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PORTLAND, OREGON -- I have cut and pasted my letter to Levitz. Please note: I still have not received a response from Levitz and continue to call daily. Let me begin my experience with Levitz. First of all, I went to the showroom in ** and purchased a bedroom set. I informed the salesman that I wanted the bed, dresser, mirror, chest and two nightstands. When the furniture was delivered, the dresser and night stands rocked.
The delivery person, who set up the furniture, told me to go buy a chive and put it under the leg and then left very quickly. When they left, there was a mess in the street that I had to clean up. I also found an unopened box in my garage. And also, my chest was not delivered.
When I contacted the salesman and told him that the furniture did not have the chest, he informed me that we never told him to order it. When I explained that I told him everything I wanted (the entire set, an extra nightstand and chest, he gave me the cost). He denied telling me anything of the sort. I guess he was calling me a liar.
I called the shipping department, in **. They ordered a new dresser and nightstands to be delivered the next weekend. They were also going to install the center support on my bed as that was what I found sitting in my garage. The installers showed up in the evening, checked the dresser and told me all the furniture was adjustable (why didn't customer service know that). He then adjusted everything and looked at my bed. He told me that I did not need the center support.
My husband and I wend to Levitz to return the center support as again, it wasn't needed. The manager at the store told me that my bed had to have this support. Another appointment was set up to install the support for the third Saturday in a row. Levitz called to inform me that a tech would be out that Saturday between 12:00 and 4:00 pm. A little later the shipping supervisor called from Portland and told me they would be out between 8:00 am and 11:00 am. When I told him about the earlier call, he informed me that he was the manager and assigned all calls. Someone would be out Saturday morning.
Saturday morning I waited for Levitz. At 11:30 am, when no one had shown up, I called the customer service again. I was then informed that my appointment time was set for that afternoon. I called the shipping dept. in Seattle and the manager there told me that he could not see why my appointment had been voided (unknown to me). Around 3:00 pm, the tech showed up to check out my bed. He again stated that my bed did not need the support. While he was looking at my bed, another tech called to say he was on his way. When I told him that someone was already there, he was confused (as was I).
Later that night, a magazine fell behind my dresser so I reach back to retrieve it. Guess what, I cut my hand because the wood in the back of the dresser had been broken and pieces were missing making sharp edges. When I called customer service, I was told that I again was going to have to wait for Levitz to come out on Saturday (or take time off from work to wait for them during the week). In talking to the shipping department, they said they would order the piece and ship it to us. We could either install it ourselves or call for an appointment to have a tech do the installation.
Why, when we spent so much money, would we want to work on this furniture. This will be my fourth Saturday waiting for Levitz. I of course was told by **, at the New York customer service that there was nothing no one could do and no, I could not return my furniture as by now, I am totally fed up with the entire ordeal.
I cannot believe that I could spend so much money in your store, talk to several different customer service employees, whom most of were very rude, and receive damaged equipment. I know when the first people delivered the furniture and sat it up, they had to know that the dresser was damaged and tried to hide that fact. Also, to tell me to go buy something to make my furniture not rock is inexcusable.
I am totally frustrated with your company and am at a loss as to what I need to do. I am tired of spending my Saturdays at home waiting for Levitz to fix things when I spent $2500.00 in your store. Please tell me what I need to do to get this entire situation fixed.
FAIRLESS HILLS, PENNSYLVANIA -- Moving into a new home is supposed to be a happy experience. A month prior to our move, my husband and I went to Levitz Furniture in Oxford Valley/Fairless Hills in need of a bedroom set. Last Saturday, Mar. 5, was our moving day. We requested delivery on that date. When the furniture arrived, there was a flurry of activity. After it was unpacked and placed in the master bedroom, I signed for the furniture. The deliveryman did not give me a copy of the slip.
About 1 hour later when my husband and family arrived back with our next load of belongings, my husband checked the furniture and found that it was the wrong set. We notified the store that same day. They apologized and said feel free to use the furniture until they could pick it up. I advised them we would not use it at all (because we did not want to be held accountable if there were any damages.)
Four days later, we are told the correct set won't be here until at least the March 23, and they can't pick the wrong furniture until at least March 19th. How is it that they were ready to deliver within 48 hours but it will take them 2 weeks to pick up the wrong furniture, and 3 weeks to deliver the right furniture? We told store management we would take the floor model; they refused to sell it to us. All they would do is offer us an additional nightstand at no charge for the inconvenience.
Inconvenience??? We can't unpack any clothing because we have nowhere to put it. We have nowhere to sleep except our living room sofa. I can't unpack any of our belongings that go in the master bedroom. I worked in retail and retail management for more than 15 years and if I allowed customer complaints to reach this level, I would have been out of a job. Is there any way you can help? I just want the wrong furniture OUT of my house so we can get unpacked and on with life! I'll shop elsewhere for furniture and recommend others do the same. Any assistance you can offer is appreciated! Thank you! **
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Levitz - Fairless Hills Showroom
110 Commerce Blvd.
Fairless Hills, PA 19030
I purchased a bedroom set about a year ago. Recently, I found a hairline fracture on one of the side rail. It was hard to see, but definitely noticeable at a certain lighting angle. I called Levitz customer service and they told me that it was just out of warranty so they couldn't do anything for me. I persisted and called several times. Finally, they decided to send someone as "courtesy" to inspected the damage.
First, they didn't confirm their appointment so someone showed up to my house while I was not at home so I had to reschedule. When the serviceman saw the crack, he immediately told me that this was definitely a material defect and it was not fixable. I had to get a replacement part. He said someone from Levitz should be in contact for a replacement part.
I waited 2 weeks and no one called me to follow up this service call. When I called Levitz, I waited over 20 minutes for a CS to answer my call with a rude tone. I explained my situation and asked for some sort remedy. But he responded with a rude attitude that it was out of question. As an example, he had the audacity to tell that "One doesn't ask for a replacement cushion because it sagged after using it for a year."
The bed that they sold to me failed because of material defect. Also, it shouldn't fail because I SLEPT on it either! So I asked for a manager and he insisted that it will not change anything. I had told him THREE times before he asked me why I wanted to talk to a manager. It seemed a bit obvious, but I spelled it out for him that I wanted to have a formal complaint. Manager was not helpful either. She had the same reasoning.
I am in the process of submitting a complaint with the BBB. If you had a similar experience, please contact me so that my lawyer can have some of track record of this company. It unfortunate that a company is selling such an inferior product and getting away with it. Before this experience, I didn't have much opinion about Levitz, but only enough good faith in this company to spend over $2500 in home furniture. Now, they have lost my trust and hopefully many will see my experience and avoid this trap.
BROOKLYN PARK, MINNESOTA -- We purchased a bedroom set from Levitz in Brooklyn Park, MN and asked the salesperson if the furniture was hardwood and she replied, "Yes it was." Everything went fine until they delivered the furniture a month later. The dresser was cracked, the armoire was two different colors, the laminate was peeling, nothing was aligned properly and overall it looked very tacky. They also forgot the footboard and hardware for the mirror.
We called Customer Service after we picked up the items they forgot to deliver. After we took a good look at the final items we decided we couldn't live with this since it costed us $3,000.00 and it looked like something we could have purchased at a discount store. We called the following date to ask for a refund and for them to pick it up. We were then informed that they could order us a new set or if we didn't want the bedroom set we would be charged a 25% restocking fee. Why should we be charged 25% when the product was terrible?
We went to the store that evening and spoke with the Manager and she was very rude and disrespectful and wouldn't do anything for us. She admitted to us that it was mostly particle board and basically blamed us because she said we should have read the card that is hanging on the products and we would have known. She told us "what you see is what you get" which is not what a dissatisfied customer wants to hear. No signs of being sorry for anything. We were also told that "all sales are final". I let her know that this is always the case when a company is closing their doors but never heard of paying for full price merchandise and "all sales are final".
