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An Explanation For Why Verizon Is Driving DSL Users To Competitors' Cable Lines
from the dumping-dsl deptKarl Bode has an interesting story explaining how Verizon is willfully pushing its DSL customers over to cable broadband "competitors." It's worth reading the whole thing, but the short version is that Verizon wants desperately out of the DSL business. Now, some of that is to drive people to its popular FiOS fiber service. However, the company has basically stopped expanding FiOS entirely. The fact that most of the competition is gone couldn't possibly have anything to do with that, right? But the bigger vision appears to be to push people over to the company's wireless solution, LTE. Bode suggests a few reasons for this, with a big one being that LTE is much more expensive, and has relatively low caps and high overage rates. In other words, it makes a lot more money for Verizon, but is much more limiting for users (there's also the bit about how it switches from a "unionized" business to a non-unionized one).
In other words, Verizon will cut off copper in FiOS markets first (which makes sense given the lower maintenance costs of fiber). They'll then leave users in DSL-only markets un-upgraded, forcing them to buy a costly landline so that remaining on Verizon DSL becomes less attractive. Those customers will flee to the same cable companies Verizon just signed a massive new partnership with, with Verizon planning to sell those users more expensive LTE connection later. Verizon will continue to "compete" in FiOS areas for now, if you call winking and nodding when it's time to raise prices competition.Now, there is something reasonable about a company actually being willing to cannibalize its own older offerings with something more modern. But a key warning sign that something is wrong is that they're not moving customers to something that's better and cheaper -- which is what you normally see in a truly competitive, innovative market. Instead, they're moving them to a more limited, more expensive offering. That's what you tend to see when there's not nearly enough competition in the market, and a few established players whose customers have little choice.
Rural areas could see the biggest impact from the shift, as Verizon pulls DSL and instead sells those users LTE services with at a high price point ($15 per gigabyte overages). Verizon then hopes to sell those users cap-gobbling video services via their upcoming Redbox streaming video joint venture. Expect there to be plenty of gaps where rural users suddenly lose landline and DSL connectivity but can't get LTE. With Verizon and AT&T having killed off regulatory oversight in most states -- you can expect nothing to be done about it, despite both companies having been given billions in subsidies over the years to get those users online.
The entire amazing transition becomes clearer still when looking at Verizon's quarterly earnings posted yesterday. The company added a whopping 3.2 million LTE users during the second quarter, a record for the telco. In contrast, thanks to a frozen FiOS expansion (with the exception of franchise obligations in urban markets) and their disdain for DSL, Verizon managed to add just a net 2,000 broadband users in the quarter, despite adding 134,000 FiOS users. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo gave several excuses during yesterday's conference call ranging from the economy to aardvarks -- but the reality is that DSL users are fleeing in droves, and Verizon wants them to.
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text: The greatest lacrosse goalie in Boston State College history was John Yeager - period. He was named to the All-New England team all four years of his career, including the First Team as a sophomore and senior and was selected to the All-Colonial League First team in each of his four seasons for the Warriors. In just his first season with Boston State, he led it to an 11-2 record and its first-ever appearance in the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association National Championship tournament, where it advanced to the quarterfinals. That was just the beginning as the Warriors would win three Colonial League titles and a pair of ECAC Division II and III championships with Yeager in net. He was tabbed Boston State's Most Valuable Player for his senior campaign to wrap up a lacrosse career that saw him finish as the program's all-time leader in games played (54), victories (39), saves (937) and lowest goals against average (5.3), while leading the Warriors to a 39-15 mark for a .722 winning percentage. Yeager spent time in the fall playing for Boston State's soccer team, earning three letters in four years for the varsity team and the title of co-captain in his senior season. Before graduating in 1976 from Boston State, Yeager earned the institution's Sportsmanship Award in both 1973-74 and 1974-75. Yeager continued his lacrosse career with the Brine Lacrosse Club from 1976-85, before moving on to the USA Box Lacrosse team from 1979-80, where he was the MVP at the World Championships in Vancouver, Canada. He also enjoyed two seasons with the New England Blazers of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League from 1989-90 and was an Assistant Coach and the General Manager for the Blazers from 1990-93. Yeager also had coaching stints with Framingham North and Marblehead High Schools, Tufts University and the College of the Holy Cross as well as Culver Military Academy, where he led the program to a pair of Indiana State championships. He was the Founder and Director of Peak Performance Lacrosse Goalie camps and, after receiving a Doctorate degree from Boston University in 1982, he went on to co-author Character of Coaching - Building Virtue in Athletic Programs and in 2006, he wrote The Character and Culture of Lacrosse, a book he dedicated to his former head coach, Gordie Webb. Yeager was also a counselor in the Massachusetts public schools for 12 years, an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Boston University for 12 years and is currently the Director of the Center of Character for Excellence at The Culver Academies in Culver, Indiana.

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Todd & Jamie Stansberry's '70 Chevy C10
When trucks were built in the late '60s and early '70s they were meant to last. You could say this about any presmog truck, or, better yet, preelectronic. Most people knew that replacing the sparking bolts, cleaning the carb, keeping good tires on, and using the darn thing would ensure a lifetime of C10 fun. Well, maybe that's what Todd Stansberry's grandfather thought when he bought the then slightly used '70 longbed C10 from a friend who worked at a Chevy dealership in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Todd always liked the truck and when his grandpa died his family was put in charge of taking care of the C10. Todd was in high school at the time and was allowed to drive the pickup to and from school as long as he would share it with his brother, Jeff. Todd's high school sweetheart, Jamie–now wife–would sneak out with him and take the Chevy for joy rides. They also went on their first date together, driving in the moonlight, and holding hands listening to Marvin Gaye. OK, I made that last part up but it sounds fun, right?
Todd's dad kept the truck after high school, and Todd and Jamie moved on with their lives until one day the truck was put up for sale. They reminisced about the memories they had with the truck, and Todd purchased it from his father for $1,500 big ones.
They had plenty of discussions on what to do with the truck in the near future, knowing they couldn't keep it stock. Keeping food on the table and paying bills, however, were more of a reality than starting a project. So the C10 was once again stored. It wasn't until 12 years later that the truck saw the light of day again and the Stansberrys had enough income to revive the pickup.
Jim Farmer, Todd's father-in-law and longtime street rodder, helped tear down the truck in a week. The original plans were to hop up the motor and keep the body stock, but Jeff Wolfenbarger at Kool Kolors Rod & Customs in Clinton convinced them otherwise. The major change was to convert the truck from a longbed to a shortbed by finding a donor chassis and bed. After the frame parts were found it was as simple as installing the Belltech drop spindles in the front and rear trailing arm springs to get the right stance. The rebuilt 402 big-block Chevy motor and turbo 400 transmission were installed next followed by the freshly worked and painted body. The side markers look shaved but they are flush-mounted and painted with smoky black paint to give a stealth appearance.
