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Daredevil: Born Again was first published in 1986 and followed in the wake of Alan Moore's Watchmen and Frank Miller's own The Dark Knight Returns; both highly influential comics that fundamentally changed the landscape of modern superhero fiction. Although Born Again is perhaps far less well recognised than those comics, it's certainly no less deserving of attention.
Born Again saw Frank Miller team up with David Mazzucchelli, a pairing that might raise a few eyebrows were it to happen today. Miller brought his trademark hard boiled crime stylings to the book and Mazzucchelli delivered art to match, with an unparalleled spatial awareness of what could be done on the page. By modern standards, it's almost a given that Miller and crime noir go hand in hand, but it's worth noting that his gritty detective fiction slant on the superhero genre started with his work on Daredevil.
By the time Born Again hit the shelves, Miller's darker, Hell's Kitchen inspired template was already firmly in place and ripe for exploitation. The addition of Mazzucchelli's detailed, multi dimensional art, adds a visual clout to the book that goes far beyond simply rendering the urban backdrop of Hell's Kitchen believable. All this adds up to a pretty great book, but it's not just the noir leanings and evocative art that make it such a standout piece. What makes Daredevil: Born Again truly special is its psychological deconstruction of Daredevil, aka the blind lawyer Matt Murdock.
The book opens with a down and out Karen Page selling Matt's secret identity to a drug dealer. Of course, it isn't long before this information drops into the lap of crime lord Wilson Fisk, who is only too pleased to discover that Matt Murdock and Daredevil are in fact one and the same. With this information in hand Fisk begins to systematically dismantle Matt's life, methodically striping away his reputation, wealth, career, and friends. As things begins to unravel, his only means of escape is his alter ego Daredevil. Left homeless, friendless and deeply suspicious of everyone around him, he becomes increasingly violent, frenzied and animalistic as he plummets towards rock bottom with alarming speed.
Here Miller tackles the inherent paradox of superheroes; on the one hand Matt Murdock is a shining beacon of all that is good and just in the world, and on the other, he's a violent vigilante whose secret double life borders on clinical schizophrenia. Miller acknowledges the death and destruction that surrounds Daredevil, and then follows those veins of poison as they seep into every corner of his personal life. There are some wonderful pre-echoes of Mazzuccehlli's later work, especially his inventive use of colour and space. In issue 228 of Born Again, Matt confines himself to a cramped, seedy hotel room. Paralysed by fear and paranoia, the room becomes both a physical and mental prison. There's a repeating motif of long thin vertical panels, lined up like prison bars, further adding to the calutrophobic nature of events. As everything closes in, fighting for space on the page, Matt struggles against seemingly insurmountable odds.
Ben Urich, the wayward Daily Bugle reporter receives a similar visual treatment when he finds himself under Wilson Fisk's watchful eye. Following a series of unsuccessful attempts to ease Matt's plight, Ben finds himself under constant threat of physical violence from the Kingpin. As his situation turns from bad to worse, Mazzucchelli begins to visually morph Ben's features, switching from his realist style to exaggerated elongated lines, stretching out Ben's face so it radiates stress and nervous energy. Ben is painted a cowardly yellow, the panels themselves become narrow, boxing him in on the page as the omnipresent force of the Kingpin moves in for the kill.
In both cases mood is expressed in terms of colour and space, and it's interesting to see Mazzucchelli experimenting with these stylistic techniques. As the attentive reader will know, these particular traits would eventually become an integral part of his artistic approach, most notably in his adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass and his recent solo effort Asterios Polyp.
What fascinates most about Daredevil: Born Again is its inversion of classic comic book conventions. It takes a long hard look at the cold reality of being a superhero and doesn't shy away from the more unpleasant truths that emerge. Take 'Nuke' for example, the book's drug fueled nemesis; a blindly patriotic, failed military experiment who's forever popping pills and spouting militaristic non-sequiturs. Nuke is post Cold War politics embodied. He's the anti- Captain America. Nuke is clearly cast as a villain, yet maintains the psychotic delusion that he's allied to the forces of good. He is the darker side of warfare and politics, blindly following orders, sworn to protect 'our boys' and his beloved USA. When a disillusioned Captain America finally lays his misguided fellow comrade to rest, it's abundantly clear that superheroes aren't what they used to be. All is not right in the world of the superhuman, and although the book reaches a typically 'wrapped up' resolution of its main plot points, it still asks some stark questions about what it would truly mean to be a superhero.
Just over two decades later, Nicholas Cage (Big Daddy) and Chloë Grace Moretz (Hit Girl) face off in a disused reservoir. Big Daddy calmly points a gun at his daughter and pulls the trigger. Thus begins their journey on the road to becoming masked vigilantes in the big screen adaptation of Mark Millar's comic Kick Ass. Big Daddy and Hit Girl are a case in point, they're the apex of modern superhero fiction; and as apt a parody as you're ever likely to see. Morals are swept neatly under the carpet and bloody justice reigns down at the hands of an 11 year old girl, whose aptitude with firearms and knives is nothing short of frightening.
Kick Ass is an undeniably funny film, but the reason it elicits so many laughs is, I suspect, due to the sheer perversity of the whole setup. I need not explain to you the strange pleasure of watching an 11 year old girl brutally dispatch dozens of hardened criminals, and whilst I laughed as much as the next man, I couldn't help but feel that Kick Ass makes some interesting points about the pysche of the superhero.
In much the same way that Miller and Mazzucchelli strip down Daredevil to his very core to reveal an unbalanced, yet highly driven individual, Kick Ass too, quite adeptly acknowledges the savage duality of the modern day superhero. There's a dark and nihilistic streak lurking just under the film's playful action flick sheen, and therein lies the all too knowing recognition that such heroes would be flawed and unbalanced individuals long before they even put on a mask and cape.


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QANTAS may at least halve its core earnings in the first half of this financial year as it bears the brunt of intense competition in the domestic market.
It has tried to bolster investor confidence by using proceeds from an asset sale and compensation from the US plane-maker Boeing to buy back shares and repay debt early.
Qantas expects to post an underlying pre-tax profit of between $180 million and $230 million in the first half.
But stripping out one-off payments from Boeing, the pre-tax earnings will be just $45 million to $95 million, due largely to excess capacity in the domestic market.
It compares with an underlying pre-tax profit of $202 million in the same period last financial year, which did not include a $194 million hit from an industrial dispute.
The battle between the country's four largest airlines has led to heavy discounting of fares over the past six months. With Qantas revealing the impact to its bottom line on Thursday, Virgin Australia and the budget airline Tiger will also face a hit to their earnings over the coming months.
The airlines typically make most of their earnings in the first half.
Shares in Qantas rose as much as 6 per cent on Thursday, as investors responded positively to the buyback and debt reduction, before closing up 5¢ at $1.28.
A Macquarie Equities analyst, Russell Shaw,said the market was likely to take a favourable view of the airline's latest measures, but the rate of earnings growth recovery "continues to frustrate".
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the airline had signalled for some time that its earnings would take a hit from the intense competition in the domestic market.
"While the domestic market is going through a tough period, it has gone through that three times before in the last decade, and it has always rationalised," he said.
"We are confident about coming out of that battle in a strong position."
Mr Joyce said both Qantas and its budget offshoot, Jetstar, were still profitable in the domestic market, even though increased capacity had put pressure on yields – or returns from fares. Qantas will spend $100 million buying back about 4 per cent of its issued shares.
It will also will repay $650 million in debt in January – five months ahead of schedule – as part of a $1 billion debt reduction program this financial year. The airline will fund the measures from what it receives from the sale of its half stake in the road freight business Star Track Express, and the compensation from Boeing.
The two deals have delivered Qantas a total of $750 million this financial year.
The airline will also spend $100 million less on capital requirements this financial year than previously forecast.
Qantas did not give guidance for the second half because of volatile conditions, uncertainty in global economic conditions, fuel prices and foreign exchange rates.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.

