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Morningstar announced Monday that it has expanded its equity coverage with quantitative ratings and reports for approximately 28,000 companies globally.
The new ratings—called Quantitative Fair Value Estimate, Quantitative Valuation, Quantitative Uncertainty, Quantitative Economic Moat and Quantitative Financial Health—are based on quantitative statistics and generated by a statistical model based on Morningstar's analyst-driven equity ratings.
The ratings also consider financial datapoints such as earnings yield, average daily volume and total return volatility. The quantitative ratings are calculated daily and derived from the analyst ratings of a company's peers as determined by statistical algorithms.
"We're offering a new level of equity coverage that leverages our existing analyst ratings and harnesses Morningstar's robust global equity data on thousands of companies, allowing us to consistently apply our approach to equity analysis to a wider universe of stocks," said Haywood Kelly, Morningstar's senior vice president of equity and credit research, in a statement. "The ratings can serve as a second opinion for investors to consider when evaluating a company."
Morningstar will calculate quantitative equity ratings for companies whether or not it already provides analyst ratings and qualitative coverage. In some cases, according to the Morningstar release, the quantitative ratings may differ from the analyst ratings because a company's analyst-driven ratings can significantly differ from other companies in its peer group.
The new quantitative equity ratings comprise:
- Quantitative Fair Value Estimate: Comparable to Morningstar's Fair Value Estimate for stocks, which measures a company's intrinsic value based on a discounted cash flow model, and represents the per share value of a company's equity. The measure is expressed in the local currency.
- Quantitative Valuation: Defined as the ratio of a company's Quantitative Fair Value Estimate to its last market close price, and similar to the analyst-driven Fair Value Estimate to last market close price ratio. The rating is expressed as Overvalued, Fairly Valued or Undervalued.
- Quantitative Uncertainty: Describes the level of uncertainty around the Quantitative Fair Value Estimate, comparable to the Uncertainty Rating for the analyst Fair Value Estimate. The rating is expressed as Low, Medium, High, Very High or Extreme.
- Quantitative Economic Moat: Corresponds to Morningstar's Economic Moat rating, which measures a company's sustainable competitive advantages. The quantitative rating is expressed as None, Narrow or Wide.
- Quantitative Financial Health: Based on Morningstar's proprietary measure of the likelihood of financial distress. The quantitative rating is expressed as Weak, Moderate or Strong.
The quantitative equity ratings and reports are available through Morningstar data feeds. Morningstar plans to add the quantitative equity ratings and reports to Morningstar Office, its investment planning and research platform for financial advisors, and Morningstar Analyst Research Center for stocks within Morningstar Advisor Workstation later this year.
Read Stocks Have Room to Rise, but So Do Interest Rates: J.P. Morgan's Kelly on AdvisorOne.


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Asthma study finds children being stigmatised in India
14 May 2013
Children with asthma in India are being prevented from receiving effective treatment by a range of widely-held myths and misconceptions, says a University of Sydney study.
Researcher Charu Grover interviewed young asthma patients and their families in New Delhi as part of her PhD project.
She found that considerable stigma is still attached to the disease, which is thought to be on the rise in India. Parents are reluctant to disclose their child's asthma to schools or relatives; many children do not take inhalers to school, and their parents do not have easy access to information about the disease or how medications work.
Asthma was also seen by parents as a particular problem for girls because it could damage their future marriage prospects.
"There are common misconceptions about asthma," said Charu. "Many people still think of it as an old age disease or a smokers' disease, and parents are often fatalistic about it - they see it as God's will."
Charu, a homeopathic doctor from Delhi, worked for eight years with patients suffering from allergic diseases before moving to Sydney to study for a PhD in pharmacy. She is now returning to India to work at a research hospital specialising in chest diseases.
Her research project is one of the first of its kind in India; most studies of child asthma management issues do not include children.
Charu says that child-friendly educational tools are needed to help young asthma patients. Educational material is also needed to increase awareness in parents and debunk myths about asthma.
Based on her research findings, Charu has designed a child asthma education program called Sehatmaand Saansen (Healthy Breathing), which she piloted in a trial in New Delhi with 40 children and their parents recruited from a hospital outpatient clinic.
In one session, she asked children to draw what it feels like to have asthma. One child pictured it as a large rock pressing down on his chest; another described asthma symptoms as being like a fish struggling to breathe out of water. She also used problem solving and games to engage the children and encourage meaningful learning.
Her research was primarily supervised by Bandana Saini, a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Pharmacy who has been working with asthma patients for 15 years and who designed Australia's first asthma diseases state management model for pharmacists.
"This has been a fascinating project and has involved collaborations with major hospitals in New Delhi that we would like to continue in future," she said.
Charu Grover's research has been published in Respirology, the journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, and in the Journal of Asthma.
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COLUMBIA (AP) - Michael Sam received a standing ovation when he appeared on the arena video boards during Missouri's basketball game against Tennessee on Saturday.
The All-America defensive end who could became the first openly gay player in the NFL, later a blew a kiss to the student section and shook hands with fans.
Sam and football team were honored at halftime for their Cotton Bowl over Oklahoma State.
Wearing a shirt declaring "We Are All CoMo Sexuals," 51-year-old Michelle Carmichael joined more than a thousand others in forming a line of support for Sam.
The shirt plays off the nickname of Columbia, Mo., where Sam announced to his teammates in August that he was gay. The NFL hopeful shared his sexuality with the world last Sunday.


text: Martin Currie Australia Market Outlook Q2 2018 update Lead indicators of global economic growth have indicated that December 2017 may well have marked the peak of the up cycle globally, with 'soft' and 'hard' economic data pointing in same direction. Against this backdrop, Reece Birtles shares his perspectives on the direction of the Global and Australian economy. 15 May 2018 Lead indicators of global economic growth such as the World Purchasing Managers' Index, or PMI, have been pointing to the strongest levels of expected growth in more than a decade. However, December 2017 may have marked the peak of this up cycle, with the change in the six-month moving average turning negative. Despite the recent disappointing global economic data, the outlook for the Australian domestic economy is looking positive for the medium term. Given Australia's lagged start in the rebound relative to the US, Australian equities are at an earlier stage of earnings acceleration so a lag in the effects of growth are to be expected. In February 2018's reporting season, we started to see the tangible signs that Australia's nominal GDP growth is recovering. Strong industrials revenue growth and lower profit margins are a sign of the increased investment required to lift growth rates. Increased investment in full-time jobs will also eventually soak up the labour market slack and put upward pressure on wages. In the finance sector specifically, the great unknown from the Banking Royal Commission is the potential for retrospectivity around responsible lending breaches and also implications of loan approval processes for credit creation. We reflect both of these concerns in a lower profit outlook for banks, via lower credit growth and expected fines. Cyclicals and value stocks that have been more economically sensitive in the post-financial crisis environment are likely to perform well in the current conditions, but, we no longer believe high-risk value offers attractive return prospects. By contrast, low-volatility, high-quality and high-growth style stocks are likely to suffer in this environment, as growth is less scarce, and they are more impacted by increasing discount rates from higher bond yields. Martin Currie Australia's multi-lensed investment approach of Valuation, Quality, Direction and Sustainable Dividend places us in a strong position to navigate this environment going forward. Despite the recent disappointing global economic data, the outlook for the Australian domestic economy is looking positive for the medium term. Given Australia's lagged start in the rebound relative to the US, Australian equities are at an earlier stage of earnings acceleration so a lag in the effects of growth are to be expected. 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We don't have it all, nor do we want to, because what Rangely offers is unique and world class. The largest elk population in the world winters nearby in Dinosaur National Monument and the one-of-a-kind International Center for Sonic Arts overlooks the White River. Whether you want to maneuver your 4-wheeler over the only designated rock crawling park on the federal land, with it's more than 560 acres of natural terrain, or earn a degree in one of the several nationally-acclaimed programs at Colorado Northwestern Community College, you'll have direct access to resources few others enjoy.
