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U.S. stocks struggled for direction on Tuesday as investors chose to look beyond President Donald Trump's first major policy setback, while awaiting comments from several Federal Reserve officials, including Fed Chair Janet Yellen.
A failed healthcare bill sent the dollar and stocks down on Monday as investors questioned Trump's ability to push his ambitious agenda of tax cuts and simpler regulations in Congress.
However, markets steadied after Trump said he would turn his attention to "big tax cuts". The White House later said it would lead the role in reforming the U.S. tax code, eyeing an August deadline.
"Yesterday's move was actually quite a small unwind and was quickly opposed, and it tells me that investor sentiment hasn't been unduly damaged by the failure of that (healthcare) legislation," said James Athey, Investment Manager at Aberdeen Asset Management.
"We would see this volatility to be normal and healthy and not something to be overly concerned about at this stage."
Investors are awaiting Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's speech at a conference in Washington, where she could provide some insight into the timing of the central bank's next interest rate hike.
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At 9:39 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was up 2.55 points, or 0.01 percent, at 20,553.53, the S&P 500 .SPX was up 1.24 points, or 0.05 percent, at 2,342.83 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was up 6.20 points, or 0.11 percent, at 5,846.57.
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Tomasa Andrade, a nurse in Mexico City, has been a Roman Catholic all her life. Praying in an empty church before a weekday mass begins, she says the controversy sweeping the Vatican over the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests has not tested her faith. "I believe in God, not in priests," she says. "They are human and can commit the worst crimes there are."
But, she adds, her faith – and her faith in the institution – are two different things. "There should be justice," she says, adding that so far the leaders in Latin America are not taking a strong enough stance against the sex-abuse cases that have surfaced in the region and the ones across Europe now rocking the Vatican.
Latin America is home to almost half of the world's Roman Catholics; about 70 percent of the population identifies itself as Catholic. But many say the church – tested already by the growth of Pentecostalism – could face a backlash if it does not acknowledge and punish wrongdoing.
Pope Benedict the XVI has already come under strong criticism in Europe and the US for his handling of priests who sexually abused children when he was in charge of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. In a few cases, his office failed to defrock priests accused of abusing children for years.
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"The future of the global church really hinges on Latin America," says Andrew Chesnut, an expert on religion in Latin America at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. "The Charismatic Renewal has revitalized the church in many Latin American countries, most notably Brazil, but sex- abuse scandals, which are only a matter of time, could easily result in further defections from the church."
Some regional leaders have rushed to the support of the Vatican, which has dismissed the criticism as a "hate campaign." The Latin American Episcopal Conference wrote a letter of solidarity to the pope. The Archbishop of Santiago condemned the "unjust criticism received by the pope by some of the international press." And in a letter dated March 30, the bishops of Paraguay expressed their support for the pope against the "attacks" he has received. Many parishioners also say the pope has been treated unfairly
Some leaders have had a muted response. "Latin America is looking at it from a distance, with a 'proceed with caution' attitude," says Manuel Vasquez, a religious studies expert at the University of Florida in Gainesville. "I don't think we've seen the full extent of the crisis in Latin America."
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Many want tough questions posed to the Vatican by their leaders. "They are minimizing the situation, not taking into account the victims but defending the institution," says Alvaro Ramis, a theologian in Chile, where the Catholic Church is investigating recent claims of abuse. "If they do not accept the criticism, they will lose their legitimacy."
Latin America's most notorious case to date is that of the late Marcial Maciel, a Mexican priest who founded the conservative Legionaries of Christ in 1941. He has been accused of molesting minor seminarians. In 2006, the pope ordered the aging Father Maciel to retreat to a life of "prayer and penance." But only this year did the Legionaries of Christ acknowledge wrongdoing, issuing an apology for the "reprehensible" actions of Maciel. "The mistake the Legion made was not denouncing him in 2006," says Jason Berry, who has investigated the church's silence around Maciel and co-wrote the book "Vows of Silence."
In Chile, the Archbishop of Santiago said recently that the Catholic Church is investigating a handful of cases. The most recent involves a Spanish priest arrested for possessing child pornography. In 2003, another priest was sentenced to 12 years in prison for abusing and raping a minor. In Brazil, three priests were accused recently of sexually abusing altar boys and have been suspended.
The potential impact of the scandals is unclear, says Cecilia Mariz, a religion expert at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. The church in Latin America tends to be more conservative than in the United States or Europe, especially after liberation theology, which surged in the 1960s, was associated with communism and stifled by the Vatican. Once holding a virtual monopoly on faith in Latin America, Catholic parishes now compete with fundamentalist Pentecostals. The demographics of churches are changing, too, with less-devout Catholics leaving religion altogether.
In Brazil, Catholic reaction to the scandals so far has depended on the wing of the church from which a parishioner hails. Ms. Mariz says many Charismatics, for example, defend the church hierarchy. More-liberal Catholics are denouncing the Vatican. "Some people have resentment [of their leaders' positions], but it is not widespread among the faithful," she says.
Other leaders have begun to speak out. Cardinal Norberto Rivera in Mexico, who has long faced criticism for supporting Maciel, began Easter mass by condemning "dishonest and criminal" priests who abused "innocent children" and brought shame to other priests.


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McClelland, a Louisiana native, has been the permanent athletics director at McNeese State since March 2008, after serving as interim athletic director and assistant athletic director of internal affairs. He has overseen school records in football season ticket sales and the Cowboys have won Southland Conference titles in several sports, including football, during his tenure.
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Louisiana Tech's previous athletic director, Bruce Van de Velde, announced in June he was stepping down. Van del Velde had been AD since 2010. Last season he drew criticism from La. Tech fans and supporters when the football team went 9-3, but did not land a spot in a bowl game.
