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The former New York Jets employee who allegedly received inappropriate photos and phone messages from Brett Favre said in an interview that aired Tuesday that she has never met the quarterback, isn't a "gold-digger" and hasn't financially benefited from the scandal.
"I've never met him. We've never met," Jenn Sterger told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in her first public comments on the saga, adding that the closest she has been to Favre was when they passed each other in the tunnels at the Meadowlands. "There was never an introduction."
Part of the interview aired Tuesday on "Good Morning America," and other parts will be shown Tuesday night on "Nightline" and Wednesday morning on "GMA."
"I haven't made a dime off anything in this whole situation," Sterger said. "Not from the pictures. Not from Favre. I never wanted to sue anyone. That was never an intention of mine. I'm not a gold-digger. The only way I wanted to make my money this whole time was to just have a job."
Sterger said Favre was relentless in his pursuit of her.
"He was like that guy at the bar that just could not get the hint," she said.
"I didn't want anything to do with it. That's the thing," she said. "I didn't want anything to do with it in 2008, I (didn't) want anything to do with it in 2010. I still don't want anything to do with it now. The only reason I feel like I have to give this interview is ... for me. For my family. This has nothing to do with Brett Favre. It doesn't. I just want people to know me. And to know that I'm not a gold-digger. And I'm not a home-wrecker."
In December, the NFL concluded its investigation of Favre by fining him $50,000 for failing to cooperate with the process. The NFL said Commissioner Roger Goodell couldn't conclude Favre violated the league's personal-conduct policy based on the evidence available. Investigators were trying to determine if Favre sent inappropriate messages and below-the-belt photos to Sterger in 2008, when both worked for the Jets.
Sterger spoke with NFL officials during the investigation but has kept a low profile since. Her last on-air job with Versus network's show, "The Daily Line", disappeared in October after the show was canceled because of low ratings.
"You know, I was trying to go to work. Do my job," Sterger told ABC. "But how are you supposed to report on the news when you are the news? It was tough. It was embarrassing. It was humiliating. All I wanted to do was go to work. Do my job. That's all I wanted."
Sterger said she doesn't know how Favre got her phone number.
"I was approached one day at the beginning of the preseason games, by a man wearing a Jets badge, employee badge, who asked me, 'How would you feel if Brett Favre asked for your phone number? What would you say?'" Sterger said. "And I just looked at him, my usual smart-ass self, and I said, 'I'd say I like my job an awful lot. And I've been told I look remarkably like his wife.'"
Sterger said she initially didn't know who was reaching out to her.
"Whenever I would reply, it was more to try to figure out who I was interacting with," she said. "It was the same number, always. The texts, the pictures. The voicemails. There was no actual, 'Hey, Jenn. It's Brett.' "
It didn't take long to figure it out, however.
"It was all context clues ... They would always give me the pieces of the puzzle," Sterger said. "Forty years old. Gray hair. New to the team. That only fits a few guys on the team ... No, only one guy on the team. I always noticed that he was looking at me in the tunnel. I just had that gut feeling. I really did."
Favre spent one season with the Jets in 2008. In January, the longtime Green Bay Packers quarterback filed his retirement papers with the NFL after playing the past two seasons of his 20-year career with the Minnesota Vikings.
Sterger said she consulted several unnamed people for advice.
"And every single one of them gave me the exact same answer. They said, 'Jenn, do you like your job? Well, if you like your job, and you want to keep it, I'd suggest you just be quiet. Do your job,' " she said.
She kept doing her job, and kept putting off Favre, she said.
"It's staving him off," Sterger said. "It's 'I'm busy. I'll talk to you later. I'm busy. I'm busy.' "
She said the situation reached a point of no return once she started receiving what she said were nude photos of Favre. At that point, she said she realized "just how serious it is and that this isn't going to go away."
When asked how the messages and photos could get leaked to the website Deadspin.com nearly two years later, Sterger grew emotional and said, "I shared them with individuals when I was asking for advice" and that she felt betrayed.
"I didn't want it to get out. I had dealt with it the best way I knew how. And it had gone away. And I had moved on," she said. "I was already employed somewhere else. I had a great job. And it was over. The story comes out, and it's humiliating. It's like someone punches you in the stomach."
Favre has admitted leaving voicemails but said he didn't send photos of himself.
Does Sterger believe the quarterback owes her an apology?
"I don't really care if he gives me one (apology) or not. I just want to move on," she said. "I really didn't do anything wrong. If I owe anyone an apology, I feel bad for my parents, I'm sorry they had to go through this. I'm sorry the families involved had to go through this. Those are the only ones who have to be apologized to.
"It's never been my intention to ever play a victim in this whole thing."
Sterger is trying to rebuild her career. She split with former manager Phil Reese and has signed as a client with high-powered New York PR firm Susan Blond, Inc., according to agency spokesman Perry Krasnove.
"I just want my life back," Sterger said. "That's all I'm asking for. Just to be able to go back to work. To be able to go back to enjoying what I do. Entertaining people. Making people laugh. The hardest part about this whole thing is that I am a ridiculous person. I love to entertain people, and to say crazy things. And I'm pretty unapologetic about it."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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UNC-Asheville 31 - 85 Kentucky
UNC Asheville-Kentucky PreviewMar 19, 2016 - 12:07 AM (AP) - Kentucky believes it is in a good place entering the NCAA Tournament, beyond the obvious advantage of playing at home.
The early season departures of four Wildcats loomed over the program, followed by a 2-5 midseason slump before they recovered to win eight in a row down the stretch. They reached the Southeastern Conference Tournament semifinals, where South Carolina dealt them a 30-point loss.
The Wildcats (23-7) still received a third straight No. 3 seed for Saturday's first-round game against No. 14 seed UNC Asheville (26-6).
If they hold serve at Memorial Coliseum, a bigger potential reward awaits Kentucky a few blocks away at Rupp Arena, home of the men's program. The Wildcats could get two more games in their quest to reach the Final Four - an achievable goal for a team that has been able to find a way to get it done despite the turmoil.
''All that is why we're a team right now,'' said senior guard Janee Thompson. ''We had a lot to go through. We hit some walls, we hit some adversity, but we're peaking at the right time. We're ready to play.''
Thompson's 12.6 points per game rank second on the team to junior guard Makayla Epps (16.5) - the duo comprises Kentucky's main scoring threats. Several newcomers, including forward Evelyn Akhator and guards Maci Morris and Taylor Murray have become significant contributors.
Kentucky has won 14 of 16 at home and is a formidable challenge for UNC Asheville, winners of five straight including the Big South Conference Tournament.
''We've just got to make sure we take advantage of it,'' Wildcats coach Matthew Mitchell said of his team's home-court prowess. ''I'm in a situation where I have to keep them focused on Asheville.''
That's because the Bulldogs, who are in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2007, boast a few strengths as well.
Junior guard and Big South Player of the Year Chatori Major (13.9 points) leads the Bulldogs. Tianna Knuckles is next at 12.3 per contest while forward KJ Weaver (6.5) is their top rebounder.
And having improved from 9-22 last season to win more games than the previous three combined, UNC Asheville coach Brenda Mock Kirkpatrick believes her team is eager for more success.
''There have been a lot of challenges, but that makes the success that much more rewarding,'' she said.
Kentucky won the only two previous meetings, which both took place in 1995.
The winner moves on to Sunday to face the winner of the matchup between No. 6 seed Oklahoma and 11th-seeded Purdue.
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|Porter B, Horlick M, Zabar, S., Altshuler L.
