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- I love baseball and always have. When I was young my sister and I played softball while my brother played baseball. I tried getting my son interested but he didn't like it. Sigh. Anyway, I don't watch baseball on tv but love to attend the games. I live in Phoenix so we get to watch the Diamondbacks play.
- I swear I collect post-it notes. A recent trip to the store scored me 7 new packs! I actually use post-its every day for a wide variety of tasks so I go through them fairly quickly. I jot ideas down, to-do lists, shopping lists, research notes, and tons more stuff of them. By the way, my daughter has turned into a post-it junkie too!
- I took all of the Psychology classes my college offered. The way the brain functions fascinates me and I considered being a Psychology major. I really liked the Abnormal Psych. class which is probably why I chose to intern with a criminal defense attorney.
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|Don Beaupre
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150 lb (68 kg)
| Minnesota North Stars
Washington Capitals
Ottawa Senators
Toronto Maple Leafs
| September 19 1961,
Waterloo, ON, CAN
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| 37th overall, 1980
Minnesota North Stars
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|1980 – 1997
Donald William Beaupre (b. September 19 1961 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) is a former professional goaltender who played 17 seasons in the NHL, from 1981 to 1997, with the Minnesota North Stars, the Washington Capitals, the Ottawa Senators and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Beaupre emerged in the Ontario Hockey Association in 1979-80 as he was protecting the Sudbury Wolves net. He won 28 times that season, which earned him a spot on the league's first All-Star Team. It also generated interests among NHL scouts - he entered the 1980 NHL Entry Draft as the top-ranked goaltender. The North Stars picked him 37th overall, and gave him a chance to enter the league's books in 1981, as he shared duties with Gilles Meloche. He did so well that he was choosen to play in the 1981 NHL All-Star Game and helped the North Stars reach the Stanley Cup finals for the first time of their history, a series they lost to the New York Islanders.
Beaupre would stay with the North Stars until 1989, where he was traded to the Washington Capitals on the November 1st for the rights to Claudio Scremin. He kept playing well there, and, helped by a strong defense brigade in the 1990's, he led the league in shutouts for the 1990-91 season with 5. With Olaf Kölzig emerging as a quality goaltender, Beaupre was traded to a weak Ottawa Senators team on January 18th 1995 in return of the Sens' 5th round choice at the 1995 NHL Entry Draft, Benoit Gratton. One year later, on January 23rd 1996, he was traded to the Islanders along with Martin Straka and Bryan Berard for Wade Redden and Damian Rhodes. He would never play for the Isles; the same day, he was shipped to the Toronto Maple Leafs with Kirk Muller to complete the transaction of Damian Rhodes and Ken Belanger to New York. He only played 11 games over two seasons with the Leafs, spending most of the 1996-97 season with the AHL's St. John's Maple Leafs and the Utah Grizzlies of the International Hockey League. He retired after the season.


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Landscapes of the Ethnic EconomyBy: Wei Li (author), David H. Kaplan (author), Lo Lo (contributor), Christopher A. Airriess (contributor), Heike C. Alberts (contributor), Bessie House (contributor), Felicitas Hillmann (contributor), Giles A. Barrett (contributor), Mcevoy Mcevoy (contributor), Jock Collins (contributor)Paperback
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DescriptionExploring the worldwide boom in immigration, this book traces the profound changes in urban areas as new arrivals have transformed inner cities and suburbs alike into bastions of new ethnic economic activity. Each chapter addresses the significance of urban space and local context in developing various ethnic economies and how ethnic economies have helped to re-create urban neighborhoods. With its international scope and rich case studies, this book will be invaluable for scholars and students alike in the fields of ethnic studies, urban studies, economic development, geography, and sociology.
About AuthorDavid H. Kaplan is professor of geography at Kent State University. Wei Li is associate professor of Asian Pacific American studies and geography at Arizona State University.
ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: The Places of Ethnic Economies Part 2 How Geography Shapes the Ethnic Economy Chapter 3 Scaling Central Place of an Ethnic-Vietnamese Commercial Enclave in New Orleans, Louisiana. Chapter 4 Geographic Boundaries of the Cuban Enclave Economy in Miami Chapter 5 Residential Segregation and Ethnic Economies in a Multicultural City: The Little Portugal of Toronto Chapter 6 Race, Space, Crime and the African-American Entrepreneur: Business Owner Attitudes, Business Success, and the Neighborhood Context Chapter 7 Changing Geography of Toronto's Chinese Ethnic Economy Chapter 8 Gendered Landscapes of Ethnic Economies: Turkish Entrepreneurs in Berlin Part 9 How the Ethnic Economy Shapes the Urban Landscape Chapter 10 How Ethnobanks Matter: Banking and Community/Economic Development in Los Angeles Chapter 11 Ethnic Diversity and the Ethnic Economy in Cosmopolitan Sydney Chapter 12 Latino Business Landscapes and the Hispanic Ethnic Economy Chapter 13 The New Romans: Ethnic Economic Activities in Rome Chapter 14 Spatial and Identity Transformations of the Japanese American Ethnic Economy in Globalizing Los Angeles Chapter 15 The Evolution Of Manchester's Curry Mile: From Suburban Shopping Street To Ethnic Destination
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This is what I did last night while watching TV. It is made from a shirt my husband bought on our trip to see our daughter while her husband was on loan to the US air force in Alaska. That was about 15 years ago. The collar was frayed but the fabric still had some life in it. I never have any luck with a sewing machine so do everything by hand.
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I am leaving inspired! Thanks!
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Borg: Attention right now is focusing on the U.S. Congress, the super committee failing to agree on trimming $1 trillion in federal spending. Opinion polls ranking public approval of Congress below 10%. And a general election less than a year away. That is just for starters but you get the idea without mentioning anything else. Things aren't rosy. Accentuating uncertainty is the fact that all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are up for re-election now or for election and in newly reapportioned congressional districts. In Iowa shifting population is costing the state one representative cutting the Iowa House delegation from the current five to four. And the new fourth congressional district adds a northern Iowa tier of counties and the city of Ames but generally includes a section of the state now represented by Steve King of Kiron. But former Iowa First Lady democrat Christie Vilsack is challenging republican Congressman King's bid for a sixth term. Congressman King, welcome back to Iowa Press.
King: Thanks for having me back, Dean, I appreciate it.
Borg: And across the Iowa Press table Associated Press Senior Political Writer Mike Glover and Radio Iowa News Director Kay Henderson.
Glover: Congressman, let's start with what Dean mentioned, the super committee in Congress. What does it say about Congress when a super committee, which turned out to be maybe not quite so super, couldn't solve something as basic as balancing a budget? What does that say about Congress?
King: Well, as you know, Mike, I voted no on that debt ceiling increase deal that created the super committee that set up the vote on a balanced budget amendment and rolls that into sequestration. I'd had some experience with super committees in the past and each time if you put six democrats at the table with six republicans and you figure that they are going to somehow come up with some kind of compromised solution that is better than you can produce if you have actual majorities in the House or the Senate just the formula was wrong. And I predicted that -- I actually thought they would produce a proposal that would feel the public pressure to produce a proposal but I never believed and I predicted that it will not pass the House or the Senate and it won't become law. So, I did not have a lot of my political capital invested in it or emotional capital, either one. It has unfolded pretty much, actually better than I thought. If you expect it is going to fail there's no reason to go through the next 30 days of debating a proposal they had offered before it failed.
Glover: And I guess I'd ask a follow up question. Are we better off that this committee couldn't come to some kind of an agreement? Is it better off to have no agreement than some of the proposals that were trotted out before?
King: Of course that depends on what the agreement might have been but in my opinion, first, we didn't address the problem. This is the unspoken analysis here that they continually talk about baseline spending. Baseline spending is the projected increase in spending. We came into this year with about $14.3 trillion in national debt. We're at over $15 trillion now. With baseline spending projection in ten years we would be at $28 trillion in national debt. If the debt ceiling deal actually does follow through, all the way through we're only at $26 trillion in national debt in ten years. That is not nearly good enough. We have much bigger problems in this country and we failed to address them by telling ourselves we are by assigning it to a super committee.
