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On January the 14th at 5:30, Dr Ahuva Gamliel will be appearing on "The Arthritis Show" as a guest.
Dr. Gamliel is a licensed Naturopathic Physician and a licensed Acupuncturist. She has a family-centered practice where she integrates nutrition, supplements, and lifestyle recommendations into treatment plans that help patients achieve their optimal health and well being.
A.J. Farshchian MD will continue to push the envelope, like he did in the past seasons. U.S.A. based physician, Dr. Farshchian, is a medical author, humanitarian, and active republican member. He is best known for coining the term "orthopedic regenerative medicine." Dr. Farshchian is recognized as a leading authority in the new clinical science of regenerative medicine. Viewers can enjoy watching the show live on http://www.arthritisusa.net as it streams live on the internet Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 5:30 P.M. The show also broadcasts on BuenoVision daily at 11:30 A.M.
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SKF Meet the World is up and running
The football tournament Meet the World, held by SKF, is going on in 24 countries. The winning team from each country will go to Gothenburg, Sweden in July to take part in the Gothia Cup. São Paulo FC is the winner in Cajamar, Brazil. São Paulo FC is the winner in Cajamar, Brazil.
Igor Martins, the team's left midfielder says:
"I could never dream of going abroad so early in my life, and I am proud to represent my team and Brazil in such a big and important tournament as Gothia Cup."
Qualifying tournaments
SKF initiated Meet the World in 2007, when SKF became the main partner to Gothia Cup. This year the football tournaments are held in 24 countries where SKF is present. The purpose is to create global meeting points for youngsters regardless of gender, social background, age, culture or religion.
The world youth cup
Gothia Cup is the world's largest youth football tournament. From its start in 1975, the cup has had almost 950,000 participants from 127 countries. With close to 70 countries participating every year, the Gothia Cup remains the world's most international tournament.
The games begin 16 July, and the finals are held 20-21 July. During the week some 1,600 teams will play around 5,000 games.
SKF Meet the World teams
The participating teams in Meet the World 2012 apart from Brazil are Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, UK, USA, and Zambia.

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We took the Mammoth Mountain Inn by storm. Eighteen testers, a few techs, and the media crew tore through the slopeside inn and ripped all over Mammoth for a week of heavy 'testing.' Long laps off the gondola and zingers through the park kept the testers busy from 9-4 as they punished a slew of next year's boards for the 2012 Good Wood Snowboard Test. Thanks for sticking it out crew!
Speaking of the crew, we had a diverse mix: a couple kiwis, some Mammoth locs', an Oregon posse, a few SoCal shredders and a couple randoms. Tall, small, new, old--there was a good mix of riders and riding styles. To get that Good Wood stamp, a board really has to please everyone.
Banana boards, camel-hump cambers, pointy tips, blunt tips--all kinds of shapes were stacked into the racks and ready to be ridden. This year we had 138 models submitted from 27 companies. Needless to say, we were buried in boards. We just wrapped up the results and will be spilling those details in the Buyer's Guide and October issues. Until then, enjoy some pictures from the test.
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Resilience, confidence keys to Jackets' successby Staci Pawlak / Columbus Blue Jackets
That's one of the buzzwords floating around the Blue Jackets locker room as the team prepares for its final two games of the regular season. It's the word that forward Ryan Johansen used to describe the team's play throughout a successful road trip that earned the Jackets eight points in five games and positioned them as the eighth seed in the race to the Stanley Cup playoffs.
"We keep surprising ourselves," Johansen said after the team practiced yesterday at Nationwide Arena. "We look around the room, and there's always guys stepping up for us, taking charge, and then everybody jumps on."
Johansen has been one of the players taking charge in the wake of injuries to Artem Anisimov and the always-tenacious Matt Calvert. He scored the game-winning goal against the San Jose Sharks with 97 seconds left in regulation to put the Blue Jackets up 4-3 after Joe Pavelski tied the game at three apiece earlier in the third period.
"For myself, that was the biggest goal of my hockey career," Johansen said.
Johansen's game-winner is just one example of how this team has battled through adversity and found ways to win. To him, the relentless hard work of the team is the reason why they can weather the ups and downs of every game despite the ever-changing lines and steady stream of injuries.
The argument can be made that no one works harder than Calvert. The 23-year forward is loved in Columbus for his gritty, energetic style of play. Calvert doesn't just work hard, he refuses to give up.
Whether it's a battle along the boards, or a scuffle in front of the net, Calvert plays with the same level of intensity, and his resilience has earned him a new two-year contract extension that was announced Tuesday by the Blue Jackets.
Calvert is also not a stranger to adversity, and in many ways, his story of perseverance mirrors the Blue Jackets' own journey to the playoffs.
"I was never expected to make it to junior hockey, so I think that gave me a chip on my shoulder, and it just makes me want to go and prove myself every night," Calvert said after his morning work out yesterday.
While Johansen said it was the team's resilience has earned them their current position in the standings and the opportunity to make the playoffs, Calvert gave credit to the Blue Jackets' system and the development of players who play for the club's AHL affiliate, the Springfield Falcons.
"We got everyone buying in," Calvert said. "It just shows the depth in our system, and guys want to be here and guys want to earn a spot."
Calvert mentioned Dalton Prout's solid play as an example of the team's depth and commitment to their system. Prout, who was called up to play for the "big squad" in the beginning of March, has been a consistently calm force on the blue line. While Prout has kept his focus on keeping the puck from getting behind Sergei Bobrovsky, his dedication paid off in a more obvious way against the LA Kings last Thursday. Despite the loss, Prout scored his first NHL goal to put the Blue Jackets on the board and tie the game in the second period.
Whatever the reason for it, the recent success has put the team in a position to make the playoffs for the first time since 2009. Still, nothing is guaranteed, and for Vinny Prospal, that fact is more important than anything else at the moment.
"We've proven people wrong, but it's not done yet," Prospal said. "We are at the point right now where we haven't really achieved anything."
While Calvert and Johansen credited the team's resilience and commitment to the system established by coach Todd Richards and the coaching staff, Prospal was quick to point out that the turnaround in the team's performance was also helped by learning how to compete in (and win) close games.
"We learned how to win these one-goal games," Prospal said. "That's really the difference between good teams and bad teams – the good teams, they find a way to win these one-goal games."
With those wins came something else, something that could be the most crucial factor of a team's success in any sport: confidence. Without confidence, no one believes. According to Prospal, this team's confidence has not only grown, it has snowballed.
They say success is 90 percent attitude and 10 percent aptitude. Hockey may be a little more complicated than that, but the various reasons that Calvert, Johansen, and Prospal attribute to the team's success with battling adversity and finding a way to win provide a clear message that transcends the game on the ice:
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On January 4, a number of edits were made that do not accurately reflect the background and context of the fiscal cliff. It is improper synthesis to link the fiscal cliff (which was a coincidence of federal policies that in combination would create a recession because they were scheduled to take effect at the same time) with the "Cloward-Piven Strategy". If an editor wants to add a separate section to the article about a "Cloward-Piven Strategy" theory it should be at the bottom of the article and not in the main section. Also note, the sequestration applies to both security and non-defense domestic spending, but does not apply to any entitlements. Thanks, Wschact 02:24, 6 January 2013 (EST)
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Falling oil prices and lower refinery input partly undermined Chevron's first quarter results, the energy giant said on Friday, as profit beat Wall Street's expectations but revenue suffered.
