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PEORIA, Ariz. -- A year of inactivity following surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in 2009 gave Joaquin Benoit ample time to examine his Major League career -- what he liked, what he didn't like and what he wanted for himself in the future.
That is, if he still had a future in the big leagues.
"Coming off the surgery, I was wondering what would happen next," Benoit said.
It was a fair concern, as Benoit was 31 at the time of his surgery. He had a 4.79 career ERA spanning parts of eight seasons with the Rangers, and had struggled to a 5.00 mark in 2008 before sitting out all of '09.
"It crossed my mind a couple of times that I might be done," Benoit said.
At his current rate, Benoit might never be finished, as he not only recovered from his surgery, he has transformed himself into a lights-out, late-inning reliever, with 2.53 ERA and a gaudy 10.24 strikeouts per nine innings recorded over the last four seasons. And he actually had an uptick in velocity a year ago.
Here's the kicker: Benoit has done all of us at time when pitchers are often regressing, sometimes to the point where high-leverage innings or just innings in general for pitchers in their mid-30s just don't exist.
"To give a multiyear deal to a reliever who is 36 is certainly not the norm," said Padres general manager Josh Byrnes. "But he's had four such good years in a row -- performance, pitching in key spots, his stuff is as good as ever."
The Padres, who typically don't wade deeply into free-agent waters, spent $15.5 million for two years of Benoit, a pitcher who will turn 37 in July but has shown no signs of slowing. If you didn't know it, you'd think he was closer to 26 than 36.
"I don't know about that," Benoit said, smiling. "It's been a long time since I was 26. But I do feel good. I don't know how long I'll keep playing. Time will tell me when it's time to go. When it's time to go, I'll go. But right now, I feel good. I feel blessed to still be playing."
This was the sentiment Benoit had in 2010. After surgery, he was able to do some rehabilitation with the Rangers, but when he became a free agent, he went to his home in the Dominican Republic and his rehabilitation essentially diminished.
Benoit signed a Minor League deal with the Rays in February 2010, and the Tampa Bay training staff went to work to help him rehabilitate his shoulder. He scuffled in Spring Training, posting a 5.79 ERA. On the last day of camp, the team sent him to Triple-A Durham to continue to build his arm strength.
"It was either go to Durham or try to go somewhere else," he said. "So I went to Durham."
Only Benoit wouldn't stay that long. In the span of a scant few days off from throwing, he suddenly regained the mid-90s fastball that he showed during his days with the Rangers.
"When I got to Durham, my velocity was 87, 88 mph," Benoit said. "The day of my first game, I was more worried than nervous. I knew whatever that I did that day would dictate if I would go to the big leagues or stay there. I remember after warming up, one of the guys told me my arm looked looser and the ball was coming out pretty good."
It was April 8, 2010, and Durham was in Norfolk. Benoit came out of the bullpen and struck out six of the eight batters he faced in two innings. Benoit glanced up at the scoreboard in left-center field at Harbor Park and saw numbers he hadn't seen in a long time.
"It said I was throwing, 95, 96 mph," Benoit said, grinning. "I guess the time off helped."
Benoit hasn't had much time off since. He posted ERAs of 1.34 and 2.95 for the Rays in 2010 and '11 before joining Detroit for the '12 season. Benoit pitched to a 3.68 ERA in his first season with the Tigers and posted a 2.01 mark with 24 saves a year ago. He has made 63 or more appearances in each of the last four seasons.
"I guess that I'm still trying to prove myself," he said.
It took a while, but Benoit found his niche. And, you can safely say that he's been far better in his 30s than in his 20s, when he was still pretty raw and, in his opinion, not utilized properly while with the Rangers.
"They were saying I was inconsistent. But I can't see a way where anyone can be consistent when you're succeeding in one role and they switch you to a different role," said Benoit, who bounced from rotation to bullpen in Texas. "That's kind of unheard of. I think if you're doing well in one spot, in one role, leave me there."
That's what the Padres intend to do this spring, as Benoit will handle the eighth inning and set up for closer Huston Street. But Benoit gives the Padres protection in case Street lands on the disabled list, as he has three times in the last two seasons.
And, unlike other late-inning relievers the Padres pursued this winter, Benoit never insisted on closing. Instead, he wanted something else.
"His sole purpose is to be part of a winning situation. He wants to help the team win. He doesn't have a huge ego. For us, that was very gratifying," said Padres manager Bud Black. "There were a lot of teams on this guy. He's good. He worked out a deal with us. He wanted to be part of a good bullpen."
Byrnes never got the impression that Benoit's decision to come to San Diego was about a cash grab. Benoit reached out to Byrnes and the team more so than other free agents. Benoit shares the same agents, Seth and Sam Levinson, as pitcher Jason Marquis, who gave the team and the coaching staff and front office high marks.
"He did his homework on us. It was interesting process. We talked a lot. He really wanted to know about our roster and organization," Byrnes said. "He chose us eyes wide open."

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FORT COLLINS -- An associate of the father accused of carrying out the now-infamous balloon boy ordeal to promote a reality TV show was wanted for questioning after e-mails surfaced showing the two had discussed a similar stunt months ago as part of a public relations campaign for the program.
Investigators said they want to interview Robert Thomas, a Denver man who claimed Richard Heene had told him he was planning a media stunt to promote a proposed reality show. Thomas, a self-described researcher, sold his story to Gawker.com and provided the Web site with e-mail exchanges between him and Heene. Thomas said the show would feature Heene as a mad scientist who carries out various scientific experiments.
