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My wife had much fun on Dreamfall chapters and i also own the Old Games.
Now to our Problem:
Dreamfall comes with Starforce on DVD,
We got Windows 10 here which is of course also 64 Bit.
Is there a way to run it ?
I did try a Install with compability but it shot my OS to DEATH.
And Patches and Hints we can not talk about would be welcome
It´s a Old Game after all.
Thanks in Advance

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Since most of us are far handier with a pile of Legos than tools, lumber, and raw upholstery, Japanese design studio Torafu Architects has created these large scale foam building blocks that making assembling furniture easier than an Ikea bookshelf.
The Soft Blocks are designed to look like concrete cinderblocks, but they're actually made from a felt material packed with dense foam so they're comfortable to sit on while still being sturdy enough to support someone's weight.
Sadly, the Soft Blocks are unfortunately still just a design concept, but imagine how easy moving would be if all of your furniture was assembled from these blocks? Filling the U-Haul would be like playing a game of Tetris. [Torafu Architects via designboom]


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Ongoing ethnic conflict in Kenya has started to influenced the way Kenyan parents name their babies.
Late last year, several mothers in a maternity hospital in Kisumu, Kenya, talked about choosing non-tribal baby names as a way to evade tribal discrimination.
The mother of baby boy named Santa Roby Aaron Sam said:
"I have been a victim of ethnic profiling and would not wish to have my children face the same. We have decided as an extended family that we want to avoid tribal names."
The mother of baby boy named Fidel Daniels said:
"It is common these days for people to have all Christian names and for us, it is not a fashion but a way of just avoiding the stereotypes that come with the tribal names."
The mother of baby girl named Rhiab Emmanuela said:
"People have gone overboard with tribal names and it is time we use neutral names, which do not stir any stereotypes at first sight."
But other Kenyans worry that abandoning tribal names will contribute to the erosion of tribal culture. Opiyo Otondi, former chair of the Luo Council of Elders, said, "No amount of frustration should make our people abandon their culture."
And Betty Okero, a Kisumu human rights activist, noted that non-tribal names can only offer a limited amount of protection against discrimination, as people's home villages are recorded on their national identity cards.
Source: Mothers shun 'tribal names' for newborns by Kevine Omollo (found via Appellation Mountain)


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Recently it came to my attention that one of our warrior tanks was never using Shield Block while tanking. And I mean never! When I asked him why wasn't he using Shield Block, he said because he was already uncrittable without using it. I then asked him about Crushing Blows to which he claimed he never saw crushing blows occur.
That night, I took some combat logs and uploaded them to WoW Web Stats (WWS) to show that he indeed was being crushed and causing his healers some undue stress!
Let's look at what exactly Shield Block does. Shield Block is a 10 rage skill that increases a warrior's block rate by 75% for 1 hit or 5 seconds, which ever comes first. You can further improve Shield Block by picking up the tier 3 Protection Talent, Improved Shield Block which will allow your Shield Block to block an additional attack and also adds 1 second to the duration.
As long as a warrior has a cumulative base 25% dodge, parry, and block, using the Shield Block skill will push Crushing Blows off of the damage table (we will go into this in another post) against even level or below mobs. Against higher level mobs (73 for boss mobs), you actually need 27.4% to be Crushing immune.
So what is a Crushing Blow? A Crushing Blow is an attack made by an mob that is 150% of the damage caused by a normal successful attack. Crushing Blows are spike damage that can kill a player rather quickly.
Being Crushing Blow immune is very important against raid level bosses to prevent tank death and a probable ensuing raid wipe. Because of this, against hard hitting bosses, it is imperative that warriors keep Shield Block up as much as possible while retaining mob aggro.
Next time, we will discuss the damage table as mentioned above and go into greater detail about how exactly Shield Block and other tank abilities can cause a tank to become Crushing Immune


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by Helen Schulman
Harper Perennial
222 pgs.
The Bergamots are a typical upper-middle class family who recently relocated to New York City from Ithaca. There's Liz, a wound-way-too-tight, former art historian turned stay-at-home, semi-helicopter parent of a mom who has nothing better to do but e-stalk an ex-boyfriend's blog and obsess over whether she loves her kids too much.
She's married to Richard, whose prestigious and high-powered job at fictitious Astor University is the reason the Bergamot family relocated to New York City in the first place. There's adorable, spirited six year old Coco, whom Liz and Richard adopted from China and who has a coterie of friends at her swanky private school.
And then ... there's 15 year old Jake, just doing his best to fit in with his friends at his new school. He's on the cusp of the awkward beginnings of independence while trying to be cool and trying unsuccessfully to get the attention of Audrey, a girl he likes but who happens to be otherwise attached.
As I said, Jake's a typical 15 year old guy, with hormones firing on all cylinders and then some. So after he and 13 year old Daisy hook up at a party after too much beer, and he (rightfully so) tells her she's too young for such shenanigans, Daisy tries wooing him back by emailing him a video of herself in a compromising position. (Read between the lines here, folks, as I'm trying to avoid the spam and Google hits from getting even crazier than usual).
What does Jake do? Well, he's a little confused and perplexed and amused by said video ... but he does what any 15 year old boy would do: he forwards it to his best friend.
Who forwards it to his twin brother. Who forwards it to his best friend. And then, well, you can guess what happens. What poor naive Daisy (who is neither poor nor naive) thought would only be for Jake's eyes winds up going viral - and it's all Jake's fault.
This Beautiful Life focuses on the aftermath and the consequences that occur as a result of the video's explosion into cyberspace, and the destructive effect it has on the Bergamot family. Because of one mistake and one split-second decision, each person's sense of security and what is truly a "beautiful life" (this family doesn't want for anything, believe you me) is shaken. It's a compelling premise, and even though the novel is set in 2003 when all this was still uncharted territory, it resonates with parents and anyone who cares for kids because nine years later, we've seen where this Pandora's Box has led.
That being said, as much as I thought I would like this book (and wanted to), I felt that This Beautiful Life had too many issues in regard to the undeveloped characters, the writing style, and the plot. Let's start with the characters, shall we?
They could not have possibly been more stereotypical. I'll be blunt here: I'm tired of "yummy mummies" (an adjective/noun combo special that I cannot stand) whose playdates with their adorable cherubs consist of going to tea party sleepovers at The fucking Plaza Hotel and who whine about the headmistress of the school where their husbands are "legacy" alums, and how hard their goddamn lives are because they can't manage to decide if their kid should be taking ballet or African dance lessons, and who bitch about the cost of organic frozen strawberries. I hate people like that - which means that in reading This Beautiful Life, Liz Bergamot and her so-called friends were not people I cared to spend much time with.
(I do think the setting of 2003 worked against the novel in that aspect, at least for me. In these recessionary times when so many people continue to struggle, reading about people with lifestyles like that is kind of a turnoff to me.)
Liz and Richard's reactions to Daisy's video and their behavior in the aftermath of their son receiving and forwarding it struck me as ... maddening. I get wanting to protect your kid and being angry at the other party, and I know all too many parents carry the mantle of "my kid can do no wrong." I understand that. But there's absolutely no acceptance of personal responsibility here and no culpability on the part of the parents, no self-examination of what within themselves or within their family led to this. They don't go into counseling; they barely discuss the incident at all. They just disintegrate into themselves, which is sad and perhaps a realistic reaction, but a missed opportunity, in my view.
Not to mention, Richard's reaction as a father while watching this video of a 13 year old prancing to Beyonce was enough to give me the heebie-jeebies:
"And for all the video's dismal raunch, its tawdriness, for all its sexual immaturity and unknowingness, there is something about the way this girl has revealed herself, the way that she has offered herself, truly stripped herself bare, that is brave and powerful and potent and ridiculous and self-immolating and completely nuts. It speaks to him. Is he crazy? He feels crazier in this moment than he has ever felt in his life. He feels touched by it. And because the video is all of these things and more, because in some way it is truly the literal essence of what it means to be naked, because this Daisy makes herself completely vulnerable and open and 100 percent exposed, it also breaks Richard's heart." (pg. 118)Stop right there and get thee to the nearest psychologist, dude. THE GIRL IS ALL OF 13 and making a suggestive video to get attention from a boy! I'm sorry, but there's nothing brave or empowering about that and the fact that this Dad is trying to convince me as a reader that there IS ... well, that's the sort of thing that makes my personal Creepmeter turn purple.
