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During two days of sharing innovative solutions for growing their practices, our guests were able to build relationships with colleagues who understand the challenges elite-level agents face in their day-to-day business.
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More than 50 of the country's most successful agents and advisors joined host Creative Marketing for the sixth annual Tailor Made Networking Conference held in Miami, Fla. Attendees were able to enjoy the outdoors and maximize their opportunity for sharing ideas, information and success strategies with other high-caliber producers throughout the three-day event. Additionally, Creative Marketing's home office personnel presented timely industry news and sales tips for helping these professionals continue to build their businesses and differentiate themselves from their competition.
Creative's Tailor Made group welcomes elite-level life and annuity producers who meet a $5 million minimum of premium submitted annually. The Tailor Made services include one-on-one business consulting, strategic marketing and communications support, and a multitude of training opportunities and resources customized specifically for agents with an exceptional business track record. Each year, Creative brings these agents and advisors together to network and hear from their peers regarding strategies for generating referrals, developing more qualified leads and closing business more effectively.
"At each Tailor Made Networking Conference, we want to recognize our outstanding producers and provide extraordinary ways to thank them for their continued partnership with us," said Creative Marketing's Senior Vice President of Tailor Made Chip Anderson. "This year's event in Miami was no exception. During two days of sharing innovative solutions for growing their practices, our guests were able to build relationships with colleagues who understand the challenges elite-level agents face in their day-to-day business."
Event highlights included a keynote speech by innovative leader and corporate consultant Steve Harvill. He shared insights into the benefits of getting back to basics and keeping the sales process simple for agents and clients alike. Producers picked up tips from top agents, and then shared "one great idea" with one another that they could put to use immediately after the conference. Attendees also learned about specifics of newly offered agent programs available and how to prepare themselves and their business owner clients for business succession.
"All of the events were great, and the farewell party was incredible. I had the opportunity to speak one-on-one with some of the most successful agents and advisors in the business and learn how they do what they do. On my first day back in the office, I am already starting to implement suggestions and improve my own success. I can't wait until the next Networking Conference," said one Tailor Made attendee on the post-event survey.
Creative Marketing is known throughout the industry for its best-in-class agent incentive trips, in addition to providing unparalleled service and support. The Tailor Made Networking Conference is just one example of how Creative combines these qualities to afford producers with opportunities throughout the year to spend time learning from their peers.
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'Put simply, its magnificent list of specs reads as though it was scribbled on a napkin after a merry band of gadget nerds got tipsy at the watering hole and started riffing about their idea of the ultimate mobile device: a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4.3-inch WVGA display, 8 megapixel camera with 720p video recording, HDMI-out, and WiMAX compatibility. '
'The overall interface is excellent, easily one of the most user-friendly of all the Android phones we've laid hands on.'
'It's official: Sprint's first WiMax/ 4G phone is everything we hoped it would be.'
'The phone isn't perfect, and neither are all of the features that give it bragging rights, but it's hard to find things to DISLIKE about the EVO 4G.'
'The Touch Dual's 400-MHz Qualcomm MSM7200 CPU is powerful enough to run Windows Mobile at a decent clip, though on occasion I still had to wait several seconds with frozen dialog boxes on the screen.'
'The original Touch model had it on the bottom edge which was way more convenient, especially when you had the phone inside the case - the new solution doesn't allow plugging in headset in such a situation due to the unusual slot location.'
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Walter Wiggles is a series of switchbacks leading up towards Angel's Landing in Zion National Park in Utah.
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the only real benefit i can see is that 5-7 years down the road when we start making kde5 we won't have to tag the kde4 articles ;)
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Iginla scores twice in Bruins' win vs. Oilersby Derek Van Diest
EDMONTON -- Jarome Iginla has made a career scoring on the Edmonton Oilers.
In his first-ever game against the Oilers with a team not named the Calgary Flames, Iginla continued the trend, scoring twice for the Boston Bruins in a 4-2 win against the Oilers at Rexall Place on Thursday.
Iginla scored one of the Bruins' three first-period goals then added an empty-netter in the third to seal the victory.
"We had a great start, we wanted to focus on that and make sure we had that," Iginla said. "Give the Oilers credit; they're a young team and they can create lots of chances, and when they start feeling it, they can get it going.
"They played well. But we also didn't have the same legs that we've had at different times and we got ourselves into some penalty trouble. Finding a way to just win the game, that's the most important thing."
Bruins goaltender Chad Johnson made 39 saves in the win.
Dennis Seidenberg and Brad Marchand also scored for the Bruins in the first period as Boston took a 3-0 lead and hung on for the win. David Perron scored both goals for the Oilers.
Playing in his 90th game against the Oilers, Iginla scored his 35th and 36th goals against his hometown club.
The longtime Flames captain had plenty of support in the crowd.
"It was in the ballpark of 30, somewhere in there," Iginla said. "I've got brothers and sisters, cousins. My wife's from here. It was just one of those nights.
"It's fun though. We're only here once, and I'm happy that they could all come out and support me. It's better than if they didn't show up, right?"
Seidenberg opened the scoring at 10:25 of the first period on a gift from Oilers goalie Devan Dubnyk, who let a long, unobstructed wrist shot from the blue line get past him. Prior to the goal, Dubnyk had made a number of key saves to keep the Bruins off the board.
Iginla increased the Bruins' lead at 16:11, taking a pass from Seidenberg off a cycle in the corner and firing a shot from the top of the circle and through a screen past Dubnyk.
Marchand scored a shorthanded goal at 18:17 to give the Bruins a 3-0 lead. The Bruins left wing broke out with Patrice Bergeron on a 2-on-1 rush after Oilers defenseman Philip Larsen gave the puck away at the blue line.
Bergeron slipped the puck past Larsen on a slow-developing play, giving Marchand an open net to shoot at.
"I don't know if we won a battle in the first period," Oilers coach Dallas Eakins said. "I don't know if we were, 'The Bruins are in town. They're one of the best teams in the League and we need to play cautious.' You can't play cautious against anybody. You'll get killed if you give them too much time and space. But even though we weren't winning the battles, I didn't think the first period was as bad as the shot clock showed or the score was. I still felt we had a chance if we could get a goal."
The Bruins (22-8-2) outshot the Oilers 18-14 in the first period, and the Oilers made a goaltending change to start the second.
Dubnyk was replaced by Jason LaBarbera, who had not played an NHL game since he allowed five goals in a loss to the Phoenix Coyotes on Oct. 26.
LaBarbera didn't get much work to start the second, as it took the Bruins more than eight minutes to register a shot in the period. He finished with 12 saves.
Perron cut into the lead at 3:25 when his shot appeared to hit Seidenberg's stick and sailed past Johnson.
Johnson got the start over No. 1 goalie Tuukka Rask, who was battling the flu. Rask did dress as the backup.
Perron added another for the Oilers at 17:25 to make the score 3-2. The Oilers left wing had a centering pass from Jordan Eberle bounce off his stick and behind the Bruins net. Perron gave chase and was able to fight off Bergeron with one arm and wrap the puck around and past Johnson with the other.
"They obviously played a pretty good game in the first period," Perron said. "I thought we were right there with them in the second, and then we had a pretty good third period.
"But I felt, even after the first period, the score wasn't reflective of the game. I thought they were outplaying us, but not by that much. Not by three goals anyway. We did our job in the second, and we're probably going to have nightmares about not scoring in the last minute and hitting the post."
The Oilers (11-19-3) took the play to the Bruins in the third period, outshooting them 13-3, but were unable to beat Johnson, who had battled the flu himself earlier in the week. Iginla sealed the victory with his empty-net goal at 19:16.
"Even in the first, I didn't think we were horrible, maybe a victim of circumstance a little bit," Eakins said. "We were maybe not totally comfortable in our skin in the first. But in the second and the third, obviously that's how we want to play."
The Oilers travel to face the Vancouver Canucks on Friday. The Bruins conclude their four-game road trip against the Canucks on Saturday.


