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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Mitt Romney distanced himself in the second U.S. presidential debate from George W. Bush, but Barack Obama said Romney policies would be Bush to an extreme.
"President Bush and I are different people, and these are different times, and that's why my five-point plan is so different than what he would have done," the Republican presidential nominee said in response to a question from an undecided voter in the debate's town hall-style format who said she feared a return to Bush-type GOP policies if Romney wins the election.
Romney said unlike Bush, he would make the United States "energy secure," due to technologies that didn't exist when Bush was president. He criticized Bush for leaving behind a rising budget deficit, failing to deal aggressively on trade with China and for favoring big businesses over small ones.
"My priority is jobs. I know how to make that happen," Romney told the audience at a 5,000-seat sports and exhibition complex at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., near New York City.
Bush had "a very different path for a very different time," Romney said. "My path is designed in getting small businesses to grow and hire people."
But Obama said the differences between Romney and Bush went beyond economic policy.
"George Bush didn't propose turning Medicare into a voucher. George Bush embraced comprehensive immigration reform. He didn't call for self-deportation," Obama said.
"George Bush never suggested that we eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood," Obama said. "So there are differences between Governor Romney and George Bush, but they're not on economic policy. In some ways, he's gone to a more extreme place when it comes to social policy."
In a vigorous televised debate that at times appeared like a spoken-word mixed martial arts match, with both candidates verbally striking and grappling, Romney later suggested the Obama administration intentionally misled the public in its shifting explanations of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that left U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead.
Obama bristled at the assertion his administration withheld critical facts about the attack.
"The suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the secretary of state, our U.N. ambassador, anybody on my team, would play politics or mislead when we've lost four of our own, governor, is offensive," Obama said, standing and looking intently at his adversary.
"That's not what we do. That's not what I do as president, that's not what I do as commander in chief," Obama said.
Obama said he went to the White House Rose Garden the day after the attack to say "this was an act of terror," challenging Republican accusations the administration was purposely misleading when it described the Sept. 11 attack as a spontaneous demonstration sparked by an anti-Muslim video.
He also said, "We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others," a United Press International review of his Rose Garden remarks indicated. Those remarks may have been an allusion to the video that mocked the Prophet Muhammad.
During the debate Obama accepted responsibility for the security lapses that contributed to the four U.S. deaths. But he accused Romney of playing politics with a national-security crisis.
"While we were still dealing with our diplomats being threatened, Governor Romney put out a press release, trying to make political points," Obama said, "and that's not how a commander in chief operates. You don't turn national security into a political issue -- certainly not right when it's happening."
The two quarreled over jobs, taxes, energy, immigration and a range of other issues.
Throughout the debate, Romney repeated the theme, "We just can't afford four more years like the last four years."
Obama four times mentioned Romney's vow to cut government funding for Planned Parenthood while Romney twice said there were 3.5 million more women living in poverty now than when Obama took office.
Romney also said seven times that 23 million Americans were out of work -- and twice said his five-point plan would "get this economy going again."
Obama responded: "Governor Romney doesn't have a five-point plan. He has a one-point plan. And that plan is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules."
Obama made the case his administration had increased domestic oil production.
Romney countered, saying, "I don't think anyone really believes that you're a person who's going to be pushing for oil and gas and coal."
Obama stood up to interject.
"You'll get your chance in a moment," Romney said, showing the president the palm of his hand. "I'm still speaking."
Near the end of the 90-minute debate, Obama assailed Romney's secretly taped May 17 comments about the "47 percent" of Americans who he said did not take responsibility for their own lives.
"I believe Governor Romney is a good man -- loves his family, cares about his faith," Obama said. "But I also believe that when he said behind closed doors that 47 percent of the country considered themselves victims who refuse personal responsibility -- think about who he was talking about."
Obama mentioned people on Social Security, soldiers, veterans and students -- people paying payroll and gas taxes but "don't make enough income" to pay income taxes.
"I want to fight for them," Obama said. "That's what I've been doing for the last four years, because if they succeed, I believe the country succeeds."
Even before Obama raised the 47 percent remark, Romney rebutted the attack by telling voters the president and his campaign were trying to characterize him "as someone who's very different than who I am.
"I care about 100 percent of the American people," he said. "I want 100 percent of the American people to have a bright and prosperous future. I care about our kids. I understand what it takes to make a bright and prosperous future for America again."


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Arts & Culture | Black Boston | Health | Politicsby Talia Whyte
Nicole Roberts Jones was the mistress of ceremonies at Boston's 43rd annual Martin Luther King Day Breakfast. As the old adage goes, behind every great man is an even greater woman. Coretta Scott King played a vital role as Dr. King's wife and organizing partner. There were many other women who had participated in the civil rights movement, but unlike Mrs. King, Betty Shabazz and Rosa Parks, their accomplishments have been given little attention.
Ella Baker, Septima Poinsette Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer and Vivian Malone Jones are all unsung heroines from that era. Baker was a longtime organizer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) who worked behind the scenes. Because she was neither a man nor a minister, she was not seriously considered to become the head of the organization. Clark, better known as the "queen mother" of the civil rights movement, was an educator who played a role in a legal victory that would allow blacks to become principals in public schools in Charleston, South Carolina. Hamer was a Mississippi sharecropper, who was beaten and jailed in 1962 for trying to register to vote. She co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and spoke at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Jones defied Gov. George Wallace by becoming one of the first black students to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963.
And there were countless other women, who are unknown, but worked tirelessly cooking meals and cleaning up after rallies. These women should be the main role models for today's black women, not stars on reality shows.
While no woman gave a speech at the 1963 March on Washington, it seems like their accomplishments are now being recognized. Myrlie Evers-Williams delivered the invocation at President Obama's inauguration – the first ever done by a woman and layperson.
"There's a Chinese saying, 'Women hold up half the world," said former NAACP chairman Julian Bond. "In the case of the civil rights movement it's probably three-quarters of the world."
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Vengan, vengan todos! Hace demasiado frio!!
Our profesora, Marta Beriso Lopez, herded us into her countryside home, an hour and a half outside of Madrid. The five students in our art history class were joining her and her mother for a special tradition called el tertuliano.
El tertuliano, as defined by the Collins online dictionary, normally refers to a radio or talk show host who chats about celebrity gossip and the like. However, it can also mean "member of a social gathering."
What the online dictionaries don't explain is the Spanish tradition of the tertuliano, which I was fortunate enough to experience during my semester abroad in Spain.
A common tradition during holidays or weekends, the tertuliano is essentially an all-day feast. We started with tea, followed by bread, a Spanish salad (which varies in content but is always dressed in delicious Spanish olive oil) and then the pièce de résistance: el cochinillo asado, or roast suckling pig.
Now, this isn't a dish you cook at home. This is the local butcher delivering a roasted baby pig on a pan, flattened because all its insides have been removed, crispy and ready to eat. The whole pig is there – head, feet, and even the cute little curlicue tail. As you might imagine, an American could be easily overwhelmed.
But I have to say… it was delicious. (For more information about the history of the cochinillo asado tradition, check out this article)
However, in a tertuliano, the conversation is just as important as the food. The six or so people joining in the meal will sit around a large table and talk all day as the feast goes on. But this is not just small talk – for lack of a better term, I would call this "big talk": talk about the things that American culture generally deems impolite conversation. Religion, politics, culture, controversial current events – they're all on the menu. And I loved it.
Because the day is spent discussing and debating these issues, it is important to think carefully about whom to invite to this event. It is important to invite those whose opinions you respect; not necessarily those whose opinions you agree with, but those you respect. Ideally, as Marta explained to me, the group should reach outside your circle of best friends to those you see less often, but whom you find particularly interesting. And, of course, who are open-minded in their debates. (After all, one jerk at your tertuliano can really ruin the whole thing.)