Residents enjoy the advantages of rural life—peace and quiet, a star-filled sky, access to farm fresh eggs and local game, and ample space for growing vegetables and raising animals. Kids enjoy the freedom to ride bikes around town, neighbors help each other, local shopkeepers provide everything from hardware to organic coffee beans with personal and helpful service, and people who make their home here value the easy entry to over a 1000 square miles of public land with diverse recreational opportunities. Hiking, biking, fishing, hunting, and boating are all just minutes away, and two national forests are about an hour's drive.
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Daily motivational quotes and sayings
- "The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed." — Lloyd Jones
- "What you cannot enforce do not command." — Sophocles
- "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." — Soren Kierkegaard
- "Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points." — Knute Rockne
- "The road to success is always under construction." — Lily Tomlin
- "Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time." — Josh Billings
- "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." — Michael Jordan
- "Joy is the simplest form of gratitude." — Karl Barth
- "Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness." — Elbert Hubbard
- "Leave no stone unturned." — Euripides
- "There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you." — Stacey Charter
- "We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions -- love, antipathy, charity, or malice -- and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals." — Milan Kundera
- "Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it." — David Jordan
- "You are not a pawn in the chess game of life, you are the mover of the pieces." — White Eagle
- "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." — Eleanor Roosevelt
- "The true measure of life is not length, but honesty." — John Lyly
- "Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate." — David Pratt
- "To change and change for the better are two different things" — German Proverbs
- "Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out." — Grace Speare
- "In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body." — Barbara de Angelis
- "I am a part of all that I have met." — Lord Alfred Tennyson
- "Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new." — Og Mandino
- "All things are possible with God." — English 17th Century Proverbs
- "If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance." — Dale Carnegie
- "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." — Thomas Jefferson
- Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that." — Bryant Gumbel
- "Do something that you love. Whatever you're going to do is going to be tough enough. Find something that gets you so excited that the sun can't come up early enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing." — AARP Ambassador Chris Gardner
- "No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it." — Richard Bach
- "We turn not older with years, but newer every day." — Emily Dickinson
- "Love begins by taking care of the closest ones-the ones at home." — Teresa Calcutta
- "Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude." — William James
- "Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." — David Jordan
- "Every advantage has its disadvantage" — Proverb
- "The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." — Louise Hay
- "To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so." — French Proverbs
- "Your life is your message to the world. Make it inspiring." — Lorrin Lee
- "Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts." — Rhonda Britten
- "If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a month — get married. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else." — Chinese Proverbs
- "A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow." — William Shakespeare
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Matthew Bond necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 258 diseños de 63 diseñadores freelance.
Shymbulak Mountain Resort
First of all I would like to thank everyone who submitted all the great designs we had when we first launched this project. When we went for final selection there was a re-think and I have now altered the brief to reflect that. Sorry for the messing around but we are confident it is correct this time around. Good Luck.
We are property developers committed to emerging markets where our vision is to set international benchmarks for design, service, and corporate social responsibility.
Shymbulak ski resort in Almaty, Kazakhstan has been operating for many years but it has fallen into a poor state of repair. We have made a massive investment into new facilities and will be launching the new brand in autumn this year.
The resort has been chosen to host the Asian Winter Olympics in 2011 so this logo will get significant global coverage.
We will offer true four seasons functionality with traditional winter sports supplemented by snow parks and walking trails. The summers in Almaty are hot and dusty and the resort provides a welcome fresh air retreat from the polluted city. Summer activities will include para sailing, hiking, mountain climbing, horseback riding, outdoor concerts, etc.
Spa treatments from the natural thermal springs will be available all year round.
There will be a brand new 4km long gondola lift from the valley floor - Medeo - up to the ski area, known as Shymbulak.
The base station in Medeo is a short 15minute drive from Almaty, the largest city in the country and the commercial hub of Kazakhstan and Central Asia. The ski area will be served by the latest new ski lifts imported from Austria.
For further information about our projects go to http://www.capitalpartners.ws
The majority of customers will be the citizens of the city of Almaty, around 1.8million people, but the resort will also welcome visitors from all over the region and beyond. The current mix of customers cover all age groups and incomes.
We specifically want to encourage families and beginners to expand the customer base.
We would like the logo to have the word "Shymbulak" in the logo with some sort of graphic incorporated (perhaps using the "S" in Shymbulak?) that can become the icon for the resort.
Colors used have to be fresh, light, energetic, gives a feeling of altitude. This is reinforced by choice of typo which has also to emphasize this feeling of dynamism, trendiness and modernism. The idea of the complex is to become a modern destination; the logo has to reflect this modernity and trendiness. The logo should reflect the benefit visitors will get from the complex, a mix of sport in winter but as well a place without pollution, great space… the complex is suitable for advanced ski users but aims to be as well a resort where you can come as a beginner, with your family and find your own rhythm.
The logo has to work on any background and can be modernized time to time quite easily without losing its meaning and understanding.
Attached is a document showing how we want to position the brand along with some images that represent the direction we would like to take.
NB: Where the acronym "CMR" is used please consider this to mean Medeo Shymbulak Mountain Resort, but we will only use the name Shymbulak in the logo.
One of the better logos we like can be found here: http://www.grandvalira.com/
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
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"Renowned Tibetan Buddhist master H. H. Dudjom Rinpoche offers Dharma teachings drawn from an array of subjects. Sharp, forthright, direct—this work is a treasure of heart advice."—Tricycle
"The detailed commentary by world-renowned meditation master and teacher Dudjom Rinpoche makes it accessible to students at all levels of Buddhist practice. Solidly anchored in Eastern spiritual tradition, A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom speaks very clearly to those listening with a Western ear."—Anna Jedrziewski, New Age Retailer
"Like a coach prepping an athlete for heightened performance, Dudjom Rinpoche leads the practitioner systematically through the stages of preparing for Tantra."—Buddhadharma


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Addition Update: The Down & Dirty Part
We are in week two of our addition/ renovation and it's been so cool (and scary) to come home everyday to crazy fast progress. One day we had a garage and narrow driveway, the next we have a wide open excavated space and framing! While this isn't the fun, decorative stuff it is the foundation for all of that!
The excavation began and immediately doubled the width of our driveway… (and we made the decision to bury our power lines while the driveway is all torn up.)
Of course Andrew being of the male persuasion has been excited about the "big toys" (don't worry, there were no keys anywhere for him to find.)
Where my mudroom used to be! This is when I started drinking more wine.
The foundation was poured and waterproofed (and I found myself digging the whole black and white stripe look-ha!)
And this is literally beyond exciting to only Andrew and I, but this was the first time we could really park our cars side by side! After two years of having a 7 foot wide driveway in which I needed a sherpa and pickaxe to exit my car, this was a jump up and down moment!
And then on one day the framing started!
And I could start seeing the shape of things!
As of yesterday the bottom level was enclosed and things start revealing themselves- like where my pantry will be, and my teeny tiny laundry room!