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Far Travels, Art and Technology by Andrew Nguyen
Simone De Rochefort Wanders Europe; Fuses Interdisciplinary Arts and Science with Web Technology
Husky Pantry by Marlene Manzo
Students Serving the UW Bothell Community
Advocacy in Storytelling by Nate Stout
International Student to Attend UN Practicum
Simone De Rochefort Wanders Europe; Fuses Interdisciplinary Arts and Science with Web Technology
By Andrew Nguyen
The summer after her sophomore year, Simone De Rochefort bought tickets for a concert in France. In a serendipitous moment, De Rochefort cancelled the return flight home, extending her summer break indefinitely.
She visited Toulouse, one of the most dynamic cities in world, mixing modern industries with historic Gothic and Romanesque architecture. She wandered Europe learning to travel cheap. Then she did an early start fall exploration seminar in England.
"Visiting places where you don't speak the language can create a sense of not belonging. I like that feeling. I don't like staying in one place, so hopefully my work after college complements this," she says.
After an almost endless summer break it was finally time to stop living out of a suitcase. De Rochefort came back to UW Bothell to begin her junior year.
Soon after returning, she started her job at the Center for Serious Play (CSP) and now serves as content editor. Here she helps define the CSP's identity and messaging in both written and visual mediums.
Majoring in culture, literature, and the arts, she uses her interdisciplinary perspective as a foundation for her creative work.
"Interdisciplinary studies make me more conscious as a person," De Rochefort says. "Having different perspectives on social issues makes it possible to think outside the box when it comes to technology. We have to differentiate what we want from technology and what society needs from technology," she says.
She can also talk about mixing 18th century Rococo art into web or game design. She uses color palettes to convey messages and themes to users. It is intuitive and subliminal, speaking to diversity in goals and unity in mission.
The CSP serves as a bridge where students gain industry relevant experience in interactive media design. The website is a place for them to publish their work and develop design skills. The new website will be live by the end of winter quarter.
Where will de Rochefort be after UW Bothell?
"I want to be in Korea... but with so much stuff going I'll have to wait and see."
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Students Serving the UW Bothell Community
By Marlene Manzo
Tyrell Edwards is passionate about serving underrepresented groups. The second-year student in the master of arts in cultural studies (MACS) program makes time to serve as director of student advocacy for the Associated Students of the University of Washington Bothell (ASUWB). This position allows Edwards to focus on serving students at UW Bothell, especially students in need.
In fall of 2011, Edwards and a group of students worked together to establish Husky Packs, an organization that provides UW Bothell students with care packages containing essential items for everyday living. Contents include non-perishable foods like granola bars, jerky, dried fruit and nuts. It also contains clothing items such as scarves, gloves, and socks, as well as miscellaneous items such as first aid items, and a variety of toiletries. Husky Packs are made possible because of generous donations from the Bothell community, and partners like the Northshore YMCA.
In winter of 2011, Edwards and Husky Pack students realized a greater need. They began hearing stories of UW Bothell students struggling to purchase groceries. Edwards says the Husky Pack group jumped into action by gathering food for UW Bothell students and the Husky Pantry was born. "I had a team of students who were really inspired to help out to put this together. We did outreach to the community. We went to a lot of houses and sent out a lot of request forms to different neighborhoods. We had a very positive response."
Now, the Husky Pantry provides students with food as well as resources directing them to local food banks, soup kitchens, and showering facilities. The resources range throughout the Greater Seattle Area. Husky Pantry is a confidential service. A Community Assistant (CA) at the Husky Village Community Center would be more than happy to assist any UW Bothell student seeking access to the pantry. Edwards continues to do extraordinary work through ASUWB devoting his time to serving students and creating opportunities for student development.
Edwards says none of this would be possible without the collaboration with Northshore YMCA, Student Life, ASUWB, Career Center, Residential Life, Residential Housing Association (RHA), and the hardworking students at UW Bothell.
For more information, or to donate to Husky Packs, contact firstname.lastname@example.com
International Student to Attend UN Practicum
By Nate Stout
Last September, Jun Chen moved from Wuhan, China to enroll in the master of arts in cultural studies program. Despite the challenges international students face, Chen's warm composure and eloquence in conversation is refreshing.
"Communication is difficult, but not in the ways you would expect. The non-verbal cues, and assumptions about intelligence and capability are quite different in China."
Having earned her undergraduate degree in journalism from Wuhan University, Chen traces her connection to cultural studies through her exposure to the atrocities in Rwanda; a moment when she recognized media's power to connect people in need with people who can help.
"I began to see journalism as a way to humanize distant stories. I chose to pursue cultural studies in order to learn to connect and work within communities."
Currently volunteering with Catholic Community Services tutoring children, Chen's work between local and global communities recently won her the Natalie Lang Scholarship. This funding source provides tuition assistance to UW Bothell students who demonstrate outstanding commitment to the local and/or global community, with an F-1 visa or who have become permanent residents of the U.S. within the past five years.
Chen found out she was awarded the scholarship on Christmas Eve. "It was a great surprise!" she laughs. "The timing was too perfect; I think they must have planned for that."
The scholarship will fund her tuition as a delegate of the 2013 United Nations Practicum in Advocacy. The weeklong practicum will take place in New York City this March, and will focus on the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls. Chen will participate in and contribute to the documentation of official and informal meetings. The program provides opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and exploring career opportunities in international relations and advocacy work.
Seizing this opportunity to observe the mechanisms of global collaboration and advocacy, Chen hopes to acquire some insight into connecting communities to resources and funding on local and international scales. "In some ways it's an experiment. While I'm exploring the tools of journalism as a means of advocacy, I have a wide range of interests and I'm finding ways to combine them into something personally satisfying and socially productive."


