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LEISEL Jones' coach, Michael Bohl, has vehemently rejected suggestions she was treating the Olympics as anything other than serious competition, and says she has been performing well in training and is in good condition to compete next week.
Jones has repeatedly said these Games were the icing on the cake for her, having created history by becoming the first Australian swimmer to qualify for four Olympics.
Some feel that Jones is not in the best shape and is treating London as a farewell tour, not taking it as seriously as she had the previous three Games, where she won a total of eight medals.
''She's competitive. She wants results,'' Bohl said. ''She's looking OK. She has got to get back down to her best [times] and if she's not down to her best she's not going to be competitive here.
''She's a very good competitor and she's really got to get every inch out of herself if she's going to be competitive here. The rest of the world has really moved up. She's really got to put together a great race to be competitive, and has to drop a couple of seconds to get herself in the game.
''She's in pretty good condition. You can only really go off the time trials and what she's doing here. She went one minute 08.3 seconds [in the 100-metre breaststroke] in Manchester in a pair of nylons, which is one of the best ever times in training.
''She's a different sort of athlete. She's not a 14 or 15-year-old girl who is doing 10 really hard sessions a week. She's probably at the end of her swimming career. She's been doing nine sessions a week, and two gym sessions a week coming into this, and we were really happy with her from coming off Santa Clara [in California, where she swam faster than she did at Olympic trials].''
Bohl was asked his thoughts on suggestions it was nothing more than a farewell tour.
''She has won eight Olympic medals and has a great track record of doing well. She was an Olympic medallist at 14. She has done well to last as long as she has in the sport.''
He had told her she must perform in the 100-metre breaststroke if she wants a medley relay berth, and ''no one will give her a spot because her name is Leisel Jones''.
Rooney backs Jones to succeed
Former Olympic champion Giaan Rooney hit out at suggestions Jones is overweight, saying she has always had an unusual physique and that she should be judged on her performance in the pool alone.
She's here under great grounds. She's definitely got her work cut out for her. I'm not going to say it's going to be easy for her at all. But in saying that, she's done the work to get here
Rooney, who won gold in Athens in 2004, claims that photos taken of Jones, 26, during a training session in London were shot from an unflattering angle and said she did not believe Jones' figure had changed at all from previous Games.
Suggestions that Jones was in poor physical shape were "incredibly unfair and incredibly judgmental" at a time when the country should be celebrating the fact that Jones was the first Australian swimmer to compete at four Olympic Games, Rooney said.
"I also don't think Leisel has ever put herself up there as the super slim, incredibly cut athlete. She has never had that body shape, and it's worked for her for the last 12 years so why would we be changing anything now?," Rooney told Melbourne radio station 3AW from London.
"Leisel has always been very strong through her hips, she has always been really strong through her legs.
"She needs to be, she's a breaststroker, and for me I don't think there's any difference [in her weight]. In fact I would love to ask the question after the Olympics whether she's the same weight now as she was 12 months ago because for me, I would think it's an unflattering photo angle."
Rooney said speculation about Jones' weight could affect her state of mind heading into the competition, which kicks off on Saturday.
The body shape of swimmers also had changed over the years from the former long-armed, lanky swimmer, Rooney said.
Claims that coaches were concerned about Jones' condition were "ridiculous", she said.
"I think it's made up. She wouldn't be here in London if coaches were worried about how she was going to perform. That's the bottom line,'' Rooney said.
"I really don't think Leisel Jones is going to show up and underperform by choice knowing that she hasn't done the work.
"For me she's the ultimate professional. She's here under great grounds. She's definitely got her work cut out for her. I'm not going to say it's going to be easy for her at all. But in saying that, she's done the work to get here and she deserves the same right as everyone else to be judged on her performance and her performance alone."
— with staff reporters, agencies


