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At 10 games under .500, the Phillies will need a historic run if they hope to see the playoffs for a sixth straight season. In the Wild Card era, only three teams have ever come back from 10 games below .500 to qualify for the postseason. None of the three teams that accomplished the feat were 10 games under .500 as late as July 5.
The 2009 Rockies were 12 games under .500 on June 3 but were 34-33 by June 19 and never again dipped below .500.
The 2005 Astros were 15 games under .500 on May 27 but were two games under by July 5.
The 2003 Marlins bottomed out at 10 games below .500 on May 22.
At 37-47, the Phillies would have to go 51-27 just to reach 88 wins, which is the mark they'll likely need to reach to have a shot at the second wild card spot. That a .653 winning percentage. To put that in perspective, the Phillies went 49-29 over the last 78 games of last season, although they did have several 78-game stretches above .653 at other points during the season.
The Brewers went 51-27 over the last 78 games of the 2011 season, the best mark in the NL. The Phillies went 53-25 to end the 2010 season. Prior to that, the last NL teams to win at least 51 of their final 78 games were the Cardinals and Braves, both of whom won 53 to finish the 2004 season.


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Newt Gingrich's history of bigoted remarks
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Newt Gingrich's history of bigoted and offensive remarks far predates his recent statement that President Obama has pretended to be "normal" but actually seems to be engaged in "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior."
Gingrich on Obama's "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior"
Gingrich: Obama is engaged in "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior." On September 12, Gingrich reportedly told National Review Online that Obama has pretended to be "normal" but actually seems to be engaged in "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior":
Citing a recent Forbes article by Dinesh D'Souza, former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells National Review Online that President Obama may follow a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" worldview.
Gingrich says that D'Souza has made a "stunning insight" into Obama's behavior -- the "most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama."
"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?" Gingrich asks. "That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior."
"This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president," Gingrich tells us.
"I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating -- none of which was true," Gingrich continues. "In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve . . . He was authentically dishonest."
Gingrich has a history of making bigoted and offensive statements
Gingrich compares Islamic center to Nazis erecting a sign near Holocaust Museum and to a Japanese site near Pearl Harbor. On the August 16 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Newt Gingrich said, "Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center."
Gingrich smears Sotomayor as a "racist." ABC's Jake Tapper and Huma Khan reported on May 27, 2009, that Gingrich had written on Twitter: "Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman' new racism is no better than old racism" and "White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw." Gingrich later said that he didn't know whether Sotomayor herself was a racist, but her quote about a wise Latina was "clearly racist."
Gingrich: Bilingual education teaches "the language of living in a ghetto." An April 1, 2007, Associated Press article reported that Gingrich described bilingual education as teaching "the language of living in a ghetto" and mocked requirements that ballots be printed in multiple languages:
"The government should quit mandating that various documents be printed in any one of 700 languages depending on who randomly shows up" to vote, Gingrich said. The former Georgia congressman, who is considering seeking the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, made the comments in a speech to the National Federation of Republican Women.
"The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. . . . We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto," Gingrich said, drawing cheers from the crowd of more than 100.
"Citizenship requires passing a test on American history in English. If that's true, then we do not have to create ballots in any language except English," he said.
The AP article further reported that in 1995 Gingrich said that bilingualism poses "long-term dangers to the fabric of our nation" and that "allowing bilingualism to continue to grow is very dangerous."
Gingrich: Poor blacks fail to acquire wealth partly because of their "habits." A June 16, 1995, Washington Post article reported that Gingrich, in a discussion with black journalists, stated that the failure of poor black people to acquire wealth was in part due to their "habits." From the Post article:
He acknowledged that it was more "difficult to acquire wealth as a black in America," but added that more than skin color is at play. "The truth is that preachers and lawyers have been more dominant in the black culture in the last 40 years than have business people," said Gingrich. "The habits of the church and the habits of the lawsuit have been more powerful than the habits of acquisition and the habits of job creation."
Asked what he would tell a black child who grew up with the notion of the United States as a colorblind nation, Gingrich said he'd respond: "We're not colorblind. I'd say it's a lie to walk into a school in America and say, 'This is a colorblind society.' And we shouldn't lie to children."
Pressed on what he would tell children who wondered what their opportunities were, Gingrich said his answer would be: "If you're black you have to work harder, and if you're black and poor you have to work twice as hard."
Gingrich, who has been intimately involved in District affairs, also was asked to respond to the suspicions of some residents that Republican interest in the city is part of a "conspiracy to boot out the black-run government" and "roust out" poor blacks.
"I understand the fear," he said. "What I want to do is transform Anacostia so the people currently living there are able to participate in the transformation so that five or 10 years from now they have new habits. Let me be very clear about this: I'm prepared to say to the poor, 'You have to learn new habits. The habits of being poor don't work. So yes, you've got to change.' "
Gingrich on women in combat: Women would have trouble staying in ditches "because they get infections;" "males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes." A January 19, 1995, New York Times article reported on concerns about women in military combat roles that Gingrich had raised while teaching a history course at Georgia's Reinhardt College. The Times reported that Gingrich told his students that "females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections, and they don't have upper body strength," and added that men "are basically little piglets; you drop them in a ditch, they roll around in it."
Gingrich reportedly further said that if being in combat "means being on an Aegis class cruiser managing the computer controls for 12 ships and their rockets, a female again may be dramatically better than a male who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes."
Gingrich proposes denying welfare benefits to young mothers and instead using funds to establish orphanages. A December 11, 1994, New York Times article reported: "Mr. Gingrich ... has proposed that money saved by denying welfare benefits to young mothers be used to provided services to children, including promoting adoptions and establishing orphanages or group homes." Gingrich's proposal was included in his "Contract with America" under "The Personal Responsibility Act," which proposed to "[d]iscourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by prohibiting welfare to minor mothers and denying increased AFDC [Aid to Families with Dependent Children] for additional children while on welfare, cut spending for welfare programs, and enact a tough two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility."
According to the Contract's description of the proposal, "The state will use the funds for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate orphanages, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate."
Gingrich: "[T]here is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us." On the November 14, 2008, edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Gingrich stated of Proposition 8 protestors: "I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion." Gingrich also stated: "[W]hen the radicals lost the vote in California, they are determined to impose their will on this country no matter what the popular opinion, no matter what the law of the land."
