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Ever undimm'd by time shoots warlike victory's dazzle,
Or that thou sat'st where Washington sat, ruling the land in peace,
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THE RECIPE: Café Lago's Pomodori al Forno.
I've always liked the idea of a neighborhood restaurant. In a perfect world, we all would have one: a warm, dimly lit café around the corner; a bistro just a stumble down the block; a spot up the street where you could always get a table. We all would have a restaurant where we truly belonged—like the bar in Cheers, only without the kooky customers.
In this perfect world, the maître d' would greet you with a kiss on the cheek. The server would set down your usual drink before you'd even taken a seat. The menu would open like an old, familiar novel, the one you've read a half dozen times but never seem to tire of. You could eat and drink and carouse as though you were at your own kitchen table—but at the end of the evening, you could tumble into bed without washing a single dish. When I die, I've decided, I don't want to go to heaven. I want to go to my neighborhood restaurant.
Seattle, where I live, is lucky enough to have a lot of vibrant, distinct neighborhoods, each with its own cluster of commerce: a market, a barbershop, a bakery, a coffee shop (of course), and a restaurant or two. One of these neighborhoods, Montlake, is especially lucky. It is home to Café Lago, one of the best Italian restaurants in the city. I don't happen to live nearby—more like a 15-minute drive away—but if I did, I'd claim it as my neighborhood spot, no question. Heck, I already stop by often enough; I might as well claim it now. All that's left for me to do is pitch a tent outside the door.
Café Lago isn't new to the Seattle restaurant scene. In fact, the restaurant turns 18 this year, which by today's standards makes it something of a classic. Opened in 1990 by co-owners Jordi Viladas and Carla Leonardi, then husband and wife, Café Lago began as a small trattoria, seating only about 20-some-odd people and serving a concise menu of rustic Italian food. (Most of the recipes—especially fundamentals like the tomato sauce and the lasagna—came from Viladas's mother, whose family hails from Calabria; she moved from Connecticut to help the duo open the restaurant.)
Nearly two decades and two expansions later, Café Lago still sets the mark with its handmade pastas, pillow-light potato gnocchi, and thin, blistery-crusted pizzas. I'm hard-pressed to pass through Montlake without peering longingly through the front window, watching the fire in the pizza oven sway and flare. It's almost impossible to know what to order. The lasagna, made from gossamer sheets of fresh pasta, is good enough to make grown men sigh. The caponata is unusually fine: sweet-tart and appealingly chunky, speckled with slivers of green olive. Even the basic salad, the insalata mista, is impeccable, dressed in a made-to-order slurry of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and balsamic reduction.
Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I suppose I should tell you that Carla Leonardi has become a good friend of mine, but that hardly influences my feelings about the place. Café Lago serves exactly the sort of food that I like to eat: simple and honest, prepared with infinite care. One dish in particular, the pomodori al forno, exemplifies this. It consists of little more than plum tomatoes that have been halved and seeded; seasoned with sugar, salt, and oregano; and roasted slowly in abundant olive oil. Served with slices of crisped baguette and a round of tangy aged goat cheese, it's compulsively delicious. I once overheard a man at a nearby table call it "the best appetizer in Seattle," and I wasn't the least bit surprised. Pomodori al forno may not be fancy, but it certainly tastes like it is.
It's so tasty, in fact, that I begged Carla to teach me how to make it. (I may have deemed it my neighborhood joint, but I can't really go to Café Lago every night. I would miss cooking, and my wallet, too, would no doubt complain.) Lucky for all of us, she took pity on me. One afternoon last winter, Carla and sous-chef Willie Steinway took me behind the counter and gave me all the pointers for perfect pomodori.
The secret to Café Lago's roasted tomatoes—and, as a general rule, most anything worth eating—lies in the choice of ingredients. They use a fruity, high-quality olive oil, and their dried oregano comes with the stem still intact. They also start with the most beautiful canned tomatoes I've ever seen: rich and meaty, with flesh tinted a fierce shade of scarlet. Because the quality of canned tomatoes is consistently high year-round—and because demand for pomodori al forno doesn't exactly wane in the winter—Café Lago uses them without apology. Surprisingly enough, the brand they rely upon, Alta Cucina, is a domestic one, not an import from Italy.
"A good domestic brand almost always tastes better than the imported kind," Carla says. "I know it sounds weird, but it's true." (A native of Tuscany, she grew up with her uncle Giorgio's home-canned tomatoes, so she knows a good tomato when she tastes it.)
The kitchen goes through up to four giant cans of tomatoes every other day just to make pomodori al forno. First, the tomatoes are drained and sorted. Only those that are perfectly intact and unblemished will be roasted; the rest go into the sauce pot. Those that pass the test are halved and carefully seeded, doused with olive oil, seasoned, and slipped into a low oven. As they cook, they relax on the pan and their color deepens to a dark crimson. Then, as though that treatment weren't already deluxe enough, they're transferred with their oil into another container, layered with minced garlic and fresh parsley, and left to marinate until they taste impossibly rich and sweet.
I've tried the method with a variety of brands of canned tomatoes, as well as fresh ones. Alta Cucina, the brand Café Lago favors, is available through wholesale distributors and online, but I've had great luck with both Muir Glen and Hunt's. The best results of all came from ripe plum tomatoes, the kind that are cropping up at farmers' markets everywhere, right this minute. They take a bit longer to roast, but they pay off with a toothsome texture and mellow, winey flavor. From now until the last harvest of the year, I'll be roasting them at least once a week. My kitchen table may not come with a maître d' or a menu, but sometimes I don't half mind.
Molly Wizenberg is behind the award-winning blog Orangette. She is working on her forthcoming culinary memoir, A Homemade Life.
THE RECIPE: Café Lago's Pomodori al Forno.
Molly Wizenberg is better known as Orangette, which also happens to be the name of her award-winning blog.

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Monday, March 7, 2011
The Tao's Sports Book - Brett Lawrie Twitter Follower Edition
Now, just the other day, we took note of our own Twitter account, and for someone who is little more than a nerdy simpleton shouting inanities into the ether, we're kinda impressed that we've amassed 1,640 followers in a year or more (Update: Turns out, 752 days on Twitter. Really? Holy shit.) that we've been here. We even get a certain thrill when someone who we respect suddenly takes it upon themselves to put up with our kvetching over the Sens and R.E.M.'s legacy and our feelings of inferiority to Ghostrunner's Drew. (Same guy! Only he's better! Humblebrag!)
Getting to the point, because time is of the essence: We're reasonably sure that young Mr. Lawrie will surpass our follower count within hours of signing up, and so we're proposing a handful of easily manipulated prop bets surrounding that momentous occasion.
Prop Bet #1 - Over/Under on time @blawrie13 passes my follower count. Current line is 2:15pm today.
Prop Bet #2 - Number of tweets Lawrie has posted when he passes me - Over/Under is 2.5 tweets. (UPDATE! 12:42, Lawrie posts his third tweet. Approach the cashier gingerly. We may be busting the house here.)
Prop Bet #3 - Will @blawrie13 have an actual profie pic or still the egg when he passes my follower count? (UPDATE! 12:42, He now has a profile pic. Looks like it was grabbed from a TV.)
Prop Bet #4 - Number of people Lawrie follows when he passes me. Over/Under is 8.5.
Put down your money (or make believe money, or gummy bears, what have you) in the comments.
UPDATE 12:51 pm - Lawrie's sitting at 1205 followers, four tweets, following five, one shiny profile pic.
UPDATE 2:09 pm - Lawrie's sitting at 1513 followers, still four tweets, still following five, still has a profile pic (What happens if he reverts back to the egg? Scandal!)
Update At the bell of 2:16 - DING DING DING! - Alas, young Mr. Lawrie falls short. Couple of props to be settled yet, but I'm pretty much as bored with this tomfoolery as you are.
Good night, and good luck.
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I take the over on Prop Bet #1....unless he posts a picture of himself eating a 36oz steak in 87 seconds.
- March 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Yeah, he's slowing down. Though some cross talk with Arencibia (7K+ followers) should give him a boost.
- March 7, 2011 at 12:23 PM
- Ty said...
I think I want him to stick with the egg. Better that than an iPhone-bathroom mirror picture of his abs or something.
- March 7, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
You have to know that this all ends with a picture of his dong in the reflection of a PCL clubhouse, right?
- March 7, 2011 at 12:27 PM
- The Ack said...
I followed him just to add to the drama of your prop bets. I can be a total dick like that.
