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Sunday, 18 December 2011
Money ain't funny – The Financial Times
Once upon a time, back in the days when nobody had a home computer, laptop, mobile phone or iPad, my daily newspapers at work – paid for by my employer, Goodyear - were The Financial Times and The Glasgow Herald (it didn't become The Herald until 1992). At home, I took The Guardian, which I had read since my teens, when it was called The Manchester Guardian.
Goodyear, notoriously parsimonious in peripheral expenses, nonetheless required its managers, especially those in finance and and employee relations, to stay up to date with both local and national issues and current affairs. I maintained a clippings file from both papers of items I considered relevant. (I remember specifically in June 1972 cutting out a small, obscure item at the bottom of an FT page reporting a burglary in a Washington Hotel called the Watergate, which housed the Democratic Party campaign HQ.)
I was highly politically aware back then, primarily because of the dynamically changing industrial relations scene and legislative context, polarised politically between the Tories and Labour. What struck me forcibly about the Financial Times was its total objectivity about politics. It had to be objective, because those engaged in the hard-edged business of money didn't want the facts to be spun – they could get political bias from The Telegraph/Guardian polarity, but as my American bosses used to say – money ain't funny, Pete – got to be able to tell shit from Shinola.
(One prime reason for the global financial mess that we're now in is that international bankers and financiers, especially the formerly hard-eyed Americans, lost the capacity to tell shit from Shinola. Either that, or they ceased to care …)
I rarely buy the FT these days, because it's not cheap, but yesterday, fed-up with the Christmas trivia in my usual papers, I bit the bullet and forked out £2.80 for the familiar pink pages. I had quite forgotten the superb quality of the typography and illustrations, both artistic and graphical, and the content didn't disappoint either.
Among the items that caught my eye were these -
"Hedge fund partners earn $3bn amid crisis –Amid the eurozone debt crisis and a stuttering UK economy, three of London's biggest hedge funds are on course to pay their tiny clique of top managers more that $3bn dollars this year"
Needless to say of the three only one remains domiciled in Britain. Don't let anyone tell me these people are worth it or that they add to the sum total of human happiness.
"Unions pushed to agree pensions deal …. Frantic last-minute negotiations raised the possibility that the alliance of more than 29 unions that brought more than 1m workers out on strike on November 30th could fragment.
"… The government has threatened it may withdraw its latest offer, including protection for those within 10 years of retirement and a more generous rate for accruing pensions benefits, unless a preliminary agreement is reached by year-end."
"We need religion in politics to provide morality that society lacks, says Cameron –God needs to be put back into politics, David Cameron has argued, treading into an area usually studiously avoided by politics."
"Big Society is 'damaged' brand – The Big Society has been irreparably damaged as a brand through government spending cuts and a failure by politicians tosell the idea to the public, according to one of the most prominent figures in the charity world." (Sir Stephen Bubb)
"Churchill is a poor lodestar for Cameron's isolationism."
This article by Peter Clarke, former professor of modern British history at Cambridge, closes with these words -
" … Nothing he [Churchill] said or did in 1940 justifies appropriating his name for a policy of isolation from Europe. His own speeches about the importance of the European idea reveal his own sentiments. And his hardheaded political realism, as Britain's wartime leader, meant that he never chose to stand alone."
I stood in Duke Street, Glasgow, at the wall of the cattle market just opposite Dunchattan Street during the Second World War, to boo Churchill as he sped past in his open-topped car, wearing a siren suit and giving the V for Victory sign. We Dunchattan Street boys, street urchins, gave him the sign of the archers at Agincourt right back. Churchill's visits to Glasgow WWII
Maybe we were too harsh to Winnie. And maybe God – or the Archbishop of Canterbury - could have a word with the hedge fund managers about their $3bn bonanza. But I won't live in hope. After all, somebody once said "the poor we always have with us …"


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A Mum was left horrified after a thug punched her five-day-old baby in the head in a supermarket.
The shocking incident took place in Wythenshawe in the UK as little Elsie Rose was being shown off by proud mum Amy Duckers.
Little Elsie was raced to the hospital, and it is believed she wasn't seriously injured.
Her mum said the attack happened in front of her seven-year-old daughter Libby, who reacted with horror believe the thug had killed her baby sister.
Amy told the Manchester Evening News 'I'm broken and torn apart. I can't believe what I and my daughter had to see last night it was just so horrific. I never want anyone to have to go through that again.
"We all heard the punch land on my baby. We didn't react at first as we were just so shocked. Then I just screamed.
"He could easily have killed her."
It had been the first time Amy and her partner Lewis Temple had taken Elsie out after giving birth and decided to nip to their local supermarket.
While in the store, they saw a neighbour come over and look at the baby; ''Our friend then saw one of her work colleagues who was with her husband and said 'aww come and have a look at this lovely baby', and the next thing he ran over and punched Elsie Rose in the face leaving a very big fist mark shape across her forehead." Amy said.
"We were mortified, my daughter was screaming thinking he had killed the baby.
"He then just apologised and said 'sorry I thought it was a doll!"
The family alerted security at the supermarket and Elsie Rose was taken to a hospital, where she was monitored overnight and was allowed home in the morning.
A police spokesman said 'A man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a baby. "Police were called shortly before 6.45pm to a supermarket on Altrincham Road in Baguley on Monday to reports of a child having been hit.
"The baby girl was taken to hospital as a precaution and has since been discharged.
"A 63-year-old was arrested on suspicion of assault and is currently in custody being questioned by officers."


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GRAHAM � The defendant in a capital murder trial remained on the stand, questioned by his defense attorney, for the entire court day Friday.
Robert Dennis Dixon spent the majority of six hours on the witness stand describing the Dixon family history. Under questioning by defense attorney Terry Alford, Dixon�s demeanor and testimony sometimes teetered on the bizarre.
Dennis Dixon, 49, testified that his stepmother, Sara Dixon, upset him when she placed his father in a nursing home in 2005. Because of that placement, his father�s estate began being sold by a third-party administrator to pay for medical bills.
Dennis Dixon admitted he was �mean� toward his stepmother in emails he sent the estate administrator and said he regretted sending them.
Alford showed the jury a note handwritten by the defendant about people who are �imposters� and who �fake emotions� to get what they want. The note references �black widows� and wives who kill husbands for money, �slowly and methodically taking care of business.� Dennis Dixon testified he wrote that note after reading a magazine article and thought it would help his attorney fight Sara Dixon in a planned lawsuit.
�You felt that way about Sara?� Alford asked.
�To a degree, yes,� Dennis Dixon replied.
Dennis Dixon is accused of hiring men to kill Sara Dixon. She was found slain in her home at 2033 McCray Road on Nov. 30, 2007. He is charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and first-degree burglary. He could face the death penalty if found guilty of first-degree murder.
When he took the stand Thursday, he denied any involvement in plotting or committing Sara Dixon�s murder. For some time Friday, he detailed his interaction with co-defendant Thomas Clay Friday on Nov. 28, 2007 � the date the co-defendant testified he and Matthew Devon Fields, 25, killed Sara Dixon. Dennis Dixon said he and Friday used a trailer to move a car from a body shop to 2049 McCray Road where Dennis Dixon lived.
Alford questioned him extensively about Cardwell Dixon�s alleged misgivings shortly after he and Sara Dixon were married in 1987. A handwritten letter by Cardwell Dixon in 1988 expressed his displeasure at Sara Dixon not keeping an agreement that she would sell her old house and help pay for the house they built together on McCray Road. She sold her house, but Cardwell never saw that money and she never helped pay for the house or the bills, the document said.
Cardwell Dixon mentioned the financial issues to his sons, Dennis Dixon said. But they tried to stay out of their father�s business and Dennis Dixon said he didn�t dislike his stepmother.
Over the years, the relationship with his stepmother soured.
Cardwell Dixon planned to divorce Sara Dixon, Dennis Dixon said. Immediately after Cardwell Dixon had several strokes in December 2004, Sara Dixon moved to take control of him and his property, Dennis Dixon testified. She later placed him in a nursing home, which Dennis Dixon said his father hated and called a �concentration camp.�
Dennis Dixon said he and his brother�s family felt helpless to get their father out of the nursing home. The �strained relationship� with his stepmother spilled over into statements he made to many people.