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Santa will have a new location this year when he stops in Fayette to visit with children.
St. Nick will make an appearance from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 15 inside the old ticket booth on the Village Green. Santa's Workshop on the Village Green will include his helpers who will make sure each visitor receives a treat.
Either before or after a visit with Santa, visitors are welcomed into the opera house to warm up with soup and a sandwich. The meal serves as a Bullthistle Committee fund raiser to help cover costs of the annual festival. The meal cost is $5.
The Fayette Community Band and Chorus will present a concert that same night at 7:30. Director Karen Joy King will lead the groups in a variety of musical entertainment—and with a variety of musical instruments.
Look for additional details in next week's Observer.
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Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue." Lately, I've been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as "broken" or "fractured" English. But I wince when I say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no other way to describe it other than "broken," as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. How does Tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? Tan discusses her thoughts about language to build the idea that the English language does not have words to match some Chinese terms. Tan discusses her relationship with her mother to build the idea that mothers and daughters in all cultures often have misunderstandings. Tan discusses her mother's use of English to build the idea that a form of language can be purposeful and meaningful even if it is nonstandard. Tan discusses the English language to build the idea that there is a lack of appropriate synonyms for the word "broken."
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I Don't See Dead People but I Do See History
You know the popular phrase "I see dead people" said by Haley Joel Osment in the 1999 movie "The Sixth Sense". I am happy to say that I don't see dead people, but I do see history - everywhere I go.
I look at trees too. How many large mature trees are standing alongside the road? Could they have been there a hundred years ago or perhaps longer? Is there only one large tree or is the street lined with old trees? I chastise myself for not knowing more about trees and their growth rates. Some trees grow faster than others and I'm not sure how to tell the difference. Note to self: determine growth rates for oaks, maples and chestnuts.
As I pass a railroad crossing I try to determine if the railroad is active or dormant. There are many dormant or even removed railroad tracks in the area that I live. Was there an old railroad station nearby? If so, are there old photographs of the railroad station? Are there likely to be Sears "houses by mail" built in the area which were predominantly delivered by railroad?
When I pass by a church or an old store I wonder how old it is. How long have people been attending service there or buying their goods there? Is the architectural style colonial or Greek Revival or something else?
As I continue on I pass stone walls swallowed by new growth woods. I think back to how this was all farmland at one point. I try to imagine the landscape devoid of trees and glistening with green pastures and animals or crops.
Everywhere I go, whether countryside or city, I see history. But don't get me wrong - I am very much in the present. I make note of history and try to determine how it has fared through the years and lasted until the present. Why has it survived? How can we help other links to the past continue to survive to the present day?
What does this have to do with genealogy? Everything. My ancestors saw and touched those links to the past. Those relics of history which exist in my present were in their present too. It connects us and enriches my understanding of their lives and my own.
How is it that I started to see history everywhere? I blame it on James Deetz. You can read more about that in an earlier post "How James Deetz Changed My Life."
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I find myself starting to do this too Marian but you've given me new things to think about!ReplyDelete
I do this too, and even though I don't really have roots in SoCalif. where I live (though a few distant cousins once lived in my city), I couldn't resist picking up a photo history I spotted at the local library ("Images of America" is a great series). I love knowing the old building I've admired down the st. was a hotel in the 1920s or that the palm trees down the block were planted in the early 1900s. (History, at least of developed towns here, is barely old enough to be history in SoCal!)ReplyDelete
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Republicans in the state of Washington didn't wait long in the spring of 1995 to fulfill their pledge to roll back a sweeping law expanding health coverage in the state.
Coming off historic electoral gains, the GOP legislators scrapped much of the law while pledging to make health insurance affordable and to free state residents from onerous government mandates.
It didn't work out that way: The repeal left the state's insurance market in shambles, sent premiums skyrocketing and drove health insurers from the state. It took nearly five years to repair the damage.
The Boy Scouts denied Wednesday that the head of the youth organization called President Donald Trump to praise his recent politically aggressive speech to its national jamboree.
Trump told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Wednesday, "I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful." Politico published the transcript of the interview.
"We are unaware of any such call," the Boy Scouts responded in a statement. It specified that neither of the organization's two top leaders — President Randall Stephenson and Chief Scout Executive Mike Surbaugh — had placed such a call.
The mayor of London has reiterated his calls for President Trump's state visit to Britain to be canceled in the wake of the city's terrorist incident, saying his policies "go against everything we stand for."
The war of words between the two leaders intensified further Monday evening after Trump criticized Mayor Sadiq Khan's response to the London Bridge terrorist attack in two tweets, and the mayor said Trump should not be welcomed in the capital.
"Since Saturday I've been working with the police, with the emergency services, with the government and others to deal with the horrific attack on Saturday," Khan said Monday evening. "I just haven't got the time to deal with tweets from Donald Trump."
John Dean is a connoisseur of coverups, a savant of scandal, so he can more than imagine what it's like inside the Trump White House right now.
"It's a nightmare," he said, presiding in a high-backed leather wing chair off the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Not just for those in the headlines — political strategist Steve Bannon, jack-of-many-duties Jared Kushner — but for their unsung assistants and secretaries as well.
"They don't know what their jeopardy is. They don't know what they're looking at. They don't know if they're a part of a conspiracy that might unfold. They don't know whether to hire lawyers or not, how they're going to pay for them if they do," Dean said in a crisp law-counsel cadence. "It's an unpleasant place."
Companies accelerated their hiring last month, adding a robust 253,000 net new jobs in a sign the labor market remains healthy and the economy is strengthening after a weak winter.
The private-sector job creation figures reported Thursday by payroll firm Automatic Data Processing far exceeded analyst expectations and was well above the downwardly revised 174,000 net new positions added in April.
"Job growth is rip-roaring," declared Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, which assists ADP in preparing its report.
President Trump plans to bring weeks of indecision over climate change policy to a close this afternoon, announcing if he will withdraw the U.S. from the international agreement on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.
Read our coverage of the debate leading up to today's announcement:
The choice for Trump appears to be whether to quit the treaty entirely or stay with it but significantly scale back the U.S. commitment to combat global warming.
President Trump sparked a global kerfuffle over "covfefe" with his bizarrely truncated tweet just minutes into Wednesday, spawning countless jokes across Twitter but also more serious questions for which the White House gave no answers.
Press Secretary Sean Spicer, during an unusually short 11-minute briefing in which he insisted he not be on camera, declined to give any explanation for Trump's tweet posted just after midnight. Nor would he translate what the president was trying to say in the garbled message that broke off midsentence.
But Spicer told reporters that the public should not be concerned that the president sent what the questioner called "somewhat of an incoherent tweet."
Former Vice President Joe Biden is launching a new political action committee, a platform that will allow him to provide help to favored candidates and, inevitably, boost speculation about a possible run for the Democratic nomination in 2020.
The organization, which Biden is calling American Possibilities, will be staffed by a former top political aide to the vice president, Greg Schultz, who is also a veteran of President Obama's reelection campaign.
The PAC will allow Biden to raise money that he can use to travel the country, contribute to candidates in governor's races this year and congressional and state races in 2018 and generally do the sorts of things that aspiring politicians do to keep their names in the headlines.
The United States and foreign ministers from across the hemisphere met in Washington on Wednesday to attempt to force Venezuela's leftist government and its angry opposition into talks.
Hunger and violence have pushed Venezuela to the brink of humanitarian disaster, diplomats say.
But Wednesday's meeting of the Organization of American States faced unlikely prospects for success: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro does not trust the organization and has said his nation will withdraw its membership.
The special counsel investigating possible links between Russia and the Trump presidential campaign has cleared former FBI Director James Comey to testify before a congressional committee about his contacts with President Trump, according to an associate close to Comey.
Comey met with Robert S. Mueller III, whom the Justice Department appointed on May 17 to investigate any Russian ties to the Trump campaign, and Mueller said he had no problems with Comey's testifying, the associate said.
Trump abruptly fired Comey as head of the FBI on May 9. The president later said in an interview on NBC News that he was concerned about the FBI investigation into what he called the "Russia thing."


