicagoans come to Goldie's for it.
"I mean honestly, people can get drunk for much cheaper."
Ryan Smith is a RedEye special contributor.
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We are an executive recruiting firm looking to send out a simple email wishing our clients and colleagues a happy holiday season. Have done this in the past and have a pretty clear idea of what we would like. Examples provided.
Clients and colleagues of executive recruiting firm.
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The Notable Knots Have Moved!
If you're not a follower of technology news it's quite possible that you never learned about the demise of Geocities, a web hosting service that started in 1994. To make a long story short, it was eventually purchased by Yahoo! and then shut down in the United States in 2009.
In the early days of the internet, it was one of the more popular hosting providers, and with its demise also came the demise of an immense amount of websites with a ton of great information. So in an effort to talk about some other things useful to those of you interested in our pontoon boats, we thought we'd point you to a revived version of a popular old site on GeoCities that we thought had gone down with the ship. For you knot enthusiasts, there's a new version of the Notable Knot Index formerly available at http://www.geocities.com/roo_two/knotindex.html that you can find here.


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Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (1937)Dopey & Doc Courvoisier Cel Set Up From The Diamond SceneSize: 9" x 7"Vintage Animation Cel Set up actually used in the production of this animated feature film.Please contact us before purchasing this piece for payment methods available.Image © Disney
What is an Animation Cel?
A cel (short for celluloid) is a blank clear plastic sheet used by the studio artist to paint an animated character or object based on the animator's original pencil drawing. The cels are then placed over a background and photographed in sequence to produce an illusion of life in the completed film or cartoon short. Every cel is different but this does not mean that every cel is unique. Often multiple copies of a cel were created by the Inkers as colour models in order to advance their technique and skills.
What is a Courvoisier Setup?
A cel setup created and marketed through Courvoisier galleries between the late 1930's and 1940's. Courvoisier galleries of San Fransisco were Disney's agent for the marketing of the studio's animation art between this period. They prepared production backgrounds to complement the cels and other art. The Courvoisier setups share a few distinctive features; a simple presentation or woodgrain background, a cream coloured matt with the title of the production (or the name of the character) inscribed in pencil below the matt opening, a "WDP" stamp or a 3" x 5" label stating the name of the production. Generally, characters are trimmed to the size of the image and attached to the backgrounds, and ocassionslly were enhanced with airbrushed shading or dry brush effects. The backgrounds ranged from basic airbrushed techniques depicting stars or dots, to detailed watercolour backgrounds created by the Disney background department. Often the cels from Dumbo, Bambi and Fantasia were laminated.What is a Production Background?
A background created for use in a production of an animated film. It must be noted that a production background may not necessarily originate from the same production that the cel is from.
What is a Master Background?
A background originally painted by a studio artist, and actually photographed in the production of the final released version of the film or cartoon short. A background painting sets the scene in which the animated character appears.
What is a Matching Master Background / Keymaster Setup?
This is often referred to as a key master background setup, but is simply a cel or cels with the background from the same scene that were originally photographed. When framed these will look exactly as they do in the original film or cartoon short.
Premier Animation offer framing for the following artwork that we sell at only an extra £24.95 within the UK and £34.95 outside of the UK on top of your purchase:-
12 field drawings, Production Cels, & Animation Cels :- All frames are black with white mount and the framed size is approximately either 17.5 x 13.5, 15.5 x 12.5 or 11 x 9 inches depending on what displays the cel better, and benefits from upgraded plexi glass instead of standard glass for safety. We are only offering the framed service for 12 field size and smaller drawings and cels only, and not 16 field or larger drawings or cels. Save yourself a fortune on framing with the above deal, and benefit from displaying your art on the wall as soon as it arrives in the post.
If framing your art is of interest, please let us know and we will send you a PayPal invoice after your purchase.
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