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Sid Caesar, who brought TV sketch comedy into being with his "Your Show of Shows," and who brought a generation of comedy writers/performers along with him — Imogene Coca, Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon and Woody Allen among them — will be remembered as the king of early American comedy. Caesar died Wednesday at 91.
Long before "Saturday Night Live," Caesar pioneered live television sketch comedy. And hour and a half weekly! He could play a longhaired scientist, a mechanical toy soldier, a lover, half of a feuding couple, multiple characters within a single sketch. He amazed equally with double-talk or drag. He was an enormous man who used his physicality more than any comedian before or since. He could dance/mime/act with amazing grace.
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His TV career was over by the time he was 36. He wrote about his addictions to alcohol and drugs in an autobiography, "Where Have I Been?" Anyone who's ever seen "My Favorite Year," the 1982 movie, or "Laughter on the 23rd Floor," the Neil Simon play, has had a vicarious feeling of being in Caesar's presence.
I was fortunate enough to be in the crowd in 2010 when he accepted the Television Critics Association lifetime achievement award at what was then the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Caesar looked very frail, especially compared to the clips of his 1950s self, playing on the giant screen. He made his way to the stage with assistance, seeming too weak to speak. An entire ballroom audience held its breath. And then Caesar leaned toward the microphone and thanked the TCA — in fake French, in fake German, in fake Italian. The place roared. Caesar still had it.
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Regardless of the challenges, family physicians are leading the way in transforming the U.S. health care system. That's according to newly installed AAFP President Reid Blackwelder, M.D., of Kingsport, Tenn., who spoke to his family physician colleagues here on Sept. 25 during the opening session of the 2013 AAFP Scientific Assembly.
Newly installed AAFP President Reid Blackwelder, M.D., of Kingsport, Tenn., addresses the crowd at the opening session of the 2013 AAFP Scientific Assembly.
"People are talking about us like never before and usually in good ways," Blackwelder told a packed house at the San Diego Convention Center. "From the White House to our statehouses, people are pushing primary care."
With family medicine at the nexus of such issues as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, patient-centered medical homes, and meaningful use, payers are beginning to recognize the value that family physicians bring to the table.
"It's happening now because family physicians are leading the way," said Blackwelder. "We're adapting our practices to be more effective patient-centered medical homes, and we're working smarter, not harder."
Reminiscing about his early years as a solo small-town family physician, Blackwelder said he expanded his practice despite the obstacles in front of him. "Independently, we took care of our community," he said. "We did the best we could because it was the right thing to do. We didn't know it at the time, but we were trying to be a patient-centered medical home. I just didn't have the resources back then to pull that off."
Today, Blackwelder said, family physicians have the tools at their disposal to take that next step to improve patient outcomes at less cost. "We truly can do it all -- cradle to grave -- and we don't have to limit what we do to gender, age, organs, diseases or locations in the hospital," he said. "Even if we change our practice, we're still the most comprehensively educated and trained physicians and cannot be replaced. We are what this country needs, and they're starting to realize it."
Blackwelder said people want patient-centered care, and they are choosing family medicine because FPs treat the person, not the disease. "Family medicine is about making a connection," he said. "It's about relationships, and this ability to make that connection in the moment is what defines us as family physicians. No one does that as well as we do."
In addition to building relationships, AAFP members also must play a key role in addressing the pipeline issue in family medicine while also finding ways to maintain balance. "We have to maintain balance, and this is where it gets challenging," said Blackwelder. "We all sacrificed something to get where we are, but you always have options."
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Stepping off into the past -- The Springthorpes
When you start out doing genealogical research, you hardly know your ancestors. Slowly, each generation starts to come alive. Some start with their own parents, but most of us spend some time getting to know our grandparents and great-grandparents. In my case, I have an overwhelming wealth of information about nearly all my great-grandparents. One exception is my Great-grandmother, Frances Ann Thomas (b. 1864, d. 1950), who married Marinus Christensen (b. 1863, d. 1927), a Danish immigrant.
One of the reasons for our lack of connections to our ancestors is their unavailability. On my maternal side of the family, all four of my Great-grandparents died either before I was born or when I was still a small child. In my case, all but one of my great-grandparents lived in the same small town at one time or another. So this photograph of Frances Ann Thomas Christensen was taken by another of my Great-grandmothers, Margaret Godfrey Jarvis Overson. They were "cousins" through marriage.
Where the real challenge begins in genealogical research, is moving back with each succeeding generation. Memories of the older folks grow much dimmer and contemporary documents become harder to find. In this case, Frances Ann Thomas Christensen's parents almost reach the limit of my research on one of my family lines. Her parents were David Thomas (b. 1820, d. 1888) and Adeline Springthorpe (b. 1826, d. 1891). In my lines, my great-great-grandparents are those individuals who begin to be immigrants to America. In my case, the countries are rather limited, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Denmark.
