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Soldiers on Landscape
Life can get kind of lonely out on the range. Sometimes you're out beating back Wargs to kill time until your Kinmates show up. Maybe you're out and about trying to get that last Broken Hatchet to make a complete stack. If any event, if you need a partner to join you during your fight, you might wish to call your Skirmish Soldier!
With Update 6, you'll be able to purchase or barter for Landscape Soldier Tokens. These tokens allow you to summon your Skirmish Soldier in landscape areas of the game, giving you an edge against the enemy. Each token grants you an hour of your soldier's time outside of skirmishes.
Now for a little FAQ…
Q: How do I get Landscape Soldier Tokens? A: You can either barter for them at your local skirmish camp (look for the "Currency Exchange" vendor) or buy them on the LOTRO Store.
Q: Where can Landscape Soldier Tokens be used? A: Basically, they can be used in most non-instanced locations in Middle Earth. There are a few major hubs where you may not be able to summon your soldier. This is for the good of everyone trying to conduct business in those hubs in a reasonable manner.
Q: What's up with that UI sitting there? I don't want it to show up. A: There's a little button on the corner of the soldier portrait that will hide the UI.
Q: Where'd my soldier UI go? I want it back. A: Right click your own portrait. The drop down menu has an option to return the soldier UI to view.
Q: So… I used a Landscape Soldier Token and spent some time out in the wilderness. Now I need to go back to town, but my soldier timer is still ticking. That really stinks. What can I do about this? A: You can dismiss your soldier while you are out on landscape whenever you like. Your remaining soldier time will not decrease while the soldier is dismissed. When you get back out to the dangerous wilderness you can re-summon your soldier and continue to use your remaining time. Summon and dismiss to your heart's content.
Q: I was running around killing stuff and my soldier disappeared. What gives? A: You either ran out of soldier time or you entered an area barred to skirmish soldiers. We do need to reserve the right to bar skirmish soldiers from certain areas of the world. That said, if your soldier is auto-dismissed your bank of time will stop going down. You should get a chat message when your soldier is auto-dismissed. Your solder will be auto-dismissed whenever you teleport, fast-travel or otherwise zip to a far off location.
Q: I can't use any skirmish items on my soldier when I'm not in a skirmish. For that matter, I'm not gaining benefits from my soldier's "personal" traits. Why is that? A: For balance purposes we're holding off on allowing these items outside of skirmishes. Adding a sidekick is pretty powerful stuff as is.
Q: I wish I could tell my soldier exactly what to do all the time… kinda like Lore-master pets. Why can't I do that? A: We want to preserve the gameplay of our pet classes. You skirmish soldier is there to give you options in filling out your abilities. Summoning one outside of skirmishes will certainly do that. Giving them a bunch of command controls would start taking things a little too far and encroach on the territory of some pretty great classes.
Q: Wait just a minute! I used to summon my Skirmish Soldier free of any store or barter charges during skirmishes! Does this mean I need tokens to summon my soldier in skirmishes now? A: Nope. Your soldier functions the same as it did previous to the update when inside a skirmish.


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What Issues Should the Minnesota Legislature Focus on in 2013?
With so many challenges on the table, Patch wants to know what issues you think are most important.
With another legislative session just around the corner, senators and representatives have no shortage of challenges ahead of them.
Lawmakers plan to convene hearings on gun control in the wake of the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT. They'll review a recommendation from a governor-appointed task force to increase gas taxes and tab fees in response to a projected $50 billion shortfall in transportation funding. The DFL majority and defeat of the marriage amendment in the 2012 election could even prompt the Legislature to take up the issue of gay marriage.
And looming over everything is a projected $1.1 billion deficit that legislators will have to close before adjourning for the year.
With so many issues on the table, Patch wants to know what issues you think should take priority when the Legislature convenes Jan. 8. Should it be tax reform? Transportation? Education? Social issues? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
9:06 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
If our government really cares what we think, and would like our input, there should be citizen committees to work with congress. I don't know how else to have "our voice" truly heard.
Gary Doan
10:54 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
We should never have professional politicians, they should be regular people who return to their normal jobs and lives after a short service, like jury duty.
6:27 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
I agree:
Focus on:
1. removing duplicate laws and laws with in the law
2. we have hate crime bill/women against violence/rape/abuse. all under the law of do not harm another.
3. discrimination yet government is the biggest offender and has exceptions to the law.
Discrimination law then government should not:
1. allow apps to have age/race/gender just citizen and non
2. aid based not on with or with out family by need only
3. insurance all kinds remove age/race/gender/history of family
4. grants/scholarships not by race/grade/sports
5. taxes flat tax all pay = % of earned income. does not matter rich/poor/middle class married or not married.
6. remove gifting tax unless we tax the money to those who receive aid. this indirectly is a gift.
7. government now wants to know when a person helps someone who and how much. Why? they are not writing it off. When did we allow government to say we can not help or if friend and family paint your house due to lead law you cannot give them money to thank them or buy pizza otherwise your paying for a service.
We should not pass laws and have exceptions to the rule.
Laurie Helgason
9:46 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
Pension plans and triple dipping of state employees.
Evelyn Headen
9:51 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
Our voice is certainly heard through the people we elect to represent us. Vote for the candidate(s) who most closely represent your values -- not just on one issue, but as much as possible across the board. Then keep in touch with them. They really want to know our views on issues, particularly when we have sound data to back them up.
10:12 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
Evelyn - there isn't any candidate that is close to my views.
My view on government is that at any level of government, the government should only do what 80% or more of the people agree should be done. Anything less means a significant minority of people are going to be oppressed, and I don't like being a part of an oppressive society. At the town level, it's somewhat easy to get that level of agreement, at the state level less so, and at the federal level even less.
That feels good to me, because I don't have as much in common with a surfer in Hawaii as I do with a pond broomballer in Stillwater.
10:04 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
I would like a revisit of the decision to set up a state health care exchange in light of the much higher costs being recognized since the initial decision was made to set up a health care exchange (see the NPR story from last November for details of the higher costs).
10:10 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
Lynne, that is a good idea to have a group of let citizen's be heard.
Evelyn i agree on voting not on one issue but the all around issues.
a governor-appointed task force to increase gas taxes and tab fees in response to a projected $50 billion shortfall in transportation funding. I do not think MN need anymore tax increases, property taxes and referendums in last election up, the healthcare tax, the 2% we will all be back to for SS, the cog of goods we are now paying. With all this increase, how is it they want higher tax. Every time an item goes up state gets more money. With gas double in the past 4 yrs we should have plenty of funding, construction labor has gone down.
Marriage - how about government stays out of all marriages, we remove filing married and putting married couples in higher tax brackets.
Health insurance - have MN Group health insurance. we pay taxes for all government employees, teachers etc. why not have a MN GROUP HEALTH PLAN where everyone can apply.. small business and self employed lows cost to all as this would a very large group.
The DFL majority and defeat of the marriage amendment in the 2012 election could even prompt the Legislature to take up the issue of gay marriage.
Steve Melin
10:16 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
Take a look at all the nonessential services that were shut down temporarily. Assume that all of these service cuts are permanent. If a really compeling argument cannot be made for reinstatement, they are gone forever. With the 3rd highest corporate tax rates and the 6th highest personal income tax rates in the country, we are no longer competitive. I would think spending and tax cuts would the top priority in every legislative session until we are at least aproaching national norms.
11:53 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
Steve Melin,
"With the 3rd highest corporate tax rates and the 6th highest personal income tax rates in the country, we are no longer competitive." This is a poisonous fable of republicans and if we are going to solve any of our problems we have to reframe for this kind of undercutting. My Point, look at this example: Who pays more taxes - Mercedes Benz or G M, - But who is more competitive and more successful. I think Mercedes Benz - The reason is, Mercedes Benz high taxes are a better value overall. The same services done by our "free enterprise" (meaning license to steal) way is burdened buy profit (excessive) and abuse (executive compensation, creed).
You are right, Spending and Taxes are top priority. But we must force our boys to do the work and not take the excuse " government is to big – lets reduce it" meaning then we don't have to accomplice anything and are no longer responsible and to hell if citizens get ripped of by capitalists.