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A blog by one of the volunteer reviewers for Geocaching.com. It's about geocaching and the review process -- what it takes to get your new caches listed on the world's most popular geocaching web site. ©Copyright 2012 by K.Braband. All rights reserved
Thursday, August 19, 2010
12 comments:
- DanOCan said...
I agree with your stance on this matter. Even if it is not a direct guideline violation, the idea of cache churning is still lame and I hope Groundspeak can think of some way to discourage the practice.
- 10:44 AM, August 20, 2010
- Jack said...
I think you should do your job and publish caches that do not violate the guidelines. This game is being ruined by reviewers writing their own guidelines. If you don't want to do the job you signed on to do then step aside and let someone else do it. It's not like you are being paid.
- 7:02 PM, August 20, 2010
- juicepig said...
Have to agree with Jack - though not phrased quite as harshly.
While I think its devious and dishonourable to publish a cache in this manner - it does not go against guidelines. If there is nothing that would prevent you from publishing a new cache in that location - you should do so.
- 5:53 AM, August 23, 2010
- IowaAdmin said...
Jack, thanks for your posting. Instead of throwing out glittering generalities, please explain how "This game is being ruined by reviewers writing their own guidelines" by giving specific examples of things that reviewers have done to ruin this game.
- 8:13 AM, August 23, 2010
- Michael said...
In this case, unless the cache owner can show some reason that the cache is new / different / improved, the reviewer should do what s/he did: let the owner request to reactivate the old cache. It is not a personal preference and has nothing to do with FTF. New means new. As far as I can see, this is neither new / different / improved in any way. If not new, reactivate.
If we did not have reviewers, caching would be a mess. Here, s/he is doing their job here and should be supported.
- 1:07 PM, August 23, 2010
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- 5:27 PM, August 24, 2010
- Jack said...
You are ruining this game by refusing to publish a cache that conforms to the guidelines.
You may not like it but other reviewers do hold their noses and publish caches they don't like. The key is that there is no guideline violation.
Looking at the fiasco with the Original Stash Cach, it is obvious that when reviewers and Groundspeak interject their personal bias, they affect the game in a negative manner.
You may not like what the cache owner is doing. Your recourse is the speak to Groundspeak and get them to change the guidelines.
But you are not at liberty to invent rules as you go. By doing so, you erode confidence in the player base.
- 5:29 PM, August 24, 2010
- Todd300 said...
I have to agree with IowaAdmin here. What's the point of archiving a cache just to re-sumbit it with no changes whatsoever.
If the cache owner wanted to bring people back to a certain area, it's just a simple matter of moving it, then making it a multi, puzzle, something different than it was.
Otherwise, it's redundant. Previous finders would not even need their GPS. Just walk up to it, sign log (again) and walk away. That simple. No challenge whatsoever. That is not geocaching.
IowaAdmin's got my support here.
- 3:26 PM, August 25, 2010
- Jack said...
I actually agree with what's the point?
I agree that it is lame.
It is most likely just for the numbers hounds.
I don't personally care for it one bit.
The problem is that it is the hider's cache and it jives with the guidelines. So unless Groundspeak has changed the guidelines, the reviewer should just hold his nose and hit the publish button.
The same thing goes for the lame, irritating power trails. A lot of us hate them. But they are no longer against the guidelines so reviewers must publish them.
There is nothing exciting about a micro attached to a garbage bin. But assuming no guideline violations, the reviewer probably literally holds his or her nose and hits the publish button.
The point is that the guidelines exist for a reason. The give both the hider and the reviewer a set of given rules to proceed with. When we start seeing reviewers making up rules because they don't like a given cache or set of caches then it erodes confidence.
If you follow the forums and the GetSatisfaction site, you will see that these are serious issues.
There are people asking that reviewers no longer be able to hide behide alternate account names.
I commend IowaAdmin for not hiding. So this is not directed at him. I am speaking in general that as trust erodes, confidence levels follow and there will eventually be a backlash effect for which Groundspeak may not be able to overcome.
The way to head this off is to insist that reviewers follow the same set of rules as the rest of the geocaching community, regardless of whether they approve of a particular cache or not.
- 3:59 PM, August 25, 2010
- IowaAdmin said...
Jack, you have taken the position that I have gone rogue and am working outside the wishes of Groundspeak, which is not the case. Groundspeak is aware of the discussion that took place in the general forums and has expressed support to me for my request to the cache owner to have the original caches reactivated rather than publish them as new caches. I should point out that there's a clause in the guidelines that states: "At times a cache may meet the listing requirements for the site but the reviewers, as experienced cachers, may see additional concerns that you as a cache placer may not have noticed. As a courtesy, the reviewer may bring additional concerns about cache placement to your attention and offer suggestions before posting." And that's what I have done in this case. If the cache owner -- not you but the cache owner -- disagrees with my request, he or she should contact firstname.lastname@example.com and let them make the final call.
- 4:19 PM, August 25, 2010
- Jack said...
You are making assumptions. I never said you went rogue. The unfortunate truth is that is was always likely that Groundspeak fully supported your decision.
And it would be nice if this was just an issue for the particular owner in question. But it is not.
This incident and a few others are what point us to hidden guidelines and some of us don't appreciate a hidden book of rules that we are not privy too.
I am also aware of the section of the guidelines that you quoted. But where you read it as "this very generalized statement gives me the right to refuse publication of caches that meet the guidelines but I see problems with" most others see it as saying "this generalized statement is to let the hider know that sometimes a publication may be held up while we point out some issues we see with this cache. However, once we point it out and the hider chooses to listen or not listen, then we will go ahead and publish caches which do not violate the guidelines."