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There's been a lot of competition between the major supermarkets in Australia for some time.
Prices seem to be constantly falling, with Coles, Woolworths and many others trying to compete with Aldi.
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Dyeing Natural Fibers Yarn Collage Scarf
Being an avid crocheter, I am often asked about what kinds of yarns I use. Some people don't like acrylic or polyester yarns and want natural fibers like cotton.
But to find brightly colored natural fiber yarns at the craft store is a challenge, and if you go to a gourmet yarn store, they can be really expensive. I decided to make my own!
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Ophthalmologist eyes challenge of Himes
When running for office, hindsight is 20/20.
The self-diagnosis of Republican Joe Bentivegna is closer to 20/15, however.
Twenty years after being humbled in a GOP primary for U.S. Senate, the ophthalmologist from Fairfield is seeking his party's nomination for Congress in the 4th District and is telling fellow Republicans that he is a much wiser candidate who can transcend political labels and put his experience as a doctor to use against a formidable opponent in U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn.
Bentivegna, 57, contends that he gives the GOP the best chance to reclaim a district that went solidly Republican for four decades before Himes' 2008 upset of Christopher Shays.
"If you have one of my opponents in this race, I guarantee you it will be the most soporific race you ever covered," Bentivegna told Hearst Connecticut Media during a recent interview.
In his only other bid for office, the married father of two and native of rural Pennsylvania lost by a 2-to-1 margin to fellow physician Jerry Labriola, the father of the current state GOP chairman by the same name, in the 1994 Senate primary. The elder Labriola went on to lose the general election to Joe Lieberman.
"Dr. Bentivegna is a quality guy and a close friend of my family," the younger Labriola said. "Joe will add an important voice to the campaign, especially with his expertise in the area of health care. He rounds out an impressive field of quality candidates, each of whom would represent the district with distinction."
Three Republicans stand in the way of Bentivegna -- former state Sen. Dan Debicella, R-Shelton, who mustered 47 percent of the vote in an unsuccessful 2010 challenge of Himes; state Rep. John Shaban, R-Redding; and retired Navy SEAL Carl Higbie of Greenwich.
Bentivegna, an eye surgeon who practices out of Rocky Hill, has chosen to make health-care reform a centerpiece of his nascent campaign.
A critic of the Affordable Care Act like his GOP rivals, Bentivegna favors transitioning to a single-payer expansion of Medicare to cover catastrophic illnesses. Regular insurance would cover the first $50,000 in medical expenses under Bentivegna's plan, which he said should appeal to fans of Obamacare.
"You'd have choice, but you're protected against the disaster," he said. "My opponents all want to go back to the old system, and that's why we all lose."
Bentivegna supports gay marriage, but is opposed to abortion and the death penalty.
If he was a member of Congress, Bentivegna said he would have voted against the president's first-term stimulus package, as well as bailing out banks at the height of the economic recession.
"You've seen a whole shift in political power to what I call the Wall Street welfare state," he said. "These guys always pose as friends of the working people. But these policies that he's had, which is basically to bail out everyone who speculates, is bad for this country."
Like Higbie, who wrote a book skewering the Pentagon over its execution of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bentivegna is an author. In 2003, he penned, "The Lords of Greenwich," a fictional whodunnit about a broke mechanic who scams a Bridgeport jai alai fronton and winds up dead after the billionaire owner from Greenwich discovers the plot.
Bentivegna volunteered for a year as a physician in Haiti with the Sisters of Mother Teresa, helping him to become conversational in Haitian Creole, which he said could help him in the cities of the 4th District. He said he is also conversational in Spanish and Italian.
Through the end of February, Bentivegna said he had raised about $20,000 -- less than he would like -- but was prepared to invest $20,000 of his own money into his campaign. He expects it will take $1.5 million to mount a viable challenge for the GOP nominee.
"If I put too much money in it, my wife will kill me, and you can't win it with a dead candidate, except in Bridgeport," he joked.
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Here's a public service announcement that will blow the minds of all you gearhead Arrested Development fans: Lucille Bluth is in Grand Prix. And she's hot.
I saw Grand Prix for the first time at the Jalopnik Film Festival last week, and the character Pat looked like someone, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Matt even leaned over to me when she came on screen and said "her?" which didn't make me realize that it was Jessica Walter as we both share a love of Arrested Development and quote it incessantly.
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The last seasons of both The Bachelor and Bachelorette have both ended with a bang, as Bachelorette winner Ed Swiderski seems to be sleeping with everyone including his fiancé Jillian Harris and two ex-girlfriends – Bethany Steffen and Lindsey Johnson. Despite all the cheating accusations surrounding Ed and Jillian, the Bachelor producers are already casting for the next season of the Bachelor.
There have been rumors that Jake Pavelka, Reid Rosenthal or Kiptyn Locke will likely be the next Bachelor. These three are all fan favorites from this season of The Bachelorette. The Bachelor Producer, Mike Fleiss, has now confirmed one of the three will be the next Bachelor to Entertainment Tonight. "When the new season of The Bachelor premieres, look for Reid, Kiptyn or Jake to be handing out the red roses," says Fleiss.
While the producers have yet to announce when the next Bachelor will be revealed, we can definitely continue to count on both Ed and Jillian to keep us occupied with the cheating/break up allegations.
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Nats edge Padres in 10 innings
San Diego, CA – Chad Tracy hit a pinch-hit, two-out solo homer in the top of the 10th inning to propel the Washington Nationals past the San Diego Padres, 6-5, Friday in the second installment of a four-game series at Petco Park.
Tracy, who last hit a home run on May 14th, 2012 against the Padres, smacked a solo shot off Huston Street (0-3) following a two-run, two-out rally from San Diego in the bottom of the ninth which sent the game to extras.
Adam LaRoche recorded his 21st career multi-homer game and finished with four RBI and Ryan Zimmerman added a solo shot in the victory.
LaRoche, who homered in his third straight game, also extended his hitting streak to 14 games. The Nationals, meanwhile, have won seven of their last eight in San Diego.
"He's been on fire. He had a huge night tonight, but he's been swinging the bat well for a couple of weeks now," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said.
Rafael Soriano picked up the win, despite blowing the save in the ninth and allowing two runs -- both of which were unearned -- on three hits. Drew Storen worked around two singles in the 10th the secure his first save of the season.
Facing Soriano in the ninth trailing, 5-3, the Padres rallied.
Chris Denorfia, who reached with one out following Zimmerman's throwing error, advanced to second on indifference, and scored on Chase Headley's RBI single to right to make it 5-4. Pinch-hitter Yonder Alonso singled to right, moving Headley to third before Kyle Blanks again singled through the right side to tie the game at 5-5 and send it to extras.
Washington Starter Gio Gonzalez allowed San Diego's first three runs -- two earned -- and struck out five over 6 2/3 innings of work.
In his last outing, a disappointing 2-1 loss to Chicago on Sunday, the lefty carried a perfect game into the sixth, only to see the Washington bullpen give up all of the Cubs' runs after he exited in the seventh. It was almost the same situation had it not been for Tracy's clutch homer.
"I was trying to hit something hard, trying not to think too much. He threw the changeup again and left it up a little bit," Tracy said.
Padres starter Burch Smith gave up five runs on six hits -- including three Washington homers -- and struck out eight over 5 1/3 innings.
"It's a learning experience for our young pitcher," Padres manager Bud Black said. "There's still a lot to like. There's a lot to like in a short glimpse to me. He'll get there."
San Diego took a 2-0 lead in the first inning thanks to a single and an error.
Gonzalez issued his second walk of the frame, this time to Jesus Guzman, to put runners on first and second with two outs. Blanks followed with an RBI line drive to center, easily scoring Everth Cabrera, but Guzman crossed home on Bryce Harper's throwing error from right field to third.
LaRoche erased Washington's deficit on one swing in the fourth. Harper and Zimmerman hit back-to-back singles and the left-handed LaRoche clubbed Smith's 0-1 pitch to center for a three-run shot and 3-2 Nationals lead.
Zimmerman got to Smith in the fifth with an opposite field solo shot to make it 4-2. LaRoche, though, responded with his second homer of the game, another shot to center, for back-to-back jacks and a 5-2 Washington advantage. It was LaRoche's second multi-homer game this season.
Gonzalez's only other fault came one inning later, as Jedd Gyorko cut the Padres' deficit to 5-3 with a solo blast to center.
Game Notes
It was the first time this season that the Nationals hit back-to-back homers ... Gyorko's homer snapped a streak of 69 consecutive innings tossed by Nationals pitchers without allowing a home run ... Harper entered the game with three career hits against the Padres - all of which had been home runs ... It was Tracy's seventh career pinch-hit homer ... Blanks had two RBI for San Diego.