Henderson: By this failure the phrase "do nothing Congress" has been tossed about quite a bit. Isn't that an accurate description of Congress not only because of this super committee failure but because of the inaction that has happened thus far?
King: Well, I would say from the House perspective that we sent some 15 jobs bills over to the Senate where they are stacking up on Harry Reid's desk like cordwood. I've been very busy myself. We have action going on in committees that are on the floor constantly. The House is acting. You can argue whether you appreciate or approve or agree with those policies. I would say there are many things stacked up in the Senate that aren't being moved but that is what you will see when you have a large republican majority in the House, a less of a size of a democrat majority in the Senate and a democratic president. This is a split government that we have, it does bring about inaction. We had a watershed election last year that swept in 87 new freshman republicans, most of them very conservative, more conservative than we've seen in the House in a long, long time and they are now, we are now engaged in more often stopping bad ideas than we are able to convince Harry Reid of our good ones.
Henderson: Well, there are those who say it has been very lucky for Congress that the stock market isn't operating all week long because of the Thanksgiving holiday because the stock market isn't necessarily reacting very well to this inaction and what happened this past summer. As a Congressman what sort of role do you think you should play in regards to making some sort of reassurance through the stock market that Congress can actually do something?
King: Well, I think reading the stock market if the people that are doing the investing would argue that the Dow Jones Industrial average isn't soaring upwards is because Congress hasn't acted within the super committee I think they give themselves a little bit too much credit. They predicted that if we didn't increase the debt ceiling there would be a downward spiral. We did increase the debt ceiling and we had the downward spiral. So, those predictors were 180 degrees off. I think some of the metrics we should look at are this chronic unemployment that we have, over 14 million people and also, I'll give you a number that I'm not hearing from anybody else, I have dug this out in my insomnia nights out of the Department of Labor's Web site. These 300 million plus Americans that we are, now the total of those who are of working age not in the workforce has surpassed for the first time 100 million Americans, simply not engaged. Some are homemakers, some are retired early and many of them though are on the 72 different means tested welfare programs that we have. We should be measuring this lack of productivity. Part of our job needs to be to increase the average annual productivity of each of our people so that our GDP will grow. We're not focused on that, we're spending money we're borrowing from foreign countries instead.
Borg: Let's get back to the super committee and what now. I asked that question earlier. Built into the legislation creating the super committee were dire consequences if they didn't come to some recommendation. Are you in favor of maybe modifying and mitigating those dire consequences because there are big defense cuts?
King: Well, Dean, I have from the beginning been concerned about those big defense cuts and I think the last analysis I saw predicted about $592 billion in automatic defense cuts out of this roughly $1.2 trillion in the sequestration formula of the automatic cuts. I have also looked ahead to the calendar and I see that the actual technical date is January 2nd of 2013 is when these cuts take place. That doesn't mean that the Commander in Chief and the Department of Defense does not direct then to the Pentagon to start shutting down the development of new weapons technologies, for example. I'm concerned about that. Maybe fail to grow our intelligence systems which I think we need to grow, some of those things. So, it does diminish but it's not as draconian. It gives us a chance to do this, an election a little less than a year from now that will usher in new people in the House, new people in the Senate and perhaps, and I think likely, a new president. There will be those 17 days in between the Congress gaveling in on January 3rd and the inauguration of the new president for Congress to act and there will be that first 100 days perhaps of the new presidency will give us a chance to start putting us on the right track. I have yet to see though the proposal that takes us to a balanced budget in a reasonable time and these cuts that we call draconian, and I may have been also one who has done so, do not yet get us to where we need to be to get a balanced budget one day sooner rather than later.
Glover: You've raised a question I think is basic to all of this. Isn't that, in fact, what is needed, another election? In fact, Washington is gridlocked right now, you mentioned it, a democratic Senate, republican House, democratic president, not going to get anything done. Isn't it time for an election? Isn't that the only solution to this gridlock?
King: I think it is, Mike. I think that we want to hear from the American people. I saw those 87 freshmen come in and they are full of vigor and ideals and ideas and they are freshly tested, they have come out of the business world a lot of them and so their background is fantastic, the just have not been there long enough to blend together all the things that they know from their background that you have to learn on top of that about government. But if that kind of a wave election could come into the United States Senate along with a president with a mandate we can turn this country in the right direction. That's what I'm working to do.
Glover: What will the mandate be if you manage to defeat President Obama?
King: Well, our first mandate really would be repeal Obamacare. As I listen to these republican presidential candidates I can not think of an exception to plank number one being repeal Obamacare. That, by the way, would save us in the shorter term budget window if we would just stop the increased spending to Obamacare $1.379 trillion in that same budget window. So, that would solve the problem that the super committee could not solve. But I think that is agenda number one. Agenda number two for the next president I hope, and I can't predict this, would be to articulate a balanced budget amendment that can be passed by the Congress, by the new Congress, they won't pass this one we know, and sent to the states for ratification. That would be the second item on the list. And along the way there are a number of others but those are two very big ones, Obamacare and BBA.
Glover: And I know you don't like to think about this but what if you don't get him? What if Obama gets re-elected?
King: Um, I remember a pastor once saying, make no provision for failure, if you fail you should fall flat on your face. I turn my focus on success and the provision for failure I have not made and don't plan to.
Henderson: Well, let's talk in detail about this republican presidential race. This past week there was a debate at which Newt Gingrich, who seems to be the flavor of the month candidate right now, articulated a policy toward immigration which he described as humane whereby people who have been in the United States for a long time who have not broken laws and he cited 25 years and have become a member of the community should have some way of staying here legally. In your view is that an appropriate response to the illegal immigration problem in the country?
King: I think if Speaker Gingrich had that to do over again he might couch his language a little differently at a minimum. I wouldn't agree with him on that policy. I think that when you give people even a promise that they can stay in the country after they are here illegally you become more of a magnet and it is a form of amnesty and more people will come in counting on that. We've said actually we think of the '86 Amnesty Act, there have actually been seven amnesties when you start counting at 1986 up until today. Many of them smaller, along different visa categories but that magnet of if you can get here into the United States and stay here long enough sooner or later you'll get enough political power to be granted a pass to stay in the United States, it's wrong to do that and to draw the line at wherever it is, I don't think he actually drew a line, 25 years, three generations involved, go to church on Sundays, that's not going to come out of any legislation that I know of.
Glover: And you have taken a strong position on this issue and Gingrich has now. Does this take Gingrich off your radar screen?
King: Makes it harder, Mike.
Glover: How much harder?
King: Well, I don't really know that yet because it is still measuring against the other candidates too. But that piece is something that concerns me because the rule of law is one of the essential pillars of American exceptionalism. And if we let the rule of law be eroded and if we allow people to be rewarded for breaking the law, and by the way these people probably had false identification, they were working illegally and maybe just didn't get arrested in a quarter of a century. So, I think that principle of the rule of law needs to be examined and I'd like to hear Speaker Gingrich speak to that.
Glover: We're only six weeks out. It sounds to me like you're taking him off your table.
King: I moved a little bit away last night when I heard the debate.
Henderson: Are you actually going to make an endorsement?
King: Kay, I wish I knew. I thought I knew, I thought in June I would without any doubt and I was looking for September or October as a good time to come to that conclusion and this is a different race than we've ever seen before. Of course, it's different candidates. I like and respect them all. They all have something to offer and it's harder than I thought it would be and it was very hard the last time but I came to a conclusion last time. I still hope to come to a conclusion this time.
Borg: The way you're judging them this time is generally by debates rather than knocking on doors and holding town meetings in Iowa because there are many more debates this time and that is where the Gingrich comment came out. Do you like the way this campaign this time for the nomination is shaping up in that you're getting your information from debates?