Interestingly enough this was never mentioned when they sold us the bedroom set. This is the most deceptive company we have ever done business with and we have since filed claims with the Better Business Bureau and the Attorney General's office. Just today we went shopping to replace this furniture at PM Bedroom Gallery and paid a little bit more but got solid hardwood with a lifetime warranty free of charge. These are the companies we will be seeking out to do business within the future.
BEWARE OF LEVITZ, they only want to make the sale and forget about how to treat customers properly with respect. The rumor is they are going to be bankrupt and are having a hard time making the rent payments. If anyone has had luck getting anywhere with Levitz I'd be interested to hear how it came out.
LAKE GROVE, NEW JERSEY -- I purchased a bedroom set in Sept of 2004. It was to be delivered on 9/31/04. It was with multiple damaged pieces. The deliverymen told me that we need to accept the order and call right away for replacement. Which we did. The next delivery came and the pieces were even worse and one piece never arrived. We declined the shipment and were told they would redeliver. We were given a date of 2/05. When I called to complain about the amount of time we have lost staying home from work they told me that it was a manufacturer's problem not theirs.
I asked why they would deal with manufacturer's that make poor quality product they said that they have never had a problem with this manufacturer before. They promised me that I would get my delivery in Feb and it would be in perfect condition. I got a call a few days ago that the exchange would be today. I never got called with a time frame and when I called customer service the recording said I would get the delivery today but no time frame was scheduled yet. At 9:20 this morning we called and were told they would be here between 10-2. At 4 when I did not receive a delivery or a call I called the store that told me they could not help me to call Presidential.
I did so and they told me they would call dispatch and I would get a call in 15 minutes. No call. I called back at 4:35 and was on hold until 5PM. And spoke to a woman who said they don't deliver to Long Island on Wednesdays they could do it on Saturdays. I said, "So why did I get a call about today?" She put me on hold for 10 minutes and came back with the same story. And she could not doing anything for me for their mistake. Another lost day of work. Then she said they would deliver again on April 12th!
So I asked to cancel and they said all deliveries to the home are final sale that I could not cancel. So I called the store and they told me that customer service has the last word. His only suggestion was that I write to the CEO. I am now waiting for a supervisor to call me back. If you are crazy enough to buy from these company INSPECT everything and do not accept if you are not 100% or you will be UPSET AND STUCK.
HAUPPAUGE, NEW YORK -- This is the most horrible company I have ever experienced in my life. In June 2003 I purchased a complete bedroom set from Levitz in Hauppauge, NY. In November 2003 the headboard legs broke and I wanted to replace them. I called customer service and I paid $50 for new ones and was told they would deliver in December. They never came in December. They never came in January. Each time I called them, they gave me the runaround saying there was delivery issues with the manufacturer. I filed a complaint with the BBB in the beginning of May 2004 because I was sick of seeing my bed in shambles.
Finally 7 months after I initially ordered them they were delivered on May 13, 2004. I ask them when I first ordered over the phone if they could mail me a receipt so that I could be reimbursed by my landlord. They told me a receipt of purchase would come with the package. NO RECEIPT CAME! Just a packing slip showing no amount of payment. I called them back again and requested a receipt, invoice or something showing what I ordered and what I paid. They denied my request saying they don't have receipts or invoices there.
WHAT KIND OF COMPANY IS THIS? I'm currently trying to find out if there is a law in NY state, that a company must provide a receipt. If you're thinking about buying from them I STRONGLY urge you not to. This company is horrible. Would NEVER recommend them or do business with again.


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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese authorities forcibly broke up small protests against China in two cities on Sunday, after deadly anti-China rampages over a flaring territorial dispute risked damaging the economy and spooked a state used to keeping a tight grip on its people.
In southern Ho Chi Minh City, police dragged away several demonstrators from a park in the city center. In Hanoi, authorities closed off streets and a park close to the Chinese Embassy and pushed journalists and protesters away. Police were posted outside well-known dissidents houses, preventing them from leaving, according to activists.
China, meanwhile, said it had dispatched the first of five ships to Vietnam to speed up the evacuation of any its citizens wanting to leave.
More than 3,000 Chinese have already been pulled out from Vietnam following the riots this past week that left two Chinese dead and injured about 100 others, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
China deployed an oil rig to a disputed patch of the South China Sea on May 1, triggering fury in Vietnam. Hanoi sent ships to confront the rig in a tense standoff with Chinese vessels. The breakdown in ties between the two countries is the most serious since 1979, when they fought a brief but bloody border war.
Last weekend, Vietnam allowed anti-China protests that drew thousands of people, a rare step widely seen as a way of amplifying state anger against Beijing. Doing so was risky for authorities: dissident groups joined in the protests, and public anger was such that violence was a possibility.
By Tuesday and Wednesday, the protests had morphed into riots targeting factories believed to be owned by Chinese companies. Many of those hit were Taiwanese. The violence caused concern among foreign investors who have turned Vietnam into a manufacturing hub in recent years.
China has loudly demanded Vietnam protect Chinese people inside the country. Many Chinese have left by commercial flights and across the land border into Cambodia, although violence has stopped since Wednesday.
Vietnam's government has vowed to protect all foreign investors, including Chinese, and said it has arrested more than 1,000 people over the rioting. On Saturday, it said further protests would not be allowed.
"I want to send a message that if we don't stop China today, tomorrow it will be too late," said demonstrator Dao Minh Chu, as he was pushed away from the park near China's embassy, where last week around 500 people gathered without interference from authorities. Those protests were covered enthusiastically by state media, a clear sign of state sanction.
China is a vital economic trade partner for Vietnam, and business links have grown in recent years. While they share a political ideology and a commitment to authoritarianism, the two countries also have a long history of bad blood. Many Vietnamese harbor deep resentment over what they see as China's bullying and economic exploitation of Beijing's far smaller neighbor.
They have often sparred over overlapping claims in the South China Sea, which is believed to have significant oil and gas deposits.
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How can I create a PDF?
Re: https://www.createspace.com/en/community/docs/DOC-1331 "Creating a PDF for Print"
Many members have problems with converting to PDF, and most do not have Acrobat Pro. In terms of the PDF presets (high quality, press quality, PDF/X, PDF/A) and printing, Laurel and CreateSpace are inconsistent and wrong.
Lighthouse's advice from post to post to use Acrobat Pro and to use PDF/X-1a is the best, the simplest, most reliable, easiest to remember. It obviates many problems that can arise from a careless or inattentive workflow. By flattening and converting various color spaces to one, several common member problems are resolved.
Note: assuming the original files are not corrupted, creating a good, useable PDF in Word and OpenOffice, or from Word files with most of the free conversion programs is usually easy and reliable. The CreateSpace article gives this an arcane and confusing feel. Of course, we could pay CS to make our conversion PDFs! (The publish pages have changed, downplaying how to do it yourself, and playing up CS services.)
What concerns me is the admonition:
"Avoid any other types of PDF (for example, PDF-A), as they are not intended for print production." Laurel repeats it three times.
In Word and OpenOffice, the best choice for creating a PDF is: 1) Word— Standard > ISO 19005-1 (PDF/A) in Word; 2) OpenOffice—Export as PDF > PDF/A-1a.
CreateSpace is, however, telling people not to use this conversion mode:
Is there something inherent in the CreateSpace prepress and printing processes that makes PDF/A something to be "avoided"? If so, CreateSpace should tell us what.
Most of the PDF related complaints in the forum are:
- fonts do not embed
- the output/PDF size is wrong
- transparency (
- inconsistencies in type density/black/inconsistent color spaces
High Quality
Press Quality
Recommended by CS
Embed fonts
Output size/trim size is wrong
Flattens multilayered image files
No (?)
