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February 26, 2018
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It's February – winter's not over yet, but spring is right around the corner. If you have cabin fever from being inside, cleaning and freshening up your house can help you get through this last month of winter and be ready to get outside when spring arrives. Once you check these items off your to-do list, you'll be able to relax by the fire with a good book and enjoy the last few weeks of winter.
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A Tarrant County woman who claims a Greyhound bus station security guard raped her in a Houston security office is suing the guard, his employer and the bus company.
The woman, who is being identified by her initials, B.V., due to the alleged rape, filed suit Nov. 19 in the 281st State District Court against Greyhound Lines Inc., 31-year-old security guard Tyler John Duhon Jr. and Top Gun Security and Private Investigations, Duhon's employer at the time of the incident.
According to the plaintiff's petition, B.V. went to Greyhound's Houston station at 2121 Main St. on April 30, 2012, and bought a ticket to Dallas.
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NEW ORLEANS — The Jets plan on holding on to quarterback Tim Tebow a little longer, according to a report.
ESPN reported the Jets will not release Tebow before the new league year begins on March 12 in hopes they can trade him. It is a long shot to believe they can get even a late-round draft pick for the controversial backup quarterback, who barely played for the Jets in 2012.
March 12 is the first day teams can make trades and when the free-agent signing period begins. The Jets have been expected to cut ties with Tebow since late in the season, when it became clear both sides were unhappy with him being a Jet.
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Brighten Early Lessons
We are a new business who will run several websites promoting various types of lessons e.g. golf lessons, driving lessons, swimming lessons and music lesson.
The company name is: Brighten Early Lessons.
If you teach any one of the above you will be able to have a profile on the website and promote yourself to people looking for lessons. You will have a detailed overview of you and your business e.g personal/contact details, qualifications, teaching times, customer feedback, photos and location etc.
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Here are the top 10 driver ratings for the Sprint Cup Kobalt 400 before practice begins Thursday:
Here are the top 10 driver ratings for the Sprint Cup Kobalt 400 before practice begins Thursday:
1. No. 48 Jimmie Johnson (5-1): His 9.5 average finish is the best among all drivers, as well as his track-record four wins. His rise to the top of NASCAR has happened through Las Vegas, as he has won the championship in three of the same seasons he won at Las Vegas. The 1.5-mile tracks usually have been Johnson's bread and butter, but in 2013, he won only one of the 11 events. That win came late in the year at Las Vegas' sister track in Texas. It has been four years since he last won in Las Vegas, his longest drought, so let's just say he's hungry.
2. No. 17 Matt Kenseth (7-1): Last year's winner took his third Las Vegas checkered flag home and has averaged an 11.6 finish since 2000, third-best. Based on 2013, when he won four times on the 1.5-mile tracks, he should be considered the favorite. The biggest question for Kenseth and all the teams will be whether those setup notes from 2013 still will be applicable this season with the minor aerodynamic changes.
3. No. 2 Brad Keselowski (10-1): The 2012 champ didn't win a race last season until race 31 at Charlotte, but then he fared well the rest of the way on the final two 1.5-mile tracks. He had a career-best third-place finish last year at Las Vegas and has momentum after a strong Phoenix run Sunday. He could offer some of the best odds-to-win value.
4. No. 4 Kevin Harvick (10-1): After dominating at Phoenix in practice and during the race, leading 224 of 312 laps, he immediately answered any questions about how his new Stewart-Haas car would perform. There were questions about the SHR cars entering the season after they ran poor in 2013. Las Vegas will be a major test for them and will be reflective of how their season may be on the 1.5-mile tracks this season. If he looks fast in testing and practice this week, a season championship bet at 8-1 odds might not be a bad idea.
5. No. 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. (10-1): He never has won at Las Vegas and never has won a championship. There have been two races on two different kinds of tracks, and he won one and was second in the other. Chances are we can expect him to be good Sunday as well, because his momentum into 2014 started at the end of last season, when he finished second at Texas and third at Homestead. The eventual Cup champion has won at Las Vegas five times.
6. No. 99 Carl Edwards (15-1): He always has been ready for Las Vegas, where his 9.7 average finish is second to Mr. Vegas, Jimmie Johnson. Edwards is a two-time Las Vegas winner and has finished fifth in each of the past two years. His two wins last season on were on the smaller tracks at Phoenix and Richmond, and his best 1.5-mile track performance was a third place at Texas in April.
7. No. 11 Denny Hamlin (10-1): The last time the drivers raced on a 1.5-mile track, Hamlin took the checkered flag to close out the season at Homestead. He carried that momentum into Daytona Speedweeks with Sprint Unlimited and Bud Duel wins, then finished second in the Daytona 500. But he struggled last week at Phoenix. Is that just a one-race, bad-day deal? We'll find out more Thursday during testing, but the betting man would have the edge to wager that he'll be fast with Joe Gibbs power.
8. No. 18 Kyle Busch (7-1): For the same reasons to expect Hamlin to be fast, Busch should be considered as well, and maybe even more because he had success on the big horsepower tracks last season, winning at Texas, Atlanta and Fontana. He won at Las Vegas in 2009 and finished fourth in 2013. He is our hometown favorite.
9. No. 5 Kasey Kahne (8-1): He has won the pole three times and been runner-up twice, but in 10 Las Vegas starts, he has yet to win, which is surprising because he always has been one of the better drivers on 1.5-mile tracks. Last season he was runner-up on four of the 1.5-mile tracks. One thing we probably can count on is that he'll be fast, and, sometimes, that's all you can ask for.
10. No. 24 Jeff Gordon (15-1): He parlayed his only Las Vegas win in 2001 into his fourth and final Cup Championship. On Sunday, without Mark Martin and Jeff Burton, only he and Bobby Labonte will have started every Las Vegas Cup race since 1998. He has a 15.4 average finish in those 16 starts, but has had poor finishes the past three seasons. Like his teammates Kahne, Junior and Johnson, he should be fast off the hauler.
Note: Thursday's test session at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be a huge indicator of who is the driver to beat, and then the speeds from the final practice on Saturday should paint the picture even more clearly. Everything the teams learn in Las Vegas will have a major effect in how they run on the 1.5-mile tracks for the rest of the season, which consist of 11 of 36 races. Do well on these tracks, five of which are in the Chase, and a birth to the championship game at Homestead is likely.
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Brian Lara (captain)
Ramnaresh Sarwan (vice captain)
Carlton Baugh (wicketkeeper)
Chris Gayle
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Wavell Hinds
Runako Morton
Marlon Samuels
Dwayne Bravo
Dwayne Smith
Ian Bradshaw
Jerome Taylor
Fidel Edwards
Corey Collymore
On paper WI could do well once again, but they could equally be thrashed by Bangladesh. This squad is stronger than the one that won the last tourney though.
Morton > Powell
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Taylor > Sammy
Edwards > Dillon
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WASHINGTON — Officials say three planeloads of Americans are being evacuated from a major Iraqi air base in Sunni territory north of Baghdad to escape potential threats from a fast-moving insurgency.
