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Greg Fischer is still pushing this aging care industry lobbyist mantra. Where the hell does he find the time to write all this and promote it on Facebook and Twitter? [Click the Clicky]
Kentucky musician Ben Sollee was featured on CNN. Check this video out. It'll autoplay. [CNN]
Here's Greg Fischer discussing the five finalists for chief of police. [WAVE3]
Aww, it's cute that Damon Thayer is still freaking out over his client list. Even more cute that he's still pretending he has zero conflict of interest. Absolutely, 100% no appearance of impropriety on his part, he says. [Page One Here & Here]
It might snow. A little bit. Maybe. So rush to Kroger and buy up all the bread and milk just in case. You'll see every meemaw in town there still in curlers. Maybe even in housecoats. [FOX41]
Once again, Tina Ward-Pugh fails to make her argument because she just gets bent out of shape. Sidewalks on Brownsboro Road aren't just about the disabled. They're about an entire neighborhood being able to walk around their neighborhood without getting run over by some fat guy named Bob in his soon-to-be-repossessed car. [C-J/AKN]
Yet another example of local media half-assing a story and reporting absolute bogus information about the Brownsboro Road sidewalk mess. [WLKY]
42 employees of your local newspaper – yes, 42 – have been offered buyouts by the Gannett beast. [Business First]
When will Old Dirty Judy start repaying that $130,000 she's cost the taxpayers of Louisville? [WHAS11]
Whaaaat? Greg Fischer taking part in yet another socialite photoshoot? Surely not. [V-T]
For all of you folks who say racism doesn't exist amongst the gays? Think again. [WFPL]
You wouldn't believe the amount of hateful telephone calls we received over our story about Kentucky Kingdom and Holiday World. [The 'Ville Voice]


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After ten years of horror in Darfur, few peace agreements have been signed to end the violence in western Sudan.
Peace remains elusive in Sudan. Daily rape of women and young girls, killing, looting, tribal fighting and indiscriminate civilian bombings by the Khartoum government continue to threaten peace agreements between the Sudanese government and the rebel movements fighting in Darfur.
Despite international and regional efforts to end the tragedy in Darfur and the enormous amount of international aid spent in the past decade, 1.5 million Sudanese still live in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps. Moreover, the people of Darfur continue to suffer from a lack of security and the absence of law.
Almost eight years have now passed since signing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the most significant peace agreement in Sudan between the government and the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement/Army. This movement led the fighting against the Sudanese government in South Sudan for 23 years until the signing of the CPA in 2005. Just five years later Southern Sudanese voted for Independence from Sudan, and created their own independent country on July 9, 2011.
After decades of civil war, Sudan and South Sudan are on the brink of war
Although neither side can afford such a war, both show an inability to avoid one and remain incapable of achieving a genuine and lasting peace agreement.
Several weeks before the secession of South Sudan, the old allies of the Southern Sudanese people in the Nuba mountains/southern Kordofan state felt abandoned. They found themselves alone as minorities in the new Islamic/Arab country of Sudan. This frustration was fueled by the complicated situation of the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile and Abiey, known as the "Three Areas."
The people in the Three Areas supported the SPLM/Army during the civil war based on shared grievances of marginalization by the Khartoum central government. However the CPA focused only on the South Sudan situation and left the Three Areas future undefined.
Yet on June 5, 2011, after the disputed elections of the Southern Kordofan state governor, the people in the Nuba Mountains decided to manage their own destiny. They sought to fight the Sudanese government once more under the leadership of the north sector of the SPLM/Army now known as the SPLM/North. Two months later the war in the Blue Nile erupted, and the Tow Areas of the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile were described by some observers as the "New South of Sudan."
Therefore, all of Sudan's peace agreements became insufficient and incomplete. Neglecting the root causes of the conflicts made the peace agreements the most expensive and the most fragile, in spite of the support and the sponsorship of international players such as the United States and United Kingdom. This raises the fears of absolute failure in reaching a sustainable and comprehensive solution in Sudan.
Such fears are justified. When we see the same methods of ignorance and mistakes of the past again and again, the Sudanese people will continue to suffer and war will remain inevitable.
This article has been modified since original publication in Sharnoff's Global Views.
Osman Naway is a Nuba human rights defender and blogger. He is also the General Director of the Arry Organization for Human Rights. Follow him @OsmanNawayPost.


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Today marks the last day of my "Five Weeks of Freebies." After today, you'll still be able to purchase all the featured stories (individually, or in a collection I've called Can I Get You A Drink?), but this is the final free day.
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In this unexpectedly cute piece of contemporary erotica, a fan attends a concert only to have her showpiece necklace borrowed by the band's lead singer. After the show (and some failed making out in an elevator), she meets up with the singer again. Together they explore the fun you can have when a venue clears out.
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Ritz Releases Email Exhibiting Power Struggle
By Mike Perleberg
(Indianapolis, Ind.) – Despite a meeting with a mediator Wednesday, the rift between Democrat Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz, the State Board of Education, and Governor Mike Pence only seems to be widening.
With the unveiling of an internal email Wednesday, the state superintendent is further asserting her belief that the governor – whom she received more votes than in the November 2012 election – is seeking to reduce her ability to influence Indiana's education policy.
Ritz – the chairperson of the SBOE – sued the largely Republican-appointed board in November alleging there was a decision made by board members outside of a public meeting and without her to allow the Legislative Services Agency to figure preliminary A-to-F school grades, a task usually reserved for the Indiana Department of Education, which Ritz oversees. She later walked out on a board meeting when she denied an agenda item regarding Pence's newly-formed Center for Education and Career Innovation taking more department responsibilities.
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But following the meeting, Ritz released an October 3rd e-mail which exhibited her position that Pence's CECI is seeking to have her removed as the SBOE chairperson and lessen her authority.
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We all struggle with whatever "being authentic" means.
Being "real."
Being "original."
Being "true to yourself."
Being authentic has ironically grown to become one of the biggest trends to desire and follow in modern day society, and I'd like to think that it was probably made a million times worse by our obsession with the internet — most notably the unlimited opportunities we have to carefully engineer our self-images and blast all our stuff out on social media.
