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A newly-leaked Justice Department memo detailing Obama administration rules for drone strikes on terrorists who are US citizens is drawing criticism Tuesday from across the political spectrum. It's sure to be a central topic in the Senate on Thursday, when White House official John Brennan, who's helped run the drone program, faces questions in his nomination hearing to be the next director of the CIA.
The central aspect of the memo that critics find troubling is its vagueness. The document outlines loose definitions of which citizens qualify as top terrorists, the circumstances under which they pose an "imminent" threat to the US, and when it's not feasible to simply capture them.
"The takeaway is that the Obama administration took a process that is supposed to constrain the president within the law's confines ... and then qualified those constraints so drastically that it would be more honest to acknowledge that neither imminence nor infeasible capture are really required," writes Conor Friedersdorf of the Atlantic, a longtime opponent of the secret drone program.
First, the basics: the 16-page memo was obtained by NBC News and published on its website. It appears to be an unclassified Justice paper summarizing a longer, classified Office of Legal Counsel official finding on when it is – and isn't – legal for US security officials to target US citizens suspected of working with Al Qaeda.
That classified memo, in turn, was drawn up prior to the 2011 drone strike in Yemen that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric born in New Mexico.
The paper obtained by NBC was apparently meant to be used to brief members of Congress. It outlines a three-part test for when US citizens might end up in their own nation's cross-hairs.
First, they must be senior members of Al Qaeda. Second, they must pose an imminent threat of violent attack against the US. Third, it must be infeasible for US or allied forces to capture the individual in question.
The catch here is that when it comes to defining these terms, "the government is using its own dictionary," according to Margaret Hartmann of New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer blog.
All that's required, under the memo's wording, is for a well-informed top official of the US government to decide that the person in question is a top terrorist. As for "imminent," that does not mean "about to happen" in this case. It means only that the alleged terrorist must have recently been involved in activities posing a threat of violent attack and that there is no evidence they've renounced those activities.
Waiting to attack until a terrorist act is actually about to occur would be waiting too long, according to the memo. The US might not have time to defend itself, since top terrorists may make themselves scarce in the days and weeks before an attack is supposed to occur.
"The United States is likely to have only a limited window of opportunity within which to defend Americans in a manner that has both a high likelihood of success and sufficiently reduces the probabilities of civilian casualties," reads the memo.
As for mounting an attempt to capture the person in question, that's deemed "infeasible" if it might result in harm to US or allied forces.
The memo sparked a rare moment of bipartisanship in US political discourse, as some on both sides of the aisle reacted the same way to its provisions: with alarm.
At the right-leaning blog Hot Air, for instance, Ed Morrissey writes that "this memo ... basically gives the government carte blanche to target Americans in whatever it considers to be the battlefield for almost any kind of 'threat' it imagines."
Other conservatives noted that the memo could well have been drawn up by the administration of George W. Bush.
Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union declared the paper a "disturbing document."
"It summarizes in cold legal terms a stunning overreach of executive authority – the claimed power to declare Americans a threat and kill them far from a recognized battlefield and without any judicial involvement before or after the fact," said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project, in a statement.
The US use of armed drones as the sharp point of its war against Al Qaeda was already sure to come up Thursday when John Brennan, Obama's chief counterterrorism advisor, sits before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
White House officials have described Brennan as a restraint on the drone program, and said he's eager to get the CIA out of the drone business by transferring it to the US military. They defend the use of drones as a responsible and limited effort that reduces both US casualties and collateral damage, while inflicting notable damage on America's adversaries.
But the scope of US targeted killings – some 3,500 over the years, in an estimated 420 strikes, according to the Council on Foreign Relations – is so large that for some members of Congress simply shifting responsibility for the program may not be enough.
"We've shifted from major boots on the ground to an entirely secret operation in which not even the American people understand the costs or strategic benefit to what is being carried out in their name," said Sarah Holewinski, executive director of the Center for Civilians in Conflict during a CFR media conference call on Feb. 4.


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Tina.johansen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 104 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
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Hi my name is Tina and I have a styling company called Creative Styling.
I work with photographers,advertising company`s and regular people and so on who need help with styling.
Most off the work I do for photographers is making everything ready for a photo shoot for an advertisement. I find cloths for the models, do their hair and make up, find interior for the setting around the models and so on.
I also style apartment`s for sale, do make up on brides and so on.
Since there is missing so many interior products when I`m looking for something special for a commercial or for the house I`m starting up a web shop with the same name so when you look at my web page you can see the jobs I have done and you can look at my web shop to find beautiful products for the whole house. A lot off the products will be for children as well since there are missing so many children products to decorate children rooms.
I want to reach photographer who need a stylist,advertising firms,people who need help with styling off houses, a lot off the people will be women who are looking for good ideas for the house and for children rooms.
A lot off the audience will be mums who want something special for their children.
Some off the audience may be people who are getting married, the bride may need make up or help with decorating for the wedding.
I want the logo to be simple,but delicate and a little feminine.