Around Marta's dining room table, we discussed everything: how gay marriage had been legal in Spain since 2005; how America trapped its students in debt through the high price of a university education; how the Spanish political system was broken, and the various ways it could be fixed. We each asserted our views on the constant protests in Madrid, with the majority of us American students viewing them as counterproductive, while Marta and her mother believed they were justified acts of rebellion. We discussed the current Spanish religious culture (or lack thereof) and the constant public displays of affection in Spain, both of which we believed to be cultural results of Franco's dictatorship. We talked about the tradition of botellana, in which the young people congregate in parks and public spaces in Madrid to drink red wine mixed with Coca-Cola before going to clubs. We debated cultural notions of work-life balance; as I recall Marta lamenting, "Aquí, trabajamos para vivir; en los Estados Unidos, vosotros vivéis para trabajar." ("Here, we work so we can live; in the U.S., you all live to work.")
Those five or six hours of conversation were some of the most thought-provoking, exciting and funny times I've had in my life, much less my semester abroad. To me, el tertuliano truly epitomizes what I love about Europe, and Spain in particular: the emphasis on food, friends and real conversation. Furthermore, the tertuliano exemplifies the way that the Spanish value their time. In Spain, to spend an entire day eating and debating with friends is a day well spent. This is not to say that this wouldn't be a day well spent in the States – but more likely, Americans would run errands and get work done during the day, and squeeze good food and conversation into a dinner no longer than two hours. The Spanish take their time; as my madre would say, ¿Qué es esa necesidad de tener prisa? Vas a estar al final de tu vida, sin saberlo. (What is this need to rush? You're going to get to the end of your life and not even know it). I realized that there really is no need. I learned a lot from that mentality.
So, I encourage you to try having your own tertuliano of sorts. Which five or six interesting, open-minded friends would you invite? Which topics would you want to discuss? What would you cook? Though I doubt you could find cochinillo asado this side of the Atlantic, I'm sure you could find an equally exciting dish that would start the conversation off just right.


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Now that we're a little more than a week into the New Year, it's time for my annual predictions (sure to go wrong) column.
Before that, let's take a look back at some of last year's prognostications.
The good: I correctly said that Miami would take on Oklahoma City in the NBA Finals, and accurately predicted top-3 state track and field finishes for Marmion's Pete Stefanski (2nd in the high jump) and St. Charles East's Jake Mazanke (3rd in the 800).
I also hit the mark when I said Geneva's girls basketball team would win its fourth straight Class 4A regional title and that Aurora Central Catholic would reach the state football playoffs for the first time since 1997 (finished 6-4).
I accurately picked St. Charles East to reach the finals of its own Thanksgiving basketball tournament (the Saints won the title) and predicted Batavia would edge Glenbard North, 28-27, during the opening week of the football season (Batavia won, 42-41).
The bad: I had Green Bay facing New England in 2012 Super Bowl (the Packers lost their first playoff game to the New York Giants) and picked the Los Angeles Angels to face Philadelphia in the World Series (neither team made the playoffs).
On the prep side, I predicted that Geneva's baseball team would capture its first sectional title. While the Vikings earned the No. 1 seed in the sectional complex, they were eliminated by 16th-seeded Bartlett in the first round of the regional tourney, 2-0.
Here are my picks to click in 2013:
• AFC Championship: Denver 31, New England 27.
• NFC Championship: Green Bay 23, Seattle 20, OT. In the extra session, a review of Golden Tate's apparent third-down touchdown catch showed that the football hit the turf and the Seahawks' subsequent 41-yard field goal attempt clanks off the goal post, sending the Packers to the Super Bowl.
• Super Bowl XLVII: Denver 30, Green Bay 24.
• NBA: Oklahoma City defeats Miami in 7 games. Bulls star guard Derrick Rose returns in late February and helps the team reach the Eastern Conference finals.
• NCAA: An all-Big Ten final of Indiana vs. Michigan. My Final Four includes Duke and Creighton.
• MLB: An all-Los Angeles World Series featuring the Angels and Dodgers.
• Northwestern takes on Ohio State in the Big Ten Conference football championship.
• Long-time Chicago Bears standout Brian Urlacher signs a 2-year contract with Baltimore to replace retired middle linebacker Ray Lewis.
• Thanks in part to their new affiliation with the Chicago Cubs, the Kane County Cougars surpass the 500,000 attendance mark for the first time since 2006 and welcome their 10 millionth fan. The Cougars also set a single-game record of 15,000 when Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo makes an appearance during an injury rehabilitation stint with Kane County.
• In February, Marmion's Johnny Jimenez and George Fisher capture Class 3A individual titles at 120 and 132 pounds, respectively, at the state wrestling tournament in Champaign.
• Kaneland and Burlington Central meet for the Class 3A girls basketball regional championship in a rematch of a January game won in overtime by the Knights (56-53).
• Geneva's girls basketball team finishes the regular season with 7 wins over its last 8 games to secure a share of the Upstate Eight Conference River Division title.
• Batavia's girls basketball team knocks off host St. Charles East to capture its first regional championship in 23 years.
• Class 4A Elite Eight (girls basketball): Wheaton Warrenville South vs. Belvidere North; Rolling Meadows vs. Evanston; Marian Catholic vs. Edwardsville; Neuqua Valley vs. Whitney Young.
• 4A state champion: Whitney Young.
• Class 3A Elite Eight: Rockford Lutheran vs. Vernon Hills; Guerin vs. Montini; Joliet Catholic vs. University High; Quincy-Notre Dame vs. Breese Mater Dei.
• 3A state champion: Montini.
• Playing without injured star Kendall Stephens, St. Charles East's boys basketball team edges St. Charles North in overtime on Dom Adduci's buzzer-beating 3-pointer to reach the Class 4A regional finals against UEC River champion Larkin.
• West Aurora hands Neuqua Valley its second loss of the season in the sectional championship at Bolingbrook.
• Class 4A Elite Eight (boys basketball): West Aurora vs. Proviso East; Notre Dame vs. Whitney Young; Homewood-Flossmoor vs. Belleville East; Larkin vs. Stevenson.
• 4A state champion: Whitney Young.
• Class 3A Elite Eight: Wheaton Academy vs. Peoria Manual; Morgan Park vs. Hillcrest; North Chicago vs. Orr; Cahokia vs. Springfield Southeast.
• 3A state champion: Morgan Park.
• Led by Division 1 pitching recruits Andy Honiotes and Jordan Touro, Geneva's baseball team earns the top sectional seed for the second straight season. This time, coach Matt Hahn's Vikings capture the Class 4A regional title and take on St. Charles East in the sectional semifinals.
• For the second consecutive year, St. Charles East and St. Charles North square off in the Class 4A regional softball tournament. Naturally, it's another extra-inning affair after last season's 7-6, 8-inning decision won by the North Stars. The Saints take this one, 5-4, in 11 innings.
• In late-May, Jasper Koenen and Justin Bowman lead St. Charles East to its second straight boys sectional tennis championship.
• West Aurora junior Emma Spagnola earns the 100-meter hurdles title at the Class 3A state meet in Charleston.
• It will be a banner year for our local soccer teams, as St. Charles North captures the Class 3A girls state championship in June while St. Charles East claims the 3A boys state title nearly 5 months later.
• In mid-October, St. Charles North senior Raghav Cherala cracks the top 25 at the Class 3A boys state golf tournament in Bloomington.
• Batavia's top doubles team of Jenny Mizikar and Amelia Cogan repeat as sectional girls tennis champions.
• In early November, Kaneland junior Victoria Clinton wins her second straight Class 2A individual title at the girls state cross country meet held at Peoria's Detweiller Park. The Knights place third in the team standings, while Geneva takes fourth in Class 3A competition.