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And a big Dr. Grumpy thank you to alert reader EE, who submitted this.
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
That just screams, "Dr Grumpy!"
word verify is cartmen
The only better thing would be if there was actually diet coke in it.
Fellow diet coke-oholic.
Diet Pepsi tastes like ass.
Dear GOD, I swear, I got the catalog with that ornament in it TODAY in the mail and immediately thought of you.......if I had an address for you, you'd be getting one. Snort.
Do they have a rehab specifically for Diet Coke-heads?
Just asking.
So, Dr Grumpy, I've always wanted to ask but never could rustle up the courage - you obviously think the fuss about artifical sweeteners is garbage, and Diet Coke is fine? Someone who lives near me is constantly sticking "aspartame is the work of the devil"-type flyers in my mailbox. Even a DVD once!
An ornament? You have enough to string those babies together for garland!
saw this, too, at Walmart and thought of you.
then, I realized that was weird! that I was thinking about a blogger I dont know...
Little Calf Creamery. Delicious homemade ice cream and food in Thousand Oaks!


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Children's Residential Care Facilities
Therapeutic Outdoor (Wilderness) Programs
Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities
Adoption/Foster Care Agencies
3232 Elder St.
Boise, ID 83705
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Children's Agencies: A person who operates a business for the placement of children in foster homes, children's residential care facilities or for adoption in a permanent home and who does not provide child care as part of that business. A children's agency does not include a licensed attorney or physician assisting or providing natural and adoptive parents with legal services or medical services necessary to initiate and complete adoptive placements.
Children's Camp. A program of child care at a location away from the child's home, which is primarily recreational and includes the overnight accommodation of the child and is not intended to provide treatment, therapy or rehabilitation for the child. A children's camp which only provides child care for any one (1) child for less than nine (9) consecutive weeks in any one (1) year period is exempt from the licensure and disclosure provisions of this chapter. A children's camp which provides child care for any one (1) child for more than nine (9) consecutive weeks in any one (1) year period constitutes a children's residential care facility.
Children's Residential Care Facility. A facility that provides residential child care, excluding foster homes, residential schools, juvenile detention centers and children's camps that: a. Seeks, receives or enrolls children for treatment of special needs such as substance abuse, mental illness, emotional disturbance, developmental disability, mental retardation, or children who have been identified by the judicial system as requiring treatment, therapy, rehabilitation or supervision; b. Receives payment, including payment from health insurance carriers, for identified treatment needs such as substance abuse, mental illness, emotional disturbance, developmental disability or mental retardation; or c. Represents to the payor of the child care services provided by the children's facility that such payment may qualify for health insurance reimbursement by the payor's carrier or may qualify for tax benefits relating to medical services; and d. May include a children's therapeutic outdoor program whether or not that program operates out of a standard facility.
Children's Therapeutic Outdoor Program. A program which is designed to provide behavioral, substance abuse, or mental health services to minors in an outdoor setting and serves either adjudicated or non-adjudicated youth. Children's Therapeutic Outdoor programs do not include outdoor programs for minors that are primarily designed to be educational or recreational that may include Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H and other youth organizations.
Alcohol-Drug Abuse Treatment Facility. A children's residential care facility specializing in providing programs of treatment for children whose primary problem is alcohol or drug abuse, licensed according to IDAPA 16.06.02. Contact the Department's Division of Licensing and Certification for more information.
Non-accredited Residential School. A residential school for any number of children that is not certified or accredited pursuant to Section 39-1207, Idaho Code, or has lost accreditation and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Department as a children's residential care facility pursuant to Section 39-1210, Idaho Code, unless and until accreditation is certified by the Idaho Department of Education.
To find out if an organization is licensed, click Licensed Facilities and you will be directed to a list of licensed organizations. The list contains the name of the organization, the city in which it is licensed, the capacity, age limits and whether the organization serves boys or girls.
Parents can expect that organizations that are licensed meet all licensing requirements as listed in IDAPA 16.06.02. All employees of licensed organizations must meet certain training, background check, experience and education requirements. In addition, facilities and outdoor programs must meet nutrition, building safety, fire safety, vehicle safety standards as set forth in IDAPA 16.06.02.
While licensing assures basic protections for children in care, it is recommended that parents visit facilities prior to placing their children. Facilities vary greatly in size, services, location and personality.


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McGinn proposes changes in the wake of fatal stabbing
By Joel Moreno
Published: Sep 16, 2013 at 5:32 PM PDT Last Updated: Sep 16, 2013 at 6:15 PM PDT
SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn is proposing extensive public safety changes in response to a deadly stabbing outside a Sounders game on Friday.
Investigators say Donnel Jackson killed Troy Wolff and injured his girlfriend, Kristin Ito, in the random knife attack.
Police say Jackson is schizophrenic, and on Monday McGinn said the city needs to do more to address mental illness.
As for Jackson, a judge decided to hold him on $2 million bail, saying his alleged crimes have rattled the community's sense of safety. Jackson declined to go before the judge and let his attorney do the talking.
Assistant Seattle Police Chief Nick Metz joined McGinn to talk about changes they are proposing.
"This, to me, was an extremely shocking event," Metz said.
Among other changes, McGinn said the police department needs more officers.
"We will be reporting to you later what this budget has in it in regards to police officers, and we will be making additional investments," he said.
McGinn also plans to push state lawmakers to fund more treatment beds, so mentally ill patients can be evaluated and helped instead of left on the streets.
"In the city of Seattle we are not going to wait for Olympia," McGinn said. "We will continue pushing them."
Friday's stabbing evokes memories of other incidents, including the murder of Seattle fire captain Stanley Stevenson in 1997 as his family left a Mariners game at the Kingdome. More recently, Seattle police gunned down a man with mental problems in Magnolia.
King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg has long called for changes in the mental health system, saying what's in place now doesn't work.
"The street is no place to get better if you are mentally ill, and it's a place where people get much much worse," he said.
McGinn plans to convene a summit with the Downtown Seattle Association and others to talk about what can be done to identify and help mentally ill people who are on the streets and in crisis.
He said any solution is bound to cost more money, which could translate into new fees or taxes.
Ito remains at Harborview Medical Center, but her condition has been upgraded to satisfactory.
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The Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman has dismissed the depiction of gun violence in Hollywood as "fraudulent" and claimed that studios actively discriminate against actors who refuse to carry firearms onscreen.
Interviewed on National Public Radio in the US, The Graduate star became the latest high-profile figure to wade into the debate following the killing of 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012. Advocates of gun control have used the opportunity to press for new laws to combat similar massacres, but Hollywood has also come under sustained pressure for what many see as its glamorisation of firearm use.
Hoffman, 75, said he had tried throughout his career to avoid films which required him to use guns on screen – though he conceded he carried a weapon in Straw Dogs, Hook and Little Big Man – for very personal reasons and because he does not believe they should be part of the entertainment industry.
"I have always felt passionate about the fact that the audience is identifying (with movie violence) in a very fraudulent way," Hoffman revealed. "I don't find anything interesting about a gun. A gun is there to threaten or kill."
The actor revealed he was once targeted by a gun-toting theatre producer during the 1960s, an experience which had left him with fierce anti-firearm views. "I don't think people understand what it's like to have a gun pointed at you," he said. "When it happened to me (it was) after Kennedy (US President John F Kennedy) had just been assassinated. I was in Boston. I remember thinking, 'I'm going to take a hit' and every second you are feeling the bullet go straight through you … You're in immediate shock. I've never forgotten that feeling … It was a guy who was part of a theatre company on the producing end … He came out and pointed this gun …"
Hoffman said directors were often guilty of using violent scenes to bolster a plot because "the script is lacking". He complained that a gun was "rarely used in film in a way that it feels like in life," adding: "It's simplified into being a cartoon experience."
Perhaps even more controversially, Hoffman implied that actors had seen their careers stifled due to a refusal to carry guns on screen. "If you are not holding a gun, and that is something I have always refused to do, then suddenly this person who was always offered leading roles, suddenly gets offered supporting parts then you... start getting offered cameos..."
Hoffman's is a rare Hollywood voice speaking out against what he sees as studios' advocacy of gun violence. While fellow Oscar-winner Denzel Washington has gone on record promising to think more carefully about which roles he takes in the wake of the Newtown massacre, a whole host of prominent figures - from Quentin Tarantino to Samuel L Jackson and Arnold Schwarzenegger - have refused to accept any link between violence on screen and in real life. The debate was sparked when the powerful US National Rifle Association, under fire for failing to consider new gun control laws, attempted to point the figure of accusation at Hollywood instead in the wake of the killings on 14 December.


