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As Maryland continued to weather lean times in post-recession late 2009 and early 2010, the number of small businesses in the state fell by almost 1,000, while large companies bucked a national trend and added 20 more entities, according to a new report from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Meanwhile, nonemployer businesses, which have no paid employees but have annual receipts of at least $1,000 in most industries, grew by more than 4,000 from March 2009 to March 2010 as more people started their own consulting or other business.
Nonemployer businesses, usually self-employed individuals operating tiny unincorporated businesses, rose by 31 percent in the past decade in Maryland, much faster than other small and large companies grew.
"2010 was a tough year," said Daraius Irani, director of the Regional Economic Studies Institute's applied economics and human services group at Towson University. "A lot of one-man shops were starting. Oftentimes, that's the only way to make a living when times are tough."
The Great Recession ended in June 2009, as the nation's gross domestic product started to climb again in the third quarter that year, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. But many states, including Maryland, continued to experience its effects in late 2009 and early 2010 that included shedding jobs and businesses.
Businesses in Maryland saw their employment numbers drop by about 26,000 from March 2009 to March 2010, smaller than the job loss of 94,000 from March 2008 to March 2009, according to the annual state small-business profile released by the SBA's Office of Advocacy.
Almost two-thirds of the job losses were among small businesses — those with fewer than 500 employees — which account for about half of the state's employment. Maryland small businesses losing numbers and employees at greater rates than larger companies differed from the national trend, in which larger businesses fared worse than small ones.
The private sector in Maryland lost some 38,000 jobs from March 2009 to March 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Current Employment Statistics, or payroll, survey. The first March-to-March period to gain private jobs since 2007, when the Great Recession began, was from March 2010 to March 2011, according to labor department figures.
The SBA's and labor department's jobs data differ, according to Brian Headd, an economist with the SBA's Office of Advocacy, because the SBA gets its figures from the U.S. Census Bureau's Business Dynamics Statistics data series, which measures a few factors different from the labor department's payroll survey.
For instance, the Census Bureau report excludes railroad employees, while the labor department includes those workers, according to their respective websites. The labor department figures also are much more timely, with state figures as recent as December available. The latest figures for the Census Bureau report are for March 2010.
The most popular type of small business in Maryland in 2010 was in professional and technical services, with about 17,000 businesses, according to the SBA report. That was followed by 14,000 construction businesses, 12,500 miscellaneous service companies, 12,000 health care providers and 11,000 retailers.
The federal sequestration issue is still weighing heavily on Maryland's economy, Irani said. He thinks officials will reach another temporary resolution before federal spending cuts totaling $85 billion during the next seven months are due to start March 1.
"But they aren't really solving the problem," Irani said. "They are just kicking the can down the road."


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"Bobby" Fischer was a US born chess grandmaster who in 1972 became World Chess Champion.
He also wrote some chess books ( e.g. My 66 memorable chess games).
In 1975 he officially resigned the title when FIDE, the international chess federation, refused to accept his conditions for a title defense.
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USA-ch Juniors, 1956
Grossguth - Fischer USA-ch Juniors 1956 with online replay
Bobby Fischer was 13 years old when he played this game. He is already using the Najdorf Sicilian (5.-a6 named after GM Miguel Najdorf), his main defence against 1.e4 during his whole career. About the opponent I don't know much. He played like about ELO 2100 this game.
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6
The Sicilian Najdorf
Other main lines are 6.Bg5, 6.Be3, 6.Bc4 or 6.f4
A good alternative is 6...e6
7.Nb3 Be7
Possible is also 7...Be6. With 6...Be7 wants to castle fast.
The main line is 8.0–0
More often 8...Be6 is played
9.0–0 is more popular, but the best results White is getting after 9.g4!?
9.-Be6 is normally preferred
10.f3 Be6 11.g4?!
Better are 11.0–0 or 11.Nd5 The text move tries to start a king side attack. But Bobby is now able to play a classical counter-attack in the centre
White has now immediate problems with his centre. Black has the initiative.
[12.exd5 Nxd5 13.Nxd5 Bh4+ 14.Kf1 Qxd5 15.Qxd5 Bxd5 16.Kg2 Nc6 17.Rad1 would have been ok for White]
Now Bobby already has the better position. This means his prospects to win this game are about 60:40 now.