Chevron posted quarterly earnings excluding items of $3.18 per share, versus $3.27 a share in the year-earlier quarter, with basic earnings per share checking in at $3.20. Revenue, however, fell to $56.82 billion from $60.71 billion a year ago, hurt by volatile crude prices and refinery troubles in California.
Analysts had expected Chevron to report earnings of $3.05 per share on $67.73 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.
Oil production during the quarter came in around 2.65 million barrels of oil per day, which was marginally higher than the comparable year-ago quarter performance at 2.63 million barrels.
Chevron's earnings from refining and marketing, however, plunged by 350,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 576,000 bpd, due largely to a refinery shutdown in California, according to Chevron. Meanwhile, the company made less money from the production of oil and gas, which came in at $1.13 billion.
In a statement, Chevron chairman and CEO John Watson described first quarter earnings as "strong" in spite of the drop in revenues. The company also approved an 11.1 percent hike in its quarterly dividend.
"Our consistent financial performance has enabled us to significantly increase the dividend again, and fund major development projects that are the foundation of the company's future growth in production, earnings and cash flows," he added.
A day earlier, Exxon Mobil also reported higher profit on slightly disappointing revenue—underscoring how major oil companies are having to grapple with an unpredictable global oil market that has whipsawed the price of crude.
Immediately after the earnings announcement, the second largest U.S. oil producer saw its shares dip modestly before gaining in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange. (Click here to track the market reaction to Chevron's earnings.)


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No injuries were reported.
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When Isemoto Contracting Chairman Larry Isemoto read in the newspaper that Barry Taniguchi had established five new Endowed Faculty Funds at the University of Hawaii at Hilo on behalf of KTA Super Stores, he was inspired. Isemoto knew the University's most important goal in its current Centennial Campaign is to increase the size of its endowment.
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Hi. I want to look again at a place in Thomas Aquinas' book, where he explains how the pain is peculiar to the body, so even in the mental sufferings what is really feeling pain is the body.
The book is probably the commentary to Aristotle's De Anima, but maybe some another book.
I'm bad at searching, so, could someone find the place for me ?
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Is this view of Thomas Aquinas his original ?
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Little fuss over wholesome foods has followed some free cooking lessons for Michelle Otis' family.
Whole-wheat pasta, homemade granola and pumpkin puree as pizza sauce have been touted in Oregon Health Management Services' "Cooking With Kids" series. The Grants Pass classes continue this month and next with healthful breakfasts highlighted to start the school year.
"If you can get them to eat healthy first off, they'll continue all day," says Otis, 38, of Medford.
Eggs baked in muffin tins is one dish that her kids — 9, 13 and 15 — like to grab and go, says Otis. They bag up homemade granola in the evenings to speed up the next morning's routine, she adds.
Breakfast for teens should include meat or another protein, fat, fruit, grain and dairy (or a nondairy alternative), according to registered dietitians Jill Castle and Maryann Jacobsen, authors of "Fearless Feeding: How to Raise Healthy Eaters From High Chair to High School." Think as simple as peanut butter on whole-grain toast with a banana and skim milk.
Even children as young as 7 can scramble eggs, assemble yogurt parfaits and use a microwave to make breakfast with fresh fruits, whole grains and protein, says OHMS instructor Barbara Paulson.
"If you eat a healthy breakfast, I think you tend to be healthier generally," says the former home-economics teacher, adding that students who eat breakfast have noticeably higher levels of energy.
Teaching three of the four classes that OHMS offers each month, Paulson presents recipes with "basic, good ingredients" without a lot of fat or sugar. Four dishes are prepared in each class, recipe copies are provided and participants eat everything they make.
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Although most kids who attend are grade-school age, OHMS may add a series for slightly older children to learn more advanced skills, such as bread baking, says Paulson. Classes also incorporate cleanup, another facet of functioning in the kitchen.
"It's not something you do for just one Saturday," says Paulson. "You're set for life."
Otis agrees, explaining that her 18-year-old daughter so enjoyed the sessions as a younger teen that she recently attended an OHMS class for adults.
"We've actually changed the way we eat at home now because of the classes," says Otis. "Because they tasted it, and it tasted good, they were on board with it."
OHMS classes are free with preregistration, but the Medicaid care-management service welcomes donations to community food pantries or cash to support its education efforts, sponsored by PacificSource, MedImpact and Grocery Outlet, which furnishes all the foodstuffs.
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Ashley Collins of Maine West,left, and Brooke Schanowski of Wheaton north go for a rebound. this took place during the Wheaton North vs. Maine West girls basketball game at McDonalds Shootout at Willowbrook Saturday.
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Whatever went down in Wheaton Norths practice Monday, its working.
Playing some of their best, most physical defense of the year, the No. 11 Falcons manhandled Maine West 53-29 on Saturday at the 23rd McDonalds Shootout at Willowbrook High School.
Wheaton North (15-6) shut down Maine West (7-13) in the first half, and the 29 points were the fewest the Falcons have surrendered this season.
We came out and got after them, said Falcons senior point guard Reilly Stewart, who scored 14 points. We turned defense into offense.
Wheaton North has been able to win for much of the season by simply outscoring teams. Defense, a calling card for the Falcons under coach Dave Eaton, hasnt been a particular strength, giving up more than 50 points a game. It might have hit rock bottom last week, giving up 79 in a loss to Metea Valley and 57 in a bad loss to Wheaton Warrenville South.
Wheaton North found its answers in practice Monday. Not one basketball was shot in a defensive, drill-intensive workout.
I think for most of the season we thought we could beat teams by outscoring them and we got away from doing what we want to do defensively, Eaton said. We had to buy in on defense again and refocus. Weve had back-to-back very good games defensively this week.
Were forgetting about last week, Stewart said. There was a lot of energy in practice Monday. It was fun.
Mandy Traversa, in somewhat of a shooting slump of late after a red-hot December, missed her first 7 shots Saturday and scored 8 points. Eaton, though, was effusive in praising the seniors work defensively.
Mandys picked it up the last two games. Shes completely flipped the switch defensively, said Eaton, noting Traversas handful of steals Saturday. To see Mandy come out and play defense the way she has, that adds a completely new dimension to our team.
Neither team scored in the games first four minutes Saturday before Chrissy Baird broke through with a basket off an inbounds play. It was 8-0 at the quarter, and 25-13 at half, and Wheaton North blew it open with separate runs of 9-2 and 10-0 in the second half.
Baird, giving away a couple inches to Maine Wests post, had 14 points and 11 rebounds.
Chrissys really been playing well for us, Eaton said. Shes been rotating well on defense and offensively shes been very consistent.
Maine West didnt score until Brittany Collins rolled in a turnaround jumper two minutes into the second quarter. Hall of Fame Warriors coach Derril Kipp was blunt in assessing how his team responded to Wheaton Norths physicality.
