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The event took place last Thursday at the Barclays Center, where Markowitz reminded those in attendance of his vow to secure a national sports team for Brooklyn when he first took office in 2001.
Midway through his remarks, Markowitz said, "This year we're going to change it up. Get this podium out of here."
After a wardrobe change, the borough president emerged from backstage as fireworks went off inside the arena. With Markowitz in a white suit jacket, the stage was arranged to resemble a late-night talk show – "Brooklyn Tonight."
His co-host was Cat Greenfield of Stoop Talk, who helped Markowitz interview Steve Hindy of the Brooklyn Brewery and New York One anchor and Brooklyn resident Pat Kiernan, who did a Markowitz version of "In the Papers," memorializing the borough president's career in office.
Along with the talk show, Brooklyn's own Tony Danza came out and rapped a long list of famous people from Brooklyn.
Councilwoman Letitia James, who vociferously opposed the entire Atlantic Yards project as it was proposed, did something fort Markowitz she vowed never to do: step foot inside the Barclays Center.
"I can't imagine living in Brooklyn or politics without Marty Markowitz," James said. "Though we've disagreed from time to time, I'm here in the Barclays arena and I'm here in honor of the great Borough President Marty Markowitz."
Speaker Christine Quinn kicked off the event, which published reports estimated costs approximately $200,000, with an off-key acappella song "How do you solve the problem of losing Marty," a parody of the tune "How to you solve a problem like Maria."
Following her performance, the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir took the stage, something they did in Washington, D.C., recently for President Barack Obama's inauguration.
Sitting with other Brooklyn elected officials Councilman Steve Elvin called the event "an incredible send-off for one of the most beloved Brooklynites I have ever seen."
"Marty Markowitz epitomizes Brooklyn, and the show he put on was representative of all the incredible things that Brooklyn has to offer," he said.
One things Markowitz offered the audience was honestly, telling everyone exactly how he felt about journalists and the state of journalism..
"The line between opinion and news is becoming increasingly blurred, particularly in print media," he said.
During the course of the evening, many elected officials turned to their Twitter account to comment on the proceedings. Some eventually gave up.
"Ok, I've given up on tweeting the Marty Markowitz State of the Borough Variety Show," Councilman Brad Lander tweeted. "No way my twitter stream can match reality."
James said that while the event marked the beginning of Markowitz's exit from public office, she has a feeling he won't be forgotten.
"When you think of Brooklyn, you have to think of Marty Markowitz," she said.


