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Real Salt Lake took an championship season in 2009 and improved upon it in 2010 — with the exception of the final result, of course. The team made year-over-year improvements in many statistical categories as they garnered 56 points on the season, eclipsing the club's previous high of 40 points.
What follows is a breakdown of where — and how — RSL improved over the past year.
Many coaches preach that success on the field starts with defense, and Jason Kreis is no exception. His team was a decent defensive team in 2009, but they were spectacular in 2010 and set a league record for fewest goals allowed, yielding just 20 on the season. In the process, Jamison Olave was named Defender of the Year and made the MLS Best XI alongside central defense partner Nat Borchers. Nick Rimando was a finalist for Goalkeeper of the Year.
The stellar goals-against number was a substantial improvement upon 2009, when the team had given up 35 goals. Much of this 15-goal improvement came on the road, where the team gave up 11 fewer goals than the prior season.
Road Performance
The defense wasn't the only area that improved for RSL on the road in 2010. In fact, perhaps the most noticeable improvement was the overall performance away from home. The team more than doubled their road points with 19 on the season. In the process the team also improved on a minus-15 goal differential on the road in 2009 to a plus-1 differential in 2010.
The road performance highlights another key aspect to this team: consistency. This was talked about from day one in preseason and it appeared the team paid attention. From start to finish, the 2010 version of Real Salt Lake performed at a high level, both home and away, in league matches as well as the Champions League. This is evidenced by the fact that they only gave up multiple goals in five matches all season, and only one of the four losses on the season was by more than one goal.
[inline_node:311621]Home Dominance
When Real Salt Lake play at Rio Tinto Stadium, they come away with a win — or at least a draw. This home dominance reached a high-point in a late season match-up against FC Dallas. Both clubs had streaks on the line; RSL's MLS-best home unbeaten streak, and FC Dallas had the chance of taking their overall unbeaten streak to 20 matches. Real Salt Lake were able to hold off Dallas and push their record mark to 25 consecutive unbeaten matches at Rio Tinto Stadium.
Aside from the home unbeaten streak and goals-against records, Real Salt Lake eclipsed several additional league marks in 2010. The team scored the most goals in the league for the season with 45, which combined with the record 20 goals allowed, gave RSL the all-time best mark for goal differential at plus-25. They also set a mark for the fewest goals allowed at home (7) and in the process set the all-time mark for home goal differential at plus-24. In addition, the unblemished home mark gave them the most home points for a 30-game season with 37 points earned at home.
MLS records broken by RSL in 2010
Fewest goals allowed: 20 (previous record 23, Houston 2007)
Overall goal difference: +25 (previous record +22, San Jose 2005 and D.C. United 2007)
Home goal difference: +24 (previous record +23, Real Salt Lake 2009)
Total home points (30-game season): 37 (previous record 35, Columbus 2009)
Fewest home losses: 0 (equals previous record set by San Jose in 2005)
Fewest home goals allowed: 7 (previous record 8, Colorado 2004)
A Look Ahead
RSL will look to extend their home unbeaten streak in 2011. There are few changes expected in the roster, and they will hope to repeat their strong defensive performance again next season.
On the attacking front, RSL have Álvaro Saborío back in 2011, and the team will expect him to repeat his 2010 Newcomer of the Year performance. Despite losing Robbie Findley in the Expansion Draft, the club will try to repeat as top goalscorers in the league again in 2011 with this year's late season addition of Paulo Jr. and the offseason acquisition of Arturo Alvarez as attacking options.
[inline_node:321266]RSL club records broken in 2010
Wins: 15 (previous record 11, 2009)
Points: 56 (previous record 40, 2008)
Goal differential: +25 (previous record +8, 2009)
Goals scored: 45 (previous record 43, 2006)
Goals per game: 1.5 (previous record 1.43, 2009)
Goals against: 20 (previous record 35, 2009)
Goals against average: 0.67 (previous record 1.17, 2009)
Shutouts: 15 (previous record 10, 2009)
Home points: 37 (previous record 32, 2009)
Home wins: 11 (previous record 9, 2009)
Home goals differential: +24 (previous record +23, 2009)
Road points: 19 (previous record 15, 2006)
Road wins: 4 (equals previous record set in 2006)
Road goals differential: +1 (previous record -8, 2006)


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Richmond Hill football coach Lyman Guy stresses the importance of teamwork and unity and doesn't hand out individual awards at the end of the season. Those individual awards for 2012 came Feb. 6 at Richmond Hill High School, when six Wildcats signed national letters of intent to play in college as part of the annual National Signing Day.
"This is our version (of individual awards). There's greater moments in coaching than this, like the personal moments you share with a player, but this is a great moment, too," Guy said. "This is the end result of a lot of effort to get these young athletes to the next level. I get as much satisfaction seeing them get to the next level than getting a win on Friday night. This is why I'm in the coaching business."
Highlighting the senior signees for the Wildcats was quarterback Dominque Allen, who will play next season at the Air Force Academy. Allen, the Region 3-AAAAA Offensive Player of the Year and honorable mention selection to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution All State team, committed last summer and said he was relieved to finally make things official.
"There's a lot of pressure off now," said Allen, who ran for just under 900 yards and threw for over 400 while leading the Wildcats to an 8-3 record and their first state playoff appearance since 1996. "This is awesome because I don't think we've ever had this many guys sign at one time. It definitely says a lot about our program. We've set the bar high for future teams here."
Joining Allen among the NCAA Div. I FBS ranks will be placekicker Canon Rooker, who will attend Middle Tennessee State University and was nationally ranked among kickers by both scout.com (12th) and ESPN (27th). First team All-Region defensive tackle Taylor Hayes will be joining Div. I FCS Alabama State.
Safety TK Grisby, another first team All-Region selection, picked reigning Div. II national champion Valdosta State over other suitors that included Mercer University, Albany State and Tuskegee. Grisby is joining the Blazers as a preferred walk-on and said he was proud to be able to sign along with his fellow seniors.
"I knew starting off we'd have a great season this year," Grisby said. "We all put in a lot of hard work, and nobody complained because we all wanted to accomplish the same thing. We had a lot of weapons this year, and there wasn't really a weak link on the team. We knew we'd have a lot of guys here today."
Offensive linemen Kendall Robinson and David Sneed also finalized their decisions on Wednesday, with Robinson signing on to play at Div. II Livingstone (NC) College, while Sneed inked a letter to join Div. III LaGrange College. Running back David Katzman, defensive end Zach Stegner and offensive lineman Talib Young have all received offers and will sign at a later date, while Guy said a couple of other Wildcats could as well.
Guy, who has taken the Wildcats from cellar dweller to playoff contender in his three full seasons as head coach, said he hopes the trend of having several players sign continues.
"This is an indication of good things to come," he said. "I was here for these guys' freshman year, and that shows the development process that has taken place over a three- and four-year period.
"We do have a very good football team returning, a very strong senior class coming up, and I feel like when you build a program from the ground up and you base it off the principles we emphasize, there are going to be good years ahead of us."


