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A big part of the Wabash reunion weekend traditions is colloquia sessions. Wabash men tell stories of their interests, careers and adventures.
The sessions are spread throughout the weekend and give the returning graduates a chance to learn, share and celebrate the lives of Wabash men.
Doyle '89: JEH & MLK, George W. & Edward Snowden
FBI Special Agent Jim Doyle '89 really packed in the alums Saturday morning for his talk about security investigations and privacy before and after 9-11.
More than 100 Wabash men packed Hays 104 to hear Doyle talk about the history of investigation and abuses of J. Edgar Hoover through today's news and the actions of Edward Snowden.
He shared the changes in investigation laws and procedures and how striking a balance remains the biggest concern to all citizens. "It's a balance in that we're constantly trying to protect our privacy rights versus protecting our citizens," he summarized.
Doyle used a series of videos and animations to set up his points and illustrate the national debate. He got the biggest laugh of a weekend from an opening short video featuring a teenage girl explaining the different forms of government for Division 1 majors.
Education: How We Got There and What It Means
Three recent Wabash graduates shared high school teaching experiences and perspectives on education today during a Saturday afternoon session in Hays Hall.
Classmates from 2004 Stu Johnson, teaching in Texas, Jacob Pactor, Indianapolis, and Jeremy Robinson, Chicago, shared the ups and downs of classroom teaching and the impact it has had on their lives.
Each shared positive and negative influences in today's classroom but captured the large group listening with the really special moments that have happened to them in their young teaching careers.
Pactor told the story of correcting a sophomore student's paper in an English class and writing 'If you have this many mistakes as a doctor, your patients will die.' He then said the young lady wrote him a note as a graduating senior thanking him for the remark and how it impacted her to take studying more seriously.
Johnson shared that he was one of the first teachers in his school to have all 24 students pass a Texas standardized test. But specifically recalled one troubled young man he took under his wing for special attention. "Three years later he came up to me and said 'I'd be dead right now if it wasn't for you.' "
Robinson shared his experiences in inner-city Chicago schools and a high school student named Francisco Huerta. Huerta went on to attend Wabash, was president of the Sphinx Club and walked across the Wabash stage this spring and picked up his degree.
Steve Fox '69 - The Sausage Factory: An Insider's View of Making U.S. Foreign Policy
Retired Foreign Service Officer Steve Fox '69 spent almost 35 years representing the U.S. around the world. In his colloquium session he shared his experience in assisting USAID in evacuating Kurdish refugees from Iraq in 1996. In all, more than 3,500 refugees were brought to the United States during the course of three evacuations that Fall.
"The US resettles approximately 50,000 refugees a year," Fox said. "These are people who have no place else to go. The goal is always for them to be able to return home. But that is not always possible."
Last year Fox met a woman who had been evacuated with her family when she was a teenager. When he asked about her time in Turkey (as a point of processing before being settled in the United States) she said it was "the worst three days of my life, but worth it."
Fox said, "That conversation brought closure for me."
Ken Crawford '69 - Bringing Home the Missing from World War II
Crawford brought to life his work in the search and recovery of missing servicemen from the second World War. From 1997 through 2002, he was a key part of the effort to investigate, search, recover, and identify those lost on the battlefields of Europe, and the efforts to return those servicemen home for burial with full military honors.
Crawford used maps, missing crew reports, and behind-the-scenes photography to give a deep understanding of the rigors of what is essentially an archaeological dig at each identified crash site. Team members use both part numbers and DNA fragments to properly identify missing soldiers and airmen.
He spoke of one particular search in April 1998 of a downed B-24 plane where 2,000 bone fragments were discovered and every one on the fragments were used to identify a majority of the crew, who had previously been listed as missing for a half century.
Crawford said, "The important thing with the cemeteries and gravestones is that these guys are not forgotten. We don't want to forget them, and we know there are a lot of guys out there still missing."
John Caviglia '64 - Chile: Past and Present, Fact and Fiction
Caviglia was born in Chile to his native Hoosier mother and Chilean born father. A true liberal arts man, Caviglia has been a professor of Spanish and Comparative literature. He has also taught pottery and martial arts.
Caviglia walked attendees through his novel Arauco, sharing the history of two peoples. The book details the sixteenth century Spanish invasion of Chile. The conflict took 300 years. Caviglia walks the reader through the invasion and shares the point of view of the conqueror and the conquered.
The book is available through Amazon and other online sites.
Roger Paluska '59 - Seeing Europe from a Bicycle Seat
Throughout the last decade Paluska and his wife have travelled through Europe more than a dozen times by bicycle. Included in their journeys have been France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, and Slovenia.
During his presentation he shared many photos from their journeys with the "Bicycle Adventure Club" and some of the ups and downs of travelling by bike. Each of the trips is generally two weeks in length and while they travel by bike between stops, they eat well and stay in many beautiful places.
"One of the delightful things about biking is passing through all the small towns," Paluska said. "Everybody has a festival at one time or another and they are eager to say 'Come on in and join us.'"
President Gregory D. Hess - Strategic Planning and the Campus Master Plan
Wabash President Gregory Hess presented his vision to a packed crowd Friday afternoon at Big Bash. Hess explained, one quick change he implemented upon his arrival was referring to Wabash as "THE" Liberal Arts College for Men which was met with much applause.
Hess' vision has grown from seeking to align the mission of the College with the ambition of the College. To implement that vision Hess has established a culture of continuous improvement and laid the foundation for growth in four areas: articulating the value of a liberal arts education, expanding the academic and geographic footprint, enhancing the leadership education of each Wabash man, and enhancing the culture of philanthropy.


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FY03 Creativity
Albany Symphony Orchestra, $19,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works by emerging composers. A total of 16 new works will be commissioned and performed by the orchestra and a smaller new music ensemble comprised of orchestral musicians.
American Composers Orchestra, $50,000
To support Improvise!, a series of concerts, commissions and educational activities focused on improvisation and the symphony orchestra. Activities will occur in April 2004 at various venues in New York City including Carnegie Hall, Aaron Davis Hall, the Knitting Factory, and at Miller Theater at Columbia University.
Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, $12,500
To support the presentation, educational activities and national radio broadcast of the Saint Matthew's Passion by Bach, on period instruments. Under the direction of conductor Jeannette Sorrel, the two performances will be sung in English and will take place in March 2003 in Akron and at Severance Hall in Cleveland.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, $65,000
To support A King Celebration, a project in tribute to the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The project will be comprised of performances, educational outreach activities and a national radio broadcast.
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, $25,000
To support the creation and presentation of a secular oratorio by Kurt Rohde. The work, Bitter Harvest (a love story), scheduled to be premiered in the spring of 2004, will explore the psychological roots of racial prejudice among American farmers.
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, $10,000
To support the American Orchestra Music Initiative in the presentation and recording of works by American composers. Works by John Harbison and Augusta Read Thomas will receive their regional premieres in Boston during 2003 and will be recorded by Albany Records for the first time.
Boston Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center) , $50,000
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music. The Tanglewood Music Center will present the week long event featuring five to seven concerts by ensembles of Tanglewood fellows and guest artists.
Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, $40,000
To support The American Lollapalooza Project, a series of concerts, a commission and education outreach activities. The works of seven American composers, both established and emerging, will be presented in a pair of concerts with accompanying community and education events in February 2003.
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, $30,000
To support Intimate Portraits, a series of concerts for chamber orchestra. Each of the three concerts planned during the 2002-03 season will showcase different sections of the orchestra: winds, brass, percussion and strings.
California Symphony, $10,000
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program (YACR). The 18-month residency program in 2003 and 2004 will include recorded reading sessions, commissions and premieres of three new works, and pre-concert discussions.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, $90,000
To support MusicNOW, a series of concerts of the music of living composers, recorded for radio broadcast. The 13 concerts scheduled in the spring of 2003 will include works by eight composers including world premieres of two commissions.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago) , $35,000
To support a professional development program for pre-professional musicians. The program prepares the 96 musicians of the Civic Orchestra to compete for positions in leading professional orchestras by offering coaching, mock audition seminars and master classes.