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SVAY PAK, Cambodia
A few years ago, sex tourists trolled the brothels of this dusty village looking for sex with children and willing to pay a premium for virgins and children as young as three.
Little girls with lipstick no longer strike sexy poses along the main street. But pimps still come and collect their girls and boys from a kids' club run by a non-profit group in a former brothel on that same street.
Agape International Mission runs that program. It also runs a school, retraining for girls rescued from the sex trade, a medical clinic, and a gym for boys and young men (some of whom are pimps and brothel owners).
Vancouver-based Ratanak International provided the seed money and continues to fund a third of all the programs.
In November, Ratanak's founder, Brian McConaghy, came to take a look at the most recent rental, a former brothel that will be converted into a clothing factory.
"No, it can't be," he said as he stepped through the door. "This is my Bakker crime scene ... It's astonishing. This is my very first crime scene [in Cambodia]. I've seen too many [child pornography] videos of what was going on here ... This is poetry that it will be transformed in this way."
McConaghy first entered the building in 2004 as an RCMP forensics expert along with a team from the Vancouver Police Department. It's here that they found evidence proving that Donald Bakker of Vancouver had raped seven girls, the youngest of whom was seven.
The building is already different. Dozens of doors once ran off the central core.
"There were little cubicles, seedy little rooms. That's where men, mostly foreigners, came to rape young children."
The cubicles are gone and all that remains in the empty space is an old video game: Lethal Enforcer. "The kids used to play on it in the front, waiting to get abused," he says.
McConaghy's first visit to this building dramatically changed his life and that of several hundred children.
In July 2005, Bakker pleaded guilty and became Canada's first convicted sex tourist.
Four years later and soon after testifying as an expert at the trial of serial killer Willie Pickton, McConaghy quit the RCMP. He was two years short of qualifying for a full pension.
Brian McConaghy grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a protestant, in the midst of 'The Troubles.'
His family immigrated to Ottawa when he was a teen. Dyslexic, McConaghy was a poor student. But he managed to get into Algonquin College's museum studies program. Fascinated by weapons, he landed an internship at the Canadian War Museum where his detailed knowledge came to the attention of RCMP recruiters. Get a university degree, any degree, they said, and we'll hire you.
After graduating with a history degree, McConaghy was hired and sent to Vancouver.
"I went from having a stable, happy home life to feeling like an abandoned kid living on a diet of autopsies, crime scenes and staff sergeants yelling in my face."
Through a friend from Ottawa, McConaghy met a group of Christian, international students studying at the University of British Columbia. "Most of them were Asian, but I bonded with them because I felt like a refugee, too."
On his first vacation, the 24-year-old flew to Hong Kong in October 1989. He had the names of friends of friends and a vague plan to "see Asia." About a week later, he arrived at a Bangkok guest house late at night.
There were young girls from northern Thai hill tribes there, smoking dope.
"Mr. Christian RCMP told the girls not to do that because they'd end up in prostitution," McConaghy says with a laugh. "Shades of things to come."
In Bangkok, one of the friends of McConaghy's friends was a young woman working for the Christian Missionary Alliance, which ran a refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border. McConaghy talked his way into visiting the camp. There, a medic named Obie met McConaghy, made it clear that sightseers weren't welcome and dropped him off at a hostel.
With nothing to do, McConaghy put on his Walkman, turned up the volume and went to the local market. He was oblivious to the thud, thud, thud of shelling nearby and to all the people gathering around radios listening to reports of the Vietnamese coming across the border.
Suddenly, Obie appeared, shoved McConaghy into a truck with a plan to deliver him to an evacuation centre. But McConaghy balked.
"I told him I grew up in Belfast and was totally comfortable with shelling."
Obie didn't argue. They went to the medical centre where over the next few days, McConaghy loaded injured people on to stretchers. He keenly recalls one woman who staggered down the mountainside.
"She was featherweight. She had come through the minefields. I couldn't begin to guess her age because she was so emaciated and she absolutely stank. She was filthy with excrement from diarrhea caked on her. She was a pathetic piece of humanity and suddenly my whole world opened up."
Where had she come from? he asked. The killing fields of Kampuchea, he was told. Kampuchea was the Khmer Rouge's name for Cambodia.
You'll never get in there, he was told.
"To an Irish guy, that's raising a red flag. I had to go."
Back home, McConaghy rented the movie The Killing Fields, and soaked up everything he could about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.
The following year, he was back in Bangkok. It took a month to negotiate a Cambodian visa. Because Cambodia and Vietnam were still at war, Canadian embassy staff warned that if anything went wrong, no one would come to get him.
On May 1 — May Day and a holiday in Communist countries — McConaghy boarded a Russian-built plane with bare tires in the Laotian capital of Vientiane. The only other passengers were Cambodian-Americans. One was going to find his mother; the other wanted to see the country's killing fields that he'd escaped as a child. One was excited; the other was terrified that even if he found his mother, he'd be arrested and never get out again.
"We flew through Vietnam while the pilot and co-pilot negotiated landing in Phnom Penh ... I was still young enough and naive enough to be exhilarated. I realized what a rare privilege it was to go to forbidden places."
Only a few hundred thousand were living in Phnom Penh at the time. Most of the city's two million people had been marched out after Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975. In the four years that followed, an estimated two million people died of starvation or were murdered in the killing fields.
Terrified and traumatized, no one used their real name. There was no electricity. Women baked baguettes over open fires to sell in the city's alleys.
"It was so silent. In the buildings abandoned by people led off to be executed, people from the country had moved in and used them like caves ... What I was looking at were people living as if they were in the Stone Age, with Mercedes and TVs in heaps, the residue of a functional society laid waste by its own people."
McConaghy got around on cyclos, bicycles fitted with a two passenger seats in front.
"It was so quiet you could hear the squeak of the saddle. There was a certain charm to it ... There was a dignity to that poverty. Despite everything, they were trying to do the best they could with nothing."
To his Communist minders' horror, McConaghy insisted on going to the famous temples at Angkor.
"I was walking with soldiers carrying AK-47s. The fighting was so close you could hear the soldiers yelling at each other. We could see the odd Buddhist monks and a few kids in novice robes."
Retreating hastily to Siem Reap, he went back to Grand Hotel.
"One of the most profound experiences I had was in the dining lounge, which was derelict with six or eight folding tables with yellowed cloths with holes in them. A little, old man came out in a high-necked white tunic from colonial times with a tray held up over his shoulder. His jacket was stained and worn-out. It was heartbreaking. He served us as if we were in Paris, presenting the very best that he had, even though it was only pork and rice."
Weird as it all was, McConaghy had fallen in love with Cambodia and its people.
Despite the United Nations embargo against Cambodia, over the next year McConaghy amassed nine tonnes and $10,000-worth of equipment and drugs with donations from pharmaceutical companies and friends. He bought a shipping container. Most importantly, he figured out that he had to switch containers in Singapore so that it couldn't be traced to Canada.
Ever the forensic scientist, McConaghy videotaped the container before it left so he could identify its unique rust spots when it arrived in Phnom Penh. He didn't want it to be scooped by Communist government officials.
Once the container arrived in Phnom Penh, McConaghy spent two days negotiating its release with government officials who threatened to arrest him. All the while, he was suffering from both dysentery and strep throat.
In the end, the government agreed to let him distribute the medical supplies.
McConaghy had breached the UN embargo. He was hailed as a hero on state-run television. The government held a reception in his honour. More importantly, the health minister gave McConaghy a fax number to call whenever he needed a visa.
"That was gold. Because when you go from taking two suitcases into a country to taking nine tonnes, you have to do it again. And that's the beginnings of Ratanak."
But, it was his first and last container. It was just too difficult.
Not that it stopped him. In 1992, after McConaghy found out that a hospital in Kampong Cham province had no water, he arranged to have a pump flown in from Scandinavia. A water tower needed to be built, but there were none to be bought in Cambodia. McConaghy and local volunteers scavenged abandoned work sites and took what they needed.
A crane was assembled on the back of a truck that was so old, it wouldn't move. McConaghy hired 20 guys to push it to the site.
More Canadians started handing him cheques for what he called the Ratanak Project, named after a little girl who died of an curable illness due to a lack of medicine. For three years, an American charitable organization called Samaritan's Purse acted as Ratanak's banker and issued tax receipts to donors. But as Ratanak grew, Samaritan's founder Franklin Graham refused to continue issuing receipts for projects he didn't control.
So, Graham offered McConaghy a full-time job overseeing bigger budgets and more projects in more countries.
McConaghy declined. His heart was fixed on Cambodia.
For the next 14 years, McConaghy had two full-time jobs — one with Ratanak, the other with the RCMP. Only the RCMP job paid a salary.
He went to Cambodia at least once every year. His ties deepened after he and his wife, Louise, adopted two Cambodian boys.
His love for the country and its people never wavered, not even in 1997 after he'd helped Michael Senor go home.
Adopted as a child by Canadians, the young man was conflicted about his identity. McConaghy encouraged him to go to Cambodia.
But when Michael arrived, there were tanks and firefights on Phnom Penh's streets. Michael went out on the streets to capture it on film. He didn't understand Khmer and didn't stop when soldiers yelled at him. One put an AK-47 to his head and killed him.
His Canadian fiance witnessed it and only escaped the country with the help of the Canadian and Australian embassies.
Later, Michael's grieving parents donated money to Ratanak, which is used to fund a home for children whose parents are in prison.
"I was happy to continue working with the RCMP because I had my different worlds," McConaghy says.
But in 2004, his worlds collided.
McConaghy was working on the Pickton investigation, studying the cut marks on bones and fragments of some of the 49 women that Pickton is believed to have murdered when Vancouver police answered a distressed call from a woman. She was being tortured by Donald Bakker in an isolated park along Vancouver's waterfront. They searched Bakker's car and found pornographic videos stashed in the trunk.
The girls in the videos were Asian. But where were they from?
Detective Ron Bieg had heard of McConaghy and his connection to Cambodia. He called him and McConaghy reluctantly agreed to view the tapes.
"It wasn't a matter that I was investigating. And if you've never seen videos of children being abused, you don't realize that it is a pivotal experience. You have a choice after you've seen them: You either walk away from it or you extract everything you can from it and allow it to change you. I did the latter."
The girls were speaking Khmer — the language of Cambodia — and Vietnamese. McConaghy also noticed a 2003 calendar on the wall. McConaghy didn't usually watch NBC's Dateline. That night he did. McConaghy believes it was divine intervention.
It featured a segment called "Children for Sale" about a raid by the International Justice Mission (IJM) on a brothel in Svay Pak. He immediately called Bieg and told him to turn on his TV.
The next day, they ran Bakker's tapes next to the Dateline clips. There were some of the same girls and the same calendar. They got in touch with IJM and determined that four of the seven girls Bakker assaulted had been rescued in the raid and were in a Phnom Penh safe house.
McConaghy, Bieg and two other investigators arrived in Svay Pak shortly after that. Their first stop was the brothel where the girls were rescued and the one that will soon be the Ratanak-funded textile factory.
"Up until then, I always knew the sex-trade thing was there. But I didn't want to go near it because the police were massively corrupt and you could get knifed very easily," McConaghy says. "The vast majority of work that NGOs do is not adversarial. But the minute they intersect with the criminal community to try to intercept their products [the children], it's like separating cocaine from drug dealers.
"Bakker opened that world to me. It was clear there were some senior police officers who were trustworthy even during that first trip for the Bakker investigation. There were also parents who are disgusted by what was happening. So, I realized that doing something about it was do-able with the right contacts."
Meanwhile, Californians Don and Bridget Brewster heard about Ratanak. Don was a minister at an evangelical church; Bridget was a wife and mother who'd raised four children. They'd spent time in Cambodia and even though they had no experience and no specific training, they were determined to set up a trauma recovery centre for girls and young women rescued from the sex trade.
McConaghy flew to California to meet them, listened carefully to their plan for the nascent Agape International Missions and then handed them a $50,000 cheque. They were so shocked that Bridget says they neglected to say thank you.
For the next three years, Ratanak paid all of AIM's bills and it still provides about a third of AIM's program costs.
AIM rented two villas in an upscale Phnom Penh neighbourhood and spent a year training staff. In 2006, the first girls moved in to the NewSong Centre in 2006.
It was only three years ago that McConaghy found out that among Ratanak's beneficiaries are some of Bakker's victims. Several went to NewSong; another was at a Ratanak-funded trauma centre run by Hagar International, an Australian-based NGO.
At about the same time, McConaghy had made his decision to resign from the RCMP and devote all his time and energy to expanding Ratanak's work in Cambodia.
It now has full-time staff in Cambodia and, for the first time, will operate its own programs which are likely to focus on prevention. Under consideration are a program for sexually exploited boys as well as one for women who have been turned out of brothels after they're too old and too damaged to continue. With no skills and little education, most of those women end up begging on the streets. But many also turn into pimps and human traffickers.
As much as McConaghy admires the rescue work done by groups like IJM, it's not for him.
Since his first visit, he has felt called to help Cambodians lift themselves out of half a century of violence and poverty. It's the complicated, slow-moving stuff of development from digging wells to building schools and strengthening the justice system.
And it's the only way to build a society where selling children into sex slavery is inconceivable.
"All of that is much less emotionally satisfying than kicking in doors and rounding up these guys," McConaghy says wryly.
Yet, it's what provides McConaghy with both joy and hope.