With all said and done the pickup took about a year to build all thanks to friends and family. In Todd's eyes, the truck is perfect. We asked what his most memorable experience was in the truck. "Driving it to high school, and boy, does this truck know some secrets. Boys will be boys," Todd says. "Also, the good times spent with my late brother, Jeff." CT
Todd & Jamie Stansberry
Clinton, Tennessee
1970 Chevy C10
Frame: shortbed powdercoated
Modifications: stock
Rearend / Ratio: 12-bolt
Rear suspension: trailing arms
Rear brakes: disc
Front suspension: Belltech 2-inch drop spindles
Front brakes: stock disc
Steering box: stock
Front wheels: 18×9 Budnik Ice
Rear wheels: 20×10 Budnik Ice
Front tires: 235/55R18 General
Rear tires: 275/45R20 General
Gas tank: aluminum under bed
Engine: 402 Chevy big-block .30 over
Heads: stock
Valve covers: stock
Manifold / Induction: Edelbrock / Holley 850 with custom cover
Ignition: MSD distributor
Headers: Hooker Headers
Exhaust / Mufflers: Flowmaster 2-inch
Transmission: Turbo 400
Modifications: shift kit
Shifter: Lokar
Style: '70 Chevy C10 Fleetside
Modifications: original longbed truck swapped for a shortbed, trim removed
Fenders: stock
Hood: cowl-induction hood
Grille: billet
Bed: oak
Bodywork and paint by: Jeff Wolfenbarger of Kool Kolors Rod & Customs in Clinton, TN
Paint type / Color: DuPont 99 Jet Black
Headlights / Taillights: stock, smoked
Mirrors: stock
Bumpers: stock
Dashboard: stock / lipstick red leather pad
Gauges: Auto Meter
Air conditioning: Vintage Air
Stereo: stock look with six-disc changer and MP3 player
Steering wheel: Budnik Ice
Steering column: ididit
Seats: Cerullo bucket with lipstick red leather
Upholstery by: Will from Hudson's Rod & Customs in Strawberry Plains, TN
Material / Color: leather / lipstick red
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The National League Central was one of the more surprising divisions in baseball last season, thanks in no small part to the unexpected rise of the Pittsburgh Pirates. While the view from the top hasn't really changed -- the division is still the Cardinals' to lose, like it was for most of last season -- it's unlikely the Central will see a second straight year with three teams winning over 90 games. Barring another season of miracles in Pittsburgh, it's looking more and more like the NL Central is once again the St. Louis and Cincinnati show.
First Place: St. Louis Cardinals
Either the Cardinals or the Reds are going to be at the top of this division, at least for pundits who aren't gambling on Jameson Taillon and Gregory Polanco of the Pirates coming up around June and annihilating the majors. And of the two teams, the Cardinals are the clear favorite.
The Cardinals lineup, which scored the most runs in the National League last year by a comfortable margin (783 to Colorado's 706), will be hurt only by the departure of Carlos Beltran for New York. Matt Carpenter, Yadier Molina, Allen Craig and Matt Holliday -- the engines that really drove the St. Louis offense last season -- will all return, joined by Jhonny Peralta at shortstop, Peter Bourjos in center field and rookie Kolten Wong at second base. The difference between Peralta and last year's shortstop, Pete Kozma, is likely enough to make up for any offense lost by dealing David Freese to the Angels, and with Carpenter at third, Wong has a chance to really dig into the second base job. As the past two years have shown, it's a bad idea to bet against Cardinals hitting prospects.
The team's rotation is actually the least proven part of the squad -- and it's a rotation headlined by Adam Wainwright, the guy who only doesn't have a Cy Young award because he plays in the same league as Clayton Kershaw. It's a very young group of starters, because even though the rotation features Wainwright (32) at the front, and Lance Lynn (26) and Joe Kelly (25), the Cardinals' No. 2 and No. 3 starters will be Shelby Miller (23) and Michael Wacha (22). Miller already has an entire season of major league experience under his belt, and 176 innings of 3.06 ERA (119 ERA+) baseball is very solid output from a rookie, even if it's not going to win Rookie of the Year honors the same year that Jose Fernandez and Yaisel Puig make their debuts. Wacha, on the other hand, just has 64 regular season innings (though they're 64 innings of 2.78 ERA, 131 ERA+ ball) and made just as much of his case for joining the St. Louis rotation in the playoffs as he did at the end of the season, throwing 30.2 innings of 2.64 ERA baseball as the Cardinals took the Boston Red Sox to six games in the World Series.
The Cardinals bullpen features two young guys who could be pressed into starting duty were they absolutely needed -- Trevor Rosenthal and Carlos Martinez -- along with lefty-slayers like Randy Choate and Kevin Siegrist. The team's main weakness in the pen is the right handers, as they'll rely on Seth Manness and Keith Butler until Jason Motte works his way back from the disabled list.
Second Place: Cincinnati Reds
The idea that Billy Hamilton is actually an .850+ OPS center fielder with the best baserunning instincts in the game is insane, given his minor league track record (most recently 547 PA of .651 OPS baseball at AAA Louisville), but he's had a good spring training, had a goofy cup of coffee last year, and this is just what happens when those particular stars align.
The lineup is actually a concern for the Reds, as the only truly established hitters in its ranks are Joey Votto and Jay Bruce. Votto is fantastic and Bruce is a well above-average bat, but Hamilton will all but certainly be a step down from the departed Shin-Soo Choo and his .423 OBP. That means that Ryan Ludwick and Todd Frazier need to step up and stay healthy, and Devin Mesoraco needs to try and reclaim some of the prospect sheen he lost sitting behind Ryan Hanigan for almost three years.
At one point the Reds pitching staff could have competed with anyone in the league, but following a rash of injuries to key players like Mat Latos (torn meniscus), Sean Marshall (shoulder tendinitis) and that gruesome line drive off the head of Aroldis Chapman late last week, the rotation is missing its second-best piece and the bullpen is in shambles -- Alfredo Simon has had to come out of his relief role to fill a starting job, and Jonathan Broxton is still on the shelf recovering from elbow surgery. The Reds are still likely the second-best team in the Central, but without some unexpectedly big seasons from guys like Ludwick, Frazier or the always-controversial Brandon Phillips, along with full seasons of top-of-the-rotation performances from Johnny Cueto and Homer Bailey, it's hard to see the Reds having the juice on either side of the ball to have hopes higher than the second Wild Card.
Third Place: Milwaukee Brewers
Believing in the Milwaukee Brewers means trusting in essentially three things: 1) That Jonathan Lucroy really is one of the best catchers in the business; 2) That Yovani Gallardo, Kyle Lohse and Matt Garza are a top three that can keep you in almost every game they pitch; and 3) That Carlos Gomez, Jean Segura, Ryan Braun and Aramis Ramirez comprise one of the strongest top fours you can put on a lineup card. If any of that isn't true -- if you think Segura and Gomez just got hot early last season, or that a rotation that's still giving Wily Peralta and Marco Estrada significant innings has little to no chance to make a dent in a crowded NL Central, than the Brewers are likely a spot or two farther down for you.
Still, Khris Davis was a pleasant surprise at the end of last season, and seeing as the major issue with the Brewers in 2013 was their starting pitching, the signing of Garza does at least bandage that gaping wound. It should be more or less a toss-up between the Brewers and the Pirates for third place -- now that Garza is in and A.J. Burnett is in Philadelphia, the Pirates' staff is not particularly better than the Brewers in the pitching department -- but if the Brewers have the offense they've appeared to have at times over the past two years along with a pitching staff that's able to keep games consistently in hand, Milwaukee could be dangerous.
The biggest problem, of course, is that once pitching prospects Johnny Hellweg and Jimmy Nelson make their way onto the roster somehow (or don't, which has been the case in the past), the Brewers farm will essentially be empty of upper level talent until Tyrone Taylor, Yadiel Rivera and Mitch Haniger are ready in late 2015 into 2016 -- and none of those guys are can't-miss position player prospects. Unless the Brewers start shopping guys like Aramis Ramirez or Ryan Braun, there's no new influx of cheap top-end talent arriving soon.
Fourth Place: Pittsburgh Pirates
The Pirates, on the other hand, are looking forward to incoming talent. Outfielder Polanco should join the team in the middle of the season, while starting pitcher Taillon shouldn't be too far behind him -- assuming neither or both are traded for elite, established major league players. The issue for the Pirates is that prospects don't particularly mean anything until they've done something, and without their prospects the Pirates are a team that finished in third place, declined to re-sign their ace, and otherwise did little all offseason besides tell Jordy Mercer he was getting a larger share of the shortstop job than Clint Barmes was. Every starter in the Pirates' projected rotation is either 30 years old or older except Gerrit Cole, and the Pirates appear completely willing to give significant innings to Edinson Volquez this season at the back of their rotation. On the one hand, last year worked its wonders on some pitchers, sure. But it's easy to forget anchors like Jonathan Sanchez and James McDonald in the rapid succession of career years that was the 2013 Pittsburgh Pirates pitching staff.
