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* Kings raise banner, lose to Blackhawks
* Fans fill bars and pubs (Adds results)
By Steve Keating
Jan 19 (Reuters) - The National Hockey League is back, and so are the fans, as the puck finally dropped on a season that nearly never was because of bitter labor dispute.
From sunny California to wintry Quebec, 26 of the NHL's 30 teams were in action on Saturday.
The Los Angeles Kings raised their massive black-and-white Stanley Cup banner before opening the defense of their crown against the Chicago Blackhawks, while in Montreal, two of the league's flagship franchises, the Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs, renewed their storied rivalry.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHL Players Association chief Donald Fehr, who had held the ice hockey spotlight through nearly four months of negotiations, slipped into the shadows and left the stage to the players.
"Last week we announced that we reached an agreement on a new CBA (collective bargaining agreement) and tonight the Bruins are back on the ice," said Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs shortly before his team got a 3-1 win over the New York Rangers.
"When the puck drops, we put the last four months behind us and celebrate the return of hockey to Causeway Street.
"The fact that we were unable to reach an agreement until just recently is a disappointment.
"I want to personally apologize to our fans and others who depend on this team for their livelihood. But these are just words. The best way to make it up to you is to play hard and win."
The season began the way the last one ended -- in Los Angeles, with the Kings doing one final victory lap around a jubilant Staples Center with the Stanley Cup before a poignant banner raising ceremony assisted by the family of Ana Marquez-Greene, a fan and victim of the Sandy Hook massacre.
There was one big difference, however, as the Kings, who never gave up more than four goals in their championship run, surrendered that many in two periods as the Blackhawks spoiled the party with a 5-2 win.
In some markets, bitterness from the 113-day lockout is sure to linger but not in Canada where an ice hockey buzz swept across the country like a massive winter storm and fans welcomed back teams with open arms.
The return of the NHL also meant the return of hundreds of jobs as fans slipped into their favorite jerseys and packed bars and pubs providing a jolt to local economies.
The league and teams have worked hard to win back disgruntled fans and their wallets, offering everything from free tickets and parking to discounts on beer, hotdogs and merchandise.
Even the Maple Leafs, who last year were rated by Forbes as the first ice hockey team to be worth $1 billion, extended an olive branch by giving away 1,000 tickets to Monday's home opener against Buffalo and offering free skate rentals at the Toronto city hall outdoor rink that same day.
For opening day the NHL took out full page newspaper ads in major cities across Canada and the United States, offering yet another apology for dragging fans through a fourth work stoppage in 20 years.
At nearly every arena, teams thanked fans for their patience and standing by the sport through trying times.
Fans were also front-and-center at several openers.
In Los Angeles, 10 fans were selected to escort the Stanley Cup in the Staples Center while two San Jose Sharks supporters were chosen to drop the ceremonial puck at their home opener.
The league-wide charm offensive generated enough goodwill to make opening day a success but most of the initiatives do not go further, leaving it up to the product on the ice to keep the turnstiles twirling and television ratings climbing.
With a shortened 48-game regular season there will be little margin for error, with even a minor slump or injury capable of tripping up a team up during a 99-day sprint for a playoff spot.
With only a six-day training camp, there was plenty of rust on display on Saturday.
The Pittsburgh Penguins, the oddsmakers favorites to replace the Kings as champions, got off to solid start beating their great rivals the Flyers 3-1 in front of a record Philadelphia crowd.
The Maple Leafs, who have not hoisted the Stanley Cup since 1967 and failed to make the playoffs the last seven seasons, gave their fans hope the postseason drought might be coming to an end with a 2-1 victory over the Canadiens.
The New Jersey Devils, losing finalists a year ago, beat the New York Islanders 2-1. (Editing by Gene Cherry/Peter Rutherford)


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Monday, May 3, 2010
You Know You Are Loved When....
...history repeats itself. Last century, a darling 4 year old sat on a bench with her grandmother who was an accomplished pianist. She listened politely for a while and then told her grandmother she thought she should take lessons from her mother who could teach her to play the piano with just one hand. Fast forward with me to a dinner table in this century. The little one who sat on the piano bench with her grandmother now has two sons and sits at the head of the table. For whatever reason the dying of gray hair was being discussed. The older of the two boys was of the opinion that there was nothing wrong with gray hair. His argument, "Oma has gray hair." His younger brother went a step further. "Oma's not gray, she's silver." Both boys will be fondly remembered and rewarded in the will! I'm convinced that blarney is a genetic gift. Isn't life grand?
20 comments :
- Rue said...
I love the things children say - especially when it's a compliment!
- May 3, 2010 at 11:45 PM
- Jeannie said...
Yes, a child's compliment is the best one can get. That is why I prefer to ask my sons whenever I needed an opinion on say, a new recipe:D
- May 4, 2010 at 1:41 AM
- Allie and Pattie said...
You started my day with a smile! Love it!
xoxo Pattie
- May 4, 2010 at 5:01 AM
- LDH said...
aww... as a mom-mom, this warmed my heart!
- May 4, 2010 at 6:20 AM
- Sweet Southern Prep said...
So so sweet! Loved this story, silver and all. :)
- May 4, 2010 at 7:42 AM
- sweetlife said...
kids are clever, aren't they
- May 4, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- Susan C said...
Love this!
- May 4, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- oneordinaryday said...
So sweet!
- May 4, 2010 at 12:25 PM
- Karen said...
How sweet. Can't beat a grandparent - grandchild relationship :)
- May 4, 2010 at 2:19 PM
- SallyBR said...
I am stealing that line!
From now on, I am SILVER! ;-)
Very adorable....
- May 4, 2010 at 2:43 PM
- Pondside said...
That was adorable!
- May 4, 2010 at 4:06 PM
- Janice said...