Both the Thomas line and the Springthorpe line end in the next generation. In the case of the Springthorpes, this is where the research get interesting. Adeline Springthorpe's parents are the question, presently without and answer. Here are the details as they show in my records at the present time:
Adeline Springthorpe's (b. 1826, d. 1891) parents are:
James Springthorpe (b. 1785, d. 1851) and Frances Springthorpe (b. 1797, d. 1862)
Yes, they have the same name. Here's how each of their parents are listed:
James Springthorpe (b. 1785, d. 1851) son of John Springthorpe (b. abt. 1764) and Mary Bailey (b. abt. 1766)
Frances Springthorpe (b. 1797, d. 1862) daughter of John Springthorpe (b. abt. 1764) and Elizabeth Sprigs (b. abt. 1775).
Yes, they do appear to have the same father. Well, here's where I figured it was time to get into the family line and resolve this conflict. I find my file with the usual situation of not one shred of documentary evidence to support any of the lines. I will be working on this line over the next few weeks to demonstrate how I go about finding the documentation and finally either reaching a conclusion or admitting that I can't find any more information to clear up the issue. If there are any Springthorpes out there who have already done this work, I would appreciate some help, but if not, this will be an interesting "reality" research project where I don't know the conclusion from the onset.
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That's a nice picture of Grandma Christensen.ReplyDelete
I've never found any suggestion anywhere that anyone has done any substantial amount of work on the Springthorpes. One reason is that there were a lot of them, the records aren't very good, some of the records are contradictory, and it is confusing to separate out all of the John Springthorpes and the Frances Springthorpes. It's not a job for the faint of heart.
Good luck! I'll see if I have anything in the Thomas/Springthorpe history from Helen that I should send you.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-04-08
A snapshot of our time
I listened to all the Hearings which are available and though they may not be riveting, they show how some poor misguided well meaning school board members in the state of Kansas wasted millions of dollars in tax payers money trying to find holes in evolution theory while in the shadows the intelligent design movement pulled the strings. It's a shocking example of our time when non-scientific pressure groups are able to gain so much support for what is obviously neo-creationism. Some of the speakers gave interesting evidence against evolution theory, which after all, along with quantum theory, string theory and many other theories, is only an attempt to explain something in theoretical terms. The trap the board of directors fell into was being convinced that because there was some evidence against evolution theory that they should scap it from the curriculum, or open up classes to alternative theories which do not have any backing in the scientific community, such as intelligent design. A scientific theory is held to be true until some other theory which appears to explain the phenomenon better comes along and is widely accepted in the scientific community. I wonder if the Kansas Board would be willing to apply their same logic to their Bible Studies lessons. I actually felt sorry for some of the witnesses bought to testify as some appeared to have personal issues which affected their judgement whilst others were just plain crazy. When a so called scientist argues that evolution theory is not scientifically provable and at the same time believes the Earth is 10,000 years old while a mass of evidence speaks the contrary, you don't know whether to laugh or cry. It is a shame that American kids are caught between this game played by adults. I would love to see someone put religion to the same scrutiny and have it removed from the school curriculum.
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- Mark
- 16-06-08
Open your mind - if you dare
As a long standing member of audible.com and an having an avid interest in this subject I listened to this series from start to finish. In a nutshell, if you listen to this series without having any prejudices and are prepared to be challenged about something we are all 'just expected' to take for granted that evolution is 'just so' then you may find yourself feeling not so sure afterwards. While it may be easy to dismiss this subject by merely looking at the title, as many people may do, it will be well worth your time listening to the whole thing, especially day 4.
I was hugely disappointed that the pro-evolution side never came to the party, especially when their side is so 'factually strong'. One is immediately left asking; if that WAS the case then why didn't they show. The answer lies in the people they would have been up against. These were scientific and intellectual heavy weights, one of who invented the gene gun. Listening to some of their arguments, I then knew why the pro Darwinist's went with the safe route. I used to believe blindly in evolution and this series is just one of many entities that has convinced me that I need more than just blind faith to believe something is scientific when much of it is clearly not.
- Sue
- 04-06-06
A must listen . . .
No matter what your belief system is, the testimonies heard throughout these four days is worth listening to! I only began listening because this could pertain to a project I'm working on but soon was captured by the differing perspectives the legislature invited to the table. It was one of the most informative days I've spent in some time. I cannot recommend taking time to listen to them arduously enough! Just commit to listening for one hour and I promise you will be hooked!!!
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- Theo Tsourdalakis
- 18-07-11
These hearings are eye opening in that they expose the biased media coverage which represented these hearings as "Science against Religion".
Here are credible, highly qualified scientists who clearly indicate that:
1) There is signficant contraversy regarding Darwinian/Macro evolution
2) There exist singificant misrepresentations about the evidence supporting Darwinian/Macro evolution.
- Jonathan Wells and John Sanford are especially significant in their expert testimony.
- The more we learn about DNA and genetics, the less likely Darwinian/Macro evolution looks
- The distinction between Micro and Macro evolution is extremely important in understanding this issue
3) There is clear discrimination against those scientists and teachers who express their disagreement with teaching Darwinian/macro evolution as a foregone conclusion.
It is seriously worth listening too.
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- Paul
- 05-01-06
Very interesting!
It is very interesting to listen to the original discussions. I think the way the opposition to Darwinism argues very clever and I think their argument can't be agued with, as the just asked that the whole evidence should be tought in school.