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|Hanley K, Gillespie C, Naidu M, Nudelman I, Adams J, Lipkin M, Zabar, S.
|"Chaos and clinical competence: assessing the influence of the "busy-ness" of the clinic on resident physicians' core clinical competence: using unannounced standardized patients".
|Gillespie C, Nudelman I, Hanley K, Shaker-Brown A, Wagner E, Naidu M, Altshuler L, Kalet A, Zabar, S..
|A Standardized Patient Program Quality Improvement Project: Using a SP Database to Assess the Representativeness of our SP Community, Monitor the Quality of Portrayal and Rating, and Collaborate Effectively Across SP Programs.
|Zabar, S., Lee H, Drda V, Anderson, M, Mack A, Crowe R, Altshuler L, Gillespie C.
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|Kalet, A. Yavner, S., Song, H, Szyld, D, Ng, G., Pusic, MV, Ng, G, Nick, M., Ruppel, H., Riles, T.
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|Blending Digital Learning and Standardized Patient-Based Assessment to Enhance Core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) and Ensure Readiness for Internship.
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|MPH1 Questions About Questions: A Formative Study Assessing Medical Student Competency in Evidence-Based Medicine Practice
|Joey Nicholson, MLIS MPH1; Dorice Vieira, MLIS MA MPH1; Jeffrey Williams, MLIS1; Steve Yavner2; Adina Kalet, MD
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|'A simulated night on call (NOC): Assessing the entrustment of near graduating medical students from multiple perspectives'.
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|'Communication skills and value-based medicine: Understanding residents' variation in care using unannounced standardized patient visit'.
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|'What does communication skills performance in a high-stakes 3rd year osce tell us about the transition to residency?'
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|'A standardized patient program quality improvement project: Using a SP database to understand our SP community, monitor quality, and collaborate effectively across SP programs'.
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|Riles T, Kalet A.
|Night-OnCall: A simulation program to assess competency in the AAMCs entrustable professional activities (EPAs)
|Buckvar-Keltz L, Kalet A, Riles T.
|Developing and Implementing a Program for Teaching and Assessing EPAs.
|Riles T, Kalet A.
|Interactive Case-Based Learning Improves Resident Knowledge and Confidence in Reproductive Endocrinology and infertility.
|K. Goldman, K. Uquillas, M. Nachtigall, M. Fino, A. Winkel, V. Lerner.
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|Validation of a vaginal hysterectomy task trainer using standardized assessment tools for every level of experience.
|Dominique Malacarne, MD, Clarissa Lam, Kimberly Ferrante, MD, Demian Szyld, MD, Veronica Lerner, MD.
|LEEP and Colposcopy Simulation for OB/GYN Residency.
|Lorraine Toner, MD, Samantha Dunham, MD, Veronica Lerner, MD.
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|Ob-Gyn Clerkship Preceptor Meetings: Is there a Role for Simulation?
|Kristen Uquillas, MD, Demian Szyld, MD, Ed.M., Colleen Gillespie, PhD, Karen Duncan, MD, Abigail Winkel, MD, Sondra Zabar, MD, Veronica Lerner, MD.
|Measuring the Impact of an In-situ Simulation Program on the Culture of Safety on a Labor and Delivery Unit.
|Kristen Uquillas, MD, Komal Bajaj, MD, Kelly Fitzgerald, CNM and Veronica Lerner, MD.
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|The Integrated Professional Skills Assessment: A Clearer Picture of Resident Competency?
|Teaching Vaginal Hysterectomy Using Vaginal Hysterectomy Task Trainer.
|Veronica Lerner, MD, Dominique Malacarne, MD, Clarissa Lam, MS.
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By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, July 10, 2007; 12:34 PM
To the extent that Karl Rove still has a reputation as a political genius, he owes it to his signature move: Faced with potential political disaster, Rove never plays defense, he doesn't change course, he attacks the problem head on -- and tries to co-opt the opposition's position.
So it should come as no great surprise that, confronted with a tide of anti-war sentiment and a growing number of defecting Republican lawmakers, the White House is changing not its policy on Iraq, but its message.
Enter the new White House talking point: You want out? We want out, too!
It's a message that has the potential to deflate the growing public frenzy against President Bush's Iraq policy, except for one small problem: It's just talk.
The public wants the bulk of U.S. troops out of Iraq in less than a year. End of story. But the Bush policy is that a drawdown will not take place until certain conditions are met. And the evidence is mounting that even with all the extra troops sent to Iraq since January, those conditions are nowhere near being met. In fact, the kind of Iraq the administration envisions seems more unattainable than ever.
Unless Bush revises his goals, puts forth definitive deadlines or timetables to which he can be held accountable, and stops pretending that he can predict the future in Iraq, then this new talk from the White House should be dismissed as just that.The Coverage
Peter Baker and Karen DeYoung write in The Washington Post: "President Bush, facing a growing Republican revolt against his Iraq policy, has rejected calls to change course but will launch a campaign emphasizing his intent to draw down U.S. forces next year and move toward a more limited mission if security conditions improve, senior officials said yesterday. . . .
"Bush plans to lay out what an aide called 'his vision for the post-surge' starting in Cleveland today to assure the nation that he, too, wants to begin bringing troops home eventually.
"The White House devised the political strategy after days of intense internal discussions about how to respond to several prominent Republican senators who have broken with Bush's war policy recently. Bush decided against heeding their proposal to begin redeploying U.S. troops as early as this summer, but he and his team concluded that he needed to shift his message to show that he shares the goals of his increasingly restless Republican caucus and the broader public."
Baker and DeYoung write that "the president has mapped out a best-case scenario for Iraq on Jan. 20, 2009, that would still see considerable numbers of U.S. troops on the ground, but in a different role. If events work out as Bush hopes, aides said, U.S. forces by then will have sharply reduced their mission, pulling out of sectarian combat and focusing instead on fighting al-Qaeda, guarding Iraq's borders and supporting Iraqi troops."
But counting on Bush's hopes for Iraq has been a fool's game thus far. And Baker and DeYoung write that "key Republican senators have indicated that they would not be satisfied with a change in political spin over a real change in strategy."Panic Mode
Other reports describe a White House in a bit of tizzy.
Martha Raddatz reports: "ABC News has been told the White House is in 'panic mode' over the recent defections of Republican senators on the president's stay-the-course policy in Iraq.
"Senior Bush administration officials are deep in discussion about how to find a compromise that will 'appease Democrats and keep wobbly Republicans onboard,' a senior White House official told ABC News.
"The official said the White House 'is in panic mode,' despite Monday's on-the-record briefing by White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, who played down any concern over the recent spate of GOP senators who have spoken out publicly in support of changing course in Iraq.
"The Republican defections are seen as 'a crack in the dike,' according to the senior White House official, and National Security Adviser Steven Hadley is most concerned."
Thomas M. DeFrank and Richard Sisk write in the New York Daily News: "'I don't know what they're up to,' said a top Bush adviser, 'but they're up to something. They're cooking something new up.'"
CNN's Suzanne Malveaux tells Anderson Cooper that some White House aides are worried. "The big concern, many are telling me, is that this White House fears it's going to lose its ability to manage the war. As one official put it, nobody wants to lose control to Congress.
"The other thing that they are concerned about inside of the White House is that . . . nobody has figured out what this alternative policy would be to the present one. . . .
"COOPER: So, they are, behind the scenes, discussing some sort of Plan B?
"MALVEAUX: They are trying to come up with a Plan B. What people are saying is that they don't have a Plan B at this time. And what they are trying to do is, they are desperately trying to buy time here."
Eugene Robinson writes in his Washington Post opinion column: "Allowing himself to be forced to retreat from Iraq would ruin George W. Bush's fantasy of someday being seen as a latter-day Churchill. . . .