Look at last year: They only kicked the can down the road but hid their failure and diverted the public's attention with the "voter ID" and the " marriage amendment"
12:32 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
resident - what is the mechanism for a citizen to get ripped off by a capitalist?
Only governments have the legal right to force you to do something. Walmart can't force me to shop there. If they behave badly, I've got tons of alternatives.
The only time that alternatives aren't created is when the government creates a regulation to stifle competition - usually those regulations are proposed by the industry to be regulated because it will create a barrier to up and coming competition.
You take republicans to task for pushing a social agenda and not addressing fiscal issues. Do you believe the democrats have behaved differently? I don't think it's acceptable in either party - having a 'team' mentality about parties is a big reason why we have the fiscal problems we have, and why we are so sharply divided as a society over social issues.
Gary Doan
1:25 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
"Mercedes Benz high taxes are a better value overall" - this is really a stretch. Mercedes Benz is in a different market than GM, they make some of the highest quality and highest cost cars. It is like comparing costume jewelery to diamonds rings. GM compares better to the consumer brand autos they failed in Europe, like Opal and Peugeot that lost their competitiveness and have lost out to Asian auto makers.
Emily B
7:58 am on Monday, January 7, 2013
Irving, interesting you give Walmart as the example. In some communities Walmart IS the only place they have to shop, because they've undercut all the community businesses and they've closed. Then Walmart raises prices and people have no choice.
Walter May
12:00 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
Wally May
With Dayton as governor and a Dem. majority in both houses how can we keep fiscal sanity ? Our state's credit rating has gone down in recent years; another slip will lead to damaging cost increases just for paying the interest on state borrowings.
Can we reduce the size of state government ? Not likely with the current batch in office.
Gary Doan
1:47 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
Politicians should act responsibly and be held accountable. Balancing the budget should be the number one goal, but it is unlikely that will happen. Spending is the problem and I must assume with the Democrats in control, spending and debt will increase. This will be a bigger problem going forward, as interest rates rise and the debt grows. Overall Minnesotans will have less money to spend going forward, as Federal taxes, healthcare, energy and just about everything else will be costing more. Inflation is inevitable as the Fed continues to dilute the currency with QE by over a half a trillion dollars a year. Minnesota's current tax rates are high, which will hurt business growth and has already driven business out of MN already. Right to Work states will start to gain the most new businesses and corporate relocation, at our expense. I fear we are heading in the wrong direction and will need to pay the piper at some point, the real question is how far we can go before the State of Minnesota becomes insolvent.
3:48 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
It would be nice if our legislature would focus on serving those who elected them and not cowtowing to small special interest groups. The government should keep their noses out of our daily lives. They obviously have no respect for marriage, or sovereignty, the constitution, or what their constituents want or don't want. It would be very nice if they lived up to the responsibilities of their positions.
4:15 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
Minnesota should follow Michigan and Wisconsin's lead and pass a right to work law and a law to limit collective bargaining for government employees.
It's highly unlikely considering the current makeup of the legislature.
If the Republicans would have focused on that and not Vikings Stadium or the loser Gay Marriage and Voter ID amendments, they may have actually accomplished something during their rare period of control. It was predictable that they would squander the only chance they have had in 40 years to actually do something worthwhile.
Joyce Denn
11:44 am on Sunday, January 6, 2013
Markus, do you also think the general public should be allowed to use the facilities at a country club or a place like Lifetime Fitness without paying dues? Do you think dues should be optional and people should be able to benefit without any obligation to support the facility?
5:05 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013
Joyce, your analogy doesn't even come close. Try again. Paying union dues should not be a condition of employment. Particularly if a large portion of the dues are going for left wing activism (which is largely the case) in order to further the fleece the employee via higher taxes.
Rebecca Grant
2:11 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Markus.....I am from Fridley but I have been living in Texas for almost 20 years now. Texas is a right to work state. You really are mistaken about this law. It is a horrible law.....wages are low, and benefits are becoming more and more scarce in the workplace. Yes, corporations began moving their businesses here, so it makes the state look good, statistically, but the number of people living below the poverty line grows every year. 24% of Texas residents do not have any health insurance. Unions are non-existent, and it shows....construction on homes and buildings is shoddy, including electrical and plumbing and roofing.....horrible. It's hard to find anyone who is qualified to fix things in your home or car correctly. The money people waste down here to find someone who can "get it right" is ridiculous. My husband works for a world-wide corporation who moved to Texas to reduce their costs through cheaper labor. Factory work is minimum wage and it is rare in some factories to get increases, even if you have been working for several years. They don't have to have a reason to fire you or let you go, you cannot bring legal action against a business for being treated poorly in the workplace, and it is difficult to qualify for unemployment benefits.....this is all due to the right to work law in this state. People in Minnesota are treated well due to the respect given worker's unions and state laws....find a way to live with a little less money and enjoy your life!
9:00 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Rebecca wrote: "You really are mistaken about this law. It is a horrible law" "Unions are non-existent"
If union membership is so great, wouldn't workers be clamoring to join them? Workers in Texas have a choice (I'm willing to bet you're pro-choice in other areas) and choose to exercise it by not joining the union. Why do you think that is? Could it be they see no direct benefit to paying union dues? Could it be that they see most unions are thinly disguised left wing lobbying organizations and they prefer not to participate?
You referred to not being able to get your car repaired properly because of the lack of union membership. I owned an auto repair shop for 21 years and we were not unionized. No independent shops in MN are. Many of us belonged to an association of which I was on the board for many years. Our member shops were typically well operated shops with well trained technicians and happy customers. There is a large chapter in Texas that has similar membership. If you can't find a good place to get your car fixed, you're looking in the wrong place.
I have literally dozens of acquaintances who are in the construction industry in MN as well, all do exceptional work and none belong to unions.
You can't equate quality to union membership. Show us some empirical data to suggest otherwise.
If you accept shoddy work, that is on you. There are qualified tradesmen, you have to find them as you do anywhere.
5:50 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
Irving! "What is the mechanism for a citizen to get ripped off by a capitalist? " Answer: Example "Housing crises" to give you a starting hint and if you what to think you can find a hundred more examples like that - or you can blame it on you favorite coup out and watch us go down the drain.
Tea partyers say government should only do the job of protecting its citizens. OK - lets start at home and get protection from all the domestic predators like Enron or the gang that made acid rain or the tobacco industry. But then this would be barriers and stifle the profit of capitalists. So let's give free range to bad drugs or poisons peanut butter and government won't forced you to buy it – you are on you own! – go to the competition. That why M B beats GM, - plus dose not need bailouts.
8:04 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
resident - every example you've given is in an industry that is extremely heavily regulated. Regulation stifles competition. A lack of competition allows an industry to grow large and unresponsive to the public - kind of like our federal government.
The solution to predatory housing lending would have been to keep people from buying houses they couldn't afford. Please name one president who stated that as a goal.
11:28 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
In trying to understand your incoherent babbling it's apparent you believe government is inherently good and capitalism is inherently bad. I'm sorry to inform you that you have it exactly backwards.
Here's a little good reading for you. Comment again when you're better informed.
Federal Government policy caused the housing bubble.
The Enron debacle was more a result of government subsidies than the lack of government involvement.
Do you drive a car, heat your home with natural gas, or have electricity? Then you're contributing to acid rain.
The Federal Government subsidizes tobacco farmers.
"FDA-approved drugs and products help to make Americans fatter, weaker, dumber, sicker, poorer, and in general less healthy"
11:17 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
Irving - sorry I can't see you logic. You say government should not regulate criminals which produce the predatory lending because it will stifle competition and stunt growth (in other words you want a government which promotes and grows grime) but the same government is to very dictatorially regulate the people from buying houses trying to invest to get ahead and then are cheated?
12:17 pm on Saturday, January 5, 2013
Markus, - you make a good point but it supports my views, - which you do not seem to understand.
Tea Partyers are still stuck on the notion of government being some evil foreign entity like the King of England extracting our money and suppressing our freedom. Are we not supposed to be our own democratic system and therefore we are "government"? The notion saying that government is bad says we are bad. If you criticize government you are in fact criticizing yourself – not a bad thing to do if you are interested in becoming better rather then "reduce government" - meaning you make yourself smaller, weaker, become the slave!
