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Career Highs
Goals: 4, vs. Yale (4/27/13)
Assists: 1, three times
Points: 4, vs. Yale (4/27/13)
Ground balls: 4, at Quinnipiac (4/9/13)
2013 (Freshman):
Scored one goal and registered one caused turnover in a matchup with Duke (March 30) ... Recorded one goal, one assist and one caused turnover versus Cornell (April 6) ... Scored two goals and posted one assist while also picking up a career-high four ground balls in a win over Quinnipiac (April 9) ... Credited with one goal in a victory against Penn (April 13) ... Dished out one assist in a matchup with Princeton (April 20) ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll after compiling a career-high four goals in a matchup with Yale (April 27).
Before Harvard:
Ranked as the No. 22 recruit in the class of 2016 by Inside Lacrosse … Played varsity lacrosse all four years at Deerfield Academy … Captain of the lacrosse team in 2012 … Helped the lacrosse team win three NE West 1 Championships from 2010-12 … Named Under Armour All-American and NILCA All-America third team in 2012 … Also named All-New England in 2012 … Leading scorer at Deerfield in 2012 … Also played three years of varsity football and one year of varsity hockey … Served as team captain of the football team as a senior ... An Honor Roll Student all four years of high school ... Volunteered as a peer counselor from 2011-12 … Acted as a proctor in 2012 … Mother, Wendy Ardrey, played tennis at Stanford … Father, Jamie Ardrey, played soccer at Dartmouth.


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Hidden Secrets Walking Tour
Meeting Point: Walking Tours 208 W. 80th Street
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Take a walk on the road less traveled in Central Park and discover its hidden gems!
Details: Experience some of the lesser-known treasures and tour the hard to find places that most don't get to see. Together with your guide you'll explore hidden gems including the last remaining fortification of a site from the American Revolutionary War, a must-see 3500 year-old visitor from Egypt, and other attractions invisible to the average eye.
- 2 hour tour
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Here are some screens. https://www.flickr.com/photos/94839221@ ... 650475312/
Please let my know what you think.
PS: Keep in mind:
However, some bad news. I just read this in an Addendum to the Macintosh User's Guide (text document included in with the DOS Compatibility Installer Disk - Mac environment, version 1.0.5):
MIDI Transfers Supported on Macintosh Only
The LC 630 DOS Compatible does not have the capability of sending and receiving MIDI data through the serial port for DOS and Windows.
MIDI data does travel internally on the PC side, but when connected direct for use with a MIDI instrument, no data will transfer.
MIDI transfers are fully supported on the Macintosh side.


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British elections to have Obama flavor
Next year's elections in Great Britain may look very familiar to American audiences.
And why not? Former political advisers to President Obama have signed up as consultants to the two major British parties.
The Labor Party announced last week it has retained the services of long-time Obama strategist David Axelrod.
Last year, the Conservatives -- led by Prime Minister David Cameron -- retained Obama's 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina.
Cameron is expected to be challenged next year by Labor leader Ed Miliband.
The Washington Post notes that British politicians have hired U.S. consultants in the past, but "it is unusual for a sitting American president to have two of his most prominent former campaign gurus working on opposite sides of an election that will determine who leads the government of Washington's closest ally."
Reports The Post:
"Already, both Miliband and Cameron are sounding out themes that will be familiar to anyone who followed Obama's 2012 campaign. Miliband speaks often of a 'cost-of-living crisis' for Britons and says the current government has widened the gap between rich and poor.
"Cameron has countered with evidence of an improving economy and has urged his countrymen not to hand control back to a Labor Party that oversaw Britain's descent into recession before being ousted after 13 years in power."


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Bidding Stalls Again on Key US Wireless AirwavesBy Reuters - | Posted 2008-02-06 Print
Bidding stalled in the closely watched auction of a piece of wireless airwaves that the U.S. government is selling, according to data released by the FCC.
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Bidding stalled on Tuesday in the closely watched auction of a piece of wireless airwaves that the U.S. government is selling, according to data released by the Federal Communications Commission.
There were no new offers for the nationwide "C" block slice of wireless spectrum to top previous high bids totaling $4.74 billion.
Tuesday's pause prompted speculation that bidding for the C block spectrum may have run its course, and that the most likely possible winner could be either Verizon Wireless or Internet search leader Google Inc.
Bidders' identities are kept secret until the entire auction ends, under FCC rules. The end won't come until bidding has stopped on all five blocks of spectrum up for sale in the auction, which will probably take at least another week or two.
The $4.74 billion in bids for eight regional pieces of the C block airwaves on Monday surpassed a $4.71 billion offer made last Thursday for a nationwide package of the spectrum.
Stifel Nicolaus analyst Rebecca Arbogast said there were several possible scenarios as to what companies had bid on the C block airwaves.
The most likely of those, she said, is that Verizon Wireless pushed the C block bids up to $4.74 billion on Monday in order to top an earlier bid by Google.
It was also possible that the earlier, $4.71 billion offer was made by Verizon Wireless, and that another competitor is aiming to force Verizon to up its bid, Arbogast said.
Bidding on the C block had temporarily stalled on Friday after Thursday's $4.71 billion offer. That bid exceeded a $4.64 billion minimum price set by the FCC and triggered a condition sought by Google that would require the winner to make the spectrum accessible to any device or software application.
Analysts have said Google may drop out of the bidding after hitting the minimum price, content to let Verizon acquire the C block spectrum as long as the open-access conditions are guaranteed.
The C block is one of five groups of 700-megahertz spectrum being offered. The top bids on Tuesday totaled almost $18.94 billion for all five blocks, raising more money than any previous FCC auction.
The 700-megahertz signals are valuable because they can go long distances and penetrate thick walls. The airwaves are being returned by television broadcasters as they move to digital from analog signals in early 2009.
Other potential bidders in the auction that began January 24 range from entrenched carriers AT&T Inc and Verizon Wireless, to possible new competitors like Google, EchoStar Communications Corp and Cablevision Systems Corp.
Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group Plc.
(Reporting by Peter Kaplan; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)
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Rock and Rye Cocktail.
1 Glass Rye Whisky or Canadian Club. Dissolve 1 Piece of Rock Candy in it. The Juice of 1 Lemon can be added if desired.
Here's another one that has made no sense to me. How do you dissolve a piece of rock candy in room temperature whiskey?
I started doing a bit of research about this and found a bunch of different recipes, from those as simple as the above to those which included spices and honey infused into the whiskey.
Looking over the more complicated recipes and articles, the consensus seemed to be that Rock and Rye should be flavored with Horehound and citrus. In addition, it seemed like Rock and Rye was considered some sort of home remedy for chest ailments like coughs and sore throats.
I found a couple recipes for straight horehound candies and horehound cough syrup. At that point, it occurred to me that there was no reason I couldn't adapt my usual punch method to this beverage, substituting the horehound syrup for the tea syrup.