A good example of this is with 1 terrain caches. There is a general consensus that terrain 1 caches should be wheelchair accessible. And if you see someone trying to publish a 1 terrain cache without the wheelchair attribute, you might delay that publication while pointing this out to him/her. However, if he decides not to use the wheelchair attribute, there is no reason to deny that publication.
Please don't dismiss these concerns just because Groundspeak has sided with you on this issue. Just because they may choose to give their hard working, unpaid volunteers a lot of descretion and may be unwilling to call you on an "on the fence" issue such as this does not mean it should be dismissed.
I implore you to consider the overall affect of these hidden rules the next time such a situation arises.
P.S. I would much prefer to discuss this in the forums rather than here, but this is the forum you chose, not mine.
- 4:41 PM, August 25, 2010
- Tape worm said...
Ahhh, some of the responses give me a headache. :)
I kind of am revisiting this, as I've seen quite a bit of churning caches as of late. Most it's cause the CO hasn't been maintaining their cache as they should, it goes missing for a long period of time, then when they do replace it, they finally archive the listing and re-list it. I could point out caches, but I don't think there is anything good to come of that. Any suggestions if we notice this happening and what to do?
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Margaret Thatcher, Britain's "Iron Lady," whose 11 1/2 years as prime minister transformed British society as much as it did British politics, died of a stroke Monday morning, her family announced. She was 87.
Lady Thatcher, who was made a life peer, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, in 1992, was Britain's first female head of government and held office longer than any other 20th-century prime minister.
In a statement, President Obama praised Lady Thatcher for showing "our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can't be shattered." He added that the "world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, and America has lost a true friend."
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who cut short a diplomatic visit to Spain and France after learning of Lady Thatcher's death, said that "she didn't just lead our country; she saved our country. And I believe she'll go down as the greatest British peacetime prime minister."
Even more remarkable than the duration of Lady Thatcher's stay at No. 10 Downing Street was its impact.
No one realized this better than her ideological opposite, Tony Benn, for many years leader of the radical wing of Britain's Labor Party. "The prime ministers who are remembered are those who think and teach, and not many do," Benn once said of his much-reviled foe. "Mrs. Thatcher … influenced the thinking of a generation."
Calling her a "unique political figure," Labor Party leader Ed Miliband went further. "She defined the politics of a whole generation," he said.
Lady Thatcher became prime minister in May 1979, 18 months before her friend Ronald Reagan was elected president. Deng Xiaoping, John Paul II, and, later, Mikhail Gorbachev may have played a more significant role in the worldwide rightward shift that marked the final quarter of the 20th century. None, however, more clearly symbolized that shift, or worked more enthusiastically to further it, than Reagan and Lady Thatcher.
"I am not a consensus politician," she announced upon assuming leadership of the Conservative Party, in February 1975. "I am a conviction politician." Lady Thatcher's convictions — in favor of free-market economics and Victorian values, against state socialism and personal permissiveness — were deeply polarizing (something she readily, even proudly admitted) and flew in the face of several decades of British politics. "There is no such thing as society," she said in 1987, indicating her commitment to the primacy of the individual and markets.
Prior to Lady Thatcher's coming to power, postwar Britain had been defined by "Butskellism," as it was called, after two leading politicians of the 1950s, the Conservative Rab Butler and the Laborite Hugh Gaitskell. The term stood for a tacit agreement on the need for government intervention in economic and social policy to provide for the common good.
"Thatcherism," the only ism ital ever named for a British prime minister, rejected that consensus. It counted among its achievements privatizing such state-run enterprises as British Airways and Rolls-Royce, tripling the number of Britons who owned stock, and increasing home ownership by more than 25 percent. Critics, however, cited unemployment levels during the early '80s not seen since the Great Depression and an unprecedented fraying of the nation's social fabric.
Thatcherism was as much about style as policy. As proudly middle class as its namesake, it disdained aristocratic snobbery as well as working-class egalitarianism. Thatcherism was about getting things done rather than getting along or going along. The taste for irony and understatement evinced by such Conservative predecessors as Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home was utterly alien to Lady Thatcher. Defiantly impolitic, she said what she meant — and said it bluntly. "I always found the most effective weapon was 'No' or sometimes 'No, No, No!,'" she said in her maiden speech to the House of Lords.
Lady Thatcher's blend of candor and assertiveness entranced supporters and enraged opponents. Unlike Reagan, whose affability helped make his policies popular, she earned a reputation for inflexibility, stridency, and arrogance. Rather than regretting such an image, Lady Thatcher seemed to revel in it. "I think sometimes the prime minister should be intimidating," she once said. "There's not much point being a weak, floppy thing in the chair, is there?"
Lady Thatcher's forceful manner and disdain for compromise proved crucial in two of her greatest triumphs: Britain's victory over Argentina in the Falklands War, in 1982; and the nationwide coal strike that began in March 1984 and ended with the crushing of the miners' union a year later.
Further complicating Lady Thatcher's image was her sex. "She is so clearly the best man among them," wrote a Laborite minister, Barbara Castle, upon Lady Thatcher's election as Conservative leader. The choice of noun was apt as well as pointed. Lady Thatcher had learned early on that she could ill afford to seem weak in what she once described as the "noisy, boisterous, masculine world" of the House of Commons.
In a statement Monday, Meryl Streep, who won a best actress Academy Award for playing Lady Thatcher in the 2011 film "The Iron Lady," spoke of being in "awe" of "her personal strength and grit." Streep noted that Lady Thatcher gave "women and girls around the world reason to supplant fantasies of being princesses with a different dream: the real-life option of leading their nation."