And while you are in the middle of the banging, sawing, ripping down and re-building you can't help but think about where you've been and how far you have to go. This was our house when we bought it. Helllloooo gold eagle! Built in 1941 and owned by one single family not much had been done SINCE the 40's! The house was 1,500 square feet at start (not counting our sunroom or mudroom, both of which were not heated, nor the small bedroom above the garage you could only access through the tiny "Being John Malkovich" door.)
This was our house before we started phase 2- most of the construction was done to the interior, as you recall (and will see in the book), but we did paint the shutters black, add some landscaping and new lighting, got rid of the screen door and painted the wood door (after a brief fling with horrifically mustard yellow paint and the notion that I wanted a bright front door…). We added no more square footage during this phase.
This is what it will look like after we complete this phase (master suite, garage, laundry, mudroom and pantry). We will be about 2,000 square feet after this phase.
And here is our ultimate goal- after phase three (which will take years to save up for after this current round!) This phase would include extending the entry a little (an extra couple feet would make a WORLD of difference in our tight entry) and adding a portico to give the house a better profile and dimension while turning our sun room into a family room and FINALLY fixing the tiny, off center window above the front door that makes me CRAZY. No biggie (she says sarcastically).
Final square footage: 2,200. Not too big, not too small. Juuuuuuust right. :)
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CNN's Anderson Cooper hosted a great debate "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" last night, featuring discharged former Lt. Dan Choi and gay-obsessed Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness.
Donnelly makes a rather bizarre claim—"The law says that homosexuals are not eligible to serve in the military"—and moves on to the usual talking points about about showers, sleeping quarters and "forced intimacy."
Choi responds: "Well, I think the harm is you really hurt the soldiers that are having to get deployed now without effective, capable soldiers. It's a matter of capabilities. Now I'm an Arabic linguist. And when I get kicked out, it's not that I'm the victim. It's the soldiers in my unit that aren't able to communicate. So the question is to you, Elaine, I have to ask you, (SPEAKING ARABIC) If you can't answer that question, that's not a problem. If the soldiers can't answer that, it's very devastating."
And why is this woman who has never worn the uniform debating a West Point graduate on military readiness ... ?
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U.S. Rep. Candice Miller: Why I will vote no on U.S. military action in Syria
In the coming days, the U.S. House will consider a resolution authorizing the use of military force against the Syrian regime in response to its use of chemical weapons in the ongoing Syrian civil war.
There is no more important duty a member of Congress must make than deciding whether to send the brave men and women of our armed forces into war, and I am compelled to put forward the reasons why I intend to vote no on this resolution.
This Wednesday is the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on our nation. Over these last 12 years of conflict in the Middle East and across the Muslim world, our troops have performed brilliantly in defense of freedom. Our nation owes them a great debt of gratitude that can never be repaid. At the same time, our nation has learned many difficult lessons. In Afghanistan, we rightfully ousted the Taliban regime, which aided and abetted al-Qaida to murder our citizens, but what has followed is unending corruption and sectarian violence. In Iraq, our effort to remove the threat posed by the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, who had also gassed his own people, was greeted once again with sectarian violence and repression. American military involvement in Libya, which I opposed at the time, helped to protect the citizens of Benghazi from crushing assault, only to have those who we protected attack our consulate, murder our ambassador and three other brave Americans after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi.
In nearly every instance these nations chose not to grasp the opportunity for the freedom thatAmerican intervention offered, but instead they focused on violently settling old scores, some over a thousand years old. While we are still the most powerful nation in the world, playing the role of police force for the world, and particularly in the Middle East, comes at a great cost of American blood and treasure while not providing a commensurate benefit to our national security.
In Syria, it is clear that the Assad regime has, as President Barack Obama has suggested, violated an "international norm" through its use of chemical weapons. But if the last 12 years has taught us anything, it is that the American military should be used only to protect the American people, our allies and American vital national interests from those who seek to do us harm, none of which appears to be at risk in Syria.
Protecting "international norms" should be the responsibility of the entire civilized world, and in Syria, the rest of the world must step up to punish this heinous act. That job cannot fall solely to the United States military. Unfortunately, the coalition that Obama has assembled to punish Assad is much smaller than the coalition we had at the start of the Iraq War. Even our closest ally, Britain, is choosing not to participate. Additionally, it is not clear that those we would defend with military action can be counted upon to be friendly to American interests. We cannot risk supporting Islamic extremists groups with strong ties to al-Qaida who count themselves among the Syrian rebels.
Since the first suggestion of using U.S. military force in Syria, I have asked my constituents for their input on whether such force is justified. They have clearly spoken their opposition. I share their skepticism, and when Congress convenes to consider this important vote, I will do my best to be their voice in Washington by opposing direct U.S. military involvement in the Syrian civil war.
Candice Miller, a Harrison Township Republican, represents Michigan's 10th District in the U.S. House


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PES 2012 Xperia Play promoted with mutilated couch, Kristen Schaal
Here is a trailer for a video game which made me laugh aloud. This is by way of being a calendar event.
Pes 12 headlines
PES 12 dated for October 14, new video released
Konami has announced PES 2012 will be released on October 14 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
Konami reveals Teammate system for PES 2012
Konami's revealed the Teammate Control system for Pro Evolution Soccer 2012, which will allow users to move two on-field players at once.
Konami's rebuilding the PES franchise, but it's a "long process"
Konami has said it doesn't believe there is a "huge gap," between its Pro Evolution Soccer series and EA's FIFA. However, there are current plans at the firm to rebuild the franchise, but don't look for it soon, as it will be a "long process."


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The Washington Postand the Wall Street Journal's world-wide newsbox lead with President Obama's personal involvement in a town hall meeting on health care, the first of three this week in which he intends to directly confront misinformation about the overhaul efforts. Obama said that just like every other time "we come close to passing health insurance reform," special interest groups "use their political allies to scare and mislead the American people." USA Todayleads with word that shortly after Obama's inauguration, federal authorities stepped up efforts to find lone attackers who could be considering carrying out ideologically based assaults, such as the recent murder of the abortion doctor in Kansas. Known as the "Lone Wolf Initiative," FBI agents are working to gather more information about possible suspects to disrupt attacks before they materialize.
The Los Angeles Timesleads, and the New York Timesoff-leads, new internal documents released yesterday that show how Karl Rove and other senior officials in the Bush administration played a greater role in the firing of several U.S. attorneys than was previously known. The e-mails and congressional testimony made public by the House judiciary committee show how the dismissals were the result of a two-year effort that appears to have targeted certain prosecutors for political reasons, and was part of a larger pattern of trying to influence Justice Department officials on several issues. The NYT leads with a look at how Iraqi Shiites have so far resisted retaliating against the recent wave of violence in which they are frequently the victims. This is a marked contrast to a few years ago, when Shiites and Sunnis seemed locked in an endless stream of retaliatory attacks. Now, even as hundreds are killed and some of the Shiites' holiest sites are attacked, they are listening to political and religious leaders who are urging followers to remain peaceful in the face of violence.
In the town hall meeting, Obama talked about the claim that lawmakers "voted for 'death panels' that will basically pull the plug on Grandma" and highlighted that he's "not in favor of them," urging critics to "disagree over things that are real, not these wild misrepresentations." It was one statement, but, as USAT notes, the very idea that Obama felt the need to deny he has a grand plan to kill grandmothers illustrates just how much the loudest critics of health care reform have been able to dominate the debate.