Gingrich: It's time to "profile" and "actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information." In a December 30, 2009, HumanEvents.com op-ed headlined "On Terrorism it's Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate," Gingrich wrote that "our politically correct government" is not "targeting the source of threats." He added: "We know how to identify these enemies but our elites have refused to do so." Gingrich later wrote: "It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information."
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Emma Stone: Worried 'Spider-Man' fans should have patience
When the teaser for "The Amazing Spider-Man" leaked online this week, some fans of the web-slinging crimefighter pulled out the knives. The effects aren't convincing, they said. The tone of Marc Webb's movie feels too serious. And why do we need a new Peter Parker origin story only nine years after Tobey Maguire did pretty much the same thing in the 2002 blockbuster "Spider-Man"?
One of the film's stars, Emma Stone, said fans shouldn't jump to any conclusions. In an interview last weekend, she told 24 Frames that this movie's ambitions are vastly different than anything that came in Sam Raimi's three prior films.
"One of the great hopes of this 'Spider-Man' is it will capture the reality of Peter Parker and the small intimate moments that occur in his life," said Stone, who plays Gwen Stacy, a scientist and love interest to Parker (Andrew Garfield). "It's entirely something new and different."
Webb had promised an intimacy to the storytelling, and Stone said she believes he delivered. "It didn't feel like a big love story. It's a small love story set in this unbelievable, incredible world. It's about two teenagers falling in love." (Webb told our colleague Geoff Boucher that he feels a "responsibility to reinvent" the mythology.)
In a second interview Thursday night, Stone, who has been busy promoting three of her films this summer ("Friends with Benefits," "Crazy, Stupid, Love" and "The Help") said she had yet to hear about fan feedback on Sony's teaser.
But when told about some fans' complaints, the actress said she got the sense Sony was anxious about the film's reception at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego, where it is to get its first major publicity exposure at a panel Friday afternoon. Immediately after the interview, she said, a studio representative was stopping off at her hotel to show her a half-hour of footage -- some of which would be screened at Comic-Con on Friday.
"[The skeptical reaction] might be why they're showing the sizzle reel," she surmised. "Because they're calling me today like, 'You have to come to Sony, you have to come to Sony!' And I'm like, 'I can't come to Sony.' But they were like, 'We have to show you this sizzle reel that we're showing tomorrow. We weren't gonna show it, but it's nine minutes of the movie and we feel like it explains what we can't in answering questions.' Because everyone's saying, 'How is this different? What's going on?' "
As if on cue, Stone's phone rang. On the other end of the line was Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony. "Why is Sony calling?" Stone said, before picking up. She shrugged. "It's Comic-Con."
'The Amazing Spider-Man' slings its first web
Hero Complex: 'Spider-Man' director Marc Web feels a responsibility to reinvent the superhero
The strangely logical choice of Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man
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I would be the biggest liar in the world if I even attempted to claim that it didn�t bother me that my dear Tennessee Volunteers were not playing in the BCS National Championship Game last Monday night
I would be the biggest liar in the world if I even attempted to claim that it didn�t bother me that my dear Tennessee Volunteers were not playing in the BCS National Championship Game last Monday night.
Heck, if it could be my way, we would play in it every year.
Nevertheless, I am first and foremost a sports fan, and that means that no matter who is playing, I am watching.
There isn�t an ounce of fair-weather fandom inside my sports-splattered heart and I have a strong disagreement with and incomprehensible approach toward those that only watch one team or their team.
You learn more about the sport from watching all games from all areas of the country. Why do I know about Winthrop, Weber State or Montana in college basketball when it comes NCAA tournament time every March? If I�m awake, and it is on, it is probably on my television.
Without a deeply entrenched rooting interest Monday night, I was compelled throughout the battle between Auburn and Florida State.
When I watch, I don�t just watch. I follow.
I analyze like a coach sometimes, get emotionally involved when my favorite teams are playing, as a fan or just relax and enjoy the athleticism.
After all, as my good friend and voice of the Duke Blue Devils Bob Harris is fond of saying, we are fans with a voice.
I picked up on all the huge plays in Monday�s title game, a 34-31 win by Florida State.
From Florida State Defensive MVP P.J. Williams� interception that was immediately fumbled and recovered by teammate Lamarcus Joyner to the pass interference penalty that ended up allowing FSU to score with 13 seconds left.
On the Noles� final drive, Jameis Winston started deep in his own territory.
Winston threw about a 5-yard hitch to Rashad Greene, who proceeded to matriculate the ball 49 yards down the field for excellent FSU field position.
Though Winston went 7-for-8 on the final drive, capped by a 2-yard strike to Kelvin Benjamin for the game-winning score, he was merely average the rest of the game.
Plus, a rule I believe needs to change is the statistic of passing and receiving yards.
If a quarterback throws a 5-yard pass that gets taken 80 yards for a touchdown, the QB should not get credit for those 80 yards.
But I digress.
Back to Winston. While he had a good game, I had a huge problem with him being the Most Valuable Player.
He threw for 237 yards on 20-for-35 passing with two touchdowns � pedestrian compared to Greene�s nine catches for 147 yards, including the game-breaker.
I understand everyone doesn�t look deeper into a game because they see it as that � just a game.
However, sports are my livelihood and a huge part of what brings me joy.
I love watching games and dissecting them � great plays and turns of events and mistakes alike.
The MVP of any game should go to the player who did the most to swing the outcome of the game in his team�s favor.
Joyner should have been the Defensive MVP instead of the guy with the one interception who promptly fumbled it away.
I will miss the BCS. As a die-hard college football fan, I hope that the new playoff system is half as good. If it is, we are all in for an exciting ride.
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FORMER Sussex pupil Isaac Waddington has made his way through to the final of the popular ITV show Britain's Got Talent this evening (Thursday May 28).
The 15 year old, who left The Prebendal School, Chichester, in 2012, was head chorister at The Prebendal, and won the BBC Young Chorister of the Year in 2012.
He won tonight's semi-final after more than two million votes were received - the most for any semi-final this week so far.
Isaac said he was 'buzzing' at the result. The final will be broadcast live with millions of BGT fans tuning in.
The Britain's Got Talent website (www.itv.com/britainsgottalent) reported tonight: "Ant and Dec's golden boys Boyband made the final three but the night was all about Isaac Waddington who you voted your favourite act this evening."