From the tattoo and piercing-loving hipsters who stand out in a such an profoundly conformist way, to the top YouTubers who got their claim to fame by ranting and raving about celebrities and material things (or just filming themselves playing video games), it almost seems as if we've come full circle in the authentic expression trend of the 2010s to the point that much of it clearly reveals itself to be just an elaborate display of trend-inspired narcissism.
There was an Instagram account that blew up last year that I think really perfectly encompassed this ridiculous phenomenon.
Socality Barbie was created by a photographer who decided to make a parody of the very hipster-like Pacific Northwest lifestyle that many young adults love to capture and show off on Instagram — almost always tagging them with the hugely popular #LiveAuthentic tag and like a million other comparably trendy tags.
I just want to go on more adventures, be around good energy, connect with people, learn new things, grow. #vsco #vscocam #socality #liveauthentic #livefolk #kinfolk #visualcoop #getoutside #letsgosomewhere #neverstopexploring #exploreeverthing #exploremore #explore #adventure #lifeofadventure #pnw #pacificnorthwest #thatpnwlife #northwestisbest #thegeatpnw #greatnorthcollective #socalityportland #pdx #communityfirst #oregon #upperleftusa #peoplescreatives #wildernessculture #instagood #herpnwlife
An actual Barbie doll was cleverly staged and photographed to convey the sheer obscenity that it was anything but authentic to be seen dressed in plaid, wearing a toque (err, beanie), reading Kinfolk magazine, drinking coffee, hanging out in a forest setting, and adding Bible verses to her captions.
It was genius.
It was inspiring.
It made me LOL.
And then it made me think…
What the hell do I even know about authenticity anyway?
Maybe I'm not a total pro at being authentic, but I've come a long way since my early- to mid-20s when I was a deeply insecure, neurotic, attention-seeking millennial who just wanted to fit in and appear to not suck at life.
As someone who's done a lot of personal development reading and implementation, I think I've learned enough about myself, about psychology, and about human behaviour to be able to identify some of the weird ways society skews "authenticity" into something it shouldn't be.
According to science, authenticity is: "a complex psychological variable and relatively constant characterization of a personality."
"Authenticity expresses the degree of a person's self-identity and, at the same time, it shows how much is his behaviour towards his surrounding connected with his self-concept."
In terms of how I experience it, I would say that authenticity is equal to living in integrity.
It's a personal state of "genuineness" expressed both internally and externally according to one's values.
What's interesting about the scientific / psychological definition of authenticity mentioned above is that there's this "self-identity" and "self-concept" component to it.
I think this is where a lot people get the whole authenticity thing really wrong.
"Self-identity" and "self-concept" might as well be code for "ego" these days, which pretty much turns authenticity into a game of self-importance.
And of course because self-identity / self-concept is merely just something we build for ourselves, we don't even realize the ways in which we manipulate our own stories in order to inflate our self-importance.
Based on this, here are some of the most prominent observations I've personally seen exhibited by people who are trying to "be authentic," yet often come off as totally self-serving in a very "crank up that ego" kind of way.
Wrong: Being authentic means wholeheartedly knowing and believing that your values and opinions are "more right" or "more good" than everybody else's values and opinions.
I recently wrote an article for a website that has a very large vegan community, and I thought it would be okay to offer an animal product as a suggestion in this piece of writing for all the non-vegans out there (myself included).
One particular vegan reader decided to reach out and push their vegan views on me, as if that would somehow get me to see the world from their not-so-open-minded vegan point of view in such a persuasive way that would make me feel immediately inspired to cling on to it the same way that they do.
Believe me, I know that what vegans stand for is valid — from the cruel and unfair treatment of animals, to the potential health risks of eating animal products, to the ridiculous amount of greenhouse gas emissions that the meat industry is responsible for.
But these very real problems do not invalidate my personal choice for the time being to continue consuming animal products.
Truly authentic people do not hold their worldviews, beliefs, values, and everything else they stand for above those of others.
To be authentic means to know what you stand for, but it also means to be completely aware and open-minded enough to be accepting, respectful, and even empathetic towards every other person's personal perspective — regardless of how much it goes against your own.
It means recognizing that the values and beliefs you hold for yourself only feel "right" and "good" to you because you're you — while also knowing that right and wrong only exist through your own perceptive lens.
It's knowing that you have your own story that makes you different from everybody else, but also knowing that your story is not more right or more good than everybody else's stories.
Wrong: Being authentic means freely and unapologetically expressing yourself without caring about what other people think.
If you know what you stand for on an inner level, but you don't convey it to the outside world out of fear of being judged and ridiculed, you're not being authentic.
So this essentially means you have to stop caring about what other people think of you in order to bridge that gap between inner feelings and outer expression, right?
I'd say that the above statement is half correct.
After all, if we relied so much on other people's judgments and opinions of ourselves for our own self-esteem, we'd have to suppress our true feelings in order to create a fake self-image that somehow (impossibly) satisfies everyone's beliefs about how we should be.
So, yes, we do have to stop caring so much about what other people might think of us — to a certain extent.
Authenticity, however, doesn't mean neglecting other people's feelings and opinions in favour of your own, nor does it mean completely throwing somebody under the bus when the opportunity to stand your authentic ground arises.
Being authentic requires awareness of this role of a "self" you're playing in this weird, physical dimension.
But with deeper awareness comes a lot of deeper self-inquiry too.
True authenticity, I think, involves maintaining a state of groundedness and connectedness in knowing that we are all equally worthy of love and respect, which has to mean we also care about what other people think of us too.
It's this knowing of human connectedness that makes us care.
So, no — don't care about what other people think of you from a neurotic and insecure state of desiring approval.
But at the same time, you must care about what other people think of you because we're all human, we're all connected, and deep down we're all the same.
Wrong: Being authentic gives you permission to be an asshole.
Not caring what other people think goes hand in hand with just being completely inconsiderate.
Truthfully, I think that there are a lot of people who are trying to be assertive about what they stand for, yet forget (or don't know how) to appropriately connect / respect / empathize with people at the same time — so then they just end up acting like selfish and tactless jerkfaces.
