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THE VILLAGES, Fla. � Who loves Medicare more? President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney�s running mate vied for that distinction Saturday as Medicare became the latest flashpoint in a presidential campaign of flying elbows.
The issue is dicey for both sides: Obama is steering billions from the entitlement to help pay for the expansion of coverage under his health-care law; Paul Ryan is a champion of overhauling Medicare to make the traditional program no longer the mainstay for tomorrow�s seniors � just one of many old-age, health-insurance choices.
But that didn�t stop them from going head on.
On a day Romney devoted to raising campaign cash in Massachusetts, Ryan accused Obama of raiding the Medicare �piggybank� to pay for his health-care overhaul, and he warned starkly that hospitals and nursing homes may close as a result. The Wisconsin congressman introduced his 78-year-old mother to an audience of seniors in Florida and passionately defended a program that has provided old-age security for two generations of his own family.
�She planned her retirement around this promise,� Ryan said as Betty Ryan Douglas looked on. �That�s a promise we have to keep.�
Campaigning in New Hampshire, Obama said it�s a promise that the Republican ticket would tear up.
�You would think they would avoid talking about Medicare, given the fact that both of them have proposed to voucherize the Medicare system,� he said in Windham. �But I guess they figure the best defense is to try to go on offense.
�So, New Hampshire, here is what you need to know: Since I have been in office, I have strengthened Medicare.�
He made a similar point later in the day while campaigning in Rochester, N.H.
Said Ryan in Florida: �You want to know what Medicare is saying about this? From Medicare officials themselves: One out of six of our hospitals and our nursing homes will go out of business as a result of this,� meaning Obama�s Medicare cuts.
That was a far-from-exact reference to a 2010 analysis by Medicare chief actuary Richard Foster. He said then that about 15 percent of hospitals and nursing homes that provide Medicare services could �become unprofitable� through a decade � not necessarily go out of business � because of cuts in payments from the government under the health-care law.
But Foster�s analysis also said the law would improve key Medicare benefits, solve the �doughnut hole� gap in coverage for seniors, expand health insurance to millions more people, reduce the federal budget deficit and extend the solvency of the government�s hospital insurance trust fund by up to 12 years. Hospitals remain largely on board with the health-care law, without apparent fear of closing.
Ryan, a deficit hawk and the House Republicans� chief budget writer, has stood out in Washington for laying out tough spending choices that many lawmakers in both parties avoid. So it was almost inevitable that his selection as running mate would vault Medicare to the top of the campaign debate.
Democrats say it�s a debate they are glad to have because voters tend to trust them more than Republicans on the big social entitlements. But Obama has vulnerabilities, too, given the Medicare cuts he pushed to expand health insurance for the nation and to keep the costs of doing so in line.
The Obama campaign recognizes that Romney and Ryan have been pre-emptive and tried to neutralize the usual Democratic-on-Medicare advantage by striking first with a Medicare ad and with their criticism of Obama�s health law.
�They are being dishonest about my plan because they can�t sell their plan,� the president said.
Ryan�s proposal in Congress would encourage future retirees to consider private coverage that the government would help pay for through a voucher-like system, while keeping the traditional program as an option.
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Medicare over time would spend thousands less per senior under the Ryan plan than under current policy. Critics say that would shift heavy costs to individual retirees. The government could always spend more than anticipated to meet changing realities, but at the cost of deeper deficits.
In Massachusetts, Romney told reporters on Martha�s Vineyard that he wishes he could spend more time campaigning in competitive states but must raise money at a furious pace because Obama broke all barriers four years ago.
�That�s the challenge with a president who blew through the federal spending limits,� he said. �Campaigns now have to spend a disproportionate amount of time fundraising. You appreciate all the help you get, but you wish you could spend more time on the campaign trail.�
Asked if campaigns ads are not already saturating the airwaves in swing states, Romney replied, �80-some-odd days to go.�
His staff said Romney will raise nearly $7 million from fundraising events held Friday and Saturday in Boston, Long Island and the Massachusetts resort areas of Martha�s Vineyard, Cape Cod and Nantucket.
Ryan, too, took a break to raise money. At an evening reception on Florida�s Treasure Island, Ryan drew a crowd of 200 people and raised another $1 million.
Ryan�s stop Saturday at the gated retirement cluster known as The Villages was familiar ground for presidential candidates. Florida has the highest concentration of voters over 65 in the country, with some 17 percent of Floridians fall into that group. Betty Ryan Douglas spends part of her year in Broward County�s Lauderdale-by-the-Sea community and has been registered to vote in Florida since 1997.
Kuhnhenn reported from Rochester, N.H. Associated Press writer Charles Babington in West Tisbury, Mass., and Calvin Woodward in Washington contributed to this report.
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Imad Mahawili came back earlier this week from Gov. Jennifer Granholm's signing ceremony for Michigan's latest energy initiative with renewed enthusiasm for alternative energy.
Now, with a state mandate for 10 percent renewable energy generation by 2015, Grand Valley State University's Michigan and Renewable Energy Center in Muskegon could play a key role in achieving that goal.
First on everyone's list of energy alternatives in Michigan is wind-generated electricity. Mahawili has been in the forefront of pushing for research of locating wind turbines on Lake Michigan, but views the economic difficulties of offshore wind-powered generation realistically.
Mahawili -- MAREC's executive director since it was founded in 2003 -- praised the new Michigan energy policies, legislation that he has been promoting for several years.
"I'm pleased that the governor was finally able to sign it ... it's a critical beginning for our state," Mahawili said of the new "renewable portfolio standards" approved after months of wrangling in the Michigan Legislature. "This is a different day in Michigan than the day before she signed it."
But the chemical engineer did some quick mathematical calculations. This Great Lakes wind dream is not going to be easy to achieve and it certainly won't be cheap.
Under current electricity pricing in the state and the current rules of the Michigan Public Service Commission, a kilowatt produced by wind turbines on Lake Michigan costs about four and a half times more than energy from a modern coal-fired plant, the researcher and inventor said.
And that takes for granted that public and legislative support for lake-based turbines would allow their eventual development. Environmental and shipping concerns about locating large numbers of turbines on Lake Michigan will likely create a lively debate.
"Alternative energy is expensive right now and not competitive with coal," Mahawili said. "The (new renewable energy mandates) will help with getting wind in line with coal."
What will make wind, solar or bio-gas-generated electricity more competitive with coal is that traditional fossil-fuel energy will cost more in the future. Both major presidential candidates have talked about supporting either a "cap-and-trade" system of limiting greenhouse gas emissions or a "carbon tax" -- either of which will increase the cost of electricity produced from coal or natural gas.
Mahawili still holds out hope that wind power will be the clean energy of Michigan's future -- producing electricity and spurring the manufacture and development of the huge turbines. His interest in exploring wind energy development on Lake Michigan was bolstered earlier this month with the release of "Michigan Offshore Wind Potential" from the Land Policy Institute of Michigan State University.
