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Nebraska's Lindsey Moore and Jordan Hooper both earned spots on their third major national award watch list when the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced its top-50 contenders for the 2013 Naismith Trophy. Hooper and Moore, who earlier this year made the 25-member Wade Watch List and the Wooden Award Preseason Top 30, made their second appearance together among the list of candidates for the Naismith Trophy. Last season, Moore and Hooper were among 32 midseason candidates for the 2012 Naismith Trophy.
Nebraska is one of 12 schools to have more than one player listed among the top 50 candidates for the Naismith Trophy. The Huskers join fellow Big Ten school Penn State (Alex Bentley, Maggie Lucas) among that group, which also includes upcoming Nebraska opponent Maryland (Tianna Hawkins, Laurin Mincy, Alyssa Thomas). The other schools with more than one honoree are Connecticut (4), Duke (2), Notre Dame (2), St. John's (2), Middle Tennessee State (2), Louisville (2), Oklahoma (2), Kansas (2) and Baylor (2). The defending national champion Lady Bears are led by reigning national player of the year Brittney Griner.
Moore, a 5-9 senior point guard from Covington, Wash., has started 100 consecutive games for the Huskers. Last season, she averaged 15.7 points, 5.1 assists and 2.2 steals per game a year ago for the 24-9 Huskers. Moore ranks No. 15 at NU in career points (1,185), No. 4 assists (510) and No. 8 in three-pointers (123). Moore was one of eight finalists a year ago for the Nancy Lieberman Award, presented to the nation's top point guard.
Hooper, a 6-2 junior forward from Alliance, Neb., has made 66 consecutive starts for the Huskers. As a sophomore in 2011-12, she averaged 18.9 points and a Big Ten-best 9.3 rebounds per game while also leading the Big Ten with 14 double-doubles. An honorable-mention AP All-American and a first-team All-Big Ten choice as a sophomore, Hooper ranks No. 20 at Nebraska in career points with 1,097. She also ranks No. 5 on NU's career three-point list with 138. She is tied for No. 7 on Nebraska's career double-doubles chart with 18, including 12 points and 14 rebounds in a win over Temple on Nov. 11 to help the Huskers improve to 2-0 this season.
Hooper and Moore lead the Huskers against Northern Arizona on Friday at the Devaney Center. Tip-off between Nebraska and the Lumberjacks is set for 7:05 p.m. Last season against NAU, Hooper (32) and Moore (31) combined for 63 points, becoming the first teammates in school history to each score 30 or more points in the same game. They each scored 25 points after halftime against the Lumberjacks.


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A New Mills mum has launched a youth club for teenagers with learning difficulties.
The group meet every Monday at the Whistlestop Playcafe, on Surrey Street, in Glossop, at 5.30pm and 6.30pm.
Founder Sara Holmes, 35, said: "I work at Peak Lodge in Chinley and I just felt there was a lack of facilities for older children." Contact Sara on 07729 995942 for more details and prices.

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2017 Dodge Demon: From comfortable to crazy [First Look]
As the lights switch from red to yellow to green, a weird kind of silence wraps around my brain and time feels like it stops.
Release the paddle. Release the brake. Release the second paddle. Hold the gas pedal steady at 1,700 RPMs for half a heartbeat. Then floor it.
The air whooshes out of my lungs from a breath I didn't realize I was holding as 1.8 Gs press me back into my seat. In seconds, my speed tops 100 mph.
Release the gas. Slow it down. Breathe.
And laugh.
Who needs coffee when you have an empty drag strip and a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon at the ready?
During a recent trip to US131 MotorSports Park, the folks at Dodge showcased the limited-production Demon, fully equipped with production drag radials and TransBrake. For the strip, the SRT folks also added skinny "front runner" wheels to cut front end-weight.
Jim Wilder, the vehicle development manager for the Challenger and Charger SRTs, is quick to point out the engine in the Demon isn't just a tuned-up version of the Hellcat Hemi. The 6.2-liter Hemi Demon V-8 has 62 percent new content, including larger 2.7-liter per rev supercharger, an SRT Power Chiller liquid-to-air intercooler chiller system and a factory-first After-Run Cooler that keeps cooling the supercharger after the engine is shut off.
The Demon is the fastest production vehicle ever built with a 0-to-60-mph time of 2.3 seconds. It can do a quarter mile in 9.65 seconds at 140 mph. When properly fueled with high-octane gasoline, the Demon engine unleashes a whopping 840 horsepower, which makes it the highest-horsepower production V-8.
This car is so fast that the NHRA has officially banned it from competition without the addition of aftermarket safety equipment.
It's difficult to wrap your mind around those stats until you get behind the wheel and feel the sheer force of acceleration, which is – quite literally – breathtaking.
It took me a few tries to get the rhythm of the TransBrake mechanism down – that system where you release paddle, brake, paddle before accelerating. The TransBrake allows the driver to increase engine rpm for higher torque and a quicker response – aka warp speed launches.
The base Demon is sparingly built, cutting more than 200 pounds by removing or replacing equipment including:
- Removed front passenger seat and belt (58 pounds)
- Removed rear seat, restraints and floor mats (55 pounds)
- Removed 16 audio speakers, amplifier and associated wiring (24 pounds)
- Removed trunk deck cover trim, carpeting and spare tire cover (20 pounds)
- Used smaller, hollow sway bars (19 pounds)
- Removed mastic, body deadeners, insulators and foam (18 pounds)
- Used lightweight all-aluminum four-piston brake caliper and smaller, 360-mm two-piece rotor (16 pounds)
- Switched to lightweight wheels and open-end lug nuts (16 pounds)
- Switched to manual tilt/telescope steering column (4 pounds)
- Removed park sensors and module (2 pounds)
If you want to make this more of a street car than a drag car, you can add back in the front passenger seat, rear seats and trunk carpeting kit for $1 each.
While I only got eight turns on the strip, I could have spent all day learning the ins and outs of burnouts and launch control. The real surprise, however, is that the Demon is a comfortable cruiser on the road.
We had the chance to do a quick street loop in the Demon with the $3 in options that make it a car you can drive with passengers. While the road noise was a bit more noticeable than a regular Challenger, the actual ride and handling was more luxurious. I expected a stiff ride and iffy steering feedback, but I got neither.
Aside from the road noise that crept into the cabin – which could be obliterated with some radio noise – I found the Demon to be a car you could use for a daily commute or road trip.
Base price for the Demon is $84,995, but only 3,000 of the vehicles are being produced for the U.S. And every single one of them has already been spoken for. In fact, because Dodge wants to keep the Demon special and rare, they're even crushing the media cars we drove at MotorSports Park when the vehicles are done making the media rounds.
Orders for the Demon began in June and deliveries are expected to be made beginning in the fall of 2017.
Editor's Note: Driving impressions in this "First Look" review are from an invitation-only automaker launch event that allowed special access to the vehicle and executives. Dodge covered our accommodations and meals.


