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Amidst all of the bizarre characters introduced thus far for Platinum Games' online beat 'em Anarchy Reigns, Leo is by far the most human-looking. So it makes sense that he's a cyborg.
Standing at six feet, seven inches and weighing in at 164kg, Leo is a state-of-the-art cyborg with four limb-mounted "Positron Blades", perfect for whirling into battle like a pretty dancing princess. He should fit in quite nicely with the other maniacs, freaks, pimps, and somewhat lovely ladies doing battle on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 early next year.


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Well, you can add this to the Sports Signs of the Apocalypse, I suppose.
A Twinkie autographed by American League Cy Young Award winner David Price sold on ebay Saturday for $56 ($56?!?).
Let that digest for a second: A Twinkie sold for $56. I understand they're a hot commodity since Hostess shut down, but this is incredible, isn't it?
We did some serious investigating and followed a series of Twitter exchanges between Price and fans to get to the bottom of this story:
Tweet No. 1: Yea i signed it...gonna buy it RT @hagfish48: @DAVIDprice14 did you know there is a Twinkie signed by you in eBay? Seems weird!
Tweet No. 2: No...infants forehead with black sharpie RT @TholeMoley: @DAVIDprice14 Is a Twinkie the weirdest thing you've ever signed?
Tweet No. 3: Both parents were standing there ok'n it...trust me i felt weird...vu tailgate 08 RT @jonespiritu: @DAVIDprice14 Jesus man and you did it??
Tweet No. 4: No chance...ill save it and give it to my kids RT @robyounce: @DAVIDprice14 Are you gonna eat the Twinkie after you buy it? #hungry
Tweet No. 5: Live auction at my banquet RT @MFedor1231: @DAVIDprice14 out of curiosity, why the heck did the person want a Twinkie signed? Just to sell?
I feel like I know so much more about David Price now. What just happened?


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The book is dedicated to Romanian artist Geta Brătescu, one of the most remarkable personalities of the Eastern European postwar avant-garde. The main part of the publication comprises visual materials and texts written by the artist that span several decades of her activity, outlining the exceptional manner in which she has appropriated the lesson of modernism and interrelated it with conceptual challenges. Brătescu focuses on the artistic process, advancing a multidisciplinary approach by using various media: film, happening, tapestry, engraving, collage, objects, and text. The book comes as a result of long-term research conducted in the artist's archive. It contains theoretical contributions that track the multilayered dialectics of Brătescu's work: from the remarkable conceptualization of the act of drawing to the crucial role advocated by the studio, from the preoccupation with self-representation and seriality to the subtle diffusion of theatricality in her work.
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Faculty Development Resources
The faculty development resources section provides ideas on how to use case stories, summaries of archived blogs, examples of dissemination, and tools for evaluating the impact of case stories.
- How are Case Stories Used?
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How are Case Stories Used?
Wondering how you can use ELIXR Digital Case Stories in your faculty development efforts?
For use in Face-to Face Faculty Development Workshops:
- Cases can be previewed prior to a workshop.
- Facilitator can show a case story to demonstrate a point and/or lead into an exercise. More detailed ideas can be found in the First Day of Class link.
- Facilitator can have participants get into groups and have each group review a case story and respond to questions. Cases can serve as examples of a pedagogical approach during a consultation.
- Links to cases can be provided in workshop materials as a suggested resource.
- Cases can be used prior to a consultation with a faculty member for preview, during a consultation to demonstrate a strategy in action and share the resource, or after a consultation for review.
Other ideas includes:
- New faculty can be sent links to key case stories to prepare them for New Faculty Orientation.
- Cases can be sent to faculty as orientation for new ventures. For example, an orientation to a Faculty Learning Community could begin by pointing faculty to the case story from Sonoma State University (Ayala, 2007) on this topic.
- Cases can be integrated into an online workshop. More detailed ideas can be found in the First Day of Class link. Individual faculty can also access the MERLOT case stories online via a discipline teaching portal. This self-pacing option may be particularly attractive to adjunct and part-time faculty. Post your own ideas to the Digital Case Stories for Faculty Development article on WikiPODia.
Universal Design for Learning Blog– Access a range of resources related to applying UDL to teaching, learning, and faculty development.
Summary of First Day of Class Blog– Read reflections from faculty developers about how they have integrated First Day of Class stories into a variety of different types of workshops.
Key Presentations
2009 Professional Organizational Development (POD) Network Conference, Houston, Texas
Evaluation Tools
The ELIXR evaluation focuses on the quality and use of the case stories, and the outcomes and impact of the use of case stories in faculty development.
The outcomes and impact of the case stories in faculty development focuses on three dimensions:
- participation in workshops, seminars and so forth,
- faculty learning and
- changes in teaching and learning that result from faculty learning.
Although the formal evaluation of the ELIXR project is complete, ELIXR's evaluation tools can be freely used when evaluating the outcomes and impacts of the case stories.
- The Level I Workshop Evaluation Form, helps gauge your participants' impressions, the success of the workshops and the value of the case studies. This evaluation form is fairly standard and you may find it similar to one you already use.
- The Level II workshop evaluation tools are designed to help you extend what you learn from the Workshop Evaluation Form used in Level I. The focus at this level is on faculty learning. By using a pre-workshop survey you can identify what your participants know about the workshop topic prior to participation and a post-workshop survey you can determine what participant's did with the knowledge they gained by attending the workshop. The pre and post survey forms have been tailored to meet the learning outcomes associated with each case story as well as those of your workshop. These forms are used in conjunction with the Workshop Evaluation Form.
Major Publications
- Using Multimedia Case Stories of Exemplary Teaching for Faculty Development, finalized chapter submitted To Improve the Academy Journal, February 2010
- Sharing Innovations in STEM Education Through Digital Stories: a case study in Organic Chemistry, finalized chapter submitted to Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research
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Find engaging resources on best teaching practices on specific topics.
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) – See examples of professors embracing the principles of UDL and
- First Day of Class – See faculty from a variety of disciplines share and achieve their goals for an effective First Day of Class and along with a quick summary of six goals that set the stage for the first class meeting.


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FILE - This Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 file photo shows a portrait of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in jail, which is held by his mother Nataliya Magnitskaya, unseen, as she speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow. Russia is preparing to put lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial, even though he is dead, in the latest twist in a case that has severely strained U.S.- Russian relations. Magnitsky, a lawyer for the Hermitage Capital fund, died in jail in 2009 after accusing Russian officials of colluding in stealing $230 million from the state. He was arrested on suspicion of tax evasion by the same Interior Ministry officials he accused. A Moscow court on Monday Jan. 28, 2012 set preliminary hearings in the posthumous trial for Feb. 18. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is preparing to put lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial, even though he died in 2009, an unusual twist in a case that has become a byword for Russian corruption and severely strained U.S. relations with Moscow.
Russia's top court ruled in August 2011 that posthumous trials are allowed, with the intention of letting relatives clear their loved ones' names. In Magnitsky's case, family members say they don't want another trial, yet prosecutors re-filed charges anyway.
The move has outraged human rights groups who see the whistleblower's situation as indicative of the rampant judicial abuse, skyrocketing graft, and blurred boundaries between the state and organized crime that have plagued Russia under President Vladimir Putin.
"The trial of a deceased person and the forcible involvement of his relatives is a dangerous precedent that would open a whole new chapter in Russia's worsening human rights record," Amnesty International said in a recent statement.
Magnitsky drew controversy in 2008 after claiming that an organized crime group colluded with corrupt Interior Ministry officials to claim a $230 million tax rebate through illegally obtained subsidiaries of Hermitage Capital Management, the company of Magnitsky's then-client, London-based investor William Browder.
Those same officials had him arrested and placed in pre-trial detention. Magnitsky and Browder were accused of evading $16.8 million in taxes.
A year later, the 37-year-old Magnitsky died in jail of pancreatitis, after what supporters claim was systematic torture. Russia's presidential human rights council found in July 2011 that Magnitsky had been repeatedly beaten and deliberately denied medical treatment.
A Moscow court on Monday set preliminary hearings in the case for Feb. 18. Magnitsky's mother, Nataliya Magnitskaya, said she had no faith the officials who she believes are complicit in her son's death could give him a fair trial.
