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Debating whether Emma needs an E-vet, or if I can wait until morning....
Yesterday she had diarrhea all day, but has been eating & drinking normally. A couple times right before I took her out to potty she had a long thick drool hanging from her mouth. But that stopped when she got out and pottied.
Only odd food-related things i can think of are that I had been giving her extra treats the last couple days, and about 2 or 3 days ago she snatched up a bone of some sort on our walk. I pulled it out of her mouth as fast as I could, but she may still have ingested some.
So last night I only gave her a tiny bit of her kibble and a few tablespoons of canned pumpkin.
Today she seems a little less active than normal (which isn't much to begin with) and she has not pooped at all (she regularly goes twice, am & pm), but she is peeing normally and she did eat & drink normal (though I still limited her food and added pumpkin).
But both this morning and tonight when I took her out to potty, she had that drool thing again.
I'm worried about blockage and other serious things. But she is eating fine, so I don't know what to think.
She does take rimadyl usually daily for back/hip pain, but I skipped it today in case it would upset her tummy. So maybe her hips hurt and the drooling is pain?
Also she is a fearful dog and is on meds (Clomipramine daily, and Clonidine as needed), and we've travelled a few times this month (no place unusual or exotic, just from Spokane to Portland)- so I wonder if she's just stressed from the back and forth and changes to her environment.
Not pooping, weird drool. Blockage? Stress?
Talk about diets, exercise, and disease.
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Not pooping, weird drool. Blockage? Stress?
Hmmm you know her best. She's not vomiting and the lack of a bowel movement could be just because she hasn't been eating well. The drooling is odd but anytime the behavior is off, I err on the side of caution.
Hope it's nothing serious!
Hope it's nothing serious!
Re: Not pooping, weird drool. Blockage? Stress?
Thanks Allison . It appears I jumped to worry too soon... She just pooped!!! I try not to be a total hypochondriac for her, but there's certain things that especially concern me... Blockage scares the heck out of me, so her lack of pooping made me jump to that. She's ridiculously regular, so to not go for 24 hours is a red flag to me... And the drool on top of it got my mid racing.
I'm still going to keep an eye on things, cuz she is having some gnarly audible gas that isn't typical for her. But it's probably just a tummy ache.
I'm still going to keep an eye on things, cuz she is having some gnarly audible gas that isn't typical for her. But it's probably just a tummy ache.
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Not pooping, weird drool. Blockage? Stress?
Poor lady-- any chance she's picked up a parasite? Maybe when your regular vet is open you could drop off a fecal sample. When Obi had giardia, his gut sounds were awe-inspiring.
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Centre scored 28 points off five Rose-Hulman turnovers en-route to a 49-21 win over the Fightin' Engineers Saturday, Sept. 8 at Farris Stadium in Danville, Ky.
With the win, the Colonels improved to 10-2 in their last 12 home-opening games, and have also now won 10 straight against Rose-Hulman (0-2).
Centre (2-0) appeared to have opened the scoring on its second drive of the game. Sophomore quarterback Heath Haden (Kingsport, Tenn.) found senior receiver Jason Osterman (Monroe, Ohio) for a 68-yard scoring pass, but the play was called back because of holding penalty.
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Aaron Abbott scored on a five-yard run at the beginning of the second quarter to cut the lead in half, but the Colonels pushed the lead back to 14 as Haden hit Osterman from 58-yards out to make it 21-7.
The scored remained that way into halftime, but quickly changed in the third quarter. One the opening kick-off of the half, Jacob Dye fumbled the ball on the return. Junior Ben Leahy (Monroe, Ohio) picked it up and scampered 34 yards for the score and a 28-7 advantage.
Senior running back Monte Scotton scored the first of his two rushing touchdowns on a four-yard run at the 9:42 mark in the third quarter to make it 35-7. The senior back finished with 154 yards on 15 carries, six yards shy of his career best.
With 6:59 to go in the third, Mitch Snyder hit Abbott for a 22-yard touchdown pass to cut the lead to 35-14, but the Engineers would get no closer.
Scotton scored on a 59-yard run later in the third and junior running back Harry Meisner (Wyoming, Ohio) added his second career rushing touchdown on a three-yard run in the fourth.
The two teams combined for 1,004 total offensive yards in the game, but Centre lost only one fumble compared to five for Rose-Hulman.
Haden had another strong game as he finished 13 of 21 for 186 yards and two touchdown passes. Osterman and Melillo caught five passes each with Osterman ending with 87 yards and Melillo 74.
Junior linebacker Erich Vogelsang (Northbend, Ohio) posted a team-high 12 tackles to lead the defense.
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FAYETTEVILLE � Arkansas didn�t exactly snap out of an offensive rut during its series opener against San Diego State on Thursday night.
Strong pitching and key defensive plays made sure a three-hit night was enough to snap the Razorbacks� four-game losing streak, though.
Arkansas beat San Diego State 2-0 in front of an announced crowd of 3,015 in Baum Stadium by scoring the game�s only runs in the second inning.