On Saturday he wowed the judges and audience in his audition and music mogul Simon Cowell said: "I think we've found somebody really truly special."
After Isaac's first performance on the show, Prebendal head master, Tim Cannell, said: "This is a fantastic achievement for Isaac and we are all really pleased for him."
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This story is about a U.S. senator's alleged trips on a private plane to the Caribbean for sex parties with prostitutes.
If it proves to be true, it would most likely topple a powerful politician and affect President Barack Obama's ability to pass legislation.
If it is false, it would raise questions about how government watchdog groups and the media handle anonymous tipsters and their information.
The senator is New Jersey's Robert Menendez, a 59-year-old divorced father of two who is set to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His Senate website calls Menendez "a fighter for New Jersey families."
Menendez denied the story in a statement issued Wednesday by his Senate office: "Any allegations of engaging with prostitutes are manufactured by a politically-motivated right-wing blog and are false."
The "right-wing blog" Menendez is accusing of manufacturing the allegations is The Daily Caller, an online publication founded by conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel, a former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The Daily Caller published its first reports on the allegations in early November just before the election. The stories were based on interviews with two women and a Dominican Republic official -- all unidentified. That prompted a denial then by the Democratic senator. He was easily re-elected.
But the latest allegations are based on documents published by a "non-partisan" Washington watchdog group -- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, known as CREW.
It would be a stretch to call CREW "right-wing," considering Executive Director Melanie Sloan served as minority counsel for the House Judiciary Committee under Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, before being hired by the Clinton Justice Department to be an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. In fact, a quick online search finds blogs accusing CREW of being a "left-wing" group.
CREW published an e-mail this week it received last April from a man who identified himself as Peter Williams.
"My duty as a U.S. citizen obligates me to report what I consider to be a grave violation of the most fundamental codes of conduct that a politician of my country must follow," the tipster wrote.
E-mails sent by Williams included statements from women detailing what they said were sex parties in a house and on a yacht in the Dominican Republic owned by Dr. Salomon Melgen, a south Florida ophthalmologist.
One e-mail purported to include a statement from a woman who said she was paid to have sex with the senator several times when she worked for "the Doll Palace" escort service in the spring of 2009. Prostitution is legal in the Dominican Republic, but only if the prostitute is 18 or older.
Williams suggested that he and the women "will be willing to testify" about the allegations if their safety was guaranteed.
His e-mail to CREW said he became aware of the alleged behavior while traveling in the Dominican Republic for "personal and business reasons" starting in 2008.
CREW said it passed the "numerous" Williams e-mail exchanges on to the Justice Department and the FBI in July 2012, after the group was "unable to independently verify the truth of the allegations."
But 10 months after the first contact with Williams, Sloan told CNN her group now has doubts about Williams' identity, motives and veracity.
"This unnamed source said he has had this information about Sen. Menendez as early as 2008, yet he didn't come forward until four years later, right before Sen. Menendez was up for re-election," Sloan said. "Further, this source refused to ever speak by phone to us, with other news organizations, or with the FBI, so, those two facts combined to seriously undermine his credibility."
CNN efforts to reach Williams through the e-mail address used to contact CREW have been unanswered.
It is not known whether the FBI succeeded in talking directly to Williams, but there was a very public indication this week that the agency is investigating Melgen. Agents were seen carrying boxes from his Palm Beach, Florida, office Wednesday.
An FBI spokesman in Florida confirmed there was "law enforcement activity" at the location where the search occurred but did not mention Melgen or anyone else and did not explain what agents were investigating. In 2011, the Internal Revenue Service hit Melgen with an $11 million tax lien.
"The government has not informed Dr. Melgen what concerns it may have, his lawyer Dean L. Willbur Jr. told CNN in an e-mail Thursday. "We are confident that Dr. Melgen has acted appropriately at all times. Additionally, any issues concerning Dr. Melgen and the IRS have been fully resolved and satisfied."
Menendez calls Melgen a friend and political supporter. He acknowledged flying on the eye doctor's plane three times to the Dominican Republic in 2010, trips that he said were "paid for and reported appropriately."
One of the trips involved official travel for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which he chairs, while the other two were personal trips, Menendez's spokeswoman Patricia Enright said. The senator is not required to publicly disclose information concerning personal travel, she said.
The senator made a payment of $58,500 from his personal funds to Melgen's company on January 4 for the full operating costs of the two flights Menendez took in August and September 2010 to the Dominican Republic, Enright said. It was an "oversight" on the part of the senator not to have paid for the flights at the time he took them, she said.
New Jersey state Sen. Sam Thompson, a Republican, sent a complaint to the Senate Ethics Committee in November calling for an investigation, saying Menendez may have violated Senate ethics by "repeatedly flying on a private jet to the Dominican Republic and other locations ... and soliciting prostitutes." Thompson said he did not hear back from the Ethics Committee.
At an event in Washington on Thursday night, when asked by CNN whether be violated Senate finance rules, Menendez said, "These are nameless, faceless, anonymous allegations. You should find out from them."
The Senate Ethics Committee said it could not comment. Enright said the senator assumes the committee is reviewing the matter, but he has not been contacted.
CNN asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday whether he thought Menendez was handling the controversy properly.
"First of all, Bob Menendez is my friend," Sen. Reid said. "He is an outstanding senator. He is now the new chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. Any questions in this regard direct to him. I don't know anything about it."
"I think the issue of the trips alone are probably not enough to suggest that he doesn't have the right to assume the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee," Sloan said. "I think if all the allegations together prove to be true, that would certainly suggest questions about Sen. Menendez's fitness for the chairmanship and perhaps even his position in the Senate."
The executive director for CREW, which sent the Williams e-mails to the FBI, said people should "withhold judgment given the many questions about the source of these allegations and the timing of these allegations. I think the best thing is to wait for the FBI to investigate and figure out what really happened here, if Sen. Menendez did something wrong and if not, who's really behind this effort to smear him."
If this story evolves into a scandal and Menendez is forced to resign, the Democrats' majority in the Senate would likely get one vote thinner. New Jersey law allows Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, to appoint an interim senator until a special election, which would be no sooner than November.
CNN's Jim Acosta, Ted Barrett, Adriana Hauser and Joe Johns contributed to this report.


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Tomorrow, the old Defamer guard—whose heartfelt, semi-coherent ramblings you've warmly welcomed into your homes, office cubicles, and Unabomber shacks for nearly five years now—will bid you all a fond adieu. But this story ends happily.