• Seven local football teams qualify for postseason play -- Aurora Central Catholic, Aurora Christian, Batavia, Geneva, Kaneland, Marmion, and St. Charles East.
• Kaneland extends its regular-season winning streak to 37 with its fourth straight 9-0 finish on the way to the Class 5A state title game.
• Batavia recovers from a Week 1 loss to Glenbard North and Purdue-bound RB Justin Jackson with 8 consecutive regular-season victories on its way to a Class 7A state quarterfinal appearance.
• St. Charles East junior receiver Brannon Barry leads the area with 12 touchdown catches, Kaneland quarterback Drew David throws 25 TD passes, and Batavia tailback Anthony Scaccia rushes for 1,400 yards and 11 TDs.
• In girls volleyball, Geneva and St. Charles North square off in the Class 4A sectional semifinals.
• Proviso East makes a triumphant return to the St. Charles East/Ron Johnson Thanksgiving Basketball Tournament, beating St. Joseph in the title game. Defending champion St. Charles East takes third.
• Geneva, led by junior Nate Navigato, reaches the finals of the East Aurora Holiday Basketball Tournament against Pleasure Ridge Park (Ky.).
Here's hoping some of these picks come true.
Enjoy 2013.
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Man Considers Suing Carnival After Losing $2600 Playing 'Tubs of Fun' [VIDEO]
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Gordon Clapp, best known for his role as Det. Greg Medavoy in the TV series "NYPD Blue," will play poet Robert Frost in the solo show "This Verse Business," based on the writings and recordings of Frost, Nov. 29 to 30 at 8 p..m,. at Kirby Theater at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass.
Tickets are free for the play by A.M. Dolan with open seating and no reservations required.
The show is in celebration of the 50th anniversary the Frost Library at Amherst College where Frost taught.
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Alt-right and Antifa: Two sides in a race warEDITORIAL
August 19. 2017 10:48PM
President Donald Trump wasn't wrong to point out that many of those protesters at the racist rally in Charlottesville last weekend were radical extremists themselves.
He was wrong to paint the bulk of those protesting the Alt-Right march as "Antifa" activists, and to make excuses for people marching side-by-side with racists.
It's plausible that some conservatives were drawn to the "Unite the Right" rally thinking it was a protest against political correctness. But once you're standing next to a neo-Nazi waving a swastika, it's time to go home.
Trump always wants to think the best of anyone who praises him, and the worst of anyone who criticizes him. This moral and intellectual weakness harms his presidency and the country.
Yet many on the left fall into the same trap. They refuse to see that Antifa is a mirror image of the Alt-Right. Both use violence and intimidation. The only difference is whom they blame for their own failures.
Just as Trump sees all liberal protesters as the enemy, too many Democrats are using Trump's blunders to paint all Republicans as Nazi sympathizers.
Vandals targeted New Hampshire GOP headquarters again this week. The New Hampshire Democratic Party attacked Gov. Chris Sununu merely for speaking to a Seacoast political group.
This isn't new. Democrats reflexively call Republicans racists and sexists. Republicans have grown so used to the insults that many rally to the aid of anyone targeted with similar accusations.
When Hillary Clinton tried to put half of Trump's supporters in "the basket of deplorables," many Republicans assumed she was talking about them. They started wearing Deplorable T-shirts.
The Alt-Right is deplorable, but Clinton tried to inflate a hateful fringe into half of the GOP. In turn, some Republicans refuse to see the very real racism that has infected their party.
Meanwhile, some on the left are so determined to oppose Trump that they are willing to overlook the thugs in riot gear marching next to them.
Political movements have the primary responsibility to identify and expel the virulent strains growing within their ranks. The Alt-Right and Antifa want to divide us by race. We can't let them succeed.


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As marathons continue to gain popularity, so to do ultramarathons. Are you ready to move up?
Stuck in a rut running marathons? Looking for a new challenge and new adventures? It might be time for you to run your first ultramarathon, a race longer than the marathon's 26.2 miles.
Okay, so maybe you need some convincing to leave the familiar and tackle your first ultra. Here are some reasons for running an ultramarathon.
Journey into the Unknown. You may have mastered-or at least plateaued in-the marathon. Before that you ran every sub-marathon distance under the sun. You need a new challenge. What better way to challenge yourself than by racing further than you've ever raced before?
Reconnect with Running. Devon Crosby-Helms, who placed 4th at the 2009 100k World Championships, offers, "A good reason to switch from marathons is because in ultras you have to think about more than just splits and ticking off the miles at a certain pace. I think it reconnects you with running in a way marathoning doesn't."
Make a whole new group of friends. Most folks who have tried to transition from the roads to ultramarathons have found a tightly knit, but welcoming community. Ultrarunners are often eager to share the trail with anyone dipping his or her toe into the ultra world. Not only are these runners welcoming, they can be an invaluable resource. Lisa Smith-Batchen, who coaches new ultrarunners, suggests to new ultrarunners, "Find a group of people that are already running on the trails so they can help you."
Stop Sucking Car Exhaust. Most North American ultramarathons are run on trails and getting ready for one is a great excuse to get off the pavement and up into the hills. While you're up there you might just see spectacular things. Scotty Mills, who has run ultras for more than a quarter century, notes, "The advantages of training for trail ultras over road marathons are the beauty of the trails, the shared trail time in remote areas, and the peaceful feeling of training on long runs with the mindset that you can run forever."
Race yourself, not others. It's easy to get caught up racing when there are 10,000 runners blasting down the course with you. The smaller fields, longer distances, and variable conditions of an ultra help shift your competition from others to yourself. Knowing that others are thinking the same way makes this transition all the easier. Plus, if it's your first ultra, you'll be setting a PR no matter how long it takes to finish! Finally, as Mills points out, "The training and friends you make in ultrarunning are the real payoffs; the race itself can almost be secondary in importance."
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After taking orders from Officers Chad Crogan and Roger Downing all week, David Youngerman and the other 24 cadets at the department's Youth Police Academy got their revenge on the two officers.
After taking orders from Officers Chad Crogan and Roger Downing all week, David Youngerman and the other 24 cadets at the department's Youth Police Academy got their revenge on the two officers.
Crogan and Downing donned protective suits and attacked the 25 cadets. The aspiring police officers used the various defense tactics they learned throughout the weeklong junior police academy to subdue their attackers.
"I got to use my body and get back against the officers," said Youngerman, who aspires to be a SWAT team member. "This is going to help me out."
Like a real police academy, Crogan and Downing run the camp like drill instructors and begin each day with physical training, including pushups, situps and running.
Practicing their self-defense techniques was one of the skills the cadets learned this week, as they received a crash course in what it takes to be a police officer. Crogan and Downing taught the students how to use a radar gun, search for evidence at a crime scene and walk in formation.
The cadets, who are in grades six through eight, got a visit from the Lifeflight helicopter and the Middlesex County Sheriff's K-9 Unit who demonstrated the dog's speed and power by having one of the members of the unit don a protective suit and play the role of a suspect attempting to elude police.
"I thought it was really cool because they can jump very high," said Maggie Appel, 12. "I thought it was very interesting."
Crogan, the department's school resource officer, and Det. Craig Perry brought the program to Hudson eight years ago and since then it has continued to grow in popularity. The department added two one-week sessions to meet the growing demand.
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Whether Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina tagged Mark Ellis at home plate in the ninth inning of the NL championship series opener is beside the point.
A day later, most everyone agreed: The Gold Glover earned the out.
Molina received right fielder Carlos Beltran's one-hop throw with plenty of time to brace himself for the onrushing Ellis. As Ellis barreled in, Molina turned his shoulder and held onto the ball as he absorbed the blow for an inning-ending double play that kept the score 2-all.
Did Molina actually tag Ellis? Replays were inconclusive.