Oh yes, they know how to work you!!!
Hee hee hee!
- May 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM
- Carla and Michael said...
What an adorable post. Are the signs yours? I love them.
- May 4, 2010 at 6:22 PM
- Kim said...
Children are so precious!
- May 4, 2010 at 7:57 PM
- Joe Ambrosino said...
LOL! Love the signs!
- May 4, 2010 at 8:14 PM
- Claudia said...
This is the sweetness in life. Now... I'm going to make a sign.
- May 4, 2010 at 9:06 PM
- Mary said...
Carla and Michael, the signs are not mine. I saw them in a garden center last weekend and took pictures of them at that time. I really love them. Mary
- May 4, 2010 at 10:38 PM
- My Little Space said...
Yes, definitley it is! Then, you've to check this block 'My Little Sprouts'! I think you'll be smiling all the way.
Blessings, Kristy
- May 5, 2010 at 3:53 AM
- KathyB. said...
I love this post! One of my granddaughters recently told me ( after she whispered a question to her Mom asking if she could tell me this)"I think Grandmas should be chubby". Bless her, now I will have to get to cooking and baking all my favorite foods so I can fulfill her ideal of a Grandma!Plump with gray hair, I CAN do this~with delight.
- May 5, 2010 at 5:32 AM
- Rambling Tart said...
Aww, I love it. :-) Silver is GORGEOUS! :-)
- May 5, 2010 at 12:55 PM

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Memorial Reminds Americans That Each Generation Must Fight for Freedom
By Jim Garamone
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2008 - The Pentagon Memorial -- scheduled to be dedicated next week on the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack -- is a reminder that "each generation inherits freedom, and it's up to each generation to protect it and pass it along," a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
Retired Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who served as vice chairman and then as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2001 to 2007, said the memorial will be a place where Americans can learn of the people who lost their lives in the attack on the Pentagon and learn from them for years to come.
Pace was the commander of U.S. Southern Command and was on a visit to Bogota, Colombia, on Sept. 11, 2001. He already had been nominated to be the vice chairman. He said that days later, when he arrived at the Pentagon and saw the area where Flight 78 hit, he felt anger at the loss of innocent lives both in the building and aboard the plane.
"My second feeling was frustration at having spent my adult life defending the United States and having something like this happen here and in New York and in Pennsylvania," he said during a recent interview.
He vowed "to do all I could to prevent a re-occurrence."
As a lieutenant, Pace fought in Vietnam. He thought he was fighting so his children and grandchildren wouldn't have to fight. The attacks of Sept. 11 brought home to him that it doesn't work that way, he said.
"We fight, we preserve our nation's liberties, not so our sons and daughters and grandchildren won't have to fight, but rather so they have something worth fighting for," he explained.
Seven years after the attacks that stunned the United States, Americans are impatient. "You can understand impatience," Pace said. "The American people see ourselves as a friendly nation, we see ourselves as not wanting to do harm to anyone in the world." Americans still have a tough time understanding that there are people in the world who want to do Americans harm, the general added. "I think we forget that the enemy has declared war on us," he said.
The dialogue Americans should have is not whether the country should be at war or not ? the enemy already has made that point moot, he noted. "Rather, the dialogue is really about where we take our stand," he said. "Do we take our stand in Iraq, in Afghanistan,s or do we take it someplace else?"
Al-Qaida has a 100-year plan to destroy the United States as a nation and to take away the rights of free people, Pace said. "We have to decide where in the 100 years we are going to do something about it, and I believe we have taken the right steps," he said.
The security situation in Iraq is improving, he said. That the United States made mistakes in the country early is evident, "but we learned from those mistakes and changed," he said.
Americans must be more patient to confront this threat, he said.
"I can understand the individuals who are frustrated with the pace of the war," he said, "but if you look at any conflict in history ? especially any terrorist conflict ? it's measured in decades, not in days."
The Pentagon Memorial will graphically illustrate to generations of Americans the idea that freedom isn't free, the general said.
"It's a place where folks -- years from now -- who have no recollection of what happened here that day will have a chance to reflect on it, to learn about it, to understand that our fellow citizens sacrificed their lives here that they and their future generations might live free."
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MasterCard has announced it will launch MasterPass Down Under next month, with the credit card company already securing partnerships with several major Australian banks and retailers.
MasterCard said the mobile wallet is the "evolution" of PayPass Wallet, which was announced last May.
For online payments, the digital wallet allows users to pay from a list of pre-stored cards and shipping addresses stored in the digital wallet. In the store, merchants supporting MasterPass will be able to accept mobile contactless payments using near field communication (NFC) technology or QR codes, MasterCard said.
"With a simple click, tap or touch—online, in-store or anywhere—using any payment card or enabled device, MasterPass gives Australians access to a range of cards in their digital wallet with one button," MasterCard said.
MasterCard didn't mention support for Visa or American Express cards in its news release, but indicated that the digital wallet can hold more cards than MasterCard.
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"Not yet available in Australia, our MasterPass Services will include our existing NFC contactless payment solution PayPass," the spokeswoman said. "MasterPass will be a combination of multiple services that will include not only contactless payments but other types of in-store checkouts to come in the future as well as online shopping options."
"MasterPass is specifically designed to work with our existing NFC/contactless payment terminals, of which Australia has over 100,000 deployed across the country and over 700,000 worldwide."
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Visa and Vodafone announced an NFC-based mobile payments app last year.
Banks, telcos, payment and technology companies are all expected to compete for control over consumers' digital wallets.
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Cole MacGrath, hero of Infamous and bike messenger, wasn't the best-looking game character in the world. His redesign for the sequel was even worse, though, so it's good to see developers Sucker Punch reverting to something a little more familiar.