"What are they going to say? 'We're guilty and we should be punished?' It's obvious what's going to happen," she said. "They just want a conviction. Maybe they'll change the venue to the cemetery and try Sergei there."
The Russian court ruling allowing posthumous trials came after an appeal by the family of an obstetrician who was killed in a collision with a car of a top oil company executive. Prosecutors reopened Magnitsky's case just days after the 2011 ruling. His mother has since filed 25 appeals asking for the case to be closed.
Browder is being tried in absentia; he has not been to Russia since he was banned from entering the country in 2005.
"To try a dead man is beyond evil," Browder told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday. "This is a politically directed prosecution — Putin and (Prime Minister Dmitry) Medvedev have both directed, have sent the instructions for the outcome of this case."
Russia's troubled criminal justice system has a long history of staging grandiose, politically motivated trials aimed at sending a message to opponents of the state. Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union saw numerous show trials of top officials, many of which ended with summary executions.
In modern Russia, vaguely defined charges of "economic crimes" are frequently used to seize assets and silence political opponents such as former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. One in six Russian businessmen have been accused of "economic crimes" since 2002, according to the country's business ombudsman.
Browder has used a website, Russian Untouchables, to post material that allegedly shows the officials accused by Magnitsky became substantially wealthier after the tax rebate, spending vastly in excess of their meager official salaries on international travel, luxury cars, and prime real estate in Dubai. The Russian officials deny any wrongdoing.
Officials in Switzerland, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are attempting to trace portions of the $230 million rebate to banks in those countries.
Putting Magnitsky on trial posthumously underscores the Kremlin's defiance amid growing international concern over Russia's human rights record and corruption.
Last December, tensions between the U.S. and Russia flared when Congress passed a law named after Magnitsky sanctioning officials Browder accuses of involvement in the fraud. Browder says he hopes the European Union will pass its own Magnitsky act by the end of the year.
Russia responded to the U.S. law by banning adoptions of Russian children by Americans and dropping charges against a prison doctor on trial for negligence in Magnitsky's death.
Putin at that time said that Magnitsky died of a heart attack and accused Browder of politicizing his death to distract from his own crimes. The Russian president has decried the Magnitsky law as an "anti-Russian" attempt by Congress to impose America's will on Russia's sovereignty.
"Why does one country think it has the right to spread its jurisdiction all over the world?" he asked during a news conference in December.


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We've seen washable mouses and mouses you don't need to wash before, but have you ever thought of possibly washing yourself with a mouse?
This soap from a Taiwan retailer is for people who can't bear to leave their computer peripherals behind... even in the shower. It's only $5.75 to alert all your roommates to your creepy mouse infatuation. [Zakka]


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Before the passage of the Homestead Act, it was nearly impossible for middle or lower class women to acquire land. They had few opportunities for employment and consequently little ability to accumulate the money necessary for buying land. Under the Homestead Act, however, unmarried, widowed or divorced women could claim homestead land as head of a household. By making land affordable the Homestead Act gave some women, like Adeline Hornbek, the chance to gain financial independence. A single mother of four, Adeline Hornbek defied traditional gender roles to become the owner of a prosperous ranch in Colorado's Florissant Valley.


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First tip: Don't come to Seattle right now.
The rainiest March on record just ended, and April started just as wet.
Seattle gets less rainfall overall than New York and Washington D.C., as any local will tell you. But there's no use denying it: the rain takes longer to come down, and that means a lot of wet and dreary days.
Come back between late June and mid-September, when Rain City blooms into the Emerald City and green leaves, blue lakes and white-capped mountains shimmer through the long, dry, sunny days.
Protected by mountains on three sides and cooled by blasts of fresh ocean air, the capital of the Pacific Northwest is a summer haven for book readers, coffee-drinkers and outdoor adventurers who don't want to stray too far from a good dinner. (Map: http://goo.gl/maps/U0OST)
The metro region of 3.5 million and climbing was built on salmon, logs and outfitting Yukon Gold Rush prospectors, but it went on to launch more than its fair share of world changers, from Bill Boeing and Bill Gates to Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana.
The home of Macklemore, the Super Bowl champion Seahawks and freshly legal marijuana is riding high in 2014. Each of these appears to have loosened the locals' famous reserve, making this summer an ideal time to visit.
Here are tips for getting the most out of a trip to Seattle from Reuters, whose 2,600 journalists in all parts of the world offer visitors the best local insights.
Seattle's emblematic Space Needle, the flying saucer on legs a mile north of downtown, was built for the space-crazed 1962 World's Fair.
The old-fashionedly futuristic structure is not worth a postcard, but the view from the 520-foot (159-meter) high observation deck is. On a clear day the 360-degree panorama is the best way to take in Seattle's topography and marvel at the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges to the east and west, respectively, and the mammoth Mount Rainier to the south. (http://www.spaceneedle.com/home/)
In the center of town, Pike Place Market - built in 1907 and almost torn down in the 1960s - is the blueprint for the farmers markets springing up across the country. The noisy fish throwers cater chiefly to the dense packs of tourists, but the local produce is excellent, especially in summer as plums, cherries and apricots ripen. (http://www.pikeplacemarket.org/)
A few minutes' walk down the steps from the market sits the Seattle Great Wheel, a smaller version of the London Eye, swooping over the Alaskan Way waterfront where cruise ships and local ferries chug by. Go at dusk on a clear summer evening - after 9 p.m. for most of June and July - and try not to weep at the orange-purple sunset behind the Olympic Mountains. (https://seattlegreatwheel.com/)
If you have kids or want to buck Seattle's famously indifferent welcome to strangers, try Ride the Ducks for an amphibious sightseeing tour set to a cheesy pop soundtrack and enforced hilarity. Just remember the locals will hate you. (http://www.ridetheducksofseattle.com/)
If you have a spare day and a car, drive two hours south to see 14,410-foot- (4,392-meter-) high Mount Rainier up close, where glaciers descend all the way to touch meadows raging with wildflowers. Sunrise Visitor Center at 6,400 feet is as high as the road goes, but only open July to early September in the brief window between snows. (http://www.nps.gov/mora/planyourvisit/sunrise.htm)
And don't forget to load up on outdoor gear, just in case it does rain, or you decide to scale Rainier, at the flagship REI store in South Lake Union with its own 65-foot (20-meter) indoor climbing wall (http://www.rei.com/).
Water defines Seattle, from the salty Puget Sound to the west and the fresh Lake Washington to the east, joined by two canals that meet in Lake Union by the city's center.
The best way to get to know Seattle is to take a walk or ride a bike along one of these waterfronts. The shortest option, and closest to downtown, is to follow Alaskan Way north until you hit the Olympic Sculpture Park (http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/visit/osp/).
For a longer outing, the 6.2-mile Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop takes a twisting route around the lake, past rows of picturesque houseboats, made famous in the film "Sleepless in Seattle", and the surreal Gas Works Park, a former gasification plant turned into a park with the perfect grassy knoll to view the city skyline and watch boats bob by. (http://www.seattle.gov/parks/lakeunionloop/)
The 27-mile (43-km) Burke-Gilman trail, created from a no longer used railway track, offers an even better introduction to the city for the dedicated hiker or cyclist, running along the west side of Lake Washington, through the University District, past Gas Works Park, and along the ship canal through the newly fashionable neighborhoods of Fremont and Ballard to Golden Gardens, the closest thing Seattle has to a beach.
Locals light fires and watch the sun go down there. But remember this is not Florida and bring the fleece you just bought at REI, as it drops 10 degrees as soon as the sun is out of sight. (http://www.seattle.gov/parks/park_detail.asp?ID=243)
Seattle punches above its weight in food and drink with a thriving local-source, make-it-yourself ethos.
The city deserves its reputation as a coffee Mecca, and not just because Seattle's King County is the world's most densely Starbucked region, including the original shop in Pike Place Market.
You are never more than a few minutes from an espresso stand or excellent cafe. Espresso Vivace, Victrola Coffee Roasters and Caffe Fiore each have elegant locations dotted around the city. Use your smartphone to find the nearest one to you.
Microbreweries are out of control in Seattle, and new ones seem to spring up almost every week in the northwest suburbs of Fremont and Ballard or the swiftly gentrifying Sodo and Georgetown neighborhoods to the south.
