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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) Meeks started 70 games last season, averaged a career-high 15.7 points and shot 40 percent from 3-point range for the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Detroit Pistons are hoping for more of the same after signing the 6-foot-4 guard to a $19.5 million, three-year deal. Although it was an awful season for the Lakers, Meeks took advantage of the extra playing time - and extra shots - while Bryant was limited to six games because of Achilles tendon and knee injuries.
"Unfortunate for Kobe, but fortunate for me - I got to expand my game," Meeks said. "Got a chance to run some point guard and really show people what I could do."
The Pistons probably won't need him at the point much, but they were looking for help on the wing after last season's team floundered despite an impressive front line.
Only one Detroit player in 2013-14 - Kyle Singler - shot over 34 percent from 3-point range while playing major minutes. The Pistons couldn't take advantage of big men Andre Drummond, Greg Monroe and Josh Smith because of the team's inability to produce outside the paint.
"From a skill standpoint on the perimeter, shooting was our primary focus, to the point that there really wasn't anybody we were interested in that wasn't a very good range shooter," said Stan Van Gundy, Detroit's coach and team president. "We really wanted to change that."
The Pistons also have agreed to deals with free agents Caron Butler and D.J. Augustin, according to a person familiar with the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Sunday night because the team had not announced the deals.
Those players are expected to be introduced Tuesday. Monday was all about Meeks, who was the team's first big addition after Joe Dumars stepped down as team president this year and was replaced by Van Gundy.
"We're really excited," Van Gundy said. "Obviously, our first signing of the offseason - as a new management group, our first signing period."
The 26-year-old Meeks also has played for Milwaukee and Philadelphia, but he set career highs last season in minutes and field-goal attempts - and the higher volume of shots didn't cause him to become less efficient offensively. He shot a career-best 46 percent from the field.
The Pistons should now have plenty of options on the perimeter, with Meeks, Butler and Augustin joining holdovers Singler, Brandon Jennings and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.
"You can never have too many shooters," Meeks said.
The biggest issue still facing the Pistons is probably the status of Monroe, who is a restricted free agent.
"The Monroe situation has taken center stage, remains center stage and will be center stage until it's resolved," Van Gundy said. "It's really not anything going on there right now. There's not really a whole lot more that can go on. We'll just see where the situation takes us."
NOTES: Van Gundy was asked about the fact that LeBron James will be in Detroit's division again now that he's returning to Cleveland. "I'd prefer the Western Conference. I'd actually prefer more Europe - have him sign in a European league, I thought would have been good," Van Gundy said. "But look, they're right down the road, they're close by. Hopefully it turns into a great rivalry."
AP Sports Writer Larry Lage contributed to this report.


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Beyond the threat of internal decline, "the West" has also been understood to require defense against threats arising externally, in international conflict. By invoking loyalty to the West as a whole, one may make "one's own" the political concerns of other peoples who are not fellow citizens of one's nation-state. In other words, the West is a basis or rationale for "natural" alliance in time of war. Thus, the British during the First World War were eager for that conflict to be seen by their potential allies as one pitting the liberal and civilized traditions of the West against invading hordes from the East, "the Hun." In this way, isolationist America and unenthusiastic Commonwealth countries could be brought into the conflict as allies in the common defense of (Western) civilization itself—rather than in defense of British imperial interests. The inclusion of the Soviet Union among the Allies of the Second World War tended to obstruct recourse to the language of the West, but even still, both Churchill and De Gaulle in their wartime speeches spoke of the defense of "liberal and Christian civilization," a good short description of the meaning of the West in contrast with Nazi barbarism. With the Nazi defeat and the advent of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the defense of the West could serve as the basis for the NATO alliance against the totalitarian barbarism of the Eastern Bloc.
It was in the context of the Cold War that the West became an especially important concept for a nascent American conservatism. Given that context, the term carried in the first instance both geostrategic and economic connotations—mirroring the fact that our Soviet Communist adversaries understood economics to be at the "base" of all political, cultural, and spiritual life. Thus, despite its cultural dissimilarities, Japan could be understood to stand among the "Western" nations, since it was a free-market democracy and a U.S. ally (having been reconstructed as such by the Americans after World War II), while Spain under Franco might be understood to stand outside the West, since it was not (yet) a NATO member, nor a democracy. During the Cold War, the world was more or less neatly divided between the Communist Eastern Bloc, the so-called Western alliance (NATO), and those nations which held themselves to be Non-Aligned.
Yet throughout the Cold War period, conservative thinkers worked to reach a deeper level of analysis of the manifold crises of the twentieth century. Many, following Eric Voegelin, concluded that Soviet communism was an extreme instance of "Gnostic revolt"—in effect, a characteristic heresy within the Western experience, rather than something arising from outside the West. If the "armed doctrine" threatening the West was itself a bastard child of the West's own traditions, however, then the defense of the West began not on the tense military frontier dividing the two Germanies; rather, the defense of the West must begin with an effort to educate Western publics about the orthodox strains of the Western heritage. But what exactly were the "orthodox" traditions of the West?
Standard nineteenth-century accounts of Western civilization understood the West to have four roots. Athens stood emblematically as the source of the West's philosophical traditions. Jerusalem was the source of the West's religious traditions. Rome was the source of the West's legal traditions. And Germany—the German forests, in which had dwelt the Gothic tribes—was the source of the peculiarly Western spirit of liberty, contract, and self-government. In such an account, the West was in effect an alternative, secularized name for "Western Christendom." Christianity, after all, had absorbed ancient philosophy; the church had displaced the Roman Empire as a universal jurisdiction; and the Goths were converted. In such an account, Christianity is the primary "marker" of the West, and so Rome, the eternal city, might be understood as the main taproot among the other, lesser roots. Such an account had, and continues to have, a particular appeal for traditionalist conservatives: the West they seek to defend is readily recognizable as Christendom. As a result, such conservatism has tended to have a high opinion of medieval civilization, finding within it a privileged cultural synthesis that remains normative, and so standing in a critical relationship to certain features of the contemporary world. Such a conservatism also searches in the Middle Ages for the origins of many Western institutions and practices that are often mistaken for modern innovations. The source of the West's dynamism, for example, is found to be the church.
The first major challenge to this traditional account of the West occurred during the First World War: for the purposes of that war, Germany had to be located outside the West, and so a rich literature on the Gothic dimensions of the Western experience was lost. As a result, we would in time no longer be able to understand what Montesquieu, for example, meant when he praised England for having retained its Gothic constitution; we would no longer feel the intuitive force of Hegel's arguments concerning the special world-historical role of "German freedom." Western liberty would have to be extracted from other and perhaps less adequate sources.
In America, moreover, a Jerusalem-Athens-Rome account of the West was usually thought unsatisfactory, since it tended to confer primacy to Roman Catholicism as the synthesis of Athens and Jerusalem—something most non-Catholics were not prepared to concede. Protestants and others understood "liberty of conscience" and the protection of the "private judgment" of the individual to be singularly "Western" achievements, responsible for the West's special dynamism during the modern period—and these were believed to follow only from the Reformation's repudiation of Roman "obscurantism," and even Roman "despotism."
Many American conservatives were therefore attracted to Leo Strauss's articulation of the West's Great Tradition as one of Jerusalem and Athens in irresolvable tension. This account had something to offer everyone. Catholics could read Strauss and supply Rome as the arena in which this tension had been worked out in history. Jews could appreciate an account of the West in which the religion of the Old Testament was understood to have priority over the New. Post-Barthian Protestants could resonate with the either-or existential choice between Athens and Jerusalem that Strauss posited as the fate of every thinking man.