750ml Wild Turkey Rye
Zest 1 Lemon
Zest 1 orange
1 Cup Water
1/4 Cup Horehound
1 TBSP fresh Lemon Balm (Melissa officianalis)
1 tsp. Fennel Seed, crushed
1 Pound Honey
Rock Candy
Infuse Peels in Rye Whiskey for 24-48 hours. Bring water to a simmer, add spices, and remove from heat. Steep 15 minutes. Strain out solids. Add Honey and cool. Strain Rye off of peels and combine with spiced syrup. Filter into a clean sealable bottle. Add rock candy to bottle until it does not dissolve.
OK, as many of the horehound syrup and horehound candy recipes predicted, this is pretty bitter. Not exactly in an unpleasant way. More in a green, sagey, menthol-ish, and fairly pleasant way. Kind of like dandelion greens. Some friends also commented it was pretty sweet. I don't see a way around that. The whole point of the "rock" in the bottles of rock and rye, is that the solution is so saturated that further sugar crystals won't dissolve.
After running the finished product past a few more friends, LeNell Smother's name came up as someone who made Rock and Rye. As a Rock and Rye evangelist, even. I figured it wouldn't hurt to drop her a note, so I sent her the following question, "Recently reached the letter 'R' in the Savoy Cocktail Book and am researching Rock and Rye. When talking to some friends about it, your name came up as someone who had made an interesting version. I sort of treated it like a punch. I infused rye whiskey with lemon and orange peels. Made a horehound, lemon balm, and fennel seed syrup sweetened with honey. Combined the two and added rock candy to the bottles. It turned out at least interesting, but I have no real idea if it is even close to what rock and rye is supposed to taste like. How do you make it?"
She responded:
No "supposed" to taste like, in my opinion, as this was something folks just made and had sitting on the back of the bar. Not rocket science distillation. And probably everybody made it a bit differently. Some folks just sweetened up the rye with maybe lemon and nothing else…I make my rock and rye slightly different every time. It's like cooking for me. I have a basic "recipe" but fuck around depending on what's on hand. Sometimes I put more pineapple, sometimes none at all. Dried apricot? Raisins? The horehound can get too bitter for some people but I like it to balance out the sweetness plus it goes along with the cough suppressant notion.
Yes, funny! I was getting over some chest congestion just when making this recipe came up. Thus I can say with some authority that a rock and rye toddy is really good for chest congestion and a cough. Give it a try.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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EdTech and Connected Play Designer. Co-founder & Chief Design Officer at Vai Kai
Justyna is an entrepreneur, designer, and believer in connected play that supports children's natural development and learning. She is the co-founder of Vai Kai, a Berlin-based EdTech company that helps young children develop their cognitive and emotional capacities.
Vai Kai's signature little wooden doll has a heartbeat that can be felt, and vocalizes according to programming tailored for specific curriculum. Together with child development researchers from Sheffield University, Vai Kai has studied the effects of these digital companions on five to eight-year-old's. They discovered that children's interactions with the dolls trigger unique care-taking play patterns. It is an essential aspect of developing socio-emotional intelligence and imagination that help teachers growing kids into autonomous, curious, self-motivated people free from distractions.
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Should you buy a used engagement ring?
As cliche as it might be, Valentine's Day has always been a popular day for engagements.
With that in mind, here are a few heartfelt questions creeping into the conversation in wedding-planning circles: Is it OK to pop the question with a second-hand engagement ring? Does it matter if the ring was sold after a divorce or a bankruptcy?
And should a soon-to-be-groom tell his fiancee about an engagement ring's nontraditional origins? If she's curious, does he tell his bride-to-be that he went to Jared's, or to Jerry's garage sale after a recent jilting?
"I don't know if you're obligated to say where you bought it," said Joshua Opperman, founder of the online jewelry exchange called I Do Now I Don't. "To be honest, it's not likely it's a question that's going to come up unless someone asks."
Opperman, of New York City, founded I Do Now I Don't in 2007 after being dumped by his fiancee and realizing that not only did he have a broken heart but also a sparkling $10,000-plus engagement ring.
Trying to return the ring to the jeweler where he purchased it, Opperman discovered there were no refunds, though he was offered a store credit that he said he didn't want. At best, looking at other avenues to get money for his ring, he was going to get back about 35 percent of the ring's original cost.
"It was a tough situation," said Opperman, who now is married and found his wife's engagement ring — with her knowledge — using the I Do Now I Don't Web site.
Engagements rings are big business, costing between $1,000 on the lower end to the sky-is-the-limit if you're Kanye West and bending a knee to Kim Kardashian in a rented-out professional baseball stadium.
Opperman is right. It's nearly impossible to get a full refund if a relationship goes south and a guy is zinged with unwanted bling. If you're working with a local independent jewelery store you probably have some options, he said, but with the major retailers don't expect any relief.
That's why pawn businesses, such as Jessup's of Melbourne, do a brisk engagement ring business this time of year. Jessup's currently has engagement rings ranging from about $200 for a fifth of a carat diamond to one with a 2-carat stone costing $9,800.
Karen Harshaw, a manager for Jessup's of Melbourne, said there shouldn't be any stigma — the "cursed ring" phenomena — attached to second-hand rings.
"I don't believe in that," Harshaw said, adding there's usually no good reason to go into detail about a ring's origins.
Joel Lusz, a pastor at Suntree United Methodist Church who offers pre-marriage counseling, had a different take.
"Ever heard of the expression 'We're as sick as our secrets'? I think husbands and wives should be as transparent as they possibly can," Lusz said.
The "possibly can" might sound like a loophole, but what Lusz means is that fun, harmless secrets usually are OK in a relationship. Think a surprise weekend getaway, or a birthday dinner.
As far as a direct question on an engagement ring's origins, Lusz advocates honesty.
"If she really loves you and you did your best to find something that indicates your love for her — and you're able to save some money — that seems OK," Lusz said.


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Vermont lawmakers hear from nuclear waste critic
MONTPELIER -- A former U.S. Department of Energy official told Vermont lawmakers on Thursday that nuclear plants like Vermont Yankee pose big risks in their handling of nuclear waste -- both financial and radiological.
The testimony of Robert Alvarez, a senior scholar at the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, comes as some lawmakers are urging that Vermont consider a new tax on the highly radioactive nuclear waste being stored at the Vermont Yankee plant in Vernon. Alvarez said Minnesota levies such a tax.
Alvarez, a former senior policy adviser at the federal Department of Energy, told the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee that Vermont Yankee has generated more than 600 metric tons of high-level radioactive waste during its 41 years of operation. He urged that it be moved more quickly from the plant's spent fuel storage pool to dry concrete and steel casks on the plant's grounds, where he said it would be safer.
The pool "contains about nine times more cesium-137 (a radioactive isotope) than was released from the more than 600 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests around the world," said Alvarez, who acknowledged under questioning from Rep. Mike Hebert, R-Vernon, that his current employer takes an anti-nuclear stance. Alvarez added that the Vermont Yankee pool "contains more than the entire inventory of spent fuel in the four damaged reactors at the Fukushima site" in Japan.