There was this weird article recently published by the New York Times titled, Unless You're Oprah, 'Be Yourself' Is Terrible Advice that mentioned a guy who decided to just start being "totally authentic" as an experiment:
"He announced to an editor that he would try to sleep with her if he were single and informed his nanny that he would like to go on a date with her if his wife left him.
He informed a friend's 5-year-old daughter that the beetle in her hands was not napping but dead.
He told his in-laws that their conversation was boring."
Clearly, I thought, this guy had no idea what it meant to be authentic.
Being authentic does not equal blurting out every single thought that crosses your mind, even if it's true to you.
This is a total violation of human connectedness and demonstrates a complete lack of emotional intelligence.
I was very happy to read some of the comments of this article that backed up my impression and opinion of this ridiculous article.
The top commenter (Anne-Marie Hislop) put exactly what I thought into words very beautifully, so I'll quote her here:
"To me being authentic does not mean that one tosses all social norms and skills in the interest of turning one's insides out.
Rather, being authentic can include social awareness, sensitivity to the feelings of others, and solid boundaries between what one chooses to keep private and what one makes public.
As to your authentic self never giving a TED talk, in my view an authentic self acknowledges (perhaps even shares) a fear of speaking in public.
To do so is real, yet the authentic self also has a passion for sharing knowledge and was able to tip the balance between the two."
Right on, Anne-Marie.
Authenticity and awareness / acknowledgement of the truth go hand in hand, but authenticity and kindness are certainly not mutually exclusive.
Be authentic, but don't let that turn you into an asshole.
Wrong: Being authentic means being able to successfully defend everything you stand for.
We all know those people who get really riled up when something they really care about or something they deeply believe in is challenged by somebody else's opposite opinion.
You can just smell their emotional tenderness as they try to forcefully explain themselves in an effort to invalidate the opinions and judgments of others, failing to realize that what they're doing only exasperates their insecurity.
When you try to defend something you REALLY like or REALLY believe in, all you're doing is trying to convince yourself that you really do like it, or that you really do believe in it — even though it totally sounds and appears as if you're trying to convince other people of this.
Oftentimes defensiveness can even act as a tool for us to ridicule or belittle others, which in turn lifts us up in our own minds.
As human beings with larger egos than we even realize, our minds are fueled by our emotions so much so that we end up putting energy only into what we think benefits or threatens us.
You wouldn't care what other people thought or said if you weren't so unsettled about something that affected you so deeply.
Defensiveness is nothing but the activation of protection mode upon detecting a threat to your sense of self.
It's also a failure to be aware of and accept the real truth that there is no right or wrong thing to stand for — there is only perspective.
If you have to defend yourself (actions, beliefs, values, opinions), then you're not really being authentic, because defensiveness is a reaction that come from an unconscious and emotional state of insecurity.
Truly authentic people are unfazed by other people's judgments and opinions because they're aware of the nature of perspective and they're secure enough in knowing that their perspective is uniquely theirs, and that's what serves them best.
Wrong: You can always tell when someone is being authentic and when someone is being an egotistical narcissist.
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US loves to psychoanalyze everybody else.
We do it in an instant — in person upon first impressions and especially when we look at what other people post on social media.
We often decide that people are showing off, acting out, being fake, or whatever else might suggest inauthentic behaviour.
It certainly might appear that way to us at first glance, because we form our opinions of other people based on our own experiences and beliefs about ourselves plus the world around us — and our minds are masters at doing that in a mere matter of seconds.
We are hopelessly biased and dogmatic creatures in more ways than we even know.
The fact is, we can never know if someone else is acting out of authentic integrity or if they're just putting on a show.
Even if we could build enough awareness to view someone else through an unfiltered lens just as they are without applying any of the probably trillions of views and beliefs we have about what they're doing, we still could never know.
Because we can never get inside another person's head and experience their version of reality.
The individual is the only one who can ever know if they are being authentic or not.
Even the best psychiatrist in the world could never truly know what's really going on inside another person's mind or what their state of awareness is.
So next time you pass judgment on another person's seemingly inauthentic behaviour, see if you can remove all of the automatic decisions your mind makes about them immediately for a second to see if you can look at them through more of an unfiltered lens.
Maybe they are being authentic after all.
Wrong: Being authentic means you finally found "yourself."
This one's a doozie.
Stay with me here.
You probably know that even when you think you're being yourself, you're still kind of questioning whether you're really being yourself.
Sometimes it can get so bad or happen frequently enough that we catch a nasty case of imposter syndrome (something I'll cover more in a future blog post) that we feel totally inadequate and incompetent despite having proof of adequacy and competency in the form of current skills and talents, past achievements, praise/admiration from others, and so on.
This is normal.
I think everyone experiences imposter syndrome at least once in their lifetime — even the most confident people.
But it sort of begs us to ask the question, what is this "self" we're trying to latch onto?
It's like there's a fixed orb or platform called "SELF" floating in some obscure dimension that we so desperately feel the need to ground ourselves in, but self-doubt and general neurotic thinking sort of keeps it out of reach.
This would be an interesting time to point out that there are actually all sorts of scientists and spiritual teachers out there proposing the idea that this sense of "self" we all feel and try to develop in our human lives is actually a complete illusion.
The idea here is that the self is merely a creation of the mind and exists only to serve survival, but it does not exist in outer reality.
Depressing idea, right?
So, according to this, what you clearly feel right now as someone who exists as a separate and unique "soul" like the special snowflakes we all love to think we are is actually not real in nature.
If this is truth, this sense of self that we feel is just kind of a free-flowing chunk of consciousness vibrating at some kind of frequency as a smaller part of whole consciousness — a.k.a. the stuff that makes up/takes up everythingness and nothingness in the entire universe.
To get super metaphorical here, I like to think of it as if we're all falling raindrops in our human lives that started out as one in the form of a cloud (before birth) and will end as one in the form of a puddle (after death).
The more I live in my body and my mind and the more I work on expanding my own awareness through practicing mindfulness, doing a daily meditation, studying/observing my own psychology, and basically questioning everything — the more this weirdly abstract idea of no self seems to seriously be rooted in truth.
