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31st Annual North American International Livestock Exposition Come to the North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) in Louisville, KY, and you will find more than 100 livestock shows, a championship rodeo, commercial exhibitors, and much, much more.
The NAILE will be held November 6 through 19 at the Kentucky Fair & Exposition Center in Louisville. Known as the largest all-breed, purebred livestock show in the world, the NAILE features competition for dairy cattle, beef cattle, dairy goats, llamas and alpacas, draft horses, quarter horses, swine, sheep and boer goats.
The exposition also holds seven major youth contests, including the National 4-H Livestock Judging Contest and the National Collegiate Judging Contest.
The NAILE draws more than 20,000 livestock entries and approximately 225,000 visitors each year. In addition to the competitions, visitors to the exposition are treated to these special activities and features.
Country store. The Giant Country Store showcases the wares of more than 200 commercial vendors. Showgoers walking the aisles of this indoor market find a variety of Western clothing, jewelry, handcrafted furniture, pottery, and livestock trailers and equipment.
At the Art of Wool Showcase, members of the Friendship Spinners demonstrate, on spinning wheels and looms, how wool is spun and woven into fabric.
Rodeo. Rodeo lovers will experience the thrills of roping, steer wrestling, and bronc and bull riding competition at the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association regional championship rodeo to be held November 11, 12 and 13.
Cowboys and cowgirls from the Great Lakes PRCA Circuit compete all season to qualify for participation in the Louisville finals. Winners will take home more than $80,000 in cash, then go on to compete in the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo in Pocatello, ID.
Horse shows. The NAILE Quarter Horse Show consistently ranks as one of the top five American Quarter Horse Association shows in the nation. The show draws more than 5,200 entries in competition that includes reining, cutting, showmanship, hunter under saddle, pole bending, barrel racing, Western pleasure, calf and steer roping, and team roping. The NAILE's popular Draft Horse Show features Belgian, Percheron, and Clydesdale breeds in halter and hitch classes.
High-flying dogs. On the weekend of November 13 and 14, the NAILE will once again host the U.S. Disc Dog National Championship, with four divisions of competition. In the toss and fetch classes, the player/dog team receives points for distance the disc is thrown, number of catches the dog makes, and whether the dog catches the disc while in the air or on the ground.
The freestyle classes are choreographed to music. Dog and owner are judged according to canine elements (such as athleticism and grip), player elements (such as release diversity), and team elements.
The events, held on the huge lawn outside the South Wing, will feature about 60 high-flying dogs of all shapes and sizes.
School tours. On a NAILE field trip, sponsored by Kentucky Farm Bureau, students see a variety of animal breeds and learn about the importance of agriculture in our daily lives.
They walk through the barns, show rings, and exhibits, and visit the baby animals in the WHAS Radio and Feeders Supply Children's Barnyard. An interactive exhibit called Farmer for a Day teaches about a farmer's daily tasks. Children can dress as a lamb, drive miniature tractors in a huge corn box, dig potatoes, dress a scarecrow, and rope "cattle" (horns on a hay bale).
Sale of Champions. During the Sale of Champions, the grand and reserve champions from the NAILE's three junior market shows (Junior Steer, Junior Whether and Junior Market Hog) are sold at auction to the highest bidders. This year the sale takes place Thursday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m. The auction is open to everyone.
Tickets. Admission to the NAILE is $5 for adults and $2 for children 12 years old and under. Parking is $5 a day. A pass for all 13 days of the exposition is $20, and a parking pass for all 13 days is $25.
Tickets for the rodeo are $21 for Thursday night, $21 for Friday night and $26 for the Saturday night finals competition. Rodeo tickets are available through Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.com) or the Fairgrounds Box Office (800/231-8085).
For more information, visit www.livestockexpo.org.


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PARIS (AP) — A man was shot dead and several houses were bombed on the French island of Corsica, a vacation destination that has seen a wave of gang killings this year and is also home to a simmering nationalist movement.
The attacks Friday night come after the series of killings that has outraged France and prompted the government to vow to stamp out the violence that has long been allowed to simmer on the island in the Mediterranean Sea known for its mountain vistas and rugged beaches.
The Paris prosecutor's office said Saturday it is investigating the series of explosions, including their possible links to terrorist or criminal organizations. The office said at least 17 houses were hit on Friday night; no one was hurt in the attacks and most are believed to have been at vacation homes.
TV footage showed broken glass littering the floors of one of the homes attacked Friday night. It sat on a cliff overlooking the water and looked to still be under construction.
Protecting Corsica's wild landscapes has long been part of the nationalist fight and coastal homes have drawn particular ire. Many are built on land that is supposed to be protected and left undeveloped.
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said that on Friday a man was arrested in possession of explosives. It was not clear if he was suspected in the bombings.
Authorities were treating the shooting death of a man on the island separately. Corsica has seen more than a dozen such murders this year, apparently carried out by criminal gangs.
But the violence — well known to residents — recently burst onto the national scene with the killings of a prominent businessman and defense lawyer. The government vowed to restore order, and Valls said Friday's arrest was proof those efforts were bearing fruit.
But the wave of bombings is sure to increase the pressure even further and could arouse suspicions that the homegrown nationalist movement is radicalizing again. Twenty years ago, the island was the scene of dozens of bombings, most of them linked to the movement, which has fought for Corsica's distinct language and culture since the island was definitively taken over by the French under Napoleon in 1796.
Saturday marks the anniversary of the adoption of the island's 18th-century constitution and is celebrated by some as the island's national day.

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'Significantly Higher'
Both banks reported earnings today. London-based HSBC, which posts results on Aug. 5, was the third-biggest recipient of foreign-exchange revenue last year, JPMorgan estimates.
Deutsche Bank, continental Europe's biggest lender, said second-quarter revenue from foreign-exchange trading rose on increased price swings and greater client activity. Overall profit fell 49% to 334 million euros ($443 million), from 656 million euros in the same period a year earlier.
UBS, the fourth-largest currency trader, said that increased volatility caused a decline in second-quarter earnings from its foreign-exchange business.
Revenue from currencies, rates and credit fell 42% to 362 million Swiss francs ($389 million), from 619 million francs in the first three months of this year, UBS said. The investment bank posted a pretax profit of 775 million francs, compared with a 92 million-franc loss a year earlier.
Goldman Sachs, located in New York, said this month that its currency-trading operation had "significantly higher" revenue in the second quarter than in the year-earlier period. Like most of its peers, the investment bank doesn't break out foreign-exchange earnings.
'Strong' Activity
"Activity levels in our currency business remained strong as clients reacted to increased volatility, particularly in Asia," Chief Financial Officer Harvey Schwartz said on a conference call with analysts.
Most banks lump earnings from their fixed-income, currencies and commodities divisions together.
Foreign-exchange trading for Group of 10 and emerging- market nations accounted for 15% of fixed-income revenue, or about $14 billion, for the 10 largest banks in 2012, according to an estimate from analytics firm Coalition. That's down from 22% in 2011 when most rates and credit operations lost money, Coalition said.
U.K. currency-trading volumes rose to a record $2.55 trillion a day in April, 26% higher than in October, the Bank of England said yesterday, citing a twice-yearly survey.
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HP to invest $US1.5 bn in new partner initiatives
HP has announced plans to simplify and improve several of its partner programs in an effort to tap the new IT trends of Cloud, virtualisation, Big data and mobility.
On the day one of its annual partner conference in Las Vegas, HP senior VP communications, Lynn Anderson, said the company was looking to invest close to $1.5 bn in new partner initiatives globally in FY13. That does not include discounts and rebates which will be an additional investment, she added.
