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Fantasy football: Old, reliable players paying off
There's something gratifying when, in a fantasy world where Danny Woodhead (NE) could threaten to be the top fantasy running back for the week (he still finished tied for third in Week 10), the old and reliable fantasy studs come through and have great games.
Not good. Great.
Adrian Peterson (MIN) and Tony Gonzalez (ATL) have been among the best in their positions in fantasy football and real football for a while now. Tony G is 36 years old and he's the second-best fantasy tight end in the league.
Let that sink in for a second. I think fantasy observers at this point of the year have let the shock wear off, but what he's been doing has been nothing short of incredible.
Last week, Gonzalez was a top-10 fantasy player with 24 points in standard leagues — even better in PPR (points per reception) leagues.
Then there's Peterson — I'm no longer convinced he's an cyborg; he's in fact an alien — who is No. 1 running back in fantasy after 10 weeks. People drafted him in the second round or later!
It's just nice to see players be consistent in an otherwise volatile game known as fantasy football.
Underachieving "studs"
For all the old, reliable fantasy players, there's the underachievers. The guys you had high expectations for but struggled to do great things on a more consistent basis.
Ray Rice (BAL) had 12 fantasy points against Oakland in Week 10. Oakland.
LeSean McCoy (PHI) had 10 points, Hakeem Nicks (NYG) and Mike Wallace (PIT) both had seven.
Wallace started the season well through four weeks, but has been off and on ever since. Nicks is the 55th ranked fantasy receiver in the league. McCoy is No. 11 and Rice is No. 5.
And sadly, Larry Fitzgerald (ARI) has been handcuffed by his own quarterback and is ranked No. 24 at his position, which is behind his own teammate Andre Roberts (ARI).
It's not that these players have all been bad, but they surely haven't been great and great consistently.
Can't Wait! Waiver Wire Pickups
Last week was, unfortunately, Concussion Sunday for quarterbacks. Add in Ben Roethlisberger's (PIT) shoulder injury and suddenly there's a big market for backup QBs.
And seeing as there aren't very many options out there at running back, tight end and receiver, that's about all you can hope for on the wire.
QB: Nick Foles (PHI), Jason Campbell (CHI), Colin Kaepernick (SF), Byron Leftwich (PIT)
RB: Chris Ivory (NO)
WR: Danario Alexander (SD)
Breakin' Bread List
I failed to mention Drew Brees (NO) regarding old, reliable players only because quarterbacks tend to be more prone to solid performances.
It's harder for running backs and tight ends to be consistently great in a passing league.
That said, Brees has been great as usual this year. And the matchup against Oakland is just too good for Brees not to be on the list.
And I guess I'll go ahead and pick the top players in Thursday's game too. I will say, from a fantasy standpoint, Reggie Bush (MIA) and CJ Spiller (BUF) do make this an interesting contest, especially since both have been doubted on whether or not they can be feature backs.
Yep. That's all I got.
QB: Drew Brees (NO) at Oakland, Ryan Fitzpatrick (BUF) vs. Miami
RB: Arian Foster (HOU) vs. Jacksonville, Reggie Bush (MIA) at Buffalo
WR: AJ Green at Kansas City, Brian Hartline (MIA) at Buffalo
The Purple Drank list — presented by Eli Manning (NYG)
Eli, Eli, Eli.
The number of times I just wrote the NY Giants quarterback is how many times he's finished with single-digit totals.
Manning's been absolutely awful lately. And that's before Week 8, when this horrid trend began. He's been pretty mediocre since the Cleveland game and hasn't scored more than 13 points since.
It gets worse. Manning has scored 10 points in the last three weeks. Five against Dallas, three against Pittsburgh and two against Cincinnati.
Some are blaming his performances on a dead arm. As for me, I'm blaming it on the Purple Drank.
QB: Blaine Gabbert (JAC) at Houston, Mark Sanchez (NYJ) at St. Louis
RB: BenJarvus Green-Ellis (CIN) at Kansas City, Shonn Greene (NYJ) at St. Louis
WR: Mike Wallace (PIT) vs. Baltimore, DeSean Jackson (PHI) at Washington
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QB: Matt Schaub (HOU) vs. Jacksonville, Brandon Weeden (CLE) at Dallas
RB: Marcel Reece (OAK) vs. New Orleans, Donald Brown (IND) at New England
WR: Donald Jones (BUF) vs. Miami, T.Y. Hilton (IND) at New England
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HERE's the story crystallizing the numbers on these charts:
At a time when the Republican Party's image is at a historic low, 62% of the public says the GOP is out of touch with the American people, 56% think it is not open to change and 52% say the party is too extreme.
Opinions about the Democratic Party are mixed, but the party is viewed more positively than the GOP in every dimension tested except one. Somewhat more say the Republican Party than the Democratic Party has strong principles (63% vs. 57%).
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Existing Homes - The Next Wave
The existing housing stock is where action must be taken to manage energy use and carbon emissions. Buildings represent 43% of carbon emissions in the United States and provide an actionable and cost-effective carbon mitigation strategy. Existing homes represent the largest carbon reduction potential because over 70% were built before energy codes were enacted and even the newer homes have major energy savings opportunities.
Recent legislative and regulatory initiatives on federal, state, and local levels have combined to create an unprecedented opportunity to green existing homes in the United States The following initiatives are reshaping the future of the built environment.
The federal economic stimulus package includes $6.3 billion energy-specific funding to local governments and states, $5 billion for weatherization, and $500 million for green workforce training
- Aggressive state and local government CO2 reduction goals and emerging Climate Action Plans
- New innovative land-secured financing districts for energy efficiency and solar loan programs; passed in California and Colorado with legislation pending in 10 additional states
- The innovative "home performance contracting" utility-funded programs in collaboration with Energy Star
These initiatives have the potential to create community-scale comprehensive retrofit and solar programs that generate thousands of long term new jobs while maximizing quantified energy, water, and carbon reductions.
|Today's homes will dominate for decades. Comprehensive home retrofit and solar programs are emerging as the centerpiece of local government Climate Action Plans.
With collaboration among local jurisdictions, voluntary financing districts can be formed to provide affordable financing for solar and efficiency upgrades. Finance districts allow property owners to make energy efficiency upgrades and install solar systems with little or no upfront cost.
The upfront costs are paid through the issuance of revenue bonds. The bonds are repaid from a line item on participating home-owners' property tax bills over 20 years. Participating property owners pay for only the costs of their energy project. The program is 100% "opt-in" and property tax expenses remain unchanged for those who choose not to participate.
In addition, utility programs that train contractors for comprehensive home upgrades can be expanded with new workforce development grants. Robust public education and outreach campaigns can drive consumer participation. We need only to combine these elements into a new model.
Utilities have a long history of directing energy efficiency programs at the existing building sector with differing results due to regulatory constraints, high costs, and the complexities of reaching a fragmented market. Financing has not been readily available for substantial market penetration and optimized results. The workforce is mostly untrained in proper procedures, and training has been too small in scale and often impractical. There are many related efficiency programs for low income, open-market housing, and non-residential buildings, but they are uncoordinated and have very different and conflicting requirements and processes. But recent governmental actions are changing the picture.
Why focus on existing homes?
The 120 million existing housing units in the United States represent 21% of all carbon emissions. Focusing on energy efficiency improvements in these homes provides an optimal carbon mitigation strategy. Over 70% of those housing units were built before energy codes were enacted and the remainder still have major energy savings opportunities. Today's homes will dominate for decades. Comprehensive home retrofit and solar programs are emerging as the centerpiece of local government Climate Action Plans because it is easier, faster, and more cost-effective to achieve carbon reductions in buildings than decreasing energy used for transportation or increasing utility-scale renewable generation (see Figure 1).