Nuclear waste has been piling up at reactors around the country as the federal government still has not fulfilled a promise made in federal law to open a permanent disposal site by 1998. Alvarez said the Energy Department's most recent estimates have a waste site opening in 2048 -- a half century late.
He and lawmakers also expressed concern about the ability and willingness of Vermont Yankee's owner, Entergy Corp., to take care after the plant's closing of waste that experts say will remain radioactive for 250,000 years or more.
Committee Chairman Rep. Tony Klein said after the committee meeting that one of the challenges for waste planners is what sort of communication to put on warning signs at waste sites, assuming that whatever organisms exist in 250,000 years still read written signs.
Howard Shaffer, an engineer with the group Nuclear Public Outreach who attended Thursday's hearing but did not testify, said afterward that the public should not be alarmed about the safety of nuclear waste. He argued that it can be managed safely.
In the nearer term, Alvarez said that Entergy and other companies owning nuclear plants are often structured in a way which may shield a parent company from responsibility for cleaning up nuclear waste.
"Limited liability corporations are relatively new business structures that can enhance a parent corporation's ability to transfer funds from its subsidiaries and to shield assets from liability for financial risk," he said.
Vermont Yankee spokesman Robert Williams did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- College football players show signs of having stiffer blood vessels than their leaner peers who don't play football, according to new research.
Exactly what that means for players' later heart health isn't yet clear.
"The football players in our study already demonstrated increased -- not yet abnormal -- but significantly increased arterial stiffness," said the study's lead author, Dr. Jonathan Kim, a clinical fellow in cardiovascular disease at Emory University in Atlanta.
Stiff, less flexible arteries can lead to higher blood pressure and eventually to heart disease or stroke because blood can't travel freely through harder blood vessels, according to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Kim, who presented the findings at the just-concluded American College of Cardiology's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., said the research doesn't show football is harmful. "But we do see this observation, so we should focus on high-risk players and check their blood pressure more than the average athlete and keep track of it," he said.
Previous research has shown that professional football players are more likely to have high blood pressure or elevated normal blood pressure. Kim and his colleagues wanted to see when and where blood pressure changes might begin.
"We looked at players who hadn't even played college football yet. The arterial stiffness occurred during high school play," Kim said.
For the study, the researchers recruited 50 incoming freshmen football players and compared them to a group of 50 age- and race-matched freshmen who didn't play football. The football players were taller and had a significantly higher body mass index (BMI, a ratio of weight to height) than their nonplaying peers.
The average BMI for football players was 29.2 versus 23.7 for the nonplayers. BMI levels up to 24.9 are considered normal weight. From 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight and 30 and over is obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Football players also did more weight training -- 5.4 hours a week on average compared to 2.4 hours a week for the nonplayers, the study found.
Although the nonplayers had higher blood pressure levels overall than the football players, a measure of arterial stiffness called pulse wave velocity found the football players had greater blood vessel stiffness.
"Pulse wave velocity was higher in football players. Whether or not this predicts [high blood pressure] in this group, we don't know. This study found an association, not causality," said Kim.
There probably are multiple reasons why football players are more likely to have greater blood vessel stiffness, Kim said. "Certainly, football players' large size has something to do with it. Extreme weight changes may play a role," he said. Undiagnosed sleep apnea (a sleep disorder linked to high blood pressure), medications they take or "something about the way they train" could also be factors, suggested Kim.
Cardiologist Dr. John Erwin III, who played college football himself, said he's not sure this study proves that football is an issue in blood vessel health as much as weight is. The nonplayers were significantly leaner than their football-playing counterparts, so Erwin contends that the study really showed an association between a higher body mass and blood vessel stiffness.
"[But] I do think that college football players should have some concern about their future health, especially those who strive (or are pushed) to carry a large amount of mass on their frames," added Erwin, vice chair of internal medicine at the Scott & White Heart and Vascular Institute in Temple, Texas. "Not only can this lead to eventual cardiovascular complications, but it also takes a huge toll on the joints."
Parents can help, he said, by providing nutritious meals and objecting to "the kid's or the coaches' pressure to push to gain more weight than what their frame can carry in a healthy way." They should also encourage their kids to stay involved in other physical activities that can be enjoyed lifelong to help maintain health, advised Erwin.
Kim acknowledged more research is warranted. "There's still a lot we need to learn," he said.
Research presented at meetings should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
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SOMERSWORTH — It may be early in the Division III boys basketball tournament, but the Somersworth and Prospect Mountain teams both boast players who have experienced a run to the championship game.
The No. 7 Hilltoppers (13-5) host No. 10 Prospect Mountain (11-7) tonight at 7 in what will be the third meeting between the two schools. Somersworth won the first two, 59-55 and 54-45.
Prospect lost in last year's final to Berlin and has three starters back in the fold, while Somersworth senior guard Drew Francoeur started several games and was part of the rotation as a sophomore when the Hilltoppers won the 2011 D-III title.
"We still have the same blueprint," said Somersworth coach Lorne Lucas. "We have to play our type of game. We have to play very good defense, not give up second shots and push the ball.
"Prospect is huge," he added. "They have three or four guys in the 6-4 range. They rebound the ball and all shoot the three."
Both teams are senior dominated. Francoeur headlines the Hilltopper crew, a certain first-team all-state pick, along with classmates Kevin Clougherty, Isaiah Gaddy, Josh Ream, Ricky Pirotta and Tyler Kretschmar.
"Right now it's defense that's getting it done for us," Francoeur said. "We play our best games when we play good defense. Most of the time our offense is our defense."
Kretschmar, a 6-4 bruiser, is back in the lineup after missing a month with a leg injury. His presence on the boards and defensively was big during Friday's 21-point win over No. 4 Gilford.
"He does the stuff that doesn't show up in the box score," Lucas said.
"I don't have to score points," Kretschmar said. "I always think my role is to help the team anyway possible."
Prospect enters the postseason on a three-game losing streak, but the good news is 6-3 senior Jay Mousseau is back in the lineup after missing five weeks with a broken wrist. He played a little last Friday against Berlin and will be ready to go tonight.
Mousseau is part of a frontline that also includes two other seniors in 6-3 Austin Perrin and 6-6 Logan Roberts.
Zach Robertson, a 6-4 junior, is the man off the bench to spell the big boys.
The backcourt has been the Timberwolves' pleasant surprise, according to coach Tom Bourdeau.
The team lost two good guards from last year's finalist team in Zach Drouin and Pat Cassidy, but seniors Ethan Henderson and Logan LaRoche have really stepped up their play.
"We need to keep them off the line," Bourdeau said. "Then do our own thing. We put them on the line too many times the first two times we played."
Bourdeau acknowledges that Francoeur will probably get his 20, but his team needs to shut down the secondary scorers.
With the scale tipping heavily toward senior experience, nerves should be gone early.
"Both teams have a lot of seniors," Lucas added. "They don't want their season to end."