As far as capitalism is concerned – it is good if it serves us, - it is bad if it is unregulated and exploits us, - like the King of England did at one time. The examples you cite show that the capitalists have been subverting our democratic system and are exploiting us. Think, - is Walmart there to serve us or are we there to make Walmart rich. To me the ironic fact is that the Tea Partyers are hell bent to throw out a King of England of long time ago and replace him today with multinational capitalists.
4:55 pm on Saturday, January 5, 2013
"The notion saying that government is bad says we are bad. If you criticize government you are in fact criticizing yourself – not a bad thing to do if you are interested in becoming better rather then "reduce government" - meaning you make yourself smaller, weaker, become the slave! "
Let me get this straight. A better person is a weak slave to a big government? You seemingly have a difficult time articulating your positions, so correct me if I'm wrong.
If I criticize government, I'm criticizing you most likely because I didn't vote for most of the morally bankrupt politicians who run the state and the country and you probably did. People like you have found that the politicians are more than happy to take from us producers and give to the non-producers just as long as the non-producers continue to cast their vote for them.
Capitalism always serves us. How can it not? In a free market, there is no coercion. The market determines the price and availability of a product or service and you as the purchaser can decide if it's worth parting with your government issued green printed paper or not. It is really simple. Walmart is there to make a profit and nothing else. If they don't serve us well, they won't make a profit and someone with a better business model will step in and fill the void.
Don't equate capitalism to Washington sponsored crony capitalism and corporatism. They're not the same thing, although Michael Moore would have you think so.
6:24 pm on Saturday, January 5, 2013
resident, being a moderate Democrat, I can't even go along with this statement:
""reduce government" - meaning you make yourself smaller, weaker, become the slave!"
I think you might want a refresher course on a Constitutional Republic. "A Constitutional Republic is a state where the officials are elected as representatives of the people, and must govern according to existing constitutional law that limits the government's power over citizens."
"A Constitutional Republic is the current form of government in the United States. However in recent years, many people have criticized the federal government for moving away from a Constitutional Republic, as defined by the Constitution, and towards a pure democracy". Ron Paul (this one was for you, Markus).
We are not the government, resident, we vote for people who best represent our personal values, to RUN the government, according and adhering to the Constitution.
I understand how and why you are attempting to make this argument, but it does not represent how our government actually works and/or the role the people have in said government.
6:48 pm on Saturday, January 5, 2013
Here is a better question regarding Walmart: Why is it okay with the consumers at Walmart that three of the Walton family members are three of the richest people in this country yet their workers are paid so poorly that most are part of the 47% that don't pay any income taxes?
Yes, it's capitalism, but if the consumers would get wise they would see that saving 50 cents, or even two dollars on something is hurting not only the workers, but the country (in regards to income taxes), nothing will change. Saving the almighty buck is what is driving people to Walmart and until consumers are willing to take a stand, the Waltons will get richer and the workers, although grateful to have a job, will continue to be paid so poorly that they don't have to pay income tax and will continue to be a drain on the government through handouts (that most need to survive).
Who benefits here and who is on the losing end? Markus is right in saying that the market corrects itself here, but CONSUMERS need to make the change, not the government.
Gary Doan
12:32 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013
Walmart does not have a monopoly, Target and many others compete with them. The labor monopoly is out to get them and they have the government monopoly at their side. Anyone can compete with Walmart, but you can not get most government contracts if you are not unionized. If you go against them, they will regulate you out of business or intimidate you with their union foot soldiers, like they are doing to Walmart and other free market companies. Unions claim China is the problem, but try and buy clothes, electronics or just about any consumer products that are not made in Asia. They won the business, in a free market, even with our government trying to protect unions, with tariffs, duties, regulations and protests. All of which the consumer pays for at the cash register and in taxes.
Joyce Denn
7:08 pm on Saturday, January 5, 2013
I don't have the time to go back and see who posted what so I can directly answer each claim, so I'll address just a few together.
Government regulation stifles competition? Really? There were no monopolies before the federal antitrust laws were enacted? If not, then why do you suppose those laws were needed?
As for no one being 'forced' to shop at Walmart, well, yes, in a sense no one is forced, but when Walmart undercuts all the other local businesses, forcing them to shut down, you can 'choose' to shop elsewhere but you won't have many nearby options. In some less populated areas, Walmart is the only option for many miles. Moreover, Walmart does more than drive out smaller local businesses, creating a virtual monopoly for itself; it also creates a monopsony. That is, as the largest and often the sole purchaser of manufactured goods, it can set the wholesale prices, effectively putting some suppliers out of business as well, making overseas suppliers the only ones available.
Then, of course, there is the fact that taxpayers subsidize the billions of dollars the Walton family members get in income; by paying many of their employees so little that they qualify for food stamps, MA and the EITC, the owners of Walmart are able to take in a lot more in profit at taxpayer expense. Nice work if you can get it...
9:13 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013
It's more than just a little ironic that Joyce rails on a company that provides low priced products to consumers through smart business practices with zero coercion, labeling them monopolistic, while fully supporting the biggest monopoly known to man that operates by total coercion, the Federal Government.
It doesn't take an Austrian Economist to know that antitrust laws were enacted and exist to expand government power and provide nifty ways for the politicians to help their cronies "compete" against companies that supposedly had/have a corner on the market. Businesses corner markets all the time, but it's always only temporary. The market makes sure of that, only when allowed to work of course. Unfortunately, we haven't seen much in the way of a true free market for the last century due to government intervention.
We could eliminate corporate income taxes to make US companies more competitive with the rest of the world. That would give Walmart less incentive to go to China for their goods. Here's another good idea. Let's make it a little harder for Walmart to pay low wages by increasing the threshold for collecting all those government benefits that Joyce is so fond of.
We used to laud innovation when it came to better ways to distribute products and services. There is always going to be casualties in the free market. Ask the guy who used to work at the typewriter factory. Walmart has only benefited consumers and made a profit. Exactly what they should do.
Al Anderson
3:24 pm on Monday, January 7, 2013
The left believes that business exists to pay taxes (which are passed on to the consuming public) or to provide union jobs.
Imagine if we held high standards of our federal/state/local/school government entities like leftists believe businesses should be
Leslie Bowar
10:38 am on Sunday, January 6, 2013
Family Law REFORM. Courts are hurting many MN families, and it does not belong there for the most part. Families are our country's backbone! Really does need reform. I have seen so much destruction. Given the opportunity, I will do my part and present and submit many ideas that would work for families.
7:21 am on Monday, January 7, 2013
I think Minnesota should take a serious look at doing something (if even possible) about THIS:
And this is just Dakota county's sheriffs. If you want a reality check, go ahead and enable January through December. Also keep in mind the peak was several years ago.
9:07 am on Monday, January 7, 2013
I'm not really sure, but perhaps modify the state laws regarding deficiency judgments... either make it easier for the banks to pursue it or on the flip side make it more difficult for an owner to walk away from a property (e.g. suffer greater legal or financial ramifications). While I'm quite aware of the rampant predatory lending that most likely caused this epidemic, I'm also quite aware of owners who are financially sound and then "strategically defaulting" on their properties... those who can very well afford the mortgage but choose not for whatever reasons. I have a hunch that this has occurred in my neighborhood, and THEIR actions reflect on the value of MY property.
My house is so underwater right now, I can't even qualify for a refinance. And the mortgage is owned by Lehman Bros, so I don't qualify for HARP, either. The more my neighbors foreclose, the more my house value tanks.
I dunno. My two cents.
10:11 am on Monday, January 7, 2013
What I find interesting is the "strategic defaults" that you referred to. I see properties listed for sale gutted of cabinets, appliances, garage doors, etc. These people stop paying their mortgage, live in their house for a year or two until the sheriff finally comes and kicks them out and then strip the house and walk away with no consequences!? Whatever happened to the concept of contract law?
The banks are also strategically foreclosing so as to not flood the market with distressed properties. It's ironic that the government is attempting to re-inflate the housing bubble. It's classic. The government does exactly what caused the problem in an attempt to fix the problem.
Sorry to hear you're upside down. You can place the blame squarely on the federal government.