Lady Thatcher's being a woman proved, in some respects, even more asset than liability. It lent her a special fascination, something felt not just by voters and Conservative MPs but other world leaders. Pondering Lady Thatcher's capacity to combine fierceness and femininity, French President Francois Mitterrand observed, "She has the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe." Or as pop star Geri Halliwell put it, "We Spice Girls are true Thatcherites. Thatcher was the first Spice Girl, the pioneer of our ideology — Girl Power."
Caligula, Marilyn, Spice Girl: Lady Thatcher was unlike any other resident of 10 Downing Street, before or since. As she wrote in her memoirs, "My background and experience were not those of a traditional Conservative prime minister. I was less able to depend on automatic deference, but I was also perhaps less intimidated by the risks of change."
Born in Grantham, England, on Oct. 13, 1925, Margaret Hilda Roberts was the second daughter of Alfred Roberts, a grocer and lay Methodist minister, and Beatrice Roberts, a dressmaker. As Lady Thatcher never tired of reminding voters, she grew up "above the shop," in an apartment that lacked both indoor plumbing and hot water. "My 'Bloomsbury,' " she once wrote, referring to the cultural hub of radicalism in the 1920s and '30s, "was Grantham — Methodism, the grocer's shop, Rotary and all the serious, sober virtues cultivated and esteemed in that environment."
The most important influence on Lady Thatcher was her father. From him, she obtained both her love of politics (a town councilor, he later became Grantham's mayor) and strong sense of self. A favorite piece of advice, one much taken to heart, was "Never do things just because other people do them."
Lady Thatcher excelled at school and won a scholarship to Oxford University. She majored in chemistry and was the first female president of the Oxford University Conservative Association. After graduating, in 1947, Lady Thatcher spent four years working as a research chemist (she later became a lawyer). Lady Thatcher ran for Parliament in 1950 and '51 in a solidly Labor district. She lost both times, but drew the attention of Conservative Party leaders. She interrupted her political career to marry Denis Thatcher, a wealthy businessman 10 years her senior, in December 1951. His genial, unemphatic personality would prove an ideal complement to her driven, sometimes-intemperate manner. "Typical of Margaret," Thatcher remarked after his wife gave birth to a son and daughter, Mark and Carol, in 1953. "She produced twins … and avoided the necessity of a second pregnancy."
Sir Denis Thatcher died in 2003.
Elected to Parliament in 1959, Lady Thatcher was given a minor Cabinet position just two years later. She held various posts in the Conservative shadow Cabinet while the party was out of office, from 1964 to 1970, in such major ministries as energy, transportation, and education. She was the only woman in Edward Heath's Cabinet. As minister for education and science she drew criticism for eliminating free milk for schoolchildren, earning her the sobriquet "Thatcher the milk snatcher."
Dissatisfaction with Heath was growing after Labor's victory in 1974. When more prominent party figures shrank from opposing him, Lady Thatcher stepped forward. She led her party to victory in May 1979, gaining a 43-seat majority in Parliament.
Lady Thatcher's efforts to curb inflation and cut taxes met with success. They also led to a doubling of unemployment. As criticism of her policies mounted in 1980, Lady Thatcher declared, "To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say. 'You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.'" By late 1981, she had the lowest popularity rating ever recorded in a public opinion poll for a British prime minister.
Yet two developments came to Lady Thatcher's rescue. At home, Labor moved further left and the emergence of new center-left party, the Social Democrats, helped splinter opposition. Abroad, in 1982, Argentina seized the Falkland Islands. Lady Thatcher's popularity soared with her steadfast leadership during the victorious 10-week military conflict that followed. "Great Britain is great again," she proclaimed.
Calling for elections in June 1983, Lady Thatcher led the Conservatives to a 144-seat majority in Parliament. Four years later, Conservatives won a 102-seat majority. Yet many senior Conservatives had grown restive under Lady Thatcher's rule. Further weakening her popularity was widespread opposition to a poll tax and the privatizing of water and electrical utilities. In addition, her growing criticism of European Community policy — especially the prospect of British participation in the European Monetary System — set the stage for efforts to overturn her leadership. The first, in 1989, proved unsuccessful. The second, in Nov. 1990, did not.
Lady Thatcher's backing of John Major had proved crucial in his selection as her successor. He was far from being a dyed-in-the-wool Thatcherite, and his predecessor grew increasingly critical of him. In 1997, Lady Thatcher was widely quoted as saying of Major's Labor opponent, "Tony [Blair] won't let us down." By 1998, though, she was saying of Blair (who had won a landslide victory two years before), "I'm worried about that young man, he's getting awfully bossy."
Still, it might be that the greatest tribute paid to Lady Thatcher was the way in which Blair, rather than rejecting Thatcherism, did his best to present himself as carrying on its tradition of forward-looking vigor and entrepreneurial optimism.