While we already knew this about-face had been made by the team, a developer diary posted on the PlayStation seems to show us our first look at the new/old Cole, looking far more like his old self (and a Mr. David "Golden Balls" Beckham") than the awful glo-stick waving design we saw earlier in the year.
Nothing else about the game has changed. It's still a PS3 exclusive, it's still set in
New Orleans New Marais, and it's still due out in 2011.
UPDATE - Both Sony and the film crew responsible say that this shot is concept art for the first game's Cole, not the redesign for the sequel. Bummer.
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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm.
Novella Carpenter loves cities-the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents' disastrous mistakes, yet drawn to the idea of backyard self-sufficiency, Carpenter decided that it might be possible to have it both ways: a homegrown vegetable plot as well as museums, bars, concerts, and a twenty-four-hour convenience mart mere minutes away. Especially when she moved to a ramshackle house in inner city Oakland and discovered a weed-choked, garbage-strewn abandoned lot next door. She closed her eyes and pictured heirloom tomatoes, a beehive, and a chicken coop.
For anyone who has ever grown herbs on their windowsill, tomatoes on their fire escape, or obsessed over the offerings at the local farmers' market, Carpenter's story will capture your heart. And if you've ever considered leaving it all behind to become a farmer outside the city limits, or looked at the abandoned lot next door with a gleam in your eye, consider this both a cautionary tale and a full-throated call to action. Farm City is an unforgettable memoir, full of hilarious moments, fascinating farmers' tips, and a great deal of heart. It is also a moving meditation on urban life versus the natural world and what we have given up to live the way we do.
About the Author
Novella Carpenter Novella Carpenter grew up in rural Idaho and Washington State. She majored in biology and English at the University of Washington in Seattle. While attending Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, she studied under Michael Pollan for two years. Her urban farm began with a few chickens, then some bees, until she had a full-blown farm near downtown Oakland.
Meet Novella Carpenter when she reads from Farm City and answers audience questions at the Bernal Heights Branch on March 31, 2010 at 7pm! Book sales will be provided by Red Hill Books.
"In this utterly enchanting book, food writer Carpenter chronicles with grace and generosity her experiences as an urban farmer. With her boyfriend Bill's help, her squatter's vegetable garden in one of the worst parts of the Bay Area evolved into further adventures in bee and poultry keeping in the desire for such staples as home-harvested honey, eggs and home-raised meat. The built-in difficulties also required dealing with the expected noise and mess as well as interference both human and animal. When one turkey survived to see, so to speak, its way to the Thanksgiving table, the success spurred Carpenter to rabbitry and a monthlong plan to eat from her own garden. Consistently drawing on her Idaho ranch roots and determined even in the face of bodily danger, her ambitions led to ownership and care of a brace of pigs straight out of E.B. White. She chronicles the animals' slaughter with grace and sensitivity, their cooking and consumption with a gastronome's passion, and elegantly folds in riches like urban farming history. Her way with narrative and details, like the oddly poetic names of chicken and watermelon breeds, gives her memoir an Annie Dillard lyricism, but it's the juxtaposition of the farming life with inner-city grit that elevates it to the realm of the magical." –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Highways roared in the distance. Gunshots could be heard a few blocks away. And a homeless man slept in an abandoned car down the street. Among these modern-day urban scenes, author Novella Carpenter put down roots literally turning a vacant lot in Oakland, California, into a working mini-farm, complete with vegetables, herbs, chickens, ducks, and bees. Karen White reads these lively accounts of missteps and delicious victories, including recipes, with the author's intelligence, humor, and devotion to the American ideal of hard work and self-sufficiency. Farming is about food, and food is always about people. Carpenter's encounters with third-world neighbors, block parties, and the boy who came to buy a rabbit are beguiling and inspiring." -AudioFile (review of audio CD)


text: Here's our first tantalizing peek at all the action in season three of Game of Thrones. Among other things, you can glimpse the Unsullied, some Wildlings... and the new face of Tyrion Lannister. "The game's been upped," says Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys. This really does look just as epic as the first two seasons, and March seems like it's a long way off.


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Royal Hickman designed pottery, glass, silver, aluminum, furniture, lamps, and other items. From 1938 to 1944 and again from the 1950s to 1969, he worked for Haeger Potteries. Mr. Hickman operated his own pottery in Tampa, Florida, during the 1940s. He moved to California and worked for Vernon Potteries. The last years of his life he lived in Guadalajara, Mexico, and continued designing for Royal Haeger. He died in 1969. Pieces made in his pottery listed here are marked Royal Hickman or Hickman. Pieces designed for the Haeger Potteries are marked Royal Haeger. The company is named Royal Hickman because Hickman's first name was Royal, not because it was approved by royalty.
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Yankees can't rally for Hughes, ineffective 'pen
Righty falters in fifth; Logan and Co. unable to limit damge vs. Tigers
DETROIT -- The Yankees never denied that there might be a few weak spots as they headed into the season with a roster depleted by injuries, but they were counting on their capable pitching staff to power through any problems.
That blueprint hasn't quite worked out so far. The Tigers batted around in a four-run fifth inning and continued piling on with a 17-hit showing, sending the Yanks to an 8-4 loss -- their fourth in five games -- on Saturday at Comerica Park.
"In Spring Training, we looked at a strength of our club being our pitching, and we've gotten off to a slow start," Yankees starter Phil Hughes said. "There's nothing more to it than that. We have to do a better job as starters and keep our team in the game."
Activated from the disabled list before Saturday's game, Hughes did a good job of limiting the Tigers to an unearned run through the first four innings, but he was unable to record an out in the fifth and the Yankees' bullpen was able to offer little relief.
"I think it's just a rough start. We've got to get it turned around," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "It doesn't get any easier tomorrow with [Justin] Verlander, but we've got to get it turned around. We're swinging the bats OK. We've got to get the pitching turned around a little bit."
