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Due Gemelli Restaurant, located at 6023 Park Ave. in West New York, is an Italian restaurant with a difference. Owners Ivan Cardenas and Javier Fuentes-Better, best friends since the early 1970s, possess a wealth of experience in food preparation and restaurant management, and they tweak the menu to add their own flavor to the mix.
With a variety of homemade pastas and unique desserts, Due Gemelli serves both popular favorites and distinctive special offerings, including some based on Cardenas' mother's recipes.
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"I consider my mother the best cook in the world," Cardenas said. A native of Colombia, he grew up in a busy household where his mom cooked large meals for her banker husband and his business colleagues. Helping around the kitchen, the young Cardenas gained an appreciation for cooking and set his sights high.
"I wanted to have a big kitchen, so I went to school for hotel management," said Cardenas. "It was the only thing that was close to food and beverage in Colombia." Following up the five-year degree with additional cooking courses, he entered the job market and was snatched up by a surprising employer.
"I consider my mother the best cook in the world," –Ivan Cardenas
Coming to America in 1988, he met up with Fuentes-Better, who had emigrated a year earlier, and who immediately began pushing for the pair to merge their skills and open a restaurant together.
Instead Cardenas chose to forge a new path by establishing a successful cleaning company before eventually surrendering to the lure of food. Together the two old friends began searching for a location about 2012, initially planning to open a Colombian eatery before coming across Due Gemelli, an Italian restaurant in West New York.
"My mother is half Italian, half Dutch," said Fuentes-Better, a computer engineer and teacher by trade. "My uncle had an Italian restaurant in Colombia. I loved it." So they revised their plan and bought the restaurant, keeping the name and reopening for business in September of 2013.
"Due Gemelli means the two twins," according to Cardenas. "It refers to the two angels in the Sistine Chapel. They're part of our logo." It could also refer to the two owners, who split the responsibilities, with Fuentes-Better handling the administration and Cardenas the operations, one of them opening the restaurant each day and the other closing.
Keeping the same chef and menu as the previous incarnation, they tested the waters to determine what was popular. "Over three months we saw what people liked. It's all pasta. People were calling and asking for classic dishes like spaghetti and meatballs. It's not on the menu. Stuffed shells, it's not on the menu. Manicotti, it's not on the menu. So we added all those items. We gave them what they wanted. I thought swordfish was very popular around here. It's not. They asked for flounder, they asked for tilapia. So we put them on the menu—Italian style."
The food
Our meal began with warm rolls delivered from a bakery in Brooklyn, served with chilled herb butter and spiced olive oil for a delicious start.
Cardenas takes pride in offering different "theme" specials every day. On the day we visited, the theme was "honoring the three," meaning each special revolved in some way around the number three.
From the antipasti menu we selected fried calamari with three sauces. While fried calamari is available daily and is popular with customers, this variant offered an additional option along with the regular two sauces.
The calamari was fried tender, seasoned with a hint of spice, served light and airy rather than overly chewy or crunchy. Expertly prepared, it offered a delicate texture that whetted the appetite for the meal to come.
Next up were bowls of pasta e fagioli. The tasty tomato broth was brimming with pasta, beans, and meat, making it practically a meal unto itself. It was easy to see why the delicious "zuppa" is a lunchtime favorite. A warm bowl would certainly appeal on a cold winter day.
The menu included a wide selection of chicken, veal, seafood, and pasta, featuring all the familiar Italian favorites. Our first main course selection was three mushroom Chicken Marsala from the daily specials menu. The standard menu includes a version of Chicken Marsala with a delightful sauce. To create an "honoring the three" special, Due Gemelli added superb shiitake, Portobello, and oyster mushrooms for a mouth-watering treat.
For our second main course we opted for another special: the Gemelli Trio, listed as "the perfect Italian combination." The first item of the trio was chicken parmigiana, a substantial portion smothered in flavorful sauce and lightly coated in cheese. Second was an outstanding Fettuccini Alfredo made with homemade pasta and cooked al dente, definitely one of the highlights of our meal, especially with fresh grated cheese and ground pepper. Rounding out the Gemelli Trio was a wonderfully hearty meat lasagna.
Portions were more than generous for both entrees, making sharing practically mandatory.
For dessert we sampled a brand new Due Gemelli specialty, Italian three-cheese custard made with mascarpone, ricotta, and cream cheese. The recipe, from Cardenas' mom, is simply scrumptious, along the lines of a more robust flan with a rich mix of flavors. We highly recommend it.
Other dessert options included tartufo, cannoli, or homemade tiramisu.
The meal was capped by a steaming cup of coffee made from a unique blend of beans from Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, and Kenya.
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Due Gemelli is open every day except Monday. Doors open at 11 a.m. except on Sunday at 2 p.m., and they offer a full lunch menu. At press time they were waiting for revised menus to arrive, and the website (www.duegemelli.us) was in the process of being updated to reflect the new offerings.
Deliveries are popular—especially on cold winter days—and the dining room is available for parties or events. Parking is free in the adjoining private lot. For more information call (201) 766-5700. Orders can also be faxed to (201) 766-5703.
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LEWISTON – When the Maine Hockey Group — 40-percent stakeholders in the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League and owners of the Saco-based Junior Pirates — gobbled up most of the available ice time in Maine's version of hockeytown, some viewed it as a hostile takeover.
With MHG's purchase in March of about 1,200 hours to start running its programs this summer at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee, Lewiston's existing youth hockey organization will no longer be able to use the Colisee, its home for nearly 50 years.
To the volunteers who run the Lewiston Area Youth Hockey League, the deal between the Colisee and MHG was a step designed to put them out of business.
To Colisee owner Firland Management, the loss of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Lewiston Maineiacs last year and diminished ice time purchases over the past few years made MHG's offer an attractive option when few others were available. It also opened the door for potential growth, with talk of bringing to town a team from the United States Hockey League, the nation's highest-rated junior league.
To the owners of the Portland Junior Pirates, expansion of operations into Maine's hockey hotbed was a sound business move. Ron Cain, MHG's majority owner, wasn't surprised about the initial hostile reaction to the expansion of the Junior Pirates' programs into Lewiston, yet he is ready to move forward.
"I do understand the emotion up there," Cain said. "But at the end of the day we're just putting a product out there. If people want to come, they can come. Really, the heart of what we're doing is for the kids, and we don't lose sight of that."
When the announcement of the Junior Pirates' move into Lewiston was made, officials of the local youth organization said they had been given little warning such a move was imminent.
"I was briefed about it the day before the press conference," said Andy Guerin, LAYHL president.
But Jim Cain, president of Firland Management and no relation to Ron Cain, claims he's been telling LAYHL officials almost from the time his company purchased the building four years ago from the City of Lewiston for $1 million that changes had to be made in order for his firm to continue to operate the building.
It didn't take long for the LAYHL to react. A week after being told it would no longer be able to rent ice at the Colisee, the all-volunteer group announced it was merging with the Auburn Youth League.
"We're going to team up with Auburn, and we're going to get ice from other venues," Guerin said.
The new youth hockey association, which could be the largest in Maine with a combined registration of more than 500 boys and girls, intends to operate its programs at Ingersoll Arena in Auburn, as well as arenas at Hebron Academy, Bates College, Kents Hill School and Bowdoin College. They also hope to use the Bank of Maine Ice Vault, which is under construction on the site of the old Kennebec Ice Arena in Hallowell.
"We're going to do more of the (American Development Model) that USA Hockey recommends us doing anyway, which is putting more than two teams on the ice at a time to work on individual skills," Guerin said.
The merger could help beef up segments of the youth program in the Twin Cities, especially for girls.
"Now, we will be able put two full girls teams out on the ice in just about every age group," said Denis Berube, president of the Auburn league. "One will be for girls who want to play a highly competitive schedule and the other team will be for girls who don't want to do that."
Berube said the merged leagues now have an incentive to be more efficient in their operation.