Dozens are located within a few paces of the Burke-Gilman trail - which one wag renamed the Burp-Gilman - so you can put together a very refreshing ride or walk. Some of the best are: Fremont Brewing Co in Fremont, Hilliard's Beer in Ballard and Schooner Exact in Sodo.
For the main course there is salmon, oyster and crab. Seattle is still a working fishing port and tons of fresh catch come in every week.
Great seafood restaurants are sprinkled throughout the city but a few on the water make the occasion a spectacle. Ray's Boathouse sits next to Ballard Locks, where saltwater meets fresh. Sit on the back deck on a summer evening and you may see a seal or two gliding in the serene water as the sun fades. (http://www.rays.com/)
Oysters and clams are easy to come by on the tourist strip along Alaskan Way, but connoisseurs head for Ballard's tiny but chic Walrus and Carpenter (http://thewalrusbar.com/). Take a tour of the dozens of bars lining Ballard Avenue while you wait for the call. On Sundays, the same strip becomes one of the world's best farmers markets.
When the sun goes down, head for Capitol Hill, the city's long-standing cultural and hedonistic lodestone. Gentrification means it's not as gay or bohemian as it once was, but the Pike/Pine corridor, as it's called, still pulsates with a seedy glamour on a long summer night.
Consult free local paper The Stranger for listings. There's almost always a good indie band on at Neumos (http://neumos.com/venue/neumos/)
or Barboza next-door on Pike.
Other music venues to check out are The Crocodile in Belltown, where Nirvana exploded onto the mainstream in the early 1990s and the Tractor Tavern in Ballard, which specializes in lesser-known, blues and country-oriented acts. (http://www.tractortavern.com/)
If you want quiet, The Stranger holds a Silent-Reading Party every first Wednesday of the month at the Sorrento Hotel in First Hill, a uniquely surreal and Seattle event.
The story of Seattle's growth from a rough-and-tumble logging town to one of the world's tech hubs starts at the city's birthplace in Pioneer Square - site of the original "Skid Row" - a mile south of downtown.
Bill Speidel's Seattle Underground Tour (https://www.undergroundtour.com/)
threads its way through the passages and tunnels created when the timber-mill town rebuilt itself one story higher up after the great fire of 1889.
Seattle's modern-day story takes off with William Boeing, who in 1916 turned his Lake Union boatyard into a seaplane factory. That building, called the "Red Barn," is now part of the Museum of Flight (http://www.museumofflight.org/about) next to Boeing Field airport, 8 miles south of Seattle.
Microsoft Corp is no longer the world's most valuable company, but Bill Gates is still the richest person and a global icon of the technology age. He and schoolfriend Paul Allen moved their tiny software start-up from Albuquerque to their hometown in 1979 and they've been pumping money into the city, directly and indirectly, ever since.
The story of the personal computer revolution, which Gates, Allen and Apple Inc's Steve Jobs did so much to create, is faithfully told at Allen's Living Computer Museum south of downtown, which has lovingly restored all manner of old computers, from a hulking IBM mainframe to early Apple Macs. (http://livingcomputermuseum.org/)
Today, Amazon.com is the fastest growing technology company in Seattle, if not the world. Take a walk through South Lake Union, a previously dingy quarter rebuilt in the last decade by Allen's investment vehicle, to see the young Amazonians hustle between buildings and the growing fleet of food trucks catering to them, as they design your future.
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Worcester's Edwin "La Bomba" Rodriguez remained undefeated and fought his way into July's final of the "Monte Carlo Million Dollar Super Four" with a lopsided 10-round decision over Ezequiel Maderna on Saturday at Le Casino de Monte Carlo.
Rodriguez (23-0-0, 15 knockouts) knocked down Maderna in the ninth round, but had two points deducted from his score -- one for a low blow in Round 8 and another for a punch to the back of Maderna's head earlier in Round 9.
Still, the 27-year-old Rodriguez won on all three judges' scorecards, 96-92, 96-92 and 95-92. The Sunday Telegram scored it 96-91.
Rodriguez will face light heavyweight Denis Grachev in the $1 million final on July 13 in Monte Carlo, with the winner getting 60 percent.
Grachev won a 10-round split decision over previously undefeated Zsolt Erdei in the other semifinal, which was held first.


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No, I don't mean illegal drugs. I mean over-the-counter & prescription drugs. It just dawned on me today that I have never really blogged on gluten-free things other than food. In addition to making sure food is gluten-free, Celiacs/gluten intolerant individuals also need to check any medications that they may take orally. IV drugs don't need to be gluten-free, as they don't go through your digestive system. Cosmetics are another whole category of items that need to be checked for their gluten-free status. I am currently working on a post for cosmetics now, too.
There is one great website for gluten-free drug information. This site is run & maintained by a clinical pharmacist as a public service. I have found this site to be very useful over the past several years since I have been gluten-free. There are some newer medications that aren't on the list yet and some generics as well.
Walgreen's will print a list of all of their Walgreen Brand gluten-free drugs for you. Just go to the pharmacy & ask them for it. It is very nice to keep on hand. One nice thing I found at Walgreen's – their brand of Tum's/antacid is listed as gluten -free and the Tum's brand contains gluten.
Meijer (for those in the Mid-West) has a list of their brand name gluten-free medications (and food too) online. It is fairly extensive. I take their generic brand of Motrin/Advil & Tylenol. Much cheaper, gluten-free and works well.
Some prescription drugs that we have used in the past year that I can tell you are gluten-free are: Singulair (5 mg. chewables), Lexapro, Ambien CR, Fluticasone – made by Hi-tech Pharmaceuticals (generic for Flonase).
Make sure to check your medications periodically as ingredients and/or suppliers can change.
Check out my latest article on The Examiner about the upcoming Celiac Conference here in Columbus in November.
Hope you all are having a nice weekend! GO BUCKEYES!!! (Sorry, I couldn't help myself!)
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We welcome you to Little Hills Christmas Tree Farm! Spend some time on our website to discover how we can become a part of your Christmas traditions, year after year.
For over 30 years, countless families have begun their season of celebrating with a visit to Little Hills Christmas Tree Farm. It's a rare opportunity for busy families to immerse themselves in a day filled with fun, fresh air and the simplest holiday joys. Choosing and cutting your own fresh tree or choosing a fresh cut fir from a beautiful selection engages your entire family in an experience that delights the senses, and helps each person get in touch with the magic of Christmas spirit.
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Afghanistan became President Obama's war on Tuesday, when he ordered two more U.S. combat brigades into the fight. He will send 17,000 combat troops to join the 36,000-strong U.S. force already in the theater. The fact that the units now ordered to Afghanistan had originally been slated for Iraq underscores the new Administration's shift in priorities.
The reinforcements include about 8,000 Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., who should be in Afghanistan by late spring, and a 4,000-strong Army brigade from Fort Lewis, Wash., which should arrive in the summer. Those units will be joined by about 5,000 more Army "enablers" to provide logistical support. (See images of Afghanistan's mean streets)
The White House announcement took subtle shots at the priorities of the Bush Administration, stressing that the request from U.S. commanders in Afghanistan for the additional troops was "months old". President Obama's written statement explained, "This increase is necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires." (See photos of "Pakistan's Vulnerable North-West Passage".)
If Army General David McKiernan, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, gets his way, the total increase over the coming year will be 30,000. McKiernan has said he needs to beef up U.S. forces in Afghanistan to roll back a growing Taliban insurgency, especially before the presidential election currently slated for August. Indeed, U.S. officials say they have only 40% of the American officers needed to train the Afghan army to take over security duties at some point in the future But sending any additional troops to Afghanistan would require reducing U.S. troop levels in Iraq, and Obama has ordered a review of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan before committing to further reinforcements. Defense Secretary Robert Gates explained last week that the units ordered to Afghanistan on Tuesday had to be given their marching orders before the Administration's strategy review could be completed because of the pressing need for reinforcements.
See pictures of British soldiers in Afghanistan.)
Obama is keenly aware of the limitations on what his reinforcements can achieve. "I am absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region solely through military means," he told an interviewer on Tuesday. But more troops are needed simply to arrest and begin to reverse a perilous slide in NATO's fortunes in Afghanistan. (See "Hidden Afghanistan".)