Finally, with the financial services and housing industries in freefall and the glut of homes on the market, new construction will play an even smaller role than it has in the past. However, with $500 million in green jobs training in the stimulus bill becoming available, these displaced construction workers are the ideal candidates to get trained in energy efficiency and solar installation. The existing housing stock is where action must be taken to manage energy use and carbon emissions.
Role of Government
Local and state governments are on the front lines in tackling climate change. At a time when deficits have never felt so daunting, governments at all levels are either staking their claim as green champions or are being pushed forward by the threat of lawsuits. Due to their control over local land use and direct relationship with building owners through issuance of building permits and property taxes, local governments have an important role to play. However, there are significant barriers and challenges to successfully transforming existing homes. These include:
Policy There is a lack of effective state and local government retrofit-triggering mechanisms and incentives that can influence the performance of the existing housing stock. In addition, existing regulatory barriers such as limited cost-effectiveness definition do not recognize all consumer and societal benefits. The result is an inefficient emphasis on individual retrofit measures instead of a comprehensive "whole house" approach that can deliver much greater energy savings, health and comfort benefits, and much higher consumer satisfaction.
Technical Difficulties The existing housing stock is extremely fragmented and often requires complex and costly comprehensive solutions. A scalable program model is difficult to achieve because homes have different deficiencies based on factors such as vintage/age, building type, location, climate zone, modifications made, energy usage patterns, and energy bills.
Consumer Barriers Aside from consumers' knowledge of savings on utility bills, there is widespread lack of awareness of the additional benefits associated with green retrofits such as comfort, improved indoor air quality, and reduced home maintenance costs.
Financing Low-cost financing has not been widely available for green retrofits and is tied to the homeowner rather than the property. Conventional financial instruments are not in step with loan payback timeframe due to society's high mobility (average resident moves every eight years).
Workforce Infrastructure Significant gaps in knowledge, skills, and experience in the workforce limit scale and success of green retrofit programs.
Delivery Mechanisms Fragmented program design and implementation due to lack of coordination between existing low, moderate, and upper income programs and initiatives—now funded primarily by utility incentive programs—result in missed opportunities to leverage all available resources and maximize benefits.
- Research Limitations Lack of adequate research data (characterization of built environment and associated social environment, costs versus benefit studies, and so on) to analyze market demand, which is essential to inform successful program design and implementation strategies.
To overcome these barriers and achieve the aggressive greenhouse gas, energy, and water goals already in place, we will need to develop and adopt new comprehensive and integrated program models that account for the realities of the physical infrastructure, leverage government policy, build business capacity, and raise consumer awareness.
The Proposed Program
Land-secured finance districts are the centerpiece of the program because they remove the high first-cost barrier by providing low-interest long-term financing to homeowners via annual property tax payments that transfer with the building when sold. However, in order to ensure significant market penetration and program success several supporting program elements are required. These include consistent and credible program standards for energy efficiency with clear verification protocols, training to ensure a robust and capable workforce, an effective marketing and outreach strategy offering bundled incentives to attain high participation, and a strict quality assurance program to protect consumers and reduce local government liability. In addition, ongoing tracking, measurement, and reporting are required to ensure program effectiveness and to quantify energy, water, and carbon reduction benefits. Third party implementers will coordinate all program elements to provide an integrated delivery model that relieves local governments of technical and administrative responsibilities (see Figure 2).
These strategies, if sequenced and coordinated correctly, will create the opportunities necessary to achieve the deep energy and water reductions needed, while helping to pull the U.S. economy out of recession and usher in a new chapter of prosperity.
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My View: A glorious gathering of clergy at the end
On April 10, representatives from the Rockford region Inter-Religious Clergy gathered at the Stockholm Inn to discuss our past, embrace our present concerns and envision a bright future of a united religious community.
This was a monumental meeting which was jointly planned by dedicated clerics representing the Greater Rockford Clergy Association, the Rockford Ministers Fellowship, the Evangelical Ministerial Association, the Jewish community, the Inter-Faith Council and Transform Rockford. Wow! It was truly a God-filled summit!
Pastor Emeritus Jim Roberts and pastors Lewis Malone and Perry Bennett candidly shared some of the harsh historical factors as to why the clergy has been divided in the Rockford community. Their comments and passionate tones created a spirit of unity and hope in the room. The room was filled with religious leaders representing many faiths including "pagans."
As male and female leaders, we shared lunch and a desire to gather again soon to plan a regional gathering of reconciliation. I will share more details in a future column. I want to thank all of those who planned and attended this historical event. It is clear to me and others that if the Rockford region is going to be truly transformed, the faith community must take a prominent role in the process. We first must confess our past sins to God and each other. Members of our churches, synagogues, mosques and houses of faith must pray fervently and encourage all of our religious leaders to ecumenism.
Our faith should bind us together in love rather than divide us in hate and suspicion. I am reminded that it was Gandhi who said, "I almost became a Christian until I met one."
Our thoughts, actions and agendas must be inclusive in order for our people to respect and follow our religious leadership. Mother Theresa was hallowed by the citizens of the nation of India because she loved others with a pure heart by seeking to heal and not judge.
As we enter two of the most holy seasons for the Jewish and Christian faiths, let us resolve to love others as God has loved us and commit ourselves to work across religious boundaries so that fellow Rockfordians can experience substantive growth and development. Then, we can experience real transformation.
I am greatly encouraged by the warm fellowship and sweet embraces that we shared at the Stockholm Inn last week. Let us build on it by encouraging other members of the clergy to join us. We are the ones that we have been waiting for!
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Jeff Goldblum is an American actor, best known for starring in some of the highest-grossing films of his era, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, and their sequels, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Independence Day: Resurgence.
He was born on Wednesday October 22nd 1952, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
For Jeff Goldblum, 2023 is a year of expansion and personal growth. It is a time of heightened personal expression. Creativity and artistic talent come to the forefront.
During 2023, Jeff is lighthearted and drawn to all kinds of social events. More than most other years, he will entertain and be entertained. Goldblum meets new and exciting people. It is a time to appreciate all that he has.
Jeff Goldblum is highly dynamic and charismatic. His challenge is to avoid scattering his energies. Jeff has a rare opportunity to bring forth new and creative ideas, but that requires discipline and focus.
It is easy to be optimistic and enthusiastic this year and this may result in speeding up Goldblum's projects. Yet there will be delays and disappointments unless his enthusiasm is based upon the reality of work and concentration.
This is a pleasant time in which friendship is enjoyed and love shared easily.
This is often a good financial year, particularly if Jeff Goldblum's creativity is well directed. He needs to surround himself with upbeat and positive people. Jeff may travel more than usual, which in all likelihood will be filled with exciting people and pleasure.
Goldblum should control this year's tendencies towards glamour and extravagance, yet allow himself more room to enjoy and celebrate. He communicates well during this year and is more capable of getting his ideas across.
Love is in the air in 2023. February 2023 brings changes; June 2023 sees the completion of a project and July 2023 signals a new beginning. August 2023 can be emotional, as can November.
Let's take a look now at Jeff's monthly forecast for February 2023.
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Tebow's future in NFL uncertain
From nearly unstoppable to nearly invisible.
Tim Tebow was two wins from the Super Bowl a year ago. Now, he's pretty much a player without a team - likely to be released by the New York Jets after one frustrating season and his hometown team in Jacksonville already pulling in the welcome mat.
Even Tebow doesn't know how this will unfold. A backup role on another NFL team? A position change? The Canadian Football League?
''I don't know what my future holds, but I know who holds my future,'' the devout Christian said in a recent interview with Fox Business Network, his only public comments since his strange Jets season ended.