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My Husband has Diabetes Type 2 and he checked his sugar this morning and it was 250. He`s has eaten some eggs and peanut butter afterwards checking the sugar. He works out 3 times a week and has started on a diet. What certain foods will be good for decreasing the sugar and what else will be good for him to do? Also; what are some good websites for him and or books? thanks
It is good that your husband is interested in managing his diabetes! And diet, weight control and exercise are all important ways to help control blood sugars. People with diabetes, just like the population in general, need to eat a healthy diet including a variety of whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, low fat dairy, lean protein and heart-healthy fats such as monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. Because carbohydrate foods (grains, fruits, starchy vegetables, milk and yogurt and sweets), are digested into blood sugar, a person with diabetes would want to eat a moderate, consistent amount of carbohydrate foods at meals. The amount of carbohydrate food recommended each meal is individualized to the person-there is no 'one-size-fits-all.'
For that reason, I recommend you and your husband meet with a certified diabetes educator (a health professional specializing in diabetes management). Your doctor may have someone to refer you to or you could go to the American Association of Diabetes Educators for a listing in your area.
Is your husband seeing a doctor for his diabetes? A doctor could evaluate his overall condition and recommend a treatment plan for his diabetes that could include medication, exercise recommendations, weight goals as well as taking care of any other health issues he may have. Because his blood sugar level is more than twice what is recommended for a person with diabetes, it would be advisable for your husband to make an appointment now to meet with his doctor. Diet and exercise are sometimes not enough alone to achieve good blood sugar control. There are many good medications that can help. His doctor could advise on this.
The American Diabetes Association publishes many books to help you and your husband learn about and manage his diabetes. Often the local public library will carry these books. You can also purchase them online as well. Websites that may contain helpful information are listed below.
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Meat Consumption Increases Risk of Breast Cancer
A substudy of the Diet, Cancer and Health study, a prospective cohort study established to evaluate the role of diet and cancer among 24,697 postmenopausal Danish women, was set up to evaluate the relationship between meat consumption and risk of breast cancer. This nested study looked at 378 women who developed breast cancer and matched them to controls who did not develop breast cancer. A higher intake of meat (red meat, poultry, fish, and processed meat) was associated with a significantly higher breast cancer incidence rate. Every 25 gram increase in consumption of total meat, red meat, and processed meat led to a 9, 15, and 23 percent increase in risk of breast cancer, respectively. However, the degree of risk may depend on genetics. Certain genes activate the carcinogens (heterocyclic amines) found in cooked meat. The study showed women with genes that rapidly activate these carcinogens are at particular risk of breast cancer if they eat meat.
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Published: February-2013
Guest post by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History at University of California at Irvine, and author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (2010).
I thought of this when Reuters ran an assessment of Xi Jinping's first weeks in power last months that in some venues carried this "chicken or beef" sort of headline: "China's New Leader: Reformist or Conservative?" Previous Chinese leaders have often turned out to have both reformist and conservative sides. Even Deng Xiaoping, considered the quintessential reformer due to his economic policies, held the line on political liberalization and backed the brutal 1989 crackdown. Mightn't Xi, too, end up ordering from the reformist and conservative sides of the menu?
A Valentine's Day for the books: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with Vice President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China and members of a Chinese delegation in the Oval Office, Feb. 14, 2012, several months before Xi became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Mo Yan's Nobel Prize win last fall, which continues to generate controversy, led some foreign commentators into a similar "chicken or beef" trap—or, rather, an "Ai Weiwei or Zhang Yimou" one. The former is an artist locked into an antagonistic relationship with the government, the latter a filmmaker who has been choreographing spectacles celebrating Communist Party rule, including both the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Games and a 2009 gala staged to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Since they are two of the only internationally prominent Chinese creative figures, some Westerners assumed Mo must be like one or the other.
In fact, the novelist shares traits with each but isn't all that similar to either. Like China's best-known artist, Mo has a penchant for mocking the powerful. And like the renowned filmmaker turned state choreographer, Mo works within the system, serving as a Vice-Chairman of the official writer's association and recently agreeing to be a delegate to the Chinese People's Consultative Political Conference. Unlike Ai Weiwei, though, Mo skewers only relatively safe targets, like the kinds of corrupt local officials that the central authorities don't mind seeing satirized, and instead of railing against censorship, he has likened it to an inconvenience akin to airport security protocols. And unlike Zhang Yimou, one of whose best films was based on the novelist's story "Red Sorghum," Mo has consistently produced iconoclastic works.
If Column A choices signal compliance and Column B ones criticism, the artist and filmmaker now stick to opposite sides of the menu, while Mo Yan keeps choosing from both—and he's not alone in this. Yu Hua, an author whose political choices I find more admirable, does this as well. He belongs to the official writer's association and his novels, like Mo's, generally satirize relatively safe targets. But Yu also pens trenchant essays on taboo topics, including the 1989 massacre. He's frustrated that these can only be published abroad, but glad that they end up circulating on the mainland in underground digital versions.
A third debate, centering on the competing predictions made by "When China Rules the World" author Martin Jacques and "The Coming Collapse of China" author Gordon G. Chang, makes me think not of the value of combining Column A and Column B choices but of a different feature of Chinese restaurants that I only learned about as an adult. If you don't like the options on the English language menu in some Chinatown eateries, you can ask to see a Chinese language one that lists additional dishes the proprietor doubts will interest most customers.
My problem with the Jacques vs. Chang debate is that I find neither pundit convincing. Jacques' vision of China moving smoothly toward global domination glosses over the fissures within the country's elite and the many domestic challenges its government faces. Chang continually underestimates the Communist Party's resiliency and adaptability. His 2001 book said it would implode by 2011. Late in 2011, he told Foreign Policy readers that he'd miscalculated and they could "bet on" his prophecy coming true in 2012. In 2013, the Communist Party is still in control and somehow Chang's still being invited onto news shows to make forecasts.
When asked whether Xi Jinping is a reformer or a conservative and whether Mo Yan is a collaborator or a critic, I can craft an answer that draws a bit from both Column A and Column B Being asked whether I side with Jacques or Chang is different. I'm left feeling like a hungry vegetarian who has been given a list made up exclusively of chicken and beef dishes—and hopes desperately that there's another menu hidden in the back with some acceptable choices.
Originally published on OUPblog (February 13, 2013).
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The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless plans to ask the CTA board on Friday to create a reduced fare pass for local homeless youth.
Julie Dworkin, the coalition's director of policy, said she has been working for years to get the CTA board to approve a $34 30-day unlimited pass for homeless youth to use to go to school or find a job. The 30-day pass currently sells for $86; the price will increase to $100 next week.
Dworkin said she was optimistic that the proposal would win approval when Rich Rodriguez was president of the CTA. The issue was put on the back-burner when Forrest Claypooltook over as president in 2011, Dworkin said.
The CTA told Going Public said it provides reduced fare cards for homeless youth who regularly attend Chicago Public Schools and has no plans to create new fare cards.
CPS students at least 12 years old can pay 85 cents to ride the CTA. That price drops to 75 cents next week when fare changes take effect.
Dworkin said not all homeless youth can attend school regularly.
"[The youth] tend to be a little older and more disconnected from traditional school," Dworkin said. "They would use [the passes] to get to school, get to work, look for a job, and in certain cases, if they're not able to work try to get their identification and their benefits together."
Dworkin is asking the board to consider approving 250 reduced fare passes a month. The board will meet Friday for its monthly meeting at CTA Headquarters, 567 W. Lake St.
One CTA board member told GP the proposal has his initial support.
Kevin Irvine told GP he likes the idea but he's not sure whether the CTA could afford it. The CTA said it provides $100 million of federally or state-mandated free and discounted rides and the state reimburses the agency for $28 million.
"I support the idea of it. I'd like to see lower fares for everybody but especially people with low income," Irvine said. "Right now, I kind of want to find out more about what it might look like."
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti: I had just moved to New York as a college freshman and I was the only Dodger fan in the dorms. I watched the game in the dorm lounge. As a lifelong Dodger fan, it was one of the greatest moments of my youth. Unfortunately, I spent it with people who hated the Dodgers.
Former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan: What happened when Kirk Gibson hit his famous home run described my career as mayor as told by my enemies — I was walking through a tunnel with a Dodger Dog in my hands when I heard the crowd screaming.
L.A. City Council President Herb Wesson: I remember it like it was yesterday. I was living in Culver City at the time and watching the game with my youngest son, Justin, who was rooting for Oakland. He was cheering and cheering and it really started to tick me off.
Then Gibson came in. He had this bum leg and wasn't supposed to play and hit that home run. It devastated my son until I told him, 'We live in Los Angeles. You can support the Dodgers.' To this day, he's a Dodger fan.
And, I remember that fist pump as he ran the bases. I think Tiger Woods stole that from him.
L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky: I was there with my son, who was 6x and already a baseball fan. In the middle of the ninth inning, I told him we should start to leave and we could watch the rest of the game on our way out.
We were standing near the left-field stands and saw the homer. It was the single most incredible play I have ever seen. To this day, there are people who kid me that I missed it because I left the game early, but I did see it.
And, Vin Scully called it right. In a season of the improbable, Kirk Gibson did the impossible.
This year's team reminds me a lot of that 1988 team, the way it has come together. This summer, I was at the Hollywood Bowl and I had my iPhone on ESPN to keep track of the game. As you looked around, you could see everyone was doing the same thing so they could keep track of the Dodgers. It would have been an incredible picture.
Fred Claire, former Dodgers general manager: I was in my stadium box. It was the most surreal thing I'd ever seen at Dodger Stadium. I remember the most unusual thing is when I left the box and walked onto the club level, there was no one in the aisles, no one on the concourse. I walked all the way to the end of the club level to my office, got my briefcase, walked down the exit to Lot 5 and drove my car — and no one was in parking lot. Truthfully. And the roar of the crowd was still pouring out of the stadium. I drove home to Pasadena in absolutely no traffic.
I didn't go to the locker room to join the celebration. That wasn't what I did. I left that to Kirk and the players, as it should be. It was just an incredible moment and so was the joy of what happened.
I was at the game the other night and a friend who's had a season ticket was recalling the Gibson game and he said the same thing. He'd never seen a game like that where people just stayed in their seats for so long and didn't move.
I've seen the film many times since then. I'll see Mark Sharperson running out and celebrating. Kirk pumping his fist. Maybe that home run itself was unreal, given his condition, but I really wasn't shocked at what happened. It was just that kind of a season where great things unfolded and that was the pinnacle of it.
It's been great to see attention paid to the players of that season that was so tremendous. When I think about the team, I see the character coming out 25 years later. You've got players who went on to be coaches, managers, announcers, college coaches, people who really have a passion for the game and continue to contribute to it.
Eric Karros, former Dodgers first baseman and Fox MLB analyst: I was in Arizona, Instructional League. Three of us were living in a tiny house, Donnie Carroll (drafted in the second round in '87), Bill Bene (drafted in the first round, '88) and myself (sixth-round draft pick in '88). We ordered some pizza delivery and watched the game. I couldn't believe it when it happened. I remember sitting on the floor and watching like it was just the other day. It's funny because that's my most vivid memory of the instructional league.
