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Talking Stats: 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour—Aug. 24
The 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour is now going on a four-week break preparing for the 10th and final regular 2014 grand slam at the $800,000 FIVB São Paulo Grand Slam in Brazil to be held Sept. 23-28.
This past week, the FIVB World Tour was back in Poland for the double-gender $800,000 FIVB Stare Jablonki Grand Slam in the Mazury region of Poland. The women's final was on Saturday and the men's on Sunday.
With 12 men's events and 13 women's tournaments now completed in 2014, quickly microwaved is another pot of delectable 2014 FIVB World Tour plate full of stats from last week's FIVB Stare Jablonki Grand Slam in Poland.
• Brazilian Women Continue Gold Medal Dominance Over Germany – Brazil defeated Germany once again in a gold medal match, at the FIVB Stare Jablonki Grand Slam, as Larissa Franca/Talita Antunes defeated Laura Ludwig/Julia Sude 21-14, 19-21 and 16-14 in 53 minutes. In 13 FIVB World Tour women's finals, Brazil now has defeated Germany 12 times. Only Stephanie Pohl/Okka Rau who defeated Maria Antonelli/Vanilda Leao 21-17, 20-22, 15-9 in 63 minutes at the 2008 FIVB Marseille Open have been able to win a gold medal match over Brazil. Ludwig has been a victim of the Brazilian dominance four times previously, losing with Sara Goller to Juliana Felisberta/Larissa at the FIVB Espinho Open in 2007, the FIVB Brasilia Open and FIVB Gstaad Grand Slam, both in 2010 and losing with Kira Walkenhorst to the Salgado sisters in the FIVB Moscow Grand Slam in 2013.
• Germany has Two Women on the Podium Again – Germany has had two women make the semifinals of an FIVB World Tour event seven times following Laura Ludwig/Julia Sude and Katrin Holtwick/Ilka Semmler winning the silver and bronze medals at the FIVB Stare Jablonki Grand Slam. The first four times in Marseille 2008, Moscow 2009, Xiamen 2013, and Durban 2013, only one finished on the podium. However this is the third time in 2014 that Germany has won two medals at an FIVB World Tour event with Holtwick/Semmler and Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst winning silver and bronze at the FIVB Prague Open in May and Holtwick/Semmler and Karla Borger/Britta Buthe winning the gold and silver at the FIVB Gstaad Grand Slam in July.
• Canada's Bansley and Pavan finish fifth Again – Canada's Heather Bansley/Sarah Pavan must wonder when they'll finally break through and make a semifinal at an FIVB World Tour event. This is the third time this season and the fourth overall that the Canadian duo has come just one step away from making the final four. In Stare Jablonki they lost to eventual silver medalists, Laura Ludwig/Julia Sude of Germany, 15-10 in the third set, in Gstaad they lost to eventual bronze medalists, Kristyna Kolocova/Marketa Slukova of the Czech Republic, 15-9 in the third, and in Prague, they were beaten soundly by Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst in two sets. Last season they just missed in the FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam, losing to eventual gold medalists and 2013 World Tour Points Champions, Taiana Lima/Talita Antunes of Brazil, 15-11 in the third. Canada has only had one women's team finish in the top four of an FIVB World Tour event. Guylaine Dumont/Annie Martin finished 4th at the FIVB Stavanger Open in July of 2004.
• German Women Qualify Two Teams – Germany joined Russia and Canada as the only three nations to qualify two women's teams for an FIVB World event in 2014 when Chantal Laboureur/Anni Schumacher and Victoria Bieneck/Julia Grossner made the main draw through the qualifier at the FIVB Stare Jablonki Grand Slam. Russia has achieved the feat three times this season at the FIVB Grand Slams in Berlin, Stavanger, and Klagenfurt where Canada also qualified two teams. Russia and Canada had three teams in the qualifying tournament when they accomplished their feats, but Germany was a perfect two for two in Stare Jablonki.
• Brazil Sweeps Again – Brazil swept the men's and women's gold medals for the second consecutive FIVB World Tour event with Larissa Franca/Talita Antunes winning both women's events and Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt winning in Klagenfurt and Alvaro Filho/Pedro Salgado winning in Stare Jablonki for the men. It is the 40th time that Brazil has won both men's and women's gold medals at an FIVB World Tour event. Twice before Brazil had two consecutive sweeps, once the South American nation had three consecutive, and once five consecutive in Stavanger, Marseille, Montreal, St. Petersburg, and Paris in June-July of 2006.
• First Time's a Charm – Brazil's Pedro Salgado/Alvaro Filho won the gold medal at the FIVB Stare Jablonki Grand Slam in their first event together. Alvaro had played with Ricardo Santos since the beginning of the 2013 season and Pedro Salgado had played all of 2014 with Emanuel Rego. Salgado/Filho is the 13th team to win an FIVB World Tour event in their first tournament together. The last team to win in their inaugural event was USA's Olympians Phil Dalhausser/Sean Rosenthal at the 2013 season-opening FIVB Fuzhou Open. Salgado also won with Harley Marques in their first tournament together at the Shanghai Open in May of 2007. They were the last team to win in their first partnership before Dalhausser/Rosenthal in 2013.
• Another Men's Qualifier Medal – Jake Gibb/Casey Patterson of the United States became the eighth men's team in 2014 to win a medal on the FIVB World Tour by winning the bronze at the Stare Jablonki Grand Slam. In a year where men's and women's qualifier teams have already set the record for medals, Gibb/Patterson is an unlikely winner because Jake Gibb has not been in the qualifier tournament since the Stare Jablonki event in 2010 with Sean Rosenthal and Casey Patterson hasn't been in a qualifier since the Stare Jablonki event in 2011 with Brad Keenan. Gibb/Rosenthal finished fifth in 2010 and Patterson/Keenan finished 41st in 2011.
• Austria has its Best Finish in a Year – Austria's Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst may not have won a medal after making the semifinals at the FIVB Stare Jablonki Grand Slam, but their fourth place finish was the best for the tiny European nation in exactly one year. Last year at the FIVB Moscow Grand Slam, ending 52 weeks ago, Horst and Lorenz Petutschnig also finished fourth after losing their semifinals and bronze medal matches. Austria was hoping to capture the magic of Stare Jablonki in 2012 when Doppler/Horst had their country's best men's finish ever in an FIVB World Tour event with a silver medal.
• Reinder Nummerdor has His Best Finish since London – In the two years following his fourth-place finish with Richard Schuil at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Reinder Nummerdor has struggled to find top five finishes. Last year, he and Schuil finished in ninth-place two times, 17th-place two times and had one 25th-place finish. Leading up to the FIVB Stare Jablonki Grand Slam, Nummerdor has struggled in 2014 with new partner Steven van de Velde, finishing in 25th-place two times, and failing to qualify at the FIVB Gstaad Grand Slam. Invigorated with a new partner, Christiaan Varenhorst, who started 2014 with a bronze medal with Jon Stiekema at the season-opening FIVB Fuzhou Open, the Dutch duo finished fifth in Stare Jablonki, winning their pool before falling to Austria's Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst 21-18 and 21-18 in the third round of the 24-team knockout round.
As part of the initiatives of FIVB President Dr Ary S. Graça F° and his leadership team, the 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball international calendar also included a record four age-group FIVB World Championships and the 2014 Nanjing (China) Youth Olympic Games Aug. 17-27).
Poland's Maciej Kosiak/Maciej Rudol won the men's gold medal for the home country and Australia's Mariafe Artacho/Nicole Laird capturing the women's gold medal for the second annual FIVB U23 World Championships in Myslowice, Poland. Capturing the gold medals in the inaugural FIVB U17 World Championships in Acapulco, Mexico were Switzerland's Florian Breer/Yves Haussener and USA's Morgan Martin/Kathryn Plummer. Winning the 14th FIVB U21 World Championships in Larnaka, Cyprus were Poland's Michal Bryl/Kacper Kujawiak and Canada's Sophie Bukovec/Tiadora Miric. The 13th FIVB U19 World Championships in Porto Portugal were won by Brazil's Arthur Mariano/George Wanderley for the men and in the women's competition the winners were Brazil's Andressa Cavalanti/Eduarda Lisboa.