No (?)
Color spaces
If CreateSpace can recommend High Quality, which Adobe recommends for desktop printing, there is no reason not recommend PDF/A, which is much more common and in many cases the best choice for creating a print-ready PDF.
Basically, that's my reply. Details and references follow.
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PDF/A was developed for long term document preservation: that is all characteristics of the original document (text, fonts, formatting, graphics, etc.) would be preserved.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000125.shtml LoC document
PDF/X developed to address certain prepress graphics issues but it shares many features with PDF/A.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000124.shtml LoC document
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format cited by LoC as a good reference
Here are the major differences between PDF/A and PDF/X (from <http://www.callassoftware.com/callas/doku.php/en:support:knowledge:faqs_pdfa_pdfx>):
Trapped settings: whether or not the PDF has been trapped
Page geometry specifications, in particular for TrimBox
Comments and form fields in page areas that are to be printed
JBIG2 (compression procedure for bitmap image data)
If certain metadata is contained in the document information, that metadata must also be contained in the XMP metadata in its equivalent form.
not required
Invisible text is often used for scanned pages to give a scanned page image text that can be used for OCR text recognition.
PDF/A does not require fonts that are used only for invisible text to be embedded.
PDF/X requires the general embedding of fonts, even for invisible text.
An output intent specifies the output purpose for a PDF file. Examples: A specific printing process such as sheet-fed offset on coated paper, printing on a specific type of digital printer, or output on the screen.
With PDF/A, if there are two (or more) output intents, their target profiles must be identical.
PDF/A, the output intent is optional – it is only required if device-dependent process color spaces (for example, DeviceCMYK or DeviceRGB) are used in the PDF/A document. If this is the case, the output intent serves to describe the color characterization of the device-dependent color specification
PDF/X always requires an output intent
For PDF/X, the output intent must refer to the intended printing method. An output intent for the screen – for example, via sRGB, is not allowed.
Most of these differences are irrelevant to most CS members and their books. And, if High Quality is good, what reason would there be not to use PDF/A?
From http://partners.adobe.com/public/asn/en/print_resource_center/AC7_PrintingGuide.pdf :
High Quality Print creates PDF files for general desktop printing and proofing. It downsamples color and grayscale images to 300 dpi and monochrome images to 1200 dpi, and preserves the maximum amount of information about the original document. PDF files created with this settings file can be opened in Acrobat 5.0 and Acrobat Reader 5.0 and later.
Press Quality creates PDF files for high-quality print production, such as digital printing, high-resolution prepress, and color separations to an imagesetter or platesetter. When you use this settings file, Distiller retains all the information in the PDF file that a commercial printer or prepress service provider needs to print the document correctly. This set of options downsamples color and grayscale images to 300 dpi and monochrome images to 1200 dpi, does not convert any colors, embeds subsets of fonts used in the document (if allowed), allows CMYK and spot colors (and converts colors if necessary), and prints a higher image resolution than the Smallest File Size and Standard settings.
PDF/X-1a:2001 creates PDF files that comply with the PDF/X-1a:2001 standard for graphic content exchange. When you use this settings file, Distiller checks incoming PostScript files for PDF/X-1a compliance. If the file fails compliance checks, Distiller does not create a PDF/X file; instead, it creates a log file that describes the errors in the document. The PDF/X-1a standard requires all fonts to be embedded, the appropriate PDF bounding boxes to be specified, color to appear as CMYK and/or spot colors, and information describing the printing condition for which the file is prepared to be included. For the PDF/X-1a settings file, the default output condition is US Web Coated (SWOP). For more information on creating PDF/X-1a-compliant files, see "Customize PDF/X settings" in this document. PDF files created with this settings file can be opened in Acrobat 4.0 and later.
PDF/A (available only in Distiller) creates PDF files that comply with the draft of the PDF/A standard, the proposed ISO standard for the long-time preservation, or archival, of electronic documents. PDF/A-compliant files contain only text, raster images, and vector objects; they cannot contain encryption and scripts. Additionally, all fonts must be embedded. PDF files created with this settings file can be opened in Acrobat 5.0 and Acrobat Reader 5.0 and later.


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Latest Word on Vince McMahon and CM Punk, Goldberg Comments on Scott Hall, Network Trial
– It's no secret there have been issues between Scott Hall and Bill Goldberg since their WCW days. Goldberg tweeted the following to a fan about Hall this weekend:
"Hopefully he's a changed man. Happy for him…(can't believe I said that)"
– There are reports that the one-week WWE Network free trial that will be offered on Monday is just for viewing the Network on WWE.com. We're still waiting on confirmation but WWE's announcement of the trial states the following: "Beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET on Monday, and for a limited time, WWE will offer a free one-week trial of WWE Network at WWE.com."
– There's a feeling among people close to CM Punk and WWE that Vince McMahon will end up talking Punk into coming back to work. We should know more about what the future holds after the March 3rd RAW in Chicago.
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Can occasionally be slang for vagina.
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a tall, scythe wielding character from the skulduggery pleasant series of books. the usually wear gray robes with a helmet that hides their face. they are total bad asses and are completely silent.
the three cleavers left silently to distract the several thousand hollow men. the knew they went to their deaths, but it was what they had to do if the mission was going to be completed
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1st Season New Jersey Nets (Created by 1st draft pick fantasy draft)
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Thirty-two New Jersey Teachers Earn National Certification
Thirty-two New Jersey teachers achieved national certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in 2003-04, the national board has reported. Commissioner of Education William L. Librera hailed the announcement, noting that greater numbers of educators throughout New Jersey are willing to participate in a rigorous process that leads to the teaching profession's highest honor.
"With this announcement, we now have 100 nationally certified teachers in New Jersey," Commissioner Librera said. "Although this number is lower than we'd like to see it, more New Jersey teachers completed the process this year than in any previous year.
"Maintaining and enhancing the quality of New Jersey teachers continues to be among the most important efforts we can pursue to improve student learning and our schools," Dr. Librera said.
"We at the National Board are tremendously pleased that the number of National Board Certified Teachers is increasing so dramatically in New Jersey," said Joseph A. Aguerrebere, president of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. "Study after study demonstrates that NBCTs improve student learning in their classrooms."
"National research continues to demonstrate that one of the best ways to improve schools and student learning is to strengthen teaching," said Dana Egreczky, vice president, Workforce Development at the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and president of the Business Coalition for Educational Excellence (BCEE). "By completing this rigorous assessment program, these teachers have attained one of the highest distinctions of excellence in teaching. We're truly proud of their accomplishments."
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization governed by a board of directors, the majority of whom are classroom teachers. Their mission is to advance the quality of teaching and learning by: maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do, providing a national voluntary system certifying teachers who meet these standards, and advocating related education reforms to integrate National Board Certification in American education and to capitalize on the expertise of National Board Certified Teachers.
NBPTS is the only organization of its kind that helps states identify and certify highly accomplished teachers. National Board Certification is used as a way to attract, reward and retain highly accomplished teachers as required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
National certification is achieved by completing a rigorous qualification process that takes between 200 and 400 hours to complete, over the course of one or more years. Teachers must complete an extensive series of performance-based assessments that probe the depth of their subject matter knowledge as well as their ability to manage, measure and improve student learning.
In June 2003, the Governor, the Department of Education, the BCEE and several New Jersey colleges established a professional development package to support candidates for National Board Certification through state subsidies and graduate credits. Encouraging and supporting an increased number of candidates for national teacher certifications is one of the state's goals in education.