Cleveland Orchestra, $90,000
To support a performance project titled A Sound Beginning. The project will introduce new works to the Cleveland Orchestra's repertoire and celebrate the new leadership of music director Franz Welser Most.
Columbus Symphony Orchestra, $15,000
To support the Contemporary Music Festival. In a consortium with Ohio State University, the performances by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra will include student and faculty ensembles, local artists and music scholars.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, $50,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new composition by Michael Daugherty and related residency activities. The new work, a violin concerto, will be premiered by violinist Pamela Frank and recorded for broadcast in May 2003.
Eos Orchestra, $15,000
To support Mass en Masse, a concert that will examine the mass as a musical art form. This celebration of the mass form will explore how three composers of diverse styles have adapted it.
Eugene Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the 10th anniversary performance of John Adams' Violin Concerto and educational activities associated with the project. The concert will feature the violinist for whom the work was written, Jorja Fleezanis, and will include string and composition workshops, a new music recital and a lecture.
Fort Wayne Philharmonic, $17,500
To support Unplugged, Fort Wayne Philharmonic's informal classical concert series. During 2002-03, Unplugged concerts will be hosted by a local celebrity and feature casually dressed orchestra members under live video images projected on a large screen.
Grand Rapids Symphony, $10,000
To support the creation, presentation and recording of works by Adolphus Hailstork for the 75th anniversary season. The recording will couple Mr. Hailstork's newly commissioned work, Symphony #3, with his never-recorded Symphony #2.
Handel & Haydn Society, $27,500
To support Exploring the Italian Baroque, a series of concerts for chorus and orchestra. Three concerts, all under the direction of Music Director Grant Llewellyn, are planned during 2003-04 that will be enhanced by lectures, discussions and articles by Baroque scholars.
Houston Symphony, $40,000
To support the Concerto Commissioning Project--the creation and presentation of a new concerto for a principal player in the orchestra. Samuel Adler will compose a concerto for French horn, with William Ver Meulen, Principal Horn of the Houston Symphony, as soloist.
Kansas City Symphony, $15,000
To support the Strategic Programming Initiative, a series of concerts and educational activities. The four concert programs will each be performed three times during the spring of 2003.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, $22,500
To support a commission and premiere of a work for chamber orchestra by composer-in-residence designate Pierre Jalbert. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will perform the work at the Alex Theatre in Glendale and Royce Hall on the campus of the University of California-Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Philharmonic, $90,000
To support world premieres of commissioned works by John Adams, Tan Dun, Liza Lim, Magnus Lindberg, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Steven Stucky. The project will include educational and outreach activities focusing on the project's programming themes.
The Minnesota Orchestra, $70,000
To support the creation and presentation of three new works by American composers John Corigliano, Aaron Jay Kernis and Stephen Paulus. The project will be part of Minnesota Orchestra's Centennial Commissioning Project, a ten-year effort that began in 1999.
Monadnock Music, $10,000
To support free concerts by soloists, ensembles and chamber orchestras presented in 18 rural towns. During July and August of 2003, Monadnack Music, under the direction of Music Director James Bolle, will present three free concerts per week.
Nashville Chamber Orchestra, $10,000
To support the American Song Festival, a six-concert project celebrating the American art song. The festival, directed by music director Paul Gambill, will include the commission and premiere of a new work by Dr. J. Mark Scearce based on a text by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison.
National Symphony Orchestra, $65,000
To support Soundtracks: Music and Film, a festival examining the history of music in film. Music director Leonard Slatkin and guest conductor John Williams will conduct the National Symphony Orchestra in performances, and will lead discussions and demonstrations.
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, $30,000
To support a three-week Winter Festival, an exploration of American roots in works at the turn of the 20th century. The orchestra will perform works by Chadwick, MacDowell, Ives, Gottschalk and Still.
New World Symphony, $50,000
To support the Musician Professional Development Program. The program will prepare young artists for musical leadership positions in the orchestral field through performance, multidisciplinary coaching and community outreach.
New York Philharmonic, $100,000
To support Ives in Perspective, a three-week festival featuring the music of composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) and his contemporaries. This 50th-anniversary commemoration of Ives's death will include chamber music, song recitals, scholarly seminars, an exhibition and other activities.
Oakland East Bay Symphony, $10,000
To support commissions and premieres of new works by American composers. The Oakland East Bay Symphony will perform commissioned works by Jake Heggie, Omar Sosa and Michael Kaulkin, as well as new works by Joshua Feltman and Noah Schwartz.
Oregon Symphony, $15,000
To support the performance and recording of orchestral works by American composers. The Oregon Symphony will premiere a commission by composer John Peel and record John La Montaine's Wilderness Journal and Andre Previn's Piano Concerto.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, $10,000
To support the commissions of new work by composers Gunther Schuller and Olly Wilson. The two chamber orchestral works will be performed during the 2003-04 season.
Pacific Symphony, $50,000
To support The American Composers Festival: Beyond Category, a performance project showcasing American composer William Bolcolm. Repertoire for the 2003 spring festival will include Bolcolm's Songs of Innocence and Experience.
The Philadelphia Orchestra, $90,000
To support Robert Schumann: Poet and Romantic, a five-week festival exploring the music of Schumann and composers linked to him. Wolfgang Sawallisch, in his final season as music director, will conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia and New York City.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, $15,000
To support the presentation of Handel's oratorio Jephtha in September 2003. The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan, will give five performances at venues throughout the Bay Area.
Pittsburgh Symphony, $30,000
To support Reflections on Shostakovich, a thematic project exploring Dmitri Shostakovich's music and his influence on other composers. The 2003 project, directed by music director Mariss Jansons, will include the commission and premiere of a new work by Michael Hersch.
Portland Symphony Orchestra (Maine) , $15,000
To support the recording, editing and mastering of concerts for statewide radio broadcasts. The Portland Symphony Orchestra performances will reach more than 52,500 people via Maine Public Radio stations during 2003.
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, $10,000
To support the scoring of New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom by Joseph Schwantner. The work, originally written for narrator and full orchestra in 1982, is a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, $10,000
To support a commission of a new work by composer Michael Daugherty. The ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of music director Timothy Russell, will premiere the work as part of its 25th-anniversary celebration.
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, $10,000
To support the commission and premiere of a piano concerto by Richard Cumming. The work will be written for pianist John Browning on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2003.
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, $50,000
To support the commissioning and premiere of new works by Americans Dominick Argento and George Tsontakis and Brazilian Sergio Assad. Performances will be held at St. Paul's Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and the Ted Mann Concert Hall on the campus of University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
San Francisco Symphony, $100,000
To support Wagner, Weill, and the Weimar Republic, a project that will explore the music of Germanic composers. Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas will direct the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and guest artists in concerts during the two-week festival.
Seattle Symphony, $65,000
To support Then and Now, a performance project that will feature music from the last 100 years. It will include a May festival, The World Looks West, and a number of educational and outreach activities.
Related Grants
American Music Center (Multidisciplinary), $23,000
To support the commissioning of collaborative Web-based works. Composers will be paired with visual or performing artists to create new works of art that incorporate music and new media.
To support the American Academy of Conducting, a professional development program for post conservatory musicians. Under the direction of music director David Zinman and conductor Murry Sidlin, the summer 2003 project will engage 24 participants in an extensive conducting institute.
Cabrillo Music Festival, $10,000
To support a new music conductor training program. The summer 2003 professional development program will partner with the Conductors Guild to provide 20 conductors with training opportunities.
Carnegie Hall, $100,000
To support the Perspectives series, including performances, premieres of commissioned pieces and training workshops. Developed by pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Emanuel Ax, soprano Dawn Upshaw and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, the series will include 23 self-curated performances in 2003-04.
Concert Artists Guild, $22,500
To support career development of emerging classical musicians through national concert engagements. In diverse venues across the country, 100 performance opportunities will allow artists on the Concert Artists Guild (CAG) roster to hone performance skills and improve powers of communication.
New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts), $10,000
To support the New York String Seminar Program for emerging young musicians. The professional development program, directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, will culminate in two concerts at Carnegie Hall in December 2003.
Orange County Philharmonic Society, $12,500
To support the co-commission and performance of Terry Riley's Sun Rings, with sound and images from NASA's Voyager missions. Offered as part of the fifth annual Eclectic Orange Festival, the Southern California premiere will be performed by the Kronos Quartet and the Pacific Chorale.