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Sound futuristic? It isn't; just ask a group of after-school students at St. Stanislaus Kostka School in Maspeth. A group of 14 middle school students there recently participated in a Maspeth Town Hall-sponsored after-school program, where they learned the science and engineering necessary to build robotic Lego machines.
Congressman Joe Crowley, who appeared at Town Hall earlier this month, secured funding for the science program, which will soon be launched at other school locations across Maspeth. The money goes towards materials and paying for Town Hall staffers teaching the program.
On a recent afternoon break at St. Stan's, students showed off their Lego robots, built over a four-week period at the school between March and April. The group built four robots out of Legos, each in the shape of a motorized vehicle that can move around at the push of a button. One was shaped like a tank, another like the fictional Batmobile.
Once activated, the little robots slithered, slid, and squirmed across desks and the classroom floor. All were programmed to turn around, after colliding with another object, and keep going.
"I thought the whole program was fun," said John Luke McFadden, 13. "Especially making the robot and seeing it move."
McFadden's classmates were equally surprised, and proud that they learned the technology to produce working robots. Crowley has said the program is aimed to inspire in students a newfound love of science and engineering.
"Robots are probably going to be a part of the future," said Brian Hughes, 13, "so it's good that we know how to do this because it might come in handy."
St. Stan's principal, Sister Rose, said the students who volunteered for the after-school program were indeed inspired through working with Town Hall staff members, who showed them step-by-step how to build the machines.
"It's a wonderful hands-on activity for the children," said Sister Rose, who noted that attendance for the popular, month-long program was perfect. She said students not only learned science skills, but also expanded their logical and creative thinking capacities.
"We appreciate the funding [from Town Hall] very much, and hope it will continue so the children can benefit from it in the future," Sister Rose said.


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Dallas cornerback Morris Claiborne probably figured his first NFL touchdown would come on an interception. The rookie had to settle for a fumble return because the picks have been a little hard to come by for the Cowboys.
The Cowboys traded up eight spots to take Claiborne at No. 6 in this year's draft and committed at least $26 million to free agent Brandon Carr. And yet Dallas is last in the league with five interceptions and the only team without a player who has at least two heading into Sunday's game at Cincinnati.
Coach Jason Garrett says the Cowboys "certainly want to create more takeaways."
Dallas can't count on Philadelphia for any more defensive touchdowns. The Cowboys scored three times that way in two wins over the Eagles.


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For centuries, Western legal tradition relied on the assumption "pater semper incertus est" ("the father is always uncertain"). But starting in the early twentieth century, scientists began a quest for a biological marker of paternity that could unambiguously link a child to his or her progenitor. Prior to the advent of DNA testing, scientists from around the world experimented with fingerprints, dental evidence, ear shape, and blood typing. Nara Milanich, associate professor of history at Barnard College, examines the link between the history of the paternity test and the history of gender, family, and changing ideas about kinship. Although today paternity can be determined with over 99 percent accuracy, biological certainty by no means displaces legal and social constructions of family. In the age of modern biomedicine, the definition of parentage is arguably as "uncertain" as ever.
This event is sponsored by The Barnard Center for Research on Women. To learn more, visit bcrw.barnard.edu.


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Suzanne lived in Monroe County when she worked for the Pocono Renaissance Fair, as well as Susquehanna County when she was an anchor at WICZ in Binghamton.
Suzanne had an unusual start to her broadcasting career. Her first full time TV job was as a shopping host. She pitched gems and everything else under the moon to insomniacs across America as a host on ShopNBC (then known as ValueVision.)
After a few years Suzanne ran out of synonyms for "sparkly" and got bit by the news bug.
Just in time to cover the millennium, Suzanne began her journalism career in the Twin Cities at Northwest Community Television's 12 News where she was an anchor and reporter.
She then crossed the Mississippi and headed to Wisconsin as morning anchor at WGBA in Green Bay.
Other stops included WVII in Maine and WLNY in New York.
In 2001 she received a Minnesota Emmy Award for a news special comparing the experiences of different generations of veterans.
She also served on the Society of Professional Journalists National Ethics Committee.
Suzanne's life was changed at the National Association of Broadcaster's 2006 conference in Las Vegas when she met Ethan Harp, a reporter from San Francisco.
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Coming Soon: A Moviegoer's Guide to July
You'll probably notice that there aren't very many movies receiving wide releases this month, and that partly has to do with the return of a certain wise-cracking web-slinger to the big screen, but it's mostly because every studio is terrified of "The Dark Knight Rises," and they should be. Christopher Nolan's last Batman film absolutely dominated the box office, eventually grossing just over a billion dollars worldwide, and if the business that "The Avengers" has been doing is any indication, the third installment is going to easily exceed that. However, that doesn't mean there aren't other movies worth checking out, because just about every title on this list should be considered must-see.
Who: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen and Sally Field
What: Peter Parker finds a clue that might help explain why his parents disappeared years earlier, leading him to his father's former partner, Dr. Curt Connors.
When: July 3rd
Why: Sony's decision to reboot the Spider-Man series only a decade after Sam Raimi's first movie was released has earned its share of naysayers, but having already seen director Marc Webb's new version, most people are going to be happy with the direction the series is headed. Though it's a bit of a pain to have to sit through Peter Parker's origin story all over again, Webb makes it just different enough that it's never boring. The action scenes are also well-staged, and Spider-Man's wise-cracking humor remains intact, but the best part about the movie is the characters themselves. Not only are the actors perfectly cast in their respective roles (especially Andrew Garfield, who embodies everything that's great about Spider-Man), but the relationships are actually interesting, and you can't say that about every superhero film, Raimi's trilogy included.
Who: Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively, Salma Hayek and Benicio del Toro
What: Marijuana growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel that kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
When: July 6th
Why: It's been awhile since Oliver Stone made a movie worth caring about, but this big screen adaptation of Don Wilson's bestseller has certainly piqued my interest. A drug-fueled crime thriller that looks like something the director would have made back in the 90s, "Savages" has a cool premise and a great cast to boot. Okay, so maybe Taylor Kitsch hasn't had the best year between "John Carter" flopping and "Battleship" failing to find its sea legs at the domestic box office, but Aaron Johnson has impressed with his career choices lately, and the idea of Salma Hayek playing the big bad is oozing with potential. Though it's unclear whether the film is supposed to have that grindhouse feel on purpose, if Stone can pull it off, he might just have another cult hit on his hands.
Who: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic and Mahmut Suvacki
What: A three-tiered story centered on drugs and organized crime, focusing on a young man who becomes a runner for a cocaine dealer.
When: July 13th
Why: I don't know a whole lot about Daniel Espinosa's "Easy Money" (originally titled "Snabba Cash" in its native country) other than it stars Joel Kinnaman of AMC's "The Killing" and was a near-universal hit on the festival circuit, but quite frankly, that's enough for me. The Swedish film industry has gotten a huge boost thanks to the "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" series in recent years, and "Easy Money" reportedly follows in the same footsteps. Though I wasn't crazy about Espinosa's U.S. debut, "Safe House," it had enough good moments (especially the fight scenes) to suggest he's a promising talent. Plus, I'd see anything Kinnaman does these days, because his work on "The Killing" is so amazing that it's no wonder he's been tapped as Hollywood's new It guy.
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Local water users are once again facing the prospect of higher water and sewer bills.
Robert L. Moylan Jr., commissioner of public works and parks, has recommended increases in city water and sewer rates for the fiscal year beginning July 1. For the average single-family customer, the expected increase for water and sewer services combined is roughly $36 for the year.
Water usage in the city has steadily decreased for years, and annual water use by single-family homes in Worcester now averages about 6,800 cubic feet, with 100 cubic feet of water equal to 748 gallons.
�Of course, this proposed increase follows nine consecutive years of similar or larger increases, so the cumulative cost impact on Worcester homeowners is not insignificant,� Mr. Moylan wrote in a report that goes before the City Council Tuesday night. �The current economic conditions only exacerbate the financial effect.�
Mr. Moylan has proposed increasing the water rate by 20 cents (6 percent), to $3.51 for every 748 gallons of water used.
He has also proposed increasing the sewer rate by 42 cents (7.6 percent), to $5.94 for every 748 gallons of water used.
Sewer bills for residential properties are based on 80 percent of metered water usage.
Also, Mr. Moylan also wants to increase the water rate for out-of-town users by 20 cents, to $3.80. That represents an increase of 5.6 percent.
The commissioner said the rate increases are needed to keep pace with the �costly burden� of compliance with unfunded regulatory mandates imposed on water and sewer utilities by the federal and state governments.
�Much of this cost increase is associated with increases in debt service to support capital improvements mandated by state and federal regulators,� Mr. Moylan wrote in his report.
�As was stated in previous rate submissions, ratepayers can expect continuous increases in water and sewer rates as long as the federal Environmental Protection Agency continues to impose their uncontrolled and unfunded mandates on cities and towns,� he added. �This year we again see the effects of the costly burden of compliance with regulatory mandates.�
City Manager Michael V. O�Brien has forwarded the commissioner�s recommendations along to the City Council for its consideration. The item is expected to be referred to the council�s Public Works Committee for review.
Mr. Moylan said costs associated with improvements being made to the Upper Blackstone Water Pollution District sewer treatment plant in Millbury are responsible for nearly half of the sewer rate increase. Declining water use is also a contributing factor.
Because water and sewer utilities have a high percentage of fixed costs, he said a decline in usage results in an increase in rates.
For next fiscal year, water usage is projected to decline 1.3 percent.
As water and sewer rates have escalated over the past 10 to 15 years, Mr. Moylan said Worcester water users have responded by using less water.


