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On Saturday, three of the five U.S. territories held their caucuses for the Republican nomination. Guam, the Northern Marianas Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands each began their caucus process on March 10, and will be followed by American Samoa on March 13, and Puerto Rico on March 18. Each of these territories will award 9 delegates, except for Puerto Rico which will award 23. And given the length and contested nature of the Republican nomination thus far, these relatively obscure contests are not being taken for granted.
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"I discovered that being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed." Harry S. TrumanAs spring approaches, here's one last salute to winter: President Carter riding a toboggan.
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Journalist Linda Killian visited the Miller Center on February 20 to talk about her latest book, The Swing Vote.
In this clip she articulates the motivation of voters who identify as "independent" and points to Ron Paul's success as a "symptom of [voter] frustration." She notes that there are only about fifty competitive "swing" districts in the United States, and examines their potential effects on the national election.
The results of the Super Tuesday contests were a mixed bag, though former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney emerged the victor in seven of the eleven races. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum won three contests, including North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Tennessee, while former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich captured the vote in his home state of Georgia.
In the much anticipated Ohio primary, Romney appears to have narrowly defeated Santorum by just one percentage point.
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Today's guest post is from Lara M. Brown, an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University and the author of "Jockeying for the American Presidency: The Political Opportunism of Aspirants."
Today, the contest either reopens or begins closing. With 422 pledged delegates at stake, Super Tuesday's ten contests are an opportunity for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Should he amass, as Nate Silver forecasts, a majority of the day's available delegates and come out on top in Ohio, he would again be headed towards winning the Republican nomination. Should he underperform in these races, talk of a brokered convention would again abound.
With the Tennessee Republican primary set to take place tomorrow as part of Super Tuesday, Republican candidates have stepped up their efforts to woo voters in the state. The Commercial Appeal in Memphis reported that:
"The three leading Republican candidates ramped up their efforts in Tennessee last week with TV and radio ads, phone banks, direct mail, a swarm of surrogate campaigners -- Gov. Bill Haslam leading the way for Romney -- plus some personal campaigning."
And in their Super Tuesday Preview, Politico pointed to Tennessee's importance:
"A Romney win in Tennessee would be second only to Ohio in symbolic importance. He was down 4 percentage points to Santorum in an ARG poll released over the weekend, but closing. Victory in Tennessee would demonstrate that the former Massachusetts governor can win in a culturally Southern state."
Listen to this telephone conversation (embedded above) from 1964 as President Lyndon Johnson declares that he "can't afford to lose Tennessee."
On March 3, 2012, the Washington State Republican Party Caucus was held at precincts across the state with registered voters (although not necessarily Republicans—you do not have to be a registered Republican to participate in the caucus although you do sign a pledge that you consider yourself a Republican). Like most caucuses, this one involved participants gathering together to pick delegates pledged to a candidate to go on to the county convention (and then the state convention). The Republican Party also held a presidential straw poll which was won by Mitt Romney, but those results do not affect the caucus delegates in any way.
President Gerald Ford is seen here riding a snowmobile at Camp David in 1975.
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Today's guest post is from Saladin M. Ambar, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University and fomer Miller Center National fellow.
Now that we have some distance from Mitt Romney's less than spectacular victory in Michigan Tuesday night, perhaps it is worth considering just what Romney has that the rest of the Republican field can't seem to acquire or destroy. Romney's got money, organization, and the support of the professionals in the Party, to be sure. But he also has something that has been the only elixir to taking down a sitting president since Benjamin Harrison defeated Grover Cleveland in 1888. He has a governor's resume.
Over the last few weeks, there has been lots of media chatter about the possibility of a brokered convention for the Republican Party. Sean Trende in Real Clear Politics wrote about how a brokered convention could be dangerous for the Republicans, while The Week looked back on the 1976 Republican convention as the last time the party flirted with a brokered convention. And Nate Silver pointed to the 1976 Republican nomination contest as the primary battle most resembling today's.
A brokered convention would happen if no candidate won a majority of delegates during the first round of voting at the convention. After the first ballot if no candidate had a majority, the delegates would be released to vote for another choice, and the backroom dealing could begin.
The last time the Republicans had a true brokered convention was in 1948, but in 1976 the Republican Party had a strong primary fight between President Gerald Ford and Governor Ronald Reagan of California. Ford and Reagan engaged in a bitter and close fight for the nomination in 1976, trading victories in a series of state Republican primaries. Ford entered the Republican National Convention in Kansas City with a slight lead in delegates over Reagan.
As the incumbent, President Ford had courted wavering Republican delegates in key states by inviting them to the White House, by offering to speak in their states, and by rewarding delegates with patronage positions. Ford won the nomination on the first ballot but only by a mere sixty delegate votes.
Watch President Ford acknowledged the hard-fought primary contest in this excerpt of his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on August 19, 1976.
Watch President Ford's full acceptance speech.
Watch Ronald Reagan's speech at the 1976 Republican Convention
President Obama's Leap Day gala for 200 veterans of the Iraq War has invited comparisons to one held nearly 40 years ago at the end of what used to be America's longest war.
The black tie dinner Richard Nixon gave 600 newly freed prisoners of North Vietnam remains the biggest one held in White House history. Technically, it was outside the White House beneath an enormous red and gold tent within whose folds glowed chandeliers. The White House had to borrow two refrigerator vans from the army to keep the first course (Supreme of Seafood Neptune) and dessert (strawberry mousse) at precisely 36 degrees. Nixon also served the POWs the biggest names in entertainment. Jimmy Stewart. Bob Hope. John Wayne.
Nothing was too good for the men he had used so cruelly.
In the last two big primary contests before Super Tuesday, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won handily in Arizona while edging out a narrow victory in Michigan.
Romney won 47% of the vote in Arizona; Santorum trailed with 27%. The race in Michigan was especially tight, with tentative reports of Romney capturing 41% of the vote compared to Santorum's 38% . Both candidates spent a significant amount of time and money in the state in the lead up to the primary.