�I let everybody know everything that�s going on in my life. I wear my heart on my sleeve, I guess,� Dennis Dixon said of those statements.
Dennis Dixon admitted to saying he �would pay $5,000 to smoke her ass� when discussing Sara Dixon with Friday and James Blaylock in July 2007. He said the remark about the payment and amount was �just an expression� he commonly uses.
�Did you mean it?� Alford asked.
�Of course not,� Dennis Dixon said. �It was just an off-the-wall, ridiculous, immature comment.�
THROUGHOUT THE DAY Friday, Dennis Dixon�s testimony often diverged from direct answers, digressing into the minutiae of interactions with his father and others. Alford sometimes had to stop his client mid-sentence and direct him to answer the question. Several times, Alford reminded Dennis Dixon to slow down and speak clearly for the jury. Twice, Dennis Dixon asked to elaborate on his answer about the family history and Alford told him not to.
He added asides and colorful descriptions to his testimony, describing a gathering as looking like �a country music video with everyone parked in the yard� and comparing his camper to one Mel Gibson�s character had in a �Lethal Weapon� movie.
At one point, the jury was shown a photo of one of Dennis Dixon�s cars he testified that Friday repaired for him. In the photo, someone�s hand is on the bumper.
�Hey, get your hands off my bumper,� Dennis Dixon said under his breath, drawing looks from Superior Court Judge W. Osmond Smith III and several others in the courtroom.
Dennis Dixon will continue testifying at 9:30 a.m. Monday in the superior courtroom of the Alamance County Historic Courthouse.


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This is an introduction to major diseases and injuries, symptoms, and treatments, as well as commonly used medications and how they affect the body, mind, and behavior, and awareness of a patient. This knowledge helps a CMP understand a patient's response to therapeutic music, and helps with selection of appropriate music for that patient and patient condition.
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Here we go again: a Florida man is now claiming self-defense and will possibly invoke the state's "Stand Your Ground" law after shooting eight rounds into a car full of black teens, killing one, and fleeing the scene, all because the teens allegedly did not turn down their loud music and the man claims to have seen a gun that did not exist.
"There are no comparisons to the Trayvon Martin situation," said attorney Robin Lemonidis, who is representing Michael Dunn — the man who shot up the car and now faces a murder charge. "He is devastated and horrified by the death of the teen."
At the outset of what may become another major — and majorly symbolic — case in Florida, the statement from Dunn's lawyer remains puzzling. She's implying that Zimmerman didn't feel any remorse when he killed Trayvon Martin.
But taking the matter at its simplest, and less than one year removed from the death of Martin, here we have another older white man (Dunn) killing an unarmed, black 17-year-old boy named Jordan Davis, claiming self defense because he felt threatened — and he might get legal protection because of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law.
Lemonidis likely wouldn't have had to fend off the Trayvon Martin comparisons unless people already saw it, and they already do:
Disturbing shooting in Florida again.... and yes ANOTHER 17year old African American male... smh wptv.com//dpp/news/stat…— IMperfection (@IcantSTOPsmilin) November 28, 2012
The deadly shooting of an unarmed teen in Florida has drawn comparisons to the Trayvon Martin case.An attorney... fb.me/zh0FG1XF— fox8news (@fox8news) November 28, 2012
Davis and "several other teenagers were sitting in a sport utility vehicle in the parking lot when Dunn pulled up next to them in a car and asked them to turn down their music" on November 23, Jacksonville sheriff's Lt. Rob Schoonover told The Orlando Sentinel's Susan Jacobsen.
Dunn said he exchanged words with Davis, heard threats from the teens who didn't turn their music down, and thought he saw a gun. This prompted Dunn to fire at least eight rounds into the car, killing Davis. Authorities searched and did not find any guns in the car.
"Dunn's girlfriend and the driver of Jordan's vehicle were in Gate Food Post, 8251 Southside Blvd., when the shooting happened. Dunn and his girlfriend took off afterward, and witnesses jotted down their tag number," deputies told Jacobsen, who reports that Lemonidis said "her client acted responsibly and in self-defense."
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By Jane Lim, KF9 Mongolia
I am convinced that my borrower videos have been lost in the abyss which is the Kiva journal tab (it currently has 5224 unsearchable pages), so I had to find another platform for their airing. I.e., here!
Posting a video journal entry takes a considerable amount of work, and I thought I would lay the process out here so they will be more appreciated
(I have also inserted one of my video journals here rather than below to pique your interest, so please click the "read more" button after you're done watching!)
1) Finding a translator
Unlike Kiva fellows who are placed in countries where they know the local language, I do not know how to speak Mongolian… even though locals frequently speak it to me. (Apparently I look Mongolian…) Hence finding a translator is necessary, especially since the Kiva coordinator here is too busy to visit borrowers with me. It took me awhile to find translators who would work for free, but finally on my 3rd week here, by acquaintances of friends of friends, as well as XacBank's HR department, I managed to find… THREE translators!
My translators are quite an odd mix. One came in 6th for Ms. Mongolia last year, and was a catalog model for Gobi Cashmere (THE premier brand of cashmere in Mongolia); another was a former tour guide who has a ton of expat friends; and the last one is a university kid who is purportedly quite wealthy – he managed to get out of mandatory national military service through a combination of bribery and connections.
2) Coordinating logistics
The first is making sure one translator is free, then asking when one of XacBank's branches can spare a loan officer and car to come visit borrowers with me (a rather infrequent event). A car is a precious commodity as branches only have one car each, and use it heavily for their day-to-day operations – loan officers constantly need to visit borrowers in the field to verify their information for the loan approval process.
The problem is that working with free labor (aside from Kiva Fellows) has its perils, and all 3 of my translators have been flakey at some point. One dropped out within a week, another bailed out on me 3 hours before we were going to visit borrowers, and another is frequently late. On days when they cancel on me, I have to cancel with the branch, and incur their ire.
3) Journey to the borrowers
Travelling to visit borrowers is always an experience, especially when I'm going to their homes. (Many of them work from home, especially those which make products for sale – think gloves, boots, crafts, etc.) All borrowers I've visited live in ger districts, which are basically districts surrounding downtown Ulaanbaatar, composed of a haphazard mass of wooden fences, within which you can find a ger or two, and sometimes a house. Most gers burn coal in their stove to keep warm, as a result, pollution in Ulaanbaatar is absolutely awful in the winter. (In addition to being the coldest capital in the world, UB is also the most polluted one.)
Ger districts don't have proper roads (let alone addresses), and borrowers frequently draw makeshift maps to let the MFI know where they are located. Sometimes we spend more than 1 hour in the car, circling the same few roads, trying to find a particular borrower.
The terrain in ger districts is also rather varied. Travelling on dirt roads aside, I have been driven over a frozen river bed, a bumpy field that is used to grow crops in the summer, and precarious hill slopes.
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4) Interviewing borrowers
Interviewing the borrower is the easiest part. Some words are lost in translation, and the quality of translation and the answers I'm getting often depends on how hard my translator feels like working that day – but for the most part, this runs smoothly. 9 out of 10 times we also get to drink Suu-Tei Tsai (Mongolian milk tea which has salt and butter in it), and on occasion get to snack on Battsog (something like donuts, but in a rectangular shape).
5) Subtitling the video
Once the interview is done, and footage shot, I get a translator to come to headquarters and help me subtitle it. This basically consists of me and him/her sitting in front of my laptop, pressing rewind/play multiple times on Windows Movie Maker, and typing in each spoken line.
6) Editing
After subtitling, the translator leaves, and then I edit the video – this isn't hard at all, if not for the fact that Windows Movie Maker frequently crashes on me, and now won't start at all. Am currently using the trial (read: free) version of CyberLink PowerDirector. Will invest in a Mac and FinalCut going forward…
7) Posting
Posting is the easiest part of the process, but also takes time due to large file sizes, the erratic nature of the Internet here, and occasionally some malfunction with the Kiva website. Therefore it is only after the journal is posted, that a sigh of relief and accomplishment can be made.