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U.S. corn planting is progressing at the slowest rate in 20 years as producers were able to plant only 2% of their crop during the week ended Sunday due to cold, wet weather.
In its weekly crop update on Monday afternoon, USDA pegged U.S. corn planting progress at 4%, up from 2% a week earlier and well behind last year's pace of 26% and the five-year average of 16%.
The planting pace was the slowest for April 22 since the severe flood year of 1993, when only 3% of the crop was reported in the ground by that date.
Out of the top four corn states of Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Nebraska, Illinois is still the only one to report any measurable planting activity, but Illinois producers made no progress last week with only 1% of the state's crop planted as of Sunday, unchanged from a week earlier. On average over the previous five years, 24% of the Illinois crop was planted by April 22, along with 14% of the Iowa crop, 11% of the Minnesota crop and 8% of the Nebraska crop.
Indiana was the only state in the Midwest region to report any planting progress for the week ended Sunday as producers there were able to plant 1% of their crop.
Little planting is likely to occur in Iowa or Illinois this week either after last week's heavy rains left fields there water-logged or flooded. Also, Illinois and Indiana are expected to see another inch of rain on Tuesday, along with parts of Missouri and Kentucky, while other parts of the Corn Belt should see 0.50-0.75 in. of precipitation.
Despite the slow start to planting, weather forecasts calling for weather forecasts calling for above-normal temperatures to move in over the coming weekend and next week along with drier conditions, pressured corn futures on Monday.
Monday afternoon's National Weather Service six- to 10-day forecast for April 28-May 2 was not quite as promising, however, as it called for normal temperatures across the center of the Corn Belt and above-normal rainfall for Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan.