"Before, we didn't have the motivation to do things a certain way because we didn't have to," he said. "Now, we have a reason to change the way we operate."
In the past, Berube said Auburn Youth League teams didn't start practice before 9 a.m., and none practiced after 8:30 p.m. Under the new arrangement, practices for some teams now may start a little earlier or run a little later.
This past season, the LAYHL and the Maine Gladiators — an offshoot program that offers more advanced development for nearly 100 players who live within a 30-mile radius of Lewiston — combined to rent nearly 900 hours of ice time at the Colisee.
But according to Jim Cain, that was not enough for the arena to remain financially solvent.
"In an effort to make the place economically viable, at some point I have to have consistency in the programming," he said. "When you have ice, it doesn't go away overnight. It just can't sit there. You have to use it."
According to Jim Cain, putting the 3,675-seat Colisee on a firmer financial footing is essential in finding a primary tenant to replace the Lewiston Maineiacs, who spent eight years at the facility before ceasing operations.
Jim Cain said his company joined with MHG in an effort to lure a team from the USHL into the building.
"The Colisee was in a situation where they were running at a deficit," said Ron Cain. "(Jim Cain) needed it for the long-term viability of the building, and we needed it as an opportunity to expand our brand. Our objective here is, and always has been, to bring as high a level of hockey to Maine as we can and develop the kids in Maine to the highest level they want to achieve."
The Junior Pirates will start running youth programs this summer at the Colisee, and the Portland Pirates will play as many six games in the building next season. But it may take some time for the USHL to decide to locate one of its teams there.
"It's not going to happen overnight," said Skip Prince, USHL commissioner.
Currently, the entire 16-team league is located in the Midwest. The Youngstown (Ohio) Phantoms are the closest USHL team to Maine. Prince said he's spoken with potential ownership groups in Pennsylvania and New York, Massachusetts and Virginia, as well as in Maine, to investigate the viability of expanding eastward.
"I'd say we're still in the first stages of that analysis," he said.
In order to make it work, a new division of four to six teams would have to be created, Prince said. But the USHL, which develops players ages 16 to 20 primarily for Division I colleges, is approaching expansion cautiously.
"The worst thing in the world is to dilute the quality of the current player base by trying to put forward six teams at once," said Prince. "This would have to be a kind of gradual-growth proposition."
Prince likes what he's seen in Lewiston.
"Lewiston has some attributes. It sounds like the group there is willing to put some money into the building. It's a good group there, very professional," said Prince, who added it costs between $1.2 and $1.5 million a year to operate an USHL team. "It generally takes a building of 3,500 to 4,000 seats, and you need to average 2,200 people per game," he said.
Prince said there are five keys to success for a USHL team.
"First of all, you've got to have the players, and we think we can get to that," he said. "You've got to have a good building, and you've got to have a business relationship inside that building that makes sense. You've got to have sponsors and a community that can sustain a team. You really have to have a fan base."
Another key to success is stability.
"These young (players) and their families have to know it's a stable environment that they're in," Prince said.
"They have to know the team is not going be to moving, and the kids have to feel comfortable."
Brian Petrovek, CEO and managing partner of the Portland Pirates, said there is room for both the Junior Pirates and the LAYHL because they embrace different models for player development.
"It provides families and kids with choice," he said. "No program is for everybody. For those who choose the program that we offer, that is great. We think they're going to get their money's worth. But if our program doesn't suit your objectives, your needs or your lifestyle, then do something else and hopefully it's going to work for you."
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A Plan for Prosperity Rep. Paul Ryan (WI-01), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee U.S. Chamber of Commerce - June 24, 2010
Well good afternoon everybody, thank you for indulging me - we just had a bunch of votes in Congress that caused me to be a little late. I hope your lunch went well. I understand we have the President of the United States coming here this afternoon with the Russian President Medvedev.
Perhaps he is coming to learn about free enterprise and free market principles and how it can help the Russian people. I am sure that this Chamber can give a lot of good advice on that front.
What we've experienced is an American economy that has endured almost three years of decline and stagnation, with little business expansion, little credit availability, and little growth. Americans want job expansion and a growing economy. A year and a half ago they voted in a new political party to deliver on just that. You would think that after three years of decline, stagnation, and cut backs, we would be blazing out of a recovery. Usually, the bigger the drop in our economy, the bigger the bounce coming out of it. Yet with a co-operative Congress dominated by the President's party to pass everything he asks, there's no sign that we are even close to getting out of this economic desert. Unemployment is staying up there at around ten percent.
To create prosperity you need entrepreneurs, workers, investors, and savers with enough trust and confidence to take the risk to lead to economic growth. Today, we've got uncertainty instead of confidence. We have mistrust, instead of trust. When they look up the economic road they see the prospect of rising taxes, exploding federal debt, they see the prospect of more regulations that will micromanage how they run their businesses. They see a dollar whose long term value is unpredictable. We have an administration whose highest priorities are to tax and spend your money, and I would argue to spread a more Progressivist bureaucratic control over every sector of our economy, whether it be health care, energy, or financial services. We have a Congress that this year won't even pass a budget, even though the law requires it.
In short, we have a government that has lost the trust of America and sown economic and social mistrust everywhere. Who would invest in this forbidding environment? When investors are uncertain, capital flees to the security of long-term value: things like gold. Well, gold just hit the highest price ever - $1,258 per oz.
Uncertainty is abound. What we see on the horizon is a wave of tax increases in 2011, followed by another wave of tax increases in 2013, followed by an additional borrowing and spending binge, which puts pressure on interest rates, further debases the currency.
Let's look at employment data. As late as November 2007, 115.5 million people were working in the private sector. Since then, we've lost 8 million jobs. Only this year have employment numbers begun to creep up. We are creating an anemic 99,000 private sector jobs per month this year. We have to create over a 125,000 jobs every month just to absorb new entrants in the labor force, and at this current 99,000 rate we are at, we will never get to where we were on unemployment two and a half years ago. If we want to get back to that unemployment rate, we would have to create 250,000 jobs a month for five years straight. At this rate we are courting our own "lost decade," wandering in an economic desert of stagnant production, underutilized capacity, and high joblessness. To put it another way: we are beginning to look like the European social welfare models so beloved by many of the ideologues that we have in Congress and in our Federal government these days.
Now I know those are tough words but if you take a look at where we are today, I really believe, when I talk to entrepreneurs, large and small business people, they are sitting on their hands. You talk to the bankers who are telling you even the businesses that have excessive lines of credit, they are not utilizing them. America should be moving forward right now - removing barriers to growth instead of building new barriers on top of people.
I have no doubt that we could be on the road to solid economic growth if we addressed these barriers. Yes it took time to build them, and they are formidable: burdensome tax laws with excessive complication; regulatory state that is getting more punitive; distorted monetary strategies that don't give people a sense of security of our value of our money in the future; and above all, we have uncontrolled spending without budget priorities and entitlement strategies that simply cannot be sustained.
No one will invest in the future if he doesn't trust the future . or is too uncertain of the future. And America's fiscal, monetary, and economic future right now is filled with mistrust, uncertainty, and disincentives to entrepreneurial decision making. And make no mistake: these conditions were not caused by people, they were caused by government.
Now let me just run through a quick town hall presentation that I do with constituents back home and I will do this fairly quickly if I can.
Where are we headed if you want to take a look at our current fiscal situation? The current administration has increased taxes in their budget by $1.8 trillion and spending by $2.5 trillion over the next ten years. That is the current budget that is in place right now. $670 billion of those tax increases have just passed a couple of months ago.
The budget we live under now doubles the debt in five years and triples it in ten years. The President's own budget director and treasury secretary, in a testimony to myself and others, has said that these debt levels are unsustainable. The budget that we are living under is not credible and sustainable. With each passing year our spending problem gets worse and the decisions become that much more difficult.