Many of the veteran Yankees have been saying for weeks that no one is going to feel sorry for them as they wait for reinforcements, and in the opposing dugout, that is certainly proving to be true.
"When I was in Minnesota, the Yankees owned us," said Torii Hunter, who stroked three hits in the victory. "And now with Detroit, I kind of like it. It's a lot of fun. The Yankees are the Yankees, man. It's a good ballclub. No matter what, when you hear the word Yankees, it's special. So when we come out here and we beat those guys, it's always special."
The first three Tigers batters reached base in the fifth against Hughes, including Hunter's RBI double and Miguel Cabrera's RBI single -- one of four hits on the day for the slugger. Boone Logan then turned in another ineffective relief appearance, allowing two hits and a sacrifice fly.
Jhonny Peralta greeted David Phelps -- who had been New York's scheduled starter for Saturday before Hughes was activated -- with a run-scoring single, and it was more of the same for the Yankees, who have now permitted 33 runs and 61 hits through their first five games.
"We haven't played well enough to win some of these games," Yankees outfielder Vernon Wells said. "You've got to give that team credit, they came out and swung the bats. I think our pitchers made some quality pitches when they needed to, because it could have been a lot worse with as many hits as they had."
The Yankees' patchwork order tried to keep pace with Detroit's thunder, and Tigers starter Max Scherzer was hit for four runs and five hits in five-plus innings, including Wells' second homer of the season.
New York's first four hits were all for extra bases, including three in the second inning, but they came away with just one run in that frame because Brennan Boesch was thrown out at the plate by Hunter on an ill-advised play as Francisco Cervelli flied out to right field.
"You expect to score more there, but it didn't happen and you have to find a way to not let that keep you from winning the game," Girardi said.
New York answered Detroit's big fifth inning with three runs in the sixth, as Travis Hafner laced an RBI single off Scherzer and Lyle Overbay slapped a hanging Al Alburquerque slider for a two-run single to take advantage of four Tigers walks in the inning.
That was a frame in which the Yankees thought they might catch a needed break, as umpire Brian O'Nora initially ruled Wells safe diving back to first base after Fielder appeared to turn an unassisted double play on a Boesch liner.
Wells was ushered back to first base by coach Mick Kelleher, but reading the lips of home-plate umpire Jerry Layne, Wells knew it wouldn't be long until the umpiring crew reversed the call.
"I had a close up view of it," Wells said. "When they said, 'Hey, you're safe,' I'm like, 'OK. I'll get back on the base.' I saw Jerry coming, I could read his lips. I'm like, 'I'm going back to the dugout.'"
Detroit pushed back with two runs in the home sixth when Fielder and Andy Dirks drove in runs off Phelps, and Joba Chamberlain allowed a tack-on run in the eighth inning.
Darin Downs threw two scoreless innings and the Yanks went in order against Joaquin Benoit in the ninth as Detroit pelted New York for at least eight runs in back-to-back games for the first time since 2004.
"You know, this is baseball," Cervelli said. "I think it's better that it happens now. We know this situation is going to change. We've got a really strong pitching staff. They're going to come and make the adjustments. They know how they can do things well."


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Better Breakfast Mini-Review: Einstein's Open-Face Fried Chicken Scramble
By LTF | Published: August 9, 2010
Einstein's has been on my Better Breakfast list since the beginning, yet I just now got around to trying it out. Unfortunately, my brunch date wasn't feeling particularly breakfast-y on this particular Sunday, so I have not been exposed to enough of the brunch menu to render a verdict on their service as a whole. [...]
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Better Breakfast Series – Review: Highland Bakery
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I don't think that I can count the number of times that I have tried to go to Highland Bakery for brunch, only to back down to fear. Yes, you heard that right: fear. Having never been to Highland Bakery, I knew only two things: 1 – That their brunch is supposed to be fantastic and 2 – [...]
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Better Breakfast Series- Review: Noon Midtown
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Thank God I decided to write the Better Breakfast series. Otherwise, I might have never found Noon Midtown. Owner/Chef Katie Birmingham's story is one that adds just a little bit more fuel to my fantasies that I will one day shed my corporate shackles and live out my life cooking food that makes people smile two [...]
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Welcome to an Exceptional Pet-Friendly Hotel in Hutto, Texas
Leisure travelers looking for Hutto accommodations will appreciate its location. Nearby attractions include Dell Diamond, Old Settlers Park, historic Georgetown, the Star Ranch golf course, the Round Rock Outlet Mall, IKEA, and the Circuit of The Americas Race Track, host of Formula One. The hotel is just 3 miles away from the Typhoon Texas Water Park and 10 miles from the newly constructed Round Rock Sports Complex.
Hutto is a growing community that is 20 miles north of Austin, TX. Starmark l Dog Training Academy is just two miles away. We are located close to East Willlamson Higher Education Center Temple College and TSTC Technical College Minutes from Ercot and The Williamson County Expo Center.
This Hutto, TX hotel features a contemporary style with a trendy flair. There is free high-speed, wired and Wi-Fi internet access throughout the hotel. You can relax in the indoor pool and whirlpool or workout in a well-equipped fitness center. For a great atmosphere and excellent service, stay at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites in Hutto, Texas
- Rollaway Bed/Cot Available
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NNSA Hosts Los Alamos County Officials
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NNSA Acting Administrator Neile Miller last week hosted Los Alamos County Council Chair Geoffrey Rodgers, County Councilor Peter Sheehey and County Administrator Harry Burgess.
Miller thanked the county officials for their active interest in Los Alamos National Laboratory and for their leadership in the community.
