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Its times like this when you really know just how much one hates studying for exams. Do I watch the debate or not?
How badly do I want to procrastinate from my studies? Pretty damn bad if I watch this debate I reckon.
Tough decision.
Its times like this when you really know just how much one hates studying for exams. Do I watch the debate or not?
How badly do I want to procrastinate from my studies? Pretty damn bad if I watch this debate I reckon.
Tough decision.
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
I think it's a pointless remark (as are most of the remarks made in the campaign from both sides), as it's completely irrelevant to what is happening now. As is the fact that rates were even higher when Howard was treasurer. Obviously the current world economic climate has a lot to do with where we're at.
Anyway, I can't wait until the election is over and done with...the repetition will be just about killing me by then!
It's nice to see the coalition throwing in some education initiatives, but I think they're kind of missing the point.
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The debate today between deputy dawg and the apparatchik was one of the more boring spectacles i've watched/ listened to.
Costello was on message, as was Swan. Swan didn't make a goose of himself, which is what was required. No KOs by either, imo.
Watch the media go - Fairfax online poll scores it to Swan at 60%, News to Costello by a similar margin. The two campaign offices are obviously busy at this time. Shanahan at it again after Newspoll - he has so little credibility as a "commentator" that it's laughable.
On the polls, the problem is in taking a snapshot from any one poll, or indeed across polls taken at similar times by different organisations. Morgan has a bias to ALP (compared with other polls), Galaxy against (cf the owner after the 1st Galaxy of the campaign showing 53/47 saying "this is a great result").
Rather, it's important to look at trends. Each poll has a MOE of about 2.5% (depending on sample size) to an accuracy of 95%. That being so, if one looks to the Newspoll last week, it was plainly an out-lier on the Labor side, but still within the MOE from what's been the trend all year - namely 56-44 or 55-45. Likewise with last night's at 54-46.
As it was summed up on another site:
Put 13 million balls into a barrel. 55% of them are red, the rest blue. Pull out 1200 at a time. Sometimes you'll get 58-42%, sometimes 54-46%, sometimes 56-44, all within a MOE. Very occasionally you'll get a rogue sample outsie this margin, like a 60-40, or a 52-48, but not often.
That's why they have MOEs.
On a slightly differnet bent, how counter-intuitive have the polls been so far this campaign? Week 1 momentum with Coalition and Labor barely starting their campaign, a couple of good polls post-libs tax announcement. Then a bad Newspoll follows for the govt and it (momentum) swings.
Last week we have Turnbull ratting on cabinet (supposedly), a couple of slip ups by JH and the govt looking wobbly and bieng called desperate, and then another poll goes the opposite way to the general consensus of how most saw the week going.
It's all a bit odd, but if we keep the MOE in the backs of our minds, it becomes easier to see the polls as less volatile compared with the overall trends over several months.
As an ALP supporter, the thing for me is the primary vote has been pretty solid at 48% or above for many months now. If they get anywhere near that on 24/11, they will win and win easily.
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"Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself" - Tony Benn
#408. Sixty three not out forever.
Most recent polls - Galaxy 53/47, Nielsen 54/46, Newspoll 54-46. For each of them, that's their best Coalition result so far this year.
Maybe, as you allude to, they're all just within the MoE of 55-56. Or maybe we have, collectively, evidence of a 'narrowing'. Time will be the judge.
I regard the 58/42 Newspoll last week as the real rogue, influenced as it was by Rudd's tax policy announced the previous Friday.
It's not so much about whether it's negative, but rather whether it's a fear-type ad (for want of a better term).
The govt says the ALP will be dominated by the unions when/ if it is elected. That's an argument which cannot be refuted until they are elected - it's like the "I'll be better on interest rates than Labor" phrase - it can't be proven or disproven, which in some ways makes it more effective.
The fact is that 70% of the ALP front bench were not union officials, unless you categorise someone that way by their having either been a union member or worked in a union office (even if only for a short period) despite their having done myriad other things in their lives.
The ACTU/ ALP ads on workchoices are also negative. They have (and will, based on what I know) use people in them who have been adversely affected by Workchoices.
So, they all run negative ads.
Just out of interest, how many times have you heard any government minister use the phrase "Work Choices" in this election? It's as unpopular as a sh*t sandwich, primarily becuae it was sprung on people after no mention of it last time (very different from the GST, on which an election was called and won so fair play there).
If the government hadn't brought Work Choices in, imo it would be about 8 points ahead in the polls and would cruise to victory.
Amazing what a little bit of power in the Senate can do, isn't it?
Nielsen 56-44.
Morgan 57.5-42.5
Every poll isnce the election was called has been within the 2.5% MOE of 55-45.
Where's the narrowing?
Despite the media cheer squad, the government's campaign is going nowhere fast. Heard some trollop on Sky yestrerday saying "The libs haven't started campaigning yet, they have a big announcement on housing affordability" - well, $34 billion here, $4 billion there suggests they're trying pretty hard. Good luck trying any affordability policy if rates go up.
Their campaign so far has lacked a cogent message, and because they're behind they have to announce the big items before Labor to try and get traction. Labor then sit back, pick the eyes out of them, match or better them and can't be called irresponsible because the govt has costed their policies for them.
Makes for a boring campaign, but Rudd has so far seriously played the other side off a break.
Now they're running ads criticisng state ministers? WTF? Criticising people who AREN'T the opposition. And they're moaning about "me too' - great - it just reinforces that Rudd isn't a threat.
If things continue going as they are (can't say they will, but can't say they won't) Brian Loughnane will be a dead-set pariah in the liberal party.
They really need to get it together, and to do so awfully fast.
Galaxy 54-46.
Little, if any change.
Well, Galaxy got the preference distribution right, but all the pollsters last time were accurate within MOE, except Morgan (from memory).
What do you reckon they're going to do with their message? Started with Go fro Growth, but now it's "Watch out for Inflation". What causes inflation? Out of control growth.
I really think the libs got some bad advice with their campaign strategy here. Not saying they can't win, but they went with that slogan, which ties things to the economy (fair enough), but in a way which links them with a possible rise in inflation and therefore rates. The party HQ must have known of the possibility of a rise during the campaign (everyone was talking about it) bit they ran with it.
I don't see the rate rise as a problem for the government per se, it's more a trust issue really. Objectively, people know rates are set by international factors together with domestic inflationary presures, but the problem the govt has is that it made that promise back in 2004 about keeping them at 30 year/ record lows. It makes it all the more difficult to now loudly sell a message that it's really beyond their control.
Then again it may just be the sound of chickens coming home to roost.
What matters is the future - with storm clouds gathering, who is more likely to best manage the economy and keep interest rates under control? The Howard/Costello team or Wayne Swan? Bearing in mind that housing interest rates were never (in 13 years) this low under Labor.
That would be how I'd frame things. And I'd re-formulate my advertising more directly to the economy too. It's clear that the union thing, while it may make people feel uncomfortable, is not really changing votes or getting great vote-changing traction.
Anyway, Newspoll night tonight!
Revealed on Agenda at 8:30pm (Qld time).
Prediction: 54-46.