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- Robert
- 13-05-05
Riveting and Scary
I decided to download this on a whim and I found it compelling, not fun but, compelling. Imagine being trapped in a small room with Anthony Robbins, Reverend Moon, Lyndon LaRouche and L. Ron Hubbard and, then, being forced to listen to them discuss their twisted philosophies. I was overwhelmed and saddened that these people are now able to frame a debate on their terms.
The fact that they have managed to gain a forum here speaks volumes about our country.
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- D. Littman
- 08-05-05
an outstanding
Who would have thought, in the "modern" world in which most of us live & work, a world founded on a secular view of events, on historicism rather than religious fanaticism, on science rather than religious dogma, that the opposition to these views could get their hands on the wheel of state, or of its key method of outreach to Generations X, Y & Z. Who would have thought? But of course, this is going on all around us. Not just in other countries but in our own. Not just among the leaders of our nation-state (e.g., Tom DeLay flailing for continued exercise of naked & corrupt political power at prayer breakfasts in Washington).
An interesting place to see all this in microcosm are these Kansas hearings on what students should be taught about science in general & about evolution in particular. To hear the "other side," since the real scientists have (quite correctly) decided to boycott the event (statements from members of the board itself make clear how biased the event is in the first place). You have pseudo-scientists who are all, without exception, born-again christians, proclaiming that their own faith ought to be taught in kansas elementary & secondary schools. You have scientists proclaiming the same, of course, scientists from disciplines completely outside the relevant areas & in some cases scientists with embarassingly dubious degrees in the first place. But their views make for very interesting listening, as do the self-serving comments made by the board members themselves. This is worth a listen. It is very stimulating even if it brings the blood to a boil on occasion. I am not sure I will be able to retain my interest to Days 2 & 3, which have just been posted, but certainly Day 1 is worth listening to.
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- Karl
- 13-05-05
Interesting, and somewhat scarey
I would disagree with a previous reviewer who said that this was not about intelligent design. The driving force behind the "minority report" is the argument that there is a creator that designed the world. Whether this is "intelligent design" or "creationism" or some other flavor of the almighty being, it all comes down to there being a supernatural cause for the world. I don't know if this is true or not. I truly wish I had the faith that some possess; however, this faith is not the basis for science. Science seeks out an explanation for various phenomena and continues that quest despite initial frustrations at not finding an answer. By giving up and saying "it was God", is abhorent to a true scientist who strives to find answers.
I guess I'm ranting much more than I should, but take a listen and decide for yourself.
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- JerryT
- 02-12-05
All Nonsense
The Kansas Board of Education has no authority to do ANYTHING. They can recomnend various actions to the legislature or the governor. No legislature or governor in the country is going to be stupid enough to support any of the ideas involved. Listening to them is a waste of your time. Some religious fanatics in the Johnson County area have been playing games with this "issue" purely for publicity purposes for roughly 10 years. Not a single person from the legimate academic community even attends their meeings because they are such a joke. In the first place this Board serves no purpose, receiives no salary, and has authority to do NOTHING. The state legislature has never had a bill submitted during the 10 years this nonsense has been going on.. The sponsor would get laughed out of office. This group of idiots is not affiliated with ANY religious organization in the state. Most churches in thed K.C. area have gone out of their way to disavow any connection. This includes all of the so-called conservative churches and collleges. No one in the state really cares about these fools since they do little more thn make us look stupid. We've essentially grown tired of them and ignore them. Other candidates, if any,, have no financial support and do not "campaign." Several elections ago state voters got tired of their nonsense and threw 5 out of 6 out of offfice. But their publicity ideas for their ignorant agenda don"t seem to ever go away. I personally have ignored this issue in recent year Paying attention to anyone running for office is hopeless. The original intent was an advisory coimmittee of respeected citizens. Most of us now try to avoid them and hope they go away. The academic community in the state ignores them for the same reason. You will not hear any professor from any state educational institution bother to "testify" before them. NOT ONE. That should indicate something.
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- Robert
- 09-05-05
This debate is not about intelligent design
The Kansas State Board of Education hearings focused on evolution, specifically whether or not to allow students to learn about scientific criticism of Darwinian evolution, as well as to learn about the evidence that supports the theory.
The hearings were NOT about intelligent design as stated in the summary.
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- J. Putney
- 28-11-05
Think about the children
It's nice to see that the scientific community gave this fake debate the respect it deserved by not involving itself in something it has already spoken so clearly about. Even now Intelligent Design has yet to publish an article in a peer-reviewed scientific journal and the reasons are quite clear. Their arguments continually use the lack of evidence for one view as evidence for another view. Children in Kansas schools will be allowed to prove they have a monster in their closet because closet monsters do not hide under their bed, and they checked under their bed and there was no monster. And if the teacher questions this the child can say "but look it's here in my ID book and thats science"
Their quoted books and studies(non peer-reviewed) continually use unscientific concepts that simply sound scientific to a school board with a poor understanding of the associations ID exploits. For example ID relies heavily on measuring intelligence and information in a system, but information theory provides no scientific way to objectivly measure the amount of information or "inteligence" in a system (see Mismeasure of Man). Back to a kansas classroom example, let's say a child scribbles a note and passes it in class but the teacher intercepts it. The teacher finds a seemingly funny set of symbols on the paper that apear to be a pictogram making fun of the teacher, the teacher ,knowing her ID quite well, realizes that she can determine the information in the note and determines it's a note making fun of him/her. Of course the reality is that the student was merely tracing funny shapes found in their text book at random and there was no information relating to the teacher at all no matter how much it may have looked like it. But this is an ID school and that student is in big trouble.