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Names like Notre Dame's Brian Kelly and former Eagles coach Juan Castillo enter the fray this morning as the NFL rumor mill keeps on churning.
- 10:09 PM: ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting that the Cleveland Browns have hired Panthers offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski to become the team's next head coach.
- 4:42 PM: NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock called into 97.5 The Fanatic Thursday afternoon and joined Ron Jaworski and Dick Vermeil as an advocate of the Eagles to hire Jon Gruden, reports Sheil Kapada on Birds 24/7.
- 11:32 AM: Jaguars GM Dave Caldwell, hired from the Falcons on Tuesday, has made his first move and fired head coach Mike Mularkey after one season.
- The Eagles have rejuvenated their coaching search by adding Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly to their list. The team interviewed Kelly on Tuesday, as despite the Irish losing quiet decidedly in the BCS championship, he is viewed as a potential candidate for the job.
- It was reported yesterday that the Cardinals are interested in former Eagles offensive line coach and defensive coordinator Juan Castillo to coach Arizona's offensive line. Castillo was reportedly asked by Andy Reid to join the former Eagles head coach in Kansas City.
- The Cardinals are interviewing their own former offensive coordinator of their 2008 playoff team and current Steelers offensive coordinator, Todd Haley. The team will be interviewing Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden on Thursday.
- In Cleveland, after showing feverish interest in Chip Kelly, as well as Doug Marrone (formerly of Syracuse, currently of Buffalo), CFL coach Marc Trestman, former Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt, Penn State coach Bill O'Brien, and Cardinals defensive coordinator Ray Horton, it is reported that former Browns and current Panthers offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski was at team headquarters, though the team would not confirm that he was being interviewed.
- The Chargers have finished searching for their new GM, and hired former Colts director of player personnel Tom Telesco. With this part of the process complete, San Diego is reportedly now beginning their search for a head coach, despite past links to former Seahawks and Packers coach Mike Holmgren and UCLA coach Jim Mora.
- Jay Cutler is chiming in on the Bears' head coaching probes, saying he remains "excited" about the process. Chicago has already interviewed Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy, have interest in Marc Trestman, and look to interview Texans offensive coordinator Rick Dennison on Friday. Cutler gave high praise to Dennison, saying he "is one of the best offensive line coaches in the NFL." Dennison has worked with both Cutler and receiver Brandon Marshall in Denver.


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Junior Elise Kapitancek spent Martin Luther King Day distributing meals at Rosie's Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women in Boston.
She was one of many Suffolk students who took part in the University's first-ever Martin Luther King, Jr., Service Day program, organized by Suffolk's Organization for Uplifting Lives through Service (S.O.U.L.S.).
Kapitancek saw firsthand the plight of the homeless, especially women.
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Kapitancek, an international relations major, aims to work for an international non-profit organization specializing in human rights. "I picture myself at the grassroots level, reaching out to people who need help," she said.


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Skip to comments.Pope calls Argentine kiosk owner to cancel paper delivery
Posted on 03/22/2013 5:49:30 AM PDT by NYer
.- Pope Francis surprised the owner of a kiosk in Buenos Aires with a telephone call to send his greetings and explain that he will no longer need a morning paper delivered each day.
Around 1:30 p.m. local time on March 18, Daniel Del Regno, the kiosk owner's son, answered the phone and heard a voice say, "Hi Daniel, it's Cardinal Jorge."
He thought that maybe a friend who knew that the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires bought the newspaper from them every day was pulling a prank on him.
"Seriously, it's Jorge Bergoglio, I'm calling you from Rome," the Pope insisted.
"I was in shock, I broke down in tears and didn't know what to say," Del Regno told the Argentinean daily La Nacion. "He thanked me for delivering the paper all this time and sent best wishes to my family."
Del Regno shared that when Cardinal Bergoglio left for Rome for the conclave, he asked him if he thought he would be elected Pope.
"He answered me, 'That is too hot to touch. See you in 20 days, keep delivering the paper.' And the rest is, well, history," he said.
"I told him to take care and that I would miss him," Del Regno continued. "I asked him if there would ever be the chance to see him here again. He said that for the time being that would be very difficult, but that he would always be with us."
Before hanging up the phone, he added, the Pope asked him for his prayers.
Daniel's father, Luis Del Regno, said they delivered the paper to the former cardinal's residence every day.
On Sundays, he said, the cardinal "would come by the kiosk at 5:30 a.m. and buy La Nacion. He would chat with us for a few minutes and then take the bus to Lugano, where he would serve mate (tea) to young people and the sick."
Among the "thousands of anecdotes" the elder Del Regno remembers is one involving the rubber bands that he put around the newspapers to keep them from being blown away when they were delivered to the cardinal.
"At the end of the month, he always brought them back to me. All 30 of them!"
He said he gets goose bumps whenever he thinks about Pope Francis' simplicity.
"In June he baptized my grandson, it was an amazing feeling," Del Regno said. "I know what he's like. He's one of a kind."
Catholic ping!
I wish more politicians were like the Pope. There's not a thing this man's done that I've found offensive or counter to everything I've ever been taught about my faith. He is truly the real deal. I'm so excited for the Catholic church.
I am not Catholic, but this is such a sweet and telling story. 30 rubber bands....how rare and beautifully simple his approach to life!!
I am not a catholic either, but I too am very impressed so far with the new pope.
People who really know this man, up close and personally, are telling the world everything we need to know about him. Instead, much of the world believes the lies that are being told about him by the left-wingers who do not know him, who in this context clearly demonstrate that they really are agents of Satan himself.
He looks like a good man. The world leadership needs more like him. We sure could use a bunch in Washington and the various state capitols.
The Marine Corps is not the only one who needs a few good men.
Interesting times we live in.
Dittos! I too am very impressed with Pope Francis!!
I agree. I am 100% thrilled.
I am currently doing research on the collective character of our Founders. This Pope is very much like our American Founders.
Interesting idea - are you writing a book?
Agreed! So refreshing to look into the character of a public person and find stories like these!!! May God raise up multitudes of men and women who are also THE REAL DEAL!!!
That like having leader canceling LA Times right LOL!
I agree. I keep checking the Religion Forum to see stories like this, not gripe-fests from any point of view ;-).
Cognitive dissonance
Someone better wise this guy up, " You`re Pope now ! WAke up !"
Yet another "just wow" (in the best way) article.
What a wonderful story!
They cannot. Nobility and politics don't mix.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Liz Cheney announced a core group of state leaders and advisers for her U.S. Senate campaign Thursday that draws from all corners of Wyoming and includes well-known Republican campaign organizers and fundraisers, but no prominent elected officials.
The list shows political lines being drawn among Wyoming Republicans ahead of what could turn out to be the longest, toughest and most expensive political battle the state has ever seen.
The elder daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney announced last week she's running against three-term Sen. Mike Enzi next year. Enzi almost immediately announced his re-election campaign, and Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso and the state's lone U.S. representative, Cynthia Lummis, immediately gave him their support.
Cheney's team offers the first substantial look at who in Wyoming is on her side.
Her statewide campaign co-chairs include Dick and Maggie Scarlett, who in 2011 hosted a fundraiser for Mitt Romney at their Jackson Hole home.
Also co-chairing are Bill and Toni Thomson, who earlier this month held a get-to-know-Liz event that drew about 35 people to their Cheyenne home. Thomson is an attorney, lobbyist and longtime Republican organizer.
"I believe she'd step out front and that she would directly challenge actions of the president and his liberal allies that want to change America in a way that makes me very uncomfortable," Thomson said. "I think she has the ability and experience to really be a leader in the national debate."