Jaime Jarrin, Dodgers' Spanish-language broadcaster: The first game of a World Series always gives you an idea of what's going to happen. The drama that preceded that was really great. Up to the eighth inning, there was nothing in particular. The Dodgers were losing. It was just another game. When he came up to hit, whew, it was one of the most dramatic home runs I can remember. To be honest, I didn't think he was available. The way he was walking, he was limping a lot. He couldn't put weight on the left leg. I saw him, then we saw him climb in the dugout and go into the batter's box. We got excited. I said, 'Here comes Gibson, we thought that he would never be able to play.'
But I don't remember the home run call. The funny thing is, we don't have a recording of that. In those days, the station didn't record anything. The Dodgers didn't record anything. So there's nothing (of my call).
Jon SooHoo, Dodgers team photographer: I was in the first base camera well. At that time I was just happy to be there. Twenty-six years old, coming out of school, first World Series game. I was mostly doing darkroom work. This was my chance to do something outside of that.
The Oakland A's photographer, whose name was Michael Zagaris, he's huddling up against our wall and climbs into their dugout because he thinks the game is going to be over. So he runs into their dugout, getting his stuff ready to go. I'm like, 'Whatever.' This was back when it was only 27 images per roll of film. So I think, 'Maybe I might want to put another roll in because I'm near the end.' So I stuck another roll in. Got it to 1. Next thing you know, he hit it and I followed him (with the camera). It was almost like he backhanded it, like he turned his wrist over. It goes out and he's running around the bases. I didn't even think to follow him around the bases, because I know around third base is my focal length. I can get him coming around. So I get him with (third-base coach Joe) Amalfitano, high-fiving, hugging there. He walks to the pile and gives (Steve) Sax a big hug.
I didn't have color film. I was the black-and-white guy. My boss at the time, Andy Bernstein, was the color (film) guy and he was inside third base. Andy had the shots of Kirk going around first base. That's the shot you normally see around the stadium. Nobody really sees my black-and-white stuff because you normally don't pull it out to print it. It was a different kind of mentality back then because once you shoot the photo, there's no place for it to go. The negatives go into the file. Maybe it's in next year's yearbook. There's not the same urgency where now, everything has to be seen now.
Dodgers team historian Mark Langill: I was working the sports desk at the Pasadena Star-News and on the telephone with someone reporting the results of a high school swim meet. I had one eye on the muted television on the wall when Gibson hit the ball. Everyone in the office suddenly rushed to stand under the screen, a shock because that group wouldn't move as fast if the building had caught fire. Our beat reporter, Scott Newman, came up with a seemingly crazy storyline that one of the batboys had put baseballs on a tee to help Gibson get ready. Twenty-five years later, that batboy is now Dodger clubhouse manager Mitch Poole, still modest but always gracious to share his part of the legend. I never get tired of watching the replays; it's an example for athletes of all ages to always try their best no matter the circumstances. And a lasting memory was visiting at a Costco on a busy afternoon in 2008 when the 20th anniversary DVD set of the 1988 World Series was released. The ninth inning of Game 1 was on a monitor and the shopping carts suddenly stopped when Gibson stepped to the plate.
Jim Fox, Kings broadcaster: I was standing rink side at the Kings home opener — a roar went through the crowd and it had nothing to do with the hockey game. I ran to the nearest TV and saw the replay! WOW … what a moment!
Matt Vasgersian, MLB Network: I was enrolled as a soph-senior at USC (tough to distinguish those years) and was celebrating fathers-son football weekend at the Chi Phi house. At the start of the game, I had made a bet with one of my fraternity brothers that Oakland would win Game 1. Thinking there was no chance the Dodgers' injury-ravaged lineup would get to Dave Stewart, and without much cash on hand, I decided to bet my bike.
Back to the fraternity house. In our eternal quest for academic excellence we had just built a basement bar, so our something-short-of-proud dads were all downstairs with us idiots when nerves forced me to take a seat closer to the door after the Mike Davis walk. Moments later all I could hear amidst the '80s music and screaming was the guy I had made the bet with screaming my name. I ran out of the house, unlocked my bike and threw it in a dumpster down the street. No way I was giving that dude my bike.
I'll never forget it.
Steve Brener, Dodgers media relations coordinator with Brener-Zwikel & Associates sports public relations firm: After 18 years with the Dodgers and starting my own sports public relations/marketing company, I came back to my second home to say hello to co-workers and media. I stayed for about five innings. I went home in the seventh inning, so I watched Gibson's dramatic home run from my living room. As Tommy Lasorda has said to me many a time: "The fruits of victory, how sweet it is."
Brian Robin, Brener-Zwikel public relations employee: I was a reporter in the press box at San Bernardino Valley College, covering a JC football game between SBVC and Mount San Jacinto College for the Press-Enterprise. This tremendous (OK, it seemed that way) roar broke out to the right of me, in a cluster of about 35-40 people. Just broke out for no apparent reason because there was nothing remotely interesting happening on the field. Soon, word filtered up that several folks had transistor radios tuned to the Dodgers-A's and were ecstatically chirping to anyone who would listen that Kirk Gibson just ended the game with a home run.
This news scrambled my eggs. Kirk Gibson could barely walk. How's he ending anything but a treatment session on a table? In those pre-Internet, pre-smart phone days, I was pretty much screwed on seeing this until that game mercifully ended. But that was all everyone in the press box was talking about for the better part of the next hour.
Keith Olbermann, ESPN host of "Olbermann" and TBS post-season studio anchor: Well, I called it.
I had just moved from KTLA to KCBS maybe six weeks earlier, and I was sitting in the auxiliary press area in the front row of the upper deck, next to Alexis Denny, who produced Jim Lampley's stuff for the network that he did on the side. And she and I went downstairs together during the top of the ninth. And we're standing there watching a monitor, I think next to the little hot dog stand they had between the clubhouses in the old configuration, seeing Dennis Eckersley warm up and Alexis says to me: "What are we going to ask Eckersley after the game?"
And without even thinking about it, as if this was the most normal thing in the world, I said: "Obviously we're going to ask him about this game-losing homer he's about to give up to Gibson."
And she paused for a second and then let out this huge dismissive laugh and said: "Gibson! Gibson's not playing!"
And again, totally matter-of-fact, I said: "Oh, please! You think he's not going to hit? If he can stand up, he can hit. He is going to hit a home run."
Needless to say a few minutes later Alexis looked at me very, very oddly. She went into politics and we reconnected while I was at MSNBC and we were even at a White House correspondents' dinner and while we were there she told the story on me several times, still with that weird look coming over her face. I keep telling myself I'm going to get her to send me an affidavit about it because it was so, so strange.
Charley Steiner, Dodgers radio play-by-play man: I had arrived at ESPN just six weeks earlier. I was learning a new medium, television, on the fly with no safety net. Those were the days when SportsCenter was a live 30-minute show, aired at 7, 11:30 and 2:30 a.m. with no re-airs. There was no Baseball Tonight. There was a ton of college football that day — it was, after all, a Saturday in the fall — there was the NFL a few hours later. As I recall, just because it was Game 1, the World Series would lead the show. But then The Mighty Gibson stepped to the plate. I was in the middle of the newsroom, typing lead-ins for assorted highlights. I looked up … I don't remember Vin's call because I didn't hear it. What I do remember was, first, the brake lights of the cars well beyond the right field wall while the ball was still in the air. Second, Gibson's iconic slot-machine fist pump. And third, I had to re-write the lead for a story that we knew was going to have more historic legs than Gibson had beneath him 25 years ago.
Kevin Millar, MLB Network: I was in the living room at my mom's house (in L.A.), bummed out. Mike Davis gets on and Kirk Gibson just had the most unbelievable at-bat, foul ball after foul ball. Then Gibson homers, and I jumped on our coffee table and snapped it right in half. I was a junior in high school, a 16-year old kid acting like I was 3. My mom yelled at me: "Dodgers win!"
Steve Hartman, sports talk host at 570-AM: The fact that I was at the game that day was pure circumstance. I resigned from my Raiders job on Oct. 1, 1988. Two weeks later, the Raiders were on the road when I got a call from the team receptionist. She said the Raiders' World Series tickets were not being used because everyone went to the (Raiders) game. I accepted her offer to take her to the game. She was not a baseball fan so from the seventh inning on, she was begging to leave. I insisted on staying to the final out. The rest is history. A day I will never forget. Sometimes timing is everything.
Harold Reynolds, MLB Network: I was an American League player through and through so I never thought they were going to lose. When Gibson hit the home run, I was stunned. I remember being at my house in Seattle and sitting there in amazement. It was an incredible home run and I was mad because I wanted the A's to win.
Chris Rose, MLB Network: I was 17, a senior in high school back in Cleveland. A huge baseball fan. But I got mono my senior year (don't ask) and so I was exhausted in the fall. I remember watching the first part of Game 1 and thinking after Canseco hit that … slam off Belcher: "This series is over."
Then I fell asleep, probably around the sixth inning. The next thing I remember is Gibson circling the bases and I said to myself: "What the hell just happened?" I called my brother, who was at college, and he told me the whole thing. So, yes, I missed it live. But at least I wasn't one of those who left early to beat traffic on the 101.
Bruce Beck, a Dodger fan from Oak Park: I was at Pebble Beach. After a round of golf, we went to dinner at The Tap Room steakhouse because they had TVs. We got a great table in front of one of the televisions. We kept ordering food and even would send some back to keep the table. They eventually caught on, and we had to leave our table. However, we saw most of the game from there — and it turned out to be an expensive meal. We watched the eighth and ninth innings from the bar. Pebble Beach, Dodger baseball and a historic home run. Does it get any better than that?
Paul Alvarez, former Dodgers employee: I was 10 when Gibby hit the home run and turning 11 the next day. I told my dad I wanted to go to Game 1 and he said "No, let's go on your birthday." I missed the game because of that and the actual game on TV, I missed because my brother was about 1 month old and my mom had me to go to her friend's to show the new baby off. They had no TV. I heard bits and pieces on the radio, and when we got home, I rushed to the TV to turn on the screen and it showed Dodgers 5, Oakland 4. I didn't realize what happened until the next day.
Ross French, UC Riverside employee: I am emphatically not a Dodger fan, but I am a baseball fan and remember watching the game in the television room in Santa Rosa Hall on the campus of UC Santa Barbara, where I was a sophomore. When Gibson hit the home run, I remember laughing at the brake lights in the parking lot. Then I turned to the guy next to me and said, "This is going to be one of those moments that we remember for years to come. We're going to tell people where we were when Gibson hit the home run."
Ross Porter Jr., of West Hills, son of former Dodgers broadcaster Ross Porter: I was a first-year seminarian and had to miss the game to study for a Pentateuch exam the next morning. Of course, I ended up watching it on TV. My brother and sisters went … and left after eight innings.
Tom Connolly, a Dodger fan from Los Angeles: I was in a wedding in Santa Barbara. I snuck into the bar to watch the game when I should have been in the wedding lineup being introduced. Busted big time, but it was worth it.
Jerry Crowe, former Los Angeles Times sports writer: I was in the Bay Area covering UCLA-Cal football and made plans to meet a friend afterward at a bar in Berkeley. As I tried to find a parking place, it was the ninth inning and the bar was packed with fans watching the game. By the time I parked, Gibson had hit the home run. I walked back to the bar and it was completely empty except for my friend.
David Dale Felton, Los Angeles News Group reporter: I was at the apartment of a friend who didn't have a TV, and I kept running out to my car to listen to the game. I heard Jack Buck's call of Gibson's home run, not Scully's call, and proceeded to go crazy in the front seat of my Oldsmobile Delta 88. I was a student at Hancock College. Pretty damn crazy. Lots of screaming, probably even a few long honks of the car's horn if I remember correctly.
Ricardo Lopez, Hoy sports editor: I was with my father and my brothers at my house in Mexico City when Kirk Gibson hit his improbable homer against unhittable Dennis Eckersley. When it happened, I got so excited and jumped so I high I hit my head on a lamp so hard that it hurt, but it didn't matter. I couldn't stop celebrating for a while.
Staff writers Rick Orlov, J.P. Hoornstra and Jill Painter contributed to this report.