The Razorbacks (8-5) leaned on three pitchers who combined to record their third shutout of the season. The trio � led by starter Colin Poche - got plenty of help from a defense which managed to equal a school-record four double plays, picked off a runner at first base and threw another out trying to steal second.
�I think it was a confidence-builder for us,� Arkansas third baseman Brian Anderson said. �As an offense we were trying to get on the board as early as we could and lucky enough we got it in the third inning. I think getting ahead and knowing the guys that are in the bullpen, we were going to shut the door on them.
�That was really big to get our first win coming back off that weekend.�
Anderson played a big role in making it happen with an RBI double in the third inning off San Diego State starter Michael Cederoth (1-2). Shorstop Bret McAfee had just scored from third base after a successful double steal to give the Razorbacks a 1-0 lead. Then Anderson lined a 2-0 pitch into the gap to score Jacob Mahan.
Anderson�s double was Arkansas� third hit of the game. It also proved to be the last off Cederoth, who shut out the Razorbacks the final six innings. Cederoth � who threw a fastball Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said was in the mid-90s � struck out seven batters and walked three in his eight-inning stint Thursday.
�It seemed like after we scored there in the third he kind of picked it up a notch,� Van Horn said. �That was a little disappointing on our end offensively.
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Arkansas� pitching staff helped secure it, beginning with Poche (2-0). The freshman continued the strong start to his Arkansas career, shutting out San Diego State (7-6) on three hits during a four-inning stint. He was on a predetermined pitch count.
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Brandon Moore bounced back from his game-ending struggles against Pacific to keep San Diego State scoreless in three innings. Barrett Astin, who was removed from the starting rotation, threw two scoreless innings to earn the save.
San Diego State designated hitter Brad Haynal singled with one out in the ninth inning off Astin. But the junior got San Diego State catcher Jake Romanski to ground into a double play to end the game. It was the 18th time Arkansas has turned four double plays in a game. The last time was against Georgia on April 27, 2007.
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Get off to a safe start to 2009 by reminding your child some important online safety rules.
- Keep computers in a common family room - not in bedrooms!
- Remind your child to keep information such as their name, address, phone number, school and even your credit card number to themselves. When signing up to a chat room, they should use a screen name that is a nickname and not easy to work out. The same goes for choosing passwords - don't make them easy to figure out. If your child is going to put photos on the Internet, ensure they don't show them wearing their school uniform - this can be enough to identify your child's school. Also ensure that any photos are not the type that would attract unwanted attention from strangers.
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More than quarter of all veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan don't have health insurance and aren't part of the Department of Veterans Affairs health system, according to an analysis of VA data.
The uninsured rate among these recent veterans is higher than for other war periods and for veterans as a whole, raising concerns that veterans recently back from the wars might not be taking advantage of care to which they are entitled.
Veterans advocates and some lawmakers have pushed to automatically enroll veterans in the VA health care system, which could fill in the gap for some of the veterans not now covered by the VA or the private market.
"It is critically important that we continue to reach out and inform veterans of the health care and benefits they have earned through their service to country," said VA spokesman Josh Taylor. "We have made progress, but there is more work to do."
The numbers are from the 2010 National Survey of Veterans, conducted by the VA periodically to determine the state of America's veteran population.
Veterans who have left combat operations from the recent wars are eligible for VA health care for five years and after that must qualify based on the disability- or income-based standards. While some veterans can use the VA health system for life, most don't; of 22 million veterans, 8.6 million are part of the VA's system, 2011 numbers show.
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"I'm quite sure that most doctors believe that vets have health insurance, because they generally express surprise when I present my work on vets at meetings and in medical journals," said Woolhandler, a professor of public health at City University of New York and a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School. "I'm pretty sure most of the lay public thinks so, too."
McClatchy analyzed the 2010 national survey, categorizing veterans by their most recent period of service. Of those who indicated they served in the recent wars, 26 percent said they neither had health insurance nor were part of the VA health system. For veterans from previous periods – the 1990s, including the first Persian Gulf War; Vietnam; and peacetime periods – the comparable percentage uninsured was between 10 percent and 16 percent.
Veterans from World War II or the Korean War are old enough to qualify for Medicare, and their uninsured rate was less than 2 percent.
Lack of insurance can be a significant problem. Woolhandler's research found that uninsured veterans are five times more likely to need but not get medical care than are insured veterans, and they are four times more likely to delay care because of cost. Nearly half of uninsured vets said they had "no place to go when sick," according to her 2007 research.
Young people in general are less likely to have insurance than middle age or older Americans. They have lower incomes and less secure jobs; some choose to skip the expense, figuring they are healthy enough to get by.
But veterans have health issues that deserve special attention, said Rep. Bill Owens, D-N.Y., who has introduced legislation that would automatically enroll returning service members into the VA health care system rather than requiring they seek out the VA.
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Marnie LaVigne, who has guided University at Buffalo economic development efforts since 2005, including helping UB and its partners establish Buffalo's life sciences sector, has been named CEO of Launch NY.