Maybe the T in Creative and in Styling can be used together some how?
But not necessary. I want something around or beside or an top or bottom of the name. It can be anything,a small house or something that just looks good.
I like happy colors, can be bright or can be soft.
I just want something that catch peoples eyes!:)))
I like the logo that have been made by one of you designers for Laura Rauch with the tree.
I`m open for many things, just think what will catch someone`s eye and be remember`d:))
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Years ago I had an older gentleman who'd had a massive stroke, and the family didn't want to have anything done. As always, the question of "how long will he go on?" came up, which is very hard to predict.
Because of the size of the stroke, and him developing brainstem herniation, I guessed about 24-48 hours.
Literally, before I'd finished THAT VERY sentence, he collapsed over to his right and the monitor went flat.
The daughter looked at me, stunned.
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PatrickBlais necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 186 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
We are a company based on social development. Our objective is helping people gain personnal understanding. Thank you for helping us !
We would like to have a great image.
Summum is the brand
1. We need a logo for Summum which is the name of our services. We like the Joomla's logo since sinergy between people is our focus. We work for the wellness of people.
2. We need business cards with the name "Summum HR" (as in Human Resources)
3. We need a banner for our web site using our logo.
example : http://www.getjealous.com/getjealou…pattheblap
* We do not necesserly want people in the image... it's up to you and your feeling but it can be good as we work with people ! We will pay for the photos if they need to be purchase.
4. Optionnal but could be great to have : A power point background template.
1. Our logo should have the 4 colours (red, yellow, green and blue) where (fire, sun, plant and water are the visual element of nature representation).
A winner will be awarded $300.
You can see the description of the colours behaviors :
We do not want rainbows.
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Reading the Interface
Left Side[edit]
The interface of The Sims series has always been a paragon of organization, even if it became a bit cluttered in later expansions. Luckily, it's as easy to read as ever in Sims 3, though it has been organized differently.
On the far left side of the interface is a portrait of every Sim in your family. Clicking any of them will select that Sim so you can give orders. Below that are the camera controls, as well as the button to open the menu to save, exit to the neighborhood, exit the game entirely, and so on. Also there are buttons to take screenshots or the button to start the in-game movie recorder. You can also adjust the display of walls for your house, and change floors that you can see.
To the right of that are buttons that take you to Live Mode, Buy Mode, and Build Mode. Live Mode is what you're doing now, living the virtual life. Buy Mode allows you to purchase stuff for the house, and Build Mode lets you expand the building itself. We'll touch on these later, once they become relevant.
The rest of the interface is specific to the Sim you have selected. To the immediate right of the mode buttons is a display of your Sim's current wish and promises. The wish is what the Sim desires at that moment. If you click the picture of it, you "promise" this wish to the Sim. In this case, Seth's wish is to join the military career track. By clicking the little tank, I promise him I will let him do so. Breaking the promise—if I make him do a different career—or canceling the promise doesn't have a penalty attached, so don't worry if you change your mind. If I fulfill the promise however, he gets a bit happier.
The military career is my intent for him anyway, so I go ahead and make the promise, which moves the picture to the four below it. Now he has no current wish (mostly because I've got the game paused), but he has something to look forward to.
While this wish was self-explanatory, some may not be, especially if you've just started the game. If you mouse over it, however, the game will give you a quick explanation how to fulfill it.
To the right of that are the time controls and a picture of the Sim's lifetime wish that you selected. Also there are the date and time. If you mouse over that small line that gives the date and time, a tooltip will pop up that tells you exactly how long you've been playing this family in Sim time. Right now it reads "Week 1, Day 1," though probably by the time I'm done with the Schultzes we'll be in week 20 or more!
To the right of that is where the real action is! The first meter, a vertical one, is the overall mood meter. This goes up as the Sim is in better shape, and goes down as they get upset. As Sims get into better moods, they are more inclined to follow your orders. Sims in bad moods especially will refuse to do displeasurable tasks like cleaning or studying. The little bubble at the top of the mood meter is, to explain it best, a mood overdrive. When the mood is that high, the Sim gets a constant influx of Lifetime Happiness Points, which we'll go over soon.
To the right of the mood meter is a picture of any buffs or debuffs (the game properly calls them "moodlets") the Sim has. These effects are typically based on some action the Sim has taken. For example, a Sim who bathes will often have the Squeaky Clean buff, meaning he just feels clean for several game hours, and feels good (i.e., gets a bit of a mood boost) as a result.
Sim Panels[edit]
To the right of the moodlets display is an arrow that expands or collapses the "Sim Panels," a series of eight tabs that give any essential information for your Sims. The first tab is the Simology Panel, which lists the Sim's name, family tree, age, favorites, biography, and traits. The panel is background information only, and doesn't really have much bearing on the day-to-day activities, other than the age.
The second tab is the Relationship Panel, which lists every other Sim the current Sim knows. You can mouse over their portrait to get more information, and click the filter buttons to see a specific group. Relationships are simplified to a single meter without numbers, but it's still pretty clear where you stand with a Sim. We'll deal more with relationships later.