13.gxf6 Bxf6 14.0–0–0 dxe3 15.Qxd8
[15.Qxe3? Bg5 16.Rxd8 Bxe3+ 17.Rd2 Nc6–+ Black is winning here]
15...Rxd8 16.Nc5
tries to win time with the attack on the Be6. But Bobby doesn't try to save his bishop pair and instead finishes the development of his pieces. [16.Na5!?; 16.Nd5!? would have been better possibilities to survive]
17.Nxe6 fxe6–+
Now White's position is already very complicated to hold. Blacks chances to win the game have improved to about 80:20.
Black is not scared of the exchange of the white knight for his bishop. The pawn on e6 will deny White using the d5 square and therefore the exchange is in Black's favor.
[18.a3 to prevent 18...b4 18...Nd4 19.Kb1 Rac8 20.Rd3 a5 21.Bd1 b4 22.Ne2 Nxf3 23.Rxe3 Nd2+ 24.Ka2 Bg5 25.Rd3 Nxe4–+]
18...b4 19.Na4 Nd4 20.Rxd4
[20.Rde1 Bh4 21.Nb6 Ra7 22.Nc4 Bxe1 23.Rxe1 Nxe2+ 24.Rxe2 Rad7 25.Nxe3 with an advantage for Black]
20...Rxd4 21.Bd3
[21.Nb6!? Rd2!! 22.Bd3 Bg5! 23.Kb1 Rd8 24.Nc4 Rxh2 25.Rg1 Rxd3! 26.cxd3 e2–+]
Bobby is improving his position with every move and White has no useful moves
[22.Bxa6? Bg5 23.Be2 Rd2 24.Re1 Bh4–+]
22...Bg5 23.Ke2
here Bobby missed a faster win:
[23...Rxd3!! 24.cxd3 Rc8 and his opponent would have probably resigned already 25.Nc3 (25.f4 exf4 26.Kf3 Bh4 27.Rg1 Rc2 28.d4 Rf2+ 29.Kg4 e2 30.Re1 Rg2+ 31.Kxh4 f3 32.Nc5 f2–+) 25...bxc3 26.Rc1 c2 27.a3 Kf8–+]
24.h3 Rc8 25.Rd1 Rc6 26.b3 Kf7
all the black pieces are in ideal positions, so it's time to improve the king and White cannot do anything himself to improve his position.
Zugwang for White ( according to the rules he must make a move, although he would prefer not to do so )
27...Kf6 28.h5 a5 29.Nb2 Rxd3!
the final blow [29...Rxd3 30.Kxd3 Rc3+ 31.Ke2 Rxc2+ 32.Kd3 Rxb2–+]
It doesn't matter how White is recapturing the rook. He will lose decisive material.
A very strong game won by the 13 year old Bobby Fischer. We have to remember that the game was played in 1956, where no chess databases, chess engines or most of current chess books existed.
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Like many of their rivals, Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes struggled at the Sepang circuit as the tyres "aren't working well" in the heat...
Like many of their rivals, Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes struggled at the Sepang circuit as the tyres "aren't working well" in the heat.
With the track temperature reaching a sweltering 54'C during Practice Two at the Malaysian track, the drivers experienced high degradation.
But before the degradation set in, Mercedes managed to claim the fastest lap time although it belonged to Rosberg, not Hamilton.
The German clocked a 1:39.909 while Hamilton had to settle for fourth place, 0.142s slower than his team-mate.
After that initial qualifying style run, the drivers swapped to longer runs where the degradation quickly set in resulting in times dropping with every passing lap.
"It's too hot for the tyres," Hamilton told Sky Sports News.
"The tyres aren't really working well in these conditions and even though we've got the hard tyre and the medium here, the tyres do not feel great.
"But it's the same for everyone."
It was also a close session at the top with the first seven drivers separated by less than four-tenths of a second.
And Hamilton, who claimed pole last time out in Melbourne before an engine issue put him out of the grand prix, is relishing the challenge.
"I never do [look at the Friday order], but it's good that everyone's close," he added. "What matters is what happens tomorrow."
As for his engine, the 2008 World Champion is using the same power unit as he did in Australia as Mercedes were able to fix the problem, saving the engine.
"It saves us perhaps the grid penalty further along the way, so it's good," the 29-year-old said.
"I had that less mileage on the engine so I hope I can push it a bit more."
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Traditionally, content management systems allow people editing the website content a great degree of freedom in the types of styling options they have available to them, but this presents a some significant problems:
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Phenotype vs genotype vs epigenotype
The phenotype is someone's condition which is determined by the genotype (stable and heritable) and the environment (nutrition and other lifestyle factors) which give place to the epigenotype (which is heritable, labile and rapid)
Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene activity that do not involve alterations to the genetic code but still get passed down to at least one successive generation.