''And, in that,'' he added, ''there is a lot of peace and a lot of comfort.''
Tebow barely played for the Jets last season. ''An absolute mess,'' is the way recently retired special teams coordinator Mike Westhoff described it. Tebow has two years left on his contract, but New York is expected to trade or release him in the next few weeks. So far, destination unknown.
''I can't imagine a scenario in which he'll be a Jacksonville Jaguar,'' new general manager David Caldwell declared last week. ''Even if he's released.''
While there's an outside chance Tebow could remain a New Yorker, depending on the whims of the still-to-be-hired GM, it appears highly unlikely.
So, that's two NFL teams down - the only ones, at that, who showed any interest last offseason when Denver shopped him - and the 25-year-old Tebow's options appear to be dwindling.
''Tim Tebow is an extremely popular individual - or, he was,'' said former Cowboys executive Gil Brandt, now an analyst for NFL.com. ''I think his popularity has waned significantly the last three or four months.''
The buzz these days belongs to young quarterbacks like Washington's Robert Griffin III, Seattle's Russell Wilson, Indianapolis' Andrew Luck and San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick. It seems so long ago now that Tebowing - his signature dropping to a knee for a prayerful pose - was all the rage.
But even Tebow never Tebowed during the regular season for the Jets. Not once. Quite a fall for a Heisman Trophy winner and two-time national champion with the University of Florida, and whose No. 15 Broncos jersey ranked second in national sales to Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers in 2011.
''I think it's fair to say,'' Tebow acknowledged last month, ''that I'm a little disappointed.''
The Jets had every intention of trying to make things work with Tebow when general manager Mike Tannenbaum surprisingly acquired him from Denver last March - after Peyton Manning arrived - for fourth- and sixth-round draft picks. But once Tebow got on the field, something went woefully wrong.
Tebow went from being considered a key part of Rex Ryan's offense to almost non-existent. Offensive coordinator Tony Sparano didn't know how to use him effectively, and Tebow wasn't particularly productive when he got his few snaps in the wildcat-style formation. He made his biggest mark on special teams as the personal punt protector, and did all he could to hide his frustration at not playing. But the numbers said it all: a mere 102 yards rushing and 6-of-8 passing for 39 yards. And, the most damning stat of all: zero touchdowns.
''I would've liked to see him get a chance,'' defensive end Mike DeVito said.
It didn't even come when Mark Sanchez struggled so badly that he was benched for the first time in his career. Instead of going with Tebow, the No. 2 quarterback on the depth chart, Ryan went with third-stringer Greg McElroy. Tebow now had a bruised ego to go along with the two broken ribs that limited him earlier in the season.
''Every opportunity you get, you want to make the most of,'' Tebow said a few weeks before the season ended, ''and I'd have loved to have more of an opportunity to just play quarterback.''
Acquiring Tebow ultimately helped lead to Tannenbaum and Sparano losing their jobs. And, it clouded Tebow's prospects in the NFL. No matter what, though, he insists he's a quarterback.
Eric Crouch, a fellow former Heisman Trophy winner, knows what he's going through. Crouch was Tebow before Tebow, a tremendous athlete who played quarterback at the University of Nebraska but was told he'd have to switch positions to have a future in the NFL.
''I came out of a running attack at Nebraska where we didn't read a whole lot of passing defenses,'' said Crouch, now a college analyst for Fox Sports. ''So, I was probably a much bigger project than what Tebow is. Sometimes you get labeled a running quarterback, but what you want is to be labeled a dual threat or a passing quarterback who can run.''
Crouch was drafted in the third round in 2002 as a wide receiver by St. Louis, switched to safety and was in camp with Green Bay and Kansas City the next few years before playing in NFL Europe. In 2006, he played three games at quarterback for Toronto of the CFL. Crouch is done with football now after giving it one final shot with his hometown Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League in 2011.
''Listen, I learned a long time ago that I should've just done what I felt was the right thing to do, which was hold out on people changing me to what they think was best for me,'' Crouch said. ''I was playing quarterback since I was 9 years old. I think the most important thing I would tell Tim is, you've got to listen to yourself on this one.
''There are going to be a lot of people telling Tebow what he should or shouldn't do.''
Like the folks who insist a position switch is the only way Tebow will remain in the NFL - whether that's as a tight end, receiver, halfback, fullback or safety.
''I just don't think he will ever be a quarterback in the NFL,'' Brandt said. ''I think he's really smart, but I don't think he has the mental quickness at the position. The second thing is, he just is not accurate.''
Tebow, reportedly working out in Arizona with a personal trainer, could still land somewhere in the league as a project for an offensive coordinator willing to learn from the Jets' mistakes.
''He's still worth a try and I think somebody will sign him, but it'll be under the condition that it will be as something other than as a quarterback,'' said Brandt, who thinks Tebow will stay on offense. ''If Al Davis were still here, he'd take him in a second and try to turn him into a tight end for the Raiders.''
Or, Tebow could simply swallow his pride, head to Canada and become a huge star there with the CFL's wide-open fields. And then, who knows? Maybe he would come back to the United States - the same route Warren Moon, Doug Flutie and Jeff Garcia took to NFL stardom.
''There's no shame at all in going to the CFL,'' Crouch said. ''They'd take him right now and he'd get a lot of tape, and if he's there two years, he'd have 50 games under his belt reading defenses and coverages. Let the NFL scouts make their decisions then.
''And, hey, he might have so much fun there actually playing, he might not want to ever come back.''


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WASHINGTON — The sex scandal that felled CIA Director David Petraeus widened Tuesday to ensnare the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, in a suddenly public drama involving a Tampa socialite, a jealous rival, a twin sister in a messy custody dispute and flirty emails.
The improbable story — by turns tragic and silly — could have major consequences, unfolding at a critical time in the Afghan war effort and just as President Barack Obama was hoping for a smooth transition in his national security team.
Obama put a hold on the nomination of Afghan war chief Allen to become the next commander of U.S. European Command as well as the NATO supreme allied commander in Europe after investigators uncovered 20,000-plus pages of documents and emails that involved Allen and Tampa socialite Jill Kelley. Some of the material was characterized as "flirtatious."
Allen, 58, insisted he"d done nothing wrong and worked to save his imperiled career.
Kelley, 37, who had worked herself into the center of the military social scene in Florida without having any official role, emerged as a central figure in the still-unfolding story that has embroiled two of the nation"s most influential and respected military leaders.
Known as a close friend of retired Gen. Petraeus, Kelley triggered the FBI investigation that led to his downfall as CIA director when she complained about getting anonymous, harassing emails. They turned out to have been written by Petraeus" mistress, Paula Broadwell, who apparently was jealous of the attention the general paid to Kelley. Petraeus acknowledged the affair and resigned Friday.
In the course of looking into that situation, federal investigators came across what a Pentagon official called "inappropriate communications" between Allen and Kelley, both of them married.
According to one senior U.S. official, the emails between Allen and Kelley were not sexually explicit or seductive but included pet names such as "sweetheart" or "dear." The official said that while much of the communication — including some from Allen to Kelley — is relatively innocuous, some could be construed as unprofessional and would cause a reasonable person to take notice.
That official, as well as others who described the investigation, requested anonymity on grounds that they were not authorized to discuss the situation publicly.
The FBI decided to turn over the Allen information to the military once the bureau recognized it contained no evidence of a federal crime, according to a federal law enforcement official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter on the record and demanded anonymity. Adultery, however, is a crime under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Allen was not suspended from his military position, even though his nomination for promotion is on hold. The White House will soon be deciding how many troops will remain in Afghanistan — and for what purposes — after the U.S.-led combat operation ends in 2014. Allen has provided his recommendations to the White House and is key to those discussions.