"This will be the most significant UFO-related news event to take place since the Roswell Crash of 1947, and the result will be a dramatic increase in local and national awareness about The Heene Family, our Reality Series, as well as the UFO Phenomenon in general," according to a copy of the show's proposal provided to the site by Thomas.
Gawker.com editor-in-chief Gabriel Snyder confirmed the New York-based Web site paid Thomas, but declined to say how much for the story billed with the headline: "Exclusive: I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax."
Snyder said Thomas was planning to meet with investigators Sunday night, though sheriff's officials did not return messages seeking confirmation.
Messages left for Thomas by The Associated Press were not returned.
Thomas, 25, said in his Gawker.com story that the plan he knew about did not involve Heene's children.
The alleged stunt temporarily shut down Denver International Airport, and the National Guard provided two helicopters in an attempt to rescue 6-year-old Falcon Heene, who was believed to be inside the flying-saucer shaped homemade balloon that hurtled more than 50 miles across two counties.
The drama played out on live television to millions of viewers worldwide. When the balloon landed without the boy, officials thought he had fallen out and began the grim search for his body.
Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden announced Sunday that he's seeking charges, including felonies, against Richard Heene and his wife, Mayumi. Alderden said the stunt two weeks in the planning was a marketing ploy by the Heenes, who met in acting school in Hollywood and have appeared on ABC's reality show "Wife Swap."
"We certainly know that there's a conspiracy between the husband and wife, you've probably seen some of the e-mails and some of the things on the Internet suggesting that there may be other conspirators," Alderden said.
Alderden said documents show that a media outlet has agreed to pay money to the Heenes with regard to the balloon incident. Alderden didn't name the media outlet but said it was a show that blurs "the line between entertainment and news."
It wasn't clear whether the deal was signed before or after the alleged hoax, or whether the media outlet was a possible conspirator.
"Let's call it (my statement) short of speculation that a media outlet was in on the hoax, but let's not discount the possibility," he said.
In an e-mail Sunday to the AP, Snyder said editors at Gawker.com had not contacted the Heene family or offered them money for their story, referring to Alderden's reference to a deal being struck by a media outlet.
"No, that wasn't us," Snyder said.
The parents weren't under arrest, the sheriff said. He said he expected to recommend charges of conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, making a false report to authorities and attempting to influence a public servant. Federal charges were also possible.
The most serious charges are felonies and carry a maximum sentence of six years in prison and a $500,000 fine. Alderden said they would be seeking restitution for the costs, though he didn't have an estimate.
The cost for just the two military helicopters was about $14,500.
As Alderden told reporters Sunday that the whole thing was a hoax, the Heenes were shopping for snacks at Wal-Mart, where Richard Heene told the AP he was "seeking counsel."
"This thing has become so convoluted," Heene said, tears welling in his eyes. He said his wife was holding together better than he was.
The couple's attorney, David Lane, issued a statement later Sunday saying the Heenes were willing to voluntarily turn themselves in to face charges. Lane said he advised the family against making public statements.
Once investigators got a good look at the "flying saucer" they determined that the thin mylar balloon covered with foil and held together with duct tape would not have been able to launch with the 37-pound-boy inside, according to Colorado State University physics professor Brian Jones.
Other parts of the story, including whether the 6-year-old had been hiding in the rafters of the family's garage during an intense five-hour search also weren't true, Alderden said.
"For all we know he may have been two blocks down the road playing on the swing in the city park," the sheriff said.
The sheriff said all three of the Heenes' sons knew of the hoax, but likely won't face charges because of their ages. The oldest son is 10. One of the boys told investigators he saw his brother get in the balloon's box before it launched.
Alderden said Heene, a 48-year-old storm chaser, inventor and self-described amateur scientist, has a high school education and most recently earned a living by laying tile.
Alderden said investigators had an "aha" moment that the story was a hoax when Falcon turned to his father during a CNN interview Thursday and said what sounded like "you had said we did this for a show" when asked why he didn't come out of his hiding place.
On Friday, Falcon got sick during two separate TV interviews when asked again why he hid.
Alderden said they didn't question the family Friday because they wanted to keep the family's cooperation by maintaining the appearance that they believed their story.
Records show that police have responded to the house at least twice in the past year, including a possible domestic violence incident in February. No charges were filed.
Alderden said officials tried Saturday to persuade Mayumi Heene, 45, to go to a safe house, but she declined.
Alderden said the children were still with the parents Sunday and that child protective services had been contacted to investigate their well-being. On "Wife Swap," Heene was portrayed as erratic, at one point throwing a glass of milk on a participant on the program.
"Clearly, from all indications, Mr. Heene has somewhat of a temper," Alderden said.
The producer of "Wife Swap" said it had a show in development with the Heenes but the deal is now off. TLC also said Heene had pitched a reality show to the network months ago, but it passed on the offer.


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WETHERSFIELD -- Standing just a single victory away from reclaiming its place at the top of the field hockey mountain, the members of the Darien field hockey team didn't want to leave anything to chance in their Class L state championship tilt with Cheshire.
And they didn't.
The top-seeded Blue Wave scored early and often en route to a convincing 4-0 victory over No. 2 Cheshire at Wethersfield High School on Saturday morning. Darien was in complete control all morning, evidenced by this telling statistic -- Darien scored more goals (four) than Cheshire had shots (two).