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Kirsten sent this my way: "Just Smile," a New York Magazine feature on Cathie Black, the new schools chancellor of New York City.
While I don't have any special knowledge of New York City's schools – or of those in California, DC, or New Jersey – I try to follow what happens in the major markets.
The article is a pretty canny piece on the state of public education in the United States of America as illustrated by Cathie Black's appointment and the early days of her tenure.
I am full of conflict in considering it.
I'll let people closer to the struggles of the school system speak to and of its leaders.
For my part, I'll share this:
I attended a well-attended meeting recently. There were three leaders.
One kept us on-task during the meeting.
One reminded us of what we didn't do before the meeting.
One challenged us to move ahead more deliberately according to our professional judgment after the meeting.
All three leaders have worked with kids, but none of them are currently classroom teachers or building-level principals. Two of them worked outside our school. Furthermore, I felt pushed by two of them, albeit differently by each.
Here is one worry: as teachers, when we feel threatened by outsiders who challenge us, we sometimes lump those outsiders together. I worry that in defending ourselves, we pay an opportunity cost that makes it impossible to afford outside help or to account for others' points of view.
Here is another: many of the outsiders who want somehow to help – as well as many of us – are working with obsolete mechanisms and metaphors for learning. Forget for a moment that there is no standardized unit of time or learning – forget that every minute spent trying to reach out to a wounded child isn't one spent on strategies to remember the causes of the Spanish-American War. As professions, few teachers and administrative leaders are thinking outside given buildings and schedules. We are all near-sighted – almost.
We could wind up staying on-task.
We could keep reminding ourselves of what we haven't done.
We could move ahead more deliberately according to our professional judgment, but is that judgement compromised? Does it allow us to look outside ourselves for guidance? Does it give us the courage to stop doing what is wrong in our pursuit of being right or acknowledged as such?
Regardless, we need to consider our profession more critically.
There are questions we decry when the reformers pose them; however, we don't often ask one another those questions, either. I think that some of the questions we don't want to talk about over lunch – some of the questions that seem the most divisive and selfish – are actually the ones that hold the greatest promise for freeing us up to do our jobs and innovate in schools.
Do we want to stay together for safety, or do we want to risk being acknowledged for our work as individuals?
Do we want to prepare for the tests each Spring and cite student pride, or do we want to spend all year finding ways for students to take pride in excellent work?
Do we think things are good enough, or do we think they suck?
Are we unable to bring ourselves to strike or otherwise protest on our behalf, or are we unable to bring ourselves to strike or otherwise protest on behalf of our students?
I've worked with people I love who would answer those questions differently than I do.
So how do we move forward more deliberately?
Two February suggestions:
- Figure out independent study inside class (synchronously) and outside class (asynchronously) for every kid who tests out of your mid-year.
- Start a discussion with colleagues and at least one administrator and at least one outsider whom you trust, but with whom you don't necessarily agree, and push until you hear, "No." Then figure out what the real cause is for the, "No," redress it with sound design (or call out the adult-convenience gate-keepers), and repeat.
It's not that easy, but it's not likely to get any easier. Respond to the right threat; listen to the right outsider; they are not all the same.


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We have a popup dialogue that requests users email address or facebook login.
The page behind the popup loads, so a page view is counted.
We want to measure:
- How many users ignored the popup completely
- How many users engaged the popup, but don't complete the process (we trigger an event when the user performs actions defined as "engaging")
- How many users completed the popup
Bounce rates aren't telling because some users won't receive the popup.
We are basically triggering events "PopupDisplayed" "PopupEngaged" and "PopupComplete", with labels to differentiate between email and facebook.
But I don't think I can set goals to count "Users who received 'PopupDisplayed' AND 'PopupComplete'" events, so I can count how many users both saw the popup and completed it.


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Students are inspired to do their best writing by writing for an authentic audiencetheir future selves. Through a series of brainstorming exercises, students begin to think about their future. They further explore their thoughts by answering a set of prewriting questions. Next, they read and discuss the poem Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike, analyzing the details and the format of the poem. Students are then introduced to a writing assignment in which they write a poem about themselves in five years. They write their poems and go through a series of peer feedback and revisions. Two copies of the final versions of the poem are given to the teacherone to grade and one to mail to students in five years.
"Ex-Basketball Player": Poetry Foundation offers this online version of John Updike's poem.
Prewriting Questions: These questions help students to think through the details of what their lives might be like in five years.
A Poem of PossibilitiesA Letter to Myself: Use this handout to present the writing assignment to students.
By focusing students' attention on meaningful audiences, teachers can more effectively explore writing and publishing with students. This lesson plan concentrates on what I describe as "writing that matters":
Only when adolescents are involved in writing that matters-and matters beyond the quest for the almighty A-can they produce work that speaks from their hearts and speaks to an audience beyond that of the teacher. Unfortunately, most students are all too comfortable with "school writing." Tell them to write a five-hundred-word essay on "My Most Important Decision" and they'll spew it out with ease, the bright ones even remembering to use that sacred five-paragraph format! And when the teacher reads these essays, some will be "good" and some will be "poor," but rarely will there be one that takes her breath away. Even if there is one essay that does, where will it go from there?. . . Certainly there is nothing wrong with teaching students to write personal essays. . . But as a form it is perhaps overused in middle and high school classrooms, and when students begin to see it as "the way one writes in school," they adopt a writing voice that is academic and artificial and calculated to please the teacher alone.
The teacher's task, then, is to design assignments that will have a natural audience-and one that extends beyond the classroom. When the audience is real-and red penless-so too does the writing become real, free of the classroom clichés and studentspeak that spoils good writing. (Excerpted from Rubenstein 15-16)
Further Reading
Rubenstein, Susanne. 1988. Go Public! Encouraging Student Writers to Publish. Urbana, IL: NCTE.