Now this is our deficit path right now. I'm not here to say that everything that is wrong is created by our current President - he inherited a mess. President Obama inherited a very difficult fiscal situation. The question is, is he going in the right direction or is he compounding the problem? I would argue that he is compounding the problem. These are the deficits we are having right now. It goes down to about $700 billion dollars in 2013 and then pops right back up - an average deficit of a trillion dollars a year.
What happens to your economy and country if you are piling up trillion dollar deficits every year? Well, you have a lot of debt. We borrowed more than we were earning or producing to win World War II. You can raise levels of debt like that so long as the markets believe that is temporary. And in those days, the debt was all owed to ourselves. US citizens, my grandfather used to tell me about this all the time, he was a navy man in World War II, you know the citizens floated the money to the government by buying T-bills or war bonds so that we could pay for the war. Well that is not the way the debt goes anymore. In 1970, 5% of our debt was foreign held; 1990 about 19% of our debt was foreign held; today 47% of all of the US debt is held by foreign governments, China chief among them.
Here is what the Congressional Budget Office is telling us with respect to our debt. This is the path we are on right now. We are going to crush our economy if we continue going down this path. It is the interest itself that compounds so viciously and gets out of control.
We are looking at an era where we are on the cusp of giving the next generation such an unsustainable burden of debt that they are not going to have the kind of living standards we have enjoyed in this country.
I'm forty years old, my wife and I have three kids. They are five, seven, and eight years old. By the time my kids are my age, according to the CBO, the size of our government will literally be double what is today at that time. So instead of taking twenty cents out of every dollar made in America to cash flow of the federal government, we will be taking forty cents out of every single dollar, made in America, just to pay for the Federal government. This is a path we have put them on. That is the tax trajectory that we are on. You literally can't have a growing economy when so much is being soaked up in the credit markets, when so much borrowing is occurring.
So, how does all of this end? Have we seen this movie before? Is there an example of somewhere else in the world we can look at to get an idea of what this ends up looking like? Well, turn on the TV. Look at Europe, look at Greece in particular. I think they are a cautionary tale of things to come. Basically what you have is a story of reckless government spending that has hit Europe with a deep debt crisis.
According to Robert Samuelson, a well known fiscal columnist, this tragedy is "death spiral of the welfare state." We know how cradle-to-grave social welfare states eventually end. They simply cannot cash flow themselves. You eventually run out of other people's money to spend.
We realized that Greece was cooking the books, hiding the numbers. When it was truly revealed how bad their debt and deficits were, it was quickly then revealed that Portugal, Italy, Spain had the same problems. So now you have severe austerity plans being put into place to try to save their system in a crisis. Their currency is going down, their debt continues to go up, and their economies are slowing. Austerity means cutting current retirees, current benefits. Putting huge tax increases on your economy, on your labor force, on your businesses, on your young people. This slows down opportunity, prosperity, and job creation.
This is what happens if we let this get out of control. This is the future that awaits us if we go down this path of not preemptively dealing with our debt crisis.
Here is a study that the IMF put out about a month ago. The IMF is basically saying we are already up there with the PIIGS. Our total debt level right now is above Spain, Ireland, and Portugal as it relates to our economy, that's the most important statistic. In five years, our debt level on our current trajectory is going to be up there with Greece and Italy. This is not a situation where we can think that we can run out the string much longer.
Now, we have certain advantages. We have advantages because we are the world's reserve currency. We have advantages because we have a more entrepreneurial, nimble economy and if we can get the economy growing, if we can focus on spending, we can turn this around.
Now, in 2007, as I became Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, these numbers were already up there. These are not new numbers - these are just updated numbers. I decided to write a plan called "A Roadmap for America's Future".
The idea of writing a plan was two-fold:
1.Show a pathway out of this mess. Show how we can fix this problem in a way that fulfills the mission of health and retirement security, pays off our debt, and grows our economy so that we have higher living standards for future generations.
2.I didn't claim to have all of the answers. My goal in putting this plan out there was to encourage others to put out their plans, so in Washington we can get beyond the business of finger pointing, attacking each other in political campaigns - and get on to the business of actually solving the problem.
So what do I propose with the Roadmap? I will go over it very briefly.
Tax reform. The tax code penalizes all those qualities that make us great: saving, investing, raising a family, starting a business, growing the economy, creating jobs, working. So I would replace the current tax system with a modified flat tax, retaining its progressivity. 10% on the first $100,000 for couples, 25% above that. No other taxes on capital or savings - no dividends, capital gains, or death tax. Those are double taxes on capital and retard economic growth and innovation. You can choose. If you want to keep the current system, with all of its bells and whistles, you can do that as well. If you want a simplified system, you can have it. If you want, you can give up all the loopholes, all those deductions, all those cats and dogs that are in the tax code. It's a very simplified system, so that businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals, can actually have an easy clean postcard to fill out and move on.
I would also replace the corporate income tax, with a better system. The corporate income tax is a killer of growth in this country. It is the second highest rate in the industrialized world (it's about to be the highest rate), and it punishes growth. It rewards companies who move their operations overseas. We should have a territorial tax system, not a worldwide system. We should have a system that says to businesses you ought to be able to expense every investment in plant and equipment the year in which it takes place. We also should have a border-adjustable system. Why don't we do to our competitors what they are doing to us? Take the tax off our exports and put it in on our imports to better level the playing field, to reward businesses for building things in America and exporting them. Let's acknowledge the fact that 97% of the world's consumers are outside of this country. Let's get our businesses in a situation where they are ultra competitive. Let's make sure that when businesses invest and build and grow here in America, that's the smart business thing to do. We don't want to have a situation where we are penalizing businesses for keeping their money, their capital, their headquarters, and their manufacturing facilities in America. So rather than having Ireland and the Cayman Islands to be the haven for capital formation, the place you park your money, why don't we make it America? I have no doubt in my mind that if we advance these tax reforms, not only can we raise the revenue we currently raise for the Federal government; but we can restart the American engine of economic growth.
I also think you need to strengthen job training assistance. We have so many different job training programs in the Federal government - dozens of them, duplicative and overly complicated. Let's consolidate them so if a person loses their job in an industry that is not working - the auto industry in my area - give the person the ability to go back to school, learn a new skill and a new trade, mid-life, mid-work career, so that they can get back into the work force with a high paying job that gives them the skills to be mobile in a dynamic economy. You don't have the same job for your entire life like you used to in our parents' generation. You've got to have a system of life-long learning.
Social Security and Medicare. We can do this save these programs right now without changing any benefits to current retirees or those near retirement. That is the benefit of acting now. We do not have to force austerity, where you slash and cut people's benefits and raise taxes. For those over fifty-five, no changes. The benefits you organized your life around, that you planned your retirement around, that is not going to change. Even though they are unfunded and they have a huge liability, we will come up with a plan to actually finance those benefits.
But if you're under 55, if you are in X generation, like I am, or the Y generation, you know that these benefits aren't going to be there for you anyway. There is no way that the government can come up with the $72 trillion dollars that it right now has to come up with to actually finance these benefits for younger workers. We can reform Medicare into a system that works like the one I have as a member of Congress. I get a payment, I get a book from the Federal government, a list of competing plans to choose from, and I pick the plan that is best for me and my family. I would adjust that payment in three ways: give people more money to cover all of their out of pocket expenses if they are low-income; if you are wealthy, we're not going to give you as much money; and as your health condition deteriorates, as you get sicker, you will get a better payment to make sure that your premiums stabilize. According to the Chief Actuary of Medicare, according to the Congressional Budget Office, my plan makes Medicare permanently solvent and wipe out its $38 trillion unfunded liability.