Outside the meeting, those critics were out in full force, and "the gathering verged on a street brawl," reports the WSJ. Demonstrators began arriving early in the morning and gathered on either side of the street for a good old-fashioned shouting match. Opponents carried signs, including ones that called Obama a socialist; "Obamahidinejad," in reference to the Iranian president; and even one that superimposed his face on a Nazi storm trooper. "Adolf Hitler was for exterminating the weak, not just the Jews and stuff, and socialism—that's what's going to happen," explained the woman who was carrying that particular sign, which was apparently made by her chronically ill mother who gets expensive treatments courtesy of Medicare.
According to senior aides, the president has been looking forward to the opportunity to defend his efforts at health care reform. But the mood inside the town hall meeting was all quite respectful, even after Obama encouraged skeptics to speak up. People may be more reluctant to harshly criticize the president to his face, but it was a whole different story for some members of Congress. In Missouri, Sen. Claire McCaskill was frequently shouted down during a town hall meeting and security officials had to remove two people. Another scheduled meeting had to be canceled due to security concerns. In Pennsylvania, a mere 15 minutes after Sen. Arlen Specter's town hall meeting got underway someone was already accusing him of "trampling" on the Constitution. "One day God is going to stand before you, and he's going to judge you!" the man continued to loud applause.
The NYT devotes a front-page piece to Specter's town hall and says that it looked like the vast majority of those who attended the meeting were against the efforts to overhaul health care. But to them, it's more than that. They see the health care efforts as another example of a federal government obsessed with interfering in the private sector. Indeed, the WP's Dan Balz notes the issue, and particularly the public insurance option, has become "an easy target for opponents who say his administration is behind the most significant enlargement of the federal government since the Great Society programs." The White House insists everything Obama did to prop up the economy was necessary and not the result of some big-government ideology, but it's easy for Republicans to argue otherwise. Balz goes on to say that Obama might have no choice but to give up on the public option early in the process in order to reshape the debate.
"I think it is very hard because [Democrats] don't have the message machine the Republicans do," a linguistics professor tells the LAT. "The Democrats still believe in Enlightenment reason: If you just tell people the truth, they will come to the right conclusion."
Some senior White House aides are cautioning against overreacting to the more outlandish and loud protesters at the town hall meetings, noting they could end up working in Obama's favor. "I think the public looks at screaming, swastikas, attacks. … It's not a persuasive argument," White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said. "If anything, it is the opposite."
In a front-page piece, the WSJ notes that, particularly when it comes to economics, Obama is a big fan of details. Every weekday morning, Obama gets an update on the economy from his advisers, and unlike many presidents who choose to focus on the big picture, he often "dives into the minutiae." This attention to detail "has helped give a paradoxical cast to his first months," declares the paper. He has talked about overhauling certain sectors of the economy to such an extent that even Democrats have raised objections. But after expressing grand ambitions, he "has shown last-minute caution on many fronts," which result in much more modest initiatives.
The NYT takes a front-page look at how two retired military psychologists took the lead in devising the CIA's post-Sept. 11 interrogation program even though they never carried out a real interrogation, had no particular expertise on the issue, and weren't even scholars of al-Qaida. The story of the two contractors has been told before, but the paper does a good job of recounting how Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen quickly built up a lucrative contracting business that has come crashing down ever since the CIA terminated its contracts last spring. Shortly after Sept. 11, the two men used a seized al-Qaida manual on resisting interrogations to create the American interrogation program. When Abu Zubaydah was captured, the CIA was ready to implement the brutal techniques, despite the objections of many officials present. And despite the fact that the torture techniques weren't really effective in eliciting more information, the CIA kept using them.
The papers go inside with news that a Burmese court sentenced pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi to an additional 18 months under house arrest for violating the terms of her detention when she hosted an uninvited American in her home. The move ensures that the country's most popular opposition figure will be out of sight as the government prepares for controversial elections next year. Separately, the American, John Yettaw, who swam across a lake to get to Suu Kyi's home, was sentenced to seven years in prison, including four years of hard labor. The LAT highlights that while Western countries harshly criticized the court's decision to extend Suu Kyi's house arrest, Burma's neighbors, China and India, remained silent.
The papers publish two must-read pieces for John Hughes fans. In the NYT, Molly Ringwald writes about a conversation she had with Anthony Michael Hall shortly after hearing that Hughes had died, where they reminisced about the man who had made them famous. Neither of them had talked to Hughes in more than 20 years. Apparently Hughes "was able to hold a grudge longer than anyone" and never forgave the fact that the actors he once took to concerts and for whom he had made "endless mixed tapes" refused to appear in some of his later work.
In the WP's Style section, Edward McNally, the rumored inspiration behind Ferris Bueller—he attended the same high school as Hughes, where he was "relentlessly pursued by a remarkably humorless" dean and had a best friend named Buehler—writes about how the "Ferris-ian high jinks were the everyday stuff of our boyhood lives." The man who later worked in the White House had 27 absences in his last semester of high school and once took his dad's purple Cadillac El Dorado for a Chicago adventure. And, yes, he apparently did try to erase the extra mileage by putting the car in reverse, but rather than fly backward, the move took off 10,000 miles from the odometer. "[O]ne key lesson from Ferris is his repeated message to his despondent buddy Cameron," writes McNally. "Your current situation doesn't have to be your fate. There's always another way."


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2005 proved to be another memorable year in the sailing world and began in truly record breaking fashion with the World Sailing Speed Record Council soon rushed off it's metaphorical feet as established marks tumbled, seemingly one after another.
MACARTHUR Making Waves
RIOU Wins Dramatic Vende Globe
Orange II Smashes Another World Record
Alinghi Split With COUTTS
SCHEIDT First Headline Maker In Olympic Classes
VEAL Perfect In Moth Worlds
New Faces For A New Year
News Off The Water
Follow the blue links and click on the pictures for more on each story
MACARTHUR Making Waves
MACARTHUR began the year in style, setting a personal best 24 hour run of 484.5 miles to help stretch her two and a half day lead on Francis JOYONs (FRA) single-handed round the world record as she pursued her own round the world record. Within two weeks, MACARTHUR on the trimaran B&Q was flying towards Cape Horn, and close to holding a five day advantage over JOYONs time. Just under 45 days after the start of her record attempt she rounded the final Southern Ocean cape in extremely testing conditions of 30 to 40 knots.
|Ellen MACARTHUR's record breaking feat
made news around the world
|Benoit Stichelbaut/DPPI/Offshore
However within a couple of days of sailing in the west Atlantic, the unstable winds were already having their affect on her theoretical lead. Over the next ten days MACARTHUR zig-zagged northwards off the coast of South America and was powerless as her lead over JOYONs time gradually dwindled, until on 24 January with 4,559 of the 21,760 nautical miles remaining it disappeared completely. With the doldrums approaching, things were not looking good.
However, at this point in JOYONs record attempt, the Frenchman had suffered a traumatic time himself, and MACARTHUR was able to re-establish a lead of over a day as she crossed the equator. She made further gains sailing out of the doldrums to lift her back up to three days ahead, before the Azores put the brakes on B&Q cutting MACARTHURs lead and giving her another exhausting day, with only 20 minutes sleep in 24 hours. Within 600 miles of the finish there was further drama as a storm approached, a concerned MACARTHUR expressed her worries to the shore team in a call saying, 'It's pretty bad already, it's going to be horrendous... Going to be lucky to come through this without breaking something or capsizing, to be frank, because its already really rough and its going to get really, really rough. The waves are going to be absolutely huge and we're going to be going straight across them which is the worst thing you could possibly do. I'm really worried. Just got to keep things together for the next 24 hours.'
|'I cannot believe it,
I absolutely cannot
believe it.'