Although, Newspoll is usually counter-intuitive.
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0. phoneArena posted on 09 Apr 2012, 03:31
Last week, RIM's BBM party in London ended up with a man being stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle, and sadly this has turned really tragical as the man…
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1. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Jesus. This just stopped being funny. :(
2. thelegend6657 (unregistered)
Why the f**k is someone stabbed at a f**kin party ?
It is supposed to be an happy occasion
4. tigermcm (Posts: 861; Member since: 02 Sep 2009)
I dont know where you are but sadly here in FL there isnt a week that goes by without hearing news of someone being hurt at a party
7. thelegend6657 (unregistered)
I am in and from Malaysia
8. thelegend6657 (unregistered)
If someone in a party get drunk and did some really stupid stuff and get hurt its totally fine
Of someone in a party gets drunk and stabs a blackberry staff it's totally uncool
9. tigermcm (Posts: 861; Member since: 02 Sep 2009)
nope here there is fighting, shooting, stabbing yes we have it all and all the time this sadly is a story that HERE we would expect
3. m.garz (Posts: 61; Member since: 08 Oct 2010)
may he rest in peace
5. sonisoe (Posts: 440; Member since: 06 May 2009)
sooo unbelieveable....its a mobile device party not a heavy metal concert for god sake...
6. henrickrw (Posts: 408; Member since: 16 Sep 2011)
Damn. This should never happened. DAMN.
10. DonkeySauce (Posts: 194; Member since: 03 Dec 2011)
Is this a metaphore for RIM's business trends?
14. LoneShaolin (Posts: 307; Member since: 14 Jan 2012)
What the absolute f**k?
11. hunted (Posts: 403; Member since: 21 Sep 2011)
Let his sould rest in peace, BB should take care of his family
12. Republican (Posts: 99; Member since: 05 Apr 2012)
Uncivilized rabble. Must be the 99%.
13. jmoita2 (Posts: 930; Member since: 23 Dec 2011)
Poor person. RIP. I hope RIM does offer the family something. This being corporate America,don't hold you breath though.
17. tedkord (Posts: 15731; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Yeah, I worked for a major US company chemical plant in the 90's, and one night an operator out on rounds died of a heart attack. They didn't find the body until 4 in the morning, and they guy who found him said he was stiff and blue when he discovered him.
Now, this company had a policy that if you died on the job, your family was paid 3x the insurance. They claimed he died en route to the hospital, so as to only pay out the 1x insurance, even though he'd been dead hours before found.
And, if that wasn't bad enough, the unit manager ordered the payroll secretary to cut off his pay for the shift at the time the body was found, and not pay his family for the whole shift.
And, this is a really major, huge, well known company. It was eye opening. I sincerely hope that unit manager died slowly, painfully, broke and alone.
15. Republican (Posts: 99; Member since: 05 Apr 2012)
BB should take care of the family??? It's not their obligation. The employee should have bought his or her own life insurance. it's called personal responsibility. If not,too bad.
18. tedkord (Posts: 15731; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Was he there as a company representative? Then they should absolutely take care of the family. Not forever, but a nice little payoff.
Do you mean like the personal responsibility a CEO takes when he runs his company into the ground, then departs with a golden parachute, millions in separation payout and millions more in stock options? That kind of personal responsibility?
19. parkwaydr (Posts: 572; Member since: 07 Sep 2011)
He was an employee at a COMPANY EVENT, so yes, RIM should help the family, besides, if they dont, it would be a pr disaster.
16. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
RIM sure knows how to throw a party.
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Republican is a bonehead!!! I Wish I could squish his head until all sounds stopped coming out!!!


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Mark, do you think you are being overly critical at this point considering 95% of the issues you have mentioned came from the very first shipment from Prodigy? Outside of all the "issues" with Prodigy discs the fading pink is the only one they havent corrected at warp speed.
Also, what is your opinion of the M4? Were you able to throw any of yours before selling them on eBay?
Ive worked in retail and consumer products for almost 15 years. Regardless of how well it ran the Nova was a No go in Latin America. While at BIC we had some iron shavings get into our ink. Probably effected the writing of 30,000 10 - $1 type pens. Management instantly told all customers. We redesigned the shipping cartons to have a marking and labeled all inner packs of the new run. They recalled EVERY pen and cost them a lot of money. But it was worth it because it told the retailer that BIC thinks the Customer is #1. Then changes were made to the production environment so it never happened again.
These "issues" with Prodigy would sink any "NEW"consumer company in any other market. They are lucky we are used to poor performance, low expectations on quality, lacking marketing or quality control, and a general lasse faire attitude towards the customer. Prodigy has made it 100% clear that their focus is pampering 10 "professional" disc golfers. We are clearly not Prodigy's focus. Unfortunately NO I feel that I (internally) am being too nice. Prodigy claimed and was marketed as a change in the way disc golf is done. THEY made these claims and THEY aren't meeting them. If someone visits my house, and their dog craps on my carpet, I don't care how fast they clean it up. Don't bring that dog over anymore. I honestly feel that the market is oversaturated with different discs. Its a sham, and the only thing that Prodigy brought to the table was a fresh start. They ruined that. Any of the 30 DG companies could spend $ to upgrade their processes, with an existing customer base. We were looking for something done right ALL THE TIME fresh. You know who doesn't get the press; DD and Lat. 64. They blow these guys away and they didn't need to use the Hype machine to do it. The best companies in this world shut their mouths and let the product do the talking. It seems like this company is run by a bunch of monkeys. I'm sad that we put up with this stuff. You and Mark are good friends but I'm disappointed that we as a DG community dont push harder on all the manufacturers to make good quality products. You go out and buy 175 discs. This tells Prodigy we don't care if you don't care about us. We will still buy your junk. Send us your poisoned first run of PA #X and we will clammer for it regardless of the quality. We should be able to answer someone that doesn't know disc golf that asks, how does this disc fly? Well you see it depends on the run, time of year, humidity, year produced...blah blah yuck yuck.
I havent thrown the ones I have. I will someday throw some prodigy, but I won't be amazed. There is no shot type that I can't make with my inventory of 1000 discs... I can even do it all with just Innova or Discraft. We dont need new plastics or discs. We need to be able to trust that if we pay $17 for $.30 worth of plastic it does the same stuff every time...and that if real news people become interested in the sport we can direct them to a well run supplier that has its stuff together.
95% in first runs... the issues were so glaring it is gross that they even thought about sending them out to the public. OVAL DISCS...awful stamps... cut discs. This is how you present your company? What is their quality check list? You think "round" would be #1.... Does Ford send its first electric vehicle out with only some of the doors painted? Oreo 2/3 of the cookies? Crayola 2 reds because blue didnt make it? Could you imagine if the newest ProV1 ball had the cover crack after 2 hits or the printing was crooked? People would be out of work, lots of people.
Stop giving them a pass. Just in the M's we have seen the dying issue, rumors that they are going to rename the entire line because they didn't test and realize the M2/3 were so close in flight. M4's being released before they were supposed to be. We dont even have good data on how well these things hold up, if they beat up to crap. How do they handle the cold?