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UPDATE: 5:44 p.m. ET: And now the Heartland Institute will take down the billboards, according to The Washington Post.
UPDATE: 5:30 p.m. ET: The Congressman who was scheduled to speak at the Heartland Institute conference later this month now says he will NOT if the billboards are kept up. The Institute is considering taking them down.
Amanda Infield, a spokeswoman for Jim Sensenbrenner, emails: " Congressman Sensenbrenner said [he] is not going to participate in the upcoming Climate Change Conference if the Heartland Institute decides to continue this ad campaign. It now sounds like they are going to take the ads down."
Sensenbrenner contacted the Heartland Institute upon seeing the ads to express his concerns.
That billboard that you're looking at above is a real billboard. It's actually on display right now, over the Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago — according to the Guardian — courtesy of the Heartland Institute.
That's Ted Kaczynski, better known as the "Unabomber" and for his 20-year mail bombing campaign. The Heartland Institute has never been shy about its stance on climate change, but this is insane. The message: You're going to believe in global warming when one of the most notorious criminals in U.S. history does?
It won't stop at Kaczynski, either. Here's part of the Institute's press release:
1. Who appears on the billboards?
The billboard series features Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber; Charles Manson, a mass murderer; and Fidel Castro, a tyrant. Other global warming alarmists who may appear on future billboards include Osama bin Laden and James J. Lee (who took hostages inside the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in 2010).
These rogues and villains were chosen because they made public statements about how man-made global warming is a crisis and how mankind must take immediate and drastic actions to stop it.
So, uh, why has the Heartland Institute decided to feature mass murderers and madmen on these billboards? Well, they've already asked that question to themselves:
2. Why did Heartland choose to feature these people on its billboards?
Because what these murderers and madmen have said differs very little from what spokespersons for the United Nations, journalists for the "mainstream" media, and liberal politicians say about global warming. They are so similar, in fact, that a Web site has a quiz that asks if you can tell the difference between what Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, wrote in his "Manifesto" and what Al Gore wrote in his book, Earth in the Balance.
Just to make it clear, the Institute adds, "Of course, not all global warming alarmists are murderers or tyrants."
From May 21 to 23, The Heartland Institute's will hold its Seventh International Conference on Climate Change. There's a U.S. Representative — Wisconsin's Jim Sensenbrenner — who is scheduled to speak at this conference.
This isn't the Institute's first brush with controversy this year. In February, internal documents from the Heartland Institute leaked, revealing some of the group's strategy.


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Facebook on Thursday began transforming the stream of updates from friends at homepages into a "personalized newspaper," with news ranging from the personal to the global.
The News Feed on homepages at the leading social network was revamped to get rid of clutter and present "bright, beautiful" stories, such as insights from friends or trending news of the day.
"I think there is a special place in the world for this sort of personalized newspaper," Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg said in introducing the overhauled News Feed.
"It should have a front page and top news section or let you drill down into any topic you want," he said.
Facebook is rolling out the new News Feed "very slowly" at its Web site reached by desktop or laptop, and will begin adding it to smartphone and tablet applications in the coming weeks.
Each News Feed will automatically be tuned to the interests of individual Facebook users, technical lead Chris Struhar said.
Pictures in the feed will be gleaned from friends' posts or online pages people have indicated they "like."
If a Facebook user follows pages from CNN or other professional media organizations, top shared or trending stories are displayed.
Music or film lovers should see News Feeds touting fresh developments regarding bands, stars, movies, songs or other related subjects.
Struhar said "we hope you get all you need" without having to leave Facebook to seek stories at Web sites such as Google News or Yahoo News.
While the amount of content shared on Facebook has soared, the time people spend at the social network remains limited, inspiring the drive to more efficiently connect people with news they most care about, according to Facebook.
"It is designed for the way we are sharing today and the trends we see going forward," Zuckerberg said. "I don't foresee Facebook offering its own content."
There were no plans to change the number of ads displayed at the site as part of the overhaul.
"Back when we started News Feed, it was primarily made up of text," Zuckerberg said. "Now that we all have cameras in our pockets, in our phones, the majority of this content is photos."
Since late 2011, the percentage of News Feed posts devoted to sharing Web pages has risen to between 25 and 30 percent, according to Facebook.
News Feed will give more prominence to major stories being shared by friends in the social network, trends at third-party applications such as Pinterest or Instagram, as well as weave in important personal bits, such as a cousin with a new job.
"When I wake up in the morning and see all my friends are sharing the exact same news story or video, I know it must be something big," Facebook director of design Julie Zhuo said.
"You get a richer, simpler, more beautiful News Feed focused on the things you care about, what your friends are saying, and what is trending," she said.
Forrester social analyst Nate Elliott was unimpressed with the overhaul, saying it returned control users once had at the social network, while alienating companies that have invested in building followings at Facebook pages.
"Marketers have spent billions of dollars in the past two years buying friends and 'likes' on Facebook and Facebook has encouraged them to do that," Elliott said.
"Slowly but surely, Facebook keeps making those fans, those 'likes,' less usable for those brands," he said.


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KANSAS CITY -- Ervin Santana continued the growing Royals custom of going deep, for the starting pitcher that is.
Santana shut out the Cleveland Indians for seven innings as the Royals fashioned a 3-2 victory on Saturday night at Kauffman Stadium. The win was the fourth in the last five games for the first-place Royals, who survived a ninth-inning comeback by the last-place Indians.View Full Game Coverage
KANSAS CITY -- Ervin Santana continued the growing Royals custom of going deep, for the starting pitcher that is.
Santana shut out the Cleveland Indians for seven innings as the Royals fashioned a 3-2 victory on Saturday night at Kauffman Stadium. The win was the fourth in the last five games for the first-place Royals, who survived a ninth-inning comeback by the last-place Indians.View Full Game Coverage
His catcher, Salvador Perez, delivered the big blow -- a two-run homer that brought the crowd of 19,224 to its feet.
Santana gave the Royals their 16th outing of six innings or more by a starting pitcher in their 20 games, increasingly validating the decision to restructure the rotation over the winter. They didn't get that many such starts until their 41st game last year.
In all five of Santana's starts, he's gone six or more innings. In his seven innings against the Tribe, he gave up six hits and no walks with five strikeouts.
Afterward, Perez got on the fringe of a ring of reporters who were interviewing Santana.
"I'm just trying to stay on the same page with the catcher and not shake [him off] too much and just throw strikes," Santana said seriously.
Perez let a big smile play across his face.
"He didn't shake me, that's why he's good," Perez said, not so seriously.
Perez, a big right-handed hitter, hit his first home run with an opposite-field drive just inside the foul pole in right. It came on Scott Kazmir's 0-1 pitch with Jeff Francoeur, who walked, on base in the second inning.
"That ball wasn't even a strike. It was up and away and it just shows you how strong he is, to be able to muscle a ball right down the line out of the ballpark," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "It was a big lift for us."
Perez was prepared for such a pitch.
"It was up and away. I don't know how I hit it," Perez said. "But I saw a lot of video on him and he throws away a lot to a righty. ... I like to hit the ball the other way."
Kazmir was rather amazed that Perez could reach the pitch.
"It was probably behind a left-handed batter if he was in that box," Kazmir said. "I've never seen anything like that, someone to connect with a ball that far off the plate. But he did and he didn't miss it."
The Indians made a big production of trying to come back against Santana in the third, but failed. Singles by Drew Stubbs, Jason Kipnis and Asdrubal Cabrera loaded the bases with one out. But Nick Swisher promptly lashed a double-play grounder to second baseman Elliot Johnson to stifle the threat.
"That was big right there," Santana said. "Especially when I could keep the ball down -- I just threw the sinker down and away and I got the groundball double play."
Kazmir, who pitched last year in an independent league, went five innings and gave up five hits and two walks. The two-time All-Star with Tampa Bay notched the 1,000th strikeout of his career when he fanned Miguel Tejada in the fourth inning. Pretty good, considering Tejada had hit .414 against Kazmir over the years.
Indians manager Terry Francona wore a path to the mound in the seventh when he employed five -- count 'em -- five relievers in the inning. It worked pretty well because the Royals got just one run out of a big two-out threat.