Many speculate Cheney will need to run a negative campaign against Enzi. Thomson passed on an opportunity to criticize Enzi, but Harriet Hageman, listed among Cheney's advisers, said Enzi has been too willing to compromise with Democrats.
"If we're going to change the trajectory of the country, we have to change our leaders as well," said Hageman, a Cheyenne water and natural resources attorney known for taking up conservative causes.
The Scarletts, Thomsons and Hagemans — Harriet Hageman said her father, a state legislator, was a Young Republican with Dick Cheney — all are old friends of the Cheney family.
An Enzi spokesman said the senator is backed by some of the most conservative Republicans, including Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, and gets things done for Wyoming's people every day.
"There is no compromise on that for him. It's called being effective," spokesman Coy Knobel said by email.
Cheney said in a statement she was honored to have "support, advice and counsel" from the group of 16 "distinguished Wyoming citizens." Other advisers include John and DJ Mansell, of Enzi's hometown of Gillette, where John Mansell is an anesthesiologist, and Lois Herbst, a rancher in Fremont County in central Wyoming.
No current state lawmakers or current or former statewide elected officials are on the list, though Cheney has the support of at least one Republican legislator.
"I agree with everything I have heard her say so far," state Rep. Sue Wallis said by email.
Wallis called herself a "big fan" of Wyoming's congressional delegation but said lack of new blood in Washington, especially in the Senate, is a problem.
Another legislator is skeptical Cheney will get much support among Wyoming legislators. Enzi was a state representative and senator from 1988-1996.
State Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, described Enzi as a "salt of the earth" fellow who had "paid his dues."
"I just think this effort, to be successful, it's virtually impossible. Truly," Case said of Cheney's challenge.
Gov. Matt Mead has endorsed neither Cheney nor Enzi. The Mead family also is a well-known political name in Wyoming. His grandfather, Clifford Hansen, was governor and U.S. senator. Mead has said in declining to endorse that he's friends with both the Cheneys and Enzis.
Associated Press writer Ben Neary contributed to this report.
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In Defense of Rupert Murdoch
A brief word in support of the genocidal tyrant.
Genocidal tyrant Rupert Murdoch suffered much abuse after his News Corp. offered the Bancroft family $5 billion last spring for Dow Jones & Co. I took a place in the rock-throwing gauntlet that Murdoch was forced to run and pelted him with his own sordid history to illustrate what a wretched steward of the Wall Street Journal and the other Dow Jones properties he'd be. Even after the acquisition was a done deal, I kept hurling my missiles.
But as bad as Murdoch is, he's not as bad as some people make him out to be—people like Federal Communications Commission member Michael J. Copps. In an Oct. 25 letter to commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin, Copps calls for an investigation of Murdoch's purchase of Dow Jones because, as he explains it:
[T]his transaction would leave News Corp. in control of a Big Four broadcast network and two of the nation's five largest newspapers (as well as a vast collection of cable channels, satellite networks, motion picture studios, and publishing outlets). For residents of the local New York metropolitan area, it will also mean that a single company operates two of the area's most popular television stations and two of its most popular newspapers.
Well,great googly moogly!asHowlin' Wolf once sang. Copps fears the "enormous influence over politics, art and culture across the nation and especially in the New York metropolitan area" that Murdoch will flex. Copps continues, "The proposed transaction would appear directly to affect the New York metropolitan market in terms of localism, diversity and competition. We need to study these effects before the transaction proceeds."
Copps—or the blockhead on his staff who wrote the letter—neglects to acknowledge Murdoch's never-ending role in increasing media competition and media diversity. For example, the main reason there are four big broadcast networks for Copps to complain about is somebody staked billions to establish and build the fourth network, Fox. That somebody would be Rupert Murdoch.
You might not like what Fox offers (The Simpsons; House, M.D.; Prison Break; King of the Hill; Family Guy; American Idol; et al.) but you can't accuse Murdoch of reducing viewer choice. Murdoch's Fox network so rattled the power of the traditional Big Three networks that a fifth (the WB) and a sixth (UPN) entered the TV fray after Fox. When the WB and UPN merged into the CW in 2006, Murdoch started yet another network to expand choice, the oddly named (and awful) MyNetworkTV.
In his letter, Copps steams that the Dow Jones acquisition will leave Murdoch in control of "two of the nation's five largest newspapers." But the second newspaper to which Copps refers is the New York Post, which Murdoch runs at an annual loss of $15 million to $30 million, according to a 2005 article in Business Week. If Copps were a true fan of diversity, he'd be handing Murdoch a plaque thanking him for increasing media diversity by subsidizing a conservative tabloid in the New York market, which has voted consistently over the last 30 years that it really doesn't want to support such a sheet.
From the context of his letter, it's clear that Copps knows the FCC doesn't have the power to block the Dow Jones deal. But say it did. If the FCC ordered Murdoch to divest one of his two New York-based newspapers to seal the Dow Jones deal, the rotten old bastard would obviously dump the money-losing Post and keep the moneymaking Journal. That's the path he took in 1988 when faced with a similar regulatory quandary. The federal media cross-ownership rules said he had to choose between his money-losing Post and his moneymaking TV station, so he chucked the paper. However, Murdoch repurchased the Post in 1993 with the political assistance of a nonpartisan coalition that was desperate to keep the unsuccessful paper from folding. The coalition helped convince the FCC that a waiver overriding the cross-ownership rules was in the city's best interests.
As long as we're on the subject of media diversity, you might not like what you see on the Fox News Channel, but you've got to admit the variety of voices heard on cable news increased after Murdoch started the channel in 1996. Likewise, you might not care for Murdoch's just-launched Fox Business Network, but it too is increasing viewer choice. Murdoch prefers to start new properties and expand his acquisitions rather than consolidating properties. He's a living nightmare for the media monopolists of every stripe.
In the most laughable passage in his letter, Copps bemoans the damage to "localism" Murdoch poses. The last time I checked, the Wall Street Journal didn't have a metro section, so what the hell is he talking about?
I'll be starting a "Fair Play for Rupert" movement soon, with headquarters in New Orleans. If you want to join, send e-mail to email@example.com. (E-mail may be quoted by name in "The Fray," Slate's readers' forum, in a future article, or elsewhere unless the writer stipulates otherwise. Permanent disclosure: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co.)


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Skip to comments.ScottWalker, Bobby Jindal: IRS case needs a special prosecutor
Posted on 05/14/2013 11:44:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It may not be the only case, or even the most pressing case, in need of an independent investigation, but there's little doubt the targeting of White House opponents by the IRS needs a lot more sunlight than the Obama administration has thus far provided. Republican Governors Association chair Bobby Jindal and vice-chair Scott Walker demanded a special prosecutor to start an investigation of the expanding scandal:
Two Republican governors are urging President Barack Obama to appoint aspecial prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service's admission that it targetedconservative political groups.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker call the allegations "Big Brother come to life."
They want a special prosecutor to find out if any laws were broken and say Obama should fire any IRS employees responsible for the situation.
Under normal circumstances, I'd recoil at the suggestion. Special prosecutors are a great idea in theory, but usually terrible in practice. Theoretically, the investigation owes nothing to anyone and can probe everywhere without fear of retribution — and that's pretty much been true. However, it also means that special prosecutors can turn into loose cannons that lose sight of their original portfolio and start looking for any reason to justify their existence … and that's also pretty much been true of special prosecutors in high-profile cases.