A win in Michigan was critical to Mitt Romney's campaign. Romney was born and raised in Detroit, and a victory -- however small -- in the state helps to put a damper on Santorum's momentum following his sweep of the February 7 contests, as well as quiet some of the criticism from within the GOP that Romney is not a viable candidate.
Presidential elections are a gamble. Which candidate, once in the Oval Office, will perform better than the rest? Which will best steward the economy? Which will best protect us from foreign enemies? There is no crystal ball that can predict presidential performance with any certainty. Unfortunately, voters are left to their best guesses.
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Is it too early to be talking about VP candidates in the waning days of February? Apparently not. On February 1st, 1964 (just over two months after the assassination of JFK) President Johnson openly discusses the the VP spot with Sargent Shriver. This discussion is part of a larger conversation between Johnson and Shriver wherein Johnson discusses a number of policy issues including the conflict in Vietnam. Specifically, Johnson admits that the United States government was responsible for the assassination of South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem. The discussion of Vice Presidential selection occurs at about the halfway mark in this secretly recorded phone call.
As recounted yesterday in Politico, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, Rick Santorum made a strong statement about John F. Kennedy's speech from September 12, 1960, in which Kennedy stressed the importance of the separation of church and state.
Kennedy famously said, "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute."
Santorum vehemently disagreed: "I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute." And he noted that the idea made him want to throw up.
In the Miller Center's Presidential Speech Archive, we feature transcripts, audio, and video of many famous presidential speeches, including the full speech that President Kennedy gave in 1960 (the excerpt Santorum referred to begins at 1:47).


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On July 31, Environmental Defense Fund will be retiring our Restoration and Resilience blog. If you would like to continue receiving updates on the efforts to restore coastal Louisiana, please consider following our sister blog on the Restore the Mississippi River Delta website: Delta Dispatches. Delta Dispatches is news from local and national conservation organizations working to restore the environment and economy of America's largest delta. Economic topics related to restoration will now be included in Delta Dispatches. Please consider subscribing to today!
Additionally, if you'd like to learn more about how environmental restoration provides quadruple economic returns, please visit the new "Building a Restoration Economy" section of the Restore the Mississippi River Delta website: www.mississippiriverdelta.org/economics/. On the site, you will find information on the economic benefits of environmental restoration in the Mississippi River Delta and along the Gulf Coast. Additionally, information also can be found on the benefits of environmental restoration to:
Two Duke University supply chain studies, "Restoring the Gulf Coast: New Markets for Established Firms" and "Restoring Gulf Oyster Reefs: Opportunities for Innovation," as well as a report by Mather Economics, "Job Creation from Gulf Coast Wetlands Restoration," can also be found on the site. These reports explore how increased funding for coastal restoration, such as through the recently passed RESTORE Act, will benefit not only the damaged gulf ecosystem, but the entire coastal restoration supply chain.
Additionally, please check out the new video by the National Wildlife Federation, "Stories from the Coast: Job Creation from Coastal Restoration," which looks at the job-creating potential of coastal restoration projects.
"If you're interested in jobs, you can look around, this a construction site. This is heavy equipment doing real work out here, and those are real jobs," says Mel Landry, a marine habitat resource specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). You can watch the video here.
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A state Senator from Omaha says he'll introduce legislation in January requiring school board members to undergo yearly training.
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Men's Track and Field Performs Well at Maroon Invitational
For complete results, click here. CHICAGO - The DePaul men's track and field team had a nice start to the season on Saturday competing in the Maroon Invitational hosted by the University of Chicago. The Blue Demons won seven events while placing in the top three in 12 of the 15 events on Saturday. Rashard Deleston and Jarrod Jahnke took a pair of top three finishes in two events. Deleston won the long jump with a distance of 6.66 meters and took third place in the triple jump at 13.48 meters. Jahnke won the weight throw at 16.58 meters and finished third in the shot put with a distance of 14.31 meters. Rick Britton and Ben Cooke took the top two spots in the 3000-meter run. Britton won the event in 8:45.43 and Cooke was just behind Britton at 8:58.93. Larry Inanga started the indoor season with a winning time of 6.49 in the 55-meter dash while Anthony Becknek won the men's 5000-meter run in 15:47.15. Webster Jones' height of 1.92 meters gave him a first-place finish in the high jump. DePaul's 4x400-meter relay team of Inanga, Doug Borh, Mike Scafide and Siddiqu Muhammad took first place with a winning time of 3:20.40. Muhammad also place third in the 200-meter dash at 22.86 while teammate Kim Trieu was third in the mile with a time of 4:26.27. The Blue Demons continue the indoor season next weekend at the Carthage College Invitational. The all day meet will take place in Kenosha, Wis. on Saturday.


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The climate of the Virgin Islands is subtropical and humid, moderated by easterly trade winds. Seasonal changes in weather are subtle. The hottest month of the year is July, when high temperatures can reach 90°F. During the coolest winter months, December and January, high temperatures reach the low 80s. Humidity generally ranges from 70 to 80 percent, peaking in July.
Historically, the Virgin Islands receive about 40 inches of rain per year. The wettest months are September, October, and November, when it seems to rain just about every day. January, February, and March are the driest months. Rain arrives quickly, falls heavily, and moves off just as suddenly as it came. If you visit during a rainy month, you will quickly realize that the best prescription against getting wet is to just seek shelter and wait out the rain.
The windiest months are December and January, when the so-called Christmas Winds pass through. These delightful air currents of 25–30 knots bring cool air from northern climes, making these months ideal for sailing and generally cooler. From November to June you can count on northeast winds of 15–20 knots consistently. In May, June, and July the summer doldrums hit and winds taper off; southeast winds of 10–15 knots are common. These are the worst months for sailing, and some of the hottest. In September and October the weather tends to be unsettled.