- March 7, 2011 at 12:27 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Reflection in a mirror of a PCL clubhouse...I think.
I've just put too much energy into this.
- March 7, 2011 at 12:28 PM
- Navin V. said...
1 - Under
2 - Over
3 - Actual pic.
4 - Under
- March 7, 2011 at 12:31 PM
If Lawrie does pass your follower count by the set time of 2:15pm, you should post a pic of yourself with a 40 ductaped to your hand looking like a douche ;)
- March 7, 2011 at 12:58 PM
Who cares? I can't wait until the actual games begin so I don't have to read this tripe. And there's definitely some homo-erotic undertones to this "Same guy!" shit you've got going on with Ghostrunner's Drew. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
- March 7, 2011 at 1:07 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Drew's a pretty handsome guy. Has quite the presence. People are drawn to him.
Just saying.
And really...what the fuck? We're having fun here. Being silly. Horsing around. You want a pitch-by-pitch breakdown of yesterday's game?
- March 7, 2011 at 1:09 PM
Speaking of yesterday's game, am I the only one that really liked the Pirates bright canary yellow jerseys?
- March 7, 2011 at 1:21 PM
- Harold said...
If you check out the feed of the 5th person he follows (the only non-Jay), it would appear Lawrie has had a twitter account before, but deleted.
- March 7, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- halejon said...
If Brett Lawrie makes the team out of Spring Training, I will eat a pound of smoked Trout.
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Technical indicators are showing that stocks are oversold short-term, but the market still continues to fall.
On Thursday, the S&P 500 index closed down 7.31 percent from its recent high in September and is 87.28 points away from testing its low for the year of 1266.04 in June.
While oversold conditions don't mean the indexes can't go lower, we looked at broader market sentiment to see if there will be any temporary relief for the markets from recent downslide.


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A Utah woman was charged Monday with six counts of first-degree murder in the killing of her six babies over a decade, but she cannot face the death penalty if convicted, prosecutors said.
Defendant Megan Huntsman, 39, is accused of killing the babies between 1996 and 2006, before Utah law was changed in 2007 to make murder a capital offense if a victim was younger than 14, Utah County Attorney Jeff Buhman said outside court after a hearing in the case.
Until the law was passed, killing a child was not considered one of the aggravating factors that can make someone eligible for the death penalty.
Such factors also include the victim being a police officer, the killing occurring while another crime, such as rape, was committed, or if the defendant has already been convicted of another murder. Killing more than one person also is considered a capital offense, but only if they die in the same incident.
Authorities say Huntsman was the mother of the babies and they were awaiting DNA testing to confirm that, along with the sex of the children. Their causes of death also remain uncertain.
No labs in Utah can analyze the type of DNA that has been taken from the small corpses, so the FBI has been brought in to help, police said.
RELATED: Woman Accused of Killing Her Six Babies Had Watched Neighbor Kids
The bodies of the infants were found on April 12 in boxes in Huntsman's garage in Pleasant Grove. A seventh infant found in the garage is believed to have been stillborn.
During her brief court appearance, Huntsman mostly kept her eyes focused on the ground as she was informed of the charges. Her wrists were shackled to her waist, and she was wearing baggy, orange jail pants and a green shirt.


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Feb. 13, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In its final competition of the regular season, MIT posted a 1-4 record at the Duke University Invitational last weekend. The Engineers (12-14) defeated the U.S. Air Force Academy (18-9), but fell to Brandeis University (16-11), Temple University (18-9), the host Blue Devils (14-13), and the University of North Carolina (19-8).
Behind Cordelia Link's 11-4 performance, the foil team finished with a 21-24 mark, including an 8-1 tally against Air Force. Lindley Graham compiled a total of 6-9 while Jenna Caldwell and Chun Li contributed scores of 2-5 and 2-6, respectively.
In epee action, Stephanie Shin went 11-4 as the team amassed a record of 19-26. Zhenya Gu and Joanna Tong rounded out the contingent with identical marks of 4-11.
Yuhsin Chen paced the sabre team with a 10-5 ledger as MIT posted a total of 18-27. Elena Tatarchenko finished at 6-9, followed by Hareem Ahmad (1-6) and Laura Evans (1-7).


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When someone declares Jihad on your toilet and completely destroys the toilet along with most of the bathroom. Generally leaveing an unholy and enormous blast radius. You will be left with a totally clogged toilet and most of your house will smell like death.
Joe, the Toilet Terrorist came over last night and wrecked my entire apartment with the bomb he dropped in my toilet!
by JRKJR January 23, 2010
Someone who takes a dump and totally tears up the toilet! This person usually shows no mercy and will not care what civilians are nearby.
"What's that smell? Aww, dude, you're a toilet terrorist!"
by FemmeFatale June 21, 2005
A person engaging in planning and execution of heinous acts intended to destroy a public toilet. The goal is to take out as many people as possible.
My co-worker is a toilet terrorist because he left an IED (Improvised Explosive Dookie) in the toilet, preventing use of the bathroom for more than an hour. All that had attempted entry were tested for hazardous levels of exposure. Use of a sniffer is recommended to test toxicity levels.
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When someone pisses on a toilet seat purposefully so the next person has to sit in his urine.
I am a toilet terrorist to my roommate.
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The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged, holding its key lending rate, the refi rate, at 0.25%. Economists had generally expected the ECB to remain on hold, though a significant minority had penciled in some form of policy action. Here\'s a recap of ECB President Mario Draghi\'s monthly news conference.
9:47 am | ECB in no rush, but March will be important | by William Watts
And that's a wrap.
As the euro, German bunds and even European stocks show, anyone looking for Draghi to signal a rate cut is right around the corner were left disappointed.
Still, Draghi seemed to be putting a lot of emphasis on next month's ECB meeting, when staff economists will offer their first look at 2016 and policy makers will have a better grip on whether trouble in emerging markets poses a threat to global economic growth.
Draghi continues to not sweat well bel0w-target inflation, insisting that the euro zone isn't anything at all like Japan.
And as has been the case for a long time, Draghi continues to insist that the ECB has plenty of weapons in its arsenal should the need arise for bolder action.
That won't quell accusations the ECB is complacent in the face of a weak recovery and crushing unemployment rates in euro zone's hardest-hit economies and an overall euro-zone jobless rate of 12%.
9:36 am | Bond yields higher | by Ben Eisen
Bond yields across the euro zone are on the move higher Thursday as traders find an upbeat strain in Draghi's remarks, and take that as a reason to sell haven debt. The 10-year German bund /quotes/zigman/15866409/realtime BX:TMBMKDE-10Y yield, which rises as prices fall, was up 6.5 basis points at 1.609%. The French 10-year note /quotes/zigman/4869091/delayed FR:10YR_FRA yield is up 6.5 basis points at 2.294%. And the UK 10-year gilt /quotes/zigman/15866328/realtime BX:TMBMKGB-10Y yield is up 5.5 basis points at 2.744%, according to Tradeweb.
On the periphery, the Greek 10-year bond yield is down almost 15 basis points at 7.962%.
Here's Richard Gilhooly, U.S. director of interest-rate strategy at TD Securities, in a note to clients:
"Bunds are selling off hard following Draghi's more upbeat comments on the recovery and rising consumer confidence, while rejecting the argument that there is a deflation risk. Prolong[ed] low inflation is likely but nothing at this point which would prompt the ECB to take action, while he did clarify that the idea of not sterilising the SMP was not discussed. The Euro has been squeezed much higher as shorts were again caught hoping for ECB action, especially on the non-sterilisation idea after a Bundesbank reference to it last week. "
9:31 am | Coordination OK when it doesn't clash with mandates | by William Watts
More talk on coordination. Draghi notes that coordination arrangements have been put in place in the past, think the Plaza Accord or the Louvre Accord.
Those are fine as long as they don't clash with individual central banks' mandates, he says. When they collapse, that conflict is usuall why.
9:23 am
#Draghi: "lending is stabilizing: things may get better, or they may stay where they are. Or they may get worse." Economics: art not science— Tim Reynolds (@IntaComm) February 6, 2014
9:21 am
Here's the link to the text of Draghi's opening statement from today's news conference.
9:19 am | Euro rallies on lack of more dovish tone | by William Watts
The euro /quotes/zigman/4867933/realtime/sampled EURUSD continues its ascent, changing hands at $1.3614, up around a full cent from its level just before the rate decision.