BCEE, with the support of several corporate partners, created a recruitment and mentoring program for teachers interested in working toward certification. The program, called the National Board Network, is a service that links mentor teachers who have already achieved national board certification with teachers seeking certification. Through this program and ongoing recruitment efforts, the number of New Jersey applicants for national certification and New Jersey's passing rate for national teaching certificates have increased. BCEE at the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce is committed to ensuring that all students achieve at high levels, become productive citizens, and are well-prepared to succeed in the workplace.
Attached is a list of the 32 New Jersey teachers who were nationally certified in 2003-04. Included among them is Peggy Stewart of Vernon Township High School, New Jersey's 2004 Teacher of the Year.


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I have not-so-fond memories of two summers ago when many NFL players and pundits spent the long NFL lockout ripping Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco. We had a running photo gallery going and whenever somebody took another shot at Flacco, I tacked on another slide. A few of the shots came from Pittsburgh Steelers.
Nearly two years -- and two Ravens victories over the Steelers -- later, it seems the perception of Flacco has changed in the Steelers locker room. Or maybe they just got better at keeping their comments out of the blogosphere. But the Steelers I spoke with Thursday showed the fifth-year Ravens quarterback respect.
"They've got a lot of speed going on, but it starts off with Flacco," cornerback Keenan Lewis said. "He's a good quarterback who can make every throw out there. He probably has one of the best deep balls in the NFL, so we're aware of that. They've got Jacoby Jones and Torrey Smith. We've got to cover those guys."
Flacco exorcised some demons against the Steelers last season, throwing for 524 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions in two Ravens wins, including a victory at Heinz Field when Flacco tossed the Ravens down the field on a 92-yard drive that ended with him throwing the game-winning touchdown to Smith.
This season, Flacco has completed 60.2 percent of his attempts for 2,331 yards, 13 touchdowns and seven interceptions. He is on pace to set a career high in yards, and he could set a new high in touchdowns, too.
Lewis noted that Flacco is spreading the ball around, too. Flacco has targeted four players -- Smith, Anquan Boldin, Dennis Pitta and Ray Rice -- more than 50 times and seven Ravens have more than 10 receptions.
"He's trusting in his receivers a lot more. You can tell he's spreading the ball to everybody," said Lewis, who starts in the Steelers secondary. "So when you have confidence in those guys, he's playing with more confidence and you see that on film. He's been real impressive. We have come to come out there and stop him."
Nose tackle Casey Hampton sees a difference in the Ravens, too. He said stopping Rice will be a challenge as usual, but the Steelers also know that the Ravens passing attack has taken off as Flacco continues to grow.
"He's throwing the ball quite a bit," Hampton said. "He's doing a good job of putting numbers on the board. I think they're kind of switching over from running so much. But with the receivers they've got, you've got to do that."


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Pakistan says 1 dead in border clash with India
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan and India traded accusations Sunday of violating the boundary line dividing the two sides' forces in the disputed northern region of Kashmir. Pakistan said an Indian cross-border raid on border post killed one of its soldiers, while India said its troops had fired into Pakistan to retaliate for shelling that destroyed a home.
The accusation of a cross-border raid resulting in military deaths is rare in Kashmir where a ceasefire has held between these two wary allies for a decade. Tensions over the disputed region are never far from the surface, however, as the two nuclear-armed nations have fought two full-scale wars over Kashmir.
The Pakistani military's public relations office said in a statement Sunday that another Pakistani soldier was critically wounded in the incident.
They said troops were still exchanging gunfire after a raid crossed the "line of control" dividing the Indian and Pakistani sides of Kashmir in Haji Pir sector and raided a checkpost called Sawan Patra, the military said.
The remote area where the incident occurred is up in Himalayan mountain peaks.
Col. Brijesh Pandey, a spokesman for the Indian army in Kashmir said that Pakistani troops "initiated unprovoked firing" and fired mortars and automatic weapons at Indian posts early Sunday morning. He said Pakistani shelling had destroyed a civilian home on the Indian side.
"We retaliated only using small arms. We believe it was clearly an attempt on their part to facilitate infiltration of militants," Pandey said
India often accuses Pakistan of sending militants into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, often under cover of these types of skirmishes.
Kashmir is a mountainous region in the northern parts of Indian and Pakistan that has been a flashpoint of violence between these two neighbors for decades.
Both claim the entire region as their own, and the countries fought two full-scale wars over control of Kashmir and some minor skirmishes.
A 2003 cease-fire ended the most recent round of fighting.
Each side occasionally accuses the other of violating it by lobbing mortars or shooting across the LOC, but accusations of cross-border raids are rare.
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By Daren Butler
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan said he would make a "historic" appeal on Thursday, raising expectations of ceasefire in a 28-year-old conflict which has riven Turkey, killing some 40,000 people, and battered its economy.
Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) leader Selahattin Demirtas, a member of parliament, conveyed Ocalan's statement on his return to Istanbul on Monday from a visit to his prison on the island of Imrali. A ceasefire could cement talks with the government that have been progressing tentatively since October.
"We want to solve the arms problem rapidly and without losing time or another life," Ocalan said in asking for the support of parliament and political parties to achieve a peace.
There was no immediate comment from the Turkish government, which says it seeks but will continue to counter PKK operations until they lay down their arms.
The PKK is considered a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union as well as Turkey. But Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has promoted contacts since a summer that brought a sharp worsening of the conflict with rising guerrilla violence and large-scale arrests of Kurdish activists in the south-east.
A ceasefire call, coinciding with the Kurdish new year, could be accompanied by a command to his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants to withdraw to bases in northern Iraq where the PKK says it keeps about half of its 7,000 fighters. Turkey, which has launched air raids and even ground operations against the bases, gives small numbers for the rebels' strength.
"The statement I am preparing will be a historic call. It will contain satisfying information on the military and political dimensions of a solution," said Ocalan, who was captured by Turkish special forces in Kenya 14 years ago and long vilified as a murderer and 'baby killer' in Turkish media.
Ocalan was initially sentenced to be hanged for treason on Imrali, but this was commuted to life imprisonment. "Apo", as he is known to his allies, had been kept largely in isolation since then with no contact with his field commanders.
He was not allowed a television until a few months ago.
Truces have been agreed and failed before in the war, but this is the first time Ocalan and a Turkish prime minister have openly spoken of talks on a comprehensive settlement.
Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin said he expected a withdrawal of PKK guerrillas to bases in northern Iraq to be completed by the end of 2013, according to Milliyet newspaper.
Images of soldiers' coffins returning home have stirred deep emotions in Turkey. But allegations of human rights abuses by security forces in the southeast have damaged Turkey's image in the EU Ankara seeks to join.
The PKK had originally demanded full independence for a Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey, but has moderated its goals to broader political and cultural autonomy. Kurds account for some 20 percent of Turkey's 76 million population but are scattered through Western Turkey as well as the southeast.
In the course of the conflict investment in the southeast has slumped and poverty increased, putting a strain, beyond the human losses, on the Turkish economy as a whole.
In an initial confidence-boosting step, the PKK last week released eight Turkish captives which it had been holding at its bases in northern Iraq for up to two years.
Imrali island has long associations with the more turbulent chapters in Turkey's history. After a military coup in 1960, prime minister Adnan Menderes and two other senior ministers were hanged there.
(Additional reporting by Gulsen Solaker in Ankara; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Ralph Boulton)


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Wall Street Strip
Is Paulson's bailout bill unconstitutional?
Read more about Wall Street's ongoing crisis.
Does the Constitution have any role in the intense debate and blowback surrounding Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion bailout proposal? There is nothing in our founding document that prohibits taxing Peter (us) to pay Paul (Wall Street). There are constitutional principles, however, that speak to values such as oversight and transparency. Our system of checks and balances abhors a blank check.
And yet Secretary Paulson's proposal contains a sweeping provision that utterly strips the courts of any power to review his decisions. Section 8 of the Paulson proposal reads: "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."