The overall writing style of was, in my opinion, somewhat bland and at times, confusing. For example, while waiting in their lawyer's office, Richard realizes that the lawyer
"holds [his] son's future in his hands. This is a little like waiting for a neurosurgeon, Richard thinks, and then stops the thought, blocks it. The analogy is too terrible and too frightening." (pg. 107).Huh? Why? What am I missing here? (Richard's father died when Richard was young, but of a heart attack, not of a brain tumor or something, which would make this more logical.) There are several other head-scratching, what-the-? instances where this sort of thing occurred, so many things left unexplained, the ending rushed and seemingly tacked on as an afterthought. Even the symbolism and connection to The Great Gatsby seemed to be gratuitous, thrown in there as a tangent, when it could have been much stronger and emphasized.
Speaking of gratuitous, within the writing itself there are too many phrases and scenes that seem included for the shock value factor. This might sound a little hypocritical coming from me, as I fully admit to dropping an f-bomb or two on occasion, but Schulman's prose in this novel tends to include such off-putting phrases like "In Ithaca, where they lived pretty fucking happily the last ten years ..." (pg. 5) and nine pages later, "She reveled in the privacy. That was life in Ithaca, and it did not suck." (pg. 14). There's a description on page 175 of Liz "in yoga pants, a wife-beater." (What's wrong with saying a tank top?) Again, I'm no prude, but I found these word choices unnecessary.
Ultimately, in my opinion, I felt that there were too many instances throughout this novel where either the writing style or the characters' actions detracted from what promised to be a truly provocative story, for all the right reasons.
The one exception was with the character of Jake. I thought that Schulman captured Jake and his peers very well. Their conversations and actions, their angst and their desire to fit in, felt authentic to me. Even though I don't have a 15 year old, my work brings me into contact with many of them and the descriptions and the dialogue seemed real. It almost made me wonder if This Beautiful Life would have worked better - or have been more powerful - as more of a young adult focused novel. As it is, it seems to be one targeted for a parental audience, one that would strike fear into any parent's heart that this could happen to any of us.
But I think it misses the mark on that because these characters are too unrelatable personally and their 2003 lifestyle too distant from the 2012 reality that so many of us have. I can't imagine living anywhere near the kind of lifestyle that these people do. They're nothing like me. So if the theme is about the disintegration of a family after such an event and them wringing their hands over what they potentially stand to lose, then I'm not going to be able to identify with that because so many people have lost everything, you know? I know I'm harping on that, but I truly could not get past that aspect of this novel.
We also know much more now in terms of sexting and the legal ramifications, and it's hard to place oneself back almost a decade ago. But if the message is one of a cautionary one, one directed to a teenage audience, maybe that would have been better reinforced if the story itself had been told through Jake's eyes only ... just like the video was meant to be.
I wished I liked This Beautiful Life more than I did. Still, I'm grateful to TLC Book Tours for including me on the tour and for Harper Perennial for sending me a copy of the book in exchange for my (probably all too) honest review, for which I wasn't compensated in any way.
What Other Bloggers Thought:
Clearly, I am very much in the minority with my thoughts on this book, if my other blogger friends on the book tour are any indication. All of the reviews on the TLC Book Tour before mine give This Beautiful Life some high praise and I encourage you to check out their words for yourself here:
Some additional reviews are here (I am absolutely, definitely in the minority with my review):
3Rs Blog
5 Minutes for Books
A Musing Reviews
A Patchwork of Books
Book Chick Di
Book'd Out
Unruly Reader
You've GOTTA Read This
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As we come to the end of the holiday season and are almost to the New Year, we take the time to reflect on the magnum opus of the historian of late antiquity Peter Brown: Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD.
2012 has seen reviews of Brown's important book in the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and in the UK in BBC History Magazine, The Guardian, The Literary Review, and The Times Literary Supplement, to list just a few.
Why the interest in how Christianity and conceptions of wealth changed over a period of a two hundred years a few millenia ago? With ongoing discussions about how much each of us owes society (whether we're talking holiday gifts or taxes and the so-called fiscal cliff), the issues around giving and our beliefs couldn't be more timely–and it certainly can't hurt that Brown is the top scholar to draw connections between the ancient past and today. As Glen W. Bowersock writes in the New Republic:
It is exciting to watch a historian who has already written so extensively on Late Antiquity absorb so much new scholarship, revise his old reviews, and re-imagine the world we thought we knew from him. . . . Through the Eye of a Needle is a tremendous achievement, even for a scholar who has already achieved so much. Its range is as vast as its originality, and readers will find everywhere the kinds of memorable aperçus and turns of phrase for which its author is deservedly famous. . . . There can be no doubt that we are in the presence of a historian and teacher of genius.
In his piece "A Masterpiece on the Rise of Christianity" in the New York Review of Books, Garry Wills (who also selected the title as his book of the year in the Chicago Tribune) says:
To compare it with earlier surveys of this period is to move from the X-ray to the cinema….Every page is full of information and argument, and savoring one's way through the book is an education. It is a privilege to live in an age that could produce such a masterpiece of the historical literature.
Writing in his five-star online review at Christianity Today, Peter Leithart affectionately calls the book "deliriously complicated," and goes on to write:
As usual, Brown leaves no stone unturned in his search for insight and evidence. … He paints a colorful social setting for early church debates about theology and ethics without becoming reductively sociological, and often overturns accepted mytho-history in the process. He quietly draws on contemporary theory but typically lets ancients speak for themselves because his aim is to introduce us to an exotic world. Through it all, he focuses on the masses of details by treating attitudes, beliefs, and practices about wealth as a 'stethoscope' to hear the heartbeat of late Roman and early Christian civilization. … Brown has captured the rough texture of real history. It is testimony to the success of Brown's subtle, provocative, and beautifully written book.
Across the pond, Tom Holland champions Peter Brown and the book in History Today, BBC History Magazine, and Twitter. In History Today, Holland calls Brown the "greatest living historian of late antiquity." He goes on in BBC History Magazine:
Through the Eye of a Needle is the crowning masterpiece of Peter Brown, the great historian who virtually invented late antiquity as a periodisation. The book's theme might seem specialised: the evolution of attitudes towards wealth in the last century and a half of the Roman empire in the west, and the century that followed its collapse. In reality, like so many of Brown's books, it gives us a world vivid with colour and alive with a symphony of voices. It is not only the most compassionate study of late antiquity in the west ever written, but also a profoundly subtle meditation on our own tempestuous relationship with money.
Meanwhile, Peter Thornemann of the Times Literary Supplement calls it "[O]utstanding. . . . Brown lays before us a vast panorama of the entire culture and society of the late Roman west." And at The Guardian, Tim Whitmarsh writes,"His sparkling prose, laced with humour and humanity, brings his subjects to life with an uncommon sympathy and feeling for their situation."
Through the Eye of the Needle has also been selected as a best book of the year at the Institute of Public Affairs blog, among others. Doubtless, the interest in the origins of how society balances faith and finances will continue well into 2013 and we would do well to heed the fascinating lessons of Brown's much-lauded work.
To learn more about the author and his latest book:
Through the Eye of a Needle


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LAS VEGAS — Mike Pyle threw everything he had at TJ Waldburger and then some.
The welterweight veteran used all sorts of artillery to dominate TJ Waldburger for a TKO victory that was called at 4:03 of the first round on the main card Saturday at Mandalay Bay Center.
Pyle unloaded punches, kicks, elbows, shoulders and a brutal spinning back elbow in an impressive striking demonstration.
In the final round, Pyle went for a guillotine choke before Waldburger (16-9) slipped out of it. That, however, put him in a bad position as Pyle swarmed him with more punches and elbows. Referee Herb Dean finally jumped in to stop the fight.