Ellen MACARTHUR seemed a little
MACARTHUR and B&Q survived the storm, bar one hard disk failure on her main navigation computer, but her lead had dropped again, this time to less than two days but less than 400 miles remained and MACARTHUR was within touching distance of the finish. JOYONs record time had seen him power towards the finish, and as MACARTHUR battled to find a favourable course to the Ushant lighthouse, she lost more time to the Frenchman, with her lead now down to barely a day.
But MACARTHUR was not to be denied. At 22:29:17 UTC on Monday 7 February 2005, she crossed the finish line of Ushant, 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds after starting her record attempt, a full day and eight hours faster than JOYON, to set a new solo, non-stop round the world record. Minutes after crossing the line an overjoyed MACARTHUR commented, 'I cannot believe it, I absolutely cannot believe it. It hasn't sunk in yet. I don't think until I see faces again that it's really going to sink in. It's been an absolutely unbelievable journey, both physically and mentally. I'm absolutely overjoyed.'
Two days after crossing the line, MACARTHUR was welcomed back to her leaving port, Falmouth with an overwhelming reception, propelling sailing onto newspaper front pages and television news channels around the world and overnight transforming her into a household name.
RIOU Wins Dramatic Vende Globe
MACARTHUR made her name two years earlier after finishing second in the Vende Globe, and the famous French single-handed race was grabbing the headlines again at the beginning of 2005. Nine days before MACARTHUR rounded Cape Horn, Jean LE CAM (FRA) led the single-handed fleet round the Chilean land mark and in doing so broke the previous fastest time established by Michel DESJOYEAUX (FRA) four years previously.
|Vincent RIOU sailed to a stylish Vende
|Benoit Stichelbaut/Effets Mer
At that stage LE CAM was 190 miles ahead of Vincent RIOU (FRA), with third place Mike GOLDING (GBR) also within striking distance as the leaders entered the Atlantic. Within two days of passing the Horn, the gap between the top three had narrowed to just 93 miles and by 9 January, after 18,000 miles of racing just a paltry five miles separated them. Three days later, after 66 days and with over 18,000 miles covered GOLDING seized the lead, but it was to be short lived with RIOU regaining pole position as GOLDING fell into a small depression.
RIOU then turned the screw, gradually extending his lead so that when he crossed the equator on 19 January he led by over 100 miles from LE CAM and over 200 miles from GOLDING. As the finish approached a record time was looking more and more likely, but just who would set it was still undecided. Although RIOU still maintained control, the distance between him and the two chasers was shooting up and down. As the front trio passed through the 1,000 mile to go barrier the battle for first intensified before on 31 January, with 615 miles to the finish LE CAM snuck into the lead, moving 0.7 miles ahead of RIOU.
|'I am awash in a
sea of happiness.'
The normally restrained Vincent
Once again though RIOU was to display his resilience and calm under pressure, quickly hauling in his fellow countryman and then rapidly pulling out a 100 mile lead as he came within 100 miles of the finish at Les Sables dOlonne. At 22:49:55 UTC on Wednesday 2 February RIOU skippered PRB across the finish line to a rapturous reception and to smash the race record by almost six days. After 23,680 miles of racing it was just a mere six and a half hours before LE CAM came in to finish second, with GOLDING completing a dramatic race by nursing Ecover in for the final 50 miles after his keel broke off.
Orange II Smashes Another World Record
There was to be further French round the world success courtesy of Bruno PEYRON (FRA) and his team onboard the maxi catamaran Orange II. On 24 January they crossed the start line of the Jules Verne Trophy between Ushant and Lizard Point on their way around the globe with two aims in mind - beating the 63 days, 13 hours and 59 minutes it took Olivier DE KERAUSON (FRA) and Geronimo to claim the Jules Verne Trophy and then bettering the round the world record of American Steve FOSSETT and Cheyenne of 58 days, 9 hours and 32 minutes. What followed was one of the most impressive displays against the sailing clock ever seen, with PEYRON and his 13 crew obliterating both records as Orange II sped across the worlds oceans.
|Bruno BEYRON led Orange II's blitz around
the world's ocean
|Gilles Martin-Raget
After just seven days at sea, and in spite of unexpected weather conditions, latitude 0 was crossed and within a fortnight of starting Orange II had hit the Roaring Forties, covered nearly 2,000 miles in just three days and was close to breaking the 24 hour world speed record. PEYRON was obviously delighted, but his experienced head was always thinking ahead, as he looked to find a compromise between 'surrealistic' speeds of 30 knots plus and the need to spare men and gear for the voyage ahead.
By 16 February, after just 23 days at sea Orange II had reached the halfway point of her journey running a massive 2,000 nm ahead of FOSSETTs record time. The record pace continued as PEYRON and his team headed towards Cape Horn with the Frenchman growing in confidence as the days passed by, commenting, each day makes us stronger, each day makes us more efficient.'
After 32 and a half days Orange II rounded Cape Horn, crossing the South Pacific in a record breaking sub eleven days. However after rounding the Cape trouble emerged in the form of a whale, struck in a collision whilst Orange II was racing along at 25-30 knots. The whale hit both the port daggerboard and the rudder, and PEYRON was forced to wait a couple of days before calm seas allowed a diver to repair the damage. However the check bought positive news with no major damage. Now it seemed that the greatest threat was the awaiting doldrums. On day 43 the catamaran hit a ridge of high pressure which cut her speed in half.
|'For the moment,
all things considered,
its not been so bad!'
Bruno PEYRON's reaction after Orange
Facing four to five days of slow progress PEYRON was pragmatic, It could be worse. Weve known for some time that this was going to be difficult. Weve been preparing for it and were doing what we have to do he commented. All the Frenchman could do was grin and bear it as the days slipped by and Orange II continued to cruise along. By day 45 it looked as though the magical 50 day barrier, for so long a very realistic prospect, was now out of Orange IIs grasp. PEYRON could not help but reflect that, 'If we had had the same conditions as Cheyenne after the Horn of Brazil, we would have finished in 48 days.
Within a few days and as the finish at Ouessant beckoned, the mood changed from the what might have been 50 days, to a focus on getting to the finish as fast as possible and a 30 knot south southwesterly duly obliged to accompany the catamaran to the finish. On day 50 at sea PEYRON reflected on the surge of delight on board as their record breaking voyage drew to a close, 'You have to savour the last few miles, the last few hours... Its so good to see the look in the eyes of all the crew. There is no need for a long speech to understand what is happening between us. In principal, we are 24 hours from the finish. There is a regular 30 knot airflow and the sailing is good. We are gliding along in complete safety. We couldnt have dreamt of a sweeter note to end on.'