King: I do like that and from my standpoint I've been engaged in this for a long time. January 6th of this year we sat down and decided that the caucus was starting too slowly in Iowa, we wanted to launch this off so we planned the presidential forum event that we did in Des Moines March 26th of this year at the Marriott and it was full C-SPAN coverage from nine in the morning until five o'clock at night and we brought in, we had five presidential candidates agreed, Rick Santorum got called back when he changed planes but it was a successful event and our plan then was let's go to New Hampshire and do the same thing, then to South Carolina so I have actually been to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and then Houston, Texas a couple of weeks ago to moderate that Lincoln-Douglas debate between Speaker Gingrich and Herman Cain. So, I've been wrapped up in this in a lot of ways that I didn't think I would be four years ago. I have been talking to the presidential candidates about the issues in the debates but also they have been working hard in Iowa and we need to give credit to the people that have worked the hardest and that is going to be Rick Santorum who has been to all 99 counties, Michele Bachmann would be in there as a close second as how hard they worked here. We'll see how that is rewarded on caucus night.
Borg: You've rated them on how hard they are working. Rate them now on who is likely to get the caucus win out of Iowa, the top two.
King: I can not call that at this point. This six weeks if you think how fast that turned four years ago or in previous races I can't make that call but I'd like to believe that being here in Iowa, doing the face-to-face campaigning, building that kind of support in the counties the way these candidates have, I'd like to think that pays off. If it doesn't it will diminish the caucus.
Glover: Let's look forward. The Iowa caucuses have played, you have mentioned that you've been in a lot of places, the candidates have been in a lot of places. There have not been a lot of candidates come to Iowa, set up shop here, build a home here and focus solely on Iowa. What is the future of the Iowa caucuses? It seems that they are having less impact in this cycle than they have had in the past.
King: Well, I was worried about the Iowa caucus building up to the straw poll. I thought that two or three weeks out it was a bit iffy as to whether we were going to get good participation in the straw poll and so the effect of the straw poll, the straw poll sets up the caucus and it was a very successful straw poll in Ames on August 13th. I believe there were 2,000 more people that showed up there than four years earlier sot hat is a very good sign. But the results that come out of Iowa make a big difference on our success. Now, if we continue to punch one or two and perhaps three tickets to New Hampshire and if one of those people becomes President of the United States they know also that they are speaking to the rest of the nation from Iowa as they come in here and work. But if we, for example, if we support someone for president who doesn't have support down the line then the historical judgment will be that Iowa's caucuses have been diminished. So, I want to anoint a president from here if we can.
Glover: Four years ago Iowa republicans picked Mike Huckabee and he went nowhere. What happens if Iowa republicans in this election cycle picks somebody who goes nowhere?
King: Well, I think we end up with a weaker caucus in four years than we have this time. But Mike Huckabee made a tremendous run at it. He just knew he wasn't competitive in New Hampshire, I think that was a calculation that he wasn't ready to play there because he probably didn't expect to do quite as well as he did here in Iowa. He did compete intensively in South Carolina. I was down there and had Mike Huckabee emerged in South Carolina he might well have been the nominee.
Borg: Kay.
King: And by the way he's got a Fox gig so he didn't fail.
Glover: Well, he got something out of it, just not the nomination.
Henderson: One last question about endorsements. You have been working with Michele Bachmann in Congress on a number of issues. Is it telling that you haven't endorsed her thus far that she doesn't have your full support?
King: I hope not, we have worked closely on a lot of things including repeal of Obamacare. I mean, you get down to the two people in the whole United States Congress that have put the most into repealing Obamacare that is Michele Bachmann and Steve King. You look at the "press conference" that grew into a rally, we did actually three of those, that was us together.
Henderson: If you're such close colleagues why aren't you out there on the hustings telling people to vote for her?
King: Well, part of this is a test and we agree on issues all the way down the line and I have long said that shaping a presidential candidate is the process, it isn't just picking the best individual but it is the process. So, I have not gotten to that point yet where I have come to the conclusion internally that it is the right thing to do that. I agree with her on the issues all the way down the line.
Henderson: Back to Mike's question about the relevance of the caucuses, you said, I want Iowa to pick a president. Which one of the candidates who are campaigning here could be president?
King: Everyone, obviously. But who can't be might be the other part of that question. I don't know that I can give that answer at this point but as we watch them go up and settle down there are better, they have all improved themselves. They haven't diminished themselves, they have all improved and I want to see this presence, I want to see the presidential component but a couple things that hold me back are first, I don't yet see a presidential candidate that has laid out a financial plan for American that fixes this financial problem that we are in. I am calling upon them to do that, put that plan out. The second thing is I haven't heard yet from any of them the shining city on the hill speech that lets me understand that they have the vision for the destiny of America. Those two things are a couple of things that could help settle me on a candidate if I heard them.
Glover: We've talked a lot about presidential politics but there's some politics in your future. You have an opponent coming up.
King: Oh yeah.
Glover: Yeah, you remember her, Christie Vilsack, the former First Lady of Iowa. You have spent a lot of time campaigning around the country, you have spent a lot of time campaigning in presidential politics, you spent a lot of time outside of the fourth district. How seriously are you taking her?
King: I take the re-election effort for the new fourth district very seriously and at this point each of us don't know whether we would have a primary opponent or not.
Glover: The betting is neither one of you are going to have a primary.
King: That is the betting but I don't want to presume that. I'm a candidate so I don't presume that and I turn my focus to that after the primary should we both be nominated. But I won't deny that the anticipation is it will be Steve King versus Christie Vilsack. And absolutely I take it seriously, seriously enough to put out some effort to raise some money the last quarter because I had seen what was coming and when I see the money coming from outside the state I think it is important to raise some money inside the state from primarily future constituents.
Glover: But you are, even though it is a new district, it is the most republican of the four congressional districts in Iowa by a mile. That leaves some of us to think you're not taking it all that seriously, that you think it is a done deal.
King: If anyone had looked back at my history for they have long told me that the things we have succeeded on in politics were improbable and so I know a little bit about starting from the outside and taking on things that they say are impossible. I have looked at this district, these 39 counties. My first reflection is I'm sorry to lose the people in southwest Iowa. There are a bunch of good people down there and I have another year of the privilege of representing them and I have told them, the first thing I did was I went down and I did a trip through there and I said, I will sprint through the tape. I'm going to be your Congressman until you have a new one. Then we have looked at all of these 39 counties, I have been out in most of them, haven't kept score on whether it is actually all of them at this point but it will be if it's not and it is very much like the district I now represent, it is a great republican base in northwest Iowa, there's no better in the country to operate from, to run from and then it's much small town rural reflection all the way across and then you get to add Fort Dodge, Mason City and Ames and when you look at this district I'm looking forward to this, it's good people and it will be a very powerful ag and economic district in Congress.
Glover: How much of a focus will be, because there aren't very many competitive congressional districts around the country, how much of a focus are you anticipating on this district and from outside the state?
King: To put it bluntly this will be a nationalized race and it will be in the top five of the nationalized congressional races and there will be millions of dollars ...
Borg: Why national?
King: National because the left, if you track any of the leftist blog sites out there they have not been my fans for years and so that sparks them up to put money into this race. This is not going to be a hard decision. It's going to be a committed leftist approach versus a committed conservative approach and if you look at where the money has come from already yes, you expect Nancy Pelosi, maybe you expect David Axelrod, you don't expect Soros money to come in early, it is. So, when I see that coming from all over the country and some, if my numbers are right, as near as we could determine about 76% of that money in her campaign came from outside the state of Iowa and many of them are those national interests of very left organizations.
Borg: How are you responding? I'll get to you in just a second, Kay. How are you responding in getting your campaign ginned up?
King: Well, we're building organizations in all 39 counties ...
Borg: What about the money?
King: Well, last quarter we raised over $400,000, that was more than anyone in the Iowa congressional delegation and it was in the top five in the whole Congress. So, that is not too bad a response I would say and we'll see how this next quarter comes out.
Henderson: This past weekend Christie Vilsack gave a speech to Iowa democrats in which she criticized you and I thought I would take some of her criticisms to you and let you respond. First of all, she criticized you for saying that the unemployed shouldn't be allowed to vote and only property owners should be allowed to vote.