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The contest, started by Axem and now judged by MjnMixael, is a part of the monthly HLP Newsletter. The whole idea is to capture the best of the best of what the FSO engine can do! Each month features a theme and entries must be based on that theme.
By entering the contest, you are now putting your reputation on the line.. in the form of badges! The winner of the month gets this badge.
The badge is removed and placed on the winner of the following month. So... if you want to prove you are the best at getting screens, you need to keep that badge multiple months in a row! At the end of the year, the points are tallied up. Whoever won the most months gets this badge for a WHOLE YEAR!
Wow! So if you manage to keep that badge for multiple years.. you are most definitely the Screencap King. (Yes, this is a challenge.) But Mjn, you say, what if no one has won more than one month in a year? Well... then the best screenshot from all 12 winners will be chosen and that person crowned king with the Golden Badge of Screencap Glory. (That's the official name.)
The points don't matter, so don't worry about them! However, these types of things tend to help your screencap get closer to winning.
- Uniqueness of composition (Is it like every other screen out there, or is it something new?)
- Communicates (Does your image tell a story? Does it capture the mind of the viewer?)
- Wow-factor (How much does this image scream to be a desktop wallpaper?)
- Framing and Composition (10 Rules of Photo Composition)
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- Profit! ($$$$$)
Unbreakable Rules
These rules must be true of a screencap in order to be eligible to win.
- Must be from the FSO engine
- No HUDs
- No Photoshop or any post procesing
- Must fit the month's theme
- Only 3 entries per person, per month
2013 Screencap Season
Year Winner - ssmit132
2014 Screencap Season
Year Winner - MPez
2015 Screencap Season
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2016 Screencap Season
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Oh the irony. Google wants to join the European Union's antitrust case against Microsoft, all while at home Obama's antitrust chief wants to nail them to a sign that says "Don't be evil."
According to Google's Sundar Pichai, vice president for product management:
Google believes that the browser market is still largely uncompetitive, which holds back innovation for users. This is because Internet Explorer is tied to Microsoft's dominant computer operating system, giving it an unfair advantage over other browsers.
I bet the Firefox and Apple browser teams, currently with 21.5 and 8.3 percent of the market, don't give this a lot of thinking. Does Google-with only 1 percent of the market-think that Microsoft should not include Internet Explorer in their operating system? Maybe they want them to include Chrome as well? Should Google include MSN Search and Yahoo in their Android cellphones too? [NYT-illustration by EricWdesigns]


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Hello. Thanks for visiting my new sketchbook.
Here's a new wip. Its cammy from street fighter.
Hello. Thanks for visiting my new sketchbook.
Here's a new wip. Its cammy from street fighter.
Awesome work Brett, can't wait to see some more, One thing you might consider changing is the fly-away hair at the front, its great but a bit too distracting, maybe moving it closer to the face will make it more subtle, other than that its tip top
hey brett!
great start on you new sb.
looking forward to see what you'll come up with in the future.
rasmus warming
Great job so far! The hair looks great, but I agree with Capital_G the part in front of the face could be moved. It's still WIP. Looking forward to this one!
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wow!! bealtiful girl and scupture!
Alex Oliver
Nice rendition.
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Gorgeous, is it based on the Reflect garage kit? Even if it is, there's some lovely sculpting going on. Thumbs up
Nice job! i'll vote after i see the final result
Hi brett,
Nicely done, very sweet sculpt. Enjoy the profile image, has very nice movement.
"The horizon is ever bright for those continueing to seek it!!"
Great start! And love the pose!
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hi brett, you created sketchbook, nice idea.
very cool girl,sculpt.
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I really like the dynamic feel to your sculpt! Looking forward to more
Great sculpture and pose.
Simply Awesome Dude! Great Return Buddy!!!!
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DOWNERS GROVE – North High School graduate Leo Kowal's crafty business beat more than 2,000 others to win the Martha Stewart American Made audience choice award this fall.
Kowal, his wife and business co-owner Mary Rudakas are in New York this week to meet Stewart and receive their $10,000 prize. The business also might appear in Stewart's magazine.
Their business, SVGCuts, sells downloadable designs for two-dimensional paper crafts like cards and scrapbooks in addition to three-dimensional paper projects that can be used for home decor or center pieces for events.
Users at home download the design templates and send the information to electronic paper cutters about the size of a printer. The machine cuts the pieces, which can then be assembled into striking designs, like a three-story haunted house – Kowal's favorite, or a mini hot air balloon, among others. The intricate designs look more sculptural than paper-made, and the selection of colored and patterned paper available at hobby shops adds an extra "pop."
"People will use some of the crazier 3D things for parties or events," Kowal said. "And most of the time we'll make it so that you could put something inside of it, if you want to use the actual box as a gift box. There's so many applications I probably don't even know about that people have adopted for their businesses. ... The possibilities are endless."
The couple started the business in 2009 after greeting cards designed by Rudakas became popular, nearly overnight, on their Etsy.com online store, Kowal said.
"One night when she was laying in bed she said, 'Why don't I sell the digital designs that I create?'" Kowal said. "We put the files on Etsy and made a couple hundred bucks in a weekend.
"And before you know it, our business evolved from creating two-dimensional shapes for scrapbooking and card making to 3-D, off-the-page stuff."
For Kowal and Rudakas, it's a quick four-year ascent after finding themselves unemployed after the 2008 recession.
Kowal was working in IT for Chrysler when he was laid off during the auto industry collapse, and Rudakas had recently left her job.
The couple discovered the world of die-cut paper crafts when Kowal's mom bought Rudakas, a self-taught graphic designer from Western Springs, an electronic cutter for Christmas in 2008.
Rudakas has been designing the couple's projects ever since, and Kowal, who has professional photography experience in addition to his IT career, handles the web, marketing, photos, videos, customer service and everything else involved with an online business.
The website has attracted more than 800,000 unique visitors, Kowal said, garnering 16 million page views.
Kowal credited long-time North High School biology teacher David Jakes with getting him interested in digital photography when the technology was new.
"He was the first guy to hand me a digital camera back when photos were being saved to floppy disks," he said. "I still talk to him to this day."
Kowal and Rudakas run the business from their St. Charles home.


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Celebrity stylist Ali Mandelkorn goes thrifting for a cause
NEW YORK (AP) — As a celebrity stylist, Ali Mandelkorn is usually surrounded by designer duds, so getting back to some of her favorite fashion vibes, vintage and thrift, was a treat.
She went deep into the racks of a Goodwill store in Los Angeles for a collection released Friday on Thrilling that will benefit employment programs for the disabled and disadvantaged run by the nonprofit's Southern California operation.
"I love clothes and I just feel like vintage shopping has always been a part of my vernacular," said Mandelkorn, who has been working with red carpet standout Janelle Monae for more than a year. "Part of the fun is going on the hunt and uncovering gems."
Among her favorite pieces in the collection is a Balenciaga tank top in a brown and white floral peplum design, priced at $115. The gems she unearthed in a Goodwill store in LA's Los Feliz neighborhood include some oversize blazers from the 1980s and a pair of Chanel ankle-strap flats in black — selling for $199.
ShopThrilling.com, a platform for vintage and thrift stores around the United States, calls the collection GOODxGoodwill SoCal and has included pieces donated as well as those hunted down by Mandelkorn. Donors include Mel B, Tatyana Ali, Loni Love, Sara Haines and Carole Radziwill.
While some of the collection's pieces are priced in the low range, including a Tom & Jerry checkered bomber jacket for $30, others are going for up to $299 (a Prada oversized windbreaker in black). Looking for a Louise Vuitton key holder? There's one in blue and white checks for $150.
When Mandelkorn has the time, and she's shopping for herself, she remains drawn to vintage and thrift. But she doesn't have a magic formula for finding the really good stuff, which is plentiful in Los Angeles, where she lives.
"I love to find pieces with real stories," said the Boston native.
It's not so much about the labels for Mandelkorn. It's about individual pieces that speak to her. That, she said, is a very personal thing.
The collection was already selling out on it first day. Being thrift, once it's gone, it's gone, Mandelkorn noted.
And that, she said, "is what's so great about thrift."