NNSA recognizes the value of a strong and collaborative relationship with the leadership of its laboratory communities and appreciates the opportunity to advance the national nuclear security agenda through their partnership.


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For advisors, a little tax knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
"Most people lose more money trying to reduce taxes than they save in taxes," says advisor Less Antman, who founded the firm SimplyRich and taught prep courses for CPAs for 27 years.
In an interview with ThinkAdvisor, he warned of the dangers of too much portfolio rebalancing, the limitations of tax-loss harvesting, and the unintended consequences now dogging investors who tried to dodge estate taxes in the '90s.
Yet the lure of tax minimization is powerful and often destructive, for middle-class investors through the wealthiest.
Paper Millionaires Turned Paupers
Antman tells the story of a client in the late '90s who sought his help to minimize taxes on incentive stock options that had amassed enormous built-in gains.
"One of my earliest clients was working for a dot-com company that had given out incentive stock options, they had an enormous built-in gain, and they wanted to figure out the way to minimize taxes."
Tongue-in-cheek, he suggested holding onto the stock until it crashed and gains disappeared, eliminating the tax problem.
The client took the hint and exercised the options, then immediately sold enough stock to become financially independent for life.
In contrast, many of the client's colleagues exercised options with a plan to hold the stock for a day and a year in order to convert higher-taxed ordinary income to more lightly taxed long-term capital gains.
The stock collapsed before that day was to arrive for most of the client's colleagues, and their gains were wiped out.
But that is not all. Antman says that these once paper-rich techies, by exercising their options, became subject to the alternative minimum tax (AMT) on phantom gains for which they received gigantic tax bills at a 28% rate. They could only begin to claw back those payments the following year — with capital losses limited to just $3,000 a year.
To make this more comprehensible, Antman says these tax-minimizing dot-com-ers — on options worth $1 million — would have received a $280,000 AMT bill just for exercising, then after the crash have $1 million worth of capital loss deductions they could use at a rate of $3,000 a year, which has some utility for those living to the age of 340.
"To be fair, several years later Congress passed a limited measure to allow some people to recover old capital losses from the AMT, but they still had to pay the $280,000 on the nonexistent gain and then wait several years for the government to show some mercy." he says. "And that mercy rule has since expired, so we're back to tax hell for such people the next time it happens." It is common, Antman adds, for particularly smart people to make such mistakes because they research tax-saving strategies and think they understand them without foreseeing the tax traps that lie within. That's why people with incentive options need a tax-savvy advisor, Antman says, quoting Lord Thomas Dewar of Scottish whisky fame:
"Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax."
Muni Bonds, Variable Annuities and Other Potential Tax Traps
Antman's key tax insight for advisors, though, is to avoid the all-too-common mistake of seeking to minimize taxes rather than maximize after-tax returns.
"There's a big difference: You can reduce taxes in ways that reduce your income even more," he says, citing muni bonds as a classic example of reducing a tax bill by accepting lower returns at the outset.
Nobody not in the top tax bracket should even consider them, he says, yet it is common for middle-class investors to park their cash in muni-based money market funds.
Variable annuities are also not all they're reputed to be, Antman says. They turn all income ordinary, even what would otherwise have been long-term capital gains; lose the stepped-up basis at death that applies to taxable account assets, restrict investment options severely, and typically add fees that far exceed the net benefit of deferring taxation on earnings.
Moreover, deferral is of little value if it is only for a small number of years, so the best case for a variable annuity would presumably be one intended to be held for decades. Yet money invested for decades belongs in equities, and deferral of equity taxation can be obtained by the use of index mutual funds or ETFs without any of the fees of variable annuities.
"There are lots of ways to cut your taxes that will cut your income even more," he says.
Antman emphasizes that he does occasionally find a role for an annuity, but it isn't to save taxes.
"The traditional role of an annuity was to pay a periodic income for life, and was essentially a form of protection against living too long. For those who either have no desire or no ability to consider the needs of heirs or charitable legacies, converting a lump sum into periodic payments for life is a reasonable bet to make with an insurance company.
"Of course, in such cases I will recommend either an inflation-adjusted annuity or an immediate variable annuity that pays for life but varies the payments based on the return of underlying investments, since a fixed annuity doesn't really protect someone against the impact of long-term inflation. But the one topic that never comes up in a proper discussion of such annuities is taxes."
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Georgia College women's basketball team (9-6, 5-3 PBC) struggled to find an offensive flow Monday evening during the Battle of the Cats III at Augusta State University (12-2, 6-2 PBC), falling 50-31.
Enisha Donley (Loganville, Ga.) led the Bobcats with 12 points on 6-of-14 shooting from the field, she also added eight rebounds to her final stat line. Brandi McKinney (Cincinnati) had 10 points on 3-of-13 shooting with seven rebounds and four steals.
As a team, the Bobcats shot 13-of-51 from the field and 1-of-12 from behind the arc, compared to 20-of-50 and 6-of-16 for the Jaguars. The Bobcats won the rebound battle 40-28, but would turn the ball over 27 times compared to the Jaguars' 18.
The Jaguars were led offensively by Brittany White and Becky Newhouse, who each scored 12 points. Taylor Ayers chipped in 10 points and seven rebounds. Newhouse also added eight steals, while White finished with six.
The game was the third edition of the Battle of the Cats; the Bobcats won the first matchup during the 2010-11 season 71-39 and the Jaguars would take the second Battle of the Cats 45-33 a year ago.
The Bobcats will be back in action Thursday, Jan. 24 at 5:30 p.m. when they hit the road again, this time to take on USC Aiken.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.
Jaguar Defense Stymies Bobcat Women, 50-31
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Georgia College women's basketball team (9-6, 5-3 PBC) struggled to find an offensive flow Monday evening during the Battle of the Cats III at Augusta State University (12-2, 6-2 PBC), falling 50-31.