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Dr. Melanie Seybt Answers Questions about Thyroid Disease
This week, Dr. Melanie Seybt of Lexington ENT & Allergy was a guest on WIS-TV with news anchor Dawndy Mercer Plank to talk about thyroid disease.
In Part One of her guest appearance, she talked about the prevalence of thyroid disease and why it affects so many women. You can heard what she said in the link below.
In Part 2, she answered viewers' social media questions about thyroid disease.
Want to know more? Dr. Seybt will give a FREE lecture called "Advances in Surgical Management of Thyroid Disease" on Monday, April 28 in the Lexington Medical Park 1 Auditorium on the hospital campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask the doctor questions.


text: Eli's Cheesecake Big Slice will help celebrate Spring (wouldn't think it today!) at the Eli's Cheesecake Cafe with a special appearance at 1pm this Sunday, March 21 from 1pm to 2pm. Samples of Eli's Cheesecake and Freshly Baked Eli's Cookies will be served with our compliments. Eli's Big Slice will return to the Eli's Bakery Cafe for our In Store Dock Sale next Saturday, March 27th.


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OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--West Corporation, a leading provider of technology-driven, voice and data solutions, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Smoothstone IP Communications, adding to its market-leading unified communications portfolio. Smoothstone is now part of InterCall in West's Unified Communications operating segment.
Smoothstone is a leading provider of cloud-based communications for the enterprise. They deliver highly flexible and scalable solutions for clients' next-generation IP telephony needs. Infonetics, the international market research and consulting firm, recently ranked Smoothstone among the leaders in its third annual North America Business Voice over IP (VOIP) Services Leadership Scorecard. Smoothstone enjoys a unique position among the companies ranked in the study as the only industry player focused on the enterprise market. The report noted that Smoothstone's continued growth has been fueled "due to a strong focus on execution and its success in driving new customers onto its hosted VOIP platform, resulting in the second largest installed base of seats in 2010."
"We are excited to be joining West and believe that together we can accelerate Smoothstone's growth," said Jeff Wellemeyer, co-founder and president of Smoothstone. "The combined companies have unprecedented experience in deploying unified communications solutions from mid-market companies to the largest enterprises. Both also have deep expertise in the deployment of both Cisco and Microsoft environments."
"The acquisition of Smoothstone positions us as the leader in the enterprise unified communications marketplace," said Todd Strubbe, president of West's Unified Communications operating segment. "Together, we are able to help our clients speed the deployment of unified communications applications and services while helping to minimize the costs, complexities and risks of deploying new technology in dynamic business environments."
The Smoothstone product portfolio will be available to West's large base of clients, adding cloud-based IP telephony to a growing list of unified communications solutions. Smoothstone will continue to offer its full portfolio of applications and services, and will continue in its mission to help leading enterprises transform the way they communicate.
About West Corporation
West Corporation is a leading provider of technology-driven, voice and data solutions. West offers its clients a broad range of communications and network infrastructure solutions that help them manage or support critical communications. West's customer contact solutions and conferencing services are designed to improve its clients' cost structure and provide reliable, high-quality services. West also provides mission-critical services, such as public safety and emergency communications.
Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, West serves Fortune 1000 companies and other clients in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, banking, retail, financial, technology and healthcare. West has sales and operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For more information on West Corporation, please call 1-800-841-9000 or visit www.west.com.
About InterCall
InterCall, a subsidiary of West Corporation, is the largest conference and collaborations service provider in the world and a leading provider of global cloud-based unified communications services. Founded in 1991, InterCall offers telephony, messaging, conferencing and collaboration tools for businesses of all sizes, from large global enterprises to small or regional companies. With a global footprint and broad service capabilities, InterCall's flexible models for hosted, managed and on-premises communications services help companies get the most out of their business processes.
InterCall's strong U.S. presence, including four call centers and 26 sales offices, is bolstered by operations in Canada, Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. For more information, please visit www.intercall.com.
About Smoothstone
Smoothstone IP Communications is the leading provider of cloud based communications for the enterprise – including MPLS-based application networking, enterprise voice, unified threat management, advanced contact center solutions, unified messaging and collaboration tools – all delivered as a unified suite of cloud-based applications. As part of West's Unified Communications' operating segment, Smoothstone's scalable, on-demand applications and services can be integrated with a customer's existing network and telecommunications infrastructure, operational processes, and employee activities, enabling customers to migrate to unified IP communications as their business requirements dictate. For more information, visit www.smoothstone.com or call 800.773.3037.


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Giants lose Kieschnick on waivers to D-backs
LOS ANGELES -- Outfielder Roger Kieschnick's tenure with the Giants organization ended Friday, when he was claimed off waivers by the Arizona Diamondbacks and sent to Triple-A Reno.
Kieschnick, 27, hit .202 in 38 games for the Giants last year, his fifth in the organization after being selected in the third round of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft. He showed power in the Minor Leagues, hitting 71 homers. But Kieschnick couldn't duplicate that trait in his limited appearances with the Giants, recording a .226 slugging percentage in 84 at-bats.
This spring, Kieschnick was eclipsed by Juan Perez in the competition for a reserve outfield spot.
"There's always mixed emotions," assistant general manager Bobby Evans said. "You like to keep a guy, but there's an opportunity to stay on a 40-man roster and maybe get a 25-man spot. We want to see our guys do well. That's good for him. We're sorry that our roster got to where it got and it forced us to make a tough decision with him."