For Social Security, don't change anything for people over the age of fifty-five. Make sure that we can guarantee their benefits. But if you are under fifty-five, the money isn't going to be there for you anyway. So why don't we reform the system so that it will actually be there for you. If you want to stay in the traditional system, you can remain in the current program as structured - that is your choice. If you want a system where you can take a third of your payroll taxes and put them in a thrift savings account, exactly like I as a member of Congress or any other federal worker can, where it will be managed Social Security with safe indexed funds, my reforms will allow you to do that. You can grow your money. You can harness the power of compound interest. The funds become your property. It goes to your spouse or your heirs when you pass on.
At my age, I am probably going to get a one percent rate of return if Social Security can pay me my money. My children, under the current formula, will get a negative one-percent rate of return if Social Security can even pay them their money. More people, eighty percent, pay more in payroll taxes than they do in income taxes. You ought to give young people the option and the opportunity - the choice - of getting a better benefit for themselves when they retire so it is a program that they have faith in.
You need to do a few common sense reforms for the traditional benefit to make it sustainable. I would index it so that wealthy people do not get as much of a benefit and it increases for everybody else. I would slowly raise the eligibility age over the latter part of the century, not in the near future, in the latter part of the century, to just reflect longevity. When Social Security was created, the retirement age was 65, life expectancy was 63, the numbers added up great. It is not like that anymore. So we need to make some adjustments to save this system.
Medicaid. Let's give the States - the laboratories of democracy - the ability to customize their programs to meet their citizens' needs. We would give individuals a voucher to get private health insurance, with protections to people with pre-existing conditions. Where I come from, if you're on Medicaid and you walk into a doctor's office, you've got "poor person" stamped on your forehead. Fifty percent of the doctors won't even take you because they lose forty cents on the dollar for every person that they see. So why don't we have a system where we don't segregate the poor into an inferior health care system? Why don't we have a system so that we can give them the access the kind of private health insurance that everybody else has. You can do that in the way that we are proposing and save the system from insolvency and bankruptcy.
Under current policy, government spending is exploding. By the time my kids are my age we go from twenty percent of GDP to forty percent and then on up to sixty percent. That's unsustainable. That extinguishes the American idea. With the Roadmap, according to the CBO, you can keep the size of our government relative to our economy to where it has historically been.
What it really is all about is about standard of living. What does the future look like? Are we going to maintain the legacy that our parents told us about this country? Every generation confronts its challenges so that the next generation is better off. We are -irrefutably, mathematically, statistically, without a shadow of doubt, according to every fiscal authority - giving the next generation a lower standard of living. This is what the CBO says is happening in the future, standard of living we measure is economic growth per capita. How fast does the economy grow per person? The standard of living, because of the debt, starts to decline. The reason this line ends in about 2058 is the computers crash. The economic models of our government literally stop working because they cannot conceive of any instance in which the American economy can continue under the burden of debt that we are imposing upon it.
If you get ahead of this debt problem - if you reform these programs, doing it on our terms, not imposing austerity but advancing prosperity - you can guarantee that we will have higher standards of living for future Americans. The next generation will be better off than our generation. There can be more jobs, better wages, and greater opportunity in this society. That at the end of the day is really what this is all about.
We have had tough problems and hard knocks in society before. We have had issues in America that we thought we were down and out and other regimes were going to beat us. We were the laughing stock of Europe shortly after the founding of our country during our first debt crisis. You can go back to the Nixon inflation, the Carter stagflation, and more recent recessions.
Always voices were heard saying that America was finished, our greatest days were past, and some other nation's economies were overtaking us: Hitler's Germany or Khrushchev's Soviet Union, or Japan under MITI's industrial policy. Now those same defeatist voices are back: we can't do any better than we did before. And China will soon overtake us.
That is nonsense.
In every case, the courage and imagination of Americans have found prudent ways out of these crises. Our founders created a Constitution, sound money and a system of credit so that we could build a prosperous society. More recently, efforts to lower tax rates, reform welfare to incentivize work and investment, lowering trade barriers, these reforms allowed for sustained economic growth. The potential of our people to grow knows no limits. It is this government that's imposing barriers on imagination, enterprise, work, innovation, and savings.
The rising tide of debt, the rising tide of red ink, the failure of our political system to tackle these challenges means we will consign ourselves to that kind of a fate.
We know how this movies ends. We've seen it across the Atlantic. So why don't we prevent it from happening here. There is a real battle over ideology and destructive populism. You can't love jobs and hate the people who create them.
We need to remove the imposed barriers that prevent entrepreneurs from making decisions about the future. If we knock the future problems out of the way, we get a handle on this debt, reform our entitlements, we secure our currency, and we have a tax system that rewards rather than punishes wealth creation, job creation, and growth - we will succeed and we will grow.
We need a prosperity agenda. This is not about imposing austerity - far from it. It's not an either/or tradeoff between either austerity now to handle the debt or force feeding growth by government spending more money. That is a false dichotomy, a false tradeoff.
This is a prosperity plan to get ahead of the debt crisis and fix it. This is a plan to instill confidence in our future. Americans - not our government - will get us back to growth and create jobs.
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. I'd be happy to answer your questions.
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VIENNA (AP) — Cross-dressers, half-naked revelers, a famed fashion designer, entertainment icons and a former U.S. president shared the spotlight in the Austrian capital for the Life Ball, a night of hedonistic revelry for a good cause — the funding of AIDS research.
As in past years, Vienna's city hall and the huge square in front of it was transformed into a magical stage, this year with the theme being "Tales of 1,001 Nights."
Turbaned genies jostled sensuous harem queens, Persian princes and others clad in everything between. Others dressed — or undressed — to the beat of their own drum. A man in his 70s wore feathery angel's wings and white platform boots that disappeared in the folds of his oversized trench coat. Still others sported tuxes or tails. Jeans or cutoffs were verboten — and style police were present to enforce the dress code.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was among the more than a dozen prominent guests that included singers Fergie and Elton John, actress Melanie Griffith and designer Roberto Cavalli.
Thanking the show's organizers, Clinton urged the world to get involved in the anti-AIDS fight, declaring that those who want to help "do not have to be scientists, they do not have to be doctors; they have to be people who care."
With temperatures hovering around 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit,) there was less bare skin then in past years on the square. Some men and women went topless nonetheless, in anticipation of steamier times at the all-night party in the neo-Gothic city hall. DJ's and live bands were set up in dozens of rooms, along with buffet tables groaning with finger food and bars offering alcoholic beverages of all descriptions.
"Cold? Not really," said a young man whose naked upper body was dyed blue and who identified himself only as Gert. "The body paint is keeping me warm."
Eser Zade, mascaraed and clad in a fantastic outfit of white sequined tights, a flowing blue cape lined with fake ermine and a tall crown displaying faux pearls, was visibly proud of the attention he was getting.
"I designed it myself and had my tailor make it in Turkey," he said, demurring when asked how much it costs because "one doesn't answer such questions."
The show on the square befitted the occasion, with orchestras and disc jockeys serving up a musical menu that spanned the range from Mozart to Disney — all of course with a fairy-tale Middle Eastern theme. Ballet skits alternated with gyrating disco dancers.
As thousands of spectators pressed against mesh wire barriers separating them from the paying guests, a light show of pulsating purples and reds transformed the venue into a super-dimensional Fantasyland.
Proceeds go to help national and international AIDS projects. Last year's Life Ball raised more than 2 million euros ($2.6 million).


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When Noah built the ark …
With all of the weather related occurrences in our natural habitat in the last few months, folks are beginning to wonder if some of those old Bible prophecies might be more than just fodder for Sunday sermons by rambling old preachers of the gospel. Several dear friends of mine who have no more than a passing interest in religion, church or gathering with other believers have found the time to ask me what I think about them, and more importantly, what I think might be coming in our future.
I resort to my old stock answer. No one knows for sure what is in our future and no man knows the hour or the day when Christ shall come for the believers and call an end to time as we know it in our physical bodies. We are told in Scripture that false teachers will claim to know the answer, but that no man truly does. "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only" (Matthew 24:36). Interesting verses, much less often quoted, follow. "But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark. And knew not that until the flood came, and took them all away, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be" (Matthew 24:37-39).