European stocks have trimmed gains on disappointment in the lack of a more dovish tone from Draghi.
9:16 am | Monetary policy coordination difficult | by William Watts
Draghi notes calls for increased monetary policy coordination in reaction to actions in one unnamed "monetary policy jurisdiction." Gee, wonder if he means the Fed?
He notes that the ECB is focused on its own mandate.
Coordination may require a central bank to take an action it wouldn't have otherwise taken, which can put it in conflict with its mandate.
9:12 am | Disinflation machine
Here's an interesting chart from RBS illustrating how European economic and monetary union has inevitably fostered low inflation.
9:11 am | Draghi offers optimism on lending | by William Watts
Draghi puts a relatively positive spin on the lending situation in the euro zone. He's a bit encouraged by the ECB's recent bank lending survey, which indicate risk perceptions have returned to 2010 levels.
And while the asset quality review had a negative impact on bank lending in the last quarter of 2013 as banks moved to shore up balance sheets, the long-term impact of the exercise will be positive as it helps improve confidence in the banking sector.
9:08 am | 'All eligible instruments' available to ECB | by William Watts
Draghi is asked about the possibility of outright quantitative easing.
Draghi repeats that "all eligible instruments" allowed by the treaty would be under consideration in the case of future action, but says the ECB can't violate a prohibition on "monetary financing" of government debt.
9:00 am | Draghi: ECB needs more information | by William Watts
Draghi says the ECB is awaiting more information.
The completion of the central bank's upcoming asset quality review could affect credit flows.
Also, ECB staff economists will be presenting their first projections for 2016 in March, which will give policy makers more to consider.
And then there's the recent turmoil in emerging markets, which also bears watching to see if "this is a temporary phenomenon" or something that could affect growth.
As always, the ECB stands ready to take action if needed, he says.
8:53 am | Draghi: Still no deflation threat here | by William Watts
No, Mario Draghi just plain isn't that worried about deflation.
He reiterates that price declines aren't anything like what was seen in Japan as it entered its long deflation spiral and that inflation rates in the euro zone aren't terribly lower than in the U.S.
That said, the longer inflation remains extremely low the more it becomes a risk in itself, he says. But he notes that the low inflation is driven mostly by low food and energy prices, while weak demand, which would be a more troubling cause, is probably secondary. And economic activity is slowly picking up, he notes.
Also, there's little evidence people are postponing spending plans. People delaying purchases in anticipation of lower prices is a characteristic of a deflationary environment.
8:48 am | Plenty of tools for ECB to work with | by William Watts
Draghi says there was a broad discussion of contingency plans and that the ECB has a huge array of tools to work with.
8:42 am | Euro jumps as Draghi resists further easing | by William Watts
The lack of any real dovish tone has seen the euro jump, rising to $1.3552 versus a level near $1.3514 befoe the ECB's policy announcement.
"The ECB still doesn't want to pull the trigger on more easing hoping past easing will be enough. A short covering is on the way in EURUSD," says Sebastien Galy, strategist at Societe Generale
8:38 am | Draghi not panicking over low inflation | by William Watts
Not a lot new so far in Draghi's opening statement. The ECB remains ready to take "decisive action" if needed, but the central bank's accommodative monetary policy should help to build support for domestic demand.
He's not sounding any alarm over below-target inflation, with the emphasis on well-anchored inflation expectations showing that the Governing Council doesn't seem to see a threat of deflation.
8:34 am | Draghi: Recovery continues in line with ECB forecast | by William Watts
Draghi says the recovery continues in line with the ECB's expectations. He repeats that the region is facing a "prolonged period" of low inflation but that medium and long-term inflation remains well anchored.
8:31 am
Draghi's just taken his seat at the podium.
8:31 am | The ECB and stealth QE | by William Watts
Of course, the ECB could just stop sterilizing those earlier bond purchases. The Wall Street Journal last week reported that the German Bundesbank – surprisingly enough – would favor such a move.
That's a shock because the ECB's commitment to sterilization was long seen as a concession to the monetarist-oriented Bundesbank. Failing to sterilize would likely be viewed as a de facto form of quantitative easing. Draghi's thoughts on such matters will no doubt be closely listened to.
8:18 am | A case against more ECB LTROs | by William Watts
Long-term refinancing operations, or LTROs, are among the metaphorical weapons in the European Central Bank's arsenal. The fixed-rate, long-term loans were credited with helping to ease tensions in money markets when first introduced in late 2011. Now banks are beginning to repay them, effectively shrinking the ECB's balance sheet. Could Draghi reach for this weapon again?
Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, N.Y., has long argued that the ECB's arsenal is effectively bare. This gets a little wonkish, but here's why he doesn't think another round of LTROs is an option.
Weinberg, in a note, observed that the ECB has been having difficulty "sterilizing" its earlier rounds of bond purchases under the now-mothballed Securities Market Program. Sterilization is a process in which a central bank drains liquidity equal to its asset purchases in order to prevent the creation of new reserves. Failing to sterilize would be a form of quantitative easing.
Previously, the ECB previously paid virtually nothing to sterilize its bond holdings because liquidity was ample. But now that banks have started paying back those previous LTRO funds, liquidity is tight.
That means the ECB has effectively "maxed out" its ability to sterilize its bond-buying program, he argues, because no banks that have collateral to lend are looking for funds at the ECB's repo window.
Meanwhile, the banks that need liquidity have exhausted their eligible collateral, he said.
They are among the hardest-hit banks in Euroland, and they are at the end of their string. Their only recourse when liquidity falls short is to call loans back in. Other banks –"good" banks—do not need to borrow money at the repo window. This is why we believe the ECB will not be able to address the Euroland liquidity squeeze with a new LTRO. We do not believe anyone would come!
8:11 am | ECB can't hold out for long: Capital Economics | by William Watts
Anticipation of a possible easing move had grown over recent days, wrote Jonathan Loynes, chief European economist at Capital Economics. While there may have been a bit of a disappointment in the lack of a move, the ECB will find it difficult to resist taking action for long with inflation running well below its target of near but just below 2%, credit growth moving the wrong direction, a strong euro and doubts emerging over the sustainability of the euro zone's tepid recovery. He writes:
Against this background, we expect strong hints from Mario Draghi in the press conference that more action is on the way very soon. We still think a small cut in interest rates, with a negative deposit rate, is the most likely next step. But if deflation dangers keep rising, the ECB may also have to re-think its ideological objections to full-blown quantitative easing. Either way, though, the central bank alone cannot solve all of the euro-zone countries' problems for them.
8:01 am | Stocks see kneejerk dip lower | by William Watts
The decision to stand pat on rates may have been the consensus, but just barely. That explains the evident disappointment reflected by a kneejerk dip by U.S. and European stocks in the aftermath of the announcement.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Following on a first-place finish at Boston University's Terrier Invitational two weeks ago, the Yale women's swimming and diving team is scheduled to compete in another championship meet this weekend. The Bulldogs will be taking part in the Brown Invitational, another championship-style meet with heats in the morning and finals in the evening. The meet comes at a time when Yale's top swimmers would usually go compete at the AT&T Winter National Championships, and so this weekend is another opportunity for the team to compete as a whole unit before the Ivy League Championships in March.
At this point in the season it's so far, so good for the Bulldogs. Yale did well against three teams in preseason scrimmages and came out strong in the first meet of the season with a 158-142 win against Columbia. Two weeks ago the team travelled to Boston to compete in the Terrier Invite, where Yale was the top team after three days of competition.
Earlier this month at the Terrier Invite the Bulldogs were the only Ivy League team present, but this weekend Yale will see some good conference competition. Including Yale seven teams will be in Providence, four of which are in the Ivy League. The other schools scheduled to compete this weekend are Army, Brown, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, Princeton and Rider.
The meet begins Friday, Nov. 30, at Brown's Coleman Aquatic Center in Providence, R.I. Prelims will begin at 11:00 a.m. and finals at 6:00 p.m. on each day. The events on the schedule for first day of competition are the 200-yard freestyle relay, 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard IM, 50-yard freestyle and the 400-yard medley relay. On Saturday, Dec. 1, the events to be contested are the 200-yard medley relay, 400-yard IM, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke, 100-yard backstroke and the 800-yard freestyle relay. The meet wraps up on Sunday, Dec. 2, with the 1650-yard freestyle, 200-yard backstroke, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard butterfly and the 400-yard freestyle relay. The diving events are to be determined.