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I have an original oil painting by Bill Purdom
depicting carlton fisk's home run in the 1975 world series.
Painted surface measure 19.5inX15in. No lithographs have
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The Financial Services Institute sent a letter Thursday to the leadership of the House of Representatives urging the House to pass H.R. 1062, which the House Financial Services Committee approved on May 7; the bill is scheduled to be considered by the full House on Friday morning.
Introduced by Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., in March, the bill would direct the SEC, in the FSI letter's words, to "implement practical and necessary changes by codifying the cost-benefit analysis requirements of Executive Order No. 13563 and applying its directives to the SEC."
President Barack Obama issued that order on Jan. 18, 2011. Among other directives, it ordered that the U.S. regulatory system "must take into account benefits and costs, both quantitative and qualitative," and that each agency of the government should "propose or adopt a regulation only upon a reasoned determination that its benefits justify its costs."
In a May 7 statement, Rep. Garrett (right) said H.R. 1062 would "require the SEC to ensure that the benefits of any rulemaking outweigh the costs and that both new and existing regulations are accessible, consistent, written in plain language and easy to understand. I regularly hear from constituents, especially job creators, about how Washington red tape needs to be cut."
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in a statement Wednesday expressed administration opposition to the bill. "By adding burdensome and disruptive new procedures, H.R. 1062 would impede the ability of the SEC to protect investors, maintain orderly and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.
"The administration believes in the value of cost-benefit analysis. However, H.R. 1062 would add onerous procedures that would threaten the implementation of key reforms related to financial stability and investor protection."
Subtitled the SEC Regulatory Accountability Act , Garrett's bill would amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by directing the SEC, before issuing a regulation under the securities laws, to: (1) identify the nature and source of the problem that the proposed regulation is designed to address in order to assess whether any new regulation is warranted; (2) use the SEC Chief Economist to assess the costs and benefits of the intended regulation and adopt it only upon a reasoned determination that its benefits justify the costs; (3) identify and assess available alternatives that were considered; and (4) ensure that any regulation is accessible, consistent, written in plain language, and easy to understand.
The bill would also require the SEC to "consider the impact of the regulation upon investor choice," and explain in its final rule "the nature of comments received concerning the proposed rule or rule change; and respond to those comments, explaining any changes made in response and the reasons that it did not incorporate industry group concerns regarding potential costs or benefits." In its review of the bill, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said passage of the legislation would "expand the amount of analysis performed" by the SEC, and that the agency would be required to "review its regulations every five years to determine whether they are outmoded, ineffective or excessively burdensome." Moreover, the bill would require that SEC "develop and publish a plan to assess" whether any "major rule (that is, rules expected to have an economic impact greater than $100 million annually) . . . has achieved its stated purposes."
As for the costs related to H.R. 1062, CBO estimated that the SEC would need to hire an additional 20 staff members to comply with the bill, and that personnel and overhead would cost the agency $23 million over the 2013-2018 period. However, CBO also estimates that "the net budgetary effect of the SEC's activities to implement H.R. 1062 would not be significant, assuming appropriation actions consistent with the commission's authorities."
Referencing the CBO estimates in its letter under CEO Dale Brown's signature, FSI argued that despite the $23 million in extra costs to the SEC, the bill "has the potential to save Main Street investors and financial services providers significantly more. Unclear and inefficient regulations drive up compliance costs and increase litigation expenses for those serving the financial and securities industry, and this in turn raises the cost of investment and retirement planning for investors."
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text: A new award organization is now accepting nominations to honor people who have overcome significant barriers to employment. The Iowa Job Honor Awards will honor employees who have overcome poverty to become productive members of the workforce. The awards will also honor employers who hire those employees. The awards will be presented at the Iowa Association of Business and Industry Conference June 9 through 11 in Cedar Rapids. To nominate an individual or an employer, go to www.JobHonor.org. The deadline is April 1. The Iowa Job Honor Awards were launched by founder and director Kyle Horn earlier this month to inspire more unemployed Iowans to utilize available resources to acquire skills and encourage companies to hire Iowans who use those resources.


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Riverbed is looking to develop its WAN optimisation product line by buying its competitor, Expand Networks.
The Israeli Globes media outlet reports that advanced negotiations are under way, although neither company would comment.
Both companies have technology to speed the transmission of data across wide area networks (WAN). Riverbed is publicly-owned, led by CEO Jerry Kennelly, and on a roll with its Steelhead WAN optimising appliance. It earned $102m in its third 2009 quarter, a 12 per cent increase on the second quarter and 18 per cent up on the year-ago quarter. Net income was $5.5m, which compares to a net loss a year ago of $11m. It reported a $38m cash flow from operations and $297m in cash and marketable securities and no debt. That's a nice situation to be in with a bottoming out, or maybe recovering economy.
The previous two quarters had been disappointing and a much-heralded Atlas deduplication product technology has been shelved. So it appears Riverbed's growth is going to be by acquisition and not by organically developing its own technology.
Privately-owned Expand, led by CEO Elie Barr, was founded in January 1998 and has 145 employees. The USA headquarters is in Roseland, New Jersey, and there are additional offices world-wide. However the Research & Development centre is at the Company's international headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel.
It has recently been positioned as a WAN optimising technology leader in a report by Forrester Research. The document said: "Expand offers excellent support for virtualised environments and non-traditional deployment scenarios such as those dependant on satellite-based WAN links. The vendor has pursued multiple device provider partnerships in the satellite space. Expand has excellent optimisation architecture – offering multiple levels of transparency with or without tunnelling, including all IP Layer 3 solutions and Layer 4 capabilities – storage architecture, client integration, and deployment architecture, earning it a top spot in current architecture offerings."
The company has had sales success - more than 1,400 customers have deployed more than 27,000 of its Expand Accelerator appliances - but not financial success. The total funding Expand has received is around $82m through six funding rounds. Almost a dozen years after its founding, Expand has yet to realise an IPO and make its funders - and founders - a profit.
The Globes report says venture capital firm Tamir Fishman owns 16 per cent of Expand and it has written off 60 per cent of its Expand investment, saying that Expand failed to meet its business targets in the second quarter of this year. Expand was then valued at $50m, and a sale at that level would represent a probable loss for most investors.
It looks as if, with that funder's vote of no confidence in Expand, the company is on the selling block and looking to be bought, with Riverbed a front runner. ®