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Attorney General Lockyer Sues American Funds For Not Telling Investors Truth About Broker Payments
Alleges American, Capital Paid Brokers $426 Million To Push Their Mutual Funds
(LOS ANGELES) – Attorney General Bill Lockyer today filed a securities fraud lawsuit against American Funds' Los Angeles-based distributor and investment manager, alleging the defendants failed to adequately inform investors about $426 million in "shelf space" payments made to dozens of broker-dealers to sell and recommend American Funds.
"American Funds dressed up these arrangements with fancy names like 'execution revenue,' 'target commissions' or 'Broker Partnership Payments,' " said Lockyer. "But when you look beneath the cloak of legitimacy, the payments are little more than kickbacks to buy preferential treatment. Investors deserve to know that. The law American Funds violated is based on that simple principle."
The defendants in the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court are American Funds Distributors, Inc. (AFD) and Capital Research and Management Company (Capital), the investment manager for American Funds. The complaint seeks disgorgement of all profits the defendants obtained as a result of violating provisions of the state's Corporate Securities Law (CSL) that prohibit fraud in the sale or offering of securities. Additionally, the complaint seeks restitution for investors, civil penalties of up to $25,000 per CSL violation and an injunction prohibiting future violations.
Under the CSL, fraud includes failure to disclose material facts that a consumer would consider important to know in deciding whether to make a particular investment. Shelf space arrangements qualify as such material facts, Lockyer's complaint alleges. Such payments – made in cash or "directed brokerage" commissions on mutual funds' portfolio transactions – create conflicts of interest, increase mutual funds' expenses and decrease consumers' investment choices, the complaint notes. The defendants violated the CSL by failing to adequately inform investors about the significance of the shelf space payments and potential problems, and about the preferential treatment the defendants received in return for the payments.
The American Funds complex includes about 29 mutual funds with 20 million shareholders and more than $600 billion in combined assets. From January 1, 2000 through the present, AFD maintained an annual average of about 100 shelf space arrangements with broker-dealers, the complaint alleges. Until 2004, when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) banned directed brokerage, the defendants paid the top 47 AFD shelf space partners portfolio transaction commissions, as well as cash. From 2000 through the end of 2004, the defendants' shelf space payments totaled at least $426 million, including $294 million in cash and $132 million in directed brokerage, the complaint alleges.
AFD's shelf space brokers included Edward D. Jones & Co. (Jones), Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Piper Jaffray. To increase sales of American Funds, all three of these partners used shelf space payments to provide bonuses, cash rewards and/or resort travel assistance to local sales representatives. These incentives were not disclosed to investors.
To show the defendants knew they were not informing investors about how the shelf space arrangements worked in practice, the complaint cites a January 9, 2004 "global" voice mail message from AFD's co-CEO Kevin Clifford to all sales representatives. After offering the argument the payments actually help investors, Clifford states, "I think it's important that you be on message because this is the message that we have been using with regulators ... This will be the story that we use with regulators going forward, and I think you'll see it in time incorporated in our disclosure."
The defendants also misled independent directors on the boards of various American Funds, according to the complaint. Executives of Capital – which occasionally subsidized AFD's cash payments to broker-dealers– falsely told independent directors AFD did not maintain shelf space arrangements, did not use directed brokerage to purchase shelf space and did not provide portfolio transaction targets to broker-dealers, the complaint alleges.
Jones ranked as AFD's top shelf space partner. From 2000 through 2004, AFD paid Jones more than $106.5 million in cash and directed brokerage. After the defendants ended directed brokerage for Jones in January 2002, they replaced it with cash to maintain their preferential treatment. As a result, the cash payments jumped from $10.7 million in 2001 to $20.7 million in 2002. Meanwhile, from 2000 through 2003, Jones sold more than $45 billion in American Funds shares.
Some of AFD's shelf space partners, such as Jones, did not have the capacity to perform securities trades. In those cases, at least until 2002, Capital would trade directly with the shelf space partner's "clearing broker." The clearing broker would keep a portion of the directed brokerage commission and pass on the remainder to the AFD shelf space partner.
Lockyer's office has been working closely with the SEC on the American Funds case, and Lockyer acknowledged the SEC's substantial assistance and cooperation.
The American Funds lawsuit is the fourth brought by Lockyer under a law he sponsored which took effect January 1, 2004. The statute gave his office authority to file civil enforcement actions under the CSL. Lockyer settled shelf space complaints against the distributor of PIMCO funds, PA Distributors (on September 15, 2004) and Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. (on November 17, 2004). Both settlements ensured greater disclosure to investors of the shelf space payments. The Franklin Templeton settlement also disgorged $14 million back to its various mutual funds. Lockyer on December 20, 2004 sued Jones, alleging the broker-dealer failed to adequately disclose about $300 million in shelf space payments it received from seven preferred mutual funds, including American. That case remains pending.
Employees of mutual funds or broker-dealers who have knowledge of securities law violations by their companies should contact the Attorney General's Whistleblower Hotline at 800-952-5225 (for California residents) or 916-322-3360 (for out-of-state residents).