With the Taliban growing in confidence and feeling the wind at its back, the bad news out of Afghanistan just keeps getting worse for the U.S. NATO commanders have long expressed frustration at the failure of the Pakistani military to prevent Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters maintaining sanctuaries in Pakistan from which they can launch attacks inside Afghanistan. But Pakistan's announcement on Monday of a peace agreement to accommodate the domestic Taliban insurgency in the Swat Valley suggests that an all-out war against militants on their soil is not what Pakistan's generals have in mind. And the supply lines that funnel food, fuel and war materiel to U.S. forces in Afghanistan, already imperiled by militant attacks in Pakistan, may face a further setback this week when the parliament in Kyrgyzstan votes on whether or not to kick the U.S. out of the Manas airbase, which has played a key role in air support in Afghanistan. The U.N. just announced that 2,118 civilians died in fighting in Afghanistan in 2008, a 40% hike as the war grows ever more bloody. And, last week, the Taliban "welcomed" U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke to Kabul by launching an audacious terror attack on three government buildings in the capital, leaving 26 people dead.
Having watched rival armies fight their way back and forth across the country for the past 30 years since the Soviets invaded, Afghans have become adept at accommodating themselves with the likely winner at any given moment. Right now, the trends are not moving in Washington's favor, and that fact is recognized by the Afghan citizenry. "There's been a major shift towards acceptance of the Taliban," military scholar Anthony Cordesman told a congressional panel last week. He noted that polling in Afghanistan shows "the number of people who feel the United States has performed well in Afghanistan has been cut in half in the last three years," from 68% in 2005 to 32% now.
Hardly an auspicious moment, then, for Obama to put his stamp on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, but a commander-in-chief doesn't always have the luxury of choice. As a senator, Obama had criticized the "surge" of nearly 30,000 additional U.S. troops into Iraq two years ago. Now, as commander in chief, he has begun ordering what may turn out to be a similar increase into Afghanistan. Of course, he had maintained on the campaign trail that Afghanistan, not Iraq, was the "right" place to wage war on terror, but his strategy review reflects the fact that many have begun to question the goals and focus of the U.S. mission there.
Obama began his terse statement Tuesday by acknowledging that "there is no more solemn duty as President than the decision to deploy our armed forces into harm's way." He has been personally writing letters to the families of each U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, hand signing them "Barack." Such letters no doubt will become more difficult to write in the months ahead, when the casualties begin to include some of those he ordered into combat.


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Philadelphia Phillies – Year 2: Trying to become a first division team.
In 1884, with Harry Wright, the future Hall of Fame manager, as the ballclub's third manager, Reach and Rodgers would try to put together a team that they hope would become a better contender for the National League pennant than was the previous year's team. Among the changes made would be a change in the team's nickname, as the Quakers would now be known as the Philadelphias, following the naming convention of the time. The local sports writers would later shorten the team's nickname down to the Phillies, which is today the longest used team nickname in American sports history. But, the local sports writers would continue to call the ballclub the Quakers in their reporting on the team, officially until 1890, using the two names interchangeably, and unofficially into the first couple of decades of the 20th century.
The Harry Wright-led Phillies would face in 1884 the same seven teams that they had faced the previous season: Boston, Providence, New York, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago. Their home ball park would remain Recreation Park.
The Phillies would begin the 1884 season as they have begun the disastrous 1883 season, in May, with a home stand. But, unlike the previous season, the Phillies would be involved in a twenty-one-games home stand, facing the Wolverines for two games, the White Stockings for four games, the Bisons for two games, the Blues for two games, then another two-games series with the Bisons, followed by a second two-games series with the Blues, two games with the Beaneaters, two games with the Grays, a second two-games series with Boston and finally a single game series with the Grays. The Phillies' home opener with the Wolverines would see the Phillies win their first opening day game in the club's history, as they pounded Detroit, 13-2. After winning the second game in their short series with the Wolverines, the team would win their third game in a row as they would beat the White Stockings in a close game, 9-8. The Phillies, after starting the season off on such a high note, would go back to their losing ways as they would lose their next three games with the White Stockings, followed by a lost to the Bisons, 9-7. After winning their next two games and then splitting the next four games of their home stand, the Phillies would find themselves mired in a long seven games losing streak, which would include seeing them being shut out three times, including a 13-0 defeat at the hands of the Beaneaters, before they would defeat the Grays in the final game of their long home stand, 4-3. Leaving Philadelphia with a record of 8-13, they would begin their first road trip of the season, a trip along the eastern seaboard, where they would face both the Beaneaters and the Grays for two two-games series, before ending the road trip with a two-games series against the Gothams in New York. Their first two two-games series against the Beaneaters and the Grays, which would include a doubleheader that was played first in Boston with the Beaneaters and then in Providence with the Grays on May 30, would see the Phillies end up losing all four games, thus ending the month of May with a losing record of 8-17.
June would begin just as badly for the Phils as May has just ended, as they would lose the two games of their second two-games series with Boston and then lose the first game of their second two-games series with the Grays, 4-0, before they would finally win their first road game of the year, a close 9-8 victory over the Grays. The Phillies would then start an eight-games series with the Gothams, that would include two two-games series in Philadelphia, as well as a second two-games series in New York. After losing the first two games in New York, thus ending their first road trip of the year with a 1-9 record, the Phillies would begin the first of their two two-games series with the Gothams in Philadelphia. The eight-games series between these two future rivals would see the Phillies playing the Gothams as competitively as they could, but when the eight-games series was over, the Phillies would leave Philadelphia having lost the series 3-5, although winning the second of the two-games series played in New York and splitting the second two-games series in Philadelphia. The Phillies would then begin their second major road trip of the year with a single game against the Grays, followed by a two-games series with the Beaneaters, then a second single game series against the Grays, before heading to Cleveland for four games with the Blues, followed by a four-games series in Buffalo, then four games against the White Stockings and then four games with the Wolverines, before finally ending the road trip with two games against the Gothams, for a total of twenty-two games from mid-June to mid-July. After losing the first game in Providence and then splitting the series with the Beaneaters, the Phillies would then lose the second game in Providence, before going on to Cleveland and losing their series with the Blues, 1-3. The Phillies would then drop the series with the Bisons, also 1-3, thus ending the month of June with a 7-17 record for the month, while having a season record of 15-34.
The Philles would begin July losing their four-games series with the White Stockings, 1-3, including losing a July 4 doubleheader by the scores of 3-1 and 22-3, before splitting the four-games series with the Wolverines and then losing the two-games series with the Gothams, ending their long road trip with a 6-16 record. After losing a two-games series at home against the Gothams, the Phillies would play four single games series, facing first the Grays, then Boston, then Providence again and then the Beaneaters once more, before coming home for a long home stand. The Phillies would split the four games, 2-2, losing the first two and then winning the last two. Their next home stand would see the Phillies play two games with the Grays, then two games with the Beaneaters, followed by a single game against the Grays, then two more games with the Beaneaters, followed by another single game series with the Grays, before they would face the Gothams for the final two games of the home stand with their east coast opponents. The Phils would begin the home stand by first losing the two games with the Grays, then losing the two with the Beaneaters, the two teams that would once again be fighting it out for the National League pennant, thus ending July on another losing note, as they would end the month with a dismal 5-15 record, while their season record would now be at 20-49.
The Phillies would start August with their losing streak going to six games as their would lose their game with Providence and then their first game with the Beaneaters, before finally ending the streak with a 6-2 victory over Boston. After losing the next game with Providence, the Phillies would split their two games with the Gothams, thus ending the home stand with a 2-8 record, before the two teams would head on to New York for another two games series, which would also end up as a split series. The Phillies would then go back home to Philadelphia for another long home stand, this time against teams from the west, starting with a five-games series with the Blues, followed by a four-games series with the Bisons, then a six-games series with the Wolverines, and then, finally, a four-games series with the White Stockings, for a grand total of twenty-nine games from late-August to mid-September. The Phils would begin the home stand by losing the opener to the Blues, and then tying the second game on August 20, 9-9. They would then win the next three games with Cleveland, including a 20-1 pounding of the Blues, thus winning their first series since their July 23 single series game with Boston, going 3-1-1. They would then lose the series with the Bisons, going 1-3, ending August with a somewhat good record of 7-9-1 and with an overall season mark of 27-58-1.