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Quicksilver: The Comma Trick
Merlin Mann | Jun 13 2005
I'm still encountering folks who are big-time Quicksilver fans who don't know about "The Comma Trick," so check it out: when you're using the first (and often the third) pane in Quicksilver, you can hit "," (comma, with no modifier key) at any time to add the currently selected item to a working stack. Go ahead and try it. (important: The Comma Trick only works if you've chosen "Advanced Features: Beta" in "Preferences: Application??? and the "Primer" or "Bezel" command interface in "Preferences > Appearance"—switch if you need to and restart QS)
Now consider a few possibilities of "The Comma Trick"
This is the kind of functionality that illustrates why QS is so far ahead of the Finder in many respects. If you've used QS for a while, and it's watched where your favorite paths are, "the Comma Trick" makes the typical "click-click-click-click-click-…" Finder interaction seem kind of nutty.
Got a novel usage for The Comma Trick?
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Just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work. I am a newbie at this Quicksilver thing, but I am already hooked. Maybe there is a methadone program I can get on?
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The repeated refrain from the likes of Paul Krugman and Jay Carney is that we MUST increase the debt limit so that we don't default on the full faith and credit of the United States, and that we continue to pay our bills. Indeed, on Monday, President Obama chastised Congressional Republicans for making spending cuts mandatory in any debt ceiling negotiation:
They can act responsibly, and pay America's bills or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis," he said. "But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.
Funny thing about our ability to pay our bills - we don't need to raise the debt ceiling to do that. Last night, Dean Clancy led a discussion on the debt ceiling on FreedomWorks livestream, where they featured the following chart that shows why:
As you can see, we have more than enough revenue to pay for all of our mandatory spending, including interest on our absurdly high public debt. We have so much revenue, in fact, that we can also pay for a good chunk of the discretionary (read: completely unnecessary) spending as well.
And when I call it unnecessary spending, I mean it. When I pressed FreedomWorks staff for the breakdown of the "Welfare and Other Spending" block (in grey in the chart), the reply was that it would take a while to compile a list, because it's comprised of TWENTY TWO HUNDRED FEDERAL PROGRAMS. This includes everything - Department of Energy, Department of Education, EPA and other whole agencies, welfare, unemployment, everything. We can't find ways to cut back our budget at least to the point where we're not incurring new debt?
I don't buy it, and neither should you.
Here is a WhiteHouse-gov petition to freeze the debt ceiling: http://wh.gov/UpGJ Please encourage everyone to sign that petition too as it will send a message to Congress.
You don't "pay your bills" by borrowing and running up more bills.
Allow me to clarify regarding the data reflected in the FreedomWorks spending-vs.-revenue chart:
1) The numbers are accurate. They come from table S.4 in the White House Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Mid-Session Review for Fiscal Year 2013 (published in summer 2012):
2) My friend Jeff Reynolds may have caused a bit of confusion in suggesting that the entire category labeled "welfare and other spending" is "discretionary." The term "discretionary" can have multiple senses. The spending in that category may be (as I think Jeff argues) "discretionary," in the sense of "optional" or "not necessary." But not all of the spending in that category is "discretionary" in the technical sense of "annually appropriated."
The chart does NOT try to distinguish between "discretionary" (i.e., annually appropriated) spending, vs. "mandatory" (i.e., auto-pilot or entitlement) spending.
Rather, what I think the chart shows very powerfully is that President Obama's claim is simply incorrect, that certain kinds of spending (interest on the debt, Social Security checks, etc.) would have to stop being paid in the event the US Treasury hit its statutory debt limit.
Even though the Treasury would have to deal with the daily spikes and dips in receipts versus obligations -- no easy task, to be sure -- its power to defer payments until sufficient funds are available would enable it to continue making the aforementioned payments.
Funny Ken you should say such a partisan and bigoted assumption Lew....I could say exactly the same thing about the left wing journalism....nothing by lies and deception....now that we did the finger pointing....we can't believe anything BO, the Administration, Congress or Right Wing Media say....You have to use your God given brain to research and sleuth out the facts & TRUTH. Fact is the American people don't really know where any of our taxpayer dollars are going for sure....look at the so called Stimulus Bill fiasco .....Who did BO say was suppose to watch it like a watch dog and make sure the money was going to the right places?....BIDEN....Funny he must not have gotten that memo or had an attack of amnesia and did not realize he was responsibility.
Sometimes I wonder if right wing journalists simply assume that nobody ever follows their citations.
In fact, the OMB web page at the White House site shows that discretionary spending for non-defense programs is much less than defense spending projected for 2013. The chart displayed here is not at all supported by the citation in the image.
Mann and Ornstein are right - there is no respect for facts at all in the messaging from the GOP


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Grab a meal and say hello to fellow commuters on the go!
Date: September 27, 2019 - September 27, 2019
Time: 8 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Ilya Kovalchuk capped New Jersey's three-goal first period with his NHL-leading fourth short-handed goal, and the Devils beat the mistake-prone Philadelphia Flyers 5-2 on Wednesday night.
Patrik Elias and Adam Henrique, who scored twice, also tallied in the opening period as the Devils beat the Flyers for the third time in three games this season. Andrei Loktionov had the prettiest goal for New Jersey, with a toe-drag move that left Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov at his mercy.
Johan Hedberg had 23 saves for New Jersey, which has won two straight and three of four after a six-game losing streak.
Jakub Voracek and Scott Hartnell scored for the Flyers, who have lost four of five.
The Flyers were their own worst enemy, giving up two goals with bad pinches, another that went in off the skate of Matt Read, and another on a giveaway behind their net.
Philadelphia defenseman Andrej Meszaros got the Devils going, giving up the puck behind his net in the opening minutes. His pass up the middle of the ice was weak, and Steve Bernier got the puck. The rebound of his shot went to Henrique, who took a backhander that caromed to Elias for a tap-in goal.
Voracek tied it 1-1 on a power play by scoring his 13th goal. Wayne Simmonds set it up with a pass from beside the net to Voracek, who was alone in the left circle.
Henrique gave the Devils the lead for good 36 seconds later with a shot from the side boards that deflected past Bryzgalov off Read's skate.
Kovalchuk made it 3-1 late in the period when Read made a bad pinch on a power play. It led to a breakaway by Kovalchuk, who scored his 10th of the season and second short-handed against Bryzgalov. He also scored a short-handed goal on a penalty shot in the season opener.
Loktionov stretched the lead to 4-1 early in the second period, taking advantage of another bad pinch to lead a counter attack. He fooled Bryzgalov and scored his fourth goal.
Henrique made it 5-1, scoring on a power play for his ninth of the season.
Hartnell closed out the scoring late for the Flyers.
The Devils, who defeated the Flyers in five games in the second round of last season's playoffs, are 3-0 against Philadelphia this season — all in Newark. New Jersey has scored in the opening three minutes of each of those games.
Perhaps stirred by the loss, Philadelphia leaders Danny Briere and Claude Giroux feverishly worked on exercise bikes with their heads down.
NOTES: This was the first time the Devils scored four goals since a 5-3 win over the Flyers on Feb. 15. … The teams will play in Philadelphia on Friday night, their next to last meeting of the season. … Flyers D Luke Schenn was scratched because of the flu.
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Margaret Rhee is the author of chapbooks Yellow (Tinfish Press, 2011) and Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love (forthcoming Finishing Line Press, 2015). She co-edited Glitter Tongue: queer and trans love poems and Mixed Blood, a literary journal on race and innovative poetics edited by CS Giscombe. She is the Kathy Acker Fellow at Les Figues Press and an associate editor for Tupelo Press. In 2014, she received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in ethnic and new media studies, and her BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Currently, she is a visiting assistant professor in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon.
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CHONBURI, Thailand, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Anna Nordqvist shot a 4-under-par 68 Sunday in completing a wire-to-wire win at the Honda LPGA Thailand golf tournament.
It was the third LPGA championship for Nordqvist but first since her rookie season when she won the McDonald's LPGA Championship and the LPGA Tour Championship in 2009. She appeared in 95 tournaments between the second win in 2009 and Sunday's title.
She carded seven birdies against a bogey and double bogey in the final round to finish 72 holes at 15-under 273. Defending champion and world No. 1-ranked Inbee Park had a bogey-free 6-under 66 Sunday and wound up second at 13-under.
Catriona Matthew used a final-round 65 to claim third place at 11-under and Michelle Wei, closing with a 69, was fourth at 10-under.
Nordqvist led after the each of the first two rounds by a stroke and opened play Sunday with a four-stroke advantage over Park and Wie. She had a birdie at the par-3 fourth hole but then took a 6 on the par-4 fifth. A birdie at No. 7 allowed her to make the final turn even on the day.
Both Park and Wie were just one stroke back of Nordqvist after No. 10, but Nordqvist put the tournament away with four birdies over the next six holes.
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Baja California authorities protest U.S. State Department travel warning
A federal legislator from Baja California on Thursday joined Baja California's governor and the mayor of Tijuana in protesting the latest update to a U.S. State Department travel warning for Mexico that urges American citizens "to exercise caution in the northern state of Baja California, particularly at night."
Fernando Castro Trenti, a federal congressman and member of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, said in a written statement that the warning is a move by U.S. authorities to keep Americans from visiting Mexico. "What they're hoping to accomplish is avoid the flight of capital to Mexican tourism destinations such as Baja California," the congressman said.
Earlier this week, Gov. José Guadalupe Osuna also protested the warning, saying "it does not value the efforts that have been made to reach our current levels of security," he said in a statement issued Tuesday shortly after the release of the update.
Tijuana Mayor Carlos Bustamante called the warning "totally unfounded," in a statement issued from City Hall. The mayor's statement said U.S. authorities had "badly processed" the information. Despite progress in Tijuana "they tell us that our city is not recommendable for travel," the mayor said.
The update comes as Tijuana officials have proclaimed significant reductions in several categories of crime since 2010, including homicides, kidnappings, car theft and commercial theft.
Baja California tourism authorities say they are seeing the return of visitors to the state, resulting in rising hotel occupancy rates and greater numbers of Americans participating in large events such as the Rosarito Ensenada Bike Ride and the recent Baja 1000 off-road race.
Contrary to assertions in the congressman's, governor's and mayor's statements, the warning does not recommend against travel to Tijuana--or any part of Baja California; it simply recommends caution. It does suggest deferral of "non-essential travel" to three other Mexican states on the U.S. border--Chihuahua, Coahuila and Tamaulipas--and to areas of two other border states, Nuevo Leon and Sonora.
The periodically updated State Department warning has for years been a sensitive subject in Baja California and across Mexico, as different areas of the country have seen spikes in violence related to organized crime. Tourism authorities have taken pains to point out that many resort destinations have not been affected by the violence, and tourists are not generally targeted.
The U.S. State Department issues travel warnings when conditions in a foreign country are deemed long-term. Travel warnings currently exist for 33 countries--from Honduras to Syria to the Philippines.
A spokesman for the department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, which issues the warnings, said the purpose of the travel warnings and other alerts is to inform U.S. citizens of conditions in foreign countries.
"We have no priority other than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas," said the spokesman, who requested that his name be withheld due to State Department policy. "We provide factual information about destination countries so that the traveling public can make informed decisions about whether to go, where to go, and what precautions to take."
As in previous travel warnings for Mexico, the update notes that "millions of U.S. citizens safely visit Mexico each year for study, tourism and business." It also acknowledges that "there is no evidence that Transnational Criminal Organizations have targeted U.S. visitors and residents based on their nationality."
In the section about Baja California, the updated warning U notes that "for the one-year period ending July 2012, the number of murders in Mexicali increased by 43 percent, from 127 to 181, over the preceding year." Tijuana had 347 murders over the same period, including 25 U.S. citizens, it said. Most Baja California homicides "appeared to be related to narcotics trafficking," according to the statement.
The U.S. Consul General in Tijuana, Andrew Erickson, has been in touch with both the governor's office and the mayor's office to discuss the updated warning, Amy Grier, spokeswoman for the consulate, said Wednesday.
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Videos | October 17, 2006
Seeing Mars Better Than Ever
NASA's newest Mars spacecraft, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is providing an unprecedented view of the surface of Mars.
Transcript:Narration: We're getting brand new images from NASA's newest Mars spacecraft. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has made its first observations from low orbit. One of its three cameras, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment – or HiRise, is providing unprecedented views of the red planet.
Dr. Alfred McEwen: In each and every one of these images we are seeing features on Mars we've never seen before. HiRise can resolve features as small as a few feet across.
Here is the context image. There's a lot more detail in this context image than you can see here. The HiRise image cuts a little area there that you see in yellow. We'll zoom in on that and then we'll show the overlay of a color coverage, which is just a narrow strip down the middle of the image.
We'll zoom in yet again and now we're approaching the full resolution where we're seeing features as small as a few feet across. This is a beautiful area. This is enhanced false color. This is not the way it would really look to us. There is in this area an overlying area that has orange and blue tint thick layer, but it's being stripped away by the wind. There is an active environment on Mars.
Beneath this, we see this light tone material. It's layered as we see here--layers that fill the crater. This is the clay rich material that's of such interest because it means the environment here was wet. We see a variety of small scale features. We see small channels as in water. We see the bright material is broken up into little plates.
So we're seeing revealed here a very ancient world. We know that this is very ancient because the over-lying area even is old and heavily cratered. But this was a very different world on Mars. This was a soaking wet world where we formed clays and small scale morphologies that we don't normally see on Mars. So there is a history here of climate change on Mars in the relatively recent past that we're going to have a lot of fun trying to decipher with the multiple instruments on MRO.
Narrator: This is only the beginning. In early November, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will begin its primary science mission when Mars re-emerges from behind the sun.