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It's a good quality shirt and print, but the sizing is crazy. I'm a curvy girl and very used to getting a size up. But this runs pretty big.
I love the shirt-the design looks even better in person than it does on screen. I just wish the shirt was a little longer because I feel like every time i move I'm showing my stomach, but other than that its amazing!


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On the Steelers: A tricky situation in Steelers locker room
February 24, 2013 12:10 am
By Ed Bouchette / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Quarterback Bubby Brister surveyed the turmoil around him during one particularly bad Steelers season more than two decades ago and proclaimed, "I'm about to come unglued!"
• That statement might aptly fit what's going on with the Steelers today. Never has one anonymous comment by one player critiquing another prompted so much soul-searching, counterattacks and new revelations of the failed 2012 season that was the 8-8 Steelers.
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Even general manager Kevin Colbert got into the act Thursday, both defending LaMarr Woodley after his worst NFL season and saying he was bothered by the fact that his accuser's comments were anonymous. Would the GM have preferred a player say the same thing and put his name behind it?
For the two or three of you who may have missed it, here is what the anonymous player told Ron Cook in his Sunday Post-Gazette column about Woodley's 2012 season:
"He was awful. He tells us he works out, but we didn't see it. He wasn't in shape. That has to be a reason why he was always hurt."
No player has countered the point made by Mr. Anonymous, just that it was said and said anonymously. The reaction has yielded two unintended consequences:
Sympathy for Woodley on the occasion of his poor season -- one, Colbert said, that even Woodley would acknowledge he had -- and revelations that the Steelers players were seemingly at war with each other during the 2012 season.
What did Ryan Clark call it? Oh, yes, a "fracture" of the previously close-knit Steelers locker room. Larry Foote believes whoever said it broke a code, and then he suggested the comment could have come from a coach -- maybe one of those who bailed out for jobs at lesser organizations, such as Duke, UTEP and the Arizona Cardinals?
But it was Antonio Brown, voted the team's MVP in 2011, who really opened the window into the disharmony that was apparently prevalent on the 2012 Steelers.
"Our team was a team last year where guys wasn't really together," Brown told ESPN Wednesday. "As we know in the NFL, you got to have a band of brothers. Everyone got to be together and it got to filter down from the leadership."
Brown even suggested that other teammates agreed with the anonymous comments.
"Then other guys supporting it ... It goes to show you that we wasn't a team in 2012. So some of the things we got to iron out and we're looking to get those things corrected."
That may not be so simple. The leadership drain that began a year ago will continue here shortly when the Steelers do not re-sign some long-standing veterans and release some others. Those kinds of moves, while perhaps necessary, will not improve the locker room kumbayah. It may make it only worse.
On ESPN's "SportsCenter," Brown said the Steelers were different in his third season than in his first two.
"Guys weren't really together," Brown said.
Perhaps the losses of Hines Ward, James Farrior, Aaron Smith, Chris Hoke, Bryant McFadden and special teams captain Arnaz Battle had something to do with that.
Brown said on "SportsCenter," via ProFootballTalk.com, that Troy Polamalu, among other veterans, told the team that selfish behavior would not be tolerated, yet it continued.
"That's when you know you've got issues and you've got to come together as a team," Brown said. "Because the reality of a team game is everyone on the same page, committed to the same thing, dedicated for one goal, and that's winning."
Some point to Brown and the Steelers Young Money wide receivers crew as the center of the problem. They were selfish in 2012, we've been told, and without Ward and a strong coaching hand, they were allowed to do their own thing, causing some "fractures."
Maybe not coincidentally, young wide receivers coach Scottie Montgomery quit after the season to take an assistant's job at Duke.
The Steelers have lost four assistant coaches since the preseason -- one fired by Mike Tomlin in August and three others leaving, presumably, on their own.
Had the Steelers pulled out a few more of those three-point losses and made the playoffs, nobody would be talking about their "fractured" locker room, which probably did not occur until after they ran out to that 6-3 record through nine games.
A reminder that the NFL is a business
Soon, the Steelers will release more veterans and one of those could be Willie Colon. If so, it would show again the one-way street that is an NFL contract.
Colon turned down better money from the Chicago Bears to re-sign with the Steelers in 2011 for five years and $29 million. He's due $3.5 million in 2013 on a contract that still has three years left.
There has been no dialogue between the Steelers and Colon's agent, Joe Linta, to possibly reduce his salary. They would owe him nothing if they release him but a drop-in-the-bucket injury settlement if he does not pass a physical because of the left knee injury that put him on IR Dec. 18.
The contract theory doesn't make sense
LaMarr Woodley did not go from one of the best pass-rushing outside linebackers in the league to underperformer simply because he signed a big contract in 2011 worth $61.5 million over six years, as some suggest.
He signed that contract in August 2011, not long after the owners' lockout ended and training camps opened. He then went on to become one of the NFL's best pass rushers through the first half of the 2011 season with nine sacks through eight games. Hamstring injuries ruined the second half of that season and he did not have another sack.
Had he not been in shape entering the 2011 season, wouldn't the hamstring issue have developed earlier rather than at midseason?


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No oven for a month or 2..
So today I made some awesome sourdough, and as suggested in the lesson, I used a bit of steam.. maybe too much, because the oven blew up and lost power. Admitedly it had a pre existing problem with a live wire in the light socket.. anyway I digress.
The landlord will be replacing the oven, and I have a happy starter that needs to be used. Any suggestions on some sort of bread , or flat bread, that can be cooked on the hotplates or pan, I have a cast iron pan, and some dutch ovens.
Thanks in advance.


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CAYE CAULKER, Belize — On this island off the Caribbean coast of Belize, you'll hear it almost as soon as you step off the water taxi dock: "Go slow."
Stride too purposefully down a sandy street, as if you actually were headed somewhere, and someone will toss a "Go slow, mon" from a doorstep or window, busting you for being wired into some far-off, faster-paced place. All mechanisms of life on Caye Caulker have but one gear: slow.
Like during breakfast at an open-air beachside bar. At 10 on a brilliant morning, nothing on the menu was available. No beer, no bread, no fish, no lobster, no pastries. "Staff didn't show up this morning," the owner said with a shrug.
Caye Caulker is an anachronism in the world of slick, want-it-now Caribbean mega-tourism. Veteran backpackers compare it with Isla Mujeres, an island off the coast of Cancun, about 20 years ago or Cancun itself 25 years before that.
"Caye Caulker? There's nothing there!" sniffed a bow-tied bartender at a white-tablecloth brasserie in the town of San Pedro on nearby Ambergris Caye. San Pedro is big enough to have cars, fancy resort hotels, villas and the feel of Puerto Vallarta's old town.
Caye Caulker, by contrast, is so low key as to be subterranean. It has no cars; just bicycles, a few golf carts (but no golf courses) and a collection of weathered low-rise buildings lining its sand streets. Its 2,000 permanent residents oppose construction of anything more than two stories high. In groceries, bars and restaurants, they freely admit their dilemma: how to profit from tourism without being consumed by it.
Physical constraints have helped. Caye Caulker is only a mile-and-a-half long and a few hundred yards wide at its widest point, room enough for a few hotels, hostels, restaurants, bars and dive and snorkel shops. Three days is enough to see everything on the island, including the crocodiles that live at the landfill. If you're not into water sports, bring plenty of e-books.
Bordered by Mexico on the north, the Caribbean on the east and Guatemala on the west and south, Belize is the only English-speaking country in Central America. Formerly known as British Honduras, it gained independence from Britain 32 years ago, long after its mahogany forests were denuded of timber for English sailing ships. Its people are descendants of African slaves, Mayan natives and Spanish, with a sprinkling of Brit ex-pats and Chinese.
A series of barrier islands, or cayes, of which Caye Caulker is just one, runs along the Caribbean coast. Transportation is by scheduled high-speed water taxi. The 220 miles of paved roads on the mainland that converge near Belize City, the country's main port, are primitive but navigable. A worthy inland destination is San Ignacio, a thriving commercial center on the Mopan River near the Xunantunich Mayan ruins, close to the Guatemalan border.
Near the ruins, an adventurous diner can choose from entrees featuring lamb, chicken or gibnut, also known as paca, a nocturnal jungle rodent. If eating Alvin the chipmunk isn't weird enough, the prison near Burrell Boom, which you pass on the road from Belize City to San Ignacio, has a gift shop.
Back at Caye Caulker, the laid-back beach life has drawn barefoot aqua-tourists since the 1960s, about the time Jacques Cousteau brought the Great Blue Hole, a popular dive site off the Belize coast, to American TV. The world's second-largest barrier reef protects Caye Caulker from the open waters of the Caribbean, its snorkel-friendly coral shallows teeming with fish, eels and rays.
On Turneffe Atoll, an even smaller island beyond the reef, several high-end fishing lodges offer all-inclusive packages. For purists, the draw is stalking bonefish for hours through the shallows in a flat-bottom boat and landing them on light tackle. Most Belizean fishing is catch and release, an acknowledgment of the national importance of ecological tourism.
Variations on conch and lobster populate every Caye Caulker menu, and there likely is no better or inexpensive ceviche in the Caribbean. Spiny lobster dinners are less than $5. Stone crab claws are available in season for alfresco beach dining for as little as $7.50. The national beer, Belikin, is cheap, but the real alcohol bargain is Belizean rum, little of which is exported.
Late in the afternoon on Caye Caulker, tourists and locals alike convene for happy hour at The Split, where Hurricane Hattie gouged a channel across the island in 1961. A tin-shack beach bar, the Lazy Lizard, lubricates the assemblage to the Caribbean beat of Tittiman Flores and Alpha Blondy.
During one especially glorious sunset at the Lazy Lizard, I came to understand the meaning of "Go slow, mon," which translates roughly into "Grab a beer and let's watch the sun go down together."
I posted a Lazy Lizard video, CayeCaulker Sunset from GolferVuke, on YouTube.
If you go
American, Delta and United fly to Belize City through Dallas, Atlanta or Houston. Tropic Air, the Belize national airline, offers service from Belize City to Caye Caulker and Ambergris Caye via light aircraft. Water taxis serve all populated islands from Belize City's water terminal, a 15-minute cab ride from the international airport.
When to go: January through May is the driest time. June through December is the rainiest. Temperatures average highs in the mid-80s, lows of about 70 year-round.
Currency: The Belizean dollar is permanently pegged to the U.S. dollar at $1 U.S. to $2 BZ. U.S. currency is universally accepted. It's not uncommon to pay or receive change in a combination of the two currencies.


text: Nominations are now being accepted for the annual Pella Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame and Community Service Awards. Director of the Pella Chamber of Commerce Karen Eischen says that individuals may be nominated for the Education Hall of Fame, Industry Innovator of the Year, Lifetime Community Service, Retail Hall of Fame, Tourism Hall of Fame, Professional Leader of the Year and the Volunteer Hall of Fame. Ballots are being mailed out and must be submitted to the Pella Chamber of Commerce by January 14th, 2011. The awards luncheon will be at an undetermined time and place in February.