"I don't see how anyone can realistically expect Bush to change course at this late date. It wouldn't be 'resolute,' in his understanding of the word, to acknowledge that he made a terrible mistake. What he can do instead is play for time and hope for some sort of deus ex machina that miraculously saves the day."On the Hill
Meanwhile, Shailagh Murray and Jonathan Weisman write in The Washington Post: "In a new series of votes on Iraq expected to begin today, Democrats will attempt to break the united Republican front that has sustained Bush and make their toughest push yet to enact firm dates for bringing the war to an end. . . .
"'We have an opportunity in the next couple of weeks to truly change our Iraq strategy,' said Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.). 'For those Senate Republicans who are saying the right things on Iraq, they must put their words into action by voting with us to change course and responsibly end this war.'"Benchmark Watch
Anne Flaherty and Anne Gearan write for the Associated Press: "A progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reforms, speeding up the Bush administration's reckoning on what to do next, a U.S. official said Monday."
CNN's Michael Ware explains to Anderson Cooper why none of the benchmarks is being met.
"MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Because, to be honest, it's not really in the interests of the main power players here in Iraq to meet them.
"These are American agendas, American benchmarks. These aren't the benchmarks that the factions within the Iraqi government really care about. What they care about is getting their hands on their own security forces and setting them loose as they see fit.
"And, don't forget, a lot of these benchmarks strike at the deepest, most heartfelt divisions politically and in terms of the sectarian divide that exist in this country. None of them are easy fixes. And in none of them is it really in the interests of those who hold power to meet them. They just want to keep their power -- Anderson.
"COOPER: So, essentially, you're saying they don't see themselves as part of a larger Iraq. They don't see themselves as a ruling of -- all the people of Iraq, as we think about a democracy. They still see themselves as factions, and they are trying to hold on to turf and power.
"WARE: Yes, absolutely. I mean, the concept of a national unity government, as the Bush administration calls this thing that they describe as the Iraqi government, is laughed at, even by some of the senior members of this government itself."
Investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss, writing on NiemanWatchdog.org (where I serve as deputy editor), raises similar points about a tragic misunderstanding of Iraqi domestic politics, with U.S. supporting all the wrong factions. Furthermore, he asks: "Can any government or political party that has American support succeed in Iraq? Or is American support effectively the kiss of death for an Iraqi politician? Corrupt and venal Iraqi leaders, squatting in bunkers in the Green Zone, might welcome American support and American money -- but do they have any 'street cred' whatsoever?"Be Very Afraid
The other pincer in Rove's signature political approach is to spread fear. So it should come as no great surprise that administration mouthpieces are stepping up the scary rhetoric.
John F. Burns and Alissa J. Rubin write in the New York Times: "As the Senate prepares to begin a new debate this week on proposals for a withdrawal from Iraq, the United States ambassador and the Iraqi foreign minister are warning that the departure of American troops could lead to sharply increased violence, the deaths of thousands and a regional conflict that could draw in Iraq's neighbors. . . .
"Mr. Crocker's remarks echoed warnings that have been made for months by President Bush and other administration officials. But Mr. Crocker, a career diplomat, seemed eager to emphasize that the report he and Gen. David H. Petraeus are to make in September -- an event Mr. Bush and his war critics have presented as a watershed moment -- would represent their professional judgment, unburdened by any reflex to back administration policy. . . .
"General Petraeus, too, has warned in recent months that while there is a high price for staying in Iraq, including mounting American casualties, the price for leaving could be higher than many war critics have acknowledged. Some opponents of the war have argued the contrary, saying that keeping American troops in Iraq provokes much of the violence and that withdrawing could force Iraq's feuding politicians into burying their sectarian differences."
Crocker also endorsed the new administration rhetoric I described in Monday's column, Bush Tries Moving the Goalposts.
Burns and Rubin write: "The ambassador also suggested what is likely to be another core element of the approach that he and General Petraeus will take to the September report: that the so-called benchmarks for Iraqi government performance set by Congress in a defense authorization bill this spring may not be the best way of assessing whether the United States has a partner in the Baghdad government that warrants continued American military backing. 'The longer I'm here, the more I'm persuaded that Iraq cannot be analyzed by these kind of discrete benchmarks,' he said."Executive Privilege
David Johnston and Neil A. Lewis write in the New York Times: "President Bush invoked a broad interpretation of executive privilege on Monday in his confrontation with Congress over the dismissal of federal prosecutors, refusing to comply with subpoenas for documents and blocking testimony from former White House aides."
Richard B. Schmitt writes in the Los Angeles Times: "President Bush's decision to defy congressional demands for documents and testimony in the U.S. attorneys case leaves Democrats with a difficult choice of lowering their sights in the investigation or facing a long and uncertain court fight. . . .
"The apparent unwillingness of the White House to engage in the sort of political compromise that has marked such subpoena battles in the past has put the tug-of-war in uncertain terrain. Congress is left having to decide whether to move forward with rancorous contempt proceedings against administration officials or accept a limited offer of cooperation that White House Counsel Fred F. Fielding renewed Monday in a letter to congressional leaders. . . .
"'Whether out of arrogance or principled conviction, the current administration has seemed all but oblivious to the political downside of insisting on executive-branch secrecy,' said Peter M. Shane, an expert on executive privilege at the Ohio State law school. 'Given that no one in the White House is seeking reelection, it is unclear whether they will compromise, short of receiving some extraordinary pressure from congressional Republicans who may be more concerned than the president with appearing to represent the 'party of cover-up.' ' . . .
"'I think Congress has a very legitimate right to see whether there is corruption and illegality within the Justice Department,' said Louis Fisher, an expert on executive privilege at the Library of Congress. 'Are White House people involved in appointment and removal matters that should be done by Justice Department people?'
"Fisher was alluding to testimony that some Justice officials considered politics in filling positions at the department, a possible violation of federal law.
"'Once the White House people go away from purely giving confidential advice and start to administer or run a department, then I think they begin to lose their immunity,' Fisher said. 'Otherwise, Congress can never get to the bottom of anything.'"
Peter Baker and Dan Eggen write in The Washington Post: "Mark J. Rozell, a George Mason University political scientist and author of 'Executive Privilege,' said the Bush administration's claim in this case 'goes way beyond the proper scope of executive privilege' because it is not limited to specific discussions and amounts to 'a blanket prohibition on former aides discussing anything at all.' . . .
"Cass R. Sunstein, a University of Chicago law professor, also said the administration's privilege claim is less persuasive if it includes communications with people outside the executive branch, as Fielding's letter indicates."
Kenneth R. Bazinet writes in the New York Daily News that the invocation of executive privilege "crippl[ed] Democratic hopes of nailing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for his role in the purge." And he quotes a senior Bush adviser saying of Gonzales: "He's limping, but he's still there and it's over."
The White House view is that the Democrats are overreaching. Or, as Evan Perez and John D. McKinnon write in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required): "For the Democratic-controlled Congress, which has multiple investigations under way into the Republican administration's firing of eight U.S. attorneys, a prolonged fight could have a clear political price. Congress's approval ratings are plummeting, it hasn't been able to pass many major bills amid divisions within the Democratic majority, and the White House is starting to portray the body as one more concerned with investigating than law making."Ace in the Hole?
When it comes to resisting Congress, does Bush have an ace in the hole?
Laurie Kellman writes for the Associated Press: "Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said the posturing was a waste of time and money and a distraction from the questions at hand: Who ordered the firings, why, and whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should continue to serve or be fired.