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One personnel man said 10 or 11 1st-round prospects have been flagged for pot
Teams try to determine whether prospect's use is experimental or frequent
New breed of NFL decision-makers perhaps not as concerned as the old guard
ORLANDO -- There's a widespread belief within the NFL that the 2010 draft represents one of the deepest and most promising pools of collegiate talent in years. But in addition to the vast potential of this year's draft class, numerous NFL personnel evaluators told SI.com they are concerned about the increased number of prospects who have a history of marijuana use in their background, with players often acknowledging a failed drug test for pot in college in interviews with team executives.
SI.com interviewed four NFL head coaches, four general managers and two other high-level club personnel executives for this story. Due to the sensitivity of the topic, all requested anonymity in order to speak candidly about the issue.
According to one veteran club personnel man, 10 or 11 players who carry first-round draft grades on their board this year have been red-flagged for marijuana use in college, an estimate echoed by two clubs' head coaches. Another NFL head coach estimated that "one-third'' of the players on his club's draft board had some sort of history with marijuana use and would thus require an extra level of evaluation as part of the pre-draft scouting process.
"Marijuana use is almost epidemic, with more guys having tested positive for marijuana at some point in their college background than I can ever remember,'' said a longtime team personnel man. "It's almost as if we are having to figure out a new way to evaluate it as part of the character and background report, because it's so prevalent. There're enough instances of it that it's hard to know how to set your board. You can't throw out that many guys. You have to go case-by-case and do your homework on them.''
It's important to note that NFL club officials in this case are only referencing failed drug tests administered by the prospect's college that wind up on his background report, not the drug tests the league conducts as part of the scouting process at last month's NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. Players with drug test failures in college are not automatically enrolled in the NFL's drug-testing program upon being drafted, but those players can be added at the league's discretion, depending on the type of drug used, how recent the failed test occurred and if there were multiple failures.
"It's something that's concerning to all coaches and general managers in this league,'' one veteran NFL head coach said at the league's annual meeting in Orlando. "It has been trending the wrong way in recent years. But it's something that has to be dealt with from on high, at the league level, and not just dealt with on a club by club basis. It's partly a societal issue, but it's something we're having to deal with more and more.''
In many cases these days, club officials say, players are much more open to admitting to past marijuana use or experimentation in college as part of their pre-draft interviews with NFL teams.
"The kids are admitting it much more now, and part of that is what they've been coached to do [by their agents or handlers],'' one club general manager said. "They want to get the truth out and give you an explanation for their use. That's seen as better than letting someone else put it out there for you and making you look like you were being evasive.
"But we've had that same conversation internally on our club: 'Wow, there's a lot of kids this year.' It seems much more common now, across the draft.''
One NFL head coach told me this week that in this era of some states decriminalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes, he has interviewed potential draft picks who didn't even seem to recognize their marijuana smoking constituted drug use in the eyes of the NFL.
"It's pretty significant as a trend,'' the head coach said. "But if you knocked everyone off your board who has experimented with weed, you'd lose about 20 percent of your board, not to mention disqualify a few recent presidents. A third sounds a little high to me, but it's not a rare occurrence to have a player with some pot use in his background. You have to make a judgment on each individual guy.''
That same head coach said that earlier in his NFL coaching career, if a player had failed a drug test for pot in college, his name would be quickly removed from the draft boards of most teams. But times have changed. Clubs are doing more work to try and identify whether a prospect's pot use falls under the experimentation heading, or is done with regularity.
"It's a matter of figuring out which ones smoke, and which ones have to smoke, because they really [are addicted],'' another head coach said. "It's like the drinking issue. You want to know if a guy drinks, or if he has a drinking problem. You're trying to find out and make that distinction with some guys.''
The reaction to a prospect's collegiate marijuana use varies from club to club, team executives and coaches said. The mentality of personnel evaluators and coaches making case-by-case decisions on players with marijuana use in their background has grown more prevalent with the league's infusion of younger coaches and general managers in recent years.
"Overall in the league there's a bit of a different generation of decision-makers and people doing the evaluating,'' one team's general manager said. "Even among those of us who didn't [smoke pot], we had some friends who did and we didn't judge them that harshly. So for some, it's a less damaging red flag for a player to have that on his record. Now, maybe [longtime Colts president] Bill Polian's perception of that is different. Maybe those players are still completely off his board. But it can be generational in that sense, yes. Definitely.''
Even among the club officials who expressed the most concern about the prevalence of prospects in this draft who have failed at least one test for marijuana in college, none said they would automatically remove any such player from their draft board.
"There are probably different shades of red to the red flag you give that player these days, different degrees of how it impacts their grade,'' one head coach said. "I know of one guy who told me he smoked with his mom. It was just something they did together. You have to find out something about the specifics and see if it was a habit, and or if it was experimenting in college. For one thing, it could be a case of colleges testing more, and having better tests. It may not be that use is up, but detection is up.''
Some players suspected of marijuana use in college in recent years, Philadelphia receiver DeSean Jackson and Minnesota receiver-return man Percy Harvin most notably, have been two of the top offensive players in the draft the past two years. Their early success in the NFL has possibly led some teams to take a more lenient approach to drafting talented players who are suspected of collegiate marijuana use, one team front office executive said.
"If you passed on Jackson and you passed on Harvin the past two years, maybe you can't afford to just completely write off that kind of prospect every time, or you won't have a job at some point because you won't win any games,'' one team front office executive said. "But you don't want to take guys and see them be in the [league's drug] program the whole time, because they may never get out of it. You want to determine if it's in their environment and if they're bringing that environment with them [to the NFL]?''
One team's head coach said organizations are doing more and more extensive background checks on draft prospects every year to find out as much information as possible about the practices of their potential employees.
"You have to, because some guys aren't telling you the whole truth about their habits and things that have happened while they're in college,'' the head coach said. "It depends on the team's individual approach, but you can get in trouble if you're just overlooking everything when it comes to that kind of history in their background.''
Another NFL general manager interviewed this week said he has a discussion with his team's owner every time the club is even considering a player who has a red flag on their record for marijuana use in college. And you can't have too many of those talks on a year-in, year-out basis, he said.
"That's a topic of conversation for a lot of GMs with their owners,'' the general manager said. "You have a number of prospects who are quality people, but who might have [screwed] up early on in college. As long as it's not a habitual thing, there's more of a discussion about those players, rather than just jettisoning them off your board. Which is what a lot of teams have done in the past. But I think we're all a little more realistic these days.
"I've gone and scouted players at colleges and their coaches really talk them up, but then they add that 'He has this in his background.' It's definitely something we're going to have to get to the bottom of, but what are you going to do? If the kid has one thing in his past, are you going to throw away a third of your board? That's the reality of the situation we face.''
Don Banks
March 24, 2010
NFL personnel men concerned by marijuana 'epidemic' in draft class
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Hendrick on Swaps: So Far, So Good
When Rick Hendrick and his team decided after last season – he insists it wasn't just his decision – to juggle drivers and crew chiefs, it wasn't spur of the moment.
Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus would remain together on the No. 48 team, figuring five straight Sprint Cup championships weren't to be trifled with, though crew members were changed.
The dramatic moves came elsewhere, pairing crew chief Alan Gustafson with Jeff Gordon, shifting Lance McGrew from Dale Earnhardt Jr. to Mark Martin and sending Steve Letarte, Gordon's former crew chief, to work with Earnhardt.
Two races into the season, Hendrick and his team like where they're headed, especially after Gordon ended a 66-race winless streak at Phoenix International Raceway.
"When you make the decision, then it's up to the guys to make it work and I didn't do it all by myself," Hendrick said Sunday after Gordon's 83rd career victory.
"This organization is really one team of four cars. People say it sometimes and don't really mean it but these guys work shoulder to shoulder."
Hendrick said he looked at personalities when the decision was made to shuffle the drivers and crew chiefs. He wanted Letarte's "rah-rah" attitude with Earnhardt. He paired McGrew and Martin because both are technicians.
That put Gustafson and Gordon together and it clicked.
"It's early. By summer you might be telling me I made a terrible mistake, but right now the chemistry looks really good in the teams and we are competitive every week," Hendrick said.
For Gordon, the Phoenix victory was just his second since the 2007 season but it reinforced the notion that the 39-year old hasn't lost the ability to win.
He chased down super-aggressive Kyle Busch over the final 20 laps, gently nudged Busch's car up the track and cruised to a victory that had thousands standing and cheering after it was over.
"I think we needed to do something to rejuvenate our whole group," Hendrick said. "I think I see every one of our guys stepping up. I think Jeff sees this as an opportunity with Alan that he's got something to prove and I think that's a good thing."
The communication between Gordon and Gustafson was crucial on a weekend that started poorly for all the Hendrick cars. None was particularly fast in the Friday practice sessions and none qualified inside the top 20.
The teams kept working, tweaking their cars. Gordon said when the green flag dropped, he knew he had a car capable of winning.
"Jeff Gordon was perfect in the car," Gustafson said.
When it was over, Gordon said he was unusually emotional. He stopped short of crying, he said, but his chin was trembling. With his 40th birthday approaching in August, the one-time whiz kid felt the burden of not winning like he did a decade earlier.
"There was a lot of pressure on us, not just this year (to win) early but going back the last 66 races that we had not had a win," Gordon said.
"You hear it from the media, you hear it from the fans and it's hard to ignore that. It's on all of us. I think when you've had the success that we have had in the past…
"I guess every race driver knows that there's going to be that time in their life when they are not going to go to Victory Lane again and you don't know when that time is going to come. I was hoping that time (for me) was not now."


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Friday, August 20, 2010
Gravestones as Chess Pieces
As we've seen in a couple of recent posts, the thought process always comes before the painting. Everything depends on your initial thought or feeling. You may decide to go for photographic accuracy, or you may want to caricature the form, as we saw yesterday.
One guiding thought is to rearrange the elements to convey an idea. I showed you this painting of an Irish graveyard a while ago, but now I want you to see what the actual view looks like.
I returned to the same churchyard on our recent trip to Ireland.
For the painting I was inspired to express something deeper emotionally (which I can't put into words) and I had to move the gravestones around like chess pieces until they stirred up those feelings.
The painting will be in the upcoming book "Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter," (November, 2010), which is now at the printer.
The graves belong to the Corry family of Kilnaboy, County Clare: Michael (d. 1965) and Delia (d. 1970), Regina (d. 1980) and Tom (d. 2005); Patrick (d 1915) and Ann (d. 1961) Corry and their niece Nanette O'Regan (d. 1950).
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- =shane white= said...
Nice way to convey reverence.
Can't wait for the book, man.
- August 20, 2010 at 3:56 PM
- Mary Bullock said...
How do you find the time to write and paint too!
- August 20, 2010 at 6:57 PM
- Steve said...
Cameras record the flat "reality" of a scene. Artists sometimes process that scene through the heart and give us images that "express something deeper emotionally."
This post is a powerful counterpoint to the earlier post on Scart Rd. If all we ask our human hands and eyes to do is faithfully replicate a camera's exposure, we miss the opportunity to bring our deeper reality -- some would say our souls -- into expression. Of course, the more skill and technique we bring to that work, the better, but it's the feelings that "can't be put into words" that make art a vital expression of the human experience.
- August 20, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- John-Paul Balmet said...
When I realized that there could be a marriage of what I wanted the image to be and what the image was in reality, things really changed for me. I'm glad you mentioned that you wanted to convey a particular emotion, and took liberties to make that happen all the while informed by the scene before you.
Hopefully that sketchbook of your travel paints will be at the printer soon as well!
- August 20, 2010 at 11:33 PM
- Erik Bongers said...
My God, someone's moved that tombstone since your last visit!
(still love the light on that painting)
- August 21, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- Don Cox said...
"Cameras record the flat "reality" of a scene. Artists sometimes process that scene through the heart and give us images that "express something deeper emotionally.""
So do good photographers.
- August 21, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- Steve said...
Don, you're absolutely right. Thanks.
- August 21, 2010 at 9:44 PM


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Hartsville, SC- The Coker Men's tennis team fell once again to a top ranked opponent as they fell to the #18 ranked Pacers of USC AIken on Sunday afternoon by a score of 8-0. The final match was called due to inclement weather that the win had already been clinched for Aiken.
The Cobras faired well in doubles, however the score does not indicate it, as they fell by scores of 8-1, 8-2, and 8-1. The No. 1 and No. 2 doubles teams are both nationally ranked for the Pacers.
In signles, the Cobras were no match for the Pacers as they rolled comfortably at all five position to finsih off the sweep.
The Cobras return to action Wednesday afternoon, as they play host to Erskine College with conference tournament implications on the line; match is slated to start at 2 P.M.