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Hopefully everyone is familiar with the Tragedy of the Commons. In a sentence, the tragedy works like this: if you have a depletable resource in demand, and no person or institution can control its use, it will be entirely consumed. This principle applies to many things beyond the village grazing commons from which it was originally derived. Fish, clean water, clean air, and park benches suitable for homeless to sleep are all subject to the tragedy. A characteristic of a commons being depleted is an overinvestment in extractive resources, e.g. fishing boats.
The tragedy can also be applied to bad commons. That is, resources with a negative value, e.g. ignorance, greed, or excess profit margins. Just as we need to be careful to set property rights so that there are no unmanaged positive commons, we also need to make sure not to set property rights in such a way that we eliminate negative commons.
For example, the (typically) Nigerian 419 scammer relies on people's ignorance. In this scam, the scammer claims to have control over millions of dollars which they cannot receive themselves. Instead, they offer the victim a percentage in return for making the exchange seem to be an honest business deal. Once the victim realizes that it is a scam, no other version of the same scam will work. The ignorance is depleted. And gauging from the feverish activity of 419 spammers sending me offers, they are overinvesting in their scam.
Or for another example, free markets create a commons out of high profits. If someone invents a new way to make money (and no patent applies), anyone is free to enter the market and deplete the high profits. The purpose of the patent system is to create a manager for this commons.


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Holy water
Holy water is used in Orthodox rites of blessing and exorcism, and is the water normally used for baptisms.
A quantity of holy water is typically kept in a font placed near the entrance of the church where it is available for anyone who needs it. Holy water is sometimes sprinkled on items or people when they are blessed, as part of the prayers of blessing. For instance, in Alaska, the fishing boats are sprinkled with holy water at the start of the fishing season as the priest prays for the crews' safety and success. Orthodox Christians most often bless themselves with holy water by drinking it. It is traditional to keep a quantity of it at home, and many Orthodox Christians will drink a small amount daily with their morning prayers. It may also be used for informal blessings when no clergy are present. For example, parents might bless their children with holy water before they leave the house for school or play.
The use of holy water is based on the story of Jesus' baptism by Saint John the Baptist in the River Jordan and the Orthodox interpretation of this event. In this view, John's baptism was a baptism of repentance, and the people came to have their sins washed away by the water. Since Jesus had no sin, but was God himself, his baptism had the effect of Jesus blessing the water, making it holy, that is used fully for its original created purpose to be an instrument of life.
Jesus' baptism is commemorated in the Orthodox Church at the Feast of Theophany (literally "God shining forth") on January 6. At the Vespers of this feast, a font of holy water is typically blessed in the church, to provide holy water for the parish's use in the coming year. The next morning, the prayers often include a trip to a nearby river, lake or other public source of drinking water, to bless that water as well. This represents the redemption of all creation as part of humanity's salvation. In the following weeks, the priest typically visits the homes of the parish's members and prays prayers of blessing for their families, homes and pets, sprinkling them with holy water. Again, this practice is meant to visibly represent God's sanctifying work in all parts of the people's lives.
Holy water can also be blessed at any other time of the year if there is a need, and this is usually done on the first day of a month. The holy water used for a baptism is blessed as part of the baptism service.
Blessing of holy water at Theophany
On the feast of Holy Theophany holy water is blessed twice, at the conclusion of the Divine Liturgies both on the eve and on the feast itself. After processing to the place where the vessel of water is prepared to the singing of appropriate troparia there are a group of Scripture readings culminating in the baptism account from the Gospel of Saint Mark (1:9-11) followed by the Great Litany. This is sung just as for the Liturgy, but with the following additional petitions which make clear what is being asked of God and what the use, purpose, and blessing of the water is believed to entail.
- That these waters may be sanctified by the power, and effectual operation, and descent of the Holy Spirit:
- That there may descend upon these waters the cleansing operation of the super-substantial Trinity:
- That he will endue them with the grace of redemption, the blessing of Jordan, the might, and operation, and descent of the Holy Spirit:
- That Satan may speedily be crushed under our feet, and that every evil counsel directed against us may be brought to naught:
- That the Lord our God will free us from every attack and temptation of the enemy, and make us worthy of the good things which he hath promised:
- That he will illumine us with the light of understanding and of piety, and with the descent of the Holy Spirit:
- That the Lord our God will send down the blessing of Jordan and sanctify these waters:
- That this water may be unto the bestowing of sanctification; unto the remission of sins; unto the healing of soul and body; and unto every expedient service:
- That this water may be a fountain welling forth unto life eternal:
- That it may manifest itself effectual unto the averting of every machination of our foes, whether visible or invisible:
- For those who shall draw of it and take of it unto the sanctification of their homes:
- That it may be for the purification of the souls and bodies of all those who, with faith, shall draw and partake of it:
- That he will graciously enable us to perfect sanctification by participation in these waters, through the invisible manifestation of the Holy Spirit:
Then, following a lengthy set of didactic prayers that expound on the nature of the feast and summarize salvation history, praising God's creation of and mastery over the elements, the priest makes the Sign of the Cross over the water with his hand and prays specifically for the blessing to be invoked upon it. At the climax of the service, he immerses the hand cross into the water three times in imitation of Christ's baptism to the singing of the festal troparion and then blesses the entire church and congregation with the newly consecrated water.


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Carboplatin Disease Interactions
There is 1 disease interaction with carboplatin:
Antineoplastics (Includes carboplatin) ↔ infections
Severe Potential Hazard, High plausibility. Applies to: Infection - Bacterial/Fungal/Protozoal/Viral
Because of their cytotoxic effects on rapidly proliferating tissues, antineoplastic agents frequently can, to varying extent, induce myelosuppression. The use of these drugs may be contraindicated in patients with known infectious diseases. All patients should be instructed to immediately report any signs or symptoms suggesting infection such as fever, sore throat, or local infection during antineoplastic therapy. Close clinical monitoring of hematopoietic function is recommended.
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- "Product Information. Methotrexate (methotrexate)." Lederle Laboratories, Wayne, NJ.
- "Product Information. Xeloda (capecitabine)." Roche Laboratories, Nutley, NJ.
- "Product Information. Adriamycin PFS (doxorubicin)." Pharmacia and Upjohn, Kalamazoo, MI.
- "Product Information. Alkeran Tablets (melphalan)." Glaxo Wellcome, Research Triangle Pk, NC.
- Schilling PJ, Vadhan-Raj S "Concurrent cytomegalovirus and pneumocystis pneumonia after fludarabine therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia." N Engl J Med 323 (1990): 833-4
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- "Product Information. Platinol (cisplatin)." Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ.
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Long Range Planning
Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)
☆ 2040 LRTP 2016 Update - draft update chapter materials available here ☆
LRTP: Adopted December 1, 2011
The Lincoln Metropolitan Planning Organization's (MPO) 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP), which is supplemented by a Technical Report, provides the blueprint for the area's transportation planning process over the next 30 years. The transportation planning process is a collaborative effort between the City of Lincoln, Lancaster County, the Nebraska Department of Roads (NDOR), StarTran transit and other agencies, where the multimodal transportation system was evaluated and a set of recommendations were made with extensive public input.
This Transportation Plan meets all federal requirements and addresses the goals, objectives, and strategies to meet the community's vision for the future. It was developed in coordination with LPlan 2040, the Lincoln-Lancaster Comprehensive Plan. The development of the LRTP and other related activities is undertaken through a separate entity established by the City, the County and the State called the Lincoln Metropolitan Planning Organization (LMPO).
Lincoln MPO's 2040 LRTP was adopted by the MPO on December 1, 2011.
LRTP & Technical Report
- 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)
- Technical Report
- Appendix A: Traffic Analysis Zones Data
- Appendix B: Lancaster County Population Projections: 2010-2040
- Appendix C: LPlan 2040
- Appendix D: MPO Management Plan
- Appendix E: Environmental Justice Analysis Report
- Appendix F: Project Prioritization Support Data
- Appendix G: Congestion Management Process
- Appendix H: Mobility Report Cards
- Appendix I: Environmental, Social, & Cultural Impact Assessment Detail Tables & Maps


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DENVER (AP) Ty Lawson had 21 points and 13 assists, Andre Iguodala scored 24 and the Denver Nuggets beat the New Orleans Hornets 113-98 on Friday night for their sixth straight victory.