Have you ever stood up too fast after sitting for a long time and felt like you were floating through space and time?
Have you ever woken up from a ridiculously deep state of REM sleep (not dream state sleep) and come to the profound realization that everything including yourself basically ceased to exist while in that deep state?
Have you ever fainted and then felt your sense of self start rebooting as you gain consciousness like a computer harnessing electricity to turn on?
Have you ever felt so deeply connected to nature, to another person, to a pet, or even to an inanimate object, that you basically felt like you both existed as one?
Have you ever held a newborn baby that was less than 24 hours old and been blown away by how pure and unaltered human consciousness could be?
Have you ever walked into a nursing home and seen elderly people who are clearly alive, but prisoners of their own deteriorating minds?
It's experiences and questions like these that make me wonder, wow, WHAT EVEN AM I?
Look, I'm not trying to convince you to believe that there's no such thing as a self.
What I would like to open your mind up to, however, is the idea that there is no "core" self to try to latch onto — because the self that you are is really just an elaborate construction of the stories you create in your mind about who you do and don't want to be (consciously or subconsciously), and the way in which you tell yourself these stories is based on the sum of all your life experiences and also how your brain is wired.
I think that's worth repeating:
Your sense of self is just the stories your mind tells to itself about a "you" that it has to create.
If you are just the stories you create, then authenticity is never in a fixed state or idea of how you have to be — it's always changing.
You probably show different sides of yourself to different people anyway (we all do) and question how you can become so different according to where you are, what you're doing, and who you're hanging out with.
You have a version of yourself you portray when you talk on the phone, a version of yourself you portray when you're visiting your parents, a version of yourself you portray when you're at work, a version of yourself you portray when you're with your kids, a version of yourself you portray when you're with your friends, and the list goes on.
Authenticity can exist in every side of yourself that you choose to show, but I think this is a nice bit of proof that demonstrates how the self you think you are is a lot more fluid and dynamic than you initially thought.
It has to be, because if it weren't, you'd never grow.
"Being authentic" will always be a confusing concept to apply to life.
To sum it up based on all of the above, here are the main points I'd say we'd all do really well to keep in mind if authenticity is something we'd like to cultivate:
- Identify your deepest values, but recognize and respect that other people have their own values too.
- Live according to your values to serve yourself first rather than to fulfill the expectations of others, but not in a way where you completely sacrifice your desire and need for human connection.
- Be expressive and assertive about what you stand for, but not at the expense of other people's feelings.
- Be aware of different perspectives expressed by other people that may conflict with yours, but stay solid in knowing that yours is yours and theirs is theirs so that you don't feel the need to get defensive.
- Don't be quick to judge someone for seeming inauthentic because you can never truly know how they perceive themselves and the world from their state of mind.
- Tell stories about yourself to yourself that you like and want to be in order to create the self-identity you long for.
I will continue to struggle (probably) with being authentic as much as I did writing this blog post.
It's so much more complex than saying: hey dude, just be real.
After all, we are complex creatures.
I think that's beautiful.
A trend can grow to become something that becomes a part of your authenticity, and authenticity can grow to become a trend.
What a weird and wonderful world we live in.
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Nine Green Knights Earn All-Midwest Conference Mention
From Sports Information Director, November 16, 2011 | Football
by Dan Lukes, email@example.com, (920) 403-4077
DE PERE - A total of nine St. Norbert College football players received 10 all-conference honors on the 2011 All-Midwest Conference team released today by the league office.
St. Norbert had six first-team All-MWC selections, with five on the defensive side of the ball. Three players were tabbed for four second-team accolades.
Senior offensive lineman Tyler Kuehl received first-team All-MWC honors for the second straight season. Kuehl helped the Green Knights to an average of 166.7 rushing yards per game.
Senior defensive lineman John Troyer, linebacker Ben Nantell and specialist Logan Krueger were first-team choices on defense after receiving second-team honors in 2010. Troyer had 22 tackles with 4.5 tackles for loss, Nantell a team-high 76 tackles, 13.5 tackles-for-loss and six quarterback sacks, and krueger netted 8.2 yards per punt return.
Earning their first all-conference honors were other first-teamers in senior defensive lineman Dan Hansmann and junior defensive back Austin Arts. Hansmann finished with 31 tackles, 9.5 tackles-for-loss and a team-high seven quarterback sacks. Arts finished with 30 tackles, three interceptions and a team-high nine passes defensed.
Junior Joe Green was a second-team selection at both wide receiver and as a return specialist. Green finished with 63 receptions for 911 yards and 11 touchdowns. He also averaged 27.8 yards on kickoff returns and 11.3 yards on punt returns.
Junior linebacker Adam Nitsche and junior defensive back Josh Vanden Heuvel were also second-team selections. Nitsche finished the season with 56 tackles, five tackles-for-loss and two quarterback sacks. Vanden Heuvel was second on the team with 57 tackles and also had five tackles-for-loss and two interceptions.


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D.C. United, Beach FC and Adidas Reach Regional Affiliate Agreement
March 1, 2013 - Major League Soccer (MLS) - D.C. United News Release
Washington, D.C. (March 1, 2013) - D.C. United and Beach FC - in conjunction with adidas - today announced a regional affiliate agreement, the third of its kind for D.C. United and a youth soccer club. Under the agreement, Beach FC will be one of D.C. United's primary sources in identifying and developing the top youth talent. United will share its coaching resources and will work with Beach FC to follow its training curriculum and system of play. Top players in the Beach FC system, identified by both D.C. United and Beach FC, will have the opportunity to join the D.C. United Academy teams, with a strong priority being placed on the Under-14, Under-16 and Under-18 age groups.
"We are very excited that Beach FC will join us as our third affiliate club," said Sonny Silooy, D.C. United's Director of Youth Development. "Beach FC has a proven track record of cultivating talent for top college programs, Major League Soccer and the U.S. Men's National Team pool, and we look forward to combining resources and expertise to further develop players in the region."