(Or at least, that's what they say now. But the the heritable part is new and the term has existed long before they realized these traits might be heritable. The prefix Epi means "upon," "on," "over," "near," "at," "before," "after" so it seems to me the term should refer to genetic expression. )
In other words, phenotype is your genes plus what you do to yourself. Genes can be switched on and off. This is your Genetic Expression. Epigenetics are things you trigger by what you do to yourself that can be passed on to your kids.
Most of these articles focus on how the changes that occur due to your environment and what you do to yourself, can be passed down to your kids. And what your parents did, may have been passed down to you. So maybe they didn't get acne, but things they did changed their epigenotype which was passed to you.
Why Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny
Epigenetics: DNA Isn't Everything
Epigenetics: 100 Reasons To Change The Way We Think About Genetics
Traumatizing Your DNA: Researcher Warns That It Isn't 'All in the Genes'
'Epigenetic research suggests that the effects of stress and environmental pollution can be passed on to future generations without any obvious change or mutation in our DNA. The problem, Prof. Jablonka points out, is that we have no idea of the extent these effects will have on the human genome of the future.' and a bunch more stuff about stress and environmental pollution--pesticides and what not.
Epigenetics is the study of changes produced in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence –hence the name epi- (Greek: επί- over, above) -genetics. Examples of such changes might be DNA methylation or histone acetylation, both of which serve to suppress gene expression without altering the sequence of the silenced genes.
These changes may remain through cell divisions for the remainder of the cell's life and may also last for multiple generations. However, there is no change in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism;[1] instead, non-genetic factors cause the organism's genes to behave (or "express themselves") differently.[2]
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Jeannette Sparano married an absolute imbecile. The guy has no business whatsoever even being an NFL assistant. This is a guy who somehow got the benefit of getting into the "flow" of the NFL world and got elevated to positions as a result of knowing the right people. He was a gopher for the likes of Bill Parcells and Coughlin who liked his effort. But effort never overcomes lack of brain power for higher level positions. He is just not a bright man. At all. He's a dumb guy with poor character with all of his excuses and self-serving b.s. He's a failure and a loser. Bad o line coach, bad head coach, bad offensive coordinator, bad guy.
Jeannette should do extra prayers every day for just having had the opportunity to live the NFL lifestyle, since it was so undeserved.
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I'm looking for a small program that would allow me to set certain programs, or a program and a window, or certain windows to open and close in unison
my example for a service like this would be to open my music player, which is set to open Last.fm simultaneously, then to close BOTH when I close one
as things are, I don't need Last.fm to be running unless I am scrobbling my listened to tracks to my profile, which I am only doing when I am running my music player. I'd like to be able to kill both programs when I close my music player.
Likewise, I'd love to kill Live Messenger when I click to close it.
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Comments On Jun 05, 2014:This tire has been great, I have used two of them now and they are much better than the front D606 or the stock tires for the WR. It doesn't hold side traction and washes out a bit (not as bad as the 606) however you have to give up something to get a tire that is ok on the road.
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Comments On Apr 16, 2014:i had the kenda for the rear and hated it didn't do crap in the sand and mud so i went to the perelli rally cross and i loved it, in fact i am getting a newer bike same xr650l and i will buy the same tier but i will stay with the kenda for the front if you are looking for a tier that last a long time go to a street bike tier but if you ride 80%to 90%dirt this is the tier for you
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Comments On Nov 05, 2013:Purchased front & rear 18 months ago... and now have 4000 miles on them. The front has worn well but not evenly and missing a few side knobs. Generally run 12 to 14lbs of air and have had 4 flats with this tire. The rear is just about near the end of it's life cycle. Always 10 to 12lbs of air. No flats, no chunking, nothing outstanding regarding wear. Served me well with my riding in the Desert SW. Lots of rocks and sand limited pavement use. Would recommend these to others with my style of riding and the DOT rating pleases my insurance co.
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Comments On Aug 02, 2013:Got these to be DOT legal. Ended up doing more street than I intended but they seem to hold up and grip ok on the street. No major wear or problems yet, been about 4 months - 500ish miles.