In contrast, an alternative bailout bill, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, has a very different clause. The Dodd proposal reads: "Any determination by the Secretary with regard to any particular troubled asset pursuant to this Act … shall not be set aside unless such determination is found to be arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or not in accordance with the law." In other words, the Treasury secretary's determinations can be challenged on legal grounds. The Dodd version goes on to recite that "the terms of a residential mortgage loan that is part of any purchase by the Secretary under this Act shall remain subject to all claims and defenses that would otherwise apply notwithstanding the exercise of authority by the Secretary or Corporation under this Act."
How do these two alternatives stack up, constitutionally speaking? In Paulson's defense, there is no absolute constitutional prohibition on so-called "court-stripping" laws—provisions that bar judicial review of decisions by executive-branch officials. To the contrary, there is explicit language in the text of the Constitution that appears to grant Congress authority to control the jurisdiction of federal courts. The Constitution's Exceptions Clause describes the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, with the trailing language, "with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make." And the lower federal courts are entirely creatures of Congress: The Constitution only created the Supreme Court, leaving to the legislature the option to create lower courts as it deemed wise. The greater power to bring lower federal courts into existence implies the lesser power to place limits on the scope of cases they may hear. Finally, the Supremacy Clause, which makes federal law the supreme law of the land, trumping state laws, presumably gives Congress the power to insulate from state-court scrutiny the actions of federal officials who are enforcing laws passed by Congress.
It's relatively rare for Congress to pass laws stripping courts of all power to review actions of administrative agencies. But it does happen from time to time, and courts have upheld some of these laws. On the other hand, courts are especially skeptical of laws that preclude judicial review of claimed violations of constitutional rights. For example, the Supreme Court's decision this summer involving the Guantanamo Bay detainees, Boumediene v. Bush, held that the Bush administration's effort to deny the detainees access to federal court by taking away their right to the writ of habeas corpus was unconstitutional. In Boumediene, the court could rely on specific language in the Constitution's Suspension Clause, which forbids suspension of the writ except when "in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."
Secretary Paulson's proposal doesn't mess with habeas corpus. But its breathtaking sweep would prevent a litigant from raising constitutional objections to his actions. You could imagine, for example, a suit claiming that the Treasury Department had engaged in a taking of property without just compensation or had deprived people of property without due process of law (neither is allowed under the Fifth Amendment). Or a litigant could sue Treasury for acting so arbitrarily or irrationally that his actions violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
In contrast, Sen. Dodd's proposal includes a well-balanced provision for judicial review. His proposal would subject the Treasury secretary to the normal standards customary in American administrative law. Courts would not be permitted to substitute their judgment for that of the secretary—that's the part about how Treasury would only be on the hook for a decision that was arbitrary, capricious, or an abuse of discretion. But courts could be called upon to police such an abuse or a departure from the rule of law. That, of course, is their traditional role.
Those who advocate for a bailout this week often conjure the dismal economic history of the Great Depression. There's an apt legal parallel here as well. Many of the early laws passed at the behest of the Roosevelt administration during the New Deal were struck down by the Supreme Court precisely because they violated norms of checks and balances. While we have come to caricature those Supreme Court decisions as the shortsighted backlash of nine old curmudgeons who reflexively opposed the socialistic tendencies of the New Deal, perhaps it is worth remembering that the constitutional principles they invoked were grounded in the elemental balance struck by the framers. These principles are that Congress should pass laws based on intelligible policy judgments and not (literally) pass the buck to the executive branch, that executive-branch officials should administer laws subject to the guidance of Congress, and that courts exist to review the legitimacy of both.
I do not suggest that it is by any means certain that a court would strike down the Paulson bill as it's now written. But it is certain that this bill is in powerful tension with our system of checks and balances and that its constitutionality would be subject to grave doubt. Why take a chance? It was a lack of transparency and accountability that created the crisis in credit markets. That was itself a departure from the wisdom of the framers. Let's not depart again.


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October 15, 2010 will always be a memorable date for the Kansas State equestrian program. It marks the day when senior Hunter Seat rider Rachel Webster earned her first career win at K-State and began one of the most successful careers in program history and made a lasting impact on a rising program.
Hailing from Mechanicsville, Va., Webster never would have imagined that she would travel from the East Coast to the Midwest to continue her riding career.
"When I was given the opportunity to visit K-State I had no idea what to expect," said Webster. "I could not believe I was visiting a school over 1,000 miles away from home. When I got here I knew immediately that I could call it my home away from home."
Little did she know that the decision to attend K-State would change the course of an entire program.
One of the big challenges for freshman riders entering a program is getting use to a team format. Many riders usually compete on an individual basis and may have a hard time transitioning to a team.
"Riding at the collegiate level and riding personally before college are vastly different," said Webster. "When I first came to school here I had no idea what to expect because I had never really been on a "team" before."
Traveling halfway across the country and beginning your college career so far away from home can be a complete culture shock. Luckily for Webster, she instantly created a lifelong friendship with fellow freshman Cat Avolese, who would help her to not only become a great rider, but a better person as well.
"Rachel and I clicked from the very beginning as freshmen," said Avolese. "I think it is clear to both Rachel and myself that we have grown in our friendship as the years went on here at K-State because of our passion to also help each other grow."
Entering her first year, Webster was counted on upon to help the Wildcats right away. She used her freshman year to get acclimated to the collegiate format. She ended her freshman campaign with a 5-10 record while earning two Most Valuable Player (MVP) honors.
During her sophomore season, Webster continued to improve and earned more confidence in herself. Her tireless training showed as she finished the 2011-12 season with a 9-13 record and two more MVP honors. She also earned several academic honors.
It was the start of her junior year that saw Webster come into her own and take that next step to becoming a great rider. Her teammates saw the confidence that Webster inspired in everyone and elected her as one of four team captains. She helped lead a strong Hunt Seat team that dominated opponents and racked up an incredible 23-11 record and seven Most Outstanding Player (MOP) awards.
Webster was rewarded for her outstanding by season by being names an NCEA All-American, an All-Big 12 selection, and winning a conference Rider of the Month honor. She was also selected to compete at the WEF Collegiate Equitation Challenge.
Webster took that momentum and has continued it into her senior year. So far this season, she has earned another milestone win when she collected her 50th career victory. It was also the second straight season that she was chosen to travel to Wellington, Fla., to compete at the Collegiate Equestrian Challenge at WEF.
"WEF is a great way to showcase our sport at the collegiate level and I am very humbled and honored that my coaches chose me to represent K-State these last two years," said Webster. "I was so proud to represent this incredible team and I was thankful for all the support my teammates and coaches gave me."
Head coach Casie Maxwell knew that Webster was the perfect selection to send for two straight seasons.
"Selecting her to represent K-State two years in a row at WEF is a reflection of Rachel's consistency, hard work, and commitment in and out of the arena," said Maxwell. "It is a special, 'extra' event and we always want to take someone who is going above and beyond what is expected of them."
Despite all of the improvements that Webster has made as a rider, the biggest growth has been in her confidence.
"Rachel has made such amazing improvements in her riding and confidence from freshman to senior year," said Avolese. "Rachel, as a freshman, was young and just starting to get a good grasp on what the collegiate type of riding required just like all of us freshmen had to go through. Every year Rachel continued to grow in her confidence and in her leadership as well."
Maxwell could not be any more pleased to see Webster grow in confidence.
"The biggest improvement from Rachel over the past four years has been her confidence in herself," said Maxwell. "She was well trained and had a lot of great experience coming into the program, but her comfort level in this format has dramatically increased."
When it is all said and done, Webster may go down as one of the best riders to ever compete for the K-State equestrian program. With everything she has accomplished up to this point, it would be hard to find another rider who has the same resume.
