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Los Angeles city leaders and NBA officials rushed to Earvin "Magic" Johnson's defense Tuesday after Clippers owner Donald Sterling criticized the basketball star in a CNN interview.
Appearing at an event in South L.A., Mayor Eric Garcetti called Sterling's comments "offensive to Magic Johnson, the city (and) to the work that people do." He cited Johnson's reputation as a businessman and a basketball player.
"Magic Johnson has been a great contributor to the city," Garcetti said.
Sparking fresh controversy, Sterling appeared to disparage Johnson in an interview with CNN host Anderson Cooper that aired Monday night. While Sterling expressed admiration for Johnson, he also repeatedly brought up Johnson's HIV-positive status.
"Well, what kind of a guy goes to every city, he has sex with every girl, then he catches HIV — and is that someone we want to respect and tell our kids about?" Sterling asked, according to a transcript. "I think he should be ashamed of himself. I think he should go into the background."
The Clippers owner also questioned what the basketball star has done for children or South L.A. "Jews, when they get successful, they will help their people. And some of the African-Americans — maybe I will get in trouble again — they don't want to help anybody."
Sterling's interview with Cooper marked his first major television appearance since TMZ.com posted audio of the Clippers owners scolding a friend for posting photos of African-Americans, including Johnson, on her Instagram account and bringing African-Americans to games.
The audio prompted NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to ban Sterling for life and initiate efforts to strip his ownership of the Clippers.
While Sterling also apologized in the CNN interview, stating he wasn't a racist, his remarks on Johnson drew nationwide condemnation.
Councilman Bernard Parks, who represents parts of South L.A., called a press conference Tuesday to defend Johnson, telling reporters the icon has brought chains such as Starbucks and 24 Hour Fitness to the area as CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises (MJE), which has partnered on real-estate development projects in South L.A.
"I have seen Magic's influence throughout the city, but most particularly in my district, where he has been the ultimate partner by lending both his name and finances to the minority communities I serve," Parks said.
Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson also weighed in, saying Johnson has long "been engaged in trying to uplift the community."
Even NBA Commissioner Silver called Sterling's comments on CNN a "malicious and personal attack" and apologized to the basketball star on behalf of the NBA. He said the league is "continuing with its process to remove Mr. Sterling as expeditiously as possible."
In an interview with TMZ.com Tuesday, Johnson suggested Sterling needs help. "It's sad. We just got to pray for him," he said.

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The FBI's investigation of 14 corporations in a crackdown on improper subprime lending could expand to other companies, but the complex probes may take some time before any charges are brought, a federal law enforcement official said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI's investigation of 14 corporations in a crackdown on improper subprime lending could expand to other companies, but the complex probes may take some time before any charges are brought, a federal law enforcement official said on Wednesday.
"Like any white-collar crime investigation, these are very complicated, time-consuming investigations involving the examination of numerous records and interviews of various people. They don't happen in a short period of time," the FBI official said.
The official said criminal charges were not imminent in any of the investigations, and was unable to predict how long the investigations would take. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment when asked when charges might be announced.
FBI officials told a briefing on Tuesday the investigations covered corporations across the financial services industry, ranging from mortgage lenders and investment banks to developers and subprime lenders.
They said the investigations involved possible accounting fraud, insider trading and other violations of criminal law.
FBI spokesman Bill Carter said on Wednesday that the first investigations began early last year, that two more investigations recently were opened, and that more companies could be probed.
Carter declined to identify any of the companies under investigation. He said the FBI was working closely with the Securities and Exchange Commission in some of the investigations.
The SEC has opened about three dozen civil investigations into the subprime market collapse.
Targets of the SEC probe include Swiss bank UBS AG and U.S investment banks Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, as well as bond insurer MBIA.
The SEC, which has formed an internal subprime mortgage task force, is looking at how financial firms priced mortgage-based securities and whether they should have told investors earlier about the declining value of those securities.
Jacob Frenkel, a former SEC enforcement official and criminal prosecutor who now handles white-collar criminal matters in private practice, said the investigations would take time.
"First, the commission is not going to pull the trigger and bring a case until it is satisfied that there is a provable violation of law," Frenkel said. "The arrival on the scene of the Department of Justice could alter the timetable."
The U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, New York, and the FBI earlier launched a criminal investigation into two mortgage-related hedge funds at Bear Stearns that collapsed last year.
Carter said the FBI around the country has 34 mortgage fraud task forces and working groups that include other federal agencies and state and local law enforcement officials.
"We consider it a significant and growing crime problem," he said.
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MIAMI -- Pat Riley is again the coach of the Miami Heat, replacing Stan Van Gundy following his resignation Monday for family reasons.
Riley, whom Van Gundy succeeded on the bench shortly before the 2003-04 season, will make his debut Tuesday night when Miami opens a four-game road trip in Chicago.
"I will get back into this quickly," said Riley, the 60-year-old team president. He said he hasn't even looked at a playbook for two years.
Riley coached the team from 1995-03 after winning four titles with the Los Angeles Lakers and a stint with the New York Knicks.
Players were not available for immediate comment. The team left for Chicago on Monday, shortly before the news conference announcing the shake-up and learning of Van Gundy's decision.
Van Gundy said he resigned voluntarily.
"I made this decision for one reason and one reason only: I love my family," Van Gundy said. He said that because of travel, games and practices, he would have seen his children at home only 49 days out of 170 this season.
"That's just not enough any more for me. It's just not enough," Van Gundy said. "I mean, it's been like that for my kids' entire lives. I've got a 14-year-old daughter and it started to hit me when I started thinking about her birthday, which was last month. I've got four more years left with her. Four. And then she'll be off to college and I'm just not willing to sacrifice any more of those four more years."
Riley's eyes welled with tears as Van Gundy announced the reasons for his decision. Van Gundy said Riley has tried for weeks to persuade him to stay.
"It came down to a choice, and for me, the choice was clear," Van Gundy said.
He said he will remain in the organization, and insisted he had no desire to coach elsewhere in the NBA.
Van Gundy's job status was the subject of speculation in South Florida for months, starting when Riley -- his mentor -- said shortly after the Heat's 2005 playoff run ended that he may take a larger role in the team's day-to-day operations.
That comment, which seemed innocuous at the time, set off speculation that Riley was planning to dismiss Van Gundy and take over a team with two of the NBA's biggest stars, Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade, in his quest to bring the Heat their first title.
This year, the team was in first place but with only a 11-10 record, although without O'Neal for 18 of those games because the 12-time All-Star had a badly sprained right ankle. Rumors that Van Gundy's job may be in jeopardy continued to swirl. But Van Gundy insisted Monday his relationship with Riley has never been better.
The 46-year-old Van Gundy left with a regular-season record of 112-73. Riley has won 1,110 games in 21 seasons as a coach, plus led the "Showtime" Lakers of Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to titles in 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1988. He also coached the Knicks (1991-95).
Van Gundy was Riley's top assistant for eight seasons, getting the top job shortly before the 2003-04 campaign when Riley walked into his office unexpectedly and told him he was stepping aside.
And now, in a move perhaps not so unexpected but certainly just as sudden, Van Gundy is gone, hours after leading the Heat to an overtime win over Washington on Sunday night.
The move came nearly four years to the day after Jeff Van Gundy, Stan's younger brother, resigned as Knicks coach 19 games into the 2001-02 season. Jeff Van Gundy, now the Houston Rockets coach, said at the time he'd lost his focus and thought about quitting since that summer.
"The question I've always had for him is 'why did you go back,' " Stan Van Gundy said.
Through a Rockets' spokesman, Jeff Van Gundy declined comment Monday.