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Comments On Jun 03, 2013:I dont understand all the rave reviews for this tire! I put on a new one just before last weekends national dual sport in PA. I wanted something a little more aggressive than the Kendas I was running but still DOT legal. Well was I disappointed! After only about 180 miles of which only about 30 was pavement this tire is nearly toast! It wore more than my friends non DOT full knobby! No chunking or anything bad, just massive wear! The indented wear line between the center knobs is almost gone and and all the knobs are rounded pretty badly, looks like I might get 1-2 more rides like this before it is really worn out. I will have to try something else. The tire did hook up pretty well in the bad mud etc, but was very skittish in the rocks also. Again dont get the rave reviews, my friend said he had a similar experience with this tire.
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Comments On Apr 09, 2013:Had 3 of them in the last 5 years.
Great DOT front tire with tons of grip in most conditions. Perfect for mud or gravel.
Get about 6000km (4000 miles) on a front. It is awesome when new.
HOWEVER (if you do pavement) the tires wears unevenly: the two side-by-side knobbies in the center are wearing faster that the single ones. This results in a noisy and bumpy tire as it gets older.
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I'll cut the profile of the frame from sheet and weld together 4 pieces for a box section with the correct shape. I'll also try to cut, bend and weld the outer side pieces to imitate the ***y reliefs on the 32 frame.
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Onto the questions:
- any input on the sheet metal thickness? Frame will be around 75" long.
- would you reckon the parameters from the tig calc a good starting point?
- someone told me I should go with a closed corner with some stick up even to eliminate the need for filler? Or just go with an open corner and add filler?
- I believe no gap between the pieces is important ie very accurate cutting?
- Do I need to use a heat sink ie copper plate on the back side?
- Should I break out the hammer and dolly and work the weld every few inches?
- How close would you space your tacks?
- How long a bead would you lay before moving to another part of the construction and continue there?
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Favorite community appearance: My favorite community appearance was when we went to an elementary school to give the students tips on how to ace the task test. I enjoyed it because all of the kids were amazed at seeing cheerleaders in their school, and were really interested in what we had to say. I took this as an opportunity to encourage them to study and work hard, because in the long run it will pay off.
What is your advice to young dancers that want to be where you are now? My advice is to never give up. Take dance classes and really commit to it. When the time is yours, it will happen.
Occupation: A saleswoman at a Guitar Shop.
Favorite food: Mexican! My mother's flautas and fajitas! I also have a weird addiction for hot wings.
Favorite music artist: Prince Royce
Childhood nickname: Ash
Role Model: My mom - I am so proud of her.
What made you audition for the team? I love the energy and the spunk of the Dynamo Girls.
Accomplishment you are proud of: Balancing work, school, Dynamo appearances, rehearsals and games.
What is one goal that you have? To graduate with my Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration.
Hidden talent: I can play the clarinet .. but not as good as when I was younger :)
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Biomonitoring and policymaking are forming a positive spiral of change. Biomonitoring can inform — indeed, drive — progress toward health protective policies, and policies are increasingly supporting strong and effective biomonitoring.
Hard evidence of chemicals in people's bodies gets the attention of the public and policymakers alike. It may be national, statistically significant data, or it may be one person's story of contamination.
Evidence of chemicals in people's bodies gets the attention of the public and policymakers alike.
Several years ago, biologist/poet — and then-nursing mother — Sandra Steingraber passed around a vial of warm breastmilk to government officials gathered at a UN meeting. Backed by global breastmilk biomonitoring data, the gesture lent concrete urgency to the policymakers' efforts to create a treaty on persistent pollutants to protect mothers' milk around the world. Other examples of biomonitoring's recent influence on policy:
California Buffer zones: Biomonitoring in California's central valley helped spur new rules requiring protective buffer zones around homes, schools and other vulnerable sites when the most dangerous pesticides are sprayed.
European Chemical Policy: Body burden testing among opinion leaders in Europe helped shift the stance of key politicians toward more health-protective laws.
State Toxics Laws: National biomonitoring revealed widespread contamination of U.S. citizens with bisphenol A (BPA) and flame retardants, leading lawmakers in several states — and many retailers and private companies — to take protective action.
National Toxics Reform: Biomonitoring studies in rural Alaska shows why stronger national rules on persistent, bioaccumulative toxins are needed. Cordblood studies and the Mind, Disrupted biomonitoring report have also influenced national toxics policy reform efforts.
The first state-level biomonitoring program in the country is California's Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program. The program supports both state-wide testing and community-based monitoring for chemicals of concern. It includes substantive public involvement and reliance on an expert Scientific Guidance Panel to assist with implementation. It was signed by the Governor in September 2006.