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Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics
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Issue: (1) Whether human genes are patentable; and (2) whether petitioners, who have been indisputably deterred by Myriad's "active enforcement" of its patent rights, lack standing to challenge those patents absent evidence that they have been personally and directly threatened with an infringement action.
Judgment: Granted, vacated, and remanded in light of Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. on March 26, 2012.
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IWPR: Daring to Strike in Turkmenistan
Industrial action is extremely rare in Turkmenistan, because of the fear of retribution in this police state. But several localised strikes and protests in recent months suggest the government is prepared to make concessions on pay in order to keep the peace.
In the latest dispute, the human rights website Chronicles of Turkmenistan reported that workers building a major road bridge over the river Amu Darya in eastern Turkmenistan staged a strike in mid-August because they had not been paid for three months.
The report said managers tried a mixture of threats and persuasion to try to get the builders back to work. The strike continued, however, and by the end of a week they were paid their back wages in full.
Another protest over pay took place in April, when local employees of a Turkish construction company involved in building a five-star hotel at the Avaza resort, a flagship development on the Caspian coast.
"We filed complaints with the prosecutor's office about delayed wage payments over many months," one of the construction workers said. "And in May we received our wages in full."
Also this spring, protests over wage delays were staged by workers building a new unit at an oil refinery in the western city of Turkmenbashi, and by staff employed by a Russian construction firm. Rather than go on strike, these workers filed collective complaints.
"Within a week of the complaint being filed [in Turkmenbashi], they were paid their money," a commentator in the region said.
In another protest, employees of a company that provides services to the Dubai firm Dragon Oil submitted their resignations en masse, complaining that they were paid only half the wages received by foreign staff doing equivalent work. The dispute was resolved amicably, with some of their demands met.
Vyacheslav Mamedov, leader of the Civil Democratic Union of Turkmenistan based in The Netherlands, said it was remarkable that the government did not simply arrest and interrogate the protesting workers..
"In many cases, the authorities responded positively to protests and complaints and made an attempt to resolve the issue," he said.
Mamedov suggested the reason the authorities were prepared to defuse unrest by offering pay deals was that they were keen to avoid a repetition of events last year in western Kazakstan, where long-running oil strikes ended in a showdown in the town of Janaozen in December, in which police shot and killed 14 civilian protesters.