The third tab is the Employment Panel. Once your Sim has a job, you'll get to see what career you're on, how much he's making every day, which days he works, and what skills he needs to get promoted.
The fourth tab is the Skills Panel, which tells you what your Sim can do. Skills are attained through various actions, and we'll deal with those when they become relevant too.
The fifth tab shows you the Sim's inventory. All Sims are equipped with a cell phone at all times, and all Sims start off with an item or two. Anything else your Sims earn go here, and you can drag furniture and other things into your backpack here to carry them around. Sims have huge pockets!
The sixth tab is the Opportunity Panel. Based on your career, skills, and other situations, you may get a chance to do something special with this Sim. We'll detail that too later, once Seth or Holly get an opportunity. For now, just remember that this is where you go to activate them.
The seventh tab is the Lifetime Rewards Panel. As you fulfill promises and wishes, the Sim gains Lifetime Happiness points, which you can cash in here for Lifetime Rewards. We'll go over those in another section, but they're all useful with no downsides.
The final tab is the Needs Panel, which is probably where you'll spend most of your time. This lists six needs: hunger, social, bladder, hygiene, energy, and fun. Hunger is filled as the Sim eats. Bladder is filled (ironically) when the Sim uses the bathroom. Social is filled as the Sim interacts with others, though what may fill one Sim's Social Need could actually lower another Sim's, so personality plays a role here. Hygiene is filled when the Sim bathes. Energy is filled when the Sim sleeps. Fun is filled when a Sim does an activity he enjoys, which is also based on personality.
For Sims vets, you'll notice that the Environment and Comfort are gone. Instead, those issues are affected by personality and just directly affect the mood. For example, a Slob Sim doesn't care about messes everywhere, so it would have no effect. Neat Sims, however, would take a serious hit to their moods if they were surrounded by flies and dirty dishes.
Now that you've got a handle on the interface, it's time to unpause and start exploring Sunset Valley!
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About Slow Food Madison
Slow Food Madison is the chapter of the international Slow Food organization that serves Madison Wisconsin and the surrounding region.
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Slow Food Madison is entirely volunteer driven, by passionate people like you. Together, we produce events, field-trips, tastings, workshops, classes, and other celebrations to teach one-another and share in the pleasure of Good, Clean, and Fair Food.
Madison was one of the very first local chapters in the USA, and is now one of 1300 chapters in 163 countries world-wide. For details about the history of Slow Food in Madison, read this page.
Good, Clean, and Fair
At all levels, the Slow Food movement promotes Good, Clean, and Fair food for all.
Good: A fresh and flavorsome seasonal diet that satisfies the senses and is part of our local culture;
Clean: Food production and consumption that does not harm the environment, animal welfare, or our health;
Fair: Accessible prices for eaters and fair conditions and pay for small-scale producers.
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5 Fun Facts About Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Rachel Slaff
Learn about the civil rights leader responsible for your three-day weekend.
1. Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't just become the leader of the civil right movement: He helped to start it.
In response to Rosa Parks' famous refusal to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger, King led the black community in Montgomery, Alabama, in the first nonviolent civil rights demonstration in the United States in 1955. Their bus boycott lasted for 382 days (that's more than a year of finding another way to get to work!), until the United States Supreme Court ruled that laws segregating buses were unconstitutional.
2. In his efforts to fight segregation and inequality, King traveled more than six million miles and spoke more than 2,500 times.
As he noted in his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (read the full text) King served as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which had more than 80 affiliated organizations throughout the South. Why not just telephone, instead of constantly being on the road? "I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham," King wrote. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
3. He was a preacher, an orator, a community organizer—and a dad.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King had four children: Yolanda Denise, Martin Luther III, Dexter Scott and Bernice Albertine. He gave them a beautiful shout-out in his famous "I Have A Dream" speech: "I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
4. King didn't just focus on civil rights.
In 1966, he began a campaign against poverty and urban inequality. A follower of Gandhi's non-violent principles, King also objected to the United States' participation in the Vietnam War. And it was his support of a sanitation workers' strike that took him to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
5. MLK is the only non-president with a national holiday in his honor.
Since Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a federal holiday, your kids likely have off from school. Think about volunteering together in MLK's honor.


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White House defends use of alternatives to HealthCare.gov
The Obama administration on Monday defended its request that consumers frustrated with the malfunctioning HealthCare.gov website apply for coverage by phone after it emerged that customer service operators must still use the troubled website to assist callers.
The issue flared up at Monday's White House news briefing after ABC News reported that an Oct. 11 memo from the Department of Health and Human Services claimed that all applications – whether submitted by phone, paper or online – are processed through the HealthCare.gov website, which serves as the entry portal for the federal health insurance marketplace.
That means frustrated users aren't bypassing the website when they use the HHS call center or submit paper applications. They're merely leaving it to someone else – who'd still have to navigate a frequently problem-plagued system – to create an account for them.