Before coming to the Heat, Van Gundy had college stints at Vermont, Castleton State, Canisius, Fordham, Massachusetts-Lowell and Wisconsin. When Riley joined the Heat, Van Gundy came with him -- in large part because his brother was under contract to the Knicks and couldn't stay on Riley's staff.
His first season as head coach didn't get off to a good start, with the Heat losing Van Gundy's first seven games. But with Wade leading a talented nucleus of young players, Miami finished that season 42-40 and as the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
That summer, Riley sent three players to Los Angeles for O'Neal -- part of three championships with the Lakers. Van Gundy coached the Heat to a second consecutive season of a 17-win improvement, getting them to 59-23 and guiding them to the Southeast Division title and to the East finals.
Riley went to Los Angeles on a recent road trip for three reasons, two being to visit a hip replacement clinic and for a meeting with city commissioners in Malibu to gain approval for a home he plans to build.
The third reason, he said, was a final pitch designed to keep the coach. But he couldn't change Van Gundy's mind.
"I have an obligation to this franchise and to Micky," Riley said, referring to team owner Micky Arison. "I am going to definitely put off my hip replacement surgery, without a doubt."
I think this is a good move for the Heat. I've got nothing against Van Gundy, but there's no comparison between him and Riley as coaches.


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Robert Downey Jr.'s superhero character, now in its second outing in "Iron Man 2," was not a well-known figure from the Marvel comic book stable.
But the roguish Tony Stark's leap to the silver screen has paid off handsomely for the company, now owned by Disney, indicating to movie executives all over town that the appetite for superheroes is healthy.
The challenge they now face, with most of the major figures already deployed onscreen – think Batman, Superman, Spiderman, The Hulk, X-Men – is how to gauge which of the thousands of less-familiar comic book super heroes from decades past have the power to duplicate the box-office bravura of this weekend's magnetic movie magnate. ("Iron Man 2" reportedly raked in $7.5 million from 12:01 a.m. Friday showings alone, and has the opening-weekend record set by "The Dark Knight" in its sights.)
To make the leap from the page to the big screen, the next big superhero must have some sort of fan base, a compelling backstory, and most important, says Stephen Fishler, CEO of Metropolis, Inc., "the ability to translate easily from a drawing into a live-action world." There are characters that live in a really great graphic, comic book world, he says, but try to put them onscreen and it will either be impossibly hard – think Aqua-Man who lives underwater – or as in the case of a character named, Galactus, who wraps himself around people, a downright silly costume for an actor to wear for an entire movie. His personal favorite is one of Marvel's earliest creations, Sub-Mariner, who unfortunately, also lives in the water.
But the upcoming studio slates suggest there is no lack of will to try: Thor, Human Torch and Nick Fury. The trend will continue as long as the genre makes money, but also, as long as the world continues to be a dangerous and chaotic place, says Greg Garrett, author of "Holy Superheroes," and "The Gospel According to Hollywood." "Superhero stories will continue to be appealing narratives," he writes in an email. "The idea that someone is watching over us is a tremendously powerful narrative, and superhero films carry the same kind of weight as religious narratives positing a controlling intelligence in the universe. Both allow us to believe that there is some sort of order in all the chaos, and that however difficult things become, someone has the power to stand against the forces of violence and evil," he adds.
Marketing plays a key role in translating comic book popularity to movie success, says Chris Anderson of The Marketing Arm. The first step is finding an interesting, appropriate, and buzz-worthy actor to play the lead. Robert Downey Jr. was well-cast as Iron Man, he says. And as movie fans (not necessarily comic book fans) began to learn more about the character and the film, the buzz grew. The smart approach to marketing lesser-known superheroes is to begin with the core-fans – these pockets of loyal, passionate comic book fans and use the various social media to build awareness, say Mr. Anderson. "If this audience is on board," he says via e-mail, "they become champions of the film and the buzz begins to build organically around the project."
"Iron Man 2" is a good example of the other ad ploys to pull out in support of an unknown hero, such as, say, Iron Fist or Black Panther, says Caleb Hill, product VP for Unicast. Not only do you stack the movie with stars, from Mr. Downey to Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, and Samuel L. Jackson, who are actually marketable brands themselves and can use their own social networks to sell the film, but you look for as many other products as possible, he says. The film brims with brand names: Burger King, Diesel, Dr. Pepper, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Land O'Frost lunchmeat, Royal Purple Motor Oil, to name a few. "That way," says Mr. Hill, "you can leverage those products to get attention from people who care about them but might never have thought of going to a superhero movie."
Studios have held early screenings at the large comic book fan shows such as the annual San-Diego event Comic-Con. But, in the end, Mr. Anderson adds, a really well made film is the make-or-break.
Regardless of how well marketed a film is, "if movie-goers leave the theater having hated the film, it will die a quick death."


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Checking the second photo, they might seem young compared to Mr. Dudley, but they look pretty old to me.
As discussed in an earlier blog posting by Art Dudley, one of the innovations of SSI 2013 was the Personal Audio Zone, staffed by SSI, where show attendees could listen to 150 different pairs of headphones, and was hoped to attract younger listeners to the show. I made two visits to the Personal Audio Zone: on the first visit, the place was nearly empty, so I recruited SSI staff member Catherine P. Lauzon to act as model for a photo. I returned on Saturday (see below), and this time the place was much busier, and there was at least some indication of the event appealing to a younger demographic.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 3, 2012) – The ETSU baseball team took time out of its busy schedule by volunteering at the Ninth Annual Footsteps Clinic and the Second Annual Coach's Roundtable Clinic on Saturday, January 21 at The EDGE Performance Sports Center.
The free clinic, which was for girls and boys between the ages of seven and 12, was designed for those preparing to try out or play for a little league or instructional league. Fielding, throwing, pitching and batting stations were set up to teach the fundamentals in each area of the game.
"We are constantly trying to keep our players involved with the youth of our community," said ETSU head coach Tony Skole. "Our program takes a lot of pride in our community service and every time we have an opportunity to have a positive impact on the youth of the Tri-Cities we try to take advantage of that. This clinic at The Edge was a great way to start the new year and get our players around these young kids. This is a great event and we look forward to it every year."
In addition to the youth clinic, the ETSU coaching staff conducted a free roundtable presentation for youth coaches about the fundamentals of the game.
The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics takes pride in its community service activities and strives for 100 percent participation from its student-athletes, coaches and administrators throughout the year.
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BC's loss could be a big gain for UConn
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Paul Pasqualoni took to the podium Wednesday afternoon, cameras rolling, and began speaking about his new 24-player recruiting class. He could have, presumably, spoke in general terms, at least during his opening statement.
He needed 32 words to mention Tim Boyle for the first time.
Tim Boyle is the 6-foot-4-inch, rifle armed quarterback who just led Xavier of Middletown to its third straight state championship. He came within a gnat's eyelash of signing at Boston College. That's until BC's new coach, Steve Addazio, expressed a preference for "dual threat" quarterbacks, essentially telling Boyle to look elsewhere.
How ironic, indeed, that the football program UConn loyalists hate the most just might have been dumb enough to give the Huskies a player they desperately need.
"Obviously, we're excited to have Timmy Boyle come to the University of Connecticut to play here in this stadium as we are the other in-state players," Pasqualoni said. "Timmy is 6-4. His growth potential is excellent. His skill set excellent. His passion for the game, his focus, commitment. You hope your quarterback demonstrates those characteristics."
Boyle is straight from the manual. He looks, sounds, acts and plays like the kid who could become the face of your program. Now I have no idea how long it would take Boyle to digest Pasqualoni's layered, complicated schemes. And he certainly is part of a traffic jam at the position, with incumbent Chandler Whitmer and Casey Cochran, among others.