"Beach FC is extremely proud and excited to be invited into an affiliate partnership with D.C. United," said Beach FC Executive Director Steve Danbusky. "To be able to align with a professional club at the highest level, with a rich tradition both on and off the field, was very appealing to us. The exposure and access that our staff and players will receive will most certainly enhance their development and serve as an added motivator to push on to the next level. In addition, the partnership will provide the opportunity for our elite "¨male players to be identified and train in D.C. United's Youth Academy, which will serve as a tremendous supplement to their Beach FC and ODP participation."
In addition to the player identification and development component of the affiliate agreement, Beach FC will be outfitted with D.C. United and adidas-branded training gear, uniforms and coaching gear, and will receive special D.C. United ticketing opportunities for players and their families.
"The United States has some of the best athletic talent in the world, and it's our goal to provide homegrown athletes with opportunities to play elite soccer," said Antonio Zea, Director of Soccer for adidas America. "With our recent extension of the Major League Soccer contract, we have put the importance of youth development at a premium, and are excited about helping create Youth Club Alliances with local MLS clubs. This partnership between Beach FC, D.C. United and adidas will prove to be a great step in developing the next generation of American soccer icons."
"'This agreement continues our development of strategically integrated business initiatives," said Doug Hicks, D.C. United's Chief Marketing Officer. "We look forward to engaging with additional local and regional clubs in the weeks ahead."
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Major League Soccer Stories from March 1, 2013
- LA Galaxy ready to open the 2013 season on Sunday at The Home Depot Center - Los Angeles Galaxy
- Chivas USA Introduces a Renewed Rebaño Angelino - Club Deportivo Chivas USA
- Galaxy Players to Receive Their Championship Rings on Sunday - Los Angeles Galaxy
- Dynamo Open 2013 Season on Saturday vs. D.C. United at BBVA Compass Stadium - Houston Dynamo
- Philadelphia Union Sign Anding, Fernandes and Konopka - Philadelphia Union
- Earthquakes Team with T-Mobile for Second Straight Season to Create "T-Mobile 4G Power Zone" - San Jose Earthquakes
- Sporting KC Opens Season on Saturday at Philadelphia - Sporting Kansas City
- Cordell Cato Traded to San Jose - Seattle Sounders FC
- Earthquakes Sign Two Rookies, Acquire Cordell Cato from Seattle Sounders FC - San Jose Earthquakes
- Revs Team up with Supporters Groups for Season Opener Watch Parties - New England Revolution
- As Rest of MLS Opens, Revs Continue Preseason Prep - New England Revolution
- Dynamo Sign Defenders Mike Chabala, Anthony Arena - Houston Dynamo
- Real Salt Lake Match Preview: RSL at San Jose Earthquakes - Sunday, March 3 - Real Salt Lake
- FC Dallas Midfielder Peter Luccin Undergoes Successful Knee Surgery - FC Dallas
- D.C. United, Beach FC and Adidas Reach Regional Affiliate Agreement - D.C. United
- Impact Set to Kick off the 2013 Regular Season this Saturday at 10:30pm in Seattle - Montreal Impact
- Chicago Fire Sign Cameroonian Midfielder Yazid Atouba - Chicago Fire
- Toronto FC Signs Darel Russell - Toronto FC
- Toronto FC Signs Morgan, Bennett, and Osorio - Toronto FC
- Revolution Signs Gabe Latigue - New England Revolution
- Toronto FC Signs Welsh International Earnshaw - Toronto FC
- LA Galaxy Acquire Forward Chandler Hoffman - Los Angeles Galaxy
- Houston Dynamo Re-Sign Forward Brian Ching - Houston Dynamo
- MLS Disciplinary Committee Suspends and Fines D.C. United's Dwayne De Rosario - MLS
- LA Galaxy to Unveil New Multiuse Sport Court at Boys and Girls Club - Los Angeles Galaxy
- LA Galaxy Know Style Change Is Needed as They Prepare for Life without David Beckham - Los Angeles Galaxy
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I haven't been blogging political in months. Hell, I've barely been blogging at all for months, but now that we're only a month out from the election, I can't resist, not that I have been resisting, per se, but there are things to say.I voted for McCain in the 2000 primary and might very well have voted for him in the general had he been the nominee. We would have been better off.
I've been an Obama supporter all along this cycle, but now I've gone extreme.
There is a sticker on my car.
I've never done that because I think a politician should pay me to advertise for him or her, but with the choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate, his reckless and feckless response to the Wall Street crises, his disgusting propensity to attack the man rather than the issues, my car is now an ad.
Of course, I live in Texas so it's not an especially effective ad, but still. I think it's important for the world to know, that I, for my part, will be doing the right thing the day early voting begins.
One especially interesting thing is that the day I went to meet the other three Democrats in Williamson County to get my sticker, I was told that while they don't expect Obama to take the county or even the state, they can't believe how much interest they're getting in the local Dems. Change starts at the bottom so that's good news.
What really needs to change is the fact that somehow we've come to be a country wherein being a "regular guy or gal" is somehow considered a qualifying experience for high office. There is a straight line (and ever-shortening bar) from Bush to Palin, whose stardom in the Republican Party seems to stem from her calculated ordinariness.
All I need to know about the GOP is that they think she is the future. Personally, I prefer someone who is smarter, wiser, brighter, better educated, more honest, braver, more pragmatic, more curious and more skilled than the average joe sixpack or hockey mom. The GOP, however, would like to see the least qualified set up to lead.
It's almost got me thinking about joining a political party. One step at a time, though. I don't think I could handle officially becoming a Democrat and putting a sticker on my car in the same year.


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Manufacturing Can Come Home Again
We hear a lot about infrastrusture. How to plan for it, build it, and what various populations need to become modern centers of commerce. Usually that entails discussions of wide highways, modern airports, and bullet trains. Yet there's another kind of infrastructure that every serious modern economy should take into consideration. I'm talking about the education and training kind.
To boost growth in the manufacturing industry, I believe manufacturers need to introduce new vigor into the sector by re-skilling their populations, re-defining product innovations, and designing for the future. Some companies are already doing this kind of educational and skills infrastructure planning with great success.