"To be a senior and come away with both FCIAC and state championship is amazing. Every goal was a team goal today. Once we got the first goal, we just got our momentum," Darien's Lexi Perticone said. "I love that every team we play wants to beat us. This year we were lucky enough to play our best and beat them. Next year I hope they continue it."
Darien wanted to get an early advantage on the scoreboard -- something it could not do in a 1-0 win over New Milford in the semifinals. On Saturday, however, Darien required less than four minutes to take its first and only lead when Lexi Perticone sent a pass to Georgia Cassidy, who scored following some nifty stick work.
"We're an athletic team and we have good field hockey skills, but Darien's team all the way down the bench just has depth. There are things we could have done better, but Darien was just outstanding," Cheshire coach Eileen Dunham said. "(The first goal) was a defensive breakdown. We let the girl just dribble right through us, which is unusual for my defense."
After continuing to dominate in time of possession, Darien broke through for its second goal with 6:34 remaining in the first half when Hollis Perticone found Claire Culliton for her first of two goals and a 2-0 advantage.
With Darien still holding a 2-0 lead, goalie Danica Hornick notched both of her saves on the same sequence and denied Cheshire's Miranda Garcia from scoring on the rebound.
With 1:56 remaining in the first half, Darien got the back-breaker when Lexi Perticone sent a pass behind the defense to Hollis Perticone for the 3-0 lead.
"You never know in state tournament play. A 3-0 lead can turn to 3-2, 3-3; you just can't let up. These girls got a taste of success last year and wanted to bring it back this year, and really we peaked at the right time," Darien coach Mo Minicus said. "The beauty of our team this year was unbelievable depth and faith and trust in all of the players."
With 22 minutes remaining, Darien extinguished any hopes of a Cheshire comeback when Cassidy set up Culliton for her second goal of the contest.
"They were really great passes (on the goals); one was from Hollis and one was from Georgia," Culliton said. "(The early goal) was really nice because I think we gained a lot of confidence and could keep scoring from there. It's just really great to end the season this way, and I think all the seniors are really excited."
Records: Darien (19-1-0-0); New Milford (14-3-2).
Goals: D--Claire Culliton (2), Georgia Cassidy, Hollis Perticone. Assists: D--Lexi Perticone (2), Hollis Perticone, Cassidy. Goalies: D--Danica Hornick (2 saves); C--Lauren Fountain (6). Shots: D--15; C--2.


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CALLED TO SERVE: Stories of the Men and Women Confronted by the Vietnam War Draft is Tom's first book. Tom was drafted and called for a physical in May of his senior year, '71. He tells the story of what happened to him along with those of 30 of the 61 other men and women he interviewed in the book
The book seeks to promote long overdue healing from the after-effects of the Vietnam War. It depicts through oral history the range of stories and experiences hitherto often kept separate and allows the reader to understand what caused the decisions that were made as well as what happened to those who served, those who resisted, those who left, those who chose conscientious objection, those who beat the draft and those who loved, counseled and supported.
In addition, the book is intended to resonate with high school and college students who will have many touch points including the experience of witnessing or participating in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as having been raised by the generation that was confronted by the War in Vietnam. Reading this book will enable young people to better understand what motivated the preceding generation to take the variety of courses of action depicted in the book and could open doors to meaningful conversations with family members.
CALLED TO SERVE has been waiting to be written for 40 years. Tom says, "It has been a fascinating journey as well as a great privilege to receive these always powerful, always moving testimonies. The seven years it has taken from conception to publication has been a labor of love in which I have been fortunate to have enabled 61 men and women to gain access to long buried memories and promote reflection and deeper awareness of themselves then and now."


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Meet Mei Wei. She's one of China's top coplayers (or "coser" as they're called there). She appears in Chinese cosplay mags, at game promotions, and at event after event.
Mei Wei's image appeared on the flier for China Joy's cosplay event; China Joy, of course, is the country's biggest game event. Hailing from Tianjin, she's been cosplaying since 1999.
Kotaku previously posted her work while featuring photographer MengJie Luan and his photos of her Athena cosplay.
Today, let's have a closer work at what other cosplays she has done. More in the links below.
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14 people rescued after LA armed robbery drama
Fourteen department store employees have been rescued by a Los Angeles SWAT team after a four-hour armed robbery hostage drama inside a Nordstrom Rack department store, a police spokesman said Friday.
The two robbers have escaped despite an extensive search of the department store.
No one was hurt.
The employees - 13 women and a man - were being questioned.
The ordeal at the Promenade at Howard Hughes Center began at about 11 p.m., when a boyfriend of a Nordstrom worker placed a frantic 911 call and said his girlfriend called him and said there were armed robbers in the store, Lt. Andy Neiman told KTTV-TV.
Police officers and special weapons teams swarmed the mall. Stores were closed, but moviegoers at a theater in the complex were sheltered in place as a precaution, the lieutenant said.
The southbound Howard Hughes Parkway freeway off-ramp on nearby Interstate 405 was shut down during the hostage drama.
Just after 3 a.m., SWAT team members entered the Nordstrom Rack and found some employees locked in storage area and others hiding in a bathroom, Neiman said.
It's unclear when the suspects escaped.
The Promenade is an outdoor shopping center with stores, restaurants and a theater complex. The Nordstrom Rack store is on the second floor of the complex.