We expected only what Prodigy said they would provide. They didn't. Its their fault and they still a screwing up obvious things. All they are is a below average "another disc golf copmany." So...we wait for the company that WILL rise up take the sport serious and think "What have
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Ah man 2 points in it now, already know what's gonna happen...
Come on Knicks see it out!
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Not including our lack of help on the defensive end as well as terrible ball movement.
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"Twilight" and "thirteen" director Catherine Hardwicke is attached to direct, with Emile Hirsch, who helped conceive the idea, attached to star as the title character.Read the rest here. Below is a pic of Emile Hirsch & Nikki Reed from Lords of Dogtown, which Catherine directed.
Ron Nyswaner, best known for penning Oscar winner "Philadelphia," will write the script.
"Milk" producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen will produce via their Jinks/Cohen banner.
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WHAT?!!? Not sure about this one- Hamlet has been done a few times- might be an interesting spin, but not sure if you should mess with Shakespeare.ReplyDelete
Ooo I love modern day spins on Shakespeare. Shakespeare was a genius. I love how his stories are so completely timeless. Hooray for Catherine!ReplyDelete
Is this her house? It's cute!ReplyDelete
Wow.....Nikki has really grown into her looks over the years....she looks like such a kid in the photo...ReplyDelete
what do you wanna bet Nikki Reed will be in it? Thats the only reason she got in Twilight, since C Hardwicke was directing.ReplyDelete
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With more than 50 years of experience in the theatre realm, Carl and Anne Nusbaum were a catalyst in molding the Sun City Community Theatre Club into what it is today. Starting with 100 members to now more than 1,500, the theatre is the largest member group in the community.
Whether it is directing or acting, the Nusbaums are often applauded for their dedication. In 1975, they started the Desert Foothills Theater under a circus tent in Arizona.
Thirty years after Carl and Anne staged their first production, "I Do, I Do," Desert Foothills Theater continues to be a thriving company where both amateur and professional actors perform. They directed and performed many shows there before deciding it was time to move onward. Moving to Florida, the couple founded a choral group and led actor workshops. Looking for another change, Carl and Anne moved to Sun City in 2000.
Visiting the small theatre club already in motion in Sun City, the Nusbaums were discouraged by the lack of participation. After returning to the club for a second time, sharing their theatre experience, the club president at the time, Bob Jacobson, handed over the reins.
"All the talent was there, but no one knew how to operate a theatre company or had the experience," Anne said. "We were simply a catalyst and gave a push to the group to begin a large-scale community theatre club. But without their support, we wouldn't have been able to."
Before the Nusbaums were involved, the community theatre started with the name Act One. Larry Della Vecchia was one of the first to sign up. "I've always loved theatre and I've been sort of the comedian type person so since I don't play golf I decided the theatre would be good for me," Della Vecchia said. "Carl and Anne made a big impact, because they had so much experience. They brought their talents to us and were very influential in growing the theatre."
Since the early 2000s, the theatre group has presented four productions a year, including at least one musical. After the first Follies show, the Nusbaums directed their first show in Pinckney Hall, "The Four Poster." In need of a music director, Anne asked around and found Art Hansen.
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Posing as pimp and prostitute, the two posted five videos at BigGovernment.com that pounded and pummeled an organization that has been corrupting urban American politics and defrauding the public for nearly four decades. What veteran conservatives failed to do in those 40 years, this pair did in less than a week.
Their work may well end the scam of leftist fraud and extortion that travels under such euphemisms as "change," "empowerment," and "community organization" and put ACORN on the side of the angels. O'Keefe and Giles have called into question the entire infrastructure of federal funding for the radical Left.
Beyond the videos is the widespread involvement in vote-registration fraud among ACORN's front-line soldiers, the street workers who "organize" the "communities," the fancy way of saying they dragoon voters, particularly minorities, to vote for leftist Democrats. Their ultimate triumph was helping to put Barack Obama, their former attorney, in the White House.
But even Obama couldn't protect ACORN. The recipient of millions in federal money throughout the years, ACORN is on the ropes, struggling to survive. It suspended frontline operations pending an internal audit and is retraining employees. Its political support evaporated. It may face an investigation from the Justice Department. It could be the end.
Perhaps ACORN officials are so arrogant they thought would never get caught. Perhaps they were simply sloppy. Most likely, their possible destruction is a combination of both. Whatever the case, Americans should be grateful.
What Is ACORN?
Oddly enough, of all the news it has made, ACORN is a cipher for Americans. They don't have the faintest idea of what it is or does.
ACORN opened its doors in Little Rock, Arkansas, nearly 40 years ago, the brainchild of leftist Wade Rathke, a professional welfare hustler who also founded the Service Employees International Union. In at least one case, that group used violence and beatings to help Obama tamp down the ire over Democrat healthcare reform plans at town hall meetings. Rathke advertises himself as the "chief organizer" on the Web, riding on his reputation with both groups. To give you an idea of Rathke's kooky outlook, consider that he scolded a former radical who, as an FBI informant, helped stop an attack on the GOP national convention in 2008.
The story ACORN tells at its website is one of an organization that helps the little man, alleviating his plight with "community action" and what not. ACORN claims to have registered millions of voters who otherwise would not have found their voice. It brags about raising the minimum wage and talks about the "extensive" services it provides to clients, such as free tax preparation and "screening" people for welfare. It also helps the poor get home loans.
As its own propaganda says, from little acorns mighty oaks grow, and grow the organization did. ACORN comprises 400,000 member families, it says, in 1,200 chapters in 75 cities across 43 states. Since 1994, ACORN has collected some $53 million in federal tax money, and who knows how much before that.
Corruption, Embezzlement, Voter-registration Fraud
The group put all that free money to good use, according to a report from the GOP staff of the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.). Its findings reveal ACORN to be an organization so rife with corruption it ought to be the subject of a special prosecutor, given the group's ties to Obama. Amusingly, Obama's campaign, which shoveled $832,000 into the group during the last election, suggested such a prosecutor to protect the group when the federal government began investigating its voter-registration fraud. Obama claimed the probe was politically motivated to damage his campaign.
The first sentence of the GOP staff report is an eye-opener itself: "The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has repeatedly and deliberately engaged in systemic fraud." The news goes downhill from there in a report that documents ACORN's race to the bottom.
The report's major findings show that ACORN repeatedly trespassed all manner of federal laws. ACORN, the report says, "is a shell game" with a "complex structure designed to conceal illegal activities, to use taxpayer and tax-exempt dollars for partisan political purposes, and to distract investigators. Structurally, ACORN is a chess game in which senior management is shielded from accountability by multiple layers of volunteers and compensated employees who serve as pawns to take the fall for every bad act."
ACORN, the report avers, "has evaded taxes, obstructed justice, engaged in self dealing, and aided and abetted a cover-up of embezzlement by Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke. Committee investigators have established that a violation of corporate duties led to gross abuses of tax laws and other federal regulations." Documents show that ACORN knew about its "lax management structure" but ignored problems to "continue a cover-up of criminal activity. By refusing to report Dale Rathke's embezzlement of $948,607.50 as an excess benefit transaction, ACORN appears to have violated the Internal Revenue Code. ACORN's cover-up of the embezzlement for more than eight years would also constitute obstruction of justice." The embezzlement charges ended in the brothers losing their jobs.