Outside of Andrew McCutchen -- and that's a big caveat, considering he's the defending National League MVP -- there's not a guy on the Pittsburgh roster that has a complete offensive game. Russell Martin is a catcher who is prone to hot and cold streaks and has to rest more than other feature bats would. Starling Marte wildly overperformed expectations last year, and still has a game that relies almost exclusively on singles and speed doubles. Pedro Alvarez hit 36 home runs last year but somehow only managed to OPS .770. The Pirates appear to be ready and willing to add Travis Ishikawa to a RF/1B super-platoon that already ensnares Jose Tabata, Gaby Sanchez and Travis Snider. Barmes still draws a multi-million dollar paycheck.
It seems almost inconceivable the Pirates could sustain last year's success without any real change to the roster in free agency -- that was the strategy the Baltimore Orioles tried after 2012 and it saw them on the outside of the playoffs looking in -- but if McCutchen is just as good as he's always been, if Marte doesn't regress and if Polanco comes up and relegates half of those platoon guys to the waiver wire, the Pirates will be well on their way to making something respectable out of a lineup that scored fewer runs than anyone else in their division last year except the lowly Cubs. But then, if Francisco Liriano and the Pittsburgh staff from last year were one-hit wonders, the Pirates could be stuck in fourth place no matter how they hit.
Fifth Place: Chicago Cubs
It is baffling that a team that continues to enjoy time in the spotlight around the league for its great reserves of young talent doesn't have a major pitching prospect on track for the major leagues before 2016, and yet here we are. The Cubs have replaced their manager and may make one or two trades before the season begins to shuffle out older players for younger, but regardless of how much one likes Javier Baez, Albert Almora, Jorge Soler and Kris Bryant, they alone cannot comprise the next good Cubs team. That's setting aside the very real possibility that the best starting pitcher on the current Cubs team is Travis Wood (career ERA 105+), who has gotten exceptionally lucky on his peripherals the last two seasons -- one might argue for Jeff Samardzija, but it seems more likely than not that he'll be traded this season -- and that the best position player is Anthony Rizzo (100 OPS+), a first baseman who so far has not delivered the offensive numbers that are expected of starting first basemen and who has shown platoon problems over the past year and a half with Chicago.
It's important to remember that Rizzo and especially shortstop Starlin Castro are banner examples of players with nuclear levels of hype surrounding them that have not yet panned out, when pencilling Baez and company into the next five National League All-Star Games. The Cubs will be lucky if they get one long-term high quality regular starter from that group, let alone three or four.
But until the call-up circus starts up, it's going to be pretty quiet in Wrigleyville as far as expectations for the 2014 season go. Which is a problem in and of itself: Three years is about the ceiling on the amount of time a team can claim they're "intentionally" not winning too many games for this or that reason, and not only is it hard to see how the Cubs could even sniff .500 this season, the team's roadmap for future success requires an awful lot of faith in its prospects. The braintrust in Chicago get a lot of leeway because of what they did in Boston and the way they cultivate loyalty towards their organization, but it's about time to start delivering.


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The 3.6m tablet owners represent around 7.5 per cent of the UK population,
which is triple the number of tablet owners compared to November 2010, when data
provider, Kantar Worldpanel ComTec, last compiled such results.
The company also asked people what tablet they are planning
on purchasing in the coming year. 50 per cent claimed they would be purchasing
an iPad while 28 per cent said they were undecided.
This suggests that Apple's dominance in the market could be
reduced somewhat, but it is still going to be the biggest-selling individual
manufacturer by some distance.
Dominic Sunnebo, global consumer insight director for
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its success in the smartphone market: 80% of people who already own an iPhone
and plan to purchase a tablet intend to buy an iPad. This is clearly something
other manufacturers will have to contend with."
Kantar also surveyed how people used their tablets showing
that despite most not having 3G connectivity, 43 per cent use them on their
commutes while 36 per cent use tablets outdoors.
The most common use of these tablets is for reading ebooks
and online newspapers, apps and playing games.
In an indication of the pervasiveness of tablets in today's
society, only three per cent of people said they didn't know what tablets were – though hopefully people didn't confuse mobile PC devices with their vitamin pills.


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Congrats to our buddy Joe Durica and his Stick It Wear?! for getting some pretty prime retail space at the BNP Paribas Open tennis shop (it's in that tent that's neither TW nor Fila).
He chose to bring in four player-inspired shirts: Swiss Superstar, Number One, Russian Meltdown, and Original Rebel in a variety of styles and colors.
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Opinion: Careening Toward the Cliff
Columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady on the fiscal cliff negotiations and how much Republicans should compromise to get a deal. Photo: Associated Press
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... that oral board member ... Mary O'Grady to talk about the fiscal ... cliff negotiations going on right now all Americans this and ... so the Pres Obama ran for reelection on raising taxes on ... high income individuals to ... at his press conference after the election he even said ... more people agreed with me on this than voted for me and ... doesn't have all something of a mandate to carry the summer ... while isn't surprising that a large percentage of people one or raise taxes on somebody else I should go out and he he I think we should remember that we don't win in a dictatorship or even the monarchy can only do have three branches of government ... and one that I know that the Republican in the house is controlled by Republicans so I'm ... if you look at the popular vote and if you look at the fact that the Republicans when the house I would say that there is a strong argument there that there should be a compromise okay so none of the status quo ... election essentially ... for for both branches executive mansion legislative branch ... um ... the president says that's the simple arithmetic ... not calculus we need more revenue ... the of the Proms of this man ... now ... on okay fine it's simple arithmetic ... let's look of the fact that if he raises taxes ... on households and nine and it shows that households making two hundred fifty thousand dollars to work for individuals making two hundred thousand dollars to more fees by the way are millionaires and billionaires ... um if we get if he manages to do that and raises the capital gains and ... I'm dividend taxes ... he will on that ... presumably get something like one point six trillion dollars over decades very hard to gauge that because you don't know what economic activity will too but that goes against answered Ader ten trillion dollars ... in deficits so then I think he's talking about arithmetic Mary ... it doesn't add up you can do that tax increases he wants and you really don't get anywhere in terms of the big prom we have a spending more than we take and ... what about the impact of raising taxes on economic growth which of course has been very slow ... in recent years aam because when the audience out there that the millionaires and billionaires can afford to pay ... a few extra percentage points but how all these that ... keep all of these increases impact ... other individuals ... why I think that's me you know what you're getting on there is that if he raises taxes on Warren Buffett who took a one off it's probably not can feel the tax increase that he's talking about ... but if you raise a non someone making two hundred thousand dollars a year or a household that has a couple that each make a hundred twenty five thousand dollars the year ... his millionaires in learning is on if you if you manage to do that ... on ... it and what you end up doing is discouraging economic activity and risk taking because many of these people are small business owner and they are Jobs creators and if they decide OK these taxes are so high that I don't have the discretionary income to take on a new ... employee or something that would be detrimental to the larger objective which is to get the economy now ... is there a political risk though the GOP again given the supple a collection of comedown ... in our ... not not compromising enough because Obama seems perfectly willing and able ... to go over that cliff and simply blame ... plainly outcomes ... well I mean they were fun and Congress have a key problem which is a structural problem ... I in the sense that the president has the bully pulpit uni don't have the Republicans on TV every night the way you have the president ... but um I do think that one of the mistakes they make you re now is to spend so much time arguing about whether taxes will go up on these people are away deductions will be cut what a fun and when we have to deal in which you can see by looking at the numbers I just gave you is me how to cut the size of the federal government ... and there's not enough talked about the spending cuts in the past we've had tax increases ... Democrats and always send AAPL morning the debut of spending cuts ... and there in the later on and they never happened and this is why we continued to run behind getting government has to be in this country and ... that he has to show some serious I'm attention and I'm ... I'm acceptance of the fact that it's too big and not just discretionary spending but also the entitlement state has to be caught


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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Newt Gingrich kept a stiff upper lip Wednesday after his poor showing in GOP presidential caucuses the night before, but issued dire warnings about Iran's potential nuclear capabilities.