If the Department of Justice operates normally, any investigations into corruption should take place there, where accountability in both legal and political terms apply. Unfortunately, the DoJ under Eric Holder isn't operating normally. It just conducted a broad raid on the records of more than 100 Associated Press reporters in an attempt to identify sources and intimidate the nation's largest wire service. That secret raid should also be investigated, and probably needs a special prosecutor even more urgently than the IRS scandal.
Meanwhile, ABC News provides a list of the most outrageous and weird demands made by the IRS of conservative groups seeking legitimate tax exemption for their work. The whole list should be reviewed, but a few really deserve special mention:
First, can anyone imagine an IRS agent actually reading through all of the requested material? It's absurd. (How can anyone provide with any certainty all of the "stories and articles that have been published about you"?) This was clearly an obstructionist demand designed to frustrate and block conservatives from organizing effectively and legally.
Here's another in the same vein:
Do conservative political positions correspond to the positions of conservative candidates? Not as often as we'd like perhaps, but, er …. duh. Is the IRS position that only those organizations whose positions aren't taken by any candidates at all are eligible for tax exemption? If so, maybe they'd like to explain the exemption for Organizing for America.
There's also this ambiguity, emphasis mine:
Define "implicitly." Does this again mean having mainstream political positions is a disqualifier for tax-exempt status? On the other hand, sometimes the questions got uncomfortably specific:
Subtext: Justin Binik-Thomas is an unperson, and we're watching both him and you.
This may be many things, but liberty it ain't. We may need a whole passel of prosecutors when this is over.
Don't take your eye off the Benghazi deal, guys...
of course, the IRS scandal probably will have more legs because people understand it,
and because the left has spent a lot of effort in making people absolutely terrified of the IRS.
The IRS case, the DOJ case, and the Benghazi case all need Special Prosecutors.
Asking Obama to appoint a special prosecutor is akin to asking a wolf to appoint a fox to guard the hens.
Hell, I'll even go full-tinfoil for a second: perhaps the point of all of this is to FORCE a special prosecutor who could then go full-bore into private lives without fear of retribution. I wouldn't put anything so insidious past these feckless turds.
The IRS case must be pursued and the Guns for Cartels case must be ramped up but iti s the Benghazi case that really needs the efforts of the Republicans.It was put out there for a reason.Our guys didn't turn it up. It was handed to them to take the heat off Benghazi. Why? Well Mrs. Clinton doesn't get tainted by IRS. O'Lenin is used goods now. On paper, at least. he cannot run again. Who is to replace him?Why Hillary, of course! So the press will get behind IRS with a bit more enthusiasm, I think, than Benghazi. Hillary is the Designated Stalin to Obama's Lenin.
So let's say Justin Binik-Thomas is your cousin.
What difference does that make?
I know the Watergate-era law on special prosecutors has expired. What are the current mechanics of getting one?
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I have no idea...but we'll need at least a 6-pack.
A Special Prosecutor was appointed back in 1994 to investigate a small time crooked land deal that had occurred back in 1970's. No one was killed then.
Now? Now we have scandals involving the IRS, and the White House is accused of covering up murder and abetting terrorists.
Welcome back! Hope your recovery is going well!
As well as can be expected. I tire easily, but making progress every day.
I vote for Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald!!
Hey...... welcome back. Hope your knee is good as new.
I have a friend who is doing the very same thing, as I type and she's had some setbacks and overall is glad she did it, getting better all the time.
Tough stuff to go through. I can relate!
They say I'm doing well, but it's been almost 6 weeks and I still have a long way to go to be back to normal. But then, I wasn't normal for at least a year before surgery.
I equate this knee surgery business to childbirth. We would all be "only" children, if our mothers could actually remember the experience. LOL.
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Just as retailers launch their most elaborate Black Friday campaign to lure shoppers with early openings and blockbuster deals, there are signs some Bay Area shoppers will be avoiding the shop-till-you-drop tradition.
Many credit the store promotions that began in early November and the proliferation of online discounts.
"Why get up at 5 a.m. if you don't have to?" said Cathy Endriss, who was shopping with her daughter Carly Perez at a Walmart in Martinez on Friday. They plan to shop online from home, where they can sleep in and stay in their pajamas.
But make no mistake about it, a slightly muted Black Friday doesn't mean a bust for Bay Area retailers. Experts project stores will still be packed with die-hard shoppers, and many retailers, particularly stores selling Apple (AAPL) products and new tablets, are expected to make a bundle, just as they have in previous years.
Kirthi Kalyanam, director of the Retail Management Institute at Santa Clara University, cautioned against retailers getting too excited, or economists being too pessimistic, about this year's Black Friday turnout.
"The word is cautiously optimistic," he said. "In the overall economy, we're in a kind of holding pattern."
According to consumer research group BIGinsight, 147 million shoppers nationwide are expected to hit sales Black Friday weekend, which actually starts with sales Thanksgiving evening. That's about 5 million fewer shoppers than last year.
One reason for the falling interest is Black Friday-type deals are no longer limited to Black Friday, which falls on Nov. 23 this year. Many consumers started shopping in early November, when stores rolled out 40 to 50 percent-off promotions. Other stores, including San Francisco-based Gap, are extending the shopping holiday into a weeklong promotion blitz.
"Retailers have almost diluted the importance of Black Friday and all the great deals and promotions we've come to expect just by trying to one-up their competition," said Pam Goodfellow, consumer insights director with BIGinsight.
Gina Schultz, of San Jose, picked up Christmas and birthday gifts for her daughter at Westfield Valley Fair mall Thursday. She said the Disney Store was running a sale she couldn't resist. With her shopping done early, Schultz said she'd be staying home on Black Friday.
Many online deals start long before Black Friday and extend through Cyber Monday. Retail giant Amazon, for instance, is running a weeklong Black Friday sale event.
Reshma Almaula, of Sunnyvale, said she studied online and store prices and found them comparable. She plans to do her shopping online this year while en route to visit family in India.
"It's the same stuff online that you get in the stores, and I would rather not wait in line and get trampled," she said.
Still, retail analysts expect the hard-core shoppers to turn up. They're the ones who revel at the idea of getting up before dawn to snatch up the bargain of a lifetime. Online shopping just doesn't offer the same thrill of the hunt that the malls do, and it's these super-shopping types who may sustain the retail holiday.
Some mall managers are preparing for huge turnouts. Sunvalley mall in Concord is predicting one of its best Black Fridays ever, said marketing director Kim Trupiano. Valley Fair general manager Gavin Farnam expects the mall will have one of its best years. The luxury mall will open at midnight Thursday for the first time.
"We're poised to definitely see an increase in sales," he said.
A big driver of sales for Valley Fair and other high-end malls will be the new iPad Mini and Microsoft's Surface tablet, both released to much fanfare recently. Bill Tancer, general manager of global research at Experian Marketing Services, said he expects the new tablets and iPhone 5 will be among the top sellers this year. Valley Fair has Apple and Microsoft stores.
Some shoppers will use Black Friday discounts to buy expensive items they otherwise couldn't afford. Tracy St. John, of Lafayette, said he would head to Sears or Home Depot to pick up a new refrigerator. But he won't be one of the hard-core shoppers first in line: "It'll be more like 9:30 or 10" in the morning, he said.
But for Concord resident Maryime Van Brunt, once-a-year discounts won't persuade her to open her wallet on Black Friday. Van Brunt, a part-time bookkeeper, said she's concerned about gas prices and wants to save money for airfare to visit her kids in North Carolina.
One way to do that, she said, is to avoid shopping that day.
"I'm staying away from it," she said. "We're still holding tight. We're not going over budget."