A current U.S. official and a former senior Obama administration official say that means the American training mission at the air field in Balad has been grounded indefinitely.
Twelve U.S. personnel who were stationed at Balad were the first to be evacuated. Several hundred American contractors are still waiting to leave.
They have been training Iraqi forces to use fighter jets and surveillance drones.
Other U.S. contractors at a tank training ground in the city of Taji is still ongoing for now.
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MIAMI (AP) — This is the matchup Chris Bosh wanted in the Eastern Conference finals.
No, he might not necessarily enjoy going head-to-head with 7-foot-2 Roy Hibbert when the Miami Heat open this series against the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night, especially since the Pacers' biggest man is arguably enjoying the best postseason run of his career to date. And it's not because he thinks Miami will waltz past the Pacers, either.
It's simply because this is the series that got taken away from him last season.
Bosh got hurt after playing just 16 minutes of Game 1 of the Miami-Indiana second-round series in 2012, badly straining an abdominal muscle when he reached past Hibbert for a fierce dunk. He missed the remainder of the series, which the Heat eventually won in six games on their way toward the NBA title.
"To be able to have a chance to compete against these guys, I didn't get the chance last time," Bosh said. "I felt last year that I could have really made an imprint on the series. And it's funny how things come back around. I'm going to get another shot. So I'm just thankful to be healthy and be able to play and we'll see what happens."
The irony of the play where Bosh got hurt — and where Miami's title hopes almost evaporated — was that it was a sensational move.
He caught a pass from LeBron James near the top of the key, took one hard dribble, drove past Hibbert, outstretched his left arm and slammed the ball home while getting fouled by the Pacers' center. The contact was minor. The result was a fluke.
Bosh felt intense pain around his abdomen, and remained on his hands and knees on the court for several seconds after the dunk. James came over and tapped him on the backside. Mike Miller grabbed at Bosh's arm, ready to pull him off the floor. After a few moments, Bosh slowly pulled himself to his feet, and even made the subsequent free throw for the Hibbert foul.
The pain didn't subside, and moments later, he was gone — for the series.
Bosh returned during the East finals against the Boston Celtics, and the Heat said after that series that without him, they probably wouldn't have even gotten a shot to face and ultimately beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals.
"It's big-time," James said of having Bosh around for this series. "He's an All-Star. Multiple All-Star. We didn't have him last time we faced them. He's the wild-card for us, the way he's been rebounding this postseason and shooting the ball brings a whole new dynamic to our team."
There may be other matchups that command more attention going into this series, like the one between James and Paul George, or maybe Dwyane Wade and Lance Stephenson, or even the X's and O's chess match that will ensue between Miami coach Erik Spoelstra and Indiana coach Frank Vogel.
But the Bosh vs. Hibbert battle might be the one that decides who represents the East in the NBA Finals.
When Hibbert scores at least 14 points, the Pacers are 11-2 in playoff games. When he doesn't, they're 4-11. And while Bosh might not be the bruiser inside who can overpower Hibbert — who's three inches taller and 45 pounds bigger than the de facto Heat center — there is a simple way that Miami might be able to slow down the Pacers' center.
That would be to do what the Heat like to do most with Bosh on offense, let him extend defenses and exploit his jumper.
"He's very disruptive back there," Spoelstra said of Hibbert, who had 21 points, 12 rebounds and five blocked shots in Indiana's second-round-clinching win over New York on Saturday. "He's big, he's intelligent, he changes shots, he sees so many pick-and-rolls every night, he knows how to do it without fouling. He's, no question, the anchor of their defense."
Said Vogel: "Roy Hibbert is the best rim protector in the game."
Hibbert is most effective defensively around the rim, so having Bosh set up on the perimeter — as he's apt to do anyway — would serve two purposes. One, it would set him up for his preferred shot and would likely make Hibbert venture outside his comfort zone. Two, pulling Hibbert away from the rim could potentially free up some lanes for James and Wade to attack the basket.
"That's worth a lot," James said. "When Chris pulls anyone out of the lane, his ability to shoot the ball is a huge bonus for our team. There's not many (centers) that can stretch to the 3-point line. I don't know one besides Chris that can stretch to the 3-point line every night. So it works wonders for our team."
Bosh said he's eager for the challenge.
"I'm just thankful to be out there," Bosh said.
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Verona – Marjorie A. "Marge" Marty, age 84, died surrounded by her family on Monday, December 10, 2012 at St. Mary's Hospital. She was born on June 4, 1928 in Madison, the daughter of Henry and Selma (Liebetrau) Maurer. She graduated from Verona High School and Whitewater Teacher's College and taught one year at White School, in rural Verona.
Marge was united in marriage to Russell Marty on August 11, 1948 at St. James Lutheran Church, Verona. They farmed their entire married life on the Marty Century Homestead until 2009, when they sold their dairy herd.
Marge had an unwavering Christian faith and was a lifelong member of St. James Lutheran Church. She was very active in many church groups including, Ruth Circle, WELCA, Oakwood Service League and the Quilting Group. She also spent many years coordinating funeral lunches at St. James.
She was a member of the Gordon School Mother's Club and a 4-H cooking leader for the Gordon Go-Getters.
Marge enjoyed playing cards especially with her friends of over 60 years, the 8 O'clock Callers and numerous neighborhood card groups. She also loved bowling and their up-North fishing trips with friends and family. Her favorite past-time was tending to her flower and vegetable gardens. She was happiest when she was out in the fresh air.
Her greatest joy was her family and her house was always the gathering place for get-togethers. She is survived by her 4 children: John (Cathie), Carla (Joe) Poast, Joanne (Greg) Kendall and Ron (Peggy); 10 grandchildren, Meghan (Julio Barros) Marty, Melissa (David) Snyder, Amanda Poast, Jordan (Erica) Poast, Sarah (Randy) Anderson, Elizabeth (Jeremy) Gleason, Joel Kendall, Mary (Dave) Neill, and Lisa and Jenna Marty; 7 great-grandchildren and another due in January; brothers, Ray (Shirley) and Len (Judy) Maurer; sister-in-law, Marilyn Maurer; and brothers and sisters-in-law, Paul and Dorothy Marty and Clarence and Ginny Witt.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Russ; her parents; and brother, Jerry Maurer.
A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, December 15, 2012 at St. James Lutheran Church, 427 S. Main Street, Verona, with Rev. Kurt Billings and Rev. Peter Narum officiating. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. on Friday, December 14, 2012 at the Ryan Funeral Home, 220 Enterprise Drive, Verona and also from 10:00 a.m. until the time of service at the church on Saturday. Burial will be at Verona Cemetery.
The family would like to extend a special thanks to the staff of St. Mary's Hospital.
Memorials may be made to St. James Lutheran Church or the charity of your choice.


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Has China's Debt Crisis Moment Arrived?
The news on the China debt front is getting kind of scary.
Just weeks before a much-anticipated audit of local governments' mounting debt levels, we learn from our team in Shanghai that local authorities have been allowed to roll over that debt with short-term borrowings and from Bloomberg News that banks have tripled their bad debt write-offs to cover losses in the sector.