Lucas said this is a tournament that has 11 teams who could win it. Berlin, Conant, Newport and Gilford are the top four, but the list down through 11, which is Bow, are all teams who can get hot and win the tournament.
"None of the top four can blow through the tournament," Lucas added.
Tonight's winner will play Saturday against the winner of No. 2 Conant and No. 18 Monadnock.
The semis and finals will be held March 5 and 9 at Southern New Hampshire University.


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Another one of "True Blood's" brooding shapeshifters is getting hitched.
Joe Manganiello, the hunky heartthrob who plays werewolf Alcide Herveaux, popped the question to his model/actress girlfriend Audra Marie while vactioning in Italy, reports People.
The couple met in 2009 at a Super Bowl party, but Manganiello says that he didn't win her heart right away.
"She wouldn't go out with me for six months," Manganiello said in an interview with the magazine back in September. "We started dating a few months before I got cast [on "True Blood"]."
The 33-year-old actor gushed about his new bride to be, saying that she's a "great dresser," among other things.
"She's gorgeous and she's tall. And she's sweet...nice," he said. "And she makes crazy English breakfasts."
For her part, Marie says that she loves his "sense of humor, his work ethci and how humble he is with everything that has gone on."
No wedding date has been set.
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Elaine Hamel likes her power tools. She likes them a lot. And although I've never met her in person, I have this cockamamie image of Elaine, running around her wood shop like Tim "The Toolman" Taylor from Home Improvement, grunting as she brandishes a power sander and exhorts life lessons to her class of young female students.
Elaine is the Executive Director of Girls at Work Inc., a nonprofit organization that empowers at-risk girls to discover their inner power tools of strength and courage through building. Elaine founded Girls at Work in 2000 after nearly 13 years in the construction industry as the founder of EMH Remodeling, specializing in residential renovations. On a website about marrying one's passions with their profession, Elaine said: "I've seen girls shy away from woodshop in a school setting as the majority of the class consists of boys. But a girls' camp, or our workshop full of girls, breaks down those walls and allows girls to try many new and different things they probably would not have attempted otherwise.
Right now, Elaine is working to raise $25,000 for her program through this Indiegogo campaign. The video on the site (and embedded at the end of this blog post) does a great job of bringing her program to life. I encourage you to check it out … and to think about throwing a few dollars her way. In addition to this work, Elaine spent time over a period of four years as a volunteer in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina where she trained and managed volunteers rebuilding for those in need.
Thanks for being a citizen philanthropist and nonprofit leader Elaine. And thanks for taking the time to answer our questions!
1. IN JUST ONE SENTENCE, WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE IN LIFE? My purpose in this life is to enable girls that feel defeated, neglected, and abandoned to discover their "inner power tools" of strength and courage through the experience of building.
2. HOW HAS THIS WORK CHANGED YOU? It has opened my eyes to the enormous amount of neglect and abandonment that exists within our youth. This work has enabled me to shift my career from a general contractor specializing in residential renovations to taking girls at risk out of their comfort zone and putting them in a place that leaves them feeling successful, competent, and confident.
3. WHAT DO YOU GET FROM GIVING? An incredible amount of satisfaction knowing that this experience is helping girls at risk to alter the lens through which they view themselves. No longer are they merely defined by failing grades but encouraged by their accomplishments from building with us.
4. WHO IS A LIVING HERO AND WHAT WOULD YOU ASK THEM IF GIVEN THE CHANCE? I thought a lot about this. While there are many people that would fall under the definition of hero, I have to say so many of the girls we work with are my heroes. Our little builder that had several surgeries on her spine to remove tumors, the last surgery leaving her with one paralyzed arm. That didn't stop her from building with us; never even slowed her down. Or the little girl that spent two months living in her car with her mother since "the boyfriend" kicked them out. That didn't stop her from being fully in the moment with us and building a shed. Or the little girl that had no idea where she was going to live after her summer camp session was over. She was no longer able to live with an aunt—her mother never wanted her, she was told—because the man her aunt was dating would sneak in her room at night…. So many girls we build with need to overcome horrible obstacles on a daily basis. Those are my heroes.
5. WHAT EVERYDAY RESOURCES COULD HELP YOU ACHIEVE YOUR PHILANTHROPIC GOALS? I'd have to say two things: one, lumber. Always lumber! Another is anything with our logo, T-shirts, wrist bands, dog tags … we are really working toward a tangible reminder of their experience while building with us. This is such a powerful experience for our builders and a reminder of how capable and strong they are, despite everything that holds them back, is incredibly important.
6. WHAT IS A BURNING QUESTION THAT YOU HAVE FOR THIS COMMUNITY? Who believed in you as a kid and how much of a difference did that make in your life? Do you truly know how much of a difference you can make in the life of a little girl or boy that is neglected?
7. WHAT WOULD THE TITLE OF YOUR BOOK BE? The Power of Believing in Kids.
8. TELL US SOMETHING YOU RARELY SHARE IN PUBLIC? Beneath it all, I still struggle with voices of self-doubt that were programmed very early on.
9. WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR OTHERS WHO ASPIRE TO BE CITIZEN PHILANTHROPISTS? Push past your fear of failure and listen to that inner voice telling you that you can make a difference, that you have purpose and a mission awaits you. My life is so much richer, knowing I can help a little girl that has struggled with neglect from day one, to begin to see herself as strong, powerful, and so very capable.
10. WHAT QUESTION DO YOU WISH I HAD ASKED, AND WHAT IS THE ANSWER? QUESTION: Why should people invest in a program that teaches girls how to build? ANSWER: Because so many of the girls we work with do not have supportive adults in their lives. While we cannot provide safe and supportive homes for all of them, what we can provide is an experience that will take girls pretty far out of their comfort zone and test their ability to trust themselves and each other. They overcome the fear associated with power tools, and they learn to be in the moment and fully focused. They also learn that they are capable and powerful and as many of our evaluations report "awesomer" than they ever imagined. This is the lens they need to have in order to survive and to be so much more than they ever believed possible.
• To view the video go to the original article at Talking GOOD, a series of interviews with "citizen philanthropists" who champion causes and lead by example. Talking GOOD was launched in 2012 by Rich Polt, principal of the Baltimore-based PR consultancy Communicate Good, LLC. To nominate someone for a Talking GOOD interview, please fill out this form, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The chairman of Yahoo's board of directors has stepped down from that position and will leave the board entirely later this year, Yahoo said.
Fred Amoroso won't be seeking reelection when shareholders vote for board members at the company's June 25 annual meeting of shareholders, the company said. He has returned to a position as director, and Maynard Webb will become Yahoo's interim chairman.
Amoroso joined the board in February 2012 as Yahoo was embarking on the search for a new CEO. It found one six months later when Marissa Mayer jumped from the executive ranks of Google to head Yahoo.
In a brief statement, Mayer praised Amoroso for his work and the help he provided her when she joined the company.
Amoroso said stepping down has been his plan all along.
"When I took the position as chairman, I told the board that my intention was to serve for one year, in order to help Yahoo during a critical time of transformation," he said in a statement.