But this is what the coach said later Wednesday:
"If you're going to be in a pro style system and throw drop back passes," he said, "6-foot guys can do it. Chandler has done a done fine job. Drew Brees does a fine job. The fact is, if you're up here (Pasqualoni craned his neck and held his right arm high) you can see better. Timmy can make all the throws, has an excellent arm, can get it into tight spaces and doesn't panic. To me, regardless (of who else you recruit), you take Timmy Boyle."
This is an instance for the UConn people to get a hearty laugh at BC's expense. Boyle looks like just about every other quarterback (notable exception: Doug Flutie) who has ever won games in Chestnut Hill: Glenn Foley, Matt Hasselback, Tim Hasselbeck, Brian St. Pierre, Matt Ryan. And now they want "dual threats?" Why, because all those noted 4.2/40 guys have come to BC in the past? Because they will now like the view of the Prudential building?
But I digress.
BC allowed a potentially landmark day to happen here Wednesday.
Note the word "potentially." Because while there's good reason to believe Boyle will be a stud, who really knows? "National Signing Day" is the biggest farce perpetrated on the sporting public, a made-for-TV creation with plenty of concocted drama.
To think there are talking heads out there who presume to know the 32nd-rated safety from Birmingham from the 154th-rated tight end from Phoenix.
I'd like to ask all these self-proclaimed recruiting analysts:
By whom are the high school players evaluated?
What are your credentials?
Assuming you know a "right guard" is a position on the offensive line and not a can of deodorant, how many times do you see the players in question?
Do you actually see the players in question?
On film?
Against what level of competition?
What is the methodology?
Is the methodology the same at ESPN as it is at Rivals and Scout?
How could it possibly be scientific, given the river of variables?
Did the player maybe have the flu that day or a fight with his significant other that may have altered his performance?
Was the field wet?
How are we supposed to take any of this seriously when Victor Cruz was a "one star" and Matt Ryan was a "two-star?"
Pasqualoni: "I look at the film. We spend an inordinate amount of time researching film and getting kids in our camp. I know everybody loves to look at the number of stars next to the kids' names. I don't really think you know for a couple of years. I'd like to go back and see how many stars were next to Donovan McNabb's name. There probably weren't any. Two schools recruited him. Not a team in the Big 10 really offered him a scholarship. He's going to go into the Hall of Fame. He was the second pick in the draft. That's pretty good."
Coach P can only hope Boyle offers as many good stories.
And they'll all have BC to thank.
This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.
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The Yale women's crew team will be competing at home Saturday morning for the first time in 2006. The Bulldogs will host Boston University and Dartmouth in the Class of '85 Cup at Gilder Boathouse in Derby.
Yale has won the race in both of the last two years, winning by less than a second in 2005 over BU. The Bulldogs, who climbed to third in the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association poll this week, will be facing lower ranked opponents. BU is ranked 20th after beating George Washington last weekend, while Dartmouth is unranked.
For students wishing to travel to Gilder Boathouse, there will be a supporters bus leaving from outside Yale Station Post Office at 7:30 am tomorrow, returning after the races have concluded.
Race Schedule
8:00 1st Novice
8:30 2nd Varsity
9:00 Varsity
9:30 Women's 3rd Varsity Four
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text: Vilsack, Moran, Thatcher React to Farm Bill without Nutrition Title July 12, 2013 08:51 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ellie Murphy Farm Journal Media Intern Email "Rural America deserved much better from the House than what they got yesterday," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told AgriTalk host Mike Adams on Friday. " 530 groups representing the voice of rural America wrote the need for a comprehensive food, farm, and jobs bill. Those voices were totally disregarded yesterday." The 216-208 House roll call barely passed the bill that separated the nutrition title, making it a farm-only policy. But the bill still has a long way to go as it will now enter Conference Committee where members of the House and Senate will try to find a bipartisan compromise. However, it is already expected that the White House will veto the new version. Adams was also joined by Senator Jerry Moran (R-Ken.) and Farm Bureau's Mary Kay Thatcher live from the DuPont Pioneer headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa. They discussed the outcome of the July 11th House vote and what the outcome means for farmers. "I applaud what the House did," Adams said. "They passed a farm bill. The Senate passed a nutrition bill that had 20% agriculture in it." "Now, for those concerned about nutrition programs, I think the nutrition programs will wind up in the farm bill in Conference Committee. And for those concerned about the cuts, there will probably be fewer cuts in nutrition spending," the AgriTalk host added. "For those concerned about nutrition spending, this is probably a good move." Moran predicted that getting the bill to Conference won't make it any easier to pass. He said that the increasing absence of congressmen involved in agriculture may be at the root of these issues. "There was a reason [the farm bill and nutrition title] were combined. The theory a long time ago was food stamp and nutrition programs will keep people in urban and suburban areas of the country interested in the farm bill. In this absence, and from what we saw yesterday, that's hard to put together." Thatcher witnessed the tension in the House yesterday. "It was pretty ugly," she said. "It was very much a partisan fight yesterday. I don't think I've ever seen it uglier on the House floor." Vilsack said that he is going to stay heavily involved with the Conference Committee and its appointment of conferees. He stressed the need for a speedy, efficient group from the Senate and House. "Everything is on the table and reasonable people can work out differences. If they don't, I think we have some very serious days ahead." Despite the congressional drama, Vilsack said that USDA will be able to handle the uncertainty that may come out of the Committee. "We'll be able to get our job done. We're just waiting for Congress to get their job done." To hear Mike Adam's full AgriTalk report from Friday, July 12, click on the clip below. Back to news


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'Patagonia," wrote the British author Bruce Chatwin, is the "country at the far end of the world."
It is a lonely land. Most visitors have been awed by its vastness -- it is three times the size of Britain -- and appalled by its stark emptiness. "There is nothing in Patagonia," complained Argentina's most famous writer, Jorge Luis Borges, and American author Paul Theroux agreed: "Nothing [is] . . . the prevailing feature of Patagonia."
Well, yes and no. On Patagonia's Atlantic coast you can see some of the world's most wonderful concentrations of wildlife, sea lion rookeries, penguin colonies and, just off shore, the marvellous spectacle of wooing whales. And on the Andean side are some of the world's most accessible and beautiful glaciers, and mountain forests with alerce trees so huge and ancient they rival California's redwoods.
The middle, admittedly, is empty, the dun-grey, rolling pampas, home to ranches, gauchos and millions of sheep. These are the "boundless plains of Patagonia" that impressed Charles Darwin in 1832.
And, once you're there, Argentina is one of the best travel bargains in the world, especially in light of the dollar's 16-per cent appreciation against the peso during the last year.
We travelled south from Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital, upstairs in a double-decker "coche-cama" bus (at night your seat becomes a bed), and 18 hours later arrived in Puerto Madryn, named after the Welsh nobleman Love Jones Parry, baron of Madryn, by Welsh settlers who arrived in 1865.
We rented a car and began our exploration of the wonders of Patagonia with the large, hammer-shaped Valdes Peninsula, jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean. Forty years ago, when the U.S. zoologist Roger Payne began to study the region's southern right whales, Valdes Peninsula was "a wonderful peopleless land." Now about 100,000 tourists visit the peninsula each year. Its star attraction are the whales.
Among the rarest whales on Earth (once hunted to near extinction, they now number about 2,000), the southern right whales leave the icy but food-rich waters of Antarctica and arrive in the austral spring in the sheltered and relatively warm bays of the peninsula, to court, to mate, to calve.
They are gentle giants, up to 17 metres long and 50 tonnes in weight. You can observe them, often close to shore, from cliffs of the peninsula. Or you can go whale watching in one of the many boats from Puerto Madryn. The males are ardent wooers, half a dozen may crowd and court a receptive female. If your boat has hydrophones, you can listen to their sonorous moans. Their rampant libido may be explained by the fact that these whales have one-tonne testes, by far the largest of any animal on Earth.