Why I say this is because to be an economic powerhouse of the next century, companies need to do more than simply build sophisticated plants and research facilities. They need to fill those buildings and campuses with the right people. The good news is that developed economies are starting to invest more in rejuvenating the skills of their manufacturing workforces. By doing so, they strengthen my impression that these economies have finally found a way to best utilize their unemployed manufacturing workers.
At the World Economic Forum last week in Davos, Switzerland, we did a lot of conversing about the big issues of the day. One of the things we enjoy talking about is how the world is recovering from the global economic crisis five years ago. For example, if we compare the US (which lacks a substantial number of formal apprenticeship programs) with Germany and Denmark (two countries that execute such programs), we discover some interesting facts.
The youth unemployment rates in Germany and Denmark are 7.5 percent and 14 percent, respectively. Set against the overall Eurozone youth unemployment rate of a 24 percent, these two countries have obviously taken the right steps toward reducing unemployment among younger citizens. An outstanding example of their success is the engineering firm Siemens, which employs 10,000 apprentices. On the other hand, the youth unemployment rate in the United States, where only 0.3 percent of youth participate in apprenticeship programs, is 16.2 percent.
This explains the enormous training gap and consequently high unemployment rate in the United States. So although greater growth in the manufacturing sector can create more jobs, implementing effective training programs to address the skill requirements of these jobs will be one way to improve the situation.
Skilled and properly trained young workers are about more than just national pride. With great strides being made in all types of innovation, next-generation manufacturers must actively protect their Intellectual Property and assets in this aggressively competitive industry. Re-skilling new workers to be equipped with new knowledge, degrees, and training means they can work efficiently in super-automated or even virtual factories.
The responsibility of ensuring the availability of this workforce lies with educators and policymakers. We discuss this fact quite abundantly at Davos, but I hope we can take these issues back to our home countries and companies to continue the inspirational conversations.
So, let us begin this mission today.
Sanjay Jalona is Senior Vice President and Global Head of Hi-Tech, Manufacturing and Engineering Services at Infosys.


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In 2008 a group of fans decided to drag all the boxes of memorabilia from their attics and set up an exhibition in Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery to mark the 125th birthday of our football club. At the end of the exhibition they took photos of everything before putting it back in it's boxes for a few more years. This website has all of those photos, as well as additional material that has been submitted since.
Our club has a proud history, and we would love to share as much of this with as many people as possible. If you also have a dusty box in your attic, wardrobe or garden shed (which has a door and a window, naturally) please let us know as we'd love to add its contents to this site.


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Halloween Decorating Ideas: 20 Zombie Cake Designs
Zombie cake designs would be the perfect accompaniment to your next Halloween party or celebration of the inevitable zombie apocalypse. These Halloween cakes will be a great addition to your party this season. On the other hand, your Halloween party will not be a successful one without the help of other elements – not just horror cakes.
After you have found the perfect Halloween costume ideas you want to wear for Halloween or your next theme party, you might want to maximize the scary level of your outfit by adding some spice. There are some creepy Halloween nail art designs and scary Halloween makeup ideas that will surely transform you into a sweet monster.
You can also add some Halloween face painting if you think it will be an extraordinary addition to your party. If you think it's too much to handle, horror Halloween masks are a great alternative.
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DISCOVERED only 13 years ago, the remarkably preserved ancient settlement at Old Scatness on Shetland forced experts to completely rewrite the history of Iron Age Britain.
Old Scatness Broch, a mile from Sumburgh Head, was a pristine time capsule which enabled archaeologists to date the chronology of an Iron Age site in northern Europe with unprecedented accuracy.
It has now been revealed that ambitious plans are being championed by the Shetland Amenity Trust to turn Old Scatness into a world-class heritage centre in a boost for the tourism industry on the islands.
The site is currently open to the public for a only limited season and large parts have to be covered up during the winter to protect it from the elements.
But the trust aims to transform the settlement into a year-round visitor attraction with the addition of a dome-shaped building with a grass roof.
Jimmy Moncrieff, the general manager of the amenity trust, said: "This project could be huge for Shetland. There is nothing else like it anywhere in Britain; Old Scatness is the best preserved Iron Age village in Europe and the jewel in the crown of archaeological Shetland."
Mr Moncrieff said that new techniques developed since the discovery of the Viking village at Jarlshof and Skara Brae, the other major discoveries in Orkney and Shetland, had radically altered what archaeologists now knew about the Iron Age.
Dating mechanisms including carbon 14 and thermal luminescence revealed that the "brochs" – the distinctive fortress-style towers found only in Scotland – had first been built at least three centuries earlier than historians had suspected.
Mr Moncrieff added: "It had been thought that the brochs were built around the time of the birth of Christ or even as late as 100AD. But we now know that the Old Scatness Broch was built as early as 300BC."
Archaeologists had previously interpreted their construction as the result of migrations of Iron Age people, forced to move north to escape the threat of Roman invasion. But it has now been established that the towers were first built by indigenous people in the Northern Isles, reflecting a complex and well-organised society with the economic wealth to build them.
The trust's preferred option for the site's future development is to encase the broch and surrounding settlement under a single structure.
"Not only would the building preserve the site, but it would also give us an opportunity to truly bring the site to life," said Mr Moncrieff.
"There would be suspended gantries and walkways enabling the public to reach parts of the broch at the centre of the site which are inaccessible at the moment.
"The site could be open 365 days a year and we would be far more able to communicate the information and knowledge we have gained about this ground-breaking project.
"At the moment we get about 8,000 visitors a year at the site. But we anticipate that, with a proper centre and marketing, we could certainly get 20,000 to 30,000 visitors a year.
"The centre could be completed within the next four to five years. It could be massive for Shetland."
THE proposed heritage centre at Old Scatness has an estimated cost of 7.8 million.
Shetland Amenity Trust's first step will be to raise enough money to develop the preferred option to a design and engineering concept and then to obtain a full costing for the ambitious scheme. That would enable the trust to submit bids for funding to the Heritage Lottery Fund, Historic Scotland and other funding sources.
The trust believes that if the funding bids are successful, the centre could be complete within the next four to five years.