Still more subplots in the story emerged Tuesday with news that both Allen and Petraeus wrote letters last September on behalf of Jill Kelley"s twin sister, Natalie Khawam, in a messy custody dispute. In 2011, a judge had denied Khawam custody of her 3-year-old son, saying she "appears to lack any appreciation or respect for the importance of honesty and integrity in her interactions with her family, employers and others with whom she comes in contact."
Allen, in his letter, wrote of Khawam"s "maturity, integrity and steadfast commitment to raising her child." Petraeus wrote that he"d been a host for the Kelley family and Khawam and her son for Christmas dinner, and he described a loving relationship with her son. That also indicated how close the Petraeus and Kelley families had been.
White House spokesman Jay Carney, employing understatement, was asked about the revelations involving Allen and said Obama "wouldn"t call it welcome" news. Carney described Obama as "surprised" by the earlier news about Petraeus.
As he prepares for a second term, the president has hoped to run a methodical transition process, with the goal of keeping many Cabinet members and other high-ranking officials in their posts until successors are confirmed, or at least nominated. Petraeus" resignation has disrupted those plans, leaving Obama with an immediate vacancy to fill and raising questions about how much other immediate shake-up the national security team can handle.
National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama put Allen"s nomination on hold at the request of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. The general succeeded Petraeus as the top American commander in Afghanistan in July 2011 and has been working with Panetta on how best to pace the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
Vietor said in a written statement that Obama "remains focused on fully supporting our extraordinary troops and coalition partners in Afghanistan, who Gen. Allen continues to lead as he has so ably done for over a year."
The unfolding story caused a commotion on Capitol Hill as well, as lawmakers complained that they should have been told about the investigation earlier.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, called the latest revelations "a Greek tragedy."
Acting CIA Director Michael Morell met with Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and ranking Republican Saxby Chambliss of Georgia on Tuesday, to explain the CIA"s understanding of events that led Petraeus to resign. That session came ahead of meetings with the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, according to congressional aides.
The chairman and top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee said their panel would go ahead with Thursday"s scheduled confirmation hearing on the nomination of Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, who is to replace Allen as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, if Allen is indeed promoted.
Even though Petraeus has stepped down, Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said the retired general should testify about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, "if he has relevant information." Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said it was "absolutely imperative" that Petraeus testify, since he was CIA director during the attack and visited Libya afterward.
Asked by reporters if there was a national security breach with the Petraeus affair, Feinstein said: "We"re going to hold an inquiry. We"re going to look at things. I have no evidence that there was at this time." She said she expected Petraeus to testify — "if not this week, then another week. That"s for sure."
Feinstein said did not believe that either Allen or Petraeus would release classified information.
The FBI looked into whether a separate set of emails between Petraeus and Broadwell might involve any security breach and concluded it did not.
The FBI searched Broadwell"s home in Charlotte, N.C., Monday night, with her consent, according to a federal law enforcement official, who requested anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak on the record about the investigation.
The official said the FBI just wanted to make sure there were no classified documents out of government custody.
Associated Press writers Lolita Baldor, Pete Yost, Kimberly Dozier, Adam Goldman, Jack Gillum, Larry Margasak, Julie Pace and Donna Cassata contributed to this report.
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Phoenix • A new report into a shooting that left a U.S. Border Patrol agent dead says three agents responding to an alarm were apparently in radio contact as they approached from opposite directions before opening fire on each other in the Arizona desert.
A sheriff's report released Friday says it was a clear night and the agents were on patrol separately when the call came in at about 1:30 a.m. Oct. 2 that an underground sensor aimed at detecting smugglers and illegal immigrants had been tripped.
Agent Nicholas Ivie, 30, a former Provo resident, approached on foot from the north. The two other agents walked in from the south when Ivie apparently opened fire, eliciting a deadly barrage of return fire from his colleagues.
Ivie was killed. Another agent was wounded. The third wasn't injured.
Questions had swirled as to whether the agents were in radio contact with each other in the rugged, hilly terrain where signals can be spotty. A communication breakdown could have led to the confusion and ensuing shootout.
However, according to the preliminary report by the Cochise County sheriff's office, which is investigating the case along with the FBI, the uninjured agent later told authorities "they were in radio communication with Agent Ivie."
"At one point she observed [Ivie)] signaling them with his flashlight," according to the report.
The agent, whose name hasn't been released, told investigators "as they were walking up the trail she heard yelling and then observed muzzle flashes in front of her and heard gunfire."
"She drew her weapon and took cover," the report states.
The agent also said she thought she saw several people moving through the darkness and whispering after the shooting.
The FBI declined to comment on the report, citing its own ongoing investigation.
Authorities have said the agents were about 20 yards from each other when the gunfire erupted. Acting Cochise County Sheriff Rod Rothrock has characterized the shooting as accidental, adding he didn't expect any criminal charges to be filed.
The FBI has called it a case of friendly fire but has declined to comment on any other aspects of the investigation.
One sheriff's deputy noted in the report that authorities initially believed it was a "possible ambush."
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, FBI agents flew in on a Black Hawk helicopter, and heavily armed law enforcement officers secured the area, flooding it with personnel looking for potential assailants. Two people were detained in Mexico but were later released after they were found to have no connection to the shooting.
The report from the sheriff's office details the painstaking efforts to document the scene, collecting bullet casings, tracking unidentified footprints and following a blood trail. It mentioned six spent rifle casings clustered in the area, and that the only items not found holstered in Ivie's belt were his flashlight and pistol.
"His radio was still on/operating," the report stated.
While the report sheds some light on the shooting, key details remained unanswered, such as just why Ivie opened fire contrary to training that dictates agents should only discharge their weapons once they have identified a suspect as hostile.
"None of them should have started firing unless they were returning fire from a smuggler or whatever the perpetrator might have been," said retired Border Patrol Agent Jim Dorcy.
While it's clear something went terribly wrong, no one is publicly questioning Ivie's competency or his training. He's been described by fellow agents as an experienced law enforcement officer with six years at the Border Patrol, the kind of agent others looked up to.
U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, a former Border Patrol sector chief in El Paso, said agents are trained for every potential scenario, but he noted "things often go contrary to plan," especially in a nighttime situation "in an area you know you might encounter bad guys."
"Your heart is racing. You're trying to identify who is where. Ideally, you're in communication with other agents, but it's not a finite situation where everything always works out," Reyes said. "That said, the job is dangerous enough when you're up against the bad guys, so you want to make sure you avoid any kind confrontation among what is commonly referred to as 'friendlies,' but we just don't know what happened out there yet."


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Destiny (Expression) Number 4
Jonas Salk was a male celebrity.
He was born on Wednesday October 28th 1914, in New York City, New York, United States.
Jonas Salk is the bedrock of society, the foundation of any enterprise. He is an organizer and manager. Jonas' approach to life and to problems is methodical and systematic.Salk is a builder and a doer. He turns dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk possesses a highly developed sense of structure. He enjoys management systems, and can carry out his well laid plans. Jonas is not the type to embark on any trip without a map.
Salk takes his obligations and those of his family quite seriously. As a result, Jonas Salk is reliable and responsible.
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He is driven by contempt for all that is unstable, insecure, and unpredictable. Jonas Salk distrusts the unconventional, preferring instead the tried-and-the-true. But this can make his endeavors move slowly and cause Jonas much frustration, especially with the apparent limitations of his resources. At the same time, concern for the limitations of his resources causes Salk to be careful and cautious, shutting Salk out from possible shortcuts and creative solutions provided by more daring people around him.