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[text] Zoran Todorovic
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When Clement Greenberg stated that for him the whole Duchampian legacy in art appears as a kind of a noise interrupting the transfer of the message of modernism, he made a perfect metaphor for the uncanny remainder constantly disturbing the paranoid visual economy of all retinal art by haunting it with its contingent and non-abstracted particularity. A noise, as non-coded, symbolically unarticulated sound, by its bare existence in the field which is to be unified in one message representing the cultural articulation of the universal, threatens to deprive the past of the established discourse of its exclusive control over defining the parameters of the universal.
In spatial terms, a noise comes to be interpreted as a non-place, a pure distance towards the retinaly controlled common space of modernist art, avoiding the dominant zone of visibility, of visual identification and therefore of strictly defined identity. Noise production could then be interpreted as production of empty signifiers breaking apart the firm synthesis of the multitude of representational sensations and pointing towards the lack of its positive transcendental grounding or to the ultimate impossibility of either full visual presentness or accurate representation. It breaks through the domesticating veneer of the image by cutting through the layers of sedimented perceptual practices which constitute the habitual ground for visual representation, pointing to the mere existence of the silenced and made invisible, not the part of the representational filed but the very limit of it in constituting itself.
In social terms, a noise is the element interrupting the "voice of the master," or the "voice of the people," making problematic the whole system of adequate political representation based on the metaphysical promise inherent to the utopia of visual representation as liable to be rendered adequate to the represented without a reminder. It alludes to the existence of the non-articulated social agency not yet speaking with its own clear voice but also not wanting to join the acclaimed feature of the popular voice. The agency which is constantly silenced in its particularity yet undecided in itself, caught between the antagonism making it speechless in the dominant symbolic system and the decision to step out of "sound and fury" and act towards making its communitarian specificity, makes its way into the field of perception by the use of a noise or by producing waves of unarticulated disturbances on the screen-memory surface of the representative system, processing experiences of non - representable kind.
Noise, as part of the title of Zoran Todorovic's work, appears to point to a kind of randomized visual-identity, feature-streaming lab or some patchwork-identity facilitating device functioning through a master interface -- the subjectifying gaze of the surveillance camera -- exposing oneself to it, constructing some image of oneself through the exposure to it. The actions recorded by the camera are based on realizing the phantasm of being able to give the camera what it really wants, to overdose it or to fulfill the desire projected onto the sterile gaze of the camera for the sake of generating one's own desire. In that scope, what qualifies the performing characters as "marginal and deviate" is not so much their "actual" social belonging or position in the system expressed in a naturalistic way but more their response to the hailing gaze of the camera, which is not rendered by fearful confinement to one's own structural position but mainly gets into the play with the device and the gaze of the master the camera represents. The rule of the game is to elude the semantic reach of the CCTV image, constructed for rendering the target in its focus into sign-bearer of certain communitarian belonging and to escape its effort to capture the subject in a web process of clear-cut social determinants .
One of the main reasons for putting up the typical surveillance device, that was made to be used by those it visually scans and therefore made into their toy--like an instant street photo automaton -- was to empower those deprived of recognition and the means to externalize themselves through deeds thereby forced into supporting some of the agents meant to represent them and relying on the image representing them. The whole setting was to play the role of the scenography for the enactment of different scripts of contesting role models potentially available for use in subject formation and involved in the act of linguistic positing, which then retroactively confer the necessity of the signified object through the visual signifier attached to it. The "noise production" process, accompanying the vast proliferation of acts reinterpreting different features of identity stereotypes, challenges the machine of symbolization to break up when not being able to maintain the unity that it is to produce, revealing under the surface of firm, socially acceptable (in positive or negative way) identities the "subject in process," antagonized in itself, in constant struggle with its own belongings and identifications.
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[Beneath The Spin]
The Republican Party is a coalition of three separate constituencies with confluent interests.
The first group is made up of traditional conservatives. These are highly patriotic Americans who believe in limited government, the primacy of the people over government, and fiscal responsibility. But the other two groups that have coalesced within the GOP are much more malevolent - international business interests, and social bigots.
It is the former of these two, international business, which controls the GOP. It's made up of highly educated individuals with huge resources and plenty of clout - and they use every bit of their resources and clout to manipulate what has become their citizen army - the social bigots. The social bigots are the people we see armed to the teeth at presidential speeches, disrupting town hall meetings, and fighting against their own interests. In short, these are the Joe the Plumbers of the world.
While the traditional conservatives are legitimately concerned about the direction of the country and assuring that the nation remains fiscally sound, big business could care less about the condition of the American people, because for the most part, they've become international in scope. That should be clear to anyone with eyeballs, considering how they first, created an economic crisis in this country, then used the very crisis that they created to gouge the American people.
So all big business is concerned about is making money at our expense, and more often than not, to our detriment. These are the very same people who have gouged America dry, given themselves huge bonuses, then rented post office boxes in other countries to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
And if that isn't bad enough, these corporations then used the very money that they avoided in taxes to buy politicians, who are suppose to be representing us, to feather their nest even further. They also use the incredible wealth that they've managed to maintain, again, thanks to our tax dollars, to clog our airwaves with propaganda in order to incite every undereducated social bigot within earshot to near insurrection. They use these people to distract us from examining the true issues that would serve to protect us from their greed.
And the social bigots are easy targets - not only because they have less than a tenuous grasp on reality, but in many cases, they're willing stooges. These are not true victims. Due to their bigotry - and I don't mean simply racial bigotry, but bigotry against anyone who doesn't happen to share their beliefs - and anger over losing the last election, they're willing to accept any manner of nonsense disseminated about the government, and President Obama in particular. Due to that blind anger they're perfectly willing to not only accept the most blatant nonsense, but they're also willing to cut their own throats, and that of their families, if it means striking a blow in the name of hatred.