When their kids play harder than we do, we dont have a chance, Kipp said. We just didnt run our offense and we were kind of intimidated by how hard they play. When teams step up and are physical with us, our kids back down.
Collins and Alexia Prosperi each scored 10 points for Maine West, which had scored 53 points the night before in a 17-point win over Deerfield. Different game, different opponent, different gym.
In this tournament, in this gym, theyre going to let teams play, Kipp said. It was much more physical than last nights game.
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by James R. Barth
OCC Working Paper 97-6, March 1997
This paper provides detailed information on banking structure, permissible banking activities, regulatory structure, deposit insurance schemes, and supervisory practices in each of the 15 European Union countries, as well as in Canada, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States.
Comparisons across the countries show there is a wide range of banking structures and supervisory practices, and there is a roughly equal division between those countries that rely on the central bank as the chief banking supervisor and those that do not. In addition, although all of the countries currently have deposit insurance schemes, these schemes differ widely in many respects. Cross-country comparisons of the different aspects of banking do reveal one common characteristic, however. Almost all of the countries allow a wide range of banking activities, including underwriting, dealing, and brokering in both securities and insurance, and these activities can generally be conducted either directly in a bank or indirectly through a subsidiary of a bank, rather than through a holding company structure. The notable exceptions to this common tendency are the United States and Japan.
An appendix presents an exploratory regression analysis illustrating a way in which empirical examinations of bank performance might be enriched by taking into account differences in permissible banking activities across countries.
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The Red Devils earned a 1-1 draw in the first-leg last-16 clash at the Santiago Bernabeu, but could have carved out a lead had Real goalkeeper Diego Lopez not regularly thwarted the Dutchman.
And, after the game, Van Persie lamented his inability to hand Sir Alex Ferguson's a potentially decisive victory in the Spanish capital.
"I had three in the second half, especially the other when I hit the bar," the former Arsenal hitman told Sky Sports.
"That was a big chance, I should have put that in. I slightly mis-kicked it, I didn't hit it properly. So with a bit of luck, it could have gone in but it didn't.
"In the dying seconds, their keeper made a really good save because I was counting that one to go in."
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United goalkeeper David de Gea was also worked hard on his return to Spain, and Van Persie admitted either team could have come away with a win.
"Yes, for sure [it could have gone either way]," he added. "They had a couple of good chances and I think if you said it would finish 1-1 before the game, most of us would take it.
"Away from home, it's a good result but for the people who watched the game, they have seen chances on both sides and it was a great game to watch."
The result means that Real have to score when they travel to England, but the 29-year-old doesn't believe that fact counts for much.
When asked whether United have the advantage, he said: "Well slightly. At this level I don't really think these kind of teams care if they play at home or away.
"We don't really care, they don't really care and it is only half-time now. We will be ready for the second half."
Goalscorer Danny Welbeck also expressed delight after netting at a stadium he described as "magnificent", and praised his team-mates for not being daunted by the occasion.
"I knew where Wayne [Rooney] was going to put it and thankfully I put into into the back of the net," he said.
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STOCKTON - Eric Hunter knows teammates come and go in professional hockey. He said the key is the ability to adjust.
STOCKTON - Eric Hunter knows teammates come and go in professional hockey. He said the key is the ability to adjust.
And the Stockton Thunder has to make some big adjustments going into today's 7:30 p.m. game against the Bakersfield Condors at Stockton Arena.
Hunter centered the Thunder's most productive line with Toni Rajala and Philippe Cornet before the two were promoted to the Oklahoma City Barons of the American Hockey League. They are the Thunder's top two scorers, accounting for 19 goals and 42 total points in 14 games.
Hunter, who played with the AHL's Lake Erie Monsters last season, said he will miss them but expects to be productive with new partners Gabriel Levesque and Yannick Riendeau.
"This is just part of the game. In Lake Erie there was a revolving door of guys coming in and out, and that's the nature of pro hockey, " Hunter said. "It's no secret; two leading scorers is a big loss for us. But the two guys who are coming in to join the line are going to be great. We're rolling right now, and confidence is high."
Stockton (10-3-1) has won six in a row at home, and coach Matt Thomas said he is sure he has the talent to keep winning.
"I don't think scoring is going to be our issue. I think the big issue is just making sure our confidence and our belief in the team stays the same," Thomas said. "I'm real confident it will."
Levesque plans to take advantage of the increased playing time. He got off to a great start last season before sitting out most of the year with a hip injury that required surgery. With Stockton's roster loaded with AHL-caliber players at the beginning of this season because of the NHL lockout, it was tough for Levesque and Riendeau to get on the ice.
Levesque has four points in nine games, and Riendeau has seven points in seven contests.
"Right now, everybody might have it in their mind that it might be different offensively without those two guys. But it's now on us to step up," Levesque said. "Now is our chance, and we just need to take it."
The Thunder is averaging 4.2 goals per game, and its plus-20 (59-39) goal differential is the best in the ECHL. Thomas said while Cornet and Rajala were a big part of the success, there's plenty of depth on the roster.
Forward Harrison Reed has 14 points in 14 games, and forward Justin Maylan and defenseman Nathan Deck have 13 each.
"You have (Matt) Reber and Maylan who have been scoring, and guys like Phil Mangan and Kristians Pelss who can score as well as others," Thomas said. "People will get opportunities, and have to take advantage of them."
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STOCKTON - Weston Ranch needed big games from its stars Wednesday night and got just that.
STOCKTON - Weston Ranch needed big games from its stars Wednesday night and got just that.
Returning All-Valley Oak League players Dylan Alexander and Davion Leverett each scored 20 points for the Cougars in a 50-41 victory over Oakland in the first round of the McDonald's Classic hosted by Edison at Delta College.
The Wildcats (0-2) cut Weston Ranch's lead to single digits at times in the fourth quarter, but Leverett, a 6-foot-7 senior, answered by scoring 12 points in the final period.
"My team was getting me the ball and I was trying to finish," Leverett said. "They just kept coming at us and we were trying to keep them from getting easy baskets."
Leverett twice broke free on fast breaks in the final quarter, drawing a raucous reaction from fans with a powerful one-handed jam. He rushed the second attempt a bit and missed off the iron.
Oakland tried to slow the Cougars (1-1) in the final minutes by fouling, but Weston Ranch made 9 of 10 free throws in the final quarter. Leverett was 6 for 6 from the line for the game. Eric Duncan had 13 points for Weston Ranch, which will play Vallejo-Bethel at 5 p.m. today at Blanchard Gym. Bethel beat Sacramento-Hiram Johnson 84-61 on Thursday. Oakland plays Johnson at 5 p.m. today at Marcopulos Gym.
In other games:
The Tigers (4-1) sank nine 3-pointers and converted 16 of 19 free throws to hold off the Titans (2-2). Josh McAfee made three from behind the arc and led the Tigers with 19 points. Nico Brusa also had three 3-pointers and finished with 16 points. Yonic Flores had 13 points for Tokay.