"Specter, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the Democrats' threat of taking the standoff to court on a contempt citation was spurious because the prosecutor who would consider it is a Bush appointee.
"'On a case like this, does anyone believe the U.S. attorney is going to bring a criminal contempt citation against anyone?' Specter said in a telephone interview. 'The U.S. attorney works for the president and it's a discretionary matter what the U.S. attorney does.'"
And then, of course, there's always the Supreme Court, which has something of a tradition of voting for Bush 5-4.Leahy's View
From Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy's lengthy response to Fielding's letter yesterday: "When we had the Attorney General testify under oath, he did not know who added U.S. attorneys to the list of those to be fired or the reasons they were added. Indeed, the bottom line of the sworn testimony from the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, the Attorney General's former Chief of Staff, the White House liaison and other senior Justice Department officials was that, while the President was not involved in the decision-making that led to the unprecedented firings of several well-performing prosecutors, they were not responsible either. Then, I ask, who did make these decisions? Was it the political operatives at the White House?
"Even this White House cannot dispute the evidence we have gathered to date showing that White House officials were heavily involved in these firings and in the Justice Department's response to congressional inquiries about them.
"The White House continues to try to have it both ways, but at the end of the day it cannot. It cannot block Congress from obtaining the relevant evidence and credibly assert that nothing improper occurred. What is the White House hiding? Was the President involved and were his earlier statements to the American people therefore misleading? Or is this simply an effort by the White House legal team to protect White House political operatives whose partisan machinations have been discovered in a new set of White House horrors?"Clemency Watch
Robert Schmidt writes for Bloomberg: "The House Judiciary Committee chairman pressed President Bush to let White House aides testify before Congress about his decision to free I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby from imprisonment in the CIA leak case.
"Representative John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, sent a letter asking the president to waive any claims of executive privilege regarding documents and testimony about the Libby case. The judiciary panel will hold a hearing [on Wednesday] on Bush's decision to commute the 2 1/2-year prison sentence imposed on Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney."
Conyers also announced the witness list for tomorrow's hearing on the Libby commutation.Probation Watch
Neil A. Lewis writes in the New York Times: "A small but confusing issue about President Bush's commutation of the prison sentence of I. Lewis Libby Jr. appeared to have been cleared up Monday.
"Both Mr. Libby's lawyers and the prosecutors filed papers saying they saw no problem in having Mr. Libby submit to two years of supervised release as a form of probation. When Mr. Bush last week wiped out a 30-month prison sentence for Mr. Libby's conviction on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, he specified that Mr. Libby would still have to serve the two years of probation to which he had been sentenced.
"Last week, after the sentence he had imposed was lifted, the judge, Reggie B. Walton of Federal District Court, said that the law did not allow for a sentence of supervised release unless the defendant had actually served time behind bars."
Is Fitzgerald still angry about the commutation? You be the judge. From his filing: "The Court sentenced the defendant to imprisonment on each of the counts, and the total sentence of imprisonment, 30 months, was at the low-end of the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range."
Clarence Page writes in his Chicago Tribune column, trying to clear up some of the "misconceptions from readers who feel entitled to their own facts about President Bush's commutation of I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's jail sentence."
Page also writes: "Fitzgerald's critics wish he had ended his investigation immediately after learning that Armitage was the source of one leak, Novak's. To me, that's like telling police who have busted a teenager for marijuana that they need not bother to find out who the kid's suppliers are."Poll Watch
Frank Newport and Joseph Carroll write for Gallup: "President George W. Bush's job approval rating is now at 29%, the new low point for his administration so far. Bush's current rating ranks in the bottom 3% of more than 1,300 Gallup presidential approval ratings since 1938. About two-thirds of Republicans continue to approve of the job Bush is doing, but his job approval rating is only 21% among independents and 7% among Democrats. Bush's job approval rating was an already low 37% as the year began, and it has dropped gradually since April. The range of job approval ratings for the entire Bush administration has been extraordinary, from 90% in September 2001 to the current 29%, a change of 61 percentage points."
Looking at the historic numbers, Newport and Carroll find that most of the "sub-30% job approval ratings were given to two presidents, Harry Truman and Richard Nixon. Jimmy Carter had one rating of 28% and several 29% ratings, and Bush's father had one rating of 29% in the summer of 1992." Bush is now "within seven percentage points of the lowest job approval rating in Gallup Poll history."
Susan Page writes in USA Today: "Opposition to the Iraq war has reached a record high, a USA Today/Gallup Poll finds, a development likely to complicate President Bush's efforts to hold together Republican support as the Senate begins debate this week on Pentagon priorities...
"More than seven in 10 favor removing nearly all U.S. troops from Iraq by April."
Other findings from the results: Two-thirds say Bush shouldn't have intervened in the Libby case. And 36 percent think there is justification to begin impeachment proceedings against Bush, compared to 62 percent who do not.
Megan Thee blogs for the New York Times: "Vice President Dick Cheney's popularity has hit an all-time low, with recent polling by The New York Times and CBS News suggesting that he has replaced Dan Quayle as the most unpopular vice president in recent history.
"Two polls taken in May and June reveal an erosion of Mr. Cheney's base of support -- seen in both his job approval rating and his favorability. Just 28 percent of those polled in June approve of the job Mr. Cheney is doing, while 59 percent disapprove -- a reading similar to that of President Bush. (In July, 1992, Dan Quayle's job approval rating reached an all-time low with 63 percent of the public disapproving of the job he was doing as vice president.)
"The highest rating for Mr. Cheney was 56 percent in August 2002. Mr. Cheney's favorability among Americans has also suffered -- it fell to 13 percent in May, from a high of 43 percent in October 2000."Halberstam's Last Thoughts
David Halberstam writes in Vanity Fair that "late in this sad, terribly diminished presidency, mired in an unwinnable war of their own making, and increasingly on the defensive about events which, to their surprise, they do not control, the president and his men have turned, with some degree of desperation, to history. . . .
"We have lately been getting so many history lessons from the White House that I have come to think of Bush, Cheney, Rice, and the late, unlamented Rumsfeld as the History Boys. They are people groping for rationales for their failed policy, and as the criticism becomes ever harsher, they cling to the idea that a true judgment will come only in the future, and history will save them."
Halberstam sets them straight.
On Vietnam, for instance, he writes that had Bush "made any serious study of our involvement there, he might have learned that the sheer ferocity of our firepower created enemies of people who were until then on the sidelines, thereby doing our enemies' recruiting for them. And still, today, our inability to concentrate such 'shock and awe' on precisely whom we would like -- causing what is now called collateral killing -- creates a growing resentment among civilians, who may decide that whatever values we bring are not in the end worth it, because we have also brought too much killing and destruction to their country. . . .
"[I]t is hard for me to believe that anyone who knew anything about Vietnam, or for that matter the Algerian war, which directly followed Indochina for the French, couldn't see that going into Iraq was, in effect, punching our fist into the largest hornet's nest in the world."Key Questions
Bush will be on hand for tomorrow morning's reopening of the White House briefing room, and rumors are that he might actually hold a news conference. (His last one was May 24.)
I've winnowed the many questions I'd love to ask to my top three:
* You said you respect the jury's conclusion that your former aide Scooter Libby lied and obstructed justice in the investigation into your own White House, what if any efforts have you made to encourage Libby to tell the truth?
* When you said you would fire anyone involved in the leak of Valerie Plame's identity, did you already know what Karl Rove and Libby had done?