In his only scheduled public appearance for the next two days, the former House speaker made no mention of his poor showing in Colorado and Minnesota. But he told a small crowd of manufacturing workers that the United States could pay a terrible price if Iran develops nuclear weapons.
"You think about the dangers, to Cleveland, or to Columbus, or to Cincinnati, or to New York," Gingrich told employees of the Jergens metal manufacturing plant. "Remember what it felt like on 9/11 when 3,100 Americans were killed. Now imagine an attack where you add two zeros. And it's 300,000 dead. Maybe a half million wounded. This is a real danger. This is not science fiction. That's why I think it's important that we have the strongest possible national security."
Gingrich has made similar remarks before, but not always in such foreboding detail.
Military experts say Iran has no way to deliver a bomb of such devastating power to the United States, even if the government could produce such a weapon. Iran lacks long-range bombers and missiles that would be needed.
A smaller, so-called "dirty bomb," capable of spreading radiation, is the most likely short-term threat if Iran did actually produce a nuclear device. It's conceivable that such a bomb could be smuggled into the United States.
Gingrich sounded much more chipper and positive in his other remarks. He did not mention GOP rivals Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum in his unusually short 12 minutes at the microphone and made only a passing reference to President Barack Obama.
Gingrich restated his goal of giving workers the option of having private Social Security savings accounts.
Gingrich was scheduled to return to Washington on Wednesday. He had no publicly scheduled events Thursday.


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Scientists said NASA's moon-smashing mission produced enough data on Friday to address questions about lunar water ice — but the crash didn't come close to meeting public expectations as a cosmic fireworks show.
"Today we kicked up some moondust, and all indications are we are going to have some really interesting results," said Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center in California. Ames served as the mission control center for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission, or LCROSS.
The aim of the $79 million mission was to send two spacecraft — a spent rocket stage and an instrument-equipped "shepherding spacecraft" — down into a crater near the moon's south pole at about 5,600 mph (9,000 kilometers per hour) and see if the impacts threw up water ice. Recent research has confirmed the view that water ice is prevalent on the lunar surface, and scientists believe permanently shadowed craters are the best places to find such ice.
In the long term, ice reservoirs could be used to provide water for lunar settlements, as well as oxygen for breathing and hydrogen fuel for spacecraft. In the shorter term, learning about lunar water could help scientists reconstruct the ancient past of the Earth-moon system.
The LCROSS blast promised to show how much water ice might lie within a cold, dark crater known as Cabeus. And judging by that scientific standard, members of the LCROSS team said Friday's closely observed crash was shaping up as a smashing success. The spacecraft hit the crater in a shadowed area, just as hoped. All of LCROSS' instruments appeared to be working as expected, and observations were streaming in from a network of ground-based telescopes monitoring the impact.
"We got the information we need to address the question," principal investigator Anthony Colaprete told reporters.
'I can't see anything'
But the mission was also touted as a spectacle that could be watched from ground-based observatories and even through medium-sized backyard telescopes. On that score, the event was less impressive. Many people who expected to see an awesome blast came away disappointed.
"I was hoping we'd see a flash or a flare," Jim Mahon, who was demonstrating a telescope at Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory, told The Associated Press.
"I can't see anything," TODAY host Matt Lauer said during NBC's live coverage of the crash.
Colaprete acknowledged that he expected to get a better visual fix on the crash and the resulting debris plume, but he emphasized that scientists were still analyzing the data. He speculated that the probe might not have thrown up as much material as expected because it hit a patch of soil that was prone to compression, or because the force of the blast was directed sideways rather than upward.
"Stay tuned," he told reporters. "I certainly hope we can dig something out of there that will be telling."
Climax of months-long mission
LCROSS was launched in June along with a bigger NASA satellite, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and for months mission planners counted down toward Friday's double-barreled crash. LCROSS' 2.2-ton Centaur rocket booster, which separated from the main spacecraft on Thursday night, was the first to hit the Cabeus crater at 7:31 a.m. ET.
The 1-ton shepherding spacecraft followed behind, sending back real-time imagery in multiple wavelengths as it approached the impact site. Four minutes after the Centaur crashed, LCROSS itself cratered into the moon — providing another potential set of observations.
Before the crash, experts expected the Centaur to create an impact crater about 66 feet (20 meters) wide. After the event, Colaprete said infrared imagery from the LCROSS shepherding spacecraft showed a blip of heat from a crater that appeared to be about as big as expected. "We actually saw a crater; we measured its temperature," he said.
Experts also expected the impact to kick up a plume of debris rising as high as six miles (10 kilometers) above the lunar surface. Colaprete said no signs of such a plume had yet been seen in preliminary data from LCROSS or ground-based telescopes. However, other scientists reported that Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter detected the plume's spectral signature as well as evidence of the crater. The LCROSS team was also waiting for spectral data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Those spectral readings would be crucial for conducting a chemical analysis of the impact debris and figuring out how much water, if any, might be hidden in the shadowed crater. "The spectra is where the science is," Colaprete said.
Even if the LCROSS readings don't turn up evidence of water, that wouldn't necessarily mean the water isn't there, said Michael Bicay, director of science at Ames. Ice might be distributed unevenly in the crater, and LCROSS might have hit just the wrong place for water.
"We may have hit a dry hole rather than a wet hole," he said.
One reporter asked Colaprete whether he would know by the end of the day whether LCROSS kicked up any fresh evidence of water on the moon. "I probably will," Colaprete answered, "but I'm not going to tell you."
Colaprete said he expected the data analysis to take two months or so, and suggested that the mission's initial findings might be announced in San Francisco during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December.
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The Sony Open may have lost to the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells when it comes to the "Fifth Slam" designation, but Miami will likely always have one thing Indian Wells won't: Serena Williams. Her commitment to skip Indian Wells and play Miami means that while the men's draw this year is relatively weak with the absence of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, the women's draw boasts the top five players and a draw that looks awfully Slam-like.
Here's a breakdown of the women's draw (complete draw available here):
Report Card: Sharapova leads Indian Wells grades
Serena Williams' half: This will be Serena's first tournament as the WTA No. 1 since Wimbledon 2010, after overtaking Victoria Azarenka in Doha last month. She'll keep the No. 1 ranking after Miami unless she fails to make the quarterfinals and No. 2 Maria Sharapova or No. 3 Azarenka win the title. The good news for Serena is she'll have a few relatively easy matches to shake off any competitive rust. The bad news is her half of the draw is full of dangerous players once she reaches the quarterfinals where she could face either Caroline Wozniacki, who beat her here last year, or Li Na, who is playing her first tournament since making the Australian Open final. Get past that test and she could face a slew of quality players in Agnieszka Radwanska, Petra Kvitova, Marion Bartoli, Sloane Stephens and even her sister, Venus. It's a tough draw on the whole, but with just quarterfinal points to defend this tournament affords an opportunity to get some distance from Sharapova and Azarenka in the rankings.
Other than Serena, Miami marks the much-welcomed return of Li, who has spent the last month and a half rehabilitating the right ankle injury she sustained in the Australian Open final. Given her absence from the tour it's easy to forget how great she played in the first month, winning a title in Shenzhen, making the semifinals of Sydney and the finals of the Australian Open, where she beat both Radwanska and Sharapova before a string of bad luck in the final -- Ankle Sprains! Concussions! Fireworks! -- cost her against Azarenka. She's a force if healthy.
The highlight match of the early rounds is a potential Venus-Stephens clash in the third round. That could be interesting.
Semifinal prediction: Serena d. Petra Kvitova.