"This law will be a model for other states," said Davis Baltz, senior program associate at Commonweal, which co-sponsored the bill. "It gives California public health officials the flexibility to test for chemicals that may be of special concern to our state, and study participants can learn the personal results of testing if they choose." A similar program has since been adopted in Minnesota, and in 2009 CDC awarded $5 million for state-level biomonitoring efforts in New York, Washington and California.
The California biomonitoring law will be a model for other states. - Davis Baltz, Commonweal
At the national level, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now preparing its 5th National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals. Biomonitoring for contaminants in the bodies thousands of U.S. residents has been conducted since 1999, with each study expanding the list of chemicals sampled. Recognizing the significance of this data, Congress asked the National Research Council to recommend ways to improve the analysis and use of biomonitoring data.
Internationally, UN agencies and the World Health Organization are launching a "Human Milk Survey" to track the impact of the global bans of persistent pollutants under the Stockholm Convention. Many European countries have ongoing biomonitoring efforts, and Canada recently launched a program similar to the CDC monitoring effort. A recent gathering of experts from the U.S. and Europe explored ways to coordinate and strengthen biomonitoring efforts, and to better link the data to health protective policy decisions.
The chemical and pesticide industries clearly understand the power and importance of biomonitoring. Their response — reflected in parallel messaging from CropLife America to Dow Chemical Corporation and the American Chemistry Council — is to downplay the significance of the data, arguing that the simple presence of toxins in the body does not mean that "adverse effects are likely to occur." Not to worry, chemicals in our bodies are a fact of modern life.
The following is experted from the website biomonitoringinfo.org, a "nonprofit, nonpartisan" site sponsored by the American Chemistry Council:
In the modern world, synthetic chemicals are a part of every aspect of human life; they are critical to preventing and treating disease, to transportation, to agricultural production and to the many consumer products used for supporting the standard of living that we enjoy. Therefore, it is not surprising that many of these find their way into the soil, air, water and food and thus ultimately into the fluids and tissues of individuals.
This reassurance overlooks the increasingly powerful evidence that exposure to tiny doses of chemicals at certain windows of development — particularly during infancy and childhood — can have lifelong health effects. It also overlooks the fact that in many cases, there are much less toxic, healthier ways to maintain the "standard of living that we enjoy."


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Right now, when your program launches it to check for updates, it finds the dcupdater tool installed on the user's computer and invokes it.
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Add Ohio Voters, 4 Senators to Marriage Equality
In the wake of conservative GOP Sen. Rob Portman's surprise March 15 announcement that he has come out in favor of marriage equality, many observers concluded that his stand would cost him re-election in Ohio. Perhaps once again proving its reputation as America's bellwether state, a new poll shows Buckeyes as having made a U-turn similar to Portman's.
According to the Saperstein Poll conducted for the Columbus Dispatch, 54 percent of Ohioans support repealing a 2004 state constitutional amendment that restricted marriage to a man and woman, with two-thirds voting in favor.
A proposed amendment would "allow two consenting adults to marry, regardless of their gender." As in other states, it details religious carve outs that allow congregations and clerics to decide whether or not to sanctify such relationships. Pollster Martin D. Saperstein noted how important such previsions are important in the heavily churchgoing state. "They ameliorate the concerns that some people may have, like is this going to be forced on me, or forced on my church," he said.
Sapterstein attributed the remarkable turnaround in Ohioans' attitude to younger voters. "Part of that comes as the media make gay people look more common," he told the Dispatch.
Jen Tyrell, 33, who made headlines last year when the Boy Scouts of America ruled she could no longer serve as a Cub Scout den leader for her son's pack because she is a lesbian, also believes religious carve-outs could prove pivotal. Allowing clerics to "be free to choose to marry or not marry," the Bridgeport, Ohio, resident told the Dispatch, is "really important for people who feel like that."
Chris Long, president of the Ohio Christian Alliance, represented the state's still-powerful evangelicals. Poll results would have been different, he told the newspaper, if voters had been asked "the question alone to reverse the 2004 question to allow same-sex marriage." When people understand clearly what is presented to them, he's confident Ohioans will again affirm their support of traditional marriage.
Portman Details Dad's Conversion
Both supporters and opponents have remarked on how rapidly Americans have changed their views on the issue.
Even so, Sen. Portman's declaration became one of the most-discussed conversions to the same-sex marriage cause in recent years. Thus far, he remains the only Republican senator to have done so, although many prominent Republicans, including former Vice President Dick Chaney and Laura Bush, the wife of the man he served under, have come out in support.