The Phillies would start off September on a high note as they would win their six-games series with the Wolverines, going 4-2, before getting creamed in their four-games series with the White Stockings, losing by scores of 15-10, 16-6, 19-2 and 5-2, thus ending their long home stand with a somewhat respectible record of 8-10-1. The Phillies would then conduct their second and final western road trip, facing the Bisons, the Blues, the Wolverines and the White Stockings for four games each. The Phillies would start their series against Buffalo by losing the first three games, increasing their losing streak to seven games, before finally ending it with a 3-0 shut out of the Bisons on September 20. The Phillies would then embark on a winning streak of their own, defeating the Blues for four straight games and then winning their first game with the Wolverines, for a six games winning streak, as they would end their first winning month in the team's history by going 10-9, while increasing their season record to 37-67-1.
The Phillies would start October seeing their winning streak end as they lose to Detroit, 1-0, before going on to win their next two games, winning the series at 3-1. The Phillies would then go on to Chicago, where they would be swept in four games by the White Stockings. They would then come back home on October 15, to finish out the season by losing to the Grays, 8-0, ending the month with a 2-6 record and the season with a record of 39-73-1, with a winning percentage of .348.
In their second season of existance, the Phillies would end the year in sixth place, 23 games behind the fifth place White Stockings and 45 games behind the 1884 NL champions, the Providence Grays. The Phillies would end up playing sixteen ballgames with each of their opponents, except for the Blues, whom they would face in seventeen games. Their best season record would be with the Wolverines, against whom they would go 11-5, followed by the Blues at 10-6-1. They would have losing records with the rest of the league: Bisons and Gothams (5-11), Beaneaters and Grays (3-13) and White Stockings (2-14). The Phillies would go 3-13 in shut outs, 10-11 in 1-run games and 12-43 in blow outs. The Phillies would be 19-37-1 at home, while they would go 20-36 on the road, which would be improvements over their previous season's home/road record, as they would go 9-40-1 at home and 8-41 on the road. The team's home attendence for the year, at 100,475 fans, would be an increase over the team's 1883 attendence mark of 55,992 fans.
In 1884, the team would play in 113 games, with the batters ending the season with a team batting average of .234 (7th), a team slugging percentage of .272 (6th) and a team on-base percentage of .301 (7th). The team batted 3998 times (6th) and had 934 hits (6th), as they scored 549 runs (6th) of which 343 would be by RBIs. Of their 934 hits, the Phillies would have 149 2Bs (5th), 39 3Bs (8th) and 14 HRs (8th). Phillies batters would receive 209 walks (5th), while striking out 512 times (4th). Pitching wise, the Phillies pitchers would have a team ERA of 3.93 (8th), with 106 complete games (7th), of which only three were shut outs (7th), while seven other games would be completed by another pitcher. The pitchers would convert one save (3rd) during the season. In 981 innings pitched (8th), they would give up 1090 hits (7th) and 824 runs (8th), of which 428 were earned. They would give up 38 home runs (6th) and walked 254 batters (6th), while striking out 411 (8th). They also committed 126 wild pitches.
Among the team's batting leaders, Jack Manning would lead the team in batting average (.271), slugging percentage (.394), on-base percentage (.334), total bases (167), doubles (29), home runs (5), RBIs (52), walks (40), strikeouts (67) and extra-base hits (38), while Bill McClellan would lead the team in at-bats (450), total plate appearances (478), hits (116) and singles (98), Ed Andrews would lead in runs scored (74), Blondie Purcell would lead in triples (7), while McClellan and Sid Ferrar would be tied for most games played at 111. In pitching, Charlie Ferguson led the team in games pitched (50), games started (47), games finished (3), complete games (46), wins (21), loses (25), saves (1), shut outs (2), innings pitched (416.7) and strikeouts (194), while Bill Vinton would lead in ERA (2.23) and Jim McElroy in wild pitches (46).
Charlie Ferguson, in his first major league season, would become the first twenty-game winner in franchise's history with his 21 victories.
Harry Wright would continue as the Phillies' manager in 1885, as he continue to try to turn the team into a first division team in the eight team National League.
Sources: Wikipedia, Baseball Almanac.com, Baseball-Reference.com
Philadelphia Phillies – Year 1: Rejoining the National League and landing in the cellar.
In 1883, Philadelphia, along with New York, would rejoin the eight-teams National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or the National League, after the 1876 editions of both clubs, in the league's first season of existence, were both expelled by the league for their refusal to participate in a late season western cities road trip. The new Philadelphia team, nicknamed the Quakers, would be brought into existance by former professional ballplayer and sporting goods manufacturer Al Reach, and his partner, attorney John Rogers, after the two men had successfully won the franchise rights of the now defunct Worcester (Massachusetts) Brown Stockings (also known as the Ruby Legs), which has gone bankrupt in 1882. Reach would become the team's first president. The team's first manager would be Bob Ferguson, who was, like Reach, a former professional ballplayer, as well as the former manager of the Troy (New York) Trojans, another disbanded team, whose franchise right would be bought by the New York Gothams (later the New York/San Francisco Giants). The Quakers would play their home games out of Recreation Park, which was located in North Philadelphia between 23rd and 25th Streets and Ridge and Columbia (now Cecil B. Moore) Avenues.
The Phillies' opponents for its inaugural season, along with fellow newcomer, the New York Gothams, would be, by geographical order: Boston Beaneaters (1876 member); Providence (Rhode Island) Grays (1878 member); Buffalo (New York) Bisons (1879 member); Cleveland Blues (1879 member); Detroit Wolverines (1881 member) and Chicago White Stockings (1876 member). Of the other six teams, only Boston (now in Atlanta) and Chicago, along with the new teams from Philadelphia and New York (now in San Francisco), would still be playing in the National League.
The Quakers' first game, which was also their first home game, would be played on May 1, 1883 against the Providence Grays. The game would end up as a 4-3 lost to the Grays. The Phillies would then play two more games with the Grays, followed by a three game series at home with the Beaneaters, all loses, including two games in which the opposition would score twenty or more runs against the Quakers, a 24-6 thumping by the Grays on May 3 and a 20-8 defeat by the Beaneaters on May 7, ending the team's first home stand winless. After losing two straight games on the road to the White Stockings in Chicago, the Quakers would finally get the first victory in Phillies' history, a 12-1 victory on May 14 against the White Stockings, thus ending the first losing streak in Phillies' history at eight games. After winning their second victory over the Wolverines in Detroit, for the club's first winning streak, the Quakers would lose the next two games in the series, quickly followed by a two-game split with the Blues in Cleveland before they would lose their three games series against the Bisons in Buffalo, including the first game in which the Phillies would be unable to score a single run, losing 4-0 on May 25, before winning the last game in the series on May 28, 3-2, thus ending its first road trip at 4-7. But before their next home stand, the Quakers' manager, Ferguson, with a record of 4-13, would be fired by the owners, thus becoming the first Phillies manager to be let go. He would be quickly replaced by Blondie Purcell, a player on the Quakers', thus becoming the team's first player-manager. Sadly, the change in managers would not improve the team's fortunes, as they would begin their next home stand, on May 30, losing the team's first doubleheader, dropping both games to the White Stockings by the lopsided scores of 15-8 and 22-4. The team would then end their first month of existance by losing their third game in a row to the White Stockings by the score of 4-3, with a record for the month of 4-16.
June would begin just as badly for the Quakers as it would finish its first four game series by losing to the White Stockings 10-1. During the rest of the home stand, three more four games series with the Wolverines, Blues, and Bisons, the team would go 4-8, which would include the first game in which the Quakers would score 20 or more runs, a 20-4 drubbings of the Wolverines on June 6, which was also the team's first home victory, as well as the team's first shut out victory, a 2-0 win against the Bisons on June 14, ending the home stand at 4-12. The team would then go back on the road for two two-games series with the Beaneaters and the Grays and a single game series with the Gothams. The Quakers' bad fortune would continue as they would lose the first six games of that road trip, including a 29-4 shlacking by the Beaneaters on June 20, before finally gaining another road victory, the team's first shut out defeat of an opponent on the road, as they would defeat the Grays 4-0 on June 26, before losing the last two games of the road trip. The team would then come home to face the Gothams, losing the game 8-6, thus ending the month of June with a losing record of 5-18 and an overall record of 9-34, last in the league. Also in June, on the ninth, the NL would allow the Quakers to slash its ticket prices down to .25 cents, so that it would be able to compete with the more popular Philadelphia Athletics baseball club of the rival American Association, as the team's home attendence would increase because of the decrease in ticket price.