According to Louisiana's Attorney General, Buddy Caldwell, the embezzlement scheme may well have been as much as $5 million, but in any event Issa's report also accuses ACORN of investment fraud and alleges that the organization is a "racketeering enterprise affecting interstate commerce. Committee investigators have documented ACORN's use of charitable contributions against donor intent, typified by ACORN's secret transfer of donor funds to recover losses due to embezzlement."
Even worse, the report claims, ACORN violates the law by using federal money help to elect leftists to local, state, and national office: "Committee investigators have unearthed documentation that ACORN and its affiliates conducted meticulous research that fed aggressive campaign initiatives designed to elect Democratic candidates in targeted races. ACORN forged both formal and informal connections with former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, and President Barack Obama, among others. Each of these campaigns received financial and personnel resource contributions from ACORN and its affiliates as part of a scheme to use taxpayer monies to support a partisan political agenda. These actions are a clear violation of numerous tax and election laws." ACORN affiliates took credit for electing Blagojevich to office.
As far as voter registration goes, the report says, "nearly 70 ACORN employees have been convicted in 12 states for voter registration fraud, though no federal charges have been filed against ACORN's directors. In fact, Pennsylvania judge Richard Zoller — after holding a low-level ACORN employee liable for election law violations — noted that 'somebody has to go after ACORN.'"
Somebody did go after ACORN, we now know, but in any event such was ACORN's voter fraud that "one-third of the 1.3 million voter registration cards turned in by ACORN in 2008 were invalid." Unsurprisingly, "ACORN has been investigated for voter registration fraud in Nevada, Connecticut, Missouri, Ohio and North Carolina. ACORN has faced a series of alleged inadequacies and indictable offenses: In 1998, an Arkansas ACORN employee was arrested for falsifying voter registration forms."
News reports back up the report's claims. Just weeks ago, ACORN officials turned in 11 of their own workers for falsifying voter registrations in Florida. According to the Associated Press, the workers face multiple felony counts that could put them in prison. The ACORN workers turned in some 1,400 registrations, 888 of them faked. The fake names included Paul Newman, the late actor, who was used in several applications. Yet, AP reported confidently that "there was no evidence anyone voted who should not have."
The deceased film star wasn't the only celebrity ACORN workers tried to falsely register. Last year, Mickey Mouse and the starting line-up of the Dallas Cowboys turned up on Florida's voter rolls, and one voter was registered 21 times. The fraud in Florida, however, which included registering convicted felons, was a microcosm of a nationwide effort to put as many voters for Obama on the rolls as possible. Prosecutors in Washington state nailed seven ACORN workers in July 2007. ACORN paid $25,000 to defray the cost of the investigation, which uncovered the largest case of voter fraud in the state's history. ACORN used felons to register voters in Milwaukee.
The GOP report rightly concluded that the evidence proves that ACORN's "stated purpose to promote grass-roots civic participation has been perverted through fraudulent and illegal acts." And that's putting it mildly. "This syndicate of tax-exempt organizations has coordinated and implemented a nation-wide strategy of tax fraud, racketeering, money-laundering and manipulating the American electorate."
The Videos
Amazingly, this has been going on for years. No politician has tackled ACORN. Nothing was done. Only conservatives who sought to "defund the Left," as the old program run by Howard Phillips' Conservative Caucus was called, even attempted to get at the myriad leftist organizations taxpayers unknowingly fund. Success was merely a dream. Until mid-September. That's when BigGovernment.com stepped forward with the now-famous videos. The website is the brainchild of Andrew Breitbart, a young conservative journalist who also runs BigHollywood.com. At BigGovernment.com, Breitbart exposes corruption in the federal government.
O'Keefe and Giles began meeting with ACORN employees and taping their encounters. In city after city, the pair asked for advice on opening brothels and smuggling underage Salvadoran prostitutes into the country, and in city after city, ACORN employees eagerly advised the pair on everything from how to perpetrate federal tax fraud to which city in Mexico would be the best for smuggling the girls. The pair stung offices in Baltimore, Brooklyn, Washington, San Diego, and San Bernardino.
In each of the encounters, O'Keefe, who plays a law student pimping Giles to finance a future campaign for Congress, openly and repeatedly tells the ACORN employees that he and Giles will run a prostitution business, but banks have "discriminated" against them in housing loans because prostitution is, of course, illegal. Not one of the ACORN offices turned the pair down. Nor did any of them blanch when O'Keefe revealed that he and Giles would recruit 13 underage Salvadoran girls to work as prostitutes. Rather, the employees went forward with the interviews, giving detailed advice on how to run the business without getting caught.
The employees in Baltimore said a few Salvadoran girls could be used as tax deductions, and to call the underage girls "exchange students." "Don't worry. You're fine," an employee assured O'Keefe and Giles. Just "make sure they go to school."
"But they can still work?" O'Keefe asked.
"They can still work, but they need to go to school," the employee confidently replied.
In New York, an ACORN employee told Hanna Giles that "what goes on in the house, we don't care.... We just help you with the mortgage." She also told the pair that "honest is not going to get you a house," and that the pair didn't get bank loans because they admitted their scheme to the banks. As well, she advised, "When you get a house with a backyard … you get a tin and put the money in it … and bury it."
In San Diego, the employee told O'Keefe and Giles, "I have a lot of contacts" in Tijuana to help smuggle the girls into the United States. "How much do you charge?" he asks Giles, telling O'Keefe that he was not, of course, a "potential client."
The only sting that doesn't appear to have worked is the one in San Bernardino, where an employee told the pair she murdered her husband and threatened to murder a colleague to whom she sent the pair for advice. That ACORN worker said she was playing along with the pair, purposely telling them outrageous things, a position ACORN quickly fed to the news media. The employee in San Diego says he contacted police about the pair.
Unsurprisingly, the top squirrels at ACORN went nuts when the videos surfaced, accusing O'Keefe and Giles of breaking the law and creating a false picture of the group. ACORN threatened to sue the pair and Fox News. "The portrayal is false and defamatory and an attempt at gotcha journalism," a spokesman complained. Of course, it wasn't false and defamatory, as ACORN's Bertha Lewis was forced to admit: "As a result of the indefensible action of a handful of our employees, I am, in consultation with ACORN's Executive Committee, immediately ordering a halt to any new intakes into ACORN's service programs until completion of an independent review." Scott Harshbarger, a former Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will lead the investigation. As well, ACORN's employees, Lewis said, will be retrained, and seven of the newly famous ACORN employees received the pink slip. Some may face criminal sanctions.
Despite the admission, ACORN has filed suit in Baltimore against O'Keefe and Giles, claiming the pair violated Maryland law by secretly videotaping its employees.
The ACORN 8, The Fallout
None of this surprises the ACORN 8. This group of former ACORN officials has tried and failed to bring some measure of accountability to the rogue radicals. As the group said in a prepared statement in mid-September, while ACORN officials in Baltimore fired two low-level office employees over the prostitution business, "senior staff members who assisted and concealed a million-dollar Rathke embezzlement remain employed."