For all of that, Strauss's own choice was for Athens, not Jerusalem: Athens is the taproot in his account of the West, reaching deeper than other, lesser roots. For most neoconservative followers of Strauss, therefore, free inquiry and Socratic enlightenment are the primary "markers" of the West. The West they seek to defend is not Christendom, but rather the civilization that philosophy built and in which universal reason has its home: in other words, the civilization of modern liberal democracy. (It must be noted at once that Straussians traditionally have had a lively awareness of the fragility of the modern liberal regime; in this they differ from nineteenth-century Whig triumphalists, and they share something important with other conservative defenders of the West.)
Related to this Straussian account of the primacy of Western philosophy are those libertarian or classical liberal conservatives—perhaps the majority of American conservatives—for whom the free-market economy, with its abundant prosperity and constant technological innovation, constitutes the characteristic Western excellence. With some exceptions, such conservatives tend to identify the West with the "modern civilization" that arose in the eighteenth century as the project of the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment—and often, it is said, in self-conscious rejection of earlier traditions. Whereas Straussians give priority to the modern political order, libertarians and classical liberals give priority to the modern economic order.
A host of conservative debates and areas of research arise from these contentions over the essence of Western civilization. Was modernity really achieved only in rejection of the West's older heritage? Or is modernity a fruit of earlier Western traditions and institutions? (Or, more fundamentally, is modernity to be regarded simply as an unproblematic "achievement"?) Are modern Western institutions self-subsistent? Or do such institutions depend upon cultural prerequisites that may be undermined by modern life? If the West is identified exclusively with the modern and the cosmopolitan, is America in fact the only or the "most" Western nation? And if Socratic enlightenment, free markets, and modernity in general are truly universals, is the particular Western history that led to their achievement merely a husk that may be discarded once we have entered the stage of a truly universal civilization?
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Brewing beer is a complete sensory experience. I can feel the heat on the stove top as the grains and water are boiled to make the wort, the smell of hops fills the kitchen. Later, I can hear yeast feasting on the freshly brewed wort and see the release of the gaseous bubbles that result.
Making beer is like learning a fine art – one that's been nourished here in the Bay Area for more than 200 years. And as a San Francisco-based homebrewer, I wanted to find out more about our fermenting forebears.
San Francisco's brewing history
Dave McLean, owner of Magnolia Pub and Brewery on Haight Street, says that San Francisco has been a great brewing city for its entire history. "Some of the early history shows breweries popping up within the first year after the Gold Rush. Within several years after that there were dozens of breweries. By end of 1800s San Francisco was the epicenter of brewing on the west coast," McLean explains.
But Prohibition soon forced companies to change what they were offering. Even after Prohibition was repealed in 1933, many companies decided to stick with non-alcoholic offerings.
McLean says it took time and the major purchase of Anchor by millionaire Fritz Maytag in 1965 to get the city's beer-making back on track. "That really kicked off the craft brewing revolution," says McLean.
Maytag was a Stanford graduate who bought a controlling stake in the company for a couple of thousand bucks. It wasn't long before Anchor churned out America's first post-Prohibition IPA and porter-style beers. The American Craftbeer movement was underway and has been expanding our palates ever since.
Today, Anchor is part of the San Francisco Brewers Guild, along with 21st Amendment, Beach Chalet, Gordon Biersch, Magnolia, Social Kitchen, Speakeasy, and Thirsty Bear. Many more non-guild local brewers are working to gain that level of success.
The rise of craft beer
According to the Beer Institute, the brewing industry's lobbying arm, Californians buy nearly 713 million gallons of beer every year. That's 27.5 gallons per of-age adult – a little less than a pint per day (of course, some beer lovers enjoy slightly more than that).
"Beer at least for me, personally, is a perfect combination of my science background and then being able to be really creative with the flavors of the beer," says Regan Long co-founder of Local Brewing Company, a fledgling San Francisco brewery trying to expand. Long started home brewing seven years ago in his garage. About a year ago, the Local Brewing Company started bringing its beer to Dolores Park and the San Francisco Underground Market for feedback.
Still, the craft brew market makes up just 5% of a $224 billion industry. Which is to say, not everyone who starts brewing on their kitchen stove wants a market share.
Long's partner, Sarah Fenson, says there's a lot of help available for curious home brewers who want to take their craft to the next level, "There really is, I'll say a personhood, a brotherhood, a sisterhood among people in the beer industry. You already have a commonality in terms of what kind of beer do you like … And it is a real knowledge sharing community," says Fenson.
But home brewing wasn't actually legal until 1978, so certain renegades had turned their kitchens into recreational brewing laboratories long before that.
"I learned how to brew out of the back of a Field and Stream magazine," says Gregory William Miller the Thirdstein, also known as Griz. Miller is a brewmaster at San Francisco Brewcraft in the Richmond District, with over 42 years of experience under his belt. After answering an ad for brewing classes, Miller made his first batch. "It tasted like someone had boiled all the jock straps from the San Francisco 49ers," remembers Miller. "But that just made me want to do it more."
Miller says brewing at home has grown in popularity since he first started since it's become easier to learn. Mission-based author William Bostwick's instruction manual Beer Craft explains how to brew single gallon batches – small enough to allow for experimentation. And Bostwick's partner Jessi Rymill says that it's not hard to give beer that unique San Francisco twist by using fresh, local, and seasonal ingredients.
But for homebrewers like myself, beer-making is an experience to share, with friends, family, or a friendly passerby. I like to think of brewing in cooking terms: There's no sense in making a delicious feast if you're going to eat it alone. Sharing ideas, food, and drink is an act that makes us human.
The special taste of an amazing homebrew is something that can be savored everywhere – from my house, to your house, to the White House. Yes, recently President Obama became the first sitting American President to brew at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The White House Honey Ale used honey from bee hives on the property. And it sent an important message to home brewers everywhere: Yes, we can, and keg, and bottle.


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The clip above is a scene from the upcoming movie 'The Bling Ring,' a bratty-looking crime drama starring the lovely Emma Watson. While we're sure director Sofia Coppola's film, which opens June 12, will be full of interesting scenes with interesting people doing interesting things, we've snagged what seems to be the best scene in the movie: The one where Emma Watson pole dances!
Yes, you read that right. Emma Watson pole dancing. And you can watch Emma Watson pole dancing as many times as you like. Clear your schedule. Go for it. We won't judge. I mean, come on, it's Emma Watson pole dancing! Thank you, Sofia Coppola!


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John and Shirley Riffel of Newton, Jo Anne Thomas of Mission Hills, and Jim and Val Thomas of Raymore, Mo., announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their children, Mandy Riffel and Bradley Thomas of Kansas City.
A granddaughter of Clayton and Wanda Hamm, the bride-to-be is a 2003 graduate of Newton High School and a 2007 graduate of Kansas State University with a bachelor's degree in microbiology.
The groom-elect is a 2002 graduate of Shawnee Mission East High School and a 2006 graduate of the University of Colorado with a bachelor's degree in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology.
Both are employed in the clinical pharmacology department of Children's Mercy Hospital.
The couple plan to wed Aug. 10 in Kansas City.


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Baseball in Alaska seems to make as much sense as snowboarding in the Bahamas, but don't tell that to Tony Cappuccilli.
Cappuccilli is the head coach of the Anchorage Bucs, a collegiate summer league team that plays in the Alaska Baseball League, recognized as one of the top summer leagues in the country.
It's a summer job for Cappuccilli, who will return to Irvine after the season and resume his job as assistant baseball coach for Irvine Valley College. Cappuccilli, 30, just finished his second season at IVC and he plans to be there for a few more years, but he isn't the type to sit still for long.
Cappuccilli is on a mission, and he's willing to travel the ends of the earth to reach his goals. Even this early in his journey, he's already traveled the world, so Alaska isn't such a big deal.