Tokay faces rival Lodi at 8 p.m. today at Blanchard Gym. Sacramento-Burbank plays Rancho Cordova-Cordova at 8 p.m. today at Marcopulos Gym.
"It's going to be a fun game," Tokay coach Bobby Hernandez said. "It's going to be two teams who want to shoot the daylights out of the ball."
The Flames (2-2), the tournament's defending champions, were led by Anthony Gonsalves, who made seven 3-pointers and scored 23 points. Ben Simi made 7 of 10 at the foul line and scored 15 points, and Grant DeAndries finished with 10 points.
Troy Owens led the Lancers (0-5) with 16 points.
The game got away when the Timberwolves (2-1) missed their first 10 field-goal attempts of the second quarter. They were also held to three points in the final quarter.
Sierra was led by Emanuel Elijah with 11 points. Ray Jackson led the Gauchos (3-0) with 19 points.
El Cerrito plays Elk Grove-Cosumnes Oaks, which beat Chavez 50-41 on Thursday, at 3:30 p.m. today at Blanchard Gym. The Titans (2-3) play Sierra at 3:30 p.m. today at Marcopulos Gym.
Richard Newell had 17 points, DeVon King scored 14, Devante Brooks had 11, and Joshua Johnson scored 10 for the Vikings (2-2). Joshua Osborn scored 12 and Gerardo Corona scored 11 for Antelope-Global Youth Charter (1-2).
The Vikings play Sacramento-Grant at 6:30 p.m. today at Blanchard Gym. The Bulldogs play Franklin at 6:30 p.m. today at Marcopulos Gym.
The Pacers (3-2) were led by De'Sean Parsons with 25 points and Donovan Brown had 13. The Yellowjackets (2-2) were led by Isaiah Gaines with 21 points, followed by Dontay Anderson with 16 points and Colizel Lewis with 12.


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NWSB Editor and Insider Chris Anderson dishes out his game balls from Oregon's triumphant and blowout victory over the Nicholls State Colonels. A route everybody expected to occur, the Ducks soared over the Colonels and dominated all facets of the game. Marcus Mariota led the way on offense while Tony Washington played big on defense and Keanon Lowe looked impressive on special teams.
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- Last call... (8/2/17)
- Time to put on our 'A' game (7/26/17)
- Annual Idaho State Police report offers some mixed news for county (7/19/17)
- Community Canvas effort made significant difference (7/12/17)
- Law enforcement must train to confront very evil people (7/5/17)
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Beware of 'victory disease'
With the United States no longer involved in Iraq, and with a clear timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan (by 2014), we're looking at the end of the road of a series of military commitments that have cost nearly 7,000 American lives, left more than 30,000 wounded and cost $1 trillion dollars directly (and another $4 trillion in future VA costs).
That end won't come too soon, especially for the military families that have borne so much of the burden.
Arguably, we'll have "won" both wars.
Having said that, we have to be careful not to fall prey to what can best be described as "victory disease."
It has two components -- military and civilian.
On the military side, it's a belief that we can't be beaten, that we'll always win. But many of our enemies know they can't stand up to us in a fair fight, so they adopt asymmetric warfare, which is difficult for a "regular" army to deal with. It'll be a special forces world for the next decade, especially as we slowly become more and more involved in northeastern Africa -- and we still have terrorist groups to deal with.
The civilian side is perhaps the most dangerous form of victory disease. We're already seeing some of it. Politicians are looking at the "peace dividend" of no more major wars and staking out claims to the "savings" in military spending -- which they intend to divert to their own domestic pork programs.
We're going to see a smaller military. Granted, it will be more capable, as we transition to higher and higher technologies, but high-tech weaponry costs more, offsetting much of the savings in manpower reductions. Furthermore, those manpower reductions will make it more and more difficult to respond to multiple threats at once. Eventually, you run out of warm bodies to put on the battlefield. Future conflicts will rely more and more on Guard and Reserve units, which is why the head of the National Guard Bureau just got a post on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Victory disease is dangerous. It fails to understand that we need a strong, decent-sized military, with adequate funding for extensive training. Otherwise, we'll wind up with a hollow force like we had in the '70s.
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Somersworth man in court on Epping market robberyBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
February 27. 2013 11:07PM
BRENTWOOD - A Somersworth man accused of holding up the Epping Market Basket waived his probable cause hearing Wednesday.
Eric Dubois, 32, of 54 Franklin St., is charged with stealing $163 from the store on Feb. 9 and later crashing his car in Rochester when he tried to avoid capture.
According to police, Dubois allegedly handed a note to a clerk at the service desk that said, "Stay calm. Give me all your money or I start hurting people starting with you. MAKE IT FAST."
After receiving the money, Dubois allegedly took off and crashed several miles north on Route 125 when Barrington police tried to stop him.
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Wouldn't it be nice to see downtown Sunnyside lit up and decorated for the Lighted Farm Implement Parade?
It's the 25th anniversary of the parade, so even more people than usual are expected at the event. And to make downtown look great, the chamber of commerce is urging businesses to decorate storefront windows in holiday themes.
There's even a prize for the best window, $100. Not much, but a little cash and bragging rights for a year is always a good thing. A little extra promotion from a small effort could be worth it for businesses and for the town.
I can almost imagine how neat it would be if every window along the downtown core had decorations and lights. Call in the local elementary schools to fill the vacant spots. With downtown alive with lights and displays, we might have an inkling of what the city will look like if the revitalization project succeeds.
A string of lights doesn't cost too much, and a small display is something most people can manage. I don't know what window paint requires, but I'm sure there are plenty of artists in this town to tap for help in creating a display.
The parade is Saturday, Dec. 7. Is it possible to transform downtown into a celebration of winter and Christmas before then?
And wouldn't it be nice?
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's legislature approved the 2013 government budget after cutting proposed spending by 2 percent amid an expected tax shortfall in the lackluster economy.
In the budget approved late Tuesday, total government spending will be limited to 1.9 trillion New Taiwan dollars ($65.5 billion), incurring a deficit of NT$174 billion.
Premier Sean Chen says the Cabinet will implement the required austerity measures while trying to reduce their negative impact on the economy.
Lawmakers froze the annual bonus payment of NT$290,000 for Economics Minister Shih Yen-hsiang, saying he can receive it only if the first two quarters of economic growth reach the targeted 3 percent.
Taiwan's economy grew only 1.1 percent last year because of weak global demand for the island's electronics exports.
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I guess President Obama's victory was the headline coming out of yesterday (barely beating out this story) but the most interesting comment was this off-hand remark by the current and future leader of the free world:
As he spoke in Chicago, he thanked everyone who cast a ballot "whether you voted for the first time, or waited in line for a very long time" -- then he quickly added, in an evident ad lib, "by the way we have to fix that."
By "that," the president was referring to long lines, confusion over early voting and other issues, thousands of voters who should have been on the books but weren't (full disclosure: including my 18-year-old son casting his first ballot, although he was able to vote eventually), and a slew of recent laws aimed at making it harder for people to vote instead of easier. The resulting chaos made a mockery of American exceptionalism, unless "exceptionalism" is now synonymous with "what you might find in a faraway banana republic."