Days are longer in the summer, with sunrise coming close to 5 a.m. and sunset around 7 p.m. At the peak of winter, sunrise is much closer to 6 a.m. and the sun sets at 6 p.m. Tides are minimal this close to the equator, with a range of about 12 inches; you probably won't even notice tidal fluctuations.
The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1 and ends November 30, peaking in September. An old rhyme puts it fairly accurately: "June, too soon. July, stand by. August, it must. September, remember. October, all over."
The word hurricane comes from the Taino deity Jurakan, their god of malevolence and destruction. For these ancient seafarers, the destructive capacity of a hurricane was compounded by the fact that they arrived virtually unannounced.
In more modern times, the only warning one had of a storm was a sudden drop in barometric pressure just before the storm would strike. Older residents of Road Town, in the British Virgin Islands, can still remember the days when a government agent would monitor the barometer and ride through town on horseback warning people when the pressure took a sudden downward turn.
Today, the National Hurricane Center in Florida tracks and predicts hurricanes, and islanders have several days' notice before a storm strikes. Keeping an ear out for the tropical weather forecast is a daily feature of life in many households.
Evacuation is not generally practiced—except for tourists. Most people ride out the storm by boarding up windows and hunkering down with canned food, lots of extra water, flashlights, and battery-operated radios. Some homes also have standby generators. Builders use the latest hurricane-resistant building technology: impact glass for windows and hurricane clips for roofs, for example. Mariners moor their boats at established hurricane holes, coves where wind and wave action are blocked. On top of that, local disaster management offices are well equipped and experienced in mitigation and response.
The Virgin Islands have experienced several devastating hurricanes. Storms in 1867, 1916, and 1924 wiped out whole towns. In 1989, Hurricane Hugo razed the Virgin Islands, St. Croix in particular. Hurricane Marilyn in 1995 dealt an especially devastating blow to St. Thomas. In 1999, Hurricane Lenny doused the entire region with heavy rains.
In addition to damage to buildings, roads, and boats, hurricanes can exact a cost on the natural environment. Waves from a hurricane can damage coral reefs, and the terrestrial destruction affects habitat for a number of creatures. Some species, including many predators, benefit from the disturbance of a hurricane, however.
Travelers who book trips to the Virgin Islands during hurricane season, and especially during the peak month of September, would be wise to also buy trip insurance in case your plans are disrupted by a storm.
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Seminar "The future of aid and development effectiveness"
Oxfam EU Office is co-organising with Eurodad and CNCD-11.11.11 a public seminar on "the future of aid and development effectiveness" at the International Association Centre. One year after the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in Busan, where previous commitments on aid effectiveness were reaffirmed, no clear framework for effective and responsible development finance, which effectively addresses the future of aid including new aid modalities and the growing role of the private sector, has been created. The objective of this event is to debate these emerging issues with a panel discussion on the role of the private sector in the post-Busan agenda and the launch of the Eurodad report on results-based approaches: "Hitting the Target? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Results-based Approaches to Aid."
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A Sr. Democratic aide also reported that both the House and Senate are close to an overall deal but have not yet wrapped everything up.
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The Senate rejected an effort to include the project in its two-year $109-billion transportation bill, while Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) found it difficult to garner support for his original five-year $260 billion package that called for the advancement of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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The bill, which would extend SAFETEA-LU and the collection of motor fuels taxes that are deposited in the Highway Trust Fund through June 30, 2012, is expected to be signed by President Barack Obama.
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In related news, Mica also announced that he will introduce a three-month extension of highway and transit programs. The extension will not include changes to current transportation policy.
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Proposal, which has stalled due to the inability to garner Republican support, was meant to help the party stake an election-year claim to being the party of job creation
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Democrats on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who felt they did not have a hand in writing the bill, applauded the news and are hopeful to be more involved in the process.
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With heavy machine gun fire in the background as he spoke from the Baba Amr section of Homs, Syrian citizen journalist and blogger Omar Shakir told Morning Edition co-host Renee Montagne earlier today that "we are asking for [an] SOS" and help from the International Red Cross to stop what he said has been the deadly shelling of his city by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad.
"There is no one with us," Shakir said.
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Next to Mumbai's bustling international airport, a boy picks through refuse, looking for pieces he can recycle and sell to support his family of 11. He is a resident of Annawadi, a slum built on a patch of reclaimed swampland — now fringed by luxury hotels.
As economists and activists fret over increasing income inequality in America, scenes like this one from journalist Katherine Boo's new book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, are a forceful reminder of the extreme disparity of wealth that exist all over the world — and what people must do to survive.
Reporter Joanna Kakissis in Athens has the latest on the nail-biting negotiations over the Greek debt.
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Citigroup says it has become the first Western bank with permission to issue credit cards under its own brand in China. Until now, China required western banks to co-brand with Chinese operators.
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There's finally a full-service bank in the town of Ave Maria.
Shamrock Bank CEO Colleen Kvetko snipped a ceremonial green ribbon in the lobby of the new branch in the Ave Maria town center Monday morning and, flanked by local business and community leaders, declared the branch open for business. Pictured left to right: branch manager John Tenney; Fr. Robert McTeigue, AMU director of campus ministry; Fr. Robert Tatman, Ave Maria quasi-parish pastor; Ms. Kvetko; Barron Collier Real Estate President Blake Gable and Shamrock board members Lou DePrisco and James Magnus.
"This was a long time coming," Barron Collier's Blake Gable said in his opening remarks in which he gave Ms. Kvetko credit for in doggedly pursuing approval by the FDIC to open the branch. "No one is as tenacious," he said.
It was the FDIC that finally scuttled plans by Florida Community Bank to open both a branch and its headquarters in Ave Maria. FCB ran into financial difficulties after building out its branch and the bank failed in January, 2010. (Left, Fr. McTeigue blesses the branch before the ribbon cutting.)
"There's not a better place in Collier County for a community bank," Ms. Kvetko said, offering her own thanks to the FDIC for approving the branch. Shamrock Bank, started by Ave Maria University founder Tom Monaghan, has its headquarters and a branch on 5th Ave. S. in Naples, as well as a loan center in North Naples on US 41.