"If not for this team, I would never come to Alaska," Cappuccilli said during a rain delay from Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage earlier this week. "Most of the players wouldn't either. Why would I come to Alaska?"
Cappuccilli is an Orange County boy, a former Edison High School standout catcher who broke the county career home run record in 1999 and still lives in Huntington Beach.
He went to the University of Nevada from 2000-03, highlighted by the 2002 season when he hit .357 with 10 homers and 27 RBIs. He was a pre-season All-Western Athletic Conference selection in 2003.
But after his collegiate career he was forced to take a detour. Cappuccilli, a burly 6-foot-2, 245 pounds, was hoping – expecting – to get drafted by a major league team, but the call never came.
"I had decent numbers, I thought I'd get drafted out of college," he said. "I thought I could hit well enough."
Cappuccilli wouldn't give up on reaching the big leagues, so he signed to play professionally for the Florence Freedom of the independent Frontier League.
That's Florence, Kentucky.
A month into the season, he blew out his shoulder, but once healed, he was back at it again. He played summer league ball in Seattle, hoping to get noticed, but it didn't happen.
"Ultimately I had to come to the realization that I was just not good enough," Cappuccilli said. "My dream was not going to happen.
Cappuccilli, though, wasn't about to give up baseball. He simply reprioritized. If he couldn't play baseball at the top level, maybe he could coach it.
"I didn't accomplish everything I wanted to accomplish as a player," he said. "I didn't make the big leagues. I was determined to make it in my coaching career."
He had already started his coaching career in 2004, coaching the Edison High freshman team. He was living in Portland, Oregon and considering returning to Seattle when he noticed a job posting for a baseball coach at Trout Lake High in Trout Lake, Washington, a rural community in the foothills of the Eastern Cascades, about 80 miles north of Portland. He got the job.
After spending the 2005 season at Trout Lake, he returned to Edison High, where he was a varsity assistant fro 2006-09. He still hadn't gotten the playing bug out of his system, so he played for the UCLA Alumni Baseball Team in Barcelona, Spain in the summer of 2007.
He spent the summer of 2009 coaching in Germany as an envoy coach for Major League Baseball, and in 2010 he was an assistant coach for the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod League.
"The big thing for me was that I was lucky enough to meet great people who really helped me out," Cappuccilli said. "Guys I played with had careers that went farther than I did, but I kept in contact with people along the way who helped me get opportunities."
One of those who helped Cappuccilli was Tom Myers, the associate head coach at UC Santa Barbara. Myers was the Brewster Whitecaps' head coach who gave Cappuccilli the opportunity to coach in the Cape Cod League, which surely helped pad his resume enough to land the job with Anchorage.
So from now through Aug. 3, Cappuccilli's Bucs will go up against teams like the Glacier Pilots, Lake Erie Monarchs, Fairbanks Goldpanners and Mat-Su Miners, among others.
It may not be the best baseball weather, exactly, but it isn't so bad. Cappuccilli's assistant coaches – Ryan Hanson and Dan Ellis – are friends of his, and they're making the most of their experience.
"We'll get in the car and go driving looking for bears and moose," Cappuccilli said. "And after the season we're going to go for three or four days on a halibut fishing trip."
Then it's back to IVC for another season coaching for head coach Kent Madole.
"I've learned more in two years there with Kent than the previous six years," Cappuccilli said. "It's a blessing for me. He's a family guy, so it's not 'baseball first.' He's able to balance his life and not let baseball consume his entire being. It's a good example for me to see."
Ultimately, Cappuccilli would like to coach at the Division I level, and chances are, he'll get there, however far he might have to go.


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Cisco Invests In Unified Access To Address Fundamental Changes In Enterprise Networking And BYOD
Cisco is fundamentally changing the way it approaches network by prioritizing R&D to deliver a common user experience independent upon wired, wireless or remote access. In addition, to simplifying network operations and reducing opex, Cisco is unifying its product suites for One Policy, One Management and One Network to address the BYOD megatrend. Its approach is to deliver a unified access or holistic solution to IT business leaders that span both wired, wireless and remote network access with a common security, management and features framework. Cisco calls this new approach Cisco Unified Access. Cisco is also introducing a new converged wired and wireless switch – Catalyst 3850 switch. Jeff Reed; Vice President and General Manager Unified Access Group at Cisco Systems joins me to discuss Cisco's Unified Access strategy and new Catalyst 3850 switch.
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Question 2 @ 3:02: What are the basic elements of UA from a product development point of view, that is where is Cisco investing to deliver UA?
Question 3 @ 5:07: Can you expand on the new 3850 product especially around the topic of virtualized WLAN controllers.
Question 4 @ 7:08: How does UA address BYOD, Video and security trends?
Question 5 @ 10:52: How much does IOS 15.0 Infrastructure play a part in UA?
Question 6 @ 12:47: What do you expect the business outcomes to be for those that deploy UA?
Closing @ 14:41: Summary of UA and its impact on business process.


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LeBron James drove to the rim and scored on Miami's final play, winning a game in memorable fashion and preserving the Heat's winning streak that has lasted for five weeks.
Still, the Heat are not impressed by, well, themselves these days.
For Miami, 16 playoff wins are the goal — not a 16-game winning streak during the regular season. To the Heat, the regular season is an 82-game tuneup for the challenges that await in April, May and they hope, June — when they'll try to win the 16 postseason games needed to successfully defend their NBA championship. And that's why even buzzer-beating wins aren't sending the Heat locker room into a celebratory frenzy right now.
"We're enjoying it," Heat forward Shane Battier said, "but we have bigger goals."
James scored with 3.2 seconds left on Wednesday night, lifting Miami to a 97-96 win over the Orlando Magic. Miami's 16th straight victory gave the Heat a 7½-game lead over the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference standings, an 11½-game cushion over the Atlanta Hawks in the Southeast Division and put the reigning champions in line to clinch their playoff spot on Friday — in just the 60th game of the season.
Miami plays at home against Philadelphia on Friday, and a win would match the 12th-longest winning streak in NBA history.
No, the Heat don't care much about that, either.
"It really doesn't affect us," Heat guard Dwyane Wade said. "In a sense, we want to win, and we want to win every game we play. The day it comes where our streak gets broken we move on to the next game. Obviously, it is great, when you look back at it one day and say 'Oh, we won that many games in a row.' But right now, we are just playing."
Not just playing — playing better than any team in Heat history, at least statistically.
The previous franchise record for a winning streak was 14 games. During this 16-game run, there have been blowouts, double-overtime thrillers and now buzzer-beating victories. Miami has outscored opponents by an average of 11.5 points per game during the streak, and James and Wade have been nothing short of brilliant throughout the run.
By the numbers, since Feb. 3:
— James is averaging 28.2 points, 7.7 rebounds and 7.6 assists on 61 percent shooting.
— Wade is averaging 24.5 points, 6.2 rebounds and 5.9 assists, with a NBA-leading plus-minus ratio of 203 along the way as well.
"I haven't brought it up," said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, when asked about the streak. "What we're trying to do is get better."
If someone knows that long winning streaks during the season mean little when the stakes are highest, it's Battier. At Duke, he was on a team that won 32 straight games in one season, and with the Houston Rockets he was part of an epic 22-game winning streak in 2008.
Neither the Blue Devils nor the Rockets won championships in those years.
"It's hard to win one game in this league, which people don't realize," Battier said. "The amount of preparation, the amount of time you have to study your opponent. Even for the most talented team, so much has to go right for you to win one game."
The 22-game streak in Houston was one that Battier will forever savor because that Rockets team was just not expected to be great.
And for more than a month, they were beyond great.
"It was one of the best times in my basketball career because it was so bizarre," Battier said. "We came out of nowhere. It was a team that was a pretty good team, a playoff team. We weren't contenders and we just kept winning. ... It was a perfect storm."