Jim Flaherty
5:19 pm on Monday, January 7, 2013
What is going to happen when or if the housing market rebounds? There have been no foreclosures around my house and my value has gone down by 35 to 40% in the last 6 years. On the other hand I still pay more in taxes now (real dollars) than ever. If the housing prices rebound by half my taxes will go up a few thousand dollars. How stupid was I not to refinance every other year and live off of the money. I could walk away with cash in my pocket and stuck it to the MAN. Or I could have done just what I did and pay down my balance and live in my house instead of for my house. I bought my house as a place to live not and not as an investment. There are way too many people acting like the banks made them buy a house they could not afford. Then the banks held a gun to their heads and made them borrow more money against the house to buy a new car and a new boat then a new truck to pull the 4 wheelers and so on. People need to stop blaming others for their over spending. What do we all work for the federal government and can just spend, spend, spend.
Rebecca Grant
2:44 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
I think it is a bad sign for our future when you have citizens who don't believe in self-government, who don't believe in or trust their own elected officials, who don't appreciate the fact that they, individual citizens, really have all the power in their hands to make changes to their own government...but would rather hand over all their power to the bankers on Wall Street and Corporate interests who knock on the doors of our elected officials every day and make themselves heard. These business executives and Wall Street fund managers who make millions every year off of average people are quickly becoming the aristocracy....our new monarchs/dictators in this country. They don't want to pay their fair share, they are slowly pushing through legislation to weight the system in their favor, and to reduce the amount of regulations which protect civilians from their greed. There is a laziness on the part of U.S. citizens who listen to propaganda and media, those who are only interested in high ratings to attract more sponsors. No one wants to do any real research into the issues and be in constant contact with their representatives to voice their opinions. We have not done enough as citizens to control campaign finance, and as a result, our politicians have to spend several hours a day and weekends fundraising...they don't have time to read the details of the bills they are being asked to pass. It is WE who are pathetic and lazy, and don't appreciate what we have in our hands.
10:21 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
"I think it is a bad sign for our future when you have citizens who don't believe in self-government,"
"It is WE who are pathetic and lazy, and don't appreciate what we have in our hands."
If you're talking about the 47% I wholeheartedly agree. The producers who fund this system that banksters, corporations, unions and private individuals have found they can vote themselves benefits from at the expense of their fellow citizens would probably resent being lumped into that category. The government has in essence codified immorality (stealing) in tax law.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~ John Adams
"A democracy is always temporary in nature;
it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover
that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates
who promise the most benefits from the public treasury,
with the result that every democracy will finally collapse
due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship" ~ Alexander Tytler 1787
Gary Doan
11:06 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Government is not the answer its the problem. We have all been programmed to believe the government can solve our problems and take care of us. Capitalism is not a bad thing, it is basic commerce and has been around since the dawn of time. It is the basis of every successful society. The problem arises when the government starts picking winners and losers, not the free market. Businesses are forced to play along and some take advantage of government to win, by using money to buy politicians. People and companies are held accountable, but religions, government and even unions are not, because of the belief they are doing good for the masses, whether they are no not. Big government, is a requirement of Marxism and Marxism is basically a religion, because it ignores facts and relies on beliefs, that can't be questioned. Success should based on accomplishment, personal or corporate and can not be guaranteed by government. Every individual should be responsible and accountable. If companies treat their employees badly, the employees should leave and if companies make a bad product, they will be put out of business, by companies who make better products. This is fair and creates balance, government creates neither fairness or balance.
Rebecca Grant
12:32 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Markus.....I am not talking about the 47%, with whom you believe are lazy and just want government handouts....I don't think our veterans or our elderly are lazy people who just want handouts. I believe elderly people paid into our entitlement programs and deserve to receive the benefits of their investment. I believe our veterans who were drafted or volunteered to defend our country with their lives did so under the assumption that they would receive benefits in return. They aren't looking for a handout....they just want what they were promised. I don't know of a Democrat or a liberal who doesn't believe in creating or investing in an entitlement program without finding a way to pay for it. Conservatives have always tagged liberals as the "tax and spend" party.....well, yes....if you want to spend government money, you need to produce the revenue to offset the spending. And the cheapest way to do it is to spread the cost out so everyone has skin in the game. Keep in mind that it has rarely been Democrats who have run up the national debt. Republicans like to attribute all the current deficit spending and increase in the national debt as something Obama and the Democrats CHOSE to do, willingly. They did not. It was Bush policies that created the mess we are in, and Republicans have done everything possible to try to thwart efforts to turn it all around. They know better. They choose to operate this way. Medicare, Social Security are what people seem to want.
1:00 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
So who exactly is "pathetic and lazy" then? Those who work hard, invest and save, only to have the fruits of their labor confiscated and distributed to those who didn't earn it?
Regarding the elderly, yes, they should get what's been promised to them. However, the elderly expecting a payout on what they paid in should have paid attention to history. Governments are woefully inept at predicting and planning for the future. It was predicted back in the 1960's that Social Security and Medicare were unsustainable but people apathetically continued to pay into a defunct system with some sort of irrational blind faith that the government would fix the problem and they would get theirs.
I have been planning to NOT get Social Security or Medicare since I've been in my twenties. I have lived frugally, paid off my house, and saved my money (only to have it earn .15% interest because of federal monetary policy). The government confiscates a large portion of my income at the point of a gun and I get virtually no benefit. What I pay into Social Security funds those currently receiving benefits. I will likely see no benefits. However, I wasn't so ignorant as to expect the federal government to keep its promises and I have a contingency plan.
If you expect the government to take care of you, I hope you have low expectations. I have no expectations they will ever do what they say.
Gary Doan
12:52 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Rebecca Grant- People pay for Medicare and Social Security, but some never collect a dime, because they don't live long enough to collect. Government regulation and mismanagement of the money collected is the problem. You are right that veteran's and the elderly are not freeloaders. You blame Republicans and specifically Bush, but you fail to mention that Congress actually spends our money, not the President, who should only have veto power. The Democrats controlled Congress and determined spending, not Bush. Clinton gets the benefit of having spending restrained by a conservative Congress, which helped lead to economic growth. Government is the pinnacle of inefficiency, because they are not held accountable, like free enterprise is.
1:13 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Medicaid, Medicare, VA, dozens of state/local funded health agencies and now oblama care....all seperate programs...all soaking those of us that work...
you would think they could all be merged into one.
But who am i to suggest something as silly as that...
Jim Flaherty
1:48 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
This would be called socialized health care and is what I think Obama wants in the future.
7:25 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
I am ALMOST for it...jsut get rid of the duplicate friggin systems we have!!!! we dont need a dozen agencies doing the SAME thing!!! too much overhead!!!
---that and ANY .gov program is doomed to massive overruns and mismanagement.

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12-5A FOOTBALL PREVIEW: Stallions looking to join fellow MISD team atop standings
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Published: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 3:45 PM CDT
North Mesquite watched from afar during its bye week as Mesquite and Horn posted impressive victories in their respective 12-5A openers to rise to the top of the district standings.
Now, rested and ready, the Stallions are looking to make their own claim as a contender when they open district play against Tyler Lee on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Mesquite Memorial Stadium.
North Mesquite was the lone 12-5A team to receive a bye that split the non-district and district portions of the season, and they are spent that time learning from a 1-3 start.
"We corrected mistakes and got healthy, that was the main thing," North Mesquite head coach Mike Robinson said. "Our main focus was on ourselves, because we had some opportunities to win some of those games and we weren't able to. We wanted to fix those and look forward, not back."
The Stallions have two of the top rushers in the district in Ta'Varius Luke and Corey Hunt. Luke, a threat to break a big play both running and in punt returns, is averaging 8.8 yards per carry, netting 466 yards and four touchdowns on only 53 carries.
Hunt has been more of a between-the-tackles grinder, churning out 336 yards and five scores on 75 carries.
With those numbers, North Mesquite can expect opponents do focus on slowing down the ground game and making them beat them through the air. First-year starter Cody Williams has only attempted 12 passes per game, but did throw a pair of late touchdowns in the last contest against South Garland two weeks ago.
"We have a young team so we've been trying to bring them along slowly; we didn't want to put too much on the kid's plates too early and it has forced us to be more one-dimensional than we would like," Robinson said. "But it is something we've been working on and we need to be much better going in district."