The Nuggets continued their fine play in 2013. They won 12 of 15 games in January, including a 10-2 mark at home, and got February started strong.
Ryan Anderson had 21 points and rookie Anthony Davis added 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Hornets, who have dropped three straight and five of six.
Denver led by three at halftime and increased it to as many as 11 in the third quarter. Iguodala scored 10 points and Lawson had nine, including a buzzer-beating 3-pointer that gave the Nuggets an 85-78 edge heading into the fourth.
The lead grew to 16 with 4:08 left after Iguodala's 3-pointer and Danilo Gallinari's fast-break layup. Anderson hit two 3-pointers to cut it to eight with 1:28 remaining, but the Hornets never really threatened.
Gallinari finished with 18 points and Corey Brewer had 17 off the bench for the Nuggets, who scored a season-high 32 points off 22 New Orleans turnovers.
The Hornets trailed 26-20 late in the first quarter before scoring the next 14 points to go ahead with 9:29 left in the second. Denver turned up its defense after that, forcing eight turnovers and putting together a 16-4 run to go back ahead.
Brewer set the tone with 11 points in the quarter and scored on two fast-break dunks that gave Denver a 42-38 lead. The Nuggets were up 51-48 at halftime.
Eric Gordon, the Hornets' leading scorer, was held to three points on 0-for-2 shooting in the first half. He finished with nine points.
NOTES: Nuggets C JaVale McGee missed his third straight game with a sore left shin. ... Denver coach George Karl was named the Western Conference coach of the month for January. His team went 12-3. It was the seventh time in his career one of his teams has won at least 12 games in a month. ... The Hornets are 8-7 with Gordon in the lineup and 7-25 without him.


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OK, you're in your 50s and still have a job — maybe even a decent one — but the amount of savings you've put away for retirement is squat. Zippo. Nada. Is there any way you can avoid an impoverished old age or working until you drop?
The answer, fortunately, is yes. Even those getting a tardy start in thinking about retirement can take advantage of tax breaks and other moves to make up significant ground. This may require substantial changes in one's lifestyle now, but they're almost certain to be less painful than what might be required in 10 or 20 years if you don't start now.
"It's not too late unless you think it is," says Andrew Hudick, a financial planner in Roanoke, Va., who regularly sees clients needing to play retirement catch-up.
Forbes.com slideshow: Retirement planning for late-starters
The most important first step to take is to start saving. Now. Even if you haven't yet worked out any kind of a plan; that can come later. But you're still going to need the money.
We're not talking about the kind of piddling savings that comes from giving up your twice-a-week Starbucks Venti Latte. Instead, you need to start saving a good 10 percent of gross income or even more. There essentially are two ways to save. One is to pay down high-interest-rate debt that isn't already tax-deductible — especially credit cards. If you're paying 20 percent on credit card debt, in effect you get an immediate 20 percent return for every dollar you pay off.
The other way, of course, is to put funds away. This is where the tax code comes in. Take full advantage of your company's 401(k) plan in which contributions are excluded from your current year's income. It's nice but not crucial if the employer matches part of the contributions. In a 25 percent bracket, a $10,000 contribution by you reduces your taxes by $2,500. Federal law allows workers who will be 50 by the end of the year to salt away up to $22,000 of their own contributions, pre-tax, for 2010. Investments in such retirement funds grow tax-deferred until they are withdrawn, at which time they are taxed at ordinary rates. While tax rates may go up overall, your own rate is likely to be lower in retirement, particularly given the late start you're getting on savings.
Forbes.com: How to make the most of your inheritance
If your employer doesn't have a 401(k), open an individual retirement account at a mutual fund company or brokerage. Those who don't have any employer pension plan can put away up to $6,000 pre-tax a year. If you do have a current employer pension plan, no matter how crummy, then you can only deduct the full contribution if your modified adjusted gross income is $89,000 or less for a couple, or $55,000 or less for a single. But you can make a $6,000 per person nondeductible contribution to a Roth IRA with modified adjusted gross income of up to $166,000 per couple and up to $105,000 for a single. (A Roth grows tax free, and all withdrawals in retirement are tax free.)
You can also fund tax-advantaged retirement savings with income from a second job or side business — a good thing to build up now, since you'll want to continue earning something in retirement. Say you're making $5,000 a year selling hand-made jewelry on eBay. You may be able to put it all away pretax in a Simple IRA or other special savings plan for the self-employer. For details, click here.
How should you invest your retirement funds? Most 401(k) plans have a number of mutual-fund options, and money in an IRA can be invested almost anywhere. Due to the continued volatility of stock markets, Hudick recommends for starters low-cost bond funds, in which the chance of a loss of principal is minimal. The last thing you want is to see the disappearance of 20 percent of your portfolio in the next stock market bust. As your nest egg grows larger, you'll want to look more closely at what percent you want to invest in equities — preferably low-cost index mutual funds.
Forbes.com: 25 best cities for an active retirement
Perhaps the biggest problem in starting a retirement plan later in life is the loss of a prior significant period of time over which earlier investments could have compounded and grown. At a 5 percent rate, an investment doubles in 15 years; at 4 percent, in 18 years. But even if you're in your 50s, you can still take advantage of the magic of compounded returns. That's because — actuarially, anyway — your retirement is likely to run upwards of 20 years. That's a long-enough period for investments you put away today to bear fruit.
As you get the savings going, you should figure out where you stand financially and what you'll need. Even if you aren't the sort to track every nickel spent on Intuit's Quicken, it's not hard to draw up a family net worth statement listing all assets and liabilities, and an income statement showing income and expenses over the last year. Data on your latest tax return can help.
There are all kinds of rules of thumb about what level of your current net income you'll need to sustain yourself in retirement, generally ranging from 60 percent to 80 percent to even more. But if you're new to retirement savings, don't be paralyzed because you won't reach those goals. Simply do the best you can and keep in mind that you're not starting from zero.
Forbes.com: How to select your first financial advisor
For example, even if your current employer doesn't offer a traditional defined benefit pension plan — one that pays a set amount each month — you may well have earned a monthly stipend from a previous job. This is a good time to paw through your old files and find records of any pensions from ex-employers you may be entitled to.
Even more significant is Social Security, which replaces 42 percent of the salary of a median wage earner who retires at the "full" or "normal" retirement age — 66 for those who were born between 1943 and 1954. Replacement rates are higher than that for low-wage workers and lower for high earners. Plus, the replacement rate is higher for one earner couples, when spousal benefits are factored in.
Every dollar that comes from Social Security is one less dollar you otherwise have to provide for. You can get online an official estimate of your benefits from Social Security. Given the federal deficit, younger folks might rightly worry they won't get what they're promised from Social Security. But those 55 and over are unlikely to be nicked too much by any Social Security changes, unless they have a fairly high income.
Forbes.com: Six ways to get income in retirement
You can start drawing early retirement benefits from Social Security at age 62, but it pays to wait, especially if you continue working past that age, and is crucial if you've begun saving late. Delaying the start of Social Security benefits until age 70 can boost the monthly payout by as much as 80 percent. For more on how to get the biggest Social Security payout, click here.
Here comes the tough-love part. If you seem to have no money left over at the end of the month to put away one way or the other and you don't want to get a second job or work longer, you're going to have to reduce your style of living. It's as simple as that. Sure, there's a lot of nickel-and-dime stuff many people can do — eat out less, buy used cars and so on. But you'll have to tackle the big stuff. Consider downsizing to a smaller, cheaper and less-expensive-to-operate house or even renting an apartment. (The first $500,000 of any gains on a principal residence sold by a couple is tax free, meaning more to invest now.) Even more dramatically, ponder relocating in retirement to an area with a significantly lower cost of living. Tell the grown children still living at home they're going to have to start fending for themselves.