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Inauguration Day 2013 is in the books. President Obama spoke about his hopes and aspirations for his second term in office -- a term unfettered by re-election because of term limits.
His Inauguration Day speech spoke of "we, the people" and how "we, the people" must rally around issues such as climate change, gay rights, improved education, voting rights, immigration reform and healthcare initiatives, among other progressive views.
If it sounds familiar, it may be because those were the same, or at least similar, issues Obama campaigned on in his first run at the White House.
"Much of the [inauguration] speech was a rehash of his 2008 agenda," said political commentator Steven Schier, a political science professor at Carleton College in Minnesota. "In his 2009 inaugural speech, he spoke more of cooperation toward achieving broad national goals. There was far less unity language in this speech and more of an exhortation to his followers."
Indeed, where Obama's 2009 inaugural address had warm phrases of cooperation and a pledge to change "business as usual" in Washington, the 2013 version was provocative.
"Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time," Obama told the sea of humanity before him from the Capitol. "For now decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay."
In recognition of the partisanship in the nation's capital, Obama noted, "We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate."
Schier isn't alone in his view that Obama's 2013 speech was a rallying cry. Observers, analysts and political insiders all agree the speech last week was a glimpse at an agenda that is as aggressive as it is progressive.
Obama also borrowed from the Tea Party movement's playbook, using the Constitution to rally support for his agenda. He staked his position on issues by starting with "we, the people" then presenting the issue.
When he spoke of preserving Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, Obama said, "We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity. We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of healthcare and the size of our deficit. ... The commitments we make to each other -- through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security -- these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great."
Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer called Obama's address "very important" historically because it advocated the opposite of President Ronald Reagan's famous inaugural address line: "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
"This speech today was an ode to big government. It was a hymn to big government," Krauthammer said.
His 18 1/2-minute speech, delivered on the national holiday celebrating the life of civil rights activist the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., included the gamut of progressive themes: climate change, immigration reform, gun control, same-sex equality, protecting seniors and the vulnerable, requiring those who have more to pay more to provide government services to all. But while packed with issues, his speech was light on specifics.
"What the speech said to me was that a new kind of liberal government is back," Sean Wilentz, an American history professor at Princeton University, told The Washington Post. "It's not that you are going to evade politics or change politics or fix politics. You are going to change the country by being political."
Shahid Buttar, executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, said in a statement, "Some critics of Mr. Obama's inaugural address may describe his comments as radical. But insisting on values as fundamental as 'equality before the law' and the 'enduring strength of our Constitution' are hardly radical. Indeed, they are simply restatements of principles that have long united America."
Critics, Buttar said, would do better to challenge Obama's "derogation in practice of the same values he professes in his lofty speeches. The president's first term unfortunately witnessed a continued extension of the Bush-Cheney legacy, and he seems no more inclined than his neo-con predecessors to heed longstanding constitutional limits on executive power."
He cited as examples the use of armed drone aircraft, unmanned aerial drones for domestic spying without warrants and "the unprecedented crackdown on immigrants" as examples of the president's "legacy that undermines the rights of all Americans, regardless of political party or ideology."
No matter what, if Obama has any hopes of meeting his aggressive goals he best move quickly because the window is closing, MSNBC said.
"Second-term presidents generally get eight months or so ... where there's a honeymoon to push an agenda," James Thurber, director of Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University, told MSNBC. "He doesn't even have a month."
Schier, the political commentator, said progressive policies will be at the center of Obama's intended second-term agenda, "but the question is: 'How long will they stay there?' Presidential agendas are often overtaken by national and international events."
Obama will press his agenda when the issues "don't cost much and can be achieved through executive action. That's a limited category of issues," Schier said. "Fiscal reality and a divided Congress will prevent him from accomplishing much more than that."
Obama also acknowledged his second term faces a still-soft economy and an unemployment rate at the same level as when he took office in 2009.
"[We] have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action," the president said.


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Recalling last talk with Tiller, friend says he'd seen shooter before
Ken Hobart was one of the last people to speak with George Tiller.
They talked about Walt Disney World.
The two men were serving as ushers Sunday at Reformation Lutheran Church in east Wichita, and Tiller had recently returned from taking his grandchildren to the theme park in Orlando, Fla., Hobart said.
Tiller told him that he had forgotten how much fun it was to go there.
Hobart asked Tiller whether the family had gotten caught in recent heavy rains in Florida.
Tiller said, "No, it rained a couple of times, but it wasn't a big deal," Hobart said.
Typical Sunday morning small talk, soon forgotten under ordinary circumstances. Now, probably etched in memory.
Minutes after their conversation, Tiller, a well-known abortion provider, was shot to death in the church's lobby just outside the sanctuary.
Hobart, who is married to an Eagle newsroom employee, didn't see the fatal shot fired. He had stepped inside the sanctuary to check with his daughter, who was scheduled to do a reading in the service.
But Hobart did hear the shot.
"It sounded like a loud clap," Hobart said. "I looked at the choir. I thought maybe they were using a clap board."
When he realized the sound wasn't a musical effect, Hobart went back out into the lobby and stepped into a scene of barely controlled chaos. Some people were rushing to lock exterior doors. A woman stood nearby with a phone to her ear talking to 911 and urging them to hurry.
"I looked down to my left and saw someone lying on the floor," Hobart said.
His first thought was that it was a protester. Because Tiller was a member, the church had been a frequent target of anti-abortion protesters and "they've done things to try to shock us before."
Then, he realized it was no staged protest and that it was Tiller lying on the floor.
"I'm just in shock," he said. "My God, I've never seen anything like that."
Hobart said he rushed back inside the sanctuary to tell his daughter to stay put because he didn't want her coming out and seeing the scene.
He said he was passed by Tiller's wife, Jeanne, who "was calling for her husband."
When Hobart returned to the lobby, he saw the church pastor, the Rev. Lowell Michelson, "trying to comfort Mrs. Tiller."
Shortly after that, police arrived and started clearing the crime scene, sending the people who were in the lobby outside, Hobart said.
"People were huddled, crying," he said.
By then, "It seemed very obvious at that time that he had probably passed away," Hobart said.
A group of adults quickly gathered children together in a grassy area outside the church, telling them stories and playing games with them to distract their attention from the police activity, he said.
Scott P. Roeder, 51, has been charged with first-degree murder in Tiller's death.
Hobart said he didn't recall seeing Roeder as he greeted congregants that morning.
"I'm pretty sure I've seen him before," Hobart said. "I might have handed him a bulletin, who knows?"
Hobart's fellow usher, Gary Hoepner, witnessed the shooting. Earlier this week, he told the Associated Press and KAKE-TV that he had seen Roeder in the church before and that Roeder had left odd notes in the collection plate, including one reading, "Do you believe in taxes?"
Roeder had been affiliated with the Freemen movement, whose ideology holds that the federal government, its taxes and its currency are illegitimate. He also was a well-known anti-abortion protester in the Kansas City area.
Hoepner said a detective has asked him to refrain from talking about the shooting itself and avoid making further comments about Roeder's conduct in the church leading up to Sunday.
But he did say that the shooting and its aftermath have left him emotionally shocked and exhausted.
"I took off (work) this week and I don't know if I'll be back next week," he said. "It's just worn me out."
Hoepner said he was surprised to see a news report in which anti-abortion leaders confirmed that they had seen Roeder at least once and possibly more at a recent Sedgwick County District Court trial involving Tiller.
Tiller was acquitted on charges that he had failed to obtain a second signature from an independent physician before performing late-term abortions. Roeder told a fellow abortion opponent that he thought that verdict was "a sham."
"When I heard that he (Roeder) had been at the trial, I thought maybe he's been around for a while," Hoepner said.
He said it was likely that the other congregants had welcomed Roeder.
He said church members -- having felt the sting of protest directed at them -- had a gift for being inviting to others who might not have felt welcome in other congregations.
"We've got a very friendly church," Hoepner said. "I don't know if Roeder was greeted (by others). More than likely, he was."