Now, three things about the president's comment:
1) "By the way", you've been president for the last almost four years -- this is just occurring to you now? Amazing. It's almost like that Ragu commercial..."I wonder what other bad decisions I've made.."
2) If he's serious, Step 1 is to roll back all the voter suppression laws -- like Pennsylvania's outrageous voter ID measure -- that have passed in the last couple of years.
3) More importantly, I hope America can think outside the box for real solutions to encourage as close to universal voting as we can get. That means things like day-of-voting registration, early voting in every state (including, gasp, Pennsylvania), and moving the final Election Day from Tuesday to Saturday. I heard on the radio yesterday that Tuesday elections were to coordinate with farmers' trips to market. I don't think we'd be crushing too many succotash growers by moving the vote to the weekend.


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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — After a night of vicious street battles, anti-government protesters and police clashed again Monday in Ukraine's capital. Hundreds of protesters, many wearing balaclavas, hurled rocks and stun grenades. Police responded with tear gas.
The violence in Kiev has seriously escalated Ukraine's political crisis, which has been marked by two months of largely peaceful protests. Here's a look at the unclear roadmap for peace there:
The pro-Western protests in Kiev began Nov. 21 after President Viktor Yanukovych shelved a long-planned political and economic treaty with the European Union, then accepted a huge bailout package from Russian President Vladimir Putin instead. The demonstrations swelled to hundreds of thousands on some days — the biggest since Ukraine's 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution — after riot police violently broke up a small peaceful student protest. Clashes broke out on Dec. 1 between radical protesters and police, but the demonstrations had since been largely peaceful until Sunday's violence.
Sunday's violence came after Yanukovych pushed through a sweeping anti-protest law that significantly increases fines and imposes jail terms for unauthorized street protests. The new law also prohibits activists from wearing helmets or masks to demonstrations, curbs free speech and limits the ability to investigate or monitor the activity of officials, including judges. Another provision restricts the activity of non-governmental organizations funded by the West, as many are in Ukraine.
The law mirrors anti-opposition legislation passed in Russia, prompting accusations that Yanukovych is following in Putin's footsteps by cracking down on his foes. The United States has called the legislation "undemocratic," and the European Union has urged Ukraine to revise it.
The law has highlighted Yanukovych's disregard for the protests, which have been calling for his ouster, the restoration of civil rights and a pro-Western course for Ukraine. But the demonstrators have been frustrated by the fragmented and often indecisive opposition leadership.
When Sunday's large demonstration began peacefully, the crowd repeatedly chanted "Leader!" to demand clear direction for its goals. When that did not happen, hundreds broke off from the main rally and marched toward parliament, where they began attacking riot police with sticks, firebombs and stones. Police responded with tear gas, water cannons and plastic bullets.
Opposition leader Vitali Klitschko, a world heavyweight boxing champion, tried to stop the violence, but was attacked by the radical protesters.
"We are tired of waiting, we must push the changes ourselves, we must change the leaders," said Petro Sopotensky, a 28-year-old protester.
Intent on preventing what he called a possible civil war, Klitschko went to Yanukovych's home Sunday night and emerged with a promise of negotiations. But the president appointed the embattled national security council head Andriy Klyuyev, whom the opposition blames for the violent dispersal of the student rally, to lead the talks. Klitschko insisted that the president must personally take part, but by Monday night no such talks had been held. Instead, Yanukovych issued a statement urging Ukrainians not to take part in the street confrontations.
Klitschko, meanhile ,urged all Ukrainians to rush to Kiev to defend the country's future.
"Get into cars, vans, buses," he said in a video address. "You are needed here so that Ukraine is the winner, not Yanukovych."
Opposition leaders have been urging the EU and the United States to impose sanctions on top Ukrainian officials and Yanukovych's financial backers, but Western diplomats have only threatened sanctions and issued harsh statements. On Monday, the EU urged the Ukrainian government to scrap the anti-protest legislation. Unconvinced, hundreds of activists rallied outside the EU office in Kiev on Monday, chanting "We need your help!" in English and holding posters that read "No sanctions, no peace."
"The reaction of the international community has been inadequate," said Valeriy Chalyi, head of the Razumkov Center think tank. "We are talking about Ukraine's independence. And if one does not understand this today, tomorrow it will be too late."
Yuras Karmanau contributed to this report.


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I started this baby sweater last November. I finally finished it yesterday. The baby that it was being made for is now too big to wear this. However, we have friends that had their first baby, a sweet baby girl. This sweater will now go to her. I ordered this pattern and yarn, last summer, from Knot Another Hat. The pattern is a Sirdar, lace-edge cardigan which also has directions for a round neck cardigan. I used Debbie Bliss Cashmerino , 4 balls for 6-12 month,size 3 needles.
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What a cute sweater! I love the ruffles.ReplyDelete
Wow, I want that in my size! Isn't Sarah the best, we all love her!ReplyDelete
Completely precious little sweater--and gifts being too small for babies before i even give them is the story of this knitter's life!ReplyDelete
Oh, that is just too precious. Your knitting is machine perfect, I swear. I am so jealous. ;)ReplyDelete
aww, it's so sweet, especially those tiny ruffles. I love the first photo of the cardi with the little ribbon on the yellow hanger.ReplyDelete
Leslie - you are too kind - thank you. That little sweater came out so much cuter than the picture on the pattern!! I'm so glad to see it! :) And of course -love the labels!ReplyDelete
Beautiful sweater, adorable frilly edging, and as others have noted, great tags/labels!ReplyDelete
Lucky little one that gets this! Totally adorable and love the ruffles! Your labels add the perfect touch to this sweater too.ReplyDelete
Thank you for the link. It's nice to know when a place ships quickly.


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Chelsea interim manager Rafa Benitez has joked that he will probably get the blame for the Blues' fixture congestion should they progress to the Europa League quarter-finals.
Benitez's side trail Romanian club Steaua Bucharest 1-0 heading into the second leg at Stamford Bridge and, if they can overturn the deficit, the Blues will play four times in just nine days.
Chelsea also face a replay in the FA Cup sixth-round tie with Mmanchester United that has been scheduled for April 1, three days before the first leg of any Europa League last-eight tie.
"Maybe somebody else will blame me. They will say it's my fault - because everything is my fault," Benitez quipped to reporters.
"You are clever enough to realise I was joking. But if something is wrong, some people want to blame me. I have to manage this too.
"When you have to play every three days, or two days, which is the situation, you have to look at your squad, your players and the positions they play.
"Centre-backs and goalkeepers can play more games, but for wingers, full-backs, strikers, it is more difficult because of the intensity of the runs and the distance they run.
"You have to see which ones recover quickly and are fit. Others are older and need more time. So you have to analyse everything and decide - and still you get criticised.
"If you lose it's, 'You picked the wrong player.' It's quite difficult."


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House speaker's race is another thing money just can't buyBY GARRY RAYNO
State House Dome
December 01. 2012 7:34PM
If you could win the House speaker's race with money, Wednesday's Organization Day contest would not even be close.