Sphinx Organization, $60,000
To support a professional development project for emerging young string instrumentalists. The Sphinx Symphony Concert and Sphinx Honors Concert will present young musicians in concert at Orchestra Hall in Detroit.
Young Concert Artists, $22,500
To support the presentation of the Young Concert Artists Series of recitals and concerto debuts by young musicians. The 2003 project will feature nine concerts in New York City and five in Washington, D.C.

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Applications Limited to Four Tickets per Household; Special VISA Pre-Sale to Begin April 30
CHICAGO (April 22, 2014) –Tickets for the USA's highly anticipated match against Turkey on June 1 at Red Bull Arena will be distributed to the general public through a lottery system. Applications will be accepted through ussoccer.com for a 24-hour period beginning May 1 at 10 a.m. ET and concluding May 2 at 10 a.m. ET. Applications will be limited to four tickets per household.Applicants will be notified on May 5 if they have been successful.
The match against Turkey is the second of three Send-Off Series games for the U.S. Men's National Team prior to its departure for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. ET, and the match will be broadcast live on ESPN2, WatchESPN, UniMas and ESPN Deportes Radio. Fans can also follow the match on Twitter @ussoccer.
Fans have several other opportunities to access tickets to this special match.
As a sponsor of U.S. Soccer, Visa is pleased to offer all Visa cardholders access to an advance ticket sale for this match before the sale to the general public. This advance sale starts Wednesday, April 30, at 10 a.m. ET and runs until Thursday, May 1, at 8 a.m. ET on ussoccer.com. Visa will be the only payment method accepted through the Visa presale and is the preferred card of U.S. Soccer. Terms and conditions apply.
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GOP nominee Mitt Romney makes sure he gets to make his point even as debate moderator tries to move on.
When you pull up to that gas pump and nearly faint from how much it costs you to fill 'er up, you may be tempted blame the government for not doing enough to keep a lid on prices.
Resist the temptation. The truth is the global nature of the world's energy supply means that no president has much power over what you pay at the pump.
The question of whether the nation's chief executive can do anything to lower soaring energy costs has been a bone of contention between President Barack Obama and his GOP rival, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney.
That bone was tossed about in Tuesday's debate at Hofstra University in Long Island, N.Y.
"The proof of whether a strategy is working or not is what the price is that you're paying at the pump," Romney said in response to a question from the audience. "If the president's energy policies are working, you're going to see the cost of energy come down."
If gas prices were driven by decisions made in the White House, it's a safe bet that any incumbent president would do everything possible to drive them lower ahead of a re-election campaign. With the possible exception of the unemployment rate or the Dow Jones industrial index, it's one of the few numbers voters care most about when they head to the polls.
But while the notion that the government could somehow control gasoline prices is appealing, the reality is that the price you pay is set daily, sometimes hourly, by market forces around the world.
That was the opinion of a group of economists polled by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business earlier this year. Asked if changes in U.S. gasoline prices over the past 10 years have predominantly been due to market factors rather than U.S. federal economic or energy policies, not a single respondent disagreed.
Recent history seems to have borne out that view. Despite the recent Bush administration's strong support for the oil and gas industry, pump prices rose from a low of about $1.20 a gallon in 2002 to a peak of $4 a gallon before crashing below $2 shortly before Bush left office in 2009 as the full force of the recession kicked in and abruptly cut demand. Shortly after Obama took office, prices began a steady climb again and kept rising, but the remain just shy of the 2009 peak.
To be sure, a handful of governments around the world, including major oil-producing nations, artificially lower pump prices through subsidies, in effect selling gas produced in state-owned refineries at a loss. In the U.S., state and federal taxes add to the price collected at the pump by gasoline retailers.
In the 1970s, the Nixon administration tried imposing gasoline price controls to tame a prolonged inflationary spiral that sent the prices of all commodities soaring and to blunt the impact of a price spike brought about by an Arab oil embargo. The result was widespread rationing and long gas lines.
U.S. energy policy has encouraged the exploration and production of crude oil, the biggest single variable in the pump price of gasoline, through tax subsidies that promote drilling. Those tax breaks, which were expanded during the Bush administration, have helped spur a boom in domestic production that has reversed a 20-year decline in U.S. output.
U.S. demand for gasoline peaked in 2007 and has been declining steadily since then. Part of the reason, as Obama mentioned in Tuesday's debate, is that the recession cut into demand for energy. But gasoline consumption is also falling because the cars and trucks are becoming more fuel-efficient. Obama cited his administration's efforts to drive fuel efficiency standards higher.
As domestic demand has fallen, U.S. refiners have continued to squeeze more out of each barrel of oil. If the U.S. market were a closed system, the surplus gasoline would tend to drive down prices. But the system isn't closed. With domestic demand falling and capacity inching higher, refiners have been exporting gasoline to overseas markets. Last year, the U.S. became a net exporter of gasoline and other refined products for the first time since 1949.
Strong global demand, especially in high-growth developing countries such as China and India, has more than offset the U.S. gasoline surplus and kept gasoline prices high.
Rising production of North American crude oil, on the other hand, has helped keep gasoline prices from rising even faster. The reason: Oil producers in northern plains states and Canada can't get their oil to the global markets where demand is strong. The result is that most of the crude produced in the U.S. and Canada sells at a steep discount to the global benchmark price.
The regional difference in pump prices has been substantial. At the end of last month, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in the Rockies was 41 cents below the U.S. average -- the biggest gap since the Energy Department began tracking regional prices in 1992.
The solution for oil producers is the controversial Keystone pipeline, which the Obama administration has delayed pending an environmental review. Romney and other proponents have argued the pipeline will help wean the U.S. off foreign imports and lower pump prices. But rather than pushing Gulf Coast prices lower, it will let oil producers charge more for their crude.
With limited access to deep water ports, Canadian oil producers have been shipping crude to American refiners, where oil stocks are already ample. Relatively tight supplies outside the U.S., meanwhile, have pushed international crude prices higher.
The solution, for Canadian producers, is a pipeline that would cross the U.S. and provide access to ports in the Gulf of Mexico, where it could be shipped to buyers around the world. That would reduce the glut of oil that has depressed U.S. prices, forcing up the cost to U.S. refiners.
That, at least, was the conclusion of the backers of the Keystone pipeline project, TransCanada Corp., which estimated in their application for Canadian government approval that the project would result in a major windfall for oil producers.
The company estimates the pipeline would boost sales of Canadian-produced crude by $2 billion to $4 billion a year, according to an assessment submitted to Canada's National Energy Board.
Like any government intervention to control prices, energy policy can have unintended consequences in a volatile global energy market. But that won't stop the candidates from trying to take credit - or assign blame - when the debate turns to the equally volatile political topic of gasoline prices.
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Phone company ordered to pay Calif. $24.4M in fees
A phone company owned by the world's richest man, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, has been ordered by the state's public utility regulator to pay California $24.4 million in unpaid fees and interest.
TracFone Wireless, a prepaid phone company owned by tycoon, didn't pay fees required of all regulated telecommunications companies, according to a July 11 decision from ALJ McKinney, the California Public Utilities Commission's Presiding Officer.
No penalty is warranted, regulators said, but because no fees or surcharges were collected from customers up front, the company will bear the cost.
TracFone can appeal or request review within 30 days of the decision.
An email seeking comment from TracFone wasn't immediately returned and there was no answer at their listing.
The Consumer Protection and Safety Division brought action against TracFone, saying the company didn't collect user fees from 2004 through 2012 or pay surcharges for public programs, like the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program, from 2000 through 2012.
TracFone began paying the various fees following a decision in 2012. This month's order assesses the fees owed from before that decision.
Part of the issue was an exemption in state law for phone debit cards. TracFone believed it fell under that exemption, but the state disagreed, according to the order.
TracPhone's prepaid wireless service, sold under TracFone, Net10 and SafeLink brands at many retailers, including Wal-Mart and RadioShack, requires customers to purchase a mobile phone and then buy minutes to use it.