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It seems that each site in private beta shows a count down after 7 days, like independent, of the fact if and when it is really going public beta. I remember to have seen a delay of some hours at the start of http://dba.stackexchange.com.
I think it would be better not to show such misleading information.
Even better would be to distinguish between the cases where there are some technical delays or when the site is hold intensionally in private beta, which seems to be the case with Healthcare IT.


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House GOP seeks to make friends
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — House Republicans heard it loud and clear Wednesday: They are unpopular, and need to change their ways.
Speaker John Boehner's House Republican Conference is more disliked now than when it took the majority two years ago, lawmakers and aides here found out. After taking a bruising in the 2012 elections, the Republican Party needs an image makeover and the GOP must learn to relate better to voters.
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That was the message delivered by the party's most trusted pollsters during the first day of the House GOP's retreat at the posh Kingsmill Resort on the edge of this colonial town, where the lobbyist-funded Congressional Institute is putting on the annual confab.
The two-day retreat sessions are closed to everyone except members of the House Republican Conference and top leadership aides. The meetings were described to POLITICO by several sources in the room.
And the theme was hard to miss.
David Winston, a top GOP pollster and close adviser to Boehner, unveiled the House Republicans' most recent favorable rating based on his own analysis: It came in at a barrel-scraping 27 percent.
House Democrats' numbers are a full 19 points higher at 46 percent. Winston's analysis: Neither party is popular, but the GOP is less so. The lawmakers heard that the way to turn things around is for the party to pivot squarely to the economy and jobs — the chief concerns of most voters.
After an election dominated by a steady stream of gaffes by the GOP's presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, and some of its highest-profile candidates, some of the speakers at Wednesday's retreat counseled the GOP on how to turn things around. Doing so will be paramount as the party enters a period of tense conflict with President Barack Obama over fiscal matters like the nation's debt ceiling and the sequester.
Domino's Pizza CEO J. Patrick Doyle explained to House Republicans how he remade his company's brand.
At the tail end of a panel, Winston and fellow Republican pollsters Kellyanne Conway and Dave Sackett urged the GOP to work hard to relate better to voters. That's why, the pollsters said in a question-and-answer session, Romney lost his bid for the White House — because no one identified with the aloof-seeming wealthy former venture capitalist whom Democrats painted as way out of touch with the average voter.


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OMAHA, Neb. – UCSB graduate Katy Freeman advanced to the 100-meter breaststroke semifinals at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials after finishing 15th overall in Tuesday morning's preliminaries.
Freeman touched the wall in 1:09.25, which garnered her a spot in Tuesday evening's 16-swimmer semifinals. Tonight's competition will air on NBC, check your local listings for the time. For the complete broadcast schedule of this week's trials, click here.
Competing alongside the 2009 UCSB alum in the 100 breaststroke was current Gaucho Sophia Yamauchi, who placed 110th overall during the morning swim. She touched the wall in 1:12.95.
Garrett Thompson also competed today in the 200 freestyle. He finished in 1:53.70, which placed him 103rd overall.
For complete results from the 2012 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials, click here.