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Hurricanes Could Be Caused by Warm Weather
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Scientists will look back and remember this year for having lots of hurricanes that were very strong. A group in charge of naming hurricanes is getting worried. They think that they might run out of names for the hurricanes if we have many more.
Category 4 and 5 hurricanes are very strong. There have been many more of these strong hurricanes over the last 35 years. The number of them has doubled. Some people think that this might be because of global warming. However, no one can prove the link global warming has with hurricanes. It will need to be studied for many more years.
One science professor said that there are other things that could create these extra hurricanes. He said that ocean temperatures going up could make hurricanes grow. Another thing that he talks about is weather cycles. He said that we are entering a cycle with more frequent hurricanes.
Most scientists agree that global warming does exist. Many also agree that burning fossil fuels have made it happen much faster. All scientists do not agree though on what is causing the most global warming. Some think that people are doing it. Others think that it is simply natural.
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Picturing fiscal-cliff doomsday
Add this to the dire Wall Street warnings about the danger of going over the fiscal cliff: A banking group released an infographic on Wednesday urging lawmakers to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff or else risk another recession.
In the infographic obtained by POLITICO's Morning Money by Ben White, the Partnership for a Secure Financial Future states that "failure to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff and raise the debt ceiling would negatively impact the markets and the economy. The U.S. lost its AAA sovereign-debt rating in 2011 when negotiations failed. This time it could be much worse."
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Dubbed "The View from the Fiscal Cliff," it goes on to state that 2 million jobs could be lost, putting the nation back into recession, shrinking the economy 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013 and raising unemployment to 9.1 percent.
The infographic warns: "WE NEED TO REACH A DEAL RIGHT NOW."
Partnership for a Secure Financial Future advocates to raise awareness about the financial services industry, representing more than 2,700 member companies across the industry, according to its website.


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Helps Outreach has a simple mission. To help the poor and the needy of Lee and Collier County by clothing the naked, feeding the hungry and ministering to the hurting.
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Today at Colliding Universes
Particle physics: Do electrons have free will?
Origin of life: "Primordial soup" belief undermines traditional spirituality?
Cosmology: I seem to have yanked particle physicist Lawrence Krauss's chain
Origin of life: Speculation rents the "science" costume - leaves without head
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Colliding Universes is my blog on competing theories about our universe.
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They were only three words, but seemed to hold more importance when spoken Monday by Jonathan Toews, the captain of the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks.
How does he feel, physically, after sitting out the final six games of the regular season with an upper-body injury?
"Good," Toews said, pausing. "Really good."
Toews and forward Patrick Kane, who missed the final 12 games with a lower-body injury, said they're ready to take the next step in the process of getting back into game shape. They'll participate in full practices Tuesday and Wednesday, and get a morning skate Thursday at Scottrade Center prior to the start of a series against the St. Louis Blues in the Western Conference First Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Toews, who returned to the ice for individual work this past Thursday, is anxious to get back into normal game-preparation mode.
"[Tuesday] I'll be out there with the boys, back to the usual routine," he said. "It's kind of nice. Not fun to be on your own program for a couple of weeks. It's one of the downsides. I'm looking forward to being back."
Likewise for Kane, who's been skating through individual drills for more than a week and got into a morning skate prior to the Blackhawks' home finale April 9 against the Montreal Canadiens.
"I'm excited to get things going," Kane said. "I've watched a lot of hockey lately, so it's going to be nice to play in some games now. I feel pretty good. It'll be nice to get a couple skates with the team [Tuesday and Wednesday] and the pre-game skate Thursday and get ready to go."
As for his injury, which is thought to be a knee issue after he returned to the ice wearing a brace on it, Kane said it feels ready for game tempo.
"I've had some time to rest my injury, obviously, the right amount of time, and with anything you want to make sure you're feeling good coming back," he said. "I think that's where I'm at right now."
Toews said he feels fortunate that his injury wasn't worse after sustaining a big hit into the boards by Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik.
"There was a moment there right after it happened in Pittsburgh where we weren't quite sure," he said. "I think for the most part, with the level of pain I was dealing with, I knew it wasn't going to be a long-term thing. I don't think there was too much to worry about there. It was just going to be a week or two weeks."
Each said they would've liked to play at least a game prior to the start of the 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs, but the time off provided a needed physical and mental break after playing a lot of hockey in the previous 15 months.
After winning the 2013 Stanley Cup following a 48-game regular season, the Blackhawks only had a couple months off before training camp started in September for a full 82-game schedule. Mixed in were the 2014 Sochi Olympics, which Toews and Kane each participated in for their respective countries.
"I don't think you ever want to miss any games, but if you do, on the one side you can try and rest up and be as mentally ready for the playoffs as you can," Toews said. "At the same time, I don't feel like I lost anything. It was only a short while to be away from playing the games. I think for anyone who's been playing right until the end of the season, it's going to be an adjustment with the speed of the playoffs, so everyone's going to have to step it up a little bit."


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In the June 2013 issue (see "Looking for Evidence of Lessons Learned," page 54), Andrew Drwiega talks about the flaws in the U.S. procurement process for helicopter programs. An enormous amount of money and effort goes into research and development in responding to these Request for Proposals (RFPs).
Mr. Drwiega did a good job of pointing out the frustrations put forth and dealt with by the respondents to these proposals. The frustration, to me, lies in the people making the decisions. Most are career military that rise through the ranks and as such, are deemed qualified to handle acquisition decisions.
The private sector, which supplies the actual product, is and does get frustrated every time a change in specification is made and time delays become the order of the day. Mr. Drwiega used the recent AAS program as an example of how the military procurement process can/will frustrate itself and the provider. Having watched the whole process, I was almost certain the U.S. Army would select the MD540F, yet after all this effort, the Army's acquisition adviser went before the Senate Armed Service Committee to say that none of the entries offered could meet the Army requirements.
It seems the Army has taken a course of making this mission impossible. Army procurement should not be this difficult. It's a waste of time and effort by everyone for this to have occurred. It is high time the Armed Services Committee took ownership of this issue and purchase a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product that saves everyone time and money.
The current procurement process is frustrating the Army and industry at a time when it should be more objective and less subjective.
Andre Leonard, Billings, Montana
These comments refer to the article on page 40 of the July 2013 edition of R&W titled "Essential Ground Equipment: A Quick Guide," by pilot Dale Smith. I can only assume that it has been quite some time since the author walked through a professional maintenance hangar (and is perhaps why many organizations actively discourage pilots from doing so). His comment "...when it comes to helicopter maintenance, a good ladder can be worth its weight in fuel" reveals a surprising lack of awareness of modern safety standards in hangars.
Let us be perfectly clear, maintenance stands are used for performing maintenance while ladders (which are often carried in the aircraft) are used for servicing. Anyone who does not know the difference between "maintenance" and "servicing" should ask a professional. Yes, I know that some hangars permit the use of ladders for maintenance, but this is only for the simplest tasks where no, or very little, physical effort is exerted – generally for visual checks only.
This lack of safety awareness is then exacerbated when, still talking about using ladders for maintenance, the author quotes the general manager of the Bristow Academy as saying: "It's most common with the light and medium helicopters, particularly when working on the main rotor heads or performing a task that requires some exertion such us torquing a mast nut or blade bolt." When I read this, I had visions of mechanics doing backward somersaults off the top of a ladder when the socket slipped off the nut being torqued.
Frankly, any maintenance manager, supervisor or safety officer who permits ladders to be used for maintenance should have his nuts torqued too.
Mike McCormack
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Comment submitted online to "European Researchers Test Diesel Alternative to Turboshaft," by Thierry Dubois from the Paris Air Show: If this helicopter engine goes ahead and becomes successful, it will bring down the cost of flying to a level which will be attainable for all to use. As for me, the cost of training is such a high factor with prices of £475.00 ($700-plus) per hour. It can only help us struggling with less time spent in the sky.
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In your experience, who offers the best courses for flight training, classroom instruction, maintenance and online training? What about for specialized training such as NVG, ab initio, long line, offshore or HEMS training?