Local government debt is where the rubber meets the road for the Chinese government's big economic-policy dilemma. It's no secret that Beijing wants to wean the economy off a risky investment-led growth model, in part to defuse a dangerous, speculative property bubble, but the rapid run-up in poorly monitored local debt stands in the way of a smooth transition to more stable, consumer-led growth.
China's National Audit Office last estimated in 2010 that local-government debt stood at 10.72 trillion yuan ($1.75 trillion), or 27% of GDP. But, by all accounts, it has exploded since then, with some estimates suggesting that the load now accounts for 60% of the economy, much of it generated by special investment vehicles that were able to bypass nationally imposed borrowing limits. (For those familiar with Wall Street's pre-crisis borrowing tactics, the acronym SIV will sound ominous.)
Beijing is not innocent in this buildup. For years, the central strategy was to set a national annual growth target--in previous years, it was repeatedly set at 8% or higher--and make it clear to provincial and municipal authorities that they were expected to meet that. For local officials the solution was simple: procure (or seize) land and then borrow money to develop it, often with little regard for how much future demand there would be for the new houses and office building.
These entities created what Kynikos Associates hedge fund manager Jim Chanos calls the "treadmill to hell." At some point, they had to get off. And when they did, they'd be left with an unsustainable debt. That moment is looking more and more as if it has arrived.
No wonder the government is preparing both the lenders and borrowers for the pain to come.
According to people familiar with new policy changes, who spoke to The Wall Street Journal, one possible fix lies in an amendment to lending rules to allow more local governments to issue short-term debt, the funds from which they would use to pay off maturing bonds. Of course, this simply pushes the challenge out a few more months or years. Presumably, the hope is that by then growth will have recovered to make it easier for these governments to raise money. But that's wishful thinking.
Indeed, based on the Bloomberg report, banks are already writing off large gobs of this toxic stuff. Its report earlier Wednesday said the country's biggest banks wrote off 22.1 billion yuan ($3.6 billion) in uncollectible debts in the first six months of the year, triple the number from the same period in 2012.
Optimists take comfort in the notion that the national government has room to maneuver. After all, the International Monetary Fund is projecting a gross debt-to-GDP ratio of just 21.3% for 2013.
But any reasonable analysis of Chinese debt metrics must add debt from local governments, state-owned enterprises and government-run banks into that mix. All are arguably extensions of a national government, which means their obligations are ultimately Beijing's. The national government can absorb this debt--it's a government with infinite taxation powers, after all--but, if the bailout gets too big, it will severely crimp its ability to spur further growth. The world's second-biggest economy would tank.
One recent estimate from Fitch Ratings provides a pretty troubling contextual backdrop: total Chinese debt stood at 198% of GDP at the end of 2012, up from 125% in 2008. Now consider the fact that annual GDP growth has since then slowed to around 7.5% and that outstanding property loans by the biggest banks were up 19% on the year as of September.
China crisis anyone?
– Follow Michael J. Casey on Twitter: @mikejcasey.
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Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The New Mexico State men's tennis team concluded the Balloon Fiesta Invitational with the freshman pair of Daniel Fernandez and Naveen Manivannan capturing the doubles title of the Cherry flight.
Fernandez and Manivannan defeated fellow Aggies, senior Luis Ramirez and junior Marc Westgate, 8-5, en route to the crown. Sophomore Germain Degardin and freshman Yannick Blank also won third place of the draw after defeating sophomore Luke Manley and junior Alex Clinkenbeard of Denver, 8-4.
"Overall, it was a good tournament for us and I'm satisfied with the way we played," head coach Carlos Vargas said. "We have a very talented group and continue to improve every week."
In the Cherry singles flight, Ramirez lost a three-set struggle in the finals to New Mexico's sophomore Sam Iftikhar, 6-3, 1-6, 6-4. In the third-place match, Fernandez beat junior Mads Hegelund of UNM, 6-1, 6-1.
"Ramirez continues to make his senior year his best by reaching both finals," Vargas said.
In the Silver doubles flight, sophomore Eduardo Cabrita and freshman Stahinja Trecakov earned a win in the third-place match with an 8-1 victory over sophomore Frederick Bjorne and sophomore Preben Bjorne of Denver. In the consolation final of the doubles draw, freshman Jeremy Harlas and freshman Guilherme Carvalho lost a close match to UNM's redshirt junior Evan Corona-Saunders and redshirt sophomore Simon Hegelund, 9-8.
In singles action of the Silver flight, Westgate collected a third-place win over junior Dominic Bermudez of Northern Arizona, 6-1, 6-3. Degardin beat freshman Jack McCullers of Air Force, 6-2, 6-1 in the consolation final.
In the Turquoise flight, Cabrita fell in the finals of the draw to UNM's sophomore Mitch McDaniels, 6-2, 7-6. Manivannan claimed the third-place match after senior Patrick Schimmelbauer suffered an injury. Trecakov won the seventh-place match with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Air Force's freshman Andrew Parks.
In the final of the White flight, Blank fell in three sets to Air Force's junior Alex Lineberry, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2. On the consolation side of the bracket, Carvalho fell to Simon Hegelund of UNM, 6-2, 6-1, and Harlas lost to senior Robert Martin of Northern Arizona, 3-6, 6-4, 6-0.


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U.S. Women's National Team Update for Jan. 22
Bill Kauffman
Associate Director, Communications
Phone: 719-228-6800
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
2011 U.S. Women's National Team Yearbook
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Jan. 22, 2012) – The current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on Jan. 22 includes briefs on U.S. players competing overseas and other team news.
SYKORA WITH VOLEI FUTURO IN BRAZIL: Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) has returned to Brazil to compete with her club team Volei Futuro in the Brazil Superliga. While she did not play in Volei Futuro's five-set loss to Sesi Sao Paulo on Jan. 17, Sykora returned to the court on Jan. 20 in her first official match since an April 2011 injury. As the starting libero, she helped her squad to a 27-25, 25-19, 20-25, 19-25, 15-13 victory over Sollys/Nestle on Jan. 20. Sykora, who was seriously injured in a bus accident during last spring's Brazil Superliga playoffs, suited up for the season-opening match on Dec. 9 against Mackenzie, but had not been on the active roster until the Jan. 20 match.
HOOKER WITH SOLLYS/NESTLE IN BRAZIL: Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas) is competing for Sollys/Nestle in the Brazil Superliga during the 2011-2012 club season. Hooker did not play in either her team's matches last week, including three-set win over Esporte Clube Pinheiros on Jan. 16 and a five-set loss to Volei Futuro on Jan. 20. To follow Hooker in social media platforms, visit destineehooker19.blogspot.com for her blog or click here for her Facebook athlete page.