TracFone described itself as the largest operator in the U.S. prepaid cellular market with approximately 16 million subscribers across the country, the order said.
For the fourth consecutive year, Slim was named the world's richest man by Forbes in March, when his net worth tallied $73 billion.
TracFone is a subsidiary of Mexico City-based America Movil.


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2010 Olys GDT – Canada 8, Germany 2 – Feb 23, 2010 @ 5:30 PM MST – CTV
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|Date: Feb 23 @ 5:30 PM MST
|Canada: 1-1-0-1
|Germany: 0-0-0-3
Well, this is a game Canada might need after a tough loss to the US. This SHOULD be an easy game in which they can get their systems in order, and should be light work for Luongo. Yes, Luongo. He'll get the start in this one, according to Daren Millard's Twitter. Many people seem to be calling for Brodeur's head, but I think there was more wrong in that game than just him. It was marred by badly timed penalties (are there good-timed penalties?), as well as a poor, poor play by Corey Perry in the final minute that really hampered a possibility of a comeback.
And well, I hate to take any team lightly, but if Canada loses this one, they really deserve to be out of the tourney. They should win this one, and they should win it by a solid margin as well. I'll predict a 6-0 victory for this one. Hopefully it'll give the team a bit of confidence that they will need going into a tough game on Wednesday vs. the Russians. I may be counting my chickens before they hatch, but if the Germans win this one, it'll be a miracle on ice bigger than the U.S. defeating Russia in 1980. Stranger things have happened though.
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July 15, but the venue has been changed from historic Plunge pool to Wave House Athletic Park at 3115 Ocean Front Walk in Belmont Park.
"We're going to be showing 'Jaws' from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.," said centennial spokeswoman Wendy Crain about the latest in a series of events commemorating the beach community's 100th birthday in 2014.
"There will be a 20-foot screen set up in front of the wave machine."
Crain said the venue can accommodate about 200 guests.
Movie-style refreshments will be served, including popcorn and candy. Crain said goodies will be appropriately priced for a family event.
She said signature cocktails will be available at a discounted price.
The centennial celebration kicked off in March with a proclamation from Mayor Kevin Faulconer to go along with dedication of a monument, a big boulder with an oxidized bronze plaque placed between Belmont Park and the southern lifeguard restroom on the beach.
The centennial event schedule continues in August with a sandcastle event and will conclude with a volleyball/horseshoes beachfest in early September.
The centennial events will finish with a Sept. 27 Centennial Festival at Belmont Park/Ventura Boulevard.
The origin of Mission Beach dates to June 14, 1914, when a syndicate headed by John D. Spreckels and managed by George S. Barney submitted a subdivision map surveyed by D.A. Loebenstein to the "Common Council" of San Diego (what is known now as the the San Diego City Council) for approval on Dec. 14, 1914.
The first official map of Mission Beach was then signed and adopted.
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The future of Internet of Things (IoT) involves billions of connected devices (such as smartphones, computers, and sensors) communicating with one another, regardless of manufacturer, operating system, chipset, or physical transport. However, security is essential for reliable IoT operations. Whether malicious or accidental, malfunctioning IoT devices such as a connected car or components of a smart grid can pose a significant risk to consumers, businesses, and societies. Therefore, it is essential to protect IoT devices in order to realize the full potential of IoT. The key considerations for complete and effective IoT cybersecurity include: 1) Operating within the physical and technical limitations of IoT by using efficient and lightweight security technologies; 2) The ability to accommodate multiple security approaches, including digital certificate-based or certificate-less security mechanisms; 3) The protection of IoT data at rest, in transit, and in the cloud; 4) A standards-based approach for IoT security; and 5) Operating at scale to support millions of IoT devices with no impact on speed and security of IoT operations. Hardening the security posture of IoT components once the product has been deployed commercially is extremely difficult. Therefore, it is imperative that security is implemented during the device design phase or device manufacturing phase. Security costs are low compared to the potential devastation that could result from a compromising event. However, IoT devices are being manufactured without the required components essential for IoT security—such as a way to generate keys on the device or without a mechanism to configure unique identifiers to devices. Device original equipment manufacturers (OEM) must use components that have the necessary built-in security capabilities to ensure the appropriate levels of device and data authentication and integrity. Examples of built-in security functions that are essential for device security include hardware root of trust, trusted boot, trusted execution environment (TEE) for secure low-level software operations (for IoT devices that have the required computing resources), hardware-level isolation for trusted code base, and easy-to-use APIs to access low-level security functions. This Frost & Sullivan insight describes the key requirements in the Internet of Things (IoT) security market and presents details of how the leading IoT security providers address these needs. Information is provided in the form of profiles, wherein each industry participant included in this profile has been interviewed by Frost & Sullivan. Frost & Sullivan's independent analyst perspectives have also been provided for each of the profiled companies.
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It took ten months and 12 miles of yarn, but an art student in the UK has knitted a replica of a Ferrari Testarossa (with a little 355 thrown in for good measure). She also had the notion to pull the wool over a steel frame, for structure's sake, but the rest of it is entirely stitched. The Prancing Horse badge is hand-embroidered, natch. [Thanks to Aaron for the tip.]
This is my 4-wool drive [The Sun (UK)]
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High-precision disk made of plastics by thinXXS supports Finger-FriendlyTM Testing.
Maybe you think that daily blood sampling is a painless routine for people with diabetes. But just ask: the daily prick into the sensitive fingertip is quite painful, and causes bruising, calluses, and causes finger damage that impacts daily activities. Some people with diabetes avoid regular testing because of the pain of lancing. Pelikan Technologies has just introduced the Pelikan Sun, the world's first and only electronic lancing device that will change the paradigm of diabetes care: its precise, electronically controlled lancing is so smooth that you barely feel it! You'll ask yourself: what finger did I just test? followed by how can I get one?
The innovation and heart of this electronic lancing device is a disk made of plastics that contains 50 sterile lancets, meaning users never see or touch lancets again! This high-precision plastic device has been developed by thinXXS Microtechnology AG in Germany. The disk is also produced by thinXXS via micro injection molding.
In spite of its macroscopic dimensions, the disk contains extreme microtechnical details that are essential for the entire functionality of this component: the lancets have to be precisely and reproducibly positioned and only a planarity of a few micrometers allows a safe sterilization of each chamber. To meet these demanding specifications it was necessary to implement a special technology for toolmaking, which has been a core competence of thinXXS for years. The same extreme specifications apply for the micromolding of the disposables. These were realized successful after an intensive development with Pelikan Technologies.
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"Substandard" New Zealand-made baby formula and milk powder is being rejected at China's border, raising concerns that coverage of the issue in the Chinese media could damage this country's lucrative reputation as a producer of safe dairy products.
A report in the People's Daily newspaper says China's Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) returned or destroyed 270 tonnes of infant formula and milk powder in the 14 months to October, more than half of which came from New Zealand and Australia.
More than three-quarters of the substandard imports were baby formula, the report said, including 26 tonnes of New Zealand-made "Ioland" formula, which was rejected for insufficient iodine content. Iodine deficiency can cause stunted growth and mental impairment in infants.
In another report by the state-run Xinhua news agency, published yesterday on the Shanghai Daily website, reporters visited supermarkets to ask consumers if they were concerned about the "quality issues" highlighted by AQSIQ's rejections of imported formula and milk powder products.
"Now that expensive foreign milk powder products are also flawed, I wonder if there is any milk powder that is safe enough to feed my 1-year-old daughter," one shopper was quoted as saying.
The 2008 melamine scandal - in which six Chinese babies died and thousands became sick after consuming tainted dairy products - led to a huge rise in demand for imported formula, which is deemed safer than locally made products by many parents in the world's second-largest economy.
Ioland's website says the company is based in the Chinese city of Ningbo but has its formula manufactured by Sutton Group, an Auckland-based contract manufacturer.
Attempts to contact Ioland by phone and email were unsuccessful.
James Shortall of Sutton Group would not confirm or deny whether the firm made Ioland products.
Some formula was being rejected by Chinese authorities because of different testing regimes in China and New Zealand, and Sutton Group was confident babies would be safe consuming all the products it made, Shortall said.