Take the issue of socialism, for example. Shouldn't even the most misguided idiot understand that there's a big difference between the government taking over the free enterprise system, as opposed to protecting its citizens from the predatory business practices and greed of large corporations?
Even after being told by Wendell Potter, whistle-blower against the insurance industry and former chief spokesman for Cigna Healthcare, in testimony before congress that "I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick—all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors." These social bigots are trying to demonize a man who's placed his presidency on the line to try to protect their families.
Potter went on to testify, of the insurance industry, that, "The thing they fear most is a single-payer plan. They fear even the public insurance option being proposed; they'll pull out all the stops they can to defeat that to try to scare people into thinking that embracing a public health insurance option would lead down the slippery slope toward socialism ... Putting a government bureaucrat between you and your doctor. They've used those talking points for years, and they've always worked."
As I've pointed out in previous articles, some things are just too important to our society to be left to for-profit business interests. Those things include police, fire, national defense, and public healthcare.
I've also invited the reader to try to imagine calling the police to report your daughter being raped or kidnapped and the police informing you that they were sorry but there was nothing they could do - your daughter just turned 18, so she's no longer covered in your rape or kidnap policy.
That's exactly what's happening to hundreds of thousands of people regarding their health-care. They'll pay their premiums for twenty-five years, then after coming down with an ailment that the insurance company considers prohibitively expensive, the insurance company suspends their coverage. A prime example of that is the young woman who came down with cancer, then the insurance company denied her coverage because she failed to report that she had acne as a child.
Without a public option to take away the insurance companies' monopoly, they can make coverage so expensive that any other laws that we pass will be meaningless. Let's say that we pass a law saying that it is illegal to deny coverage for pre-existing illnesses. The insurance industry can say, okay, we'll cover you, but it's gonna cost $800 a month, and you've got to pay for 55% of your treatment.
That's why the industry is fighting so hard against a public option. They don't want the people to have any place else to go. If we have a government option that sets the price of healthcare at a reasonable rate, the industry can't inflate their prices to make us pay for those $30 million executive bonuses. If they did, they'd lose all of their business. They want us locked in and mandated by law to purchase health insurance, and have nowhere to go but to them.
The price of healthcare is going up several times faster than wages, and it has been estimated that it will cost the average person $24,000 a year for health insurance in the next seven years. That's 41% of the average salary. That will not only be a tremendous hardship on the individual, but a severe drag on the economy, since businesses won't hire new people because they can't afford to provide employee healthcare.
So the GOP sees defeating healthcare reform as a win-win proposition.
It will keep the American people traumatize due to the lack of affordable healthcare, sabotage President Obama's efforts to revitalize the economy, and also appease their true constituents, the insurance industry - all of which will help them to regain power.
Thus, the GOP is using its social bigots to disrupt society in order to protect America's moral obligation to allow Wall Street to cut our throats - yet, again.
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Turkish Green olives
Walnuts, ground
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Red onion, sliced
Toss the cheese, green olive, walnuts and paprika. Drizzle some olive oil over the top. Put in a service plate. Arrange tomato and red onion slices around. Serve as an appetizer or breakfast:)
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Humorous and conceptual, this brilliant solo by Clément Layes mixes performance art, philosophy, and dance with Chaplinesque virtuosity. Balancing a glass of water on his head for the duration of the performance, he takes us on a contemplative journey involving habit and expectation, the absurdities of life, and overlooked small moments of beauty. With a background in circus arts, dance, and philosophy, French/German physical theater artist Layes presents a remarkable physical feat and gives us an utterly charming piece that metaphorically mixes visual arts, choreography, and deeper thinking around the daily life of objects. Run time: 45 minutes
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In retrospect, perhaps we were expecting too much this go-around from "Glee," which, for two seasons plunged wildly into camp, pathos and elaborate musical numbers without drowning in its own excesses.
Season 3, which ends Tuesday, has been a far choppier trip, with last week's body-switching silliness the most ominous sign yet the show could be Jet-Skiing toward the shark-jump ramp. But just when we were about to bail, the second of last week's double-header, featuring New Directions' victory at Nationals, pulled us back from the brink. For all the "Freaky Friday-on-Tuesday" nonsense, we still care deeply about "Glee."
Not that it's been easy at times this season. Sure, Dave Karofsky's sexual identity struggle and his suicide attempt proved classic quality "Glee," as did Rachel's heartbreaking audition flub. But many more attempts at mixing snappy, hyper-witty dialogue and tunes with the serious fell flatter than a note sung by annoying, talentless rich girl Sugar: The Finn-and-Rachel marriage twaddle; Quinn's contrived temporary paralysis; Coach Bieste's struggle with domestic violence, an opportunity for great "Glee" TV that devolved into an excuse for teenagers (or least actors playing teenagers) to spout platitudes and break into song.
Stunt casting, a growing part of the "Glee" bag of tricks, failed as often as it worked. We enjoyed Whoopi Goldberg as the former diva deciding Rachel's fate, and Jeff Goldblum and Brian Stokes Mitchell as her dads. But Ricky Martin's turn as a teacher proved lifeless and Lindsay Lohan's appearance as herself came off as far more sad than funny. More extended cameos are on the way next season, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Kate Hudson reportedly set to take on temporary "Glee" duties.