TOM WITH FENERBAHCE UNIVERSAL IN TURKEY: U.S. Women's National Team outside hitter Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) is competing for Fenerbahce Universal of the Turkish League in 2011-2012. Tom scored 10 points with nine kills and a block in helping Fenerbahce to a 19-25, 25-17, 25-17, 25-22 victory over second-place Eczacibasi Spor Kulubu (12-2) on Jan. 21. Fenerbahce improves to 14-0 on the season with 42 points. Fenerbahce ended the CEV Champions League Pool B League Round in first place after defeating Dresdner SC 25-23, 21-25, 25-15, 25-19 on Jan. 17. Tom pocketed eight kills on 25 attacks, three blocks and an ace for 12 points in helping Fenerbahce to a 5-1 record and 15 points in the first round. Fenerbahce advances to the 8th Final Round to face Czech Republic's VK Modranska Prostejov in a home-and-home series with dates to be determined.
LARSON WITH DINAMO KAZAN IN RUSSIA: U.S. Women's National Team outside hitter Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) is competing for Dinamo Kazan of the Russia Super League. Kazan improved to 10-2 by defeating Tyumen Tyumen 25-21, 25-21, 25-18 on Jan. 22 in the 12th Round. Larson scored 12 points in the victory, including nine kills on 24 attempts with three blocks. Kazan, now in second place with 28 points in the Russia Super League, plays perennial powerhouse Dinamo Moscow (8-4, 25 points) on Jan. 26 and league-leader Dinamo Krasnador (9-3, 29 points) on Jan. 29 in its next two Super League matches this coming week. Kazan is also competing in the CEV Champions League and finished atop Pool C with 14 points and a 5-1 record, despite falling to Czech Republic's VK Modranska Prostejov 25-18, 25-20, 22-25, 25-19 on Jan. 17 to close out the first round. Larson did not play in the match as the team had already secured the top spot in the pool. Kazan moves into the 8th Final Round for a home-and-home series against Dresdner SC. The series dates have not been announced. To read Larson's blog, click here.
AKINRADEWO WITH DINAMO KRASNODAR IN RUSSIA: U.S. Women's National Team middle blocker Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.) is competing for Dinamo Krasnodar of the Russia Super League in 2011-2012. Krasnador improved to 9-3 in the Super League following a 26-24, 26-28, 25-10, 25-16 victory over Avtodor-METAR on Jan. 22. Krasnador, the Super League leader with 29 points, returns to Super League action on Jan. 26 against Severstal, followed by a Jan. 29 match against second-place Dinamo Kazan. Despite dropping a five-set match to Rote Raben Vilsbiburg on Jan. 19 in the CEV Cup 8th Final Round, Krasnodar came back to take a 16-14 victory in the Golden Set to advance to the CEV Cup 4th Final Round. Krasnodar will face Austria's SVS Post Schwechat in a home-and-home series with dates to be determined.
BARBOZA, HARMOTTO WITH MODENA IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team outside hitter Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) and middle blocker Christa Harmotto (Hopewell, Pa.) are competing for LIU-JO Modena of the Italian Serie A1 in 2011-2012. Modena edged Rebecchi Nordmeccanica Piacenza 26-24, 21-25, 25-16, 25-22 on Jan. 22 to improve to 5-9 on the season with 17 points for eighth place. Harmotto totaled 10 kills on 20 errorless attacks to go with a match-high seven blocks for a total of 17 points. Barboza tacked on 11 kills on 24 swings in the victory, along with a 74 percent positive service reception on a team-high 34 chances. Modena challenges league-leader Yamamay Busto Arsizio (13-0, 38 points) on Feb. 5 in its next Serie A1 match after a break in the schedule for the Italian Serie A1 Cup quarterfinal round. In the Italian Serie A1 Cup, Modena has already advanced to the semifinal round with a quarterfinal round bye. They will face the winner of Yamamay Busto Arsizio and Asystel Volley Novara's quarterfinal round challenge.
LLOYD WITH BUSTO ARSIZIO IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team setter Carli Lloyd (Bonsall, Calif.) is playing for Yamamay Busto Arsizio of the Italian Serie A1 for the 2011-2012 season. Yamamay Busto Arsizio remains undefeated in the Italian Serie A1 division after rallying to defeat Chieri Torino Volley Club 20-25, 25-16, 25-21, 25-23 on Jan. 22. Lloyd came off the bench in the first and third sets while starting the fourth set against the division's 10th-place team. She was credited with four blocks and two kills on three swings in her limited action on the court. Busto Arsizio (13-0, 38 points) returns to Serie A1 regular season action on Feb. 5 against ninth-place LIU-JO Volley Modena (5-9, 17 points). In CEV Cup action, Busto Arsizio completed the home-and-home series sweep of Azerbaijan's Igtisadchi Baku with a 25-21, 20-25, 25-19, 18-25, 15-13 victory at Baku on Jan. 19. In the first set, Busto Arsizio bounced back from an 18-14 deficit with seven unanswered points en route to a 25-21 victory. In the third set, Baku led 9-5 only to have Busto Arsizio bounce back for a 25-19 victory. Busto Arsizio advances to the 4th Final Round home-and-home series against Poland's Aluprof Bielsko Biala. Dates for the matches have not been determined.
KLINEMAN WITH PESARO IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team outside hitter Alix Klineman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) is competing for Scavolini Pesaro of the Italian Serie A1 in the 2011-2012 club season. Klineman tallied a team-high 25 points in helping Pesaro to a 22-25, 30-28, 16-25, 25-16, 16-14 victory over Cariparma SiGrade Parma on Jan. 21. She notched 22 kills on a team-high 58 attacks to go with two aces and a block. Klineman handled 24 service receptions with a 50 positive percent. Pesaro finished the CEV Champions League Pool E with a 4-2 record and 12 points for second place after falling to Russia's Dinamo Moscow 26-24, 25-18, 25-20 on Jan. 17. Klineman contributed seven kills and three aces as part of a 10-point performance. Pesaro advances to the CEV Champions League 8th Finals Round to face Italian rival Volley Bergamo in a home-and-home series starting on Jan. 27. Dates for both matches have not been finalized.
BERG, WILSON WITH VILLA CORTESE IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team setter Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) and past U.S. National Team player Makare Wilson (Gardena, Calif.) are playing for MC-Carnaghi Villa Cortese in the Italian Serie A1 in 2011-2012. Villa Cortese topped Chateaux d'Ax Urbino Volley 25-13, 23-25, 25-23, 25-21 on Jan. 22 to improve to 12-2 in the Serie A1 standings. Berg set her squad to a 42 kill percent with a .291 hitting efficiency while picking up a block of her own on defense. Wilson contributed nine kills on 16 attacks in the victory. Villa Cortese, now with 35 points and in second place in the Serie A, returns to Serie A1 action on Feb. 5 against ninth-place Cariparma SiGrade Parma (5-9, 16 points) after a weekend break for the Italian Serie A1 Cup. Villa Cortese faces Rebecchi Nordmeccanica Piacenza on Jan. 24 to start the Italian Serie A1 Cup quarterfinal round. Piacenza is 7-7 in the regular Italian Serie A1 series. In CEV Champions League action, Villa Cortese ended the League Round with eight points and a 2-4 record to finish in Pool A in third place after falling in five sets to group winner RC Cannes on Jan. 17. Neither Berg nor Wilson competed in the pool finale. Despite the loss and third-place finish, Villa Cortese advanced to the 8th Finals Round where it will face Russia's Dinamo Moscow in a home-and-home series starting on Jan. 27. Dates for the matches have not been finalized.