Launch NY and UB jointly announced her appointment.
LaVigne, Ph.D., associate vice president for economic development at UB, will end her tenure at UB and assume leadership of Launch NY in July. One of the founders of Launch NY and a member of its board, LaVigne will focus her efforts in the CEO role on repositioning the young nonprofit organization to coordinate with evolving economic development efforts that target entrepreneurship as a key to the region's economic future and job market.
Launch NY, which has received $8 million in public and philanthropic funding, is a nonprofit venture development organization. It works to identify, support and invest in high-growth, high-impact companies and catalyze the entrepreneurial culture in upstate New York. LaVigne succeeds Al Culliton, who served as interim CEO for the organization after retiring as head of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency.
"With the incredible momentum we've built in this community through programs like the '43North' business plan competition, which is part of Launch NY, Buffalo stands to become the hotbed for the most innovative new companies on a global scale," said Jordan Levy, partner of Softbank Capital and board member of Launch NY. "Marnie is the right person at the right time to make sure we have all the key ingredients to help those companies hit the ground running."
LaVigne's expertise in business development, entrepreneurship and the commercialization of university research will strengthen the partnership between Launch NY and UB, building upon each organization's efforts to support the growth of the region's high-tech sectors.
"We have been pleased to play a pivotal role in the creation of Launch NY, and hosting it at our New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, where the interaction with our faculty, co-located businesses and firms has already supplied invaluable support in our entrepreneurial efforts," said Alexander N. Cartwright, UB vice president for research and economic development "Given the crucial role of moving university research from the lab to the marketplace, in order to improve the quality of our lives, environment and economy, we look forward to building on UB's partnership with Launch NY as we transform Buffalo into a hub of innovation and entrepreneurship."
LaVigne will lead Launch NY's efforts to expand its influence in Western New York and beyond. Launch NY's executive offices are in UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. It also has a field office in Ithaca, and entrepreneurs-in-residence working independently in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Binghamton.
"We evaluated best practices in bringing a business idea from concept to high-growth and, like never before, we now have a community ready to engage fully in a collaborative effort that accelerates new business ventures," said David Colligan, partner at Colligan Law LLP and Launch NY board chairman. "Launch NY is eager for Marnie's deep, multidisciplinary experience to lead Launch NY as we seize this moment."
At UB, LaVigne played a major role in the university's efforts to grow the region's life sciences sector through the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. In 2012, LaVigne was named associate vice president for economic development. In this role, she led the office of economic development, which leveraged university resources and collaborated with government, community and industry partners to spark innovative business, workforce development and community initiatives. In the past year alone, the efforts of LaVigne and her team yielded more than a 60-to-1 return in economic impact and hundreds of jobs through the work of UB's Center for Advanced Biomedical and Bioengineering Technology, one of Empire State Development's 15 NYSTAR programs across the state.
LaVigne participated in regional strategic planning in economic development and helped UB leaders secure $50 million from the Buffalo Billion initiative to establish the Genomic Medicine Network. She also contributed to UB's successful participation in Start-Up NY, the state's new tax-free zone program, which recently announced that eight of the program's first 12 companies would be partnering with UB.
Before joining UB, LaVigne had 20 years of experience in the private and public sectors, creating new products and start-up businesses involving innovative applications of technology in the health care and life sciences sectors. She also served in executive management roles in two initial public offerings (IPOs).
LaVigne regularly mentors both youth and adults, and launched a career pathways program, iSciWNY, which has introduced thousands of people to the rewards and opportunities in high-tech industry. More recently, she introduced StartOneNY to highlight the region's entrepreneurial career pathway.
She volunteers as an editorial board member for the journal Disease Management and as a member of the board of directors for Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, the Buffalo and Erie County Workforce Investment Board, New York State Economic Development Council, Western New York Venture Association, and Insyte Consulting.
LaVigne has a Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Rochester.


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Saturday, May 26, 2007
An Old Ghost Haunts Allen Bestwick
The familiar tones of Allen Bestwick welcomed Busch Series fans to the ESPN2 pre-race show on Saturday night. The fans had come to Lowes Motor Speedway for one of the highest profile Busch Series events of the year. Some of the NEXTEL Cup drivers remained at the track to watch the Busch race. Unfortunately, one of them decided to appear on ESPN2's NASCAR Countdown.
The cameras revealed the new ESPN infield mobile studio and the cast of characters for the pre-race show. In a good move, Andy Petree was present to add the credibility that the infield show has been lacking from an analyst. Also on the set was Brad Daugherty, who once again did not interview, report, or originate any type of content in this program. He should be hanging onto the "Voice of the Fans" title bestowed on him by Bestwick with all his might. He has long since confused race fans with his perspectives and commentaries.
As the host, Bestwick sat on the set knowing that after only one show he had been replaced by ESPN. Announced even as he hosted another classy show, Bestwick had been moved aside for another anchor who ESPN felt was more "familiar" with this role. Her name is Suzy Kolber, and she is currently the sideline reporter for ESPN's Monday Night Football.