The Ave Maria branch will be family friendly and pet friendly, Ms. Kvetko said, with a kids' playroom available for children to use while parents are conducting other business at the bank.
The branch will be open initially three days a week -- Monday, Wednesday and Friday -- but Ms. Kvetko said they are prepared to open other days of the week if there is demand.
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We live in a most generous community. We want to thank all those many people who came to Utah's Place on Saturday, Oct. 20 with their dirty cars and donated money to us to make them sparkly clean. We will use this money to renovate our new home and, hopefully, begin to occupy it in the spring. To Grass Valley Police Chief John Foster, Mayor Jan Arbuckle, Councilwoman Lisa Swarthout, Supervisor Terry Lamphier, Howard Levine, Executive Director Cindy Maple, and board members Joanna Robinson, Dick Kuhwarth and Vee Prioetti, volunteer coordinator Kathleen Wood — thanks for joining us in the …
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A pair of Grey's Anatomy doctors will spend their summer hiatus saving lives in a different way. Justin Chambers and Kevin McKidd don cape and cowl to star in the upcoming animated superhero adventure Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.
They've already kissed. Has the time finally come for Beauty and the Beast's Catherine (Kristin Kreuk) and Vincent (Jay Ryan) to go all the way? We may find out on the sexy March 14 episode of The CW drama when the star-crossed lovers attend a glamorous masquerade ball.
[WARNING: The following story contains major spoilers from the Season 5 finale of Sons of Anarchy. Read at your own risk.]"You can't sit in this chair without being a savage."After a season-long examination of what kind of leader Jax Teller would become as president of the outlaw motorcycle club at the center of FX's Sons of Anarchy, Jax offers up the words above as his ultimate conclusion. And there's plenty of evidence to support his case.Sons of Anarchy: What kind of leader will Jax become?After successfully getting the club out of transporting drugs for the cartel and dealing major weapons for the Irish, Jax (Charlie Hunnam) still had one item on his agenda: killing his predecessor Clay (Ron Perlman). But because Jax's vice president Bobby (Mark Boone Jr.) cast the only vote against killing Clay as a club action, Jax had to get creative...read more
Feature trailer for Pacific Rim. From acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Pacific Rim. When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi) who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.
Ron Perlman talks about his starring role in the film and explains Hellboy\'s origins.Occult-obsessed Nazis conjure a demon in the waning light of WWII. When the Allies raid the camp and discover a just-birthed demon, Hellboy, they take him into custody and raise him to serve good instead of evil (whew!). Based on Dark Horse comics\' most popular series.
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Frustrated with her uncommunicative husband and distant daughter, a suburban housewife seeks solace in witchcraft.
A NEW YORK TIMES PICK OF THE WEEK! Starring Chris O'Dowd (BRIDESMAIDS), Lizzy Caplan (BACHELORETTE), Charlie Hunnam and Ron Perlman (SONS OF ANARCHY) and Chris Noth (SEX IN THE CITY, THE GOOD WIFE)... 3,2,1...Frankie Go Boom is a hysterical, off-the-rails tale of two brothers, a girl with a broken heart, a sex tape, an angel and a pig. See the film the New York Times calls: "Hilarious... Vibrantly vulgar... With wham-bam timing and uni-sex jokes, it flirts with farce, but never betrays the generosity of its emotions."
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Cat and Vincent go on a date out in public in an attempt to be a normal couple, which backfires on them. Meanwhile, Gabe reveals some information that gives Cat hope they can find a cure for Vincent.
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The price of power sits heavy on the shaggy head of Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the prince-turned-leader of a troubled biker kingdom on FX's Sons of Anarchy, wrapping its fifth and best-yet season tonight with a super-sized 90-minute finale (10/9c). A few weeks ago, in a moment worthy of this series' Shakespearian ambitions, Jax told his disgraced, dethroned evil stepfather Clay (Ron Perlman): "I'm tired of being crushed under the weight of greedy men who believe in nothing."
As exciting game-changers go, the only shows currently surpassing The CW's The Vampire Diaries in their new seasons are Showtime's Sunday blockbusters, the Emmy-winning Homeland (which just won't stop with the jaw-dropping twists) and the back-on-its-game Dexter (finally breaking new ground with Deb's realization of her brother's true identity). After several seasons of treading bloody water with increasingly convoluted plotting that didn't really move the show's core characters forward, Diaries has at last taken the leap in its fourth season (Thursday at 8/7c), turning its leading lady (Nina Dobrev as the tormented Elena) into the most reluctant of vampires, sending shock waves of guilt, anger and worry through the entire Mystic Falls supernatural brain trust.
[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from Tuesday's episode of Sons of Anarchy.]Tuesday's episode of Sons of Anarchy was, in a word, brutal. Fall TV: Get scoop on your favorite returning showsNot only did the episode feature a graphically violent death-by-beating, but it also killed off one of the show's most beloved characters. The newly incarcerated Jax (Charlie Hunnam) was told by Damon Pope (Harold Perrineau) that in order to end the beef between their respective gangs, Jax would have to give Pope half of the money SAMCRO earns muling cocaine for the cartel. The second demand was much trickier: Pope also told Jax to choose which one of the brothers he had walked into prison with — Tig (Kim Coates), Chibs (Tommy Flanagan), and Opie (Ryan Hurst) — would not be walking out.While mulling over the decision, Jax... read more
Never judge a book by its cover.Sons of Anarchy's Season 5 premiere proved that old adage once again with the introduction of gangster Damon Pope (Lost's Harold Perrineau). Unlike his crew, the One-Niners, Pope is a well-dressed businessman who could seemingly never be mistaken as an outlaw or a thug.Sons of Anarchy: What kind of leader will Jax become?"I always envisioned this guy as being [the] kind of guy who has sort of risen above the street and has learned to carry himself in the community," creator Kurt Sutter tells TVGuide.com... read more
"Heavy is the head that wears the crown," goes the old saying. And as Jax Teller, antihero of FX's Sons of Anarchy and new president of the titular motorcycle club, will discover this season, it's heavier still with two new influences whispering in his ears.