The research by Land Policy Institute Director Soji Adelaja and researcher Charles McKeown concludes that there is 321.9 gigawatts of wind power potential that Michigan has within its surface areas of the Great Lakes.
As a point of reference, the B.C. Cobb coal-powered generating plant in Muskegon has the potential of producing 320 megawatts, or 0.32 gigawatts. Michigan's Great Lakes wind potential is one-thousand times greater than the Cobb plant.
"The lake is really remarkable," Mahawili said, pointing to the wind potential on the water, where winds are on average much stronger than the nearby land. Previous studies have shown Michigan has 16.5 gigawatts of land-based wind power potential; the state is the 14th windiest in the United States when just considering the land, the MSU researchers report.
The MSU study is based on a new 2008 AWS Truewind map for the Great Lakes created by an Albany, N.Y. wind-mapping consulting firm.
Mahawili's calculations of realistic wind generation on Michigan's portion of the Great Lakes are based on using only 10 percent of the total potential, or 30 gigawatts. The entire Michigan electrical generating potential today is equal to 30 gigawatts, the MSU study shows.
Using 2-megawatt wind turbines, it would take 15,000 wind turbines to produce such a potential. Mahawili's calculations realistically looked at building only 20 percent of those turbines, or 3,000.
At a current installed cost of $5 million per turbine, that would be a $15 billion investment for the state of Michigan, its utilities and electrical customers, according to Mahawili. As a comparison, 900 of those turbines would produce 520 megawatts of potential power at a cost of $4.5 billion compared to a 500-megawatt coal plant that would cost about $1 billion, Mahawili said.
"If you want to make such a drastic change, where's that money coming from ... where's our T. Boone Pickens?" Mahawili asked, referring to the billionaire oilman who plans a $1.2 trillion investment to provide 20 percent of the nation's electricity on wind farms from Texas to North Dakota.
And windpower has the distinctive drawback of producing only when the wind blows. Out on Lake Michigan, a typical wind turbine would produce about 30 percent of the power rating of the unit, Mahawili estimates. Wind power needs to have standby or "baseload" backup power available when winds are not blowing. Some in the energy industry suggest the backup should come from new nuclear power plants.
At the current rate of 7 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity, that $15 billion wind turbine investment would only produce $300 million worth of electricity, Mahawili calculates. However, there would be no cost beyond turbine maintenance; the wind is free and coal is only going to get more expensive in future years, Mahawili pointed out.
"Renewable energy is just more expensive right now than coal," Mahawili said. "But there are no (greenhouse gas) emissions and that can be a great advantage going into the future. It all depends on what the will of the people will be."


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THE SOONERS (10-2): Bob Stoops might finally lose that big-game, bad-game rep if the South can rise up for the seventh straight season. In fairness to OU, it's done pretty well in this arena, winning its last four appearances. Remember, QB Landry Jones (12), who rewrite the OU record books with 468 passing yards in that wild victory over Okie State last week, played beyond poor in last season's 10-3 loss to the Huskers, throwing five picks. But Landry has been on fire lately, connecting with WR Ryan Broyles (85), the nation's best with 115 grabs, while getting solid yards from RB DeMarco Murray (7). Murray (knee) is a question mark here.
THE PICK: Oklahoma (-3½): Martinez is pretty banged up and Nebraska just isn't the same offense with Green under center. Picking OU outside its borders is always dicey, but we're sticking with the hot hand and that's Jones.
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THE CORNHUSKERS (10-2): Apparently, the Huskers want to exit the Big 12 the same way they entered, as conference champs. Nebraska's heads-up meeting with Mizzou got them invited, that and the work of QB Taylor Martinez (3) and RB Roy Helu (10). Martinez (ankle) could be a game-time decision, however, so QB Cody Green (17) may the guy responsible for bringing the Huskers to the Big Ten on a high note. Still, no match-up is bigger than CBs Alfonzo Dennard (15) and Prince Amukamara (21) against OU's talented receivers. The unit ranks 2nd in pass efficiency D. Of course, skipper Bo Pelini might have another breakdown if the latter steals the show.


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Huntsville Fire & Rescue told The Times that the fire occurred in the 2600 block. The call came in shortly after 7 p.m.
WHNT reports that neighbors claimed smoke was coming from the roof and they could see glowing inside the walls. They sprayed water at it with garden hoses, knocking down part of a wall.
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The prince of a small European kingdom, renowned bachelor Rupert Whyte, is in London to enjoy a last bit of freedom before choosing a wife. When he learns about Ariadne's scheme to take a lover, he decides he must prevent her from embarking on such a ruinous course.
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MIDLAND, MI — U.S. Rep. Dave Camp has named his choice to succeed him representing the voters of Michigan's 4th congressional district.
During a press call Tuesday, June 24, the Midland congressman announced his endorsement for State Sen. John Moolenaar, R-Midland.
"He's an honest, hard-working, proven conservative," Camp said. "He really has a great track record of really solid decision making."
Moolenaar said he is very proud to have the congressman's endorsement.
"Congressman Dave Camp is a giant in Congress and just beloved in our district," he said. "I'm going to work hard to earn the support of the voters of the 4th congressional district."
Moolenaar said one of the first things he will work on in Congress will be to repeal Obamacare.
Camp said Moolenaar has a good track record and an "independent voice," citing the state senator's strong opposition to implementation of Obamacare and state exchanges in Michigan. The congressman also pointed to the stabilization of Michigan's finances as a success achieved during Moolenaar's tenure.
"When he first got into office four years ago, we had a 1.8 billion dollar debt and now we have a surplus in the state of Michigan," Camp said. "That's the kind of leadership we could certainly use in Washington."
Moolenaar is one of three candidates vying for the Republican nomination to the seat in August's primary. In that contest, he will face off with Thomas Township businessman Paul Mitchell and Roscommon businessman Peter Konetchy.
In November's general election, the Republican nominee will run against Dr. Jeff Holmes, a family practitioner in Alma and the lone Democrat to file for the seat.
Camp's endorsement is not the first major one announced by Moolenaar. Last week, the Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce hosted a press conference in which Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, also a Midland native, announced his endorsement of Moolenaar.
Mitchell's campaign has released several television advertisements, but has not yet announced any major endorsements. Konetchy has announced one endorsement thus far — Jack Hoogendyk, a former state representative and former candidate for Congress.
Konetchy was the first of the Republicans to declare his intention to run for the seat, which has been held for more than two decades by U.S. Rep. Dave Camp, R-Midland.
Camp announced on March 31 that he would not be seeking re-election to the seat. Moolenaar announced his intention to run the day after Camp's announcement.
About one week later, Mitchell announced his campaign for the seat.