Report filed by Tom Lynam '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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from the worst-of-the-worst? dept
Now there's yet another ruling in favor of RapidShare, this time in Germany, where the Higher Regional Court of Dusseldorf ruled (again) that RapidShare takes "sufficient measures" to stop copyright infringement, in a case brought by Atari. Similar to Viacom in its lawsuit against YouTube, Atari suggested that RapidShare should be required to install a proactive filter, but the court said such a requirement would be unreasonable, since it might also block legitimate works.
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The Nevada Democratic Caucus; The South Carolina Republican Primary
Aired January 19, 2008 - 13:00 ET
WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome to the CNN Elections Center, I'm Wolf Blitzer reporting. It may be Saturday, but it is a pivotal day in the presidential race. In the next few hours, we will learn the winners of the Nevada caucuses both on the Democratic and Republican side. Then later tonight, Republican candidates will compete in South Carolina. It is all unfolding right now. You can watch it unfold with the best political team on television, including "YOUR MONEY's" Ali Velshi, he is out in Las Vegas and Christine Romans, and she is here at the CNN Elections Center. In Nevada, on the Republican side, the voting is scheduled to be over about now. We are going to put the results of the caucuses up on the big wall and the bottom of your screen as soon as we get them. On the Democratic side, there are still two hours for caucus hours to pick whom they want to be the Democratic nominee. Already, we are showing based on our entrance polls, our entrance polls showing this be could a very good day in Nevada for Mitt Romney, showing, as far as our entrance polls are concerned, a very, very strong turnout for Mitt Romney. Having said that, it is obvious that Mitt Romney spent a lot more time in Nevada than the other Republican presidential candidates. He and Ron Paul were very visible only these past few days in Nevada. The other Republican presidential candidates have been spending almost all of their time this past week and the week before in South Carolina where the primary is happening even as we speak right now. We have reporters covering all of this including our own Ali Velshi. He is in Las Vegas; we will go to him shortly. Candy Crowley, she is in Las Vegas as well watching all of this unfolds, a big day for Democrats and Republicans there. Juan Carlos Lopez from CNN, he is watching what is happening out in Nevada, the first state that has a large Latino, Hispanic presence. We are watching that for you as well. We are not ignoring what's happening in South Carolina. Susan Malveaux is there for us in Charleston as is our own Dana Bash, they are watching this contest. The big day for the Republicans in South Carolina. For the Democrats, that will be next Saturday. We will watch that as well. Ali, I want to go to you first because you have been there now for awhile. Give us a lay of the land as far as these caucuses are concerned. This is really the first state where the unions are playing a significant role for the Democrats in Nevada. ALI VELSHI, CNN HOST: That's right, Wolf. That's why I am here on the strip at Las Vegas. I am at Caesar's Palace, which is one of nine locations where the Democrats will actually be caucusing. Now this is the first time this has happened. In the past, the caucuses in Nevada have been held later in the season. As a result, this he have not held the same influence in terms of the national contest that these ones do. Here, they are early. Secondly, there are special caucuses being held here on the strip for shift workers on the strip. All you have to do if you are a Democrat is show up here and prove that you or at least swear that you started your shift already or are going to start within an hour of the caucus and you can partake in this. This is very helpful to workers here in the tourist areas. It is have he helpful to members of the Culinary Union which is the union to which most of the workers at the casinos be long. That is a union that is endorsed Barack Obama. Now, Wolf, the issue here in Las Vegas is different than it is in other parts of the country. There has been a housing collapse, because of the speculative nature of people buying houses in the southwest, Las Vegas and Phoenix and places like that over the past few years. But other wise the economy, is doing better than you think. While it has slowed down, the fact of the matter is there is there are a lot of other people coming in from parts of the world that are keeping these casinos and hotels busy. The unemployment rate is 5.4 percent; it is higher than the national average. Culinary workers I have been talking around here are telling me they are not feeling the pinch as much as you might think. Occupancy rates at the hotels are lower. The economy is the number one issue for people in Nevada. Health care is another issue. A lot of these people are unionized. There are a lot of shift workers and non-unionized workers in Nevada. Health care becomes a major issue. As you touched on it in the beginning of the show, immigration is also an issue here. They want to hear the candidate's stances on the economics, their health care plan and immigration. That will be dominating Democratic voters, particularly, those, Wolf, who are voting on the strip today. BLITZER: Ali, hold on for one second, I just want to alert out viewers, the Associated Press is now projecting that Mitt Romney will win the Republican caucuses in Nevada. They are doing this on the basis of the entrance polls, because we don't have official results yet. CNN is not yet ready to make that projection, because we are going to wait for some of the official numbers to come in before we go forward. Given the fact that these caucuses are a relatively new phenomenal out in Nevada, we are going to err on the side of caution. The Associated Press is reporting that Mitt Romney will win the Nevada caucuses on the Republican side. He had made his presence felt in Nevada in recent days unlike the other major Republican presidential candidates. This is a state he wanted and even though the other Republicans are spending a lot more time in South Carolina. When it does the settles, Nevada will have more delegates at state than South Carolina. This will be an important win for Mitt Romney, if the Associated Press in fact turns out to be accurate. We are going to get a little official results first. Then, we will move on. Candy Crowley is watching this on the Republican side and the Democratic side for us in Las Vegas. First of all, the AP's projection that Mitt Romney will win the Republican caucuses in Nevada, that is not much of a surprise given the fact that his presence has been a lot in that state? CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: It isn't, Wolf. There has been a lot of speculation as to why he would be here rather than South Carolina. The fact is that most people think that, obviously, he has less of a chance in South Carolina. Mitt Romney says, look, I made a play out here because there are more delegates. As you know, these Republican candidates are going at this point delegate by delegate since the top tier has pretty much won a state, each of them. Romney says he came out here because of the delegate count. I will tell you that the people that I talked to around hearsay that there is also a not small Mormon contingent out here which may have helped Romney as well. BLITZER: Candy, let's talk about the Democrats. Because for the Democrats this is a much more important contest in Nevada right now. The union involvement is significant. Every place elsewhere there are primaries and elections, what the union leaders decide to do may or may not have an impact on the average union rank and file worker. It is much more difficult in Nevada for these union workers to go against their bosses, shall we say, because these are not secret ballots in Nevada. You have to publicly announce who you are supporting. If the Culinary Union is supporting Hillary Clinton -- excuse me -- Barack Obama, it is much more difficult for a worker to go against his union leadership and support Hillary Clinton or John Edwards. That complicates this matter for Edwards and Clinton. CROWLEY: It absolutely does. The Clintons have been working very hard toward workers with the Culinary Union. Hillary Clinton, last night, made a public statement saying, well, we are hearing reports that there is pressure on union members to vote a certain way as she put it. She certainly hopes that people will still go even if they disagree with their union leadership. The other question here is how many people will actually show up? As you know, there hasn't been a big turnout for Nevada caucuses in the past. That was before they got this spotlight. So there is some worry, both inside Culinary Union and other unions that members may not show up. So there has also been confusion about how it all works. So there is a lot of unknowns as we head into these caucuses. BLITZER: Candy, we will be checking back with you periodically. As soon as we get some official results in from Nevada, we will share that with our viewers as well. I want to show our viewers some of the pictures we are getting, some of the images that are coming in right now. Take a look at this on the screen over here. These are primary voters getting ready to vote in South Carolina, the Republican contest today. They are voting right now all day in South Carolina. Next Saturday, the Democrats will hold their primary in South Carolina. This is a caucus. It looks pretty empty right now for the Democrats because it hasn't really started yet. The Democrats start later in the day in Nevada after the Republicans. For the Republicans, it's basically a straw poll. You have a number and it is a lot simpler than it is for the Democrats who are basically using the Iowa rules and they will gather to their supporting and all of that. We are going to continue our special coverage of all of this, what's happening in Nevada and South Carolina. John King and the best political team on television there standing by. We will take a quick break, much more of our coverage from the CNN Elections Center right after this. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BLITZER: I want to recap the Associated Press, now projecting the Mitt Romney, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts will win the Nevada caucuses. The Associated Press basing that on entrance polls strictly on entrance polls asking people questions as they go in for these Republican caucuses. We at CNN are not ready to make that projection. We are going to wait for some official numbers to come into CNN before we go ahead and make a projection, given the fact that in the history of caucuses in Nevada, somewhat sketchy at least until now. We are going to err on the side of caution. But the AP saying that Mitt Romney will win the Nevada caucuses. And important win for him. Let's go to John King and the best political team on television watching all of this. He was active in Nevada, John, and Mitt Romney. It seems to be paying off. JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: He made a strategic calculation Wolf, that this race is going to go on for some time and it will be about delegates, not about the traditional states if you will. Normally South Carolina seals the deal in competitive Republican primaries. Mitt Romney has made the calculation because you had three winners in the big early states, Iowa, New Hampshire and Michigan. He has one of those wins in Michigan that this is about delegates, not about the traditional win the early contest and roll through the others. That is Mitt Romney's calculation. The results in South Carolina and then next week in Florida will prove whether or not he is right about how long this is going to go on. It is an interesting calculation. Governor Romney at this moment, assuming he wins Nevada, will be in the lead when it comes to delegates. Does that matter? Let's bring in our friends on the best political team on television. Gloria, starting with you, it is a bit of a risk. Because in the south many are saying look this is the geographical face of the Republican Party. How can you be the Republican nominee if you won't compete if our base? GLORIA BORGER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Actually, he didn't show up there a lot. He certainly kept a lot of television ads there. He didn't quite pull out. I mean, I think everybody realizes every candidate realizes that this is a Republican Party right now that is so divided that you have to divide and conquer yourself as a candidate. You have to figure out where your support is and go for it and start counting those delegates, which is what Romney decided to do the night of the Michigan primary. Don't forget also, in the state of Nevada, there is a large Mormon population. Romney took a look at this and said, 34 delegates, well, maybe it is more valuable to me than the 24 in South Carolina and there are lots of Mormons in Nevada who might vote and help me out. KING: Let me jump in on that point. The Democrats have an argument over race. Is there a Republican divide over religion? Has Mitt Romney, he tried in South Carolina, he was there all summer trying to convince the Christian evangelicals, you may not understand my faith but I will answer your questions about it and look at my positions, I'm with you. He obviously did not make enough in roads. Is that because of Mike Huckabee's success or was there a wall because of his religion? BILL BENNETT: There is no wall. There are divisions as there are among evangelical Christians. Mitt Romney won more in Michigan than did Mike Huckabee. Let's use Gloria's template, because that's interesting. There are not only divisions among Republicans but there are divisions inside each Republican. I was smiling, not because I disagreed but you were describing Romney's strategies, I am not going for the momentum states. I am going for the delegates. Wasn't this the guy who was going to win Iowa and New Hampshire? KING: It's all about change. We all picked it up. BENNETT: It's a new ballgame. In some ways, necessity is the mother of invention. He has to go with this strategy. Now, it begins to look as if he might suggest or some people in the campaign might suggest a western strategy. Wyoming was too small. Wyoming and Nevada, you begin to look. The country is moving west and one can see it, but he has a lot of money. As he gets delegates, he lives to fight another day unlike some of the other guys we will talk about later. KING: I want to share an opinion, as a Democrat watching the Republican race in South Carolina, the trend in the last several days, even though McCain who had the polls seemed to be going Huckabees way. Many say part of that was the confederate flag flap. Others say it is because he is authentic. When he says things like, I want to get the constitution in line with god's word, a constitutional amendment banning abortion and same- sex marriage. He and other Republicans have squared those positions, but he talks about getting it in line with god's words. How does that play in the Democratic politics and how would it play if he were the nominee? DONNA BRAZILE, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: I think Mike Huckabee is John, is he is mixing traditional conservatism with economic populism. He is saying, I want to lift you up. I think the constitution should reflect your values but, at the same time, you need more money in your pocket. The people on Main Street are hurting. So I think that is Huckabee's appeal. That's one of the reasons why Mitt Romney has had to abandon his 50 state strategy and cherry pick states where he can pick up delegates, rather than compete in all of the big states that will come before Super Tuesday. JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: John, there is another point to keep in mind about South Carolina. 537,000 people voted in the primary in 2000 where George bush defeated John McCain. Let's see how many vote today. Republican turnout has been declining. This is a divided party in many respects. Michigan, it went down. New Hampshire, it went down. Iowa was up a little. Let's see if they can match the 537,000 of eight years ago. KING: A question Bill and Gloria, Bill first. Do we lose Republicans after South Carolina? BENNETT: Very possibly. I don't know what Huckabee does for money if he loses South Carolina or doesn't come in a strong second. McCain has a problem if he looses South Carolina. My guess is he goes on to Florida now because he is very close behind Giuliani. This is a very big state for Huckabee and McCain. BORGER: Unless he has a very strong -- Thompson's campaign from day one was telling me, we have a South Carolina strategy and that is that we are going to win South Carolina. Now, they scaled that back a little bit. He has a very hard time continuing because he won't be able to raise the money. That will be good news for John McCain. KING: A quick time out for now, a commercial break. Much more ahead. A very busy day in politics. The results of the Democratic and the Republican caucuses in Nevada and the South Carolina primary under way for the Republicans at this hour. Stay with us we will be back with more. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BLITZER: Welcome back. A big day for Democrats and Republicans in two states, South Carolina and Nevada. The Associated Press now projecting that Mitt Romney will win the Nevada Republican caucuses, capturing the delegates there. CNN is not ready to make that projection. The Associated Press doing that on the basis of entrance polls. We are awaiting for some official numbers to come in before we go forward with our projections. If the AP is correct a win for Mitt Romney in Nevada. The Democrats are caucuses in Nevada right now. They will be closing their caucuses in the next few hours. We are watching all of this very, very closely. We are not for getting the Republican primary. There is voting underway in South Carolina right now. We will bring you all the results throughout the course of the day. Ali Velshi is out in Las Vegas for us. Christine Romans is here at the CNN Elections Center, the co-host of "Your Money." Christine in South Carolina, let's talk a little bit about the economic issues that the people in South Carolina are facing that could motivate them, especially as we hear fears of recession. CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN HOST: That is absolutely right. Across the country, the number one issue around the kitchen table is the economy. Nowhere more than in South Carolina. They have lost 94,000 manufacturing jobs since 2001 those are people who don't want to hear these jobs aren't coming back. They want to hear what these candidates are going to do about it. Retraining, you hear this from McCain and others, about retraining and subsidized community college education and the like; they want to talk about trade policies and big issues that are affecting the state. Everyone is talking about the stimulus package. What are the congressional Democrats and the White House going to agree on? When is there going to be a check in their mailbox, who is going to get it and how much is it going to be and is it going to help? The timing of that stimulus package will be interesting. If they can get a check out by this summer, how will that shape the race? Later on this year, if people are going to get a lot of cash in their mailbox, then maybe that will help the recession. BLITZER: They are excellent questions that we don't have the answers to. People want the answers. Ali Velshi is looking at the situation in Nevada. Ali as you see what is happening out there, the housing industry has taken a huge hit. This is an area in the southwest of enormous population growth. That's one of the big problems in Nevada right now, especially in the suburbs of Las Vegas. VELSHI: Christine and I have often talked about this. If you are feeling a recession in different parts of the country, it is often for very different reasons. If you are in Detroit or you are in the Carolinas or the Midwest, you are feeling it because of the loss of those manufacturing jobs. In the southwest, Wolf, it is different. It is about housing. These are the places where there is so much demand for housing, you could go nowhere in the southwestern area, the fringes of Las Vegas and not see these housing projects under construction. There are two things going on there, one is the prices were going up, people were taking mortgages of a bigger proportion of the price of the home. The other thing is, when you keep on building homes, you create construction jobs. When you look at the unemployment rate in Nevada, you have 5.4 percent, higher than the national average of 5 percent. A lot of these construction jobs and related jobs were lost. When you look at potential economic downturn in Nevada, it is not manufacturing jobs that were lost, it is people suffering because they lost value in their homes, and in many cases those homes are being foreclosed. This state has the highest foreclosure rate in the nation; about 1 in 152 homes is under foreclosure right now. So a very different economic situation here. The other thing if there is a national recession, if there is a recession in other parts of the country, people don't spend as much which means they don't take those vacations to Las Vegas. We are seeing that hotel occupancy is going down a little bit here. One builder of a major, several billion dollar construction site has been named in default of their loan payments earlier this week. There are several multi-billion dollar things being built on the strip. Who knows whether they will be getting completed? There are economic concerns in Nevada which reflect economic concerns in the southwest because of that building boom we saw here for so long, that building boom is coming