Unsurprisingly, the ACORN 8 hasn't found much of a hearing for its charges in the mainstream media, particularly the "paper of record," as the New York Times bills itself. The old gray lady wasn't interested in the ACORN 8's charges. The group or someone in the group leaked an internal report about ACORN's questionable activities to a reporter at the paper, but editors killed an investigation after publishing a few stories because they would have embarrassed the paper's candidate for President, Barack Obama, and possibly derailed his campaign. ACORN pink-slipped two of the ACORN 8 directors in November 2008 after they demanded records relating to the embezzlement scheme and began making trouble for the group. Their dismissal, of course, also followed Obama's election.
Thus, the group of eight leftists now find themselves allied with BigGovernment.com and Republicans who want the group investigated. They even cite Issa's report to bolster their accusations about ACORN's brazen and rampant criminality. Like many observers, they believe the organization likely violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, which was crafted to fight the Mafia. One official was "physically removed from the DC ACORN office for fighting for truth, transparency and accountability" there, the same place where workers, ironically, advised O'Keefe and Giles on running a brothel. "We've filed lawsuits, sought injunctions, called for a boycott and reported wrongdoers to the Justice Department" to no avail, the ACORN 8 says. Those filings included complaints to 15 FBI and U.S. District Attorneys that allege major felonies and possible RICO violations. Issa's report, they say, "supports ACORN 8 allegations of wrongdoing and enterprise corruption; and presents compelling evidence that ACORN has evaded taxes, obstructed justice, engaged in racketeering, and created a conspiracy to defraud the United States."
Though no one listened to the ACORN 8, the fallout from the videos was immediate. After the first three appeared at BigGovernment.com, official Washington reacted: The Census Bureau ended its relationship with the group, which was supposed to assist the agency's 2010 population count. Three days later, the U.S. Senate voted 83-7 to end funding for ACORN via the federal Housing and Urban Development Department. After the last video surfaced, the House passed a bill, 346-75, introduced by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) to end all federal funding. Only Democrats voted against the bill. Adding insult to injury, the Internal Revenue Service jettisoned ACORN as well. ACORN may no longer participate in the agency's volunteer tax assistance program.
Even the group's former attorney, President Obama, cut ACORN loose. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called the videos "completely unacceptable," saying he thinks it should be investigated, and then hilariously enough claimed Obama didn't know too much about the group: "Frankly, it's not really something I've followed closely," Obama said. "I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money."
That line is, of course, total nonsense, as Obama made clear in a speech about the group a few years ago, when he promised ACORN a "seat at the table" of his administration. He also helped train ACORN street organizers and represented the group in its lawsuit that forced Illinois to implement the federal "motor-voter" bill, which required states to offer voter registration to applicants for a driver's license, a license renewal, or social services.
Despite all this, even if ACORN is shuttered and its federal funds cut off, nothing may happen. Although House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has called for an investigation of the group, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has flatly vetoed even considering a probe because nothing will be allowed to distract attention from the President's plan to reform healthcare.
No matter. ACORN is ruined. Question is, will the scandals kill it? Don't bet on it.R. Cort Kirkwood is managing editor of the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
— Photo of ACORN member soliciting passerby: AP Images


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Hermann Alexander's will remain closed, for now
PITTSFIELD -- A city bar will remain closed due to allegations the owner allowed drug dealing at his establishment.
The Pittsfield Licensing Board has extended for at least another five weeks its suspension of Hermann Alexander's liquor license, which was originally taken away for 60 days in mid-May. The board plans to revisit the suspension at its Aug. 20 meeting with the option of another extension, outright revocation or lifting the punishment when the 38-day period ends.
The board's decision Friday came after hearing city police say they are close to wrapping up its investigation of Mitchell Grossjung, owner of the Lyman Street bar.
"We fully expect Mr. Grossjung to be indicted on conspiracy to violate state drug laws or some variation of that charge," said Lt. Michael Grady. "Mr. Gross jung had full knowledge of the cocaine dealing at the bar."
Grossjung's attorney, Rob ert D. Sullivan Jr. denied Grady's claim, saying police have not produced criminal charges against his client.
"He [hasn't been] indicted for conspiracy to violate drug laws and that's pertinent to the allegation," Sullivan said.
However, four city residents are facing drug related charges in connection with alleged cocaine dealing inside the bar and in its parking lot. The four suspects have pleaded not guilty in court.
Hermann Alexander's initially lost its liquor license on May 15 amid allegations of illegal gambling, liquor law violations, as well as drug dealing, charges that stem from a police raid in April by the Berkshire County Drug Task Force.
The police action led to Grossjung, along with bar employee Anthony Thom pson, being charged with making unlawful payments from video poker machines to bar customers. Both men have since denied the charges in court and are free on bail.
In addition, the Mass achusetts Alcoholic Bev erage Control Comm ission's claims Hermann Alexander's illegally sold liquor purchased from retail stores on 20 different occasions, rather than liquor purchased from wholesale distributors as required under state law. Grossjung will appear at a show cause hearing before the ABCC on July 31 in Boston to answer those charges.
But the Licensing Board says it is most concerned about Grossjung's alleged involvement in the drug trade at Hermann Alexander's.
Citing a bar employee's statement, Grady said city detectives claim Grossjung witnessed dozens of cocaine drug deals every night, with some people openly snorting cocaine on the bar.
"Based on what we've heard today, the place is an open-air drug market where alcohol is sold," said Licensing Board member Thomas Campoli. "[The bar] is out of control."
Sullivan felt the board should have lifted the suspension, giving Grossjung a chance to improve the image of Hermann Alexander's in an effort to keep away the criminal element.
"He wants to make changes to make [the bar] more respectable, even classy," Sullivan said.
Given the bar's recent troubled history, the board urged Grossjung to sell his liquor license and move on to another line of work.
"We are not convinced he's a capable person to have this license," said board member Robert Quattrochi.
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PORTLAND, Ore. Semilab Co. Ltd. (Budapest, Hungary) has acquired two Massachusetts-based metrology companies, Advanced Metrology Systems (AMS) and QC Solutions.
The combined U.S. operations will be called Semilab AMS (Burlington, Mass.) and will be headed by the former AMS CEO Christopher Moore.
"We are doing what you are supposed to do in an economic downturn, which is invest in the future," said Moore. "By joining with Semilab, we get critical mass at a time when critical mass has become very important."
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03-29-2014, 11:45 AM #1Banned
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Suggestions for a New Dock and Boat Lift
I'm hoping to tap into your collective wisdom on suggestions for a new dock and boat lift at our new place in Wisconsin. We just bought our place last September on a ~400 acre sandy bottom lake, and the old cedar dock that came with the place has seen its better days. And the old boat lift won't be big enough to handle our 2014 Mobius LSV.