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Richie Incognito suspended indefinitely for alleged harassment of Jonathan Martin
The Miami Dolphins have indefinitely suspended guard Richie Incognito while the NFL look into his alleged involvement in the harassment of a teammate, offensive tackle Jonathan Martin, the NFL Network's Jeff Darlington reported on Sunday night. After initially releasing a statement saying they weren't aware of Martin's bullying, the Dolphins later announced its action against Incognito:
"The Miami Dolphins have suspended Richie Incognito for conduct detrimental to the team. We believe in maintaining a culture of respect for one another and as a result we believe this decision is in the best interest of the organization at this time. As we noted earlier, we reached out to the NFL to conduct an objective and thorough review. We will continue to work with the league on this matter."
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According to ESPN, citing "multiple sources," on Sunday morning, Incognito was under review by the NFL Players Association to determine if he had any role in the incident. Incognito at the time took to Twitter to dispute that network's report, telling them to "stop slandering" his name.
Fox Sports' Mike Garafolo reported Sunday night that Martin is alleging that Incognito sent him text messages and left him voicemails that his lawyers say are "threatening and racially charged," and that they plan to share the messages with the league as parf of the investigation.
Meanwhile, ESPN reported that the Dolphins have a culture that could be intimidating to rookies and young players. Incognito reportedly pressured Martin into doling out $15,000 to finance an unofficial team vacation to Las Vegas. Martin, in fact, didn't even go on the trip.
Martin left the Dolphins last week to receive help for emotional issues, reportedly following a prank in the team's cafeteria Monday.


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Comcast to test its YouTube competitor by the end of the year
"Comcast is looking to test a new platform for the distribution of online videos through its new X1 cable set-top boxes by the end of the year, the company's SVP of Video Matt Strauss confirmed during an interview at the sidelines of the TV of Tomorrow Show this week."
DramaFever to launch new platforms for documentaries and horror movies
"New York-based streaming video startup DramaFever will launch new verticals for documentaries and horror movies in the coming months, DramaFever co-founder Seung Bak revealed during a panel at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco on Wednesday. Bak said that the company plans to launch a dedicated platform for documentaries later this year and a horror movie channel in early 2015."
Dish's upcoming internet TV service to target cord cutters and "cord haters"
"Dish wants to make inroads with people who are fed up with traditional pay TV with its upcoming internet-based TV service, said the company's GM of Interactive and Advanced TV Adam Lowy at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco Wednesday. "Cord cutters, cord nevers and what we call cord haters" will be the target audience of the new service, said Lowy."
Dish sets OTT targets: 'Cord cutters, cord nevers and cord haters'
"Speaking at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco Wednesday, Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) GM of interactive and advanced TV Adam Lowy defined the desired subscriber base for his company's soon-to-be launched OTT service as being young, digital and somewhat dissonant to traditional pay-TV services."
Report: Comcast building its own YouTube-like platform for X1
"Speaking at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco Wednesday, Matt Strauss, senior VP of video for Comcast, told GigaOM that the pay TV company is looking to test the new platform by the end of the year. As explained by Strauss, Comcast isn't looking for cute cats, bored teenagers and other works by amateur video makers, but rather professionally produced content--the kind YouTube itself has migrated to during the past two years."
Dish's $30 OTT deal a loss leader that will bring in subs, draw Millennials
"Last week, Bernstein Research's Todd Juenger posited that satellite TV provider Dish Network could put together a pretty solid array of content for the $30/mo. Internet TV service it wants to offer. […]Wednesday, at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco, Adam Lowy, Dish's GM of interactive and advanced TV, told an audience that the market segment the satellite provider was going after included "cord cutters, cord nevers and what we call cord haters."
Showtime Touts Smart TV's for Rich, Interactive Experience
"Showtime sees smart TV's as powerful platform for immersive, interactive experiences, explains David Preisman, VP for Interactive Television at the premium cable network. In this interview with Beet.TV, he speaks about the company's Sho Synch app and its growing popularity. The app is available on LG sets. We spoke with him at the TV of Tomorrow Conference where he was a speaker."
Comcast Will Double Live Programming via "TV Everywhere" this Year
"The number of programmers to deliver their live streams will double to 75 this year, says Matthew Strauss, GM for Video Services at Comcast in this interview with Beet.TV. We interviewed him this week at the TV of Tomorrow conference."
Comcast Will Double Live Programming via "TV Everywhere" this Year
"The number of programmers to deliver their live streams will double to 75 this year, says Matthew Strauss, GM for Video Services at Comcast in this interview with Beet.TV. We interviewed him this week at the TV of Tomorrow conference."
UK's BSkyB Sees A Third Of Subscribers Watch Mobile
"The UK may not have a joint "TV Everywhere" initiative like that in the US – but subscription satellite TV and broadband operator BSkyB is seeing mobile viewing boom despite (or perhaps because) of that. "We are seeing … a third of our customer base using 'TV everywhere' every month," says BSkyB's business developer VP Hilary Perchard, who is one of the execs recently posted by the satcaster to the San Francisco Bay Area to build connections with startups. […]We interviewed him this week at the TV of Tomorrow conference."
TV Everywhere' is Expanding Video Viewing and Advertising Opportunities
"The big growth of "TV Everywhere," meaning the authenticated viewing of TV programming on digital devices by cable and satellite consumers, is creating expanded video viewing and new opportunities for advertisers, says Beet commentator Ashley J. Swartz, in this wrap-up of the TV of Tomorrow conference in San Francisco."
How Regulation Defines the Evolution of Television
"Yet as the television ownership landscape becomes less diverse, the shows have never been better. Why? The empowerment of the consumer, Mr. Torici argues. People are now able to watch TV shows whenever they want through whatever device they prefer, and connect with other fans in a public conversation over social media. As CEO of Group M Entertainment, a TV production and financing firm that's a unit of global advertising giant WPP, Mr. Tortorici now watches over another sort of convergence: television and marketing."