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Brian Leatart
Perfect for the Jewish holiday, this flourless torte has an airy soufflé-like texture. The sauce adds a special-occasion touch.
- Yield
- Makes 10 servings
- 8 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted kosher-for-Passover pareve (non-dairy) margarine
- 8 large egg yolks
- 1 cup plus 1/3 cup sugar
- 5 large egg whites
- Paper doily
- Fresh raspberries (optional)
- Raspberry Sauce
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line bottom of 9-inch-diameter springform pan with 2 3/4-inch-high sides with parchment paper. Stir chocolate and margarine in heavy medium saucepan over low heat until melted and smooth. Remove from heat. Cool until lukewarm.
- Using electric mixer, beat yolks and 3/4 cup sugar in large bowl until pale and very thick, about 4 minutes. Add chocolate mixture in 2 additions and beat until well blended. Using clean dry beaters, beat egg whites in another large bowl until foamy. Gradually add 1/4 cup sugar and beat until whites are stiff but not dry. Fold 1/3 of whites into chocolate mixture. Fold in remaining whites in 2 additions. Transfer batter to prepared pan.
- Bake torte until crust forms on top and tester inserted into center comes out with some moist batter and some moist crumbs still attached, about 55 minutes (top may crack). Run small sharp knife around torte to loosen. Cool in pan on rack (torte will fall and crack). Remove pan sides. Invert torte onto platter. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover with cake dome and store at room temperature.)
- Grind 1/3 cup sugar in blender until fine powder forms. Place doily atop torte. Sift ground sugar over doily; gently remove doily. Garnish torte with raspberries, if desired. Serve with Raspberry Sauce.


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LIVE Service | Sprecher Rd Campus
Saturday, February 15 at 5:30 pm
Held in the largest venue, the auditorium, you will find a full band leading music through original pieces, fresh takes on old hymns and new worship songs. All messages by the teaching team are live in this venue.
Come early or stay late while enjoying a drink from the cafe by the fireside.


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FBI Director James Comey is condemning the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks and says he doesn't see its work as similar to journalism.
Comey said Wednesday he believes a large portion of WikiLeaks' work "has nothing to do with legitimate newsgathering." He likened what the website does to "intelligence porn."
The remark bought a swift response from Pamela Anderson, rumored to be involved with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
"This is what the world needs. More 'intelligence porn,'" she wrote.
Comey told senators at a hearing Wednesday that he believes WikiLeaks will push out information to damage the United States. But he said responsible journalists with sensitive information will approach the FBI before publication to make sure the news won't put people's lives in danger.
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WikiLeaks last year published emails from Democratic email accounts that U.S. intelligence officials believe were hacked by Russia.
Assange tweeted in response that Comey misled the Senate when he said WikiLeaks doesn't inform the FBI it is about to publish sensitive information. Assange said on Twitter: "We did," about the records on CIA hacking tools, and "I know he knows it."


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The Woolly Walk Along – The Book, is here!
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Interview-Redneck rock: Those Darlins aren't your average pop group
"We've had so many guys come up to us, saying, 'Wow, I saw you guys, and I thought, great, another girl band. Then you played, and you really surprised me,'" ukulele player Nikki Darlin relates. "What, because we're girls, you expect sappy girl music? That's a general frat boy assumption."
The Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based rockers Those Darlins aren't actually having an identity crisis, much to the surprise of the numbskulls among us as the Darlins spread their catchy, folk-infused rock throughout the country.
Their rollicking self-titled debut combined punk-rock sensibilities with backwater country storytelling under song titles like, "Snaggle Tooth Mama," "DUI or Die," and "Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy." There's usually an element of novelty with all-girl bands, of course (that could be a whole separate discussion), but Those Darlins handily transcend it, fueled by equal parts alcohol, confidence, and–- cheesy, perhaps–- sisterhood.
The Hook: Would you prefer to be filed under country or rock?
Nikki Darlin: It's one of my pet peeves when people describe our band as "countryfied." I hate it. I think of us as a pop band. Not as in like "this song is made for TV" kind of pop–- more like The Beatles wrote pop songs. That's what a pop song is: really catchy.
The Hook: Would you say there's a dangerous side to this band?
ND: We're mainly dangerous to ourselves. We might give someone a black eye, but other than that...
The Hook: So you have a sense of humor?
ND: All three of us have funny personalities, and in general we're pretty silly people–- it comes out a whole lot in our music. Kelley tends to write heartfelt love songs, Jessi writes sillier songs–- we wrote "Snaggle Tooth Mama" together about growing up in the middle of nowhere.
The Hook: Did you bond over your shared Southern roots?
ND: Me and Jessi definitely, we both grew up in the country, our parents just living off the land. My mom is a visual artist, and so is hers, so we got to a point where we were talking about our moms bringing home dead animals– "Is your freezer full of dead hawks and stuff too?"
The Hook: Is it fair to say that the band's identity is feminine?
ND: It's sad that just because we're women, it is something rare and weird. We're not preachy feminists, our songs aren't about being women, but I do feel like I'm proud that we're women, and we're doing it, pretty much being gypsies.
The Hook: As women in the spotlight, do you have any body image issues?
ND: There are things you can and can't do, which bothers me. None of us have any issues with our bodies, or think that we're fat–- we are who we are, we like to look interesting when we play, like wild crazy people with feathers and fur.
Those Darlins plays at The Southern, Saturday, January 30. The Pine Hill Haints open. The show starts at 8 pm and tickets are $8.
5 comments
I was expecting the bluegrass family/band from The Andy Griffith Show with Uncle Jesse and the hot sister who always had Ernest T. Bass chasing after her.
I wish i could go they seem like some stand-up gals (down-ass chicks, as Trina would say)!
I don't want a hit
I want a kick
Well, you got the hot sister thing right. See that blonde.
I could really use another drop your socks kinda southern rock band
I'm sick of beepop
I want a nasty riff


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Poor Snooks.
The mugshot of everybody's favorite "Jersey Shore" cast member was officially released by the Seaside Heights Police Department today.
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi was arrested on the beach around 3:25 p.m. Friday and charged with disorderly conduct, said Seaside Heights Police Chief Thomas Boyd. That came after other beachgoers reported Polizzi was bothering them.
Polizzi was taken to police headquarters, where she was processed and released on a summons.
MTV declined comment on the arrest, which came one day after the premiere of the show's second season.
"Jersey Shore" focuses on the escapades of a group of hard-partying, 20-something alleged Italian-Americans at a shore house.