In July, things doesn't get any better for the ballclub, as the Quakers would lose two more games to the Gothams, the first one at Recreation Park, then the other in New York, before they begin a short four games home stand with the Grays and the Beaneaters. After winning a forfeit with the Grays (the actual score was 9-11 Grays) as the Grays had to leave town so that they could play a game with the Gothams in New York on that same day, the Quakers would get swept once again by the Beaneaters, including a game that they would play after the forfeited game with the Grays (both played on July 4). (The forefited game would also be the first series that the Phillies would win in the club's history.) The Quakers would then spend the rest of the month on another 'western' road trip, which would include a five games series (their first) with the Blues, and three straight four games series against the Bisons, the White Stockings and the Wolverines. By the time they finally limp back home on August 4 to face the Gothams, the road trip would be a complete disaster, as they would only win three games of the seventeen games road trip, thus ending the month of July with a 3-17 record, while their overall season record would now be at 12-51, still in last place.
Back home, the Phillies would lose to the Gothams, before heading to New York to lose the next game. After coming back home to gain a victory over their fellow newcomer, they would go back to New York, where they would be swept in two games there. They would then be swept in two straight three games series by both the Beaneaters and the Grays, the two teams who were at this point fighting for the National League pennant. Among these loses would be a 28-0 drubbing at the hands of the Grays on August 21, the most lopsided shut out in the game's history. The Quakers would then end the month playing three more games with the Gothams (one of which was played at Recreation Park) and two home games with the Grays, losing all five, thus ending the month of August with a 2-17 record and an overall record of 14-68.
The Quakers would spend the rest of the season playing at home, playing seventeen games with the Beaneaters (1), the Grays (1), the Gothams (2), the Blues (3), the Bisons (3), the Wolverines (4) and the White Stockings (3). The Quakers would go 3-13-1 in those games, which would include their third two-games winning streak, as they would win single games with the Grays, winning their second series, and the Gothams, get no-hit on September 13 by Hugh Daly of the Blues, losing 1-0, and be tied for the first time in the team's history on September 22 with the Wolverines, as the two teams would play that day to a 6-6 tie. The Quakers would end its first season in the National League in last place with a 17-81-1 record, 23 games behind seventh place Detroit and 46 games behind the league's champion, the Boston Beaneaters.
Against the rest of the league, the team would only have losing records in 1883: Beaneaters (0-14); Grays (3-11); Gothams (2-12); Bisons (5-9); Blues (2-12); Wolverines (3-11-1) and White Stockings (2-12), with its worst record being against the Beaneaters and its best being against the Bisons. They would be 3-7 in shut outs, 2-12 in 1-run games and 4-42 in blowouts.
In a 99 games season, the team would go to the plate a total of 3576 times (6th) while getting only 859 hits (7th) for a team batting average of .240 (8th), a team on-base percentage of .269 (8th) and a team slugging percentage of .320 (8th). The Quakers would score 437 runs (8th) on 299 RBIs. The team would get 181 2Bs (6th), 48 3Bs (6th) and 3 HRs (8th), while also receiving 141 walks (4th) as they struck out 355 (5th) times. Pitching wise, the Quakers had a Team ERA of 5.34 (8th), and in 99 games played, they had 91 complete games (2nd) with 8 other games finished by another pitcher, only 3 (8th) of which would be shut outs. In 864 innings pitched (5th), the team's pitchers would give up 1267 hits (8th), allow 887 runs (8th) to score of which 513 were earned, give up 20 HRs (6th) and walk 125 batters (5th) and strike out only 253 (8th).
Individually, the team batting leader was Purcell with a .268 batting average, while Jack Manning would lead the team in slugging percentage with .364 and in on-base percentage with .300. Purcell would also lead the team with 425 at-bats, 70 runs scored, 114 hits and 88 singles, while Manning would also lead the team in total at-bats with about 470, 153 total bases, 31 doubles, and 37 RBIs. Other team batting leaders were: Sid Farrar in games played (99); John Coleman and Farrar in triples (8 each); Purcell, Bil McClellan and Emil Gross in home runs (1 each); Bill Harbridge in walks (24) and Coleman in strikeouts (39). In pitching, Coleman would also be the team leader in ERA (4.87), wins (12), loses (48), games pitched (65), innings pitched (538.3), strikeouts (159), games started (61), complete games (59), and shut outs (3).
After the season, Purcell would be replaced as the team's manager with Harry Wright, another former professional ballplayer, and former manager of the second place Grays, and before that, the manager of the Beaneaters, leading that franchise to NL pennants in 1877 and 1878. It was hoped by both Reach and Rogers that he would turn the team's fortune around.
Sources: Wikipedia, Baseball Almanac.com and Baseball-Reference.com


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Era of hands-off business regulation may end with Obama
WASHINGTON — With the 111th Congress newly seated this week and a new president who promises change coming into office soon, the era of hands-off regulation for a wide number of industries appears to be over.
During much of the past decade, the federal government took the word of everyone from investment bankers to oil traders, toy importers to produce growers, that they were taking steps to protect little guys, consumers and ordinary investors. Republicans, especially, believed Ronald Reagan when he said, "Government isn't the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
The hands-off approach led to the importation of cheap Chinese toys made with dangerous lead paint, grocery store purchases of tomatoes and spinach tainted by bacteria that sickened hundreds of Americans and the proliferation of insurance-like products called credit-default swaps being traded in the trillions of dollars without regulation or disclosure on balance sheets.
"I think it's been proven over the last eight years that I can say absolutely flatly that self-regulation doesn't work," said Ann Brown, a longtime consumer advocate and the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission from 1994 to 2001. "It would be insanity to keep this laissez-faire, hands-off, consumer-beware and 'protect thyself' approach. We're going to see greater government intervention."
Democrats now have large majorities in both chambers of Congress, and they're promising a new era of regulation on behalf of consumers. That worries some advocates of less regulation.
"I think there is a certain danger of overregulation, and there will almost certainly be an increase in regulation and some of it unjustified," said James Gattuso, a senior fellow on regulatory policy for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy-research organization. "But it's not going to be a slam-dunk for people who prefer regulation over markets."
In some areas, such as financial markets, he said, there's widespread bipartisan support for tough new regulation of the complex financial products that grew faster than kudzu and left regulators flatfooted. In other areas, such as new rules governing food safety and farming, there's likely to be less bipartisan agreement.
Business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are bracing for a fight.
"There's going to be another 3,500 appointments, and a hell of a lot of them are going to be folks that we're going to have to work really hard to keep them from turning over the apple cart," Thomas Donohue, the president of the chamber, told McClatchy.
Virtually all of Obama's picks to date for top-level government appointees are viewed as centrists, many of them former Clinton administration officials. That's led some advocates to fear that his choices are too close to the industries they'll regulate to police them effectively.
Take Mary Schapiro, Obama's pick to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. A former SEC commissioner, Schapiro in recent years has headed an industry-funded organization that's charged with self-regulation of Wall Street. She's hardly an outsider bent on change.
It's a similar story with Gary Gensler, Obama's choice to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. A former partner with investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, Gensler was a high-ranking official in the Clinton Treasury Department when the agency pushed for a revamp of laws that deregulated the trading of contracts for oil and other commodities. So was Timothy Geithner, Obama's pick for treasury secretary.
The Clinton-era change allowed Goldman Sachs and other big investment banks to make vast profits in commodities over the past five years.
There's no evidence that Schapiro and Gensler won't push for strong new regulation, but they're perceived as being cut from the same cloth as those they'll regulate.