DAVIS, RICHARDS WITH PIACENZA IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team libero Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) and outside hitter Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah) are part of the Italian Serie A1 Rebecchi Nordmeccanica Piacenza squad in 2011-2012. Piacenza dropped a 26-24, 21-25, 25-16, 25-22 match to LIU-JO Volley Modena on Jan. 22. Davis was credited with a 78 positive service reception percent on 18 attempts without an error. Richards did not compete as she was traveling back to the United States to take care of family issues. Rebecchi Nordmeccanica Piacenza, 7-7 overall with 19 points for sixth place, faces MC Carnaghi Villa Cortese on Jan. 24 to start the Italian Serie A1 Cup quarterfinal round before resuming regular season play against 11th-place Riso Scotti Pavia (0-14, 1 point) on Feb. 5.
PAOLINI WITH ICOS CREMA IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team middle blocker Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.) is playing for Icos Crema Volley in the Italian Serie A2 Division for 2011-2012. For the second consecutive week, Icos Crema topped Infotel Forli 25-15, 25-14, 25-23 on Jan. 22 as Paolini slammed 17 kills on 22 attacks to go with four blocks for a 21-point performance in the three-set win. Icos Crema improved to 12-4 with 37 points in the Serie A2 standings for third place. The squad will face Rota Volley Mercato S. Severino (6-10, 18 points) on Jan. 29.
KIM GLASS, SPICER WITH RABITA BAKU IN AZERBAIJAN: U.S. Women's National Team outside hitter Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.) and setter Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.) are competing for Rabita Baku of the Azerbaijan Super League. Rabita Baku finished the CEV Champions League first round Pool B with a 5-1 record and 15 points, but took second to Fenerbahce Universal based on tiebreakers. Rabita concluded Pool B with a 25-16, 25-20, 25-17 victory over ASPTT Mulhouse on Jan. 17. Neither Glass or Spicer competed in the match. Rabita Baku moves into the CEV Champions League 8th Final Round to face Poland's Atom Trefl Sopot (second place in Pool C) in a home-and-home series with dates to be determined. After a long break in the Azerbaijan Super League, Rabita Baku topped Azeryolservis 25-16, 25-12, 25-10 to improve to 4-0.
BOWN, TAMAS WITH AZERRAIL BAKU IN AZERBAIJAN: U.S. Women's National Team middle blockers Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.) are playing for Azerrail Baku in the Azerbaijan Super League in 2011-2012. Azerrail Baku improved to 4-0 in the Azerbaijan Super League with a 15-25, 25-17, 25-23, 25-16 victory over Baki on Jan. 22. In addition, Azerrail Baku finished the first round of the CEV Champions League Pool D with a 4-2 record and 13 points to finish in second place after topping 2004 Tomis Constanta 25-20, 25-16, 27-25. Bown connected for five kills on eight swings to go with two blocks and an ace for eight points. Tamas added four kills on nine errorless attacks, along with a block and ace for six points. Azerrail moves on the 8th Final Round to face Switzerland's Volero Zurich (third place in Pool C) in a home-and-home series. Dates for the two contests have not been decided.
METCALF, THOMAS WITH LOKOMOTIV BAKU IN AZERBAIJAN: U.S. Women's National Team opposite Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa) and middle blocker Elisha Thomas (Grass Valley, Calif.) are playing for Lokomotiv Baku of the Azerbaijan Super League in 2011-2012. Lokomotiv Baku swept its CEV Challenge Cup 16th Final Round home-and-home series with Zok Split 1700 by winning the Jan. 18 match 25-15, 25-10, 25-18 in 64 minutes. Lokomotiv moves into the CEV Challenge Cup 8th Final Round to play Vizura Beograd with match dates to be determined. After a break in the Azerbaijan Super League, Lokomotiv came back to defeat Igtisadchi 26-24, 25-21, 25-20 on Jan. 22.
HANEEF-PARK WITH IGTISADCHI BAKU IN AZERBAIJAN: U.S. Women's National Team opposite Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) is playing in the Azerbaijan Super League with Igtisadchi Baku in 2011-2012. Igtisadchi Baku lost to Yamamay Busto Arsizio 25-21, 20-25, 25-19, 18-25, 15-13 in the second match of a home-and-home series in the CEV Cup 8th Final Round. Igtisadchi lost its Azerbaijan Super League match with Lokomotiv 26-24, 25-21, 25-20 on Jan. 22.
HODGE, ALISHA GLASS WITH POLAND'S ATOM TREFL SOPOT: U.S. Women's National Team outside hitter Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) and setter Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.), both Penn State University products, are playing for Poland's Atom Trefl Sopot in 2011-2012. Sopot (12-3) triumphed over Organika Budowlani 24-26, 25-20, 25-14, 25-18 on Jan. 21. Hodge scored 13 points with 11 kills on 27 swings and two blocks. She added a 53 positive service reception on 38 attempts. Glass set the squad to a 41 kill percent and a .256 hitting efficiency. Sopot faces KS Palac Bydgoszcz on Feb. 4 in its next PlusLiga match. In CEV Champions League action, Sopot ended the CEV Champions League first round Pool C with a 4-2 record and 10 points for second place after taking down Switzerland's Volero Zurich 25-16, 23-25, 25-22, 22-25, 15-10 in the group finale. Hodge powered home a team-high 26 points with 21 kills on 34 swings, three aces and two blocks. Glass set the squad to a 42 kill percent and a .331 hitting efficiency. Sopot advances to the CEV Champions League 8th Final Round to face Azerbaijan's Rabita Baku in a home-and-home series with dates to be announced. To read Glass' blog, click here.
CRIMES, MIYASHIRO, LICHTMAN WITH POLAND'S BKS ALUPROF BIELSKO-BIALA: U.S. Women's National Team middle blocker Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), spiker Cassidy Lichtman (Poway, Calif.) and libero Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii) are competing for BKS Aluprof Bielsko Biala in the Poland Plus Liga. Bielsko-Biala (11-5) edged Impel Gwardia Wroclaw 16-25, 25-18, 25-21, 17-25, 15-11 on Jan. 21. Miyashiro handled 24 service receptions with a 63 positive percent. Lichtman came off the bench in the first and fourth sets. Bielsko Biala returns to PlusLiga action on Feb. 5 against Budowlani Lodz. In the CEV Cup 8th Final Round opener, Bielsko-Biala defeated Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg 27-25, 26-24, 25-17 to split the home-and-home series. In the Golden Set, Bielsko-Biala won 15-8 to earn the right to advance to the 4th Final Round to play Italy's Yamamay Busto Arsizio in a home-and-home series. The two teams complete the home-and-home series on Jan. 18 at Bielsko Biala.