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This letter was to Matt, so I opted not to reply. But also, if I did reply, I wouldn't have much more to offer beyond, "I've never seen anyone offer up such a lengthy list of claims that included no attempt at offering even one shred of support." Does Guinness have a category for something like this?
In addition to offering no support for anything asserted, s/he makes the mistake of capitalizing "atheism" throughout (see Austin Cline's blog on this issue for further info on why this demonstrates a misunderstanding of atheism, and note the letter writer does not capitalize theism, so this is clearly quite deliberate on his/her part). The writer goes on to play "bait the atheist" by pretending Matt really does know a god exists, but for whatever reason, is saying otherwise.
Finally the person threatens to call the show. I can only say, "Please, please do." S/he asked us to read this on the air. But honestly, it's just preaching with no evidence or support offered—and we're not The 700 Club, and since no evidence or support was provided, what would we examine? The rebuttal to the entire lot would be "you offered nothing to support anything you claimed."
At any rate, without further ado, I bring you, more unsubstantiated claims and assumptions than you can shake a stick at:
I love the show..
First of all, full disclosure. I believe in GOD!
I also believe that you must all repent and accept GOD or else you will burn in hell. Especially that Tracie woman who thinks she's just so smart quoting scientific findings as if it were biblical doctrine not realizing that GOD is laughing and saying "I made the elements behave that way stupid!" "What you call scientific discovery is you coming around to uncover my genius, well done"
You're not going to hell for you yourself being an unbeliever but for the offense of using half-truths and deception to turn others away from GOD. I'm not saying that to hurt your feelings. I'm telling you because I care about your souls.
I can't condemn you for not believing in GOD since you say that you're on a quest for truth and by virtue of that, you are on the road to eventually acknowledging and accepting GOD, however long it takes, however many episodes you make, however many scientific theories you quote. Eventually you will realize all scientific knowledge and wisdom comes from GOD.
GOD gave us a mind to study these things and emotions to feel. When your callers say they believe in GOD because they feel it, that's not some bullshit. There are scientific studies made on intuition and ESP human means of non-verbal communication.
I think that you make a very important contribution to theism in that you force theists to use stronger arguments to reinforce their belief. And the more I read and hear about Atheists and the more I watch your show the stronger my faith becomes and the deeper the hole you all dig for yourselves.
I find that you like beating the uninformed, unsophisticated people over the head with biblical inconsistencies and disputes over morality and evolution. You also like pointing to atrocities done in the name of GOD but that reflects poorly on man not GOD. And also just for your information way more people died under Atheist GODLESS government like 110,000,000. Add another 50 million due to Hitler as it is widely accepted now that he was hostile to the church and practiced in the occult. This is course is not a defense of so-called Christian inspired atrocities.
When you make human beings into a some lesser form of animal, you give rise to these types of governments. When you yourself don't see yourself of having been intelligently designed with purpose in mind why should any government? That's where your inherent dignity and human rights come from.
Take GOD from the equation and governments can do to you as they will, since you're just a human animal without any inherent dignity no real rights, just a biological organism that consumes resources and farts and poops. A herd of cattle to be managed without regard to any so-called "rights". This is the world you would have us live in.
You also talk about priests having sex with young boys. But the fact of the matter is that child sexual abuse is prevalent everywhere. There are child molesting sports coaches, teachers, babysitters wherever there's an adult in a position of authority over a child. There's all kinds of molesting in the Jewish and Muslim faiths. Muslims believe a child aged 9 is suitable for marriage. Child sexual abuse is despicable everywhere.
I think your problem is with the bible and with Christianity and with organized religion in general, I get it. But you don't really have a problem with GOD itself. And that's why I'm not going to quote to you scripture which you say is flawed anyways, which in itself doesn't disprove GOD only reflects MAN'S inability of fully understanding and misinterpreting divine revelation. Only stupid people think stoning their children to death is what GOD wants.Again that's MAN"S flaws.
You want GOD because you challenge others to show proof for something which is totally beyond our current scientific ability but we're working on it. GOD communicates to us through our hearts. Moral law is encoded in DNA and written in our hearts.
That's why you Atheists despite believing in GOD, believe in morality, which itself comes from GOD. Matt said I don't need stone tablets to tell me how to be moral, of course not! You're forced to understand morality because of it being encoded in your DNA and eventually that truth will lead you back to GOD.
You can have a direct relationship with GOD without organized religion. You can acknowledge a supreme creator without belief in biblical doctrine. You've closed your minds to that possibility, You're not as open minded as you claim on each episode.
I believe in science and evolution. The world is several billion years old. Human beings evolved. These things in themselves don't disprove GOD. And I wish more theists would embrace and acknowledge scientific discovery. There will be a time when all theists will take science away from you Atheists and it truly will be the pursuit of uncovering GOD's genius.
Science proves GOD everyday. Scientific discovery is the uncovering of GOD's genius. There's no way you can observe the universe in its' immense complexity and sheer scope and say it's all just a bunch of random bullshit.
You're open to all kinds of unproven scientific theories. You believe in the Big Bang theory. Until you can recreate it, it's just a theory under strict scientific definition. But it's generally accepted and you still believe it. You've opened your mind to it. How the fuck are you going to recreate that and make it demonstrable?
Why not open your mind to the theory of a supreme creator. Forget the bible, forget organized religion and the Christian church. What's so unscientific about acknowledging intelligent design?The greatest scientists of all time were theists, men and women who believe in GOD and work to uncover GOD's genius get way further ahead in discoveries. The science of GOD is becoming cutting edge.
You don't want to acknowledge and attribute anything to GOD so as to not give credence to an inconsistent biblical doctrine and corrupt religious institutions that you don't like. I get it!!!! There's room for Atheists and theists alike to demonstrate some more intellectual honesty.
As an Atheist how will you ever find truth when you deny GOD'S genius in everything around you? Avoid hell. Realize the folly of your arrogant ways.
Ask for GOD to come into your life and mean it. Don't make it a mechanical thing, Don't just say the words half-ass and claim victory if nothing happens. Let GOD communicate to your heart and mind. That is what is meant by faith.
Matt you say you were a brainwashed Christian for 25 years. Were you really brainwashed? Did you not feel anything during that whole time? You seem too smart to have been brainwashed and so I reject that on its face. Disenfranchised? Disillusioned? Perhaps!
Matt you are working for the devil. You studied scripture. You know full well that GOD created free will and wanted us to choose to worship him. Not to do so like automatons. You know that you don't have to worship the Devil directly. All you have to do is not acknowledge GOD and you serve the Devil by default. You're leading spiritually weak people away from the Lord. And that will land you the worst of punishment in hell unless you repent now!
And you better watch out because I will call your show someday and drop all kinds of knowledge and wisdom on you to make you see the truth and error of your ways.
Faith is a key to making miracles happen. OPEN YOUR MIND!!!!!
And don't lecture me about swearing. GOD cares about what is in your heart more than the words you speak. That's why he is against mechanical prayer, and my heart is filled with goodness.
Even though I said I think you're going to hell, will you do me the honor and read this on your next episode? That would be kinda cool.


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Hope your holidays were wonderful! And dare I say relaxing?
I'm chatting this episode about my holiday time with family and crafting. Movies we've watched over the last few days have been good. A couple of my favorites had Nicole Kidman in them--The Birthday Girl and Fur. Highly recommend them both.
I've already got the seed catalogs out! My favorites are Seed Saver's Exchange and Baker Creek Farm. Which catalogs are on your table right now?
Music by Wind is Mindblowing--Happy New Year. Found on Podsafe Music Network.


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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, March 13 (UPI) -- Ieng Sary, foreign minister in Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime who had faced trial on war crimes charges, died Thursday at age 87, his family said.
The Phnom Penh Post, which reported his death, had said a day earlier Ieng Sary, one of the leaders widely identified with the inhuman Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s, had been in critical condition.
Kyodo News Agency quoted Ieng Sary's son Ieng Vuth as saying his father died of illness and old age.
Ieng Sary was the oldest of the three members of the Khmer Rouge regime facing trial before a U.N.-backed panel on war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity charges, stemming from the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians when Khmer Rouge ruled the country between 1975 and 1979. Some estimates say up to 2 million people died from political executions, starvation and forced labor.
The U.N.-baked tribunal was set up as part of a joint agreement between the Cambodian government and the United Nations to try leaders of the Khmer Rouge for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Ieng Sary, along with the other accused Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, had denied the charges against them. Pol Pot, another of the notorious Khmer Rouge leaders, died in 1998. The tribunal earlier had found Ieng Thrith, Ieng Sary's wife who had been a minister in the Khmer Rouge regime, unfit to stand trial because of her medical condition.