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David Goldhill is chief executive of GSN, a media company, and the author of "Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father – and How We Can Fix It."
Steven Brill's recent Time magazine cover story, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us," is an extraordinarily well-reported look at medical pricing, demonstrating that high health-care prices have little relationship to underlying cost. For many commentators, the much lower prices paid by Medicare suggests an obvious solution to our health-care problems — "Medicare for all." There's only one problem with this "obvious" solution: Medicare has been a primary driver of the explosion of health-care costs in the United States despite — and perhaps because of — the low prices it pays.
Over the past decade, Medicare's spending per beneficiary has risen at roughly the same rate as spending for privately insured patients. Medicare's supporters have a simple explanation: Americans are living longer, and this is driving up the program's costs. But Medicare's own data say that a much more important factor is the growing intensity of use: more demand for care at every age.
In the mainstream of our health-care debate, this growth in seniors' demand is considered organic — a need to be fulfilled. But this extraordinary growth in volume is better understood as a provider reaction to the perverse incentives of low prices. Faced with buyers focused on volumes — such as private insurers — the health-care industry prices high; when dealing with buyers focused on prices — such as Medicare and Medicaid — the focus shifts to raising volumes, especially of more-costly procedures. Both strategies demonstrate the industry's enormous market power.
Medicare beneficiaries get a lot of health care, and these amounts grow every year. In 10 years, the number of CT and MRI scans per beneficiary more than doubled; hip replacements increased by 36 percent between 1997 and 2007. One out of three Medicare beneficiaries now has at least one surgery in the year of his or her death; even 20 percent of 90-year-olds do! The average 75-year-old is on five prescription drugs. Here's a fact you rarely hear about Medicare: Annual spending just on those in excellent or very good health was an astonishing $5,437 per person in 2008.
If you have relatives who are Medicare beneficiaries, you've probably experienced the medicalization of senior years — the perverse fate of the healthiest generation of seniors in history. But although the past years have seen a slew of insider accounts discussing the rise in unnecessary tests, diagnoses and even treatments far beyond any benefit to the patient, little awareness of the harm inflicted by growth in medical volume has seeped into policy debates.
The explosion of "care" under Medicare is an assault on the very bodies of our seniors. Health care is often a real benefit, of course, but all of it involves physical costs in side effects, recovery periods and the risk of error. An extensive survey by Medicare's inspector general noted that one in seven hospital admissions of a Medicare beneficiary resulted in an "adverse event" from care; an unbelievable 1.5 percent — translating to 15,000 patients per month — experience an "event" that contributed to their death.
It's difficult to hear that pricing policy may drive the very nature, and not just the cost, of health care, but "diagnosis creep," the substitution of expensive drugs for cheaper ones and an increasing number of more expensive procedures seem like common yet subtle responses to Medicare's efforts to manage by price. Medicare claims that hospitals and other institutions actually lose money — an average of 4.5 percent of their reimbursements — on services provided to Medicare beneficiaries and have suffered such losses every year since 2003. Yet the number of hospitals taking Medicare patients has grown in every one of those years. Why? And what explains all those ads targeting Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries if those programs are such tough customers?
Brill referred several times in his Time article to the "protection" Medicare offers its beneficiaries from high prices. But the massive expansion of care unleashed by Medicare's perverse incentives means that just the tiny sliver of care paid directly by seniors — at the low prices established by Medicare — now accounts for a higher share of their income than before Medicare existed.
Single-payer advocates contend that other nations have managed to better control health-care spending — volumes and prices — by enforcing a true budget for cost. But any review of how our Medicare system actually works illustrates why a single-payer system would be so difficult here: Our government has a pervasive inability to say "no." Only in the United States is public health care an unbudgeted entitlement: Our government promises to pay for any care seniors need and providers respond by relentlessly expanding the definition of need. It's no coincidence.
Medicare is a major source of votes and campaign contributions, both of which reinforce our politicians' unwillingness to address exploding volumes. The program's low administrative costs aren't an accomplishment; they're a refusal to discipline excess care, even dangerous care. The program's low prices are a mirage. As any businessperson knows, with enough market power — not to mention political power — you can always make it up in volume.
David Goldhill is chief executive of GSN, a media company, and the author of "Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father – and How We Can Fix It."