"With Marissa at the helm and the leadership team in place, this is a natural time for me to transition off the board, consistent with what I said a year ago."
From July 2005 to December 2011, Amoroso was president and CEO of Rovi, the digital media company formerly known at Macrovision Solutions.
Martyn Williams covers mobile telecoms, Silicon Valley and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's e-mail address is email@example.com


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GOP confident about Ryan's budget
Passing Rep. Paul Ryan's budget? No sweat.
House Republican leaders said they believe they turned a corner by the end of last week, quashing opposition to the Wisconsin Republican's 2015 budget proposal and laying the groundwork to clear one of the last major pieces of legislation before the midterm election.
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After weeks of whipping, multiple senior Republican lawmakers and aides say they are in as good shape as they have ever been and believe they are close to the requisite votes for passage.
"Yeah, we're good," said Ryan, who chairs the House Budget Committee, while walking into the House chamber Friday.
( WATCH: Jake Sherman on 'Driving the Day')
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said his "only problem" is that three House Republicans from Georgia are battling one another in a Senate primary and will not vote for the budget.
"I predict a win," McCarthy told POLITICO.
For a time last week, Ryan's budget encountered problems as conservatives threatened to oppose the proposal to express frustration about a controversial parliamentary maneuver GOP leadership deployed to pass the "doc fix." Though it seems that leadership has minimized the opposition, Republicans privately concede that they'll most likely pass the 2015 budget by the slimmest margin in their four years in power.
"Look, this is all the same issues that came up in past years," said Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), the chief deputy majority whip. "This is now viewed as something that identifies who we are. It's strongly identified with [House Republicans]. It'll pass."
Ryan's plan would cut $5 trillion in federal spending over the next decade, bringing the budget into balance by 2024, although Democrats have asserted the GOP claim is off by tens of billions of dollars.
A large portion of the savings Ryan's budget projects comes from reducing health care coverage and subsidies under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. An additional $700 billion-plus in savings comes from slashing Medicaid and other health care programs, while hundreds of billions in additional cuts come from food stamps, education and farm programs.
Ryan would cut Obamacare benefits but retain its tax increases and reductions in payments to providers. It would also turn Medicare into a voucher program — Republicans call it "premium support" — for those who enroll in the program beginning in 2024.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his fellow Republicans have passed Ryan budgets three times since taking over the House in 2010, but it is a tougher vote this year because lower revenue forecasts have made the cuts needed to eliminate the deficit that much tougher to enact.
House Democrats will again unite in opposing the bill this year, predicted Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), which means Republicans will have to pass it on their own. "No, we're not going to lose anybody," Hoyer said in an interview.
Last year, 10 Republicans voted against the Ryan budget. Right now, there are 233 Republicans serving in the House; 217 votes will be needed to pass the resolution.
Since only GOP lawmakers will back the Ryan plan, the vote gives outsize influence to hard-liners inside the party. So far, they seem to be sticking with Ryan and Boehner.
"I'd like to have it balanced in nine instead of 10, because that's what we said last year," said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who said he is undecided. "But it's a lot better than 26 years, and so I recognize Republicans need to pass a budget. You can't bring it to the floor and let it fail. We'd hand this agenda to the other side."
While Democrats say the 2015 budget is a political albatross, Republicans consider it a victory. "Running out the clock" has become a favorite phrase within House Republican circles.


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"An irrelevant laughingstock," a "benign tumor," a state that should just be "le[ft] blank"--Florida was the butt of jokes across the nation, yet again, for another voting fiasco. Many Florida voters waited hours during early voting, and on Election Day itself, some voters were casting ballots at 1 a.m. -- after the presidency was called in President Obama's favor. Days after the rest of the nation has moved on, Florida has yet to declare the winner of the presidential election because, as of Thursday, some counties are still counting ballots.
Why is Florida a state that can't vote straight?
In this election, it was the confluence of several factors. The state legislature reduced early voting hours and put 11 state constitutional amendments -- one of them over 600 words – on the ballot. These things together accounted for the time people spent in lines and at the voting booth. Redistricting might have also contributed to confusion about where polling places were.
And there were more absentee ballots than in previous elections. A lawsuit by Democrats over the long lines for early voting prompted several counties to allow voters to request and complete absentee ballots in-person, all the way through Election Day. Absentee ballots take longer to process because, unlike conventional in-person voting, the ballot must be verified before it's processed. Miami-Dade alone had a last minute surge of 54,000 absentee ballots.
Even without the state's results, President Obama wins re-election and Florida becomes more blue, with Democrats making gains at the state and national level, while Republicans take a hit. Obama did particularly well with Florida's Latino voters, including Cuban-Americans. The loss has prompted prominent Florida Republicans, including U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, to declare this election a "disaster" for her party and worry about the GOP's alienation of female, Latino and black voters.
Most of the state amendments failed, and state Republicans have lost their super-majority in the State Senate, a loss that could lead to more negotiation an cooperation with Democratic lawmakers.
Joining host Phil Latzman on this show, Lizette Alvarez of the New York Times, Steve Bousquet of the Tampa Bay Times and Doug Lyons of the Sun Sentinel.


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2009 Full Speaker Lineup
Central to the success of this conference are the exceptional speakers and presenters who share their technical knowledge, on-the-ground expertise, and visionary wisdom on a wide range of topics from building science and public policy to technology.
Dan Adler
President, California Clean Energy Fund: CalCEF
Jon Alexander
President, Sunshine Construction LLC
Gadi Amit
Principal Designer & Founder, NewDealDesign
Ray Anderson
Chairman & Founder, Interface, Inc.; Author, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist
Allison Arieff
By Design Columnist, New York Times
Tenaya Asan
Program Manager, GreenPoint Rated, Build It Green
Nick Aster
Co-Founder, Triple Pundit
Brian Back
Founding Editor and Publisher, Sustainable Industries
Panama Bartholomy
Advisor to Commissioner Douglas, California Energy Commission
Josh Becker
General Partner & Co-founder, New Cycle Capital
Debra Berman
Managing Director, Justmeans
Susan Bierzychudek
Principal, Green Ideals
Laura Billings
Sage Green Development
Jared Blumenfeld
Director, Department of the Environment, City and County of San Francisco
Jon Bonanno
Chairman, Principle Power & Keiretsu Cleantech Investment, Committee Chairman,
Zorana Bosnic
Vice President, Sustainable Design Director, HOK
Adam Boucher
CEO & Founder, The Ethos Fund, LLC
Stewart Brand
President, The Long Now Foundation
Alison Brown
Chief of Staff & CFO, California Academy of Sciences
Becky Brun
Editor, Sustainable Industries
Ian Bryan
President & Founder, The Sensible City, Inc
Bill Burke
Assistant Director, Pacific Energy Center
Jeff Burkland
Principal, Burkland Consulting
Josiah Cain
Principal, Design Ecology
Paul Campbell
Principal, Deloitte
Celia Canfield
Chief Development Director, West Coast Green
Jeff Carrier
Sustainability Manager, Carpet and Rug Institute
Erin Carson
Development Specialist, Housing, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Rick Chitwood
President, Chitwood Energy Management, Inc.