However, the voters have a say in who sits in the House, and the person who raised the least will be at the podium by noon and the person who raised the most will be sitting in the back row of Section 4 of Representatives Hall.
Current House Speaker William O'Brien, R-Mont Vernon, raised about $48,000 for his run for the lower chamber's top job and spent about $40,000. The expected new House speaker, Terie Norelli, D-Portsmouth, raised a little more than $3,000 and spent a little more than $1,000.
In between the two extremes was David Campbell, D-Nashua, who raised $10,000 and spent a little more than $9,000 in his attempt to become speaker.
Many State House lobbying firms contributed to O'Brien's campaign, as did several state and national businesses, political action committees and issues advocates.
Of the nine contributions of more than $1,000 O'Brien received, three were for the maximum of $5,000. One of the $5,000 contributions was from the National Organization for Marriage, a group that worked to defeat gay marriage in the state and pushed for its repeal during the last two sessions.
Another $5,000 contribution came from right-to-work advocate E. Brett McMahon of Bethesda, Md., an executive with Miller & Long Corp., one of the largest employers of construction workers in the Mid-Atlantic region.
O'Brien pushed for right-to-work legislation in both sessions that he was speaker, although the effort was unsuccessful, and is the prime sponsor of a bill to be introduced in the coming session.
The other $5,000 contribution was from The Collingsworth Co. of Portsmouth. The company is associated with former Gov. Craig Benson.
O'Brien received a $2,000 contribution from Republican National Committeeman Steve Duprey, a Concord developer and former state GOP chairman, and two $1,500 contributions, one from Select Management Resources Corp. of Georgia, a pioneer in auto title loans, and the other from Green Monster Realty of Salem, which lists Corey R. Lewandowski, the state director of Americans for Prosperity, A Koch Brothers organization, as its agent.
Of the money raised, O'Brien sent $26,000 to the House Republican Victory Committee and gave substantial contributions to some key Republican House supporters, including Marilinda Garcia of Salem, former Speaker Gene Chandler of Bartlett, Laura Jones of Rochester, Lynne Ober of Hudson, Neal Kurk of Weare, Norman Majors of Plaistow, John Burt of Goffstown, Will Smith of New Castle, Edith Hogan of Nashua and Robert Fredette of Hillsborough.
Norelli took no money from lobbyists or political action committees. Her two biggest contributions, of $500, came from two individuals. She did receive a $250 contribution from former House Democratic Leader and state Sen. Peter Burling of Cornish.
Norelli devoted very little money to House candidates, instead spending her money on local Democratic events, document copies and mailers.
Campbell's contributors include several State House lobbyists, such as Dick Bouley and Paul Worsowicz, and New Hampshire PACs, including the Home Builders and Remodelers, and NH Motor Transport.
Campbell received three $1,000 contributions from individuals and a $500 contribution from former New Hampshire Motor Speedway owner Bob Bahre.
Campbell spent more than $7,000 of the money he raised on donations to House candidates and the rest on mailers and various other expenses.
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November Revenue: Some may be in for a big shock when they see the state revenue numbers for November, to be released Monday or Tuesday.
The figures will show a $50 million shortfall, which would certainly blow a big hole in the budget as we near the halfway point in this fiscal year.
The issue is the Medicaid Enhancement Tax, which hospitals have to pay on patient services. The hospitals are supposed to pay the tax in November, and budget writers were expecting about $105 million, but the figures will show that revenue source is about $48 million short.
The Department of Revenue Administration gave several hospitals extensions until December, which means budget writers will not know how the tax is doing until the end of next month.
The state and the hospitals argued over how much they had to pay last fiscal year after lawmakers decided to keep about $100 million of the money raised by the tax instead of returning it to the hospitals through the Disproportionate Share Program - or uncompensated care - as it had done since the tax was instituted, in 1991.
Another concern of budget watchers is business taxes. Although November is not a big collection month for business taxes, the business enterprise and profits levies appear to be several million short of expectations.
The communications tax is also behind, but budget writers expected that after eliminating taxes on Internet access earlier this year.
The rest of the state taxes, such as the rooms and meals and tobacco, appear to be pretty much on target for the month. At the end of October, state revenues were $6.1 million ahead of estimates and $17 million ahead of the previous year.
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A Little Irony: All Republican State Committee members will be asked to pay a $25 annual fee to show commitment to the party. The state GOP Executive Committee approved the fee when it met in November. The party will collect the fee by charging members to attend the annual meeting in January in Bedford.
The fee did not go over very well on the Republican Internet forum, prompting one party member to say, "I don't think they got the irony."
Rep. Lee Quandt, R-Exeter, a "union Republican" who fought his party and House leadership on the right-to-work bills during the past two years, asked those complaining: "If you don't want to pay dues, can you pay an agency fee?"
Agency fees to unions for negotiating and administering collective bargaining agreements is what right-to-work legislation would have ended for non-union members.
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No Special Elections Yet: The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the Nashua Board of Aldermen will have to wait a little longer to request special elections to fill House seats in their respective cities.
Democratic Rep.-elect Stacie Laughton of Nashua resigned last week, and Manchester Democratic Rep.-elect Robert Thompson has said he will resign.
Some were hoping the requests could go to the Executive Council when it meets Wednesday, but the two seats will not be officially open until the 398 remaining House members are sworn into office by the Governor and Executive Council on Wednesday morning.
Once those seats are declared vacant, city boards can ask for special elections.
The council is scheduled to meet again Dec. 19, so that is the first time the councilors could act on the requests.
If that is the case, the special elections could be held early in February.


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September 24. 2013 6:50PM
Efforts underway to make Medicaid expansion workable in New Hampshire
By GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
— The state may not be able to require some low-income residents to use the new health insurance exchange under Medicaid expansion through the Affordable Care Act, the commission studying expanding eligibility was told Tuesday.
The Commission to Study Expansion of Medicaid Eligibility is considering requiring those between 100 and 138 percent of the federal poverty level to buy insurance through the exchange even though Medicaid would pay the premium. The plan is similar to what Arkansas and at least one other state have proposed, although the federal government has yet to agree to the proposals.
But the Insurance Department's Jennifer Patterson said federal officials indicate the state could not do that at least for 2013 because recipients have to be offered a choice of plans.
She said if there is more than one carrier beginning in 2015 as is expected, then the exchange provision could go forward.
"Recent guidance from CMS (Center for Medicaid Services) is they won't grant a waiver unless there is a choice of qualified health plans," she told the commission.
Earlier this summer, the Insurance Department told the commission that as long as the one insurer on the exchange — Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield — offered several plans, the state would meet the requirement for a choice of plans for those who qualify for Medicaid.
On Tuesday she said it would not make a lot of sense to require people to use the exchange until 2015.
But Sen. Andy Sanborn, R-Bedford, noted Anthem is offering 11 plans on the exchange. Is there a way to get a definitive answer, he asked.
Patterson said she could probably get an answer, and noted from the department's prospective the more choices consumers have on the exchange the better.
Committee member Charlie Arlinghaus noted there is little room for compromise between those in favor and opposed to expansion, but using private insurers in Medicaid expansion was one way to bridge the gap. "Without that option," Arlinghaus said, "I'm not sure."