"The fact of the matter is if you run over the catcher and the guy holds on to the ball, you've been out since 1888," Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright said Saturday.
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said if replay covers that type of play next season, he might have an argument. He said "everybody basically in the ballpark" watched Ellis get up and walk away thinking he was out, and Molina walk away satisfied.
"Anybody who says there is a controversy hasn't looked at the slo-mo replay," Wainwright said, adding it was clear Molina tagged him on the forearm.
Dodgers reliever J.P. Howell said from his view, he'd have called Ellis out, too. He used an NFL analogy to support that.
"Honestly," Howell said, "If I'm the pitcher I'm hoping the red flag has already been used and I get to keep that call."
GUESS AGAIN: Like it or not, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has had to justify his strategy in Game 1.
After a 3-2, 13-inning loss to the Cardinals on Friday night, Mattingly explained and re-explained why he took out Adrian Gonzalez for pinch-runner Dee Gordon, saying he felt it was a good time to take a shot.
Then on Saturday, he was asked about his use of closer Kenley Jansen in the 13th inning with two on and one out. Jansen faced one batter, giving up Carlos Beltran's winning RBI single.
"Well, we thought it was just that kind of game," Mattingly said. "Usually, you're not going to use him until you have the game. Once they get into a situation where it's a guy in scoring position there, we're going to try to stop it right there with Kenley, our best guy."
Mattingly said he talked to Jansen after making the move mid-inning, "kind of the old-time way of using a guy," instead of at the start of the inning. But he pointed out Cardinals closer Trevor Rosenthal worked two innings and added, "It's just that time of year."
WINNING COMBINATION: Max Scherzer won his first 13 decisions. Clay Buchholz won his first 11.
One of their teams will lose Sunday night when Scherzer starts for the Tigers against Buchholz and the Red Sox in Game 2 of the AL championship series.
Scherzer is a favorite to win the AL Cy Young Award after going 21-3 with a 2.90 ERA.
"My confidence level has always been the same from the day I arrived into the big leagues to now," Scherzer said. "I believe confidence is a choice. And I always choose I'm going to believe that I'm always going to come out on top."
After his first loss July 13, he won his next six decisions. Scherzer finished the regular season with a 1-0 win at Minnesota on Sept. 25, won the AL division series opener against Oakland and got the victory in Game 4 when he allowed one run in two innings of relief.
"You could tell that he was a little unsettled, because it's totally different than coming to the park and preparing for a start and going over your game plan and the whole ball of wax," Detroit manager Jim Leyland said.
Buchholz was 9-0 before going on the disabled list for three months with a strained neck. He won his first two starts after returning on Sept. 10, then lost before winning his final start. He finished with 12-1 with a 1.74 ERA.
"Didn't think I'd ever be that good," Buchholz said. "The frustrating part was I couldn't go out and pitch and try to keep it going. So it was definitely a fun first half for me, which I would have given a lot of it up to pitch throughout the season."
Boston manager John Farrell said Buchholz is in good shape.
"In the starts that he's made since coming off the DL, there's still been a little bit of a building component, building his stamina and endurance," Farrell said. "Coming out of, particularly, the last three starts, where we've been able to get him over 100, 110 pitches on each of those outings, I think he comes away with greater confidence on the physical side of things."
LEYLAND PEEVED: Leyland certainly wasn't a fan of the Fox crew about two hours before Saturday night's ALCS opener.
With a light drizzle falling and the Red Sox taking batting practice, the Tigers skipper noticed a large amount of the dugout was taken up by Fox personnel.
"You're going to have to move that when the players come out," he said.
He later said, "What is this: a TV studio or a dugout?"
About 15 minutes later — as the Tigers' players were starting to make their way out to stretch — he got up from his seat and searched out a Detroit public relations staff member, insisting the crew move to the field.
The crew moved its lights and equipment, then interviewed Detroit left fielder Jhonny Peralta in front of the dugout.
CRAZY CAROMS: Leyland wasn't worried about shortstop-turned-left fielder Jhonny Peralta playing in front of the Green Monster.
Fenway Park's 37-foot-high left-field wall has a ladder hanging from it that's in play. It was used before seats were built atop the wall in 2003 as a way to retrieve balls from a 23-foot-high net atop the wall. The Red Sox left the ladder there because it was one of Fenway Park's quirks.
"Everyone is making a big deal out of it," Leyland said. "When it hits that ladder, I don't think any Red Sox, Tiger or Kansas City Royal, or anyone else knows where it's going.
"It's a little tricky to play the wall," he said. "And the Red Sox do that better because they're used to it. As far as getting carried away, talking about the ladder, that's ridiculous. Nobody knows what it's going to do when it hits that thing."
Looking for better infield defense, Leyland inserted former Red Sox slick-fielding shortstop Jose Iglesias, a trade-deadline acquisition, into the starting lineup and moved Peralta to left.
In Boston's AL division series, Tampa Bay left fielder Sean Rodriguez misplayed two caroms in Game 1. In Game 2, he misplayed a carom into a triple.
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TUSCALOOSA | Winfield native Clint Youngblood was hunting with his cousin in the woods just below Haleyville on a Sunday in 1941 when he heard the news — Pearl Harbor had been attacked.
TUSCALOOSA | Winfield native Clint Youngblood was hunting with his cousin in the woods just below Haleyville on a Sunday in 1941 when he heard the news — Pearl Harbor had been attacked.
As a teen, Youngblood said he wasn't sure where Pearl Harbor was. But he knew the news was big.
"We heard it on the radio, after we came out of the woods," Youngblood said. "We were stunned. Everyone was."
Within a matter of days, his cousin, Homer Smith, enlisted in the Navy and left for the war. About two years later, Youngblood also enlisted, for the Naval Air Corps, where he helped harness B-25 bomber airplanes with its guns.
For Youngblood — and a lot of World War II veterans like him who are now in their 80s and 90s — the attack on Pearl Harbor was the catalyst that changed not only their lives, but also the rest of the world.
The Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base with planes and submarines 71 years ago today. During that attack, nine U.S. ships were sunk and 21 were severely damaged. At least 2,402 people died and 1,282 were wounded.
"Pearl Harbor changed our world," said Tuscaloosa resident Gene Watson, a Matador, Texas, native who served in the Merchant Marines through WWII.
Watson was on the farm in northwest Texas where he grew up when he heard the news of Pearl Harbor.
"It was all over town within a matter of hours," Watson said.
Many young men, like his brother Gene Watson, enlisted in the Army the next day — Dec. 8, 1941.
"Growing up in Texas, they always said, 'Remember the Alamo,' " Watson said. "But after Pearl Harbor happened, it became like the Alamo. It just changed the world."
In 1941, Watson was too young to join the military, but he did as soon as he could. When he couldn't get into the Navy because of being colorblind, he signed up for the Merchant Marines and delivered military supplies all over the world. Watson, who now lives in Tuscaloosa, served in the Atlantic and Pacific and was on a ship that was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean in 1944. He survived more than a week on a lifeboat.
"World War II made boys into men," Watson said.
Tuscaloosa resident Curtis Duco grew up on a farm in Delaware, something he said prepared him for his time in the military. Duco was 16 when he heard about the attack.
"I was working on the farm and heard the news on the radio, heard Franklin D. Roosevelt with that voice that he had," Duco said.
When Pearl Harbor was attacked, almost every man who was 18 or older in Duco's small farming community enlisted. All four of Duco's older brothers joined, and so did Duco when he turned 18 in 1943.
"When I left, I had to beg my mother because my four brothers were already involved," Duco said. "Here I was a youngster, running a big farm all by myself."
Duco joined the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, where he served in the Ardennes Forest during the Battle of the Bulge and then later served in central Germany at the end of the war. He went on to eventually serve in the Korean War and in Vietnam.