The details of God commissioning Noah to construct the ark are found in Genesis, Chapter 6. Sunday school kids of all ages can tell you the story from memory, but what they usually see in their mind's eyes are the cute little tub-like boats holding two of several kinds of animals floating on a pleasant expanse of water. I don't think after years of study that the ark Noah built was like that all. Those images make for cute nursery decorations, but think about two of every animal. Just how much space would that take?
Verse 14 instructs Noah to make the ark of gopher wood and design it with rooms inside that are pitched within and without. Verse 15 says that the length shall be 300 cubits, the breath 50 cubits, and the height 30 cubits. Following the most respected scholars' writings, I have learned that the ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and three stories (perhaps 45 feet) high. The space provided is equal to more than 522 freight cars, and to me, that seems huge. A normal "stock car" on a railroad line can hold 240 sheep. It was a virtual floating warehouse capable of housing eight thousand pairs of each animal plus Noah's family of eight, supplies for a little over a year, and some space left over for skeptics.
The word "ark" in the Hebrew language means a chest or box, and the ark became an important symbol of both faith and punishment for the ungodly. In 1 Peter 3:20, Scripture refers to "the days of Noah" while the ark was in preparation and are held up as an example of the longsuffering of God. The same Hebrew word is used of the basket of bulrushes in which Moses was cast out to float upon the Nile in Exodus 2:2-5. The ark was designed to float and not sail and there were no launching problems to report.
What can we learn from the account of the ark? The first thing I think of is that when people make fun of your faith, just simply stay focused on God. He was the architect of the structure and He told Noah what to build. Noah followed his instructions carefully while the folks around him — his peers, if you will — laughed and made all matter of fun of this crazy, wild man building a great floating vessel with no water in sight. We should also learn to share our faith boldly by whatever means God gives us the opportunity. It could be in writing, speaking, music, personal testimony, or in the way we live our lives before others. If we don't, people will surely perish.
Here's a hard lesson to learn. There are times in our lives when God shuts doors that we want to see left open. He does that to protect us. Think how Noah and his family must have felt when God shut that door on the ark. Here's a wonderful reminder — God never breaks His promises to us. He promised Noah and his family safety and protection, and He delivered right on time.
Our prayer should be for patience. Our storms will pass and we will survive if it is God's will. When we get through the storm, whatever it is today, we can re-focus and see those beautiful green bushes and grass, blue skies, white clouds, and hear the chirping birds. Hopefully those we love will be with us and new opportunities will await us. Keep the faith and do what God says.
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City Council unanimously passed an ordinance that will let county commissioners and the county engineer know they have no plans to accept the bridges recently "bestowed" upon them by the county.
City Council unanimously passed an ordinance that will let county commissioners and the county engineer know they have no plans to accept the bridges recently "bestowed" upon them by the county.
Mayor Terry Culbertson said that he was glad council agreed with him as they passed an ordinance similar to the one recently passed in Dennison. The ordinance states that the city didn't ask for these bridges, didn't design or build them, and never has maintained or inspected the bridges.
Law Director Brett Hillyer said a letter to commissioners and the county engineer would be hand-delivered this week.
Councilman Joel Peterson said he had spoken at length with the county engineer and was told that maintenance and inspection of the bridges in a town in the county has been assigned to the towns due to the major cuts in his budget.
County Engineer Joe Bachman said that New Philadelphia and Dover take care of their own bridges, and it is not fair that other towns in the county don't take care of their own bridges.
The Ohio Revised Code states that whoever owns the bridges has to maintain and inspect them. Culbertson told council that the city never has owned these bridges, and he doesn't want the city to own them now.
"We didn't put them in. That was done when the state routes were put through town. We, as a city, had nothing to do with that," said Culbertson.
"If these bridges have not been properly vacated, have not had a proper transfer of the property, then I don't see how they can belong to the city. There is no precedent for this. Someone else built them. Someone else maintained them," said Hillyer.
In another matter, council learned that the mayor and law director are actively pursuing delinquent tax payers through the court system. Hillyer said he will be placing about 15 delinquent income tax cases on the docket per week.
This is a gentle reminder to residents, that action is being taken, and they will be brought to court," said Hillyer.
Culbertson said that recently one couple came in and paid a $12,000 tax debt that was owed. He said that some people are taking this seriously and paying their tax debt.
The mayor had recently met with Regional Income Tax Agency (RITA) and the city auditor and that another meeting will be held soon with all officials to attend to make sure that everyone is in agreement and understand the proceedings that will be coming in the months ahead.
Several events are scheduled for Dec. 7. A memorial service will be conducted at the Haverfield memorial beginning at 7:55 a.m. The Christmas parade is also that morning.
Uhrichsville and Dennison will be coming together at noon to meet in the middle of the new bridge on the Panhandle Trail that was recently completed. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held by the mayors of both towns and Santa Claus will do the honor of cutting the ribbon.
• Reminded residents the Christmas tree lighting and party will be held December 8 at 7 p.m. in Makos parking lot.
• Learned the mayor and city services director will begin meeting monthly with all department heads after the first of the year.
• Will consider a contract for 2014 presented by Quicksall and Associates of New Philadelphia.
• Learned the Uhrichsville Elks Lodge will now help pay for flags flown at the Haverfield Memorial. Resident Darrell Hicks has been paying about $300 each year for the flags.
• Heard a recommendation from the mayor to examine the ordinance on the city books that states that police officers can be hired up to age 72. Culbertson felt that issue needed revised to be more in line with current ORC laws.
• Agreed to remove the recycling bins from the city due to blatant misuse of the containers by residents.
• Agreed to pay up to $1,600 for automotive repairs for a police cruiser.
• Honored the Vickers family as Business of the Month. Vickers owns the Freight Station Oven Works at 401 N. Main St.


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The conversation is between Robert "Skip" Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., deputy director and senior pediatric ethicist in FDA's Office of Pediatric Therapeutics, and Gregory Reaman, M.D., associate director of the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products.
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848 East 48th Street
Bronzeville, Chicago, 60653
Commute to Downtown Chicago
Most errands can be accomplished on foot.
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Flat as a pancake, excellent bike lanes.
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848 East 48th Street has a Walk Score of 83 out of 100. This location is Very Walkable so most errands can be accomplished on foot.
848 East 48th Street is a 17 minute walk from the ME Metra Electric at the 47th St. (Kenwood) stop.
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LA GRANGE – The bread and pastries being sold at this year's La Grange Farmer's Market are pre-World War II.
Their recipes, that is.
Gigi Katic from Katic Breads left Champaign at 3 a.m. May 9 with a batch of breads and croissants that were baked overnight. They were in La Grange by 7 a.m. for the market's season opening.
Katic Breads is one of four new vendors at this year's market and offers classic European breads, like an herb focaccia or pain de campagne (French sourdough), made with organic flour and without preservatives or sugar.
"Those chemicals, we can't even pronounce them," said Gigi Katic, noting that many commercial breads lose their minerals when flour is bleached. "So why are we putting them in our bodies?"
The breads and pastries are baked in Champaign but will soon be made in Aurora. Gigi Katic's brother, Dusan, started the business with his wife after he lived in France, where they treat their bread "like a precious gem."
"He wanted that for America," Gigi Katic said.
So her brother studied bread-making on his own, and when he came home, he began experimenting. Dusan worked with traditional, pre-industrial era recipes, until he got the dough and yeast exactly how he liked it.
Now, his sister can tell a customer that the word for a popular Italian bread, ciabatta, means old man's slipper.
In addition to traditional breads, Katic sells a kalamata olive loaf – good with anything Greek, Gigi Katic said – and a pain de sophia, filled with six different seeds. Then there are the croissants, with layers so distinct you can count them.
"The French say you should be wearing it on your shirt," Gigi Katic said. "That's how flaky [a croissant] should be."