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Inspo News with Federico Cardella
I am an Boston born, Italian-American vocalist that sings adult contemporary pop, rock, gospel and classical music. One of ten children, I have loved to sing ever since I can remember. I have also been a missionary & sing gospel & worship music with the name Federico"Freddy" Hayler. Cardella is my family name form Italy - so I chose this as a stage / trade name.
Pop classical soloist
My goal as a singer is to help rejuvenate true love,faith and romance throughout the world. I'm not trying to be suave here - I simply love to perform and desire to share the gift God gave me with others. I think we have lost much of the message & music of "old world romance" in our global culture and I wanted to contribute something original & nostalgic to the music scene. I/m not a famous singer, but I am grateul or the thousands of lives I have inspired in my sphere of influence.
All my music was very costly and time consuming to produce. I wanted a really mellow and authentic sound using great musicians and for the most part , used REAL INSTRUMENTS and the London/Nashville Symphonies. Sadly, so much of the music today is midi and drum loops and electronic computer generated sounds - all which have their place - but not in romance music! 😉
I was raised listening to great singers, and ever since I can remember, I've loved to sing …I learned a lot by listening to the likes of Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley as well as great American and Italian tenors like Enrico Caruso, Mario Lanza, Franco Corelli, and my mentor, Luciano Pavarotti. The fact is that God gave me a gift and I feel the best when I share it with others.
I always had a decent natural voice. As I grew older, notable opera voice teachers like Vera Rosca, Jerome Hines, Ken Smith & famed Italian tenor Franco Corelli also took me under their wing and trained me. I'm really grateful for that!
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People are missing the whole point when they do that. All singers have something to offer. Some people prefer tulips over roses. Does that make tulips "better" than roses? I don't think so.
So every one has their fav singers. That's great. And even though beauty definitely has a universal measure, oftentimes it is in the eyes of the beholder. Marketing, TV exposure & resources is so important for popularizing a singer also, but that should not be the only measure for rating a singer either. My only ambition is to inspire others with the gift God has given me no matter what level of exposure. And no, I was never on a TV competition show!
Delay is Not Denial
To you who feel you may be too old to share your gift and dream with others- NEVER GIVE UP! I started my singing career later in life than most professional singers, but didn't let that deter me. I was told I was late getting started as far as tenors go - that unless I started singing & training operatically by my mid 20's, it was simply too late to have a serious career.
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Cases against NJ Weedman up in smoke. Prosecutors cite changing views of marijuana
Updated 9:11 AM; Posted Jun 6, 3:15 PM
Above: Ed "NJ Weedman" Forchion reacts to someone who beeped their horn in support as he talked in front of his shuttered restaurant Friday, May 25, 2018 in Trenton, a day after he was acquitted of witness tampering and was released from jail. (Kevin Shea | For NJ.com)
By Paige Gross email@example.com, For NJ.com
The Mercer County Prosecutor's Office announced Wednesday it will be dropping most of the remaining drug and related charges against Edward "NJ Weedman" stemming from a 2016 raid on his Trenton restaurant.
What is not dismissed will be downgraded to municipal court, where jail time is unlikely.
But Forchion's not seeing this as all good news.
Late last month, Forchion was found not guilty by a jury on third-degree witness tampering charges – a case that also grew from the drug raid.
The marijuana activist spent about 15 months detained in the Mercer County jail during two trials, and was set free hours after he was acquitted.
The prosecutor's office said the decision to not move forward in prosecuting Forchion came after considering the shift in climate of marijuana legislation in New Jersey.
"They're about 10 years too late," Forchion said of a change in public opinion of marijuana.
The office also considered the changes in law regarding the state's bail reform – an issue Forchion railed against during his time in jail.
"I'm half-way happy and half-way mad," he said Wednesday night. "Now the state just drops the charges, and I've already spent 16 months in jail. I had 42 charges against me total. It was a campaign of terror by the police department."
NJ Weedman spent 400-plus days in jail. Turns out he was not guilty
Can he get anything for all the time he spent locked up?
"These factors call for an adjustment in the way the office most appropriately uses its resources and assistance from other law enforcement agencies in order to prioritize detention cases such as murders, attempted murders and violent crime," the prosecutor's statement said.
"The fact that the defendant has served more than a year in prison while these cases were pending was also taken into consideration," it continued.
In all, Forchion had been indicted in 2016 and 2017 and was facing 11 charges related to narcotics dealings and cyber harassment. The prosecutor's office has dismissed most of the charges, and downgraded five to "disorderly persons offenses," all of which will be tried in Trenton Municipal Court.
The state is currently wrestling with ideas of how to deal with the hundreds of thousands of people who have been charged with marijuana crimes. Some legislators are considering expunging low-level convictions, but aren't yet sure of the logistics.
"After a review of the defendant's pending cases," the prosecutor's office said in its statement, "We feel the downgrade and dismissal of the charges is an appropriate resolution."
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IAB: You're Not Spending Enough on Digital
Study also finds post-roll video ads surprisingly popular
Is your campaign digital enough? The Interactive Advertising Bureau this morning published a study that doesn't just tell advertisers to move more dollars online; it tells you how much to reallocate. The IAB, which commissioned Nielsen to do the study, further says that retention increases when you use the same creative across both digital and linear platforms, and that the order in which the viewer sees the ads matters. Ideally, a viewer will watch an ad online first, which will boost retention when the ad comes on the air.
With funding from several of its members, the IAB has been able to amass enough Nielsen campaign data to prove pretty convincingly that moving up to 15 percent of your TV budget to digital can increase your reach by up to 3.4 percent for CPG clients and up to 6.2 percent for non-CPG clients. The study, "A Comprehensive Picture of Digital Video and TV Advertising: Viewing, Budget Share Shift and Effectiveness," was shared at the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting in Phoenix.
"If you are a company with multimedia assets, this study shows you how to leverage them across the board," said Sherrill Mane, IAB's svp of research, analytics and measurement. "This is not a kill-TV study in any way shape or form." No wonder, then, that online ad spending continues to grow rapidly.
One reason the study is unique is that it parses extremely complex and expensive Nielsen data. With Microsoft and Yahoo as its primary sponsors (though many companies contributed funding), IAB took a survey that averaged 18 different real schedules across some 700 brands that ran on TV. If you've ever looked into reallocating a real schedule, you'll know why this is worthwhile information: The process is extremely expensive.
While it's true TV and online advertising aren't entirely interchangable, the IAB learned that strategically moving your dollars to digital increased reach without increasing spend. Part of the increase is simple arithmetic; as reach increased, CPMs went down.
"The TV-only CPM is $11.17; [when you move] 5 percent [to digital], it goes to $10.82. At 15 percent, it goes to $10.19," Mane said.
Many of her findings were counterintuitive. Post-roll video advertising (which airs after you've watched a video online), for example, scored surprisingly high rates of completion. "To me, post-roll means you're done watching," said Mane. But that's not true. "The short-form average is 71 percent, and the long-form average is 79 percent." No wonder there are so many companies guaranteeing online views.
The decrease in cost per reach point is also considerable. For CPG, the price went from $67,600 to $63,000, and for non-CPG reach points (which tend to be quite a bit more expensive than CPG, since non-CPG target consumers are generally lighter TV viewers), the price decreased much more dramatically, from $153,000 to $135,700.


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RALEIGH � Kaley Moser arrived at North Carolina State with the intention of being a normal student.
After a few weeks, the former Williams High School basketball and soccer standout knew something was missing.
�I started going to classes and getting in my routine, and I just wasn�t quite happy, I guess,� Moser said. �I said, �Something�s missing, I feel like a normal student,� and that wasn�t OK with me.�
Her solution?
Join the N.C. State women�s basketball team as a walk-on.
�I love the challenge and I love the opportunity,� Moser said. �I�m just going to work so hard with it and never take it for granted because it�s a dream come true.�
Moser earned a spot on the team after about a three-week tryout before the season started. She has played in four games, with the highlight being a basket against Longwood to give N.C. State 100 points in the game.
The freshman drew the eye of coach Kellie Harper during her tryout. Now, Harper has high praise for the Williams product.
�I�m so thankful we have her in our program,� Harper said of Moser. �She�s the type of person that you want to be around. She�s the type of person you want in your program.�
It wasn�t quitea direct path to the women�s basketball team, though Moser eagerly admits that every part of the journey was worth any nerve-racking moments and the whirlwind of events.
She joined the club basketball team after a few weeks on campus, and �loved it.� Moser, a four-year starter at Williams and a Times-News All-Region pick last season, had seemingly filled the void and found a better way to enjoy college.
�I met a lot of girls, it was a good way to meet friends,� Moser said. �We went to a tournament and played and it was really fun. We were still working hard, so I was still playing the game.�
Then, along came another opportunity.
A manager with the women�s team, who also helps coach the club team, suggested that the players participate in the upcoming tryout for the women�s team.
�He would blurt out the date, the time and be like, �You better be there,� � Moser said. �All the girls on the team were like, �No, why would I do that?� And I�m like, �Why not? Why wouldn�t you do that?� �
Moser worked with the manager, Chris Sullivan, before the tryout on a few drills that the women�s team runs. Her focus was to familiarize herself with the drills to cut down on any mishaps during her tryout period.
It worked, although there were still uneasy moments.
�I was still nervous, but I showed up and worked hard,� Moser said.
After three weeksof going through workouts and practices, Moser had established herself as one of two finalists for a walk-on spot.
And, despite having an academic schedule that made it difficult for her to attend some practices or workouts for their entirety, Moser had fully shown her willingness to compete for an Atlantic Coast Conference program.
�Whenever they would call, like (senior guard) Marissa (Kastanek) would call and say, �Hey, you wanna come play pickup?� I�d drop everything and get over here,� Moser said.
�It was about a three-week period of I don�t know if I�m going to make it, but I�m just going to give it my all.�
When it came down to a Thursday afternoon, Moser was headed to a chemistry class.
About five minutes before class � at about 2:30 p.m. as Moser estimated � she received a call from Harper.
�She said, �Well Kaley, we�d like to thank you for trying out,� and I was like, �Uhh,� and she was like, �But, we�d like to add you to the team if that�s something you�d like to do and understand your role,� � Moser said. �� I didn�t sit straight through that chemistry class.�
Now, Moser�s spoton the team is mostly on the bench � understandable for a freshman walk-on who joined the team mere weeks before the season started.
But you won�t have to look far on the bench to spot the former Williams standout.
Harper assigns her guards to sit on the far right, closest to the scorer�s table at home games. A somewhat unconventional method, but one that results in Moser often having the seat closest to the mid-court line.
�I guess for a few different reasons, but all the guards sit up there,� Moser said. �And yea, I guess you do have first access to give high-fives, tell people to keep going or good job.
�And then Kellie is also telling me to look at the coach�s calls down the line. So, different things. She said, �Kaley, if I get too far out, tell me to come back.� Little things like that. She told me that�s where I�m supposed to sit.�
Moser�s season thus far hasn�t come without a few personal highlights. Like when she hit a jump shot against Longwood to boost the Wolfpack to the 100-point plateau. She also grabbed two rebounds in a game this month against Elon University, with several former Williams teammates in the stands at Reynolds Coliseum to cheer her on.
Moser�s role is one that Harper laid out before the season began, which the freshman willingly embraced.
�I remember I was going recruiting and I called her on the phone and just said, �Hey, to be a walk-on is not glamorous,� � Harper said. � �You may or may not get to play. You�re going to have to work just as hard as everybody else in practice, but I want you to be on the team.�
�She accepted willingly, and it�s been one of the best decisions I�ve made all year.�
It�s a seat and role with the Wolfpack that Moser, who has been a lifelong N.C. State fan, said she won�t take for granted.
�It�s a process. I�m ready to keep working, keep getting better,� Moser said. �Every day, like when we�re doing weights or watching film, what can I be learning? Because there�s so much, and just learning the system and learning the plays and all the defenses.
�It�s different from high school, that�s for sure. But every bit of the work is so worth it, because at the end of the day I walk away and remind myself that this is my dream and that, I mean, I�m just grateful to have this opportunity but I�m not going to take it lightly. I�m going to pursue it with everything that I have.�
Not bad for somebody who just couldn�t quite fit into the normal college student life.