"The same portal is used to determine eligibility no matter how the application is submitted," read an HHS memo obtained by ABC News. "The paper applications allow people to feel like they are moving forward in the process and provides another option. At the end of the day, we are all stuck in the same queue."
For weeks, President Barack Obama and his aides have touted the alternative enrollment methods, rarely mentioning that they ultimately go through the website.
Julie Bataille, the communications director for HHS' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, wouldn't address the accuracy of the memo Monday, saying only that "notes are not official documents." In a phone briefing, she said callers had, in fact, been able to apply and enroll over the phone. Bataille maintained that the site should be functioning properly for the vast majority of users by the end of November.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the alternative enrollment methods could save time for consumers.
"The whole point was to alleviate the frustration that so many Americans were having online and to take that frustration away from them and allow a live person at a call-in center to handle their questions and their sign-ups and their enrollment for them," he said at his daily briefing.
But Carney, pushing back against a series of aggressive questions, said the administration had always made it clear that the website would still be used.
"You call up, you give your information, you get the questions answered that you need answered and then . . . they take over from there, and then you find out, you know, what you're eligible for and the process goes forward," he said.
Carney and Bataille said the administration wasn't considering taking down the website until it could be fixed, as some members of Congress have suggested.
On Monday, the website went down unexpectedly for 90 minutes, leaving users unable to apply for and enroll in coverage. The system's data hub, which verifies applicant information for all the nation's health marketplaces, remained fully functional during the outage, Bataille said.
"We are clearly frustrated with the current status of the site," she said, "but HealthCare.gov is fixable."
The reason for Monday's outage appears to be a server overload problem, but the root cause hasn't been confirmed, said Andrew Slavitt, an executive vice president at the health care-systems consultant Optum who's a member of the team of government and private industry experts working to fix the website.
Slavitt, who was on the media call with Bataille, said Monday's outage, which occurred about 12:40 p.m. EST, wasn't a rare occurrence and that other unexpected outages probably would happen while repairs to the site were underway. The website was down for a total of two full days last week – including 12 hours over the weekend – for repairs after problems with an outside contractor.
Bataille said the weekend repairs allowed more than 12 site fixes, including hardware upgrades and improvements to systems that transmit information to insurers. The outages don't appear to be the work of sabotage or the result of hackers trying to attack the system, she said.


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As marketing and technology moves closer and closer, and branding and advertising can change literally overnight, the big challenge facing most marketers is how to stay relevant.
Podcasts are one of my favourite ways to keep track of everything that happens in the industry. The debates and contrasting points of view that often ensue help me learn and understand topics in more depth than simply reading an industry rag such as Mashable.
So without further adieu, here are my pick of podcasts you should be listening to if you're serious about making smarter marketing decisions this year:
- The Beancast
Hosted by the golden voiced Bob Knorpp, The Beancast is a weekly roundtable with some of the brightest marketing minds in North America discussing the latest trends and issues affecting marketers today. Every episode is around an hour long but the debate and discussion is worth it.
- Six Pixels of Separation
Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm a huge fan of Mitch Joel and his blog Six Pixels of Separation, and his podcast of the same name is no exception. Geared toward senior marketers and executives, each week he interviews business and creative thought leaders such as Avinash Kaushik and Jonathan Salem Baskin giving unparalleled insight into a diverse range of topics.
If you do subscribe, keep your ears out for the occasional Media Hacks episode with regular hackers Mitch, Chris Brogan, Julien Smith, Christopher S. Penn, C.C. Chapman and Hugh Mcguire.
- Marketing Over Coffee
Hosted by John Wall and Christopher S. Penn this incredibly popular podcast is essential listening for anyone looking for actionable marketing advice. I'm yet to listen to an episode that hasn't given me something useful to make me better at my job.
- Across the Sound
I'm totally cheating here, but this deserves it's own entry. Another SPOS spin-off in a "two for the price of one" kinda way, this is a monthly discussion/debate between Mitch Joel and Joseph Jaffe – two of the industry's heaviest hitters – riffing on the business, cultural and social impact of digital and social media.
- Communication Junction
***Shameless plug alert***
Now coming into our second year, this regular discussion between Sarah Thomas, Jason Neave and myself covers digital marketing, PR and social media in Australia and is the only Adelaide marketing podcast we know of.
So there you have it, head on over to iTunes or use your favourite podcast client and start upping your marketing IQ.


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Allen Park, MI (SportsNetwork.com) - Detroit Lions owner and chairman William Clay Ford, Sr. died Sunday morning. He was 88 years old.
Ford, who would have turned 89 next Saturday, purchased the Lions on Nov. 22, 1963 for $4.5 million and owned the team until his death.