So sure this might be worth a listen but be ready for some serious thinking becasue the pleasant-sounding lies abound.
Poor Kansas students, how can we help them?
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- Joe P.
- 04-06-05
Amazing, enlightening & full of rational inquiry
This is the most interesting audio I have heard in a long time! The hearings contain many PhD level scientists, doctors, biologists, teachers, philosophers that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there are gaping holes in the theory of evolution.
The lawyer defending the side of evolution does not dispute one single fact... he simply degrades and belittles the witnesses. If anything, regardless of your opinion, there is an amazing wealth of rational inquiry and scientific testimony.
There may be debate over the origin of man, but after listening to these testimonies, there in no debate over the faltering, weak and withering theory of Darwin's evolution.
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On Monday, Browns reporter Tony Grossi told us that the NFL had asked every team in the league to have a moment of silence for Art Modell, one of the main antagonists in the long drama of Cleveland's histrionic sports decrepitude. It probably would have been an awkward moment of silence in Cleveland. It seems likely, if not certain, that it wouldn't have been silent at all, actually—there probably would have been a whole lot of booing, or worse for the surviving family, cheering of Modell's death, which has proven to be a popular pastime since he shoved off on Thursday.
As it turns out, Browns fans won't even get that outlet to express their pain: Grossi now reports the Modell family has asked the Browns not to acknowledge Modell's passing at all. The team had apparently planned a "low-key PA read," which doesn't sound exactly like a moment of silence, and may have offered less opportunity for booing. Nevertheless, the name Modell shall not be spake at Browns stadium, because David Modell asked Mike Holmgren and Holmgren made it so.
The Ravens have already paid their respects—that event seems to have gone off without a hitch, even though not every Baltimorean likes Modell—so now all that's left will be the strange spectacle of franchises that had essentially nothing to do with Modell honoring his memory (on NFL orders) this Sunday. What are Cardinals fans going to be thinking about during their mandatory minute of silence for Art Modell?


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Steve San Jule said his father and mother also spent time in Mexico circa 1936 studying communal living.
It's hard to confirm many of Jim San Jule's tales. "He romanticized things in his past," says Dan Solomon, who heard many stories. "There was a little bit of Baron Munchausen in them. I don't think they were untrue."
Born, like Eichler, in New York City, Jim began riding the rails after the Depression destroyed his father's Oklahoma oil business.
Sleeping "behind a pile of construction material in a subway kiosk," as he described in the 1997 book and movie Riding the Rails, didn't come easy to this "ordinary rich kid," who had won acceptance to Amherst College and whose father was once a Buick executive.
San Jule's tales of hoboing do not glorify the experience. There was little camaraderie and much misery among his fellows on the road. He did write, however, about the black man who prevented a thief from making off with Jim's clothes. "A black man who came to my rescue," he said. "It was a revelation to me."
Arriving in the Bay Area in 1932, he studied geology at UC Berkeley, Yvonne Koshland says.
Soon, though, he was spending more time on the San Francisco waterfront, working as a longshoreman and organizing workers. "He was not so interested in geology," Koshland says. "And with everything going on elsewhere, he wanted to get involved with it." San Jule never graduated.
It was at Cal he met his first wife, Miriam.
In 1934, starting on the docks and spreading to industries throughout the city, the San Francisco General Strike shut down the waterfront and resulted in Bloody Thursday, when several strikers were shot and two died.
San Jule talked about the strike for years. "He was kind of Harry Bridges' right-hand man and organizer," says Pete, referring to the legendary labor leader.
"He loved to say how gory and serious those strikes were," says Teresa Rea, a land use planner who became a friend in 1989.
San Jule said he edited and wrote a strike newsletter, and claimed he helped found the International Longshoreman and Warehouseman's Union, along with Bridges and the African-American labor activist Revels Cayton in 1937.
Standard historical accounts don't mention San Jule; the Waterfront Worker, the labor activist paper, is online, but its writers remained incognito to avoid being attacked by thugs.
It's clear, however, that San Jule was closely involved with union activity. He remained friends with Bridges and Cayton for decades, involving them in housing ventures. From 1945 to 1951, San Jule stayed involved with unions, working with activist-broadcaster Sidney Roger.
"Jim managed my radio program for the unions from 1945 to 1951," Roger told an oral historian, "after which things went to pieces, when Bridges went to jail and I lost my spot on radio and so forth."
But nothing about San Jule's labor tales compare with his tales about the World War II, often told while in a convivial mood. They involved his serving "off the coast of China" with the OSS (Office of Special Services, the predecessor of the CIA).