Chris Claridge, managing director of Christchurch-based infant formula exporter Carrickmore Nutrition, said some of the product rejections in China were "questionable", but the coverage of the insufficient iodine levels in Ioland products was a concern as it tarnished all New Zealand infant formula brands.
A large number of Chinese baby formula companies were creating "false fronts" by registering in New Zealand, giving the impression they were Kiwi firms, Claridge said.
Michael Barnett, independent chairman of the newly formed New Zealand Infant Formula Exporters Association, with 10 founding members, said the group was working to set standards for exporters, while establishing a "line of communication" with Chinese authorities.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Primary Industries said its figures for non-compliant food exports to China did not match some of the figures in the Chinese media reports used in this story, but the ministry was concerned about any New Zealand-made products being denied entry to overseas markets.
*270 tonnes of infant formula and milk powder rejected by China.
*Period of 14 months to October.
*More than 135 tonnes came from New Zealand and Australia.
*26 tonnes of "Ioland" formula, made in New Zealand.


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Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology
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- Sinotibetische Sprachen (1)
- Nominalization and focus constructions in some Kiranti languages (2006)
- It is well-known that in many if not most Sino-Tibetan languages relative clause and attribute/genitive markers are identical with nominalization devices and that sentences bearing such markers can also function as independent utterances (cf. Matisoff 1972, Kölver 1977, DeLancey 1989, Genetti 1992, Ebert 1994, Bickel 1995, Noonan 1997, etc.). This morphological convergence of syntactic functions, which we may dub the 'Standard Sino-Tibetan Nominalization' (SSTN) pattern, is particularly prominent in some languages spoken in the eastern and southeastern part of the Kirant because these languages not only feature prenominal relative clauses, but also allow, albeit as a minor type, internally headed constructions.


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by Meg Cohen Ragas
If we collect one gross of pasta boxes, how far are we from having 100? If the first grade brought in two pounds of pasta on Monday and they doubled that amount each day, how many pounds would they have in all by Friday? What does 50 pounds of pasta look like?
These are just some of the mathematical equations Lower School students at Germantown Friends School have explored as they participate in the second annual Great Food Fight, a competitive, inter-school food drive sponsored by Shire Pharmaceuticals that benefits Philabundance, an organization that delivers food to needy families in the Philadelphia area, 23 percent of whom are children.
Susan Shechtman's second grade class is leading the Lower School's 1,000 Pounds of Pasta Challenge and, with one week to go, has collected 405 pounds of spaghetti, rigatoni, shells, elbows, ziti—any and all types of noodles imaginable.
"The Lower School at GFS has always valued and supported the giving of food to our Philadelphia neighbors in need," Shechtman said. "The bringing in of a favorite dinner ingredient or that familiar box of cereal has been a way to encourage generosity and support the understanding that each one of us can make a difference in the lives of others, even if you are only 8 years old.
"When the 'big kids' decided to enter the Great Food Fight! … the idea of pounds of food entered our thinking: What is easy to weigh? What is a food that everyone likes? What is affordable and filling? One thousand pounds of pasta felt like a worthy goal. From Kindergarteners to fifth graders, the little kids at GFS have set a big goal, and they are counting and feeling proud of every pound along the way."
The students have risen to the challenge, sorting and stacking the boxes of pasta as they tackle grade-appropriate math problems. A survey asks for data on a spaghetti and meatball versus mac and cheese preference.
A laundry basket filled with 50 pounds of pasta invites kids in the lobby to try lifting 50 pounds of noodles. Boxes are piled in 10-pound stacks, and the students do the math to see how far 43 is from the next 100 pounds.
A bar graph posted on the wall, reaching to the ceiling, announces the pounds gathered—405, as of Feb. 24— and what still needs to be collected. As one second-grader put it, "It's not impastable to reach the 1,000-pound goal."
Germantown Friends is one of 21 schools participating in the Great Food Fight! this year (ending March 2), with the grand prize of $10,000 going to the school that collects the most food. Last year, GFS beat out the much larger Penncrest High School in Media to take first place.
Is a second win in the cards? Anything's pastable.


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We have the widest selection online of chocolate chips & blocks of what is correctly described as 'Couverture' chocolate (meaning to coat) but is commonly referred to as 'cooking chocolate' here in the UK due to its wide range of practical use. Couverture chocolate is suitable for all types of chocolate making, decoration, melting and baking. Available in different weights, forms and even cocoa origins from the finest chocolate makers and to meet your individual requirements and budget.
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The only female Mutant serving in the Mutant space force under Flogg, Crita is a devious and deadly woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her evil aims. Crita has been described as one of Flogg's 'top lieutenants'. She controls audio visual communications on the Mothership, from her own station on the bridge, though it is when she is away from her station that she is deadliest. She is also the most human looking of the Mutants, despite her violet skin. Unlike her fellow Mutants, even Flogg, Crita possesses a far more devious mind and is by far the most intelligent of Flogg's henchmen. Crita has many talents and powers unusual among the other Mutants, she possesses a scepter which can fire powerful energy blasts, a magical ring, and can also do a dead on imitation of another persons voice. While Crita is loyal to Flogg, she shares a special relationship with Skeletor
Origin #1 (Jetlag Cartoons)
After Skeletor arrives in the future, Crita is impressed with 'genius' of his plans, and despite his looking down on most of the other Mutants, Skeletor shows a respect and liking for Crita which she reciprocates. Skeletor and Crita often enjoy flirtatious or romantic behaviour towards one another, with Crita overjoyed whenever Skeletor pays her a compliment. Their encounters are sometimes disrupted by Flogg, who appears frustrated at what he refers to as their 'gooey chit chat'.
At Skeletor's suggestion, Crita later leaves the Mutant space force as the official Mutant consultant to the Gleanons on the planet Nekron. This was partly an attempt by the Mutants to gain control of the transium ore mines on the planet. After an initial clash with He-Man resulted in the foiling of her plans, Crita took up a permanent position on Nekron as an advisor to General Nifel, leader of the Gleanons. Crita used her Mutant training to convert the Gleanons, usually a space faring species, into a formidable army. She also grew more and more ambitious, desiring to set herself up as Queen of the Gleanons, something Nifel only tolerated because he needed the Mutants help against the Mites and their new allies. Crita was given new armor as a gift from the Gleanons, and made an enemy out of Mara, who was Crita's opposite with the Mites.
Crita grew to despise Mara, and viewed her as her greatest enemy. When Flogg launched his final attack on Primus, he summoned Crita and the Gleanons, who arrived in force to assist the Mutants. Crita personally led the Gleanon assault on Primus, but the Mutants were ultimately defeated, and Flogg called a surrender. When an enraged Flogg turned on Skeletor and attempted to shoot him, Crita sprung into action and kicked the weapon from Flogg's hand, likely saving Skeletor's life. Skeletor then transported himself, He-Man, Mara and Crita to the ruins of the Oasis for a final battle. Crita engaged in battle with Mara, but ended up knocking down one of the pillars in the ruins - which was about to come crashing down upon her - but Mara saved her enemy, throwing her into Skeletor and knocking the two of them off a cliff and into a shuttlepod.
Crita and Skeletor were then sealed in the shuttle pod by He-Man's power sword, and cast into space. Without his staff Skeletor was unable to get out of the ship, but he promised Crita that they would not be trapped forever, and that he would return to destroy He-Man.
Trivia (Clawful94): Crita was voiced by Venus Terzo in the "New Adventures Of He-Man", Jetlag Cartoons. She was exclusively created just for the cartoon.
New Adventures Jetlag Cartoon Appearances:
ALLEANZA : Space Mutants
SPECIE : Mutants
LUOGO DI ORIGINE : Planet Of Denebria
SESSO : Female
ARMI : Energy Whip
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Not sure what to make of this. Trolling, or for real? I'm not sure who Ian Sherr is, but it was reTweeted by Brian McIntyre, and he's legit.
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EA cancelling its NCAA football game next year, amid all the legal acrimony between NCAA and students. Story soon.
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There seems to be alot of eBay related posts at the moment regarding suspect Auctions, so I thought I would post a few little ideas in the hope that we can rid the Forum of needless questions.
1 - If the Auction looks too good to be true IT IS
2 - NEVER pay using Western Union, that is sending cash. Even Western Union will advise you against this.