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Dr. Schwartz is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Dr. Schwartz is a Firm Chief on the general medicine inpatient teaching service at Yale-New Haven Hospital St. Raphael Campus, overseeing patient care and teaching activities on Verdi 5 North. He places an emphasis on patient quality and safety and the patient experience and engages in research in those realms. He directs a large quality improvement project aiming to improve patient care, patient-centered communication, and inter-professional engagement in the inpatient setting.
Globally, his focus centers around non-communicable diseases (NCDs). He is an active member of the global NCD advocacy movement. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network and is a member of the East African NCD Alliance post-2015 Implementation Initiative. His research focuses on improving integrated health service delivery for NCDs in Uganda. He is a co-founder, and the US-based co-Director, of the Uganda Initiative for the Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (UINCD). This multi-sectoral collaboration brings together leaders from the Ugandan Ministry of Health, academia (Yale School of Medicine and Makerere University College of Health Sciences), civil society organizations, and the health system to address the often fragmented nature of NCD service delivery and training.
Dr. Schwartz is Medical Director of the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN), a large cohort study of non-communicable diseases (PI: Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith), based at the Yale Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC). Dr. Schwartz has been directing "Topics in Global Medicine" (formerly the Tropical Medicine Course) since 2010. This interdisciplinary elective course for health professions students at Yale presents a wide range of globally relevant health issues in an interactive format.
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Uganda Initiative for the Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (UINCD) Uganda (2013)
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Southington will soon lead the way in organic food waste management, due to a facility on DePaolo Drive.
Under the company Supreme Industries, which is based in Harwinton, Quantum BioPower will operate a food waste to energy facility on 49 DePaolo Drive with the goal of potentially providing electricity for 600 to 650 homes in town. Food waste will enter the facility from large food waste producers such as food manufacturers, grocery stores and hospitals. This comes in reference with Public Act 11-217, which requires certain food wholesalers, manufacturers and supermarkets that generate at least 104 tons of food scraps per year to recycle their organic materials at a composting facility located within a 20-mile radius.
"We have found a true partner in the town of Southington," said Program Manager Brian Paganini. "When successful, this will be one of the first operations in the region—it is really a recycling revolution."
Paganini said the facility will be permitted to accept 40,000 tons of food per year, including packaged and unpackaged products. The food wastes will potentially transform into energy under the anaerobic digestion process, which Paganini defines as a natural process that involves fermenting the organic material in the absence of oxygen. Once turned into a "slurry consistency," the food waste will sit in a large, upright tank where it will ferment for a period of time. The goal is to trap the fermentation.
"Our goal is to capture the methane that is produced and the methane is used as fuel to fuel a generator, which in turn, will produce electricity," Paganini said. "We are pushing the thought of the way folks think about waste material."
Economic Development Coordinator Lou Perillo said, during a recent Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, that the project will serve as a valuable asset to the town, both in its operations and cost-savings.
"It is a sustainable company," Perillo said. "They are also helping reduce the town's expense and the town benefits by gaining tax dollars."
The Southington Planning and Zoning Commission recently approved the anaerobic digestion facility with the stipulation that the plant will control odor using a chemical scrubber that meets the approval of the Engineering department.
"I am glad they chose Southington," said Planning and Zoning Vice Chairman Paul Chaplinsky. "It is always good for the town to be ahead of the curve."
Owned by B&R Corporation, the site on DePaolo Drive currently has two constructed buildings: a scale house which serves as a gate of access and an administrative office building, which is partially completed. Currently, the site also features a mulch manufacturing operations and storage overseen by Supreme Forest Products, a company of Supreme Industries which has multiple divisions in land clearing, wood waste reduction and recycling and manufacturing mulch products. Paganini said that to date, the site has 15 staff members, and will add another dozen in March.
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is currently reviewing the application for the anaerobic digestion facility. The new facilities to be constructed for the anaerobic digestion process include an operations facility, a pulping and packaging facility and a wastewater treatment facility. If all goes according to plan, Paganini predicts that the facility will start accepting food wastes in December.
"Our goal for this facility is really to gain a model of sustainability where everything is going to be used for beneficial reuse," Paganini said.
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Tim and Michelle Kersten of rural Hillsboro are no strangers to trouble, 2012 has been an especially difficult year for them and their five children. But despite the medical and financial problems they face, they are not discouraged. Instead, they hope their witness of life during trials will offer others hope.
"2012 has been so difficult, but as people of God, we know things will work out," Michelle Kersten said.
Marilyn Herzet of Hillsboro nominated the Kersten family for Hoch Publishing's True Meaning of Christmas donation, and Wednesday they received a gift from the program.
"This is such a surprise, and such a blessing," Michelle said. "We definitely want to say 'Thank You' to all the people who made this happen. This is such a blessing."
Scheduling a propane delivery topped the list of needs that could be met with the gift, but medical issues that have plagued the family continue.
"On Dec. 28, we will be taking Tim to KU Medical Center to talk to the transplant doctor. He needs a kidney, but we already know it will be a two-year wait," Michelle said.
The Kersten family moved to a rural home and land that belonged to Michelle's family a year and a half ago. She grew up in the Hillsboro area but spent many years in Abilene. She has a daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren who live in Gardner. Tim has roots in St. Louis and two older sons that live there still. Two more children live with the Kerstens near Hillsboro, Jordan, a senior at Hillsboro High School, and Amy, a sixth grader at Hillsboro Middle School.
Tim has polycystic kidney disease, also known as PKD. He has known for some time that he would need to get on dialysis to maintain regular body functions, but a horse-riding accident in December of last year brought about more damage than his body could sustain.
"On Dec. 28, he was bucked off our horse and ruptured a large cyst that was on his kidney," Michelle said. "He ended up in the hospital for 12 days, had to have a blood transfusion, got a bacterial infection, and experienced complications that could have caused him to bleed to death internally."
Because of days missed at his job at AGCO in Hesston, Kersten lost that employment, insurance, and a major source of income for the family. It was not until May that he was finally able to land another job, this time at Hillsboro Elementary School as a custodian.
Six weeks ago, Tim started home dialysis, a process during which he is hooked up to a machine that extracts fluid from his body, holds it, cleans it, and infuses it back. All of this takes place at night while he is sleeping.
"He feels so much better now," Michelle said. "But there is always the added expense of it all."