* Given your record of failed predictions about Iraq, why should we put any stock in what you now say will happen if we leave?Live Online
I'll be Live Online tomorrow at 1 p.m. ET. Come join the conversation.Cartoon Watch
Pat Oliphant on Cheney's legacy; Tony Auth on the White House's shaky footing; Mike Luckovich's scary thought; and John Sherffius on executive privilege (yuck!).
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Epic News: Sixth Season of Community Possibly coming to Hulu
Deadline is reporting that a sixth season of the NBC Cult Classic Community may be coming exclusively to Hulu. All we really know at this time is that preliminary talks are happening between Community Creator and Showrunner: Dan Harmon and Execs at Hulu. Most of the time I would have been extremely sad to see a show I love as much as Community get the axe a few weeks back, but in a world where Jack Bauer and the Bluth's can return to the airwaves I never quite gave up hope for a sixth season of Community. Let's just hope a movie deal is included with that Hulu contract, if it is then we know we are in the brightest timeline.


text: Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game is an experience that can only be accomplished through the medium of tabletop games. It is a story-centric game about surviving through a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world. The survivors are all dealing with their own psychological imperatives but must still find a way to work together to fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony's morale up. Dead of Winter has players making frequent, difficult, heavily-thematic, wildly-varying decisions, that often have them deciding between what is best for the colony and what is best for themselves.


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Overnight Oats
This easy oatmeal can be made the night before or days in advance for a quick and healthy breakfast on the go. Loaded with oats, chia, and flax seed this well-balanced breakfast will get you through your workout and keep you going all day. Mix it up every day by topping with your favorite fruits and/or nuts, or add some spice.
- Rolled Oats - 6⅜ oz
- Chia Seed - 1¼ oz
- Flax Seed Meal - 7/8 oz
- Coconut Flakes (unsweetened) - 7/8 oz
- Almond Milk - 1¼ lb
- Coconut Milk - 3⅛ oz
- Maple Syrup - 2⅝ oz
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City of Bowling Green Public Works
The second phase of Smallhouse Road, which includes widening to 3 lanes from Highland Way to Ridgecrest Way as well as an 8 foot multi-use path on one side of the roadway, is complete and open to traffic. Funding for a third phase has been approved and will address capacity issues at the intersection with Scottsville Road as well as continue construction of the multi-use path from Scottsville Road to the end of phase two where it was recently terminated. Design for phase three will begin this summer.
The City's Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Paving contract that began last fall and included paving approximately 18 miles of city streets is wrapping up. City staff is currently identifying needs for the Fiscal Year 2020 contract. As always, the contract will include various roadway repairs and upgrades to numerous sidewalk handicap ramps in addition to street paving.
The design is complete for a new traffic signal at the intersection of Dishman Lane and Industrial Drive. The installation will help improve traffic congestion and safety at this location as well as address pedestrian crossing needs. Construction will begin this summer once all equipment has been ordered and delivered.
Construction is underway for improvements to and around the Downtown Fountain Square. Improvements include safety upgrades to pedestrian movement adjacent to the square as well as lighting and aesthetic improvements to sidewalks, landscape and alley ways near Downtown. Work will continue through the fall to complete other improvements nearer the square with respect to traffic flow.
The City is committed to providing a walkable community and therefore the City allocates funds to build new sidewalk in areas that show a need. Each fiscal year, the Bowling Green City Commission assigns approximately $500,000 to the City's Sidewalk Construction Program, with the purpose of identifying locations and constructing sidewalks in areas where none currently exist. Construction will begin this summer on new sidewalks on sections of Park Street, Kenton Street, Magnolia Street, North Lee Drive, Sandra Street, and Potter Avenue. Once complete, these six locations combined will add approximately 6,500 feet to the City's sidewalk network.
The Public Works Department continues to work with the City's Neighborhood & Community Services Department to provide better pedestrian connections through Census Tract 112 in the west end of Bowling Green. Some of these improvements are wrapping up along portions of: North Lee Drive, Crewdson Drive, North Sunrise Drive, Woodway Street, Cove Drive, and Old Barren River Road. This sidewalk project coincides with a Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) grant awarded to the City in conjunction with the (former) Greenways Commission. Design is underway for various improvements on the West End that focus on safe pedestrian and bicycle routes. The project(s) will provide connections between existing downtown greenway facilities, key destinations in the West End, and will ultimately improve problematic intersection crossings. Additionally, construction will begin this summer to add roughly half a mile of pedestrian paths within Pedigo Park in the West End.
The design for the Shive Lane Widening and Roundabout project is complete and the construction contract is out to bid. The goal of this project is to improve traffic and pedestrian safety by adding a center turn lane to Shive Lane between Scottsville Road and Ken Bale Boulevard. Additionally, construction of a single lane roundabout is proposed at the intersection with Ken Bale Boulevard to reduce morning and afternoon peak delays. A five foot wide sidewalk is also proposed along the north side of Shive Lane for the entire length of the project. Construction is expected to start later this summer.
With the recent success of the roundabout at University Boulevard and US 31W Bypass, City staff have evaluated locations where traffic flow could be improved with the installation of small roundabouts in residential areas at the intersections of Parkside Drive / Cove Drive, N. Sunrise Drive / Woodway Street / Cove Drive, and Crossings Boulevard / Chasefield Avenue. Given the constraints at these locations, it is anticipated these roundabouts will incorporate mountable splitter and central islands in order to accommodate buses and large trucks. Design is complete and construction is expected to begin later this summer as well.
In October 2018, the Bowling Green City Commission and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet entered into a Memorandum of Agreement for KYTC to fund, on a reimbursement basis, the design, right-of-way acquisition, and utility relocation for a portion of the originally planned Southwest Parkway and an associated connector roadway that will tie to Kobe Way in the Southcentral Kentucky Industrial Park. The major goals of this project are to promote economic development and improve traffic flow within the industrial park. American Engineers was recently awarded the design contract for this project and they are currently performing preliminary survey and design activities. Roadway design, property acquisition, and utility relocation are anticipated to take most of 2019 to complete. Construction is currently expected to begin in late 2019.


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45th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission - Day 1 Morning Session
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The Codex Alimentarius Commission is where the world comes together to create food safety and quality standards to protect everyone everywhere. At this meeting 189 Members and more than 220 observer organizations will consider 20 standards, guidelines and codes of practice for adoption. Four proposals of new work will also be discussed. When Codex texts are adopted they become part of the Codex Alimentarius, or food code, an internationally recognized collection of food safety standards, established to protect consumer health and ensure fair practices in the food trade.
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Inside: Loop Juice and how this amazing company is reducing food waste by saving the fruit and vegetable outcasts.
Did you know that almost half of fruits and vegetables that are grown around the world end up in the dumpster?
You may be thinking, it's because they've gone bad, lost nutrients or they're deemed unsafe for consumption. But, the reality is that those perfectly nutritious and healthy foods are being thrown away because they either:
- have a weird shape, color or look,
- due to issues with stock management, AND
- because they simply don't adhere to what's deemed 'normal'
Meet Loop Mission, an amazing Montreal-based company that's giving hope to all fruits and veggies by repurposing the outcasts.
How you may be wondering?
By turning them into delicious and refreshing cold-pressed juices. And that's not all, to close the loop they give all the leftover pulp that's high in fiber and nutrients to a company that turns it into fabulous dog treats.
Enough said, we are in LOVE and we just had to sit down with CEO & Co-Founder Julie Poitras-Saulnier to learn more about this amazing mission, what we can do to help reduce food waste as well as some exciting stuff to look forward to.
"Nobody likes to be rejected, not even food."
1) One of our main goals over the past couple of years has been to reduce food waste. That's why we were very excited to come across your company. And, if it were any other juice company we would have easily walked by, but as you say LOOP is so much more than a juice company, please can you tell us a little bit more LOOP's story and what inspired it?