He did indeed serve off the coast of China, Koshland says—about 6,000 miles off, in San Francisco, where he worked for the federal Office of War Information, not the OSS. The job involved communications with the Far East, she says. In a timeline San Jule prepared of his life, he said his work involved "daily contact with China group headed by Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En Lai."
Pete San Jule, born in 1941, says the family spent the war years in Marin City, then in a small home in the Marin County neighborhood of Sleepy Hollow. Jim worked at Marinship, the powerhouse shipyard that produced cargo ships, and did some organizing there too, he told friends. He quit Marinship after injuring his hand, Koshland says.
After the war San Jule formed a public relations firm, San Jule and Stofle, with a friend from Cal. They represented unions and worked on statewide campaigns.


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The Latino Census Network has received a number of inquiries about the closing of the Census Bureau's Be Counted and Questionnaire Assistance Centers. Members of the New York City Council have written to the Census Directors asking that these centers be kept open for an additional 30 days. Other have expressed surprise that these centers have closed.
The Census Bureau informs us that these centers had been scheduled to close on April 19th from the start. Because these were established through contracts with community-based organizations and other institutions through contracts, it would be difficult to extend these agreements at this point.
The Census Bureau's focus now is on their Non-Response Follow-up (NRFU). Door-to-door census taking occurs starting May 1nd through June and early July 2010. Local census takers will visit households that did not mail back a census form. All census takers carry an official badge and a shoulder bag – both with the Department of Commerce seal – and a binder. During a visit, census takers will show ID and hand respondents an information sheet explaining that their answers are confidential. The census taker will complete the questionnaire, which should take about 10 minutes. If no one is home, a "notice of visit" will be left at the door inviting the resident to call the census taker to complete the form over the phone.
With the mail-in participation so close now to the 2000 Census rates at the national level, the Census Bureau no doubt sees this mail-in part of the process a success. It is expected that in the next week or so, additional Census forms will come in, making it possible that the 2000 participation rate will be matched. Given all of the factors that make this 2010 Census more challenging than the last (9/11, greater anti-immigrant sentiment, etc.), this level of mail-in participation is considered a success, at least at the national level.
Title 13, U.S. Code, requires that the apportionment population counts for each state be delivered to the President within nine months of the census date, by December 31. 2010. According to Title 2, U.S. Code, within one week of the opening of the next session of the Congress, the President must report to the Clerk of the House of Representatives the apportionment population counts for each state and the number of Representatives to which each state is entitled. Also according to Title 2, U.S. Code, within 15 days, the Clerk of the House must inform each state governor of the number of representatives to which each state is entitled.
The legislatures in each state are responsible for geographically defining the boundaries of their congressional and other election districts–a process known as redistricting–and more detailed census results are used for these purposes. Public Law 94-171, enacted by Congress in December 1975, requires the Census Bureau to provide state legislatures with the small area census population tabulations necessary for legislative redistricting. The Census Bureau must transmit the total population tabulations to the states by April 1, 2011.


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Altidore tied the score in the 58th minute and Dempsey put the U.S. ahead in the 75th, exciting a red-white-and-blue clad crowd of 55,407 at the Linc. The U.S. team took its time leaving the pitch, acknowledging fans at both ends of the stadium.
The Americans leave Sunday for South Africa and meet Australia in a final exhibition on June 5, one week before their World Cup opener against England.
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Dempsey nearly got another goal in the 87th, putting an open shot off a post after Michael Bradley cut the ball back.
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On Thursday, Gonzalez joined club president Stan Kasten and the Dodgers' Spanish-language broadcasting team for the first Dodgers Spanish Radio Upfront with Univision America at Dodger Stadium.
It was the latest in a string of promotional appearances for Gonzalez, who grew up in Southern California and embraces the opportunity to reach out to the Latino community on behalf of his employer.
"It's part of the job. It's what we should do," said Gonzalez, who made similar public appearances during his five years playing for the Padres in San Diego. "I want to give back to the community and get involved. It's an easy decision to say yes to."
Gonzalez joined Hall of Fame broadcaster Jaime Jarrin, Pepe Yniquez and Fernando Valenzuela, who three decades ago was the trailblazer for the Dodgers in the Mexican-American community.
"Fernando put the Dodgers on the map," said Gonzalez. "I would love to follow in his footsteps and really embrace the Mexican community in Los Angeles and, really, all over the world. I'll do what I can. It all starts with what we're doing on the field."
The latest news on the field is the arrival of new hitting coach Mark McGwire. Gonzalez, who lives in the San Diego area, said he'll reach out to McGwire, who lives in Orange County, to arrange a few hitting sessions before Spring Training starts.
"He brings an incredible track record and I'll have a lot of questions for him," said Gonzalez. "We met and talked last Spring Training. It was short, but we talked about hitting. He said he liked my approach and I told him I watched him hit and looked up to him. It was great for me at the time."
Gonzalez said he shuts down in the offseason and won't resume hitting until January. That will leave him more time to mix with Dodgers fans and corporate sponsors at events like Thursday's.