The almond and strawberry variety were sold out by mid-day, but Katic brings plenty of the classic butter and chocolate, made with two fine sticks of dark chocolate.
Everything is baked the night before it's sold, and considering the quality, everything is reasonably priced – no loaf costs more than $6. It might even defy the idea that you have to cut carbs to cut pounds.
"I'll get customers who come in and say they're eating a loaf of bread a day and still losing weight," Katic said.
Also new this year are Simply Salsa and Flower Garden and Impex Nature, which sells fresh Italian truffles, pasta, balsamic and other oils. The market also features numerous vendors selling meat, produce and baked goods.
The market runs 7 a.m.-1 p.m. through October next to the village parking garage off Sixth Avenue.


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Chan's time to face Canadian Olympic figure skating curse
Patrick Chan will skate for himself, his country, uphill against a torrent of history and circumstance in his attempt to mine Olympic gold.
It can't and won't be easy.
Nevermind the difficulty of his routines and his jumps, Chan is attempting what no Canadian man has accomplished before. And the numbers are, in fact, both astounding and daunting.
Fourteen men have won the world figure skating title for Canada. Not one of them has won an Olympic gold medal.
Kurt Browning won four worlds: He has no Olympic medals. Elvis Stojko won three world crowns: He never won gold at the Games. Brian Orser won the 1987 world championship heading into the Calgary Olympics. By boxing terminology, he lost a split decision and ended up with silver.
Chan is the Toronto Maple Leafs on figure skates, forever reminded of a curse not of his doing, the difference being there is no 1967 for him. There is only forever.
And now, as defending world champion in each of the past three years, he skates against the best in the world of figure skating, including out-of-retirement Russian legend Evgeni Plushenko, in an attempt to alter history.
"This is a real pain-in-the-ass coincidence," said Browning, talking about all the world champions who came up short when it mattered most. "Really, it has nothing to do with being Canadian.
"We're all great guys. We're all competent fellows. Elvis skated great at his Olympics. Whether he got beat that day (in 1994) is the question. I think he won but they didn't give it to him. Brian skated great (in Calgary). And I had those weird things happen to me."
Browning went to the Olympics right after winning world championship, twice.
"I used to think, 'What is it about me and the Olympics?' "
In Albertville he had two slipped discs. "I probably should have stayed home," he said.
In Lillehammer in 1994, he knows where it went wrong: "I lost it in the warmup," he said. "I had 60 seconds to kill and I figured I'll just a do a double flip. I don't know why I did that. I never did double flips. I never even practiced it."
He did the warmup move, not properly concentrating, and crashed to the ice. "I laughed it off," he said, looking back. "I made a joke. But I wasn't the same after that. It put a seed of doubt in my head. I never got it back. That was enough to throw me off."
At the time, Stojko walked by Browning and said: "It's OK buddy."
But it wasn't OK then, isn't OK now.
"What do countries expect from their athletes? The best. When I didn't give my country my best, it just felt so bad," Browning said. "I had such a good opportunity to make a mark on the medals for Canada. And I didn't do that."
Stojko at least won medals. He could have won gold in Norway had the judges warmed to his athletic ways. Four years later, as defending world champion entering the Nagano Games, an injury prevented him from reaching his own great heights. He was probably gifted a silver medal, which gave him silvers in two straight Olympics.
"Albertville should have been my year but I was injured. Elvis should have won in '94 and then he tried competing with an injured groin in Nagano," said Browning.
There is always a story.
Orser, who is coaching Chan's rivals here, was thought to be Canada's best bet for gold in Calgary. And he almost got there.
In the now famous Battle of the Brians, the term coined for his clash with American Brian Boitano, Orser was scored as gold medal winner on four of nine judge's scorecards. Boitano received more points on three scorecards. Two scorecards ended with Boitano and Orser tied.
With the way ties are now broken, Orser would have won the gold medal. But the tiebreaking formula in 1988 gave Boitano the victory. By a mere technicality, Canada missed on a gold medal in Calgary and Orser lost out on the opportunity of a lifetime.
And now it's Chan's time.
"He has to defeat the demon," said Browning. "It has nothing to do with me or Elvis or anyone else. Patrick has to be in the air 12 of 13 times. You have to defeat that demon every time you jump. And the skating has to look natural, like you're not trying. It's those mini battles he has to get through. Each jump, because you can't miss any of them.
"I think he's very singular in his thinking, very internal. I don't think he looks at me as anybody other than his friend. I don't think he sees me who left unfinished business for him to do."
And Browning, having watched Chan all week in training, believes the Canadian figure skating curse, if there is such a thing, will end here at the compact Iceberg Skating Palace.
"Patrick knows if he gives his best, he's probably going to be Olympic champion," said Browning. "It's right there for him. His jumps are landing with no effort. He's skating so well you can barely hear him on the ice. I think he's looking really good."


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|MLB Career Stats
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|March 30, 2017
|Columbus Clippers released OF Wily Mo Pena.
|February 28, 2017
|OF Wily Mo Pena assigned to Cleveland Indians.
|February 8, 2017
|OF Wily Mo Pena assigned to Columbus Clippers.
|February 6, 2017
|Cleveland Indians signed free agent OF Wily Mo Pena to a minor league contract.
|October 30, 2011
|LF Wily Mo Pena elected free agency.
|August 13, 2011
|Seattle Mariners selected the contract of LF Wily Mo Pena from Tacoma Rainiers.
|July 27, 2011
|Seattle Mariners signed free agent LF Wily Mo Pena to a minor league contract.
|July 24, 2011
|Arizona Diamondbacks released LF Wily Mo Pena.
|July 15, 2011
|Arizona Diamondbacks designated LF Wily Mo Pena for assignment.
|June 21, 2011
|Arizona Diamondbacks selected the contract of LF Wily Mo Pena from Reno Aces.
|April 6, 2011
|Wily Mo Pena assigned to Reno Aces from Arizona Diamondbacks.
|January 19, 2011
|Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent LF Wily Mo Pena to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
|November 6, 2010
|OF Wily Mo Pena elected free agency.
|July 20, 2010
|OF Wily Mo Pena assigned to Portland Beavers from San Diego Padres.
|July 19, 2010
|San Diego Padres signed free agent OF Wily Mo Pena to a minor league contract.
|June 22, 2009
|Buffalo Bisons released LF Wily Mo Pena.
|April 28, 2009
|Buffalo Bisons signed free agent LF Wily Mo Pena.