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Back we go into the Bill Simmons archive, where we rescue Simmons's AOL Digital Cities work from the internet aether. Today's long-lost column: "The 20 Most Annoying Sports Fans Alive," originally published June 4, 1999.
We start with the caveat that the word annoying "includes qualities like 'being obnoxious,' 'being arrogant,' 'being whiny,' 'being indifferent,' and 'jumping on the bandwagon.'" In other words, all sports fans everywhere. On to the rankings!
20. Green Bay fans
19. NY Giants fans
Giants fans love to call their team "the New York FOOTBALL Giants." They think that makes them cool. I think it speaks for itself.
18. Notre Dame football fans
17. Bay Area football fans
16. Knicks fans
Knick fans thought Patrick Ewing was a superstar. They thought John Starks was good. They thought the Knicks would've beaten the Bulls in 1993 if Charles Smith hadn't gotten stuffed 19 straight times in the last minute of Game Five. They willingly allow self-serving ego-tripper Spike Lee to represent them at games. They actually think the 1985 NBA lottery WASN'T rigged; they actually think Jeff Van Gundy is a better coach than Phil Jackson; and they actually think their current team is better off in the Indiana series with Chris Dudley and without Ewing.
Worst of all, they actually call Madison Square Garden "The Garden."
They wish.
15. Hartford fans
14. Colorado fans (not including the Broncos)
13. NFC fans
12. Celtics fans
Honestly, I can't believe how much Celtics fans have changed over the years. In the old days, the crowd possessed an instinctive collective sense on how to affect games — they always rallied the team when it needed a boost; they always knew the difference between a Standing O and a "Cheering throughout an entire timeout because the team was just that freaking great" Standing O"; and they harrassed opposing players like nobody else in the country (remember how the Garden crowd singlehandedly removed Ralph Sampson from Game 6 of the '86 Finals?).
Now? The stands are filled with three types of people:
—1. Businessmen asking questions like "Where's Dee Brown? Did we trade him or something?"
—2. People spending four quarters giggling at the Crunch & Munch Guy and trying to get on the Jumbotron during timeouts.
—3. Ted Sarandis-types beaming because the team is floundering, which means they can grumble about Cyber Twan.
As amazing as this sounds, the Celtics were actually at a disadvantage at home this season. Here was a young team playing an aborted 50-game season — with four new players in the rotation, no less — and people were treating them like they were only as good as their last jumper. Young teams feed off energy, positive and negative, and the Fleet Center just seemed to drain these guys over the course of the season. Make no mistake about it — the damage was done. After seeing the way the fans treated Antoine, do you really think Ron Mercer and Paul Pierce want to spend the rest of their careers here in front of a bunch of fair-weather fans?
11. Chicago fans
10. English soccer fans
9. Red Sox fans
[F]ortunately, there are enough "good" Sox fans to keep this group out of the Top Three. It should also be noted that we've seen some horrible things over the years — we're the "sports fan" equivalent of war victims and cancer survivors. I mean, how can any Red Sox fan look at the sport of baseball with an unjaundiced eye? Our team went 68 years without a championship before 1986, then we came within one pitch of winning the World Series for THIRTEEN STRAIGHT &%#%@* PITCHES... and we couldn't get the last out!!!! You couldn't make that up if you tried.
So we have an excuse. We really do.
With that said, I hate being associated with the majority of Red Sox fans and their "sky is falling" approach, led by cult leaders Peter Gammons, Dan Shaughnessy, Butch From The Cape, Steve Buckley, Stephen King, Ken Burns, and everyone else who secretly roots for the Red Sox to continue losing because it makes for a good storyline or because they simply enjoy being unhappy. Most Sox fans imagine a time when the Sox finally win the whole damned thing... and they can't imagine what they'd do with themselves.
8. Lakers fans
Say what you want about Celtics fans — at least we stick around for the fourth quarters of games.
Lakers fans are just ridiculous. They showed up right around the time Magic Johnson and "Showtime" showed up in Hollywood... then they disappeared right about the time Magic Johnson and "Showtime" left Hollywood. They showed up again three years ago when Shaq came to town... now you can almost hear them creeping towards the backdoor in the bandwagon again.
7. NY Rangers fans
Rangers fans reside in that Yankees/Giants fans gene pool, but they never really bothered me until the year after they won the Stanley Cup — in 1994 — when they bitched about their team's inevitable troubles in the "year-after" season (the Rangers ended up missing the playoffs). Man, how can you bitch about anything in the season following a Stanley Cup, especially when you haven't won for 54 years? Doesn't your team get at least a five-year grace period after that?
****Note to reader: If the Red Sox ever won the World Series, they could go 2-798 over the next 5 years and I wouldn't care.
6. Oriole/Redskins fans
5. Cowboys fans
4. Yankees fans
Here's your typical Yankees fan: His name is Vinny, Bobby, or Paulie; he's 5-foot-9; he has black hair and a black mustache that hasn't quite grown in yet and makes him look like a cross between Phil McConkey and BabaBooey; his girlfriend looks like Paula Jones and chews Jolly Ranchers with her mouth open; he just failed the fireman's test in his local borough for the tenth time last week; he has at least three Yankee jerseys and makes his girlfriend wear one of them at all times; he wears sweatpants to bars; the greatest moment of his life was when Reggie Jackson hit the three homers in the '77 World Series; he thinks Thurman Munson, Ron Guidry AND Don Mattingly should be in the Hall of Fame; and he plays softball and yells at the umpires during games.
3. Mets fans
Let's be honest: They were exceedingly arrogant about the whole '86 World Series thing and still are, to this very day. I hate them and I want them all to die. Seriously. If you're a Mets fan and you're reading this, please know that I've hoped for your imminent death on a number of occasions... preferably at the hands of a chainsaw or a pick-axe. May you all end up in "Oz" in the same prison cell as Beecher.
2. Philly fans
1. Atlanta fans
Atlanta fans are in a class by themselves. They bring everything to the table here:
* No history whatsoever. None. Zero.
* If you looked up the definition of a "bandwagon fan" in the dictionary, you'd get a picture of a Braves fan doing the Tomahawk Chop. Did they even draw 5,000 fans per game before 1990?
* They stole two of their three teams from other cities.
* They're getting an NHL expansion franchise next year despite the fact that their NBA team — the Hawks — failed to fill half the building in any of their home playoff games last month. That's almost unfathomable.
* They spawned the "Dirty Bird," which goes down with the Ickey Shuffle, Chris Berman's nicknames, rapping athletes, Three-Ball, the Jumbotron, the Wave, the Tomahawk Chop, the "Na na na na na na HEY!" song, and Ahmad Rashad as the ten worst sports developments of the past two decades.
Need I say more?