But, as it turned out, it was the winning run.
After two outs, Alex Gordon singled and, while Francona determinedly mixed and matched his relievers with hitters, two walks loaded the bases for Eric Hosmer. Left-hander Rich Hill fed Hosmer a succession of slow curveballs. Hosmer missed one, but the count went to 3-1. What he wanted to do was whack an opposite-field liner to left.
"You've just got to step out, take a deep breath, not let the situation get out of control and slow everything down," Hosmer said.
He did just that and took ball four, forcing in Gordon. But that's where the fun stopped because Joe Smith relieved Hill and got Lorenzo Cain to tap out.
After such a long inning, Yost decided against sending Santana out for the eighth.
"He was at 97 pitches and, after the long layoff, we got [Kelvin] Herrera going quick and got him into the game," Yost said.
Herrera survived Michael Brantley's leadoff double and a two-out walk to send the game into closer Greg Holland's hands. And it almost slipped away.
Following a pop out, the Indians got two runners on without a ball leaving the infield. Mark Reynolds' slow roller down the line was let go by third baseman Mike Moustakas and the ball hit the bag for a single.
"I thought it was going foul and it just kind of held up there," Moustakas said.
Yost approved: "He wasn't going to get the guy anyway. For me, it was a great decision."
Then Hosmer botched Lonnie Chisenhall's bouncer at first base for an error.
"It was just a mental mistake by me," Hosmer said. "I wanted to take a step back and throw to second. ... In that situation, you just want to play for an out and step on first and then throw to second."
Holland struck out Stubbs, but Brantley lashed a triple into the right-center gap to score both runners and the score was 3-2 with a runner at third.
"It just shows you how big a three-run lead is," Holland said.
When Kipnis missed swinging on strike three, the ball got away from Perez by a few feet. But Kipnis, instead of making Perez throw to first base for the out, didn't run and was tagged out to end the game.
"He didn't even make an effort which was nice," Holland said.


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The life of Omer G. Voss
Born September 14, 1916, on a farm in Downs, Kansas, Omer G. Voss grew up in Phillips County where his father worked for the Sheriff's Department. He attended grade school in Long Island and high school in Phillipsburg, Kansas. Mr. Voss was a beloved husband to his late wife of 69 years, Annabelle K. Voss, and a loving father of Jerrol Ann (Hermann) Pohl and Omer G. Voss, Jr.
After graduating in 1937 with a Political Science degree from Fort Hays Kansas State College (now Fort Hays State University), Mr. Voss earned a Doctor of Law degree from the University of Kansas two years later and achieved valedictorian of his Law School class. As a varsity debater at both universities, he was a member of the Pi Kappa Delta and Delta Sigma Rho debate fraternities.
Mr. Voss was an avid horseshoe player, good enough to be the Kansas state champion for several years. Even in recent years, Omer would tell Tim Chapman, President and CEO of the FHSU Foundation, that Tim could never beat him in horseshoes or at typing, as Omer was reportedly clocked at typing an astounding 132 words per minute.


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Cash-starved: 10 fundraising losers
Money isn't everything in politics, but it sure hurts when you don't have enough. And according to the latest fundraising reports, some 2014 candidates are in serious pain.
The figures from last year's fourth quarter show some notable pols amassing just a fraction of their opponents' dollars, while at least one couldn't even break the $10,000 mark. With races about to heat up, the numbers say a lot about who's running strong — and who isn't.
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Who's got the most catching up to do? Here's POLITICO's look at the top 10 losers from the latest reports:
Rick Allen
Georgia Rep. John Barrow has proved himself to be a savvy pol. While other House Blue Dogs vanish, he's managed to survive in a conservative, Augusta-area district. He's currently the only white Democrat representing a seat in the Deep South.
This year, Republicans are determined to unseat him. But they've got a problem. Rick Allen, a construction company owner and the leading GOP candidate in the race, raised just $108,000 during the fourth quarter — only about a third of what Barrow brought in. If Allen wants to unseat the scrappy Barrow, he'll have to seriously pick up the pace.
Joe Baca
When Baca announced that he would be trying to unseat vulnerable GOP Rep. Gary Miller it surprised, well, just about everyone. After all, Baca, a former Democratic congressman who represented a nearby Southern California district, had once been a Miller ally.
At this point, it's not clear whether Baca's waging a serious campaign. He raised a paltry $20,000 during the fourth quarter, far less than what most of his opponents brought in. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has rallied around one of Baca's Democratic primary foes, Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar, who raised about seven times more cash than Baca did last quarter.
Lindsey Graham's challengers
A year ago, tea party activists were chomping at the bit to unseat Graham, South Carolina's senior senator. But he has spent the past year building up his conservative street cred by attacking President Barack Obama on issues such as the Benghazi, Libya, attacks, while raising mountains of cash. His reelection campaign raised $1.3 million in the fourth quarter and has an eye-popping $7.6 million cash on hand.
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Graham doesn't have any serious Democratic opponents, and each of his four GOP primary foes has struggled in the fundraising department. During the fourth quarter, none of them came close to eclipsing even the $300,000 figure. Graham's task is to break 50 percent in the June 10 primary so he can avoid a two-way runoff for the GOP nomination.
Joni Ernst
Ernst, a state senator who is competing for Iowa's open Senate seat, has the backing of many in the Republican establishment. Yet she has struggled to raise cash: She brought in only $203,000 during the final three months of last year after only raising about $250,000 during the quarter before.
It's a problem because her main rival for the nomination, energy company executive Mark Jacobs, has the ability to pour in millions of dollars from his own pocket. It's also a problem because Rep. Bruce Braley, the Democratic contender, raised $1 million in the fourth quarter and has $2.6 million on hand.
Ed FitzGerald
Ohio voters overturned Republican Gov. John Kasich's anti-collective bargaining bill by referendum in 2011, a stinging rebuke of his first-year agenda. But he's now in surprisingly good shape to win reelection and chatter about him running for president again in 2016 is picking up.
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The latest piece of good news for the governor is a $3.9 million fundraising haul in the past six months of 2013. His Democratic opponent, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, raised only $1.6 million from July through January.
FitzGerald has struggled to gain traction. He recently dumped his running mate, state Sen. Eric Kearney, who came under fire for reportedly failing to pay taxes on his business.
Art Halvorson
Halvorson is waging a Republican primary campaign against a powerful gavel holder in Pennsylvania, House Transportation Committee chairman Rep. Bill Shuster, and he seems to be hitting the skids.
The businessman and retired Coast Guard captain raised less than $9,000 during the final fundraising quarter last year – a pittance. Halvorson's taken in just $152,000 over the course of the campaign, compared with Shuster's more than $2.1 million. With such a financial deficit it's hard to see how Halvorson seriously competes in the May 20 primary against Shuster, who has represented south-central Pennsylvania's 9th District since 2001.


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I'm going to fly to LA today. I would normally fly United because of miles/upgrades but the Gotham Gal booked this flight and we are going Virgin. I find flying on Virgin like going to a nightclub because of the lighting and I avoid it as a result.
It got me thinking about airlines in general. You hear people complain all the time about airlines but you don't hear that many folks talk about airlines they love. As I have some long flights to asia and other far flung parts of the world in my future, I figured it would be fun to talk about the best airlines in the world, instead of the worst.
The best airlines I've flown on regularly are British Airways and Lufthansa. If it were up to me, I would fly the international airlines over the US airlines every day of the week.
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Kansas doctor killed in small plane crash
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a doctor died in the crash of a small plane in western Kansas.
The patrol says the plane went down Saturday evening in a field in Greeley County, about 11 miles west of Tribune.
The pilot, 63-year-old Dr. Randall Fahrenholtz of Tribune, died at a hospital. No one else was on board the plane. He worked for Greeley County Health Systems.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
Fahrenholtz graduated from Sterling College in 1972 and graduated from the University of Kansas Medical School in Kansas City and Wichita in 1975.