just about to a halt. BLITZER: Christine, we know the housing issue, the mortgage problems, the candidates are responding. Hillary Clinton the other day putting out this proposal for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures. If she had her way, putting a five-year freeze on mortgage rates for these people who could be in trouble right now. A dramatic proposal designed to appeal to the people in trouble. ROMANS: You need some kind of moratorium. The experts say you have to figure out who is really in danger because they got pushed into a mortgage they could never afford. Who was playing the system or gaming the system or trying to put homes or buy the second or third home with no money down? You have to sort that out and figure out who you are going to help and who needs to maybe lose a property because of risky behavior. Also, even if you are not -- even if you don't have a mortgage, you own your home outright, if somebody has a foreclosure down the street; it is going to hurt everybody, tax revenue in different towns. This is something that is going to continue to play out. A lot of folks say the worst is not over yet. BLITZER: Stand by, guys. I want to go to Bill Schneider, our senior political analyst. He has some of the results from the entrance polls we have been doing out in Nevada. On the economic issues, these results are pretty interesting. WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: They are indeed. The economy was the number one issue among Republican caucus goers in Nevada, 38 percent cited the economy as their top issue, followed closely by illegal immigration, the economy 38 percent, illegal immigration, 34. Terrorism in Iraq were considerably lower. Among the voters who cited the economy as their top issue, how did they vote? They voted for Mitt Romney, a former business executive, 47 percent. Second place was Ron Paul. Third, John McCain. Romney is a turnaround artist. He has turned around companies in the past and a lot of voters believe he can help turn around the economy. Another factor in the Romney issue besides the economy, a lot of Mormon's in Nevada, in fact 25 percent of the voters in today's Republican causes were of the Mormon faith. How did they vote? Look at this board, they voted 94 percent, almost unanimously, for their fellow Mormon, Mitt Romney. So the Mormon vote was very important to his victory. Did he win wholly because of the Mormon vote? No. It wasn't only Mormons. That quarter of the Republican caucus goers who were Mormons clearly provided him with a clear base and a key voting block. BLITZER: I know you will be going through these other entrance poll numbers as well. Remember, these are caucuses in Nevada as a result. We don't have exit polls which we normally do in primaries and elections. These are entrance polls. We ask people information as they go into caucuses. We are starting to get some real numbers in from Nevada on the Republican side. We are going to share those numbers with you, just recapping the Associated Press. Projecting Mitt Romney will win the Republican caucuses in Nevada. We will check the other headlines of the day. Lots more coming up from the CNN Elections Center. We will be right back. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, I am Fredricka Whitfield in Atlanta. Here are the top stories right now. Snow, sleet and rain falling across northern Georgia. Forecasters warn highways could ice up, people are urged to stay off the roads. Hundreds of flights have been canceled in Atlanta at the airport. The FAA reports some flights are delayed more than four hours. Take a look at this store surveillance video. See that man circled to the left. Authorities say that is fugitive Marine Cesar Laurean, he is wanted for killing the pregnant marine. They say he could be buying supplies used to cover up the murder in this video. In Spain, 14 people are under arrest suspected of plotting an Islamic terrorist attack. They say they were in the process of gathering bomb-making materials. CNN's special election coverage continues right after this. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BLITZER: Welcome back to the CNN Election Center, I am Wolf Blitzer reporting. We are following two states, Nevada and South Carolina. First to Nevada, the Associated Press projecting the former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will win the Republican caucuses in Nevada. CNN is not yet ready to make that projection. The AP making the projection on the basis of entrance polls. We are only now beginning to get some very, very early numbers from the Republican caucuses. If you take a look, with less than one percent of the precincts reporting, Mitt Romney, with 46 percent, John McCain Ron Paul, both with 15 percent, Fred Thompson with 10 percent. You can see, these are tiny, tiny numbers, 120 votes for Mitt Romney, 40 for McCain, 39 for Ron Paul. Once again, we are going to wait at CNN before we make our projection. It could be soon. We will err on the side of caution. Once again, the AP projecting that Mitt Romney will carry the Nevada caucuses. Ali Velshi and Christine Romans are here from "YOUR MONEY," Ali you are out there in Las Vegas right now. The economic issues like in so many other parts of the country, or should I say all of the countries are upper most on the minds of voters. Bill Schneider just reporting. You have been there a few days. Give us a little feeling of how it is playing. VELSHI: Well, you know, the economic issues here are a bit of a challenge. They are different from what they are in different parts of the country. They are two major issues affecting Americans, on one side; you got those states like South Carolina, like Ohio and Michigan, places like that where manufacturing jobs have been lost because they have gone overseas. Then, you have states like Nevada, and Arizona, Florida, California, where people bid up the prices of houses, there was so much development going on and so much speculation, as the housing boom started to collapse, you saw it around here first. You have more foreclosures in Nevada than you have in any other state. You have other issues as well. You have a lot of service workers here. Which is why I'm here on the Las Vegas strip, for the first time ever there are going to be nine caucuses at casinos here on the strip. I'm at Caesars but nine of the big casinos here have caucuses. Democrats are now arriving to vote at those caucuses for whom they think is going to be their best bet. The Culinary Workers Union, which represents most of the unionized workers here on the strip, has put their support behind Barack Obama. There are a number of people who feel they don't want to vote the way their union bosses tell them to vote. Because it is a primary, because it is a caucus, not a primary, it is not a private vote. It's a meeting in a room. We will have to see where that goes much the importance of that caucus is that it's come earlier in the session, in the season, than they have in the past in Nevada. They will have some influence. One of the other things that Bill Schneider just talked about, Mitt Romney being reported by AP as the winner of the Republican caucuses. The issue is if you are looking for someone who is a turnaround guy, is Mitt Romney your guy. Well let's just look at his background. He in 1990 was appointed a CEO of a company that consults with other companies to turn them around. He did very well there; he restructured a whole lot of things with that company. He ended up turning that company from the verge of bankruptcy into profitability. Then, in 1999, Wolf, he took over the head of the Salt Lake City Olympics. That was another scandal and crises-plagued organization. Within a year, he had turned that around and created $100 million profit. So, whatever you think of the rest of his policies, he has a resume that says he is able to turn around financial and business matters. That may have helped in a state where the issues of the economy are foremost in the minds of voters. BLITZER: All right. Ali, stand by. Christine Romans is here as well. Christine, it is fascinating when we heard Bill Schneider tell us about the entrance poll results, what issues were most of the minds of these voters in Nevada where the economy, close behind illegal immigration and way, way behind, the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism, which has clearly receded right now. The economy and immigration in a state like Nevada dominating the minds of voters right now. ROMANS: For Republicans at least at this point. And you are right no matter what state you are in, foreclosures are a big deal. You are talking about high gas prices everywhere, $100 oil just a couple of weeks ago. People are talking about this. People know that their gas prices are up some 30 percent last year. They are having trouble paying their winter bills, 47 million still uninsured. Even the big banks here in New York, $100 billion in write-downs. That's impossible to imagine. They have had to go overseas for $35 billion in bailouts. There is a real feeling that all different parts of the economy are coming unraveled. People are reflecting that in the polls. BLITZER: I know you have profiled one individual to give us a sense of the mood out there. Tell us about what you have learned. ROMANS: Amidst all this agility (ph) about the economy, high gas prices, all these things. We profiled a guy who never made more than $11 an hour and became a millionaire. You will be surprised at what he did with that money. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PAUL NAVONE: My model all along was, work for the money and then I want that money to work for me. ROMANS (voice over): Paul Navone stands in stark contrast to a culture of consumerism that has left many Americans swamped with debt. What advice does he have for hourly workers looking to scrape together a few million of their own? NAVONE: Number one, wisely invest it. Some people make the mistake, I think, a lot of people do, thinking that they will get into the market and make a killing, you know. That's the wrong attitude from the get-go. If you have been there with a solid common sense approach to it, you know, you will come out ahead. ROMANS: Instead of living in luxury, the retired mill worker chose to give away millions. $1 million to a college near his home and another million to a local private high school. NAVONE: I never denied myself anything. But, at the same time, I was frugal and I didn't waste my money. ROMANS: What Navone chooses not to do makes him even more fascinating. He says he does not own a phone, has never read a book and buys all his clothes from thrift shops. The last time he watched television. NAVONE: Was Neil Armstrong making the moon landing. (END VIDEO CLIP) ROMANS: We hope he isn't watching right now. If we get a check in the summer, maybe we would think about somebody like Paul Navone when you are deciding how to spend it. Spending is good for the economy; saving it might be a good thing for a lot of families who are having a little trouble right now. BLITZER: He is truly an amazing guy. He is just a great guy working hard. Thanks for bringing us that story. We are going to continue our coverage for the elections. The numbers are beginning to come in from the Nevada caucuses. We are going to update you on precisely what we know. We will go from Nevada to South Carolina. Lots of political news unfolding on this important Saturday. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BLITZER: Welcome back to the CNN Election Center. The Associated Press projecting Mitt Romney will win the Republican caucuses in Nevada. We are reluctant to do that so far at CNN, because we are waiting for some real numbers to come in, not just based on the entrance polls. Some numbers are trickling in. Right now less than 1 percent of the numbers have come in. Mitt Romney with 46 percent, Ron Paul 14 percent, John McCain, 14, and Fred Thompson 13. These are really, really tiny numbers coming insofar. We will wait to get some more numbers. The Democratic caucuses in Nevada, they closed their doors for their caucuses at 3:00 p.m. Eastern, which is noon Pacific, about an hour and 15 minutes or so from now. It is empty in their caucus rooms. In fact, if you want to take a look at one in Caesar's Palace right now on the strip in Las Vegas, you see some people beginning to show up. That's not your everyday caucus room. They agreed there would be these sites that would unable some of the Culinary Union workers to show up as well, those who have to work on a Saturday, went to the courts and decided this was an important idea to let these people who have to work on a Saturday to go ahead and vote on site at these casinos. South Carolina, they are voting on the Republican side right now, the Republican primaries going on today. The Democratic primary in South Carolina next Saturday. They will be closing their polls in South Carolina. Here are some live pictures coming in to the CNN Election Center from South Carolina right now. The Democrats will be voting as I said next Saturday. The Republicans have until 7:00 p.m. Eastern to vote in South Carolina. They will be voting there. The voting will stop. We see what's happening on the Republican side. All of this very important in the process to help select the nominees for the Democratic and Republican Parties. Let's go to John King who is analyzing this with the best political team on television. We were saying earlier in Nevada on the Republican side, it is the economy and illegal immigration. I suppose for Republicans and a lot of Democrats, those are the key issues right now, clearly taking away from the war on terror and the war in Iraq. KING: I was in South Carolina yesterday. Fascinating to watch all the Republican candidates pivot quickly to respond to the president's stimulus plan, generally supportive of it. Listening to Fred Thompson and John McCain, worried about too much government spending. Bill, you have a Republican president eight years in office. History says, generally, not always, the other party usually wins that anyway. Now, you have an economy that is teetering at or near or in recession. If you are a Republican strategist in the room now, how are you trying to box your way out of this? The trends are against you. BENNETT: First, count all the trends. I don't have to repeat them here about fundraising and registration and enthusiasm. Confusion. Their confusion is better. It's just two candidates they are undecided about. We still have four or five. Clearly, looking at the issues as well, the economy, we are moving toward immigration getting center stage very soon. It matters in South Carolina. It matters in Nevada, Florida. It matters huge, big-time. Remember, on the war on terror in Iraq, one of the reasons it is not at the top, things are going better. That will accrue, I think, to some extent to the Republicans advantage. It is a balancing factor, so it is not on the top for the Republicans. BORGER: But ironically, it may not work as well for John McCain. It is so interesting. It was his key issues. The war in Iraq. I was for the surge before President Bush was for the surge. It worked. Now, the train is shifting to the economic terrain, which is not John McCain's strong suit. His key campaign issue may get to the bottom of the list. An issue he is not as strong on may go to the top. TOOBIN: I would like to dissent a little from sort of the poll analysis of the race. If you talk to actual human beings about John McCain, what they like about him is John McCain, not his stand on this or that issue. I think he is a person with an extraordinary life story, the years as a POW, a persona that was an outsider for a while, although that is less true than it used to be. I think that's really what he is running on more than any stand on any issue. BORGER: But it didn't work in Michigan. TOOBIN: I am not saying it is going to work. I am not saying it is going to work. It is what he is about. KING: There is a huge question for John McCain which is can he win among Republicans? He wins in states where Democrats and independents can jump in. South Carolina is about as conservative as a state comes. Not all cultural conservatives. There are different wings of the conservatives. BENNETT: It would be very good for him if he wins in South Carolina. I think it would be largely because of the reasons you said. KING: The president of the United States who has been largely ignored by the candidates in his own party, talked about only by the Democrats who like to kick him. He is relevant at the moment because how he handles this economic argument in the country right now will affect the political dynamic for the next several weeks, if not longer. We don't know what the economy will look like when we get to the general election. As voters are looking at this right now, George W. Bush says, I will sit down with Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi. What's the challenge for the Democrats? BRAZILE: The challenge of course is for the Democrats to talk about these issues and to continue to raise them to contrast with Republicans. They controlled the Congress for eight years with the president. They ran up the deficit and they didn't take care of jobs for the middle class. So what Democrats are doing right now is talking about record home foreclosures and what the party can do to the American people no class, not just their future but also a future where the country will put jobs and the economy back on track. So I think this is a key moment for Democrats to build a contrast with Republicans before they try to pivot immigration and other issues that Democrats are not less comfortable to discuss. KING: How do you handle this if you are a Republican candidate? You don't want to be seen as insensitive. People are hurting right now. You want to be seen as let's do something. Let's use the government to help people. We are conservative. You heard John McCain, give tax rebates but cut the spending, pay for them with spending cuts. Don't look liberal on spending. If you are going to be a general election candidate, you need to appeal to a broader base. BORGER: Let's take a look at the Mitt Romney pivot. That is sort of a key one and he did it in the state of Michigan and it worked very well. You turn and say, I feel your pain. This is one of those moments when a candidate can really either connect with what the American people are thinking and feeling or not connect. Romney decided, I am going to feel your pain. I am going to connect with you. I am going to tell you your jobs are not going to disappear in the state of Michigan and you are going to be my job, number one. TOOBIN: It is worth noting that when we talk about the stimulus package, that illusive thing, bipartisan ship, does seem to be happening now. There are differences in how much and who gets it. It does look like the Democrats and Republicans are actually going to agree on something in Washington. I don't know who that represents. KING: They will sit down and try to agree. We need to get in a quick break. I am fascinated by this issue. Particularly on the stimulus plan, Romney is bigger than the president. We will talk about that later. With a quick break, a busy day ahead. The results starting to come in from Nevada on the Republican side, the Democrats in Nevada beginning to vote. In South Carolina Republicans also casting votes today and what could be a pivotally presidential primary. Much, much more ahead and a busy day of presidential politics, stay with us right here on CNN. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BLITZER: Welcome back to the CNN Election Center. We are going to go right back out to Nevada right now because we are watching one or two reasons why Nevada was selected by the Democratic Party for the caucuses to move up their caucuses, give them more prominent after Iowa and New Hampshire. One reason being the unions, the union president in Nevada much more significant than Iowa or New Hampshire. Another major reason the Hispanic presence, a significant Hispanic population in Nevada right now unlike Iowa or New Hampshire. Juan Carlos Lopez from our sister network CNN Espanol is out in Las Vegas right now. A significant percentage of the Democratic voters in Nevada Hispanic and they could play a key role, there is antidotal evidence Juan Carlos directly from speaking to people out there that they like Hillary Clinton. But give us your lay of the land, what you are seeing right now. JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ, CNN ESPANOL: Well that is what they have been saying and that is what the polls say, about 60 percent of Hispanics support Hillary Clinton, she is a known name. But an interesting factor Bill Richardson was the only Hispanic in the race and he received very little support from the Hispanics because they weren't aware that he was a Latino. Hillary Clinton has the support and it has been a big issue in Nevada with the support of the Culinary Union to Barack Obama, and people saying well nobody asked me if I wanted the union to go for Obama. I like Hillary and that is something we are probably going see in those caucuses in the casinos when people go and some may not take part just because they are going to have support a candidate that they don't like, others might follow the unions for (ph) and proceed when it is over if Obama gets the Hispanic vote or not. BLITZER: Exactly one hour from now, they are scheduled to close the doors at the Democratic caucuses. Juan Carlos in Nevada. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.voxant.com


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North Carolina A&T head swimming coach Shawn Hendrix is entering her 17th season with the Aggies. Hendrix has been at the forefront of the swimming program since it became a varsity sport in 1998.
Her emphasis on academics, personal accountability for student-athletes and her amazing ability to build a family atmosphere around the program even after swimmers have graduated as made N.C. A&T's swimming program one of the most exemplary teams on the campus.