CNN Merging TV and Net Programming with 'CNN X'
"CNN is expanding its new 'CNN X' product – a hybrid offering of live TV and personalized digital content to cable and satellite subscribers with new distribution platforms. CNN X, which is available on iPad, has just launched on the Web and will soon be available on DiretTV set-top boxes, explains K.C. Estenson, GM of Digital for CNN in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him yesterday at the TV of Tomorrow conference."
Sports Is Catalyst For TV Everywhere Boom: Adobe's Helfland
"The TV Everywhere system for allowing online viewers to watch channels from the US' patchwork of cable operators is booming thanks to sports popularity. "We saw about a 250% increase in TV Everywhere streams this past quarter over the previous year," says Adobe's Primetime VP Jeremy Helfland. […] We spoke with him at the TV of Tomorrow conference."
Comcast to Bring Web Video, Data, Social to TV w/ X1 Cable Box
"The X1 cable box from Comcast will be become increasingly "immersive" with a number of new features including more Apps, Web videos, data and social media over the next few months, explains Matthew Strauss, SVP and GM for Video Services, in this interview with Beet.TV. […]We spoke with him at the TV of Tomorrow conference yesterday in San Francisco."
Unauthenticated TV Everywhere: the wave of the future?
"At the time there was much speculation that NowTV would cannibalize Sky's existing customer base as people ditched monthly sports packages for occasional daily access through NowTV. Has this happened? Not according to Hilary Perchard, VP of Business Development at Sky. I interviewed him at the TV of Tomorrow show in San Francisco to understand how this radical experiment in TV Everywhere delivery was working for the company. As you will see from the interview, far from cannibalizing existing subscribers, NowTV is allowing Sky to reach an audience that had proved resistant to the allure...
Mobile, iOS Fuels Rapid Growth of "TV Everywhere," Adobe Study
"Mobile devices, led by the Apple operating system, are fueling the spread of TV Everywhere, says Tamara Gaffney, Principal Analyst with Adobe Digital Index in this video interview. "The iOS app has surpassed the browser as the most common access point for TV Everywhere," she says, sharing the details of a just-released study Adobe conducted that analyzes TV Everywhere usage. […]Gaffney presented her finding today in San Francisco where she was a speaker at the TV of Tomorrow show."
Mobile, iOS Fuels Rapid Growth of "TV Everywhere"
"Mobile devices, led by the Apple operating system, are fueling the spread of TV Everywhere, says Tamara Gaffney, Principal Analyst with Adobe Digital Index in this video interview. "The iOS app has surpassed the browser as the most common access point for TV Everywhere," she says, sharing the details of a just-released study Adobe conducted that analyzes TV Everywhere usage. […]Gaffney presented her finding today in San Francisco where she was a speaker at the TV of Tomorrow show."
Comcast X1, CNNx and the future of pay TV
"I glimpsed the future of pay-TV at the TV of Tomorrow (TVOT) show in San Francisco today. That future sees the cable channels taking charge of the experience of their content, while the operators continue to provide the consolidated view of it all. Matt Strauss, SVP and GM of Video Services at Comcast, demonstrated a new version of the company's popular X1 TV service. He showed how the guide has really become 7 different guides in one."
TV of Tomorrow Show to Host Hackathon Focused on Video Centric Apps
"TV of Tomorrow Show SF 2014 is hosting a companion event, the TVOT Hackathon 2014, which brings together hackers, directors, and other creatives and experts from the worlds of television, online video, advertising, big data, visual and sound design, display technology, art, music and beyond, to envision and build the TV of Tomorrow."
TV of Tomorrow Conference: TV at the Speed of Light
"TVOT, one of the most forward thinking conferences in our industry, focused on the concept of time for this year's New York City event. In past years, TVOT has explored how technologies such as VR would change how we use TV, how the rollout of apps and TVE would impact how we access content and how big and small data would impact how we measure everything...."
This Time, the TV of Tomorrow Conference Focused on Time Itself
"Every year, the TV of Tomorrow conference in New York City takes on a topic of importance for the industry. In the past, the event has concentrated on TV Everywhere, data, virtual reality and apps. But as the media ecosystem continues to transform and fragment, this year TVOT focused on time, which is emerging as a valuable commodity regarding the optimal length of an ad, the form of content by platform or how we manage, analyze and gain insights from the firehose of data, among other concerns...."
Can OTT video match TV's reliability, quality of delivery?
"While OTT video streaming can beat televisions resolution today, it cannot match the reliability and quality of delivery. Will it ever get there? Yes we can, according to four streaming video experts.At the TV of Tomorrow Show in New York last week, I sat down with a group of video quality experts to discuss how online video providers should approach quality delivery online. It soon became apparent that there are still big challenges with the basics, like video start time, and buffering. This led me to ask the panelist: "Can we ever reach or better traditional televisions reliability...
TVE vs. apps panel says search, discovery need to be fixed next
"NEW YORK—A debate-style panel featuring executives from NBC, MobiTV and other companies argued the merits of TV Everywhere vs. standalone apps, but agreed that search and discovery is in immediate need of fixing.At the TV of Tomorrow conference, Chris Falkner, senior vice president of Advanced TV at NBC Broadcasting; Virginia Juliano, CEO of Cobblecord; Terri Stevens, CFO at MobiTV; Ashley Swartz, CEO of Furious Corp.; Perry Weinstein, North America general manager at Accedo; and Alan Wolk, senior advisor at MediaLink all seemed to recognize..."