"The people I talk to, everybody is excited and anticipating the 2013 season," he said. "I think with the Giants winning the World Series, the fans want to take the title back. It's the rivalry. They want us to win the West and bring it back here."
Gonzalez said the passion of Latino Dodgers fans has not come as a surprise.
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I need 8+ passengers and would prefer 10 , but I do not like the Sprinter reviews (acceleration on highway, rear wheel drive-harsh Canadian winters- and stability). I would rather not get a 12 or 15 passenger, but 12 would be something that I would consider.
I need 8+ passengers and would prefer 10 , but I do not like the Sprinter reviews (acceleration on highway, rear wheel drive-harsh Canadian winters- and stability). I would rather not get a 12 or 15 passenger, but 12 would be something that I would consider.
Drive a Sprinter and decide for yourself. DaimlerChrysler vehicles are consistently badmouthed by CR and Edmunds testers who don't like them.
The Sprinter does not handle like a sports car but neither do any other 10 or more passenger vans and they guzzle fuel while the Sprinter is relatively frugal on fuel consumption.0
Thanks for your input, I think I will schedule a test-drive. It really does seem to be the best suited for my needs.0
garandman Posts: 524How much do you drive? We've had (and have) Ford and Chevy vans. Currently we have an Express.
The cost of ownership is very much higher for the Sprinter - unless you drive a lot of miles. Fuel costs are low and the form factor is more convenient for many. It's generally much easier to resell a diesel with a lot of miles. I believe the Ford is available as a diesel - not sure about Express.
When we looked at the Sprinter, the nearest dealer turned out to nearly 30 miles away. The salesperson stated that they were in short supply and that basically I should expect to pay MSRP - which was about $10,000 more than the Express we purchased. The Express is getting 15-17 mpg on average, so factoring in the higher cost of diesel fuel (and higher mpg) the break-even was around 200,000 miles - if maintenance costs were equal, which they are not.0
cpsdarren Posts: 265Thumbs up for the Sprinter's standard 3-point seatbelts and head restraints in all seating positions in the passenger models plus stability control standard on some trims since its inception. So, even a used Sprinter has some class-leading occupant safety features.
I'd be wary of an Express 1500 for a family without the ESC option available in the last few years. The high rollover risk and tip in the government test will be made worse by a full load of passengers0
charles23 Posts: 5They will take our 1996 Plymouth Grand Voyager that is currently running fine for a trade in of $1500.00. According to Kelley Blue Book it's worth $2,650.00 as a trade in. They'll sell us the new to us 2002 for $9890 minus a trade in of $1500.00 and with tax, tags, fees the grand total is $9,086.00. We started out with the price of the van as $10,999.
This includes an "AS IS" purchase w/ 1 month, 1000 mile warranty w/ a 50/50 payment if something happens in this time frame. If we want to buy a warranty it'll be 3/36,000 for $1595.00 and covers many different things.
Would you purchase this or not?
Does anyone know which vehicles, if any, use the same V-6 diesel, V-6 gas, and transmission as the Sprinter? Would like a true 5-speed stick to be available with these little motors.
You've already got a used van so I don't see why you need another one. With all the rebates going on perhaps you should buy new?0
I agree with minicoopers....You currently own a used van, your van runs well and you know it. WHY trade a van you know for a "pig in a poke"?
Once any vehicle gets 6 years old, there may be as many problems on it as one that is 20 years old. :shades:0
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On Wednesday, speculation surfaced that Justin Bieber's ex-girlfriend had moved on to a new toyboy, 17-year-old Mahone, with reports suggesting Gomez's best friend Taylor Swift set the pair up after he opened for the country star on her recent Red tour.
However Mahone has been quick to strike down rumors of a new romance, telling OK! magazine he and the Come & Get It singer are simply friends.
He says, "I'm not seeing her. We're just friends. We always talk music. She shows me her new song she's about to come out with. She's super cool. She's got some great music coming out."
Meanwhile, troubled Bieber has apparently moved on from his former lady love – he has a permanent companion in model Chantel Jeffries, who was sitting beside the singer when he was arrested by police in Miami, Florida last week. She later joined the teen star on vacation in Panama.
Teen singer Austin Mahone has denied reports he is romancing Selena Gomez.


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A team of astronomers led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has discovered a bizarre hybrid star that experts say may change our understanding of the evolution of the universe. But when project leader Emily Levesque first realized what her team might have discovered, she immediately curbed her enthusiasm.
"You want to be excited about it, but you want to be very sure you've not made a mistake," said Levesque.
Levesque's team did the work in Chile in 2011, but then everyone got busy with other projects, and she didn't dig deeply into the data until a couple years later in Boulder. That's when she did a doubletake.
She checked with her partners, who included astronomer Anna Zytkow of the University of Cambridge, the woman who — with physicist Kip Thorne — first proposed this new class of stars back in 1975.
The team agreed the discovery was promising, and they began working on a scientific study, which has just been accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomy Society Letters.
These hybrid stars, known as Thorne-Zytkow objects, are hybrids of red supergiant and neutron stars. They are formed, according to the most commonly held theory, when the red supergiant swallows the neutron star. While normal red supergiants get their energy from nuclear fusion at their cores, the theoretical hybrid stars are powered by the activity of the neutron stars that they have swallowed.