In addition to her children, Lady Thatcher leaves two grandchildren. A sister, Muriel, died in 2004. A ceremonial funeral will be held at London's St. Paul's Cathedral next week.Mark Feeney can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Austin: Beyond the Traditional Massage
BY: Gayot | Jan 3, 2014
Enjoying a relaxing, rejuvenating massage can be the perfect antidote to stress, tension and sore muscles. And while a traditional Swedish massage is never a bad thing, many Austin spas are going well beyond to offer some unique, specialty body treatments. Milk + Honey Day Spa is one such place. Customers are referred to as Spa Partisans, a trademarked name used to describe enthusiastic supporters of their methods, and given signature treatments that refine and refresh the body. Primary among them is the Spa Partisan signature body treatment, where the skin is polished with a blend of brown sugar, coffee, crushed almonds and dehydrated milk, followed by a steam treatment and one-hour massage. If you can't make it to the upscale, beautiful space, rely on the company's mobile milk + honey program, which brings the spa to your home or office. Viva Day Spa is another Austin favorite. Their signature seven-hour Viva Diva spa journey promises to "sweep you away to a worry-free zone" with a sauna, 60-minute massage, herbal steam towel treatment, full body glow, hydrating body wrap, a full facial and manicure and pedicure procedures, among other treats. Thankfully, lunch, tea and chocolates are also involved. On the far west side of Austin, heading into Hill Country, Travaasa Experiential Resort is a destination unto itself, but the spa is open to overnight and day guests. Set amongst the more than 200 wooded acres of the resort, the exquisite and relaxing Spa at Travaasa Austin offers several signature treatments not to be found anywhere else. The Honey Bee Massage and Body Treatment offers a honey and ginger oil-based massage, followed by pure natural beeswax rubbed into the skin and soaked with hot towels. There are also a number of Seasonal Harvest Treatments, such as a fall pumpkin facial and body wrap. Of course, there is always the Lake Austin Spa Resort. The ultimate in resorts, it is consistently rated among the top destination spas in North America by publications worldwide. With more than 100 treatments to choose from and plenty of customization options, Lake Austin Spa Resort is undeniably the city's most prestigious rejuvenation and relaxation option. From natural treatments that rely on local ingredients to the centuries-old Tok Sen technique from Thailand, this is one spot that truly offers unique, invigorating options for anyone looking to spend a day at the spa.
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NFC powers collide as Packers host 49ersSep 7, 2012 - 10:23 PM (Sports Network) - No team put up more points in the NFL a season ago than the Aaron Rodgers-led Green Bay Packers.
The San Francisco 49ers, meanwhile, featured a defense that was one of the stingiest in all of football.
After failing to advance in the playoffs despite the best regular season in franchise history, the Packers look to get 2012 off on the right foot against a 49ers team that fell just short of a surprise Super Bowl appearance last year.
"It's exciting just getting out of preseason and playing some games that count," Rodgers said. "Playing the Niners, you know they are a big-time team. They are a team that has the pieces in place to make a Super Bowl run. They are a team we could play down the line, so it's going to be a great game, a great test for both offenses and defenses. I'm excited to get back out there."
Green Bay looked like the best team for much of last season, opening the campaign with a franchise-record 13 straight victories and winning all eight of its games at Lambeau Field en route to a 15-1 record.
The Packers also set a club mark with 560 points to lock up the NFC's top seed, but a defense that ranked last in the NFL was picked apart in a 37-20 loss to the New York Giants in the Divisional Round.
The Giants then went on to face the conference's second seed, the 49ers, who returned to the playoffs as champions of the NFC West for the first time since 2002 after amassing a 13-3 mark. San Francisco later found itself in the NFC Championship game for the first time since 1998 following a playoff win over the New Orleans Saints, but it too was bested by the eventual Super Bowl- winning Giants in falling, 20-17, in overtime.
The loss was a heartbreaker for the 49ers, who fumbled a punt in the extra quarter to set up New York's eventual game-winning field goal.
It was still a season of success for San Francisco, which posted a seven-win improvement from the previous year under then-rookie head coach Jim Harbaugh, whose defense yielded just 14.3 points per game thanks to excellent play across the board.
Though quarterback Alex Smith also thrived under Harbaugh, the offense was still lacking at times. That led to San Francisco being among the teams to court Peyton Manning this offseason, though it fell flat in that pursuit and was still able to re-sign Smith.
The front office then decided to give Smith and running back Frank Gore some additional help, adding a pair of former Giants in running back Brandon Jacobs and wide receiver Mario Manningham as well as bringing wide receiver Randy Moss out of a one-year retirement.
"We just have so many weapons," noted Smith. "So much of this game comes down to matchups sometimes. We have a lot of guys that can do a lot of unique things. I think that's a good problem to have. The more matchup problems you can create, the better."
Moss comes into the fold and could be a Week 1 starter alongside fellow wideout Michael Crabtree. Few know just what he still has left in the tank, but San Francisco is hoping to get a glimpse of vintage Moss versus the Packers.
"He's good. He's darn good. We feel great about him," said Harbaugh. "He's on our team. We're ready to go to battle with Randy and all the guys."
The Packers will look to prevent Moss from returning to his old form and win their franchise-record sixth straight season opener under head coach Mike McCarthy.
Green Bay's perfect home record under McCarthy last year also extended the team's winning streak at Lambeau Field in the regular season to 13 in a row.
While the core of the Packers' offense returns, the unit will have a new look in the backfield with former Cincinnati Bengal Cedric Benson expected to make his regular-season debut with the club after signing late in the offseason.
Packers lead 30-25-1
Streak: Packers have won last nine meetings Last Meeting: Packers 34, 49ers 16 (Dec. 5, 2010 at Green Bay)
Packers HC Mike McCarthy vs. 49ers: 3-0 49ers HC Jim Harbaugh vs. Packers: 0-0 McCarthy vs. Harbaugh Head-to-Head: First Meeting
Notes: Counting the playoffs, Green Bay has won 13 of its last 14 encounters with San Francisco. The 49ers haven't beaten the Packers in regular-season play since a 24-20 road victory on Nov. 4, 1990 and have lost eight consecutive contests (6 regular season, 2 playoffs) at Lambeau Field. The 49ers last topped Green Bay with a 30-27 home decision in a 1998 NFC First- Round Playoff, with quarterback Steve Young throwing the deciding touchdown pass to Terrell Owens with just eight seconds remaining. Teams squared off five times in the postseason from 1995-2001, with Green Bay winning four of those bouts. McCarthy served as San Francisco's offensive coordinator in 2005 before becoming the Packers' head coach.