Contact Heather Somerville at 925-977-8418. Follow her at Twitter.com/heathersomervil. ___
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Virtual machine
- 1 Creating a VM instance file from a forensic image
- 2 Using the VMDK file
- 3 External Links
Creating a VM instance file from a forensic image
There are a number of ways to convert forensic image to a VM instance. At present, this article provides a series of tools that can convert images to VMDK files.
Creating a VMDK file from a forensic image
Linux tools as included in SIFT
Via the SIFT workstation (free), use the following steps:
1.open a terminal window 2.sudo su 3.mkdir /mnt/ewf1 4.mount_ewf.py (Encase Image file path) /mnt/ewf1 5.qemu-img convert /mnt/ewf1/(encase image file name) -O vmdk (give_a_name).vmdk
Paladin 4
- Paladin 4 (free) can convert DD and E01 images to VDMK as well.
Live View
Live View (opensource) is reported as not reliable, but it does work with some images.
use EnCase (Commercial) to mount the E01 image as an emulated disk (you need to have the Physical Disk Emulator ("PDE") module installed), then VMware to create virtual machine from the emulated physical disk. Guidance software has a good guide on how to do this in their support portal.
Note – EnCase v7 hasn't been proven to support this, just EnCase 6
VFC - Virtual Forensic Computing
VFC (Commercial) is reportedly very good, but troubles with booting Windows 2003 servers have been reported. It's a little pricey ($1350 for a Corp license) but per one user it WORKS the vast majority of the time and the developer provides excellent support.
Creating a KVM image
From the linux command prompt
kvm -hda myimage.dd
Using the VMDK file
Once you have the VMDK file, you can create a virtual machine in Virtualbox or VMware Workstation and use the VMDK as an existing hard disk for the virtual machine. I prefer to use VMware Workstation because it has a non persistent mode which allows you to write changes to a cache file rather than the forensic image itself thus maintaining integrity.


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This is such a great vegetable for many reasons. It has a nice, subtle sweet flavor. It is almost foolproof to cook. And, it looks like spaghetti! You may have seen this under some fish cheeks in another clip, as it is a fantastic base for so many things. This clip just shows the basic steps to preparing the squash, but my hope is that you watch this demo and invent some wonderful combinations, and then report back to me!
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Spaghetti Squash 101
Please Note: This is another older clip that I'm moving from my old blog, so a few of you may have seen it before. And, I know it's not exactly "squash season" but as I've already said on several other posts, I want to eventaully have my complete video recipe library on this blog. Also, the sound is not great,but it's still worth a look if you've never tried this great squash.
Posted by Chef John at 2:00 PM
Labels: Vegetables
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I had never eaten it before, but made spaghetti squash the other day. One half I cooked with preserved limes and just finished at the end with cracked pepper and a little butter. The other half I took out about 10 minutes shy of being done, scraped the strands with a fork and topped with spicy spaghetti sauce and cheese and finished cooking it like a giant potato skin. I loved the lime version, but the rest of my family liked the spaghetti version better.
Either way, I will make this again!
- November 14, 2011 at 1:19 PM
Thank you for the great video!
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I am so glad you post basic things too! I trust you.
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The University Ministries team at St. Bonaventure University is encouraging students to take a short study break to calm their nerves before finals.
At 9 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, the traditional Blessing of the Brains prayer service will take place on the lawn between the Hickey Dining Hall and Devereux Hall (rain or shine).
Fr. Francis DiSpigno, O.F.M., executive director of University Ministries, started the brain blessings two years when he came to the university.
Fr. Francis believes that when people are anxious they need to remember that God is with them, and the blessing of the brains is a way for students to feel a sense of peace before they begin exams.
"There are no atheists in the foxholes," joked Fr. Francis. "When you're under pressure, you need something to feel at ease, and that's what we're here for."
Many friars, sisters and campus ministers will be on hand to bless not only students, but even faculty brains.
"Even instructors need some blessing of the brains," Fr. Francis said. "They have to grade all those papers."
People of all faith traditions are encouraged to attend the event.
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Surgical Removal of Lung Metastases in Breast Cancer Patients May Improve Overall Survival
Article ID: 600928
Released: 27-Mar-2013 1:30 PM EDT
Source Newsroom: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
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Newswise — Chicago — Patients with primary breast cancer that has spread to the lungs may live longer if the lung metastases are surgically removed, according to a study published in the April 2013 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
Georgios Meimarakis, MD, Hauke Winter, MD, PhD, and colleagues from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, examined factors that influenced the long-term survival of patients with isolated pulmonary metastases of primary breast cancer following surgical removal of the metastases (pulmonary metastasectomy).
Metastatic breast cancer (mBC) is a stage identified when the disease has spread to distant, non-adjacent organs or areas. The median survival of patients with mBC treated with conventional chemotherapeutic regimens ranges from 12 months to 24 months, and it previously had been assumed that these patients would not benefit from surgical intervention.
The researchers found that, with metastasectomy, the median overall survival increased to as much as 103.4 months.
"Before this study, no randomized trial had examined prospectively the impact of metastasectomy on survival compared to conservative therapeutic strategies," said Dr. Meimarakis.
Between 1982 and 2007, 81 patients with a median age of 58.2 years (range 28.3 to 76.3 years) were recruited for the study.
In 81.5% of patients (66), complete removal of all tumors was observed, with microscopic examinations showing no remaining tumor cells (R0 resection). In 7.4% of patients (6), some tumors cells were still visible microscopically (R1 resection) and 11.1% of patients (9) showed portions of remaining tumors visible to the naked eye (R2 resection).
R0 resection was associated with significantly longer median overall survival than R1 or R2 resection (103.4 months, 23.6 months, and 20.2 months, respectively). Additional analysis revealed that R0 resection, and number and size of metastases were factors that affected long-term survival.
Dr. Meimarakis noted: "Too often patients with mBC are not considered for surgical treatment, as it is assumed that these patients would not benefit from surgical interventions for various reasons. Based on our findings we highly recommend surgeons consider patients with isolated pulmonary metastases for surgical resection."
Cancer treatment teams need to consider metastasectomyIn an invited commentary appearing in the same issue, Hans Hoffmann, MD, from The University of Heidelberg in Germany, noted that this study adds meaningful data to the available body of evidence that breast cancer patients with a suspected first recurrence are most likely to gain substantial benefit from an intensified multidisciplinary therapeutic approach.
"As the morbidity and mortality of pulmonary resection has decreased substantially over the last decades, this potentially beneficial procedure should be discussed and considered more often than not in an intensified multidisciplinary therapeutic approach," said Dr. Hoffmann.
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President Barack Obama warned the embattled leader of war-torn Syria on Monday not to use chemical weapons against rebels fighting to topple his regime, as the United States voiced rising concern that he may be preparing to do so and consulted with regional allies on a range of responses.
Obama's admonition to Syrian President Bashar Assad was his most strident since he drew a "red line" in August that the movement of chemical or biological weapons out of their secure sites, or their use, would bring U.S. military intervention in the country's vicious civil war.
His latest comments came shortly after the White House spoke of growing worries that Assad could be preparing to use chemical weapons against rebel forces that have been gaining ground in northern and eastern Syria, and have staged attacks in the capital, Damascus, which compelled the closure of the international airport.
Administration officials, however, offered no public evidence justifying their heightened fears, citing classified intelligence.
"This is not just analytic conjecture. It is firm information," insisted a senior U.S. official, who requested anonymity because of the matter's sensitivity. "We're wary about indications we've seen that the Syrian regime may be in the midst of preparing chemical weapons for possible use."