It doesn't take a lot to start building that nest egg. In a tax-deferred account and figuring a 4 percent annual return (compounded monthly), putting away just $500 a month would produce $74,000 in 10 years. That may not seem like much. But at current rates, for a couple that would be 68 years old then, that sum would buy an immediate annuity paying out $433 a month until both spouses are dead.
Forbes.com: 10 steps to create your first estate plan
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Some GOP politicians drop their resistance to Medicaid expansion
Cracks continue to develop in the Republican Party's concrete opposition to Obamacare's state expansions of Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor.
Whether those fissures will crumble Medicaid opposition in Kansas and Missouri, though, remains very much in doubt.
On Wednesday, Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan became the sixth GOP governor out of 30 to recommend expanding Medicaid eligibility in their state.
"This makes sense," he said, "for the physical and fiscal health of Michigan."
And on Monday, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, another Republican, recommended Medicaid expansion in his state. An estimated 684,000 people would have new access to health coverage in Ohio, fully paid for by the federal government over the next three years, if Ohio lawmakers agree.
While those announcements appeared to weaken the GOP's rock-solid resistance to Medicaid expansion, other Republican governors and conservatives stepped up their attacks on the idea this week.
Republican Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania rejected Medicaid expansion in his state Tuesday, claiming it would be too expensive "without serious reforms."
Other Republican governors — Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Rick Perry of Texas among them — have also said they want to turn down the federal money for more Medicaid.
And dozens of conservative writers blasted Kasich's choice, calling it an improper, tacit endorsement of what they call Obamacare.
"Governors should be working to reduce dependence on the welfare state, not add millions more to it," wrote Nina Owcharenko, a health policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
"The governor," echoed the conservative National Review, "has allowed himself to be bought off by the false promise of 'free money' from the federal government."
The Supreme Court said last summer that expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act would be optional for states. Since then, every state has wrestled with the costs and benefits of extending Medicaid eligibility for millions of America's working and non-working poor — those earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level.
While the first three years of expanded Medicaid will be paid for by Washington, states will eventually pick up part of the tab. By 2022, participating states must pay 10 percent of the cost of the expansion.
Expanding Medicaid is considered a key part of the health care act's goal of insuring almost all Americans. To date, roughly half of all states have indicated some support for expanding Medicaid.
The back-and-forth over the wisdom of Medicaid expansion has not gone unnoticed in Kansas and Missouri.
Gov. Jay Nixon, a Missouri Democrat, referred favorably to Kasich's decision this week while discussing his own efforts to expand Medicaid in his state. In earlier speeches, Nixon has referred to Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona, another Republican governor who recently endorsed Medicaid expansion for her state.
Scott Rowson of the Missouri Health Advocacy Alliance said Republicans are starting to understand the cost benefits of Medicaid expansion, improving the chances for its passage in Missouri.
"We're moving to a post-politics discussion," he said. "Governors around the country are really looking now at what Medicaid expansion means on the ground."
Nixon is expected in Independence this afternoon to make the Medicaid expansion argument. He's contended, as have other governors, that the state-based cost of expansion will be paid for by taxes from jobs created to treat new Medicaid patients.
Still, few signs exist that Republicans in Missouri's legislature are changing their views because of Medicaid decisions in other states.
"We will not follow the lead of out-of-touch bureaucrats whose reckless spending has pushed our nation to the brink of financial disaster," Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones said last week.
John Hancock, a former Missouri GOP chairman and now a political consultant, said few legislators will care what other states decide to do about Medicaid.
"Every state is unique and has unique dynamics and unique relationships with the hospital community," he said.
But Alan Rosenthal of Rutgers University, an expert on state legislatures, said GOP lawmakers in Missouri — facing pressure from rural hospitals and other providers who support expanding Medicaid — may find the Snyder and Kasich decisions helpful.
"The main effect politically is that other governors and legislators who are Republican get some cover," he said in an email.
While other governors have announced their positions on the issue this week, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's views remain unannounced.
Contacted this week, Brownback's office did not provide a timetable for his decision.
Bob Beatty, a political science professor at Washburn University in Topeka, said he would be surprised if the GOP governor follows Snyder and recommends expanding the program.
"If Brownback does go with these other governors, he would be bucking the clear trend of his administration over the past couple of years," he said.
Lobbyists for Medicaid expansion in Kansas have maintained a lower profile than in Missouri, where an organized political push for the program has been under way for weeks. But some health-care providers hope Brownback agrees with governors like Snyder.
Expanding Medicaid, they argue, could provide additional money for the state's transition to KanCare, the privately managed Medicaid system.
"Governors in both parties are now really looking into this and seeing there is some benefit for their states," said Cindy Samuelson of the Kansas Hospital Association.
Nicole Kaeding, state policy manager for the conservative Americans for Prosperity, expects an opposite outcome.
"Expanding Medicaid is exactly the wrong decision for a state to make," she said, "including Kansas and Missouri."


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It says something about Rancho Market that I was so eager to check it out and then review it. I doubt you'll ever see me rush to post about the fried chicken and potato wedges at my local Smith's. The real selling point was when my co-worker told me the butcher shop sold chicken feet (there will be a post about what I do with those coming soon). Rancho Market is clean well lit and still in the honeymoon phase of opening its new location at 9th east and 3300 South in the home of the old Fresh Market.
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Free throws down the stretch can propel a team to a win or allow a game to slip through a team's hands.
With Tuesday's free throw struggles fresh in the Bisons minds, Lipscomb hit 17-of-20 free throws in the second period to propel itself to a 70-58 win over Southeastern Louisiana.
"We kept them away from us tonight with our free throws that we made in the second half," said Lipscomb head coach Scott Sanderson.
Sophomore guard Josh Slater scored all nine of his points in the second half going 9-of-10 from the free throw line. Guards Jimmy Oden and Michael Lusk along with Brandon Brown combined to go 8-of-9 at the charity stripe in the second half.
Southeastern held a 29-28 advantage at halftime. But the Bisons had no intention of losing their second game in a row at home for the first time since the 2003-2004 season.
Southeastern Louisiana shot 52.2 percent in the first period while the Bisons shot 40 percent.
In the second period Lipscomb held Southeastern to 34.4 percent while Lipscomb nailed 66.7 percent of their shots.
"I thought we executed down the stretch nicely, especially offensively," said Sanderson. "I thought we got some nice baskets and curl shots. I thought we were very unselfish and got some good shots late in the game."
Lipscomb went on an 8-0 run over 2:40 with 6:43 remaining in the game to extend their lead to 58-48.
Southeastern hit two 3-pointers to cut Lipscomb's lead to four, but the Bisons countered with a layup by Lusk, a jumper in the paint by Adnan Hodzic and two free throws by Lusk to bring their lead back to 10 with 1:29 remaining.
Hodzic returned to the court after injuring himself on the tipoff in the season opener against Oakland City.
He scored a game-high 16 points on 8-of-14 shooting in 29 minutes of action.
"He's a tough kid," said Sanderson. "He got some big baskets for us. He doesn't have his timing back yet, but he's obviously a big part of what we do."
Lusk went 5-of-6 from the field scoring 15 points. He added four assists, a block, and two steals. Slater was the only other Bison to score in double figures with 11 points. He also contributed two assists, a block, and two steals.
Lipscomb out-rebounded Southeastern 41-20.
"That's a huge stat," said Sanderson. "With Thomas and Adnan in the post along with Brandon Brown and Michael Teller, those are all guys that rebound the basketball for us."
Brown grabbed a team-high 10 boards. Teller added nine rebounds.
Lipscomb scored 38 points in the paint while Southeastern had 24.
The Bisons will travel to Samford on Monday night for their first road game of the season. The game is schedule to tip at 7 p.m.
Jonathan Seamon and Benjamin Seamon, along with special guest commentator Justin Seamon, will be on the call for the Lipscomb Sports Network. Free online audio streaming is available at www.LipscombSports.com/sportsnetwork/.