It is important that Jonas Salk recognizes restrictions for what they are: guiding forces that are testing and directing him toward your goals. His challenge is to be more imaginative and to attract more creative people into his life who can advise and inspire him.
In relationships, Jonas Salk tends to be somewhat moralistic. He is extremely honest and sincere. Jonas has integrity and is trustworthy, but can also be rigid and stubborn. Salk must not let his strong likes and dislikes overrule his common sense and compassion. He should be more understanding of others' shortcomings.
Because Jonas Salk tends to focus on details, he can fall into a rut and become a little dull and overly serious. Often, people born with the 4 Destiny need to lighten up and have more fun.
In his conservative and careful way, Jonas is good with money. He is very conscious of the balance between income and expenditures. Salk can limit his expenditures; saving money is important to him.
Jonas Salk is a surprisingly good parent, and loves to be involved with children. Somehow, he relates a little more than others to the innocence of children, perhaps seeing a good deal of himself in them. Jonas, too, is idealistic and respects the simplicity of children.
Many accountants, bookkeepers, government officials, managers, and lawyers are born under the 4 Destiny. Jonas Salk can be attracted to the arts and music, but will likely bring his love of structure and order to any artistic field. Classical music and opera are particularly appealing and inspiring for him.
Salk has a keen eye for detail. He has great stamina and can work conscientiously and persistently toward his goals. This eventually brings Jonas Salk success and standing in his community.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas health officials say the state is being hit hard by the flu in the current flu season.
The state health department says Kansas recorded 699 deaths from September through Monday in which flu and/or pneumonia was a direct or contributing factor.
Department spokeswoman Miranda Steele says the rate of people being treated for influenza-like illness in Kansas is about 5 percent. She says that rate never reached 5 percent in the 2011-2012 and 2010-2011 flu seasons. The highest rate during those two seasons was 3.5 percent.
State epidemiologist Charles Hunt told The Topeka Capital-Journal that the flu usually peaks in February, but it was about a month ahead of time this year.
Hunt urges Kansans who haven't done so to get a flu shot.


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Are you late to the big data party?
You may have missed the important up-front work if you are
by Jill Dyché, Vice President, SAS Best Practices
I'm not gonna lie. I occasionally find myself begrudging what I call the data-come-latelies. They're consultants, journalists, bloggers and vendors who have recently embraced all things data. Big data. Extreme data. Multistructured data. Data everywhere. It's as if they're the first at the cocktail reception to have read the new novel, and they want to explain the story to the rest of the partygoers.
But in reality they're late to the party. My fellow revelers and I have been livin' la data loca for a decade or longer. Over the years we've found ourselves normalizing, correcting, annotating, moving, verifying, denormalizing, loading, analyzing and defending data. Like most parties, sometimes it's fun. Sometimes there are adult beverages. And sometimes you'd just as soon have stayed home.
Bringing data together from across heterogeneous data sources is hard work. Even the brightest data scientist would admit he spends most of his time preparing data to be analyzed, not analyzing it. Sure, data preparation is cumbersome. But that's because it comes from so many different places. The data scientist has to know the data source. And then he has to know where other versions of that data are. He has to access those data sources. He has to reconcile the data. Many data scientists have enlisted the help of programmers so they can actually do their day jobs. It's the old 80-20 rule, and right now 80 percent of the time is being spent just trying to make sense of it all.
Bringing data together from across heterogeneous data sources is hard work ... What if we had a tool to automate it all?
And this isn't just true of big data – it's true of all data. One CIO who says his company isn't quite ready for big data whispered, "We have multiple versions of the single version of the truth." Big data or no, that's the brutal reality at most companies.
What if we didn't have to rummage around in all those varied, often-contradictory, deceptively complex, mixed-legacy source systems? What if we could instead navigate to the authoritative version of the data and provision it back to our operational systems and analytics applications? What if we had a tool to automate it all?
Westwood Vacations, the fictional hospitality company featured in a new e-book, has the tool. It's called data virtualization, and – as you'll read – it helped the company increase the velocity of high-value analytics by automating connections to the sources, abstracting the data layer and … On second thought, I'll let you read how they did it. The result was getting reports into the hands of decision makers. Costs saved. Revenue generated. Customers contacted with relevant messaging. Mission accomplished.
Maybe the tale of Westwood Vacations and its pragmatic executive team will inspire you to add data virtualization to your analytics toolbox. Or maybe you'll continue to rely on a merry band of programmers, data stewards, business analysts and data scientists who are still struggling to figure out where all the data really is. Sure, it's keeping them busy. But it's no party.
JILL DYCHÉ is an acknowledged speaker, author, and blogger on the topic of aligning IT with business solutions. As the Vice President of SAS Best Practices, she speaks, writes, and blogs about the business value of analytics and information.
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NASCAR back at dirt track for 1st time since '70
Time to attach the mud flaps.
NASCAR is set for an off-road detour through the dirt.
The Truck Series is headed for the Eldora Speedway half-mile dirt track for a one-night only special designed to reconnect NASCAR with its early roots and give fans raised on asphalt and stock cars a taste of the wild races run in the dust.
The last time one of NASCAR's top touring series competed on dirt was Sept. 30, 1970, when Richard Petty won a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (called the Grand National Division at that time) race at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.
The dirt drought ends when the trucks race Wednesday night at Tony Stewart-owned Eldora in Rossburg, Ohio.
Stewart, still a regular on the weeknight racing circuit, has naturally become a big booster of NASCAR'sreturn to dirt. Most of the field drove their first Eldora laps at Tuesday's practice.
"It's a neat facility," Stewart said. "It's well lit, it's a wide racetrack, it gives you a lot of options of where you can go and what you can do. I think it gives those guys an opportunity. The practice day on Tuesday should help a lot of those teams be able to get acclimated before they come back to the track on Wednesday."
Eldora's grandstands are sold out for the 9:30 p.m. ET race, even as some of the series' biggest winners, like Kyle Busch, are sitting out. Ryan Newman and Dave Blaney are the only Cup drivers in the field. The race will feature a handful of so-called ringers, such as Scott Bloomquist, a member of the National Dirt Track Hall of Fame with more than 500 victories in a lengthy career. The 49-year-old Bloomquist is set to make his NASCAR debut driving the No. 51 Toyota for Kyle Busch Motorsports.
"It's going to be something different I'm sure, but it's a race car and I've driven a lot of race cars," he said. "Never a truck, but it's still a race car."
The race also gets a twist on qualifying. There are five, eight-lap qualifying events and a 15-lap last-chance race to come up with the 30 competitors (regularly 36 in the series) who will start the 150-lap Mudsummer Classic. Because there is no pit road, the race is broken into three segments of 60, 50 and 40 laps.
Trucks driver James Buescher raved about Eldora after he tested there.
"It was a lot more fun than I expected it to be," he said. "It's definitely going to be interesting when we get 30 trucks on the track at the same time in tight quarters like that. It's going to be an action-packed race. I just hope there's not too many cautions."
It could happen. After all, the trucks weren't built to race on dirt, so some adjustments were needed.
The Goodyear dirt tire has been widened from 10 to 11 inches to provide a larger contact patch with the track and give the trucks more grip. While the Eldora right-side tire will basically remain the same height as a NASCAR tire run on asphalt tracks, the left-side is 3 inches shorter (85.8 inches) to build in more stagger, which will help the trucks turn better.
The trucks will be fitted for mesh shields and hood deflectors to hold off debris kicked up from the muck.
The drivers who know how to get dirty are the easy favorites.
Kyle Larson, pegged as NASCAR's next big star, is one of the few drivers with experience on the dirt oval. Larson is one of only two drivers to sweep the USAC Four Crown Nationals at Eldora Speedway. Larson also won in the USAC Midgets in 2012.