50 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes and 4 seconds after setting out, and after circumnavigating the globe at an average speed of 22.2 knots, Orange II crossed the finish line to smash both FOSSETT and DE KERSAUSONs times. An emotional PEYRON was on the radio just after crossing the finishing line to describe the atmosphere onboard, 'It's more emotion than joy. It corresponds to the long hard slog. So there's no explosion. It's intense, violent, just like this round the world voyage. I really love this night, and we're going to try to make the most of it.' Compliments and well wishes flew in from all sides with ISAF President Gran PETERSSON (SWE) and French President Jacques CHIRAC amongst those sending messages of congratulations. For PEYRON, twelve years after first setting the Jules Verne Record, the Trophy was again back in his hands.
|Russell COUTTS and Alinghi said goodbye
to one another at the start of 2005
|Getty Images
Alinghi Split With COUTTS
The start of 2005 may well have been dominated by goings on offshore, but unsurprisingly their was plenty of drama supplied by the
|'Both parties have
agreed to make no
further comments.'
The Russell COUTTS/Alinghi saga
However Alinghi still seemed to have the magic touch when it came to the action on the water as their latest recruit Ed BAIRD (USA) swept to victory against Mathieu RICHARD (FRA) in the final of the ISAF Grade 1 Marseille International Match Race in France.
BAIRDs winning ways were reflected in the ISAF World Match Race Rankings, were he held continued to hold the number one spot through both the 14 January and 23 March Rankings releases. By the end of March BAIRD had held on to the top spot for eight consecutive months, the experienced American a seemingly unmovable force since winning his second consecutive ISAF Match Racing World Championship in Russia back in July 2004. In the Womens Rankings Marie BJRLING (SWE) was equally untouchable at the top.
SCHEIDT First Headline Maker In Olympic Classes
|Paige RAILEY won her first senior regatta in Miami
whilst Xavier ROHART and Pascal RAMBEAU
celebrated victory at the Star Worlds
|Daniel Forster/Rolex & Diego Yriarte
Over in the Olympic Classes, 2005 got off to a predictably slow start with many of the Olympic stars taking a break after the intensity of an Olympic campaign. However for Robert SCHEIDT (BRA), fresh from a second Olympic gold medal in the Laser, the year began in earnest after just four days with the start of the ISAF Grade C1 Star South American Championship. After three successful Olympic campaigns in the Laser, SCHEIDT hinted that his future in the Olympics could be elsewhere and he teamed up with Bruno PRADA to great success in January, finishing second behind Lars GRAEL and Marco LAGOA (BRA) in only his second ever ISAF Graded Star regatta and then headed to the Worlds in Buenos Aires, Argentina in February. SCHEIDT and PRADA sailed with great skill in Argentina, but with a fleet packed full of the worlds very highest achievers they could not quite pull off a podium finish. They ended sixth overall, whilst Frenchmen Xavier ROHART and Pascal RAMBEAU claimed the title ahead of Olympic Champions Torben GRAEL and Marcelo FERREIRA (BRA).
The first major Olympic Classes regatta of the year, the ISAF Grade 1 Sail Melbourne in Australia felt the full brunt of the Olympic hangover, with just three of the eleven classes receiving sufficient entrants to meet the ISAF Grading criteria. Victories went to Roope SUOMALAINEN (FIN) in the Laser, Mathew BELCHER and Nick BEHRENS (AUS) in the 470 and CHENG Kowk Fai (HKG) in the Mistral.
|'Its just so exciting to be here.'
Paige RAILEY looks forward to her first ISAF Graded
By the time of US SAILINGs ISAF Grade 1 Rolex Miami OCR in late January the fleets were filling out and the competition heating up. In the new Olympic equipment for the Womens One Person Dinghy, the Laser Radial, former ISAF Youth Worlds Champion Paige RAILEY (USA) got her senior career off to a flying start with a win in Miami followed by a victory at the ISAF Grade 1 Laser Midwinters East. Results which gave her joint first place in the inaugural release of the ISAF World Sailing Rankings for the class along with Laser Radial World Champion Krystal WEIR (AUS). For the young American it was to be the start of a fantastic debut year. Amongst the first place finishers understandably dominated by the home Americans were Olympic silver medallists John LOVELL and Charlie OGLETREE (USA).
RAILEY and WEIR were amongst 55 women on the very first release of the Rankings for the Laser Radial on 2 February, a number which had more than doubled to 115 by the third release of the Rankings on 30 March.
Olympic silver medallist in the Finn Rafael TRUJILLO carried on the theme of Spanish success, having risen to the top spot in the Rankings for the first time in February. He maintained that position in the Rankings of 4 March and 30 March thanks to a second place in Barcelona and a sixth at the Princess Sofia. The action in Palma also saw RAILEY to the fore again, scoring her third successive victory in the Radial after also winning the ISAF Grade 1 Laser Midwinters East in the USA.
Amongst the other Olympic Classes, the top spots shuffled around as sailors took a well earned big, whilst long time leaders Ingrid PETITJEAN and Nadege DOUROUX (FRA) in the 470 Women, Chris DRAPER and Simon HISCOCKS (GBR) in the 49er, Faustine MERRET (FRA) in the Mistral Women and Fredrik LF and Anders EKSTRM (SWE) in the Star stayed firm in their number one spots.
Meanwhile for SCHEIDT, despite his temporary deflection to the Star, such was his success in the Laser that he held the top spot right in all three of the early 2005 Rankings releases.
|Rohan VEAL hydrofoiled to unbeaten success
at the Moth Worlds
|Sport The Library
VEAL Perfect In Moth Worlds
If RAILEY was impressive in Miami on her home waters, then Rohan VEAL (AUS) was completely outstanding on his during the Moth World Championship. Taking place as part of Sail Melbourne, the Moths raced off Port Phillip Bay, with VEAL using his hydrofoil to
|'I had plans in place
for the last Worlds in
France, but they did
not come off. This
time was different.'
Rohan VEALs brief appraisal of his eight bullet
Other World Championship titles at the start of the year went to Jochen SCHMANN and Ronald PIEPER in the Swiss boat Artemis XII in the 5.5 Metre. Lindsay IRWIN and Andrew PERRY (AUS) took the World crown in the International 14, as did fellow Australians Nick JERWOOD Janet JERWOOD in the Flying Fifteen.
New Faces For A New Year
Whilst the stars of sailing were competing in Miami, Melbourne, Marseille et al or racing across the worlds oceans, the young hopefuls
|The stars of the future were out in force at
the beginning of the year
Back in Australia on the match racing scene, Kiwi Simon MINOPRIO upset home sailor Michael DUNSTAN to win the Warren Jones Youth Regatta in Perth for the second year in succession. Back in the fleets, Adel KHALID (UAE) sailed a superb series to win the Sail The Gulf regatta in Doha, Qatar with over a day to spare in February.
Moving on to March and US SAILING announced their team for the ISAF Youth Worlds, with Paige RAILEY returning to the youth scene one last time to spearhead her nations medal drive in the Laser Radial. Meanwhile over in Italy, the Lake Garda Optimist Meeting once again boasted an enormous fleet of over 600 young sailors. Paul SNOW-HANSEN (NZL) also made his mark in the Optimist on his home waters in New Zealand, completing the 'triple crown' of Junior Sailing by adding the Optimist National Championship title to his wins in the Tanner and Tauranga Cups.
News Off The Water
Away from the water ISAF awarded former member of the ISAF Medical Commission and ISAF International Race Officer Frank NEWTON (GBR) with an ISAF Silver Medal in recognition of his many years of outstanding voluntary contribution to the sport of sailing and ISAF. Meanwhile in January, Serge JORGENSEN (USA) took the helm of the International Foundation for Disabled Sailing (IFDS) after the retirement of Ian HARRISON (GBR).