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Reporting from Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Relative calm has been restored to the towns and villages surrounding Mount Merapi. Evacuees are leaving internally displaced persons (IDP) camps and returning home. In many cases, parents are leaving their children with families and friends in the camps so that they can begin cleaning their homes and clearing the debris.
I traveled to two of the villages about 4 kilometers (2 miles) south of the volcano. The roads were covered with an inch of gray powdery ash. In some spots, rain water has combined with the ash to solidify like concrete. Most village residents are farmers. They depend on the rice and vegetables that they grow. The hardened ash has caused many of the crops to die. For now these farmers are living on handouts delivered to the village by volunteers.
I spoke with a few villagers who have returned home. One young mother explained to me, "We don't have seeds for next season…we're worried about what we'll do." In this part of Indonesia, farmers plant regularly and are able to harvest every few months. They sell part of their harvest and consume the rest. Their subsistence is a delicate balance contingent on the cyclical harvests.
Despite the crop problem, residents are happy to be home. I spoke with a few young children about their experiences over the past few weeks. One 10-year-old girl named Wanyu explained the events immediately after the volcanic eruption. "I felt so scared… I cried. All the lights went out. We looked at the mountain and we saw red lights coming from the top."
Wanyu fled with her parents to a shelter in the nearest town about 5 kilometers (3 miles) away. "I didn't like the shelter because it was too hot." But she explained that she did like meeting new children living at the shelter and learning new traditional games with them. Nonetheless, she's glad to be back home and eager to return to her fourth-grade classroom. However, the school has not reopened. The students are helping some of the teachers who have returned to clean the school.
Wanyu's mother is also happy to be home. However, she is noticeably anxious. "I'm worried about Merapi erupting again. I'm also worried about our future as all our vegetables have died."
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Irascible, chain-smoking, umpire-baiting longtime Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver penned his own epitaph.
"On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived,'" he once said.
Weaver, 82, a member of baseball's Hall of Fame and the winningest manager in the franchise's history, died late Friday while on a baseball-themed cruise, said Monica Barlow, a team spokeswoman.
The cause apparently was a heart attack, the team said on its website.
Weaver, who piloted the Orioles from 1968 to 1982 and 1985-86, led the team to the 1970 World Series championship, four American League pennants and six American League East Division titles.
His teams won 1,480 games and lost 1,060, and his winning percentage (.583) ranks ninth all-time and fifth among managers in the modern era who managed 10 years or more.
Five times, Baltimore won at least 100 games for Weaver, who was 5 feet 7 but stood mythically tall to his players.
"Having Earl gives us a four-game lead on everybody," pitcher Sammy Stewart once said.
The Orioles failed to post a winning record under Weaver only once, in 1986. His career was defined by an affinity for the three-run home run and a long-running, public feud with superstar pitcher Jim Palmer that both men jokingly played to whenever they were together.
Nicknamed "the Earl of Baltimore," Weaver was always a fan favorite. He repeatedly returned to Baltimore to take part in a series of statue unveilings at Oriole Park, including one dedicated to him in June.
Considered one of the game's great strategists, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1996.
"Earl Weaver stands alone as the greatest manager in the history of the Orioles organization and one of the greatest in the history of baseball," Orioles managing partner Peter Angelos said Saturday in a statement.
As a manager, Weaver could be testy, but his closest friends also knew him to be sensitive and caring, though he seldom showed that side in public.
Weaver stood up for a couple of young players who would turn out to be among the greatest in the game.
He pressed to keep first baseman and future Hall of Famer Eddie Murray in the major leagues in 1977 and is credited with bucking convention to switch supposedly oversized Cal Ripken Jr. from third base to shortstop at the end of 1981. While playing for Weaver, Ripken began his record-breaking streak of playing in 2,632 consecutive games.
"His passion for the game and the fire with which he managed will always be remembered by baseball fans everywhere," Ripken said Saturday in a statement.
According to the Hall of Fame, Weaver pioneered the use of radar guns in professional baseball to track the speed of pitches, introducing the concept at spring training in 1975.
In some ways, he was a comic character. But Weaver had a hard edge that could rankle a player as easily as an umpire.
Weaver got under the skin of Bobby Grich in the early 1970s, yelling "home run or [go back to Triple-A] Rochester!" at the young second baseman as he went up to bat. Grich came back to the dugout and — after a loud verbal exchange — threw Weaver down steps that led to the clubhouse.
To Weaver's credit, Grich remained in the starting lineup for the next five seasons and established himself as one of the top power-hitting second basemen of his generation.
"You could go toe-to-toe, face-to-face and cheek-to-cheek with him," former Oriole outfielder Don Buford said, "and, no matter what, the next day it was forgotten. That was outstanding."
Born Aug. 14, 1930, in St. Louis, Weaver was an undersized but talented teenager who played second base in high school.
After eight years in the minor leagues, Weaver realized he would never reach the majors and turned to managing, according to the 2002 book he co-wrote, "Weaver on Strategy."
He spent about half of his 20 years in the minors as a manager "who was just happy to be in baseball," Weaver said in his Hall of Fame induction speech.
Soon after joining the Orioles as a first-base coach in 1968, he became the manager.
His famous feud with Palmer dated to the 1970s, when they would exchange barbs on the mound and in print. They clearly grated on each other but there also was a grudging mutual respect between two dynamic personalities who were integral to the Orioles' winning chemistry.
"Did he make my life difficult ... yes," Palmer said. "Did I make his life difficult sometimes ... of course ... and sometimes you did it for entertainment value."
They occasionally sparred good-naturedly on the banquet circuit after both left the field, but carried on a largely cordial relationship until the feud bubbled up during an ugly incident at a 2000 banquet.
Several former Orioles stars were on hand to roast Weaver, but Palmer's allusions to the diminutive former manager's size and drinking habits struck a nerve. When Weaver got his chance to fire back, he ripped into Palmer, calling him an idiot and an egotist who often had little stomach for pitching with discomfort. The nasty scene ended with Weaver being led away by former Orioles first baseman Lee May and Orioles coach Elrod Hendricks.
"It was unfortunate because these two men have such great respect for each other," Hendricks said at the time.
It was in keeping with Weaver's quick temper, which got him ejected from major league games 98 times.
His animated disagreements with umpires often ended with a red-faced Weaver hurling away his hat or kicking dirt on the ump's shoes.
"Earl was Earl," Palmer said, "but once you were an Oriole, you played because winning was a lot of fun and Earl was all about winning."
Weaver had three children from his first marriage, which ended in divorce. Survivors include his second wife, Marianna, whom he married in 1964.
Times staff writer Valerie J. Nelson and Baltimore Sun staff writer Jacques Kelly contributed to this report.


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The duo Sugarland vocalist American country music artist Jennifer Nettles has found a new chapter to tune with. On Saturday November 26, she married entrepreneur Justin Miller in a small, intimate ceremony in Tennessee surrounded by close family and friends, including Sugarland's another vocalist Kristian Bush, according to the People Magazine. The nuptials were held at a chapel in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains at sunset according to People.
The Grammy winner music superstar has been dating Miller for more than two years, and he even appeared in the video for the country duo's 2006 single "Want To." This is the second marriage for Nettles, who divorced her first hubby Todd Van Sickle(1998-2007).
For her second wedding, Nettles, 37, stunned in an Alexander McQueen gown. As for her honeymoon? It might have to wait. Nettles and Bush are hosting the annual CMA Country Christmas special, airing Thursday at 9 p.m. EST on ABC. Before joining Sugarland, Nettles sang in the band Soul Miner's Daughter. Nettles recently has come in spotlight speaking exclusively with "Good Morning America" about the tragedy in the Indian State Fair where a stage in Indianapolis on August 13, where the band was set to perform, was collapsed killing seven fans.
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Señorío de Bértiz Nature Reserve
Larrión y Pimoulier. Turismo Reyno de Navarra
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Monte Orhi from Abaurrea Alta. Señorío de Bértiz Nature Reserve. Navarre
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Centro de Información y Acogida Caserío Etxeberría, Errezil
Tel.:+34 948592387
Tel.:+34 948592421
"Q" for Tourism Quality, a mark that represents quality in Spain's tourism sector.
Where the sun doesn't shine
The park is situated in the Beriz-Arana Valley, to the north of Navarre. It preserves extensive forests of beech and oak.
The climate, warm and with lots of rain, and the absence of ice have been the best allies for the preservation of this immense Navarre forest. This is a closed mass of beech and oak which covers virtually all of the Park's 2,040 hectares. The fauna is also an important element of the park. The roe deer, deer and wild boar, typical of the area, are very difficult to see. But it is relatively easy to see squirrels and, on quieter days, to hear the woodpecker.
Navarre (Autonomous Community of Navarre)
- Type of area Nature reserve
- Area 2040 hectares
Access and surroundings
Cultural information
The caves of Zugarramurdi are closely related to old witches rites. According to tradition, they were the setting for covens (witches meetings).
Environmental information
This an immense mass of beech and oak forest. The fauna in its interior corresponds to that associated with mature Atlantic forests, as the presence of species such as the middle-spotted woodpecker and the white-backed woodpecker.
Information for visits
The park can be reached from Irún, Bera y Zugarramurdi and Urdax. Admission to the park costs € 2.00.


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With nine years of touring the US, Canada, and Europe and six albums under their belt, the Durham/Chapel Hill, NC band occupies its own darkly lit corner of the musical world. It is a corner filled with ominous rumblings and world-weary but hopeful characters.
They have played with lots of well-known bands. Rock critics have written about them in their publications. TOC's newest album, Fairytales and Other Forms of Suicide, was released Aug 21, 2012 on Yep Roc Records.
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GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - Three northeast Florida sheriff's deputies have been disciplined after an arrest mix-up sent the wrong teenager to jail.
The 17-year-old spent 35 days in the Clay County jail after being charged as an adult in a sexual battery case. One deputy also faces a suspension and a transfer.
The Florida Times-Union reports that in a disciplinary letter, Sheriff Rick Beseler wrote that because of that deputy's incompetence, "an innocent man was arrested for an offense that he did not commit."
The mistake wasn't discovered until the teen received court documents detailing the charges against him.
Authorities say investigators failed to confirm their suspect's identity with a photo lineup.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police are investigating a shooting at a downtown strip club.
Sgt. William Palmer says the shooting happened around 2 a.m. Sunday at Augie's Bourbon Street Cabaret.
Police say a 27-year-old Eagan man was shot as he was coming out of the bathroom. He was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Another man was injured as people quickly left the club on Hennepin Avenue. He was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Palmer says police believe there's no danger to the general public.
Last year, Augie's had about 60 police calls, which police say is not excessive for a downtown club.