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On July 1st, Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, issued a warning to states and transit agencies that federal funding for road projects and transit efforts will become limited and states should not expect same-day reimbursement for projects.
In fact, because the Highway Trust Fund is expected to run out of cash "in just a few weeks," the Dept. of Transportation is being forced to implement a "cash management plan beginning Aug. 1" until such time that funding is restored to appropriate levels. What does that mean? It means construction projects and road maintenance around the country may grind to a halt.
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There are many hurdles facing DC/Warner Bros. when it comes to the future of their superhero movie universe - including: how to approach the task (solo character films vs. team-up films), which characters to focus on (Flash, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, etc...) - and of course, how to treat properties that have already had a recent cinematic run (those lingering Green Lantern and Batman reboot questions).
In the case of Batman, the issue is especially problematic: Chris Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy was so beloved by fans that they still can't accept the idea that it is 100% over - even though the director and his stars keep insisting that it is. Any actor who tries to step into the role so soon after Christian Bale is going to be facing an uphill battle, but a new rumor hints at a scenario that could conceivably help ease the transition.
Batman on Film is claiming that they've heard "whispers" that while DC/WB is currently tossing around any number of ideas about how to continue their Batman franchise, one of those ideas - which fans will no doubt appreciate - is to make a cinematic version of the popular '90s cartoon, Batman Beyond.
For those who don't know: Batman Beyond was set in the Gotham City of 2039, twenty years after the final appearance of the Batman. Bruce Wayne (now weakened and aged) meets Terry McGinnis, a teenage kid hiding noble sensibilities under a huge chip on his shoulder. After fighting side-by-side with Terry in a skirmish against a local Joker gang, Bruce is left in a debilitated state and must rely on Terry to make it back to his mansion; there, the young man quickly discovers that the old man he's assisted was actually the legendary hero known as Batman. When the Joker gangsters murder Terry's father at the behest of a corrupt executive within Wayne's corporation, Bruce gives Terry the chance for justice in the form of a hi-tech Batman armor and an array of fancy gadgets. After nabbing the bad guys that killed Terry's father, Bruce and Terry provide one another with new purpose in life, as they embark on a campaign to truly transform Terry into a fully-trained and capable Batman for a new era.
According to BoF, there could be two-pronged approach to making Batman Beyond fit within in a DC movie universe - namely by using the character of Bruce Wayne as a bridge. In the Justice League era, Bruce would be in his prime and still active as Batman; in the Batman Beyond future era, Bruce would be aged and serve as mentor to Terry. That theory makes about as much sense as any, and it would certainly be more pleasing to fans that trying to wedge the Terry McGinnis Batman into a modern-day Justice League roster; not to mention, both franchises could benefit from using the same actor as both the old and young versions of Bruce.
As for translating Batman Beyond to the big screen? In the last few years, several studios (including WB) have batted around the idea of making futuristic versions of classic characters like Robin Hood or Zorro - so Batman wouldn't be all that far-fetched, nor unexpected (fans have been calling for a Batman Beyond live-action movie for years). In terms of adapting the cartoon: a piece of concept art by artist Mark Vick started circling the Internet awhile back, detailing what the Batman Beyond armor might look like in a live-action film, and the results certainly struck a cord with fans:
For my part: Batman Beyond was just one of many great shows that DC/WB put out in the '90s era, so a film franchise based on that property is already a welcome proposition in my book. More to the point, it would give fans several things they would likely value:
- A chance to explore the character of Batman in a new world, from a new angle.
- A chance to explore a new character behind the cape and cowl in a new context, free of the same kind of hinderances that come with trying to, say, introduce the Dick Grayson Batman within a "Bruce Wayne prime" era.
- A chance to mix the mythos and thematic strengths of Batman with a bonafide sci-fi movie experience.
- Did we mention a rogues gallery that mixes (and remixes) both new and old villains?
Marvel Studios is currently expanding their movie universe into futuristic sci-fi territory with Guardians of the Galaxy - and it will be interesting to see how audiences react to that idea - but clearly, the ambition of mixing superhero action with heavy sci-fi tropes is already being pursued (WB already tried and failed in that endeavor with Green Lantern). No matter how GoG does, or how lukewarm GL was, Batman is a brand that sells itself, and the notion of "Batman in the future" is one that could easily entice millions of movie fans before they every see one second of trailer footage.
For now, however, this is all conjecture; DC/WB has NOT chosen to go in any particular direction yet (that we know of), but Comic-Con 2013 could (hopefully?)(maybe?) change that. If you need a taste of what Batman Beyond is all about, watch the pilot episode opening, below:
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We'll keep you updated on any and all Batman movie projects; stay tuned to our Comic-Con 2013 Coverage page so that you don't miss any breaking news.
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Help Wanted: 8th Inning Set Up Guy…
Forget about 3 out of 4…
The Yankees may have won the weekend series against the Cleveland Indians, 3 games to 1, but they should have swept the series. What happened on Saturday? Four games and all I want to know is what happened to Joba Chamberlain?
With a 10-4 lead in the fifth inning, the Yankees should have been able to skate to the victory. Unfortunately, it was not meant to be. CC Sabathia was less than sharp, so he does hold some responsibility for the Tribe's momentum that ultimately led to the erasure of the six run lead against Sabathia and the New York bullpen.
But it's getting torturous to watch Joba come into the game at times.
The last two games, although close early on, were both heavily tilted toward the Yankees by the end of the games. There was a sense that the Yankees would score the necessary runs in both games, which they won 7-3 and 11-2 on Sunday and Monday. However, there was a common denominator in both games. Neither featured an appearance by Joba Chamberlain. At this point, we don't know if he has a short memory or if this two week stretch is a sign of things to come. Hopefully, he'll right the ship and catch up with his teammates who appear to have moved past the struggles of late.
Speaking of today's win, hats off to Andy Pettitte. It was a terrific outing by the left hander and in winning his 7th game of the season, he tied the Chairman of the Board, Whitey Ford, for 60th place on the all-time wins list at 236. Of course, you have to wonder what could have been in terms of those three years in Houston. When Andy left via free agency, I was surprised at the time given where he was on the Yankees career list for wins by a lefty. So, instead of tying Ford for the most wins in franchise history, he is 37 wins behind at 199 Yankees victories. This has been a fantastic year for Pettitte (7-1, 2.48 ERA), however, I feel this may be his last given how much more he has been talking about his family this year. Regardless of what happens, Andy is doing it his way…
It is a startling statistic when Mark Teixeira is intentionally walked. The grand slam by Alex Rodriguez in the seventh inning broke open what had been a tight pitching duel between Pettitte and Indians rookie Mitch Talbot. When Teixeira is given a free pass, A-Rod is 5-for-5 with 3 home runs and 18 RBI's. So, please AL Managers, please continue to walk Mark Teixeira at your leisure! J
Derek Jeter was hit by a Talbot pitch in the second inning and left the game after hitting a single in the 7th inning when the hamstring tightened. Hopefully, DJ will be fine after a night's rest.
A special shout out to two brilliant pitching performances over the weekend. Roy Halladay went a long way toward making Philly fans forget his recent rocky performances and Cliff Lee along the way in throwing a perfect game on Saturday night. It was the 20th perfect game in Major League history and the second game this season (Dallas Braden of the Oakland A's threw the other perfect game this season). Also, Ubaldo Jimenez (10-1) of the Colorado Rockies became the majors' first 10 game winner with a 4-0 victory over Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco Giants.
The Tampa Bay Rays lost to the Toronto Blue Jays today so the Yankees are just 2.5 games out of first place. But of course, the Jays and the Boston Red Sox are nipping at their heels. The Jays are just a game behind the Yankees, and the Red Sox are just 2.5 games back. So, the AL East lead could be taken by any one of the four teams depending upon who gets hot. Let's hope it gets hot for the Yankees…very hot!


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The Bryon R. White Center at the University of Colorado Law School will host its second annual Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition at the Wolf Law Building from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9.
The competition gives underrepresented students from high schools in the Denver metro area the opportunity to present an oral argument about a case involving the First Amendment and how it applies to student speech on a school-sponsored website. More than 50 high school students will come to Boulder to compete and twice that number will attend as observers to support their classmates.
The event is free and open to the public. Each student competitor will present three arguments in the morning rounds, which will be judged by panels of volunteer attorneys and judges from the Denver/Boulder legal community.
The top six students from the morning rounds will continue to the final round starting at 1 p.m. The final round will be heard by a panel of distinguished appellate judges, including Judge Neil Gorsuch of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, Chief Justice Michael Bender of the Colorado Supreme Court and Judge Terry Fox of the Colorado Court of Appeals.
All six finalists will advance to the National Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C., on April 5-7. The White Center will raise private funding to pay for each finalist's travel expenses.
All of the high school students who will attend the Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition were coached by a select group of Colorado Law students who enrolled in White Center Director Melissa Hart's Education and the Constitution course. As part of this class, teams of Colorado Law students visit with high school students once a week throughout the school year to teach them about the Constitution and how it applies in the school setting.
Participating schools include Abraham Lincoln High School, Bruce Randolph School, Global Leadership Academy and Martin Luther King Jr. Early College, all of Denver, and Academy High School, North Valley School for Young Adults, York International School and the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, all in Thornton.
Now in the second year of the program, Hart is proud that nearly 500 Colorado high school students have gone through the program.
"It is thrilling to work with these high school students as they develop both a deeper understanding of the Constitution and the confidence to get up and speak in front of lawyers and judges," said Hart. "I am honored to be part of a legal community that is willing to volunteer time to show these students how much their success matters to all of us."
For more information on the Byron R. White Center and the Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition visit http://www.colorado.edu/law/research/byron-white-center.
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The reality show champ will make special appearances in five select cities
Season four Dancing with the Stars champ Apolo Ohno will join the live summer tour generated by the hit ABC show, it was announced Tuesday.
"After the show I started training again for the Olympics but realized quickly that I couldn't go on without at least one more week of Samba," Ohno, 25, said in a statement.
The two-time Olympic speed-skating gold medalist, along with partner Julianne Hough won the competition on Dancing in May, when he declared, "I feel amazing."
His appearances on the tour will only be in five select cities, starting in Raleigh, N.C., on Saturday. He'll also show up in Hershey, Pa., on July 2; Bridgeport, Conn., on July 3; Wilkes Barre, Pa., on July 5 and Atlantic City, NJ, on July 6. 6th.
Dancing contestant (and Cheers veteran) John Ratzenberger will also make a guest appearance in his hometown of Bridgeport. (A complete schedule of tour stops appears on the Web site for Dancing With the Stars, The Tour.)
Other stars who are currently on the Dancing tour include, Joey McIntyre, Joey Lawrence, Drew Lachey and Joey Fatone, who has signed on to host a karaoke-themed game show on NBC, which starts July 9.