3 - Ask for more pictures of the unit, if they had a camera to put up a picture in the first place they will be able to do this.
4 - Ask Questions only an owner would know.
5 - Do not risk Zero Feedback sellers, many are scam artists.
6 - Do not deal with people who post an email address on their advert saying they get spam via eBay, they are CROOKS
7 - Try not to sell to people who are in Singapore, many use stolen Credit Cards.
8 - Stay away from sellers who are registered in one Country but the item is in another.
9 - Please try not post every item you think is a scam, if you/other people follow simple rules they should be able to spot a scam as well.
10 - Ask for a sellers telephone number and get them to play a few notes down the phone if your still unsure!
11 - Accounts can be hijacked, so check Feedback and see when the account was last used.
12 - Some sellers also just buy a few cheap things so they get a few Positive Feedbacks, this is easy to check.
13 - Watch auctions where the bidders name is hidden, often suspect.
14 - If you can not satisfy yourself DO NOT take the risk. A cheap deal can turn in to a heavy loss.


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The voice was faint, but distinct. Peering through a football-sized hole in the rubble and calling into the darkness, Lt. Sun Jian heard an answering call come back.
"See?" the Chengdu fireman said with a grin Thursday. "He's not dead."
Twenty hours earlier, one of Lieutenant Sun's men had eased an ultrasensitive microphone through the chunks of concrete and twisted steel that until last Monday's earthquake had been a hospital practicing traditional Chinese medicine. The device picked up the sound of a heartbeat.
Now, after a night of picking painstakingly at the rubble, the firemen had opened a hole large enough to give them a view of a man's head, and to lower the occasional bottle of fluids to prevent dehydration.
More important, Sun said, was that the rescue team could talk to the survivor. "We gave him faith and confidence," he said. "We told him not to worry, to trust us, that we would definitely get him out."
Three days after the earthquake that struck a wide swath of Sichuan Province in southwest China last Monday, rescue workers have not given up hope of finding people still alive under the ruins of collapsed buildings.
"At this moment, a life we save has even more value than lives we saved earlier," said Liu Xiaoyi, a spokesman for the Chendu fire department. "Seventy-two hours have passed, and it is very difficult to survive that long."
In this town, where thousands are feared to have perished, firemen found 10 survivors at the hospital site on Thursday, according to Col. Sun Guoli, commander of the 3,000 fire brigade members from 11 provinces who are searching the ruins.
"This is a very large-scale disaster, and sometimes we feel we don't have the strength," she said. "But we have saved 221 people so far and we will continue to do our best. My men have disaster rescue experience and some of them have been trained in America and France. They know how to save people."
Xiao Wei, a 28-year-old who joined the local fire brigade 10 years ago after a stint in the Army, was among the 80 or so firemen working at the site of the collapsed hospital.
Mr. Xiao was on vacation at his parents' place, 10 miles from Dujiangyan, last Monday afternoon when he got the call. When he found his fire brigade, his heart sank; the building where they were working was the building in which he had lived. Somewhere under the rubble, he soon learned, his mother-in-law lay buried.
His particular team, however, was assigned to work at another site. "I really wanted to work on my apartment block," he said. "But I haven't asked to. My brigade has its task and we can't change it. We have to focus on the general picture."
Since reporting for duty on Monday, Xiao said, he had slept for just three hours, grabbing a nap in a car. He is not alone. "None of us have slept for more than a few hours," said Sun.
Instead, he and his men have been using trained rescue dogs, microphones, miniature cameras, and reports from survivors to try to locate people still alive.
By Thursday afternoon, Sun said, they had rescued seven people at the hospital site. They had also found 13 bodies, but many more remain beneath the 30-foot pile of concrete, brick, and plaster, as the slight odor of putrefaction hanging over the site testifies.
Chinese officials warned Thursday the death toll from the earthquake could reach 50,000. The confirmed death toll was 19,509, according to China's Earthquake and Disaster Relief Headquarters. The Associated Press reported a rare government appeal to the Chinese public for donations of rescue equipment, including cranes, hammers, shovels, demolition tools, and rubber boats. Until now, China has refused all offers by international aid groups to send workers. But Thursday, it agreed to allow Japan to send a rescue team.
When the earthquake struck on Monday afternoon, Sun said, the survivor must have been in a corridor by a stairwell. When the hospital collapsed, he was trapped in a cavity beneath the stairs.
"That's why he is still alive," Sun surmised, although three people in the same cavity were dead, the survivor had said.
As the firemen dug away at the aperture they had opened, they found that the corridor had become a 15-foot deep shaft. Somehow, it seemed, the man had climbed up and found a ledge, six feet beneath the surface of the ruins.
He was standing on that ledge, exhausted and almost speechless but otherwise apparently unhurt, when a fireman reached down and secured a harness under his arms. They dragged him into the sunlight early Thursday afternoon.
Outside on the street, an ambulance had backed up to what had been the hospital's rear entrance, sirens blaring as military policemen struggled to hold back the crowd that had gathered, drawn by reports of good news.
A dozen white-coated nurses bearing first aid supplies ran in, and 10 minutes later a clump of firemen stumbled out bearing a stretcher, and a precious cargo: The survivor, a man apparently in his 40s, was wearing a dusty pair of blue pants and was wrapped in an orange fireman's jacket, his eyes masked against the daylight.
As the firemen slid the stretcher into the ambulance, the crowd broke into applause. The ambulance's rear door slammed shut, and the vehicle raced off to a hospital in the provincial capital of Chengdu, 50 miles away.
Even after so many hours, the firemen said they didn't know the survivor's name. The survivor may not have heard them, but if he did, the words of encouragement one fireman had spoken during the lengthy rescue would have been ringing in his ears: "You will have a second chance at life."


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3 hours ago | Tim Costello
Who ever said International Rugby League was dead should have been at Ericsson number two last night, as Cook Islands and Tonga battled it out in the 3rd Round of the Pacific Rim Tournament.
In what can only be described as one of the most brutal International matches played in recent memory, both teams showed what it meant to play for their country at the highest level.
Winner of the match would more than likely take on NZ Maori in the final of the Pacific Rim, and Tonga were strong favourites to make their final after their 56-6 thrashing of Fiji in round one.
As per the other matches, both nations preformed their hakas simultaneously before it was down to the action.
Straight from the kick off Tonga smashed the Cooks with several impressive hits. But what was to be the flavour of the night, the Tongans gave away a penalty right in front of the post which gave Cook Islands stand off Carlos Mataora an easy kick at goal.
The smallish crowd of just over 700 people had to wait 15 minutes for the first try of the match, which came from a brilliant solo run from the Tongan fullback Lemisio Sete. Sete split the Cooks back line from the scrum base before racing 40 metres to score. Centre Vunga Lilo missed the conversion to make the score 4-2 to Tonga.
Then the real action commenced, as Tonga and the Cooks traded what can only be described as some of the most brutal tackles seen in along time in International Rugby League. Most of the massive hits came from the Tongans in which sent mainly Cook Island players airborne, but what the Cooks got they gave back just as good. It wasn?t just the one hit, but more than a dozen hits through out the match.
After numerous infringements by the Tongans, they lost a replacement forward to the sin bin in which resulted in the Cooks first try to replacement Tere Tala. Tala scored after strong run from 10 metres to score adjacent to the posts.
Mataora converted the try and a penalty several minutes later to give the Cooks a 10-4 lead at the break.
The second half began as the first one started with massive hits from both teams. But it would be the Cooks who scored the first points in the second half after back to back sets of six on the Tongan try line resulting in a try to centre Nathan Ford.
Time was running out for the Tongans as the big hits kept coming, the pressure built. With 10 minutes remaining in the match, another Tongan player was sin binned for a professional foul.
Cooks winger Byron Ford scored in the same corner as his brother to give the Cooks an 18-4 lead with six minutes left.
Tonga then threw everything they had at the Cooks, and were finally rewarded with a try to half back Joe Taufa'ao from close range. Centre Vunga Lilo nailed the conversion as time ran out on the Tongans, going down 18-10.