King: Well, wherever she got that quote it's wrong and she should check her sources.
Henderson: Secondly, she criticized you for voting against flood relief for people in your district and voting for cuts to Social Security and Medicare. In that instance I think she was referring to the Ryan budget plan that was developed by the House budget committee chairman.
King: She's got to get a lot better research staff. They Ryan budget plan doesn't touch Social Security. Barack Obama signed Obamacare. That cuts Medicare by $532 billion. That is the only act that actually cuts Medicare. When it comes to emergency spending and disaster spending I have said we need to offset that from somewhere else. This irresponsible spending that has been going on driven out of this White House primarily has got to stop. If we can't find a higher priority on cutting, if we can't find some place in the entire national budget to cut a few billion dollars in order to find disaster relief there will be a much bigger disaster on the other side of it. We'll have disaster relief money, I have assured myself of that but I'm not going to do the irresponsible thing because of inaccurate criticisms and sometimes those critics we should listen to them and think, you know, if they actually said something good about Steve King you know they would be fired tomorrow morning.
Glover: Let's pitch forward in another sense. There has been a lot of speculation about Steve King's future. You're holding onto a fairly safe seat in Congress, been there for a while. There has been a lot of speculation that at some point you'll run for governor, you'll run for the U.S. Senate. What is your political future?
King: Well, of course, no idea.
Glover: I'm sure you've given it some thought.
King: I have people that have talked to me about it and I respond accordingly. It's this, I don't go to bed at night thinking about another or a different job nor do I see this privilege that I have, and it is a profound honor to serve Iowans in the Iowa Senate and then in the United States Congress, I don't think that I am following my way up some kind of a career path. I have a privilege to serve and if there is a responsibility that comes along that looks like a greater responsibility that I think I can serve better in I would look at stepping up to that. At this point I'm not making plans, neither would I say no.
Glover: But people are talking to you about it?
King: Yes and they talk about other offices.
Glover: Like what?
King: Well ...
Glover: Go ahead, fuel the speculation ...
King: There are just only a few things you can do. When you're a member of Congress and if you stay within the political field then you can run for governor, you can run for United States Senate, you could be nominated for Vice President or you could run for President. That's pretty much it assuming they're not going to appoint me to the Supreme Court and that would be a good job. So, those subjects come up on each of those positions on a weekly basis and I just count my blessings that I'm able to serve in this capacity and we'll see what the future has in store for us.
Henderson: Do you see you spending the rest of your working life in Congress or in some sort of elected office? At some point will you go back to the private sector?
King: You know, I don't anticipate going back to the private sector. I'm all in on public service, Kay. I love this work and I have told people a number of times that this is nine years in Congress, it's gone by as if it were a single year and out of that there have been two mornings that I have gone to work thinking, I don't know if I really want to do this and the second morning that happened I asked myself, why did that thought creep into your head. There were some things that I maybe didn't want to do to start the day out but I looked up at the dome and there's a lot of things you can think about but what I thought about was I know there are at least 1,000 people in the air right now that paid out of their children's inheritance to buy two hotel rooms and a round trip plane ticket to fly out here to spend fifteen minutes talking to a member of Congress' staff. It matters a lot to a lot of people every day and this is important work. It's hard to measure, it's hard to get the approval but it is important work and I do count those successes by bad ideas that we kill and good ideas that we advance.
Glover: Then why is Congress under 10% approval?
King: Well, it's not something that I can control, for one thing. But, you know, there's a national conversation going on about a "do nothing Congress". I think that it's better to do nothing than it is to do the wrong thing and so we do have gridlock now and the gridlock, we'll see what happens in the next election whether it is -- how do you punish Congress, you're going to have to punish democrats and republicans for a low approval rating. I think we have kind of a binary philosophy going on and the question before our nation is, are we going to continue to go down the path of this Keynesian economist on steroids who is in the White House or are we going to revert back to Adam Smith supply side economics and production to get us out of this rather than consumption?
Borg: We have to leave it there because we're out of time. Thanks so much for being with us today.
King: Thank you, Dean.
Borg: On our next edition of Iowa Press we're talking with Iowa democratic Senator Tom Harkin, getting his perspective on the decisions facing the nation both in Congress and at the polls. But an important change next week because of special programming on this channel where you usually watch Iowa Press, next week's Friday night program with Senator Harkin is going to be on our IPTV.3 channel but then Sunday morning's 11:30 rebroadcast back on the usual IPTV.1. I'm Dean Borg and thanks for joining us today.


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The Oregon Writing and English Advisory Committee (OWEAC) is a permanent advisory committee serving college and high school English faculty in Oregon. OWEAC has adopted a mission statement guiding its activities:
- To promote high academic standards in English composition and literature in community colleges, four-year colleges and universities, and high school dual enrollment programs
- To facilitate communication among English faculty in Oregon
- To provide policy recommendations regarding English instruction
The work of this committee emphasizes improvements in English composition and literature instruction that enable students to understand and apply reading and writing skills essential to critical thinking and to their success as students, informed citizens, and members of the workforce.
The State System of Higher Education/Community College Coordinating Committee originally appointed this Ad Hoc Committee on Competencies in English Composition in 1974. Our original charge was to improve articulation between community and four-year colleges, with special attention to transfer and equivalence of required composition courses. Committee activities gradually broadened (and its name changed to the State Composition Advisory Committee and then to the Oregon Writing and English Advisory Committee) to consider the goals and content of required writing courses, testing and measurement of writing skills, teacher preparation, and continuing education.
In recent years, OWEAC's accomplishments have included the following:
- Recommendations for aligning lower-division ENG and WR course numbers statewide
- Outcomes for ENG 104, 105, and 106, Introduction to Literature; WR 115, Introduction to College Writing; WR 121, Expository Prose Writing; WR 122, Argumentative Writing; WR 123, Research Writing; and WR 227, Technical Writing
- Survey of adjunct faculty
- Participation in outcomes development for the AAOT (Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer and the OTM (Oregon Transfer Module)
- Information literacy proficiencies developed and mapped onto WR 121 and WR 122
- Co-sponsorship of the annual Oregon Information Literacy Summit with the Oregon Library Association Library Instruction Round Table and with the Information Literacy Advisory Group of Oregon (ILAGO)
- Position statement on dual credit/dual enrollment
- Position statement on information literacy
- Criteria for general-education writing courses
- Advocacy against the use of machine scoring of writing and against a single cut score on high school writing assessment to determine "college readiness"
OWEAC shall evaluate and recommend placement, sequencing, content, proficiencies, performance standards, student outcomes, and teaching strategies and learning environments of language, literature, reading, and composition programs in community colleges, four-year colleges and universities, and high school dual enrollment programs.
OWEAC shall monitor, review, and publish guidelines on issues that affect language, literature, reading, and composition instruction related to the following:
- Curriculum (core composition and literature requirements, reading competencies, developmental writing, articulation, and workplace writing)
- Instructors' professional development
- Changing technology (computer-based instruction, distance learning)
- Changing student needs (foreign students, students with limited English proficiency, Article 504 accommodations)
- Assessment, testing, advising, and placement
- Education reform
OWEAC shall review and publicize core writing and literature requirements to create a "seamless" transfer from high school to college and to improve articulation and communication between all levels.
OWEAC shall work with and advise other statewide and local agencies and organizations that are involved in setting policies affecting English instruction.
- Membership: Members of OWEAC are drawn from writing program coordinators, English faculty, or administration from Oregon community colleges, four-year colleges and universities, and high schools offering dual enrollment. Meetings are open, and institutions are welcome to send a representative.
- Officers: Members nominate and elect a Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, and Technology Officer at the spring meeting for a two-year term.
- The Chair shall 1) conduct OWEAC meetings, 2) work to meet each year's goals, 3) provide an annual summary of OWEAC accomplishments, 4) conduct elections when next Chair is to be elected, 5) co-chair key committees as needed, 6) serve as liaison to other agencies and organizations, and 7) represent follow up as Past Chair to complete goals begun as Chair.