There's a reason this track was selected for him to make his second Truck Series start of the season.
"I have been looking forward to this race for a really long time," he said. "I've had a lot of fun racing at Eldora and have had quite a bit of success, so I am excited to get back. I can't wait to see how the trucks run there."
Even with the lengthy gap between NASCAR dirt races, fans and drivers are buzzing over the race, a rarity in a series that often runs in front of mostly empty grandstands as a support race in a Sprint Cup weekend.
But a big crowd, big ratings and a great race could go far in making an Eldora a regular stop on the Truck Series circuit - and maybe make stock car racing there a reality.
"If it has incredible success, who knows how far this could go?" driver Kenny Wallace said. "You could put the Nationwide Series there. One thing I always remind people of - and I race dirt all over the United States - this is where Kasey Kahne, Tony Stewart, Clint Bowyer, Ryan Newman came from. Three quarters of the field in Sprint Cup came from dirt tracks just like Eldora. I think this is a really good deal."
The race comes six weeks after the death of NASCAR driver Jason Leffler on a dirt track in New Jersey. State police say a mechanical problem was to blame for the spinout that ended with Leffler's car slamming into a concrete wall.
The 37-year-old Long Beach, Calif., native was a two-time winner on the NASCAR Nationwide Series and a one-time winner in the Truck Series.


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Police & Fire: January 24, 2013
Pair arrested
Sault Police were called to the 200 block of Blue Water Drive to investigate a domestic assault complaint Wednesday evening.
According to reports, three people were in bed when one of the women decided she didn't want the second in there any longer and received assistance in removing her from the man.
The woman reported she was grabbed, forcefully removed from the bedroom and thrown into the living room.
Leon A. Jackson, 53, of the Sault and Glenda S. Jackson, 58, of the Sault were both arrested on domestic violence charges and booked into the Chippewa County Jail.
The victim in this incident did not sustain any visible injuries.
Drunk driving
Sault Police report locating a vehicle in a ditch off of Three Mile Road just west of the Seymour Street intersection Wednesday evening.
A subsequent investigation revealed there was an individual inside the vehicle who was displaying signs of being under the influence. The man denied that he was driving when the vehicle went off the road identifying another individual by his last name who he claimed had gone for help.
His evolving story later placed a woman behind the wheel at the time of the mishap, before finally settling on a third individual who he again identified only by a last name.
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Sault Police report making a Wednesday run to the central Upper Peninsula where Schoolcraft County authorities were holding a wanted woman.
Krystal L. Wychopen, 38, of Gulliver was transported back to the Sault on an outstanding second degree retail fraud warrant. She was booked into the Chippewa County Jail.
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Chippewa County Sheriff Deputies likewise report venturing out of their own jurisdiction after Cheboygan County authorities had taken a woman wanted on a local warrant into custody. Dana L. Sovey, 36, of Standish was conveyed back to the Sault and booked into the Chippewa County Jail.


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SAULT STE. MARIE — The EUP Travelers split a pair of American Legion baseball games against Petoskey Saturday at James Field.
The Travelers won the opening game 7-5. Tyler Kirkland, Michael James and Frank Bailey had two hits each for the EUP. Devon Dear had a double and drove in two runs, while Lou Krupa added an RBI single among the EUP's 11 hits.
Kirkland pitched seven innings and gave up two earned runs on seven hits, while striking out 12, and walking only one.
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The Travelers could not complete the sweep, as Petoskey downed the EUP 6-4 in the second game.
The EUP was limited to five hits. Dear hit a triple, while Todd Hecht, Jake Harrison and Kolbe Peller had doubles, and Lou Krupa added an RBI single.
Andrew Krupa pitched seven innings for the Travelers, and gave up four earned runs on nine hits, while striking out four and walking one.
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Rose Quartz has a gentle pink essence, and is known as a stone of the heart, a Crystal of Unconditional Love. It carries the soft feminine energy of compassion and peace, tenderness and healing, nourishment and comfort. It speaks directly to the Heart Chakra, dissolving emotional wounds, fears and resentments, and circulates a Divine loving energy throughout the entire aura. Reawakening the heart to its own innate love, it provides a deep sense of personal fulfillment and contentment, allowing one the capacity to truly give and receive love from others. [Raphaell, 82-85][Simmons, 331][Hall, 236]
Called the Heart Stone, Rose Quartz may have been used as a love token as early as 600 B.C. and is still an important talisman of relationships. It is quite effective in attracting new love, romance and intimacy, or in developing a closer bond with family or friends. It supports connection within groups and community, and carries a high spiritual attunement to the Earth, Universe, and the Divine. [Eason, 50][Simmons, 331][Hall, 236]
Rose Quartz also inspires the love of beauty, in oneself and others, in nature, and especially that which stimulates the imagination - art, music and the written word. [Melody, 570] Prized in the ancient world for its powers of physical beautification, facial masks of Rose Quartz have been recovered from Egyptian tombs, thought by the Egyptians and Romans to clear the complexion and prevent wrinkles. It was also a stone honored by the Tibetan and Oriental cultures, and continues to be one of the major carving stones of China. [Mella, 97]
A silicon dioxide crystal, Rose Quartz is one of the most common varieties of the Quartz family. It is found in abundance around the world and occurs only in massive form, with no crystal faces, edges or terminations. It is hazy to translucent, and is usually found in the cores of granite pegmatites. Its name is derived from its soft rose color, which ranges from very pale pink to deep reddish-pink and is due to trace amounts of titanium, iron, or manganese in the massive material. It also contains microscopic fiber inclusions of rutile or a borosilicate similar to dumortierite that can occasionally produce a cat's eye or "star" effect when polished into cabochons or spheres. The color of Rose Quartz is very stable and will not fade with heat or direct sunlight. [www.mindat.org][en.wikipedia.org][www.quartzpage.de][celestialearthminerals.com]
Rose Quartz is also called Pink Quartz or Hyaline Quartz, from the Greek hyalos, meaning "glass," and was referred to in antiquity as a Bohemian or Silesian Ruby. [Megemont, 157][Fernie, 179] It was thought for years Rose Quartz, in rare cases, also formed in clusters of small prismatic crystals that were labeled as Crystalline Rose Quartz. However, mineralogists in the 1990's discovered distinct differences between common Rose Quartz and the rare crystalline specimens, and proposed the massive form still be denoted as Rose Quartz, while the crystal variety should be referred to as Pink Quartz. It is a confusion that is slowly being resolved. [www.mindat.org][en.wikipedia.org][www.quartzpage.de][celestialearthminerals.com] See the Pink Quartz page for more information.