We spent days on the peninsula (now a UNESCO World Heritage Site), entranced by its wealth of wildlife: beaches crowded with sea lions and mighty elephant seals, penguin colonies, and, inland, groups of maras, harelike creatures with white behinds and horsey faces that rear their young in communal creches.
Farther south along the Atlantic coast of Patagonia and now immensely popular, is Punta Tombo, home to half a million Magellanic penguins, the largest and most accessible colony in South America. A broad path zigzags through the immense colony where humans walk and watch in wonder. The rest is for the birds. The broad strand, too, is a penguins-only beach, but you can watch the comings and goings of tens of thousands of busy penguins from a nearby rock outcrop.
Penguin watching can be addictive. After a few days at Punta Tombo, we drove farther south to see more penguins and other seabirds on islands near Puerto Deseado and stayed for an exuberant gaucho festival (similar festivals are held annually in many Patagonian towns).
Gauchos from the surrounding ranches known as estancias streamed into town with their families, their horses, their festival finery. The joyful, colourful fiesta started with a fairly chaotic parade through town, with prancing horses, swarms of children and girls in lovely dresses. Then came a rodeo with bucking horses and cheering crowds, and it ended with traditional "asados," slabs of meat roasted slowly on spits over hardwood fires and eaten with "salmuero," a sauce made of vinegar, garlic, chillies and oregano.
Everybody who was anybody in southern exploration seems to have spent some time farther south in the sheltered harbour of Puerto San Julian. Sir Francis Drake was there and so was Darwin. In the austral winter of 1520, Ferdinand Magellan, near the beginning of the first world-circling voyage, spent five months there, beheaded some mutinous officers and hanged their remains on gallows at nearby Gibbet Point. Near San Julian, too, reported the chronicler of the voyage, the Italian Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan met a "giant," an Indian so huge "the tallest of us only came up to his waist. The captain named this kind of people "Patagones," the Spanish word for "big feet," and thus did Patagonia acquire its name. In San Julian harbour, we toured the tubby, shoe-shaped replica of Magellan's 85-tonne vessel Victoria. The first ship to circle the world was smaller than a modern harbour tug.
We drove south as far as Tierra del Fuego, the far end of our world, then angled northwest across the infinite pampa, to the town of El Calafate in the foothills of the Andes and the gateway to Patagonia's Los Glaciares National Park, the largest mass of ice and the most spectacular glaciers in South America.
While most glaciers in the world recede, the Perito Moreno Glacier near El Calafate advances. It is the most beautiful and most photogenic glacier I've seen. You walk toward it through a wind-twisted forest of southern beeches, hung with mosses and lichens, and suddenly the glacier is in front of you, a vast coruscating mass of ice, sculptured by seracs and crevasses that gleam from milky white to sapphire blue. And while we watched in awe, house-high slabs of ice broke off the 60-metre high glacier face and crashed with a thunderous roar into the lake below.
We continued north on what one guide book calls "South America's worst road -- suited only for gung-ho adventurers," Argentina's infamous Ruta Cuarenta, the grim gravel Highway 40 (parts of it are now being paved) that parallels the Cordillera Mountains. It took us to the steep-cliffed, sienna-brown canyon of the Rio de las Pinturas (River of Paintings) and another UNESCO World Heritage Site, the mysterious Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands).
It is not really a cave, but a series of rock overhangs covered with polychrome paintings made more than 9,000 years ago. Some are hunting scenes: stick figure humans chasing and killing guanacos. But most are stencilled hand prints, about 800 of them. Protected from both rain and direct sunlight, these hands, which seem to be waving at you across nearly a hundred centuries of time, are amazingly vivid, the religio-magic legacy of a long-vanished people.
Much farther north, we reached Esquel, a charming Andean town filled with chalets; in winter it is a favourite ski resort. Now, in the austral summer, we made a wonderful boat trip from mountain lake to mountain lake and on to the 263,000-hectare Parque Nacional Los Alerces that protects the last great stands of alerce trees, also called Patagonian cypress. These soaring giants, some nearly 4,000 years old, can reach 60 metres tall and five metres in diameter.
We ended our trip in the Welsh village of Gaiman. The first 153 Welsh immigrants arrived in 1865 and settled in the Chubut River valley. It was not the green valley of their dreams, but rocky, umber-grey and dry. They persevered, built irrigation channels (many of the ancient water wheels still turn), and by 1882 they numbered 1,286.
Many of their descendants still speak Welsh. Our landlady at the Welsh guest house and orchard farm, Farm Fach, was also conductor of Gaiman's Welsh choir that participates in the local Eisteddfod. We visited the Welsh museum and in the afternoon went to Ty Cymraeg, one of the traditional tea houses, ate cacen ffrwythau and other cakes and had tea from a bulbous pot covered with a chubby cosy.
It was a nice finale to our Patagonian trip. Six weeks and 8,000 kilometres after we started, we drove back to Puerto Madryn.
If you go ...
Canadians do not need visas to visit Argentina. On arrival you receive a tourist card good for 90 days.
A number of airlines fly to Buenos Aires from Vancouver. Aerolineas Argentinas has regular flights from Buenos Aires to most towns in Patagonia. For rates and schedules, call 800-688-0008 or see www.aerolineas.com.ar.
Several bus companies have coche-cama (sleeper-bus) services from Buenos Aires to Patagonia. The cost of a ticket to Puerto Madryn is about $60.


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Good morning Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member Crapo and members of the Committee. I thank you for inviting me to today's hearing on implementation of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) swaps market reforms. I am pleased to testify along with my fellow regulators. I also want to thank the CFTC Commissioners and staff for their hard work and dedication.
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This hearing is occurring at an historic time in the markets. The CFTC now oversees the derivatives marketplace – across both futures and swaps. The marketplace is increasingly shifting to implementation of the common-sense rules of the road for the swaps market that Congress included in the Dodd-Frank Act.
For the first time, the public is benefiting from seeing the price and volume of each swap transaction. This post-trade transparency builds upon what has worked for decades in the futures and securities markets. The new swaps market information is available free of charge on a website, like a modern-day ticker tape.
For the first time, the public will benefit from the greater access to the markets and the risk reduction that comes with central clearing. Required clearing of interest rate and credit index swaps between financial entities begins next month.
For the first time, the public will benefit from specific oversight of swap dealers. As of today, 71 swap dealers are provisionally registered. They are subject to standards for sales practices, recordkeeping and business conduct to help lower risk to the economy and protect the public from fraud and manipulation. The full list of registered swap dealers is on the CFTC's website, and we will update it as more entities register.
An earlier economic crisis led President Roosevelt and Congress to enact similar common-sense rules of the road for the futures and securities markets. I believe these critical reforms of the 1930s have been at the foundation of our strong capital markets and many decades of economic growth.
In the 1980s, the swaps market emerged. Until now, though, it had lacked the benefit of rules to promote transparency, lower risk and protect the public, rules that we have come to depend upon in the securities and futures markets. What followed was the 2008 financial crisis. Eight million American jobs were lost. In contrast, the futures market, supported by earlier reforms, weathered the financial crisis.
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The CFTC has largely completed swaps market rulewriting, with 80 percent behind us. On October 12, the CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) foundational definition rules went into effect. This marked the new era of swaps market reform.
The CFTC is seeking to consider and finalize the remaining Dodd-Frank swaps reforms this year. In addition, as Congress directed the CFTC to do, I believe it's critical that we continue our efforts to put in place aggregate speculative position limits across futures and swaps on physical commodities.
The agency has completed each of our reforms with an eye toward ensuring that the swaps market works for end-users, America's primary job providers. It's the end-users in the non-financial side of our economy that provide 94 percent of private sector jobs.