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Friday, June 18, 2010
Working for the weekend
So, it's been one of those weeks, where suddenly just about every free hour of our day gets sucked into some sort of vortex of consultative stratgery and mid-management monkeyshines. Working for a living is a drag, and we keep pulling our eyelashes out to wish upon them that one day, a big sports-media conglomerate will come and whisk us away from all discussions of business plans and outreach and stakeholder relations.
(Although some relations with stakeholders sounds fun on a Friday night, youknowwhatI'msayin'?)
Anyways, we'll try to squeeze in some extra work this weekend so that we can get some regular infotainment posted throughout next week. We wouldn't want to have you all start coming to your own conclusions about the state of the Blue Jays, because what use would we be to you then?
There's a post on the staff ace, which has probably totally changed by now, although likely for the better. It seems like folks are already picking their sides, and aligning themselves behind one of the top three starters, but we really want to see someone make the case for the fifth starter, whoever that is this week.
Speaking of rotations...
The Jays miss Tim Lincecum in this weekend's series, which we suppose is a good thing. But instead, they run into Barry Zito (3.10 ERA, 4.71 xFIP), Matt Cain (2.05 ERA, 4.54 xFIP) and Jonathan Sanchez (2.78 ERA, 4.13 xFIP). That's pretty scary, and we don't even know what the hell an xFIP is, or where it grazes in the winter.
Moreover, the Jays will counter with Brandon Morrow (who's been better over the past month, with a 3.60 ERA), the Pasty Ginger Ghost of Jesse Litsch (we can't bear to watch, so we'll be FFing through his innings) and Team Marcum (who we encourage to make his case for acedom).
There's a part of us that wants to think that this weekend, those three Gigantes pitchers get their comeuppance, and start to realize that pitching in the AL East is different than soft tossing into the 7-8-9 hitters in a Quadruple-A lineup and in a cavernous NL West ballpark. We'd really love to see a few of the Jays scuffling hitters (JoBau, Hill and Lind, in particular) get dialed in and start peppering the 200 level outfield seats with scorching hot projectiles.
More xFIPpery
Did you know that RickRo is seventh in the Majors in xFIP? He trails only Cliff Lee, some cat named Holiday or something like that, Frank Liriano, Lincecum, Wainwright and Josh Johnson. Which is some pretty elite company.
More over, he's far ahead of chuck-and-duckers like Chris Carpenter, King Felix, Ubaldo Jimenez, or C.C. Sebaceous Glands.
A few more advanced metrics like this, and we just might find ourselves on Team RickRo by the end of the weekend.
A Friday Rock Out for Jonah Keri
The wise and sage Mr. Keri noted his undying devotion to Loverboy to us over Twitter last month, so we figured we'd make his day with an utterly appropriate Rock Out. Because when it comes right down to it, we have to concur with the words of Mr. Mike Reno:
Everybody's working for the weekend
Everybody wants a little romance
Everybody's goin' off the deep end
Everybody needs a second chance
Have a great weekend, y'all.
10 comments:
- Ty said...
I'm no sabermetrics expert, but I'm pretty sure those numbers mean those Giants pitchers have all been lucky this year and they're due to regress to the mean at some point, right? If so, this could be a good weekend for us!
And I fully expect former Bochy/Sabean victim FdotLew to come out swinging this weekend. I'll be cheering him on for sure.
- June 18, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- Jonah Keri said...
Well played, sir. Well played.
- June 18, 2010 at 12:41 PM
I heard Mike Reno on CBC a couple years back. Apparently, the person in those pants on the cover of Get Lucky is the daughter of a record label exec and not Reno himself.
- June 18, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- Ty said...
Kind of exciting: the Jays seem pretty serious about promoting their product right now. Instead of former players or marginal bullpen pitchers, they're having RickRo and Marcum sign autographs for FAN Friday tonight... here's hoping they keep up that level of quality. It's nice to see the team's players actually participating in a bit of fan interaction too.
- June 18, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Although I don't want them to get cramps in their hands signing autographs.
You laugh, but we lost RickRo for a month after a sneeze. Can you imagine if he had a profound case of carpal tunnel set in?
- June 18, 2010 at 3:19 PM
- Ty said...
Maybe Ricky should learn from Brett Cecil's "chopping up chickens" incident that freak injuries are supposed to make you a better pitcher. Maybe carpal tunnel sets in, he decides to start throwing with his right hand, and suddenly we have the MLB's first ambidextrous ace... sounds alright to me.
- June 18, 2010 at 3:32 PM
- Ian Hunter said...
First White Snake a couple weeks ago, now Loverboy?
Tao, have you snuck a look at my playlist or something?
- June 18, 2010 at 4:12 PM
- Ty said...
Can anyone see any discernable advantage of having Nick Green over Mike McCoy? Unless the Jays are seriously considering giving McCoy a starting job at some point (maybe an A-Gonz deadline trade is in the works?), and they want him to get ready by playing every day at Vegas until then.
- June 18, 2010 at 4:43 PM
@Cliff Clavin,
Thems pretty hairy arms for a chick!
- June 21, 2010 at 8:20 AM
- contactos madrid said...
It can't work as a matter of fact, that is what I consider.
- October 31, 2011 at 9:29 AM