In June, Michelle was called to pick up her daughter Amy from a birthday party where, while dismounting a trampoline her body went one way and her leg stuck in the edge of the trampoline.
The result was a broken femur right above the knee and a grueling summer for the active 11-year-old. She spent months in a cast, on crutches, and needing twice-weekly trips to Wichita for physical therapy.
On Dec. 19, doctors removed screws from Amy's injured leg and measured her growth plate, which was shattered in the accident.
"We still don't know if things are healing properly yet and have to wait another month for another measurement before they decide if the growth plate can be closed," Michelle said. "We continue to go two days a week for therapy and she is still on crutches six months after the injury, but we are hopeful this is all getting better."
Michelle, who works at A Cut Above in Hillsboro, said the most difficult part of dealing with the injuries in her family, was finding ways to pay for it when insurance was lacking.
"Tim now has Tri-Care insurance through the army reserves, but has been forced to take an early retirement because he is no longer deployable," she said. "This means that next month, instead of paying $219 per month for insurance, we will be paying $1,000 per month."
Mortgage payments also loom large for the Kersten family as they stretch minimal paychecks to cover medical and family needs, in addition to utility and vehicle expenses.
"Through all of this, we continue to be reminded that the Lord is good," Michelle said. "Just last week a neighbor drove by as we were trying to get some wood cut in our hedge along the road, and he offered us a free load of aged wood that he had no use for. That was just miraculous."
Just recently the family made a difficult decision to sell part of their farmland and continues to struggle to make ends meet. They remain active members of Zion Lutheran Church in Hillsboro and model unwavering faith and hope for the future.


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The Future of Human Longevity: How Important Are Markets and Innovation
Hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging-June 3, 2003 Stephen C. Goss, Chief Actuary Social Security Administration
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During the last century human longevity exploded as much of the world became industrialized. Productivity and income rose to unprecedented levels, permitting vast improvements in the standard of living. Innovation in agriculture permitted adequate nutrition for whole populations. Innovation in engineering resulted in sanitary and safe living and working conditions. And innovations in affluence and medicine resulted in immunizations and antibiotics that could be provided through primary medical care for all.
Past and Future Improvement in Mortality
In recent decades, Europe, North America, and Japan have experienced great increases in life expectancy at age 65, averaging nearly a 1-year increase per decade. Some have risen faster, most notably Japan, and some slower. The United States has been about average for this group, as seen in the first chart.
The Social Security Trustees report to the Congress on the actuarial status of the Trust Funds. The long-range projections needed for this assessment depend critically on assumptions for the future course of longevity. How good have those projections been? The second chart shows that the period life expectancy projected in the 1983 and 1992 Annual Trustees Reports for the year 2000 were pretty accurate. If anything, the projections in 1983 were a little optimistic, slightly overestimating life expectancy for 2000, particularly for women.
For the future, mortality at higher ages, at age 65 and above, is what we pay most attention to. Mortality at younger ages has declined so much that now three fourths of all deaths occur at ages 65 and above. Chart 3 shows that in 1900 less than one fifth of all deaths were at 65 and over. Infant mortality and death at ages under 65 declined dramatically over the last century.
The average annual rate of decline in mortality for men at 65 and older was fairly consistent over the last century. Chart 4 shows an average annual decline of almost 0.6 percent for the last 100 years, and about 0.7 percent over both the last 50-year and 18-year periods. For the future, we project continued declines in male aged death rates at over 0.7 percent per year. This is no small assumption. Matching the accomplishments of the last century, with the pure positive effects of improved sanitation, nutrition, and medical accessibility for all will not be easy. AIDS, SARS, and antibiotic resistant microbes, along with increasing obesity and declining levels of exercise, remind us that mortality improvement will not be automatic. Gains from replacement organs and genetic engineering will be expensive, and may be difficult to provide for the population as a whole.
For women, the last 18 years have been challenging, with no improvement in mortality for the age group 65 and over, as seen in chart 5. The trend toward an ever widening gap in life expectancy between men and women ended in 1982. Going forward, we now feel even more confident than in the past in projecting mortality improvement at about the same pace for men and women. Mortality for the total population, men and women combined, is shown in chart 6. The average annual decline between 1900 and 2000 for the age group 65 and over, of a little over 0.7 percent, is about twice as large as experienced during the most recent 18 years of this period. Going forward, we believe that achieving mortality improvement for the aged at nearly the same rate as for the last century is a reasonable assumption, with a roughly equal likelihood of doing better or worse. For ages under 65, there is some agreement that mortality declines will diminish from the level of the last century. The 1999 Technical Panel appointed by the Social Security Advisory Board endorsed the Trustees' pattern of improvement by age group. Moreover, the rate of improvement diminished through the last century, with slower average rates for the last 50-year and 18-year periods.
Implications for the Cost of Social Insurance
The benefit structure of Social Security is indexed to reflect average wage growth and price inflation, and is thus relatively insensitive to variatio n in these parameters. However, the program and its financing are not automatically adjusted to offset the effects of changes in demographic parameters like birth rates and mortality. The apparently permanent drop in the total fertility rate for the United States that started in the 1960's is slowing the growth in the population. More importantly, it is changing the age structure of the population, increasing the "aged-dependency ratio", i.e., the ratio of population age 65 and over to that at ages 20 to 64. The rise in chart 7 between 2010 and 2030 shows this effect. Continued increases in the ratio after 2030 reflect the more subtle and increasing effects of increasing longevity.
Social Security is financed on a basically pay-as-you-go basis, largely from payroll taxes. Thus, the ratio of beneficiaries to current workers is a critical determinant of the cost of the program, per worker. Chart 8 shows a pattern almost identical to the aged dependency ratio.
Because Social Security average benefit levels essentially track the average earnings level of workers who pay the payroll-tax contributions, the pattern of cost rates (as a percentage of taxable payroll) are the same as the aged-dependency and worker-to-beneficiary ratios. Chart 9 displays this pattern.
Continued increases in human longevity will require change for the Social Security program. We have known that truth for decades, and it was even evident in the projections presented in the 1983 Trustees Report produced right after enactment of the last major Social Security reform legislation. How quickly longevity will increase is a subject we will continue to debate. The Trustees track record of the last 20 years has been good. If the further improvements now projected are realized or exceeded, we will need to choose as a nation from a range of options for putting Social Security back on firm financial footing.