She has never appeared on any NASCAR telecast. Kolber will not only host the Busch Series pre-race show, she will also assume the second highest profile seat on the upcoming NEXTEL Cup broadcasts. She will host the NEXTEL Cup pre-race show and continue to be the infield studio host throughout the races. In essence, she was "given" the Busch and NEXTEL pre-race shows before ever having attended a race.
Finally, the last man on the set was revealed by the ESPN cameras. With the three other panelists wearing suits and ties, Michael Waltrip appeared to have just crawled out from under one of his Toyotas. He was wearing an ill-fitting polo shirt and a sponsor's baseball hat...indoors. Prior to air, Waltrip should have been attended to just like the other ESPN announcers. No hat, an agreed-upon shirt, and combed hair should have been demanded prior to allowing him on this program.
For Bestwick, this had to be "deja vu all over again." Many credit Bestwick's calm and professional "straight man" demeanor with allowing Michael Waltrip to perfect his TV personality over the years on Inside Winston/NEXTEL Cup Racing. This unique series raised the profile of Waltrip far beyond his driving abilities, and allowed him to craft a very nice niche in a sport that had formerly treated him as a second class citizen.
When Bestwick was summarily removed by SPEED Channel as the host without warning, Waltrip chose to continue on the show, rather then stepping aside in protest. For many, this cemented the fact that Waltrip had changed. Even today, the program limps along with Waltrip and Schrader trying to reproduce their "act" every week with disastrous results.
Saturday on NASCAR Countdown, it was impossible to take Waltrip at face value as he answered questions both as a driver and owner. As a driver, he had failed to make numerous races, and had just crashed in qualifying and missed the Charlotte NEXTEL Cup event. It was not the slow time of his Toyota that kept him from the race, both he and Reutimann simply wrecked as drivers.
As an owner, Waltrip also had David Reutimann in the Busch race that he and the panel were previewing. Waltrip was treated with kid gloves by Bestwick, who respected the struggles of MWR and Toyota a lot more than many of the fans. In another cruel twist of fate, Reutimann's Busch car began spewing steam on the parade lap, and imploded only laps into the race.
As usual, the pit road reporting was solid, the driver interviews were interesting, and the features helped to put the race into perspective. What the pre-race show needed was more integration with the booth announcers, and less conversation with Mikey. The time has come for Mr. Waltrip to step out of the media glare and only return when he has his own professional and personal houses in order. It seems, sometimes, that Waltrip is his own worst enemy. A fact that Allen Bestwick knows only too well.
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- Anonymous said...
I liked the actual Busch race coverage. DJ and Andy are WAY better than I thought they could be.
And how nice to hear from Ned, before he reached his bedtime. His smooth southern accent reminds me of former Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, a Virginia gentleman who had that soothing southern tone.
Allen Bestwick is a great talent, and it is a shame that he is not used in more high-profile spots.
- May 27, 2007 at 12:35 AM
- Sal said...
The under use of Allen Bestwick continues to puzzle me. His knowlege and insight of Nascar would bring some credibility to the ESPN broadcasts and show fans that ESPN considers racing a top tier sport. Their persistance in using announcers ignorant of anything racing is yet another slap in the face to the fans of racing. It was bad enough that fans are dismissed by Nascar, and now ESPN is doing the same thing.
- May 27, 2007 at 5:55 AM
- Anonymous said...
Will not watch pre race shows that have some talking head I've never seen before!
Allen is simply the best in the business.
- May 27, 2007 at 6:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
I can not understand why Allen Bestwick is being removed from ESPN2's coverage. He is by far the most endearing and respected reporter in the sport. His knowledge and credibility of the sport are unprecedented.
To bring on an unknown such as Suzy Kobler and put her in such a high profile position without any prior experience makes one wonder about the reasoning behind this decision. I assume it is politics as usual.
I agree that the team of DJ and Andy is pretty good. They both bring alot of experience and firsthand knowledge to the booth. I also loved the fact that Ned was in there also. He is wonderful and has been missed for way to long.
- May 27, 2007 at 7:11 AM
- Anonymous said...
Mikey sucks, We need more people like Allen Bestwick and quit putting in people that don't know anything about racing.
- May 27, 2007 at 7:17 AM
- Anonymous said...
At first I was excited that ESPN was coming back to NA$CAR, then reality set in, as for Brad Daugherty, I've yet to figure out why he's there at all, he's as useless as Chris Meyers on FOX. I suppose I'll have to watch with the sound off and listen the MRN-PRN coverage on the radio like I do when FOX has the race.
- May 27, 2007 at 9:28 AM
- Anonymous said...
He may be good in front of the camera but if you knew how he acted and treated the people behind the camera. You might understand why he isn't in front of the camera so much.
- May 27, 2007 at 10:19 AM
- Anonymous said...
Come on you guys can't all be that out of touch! Brad Daugherty is there as NASCAR's attemt to show it is being diverse.