"It is with profound sadness that we mourn the loss of Mr. Ford and extend our deepest sympathies to Mrs. Ford and to the entire Ford family," Lions president Tom Lewand said in a statement. "No owner loved his team more than Mr. Ford loved the Lions. Those of us who had the opportunity to work for Mr. Ford knew of his unyielding passion for his family, the Lions and the city of Detroit. His leadership, integrity, kindness, humility and good humor were matched only by his desire to bring a Super Bowl championship to the Lions and to our community. Each of us in the organization will continue to relentlessly pursue that goal in his honor."
Born on March 14, 1925, Ford was the last surviving grandchild of Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company. William Clay Ford, Sr. was also the largest individual shareholder in Ford Motor Company.
Control of the Lions will likely go to his son, William Clay Ford, Jr., who has served as vice chairman of the Lions since February 1995.


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Opinion: The Countdown to Private Spacecraft
XCOR Aerospace COO Andrew Nelson on the stunning advances in America's private space industry.
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Tigers wise to bring back Valverde as closer
I've had a warm spot in my heart for Jose Valverde since 2008, when he refused to leave a game after taking a liner off his head while closing for the Astros. Papa Grande lay on the ground for a few moments as medical personnel and others gathered round. Some teammates stayed away from the area for fear of what they'd see.
Valverde eventually got up, dusted himself off and promptly threw a 96-mph fastball. He got the final out of a game against the Phillies and retreated to the clubhouse to apply an ice pack on the side of his face.
I've had a warm spot in my heart for Jose Valverde since 2008, when he refused to leave a game after taking a liner off his head while closing for the Astros. Papa Grande lay on the ground for a few moments as medical personnel and others gathered round. Some teammates stayed away from the area for fear of what they'd see.
Valverde eventually got up, dusted himself off and promptly threw a 96-mph fastball. He got the final out of a game against the Phillies and retreated to the clubhouse to apply an ice pack on the side of his face.
To say that he won the respect of his teammates, coaches and manager Cecil Cooper that night would be a huge understatement. But Valverde brushed off the praise, saying he just did what he was paid to do.
Valverde sometimes annoys opponents with his celebrations of strikeouts and displays of emotions on the mound. When the Astros acquired him from the D-backs for the 2008 season, his new teammates were inclined not to like him because they only knew him from his on-the-field behavior.
They discovered that Valverde is a big, happy, demonstrative and occasionally loud baseball player. He shows up at the ballpark with a smile on his face and seems to be one of those people who hasn't had too many bad days.
OK, scratch that. He had a few of them during the 2012 postseason, when he rolled up a 48.60 ERA in his final three appearances. He was so bad that Tigers manager Jim Leyland was forced to remove him from the closer's role. And when the season ended, Tigers president, CEO and general manager Dave Dombrowski told Valverde the club wouldn't re-sign him for '13.
Now we fast forward to 2013, and the Tigers are again turning to Valverde. Their original plan to give hard-throwing rookie Bruce Rondon the closer's job was abandoned after a shaky Spring Training, and none of the veterans has taken hold of the role. As Leyland said during the spring, Detroit has a bunch of quality arms, but closers have a different mindset. They have the ability to deal with failure and to be able to perform with the game on their shoulders.
The Tigers have blown three of their six save chances, and with a team that could have the best rotation and one of the five best offenses, the lack of a closer is a glaring weakness.
Leyland has already said that Valverde will go right back to closing games, thus allowing Joaquin Benoit to return to his eighth-inning role and Phil Coke, Al Alburquerque and others to have the earlier innings. In another interesting move, Rondon has also been summoned to Detroit to work in less-pressurized situations and become comfortable with Major League hitters.
From Leyland's standpoint, it's an easy call. Relievers -- and every other player on a baseball team -- prefer to have their roles clearly defined. In a perfect world, they want to start preparing to enter a game before the bullpen telephone even rings.
There's comfort, not just for the relievers, but for Leyland, for the other players and for fans. Blowing late leads eats away at a team's confidence and impacts other areas. When a bullpen is going badly, a manager will ask more of his starters, and that extra workload can show up in negative ways in the second half of the season and in October.
So having Valverde back is going to feel right for the Tigers. His personality plays well in a clubhouse, and having a settled bullpen situation should be a shot of confidence for a team that knows it's expected to win a World Series.
Some have wondered why Dombrowski would turn back to a 35-year-old veteran who looked like he was at the end of the line during those three tough postseason appearances. Those are legitimate questions, and Dombrowski may be kicking himself for not grabbing Rafael Soriano off the free-agent market. (It's only money, and there's nothing a columnist likes doing better than spending someone else's cash.)
And maybe Valverde just had a bad couple of weeks last October. He finished the regular season strongly, converting 19 of his final 20 save chances and holding opponents to a .227 batting average.
Valverde's velocity has declined, from a career high of 95.8 mph in 2009, according to FanGraphs.com, to 93.4 mph last season. He averaged 95.2 mph in his first season with Detroit. But Valverde threw the ball about the same way in both '11 and '12.
What's interesting is that he appears to be throwing more fastballs, not less, and throwing fewer split-finger fastballs, not more. Pitchers will sometimes use the split-finger as their out pitch after they've begun to lose velocity.