"She has overcome physical struggles to keep herself in the arena and also taken the coaching changes within the Hunter Seat team gracefully," said Maxwell. "What she has accomplished in the arena, in addition to maintaining excellent academics, speaks volumes about who she is as a person. I am proud to have her go down in our history books."
But even with all of her personal and individual accolades, Webster is always quick to focus on her team and the job they have done to help get her to such a high level.
"I hope that I have made an impact as a leader for our freshman and incoming class to carry on the leadership and dedication that our great senior class has," said Webster. "I know I would not be the rider I am today without the support of all my teammates and coaches along the way. A team is a very special thing to be a part of and I am so glad I chose to be a part of this one."


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Review: Forty Creek Double Barrel Reserve Whisky (Lot 240)
Posted by Arctic Wolf on September 11, 2011
Today I am continuing a series of Forty Creek Whisky reviews with the Forty Creek Double Barrel Reserve Whisky. This whisky was introduced in the fall of 2008. As a collector, I purchased and saved a few bottles from the first release, and now I have selected one of those first bottles to review. This bottle is identified on the label as Bottle number 0043 from Lot 240. Although this review is from my whisky collection, I would like to thank Dave Gordon, the Regional Manager of Shiralli Agencies, who has provided me with a bottle from the current release (Lot 245) and I will be reviewing that bottle in the coming weeks.
Here is an excerpt from my review from Bottle number 0043 from Lot 240, of Forty Creek Double Barrel Reserve Whisky:
"…When I brought the glass to my nose I received a light indication of rye spices gently being lifted out of the glass. This was quickly followed by an updraft of caramel corn and honeycomb. The whisky also brings forward strong dry woody notes (oak and cedar) and a touch of sweet maple…."
Here is a link to the full review:
Review: Forty Creek Double Barrel Reserve Whisky (Lot 240)
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Dear HG, Have you seen the new Charbroiled Atlantic Cod Fish Sandwich at Carl's Jr.? It's not breaded or fried, so it looks like a good choice. Do you think it's a smart lunch option? Would skipping the tartar sauce make a big difference in the stats? Fishing for Answers
Dear Fishing for Answers,
Good questions! Even when a menu item looks innocent, it can be shockingly high in calories and/or fat. (See the shockers in this email and yesterday's restaurant-meal makeover for proof!) The stats on this sandwich aren't awful, but they're not particularly great either -- 420 calories and 15g fat (PointsPlus® value 11*). After a little investigating, we found out that the fish fillet itself has just 150 calories and 6g fat (PointsPlus® value 4*). Skip the tartar sauce, and your sandwich is down to around 370 calories and 10g fat (PointsPlus® value 10*). Better! If you wanna save even more, ask them to "Low Carb It." They'll swap out the honey-wheat bun for a lettuce wrap, dropping your total down to around 170 calories and 7g fat (PointsPlus® value 4*). Wow! THAT'S IMPRESSIVE! In general, the easiest way to remove unnecessary calories and fat from a fast-food meal is to ditch the creamy condiments. For example, bypassing the mayo and special sauce on the standard Carl's Jr. Turkey Burger brings it down from 500 calories and 22g fat (PointsPlus® value 13*) to 380 calories and 11g fat (PointsPlus® value 10*). Low Carb It, and you're down to about 180 calories and 8g fat (PointsPlus® value 5*). So easy, and a great way to enjoy better-for-you fast food. P.S. Carl's Jr.'s sister store, Hardee's, has variations on its menu and ingredients, so the nutritionals do slightly differ. But you get the idea!
Hi Hungry Girl, I know we're all supposed to drink six to eight glasses of water a day, but I have a really tough time sticking to it! Any ideas to help me get my recommended H2O without adding any sweetener to my water? Dehydrated Dina
Hi DD,
For a lot of people, chugging 64 ounces of water every day can be a real chore. But your body NEEDS water. Plus, water can help you feel fuller, which can lead to consuming fewer calories. Here are a few HG tips 'n tricks to help you get your daily fill of H2O! Add a splash of citrus. If you want to perk up your water, squeeze some lemon or lime juice into your glass. It'll add a light touch of flavor, and it's refreshing. To save time and be prepared, grab a big pitcher of water in the morning, and squeeze in some wedges of lemon and lime. You'll have citrusy hydration to last you all day long. Or buy a pitcher with a built-in compartment for fruit. Also, check out True Lemon and True Grapefruit. They're unsweetened crystallized citrus products that are calorie-free. Good stuff! Get sparkly. If you find regular water boring, try some with bubbles. Sparkling water ROCKS! There are even some products on the market that allow you to create your own sparkling water at home. Look for these at places like Bed Bath & Beyond. Citrus is great in fizzy water, by the way... Change up the temperature. There's no rule that says your H2O has to be ice cold. Try having hot water with lemon -- I love this! Even room-temp water can be a nice switch (it's how I drink mine!), and a lot of people find it easier to down than ice water. Space it out. Instead of panicking at 3 p.m. and trying to chug a gallon of water all at once, set mini goals throughout the day. Drink a glass of water when you wake up, one before and after each meal, and one more before you head to bed. That adds up to eight glasses of water, no problemo. Hope this helps you get your daily dose of H2O!
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January 31, 2012
Music professor receives Yale alumni grant
Nora Lewis, assistant professor of music, was awarded a $6,000 grant from the Yale AlumniVentures program to provide new intermediate-level woodwind instruments for students at L'Orchestre Obed Lominy at L'École de Musique Dessaix-Baptiste in Jacmel, Haiti. Lewis and her husband, double bassist Gordon Lewis, volunteered as teachers and performers in the school's classical and jazz programs in January 2011.
This community music school was founded in 1996 by the citizens of Jacmel, with the ambitious idea to bring music to impoverished and orphaned children, whose performances would advance the cause of music and benefit the entire community. Since that time, this idea has flourished and the school currently has more than 900 students. Staffed by a core of Haitian musicians and volunteers from throughout the world, the school is supported by international and domestic partnerships such as UNESCO, FOKAL, Save the Children and the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program-U.S. While the initial grant from UNESCO allowed for the purchase of 300 instruments, many of those instruments were lost or damaged in the Januray 2010 earthquake.
For Haitian musicians and the broader community, music is the currency of hope and in Jacmel, the community is inspired by music performances. Concerts given by the school draw enthusiastic audiences who emotionally connect with the music and fill the 300-seat auditorium beyond capacity. This grant will help provide two oboes, one flute, one clarinet, and reeds that are greatly needed for the creativity of these passionate and dedicated young musicians to flourish. The Yale AlumniVentures program is sponsored by the Yale University School of Music with the purpose to advance the cause of music.


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The true story of how small-time salesman Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) met brothers Dick McDonald (Nick Offerman) and Mac McDonald (John Carroll Lynch) when he was selling them a large order of mixers for the small restaurant chain that they'd started on their own. Impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making and serving the food, he sees the potential to make a highly profitable franchise.
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ORLANDO — Whatever strategy Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has for winning Florida, it doesn't include campaigning with Gov. Rick Scott.
Tuesday was the latest example of how Scott has steered clear — or been steered clear —from the presidential campaign trail.
While Romney stumped at an Orlando air filter manufacturing company, Scott was nowhere to be found.
Scott's obligation, according to his official calendar: "staff and call time." (Romney was introduced at the event by U.S. Reps. Daniel Webster and Connie Mack IV, who is running for U.S. Senate.)
Later that day, Romney attended a luncheon with former Sen. Mel Martinez and former Attorney General Bill McCollum at an Orlando country club.
As for Scott?
He was at a ceremonial bill signing in Miami.
"MittRomney has had 53 event in Florida. @FLGovScott hasn't attended any of them. #MittLostRicksPhoneNumber?" Eric Jotkoff, a Florida spokesman for President Barack Obama's campaign, mockingly tweeted.