Victoria Azarenka's half: How healthy is Azarenka? She withdrew before a match for the second time this season in Indian Wells, citing a foot injury, and may be tempted to skip Miami with the grueling clay swing coming up. So far, she remains in the field. Aside from the fact Sharapova was drawn into her half, it should be a cakewalk to the semifinals if she's healthy. She could open up against American Madison Keys, 18, in the second round and either Alize Cornet or Laura Robson in the third round. The next highest seed in her quarter is Angelique Kerber, against whom she's never lost.
In the other quarter, Sharapova could face two talented players who she beat relatively easily on her way to the BNP Paribas Open title last week. Maria Kirilenko is her projected fourth-round opponent, and Sara Errani could be waiting in the quarterfinals.
Semifinal prediction: Sharapova d. Azarenka.
Video: Countdown of best shots from Indian Wells
First-round matches to watch: Andrea Petkovic vs. Bojana Jovanovski, Victoria Duval vs. Andrea Hlavackova, Jamie Hampton vs. Monica Niculescu, Laura Robson vs. Camila Giorgi, Madison Keys vs. Qualifier.
Potential second-round matches to watch: Madison Keys vs. Victoria Azarenka, Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. Ekaterina Makarova, Venus Williams vs. Kimiko Date-Krumm, Andrea Petkovic vs. Marion Bartoli, Urszula Radwanska vs. Ana Ivanovic, Monica Puig vs. Maria Kirilenko.
Potential third-round matches to watch: Venus Williams vs. Sloane Stephens, Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Mona Barthel, Ana Ivanovic vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova/Ekaterina Makarova, Jelena Jankovic vs. Nadia Petrova.
Final Prediction: Serena d. Sharapova.Daily Bagel: Roddick's emotional 2012 Sony Open


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Most of us are in the business of making things and all of us want our products to reflect the hard work we've put into them. With ST6 and the new KeyShot plugin you can now make beautiful renderings and it doesn't take any hard work at all.
For those of you who might not be familiar with KeyShot, here's the rundown:
- Created by Luxion which was founded in 2003
- Uses a physically correct and CIE verified rendering engine featuring many innovations developed by Academy Award Winner Dr. Henrik Wann Jensen[1]
- Uses real-time ray tracing technology
- Has a wide array of animation options
- Comes with a vast material library
- Is entirely CPU based
- Uses HDRI's for lighting
Rendering comes as an afterthought to many designers. When I'm designing something I'm usually more worried about the guy actually making my model than how pretty the picture is. One of the other reasons rendering always ranked low on my to do list is because it can be very difficult, it takes a lot of time to set up lighting and materials and get everything looking just right; KeyShot has changed all of that and Solid Edge ST6 has taken it a step even further. Companies like Fossil, Black & Decker, Skull Candy and Blizzard Entertainment (makers of StarCraft, World of WarCraft, etc.) all use KeyShot because it's so easy. Ease of use has also made KeyShot very popular in the GrabCAD community. In the past Rendering was always last on the list of things to do because once you get through setting up your model to be rendered, you don't want to have to go back and create a new rendering due to design changes. With the new Live linking plugin for ST6 users can now setup their model in KeyShot and push any changes made afterwards in Solid Edge to their KeyShot model, while retaining everything they had already setup.
With Live linking users are able to:[2]
To start using the new Live linking plugin, users can go to http://keyshot.com/downloads/plugins/#tab-solid-edge and download the small exe.
After clicking Install on the dialog you'll see a new group on the Add Ins ribbon in Solid Edge.
Now that the plugin is installed and ready to go, open up a model or create a new one and click the 'Render' button. KeyShot will automatically open and you'll go from this:
To this in about 15 seconds:
Add 3 or 4 minutes and you'll end up with this:
KeyShot even makes it easy to animate your model, check out this short video of my Corvette model's headlights popping up:
(view in My Videos)
All of the above was very quick and very easy but that doesn't mean I want to do it all over again if I make a design change to my model. Let's say that I want to drop an engine into my Corvette model and I also want to see what it looks like rendered. One of the great things about live linking is as long as I have my Solid Edge and KeyShot models open in their respective programs I can update the KeyShot model no matter how much time has passed since the last time I opened it.
After I open up my KeyShot model and get the engine put into the model in Solid Edge I go back to the KeyShot group on the Add Ins tab and instead of clicking 'Render', this time I click 'Update'. Once back in KeyShot I'm presented with this window:
It can take a little while to update your model depending on how large it is, this one took about 30 seconds, but once you see the status bar completed and the dialog disappear your model will now have the same geometry as your Solid Edge model and will have retained all of the materials you previously added in KeyShot. So now, like my Solid Edge Corvette, my KeyShot model has a heart and I didn't have to reassign any materials.[3]
There are some limitations however. If you delete a part from your model in Solid Edge and click 'Update' you'll notice that the part you deleted is still in your KeyShot model. To fix this you'll have to go into the Scene Tree, find the part you deleted in Solid Edge and delete it in KeyShot.
Early adopters of the live link plugin may also notice that on Update some faces on large models update to strange colors. This is caused when in the process of dragging and dropping a material onto your KeyShot model, you may pause for a second over another part and KeyShot shows you a preview of the material on that part. Now when you click 'Update' it updates to the previewed material instead of the assigned one. Rest assured Luxion has a fix and it should be introduced in a KeyShot patch in the near future. Until then, you can simply reassign the intended material back to the part.
One important protip I'd like to pass on is if you have a part that is all one color in Solid Edge than you're limited in KeyShot to applying just one color to that entire part, in other words you can't make specific faces or features of that part different colors. One of the best thing about the Live linking plugin is you get the selection and editing power of Solid Edge in KeyShot. If you need a face or feature to be a different material than the rest of your part, go back to Solid Edge, and assign a different style, it doesn't matter which one, to your part using the face or feature option. Now when you click update you'll have a new style that you can drag and drop a KeyShot material onto.
With the new ST6 KeyShot plugin you'll be able to render and add design changes to your model easier than ever before. The new plugin doesn't just increase productivity it actually makes creating models and rendering them fun. If you're like me, even though you can create a fantastic production quality rendering in a few short minutes, you'll end up spending hours playing around in KeyShot and seeing all of the amazing things that it can do.
If you would like to see some more KeyShot Renderings as well as some KeyShot VR's, please visit my site here.
[1] Luxion. (n.d.). Questions about keyshot. Retrieved from http://www.keyshot.com/faqs/
[2] Luxion. (n.d.). Plugins. Retrieved from http://keyshot.com/downloads/plugins/
[3] Engine courtesy of GrabCAD user Nicolas. http://grabcad.com/library/v8-gm-350-turbo
Very nice Vette! I'd like to see more renderings in SE. Don't see many that are this good. Of course a great rendering starts with a great model. Congrats!
OK, I have a Keyshot 3 licence. Has Siemens negotiated any sweet deals to upgrade to KS4? I sent Luxion a query on this a week ago via email, but no reply :-(
I'm hearing that there probably aren't any special upgrade deals for Solid Edge users. If you hear differently, please let us know here.
Nice work... You motivated me to see how much trouble it would be to take my V10 model of my 1803 House and add a few textures. Well other then the blocky grass (which by the way still looks better then the real thing) I think it proves how great working with Keyshot is.
Looks Awesome Bob, would love to see some more. Here's a Mid-Century Miodern Style House I made: http://justinlinnert.com/house/
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Coach Vintage Bags Celebrating the Brand's 75th Anniversary
Retro!! The fever is on and we are so very excited to be celebrating anniversary after anniversary this year. From Louis Vuitton and Chanel to Coach, it appears that the retro bags are in and they are here to stay a small while, limited editions that might be extraordinarily hard to find afterwards. If you are an eBay reseller, you might want to get your hands on one of the Coach vintage bags for now as it will most probably be raking in the cash afterwards. Anniversaries are often the best times to find the best in bags, particularly since there is no way you will ever outgrow them. Young or old, handbags will always hold some sort of place in your lives.