Again, though, Valverde was plenty good in the second half of last season and began the playoffs with a three-out, two-strikeout save against the A's in Game 1 of the Division Series.
Dombrowski, one of the best in the business, would not be summoning Valverde back to the Major Leagues if he didn't think the veteran could succeed, and Leyland would not be giving Valverde his old job back if the reports weren't good.
So for today, the Tigers are a complete team. They've got their ninth-inning guy back, and if Valverde somehow has another productive season in him, one of baseball's best teams may be whole.
With that great rotation, and with Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder in the middle of the lineup, and with a future Hall of Famer filling out the lineup cards, it's impossible not to love the Tigers. Here's to Papa Grande, who is getting a chance to write another kind of ending.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.


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Southampton manager Mauricio Pochettino has confirmed that club owner Katharina Liebherr and chairman Ralph Krueger will decide on the future of in-demand defender Luke Shaw at the end of the season.
Shaw has been heavily linked with a move to Manchester United in recent days, with ESPN revealing in February that the bid made by the Old Trafford club for the teenage England full-back "remained on the table" ahead of the summer transfer window.
Now Pochettino has confirmed that the decision on Shaw's future will be made by club chiefs, as he has expressed his hope that the left full-back will still be at St Mary's Stadium next season.
"If there is any decision to be made [regarding Luke Shaw], it is for the owners, not for me," Pochettino said at his latest news conference.
"At the end of the day, Luke Shaw is a player that belongs to Southampton, and it will be the club, Southampton, that makes the decision as to what happens with his future.
"Of course there will be interest for him, but so far right now he's a player at Southampton and it looks as though it will continue that way.
"There are a lot of players who are under interest at Southampton, but they are all very happy at the football club, and most of them are under long-term contracts.
"They understand the situation of what it means to be a professional player in the Premier League. There's nothing really we have to speak about on that front."
Pochettino insisted his own future at the club was not an issue on his agenda despite press speculation linking him with a move to other Premier League clubs such as Tottenham and he already seems to have his sights set on Southampton's plans for next season.
"This season we're improving standards again, finishing higher than we did last season. It's moving upwards all the time," he added. "To break that barrier of eighth position we'll need to look at what other clubs are doing, in the Europa League and Champions League.
"We'll assess as we can at the end of the season, and we'll be able to see whether we want to finish, eighth, seventh, sixth, fifth or fourth. According to that, we'll be able to decide what goals we're imposing on ourselves, how that set-up is achieved and how we go about achieving those goals.
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Alcohol said to have big role in cancer
Even moderate drinking can raise risk, doctors say
Even moderate alcohol use may substantially raise the risk of dying from cancer, according to a study released Thursday offering the first comprehensive update of alcohol-related cancer deaths in decades.
"People don't talk about the issue of alcohol and cancer risk," said Dr. David Nelson, director of the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute and lead author of the study.
"Alcohol has been known to be related to causing cancer for a long period of time. We talk about cancer prevention, screenings and tests. This is one of those things that seems to be missing in plain sight."
Alcohol use accounts for about 3.5 percent of all U.S. cancer deaths annually, according to the study. The majority of deaths seemed to occur among people who consumed more than three alcoholic drinks a day, but those who consumed 1.5 beverages daily may account for up to a third of those deaths, the researchers found.
In 2009, 18,000 to 21,000 people in the United States died of alcohol-related cancers, from cancer of the liver to breast cancer and other types, the researchers said. That's more than the number of people in the United States who die every year of melanoma (9,000 in 2009) or ovarian cancer (14,000 in 2009).
Reasons unclear
How alcohol contributes to cancer is not fully understood, the study notes. Previous research has shown alcohol appears to work in different ways to increase cancer risk, such as affecting estrogen levels in women and acting as a solvent to help tobacco chemicals get into the digestive tract.
The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, is the first major analysis of alcohol-attributable cancer deaths in more than 30 years. Researchers said the lack of recent research on the subject may contribute to a lack of public awareness of cancer risks.
"People are well aware of other risks, like the impact of tobacco on cancer, and are not as aware alcohol plays quite a bit of a role," said Thomas Greenfield, one of the study's authors and scientific director of Public Health Institute's Alcohol Research Group in Emeryville.
Researchers examined seven types of cancers known to be linked to alcohol use: cancers of the mouth and pharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, colon, rectum and female breast. To link the cancer to alcohol use, they relied on surveys of more than 220,000 adults, 2009 U.S. mortality data, and sales data on alcohol consumption.
Breast cancer accounted for the most common alcohol-related cancer deaths among women, with alcohol contributing to 15 percent of all breast cancer deaths. Among men, cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus accounted for the most alcohol-linked cancer deaths.
The study drew some criticism. Dr. Curtis Ellison, professor of medicine and public health at Boston University School of Medicine, said the study failed to take into account several important factors, such as the pattern of drinking rather than just the amount of alcohol consumed. He said consuming small, consistent amounts of alcohol is much healthier than occasional binge drinking.