In Great Britain their was great news for deaf sailors with the charity Deaf Sailing UK set up to work alongside RYA Sailability. In the USA an all-time record of more than 250 sailing programme directors, organizers, and volunteers travelled from across the country to Miami, Florida, to attend US SAILING's National Sailing Programmes Symposium. Meanwhile in the US Virgin Islands, the St. Thomas Antilles School sailing team found a novel way to promote itself by issuing a team calendar, just one of the many examples throughout the year of the efforts made to get out on the water around the world.
|ISAF President Gran PETERSSON
chaired the ISAF Executive Committee
in February
Moving from the governance of the action on the water, to the action off it, ISAF President Gran PETERSSON (SWE) chaired the first formal meetings of the recently elected ISAF Executive Committee from 6-8 February. Amongst the issues discussed was the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition Format an unsurprising hot topic which would reappear throughout the year.
The first three months of 2005 had seen the sailing world successively gripped as they followed the progress of record breaking boats, day-by-day, hour-by-hour and even minute-by-minute on internet, radio, television and in the newspapers. Ellen MACARTHUR, Vincent RIOU and Bruno PEYRON demonstrated the fortitude, intelligence, skill and sheer bloody-mindedness that encapsulates the great offshore sailors and the advancing world of technology allowed an insight to their travels never before seen. Whilst RIOUs victory displayed all the tactical nouse a race around the world demands, MACARTHUR and PEYRONs battles against the clock saw emotions rise and fall as depressions approached and speeds soared. All in all the start of 2005 was a time when sailings ocean goers took centre stage.
But what of the rest of the year? More records would fall, Olympic stars would return and the changes would just keep on coming.
Part 2 of the ISAF Year In Review will be published Friday 9 December. Subscribe at ISAF Sailor.


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Tarell Williams took home first place in the men's long jump on Monday.
The host team won nine events and recorded four new IC4A/ECAC qualifying performances during the eighth annual Liberty Quad, which wrapped up on Monday at the Tolsma Indoor Track Center. The meet was delayed three days by the 10 inches of snowfall which Lynchburg received on Feb. 12-13. However, athletes from nine different colleges and universities still competed and produced some impressive marks. Meet records were eclipsed in the women's triple jump (39-3.75) and women's pentathlon (3,609), while the women's high jump standard of 5-7 was matched. Women's Meet Recap Lady Flames were responsible for both new Liberty Quad records, beginning with junior Audrey Bamford's superb effort in the pentathlon. Her winning score of 3,609 set a new personal best by 154 points and moved Bamford up to fourth place in program history. Along the way, Bamford established new personal bests in the 60 hurdles (8.86) and long jump (18-1.75) while also achieving an indoor personal best in the shot put (36-2.75). The Pennsylvania native now ranks eighth on Liberty's all-time 60 hurdles list. Not to be totally overshadowed by her classmate, Riley Brandon also enjoyed a successful day in the pentathlon. Her score of 3,486, a personal best by 140 points, placed Brandon second in the competition and punched her ticket to the ECAC meet. She now sits seventh on Liberty's all-time performance list for the pentathlon. Brandon's top events were the high jump (5-6), shot put (34-10.25) and 800 (2:21.64), all of which saw her set new personal-best marks. Her high jump clearance is tied for fourth in program history and ranks Brandon No. 2 in the Big South this season. Sophomore Janae Jones was Liberty's other record breaker on Monday, thanks to her winning triple jump mark of 39-3.75. Teammate Melissa Rohwer finished as the runner-up, stretching out to a season-best 38-10.25. Rohwer also came in second in the long jump, thanks to a season-best leap of 17-9.75. Jones' season-best 17-8.75 jump netted third place. Rachel Barnes and Jennifer Nicholson both excelled in the evening's final event, the women's shot put. Barnes' indoor personal-best throw of 45-1.75 took fourth place in a deep field. Meanwhile, Nicholson added nearly two feet to her previous shot put best, heaving her sixth and final attempt 43-10. She placed ninth in the event while climbing to sixth place in program history. Four of the top six indoor women's shot putters on Liberty's all-time list are current members of this year's team, including Barnes, Nicholson, school-record holder Mychelle Cumings and Jocelyn Willliams. Two days after setting the program 60-meter dash school record two time zones away in Albuquerque, N.M., freshman Oasis Hernandez came in a close second in the women's 200 final in 25.75 seconds. The Lady Flames also took runner-up honors in the 4 x 400 relay, as the quartet of Mary Echols, Mary Witmer, Hannah Scherlacher and Corinn Bedell raced to a time of 4:03.16.
Men's Meet Recap Even with Big South-leading Fred Fulton sitting out Monday's meet, Liberty went 1-2-3 in the men's shot put and earned two new IC4A qualifiers. Redshirt sophomore David Scouten led the way with a season-best and IC4A-qualifying throw of 52-2.5. Competing in just his second meet in a Liberty uniform, South African Constand Van Rooyen took second place at 51-7, punching his IC4A ticket. Jacob DeValve rounded out the Flames' sweep with a mark of 50-1.25. The Flames' other IC4A qualifier came in the 4 x 800 relay, as Liberty posted a time of 7:54.39 despite running the race alone. Colin Schultz, Trevor Hope, Jacob Onifer and John Sherret comprised the Flames' relay quartet. Sherret later equaled his indoor-best 800-meter time of 1:54.79 while holding off defending Big South indoor 800 champion Jacob Lysher from VMI for the victory. Jarred Cornfield led the men's 1,000-meter run from wire to wire with a winning time of 2:30.64 which missed out on the IC4A standard by a tantalizing one-tenth of a second. Day one heptathlon leader Tevan McIntire was able to close out victory in the event, scoring 4,961 points. He equaled his pole vault personal best of 12-9.5 on Monday, helping him finish with an 84-point heptathlon personal best. Liberty's other two victories came in the horizontal jumps, thanks to Aklesso Agama's 46-5.5 mark in the triple jump and Tarell Williams' 21-2.5 long jump. Williams also ran the 60-meter dash, taking third place in a season-best time of 7.04 seconds. Defending Big South indoor high jump champion Kyle Wheeler made his high jump season debut on Monday, clearing 6-4.25 for second place. Teammate Patrick Donigan also got over 6-4.25 for a new season best and third place in the event.
Liberty will now prepare for the 2014 Big South Indoor Track & Field Championships, set for Feb. 28 and March 1 at Virginia Tech's Rector Field House in Blacksburg, Va. The Flames will shoot for their 17th straight team title, while the Lady Flames will attempt to claim their fourth championship in five years.


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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) Win or lose, Notre Dame's Brian Kelly doesn't want his team aiming any lower than the national championship game in the future.
Kelly said Sunday ``it's unacceptable for the standard to be any less than being back here again.'' First things first, his top-ranked Fighting Irish will face No. 2 Alabama Monday night hoping for their first national title since 1988.
Kelly has been in national title games before. He led Division II Grand Valley State to championships in 2002 and 2003. For the last one, the team stayed mostly unnoticed in a Best Western and there was so much less buildup that it ``was just another game.''
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Mobile Billboard Promotes Grand Opening and Free Subs for 1 YearJune 4, 2014
Relying on the hyper local advertising capabilities of a mobile billboard ad from Guerrilla Mobile Billboards, restaurant chain DiBella's Old Fashioned Submarines recently promoted the Grand Opening of its Wallingford CT unit. Included in the billboard truck's varied ad copy was a call to action highlighting the chain's always highly anticipated offer to the first 30 customers in line on the morning of a Grand Opening: Free Subs For A Year!