- The Vice-Chair (Chair-Elect) shall 1) serve as co-chair of key committees as needed, 2) conduct meetings if Chair is absent, 3) serve as liaison to other agencies and organizations if Chair is unavailable, 4) conduct part of meetings dealing with committee work, 4) serve as Chair after the term of Vice-Chair is completed.
- The Secretary shall 1) help Chair set agenda, 2) accurately record minutes, 3) find substitute Secretary when unable to attend meetings, 4) make sure approved minutes are archived on the OWEAC website through Technology Officer, 5) make sure approved documents are archived on the OWEAC website through the Technology Officer.
- The Technology Officer shall 1) maintain OWEAC's web presence, 2) update the website with minutes, meeting information, membership, OWEAC statements and recommendations, and other materials as needed, and 3) modify website as needed.
- Meetings: OWEAC shall meet once each quarter during the academic year at a location members agree upon, with a quorum consisting of those members present.
- Minutes shall be made available to members following each quarterly meeting.


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Cadillac's latest video segment starring the ATS focuses on the compact sedan's lightweight chassis that results in excellent handling and control:
In case you can't see the video, here is the narration:
Germany's Green Hell is like an automotive roller coaster — with its hairpin corners to long straights to s-curves and major elevation changes — an agile ride is absolutely essential; and nothing contributes more to a car's agility than being lightweight. That's why when Cadillac engineers created the ATS' unique chassis, they evaluated every component down to the ground to reduce weight without sacrificing strength, durability, or safety. Cadillac engineers appreciated the ATS' exceptional agility on every lap of the Green Hell — just like you'll appreciate it with every turn of the steering wheel on your favorite twisting roads.
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What's great is that these recent shorts starring the ATS translate petrolsexual speak into real-world benefits: lightweight chassis = you'll appreciate every turn; turbocharged engine = agile response to the gas pedal.
But we find it ironic that the narrator mentions "Cadillac engineers" as if they exist. They don't, but GM engineers do. Nevertheless, Keep 'em coming, Caddy.


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Social media marketing Internet marketing might be explained in many approaches and many are incredibly complicated to a person who has never applied it or been from the space. With a lot of new resources including Twitter, Fb, Blogs, Content articles, Back Linking, Concept Boards, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Vator, Pod Casts, Video clip, YouTube, it can be pretty overwhelming to pirater facebook
I spoke with Wally Wang, creator of the "Dummies" collection past night on our radio show and he even mentioned it himself, "it's anything I realize I want to try and do to sell far more books, however it is way too significantly for me. You can find not ample several hours from the day". Now Wally may well know over most, simply because he is an completed creator plus a comic, but he's just part of "the norm" when it comes to small business folks in 2010. In my upcoming piece I will describe what methods to choose to build a marketing campaign and orchestrate its actions, but for now let's just experience a quick analogy of the way it is effective.
The Car parking zone
Quite a while back I lived a block north of Wrigley Discipline in Chicago with four of my groomsmen for my ultimate 12 months of staying one guy, in advance of I married my wife. We had a fantastic year. We were being one particular on the only houses from the neighborhood and we actually had a again garden, with grass and a porch! This can be a real rarity in big metropolitan areas like Chicago. We ended up really wanting ahead to getting a significant summertime of prepare dinner outs and Cubs games (I am not a Cubs hater, but I am a White Sox fan-for the record), but when the time came to make a choice on the pool, I discovered extra plus much more that men and women have been producing a killing with parking expenses during the community. So, staying the entrepreneur that i'm, I made a decision other programs to the backyard.
So, I went towards the Residence Depot and purchased every one of the wanted equipment and rented a dumpster and before we knew it, we have been laying pea gravel and making ready with the future video game with pleasure. We experienced turned our again garden into a car parking zone, what? We did the mathematics and determined that we might all have the ability to pocket our complete pay out check out each month mainly because we could charge $25 a spot and we now had 15 places!
Very well, another day the Cubs performed the Pirates and there were not a lot of people in the match. Two of us experienced taken the subway again to the neighborhood on our lunch breaks and stood on opposite corners of the avenue pointing the stragglers within the other heaps into our places. We wound up acquiring six autos and only created $20 a chunk, what a disappointment! This went on for any week and after the parking was carried out every video game we walked about to the other parking lots and recognized they ended up total. What did they've that we failed to? They had 6-9 flagmen with dazzling red flags and indicators telling the drivers where to park. That they had each corner included as well as their heaps had been branded with names and colors.
So, we went to your Police station and requested them wherever essentially the most greatly trafficked corners were all through Cubs game titles. We hired more flagmen and gave them some dazzling indicators (yellow) and offered a cost-free beer to anybody around the age of 21 that parked with us. For your future game we had a lot more cars and trucks than we could match and have been having $35-$45 bucks a place!!! We now experienced this superior coverage along with the appropriate clientele coming our way, all for the reason that we experienced brilliant flagmen from the ideal destinations, you couldn't skip, pointing and major parkers to our large amount. See under for real protection:
Social websites, the new Neighborhood
So, as I acquired into social networking and learning the best way to use it for enterprise I started to consider the easiest solutions to reveal how it really works to those that have not been released to it yet. Of course, you can find a million approaches to do this, but I try to help keep items so simple as probable. Now, many people have an understanding of the next matters about the net and their small business: They need a website, they want email, they need to have world-wide-web, they need to have someone to accomplish "SEO" for them plus they need help!
The things they normally neglect to think of are the many things which go together with these essentials, these types of as: internet site, loading speed, great information, phone calls to motion, a blog and World wide web 2.0 connect-ability to social web-sites. These essentials are just for the web-site, which I will simply call "the parking lot" for this portion. Your parking lot should be a fantastic one or persons is not going to fork out anything for it. There has to be something that makes you better than all the other parking plenty available. Supply a no cost obtain in trade for an e mail tackle to stay linked using your site visitors, much like a absolutely free beer to parking.


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Comments & Critique
Written by Tobias on Mar 3, 2006
Hehe, same here, I haven't really planned anything for them either, sooo, I'll probably spend them at home, playing with my sister, drawing pictures, aaaand maybe roller skating if the weather's warm enough - and not to forget looking for easter eggs, of course! (which sounds like really nice holidays anyway ;3 )
Oh yush, we'll survive ^-^ Buuut we'll still hope they're not throwing too much homework at us to start with X3(Me too ;P I wonder what we'll be like when we get really old? ;3 )


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Welcome to Part 4 of the series "Simple Play Space Transformations". You can catch up on the first three here:
3. Sound Makers
Regular readers of Let the Children Play will know that I am a tad obsessed with outdoor play kitchens - or mud pie kitchens. With good reason too, I might add. Mud Pie Kitchens are such valuable additions to any outdoor space because they support so many different types of play and are endlessly engaging to children.
With a mud pie kitchen, you get a lot of play bang for your buck! Not that you need to spend much to create one. Use what you have on hand already, and keep your eyes open at garage sales and Op shops - or do what I do and embarrass your children by stopping and picking up things from the side of the road on garbage clean-up days.
Here are some mud pie kitchens to get your creative juices flowing:
Patterson Preschool Cooperative
|Flights of Whimsy
|Real life, one day at a time
|Mudpies and Sunshine
|Interaction Imagination
|Yay for Home
|Caring Connections
So there you have it. Mud pie kitchens - a simple, cheap, achievable and irresistible way to transform your outdoor play space.
Do you have any images of mud pie kitchens to share? Pop the link in the comments below or hop on over to the Let the Children Play facebook page and post them there.
For more mud pie kitchen inspiration:
Making a Mud Pie Kitchen @ Jan White


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Â? Police are investigating the death of a man who collapsed after officers hit him with chemical spray and a stun gun while he was being arrested.
Police were responding to a domestic disturbance at an east-side apartment about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when Joseph Stockdale, 26, refused to leave the apartment he shared with his girlfriend.
He became combative when officers attempted to put him in handcuffs. Police said he began swinging a ce-ramic statue at them. Officers used a chemical spray and an electric stun gun to subdue him, police said.