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Northern Europe: Denmark (26), Finland (27), Norway (10), Sweden (79). Western Europe: Austria (91), Belgium (10), France (181), Germany (111), Luxembourg (3), United Kingdom (14). Eastern Europe: Estonia (44), Hungary (89), Latvia (36), Lithuania (23), Poland (76), Slovenia (21). Southern Europe: Greece (14), Italy (66), Spain (124). Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria (88), Macedonia FYR (9). Concentrations are expressed as median of annual average concentrations. Data are from representative river stations. Stations that have no designation of type are assumed to be representative and are included in the analysis. Consistent time series trends between 1992 and 2005 (Northern, Western and Eastern Europe), between 1999 and 2005 (Southeastern Europe) and between 2000 and 2005 (Southern Europe) have been calculated using only stations that have recorded concentrations for each year included in the time series, except one year missing concentrations for Denmark (2005), Greece (2005) and Luxembourg (2003).
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Turfer Sportswear has tapped Trion Communications to help position the client in the national marketplace.
Turfer, based in Woonsocket, R.I., designs and manufactures golf apparel sold in specialty stores and pro shops. The company has recently done local, mainly trade-based advertising through Acadia, a boutique agency in Providence, R.I.
Turfer's hiring of Trion, also in Providence, signals its desire for a bigger impact through a national campaign, said Jerry Goldberg, Turfer's marketing director. Trion was awarded the business without a full-blown review, he said.
Initial spending will likely be about $1 million, Goldberg added, with Trion producing print and online ads, catalogs and direct-marketing materials.
Advertising will appear in golf publications and men's fashion and lifestyle magazines, said Trion partner Josh Fenton.
Trion has begun researching creative approaches, and ads are scheduled to break in the fall. Trion will also be handling media chores, said Fenton, who is overseeing Turfer along with Trion account executive Rhoades Alderson.
Both client and agency are hoping the partnership can help take them to the next level, executives said.
"[Turfer] is both a golf and a fashion account, which creates a lot of opportunities," Fenton said, noting that the Turfer affiliation potentially provides the shop with a national creative showcase.
"Turfer, along with Annie's and W.L. Gore, gives us a range of national advertising," Fenton said.
Trion has been one of the region's better-performing small agencies, posting an estimated 44 percent billings gain in 2001 to $22 million. The 25-person outfit has in the past year added several consumer-focused accounts, including Annie's Homegrown, a marketer of macaroni-and-cheese products; Gore, a fabrics and apparel concern and the parent to the Gore-Tex brand; and eGo Vehicles, a maker of electric scooters.
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Viktor Yanukovych regime's spin doctors have reacted in typical fashion to the nomination earlier this year of Yulia Tymoshenko for the Nobel Peace Prize. (The prize is awarded annually on Dec. 10).
Politics should not play a role in this award, huffed Yanukovych's advisor Dmytro Vidrin in an interview with Radio Svoboda.
What Vidrin is apparently unaware of, or deliberately ignoring, is that politics have played a critical role in Nobel Peace Prize awards, especially since 1960. This is particularly true where an individual or organization is fighting for basic human rights against an oppressive regime, or regimes. And in awarding these individuals, what the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has been doing is bringing world attention to their causes. Thus the Tymoshenko nomination fits in perfectly with the historic precedents.
Here are just some of the most glaring examples:
• 1960: Albert Lutuli, South Africa; president of the African National Congress. "Was in the very forefront of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa." World attention began focusing on South Africa's policy of apartheid that year. By giving the prize to its most prominent opponent at that time, the committee was giving the South African government a slap in the face and making a strong statement against apartheid.
• 1964: Martin Luther King, Jr., United States; campaigner for civil rights, "first person in the Western world to have shown us that a struggle can be waged without violence." In this particular case the Nobel Committee was sending a message to the governments of the Southern United States where Blacks faced the local version of apartheid, known as segregation and were denied even the most basic of democratic rights – namely the right to vote. A year after King's award, the U.S. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act which outlawed the Southern "Jim Crow" laws and returned the right to vote to millions of disenfranchised African-Americans. This led to the end of legalized segregation and changed the political landscape of the South forever.
• 1975: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, Soviet Union; "[for his] struggle for human rights, for disarmament, and for cooperation between all nations". By awarding the Soviet Union's most noted dissident, the committee was once again sending a message in defence of human rights. A year after Sakharov's award, Jimmy Carter was elected President of the United States. (The newly-enfranchised African-Americans of the South played a key role in his victory). Carter became the first U.S. President to make human rights the cornerstone of his policy towards the Soviet Union. Within the next 15 years the dissidents temporarily triumphed and the USSR collapsed in 1991, only to be revived today under Putin, Yanukovych and company. (Carter incidentally was the 2002 laureate "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development".)
• 1977: Amnesty International, United Kingdom; "[for] protecting the human rights of prisoners of conscience". In awarding the organization most prominent in the defense of human rights the Nobel Committee was once more making a statement on that issue.
• 1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentina; Human rights leader; "founded non-violent human rights organizations to fight the military junta that was ruling his country (Argentina)." Again a statement directly aimed at an oppressive regime that tortured its dissidents. Within two years the Argentinean junta collapsed and democracy was restored to that country.
• 1983: Lech Walesa, Poland; "Founder of Solidarność; campaigner for human rights". Coming fresh on the heels of the declaration of martial law in Communist Poland Walesa's award was a strong statement supporting the democratization of his country. Within six years Communism collapsed, democracy was instituted and in 1990 Walesa became the first democratically elected President of Poland.
• 1984: Desmond Tutu, South Africa; Bishop of Johannesburg; former Secretary General, South African Council of Churches. Yet another strike against apartheid. Once the policy was finally brought to a close and Blacks granted their democratic rights, the committee recognized this by jointly awarding recently-released Black leader Nelson Mandela and then-Prime Minister of South Africa, Frederik Willem de Klerk, "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa" in 1993.
• 1989: Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet; "In his struggle for the liberation of Tibet [he] consistently has opposed the use of violence. He has instead advocated peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people." A statement condemning the oppression of the people of Tibet by Communist China.
• 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma; "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights". The leading voice of the pro-democracy movement opposing her country's military junta, Suu Kyi was under house arrest at the time of her award. She was released only in 2010.
• 1992: Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala; "[for] her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples."
• 2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea; "for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular."
• 2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran: "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children."
• 2010: Liu Xiaobo, China; "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China". Liu is the third person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison or detention, after Germany's Carl von Ossietzky (1935) and Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). Liu is also the second person (the first being Ossietzky) to be denied the right to have a representative collect the Nobel prize for him.
There are other examples we could use, but these are some of the most obvious precedents.
As the most prominent of all the political prisoners jailed by the Yanukovych regime, Tymoshenko has become a symbol of the struggle for the return of democracy in Ukraine. On that basis she deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. So let us be clear on this issue. This nomination is not about her as an individual, but about what she represents — to repeat — nothing less than the struggle for democracy and human rights in Ukraine.