Levesque has been fascinated by stars since she was a toddler in Massachusetts, and the family trooped out to the backyard to help her brother with a school project on Halley's Comet. "My parents said I was just riveted," she said.
This year, the 29-year-old won the Annie Jump Cannon award from the American Astronomical Society for outstanding research and the promise of future research by a postdoctoral female researcher.
Now comes new research on the hybrid star, which intrigues astrophysicists like Dimitri Klebe, space content specialist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
"A lot of the cool phenomena we see in stars is associated with two stars interacting together in a close binary system," he said.
One example is the discovery that a white dwarf interacting with a red supergiant accretes enough matter that it blows up into a supernova, he said.
"Those stars unveiled the great discovery that the universe was accelerating," he said. The new study is "one of those discoveries that propel us into new realms, where we understand things we didn't even know were linked. The authors have discovered another mechanism to make the heavier elements that we see in our universe, which plays into our evolution of our universe as a whole."
The team, which included Philip Massey of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., and Nidia Morrell of the Carnegie Observatories in La Serena, Chile, used the 6.5 meter Magellan Clay telescope located in Chile.
"It's one of the finest telescopes in the world, with incredible detail," said Levesque.
They examined the spectrum of light emitted from red supergiants, which shows what elements are present. When the spectrum of one particular star — known by the unglamorous name of HV 2112 — was first displayed, the astronomers were surprised by some of its unusual features.
A closer look revealed the presence of excess rubidium, lithium, and molybdenum; a high abundance of these elements is a unique signature of these TZOs.
Some chemical characteristics of HV 2112 don't exactly match theoretical models, but those models are old and need updating, experts say. The team hopes their discovery will inspire additional work on the theoretical side.
"This gives us a totally new way for how stars can work, or how we can have a star, period," said Levesque.
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Pacot: Millie Hamner's heavy-handed 'public forum' a disservice to constituents
It seems that Rep. Millie Hamner is a bit confused about not only the Constitution where it concerns the Second Amendment, but about the definition of what a town hall meeting is as well. Her recent orchestrated open forum with Summit County residents was nothing more than a platform to again assert her beliefs and shut down discussion on anything else other than the softballs she's used to being lobbed her way.
I sincerely doubt that most Summit County residents would agree with the stances on abortion that NARAL lobbyists push here in Colorado and DC, including but not limited to fighting against any restrictions on late-term abortions and some of them even opposing legislation to protect babies born alive after unsuccessful abortions. As for me and now the majority of Americans we choose to protect all human life from conception to natural death. The progressive left will fight tooth and nail to keep convicted murderers from the death penalty, but easily offer up the lives of the innocent unborn. There is something fundamentally hypocritical and wrong with that reasoning.
The laws passed by the Colorado Congress concerning gun legislation will ultimately make no one safer. This utopian idea of the progressive left that they can legislate evil out of existence by regulating the tools used to commit these heinous crimes have been proven to be a farce in the UK and Australia as gun violence is one the rise even after draconian firearm legislation.
The magazine laws in particular are so vague that virtually anyone with a magazine that has a removable baseplate (which is 99% of all firearm magazines) is deemed illegal by the new law, not to mention the lunacy behind trying to discern when a magazine was purchased. Make no mistake, these laws were designed for selective harassment and were poorly and hastily crafted.
As for me I'll side with conservatives who fight to protect innocent human life and our freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Remember Rep. Hamner's stances on the innocent unborn and your Second Amendment Constitutional rights when we select our next HD61 Rep.
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"You're going to see stupid things from the manager, crazy things from the manager. You're going to wonder what Ozzie is doing, but we're going to see what we can work with." …
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Harry Potter fans will be mesmerized by the latest viral video that brings to life the wizarding world's favorite sport: Quidditch.
In a promotional ad for Colombian telecom company ETB, a group of professional skydivers made a unique jump to reenact the broomstick-based game that has gained a following since it appeared in author J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
In the video, divers hold onto broomsticks while throwing a ball into a ring, all while falling thousands of feet.
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Twitter has shaken up some of the mechanics that govern how developers are able to interact with the social network. The changes come as part of what is seen as an overhaul of the firm's Application Programming Interface control program.
Reports suggest that any newly developed application that wants to be able to serve a user base of more than 100,000 individuals must now seek the company's "explicit permission" before it can operate as intended.
Twitter has justified the changes it is making on the basis of the company's aims to "deliver a consistent Twitter experience" for all users. Applications already boasting in excess of 100,000 users will now be permitted to expand their user base by a factor of 200% before having to return for approval to Twitter.
Director of consumer product Michael Sippey has explained that version 1.1 of the Twitter API will require authentication on every API endpoint, feature a new per-endpoint rate-limiting methodology, and also include changes to Twitter's "Developer Rules of the Road", especially around applications that are traditional Twitter clients.
"Currently, in v1.0 of the Twitter API we allow developers access to certain API endpoints without requiring their applications to authenticate, essentially enabling them to access public information from the Twitter API without us knowing who they are. For example, there are many applications that are pulling data from the Twitter API at very high rates (scraping, bots, etc.) where we only know the IP address of the applications," said Sippey.