LOOP is not a juice company, it's a circular economy company that creates value out of waste. We save fruits and vegetables that are normally rejected by the food industry and transform them into awesome cold-pressed juices. We also reuse our own waste, which is a lot of fiber, to create vegan dog treats.
The idea came 2 years ago when Frederic Monette from Courchesne Larose, a major fruits and vegetable distributor, contacted David Cote and I, looking for ways to reduce waste in their company. Every day, they threw away 16 tons of produce, a reality shared by every player in the industry. Most of these fruits and vegetables were still very good for consumption, but were discarded because of their shape, size, color or just because they did't have a long enough shelf life to survive the entire cycle of distribution that usually takes 2 to 3 weeks. So we've decided to do something about it, and we created LOOP 🙂
2) Our name says it all, at Naughty Nutrition we don't like to place restrictions on eating, we rather focus on finding the healthiest version of the foods we love and creating balance in our lifestyles. At Loop Mission, what would you say your motto is?
Our main mission is to develop partnerships with other businesses to transform trash into treasure. For our model to work, we need to connect businesses together, we can't do it on our own. Our second mission is to make quality clean label products more accessible, thanks to our business model!
3) How much food and vegetable waste is there in Canada and the world?
One third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is wasted, which amounts to 1.3 billion tons per year. For fruits and vegetables, it's even worse, with 45% of fruits and vegetables being wasted. For only apples in Canada, we throw away 1,225,000 every single day. More data on food waste here.
4) In your opinion, what can each one of us do to reduce food waste at home?
A very large part of the food that is being wasted occurs at home (almost 50% of all waste), so every consumer can really contribute to solving this issue. And it's also a way of saving a lot of money! Here are a few tips:
- Store produce properly to increase shelf life.
- Shop for groceries more often and buy only what you need.
- Be creative (replace ingredients in a recipe with what you have available).
- Eat the entire thing: there are tons of very good recipes online on how to transform carrot leaves into pesto for example.
You can get more tips on reducing food waste at home here.
5) Could you tell us a little bit more about the entire process, where do you source the fruits/vegetables and how are they processed into the delicious juice blends?
Our main partner is Courchesne Larose, a fruit and vegetable distributor. Most of our produce comes from them, but since they're also working with many farmers, we have also developed relationships with some of them. We recently started working with Sobeys to repurpose their warehouse overflow into raw protein smoothies.
6) Our favourite loop juice is the High Achiever and we also love Beach Bum. Which one is your favourite? What about your best seller?
My favorite is also the High Achiever! I'm a real beet lover and it is very beety, but it's actually not one of our best sellers. The most popular is the Morning Glory, which is our only juice that has only fruits (no veggies!). It's more of a classic: clementine, orange and strawberries. It's almost impossible not to love it. We even keep the strawberry leaves in it, as they're super good for consumption, full of benefits and another way to reduce food waste.
7) Do you have a refreshing cocktail recipe that you can share with us?
We have a lot of those! A really good one is:
- 1 ½ oz of Gin
- 2 oz of Beach Bum
- 6 oz of Kombucha
- Dash of lime Juice
- Ice
- Basil Leaves
Simply mix and enjoy!
8) Give us the scoop, are you planning to release any new products or blends? What is your ultimate goal?
We actually have many new products coming with the same closed-loop concept! 🙂
We're launching a line of sour beer made of day-old bread mixed with perfectly imperfect fruit juice. Every day in Canada, we throw away 750,000 breads, and most of it is still very good for consumption, so we've decided to brew it. Basically, bread is grains, and beer is fermented grains so it's super easy.
9) And finally, where can our readers find your juices?
Our juices are available across Canada in many health food stores, café and bakeries. In Ontario, they're also available at Longo's, Healthy Planet, Organic Garage, Fiesta Farm, Sweet Potato. For a full list of our point of sale, people can go on our website (http://loopmission.com/loop-locator/), write their postal code and find the closest store that carries our products.
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Middle Subset
The Middle Subset function returns the middle value(s) in an input data series.
When used in a formula visualization, you can specify a count of more than one, e.g, to return the 3 values found in the middle of a series.
1. Syntax
2. Input
The Middle Subset function requires the following input:
- d0 - Input data values - The set of data values for which the Middle Subset is calculated.
3. Parameters
The Middle Subset function accepts the following parameters:
- s0 - Middle Subset Count (Optional) - The number of values to be returned by the function. Default value is 1.
- Alignment (Optional) - A hierarchy placeholder to be used as the alignment axis. Specify a hierarchy to return the middle input value(s) corresponding to that hierarchy's values: e.g., MIDDLE($Measure$, 1, $Year$) will return the year in the middle of each grouping of years under another hierarchy's values such as Country. If an alignment hierarchy is not indicated, the subset is applied to the whole result.
When you use the MIDDLE function within a metric set, it can only return a single value (s0 must be 1). In order to return the middle 3 values, for example, you must use a formula visualization. This applies to the other subset functions as well.
4. Output
The Middle Subset function generates the following output:
- Middle Subset - The Middle Subset result set.


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Thursday, the 27th April 2017 was an astounding day for all SRK fans and Indians, of course, as King Khan delivered his first ever TED Talk in Vancouver, Canada.
His witty one-liners and humorous sense of speech left everyone in bits. He sure knows, how to lure the audience and entertain them, not only by his acting skills but by his oration as well. He has been a guest speaker at a lot of prestigious events before, worldwide and proved what an excellent speaker he is!
The TED Conference 2017, just added one more feather in the hat for Shah Rukh Khan and all the Indians.
In the 17-minute talk, SRK reflected on his youth, growing up in New Delhi, losing both his parents by the time he was in his twenties, and then, moving to the "sprawling metropolis of Mumbai", to follow his dreams of becoming a movie star.
Shah Rukh then spoke about the impact the Internet has made on his life, specifically his decision in his late 40s to begin using Twitter. "Everything I said took a new meaning. Everything I did, good, bad, ugly, was there for the world to comment upon and judge."
He went to talk about the time when his then 15-year-old son Aryan's fake private video was leaked online and how his family dealt with it, the dozens of products he endorses, and the 'failure' of his superhero film Ra.One. He followed it up with a quick 'lungi dance'.
But then, he offered serious advice: "I have realised that whatever moves you, whatever urges you to create, to build, whatever keeps you from failing, whatever helps you survive, is perhaps the oldest, and simplest emotion known to mankind, and that is love," he said.
TED stands for technology, entertainment, and design. The TED conference organises talks with 'thinkers' which last 18 minutes or less, in which the guests share their ideas on their field of expertise.


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All well in the shire of Day 111. Nothing very rapid today as we are waiting for the wind of a new system to kick in, so are rowing through a fairly silent,mostly waveless sea. Waiting only figuratively however, you understand; I have rowed since breakfast and will row until I have been thrice whacked in the ribs sometime tonight – whacking occurring by the oars when I fall asleep at the oars, signalling that the oars, too, wish to be put to sleep.
In 15 nauties time we shall be within the final ten degrees of the beach, leaving double figures behind. And with a beautiful set of South Easterly and even more perfect Easterly winds forecast for the next seven days, I hope to make minecemeat of the 570 miles remaining.
Happy that I have regained enough latitude to the South now to push on due West, hopefully my tracker will trace a neat, slick, flat line across your screens here on in to the beach….
From the West and best side of 68°E,
Outey Toot Toot x
Sam Coghlan – Were you not wearing your glasses when you looked at my 'superb flat line' or were you being sarcastic?! Zoom in and then you'll enjoy the knitted glory of the wiggles.