Rep. Tom Sherman, R-Rye, said he would like to see those between 100 and 138 percent of poverty go through the commercial market on the exchange but does not believe the commercial market can handle it right now with only one insurer, but could in 2015 with other companies offering plans.
A majority of the committee favors accepting federal help for the expansion, but not on what the state should do to meet the federal requirements under the Affordable Care Act.
The commission spent much of Tuesday going through eight key points that need to be addressed if the state goes forward with expansion, although there was little agreement on most of the points.
One key point is whether the state should ask for a waiver from the federal government both to use the exchange and to expand a current program to pay employers to maintain coverage for eligible employees that is mandatory under expansion.
Sen. Nancy Stiles, R-Hampton, said she favors moving forward with a waiver and make the state's participation in expansion contingent on it. "2017 is much too late," she said, "We need it in hand by July 1, (2014)."
Most members of the commission agree that managed care should be part of any expansion of Medicaid and many want to take the federal funds for the newly eligible as soon as possible.
Sherman offered to put together a plan that could be acceptable to most of the commission, while other members will present alternative plans at the commission's next meeting on Tuesday Oct. 1.
Arlinghaus said it may not be the most fruitful to come up with a plan that could be offered as legislation. He's for developing concepts and ideas that members could support or oppose with suggestions of issues some members believe still need to be addressed.
"Maybe we can end up at the same place in the end," he said.
New Hampshire is one of eight states that have yet to make a decision on whether to expand Medicaid eligibility. Several states have agreed to move forward, but only if receiving waivers from the federal government for proposed programs.
The battle over expansion has fallen largely down partisan lines as Democrats favor expansion and Republicans oppose it.
Expansion is supported by Gov. Maggie Hassan and the Democrat-controlled House, while the Republican-controlled Senate said it needs more information and time before deciding.
When the two sides could not agree at the end of the session in June, budget negotiators agreed to form the commission with a deadline of Oct. 15 to make recommendations.
If New Hampshire decides to expand Medicaid eligibility to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, state health and human service officials say that will add 49,000 people to the program over the next seven-and-a-half years, while the federal government will pay $2.4 billion to health care providers. The state is expected to spend about $18 million for expansion over the period.
Under Medicaid expansion, the federal government would pay 100 percent of the cost for the first three years and then gradually reduce its share to 90 percent by 2014 and thereafter.
The commission meets at the beginning of October to decide on what recommendations it will make, and then again a week later to review a draft report.


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Not much more than you'd expect.
UConn President Susan Herbst
"I know this may seem like a tough moment for our fans, but we need to focus on the fundamentals of academic success across the university and in our athletic program as well. We are winners — we win, we like to win and we will continue to play the best possible opponents. We will be athletically successful, regardless of our conference, because of our successes in NCAA competition. We will keep building our winning record through the lens of a great university, that focuses on academics, not on the fluid and unpredictable nature of conference realignment. Again, I realize this is a difficult day, but when we focus on research, discovery, and student success, we'll never go wrong."
UConn Director of Athletics Warde Manuel
"Conference realignment is a prominent national issue in collegiate athletics and will continue to be so into the future. UConn has established a rich history as a very successful academic and athletic institution. We understand that because of that UConn will continue to be brought up in the discussion regarding potential schools considered in realignment.
"We have and will continue to monitor the situation regarding conference realignment and work to ensure that UConn is in the best position for the continued success of our athletic programs. We are proud of the success of our coaches and student-athletes and the tradition that has been established of winning conference and national championships.
"We are proud and appreciative of our great Husky fan base. Husky Nation is strong all over the country and the world. UConn has one of the most captive audiences of any school in the country and we have strong penetration in several of the nation's largest television markets."
The UConn men's basketball program has won three national championships since 1999 – the only school to do so in this time period – and one of just seven programs in the history of the game to win three or more titles.
The UConn football team has made incredible strides since it moved to the FBS in 2002. The Huskies have won two BIG EAST Championships, played in five bowl games – including four over the past five seasons — and became the fastest program to rise from FBS inception to an appearance in a BCS game in history.
The excellence of the women's basketball program is unparalleled to any school in the country as UConn has won seven national championships and appeared in 13 Finals Fours, including five straight.
Olympics sports programs at UConn are successful and have competed in and won NCAA national championship play in a number of them.
UConn will further enhance its athletic program in the 2013-14 academic year as its men's ice hockey team begins play in Hockey East, the premier league in the country for that sport. Connecticut will become one of just nine institutions nationally to play men's basketball, women's basketball, football and men's ice hockey in a major conference.


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I have never been a fan of the whole Disney Princess thing. Sure I saw the movies as a child, but I wasn't enamored with the sparkly dresses and glass slippers. I was more of an "Annie" girl. I related to her. She was scrappy, strong, and sweet all at the same time. She followed her heart, looked after the other kids in the orphanage, and was a leader. She wasn't typically pretty or stylish, she was just Annie, and people fell in love with her because she was totally and completely herself. In retrospect, Annie was my first glimpse at the kind of girl I wanted to be.
You can imagine my surprise when Kaia became a Disney Princess fan girl. She coveted her friends' fancy dress-up clothes. She begged for a princess party. She wanted to be a princess. I don't know how it happened, but everyone told me it was a phase, so I gave in. She had a Snow White birthday party. I took her to Cinderella's castle at the Magic Kingdom. She lunched with the princesses wearing a sparkly gown and even posed for a photo with Belle that's still proudly displayed in her room.
Honestly, it always bothered me. I wondered what kind of message the princesses were sending to my daughter, but if you saw the smile on her face when she twirled around in her polyester gown, you'd give in, too.
She's 6 now, and has outgrown that dress and the phase in general. This past weekend our friends invited us to see the play "The Paper Bag Princess" at a local theatre. I hadn't read the Robert N. Munsch-penned book that the play was based on, although it's touted on several anti-princess, feminist book lists, but the description alone was intriguing:
"A dangerous dragon kidnaps the handsome prince on his wedding day and its fiery breath burns up all the clothes in the palace. The brave princess finds a paper bag to wear and off she goes to rescue her love. Cleverly tricking the dragon, she enters the cave where the prince, still beautifully dressed, is held captive. When he questions her attire, she quickly realizes that maybe she should find someone else who appreciates her bravery and intelligence, rather than outward appearance."
Score! I couldn't believe my luck! It was time for Kaia to see what a real princess looked like: Someone who doesn't need a prince to rescue her, who doesn't have to wear sparkles and glass slippers, who's brave and scrappy (and fashions a cool dress from a paper bag to boot!). The play was fantastic. I cheered when the Princess told the narcissistic Prince he was a bum after he looked down on her for rescuing him wearing a ratty paper bag. The play's message came through loud and clear: Princesses don't need egomaniac princes. They can be themselves and live happily ever after without having to deal with people like that.