The second of last week's two episodes gave us "Glee" at its best – funny, touching and bittersweet with a soaring soundtrack. The glee club's victory at Nationals and triumphant homecoming to McKinley High might have been a classy way to end the season, if not the series. But we wouldn't expect such a neat wrap-up from a show that operates at a manic pitch, fueled by youthful energy and chaos.
We're eager to see Tuesday's finale, in which key choristers graduate, even if all are expected back in some form next season as Fox moves "Glee" to Thursday. The show's conceit is that life is high school, and that, we suppose, part of the bargain is that high school goes on after graduation. So, apparently, does "Glee."
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Big U.S. foundations' assets last year grew to their highest levels since the onset of the financial crisis thanks to robust stock market returns, but still have a way to go before they reach prerecession levels.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual report on the nation's largest foundations, released last week, found that grantmakers' still-straitened circumstances have constrained their giving.
At the same time, these foundations are rolling out new grant programs to deal with such vexing issues as income inequality, climate change and cybersecurity.
The Chronicle analyzed financial information from 195 of the country's wealthiest foundations, most of it from tax returns for the 2012 fiscal year. Many foundations also provided 2013 and 2014 information that was yet to be audited.
Among 66 foundations that provided seven years of data, 2013 assets were still 16.6% below the total $223.7 billion reported in 2007, and their grant making last year was 6.5% lower.
The Chronicle said year-to-year comparisons that foundations provided gave grant seekers at least some reasons for optimism.
Assets at the 83 grant makers that furnished data showing how they fared in 2013 compared with 2012 grew by 7.5%, a sign that giving may increase by that much this year.
These 83 large foundations represent 35% of the wealth held by the more than 78,000 foundations operating in 2011, according to the most recently available data from the Foundation Center.
Retrench and Refocus
The survey found that tight grantmaking budgets and a focus on evaluations had prompted many grant makers to reevaluate their spending and redirect it to new causes.
The $8.3 billion William and Flora Hewlett Foundation reported that it would phase out its Nonprofit Marketplace Initiative. This eight-year, $20 million effort has financed work by organizations such as GuideStar, GiveWell and Charity Navigator to produce in-depth information about nonprofits' performance.
Hewlett found that the initiative had not done enough to persuade donors to give solely because of a group's worthiness and not for emotional reasons.
Now, Hewlett will try to improve charitable giving by "shifting to a strategy to foster openness and transparency and collaboration" among foundations and nonprofits, Hewlett's president, Larry Kramer, told The Chronicle.
He said the foundation would also support work to find new ways to address cybersecurity threats.
Other foundations are supporting creative efforts to lower health care costs by improving how people in urban and rural areas get services. The Helmsley Charitable Trust has poured $67 million over the past five years into a rural telemedicine program in seven Midwestern states.
Of this, $27 million has gone to Avera Health, which has built a telemedicine system that connects emergency medical experts at large hospitals with patients and their medical providers in far-flung rural facilities through real-time video links. Pharmacists at central hubs can dispense needed medications through a vending-machine pharmaceutical system in rural facilities.
Another trend finds grant makers increasingly relying on data to assess the tangible results of programs.
Michael Bloomberg's foundation is supporting fracking, or hydraulic fracturing to mine natural gas, to help advance its "Beyond Coal" campaign, which uses data and measurement to guide efforts aimed at retiring a third of U.S. coal plants by 2020.
"We don't shy away from controversy if we can make a difference," New York's former mayor wrote in typically blunt fashion in his annual letter about his philanthropy, quoted by The Chronicle.
"We insist on using data to guide our work and ensure we're delivering results," he wrote.
"When national governments are slow to act," Bloomberg Philanthropies will work with cities. It will partner with public and private organizations to "enhance our impact" and "work to multiply the power of philanthropy by helping local communities advocate for themselves and create change that lasts."


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A healthy dividend yield of 3.6% and a long-term earnings growth projection of 9.3% make GameStop Corporation (GME) an interesting option for investors seeking both growth and income. Shares of this Zacks #2 Rank (Buy) achieved a 52-week high on Dec 12 and have returned of 21.4% year to date.
Earnings estimates for this video game and entertainment software retailer have been moving upward since reporting fiscal third-quarter results last month, which included a positive earnings surprise of 18.8%. The company has beaten 6 times in the last 9 quarters.
GameStop Beats on EPS
On Nov 15, GameStop posted fiscal third-quarter earnings of 38 cents per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by nearly 19%. In the year-ago quarter, the company earned 39 cents.
Management reiterated its fiscal 2012 earnings outlook between $3.10 and $3.30 per share. For the fourth quarter, GameStop projected earnings of $2.07 to $2.27 per share.
The Grapevine Texas-based company posted total revenue of $1,772.8 million, down 8.9% from the year-ago quarter. The Zacks Consensus Estimate was at $1,791 million. Comparable-store sales dropped 8.3% due to soft hardware and software sales, and a lack of significant game title launches.
Earnings Estimates Climbing
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal 2012 rose 1.9% to $3.20 per share on the back of upward revisions from 12 of 15 estimates. The current estimate implies a year-over-year increase of 11.6%.
For fiscal 2013, the Zacks Consensus Estimate has advanced 1.2% to $3.45 on upward revisions from 11 of 17 estimates. The current estimate reflects year-over-year growth of 7.7%.