The CFTC's swaps market reforms benefit end-users by lowering costs and increasing access to the markets. They benefit end-users through greater transparency – shifting information from Wall Street to Main Street. Following Congress' direction, end-users are not required to bring swaps into central clearing. Further, the Commission's proposed rule on margin provides that end-users will not have to post margin for uncleared swaps. Also, non-financial companies, other than those genuinely making markets in swaps, will not be required to register as swap dealers. Lastly, when end-users are required to report their transactions, they are given more time to do so than other market participants.
Congress also authorized the CFTC to provide relief from the Dodd-Frank Act's swaps reforms for certain electricity and electricity-related energy transactions between rural electric cooperatives and federal, state, municipal and tribal power authorities. Similarly, Congress authorized the CFTC to provide relief for certain transactions on markets administered by regional transmission organizations and independent system operators. The CFTC is looking to soon finalize two exemptive orders related to these various transactions, as Congress authorized.
The CFTC has worked to complete the Dodd-Frank reforms in a deliberative way – not against a clock. We have been careful to consider significant public input, as well as the costs and benefits of each rule. CFTC Commissioners and staff have met more than 2,000 times with members of the public, and we have held 22 public roundtables. The agency has received more than 39,000 comment letters on matters related to reform. Our rules also have benefited from close consultation with domestic and international regulators and policymakers.
Throughout this process, the Commission has sought input from market participants on appropriate schedules to phase in compliance with swaps reforms. Now, over two-and-a-half years since Dodd-Frank passed and with 80 percent of our rules finalized, the market is moving to implementation. Thus, it's the natural order of things that market participants have questions and have come to us for further guidance. The CFTC welcomes inquiries from market participants, as some fine-tuning is expected. As it is sometimes the case with human nature, the agency receives many inquiries as compliance deadlines approach.
My fellow commissioners and I, along with CFTC staff, have listened to market participants and thoughtfully sorted through issues as they were brought to our attention, as we will continue to do.
I now will go into further detail on the Commission's swaps market reform efforts.


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|Back in February 2012 when Synergy coined the term #Socialympics (which subsequently went viral and was even adopted by the IOC), it was clear that the mass-adoption of social media was going to have a profound effect on London 2012. So it proved, as we discussed at our two #Socialympics panel events either side of the 2012 Games. Two years on, the effect has been no less profound on Sochi 2014, so here's my take on some of the key moments and learnings of the #Sochialympics.
Social Ambush
As I wrote on Monday in the first of this series of posts, social media has replaced the international leg of the Torch Relay as the lightning rod for Olympic protest. For Olympic sponsors in particular, the hijacking of the McDonalds #cheerstosochi campaign should now be a key case study. (On which point, why is McDonald's still displaying the fact that the campaign has only attracted a few thousand cheers?)
The #Sochialympics also showed how effective social is for ambushers.
My ambush gold medal goes to Zippo: Sochi's first social ambush was also its best, a brilliant piece of reactive marketing and savvy "Who me?" PR.
|Silver goes to USOC sponsor JCPenney's #tweetingwithmittens, for ambushing the Super Bowl with the Olympics.
|And bronze goes to Crowdtilt for showcasing their platform to send the Jamaican bobsledders to Sochi and leverage probably the biggest feelgood story of the Sochi Games.
|#SochiSelfies and #SochiProblems
The #SelfieOlympics was the first big web meme of the year, as I wrote in January along with a few suggestions as to what the IOC and the Olympic Movement could learn from it.
As tens of thousands of these shots were taken in bathrooms, it was pleasingly symmetrical as well as hugely entertaining that the first big #Sochialympics meme was #sochiproblems, driven by journalists' pictures of their Sochi hotel experiences. This was then seized on by a 20 year old Canadian journalism major, whose savvy curation won his @SochiProblems Twitter handle over 330,000 followers - 60,000 more than @Sochi2014. A parable of our times.
But in the photos-in-bathroom stakes, no question that the big winner was US bobsledder Johnny Quinn, with this picture, which went viral, generated a blitz of media stories and has made him a household name in the US.
|And to bring us full circle in this particular loop, selfies have been a big thing at Sochi, with athletes - perhaps influenced by the #SelfieOlympics? - spontaneously adopting the #SochieSelfies hashtag, and many NOCs creating their own versions to drive engagement.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
With Facebook focused on its NBC tie-up, Twitter has pushed out a lot of Olympic-related content during the Games to drive attention and conversation, including collages of the most-shared photos, heatmaps of which countries are mentioning the Olympics most (I included one in my post on Monday), and infographics about medal-winning athletes' follower growth, such as this one for GB's Lizzie Yarnold:
|In contrast to one-dimensional TV viewing figures, it's revealed fascinating insights into local and global consumer behaviour and engagement with the Games.
The IOC has predictably reported big growth in social numbers. With an Olympic TV channel very much on the agenda - for the periods between Games - nurturing this community becomes ever more important for IOC.
Sochi 2014 CEO Dmitry Cheryshenko (@DChernyshenko) has shown top Olympic officials - and sporting officialdom generally - how to use social for the job while staying real. Same goes for Ricardo Fort of Visa (@SportByFort) when it comes to sponsors.
Under Ricardo, Visa has put much more into social in Sochi than it did in London and has got a big uplift in interactivity.
Sochi has also seen a growing contrast between 'tweets for hire' athletes intent on growing their followers and happy for their streams to be scripted by sponsors, versus 'the naturals', such as Iouri Podladtchikov - aka 'I-Pod' - the halfpiper who dethroned Shaun White and said:
At the other end of the scale is Maria Sharapova who, not content with her NBC and Torch-bearing duties and contractual appearances for long-term sponsors Nike and Samsung in Sochi, also cut a one-off deal for a series of posts for McDonald's from the Games.
But this hasn't been the #Sochialympics.
It's been the #Tinderlympics.
Or maybe the #Grindrlympics.


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From a family-togetherness perspective, summer is a fantastic thing: family trips, camps, time in the great outdoors, and, if you're lucky, a chance to just hang out. But from the school perspective, summer is a disaster. Most education experts say that kids lose about three months of knowledge over the summer and teachers have to spend the first two months of the new school year catching up. Fortunately, there are ways—most of them painless—to keep what your kids learned last year firmly inside their head. This week, we review three books that, besides offering a great way to stay connected with your kids, will help you brush up on a few subjects you probably haven't used in a decade. All three authors were guests on Armin Brott's "Positive Parenting" radio show. You can listen to those interviews at mrdad.com/radio, then search for the author's name.
Summer Bridge Activities (Carson-Dellosa Publishing, Greensboro, NC)
This book (it's actually part of a series, one for the summer between each year of elementary school—1-2, 2-3, 3-4, etc.) is pretty traditional, meaning it has worksheets, graphs, maps, and even some flashcards. But it manages to keep kids and parents engaged while reviewing last year's learning and getting a head start on next year's. Besides math, reading, writing, and other academic subjects, the books also include physical fitness (actually doing it, not just reading about it) and suggestions for family field trips.
Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay up Late, by Laura Overdeck (Feiwel and Friends, New York)
Bedtime stories are a wonderful way for families to spend time together—and to get kids to learn to love books. But have you ever wondered why we don't do math with our kids before they go to bed? Sadly, math gets dumped into the category of things that most people do only because they have to, not because they want to. The goal of Bedtime Math is to change all that and to make math a fun, engaging part of our kids' lives, to make it as beloved as the bedtime story. Each section (there are more than 30) starts with fun piece of trivia about such topics as flamingos, bungee jumping, exploding food, and team mascots. Then, there's an equally fun math problem that uses what you just read as "props." Actually, there are three problems on the same topic: one that involves mostly simple addition and subtraction, one that might require some basic multiplication, and one that incorporates logic along with the other math functions. It's all such fun that you'll find yourself reading the book long after the kiddies have fallen asleep.