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Broker is Liberty City's equivalent to Brooklyn. Attached to Dukes (Queens), Broker (known also as King's County) shares the distinction with Dukes of being the only two boroughs of Liberty City's (or New York City's) five boroughs to be attached to one another. The line between where Dukes ends at its south end and Broker begins at its north end is somewhat nebulous, but two good ways to figure it out is to either go south of the Algonquin Dukes Expressway, or to draw an invisible line from the southernmost section of the Francis International Airport, which brings you to almost identical geographic points.
Broker is the very first borough you visit in the game. Niko arrives from Eastern Europe in Broker, he has his first safe house with Roman there, the first missions in the game occur there, and you meet your first friends (Mallorie, Little Jacob) and enemies (Dimitri, Faustin) there. So, you'll find that you'll explore it pretty efficiently from the get-go. Considering it's somewhat of a hub of activity for you early on, you'll find it well-stocked with places to visit and other important locations of interest. For instance, Broker has two police stations, a hospital and a firehouse. But it also has an eatery in the 69th Street Diner, a couple of bars, a clothing shop, a bowling alley, billiards, and even an internet café. That's a whole lot for what is, indeed, the game's second smallest borough (only Bohan is smaller).
Outlook Park is a large outdoor park located in the center of the borough. Soldiers Plaza at the northeast end of the park is the main attraction there. Broker Navy Yard on the west side of the borough is where some action goes down at various parts of the game. Otherwise, you'll find Broker to be a rather densely-populated borough with plenty of buildings and roads to explore. And for the inherent criminal inside all GTAIV players, there are two especially important landmarks you'll want to make note of—a weapons shop off of Tutelo Avenue, and a Pay 'N Spray at the south end of Outlook Park off of Gibson Street.
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Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
This series of interactive activities introduces and models the Historical Thinking Skills defined by the National Center for History in the Schools. The interactives each model a specific skill or set of skills, such as analyzing historical artifacts or using primary sources to develop a thesis. The first five interactives conclude with "Classroom Extensions," which give teachers hints on how they can teach using these skills in their classrooms. The final interactive, Balancing Sources, includes input from our advisory board of teachers, modeling how they might use the primary sources within the interactive.
This interactive focuses on the concept of Chronological Thinking. Using the example of Pocahontas, teachers explore how historical representations change over time, and often reflect the period in which the representation was created.
This interactive should take 20-30 minutes to complete.
While teachers may be familiar with analyzing historical documents, this interactive introduces them to the process of analyzing historical artifacts. Many of the same criteria are considered, and this interactive provides a framework from which to begin this work.
This interactive should take 20-30 minutes to complete.
Cartographic literacy is an important skill, and this interactive provides a basic foundation in reading and analyzing maps as historic artifacts.
This interactive should take 20-30 minutes to complete.
This interactive guides teachers through the process of evaluating primary sources and determining their support of a given thesis. Using the Civil War as the example, teachers rank the relevancy of sources in relation to four common beliefs as to the cause of the war.
This interactive should take 30-45 minutes to complete.
This interactive allows teachers to curate their own museum exhibit, centered on the theme of "Conflicts in American History." Teachers select artifacts, letters. paintings, and other items that reflect this theme. Then, they are able to write their own descriptions of the items that tie them to the larger theme. Finally, teachers are able to view and print their final compiled exhibit.
This interactive should take 45-60 minutes to complete.
This interactive invites teachers to examine historical events, consider how they have been portrayed in different sources, and create a narrative that considers the various perspectives represented. Teachers examine a variety of primary sources from major eras of American History, and choose several sources to represent different perspectives of the era.This interactive should take 30-40 minutes per era to complete.
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OTTAWA - The only honor that outshines being a member of Team Canada, in whatever sporting incarnation, is that of being the designated 'Captain', who must lead the charge for The Great White North.
For Windsor, Ontario native Petey Williams, only now approaching his third year as a professional wrestler, the prestige of holding such a title is somewhat overwhelming.
"It feels really good when they pick you to represent Team Canada and 30-million-plus people," is how Williams described his new found prestige with Nashville-based Total Nonstop Action (www.nwatna.com).
In a recent interview with SLAM! Wrestling, the 5-foot-7, 180-pound Petey Williams (his real name) spoke about the awe-inspiring sensation of appearing on the promotion's weekly pay per view and television show on FOX SportsNet.
"It's more than you can imagine. It's almost like this can't be happening. I never thought in my wildest dreams, since I started wrestling, that I would make it on TV," said Williams. "I always thought I would be stuck on the indies, then I got this opportunity."
A wrestling fan since he was six, one can understand Williams' state of wonderment as he recalled his first ever Wednesday night PPV appearance.
"My first match ever on TNA was against Juventud Guerrera," he said. "Before I was even in the business, I was watching him on WCW doing his thing and now I get to work with him in the ring. It was great!"
In fact, the match would turn out to be a three way, along with Jerry Lynn.
But what made his debut even more memorable was the simple fact that Williams was a last-minute replacement for an injured Teddy Hart.
"Teddy Hart hurt his knee and I filled in for him with ten minutes to spare," explained Williams, who would go on to win his debut bout via pinfall over Guerrera.
In doing so, not only did Williams prove himself worthy of a spot on the TNA X Division roster, but inherited the position of Captain for Team Canada.
Reflecting on what he has achieved in a relatively short period of time, Williams credited his training under fellow Windsor native -- and current Team Canada manager -- Coach Scott D'Amore.
"I can say 100% that if there was no Scott D'Amore, there would be no Petey Williams on PPV right now," Williams proclaimed. "Scott was the one who trained me and he's always been a fan of my work."
Prior to his arrival in TNA, Williams was striving to make a name for himself with various independent promotions in the United States. That drive caught the attention of D'Amore.
"Scott saw that I was making the big effort and he said it's time that you got what you deserved. He got my foot in the door and I thank Scott everyday."
During his time with TNA, Williams has bared witness to two incarnations of Team Canada. The first version consisted of Williams and Calgary-based workers Johnny Devine, Jack Evans (who is in fact from the United States) and Teddy Hart.
"They restructured the team because of complications with bookings. It was myself and Johnny Devine again, with the new additions being Bobby Roode and "Showtime" Eric Young," he explained. "Teddy Hart was the captain and when he stepped down I was able to fill the captain role."
As Williams and his fellow members of Team Canada have discovered, they are far from being embraced by the TNA fans as typical, happy-go-luck lads from north of the border.
"Everybody hates Canada. When you're in the U.S., they hate Canada just because it's been portrayed like that on TV," remarked Williams, adding that D'Amore has played a major role in drawing the ire of wrestling fan.
"Scott D'Amore has a lot of heat on us. People just hate him. When we meet American fans after the shows, they say 'You guys need to get rid of Scott D'Amore! You would be so much better.' But what they mean is, if we didn't have Scott, people would start popping for us and we would be babyfaces. So it's good that we have Scott with us."
Ultimately, it is Williams who has strived to elevate himself to being a must-see X Division talent, by executing a crisp, airborne ring style. Backing this up with his patented Canadian Destroyer finisher (best described as a reverse sunset pile driver), and there is no mistaking Williams' longevity.
Among fans who have followed his exploits, few would dispute that Williams brought his wrestling abilities to a new level with his participation in the Ultimate X match in May. Facing off against fellow Border City Wrestling graduate Chris Sabin and Mexican wrestling great Hector Garza, Williams proved his ability to handle the main event pressure.
Speaking of Sabin, Williams mentioned the unique cohesion he shares, nurtured from their days as rookies learning the trade under D'Amore.
"Just reading the internet reports, they think Chris Sabin and I click very good in the ring," Williams said. "We were always able to do that on the indy market and we know each other's moves. Chris Sabin is a phenomenal athlete, he can click with anyone. When we're putting together matches, we don't have to talk about it much because we know each other so well. It's always great working with Chris."
Williams also credited the TNA organization for establishing a productive environment where workers can strive to excel in the ring. "Of all the companies that are trying to build themselves, they (TNA) are the top company. The locker room is great, the morale is good, everybody is friendly and the guys are always great to work with."
For the time being, Williams still resides in Windsor, making the weekly trek to Nashville and Orlando for the PPV and televised tapings. Although working towards acquiring a work visa that will allow him to remain in the United States on a more permanent basis, he is content, for now, to keeping himself rooted in his native land.
"Hey, you gotta keep it real when you're Team Canada," said Williams.