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"They're mixing alcohol abuse, which leads to all of these cancers as they've clearly shown, with the casual drinker, where the risk is very small," said Ellison, also co-director of the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research.
Dr. Arthur Klatsky, adjunct investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, said many studies have shown moderate drinkers in older age groups may be healthier than those who abstain. Klatsky has long researched the effects of alcohol on health but declined to comment directly on the study because he had not yet read it.
"Advice needs to be individualized," Klatsky said. "The advice one would give to 60-year-old man who has no problem with alcohol but is at high risk of heart disease due to family history is quite different than the advice we give to a 25-year-old woman whose mother died of breast cancer."
The study's authors acknowledged alcohol can have health benefits but said alcohol causes 10 times as many deaths as it prevents. There's no known safe level of drinking, they said.
"The safest level for cancer prevention is that people don't expose themselves to any potential risk," said Nelson of the National Cancer Institute. "The bottom line means for people who choose to drink, their cancer risk will be lower if they drink lower amounts."
Alcohol use tied to deaths
A study released Thursday by the American Journal of Public Health found:
Total deaths: Alcohol use accounts for 3.5 percent of all U.S. cancer deaths, or between 18,000 and 21,000 deaths a year.
Lost years: About 18 years of potential life are lost per cancer death. That means a person who died at age 60 from alcohol-related cancer would have otherwise probably lived to 78.
Number of drinks: The majority of alcohol-related cancer deaths occurred among those who drank more than three alcoholic beverages a day, but about 30 percent occurred in those who drank less than 1.5 drinks a day.
Victoria Colliver is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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08 Feb, 2013, 19:47 GMT
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Cerebral Palsy is caused by non-progressive brain damage from single or multiple defect(s) on the nerve/muscular system and results in disorder in motion and sensory integration. According to Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the prevalence of cerebral palsy is 3.5 per 1000 male to 2.8 per 1000 female children, averaged at 3.2 per 1000 children, which is expected to increase due to reduction of premature death.
In the clinical study investigators employ a variety of methods to assess efficacy: K-ABC: Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Gross Motor Function Measure, (GMFM), box and block test, Modified Asworth Scale, MAS, finger tapping test, Brain SPECT and MRI.
Dr. JC Ra, president of RNL BIO Stem Cell Technology Institute, said, "It is our mission to find cures for incurable diseases, such as the terrible pediatric curse of cerebral palsy, through autologous stem cell technology."
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Romney: 'Victims' Comment Not Elegantly Stated
COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) -- Republican Mitt Romney says a video clip in which he called nearly half of Americans "victims" was "not elegantly stated" and was "spoken off the cuff." But he says President Barack Obama's approach is "attractive to people who are not paying taxes."
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The township of Huncoat in Lancashire also derived its name from the ancient family. "This was a royal manor in the reign of the Confessor, who, in the great survey, is recorded to have held two carucates in 'Hunnicott.' James de Huncote, and John his son, occur in the reign of Edward I.; the Hall was occupied by this family." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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Play is the oxygen of innovation, to coin a phrase.
I think we should start hosting small, informal workshops where game creators could get feedback from their fellows and run quick iterations with actual players. The games we like could then be full-scaled into more formal MNzero events.
And we'd all get to play a lot more goddamned games.
I'd like to find a convenient coffee shop that's in an area with a variety of nearby environments, for all our play testing needs. Uptown, Saint Paul, and the University of Minnesota seems like valuable venues. Suggestions would be appreciated.
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Gareth Bale: Best yet to come for Real Madrid
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Anthony scores 37, Knicks clinch playoff berth
TORONTO (AP) -- Carmelo Anthony scored 37 points, Kenyon Martin had 19 points and 11 rebounds, and the New York Knicks clinched a playoff berth with a 99-94 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Friday night.
Martin shot 9 of 10 from the field and didn't miss until 1:40 remained in the game, J.R. Smith scored 14 points and the Knicks earned their 41st win. That guaranteed they'll reach the playoffs for the third straight season, something they hadn't done since a 14-year streak of postseason appearances from 1988 to 2001.
The league's second-leading scorer, Anthony has 57 total points in his past two games after missing six of the previous eight with a sore right knee.
The defeat was a double blow for Toronto, which lost for the 11th time in 15 games and saw forward Rudy Gay leave in the second with a sore back. He did not return.
Alan Anderson scored a career-high 35 points, DeMar DeRozan had 18 and Jonas Valanciunas 10 as the Raptors lost their third straight. Kyle Lowry led Toronto with 10 assists.
Down by 14 points midway through the third, the Raptors rallied to make a game of it in the fourth. A three-point play by DeRozan cut it to 84-82 with 6:17 left, but Anthony answered with a three-point play of his own, keying a 10-2 run that put the Knicks up 94-84 with 4:00 remaining.