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Jets defensive lineman Mike DeVito appears to have piqued the interest of several teams, according to multiple reports published Saturday.
Per Rich Cimini of ESPN New York, the Jets want to strike a deal with DeVito before free-agent signings can commence on Tuesday. Cimini reported that a "handful of teams" had looked into DeVito.
Conor Orr of the Newark Star-Ledger reported that six teams have "inquired" about the 28-year-old DeVito, who started 15 games for the Jets in 2012.
A defensive tackle in the Jets' 3-4 front, the 6-foot-3, 305-pound DeVito has recorded more than 50 tackles in two of the last three seasons. He became a regular starter in 2010.


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Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos on Monday kicked off the program by tagging Paul Ryan as "the former prom king that once drove the Weinermobile." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] The ex-Democratic operative turned TV host also authoritatively declared that "the White House is actually pretty pleased by the choice of Paul Ryan because they do see him as a target." (What else would they say? Would the campaign admit to being scared of the Republican?)
Reporter David Muir continued the false narrative about the Ryan plan: "Ryan is known in the political world for his controversial budget plan that would call for steep cuts and the Obama campaign said it would change Medicare as we know it." On Sunday, GMA's Bianna Golodryga warned of "budget slasher" Paul Ryan.
In fact, Ryan's proposal would increase spending from $3.6 trillion to $4.9 trillion. As the MRC's Rich Noyes pointed out, the cuts "are merely reductions from the much-higher spending anticipated by President Obama's budget."
Stephanopoulos on Monday did concede that the pick "electrified" the ticket.
Jake Tapper previewed liberal, pro-abortion attacks on Ryan: "He is a Catholic and he opposes abortion being legal even in cases of rape and incest and you're going to see that factoid."
The shots at Ryan as a former prom king and someone who drove the Weinermobile were in reference to the Representative's early years. In a separate segment, ABC's Jon Karl provided a positive, less hyperbolic explanation: "He played football, volleyball, was class president and prom king. When he was just 16, his dad died."
Karl added, "In college, he drove a Wienermobile, selling turkey sausages and lunchables."
A transcript of the August 13 David Muir segment:
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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: High stakes. The campaign now in top gear as Mitt Romney's new running mate Paul Ryan electrifies the trail. The Congressman already hitting hard at the President as we hear from the former prom king that once drove the Weinermobile. And new details emerge about his secretive selection to the ticket.
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STEPHANOPOULOS: Little summer surprise. Race for the White House, it got a real jolt early Saturday morning when Mitt Romney announced his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan from Wisconsin. You know, the two gave their first joint interview on 60 Minutes and today, Ryan is actually going to be going head-to-head with President Obama in Iowa.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's get right to the campaign trail. Turbo charged now that Mitt Romney picked a running mate Paul Ryan. The 42-year-old congressman is married. He has got three kids. Also a fitness fanatic. Loves that P90X workout. There you see him with Tony Horton. We have got all the angles of the campaign covered with our election team this morning. There's David Muir, Jon Karl, Jake Tapper. But we're going to begin with an inside look at the secretive way Romney made his vice presidential pick. ABC's David Muir has all the details from St. Augustine, Florida. Good morning, David.
DAVID MUIR: Turbo charged, that perfect world. In fact, the headlines this morning about this pick: Bold choice. Others saying Romney rolling with dice with this. But, if this campaign was looking for a brand-new burst of energy it's exactly what they got as they try and carve out brand new battleground lines in this race for president. Paul Ryan choking up overnight, greeted by a crowd of 10,000 strong in his home state of Wisconsin.
PAUL RYAN: It's good to be home.
MUIR: Ryan is known in the political world for his controversial budget plan that would call for steep cuts and the Obama campaign said it would change Medicare as we know it. But Mitt Romney and his running mate seemed ready for the incoming fire on 60 Minutes
MITT ROMNEY: There's only one president that I know of in history that robbed Medicare $716 billion to pay for a new, risky program of his own that we call Obamacare.
MUIR: Ryan pointing out his own mother is on Medicare in Florida.
PAUL RYAN: Our point is we need to preserve their benefits.
MUIR: Romney says it's now two on two after choosing his running mate and Ryan is wasting no time taking on the president.
RYAN: They are not working. They are failing us. He can't run on that. So, now he's turning hope and change to attack and blame and we're not going to fall for it!
MUIR: When asked on 60 Minutes about releasing only two years of his tax return, Ryan shifting again to the President.
RYAN: What I hear from people around this country, they are not asking where are the tax returns, they are asking where the jobs are. Where is the economic growth?
MUIR: And the first time, President Obama weighing in on the new Republican ticket.
BARACK OBAMA: I want to congratulate- [Boos] No, no, no. Look, I want to congratulate Congressman Ryan.
MUIR: The President calling him decent, a family man. Then, he started winging.
OBAMA: He's an articulate spokesman for Governor Romney's vision, but it's a vision that I fundamentally disagree with. They tried to sell us this trickle down fairy dust before and guess what? It did not work.
MUIR: What did work was the Romney campaign plan to keep the VP choice a secret. Reporters staked out at Ryan's home as speculation grew he would be Romney's choice, he was dropped off at home by an aide on the eve of the big announcement. Ryan telling a member of our team there, he lost his keys.
RYAN: I left my keys in the truck.
MUIR: But we now know he made a mad dash to the woods behind his home, the same woods he played in as a child. His aide waiting for him in a truck on the other side of the neighborhood.
RYAN: I know those woods like the back of my hands. So, it wasn't too hard to walk through them.
MUIR: Waiting for Paul Ryan in that truck, they drove him to Illinois. He then flew to North Carolina, members of the Romney team waiting for him there. They had takeout from Applebees, before driving him to Norfolk, Virginia the next morning to talk up onto that national stage. Amy, who knew we should have Applebee's? We could have figured out this thing out.