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When Hideo Kojima isn't making Metal Gear games, he's taking photos of his food. And today, those two things — games and food pics — congeal into one amazing lunch box.
Kojima was at Sony's Tokyo headquarters to check out the special PlayStation 3 bento boxes. They're actually Metal Gear and Final Fantasy "character bento" to mark both franchise's anniversary and long PlayStation history.
While Kojima didn't snap pics of the Final Fantasy bento, he did get plenty of the Metal Gear. Kojima pointed out that the faces were made from mashed potatoes, the hair and bear were green onions, while the eyes were quail eggs. Tapioca was used to achieve the eye colour.
This isn't a meal. It's art.
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Letter to the Editor: Sweigert's melodramatic point is pure nonsense
August 3, 2012
In response to the Grasshopper Soup column, "Good dogs bite good people"(Sierra Sun 8/1/12):
Mr. Sweigert's statistics on the incidence of atrial fibrillation are wildly incorrect. The incidence of atrial fibrillation is 0.1 percent in people under 50 and 9 percent in people aged 80 and over. Furthermore, because many elderly patients with afib are at increased risk of falling, taking medication incorrectly, or have other conditions that prevent them from taking blood thinners, not all of them actually take Coumadin.
Mr. Sweigert's conclusion that "at least a thousand people attending Truckee Thursdays are also on Coumadin" is pure nonsense and not even relevant to the issue being discussed. Most people taking Coumadin know that bleeding will eventually stop or can be halted with vitamin K.
As a physician practicing at the VA Medical Center in Reno, I have many patients who take Coumadin. They are often accompanied by their therapy dogs or show me pictures of their cats. Some of our elderly vets are really only enjoying life because of their pets. Being bitten or scratched by an animal while on Coumadin is not life-threatening.
So sorry to wreck your melodramatic point, Mr. Sweigert. You might slip in some dog dung at Truckee Thursday, but you're not going to hemorrhage to death if bitten. I say people should bring well-behaved animals to Truckee Thursdays, and the animal bashers can stay home if they like.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT's water polo team continued its success at home this past weekend by taking two out of three matches against Collegiate Water Polo Association Northern Division competition. The Engineers (7-11; 2-2) defeated Queens College, 13-11 in overtime, and Connecticut College, 9-6, while dropping their match against No. 12 ranked St. Francis College, 20-2. The weekend's results pushed MIT's record at home to 7-2 on the season.
Tech made a nervous start to its slate of matches on Saturday night, holding off Queens for a 13-11 overtime victory after conceding what had appeared to be two comfortable leads. The Cardinal and Gray saw a 4-1 advantage disappear before the half, sending the game into the break tied at five. MIT then went on a tear, scoring five unanswered goals to start the second half to take a 10-5 lead, only to see the Knights return the favor, knotting the game at 10 with just four seconds to play. However, the Engineers managed to regroup heading into the extra session and pulled out the victory.
"I felt that Queens did everything they needed to do to fight their way back into the game," said head coach Felix Mercado. "I was impressed with the way they responded when they were down by five, but I am also proud that our guys were able to get focused in overtime to get us our first CWPA league game," he added.
MIT's next match took place on Sunday morning when it matched up with an overpowering nationally ranked St. Francis College squad. The difference between the experienced Terriers and the young Engineers was apparent from the outset, as St. Francis was never troubled in taking 20-2 decision.
However, Tech bounced back well and finished the weekend with a 9-6 victory over Connecticut College later on Sunday. Trailing 6-4 halfway through the third quarter, the resilient MIT squad reeled off five consecutive goals to finish the match.
The Engineers' offensive charge was once again led by freshman Devin Lewis, who tallied seven goals over the three matches. Also contributing goals were Mark Artz (six), Morgan Laidlaw (three), Phil Cassel (two), Rob Kalwarowsky (two), Kevin Amendt (one), Palmer Rosemond (one) and Oliver Venn (one).
Freshman Nick Souza was solid in net, making 24 saves, while Rob Truax made four saves of his own.
Tech's next match is Thursday, Oct. 5, when it hosts Harvard at 8:00 p.m.


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Bush of course failed to fight the war in Afghanistan because President Cheney was not interested.
He was not interested in seizing Iraqi oil either. His employment was to secure the oil field service contracts in Iraq for Halliburton before the election and continued to draw a paycheck after the election so he secured them for his private employer after he took over the US gov.
Obama did fight the Afghan because America had actually has enemies there who threaten us.
Right or wrong that might explain more casualties..
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First Bard, let's clear the air about war and Presidents Obama and Bush. Why are you limiting things to just Afghanistan? Just add in Iraq, and you'll have a more accurate picture of which president invested more patently in wars and the loss of human life. Also, let's remember that death in our wars of choice are not limited to just how many Americans died.
Over time you have been a real booster for small businesses, and you've been consistently beating the drum against taxes and government regulations. However, despite my many requests to detail your complaints, you have been very quiet about the regulations that have been standing in your way. I remember one time you seemingly had a problem child labor laws getting in the way of small business. I have to wonder though whether changing child labor laws benefits children or your business interests and profit. I would guess the latter, because regulations seem to be keeping you on the sidelines. Anything wrong with hiring adults? From all you've said over time, I get the impression that you've got plenty of money, but you don't feel inclined to do much more than invest in financial markets. Tell us more about which government regulations are standing in your way of being a small business "job creator", and why their removal makes good sense for all parties. If you want to gain support, you need to get into the details, and that may mean being a bit more candid about what you are doing and why.
Oh, and let's not forget my earlier post about the government and moral and spiritual issues. I haven't heard your response yet.
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Our endless wars are ... responsible for much of our national debt.
Not literally. They run on the order of a trillion dollars, barely noticeable compared to our head-shaking, unsustainable, limitless national debt and the counterfeiting Bernanke's doing to conceal and diminish it. The fiscal impact of 9/11/01 was estimated at a trillion before we even got serious about going to war with Al Qaeda.
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There is much to agree with in Bard's support for small business, and in concern that government makes life easier for big business and harder for small business. In fact, the ears of government are much more attuned to listening to really large businesses--the oil and computer businesses--than small business. Small businesses do better if they are well organized and can have associations that comment on proposed laws and rules. In fact, both politicians and bureaucrats are well trained to listen to reasoned comment on both. But truly small businesses don't notice, and thus they tend to be affected by unintended consequences. Larger businesses are also much more adept at securing subsidies, which warp market economics.
But with that said, I think there is an important regulatory role for government that protects public health--and small businesses. I was still in high school when I read about the scandals in the meat packing industry in "The Jungle", by Upton Sinclair. There were similar scandals in the rail businesses and oil businesses, as large businesses cornered the market, ignored human health, and used monopolies to gouge the public. Small businesses were among the targets of such monopolies, and the regulatory responses are now so old that many have forgotten that it was government and unions that protected workers health and curtailed the worst abuses of monpolies.
For large businesses, such as the carbon businesses that are busy securing subsidies and transfering the cost of emissions to the public, the competitive market does not provide any counterforce. It takes the muscle of government to counter those forces. To expect government to be perfect in this function is as wrong as to expect business to be perfect in its functions. Both are run by fallible people.
What I tend to favor is a specific sunset to governmental programs--especially subsidies--so they do not outlive their usefulness. But I think thoughtful conservatives (this obviously excludes the Tea Party) needs to be as smart about what in government needs to be eliminated as thoughtful liberals need to be in thinking about what only the government can do.
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I found this site that attempts to assign total costs to of the wars in Afganistan and Iraq including some of the hidden costs. Total to date approx. $2.3 T with at least another $1 T in future obligations. With interest...maybe $4 T. Not to mention the significant human costs of war to our soldiers and their families.
The numbers tell us this...We cannot continue to spend at the same levels on, primarily, defense and healthcare. Something has to give. Note that we could eliminate Medicare and Medicaid and still run a deficit. Defense spending is as responsible for our debt as any government program.
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Can you imagine what we could have done with that $4 trillion?
SWC, if you don't see the value in faith, I can't help you. But I'll say my 2 kids have benefited from it. My 15 year old son goes to church every Sunday. (his desire) He's a Blackbelt and varsity football and Baseball player. He is on the youth council of our city. He frequently volunteers for the homeless. This is not driven on girls, money or glory. This is a humble guy that understands that there is more to life than himself. Humble, not arrogant.
Like the left I am disgusted by the holy rollers. Some of them are downright crazy. However, spirituality is a powerful thing. It empowers people to do the right thing. It gives them a reason no to take, but to contribute. You might start with the old Testament. Not because there is so much corruption in the stories. But, because it outlines the failings of man, and coincidentally, the failings of big govt. Really interesting if you read it that way.
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I read the Old Testament all way through because my evangelist family insists.
I was surprised how much soap opera, begetting, good advice and politics are in there and how little churchyness.
Begetting was very popular just like now.
Book gets a bad rap because of the crowd that pushes it on you.
The religious kids in our school are a lot nicer and more succesful than the ones I specialize in recruiting.
This is true within each group. Street kids , rich kids, athletes, etc.
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Defense spending is as responsible for our debt as any government program.
But without it we'd all be speaking German, Japanese, or Russian, and would soon be converted, killed, or enslaved at the hands of radical Islam in accordance with the Koran, Ch 9.
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I'm not religious, but agree with every word you said.
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Like the left I am disgusted by the holy rollers. Some of them are downright crazy. However, spirituality is a powerful thing. It empowers people to do the right thing. It gives them a reason no to take, but to contribute. You might start with the old Testament. Not because there is so much corruption in the stories. But, because it outlines the failings of man, and coincidentally, the failings of big govt.
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Bard, I have no problem with folks that believe in and practice Christianity, or any other religion for that matter, but I have no interest in following a religious life personally. While the Holy Bible does contain many admirable guidelines for conducting your life and living with others, I've found that the same sort of practical advice is readily available today outside of any religious context. Maybe the roots are in religious text, but they have been cleaned up to remove all the religious baggage and nonsense. In the big picture though, just because someone professes to read the bible and follow its teachings, it doesn't mean they really do. The world is full of religious hypocrites.
But getting back to the point you were trying to make in your original post, you implied that the government wasn't providing the moral and spiritual support that folks need. That would seem to suggest that you believe that the government should be doing something to support those needs. As you know from what I said, I firmly believe in the separation of church and state, and I'm resolute in my position that the government has no business in promoting religion in any form.
Again, what do you think the government should be doing in the moral and spiritual area? I hope this isn't going in a direction that restricts a woman's right to choose.
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These are not easy times for car enthusiasts. Gas prices are up, legislative mandates keep coming, and almost all the good stuff is seriously expensive. Once in a while it's nice to see how someone in the industry still understand and care about us car guys and gals. Mazda did that recently; Now, so does Jaguar, in deep steampunk glory.
If there is one company that gets the idea of soulfulness in a vehicle, it's Jaguar. The big cats are still around because of the company's ability to produce cars that defy rational considerations with pure emotional indulgence. Those terribly elegant rolling manifestations of English style and Le Mans history more than make up for outdated quibbles about reliability.
If this doesn't make you feel a bit better about life and driving, you need to go someplace else.