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Manslaughter victim's mother: 'I hope they hang him'
Lucille Sturges spent what would have been her son's 40th birthday standing over his body three days after he died of a heroin overdose in his Triangle Street condo in December 2010.
She said Donald Sturges Jr., 39, has not left her mind in the three years since doctors at Danbury Hospital pronounced him dead, poisoned by a drug she says he did not have a habit of using.
"All I can think of is my son," Sturges, of South Carolina, said Monday. "I wake up thinking about him. I go to sleep thinking about him. I think about him all day in between."
Last week, she received word of the arrest of Jason Hoffman, the 27-year-old Brewster, N.Y., man charged in connection with Sturges' death. Officers with the Putnam County Sheriff's Department stopped Hoffman's vehicle in Southeast, N.Y., on Thursday, aware that Danbury police wanted him on charges of first-degree manslaughter and sale of narcotics.
On Monday, Hoffman was awaiting extradition to Connecticut to face the charges. He also was charged with drug offenses in New York after the officers said they found him with heroin, marijuana and a syringe at the time of his arrest. He was being held without bail in the Putnam County Correctional Facility.
"I hope they hang him," Lucille Sturges said. "I'm glad that they finally got him, and I hope he gets the worst that he can get."
Sturges said her son, who worked as a painter, came to know Hoffman after the latter's girlfriend became a roommate to help him cover the bills on his home in the Lions Condominiums.
"Next thing you know, she moves in the boyfriend ... the one they arrested," she said.
Then, at 8:42 a.m. Dec. 11, 2010, police and paramedics responded to the condo on a medical call, finding Sturges had apparently overdosed, said Danbury Police Lt. Christian A. Carroccio, the department's spokesman.
Sturges died the next day in Danbury Hospital, Carroccio said. An autopsy by the Chief State Medical Examiner's Office concluded he died of a heroin overdose, he said.
But Sturges' mother said her son did not use drugs -- "especially the kind of drugs, those hard drugs," she said. "He didn't even smoke pot."
"When I heard about this, I knew somebody had to have done this to him," she said.
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News & Notes: Game 139
Friday, September 2, 2011 (7:05 p.m.) – Coca-Cola Park
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Buffalo Bisons (60-78, 5th(-17.0), North)
LHP Pat Misch (8-9, 4.14)
Lehigh Valley IronPigs (76-64, 2nd(-2.0), North)
LHP Ryan Edell (5-5, 3.60)
TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Buffalo Bisons face the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in the first game of a two-game series at Coca-Cola Park (7:05 p.m.). Tonight's game begins the Herd's final roadtrip of the season as the club will also play three games in two nights in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The Bisons finished up the home portion of the 2011 season last night with a 6-2 defeat to Syracuse.
VS. THE IRONPIGS: The Bisons are 7-7 against the IronPigs so far this season. The Herd has won four of the last five meetings, including a two-game sweep of the I-Pigs in Lehigh Valley, July 30-31. The Bisons and IronPigs have split the 62 games since Lehigh Valley joined the league in 2008.
DISCH ON MISCH: LHP PAT MISCH will make his 22nd start of the season. The southpaw was dominating his last time out, allowing just and unearned run in seven innings of a 3-1 win over Rochester on Sunday. The victory was Misch's 20th in three seasons with the Bisons, only the second lefty to reach that mark in the modern era (9th pitcher overall). LHP Jason Stanford won 26 games in parts of eight seasons with the Herd, 2001-2008.
HIT KING: With five games left, OF JESUS FELICIANO is only seven hits away from Bisons modern era hit king, Billy Selby (378). Feliciano is now in sole possession of 2nd place (371) thanks to a five-game hit streak that began on August 27. Feliciano is the only Bisons player in the modern era to record three consecutive 100+ hit seasons for Buffalo.
SPIN CONTROL: INF JORDANY VALDESPIN is the ninth different Bisons player to reach double digits with a hit streak this year. The Triple-A rookie has hit .400 (16-40) since August 22 with a home run and four RBI. The Bisons longest hit streak this season was a 19-gamer from OF Nick Evans.
HONOR GOES TO: The Bisons announced their 2011 player awards last night with INF VALENTINO PASCUCCI named the team's MVP. Pascucci leads the Herd with 21 home runs and 91RBI. RHP CHRIS SCHWINDEN was named Most Valuable Pitcher while LHP JUSTIN HAMPSON took home both the Comeback Player of the Year and the team's Community Service Award.
METS UPDATE: The Mets (66-69) earned a 7-5 victory over the Marlins last night. In his first start with the Mets, former Bisons RHP MIGUEL BATISTA allowed two runs in six innings to earn the win. OF LUCAS DUDA drove home two runs and now has 41RBI on the season. The Mets are in Washington tonight for a 7:05 p.m. first pitch.


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- Alan Gamez was up to 270 pounds as a freshman in high school
- He says he ate up to eight times a day, mostly unhealthy food
- A class in exercise and wellness at school inspired him to get fit
- He dropped down to 170 pounds, then used weightlifting to add muscle
Alan Gamez remembers the sadness he used to feel just looking in the mirror.
"My stomach was huge," said Gamez, now 18. "I would just look at myself and be disappointed."
Obese throughout childhood, Gamez weighed 270 pounds his freshman year of high school. He felt like he had no friends that year.
"I would overeat because I really had no social life in school," he said.
He decided not to play baseball as a freshman because he thought his weight would hinder his performance.
"He was unhappy in all aspects of his life, and he took it out on his physical well-being," Gomez's high school counselor Mary Abbott wrote in a letter nominating Gamez for the Denver Mayor's Youth Award. "Alan had no control over his life. Thankfully, this is not the Alan Gamez of today."
In his sophomore year, Gamez decided to make a change. It started when he took an exercise health and wellness class, which taught him about nutrition and exercise. He remembers entering this class "a little shy," but became interested in the basics of working out and eating right.
The hardest part, he said, was overhauling his eating habits.
Gamez was accustomed to eating a lot, and often -- eight times a day. His mother would make enchiladas or fried beans; in between meals, Gamez would snack on ice cream or chips.
"It was just what made me feel good," he said.
Determined to change, Gamez stopped eating red meat and got his protein instead from chicken and fish. He made sure his caloric intake was between 1,500 and 2,000 calories each day.
Once his mother noticed a change in him, she started cooking differently, too, Gamez said. His mother would go to his meetings with his dietitian, and the conversations opened her eyes about making better food choices, Gamez said.
At first, Gamez was too shy to even run around the block near his home. Every morning he would privately exercise in an alley near his home.
"I would really not see changes in me," he remembers. "I would still believe I was obese and stuff, but every time I would go out to a family party, people would tell me, 'Wow, you've changed a lot.' I really didn't see it until I started noticing that I had to buy new clothes."
In about four months, he went from wearing clothes sized 2XL down to large, and eventually down to a medium. His pants size shrunk from 42 to 36, and then from there to 32.
"After a year, when I went back into school my junior year, that's when I thought I was -- not perfect -- but I felt comfortable in my body," he said.
By the first semester of his junior year, he had dropped 100 pounds, weighing in at 170 the first semester.
The change wasn't only physical. Gamez joined the baseball team at a high school nearby and started hanging out with the players. He found that more people were talking to him.
"I told some people what I was doing so they could change their ways as well," he said.
His now-girlfriend didn't notice him when he was at his heaviest, but after he lost weight, he started talking to her. She liked what Gamez did to combat his weight problem, he said, and the two have been together since junior year.
"My confidence went up drastically," he said.
In the spring of 2013, Gamez was honored with the Denver Mayor's Youth Award, which celebrates teens who have overcome adversity and made positive changes. He was given a $1,000 scholarship.
These days, Gamez works out at least five days a week, mostly lifting weights. Monday, he'll work his chest and back; Tuesday is biceps and triceps; Wednesday is cardio; Thursday is shoulders; and Friday is legs.
On weekends, he'll be active too -- running, doing cardio exercises or playing catch with his girlfriend.
He has gained weight since the end of high school -- he's up to 230 pounds -- but he's focusing on building muscle. He knows that extra pounds will come with that. Once he reaches his muscle goal, he'll go back to cardio exercises.
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Willy Wonka led a group of eccentric children through a magical world of sweet indulgence. The Louisville Sports Commission wants to do the same, sort of.
You won't have to unwrap thousands of Wonka Bars in order to have a shot at the prize. For $100 you can buy one of the 300 Louisville Sports Commission "Golden Tickets†and have a reasonably good chance of winning.
It really is "golden†because the winner receives:
- A choice between two tickets to every 2012-2013 UofL or UK regular season home football and basketball game
- 2012 Kentucky Derby tickets
- 2012 Kentucky Oaks tickets
- Louisville Bats season tickets
- Tickets to the Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway, Bluegrass Club
- Tickets to Bellarmine University men's regular season home basketball games
- 2012 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball National Championship tickets
- VIP credentials to attend the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships
Last year's winner, David Hardy, had many good things to say to The Voice-Tribune about his experience as a winner of the Golden Ticket. He was able to share the fun not only with his family but also with clients at his commercial real estate firm, CBRE, where he is senior vice president.How often do you enter raffles like this?
Once or twice a year if it's for a good cause, and hopefully if I have a shot at the prize.
Do you win often? Are you a lucky guy?
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What was your initial reaction when you won?
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What was your favorite event?
The Oaks and the Derby events were so much fun. We had two box seats and our kids were able to go with us. It was a great chance for them to experience it. We also got UK tickets, and it was obviously a great season for that!
Why would you recommend people buy a Golden Ticket for 2012?
I think The Louisville Sports Commission is a great group to support, and if you win it's an unbelievable prize that you'll never forget!
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When I think of how reading has changed since I was a kid – it is almost staggering! Am I really THAT old?? I am afraid I will always prefer the feel of a book in my hands, but I do love the accessibility and ease with which to take 5 books on my e-reader and not worry about the extra weight on a vacation or a trip to the dentist's office! E-readers are handy and have great functionality with their new technology! But the technology that e-readers have brought to the table can be frustrating for readers as well. The Sioux Center Public Library is working hard to keep up with the e-readers that are out there so that we can help if you are struggling. Do not hesitate to ask us if you run into any problems. You can call and we can try to help you troubleshoot or you can stop in with your device. Also make sure to visit our website – we have a page dedicated just to finding ebooks on the web – especially the freebies!
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Vanessa Diffenbaugh's The Language of Flowers is simply MAGNIFICENT! I loved everything about this book – the characters are strong and well-developed and the storyline is powerful. NOW, the subject matter is very difficult – there is nothing easy about reading about a child that is bounced around through the foster system and how hardened she becomes, but it is one of the richest books I have read in a long time! Victoria's story is one that will break your heart – I kept wanting the best for her – but she just keeps sabotaging herself with her wrong choices. I felt for her – I wanted to help her. But what broke my heart the most is that MANY children live this life – and seeing what may become of them as they age out of the system just is so hard to read. I highly recommend this book – as hard as the story is to read. I emailed my friend just as I was 20 pages from the end and told her thanks for recommending it to me to read, but that the last 20 pages were bittersweet – I needed a break from her very hard story, but I did not want any of it to end!!