Portman wrote in an op-ed piece for the Dispatch that it was his son's coming out to him in 2011 that caused his personal road to Damascus. In his own op-ed piece in his college newspaper, son Will wrote of how he persuaded his dad that same-sex couples deserve the same rights as straight couples. "I started talking to my dad more about being gay, Portman fils wrote in Monday's Yale Daily News.
"Through the process of my coming out, we'd had a tacit understanding that he was my dad first and my senator a distant second," he added. "Eventually, though, we began talking about the policy issues surrounding marriage for same-sex couples."
Last summer, his father was a frontrunner to be Mitt Romney's running mate. Portman told Romney campaign staffers about Will and said he and his wife were "supportive and proud of their gay son." He also said he would not lie about Will's orientation on the campaign trail.
"When he ultimately wasn't chosen for the ticket, I was pretty relieved to have avoided the spotlight of a presidential campaign," Will revealed. "Some people have criticized my dad for waiting for two years after I came out to him before he endorsed marriage for gay couples. Part of the reason for that is that it took time for him to think through the issue more deeply after the impetus of my coming out. But another factor was my reluctance to make my personal life public."
The Portman family collectively decided that the senator would only discuss his son's sexual orientation if he were asked his views on same-sex marriage. "It would be the only honest way to explain his change of heart," Will Portman wrote. "Besides, the fact that I was gay would probably become public anyway. I had encouraged my dad all along to change his position but it gave me pause to think that the one thing that nobody had known about me for so many years would suddenly become the one thing that everyone knew about me."


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This story was updated at 4:40 p.m. on April 25, 2013.
Gaithersburg Police have released a composite sketch of a suspect in an attempted kidnapping that took place earlier this week.
On Monday, a Gaithersburg teenager fought off a man who was trying to abduct him, city police say.
The attempted kidnapping took place just before 7 p.m. on Midsummer Drive in the Washingtonian Woods neighborhood.
The victim, a 14-year-old boy, was jogging on the sidewalk of Midsummer Drive when a man he did not know got out of a white van with an "extremely tinted" passenger window and grabbed the boy's arm, according to a statement from Gaithersburg police.
The man then tried to pull the boy into the van, but the boy pushed the man away and ran away from him, according to Gaithersburg Police Officer Dan Lane.
The would-be kidnapper got back in his van and drove away toward Muddy Branch Road according to the report.
"It's still under investigation," Lane said on Tuesday.
Police say they are looking for a muscular man around 6 feet tall, weighing about 200 pounds, who has brown eyes, short black hair, a goatee, and sideburns that go to the middle of his ears.
He was last seen wearing a white crew-neck T-shirt with three-quarter-length sleeves, white pants and tan boots.
Police say they are looking for a white "square style" van similar to a delivery or painter van, possibly a Ford or Chevy, with red trim along the top.
"That description matches vans we see every day," said Claudine Rubin, a neighborhood resident. "Every day, there are workmen here."
"I'm always concerned with random strangers working at people's homes," she said.
Rubin said the attack took place just behind her house. She and her children were inside when it took place.
"The news spread like wildfire through the neighborhood," she said. "It just seems unbelievable that would happen here."
Rubin, who has lived in Washingtonian Woods for the last 10 years, has an 8-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old daughter who is about to start middle school next year.
She and her husband have been trying to be more lenient about giving their 11-year-old more freedom to go biking around the neighborhood, she said.
But after Monday's incident, they had to talk to her, she said. "In the back of my mind, that's why I didn't want my kids playing at the playground alone," she said.
"We just don't know who's around. It's not that we don't trust her. It's that we don't trust strangers," Rubin said. "Most strangers were nice, but these guys were not."
Tami Mensh, another longtime neighborhood resident, said the incident was unlike other crimes that have taken place there.
"We've had car break-ins and things like that — but nothing that endangered one of our people, our neighbors," Mensh said.
Detectives are asking anyone with information about this attempted kidnapping or the suspect involved to contact the Gaithersburg Police Investigations Section at 301-258-6400. Those who wish to remain anonymous may call Crime Solvers of Montgomery County toll-free at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477) or the Gaithersburg Police Tip Line at 301-330-4471. Crimes Solvers will pay a cash reward of up to $10,000 for information provided that leads to an arrest and/or indictment for this felony crime.