She believes college athletics can play a major role in molding student-athletes' lives in terms of developing character, shaping strong values, nurturing life skills and growing life long friendships through competition and community service. The Aggies swimming program is active in the Triad community with such organizations as Habitat for Humanities, Breast Cancer Walk Run and Adopt-A-Street Program.
In addition, Hendrix's athletes have been recognized as the N.C. A&T Athletics Department's Academic Team of the Year (honor is given to the program with the highest team GPA) five out of the last 10 years, including a run where the program won the honor three years in a row.In the pool, the Aggies have established themselves as one of the top HBCU swimming programs in the country. The Aggies have won the HBCU Championship over Howard and Florida A&M the last three seasons.
She also was instrumental in leading the Aggies into their new conference, the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association. As members of the CCSA, the Aggies will be able to cut down on their travel time and the conference championships will be hosted in places close to North Carolina. Hendrix has steadily improved the program's showing in the CCSA Championships.
Hendrix came to N.C. A&T from the High Point Area Parks and Recreation Department, where, in addition to running a recreation center, she was the head coach of the city's Washington Terrace swimming team for two seasons.
As an undergraduate, Hendrix attended High Point University. She earned her B.S., degree in recreation and physical education in 1994. She recently completed her Master's Degree in sports psychology at N.C. A&T. Hendrix is a native of Columbia, S.C., and is a proud member of Fellowship of Christian Athletes.


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The Muscular Dystrophy Association's Show of Strength telethon will get an energetic kick-off.
Sunday's three-hour program – featuring performances by Carrie Underwood, Pitbull, Gavin DeGraw, Carole King and a slew of other talent – will begin with will.i.am performing his dance tune, "This Is Love," alongside vocalist Eva Simons and MDA Los Angeles Goodwill Ambassador, Lucas Cook.
"MDA has been helping children and adults for more than 50 years, and I am pleased to collaborate with them to help save lives," the hip-hop artist, 37, tells PEOPLE.
"I am on a mission to transform the lives of young people who need extra support and really am honored to perform on the show – and it was important for me to include Lucas and other MDA kids in our performance."
Setting the tone for the revamped annual telethon – previously hosted by Jerry Lewis, who was chairman of the MDA – the Black Eyed Peas singer will join the other guests on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET to entertain, educate and encourage viewers to donate to help those affected by the disease.
The show will air on various networks across the country and will live stream on the MDA website.
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The Ignacio High School boys basketball team opened the season with a 57-49 road win at Kirtland Central in the opening round of the Webb Toyota Basin Tournament in Kirtland, N.M., on Thursday night.
To come down here and get a win in a tough place to play is good for our young team, IHS head coach Chris Valdez said.
They are two weeks ahead of us, and Kirtland had already played a game.
Four Bobcats scored in double figures in the season opener, led by senior Clayton Jefferson with 17 points. Kelton Richmond, a junior, scored 13. Sophomore Adison Jones and freshman Wyatt Hayes scored 11 points each.
Justin Carver, off the bench, added eight points for Ignacio.
Bo Ward, a junior transfer from Durango, contributed five points to the Ignacio win.
All in all, it wasnt too bad, Valdez said.
The Bobcats led the Broncos 30-20 at halftime.
But Kirtland Central scored nine consecutive points to cut the lead to a single point early in the third quarter.
We called a timeout and calmed our young team down, said Valdez, entering his 13th season as head coach.
We missed a lot of free throws, but we made some shots, and we managed to stay ahead.
Christian Mackey, a 6-5, 260-pound junior center, led Kirtland Central with a game-high 19 points.
Ignacio (1-0) will play Whitehorse High School (0-1) from Montezuma Creek, Utah, at 4 p.m. today.
Another victory would send Ignacio into Saturdays tournament championship game against Shiprock or Mesilla Valley Christian in Kirtland.
Mesilla Valley beat Whitehorse 57-21 on Thursday.


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Man of Shijiazhuang kidnaps two children
policeman shoots him down
Today's big news from sina.com.cn
Caption for the pic: The moment when a policeman shot the kidnapper.
About 18PM Aug.17, Beijing Time, a bandit broke into an English classroom in the Women and Children Educational Activity Center of Shijiazhuang City, northeast China southwest of Beijing, and kidnapped two children with a kitchen knife.
The kidnapper, self-introducing his name as Zhang Kailin, born in 1968, of Xianning County Guizhou Province. At the beginning, he broke into
the electronic organ classroom of the center, demanded 300 yuan (35 USD) from a teacher, but got refused. Then he rushed to other classrooms, trying to break the doors down with ironware but failed. When he passed by the nearby English classroom, he found there were only two children inside. He swiftly came in and locked the door. The children kidnapped were the students of the Cambridge English class of the center. One was 9-year-old boy, and another was a 11-year-old girl. Both the boy and the girl were now extremely frightened, but were in well condition physically.
This damned thread has been jilted?
Para one- move 'with a kitchen knife' to after 'bandit', otherwise it sounds as if the children hasd the knife. I would avoid 'bandit' here- I'd use 'man'as he hasn't stood trial yet.
Para 2- 'introducing himself'
l2- in the beginning
l6- went in
l7 - one was a 9-year-old.... an 11-year-old
PS- ironware doesn't really work- what did he use- a metal bar?
Yeah, a metal bar is more accurate usage there.
If it's a specific tool, like the thing to force a door open, we have words like 'jemmy' and 'crowbar'.


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TALLAHASSEE � Authorities are trying to find a 23-year-old Florida State University graduate who went missing days after beginning an internship for a state lawmaker.
TALLAHASSEE � Authorities are trying to find a 23-year-old Florida State University graduate who went missing days after beginning an internship for a state lawmaker.
Ryan Uhre disappeared on Feb. 2, after watching the Super Bowl with friends at a Tallahassee bar, according to Tallahassee police. He was last seen walking home, wearing a Hawaiian-style shirt with surfing Santas.
Patty Uhre, who lives in Atlanta, told the Tallahassee Democrat (http://on.tdo.com/1eQXaW9 ) she is hopeful police will find her son.
She said the disappearance doesn't make sense because so much was going right in his life. He graduated from FSU in December, was working two jobs and had just started the internship in the office of Rep. Richard Stark, D-Weston.
In addition, he was studying to take the LSAT prep courses in hopes of attending law school.
�Things had been going so well with Ryan,� she said. �This is a situation that is baffling to us. I would have never expected this and for this prolonged period of time.�
Family members grew concerned when they had not heard from him several days later. Patty Uhre said she received a call from Stark, a family friend, saying that her son hadn't shown up for work a week ago Tuesday.
�That's totally inconsistent with Ryan,� she said. �Work was a priority for him.�
Tallahassee police took over the case from university police on Monday.
Authorities in Tallahassee and South Florida are looking for Uhre. They said Monday they don't have any reason to believe foul play was involved in the disappearance.
Ryan Uhre's father, Michael Uhre, has been visiting hotels and bars in South Florida, searching for his son.
But Patty Uhre said she's taking a different approach. �I am staying still. My son knows where I am and if I'm in the same place he'll find me.�


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Thor Ragnarok is by no means a good movie. But It is damn sure a fun and enteraining movie.
Very entertaining loved it can't wait for the next one
A fun movie to watch. Science fiction comedy. Thor looked silly. Movies are for to have some fun.
Had a similar feel to guardians of the galaxy, very enjoyable!
This Thor movie could have been much better. The parts for Thor were good except the part where he had to fight Hulk. The Hulk part was just plain poor.. He did not act or look no where near like he has in past movies. He really acted dumb in this movie and his performance was poor. Same for Anthony Hopkins. Very poor performance for the very few minutes he was on screen. He just wasn't needed at all and made no difference in the movie,at all. Same for Jeff Goldblum. He really played a stupid part in the movie that also wasn't needed and made no difference in the movie at all. Tessa Thompson, now she was hot and acted great in the parts she was given. She needs to be in more super hero movies. She could be another Wonder Woman. Cate Blanchett also was got and acted great in het parts in the movie. She too could be another Wonder Woman. Overall I was disappointed in the movie because of the bad parts and acting of the three actors previously mentioned. Not this like Wonder Woman and Superman movies which are wonderful.
A great flick leave your brain at the door.
Thor with his short hair looked so funny and his brother who is not his brother. lol Movie was very funny.
I had fun watching this movie. ;)
Non stop action and a lot of fun. This is a great time at the movies.
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