But Watson said he doesn't consider himself a hero.
"I wasn't a hero of any kind, but it was just one of those things you had to do at the time. It was automatic," Watson said.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Brewton native Jimmy Wall was a 16-year-old high school student.
"When I heard about Pearl Harbor, I didn't know where it was or how far it was," Wall said.
But, the attack still had an impact, he said. Everyone wanted to do their part to help, including his father, who tried to enlist but was told he was too old because he was 43. So, his father moved to Mobile to build ships instead, he said.
"Pearl Harbor had a tremendous impact, because it brought everybody together," Wall said. "I didn't know a soul that became eligible for the draft who didn't join, because everybody wanted to help."
In 1943, a week before his 18th birthday, Wall joined the Navy's hospital corps.
"I say I'm not a hero, because I took care of the heroes," Wall said.
When Pearl Harbor was attacked, Emory Hubbard was a sophomore at the University of Alabama, an athlete who lettered in track.
"I remember I heard about Pearl Harbor, but I didn't know what Pearl Harbor was at the time," Hubbard said.
About six months after the attack, Hubbard joined the Navy. He served in the shore patrol in California through World War II. He later served in the Korean War.
"It seems like such a long time ago," Hubbard said of the attack on Pearl Harbor. "A lot of water has run under the bridge since then."
Still, because of Pearl Harbor, the world changed, Duco said.
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The PS3 may lose one of its graphical advantages over the Xbox 360, with a team working on implementing a version of Sony's MLAA anti-aliasing technique seen in such games as God of War 3 and Killzone 3 on Microsoft's console – and they claim that they've "raised the quality bar considerably" over other versions.
Excellent news! Hopefully, we start hearing about more titles that take advantage of these technique.
I hear that Battlefield 3 for Xbox 360 will be using FXAA. Interesting stuff indeed!
would like to see it, how much resource dose it take on the 360, how much would be left?
They indicated a 2.47ms time compared to Sony's 3-4 ms (on five SPUs) which should give you an indication of resources needed, but more specific information would be nice.
I also would like to see why this is an issue. It's a freaken jagged line, that is already smoothed out as is. Can you even tell the difference?
They could and should use the Xenon GPU, unless some CPU resources area idle. With the MEMEXPORT feature the GPU could write on RAM and eat that again.
I see this as a very possible and useful bullet point on game engines.
This is using the 360's GPU (read the article). Not possible with the 360s CPU. It has been implemented before using ATIs chips on the PC running shaders. This is most likely a newer (better) implementation.
Because it runs on the GPU it needs to be faster. Running MLAA on the CPU allows the GPU to render the next frame in parallel, whereas a GPU implementation must render then postprocess before the next frame can be rendered.
I'm a bit skeptical of some of their claims, because ATI's implementation of MLAA isn't very good. IIRC there was a Star Wars game that used a similar type of AA for the 360, and while it was ok, it wasn't on par with MLAA.
Yeah sorry but until I see proof of a game on the 360 that looks the same or better than GOW3 on the PS3 that's the day I'll concede. Until then it's nothing but hype.
I'll believe it when I see it (on 360, I mean, not PC). Without the integration of CPU with GPU, I don't think the 360 has the power to use MLAA in a significant way, like PS3 with the massive GOW3 and Kz3.
With PC, I suppose it would make sense if you can effectively emulate higher MSAA without sacrificing as much power.
Hey, I thought MLAA sucked, so why is this big news or good news?
Because it was on the...?
The 360 can use MLAA as well as a few other lighting tricks that surpass the PS3. Until I see cross game chat and Viva pinata running on a PS3 I wont be impressed by it. PS3 doesnt have enough general purpose processing to run the a.i. on a game like Viva Pinata let along do cross game chat. Atleast the PS3 has enough fans in other countries outside the US to keep it moderately competitive, otherwise folks would take the obviously better built machine the 360.
BTW for all who dont know a.i. cant be run on the Cells SPEs it can only be run by the Cells PPU.
'"Until I see cross game chat and Viva pinata running on a PS3 I wont be impressed by it. PS3 doesnt have enough general purpose processing to run the a.i. on a game like Viva Pinata let along do cross game chat."'
You serious? LMFAO! Hahaha :D
Best joke I've seen here on N4G in a while lol
Brosy is an ignorant fool who dosen't know that he is talking about
1- "The 360 can use MLAA as well as a few other lighting tricks that surpass the PS3."
This part about the MLAA is true but if the game does not use the Cell for lighting then yes you are right but if the lighting is done on the cell then you are wrong as lighting is so much better when written for the Cell"
2- "PS3 doesnt have enough general purpose processing to run the a.i. on a game like Viva Pinata let along do cross game chat. Atleast the PS3 has enough fans in other countries outside the US to keep it moderately competitive, otherwise folks would take the obviously better built machine the 360."
Really? AI is up to the developer it runs just fine on 1ppu core the rest of this is just Face Plam.
3- "BTW for all who dont know a.i. cant be run on the Cells SPEs it can only be run by the Cells PPU."
Well where did you hear this the E3? source pls or im wait im just going to Face Palm this too i dont have time for you anymore.
Whether it blows our minds or not, the fact that they're experimenting with it and trying out new ways of AA is good news. The more people try new things the more solutions we find to prevalent issues.
Instead of being skeptical and negative how about being happy that developers are trying new things.
Console architecture is designed differently than PC's! PC is designed to do many different things and has to be powerful because other things are running while you are doing whatever.
Consoles are designed to focus on specific task without all the extra crap PC's do!
Consoles have custom hardware! So while the components seem similar to what you already recognize, you forget that each console maker got their CPU and GPU custom made to perform a certain way! Otherwise the consoles would have been cheaper because we would be getting the same thing off the shelf as PC gamers.
Judgment will be reserved for a later date!
Brosy needs to GTFO.
Wow...I have never read such a ridiculous comment before...I'm sorry but games like Killzone 2 and 3 have AMAZING A.I., but you probably wouldn't know...would you? you know...being that you most likely haven't even touched a PS3...
Ive said it before:
The hardware will be hitting its max output some time soon, the software will need to improve is techniques to get more from it.
This could be one way (If it works), but its probably possible
I would like to point out that PS3's MLAA was also done through software. It was possible on PS3 because it has 3 SPUs but MLAA is software, not hardware.
When you see games that look better than it's precedessors or competition it's primary because of the techniques the graphics programmers use. It's not like the developers slowly turn the "awesome graphics" nob up over time :p
The Awesome graphics knob! it should implemeted in all PC's lol.
this is great news , Xbox has much graphical capabilities and dominates for multiplatform reasons, but this new technique could rise the bar of the Xbox 360 exclusives and perhaps reach PS3 exlusives :D this articles makes it seem it well go beyond we will see how devs use this.
zinkabass, still standing by everything you say?
I have a Playstation 3 and a XBOX360, does that mean I am a 3-10 year old or does my age fluctuate pending on which system I am currently using?
You would think after 5 or 6 years these trolls would finally just give up.
Someone has been misinformed and haven't done their research at all.
Only one problem - you're using the gpu which is probably already pushed to the max when playing the game. If you're going to use the gpu, you're sacrifice pixel pushing power.
Zinkabass, my father would have said you must talk out of your butt, because your mouth knows better.
I have 100 friends on my friends list, and the youngest is 10 (my son) and the oldest is 54 (13 years older than me). Your comments just have the distinct ring of bitter generalizations. Why do you even comment in a 360 article?
Gray Fox, MLAA isn't the only thing that makes PS3 exclusives look better. Uncharted has never used it, for instance. Also, being that the GPU is what is handling this, it ties it up before it can render the next frame as well, so there is a performance hit vs. on PS3 where the CPU is able to do it while the GPU keeps on chugging along. Typically PS3 games are not CPU bound, so there are SPU's the can be freed up to do things like this with a minimal impact on performance.