A putback dunk by Terrence Ross cut it to 97-92 with 39 seconds left and, after Smith missed a pair of free throws, Anderson made two from the line, making it 97-94.
Anthony was fouled and made the first but missed the second, giving the Knicks a four-point edge. Jason Kidd grabbed the rebound when Ross's 3-point heave came up short, and capped it by making one of two from the line.
Tyson Chandler (neck) did not travel with the team, remaining in New York for treatment. Coach Mike Woodson said he doesn't know when Chandler, who last played March 13, will be cleared to return. The Knicks earlier said they expected Chandler to miss about a week.
Raymond Felton's banked 3 gave the Knicks a 25-15 lead with two minutes left in the first but Anderson scored five straight points as the Raptors cut it to 25-22 after one.
Gay headed to the locker room with a sore back at 7:04 of the second and the Knicks pulled away. Anthony and Kidd each scored six as New York outscored Toronto 25-15 to open a 50-37 lead at the half. The Raptors made five of 20 field goal attempts in the quarter.
Anderson matched a Raptors record with 20 points in the third and Toronto made five of nine from 3-point range, but a turnaround, buzzer-beating 3 by Anthony gave the Knicks a 77-71 lead heading into the fourth.
NOTES: Besides Chandler, Amare Stoudemire (right knee), Kurt Thomas (right foot) and Rasheed Wallace (left foot) also skipped the trip to Toronto. ... The Knicks host the Raptors on Saturday night. ... Iman Shumpert started for the New York after sitting out the second half of Wednesday's win over Orlando with a sore left knee. ... Mike James was the last Toronto player to score 20 in a quarter, doing it in the fourth against Detroit on Apr. 14, 2006. ... Woodson expressed his sadness at the death of former Knicks captain Ray Williams, who died Friday at the age of 58. "It's a major loss," Woodson said. "He's a part of our Knicks family." ... Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. attended the game


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NFL reporter Jeff Legwold analyzes quarterbacks available in the April 25-27 draft:
1. E.J. Manuel, Florida State, 6-foot-4½, 237 pounds
Big, strong and fast. Has a power arm and can drive the ball downfield when he gets his feet set in his motion. Was 25-6 as a starter and won four consecutive bowl games.
2. Geno Smith, West Virginia, 6-2½, 218
Had 24 touchdown passes and no interceptions at one point in the 2012 season. Finished career with two 4,000-yard seasons, but played exclusively out of the shotgun, so footwork will need some adjustment.
3. Matt Barkley, Southern California, 6-2, 227
Returned for his senior season in 2012 and finished career with 20 school career, season or game records. Only player in Pac-12 history with four seasons of at least 2,500 yards passing.
4. Ryan Nassib, Syracuse, 6-2, 227
A three-year starter whose coach at Syracuse — Doug Marrone — now leads the Buffalo Bills. Moves well in the pocket.
5. Landry Jones, Oklahoma, 6-4, 225
A bit of a riddle, because he didn't always respond in biggest moments. Made 50 starts for the Sooners, had three 4,000-yard seasons and finished his career as Big 12's all-time leader in passing yards and total offense.
Mike Glennon, North Carolina State (6-7, 225); Tyler Bray, Tennessee (6-6, 232); Tyler Wilson, Arkansas (6-2, 215); Matt Scott, Arizona (6-2, 213); Brad Sorensen, Southern Utah (6-4, 229).
Smith figures to be a top-10 pick, but that is a lot to live up to for a player who still needs plenty of polishing.
Glennon finished his senior season as one of the top two prospects at the position, but he struggled in his bowl game — three interceptions against Vanderbilt — and was only so-so at the Senior Bowl.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Mike Hermann (6-5½, 254) is a Division III product who will get a long look. He was a four-year starter and accounted for 78 percent of his team's offense last season. He threw for 2,366 yards in 2012 and also led his team in rushing, averaging 4.8 yards per carry.


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Twitter seeks to embed self in everything
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Twitter has unveiled a new set of tools for embedding its Web2.0rhea service in third-party websites.
Dubbed "@anywhere," these JavaScript-based frameworks were announced yesterday with a company blog post and an apparently soporific keynote from CEO Evan Williams that sent half his audience for the exit doors within an half an hour.
The new framework, says the blog post, is not to be confused with the existing Twitter APIs. With @anywhere, developers can add Twitter links and data to their sites using "a few lines of JavaScript."
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Go ahead, imagine.
While boring his audience at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, Evan Williams said that the frameworks would also let users link their Twitter accounts with third-party sites a la Facebook Connect.
Launch partners include Amazon, AdAge, Bing, Citysearch, Digg, eBay, The Huffington Post, Meebo, MSNBC.com, The New York Times, Salesforce.com, Yahoo!, and YouTube. But the tools have not yet launched. It's unclear whether sites will have to actually pay money for the use of certain @anywhere tools. Currently, sites like Google, Microsoft's Bing, and Yahoo! are paying untold amounts for direct access to the so-called Twitter "firehose," the company's massive stream of Web2.0rhea.
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