Potentially Catastrophic Science: 50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists, by Sean Connolly (Workman, New York)
Despite the name, the experiments in this book aren't really all that dangerous—as long as you and the kids follow the directions. The book is like an archeological dig through 34 of the greatest scientific breakthroughs in human history. We start with Stone Age choppers and the discovery of fire more than a million years ago, and go all the way through rocket launches, lasers, and DNA. Each experiment includes a brief explanation of what made the invention so special, what it does, and where the potential for catastrophe was. Those overviews are so entertaining (and educational) that you could, theoretically, quit right there. But why would you when you've got step-by-step instructions for how to actually replicate what you've just read about? You'll have a blast—especially in the chapter that talks about gunpowder.


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Professors Reflect on Rhetoric, Arizona Shootingsby Howard Hewitt • January 11, 2011 Share:
The shootings in Arizona have ignited a national debate on political rhetoric. Television talk shows and internet news sites are tackling the issues. Two Wabash College rhetoric professors believe in the power of words but caution against making assumptions.
A gunman opened fire Saturday in what has been described as an assassination attempt aimed at U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Six people were killed, many more injured, while Giffords remains hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the head.
In the past few days, politicians and pundits have debated the cause and effect of the country's current political climate.
"It is valuable that news coverage of the Tucson tragedy is engaged in reflection on the often disturbing nature of our public dialogue because there is value to re-examining how we talk to one another in our public discourse," said Wabash Professor of Rhetoric Todd McDorman. "However we also should be hesitant to draw strong conclusions about the place of such discourse in acts of violence. Likewise, it should not take acts of violence to create concern over the level of incivility and lack of decency often found in our public discourse.
"As a culture we should find acts of violence like the one that has occurred in Tucson to be abhorrent. We should be more mindful of our public rhetoric and be cautious about asserting too strong of a link between the two without more evidence."
McDorman added that sometimes violent metaphors sneak into our everyday conversation. He used an ESPN.com article he had read about this weekend's Pittsburgh- Baltimore NFL playoff game as an example.
"The author and game participants refer to the upcoming game as a 'battle,' as 'Armageddon,' and as 'World War III.' Obviously it is none of those things but it is an example of how we use aggressive rhetoric to express our sentiments."
While acknowledging the words are used in a casual manner, he noted the participant's intent to make their language more colorful and ideas more memorable. "But is it possible that there could be negative implications to such talk, which reflects the type of questions that are now being raised about the possible association of violence and polarized political talk?"
Both professors were careful to add that it's always going to be difficult to draw a direct connection between rhetoric and action.
"Of course, we cannot know what role rhetoric may have played in the Arizona shooting," Professor of Rhetoric Jennifer Abbott said. "But we do know, more generally, that the rhetorical choices made by any public figure contribute toward an overall discursive climate or atmosphere. And that atmosphere seems to have become rather vitriolic and polarizing in our country."
Abbott adds that a connection between symbols and action is fuzzy but a connection likely exists. "The words and images we use to label and characterize a person or group frames the way we view them," she said.
"Every frame invokes an attitude. Calling someone an 'enemy,' for example, suggests a more oppositional attitude than calling the person a 'disputant,' 'interlocutor,' or even 'debater.' "
She quotes literary theorist Kenneth Burke, who believes an attitude is an incipient action. Abbott added it's no leap of logic to assume words shape attitude and possibly actions.
"We can never draw a linear path from a single word-choice to an action, of course, but we can reasonably conclude that the discursive choices a person or, to some extent, a society makes encourage some actions while discouraging others," Abbott explained. "There's a reason, for example, that war rhetoric typically employs words and images that dehumanize the opponent. Such discourse encourages (and even rationalizes) violence, rather than generous acts of charity and humanity toward the opposition."
While the national debate centers on name calling and symbols like the crosshairs on Sarah Palin's website targeting Congressional district candidates, McDorman said rhetorical scholars have long advocated paying more attention to the power of such actions.
"Too often the metaphors we appeal to have deeper connotations than we might initially realize and we often appeal to metaphors of war and aggression without thinking about their possible meaning," he said. "That is, we become so accustomed to talking in such a manner that we forget about the underlying meaning or message of the language we use. Think, for instance, of how often we characterize a discussion of two possible actions, or even a political campaign between opponents, as a 'war.' Again, this isn't to say that the rhetoric is connected to the action taken in this case but it is accurate to say that our public rhetoric has a tendency toward verbal violence if not actual violence."


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Owner: Dog was 'my hero' during knife attack
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E-mail Print (15) Comments Text size Share Buzz up!A Southbridge woman is hailing her 5-year-old pit bull as a hero after the dog was stabbed multiple times while protecting her from an enraged boyfriend wielding a 12-inch serrated knife.
"She's my hero," Marie Wells, 31, said of Princess, who is hospitalized on the grounds of the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. "I was not injured thanks to Princess."
Wells said Princess sustained three major stab wounds, including a six-inch laceration and others that nearly went down to the bone. She said Princess began nipping at her boyfriend, Eric Reyes, 30, while the couple were arguing at 1 a.m. Wednesday in their apartment.
"She did not attack him," Wells said. "She was in front of me trying to protect me."
Reyes is being held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing Monday in Dudley District Court, said Timothy Connolly, a spokesman for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.
He pleaded not guilty to charges of animal cruelty, assault and battery, violating a restraining order and other charges, Connolly said. His attorney did not return a message seeking comment.
Princess, who weighs about 42 pounds, has had several surgeries to repair stab wounds and is taking pain medication, Wells said.
When the stabbing started, Wells said she told Princess to back off, and she did. After the attack, Reyes began hugging Princess, applying a towel to her wounds and apologizing, Wells said.
Wells said Princess was rushed to the Grafton hospital after losing a significant amount of blood but is now expected to survive.
"It looks good right now," Wells said. "She's a fighter."


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Putting Economics before politics
Putting Economics before politics
By James Clingman
It has always been intriguing to me that we have elected thousands of Black politicians since Reconstruction, especially since 1970, while the number of Black economic advocates pales in comparison. Understanding that Black economic advocates are not elected per se, it makes sense to me that if economics is at the bottom of everything in this country, Black people should have at least as many Black economists, economic advocates, and economic literacy instructors as we do politicians.
Marcus Garvey said, "The most important area for the exercise of independent effort is economic. After a people have established successfully a firm industrial foundation they naturally turn to politics and society, but not first to society and politics, because the two latter cannot exist without the former." Obviously we should have listened to and followed Garvey's advice; he was one of our most powerful and committed economic advocates.
There were many others who attempted to school us on the importance of economic empowerment, folks such as Maria Stewart, William Wells-Brown, T. Thomas Fortune, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Mary McLeod Bethune. Today, we few who are striving to do the same. But are we listening to them and following their advice?
We would much rather listen – and that's all we do – to the empty rhetoric of political hacks and rely on our emotions rather than our intellect to make decisions about the direction we will take vis-à-vis our votes. We also fail to properly align our priorities, as Garvey suggested, in an effort to achieve true economic freedom.
Our present condition, both economic and political, is dire. Unfortunately, we are being led to believe that politics is the answer and that some politician will solve our issues for us. Even worse is the fact that some of us truly believe that nonsense.
My local newspaper, the Cincinnati Enquirer, featured a story that questioned why no Blacks were running for mayor this year. The piece cited the fact that Black people comprise nearly 50 percent of this city's population, and although we have had a Black mayor for nearly eight years, the paper posed the question and slanted the story as though it was truly disheartened at the lack of a Black candidate this time. Let that marinate a little while.