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Section 3: Player of The Month (PoTM)
Section 4: Weekly Competition
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atWar News
A new season has begun, congratulations to Epic Clan for stopping Aristokrats's winning streak, as Epic Clan were 1st place last season. So far we see Illyria first, Aristokrats second and the newly created clan Hybrid Warfare at third place. The well respected clan, Mortal Kombat, has also been revived for this season. They are currently at 4th place, with a total of 10 clan wars so far. Mystics have also returned as well, although they do not appear to be active in the CW field.
We also saw the ban of a highly skilled atWar player, Opi. Although this ban was only for a day, many atWar users quickly formed the #FreeOpi movement in support of him.
Satire and Gossip
Season end, new season start.
Hdrakon got banned, and that way, mystics (one of the most active clans) got inactive???
Inactive moderator decided to make one active clan dead, we are all happy now I guess.
Editors Note: Pavel is salty.
Italian mafia made by Balkan players is back! Lets just hope they don't all want to become Albanian like Nero.
"History of At Warian religions, cults, history, and everything else"
Our cute rank 8 player started writing book about AtWar religions.
In there we can see bunch of fake prophet, but who cares?
Screenshot of the week:
Player of The Month (PoTM)
The atWar Press is introducing: Player of The Month reward! (credits to Wheelo)
What is this exactly? Well, on the last Sunday of each month we'll be announcing the Player of The Month.
How will they be picked? This is still being debated upon.
What will their reward be? A trophy and some Protocoins. If you have any suggestions on how we should elect our PoTM then feel free to comment below, we'll be welcoming any helpful suggestions! We won't be picking a PoTM for February, but on the last Sunday of this month we'll be picking one for March.
Weekly Competition
The atWar Press is also introducing Weekly Competitions. A winner will be decided each week and will be rewarded with Protocoins.
This week's competition is: conquer as many neutral countries in 3 turns with the settings 5k funds, extra cities, any strategy, with upgrades.
Please provide picture evidence of you fulfilling the requirements. To enter this competition just post your results on this post, along with the picture evidence of you complying with the rules. If you have any suggestions for future competitions then feel free to comment.
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"The re-tale store"
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The National Guard, FEMA and the Red Cross, among other agencies, set up camp to help the hard-hit working class community of Staten Island. NBC's Andrea Canning reports.
Updated 11:20 p.m. ET: The death toll in the United States from Superstorm Sandy rose to 109 victims on Friday, as Pennsylvania reported four additional deaths and New York City reported two more fatalities. Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned: "There could be more fatalities."
Two bodies were recovered Friday on Staten Island. The toll in the nation's largest city is now 41 deaths, according to the governor's office. However, the New York Police Department had reported 40 deaths in the city.
Half of the city's deaths were on Staten Island and Bloomberg noted the deaths there of two brothers swept from their mother's arms in the storm surge.
"It just breaks your heart to think about it," Bloomberg said.
Besides New York City, the deaths NBC News has confirmed are:
- New Jersey: 22
- Pennsylvania: 12
- Maryland: 11
- Rest of New York state: 8
- West Virginia: 6
- Connecticut: 4
- Virginia: 2
- North Carolina: 2
- Puerto Rico: 1
The storm also killed at least 69 people in the Caribbean, including 54 in Haiti and 11 in Cuba.
Tempers flared as people camped out all night, waiting for their turn at the pump in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. NBC's Tom Costello reports.
Four days after Sandy struck the U.S., New York and the wider region were in full recovery mode Friday:
- NYC Marathon: Bloomberg said it was being canceled even though he had earlier defended the decision to hold it Sunday.
- Gasoline shortages: New York Harbor reopened Friday, providing a critical refueling supply line for the region. But motorists still waited in long lines for gasoline.
- Manhattan traffic: New York City said it had lifted, as of 5 p.m. ET, the order that vehicles entering Manhattan must have at least three occupants.
- Shelter, food aid: 5,500 people are still in 15 New York City shelters and some could be out of their homes long term. The city on Thursday gave out 290,000 meals and 500,000 bottles of water at 13 stations. Those deliveries will continue indefinitely. But residents of outlying areas like Staten Island and Coney Island complained aid was little and late. "People are defecating in the hallways," one Coney Island resident without power or water told NBC 4 New York.
- Damage cost: In New York state alone, the cost could exceed $18 billion, a state official said Friday. Private estimates for the entire region range up to $50 billion in economic losses.
- N.J. beach homes: Thousands of people were still not allowed to return to their Jersey coast properties due to safety concerns. Gov. Chris Christie said Friday he had his first meeting with the Army Corps of Engineers to work on how and where to rebuild along the shore.
- Casinos reopen: Atlantic City, N.J., was given the green light to reopen casinos on Friday.
- Military help: Nearly 7,400 National Guard members have provided support, giving out 144,000 meals in New York City and Long Island, rescuing more than 2,000 people and 200 pets, and clearing debris, the Department of Defense said. Equipment and supplies are being delivered, including: ships to New York City to give first responders a place to rest; millions of meals from West Virginia to New York; and trucks that will deliver about 200,000 gallons of fuel.
New Yorkers also got a bit of a scare Friday when police ammo and explosives ruined during the storm were detonated in several controlled explosions on Ellis Island.
Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast.
More content from NBCNews.com:
- Near-freezing cold, potential nor'easter add to misery
- New York Harbor reopens to offer fuel supply
- Cops: NYC man pulls pistol after cutting in line for gas
- Deadliest zone: Staten Island reels from devastation
- Wind, flames, Our Fathers: The inside story of Breezy Point's terrible night
- 'We'll figure out a way': Breezy Point looks ahead
- War veterans hit Sandy's front lines for rescues, cleanup
- How to avoid post-storm insurance and repair scams
- Your Sandy photos: Show us the heroes in your life
- Sandy's aftermath: How you can help
- Full NBC News coverage of Sandy aftermath
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It was a two-man band: Dieter Bohlen, the composer, lyricist, musician and singer, and Thomas Anders, the lead singer with the high voice. They sold more than 100 million copies of their catchy dance pop songs with a computerised beat.
Modern Talking's golden years were between 1983 and 1987, when they had no fewer than three number one albums in Germany and five number one singles. Their music was also very popular in discos in many other European countries, especially in the then Soviet Union, with Bohlen and Anders having a lasting influence on the Russian music scene. The band's reunion between 1998 and 2003 produced three more number one albums, the most successful being Back For Good featuring a new version of the massive 1984 hit You're My Heart, You're My Soul.
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Part of Robert Doyle's job as an Army sergeant in Iraq was to escort dignitaries across hostile roads.
But after surviving a 2007 blast that severed limbs of fellow soldiers, Doyle didn't care to meet any VIPs after his return home.
"I just want to get well," Doyle told his doctor at his first Home Base Program appointment in Boston in 2011.
That day, the veteran turned down the chance to meet Red Sox owner John Henry, who happened to be right outside his treatment room.
To Doyle, it was more important to talk with a fellow combat veteran who told him he could trust the clinicians offering help for his combat-related stress.
Home Base treats veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries, conducts related research and provides counseling for veterans' family members. In 2009, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Red Sox's charitable foundation partnered with other agencies to launch the program.
The idea for the program took root after the team visited vets at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington following its 2007 World Series win. Since then, a program affiliated with the Atlanta Braves has modeled itself after Home Base.
Home Base officials said it is different from Department of Veterans Affairs programs because it also helps veterans with dishonorable discharges who are dealing with what experts call the "invisible wounds of war."
Program officials said it was a challenge at first to find patients to treat. But that changed after combat veterans began working on the New England program's front lines.
Veteran outreach coordinators are Home Base's first point of contact for potential patients and relatives looking for help for vets in their families. When a call comes in, the outreach coordinators ask about sleep patterns, physical symptoms and deployment histories to get an idea of the problems vets are facing.
Doyle was out of money, living in his car and suffering with the memory of the 2007 blast when he sought help at Home Base and encountered veteran outreach coordinator Nick Dutter.
"I walked in the door and met Nick," the Bronze Star recipient said. "First thing I asked him was, 'Can we talk outside?' "
Doyle said Dutter, a 29-year-old Army veteran who also served in Iraq, gave him the boost he needed to start his treatment.
"I didn't want a sales pitch. ... I just wanted to know that this place is OK," Doyle said. "He speaks my language. He gave me the nod."
Roger Knight, a 33-year-old Green Beret who worked as an Army weapons and intelligence specialist, is the veteran outreach director for Home Base. He interviewed for the job by satellite phone while still deployed in Afghanistan.
Knight works with Home Base's three other decorated combat veterans to put a familiar face on a program that requires vets to first overcome what some see as a stigma about getting help.
"If you don't have gunshot wounds ... or a missing limb, guys are like, 'I'm OK.' But they may not be," Knight said.
Tommy Furlong, a 28-year-old who became an outreach coordinator in April after serving in Afghanistan, said he looks to build a common bond with veterans from the beginning.
"One of the first questions I ask is, 'What branch are you with?'" he said.
Then he'll tell them: "Oh, I'm a Marine."
At Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner, Furlong and Dutter recently appealed to an audience of student veterans with the same approach while publicizing Home Base.
"Our boots were in the same sand as you guys," Dutter told them.
The outreach coordinators also play a role in helping patients stick to what can be an intense treatment period that includes reliving war trauma.
"You have to relive horrible to get over horrible," Doyle said recently of his care program.
If patients stop showing up, outreach coordinators call and check on them. They're also part of Home Base's clinical team, where they translate military lingo and bring battlefield perspective to meetings with civilian doctors who are treating former troops.
Psychiatrist Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, a program director, said the vets offer critical feedback from patients who might hesitate in questioning doctors because their training has taught them not to challenge authority figures.
This month, the PTSD treatment program for veterans in Atlanta that's affiliated with the Braves borrowed another page from Home Base's playbook by hiring a veteran to work with patients.
Psychologist Barbara Rothbaum, an Emory University School of Medicine professor who leads the BraveHeart initiative, said program officials made the decision after hearing positive feedback from their Boston counterparts.
In Doyle's case, a year of treatment turned his life around.
He has a place to live in Northboro, is enrolled in an entrepreneurial program for veterans and applied for a grant to start a defense contracting business.
This summer, Doyle finally met the Red Sox owner and threw out a ceremonial first pitch at a game at Fenway Park, which he called a symbol of his recovery.
"It's saying that I'm back," he said.