Game-By-Game Highlights: Went 1-for-4 with a walk in Nationals debut on Aug. 18 vs. NYM...one day later, Aug. 19 vs. NYM, hit first homer with the Nationals, a solo shot off the facade in dead left field...in Kirk Gibson-esk moment, hit go-ahead 2-run homer on August 27 at LAD just 2 pitches after fouling pitch off top of left foot...after receiving medical attention from the Nationals athletic training staff, homered and severely limped around the same basepaths that Gibson made famous on October 15, 1988...left the game due to the contusion after the homer, however, x-rays returned negative...blasted 2-run homer in a 6-3 win vs. FLA, Sept. 2...set up game-winning 2-run rally in the 9th inning, and scored the game-ending run, of a 4-3 win vs. FLA, Sept. 4...snapped 4-4 tie with 7th-inning 2-out RBI single in a 6-4 win, Sept. 5 vs. FLA...8th career 2-homer effort, September 10 at FLA, included a 3rd-inning laser down the left-field line that 3B Miguel Cabrera almost caught...homered again 2 days later at Dolphin Stadium, September 12... laced game-winning 2-run double to erase 6-5 deficit in eventual 9-6 win on September 26 at NYM...with Boston, went 2-for-4 with a double and homer and 4 RBI in a 5-2 win at BAL on April 26...finished 4-for-5 with 2 doubles, a home run and 4 RBI in BOS' 14-9 win at CLE, July 26.2006 Acquired from the Cincinnati Reds on March 20, Pena batted a career-best .301 with 15 doubles, 11 home runs, 42 RBI and 36 runs in 84 games in his first season with Boston...posted an OPS (on-base plus slugging) of .838 (.349 OBP, .489 SLG)...made 73 starts: 35 in right, 25 in center, 11 in left and 2 as the DH...committed 3 total errors, 2 in right, one in left and none in center... had the American League's 7th-best batting average in May with a .354 (23-for-65) mark in 18 games...saw regular action while Coco Crisp was on the disabled list from April 9-May 27, making 30 starts, including 20 in center...batted .321 (35-for-109) with 4 homers and 17 RBI in 34 games overall during that stretch...was limited to just 84 total games in part due to injuries...joined the Aguilas Cibaenas of the Dominican Winter League late in their regular season...Was placed on the D.L. on May 28 and underwent surgery on June 1 for a fractured hamate bone in his left wrist...was batting .321 (36-for-112) with 4 homers and 18 RBI in 35 games at the time of the D.L. stint...was activated on July 18 after a rehab assignment with Single-A Lowell (2 G, 1-for-6, R) from June 30-July 1 and Triple-A Pawtucket (12 G, .244, 10-for-41, 2 HR, 7 RBI) from July 2-17...hit .287 (47-for-164) with 7 homers and 24 RBI in 48 games after being reinstated...also missed 8 games from August 26-September 2 with soreness in his left wrist and 5 games from September 17-21 with tightness in his right quadriceps muscle...Had a season-high 9-game hitting streak from August 6-15, batting .361 (13-for-36) with 2 doubles, a triple, 3 home runs, 9 RBI and 9 runs scored...was 2 games shy of his career-best 11-game run with the Reds from June 24-July 5, 2005..Fell a single shy of the cycle on August 12 vs. Baltimore, going 3-for-4 with a homer, triple, double, 3 RBI and 3 runs...was the first Sox player to be a single away from the cycle since Johnny Damon on June 12, 2005 at Wrigley Field...was the first Sox player to do so at Fenway since Nomar Garciaparra on July 24, 1997 vs. Oakland...Fared far better against righties, batting .326 (56-for-172) compared to a .260 (27-for-104) mark against lefties...batted .322 (48-for-149) at Fenway and .276 (35-for-127) on the road...hit just .256 (21-for-82) with runners in scoring position, including .150 (6-for-40) in those situations with 2 outs...made 7 appearances as a pinch hitter, going 2-for-5 (.400) with 2 doubles, 2 RBI, 2 runs and a walk...Played for the Dominican Republic in the inaugural World Baseball Classic, batting .400 (4-10) with an RBI and a run scored in 3 games. 2005 Had a career-high 17 doubles...from 5/9-6/6 missed 26g while on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left quadriceps muscle...suffered the injury on 4/23 at Fla, then started just 1 of the Reds' next 13g before he went on the DL...in 19g before he went on the disabled list hit .313 (6hr, 12rbi)...in 80g after he came off the DL hit .243 (64-263, 13hr, 39rbi)...didn't play after 9/28 at Mil, when he suffered a hyperextended lower back while slamming into the outfield wall on Bill Hall's triple...x-rays were negative but he didn't play in any of the Reds' last 4g of the season...on 8/10 at Chi left the game with a sprained left wrist but did not go on the DL...didn't play again until a pinch-hitting appearance on 8/15 and didn't start again until 8/17...hit .280 (12hr, 32rbi) before the All-Star break and .224 (7hr, 19rbi) after the break...made 78 starts (47g in RF, 22g in CF, 9g in LF)...in the batting order hit fourth (11g), fifth (14g), sixth (25g), seventh (25g) and eighth (3g)...produced 11 2-hit games and four 3-hit games...from 4/7-4/21 produced at least 1 extra-base hit in each of his first 9 starts of the season, the second-longest such streak in the Major Leagues over the last 2 seasons (Abreu, 11g, May 2005)...in all of the previous season, no player in the National League produced an extra-base hit in 9 straight starts...from 6/24-7/5 put together a career-high 11-game hitting streak (.348, 3hr, 10rbi), raising BA from .275 to .297...had four 2-homer games (4/20 vs Pit, 6/8 vs TB, 8/21 vs Ari, 9/12 at Chi)...on 5/1 at Mil hit his third career pinch hit HR (off Doug Davis)...in the 11-9 victory on 6/8 vs TB (Wily Mo Pena Bobblehead Doll Night) went 3-for-5 with 2hr and 3rbi, including a dramatic 2-run walkoff homer off Danys Baez...on 8/21 vs Ari produced 2 homers and a career high 6rbi...on 4/17 vs Hou hit a 498-foot HR into the LF bleachers (off Brandon Duckworth), the second-longest homer on record at Great American Ball Park...on 6/29 at StL hit a 492-foot HR off the CF batter's eye (off Matt Morris), the longest homer on record by an opposing player at Busch Stadium...on 9/18 at Pit produced his first Major League sacrifice fly (off Brian Bullington) in his 870th career plate appearance and his 40th career plate appearance with a runner on third and less than 2 outs...in last 11g of the season went 6-for-37 (.162, 1hr, 3rbi)...following the season played for Aguilas in the Dominican Winter League (21g, .363, 7hr, 20rbi, 1sb)...agreed to participate in the inaugural World Baseball Classic, scheduled for March 2006, if selected to the Dominican Republic team. 2004 In the best season of his young career produced 26hr and 66rbi in just 110g and 336ab...ranked second on the team in HR and fourth in RBI...didn't play after 9/21 because of a strained right hamstring suffered that night at Atl...in July ranked among the National League leaders and led the club in both homers (9) and RBI (19)...was National League Player of the Week for 7/15-7/18 (7-14, .500, 2hr, 6rbi)...in May became an everyday player following injuries to Ken Griffey Jr. and Austin Kearns...in his last 89g of the season beginning 5/18 hit .271 (25hr, 61rbi)...in his last 53g beginning 7/9 produced 19hr and 43rbi...from 7/9-7/26 put together one of the best 15-game stretches of any player in the majors all season (.364, 9hr, 18rbi, 11r)...made 85 starts, including a 44gs in CF and 41gs in RF...beginning 7/26 made his last 37 starts in CF...made most of his starts batting sixth in the order (30gs) but also hit fourth (1gs), fifth (29gs), seventh (17gs) and eighth (8gs)...on 7/23 at Pit made his only career start batting cleanup...was one of the team leaders in batting with RISP (.294)...produced three 2-homer games (7/11 at Mil, 8/14 vs SD, 9/18 vs Chi)...hit his first 2 career grand slams (6/13 at Cle off Cliff Lee, 6/ 25 vs Pit off Mike Gonzalez) and his first 2 career pinch-hit HR (5/30 at Mtl off Tomo Ohka, 6/25 vs Pit off Mike Gonzalez)...on 5/18 vs Col snapped a career-high 0-for-19 skid with a solo HR off Shawn Estes...on 7/11 at Mil produced 4 hits and 2 homers, both career highs...on 8/8 at Col produced 3 hits and a career-high 5rbi before leaving the game with dehydration that led to cramping in his right hamstring...his 5rbi on 8/8 at Col tied Griffey, Kearns and Adam Dunn for most in a game by a Reds batter all season...on 8/20 at Ari hurt his left wrist checking his swing on a Randy Johnson pitch and missed 5 starts...on 8/31 vs Hou suffered a bruised left chest wall after running into the outfield wall and missed 6 starts...missed the last 12g of the season with the strained right hamstring...following the season played for Aguilas in the Dominican Winter League (25g, .202, 7hr, 20rbi). 2003 In his first full season in the Major Leagues appeared in 80g, including 39 starts...started the club's last 27g of the season (25-92, .272, 5hr, 12rbi)...in September produced all 5 of his homers and 12 of his 16rbi...from 7/5-7/29 was on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right hamstring...suffered the injury on 7/4 vs Mets during a pinch-hitting appearance...beginning 7/17 made 14 rehab apps at Louisville before rejoining the club on 7/30, after OF Jose Guillen was traded to the Athletics...made 24 of his 39 starts in CF...also started in LF (4gs) and RF (11gs)...as a pinch runner/defensive replacement on 5/28 at Atl made his only career appearance in the infield (3B)...in the batting order hit fifth (4gs), sixth (17gs), seventh (6gs) and eighth (12gs)...had six 2-hit games and a career-high 3-hit game (9/5 at StL)...had 7 infield hits...on 6/29 at Cle recorded his first career stolen base...on 8/1 vs SF produced his first career 2-hit game...on 9/1 at Mil hit his first homer of the season (solo off Dave Burba)...in the 12-inning, 4-2 win on on 9/5 at StL had a career-high 3 hits, including the first triple of his career that drove in a run to snap the 2-2 tie...on 9/12 at Chi produced the only sac bunt of his professional career...following the season played for Aguilas in the Dominican Winter League (27g, .182, 1hr, 5rbi).