Officers called paramedics to check Stockdale, but police said he refused further medical attention. Stockdale stopped breathing while waiting to be taken to jail after the medics left, police said.
Stockdale was taken by ambulance to Wishard Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 9 p.m.
Police said an autopsy would be performed to determine the cause of death.


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Schools: the first step to integration?
Education can be a powerful tool when it comes to helping refugees and other newcomers adapt quickly to life in Canada.
Rather than dividing people, languages can instead bring immigrant children from different cultures together in Canadian classrooms, says a University of Calgary researcher.
Given the world's refugee crisis and the number of immigrant families accepted each year by Canada, school boards need to change their approach about teaching things such as English literacy, says associate professor Rahat Naqvi of the university's Werklund School of Education. Some public schools in Calgary now serve children whose mother tongues collectively total about 100 languages, she says.
While many Canadians think being bilingual means speaking English and French, citizens whose mother tongue is Punjabi now make up the largest bilingual group in Alberta, followed by Arabic and Chinese, says Naqvi. A research associate at the university's Language Research Centre, she sees such linguistic diversity as an opportunity rather than a handicap.
"Language awareness can be an important way to help build more innovative literacy programs in mainstream schools," she says, adding this can be true for fluent English speakers as well as those with rudimentary skills. Funded by the Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research, Naqvi explored this approach through two studies of students at schools within the Calgary Board of Education.
Her research includes a two-year study ending in 2010 that involved 106 kindergarten and Grade 1 students at a school in northeast Calgary. Largely consisting of immigrants from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, the children were given dual language storybooks, with 20-minute readings conducted three times per week.
One book included pictures and text about a girl in Jamaica and the ingredients in her favourite soup, which was made by her grandmother. After hearing the story in English, children listened to it in Punjabi as read by the grandfather of one of the students.
A Sikh student described how the Jamiacan grandmother's bandana looked like head covering worn by men in a "gurdwara," or Sikh temple, while a Mandarin speaker pointed to the Punjabi grandfather's turban. The grandfather taught the children how to say "patka" – a Punjabi word for a Sikh child's head covering.
"The students are discovering the arbitrary link between word and object, and more interestingly, they are thinking about the sounds of the language," says Naqvi, adding that such playing with linguistic forms is linked to early reading ability.
As they learned about different languages, the children were also exposed to other cultures, she says. "These can be used as teaching moments to talk about multiculturalism, which is one of the big mandates within school boards in the Canadian context."
At the request of the Calgary Board of Education, which was concerned about a drop in literacy engagement by Grade 5 and 7 students, a further 10-week study was undertaken in 2015 as part of the language arts curriculum. It involved more than 80 students in Grade 5 and 7, many of whom were immigrants from the Philippines who spoke Tagalog and Spanish.
As well as the three readings per week that included guest readers, the students also kept language portfolios – online documents used to log things such as learning activities and exercises. Students were also asked to write their own bilingual stories at the end of the study.
Naqvi says that rather than keeping them out of regular classes until they can speak English, it is better to view immigrant and refugee children as incipient bilingual learners who can build on common language and literacy skills they already possess. "We are developing an actual manual where we will be specifically looking at the procedure involved in setting up something like this."
Related: Refugee shelter design gains international recognition
Besides conducting research into new teaching practices, the Werklund School of Education is also helping immigrants through the Bridge to Teaching program, says associate dean of graduate programs Michele Jacobsen.
"It is meant to give teachers who hold bachelor of education or related education credentials from another country an opportunity to become certified to teach in Alberta schools," she says. "Some of our students have spent their first couple of years in Canada working in jobs that don't reflect their training."
In addition to determining how many courses they need to take to upgrade their skills, Alberta Education also provides bursaries to help pay for students' training. This includes a minimum of 10 weeks of classroom teaching under the supervision of a certified teacher.
More than 60 people have gone through Bridge to Teaching since it began in 2011, says Jacobsen, who is also the program's co-ordinator. "School jurisdictions are highly interested in the graduates of this program because they are often multilingual, and they bring diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences that enrich the kind of learning experiences that we can provide for children in Alberta classrooms."


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Which sounds better?
Subsidies and rebates are available to pay for much of the cost of your grid tied PV systems.
If your neighbor installs a PV system on his house we'll make you and the other neighbors pay for most of it via higher taxes and higher electric bills.
Both statements are true and equivalent. The truth is there is no free lunch in this situation. Every dollar in subsidies and rebates is paid for with taxes and electric bill fees we will pay. It's a zero-sum game and creates what economist call "dead weight losses."
The point is that 'subsidies' sound good and 'taxes' sound bad, but they are just different sides of the same coin.


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Why David Beckham predicts an exciting English Premier League season
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The forthcoming Barclays English Premier League 2016 season could be one of the best in recent times. This was predicted by former England football skipper David Beckham. The former Manchester United superstar Beckham has reasons to drive home the point why the EPL 2016 could be thrilling. The flamboyant popular star believes that the arrival of big-name coaches in the English Premier League, especially Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola in Manchester will do the trick and the ardent fans can expect magic on the field .
The former Real Madrid star the new arrival of United coach Mourinho, Man City's Guardiola, Chelsea's Antonio Conte will add a new flavour to the league. All these coaches have different style of play and that would be of great interest for the fans .
"What I love about this group of managers is the character of them. You have obviously had this over the years with Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger and their battles together and Kevin Keegan and things like that," Beckham was quoted as saying by Sky Sports on Friday.
"But when you talk about Pep, Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, Antonio Conte -- who I love, I love his mannerisms, the way he is on the sidelines and he shows so much passion -- obviously with Jose in the mix and being at a club like Manchester United, which for me is the biggest club in the world, it is going to be such an exciting season off the pitch, let alone on the pitch," he added.
"So it is going to be one that people are going to enjoy watching."
The 41-year-old also praised Klopp for bringing change in the Liverpool side.
"It makes it unpredictable, but with Klopp going in at Liverpool, you could see the change. And when he first went in, I started to think, 'This could be worrying as a Man United fan to see Liverpool coming back to being up there again with the big teams'," he said.
"But Jose going to United and Conte going to Chelsea and Pep -- who I love, I have been a big fan of his for so many years, both on the pitch and off the pitch, he does so much for a team -- it (season) will be unpredictable. "But I do think it will be one of those teams who will be champions at the end of the year."
Beckham also lauded United's decision to bring in Portuguese tactician Mourinho, commenting it as a great move.
"I fully expect it to work. With Jose leaving Chelsea and now coming back into the Premier League with United, for me it is a great move. I had huge respect for (previosu United coach) Louis Van Gaal, but it did not work out the way people expected it to. But I think at the end of the day, now it is a new start for United.
"We have had a couple over the last three or four years, which is not the Manchester United style, who are used to a manager like Alex Ferguson being in there for so many years."
The former England skipper also heaped praise on reigning EPL champions Leicester City, saying that the Claudio Ranieri-managed side deserved to be champions.
"Full credit to Ranieri and the players, they stuck together and it has really showed how the unity of a team can take you so far. But obviously they have a lot of talent as well, so it is not just about the togetherness of a team like Leicester, they actually play well together, have a lot of talented players in their team, so they deserved it," the six-time EPL winner said.
"But of course, Leicester City champions, considering where they were the season before, it was a shock, but they deserved it," Beckham signed off.


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Great after a long day on your feet Saw them in Austin's Garden Room boutique and loved that they were stylish and comfortable--bought a pair in white and ordered black online. I am on my feet for my job as a lobbyist and these provide great fit and relief after a long day. Have enjoyed them and felt comfortable. I like the width of the band--have a slight bunion and it hides it perfectly.
My friend recommended these to me. They're easy to throw on, and go with everything.
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Fort Lauderdale — The clock finally struck midnight on Fort Lauderdale's Cinderella season, as Naples Gulf Coast scored twice within a four-minute span of the first and held off the L's 6-1 in the Class 4A boys soccer state semifinal at Dillard High School on Friday night.