"No one knows how they'll act once they get into office, but if one looks at their background, it is easy to make an assumption," said Michael Masters, the president of Masters Capital Management, a hedge fund for the ultra-wealthy, whose industry also is likely to come under regulation.
Masters testified numerous times before Congress last year, alleging that big investment banks were driving up the prices of oil and other commodities by hedging their bets in regulated markets with offsetting bets in unregulated exchanges. Obama, he said, should push for limits on how much of the market that large commodity investors can control and close loopholes that allow them to operate in unregulated markets.
An important gauge of Obama's seriousness about regulatory restructuring will come when he appoints the heads of the Food & Drug Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Both are under-funded, and that's demoralized the staffs at the important agencies.
"The morale is rock bottom. I don't know how it could get much lower," said one former high-level official at the commission, speaking only on the condition of anonymity because he has business before the agency.
The commission regulates the safety of about 15,000 product categories, but its staffing dipped below 400 last year. That's fewer than half the employees the agency had when it was created in 1973.
The agency has come to be viewed as more sympathetic to business interests than to consumers. One commissioner appointed by the Bush administration, Hal Stratton, left the agency to join a law firm that fights class-action consumer groups. Another appointee, Michael Baroody, withdrew his nomination when the extent of his ties to the National Association of Manufacturers became known.
By appointing someone with a consumer advocacy background, Obama could bring about a change in philosophy.
"One person is able to do a lot," said Rachel Weintraub, the director of product safety for the Consumer Federation of America, a consumer advocacy group.
Weintraub is among those mentioned as candidates to head the commission, along with Pamela Gilbert, who was the executive director of the agency during the Clinton era and is the head of Obama's transition team for the agency.
After repeated scandals involving lead paint in toys sold by big-name companies such as Mattel Corp. and others, Congress passed legislation last year to create 100 new enforcement and inspection positions over five years. The measure also allows Obama, after August, to expand the number of commissioners from three to five if he wishes.
Obama also can make a mark with whom he appoints to head the FDA, another agency plagued by scandal and low morale. The Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, issued a report in 2007 saying that the FDA had ignored drug-safety concerns voiced by scientists.
The FDA and self-regulation exploded onto the scene in 2006, when a national outbreak of E. coli bacteria in fresh spinach products resulted in three deaths and 205 confirmed illnesses. That unsolved outbreak was followed last year by a salmonella outbreak, thought to be linked to fresh tomatoes or jalapenos, that sickened at least 1,200 people nationwide.
The FDA mulled new regulations to minimize the chance that animal waste and wastewater could contaminate food products, but critics of the agency said that the issue largely faded from public view without any permanent changes.
"The FDA developed those proposals, and it didn't get any further in the agency. When it went to the secretary level, the administration said, 'No, we're not going to move on this at all,' " said Craig Waldrop, the director of the Food Policy Institute, part of the Consumer Federation of America. "I think this was partially a nod to industry and partly a philosophy of nonregulation that the Bush administration has had."
Democrats in Congress are expected to try to make the FDA the chief regulator of the tobacco industry. That's likely to add pressure on an already politicized agency, and some advocates fear that it could distract the FDA from the mission of food safety.
"If tobacco is coming to the FDA, that just really overwhelms the FDA and pushes food safety even further down the chain," Waldrop said. "We're encouraging the administration to consider moving the food part out of FDA and create a food safety — or food and nutrition — administration. "They haven't signaled one way or the other . . . but it would be one way to show food safety is important."
To ask a question about this story or any economic question, go to McClatchy's economy Q&A
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I have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off. This time of the year is so stinkin' busy. I have come to reason that I am not going to stress anymore. I am going to get done what I can get done and focus on my family. If I don't get around to making a 5th kind of cookie, then so be it.
I did have to make gingersnaps, though, as they are one of my favorites. I love the crunch on the outside and the subtle softness on the inside. Just the right touch of spices. Yum!! This is a recipe that I have been making since I was in high school. I just modified it to be GF 2 years ago. It has never failed me. ****knocking on wood****
**Originally from The Betty Crocker Cookbook, modified to be GF by me
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
2 1/4 cups GF flour mix (I used a rice, tapioca & potato starch blend)
2 tsps. xanthan gum
2 tsps. soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. cloves
1/4 tsp. salt
Granulated Sugar (for rolling cookies in before baking)
1. Mix thoroughly shortening, brown sugar, egg and molasses. Blend in remaining ingredients except granulated sugar. Cover; chill at least 1 hour (I chilled over night b/c I ran out of time and patience 😉 )
2. Heat oven to 375. Shape dough by rounded teaspoonfuls into balls. Dip tops in granulated sugar. Place balls, sugar side up on ightly greased lbaking sheet (I covered mine with parchment paper, but you don't have to). Bake 10 – 12 minutes (I baked 10) or just until set. Immediately remove from baking sheet. Makes approx. 4 dozen. Mine made less, but I think they were a little bigger.
Enjoy! I had one of these for dessert with a piece of peanut butter fudge. YUM!! The Holidays have officially arrived!!!
I do have to share a quick story of a baking failure that I had last night. I was making gluten-filled chocolate chip cookies for my husband's boss and they flopped, big-time. I don't know what went wrong. The only thing I can think of is maybe the butter was too soft b/c it took me longer to get to making the cookies than I had anticipated. I probably should have chilled the dough before baking, but I was in a hurry, go figure. I ended up throwing all but a dozen away. The dozen that were salvaged tasted great, or so I was told, I obviously didn't taste them. (BTW, if I am ever going to intentionally eat gluten, I am going BIG! I am talking Big Mac, Philly Cheesesteak, pizza….that kind of BIG!) Of course, that is not going to happen, it is just nice to think about every once in a while. 😉 So, I have to make attempt #2 at some point in the next week, though it will most likely not happen until after Christmas. Maybe I should have had that glass of wine last night….it couldn't have hurt the outcome, huh?
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How to Create a Secure Password
|Creating a secure password involves a few simple steps. The key is to create a password which will be easy for you to remember, difficult for someone else to guess, and difficult for a malicious program to crack.
|Congratulations! You've created a secure password that will be very difficult for someone else to figure out. Of course, the most important way to keep your new password secure is this: never tell anyone your password and never send your password through email. If you believe the security of your password has been compromised, don't wait, change your password right away! No one at Thomas University will EVER ask you for your password.
| Be sure to note your new password in a secret place in case you forget. Once you get accustomed to using it, you'll find you have no trouble remembering. After all, your password is easy: spaghetti!


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From Joomla! Documentation
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with J2.5:Use Joomla! on your own computer. (Discuss). Proposed since 6 years ago.
This article is tagged because it NEEDS TECHNICAL REVIEW. You can help the Joomla! Documentation Wiki by contributing to it.
More pages that need help similar to this one are here. NOTE-If you feel the need is satistified, please remove this notice.
Reason: The version of XAMPP is out of date - the latest version is 1.8.1
- This is the part used in both versions of the 'localhost' document. It just has the part about installing xampp. The Joomla! versions are different.
This is the version for installing version 1.7.4.
It is very useful to be able to learn and experiment on your own machine. The aim of this document is to help you to download a sample Joomla! site to your own computer, known as a 'localhost' installation. It has some helpful sample content that allows you to become familiar with the way that a Joomla! site is put together. You can also install an empty copy of Joomla! for creating a new site.
Who is it written for?
Not everyone using this Manual will have enough experience to feel comfortable doing this. You need to know a little about computing, for example:-
- Know where to find files on your computer and be able to create folders
- Be able to download something from a Web site and save it in an appropriate place
- You will not panic if you do not understand a concept!
Experienced developers and people with programming experience will be fine.
- If in doubt - follow the instructions and try it!
There are three basic stages in doing this:-
- Downloading and installing some software that Joomla! needs to use to run locally, that is to say on your own desktop or laptop computer. This is a web server called Apache, a database called mySQL and a scripting language called PHP. There are a few other things as well - which are downloaded together as one package called XAMPP.
- Downloading and installing Joomla!
- Configuring Joomla!
Download and install XAMPP : version 1.7.4
To run Joomla! on a Windows desktop or laptop you need to download and install some software needed by Joomla!. This includes a web server called Apache, a database called mySQL and a scripting language called PHP. The point of this to to configure your own machine to behave as if it were a server with the difference being that the result is not visible over the internet and is thus confined to your own computer. This is very useful for learning new things and even developing a new web site.