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May 11, 2013
Winners best 99 teams from across the country to claim the national title and thousands of dollars in scholarships.
The Plains, Va. – Students from Georgetown 4-H of Georgetown, Texas launched themselves to a first place finish at the eleventh annual Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) finals Saturday afternoon, securing the title of national champions of the world's largest student rocket contest.
Sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association, the National Association of Rocketry and more than 24 industry partners, TARC saw record turnout in 2013. Georgetown 4-H was one of 725 teams from 44 states that participated in this year's contest. The three-person team of East View High School Junior Daniel Kelton and home-schooled brothers Matthew and Mark Janecka enjoyed meeting other teams and learning how they overcame design issues and protected their egg.
"TARC was a great experience," said Daniel Kelton. "It really does help drive people towards STEM education." All three students are planning careers in aerospace engineering.
In a 2010 survey of TARC alumni, nearly four out of five respondents said TARC had a positive impact on their planned course of study in an area relating to science, math or engineering.
"TARC has inspired thousands of bright young minds to expand their interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics over the past 11 years," said AIA President and CEO Marion C. Blakey. "The caliber of these students and the dedication they have shown here today are great indicators that the future of our industry is in good hands."
Students worked tirelessly in the months leading up to the finals to design, build and launch a rocket carrying a payload of a horizontally-placed raw egg to an exact altitude of 750 feet. Keeping with tradition, this year's rules were adjusted to increase the complexity and rigor of the challenge, requiring rockets to land within 48-50 seconds – a mere two-second window before teams were penalized.
The first place team logged a combined score of 29.24, in what was arguably the most competitive final fly-off in TARC's history – a perfect score is zero. This score secured them the opportunity to travel to Paris to represent the United States in the international fly-off at the Paris Air Show on June 21. Raytheon has sponsored the winning team's trip to the international fly-off since the program's inception in 2005 as part of the company's ongoing commitment to inspire student interest in math and science.
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British premium television provider, Sky, has announced some changes to its online only Now TV service with a new weekly subscription option for the Sky Sports package. Previously you needed to hand over £9.99 a day to watch Sky's premium sports channels but from this coming Thursday there will be an option to pay £10.99 for a weeks viewing.
Sadly it looks as though that pricing isn't going to be here forever, nor is the new daily rate of £6.99. The "limited time" pricing doesn't have an expiry date at the time of writing, but knowing Sky it's likely to go up at some point. The new package comes just in time for the start of the English Premier League season, the Ryder Cup later this year and the remainder of the Formula 1 season. It's still quite expensive, but at least for now it's not nearly as expensive as it has been.
Now TV is available on a whole host of platforms including NOW TV Box, PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android smartphones and tablets, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3™, PS4™, YouView, LG Smart TVs, selected LG media devices, Roku boxes and Apple TV.
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The Siren Call Of The Wilderness Can Be Heard On Mars, Too
You step down from the all-terrain camper and out into the bright sunlight. Your boots crunch on the cold desert soil. It's been three solid months in the office with just Sundays off (at best). But now, finally, you are out in the open once again. Above you the sky is its usual brown-hued butterscotch color. Ahead of you is the trail leading to the canyon. The plan is to spend the day walking a trail at the edge of Coprates Chasma, a canyon almost a thousand kilometers long (more than twice the length of the Grand Canyon, they say). You adjust the breathing mix on your hiking Thin Suit and get started.
It's good to be back in the Martian wilderness.
This weekend I made the long trip into the Adirondack Mountains for a backcountry first aid course. Our excellent teachers regaled us with stories of ice climbers plunging down 200-foot cliffs and searches for lost, frostbitten winter hikers. Listening to their tales, I reflected on the elemental drive that brings people into the mountains again and again, in spite of the inconvenience and occasional danger. It is, of course, all about wilderness, a word drenched in poetry. With the snow piling up on pine trees outside, the astronomer in me couldn't help but ask how closely bound that poetry is to the world of our birth.
When the time finally comes for us to expand beyond the boundaries of the Earth, will we find wilderness on the other worlds in our solar system. Will Mars have wilderness, for us?
To answer that question we must ask what wilderness means for us at the dawn of the Anthropocene, with humans relentlessly reshaping the the Earth.
Human beings were born wild. We domesticated ourselves voluntarily. The origin of our species, Homo sapiens, lies a few-hundred-thousand years in the past. For most of our history we lived in small bands that moved with the herds and the seasons. During those many millennia, wilderness could not be separated from any other aspect of experience. It was just where life played itself out.
Then something remarkable happened.
As the last ice-age glaciers retreated some 10,000 years ago, we slowly began experimenting with a new way of being human. Over time we learned to settle in one place and put the earth to plow. Agriculture brought surplus and those surpluses allowed villages to become cities and then cities to become empires. In the wake of our great city building experiments, the place we imagined for ourselves in the world changed.
That was when wilderness was born. The "wild" was outside the city walls and it was, for the most part, dangerous. Fairy tales speak of dark, haunted woods and hungry, cunning wolves for a reason. They are the collective memory of the terror that lay beyond "civilization."
This sense of wilderness changed when the machine age dawned a mere 200 years ago. As railroads crossed continents and frontier taming went industrial, it suddenly dawned on us that the wilderness was shrinking fast. It is no accident that the great push to create the national parks in the United States began just as our relentless march across the West concluded. In a hyper-domesticated society where most people worked in offices and factories, wilderness suddenly became sacred. John Muir articulated this new sense of wild spaces when he wrote in his journal:
There is a love of wild nature in everybody an ancient mother-love ever showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
The exponential advance of human culture has only deepened our hunger for wilderness. As we stand at the edge of the Anthropocene Epoch, the place of nature in our lives is directly challenged every day by human development. In response, nature's appeal to our souls becomes ever more urgent. Our collective actions now shape what wilderness will remain and what role it holds in our imaginations.
That is where Mars comes in.
I take it as a given that — if humans avoid societal collapse — we will figure out ways to live on other worlds in the solar system. In 300 years, perhaps, we will have tented large craters on Mars, allowing pressurized atmospheres and open cities to thrive within. Who knows? We are a damnably creative and inventive species. I believe we will be making ourselves at home out there sooner rather than later. But those human habitations will still exist within larger landscapes of fierce beauty and — in their own way — wildness.