Xtina – How are those boys of yours getting on? Send them a hello for me.
Amy from Minneapolis – Get in a boat, get in a boat!
Spike – Ooh, I'm just waiting for Marcel to rebuff your creole cuisine comment….
Margot – Do you remember packing a malt loaf or a ginger cake into the boat? I have hunted high and low, but sadly to no avail.


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When your home's air conditioner goes on the fritz, you want to get the problem taken care of as soon as possible. Unfortunately, there could be hundreds of reasons why your air conditioner isn't working properly. How do you know which one is affecting you? There are a few problems that are more common, and recognizing what they are is helpful when your Service Experts Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing Expert is discussing routes for resolving the problem through air conditioning repair in North America.
Here are the top six common air conditioner problems that can cause your cooling system to break down.
Your thermostat directs your air conditioner when to start and for how long to run. If its settings are incorrect, your air conditioner may not work properly. And if the batteries have died in a programmable thermostat, you won't be able to use it at all. Follow this quick checklist to make sure your thermostat is receiving power and working properly:
Old or inefficient air filters are notorious for turning a perfectly functional and efficient air conditioner into a slow and inefficient one. In fact, dirty filters can cause lots of problems, including decreased airflow, lower indoor air quality and higher power consumption. They can also make your air conditioner work harder and stop working if the coil freezes.
You can easily avoid AC problems by regularly cleaning or replacing the air filter. How do you know if you should change your filters? If you can't remember the last time you changed them, it's almost certainly time to. But for a general rule of thumb, make sure you try to change flat filters once a month and pleated filters every three months.
Your air conditioner's coils are important components because they release heat from your home into the outdoor air. But even in the summer, ice can form on the coils. Frozen coils won't be able to manage the cooling process as easily, and in some cases enough ice can keep the AC from running entirely.
Freezing can be linked to several issues, including:
If your air conditioner has frozen, turn it off and let the coils thaw. This can take up to 24 hours, but you can speed up the process by switching settings to "fan only." This will blow warm air on the coils without going through a refrigeration cycle.
It's a good idea to check your air filter first. If you can't see light through it, replace it. The other issues, like dirty coils, a clogged drain line or refrigerant leaks, will require professional assistance.
Your air conditioning system uses refrigerant to transfer heat. When it doesn't have enough refrigerant, you might notice you're getting a lot of hot air. Here are a couple signs you're dealing with a leak:
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Your AC unit uses a condensate drain line to flush water it removes from the air. If you've skipped air conditioning maintenance, this drain can become clogged with mold and cause water to back up. If this happens, you'll notice water leaking.
Turn off your air conditioner to avoid damage and call us at 866-397-3787 for assistance.
There can be a couple of reasons why your air conditioner keeps tripping its circuit breaker. Here are some of the most common ones:
Like we mentioned earlier, check your air filter first, as that is most commonly the culprit. Any other problems will need to be addressed by an HVAC professional like Service Experts Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing.
An improper cooling cycle can also be part of the problem. Short cycling is an annoying malfunction when the air conditioner turns off before the desired temperature has reached the rest of the house. If you think your air conditioner is short cycling, listen to how long the air is running before it turns off. Your average air conditioner typically runs for 15 to 20 minutes and stays off for about the same period of time. But when it's short cycling, your cooling is switching on and off in short bursts.
This puts heavy strain on moving parts and key components like the blower motor. Short cycling or any form of irregular cooling cycles are often caused by overheating. The internal chamber gets too hot before safety components switch the AC off. This happens over and over, especially if the root cause of the overheating isn't addressed.
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Virtual Reality Goes Beyond Field Trips
By now we've all heard of virtual reality and, hopefully, have had a chance to try it out. If you're lucky, you've seen a VR headset in action in a classroom — taking children on a journey to the Taj Mahal or helping them to dissect frogs without all the mess of the real event.
Last year, experts announced that 2016 was the year that VR would take off more intensely. In fact, the market is expected to grow to a $15.9 billion industry by 2019. By 2020, analysts from leading global bank Citi anticipate the market for hardware, networks, software and content will reach $200 billion, according to a previous blog I wrote.
What does this mean for K–12 schools? VR in schools is still in its infancy stages, and districts are just starting to find places to use the technology. Right now, makerspaces and VR seem to be a good fit, as do VR and STEM classes.
In a trend piece on TrustEd, teacher and blogger Matthew Lynch pointed out that VR can help schools that don't have the funds for a number of science labs, for instance.
"Such places as Howard Hughes Medical Institute offer free use of online virtual labs that significantly support both scientific learning and critical thinking skills," says Lynch.
Google also offers a number of free VR tours of natural history museums that make a class field trip even simpler.
This is all fantastic news for educators who want to expand their students' knowledge beyond the classroom walls. But VR might be able to go even farther than that.
The Education Department is looking toward the future of VR by issuing the EdSim Challenge. What is that, exactly? According to the department, the challenge, the winners of which will be announced this summer, called for "concepts for immersive simulations that transfer academic, technical and employability skills." The site goes on to say that "successful simulations will pair the engagement of commercial games with rigorous educational content to prepare students for the 21st century workforce."
Judges are looking for new ways to deliver computer-generated virtual and augmented reality educational experiences. "The EdSim Challenge seeks next-generation education simulations that strengthen academic, technical and employability skills," the website says. "The Department is most interested in immersive and engaging simulations that include clearly defined learning goals and build diverse skill sets."
VR was exciting when it was taking us to new heights (think: the top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world at 2,722 feet). I can't wait to see it launch us into the future.
This article is part of the "Connect IT: Bridging the Gap Between Education and Technology" series. Please join the discussion on Twitter by using the #ConnectIT hashtag.


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Badrutt's Palace first opened in 1896 and has expanded countless times over the years. Located in the center of St. Moritz in the heart of the Swiss alps in the Graubünden canton of Switzerland the hotel features one hundred and fifty nine rooms and suites. The hotel is just moments from the pristine ski slopes of St. Moritz and has a world class spa with an indoor and outdoor heated swimming pool. There are several world class restaurants in the hotel including a Nobu open during the winter season and the legendary Le Bistro run by Frédéric Breuil.
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Dr Ajay Dattatray Dixit is a senior psychiatrist from Thane district. He did his psychiatry training from Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital which is one of the finest teaching institutes in Mumbai city. He is into private psychiatric consultation since the last 30 years. He has his consultation centre – Royal Consultancy, which offers outpatient psychiatric consultation for various psychiatric disorders. Dr Ajay Dixit has command over General Adult Psychiatry, Sex Therapy, Drug De-addiction therapy. Royal Consultancy is a centrally located mental health care centre and a tertiary reference centre with all psychiatric facilities under one roof, which includes Psychiatric Interview and Consultation, Electroencephalogram (E.E.G), Counseling, Yoga Therapy, Behavior, and Psychotherapy.
Dr Ajay Dixit's area of interest is 'Ketamine Infusion Therapy'. He is the pioneer in Ketamine therapy in India. At Royal consultancy, a large number of patients come for Ketamine Infusion across the country. Ketamine Infusion is one of the breakthrough treatments for various psychiatric conditions like Major Depression and other forms of depression like Drug-resistant Depression, Depression with Suicidal ideations and Postpartum Depression and Bipolar depression. It is also very effective in Obsessive-Compulsive disorder (OCD), Severe Anxiety disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), various drug- addiction, fibromyalgia and chronic pain as well. Lots of patients are benefited with Ketamine Infusion at Royal Consultancy and many of them are better without any medication. It also offers an indoor facility for admission and treatment of severely ill psychiatric patients and procedures like Ketamine Infusion, Electro-convulsive Therapy.