So I'm in the market for some new stuff ('cause buying the home, the new boat, and a new towing rig just wasn't enough...!). I'm looking at a sectional Pier Pleasure dock and a 5,000 lbs vertical boat lift. But given the water depth I need for my LSV, I'm looking at almost 120 feet of dock. So I've also been told to look at Porta-Dock as a less expensive option. Any thoughts on differences between these 2 options?
Also - the wife likes the thought of an electric drive for the boat lift, but I'm not convinced (that's what my 3 boys are for!)
Any suggestions from you guys on which way to go on this?
03-29-2014, 12:16 PM #2Senior Member
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Wow 120 feet? There must not be much room for boating in it after everyone has one of those! I'd figure out what you need for use and boat lift then make the rest a walk way out to it. Power lifts see the way to go. Water powered are cheaper but slower and I believe more maintenance. Hydraulic oil are self contained and just need power.
Power lift, you can use a solar charged 12v battery to power it.A Day at the Lake...Priceless
A Day in Powder...Endless
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I'm glad I'm not your call list for install and removal each year!
I see lots and lots of wheel kits in your future as well! I never had good luck with my solar powered winch, but it was old and I ditched it for a 110v winch since I got power next to the shore.2013 Mobius LSV
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04-04-2014, 12:12 PM #5Banned
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Thanks guys. Looking at everyone's advice, I pulled the trigger yesterday on a new Pier Pleasure sectional dock and electric boat lift (I think it's a Shore Commander direct drive unit). Between what you guys said, what I heard from my buddies, and what I heard from the wife, we were only ever gonna end up with a powered boat lift!
I did question the dock length, because the previous owners only had 72' of dock (but they only had a pontoon boat with minimal draft). We're in a small bay with a shallow beach, so after re-measuring our beach (which they had to estimate by drilling through the ice), I ended up with 104' to accommodate the water depth required for our new LSV. I'm told I need 30" on the shore side of the lift to accommodate our V-Drive, so we worked the overall length backwards from there.
The ice is expected to go out by the first week of May, so we're scheduled to install the dock on May 16 and pick up the new boat on May 17.... So hopefully by 5pm on May 17th we're happily cruising the lake making good use of the new Moomba Coozies that arrived this week!
need to hook up one weekend to do some surfing..
love to ride a new lsv and swap some seat time with ya in a different brand..
we are looking to get outside of the green bay area this year to ride some different lakes. green river gets old'06 Supra Launch 20SSV-gone but never forgotten
05-12-2014, 11:13 PM #7Banned
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Finally installed the new dock and hoist!
So the ice in Eagle River, WI finally went out last week and we had our new dock and boat hoist installed yesterday. Although the canopy won't get installed until after we put the boat on the hoist as I'm told that an empty hoist + 24' canopy = a perfect way to have your new host get flipped over in an strong wind!
We pick up our new LSV on Saturday morning and will drop it into our lake on Saturday afternoon with enough time to christen our new ride with a coozie-enabled cocktail cruise! Thanks again for the great advice from you guys in this - I actually got brownie points from the wife for going with a powered lift, so thanks for suggestions to go with an electric lift from the get-go
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how do you walk upright on that dock with the 90deg angle it's at??
if ur coming thru our area and are stopping, give a shout....'06 Supra Launch 20SSV-gone but never forgotten


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Just in case you hadn't heard, the world is ending tomorrow.
No, really. I read it on the Internet somewhere, so it's true. And, so have a lot of other people, it seems.
NASA is getting a bunch of calls from people who want to know about the world ending. It's taking up so much of NASA's time that they can't go about their primary mission of Muslim outreach. Well, that, and not being able to send people into space anymore.
NASA has even made a movie to help stop the calls. It's titled "Why the world didn't end yesterday" and is supposed to be shown on Saturday. Which really doesn't stop the calls leading up to Friday. Maybe that backwards line of thinking is why they can't go into space. Of course, it should help with Muslim outreach. At least, with Muslims in other countries. The ones in this country kinda shake their head at other countries, too.
Anyway, NASA is answering the phone and telling people that it's all okay and the world won't end. I think that's a mistake. They should tell them that the world is going to end.
Caller: "Hello, NASA? I saw that the world will end Friday. Is that right?"
NASA: "Yes, ma'am, that's correct. We're doomed. That's why we're not sending people into space anymore. There's no reason. We're just sitting back, waiting for the world to end. Have a nice day."
Caller: "Hey, what's the truth about the Mayan apocalypse?
NASA: "Yes, sir. The planets are all going to line up with the stars and that will cause the earth to capsize just like Guam did. A lot of people will fall off. The lucky ones will land on Mars or the moon, but most of us will just fall away into space. Thank you for calling."
See what fun that could be? All the stupid people will panic and, oh, I don't know, do something stupid, but if we all just kinda let them, we'll weed out all the idiots, and the rest of us will be able to make a go of things.
If only the Mayans had predicted this would happen before the November election.


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On Sunday, Desperate Paws of Orange County held Howling Halloween in the Park at the Fountain Valley Sports Park. According to organizers, about 900 people attended, with an even mix of dogs and children.
Stephen Terry, the founder of Desperate Paws, said the food drive for the Fountain Valley Community Foundation filled two large boxes, and the Pet Food Drive for O.C. Animal Care received about 600 pounds of dry dog and cat food for shelter pets.
"Everyone had lots of fun, and we wish to thank the city of Fountain Valley for their support of this event and for being so dog-friendly in their city," Terry said.
"We also wish to thank everyone who attended as well as the exhibitors and sponsors. Without their support none of this would have been possible."
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List of Americans Abroad
Spector scores again, helps West Ham blank Barnsley 2-0 in FA Cup.
Onyewu appears headed to Dutch champ FC Twente from AC Milan.
Strange own goal undoes Howard, Everton in 1-1 draw with West Ham.
Clark, Cooper return to action for their clubs in Germany.
Holden drills home winner, lifting Bolton to 2-1 decision over Rovers.
Friedel's future is unclear as Villa searches for replacement.
Howard concedes bad PK, goal; Everton still draws 1-1 with Chelsea.
Friedel considers return to Columbus Crew as player-coach.
Spector's first two goals in six years lead West Ham to shocking rout of Man. U.
Dempsey assumes Fulham lead in goals, provides draw with Birmingham.
Riding the bench in Greece, Adu tries to find home in Denmark.
Holden's scores first EPL goal, adds assist in Bolton triumph.
Edu's goal before early exit gives Rangers 1-1 draw with Inverness.
With Edu in midfield, Rangers down Celtic to stay atop Premier League.
Neck injury to disable Bocanegra for at least three weeks.
Dempsey strike helps Fulham to another draw, 1-1 with West Ham.
Feilhaber's four goals (two winners) lead to pair of Aarhus victories.
Dempsey's first goal allows Fulham to draw 1-1 with Rovers.
Howard helps Everton pick up surprise point from Manchester United.
Villa beats Everton; Friedel bests Howard in meeting of American keepers.
Hahnemann, Howard meet; Everton, Wolves draw 1-1.
Altidore scores for Villareal, hopes it's his ticket to stay.
Adu is looking for team after Benfica cuts him loose.
Bocanegra moves across France to Saint Etienne.