Cathy Chiu
Principal, Falcon Group
Drew Clark
Director of Sustainability, IBM Venture Capital Group
Sara Ellis Conant
Manager, Enterprise Sustainability, Deloitte Consulting
Anah Corley
VP, Business Development, Stetson Expo
Rebecca Costa
Trendist, Biodiversity Foundation and Author,, The Watchman's Rattle
Dev Crews
Chief Sustainability Officer, Luminesa- Illuminated Marketing
Sean Culman
AIA, LEED AP, Solutions
Michael D'Amour
President & CEO, Lumenergi, Inc.
Peter Darbee
Bonnie DeVarco
Founder, Media X, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
Jennifer Devlin
Principal, EHDD Architects
Cisco Devries
President, Renewable Funding
Marcel Diallo
Executive Director, Village Bottoms Community Development Corporation
Mary Ann Dickinson
Executive Director, Alliance for Water Efficiency
Carla Din
Director, East Bay Green Corridor Partnership
Chris Doelle
VP Sales & Marketing, MonierLifetile
Rodney Dole
Treasurer, Sonoma County
Brian Duggan
Director of Thought Leadership Programs, West Coast Green
Laurie Durnell
Director of Consulting, The Grove Consultants International
Ann Edminster, M.Arch
Green Building Consultant, Design AVEnues
Kathy Evans
Graphic Recorder
Jeremy Faludi
Associate Professor, Stanford University, Project FROG
Prudence Ferreira
CEO, Integral Impact Inc.
Martin Flaherty
President, ecoScorecard
Eric Corey Freed
Principal, organicARCHITECT
Gil Friend
CEO, Natural Logic, Inc.
Heather Gadonniex
Managing Partner, Sustainability, MindClick SGM
Mary Ann Gallagher
Education Director, West Coast Green
Lisa Michelle Galley
Managing Principal, Galley Eco Capital LLC
Gary Gerber
President, Sun Light & Power Co.
Kathleen Gilligan
Partner, EcoStrategy Group
Brian Gitt
Principal, BKI
Matt Golden
President & Founder, Sustainable Spaces
Christi Graham
President & CEO, West Coast Green
Jose Guevara
Property Manager, Cushman & Wakefield of California, Inc.
Leslie Guevarra
Associate Editor, GreenerBuildings.com, GreenBiz.com
Lawrence Gust
Environmental Consultant, Gust Environmental
Gavin Healy
Owner, Balance Point Home Performance
Amy Hebard
Chief Research Officer & Co-Founder, Earthsense
Hazel Henderson
Founder, Ethical Markets Media, LLC
Jessica Hoerter
Representative, NCFI
Paul Holland
General Partner, Foundation Capital
David Hopkins
Co-Author, The Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World
Graham Irwin
Principal, Essential Habitat
Rosey Jencks
Stormwater Planner, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
David Johnson
Director of West Coast Studio, William McDonough and Partners
De'Anthony Jones
Student, Leader & Activist, San Francisco Unified School District
Daniel Kammen
Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Kanellos
Editor in Chief, Greentech Media
Michelle Kaufmann
Principal, Michelle Kaufmann Studio
Paul Kephart
President, Rana Creek
Mike Kerwin
Co-Founder, Lorax Development
Jason Kibbey
Founder, Pact Apparel
Pat Kilduff
Marketing Director, Fort Mason Center
Bruce King
Grand Pooh-bah, Green Building Advisor
Marie King
Sales Director, PlanetUp
Gary Klein
Managing Partner, Affiliated International Management, LLC
Michael Kloefkorn
Associate, Van Meter Williams Pollack, LLP
Bob Knight
President, Bevilacqua-Knight, Inc.
John L. Knott
President & CEO, The Noisette Company
George Kopf
Program Director, Green Energy Training Services, Rising Sun Energy Center
Ken Kortkamp
Associate, Sherwood Design Engineers
Piper Kujac
Co-Chair, Northern California Chapter RGB Advocacy Committee,
Heather Larson
Program Manager, Stopwaste
Steve Lehtonen
Managing Director, GreenPlumbers USA
Elliott Lemenager
Social Media Strategist, Projectline, Online Community Manager, Microsoft
Tom Lent
Policy Director, Healthy Building Network
Meagan Levitan
Board Member, San Francisco Recreation & Parks Commission
Peter Leyden
Founder & CEO, Next Agenda
Melissa Lindsley
Marketing Manager, American Galvanizers Association
Peter Liu
Founder & Vice Chairman, New Resource Bank
Matt Macko
Principal, Environmental Building Strategies
Leif Magnuson
Residential Green Building Coordinator, EPA
Andy Mannle
Sustainable Strategy and Communications,
Robert Marcial
Supervisor, Pacific Energy Center
Michael Martin
Development Project Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Brian Matthay
Program Director, Imagine H2O
David McConville
Director of Noospheric Research, The Elumenati, Buckminster Fuller Institute
Alisdair McGregor
Principal, ARUP
Martin Melaver
CEO, Melaver, Inc.
Marty Mellera
Electrical Engineer, SF Municipal Transportation Agency
Kirstin Miller
Executive Director, Ecocity Builders, Inc.
Peter Moonen
Co-Leader, Sustainability Coordinator, SustainableBuilding Coalition / Wood WORKS!