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By Kelsey Williams, SFGate:
The Los Angeles Unified School District just released their new policy that homework will count for only 10 percent of the grade, giving students essentially a free pass to not do a thing.
While there are some lauding the approach as progressive and fair towards students whose home life and economic circumstances makes work outside of the classroom difficult, the overarching move once again takes power away from the teachers who know their student's situation better than any school supervisor could. According to the Los Angeles Times:
The L.A. approach is intended to account for the myriad urban problems facing the district's mostly low-income, minority population. It's also aimed at supporting L.A. Unified's increasing focus on boosting measureable academic achievement.
According to the new policy, "Varying degrees of access to academic support at home, for whatever reason, should not penalize a student so severely that it prevents the student from passing a class, nor should it inflate the grade." It was distributed to schools last month.
Homework, however, is not just a teacher's form of torture meant to overload students and cause problems. There are benefits to doing those geometry problem sets every evening or reading a chapter or two of classic literature. Homework helps students get a better grip on what they're learning and forces repetition of concepts that just don't sink in the first time around.
Now, instead of allowing teachers to have some control over how they help their students learn, once again policy makers are enforcing a homogenizing measure that will help some kids pass, but allow anyone to slack off more and learn less.
Indeed, there are students with circumstances that make additional work difficult, but perhaps we should just leave it to good teachers to make that call– teachers who aren't forced to treat students as just one more test score, but as individuals.
The move accompanies another policy being tested in which student's grades go up for performing well on state standardized tests. It's all in the policies now, public school is no longer about teaching the next generation the knowledge and skills to succeed but about looking good in standardized test statistics.


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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Dear HIV,
First and foremost, I can't believe you affect my life in which you do. You turned my world upside down, and I just don't understand why me?
Was this a lesson that I needed to be taught? Is this pay back for something that I have done in the past? Why did you have to make me so sick? People live with it forever without going into the hospital and damn I have been in there twice. And I have only been diagnosed positive for 7 months. Damn it I want answers I want to know what I did so wrong to be infected by you!
You risk me losing the most important person in my life. You risked me losing Keon. Why?? Why can't I be any other gay man without you infecting my body!
I see the way these doctors and nurses look at me because of you. I am too young to go. This won't be it. I won't let anyone look back at my life and all they remember is the gay dude that died from HIV complications.
Since I have been taking medicine for so long due to my other medical conditions I got used to missing doses, and not caring about missing those doses. But now thanks to you if I miss my HIV medicine I run the risk of my body becoming immune to the medicine, and ultimately my choices of medicines becomes slimmer.
I used to judge people that were HIV positive like they weren't good enough and for now here I am now being the one judged.
Even as much as I want to know why, I thank you. I never knew the man that my mother raised could be such a strong individual. I used to sit around and question god, of why me, but I got a better one, why not me. HIV you have showed me what truly matters in life, and just how precious life is. You always gave me the chance to see who matters the most in life and who my true friends are. I may not have much left, but I have some true friends that truly care about me to the core.
Closing let me say this from the bottom of my heart: you are like the little brother I never wished for, and never wanted, but I thank you. I thank you for teaching me that you have no face, you have no race, you have no sexual orientation, you have no sex, you infect whoever for whatever reason.
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Editor's note: The Lancaster News is tracking the progress of Katie Stogner and Jeff Holden as they undertake the Island Sun Tanning and Fitness 12-week Challenge for 2012. Here is their third progress report. You can also follow their progress at stevelewisplan.com.
Katie's story
We just finished week seven of the challenge and while I am still so happy I did this, I am realizing why it is called a "challenge" now.
Robert Howey
Each spring, Donna White, with the help of her committee, turns a negative into a positive.
The date for that switch this year is April 14.
That's when the sixth annual Run for Ryan, a Kleine-Levin Syndrome fundraiser and awareness event that includes the county track meet, will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Lancaster High School track.
By now, most New Year's resolutions have fallen to the wayside.
I make them every year. This year, after much thought and soul searching, I decided to tackle the hardest resolution of them all: I'm reducing the sodium in my diet.
As far as resolutions go, it doesn't have the popularity of "losing 10 pounds," "paying off debt" or "reading the Bible through."
Editor's note: The Lancaster News is tracking the progress of Katie Stogner and Jeff Holden as they undertake the Island Sun Tanning and Fitness 12-week Challenge for 2012. Here is their second progress report. You can also follow their progress at stevelewisplan.com.
Katie's story
Four weeks down and I am so glad I did this. I have made some serious progress already, although I have a long way to go. I tend to be a little impatient, so to finally see some significant changes really helps me focus.
NASHVILLE – When Lancaster native Kassie Jordan hits the stage with her band, she knows immediately who the movers and shakers along Music Row are.
Hailed by one critic as "one of the hardest working girls in music around Nashville and a force to be reckoned with," the 2000 Buford High School graduate just released her first CD, "Timing," on Feb. 19.
Sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office, we were indeed waiting our turn.
I glanced up to see a ghost from my past, whom I hadn't seen since making the final arrangements for my mother and father so many years ago.
My son was oblivious to the man's presence and was engrossed in a story about the recreational upgrades for Indian Land in Wednesday's copy of The Lancaster News.
I nudged my boy and asked, "Hey, you know who that fella is?"
Name: David Williams
Age: 63
Address: Copeland Road, Heath Springs
Family: Wife, Andrea; two sons, Lee and Nelson and three grandchildren, David Michael, Caroline and Savannah
Job: Auto body repair, Snipes Co. Auto
Church: Heath Springs Baptist Church
Hobbies: Boating and fishing
Favorite book: The Bible
Sometimes, what isn't visible tells the story.
Take Janna Noland, for instance.
Right now, the 17-year-old senior at Carolina Christian Academy is putting the finishing touches on her Girl Scout Gold Award project.
An Ambassador Girl Scout with Troop 645 in Great Falls, Janna is hand-making 21 tote bags that will be filled with baby items to hand out at Springs Memorial Hospital the week of March 12.
That week commemorates the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts.
Damien Ward had heard enough.
Ward had already been on the dance floor several times Saturday night at the Fairway Room with his dressed-to-the-nines daughters, Emeliana, 6, and Olivia, 5, at the annual Girl Scouts Father Daughter Dance.
Emeliana is a member of Daisy Troop 2339 and Olivia is a Girl Scout in the making. Second-generation Girl Scouts, their mom is Emily Evans Ward, who earned her Gold Award.
The men's prayer breakfast at First Presbyterian Church began 23 years ago in 1989 by Brooks Johnson and Steve Williams Jr., Judd Funderburk, Harold Rowell, Charlie Franks, Frazier Kirkpatrick and Harvey Stewart, who are all now deceased, as well as others.
It's was just after Hurricane Hugo came through.
Since I was alone, it was a lucky day when I was invited to attend for a time of good fellowship with other Christian men.