Dr Ajay Dixit's research activities include involvement in various drugs trials and also in Ketamine Infusion and depression study. Dr Ajay Dixit has been at the forefront of workshops on the psycho-social area. He has conducted various workshops for stress management for the Police Department and for the Traffic Police department. De-addiction campaign for school children and for the poor socio-economic sector. Personality development workshop for School and college students and for Pharmaceutical Companies. He has his Youtube channel Royal_CNS.com for stress management and preparation for examination for school and college students. He has conducted various workshops and delivered lectures for school students, parents, teachers on the topic of Sex education, Memory improvement and Personality development. He has also participated in various medical associations CME session for medical practitioners.
Dr Ajay Dixit is an active participant in various overseas and national conferences.
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Rebound Beach Volleyball
Shockwave Rebound Volleyball operates four courts for beach volleyball. All players from beginner to advanced level are welcome to play in a friendly atmosphere at Ferny Grove.
Players can join a team individually or be part of a team of friends and take part in nightly competitions. Competitions and team game times are published in advance on their website and organised in varied formats on different nights.
Where beach volleyball is generally played in an open court without nets, rebound beach volleyball introduces a twist. The ball is still in play where it hits the side nets. This makes the game quicker and easier to play. Players quickly become accustomed to the rebound effect. With each match taking around 45 mins to complete, it is suitable for males and females of all ages and fitness levels. Additionally it's a fun experience for everyone.
Team Composition beach volleyball
Teams are generally made up of four but can be played with three players and for the more experienced players, can be few as two. Uniquely we have whole families who play beach volleyball as a team in nightly competition. The game is played in beach sand hence a need for lightly fitting clothing without shoes and socks. Every match is allocated an experienced umpire to officiate so all players have to worry about is being at their game on time.
For those interested Shockwave often submits teams in tournaments held throughout Queensland. Tournaments are fun and a great way to get to know others who also love playing the game. In addition, Shockwave also offers adult and junior coaching where skills can be refined and practiced further. Players who take part in our training sessions often tell us how it has improved their game. At Shockwave we love all things beach volleyball, come and give it a free try.
Beach volleyball operates at The Grove Sports Club, Ferny Grove between the hours of 5 – 9:30pm Monday to Thursday.


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To Donus, Bishop.
Gregory to Donus, Bishop of Messana (Messene).
The ordinances both of the sacred canons and of the laws allow the utensils of the Church to be sold for the redemption of captives. And so, seeing that Faustinus, the bearer of these presents, is proved to have contracted a debt of three hundred and thirty solidi for the purpose of redeeming his daughters from the yoke of captivity, and that, thirty thereof having been repaid, it is certain that he has not sufficient means for the repayment of the remaining sum, we exhort your Fraternity by this communication that you by all means give him fifteen pounds, taking his receipt for the same, out of the silver in your hands belonging to the Meriensian Church, of which he is known to be a soldier; so that, it being sold, and the debt paid, he may be freed from the bond of his obligation. But of this also your Fraternity should be careful, that in case of the aforesaid Church having so much current coin, he should receive from it the amount above-written; but otherwise you must needs supply him for the purpose in view with the sum we have stated from the consecrated vessels. For, as it is a very serious thing to sell idly ecclesiastical utensils, so on the other hand it is wrong, under pressing necessity of this kind, for an exceedingly desolated Church to prefer its property to its captives, or to loiter in redeeming them.
Source. Translated by James Barmby. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 12. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1895.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/360207038.htm>.
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During the week before Christmas, the OPPO Support team has launched interesting event to send out blessings while providing festive offers for users that come to the Service Centers, which have attracted many users to participate in the activities enthusiastically!
From December 21 to 25, 2021, 18 OPPO Service Centers in Malaysia has organized special Xmas event. The event provided exclusive benefits, for example, up to 30% off on spare parts maintenance for specified models, lucky draw with up to 30% off on maintenance fees and up to 15% off on phone accessories.
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BUX opens up 1.2%
The Budapest Stock Exchange blue-chip BUX index opened Wednesday trade up 1.2% at 18,345.
The four blue-chip shares stood as follows at Wednesday's opening bell:
OTP Bank was up 2.2% at HUF 4,086.
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Hodgepodge of Olympic Proportion
1. What's the biggest change since your childhood in the way people think or act?
I think people are a lot more liberal...or maybe just more outspoken.
2. The Olympic Biathlon involves cross country skiing broken up with either two or four rounds of target shooting. Which part of that would stress you out more? Or would you love them both equally?
Cross country skiing. Unless I kept missing the target; then it would be the shooting.
3. February is National Canned Food Month...what is your most often purchased canned food item? What was in the last can you opened?
Cream of chicken or mushroom soup to add to recipes. Cream of chicken soup was the last canned item I opened; I used it in Crockpot Ranch Pork Chops.
4. What river (anywhere in the world) would you most like to cruise?
The Danube.
5. It's the middle of the night and you can't sleep...what do you do? Count sheep? Toss and turn? Watch television? Or do you get up and do something productive?
I say the Rosary. Puts me to sleep every time! My friend, Patty, told me that her MIL told her that when you say the Rosary and fall asleep, your Guardian Angel will finish it for you.
6. How important is keeping your cool?
I think it depends on the reason you're getting all worked up in the first place. I'm a firm believer in cutting loose if the occasion warrants it!
7. I've got white stuff on the brain so why not run with it? White lie, wave the white flag, white knuckle it, white wash a situation, or white as a sheet...which phrase could most recently apply to your own life in some way?
Wave the white flag. I'm learning to "Let go, Let God", which was the Small Town's German teacher's motto during out trip last summer. I'm trying to realize that the boys are grown men; I was the best mother I knew how to be, so what they make of themselves is up to them.
8. Insert your own random thought here.
After saying last week that I just wasn't into the Olympics this time, I was totally and completely engrossed in it over the weekend. From Emily Scott's story, to Bode Miller, it is amazing at the trials some of the athletes went through to get to Sochi. And, TJ Oshie's response when he was called a hero following the USA's win over Russia:
This boy's mama raised him right!
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I agree completely with what you wrote for your random thought...love that! We need more athletes like TJ! It is difficult to come to the realization of when your kids become adults, your job of raising them is over and the rest is up to them. However, I've made it known that it doesn't mean that I can't put in my two bits if I see the need. ;)ReplyDelete
I love that someone in the spotlight didn't feel the need to talk about himself. After I wrote about him I wanted to go back and add something to my number 1 : )ReplyDelete
I'm sure you've raised good boys!
Love your answers.ReplyDelete
Loved your random Thought. Very powerful. I also loved your white comment. Have a good week.ReplyDelete
Its Olympians like that that makes me proud to be rooting for USA! :)ReplyDelete
I always keep Cream of Mushroom and Chicken in the pantry. That is sweet about the Rosary. Yes "Let Go and Let God" is a good route to take! The Olympics have been amazing and I'm so glad I am watching them. The athletes are so awesome and their dedication to their sport is unbelievable.ReplyDelete
Oh i did forget to mention cream of mushroom! we use that all the time for chicken or scalloped potatoes!ReplyDelete
Have a great week! I think people are definitely more liberal.
That last one...what an amazing statement!ReplyDelete
I do like what that athlete said! so true too! I do like your answer about your sons; you did raise them good, now it is up to them, and I'm sure they will do great!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 19, 2014 at 10:04 PM
I love your random thought :)ReplyDelete