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Posted by Editoress on 06/29/12
CBC has been running a "people's choice" vote for Canada's Olympic flag bearer for a while now, beginning with a 16 candidates, 8 men and 8 women. Each day over the last two weeks, they have pitted two athletes against each other in a bracket-style tournament and asked the public to vote on a winner.
The vote is now down to the final 2, one man and one woman - Mountain biker Catharine Pendrel vs triathlete Simon Whitfield.
Pendrel has already pulled off three upsets to reach the final, starting as as the lowest women's seed, to upset the likes of Christine Sinclair, Karen Cockburn and Clara Hughes.
Voting will remain open until 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday, July 3, and we'll announce the winner on Wednesday, July 4
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NCIRD – RFA-IP-12-004, Identifying Reasons for Racial/Ethnic Disparities with Completing the HPV Vaccine Series among Adolescent Females, has been published on Grants.gov.
Grant Description:
The applicants must address in the application's research plan all of the following three research objectives: Among parents of adolescents 11-18 years of age, assess factors contributing to HPV vaccination disparities, specifically assessing factors contributing to series non-completion or not initiating the series, and determining whether reasons differ in nature or in importance by racial/ethnic groups (whites, blacks and Hispanics) or by poverty level. Applicants are expected to provide a research plan that addresses the following elements: Description of the geographic area(s) to be included in the study including population size, racial/ethnic diversity, income level distribution, and level of urbanicity. Applicants must be able to include in their evaluation: parents from at least one racial/ethnic minority group (i.e., black or Hispanic) in addition to white parents, parents of adolescents that receive vaccinations at public clinics in addition to parents of adolescents that receive vaccinations in private provider offices.
The application deadline date is March 28, 2012.
To access the announcement and application package:
- Go to: www.grants.gov
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- Select: "Step 1: Download a Grant Application"
- Insert the Funding Announcement Number, formatted as: RFA-IP-12-004


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Security forces moved in yesterday on two huge Cairo protest camps set up by supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, launching a crackdown that quickly turned into a bloodbath with dozens dead.
Egypt's interim president has declared a monthlong state of emergency to combat worsening violence after riot police moved to clear the two camps of Morsi supporters.
A statement by the office of Egyptian President Adly Mansour said that the state of emergency takes effect at 4pm.
Less than three hours after the first tear gas canisters rained down on tents of protesters in the sprawling Rabaa al-Adawiya camp in east Cairo, an Agence France-Presse (AFP) correspondent counted at least 43 bodies in a makeshift morgue set up by medics at a field hospital treating scores of wounded.
All of the dead were males, many killed by gunfire.
The operation began shortly after dawn when security forces surrounded Rabaa al-Adawiya and a similar protest at al-Nahda square, in the center of the capital.
Witnesses and an AFP correspondent said after firing tear gas, security forces surged into Rabaa al-Adawiya, sparking pandemonium among the thousands of protesters who had set up the camp soon after Morsi was ousted by the army on July 3.
Men in gas masks rushed to grab each canister and dunk them in containers of water, as the main stage near the mosque of the camp blared Islamic anthems and protesters chanted Allahu Akbar ("God is great.")
Clashes quickly erupted between protesters and security forces on one side of the camp, with automatic fire reverberating across the square. It was not immediately clear who was doing the shooting.
TV footage showed the injured being carried to a makeshift medical center, as well as police dragging away protesters, who have defied numerous ultimatums by the army-installed authorities to end their demonstrations.
Protest leaders wearing gas masks stood defiantly on a stage while crowds of people wearing face masks stood amid the swirling tear gas as bulldozers began dismantling the camp.
Police barred journalists not already in the camp from entering.
The Egyptian Ministry of the Interior said about two hours into the operation that security forces had "total control" over al-Nahda Square, the smaller of the two camps.
A security official said that dozens of Morsi supporters had been arrested with the help of residents of the area.
TV footage showed protesters who had been rounded up sitting in the ground handcuffed and surrounded by security forces. Families, with their children, carrying plastic bags were seen being escorted out of the square by police.
Soon after the police launched the crackdown, angry Morsi supporters blockaded some streets of the capital and set tires ablaze, sending black smoke billowing across the sky.
The Muslim Brotherhood urged Egyptians to take to the streets in their thousands to denounce the "massacre."
"This is not an attempt to disperse, but a bloody attempt to crush all voices of opposition to the military coup," Brotherhood spokesman Gehad al-Haddad said on Twitter.
The Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp "is calling on Egyptians to take to the streets to stop the massacre," al-Haddad said.
In a separate tweet, al-Haddad said at least 250 people were killed and more than 5,000 injured. There was no immediate independent confirmation of the tolls.


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Democratic and Republican leaders of Congress emerged from their first budget meeting with President Obama at the White House at midday Friday and, in a rare show of bipartisan bonhomie, jointly expressed confidence that the two parties will reach an agreement before the end of the year to avert economy-rattling tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts.
The four leaders – two Republicans, John A. Boehner, the House speaker, and Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader; and two Democrats, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, and Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader – politely took turns at a microphone outside the West Wing, addressing each other by first names and describing the 70-minute session as constructive.
"We feel very comfortable with each other, and this isn't something we're going to wait until the last day of December to get it done," Mr. Reid said.
"This isn't the first time that we've dealt with these issues," he said. "We feel we understand what the problem is. And we felt very – I feel very good about what we were able to talk about in there. We have the cornerstones of being able to work something out. We're both going to have to give up some of the things that we know are a problem."
Mr. Boehner said he outlined a framework for overhauling the tax code and spending programs that is "consistent with the president's call for a fair and balanced approach."Continue reading the main story
"To show our seriousness," he added, "we put revenue on the table as long as it's accompanied by significant spending cuts."
His Senate counterpart, Mr. McConnell, made plain that Republicans were talking about spending for the entitlement programs, chiefly Medicare and Medicaid, which are growing fast as the population ages and, along with military spending, are squeezing everything else in the federal budget. Republican senators, Mr. McConnell said, "fully understand that you can't save the country until you have entitlement programs that fit the demographics of the changing America in the coming years."
"We're prepared to put revenues on the table," he added, "provided we fix the real problem, even though most of my members, I think without exception, believe that we're in the dilemma we're in not because we tax too little but because we spend too much."
Ms. Pelosi, whose House Democratic colleagues include many liberals who resist significant changes to entitlement spending, said: "We understand our responsibility here. We understand that it has to be about cuts, it has to be about revenue, it has to be about growth, it has to be about the future." She added, "I feel confident that a solution may be in sight."
With Mr. Obama in the Roosevelt Room, the leaders made up the same cast who bitterly fought in 2011, then eventually agreed to nearly $1 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years but deadlocked on the roughly $4 trillion "grand bargain" both sides say the country needs.
Mr. Obama demands that it include up to $1.6 trillion in tax increases for the wealthy, while Republicans favor less in revenue but big cost-saving changes to Medicare and Medicaid.
The talks began on a friendly note, as well: With reporters and cameras briefly allowed into the room, the president wished a happy birthday to Mr. Boehner, who turns 63 on Saturday.
The two sides met after a tense week of postelection, pre-bargaining positioning. Mr. Obama, after making an issue of it in his re-election campaign, claims a mandate to insist on extending the Bush-era tax cuts, which otherwise expire on Dec. 31 — but not for income of $250,000 and above for couples and $200,000 for individuals.
More broadly, the outcome of the budget talks will go a long way toward defining his leverage for a second term, both in terms of his influence and the resources available to him to press his agenda.
The president "will not sign, under any circumstances, an extension of tax cuts for the top 2 percent of American earners," his spokesman, Jay Carney, told reporters on Thursday.
"We have to make sure that taxes don't go up on the middle class, that the economy remains strong," Mr. Obama said as the meeting began.
"That's an agenda that Democrats and Republicans and independents, people all across the country share," he said. "So our challenge is to make sure that we are able to cooperate together work together find some common ground, make some tough compromises, build some consensus to do the people's business."
"My hope is, is that this is going to be the beginning of a fruitful process where we're able to come to an agreement that will reduce our deficit in a balanced way, that we will deal with some of these long-term impediments to growth," he added.
Republican leaders, for their part, have signaled since their losses for the White House and in Congress that they would agree to additional tax revenues, but they oppose raising the top marginal rate, which is now 35 percent and scheduled to return to 39.6 percent, the Clinton-era level, on Jan. 1.
And Republicans are holding out for significant future savings from Medicare and Medicaid, which Mr. Obama and his party also support as necessary to controlling the mounting federal debt in an aging population – to a limit. Still, many liberal Democrats are mobilizing against entitlement program cuts, especially after a campaign in which Republicans and their standard-bearer, Mitt Romney, attacked Mr. Obama and the Democrats for having enacted Medicare reductions as part of the 2010 health-care law.
All four Congressional leaders will remain in their senior posts, both for the lame-duck session that started this week and the new Congress that starts in January. The lame-duck session could last through the holidays unless the parties can reach an agreement on a budget deal to avoid a so-called fiscal cliff after Jan. 1, when the country would be hit by more than $500 billion in tax increases – mainly from the expiration of the Bush tax rates – and across-the-board cuts in military and domestic spending absent a bipartisan compromise on an alternative package of deficit-reduction.
Such large and sudden action could cause a short recession, the Congressional Budget Office has warned; any negotiated alternative would spread the budget cuts over a longer period to avoid harming the still-weak economy.
Mr. Obama, in a news conference on Wednesday, alternately sounded conciliatory and uncompromising as he ratcheted up the pressure on Republicans to immediately agree to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans.
He announced the meeting a week ago, in his first post-election public statement, saying last Friday, "The American people voted for action, not politics as usual. You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours."
He acknowledged then, and since, that both parties would have to make changes to bring down the growing long-term costs of the government health programs. "But," he added, "as I've said before, we can't just cut our way to prosperity. If we're serious about reducing the deficit, we have to combine spending cuts with revenue – and that means asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes."
Mr. Reid said the parties would work over the Thanksgiving holiday and meet again the following week. Mr. Obama leaves on Saturday for a four-day diplomatic trip to Asia.
Ms. Pelosi said afterwards that it is important to set deadlines and show signs of progress in the next few weeks in order to instill "confidence" in consumers and financial markets.
Mr. Obama's activities since the election week have signaled his intent -- not just for now but for the second term -- to use his bully pulpit and to keep lines open to outside constituent groups and the public even as he works with leaders of Congress on the insiders' game of negotiating the minutiae of legislation. After Thanksgiving, he occasionally will campaign around the country for his position.
The session with Congressional leaders followed his meetings earlier this week with leaders of unions, progressive groups and corporate executives. Later on Friday Mr. Obama will meet with more than a dozen representatives of civic, civil-rights, disability and anti-poverty groups and organizations representing both older and young Americans.
Participants will include Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the N.A.A.C.P.; civil rights activist and MSNBC talk-show host Al Sharpton; Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, and A. Barry Rand, head of AARP, the lobby group for older Americans. Also invited is Sister Simone Campbell, who led the "Nuns on the Bus" tour for social justice this summer and spoke at the Democratic National Convention, where she decried Republican budget plans as "immoral."Continue reading the main story