Dividend Payout
GameStop announced its first-ever quarterly dividend of 15 cents per share in February 2012. In August, it raised the quarterly dividend by 67% to 25 cents per share, representing an annual yield of 3.6%. The company's commitment toward enhancing shareholder return reflects its free cash flow generating capability, sound liquidity position and well-defined future prospects.
Valuation Looks Reasonable
GameStop currently trades at a forward P/E of 8.69x, on par with the peer group average. However, on a price-to-book basis, shares trade at 1.64x, a substantial premium to the peer group average of 1.32x. Given the long-term earnings growth projection of 9.3%, the PEG ratio comes in at 0.94, marginally below the benchmark of 1 for a fairly priced stock. It has a trailing 12-month ROE of 13.9%, which is ahead of its peer group average of 11.4%.
The stock price remains below fiscal 2012 and 2013 earnings estimates, reflecting that it is still undervalued. Currently, the stock price is in the range of $25.00–$30.00, and has generated a healthy year-to-date return of 21.4%, significantly higher than the S&P 500's return of 11.9%. Volume is strong, averaging roughly 3,096K daily.
GameStop is well positioned to take advantage of the growing market for video game products and PC entertainment software. The company continues to branch out and transform as a mixed retailer of physical and digital gaming and electronics products. The company's venture in digital, iDevice and gaming tablet businesses will be accretive to its results.
Headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, GameStop, a Fortune 500 and an S&P 500 company, is the global leader in retailing software, hardware, and game accessories for video game systems and personal computers. The company is also the largest reseller of used video games as well as PC entertainment software. The company operates approximately 6,650 retail stores in 15 countries. GameStop also publishes a multi-platform video game magazine "Game Informer". GameStop, which primarily competes against Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN</a.) and Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY), currently has a market cap of $3.37 billion.
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DID YOU KNOW?According to Author Jean Valnet there are 5 pathogenic organisms 1 cubic meter of the Forest of Fontainbleu and 20.000 in a Paris flat.
Now, here's the scary part…
How many pathogenic organisms does a square meter of carpet have?
a) 500.000
b) 2 million
c) 9 million
That's right, you guessed it!
A carpet has around 9 million microbes per square meter.
Another great factor is that essential oils have highly antiseptic, antiviral and antibacterial properties.
Choose the scent of preference, I personally like Tea Tree, Eucalyptus, Ravensara, Pine, Lemon, Bergamot, Lavender, sometimes Cinnamon, sometimes some Spruce.
Here's an example of a yummy carpet blend. Feel free to be creative and use the oils you prefer.
1 cup of baking soda
10 drops Eucalyptus essential oil
10 drops Ravensara essential oil
10 drops Bergamot essential oil
Put baking soda in a widemouthed glass jar, add the oils, one by one and shake it very well.
Tighten the cap. Let it rest for 24 hours so that the essential oils permeate the powder.
Before vacuuming sprinkle over the carpet and leave it for 1 hour.
This recipe can cover up to 2000 square feet.
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The wine-producing area of Languedoc-Roussillon, with a vinous history dating back 2,600 years, extends from the Mediterranean in the east to Atlantic influences in the west where cooler temperatures and moisture-laden winds result in wines whose style is somewhat lighter with higher acidity. While red wines dominate production white wine is also made in some quantity including some sparkling wines.
Wines of the Languedoc
The wines produced in the Languedoc have benefitted, together with wine-drinkers, from a dynamic wine revolution in the last three decades. Much of the eastern Languedoc has a history of swelling the former European Union wine lake. Government grants were formerly provided for grape growers and wine-makers to produce wine that few people outside of a loyal local customer base wanted to drink. In fact much was converted into industrial alcohol. Total wine production fell from 29 million hectoliters in 1990 to 11 million in 2010 and between 2005 and 2009 almost 20% of the vines growing in the eastern fertile lowland areas were pulled up.
The early pioneers in this quality revolution included Australians who recognised the potential of the climate and soils of this part of France were capable of producing wines of a much higher quality than had hitherto been realised. Unsurprisingly their efforts caused some dissatisfaction amongst locals, and even the vandalisation of some chais until quite recently, but the reception that these wines received from critics and consumers alike gave impetus to a new focus on quality. Although many of the new wines were then classed as Vin de Pays, now referred to as wines of Indication Geographique Protégée (IGP) which means that its origin is protected and governed by certain regulations, the region's AOC wines have also inproved in quality. Whilst historically the Carignan grape was dominant for red wine production in the Languedoc there is an increasing emphasis on other varieties such as Grenache and also Syrah which is being planted more widely especially at higher altitudes.
The Wines of Western Languedoc
The AOC wines of the western Languedoc include some familiar names such as Minervois and the tougher and more rustic style of Corbières which is the biggest producer of AOC wines in the whole of Languedoc-Roussillon. One of the most rewarding appellation is that of Fitou whose Mont Tauch co-operative has done so much to raise the profile of its wines. Limoux, south of Carcasonne, is the appellation that benefits the most from the Atlantic influence. Its two sparkling wine styles Blanquette de Limoux, made from the Mauzac grape variety, and Crémant de Limoux, made from Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc and Pinot Noir, have long been popular within France. It is, however, Limoux's barrel-fermented still white wine, often made from 100% Chardonnay but which may also include Chenin Blanc and Mauzac, that really impresses. Some red is also produced from a blend which must include a minimum of 50% Merlot. This appellation is seen as having great potential with the Pinot Noir variety for the production of red wine.