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As I approach Well Placed Cactus, Tyson and Nick cheer. "Solved something?" I ask. Tyson chuckled. "I flipped the score text so it wasn't backwards. It's been annoying."
"So does it disappear now?" Chris asks.
Tyson blinks. "What?"
"The score. Does it not just sit there forever now?"
"I thought we decided we wanted it to."
"No. We want it not to!"
Tyson sighs and scribbles another Post-it note.
The pro room has gone frantic with the crunch. Tom Gillen is mocking up the menu screen, which says, "The Brogers of Fury 161" in a blocky, sci-fi font. I think this is hilarious. "Brogers! That's great!" I say.
"Actually, that says Badgers."
The level he's playing looks great. While so many other teams have gone for bright, flat colours, "The Badgers of Fury 161" is a top-down, 3D dark world like Shadowgrounds or Monaco. The player's astronaut has a torch, and as the shadows scatter, badgers skitter away from gory corpses. "It's really coming together," I say.
"Yeah," he says as he finishes a level. "Still got some bugs though that I am trying to locate."
"Like what?"
The screen is grey. "Well, the next level isn't loading, for one."
At For Science!'s workstation, Steve has the latest playable build of "Honey Badger Don't Give A Shit". As I watch, the badger burrows under a Ferrari and leaps up. The animation I saw earlier is now perfectly embedded and the slow-mo frame captures the badger taking the Ferrari perfectly. The Ferrari shoots forward for a while before the badger jumps back into the ground and keeps going.
"Why does he get out of the Ferrari?" I ask.
Steve shrugs. "He is out of fuel. Have you played Jetpack Joyride?"
"Just a little bit," I lie. "Like, 20 hours or so."
Steve laughs. "Well, we want this to be like the 750m head start boost. Just something sudden and fun, not the normal play style."
Heinous Agenda's tally of "Unity Crashes" (a reference to the Unity 3D game design engine) has jumped from 20 to 30.
"Yes, a few more hiccups," says Wes as he types out more code. "But I think it is all good now."
Ash is looking good. A little tense, but good. He is typing, swiping, drawing like crazy. He has fixed the bugs he caused earlier, and the game is mostly working again. He still hasn't finished multiplayer, and the level resets aren't working properly. "Will you get it done in time?" I ask.
He looks up at the countdown clock: 01:05:09. "Yeah. Maybe. I need another tea." He wonders off to the kitchen. All he wants now is something that can be played, a complete game that can be shown alongside every other team.
56 minutes to go
Alliance of Indie sprints toward the finish line. Matt is frantically working on the opening cutscene. Tom is still tweaking bugs. Kieran and Milenko are sorting out the lighting of one level. Kieran's phone starts to ring. He pulls it out of his pocket, hangs up the call, and tosses the phone across the bench. "Not now," he says.
46 minutes to go
Ash has fixed his single player and is onto getting the multiplayer implemented.
Rockin' Moses is essentially done. They are exporting an executable file while they try out "something new." If that works, they'll export it again.
Matchbox Battery is in a better spot now, and even Andrew looks more awake. The game is on screen for once, not just in lines of code, and it seems to be running well. "Soon we'll be able to begin testing," jokes Brendan.
Testing is what Well Placed Cactus is doing. The whole team is rallied around Chris's computer, trying out the game in turn, each attempting to break it. Fewer blue Post-it notes litter the table. I ask Chris how the team feels about its game. "Good, good. To be honest," he looks around, "I think it is the best here."
I can't disagree. Many of the teams have sidescrolling platformers which, while certainly commendable, do blur in together. But Well Placed Cactus stands out—though they are "standing out" by looking like a Modern Warfare spoof. I'm unsure how that will go down with the judges.
36 minutes to go
Between looking at the indies, the pros, and writing down what I see, I'm running everywhere. Where did this energy come from? By all accounts I should be dead. We should all be dead. But I haven't felt so awake all weekend.
Alliance of Indie have all but 11 Post-it notes in their "done" column. "Guys," Matt says to the team from where he is still working on the cut-scene, "forgive me for the crimes against video and audio I am committing today."
Heinous Agenda's game looks beautiful. The team huddles around a computer, testing the endgame. The factory is "Oinkworth's and Porkington's" and the badgers are channeling a real 1930s Shawshank Redemption vibe. The team seems super happy with its work.
30 Minutes To Go
One Lonely Developer Ash is going nuts, muttering to himself, coding, testing like crazy.
Rockin' Moses is just playing their game, showing it off, having fun and wasting time.
Well Placed Cactus is nearly done. "It's beautiful," says Nick.
"We only have three major bugs to solve," says Chris.
I ask what they are.
"Well, you currently crash if you press a button."
The entire room is insane. Every group is manically coding, testing everything. The buzz is ecstatic.
"It's such a rush," says Tyson. "You never get anything like this."


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Hearts ... to our beloved BHS Bobcats. As we said on the BTBobcats facebook page, "The Bobcats have now outscored rival Hilton Head Island by a margin of 152-0 in the teams' last three meetings dating back to the opening game of the 2010 season." That's outlandishly impressive for a squad that struggled to find its feet in its first few years (anyone else remember their 0-10 first season? Seems impossible now). If you're one of the folks who jumped on the bandwagon after last year's season, welcome aboard and hang on tight, because the ride is only going to get better. If you can't make it to the game (and really; you'd better have a good excuse) you can always listen in at www.justin.tv/blufftonbobcats.
Darts ... to Hurricane Irene. Listen, nobody thought you were being funny when you trashed Puerto Rico. And then you come along and point your "cone of fear" right at Bluffton? Yeah, you'd better just move along north. In all seriousness, we're breathing a huge sigh of relief that yet another hurricane has hit whatever that is down there in the Caribbean that either sends them down to Florida or up to the Northeast. And we're also crossing our fingers for our friends up in New England as Irene made her way up there. Stay safe. You're in our thoughts.
Hearts ... to those who were prepared. We put a reminder out on our facebook page for folks to brush up on their evacuation plans, prompting one user to respond, "We did not have a plan until now. Sometimes we need a bit of reality to wake us up. We have a good one today!" We're glad they're taking that step to ensure their safety, and we're hoping that more readers will take Irene's brief flirtation with Bluffton as a wake-up call. If you don't know where you're going, how you're getting there, what you're taking and how you're getting back, figure it out. "I" is pretty early in the alphabet. There's still plenty of hurricane season ahead of us.
Darts ... to litterbugs. We applaud the efforts of the Clean Water Festival in clearing out the random debris that fills up our waterways, we just wish there wasn't so much to clean up. We remind folks to keep their trash where it belongs.
Hearts ... to USCB Sand Sharks new women's soccer team. Their 2-0 win over USC Salkehatchie was the perfect debut for the school's latest program, and a showcase for outstanding players like Chelsie Mummert, who scored both goals for the Sand Sharks. The regular season starts at 11 a.m. Sept. 4 against Ave Maria, a Sun Conference member and continues at noon Sept. 5 against Michigan's Siena Heights University. We wish these goal-scaring gals all the best, and we'll be rooting them on as they establish a new tradition at our local university.


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Graduate school is an incredible experience that will test your limits, be they intellectual, emotional, health-oriented, or anything else. My friends and my family are my number one support system in graduate school, and I lean on them like crazy.
One of the most important things that I've learned is that it's important to be honest. Especially in the first year of a program, there will be the people who are trying to put on airs to seem like they work the hardest (most common phrase, "I got no sleep last night") or that they are the smartest (most common phrase, "I read < article > where < big name in the field > referenced < theory > that said ___") and if you get bogged down in trying to play that game, you will end up feeling inadequate. Not to mention, those people are
probably definitely exaggerating.
The problem with putting up a façade is that you cut yourself off from receiving the support that you actually need. So, instead of saying "I got no sleep last night," talk to your cohort mate or a more senior student about how you've been spending your time, and ask for advice on how to make sure you're focusing on the right things. Support systems can't work if you are not honest and open about the kind of support you need. Nurture those relationships, and you will have a much more fun, if not enjoyable, time in graduate school!