- May 27, 2007 at 10:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
I agree with everyone who says that Allen Bestwick needs to have a bigger role in Nascar. He is just the very best. It is just unreal that Nascar hires people that know nothing about Nascar. Give me a break!!!! Allen is the BEST and Dispain will never come close to him.
- May 27, 2007 at 1:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
Whoever said Bestwick is an ass behind the camera should reveal their identity to make their comment credible. Do you know Allen Bestwick? Do you work with him? Or are you just making things up and/or assuming?
- May 27, 2007 at 9:19 PM
- Anonymous said...
It is pretty obvious that all ESPN understands is football....NASCAR probably wanted minority's host (i.e. Brad & Suzy) and with football personalities, another wasted attempt to attract football fans.
Allen Bestwick is, as someone already mentioned, is knowledgeable and talented anchor. Even if he is a bear off camera, and I don't know that, he is still the best on camera.
Then there is Dave Dispain and Mike Waltrip show. There is no doubt that Dave Dispain is very knowledgeable. That being said why does anyone listen to him spend a half hour giving hid opinion.
And Michael Waltrip, he's just impressed with himself, more than most of us!
- May 27, 2007 at 11:28 PM
- Kelvin S said...
I have met Allen Bestwick on numerous occasions on trips to the race shops and "run in" to Mr. Bestwick and he's never been rude or anything else besides being the pro that he is in the business.
He is a class act and ESPN has once again shot themselves in the foot. Putting someone with no experience to NA$CAR is a BIG mistake and I only hope they see it before the Cup season gets to ESPN and ABC.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney pulled the plug on his first presidential run on Feb. 7, 2008, and immediately served notice that he wasn't about to fade away. "I hate to lose," he told conservatives that day.
Barack Obama wasn't paying too much attention to Romney just then. The first-term Illinois senator was in a bare-knuckled brawl with Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination and, if he got past the New York senator and former first lady, was calculating his odds of defeating Republican Sen. John McCain.
Four and a half years later, Romney is not to be discounted. He and Obama are in a down-to-the-wire race for the White House that has split the nation down the middle after a long, hard slog that upended conventional wisdom time and again, smashed campaign spending records and pushed the limits of saturation politics.
After all those ads, nasty and nastier, was it any wonder that a 4-year-old's heaving sobs about hearing too much of "Bronco Bama and Mitt Romney" went viral in the campaign's closing days?
The arc of this campaign has taken the nation from a flavor-of-the-month Republican primary campaign, captured in a seemingly never-ending series of GOP debates and buzzwords like "9-9-9" and "oops," to a general election race that keeps circling back to the economy after detours into foreign policy, social issues and even the employment status of Big Bird.
Along the way, Campaign 2012 has brought us a rambling one-sided conversation by Clint Eastwood at the GOP convention, a fresh dose of Bill Clinton's charms at the Democratic convention, and a jarring intrusion from a superstorm named Sandy. Celebrity businessman Donald Trump had a couple of cameos, as did Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, who railed against Romney's health care policies, and Scott Van Duzer, the Florida pizza man who hoisted Obama off the floor in a giant bear hug.
Now, on Election Day's brink, with 27 million people already having voted, Obama appears to have more options than Romney for reaching the 270 electoral votes that will clinch victory. But half of Americans think the country is on the wrong track, and almost as many disapprove of how Obama is handling his job.
It's easy to forget there was a time when Rep. Michele Bachmann was the surprise breakout from the GOP primary field. To be replaced by Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Then pizza executive Herman Cain and his 9-9-9 tax plan. Then former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Then former Sen. Rick Santorum.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Trump and other GOP notables all did the tease but never joined the Republican speed-dating scene. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman tried to go steady but just couldn't get noticed.
Romney's GOP rivals hurled everything they had at the former Massachusetts governor as Obama silently cheered them on from the White House. Santorum labeled Romney a snob. Gingrich called him a liar. Huntsman went with "perfectly lubricated weather vane." Perry contributed "vulture capitalist."
The most memorable moment to come out of 20 GOP debates may have been Perry's "oops" — when he tried to shrug off his inability to remember the third government agency that he'd like to abolish. It became a metaphor for his short-lived campaign.
Through it all, Romney, who had never completely stopped running after his loss in 2008, hung tight, spent liberally and refashioned his image from that of a Massachusetts moderate into a candidate with a "severely conservative" approach to governing and a knack for turning around failing enterprises.
He made more than his share of gaffes, feeding into critics' efforts to paint him as an elitist with remarks like "corporations are people" and "I like firing people." In the latter case, Romney was talking about the importance of people being able to choose among different health insurance policies, but his opponents used a shorthand version against him in a campaign that kept fact-checkers working overtime from start to finish.
The GOP primaries were a roller coaster: Santorum won a squeaker in Iowa. Romney claimed New Hampshire. Gingrich prevailed in South Carolina. Romney claimed Florida, spending five times what Gingrich did to flatten the competition, and Nevada. Santorum won in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado.
It was only a matter of time until Romney finally piled up enough delegates to clinch the nomination on May 29 in Texas. For practical purposes, by then the general election campaign had been going on for months.