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A whole slew of spices give these seeds a Jamaican jerk flavoring.
What to buy: We used raw pumpkin seeds (a.k.a. pepitas) for this recipe. You can also use the seeds left over from carving a pumpkin or roasting squash. Just collect the seeds, rinse them in a strainer to remove the pulp, and thoroughly pat them dry. They may take a few minutes longer in the oven, depending on how fresh they are.
Game plan: The seeds are best fresh from the oven but will last up to 5 days stored at room temperature in an airtight container.
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If you follow Creative Cooking Gluten Free on Facebook or Twitter you have probably seen my recent posts about receiving a review copy of Laura B. Russell's cookbook The Gluten-Free Asian Kitchen. When I first received the book in the mail, I don't think I put it down for about thirty minutes (okay it was probably longer than that). It is simply beautiful. Bryan's first response was "the cover looks so good I could eat it". Thankfully Bryan loves Asian food as much as I do. The majority of the food we eat is Asian inspired.
I was more than excited to receive this cookbook. If you read through my recipes or take a look at my "pantry" page you have probably noticed the large selection of Asian inspired dishes and ingredients. Since I can remember I have had a deep fondness of Asian foods and their cultures. My mom used to tell me that while she was pregnant with me she craved Chinese food all the time. That statement there could probably be the root of my love of Asian food, however it grew even more when I had the opportunity to live in China for a little while in 2003 (yes right in the middle of SARS).
While living there I had some pretty interesting foods but also some of the most delicious food I have ever tasted. People used to make fun of me saying I could live off of Chinese food and eat it for every meal, well I had the opportunity to do so and I have to say I would do it again. My breakfast usually consisted of the following: fresh made wonton soup or red bean porridge , scallion pancake (cōng yóu bǐng), fresh hot soy milk ( dòunǎi) which has a slightly sweet flavor to it. Lunch was a number of different options (sadly most of which I can't remember their name): kung pao chicken (gōng bǎo jī dīng), egg flower soup (dàn huā tāng), the most delicious spicy cucumbers, steamed dumplings (xiǎo lóng bāo) – either veggie or meat filled, and for the occasional dessert some Mantou (mán tou) which is steamed bun that is served either steamed or deep-fried with condensed milk. For dinner my favorite dish was Peking Duck (Běijīng kǎoyā), Hot Pot (shuàn guō zi) was another favorite of mine, although they tended to order mutton (yáng ròu) I opted for the chicken (jī ròu) and Sichuan Dry-Fried Green Beans with some ground pork.
As I'm looking and every recipe and every picture in The Gluten-Free Asian Kitchen I am taken back to my time in China. All of my wonderful memories came rushing back, not just about food but all the places I had the opportunity to visit, the amazing friends that I made, and the beauty of the country. As I mentioned above I was there during SARS so I was unable to travel very far. I was fortunate enough to visit, The Great Wall (twice) (Bādálǐng), The Forbidden City (Zǐjin chéng), Tiananmen Square (Tiān'ānmén), The Summer Palace (Yíhé Yuán), Mausoleum of Mao Zedong (Máo Zhǔxí Jìniàntáng), Ming Dynasty Tombs (Míng shísān líng), Temple of Heaven (Tiāntán), Temple of Confucius, and many more. The best part about it was I was there pretty much by myself. Not many people were out visiting and there were definitely not tourists around. You can view some of my photographs from China on my Flickr Page (this was pre-digital so I have a ton to scan still)
Sorry for being side tracked on memories of China, I just couldn't help it. Now back to the book. After I looked (drooled) over the recipes and photos I handed the cookbook to Bryan and asked what he wanted me to make first. With out much hesitation he asked for the recipe on the cover: Gingery Pork Pot Stickers with the Soy Vinegar Dipping Sauce. Thankfully I had enough of the flours the recipe called for to make them. You can get the recipe by ordering The Gluten-Free Asian Kitchen on my Amazon Store! (This is still available for pre-order, release date is August 23rd! so order now for only $14.50)
Over all the recipe its self is pretty simple with simple ingredients that most of us (especially if you are gluten-free) already have in your pantry. The only two items I needed to pick up were the pork and the green onions. We don't normally cook with any form of onion in our house because of Bryan's allergy, but we decided to give these a try to see how he felt (he felt fine after eating them, woo hooo). I read the instructions a few times because I didn't want to screw anything up…I had my heart set on these dumplings and probably would have shed a few tears had they gone wrong. Due to the heat and humidity I had a bit of a hard time "rolling" out the dough, but I just made it work. We ended up with a few less dumplings than the recipe yield but we devoured them all regardless.
It is amazing what a huge flavor impact just a few ingredients can have. I had a little bit of the sausage mixture left over so I added it to a skillet, cooked it up and then tossed it with my spicy green beans as a side dish. I'm not joking when I say I almost cried when I first tasted them. Between the dumplings and the green beans/sausage it brought me right back to China. I was in love with this cookbook when it arrived and after tasting this first recipe I am even more in love with it. Laura did an amazing job with this recipe and the whole cookbook. My next recipe to try is her Kung Pao chicken.
We plan to make these again but I have to order some flours first. However, when I do make them I will be making a triple batch and freeze the majority of them. That way we have them for a quick dinner and something that Bryan can just make while he is home for lunch and I am at school.
Seeing as this is the recipe Bryan choose I asked him what he thought of it (I usually do this anyway but he still can't stop talking about them) and his response was "these are fucking delicious – anything more would just take away from its deliciousness". Now who said you can't have gluten-free Asian food and it taste like the real thing?
Laura, I know we've been chatting back and forth and I have said this a million times to you but thank you for creating such a beautiful cookbook with amazing recipes that take me back in time. The recipe that we tried truly made me feel like I was back in China with my friends at a dumpling restaurant or on campus at the dining hall. You also made my non-gluten-free boyfriend one happy person. We are both looking forward to trying more of your recipes.
Please visit Laura's website at: http://www.laurabrussell.com/ You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter
Also, Are you in the Portland area? Laura will be doing a book signing for "The Gluten-Free Asian Kitchen" at Crave Bake Shop on Wednesday, September 7th in the evening. Lots of treats involved!


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(Editor's note: I thought I published this when Soriano's Visa issues came out before)
Welcome to spring training! And along with a slew of "he's in the best shape of his life" comments around the game, there's the inevitable "Delayed by Visa Issue" stories. Including, as it turns out our own Rafael Soriano.
Ok, here's what I don't get. It isn't as if the Report Date to spring training is a surprise to these guys. It's pretty well publicized months in advance. How is it that every year, year after year, there's Visa issues?? Why can't these guys get their acts together and get these things handled in a timely manner?
A bit of googling finds this 2011 New York Times reporter (Dave Seminara) who asked and answered some of the same questions I have. But in nearly every case of a delay, the conclusion seems to either be ethical issues (delays due to brushes with the law) or paper work issues (badly filled out paperwork). Neither looks good for the player frankly. If you know you're going to be delayed, then why not start the process early?
More reading apparently shows that getting paperwork done in a timely manner in the Dominican Republic (where the large majority of foreign-born players reside) is impossible, and that most of these delay issues are not necessarily the fault of the player. Fair enough.
(side note: read this NY Times article; did you know that Rangers hurler Alexi Ogando was banned from entering the US for 5 years as part of a Human Trafficking charge? I didn't. That'll explain some serious Visa delays)