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Hello, Clannagael, and welcome to Uncyclopedia. This is a wiki (a collection of pages anyone can edit). Words in blue are "links" and can be clicked to take you to another page. This wiki is for comedy. It pretends it's Wikipedia, but we make people laugh, not bore them. If you aren't interested in a fake encyclopedia but in writing fake news stories, we have UnNews, and there are other projects for scripts, lyrics, how-to guides, and so on.
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Thank you for fixing the grammar in this article. (But you missed the same mistake in the previous sentence!) However, the section you took aim at is largely name-calling, which is not funny unless someone puts some actual work into it; and may I nominate you? There are plenty of ways to play it: Illustrate real hypocrisy, or vilify a group but in a innocent-and-pretty treatment, but don't let this section call a group "xenophobic racists" as though that were a joke. If the original author didn't mean it, the reader will never know. Thanks in advance for whatever skill you can apply to this section! Spıke Ѧ 16:22 26-Feb-13
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Kentwood police Chief Tom Hillen today said police consider Javonte Jerome Higgins to be a suspect in the shooting deaths of David and Vivian Bouwman, ages 81 and 80, respectively, in their Stowevalley Drive SE home.
Higgins has a history of home invasion arrests and was wanted for home invasion and auto theft out of Wyoming and police released his image late last week.
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Related: Kentwood homicides: Nearby break-ins by 'person of interest' raise police suspicions
Because of a December car crash when he was driving a stolen vehicle, Higgins had a significant injury to his hips and now walks with a severe limp.
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Several nearby dwarf galaxies have been extensively mapped in HI using the VLA, revealing intricate structure in their interstellar gas component (Puche et al. 1992, Westpfahl amp; Puche 1994). An analysis of these detailed structures shows the neutral gas to contain a number of expanding HI holes. It has been suggested that these holes were created by multiple supernova events, with on the order of 40--100 supernovae required to produce many of the holes. From the sizes and expansion velocities of the holes, ages of typically 10^7 to 10^8 years are assigned to each hole. If the supernova scenario for the formation of the HI holes is correct, it implies the existence of star clusters with a substantial population of A and F main sequence stars at the locations of the hole centers. These clusters should be readily visible in deep images of the galaxies.
We analyze deep optical CCD images of several dwarf galaxies in order to test the supernova hypothesis for the formation of the HI holes. Deep broadband (BVR) and H\alpha narrowband images for a dozen nearby gas-rich irregular galaxies have been obtained. We compare the optical and HI data and carry out sensitive searches for evidence of the expected star clusters within the HI holes. We also use the HI data to constrain models of the expected remnant stellar population. Under the assumption that the HI holes are created by multiple SNe, that the number of SNe required can be determined from the observed energetics of the holes, and that the SNe represent the high mass population of a stellar cluster with a normal IMF, we show that in at least several of the holes the observed upper limits for the remnant cluster brightness are strongly inconsistent with the SNe hypothesis. Many of the HI holes are located in regions of very low optical surface brightness (i.e., lie beyond the Holmberg radius) which show no indication of recent star formation. We explore possible alternative explanations for the existence of the HI holes.
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She survived numerous battles in the South Pacific and kamikaze attacks on the waters near Japan. Most miraculous, however, is the fact that each of the original 500 men also survived the war.
On Thursday, nine of some 35 remaining USS Panamint veterans will gather for their 20th annual reunion.
This year, the men, their wives, children, grandchildren and even some great-grandchildren will gather in Hoboken for four days to honor the site where they first met one another.
"The only time they ever discuss the war is when they get together," Anne Marie Macnamara, who has organized the last six reunions for the group, said. "They all have memories that they want to share but they're not able to share them properly with strangers or even their neighbors."
Macnamara's father-in-law, Dr. William Macnamara, served as the ship's surgeon throughout World War II.
One day years ago, as Macnamara's husband William, jr. was driving on I-95 and saw a car with a USS Panamint license plate. He was soexcited that he flagged the car down. The driver turned out to be one of the veterans who had been treated by his father on board the ship decades ago and invited him to attend the reunion that year.
It seemed typical of the "Lucky 13," as the ship came to be called by the men, and eventually, the Macnamaras became part of the USS Panamint family.
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Baltimore City police discovered a shooting victim inside of a vehicle Saturday morning.
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A volcano continues to erupt in Hawaii.
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Weekend Teaching Series: 11 vs. the World (series premiere, week 1 of 3)
Sermon in a Sentence: The disciples were ordinary with varied personalities but called by God to bring the Good News to the world.
Service Length: 71 minutes
Understandable Message: This weekend we kicked off a new series about the disciples called 11 vs. the World. It was a short prep week because of our annual staff retreat, but I had the idea of using the GLO Bible app on the iPad to help teach the lesson from a very visual and historical perspective, as well as turn the corner for application and practical challenges for this week. It was a big departure, but I think it worked well. I opened up talking about great teams, and talked about the unlikely team that Jesus put together to spread the Good News to the World. We spent a little time on each of the disciples individually, and ended with the Great Commission as Jesus was setting them up to go on without Him.
Element of Fun/Positive Environment: This weekend (to help celebrate the 4th of July) we played "Know Your America" with Uncle Hayward (one of our summer interns) and had some fun USA trivia for an iTunes card. Even on a down holiday weekend we had good student involvement.
Music Playlist: The Time Has Come, Forever Reign, Burning Ones, Tell the World
Favorite Moment:Using the GLO Bible iPad app this week to teach was really fun – and aside from it crashing once and me having to furiously rebuild a presentation, it was absolutely incredible. First, because I love technology and the geek inside of me loved it, and second because it is fun to present the Bible in a new way to High School students. Cool stuff, I'll try to share more on that later this week.
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The two-and-a-half-year-old was sickly throughout the first 1,000 days of his life.
Blake Walker slept 16-to-18 hours a day, was in-and-out of a hospital and the one thing that stood out to his mother, Monica Walker, from that time was his pain.
"He would eat and then would just lie on the couch when he was just two and he would cry and cry and cry, because he was in so much pain," she said. "All he wanted to do was play ball. All he would do was have a ball with him. It was his comfort."
Blake's early childhood was a nightmare with no answers.
"He didn't grow as a toddler and I could just tell he was not thriving," Monica Walker said. "For a kid who was huge (when he was born), he stopped growing and he wasn't developing like he should."
It seems strange now that the Liberty football team's 6-foot-4 sophomore starting quarterback and the Falcons' boys basketball team leader was, at one time in his life, so sick that doctors felt he needed a long-term hospital stay.
The only remaining visible sign of his ailment today is perhaps the spindly 155-pound frame from which he is somehow able to generate so much athleticism.
On Tuesday, Walker used that thin body to create separation and hit a game-winning jumper with three seconds left in overtime to give Liberty a 61-59 win over Newberg.
"I went to the right, didn't go off the screen, pulled up and just hit the shot," Walker said. "Everyone was really excited. It was a great game, great atmosphere."