GIBBEMEYER WITH TOYOTA AUTO BODY IN JAPAN: U.S. Women's National Team middle blocker Lauren Gibbemeyer is playing for Toyota Auto Body of the Japan V-League during the 2011-2012 club season. Toyota lost to Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical 25-19, 18-25, 25-23, 25-22 on Jan. 21. Gibbemeyer contributed 16 kills on 37 attacks and five blocks for 21 points. On the following day, Denso topped Toyota 25-20, 25-23, 25-23 as Gibbemeyer charted 10 kills on 32 attacks with one block and one ace for 12 points. Toyota, now 3-6 in the V-League and in sixth place, returns to action on Jan. 28 against Okayama, followed by a Jan. 29 match against Pioneer. Both matches will be played at Aichi.
THOMPSON, JONES, FORSETT WITH CATANO IN PUERTO RICO: U.S. Women's National Team setter Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.), outside hitter Angie Forsett (Lake Mary, Fla.) and middle blocker Jessica Jones (Naperville, Ill.) are playing for Catano in the Puerto Rico Super League. The trio helped Catano edge Toa Baja 25-22, 22-25, 25-19, 17-25, 15-10 in their season opener on Jan. 20. Forsett scored 17 points with 16 kills and a block, while Jones added eight kills, six blocks and an ace for 15 points. Thompson turned in five points, including three blocks, to go with 28 assists. For the second night in a row, Catano needed five sets to defeat Mayaguez 25-21, 23-25, 19-25, 25-20, 15-10 on Jan. 22. Forsett notched 17 kills and two blocks for 19 points, while Jones provided 10 kills, six blocks and two aces for 18 points. Thompson handed out 27 assists in the victory.
OTHER AMERICAN HIGHLIGHTS IN PUERTO RICO: University of Florida products Kelly Murphy scored 16 points and Kristy Jaeckel tallied 10 points in their first professional match as Guaynabo topped Toa Baja in five sets. Toa Baja was led by Michelle Bartsch's 18 points in her first professional match…Stephanie Neimer charted 16 points in leading Mayaguez to a three-set win over Bayamon on Jan. 18. Blair Brown added 14 points in the victory while Sydney Anderson set the squad to victory with 17 assists. Erin Moore led Bayamon with five points, while Kelly Wing and Kylie Atherstone added three and two points, respectively…Shonda Cole pounded out 19 points in leading Corozal to a three-set win over Carolina on Jan. 18. Ashley Benson scored 12 points in her first professional match for Corozal, while Julie Bennett added seven points. Diane Copenhagen totaled 10 points in the loss for Carolina…Caguas defeated Juncos in three sets on Jan. 19 as Brooke Delano scored seven points. In her return to volleyball, Kim Willoughby scored a match-high 12 points for Juncos, while Alex Zimmerman was credited with eight assists and two points in the loss…Airial Salvo hammered 25 points and Kelsey Black scored 12 points in her professional debut as Ponce edged Bayamon in five sets on Jan. 20. Erin Moore led Bayamon with a match-high 27 points, while Kelly Wing added 22 points and Atherstone three points…Brooke Delano provided Caguas with seven points as her team defeated Carolina in four sets on Jan. 21. Morgan Beck turned in 16 points for Carolina in the loss…Shonda Cole paced Corozal to a three-set win over Juncos on Jan. 21 with 18 points, while Julie Bennett added 14 points and Ashley Benson was credited with three points. Kim Willoughby notched 12 points in the loss, while Alex Zimmerman handed out seven assists to go with six points for Juncos…Kelsey Black and Airial Salvo scored 19 points apiece to help Ponce to a four-set win over Guaynabo to improve to 2-0 on the season. Kelly Murphy charted 16 points and 12 assists in the loss, while Kristy Jaeckel added 12 points…Michelle Bartsch scored 20 points in a five-set loss to Catano on Jan. 20…Blair Brown collected 19 points in Mayaguez's five-set loss to Catano on Jan. 22, while Stephanie Neimer added nine points. Sydney Anderson collected 29 assists and three points in the loss.


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The scandal surrounding Kinde Durkee's alleged embezzlement from multiple California political campaigns has sparked an interesting debate: should the campaigns that lose donor dollars to theft receive an exemption from limits on donations?
For those who haven't been following the story, Durkee is a longtime campaign treasurer for Democratic candidates and causes who has been charged with mail fraud in federal court while an investigation continues into missing money from campaign accounts she supervised.
Some Democrats are calling for such an exemption for campaigns that were among Durkee's apparent victims.
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They say that donors who already gave the legal maximum to those campaigns should be able to help again to make up for money that was lost to embezzlement.
Good government groups have objected, saying that the scandal shouldn't be an excuse for weakening limits on donations -- which are designed to make sure groups don't have too much influence.
The Fair Political Practices Commission is considering various changes in the area.
Should the FPPC provide an exception to the limits for fraud victims?
Both sides of the debate make good arguments.
But the strongest argument hasn't received much attention: forcing campaigns to live with the consequences of fraud is probably the best method for preventing fraud in the first place.
Campaigns -- as temporary businesses run by candidates who are too busy campaigning to focus on every dollar -- make easy targets for fraud, for reasons we previously explained here (Campaigns: Embezzlers Welcome).
There is precious little incentive to watch every dollar and check for fraud, since the urgency of winning the race at hand consumes virtually all energy. In many cases, only the treasurer is looking at the dollars -- and as Durkee's case shows, you can't necessarily trust your treasurer.
Durkee's case provides a healthy reminder -- and a prod for changing that campaign dynamic.
But only if campaigns are forced to suffer the consequences of fraud. If campaigns know that big donors can step up to cover missing money -- even if they've already donated the legal maximum -- it eliminates what little incentive exists to check for fraud.
Yes, such a strict policy would put some very important campaigns in financial holes out of which they may not be able to climb. But making sure that campaigns feel real pain is probably the best way to prevent this from happening again.
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The last I checked in with Matthew Hofmann, the LEED AP architect and vintage Airstream rehabber extraordinaire had recently completed a cozy little guesthouse-on-wheels project for an avocado rancher seeking a retreat where guests could feel "comfortable and not worry about staining the carpet."
The hospitality-minded leanings of that client must have rubbed off on the principal of Santa Barbara-based HofArc, as Hofmann recently dropped me a note sharing photos and details of his latest rounded aluminum shell-centric project: A luxury boutique hotel property composed entirely of lovingly restored vintage Airstream trailers — all manufactured in 1950s through the mid-1980s — dubbed the Santa Barbara Auto Camp.
To be clear, the Santa Barbara Auto Camp was in existence long before 29-year-old Hofmann and his business partner Neil Dipaola, the young, sustainability-minded developer behind the Loop Isla Vista project that I featured this past summer, stepped in. Serving as a "gateway to the American Riviera," the Santa Barbara Auto Camp was actually founded in 1922 as a campground for visiting motorists by Santa Barbara city councilman A.W. Dozier. His vision was that travelers would "lay in a supply of groceries, take in our theaters, spend a little money, and get an idea of what Santa Barbara really is."