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Rose Quartz is a mothering crystal, inspiring nurturing of the self if one has lost their own mother. It promotes bonding and is a good stone to place on the stomach during pregnancy, and to take to the hospital to be near the baby during birth. It is also soothing in the days to follow. [Eason, 50] Placing baby milk or food within a circle of Rose Quartz for a few minutes helps ease colic or feeding difficulties. [Eason, 40]
To call in love or strengthen a romantic relationship, place pink roses and twin Rose Quartz hearts on a private love altar and light pink candles, or enclose a photo of yourself and a lover within a heart shape of tiny Rose Quartz crystals. [Eason, 50] Rose Quartz may also be placed by the bed or in the relationship corner of the home to restore trust and harmony, and encourage unconditional love. [Hall, 236]
As a stone of love, tenderness and sensuality, Rose Quartz is a powerful aphrodisiac, stimulating sensual imagination. [Megemont, 158]
Rose Quartz is a wonderful sleep crystal for adults and children, providing beautiful dreams as well as preventing nightmares or night terrors. It also helps children to not be afraid of the dark. [Eason, 50]
Rose Quartz is a calming and reassuring crystal, excellent for use in trauma or crisis, including the emotional upheaval of mid-life crisis. It strengthens empathy, sensitivity, and aids in the acceptance of necessary change. It is also an excellent stone for comforting grief. [Hall, 236]
A large piece of unpolished Rose Quartz in the workplace provides ongoing protection against intrusion and gossip. [Eason, 50] It is also a professional support stone for beauty consultants. [Mella, 130]
Rose Quartz Healing Therapies - Overview
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Rose Quartz Physical Healing Energy
Rose Quartz stimulates the proper functioning of the heart and circulatory system. It aids in relieving tension and stress, palpitations or skipped beats, and may stabilize irregular heart rhythm. It is ideal for premature babies or young children with heart weakness or disease, or anyone who needs a stronger, more stable heart. [Ahsian, 332][Melody, 571][Hall, 236][Gienger, 74]
This stone is used to clear fluids in the cells of the body and promote the release of impurities. It assists in healing the kidneys and adrenals, and placed on the thymus aids chest and lung problems, relieving coughs and soothing bronchial areas. It has also been used in treating vertigo. [Melody, 571][Hall, 236]
Rose Quartz is especially supportive of the female reproductive system, the genitals and for increase in fertility. It assists in alleviating sexual difficulties, post-partum depression, and is thought to help mothers heal after complicated births. [Eason, 50][Geinger, 74][Hall, 236]
Rose Quartz Emotional Healing Energy
The soft pink emanations of Rose Quartz comforts and heals any wounds the heart has suffered, penetrating the inner chambers of the Heart Chakra where emotional experiences are recorded and stored. It dissolves the sorrows, worries, fears and resentments suppressing the heart's ability to give and receive love, and replaces it with healing, comfort and inner nourishment. A deep sense of personal fulfillment and energy forms a new foundation where inner peace and contentment can become a personal reality. [Raphaell, 82-83]
Rose Quartz is also a stone for those unable to experience the joy of living because of never having had love given to them, possibly missing the love and nurturing as a child that is vital for the development of security and a positive self image. Rose Quartz is the healer for these internal wounds, erasing the primal imprints and reprogramming the heart to accept the infinite source of love that comes from within the self. Only after learning to give love to the self is it possible to truly love others. [Raphaell, 82-83, 85]
Rose Quartz Chakra Healing and Balancing Energy
Pink Rose Quartz is the most important crystal of the heart and the Heart Chakra, teaching the true essence of love, and purifying and opening the heart at all levels. [Hall, 235]
The Heart Chakra is located near the center of the breastbone and regulates our interaction with the external world and controls what we embrace and what we resist. It gives us the balancing ability to be ourselves within the environment and helps us in understanding our own needs and emotions clearly. We can deal with the ebbs and flows of emotional relationships, understand their cyclic nature, and accept the changes.
Rose Quartz also balances the yin-yang energy and can bring all the other chakras into harmony and unity with the Heart. With the power of its light red rays, Rose Quartz gently stimulates the Base Chakra to help rejuvenate the physical body.
Located at the base of the spine, the Base Chakra controls the energy for kinesthetic feeling and movement. It is the foundation of physical and spiritual energy for the body. When it is in balance, the physical body gains strength and spiritual energy is rekindled in the form of security and sense of one's own power.
Rose Quartz Spiritual Energy
Rose Quartz is feminine in tone and one of the stones of the Great Mother. It not only activates the human Heart Chakra, it also links with the heart of the Earth and the heart of the Universe.
Its vibrations can penetrate down to the cellular level and reprogram cells for joy and longevity rather than despair and death. It encourages the dissolution of anger and resentment, fear and suspicion, and brings the Light of healing, the rebirth of hope and faith in the benevolence of the Universe. [Simmons, 331]
Rose Quartz Color Energy
Light red or Pink, Rose Quartz brings the energy rays of determination, commitment, and caring. Its soothing color calms feelings of anger or resentment and can aid efforts to meditate and reflect. Pink is the color of new love, new romance and new relationships. It increases developing sensuality, and can help overcome heartache, aiding in the improvement of our caring and loving abilities.
Meditation with Rose Quartz
Meditating with Rose Quartz assists one in reaching a resonance with the frequency of compassion, releasing emotional patterns that hold one back, and allows for embracing higher and finer frequencies of Light. [Ahsian, 332]
Rose Quartz is a common meditation stone used by women. It aids in efforts to understand and foster loving relationships and to bring a gentle energy to one's day.
Rose Quartz Divination
The Divinatory meaning of Rose Quartz: Forgive yourself for past mistakes and do not accept the blame others try to offload for their inadequacies. [Eason, 50]
Rose Quartz Goddess Crystals
Rose Quartz honors Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty (also called Venus, the Roman Goddess of Love). She was one of twelve Olympians who governed all aspects of human life and is known for her beauty and passion.
Rose Quartz honors Astarte, the Phoenician Goddess of Fertility, Love and War. She is known in many cultures by different names and is said to be the Queen of the Stars. She helps with troubled love and keeps lovers faithful to each other.
Rose Quartz also honors Turan, the Etruscan Goddess of Love and Beauty.
There are several ways to find an appropriate birthstone. The traditional one is listed first. These are from the popular lists that most people are familiar with. The second way is to find your natural birthstone by the color wheel of life. You can click on the Natural Birthstone graphic below to learn more. Finally many people use the traditional stones of the Zodiac.
In this section you will find information on all three approaches.
Rose Quartz Traditional Birthstone
Rose Quartz is not a traditional birthstone
Rose Quartz Natural Birthstone.
Rose Quartz, with its light red color, is one of the natural birthstones of those born in mid-autumn (October 22 - November 20). Red crystals bring you energy, courage, passion, and love.
Rose Quartz - Zodiac Stone of Scorpio
Rose Quartz is one of the zodiac stones for those born under the sign of Scorpio at the end of harvest, from October 23 - November 21. Scorpio is represented by a scorpion and is known as the Success sign. Scorpios are complicated, independent, and creative with a sense of humor. They are excellent leaders and sometimes a bit competitive.
Rose Quartz is also said to strengthen the romantic ardor of Taurus and Libra's determination. [Megemont, 158]
Rose Quartz Amulets and Talismans
Rose Quartz is a Seeker Transformer crystal. Seekers contain a crystal energy structure that aligns the natural energy of the crystal to the natural power of the human mind to find the way to new horizons and new capabilities. They are pointers, directors, and compasses; the fresh start crystals. These are talismans of the scientist, the adventurer, the hunter, wanderer, and explorer. They are also crystals of the student and the researcher.
Transformer crystals enhance efforts to change our situations, prospects, health, outlook or relationships. By transforming ourselves we transform our lives. We learn to dance, speak a new language, grow stronger, or become a better spouse or child. Seeker crystals with the earth power of the Transformer are excellent talismans to aid our efforts to grow, develop new capabilities and change our lives.
Rose Quartz Feng Shui
Rose Quartz utilizes a subdued Fire energy. Fire energy is the energy of enthusiasm, warmth, brightness, illumination and activity. It is the energy of heat, action, emotion and passion - of ideas, of concepts, and sex. It is traditionally associated with the south area of a home or room, and with the fame and reputation area of your dwelling. Use its energy to give your life the boost it needs to enhance your standing in the community and within your family.