But that euphoric athletic moment seemed impossible at a young age – when Blake wouldn't grow.
Back then, Blake experienced crippling stomach pains and was chronically malnourished. He ate well, but would be terribly sick afterwards and would cry for what seemed like forever.
"It was horrible. I was awake all the time," Monica Walker said. "I was researching. My mom was awesome. She would go to the library and do research."
Eventually, the day came when the Walkers were told Blake's condition was caused by one of three possibilities: celiac disease, cystic fibrosis or cancer.
The "Day of Diagnoses," as it could easily be called in the Walker house, was made even more complicated when Mary, Blake's now-19-year-old sister, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes on the same day Blake got his test results backs.
Those results indicated Blake had celiac disease.
Celiac disease is an incurable genetic autoimmune disorder that causes damage to the small intestine when gluten – a protein in wheat, rye and barley – is consumed.
"Oh my gosh, relief is an understatement," Monica Walker said about the results. "We were really excited. We said, 'Diet? No problem. We can do that. Let's change diet. We're good.' And then to see them make a full recovery…"
All three of the Walker kids have the disease and, thanks in large part to their sports nutritionist mother, none of the three have since developed other major health complications.
From the time of his diagnosis and subsequent diet change, Blake began to grow.
Walker grew eight inches and gained 18 pounds over the next year, and was quickly educated on the do's and don'ts of his eating habits.
"It was tough as a child," he said. "Back then, not many people knew about celiac. As a child it was tough, because people didn't know what it was. They were like, 'Is that a choice or do you really not have to (eat that)?'"
While both of Blake's parents made sure the adults around him were informed of his disease, Blake said he often had to explain it himself.
"Just going over to friends' houses, I'd be like, 'Oh, I can't eat that,' and had to kind of vouch for myself," he said. "It definitely helped me in the long run to become more mature."
That maturity has displayed itself in athletics, as both Liberty football coach Eric Mahlum and Falcons boys basketball coach O.J. Gulley have spoken about the leadership Walker provides already as a sophomore.
"He knows the game beyond his years and his demeanor on the court is a calming presence for everyone else," Gulley said. "He doesn't play like a sophomore and last year he didn't really play like a freshman. He's a vocal leader in the locker room."
Despite a strong knowledge of his disease, Walker still has a handful of run-ins with gluten every year.
"He's probably had five severe instances in the last year," his mom said. "He's probably missed at least six-to-eight days of school in the last year, but I also think he toughs it out because he can't handle missing anything."
Because Walker's case of the disease is severe, consuming gluten can lead to being violently ill for several days and causes a lack of protein absorption for up to a week, according to Blake.
"When you are a kid who is extremely active and you do get any trace of gluten, it does go back to destroying the lining of the small intestine," Monica Walker said. "That's the hard part with him gaining weight now. If he does get gluten at someone's house, it sets him back physically a little bit."
Walker was named the starting quarterback for Liberty in the fall and is already a two-year varsity starter as a sophomore in basketball.
That level of achievement has him thinking about playing college sports, which will require him to put on significant muscle – muscle that his disease makes it difficult to gain.
"It's always in the back of my mind, but it is pretty far down the road. I don't think about it too much, but I know it's there," he said. "I will work my hardest in the weight room to try and put on muscle to get my body ready for college."
With a strong sophomore class, led by Walker, Koby Alvarado, Brayden Bafaro and Jacob Mast, the Falcons have big-time athletic plans before college ever enters the picture.
"We've all grown up together and have talked since sixth or seventh grade about how cool it would be to go far, win a league title our senior year or even contend for a state championship," Walker said. "We've been talking about it for a long time."
Those dreams would be made even more special because the sophomore class has become like a family, especially the Bafaros and Masts for Walker, who said both families have been "unbelievable" in learning about his disease and helping him through it.
There are many early signs that point to a special senior season in a couple years.
Last year, as freshmen, the nucleus played varsity basketball and battled through an 8-win season. But this season, the Falcons are off to a 4-0 start and appear poised to be among the Northwest Oregon Conference's elite programs.
"We already have almost half of last year's wins," Walker said. "It's been really exciting."
Regardless of what Walker and his teammates accomplish over the next two-plus years in football and basketball, Blake's biggest accomplishment may be the inspiration he has become for young athletes battling chronic diseases.
"Words can't describe how proud of him I am. It's difficult. He downplays it," Monica Walker said. "He has such strength and determination. To see him achieve what he has and to know this is what he is supposed to do – to give people with chronic health issues hope – is incredible."


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A week from now, all the hype, hoopla, hysteria about Election Year 2012 should be over or will it?
While most "experts" claim Oregon will remain a "blue" or a Democratic Party stronghold, others see strong indicators that Oregon will be a much lighter blue than in recent memory.
One thing is painfully obvious: The run-off for mayor of Portland between former City Commissioner Charlie Hales and state legislator Jefferson Smith will result in four more years of inferior mayoral leadership for our state's largest city.
Will the Clackamas County taxpayer revolt be successful in electing politicos who share their passion for fiscal restraint or will the establishment tax-and-spenders hold on to power?
Will there be any upsets in statewide races where Republicans face uphill quests to become attorney general, secretary of state or state labor commissioner?
Will Oregonians legalize "pot" and abolish the death tax? Polls indicate "probably not." But polls are not always reliable.
Will popular Republican state Rep. Katie Eyre be able to hold on to her seat in House District 29 or will the robust campaign challenge of Democrat Ben Unger derail her promising legislative career?
Aloha's Jeff Barker, who is running for his sixth term in the Oregon state legislature, is also in a tough race against up-and-comer Republican Manuel Castaneda. Scared of losing a "safe" seat in the Oregon House, Democrats are circling the wagons in an effort to defeat Castaneda in District 28. This race, more than most, could measure if there is a shift in Oregon's political climate.
With polls all over the map in the too-close-to-call presidential contest, many on the left are predicting a popular vote victory for Republican Mitt Romney and a victory in the Electoral College for Barack Obama. Some liberals believe this would be "poetic justice" or retaliation for the 2000 election where George W. Bush lost the popular vote but won in the Electoral College to become president.
Some are even projecting a 2012 tie in the Electoral College with each contender garnering 269 votes (one short of the 270 necessary to become president). Under this long-shot scenario, the House of Representatives (the new House, not the old members) would select the next president of the United States and the Senate would select the vice president.
With Republicans projected to hold onto the House and Democrats the Senate, some are imagining a scenario where Romney becomes president and Joe Biden stays on as vice president. And the Cleveland Browns will win the 2013 Super Bowl.
A week from now, we will know, barring massive voter fraud, what America and Oregon have really decided. One thing is certain: Election year 2012 is definitely not going to be dull. Stay tuned.
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BAY CITY, MI — Two Pinconning residents are charged with several felonies after police allege the couple continued growing and selling pot for months after their certifications as medical marijuana patients expired.