Greta Mowry
President, Verge Innovation Group
Stefan Mühle
General Manager and Regional Director, Orchard Hotels / Portfolio Hotels & Resorts
Karen Murray
Senior Associate, Van Meter Williams Pollack
Steve Newcomb
CEO & Co-Founder, Virgance
Dave Nielsen
Facilitator, CloudCamp
Bonnie Nixon
Director Of Sustainability, Hewlet Packard
Rex Northen
Executive Director, Cleantech Open
Harry O'Brien
Partner, Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass – Lead Counsel
David Orr
Chair of Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College
Tom Paladino
President, Paladino and Company
Steve Pantazes
Representative, Solar Sonoma County
Esther Park
Director, Lending Program, RSF Social Finance
David Parrish
Chief Operating Officer, AquaOne Technologies, LLC
Kristina Paster
Operations & Finance Manager, Sustainable Industries
Jes Pedersen
Senior Vice President & Project Executive, Webcor Builders
Lewis Perkins
Principal, New House LLC
Janet Peterson
Co-Founder, Our Home Spaces
Peter Pfeiffer
Principal, Barley & Pfeiffer Architects
Warner Philips
Managing Partner, Tendris
David Phillips
CEO, NaturalPath Media
Fred Pollack
Principal, Van Meter Williams Pollack, LLP
Naomi Porat
CEO, ZETA Communities
Joe Preis
Founder, GreenBuildingPower.com & Keiretsu Forum
Luis Prestamo
Chief Operating Officer, PlanetUp
Charles Redell
Associate Editor, Sustainable Industries
Bill Reed
President, Integrative Design Collaborative
John Renowden
Product Manager, MonierLifetile
Frankie Ridolfi
Director of Marketing, Climate Earth
Kirsten Ritchie
Director of Sustainable Design, Gensler Architecture Design and Planning Worldwide
John Marshall Roberts
Co-Founder, Conceptual Age Media
Peter Rumsey P.E
Founder & President, Rumsey Engineers
Bry Sarté
Principal & CEO, Sherwood Design Engineers
Jonathan Scharfman
Land Development Director, Universal Paragon Corporation
Greg Sellers
President, Burnham Energy
Scott Shell
Senior Associate and Sustainability Expert, EHDD Architects
Donald Simon
Attorney, Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean
Cameron Sinclair
Author, Design Like You Give a Damn, Co-founder, Architecture for Humanity
Sandy Skees
Founder & CEO, Communications4Good
Ori Skloot
Advanced Home Energy
Gordon Starr
CEO, Starr Consulting Group
James Stickley
Principal, Wallace Roberts and Todd
Brod Street
Senior Policy Officer, Department of Sustainability and Environment
Sara Stroud
Bay Area Correspondent, Sustainable Industries
Kevin Surace
CEO, Serious Materials
Paul Switenki
Mechanical Engineer, ARUP
Jessica Switzer
Partner, Blue Practice
Nabih Tahan
Principal, BauTechnologies
Andrew Tang
Senior Director, Smart Energy Web, PG&E
Lynne Twist
Author, The Soul of Money and Co-Founder, The Pachamama Alliance
Sim Van der Ryn
Chief Wizard, Ecodesign Collaborative
Saskia van Gendt
Lifecycle Building Challenge and Energy Coordinator, EPA - Region 9
Pam Van Orden
President, Enlightened Brand
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The bare-bones "Globes" production was painful to watch–one report noted that "Entertainment Tonight's" Mary Hart was the biggest "celebrity" in attendance at the Beverly Hilton due to the writers strike shutdown of the usual glittery scene. And who cares what Billy Bush thinks?
But the winners list did produce one great TV surprise: Jon Hamm of AMC's "Mad Men" deservedly won the prize for his rich and raw performance as Don Draper, an advertising executive with a hidden past.
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4G upgrade lifts VoLTE market
Keywords:VoLTE? Dell'Oro? software-defined architecture? 4G? LTE?
Voice services are once again making a comeback as service providers are upgrading the systems for the first time in many years. However, the upgrades come at a time when the industry is in the early phase of a technology transition to software-defined architectures.
The last big buying cycle for voice services was driven by growth in mobile subscribers. Service providers bought a growing number of soft switches and media gateways to meet the demand until about 2008. Since then, subscriber growth has levelled off, and service providers cut their spending on voice systems in half.
Thanks in part to the advent of 4G LTE networks, service providers are back in an upgrade cycle, and spending on voice systems is on the rise. Revenues for the carrier IP telephony market grew about 19 per cent in 1Q14 and are likely to increase in the coming year driven by the rise of Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and the need to replace aging 2G and 3G gear.
In mid-May 2014, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo and Hong Kong Telecom launched commercial VoLTE services in limited markets, a year after operators in Korea and the US had their first VoLTE deployments. They all used the same phone, the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini, which suggests handset support is still limited.
To deliver VoLTE, service providers need to deploy three classes of systems in the following order: IP multimedia subsystems (IMS) and voice applications services in the core network and session border controllers toward the network's edge. To date, it's taken service providers nearly three years from the time they start deploying IMS until they switch on VoLTE, but that lag time may decrease as technical hurdles become better understood.
While this upgrade cycle is going on, the communications industry is in the process of embracing virtualisation.
In the past, new features were delivered by vendor-specific bundles of hardware and software. But the move to network function virtualisation (NFV) lets vendors deliver features as software that could run on a variety of hardware platforms including x86 servers. In addition, NFV promises to ease the job of automating network configurations as traffic patterns shift.
Incidentally, NFV doesn't necessarily imply Intel and AMD will reap a windfall. The x86 is already a widely used processor in communications appliances and ATCA-based systems.
The NFV change is coming on fast. In the first six months of 2014, almost half of all requests for proposals specified some level of support for NFV. Dell'Oro projects that in about five years as much as 25 per cent of all licensing revenues in the carrier IP telephony market will be for software-only products.
The jury is still out on the question of just how much the move to software-only products could lower revenues for systems vendors.
Some of the first NFV-related contracts are under negotiation right now, and many NFV projects are still at the lab or field trial stage. In some cases, vendors are paying the costs of these trials.
The rollout of LTE and voice systems for it will last for the next decade. Vendors benefiting from today's resurgence in voice systems will have to embrace NFV if they want to participate in future waves of upgrades, however large or small those waves may be for them.
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Both Obama and Romney had two solid barbs at Monday night's debate.
See Tom Shoop's Live Blog for more from the third and final presidential debate.
Monday night's debate was much more cordial than we've come to expect--both candidates appeared calm and rarely interrupted each other. It even seemed Mitt Romney was in agreement with President Obama on many foreign policy issues--occasionally even complimenting the president on his foreign policy stewardship. But it would be a big stretch to call it cordial. It was still a contentious encounter at its core.
Below are the candidate's sharpest retorts from the evening:
"Horses and Bayonets" and a "Game of Battleship"
And the memes keep coming. Look to this line to stimulate the creative juices of the Internet hordes. In response to Romney's criticisms of proposed military cuts that might mean fewer Navy warships, Obama gave a sharp, pointed response.
"We Can't Kill Our Way Out of This Mess"
Taking a page from the dove's playbook, and clearly in an effort to undercut the use of Osama Bin Laden's death for political gain, Romney criticized Obama's policy on counter terrorism saying "we can't kill our way out of this mess."
Who do you think won the final presidential debate?
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In Reply to: Hidden eggs posted by R. Berg on April 15, 2003
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: : : : : : : The egg. The egg has been the symbol of renewed life after death and resurrection in many cultures. "The Greeks and Romans buried eggs, real or dummy, in their tombs, scenes on Athenian vases show how baskets of eggs were left on graves, Maoris used to put an egg in the hand of a dead person before burial. Still today Jews present mourners on their return from the funeral of a relative with a dish of eggs as their first meal. Christianity took this ancient sign of rejoicing at rebirth and applied it to the Resurrection of Jesus.The tradition of painting the Easter egg in bright colours may have its origin in a legend that tells that Simon of Cyrene, who carried Christ's cross, was an egg merchant. When he returned from Calvary to his basket of produce, which he had left by the roadside, he found that all the eggs miraculously colored and adorned." From "How Did It Begin?" by R. Brasch (Pocket Books, New York, 1969).