Fresh off its most watched season, the oft-described Hamlet-on-Harleys will likely get another boost from Dexter/NYPD Blue vet Jimmy Smits and Lost/Oz alum Harold Perrineau, who both join for lengthy stints in Season 5 as a dubious ally and a formidable enemy, respectively.
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A large crowd turned out for Literacy Night at Forge Ridge School. Students performed skits and plays that centered around reading. Students also dressed as their favorite literary character and did a wax museum-style presentation on them. Other students did storyboard presentations. Another big part of the event was the popular book fair which is shown here.


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An interesting thread in the Demon Hunter forum asks which DH passives should be "baked in" to the character, basically making them full time abilities. The whole thing was spurred by a blue post about Monks:
The most commonly proposed solution is to simply bake One With Everything directly into the Monk's class. In essence, give the passive away for free. This has a few issues. We don't currently bake a mechanic like this into other classes, so it would be something that'd need to be explained to new players or otherwise exist as a hidden bonus. It also represents a big boost to one class that's inequitable with the other classes.
Passive Skills for Wizard in Softcore Pos Skill Percent 1 Critical Mass(Passive) 64.82% 2 Glass Cannon(Passive) 46.97% 3 Cold Blooded(Passive) 36.09% 4 Evocation(Passive) 31.47% 5 Blur(Passive) 29.75% 6 Astral Presence(Passive) 28.51% 7 Galvanizing Ward(Passive) 27.86% 8 Unstable Anomaly(Passive) 6.46% 9 Temporal Flux(Passive) 5.71% 10 Arcane Dynamo(Passive) 5.01% 11 Illusionist(Passive) 4.43% 12 Prodigy(Passive) 4.23% 13 Paralysis(Passive) 3.45% 14 Conflagration(Passive) 2.51% 15 Power Hungry(Passive) 2.51%
Wow, now that's a tale of halves and have nots. Critical Mass is the only real outlier at the top, but once you get past Galvanizing Ward things just drop off a cliff. Deservedly.
Paralysis and Temporal Flux are weird and I think relics; why do just Fire and Arcane get the stunning effect singled out in passives? Because cold chills by default and during development Lightning caused a stun when it hit with a crit. So the devs wanted all 4 elements to have a stunning option, and needed to add passives for two of them. Maybe combine those two into one passive, add Lightning also, and lower the proc? Or tie it to crits? Something.
Arcane Dynamo seems needlessly complicated and unsatisfying in the mechanic. Would it be more fun working like Frenzy or Sweeping Wind, where it charged up from fast hits in succession and provided a buff that lasted until you didn't get any hits for some time?
Prodigy and Power Hungry are poor man's versions of Astral Presence and could be combined or removed entirely, as even decent quality gear does much more for AP recovery than those passives.
On the whole, Wizard passives seem half-baked. There are a few good ideas and some have a big impact, but then you've got a bunch of filler. Add stuns to specific elements, add damage to specific elements, add minimal amounts of AP in weird ways, etc. Seems like a lack of vision or creativity on these; where are some more with interesting proc effects, or some that proc from health orbs? Maybe the removal of skill trees hurt these, since that seems to have ruined the bonuses to entire families of skills, other than some that boost by element type, but unimpressively.
That said, Wizard is the class I've played the least of these last few months, so hopefully some of you guys have better or more creative ideas than me about what new passives the wizard could use, or how existing passives could be improved or combined or baked-in?
Similar threads are now running for all five classes: Barbarian Passives, Monk Passives, Witch Doctor Passives, Demon Hunter Passives.


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To put an new spin on an old sailor's saying, here is an adage about oral odor. Dry mouth at night: bacteria's delight. Dry mouth at morning: halitosis! Take warning! Though it may not seem like that big of a deal, dry mouth can lead to severe halitosis, deep cavities and problematic dental issues.
You're probably familiar with the most common symptom of dry mouth at night - namely, morning breath. If you tend to sleep with your mouth open, you almost certainly wake up with funky, sour-smelling dragon breath.
This variety of halitosis has its own name for good reason. Unlike your common, run-of-the-mill bad breath, odor caused by nocturnal dry mouth can be especially potent, since your oral cavity's bacteria have all night to multiply.
When you go to sleep and your jaw falls slack, you salivary glands cannot replace saliva as fast as the open air makes it evaporate. Fairly quickly, your tongue and palate can dry out. From then until you wake up, the microbes in your mouth diligently colonize every nook and cranny they can get into, emitting foul-smelling gases in the process.
Think of your open mouth as a big Petri dish. Without cleansing moisture, anaerobic bacteria can thrive, leaving your breath smelling terrible and your teeth covered with a layer of scum.
Not everyone who experiences dry mouth at night sleeps with their mouth open. In fact, some people suffer from xerostomia, a chronic condition of low saliva flow. This can be caused by medications, nerve damage or even Sjogrens syndrome, an autoimmune disorder, according to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.
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Kuwait, December 3, 2012
Kuwait's ruler accepted the government's resignation on Monday, the state news agency Kuna said, a step designed to make way for a new cabinet in the Gulf Arab state after parliamentary elections boycotted by the opposition.
The election on Saturday was the second this year in the oil-producing nation, where a series of assemblies have collapsed due to a long-running power struggle between the parliament and the cabinet, in which the emir's ruling family holds the top posts.
"The emir accepted the resignation of the government," Kuna said in an SMS news alert, adding that the ministers would serve in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet was formed.
Under the constitution, a new government must be formed before the first session of the new parliament. Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah said the new parliament would convene on Dec. 16, Kuna said.
Sheikh Sabah is expected to pick his prime minister next week, who will in turn form a cabinet that will be announced on Dec. 14, said Kuwait's al-Watan daily, which is owned by a member of the ruling family.