The good news for the Stallions is that even as the offense has been trying to find its identity, they have had opportunities to win every week.
That is a large credit to the defense. Demarcus Easter, Thomas Oberg and Tavoris Smith each have two interceptions to lead the unit, which is allowing 27 points per game, but it playing much better than that stat.
"The defense has been outstanding," Robinson said. "We've given up some big plays, but a lot of these guys were playing sub-varsity a year ago, so they are still learning. They are a good, young, scrappy group with a couple of seniors who have been tremendous as on-field coaches."
Tyler Lee has been trying to find itself through the first half of the season. The Red Raiders fell to 1-4 overall and 0-1 last week with a 49-24 blowout loss against Horn.
Tyler Lee has run a couple of different offenses behind a couple of different quarterbacks in Raleigh Porter and Jordan Richardson.
The bright spot for the Red Raider offense has been in the running game. LaQuintas Wallace has been a standout for three years, while LeTerrance Simmons had a big game last week, although much of it came after the outcome was decided.
The Tyler Lee defense had kept teams close the two prior weeks but that was not the case against Horn, which rolled up more 543 yards, including more than 350 on the ground.
North Mesquite and Tyler Lee were the two teams that did not make the playoffs in the six-team 11-5A a year ago.
The Stallions have designs on changing that fortune this season, and they know they can take a big step forward on Friday.
"The last four years, we have started 0-1. We have played DeSoto, and we have played tough, but we've still been 0-1," Robinson said. "This (bye) fell well for us, we feel like we'll have fresh legs and I think it is imperative that we start off 1-0. We need to approach every district game like it is a playoff game. We feel like this is a game we should win and we are going to do everything we can, leave no stone unturned, to start off right."
The Skeeters lived up to all expectations in an opening-week showdown with power Longview, as they overwhelmed the Lobos in a 33-7 victory.
There is no time to rest, though, as the next "must-see" game will take place on Friday when Mesquite travels to face Rockwall-Heath (4-1, 1-0), whose only loss came when starting quarterback Chase Schultz was knocked out in a 24-21 setback to Richland.
The Skeeter offense has put up some eye-opening numbers, but the defense has been rock-solid. Last week, they held Longview to just 150 yards and recovered five fumbles.
The Rockwall-Heath defense is coming off a strong performance, as well, as it held rival Rockwall to 258 yards and forced three turnovers in last week's 45-12 victory.
Both those units should get big tests between a pair of well-balanced, prolific offenses.
Mesquite quarterback Alex Cooper continues to shred opposing secondaries. Cooper has completed 73 percent of his passes (101-of-143) for 1,412 yards and 13 touchdowns compared with only one interception.
Rockwall-Heath will counter with Schultz, who despite missing a game-and-a-half, has thrown for 746 yards and nine scores.
The Skeeters boast the district's two most productive receivers in Rashard Higgins and Dameon Gamblin. Higgins has caught 31 passes for 571 yards, an average of better than 18 yards per catch, for five touchdowns, while Gamblin has 26 catches and four scores.
The Hawks counter with Shyon Montlagh, who has nine touchdowns among his 25 receptions.
Both teams also have workhorse running backs with the Skeeters' Junior Session (57-410) and Rockwall-Heath's Rico Henderson (55-400).
If the game is close as expected, Mesquite feels it has an ace in the hole in kicker Marco Rodriguez, who kicked four field goals against Longview and has seven on the season.
After consecutive close losses, Horn decided it had no time for any late drama in its 12-5A opener last Friday as it rolled over Tyler Lee in a 49-24 victory.
The Jaguars have one of the top quarterbacks in the area in Destri White (83-128, 881 yds.) and although he did throw two touchdown passes last week, the offense dominated on the ground.
Horn amassed 363 yards in all, with Jay'lyn Lynch accounting for 120 and Treyvon Marsh adding 87 and a pair of scores. Marsh has 473 yards and leads the district in attempts (95) and touchdowns (nine).
The Jaguars will try to improve to 2-0 in 12-5A play on Friday when they take on Rockwall (1-4, 0-1) at 7:30 p.m. at E.H. Hanby Stadium.
The Yellow Jackets got run over by their crosstown rivals last week in a 45-12 loss to Rockwall-Heath.
Rockwall has a potential young star in sophomore Chris Warren. The son of former NFL player Chris Warren, the Yellow Jacket ball carrier had more than 200 yards and six touchdown in a win against Rowlett and has 491 yards on the season.
Dylan Campman has thrown for 546 yards but has more interceptions than touchdowns. Zach Berryman will also be a player to keep an eye on, having rushed for 281 yards and caught 15 passes for 246 yards.
The biggest disparity might be on the defensive side of the ball. While Rockwall gave up more than 400 yards last week, Horn has the second-best defense in the district, giving up only 275 yards per game.
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The Sprintcar Racing Association of Victoria have sold out all seat for the 2012-2013 Presentation that is to be held in Geelong on the 25th of May, the speed that the tickets sold at has surprised the SRA committee and exceeded their expectations. The night has proved to be very popular since moving to the Geelong Mercure venue that has been very well attended by the teams and sponsors and the early bookings is very please for yet another big night.
Sunday May 5, 2013
Pestka takes Victory in Sprintcar Gold Cup
Daniel Pestka took the victory in last nights SRA 360 Sprintcar Gold Cup at Western Speedway Hamilton, from the last season's winner Darren Hickman and Paul Solomon in a race that had highs and lows for a few of the main contenders.
Monday April 29, 2013
A Tough Field for SRA 360 Sprintcar Gold Cup at Hamilton
Western Speedway Hamilton will present the annual 360 Sprintcar Gold this Saturday night the 4th of May with a very tough field of competitors nominated for the event. Defending Gold Cup winner Darren Hickman will be back looking for another win but when you add into the field the likes of Victoria 360 Sprintcar Champion Matthew Reed, South Australia's Daniel Pestka who won the 360 event at Murray Bridge two weeks ago, three times Australia 360 Champion Ryan Jones and last season Victorian Champ Chris Solomon you know this is going to be a tough night of racing.
Wednesday April 24, 2013
The SRA of Victoria release 2013-2014 Season Race Dates
The Sprintcar Racing Association of Victoria is pleased to release the tentative 2013-2014 Sprintcar racing dates after a recent venue operators meeting. With a few changes all indications are that the new racing season will be another big season for not only the competitors but the spectators as well. While the SRA is pleased to release these race dates the SRA is still finalizing a few events.
Monday April 15, 2013
Mollenoyux takes Eureka Round Reed takes Eureka Crown
Darren Mollenoyux took the win in last nights Eureka Garages and Sheds Sprintcar Series Grand Final at Premier Speedway Warrnambool but it was not enough to retain the Series Crown with Matthew Reed finishing in sixth place to give him the 2012-2013 Eureka Garages and Sheds Sprintcar Series Title by ninety two points and his seventh Series Title.
Tuesday April 9, 2013
The SRA 360 Sprintcar Gold Cup to be Rescheduled
The SRA 360 Sprintcar Gold Cup that was planned for Western Speedway Hamilton this Saturday night has been rescheduled to May the 4th due to three other venues within one and half hours drive of Western speedway running on the same night. It was felt that this change was in the best interest of not only Western Speedway but for the competitors and the spectators with so much racing on in the area.
Tuesday April 9, 2013
The Eureka Sprintcar Series Grand Final heads to Premier Speedway
The rescheduled Eureka Garages and Sheds Sprintcar Series Grand Final heads to Premier Speedway Warrnambool this coming Sunday afternoon the 14th of April for the battle of the Eureka Series Championship between defending Series Champion Darren Mollenoyux and current Series points leader Matthew Reed but forty four other drivers nominated want a slice of the action as well.
Wednesday March 13, 2013
Who will be crowned the Eureka Garages and Sheds Series Champion
Premier Speedway will be hosting the Eureka Garages and Sheds Sprintcar Series Grand Final this Saturday night that will be something Special to who ever takes the Title, to be crowned the Eureka Garages and Sheds Series Champion this years will carry a little more prestige with it, This season is Eureka Garages Sheds tenth season as the naming rights sponsor which is a outstanding contribution to not only the SRA Eureka Series but to Speedway in this country.