Since when has anyone other than Black folks been concerned about the absence of Black political candidates in any race? We don't see many stories in dominant media dealing with the dearth of Black ownership of major corporations, the overwhelming number of Black owned businesses that have only one employee, or the disparities of the prison industrial complex. So why this concern in politics? Could it be that Black politics is viewed as nonthreatening, while Black economics is viewed just the opposite? Could it be that Black politics is full of emotion and symbolism, while Black economics is pragmatic and substantive in nature?
Is economic empowerment threatening? The following quote from George Meany, AFL-CIO president, in 1969, might answer that question for us. "At its worst, 'black capitalism' is a dangerous, divisive delusion – offered as a panacea by extremists, both black and white…Attempts to build economic enclaves with substantial federal tax subsidies within specific geographically limited ghetto areas is apartheid, anti-democratic nonsense."
Had enough yet? It's easy to see that Black people in 2013 are used and misused by the political system. All of you emotionally engaged political devotees please sit down for this next statement. It matters not what "color" a politician is, even the color of the person who resides in the White House. Black folks had better get that through our thick heads and start pursuing an economic agenda, first, as Garvey said, and then a political one. Believe me, when a group's economics is in order, their politics will fall in line accordingly.
For the life of me I cannot fathom why Black folks in this country, after all that we have seen and experienced, are still waiting on politics to save us. And it's hard to understand why we think Black politicians will do right by Black people, simply because of their skin color. To make matters worse, we are still trying to figure out "Who is Black in America?" despite the so-called "one drop" rule, which was made up by White people. He who defines you controls you. (By the way, wouldn't the "one drop" rule make everyone in the world Black, since mankind started in Africa? Just a thought.) Being Black is not as much about skin color as it is about consciousness.
Economics is about empowerment, and our dollars should be used more wisely to that end. Politics is about self-interest, and our votes should reflect that truth. White politicians can help Black people just like Black politicians can. The same applies for White and Black capitalists. The question is, "Will they?"
The best help is self-help, however. We must organize and rally around basic economic principles. And until we are really serious about playing the politics game, we must wean ourselves off the milk and pabulum of political dependence, and get on a steady diet of cooperative economics and mutual support.


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2015 Chevy Colorado Debuts at LA Auto ShowPosted in News on November 19, 2013
Chevrolet has just pulled the covers off its latest attempt at the Midsize truck segment and this time, it looks like they've hit the nail right on the head – with a sledgehammer! After having to stare at the same relatively unchanged Midsize truck market for the past 8 years, this latest rendition of the Chevy Colorado brings a new breath of fresh air to an otherwise stagnant market. With Ford pulling the plug on their Midsize truck segment back in 2012, the competition really didn't come up with anything significantly new but now the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado, which is set to hit showrooms next fall, will offer up a new alternative for drivers who don't want to deal with the hassle of a Fullsize truck but want enough power to haul a moderate size cargo as well as safely tow a small trailer, all while achieving car like fuel economy. It also features auto grade braking and a tow/haul mode.
One of the goals that Chevrolet had with the new 2015 Colorado is that it be the most powerful truck in its class. Not surprisingly, a 2.5-liter inline four with an estimated 193 horsepower and 184 pound feet of torque is standard and produces 90 percent of the peak torque from 2,000 rpm to 6,200 rpm. For those that want a little more kick in the pants, a 3.6-liter V-6 that pumps out an estimated 302 horsepower and 270 pound feet of torque is also an option. Both of these engines have been rigorously tuned and put to the test to perform under typical harsh conditions. Both engines feature aluminum blocks with forged-steel crankshafts along with dual-overhead camshafts and are designed with direct injection as well as variable valve timing to optimize power and efficiency. A six-speed automatic transmission backs up all that power to ensure nothing is left on the table.
"Our strategy is simple: meet the needs of the broadest possible customer base, and let them choose precisely the right truck to meet their needs," said Mark Reuss, GM president of North America. "The all-new Colorado benefits from the solid foundation established by the Silverado, and it reinvents the midsize truck, while reinvigorating the segment at the same time."
Unfortunately if you want the Diesel model, you'll have to wait for the 2016 Chevy Colorado which will offer the only diesel engine in its class. A 2.8-liter Duramax inline-four turbodiesel engine is set to make its debut in the new Colorado's second year. This engine has already been proven in tough global markets so we can expect to see a significant improvement in power output as well as fuel economy.
Speaking of fuel economy, the 2015 Chevy Colorado features a segment-first aluminum hood as well as active aero grille shutters, which close at certain highway speeds to improve the aerodynamics which gives it a lower mass and improves the front-to-rear weight balance.
The 2015 Chevy Colorado is expected to offer a class leading payload capacity as well as a trailering capacity of more than 6,700 pounds. Perfect for those that like to load up the truck with gear for the weekend and head into the great outdoors with a small trailer in tow.
Even though Chevy is marketing this truck towards young buyers with an active outdoor lifestyle, they haven't skimped on safety gear and have included a few segment firsts such as available forward collision alert and lane departure warning. On top of that, a CornerStep rear bumper design is also standard as is the two-tier loading that allows a platform to effectively split the bed into upper and lower sections making it easier to haul, store and conceal items such as tools. The 2015 Chevy Colorado also feature a standard bed rail and tailgate protectors as well as thirteen standard tie-down locations throughout the bed for use with available, movable cargo tie-down rings. Of course the EZ Lift-and-Lower tailgate is also available in the 2015 Chevy Colorado, heck, you can even order it with a factory-installed spray-in bed liner.
The 2015 Chevy Colorado is built with a coil-over-type front suspension that features strong lightweight aluminum knuckles, which help deliver a more responsive, immediate feel to steering inputs, as well as efficiency. Another class first for the new Colorado is the use of electric power steering, which enhances efficiency by eliminating the parasitic power loss that comes with using an engine driven hydraulic power steering pump. Speaking of steering, the 2015 Chevy Colorado also has a turning radius of only 41 feet which is great for backing a trailer into a tight campground.
Since the Colorado is aimed at active outdoor buyers, one of the features offered in the Colorado is the G80 automatic locking rear differential to make sure you've got enough traction to get to where you want to go off the beaten path. The G80 locking differential is standard on Z71 models.
The 2015 Chevy Colorado will be available in three configurations; an extended cab model with a 6-foot bed, a crew cab with a 5-foot bed and a crew cab with a 6-foot bed. With the tailgate down, the 6-foot bed allows 8-foot-long items to be hauled within the vehicle. The WT, LT and Z71 trims are available in either 2WD or 4WD. That being said, if you want the top of the line, the Z71 is the only way to go since it features a gunmetal grille surround and projector headlamps as well as unique 17-inch aluminum wheels.


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Her routine is rigorous. Physically exhausting. Emotionally draining. Some days, it's outright overwhelming.
Gina Giaffoglione would have it no other way.
One year removed from an auto accident that has left her with full paralysis in the lower half of her body, the 22-year-old Wayne State College student is determined as ever to return to a lifestyle of total independence.
As far as Renee Coffey is concerned, she will always have eight children.
Renee and husband Charles lost their daughter Amanda Grace a little over six year ago to complications from anencephaly, a neural tube defect that prevented their daughter's skull and brain from developing properly.
Amanda Grace Coffey was delivered by cesarean at Creighton University Medical Center on April 23, 2004. She lived just over 27 hours and died surrounded by her mother, father and seven brothers and sisters.
Anencephaly occurs in just three of every 10,000 live births in the United States.
There is no cure nor medical intervention for the neural tube birth defect.
Treatment for babies born with the fatal disorder is supportive; parents are instructed to keep the baby warm and protect the baby's exposed tissue.