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text: May 3, 2012 - Romney Bounces Back In Two Of Three Key States, Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll Finds; Obama Widens Lead In Pennsylvania; Ohio, Florida Tied Word format Crosstabs and Trends by State FLORIDA: Romney 44 - Obama 43 OHIO: Obama 44 - Romney 42 PENNSYLVANIA: Obama 47 - Romney 39 Riding the voter perception that he is as good as or better than President Barack Obama at fixing the economy, Republican challenger Mitt Romney catches up with the president in Florida and Ohio, two critical swing states, while the president opens an 8-point lead in Pennsylvania, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released today. This compares to the results of a March 28 Swing State Poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University showing President Obama ahead of Gov. Romney 49 - 42 percent in Florida, 47 - 41 percent in Ohio and 45 - 42 percent in Pennsylvania. Voters in all three states approve of the president's handling of Afghanistan, but by margins averaging 2-1, voters say the U.S. should not be involved there. Matching Obama against Romney in each of these key states - no one has won the White House since 1960 without carrying at least two of them - shows: Florida: Romney with 44 percent to Obama's 43 percent, too close to call; Ohio: Obama with 44 percent to Romney's 42 percent, too close to call; Pennsylvania: Obama tops Romney 47 - 39 percent. "Gov. Mitt Romney has closed President Barack Obama's leads in Ohio and Florida to the point that those two states are now essentially tied, a turnaround from the end of March when the president enjoyed leads in those key states," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "The good news for the president is that he has an 8-point lead in Pennsylvania, approaching the 11-point margin he had in carrying the Keystone State in 2008," Brown added. "Overall, Obama is doing slightly better than Romney in these critical swing states today." New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie, Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio U.S. Sen. Rob Portman top the Republican vice presidential guess list, because two are native sons and one is a near-native son. At least 67 percent of voters in each state say the economy is in a recession, but at least 51 percent of voters in each state say the recovery has begun. Voters in Florida and Ohio say Romney would do a better job on the economy. Pennsylvania voters are divided. "Romney's ability to cut into the president's leads in Ohio and Florida reflects two changes in the political environment: First, since he is now the de facto nominee, Romney is no longer being attacked by his fellow Republicans, who are closing ranks behind him. Second, voter optimism about the economy has leveled off, reflecting economic statistics over the past month and the public reaction to them. "A very small gender gap in Florida grows significantly in Ohio and Pennsylvania as women flock to Obama. Romney offsets Obama's edge in Ohio with a big lead among men, something he doesn't achieve in Pennsylvania. What appears to be keeping Romney in the ball game, at least in Florida and Ohio, is the perception he can better fix the economy. "By margins of about 2-1, voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania say the U.S. should not be in Afghanistan, but they approve of what the president is doing there and pluralities say the pace of withdrawal of U.S. troops is about right. "When it comes to picking a Republican running mate, geography is the coin of the realm. In Ohio a quarter of voters say home state Sen. Rob Portman would be the best choice, while four in 10 Floridians say that about their Senator, Marco Rubio. In Pennsylvania, almost a third favors neighboring Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. Christie and Rubio do best outside their own neighborhoods, but there is far from any kind of consensus about who would be Romney's best choice." Florida There is a small gender gap in the Florida presidential race as men back Romney 46 - 42 percent while women back Obama 44 - 42 percent, too close to call on both counts. Florida voters disapprove 50 - 46 percent of the job Obama is doing and say 50 - 45 percent he does not deserve to be reelected. The economy is in a recession, voters say 70 - 26 percent and 51 percent say the recovery has begun. Romney would do a better job on the economy, voters say 49 - 40 percent. By a 51 - 38 percent margin, Florida voters want the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 2010 health care reform legislation. Voters approve 49 - 39 percent of the way Obama is handling the situation in Afghanistan, but they say 64 - 27 percent that the U.S. should not be involved. Obama's pace withdrawing troops from Afghanistan is about right, 44 percent of voters say. Looking at possible vice presidential candidates, 40 percent of Florida voters pick Sen. Rubio, followed by 14 percent for Christie, with no other candidate above 7 percent. "The dead heat in Florida appears to be a result of Obama's decline as much as anything else. In March the president had a 51 - 44 favorability rating compared to 46 - 47 percent today," Brown said. "Romney barely moved, from 41 - 36 favorable in March to 40 - 34 percent favorable now." Ohio The gender gap widens in the Ohio presidential race as women back Obama 50 - 37 percent while men back Romney 48 - 38 percent. Ohio voters split 48 - 47 percent in their approval of Obama and split 47 - 48 percent on whether he deserves to be reelected. The economy is in a recession, voters say 67 - 31 percent, but recovery has begun, 55 percent say. Romney would do a better job on the economy, voters say 47 - 43 percent. The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn the health care law, voters say 51 - 37 percent. Voters approve 51 - 39 percent of Obama's handling of Afghanistan, but say 59 - 33 percent that the U.S. should not be involved. The pace of U.S. troop withdrawal is about right, 43 percent of voters say. Sen. Portman is the vice presidential preference for 26 percent of Ohio voters, with 14 percent each for Christie and Rubio. No other candidate tops 8 percent. "The president gets 44 percent in Ohio to Romney's 42 percent because of his strength among Democrats, 84 - 7 percent, and that party's relative strength in the Buckeye State. The president is ahead even though he trails among independent voters 43 - 38 percent." "One explanation for this Democratic edge over Republicans in identification may be spillover from the unpopularity of Republican Gov. John Kasich during his first 16 months in office," Brown added. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania women are wild about Obama, giving him a 52 - 35 percent general election lead. Men tip to Romney 44 - 41 percent. Voters approve 50 - 46 percent of the job Obama is doing and say 50 - 46 percent he deserves four more years. The economy is in a recession, voters say 69 - 28 percent, but 56 percent say recovery has begun. Obama would do a better job on the economy, 44 percent of voters say, while 43 percent point to Romney. The Supreme Court should overturn the health care law, 46 percent of voters say, while 43 percent say the court should uphold the law. Pennsylvania voters approve 56 - 34 percent of the way Obama is handling Afghanistan, but say 61 - 30 percent the U.S. should not be involved. The pace of troop withdrawal is about right, 48 percent say. Christie is the top choice for running mate, with 28 percent, followed by Rubio with 15 percent and no other candidate above 8 percent. "The president's lead in Pennsylvania is across the board. He carries independent voters 45 - 36 percent," Brown said. "A slight majority says he deserves a second term and gives him a thumbs up for his job performance. He has a huge lead among women, while men go to Romney by a nose. Of the three states, Pennsylvania is the one in which the largest number of voters say the economy is beginning to recover." From April 25 - May 1, Quinnipiac University surveyed: 1,169 Florida voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percent; 1,130 Ohio voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percent; 1,168 Pennsylvania voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percent. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones. The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public opinion surveys in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Virginia and nationwide as a public service and for research. For individual statewide crosstabs and trends visit - http://www.quinnipiac.edu/polling.xml or call (203) 582-5201. For individual statewide crosstabs and trends call (203) 582-5201 or click: Crosstabs and Trends by State 1. Turning to this year's general election for president, if the election for President were being held today, and the candidates were Barack Obama the Democrat and Mitt Romney the Republican, for whom would you vote? FL OH PA Obama 43% 44% 47% Romney 44 42 39 SMONE ELSE(VOL) 3 3 2 WLDN'T VOTE(VOL) 2 3 3 DK/NA 9 8 8 2. Is your opinion of Mitt Romney favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him? FL OH PA Favorable 40% 36% 35% Unfavorable 34 36 39 Hvn't hrd enough 22 25 22 REFUSED 4 4 3 3. Is your opinion of Barack Obama favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him? FL OH PA Favorable 46% 46% 51% Unfavorable 47 45 43 Hvn't hrd enough 4 5 2 REFUSED 3 5 4 4. Is your opinion of the Republican Party favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about it? FL OH PA Favorable 42% 37% 35% Unfavorable 45 47 51 Hvn't hrd enough 9 12 10 REFUSED 4 4 5 5. Is your opinion of the Democratic Party favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about it? FL OH PA Favorable 43% 42% 45% Unfavorable 45 45 41 Hvn't hrd enough 7 9 9 REFUSED 5 4 5 6. Compared to past presidential elections, how would you describe your level of enthusiasm about voting in this year's presidential election; are you more enthusiastic than usual, less enthusiastic, or about the same as usual? FL OH PA More 35% 27% 28% Less 26 27 25 About the same 38 45 45 DK/NA 1 - 1 7. Please tell me which one of the following you would most like to see Mitt Romney choose as a candidate for vice president: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, Ohio Senator Rob Portman, New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, or Florida Senator Marco Rubio? FL OH PA Christie 14% 14% 28% Jindal 6 6 6 Pawlenty 4 3 4 Portman 4 26 4 Ayotte 2 2 3 Ryan 7 8 8 Rubio 40 14 15 SOMEONE ELSE (VOL) 3 2 4 DK/NA 21 26 27 8. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as President? FL OH PA Approve 46% 48% 50% Disapprove 50 47 46 DK/NA 4 5 4 9. Do you feel that Barack Obama deserves to be reelected, or do you feel that he does not deserve to be reelected? FL OH PA Yes/Deserves 45% 47% 50% No/Does not 50 48 46 DK/NA 5 5 4 10. In general, how satisfied are you with the way things are going in the nation today; are you very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied, or very dissatisfied? FL OH PA Very satisfied 5% 3% 2% Smwht satisfied 24 29 30 Smwht dissatisfied 26 28 30 Very dissatisfied 45 39 36 DK/NA - 1 2 11. Do you think the United States economy is in a recession now? FL OH PA Yes 70% 67% 69% No 26 31 28 DK/NA 4 3 4 12. Do you think the economy is beginning to recover or not? FL OH PA Yes 51% 55% 56% No 45 41 40 DK/NA 4 4 3 13. Regardless of how you intend to vote, who do you think would do a better job on the economy, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney? FL OH PA Obama 40% 43% 44% Romney 49 47 43 DK/NA 11 9 12 14. Do you think Congress should try to repeal the health care law, or should they let it stand? FL OH PA Repeal it 53% 52% 46% Let it stand 39 37 42 DK/NA 9 11 12 15. The Supreme Court has heard a challenge to the health care law. Do you want the Supreme Court to uphold the health care law or overturn it? FL OH PA Uphold it 38% 37% 43% Overturn it 51 51 46 DK/NA 11 12 11 16. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling the situation in Afghanistan? FL OH PA Approve 49% 51% 56% Disapprove 39 39 34 DK/NA 12 10 10 17. Do you think the U.S. is doing the right thing by fighting the war in Afghanistan now, or should the U.S. not be involved in Afghanistan now? FL OH PA Right thing 27% 33% 30% Shld not be involved 64 59 61 DK/NA 9 8 9 18. From what you've read and heard, do you think Barack Obama is removing U.S. troops from Afghanistan too quickly, not quickly enough, or is he handling this about right? FL OH PA Too quickly 18% 17% 13% Not quickly enough 31 32 32 About right 44 43 48 DK/NA 8 8 8 Additional info by state: Florida: Crosstabs/Trends Demographic Summary Ohio: Crosstabs/Trends Demographic Summary Pennsylvania: Crosstabs/Trends Demographic Summary


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In response to a letter from the Evergreen Park and Rec District board in the Nov. 5 Courier, we would like to clarify our position with regard to the tae kwon do classes in the district.