More than half the members of parliament elected on Saturday are newcomers to the 50-seat National Assembly. The chamber is expected to be more cooperative with the government than its predecessor because of the opposition boycott of the vote, and protests that divided the Opec member state. – Reuters
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As we've been predicting here for some time, allegations of mismanaged therapy care are starting to land nursing homes in some seriously hot water.
While at a post office recently, I watched a woman cut in line to demand the clerk fix the automated posting machine. A fight broke out between her and the man at the front of the line: Voices were raised, threats were issued and I kept my hand on my phone, waiting to dial 911 if violence erupted.
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Intrepid Daily Show correspondent John Oliver recently headed Down Under. His assignment: Find out how Australia's strict gun control measures have played out since being passed in the mid-1990s. It occurred to me that Oliver might be able to repeat this trip in the future, only instead of reporting on Aussie gun control, his subject might be the country's move away from CPR in nursing homes.
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The years of cuts to federal scientific grants has been a travesty, and I don't use that word lightly. The often-mocked duck reproduction project is an example of putting a small amount of money to fund basic scientific knowledge.
Bully for provider groups pulling out the stops to draw attention to the ludicrous mishandling of "observation stay" designations by many hospitals. One prong of the plan is to have providers supply anecdotes about individuals hurt financially and emotionally by the practice.
If you work in long-term care today, you might feel like you're drowning in an alphabet soup of possible deficiency ratings. So forgive me, but let's imagine there's yet one more possible citation to watch out for: the GR.
OK kids, time for an unannounced pop quiz. Here goes: How do Medicaid caps differ from New Coke, Sarbanes-Oxley and hands-free lawnmowers? The other three bad ideas were actually carried out
Street cameras played a major role in identifying the two brothers who allegedly bombed the Boston Marathon. In the wake of this helpful development, public support is growing for expanded use of cameras in high-congestion areas.
Behold, readers: There's a new work of literary fiction that takes place in a long-term care facility.
I almost feel like I'll need to find a confessional booth after completing this blog post. I come not to bury the Green House project but to praise it. This is tough to do.
As any retailer will tell you, advising customers to shop elsewhere is never easy. Yet that is exactly what too many senior living operators should be doing - but won't.
You might not be old enough to remember the "Schoolhouse Rock" videos that aired between cartoons on Saturday mornings during the 1970s. One of my favorites was "I'm Just a Bill." Long-term care novices could learn a lot from it — to a point.
When it comes to talk about palliative care and rehospitalizations, what should a provider do when the family is insistent on sending their loved one back to the hospital?
How could we not see it coming? That's the question I asked myself Tuesday.
I was sympathetic when the Partnership for Sustainable Health Care called for a speedier shift away from fee-for-service last week — and I also thought about Purell. Yes, that Purell.
Billionaire Warren Buffet famously once said he had two rules for investing. The first was to make money. The second was to remember the first.
When my mother was undergoing treatment for breast cancer around 15 years ago, a good friend of hers would call and start crying.
It was welcome news Tuesday to learn that the confirmation hearing for the person who could officially wind up holding the purse strings for most nursing home payments was civil. Even better was the nominee saying she would look into the ridiculous state of affairs concerning hospital observation stays.
Attention all strivers and overachievers. You should slow down and not push yourself too hard, two new studies suggest.
Reader's Digest magazine recently published an article called "50 Secrets a Nursing Home Won't Tell You." I'm a bit dismayed by the lack of evidence that's actually presented.
Long-term care operators are understandably giddy about the sudden prospect of immigration reform. But they might want to curb their enthusiasm.
If you're a gambling person, it looks like the odds just got a whole lot better for Marilyn Tavenner becoming the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. That's the person who manages the main funding streams of long-term care in the United States.
Have you thanked anyone at work today? If you have, you've done something very powerful.
This publication and this sector were facing some very troubled times in 1990. That's when I joined McKnight's Long-Term Care News. The experts have a technical term for where the field and the magazine were at that time: barely alive.
One of the occupational hazards of being a journalist is that you often have to distribute bad news. But every so often you get to share something that's a bit more cheerful. This is one of those times.
Government agencies and lobbyists are famous for conducting studies that prove a point — theirs, namely. That's why I'll be very interested to see who will have the courage to conduct one of the most important long-term care-related studies that should be completed over the coming year.
In healthcare, there's a knee-jerk fear that admitting a mistake or error in judgment will lead to a lawsuit, and so an excuse is made. While it's important to hear someone out as to their reasoning for, say, a resident care plan, there is a difference between explanation and excuse.
We must change the conversation around long-term care, dispelling myths and encouraging people to speak frankly and plan realistically for the needs of people as they age.
There are some tangible signs that things are getting better for the senior living sector, and probably for the overall economy as well.
Here's the good news for providers: new analytics are making it possible to understand and bill your care in ways that would have been impossible just a few years ago. Here's the bad news: The government is quite aware of these new options.
A provider conference session this week was called "Using War Games to Cope in Uncertain Times." Its subtitle could have been "Act Like a Long-Term Care Organization, Think Like a Hospital."
Even after a few weeks, it still seems like a bad joke. Maybe something pulled from the front page of The Onion, the satirical newspaper that has been lampooning revered subjects for years.
Here's a conundrum: The rate of post-traumatic stress among Vietnam veterans has climbed from already high levels in recent years, with the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War serving as triggers. This potentially increases the caregiving burden on families as these veterans age, and increases veterans' need for long-term care.
In a nutshell, troubled long-term care operators seem to be encountering this scenario with managed care companies: initial romance, followed by heightened accountability and reduced payments.
Alzheimer's disease is very good at taking. It takes away memories. It takes away personalities. It can be argued that Alzheimer's essentially takes away a person's essence. And as almost anyone who has spent time in a senior living facility can tell you, it can also take away sexual inhibitions.
It's not a secret that employees who work in healthcare, whether they are medical journalists or nurses, don't always earn gold stars when it comes to managing their own health. Witness the nurses clustering in a "butt hut" outside a facility, an administrator taking a cavalier approach to his or her diet, or saleswomen wearing sole-killing heels at a conference.