Obama aimed his warning directly at Assad and his top lieutenants in a speech to a non-proliferation symposium at the National Defense University.
The United States has "worked to keep weapons from spreading, whether it was nuclear material in Libya or, now, chemical weapons in Syria," the president said. "And on Syria, let me just say this. We will continue to support the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people – engaging with the opposition . . . providing them with the humanitarian aid, and working for a transition to a Syria that's free of the Assad regime."
"And today, I want to make it absolutely clear to Assad and those under his command: The world is watching. The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable. And if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences, and you will be held accountable," he said, without elaborating.
Obama's warning echoed comments issued earlier in the day by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a visit to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, and by spokesmen for the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department.
"As the opposition makes strategic advances, and grows in strength, the Assad regime has been unable to halt the opposition's progress through conventional means," said White House spokesman Jay Carney. "And we are concerned that in an increasingly beleaguered regime, having found its escalation of violence through conventional means inadequate, might be considering the use of chemical weapons against the Syrian people."
Carney indicated that the United States is preparing military options, saying that "contingency planning of all kinds is the responsible thing to do." Washington also is consulting with its regional allies and Syrian opposition groups, he said.
An independent expert, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, quoted a U.S. official as telling him that "contingency planning" underway in Washington and with regional allies included "disaster mitigation," a term that means dealing with the aftermath of a chemical weapons attack.
Syria is believed to maintain stockpiles comprising unknown quantities of biological weapons and hundreds of tons of chemical weapons.
Charles P. Blair, a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists who focuses on the issue of terrorism and chemical and biological weapons, warned in a report in March that the dangers posed by Syria's unconventional weapons are far greater than those posed by Libya's stockpiles during the 2011 uprising against the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
In a grim report for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Blair wrote that Syria's chemical warfare stores are believed to be "massive" and include several hundred tons of blistering agents and "likely large stockpiles of deadly nerve agents, including VX, the most toxic of all chemical weapons."
Moreover, at least four large chemical weapon production facilities exist, with storage facilities at dozens of sites throughout the country, he wrote.
Speaking in Prague, Clinton declined to discuss the U.S. response should Assad use chemical weapons.
"This is a red line for the United States," she said. "I am not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of credible evidence that the Assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people. But suffice it to say, we are certainly planning to take action if that eventuality were to occur."
The United States is supporting a request by fellow NATO member Turkey for the alliance to deploy U.S.-made Patriot anti-missile batteries to defend its border with Syria against attack by Syrian missiles tipped with chemical warheads. Foreign ministers of the 28-member pact are expected to approve the deployment at a meeting this week in Brussels.
U.S. officials have been monitoring Syria's stockpiles since the civil war erupted after Assad's security forces and gangs of loyalist thugs used force against peaceful protests that erupted in January 2011 calling for an end to four decades of Assad family rule.
More than 40,000 people – most of them civilians – are estimated to have died in the fighting that has leveled whole city blocks and pits rebels mostly comprising Syria's majority Sunni Muslims against forces and militias led by Assad's minority Alawite sect, a Shiite Muslim offshoot.
The United States, Israel, Turkey and Arab governments are worried that chemical or biological weapons could fall into the hands of Islamist militants fighting on the rebel side. The extremist groups include Jabhat al Nusra, which has played a substantial role in the rebels' recent advances, and which U.S. officials call an "al Qaida front."
"We're all in agreement that should these weapons pose a threat to start with, or be used, or fall into the wrong hands, this is a game changer," a senior Arab official said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity, as per diplomatic protocol.
The official declined to discuss whether specific intelligence had led to the latest U.S. warnings to Assad, but he said that the concern was, in part, prompted by the intensified fighting around Damascus.
"The heightened concern is obviously the result of monitoring the situation, obviously as a result of intensification of fighting, obviously as a result of fighting being in and around Damascus now in a concentrated fashion," the official said. "It's all related."
Lesley Clark and Matthew Schofield of the Washington Bureau contributed.


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Erike Young, MPPA '05 (Public Policy & Administration)
Commitment to safety earns national honor
Alumnus Erike Young has received a national safety award, and he credits the skills he acquired in Sacramento State's Master of Public Policy and Administration program for helping him earn that honor.
Young, who got his MPPA in 2005, received the 2012 Edgar Monsanto Queeny Safety Professional of the Year award, during the American Society of Safety Engineers Professional Development Conference and Exposition in Denver.
The safety award, sponsored by Monsanto Corp., is given each year to an outstanding ASSE member for accomplishments and contributions in the occupational safety, health and environmental field.
Young is the director of Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) for the University of California, coordinating and assisting all 10 campuses, five hospitals and a national laboratory. He guides the development and implementation of policies and procedures that help maintain a safe and healthy environment for the system's more than 180,000 employees and 220,000 students.
Young considers the MPPA as the MBA of the public sector. "The program provided me with the foundation and understanding of how to create value in a public agency, and the tools to make change happen," he says.
UC Chief Risk Officer Grace Crickette, who nominated him for the award, commended Young's work. "Within two months of becoming the (UC) director, Erike was able to organize all of the campus and hospital EH&S directors to adopt a system-wide strategic plan that will help guide leadership for the next five years."
Young has also distinguished himself in the ASSE Sacramento Chapter with efforts such as encouraging others to pursue professional development opportunities. In 2011, he received the Region I Safety Professional of the Year award.
While Young praises Sacramento State's MPPA program for teaching theory and practical approaches for a career in public policy and administration, his strongest memory of the University is far more personal – having his daughter, who was 6 at the time, at his graduation ceremony. "Neither my mother or father attended college, so being able to be a role model for my daughter and have her see the ceremony was the most memorable moment for me."
Founded in 1911, the ASSE is the oldest professional safety organization and has more than 34,000 occupational safety, health and environmental professional members.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Li Na's memories of her previous Australian Open finals are not fond ones as she prepares for a third at Melbourne Park on Saturday against first-time finalist Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia.
In 2011 against Kim Clijsters, she took the first set before the Belgian rallied to clinch her fourth, and final, grand slam title. Last year's final was even worse for the Chinese.
She rolled her ankle twice, fell over and smacked her head so badly doctors had to administer a concussion test and then lost 4-6 6-4 6-3 to Victoria Azarenka.
"I really wish I can win the title," Li said on Friday when asked about how much it would mean for her to win after two previous failures. "I (am) always looking forward to play back here.
"I think I'm ready."
The 31-year-old Chinese, who became Asia's first grand slam champion when she won the 2011 French Open title, was close to not making it to the final. She fought off a match point in the third round against Lucie Safarova before the fourth seed scraped to a 1-6 7-6 (2) 6-3 victory in two hours, 27 minutes.
Li said she had been had asked several pointed questions by coach Carlos Rodriguez about that performance, which had turned around her focus and propelled her into the final.
That third round match notwithstanding, Li has been rarely troubled in her path to the final though she has had one noticeable flaw - she has a tendency to take her foot off the gas when she has her opponent down for the kill.
In the semi-final against Canadian teenager Eugenie Bouchard she jumped out to a 5-0 lead then had to battle for the next four games as the 19-year-old sensed she could conjure a comeback to take a 2-0 lead in the second.
Li's experience, however, then kicked in and she won six of the next eight games to advance to the final against the diminutive Cibulkova, whose aggressive play at Melbourne Park suggests she is unlikely to let such an opportunity go.
At 1.60-metres (5'3"), Cibulkova is one of the shortest players on the WTA Tour, but what she lacks in height the Slovak more than makes up with a strong physique that allows her to match the heaviest hitters of the game.