Monday March 11, 2013
Murcott Wins the Penultimate Eureka Series Round at Avalon
David Murcott took a convincing win in round eleven of the Eureka Garages and Sheds Sprintcar Series at Avalon Raceway last night on a near perfect race track from defending Eureka Series Champion Darren Mollenoyux and visiting American driver Geoff Ensign.
Sunday March 10, 2013
Eureka Series Points Leaders have no change after Simpson round
The top three drivers going into round ten of the Eureka Garages and Sheds Sprintcar Series at Simpson Speedway last night maintain there point positions with Matthew Reed taking the win from Darren Mollenoyux and Brett Milburn leaving the Series still wide open heading into tonight's penultimate round of the Series at Avalon Raceway.
Tuesday March 5, 2013
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The Eureka Garages and Sheds Sprintcar Series heads into the long weekend with two rounds of the Series paying $5000 to win each night, Saturday night the action is a Simpson Speedway followed the next night, Sunday night at Avalon Raceway. With the Eureka Series Championship still an open affair between five drivers and the extra money and valuable points all guns will be blazing looking for the Gold and Glory.
Sunday March 3, 2013
Pestka Makes the Quick trip to a Eureka Series Win
Daniel Pestka's late decision to make the trip to Western Speedway Hamilton for round nine of the Eureka Garages and Sheds Sprintcar Series after the long trip home from Western Australia earlier in the week paid off by taking a very well deserved feature win in the Eureka Series last night.
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The Eureka Garages and Sheds Sprintcar Series heads to Western Speedway Hamilton for round nine of the Series this Saturday night, with an early start of 5.PM for the race meeting. A top field of competitors will be on hand in the battle for the Series Points chase and the feature win. Matthew Reed heads into this round as the Series points leader ahead of the defending Eureka Series Champion Darren Mollenoyux and Brett Milburn who is keeping in touch with these two drivers in the points chase.
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Tewis de Bruyn will start at flyhalf when the Free State Cheetahs tackle the Golden Lions in Bloemfontein this weekend.
Head coach Naka Drotske has relegated Sias Ebersohn to the bench, and has decided to go with De Bruyn – a specialist scrumhalf – at pivot. Ebersohn has been out of favour at the Bloemfontein union for most of the season.
This is one of the three changes to the Cheetahs' starting line-up.
The other two are tweaks to the pack, as No 8 Hendro Scholtz and lock Francois Uys replace Davon Raubenheimer and Andries Ferreira respectively.
Free State Cheetahs – 15 Hennie Daniller, 14 Nico Scheepers, 13 Robert Ebersohn (c), 12 Andries Strauss, 11 Raymond Rhule, 10 Tewis du Bruyn, 9 Sarel Pretorius, 8 Hendro Scholtz, 7 Lappies Labuschagne, 6 Heinrich Brussow, 5 Izak van der Westhuizen, 4 Francois Uys, 3 Marcel van der Merwe, 2 Hercu Liebenberg, 1 Schalk van der Merwe.
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Obama's Commerce Secretary Nominee Calls for Carbon Tax
Should energy consumers pay extra taxes to fund government-mandated and subsidized renewable energy technologies? "Absolutely yes," says John Bryson, President Obama's nominee for Commerce Secretary. He made the remark at a meeting of the Commonwealth Club of California in 2009 and went on to extol the virtues of hidden rates in California, a state encumbered with some of the nation's highest electricity and unemployment rates.
Democrats Work to Expand Natural-gas Drilling Regulations
Democrats on Capitol Hill are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to redefine "diesel fuel" so it can expand regulations in natural-gas drilling. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce claims the measure is necessary to "protect human health" from fuels used in hydraulic fracturing, a process that injects high-pressure fluids and sand into shale formations deep beneath the Earth's surface to tap natural-gas reserves.
Nixing Nuclear Threatens Bayer's Future in Germany
Rising energy prices in Germany are forcing the pharmaceutical and chemical conglomerate Bayer to threaten a move to China. The culprit is Germany's nuclear energy exit bill, passed last month in reaction to Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. The bill orders a nuclear phase-out by 2022. Meanwhile, China plans to build 36 new nuclear power plants during the next decade.
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Drug stores across the United States are rapidly selling out of potassium iodide pills as people attempt to arm themselves against a U.N.-reported "radioactive plume" drifting across the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima reactor in Japan. Yet government officials and health experts alike describe this reaction as hysterical, says USA Today. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reported to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 17, explaining, "Given the thousands of miles between Japan and the United States, Hawaii, Alaska, the U.S. territories and the West Coast, we are not expected to experience any harmful levels of radioactivity."
Japanese Nuclear Reactor Faces Media Meltdown
Major media outlets report Japan is facing a nuclear disaster after last Friday's earthquake and tsunami damaged its Fukushima power plant in the town of Okuma. "Japan's nuclear situation nearing severity of Chernobyl," shrieks a CNN headline on Tuesday. Reuters warns, "Greed in the nuclear industry and corporate influence over the U.N. watchdog for atomic energy may doom Japan to a spreading nuclear disaster." Yet government officials and press releases from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) insist the situation is under control and poses no significant threat to public health.
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Controversy over rising demands for "clean energy" and costs associated with it has made finding "alternative energy sources" a priority on Capitol Hill. The New American sat down with an expert in power-generation technology to discuss why nuclear is the safest, most efficient answer to the so-called "energy crisis."
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Last month, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) unveiled their "American Power Act," custom-tailored to President Obama's plans to set up quotas for industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with total allowable emissions reduced over time. Better known as cap and trade, the bill is an updated version of S. 1733, companion legislation to the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill, H.R. 2454. Kerry's official home page brags that the new bill "puts America back in control of our own power generation, starts to clean up the carbon pollution that threatens our climate stability, and puts us on the path to a new, cleaner and more prosperous economy for the 21st Century."
Obama's Boring Plan: Throw a Wrench in Offshore Drilling
President Obama is opening limited areas on the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and Alaska to offshore drilling in a supposed effort to help end the nation's dependence on foreign oil. So why aren't drilling proponents excited about it? It seems it amounts to more of a slap in the face than a positive step forward.
Obama Pledges Nuclear Power Loan Guarantees
President Obama has promised up to $8.33 billion in loan guarantees for construction of new nuclear reactors in Georgia. A White House press release said this is the "first U.S. nuclear power plan to break ground in nearly three decades."
Self-Proclaimed Climate Change Convert Accused of Deception
Two authors of a new study hailed to end the climate change debate once and for all are at odds over what the report actually does prove. Climatologist Judith Curry (left) accuses her colleague and scientific director Richard Muller of another Climategate trick to "hide the decline." Curry and Muller belong to a team of researchers at the University of California known as the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. While Muller claims their research shows global warming of nearly 1°C since 1950, Curry told The Mail on Sunday, "There is no scientific basis for saying that warming hasn't stopped. To say that there is detracts from the credibility of the data."


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Buffalo (WBEN) -- It's time to move on.
That's what Joel Daniels, the lead attorney for Dr. James Corasanti, told reporters on Thursday following his client's sentencing in Erie County Court.
"It's time to heal, and it's time to move on, and that means the community, the media, and hopefully the Rice family as well," Daniels said, adding that he no plans to appeal.
The Rice family is also involved in a civil case against Dr. Corasanti, who was sentenced to up to a year in the Erie County jail following his conviction on a misdemeanor DWI charge following the accident that killed Alexandria "Alix" Rice on July 8, 2011.
Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita said he was only a little surprised that Daniels declined to his right appeal during Thursday's court session.
"First of all, they're the one who asked for the lesser included offense [misdemeanor DWI] that he got convicted on, so that's the first thing you start with," Sedita said.
Plus, Sedita figures that Corasanti will just serve his time and will likely look to move away from the community when his jail term is completed.
As she deals with the loss of her daughter, Tammy Schueler, says she's working with a group to build a skatepark to honor Alix's name and so she "can be remembered properly."
"That's my project. That is what I am working on. That is what I, as Alix's mother, vow to make sure will happen," Schueler told reporters in a brief session following the sentencing.
Schueler says she's heard from people she's never met before in relation to the skatepark project. Schueler also says if any member of the public wants to find out more about the project -- go this website:
www.alixrice.com, which will redirect you the site.