Fort Lauderdale, which had never won a regional playoff game until this season, had rallied from 3-1 deficits in its previous two games, against Miami American and Martin County, but not this time.
"We can't continue to kill ourselves like that and then try and come back into the game," Fort Lauderdale coach Benito Clerveaux said. "We can't come from behind all of the time. It is just a bad way to go out, I guess.
"We gave it everything we had," Clerveaux added. "My hat's off to Gulf Coast, they were the better team tonight. They got the job done. I am still proud of my guys."
Gulf Coast (18-3-3) grabbed the early advantage in the third minute when Carlos Paz chested in a cross from Clayton Curvin for a 1-0 lead.
Fort Lauderdale (17-8-1) tied the game at 1-1 in the 20th minute on a left-footed volley from 25 yards out by Ralph Joseph off a long throw-in from Rodne Michel.
The Sharks scored twice within a four-minute span to take a 3-1 lead. Sylvester Szczesniewicz scored on a header off a long throw-in by Owen McCorkle. Curvin received a pass from Andre De Greef, spun his defender and blistered a right-footed blast to the far post, past the outstretched arms of L's goalkeeper Tim Conner.
The Sharks closed out the game with three goals in the final 22 minutes on a goal off a corner kick in the 68th minute – its third in two games. Szczesniewicz got his second goal of the game on a 25-yard free kick in the 73rd minute, and Ian Tobal scored on a header in the second minute of stoppage time for the final margin.
Fort Lauderdale hadn't won a regional playoff game until this season, and last year made the state series for the first time since the school started playing boys soccer in 1979.
"I knew the guys we had, and we have been playing together for three years," said Clerveaux, who is in his third year as coach. "Nobody else knew the guys I had except me and my staff. Once upon a time, I was a small coach trying to make a name for myself and had a team that had something to prove, and I believe we accomplished that goal. I think everyone knows who we are now."


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So, you're pregnant. Or not, and reading this anyway, and therefore, you are awesome. Anyway, just as you learn more and get smarter with each child, you also get smarter with each pregnancy. One of the hundreds of things that I got smarter with throughout my pregnancies was the maternity wardrobe.
In the beginning of my first pregnancy, I experienced the pregnancy bloat, the point where you've clearly expanded your waist but it's not clear why. I went from having a perfectly flat stomach to having a spare tire. And as a side note, nobody looks at that and thinks, "oh, she's about twelve weeks pregnant." They think, "oh, she had about twelve too many beers every night for the last month". I clearly recall one day walking into the gym with Nate, and upon looking down at my spare tire jelly roll, I said to him, "I just look fat, huh?". He simply said, "Yep". I appreciate his honesty.
But I digress. Basically, I started out the pregnancy without a weight problem, and then I got the pregnancy bloat, and then I gained an extraordinary amount of weight - in spite of eating correctly and exercising. So because I didn't know any better, I purchased actual maternity clothes, which in this case ended up being a good thing since I went up about five sizes. But I learned a lot about maternity wear and most importantly, that most of it sucks.
The second pregnancy, I had not lost all of the weight from the first pregnancy, and I had saved all my maternity clothes since I was planning on having another baby. However, I for some reason lost some of the excess weight for the first half of the pregnancy, then barely gained anything the last half. And if you're thinking "bitch", remember that I just said that I blew up in my first pregnancy. Don't hate me. There's nothing to hate. Promise. So I basically ended up wearing my regular bottoms with some maternity shirts sprinkled in.
And to my surprise, even if you do not gain an extraordinary amount of weight, if you are anything above four feet tall (as most people are), your belly will be hanging out of the bottom of your biggest maternity shirts by the last couple of months. IT WAS SO ANNOYING. I really wanted to write the maternity clothes designers and complain. Clearly, the ones making the clothes have never actually been pregnant. They make them wider, but not much longer. How does that escape them? But complain I did not, as I didn't have the energy to write a letter. Instead, I bitched and moaned and graduated to wearing Nate's shirts and looking like a tent. And listened to him joke that I was going to stretch them out. Thanks, dude.
The third - and more wise - pregnancy, I refused to buy maternity pants (I had gotten rid of everything because we weren't planning on a third... surprise) and instead bought and was also given some belly bands, or tummy sleeves, or whatever else they are called. This is highly recommended by me, and hopefully you don't blow up, so you are still capable of wearing your pre-pregnancy pants. Or, in my case, my " still chunky from the first pregnancy so my new two-sizes-bigger pants".
This particular tummy sleeve is at Motherhood Maternity, linked here. Basically, you leave your pants unbuttoned and unzipped, and this band is tight enough to hold them up. And if you're worried about your pants slipping out of the bottom and falling down, they won't. I've never had that happen, or even heard of it happening.
The benefit of belly bands is four-fold:
1. They are cheaper than maternity bottoms, so instead of buying new pants, shorts, and skirts, you wear your existing ones.
2. When your maternity shirts get too short and your belly starts hanging out of the bottom of them, the band hides all that. It's an incidental shirt-extender.
3. They are so great for postpartum use. They accommodate you throughout all your shrinking phases until viola, one day you just don't need them anymore and that, my fellow mommies, is a day you celebrate with gusto!
4. After you don't need them anymore, you can still use them to add that layered look under your regular t-shirts, which I do.
So start out with a couple belly bands, and try to stretch that bottomwear as far as you can. Literally and figuratively! Or, if your ass gets too big for your regular clothes, just buy regular pants a size or two bigger and belly-band them. You'll appreciate having regular clothes that actually fit you after you have the baby.
And since I had the babies in the summer, I also wore a lot of dresses. Like, the long, stretchy, flowy cotton type dresses. They are so comfy, your belly doesn't hang out of the bottom, and you don't have to worry about shit fitting - a dress will, provided that you buy them big enough in the first place.
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Coolant Filtration Systems
The C.R.O.S.S. from EdjeTech is the ultimate machine coolant filtration system!
EdjeTech's C.R.O.S.S is a coolant filter that is used to remove contaminants from your metalworking fluid. Our coolant filtration system will remove the solids and free oils no matter if it is a soluble oil, semi-synthetic, or synthetic machine coolant.
Defining Attributes of EdjeTech's Coolant Filtration Systems
EdjeTech's C.R.O.S.S. is an excellent choice in a coolant filter for those facilities that mainly use the same type of machine coolant throughout their shop. The EdjeTech C.R.O.S.S. coolant recovery machine uses a centralized coolant filter that provides clean, fresh coolant 24 hours-a-day for sump clean outs or for a 5-gallon makeup needed at the end of a shift.
Our coolant filtration system includes a proportioner that will automatically mix coolant concentrate and water together to maintain system levels, make sure there is always machine coolant available, eliminates mixing machine coolant by shop associates and the coolant return system will distribute clean coolant throughout the shop via client provided piping.
EdjeTech's coolant filter incorporates an oil/water separator that uses bag industrial coolant filters to remove solids and coalescing media to remove mechanically dispersed (beaten in oil that is not chemically bonded to the water) and free oils from the coolant. The EdjeTech C.R.O.S.S. coolant recovery machine is sized to handle the volume of the largest sump in the shop and provide enough coolant to refill that sump immediately. No waiting!
Working with EdjeTech's Machine Coolant (C.R.O.S.S.) Filtration Systems
The best fluid maintenance solution for a facility is to get on a regular sump clean out procedure using the EdjeTech C.R.O.S.S coolant return system. This is not as daunting a task as it seems if proper instruction is followed. For example, a shop might be cleaning out their sumps every six months because the coolant smells or is too dirty to perform well.
Using the C.R.O.S.S. coolant recovery machine, this same company could eliminate coolant disposal by setting up a schedule to regularly remove the coolant from the machine sumps, send it to the C.R.O.S.S. and recharge the sump quickly with the clean coolant that is available to the shop floor 24 hours-per-day via the coolant return system. This is not a complete sump clean out; it is only the removal of coolant and recharge. This schedule will also help in speeding up that half year or yearly heavy clean out of sumps because dirt and oils will have been removed regularly with the help of the coolant return system.