Half of babies born with anencephaly die within 10 days of birth. In very rare cases anencephalic babies live more than a month.
Michaela Moore scored four goals and Mallory Hoyt and Ali Bowden added one each for the Glenwood girls soccer team in a 6-3 victory over Tri-Center on Thursday.
After a slow start and a 2-0 lead at halftime the Rams (7-2 overall, 4-0 in the Hawkeye 10 Conference) made the necessary adjustments and exploded for four second-half goals.
The Glenwood boys track team rested some of its top runners and shuffled lineups in some other events while placing second at the Atlantic Co-Ed Track Invitational on Friday.
The Rams finished with 86 points. Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln and Harlan tied for first at the meet with 108 points.
"We purposely went into this meet trying to get our athletes a good workout while resting a a few others," said Glenwood coach Mark Starner. "Our goal wasn't to necessarily win the meet, but to compete and be in the top three at the end of the meet.
The East Mills boys and girls track team swept the team titles at their own Wolverine Co-Ed Relay last Tuesday in Malvern.
The East Mills boys dominated the field with 164.5 points to runner up Nishnabotna's 117 points. The Wolverines won five events and place second in eight more.
The girls wrapped up five golds of their own and added five more runner-up finishes.
The East Mills boys got gold medals from Jake Bolton (100-meter dash) and its 4x800, 4x200, 4x400 and distance medley relay teams.
Jake Doyle was second in the 1,600 and 3,200-meters.
They were all dressed up with a place to go. They just didn't have the transportation to get there.
Approximately 50 Glenwood Community High School students and their prom dates were forced to spend nearly two hours in the GCHS parking lot Saturday night waiting for an "Omaha Fiesta" bus to take them to Council Bluffs so they could join their classmates at the junior-senior prom.
"A phenomenal weekend."
That's how Glenwood track coach Mark Starner would describe the performance of long distance runner Johnny Fuller at the 101st Drake Relays in Des Moines last weekend.
Fuller used a sprinter's kick in the final 300-meters of both the 3,200 and 1,600-meter runs at the high school portion of the meet to best the state's top distance runners in all classes for a pair of gold medals.
The Glenwood girls soccer team went 2-1 at the Adel-DeSoto-Minburn Invitational Tournament on Saturday.
The Rams opened up the tournament with a 6-2 loss to Class 2A No. 3 ranked Sioux City Heelan before bouncing back to win the final two games over Pella Christian and Bondurant.
Against Heelan, the score was tied at 2-2 with just over 15 minutes remaining when the Crusaders exploded for four unanswered goals. The offensive onslaught came virtue of several key defensive and goalkeeper breakdowns.
Michaela Moore had both Glenwood goals against Heelan.
The Glenwood boys soccer team got a look at some of the top teams in Nebraska's largest class this weekend at the Dave and Carol Van Metre Soccer Classic at Cornie Collin Field in Omaha.
Host Omaha South, the No. 3 ranked team in the state of Nebraska, knocked off the Rams 2-0 in the tournament opener. Glenwood bounced back in game two Saturday afternoon to defeat No. 4 ranked Millard West 3-2.
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Zach Bonner, 'Little Red Wagon' Teen Philanthropist: Interview
The heartwarming true story of one little boy's dream to end the suffering of those without homes "Little Red Wagon" has been released to DVD today.
From the award-winning director of "Rudy" and "Hoosiers" David Anspaugh, the film follows Zach Bonner- a young boy with a heart of gold.
At age 7, Bonner founded the non-profit charity Little Red Wagon Foundation to aid the 1.3 million homeless children in the United States.
Furthermore, the avid volunteer began a project entitled "My House to the White House" where he would raise money and awareness for homeless children while walking hundreds of miles to many cities across America. The project later expanded into 2010's March Across America, where Bonner walked 2,448 miles from Tampa, Fla. to Los Angeles, Calif.
Bonner, who received the Presidential Service Award in 2006, is now 15 years old and still striving to abate the suffering of homeless children.
While speaking to The Christian Post on Tuesday, Bonner answered questions about "Little Red Wagon" as well as about his incredible experiences.
Firstly, after the shock of having a film tell his story, Bonner noted his appreciation for everyone involved in the production of "Little Red Wagon."
"The coolest part was seeing [screenwriter] Pat Duncan and all of the incredible people all working on this film, and for a fraction of what they usually charge because of their belief in the project," explained Bonner to CP.
Bonner, portrayed in the film by Chandler Canterbury, added that while he did not play a large role in casting for the film, that the actors selected "could not have been better."
A young Bonner is featured in the film as viewers quickly realize his bottomless determination to help in any way he can, even just transporting supplies in his red wagon.
Furthermore, the cast of "Little Red Wagon" sees AMC's hit television series "Breaking Bad" star Anna Gunn who portrays Bonner's mother, Laurie.
"She was the nicest person," Bonner revealed, adding that the actress depicted his mother with astounding precision.
"She delivered one of the lines exactly like my mother, I thought to myself, 'wow,'" said the young philanthropist.
Meanwhile, Bonner continued his work with the Red Wagon Foundation and when it comes to his personal career, the teenager has big plans for the future.
"I want to study law," revealed Bonner. "And through that, I think I will be able to tie in the Foundation and continue to help more people."


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While WrestleManias will have a highlight, one-for-the-ages match, they will also have the duds that everyone would sooner forget about ? especially if you are a participant.
The SLAM! crew, however, never forgets, so today we look back on our favourite worst matches of Wrestlemania?s illustrious history.
Jason Clevett
Lesnar vs. Goldberg. Watching the match fall apart as the crowd tore first Lesnar, then both men to shreds and Austin tried to keep from laughing was interesting. While the match is an absolute disaster, it is also fun to watch, kind of like how people go to NASCAR to see car crashes.
John Milner
This was a tough one, but I'll vote for the Wrestlemania X-7 Gimmick
Battle Royale. Seeing some of the great gimmicks of the past was fun, but what made it special was Mean Gene and Bobby the Brain on commentary.
Bob Kapur
A match I was there to see live: Hogan vs. the Ultimate Warrior - WM6. From a wrestling standpoint, the match was, not unexpectedly, pretty bad. What was great though, was the crowd reaction. The crowd was torn between the two heroes, and hearing them cheer for both men for the entire match was amazing. At the end, when Hogan missed the legdrop, which would have sealed the Warrior's fate, we hit a complete frenzy. Even I, who wasn't a fan of either, couldn't help but get caught up and joined the crowd in giving both a standing ovation after the final bell rang.
Jaya Roopasingh
I liked seeing the little brother Owen get the win over big unstoppable brother Bret.
Greg Oliver
Being in the $25 cheap seats at SkyDome for WrestleMania VI, I remember with great enthusiasm the crowd doing the wave during the Jake "The Snake" Roberts vs. "The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase match. More importantly, Dibiase played to the crowd, egging people on. Normally, the wave can signify boredom. In this case, it became a group protest.
Chris Sokol
My guilty pleasure, as far as ?Mania matches go, would have to be Brock Lesnar vs. Bill Goldberg. Sure the match was horrible, but seeing Goldberg, Lesnar and Steve Austin in the same ring at the same time gave me goosebumps.
Jon Waldman
The cr�me de la crap for is the Jake ?The Snake? Roberts vs. Rick Martel blindfold match. Yeah it was a pretty stupid concept, but man did the fans get into it or what? Plus, it was a perfect ending to a very well done feud that ran for over half a year. It?s too bad that for the most part, WWE doesn?t have the patience to sit on a feud and let it develop fully before a big, apropos blow-off like there was for this war.
So what is your guilty pleasure match? What awful match do you look at through rose-coloured glasses? E-mail Jon with your best worst match. All Wrestlemania SLAM! Speaks responses will be posted next week.