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Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a problem with the way a baby's hip joint forms before, during, or after birth — causing an unstable hip. In severe cases, the hip joint can dislocate or cause trouble walking.
Mild cases of DDH usually get better on their own as a baby grows. More severe cases may need treatment with a brace or surgery to reposition the hip and allow for proper healing.
At your baby's checkups, the doctor will examine the hips to look for DDH. Identifying and treating the problem early will help a child avoid muscle, joint, and skeletal problems down the road.
The hip is a ball-and-socket joint. The "ball" is the rounded top of the thighbone (the femoral head); the "socket" is a cup-shaped bone that the ball fits into (the acetabulum).
When a child has a mild case of DDH, the ball moves back and forth slightly in the socket, causing an unstable hip. In more serious cases, the ball becomes dislocated and moves completely out of the socket. In the most severe cases, the ball may not even reach the socket where it should be held in place.
Hip dislocations are fairly uncommon, affecting just 1 in 1,000 newborns. However, some degree of hip instability happens in as many as 1 in 3 newborns. Girls are more likely than boys to have hip dislocations.
The causes of DDH aren't completely understood, but experts think that many things are involved. A baby can be at risk for DDH due to:
DDH usually affects only one side of the body, most often the left. Babies usually don't feel any pain and don't show any obvious symptoms. To diagnose it, doctors look for these signs:
A doctor can determine whether a hip is dislocated or likely to become dislocated by gently pushing and pulling on the child's thighbones to see if they are loose in their sockets. In one commonly used diagnostic test, a child lies on a flat surface and his or her thighs are spread out to check the hips' range of motion.
A second test brings the knees together and attempts to push the femoral head out of the socket. It is during these tests that the doctor will hear a "click," which may indicate a dislocation. These maneuvers are done at routine checkups until babies are walking normally.
Sometimes a doctor will recommend an X-ray or ultrasound to get a better view of a dislocated hip. X-rays (which only take pictures of bones) are done with older kids, while ultrasounds (which take pictures of bones and soft tissues) are better for babies younger than 3 months old because their hip tissue has not yet hardened into bone.
Treatment for DDH depends on the child's age and the severity of the condition. Mild cases may correct themselves in the first few weeks of life. In many cases, however, the pediatrician will refer the child to see a bone specialist (orthopedic surgeon) for treatment.
If baby has an unstable hip that does not get better, a brace called a Pavlik harness will be used to hold the hip in position. This device keeps the femoral head in its socket by holding the knee up toward the child's head. A shoulder harness attaches to foot stirrups to keep the leg elevated. The goal is to keep the femoral head in the hip socket. As a baby grows, this helps the hip joint to develop normally. Treatment with the Pavlik harness lasts about 6 to 12 weeks, and continues until the hip is stable and ultrasound exams are normal.
Pavlik harnesses do not work in children over 6 months old. Kids who are older and continue to have DDH may need one of two types of surgery:
After reaching age 2 or 3, a child might need surgery on the pelvis to deepen the hip socket (if it's too shallow) or to shorten the thighbone or realign it. After surgery, kids need to wear a hip spica cast (a type of body cast that keeps the hips from moving). The cast usually is needed for several months, depending on the child's condition.
When DDH is recognized early and treated appropriately, most children develop normally and have no related problems.
DDH does not cause pain initially, but it may cause problems down the line, so it's important to treat it. Kids with untreated DDH end up having legs of uneven length in adulthood, and this can cause a limp or waddling gait, back and hip pain, and overall decreased agility.