Before download
Make sure you have a separate folder for downloads.
- Use Windows Explorer
- Create a folder (called something meaningful like Downloads) beneath the top level of the directory. (Depending on how your computer is set up - this will be C:\Downloads)
Download XAMPP This is for version 1.7.4
Download sites for using a Mac or Linux with documentation.
Warning: If you are not familiar with downloading software - don't be put off by unfamiliar vocabulary on the download Web site!
The site for Windows download. This is a page with links to downloads as well as instructions for installation.
There is a choice of using an Installer or downloading a ZIP file. The installer is easier as it extracts the files directly to the XAMPP directory.
This is what you do:-
- Find the heading - Jump-off point
- Under Download
- Click on XAMPP
- You need XAMPP Windows (it is followed by a number - currently 1.7.4) There is a short explanation that XAMPP exists in three different flavours.
- Choose the Installer.
- Click on Installer for the download
- In the window that opens
- Click Save File
- In the Save In box - find the Download folder on your conmputer
- Click Save
A file with the XAMPP logo is saved to the Download folder. In Windows Explorer Details view, the file type will be Application.
Install XAMPP
Extracting the software and installing the files:-
- Run the installer file
- Double-click the file name
You will be asked to select a langugage. If there is a warning screen about set up in Vista - close it as you are keeping the files somewhere else anyway.
The next window is the Welcome screen for the install Wizard.
- Read the on-screen information
- Click Next
- Leave the location as C:/xampp (If you want it elsewhere, Browse for the folder where you want it)
- Click Install
Installation Progress is indicated on the screen.
When the files are extracted, a Congratulations screen is shown, which asks whether you want to start the Control Panel.
- Click Yes
You should see a XAMPP Control Panel on the desktop. To open it if it is not already open:-
- Double-click the Control Panel icon on the desktop.
This is the Control panel with the services running.
Apache and MySQL need to run as Services (indicated by a tick against Svc in the Control Panel). Make sure the following are set:-
- Apache Svc is ticked
- Apache is Running (Click Start to run it)
- MySQL Svc is ticked
- MySQL is Running (Click Start to run it)
see also the XAMPP documentation at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html - scroll down the page to the instructions under the heading Installation.
Now test localhost
This should allow you to use the Home page of the localhost web site. Make sure you do this before installing anything else.
- Type in the site's address in your browser - which is
- Type in the site's address in your browser - which is
If it has not been successful - you will get a message saying 'Unable to Connect'. The most likely cause is that Apache or mySQL are not running.
- Use the Control Panel to check these.
If it has been successful - there will be a splash page with a choice of languages.
- Choose your language
You now see a Welcome page which says 'You have successfully installed XAMPP on this system!'. There are also various links to documentation and other things to the left.
You can move on to downloading and installing Joomla! itself.


text: Hello helpful community I'm new here to the forums and kind of an amateur programmer so ill introduce myself and ask some questions if you guys don't mind I'm 26 and currently in collage majoring in information systems and about to graduate. My interests are as follows math and statistics as im fascinated with numbers, randomness and probability along with graphics, cryptography, DBMs, app design, programming, data compression, networking, security in addition to that im an avid gamer and a good pianist . I want to master all my interests and wish a day had more than 24 hrs :-/ …having this variety of interests renders me shattered and unfortunately unable to focus on one thing. Throughout my life ive been able to accomplish almost every task I encountered that require programming, but mostly by using others code, so basically a skid who took it for granted but now I want to change that for more control over my projects. I have the capacity/appetite to learn most programming languages but only master a few major ones like c/c++ and java and after reading an article on this topic, I realized and actually don't mind that its might take around 10 years/10,000 hours to do so, but the question remains, where to start learning? And is it too late for a 26 yr old to go down that road? I hear people start learning at age of 5! Anyway, my cousin who is a successful computer engineer (owning his own company) got his computer engineer degree/Masters from England in which he assures me was a big waste of time and advices me not to waste time and energy going physically to a computer science university/course as online content/courses are as good as and maybe even better. Long story short, I am looking for guidance on a comprehensive professional online course/ a good place to start. Ive been scouting for reviews for sometime but im confused and can't set my mind due to the similarity of these websites, possibility of scam/bad content, bias reviews and what not… and looking for someone with personal experience to help me find the ultimate online course. The cost is not an issue as the quality so some criteria have to be present. 1. I am not looking for "learn programming in 2 days" rather looking for those 10,000 hrs. if possible^. 2. Ability to practice my knowledge; learning the syntax of a programming language is a very easy task and what makes the difference is the assignments, projects, community collaboration, infinite debugging, exception handling etc. 3. it has to have a good way of relaying information to me such as videos. 4. Best bang for my buck; Variety of content, possibly extending to other interests of mine and not focusing solely on programming. (not a requirement) So Basically I'm looking for quality. Also any advice on good Books/ebooks would be appreciated . One last question, how come this forum doesn't require email verification? (its a first for me)


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2010-11 (Sophomore):
Finished the season with an 11-7 record, going 6-2 at the No. 6 ... Won each set of his 3-0 victory over Brown's Tod Holbertson 11-3 … Swept Luke Lee of Dartmouth on Dec. 2 ... Improved to 6-2 on the season after winning matches against opponents from Western Ontario, St. Lawrence and Hamilton to start 2011 ... Helped Harvard capture fifth at the 2011 CSA National Team Championship winning matches against Dartmouth and Cornell ... Went 2-1 at the 2011 Individual National Championship.
2009-10 (Freshman):
Was 4-12 overall ...Won two matches at CSA Individual Championships, advancing to the third round consolation semifinals ... Saw action in all 12 dual matches at the No. 3 position, earning victories against Brown (Nov. 20) and Williams (Nov. 22).
Before Harvard:
Placed fifth nationally in under-19 age division in 2009 … Was second in the 2008 Yale Junior Squash Championships … Finished fourth in 2008 U.S. Squash under-23 championships … Winner of Englewood Field Club championship in 2007-08 and under-19 division of the 2008 Greenwich Junior Open.
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Hungarian F1 Grand Prix
McLaren Formula One driver Jenson Button of Britain wears a Kalocsa design outfit before the free practice of the Hungarian F1 Grand Prix in Mogyorod (about 20km north-east from Budapest), Hungary. Saturday, 30. July 2011. ATTILA VOLGYI.Team sponsor Hugo Boss celebrates its 30th anniversary with special fan made designs for competition saturdays on all races. On Hungaroring the special design is from Hungarian folk tradition with motives from Kalocsa..


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In the near future, in 2050, a handful of young and brilliant citizens have been chosen by Gruckezber Corporation to join the Magtech training program for space exploration. Equipped with a special glove using Gruckezberg's technology, the candidates have to solve their way through a huge maze of challenge rooms, by magnetically charging objects that will attract or repel each other. But when an earthquake disrupts the training program, what seemed to be the chance of a lifetime for the candidates will soon become a descent into folly and cosmic horror!
Magrunner will put your brain and your reflexes to the test! With the Magtech glove, you can load objects with green or red charges. Two items loaded with the same charge will attract each other, while two items loaded with different charges will repel one another! These simple mechanics open a broad range of possibilities. Upon mastering them you will be able to progress along the game, solving puzzles by studying your surroundings, testing possibilities and analyzing their effects. And as your world becomes engulfed in danger, your skills will be tested more than ever. Do not falter, for your very life is at stake ... and the fate of mankind is in your hands.
Also known as: Magrunner
Release Region: United States
Release Date: TBA
Publisher: Focus Home Interactive
Release Region: United Kingdom
Release Date: TBA
Publisher: Focus Home Interactive
Also available on: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360


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Another thrilling feature to the Star Faces Link Game that makes it even more awesome then just a matching game - you must find the icons that link together in some way! When you make a linked match in Star Faces, it will show the link. You also get some help along the way. You can use the REFRESH button 3 times, this mixes up the game cards so it is easier to find linking matches. You can also use the FIND button 3 times, and this will find the matching links for you.
The Star Faces Link Game is an addictive race to find the matching links, that gets harder each round. Have Fun!!!