Career highlights: Following the 2001 season was named the organization's best power hitter and third best prospect by Baseball America...also was named best power prospect in the Midwest League...in 2001 had 26 homers and 26 stolen bases at Class A Dayton, 1 of only 3 minor league players to record at least 25 homers and 25 stolen bases that season (Class AA Midland's Jacques Landry, 36hr/37sb & Class AA Reading's Marlon Byrd, 28hr/ 32sb)...also in 2001 led all Class A players with 113rbi, the fourth-highest total among all minor leaguers...along with OF Adam Dunn represented the Reds organization in the 2001 Futures Game held in Seattle during All-Star Weekend...was a 2001 Midwest League and TOPPS Class A All-Star...twice during the 2001 season was named Midwest League Batter of the Week...in 1999 was a member of Howe Sportsdata's All-Teenager team.2002 On 10/18 had surgery to repair a torn left hamstring (Dr. Timothy Kremchek)...spent most of the season at Chattanooga, where in his first stint at Class AA he hit .255 in 105g (11hr, 47rbi, 8sb)...from 4/19-5/10 was on the Lookouts' disabled list with a strained right quadriceps muscle...on 9/10 was recalled by the Reds, along with Gookie Dawkins, when Sean Casey and Brandon Larson went on the disabled list...for the Reds hit .222 (1hr, 1rbi) in 13g and 4 starts (3g in LF, 1g in RF)...became the first 20-year-old player to appear for the Reds since Dawkins in 1999 and the sixth Reds player in the last 2 seasons to make his Major League debut while skipping Class AAA (OF Austin Kearns in 2002; RHP Jose Acevedo, RHP Piersoll, RHP Brian Reith, RHP Chris Reitsma in 2001)...made his Major League debut on 9/10 vs Pit and produced an infield single as a pinch hitter (off Kip Wells)...on 9/12 vs Chi made his first Major League start (in LF) and went 1-for-3 with his first career home run, a solo shot off Steve Smyth...hit a grand slam on 6/7 vs Birmingham ...following the season appeared in 3g for Scottsdale in the Arizona Fall League (.286, 1hr, 5rbi) before suffering a torn left hamstring that required surgery. 2001 Was named the organization's best power hitter and third-best prospect by Baseball America...In 2001 had 26 homers and 26 stolen bases at Class A Dayton, one of only three minor league players to record at least 25 homers and 25 stolen bases last season (Class AA Midland's Jacques Landry, 36HR/37SB & Class AA Reading's Marlon Byrd, 28HR/32SB)...Also in 2001 led all Class A players with 113 RBIs...Along with OF Adam Dunn represented the Reds organization in the 2001 Futures Game held in Seattle during All-Star Weekend...was a 2001 Midwest League and Topps Class A All-Star...twice during the 2001 season was named Midwest League Batter of the Week...Enjoyed a tremendous season at Class A Dayton after he was acquired from the Yankees on 3/21 in exchange for OF Michael Coleman and 3B Drew Henson...led the Dragons' offense by hitting .264 with 26 HR, 113 RBIs and 26 stolen bases in 135 games...Led all Class A players in RBIs and ranked second in the Midwest League in homers...also ranked among ML leaders with 248 total bases (3rd) and 56 extra-base hits (5th)...In an 8-6 win vs Lansing on 4/25 recorded a pair of homers, including a solo shot and a grand slam, and five RBIs...On 5/25 vs Cedar Rapids had 5 RBIs and three doubles, including an RBI-double in the bottom of the ninth inning that gave the Dragons a 10-9 walkoff victory...From 6/11-6/13 vs Beloit homered in three straight games (3HR/8RBIs)...Stole home in an 8-2 win on 7/20 at Beloit...On 8/9 at Cedar Rapids, in his best game of the season, went 4-for-6 with three HR and six RBIs in a 21-5 win...On 8/27 vs Michigan collected five RBIs, including a two-out grand slam in the bottom of the 11th inning that gave the Dragons an 8-4 win. 2000 Began the season at Class-A Greensboro, batting .205 with ten HR and 28 RBIs in 67 games...Hit two solo homers on 4/12 at Hickory...Had back-to-back three hit games on 6/15-16 vs. Columbus...Was transferred from Greensboro to the Staten Island Yankees on 6/17 and finished the season there, contributing to their New York Penn League Championship...batted .301 with ten RBIs in 20 games...Was ranked as the #9 prospect in the Yankee organization by Baseball America. 1999 Signed a 5-year major league contract with NYY and debuted with NYY's' Rookie-level GCL entry...rated as the No. 7 prospect in NYY's organization by Baseball America and was member of Howe Sportsdata's All-Teen Team.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who shot and wounded four people outside of a Halloween party on the University of Southern California campus was sentenced Friday to 40 years to life in prison.
Brandon Spencer, 21, of Inglewood wept and banged his head on the table after he was sentenced in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
During the hearing, he begged the judge for leniency and a second chance.
"I'm sorry for what happened, but I can't spend the rest of my life in prison," a sobbing Spencer said. "I'm not just some gang-banger."
His attorney, John Blanchard, said Spencer had no criminal record, had a job and wanted to go to college. Blanchard said he planned to appeal.
Spencer was convicted in February of attempted murder for the 2012 shooting.
Prosecutors say he had been shot in the stomach by a rival gang member in 2011 and was seeking revenge when he opened fire on Oct. 31, 2012, outside of a party sponsored on campus by the Black Student Assembly.
Prosecutors say Spencer arrived at the party, spotted a rival gang member, left and returned with a gun.
He shot Geno Hall, 22, and three other people.
The two "had an ongoing feud over social media fueled by their gang rivalry," according to a statement from the county district attorney's office.
No one involved was a USC student but the shooting caused the university to beef up security and put restrictions on events held on the campus.


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KENOSHA, Wis. – The Concordia University Wisconsin Track & Field team concluded its indoor season Friday as four student-athletes competed at the Gill Athletics Final Qualifier meet, hosted by Carthage College.
The meet is held for athletes to try and gain top times and distances, in hopes of setting PRs and school records. No team scores are kept.
Three of the four Falcons competing did so in throwing events, led by junior Andrea Kassees (Waukesha, Wis.). She recorded a PR in the weight throw with a toss of 13.73 meters. Her previous best came earlier this season, when she threw 13.45 meters at Illinois Wesleyan. Sophomore Karli Tatum (Milwaukee, Wis. - pictured) competed in the shot put, recording a throw of 10.6 meters, while junior Andrew Faber (Germantown, Wis.) took part in weight throw on the men's side. Faber's best throw was 14.28 meters.
Senior Martin Hinze (Bourbonnais, Ill.) had a strong showing on the track, winning the mile run. Hinze, who was named NACC Track Athlete of the Meet at last weekend's conference championships, won the event with a time of 4:24.22.
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