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A British man has had pioneering surgery to reconstruct his face using 3D printed parts.
Doctors at Morriston Hospital in Swansea, Wales, operated on Stephen Power, who survived a serious motorbike accident in 2012 with a partially shattered face. The surgical team used scans of Power's skull to design custom printed models, guides and titanium implants to hold his bones in place.
The procedure, which took place in February, took months of planning and involved eight hours of surgery. It's thought to be the first time 3D printing has been used at every stage of the procedure on a trauma patient, says the BBC.
"What this does it allows us to be much more precise. Everybody now is starting to think in this way—guesswork is not good enough," said surgeon Adrian Sugar, noting that 3D printing removed the usual problem of guesswork in reconstructive surgery.
"It is totally life changing," said Power. "I could see the difference straight away the day I woke up from the surgery."


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PHOENIX – The days here in MLS preseason camps have been long, but they've been a blast. From parades of trialists and rookies looking to impress, to catching up with veterans we know well and hearing their thoughts on their teams' chances, it's been a fun few days trekking around the Valley of the Sun.
As of Thursday morning, I've gotten a good look at five different teams with five wildly different challenges as First Kick 2011 approaches. The Crew are re-purposing, the MLS Cup champion Rapids are reinforcing, Real Salt Lake are fine-tuning, Chivas USA are rebuilding and the LA Galaxy are re-focusing.
That's a big swing in objectives for each squad. Still, one theme that I've found that has been consistent in each team is that there's one particular guy in the fold, one key player who must step up big-time in 2011 – a guy who must assert himself in order to give his team the best chance of success.
Here are five we've identified over the past week:
Columbus: Robbie Rogers
Crew coach Robert Warzycha says that many of his younger players had the luxury of playing behind the "shield" of veteran leaders like Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Frankie Hejduk, Gino Padula and Duncan Oughton. Now, with all four gone, younger players like Rogers, Eddie Gaven, Chad Marshall and William Hesmer have inherited the keys to the yellow sedan and it's their turn to drive.
In my mind, none of that quartet has more to prove than Rogers (above), who has shown glimpses of his enormous potential over four seasons but will never have more pressure on him than he will this year, when he essentially must carry the offense on his back.
Warzycha has been pushing Rogers into more of a feature role this preseason, and the 23-year-old knows he has plenty to prove, including putting himself back into the US national team picture.
"A lot of [young] players kind of look up to me in certain ways," he said. "I've had some games internationally and played in some big games. I've got to be one of the guys who steps up and to be able to calm the game down and just take charge."
[inline_node:324893]Real Salt Lake: Will Johnson
Let's be honest: RSL don't have much tinkering they need to do. They're a week away from the unofficial start to their season in the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League, and they've been in anything but preseason mode during their time in Arizona.
We know what we're getting from almost everyone in RSL's starting lineup. Arguably the only guy who has yet to carve his niche is Johnson. We know he's quick, we know he's unafraid to make challenges and we know he likes to see the ball.
What we don't know is how good he can be. If the 24-year-old can keep building his confidence and developing his game on a team that provides support at every other position, there's only one direction for the Canadian international to go.
Colorado: Anthony Wallace
So key was the Floridian to Gary Smith's plans that the Rapids coach swung a deal with Portland to re-acquire his left back after seeing him selected in November's Expansion Draft. Wallace is only 22, and has the potential to become one of the better left backs in the league.
But on a Rapids back line that may be the most unheralded in MLS, the former US youth international is also its junior member and the one who must prove he belongs.
"He's found a good home, I think he feels comfortable, he's been able to get some good minutes in games under his belt," said Smith, "and the fact that he's now been involved in a championship-winning team can do no harm whatsoever for his confidence."
[inline_node:108471]LA Galaxy: Chris Birchall
The Galaxy back line can be soft at times, as they've shown at inopportune moments over the past 12 months, and LA also need a reliable link-up man to playmakers like Landon Donovan and Juninho. Enter Birchall – or rather, re-enter Birchall.
The English-born Trinidadian international has been in the Galaxy's midst for nearly two years, but has yet to truly cement himself as the guy who will play that role. But with Dema Kovalenko gone, the holding midfielder spot is truly the 26-year-old Birchall's to lose. There's an argument to be made that he will be the most important man on the field for LA this season.
Chivas USA: Heath Pearce
Let's be fair, it's been mere days since Pearce turned in his horizontal red-and-white stripes for vertical ones. But the fact that Robin Fraser admits he's been admiring the former FC Dallas man from afar for "two or three" years speaks volumes about the respect he has for him.
That also means the US national-team fullback must become a leader and contributor immediately and help be part of the rebuilding process at Chivas USA, something Fraser will demand of him.
"I'm confident that he's going to come in and show well and work hard," said Fraser.
The bar has been set, Heath; your 'stache is needed immediately on Avalon Boulevard.
Jonah Freedman is the managing editor of MLSsoccer.com. "The Throw-In" appears every Thursday.