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COSTA MESA, Calif. — Mitt Romney said Monday evening that his comments about voters who don't pay income taxes were "not elegantly stated," but did not distance himself from the substance of his surreptitiously recorded remarks at a closed-door fundraiser in May.
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney defended his unguarded comments, secretly recorded at a private fundraising event in May and provided to the liberal magazine Mother Jones, that shows him speaking frankly about Obama's supporters. NBC's Michael Isikoff reports.
The Republican presidential nominee hastily arranged a press conference to do damage control related to comments he made at a private fundraiser, which were secretly recorded and first brought to light by the liberal magazine Mother Jones.
"Of course individuals are going to take responsibility for their life, and my campaign is about helping people take more responsibility and becoming employed again — particularly those who don't have work," Romney said at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, Calif.
At the fundraiser, held at the home of a supporter in Florida, Romney was captured responding to a questioner who asked what he would do to ensure Americans take care of themselves.
A surreptitious recording of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaking at a private fundraiser raised questions as to whether or not Romney was saying what he believed or what he thought the audience wanted to hear. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what," Romney said.
Romney added: "My job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is convince the 5-10 percent of people who are independents, that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon, in some cases, emotion, whether they like the guy or not."
Tonight Romney argued that those comments showcased the extent of the differences between himself and President Barack Obama on the role of government in American lives, and sought to link them to his regular stump speech remarks about what he calls the democratic vision for an "entitlement society."
"This is, of course, something I talk about a good deal in rallies and speeches and so forth, which is the president and I have very different approaches to the future of America and what it takes to ignite our economy and put people back to work," Romney said. "The president believes in what I've described as a government centered society where government plays a larger and larger role, provides for more and more of the needs of individuals and I happen to believe instead in a free enterprise, free individual society where people pursuing their dreams are able to employ one another, build enterprises, build the strongest economy in the world."
VIDEO: David Corn of Mother Jones discusses the Romney recording
But when he was asked whether he was distancing himself from his comments on tape, and whether he worried that he had offended a number of Americans, Romney suggested that Obama's message on taxes is, in fact, "attractive" to Americans who aren't paying any taxes, "and therefore, I'm not likely to draw them into my campaign as effectively as those who are in the middle."
Today's firestorm over the leaked fundraiser comments marked the second time Romney's overheard remarks at a finance event have generated national headlines. In April, he told a group of donors in Florida he would consider eliminating the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and dramatically reshaping the Department of Education (among other details not regularly shared on the campaign trail).
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney comments on the controversial video of him speaking at a private fundraiser.
Tonight, the GOP nominee denied that he delivers two separate messages to his fundraisers and the American people at large, saying most of what he says in his remarks at finance events is the same as his stump speech. But Romney acknowledged that, in question and answer sessions, donors like to ask process questions about the campaign — issues in which Romney said Monday evening that Americans have little interest, but that donors like to have answered by the candidate.
Under increasing scrutiny, Romney campaign turns to details
"At a fundraiser you have people say governor how are you going to win this? And so I respond well, the president has his group I have my group. I want to keep my team strong and motivated and I want to get those people in the middle, that's something which fundraising people who are parting with their monies are very interested in knowing can you win or not and that's what this was addressing," Romney said.
Romney's comments quickly developed into more of a story after the release of the video, prompting an attack from President Barack Obama's campaign manager late Monday afternoon.
"It's shocking that a candidate for President of the United States would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the American people view themselves as 'victims,' entitled to handouts, and are unwilling to take 'personal responsibility' for their lives," said Jim Messina, the president's campaign manager. "It's hard to serve as president for all Americans when you've disdainfully written off half the nation."
The Romney campaign tried to act quickly to deal with the fallout from the potentially damaging story, releasing a statement early evening from communications director Gail Gitcho looking to add context to the former Bain Capital executive's remarks.
RELATED: Romney: Senior staffers 'work extraordinarily well together'
But for the Republican's campaign, the emerging firestorm associated with these recordings couldn't have come at a worse time.
A series of polls conducted in the week following the back-to-back party conventions found that Obama had strengthened his advantage over Romney. These polls and Romney's attack on the president's handling of a siege on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya prompted a new round of open grousing from within the GOP about the state of the Romney campaign.
On top of that, POLITICO reported Sunday about infighting and blurry lines of authority within the Romney campaign — an ominous sign, given that this sort of finger-pointing is usually more characteristic of losing campaigns.
Romney himself addressed those reports, telling Telemundo this afternoon that his "senior campaign people work extraordinarily well together."
The Republican's campaign also tried to regroup with a new messaging effort they said would add detail to Romney's existing proposals, an initiative which may well be consumed by the uproar associated with the fundraiser video.
Romney said he would "certainly appreciate" if the leaker — whose identity isn't publicly known — would release the entire tape to provide more context for his remarks.
The Romney campaign began to allow reporters to cover some of their finance events in early May. Typically, a small group of reporters is allowed to sit in for the candidate's formal remarks on behalf of all their colleagues, then file a report for the pool. Events where Romney does not give formal remarks, or where he speaks at a private home or business are exempted from this coverage, so many of Romney's finance events happen far away from the eyes of the press.
Coincidentally, the Romney campaign told reporters just this morning, they would begin to allow video and news photo coverage of their large finances events as well — including planned events in Utah and Dallas.
NBCNews.com's Michael O'Brien contributed to this report.


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(v. 188) 43. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compassion and tenderness visit her heart; if she leave my work to toy with old sweetnesses; then shall my vengeance be known. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl through dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered.
(v. 189) 44. But let her raise herself in pride! Let her follow me in my way! Let her work the work of wickedness! Let her kill her heart! Let her be loud and adulterous! Let her be covered with jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shameless before all men!
(v. 190) 45. Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: then will I breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. I will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see & strike at the worship of Nu: she shall achieve Hadit.


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Azaeziel on April 25, 2008
Thank you for reading Azaeziel and Flame's Maple Story Adventure! Stay tuned for our next instalment: 'What's in the pot?'
Thanks anyway, even if you don't stay tuned.
webcomics heh at 7:04PM, Oct. 13, 2009
"Sprite" comics. Heh.
skyangel at 12:56AM, April 28, 2008
Nice ending! :)