For their 75th anniversary, Coach has put out an interesting line-up of vintage products the original bags from the Seventies and Eighties brought back to the forefront so you may enjoy what your parents had back in the day. With both decades so hot off the press right now, huge inspirations on the fashion runways, it only makes sense to have celebratory collections made up at least partly of the more vintage looks from those days.
Each of the bags has been sourced from around the United States and restored artfully to represent the brand's original hopes for it, each one as individual as the next. There is even a part of the collection that has adorable Snoopy fabric patches on it, something that is only available at the Paris concept store named Colette, alongside the new flagship store for the brand on Rue Saint Honore.
What makes it so special is the sheer number of vintage handbags available! There are 35 different styles, including the Penny, Stewardess and the classic Duffle bag. The vintage global launch of the project is expected to occur on Feb. 1, 2016, with an additional 75 bags going on sale as well. As if that was not enough to drool about we have the 1941 runway show's collection for spring available exclusively at Colette as well, something that will certainly be pulling in the fashion tourists as they clamour they get their hands on pieces that are as old as the company itself, first shown on the New York Fashion Week stage September of 1940.
2016 marks the 75th anniversary of Coach and we are so very excited about it. The leather goods and accessories company was founded in 1941 in New York City and currently holds stocks at $30.58, one, which sees a flow on a constant basis. Those who invest in Coach are often quite happy with the results.
Now, we are wondering where we will be storing all these lovelies, particularly the brown leather pieces with a little Snoopy emblem in front, the patched up messenger bags looking too adorable to pass up in black. Looks like Charlie Brown will be our new Christmas treat as we wait impatiently to get our hands on the adorable little dog's own stylish handbags.
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Megos rejects plea deal for suspended sentence
Norwich businessman Zane Megos, accused of taking deposits for apartments and houses that were not available, rejected a second plea offer Tuesday involving a suspended sentence on misdemeanor charges and payment of restitution to alleged victims.
Megos, who faces several larceny charges, some of them felonies, appeared before Judge Karen A. Goodrow in New London Superior Court Tuesday with his attorney, Kenneth Leary.
Leary said Megos maintains that the incidents should be regarded as civil matters and wishes to clear his name by going to trial.
In March, Megos rejected an initial plea offer that would have called for prison time.
The case will be placed on the trial list and scheduled for jury selection. However, Leary said he plans to file a motion to dismiss the charges.
Megos, 55, of 31 Dellwood Road, Norwich, has been charged by Norwich police in six separate cases for allegedly taking deposits and rent payments for apartments and houses in Norwich and New London that never became available.
He faces one count of second-degree larceny, two counts of third-degree larceny and three counts of fourth-degree larceny by Norwich police in separate cases. Megos also faces third-degree assault and breach of peace charges by Norwich police stemming from an altercation with one of the alleged larceny victims who had confronted Megos to ask for his deposit money back.
According to police warrants, the combined total involved $17,375 in rent deposits.
Prosecutor Rafael I. Bustamante told Goodrow Tuesday that he had discussions with Leary on an offer to reduce the charges to misdemeanors, with a suspended sentence and restitution to the alleged victims paid up front.
In an unrelated case, Norwich police charged Megos Sept. 19 with evading responsibility, driving an unregistered motor vehicle, driving without minimum insurance and failure to drive right.
The Day conducted an investigation last spring into numerous complaints that Megos was taking cash security deposits and advanced rent payments for apartments in Norwich and New London that either were condemned or not owned by Megos or his companies.
Several cases were taken to civil Small Claims court, where the plaintiffs won judgments that were never paid. Others sought criminal charges and at first were told by police departments that the cases were civil matters. Norwich police arrested Megos in June and in August on complaints that Megos took deposits for apartments and houses in Norwich and New London that either he did not own or were condemned and unavailable at the time.
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Two-thirds of Americans oppose "Obamacare," according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll this month.
One of the groups that has challenged the health care law's constitutionality is the National Federation of Independent Business. The man behind that group is a Jimmy Buffett-loving electrical engineer and self-described creature of Washington named Dan Danner.
We sat down with Danner to ask him 10 questions. The whole interview was 45 minutes and 5,000 words long, so here's the condensed version.
First, tell us your story. Once upon a time ...
I'm an electrical engineer with an MBA. Fortunately, I determined early on I'd be a terrible engineer, and that was a good career move. I started my career at a steel company in Ohio in a marketing role, but under the heading of 'all politics is local,' I got involved in school board campaigns and city commission campaigns, on-the-ground politics and eventually got into lobbying, public affairs for this steel company in Ohio. So I spent a good deal of time in Columbus as a lobbyist and a slot opened here in the steel company's office. I was transferred from Ohio to Washington. I worked for them in a lobby shop here for a number of years, and then in the early 80s, it was not lost on anyone that the steel industry was not in a good place and was starting to shrink pretty dramatically. And although I was confident I wasn't about to be shrunk, I had an opportunity to work at the White House. I went to the White House in early '86 in the Reagan White House as a business liaison in the office of public policy. The secretary of commerce for most of Reagan was a guy named Mac Baldridge, from the West Coast, he was one of the original sort of Reagan kitchen cabinet. And about two years before the end of Reagan's second term, Mac Baldridge passed away. Fell off a horse. The incoming secretary of commerce was a guy named Bill Verity, who was the then-retired president, CEO and chair of the steel company I used to work for, called Armco Steel. Even though he ran this big steel company, I knew him and his wife and his kids, and so when he was announced as the secretary of commerce, he called me and asked me to join him. He had been in and out of Washington but had never worked in Washington, and he said: 'There are people I'm meeting with I don't know why I'm meeting with, friends who say they can't get through the gatekeepers to meet with me. This whole thing is a mess – would you just come over here and fix it and make it work? And whatever you need to do to do it, you got it.' So I spent two years as his chief of staff.
I stayed a little while when Bush won and Mosbacher was the incoming secretary. I was a little burned out. I spent 3-plus years at George Mason University working for the George Johnson, the president of George Mason. He was a wonderful visionary to build a university from an extension of UVA to what it is today, but pretty quickly I missed Washington, and one of the things – it's like being in Kansas. It's a little closer now, but then, one of the first things that happened was, I was going across campus to talk to some professors about some grant or something, and I came back to my office at six o'clock, and the building was locked. I was like, what? That's not what I was used to.
The whole pace — I love the pace of Washington. I love that things are always happening. So that convinced me early on that it was a nice place; it was a great challenge. I thought the White House was political until I went to a university. They make the politics we talk about here look small.
So I started with NFIB in '93, so, I love where I am. I love what I'm doing. I think I've got one of the greatest jobs in town because, you know, I love who we represent. And I do get a fair amount of opportunity to travel around, spend time with small business owners and hear their stories. I enjoy meeting them and talking with them and hearing their stories. It's what the country's all about. Take a risk, get rewarded, stick your neck out.
What's one of the most memorable businesses you've seen?
I visited a guy in Ohio — I mean, they're not all pretty. The renderings business. You take leftover parts of animals, you boil that stuff down, and I guess we went out because this was a guy I never met, just last year, and he made a sizable donation to our state PAC in Ohio, and so I said if I'm out there, I'd just really like to meet this guy. And I guess I was sort of anticipating – I didn't know a lot about the renderings business, if you had to wear gas masks or expected it to be very pretty, or you had to have high boots – his building, which is in northwestern Ohio in a tiny little town, was an entirely historic building that was renovated. It had the most gorgeous woodwork. That old red brick, it was a building that you could see in Williamsburg or something. It was spectacular. And I was, it just was a better example of, don't typecast. This guy was incredibly sophisticated, the building was wonderful, it was full of antiques and it was a nice head jerk – you know, don't typecast. It doesn't matter what the business is. All small business owners didn't all just get off the hay truck.
What are you looking forward to the most in the arguments that the Supreme Court will hear over the health care law?