You actually believe that AA is the difference between PS3 exclusives and 360 ones?
It's not.
Now all 360 needs is exclusives to utilise the technique...
So people actually like that blurry mess that is GOW 3 and just about every other ps3 game .... MLAA is a fking joke it does nothing then make a game a blurry mess.... This is one tech MS should skip on. One of the main reason I like 360 games gfx is because they aren't blurry....Oh well
really man? how old are you?? you sound like a little baby who didn't get his bottle. if you even played GOW 3 you'd sure as hell know its not bllurry. yet look at Halo Reach. has to be one of the blurriest games i've ever played. but i'm sure you won't admit that.
Like knowledge4lfe stated, Halo Reach is blurrier than all the PS3 games that use MLAA. Crysis 2 is especially blurry.
MLAA was one hell of a breakthrough. I'm surprised you are crying about such an amazing tech coming to the 360.
Hmmmm well first of all I haven't played Halo Reach so I wouldn't know. I have played some 360 games and they weren't a blurry mess as compared to the majority of ps3 games... Also to me GOW 3 is a blurry mess maybe not to you but to me it is and thats a fact and unless you have my eyes you or any one else can't disprove other wise.
(Insert lame comment about me seeing a optometrist here)
The only two crying and sounding like a little baby is you two... you must be like 6 or something defending a piece of plastic like your lives depending on it...
Oh and yeah I did play that short blurry mess, I even got a platinum trophy for it :) but its not worth the $60 dollars I paid because its so d*mn short and blurry.
Let me guess I'm trolling right just because I stated my opinion. I wouldn't be surprised if my comment get removed.
Gape you really believe that anyone believes you don't own a 360? in the last 3 comments you have put down PS3 games you have made points about ps3 getting owned in certain territories. You think people believe yoU?
Everyone look at his last 10 comments they are so hate filled its ridiculous. Troll is all he is.
here guys look at my PSN account lol.
A lot of you guys are getting so b*tthurt over that one comment Gape made, I mean if it's not true then why get so b*tthurt over it??????
I never seen so many people get so passion over a gaming system before :O
Glasses would help with your issue seeing in blur.
MLAA....blurry? That's a good one, Mr. Troll.
GOW3 is vivid as can be. Compare that to ANY "360 games gfx". And I mean ANY. You'll find that GOW3 triumphs with the other game looking significantly more blurry.
you know whats a joke ? microsofts lack of exclusives . atleast sony has games to implement MLAA on you idiot fanboy . doubt you even have a ps3 judging by your hate let alone played god of war 3. you probably game on a old a$$ 1980s tv thats why everything looks blurry to you haha time to upgrade man or your a$$ is blind one or the other
Actually I'm a PS3 fan, but I think this is good news for Gamers.. Why?
It's good to see Microsoft raising the bar, competition is what makes the game companies try harder... -So if more companies start using this then they will make better games for 360 and PS3.. instead of ugly ports..
-and it means better games which is always good no matter what you play on.. We all want, just really good games..
Competition pushes the industry, it's an extremely important part of the gaming industry itself.
This is awesome news.. but and im not trolling when i say this it doesn't fix the disc space issue -_-
you can make it look as pretty as you want but without the storage it's gonna be either really short or on multiple discs.. MD' isn't that much of an issue but it can be annoying..
anyways im excited to see what they do with this :)
MD is an issue if the game needs to be open world though.
Great news!!
Can't hate on this, it's always great to see that we keep moving forward. Great news for our Xbox brothers indeed. Rejoice!
NathanExplosion I cant help your ignorance as well as any of the other sony fanboys on this site, all I can do is try to educate you. And I think thats a useless endeavor.
U mean exclusives will look better on xbox that ps3, hm.............. Lol yea sure they will, sony will laugh there ass off at that one.. I garantee bf3 will be the worst in the consoles.
I'll believe it when I see it until then it's just all mumble jumbo words.
We've been lied to before by Microsoft, I'm not falling for it again....."Theres hardcore games coming to Kinect", "Core gamers LOVE Kinect", "Core gamers are our main focus". Over and over again they say the same things and now they expect us to believe that they have done this for core gamers after yesterday in that article they said casual gamers were their main focus.
Not being fooled again
As you said....I'll beleive it when I see it.
This isn't coming from Microsoft, it's from some graphics researchers. Microsoft had some involvement but they don't own it. The code is available under a BSD license which means anyone can use it.
So while it will benefit the XBox it may equally benefit PC, Wii U and even the PS3 as it's a more efficient way to implement MLAA.
I do understand that it's coming from graphic researchers but again, there have been many researchers who claim many things but fail to come up with substantial results.
I don't doubt they are working on something of this sort but I don't know if it's as great as they say. It's dealing with graphics here and that requires us to look at it first. So while it may look good in their eyes, in reality, it could look meh.
@ WhiteLightning
"Theres hardcore games coming to Kinect"
- Ryse - CORE
- Fable - CORE
- Child of Eden - CORE
- Haunt - CORE
- Star Wars - CORE
- Rise of Nightmares - CORE
Kinect implemented games
- Mass Effect 3
- Ghost Recon
- Halo CE Anniversary
- EA 2012 Sports Titles
- Forza 4
Doesn't look like MS lied.
"Core gamers LOVE Kinect"
I'm a core gamer and I love Kinect. Can't wait to play some of those listed core games as well as use my Kinect for games like ME3, Forza 4 and Ghost Recon.
MS didn't Lie again.
"Core gamers are our main focus"
XBOX 360 has a CORE library that far surpasses the Casual library. There are more games coming out each year on the XBOX360 that are core games than casual. If 3rd party support for Kinect games count as MS focusing on Casual, then 3rd party support for Core games also means that MS is focusing on Core as well.
Gears 3
Forza 4
The Whitcher 2
Halo CE Anniversary
CoD Timed exclusive DLC
The largest library of Indie and Arcade games
Seems to be a rather large focus. 1st and 3rd party support.
MS didn't lie again.
I fail to see where MS were lying.
I don't agree with you.
"- Ryse - CORE
- Fable - CORE
- Child of Eden - CORE
- Haunt - CORE
- Star Wars - CORE
- Rise of Nightmares - CORE "
So I take it that "CORE" to you is based entirely on theme?
um, half of those games are either on rails or only use kinect for non-gameplay purposes (forza 4's car view mode, ghost recon's weapon mod mode, neither are used while actually playing the game). then there's others that use nothing other than kinect's mic, which is a feature that is far from exclusive to kinect. all modern systems have a mic and can do voice recognition. hell, the n64 was doing voice recognition back in the day, so did dreamcast with seaman.
The only compelling use of kinect so far IN GAME that isn't another arcade on rails experience is forza's head tracking, but even GT5 had that.
"there's massive lag"
^ this, is why there can be no core kinect games.
I don't care! Just wanna play good games. There is not that much difference between those two consoles anyway. It's not like MS has NES and PS has GameCube graphics.
I agree..
This place with ppl like darkride always leave me scratching my head wonder if I got a ps3 knock off or something. They always make it seem as if the ps3 is leaps and abounds ahead of 360 graphics like if the ps3 is some super pc rig and the 360 is the original xbox.
Darkride cry all you want but every game you mentioned looks great be a gamer and stop with all this ms hat you spew on every 360 article. My goodness! You act as if ms raped your mom had you and never paid child support.
I kind of agree with this. It's not like the PS3 is some graphical leap above anything else out there. In fact, the graphics is so similar to the Xbox 360 it is plain ridiculous. You want great looking games, go to PC and you will get full 1080p in all it's glory.
If you just want to game, then even the Wii will do!