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OTTAWA – A call by an influential Saudi Sheikh to destroy all churches on the Arabian Peninsula has led the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops' (CCCB) human rights committee to express concern to the government of Saudi Arabia.
In a May 30 letter to Saudi Ambassador Osamah Al Sanosi Ahmad, the committee's chairman, Saint-Hyacinthe Bishop François Lapierre, referred to a March 12 statement by Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, who said: "only one religion," Islam, "should exist in the Arabian Peninsula," and added "it is necessary to destroy all churches in the region."
This statement preceded an April 12 ban in Kuwait of any new church construction and the passing of a blasphemy law that could bring the death penalty for critics of Islam or its prophet.
"Although this was widely circulated by news agencies more than two months ago, there have been no reports yet indicating that Saudi Arabian authorities have since corrected or denounced this call to religious violence," Lapierre wrote.
He cited the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which protects religious freedom.
In an interview, Lapierre pointed out the sheikh, who has been described as Saudi Arabia's "supreme religious official" in news reports, is highly influential in the region.
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From "cello beat-boxing" to an interactive audience sing-along, vocal group Pentatonix had no problem amping up the crowd at their recent sold-out concert at the House of Blues in Boston.
The five-person a cappella group, which was the winner of the third season of NBC's "The Sing-Off," are not your average YouTube sensation – they're better.
With Scott Hoying's spot-on solos, Mitch Grassi's unreal high notes, Avi Kaplan's sultry bass, Kirstie Maldonado's pitch-perfect diva vocals and Kevin Olusola's beat-boxing/percussion perfection, the group is a unique mix of individual voices that beautifully blend into one.
It's so perfect that it's almost robotic, too good to be real – but it is.
What was once just popular among "choir nerd extraordinaires" (as Hoying called himself and some of his fellow group members during the concert), a capella music has transformed into a pop culture phenomenon, partially due to shows such as "The Sing Off" and "Glee" and even more recently with films such as "Pitch Perfect" (which made over $100 million in the box office) and ABC Family's "The Mistle-Tones." Pentatonix has scored YouTube hits in the millions and currently boasts about 230,000 Facebook fans and more than 71,000 Twitter followers.
In a time where people glorify electronic beats and synthesized vocal chords – such as those remixed by Swedish DJ Avicii - and synthesized vocal tracks - such as top-of-the-charts songs like Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" – Pentatonix offers a refreshing twist to top 40 hits.
With little choreography and only some minor light effects (different colors for different songs, spotlights on individual group members, etc.), the group stayed away from a flashy routine and kept the performance simple but still fresh to avoid simply replicating their YouTube videos.
Highlights of the show:
– The combination of Kaplan's hilarious jokes/one-liners and body roll dance moves (seriously, how did he move his legs like that?) was highly entertaining, not to mention when he sang a song originally from "The Hobbit" titled "Misty Mountains Cold."
"I don't know what I was doing in Middle Earth at the time, but I'm sad I missed out," Kaplan said to the crowd.
– Olusola's "cello beat-boxing" was also a standout. Olusola is beyond talented – he's a Yale graduate, fluent in Chinese and can literally provide a beat for anything, even a cello. Hoying said they got Olusola on board after seeing a YouTube video of him cello beat-boxing, which is basically playing the cello while simultaneously beat-boxing. Yes, it's as impressive as it sounds.
– Pentatonix proved they have more than covers up their sleeve by performing a new number, "Peaceful World," written by Kaplan. The song showcased all of the group's amazing ranges and vocal talents – it was a little slow, but it left me wanting more of their originals. Here's to hoping some of the originals include Olusola's amazing cello beat-boxing.
– An 'N Sync medley was one of the best parts of the show. While I've watched Pentatonix's Youtube rendition before, seeing it in person brought my inner 10-year-old to life.
– Olusola and Kaplan said audience participation is their favorite part about every concert because they love getting the crowd to sing along. First they divided the audience into three sections – Team Scott, Team Kirstie and Team Mitch. Then the less musically talented were assigned clapping roles. Everyone had a part to play. Then Olusola and Kaplan beat-boxed and dropped the bass. I have to say, we didn't sound half-bad. Maybe Pentatonix should take us on tour as their back-up singers. (Just kidding, they don't need back-up anything.)
– After the band "ended" their show with Nicki Minaj's "Starships," the crowd started chanting "PTX" to get an encore. After a few minutes, the group came back on stage and performed their last few fan favorites. First came Florence and the Machine's "Dog Days Are Over," with Grassi hitting some impressive high notes. Then came a YouTube favorite, a cover of fun.'s "We Are Young." Pentatonix's version has over 7 million hits.
Now that the concert is over, I am eagerly anticipating the group's new album. Until then, I'll have to keep my inner acanerd occupied with YouTube covers.
Saba Hamedy is a Monitor contributor.


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ATLANTA -- Though the Mets continue to look to the future as often as possible down the stretch, do not expect an infusion of youth into the closer's role anytime soon.
Manager Terry Collins said Monday that he plans to keep LaTroy Hawkins as his primary closer for the foreseeable future, in a continued effort to win as many games as possible down the stretch.
"One of the things we sit here and try to balance is trying to give guys opportunities, to look down the road and see where they might fit, but also for our fan base to win some baseball games," Collins said. "This isn't a tryout camp. Just because we've got some young players here and everybody just wants you to run them out there -- well, our fans want to win. And so do the guys in that locker room. So it's a fine line of who you play and when you play them, to decide what's going to fit best."
Though the Mets have a pair of intriguing young bullpen arms in right-handers Gonzalez Germen and Vic Black, each of whom could see scattered ninth-inning chances in September, the bulk of the work should still go to Hawkins.
Another part of the motivation, Collins said, is allowing Hawkins to continue climbing up Major League Baseball's all-time lists. The 19-year veteran entered Monday's play six saves shy of 100, while his 931 appearances ranked 20th in history. A heavy September workload would draw him close to Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers, who is 19th with 944 appearances.
"Right now, Hawk's done a great job," Collins said. "He's going to stay in that role. We're hoping by the end of this year, this guy is pretty high in the record books."


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New Faculty Excellence Endowment Established
Continuing the Legacy of Outstanding Trustee, Teacher, Mentor
The Carole Bland Cultivating Faculty Excellence Endowment has been created at Augustana to honor the life and work of Carole Bland, longtime Board of Trustee member, alumna and great friend of the College.
Established by her husband, Dick Bland, and other friends and loved ones, the endowment recognizes and furthers Carole's pioneering work in creating and formalizing faculty development programs in higher education. "It is my hope that Carole's passion for teaching and learning, and her pioneering work in faculty mentoring, will continue to advance through the outcomes of this endowment," Dick said.
A bold advocate for women in education, Carole served as assistant dean for faculty development at the University of Minnesota Medical School before her death in August, 2008. She was a national leader in her field and the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Distinguished Career Award and the Outstanding Research Publication Award from the American Educational Research Association.
"Throughout Carole's service on the Augustana board of trustees, she was a tireless champion of our faculty," said President Rob Oliver. "Her life's work was in the area of faculty development and she clearly had a passion for Augustana's faculty and, through them, the quality of the academic program."
The endowment provides annual awards to faculty through an application/nomination process with the first awards being made in May 2009. The grants will fund:
• Teaching projects focused on cultivating excellence in teaching, and the intersection between research or creative work and classroom teaching.
• Faculty mentoring at Augustana, with outstanding new and mid-career faculty being paired with senior faculty members. These awards will afford joint attendance at career-building conferences and shared learning resources.
Mark Braun, academic dean, said the awards are rooted in shared beliefs of Carole and the Augustana community. "Among the more significant contributions a small, teaching-oriented institution can make is to create and advance knowledge related to successful teaching and learning. Our small class size and special attention to student learning make Augustana a perfect laboratory for testing best practices in higher education."
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Implant reconstruction uses saline or silicone breast implants to create breast shape and volume.
Both types are available in different volumes and shapes, so your surgeon can choose one that best fits your anatomy and desired size. Saline implants have a silicone shell filled with salt water. Breasts reconstructed with saline implants tend to feel firmer than silicone, which is softer and has a texture more like natural breast tissue. Silicone implants are filled with liquid or cohesive gel silicone. Their use is still controversial; while some fear implants may leak and spread silicone into the breast tissue or beyond, others consider the natural feel and weight of silicone implants is worth the risk. No matter which type implant is used, it is always placed under the pectoralis chest muscle (unlike breast augmentation, which usually places the implant between the breast tissue and muscle).
Generally, implant reconstruction involves two phases: first, temporary implants called expanders are placed in pockets formed under the chest muscles. Over several weeks the expanders are gradually inflated with saline to stretch the skin and muscles. During a second shorter surgery, the expanders are replaced with implants that best fit your anatomy and desired size.
Two single-step procedures may be options for small-breasted women. An adjustable hybrid expander-implant can be placed and gradually inflated. When fully expanded, it is sealed and remains in place, eliminating the need for exchange surgery. Another newer technique completely eliminates the need for expansion. Non-expansive breast reconstruction uses Alloderm, a synthesized skin product, to cover portions of the implant.
Implants aren't permanent. Sooner or later they wear out and must be removed and/or replaced. Sometimes this occurs sooner if the implant leaks or is distorted by hard scar tissue that forms around it. Some women need their implants replaced within a year of reconstruction; others may have their implants for 15 years or longer. It is obvious when a saline implant deflates, because the breast collapses (think of a balloon losing air). Deflation of silicone implants is often undetected, because the implant retains its shape. For this reason, some experts recommend women have a yearly MRI to determine if their silicone implants are intact.
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In 2008 the founders and volunteers staying at UGANDA LODGE in SW Uganda opened an early years education centre called "Ruhanga Development Nursery School" At first there were about 25 children attending each day but it was soon realised that to enable all children in the area to get a good, affordable education we would need to set up a sponsorship scheme.
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