2011 Offensive Team Rankings
San Francisco: 26th overall (310.9 ypg), 8th rushing (127.8 ypg), 29th passing (183.1 ypg), tied 10th scoring (23.8 ppg)
Green Bay: 3rd overall (405.1 ypg), 27th rushing (97.4 ypg), 3rd passing (307.8 ypg), 1st scoring (35.0 ppg)
2011 Defensive Team Rankings
San Francisco: 4th overall (308.2 ypg), 1st rushing (77.3 ypg), 16th passing (230.9 ypg), 2nd scoring (14.3 ppg)
Green Bay: 32nd overall (411.6 ypg), 14th rushing (111.8 ypg), 32nd passing (299.8 ypg), 19th scoring (22.4 ppg)
2011 Turnover Margin
San Francisco: +28 (38 takeaways, 10 giveaways) Green Bay: +24 (38 takeaways, 14 giveaways)
2011 Red Zone Touchdown Percentage (offense)
San Francisco: 40.7 percent (54 possessions, 22 TD, 28 FG) -- 30th overall Green Bay: 65.2 percent (66 possessions, 43 TD, 19 FG) -- 3rd overall
2011 Red Zone Touchdown Percentage (defense)
San Francisco: 41.2 percent (34 possessions, 14 TD, 14 FG) -- 4th overall Green Bay: 55.4 percent (56 possessions, 31 TD, 17 FG) -- 20th overall
For all the positives that came out of the 49ers' season, the offense still left much room for improvement. That is evidenced by the fact that kicker David Akers was forced to connect on a league-record 44 field goals after a number of breakdowns in the red zone. They hope the addition of Moss can help solve that, though it has been a couple of years since he dominated the league. Set to begin his 14th season since a year away from the game, Moss' 2010 campaign saw him play for three different teams and log just 28 receptions. However, he owns the second-most touchdown catches in NFL history (153) and has caught 954 career passes. Moss, as well as the addition of Manningham (39 receptions, 4 TD with Giants), should take some of the pressure off of Crabtree (72 receptions, 4 TD) and tight end Vernon Davis, who ended last year second on the team with 67 receptions and a club-high six scoring grabs. Meanwhile, Smith (3144 passing yards, 17 TD, 5 INT) returns to helm an offense that had just 10 turnovers last year, tied for the lowest in the NFL. Gore (1211 rushing yards, 8 TD) returns as the franchise's all-time leading rusher.
While the 49ers rarely gave the ball away, the Packers led the NFL with 31 interceptions. A team-leading seven of those were by veteran defensive back Charles Woodson (74 tackles, 2 sacks), who is slated to appear in his 200th regular-season game and will now be deployed at strong safety in the base defense. Corners Tramon Williams (64 tackles) and Sam Shields (45 tackles) added four picks each, while playmaking linebacker Clay Matthews (50 tackles, 6 sacks) took one of his three interceptions back for a touchdown. Despite the turnovers forced, the Packers struggled to stop opposing offenses all season and yielded a league-high 411.6 total yards per game. So, it is no surprise that Green Bay's defense could see as many as five rookies on the field at any given time, though only one is penciled in as a starter in left outside linebacker Nick Perry, the team's first-round pick in April's draft. D.J. Smith (43 tackles, 1 INT), meanwhile, starts inside with A.J. Hawk (84 tackles, 1.5 sacks) after 2011 leading tackler Desmond Bishop (115 tackles, 5 sacks) landed on injured reserve due to a hamstring injury sustained in the preseason. Nose tackle B.J. Raji (22 tackles, 3 sacks) anchors the Packers' front three and is key to stopping the run.
Franchise records fell by the bunches last year for the Packers, who set new marks in points and total yards (6,482) in a single season. Rodgers (4643 passing yards, 45 TD, 6 INT) set a new NFL record with a 122.5 passer rating in 2011, and his 29 straight games at home with a touchdown pass is a franchise best as well. Green Bay would love for its quarterback to repeat his MVP performance from last year and returns most of the 2011 weapons that he used. No. 1 wideout Greg Jennings (67 receptions, 9 TD) is back after missing the final three regular-season games of 2011 with a knee injury that prevented him from a fourth straight 1,000-yard receiving season. Veteran Donald Driver (37 receptions, 6 TD) also returns, though his role is likely to be reduced behind 2011 breakout star Jordy Nelson (68 receptions, 1263 yards, 15 TD). The wideout caught a touchdown pass in a club-record eight straight home games a season ago, two shy of the NFL mark. Tight end Jermichael Finley (55 receptions, 8 TD) is another solid target for Rodgers, who will be handing the ball off this season to Benson (1067 rushing yards, 6 TD with Bengals). The running back comes to Green Bay after three straight 1,000-yard rushing seasons with the Bengals. Rodgers will also be dealing with a new center, as Green Bay signed former Colt and five-time Pro Bowler Jeff Saturday.
The 49ers' 3-4 defense will be put to the test right away as it tries to duplicate last season's success. San Francisco matched a franchise record by allowing a mere 23 touchdowns and became the first team in NFL history to not give up a rushing score through its first 14 games of the season. The Niners yielded just three scores on the ground overall and gave up a mere 26 points off turnovers. The play of inside linebackers Patrick Willis (97 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 INT) and NaVorro Bowman (143 tackles, 2 sacks) were key and highlight a very deep group for San Francisco. Willis has made the Pro Bowl in all five of his NFL seasons, while Bowman excelled in his first year as a starter. Outside linebacker Aldon Smith (37 tackles, 14 sacks) posted the second-most sacks by a rookie in NFL history despite playing mostly on just third downs. While Willis may have the most talent of the group, defensive tackle Justin Smith (58 tackles, 7.5 sacks) has arguably the most heart and highest motor. He was a constant force in 2011 and extended his string of consecutive starts to 171. San Francisco also returns a secondary that played well and had cornerback Carlos Rogers (43 tackles, 6 INT) and safety Dashon Goldson (67 tackles, 6 INT) both finish tied for fourth in the league in interceptions. Corner Tarell Brown (40 tackles) added four picks.