"To prevent malicious use of the Twitter API and gain an understanding of what types of applications are accessing the API in order to evolve it to meet the needs of developers, it's important to have visibility into the activity on the Twitter API and the applications using the platform," he added.
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The name of Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson's next game will be 0x10c, he said today on his Twitter account.
No, it's not Mars Effect, as he had claimed on April Fools Day. The team is going with 0x10c, a name as bizarre as it is unpronounceable. It's also an error code.
"What happens if you try to read a 64 bit representation of 1 in a 16 bit system, but you get the endianness wrong?" Persson wrote on Twitter today.
Persson and his company, Mojang, have not yet shared much about the upcoming space game, so I'll assume you play as an IT programmer whose job is just to eliminate 0x10c errors all day. In space.
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Coastal Cleanup Day targets cigarette butts
Environmental groups promote cigarette fee to cover disposal
Plastic bags, old tires, Styrofoam to-go containers - the once-ubiquitous staples of shoreline trash are rapidly diminishing, thanks to recycling and legislative bans.
Now it's cigarette butts' turn.
Saturday is Coastal Cleanup Day and environmental groups this year are pushing for a fee on cigarettes that would offset the costs of cleaning up the yellowed, plastic filters smokers leave behind.
"It's not fair for cities, taxpayers and states to bear the cost of cigarette butts," said Allison Chan, a manager at Save the Bay. "The paint, chemical, tire and electronics industries all have to pay for how their products are disposed of. We think cigarette companies should, too."
About 3 billion cigarette butts get tossed to the ground in the Bay Area annually, making them by far the most common type of litter, according to Save the Bay estimates.
Nationally, cigarette butts make up 30 percent of all litter along shorelines and creeks, according to a study by the National Institutes of Health.
They're so common, in fact, that some people don't even regard them as litter, said George Leonard, an interim director at Ocean Conservancy, the nonprofit that helps organize Coastal Cleanup Day.
"They're almost part of the landscape. They don't provoke shock and awe, like they should," he said. "That's an object lesson on why we need to take better care of our planet."
In addition to being unsightly, cigarette butts pose a serious hazard to wildlife and water quality, scientists said. The butts are made of cellulose acetate, a type of plastic, which never biodegrades and acts as a sort of toxic sponge, absorbing chemicals in the water.
Another problem is that the butts contain tobacco residue, which is toxic to wildlife.
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Birds, fish and other wildlife eat the butts, and are either sickened by the toxic content or end up starving to death because their digestive systems mistake the butts for actual food.
Typically, cigarette butts get flicked on to the sidewalk outside bars, offices or other places people like to smoke, and during rainstorms wash into the storm drain system, eventually swirling into the bay or ocean.
Two Bay Area cities have already taken steps to curb the proliferation of cigarette butts. In 2009, San Francisco supervisors imposed a 20-cents-a-pack fee on cigarettes to help cover the $6 million annual cost of removing them.
Tobacco giant Philip Morris Co. challenged the fee, but lost in court in 2011. The fee generates about $2.2 million a year for the city's Public Works Department.
Save the Bay is pushing for other cities and counties to adopt similar fees, and also asking the public to sign petitions pressuring tobacco companies to take more responsibility for cigarette litter.
Calls to Philip Morris were not returned.
In Santa Cruz, a group called Save Our Shores installed bins shaped like sharks along the beaches and downtown, specifically for cigarette butts.
Since the bins were placed, cigarette butt litter in those areas dropped 70 to 80 percent, said Leonard, who sits on the board.
San Rafael has taken perhaps the most innovative approach to reducing cigarette butts. The city, with help from volunteers, merchants and the county, installed a hollow, 8-foot sculpture in a downtown plaza into which people can deposit cigarette butts.
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The artwork, titled "Cigarette Eater Meter," is shaped like a parking meter. For every butt that's deposited, a local business and an anonymous donor will give 1 cent to St. Vincent de Paul Society, a nonprofit that helps homeless people.
The sculpture is accompanied by a mural depicting the route of a cigarette butt from the smoker to the sea.
So far, 95,000 butts have been deposited, said Cory Bytof, the city's volunteer and sustainability coordinator.
"Instead of taking a negative approach, we thought it'd be better to say, 'Look, do this with your cigarette butts and help a local nonprofit,' " he said. "People have really responded."
The sculpture has been such a hit that other cities have asked to borrow it. The sculpture will travel around the Bay Area after St. Vincent de Paul receives its check on Sept. 26.
The city also tried a program recently where it paid people 1 cent per cigarette butt they collected. In 2 1/2 months, people brought in nearly 238,000 butts, he said.
"People get paid for recycling bottles and cans - why not cigarette butts?" he said. "People do seem to be noticing them more. I hear people saying, 'I never noticed how nasty these things are.' "
Where to volunteer
Coastal Cleanup Day is Saturday. Events are planned at beaches, creeks and marshes and other waterways throughout the day. Go to www.coastal.ca.gov.
Carolyn Jones is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com