For all the words spoken, money expended and attention devoted to the Republican primary fight, the most important thing that happened in the presidential race may have been what wasn't happening at that time: Obama did not draw a Democratic opponent.
For decades, incumbents who've faced either no primary challenge or an insignificant one have been re-elected, while those who've had a serious challenge have not.
"Romney had to move right to win his primary's nomination and Obama didn't have to move left to win his," says Dan Schnur, a former Republican adviser who teaches political science at the University of Southern California. "So while Romney was talking about contraception and immigration, Obama was bragging about expanding offshore oil drilling, cutting the corporate tax and using military drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan."
While the Republicans were busy with their infighting, Obama made a decision in February that would be key to staying competitive over the nine-month march to Election Day: He reversed course and gave his blessing to the big-money independent fundraising groups that he had previously assailed as a "threat to democracy" because of the potentially corrupting influence of money on politics. The candidate who once told supporters to "fight their millions of dollars with millions of voices" decided voices were great, but he'd like those millions of dollars, too.
The money rolled in. Before it was over, the two sides and their allies had spent in excess of $2 billion.
With no primary opponent to worry about, Obama got an early start on softening up his opponent for the fall. One TV ad accused Romney of failing to stand up to "the voices of extremism" in his party. In another, a steelworker called Romney a "job destroyer" and compared his former private equity firm to a "vampire" that sucked the life out of companies.
The cumulative effect was reflected in polls showing that voters saw Obama, not Romney, as the candidate who best understood the concerns of the middle class.
From Inauguration Day, Obama knew it would be hard to live up to the high expectations set during the heady days of his 2008 "hope and change" campaign to become the nation's first black president.
A few weeks into his presidency, he took stock of a country in economic crisis and acknowledged: "You know, I've got four years. ... If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition."
By this summer, Obama had both the burden and blessing of a record to run on. The economy was sputtering along but hardly robust. The president's favorability ratings were higher than Romney's. But his job approval numbers hovered below 50 percent. The jobless rate remained above 8 percent, with each monthly unemployment report driving home that statistic anew.
If Obama's glass was half-full, Romney's was half-empty — actually, almost drained. "It's another hammer blow to the struggling middle-class families of America," Romney said when the jobs report came out in August. He spoke from Nevada, where the economic picture was particularly grim.
Obama played up 29 straight months that private employers had added jobs and surrounded himself at the White House with middle-class families making progress. "Those are our neighbors and families finding work," Obama said. "But, let's acknowledge, we've still got too many folks out there who are looking for work." No economic recovery since World War II had been weaker.
So the two candidates headed in, and out, of their nominating conventions wielding the same campaign arguments they'd been making all year, and still running about even in their support from voters. But Obama had the edge on another important yardstick:
Asked who they thought would win, voters went with Obama hands down.
Romney had a rough September: His response to the deadly U.S. consulate attack in Libya hit a sour note. The release of a secretly recorded video that caught him saying that 47 percent of Americans consider themselves victims fed into impressions that Romney wasn't looking out for ordinary Americans. The race started to feel like it was slipping away from him.
October's series of three campaign debates offered Romney his last, best chance to change the dynamic. And did it ever.
Romney turned in a commanding performance in the first debate, while Obama was lackluster and disengaged. The contrast was startling, and it reinvigorated the Republican candidate and his supporters.
"I had a bad night," Obama conceded, and he upped his game for the next two debates. That was enough to satisfy nervous Democrats that their candidate was truly in it to win it. But Romney still was feeling the energy when a most unlikely October surprise upended both sides' game plans in the home stretch of the campaign.
Hurricane Sandy roared up the East Coast and barreled ashore on a destructive path that temporarily overshadowed all else. It gave Obama a chance to jump into action as commander in chief and left Romney struggling to strike the right tone. At week's end, the final jobs report before Tuesday's election gave one last economic snapshot, showing the U.S. adding a solid 171,000 jobs and more than a half-million Americans joining the workforce. But the jobless rate was still higher than when Obama took office.
Said Obama: "We've made real progress."
Countered Romney: "This is not a time for America to settle."
For every argument the candidates made in person in their frenzied final days of campaigning, their messages played out many times over in an unending stream of political ads targeting voters in the nine battleground states that will determine which candidate ultimately gets to 270 electoral votes.
More than 915,000 presidential campaign ads have aired since June 1, 45 percent more than over the same period in 2008, according to a report by the Wesleyan Media Project. Those ads aired in far fewer states this year, meaning a smaller number of people have been targeted by a far larger advertising onslaught.
People like Paris Hilliard, 24, who turned out for an Obama rally in Springfield, Ohio, on Friday, and thinks Obama's on the right track.
"I knew it wasn't going to be an overnight fix," he said.
Not far away, 75-year-old Walter Myers said he knows far too many people looking for work to believe the improving statistics on joblessness.
On his chest was a sign: "Nobama."
Associated Press writers Julie Pace and Kasie Hunt in Washington, Beth Fouhy in New York and Ann Sanner in Springfield, Ohio, contributed to this report.