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Young Guns club
High school is usually the time we all find our path with Mopars. Our minds were already predetermined at this point, and we're just waiting for the coin so we can get our first one. For 19-year-old Tate Hanson, this "first one" materialized as a '74 Plymouth Duster. Over the past few years he has built the car into something pretty grand, and used the car as a stepping stone to high education.
In an effort to become the coolest kid in school, Tate bought his Plymouth when he was a sophomore. While having a car in high school makes almost anyone instantly cooler, having one that looks nice takes you to another level. Under the hood of said Duster was a 225 Slant Six backed by an A-230 three-speed transmission.
He repainted it during his junior year, and also began to build a 360 to replace the Slant Six. There was a lot of hard work and labor put into building the 360, and he wanted it built right. It features ported heads, a Weiand dual plane intake manifold, a Holley double pumper carburetor, a mild Comp Cam, and a Centerforce Clutch. The hot little small-block was finally finished just before senior prom when Tate drove it for the first time-again.
After prom was over, Tate started looking toward the future. His passion for performance and Mopars led him into the automotive field. "I'm now attending the Hot Rod Institute in Rapid City, South Dakota, where I'm doing a complete restomod-type build with my Duster." These plans include subframe connectors, a four-point cage, an 833 four-speed, and he would like to paint the car Citron Yella.
Whenever a Mopar can change someone's life, it's great to hear the end result. For Tate, his '74 Duster cemented his desire to become a high performance gear head and encouraged him to peruse further schooling at the Hot Rod Institute. Tate's plans are practical, and he should be able to put his new skills to good use on the Duster, and any future Mopar. He assures us that the car isn't going anywhere and that he plans to keep it for the rest of his life. Good luck, Tate!
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Do You Feel lucky? Do you want to see your Mopar here? Do you want to be immortalized as a Mopar Muscle Young Gun? Is your car the nastiest thing on four wheels at your high school or college? Then send in your entry to firstname.lastname@example.com, or to Mopar Muscle, Young Guns, 9036 Brittany Way, Tampa, Fl 33619. Here's all you need to do: Send us some photos of you and your car, a description of your car, what you have done to it, and future plans for it. Be sure to include contact information and current e-mail address. Good luck!


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US transfers control of Bagram prison to Afghanistan, retains some prisoners
[JURIST] The US handed control of the Parwan prison at Bagram Air Base [official website; JURIST news archive] over to Afghanistan officials Monday, although the US retains control of 600 prisoners. These prisoners include Afghani detainees that the US fears will not be handled appropriately, as well as 50 Pakistani detainees [VOA report]. Approximately 3182 prisoners were formally put in the control of Afghani police, fulfilling the March Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement [text, PDF]. Future Afghani national prisoners will not be placed under US control. However, both sides have expressed concerns [AFP report] on the other's acceptance of terms. US officials have stated they will continue to hold the 600 prisoners until they are assured that the Afghani government will follow the shared Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Both sides have regarded the dispute as a small impediment to the overall goal of the prison's complete transfer. The decision for the US to retain control over some detainees was announced in September [JURIST report].
In July it was reported that the US would retain control of about 50 non-Afghan detainees [JURIST report] at Parwan Detention Center at Bagram. At that time the US again had to defend its position by asserting that its agreement with Afghanistan did not cover foreign nationals. The detainees have allegedly been held without access to legal assistance, prompting some human rights activists to question the deal's legitimacy and expand upon the criticism that the Bagram facility has been "the other Guantanamo" since its opening [JURIST report] in 2009. The plan for Afghanistan [JURIST report] to take over the US military's Parwan Detention Center was crafted in January with a goal of transferring all responsibilities to the Afghan government within six months.


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OTTAWA — Trauma counsellors are being made available to the federal Conservative political staffers who were present at the party's Ottawa headquarters on Tuesday when a mailed package containing a severed foot arrived and sparked what has become a global manhunt for Montreal murder suspect Luka Rocco Magnotta.
Conservative spokesman Fred DeLorey, one of about a dozen employees who were at the party's national office near Parliament Hill when the horrific incident occurred late Tuesday morning, told Postmedia News that "it was a very, very difficult thing to go through" and that concerns about the emotional state of party workers have prompted the plan to offer psychological help to those affected.
"We have a lot of young staff in our office — particularly at this time of year, there's a lot of interns," said DeLorey. "So to go through this kind of thing, we just want to make sure everyone's OK and bring in professional counsellors so they'll have someone to talk to."
DeLorey said Friday's official identification of the victim in the case — Concordia University engineering student Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese citizen who'd had a relationship with Magnotta — only deepened the sense of horror felt by the Conservative staff members.
"What's been very troubling is that someone was murdered and dismembered and sent to us," said DeLorey, who also spoke about Conservative staffers' struggles in an interview aired Saturday on CBC Radio's political affairs program The House.
"As more and more details come out, it's more and more disturbing, seeing all this stuff happening," DeLorey told Postmedia News. "It's something where you can't escape it. Every time you turn on the TV, every time you check out Twitter, it's the leading story. For us, to somehow be part of this is just so strange and surreal."
Magnotta, 29, is believed to have fled to Europe after allegedly killing and dismembering Jun Lin and then mailing body parts to the federal Conservative headquarters and — in a separate package containing a severed hand, which was intercepted at a Canada Post sorting station in Ottawa — to the Liberal party's national office.
The fugitive is also alleged to have left a trail of disturbing content on the Internet, including video of Jun Lin's death and dismemberment and — in earlier postings — scenes showing the killing of kittens.
A picture of the Toronto-born suspect has emerged that suggests he is intelligent but deeply disturbed, craves attention and considers himself a master of disguise, able to alter his appearance and identity and to disappear at will.
Along with first-degree murder and other charges Magnotta is already facing, Montreal investigators filed additional charges on Friday related to the shipping of body parts to Ottawa.
The new indictment alleges that Magnotta "did act towards (Prime Minister) Stephen Harper and members of Parliament, knowing they were being harassed or being reckless as to whether they were being harassed."
In addition to the two new charges of uttering threats — each of which carries a maximum two-year prison sentence — Magnotta is accused of using the mail system "for the purpose of transmitting or delivering anything that is obscene, indecent, immoral or scurrilous."
DeLorey said the package arrived shortly after 11 a.m. on Tuesday at the party's offices in the Varette Building — located at 130 Albert St. in downtown Ottawa — and was brought to top Conservative adviser Jenni Byrne, the party's director of operations and Harper's campaign manager in last year's election.
"Canada Post dropped off a package in our reception area," DeLorey recalled. "An administrative assistant went out and thought it was suspicious, so brought it to Jenni, who examined it.
"They opened it, and that's when they noticed blood stains and a very, very foul odour," he said. "The odour was just very overwhelming, very powerful. We all just walked right out. Jenni made the decision right away to call police. She knew something was very wrong.
"There was around 12 of us there that day. Not everyone would have been close enough to smell the box."
After police arrived and the party headquarters was transformed into "a crime scene," much of the office was off-limits until the next day, said DeLorey.
"Jenni's a very strong person. She's doing fine," he said, but added: "We were just very stunned by this. The first few days were very, very difficult. We'll see how things go."


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Now that I've been all negative and talked about what I don't believe, I think it'd be good to cover what I do believe, and why.
Belief is such a strange thing. Plato analogizes beliefs as statues, that are so life-like that they might get up and run away. We can enjoy those statues only if we chain them down. And we chain them down by testing them, again and again, and never letting up. We forge the chains that bind our beliefs, that strengthen them and solidify them, through the process of self-elenchos, of self-questioning.
Some things we know with such solidity that to call them "beliefs" would be odd. I like anchovies. I don't believe that; I know it, with absolute certainty. But you don't know that's true: what I experience, you only hear about. I experience enjoying the salty little buggers. You, though, only believe that I like them because I have told you so and you have no reason, I hope, to distrust me.
There are few things that I believe with enough certainty to assert them. And usually, my belief in them comes back eventually to a grounding in experience and elenchos. But here are three of them, in the coming days.


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