Craig S. Derosia, 49, and wife Cynthia L. Derosia, 39, are each charged with two counts of delivering and manufacturing marijuana and felony firearm. Craig Derosia also faces a charge of felon in possession of a firearm and a third count of felony firearm.
Police reports contained in court records indicate that the evening of Sept. 23, a Pinconning police officer conducted a routine traffic stop which resulted in the seizure of marijuana. The stop led police to visit the Derosia home at 1715 E. Pinconning Road.
Although police didn't have a warrant, the Derosias gave signed consent for them to search the residence, court records indicate.
Police located five marijuana plants in one bedroom and eight plants in a green house on the property, as well as a .410 shotgun and a Taser, court records show. In total, officers found about 344.6 grams of processed marijuana.
Officers also discovered scales and packing material, which they wrote are "consistent with narcotics trafficking."
The Derosias told police they were medical marijuana patients, though their cards were expired. They said they paid to have their certifications renewed and expected the renewals to be coming in the mail, court records show.
Officers determined the Derosias' certifications expired July 1, 2012.
The Derosias told police they used the marijuana for themselves. Craig Derosia said he used to grow for other patients, but had ceased.
Cynthia Derosia said the shotgun belonged to her son, court records show.
Under the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act, certified caregivers provide marijuana for up to five registered patients and themselves. They can grow up to 12 plants producing 2.5 ounces of usable marijuana for each of their patients.
Certified patients and caregivers must pay an annual fee of $100 to renew their certification.
Between Oct. 1, 2011, and Sept. 30, 2012, Bay County had 1,419 registered medical marijuana users, two of them younger than 18, as well as 558 caregiver registrations.
The Derosias on Feb. 28 voluntarily appeared for their arraignments in Bay County District Court. They have retained Saginaw attorney David Hoffman to represent them.
The Derosias are scheduled to appear for a preliminary examination before Bay County District Judge Dawn A. Klida at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 13.


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BEULAH — Kaylene Jaeger, 28, Hazen, died Saturday, March 2, 2013, in her home. She was born June 22, 1984, to Sheri Leistikow and Jerry Jaeger, in Bismarck....
I am so sorry to hear of Kayleen's death. I met Kayleen a few years ago and have always remembered her kindness, and very sweet ways. I think our world, as it has become, is hardest on those with such big hearts. My heart extends to her Mother and Brother, family and friends. We all have an advocate for us in Kayleen now when we need the stregnth to be kind. I'm thankful to have known her.
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Why did COP drop from 70.00 to near 50.00 a share
you really need to study a little before you ask a question that makes you look lazy or stupid but the answer is that it spun off PSX at .5 share per share of COP At time of spin off psx was 34 and cop was 53 for a total of $70 Before you ask another dumb question (53) plus (34 divided by 2) equals 70. psx has gone to 45 and cop now 56.
WOW, I bet you are the one that looks real stupid now...and conceited ....and self-righteous.
Can I ask a dumb question...how does 34 and + 53 = 70?
you must for for RagArses at Motley Fools-We-R
I believe it is called "research a stock."
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My Moto Ming (Motorola A1200) Review
I decided to get myself a New Year gift and picked up a new Moto Ming (Motorola A1200). The listed Maximum retail price is Rs. 18370, while I picked it up for Rs 16,500 (INR). So here is my first attempt at a phone review.
In the Box
The box includes the phone, three styluses, travel charger, USB data cable, 512MB Transflash (T-Flash, micro-SD) card with a mini-SD adapter, stereo headset and the manual.
Design and Construction
If you have used A780 (as I have), you should not have any trouble getting used to the A1200. The unit feels solid, well built but not too heavy or bulky (A780 qualifies as a bit bulky). I liked the black matte look, kind of looks cool and has a feel similar to the PEBL. The front cover is hard translucent plastic, but allows clear screen display (better than expected). On the negative side, the flip is a bit tough to open (or am not yet used to it). Also the memory slot is under the battery, which means changing memory cards is a pain.
Bright and clear LCD display with a resolution of 240×320. Good enough for most purposes. The text is clear and sharp, perfectly readable even when you set the text size to small.
Handwriting input is pretty nice, but pretty much similar to A780. It still gets confused between l (small L) and i (small I), but then maybe it's just my handwriting… The on-screen keyboard is quite usable; you can type with the stylus but don't try typing with your fingers. Support for HID profile is missing, so don't think of hooking up a keyboard to your phone.
8MB internal memory is a sad joke. Free 512MB micro-SD compensates for it though.
Built in Programs
Frankly, I don't care as you can always download the ones you like, or write your own. Anyways, the supplied programs are fine – acceptable sort of thing.
Takes decent pictures if the lighting is good. Has a macro mode so take very close, close-ups. Here are some pictures taken with the camera to give you a hang of the quality.
A phone is for making calls
Good audio quality. Signal reception is pretty good too.
A nice phone for a decent price tag. If you are looking for a new phone, you should consider A1200 :-)
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Tagged with: Moto Ming, Motorola A1200, Phone, review
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Jagath Says:
December 28th, 2006 at 21:29:04
Hmmmm… looks like u already bought it..!!! those images are from ur balcony right.. hey i would love to see it.. n use it too.. thanks for the review… 8Mb seriously a sad joke.. the cover, i read in few site attracts lots of dust.. but thats ok.. how is batt. life anyways..?? On my old Samsung X100 the LCD is sad n cant read a thing if in bright sun.. how is this one..? With all the features.. its still a costly phone i believe… But will get one for my self in few weeks..:o).. anyways.. congrats dude.. now u own 2 cool cell phone… any plans to sell the old one? ;o)..
Vishnu Says:
October 2nd, 2008 at 01:57:46
Got a problem,
the volume of the set is quite low.
It is not audible at times.
Brittany Says:
October 8th, 2008 at 05:55:40
I have the motorola a1200 and the texting doesnt work on it. I dont know why but everything else works fine.
poonam Says:
October 12th, 2008 at 11:09:12
I've been using motoming A1200 for a year now…. no problem until late…. surfing the net is fineb but my browser automatically quits when i try to download something…
can anybody HELP


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The Syracuse Orange easily beat Manhattan Monday night, 92-56, at the Carrier Dome in the first round of the NIT Season Tip-Off Tournament.
Despite the 92 points and five players in double figures, the aggressive Syracuse defense -- which mixed some man-to-man with SU's familiar 2-3 zone -- drew praise.
From Zach Brown's story in The Daily Orange:
That success changing defenses gives SU's opponents something very new to game plan for when they battle the Orange this season. For years, teams have come to the Carrier Dome with the intention of breaking down Boeheim's 2-3 zone.
But this year might be a little different.
"I feel like it's a good way to switch it up because the offense won't get too comfortable with us being in the zone all the time," junior James Southerland said. "I noticed that when we're in the zone all the time, teams start to relax. When we switch it up to man-to-man, we're going to force more turnovers."