Given the relative positions of the two politicians in polls, the estrangement between Scott and Romney isn't that difficult to understand, said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
"At this point, Scott is probably not an asset for Romney in this state," Brown said. "Romney is doing okay in the state. He's certainly more popular in the state than Rick Scott is."
While a Quinnipiac poll of 1,722 registered voters released on May 24 showed Scott's approval ratings actually rose to 41 percent, his negative ratings were still higher. Meanwhile, Romney held a 47 percent to 41 percent lead over Obama in Florida in a poll released on May 23 by Quinnipiac.
"Is it symbolic that Scott and Romney aren't spending more time together? Yes," Brown said. "Is it surprising? No."
While not necessarily surprising, it is somewhat of an aberration that Florida's governor has vanished from the presidential campaign.
In 2000 and 2004, then-Gov. Jeb Bush was instrumental in helping his brother, George W. Bush, win the state. In 2008, the Republican nominee, John McCain almost tapped then-Gov. Charlie Crist as his running mate during a campaign in which the two were inseparable.
Bush and Crist were popular at the time.
Yet too much can be made from these examples, said Rick Wilson, a Republican media strategist based in Tallahassee.
"You can't make the comparison because Crist had his own political ambitions and Jeb Bush had his familial obligations," Wilson said. "Never once have I seen a state in which a governor's popularity helped or hurt a presidential candidate. Crist's popularity was at 70 percent, and it didn't do anything for McCain."
If Scott's remoteness is just happenstance, it's still something Romney campaign officials won't discuss.
Alberto Martinez, a Florida adviser for the Romney campaign, declined to comment about Scott's absences, other than emailing a nongermane statement that claimed the governor is "implementing a pro-growth agenda."
Martinez did note that most of Romney's events in Florida were held before the primary. Three have been held since, he said.
In May, Romney took a two-day trip through Florida. On May 16, after a morning speech in St. Petersburg, Romney headed to the Avila Golf & Country Club in north Tampa, where some 200 supporters gathered, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, and incoming Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford. The next day, Romney visited Jacksonville.
Scott was in Washington that day for a Florida Council of 100 board of directors meeting.
The no-shows aren't on purpose, Scott said. They're coincidence.
"Well, you know, he hasn't been here a lot," Scott said this week, adding that he couldn't meet Romney on Tuesday because he had other plans, including the bill signing.
"I'd love to be helpful to him, but I have to make sure that after I commit to people that I'm going to their event, that I do it," Scott said.
Scott is more than just a governor in a swing state, however. He's the leader of the state that's hosting the Republican National Convention in Tampa this August. But Scott seems to be backtracking from an earlier statement where he said he hopes to get a prime-time speaking slot at the convention.
"I've never done a convention before," Scott said. "My goal is just to be helpful in whatever they ask me to do."
Michael Van Sickler can be reached at [email protected] (813) 226-3401.


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taniaaust1 wrote:Interesting to hear of your reality Jake... it makes more sense why you are having trouble seeing how some of our minds are working with our beliefs and probably are very confused on the way we think and how on earth we could think that esp when we arent following any religious belief.Now lets say im wrong, which I am open to at all times.
Its always good to be open. Due to being open, that has allowed me experience things which I didnt believe were true before I experienced them eg Im not Christian at all but twice have experienced Jesus.. so that was very strange to me. (There are many things I dont believe but are open to believing if Im shown they have some reality to them). I constantly seek out "truth", always analysing my "current beliefs and new ones too.. altering my beliefs as my knowlege and expereinces change.
I'd have to say that my spiritual/religious views are constantly evolving. To add to that confusion.. I have dual levels of beliefs (others who dont have dual belief systems find that very confusing) but interestingly that is possible as they are still true to me.
eg who's got the truth correct?. A cave man cuts his leg open and gets an infection. He believes the infection is due to the cut. A doctor cuts his leg and gets an infection.. he believes the infection is due to bacteria. An energy worker cuts her leg and gets an infection.. she may believe the infection is due to auric damage which is allowing energy to leak and energy contamination to come in and may fix the infection by doing energy healing on her leg.
One could believe ALL THESE THINGS at the same time thou the beliefs at the same time thou they are completely different beliefs. (my beliefs on everything is multi-layed in quite complex ways). I'd believe all those beliefs and if someone asked me the question if I cut my leg.. how I got an infection.. I'd try to respond in a way which the one who's asked me the question would be most likely to understand. (so my posts are quite capable of seeming different at times but I still hold these beliefs and at times the beliefs may seem to conflict to those who dont understand them.
eg I dont think its at all good for someone to be raped..thou I also on another level dont necessarily see it as a bad thing due to other beliefs I carry. Was what Hitler done a negative thing? In many ways I'd say no for various reasons I have due to my beliefs. But on the other hard.. yeah that was terribly aweful thing which occurred and I truely hope humanity dont need to repeat something like that again.
How can I think as I do? its cause I see and experience myself both as a human but also as non human as well (so think from both those views.. the human and the non human.. like I believe we all are)
Anyway.. thanks for sharing where you are coming from. There is nothing wrong with anyone having different beliefs.
I know as a human being you acknowledge the examples I list are aweful, I usually go a bit extreme as it helps truely unravel the heart of an issue, sorry if it ever sounds a bit personal but this is quite a personal topic. I actually can understand how you guys got to where you are, as I myself used to share very similar views. I doubted religion at a very young age and began to question a lot of things. When I moved away from home a few years ago I discovered this site and I used to ponder the possibility of astral planes, spiritual entities and such. However I was young at this time, only 19, and as I have grown older I have begun to mature a lot and have looked not only at the merits of my beliefs ideas, but WHY I decided to believe them.
Looking back I think I was using these concepts as an escape from reality, the dull mundane of every day routine. Then one day a strange idea hit me, something that changed my very foundations and made me wake up to a lot of things. I asked myself, what if this universe truely is the only universe in existence, the only thing there actually is, and its a fluke? That when you die, you truely dont come back, and there is nothing else at all. For a while this actually depressed me because the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. Try it out as an assumption, you dont have to accept the idea but think of what it entails.
Now that im older (21) I dont really bother with such grand ideas because the things most important to me are whats going on in the real world. Sure its nice to have something as your foundation, but I think it is more important to keep yourself informed about the issues that revolve around the societies you involve yourself in,the issues in your family, friends, your country or even the world, and think about how you handle those issues, and how you influence other people. I think how you deal with that is the most important thing and makes up who you are, and no religion or abstract system that is floating around has any domain over what is right and what is wrong in how someone goes about it.


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Darren Urban, of AZCardinals.com, reports Arizona Cardinals QB Tyler Palko, WR Steve Sanders, WR Edward Gant, CB Wilrey Fontenot, RB Chris Vincent, CB Jameel Dowling, FB Reagan Mauia, FB Tim Castille, S Aaron Francisco, C Melvin Fowler, LB Victor Hobson, G Trevor Canfield, G Carlton Medder, DE Alex Field, DT Keilen Dykes, T Oliver Ross, TE Leonard Pope, WR Onrea Jones, DT Rodney Leisle, LB Chase Bullock and LB David Holloway have been released from the team.
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Ralph Vacchiano, of the New York Daily News, reports New York Giants have signed undrafted free-agent CB Vince Anderson (Weber International), DE Alex Field (Virginia), TE Darius Hill (Ball State), S Kenny Ingram (Florida State) and S Sha'reff Rashad (Central Florida), according to various reports.
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Wilderness permits are required in winter (November–April) but are available on a self-registration basis. No reservations are necessary. During winter, self-register for permits at any normal permit-issuing station. For self-registration locations and bear-proof canister rentals, please check the Wilderness Conditions. For trips beginning at the Yosemite Ski & Snowboard Area, you must get your permit at the Yosemite Ski & Snowboard Area Ranger Station ("A-frame").