Americans Abroad
(Thursday, January 20, 2011) -- United States midfielder Maurice Edu scored his second goal of the season for Glasgow Rangers in their easy 4-0 victory over Hamilton Academical Saturday in the Scottish Premier League.
Edu is still trying to regain match fitness after a month-long absence after taking a blow to his surgically-repaired left knee. He again did not start against Hamilton, but came off the bench in the 64th minute. Twenty minutes later, he controlled a long throw-in just outside the right side of the penalty area. Edu cut sharply to his left to get clear of a defender and fired a hard shot just inside the near post for Rangers final goal.
Yesterday, Edu came off the bench for a short 10-minute appearance in Rangers' 1-0 triumph over Inverness. The match was a make-up of a match previously postponed because of poor field conditions.
Yesterday, the Durch Eredivisie season resumed and U.S. defender Oguchi Onyewu played in his first league match for his new club FC Twente. He went the 90 minutes on the left side of central defense and his team moved within one point of first place PSV Eindhoven with an easy 5-0 thrashing of visiting Heracles Almelo.
Marc Janko scored four times for Twente.
Last weekend, Onyewu made his presence immediately felt when he scored the tying goal with a header off a corner kick in a 2-2 draw in a friendly against Sportfreunde Lotte, which competes in Germany's third-division Regionalliga West.
Onyewu, who joined Twente on loan from Italian power AC Milan, played 90 minutes as he seeks to regain match fitness. Reportedly, under the terms of Twente's agreement with Milan, the Dutch club has the option of buying Onyewu's contract after the season.
In the English Premier League Sunday, U.S goalkeeper Tim Howard was having a terrific match before making the mistake that coast his team a victory in an eventual 2-2 draw with host Liverpool.
In the 68th minute with Everton ahead 2-1, Howard took down Maxi Rodriguez during a scramble in the box and a penalty kick was awarded. Dirk Kuyt converted giving Liverpool the tie.
Howard ended the day with nine saves.
American keeper Brad Friedel was again sharp, making two saves for visiting Aston Villa, which drew 1-1 Sunday with Birmingham City.
American defender Eric Lichaj did not dress for Villa.
American Clint Dempsey went the distance as the lone striker for Fulham Saturday and assisted on the Cottagers' only goal late in a 1-1 draw with Wigan Athletic.
In the 85th minute, Dempsey found second-half substitute Andrew Johnson, whose strike took a deflection off Steven Caldwell and goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi's hand before bouncing into the net. Earlier Dempsey looked to have scored, but the goal was disallowed with Dempsey ruled to have handled the ball before the shot. In addition, he had a scissors-kick diverted just wide.
U.S. striker Eddie Johnson did not dress for Fulham.
U.S. defender Jonathan Spector went the distance for West Ham United in its 3-0 loss Saturday to Arsenal.
The setback looks to have cost manager Avram Grant his job and, according to media reports, Martin O'Neill is ready to step in. Grant had been using Spector in the midfield and it's unclear how he will fare under O'Neill.
U.S. midfielder Stuart Holden started and played 84 minutes for Bolton Wanderers, who dropped a 2-0 decision to Stoke City on Saturday.
American Marcus Hahnemann was back in goal for Wolverhampton Wanderers for a 5-0 win over Doncaster Rovers of the second-tier Leaguer Championship in a third-round FA Cup match on Tuesday. On Saturday, Hahnemann was on the bench as his replacement, Wayne Hennessey, looked anything but sharp in a 4-3 loss to Manchester City in a Premier League match.
In the second-division League Championship, American Brad Guzan was in goal for Hull City and earned a clean sheet with three saves in a 2-0 victory Saturday over Barnsley.
American defender Zak Whitbread played 90 minutes for Norwich City in its 1-1 draw Saturday with Cardiff City.
U.S. striker Robbie Findley did not dress for Nottingham Forest in a 2-1 win over Portsmouth on Saturday. His move to the Championship from Major League Soccer is now official after Forest won a work permit for him from an appeal panel.
Forest coach Billy Davies says he will target American soccer players for future signings after inking Findley.
"Americans have an excellent attitude and great athleticism," Davies told the Nottingham Post. "It is a very good market place for players. The ones I have dealt with have been top class. I just think the Americans are a vastly improving nation, when it comes to (soccer). I believe it is a good marketplace for players."
American forward Conor Doyle dressed, but did not play for Derby County, which fell 3-0 Saturday to Watford.
American striker Mike Grella did not dress for Leeds United which blanked Scunthorpe United 4-0 Saturday> Grella was in transit joining Motherwell of Scotland on loan.
Grella's contract belongs to Leeds, but he was on loan to Carlisle United, where he scored three goals in 11 appearances. He returned to Leeds when the Carlisle loan expired and was immediately sent to Motherwell.
In the third tier League One, American defender Frank Simek went the distance for Carlisle United, a 4-0 winner over Bristol Rovers on Saturday. Midweek, he played 90 minutes in Carlisle United's 4-0 decision over Huddersfield Town in a Johnstone's Paint Trophy match.
American midfielder Anton Peterlin dressed, but did not play for Plymouth Argyle, which fell 2-0 to Oldham Athletic on Saturday.
American striker Jemal Johnson and Milton Keynes Dons have parted company. He did not dress for a 2-0 victory Saturday over Tranmere Rovers. It was then announced his contract has been cancelled by mutual agreement.
In the German Bundesliga, U.S. midfielder Ricardo Clark made his second Bundesliga start for Eintracht Frankfurt, which lost 3-0 to Hannover 96, employer of American defender Steve Cherundolo.
Clark filled in as a center back for Frankfurt. Cherundolo went the distance for Hannover, which did not dress U.S. midfielder DaMarcus Beasley.
U.S. midfielder Michael Bradley came off the bench and played 19 minutes for Borussia Moenchengladbach, which edged 1. FC Nürnberg 1-0 Saturday.
It well might be the final match Bradley plays for Moenchengladbach. Sunderland of the English Premier League has made an offer for Bradley and the two sides are said to be negotiating a transfer fee. Bradley is one of Sunderland's replacement targets for captain Lee Cattermole, who is suffering from a back injury.
Bradley joined Gladbach from Heerenveen of the Netherlands in the summer of 2008, signing a four-year contract.
German-American midfielder Jermaine Jones' move from Schalke 04 is now official. Jones has completed a loan deal to Blackburn Rovers of the EPL.
American keeper Daniel Williams did not dress for SC Freiburg, which drew 2-2 Saturday with St Pauli.
In the 2.Bundesliga, American keeper David Yeldell had two saves for MSV Duisburg in its 4-1 victory Sunday over VfL Osnabruck.
American keeper Luis Robles also had a pair of saves for Karlsruhe, which drew 1-1 with SpVgg Greuther Furth on Friday.
American forward Edson Buddle's move to FC Ingolstadt 04 is now official, but he did not arrive in time for a 2-0 loss to FC Augsburg on Sunday.
American defender Amaechi Igwe, recovering from a knee injury, also was not available for Ingolstadt
American striker Kenny Cooper is on his way back to MLS from 1860 Munich. He signed with the expansion Portland Timbers yesterday.