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Hillsboro junior Rebecca Kaufman (11) blocks a hit by Larned's Aarika Bright in the second set of their opening match. Assisting on the front line is sophomore Abby Sechrist. The Trojans placed second with a 4-1 record. Don Ratzlaff / Free Press Hillsboro's three-year winning streak at the Central Kansas League preseason tournament ended Saturday in Hoisington with a three-set […]Read more ›
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Warrior Stadium to get new press box
After tearing down the second level of the old press box, volunteers continue demolition work at Warrior Stadium Saturday morning. The goal is to have the new press box ready for Marion's first home football game, Sept. 4. Janae Rempel / Free Press Volunteers gathered at Warrior Stadium in Marion Saturday morning to tear down the old two-story press box. […]Read more ›
Five Trojans named Class 3A all-state
Five members of Hillsboro's Class 3A runner-up softball team received All-state softball all-state recognition from the Kansas Softball Coaches Association. Named to the first team were Madison Klein as an infielder and Bradli Nowak as the designated player. Both players shared duties at catcher and second base during the season. Named to the second team were Julie Sinclair as a […]Read more ›
Seven Trojans feted for league softball
Seven players from Hillsboro High School's Class 3A state runnerup softball team—including all six seniors—have received recognition from Central Kansas League coaches. Hillsboro won the league title with a 19-1 record and posted the best season record in school history at 24-2. Five Trojans were picked for the all-league first team, one for the second team and one received honorable […]Read more ›
CKL announces honors for baseball
Three players from Hillsboro High School's 3-18 baseball team have received recognition from Central Kansas League coaches. No Trojans were picked for the all-league first team, but one received second-team honors and two received second team and honorable-mention honors at different positions. Senior Jakob Hanschu was named to the second team as an outfielder. He led the team with a […]Read more ›
Warriors, Eagles combine for 9 HOA baseball picks
The Marion and Canton-Galva baseball team combined for nine selections to the 2015 Heart of America baseball all-league teams chosen by league coaches. Marion Three Warriors were chosen for the all-league first team, one for the second team and one received honorable mention. In addition, one Warrior earned All-State recognition from the Kansas Association of Baseball Coaches. Senior pitcher Bret […]Read more ›
HHS stopped in state title game
Emily Jost runs down a flyball out during Monday's state championship game against Silver Lake. Don Ratzlaff / Free Press Hillsboro's road to a Class 3A state softball title hit a wall Monday in the championship game against defending champion Silver Lake in Manhattan. The wall was named Megan Deiter, the Eagles' dominating pitcher who held Hillsboro hitless while striking […]Read more ›
Trojans find success at state
Emily Sechrist races to a fourth-place state finish in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:19.74. The mark lowered her school record. She also re-set her school record in the 3,200 with a time of 11:30.05, good for third place. Sechrist finished ninth in the 800 (2:27.19). Joey Young / Free Press Hillsboro's relatively small group of track and […]Read more ›
Warriors combine for seven medals at state track meet
Senior Seth Snelling clears the bar during competition in the Class 3A boys' pole vault Friday at the state track meet. Snelling placed fifth in that event with a height of 13-0. Janae Rempel / Free Press Marion's seven track and field state qualifiers combined for seven medals at the Kansas Track and Field Championships in Wichita Friday and Saturday. […]Read more ›
Area high school sports roundup, June 3, 2015
Canton-Galva senior Trey Moddelmog clears the bar in the Class 2A boys' high jump Friday. As the Eagles' sole competitor at state, Moddelmog concluded his high school career with a 10th-place finish in the event by clearing 5-10. Janae Rempel / Free Press STATE TRACK Canton-Galva—Senior Trey Moddelmog represented the Eagles at the All-Class state track meet at Wichita State's […]Read more ›


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Charlie SheenActor
Born: 3 September 1965
Birthplace: New York, New York
Best known as: The fast-living ex-star of the TV comedy Two and a Half Men
Name at birth: Carlos Irwin Estevez
Charlie Sheen is the son of actor Martin Sheen, and a star in his own right thanks to some high-profile 1980s movies and the long-running TV sitcom Two and a Half Men. After a few notable-young-man roles in films like Red Dawn (1984, starring Patrick Swayze) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986, starring Matthew Broderick), Charlie Sheen emerged as a leading man in the Oliver Stone films Platoon (1986, starring Willem Dafoe) and Wall Street (1987, starring Michael Douglas). Since reaching stardom, though, Charlie Sheen's appearances in the tabloids have rivaled his appearances on the big screen; as played out in the gossip columns, Sheen's life has been a wild ride that included cocaine, high-priced prostitutes, an accidental shooting (in 1990 -- his then-girlfriend, Kelly Preston, was wounded) a long, bitter divorce battle with actress Denise Richards, and an arrest on felony charges related to alleged domestic violence with his third wife, Brooke Mueller, in Aspen, Colorado on Christmas Day 2009. All the while, Sheen has kept working in hits and misses that include dramas such as Eight Men Out (1988, with David Strathairn) and The Arrival (1996), and lowbrow comedies such as Hot Shots (1991) and Scary Movie 3 (2003). After a string of so-so performances and a much-publicized drug problem, Charlie Sheen made a comeback in the late 1990s, poking fun at himself in the film Being John Malkovich (1999, starring John Cusack) and replacing Michael J. Fox in the TV series Spin City. Sheen landed a major comedy series in 2003, co-starring with Jon Cryer in the sitcom Two and a Half Men, a hit that brought him Emmy nominations in 2006 and 2007. Sheen stayed with the show for eight successful years, but was fired by the show's producers on 7 March 2011 after he gave a series of bizarre interviews in which he announced "I am on a drug, it's called Charlie Sheen" and insulted the show's producers. He was replaced on the show by Ashton Kutcher.