Old Scatness was first excavated by staff and students from Bradford University in 1995.


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We have two significant anniversaries in April. Many of you will remember my father, Douglas, who died on April 8th 2004, nine years and a couple of days ago. Fewer of you will know, unless we've already told you, that April 3rd marked the day we had owned Orchard Farm for 30 years.
I will throw in a few photos of Orchard Farm as it was then, and you will see we have made some progress since then, which is always encouraging to remember. The photo at the bottom on the right is actually of the sitting room in the Orchard Farm house. It conveys the filth of 30 years ago, what it does not convey, fortunately, is the stench!
I always think of April as one of the loveliest months; this year it has yet to prove itself weather wise although it is getting warmer by the day and the spring flowers are bursting forth. (My personal month of all is May.)
However, this year we have a real question mark hanging over April. We have always been fully booked in April in the past but to our bemusement, we have three blank weeks in Douglas's Barn. Why? Who can tell us?
We've wracked our brains: "Maybe people are worried about the weather?" That can hardly be true, when we have so many return bookings for the winter months, and anyway, both barns are so cosy and snug once you're inside you're as snug as the proverbial bug. "Possibly everyone is going abroad?" – that doesn't follow, when the next four months are booked solid… "Maybe they sudden;y don't like Douglas's Barn?" If you look at our reviews on TripAdvisor you'll see how very positive they all are.
We'll probably never know but the ironic thing is, if you want a holiday in Douglas's Barn this summer you'll need to move quickly. Apart from these three rogue weeks in April there is only one week left in Douglas's Barn between the beginning of May and the end of August. If you don't believe me, check the availability calendar now!
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Our boxing program pulls its influences from Western Boxing also known as pugilism, the Filipino art of Panantukan and many others. The class provides students with an excellent form of exercise while learning the arts associated with "punch-only" oriented ring sports. Many people who join this class also test their skills in the ring. The head instructor; Ryan Gruhn has lead a number of fighters into the ring and onto successful amateur carriers. All levels of experience welcome!
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Before the start of play in the final round of the Africa Open Golf Challenge at East London Golf Club, two South Africans – Darren Fichardt and Jaco van Zyl - sat pretty in a share of a two-stroke lead. Of course, just two of the nine players below them come from local shores, and a strong foreign contingent are looking to clinch victory on South African soil.
Statistics seldom count for much in the heat of battle, but the signs are good for the leading duo. Van Zyl is still to claim his maiden European Tour title, but enjoys a proud record at the Africa Open, with two top-four finishes in the previous two years. He also comes into the event on the back of a top-10 finish at the Joburg Open last week.
Fichardt already boasts three European Tour victories. One of these was at the 2012 Saint-Omer Open in France, in which he seized control on day four in gale-force winds. A fresh easterly wind on Sunday may just inflate the rest of the field's scores more than that of the 37-year old's.
All three of Fichardt's victories have come when he has enjoyed at least a share of the lead going into the final round, and he has never failed to come out on top when in that position.
South Africans have enjoyed sustained dominance of co-sanctioned events since the first one in 1995. In 51 events previously, 31 have seen a South African coming out on top.
It is also not only on South African soil where our players have been successful. Those victories make up less than a third of the total of 113 South African triumphs on the European Tour. But it is more recently that they have displayed their dominance. South Africa has enjoyed 12 victories in the last 13 months, with Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Jbe Kruger, Fichardt, Ernie Els and Richard Sterne all getting their names engraved on at least one trophy in that time. In fact, South Africans have already come out on top in three of the first seven events this season.
And, if that's not enough, take note of this. Last week, Sterne's victory at the Joburg Open capped off four successive seasons with a South African winner of the same event. Victory for either of the leaders would thus make the Africa Open the second consecutive event where a South African has won four years in a row.
Of course, the Africa Open was only co-sanctioned from 2010. The event was inaugurated in 2008 at the Fish River Sun Country Club, where Pretoria's Shaun Norris emerged as the victor. The following year, it was Retief Goosen who came out on top, and South Africans thus enjoy a 100 per cent record in the event.
And, with two in-form veterans flying the flag in the final pairing, there seems no reason why that should change today.


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Does anyone recall earlier in this topic, I pointed out how my mother was setting me up with someone she met?
Well, the girl, let's call her Bidoof, and I decided to meet up for a "nice to meet you" dinner, and a night of Cosmic Bowling. I'm sad to say that I didn't find Bidoof particularly attractive, but of course I wasn't going to cancel the date for that reason alone! So, we went to dinner, I found out that Bidoof was actually really nice. We talked, had a good time, and after eating headed out to the bowling alley, one of two in the area. While we arrived at 10:30, Bidoof and I found out that every lane was already reserved for the 12:00 Cosmic Bowling! Disappointed, we drove to the smaller, less popular bowling alley that was a mere 15 minutes away, where we learned that they were also already full for the night!
So, Bidoof and I decided to call it a night. I dropped her off, and we agreed that we'd try it again another time. At this point, I had decided that I didn't want to date Bidoof, but that I'd love to have her as a friend to hang out with. So, the next day, I texted her, telling her that I had a fun time and asking if the following Saturday would be good for another try at the Cosmic Bowling.
And Bidoof replied half an hour later, telling me the usual "you seem like a nice guy" and "I don't want to date anyone right now" lines that, let's be fair, pretty much just mean "No, go away." I found myself rejected by Bidoof, who I didn't even want to date in the first place...
I have mixed emotions of "well, that saves me the trouble of turning Bidoof down later" and "wow, even Bidoof doesn't want to date me..." It's a weird feeling.


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Now that was a bad loss.
At RFK. Riding a five-game unbeaten streak. Facing a wounded opponent. When the halftime whistle sounded, ending an unfulfilling 45 minutes, you just knew the match was going to turn against D.C. United. And right on schedule, the Revolution scored on a set piece — United's weakness all season.
If you want to make the playoffs, you can't lose at home to New England. And you can't continue to drop points at RFK. (United is now 2-3-5 in the capital city and 0-2-4 in its past six at home.) There's a long way to go in the MLS season and, thanks to the Eastern Conference's instability, United should be able to stay in the race for awhile, but this one stings.