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Gas Going For $20 a Gallon on Black Market After Sandy
Opportunists have posted ads on Craigslist, selling gas for $20 a gallon.
Nov. 5, 2012 -- Opportunists looking to profit off superstorm Sandy are advertising gasoline for as high as $20 a gallon on the black market after the storm crippled the ability for some tankers to pump gasoline and deliver it to stations in the Northeast, some of which are still powerless.
A former insurance adjuster who now works as a contractor in Brooklyn told ABCNews.com he stocked up on 500 gallons of gas before Sandy hit. He has since sold his entire inventory.
"I was able to sell everything for $11 a gallon. I probably could have gouged people for twenty bucks and they would have paid it," he said.
Handfuls of advertisements have popped up on Craigslist offering gas at prices as high as $20 per gallon and empty gas cans, which are scarce, at prices ranging from $40 to as high as $500.
New York Attorney General Eric Schniederman announced today his office is investigating post-Sandy price gouging after receiving a slew of complaints. However it remained unclear if any of the cases would be prosecuted or whether private individuals looking to cash in could also face prosecution.
Jeff Lamm, spokesperson for the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, said investigators are aware of private gougers and they plan to go after them since they likely "don't have a fuel license," he told ABCNews.com.
ABCNews.com found the Brooklyn contractor through an advertisement on Craigslist in which he offered to sell empty five gallon gas cans for $40 a piece.
"I don't need to hear that I'm a crook. People should have been prepared," he said. "I had some people irate and mad but they [have] got to understand I saw what happened in Katrina and Rita. Even though they have these federal agencies, you've got to be ready on your own. You can't depend on nobody."
In the six days since Sandy wreaked havoc on the northeast, long lines-- some of them several miles long-- have snaked through the streets as desperate motorists wait for hours to pump the limited available supply of gasoline into their vehicles.
Price gouging laws are being enforced to prevent gas stations and other stores from profiting off the emergency. In New Jersey, state law prohibits retailers for raising prices more than 10 percent in the 30 days following an emergency.
It was unclear whether the Craigslist sellers were exempt from the law, however there was plenty of distaste for their scheme to cash in on a disaster.
"I would have to say that it's probably capitalism at its worst," said Sal Risalvato, executive director of the New Jersey Gasoline-Convenience-Automotive Association.
He said although there are always "a few bad apples" out there, he was proud that members of his association, who have taken a hit at their stores, have remained honest and not raised prices.
"We can expect more deliveries but it's going a lot slower than I hoped it would," Risalvato said, of the effort to restore power to tankers and gas stations.
Despite the black market, Risalvato said this is a delivery problem and not a shortage.
"There's no need to panic [people] anymore. We can all go swimming in how much gasoline there is," he said, pointing to the downward pressure in prices.
Gas Gouging in Sandy Aftermath
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed an executive order Friday night to ration gasoline for cars in 12 New Jersey counties after more than half the stations in New Jersey and Long Island shut down because of the storm, resulting in hours-long lines for customers and threatening a a gas availability shortage.
Under Christie's order, car owners with odd numbered license plates can get gas on odd days, and car owners with even numbered license plates can get gasoline on even days. If one's license ends with a letter, Christie said it would be regarded as an odd number.
Despite the measure, the governor said on Sunday that he could not prevent people from topping off their nearly full gas tanks.
"You can't legislate selfishness," he said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday the delivery problems were a temporary issue, "but that does not mean there will be a total alleviation of the problem in the immediate future."
First responders were given free fuel by FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA said it also sold gasoline to filling stations in some places.


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NetSuite Beats the Street in Q3
NetSuite, the cloud business software concern, reported third-quarter results that beat the estimates of Wall Street analysts. The company said earnings per share on a non-GAAP basis were 8 cents, beating the consensus view of 6 cents. Sales were $79.8 million versus an expected $78 million, and rose 31 percent over the year-ago quarter. The company earlier this month announced a two-tier version of its suite of business applications, aimed at larger customers.


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A Choice of Two Futures: What Would You Choose?
Katie Grant, Daniel Reilly, 202-225-3130
Yesterday, Republicans unveiled a more-of-the-same budget for fiscal year 2013 that ends the Medicare guarantee while protecting tax cuts for the wealthy, and puts our economic recovery at risk. The Republican budget makes the wrong choices and places the burden of deficit reduction onto seniors, the middle class, working families, and the most vulnerable by refusing to ask the wealthiest among us to contribute.
Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan called on the American people to make a choice between two futures for our nation. Here's a look at our future under the Republican budget – and the future Democrats envision instead:
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NASSAU, Bahamas, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Jessica Korda charged from behind and took the lead with an unusual birdie on the final hole Sunday, emerging with season-opening LPGA win in the Bahamas.
Korda, who came into the final round two shots off the lead, birdied three of the final holes to cap a round of 7-under 66, and finished at 19-under 273 at the Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic for her second career win.
The 20-year-old was tied with Stacy Lewis for the lead entering the final hole at Atlantis Resort's Ocean Club Golf Course when she put her second shot through the back of the green, where it stopped amid cables near the grandstand.
With her caddie and a tournament official holding up the cables, Korda putted under them to within 5 feet of the hole and closed with a birdie putt.
Her only other win came at the 2012 Women's Australian Open.
Lewis shot a 66 and finished second at 18-under 274.
Third-round leader Na Yeon Choi settled for a 72 and a third-place tie with Paula Creamer (69), Lizette Salas (71) and Pornanong Phatlum (67) at 16-under.
Sixteen-year-old Lydia Ko carded a 68 to share seventh at 15-under in her first LPGA Tour event as a member.


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The True, Steamy Story of the Egg McMuffin
Hockey puck breakfast turns 40
In December 1971, Ray Kroc paid a visit to a McDonald's restaurant owned by Herb Peterson. The fast-food chain's president had learned that the franchisee had cooked up something that would solve a problem that had confounded Kroc for years: McDonald's did no breakfast business. Kroc sat down, and Peterson served him what looked like a hockey puck: a poached egg with a slice of cheese and Canadian bacon on a toasted English muffin. Kroc ate one sandwich—and then a second.
The Egg McMuffin turns 40 years old this year, and with breakfast now making up 25 percent of McDonald's sales, this egg on a bun is a cornerstone of the chain's menu—so critical to the $12.5 billion breakfast market that McDonald's is considering serving the Egg McMuffin all day.
So it's probably no surprise that the chain is still advertising the sandwich—and using an approach that's compositionally similar to one it used in the 1970s when the McMuffin was new. To wit: a nice big shot of the food, big play for the word "morning" and some feel-good copy about great taste and freshness, etc. According to Prof. Jordan LeBel, who teaches food marketing at Montreal's Concordia University, while advertising for casual-dining chains has grown more sophisticated—graduating to messages about the emotional connections people make when they go out to eat—fast-food marketing seems stuck in a time warp. "It's still all about showing what's big and juicy," LeBel said. "Fast-food chains keep hitting the sensory and the visceral. They sort of have to. There's intense competition."
He's not kidding. Even Chick-fil-A is serving up a Chicken Egg and Cheese Bagel these days. Yet for as similar as these ads may look, they're also a gauge of how much American appetites have changed. In 1979, the brand's overriding problem was simply turning consumers onto the idea of visiting a burger chain in the morning. "McDonald's wanted to showcase the product in the ad—and make it look as mouthwatering as possible," LeBel said.
Today, America's raging obesity epidemic and worries over convenience foods' oft-dubious ingredients have forced this 2013 ad to leap over a higher bar. Indeed, the breakfast item before us is the Egg White Delight McMuffin, a pale and anemic cousin to the zesty, cholesterol-laden 1970s original. The taxicab-yellow slice of American cheese has been kicked off the bun, too. And what's with those coupons? Competition from the so-called "fast casual" chains like Panera Bread has bitten off some of McDonald's market share, necessitating traffic-builder gimmicks like these. "They're trying to do a lot of things in this cluttered ad," LeBel lamented. "You can barely see the product."
Which is too bad, really. Cutting the fat and calorie count is a noble goal, of course, but as Ray Kroc himself attested, that old Egg McMuffin was one hell of a tasty sandwich.


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Yesterday was gorgeous, so we spent some time outside. I didn't have a blanket to use so I pulled out Bella's toy box. She had a grand time!
FYI: We had a yard sale Saturday and I finally got rid of all the extra stuff that's been hanging out in her room. It finally looks cute again! This makes me happier than it should. :)
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