And Syracuse forced plenty of turnovers with both its defenses against Manhattan. The Jaspers coughed the ball up 28 times in the game and shot just 31.6 percent from the field.
Robbie Gillies, of The Juice Online, had this to say:
The most impressive aspect of the Orange's game was their aggressive defense. They worked in both man-to-man and the 2-3 zone and had active hands in both sets. The Jaspers could never get into an offensive rhythm with the amount of deflections the defense caused. The Orange forced 28 turnovers and had 15 steals and 10 blocks.
The man in the middle of the successful defensive effort was Fab Melo. His most impressive moment of the night didn't come on any of his 11 points, career-high 9 rebounds or 4 blocks but instead came early in the first half when he managed to quickly shuffle his feet and draw a charge. That sort of quickness and defensive positioning is something we never saw last year when Melo was 30 pounds heavier.
More on Syracuse-Manhattan:
» Southerland emerging as force for Syracuse [The Juice Online]
» Syracuse depth destroys Manhattan [Watertown Daily Times]
» Dion dominant in the early going [900 Irving]
On Syracuse.com:
» Sophomore Fab Melo plays a career-high 22 minutes
» Orange Scouting Report: Albany at Syracuse
» Kris Joseph scores his 1,000th career point at Syracuse
» Freshman Trevor Cooney will redshirt the 2011-12 season
» James Southerland shines in SU's win over Manhattan
» Standing by: Syracuse puts fans to test in 92-56 victory over Manhattan


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The Phillies entered the weekend three games under .500, 7 ½ games behind Atlanta in a disappointing N.L. East and eight games behind Pittsburgh for the second wild card.
In the category of teetering on the verge of irrelevance, the Phils are getting dangerously close, a familiar role given their past comebacks, but more uncomfortable this go round given their uncertain health.
Chase Utley is back off the disabled list, but for how long? Will Roy Halladay pitch again in a Phillies uniform? And will we ever see the best of Carlos Ruiz again?
With an average defense and pitching and offense that struggles to reach the middle tier of the National League, everything about this team screams for a rebuilding movement, which makes general manager Ruben Amaro's comments last week all the more puzzling.
To defend Amaro, there is nothing easier than to second guess a general manager when a team is underachieving. When most of your stars are on the wrong side of 30 and you're a year removed from an 100-plus win season that didn't net a world championship, the second guesses stack up by the bushel.
The Phillies' 2013 home attendance is on pace for a dip of over a half million (not surprising since the only way it could go was down), but if you're Amaro you would prefer not to see that number go even higher, which would be the case if the Phillies resorted to a July firesale.
The problem, if you're Amaro, is that you seriously compromise the future if you don't trade away some major assets, which last week he proclaimed would not include Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels or Jonathan Papelbon.
Of those, the strangest is Papelbon, one of the game's elite closers, who could fetch at least one top-level prospect in return, a piece that could help the team for a decade.
Amaro's belief that Papelbon is not easily replaced has merit, but even more so is a notion expressed by many fans and scribes alike that an elite closer has no value if there are no games to close. Entering Friday's game, Papelbon was tied for 17th in the majors in saves (with 14). His ERA was a sparkling 1.95 and his WHIP was a lovely 0.80.
Despite these numbers, Papelbon's WAR (wins against replacement) was only 1.2, which doesn't even rank among the top 60 pitchers in baseball, which underlines his status as a wasted resource.
A large part of Amaro's problem has always been that he has been trapped by the popularity of so many players.
How do you trade a beloved player like Utley or the underdog incarnate Ruiz? When that isn't an issue, salary size rears its ugly head (for example, how could you get equal value if you chose to part ways with a Ryan Howard? And who, this side of the Dodgers, would be willing to take on that much of a salary?)
It all leads to a corner of stagnation, which is where the Phils are at present.
Since reaching their 2013 highwater mark of one game over .500 on June 6, they have lost eight of 12.
The season isn't over yet, but for a team deeply in need of an energy surge, it's difficult to see how Amaro can provide it from outside the organization.
For the foreseeable future, the Phils appear on their own, which for 14 weeks hasn't led anywhere.
FLYING BYRD: Lost in all the excitement surrounding Zack Wheeler's Mets debut and Matt Harvey's 13-strikeout performance Tuesday was the all-around hustle of Marlon Byrd.
Byrd, who came up with the Phils in 2002 and will turn 36 in August, may be having his best season since 2009 when he ripped 20 homers and 89 RBIs for the Rangers. More impressively, on a team that feels like it disappears into a black hole at times, Byrd consistently exudes energy, especially when he made multiple great hustle plays in the aforementioned doubleheader.
In the opener, Byrd beat out an infield hit to the left side, allowing Daniel Murphy to scamper home from second base in a game that eventually was decided by one run. Then in the eighth inning of the nightcap, Byrd hustled his way to a double off the pitcher's leg before forcing an errant pickoff throw on which he scored from second.
The Mets are Byrd's sixth team and because he was so heralded coming up through the Phils' system, many have regarded his career as a disappointment. But on a struggling, error-prone young team, it says a lot about his character and professionalism that he consistently plays the way he does, exhibiting the type of leadership the Mets really need.
VIE FOR THE CY: One of the most intriguing races this year Is for who will win the American League Cy Young Award.
Do you go for 9-0 Clay Buchholz and his microscopic 1.71 ERA? What about Hisashi Iwakuma and his incredible 0.89 WHIP? And what about Yu Darvish, who already has 137 strikeouts?
The most intriguing candidate may be Detroit's Max Scherzer, who entered the weekend 10-0 despite a 3.08 ERA that ranked only 12th in the Junior Circuit.
Scherzer has fanned 10 or more five times, according to Elias, the first time a Tiger has done that in the first 68 games in the Live Ball Era.
My unsung pitcher to watch? Texas' Tanner Scheppers, who is 5-0 with 0.94 WHIP and 1.00 ERA. Among relievers, Scheppers is second in WAR, which makes him one of the best kept secrets in the league.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – David Draft is back in West Michigan after his career in industrial and commercial real estate took him around the United States and Europe during the past 20 years.
Draft, 62, has joined Signature Associates' West Michigan office as its new executive managing partner. He will be in charge of Signature's offices in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Muskegon and Holland.
"In the next two years, I want to double the number of brokers we have on our brokerage team," said Draft from his 10th floor office in Bridgewater Place, where he oversees a staff of 23.
While Signature Associates and its national partner, Cushman & Wakefield is the largest commercial and industrial real estate player on the east side of Michigan, its presence in West Michigan is weaker – a situation Draft wants to remedy. Based on 2013 listings, Signature is No. 3 in West Michigan, he said.
Draft brings an impressive resume to the local office. The 1969 Grand Rapids Christian High School graduate started in commercial real estate in his early 20s with First Real Estate, Inc., a West Michigan firm founded by Jerry Baker. After 12 years, he moved to Robert Grooters Development Co., then the largest industrial real estate company in West Michigan.