I don't think the government's had a valid argument for this yet, so if the individual mandate on health care is constitutional, where is the line in terms of what the government can mandate you as an individual to do or to buy? Is there no line? The argument that the government makes is that health care's different. Our attorney argues, and I think very effectively, that he can make the case that there are four of five other areas that are in the national interest. If Congress thought at some point, the environment is so bad, everybody's dying, we really do need to totally get rid of gasoline-powered cars. We don't have enough money to subsidize everybody to buy electric cars, so we're going to mandate that the next car purchase you make has to be a Volt.
On the one hand you can say, "Well, that sounds unreasonable," but you know, here's a case where we are mandating that young people in particular make an economic decision that's not in their best interest. If you're 25 years old, there's no question that economically what's best is that you buy a high-deductible minimum policy that mainly provides a well visit or something a year, and you can probably do that for 50 bucks a month. Not that you buy an $8,000 all-inclusive policy. An all-inclusive policy that might include hair transplants, and you know you don't need that. But the whole law was based on making you, if you're 25, buy all this that you don't need because they want your money. They have to have your money to make the rest of it work, so you have to buy whatever, 10 times more than you need because they know you're not going to use it all so they can shift that money to pay for other people. So it will be interesting to see, what does the government say is the line if this is constitutional, or is there no line?
How do you think Mitt Romney has handled the criticism of the mandates he oversaw in his health plan in Massachusetts?
I don't think he's handled it as well as it could be handled. In my opinion, there's an enormously strong case to be made that Massachusetts is so different than the rest of the country that what works in Massachusetts is not a prescription for the rest of the country. I mean, Massachusetts is a rich state. Massachusetts has a comparatively enormously low level of uninsured compared to a lot of other states. So it's different, and without ever getting to the merits of what they ultimately passed in Massachusetts, I think he can easily and correctly come back and say that 'what we proposed in Massachusetts is not what I would propose for the whole nation, and here's why. Because Massachusetts is different.' I don't think he's been clear or consistent on his responses, sort of answers a little different each time he's asked. I think he needs to be clear, concise and consistent.
There has to be something you like in Obamacare. What would you want to stay?
We have long supported no previously existing conditions. We've long supported the ways to get at portability so if you lose a job – and ways to do that when those are exchanges, or we supported some sort of ways for small businesses to work together and get some of the same economies to scale, things that a large corporation has. We'd like more tax transparency. For a larger corporation, the cost of the health care they provide is tax deductible. For you as an individual, it's not. We think we need to address that. They talked a little bit about some of that, I guess, if you purchase in an exchange, so we have been credibly consistent for years and years and years that we needed health care reform because small businesses and individuals that are buying in a small group market in our opinion had the worst of the worst. They paid more; they got less.
You've got to stay well informed, so where do you get most of your news?
Probably read more. I don't watch a lot of cable shows. I mean I read – some of it I get hard copy, some of it, a lot of stuff's online. I always try to read a couple of newspapers. I read the Post 'cause it's the Post. I read the Wall Street — I read in the morning Politico, Roll Call, The Hill. We get summaries in the morning, Congress Daily, I read those. I get a lot of stuff from the Hill, you know, from leadership offices and stuff on the Hill. Real Clear Politics, if I'm looking at checking the primary results or poll results, or, not as often but occasionally just for the fun of it, all I'll take a shot of Drudge and see. I'm not a regular Drudge-ite. I don't watch a lot of shows the talking heads. Actually I find those sort of boring. Those are all about political posturing, and I don't think if you're watching the talking heads you're going to find much new in terms of substance. Sound bites of the day. That's not really what I'm the most interested in. I know pretty much who's arguing what and who's pointing the finger when, so I don't really watch it that much.
A lot of people these days are pretty down on Washington and say it's an awful place. Why are you here?
There still are a lot of great, great people here. I've been here 32 years. I have a lot of great friends here, people that I've worked with for a lot of years. Washington is a magnet for incredibly smart, passionate people. If you look at people that work on the Hill, I mean, they are incredibly smart people from the finest universities in the country and the world who are passionate about what they do. That's fun to be a part of, you know? And I care about our piece of that, however small or big that is, and I like to be in a part of whatever level, trying to make a difference for things that I believe in. It is different now. There's probably thousands now articles and books written about why Washington's so gridlocked, and there are a whole lot of reasons. It's everything from redistricting to instantaneous news to microtargeting — you know, you target left-handed people who care about one issue and nothing else, and I think all that's a shame. All of us pay the price for the inability to work together to find more good solutions. If you look at the Senate, there are not many Sam Nunns. It's hard to be in the middle of either party.
No more Olympia Snowes. She will be missed. I'm a Republican. That's probably not a secret. But I came here in 1979, and the steel company said, 'We'll pay for you to belong to one of these clubs, a place where you can go have lunch with somebody,' which you can't do now, I think that's a shame – that's another, I think it's horrible that you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a staffer without worrying whether he or she is being bought for a cup of coffee, or the food in the Rayburn cafeteria, which isn't that good. So they told me I could belong to a club, and I looked at the Capitol Hill club and the Democrat club, the old Democrat club. So I joined it 'cos it was more fun. A nice little bar area, the popcorn machine, people used to sit around and chat. And frankly it didn't make a lot of difference. It's hard when you see the people like we did a lot over the years with blue dogs and, frankly, yellow dogs before they were blue dogs. And it's a shame that most of them, it's a hard place to be between redistricting from their own party, you know, I think it's a shame to see people like Dan Boren leave. He's a conservative Democrat, and, you know, that's hard to be. If you're in the northeast and you're a moderate Republican, that's hard to be because you get squeezed pretty hard both ways. I do think that's a shame. It's harder now. Hopefully lots of people won't give up.
Who is your favorite member of Congress, and your least favorite?
Well I'd be careful on the second one. That's one of the lessons I've learned in a long time. Careful what you wish for, and one of my philosophies over the years has been, don't burn any bridges, 'cause today's adversary could be tomorrow's friend, and I think that's how it should work. You and I could disagree on 80 percent of the things, but maybe there's 20, maybe there's something we could work on. Someone on the Democrat side that's not known to be enormously pro-business, clearly he's pro-labor, but who exemplifies this and is just a delightful guy, and that's Ron Wyden. I mean he is just the nicest guy who we've worked with him on some stuff, and we kind of know on the labor stuff, minimum wage and other things, where he's going to be. But there's always opportunities to work with him. He's just a delightful guy. To me that's sort of Washington as it should be. John Boehner's a good friend of mine. I grew up in the eighth district of Ohio. I knew John when he ran for the state legislature. I knew him when he first ran for Congress. People that were involved in his very first campaign. Some of them are people I went to high school with. That stuff about nine brothers and sisters over the restaurant is all true. And when you talk about kids and small business, if you ask him to give a talk somewhere and you say, 'Would you talk about kids and small business?', the odds are he won't get through it without tearing up, and that's real. I respect him for that.
Are you satisfied with the current field of Republican candidates, or is there someone out there who you wish would run for president?
I can make a choice given the current field. I think probably like a lot of people, if you backed us up 10 months and said, 'Were there other people you would've liked to see be in the race?', I'd say absolutely. I'm a great fan of Mitch Daniels. I understand and respect him for personal reasons because I think family comes first. But in terms of his budgetary background at a time that clearly one of the biggest challenges we have out there is our budgets and the deficit and entitlements, he not only brings a great knowledge of that and detailed knowledge of that, but he also has a fabulous track record in Indiana.
After a day of politicking and policy wonkerage, what's your favorite nonpolitical activity to clear your head?
I love the beach. We have a little condo over outside Bethany beach in Delaware, and when the weather's nice, even if it's for – leave late on Friday and come back Sunday night – it's sort of like, at the other side of the Bay Bridge, the world looks different. You know, it's peaceful – flip flops, T-shirt, bathing suit and a beach chair and a book, about 10 paces away from the waves rolling in. I find that enormously peaceful, and I really enjoy the beach and everything about it. I'm pretty sure I probably don't have at the beach a collared shirt. I don't have any hard-soled shoes. It's either Dockers or flip-flops, more often the flip flops. I do enjoy playing golf. Somewhat over there and somewhat when I'm here. But the beach is still the most relaxing. I got some Buffett T shirts – I'm a Buffett fan. We've gone here for six or seven years. We go, tailgate, and I have Margaritaville on my satellite radio, and when he's here we usually do a concert at the State Theatre. He's a lot of fun. Yeah, I'm a Buffett fan. I enjoy it.