The Coprates Chasma our imaginary weekend hiker was setting out to explore is just one part of a continent-sized Martian canyon system called Vales Marinaes that stretches across 4,000 kilometers and to depths of 9 kilometers (for comparison, the Grand Canyon is a mere 446 kilometers long and barely reaches a depth of 1.8 kilometers). And Mars has more than its share mountains that would put Everest's 8.8 kilometers to shame. The great Olympus Mons, the tallest peak on the red planet, stands at 22 kilometers and almost pokes above the Martian atmosphere.
How could a person stand in such an environment, before such shear natural scale and not feel that she is standing in the midst of a wilderness? As anyone who has ever explored high alpine terrain knows, the landscape itself embodies and radiates great power. It is the power of nature, something wholly greater and more complete than our own.
So, I believe Mars will have wilderness waiting for us when we settle there. The same is true for the methane lakes of the Saturn's moon Titan and the frozen, world-girdling oceans of Jupiter's Europa. It may be alien, but it will be our own wilderness that we find on these worlds.
That's because, in the end, our voyages to the planets will be a continuation of the long journey that began with our domestication. It's the same path that took us from forest and field into village and city.
We made a bargain with ourselves when we took up the plow (and then the piston and then the silicon chip) that has always left us with a lurking sense of unease, even as it has granted us vision and reach. It's the trade-off that took us out of nature and into civilization. That is why we will always need wilderness.
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Farmfest is typically a genial event -- a stop elected and aspiring officials consider an easy political must-do.
But at this year's gathering in rural Redwood Falls, as First District U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., put in an appearance, an audience member declared loudly that plans for national health reform were a "step toward communism."
Walz, a veteran, shot back: "I didn't spend 24 years in the military to be called a Communist, I can tell you that."
A similarly harsh reception confronted Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison, when he struggled for control of the microphone at what should have been a friendly meeting on health care reform at a north Minneapolis clinic.
Fourth District Rep. Betty McCollum felt the wrath from both ends of the spectrum at a Highland Park get-together, when one participant questioned why they couldn't get single-payer health care while another bluntly told McCollum: "I don't trust you, I don't trust the Republicans, I don't trust Democrats, I don't trust conservatives, liberals, or politicians with my health care. I trust two people, that's me and my doctor."
Concerns over the pace and breadth of health care reform have birthed a fiery wave of activism during the congressional recess as fearful citizens make their voices heard with resounding vigor.
Across the country, congressional Democrats are being hammered by angry groups of protesters showing up at normally low-energy forums. Democrats suspect a well-organized effort, not a grass-roots uprising. Republicans say the concerns are genuine and the anger is real.
Maryland Rep. Frank Kratovil was hanged in effigy outside a district office in Maryland. In Texas protesters made a tombstone with Rep. Lloyd Doggett's name on it. Rep. Tim Bishop of New York had to be escorted to his car by police after a town hall meeting was disrupted.
Remember the Tea Party protests from earlier this year? Those same groups appear to have shifted to the health care front, armed with talking points, with horns painted on politician's pictures and, in at least one case, a sign with a Nazi "SS" logo.
The group Minnesota Tea Party Patriots is tracking the Minnesota delegation's plans for meetings in August and is planning its own Town Hall meeting next week in Minnetonka. They also intend to visit congressional field offices to protest two days after that.
While Ellison and McCollum have already held health care town meetings, each member of the Minnesota delegation plans to make health care a topic of discussion over the recess. But only one member, Sixth District Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has committed to holding a traditional town hall meeting. McCollum said she expects to have more later this month.
Other Minnesota representatives will attend smaller events, with stops at local cafes, restaurants and hospitals, as well as roundtables with affected groups. John Schadl, a spokesman for Democratic Rep. Jim Oberstar, said his boss prefers public meetings that are more structured.
"A public forum is much more productive if you -- obviously open it to the public -- but in addition to that reach out to constituency groups that are impacted and bring in panels of experts who can talk about the issue and shed some light on it."
As the confrontations at the bigger, widely open meetings have spread across the country, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office distributed a fact sheet to the caucus indicating the disruptions are funded by special interests, including the group Conservatives for Patients' Rights, which has taken credit for helping to spark the protests. She also pointed to Freedom Works, with connections to corporate lobbyist Dick Armey, whose firm represents pharmaceutical companies such as Bristol-Myers Squibb. The Democratic National Committee sent out a Web-based ad on Wednesday called "Enough of the Mob."
Pat Anderson, a former Minnesota state auditor who helped coordinate the Tea Party protests earlier this year, said Washington-based politicians do not understand the grass-roots movement they are encountering.
"They assume that somebody is behind it and it's hard for them to get their hands around the fact that it's completely grass-roots and that it's done by new forms of communications," she said. "There is no funding, no PACs (political action committees) behind it. It's all volunteer."
Jeff Davis, president of Minnesota Majority, a conservative family values group, said his organization put out an action alert after learning of Ellison's meeting and provided those interested with questions about the Democratic reform package. He said he encouraged everyone to be civil and laughed when asked if his organization was funded by Washington special interests.
"I wish," he said. "We operate on a shoestring."
State Republican Party Deputy Director Michael Brodkorb said the Democrats, who hold majorities in the House and the Senate, should be condemned if they don't confront the anger.
"This is a plan that is coming from their party. They have a responsibility to engage the public," Brodkorb said. "These are concerns from real people," he said, rather than protests coordinated by "astro turfing machinery," political parlance for well-funded campaigns designed to give a false impression of a grass-roots uprising.
A spokeswoman for the state DFL Party said there is no organizing underway to turn out crowds supporting health care reform at public events.
"That's not the way we do things," said spokeswoman Kristin Sosanie.
At her Highland Park meeting, McCollum said, she went around the room asking people where they were from, and a large group refused to say whether they were from her district or not. Some Democratic colleagues have considered telephone town halls, in which constituents call in with their thoughts -- thus the chances for causing a ruckus are minimized.
"The majority of what we are seeing is cookie cutter. It's all scripted," she said. "My constituents expect me to conduct myself in a civil manner. When they come to town hall meetings, they expect their friends and neighbors to do the same thing."
Even if further formal town hall meetings don't materialize this summer, there is one sticky, sweaty icon of democracy left where citizens can let politicians know what they think. The State Fair looms Aug. 27 through Sept. 7. That's "the state's largest town hall" of all, said Linden Zakula, Sen. Amy Klobuchar's spokesperson.