This contest will mark the third straight season that the NFC's top two seeds from the previous campaign meet in Week 1, and there is no reason for either the Packers or 49ers to think they can't be in this spot again next season. Both are expected to once again challenge for their respective division titles, though it is Green Bay that enters this contest as the favorite. Following up a disappointing finish to what was an outstanding campaign at home certainly helps, as does nearly the total return of a nearly-unstoppable offense. If any team can challenge Rodgers and company, it is the heat- bringing 49ers, who are out to prove that 2011 was no fluke. While the pressure is more on the favored Packers, the NFC North heavyweights should exit Week 1 on a positive note.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Packers 27, 49ers 17
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As I have mentioned the "Tour" and building for the tour a few times here, I better say this is our little local tour. As much as I would like to be at "Le Tour", this one is the Tour of the Scenic Rim, a three stage event in SE Queensland.
It feels like it is all coming together for it. My training has been going well, I haven't had any more injuries to add to my customary nigglings, the bike is almost set and fast and I will be racing with a bunch of great riders as team mates.
In times like this, I feel like jumping in a time machine and roving to race day. But the preparation hasn't ended yet.
Monday's rest day was followed by a short/high intensity ride. I did my usual Bunya Rd course with an extra little climb, Mailmans Track, to give the systems the nescessary intensity for the session.
Mailmans Track is a 2.3 km stretch of road in the middle of a bush rich area. One could imagine being hundreds of kilometers from the city (I always do!). It undulates for the first 1,500 m and then ramps up to an 11% gradient for the last 800 m. Enough to hurt the legs and get the HR over 80%.
Yesterday's ride was different, it was about getting hours on the saddle at low intensity, calling for a flat course. Good time to put the TT bars on and work on getting them right.
On the 3 h 45 min ride, I think I spent more than two hours on the bars. I am stunned how we can keep the HR down and a fairly high average speed like that. With all the traffic-light stops, bloody twenty of them, I averaged close to 30 km/h for the 112 km ride.
Today, another couple of hours of high intensity on the program. Coincidently, the folks at SKINS.UK have organised a fun TdF Challenge for the C400 Cycling gear trialists. It is a three race challenge, where participants spread around the globe will be doing their own thing and sending their results to SKINS.
The winner will be offered a two year contract to race... Just kidding!! It is all about fun (and hurt!) and trialling the C400 Cycle Gear.
The first one is a 15 km TT, on a flat course. Just what I need for today and in preparation for my next race. I will be heading to the Nundah Criterium Circuit for my etape, perhaps the only bit of flat terrain around here and away from traffic.
Whilst on the subjects of tours and challenges, a keen cyclist from the UK has started his own - the Tour de Velo. He is riding the whole TdF route solo, just two or three days ahead of the peloton. That's 3,640 something kilometers, a truly great challenge!
Keep up the good work, Quentin!!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Mailmans Track and the Skins Challenge
As I have mentioned the "Tour" and building for the tour a few times here, I better say this is our little local tour. As much as I would like to be at "Le Tour", this one is the Tour of the Scenic Rim, a three stage event in SE Queensland.
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- Will said...
Good luck in your upcoming 3 day event.
For what it's worth, I think riding the entire Tour route is a terrible idea. So much of the Tour is on big, fast National routes that just happened to be closed for the pros.
While it sounds impressive on paper, one could much better use valuable riding time by choosing the countless beautiful routes in France instead of long, hot days being passed by endless fast traffic on the wrong roads.
- July 15, 2010 at 10:28 PM
- AMR said...
Thanks Will,
I see where you are coming from... but, I guess, a challenge is a challenge.
I would prefer riding 30 km to the bottom of the climbs, ride up and down, and return to my motorhome for a coffee or glass of vino...;-)
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I keep seeing people believing that the Rams are going to be the team to give us problems. I honestly can not name one player on their offense right now other than Bradford. Gibson and Amendola gone. I think the Rams will regress this year but they are rebuilding and will be a thorn in the future.
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To teach constitutional law, you need a vision about where our country has been and where we need to go in the future. You must be able to confront our darkest moments slavery, segregation, forced sterilization while preserving your optimism about the moments when we have expanded rights and liberties and lived up to our aspirations.
Students push you to defend what you believe, and you had better be ready to acknowledge your contradictions, and even your mistakes. As a law professor, your goal is not to lecture, but to elicit from students their deepest intuitions about their own values, and to show them how to frame arguments for what they believe. And you must know the law. The students are smart and engaged, and they dont miss a trick. Theres no room for vagueness or imprecision.
Constitutional law demands that you understand the delicate balance between the president, Congress and the Supreme Court. Most presidents, regardless of party, want to maximize their own authority, but the teacher of constitutional law knows that when presidents overstep, the court slaps them back.
Individual rights loom large in our Constitution. As a professor, you know that presidents should resist restricting liberty. However, you also know that Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and Franklin D. Roosevelt interned Japanese-Americans. Best of all, with your 20/20 hindsight and your bully pulpit, you can righteously stand in judgment of mistakes made by presidents in our national experiment.
What a teacher of constitutional law never has to do is put theory into practice which is probably why even the best of us can be astonishingly idealistic. The only president to come from full-time employment in our profession, Woodrow Wilson, tried to make over the world in the image of our constitutional democracy. Our part-timer, Bill Clinton, was ready to make compromises to get the job done.