In the meantime, Cooper's place on 1860's first team has been taken by another young American, U.S. under-20 men's forward Bobby Wood, who has been playing for 1860's reserves.
In France, U.S. defender Carlos Bocanegra played 90 minutes for St. Etienne in its 2-1 loss to Lens on Saturday.
American striker Charlie Davies is back training with the first team, but he did not dress in Sochaux's 2-1 loss Saturday to Paris Saint-Germain.
In Spain, Jozy Altidore received a rare start yesterday for Spanish power Villarreal, which was eliminated from the Copa Del Rey quarterfinals after a 3-0 loss to Sevilla. Altidore played 62 minutes as the left forward in a 4-3-3 attack, but made little impact in the match.
On Saturday, he dressed, but did not play in a 4-2 win over Osasuna.
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HOUSTON – It had been 319 scoreless minutes without Brad Davis on the field. But after just 16 minutes with him back in the mix, the Houston Dynamo finally returned to the score sheet.
Davis made his return Sunday in Houston's 1-1 draw with the visiting Portland Timbers and showed no ill effects after three games out with a right ankle sprain. The captain lined up in a three-man midfield as the club switched to a 4-3-3 formation and was a driving force in much of the positive play the Dynamo put together.
Davis also hit a perfectly weighted cross to wide open forward Will Bruin to give the Dynamo their first goal since April 5, a stretch that lasted 334 minutes before Davis helped leave it in the dust.
"You take that caliber of player, he's a national team player for a reason, and he comes back and it's a really big boost for us," goalkeeper Tally Hall said of Davis, who logged 79 minutes before he was subbed out. "There's no question about it, we're a better team with him on the field."
After three games watching his team struggle, it was a cathartic game for the World Cup hopeful.
"Everything felt good," Davis told MLSsoccer.com. "Happy to get 80 minutes, felt good to be back out there with my teammates and looking forward to continually progress to getting back. To be back on the field and contribute in a positive way always feels good."
Gauging Davis' impact was pretty simple business. And with the team in a tailspin, getting his technique and precision back in the lineup was notable, and the Dynamo looked better for it.
The attack was stronger, the passes were crisper and, most importantly, the scoreboard lit up with Davis' 104th career assist, fifth all-time in league history.
"He's a good player. During the run of play he wants the ball, he makes the right passes, obviously his cross to Will was very well taken," head coach Dominic Kinnear said. "So he was good, it's an easy question to answer. All of a sudden we're a better team when he's available for us."
Davis was not, the savior, however, as Houston still struggled to find the game-winner against a frustrated Timbers team winless through its first eight games this year. But in a game from which Davis and the Dynamo chose to take the positives after a rough week, having their World Cup hopeful back was a boost the club and player have waited to enjoy for nearly a month.
"I needed to get back and be healthy for [USMNT World Cup camp], but it starts here," Davis said. "If I wasn't ready to play this weekend, I wouldn't have played. Fortunately I was able to have a really good week and hopefully I'll be back, and obviously being back helps my chances getting into that camp."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com.


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An ailing Vietnam veteran from northeastern Pennsylvania says he's shocked someone could do something so low.
Police in Coal Township are investigating the theft of 70-year-old Martin Glover's wheelchair from in front of his home on Monday.
Glover had had his left leg amputated four years ago. The wheelchair theft occurred when he was at the hospital preparing for surgery to remove one of his toes.
He says he suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, Parkinson's disease and has a weak heart.
Glover says he has no idea why someone would want to steal his wheelchair.
The local Veterans Affairs Medical Center has promised to replace it.


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Book Report: This author shines as voice of a community
Novelist Toni Morrison has won the National Book Critics Circle, the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for her fiction.
Little wonder.
Her newest novel, "Home" (Alfred Knopf, $24.95) shows her at her best as a storyteller and one of the foremost interpreters of the negro experience in America.
Her story is about Frank Money and his kid sister Ycidra, whose family has been driven from Texas by white trash to a little black community, Lotus Georgia, where they bed down with grandmother Lenore and her husband Salem, an unemployable fellow who struck it rich because Lenore owns a used Ford.
Whites in the novel are not the only trashy ones, as sister Ycidra points out early in the novel.
"A mean grandmother is one of the worst things a girl could have. Mamas are supposed to spank and rule you so you grow up knowing right from wrong. Grandmothers, even when they've been hard on their own children, are forgiving and generous to their grandchildren. Ain't that so?
"Well, that's the way grandmothers should be, she thought, but for little Ycidra Money it wasn't like that at all. Because (her) mam and pap worked from before sunrise until dark, they never know that (grandmother) Lenore poured water instead of milk over the shredded wheat Ycidra and her brother ate for breakfast. Nor that when they had stripes and welts on their legs they were cautioned to lie, to say the got them by playing out by the stream where brambles and huckleberry thorns grew."
Her brother Frank hates the town and when he comes of age he and two of his pals enlist and go off to fight in the Korean War, leaving Ycidra to fend for herself. Of the three boys only Frank survives the nightmare of Korea and returns to the states swearing to never return to Lotus, carrying psychological baggage too heavy for him to tote. He makes his way to Chicago where he meets a new friend, Billy Watson at a diner for negroes.
Morrison shines in this episode because she creates conversational give-and-take, the badinage of black folks. The passage reminds me of stopping for gasoline at Kirkwood Anderson's Mobil in south Minneapolis and staying to listen to a brace of old black men, many of them retired Pullman porters, chew the fat for hours. Morrison likely heard the same conversations as a girl growing up in Lorain, Ohio. Here's how it goes:
"Watson. Billy Watson.'
"Frank Money"
"Where you from, Frank?"
"Aw, man. Korea, Kentucky, San Diego, Seattle, Georgia. Name it I'm from it."
"You looking to be from here too?"
"No. I'm headed on back to Georgia."
"Georgia?" the waitress shouted. "I got people in Macon. No good memories about that place. We hid in an abandoned house for half a year."
"Hid from what? White sheets?"
"Naw, the rent man."
"Same thing."
"Why him?"
"Oh, please. It was 1938."
Up and down the counter there was laughter, loud and knowing. Some began to compete with stories of their own deprived life in the thirties.
"Me and my brother slept in a freight car for a month."
"Where was it headed?"
"Away, was all we knew."
"You sleep in a coop the chickens wouldn't enter?"
"Aw, man, shut up. We lived in a ice house."
"Where was the ice?"
"We ate it."
"Get out!"
"I slept on so many floors, first time I saw a bed I thought it was a coffin."
So why is Frank breaking his oath and going back to Lotus, Georgia? Because he received a letter saying that his sister was dying as a result of her working as a secretary for a white M.D., who was using her as a guinea pig for his gynecological "inventions."
With the help of the old women in Lotus he saves Ycidra and along the way has an epiphany about a horrific episode in Korea that helps him exorcise the devils that have haunted him since his return.
In a final scene a healed Frank and a healed Ycidra perform a proper burial for the one murdered black man who refused to be forced out of Texas those many years ago.
Dave Wood is a past vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle and former book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Phone him at 715-426-9554.


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