Tell me about your lighter side – I hear you can be a prankster.
I'm a great fan of the Capitol Steps. We've actually taken our board to see them, 'cos I think it's great to lampoon everything that goes on in Washington. We like to celebrate. We celebrate birthdays. We're about to have our annual NFIB Masters putting contest. We'll have holes all around the hallways, sand traps and water traps. We bring in azaleas. We have prizes and a leader board. There's enough tension here, if you can't have fun — we have signs and we have 'ground under repair' where there's a small tear in the carpet. We've had more than one office over the years, when somebody's come back from testifying for the first time on the Hill or something, their office is full of balloons. They papered over his desk and everything. [At this point in the interview, Danner's public relations assistant told a story about a woman who worked near his office who had to have everything on her desk perfectly straight and at right angles at all times.] Everything was perfect, you just do one thing, go like that, and it's like, would she find it? When you think, all these things in the desk, how would you know if one thing – you'd never look for it – if this was like this and you just went like that would she notice it? And she would. I'd just sort of casually walk by later. It's like, golly. It's a lot of fun.


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By Mike Springer
May 23, 2013
Monticello, FL-After battling it out in court for a year, the Caboodle Ranch saga may be over.
A deal has been reached to avoid a trial and possible jail time for its owner, Craig Grant.
"It's been tough on him, I'll say that. But there is some relief there," said David Collins, Grant's attorney.
Last year, more than 600 cats were seized from the Madison County animal sanctuary known as Caboodle Ranch after allegations of abuse and neglect of the cats there arose.
The Sheriff's Office arrested Grant.
Now, relief is coming for Grant through a deferred prosecution agreement. It will help him avoid a trial and possible jail time.
Under the deal with the state, the criminal charges against Grant will be dropped if he agrees to take his medication, pay costs to the state attorney's office and is not arrested within the next 24 months.
Grant's attorney says the agreement won't prohibit Grant from owning cats.
"He's allowed to have animals. He's allowed to have up to whatever many cats the local County ordinances allow," said Collins.
Collins won't say how many cats Grant currently owns.
Many of the cats seized were put up for adoption through the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - or ASPCA -
They declined to comment on the deal. But ASPCA released this statement saying "Caboodle Ranch has not provided adequate care for the animals in the past and is not fit to do so in the future.'
Grant's attorney also says he's working to have the civil case against his client dropped. That case pertains to the ownership of the cats.
Monticello, FL, November 8, 2012 - The owner of a Madison County cat sanctuary who's facing animal cruelty charges heads to court next month.
The case against Craig Grant, the owner of Caboodle Ranch, will go on trial December 20. There is a pretrial motion set for December 3.
About 700 cats were seized from Caboodle Ranch by the Madison County Sheriff's Office last after allegations of neglect arose.
Grant faces animal cruelty charges.
Monticello, FL, November 2, 2012 - The attorney for a cat sanctuary has filed an appeal, seeking to get the nearly 700 cats seized from Caboodle Ranch back.
The attorneys for Caboodle Ranch filed the appeal at the Madison County Courthouse Friday.
The Madison County Sheriff's Office seized the 653 cats after reports of neglect.
WCTV reached out to the Sheriff's Office for comment. But he is out of town and unavailable.
August 8, 2012
More than 650 cats were rescued from Caboodle Ranch back in February. Now, many of them are available for adoption.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, known as the ASPCA, was granted full custody of the cats following a civil trial against the ranch's owner. The ASPCA has been caring for the cats in a temporary shelter in Jacksonville for the past five months.
Tim Rickey is the Senior Director of ASPCA Field Investigations and Response. He said the ASPCA has been working hard to get the cats to a basic health level.
"We do have some cats here that are going to need ongoing medical care. And we're hoping that there are people willing to open up their hearts and homes to come in and give one of these cats a second chance," said Rickey.
The ASPCA is holding an adoption event this coming Saturday and Sunday, August 11Th and 12Th at the shelter in Jacksonville. Three hundred cats will be available at that site. There is no fee for these adoptions.
The shelter is located at:
2580 West 1st Street
Jacksonville, Florida 32254
For more information, visit www.aspca.org/caboodlecats


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Early care and treatment can help you maintain your vision with diabetes. Have a yearly eye exam; keep good control of your diabetes and accompanying conditions such as blood pressure, kidney disease and anemia; and quit smoking, Cavallerano says. "Although there are no guarantees, these are all ways you can significantly reduce the risk of developing retinopathy or having it progress."
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Wii U users, there's a new firmware update available for your system. Clocking in at around 600MB, it doesn't appear to do anything drastic (like speed up loading and menu times). Here's what Nintendo says it does do:
Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience.
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The AOC yesterday named a 5 strong badminton team to take on the world's best at the London Olympic Games in just 42 days time.
List of Australian teams from 1938 until current.
Badminton Australia selects players to national squads and teams for Seniors and Juniors. They consist of players, which are estimated to have the level and / or potential to achieve the objectives set out by Badminton Australia. These players are working together with Badminton Australia with the purpose of getting the best possible international results from training, tournaments, personal skills and lifestyle.
The National Junior Squad aims to identify and develop the top junior players from across the country with the aim of progressing players to meet the "Winning Edge" targets as outlined in the Badminton Australia High Performance Plan.
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E.coli cases in France, beef burgers blamed
Paris, June 16, 2011
Five children admitted to hospital in northern France after eating beef burgers infected with a strain of E.coli bacteria are seriously ill, health officials said on Thursday, fanning fears of a wider outbreak.
The officials said the bacteria did not appear to be related to the lethal strain of E.coli that has killed 37 people and made 3,000 ill, most of them in northern Germany.
Privately owned German discount chain Lidl withdrew boxes of the frozen beef patties believed to be behind the French infections. The boxes were sold under the brand "Steaks Country" and had expiry dates of May 10, 11 and 12, officials said.
On Wednesday six children, aged between 20 months and eight years and from different towns in the Pas de Calais region, were taken to a hospital in the city of Lille after suffering bouts of bloody diarrhoea.
One was quickly released, but five are in a "serious condition" and still being treated at the hospital. Three are being treated with hemodialysis, a method of removing waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure.
Although the outbreak comes on the heels of an E.coli epidemic linked to contaminated bean sprouts which has killed 36 people in Germany and one in Sweden, health officials said the French cases had no apparent link to those in Germany.
"I hope we can launch a search programme very quickly, we are working on that already with French researchers in order to identify (the origin) and deal with health problems soon," Health Minister Xavier Bertrand said on RTL radio.
He said the entire production chain for the beef patties would have to be examined and stricter controls would be enforced.
A spokesman for Lidl said that beef used in the suspect boxes had been bought from French supplier SEB-CERF, based in the northeastern town of Saint-Dizier, which produces some 400 tonnes per week of frozen beef, according to its website.
"The products were made in France, but depending on the expiry date and our suppliers' opportunities, the beef can come from Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands or even other places," spokesman Jerome Gresland at Lidl told Reuters.
"We buy the beef through this supplier with a stamp that says it comes from the European Union."
French health authorities ordered Lidl to withdraw "Steaks Country" boxes with a range of expiry dates after finding a box with a May 10 expiry date at the home of one of the infected children.
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Bonnie Dale Estes and Rich Clemons of Bethlehem were united in marriage on Sept. 3, 2011. The wedding was held at their home with Nick Hawkins officiating the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Billy Ray Payton and Betty Jean Hamilton, both of New Castle.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Clemons of Florence.
After a honeymoon trip to Pigeon Forge, Tenn., the couple lives in Bethlehem.
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