There are plenty of legal concerns that keep nursing home administrators awake at night. Many times, the demons can be kept under the bed or locked in the closet. But not always.
I was hoping to get clear answers about the sector's future at the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry's regional meeting last week in San Diego. I did, but I also must admit there were times when it was hard to give the various speakers the attention they deserved.
Ever wonder how much regard the White House has for long-term care operators? A brief filed last week makes the answer abundantly clear: very little.
The international attention over the incident concerning an independent living facility's refusal to give CPR, as a matter of policy, has inspired a lot of clutching of pearls regarding long-term care's medical ethics. There were a few big facts that got left out of the original reporting.
Nobody should pass up the opportunity to have a nationally respected professional expert visit his or her office. The chance to get six in there in a short amount of time? Outrageous. Yet, it's going to happen.
McKnight's Senior Editor Elizabeth Newman recently raised some thought-provoking questions about how "women manage women" in long-term care facilities with largely female staffs. Her blog got me thinking along some other lines as well: Male-female and male-male conflicts may become increasingly common as skilled nursing facilities become more gender diverse.
McKnight's Senior Editor Elizabeth Newman recently raised some thought-provoking questions about how "women manage women" in long-term care facilities with largely female staffs. Her blog got me thinking along some other lines: Male-female and male-male conflicts may become increasingly common as skilled nursing facilities become more gender diverse.
There's an adage about insurance coverage: While the big print giveth, the small print taketh away. Genworth Financial — one of the nation's largest long-term care insurance carriers - is giving the phrase a new twist.
Let's pretend that you work in a facility or company with mostly female employees. I know, it's a stretch. When conflicts arise between two women, what do you think?
The 87-year-old man who said he tried to kill an assistant living supervisor because he felt "bullied" will not be prosecuted for shooting the long-term care employee once in the stomach.
Is it a nursing home ... or a prison? That sounds like a shady lawyer trolling for clients, but it's an urgent question for the residents of Rocky Hill, CT. And it may be a pressing question for communities across the country in the near future.
If there's one thing long-term care operators contemplating the coming years should know by now, it's this: There are no guarantees. That's worth keeping in mind as various can't-miss strategies that ensure future success are being pitched your way.
Well, here we go again. Less than three months after President Obama and Congress narrowly avoided walking off a fiscal cliff, we're bracing for Round 2. Only this time, we're all a bit worse for wear.
If it were the stock market, the climb would indicate a lot of people becoming quite wealthy. Instead, its significant rise will have to settle for merely making a lot of people more healthy.
Amour isn't just a movie about an elderly couple. It also thoughtfully provokes questions about how families interact when confronted with long-term care situations. It also raises questions for caregivers.
Earlier this week, we saw lawmakers again take aim at Medicare's outpatient therapy caps. Rightfully so. Therapy caps are a dubious idea that ought to be given a decent burial.
If you're like me, you're a big believer in the saying "Attitude determines altitude." If you're in the eldercare business, this should become embedded in your mind — for the good of those on your watch.
February seems like an appropriate month to ask the fundamental question: What does it take to be happy?
The late Hunter S. Thompson famously said that when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. By his logic, the management and workers involved in a strike across five HealthBridge Management facilities in Connecticut seem to be taking professionalism to a whole new level.
Many a provider broke out in cold sweats when the Family and Medical Leave Act was cobbled together two decades ago.
The news flashed across my screen and immediately I said to myself, "This type of headline could be very bad for nursing home operators ... or maybe just kind of bad."
In the roundup of best Super Bowl commercials, the one that best relates to your lives didn't air. No, I'm not talking about the elderly people escaping from the nursing home to go eat Taco Bell, although I'm sure that's something that keeps your security people up at night. Or the Clydesdale: Brotherhood commercial, my personal favorite even though it makes me cry every time I watch it.
More than 110 million Americans watched yesterday's Super Bowl in New Orleans. It's not too hard to see why the game has become our nation's defining cultural ritual. The National Football League also could give us the nation's best chance at progress against Alzheimer's disease.
It is no secret that long-term care operators and other senior care providers love a good, money-making ancillary service to take care of their residents and firm up the bottom line. That's one reason why hot nursing home "news" out of Britain this week might have actually had some long-term care stakeholders excited at first blush.
Around 4 a.m. a few nights ago, I woke up feeling miserable. As I curled up back in bed after taking some meds, one of my cats hopped up next to me, looked at me with concern and laid a paw atop my arm.
McKnight's Daily Editor's Notes features commentary on the latest in long-term care news. Entries are written by Editorial Director John O'Connor on Monday and Friday; Senior Editor Elizabeth Newman on Tuesday; and Editor James M. Berklan on Wednesday.
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The House of Fabergé is synonymous with the absolute upper stratum of jewellery, based in part on the core of mastery as goldsmiths from which the company grew. In 1872, Peter Carl Fabergé took over his father's jewellery workshop which had already been operating in St Petersburg for some thirty years. His creativity, blended with undoubted technical mastery as a goldsmith immediately raised him to a world class level. Apart from his originality of form and function, he also drew artistic inspiration from the over-flowing stocks of the Hermitage Treasury. As time passed, and in his role of Supplier to the Imperial Court of Russia, Fabergé and to the world's royalty, he became best known for his unique series of 50 jewelled Imperial Easter eggs dating from 1885-1916.
Fabergé's supreme technical mastery, originality of design and sheer creativity are the hallmarks of his jewellery. His much sought-after and highly lauded Objects of Fantasy feature in some of the world's most important museums and private collections, including the collections of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II and Forbes Magazine.
After the 1917 October Revolution, Fabergé fled Russia and all the assets of the Fabergé company within Russia were confiscated by the new regime. Peter Carl Fabergé died in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1920 but his work will live on forever, as evidenced here in South Africa with this selected handful of delightful pieces on auction in the veneing session on 20 April 2010, commencing at 18h30.