Earlier this year in celebration of the park's 90th anniversary, the property experienced a rebirth of sorts with the introduction of five sleek, shiny, and glamp-worthy Airstreams all refurbished by Hofmann. The tricked-out trailers join about 30 existing vehicles in an adjacent RV park that's home to many full-time residents.
Says Dipaola: "The SB Auto Camp's mission is to be true to a time when travelers were drawn by the simplicity of life. From the vintage Airstreams, to the décor, to friendly local color, our goal is to honor the authenticity of the past. This quiet cluster of oaks, located within the heart of local shopping and eateries, allows guests to rediscover the magic."
Offering "a unique, luxuriously-appointed, boutique lodging experience," each built-in-Ohio trailer was salvaged before undergoing careful renovations that maintain a timeless, retro appeal while incorporating modern, earth-friendly additions: bamboo and locally sourced hardwood flooring, recycled glass tiling in the bathrooms, zero-VOC finishes, LED lighting, dual-flush toilets, and on.
And, of course, there's the standard amenities that you'd expect to find at any high-end hotel room that's not encased in a shiny aluminum shell and parked in an RV encalve: 500-thread count sheets, "screaming fast WiFi," wall-mounted flat-screen TVs, air conditioning, mini-bars, and fully equipped electric kitchens. One unit even includes a claw-foot bathtub. Yes folks, an Airstream trailer with a claw-foot tub.
Each Airstream comes equipped with its own BBQ grill and the use of vintage Huffy beach cruisers are complimentary to overnight guests. And on the topic of bikes, various local attractions including the historic Santa Barbara Mission and the downtown shopping district are just a short ride or walk away. Santa Barbara's famed beaches are a bit further off on the other side of the 101.
"The goal in design and construction of these Airstream's was to blend the iconography of Airstream's past with a honesty in adaptive design to create a most functionally intuitive experience," explains Hofmann on the Santa Barbara Auto Camp website. To date, Hofmann, a former full-time Airstream dweller himself, has renovated more than 20 vintage trailers outside of the SB Auto Camp project.
He adds: "Each Airstream has been uniquely designed to connect yesterday with today, without giving up modern comforts. Our spaces also help connect people with their inner souls and outer environment … and one way we did this was to maintain simple lines and remove the clutter."
Each trailer — choose from a 1973 Airstream Sovereign, a 1984 Airstream Motorhome, or a trio of classic 1959 Airstream Overlands — sleeps up to four people with rates starting between $139 and $169 per night.
As vintage Airstream hoteliers with plans to further expand their concept, Hofmann and Dipaola follow in the footsteps of B52s singer Kate Pierson (the toast-munching, disembodied redhead, not the blonde with the Carmen Miranda headpiece). Last year, Pierson and partner Monica Coleman shipped the six rehabbed Airstreams that had once been permanently parked at their beloved but flood-prone Catskills getaway to their newest property, Kate's Lazy Desert in Joshua Tree, Calif. As you can see from the Kate's Lazy Desert website, Pierson and Coleman — they worked with local artists Maberry-Walker, the owners of the original "Love Shack" — took a decidedly more kitsch-happy route than Hofmann when it came time to focus on interior design.
Lots more info — and a reservations page — over at the Santa Barbara Auto Camp website. The Los Angeles Times also recently ran a great piece on the SB Auto Camp complete with some tips from Hofmann on how to brighten and open up cramped, seemingly impossible-to-work-with living spaces. "It's more than just painting the walls white," he explains. "It's how the space feels as you move through it."


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Farrakhan: Mideast uprisings will come to US
Nation of Islam event to include talk of UFOs
The keynote address, titled "God will send saviours," capped a weekend of workshops focused on health, preparing for natural disasters and unidentified flying objects. The Nation of Islam believes in a UFO called "the wheel" or "the Mother Plane."
Farrakhan has described a 1985 religious experience in which he ascended into a flying saucer and heard the voice of Elijah Muhammad predicting historical events that came to pass.
Can it get any crazier…. You bet! I want to call your attention to the latest example of the coming great deception that will be a game changer. Above is a quote from an article that I linked to. It would appear that Farrakhan and his crew have embraced the Alien Gospel, they are already in the camp of the Deceiver, they have fallen for the delusion, the lie, the deception, that, in my opinion will soon openly manifest on this planet. ET is coming to a city near you, make no mistake about it, just ask Farrakhan!
We live in a post Christian world. Our children no more about Darwin and evolution than they do about Ezekiel, or The Book Of Revelation. In the movie Expelled, Ben Stein sits down with Richard Dawkins, one of the most ardent evolutionist today, and asks him, where did life come from. Dawkins answers, maybe millions of years a go in another galaxy a race of aliens created us….
How's that for being intellectually bankrupt! Dawkins has no answer, but if Christians believe in a creator, we are looked at as Neanderthals… hmm, pass me my club please!
This latest rant by Nation of Islams, head of state, Farrakhan, points to what I BLOG about, speak about, and write about incessantly, and that is this, that at some point ET is going to show up and most people will believe the lie, that ET created all life on earth, was responsible for our earliest civilizations, religions, and now, at this critical juncture in human history, they are back to usher us into a time of peace, knowledge, and prosperity! How does that sound to you, like a pretty good deal, huh?
Farrakhan has many followers and guess what, they believe that founder Elijah Mohammad, ascended into a UFO, but the Raelians, the X-opolitic crowd – with the likes of Steven Greer – The New Agers living in Sedona Arizona, and a host of others believe in UFOs too, and will rejoice when ET finally manifests openly on this planet. I wish I was making this up, but I'm not.
The History Channel is working on Season 3, of its Ancient Alien, propaganda series. That will be about 60 hours promulgating the ancient astronaut, or ET as our gods, theory. As I posted after I returned from driving my parents from West Palm FL, to the Philly area, the cab driver who drove me to the airport, new about the so-called 2012 Mayan prophecy, but nothing about Psalm 83, or Ezekiel 38 war that is about to manifest in the Middle East.
In closing today's post: I believe that the planet is headed toward a climax, a revealing, a paradigm shift, a mega-lever, game-changing, event that will rock every person on this planet. Can it get any crazier…. you bet!
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Why are the nations of the world in turmoil? What is happening with the sun and the moon? Why is it that birds are dropping out of the air dead, and why have fish numbering into the millions suddenly died without explanation? Why are there sinkholes of gigantic proportions appearing all over the earth, and what is happening with volcanic eruptions in Japan, Italy and Iceland? And what about the UFO seen over the Temple Mount? Something has changed, and Watchers 2 will try and investigate if what ancient texts have said for millenniums are true — that we are entering a period where there will be wars, earthquakes, and famines — including signs in the skies and the heavens. L.A. Marzulli will comment as well as interview experts on this volume. Including: Chuck Missler, Rabbi Aaron Parry, Stan Deyo and Jim Wilhelmsen and Helena Lehman. Dr. Roger Leir will also give us his update on alien implants.
In Other News:
Stocks, U.S. Index Futures Advance on Buffett; Dollar Weakens
ANALYSIS-After the crisis, a worldwide rise in unrest?