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I do not want to come off as ungrateful or anything like that, but I just received a gift from someone I had been doing some work for and have developed a friendship with. It is a small ring with a prayer inscription on the inside and she said that the proceeds went to charity.
It is the "serenity prayer" if any of you know what I am talking about. I feel conflicted about wearing it. It is not often that I receive gifts and I really am overjoyed that she took the time and effort to pick a gift out for me. However, it does kind of bother me that it is a religious "symbol" I guess you could say. Any prayer that is asking God for courage or anything else like that is meaningless to me, obviously. I know that she had good intentions, but I can't shake the feeling of being bothered by it.
What would you guys think or feel about this gift? I put it on a chain and have worn it around my neck today but I have been thinking about wearing the inscription out of it. Is that horrible? Am I overreacting? Would anyone else feel this same way?
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if real goto jewler? appraise? ; )
just being real.. i'm callous i guess
Probably cost $1.50 in the Christian book store. Wouldn't be worth the time.
I think this is a good take as well. It just depends on the person and how it affects your feelings on social impressions and psychological affects.
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Last year I managed a team of 20 folks, all of us volunteers, and we took the first building in downtown Orlando through LEED Certification. It was a blast! We won the LEED for Existing Buildings Project of the Year Award from the US Green Building Council Central Florida.
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Freakier LLC's Fiesty Flo came close to qualifying to several futurities at Los Alamitos with no luck in 2013, yet in her first derby attempt of the year the sorrel filly not only reached the final, but won it in strong fashion in Saturday's Grade 3 $223,800 La Primera Del Ano Derby for fillies.
Fiesty Flo had the 12th fastest clocking to the PCQHRA Breeders Futurity last year and also had times just outside the top 10 in both the Kindergarten Futurity and Ed Burke Million Futurity trials. It was a different story on March 15, as Santiago Mendez piloted the Jose Flores-trainee to a half-length victory in her La Primera trial to give her the fastest qualifying time among the horses in the final. Sent off as the 8-5 favorite, the filly lived up to the billing of favorite, as she led from start to finish en route to an impressive length victory over Ed Allred's Quirky in a time of :19.634. Racing from the outside post number 10 in this race, Fiesty Flo's winning in the final was almost identical to her trial time of :19.631.
Sired by TR Dasher and out of the Bono Jazz mare Sables Bono, Fiesty Flo also matched her full brother's accomplishment of being a derby winner at Los Alamitos. Her older brother is the Los Alamitos Equine graduate Remembering Spence, the hero of the Los Alamitos Winter Derby last season. Purchased by Julio Encinas of Freakier LLC for $8,500 at the 2012 Los Alamitos Equine Sale, Fiesty Flo now joins Remembering Spence as a derby winner in Orange County, and like her brother, she was bred by Allred, the sport's all-time leading breeder. Now a winner of three of 10 career starts, Fiesty Flo earned $93,996 for her evening's work. A top two finisher eight times in her career, Fiesty Flo also raised her lifetime earnings to $110,981.
"We're very pleased," said Luis Sierra of Freakier LLC. "She did not many any errors. She had a good start and after the first 200 yards you could see that she started to pull away. She had some good trial races as a 2-year-old, but she wasn't able to qualify to a final. She would win easy, but not have a fast enough time. She didn't have luck and sometimes that's 99% of the game. She's matured a lot now. She's more professional and definitely a more mature horse. We were expecting her to have this type of an effort."
Cattlemen from Sonora, Mexico, Sierra and Encinas have been good friends for more than 15 years.
"I've liked horses since I was a kid," Sierra said. "My family enjoyed horses at the ranch. We've been racing horses in Arizona, New Mexico and here in California at Los Alamitos. We have eight horses here right now. Fiesty Flo is our first big winner."
"She just keeps getting better," Flores said. "She's really developed and now that she's got a derby win like Remembering Spence, I hope that she can continue on that path. It was her time. She had bad luck all last year, but I'm happy that she's given those guys something back."
There was activity in the starting gate prior to the start of the La Primera, as a few fillies acted up.
"She behaved well," said Mendez of the eventual winner. "She's always acted well in the gate. She's a very calm filly. She broke like a shot and she responded great at the end. I saw a couple of horses to my inside and I knew (Grade 1 finalist Sis Is Hot) was right there pressuring us. The competition was difficult, but Fiesty Flo ran her race."
Allred's Quirky had trouble early on, as she veered out and bumped to find herself in fourth place after breaking from post number seven. The Stel Corona filly battled back and came on strong at the end, eventually catching Sis Is Hot while holding on to second place. Ridden by Eulices Gomez for trainer James Glenn, Jr., Quirky earned $38,046. The Allred-bred had now made $109,286 in her six-race career.
Encinas, Paul Penuelas and Robert Parra's Sis Is Hot posted a solid effort from post number one on the way running third. Ridden by Cruz Mendez and also saddled by Flores, Sis Is Hot earned $26,856. The Walk Thru Fire filly ran in last year's Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity.
"Sis Is Hot ran a heck of a race," Flores said. "She's a small filly so I was worried that she would have a tough trip from the inside. I was hoping that Fiesty Flo would draw inside because she runs great from there and that Sis Is Hot would get an outside post. That didn't happen, but I thought Sis Is Hot did great. She was fighting for second place and Quirky, who is an outstanding filly. I think Sis Is Hot will keep getting better. We're going to give Fiesty Flo and Sis Is Hot a break and bring them back for the Los Alamitos Super Derby trials (on October 12)."
The complete order of finish is as follows: Fiesty Flo, Quirky, Sis Is Hot, Composed Charisma, Princess Teller, She Forgives, Dynasty Of Habits, Babe On Fire, Chalalita and Brighterthanthesun.


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Woo Hoo!!! I was featured by the super awesome Kimbo of A Girl and a Glue Gun. Go check out her blog - she is super crafty, and she's hilarious! She cracks me up.
Kimbo hosted a really great series on "hair crap" (part of the reason I like her style is because she talks like me!), and closed the week with a linky party.
I linked my felt hairclips that I made for Valentine's day 2010.
There were 142 links, and I was one of 18 that she featured!!! Yep, I'm a little proud.... :)
So, speaking of Valentines, what to make this year? I can't cop out this year, it must top what I made last year, or the kids will be let down! Any and all suggestions welcome!


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