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04 Dyna Wide Glide 19,823 miles, carberated, 5 speed, 1450cc 88 cu. motor. Pearl white with gray pin stripes, air brushed skulls on both sides of the tank/front fender. The bike has never bin dropped and always been garage kept. Inspection is good until next April 2018. Front tire is 7/32nds and the rear is 4/32nds. I'm the second owner and rode approx 15k on the bike. I have all shop receipts/service records. Oil changed every 5k.
The bike has alot of crome including crome front forks, outer primary cover, rear sprocket cover Steel braided cables, polished stainless steel spoked front n rear wheels. 16 inch ape hangers. Python exhaust. Also with a Mustang seat, detachable saddle bags.
Included with the bike is a craftsman bike stand,Original aluminum spoke wheels/front tire. Willie skull foot pegs and hand grips, orginal seat, a set of throw over saddle bags with hardware. If any more/other questions call or text me.


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- Power Nap Improves Mental and Physical Health, Experts Say -
Amidst a very tight schedule, many of us find it impractical to take a nap in the middle of the day. That's totally true if you work full time from 9am to 5pm. But according to research, sleeping for at least one hour during midday reduces stress level and lowers blood pressure.
The World's Illustrious Cat-Nappers
Many of the world's most popular personalities believe in the power of taking a short time-out during a very busy and stressful day. In fact, Winston Churchill was the one who coined the term 'power nap'. For him, sleeping in the afternoon gave him the clarity of thinking he needed to win the war. Churchill would normally start his day at 6am. He would answer letters and give instructions to his secretaries while having breakfast on bed. Then it's time for all the workaround. This would be followed by a long lunch and some sipping on watered-down whisky. At 4.30pm he would have his 'power nap' and it would last for a solid 2 hours. Then at 6.30 he would rise and will continue working. John Kennedy did the same. After lunch, he would climb to bed and would not allow telephone calls and letters to bother him unless it's an emergency. His wife, Jacky, would join his nap every day. Thomas Alba Edison, a remarkable scientist claimed he can spend 72 hours straight wide awake and working. But his secret was revealed by his assistant. Actually, Edison sleeps during the day for about 3 hours! He even described his sleep to sound as 'a bug in a barrel of morphine'. Margaret Thatcher was also known for cat-napping. She would order her assistants not to disturb her between 2.30 and 3.30pm so she can sleep. Other great individuals who take a nap each day were Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Johannes Brahms.
The Power of Nap
By giving yourself time to sleep even just for an hour, you make yourself healthier. When you nap, you reset your system and gain more alertness and motor performance. It also boosts your energy levels. Dr Sara C. Mednick, the author of 'Take a Nap! Change Your Life' said that the longer the nap is, the better it is for your health. She and her team of researchers found that 30-60 minutes of napping improves memory and decision-making skills while 60 to 90 minutes of napping improves brain function and ability to solve problems. Christopher Ketcham at the Men's Journal describes what happens when we sleep during the day. The initial stage of sleeping allows the brain to sink into an electrical brain activity which relaxes muscles and slows down respiration. Next is a light stressful sleep. At this stage, breathing and heartbeat goes back to normal and the body's temperature drops down.
How to Take a Power Nap
1. Know your ideal nap zone. It should be 12 hours after the midpoint of your night time sleep. So if you went to bed at 11pm and woke up at 7 am, the best time to sleep is at around 3pm.
2. Find a good place. Your desk may not be a good sleeping area. Look for a more comfortable place in the office. A darker place increases the production of melatonin which in turn improves the quality of sleep. You can also leave work during your coffee break, go to the park and find a quiet place. Then close your eyes and have some nap. You can also ride a bus and sleep while it takes it route.
3. Use some sleeping accessories. You want to make your power nap as comforting as possible. Using eye-mask and pillows can be really helpful. You can also turn on your MP3 for a more relaxing nap.
4. Give time for transition. Give yourself at least five minutes after napping to go back to your senses. Maybe you can wash your face, wipe your eyes, or breathe in and out.
So why not take a break and have some power nap? Even the busiest people do it, even the world's greatest leaders. Why can't you?
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There is a general battle that lots of people are struggling with when it comes to the skin care. One of the most often causes for low self-confidence and lack of self-esteem are the acne scars and some similar skin pigmentations.
So, in this article, we are offering you five natural steps that you will need in order to get rid of the terrible acne scars very quickly.
Step No. 1
Take a cotton ball and spot it in some freshly made lemon juice. The citric acid from the lemon will help you clean all bacteria. Also, it's amazing for fading the dark scarred tissue. After that, put the cotton ball to the scarred area for a few minutes. In the end, wash the certain area with a cold water.
Step No.2
Open the pores with a steam. Try to hold the scarred area for a few minutes. The pores opening will help you clean the face and absorb the natural remedy. This process is a very important step.
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Make a mixture by using 1 part of rose water and 2 parts of sandalwood powder. Mix them together till you get a pliable and sticky texture. Put this to the affected skin area for several minutes. After that, wash you face with cold water. This mixture is acting as natural and deep cleanser because of its amazing antibacterial properties.
Step No.4
Put a raw honey to the affected skin area for about 30 minutes (or overnight). The honey is having enzymes which are helping to rebuild the tissue.
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Put a little bit of olive oil on a cotton ball and massage the affected area. The olive oil is the best skin moisturizer and it aids the skin to regain the suppleness which can be lost by the scarring.
By using these natural processes your skin will always shiny, clean and refreshed, and you will be protected from any future skin damages.
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text: The Washington County Sheriff's Office will soon be relocating to the new jail but their moving plans have been delayed slightly. Sheriff Dunbar says they were hoping to be moved out there last week. Dunbar says the person that is helping switch systems, such as the phones, has been ill and if he can't make it out this week, the office may have to wait a couple more weeks for the move. The sheriff says the main purpose for the move is to be able to quickly address problems that may come up at the jail.


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Only 18 exclusive villas in elegant Spanish architectural style
The Golf Homes in Arabian Ranches is a highly exclusive community of 18 palatial homes. Set around an area of 17,000 to 27,000 sq ft, homeowners also have the option to make their own additional design changes.
Available in three floor plans – Hacienda, Castilla, and Suncadia – the Golf Homes offer uninterrupted views of the golf course. Provided as shell-and-core units, the 18 luxury villas promise a leisurely lifestyle. The homes feature Hispanic design elements such as arches, courtyards and mosaics, and a multiplicity of decorative motifs and luxurious ornaments.
An exceptional family and reception estate nearly 7,000 sq ft in area, Hacienda homes have 12 rooms, three terraces, two gallerias and over 30 windows set around two spacious living rooms and a ladies sitting room.
The 8,270 sq ft Castilla homes have 14 rooms wrapped around a succession of terraces, a veranda and courtyard, and a grandiose entry court. The W shape of the floor plan adds to the privacy of the homes. Also palatial at nearly 9,000 sq ft, the Suncadia homes extend over two floors with a wrap-around promenade terrace.
All the homes are surrounded by immaculate lawns and sun-lounger terraces. Past the elegant porch with tumbled mosaic floor finish, the homes have floors of porcelain, wood and stone, intricately detailed ceilings and windows that open to sweeping views of the golf course.
A truly integrated community, Arabian Ranches has over 4,000 villas in distinct neighbourhoods that bring a new lifestyle choice to Dubai residents.
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In the suburb of Sampaio, Zulmira visits a fortune teller (Madame Crisálida) who advises her to be careful with a 'blonde woman'. When her unemployed husband, Toninho, returns home she tells him about what Madame Crisálida had to say, and guesses that the "blondie" might be her neighbor and cousin Glorinha. However, in their boring life, soccer is the relief valve of the mediocre. Toninho that is actually worried about the final soccer game of the "Carioca" (from Rio de Janeiro) Championship where his team Vasco will play against Fluminense. He does not pay much attention in his wife. Zulmira develops a morbid fixation and goes out into the rain where she catches pneumonia, forcing Toninho to promise her a dream funeral, upon her death.
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