Largest earthquake since 1969 rattles state
World leaders unite against Gaddafi
Puno: Large crack opens in the earth in southern Peru
Christchurch Armageddon Expo postponed after quake


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treated surgically with ligation and stripping, in which larger varicose veins
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sclerotherapy. Avoid exposing your legs to the sun for the first 2 weeks after the procedure.
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Sclerotherapy may be done alone or as a follow-up to
Sclerotherapy costs less than
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Sclerotherapy can reduce symptoms and improve the look
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I am in need of a band logo ... sort of. Actually, I have one already; I came up with the design, and I sketched it out. It's just that it's all hand-drawn and scribbly and terrible. What I need is for someone with logo design experience to clean it up and vectorize it, possibly with a few tweaks along the way (no one ever said my version is perfect; I'm not exactly a professional logo designer). Ideally, I'd be looking for a nice big basic version of it that could then be used as a stencil/template/selection from which whatever effects and such could be applied to make the final album covers, like how this became this, this, and this. I need that initial starting point template.
Also, ownership would be handy and solve a lot of problems down the line, but I at least need usage rights (it kind of defeats the point of having a band logo if I can't, like, freely use it on albums and such, you know?) and possibly permission to fiddle with it for minor tweaks down the line (like if years later I decide the stem of this or that letter should be longer or shorter.)
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Delmont man charged with threatening Pennsylvania State Police trooper again
Police say Andrew Fulton called friend about hurting Trooper David Williams
A western Pennsylvania man already awaiting trial on charges that he threatened a state trooper on Facebook has now been jailed on charges he again threatened the trooper in a phone call to a friend.
Twenty-nine-year-old Andrew Fulton, of Delmont, is accused of leaving a voice mail for that woman March 5, in which he asks for her help in hurting Trooper David Williams. She forwarded the message to authorities.
Fulton earlier this year waived his right to a hearing on charges that he posted a Facebook message saying he wanted to kill the trooper for arresting him on drug charges last year.
Fulton's Westmoreland County public defender couldn't be reached for comment Friday.
Fulton remained jailed Friday, unable to post $100,000 bond on new charges including witness retaliation, criminal solicitation and harassment by communication.


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Investors Toss $50 Million Zuora's Way
Sep 6, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Zuora, which offers a billing, commerce and finance platform as a service for businesses using a subscription-service model, has raised US$50 million in E series funding from some major players.
Next World Capital, Vulcan Capital and Northgate Capital are the latest additions to the company's crowd of believers.
Zuora will use the money to expand into new markets and geographies and invest in R&D.
"This isn't just about taking HR or storage into the cloud," CEO and cofounder Tien Tzuo told CRM Buyer. "This is a fundamental change in consumer behavior."
Zuora is "creating a category, but it's hard to see how big it will get," Denis Pombriant, managing principal of the Beagle Research Group, told CRM Buyer. "That depends on how they expand."
What's a Zuora?
Zuora was cofounded in March 2008 by Tien Tzuo, who serves as its CEO; Cheng Zou; and K.V. Rao.
The company sells a billing, commerce and finance Platform as a Service with multiple modules for businesses who sell subscriptions to their services.
Zuora is "adding new functionalities all the time" and will make some major announcements at its Subscribed conference, to be held in San Francisco in two weeks' time, Tzuo remarked. (Per Tzuo, the first 50 readers who email him at firstname.lastname@example.com will get a free pass to Subscribed.)
Previously, the company charged clients 2 percent of their invoice value, but that has changed.
"The whole idea of taking away 2 percent of our customers' margin made people uncomfortable, and understandably so," Tzuo said. Zuora now has a tiered pricing model based on traffic volume.
Zuora's Brave New Pay-as-You-Go World
This year, Zuora has increased subscription revenue by approximately 90 percent year over year, it said; it claims to have grown its customer base by 55 percent in the last 18 months.
In the past two years, Zuora has seen a seven-time increase in invoice volume, and it has signed over 20 $1 million-plus contracts, according to the company.
Zuora claims more than 600 clients, including News Corp., Dell, HP, Qualcomm and Trip Advisor. Customers signing up in the past two years include Borderfree, BoxHop, Carfax, Docusign, Gigya, Google Wildfire, Informatica, Joyent, MLSListings, and Zendesk.
The Other Side of Subscriptions
Despite the demand for Zuora's products, most of the more than $130 million the company has raised to date has gone into sales and marketing, Pombriant said.
"When you create a niche that others jump into, there is a battle for mindshare, and that results in big spending to gain and keep the pole position," he explained.
Perhaps there is another explanation -- that relentless spending is essential to building up a market base because people are not quite as happy with the subscription model as Zuora wants to think.
"I talk to clients, and they feel they are being held hostage by companies who say they can no longer buy a software package but must buy a subscription service," Dan Kusnetzky, founder of the Kusnetzky Group, told CRM Buyer.
"They don't know what the costs will be, when updates will come, whether those updates will be compatible with what they're doing," Kusnetzky continued.
A subscription service "may be a short-term reduction in costs, but it's not necessarily a long-term reduction," he noted.
Smaller companies, especially, may be hard hit when they switch from a licensing model to a subscription-based one, because "when you look for funding, a software license is considered an asset, but the subscription model is just an expense," Kusntezky pointed out.
Where's Zuora Going?
Zuora has "great innovative DNA, meaning that they are innovating at the margins of their space," Pombriant remarked. "They are also deeply into metrics, and I could see them providing analysis and advice about how to improve a subscription business."
There also might be a big opportunity for the company in ERP, which is not well suited to supporting subscriptions, Pombriant speculated.
For CRM companies, most of which are subscription-oriented, "this is a tool that has helped them survive the growing pains associated with startups," he said.
There is speculation that Zuora might become another giant like SAP, Oracle or Salesforce.com -- the latter two are companies where CEO Tien Tzuo has previously worked.
"Business models are changing and new systems are needed to power them," Tzuo said. "SAP and Oracle can continue to power manufacturing businesses, but they are not the future."
On the other hand, "Oracle has so many products," noted Pombriant, "that I wouldn't make that comparison."


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Tomb hosts annual pilgrimage and wreath-laying to mark Lincoln's
205th birthday
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[February 04, 2014]
SPRINGFIELD — On Feb. 12,
members of American Legion Post 32 will make the 80th annual
pilgrimage to Abraham Lincoln's tomb to honor the slain president on
his birthday. The public is also welcome to attend.
Dan Dellinger, the American Legion national commander, and Nancy
Park-Brown, national president of the American Legion Auxiliary,
will be keynote speakers for the ceremony. The Sound Celebration
Chorus, part of Sweet Adelines International, will perform a few
patriotic-themed songs.
The tomb is operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency. Along with the state's World War II, Korean War and Vietnam
War memorials, the Lincoln Tomb is in Springfield's Oak Ridge
Cemetery, at 1500 Monument Ave. All are open daily for free tours.
For more information, visit www.lincolntomb.org.
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