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"If there are political tensions arising, it wouldn't be the first time before an Olympic Games, and in the main, Olympic Games overcome political tensions," IOC vice president Craig Reedie of Britain told The Associated Press.
Reedie downplayed the impact of President Barack Obama's decision to call off a Moscow summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The snub follows Russia's decision to grant asylum to Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, in defiance of Obama's repeated requests.
Obama's decision also reflects strained ties with Russia over missile defense, Syria, human rights and other issues. He canceled the summit with Putin exactly six months before the start of the Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in southern Russia.
"I think the games are quite clearly an occasion which encourages peace among nations and I'm pretty sure, despite pressures at the moment, that's what will appear to the world in February next year," Reedie said in a telephone interview.
Reedie also cited the global situation before the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, which were held just months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York and Washington.
"There must have been a question mark over that after what happened to New York, and the games went ahead," Reedie said.
The International Olympic Committee official also said the 2008 Beijing Olympics were a "triumph" despite the pre-games controversies over China's record on human rights, Tibet and press freedoms.
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The buildup to the Sochi Games, scheduled for Feb. 7-23, has also been overshadowed recently by criticism of Russia's new anti-gay legislation. The law, which was signed by Putin in June, bans "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations."
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OREGON – Dolores Owen Asp, 87, of Oregon, formerly of Dixon, died Sunday, June 9, 2013, at Oregon Healthcare Center. She retired from Sauk Valley Community College in 1990.
She was born Feb. 7, 1926, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the daughter of William and Ada (Thompson) Johnson. She married Lavell Owen on July 8, 1945, in Dixon. She later married Robert Asp on Aug. 9, 1991, in Litchfield, Minn. He preceded her in death on July 22, 1997. She retired from Sauk Valley College in 1990.
She is survived by her daughters, Delores Channell of Port Orange, Fla., Betty Dunne of Dixon, and Jeanette (Mike) Smith of Tacoma, Wash.; a son, Robert (Deb) Owen of Sterling; a sister, Gwenivere Brown of Lady Lake, Fla.; a brother, Gweldon Johnson of Zephyrhills, Fla.; daughters-in-law, Connie and Rose Owen; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.
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ROCHESTER – Police are looking for a man who robbed George & Ed's convenience store on North Main Street Monday.
Police responded around 8 a.m. after a clerk reported that the man, who wielded a silver handgun, demanded money from the register. He took an undisclosed amount of money and fled on foot, heading north along North Main Street.
Maple Street School and Saint Elizabeth Seton School were both placed in a "soft lockdown" for less than two hours while officers, with the help of the department's K-9 team, searched the area.
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Luxury hotels and resorts conjure images of sunny skies, designer furnishings, lavish restaurants and the well-to-do milling about in grand fashion. But all that can change in rapid time, leaving decay and squalor in its place.
War, weather, financial foul-ups and man-made catastrophes have all contributed to many of these former pleasure palaces being left to ruin.
Here are 10 of the most celebrated abandoned hotels:
1. Sheraton Rarotonga, Cook Islands
This sprawling almost-resort along the coast road on Rarotonga, one of the Cook Islands, is still shown on Google maps even though it has never hosted a single guest.
Called the "Heartbreak Hotel" by islanders, the project nearly bankrupted the tiny Pacific nation.
The 200 rooms were tiled, plumbed, wired and fitted with air-conditioning. Some were carpeted and furnished -- but now the only residents are a few squatters and local gangs.
Construction began in the late 1980s but, when it was almost complete, the backers pulled out amid lurid allegations of misappropriated funds.
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2. Sofitel Heiva, Huahine, French Polynesia
Ideally located on a secluded spit of land on the French Polynesian island of Huahine, the over-water bungalows here still appear alluring and the botanic garden-like grounds are still meticulously maintained.
Closer inspection reveals a totally derelict property, battered by the elements and stripped of all fittings, with gaping holes in the bungalow roofs and many of them in danger of collapse.
It's been a decade since the last guest checked out and the former Sofitel stands as a somber monument to the dramatic downturn in this onetime holiday paradise.
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3. Lee Plaza, Detroit, United States
As the city of Detroit appears to descend into a post-apocalyptic nightmare, so too many of the beleaguered metropolis's great buildings are crumbling into dust.
Already the grand Statler, Tuller and Madison-Lenox hotels are gone, leaving this stately 1929 art-deco high-rise the sole unoccupied survivor of heritage status.
Closed for two decades, the Charles Noble-designed 15-floor structure is, however, deteriorating badly despite a preservation order and inclusion on the
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Images from inside reveal its former grandeur and serve as a tragic indictment of this once great city's spectacular fall from prominence.
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4. Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, North Korea
Is this hotel the world's greatest construction folly? Many say yes.
Begun in 1987 as a monument to North Korea's eternal leader, Kim Il-sung, what was conceived as an attempt to create the world's tallest hotel has turned into the secretive Stalinist state's greatest visible embarrassment.
last April
, the swank Kempinski chain back-peddled from its earlier management announcement that slated the 330-meter, 3,000-room, 105-story monstrosity to open as early as 2014. " ... [M]arket entry is not currently possible," Kempinski told CNN.