Of course, the expectations in Miami are just a tad higher than what those Rockets faced.
Still, there is a residual benefit from being tested in the regular season, especially when a game is on the line in the final seconds. And the pressure of that moment against the Magic, the pressure — if any exists — of the winning streak, it wasn't enough to thwart the Heat on Wednesday.
"I don't know if we relish them," Battier said of late-game, close-game situations. "There's a huge benefit because the playoffs are all about executing under stressful situations. And although a regular-season game, even if it's tight like that can't replicate the pressure and stress of a playoff game, it's good to be in those situations just to see how you respond and learn."
That was the mood in the Heat locker room after Wednesday's scintillating finish. Another lesson learned, time to move on.
When some players were asked about the potential for things like 20-game winning streaks and putting together one of the longest runs in NBA history, the response was typically no more than a shrug.
"We don't even talk about it," James said. "We don't really get caught up into the streak at all. What we are trying to do is bigger than a streak."


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Dominic Hook, national officer of the Unite Union, says "it is a complete disgrace that the bank, which is 41 percent owned by the taxpayer, continues to cut jobs in such a cavalier way."
Lloyds has a target of cutting 15,000 jobs by the end of 2014, and has so far announced 8,000.
Barclays, meanwhile, has announced a review of jobs in its investment banking division. Staff have been put on notice that their jobs are at risk following a review of the lender's operations by new chief executive, Antony Jenkins.
Lloyds said the jobs would be lost in its operations, insurance, retail, wealth, international and commercial divisions and were part of the reductions previously announced in its strategic review.
The part-nationalised bank said in June 2011 that it planned to save £1.5bn by letting 15,000 staff go.
British trade union Unite "expressed fury" over the decision, highlighting the bank's decision to outsource 190 IT jobs as part of the changes.
"It is a complete disgrace that the bank, which is 41pc owned by the taxpayer, continues to cut jobs in such a cavalier way," Unite said in a statement.
Lloyds said it would look to avoid compulsory redundancies where possible and only use them as a last resort.
"The group's policy is always to use natural turnover and to redeploy people wherever possible to retain their expertise and knowledge within the group. Compulsory redundancies will always be a last resort," it said.
Lloyds paid a heavy price for its government engineered takeover of HBOS, requiring a £20b state bailout. HBOS was caught out by a near-shutdown of wholesale funding markets, on which it was more reliant than rivals.
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CNN Presents: Stone Cold Killer; Inside the Cold Wars; Extreme Cheerleading
Aired July 17, 2011 - 20:00 ET
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANNOUNCER: Tonight on CNN PRESENTS, "Ice Wars in the Arctic." KAJ LARSEN, CNN PRESENTS CORRESPONDENT: Come with me aboard this U.S. nuclear powered submarine as we go underneath the Polar ice cap. ANNOUNCER: "Inside the New Cold War." "Extreme Cheerleading." Defying stereotypes. MATTIE GARDENER, ALL-STAR CHEERLEADER: And now it is my life. It is pretty much who I am. ANNOUNCER: Where winning is the only option. But first -- DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN PRESENTS CORRESPONDENT: Three words that describe Whitey Bulger. TOM FUENTES, FORMER HEAD, FBI INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME UNIT: Stone cold killer. ANNOUNCER: He was a mobster the FBI could not catch. Deborah Feyerick takes you inside one of the biggest manhunts in FBI history. (END OF VIDEO CLIP) FEYERICK (voice-over): The church bells of St. Monica near the harbor in south Boston have sounded for generations of Irish immigrants. It's a tight-knit community that has always protected its own, a place James "Whitey" Bulger, one of Boston's most notorious gangsters, called home. Bulger learned to fight and survive on the mean streets of south Boston, known as Southy to locals like John Shea who, decades later, would work for Bulger. JOHN "RED" SHEA, FORMER BULGER ASSOCIATE: The guy was legendary. He made tough guys shake. He made them shake. FEYERICK: Bulger's life of crime started early. Arrested in his teens, he was robbing banks by age 20. His shock of blonde hair earning him the name "Whitey," a name he is said to despite. With his rugged good looks and reckless flamboyance, Bulger imagined himself Boston's version of Hollywood gangster Jimmy Kagny. But instead of red carpets he was headed to Alcatraz. A string of bank robberies landing Bulger 10 years in federal prison at age 25. He did his time and upon release vowed he would never, ever go back. DICK LEHR, CO-AUTHOR, BLACK MASS: They had no hard proof. FEYERICK: "Boston Globe" reporters Dick Lehr and Gerald O'Neill ultimately uncovered the deal he cut to make sure of that. GERALD O'NEILL, CO-AUTHOR, BLACK MASS: He go out of prison in 1965 and we started doing research in 1988. And he hadn't gotten so much as a parking ticket. FEYERICK: Whitey Bulger fresh from prison went to work as a mob enforcer. But Bulger warranted more and federal investigators say he'd stop at nothing to get it. O'NEILL: Then he went on a killing rampage. I think it is like a month. He killed six guys in 1972. LEHR: He was ambitious in making his move. FEYERICK: And he was making his move with this man -- Steve Flemmy, aka, the rifle man. Among their alleged victims, Flemmy himself testified his own girlfriend, Deborah Davis. FUENTES: Back in those days before DNA was in use to identify victims he would personally get involved in cutting off the fingers or hands of the victims and extracting their teeth. FEYERICK: Tom Fuentes, now a CNN consultant, ran the organized crime squad for FBI headquarters. (On camera): Give me three words to described Whitey Bulger. FUENTES: Stone cold killer. FEYERICK (voice-over): But why kill Debbie Davis? Authorities say because she knew Bulger's secret connection with another kid from Southy, John Connelly. LEHR: For him it was like meeting Ted Williams. And the idea of equating, you know -- FEYERICK (on camera): A gangster to a baseball player. LEHR: A gangster to a baseball icon like that I think that shows you the kind of twisted values in perception on the world that is part of John Connelly. FEYERICK (voice-over): John Connelly was a young, ambitious FBI agent who grew up in the same housing projects. Back in the '70 and '80s, the FBI's number one priority was taking down the Italian mafia. Bulger became Connelly's priced informant. LEHR: And he did everything including breaking all kinds of laws over the years to keep that alive. FEYERICK: In a series of groundbreaking articles for the "Boston Globe" Lehr and O'Neill uncovered what their FBI sources call a dangerous alliance. O'NEILL: In 1976 Connelly tipped him off about a rival (INAUDIBLE) and Bulger killed him. So Connelly had to realize right away how serious and deadly this arrangement was. FEYERICK: Protected by Connelly and others, Bulger's criminal enterprise skyrocketed. Court documents show Bulger knew when police were watching, knew when they were moving in and ultimately knew when to disappear. (On camera): He was shaking down bookmakers and loan sharks. This was a guy who was a really bad guy. SHEA: Everything that I wanted to be. FEYERICK (voice-over): As his power grew, so did that of his younger brother, Billy. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just want you to know we're all on this open microphone, Mr. President. FEYERICK: A tough as nails politician well respected as president of the Massachusetts State Senate. SHEA: How do you beat a guy psychopathic with intelligence and the connection that he has in that world. Brother is a Senate. FBI is protecting him. It was, you know, one big family living in the projects like this. FEYERICK: John Shea, now a changed man, once ran Bulger's multi- million dollar drug operation. SHEA: Growing you up, hey, you know, you had to be a tough kid to handle. FEYERICK: He served 12 years in prison rather than break Southy's code of silence. SHEA: Whitey being a rat. Stevie being a rat. And this is what I took an oath to? An oath of honor? It was heartbreaking. FEYERICK: Documents show FBI Agent Connelly continued to feed Bulger secret information, at times with deadly results. WILLIAM CHRISTIE, ATTORNEY, BULGER VICTIMS: If Bulger got charged with a crime, then he could no longer be an informant. FEYERICK: Attorney Bill Christie represents families of several of Bulger's alleged victims. Including the family of Bill Halloran, a drug dealer who cut a deal with the FBI. Only to be gunned down as he left a popular Boston restaurant. According to testimony at a civil trial, FBI Agent Connelly told Bulger where to find Halloran. CHRISTIE: Bulger cornered him and shot him 22 times starting from the leg up to his torso, up to his chest. Twenty-two times with no head shot. So he inflicted as much pain as he could and also did it in a fashion that to make sure that he knew Halloran would die. FEYERICK: In a case of wrong place, wrong time, Michael Donahue was giving Halloran a ride home. Donahue was killed instantly, leaving behind a wife and three young kids, but to this day blame the FBI in the death. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: John Connelly, he's a big reason why my father is dead. PATRICIA DONAHUE, WIDOW: There's a hole in your heart when you're thinking about what's going to take place hopefully in the future, and then there's no future with that person so that's a pretty gut wrenching feeling. FEYERICK: In 1994, Whitey Bulger's nearly 20-year reign came to an end in what was likely Connelly's parting gift, authorities say he alerted Bulger to a pending indictment and true to his word that he'd never return to prison, Bulger disappeared with his long-time mistress Kathleen Grieg leading to one of the FBI's greatest embarrassments and one of its largest manhunts. (On camera): What was Whitey Bulger's life about? SHEA: Power. Strength. Money. He was like a king, that guy. He was like a king. FEYERICK (voice-over): Coming up, how one of America's most notorious gangsters remained comfortably hidden for nearly 16 years. FUENTES: He became the Elvis of gangsters. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) FEYERICK (voice-over): Santa Monica is the place to retire. Beautiful beaches packed with people. An ideal place to blend in or disappear. That's precisely what Whitey Bulger did. The reputed crime boss and his long-time girlfriend Catherine Greig setting up house blocks away from the ocean in a corner apartment partially hidden by trees. Bulger had planned ahead knowing he may one day run, says Tom Fuentes who spent years tracking the fugitives. FUENTES: He had, you know, millions of dollars in cash. He took off to a number of different countries and cities and put cash in security safe deposit boxes that he could access later and so he didn't need to be contacting people. He could establish a new identity and eventually just take over a new name. FEYERICK: That identity, Mr. And Mrs. Charlie and Carol Gasco, a self-described Chicago businessman and his younger wife who were into nutrition and long walks. And who secretly stuffed stacks of cash and heavy duty assault weapons in their apartment walls. (On camera): These are your neighbors. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, that's the way I saw them. FEYERICK: And that's how you always saw them? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Always him with hat. I didn't know if he was bald. FEYERICK (voice-over): Eighty-eight-year-old (INAUDIBLE) eventually befriended her upstairs neighbors. But there were privacy boundaries you did not cross. Like asking the Gascos to hold a spare key in case of emergency. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He says, well, let me talk to my husband. And then she came back and says, no, Charlie says that we -- he doesn't want you to give him anything. We don't want to. FEYERICK (on camera): By all accounts Whitey Bulger kept a low profile. He didn't have any problems with the people who lived on his hall. According to one neighbor he didn't divulge much about himself but did say he'd originally come from Chicago and had fought in the Korean War. That neighbor says a couple of times he caught Whitey Bulger on his balcony peering out with binoculars. (Voice-over): From his crime days, Bulger knew the easiest way to get caught was to become complacent so he changed his patterns. Even when he came to getting his haircut, says this salon owner Fehima Betts. FEHIMA BETTS, SALON OWNER: And I ask him to make appointment but he never did. He just walked in. And he never left me any number or anything. FEYERICK: In fact, court documents showed Bulger and Greig had numerous fake identifies. After his arrest, Bulger told authorities he went gambling in Las Vegas, took trips to Tijuana to buy medication, and even returned to Boston on business, allegedly telling authorities he was armed to the teeth. All the while the FBI was scrambling to find the gangster who had corrupted bureau agents. BARRY MAWN, FORMER FBI SUPERVISOR: That's probably the worst thing. FEYERICK: Former FBI special agent in charge Barry Mawn arrived in Boston two years after Bulger disappeared. He put Bulger on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list and had him featured on various crime shows, even in a "Dick Tracy" comic book. MAWN: We weren't trying to hide him or not find him. And if you look at what we did it is impossible to draw that conclusion. FEYERICK: Official say 12,000 leads came in over 16 years. Fuentes leading the FBI's international efforts says they followed up Bulger sightings in Ireland, London and South America. FUENTES: There was thousands of police officers involved in that round-the-clock operation. So o any time there was a sighting of him, worldwide, everybody went full-bore to full up on those leads to try to find in. So in a way he became the Elvis of gangsters, he was constantly being spotted somewhere. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: FEYERICK: The break in the case came in late June after the FBI paid for a public service announcement aimed at finding Bulger's girlfriend. It never even aired in Los Angeles. But a new story led to a crucial tip and an arrest three days later. Bulger lured into the garage on a ruse that someone had broken into his locker. These are some of the 30 weapons FBI agents confiscated from Bulger's apartment. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Van number one. Van number two. FEYERICK: After more than 5,000 days on the run, Bulger was brought back to Boston in handcuffs. Charged with 19 murders in court he denied them all. The damage he caused to the FBI still haunts the bureau to this day. (On camera): In hindsight, do you think the FBI being acted too slowly to follow up on rumors that there was a leak and a dangerous leak that was letting Whitey Bulger run free? FUENTES: Yes. I do think that. FEYERICK (voice-over): How this plays out is anyone's guess. Bulger turns 82 in September. Will he cooperate? Stand trial? Cut a deal? Depends on who you ask. SHEA: At that time -- FEYERICK: But his former drug boss John Shea, now a writer, says Bulger has the feds right where he wants them. SHEA: He's playing them. Trust me. Psychologically he is playing them. Is he giving them information? Is he talking to them? You guarantee he is. FEYERICK: So why here? Why so near the statue of Santa Monica? Consider this. In south Boston, Bulger grew up attending the church of St. Monica. Perhaps it's just a coincidence. Perhaps it's a clue. Some kind of locator. After all, Whitey Bulger left little to chance. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANNOUNCER: Next on CNN PRESENTS, Kaj Larsen explores why the U.S. Navy built this remote camp in the frigid arctic. And goes under the ice on a nuclear submarine. And later -- UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, it's not good. It is not good enough. ANNOUNCER: They don't just cheer on the sidelines. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's it. ANNOUNCER: A team determined to win a world championship at any cost. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, this is it. This is what's going to determine the success of your year. (END OF VIDEO CLIP) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) LARSEN (on camera): It's a pleasant 60 degrees at my home in L.A. today. But where I'm going it could be as cold as 60 below zero. (Voice-over): Every two years the U.S. military conducts an operation in the Arctic Circle called Ice Exercise. Better known as ICEX. The Arctic region consists of eight countries that border a vast ice- covered ocean. No one country owns the Arctic. There are some agreements governing who controls what territory, but as the ice melts, those lines in the map are changing and each nation is competing to extend its Arctic border to claim a greater piece of the valuable high north. I don't really think that often about what's going on in the Arctic, but with global warming opening up vast riches of resources, and military exercises with nuclear subs converging underneath the Polar ice cap I wanted to know what's going on at the top of the ice world, and why. As I launched to the Arctic, I talked via Skype with an Arctic expert, Professor Rob Huebert, about the spike in activity in the region. PROFESSOR ROB HUEBERT, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY: Most of the Arctic states are moving toward the improvement of their combat forces within that region and no one is of course calling for an Arctic war or conflict at this point in time. It is telling that we have two American attack submarines doing scientific research off the coast of Alaska. LARSEN: Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, last stop in the U.S. before heading to ice station. It's time to get armed with some real cold weather gear. (On camera): Bring on the Arctic. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hopefully everybody has been given one of these books, "Survival in the Arctic." LARSEN: The only way to get where we're going is a six-seater Bush plane. Finally, amidst a sea of Arctic ice, we spot the camp. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How you doing? LARSEN (on camera): Hey, sir. How you doing? (Voice-over): With the U.S. submarines just below our feet I get my first look at a series of simple wooden huts built in the last two months to protect everyone from the extreme conditions. (On camera): Look at this right here. Balmy 10 degrees right now. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Balmy, balmy 10 degrees. LARSEN (voice-over): About 50 people from sailors to scientists have been adjusting to living at the ice station over the course of the exercise. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's no magazine rack or anything in there? And also importantly is the effectiveness of toilet paper is significantly diminished at minus 40. LARSEN: Just basic survival at the camp is a challenge. (On camera): You can't go outside without carrying a rifle in case a Polar bear attacks. While we were standing on five feet of ice right now, we actually are moving 2 to 4 miles per hour. It's just floating. Over the course of the one-month-long Ice Exercise it will move about 70 miles just from drift alone. (Voice-over): So why am I here? Why has the Arctic become a hotspot? (On camera): The world, it's physically clanging beneath my feat. With global warming the Polar ice cap is melting opening up an ocean for the first time since the ice age. This has created access to all kinds of new resources but it's also created competition at the top of the world. (Voice-over): As the Arctic sea opens up, ships sailing from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans traditionally relying on the Panama Canal route can instead use the northwest passage saving thousands of miles and hundreds of millions of dollars. A third of the world's natural gas is believed to be underneath the Polarized cap. The Arctic riches contain everything from oil to minerals to diamonds. But not everyone believes the quest for resources means competition. In Anchorage I was briefed by Professor Brigham Lawson. PROFESSOR BRIGHAM LAWSON, UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS: There is complexity. Can be some friction. But not at a high level of military conflict issues that I would say. LARSEN: Professor Lawson's colleague from the University of Calgary disagrees. HUEBERT: I think at this point that we're on the cusp of being demilitarized. People are thinking much more military terms than they did since the end of the Cold War. LARSEN: And back at ice camp, military exercises are indeed under way. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Maverick, roger, this is Atlas. All (INAUDIBLE) to Sierra, proceed. LARSEN: The command hut monitors and communicates with the U.S. submarines 24 hours a day. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's the New Hampshire here. And this is the Connecticut right here. And that's us in the middle. LARSEN: In the past submarines had to surface to communicate. One of the systems in development allows the base camp to send texts to the submarine under the ice. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is almost like a tweet, tweet submarines down here. I'll press in, there's a hydrophone down there that blasts out the sound. It sounds like crickets. LARSEN: Many of the operations are classified. But what we saw an amalgam of testing, acoustics, submarine tracking, sonar, all under the umbrella of research. (On camera): In your opinion what is the purpose of ICEX? HUEBERT: Well, it's clearly -- there is a scientific basis and it's a nice little cover but the reality is I think that the American Navy is clearly showing that it is back. LARSEN: This is a land grant. This is the U.S. presence in the high north. But we're not alone. (Voice-over): Other nations are rapidly building their capabilities in the Arctic as well. Russia is creating an Arctic armed forces. Just this month announcing it will deploy two army brigades, including special forces. And it has resumed strategic bomber flights over the North Pole. The Canadian government is building eight ice strength and patrol vessels. Denmark is deploying F-16s to Greenland. Norway is building five new frigates. (On camera): In reality the battle is not for this desolate sheet of ice that I'm sitting on. The real value is beneath the surface. (Voice-over): And that's where we're going next, on a nuclear submarine underneath the ice. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Don Lemon live at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. Here are your headlines this hour. The former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper has reportedly been released on bail after her arrest earlier today. Police questioned Rebekah Brooks over the phone hacking and police bribery scandal at "The News of the World" paper where she was once editor. Also today London's police commissioner resigned over his connection to a former executive editor of the "News of the World" newspaper. After being under police and public scrutiny for more than three years, Casey Anthony is now free but we don't know exactly where. Anthony walk out of an Orlando jail just after midnight. Twelve days ago a jury acquitted her of murdering her daughter. About 1,000 people were outside the jail in protest. Security was high. Her attorneys say she has had multiple death threats. The good news just keeps coming out of Los Angeles. Interstate 405 opened up at noon, 17 hours ahead of schedule. This after the dreaded carmageddon did not happen. That's what people were calling the expected gridlock after 10 miles of Interstate 405 were shut down for repair. But drivers actually listened and the mayor is hoping for the same results when another shutdown is planned in 11 months. Those are your headlines this hour. I'm don lemon. We now learn to "CNN PRESENTS." LARSEN (voice-over): In 2007, a scientific exploration planted a Russian flag at the bottom of the Arctic seabed. What some publicly dismissed as a political stunt was privately considered in some circles a Sputnik-like moment. According to secret leaked cables published by WikiLeaks, the rest of the world began scrambling to make sure they got a piece of the Arctic pie. That's how I came to be at a U.S. Navy facility in the Arctic circle to observe the escalating tension and activity in the region. (On camera): Oh, yes, that's brisk. (Voice-over): At daybreak we headed out to rendezvous with one of the two U.S. nuclear submarines patrolling in the Arctic. (On camera): You know, planes, trains and automobiles? The CNN version? Ice planes, helicopters and submarines. (Voice-over): The helicopter dropped us and our equipment at the rendezvous site. A three-foot thick sheet of ice several miles away from the base camp. With no ocean in site hundreds of miles from the nearest cell phone tower it was hard to imagine how on earth a submarine would find me. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are we a go for ice man surface? Over. LARSEN: An X in the ice indicated where the submarine was to surface. Then the ground started to rumble. With 18 feet of the 353-foot long Seawolf-class sub on the surface, the ground crew takes chainsaws to cut their way through the ice to the hole. The then-commanding officer is first up from below. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This ship's amazing. Amazing capabilities up there. LARSEN: After weeks under water the crew took a few precious moments of fresh air, then we loaded our gear and headed below deck. A small camera mounted on the top of the submarine was our only visual reference that we were making a descent 300 feet below the surface of the Polar ice cap. (On camera): One of the amazing things about a modern submarine is that they're almost entirely self-sufficient. Like a biodome. They run on nuclear energy which means they can virtually go forever. They make their own oxygen with this oxygen generating plant right here. They even make their own water through a process called hydrolysis where they scrub saltwater. So the only thing that actually limits a submarine is how much food they can carry. (Voice-over): A hundred 60-man crew doesn't exactly follow a regular schedule. COMMANDER MICHAEL VARNEY, USS CONNECTICUT SUBMARINE: The ship is in a six-hour rotation watch. And so what you end up doing is feeding the crew four times a day. LARSEN: The submarine operates on an 18-hour day. A sailor essentially gets six hours on watch, six hours off, and six hours to sleep before it starts all over again. After our first meal on-board we began navigating the labyrinth passageways of the sub. I ran into Petty Officer Joshua (INAUDIBLE) and asked about what life on the sub is like. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is basically your, you know, home away from home. Opens up, we got bunch of treats, you know, different things that you need, all your clothes and magazines, or whatever you bring under way with you. You can bring any kind of snacks or whatever as long as it stays in your rack. You know you got to keep it in here, keep it clean. LARSEN: Space is such a commodity that every nook and cranny is used for something. Finally, we descended to level three. VARNEY: We're taking you now into the torpedo which is, quite frankly, the heart and soul of the submarine. LARSEN: The USS Connecticut is an attack submarine designed to be quieter and faster than the Russian Akula class submarines. It carries an arsenal of up to 50 advanced capability torpedoes and Tomahawk land attack missiles. While it runs on nuclear power it doesn't carry nuclear weapons. Its purpose is to find subs that do reminding us of our primary reason for being here. (On camera): Twenty-five years ago it was common for U.S. and Soviet subs to be playing cat and mouse underneath the ice. But with the break-up of the Soviet Union that activity ends. Now renewed interest in the Arctic has brought new players with rumors of Chinese subs operating in the region as well as the old guard U.S. and Russia. (Voice-over): As all the nations gear up, the USS Connecticut is preparing for war beneath the sea. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Man battle stations. Man battle stations. Man battle stations. LARSEN: This was just a drill but the captain reminded the crew of the larger purpose. VARNEY: It's always good to do this even up here while we conduct the exercises under the ice, because this is our main mission, taking this ship into harm's way and protecting our country. So great job getting on station. Boo-yah. LARSEN: After traveling thousands of miles on planes, snowmobiles, helicopters, even submarines, we had come to a region influx. What seemed like a cold wasteland masked a rapidly changing environment. Vast resources are up for grabs in the Arctic. Couched in the language of diplomacy, countries are preaching cooperation but simultaneously preparing for conflict. The Cold War is over, but as I disembark the submarine, I was left with the feeling that there might be a new type of cold war under way at the top of the world. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANNOUNCER: Coming up, dedicated athletes. Willing to do whatever it takes to hold on to the world championship title. GARDENER: You would expect a football player playing in the Super Bowl to play even if he had an injury. (END OF VIDEO CLIP) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) SANDRA ENDO, CNN PRESENTS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Far from the sidelines of a football field, this defies the stereotype of what it means to be a cheerleader. It's called all-star cheerleading. It is as demanding and athletic as many sports. And in a decade it's become wildly popular. Fiercely competitive. And for some of the 200,000 young women involved, it's become their world. Seventeen-year-old Mattie Gardener is one of the best all-star cheerleaders in the country. She's been competing since she was 7 years old. GARDENER: Competitive cheerleading something really more action- packed and more difficult than high school cheerleading. To me, it is my passion. It became my sport. And now it's my life and it's what I do and it's pretty much who I am. ENDO: Mattie trains year round at Cheer Extreme in Kernersville, North Carolina. One of the largest and most elite all-star cheerleading gyms. GARDENER: It is a big commitment to be here, you know, every day for three to four hours. You know I'm doing homework in the car on the way here, I'm doing homework in practice breaks. I'm taking four AP classes so I really set high goals for myself and I think cheerleading has really taught me that, too, you know, don't settle for second- best. ENDO (on camera): Do you feel like you've had to sacrifice any of your teenage years for this sport? GARDENER: I wouldn't want to be anywhere else honestly. I mean this is what I love to do. ENDO (voice-over): Her coach, Courtney Poe, says the dedication on Mattie's team is as intense as their practices. COURTNEY POE, COACH: More than 50 percent of the team live two hours away. So that means getting home from school, getting in the car at 4:00, hoping they get no traffic, getting here for practice at 6:00, getting home almost at midnight, you know, and starting all over again. ENDO: Mattie's team competes at region and national events, performing 2 1/2-minute routines of powerful tumbling, high-flying stunts and impressive teamwork. (On camera): You are a flyer. GARDENER: I am. ENDO: The center point flyer. GARDENER: Yes. ENDO: What does that mean? GARDENER: I am in the center of the routine for the stunting part. You in a way carry the stunt sequence because the judges really focus in on the center of the routine. ENDO: So what's the most challenging stunt you do? GARDENER: It's called a ball-up 360 tick-tock. I think it is the most challenging right now on the market. ENDO: But it's one you nail? GARDENER: Yes, most of the time. Knock on wood. It was the first time anyone had ever done something like that, that skill last year at world's when I performed it. ENDO (voice-over): Mattie is talking about the All-Star Cheerleading World Championship. GARDENER: It's like a gymnast going to the Olympics. You know? That's their ultimate goal. ENDO: Last year Mattie's stunt helped her team win a gold medal for the first time. GARDENER: It was kind of just like all this emotion exploded and I was kind of threw my body on to the floor and it was really emotional. Just relief. Knowing that everything that I work for the past couple years had paid off. ENDO: The team's success turned Mattie into a cheerlebrity. Now hundreds of fans want to be friends with her on Facebook. GARDENER: I have 960 friend requests right now. ENDO: With the 201 championship just weeks away, Mattie's team is counting on her to help them win gold again. (On camera): You guys are going in as reigning world champions this year. GARDENER: Yes. ENDO: Pressure must be intense. GARDENER: I definitely feel like it's harder to hold on to the top spot than it was climbing to the top last year. So it's definitely stressful. ENDO (voice-over): Mattie feels the pressure perhaps more than anyone. She is still haunted by a devastating fall at the World Championship in 2009. The team's mistakes cost them the gold. Mattie blames herself. GARDENER: You know, it's still in the back of my mind even though you try to push it out. I felt like I ruined it for everybody which is some hard feelings to go through. ENDO: So Mattie pushes herself even harder. But just weeks before this year's competition, a sudden setback. GARDENER: They told me that I had sprained my ACL and that other ligament. Hopefully I'll be able to practice for the rest of the time leading up to Worlds. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) POPE: Welcome to practice. Be ready. Here we go. Come on. Come on. Do the kicks. Come on, guys. Come on. Stay with it. We already know that's a mistake. You need to fix it. Try it again. ENDO (voice-over): The World Championship of all-star cheerleading is just weeks away and Cheer Extreme's chances of holding on to the title suddenly seem to be slipping away. The team star, Mattie Gardener, is sitting on the sidelines with a painful knee injury. GARDENER: It's really hot. It feels like fire honestly. When I first got hurt I said it felt like a hot knife and it kind of is a milder version of that. It was definitely bad timing. I fell out after stunt, almost tore my ACL which would have been really bad. ENDO: After missing a week of training, Mattie cautiously takes the mat and works through the pain. GARDENER: The more I do, the worse it gets. I mean I probably shouldn't be doing as much but it will be worth it in the end. ENDO: Mattie is ready to do whatever it takes to hold on to their title. For the next three weeks, the team will spend four to five days a week in the gym, practicing for perfection. With their coach, Courtney Pope. POPE: Who remembers the practice for four hours where I stood right here and we fixed every single person this way. ENDO: Every step has to be in sync. POPE: It is not together. This is no more synchronized in the opening than it was in January when we made it up. ENDO: Ever flip, flawless. POPE: No, it's not good and it's not good enough. ENDO: They will do it over and over until they get it right. POPE: Now hit one and stop. You're exhausted, right? But these are the moments. And World is won are not. Do the stunt again tired and mean it. Here we go. ENDO: As the championship approaches, Mattie's determination gets stronger. (On camera): What are you going to do at World if your knee is acting up? GARDENER: You would expect a football player to play in the Super Bowl to play even if he had an injury. And it's the same thing to me. I mean this is the only fix of our sport so obviously I'm going to get through it. We're not going to let anything stop us this year. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Please welcome to the World, Cheer Extreme All- Stars Senior Elite. ENDO (voice-over): Saturday, April 30th, 2011. The first day of the World Championship. After an impressive performance, Mattie Gardener feels confident going into finals the next day. GARDENER: Everything was perfect. Everything's hit, we were on time. It was synchronized. All the stunts were up. It was just unbelievable. POPE: It's 271.1. ENDO: But the mood suddenly changes when the team learns they're in third place. POPE: Hey, hey, hey, hey. I know that we are disappointed in the ranking but the reality is that close -- do you want to go to third? CHEERLEADERS: No. POPE: Do you want to fix it? CHEERLEADERS: Yes. ENDO: Desperate to hold on to their title, they want to practice now. But it's near midnight and there are no open gyms. POPE: One, two, three and four, five, six, seven, eight. ENDO: So they wake up early for an emergency practice on the golf course behind their hotel. POPE: You cannot like be a Jack Russell Terrier that decides you are going to get to your pyramid spot faster than anybody else does. ENDO: Mattie is pushing through the pain in her knee. GARDENER: You can't help but think, you know, this is it. This is what's going to determine the success of your year. ENDO: No more time to practice. Now it's game time. POPE: Let me your eyes. I watched your team 700 trillion times and I know we can be even better. Got it? I know we can. You've got to talk about it and let's all just admit that like we're terrified. We're not like -- you can't practice to a point where we absolutely have this because who knows what's going to happen. ENDO: Backstage the team tries to calm their nerves. It begins near perfect. Then, Mattie's famous stunt comes crashing down. Watching the replay is tough. It wasn't the team's only mistake. And they know the gold medal is probably out of reach. (On camera): Walk me through what happened here at World's today. GARDENER: I mean I felt ready but I didn't feel like I knew I should. First part of the routine was just awesome. When it came to my specialty stunt, they kind of went bad that I don't really know what happened. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. We are moving on to the globes. The top three teams. The bronze champion, Cheer Extreme All-Stars. ENDO (voice-over): After all the dedication, sweat and sacrifice, it's hard to hear they aren't world champions. Their rivals take home the gold. GARDENER: It's hard not to feel like it was your fault. Pretty much going into this all we had to do was hit and we could win and that just -- it wasn't happening for us. POPE: Mattie, she'll be fine. Mattie's a brilliant, genius and it takes setbacks and, you know, disappointments to really get to the best of who we all can be. And she's going to be something fantastic. ENDO: It's an emotional end to a year of intense pressure and grueling training. But practice is starting all over for the next season. And Mattie will go for the gold again. GARDENER: Maybe now that, you know, we're not on top we can come back next year and take it back but we'll just see what happens. I wouldn't consider not coming back for a second. It's -- it's just who I am. And, you know, I have to prove myself again now. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANNOUNCER: Next week on CNN PRESENTS. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He came to me and said mom, the (INAUDIBLE) school said I wasn't going. How? Because I'm going gay. ANNOUNCER: A school district at war over homosexuality. Next Sunday on CNN PRESENTS. (END OF VIDEO CLIP)


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My first car was a bright yellow Chrysler Newport. I always thought it was a 1960, but when I pull up pictures, I think it was more a '63 or so. It looked a lot like this:
Only instead of costing $2,964, it was $100. It was the car of a friend of my grandfather's. I can't remember her name now, but she was so very nice and wanted me to have her old car. So this Chrysler Newport sat in my driveway for almost a year before I got my driver's license in 1983.
Although these days this would be a classic car and a cool status symbol, at the time, it was just a big, yellow, very old car. My friends called it, "The Banana" due to its length and color. It comfortably seated 8. No seat belts, of course. We would pile in and pile out. AM radio only, so I hung a tape player on the ash tray. No air conditioning, so the windows were always rolled down (hand-cranked, of course). The trunk was massive and frequently featured the worldly belongings of a teenager or two who'd run away from home (they knew I had the room…).
It was made of solid steel and had no working meter to tell me when gas was running low. So I had to fill it up (10 gallon tank) and then could only go 100 miles before it would konk out on me. That's 10 miles to the gallon. 10.
Summer nights, when there was no school and we were out too late to go home, we'd sometimes just sleep in the car (comfortably slept four). We'd put the White Album or the Alarm on my clunky tape player and zonk out until the Creamery opened and we could go in for coffee and usually nothing else- I'm sure that thrilled the waitresses.
The Banana brought me so much joy and fun and freedom. I have wonderful memories of that big yellow boat car. Which is a good thing, as I don't think there are any pictures of it, either.


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If food trends are telling us anything, it's that fresh, raw ingredients is the next big thing. In this lakeland region, locally produced food has always been in fashion
On the edge of County Fermanagh's Upper Lough Erne you'll see many things. You'll see swans waddle through reeds and sun warm the water's rippling surface. You'll see dense forests and you'll see a collection of islands. Among those islands, you will find a Hare Krishna Centre (Inish Rath); millennia-old carvings (White Island); and an entire monastic site once subjected to Viking raids (Devenish).
On Inishcorkish Island you will find black pigs. And if you choose the right day, you might also spot the butcher Pat O'Doherty making his way there on his boat.
To be truthful, though, Pat O'Doherty isn't just a butcher. He's a key player in a global food revolution and a key food trend. Ask Forbes, The Ingredients Network, any food blogger: consumers are looking for high quality raw, natural ingredients. They're moving away from commercially farmed foods to local, hands-on producers.
Pat O'Doherty is one such producer.
There's one thing black bacon producer Pat O'Doherty will never experience on his commute to work: traffic. Along his way to visit his black pig herds on Inishcorkish, Pat is alone with rippling water, a swan or two and Lough Erne's serene silence.
This is the image of the local, free-range producer that is inspiring chefs around the world. According to The Ingredients Network, a key food trend for 2014 will be "The New Flavours of Farm-to-Table". But it's not only chefs who want to cook with produce that has been "raised by small-scale producers" like Pat (chef Noel McMeel treated world leaders to Pat's Fermanagh Black Bacon during Lough Erne Resort's hosting of 2013's G8 summit). Food lovers want to eat it, too.
Bottom line: as far as grass-fed, farm-to-table quality goes, bacon from pigs reared on their very own island ticks all the boxes.
From a grassy patch on Inishcorkish, Pat's 'on trend' bacon ends its journey at his Enniskillen butcher shop. After providing such paternal care and intimate attention, does Pat get close to the herd?
"I become very attached to the pigs," Pat told the food blog The Foodie Bugle. "I travel to the island each night to give them little snacks and check on their well being. I'm fascinated by the way they interact with nature and each other."
But Pat's care and dedication isn't just noticeable in the behaviour of these very happy and well-tended pigs. As this recipe below confirms, it's evident in the taste, too.
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Derrylin Soda Farls and Black Bacon provided by Pat O'Doherty
For the salsa
For the filling
1. Sieve both flours into a bowl with the salt and baking powder. Rub in the butter.
2. Add the buttermilk a little at a time (you may need to add a little more buttermilk (or water) depending on the temperature of the four).
3. Form the dough into a circular shape and cut into six triangles.
4. Heat a large frying pan and sprinkle with flour. Griddle the farls on each side for 10 minutes until risen and golden.
5. Allow to rest for an hour before serving.
6. Mix together ingredients for salsa and season with salt and pepper.
7. Fry the bacon in a little olive oil until cooked through.
8. Split the farls and butter liberally on each side. Slide two rashers of warm Black Bacon into each farl and serve with the salsa.
The above recipe is delicious anywhere and anytime. For the ultimate experience, though, just add a Lough Erne sunset.
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Her Facebook profile had been posted anonymously online – the person behind the post was also requesting anyone who saw it, to post nude pictures of her.
When Kari addressed the issue on her Facebook page, the nude request immediately was deleted. She believes for that reason, the poster got spooked and is within her social media circle.
She says sites like these are not uncommon and pop up continuously.
We did a little digging and there are even categories on this one, requesting pictures of girls from high schools in Utah.
Kari is working with other women to get the site taken down and she's also personally contacting every woman who's picture is up there, to make sure they are aware of how they are being violated.
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