When we got home, I asked Kaia what she learned from watching the play. She looked at me with excited eyes and said proudly, "I learned that if you try hard, and you're brave, and you love someone enough, you'll do anything to save them––even fight a dragon! And you can win!" Um, maybe she didn't get it, so I pushed harder, "But Kaia, the prince wasn't very nice to the Paper Bag Princess." "Yeah, but that doesn't matter," she explained in a soft voice. "He wasn't very nice, but the princess loved him. And sometimes people who aren't nice still need you. That's what made the princess special. She had a big heart. She didn't care what he thought about her. He needed her and she was there, even when no one else was. She saved him!"
And that's when I realized that maybe I had the princess thing all wrong. Maybe it wasn't the sparkly dresses, glass slippers and doe-eyed helplessness that drew Kaia to those Disney Princesses. Maybe she saw a bit of herself in each of them. I may be more of a scrappy, headstrong Annie type, but she's not me. That doesn't mean she's waiting around to be saved, she just believes that everyone is worth saving. She believes in the goodness of others, the power of love, and doing the right thing.
Last night before I went to sleep, I thought about Kaia's favorite princess movies. I looked at them through her eyes and saw the characters, maybe for the first time, for who they were:
- Snow White, tormented and hunted by a jealous queen, was forced out of her castle and into a humble existence in a shack with seven people who were very different from her. She was happy living a simple life because she was surrounded by true friends.
- Cinderella was a girl who was treated poorly by her family. Even though she was a servant, she remained optimistic. She was kind to others. She triumphed over oppression by working hard and not giving up on her dreams.
- Belle was an outcast in her town because she liked to read books. She didn't care what others thought of her. When she went to live with the Beast to give her father his freedom, she treated him kindly. She wasn't frightened by his appearance. She fell in love with him based solely on who he was on the inside.
Sure, in the end, all three of these ladies found their "Happily Ever After" with a man, but you know what? So did Annie. Annie won over cold, workaholic Daddy Warbucks with her feisty and fun personality, while the princesses' pure, gentle hearts are what made the princes fall in love.
All too often we take let preconceived notions and our own personalities influence the way we raise our children (for better or worse). Sometimes it takes a princess with a heart of gold to teach us tolerance and understanding, to remind us that everyone is different, to show us that it's not what a person wears (sparkly dresses included) that makes them who they are, it's inner beauty and how they treat others that counts.
Kaia was lucky to have Cinderella, Belle, and Snow White in her life in the same way that I'm lucky to have a little princess named Kaia in mine.
What are your thoughts? Are princesses awful role models? Or do they have something good to teach our kids? Leave a comment and let's discuss.


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Clearwater High School is opening an aviation academy that will allow students to graduate with a pilot's license.
CLEARWATER — Clearwater High School is opening an aviation academy that will allow students to graduate with a pilot's license.
The Clearwater Aeronautical Space Academy — or CASA— will have a soft launch in January, with a class about unmanned aircraft. The full program, with classes in engineering, space flight and aeronautical science, will be available during the 2014-15 school year.
The program is offered through a partnership with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
"We're really excited," principal Keith Mastorides told the Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/1j07Z9Q ).
Any student at Clearwater High can enroll in the academy. They can earn the pilot's license and up to 30 college credits by the time they graduate.
Pinellas School District spokeswoman Lisa Wolf told the newspaper that administrators had been seeking a partnership with the university for several years. They were having trouble selecting a school because they couldn't find a certified teacher to teach aviation.
But Clearwater High's JROTC instructor is a certified pilot and volunteered to teach a class of aviation and aerospace.
"It's a new way of thinking," Mastorides said, adding that students can get certification and earn college credits. Three of the proposed classes are high school level. The others are college-level, dual-enrollment courses.
Embry-Riddle already has a presence in several school districts, including Charlotte, Palm Beach and Okaloosa. The university also is opening a similar program at Pasco County's Sunlake High School in January.
Mastorides said the number of seats and classes offered will be determined by level of interest. So far, there has been "a ton of interest," he said.
Pinellas County school district officials also are considering adding an aerospace component to the middle schools that feed into Clearwater High School — Oak Grove and Clearwater Fundamental. It would give younger students a jump on the program before they reach high school, the principal said.


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Transient, Non-Degree and Audit Students
Transient Students
Transient students are those who are currently enrolled at another institution and who want to take a class at Virginia Wesleyan University to be transferred to their home institution. The Transient/Visiting Student Application is primarily used in the Summer and Winter Sessions.
Non-Degree Students
Non-degree or unclassified students are those who are taking course work for credit but are not working toward a degree. A student who decides at a later date to change this status needs to reapply to the University as a degree-seeking student.
Audit Students
Audit students are those who take courses without record. Audit students may not change an audited course to credit status at a later date. Courses are open to auditors only on a space-available basis. There are several ways to audit a course:
Official Audit
For students who need documentation of auditing a particular course. The regular tuition rate is charged and documentation is noted on a transcript from the Virginia Wesleyan Registrar's Office.
For students who do not need documentation, but would enjoy taking a particular course on a non-credit basis. The tuition rate is $50 per credit hour.
Unofficial Audit
For enrolled degree-seeking Virginia Wesleyan students who need a refresher course in preparation for a subsequent course. There is no charge for this arrangement, which is done on a space-available basis, and no record is kept.
Senior Citizen Audit
For senior citizens (age 62 or above) who wish to audit a course on a space-available basis. The tuition rate for senior citizens is $50 per course.


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Desktop integrated graphics shoot-out
The best IGPs from Intel, AMD and Nvidia slug it out
That was a problem for Intel as its so-called Extreme Graphics couldn't handle Aero. The chip maker was forced to raise its game, and it launched the G965 chipset, which introduced the GMA X3000 graphics core.
The other significant aspect of Vista is its whole-hearted support for DRM. This meant that Hollywood was prepared to allow its precious high-definition Blu-ray movies to run on Vista. The hefty amount of processing power required by Blu-ray's codecs will flog your CPU to death unless you help it out with a dedicated video decoding unit and the logical place for this is within the graphics chip.
The dedicated video decoding core, usually branded a Universal Video Decoder (UVD), is increasingly important for movie buffs and Media Centre fans as HD movie playback may be the sternest task that the PC faces. So a decent UVD will allow you to specify a processor that's slower, cooler and cheaper.
Digital output is essential and it's increasingly common to find motherboards with one VGA, one DVI, an HDMI and possibly a DisplayPort connector. Most graphics chips are perfectly capable of supporting two digital displays in any permutation, but there are very few motherboards that support more than one DVI connector.
Finally, we have gaming on integrated graphics which isn't the contradiction in terms that you might think. During our testing, we found that it was surprisingly easy to play Far Cry on quite reasonable settings. Granted the original Far Cry dates back to 2004, but back in the day we found you needed a GeForce 6800 to make the game run properly.
Now that's progress.
At present, the only chipset that supports the Core i7 is the Intel X58 so you can't use Intel's new processor with integrated graphics. Motherboards for the Socket 939 Athlon 64 have completely vanished. This neatly divides the current crop of IGPs and chipsets into two groups. In the blue corner, we have the Intel and Nvidia chipsets that support LGA775 Core 2, and in the green corner we have AMD and Nvidia for Socket AM2+ Phenom.