The tone of the match could only be described by one act of Cooks winger Byron Ford. After being hammered in a tackle by the Tongans, Ford got to his feet played the ball while yelling ?I love it, I love it!?
The only way to describe the hits in the match is to compare them to the hits of young Kiwi Sonny Bill Williams. The hits from Tonga and the Cooks made Sonny?s ?hits? look like normal tackles. In what can only be described as a miracle that only one player was taken to hospital by an ambulance.
The only crime in the match was that yet again it was not promoted and only 700 people turned up.
Without a doubt the standard of the Pacific Islands teams is on the rise, though it will probably never be at the same speed as the Kangaroos and the Kiwis.
With the Rugby League World Cup scheduled in 2008, you can count on Tongan and Cook Islands being their and playing competitively.
Cooks will now play Fiji tomorrow night and have should have to much power for the brave Fijians. Tonga will now play NZ Maori or Samoa in the Plate final on Saturday.
Cook Islands 18
Byron Ford, Nathan Ford, Tere Tala : Tries Carlos Mataora (3) : Goals
Tonga 10
Lemisio Sete, Joe Taufa'ao : Tries Vunga Lilo (1) : Goals
Halftime Score : 10 - 4 To Cook Islands
Courtesy of: http://www.rugbyleaguenz.com
In results just to hand from http://www.nzrl.co.nz
Wednesday 20 October 2004 - Waitemata Stadium, Henderson, Auckland
Samoa vs New Caledonia Samoa 76 Andrew Suniula, Kristian Mene, Steve Matai, Joshua Stowers, Eddie Leuluai, Chanel Tuimavave, James Uoka (2), Andreas Bauer (2), Tone Taula (3), Anthony Swann (3) : Tries Jacob Yandall (1), Jesse Ioapo (2), Leiloa Lafaele (3) : Goals
New Caledonia 0
Halftime Score : 34 - 0 To Samoa
Amerika Samoa vs Cook Islands Cook Islands 28 Travel Tulai, Richard Piakura, Lucas Daniels, Thomas Fortes, Hugh Smith, Kimi Iobu : Tries Corey Wetini (2) : Goals
Amerika Samoa 12 Konelio Alefosio, Tui Samoa : Tries Konelio Alefosio (2) : Goals
Halftime Score : 10 - 6 To Cook Islands


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The work of the Etowah County Long Term Recovery Committee is winding down, 15 months after devastating tornadoes ripped through the state.
The work of the Etowah County Long Term Recovery Committee is winding down, 15 months after devastating tornadoes ripped through the state.
In Etowah County, 15 families have been assisted through the Long Term Recovery Committee, said Susan Carter, director of United Way's 211 First Call for Help and coordinator of the committee.
Carter provided statistics Thursday as the committee celebrated the new home of one of the families that received help.
Some of these families needed only a small amount of help, such as filing Federal Emergency Management Agency and Small Business Administration paperwork or an advocate to file an appeal, to complete their recovery, Carter said.
Other families needed more assistance, she said, especially if their homes were severely impacted or destroyed and they were without insurance at the time.
Carter said two families still are in temporary FEMA housing.
"To the best of our knowledge, all of the other families have moved into completed homes," she said. "Repairs have been completed on many of the homes that were damaged but not destroyed."
April 27, 2011, is the worst day in the state's history for tornadoes. Etowah County was one of the least impacted areas. Neighboring counties suffered much more damage and numerous deaths from the storms.
"If you're affected, though, it doesn't matter how much damage was in other areas," Carter said. "Every disaster is personal if it affects you."
Even though Etowah County had less damage, the Long Term Recovery Committee was one of the first groups in the state to get organized.
"We were one of the first groups to get around the table," Carter said.
The Long Term Recovery Committee is overseen by the Etowah County Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster.
It's a group of service providers who work together to help prepare and recover from disasters, she said.
In Etowah County, there were 593 registrations for help through FEMA, and $454,000 was awarded in FEMA funding, Carter said.
Marshall County had 4,806 FEMA registrations and $3.06 million was awarded.
DeKalb County had 2,809 FEMA registrations, but was awarded more FEMA funds at $4.5 million.
St. Clair County had 1,948 registrations, and FEMA awards were $2.37 million. Calhoun County had 1,593 FEMA registrations, and $2.75 million was awarded. Cherokee County had 762 FEMA registrations, with $427,000 awarded.
Statewide, Alabama residents were awarded $71 million for housing assistance and other needs from FEMA, Carter said.
FEMA provides each community an estimate of unmet needs based on the value of property loss minus the assistance from FEMA or insurance, she said. The estimated value of unmet needs in Etowah County was at least $95,000.
"A primary focus of the Long Term Recovery Committee is to address the remaining disaster-related needs of a family once they have received the maximum awards from federal and state disaster assistance programs," Carter said. "The maximum awards as established by law do not always cover needs of a family that has lost everything. Through cooperation and coordination, the voluntary agencies, including the faith community as part of the Long Term Recovery Committee, work to help the family."
Through local donations and grant-writing efforts, the Etowah County Long Term Recovery Committee raised about $111,000 to help pay for unmet needs.
Immediately after the tornadoes struck, the 12th Street Baptist Church in Rainbow City hosted the Disaster Donation Management Center and remained open through December, Carter said.
"Providing both volunteers and a wonderful location to host the center, the Donation Management Center handed out everything from pallets of water, diapers, food and building materials, literally A-Z," Carter said. "These donations were shared with our neighbors in Calhoun, Cherokee, Marshall, St. Clair counties, Pratt City and Phil Campbell."
The estimated value of goods that passed through the Donation Management Center was $250,000, Carter said.
Becky Ellis coordinated the Donation Management Center while simultaneously providing case management for the families that were assisted through the Long Term Recovery Committee.
With the help of volunteers from Florida, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana and other parts of the country, lives and properties have been rebuilt, Carter said.
While there is no way to accurately gauge the value of the wave of volunteers who came to Etowah County to help rebuild homes, Carter said it is estimated at more than $157,000.
She said some volunteer groups are continuing to come in as needed.
"We are winding down, but work is still going on," Carter said. "It's just a little quieter now."


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Gyorko plates six; Padres drub Fernandez, Fish
SAN DIEGO -- Chances are, Jedd Gyorko wasn't going to get much sleep Thursday night -- and not just because his fielding error in the 11th inning essentially paved the way for a Marlins victory.
The Padres second baseman has been sleep starved recently because his newborn twin boys, not even two weeks old, are nowhere near the point of sleeping through the night.View Full Game Coverage
SAN DIEGO -- Chances are, Jedd Gyorko wasn't going to get much sleep Thursday night -- and not just because his fielding error in the 11th inning essentially paved the way for a Marlins victory.
The Padres second baseman has been sleep starved recently because his newborn twin boys, not even two weeks old, are nowhere near the point of sleeping through the night.View Full Game Coverage
But for whatever reason, Brody and Kadin gave dad a break Thursday, which allowed Gyorko something akin to a full night of sleep.
"Maybe they sensed that I needed it," Gyorko said smiling.
Well-rested on Friday, Gyorko atoned for his fielding gaffe in a big way, as he drilled two home runs, one a grand slam, to lead the Padres to a 10-1 victory over the Marlins in front of a crowd of 22,553 at Petco Park.
It was, to be sure, the first laugher of the season for the Padres (16-21), who have scuffled offensively in the first five-plus weeks of the season, struggling to bunch together hits and drive in runs with runners in scoring position.
Not Friday, though.
"Those are the types of games that happen," said Padres manager Bud Black. "It's rare that we have only had one."
That the Padres managed to do so against one of the top pitchers in all of baseball -- Jose Fernandez -- made this offensive outburst seem even more unlikely. Consider that before Friday, the most runs the Padres had scored in a game this season was six.
Black certainly hopes that's not the case moving forward.
"I think there's more of that to come," he said. "I think guys are more capable of those performances."
In two previous starts vs. the Padres, Fernandez had a combined 14 2/3 scoreless innings. Last month in Miami, he struck out eight in 6 2/3 scoreless innings.
In the second inning, Yasmani Grandal reached on an error and Gyorko -- who entered the game hitting .146 -- connected for a two-run home run to right field. Cameron Maybin later lined out to the fence in deep center field and Yonder Alonso doubled. There was a lot of hard contact early.