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More practice tests doesn't help you at all if you can't comprehend what you're doing wrong. The difference between a C- student and A+ students isn't that they "put it down on paper better" and it's not organization. The C- student tries to memorize the answer; the A+ student has the critical thinking ability to apply the answer and understands the rule within the context of normative theories and public policy. Part of it may be communicating the ideas, but a gap that wide (particularly if you're a student at a low-ranked school) indicates that the C- student isn't "getting" the point.
I unfortunately think I might be thought of as a gunner. I am always raising my hand, but not to show off, it is because I want to know if my take on an issue is correct , and many times no one else will bring up my issue so I am left wondering if I was incorrect, or if others just didn't think of what I thought. Hopefully I am not getting a bad reputation. I'm actually a pretty laid back law student, I try not to get too much into the competition but I do like knowing if I am correct or incorrect in class.
If you think you're a gunner, you probably are a gunner.
If you don't think you're a gunner and you don't think there are any gunners in your class, but you "regularly participate," you're probably a gunner.
eh, I don't really care if people consider me a gunner, because i know that what I am doing now isn't affecting my grades for the better nor is having the professor knowing who I am going to affect my grades at all, i do it for other reasons. So you are saying that you can't participate in class without being labeled "a gunner"? What if I enjoy particpating just for the sake of it and for the sake of staying actively involved in the class?


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It was cold. The stick-on thermometer on the dash read 28 degrees as the feeble heat trickling from the heater was quickly snatched into the darkness by the icy fingers of desert air that whipped into the Jeep. Slouching down as far as possible didn't help. The only thing I could do was press on shivering toward dawn and (hopefully) warmer air.
The year was 1986. I was driving a CJ-7 that was registered as a 1985, but was in reality a mix of Jeep parts from many years. This CJ would become the Salvage Special, 4WHEEL DRIVE MAGAZINE's very first project, but that would be a couple of years in the future. In 1986 this CJ had a 258 carbureted six, T-18 tranny, Dana 300 T-case, 35-inch tires on white spoke steel wheels, 4.56 gears and Detroit Lockers in its AMC 20 rearend and Ford 9-inch frontend. While it was great on the trail, it was barely able to manage a sustained 65 mph on the highway.
It was spring, and I was headed for Moab to lead a trail at the annual Easter Jeep Safari. I didn't like Jeeps with tops in those days. My friend John Currie used to joke that I had more money in parkas than it would cost to buy a top, but I liked the open air. I liked the sun and blue sky during the day and the stars at night. I even liked inclement weather. I liked it, that is, after I lived to tell about it.
The CJ-7 was running perfectly as the sun rose, the snow disappeared and Barstow came and went. It was actually warm enough to shed parka and gloves as the Jeep and I descended into Baker and then started the long climb to Halloran Summit. The 258 could only manage about 50 to 55 mph up the grade, so I hunkered down in the right lane and tried to push the accelerator through the floorboard.
The desert was beautiful. Flowers carpeted the landscape in multi-colored hues of yellow, blue, and red. Joshua trees raised their arthritic arms in supplication to the sky and Creosote bushes filled the air with their pungent fragrance, easy to smell in the open Jeep as we headed northeast.
We (the Jeep and I) cruised down the long hill where the CJ was actually able to hit 75, across the dry lake that wasn't dry that spring, then into Stateline (now Primm, Nevada) for gas. Back on the highway, the CJ quit. Dead. Just like that. I was at a loss. The Jeep had been running so well that there were no clues as to what the problem was. Hmmm. When experiencing a failure, always check the last thing you worked on first. I had just installed an on-board welder. The welder's voltage regulators were problematic and there was a spare in the toolbox, so I decided to replace that and see what happened.
That was it. The new regulator worked and the CJ started right up. Onward.
Even the sprawl of Las Vegas was interesting as the open Jeep allowed easy viewing of the sights. It was even better watching Vegas diminish in the rearview mirror as we headed into the desert that was now hot. It was so hot, the CJ's temp gauge moved toward "H" and my cowboy hat didn't provide enough shade to cool me off. Go figure. It was freezing just a few hours before. With the heater on high to dissipate some heat, the gauge stabilized below the "H" and didn't go any higher. On we went.
The Virgin River Gorge was beautiful, especially as I could look up at the towering cliffs and enjoy the 360-degree view. Once through the gorge and north of St. George, Utah, temperatures moderated and the Jeep cooled down.
Up the Black Ridge (at 50 mph max) and through Cedar City, the Jeep purred and I enjoyed the mild-to-warm spring air as we motored through the beauty of Utah. Climbing over the mountains between Cove Fort and the Sevier Valley again brought snow on the ground and cold temperatures, to be quickly replaced with spring grasses and mild air through Richfield and Salina.
It was getting dark. On went my parka, gloves, and the anemic CJ heater. In the mountains east of Salina, the thermometer, my ever-changing friend, dropped through 50, 40, 35, then hovered below freezing. Headlights illuminated the highway ahead and starlight provided a beautiful, eerie view of the snow covered hoodoos and domes of the San Rafael Swell.
I finally made it to Moab before midnight and had an uneventful week at Safari. Getting home was just as much fun as getting there had been.
Open air motoring, on- or off-road, leaves memories that aren't erased or dimmed by time or distance. After writing this, I again need a topless vehicle.
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I was first introduced to the Oliva Serie V the day before our rollout event over 4 years ago. The initial order arrived, and I broke one out and smoked it. The next day we had our event, which was made even more special because José Oliva was at our shop, and we had a great talk about the cigar, so as I review this one, I'll be weaving some of the background I picked up from José into the tale.
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