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Is Art Therapy the Answer for Dementia? By Karen Weintraub, Globe Correspondent
Making music, painting, or dancing — and seeing or hearing it — may be the most effective treatment for dementia to date
At NewBridge on the Charles in Dedham, a retirement community and assisted living facility, residents participate in an art therapy class for Alzheimer's patients.
DEDHAM — Carla shook a tambourine, while Dorothy played the xylophone and Leni tapped her palms gently on an African drum. Vivian declined an instrument, but shimmied her shoulders when the music moved her.
Their walkers stood ready and their voices were wispy with age, but the eight group members sang with purpose, remembering every word of the Doris Day classic without prompting.
"We were sailing along, on Moonlight Bay. We could hear the voices ringing . . .," they sang.
When they had finished "love's old sweet song" and given themselves a round of applause, Clara proclaimed the group "ready for Symphony Hall."
This music class at Hebrew Senior Life's NewBridge on the Charles campus is what today's cutting-edge Alzheimer's treatment looks like.
Medications can't stop the disease's inexorable damage to the mind, and stress and agitation often remain challenging despite drug treatment. But a growing number of Alzheimer's institutions and caregivers are realizing that a musical walk down memory lane — a dance class, storytelling session, art project, or museum tour — can do more than offer pleasant diversions. They can improve a number of disease symptoms as well as quality of life.
At a recent conference titled Artz and Dementia, some 150 Boston-area health professionals gathered at NewBridge on the Charles to learn how to provide the most benefit for people who are losing mental abilities.
The basic idea is to use art to engage and connect with people with dementia, said John Zeisel , president and cofounder of Hearthstone Alzheimer Care. No matter how many memories they've lost, an essential piece of who they always were still remains, said Zeisel, author of "I'm Still Here," a 2009 book that focuses on this approach.
"It's a human rights issue that everybody needs to be able to have a life," Zeisel told conference attendees. "What is a life without creativity and art and discovery and learning?"
Even people who were not artistic or music lovers in their youth can be inspired by the sound of a song they heard on their first date, or by a painting that evokes an emotion, the speakers said.
For one woman, listening to Frank Sinatra brought her back to the happy summers of her teens when she would fall asleep by the radio, Marian Brown, associate director of Artz: Artists for Alzheimer's, told the crowd.
"For her, it was very clearly something that triggered a deep-rooted memory," Brown said. Recent memories and thinking ability may decline with Alzheimer's, but long-term memories are still there, as are emotions.
"We don't lose the ability to express joy," added her colleague, Dee Brenner, Artz program coordinator.
The two help organize weekly local museum tours for people with Alzheimer's, and walked conference audience members through some basic strategies for making such visits successful: Greet people when they arrive, remind them where they are, and make sure the artwork is big enough to be visible to a group.
"How does this make you feel? What do you see?" Brenner asks when leading a tour. She'll avoid violent or disturbing images — but not sexual ones, which spur conversation, she said.
One of the key benefits of doing or appreciating art, Zeisel said, is that it challenges people who are usually doted on.
"When you are cared for, you lose your sense of who you are," he said. "Everybody with dementia has a lot going for them. They can experience, they can be present, and they can develop."
In the six facilities Zeisel's organization runs in Massachusetts and New York, residents are encouraged to participate in regular artistic activities. They can usually choose between two activities at a time, and can also opt out.
At Hearthstone's Marlborough residence, some 35 of the home's 45 residents used to get agitated in the evenings, a common problem in Alzheimer's known as sundowning. But when music therapist Joshua J. Freitas started playing soothing instrumental music at dinner time — he's partial to recordings by cellist Yo-Yo Ma — most of the residents relaxed. Now, on a typical day, only eight or 10 need extra help from the staff.
Robert Stern, a professor of neurology and neurosurgery at Boston University, said a growing body of research is confirming the anecdotal evidence that the arts can improve quality of life, reduce stress, and allow the person to better connect to the world. Recent research suggests music can boost recall of personal memories.
"Whether it be fine arts, music, listening to music, going to museums. All those things do not have an impact on the disease per se. What they do most likely is they get through to the person with Alzheimer's by exploiting the areas of the brain which are least impaired," said Stern, also the director of BU's Alzheimer's Disease Center's Clinical Core. "Anything that can touch the patient through that network of brain [areas] can have a profound impact."
Medications such as cholinesterase inhibitors may be able to slow some of the memory loss of Alzheimer's and allow people to live independently longer. But all of the efforts to develop drugs to reverse memory loss and the behavioral changes of Alzheimer's have failed so far. Researchers think that's because the damage of Alzheimer's begins years, if not decades before symptoms become obvious. They are now testing drugs in people likely to develop the disease, to see if they are more effective.
Instead of just warehousing dementia patients until more effective medications are discovered or patients die, Zeisel said, "Our present challenge is to provide people with a life worth living while they're alive."
Dance therapist Donna Newman-Bluestein said one vehicle for a life worth living is dance. As long as people have bodies, they are capable of — and should be given an opportunity for — moving and dancing, she told the attendees at last month's conference.
People with dementia often lack the initiative to begin movement on their own, so they sit, immobile for hours, Newman-Bluestein said. "If someone else gets them going, they can engage, and they can move a lot more."
The medical model of treating Alzheimer's is to focus on what someone isn't doing and try to fix it, she said. The arts model looks at what they are doing and tries to build on that ability.
"I see joy when they're moving. I see them transformed by their movement," she said
Writers and poets also see their art as a way to reach people, regardless of age or prognosis.
"Story and poetry helps connect to the person within," said Alan O'Hare, a storyteller and playwright who often works with Alzheimer's patients.
He described one nursing home resident he had largely ignored because she spent most of the day doing nothing but moving her eyes diagonally up and down. He decided to ask her about it. "I'm dancing all day," she told him. Hearing that "changed my whole relationship with her," O'Hare said.
David Kaplan of Waltham said he's seen his wife, Nancy, benefit somewhat from the art classes she gets in the NewBridge memory care unit.
Asked at a recent class to make a collage of things that bring her comfort, Nancy pasted pictures of a kitchen, a wine glass, and a piano.
She didn't make art as a younger person, according to her husband, but the coloring and collaging keeps her engaged and relatively happy in the class a few hours a week.
"There is, I would say, a calming influence when they're in there," said David, who spends six hours a day, four days a week with his wife.
Diana K. Miller, program manager of Nancy's facility, said anxiety levels would rise without the classes, which give residents a sense of where they're supposed to be and what they're supposed to be doing. Art also helps people to continue communicating, even when they are losing their verbal abilities, she said.
"Using music and art and movements that don't rely on verbal skills allows people to succeed," she said. "The primary language is emotion with this disease."
In the music class on the floor below Nancy's, the group remembered all the words to the Bing Crosby classic "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." Then they played their instruments for a few minutes, while program coordinator Sally Harrison led them on her flute.
Someone accidentally bumped a switch and the overhead lights went out.
"Should'a paid the bill," Clara piped up, before most of the others could get anxious about the loss of light.
"You should have been a standup comic," Harrison told her.
"Yeah, I look in the mirror and I laugh," Clara shot back.
"I look at your smile and I feel better," her neighbor, Carla, responded.
Harrison ended the class by making eye contact with each of the participants and sharing a smile.
"So nice to be making music with all of you," she said.
"Love it," Clara quickly replied.
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Yeah, Chris Hemsworth from 'Thor' is sexy and all, but did you know he has a super hot kid brother named Liam? He was in a little movie called 'The Hunger Games.' Maybe you've heard of it.
The Australian native has starred in films like 'Knowing,' 'The Last Song,' and 'The Hunger Games.' In 'The Hunger Games' series of films, Hemsworth plays Gale Hawthorne, a dude from Katniss' home district who has a bit of a thing for our heroine.
But, you know, she hooked up with that baker's son named Peeta, so we're sure there's going to be some drama in the second movie. (As much as Peeta is adorable and all, we'd totally pick Gale.)
Hemsworth co-starred with Miley Cyrus in 'The Last Song,' and the two struck up a tabloid-friendly relationship. They're engaged but have been on and off so many times that no one's ever quite sure what's going on with them. That said, she's still wearing her ring (as of this writing, anyway) so he's officially off the market for now.