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• TOM CAT COURTNEY: Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at CAFE-BAR EUROPA, 873 Turquoise St. 21 and up. Free. www.theturquoise.com/wordpress.
Bradley Leighton is a funky, smooth jazz-and-soul flute player, which admittedly sounds a little like an oxymoron. But much of Leighton's music is very danceable, and yes, funky. Appearing at Humphreys Backstage Live on July 10, Leighton is a gifted player and showman, turning out classy instrumental R&B-tinged takes on standards and originals. His eclectic choice of cover tunes is particularly fun, with stellar versions of "Ode to Billy Joe" and a Hammond-backed "Sunny" in his repertoire. If you enjoy music by the likes of Steely Dan, George Benson or Larry Carlton, you'll want to check out a set from Leighton and his band.
• BRADLEY LEIGHTON: Thursday, July 10 at HUMPHREYS BACKSTAGE LIVE, 2241 Shelter Island Drive at 7 p.m. www.humphreysbackstagelive.com.
On July 14, Dizzy's will be the site of a musical celebration honoring the memory of homegrown San Diego tenor saxophone legend Gary LeFebvre. San Diego has been home to many world-class musicians, but few could boast a resume like Gary LeFebvre, who passed away in 2013 at the age of 74. While still a teenager, he was already performing with the San Diego Symphony, helping sow the seeds of today's jazz scene and kicking off an incredible career that saw him working with everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to the Supremes. The concert will feature the West City Big Band under the direction of another local music legend, Rey Vinole, making this a great way to pay tribute to one of San Diego's music pioneers.
• GARY LeFEBVRE TRIBUTE CONCERT: Monday, July 14 at DIZZY'S, 4275 Mission Bay Drive at 8 p.m. $15. www.dizzysjazz.com.
Hard rock will reign supreme at the 710 Beach Club on July 19, with appearances from tribute bands Back to Black and Deeper Purple, dedicated to 1970s rockers AC/DC and Deep Purple. The nod here has to go to Back to Black, which has the benefit of playing tunes by a band that made great, timeless singles. With an arsenal of tunes like "Problem Child" and "You Shook Me All Night Long," it won't take long for the band to get the audience on its feet and reliving the days when classic rock ruled the airwaves.
• BACK TO BLACK: Saturday, July 19 at the 710 BEACH CLUB, 710 Garnet Ave. 9 p.m. 21 and up. www.710bc.com.
Fans of classic 1970s-style confessional singer-songwriter tunes in the Carole King or Melissa Manchester range will want to hear Patti Zlaket, who performs at the Kona Kai Resort on July 19. Originally from Arizona, Zlaket has been an area mainstay for years, with several albums to her credit. A solid pianist and a capable songwriter, it's her beautiful voice that draws the ear with its soulful tones and confident delivery. The singer-songwriter market these days is, indeed, overcrowded, but Zlaket is well worth hearing.
• PATTI ZLAKET: Saturday, July 19 at the KONA KAI RESORT, 1551 Shelter Island Drive at
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Put beans in a bowl and mash with fork until chunky-smooth. Stir in the salt, 1 tablespoon garlic, 2 teaspoons lime juice, and 1 tablespoon Chobani. Evenly spread mixture in whatever vessel we use. Set aside.
Put avocado in bowl and coarsely mash with fork to desired chunky or smooth consistency. Stir in 1 cup Chobani, remaining lime juice, cumin, cilantro, jalapeño, and remaining garlic. Add salt to taste.
Evenly spread guacamole on top of black beans and then top with salsa. Serve immediately or refrigerate for 2 hours, but bring to room temperature before serving.
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Lipscomb University softball coach Kristin Peck has announced the signing of second baseman Angelica Wade from Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Wade, 5-foot-4, is a three-time All-State selection from Riverdale High School. She was named first team in 2006 and second team in 2005 and 2004. She was named first team All-Region in 2006 and second team in 2005. She is also a four-time All-District selection.
Wade batted .405 as a senior from the lead-off position with 37 runs batted in. She slammed 12 doubles and five triples. She also stole 27 bases.
In 2006 she was named MVP in Rutherford County by the Daily News-Journal. In 2005 she was named Offensive Player of the Year in the county by Rutherford A.M,
During her time with Riverdale the softball team was the district champion three times and the regional champion twice.
Wade has been named to play in the inaugural Tennessee-Kentucky softball series which starts June 28 at Western Kentucky University. The series is best-of-three format.
Wade was named to "Who's Who Among America's High School Students" in 2006. She also a senior homecoming attendant and Most Athletic class superlative.
"I chose Lipscomb because it was a welcoming environment," said Wade. "The school is just big enough to where everyone doesn't know you, but each professor you have will know you."
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It's not often that an NFL team successfully executes two fake punts in one game, but that's what the Rams did to the 49ers on Sunday. That's particularly galling to 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh because he says his team spent much of the last week of practice preparing for fake punts.
"It was an alert all week," Harbaugh said, via CSNBayArea.com. "The Rams are a fake team. They like to run fakes, they run them very well. [I] wish, in hindsight, we'd been in a better position to defend the fake. We didn't anticipate they'd run a fake at that point."
The Rams' first fake punt came late in the first half, with punter Johnny Hekker taking the snap deep in his own end zone and passing to gunner Rodney McLeod for a 21-yard gain. That came when Hekker saw that the 49ers were leaving McLeod uncovered because they were rushing everyone to try to block the punt, and Harbaugh acknowledged that the Rams had a great call ready to counter the 49ers' attempt to block the punt.
"When we run the rush we run, you understand that they could do exactly what they did and you roll the dice that they won't do it, as far backed up as they are," Harbaugh said. "I wouldn't say we were daring them into it. We felt we were playing the percentages to rush and block the punt. And they executed as well as you can and made a great play."
The Rams' second fake punt came late in the fourth quarter, and they used receiver Danny Amendola as a decoy, having him go in motion to draw the 49ers' attention away from Lance Kendricks, who picked up 18 yards. That set up the touchdown that gave the Rams a 24-21 lead with just over a minute to play. That the Rams were able to set up a go-ahead touchdown on a fake punt, after they had already run another fake punt earlier in the game, suggests that last week's preparation wasn't particularly effective.