@ falout Darkride didn't say that any PS3 game looked like a high end PC rig...
A few other guys said it though, and I think I can trust the source...
I completely agree with this.
I play on PC, PS3, and 360, and it's crazy how close the graphics are on PS3 and 360.
I have been playing the Uncharted 3 beta and I honestly think the Gears of War 3 beta looked a bit better. Overall, though, the best looking games on both consoles are at a similar level of graphics.
If you want a decent leap above that, you have to get a gaming PC.
He didn't say it out right in here but he sure as he'll acts like it is a high end pc rig in 99.9% of his posts.
AGREE! i first clicked on the article because i was wondering just what the hell MLAA was..then i see that it has a thing or two to do with graphics, and 160 comments from about 100 sweaty fanboys trying to downplay this achievement. get real guys..ps3s graphics are better than 360s. NOT by leaps n bounds, but its visuals are Superior in most ways. whatever upgrades the 360s visuals get due to MLAA will probably be very slight and more of the same. no need to get all defensive.
If only they still put more investment into hardcore games as they used to.
This should be used in gears 3 because that game NEEDS some AA.
Dont act like it does not. If you played the beta then you should have saw how jaggy the game was.
If you look though my comments I am not trolling on the 360. I am actually commenting.
What are you on about?? I played the beta and it doesn't NEED AA. Troll somewhere else please.
You can't say that about a 360 exclusive! What the heck are you doing?!/s
I was in the Gears Beta and i thought it looked great. I must have missed all these jaggies you speak of during my month of constant playing in it.
Maybe you were in a different beta.../s
Played the Beta, didn't notice any jaggies. Maybe you should have tried the Beta yourself?


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Cost Basis Reporting System Needs Work, AICPA Tells IRS
August 15, 2012
The IRS revised the information that must be included when filing a Schedule D for 2011 due to a law that requires the basis of the security be disclosed when a taxpayer reports the information for determining capital gain or loss.
The IRS created this new form as a result of a law enacted in 2008 that requires brokers to file an information return reporting the basis of a "covered security" in addition to the gain or loss." The return must include the customer's adjusted basis in the security and specify whether any gain or loss with respect to the security is short term or long term. This information is required to be detailed as a part of the Form 1099-B that all brokerage customers receive.
However, since the 1099-B forms used by brokers are not uniform and each is presenting the information differently the time and cost of tracking each transaction has significantly added to the compliance burden on taxpayers and their tax return preparers.
The American Institute of CPAs recommended in a letter to the IRS that it review and revise Forms 8949 and 1099-B to provide greater clarity in the tax information that must be reported by taxpayers, calling for greater standardization of the format and the data detailed on Forms 1099-B and capital gains/loss statements sent by brokers to individual taxpayers.
The AICPA also recommended that the IRS delay the matching of the cost basis information reported by brokers on Form 1099-B and what taxpayers report on Form 1040, Schedule D; otherwise, "it will result in a waste of time, money and resources for the IRS, taxpayers, and the tax preparer community," stated Patricia Thompson, chair of the Tax Executive Committee.
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
Mexican Bolillo (Torta) Oval Rolls
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11 comments:
- bellini said...
I think we are all eating Mexican food this weekend. There is still time to make some delicious rolls!!!!
- May 6, 2012 at 12:49 AM
- Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen said...
My mother was a bread maker and we had a fresh loaf of bread in our house everyday. I wish she had passed some of her knowledge and skills along to me. Your bread sounds delicious Debbie.
- May 6, 2012 at 3:47 AM
- Nellie said...
I will really enjoy this recipe! Thanks so much for sharing!
- May 6, 2012 at 12:24 PM
- Susy said...
I loveeeeeeeee Mexican food. I cant wait to read about the Flan's recipe!! YUMMY!
- May 6, 2012 at 12:29 PM
- Brandy said...
Holy cow, I can't believe I won the cookbook!! I can't wait to use it! Thanks so much. :)
- May 6, 2012 at 2:48 PM
- Joanne said...
My skin, hair, curls, and eyes are just dark enough that I constantly get mistaken for being of hispanic origin even though there is not a drop of hispanic or latina blood in me! At least with this I can have the cooking skillz, though. These bolillo look great!
- May 6, 2012 at 6:03 PM
i think i'm going to try making this one!
- May 7, 2012 at 9:26 AM
- Karen said...
Those bolillos look perfect. I would LOVE to have a torta right now!
- May 7, 2012 at 11:38 AM
- Inside a British Mum's Kitchen said...
Wow these look amazing - your post is wonderful - the photograph is inspiring! I would LOVE to tear into a couple of these delicious looking rolls!
Mary x
- May 7, 2012 at 6:14 PM
- Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust said...
My goodness, those are amazing. I love bread...in all types. Yum! And that sauce... :)
- May 7, 2012 at 6:37 PM
- Carla and Michael said...
Hi Debby. These Bolillo Rolls are awesome. Thank you so much for this post. I have been buying them a the local Wal-Mart up here for the last few years and am glad to know that with your help I can now make them at home myself. I love them! Have a great upcoming week-end.
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In the wake of Vidikron's parent company pulling the plug on the financing of that project (read story here) Gary Guidi, President of HI-REZ Projections, Inc. has entered into a partnership agreement with David Wolff, former General Manager of Vidikron of America, to market their own line of CRT front projection systems under the Crystal View brand name.
This line will compete directly in the cost-no-object, high performance CRT video projector market along with the likes of Runco, SIM2 Seleco, Madrigal Imaging and another Vidikron spin-off, Accurate Imaging, lead by Vidikron's long time VP of International Sales, James Wellinitz.
Crystal View has three CRT projector models -- the Crystal View 1, Crystal View 2, and Crystal View 3, which range in retail price from $28,000 to $60,000. One might assume the new projectors are not too different from the lauded Vidikron Vision Series. Crystal View Inc. stands firmly behind the performance of their products -- all projectors are backed by a limited two-year warranty. They will also send an ISF trained technician to your home for installation.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — An Iraq War veteran charged with ambushing his wife Christmas Eve as she worked as a Milwaukee-area police officer told investigators he shot her in the head repeatedly because he didn't want her to suffer before she died.
Benjamin Gabriel Sebena, 30, acknowledged to detectives that he was a jealous husband, police said. Still, they declined to speculate on a motive for the killing, saying Thursday their probe was ongoing.
Investigators said Ben Sebena told them he had been stalking his wife, Jennifer Sebena, for a few days. He said he waited a few hours near the fire department where officers often take breaks, and when he saw her squad car he rushed her and opened fire. They said when the officer reached for her weapon, her husband grabbed it from her holster and used it to shoot her three or four times in the face.
"Benjamin Sebena stated that he wanted to make sure she was dead so she wouldn't suffer," the criminal complaint said.
He was charged Thursday with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Jennifer Sebena, who was also 30. During a brief court appearance, Ben Sebena was ordered held on $1 million cash bond. He wasn't required to enter a plea, and his attorney, Michael Steinle, didn't immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment.
Two hours after Jennifer Sebena was found dead, police monitored her husband on closed-circuit TV as he stood in an empty room at the police station. A detective heard Ben Sebena ask himself "How could I do that to her," after all the help she gave him, the criminal complaint said.
Officers went to check on Jennifer Sebena about 4:30 a.m. Monday after she didn't respond to radio calls. Sebena, who joined the Wauwatosa police force two years ago, was patrolling alone on the night she was killed.
"She was everything I could hope for in a young police officer: intelligent, energetic, willing to be of service and wanting to be a great police officer," Wauwatosa Chief Barry Weber said at a news conference.
Investigators said they found a number of details tying Ben Sebena to the killing. Surveillance video showed a vehicle that matches his in the area near the time of the shooting, and detectives who searched the couple's home found a gun in the attic that fires ammunition matching the bullet casings found at the scene. They also found Jennifer Sebena's service weapon hidden in the attic.