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For someone who was being hailed as the "answer" for the nation's energy woes just a few months ago, corn growers and ethanol manufacturers have been getting a boatload of negative press recently.
Ethanol and biofuels have always had their naysayers: "Ethanol producers can't compete without subsidies." "Ethanol requires more energy to produce than it produces." "Higher corn prices are driving up the price of food items, such as sweet corn."
The criticism took a nasty turn recently when a United Nations official said manufacturing fuel from food crops was a "crime against humanity" and a "recipe for disaster." Jean Ziegler, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, called for a five-year moratorium on biofuels.
The National Corn Growers Association, biofuel groups in Canada and Europe, the Ethanol Production and Information Council and others fired off letters to the UN, protesting the statements.
I suppose there's a kernel of truth in those, but consider this: When was the last time you read about an ethanol spill fouling the waters of the San Francisco Bay or read about an ethanol refinery being shut down for maintenance and causing prices to jump 10 cents a gallon at the pump?
When was the last time a rise in corn prices was attributable to unrest in the oil fields in Nigeria or to continued attacks on the pipeline for the oil that was supposed to help pay for the war in Iraq?
Ethanol and biodiesel and other renewable fuels have their drawbacks. The National Academy of Sciences has released a report saying corn-based ethanol was exacerbating water quality and quantity issues in the upper Midwest.
Growing more corn for ethanol (14 million additional acres in 2007) requires more nitrogen fertilizer, which, in turn, places more demand on natural gas, a feedstock in the production of ammonia nitrate and on other fuels for transporting it, not to mention the energy needed to plant, spray and harvest the crop.
The 2007 farm bills include funding for research on cellulosic ethanol feedstocks that conceivably would require less nitrogen fertilizer and perhaps use less energy for planting, harvesting and transporting.
The Energy Independence and Security Act includes a 36-billion-gallon renewable fuels standard with 15 billion gallons of those set aside for grain-based ethanol. It requires 9 billion gallons of renewable fuels in 2008 and increases the requirement to 36 billion gallons by 2022.
Those 36 billion gallons would not replace the country's petroleum-based fuel supply. Far from it. But it could help decrease U.S. reliance on energy from places where the United States is not looked on with great favor these days.
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What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn't have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? Are you saying society should just let him die?
That's the question put to Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) by Wolf Blitzer in the closing moments of Monday night's Tea Party Express/CNN GOP Debate.
Before Paul could answer, several members of the Tea Party laden audience enthusiastically shouted out "Yeah!"
Yeah, let him die! Yeah!
Nobody in the crowd objected.
And then, right there, you got to see exactly who and what Ron Paul really is.
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This is the reason we do not need government involved in our healthcare. Some things we should ask ourselves:
Should taxpayers foot the bill to pay health related costs of those who have pursued unhealthy lifestyles for years, and are now suffering the consequences? We live in a nation where it's estimated nearly 50% of the people are overweight/obese. These people aren't sick, they don't have an eating disorder, they just eat too much. Obesity alone is responsible for numerous health issues including high blood pressure, diabetes, among others. should taxpayers pay for these health-related costs?
Should taxpayers foot the bill for a liver transplant for a chronic alcoholic?
Should taxpayers pay for the cancer treatment of someone who has been smoking their entire life?
Personally, I don't care if someone is overweight. I don't care if someone drinks too much, or smokes. They should be able to enjoy their lives the way they see fit. But now we are faced with the very real possibility that taxpayers (not the government) will have to pay for these and other health-related costs. That should concern all of us: Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, atheists, and theists alike.
Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to see the debate, and I sure would've liked to have seen the responses to Mr. Blitzer's question.
Be well-
"Should taxpayers foot the bill to pay health related costs of those who have pursued unhealthy lifestyles for years, and are now suffering the consequences?"
Yes, taxpayers should foot the bill.
"Should taxpayers pay for the cancer treatment of someone who has been smoking their entire life?"
Yes, taxpayers should pay
you didn't read the post that was linked, did you Chris?
Should tax payers foot the bill to pay health care?
Of course... healthy lifestyle or not all of us are eventually going to need to use health care services. In fact those people who have full coverage health care are generally healthier than those who don't have health care so it stands to reason that if everyone in the US was covered the US would be healthier.
Should taxpayers foot the bill for a liver transplant for a chronic alcoholic?
Ummm.... chronic alcoholics don't get liver transplants under the current system. I don't see why health care paid for via taxes would change the availability of livers or the rules surrounding who gets a transplant.
I have a problem with your statement that "chronic smokers may disqualify themselves from certain healthcare benefits", because you don't specify WHICH benefits. A lung transplant, yes, because if they continue to smoke, the lungs will not keep them alive for very long, and those lungs could have gone to someone else who would take better care of them, but what OTHER benefits?
My other concern is that, as soon as bureaucrats start making medical decisions, they start to put people in boxes, and then there are always people who fall between the cracks. I remember, in the early days of dialysis, there were hospital committees who made the decision about who would get dialysis and who would die. One of the arguments for the choice was, a man who had a family should get dialysis, but a childless woman should not. (The govt. is still discriminating in favor of those with children -- look at the child tax credit!)
Finally, if we can deny benefits to smokers, then we are on a slippery slope that will surely include denying benefits to the obese, who, in spite of popular public opinion, really do NOT overeat themselves into obesity (except insofar as they follow the govt.-sponsored guidelines to eat a lot of carbs, and not enough protein). Obesity is a FAR more complex issue than most people are willing to believe, and if we GET the obese, who is next? The disabled, especially because many of them can't work, and therefore don't contribute to society? The elderly, because they have too many illnesses -- time for them to die anyway? Obviously being a bit sarcastic here, but I AM afraid of creeping "healthism", which is a word I just made up!
"we ought to be able to distinguish between people who have become unhealthy due to poor socioeconomic conditions or due to personal irresponsibility. A person who has suffered their whole life and overeats is a lot different from a person who had all the advantages and who eats the same amount because they are gluttonous."
Why even bother going through this whole process... It's so much easier and mind you more cost effective to just pay for healthcare through taxes. Can you imagine how much money would go into determining if one is unhealthy due to their own fault or not?
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A simple flag is a cornerstone to memories of Marine's time in IraqBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 14. 2013 1:01AM
NH witness to history
|Former Marine Tim McLaughlin was at the Pentagon when it was struck by a passenger jet as part of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. And he provided an American flag that was draped over a statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square in Baghdad in 2003. Click below to read excerpts from his diary, now on display at the Bronx Documentary Center.
Sept. 11, 2001
Baghdad, April 2003
This is the 2000s through the eyes of New Hampshire native Tim McLaughlin, a former Marine:
-- Smoke pouring from his Pentagon workplace.
-- A simple battle respite turned into a media circus.
-- A quick trigger finger that kills innocent Iraqis; hesitation that renders a fellow Marine dead.
-- And one of his most personal items - a flag carried into combat - wrapped into and warped by the diatribe of any blogger, writer or commentator who wants to write about the war.
McLaughlin grew up in Laconia and is the son of former Attorney General Phil McLaughlin. Last month, a small museum in the Bronx opened an exhibit, the centerpiece of which is the diary that he kept during his time in Iraq.
"Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq" runs until Friday at the Bronx Documentary Center. The exhibit also includes photographs by McLaughlin and the work of two journalists he met in Iraq - news photographer Gary Knight and New Yorker writer Peter Maass.
The diary follows the hectic moments at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, when McLaughlin, now 35, glimpsed the black smoke while returning from a morning run. And it gives a sometimes poignant, sometimes amusing narrative from a Marine commander whose tank battalion was involved in the early days of the Iraqi invasion.
"I can't move, this place is pandemonium," he wrote in Firdos Square, the Baghdad square in the early, elated days of the invasion by the coalition of U.S. and allied forces. "Guy peace volunteer jumped up on tank. I almost killed him w/M-16 - scared the life out of him. Brought him back up to greet him and apologize for startling him."
The diary includes sketches, such as a maps of Firdos Square and the Pentagon. There is a draft of a letter he wrote to Victoria's Secret asking a model to write him, to no avail. There is a poem about a childhood field where he played and the memories that will live there once he dies.
And in a chilling juxtaposition, a page with a humorous rendition of "12 Days of Christmas" - ("Seven camels thieving, Six days of waiting, Five feet of visibility . ") - faces a page with a hand-written spreadsheet of how 70 people were killed.
The word "Kills" is scratched onto the page in sharp, graffiti-like, block letters that take up the bottom half of the page.
McLaughlin said he wrote because he was bored. His battalion had been in Kuwait for at least two months before the invasion began. And as an officer, his rank prevented him from participating in the camaraderie of war-bound enlisted men.
But he had a pen and an extra military notebook.
"There was no access to email, no computers," he said. "2003 was right around the turning point of the world, just at the end of the analog age."
Unbeknownst to McLaughlin, his role at Firdos Square became a media sensation. In the bottom of McLaughlin's gear was a U.S. flag. When asked by a captain, he fished it out and gave it to a corporal, who wrapped the flag around the face of a towering statue of Saddam Hussein.
Within minutes, the statue was down, and images of a stars-and-stripes hood over Hussein were broadcast around the world.
The diary reads: "Got Flag back - people tried to get it from me - London Times Reporter talked to me - advise to keep out of sight, out of mind."
Ten years later, he is still trying to do so. For years, he kept it in a safe-deposit box in Laconia. The flag makes it into the exhibit occasionally, and McLaughlin said he realizes the symbolism attached to it. To Iraqis, it is a sign of the invaders; to "left-leaning Howard Dean Democrats," it is a sign of American oppression; to the Tea Party, a sign of everything right about America.
To McLaughlin, it's his flag.
"I never intended it to have the symbolism it had in the world," said McLaughlin. Just last week, he was disputing media reports that claimed he refused to lend the flag to the National Marine Corps Museum.
"I'm not going to give my flag away; it's mine. But lend it to the Marines for an exhibit, I have no problem with that," he said.
McLaughlin was a Marine for six and a half years. He went on to get a law degree and lives and works in the Boston area. He is the president of the board of directors of Shelter Legal Services, a Boston-based organization that provides legal services to homeless veterans.
He, Knight and Maass designed the exhibit themselves using $20,000 raised through Kickstarter, an online service that raises money for creative projects.
"New York City gets a lot of the focus of the world," McLaughlin said. "We didn't have it in Manchester because it would generate less attention." The exhibit will go to Drexel University in early May, and a few other universities have expressed interest, as have museums in France and the United Kingdom.
McLaughlin said he doesn't know whether the United States should have gone to war, and he designed the exhibit to not render a judgment either way. He said he wants people to realize the "unforgiving violence" he experienced as a Marine in Iraq.
"Shoot a few seconds too soon, and you kill a civilian," he said. "Hesitate, and another Marine dies."
Also part of the exhibit is the paperwork detailing his PTSD diagnosis. But McLaughlin disputes one part of the paperwork, the part that labels post-traumatic distress a "disorder."
"It's a normal reaction," he said, "to killing people."
► Click here to view a list of soldiers with NH ties who died during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.