The Wines of Eastern Languedoc
The eastern Languedoc has witnessed the majority of the reduction in vineyard area with a concommitant raising of the profile of its wines thanks to the new wave of quality conscious growers and wine-makers. Occupying the hinterlands of an arc tracing the mediterranean between Agde in the south and Nîmes in the north is an area of diverse terroirs. Pic St-Loup in the Cevennes foothills produces red wines from Syrah which are infused with the aromatic qualities of the region's herbs; St-Chinian produces fine white wines as well as red wines from both Carignan and Syrah along with some rosé. The vineyards of Faugères overlooking Béziers to the south produce red, white and rosé wines from meagre soils in which other crops would struggle to grow. Traditional grape varieties are increasingly supplemented by those from outside the region such as Roussanne, Marsanne, Rolle (Vermentino), Viognier, Cinsault, Syrah and others.
The Wines of Roussillon
Demarcated by the eastern Pyrenees, the border with Spain and the Aude to the north the wines produced in Rousillon benefit from the average of 325 days of sunshine per year that this sub-region receives. Roussillon is traditionally the home to a number of Vin Doux Naturelles which are actually produced in a similar way to port with fermentation being stopped by the addition of grape brandy giving wines that retain a degree of natural sugar from the grapes while receiving a boost in alcohol from such addition. These VDN wines are matured either in barrel or in bottle as is also the custom with port. The most famous of these VDNs is Banyuls - made from Grenache grapes grown on steep terraces and an excellent partner for chocolate-based desserts. Others include Rivesaltes and its white cousin Muscat de Rivesaltes. Some dry wines are made here as well although they take the name of Collioure, named after the fishing village and artist's enclave on the coast.
Côtes du Roussillon and Côtes du Roussillon-Villages AOCs make dry red wines from old Cariganan vines with Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault and Mourvèdre being increasingly planted. The "villages" wines are certainly a step up in quality with some interesting IGP whites being made from many different varietals including Grenache Gris, Malvoisie, Rolle, Marsanne and Roussanne. It is worthwhile keeping an eye on developments in Roussillon as experiments with new combinations of terroirs and grape varieties continue especially in the area of the upper Agly Valley which is attracting much inward investment.
Mont Tauch, Les Garrigues Grande Reserve Grenache Gris, Tuchan, 2013
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La Picoutine Cinsault Grenache Rosé, Vin de Pays d'Oc, 2012
La Croix produces wines of great value and consistency and its La Picoutine rosé makes for a great refreshing summer drink. It is a lively blend of Cinsault and Grenache grapes which come together nicely to forge a nose of summer berries with a zesty strawberry palate.
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Mont Tauch, Les Garrigues Grande Reserve Grenache Blanc, Tuchan, 2011
This Mont Tauch, Les Garrigues Grande Reserve Grenache Blanc, Tuchan, 2011 is as satisfying as many a basic but more expensive white Burgundy, unencumbered by any unnecessary use of oak.
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Mont Tauch, Les Garrigues Grande Reserve Grenache Blanc, Tuchan, 2013
A white wine made from the Grenache Blanc variety that pairs well with almost any seafood.
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Mont Tauch, Les Garrigues Grande Reserve Grenache Noir, Tuchan, 2011
This is a lovely example of the Grenache Noir grape's capacity to please and is approachable even when still very young and usually works best with food rather than as a drink on its own.
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A new clinical advisory issued by the National High Blood Pressure Education Program (NHBPEP) recommends that physicians pursue a more aggressive treatment approach to lower the blood pressure of patients who have both hypertension and diabetes.
The NHBPEP is coordinated by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. The "2000 Clinical Advisory Treatment of Hypertension and Diabetes," is published in the latest issue of The Journal of Clinical Hypertension.
Both diabetes and hypertension are independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The advisory indicates that the coexistence of these conditions in a patient imposes a need for a significantly lower goal blood pressure (135/80 mm Hg) than the goal blood pressure recommended for a patient with hypertension who does not have diabetes (140/90 mm Hg). Over 5 million Americans have type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. Uncontrolled hypertension leads to stroke, heart failure, and kidney failure. It is clear that the combination of these two CVD risk factors has important public health implications.
This new report is part of a series of clinical advisories being issued by NHLBI to raise health professional and consumer awareness of the health dangers posed by high blood pressure. On May 4, 2000, NHLBI issued a clinical advisory to draw attention to the problem of high systolic blood pressure. Systolic blood pressure measures the force exerted by the blood as it flows through the arteries when the heart contracts. It is expressed as the top number of the blood pressure reading and now is recognized to be the most important indicator of heart disease risk in adults age 60 and older.
The authors of the new advisory note results from several studies showing that efforts to lower high blood pressure in patients with type 2 diabetes produce dramatic results. In one study, near optimal control of hypertension (144/82 mm Hg) led to 44 percent fewer diabetes-related strokes, 37 percent fewer cases of small blood vessel damage due to diabetes (particularly diabetic retinopathy), and 32 percent fewer diabetes-related deaths. Another study reported CVD deaths were reduced 76 percent in hypertensive patients who had type 2 diabetes and 13 percent in patients who had hypertension but no diabetes.
The clinical advisory serves as an update to the Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention,
Detection, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC VI).
JNC VI was produced in 1997 by the NHBPEP, a federation
of 45 professional, voluntary, and official agencies.
To learn more about prevention and treatment of high blood pressure,
visit NHLBI's new, interactive high blood pressure Web site for consumers
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