Cibulkova was particularly impressive from the fourth round on at Melbourne Park, beating 2008 champion Maria Sharapova then destroying counter-punchers Simona Halep and Agnieszka Radwanska.
The 24-year-old was impressive attacking her opponents' service game, especially on the second serve, and used her speed and footwork to run down potential winners or around short returns and hammer them back with a wicked forehand.
"It's not about how tall are you. Even if you are tall, it doesn't mean that you are 100 percent going to make it, you know," she said when asked if her height was a disadvantage.
"It's just you have to really want something and just believe in it. There is nothing more important than this."
Cibulkova made her first grand slam semi-final at Roland Garros in 2009 and while she has been bothered by small injuries in the last few years, her inconsistency has been her biggest issue, which accounts for her inability to crack the top-10.
The 24-year-old has 21 career victories over players in the top-10, including two against top-five players at Melbourne Park in the last week, but was also defeated in the first round 10 times in 2013.
"This top-10 talk, I don't want to talk about it anymore," she snapped after her 6-1 6-2 demolition of fifth seed Radwanska in the semi-finals.
"So many years that everybody (has) kept telling me 'you should be top 10; why (are) you not top-10?' I'm just not."
Should Cibulkova win the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup on Saturday, she would be the first Slovak to win a grand slam title and it would also be her first win against Li in their five career meetings.
"She has been in the finals of grand slam many times," Cibulkova said. "She has already won a grand slam, so she know how it is.
It will be my first grand slam final (and) ... that's something beautiful.
"It's like a dream. So I will go just out there and play my best, try to do my best."
(Writing by Greg Stutchbury in Wellington; Editing by Patrick Johnston)


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Chelsea v Liverpool
FA Cup final; Wembley Stadium; Saturday, 5 May; 17:15 KO.
Team News
Gary Cahill and David Luiz are the obvious injury concerns for the Blues, with the defensive pair both missing training on Friday with hamstring injuries.
Roberto Di Matteo will also have a selection dilemma up-front, with one of either Fernando Torres or Didier Drogba likely to be preferred in a 4-3-3 formation.
Charlie Adam is the only recent injury addition for Liverpool, joining Brazilian international Lucas Leiva on the treatment table. Both players are out for the rest of the season.
Kenny Dalglish rested nine players in the 1-0 defeat to Fulham on Wednesday night, and is set to shuffle the pack again as Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez prepare to return. Daniel Agger, Jamie Carragher and Martin Skrtel are the centre back options.
Lampard & Carragher braced for final
Frank Lampard and Jamie Carragher have plenty of cup final experience between then, and are set to go head-to-head once again this weekend in the FA Cup final at Wembley.
The clash between Chelsea and Liverpool throws up a number of intriguing dynamics, with the Blues looking to make it four final victories in six years in this competition, whilst the Reds are out for a fifth consecutive win against the west London outfit.
Indeed, the two sides have met 31 times in eight seasons, and Lampard knows from previous clashes that this is going to be tough test.
He's quoted in the Radio Times saying: "We've played them about 10 or 15 times in the Champions League, the FA Cup and everything. It will be very tough.
"It's going to be a massive game and we'll have to play with the same focus and desire that we played with in the semi-final to beat them!"
For Carragher and Liverpool, the first task will be to lift themselves again after the semi-final win over Everton, which the veteran defender admits felt more like a final than a last four clash.
"It was massive. We've had Champions League finals, League Cup finals but that was right up there because of who we were playing and because it was at Wembley. It was more of a final than a semi-final," he said.
Carragher was also quick to pay tribute to manager Kenny Dalglish, crediting the Scot for helping pick the club up 'off its knees' to a current position where they could claim a second domestic trophy in the same season.
"We were on our knees when he came back to the club. We hadn't won a cup for six years, we hadn't even played at new Wembley, but now we'll have three appearances there in 12 BIG months," he concluded.
"We've won the Carling Cup, and now we have a chance to win another trophy!"
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CHANGE IS GOOD: It's pretty much a given that celebs attending a designer's show will be sporting his or her clothes in the front row. But Friday morning, Sarah Michelle Gellar took this sign of respect to new levels. After taking in the 9 a.m. Ports 1961 collection at the tents, the actress quickly changed into a black Vera Wang dress for the designer's 10 a.m. show. Just how did she pull off such a switcheroo feat? "I'm like Superman," she smiled. "And, yes, I have a phone booth." What happened to Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
CYNTHIA ROWLEY'S BOOK CLUB: After releasing her "fantasy memoir" earlier this year, Cynthia Rowley counted herself among literary friends at her Friday show at Gotham Hall. Friends James Frey and Candace Bushnell, who are both working on their next books, filled the front row. Bushnell, wearing Alexander McQueen, said she is penning yet another book "on New York women," as the shooting for "Lipstick Jungle" — for which "fashion will be a big part of the show" — commences this fall. "I'm trying to gather up all the look books now," Bushnell said, adding she particularly liked Balenciaga.
A DAY AT THE LIBRARY: Jill Stuart is expecting a host of semi-bold names at its Monday show at the New York Public Library, including Carmen Electra, Tori Spelling, Bijou Phillips, Amy Ryan, Brittny Gastineau, Lisa Gastineau, Chad Michael Murray, Beth Ostrosky, Jaslene Gonzalez, Anna Anisimova, Kelly Bensimon, JC Chasez (who also attended last season), Tinsley Mortimer and The Misshapes. The one noticeable absentee is likely to be the brand's face of the season: Lindsay Lohan — for obvious reasons.
IMITATION OF FASHION WEEK: "I'm so relaxed — I feel like fashion week is going in slow motion," said Tara Subkoff, whose Imitation of Christ line is not showing this season. "I've never been a tourist for New York Fashion Week before." The designer had not planned to attend fashion week at all, but decided at the last minute to come back from a month in Bali to attend friends' shows such as Cynthia Rowley and MaxMara. She said she is attending shows this week "since I am trend forecasting," (though she carefully avoided saying for whom). Subkoff added she also will unveil a design collaboration soon.
MASCULIN-FEMININ: In addition to the expected blow-dried lineup of ladies gracing its front row, J.Mendel managed to wrangle a, shall we say, eclectic mix of celebrities. As Carrie Underwood and Jamie Lynn Sigler posed for the flashbulbs, Mary J. Blige, with husband Kendu Isaacs by her side, was swarmed my video cameras. Luckily, Isaacs is used to the attention. "I've been going to fashion shows since 2001," he bragged.
Blige sported, of course, a J.Mendel jacket and dress, but it was her fierce footwear that really stood out. "They're L.A.M.B.," she said of her perforated leather stiletto booties. And, while the pretty frocks cruising down the runway may have issued oohs from the rest of the crowd, don't expect to see Blige in a chiffon concoction any time soon. "I'm never too feminine," she explained of her personal style. "I always have to have a masculine edge."
That edge doesn't come cheap: Though Isaacs wasn't familiar with J.Mendel's designs, he was well acquainted with their financial value. "I only know the credit card bills I get!" he joked.
SHOE BOOK: Footwear fanatics have a fantastical new tome to whet their appetites, courtesy of photographer Michel Tcherevkoff. Called "Shoe Fleur" (Random House), it shows all manner of flora contorted to resemble every imaginable style of stiletto, boot and slipper. Fans Feruccio Ferragamo and Diane von Furstenberg were fascinated enough to write the preface and introduction, while Manolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutin requested advance copies. Tcherevkoff toasted his publication with a party at the Museum of Art and Design Thursday night.