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Is O.J. Simpson innocent of murder after all? An explosive new documentary suggests that he is.
In the film--"My Brother the Serial Killer"--set to air Wednesday on the Discovery network, Clay Rogers, the brother of convicted serial killer Glen Rogers, claims his brother murdered Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown and her lover, Ron Goldman--the pair Simpson was accused--and controversially acquitted--of slaying in 1995.
Glen Rogers was arrested in November 1995--a month after Simpson was found not guilty--in Kentucky "after leading police on a high-speed chase in a car that belonged to a Florida woman believed to be the third victim in a vicious, cross-country killing spree that began in Van Nuys," Calif., seven weeks before. He was convicted and sentenced to death in both California and Florida, and is currently sitting on death row in the Sunshine State, awaiting execution.
According to Clay Rogers, Glen bragged to him about killing more than 70 people. (Glen later said the claim was a joke.)
And Clay says Glen told him he had been "partying" with Nicole Brown prior to her June 12, 1994 killing.
According to the documentary, Simpson knew Glen--who was working as a house painter near Brown's Brentwood home at the time of the murders--and had paid him to steal a pair of $20,000 earrings he had given her. According to Clay, Glen boasted he was going "take her down," and that O.J. allegedly told Glen to kill "the bitch" if necessary.
The documentary culls new details from interviews with police and family members appears to rely on a pair of books about Rogers: Clifford Linedecker's "Smooth Operator" and Joyce Spizer's "Cross Country Killer." (Glen Rogers, though, does not appear himself, nor does Simpson.)
After the murders of Brown and Goldman, Glen embarked on his cross-country killing spree. Clay turned his brother in after discovering the decomposed corpse of Glen's 73-year-old former roommate at the family's cabin.
"I wasn't turning in my brother," Clay Rogers said. "I was turning in a serial killer."
Following his conviction, Glen, Clay says, admitted to the Goldman-Brown Simpson slayings in interviews from prison.
But Fred Goldman, the father of Ronald Goldman and a constant figure throughout Simpsons' trials, isn't buying it.
"O.J. Simpson murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman," Fred Goldman said in a statement Monday. "The criminal trial showed overwhelming and monumental evidence that OJ Simpson was the killer. There was no contrary evidence other than guess, innuendo, and rumor. The fact of the acquittal at the hands of the jury will never wash away this murder from the hands of OJ Simpson, no matter how many Glen Rogers pop up on the media radar screen."
In 1997, a jury in Simpson's civil trial found him liable in the death of Goldman and battery of Nicole Brown Simpson.
In 2006, a book by Simpson--"If I Did It"--was set to be published by HarperCollins' Regan Books, but the "hypothetical confessional" was subsequently canceled following a public outcry.
In 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, charged with armed robbery and kidnapping. In 2008, he was found guilty and sentenced to 33 years in prison in Nevada, where he is currently serving his sentence.


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High school news, features and notes
- Norwayne's Kaleb Harris commits to Cincinnati for football
- Mount Union adds four local student-athletes
- High school notebook: St. V-M basketball player VJ King helps U.S. U16 team to gold medal
- VJ King earns gold medal with USA U-16 men's basketball team
- Lake's Chaese Vaudrin signs with Geneva
- Perry's Stefano Millin pledges to KSU for football
- WRA student nabs lacrosse honor
- Aurora athlete selects Mount Union for tennis
- Hoban tennis players set to play at Mount Union
- Mount Union football gains Ryan Ross, a OSU transfer & Hoban graduate
- Manchester's Richie Ashley commits to Heidelberg for football
- High school football: OHSAA approves seventh division; several schools drop into lower divisions
- Hudson Junior Invitational: Stow senior Ian Holt takes charge, leads by 6 strokes
- High school baseball: Team Summit tops Team Akron in all-star game
- Hudson Junior Invitational: Kent Roosevelt's Kory Nielsen tackles first major tournament; Stow's Ian Holt leads boys with opening 69
- High school all-star softball: Field's Kerrie Trautman takes one for the team, then scores winning run
- High school notebook: Canal Park to host all-star baseball game Wednesday
- Canal Park set to host all-star baseball game Wednesday
- Hoban baseball players decide on college futures
- Hudson athletes make college decisions
Firestone set to field co-ed golf team
Firestone High School athletic director Brian Fuller confirmed Friday that the Falcons will not have a girls golf team.
"I got a call from our coach [Scott Westphal] and he told me the numbers were down and we would not be able to field a team," Fuller said. "He told me they only had one returning golfer [junior Brooke Morgan] with a decent amount of experience, and then some new players."
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Twinsburg's Timm to play baseball at Wright State
Michael Timm, a recent Twinsburg High School graduate, signed with Wright State University to continue his academic and baseball careers on scholarship.
"He is an exceptional baseball player, a great student, and a very fine young man," Twinsburg coach Donald R. Jones said. "Michael's best baseball is still ahead of him. We are very proud of him here at Twinsburg High School and are looking for even greater accomplishments from him in the future."
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Wadsworth wrestler commits to Ohio State
Wadsworth High School senior Nick Tavanello will continue his academic and wrestling careers next year on scholarship at Ohio State University after giving an oral commitment.
Tavanello wrestled at 215 pounds the past three years, winning a Division I individual state title as a sophomore and junior and helping Wadsworth win a team state title as a sophomore.
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Medina volleyball star commits to UAB
Medina High School senior Ally Peters has orally committed to continue her academic and volleyball careers on scholarship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Peters, a 6-foot-1 middle-hitter, compiled a Medina County-record 37 kills against Solon on Sept. 30.
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Maxworthy to coach Buckeye wrestlers
Buckeye High School named Tim Maxworthy its new wrestling coach.
Maxworthy, 26, a 2003 Buckeye graduate, takes over for Phil Gregor.
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Hartline, Torrence and Travis sign NFL contracts
Three more Stark County products are getting a chance to show their abilities in an NFL training camp.
Quarterback Mike Hartline, defensive back Devon Torrence and tight end Ryan Travis have signed to get the opportunity to play professionally.
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Tallmadge's Tucker Linder is Kent State bound
Tallmadge High School senior right-handed pitcher Tucker Linder is staying close to home.
Linder orally committed Tuesday to continue his baseball and academic careers at Kent State University. His decision is not shocking considering the respect and admiration he has for KSU head coach Scott Stricklin and associate head coach-pitching coach Mike Birkbeck.
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Canton McKinley's Joe Morgan signs with the New Orleans Saints
The NFL lockout is over and Joe Morgan is ready to play some football.
Morgan, 23, signed a contract Tuesday with the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent and is overjoyed at the opportunity that awaits him.
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Massillon's Kempt reportedly adds West Virginia offer
Massillon junior quarterback Kyle Kempt has reportedly added an offer from West Virginia, according to ScoutingOhio.com.
Kempt, who is 6 feet 5 and 195 pounds, also has offers from Toledo and Tennessee.
Hoban's Lewis Commits to Tennessee
Ohio.com and the Akron Beacon Journal have learned that Hoban defensive end LaTroy Lewis gave the University of Tennessee a verbal commitment to play for the Volunteers as a member of the class of 2012.
The Vols have been very active in Northeast Ohio, recently offering Copley running back Aregeros Turner this week.
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Akron reportedly offers Michigan lineman Drake Miller
Sturgis (Mich.) senior offensive lineman/defensive lineman Drake Miller has reportedly added an offer from Akron, according to Scout.com.
Miller, who is 6 feet 6 and 275 pounds, also has offers from Ball State and Bowling Green, according to Scout.com.
Tallmadge Blue Devils Holding Collective Breath
The Tallmadge Blue Devils are on alert as one of their primary offensive weapons, senior running back, Tyrin Williams will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery by the end of the week
Williams didn't participate in any of team's camp this week and is expected to undergo surgery before the end of the week.
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Firestone Four To Attend Ellet and Play Football
According to Larry Sullivan, one of the four young men involved, the four Firestone players who transferred to Buchtel High School in the hopes of playing for coach Ricky Powers will attend Ellet High School and play for the Ellet Orangmen.
Sullivan, along with Timote Anderson, DeDonte Cheatham, Dierre Smith became embroiled in a controversy when they tried to transfer and were declared ineligible.