He managed Grooters' properties until they were sold in the mid- 90s to First Industrial, a Chicago based company which was on its way to becoming a publicly traded real estate investment trust, or REIT.
After two years on his own, First Industrial hired Draft to operate their West Michigan acquisitions. After managing the company's Michigan properties, then its Midwest portfolio and finally, its national operations, Draft began build the company's European operations, living in Belgium for two years.
Ultimately, Draft said he oversaw 110 million square feet of space in 1,200 buildings with 3,200 tenants in 32 markets.
In 2008, Draft returned to the U.S. from Europe and left First Industrial, just before the real estate market was collapsing. "The storm clouds were gathering," Draft said of his decision to leave the firm before the onset of the Great Recession.
After sitting out a year on his "no-compete" agreement with First Industrial, Draft joined Sealy & Co., a large privately held real estate firm based in Dallas as its chief operating officer in 2009.
But his ties to West Michigan kept calling, especially as grandchildren began arriving, Draft said. He began to make serious calls on his old contacts after last Thanksgiving, a search which resulted in the job offer from Signature Associates.
Now that he's back in West Michigan, Draft said he's ready to start a new phase in his career as Signature Associates' first vested managing partner based in West Michigan.
"I'm going to be spending a lot of time finding the best of the best new team members to join our core group," Draft said. Besides bringing on new talent, Draft said he also intends to bring new investors into the West Michigan market.
"We are extremely excited to have an executive of David's caliber join us at Signature Associates," said Steve Gordon, president of Signature Associates in a statement. "He will be an invaluable asset as we culminate our first 25 years as a company and move forward to the next 25."
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Harold Golding is chairman of the Southwest Region, Virginia School Boards Association Board of Directors
"The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action," the British philosopher Herbert Spencer once wrote.
Today, I urge you to take action to help the education system in Virginia be as strong as it can possibly be. You can make a difference in the future of our children and in the welfare of our communities.
Are you aware that per pupil spending in Virginia has decreased by almost 20 percent since 2007?
INDEPENDENCE — Grayson County leaders will search the current budget for an additional $1,763 to transfer to the Department of Social Services, allowing the department to pull in additional federal money.
Betty Richardson, Grayson Social Services director, approached the board during its regular meeting Feb. 10 to ask for the additional money.
Old-Time Saturday Night, a new monthly concert series at the Rex Theater in Galax, is another opportunity for people to dance to old-time music at the historic downtown venue.
For several years, the Rex on East Grayson Street has hosted Blue Ridge Backroads Live, a concert series of bluegrass and old-time bands broadcast live on WBRF 98.1 FM on Friday nights.
• Explore the historic Rex Theater in Galax
HILLSVILLE — Now that the statewide restructuring of Virginia Cooperative Extension has halted, Carroll officials have moved to rebuild the presence of agents in the county office.
Carroll County had recently lost both the agricultural and 4-H agents.
County Administrator Gary Larrowe asked the Carroll Board of Supervisors at their Feb. 14 meeting for approval of a plan to fund replacements for those positions.
Editor's Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record. The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing.
For information on this column or questions, call 236-5178, ext. 213.
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These sentences were recorded in November of 2010, in the Grayson County General District Court Office, Independence. Sentences may be appealed:
Melissa McAdams Turner and Timothy Stephen Smith were united in marriage Oct. 16, 2010, at Bible Baptist Church in Galax. Danny Tolley officiated.
The bride was escorted and given in marriage by her daughter, Jenna Turner.
Flower girl was Haleigh Smith, daughter of the groom. Maleke Valentine was ring bearer, and his mother, Amy Richardson, friend of the bride, served as matron of honor.
Bridesmaids were Crystal Burress and Amanda Hammond, friends of the bride, and Ashley Smith, daughter of the groom.
SALEM –– Junior Espinoza's season ended with a celebratory leap into his coach's arms. Blake Bowman's high school career ended with a coach's consoling pat on the back.
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Usually we know when to laugh in a play. It certainly happens often in one written by Neil Simon and before the singers in "The Barber of Seville" even sing a note. The audience is usually in fits of laughter after seeing the characters in their comical costumes with their exaggerated movements and antics.
At a new music concert, a clarinet player broke his instrument into two pieces, put them both in his mouth,and played a tune. Again the audience took the cue and began laughing.
So why are we so intimidated and afraid to laugh when we enter a gallery in a museum of works that seem strange or that we don't understand? Take for example Andy Warhols Campbell soup cans and their commentary on commercialism. Humor is not the end in itself, but the force that opens our minds to contemporary issues.
In a traveling exhibition entitled, "Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art" co-curated by Dominic Molon and Michael Rooks, the project description says, "The human condition has been the subject of comedy for thousands of years, from ancient Greek theater to the daily comic strip. During the past five to ten years, however, humor has turned up with increasing frequency in contemporary art, perhaps satisfying an urgent need among artists and audiences alike to reflect upon the absurdity of daily existence.
Contemporary artists, as well as those of the past, often use art to make their point through the use of satire, caricature, irony, and sometimes jokes. Bryna Campbell, PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University, says of an exhibition that she has recently curated, "While we tend to associate visual humor with the pleasures of escapism, it also frequently serves as one of the most effective (and entertaining) modes of social criticism. Jokes can have the uncanny ability to catch us off guard, rendering us quite literally speechless. And in that moment of laughter, we often experience a shift in attitude of understanding. By creating a new sense of awareness, humor has the power to impact or, at the very least, challenge the way we come to see the world."
After 911, everyone wondered if we would ever laugh again and sure enough we did. Even Jay Leno felt that through humor, we could lighten our wounded souls. According to writer Dixie Reid in an article about Robert Arneson, known for his ceramic sculptures of mischievous self portraits, "He planned his own exit two decades before his death: He would go out like one of his sculptures. He wanted his body glazed and fired to 2,000 degrees, and when it had cooled, he said, "Roll me over and shake out my ashes. Make a glaze and color it bright." His widow had him cremated in the normal way.
Before we wonder about the latest offbeat art exhibitions or comedies in any form, let's think about the power and persuasiveness of humor in art.
(The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of St. Louis Public Radio.)
Nancy Kranzberg
Arts Aficionado Nancy Kranzberg has been involved in the arts community for some thirty years. She serves on numerous arts affiliated boards, including The St. Louis Art Museum, Laumeier Sculpture Park where she is the Co-Chair, The Sheldon Arts Foundation and the Sheldon Art Gallery Board, Jazz at the Bistro, The Missouri Mansion Preservation Inc., The Mid American Arts Alliance, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Nancy was named Women of Achievement and was awarded the Distinguished Alumnae Award at Washington University Nancy is a docent at the St. Louis Art Museum and is an honorary docent at Laumeier Sculpture Park. At age 60 she became a Jazz singer. She performs with the Second Half which features Chancellor Tom George on the piano.