The investigation began when Ben Sebena called police Monday about 6:30 a.m. asking them to check on his wife's well-being. A police sergeant called him back five minutes later telling him to come to the station because his wife had been involved in an incident.
Ben Sebena didn't ask what happened, the complaint said. Later, when he was told at the station that his wife had been killed, he still didn't ask what happened to her.
During the interview, Ben Sebena "stated that he had been jealous of other men with regards to his wife," the complaint said.
Jennifer Sebena told a colleague earlier this month that her husband had acted violently toward her and put a gun to her head, prosecutors said.
The police chief said he wasn't aware of issues that would have been a cause for concern for Jennifer Sebena's safety. The state Justice Department is assisting in the investigation, and the director of the department's criminal investigation operations, Dave Spakowicz, said authorities are not speculating on what motivated the shooting.
Ben Sebena served two tours in Iraq with the U.S. Marine Corps. He was honorably discharged in 2005 after suffering severe arm and leg injuries in a mortar attack that year. The 10 medals or commendations he was awarded include a Purple Heart, a Good Conduct medal and a rifle-expert badge.
In a 10-minute video for his church made in 2010, Ben Sebena described his transformation from an angry teen into a decorated war veteran who rediscovered his faith in God.
"Before I went in I was pretty much a hippie. I was very laid back but the anger was there — it was just very hidden," he said.
He said he joined the military because he felt unloved and unimportant and that even though the Marines helped him centralize the anger, the rage persisted when he returned to the U.S. He said he would ignore red lights and tear down the freeway on his motorcycle at 150 mph.
He also discussed his blossoming relationship with Jennifer, whom he knew from high school and with whom he exchanged emails during his recovery.
"Our love flourished. We became actually infatuated with each other," he said in the video for Elmbrook Church in nearby Brookfield. The church's pastor, Scott Arbeiter, confirmed to The Associated Press that it was Ben Sebena in the video.
Jennifer Sebena's funeral is scheduled for Saturday.
Associated Press writer Carrie Antlfinger contributed to this report.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian police on Friday arrested one of the country's presidents along with 18 other people as part of a corruption investigation in one of the country's two main sections, a spokesman for the prosecution said.
The nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina consists of the Serb-run Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat Federation. Both are highly independent, and each has its own president, government and parliament.
Zivko Budimir, a president of the Bosniak-Croat Federation, the president of the region's commission of pardons Hidajet Halilovic, and at least 17 other officials were arrested on Friday.
A spokesman for the Bosnian prosecutor's office, Boris Grubesic, confirmed the arrests. He said members of the group were suspected of "abuse of office, illegal intermediation, receiving and giving bribes, organized crime and drug trafficking."
He made clear that not all members of the group were suspected of all of the crimes.
Police had earlier searched Budimir's presidential office and several other government buildings.
Bosnia is one of the world's most over-governed countries and has four more presidents — one for the Serb-run region and a three-person presidency linking the country's two parts.
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A look at a couple of options from one of the fastest-growing ETF categories.
"According to BlackRock, in the first two months of 2013, the 34 low or minimum volatility exchange traded products gathered on average $926 million in new assets each month, more than double what was added to them a year earlier," S&P Capital IQ said in a new research note.
Those inflows have benefited several "low vol" ETFs, including the highly popular PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio (NYSEARCA:SPLV). On Monday, PowerShares announced that SPLV crossed the $4 billion in assets under management mark. SPLV, the largest low volatility ETF assets, took just 22 months to reach $4 billion in AUM.
In the event of a market pullback, the allure of low volatility becomes clear and S&P Capital IQ pointed to some key statistics that highlight that point.
"For example, the S&P 500 Low Volatility Index (Low Vol) was down just 21.4% in 2008, compared to the 37.0% decline in the S&P 500 Index. In 2010, Low Vol was up 13.4%, vs. 15.1% in the broader index. But then in 2011, Low Vol Index rose 14.8% versus the 2.1% gain for the S&P 500 Index. In the five-year period ended February 2013, Low Vol's total return was 9.4%, much higher than 4.9% for the S&P 500 Index, while its standard deviation was 12.5 much lower than the 18.9 for the S&P 500 Index," according to the research firm.
Through the end of 2012 since its May 2011 debut, SPLV outpaced the S&P 500 by more than 500 basis points, according to PowerShares data. SPLV also features a monthly dividend and is rated Overweight by S&P Capital IQ.
The ETF's top-five holdings are Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), H.J. Heinz (NYSE:HNZ), PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP), Clorox (NYSE:CLX) and General Mills (NYSE:GIS).
S&P Capital IQ also highlighted the iShares MSCI USA Minimum Volatility Index Fund (NYSEARCA:USMV) in the note. USMV, which S&P rates Marketweight, is SPLV's chief rival among domestically-focused low volatility and now has almost $2 billion in AUM.
USMV is home to more stocks than SPLV (126 for the former and 100 for the latter). However, arguably the biggest difference between the two funds is fund at the sector level. SPLV allocates nearly 55 percent of its weight to the utilities and staples sectors while those two industry groups represent just 24 percent of USMV's weight.
Top holdings in USMV include Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY), McDonald's (NYSE:MCD), General Mills and Verizon (NYSE:VZ).
"All told, USMV is more diversified at the sector level than SPLV, but has less exposure to traditionally defensive sectors that typically hold up best in volatile markets. Both are inexpensive, by our analysis, and hold stocks that S&P Capital IQ views as incurring less risk. For investors looking to stay invested but hoping to reduce their risk profiles, we think both SPLV and USMV are worth further scrutiny," said S&P Capital IQ.Below, find some more great ETF and market content from Benzinga:
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A somber Republican crowd watched glumly on Tuesday as former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney failed in his bid to unseat President Barack Obama, despite a stubbornly high unemployment rate.
Romney struck a conciliatory note as he conceded. Thanking his supporters, he said he had called Obama and wished the Democrat the best.
"I so wish - I so wish that I had been able to fulfill your hopes to lead the country in a different direction, but the nation chose another leader," Romney said. "And so Ann and I join with you to earnestly pray for him and for this great nation."
The hard-fought election did not end without some late confusion. Television networks declared Obama the winner in the key state of Ohio, but by only a slim margin.
The projected victory prompted questions about whether Romney's campaign would challenge the result.
Romney waited almost two hours after networks called the election before making his concession speech in the ballroom of a Boston convention center. Staffers told waiting reporters there had been an unspecified delay.
But as more swing states, including Virginia, Nevada and Colorado, moved into the Democratic column, aides said Romney would concede shortly.
He appeared on stage at about 1 a.m. and the ballroom fell silent. A small group of men rendered an off-key version of "God Bless America" until Romney was introduced.
In his remarks, Romney called on elected officials to cross party lines and work together.
"I believe in America. I believe in the people of America," he said, pausing in a brief moment of emotion.
The gathering became increasingly quiet as the night progressed.
Romney advisers said they thought their candidate had been hurt by the divisive Republican primary fight, and acknowledged that Obama's campaign had done a good job defining Romney early.
"It was a close race, very disappointing obviously for those of us who supported Governor Romney," said Bob Grady, a Jackson, Wyoming venture capitalist who has been a Romney adviser and worked for President George H.W. Bush.
Grady said Republicans need to rethink their electoral strategy and reach out to immigrant groups. But he said Obama faces a tough challenge in pulling the country together to address the debt and deficit.
The ballroom began emptying when the networks announced that Obama won Ohio.
By the time Obama appeared in Chicago to make his victory speech, the Romney event was empty except for hotel staff and hundreds of reporters.
(Additional reporting by Svea Herbst; Editing by Marilyn W. Thompson and Alden Bentley)