In September 2012, the North Korean state-owned tour company, Koryo Tours, released the first ever images from inside the very empty structure.
North Korea's vast Ryugyong Hotel not opening yet after all
5. Hotel Renakse, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
This historic hotel is a well-known landmark opposite the Royal Palace on the waterfront at the Tonle Sap and Mekong junction.
It began as part of the Royal Court of Justice and, in 1979, housed the first post-Khmer Rouge government. The century-old French colonial style hotel is owned by the Cambodian People's Party -- or was.
In a controversial transaction that broke the leaseholder's contract, it was sold to a private development company with ties to the ruling party.
Phnom Penh residents and other concerned persons launched a petition to save it from demolition, but its future remains uncertain.
6. Varosha, Famagusta, Cyprus
The once flourishing resort district of Varosha in the Cypriot city of Famagusta was once frequented by the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Brigitte Bardot.
Some regarded it as the most famous seaside resort in the world.
When Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974, Varosha saw bloody fighting on its streets and, since partition of the island, the once hedonistic enclave is now a forbidden, fenced-off no man's land.
Not one, but dozens of hotels are slowly falling apart as the urge to resettle this region has long diminished.
The Argo, Grecian, Asterias, Florida and King George are just some of the luxury hotels that will probably never see another guest.
7. Igloo City, Alaska, United States
If you're driving out along the George Parks Highway in Alaska, keep your eyes peeled for the bizarre Igloo Hotel near Cantwell.
At first glance you might think it was some forgotten Cold War installation or spaceship, but it was started in the 1970s and contravened so many building codes it couldn't ever be opened.
It's served variously as a souvenir stand and gas station over the years but is now all but derelict.
Open to vandals, wild animals and the savage Alaskan elements, enter at your own risk.
8. El Hotel del Salto, Colombia
Overlooking the stunning Tequendama Falls on the Bogota River 30 kilometers southwest of the Colombian capital, this hotel sat empty and forlorn for two decades.
Scenic beauty regardless, the river powering the falls is one of the most polluted in the world and, coupled with the hotel's "most haunted" reputation, soon put overnight guests off.
The popularity of the falls for suicides also helped to doom this ornate little hotel.
Built as a mansion in 1928 for the Colombian elite, it will never host another guest even if they did want to stay -- it's become a Museum of Biodiversity and Culture.
9. Hotel Polissya, Pripyat, Ukraine
This then 10-year-old, eight-storey hotel, along with the entire city of 50,000 residents, was hurriedly evacuated in April 1986 after the catastrophic explosion of the nearby Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
One of the tallest structures in the abandoned city, Hotel Polissya serves as a prominent and sad reminder of that fateful day.
The new wave of disaster tourists make a beeline for the building for a rooftop view over the desolate urban wasteland.
The hotel, along with a ghostly amusement park, high school and stadium, make of Pripyat an altogether unsettling experience.
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10. Unknown hotel, Vientiane, Laos
Just as many abandoned hotels are famous for their once lavish accouterments and celebrity guests, others are notable for their anonymity.
This forlorn, riverside pension still has a couple of ground level occupants but is largely abandoned.
Clearly of French colonial origin, it probably dates from the 1920s or 1930s -- no definitive written or other record remains to confirm it.
On the corner of Rue Sibouaban and Quai Fa Ngum, who knows what stories these vacant walls and empty rooms could tell?
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the Oscars again.
The film academy announced Tuesday that it has invited Zadan and Meron to return for the 2014 Academy Awards telecast, and the two producers said they're honored to come back.
Their first Oscar show featured "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane as host. It drew Oscar's largest audience since 2010, including more coveted younger viewers.
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences President Hawk Koch said Zadan and Meron have "the overwhelming support of the Academy's Governors" to produce the Oscars a second time.
"To establish continuity with this year's enormously successful show, we felt it was important to give these consummate professionals the green light now to begin creating another great evening," Koch said.
The duo's production credits also include "Chicago," ''Footloose," ''Hairspray," ''The Bucket List" and TV's "Smash."
There's no word on whether MacFarlane will also return as host. He said during the run-up to the show that he saw the Oscar job as "a one-time thing."
Some critics found MacFarlane's material, which included a song called "We Saw Your Boobs," juvenile and sexist.
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MANCHESTER — City aldermen will hold a public hearing Tuesday on proposed increases in building permit fees and the way plumbing permit fees and estimated costs are calculated.
The hearing is scheduled to get underway at 5:45 p.m. in the Aldermanic Chambers on the third floor of City Hall.
As part of the annual city budget process, department heads were asked to identify potential sources of new revenue enhancements. During that process, Leon LaFreniere, the city's director of Planning and Community Development, identified four areas within the department that generate the majority of its revenue: permit fees, certificate of compliance fees, Planning Board fees and Zoning Board of Adjustment fees.
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