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Could someone look over these English to Latin translations for me, please?
The topics for this unit are:
a. Gerunds
b. Gerundives
c. Impersonal Verbs
1. The queen was so ashamed of her burning love for the handsome leader that she drove him from her state.
Amoris pro duce decoro ardentis reginam tam pudet ut e re publica eum expulerit.
2. In order to terrify the citizens, the legate ordered the troops that they attack and destroy their province.
Civium terrendorum causa legatus manus iussit ut provinciam eorum oppugnarent et delerent.
3. The art of writing a province is so difficult that very few men are desirous of learning how it should be done.
Tam difficilis carminis scribendi ars quam pauci qui cupidi quomodo faciendum discendi.
4. After the torches had been carried into the gates, the king was able to show the lofty gates to the guests from the province who had come to learn the art of fortifying towns.
Taedis in portis tulis rex moenia alta hospitibus e provincia monstrare poterat qui ad oppidorum muniendorum artem discendam venissent.
5. Learning other people's laws bores me; I don't even have time to read our own.
De legibus alienis discendi me taedet; etiam ad nostras legendas tempore careo.


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H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE: HNZ) makes processed food products like condiments, sauces, and frozen foods. The company is best known for its namesake brand, Heinz ketchup, which has 60% market share in the US, 70% in Canada, and 78% in the U.K[1] Heinz' other product lines include condiments and sauces such as salad dressing and soy sauce, frozen food, soups, beans and pasta meals, and infant food. The company's 15 top brands, including the flagship Heinz brand, make up over 70% of total sales.[2] In FY 2010, Heinz had sales of nearly $10.5 billion with a net income of $864.9 million.[3]
Heinz has spent a good part of the last decade restructuring its business, shedding less profitable brands and instead focusing more cash on marketing and product development.[4] The firm's renewed efficiency has recently been tested by rising commodities prices, which are driving up the costs of making and packaging food - high fructose corn syrup is a key ingredient in almost all Heinz products, and oil is refined to make plastic bottles for sauces and condiments.
Many of Heinz's products are prepared from recipes developed in their own research laboratories and experimental kitchens. After the ingredients are selected, they are shipped off to one of the company's 68 owned factories or 9 leased factories to be processed. Methods of processing include sterilization, homogenization, chilling, freezing, pickling, drying, freeze drying, baking, and extruding.
In order to obtain a portion of certain raw products such as tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, and some other fruits and vegetables, the company makes pre-season futures contracts with farmers, which provides some protection against volatile commodity prices; for example, if the price of tomatoes suddenly skyrockets, Heinz is able to still buy them at the low price agreed upon in the contract. Other products such as dairy, meat, sugar, sweeteners, spices, flour, and other fruits and vegetables are purchased on the open market [6].
The company's core 15 brands accounted for 70% of total sales. Emerging markets currently generate 15% of the company's total sales, however Heinz's goal is to have them generate 25% of earnings by 2016 and up to 40% in the long term.[7] Company shows 11.6% market share in frozen dinner food
North American Consumer Products – includes operations in the United States in Canada, specifically the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of ketchup, condiments, sauces, pasta meals, entrees, and snacks to grocery stores. Other popular company owned brands include Classico, Jack Daniels, Bella Rosa, Weight Watchers, Bagel Bites, Boston Market, T.G.I. Friday's, Lea & Perrins, and HP. Heinz owns the food and licensing rights for these various brands. Wal-Mart (WMT) is the company's largest customer, accounting for roughly a tenth of sales.[9]
U.S. Foodservice – similar to the North American Consumer Products segment, but deals with commercial (bars, restaurants, travel/leisure places, vending machines, take-out) and non-commercial (schools, hospitals, prisons, military) food outlets and distributors.
Europe – includes the operations in Europe of products in all categories. Other popular company owned brands include: Orlando, Karvan Cevitam, Weight Watchers*, Brinta, Nipiol, and Plasmon.
Asia/Pacific – includes the operations in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, China, South Korea, Indonesia, and Singapore of products in all categories. Other popular company owned brands include: Tim Piper, Wattie's, ABC, Bruno, and Winna. The company plans to begin producing baby food at plants in China and Russia and to grow its child nutrition business in India. Baby food is the company's highest margin product, yet only accounts for 11% of revenue ($1.1 billion); the company is the world fifth largest company in total baby food. China's infant formula market is estimated to be worth $2-$3.7 billion and Heinz already has 3.1% market share (includes 48% share of prepared baby food market). A couple of competitors in China's baby food market may be potential takeover targets, especially as Heinz continues the worldwide trend of consolidation in the baby food market, following Nestle's acquisition of Gerber and Danone's purchase of Numico.[10]
Rest of World – includes operations in Africa, India, and Latin America of products in all categories. Other popular company brands include: Wellington's Complan, Glucon D, John West, and Banquete.
|Ketchup and Sauces
|Meals and Snacks
As consumers have become more health conscious, they have shown a growing demand for healthier alternatives across all food categories. Riding this wave of consumer sentiment, Heinz introduced a certified organic ketchup "Heinz Organic Ketchup" and "Heinz Light", which are low sugar ketchups, as well as a number of other healthy alternatives. The biggest competitor in the organic ketchup market is a private company which makes "Annie's Organic Ketchup".
Because Heinz makes a wide range of products selling in different markets, the company faces competition from both big companies with a diversified line of products and smaller companies with a narrower focus.
In the market for canned goods and soups, Campbell Soup Company (CPB) and ConAgra Foods (CAG) are Heinz' direct competitors.
In the Major Diversified Food industry, Heinz competes with Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM), Kraft Foods (KFT), and Tyson Foods (TSN).


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Mariah Carey has been hit with a slew of lacklustre reviews after wrapping up her bumpy tour of Australia over the weekend, with critics labelling the singer's shows "awkward", "unrehearsed" and "uneven".
The pop superstar jetted Down Under after Christmas to ring in the New Year with a series of shows in the Gold Coast, Sydney and Melbourne.
However, the opening show of the tour at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre on New Year's Day got off to a miserable start – Carey came on stage late and the gig was marred by sound problems.
She even stopped the concert to ask her crew to fix the technical bugs, telling the audience, "I'm not asking for the moon and the stars… There's a lot of sound problems going on here. I don't know if it's me or you, or something in the air, but can we fix it?"
Carey's second show at the Allphones Arena in Sydney also failed to win over critics, with many accusing the singer of spending more time off stage than in front of the audience.
A review published in Time Out Sydney reads, "The problem was that she wasn't on stage enough. There were long exits for pointless costume changes, stretches of filler with her dancers and a song from her backup singer… In all, we'd guess she herself was on stage for a little over an hour – disappointing given that fans had to wait a long time for the show to start."
Rachel Olding of the Brisbane Times writes, "The diva has turned into a downer… But Mariah has become a caricature of herself – and not in a lovable Dolly Parton kind of way… Mariah seemed too absorbed to give us much at all. She hobbled around the stage in heels, escorted by mystery males, touched her hair incessantly and disappeared backstage three times while back-up dancers and singers entertained a yawning crowd…
"She flailed amid poorly refined production with awkward silences, unrehearsed lighting, uneven levels and a backdrop of graphics more suited to a 1998 Windows screensaver than a multi-million-dollar worldwide tour… And, to top it off, she didn't even play the hits!"
Carey's final show in Melbourne on Saturday night, attracted slightly less criticism, but many still claimed the setlist was too short.
However, the singing superstar refused to let the negative reviews blight her trip Down Under, writing in a series of posts on her Twitter.com page, "I love you Australia and already can't wait to go back!!! Thank you Australia, I love you!!!"
Mariah Carey has been hit with a slew of lacklustre reviews after wrapping up her bumpy tour of Australia over the weekend, with critics labelling the singer's shows "awkward", "unrehearsed" and "uneven".