Credit to Matt Reis for a superb display of goalkeeping. Man of the match, without question. As for Charlie Davies, the badly missed penalty was the low point of a difficult evening. He didn't move well. Maybe it was the thick air, maybe it was the mental strain of his scoreless streak (now four games). Whatever it was, he was laboring.
Ben Olsen was critical of his team's finishing and wasn't particularly pleased with the defending either. He also said playing consecutive matches four days apart in oppressive conditions took a toll.
"I was hoping we could recover physically, but there were some zombies out there at times."
Expect many reserves in the lineup Saturday against Everton.
More quotes and details in my match report.
Other results:
Manchester United 7, Seattle Sounders 0 (match highlights)
Philadelphia Union 1, Everton 0 (Academy player scores in 87th)
Sporting Kansas City 0, Newcastle 0 (99 degrees at kickoff)
West Brom 3, Portland Timbers 2 (Gabriel Tamas in added time)
Colorado Rapids 4, New York Red Bulls 1 (Sanna Nyassi hat trick)
Los Angeles Galaxy 1, Columbus Crew 0 (13-game unbeaten streak)
FC Dallas 1, Toronto FC 0 (Brek Shea golazo!)
San Jose Earthquakes 2, Vancouver Whitecaps 2 (brace for Wondo)
The DCU-Revs video package from Comcast SportsNet:


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We spend more per capita on health services than any other nation in the world, and yet we still have over 46 million uninsured.
* Supported President Obama's FY 2010 budget, which includes a $634 billion reserve fund over ten years for a major healthcare overhaul, with options for employer coverage, private insurance, or a public plan option.
* Cosponsor of H.R. 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, which would provide universal healthcare coverage through a single-payer national health plan.
* Supported expansion of State Children's Health Insurance Program to cover low-income children in California and nationwide.
* Supported Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addition Equity Act, "mental health parity" which requires that all health plans offer the same treatment benefits for mental health coverage as they do for other physical illnesses.
* Supported the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, legislation to overturn Bush Administration cuts to Medicare physician payments and to eliminate Medicare caps on reimbursement for outpatient therapy such as physical and rehabilitative therapy.
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* Wrote an amendment that prevented Kaiser Permanente from closing the Panorama City hospital after the Northridge Earthquake.
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Reading Test For Robins
Bristol City now have a home fixture in with their pre-season games after the club revealed today that they will be taking on Reading.
Nigel Adkins will bring his relegated side to Ashton Gate on Weds 24th July; the kick off time will be 19:45.
A couple of days later and City play their last friendly at Bournemouth, meaning that Sean O'Driscoll's side will have a couple of good tests before they move onto league action.
O'Driscoll told the club's official website: "Nigel rang me up and asked for the friendly at Ashton Gate and we were pleased with the opportunity. I think he`ll be looking to tinker with the dynamics of Reading`s play slightly this season and it`ll be a meaningful game for them, as it will us."


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Hope and Healing for Korea
Remembering Ferry Tragedy Victims
HOUSTON, May 7, 2014 — On April 16, 2014, the tragic sinking of a South Korean ferry claimed hundreds of lives and sent shockwaves around the world. The ferry Sewol—carrying 476 passengers and crew, including 325 high school students from Ansan—was en route to Jeju from Incheon when it sank near South Korea's southwest coast. In the midst of investigations surrounding the ship's fate and its leadership, search and rescue operations continue as the toll rises to over 300 people dead or unaccounted for.
Asia Society Texas Center offers its deepest condolences to the Korean community worldwide in the wake of this heartbreaking incident that has claimed so many young lives.


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The Mets overcame some shoddy defense to come back and beat the Braves by a score of 9-5 thanks to a huge pinch hit two-run double by rookie sensation Dan Murphy.
The game started out with Jose Reyes hitting a leadoff first inning homerun to put the Mets up early, but it soon became clear this game was going to be a wild one.
Oliver Perez actually pitched a great game going six innings and allowing three earned runs on six hits. He was let down by some bad defensive plays by Jose Reyes and Ryan Church that led to most of the damage. David Wright also made some huge gaffes that allowed a run to score including an error that was ruled a hit that later came around to score. Perez walked three and struck out six and handed the bullpen a 5-4 lead before departing.
The bullpen was in trouble right from the start in the seventh inning. Nelson Figueroa started by putting two runners on and being replaced by Ricardo Rincon before even getting an out. A run scored to tie the game and that brought in Aaron Heilman with the winning run at third base. Heilman walks the first batter and then nearly blows the game when Omar Infante drove one down the left field line that was foul by a few inches. Heilman eventually retires Infante and then Pedro Feliciano came in to get the third out and end the inning.
Brian Stokes pitched the final two innings without incident allowing a solo hit and striking out two.
Jose Reyes had three hits and scored three runs while driving in two, and both David Wright and Carlos Delgado had a couple of hits with Wright driving in two. Nick Evans started in left field and stroked his second homer of the season, a bomb to dead center.
Despite the many positive story lines to this game, the star of this show was Dan Murphy, who continues to produce like a seasoned veteran and even prompted Keith Hernandez to say,
"It's almost time to consider putting Murphy as the number three hitter and leaving him there for the next ten years."
Since being called up from the minors on August 2nd, Murphy is hitting .374 with two homers and 16 RBI's and he is 14-for-30 (.467) so far in September.
Jerry Manuel couldn't contain his excitement and hinted even playing Murphy against lefthanded pitching.
"Murphy's been huge for us all season. We've got to find a way to get him to the plate," Manuel said. "You've got to manage to get him a shot. You know he's good whether they throw a lefty or righty."
For the Mets, it's their third straight road win and their first win at Turner Field this season after losing their first six games in Atlanta this season.
The Mets are now back in first place thanks to the Marlins who mauled the Phillies 14-8. The Brewers also continued their slide opening up a 2 1/2 game game cushion for the Mets in the Wild Card race should they fall out of first again.
Get ready for some Mets baseball in October… Lets Go Mets!