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The words flitted through my head,
As many words, words which may never be said.
I felt the forms of celestial beings,
The sky alight, starlight and star bright.
Twinkling stars forever in their journey of millions to ten billion years,
Black holes it would seem, a stars end, and another beginning.
Like the words of poets, of mortal men,
Glimmering sheen; spoken out loud,
Perhaps, for thousands of years.
One day all words will flicker out,
One day no one will remember the words,
Said eons ago, but for His words; the designer,
All other words fade to pitch, disappear into black holes.
We wish for an eternity, yet we dream of fantastic world's — Neverlands,
Our own earth to flawed to be genuine.
I wonder what words we remember most?
Are they the words of love and endearment?
Or the words of intense, raging emotions?
The times we screamed as teenagers,
Angry at life, our parents the world.
Or the times we shrieked, like banshees, for our broken hearts.
Are they words said at a loved ones funeral?
Or are those words always covered up, oozing untruth?
Maybe, they're the words of passion and heat?
Said between, blissful, exultant kisses?
Were these words in any situation real?
Said to make us feel better, to feel okay,
To make us feel that the world was right?
Yet we keep spinning in our thoughts, beneath the heavens,
Residents of former Eden, spanning the globe.
Beneath celestial lights, the greatest burning blasts of sun a flame.
The stars we wish, mean there is and was a Neverland,
Perhaps, a flying PeterPan to lead us?
But Wendy, she wisely came back to earth;
As Wendy, I stay grounded in reality.
In a necklace around my neck,
Wearing pixie dust, my hope —
That anyone can learn to fly, and one day find their forever home.
That any child has a home, where they are loved and safe.
Hoping no one is a lost boy,
Not without support and a fighting spirit,
To carry on; their feet on the ground like Wendy — the mother.
Oh stars spinning round the earth, you glow brighter —
Than the pixie dust of tinkerbelle's sacrifice.
Brighter than the gleaming moon, off of Captain Hook's hook,
Gleam keener than the crocodile's eyes, who follows Hook relentlessly.
Who wants to run forever from crocodiles?
When they have a taste for your flesh,
They want to devour you whole and escape is a distant goal.
In real life, they're too many crocodiles,
Beneath celestial beings of the universe, in shimmering luminescence.
Exist terrible creatures of horror and disease,
Of hate and harms if every kind.
Those whose souls are so filthy,
You would think they could never be clean.
But the filthy harmers, are rather variant from Hook's crocodile,
Imagine the music playing when the Crocadile comes, Disney made famous.
The ticking of the clock, the crocodile had eaten,
The metaphor for time always clicking,
It's heels along with Captain Hook's boots.
So we discover, even if we're Peter Pan,
Life is not Neverland; even in Neverland, time keeps on ticking by.
We cannot fly with Tinkerbelle's pixie dust,
Everyone and everything ages; we cannot escape this,
If we were created from a black hole — a Big Bang —
A gigantic vacuum in reverse.
Maybe, we are as stars gleaming only a moment?
Mere seconds in reality, than forever, dying out.
Re-existing in our heavenly home,
If we followed that one star to the Manger.
And even Peter Pan chose one day,
To stay home in the real world.
He realized in an epiphany, eternity was too long to live as a child.
He saw eternities vastness, in his old -young eyes,
And said most clearly: "One day I want to die."
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Betsy King knows about dealing with adversity
COLORADO SPRINGS – Betsy King, who at age 55 is the oldest player in the 2011 U.S. Women's Open, has not played a regular LPGA Tour event in six years.
So what has she being doing with her life?
Plenty. King is involved in several humanitarian efforts, including helping to build houses in Africa with her Christian fellowship group.
"It's life changing," she said Tuesday.
Taking along some other LPGA players and in partnership with World Vision and Habitat for Humanity, King is currently involved in building 45 houses for AIDS orphans in Lisutu, Malawi.
"It's completely surrounded by South Africa and has the third highest HIV-AIDS rate in the world," King explained. "About a quarter of the population is infected. Because they don't have access to drugs like we do here, there are a number of children that have lost one or both parents to the disease.
"So a lot of these homes will be going to children that are either living with older siblings or being raised by their grandparents, or maybe they're the head of the household at age 10 or 12."
"I know things aren't easy in the U.S. (with the economy)," she added, "but we just don't know what it's like to live in a Third World country."