"It just wasn't his night. You could tell from the first inning on, he was up in the zone. They hit some balls hard off him," said Marlins manager Mike Redmond. "The error cost him a couple of runs. It looked like his command was off and he was up in the zone."
Black and Gyorko alluded to following an aggressive game plan at the plate against Fernandez (4-2), getting fastballs early in the count so not to see -- or to avoid as much as possible -- his plus curveball.
"We hit some balls right on the barrel," Black said. "Our intent was to be aggressive. I think we had a plan of attacking him before he could attack us."
The Padres chased Fernandez in the sixth inning, as he loaded the bases on two singles and a walk. He then fell behind Gyorko with two balls before trying to sneak a fastball by him. Gyorko opened his hips and turned on the ball, sending it over the fence in left field for a 6-0 lead.
It was certainly a far cry from how Gyorko felt just 24 hours earlier when he left Petco Park, receiving consoling from his manager and teammates after his fielding error extended an inning and let Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton hit, which led to a decisive two-run home run.
"That was one of the lowest points in my baseball career," Gyorko said.
But Friday proved to be a new day, and with starting pitcher Tyson Ross (4-3) getting a lot of mileage out of his slider, the Padres were well on their way.
Ross took a shutout into the seventh inning when he allowed a home run to Marcell Ozuna. That hardly took the shine off his outing, though, as he allowed the one run on four hits in seven innings with two walks and eight strikeouts.
"I thought the fastball command was there and thought the slider was effective," Black said. "I think the slider was in his back pocket all night to go to."
Pitching with a lead, while a different reality for Ross, felt somewhat liberating, as he was able to attack the strike zone early and often.
"It's huge to get that early in a game like that," the righty said. "It was awesome to see. We all knew that it was coming."
Just maybe not the way it did Friday, against one of the best young pitchers -- or maybe just one of the best pitchers period -- in the game.
That it came after a tough finish made it even sweeter for Gyorko, who might fall back into his routine of running for screaming babies and filling bottles before daybreak as soon as Saturday.
"It's nice to bounce back like that," Gyorko said.
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter.


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Ridgway native Melissa Quattrone, 24, competed for the crown in the annual Miss Pennsylvania USA pageant this past November.The pageant was held at the Hyatt Regency at the Pittsburgh Aiport."Although I didn't place in the competition, I walked away with more confidence, 61 new friends and an experience that will last a lifetime."I was very happy to see Amber-Joi Watkins get crowned, she deserved it."Watkins was a previous runner-up in the competition.The reigning Miss Pa. Goes on to compete in the televised Miss USA on NBC in April. The contestants compete in a series of events; personal interview, and evening gown and bathing suit competitions"Miss Pennsylvania is a weekend-long event with three separate shows for each division for public viewing," Quattrone said. "Any young female who is a Pennsylvania resident can enter. After entering there is an interview process which is based on the individual, her accomplishments, life goals, and volunteerism. Each contestant is required to be sponsored and I was fortunate enough to have a boss who believes in my interests."Quattrone put a lot of time and dedication into preparing for this pageant."My plan was to go into this pageant like I was going into Miss USA," Quattrone said. "Some of the things I did to prepare myself were keeping up with current events, working with a personal trainer, finding outfits, and I had my evening gown and bathing suit made. It is really important in this pageant to reflect yourself through choices of attire."I really am thankful for having my family and friends there to help me out during the months of preparation." The Miss Pennsylvania USA marked the fifth beauty pageant Quattrone has competed in. She has been interested in beauty pageants since she was a little girl."Most of my pageants have been recent since I was focusing on my education," Quattrone said. "During college, I competed in Miss Cameo USA twice and won the title of Miss Cameo USA 2010. Last year I competed in Miss Butler County USA where I was second runner-up."It all started for her when she was nominated as the Homecoming Queen at Ridgway Area High School."Because of this, I was further nominated as a PA State finalist for America's Homecoming Queen," Quattrone said. "This was my first pageant and after that I knew it was something I wanted to keep doing."Quattrone entered the competition in November ready to win it."I was not nervous at all," Quattrone said. "I wanted this for so many years and I was not letting anything, especially nerves, get in my way."At this time she is uncertain whether she will reenter the competition."My friends and family think I should, but for right now, I am focusing on the present," Quattrone said.Quattrone lives in Butler but was born and raised in Ridgway."I love it there," Quattrone said. "When my friends ask me where I grew up and what Ridgway is like I always explain it as Candyland compared to anywhere else. Everyone is nice, everything is homemade, and the area is beautiful. Quattrone graduated from RAHS in 2005 and later graduated from Slippery Rock University in 2005 with a B.A. In Communications and a minor in Spanish.She presently works as a technical recruiter for Pyramid Consulting Group."It is an IT Consulting/Placement firm," Quattrone said. "My focus is to place Information Technology professionals with major corporations in the Pittsburgh area. I started this position in August of 2009. My average day consists of sourcing qualified candidates that may be open to the job market and matching up their skills with the needs of our clients. Some of the clients we deal with are banks, investment firms, logistic and retail companies."She is the daughter of Frank and Sandy Quattrone and granddaughter of Joe and Loretta Quattrone and the late Santo Dragone and Joann Dragone of Johnsonburg.. Quattrone returns to Ridgway as often as she can."I come back to Ridgway all of the time," Quattrone said. "I love to spend time with my family and friends."


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Named for its original location in Point Loma, Barnard Asian Pacific Language Academy hasn't changed its name despite having moved from 930 Barnard St. in Point Loma to 2445 Fogg St. in Pacific Beach.
Principal Edward Park toured the grounds of the relocated magnet school, formerly Bayview Terrace Elementary, enthusing about Barnard's new digs, its progressive program, being one of six schools in the Mission Bay "cluster" and its role in the larger community.
"We want local people, local businesses to come by and support the schools," said Park. "We've got a very special community. I know for a fact these parents want to make positive changes in this community. And we're doing everything we can to be as special as possible and create opportunities for everyone, like the Mandarin program."
The most spoken language in the world, Mandarin is the primary language taught at Barnard, whose students spend half the day learning it and its thousands of written characters.
The idea behind Barnard's programming is that, through integration with the Mandarin Chinese culture, including the arts, music and literature, students will develop the ability to successfully use their knowledge to think and act globally and become thoughtful, responsible and successful global citizens.
The blending of a world-language program with a challenging and well-rounded academic program also taught in English enables Barnard students to face and triumph over the challenges of the 21st century, said Park.
"It supports the mission of all our schools in Mission Bay, which is to be globalized," he said.
The Mandarin Chinese magnet program started out six years ago in Point Loma in a 65-year-old rundown facility with just 130 students.
"It was a school that wasn't going anywhere," said Park. "We instituted the Mandarin language program and got a whole slew of partnerships and students coming from different places all over San Diego County. Now we're looking at about 430 students with a waiting list — and we'll probably even extend it more next year."
Park showed off Barnard's office lobby, which is full of plaques and photos honoring the school and its achievements. The principal has spent a lot of time and effort redecorating the school, hanging out lanterns and adding other touches of Chinese culture like dragons (symbolic of renewal) and lots of red coloring (symbolizing new life).
Park said a new educational approach is being championed at the school.
"Were trying to make sure our teachers interact with our students rather than a lecture style," he said. "We want children surrounding teachers instead of the teacher here, and students over there. That creates space and we want collaboration. We want students to be engaged. We want a lot of conversation happening, not like the olden days where teachers continued to talk and kids just listened. Now we want to bring out their creativity and their innovative mind set."
Barnard also has the latest technological educational innovations, like Promethean, a high-powered display whiteboard that combines touch interactivity with integrated sound.
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"I just love doing Google Earth," he said, focusing the large Promethean screen in on the Great Wall of China, demonstrating just how cutting-edge an educational tool the system can be.
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Behind the Best Innovations: Obvious, Annoying Problems
How can being like Andy Rooney help the tech sphere? First, find the most annoying, obvious problem that millions of people deal with every day. Then ask if things really have to be that way. Farhad Manjoo joins digits. Photo: Nest.
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