Tabloids aside, you can next see sexy Liam Hemsworth in the films 'Empire State' and 'Paranoia.' And, of course, in the shots below.
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Egyptian tribal leaders no longer command the votes of their clans
In a village on the outskirts of this southern hub, Hala Ali smiled Thursday morning after a casual act of defiance at the ballot box.
Her uncle, a prominent member from one of the three main tribes that control most aspects of life in this region, had instructed the clan to vote for the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, Mohammed Morsi, in Egypt's landmark presidential poll.
Instead, she voted for Morsi's archrival, the more moderate Islamist Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh.
"My uncle told us we need to unify the votes for our family, but everybody just chose who they wanted – especially the youth," said Ali, 21.
Ali's independence would've been shocking here even a year ago, when the orders of clan leaders were law and their subjects fell in line. But Tahrir Square's infectious rebel spirit has spread to the upper Nile countryside, residents said, making it very difficult these days for tribal leaders to deliver intact voting blocs to the many candidates courting them.
All of Egypt's recent trends – the rise of political Islam, the revolutionary spirit of the young, a wariness of the Brotherhood and a resurgence of old-regime sympathy – have converged here to chip away at the once-unquestioned authority of tribal leaders.
The Qena tribes are still important, and virtually every candidate has wooed them in hopes of winning over the 3 million residents of Qena province. But tribal leaders here can no longer give ironclad promises on behalf of their hundreds of thousands of members.
"It's changed by about 80 percent from the time when the tribes used force and pressure on us to vote for what the tribe wants," said Ali Ahmed Sayed, 43, a Morsi supporter and the imam of a mosque in the village of Ashraaf, which is named for the tribe that inhabits it.
The cleric stood on the unpaved road in front of the village polling place chatting with his neighbors, all fellow tribesmen, including those who openly told him that they'd shunned Islamists in favor of an Arab nationalist, Hamdeen Sabahi.
"In the same house, there are differences now," Sayed said. "This is a healthy atmosphere."
Before Egypt's uprising against Hosni Mubarak's regime, the heads of Qena's powerful tribes were reliable supporters of the formerly ruling National Democratic Party, and in exchange received plum local security and municipal posts.
With those days gone, tribal leaders are now split in their endorsements – with one village endorsing Morsi, for example, and its neighbor a couple of banana groves away pledging allegiance to Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafik.
"Shafik came and fixed whatever deal with the tribal leaders, but the people will vote how they want," said Soad Abdel Radi, 36, a mother of seven who walked half an hour in the searing heat to cast a ballot for Shafik's rival, former Arab League chief Amr Moussa.
She and her friend, 42-year-old Fatima Abdullah, both said they'd chosen Moussa because they didn't know enough about Shafik or other secular candidates and resented the Islamists for providing community service based on conditions.
"They tell us, 'Be with us to get help. Grow out your beard and we'll give you gas,'" Abdullah said, shaking her head in disapproval.
Many tribal leaders who were erstwhile Mubarak allies made a shrewd about-face when they saw the Brotherhood's ascent; they allied with the group's spinoff Freedom and Justice Party during parliamentary elections last winter. The local clans held more sway in those polls, residents said, because candidates from the tribes were running for office to represent Qena in the People's Assembly.
Nearly all the province's 18 seats in the assembly went to Islamists, undoubtedly in large part because of tribal endorsements. Judging from the heated debates in and around Qena province's polling stations, however, such voter unity shouldn't be expected for the presidential election.
"I don't listen to the tribal leaders anymore – the youth made everybody more aware," said Hassan Mohamed Ali, 67, from in the village of Gablaw, also named for a clan. "The leaders used to tell us, 'Vote for this or that,' but now they say, 'Go ahead, it's your choice.'"
For Ali, that choice is Moussa, the Mubarak-era foreign minister, and not because he's a fan of the candidate's platform. His first pick was the Brotherhood's Morsi, but the group failed to deliver on promises to address the village's complete lack of sewerage.
Raw sewage still spills from every home and pools in the narrow dirt roads, creating a health crisis that's especially devastating for children and the elderly, Ali said.
"We cooperated with the Brotherhood in the parliamentary election, but they proved even worse – they did nothing," Ali said. "We removed the old people from the National Democratic Party because the Brotherhood promised us change, but we've seen none, so we're going back to the old figures."
Eman Mohamed, 52, a women's advocate in the provincial capital, rattled off the names of six influential clans and their favored candidates – a mix of Islamists and former-regime officials – and added that the local Coptic Christian church, which is quietly backing Shafik, represented yet another important constituency.
Mohamed said that a lack of voter awareness stemming from the region's endemic poverty and illiteracy still ensures that each of those blocs is beneficial to their respective candidates. Still, she, too, has witnessed firsthand the effects of the nascent youth-led revolt against tribal authority.
She has one daughter campaigning for the secular Moussa, and another daughter whose top contender, the fundamentalist cleric Hazem Abu Ismail, was ruled ineligible to run. Mohamed's husband, a police officer who belongs to a rival tribe, was leaning toward Moussa, but he hadn't made a final decision just hours before polls closed.
Mohamed said she voted for Aboul Fotouh, even though her tribal leaders had instructed all members to vote for "the scales," the ballot symbol of the Brotherhood's Morsi.
"Aboul Futouh isn't going to make us wear facial veils and turn women into ghosts, but he also won't turn the whole country into a disco," she explained. "We need a moderate now."


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Banking Trojan Defeats 2-Factor Authentication
A report in MIT's Technology Review details how a bank account was compromised even though it required 2 factor authentication. The story is instructive.
The conventional malware threat to banking is to steal the username and password. This information is used then by the malicious third party (or whomever they sold it to) in order to steal the money of out it. But various different security systems can thwart this approach: They take note of unusual transactions from unusual locations and they can require a second factor of authentication, like a one-time password device.
Bank-heist trojans are an attractive proposition for thieves: This report claims that a gang in Ukraine bilked $6 million using the Zeus trojan, which may have been the specific malware used in the MIT article.
In the case in the MIT article, the user was using 2 factor authentication but it didn't matter. The trojan was running on the same system the user was on, so when the user authenticated then so did the trojan. It was able to perform transactions on that same system without having to know any credentials.
ZDNet's Dancho Danchev digs further into this phenomenon, citing studies on the growth of Zeus and its resistance to anti-virus. Security guru Bruce Schneier took the opportunity to restate his argument that "...two-factor authentication doesn't solve anything." This is an overstatementit surely doesn't solve everything, but it does solve a number of problems.


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Extracted from the book: Habits of Mind across the Curriculum (edited by Arthur L Costa and Bena Kallick)
Click HERE for the description of each of the Habit of Mind
We have identified 10 habits, that we think are relevant to our Maths classroom...
Here are some notes extracted from the book cited above
(1) Persisting
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will treat the whole world as if it were a nail
~ Edward de Bono
When we approach a problem, we often have the misconception that there is "one best strategy". If that strategy does not work, we give up in frustration.
People persist because they can draw on multiple ways to solve problems. If Plan A doesn't work, they back up and try Plan B. Therefore, we must celebrate multiple ways of finding solutions.
Good questions to ask ourselves:
- Who has another way to solve the problem?
- What is another approach to solving this problem?
- What are some other strategies?
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into smaller manageable tasks, then starting on the first one.
~ Mark Twain
Before a learning activity, time is usually taken to develop and discuss the strategies to attack the problems. Such work include rules, directions, time constraints, and purpose. We would use this guidance during our work and to evaluate our performance afterward.
During the activity, it is useful for us to be able to describe the strategy, why we choose to use it and reflect on how well that strategy is working. It is also helpful if we can describe the path we intend to pursue next to solve the problem.
(3) Think Flexibly
We enhance the habit of thinking flexibly when we must alter our perspective and see things from other points of view. Let's try to solve a problem "outside" our best learning style.
Let us describe how we could look at a problem differently.
For example, can we find the pattern in this string of letters? AEFHIKLMNTVWXYZ
(4) Thinking about Thinking (Metacognition)
Thinking aloud... allowed!