Extra credit: Charlie Sheen's siblings, Emilio, Ramon and Renée Estevez, are also actors... Charlie Sheen, unlike his siblings, takes his surname from his father's stage name (Martin Sheen was born Ramon Estevez)... Sheen married Denise Richards in 2002 and they have two daughters; Richards filed for divorce in 2005... He has twin sons with Brooke Mueller, Max and Bob, born on 14 March 2009. Sheen and Mueller filed divorce papers in 2010... In 1997 Sheen narrated Mission to Mars, a documentary about the possibility of life on Mars; he also earned a writing credit.
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About LIM College
Dr. Dudley Blossom Appears on CNBC
Chair of LIM College's Marketing & Management Department also quoted in Bloomberg News article
Dr. Dudley Blossom, the Chair of LIM College's Marketing & Management Department, isn't limited to sharing his expertise in an academic setting. He also regularly comments on developments in the retail and apparel industries for news stories online, in print, and now on TV as well.
On November 24 Dr. Blossom spoke to CNBC's "The Squawk" about a new trend in online shopping discounts: "group shopping," where sites like Groupon sell services at a reduced cost when a certain number of people purchase the deal.
Dr. Blossom also recently spoke to a reporter for Bloomberg News for a story about J. Crew. You can read that story, which appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and a variety of other news outlets, by clicking here.
Also last week, Dr. Blossom was interviewed about how to know what customers are looking for on Nolcha's Fashion Entrpreneur Report video blog. Watch it online here.


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INTERVIEW: Architect Hank Louis on 'Design Build Bluff' and Sustainable Homes
Photo credit: Keith Carlsen
Each spring, Hank Louis takes a team of 22 University of Utah architecture grad students down to Bluff, Utah, where they live for the semester to build a home for someone on the nearby Navajo Nation. But long before they settle into their 1905 historic home and shipping container student housing for the semester, they spend the fall selecting from a long list of families in need and designing their new dream home. The students then work closely with the family to design and build a home that will work for them and their needs. And it just so happens that all of the homes are affordable, low-maintenance, usually made with reclaimed materials, sustainable, and totally off-grid.
Louis started the design/build program back in 2000 as a way to help students in the School of Architecture get some hands-on experience building. After a number of successful smaller design projects in Salt Lake and Park City, the program expanded to build a full-size house in a semester-long immersion. Louis chose Bluff, Utah and the nearby Navajo Reservation as his project location for a number of reasons. First and most importantly, he knew there were many people there in need of housing. Second, since the Navajo Reservation already owns all the land within its boundaries, the cost to build a home would be far less because it wouldn't include the cost of land. And finally, Louis also figured there would be less red tape to cut through getting approval for innovative design strategies, which would likely meet stronger resistance in conservative Utah.
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|Submission to Australian government, regarding teaching archaeology in schools
|Thursday, 07 August 2008 00:00
The Hon Julie Bishop MP
Dear Minister,
Archaeology and Australia's National History Curriculum
Working collaboratively with the Australian Archaeological Association, the World
Integrating archaeology into a National History Curriculum provides an unprecedented
History curricula require students to become familiar with the methods of history, and
This submission consists of an overview document, and a number of cascading
• Cover letter from the President of the World Archaeological Congress.
The development of a National History Curriculum provides a wonderful opportunity for us to
Thank you for your consideration of this request.
Yours sincerely,
Claire Smith, President
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