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Paul Weyrich, 'pioneer of the Religious Right' dies
Conservative activist Paul Weyrich, a great ally of Liberty University founder Dr. Jerry Falwell, died on Thursday at age 66.
Best known for coining the term "Moral Majority," Weyrich was a strong figure in the Christian political movement that he co-founded along with Falwell and Tim LaHaye. The Moral Majority thrived throughout the 1980s, with a membership including Catholics, Evangelicals, Mormons and Jews who agreed on certain core social issues.
Here are some words of tribute from Falwell's son, LU Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr.:
"Paul Weyrich was a pioneer of the Religious Right and the Reagan Revolution. He was one of the first to recognize that a coalition of people of faith was needed to protect traditional family values, the rights of the unborn and the existence of the state of Israel. Paul Weyrich also hosted many Liberty University students and interns at high-level political events in Washington, exposing them to the political process and teaching them how to become part of it. I met many of our nation's political leaders when I attended some of those events as a college student in the early 1980s. Paul Weyrich will be greatly missed by conservative Christians across this nation. He worked tirelessly behind the scenes to advance the conservative agenda."


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5 ways to interact with reporters on Facebook
Tons of reporters use Facebook for their work. You can use that to your advantage, but be cautious about how you do it.
Facebook is crawling with reporters, editors, bloggers, and other members of the media.
They often use Facebook as a way to find sources, generate story ideas, connect with the communities involved with stories, share their stories, and so on. In other words, Facebook is an important resource for them.
You should understand how to use Facebook to connect and interact with reporters on a meaningful level. Here are five easy tips to get you started:
1. Find the reporters you're targeting. The first thing to do is add reporters to your Facebook network. Many reporters include a link to their Facebook profile at the end of their stories or somewhere in their bios. You can also check out MuckRack's directory of publications and journalists on Facebook (and other social media sites).
2. Share their stories. Reporters are usually thankful when people share their stories and help drive traffic to them. Sharing the stories of reporters you're targeting can get you on their radar and earn their appreciation. You can also leave nice comments on their wall whenever they write a story you enjoy.
3. Pay attention to what they share and post. By analyzing the content a reporter shares and posts, you can learn more about his or her interests so you can tailor your own stories to be more attractive to that specific reporter. You could even find a story opportunity among the things they post and share.
4. Be ready to jump on opportunities to be a source. Many reporters use Facebook as a tool for finding sources. You need to make sure you're ready to pounce on any relevant opportunities that might arise when a reporter is looking for a source and you're qualified. You should also make sure that your Facebook profile does a good job of explaining who you are and where your area of expertise lies.
5. Don't spam them. Can you pitch a reporter through Facebook? If you have a relationship with them, you could pitch them, but that's recommended only if you truly have a relationship with the reporter. Even then, don't overdo it. Don't constantly harass reporters on Facebook, and you certainly don't want to send them pitches irrelevant to their niche. You'll quickly turn into a pest in their eyes.
Do you use Facebook to connect with reporters? What are your best tips?
A version of this article originally appeared on the PR Fuel blog.
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Looking for a radio for my dad who wants to listen to an international radio station outside. I want to have it setup where he can turn the device on / off and select a pre-configured station via the device.
The station is not available locally on AM / FM / DAB so it would need to be Internet enabled and Wi-Fi is probably out of range leaving 4G / tether to a mobile phone maybe the only way.
Couldn't find anything obvious that would meet this requirement and was wondering if anyone might know some good options? Thanks


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As a reporter, I was always careful to tell both sides of a story, unless the "other side" was a lie — i.e. tobacco is safe, the world is flat or the free market can handle health care without any regulation whatsoever.
It was particularly important when dealing with controversial issues like abortion. I bent over backwards to be fair because although I am pro-choice, I chose not to have an abortion when I was advised to have one. There might have been a circumstance under which I would have chosen to end a pregnancy, but I didn't encounter it.
I will not, however, condemn any woman who chooses an abortion because I am not in her shoes. According to the law of the land, she has a right to make that choice, with choice being the operative word here.
This week, the only clinic in the state that was eligible to perform safe, legal abortions was shut down by the state, just after the governor signed a law that will close the other 15 clinics.
The thing is, this isn't just about abortion. These clinics aren't abortion factories; they provide affordable care to women who are uninsured. I know because I got my primary care at an "abortion clinic" for several years when I didn't have insurance and I never had an abortion. I'm not the only person who realizes how important these women's clinics are for women's overall health.
Women's clinics also do well-women care such as cancer screenings. Many also have obstetricians who offer affordable care through pregnancy and childbirth. When you close down women's clinics, you close down women's access to health care. A lot of people are aware of this, and I would expect newspaper reporters to be among them.
However, when I opened my newspaper this morning, I might have thought I was the only one who knows about the diversity of services offered at women's clinics and the importance of having them in the community. The front-page headline stated that the "abortion clinic closure" was "praised."
Perhaps the closure was praised by people who oppose abortion under any circumstance, but the issue here is also access to affordable care, cancer screenings, contraception and other medications.
The problem here is that there is precious little help for women now. A woman of childbearing age (which I no longer am) has a right to decide when and if she will have a child. That's pretty simple if she has effective contraception, but now that Femcare is closed, that makes affordable contraception more difficult to get. And the very people who deny women access to abortion also want to deny them access to contraception. Then, when the inevitable happens and a baby is born, these same people complain that poor women keep "pumping out" babies.
No matter what, they want to lay the blame on women — not on the men who impregnate them, not on a society that punishes people for being poor, but on women, often because we're seen as sinful. Eve committed the first sin, after all. That's what I was taught growing up.
So now, a group of old white men in Raleigh has decided that women can't have access to abortion and the newspaper reporter can't find a single person to say it's not a good thing? No one is available to say women need the services this clinic provided?
I find that hard to believe.