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Construction could begin as early as this summer on the first homes in a major, mixed-use development long-planned along the southern bank of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, according to the project's developers.
Construction could begin as early as this summer on the first homes in a major, mixed-use development long-planned along the southern bank of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, according to the project's developers.
The Town of Whitehall is proposed to eventually include seven neighborhoods made up of 3,800 homes on 1,214 acres off of both Lorewood Grove Road and Ratledge Road.
"That's our 25-year vision for the total project," said Brian DiSabatino, a co-founder of the Town of Whitehall and president of the Wilmington-based EDiS Company, which will serve as one of the development managers for the $1 billion project. "Right now, we're still working through the New Castle County approval process and our focus is on getting the first phase underway this summer."
That first phase, a neighborhood named Mapleton, is slated to include nearly 500 homes, as well as 64,000 square feet of civic, commercial and retail space, on 145 acres.
"Our vision is to create a development that's dramatically different from anything that's been done in Delaware for the past 100 years," DiSabatino said. "We want to return to that style of colonial development that created the best parts of Delaware, and that's a truly walkable community that includes a mix of housing types interwoven with civic spaces, stores, a library, a school and other uses all located with a quarter-mile of your front door."
That will be accomplished, in part, with residential building lots smaller than a half-acre with single-family homes interspersed with townhouses, cottages, apartments and stores.
"Our hope is to have a 900-square-foot home right next to a 5,500-square-foot home to give the neighborhood that uniquely American sense of place," DiSabatino said.
Whitehall Ventures is still awaiting final building approvals from New Castle County after submitting its entire build-out plans in 2011.
In the meantime, a separate group headed by Innovative Schools of Wilmington is seeking approval from the Delaware Board of Education to open a charter elementary school in Whitehall by 2016.
The developers also are in talks to have a county library built in the Mapleton neighborhood.
"From a design and architectural perspective, we are excited about the Whitehall project," county spokesman Antonio Prado said. "The plans have been received and are going through the land use process like any other land use proposal. With that said, we are open to the idea of locating a satellite library at Whitehall provided that such a venture would be beneficial to both the county and the future residents of Whitehall."
While the current proposal for the Whitehall development is relatively new, potential uses for the land, currently owned by the Wilmington-based Welfare Foundation, have been bandied about since at least the 1980s.
In the 1990s, a large-scale commercial development project proposed on the land received considerable public scrutiny and was eventually abandoned.
"We got involved in the project around 2000 and made two major suggestions," DiSabatino said. "The first was that the project as proposed had failed to take into account the on-the-ground reality of the market and the second was that instead of telling the community what they should have, we needed to be asking the community what they wanted."
A decade ago, the developers won approvals for the nearby Scott Run Business Park, a 200-acre employment center southeast of Jamison Corner and Hyetts Corner roads that was designed to accommodate the construction of multiple office and manufacturing sites.
That project stalled after the economy turned sour around 2008, and DelDOT has since filed condemnation lawsuits seeking 100 acres for the $400 million realignment of U.S. Route 301.
DiSabatino said Whitehall Ventures is hopeful the business park project will be rejuvenated if the new highway is built.
More recently, the developers have launched a major marketing and community outreach program through Facebook, Twitter and its website, whitehallde.com, in the hopes of winning community support for the Town of Whitehall project.
Some neighbors of the project, like community activist and Middletown-area resident Andye Daley, remained unconvinced of its benefits, however.
"Between this project and other developments underway in the area, we're talking about more than 6,000 homes in less than a five miles radius," she said. "At the same time, there are already numerous developments in the Middletown area that less than 30 percent built out. Without the infrastructure, like new roads, new schools or even a grocery store in area of this project, it seems like irresponsible growth to me. It's just sprawl."


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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Former Tennessee Tech wide receiver Da'Rick Rogers, an all-OVC selection following a 2012 season in which he set school records, signed a free agent contract with the Buffalo Bills shortly after he went undrafted in the 2013 National Football League Draft on Saturday.
It marked the second consecutive year that a Golden Eagle receiver had signed as an undrafted free agent. A year ago, Tim Benford signed with the Dallas Cowboys.
Rogers tied the school record with 10 touchdown catches in 2012, his only season on the Golden Eagle roster after joining the team in the week leading up to the season opener. In 2012, Rogers caught 61 passes for 893 yards. The 6-foot-3 junior caught 18 passes for 303 yards in a 41-38 double-overtime loss to Southeast Missouri State to set school records in both categories. Rogers played for the University of Tennessee Volunteers in 2011 where he led the team with 1,040 receiving yards and 9 touchdowns.
In addition to second-team all-OVC, Rogers earned the 2012 College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) Elite Wide Recevier Award for his performance over the past two seasons.
Rogers signed with the Bills an hour after the draft was
complete Saturday, and his agent, Joby Branion, confirmed the
signing on Sunday, according to the Associated Press.
"They were one of the teams that were the most interested in him all the way through," said Golden Eagle head coach Watson Brown. "They were around a lot. I think that's a really good fit. He's now got to go work, and pretty much from fourth round on, you have to go prove yourself. Those top one-or-twos will be kept because there's so much invested in them, but those other guys have to go prove themselves anyway. He's got a great opportunity, and has to get his mind right. He knows what he had to deal with. I think he's paid the price for that, now he's gotta go earn his way."
Bills scout Tom Roth had good things to say about the team's
speedy signee.
"He's got it all. His body type is a lot like Eric Moulds. It's all there," Roth said on the team's website. "The off the field stuff that happened is why he was undrafted. Out of him, Justin Hunter and Cordarrelle Patterson, he's the most NFL ready in my opinion in terms of route running, balls skills and everything. He can come in and he won't be behind in terms of coaching and all that stuff."
The Buffalo Bills announced Monday that the team has agreed to
terms with the following 16 undrafted college free agents. They are
expected to sign their contracts before the start of Rookie
Mini-Camp on Friday, May 10th.
G Zack Chibane – Syracuse
LB Keith Pough – Howard
DE Izaan Cross – Georgia Tech
CB Nickell Robey – Southern California
DB Jordan Dangerfield – Towson
WR Da'Rick Rogers – Tennessee Tech
CB Kip Edwards – Missouri
CB Jumal Rolle – Catawba
RB Kendall Gaskins – Richmond
FB Drew Smith – Albany
WR Brandon Kaufman – Eastern Washington
DT Aaron Tipoti – California
CB Vernon Kearney – Lane
QB Jeff Tuel – Washington State
WR Kevin Norrell – Stony Brook
C Ryan Turnley – Pittsburgh


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The yuan touched its highest level since 1993, nearing the strong end of the trading range allowed by the central bank, on speculation policy makers will take more steps to counter a slowdown in the U.S., the world's largest economy.
Financial markets opened today after a weeklong holiday, during which the Chinese Communist Party said its 18th congress will start Nov. 8. The event, which this year will feature a once-a-decade handover of power to a new generation of leaders, could result in increased stimulus to counter an economic slowdown, according to research notes last week from Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd. and Australian & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. The U.S. jobless rate dropped to 7.8 percent in September, the lowest level since January 2009, data showed Oct. 5.
"The Congress date signals that political issues have been set aside and the leaders will focus on reviving the economy," said Daniel Chan, executive vice president at Glory Sky Global Markets Ltd. in Hong Kong. "The U.S. data are encouraging for Chinese exports, which also supports the yuan."
The yuan climbed to 6.2812 per dollar, the strongest level since China unified official and market exchange rates at the end of 1993, before closing 0.04 percent lower at 6.2872, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. Today's high exceeded the central bank's reference rate by a record 0.98 percent, near to the maximum 1 percent divergence that is permitted.
The People's Bank of China lowered its daily fixing by 0.03 percent today to 6.3426 per dollar. That was 0.9 percent weaker than the closing spot price on Sept. 28.
China's yuan positions may have fallen in September while the nation faces "more severe" imported inflationary pressure after Europe, U.S. and Japan expanded quantitative easing, the People's Bank of China's publication Financial News said in a front-page commentary today.