Subsequent to the death of the 'master' of the Fabergé family, the company spread its wings internationally, and The Fabergé Company now has offices in London, Paris, and New York, to continue the tradition.
It is worth noting that the concept of a Fabergé 'Work Master' continues as an unabated tradition. In 1990 the jeweller Victor Mayer GmbH & Co. of Pforzheim, Germany, founded in 1890, became the new and officially appointed exclusive Work Master, chosen for its more than 100 years of maintenance of essential manual skills and technical knowledge necessary for the continuation of Fabergé's legacy. Under one roof 60 craftsmen exercise more than 30 traditional skills - some of them unique to this firm. It is from a private collection of the work of the jeweller Victor Mayer and his dedicated craftsmen that our select group of Fabergé jewellery is sourced, a rare opportunity to acquire such sought-after pieces.
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Lot 395 A Fabergé gold mounted enamelled and diamond miniature Easter Egg pendant, by Victor Mayer,
Estimate R5 000 - R7 000 SOLD FOR R13 440
Lot 397 A Fabergé gold mounted enamelled and diamond miniature Easter Egg pendant, by Victor Mayer,
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Estimate R13 500 - R14 500 SOLD FOR R29 120
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In an effort to alert the public on the crime of identity theft, the Zachary Police Department and Zachary Police Chief David McDavid share in the third and final article on identity theft and advise on how to protect yourself if or when the crime occurs.
STEP 1: Deter identity theft from happening.
STEP 2: Detect identity theft by reviewing all financial documents.
STEP 3: Defend against identity theft as soon as you suspect it.
McDavid said placing a "fraud alert" on your credit reports and reviewing the reports carefully tells creditors to follow certain procedures before they open new accounts in your name or make changes to your existing accounts.
The three nationwide consumer reporting companies have toll-free numbers for placing an initial 90-day fraud alert. "A call to one company is sufficient," McDavid said.
The companies are: TransUnion, 1-800-680-7289; Equifax, 1-800-525-6285; and Experian, 1-888-EXPERIAN (397-3742).
"Placing a fraud alert entitles you to free copies of your credit reports," said McDavid. "Look for inquiries from companies you haven't contacted, accounts you didn't open and debts on your accounts that you can't explain."
McDavid also advised closing accounts that have been tampered with is another way to defend yourself. Options include calling companies where accounts have been opened without your consent; use ID theft affidavit at ftc.gov/idtheft to support your written statement; ask for verification that the disputed account has been closed and fraudulent debts discharged; and keep copies of documents/records of your conversations about theft.
Filing a police report with law enforcement officials to help you with creditors who may want proof of the crime is yet another way to defend yourself.
Finally, report theft to the Federal Trade Commission. "Your report helps law enforcement officials across the country with their investigations," McDavid said.
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Updated: November 1, 2012
HAGERSTOWN, MD- Early voting resumed Wednesday after it was postponed for two days because of Hurricane Sandy.
Congressional candidate John Delaney stopped by the Red Cross voting site in Hagerstown.
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The issue isn't that postfix indirection is better than prefix; the real issue is that postfix declaration is better than prefix because then the pointer declarator is on the same precedence level as () and [], and complex declaration are less... complex. This is problematic in a language like C where declaration mimics use, since the best syntax for declaration is not the same as the best syntax for use.
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I better like the idea of separating declaration syntax from expression syntax and using '*' as a postfix pointer declarator and '[]' as an infix[1] indirection operator, like this:
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I guess I could call this "square lisp" syntax. :)
[1] This really isn't infix, since the operand is infix, not the operator, but I don't know the correct term for this form.
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It seems obvious in retrospect. Thanks.
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The 2012 Class A State Cross Country meet provided a fitting ending to the high school cross country career of Jacob Siekmeier.By: Patrick Johnson, sports editor, South Washington County Bulletin
The 2012 Class A State Cross Country meet provided a fitting ending to the high school cross country career of Jacob Siekmeier.
Siekmeier, a senior at Math and Science Academy, competed in his fourth straight state cross country meet on Saturday, Nov. 3, at St. Olaf College in Northfield.
"This was my last chance," Siekmeier said. "It hasn't really hit me. There's still track I guess. This a good friendly competition here. I like a lot of the people that I've seen tons of times down here."
In 2009, as a freshman, Siekmeier became the first Math and Science Academy student-athlete to qualify for a state competition and has since been the only Dragon to do so. The lone MSA runner to reach state again this year, Siekmeier earned 30th place overall with a time of 16 minutes, 41.8 seconds, which was just a few seconds back of his personal best at the St. Olaf course.
"He's great. There's no ego about his talent whatsoever, which is both refreshing and just a wonderful character trait," First-year head coach Thomas Church said. "He's very team-oriented. He's a hard worker and he leads by example. Everyone looks up to him and admires him. He works every day to earn it. Anything you ask him to do he does it. On top of that he's ultimately concerned with his teammates."
A crowd of roughly 15 family, friends and teammates made the journey to Northfield to support Siekmeier, who has set the bar at MSA.
"It's always nice when you have some success with a program," Church said. "You can tell that people are interested and excited about coming out for running. That said, I think the students at Math and Science are very engaged with a lot of things and like to participate in just about everything. There's just a great community and participatory culture there."
"We had a lot of runners that just came down here to cheer, to see the meet and to get themselves inspired to work over the winter, through track season and over the summer and hopefully get back here as a team next year or in years to come. They've got the drive to do it."
Siekmeier earned a fourth-straight trip to the State Meet by earning seventh place overall as an individual with a time of 16:51.9 in the 5K Section 4A Championship race.
Last year, Siekmeier earned All-State honors for the second-straight year, finishing 25th overall Class A State Cross Country Meet. All-State honors go to the top 25 finishers.
Siekmeier's prep sports career is far from over, however. He plans on competing in either basketball or Nordic skiing this winter for MSA, before taking part in track and field in the spring, where he said he hopes to reach state for the first time.
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