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Until NASA's spacecraft MESSENGER took up orbit around Mercury last year, the surface of the solar system's innermost planet was a great mystery. Now we've gotten a good look — and we have no idea what we're looking at.
These features spotted by MESSENGER have been dubbed "hollows." Though they don't actually glow bluish green like that, they are still plenty strange. While at first glance they look like craters, their shapes couldn't actually be formed by meteorite impacts, partially because most of them are actually inside actual impact craters.
Astronomers haven't spotted anything like this on the Moon or anywhere else in the solar system, and so whatever is creating these strange hollows must be unique to Mercury. In a new paper exploring the hollows, a team of NASA scientists offer this description of the hollows:
High-resolution images of Mercury's surface from orbit reveal that many bright deposits within impact craters exhibit fresh-appearing, irregular, shallow, rimless depressions. The depressions, or hollows, range from tens of meters to a few kilometers across, and many have high-reflectance interiors and halos. The host rocks, which are associated with crater central peaks, peak rings, floors, and walls, are interpreted to have been excavated from depth by the crater-forming process.
The best explanation for these hollows is that these depressions actually formed through the forced removal of the material that was once inside them. During the violent impact that formed the region's Raditladi basin, surface material was actually sublimated — turned from a solid straight to a gas — by the extreme conditions. That suggests there are far more volatile substances inside Mercury's interior than our current theories about its formation would suggest.
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Nuggets outlast Bulls in overtime, extend winning streak to 12
CHICAGO -- The Denver Nuggets' 12th consecutive win didn't come easily or without controversy.
While Andre Iguodala's 3-pointer with 7.1 seconds left in overtime will go down as the game-winning shot in the Nuggets' 119-118 win over Chicago, the Bulls feel otherwise.
"We felt like we got it stolen from us," Bulls forward Carlos Boozer said, referring to the play with 1.7 seconds left in which Chicago center Joakim Noah grabbed a shot from teammate Marco Belinelli that was on its downward path to the basket and slammed it home.
The officials initially didn't blow their whistles, but when Denver called an immediate timeout and loudly complained that it was goaltending, the referees reviewed video and disallowed Noah's bucket, sending the Bulls to their seventh loss in their last 11 games.
"If we deem the ball in its descent has a chance to score, and therefore it's in the cylinder, it's either offensive basket interference or it's goaltending, that's it," referee Ken Mauer told a pool reporter when asked about the game-deciding call.
"It's a tough play," Chicago coach Tom Thibodeau said, citing a similar play just before Noah's by Denver's Kosta Koufos that was not called by the officials.
"From my angle, it looked like it was a good play, it looked like the ball was short," Thibodeau said of Noah's play. "Koufos', I know was on the rim, and to me I guess we have to call the league and get an interpretation. Maybe I don't understand the rule correctly."
Noah was incensed.
"That's what is frustrating. How are you going to review that one, but you can't review the one two plays before it. ... I just know the refs are doing the best they can in those situations, but it cost us the game today, it's disappointing."
Denver coach George Karl didn't see it that way -- but with somewhat of a caveat about the similar circumstances surrounding Koufos' play.
"There is no question it was goaltending," Karl said of Noah's play. "The ball was going to hit the rim. I was too far away to see the play on Kosta's tip-in shot."
Wilson Chandler led the Nuggets with 35 points, Corey Brewer added 16 and Ty Lawson 13. Iguodala finished with 12 points and 10 rebounds, and Andre Miller had 13 assists.
Nate Robinson led Chicago with 34 points, Luol Deng had 21, Belinelli scored 18, and Noah added 12 rebounds and 14 points.
It was the 12th time in the last 13 games that Denver scored 100 or more points, and marked the first time in seven games that an opponent has scored 100 points on the Nuggets.
Denver started out strong, leading by as many as 14 points at several points, but Chicago kept pushing back, with the Bulls' starters outscoring the Nuggets' starters 104-48 mismatch.
"Tonight, we were forcing it, we just didn't play well defensively," Karl said. "I'm proud of the way we stayed strong especially at the end when we were down four and made the big shots. This was a difficult mental game because we let go of a lead in regulation where we should have won it."
The Nuggets' eight-point lead with 3:26 left in the fourth quarter evaporated, and Ty Lawson's last-second jumper fell short, sending the game into overtime.
On the flip side, Karl was heartened that Denver got 71 points from its bench, including Chandler's outstanding play.
"Anytime when we bring (Chandler) off the bench we seem to get an offensive spurt," Karl said. "I think he is our most efficient offensive person on the team. He also plays some good defense."
Denver outscored the Bulls 21-20 in the first quarter and 53-45 at the half, but Chicago came back to outscore the Nuggets 28-26 in the third quarter and 60-52 for the second half.
Even though his team's 12th consecutive win didn't come easy, Karl was happy to get out of Chicago with the win.
"Nine (wins) in a row in January and now with 12, we know we can win and play anyone," Karl said. "We're building confidence. However, we're just trying to get to a number like 54 or 55 wins. We believe there is value in every game. We're just doing a nice job coming together and building confidence."
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The only member of the Nuggets who was alive the last time Denver won 11 straight games is point guard Andre Miller, who was four days away from his seventh birthday on March 15, 1983. ... Denver plays its 14th back-to-back on Tuesday at Oklahoma City before returning home to face Philadelphia (Thursday) and Sacramento (Saturday). ... Chicago, meanwhile, continues its homestand Thursday against Portland Trail Blazers. . Denver leads the series with Chicago 44-37.
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JANESVILLE – Claudine J. Hammarlund, age 82, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, at Cedar Crest. She was born April 6, 1930, the daughter of Franklin and Alvira (Cornell) Winnie in Whitewater, WI. She graduated from Whitewater High School in 1948 and UW-Whitewater in 1952 with a degree in Business Education. As an undergraduate, she was a member of the band, Pi Omega Pi Honorary Fraternity, and Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority. On June 15, 1952, she married Clarence P. Hammarlund in Whitewater. While her husband served in the military, she worked as secretary to the chief of security at the Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, FL and later as secretary to the Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly in Madison, WI, while her husband served in Korea. A resident of Janesville since 1955, she was a member of First Lutheran Church, its women's circles and Altar Guild. She also served as a substitute teacher in the Janesville School District, as well as attending grandchildren's baseball, basketball, soccer and volleyball games.
Survivors include her husband, Clarence; 2 daughters, Diane (Keith) Burdick of Sun Prairie, WI, and Lori (Eric) Lorenz of Mequon, WI; 5 grandchildren: Brett (Elizabeth) Burdick of Madison, WI; Jeffrey (Elizabeth) Burdick of Antigo, WI; Scott, Melanie and Randall Lorenz of Mequon, WI; 2 great-grandchildren, Kaylee Burdick and Myles Burdick; and niece, Elizabeth Jane (Hartman) Strother of Jasper, TX. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Robert Winnie; sisters-in-law, Mary (Flood) Winnie and Elaine (Hammarlund) Hartman; and brother-in-law, Dr. John Hartman.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, at FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH with Rev. Naomi Garber officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be at the church one hour prior to the service. Memorials may be made to First Lutheran Church or Cedar Crest. SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY is assisting the family with arrangements. For on-line condolences and registry: www.schneiderfuneraldirectors.com
"A special thank you to the nurses, aides, and staff at Cedar Crest and Agrace HospiceCare, Inc. for their compassionate care."