CAMERA SHY: Friday's MaxAzria show at Bryant Park certainly drew a camera-shy crowd: A Theory-clad Ivanka Trump and her beau, Jared Kushner, refused tandem photo-ops. "She's the one you really want anyway," Kushner told the paparazzi. Taking her cue from the lovebirds, an expectant Nicole Richie took her seat only after the runway had been cleared. There were, however, some noncomformists who hammed it up for the lens, namely Molly Sims and Carrie Underwood, who arrived on the arm of Glamour editor in chief Cindi Leive (could a covershoot be in the works?). "It's so nice to have someone you can always count on," Underwood cooed of Azria's designs.
FAMILY BUSINESS: Ivana Trump is making the rounds this week even though she has 10-plus commercial and residential projects in the works in Qatar, China and Dubai. But it's not just the financial booms that has lured her afar.
"They have a lot of money, but they let architects do what they want. They don't have zoning laws," she said before Nicole Miller's show. "Here, buildings have to be 10 stories high and the neighbor has to have natural light. You really have your vision created there."
The businesswoman said she is proud of her daughter, Ivanka, and not just due to her budding jewelry line. As for offering any business advice, Trump said: "I had her trademark her name 20 years ago. I gave it to her, so I wanted to make sure it was protected."
Meanwhile, William Ivey Long was delighted to see Jane Krakowski of "30 Rock," whom he affectionately referred to as "one of his children." But they weren't the only members of the Broadway brigade pulling for Miller. Christine Ebersole watched from the wings.
BLASS BLAST: Robert D'Loren, chief executive officer of NexCen Brands Inc., which owns the Bill Blass brand, said at the Blass presentation event Thursday that he's been busy logging miles from store to store talking to everyone and anyone regarding Blass. On the agenda are new Blass licensees for handbags and accessories, as well as a Blass men's line, all of which are expected to come to fruition in 90 days, D'Loren said. Arnold Simon, who has the Blass denim license, also is keeping a hectic schedule: He's gearing up to launch his Members Only label, which is set to hit high-end specialty stores such as Fred Segal and Scoop in fall 2008. According to Simon, the label will feature both men's and women's offerings, with outerwear starting at $300.
OHHHMMMM: Fashion week is far from relaxing for most retail buyers. Not so for the folks from Saks Fifth Avenue. Midday Wednesday, the entire accessories team began a pilgrimage from the tents to the Shambhala Meditation Center of New York. A three-hour session, called The Power of the Positive Question, provided a reflective calm, but, according to fashion director of accessories Beth Kante, the biggest question on everybody's mind was what outfit could take the crew from runway to relaxation and back again.


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High school students shine in recitation contest
Michael Beadle, a poet and teacher from Canton, stood before nine high school finalists in North Carolina's Poetry Out Loud contest in the front rows of the auditorium at the Greensboro Historical Museum on a recent Saturday.
They came from Stokes, Gaston and Catawba counties, from a charter school in Raleigh, a school of the arts in Durham and an early college in Johnston County, from Carrboro, Wilmington and Lincolnton. They included eight girls and one boy.
At Beadle's prompting they took three deep breaths. "Beyond everything else, just go out and have fun," Beadle told them.
"Enjoy the time here. Remember, the hard work is done. You've done all the rehearsing and practicing. Now, go out and shine."
And then it was on. To get here the finalists had survived semi-finals earlier in the day at the nearby downtown library and the Greensboro Cultural Arts Center. Out of 31 contestants representing their school districts, they had been winnowed down to these nine. Now, reciting poems by Billy Collins, Lewis Carroll, Gwendolyn Brooks and others, they were giving their best shot at bragging rights for the entire state of North Carolina, the spoils of which included $200 in personal prize money, $500 to buy poetry books for their school and the chance to compete in the National Poetry Out Loud competition.
One after another they took the stage, looking poised and confident.
They enunciated, deployed theatrical voicings to embody their subjects and endowed their poems with physicality through hand movement. Not one of them had to turn to the prompter who sat in the front row ready to mouth the word if they hit a wall. The spirit of the day was celebration of their collective talents to take the emphasis off of individual competition, but when the students returned to their seats they cast anxious sidelong glances at their parents, betraying their desire to win.
"Alone" by Edgar Allen Poe ("From childhood's hour I have not been as others were") and "Ego" by Denise Duhamel ("… even now I wouldn't mind being god, the force who spins the planets the way I spin a globe, a basketball, a yoyo") were popular selections.
In commentaries after each recitation, Beadle reiterated that poetry promotes virtue, humility and compassion. The primary skill exercised in this competition was oration. These were not the misfits who skip class and scribble poetry in battered composition books. They were members of their senior prom-planning committees, athletes who compete in volleyball and track and field, aspiring novelists and Navy JAG lawyers, a co-president of his school's Doctors Without Borders chapter and a founder of a club to raise awareness about human trafficking. They were leaders.
They ranged from Hailey Grace Hazard, a senior at Ashley High School in Wilmington, who brought indignation and compassion to her treatment of Martin Espada's "The Meaning of the Shovel," to Carrboro High School student Aron Rimanyi, who invested an authoritative, saltof-the-earth dignity in "I am the People, the Mob" by Carl Sandburg.
After three rounds, Beadle congratulated them. "Everybody was really good," he said. "You brought your A-game." As the judge's scores were being tallied, Beadle remarked on the closeness of the competition, predicting that the winner would be a surprise.
"It's almost like the Olympics, where fractions of seconds separate the gold from the silver medalists," he said.
Raleigh Charter High School senior Jessica Karlisa told her supporters she had thought she might take third place. Karlisa, who started a club called Voices for Minorities at her school, won after reciting "The Children of the Poor" by Gwendolyn Brooks. Karlisa said she's participated in the contest every year since she was a freshman, and over time has developed confidence in getting up in front of large groups of people.
"It's definitely made me a better public speaker," she said. "I've conquered that demon. I haven't decided what career path to take, but I know that whatever I choose to do, I can do it."


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It was announced yesterday that Nicholas A. Robinson, an internationally-recognized architect of international environmental law and an innovator in training thousands of environmental lawyers around the world, has been appointed University Professor at Pace University - the first university-wide professor in the history of Pace.
"Pace is known for professionals who apply environmental knowledge in fields from philosophy and science to law, policy and business", the Provost of Pace University said in his announcement: "Our first University Professorship underscores our conviction that environmental thinking is essential for leaders in all disciplines of study and enterprise."
Nick Robinson is one of the world's leading figures in environmental law because he has built both the law and the supply of lawyers. At the time when he was a law student, environmental law did not exist.
Founder of Pace Law School in 1987 and of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in 2003, Nick served for two terms as Chair of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (CEL), from 1996 to 2004.
He will give the first talk in his new role on Earth Day, 22 April. The topics will include the global crisis in biodiversity loss, as well as the effects of climate change on coastlines and tidal levels.
Responding to his appointment, he said "... As our society retools our energy regimes and restructures our coastlines to adapt to sea levels much higher than we have today, it will rethink how environmental law functions. As University Professor, my research and lecturing will focus, with some urgency, on the changes that climate change requires of us all."


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BRISTOL — The No. 3 Mount Abraham Union High School field hockey team did not necessarily have a better record than No. 6 Spaulding entering Friday's Division II quarterfinal: The Eagles were 7-3-3, compared to the Tide's 9-5.
But the Eagles earned their record in what is easily Vermont's toughest field hockey league, the Metro Conference, of which the Eagles are the only D-II member.
On Friday, it showed: Mount Abe welcomed Spaulding to the Metro with a 5-0 win.