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Working It Out
CLEVELAND — What better way to spend a day than standing around at Jacobs Field, watching professional athletes stretch and take batting practice with hundreds of media types huddled along the base lines. Minus the surplus of scribes, this is normally called pregame, though usually there's a game afterward.
The highlight of my day actually came at lunch, when I grabbed some grub at the Fourth Street Bar and Grill with Toronto Sun's Mike Rutsey. We walked into the restaurant and were led to our table in what appeared to be a normal little joint. Turns out, when you round the corner, there's a bowling alley in the place! I mean, it's one thing to have a bar in a bowling alley, but to have lanes in a bar? That's quality.
Nothing out of the ordinary happened during the workout today at The Jake. Yankees manager Joe Torre revealed his roster, which includes exactly zero left-handers in his bullpen for the ALDS. Torre also opted to stick with his typically lineup, instead of tweaking it to account for facing tough left-hander C.C. Sabathia.
I was assigned to do a piece on New York's Chien-Ming Wang (a headline writer's worst nightmare), who is starting in Game 1 for the Bombers. Wang is basically the Yankees' Roy Halladay — a groundball pitcher who tries to induce early contact. Interestingly enough, Cleveland grounded into the fewest double plays in baseball this year, while Wang created the most. That should make it an interesting pairing.
I'm going to get back to taking in the final frames of this D-backs vs. Cubbies contest. Tomorrow, I'll be at the ballpark here around 1:30 and will have a few stories I'll be working on. Before this series is over, I plan on asking Travis Hafner how he plans on fixing John McDonald's swing this winter. Talk about an odd pair to be workout partners in the offseason. Then again, maybe working out with Mac is what led to Pronk's dimished stats this year…food for thought.


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There are so many exciting things happening at this year's HOW Design Live conference including a closing keynote from our very own Scott Belsky, as well as sessions led by Adobe evangelists. What's more, we're hosting a Tweetway in conjunction with the event and we're giving away some sweet prizes.
Want to be a part of it? Here's how to enter:
Between June 10 and June 25, send a Tweet with the hashtag #AdobeHOW and share your Adobe Ideas drawing, Adobe Kuler theme, or a link to a project in your Behance portfolio for a chance to win a Creative Cloud membership. We're giving away one 5-year membership and ten (that's right, 10!) 3-month memberships. Don't miss out on a chance to win.
We'll select winners at random, from all submissions, on June 25; winners will be notified on June 26 via Twitter. For full details, check out our HOW Tweetaway Sweepstakes Official Rules.
This is your chance to show off your work AND possibly win some great prizes. Be sure to follow Creative Cloud on Twitter. Also, if you're at the conference, be sure to stop by the Adobe booth to say hello, get answers to your questions, and learn the latest about your favorite tools.
UPDATE (as of 2:30 PM PT): The results are in! Congratulations to our grand prize winner Eric Higgins (@iamEricHiggins) who will receive a 5-year membership to Creative Cloud. But there's more…The following folks each receive a 3-month Creative Cloud membership.
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It's been nearly eight years since a terrorist's bomb ripped through the bottom floors of New York's World Trade Center complex, and forever changed the way Americans think about security at work and home. And there's no question that the 1999 Columbine High School tragedy sparked increased security concerns at schools and universities.
The commercial, industrial, institutional and residential security installation markets are booming. Electronic security, a fast-growing offshoot of the mainstream low-voltage wiring business, has become a $16 billion market. Security wiring is a logical extension of the core power wiring business for electrical contractors. Jim Lucy's article on page 12 offers five common sense tips for contractors to tap into the lucrative security market, using expertise garnered from other installations.
Meanwhile, the residential security installation market remains the smallest but fastest-growing market. The market grew more than 30% in both 1998 and 1999 - Analysts expected the home market to crack the $1 billion mark in 2000. See Mike Harrington's article on page 13 for the details.
Some electrical contractors are not only getting into the low-voltage arena, but are actually installing security wiring. E-J Electric Installation Co., Long Island City, N.Y., is responsible for wiring security systems in the World Trade Center, perhaps the most security-conscious high-rise building in the world. Amy Fischbach's article on that installation, "Towering security," begins on page 14.


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Obama vows to continue gun push
President Barack Obama vowed Saturday to keep pushing ahead on his domestic agenda, fighting for tougher gun laws and resisting Republican efforts to cut funding for health care and food stamps.
"We fought a good fight earlier this year, but we came up short and that means we've gotta get back up and go back at it" to put in place new gun laws, Obama told the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual dinner in Washington, in a combative speech aimed squarely at firing up a key part of his base.
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"We can't rest until all of our children can go to school or walk down the street free from the fear that they will be struck down by a stray bullet," he said. "Just two days ago in my hometown, Chicago, 13 people were shot during a pickup basketball game, including a three-year-old girl."
( Also on POLITICO: Anti-gun groups demand action)
On Sunday, Obama will meet with the families of victims of the Navy Yard shooting, who "now know the same unspeakable grief [as] families in Newtown and Aurora and Tucson and Chicago and New Orleans and all across the country," he said.
They're "people whose loved ones were torn from them without headlines sometimes and public outcry, but it's happening every single day," Obama continued, later adding: "As long as there are those who fight to make it as easy as possible for dangerous people to get their hands on a gun, then we've got to work as hard as possible for the sake of our children. We've got to be ones who are willing to do more work to make it harder."
Obama's speech signaled that he may be willing to expend political capital on gun laws in the coming months. Before that, though, he must reach a deal with Republicans to avert a government shutdown on Oct. 1, and to raise the debt ceiling by later this fall.
( Also on POLITICO: Poll: Gun violence, illness connected)
"This is an interesting thing to ponder, that your top agenda is making sure 20 million people don't have health insurance," he said of the House GOP. "And you'd be willing to shut down the government and potentially default for the first time in United States history because it bothers you so much that we're actually going to make sure that everybody has affordable health care."
But, he continued, "Let me say as clearly as I can: It is not going to happen." Obamacare will fully become law "and those folks are going to get some health care in this country — we've been waiting 50 years for it."
Obama also repeated his refusal to negotiate with Republicans on raising the debt ceiling, a position he's repeatedly stressed this week, including in a brief phone call Friday with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). "It's time for these folks to stop governing by crisis and start focusing on what really matters," he said.
( PHOTOS: Shooting at Navy Yard)
In front of a crowd that included African-American members of Congress and civil rights leaders, the president also touched on the themes of social and economic justice that made up the core of his recent speech marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. "We can't rest until we offer ladders of opportunity and upward mobility. The American dream is slipping away for too many," he said.
Answering concerns that he could be discouraged or tired after four-and-a-half years in office, Obama said he is still enthusiastic about the work ahead. "Don't worry about me, I am still fired up," he said. "I am still fired up because I still see the work that needs to be done."
"We're gonna have to keep marching," he said. "I'm gonna be marching with you."


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Yesterday we finally received our long awaited packages from home that had our Christmas in them! The boys were super excited!!!
While the below photos may not be thrilling for all of you to look at, I know some grandparents who won't mind seeing them! =)
"Christmas Morning" - except it almost wasn't! Even though the boys were excited about having Christmas, they slept in fairly late which is unusual for them!
Jacinda and her new baby doll!
Although Parker can be quite rambunctious, he's actually the one who carefully opens all his packages. No haphazard tearing of wrapping paper for him!!
Taylor - he's the Lego man!
And he got quite a few Lego related sets and an idea book this year!
Even though Kyle is growing up (so quickly), he still gets "pumped" about opening up gifts!
Thank you to all who sent Christmas cards, texts and emails, money, and packages...we deeply appreciate your thoughtfulness!
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The next thing on the agenda is a revival in Santo Domingo this weekend! Bro. Javier, from the H.I.M. church in Motozintla, MX will be the special speaker. Michael (and I, at times) will be singing.
After that, our whole family is leaving Jan. 16th to go to Florida for a month! Michael has a revival he will be speaking at in Boynton Beach at a H.I.M. hispanic church. We will also be doing a few deputation services in Florida and then attending Sea Breeze camp in Hobe Sound. We are looking forward to a change of pace and hopefully re-charging our spiritual, emotional, and ministry "batteries."
While we are gone, we are putting into effect a time of transition here at our churches in Tapachula and Santo Domingo. We have been training nationals pastors who will start taking over the works here. We are excited and they are excited to see how the Lord has been leading and working in their lives to bring them to this point. Pray for our churches here while we're gone that the Lord would give wisdom in leadership and that the churches would stay encouraged!
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Update on my sister: she came home from the hospital on Jan. 3rd! PTL! We're praying and hoping for a swift recovery and that she would generally start to feel better, more often! I know she's happy to be back with her little boy!