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Fairfield's James Turner to make unofficial visit at UA
Fairfield High School senior linebacker/safety James Turner will take an unofficial visit to the University of Akron on Thursday, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Turner, who is 5 feet 11 and 205 pounds, was offered by the Zips on June 20. He is one of the top players in the 2012 class in the Cincinnati area for this upcoming season.
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Aregeros Turner of Copley reportedly get Tennessee offer
Copley junior running back Aregeros Turner has reportedly added an offer from Tennessee, according to ScoutingOhio.com.
Turner, who is 5 feet 10 and 180 pounds, is one of the state's top players in the 2013 class. He also has an offer from Illinois, according to ScoutingOhio.com.
Football: Taking in 7-on-7 Football This Week - Buchtel
For fans of high school football, this is the beginning of the best time of the year.
I started by taking in 7-on-7s Tuesday night at Buchtel High School where the Griffins went through passing scrimmages (no contact) with East High School, Warrensville Heights, John F. Kennedy and John Adams from Cleveland.
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Marlington's Alden Hill reportedly commit to Tennessee
Marlington senior running back Alden Hill has reportedly made a verbal commitment to play at Tennessee, according to several online published reports, including ScoutingOhio.com.
Hill, who is 6 feet 2 and 225 pounds, also had offers from Boston College, Pittsburgh, Kent State, Virginia, Northwestern, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Bowling Green, Ball State and several others, according to ScoutingOhio.com.
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Akron basketball recruit Gary Akbar drops commitment
According to the Dayton Daily News, University of Akron basketball recruit Gary Akbar has rescinded his commitment to play for the Zips.
The newspaper reports that Akbar committed to Akron last week, but changed his mind Tuesday.
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Hoban pitcher to play for Akron
Hoban left-handed pitcher Matt Gebacz, a 2011 graduate, has reportedly committed to play baseball at the University of Akron, according to SportsInk.com.
Gebacz recently switched his commitment from Niagara to Akron, according to the SportsInk website. He helped the Knights reach the Division II state championship game last season, according to the site.
Akron offers Glenville athlete Aykee Henderson
Cleveland Glenville senior running back/linebacker Aykee Henderson has reportedly been offered by Akron, according to ScoutingOhio.com.
Henderson, who is 5 feet 10 and 190 pounds, also has offers from Bowling Green and Toledo.
Zips after defensive end with size
The University of Akron has reportedly offered Midview defensive end Arlington McClinton, according to ScoutingOhio.com.
McClinton, who is 6 feet 6 and 230 pounds, also has an offer from Toledo.
Tennessee offers Massillon's Kempt
Massillon junior quarterback Kyle Kempt has reportedly added an offer from Tennessee, according to ScoutingOhio.com.
Kempt, who is 6 feet 5 and 195 pounds, also has an offer from Toledo.
Payne set to transfer to Huntington Prep for basketball
Evan Payne confirmed that he has decided to leave Walsh Jesuit and transfer to Huntington Prep in West Virginia for his senior year.
Payne, a 6-foot-1 guard, averaged about 25 points per game for a Warriors basketball team that won a Division II district title at Stow and reached the regional tournament at Canton.
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Archbishop Hoban names O'Neil boys track and field coach
Archbishop Hoban recently named assistant coach Tom O'Neil as its boys track and field coach.
O'Neil guided North from 1994 to 2010, and was City Series Track and Field Coach of the Year nine times — 1995, '96, '99, 2000, '03, '05 and '07-09.
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Ross named athletics director at Woodridge
Former Cuyahoga Falls football coach Don Ross has been named athletics director and assistant principal at Woodridge High School.
In 14 seasons as coach, Ross compiled a record of 77-74.
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Applegarth resigns as Cuyahoga Falls softball coach
Kim Applegarth has resigned as softball coach at Cuyahoga Falls High School.
"Both my parents have some medical issues and it just felt like the right time to retire. I have no regrets," Applegarth said.
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Wojcik out as Firestone boys basketball coach
Joe Wojcik is out as the Firestone High School boys basketball coach after three seasons.
Akron Superintendent David W. James confirmed Monday after a board meeting that Firestone is searching for a new boys varsity basketball coach.
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Eight area lacrosse players named Regional All-Americans
Eight area boys' lacrosse players have been named Regional All-Americans, according to U.S. Lacrosse.
The players were named for the North Coast section of Ohio.
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Wednesday recruiting notebook: Hudson's Gedeon gets Tennessee offer
- Hudson junior linebacker Ben Gedeon has reportedly added an offer from Tennessee, according to ScoutingOhio.com. Gedeon, who is 6 feet 2 and 220 pounds, is one of the state's top players in the 2013 class. He also reportedly has offers from Michigan and Penn State.
- Several area football players from the 2012 class have received recent scholarship offers, according to ScoutingOhio.com.
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Buchtel DB Commits to Maize and Blue
Buchtel Griffins defensive back Jarrod Wilson has verbally committed to play for the Michigan Wolverines in the fall of 2012, according to AkronNewsNow.
The defensive standout was one of the key reasons Buchtel went so far in the state playoffs.
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Kent State adds another area WR
Aurora senior wide receiver Anthony Melchiori has reportedly made a verbal commitment to play football at Kent State, according to ScoutingOhio.com. He is 5 feet 11 and 185 pounds.
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Minerva wide receiver going to Kent State
Minerva senior wide receiver Kyle Crum has verbally committed to Kent State, according to ScoutingOhio.com.
Crum, who is 6 feet 5 and 210 pounds, also had an offer from Louisville.
Kent State after Bishop Fenwick QB
The Kent State football program has offered a scholarship to Bishop Fenwick quarterback Austin Gearing, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Gearing, who is 6 feet 5 and 205 pounds, is one of the top players in Southwest Ohio in the 2012 class. Gearing also has offers from Cincinnati, Miami (Ohio) and Toledo.
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McKinley could name college assistant head basketball coach
Canton McKinley reportedly could name Central Michigan assistant Keith Noftz as its next head basketball coach on Thursday, according to the Canton Repository.
The publication reports Noftz would have to be approved the Board of Education at its meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday at Timken High School.
Hoban DE Narrows His College Choices
With teammate and fellow defensive end Greg McMullen having announced his decision for college, the other prize recruit, LaTroy Lewis, is left to make his decision.
Ohio State recruited both players, but neither will attend school there. Call it the Tressel effect, but McMullen chose Nebraska and Lewis told the Beacon Journal that he's narrowed his choices to Tennessee and Notre Dame.
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With Duke commitment, Walsh's Ross Martin realizes dream
As we mentioned on the Varsity Letters blog recently, Walsh Jesuit senior kicker Ross Martin has verbally committed to play at Duke.
Walsh coach Gerry Rardin said Martin committed to Duke on the way home from Florida.
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Wednesday recruiting update: Two commit to Kent State
- Madison High School strong safety Jason O'Bryan has reportedly made a verbal commitment to play at Kent State, according to ScoutingOhio.com.
O'Bryan is 6 feet 3 and 195 pounds.
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How far would you go to stand up for the truth? Ibsen's tale of corruption and courage is brought to life by Richard Jones.
Banned from performing in their own country, Belarus Free Theatre serve up food, music, dance, Shakespeare and true stories from inmates and executioners.
A glittering introduction to theatre for 3 to 5 year-olds and their families combining movement, live music and captivating imagery to create a dreamlike world made of light.
Joe Wright (Anna Karenina, Atonement) directs Olivier Award winner Chiwetel Ejiofor in this gripping retelling of a nation's turbulent first year of freedom.
Following two sell-out runs, Ibsen's classic transfers to the Duke of York's for twelve weeks this summer.
Secret terror cells, political conspiracy, police bungling... This is London, 1896. Theatre O adapt Joseph Conrad's classic tale for the stage.
Sex, murder and suicide collide in this radical reworking of the classic opera, transported to 1950s New Orleans.
Screams echo through corridors. A forest echoes with the sound of gunfire. At Claire's choir, one of the singers is missing. A new play by David Greig.
Kander and Ebb's exhilarating, dazzling and provocative musical receives its UK premiere, once again directed by Susan Stroman, 5-time Tony Award-winning director and choreographer of The Producers.


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