To kick off 2009, we put together a quiz based on citizen questions and some crime/quality-of-life problems we encounter regularly in Jeffco. We invite you to take the quiz and see if you know the best way to handle the following scenarios.
Q: You want to teach your young child to stay away from adults who could harm him or her. What's a good phrase to help them remember?
a. "Trust no one"
b. "Say no to strangers"
c. "Check first before you go anywhere with anyone"
The 2008 presidential election created four vacancies in the U.S. Senate: Barack Obama and Joe Biden left open seats in Illinois and Delaware; the new secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, opened up a spot in New York; and of course, Sen. Ken Salazar was nominated as secretary of the interior, paving the way for Gov. Bill Ritter to appoint Michael Bennet, former head of the Denver Public Schools.
Deteriorating bridges across the state, congestion that robs us of time, declining gas taxes because cars are more efficient, and an economy on the fritz. What's a state to do? If Gov. Bill Ritter, state Sen. Dan Gibbs and state Rep. Joe Rice have their way, we'll go faster.
I have been a businessman in Evergreen since 1962. Evergreen Drug Company was an important institution in the history of Evergreen. During 2005 I became frustrated because of the burdensome managed-care regulations, third-party prescriptions and shrinking profit margins and chose to close Evergreen Drug. The same situation happened to most independently owned drugstores, and consequently chain stores have taken over the prescription business.
By Kelly Weist
Leftists all agree that one of the first things the president-elect needs to "change" is the situation at Guantanamo Bay. At least, that's what they thought prior to the election.
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If great communities have great schools, there can't be a much better place to live than Evergreen. All schools in Evergreen received excellent ratings on school report cards issued by the Colorado Department of Education.
It marks the fourth time in the last five years that all of our neighborhood schools achieved the highest rating. Our local charter, Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen, rated excellent in both its elementary and middle school programs.
Several years ago, I heard former governor Dick Lamm say that the biggest policy challenge of the 21st century would be sustainability. At the time, I thought he was speaking primarily about environmental issues, but recent events suggest the word encompasses even more than that.
Of course, environmental sustainability remains a significant issue. As third-world countries catch up to industrialized nations, the problems connected with resource consumption and pollution will continue to grow.
As the 1992 presidential campaign honed in on voter priorities, political consultant James Carville decided to simplify the message for his candidate. He told Bill Clinton, "It's the economy, stupid."
When the 67th Colorado General Assembly convenes this week, Carville's message will be coming through loud and clear. Everyone's agenda is the same. It doesn't matter whether it is the executive branch or the legislative branch. It doesn't matter whether they are Republicans or Democrats. It's the economy, stupid.
By Hannah Hayes
A yard sign lives on in my neighborhood. It's been up since 2001, proclaiming "United We Stand." Passers-by can't help but puzzle the sign's meaning at the end of 2008. The owner's pride exudes from the entire property, but the sign reeks of the prejudice of these last eight years.
Recently, the long-rumored demise of the Rocky Mountain News took another step toward reality. Announcing the paper is up for sale, the E.W. Scripps Co. signaled what may be the end an institution that has been part of Colorado for nearly 150 years.
The news hit me harder than I expected. For all the other sources of information out there — and there are many — I just can't imagine life without the Rocky. It's been a part of my day since I learned to read.
Do you want to avoid one of the almost 46,000 malls or shopping centers in the United States during this holiday shopping season? Do you hate to circle endlessly to find a parking space at the mall? Do you despise wall-to-wall crowds and the opportunity for an ID thief to nab your personal information or steal your packages? You are not alone.
The things we, the people of Colorado, do to our state constitution are pretty remarkable. Most informed voters know and understand how the conflicting provisions of TABOR, which restricts government collections and expenditures; Amendment 23, which mandates increased spending for K-12 education regardless of the condition of the state treasury or impact on other state programs; and the Gallagher amendment, which creates ever disparate property tax treatment of residential and commercial property ties elected officials' hands and makes it difficult to deliver government services.
Colorado is now a one-party state. The election of 2008 definitively put Democrats in the driver's seat at both the state and federal levels.
In addition to their control of the state House, state Senate and governor's mansion, this year Democrats added wins in the U.S. Senate race (Mark Udall) and 4th Congressional District (Betsy Markey). Of Colorado's nine seats in the U.S. House and Senate, only Congressman Doug Lamborn and Congressman-elect Mike Coffman have "R"s next to their names.
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It's Thanksgiving and an appropriate time to reflect on giving and receiving. A day, a season, perhaps an even longer time to trade in negative dialogue and give it up for someone who has contributed so much to our lives and to many others' as well. This year I've chosen to write about Gloria Steinem. She appeared in our area a couple of times during the election cycle and I felt lucky to be able to hear this icon speak in person at the Lake House.
It's been an interesting few years as it relates to general consensus about when to put school mill levy overrides and bond issues on ballots. Historically, lower voter turnout benefited these questions because teachers and parents were the more motivated voters. When those motivated supporters made up the largest possible percentage of the vote, the measures stood the best chances of winning.
This little piggy went to the free market; after all, we were told to shop. Unfortunately some shopped "on the margin," meaning there was no inherent value in the paper they were purchasing. Who can blame the Chinese for trying to cash out if they started to feel insecure about the lack of backing on their loans?
Spending several nights in a Roy Rogers themed hotel room recently took me back to the childhood room my brother and I shared. Just think turquoise and brown. I loved all the '50s Western TV shows, so, to further indulge nostalgia and my interest in politics, I watched a few episodes of "Maverick" when I got back home. Bret Maverick was an entirely different legend of the West than Roy was. Bret was always scheming, gambling and being run out of town. Roy Rogers knew it's how you ride the trail that counts.
Writing before the election results are final, I have no idea of the outcome of the presidential race. So from behind a veil of ignorance, this column is an expression of support and good wishes to the newly elected president — whoever he is.
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