Describing our thinking while we solve a problem seems to beget even more thinking. We must do mre than learn how to find answers. we must become aware of the cognitive processes that produced answers.
When reflecting on our learning, it is useful to ask ourselves these questions...
- What did I do first?
- What steps did I take when I was uncertain about my work?
- How did I change my course of action? Was it profitable?
- If I were to do this work again, is there anything that I would do differently? If so, describe what that might be and why I would do it.
When we check for accuracy, we should ask questions like...
- How do we know we are right?
- What other ways can we prove that we are correct?
- What did we do first?
- What clues did we have that we were on the right track?
- How did we know where to begin?
- What led us to make that decision?
- When we said we started at the beginning, how did we know where to begin?
Astronauts use [the Habit of Mind] checking for accuracy before each space mission!
Striving for accuracy is of great value not only in classroom but in the wider world as well. Pharmaceutical research, surgery, piloting, bookkeeping - all require a commitment to accuracy.
Some skills and strategies that we could apply when striving for accuracy and precision:
- Always check the working and presentation
- Show your work to a friend for feedback
- Review the rubric to see if we have met the criteria before turning in our work
- Don't just write the answer. Show the work so that we can go back and find errors
- Learn from our mistakes so we won't make them again
- Know the rules and apply them
- Use a different strategy than the first one to see if we get the same answer
- Make sure we know what the instructions mean before we begin
It is in the formulation of the problem that individuality is expressed, that creativity is stimulated, that nuances and subtleties are discovered
~ Herbert Thelen
It is helpful for us to pose study questions for ourselves before and during our reading of textual material. Self generating questions facilitate comprehension. We know that reading with a purpose stimulates a more focused mind. Questioning while reading provides an opportunity for us to predict what is coming next in the story.
(7) Applying Past Knowledge to New Situation
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge and the brake is our lack of imagination.
~ Julian Simon
Whenever we begin a new learning, pose questions that will get us to search our memories to brainstorm and generate past knowledge:
- What do we remember about...?
- When have we ever seen anything like this?
- As we recall...
- Tell what I already know about...
- If you were to design a new...?
- What would it be like if...?
- Where else would you use this information?
- In what other situations could we apply this?
- In what careers and jobs would this Habit of Mind be needed?
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
~ Winston Churchill
Our oral language is often filled with omissions, generalisations and vagueness. Our language is value laden, sometimes deceiving, and conceptual rather than operational.
Being alert to this vagueness and then clarifying or probing for specificity causes others to define our terms, become more specific about our actions, make precise comparisons and use accurate descriptors. Clarifying language also clarifies thoughts.
The vague terms we use fall into several categories:
- Universals: always, never, all, everybody
- Vague action verbs: know about, understand, appreciate
- Comparators: better, newer, cheaper, more
- Unreferenced pronouns: they, them, we
- Unspecific groups: teachers, parents, things
- Assumed rules or traditions: ought, should, must
- When you hear: He NEVER listens to me
- Clarify by probing for specificity: "Never" or "Never ever?"
- When you hear: EVERYBODY has one
- Clarify by probing for specificity: "Everybody?" or "Who, exactly?"
- When you hear: THINGS go better with...
- Clarify by probing for specificity: "Which things, specifically?"
- When you hear: Things go BETTER with...
- Clarify by probing for specificity: "Better than what?"
When our senses are dull and sluggish, our thinking is dull and sluggish. All information gets into the head through our sensory pathways. Sensory exercises therefore hone our powers of perception:
- Sight
- Touch
- Sound
- Smell
- Taste
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
~ Michael De Montaigne
After each cooperative task is completed, take time to reflect on how well individuals and groups worked together:
- What contribute to the group's success?
- How did each group member contribute to and learn from the experience?


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No. 1 Softball Team Cruises to 4-2 Win Over Oklahoma State
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - In the first game of the Farm Bureau Softball Challenge, the Cats defeat Oklahoma State, 4-2.
The Cats started things off quickly scoring two runs in the first inning. Leadoff hitter junior Lovie Jung walked and advanced to second on a passed ball. Freshman Courtney Fossatti walked and senior Jennie Finch singled to right center, moving Fossatti to third and scoring Jung. Fossatti scored the last run on a passed ball.
Oklahoma State earned their first run in the second inning when Jade Lindly homered over the right fence.
The Cowgirls tied the game in the fourth inning as Ryan Realmuto homered to left field.Arizona scored the final two runs of the game in the top of the seventh inning on an error by OSU's left fielder. The Wildcats put runners on first and second base as sophomore Mackenzie Vandergeest doubled and freshman Jackie Coburn walked. Sophomore Jenny Gladding followed Coburn and reached first as Oklahoma State left fielder Megan Carey committed her third error of the season. Vandergeest and Coburn scored on the error.
Gladding struck out 12 batters and walked one on her way to her 17th victory of the year. The Cats improve to 39-5. Arizona will continue play in the Farm Bureau Softball Challenge on Wednesday, April 17 at 7:30 when they face the University of Oklahoma.
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The best high schools in Connecticut 2014
U.S. News & World Report released its 2014 Best High School rankings, and 4 Fairfield County schools made the top 10 in Connecticut. In all, 19,411 public high schools were reviewed and 44 Connecticut schools made the rankings.
The top school in CT according to this ranking is Academy of Aerospace and Engineering in Hartford. The school also came in at number 15 in the U.S. rankings.
Weston comes in at number 3 in Connecticut, Wilton is 6, and Ridgefield and Staples came in at numbers 8 and 9.
The title of number one school in the country was given to School for the Talented and Gifted in Dallas, Texas.
According to U.S. News & World Report, Connecticut has 17 gold medal schools, 20 silver medal schools and seven bronze medal schools. In order to be eligible for a state ranking, a school must be awarded a national gold or silver medal.
The site explains that "a three-step process determined the Best High Schools. The first two steps ensured that the schools serve all of their students well, using performance on state proficiency tests as the benchmarks. For those schools that made it past the first two steps, a third step assessed the degree to which schools prepare students for college-level work."
- Step 1 determined whether each school's students were performing better than statistically expected for the average student in the state.
- Step 2 determined whether the school's least-advantaged students were performing better than average for similar students in the state.
- Step 3 judged college-readiness performance using Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate test data as the benchmarks for success.
Take a look at the top 25 high schools in Connecticut, and visit U.S. News & World Report for the full rankings.


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Visual impairment and proptosis due to bilateral sphenoorbital intraosseous meningiomas: a therapeutic challenge
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Objective: Bilateral intraosseous meningiomas of the sphenoid wing infiltrating both the orbits and the frontotemporal skull base with bilateral proptosis and visual impairment are extremely uncommon. Thus far, no treatment algorithms have been suggested for this entity. We report on the surgical management of three patients with bilateral hyperostotic sphenoorbital menigiomas.
Methods: All 3 patients underwent a pterional approach for surgical resection. Surgery was performed in two stages, primarily treating the most affected side. Treatment consisted of microsurgical resection of the infiltrated sphenoid wing and orbital walls, intraorbital tumor removal and optic nerve decompression. Orbital wall reconstruction was performed using titanium mesh allografts. Radiation therapy was administered in 1 patient with residual tumor infiltration of the cavernous sinus.
Results: Our series includes 2 women (51 and 68 years old) suffering from simultaneous progressive bilateral loss of vision and proptosis and 1 woman (69 years old), who developed contralateral disease after surgical resection of an intraosseous sphenoorbital meningioma 16 years earlier. After optic nerve decompression, vision improved in 2 cases after surgery. Initial visual deterioration was observed in 1 case but improved on long-term follow-up. The degree of proptosis was reduced in all treated eyes. There was no perioperative mortality.
Conclusions: In bilateral intraosseous sphenoorbital meningiomas, we propose staged surgery when clinical and radiological progression is observed. Although radical tumor resection is practically impossible in such extensive lesions, subtotal tumor resection with the aim of optic nerve decompression and subsequent orbital reconstruction provides satisfactory results. The most affected eye, which is not necessarily the eye with the most extensive tumor growth, should be treated first. In case of additional cavernous sinus infiltration, focal radiation therapy can be considered.