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This time the meeting turned out really nice. Although maybe I am just saying that because i was one of the speakers. First, Shaul talked about communication between Java and Perl. First after a short explanation, he showed us how he succeded in calling Java from a Perl program. After that he showed how to call Perl from a Java program, but it was much harder. The talk was interesting and understandable. It is a pleasure to get a general idea of new things or things that i didnt know before. For more in-depth information, I put his program files on the server in Ex Libris and plan to upload them here, but i am having some techincal dificulties. The contest was a multiple choice with 4 choices. The rules are that i pick someone who raises their hand and if they answer right they get a point but if they answer wrong, they get -1 point. Near the end of the 16 questions no one wanted to answer, because they were afraid of losing points. There is a link to the questions below. Some of them can be found easily on the net or by running a perl program, but that is not the idea. If you were not there, please test yourself. If you get more than half right you are very good! I plan to put the answers and the references on this site in about a week, so better try it out before then. A few pictures from the meeting are on flickr
while on flickr, i happened across this great collection of Perl gurus
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- 18:00 – Java from Perl; Perl from Java - Shaul Zevin
- 18:50 – Break
- 19:00 – Meeting
- 19:10 – Perl Contest (with prizes)- Rina Ron
- 20:00 – The End
Prizes for the contest-
- first prize: a winner's tee shirt (XXL)
- second prize: a (used) book - Perl and CGI
- third prize: a small perl monger camel
Exlibris, Malcha Technological Park (Jerusalem) - Building 9, 4th floor - Large meeting room
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Nicki Minaj makes light of Mariah Carey feud
The two new talent show judges were filming an audition in Charlotte, North Carolina in October (12) when they became embroiled in an argument over a contestant.
Video footage of their heated exchange soon emerged online and at one point, an angry Minaj is alleged to have raged, "If I had a gun I would shoot her (Carey)."
The hip-hop star claimed she never uttered those comments, but Carey refused to believe her denial and instead beefed up her security team to protect her twin babies, Monroe and Moroccan.
During a recent interview with U.S. newswoman Barbara Walters, the Hero hitmaker said, "It felt like an unsafe work environment. Anytime anybody's reeling threats at somebody, you know, that's just not appropriate. Sitting there on the road with two babies, I'm not gonna take any chances, so yeah I did hire more security."
Minaj, who maintains she never threatened to hurt Carey, has since made amends with the singer for the sake of the TV show, but she couldn't help but poke fun at what she considered to be ridiculous accusations levelled against her during an appearance on late night U.S. talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Friday (25Jan13).
When asked about the headline-hitting incident with Carey, she quipped, "I never fight with fists. (I use) whatever weapon is handy!"
Realising the controversy her new comments might stir, she quickly added, "Wait, don't tell anyone I said that, because then there'll be another Barbara Walters interview! No, I'm kidding, I would never... I don't condone violence, no I don't."
Minaj went on to insist that she was still enjoying working on Idol, saying, "Really when I go to work on Idol, I'm having fun, even at that time (in the early days feuding with Carey)... I really genuinely enjoy going there. We have a lot of fun, even with Mariah and I, we really do have fun."


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Parents of children with food allergies know what a horrifying experience it can be when some unsuspecting, kindhearted soul offers their child a seemingly benign treat – a PB&J sandwich for example. This type of occurrence usually takes place outside of the child's routine environment, on a school trip perhaps, and can be prevented by a clever set of food allergy cards designed by Select Wisely.
Aimed at adults traveling abroad, the cards come in various translations, though it is the picture depicted on the graphic side that speaks volumes. Stick one in your child's backpack for that first day of preschool to alert teachers to his or her allergy. Hand one to the babysitter on her first day of work. Or, with a reasonable length of yarn, turn the warning card into an alert pendant for school trips or outings with family groups where the usual caregivers are not present.
The cards also work well when used for the purpose for which they are designed. "Our entire family thanks you for your food allergy translation cards," says one mom on the Select Wisely website. "We ordered some in Italian, French and Spanish due to our son's severe peanut and tree nut allergies. On our first night in Rome we handed one to our waiter, who promptly took it back to the chef who said they would make him something special since they did indeed use peanut oil in their kitchen."
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PEORIA — Gary Sandberg, 65, of Peoria passed away Friday, July 19, 2013, at his home in Peoria.
He was born to H. Albert and Dorothy Wilkins Sandberg on March 21, 1948, in Princeton. He is survived by his children, Cari Sandberg and Colt Sandberg, both of Peoria; his grandchildren, Devin and Caera Berry; a brother, James (Peg) Sandberg of Princeton; his nieces, Elise Bartman and Sara Kloepping; and his beloved Green-Wing Macaw, Jelly Bean.
Gary received his undergraduate degree in architecture and construction engineering from Southern Illinois University in 1968. He first served the city of Peoria as director of inspections from 1978 to 1989, where at the time he was the only architect in the nation to head such a department and was first elected to the City Council in 1989 where he has served the citizens of Peoria as councilman of the Second District and presently as councilmen at-large until his passing.
Gary was a Yankees fan and an avid motorcyclist, completing the "Iron Butt" ride from the northern tip of Alaska to the southern tip of Key West, Fla., rode the old Route 66 several times, was a British car collector, race car driver, Formula One enthusiast and a Beamish Stout lover (with Guinness as a close second). A man of the people who will be missed by all that knew him.
A celebration of Gary's life will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Gateway Building on the Peoria River Front.
The Cremation Society of Mid-Illinois Co. is assisting the family with arrangements. Online condolences may be made at csmico.com.
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Duran Duran Star Who Created Hit James Bond Theme Sounds Off on Adele's "Skyfall"
(NEW YORK) -- The new James Bond movie Skyfall hits theaters Friday, and in the opening sequence, moviegoers will of course hear Adele's haunting theme, "Skyfall." The song is popular, but it hasn't topped the charts yet. In fact, the only James Bond theme ever to reach #1 in the U.S. has been Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill" in 1985, from the movie of the same name.
So what does Duran Duran -- whose lead singer Simon LeBon is a friend of Adele's -- think of "Skyfall?" Bass player John Taylor, who was responsible for hooking up Duran Duran with the James Bond folks back in 1985, thinks the song is great.
"I like it. I think they got it right," he tells ABC News Radio. "I think it ticks all the boxes. I think the sound...she's got that drama, that old-school drama, and I think they got the sound of the track just right. I thought, 'Ooh, I'd like to hear more songs like this on the radio, actually.' Maybe it'll influence more contemporary music."
Overall, being involved in a James Bond theme is something any artist can be proud of, says John.
"That was a very satisfying experience, seeing the titles roll in that film," he says. "Even though it's not my favorite of the Bond films. But is there anybody who doesn't love James Bond? So to be a part of it was very significant."
One reason that "A View to a Kill" hit #1 was that in 1985, Duran Duran were one of THE biggest groups in the world, and certainly the #1 teen heartthrobs worldwide. In fact, you could say that they were the One Direction of their day. So what sort of advice can Duran Duran offer the boys in One Direction? How can they stay on top as the years pass? John Taylor says it's all about reinvention, noting that because 1D is a vocal group, it's relatively easy to do.
"One thing they can do, is they can freshen up their sound, you know, like Madonna does," Taylor tells ABC News Radio. "They're not tied to a particular bass player, a particular drummer -- you know, they can change the sound as long as they keep the sound of the voices. And that's quite an asset, actually."
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