: : : : : : : Easter bunny. And what about the Easter bunny? Early Christians often celebrated their sacred occasions on the same days as pagan holidays to "blend in" and avoid persecution. They ".astutely observed that the centuries-old festival to Eastre, commemorated at the start of spring, coincided with the time of year of their own observance of the miracle of Christ's Resurrection.It just so happened that Eastre, a fertility goddess (the ancient word eastre means 'spring'), had as her earthly symbol the prolific hare, or rabbit. Hence, the origin of the 'Easter bunny.'" From Sacred Origins of Profound Things: the Stories Behind the Rites and Rituals of the World's Religions" by Charles Panati (Penguin Books, New York, 1996).
: : : : : : : Easter Lily. The lily is a symbol of purity because of its whiteness and delicacy of form. It also symbolizes innocence and the radiance of the Lord's risen life. It is called the Easter lily because the flowers bloom in early spring, around Easter time. From the Hallmark Press Room online at http://pressroom.hallmark.com/easter_symbols.html Accessed April 11, 2003.
: : : : : : : Easter Parade and Wearing New Clothes. In the early church, those who were baptized at the Easter Vigil dressed in white robes and wore the robes during Easter week as a symbol of their new life in Christ. People who had been baptized in previous years wore new clothes to indicate their sharing in the new life. New clothes at Easter became a symbol of Easter grace. In Europe during the Middle Ages, people in their new clothes would take a long walk after mass, which has evolved into the tradition of Easter Parades. An American belief is that good luck can be ensured for the year by wearing three new things on Easter Sunday. From the Hallmark Press Room online.
: : : : : : : Easter Sunrise Service. The Easter custom of the sunrise religious service was brought to America by Protestant immigrants from Moravia who held the first such service in Bethlehem, Pa., in 1741. Origins of the early morning time stem from a passage in the Bible from the book of Luke: ".but on the first day of the week, at early dawn" women visited Jesus' tomb and found it empty. Sunrise services also may be related to the Easter fires held on hilltops in continuation of the New Year fires - a worldwide observance in antiquity. Those rites were performed at the vernal equinox, welcoming the sun and its great power to bring new life to the world. From the Hallmark Press Room online.
: : : : : : : Hot crossed buns. "At the feast to Eastre, an ox was sacrificed and the image of his horns carved into ritual bread - which evolved into the twice-scored Easter biscuits we call 'hot cross buns.' In fact, the word 'bun' derives from the Saxon for 'sacred ox,' 'boun.'" Sacred Origins of Profound Things. A cross bun kept from one Good Friday to the next was thought to bring luck, the buns were supposed to serve as a charm against shipwreck, and hanging a bun over the chimneypiece ensured that all bread baked there would be perfect. Another belief was that eating hot cross buns on Good Friday served to protect the home from fire. From the Hallmark Press Room online.
: : : : : : ...all of which is fine and wonderful, but does anyone know why the hidden little gimmicks that programmers and/or producers embed in software (whether computer programs or these days even DVD movies) are also called easter eggs?
: : : : : Oh, never mind. Happy Easter.
: : : : I think it's because they're hidden and found.
: : : I am guessing that they are called "Easter eggs" because they are like the "hidden picture" drawings of our (or at least my) childhood. It's a line drawing with eggs or other objects "hidden" in it.
: Yes, yes, but what about Easter-egg hunts where real boiled eggs are hidden?
I'm not sure. But I have an image of a little computer nerd-to-be sitting with "Highlights for Children" (Fun with a Purpose) finding Easter eggs in a hidden picture.


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The Escape, the fifth-best-selling vehicle in the U.S., has been transformed from a five-passenger SUV into a sloping crossover with just a hint of minivan.
The Ford Escape, an aging vehicle that looks much like the model that first debuted in 2000, has quietly become one of the biggest success stories at Ford Motor Co.
The automaker has sold more than 200,000 of the small sport utility vehicles this year, making it the fifth-best-selling vehicle in America and the top SUV. Decent interior room and cargo space make it popular among soccer moms, while its masculine rectangular SUV design has attracted male buyers.
Now Ford plans to upset the apple cart with a complete ground-up redesign of the Escape that improves power and fuel economy.
Ford unveiled the new Escape at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday.
Some shoppers might be turned off by the new look, but other buyers may be attracted by fresh design and the car's features, said Jesse Toprak, an analyst with auto information company TrueCar.com.
"It is certainly a leap," Toprak said, "but I believe Ford is trying to be more like Hyundai in terms of design and styling with new models. They want to be more aggressive and to stand out among crowded product choices that consumers already have."
He said the new model would still have the "one-size-fits-all proposition" that has made the current Escape so popular.
Jason Sprawka, who manages marketing of the Escape at Ford, said Ford is hoping the new design will catch the attention of the millennial generation — the children of baby boomers who might not have grown up in a household that ever owned a Ford. And while the new styling might skew the Escape toward female buyers, he said the new model will still have the same towing capability and even more cargo space — features that tend to attract men.
The new vehicle moves to Ford's global C platform, a vehicle architecture that allows the automaker to build multiple styles of vehicles off the same structure. The Escape will be the 10th model off this platform; other vehicles that share the platform include the Ford Focus compact sedan. Ford executives say that 2 million vehicles will be built off this platform worldwide by mid-decade.
"It gives us great economies of scale to deliver value and features that our competition can't match," Sprawka said.
Ford plans three engine options. It expects two turbocharged, four-cylinder engines to account for about 90 percent of sales. The smaller will be a 1.6-liter engine that will have about 170 horsepower and get more than 30 miles per gallon in highway driving. Ford will also offer a 2-liter four-banger that generates 240 horsepower, giving it the same output of many six-cylinder engines on the market. But the base model Escape will be a 2.5-liter, four-cylinder engine that comes in the current model but with some improvements giving it slightly better fuel economy.
Other options include a parallel-park-assistance system that automatically steers the vehicle into the space, a blind-spot alert system that lets drivers know when there is another vehicle close by but out of their field of view, and a hands-free lift-gate system that raises the rear gate with a wave of a foot beneath the bumper.
"One out of every six vehicles sold today is a small SUV, so the new Escape is an extremely important vehicle for us," said Mark Fields, Ford's president of the Americas. "The nameplate has great consumer awareness, and we need to meet those expectations."
Ford has not talked about pricing except to say that it will be similar to that of the current model, which sells for about $25,000. The vehicle will be built in Louisville, Ky., and begin being sold in the spring.
The Escape will no longer have a hybrid version. The hybrid version has made up as much as 13 percent of the vehicle's annual sales, according to TrueCar data. The Escape has historically been the top-selling domestic hybrid.
Sprawka said that the fuel economy improvements in the new gasoline engines negated the efficiency advantage of the hybrid system without adding a hybrid premium to the price of the vehicle.
The new Escape will face stiff competition from Honda's CR-V sport utility vehicle, which also gets a remake for the new model year, and Toyota's small SUV, the RAV4, which the industry expects will also have major changes sometime during the model year.
"Ford has a lot riding on the redesigned Escape," said Ivan Drury, an analyst with auto information company Edmunds.com. "Consumers will be even more inclined to cross-shop Escape to CR-V and RAV4. If the new Escape follows in the footsteps of Ford's latest launches as expected, then both Honda and Toyota better keep an eye on the competition."


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