Trailhead Quota System
Yosemite National Park has a trailhead quota system limiting the number of people entering a particular trailhead on a given day. This system is designed to reduce impact and avoid overcrowding. Of each daily quota for a trailhead, 60 percent can be reserved ahead of time, while the remaining 40 percent is available on a first-come, first-served basis one day prior to your hiking date at 11 am. If the quota does not fill a day in advance, it will be available the day of your wilderness trip.
The quota system is based on when and where you begin your hike, and in some cases, where you camp the first night of your trip. For this reason (even with multiday permits) you may not begin your trip on any day except the entry day specified on the permit. Your permit is valid only for the entry trailhead specified. After the first night, you are allowed to hike unrestricted within the network of trails accessible from your entry trailhead.
View a list of trailhead quotas.
Attention JMT Hikers: On February 2, 2015, NPS began enforcing an exit quota for backpackers exiting Yosemite over Donahue Pass. For more information, please visit Wilderness Permits for John Muir Trail Hikers.
Yosemite Wilderness Permit Reservations
Wilderness permit reservations are available up to 24 weeks (168 days) in advance. View a table with the earliest dates for reservation requests. Reservations are not available one day in advance or on the day of your hike (see below for information about first-come, first-served permits).
The cost for each confirmed reservation is $5 plus $5 per person. This fee is non-refundable and non-transferable. All changes to existing permit reservations must be made by the trip leader.
Once you have made a reservation, you or another member of your hiking group must pick up the wilderness permit at any permit station the day of or day before your hike. Business hours vary, so please check the schedule.
Reserved permits are held until 10 am on the day of your trip. If you will arrive later than 10 am on the day of your trip, please call 209-372-0308 to hold your permit for late arrival. If you do not arrange for late arrival, your permit reservation will be canceled at 10 am. Permits held for late arrival still must be picked up at a permit station during business hours.
Planning Your Wilderness Trip
Please plan your trip before you make a reservation. It is your responsibility to research trails and trail conditions to decide which trip is right for you and your group. Park rangers will not plan your trip for you.
Before you make a reservation, please have the following information available: name the permit will be under, mailing address, daytime telephone number, number of people, number of stock (horses, mules, llamas), start and end dates, beginning and ending trailheads, principal destination (to help clarify trailhead), and method of payment ($5 plus $5 per person): credit/debit card or check. View trailhead information.
Three Ways to Make a Reservation
The reservation office is open mid-November through end of September and accepts reservations for trips from May through October.
Reservations are not necessary for trips during November through April, but permits are still required via self-registration. The reservation office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 am–4:30 pm, with extended office hours from Memorial Day through Labor Day: Monday through Friday, 8 am–5 pm, and Saturday, 9 am–4 pm. The office is closed on federal holidays and for lunch 12:00 - 1:00 pm.
NEW! Online Application: We are pleased to share a new online application for wilderness permit reservations! It is our hope that this online form will expedite the application process for visitors. The form is currently in a beta testing period. If you need assistance please call our office, which is now open Monday – Friday, 8:30 – 4:30, (209) 372-0740.
Select the link below to begin the online application process. The new form is structured similar to the fax form - you will be able to list three options for your trip but only one will be granted. You will be notified of the results within one full business day. If you do not hear from us within that time, please contact our office. If your reservation is granted, you will receive an email notification requesting the processing fee payment via a secure online platform. You will have 48 hours to pay for your reservation. Denied requests will not be charged.
If you are visually impaired, a reservation assistant is available to help you complete this form. Please call the reservation office at 209-372-0740 or email firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject line "Assistance Desired." In the body of the email include your name, contact information, and the best time of day to reach you. Please allow one full business day for a reservation assistant to contact you.
Fax: Please review the instructions and complete and print the reservation fax form. Fax the form to 209-372-0739. If you provide an eligible email address, you will receive an email within 1-2 business days stating whether your request was confirmed or denied. If you do not provide an email address, it may take up to two weeks to receive a confirmation or denial letter by mail. If you would like to request a reservation for a departure date within the next two weeks, it is best to apply by phone.
JMT Hikers: If you are flexible on the start date for your trip, you may now submit one application for a longer range of dates by use of the JMT fax form. This form can only be used for John Muir Trail hikers (exiting Yosemite over Donohue Pass).
Phone: Please have your trip planned and the above information ready before calling 209-372-0740. Our reservation phone line is very busy, especially in January, February, and March, and around holiday weekends. When possible, please fax your request.
Mail: Please review the instructions and complete and print the reservation fax form or send a letter with the information requested above, along with payment, to:
Yosemite Conservancy Wilderness Reservations
P.O. Box 545
Yosemite, CA, 95389
Please make checks payable to Yosemite Conservancy. All major credit/debit cards are accepted. Do not send cash. Please allow two days to receive a response by email. Only apply once for each request: If you apply twice for the same request, you will be charged a non-refundable, non-transferable processing fee for both reservations.
Reservation Changes
If space is available within the same season, you can request to change your existing reservation date or trailhead for an additional processing fee of $5. If you have questions regarding your reservation or you would like to make changes to an existing reservation, please call 209-372-0740. We are unable to correspond by email or fax. Processing fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.
First-Come, First-Served Permits
Permits are also available at any permit-issuing station starting one day prior to the beginning of your hike. View permit station details.
All wilderness permits must be picked up in person by a member of the hiking group. Priority for permits for a particular trailhead is given to the closest permit-issuing station, though it is possible to obtain a permit for any trailhead at any permit-issuing station. This mainly affects the most popular trailheads that fill up quickly each morning, such as Little Yosemite Valley trailheads, Lyell Canyon and Cathedral Lakes, among others. Though popular trailheads may fill, there is always space available on other trailheads in the park.
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Va. Del Comes Out, Will Face Gay Sen. For Congressional Seat
With a public announcement in a Washington Post opinion column on Friday Virginia Delegate Mark D. Sickles announced that he is gay.
In that op-ed, the Fairfax legislator spoke about that state's battle with marriage equality, saying that "The centuries-old walls of discrimination are crumbling brick by brick as state legislatures, courts and the American people are accepting their LGBT brothers and sisters, with increasing speed and understanding, for exactly who they are."
He also spoke of "ignorant and cruel words" spoken by his fellow legislators about the dangers of the 'gay lifestyle' and their suggestions that members of the LGBT community were not fit to raise children.
"Hearing such caustic remarks yet again on the House floor, coupled with the overturning of our same-sex marriage ban, has motivated me to state publicly here what many close friends and family have known for decades: I am a proud, gay man," Sickles wrote in the Post.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the Democrat -- now only the second openly gay member of the state legislature -- would be pitted against the state's other openly gay legislator, state Sen. Adam Ebbin of Alexandra, for the Northern Virginia Congressional seat being vacated by retired Rep. Jim Moran, D-8th.
Sickles, who is chair of the House Democratic Caucus, faces a crowded field for the Democratic nomination for Moran's seat. The Times-Dispatch reports that also vying for the post are former Lt. Gov. Donald S. Beyer Jr.; Dels. Charniele L. Herring, D-Alexandria; Patrick A. Hope, D-Arlington; and Alfonso H. Lopez, D-Arlington; Alexandria Mayor William B. Euille; former Northern Virginia Urban League CEO Lavern Chatman; Derek Hyra, a member of the Alexandria Planning Commission and an associate professor of urban affairs at Virginia Tech; Mark Levine, a nationally syndicated radio host and former legislative counsel to then Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts; and Bruce Shuttleworth, a former Navy fighter pilot who took on Moran in a 2012 primary.


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