Rose Quartz in Ancient Lore and Legend
Legend claims Rose Quartz was created when Adonis, lover of the Greek (and Roman) goddess Aphrodite, was attacked by Ares, god of war, in the form of a boar. When Aphrodite rushed to save him, she caught herself on a briar bush, and their mingled blood stained the white Quartz pink. [Eason, 50]
Once used for beautification, facial masks of Rose Quartz have been found in the tombs of ancient Egypt. The Romans and Egyptians believed Rose Quartz would clear and encourage a beautiful complexion and prevent wrinkles. It was a stone honored by the Tibetan and Oriental cultures and is still one of the major carving stones used in China. [Mella, 97] Known as the Heart Stone, Rose Quartz may have been used as a love token as early as 600 B.C. [Eason, 50]
In antiquity Rose Quartz was also called the Bohemian, or Silesian Ruby, and was believed to fade in the light and only be restored to its original color by being placed in the damp. [Fernie, 179]
Australian sorcerers make a powerful sacred water out of this stone that they call liquefied Quartz and consider to be a panacea. [Megemont, 158]
As an effective detoxification agent, Rose Quartz was long considered a universal antidote to poison. [Megemont, 158]
Footnote References
The symbols [ ] enclose the author's name and a page number for a reference cited from the following books:
[Ahsian, pp.] Robert Simmons & Naisha Ahsian, The Book of Stones (Berkley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2007).
[Eason, pp. ]Cassandra Eason, The New Crystal Bible (London: Carlton Books Ltd., 2010).
[Fernie, pp.] William T. Fernie, The Occult and Curative Powers of Precious Stones (Blauvelt, NY: Rudolph Steiner Publications, 1973).
[Gienger, pp.] Michael Gienger, Healing Crystals (Scotland: Earthdancer Books, 2009).
[Hall, pp.] Judy Hall, The Crystal Bible (Cincinnati, OH: Walking Stick Press, 2003).
[Hall 2, pp.]Judy Hall, The Crystal Bible 2 (Cincinnati, OH: Walking Stick Press, 2009).
[Kunz, pp.] George Frederick Kunz, The Curious Lore of Precious Stones (New York: Dover Publications, 1971).
[Megemont, pp.] Florence Megemont, The Metaphysical Book of Gems and Crystals (Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2008).
[Mella, pp.] Dorothee L. Mella, Stone Power II (Albuquerque, NM: Brotherhood of Life, Inc., 1986).
[Melody, pp.] Melody, Love Is In The Earth (Wheat Ridge, CO: Earth-Love Publishing House, 1995).
[Raphaell, pp.] Katrina Raphaell, Crystal Enlightenment (Santa Fe, NM: Aurora Press, 1985)
[Simmons, pp.] Robert Simmons & Naisha Ahsian, The Book of Stones (Berkley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2007).


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AP IMPACT: Commander of Nazi-led unit lives in US
BERLIN - A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.
Michael Karkoc, 94, told American authorities in 1949 that he had performed no military service during World War II, concealing his work as an officer and founding member of the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion and later as an officer in the SS Galician Division, according to records obtained by the AP through a Freedom of Information Act request. The Galician Division and a Ukrainian nationalist organization he served in were both on a secret American government blacklist of organizations whose members were forbidden from entering the United States at the time.
Though records do not show that Karkoc had a direct hand in war crimes, statements from men in his unit and other documentation confirm the Ukrainian company he commanded massacred civilians, and suggest that Karkoc was at the scene of these atrocities as the company leader. Nazi SS files say he and his unit were also involved in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in which the Nazis brutally suppressed a Polish rebellion against German occupation.
Polish prosecutors announced Friday after the release of the AP investigation that they will investigate Karkoc and provide "every possible assistance" to the U.S. Department of Justice, which has used lies in immigration papers to deport dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals. The AP evidence of Karkoc's wartime activities has also prompted German authorities to express interest in exploring whether there is enough to prosecute.
Karkoc refused to discuss his wartime past at his home in Minneapolis, and repeated efforts to set up an interview, using his son as an intermediary, were unsuccessful.
Efraim Zuroff, the lead Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, said that based on his decades of experience pursuing Nazi war criminals, he expects that the evidence showing Karkoc lied to American officials and that his unit carried out atrocities is strong enough for deportation and war-crimes prosecution in Germany or Poland.
The deputy head of the German office that investigates Nazi war crimes, Thomas Will, said that based on the AP's evidence, he is interested in gathering information that could possibly result in prosecution.
Karkoc now lives in a modest house in northeast Minneapolis in an area with a significant Ukrainian population. Even at his advanced age, he came to the door without help of a cane or a walker. He would not comment on his wartime service for Nazi Germany.
"I don't think I can explain," he said.
Members of his unit and other witnesses have told stories of brutal attacks on civilians.
One of Karkoc's men, Vasyl Malazhenski, told Soviet investigators that in 1944 the unit was directed to "liquidate all the residents" of the village of Chlaniow, Poland, in a reprisal attack for the killing of a German SS officer, though he did not say who gave the order.
In a background check by U.S. officials on April 14, 1949, Karkoc said he had never performed any military service, telling investigators that he "worked for father until 1944. Worked in labor camp from 1944 until 1945."
However, in a Ukrainian-language memoir published in 1995, Karkoc states that he helped found the Ukrainian Self Defense Legion in 1943 in collaboration with the Nazis' feared SS intelligence agency, the SD, to fight on the side of Germany - and served as a company commander in the unit, which received orders directly from the SS, through the end of the war.
The AP located a copy online in an electronic Ukrainian library.
Karkoc's name surfaced when a retired clinical pharmacologist who took up Nazi war crimes research in his free time came across it while looking into members of the SS Galician Division who emigrated to Britain. Stephen Ankier, who is based in London, tipped off AP when an Internet search showed an address for Karkoc in Minnesota.
The AP located Karkoc's U.S. Army intelligence file, and got it declassified by the National Archives in Maryland through a FOIA request. The file said standard background checks found no red flags that would disqualify him from entering the United States but noted that key information from the Soviet side was missing.
Wartime documents located by the AP also confirm Karkoc's membership in the Self Defense Legion. They include a Nazi payroll sheet found in Polish archives, signed by an SS officer on Jan. 8, 1945 - only four months before the war's end - confirming that Karkoc was present in Krakow, Poland, to collect his salary as a member of the Self Defense Legion. Karkoc signed the document.
Karkoc, an ethnic Ukrainian, was born in the city of Lutsk in 1919, according to details he provided American officials. At the time, the area was being fought over by Ukraine, Poland and others; it ended up part of Poland until World War II. Several wartime Nazi documents note the same birth date, but say he was born in Horodok, a town in the same region.
He joined the regular German army after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and fought on the Eastern Front in Ukraine and Russia.
He was also a member of the Ukrainian nationalist organization OUN; in 1943, he helped negotiate with the Nazis to have men drawn from its membership form the Self Defense Legion, according to his account. The legion eventually numbered some 600 soldiers and was folded into the SS Galician Division in 1945.
Policy at the time of Karkoc's immigration application - according to a declassified secret U.S. government document obtained by the AP from the National Archives - was to deny a visa to anyone who had served in either the SS Galician Division or the OUN.
In Washington, Justice Department spokesman Michael Passman said the agency was aware of the AP story but could neither confirm nor deny details of specific investigations as a matter of policy.
Though Karkoc talks in his memoirs about fighting anti-Nazi Polish resistance fighters, he makes no mention of attacks on civilians. He does indicate he was with his company in the summer of 1944 when the Self Defense Legion's commander, Siegfried Assmuss, was killed by a partisan attack near Chlaniow.
He did not mention the retaliatory massacre that followed, which was described in detail by Malazhenski in his 1967 statement. An SS administrative list obtained by AP shows that Karkoc was Malazhenski's commander.
Malazhenski said the Ukrainian unit was ordered to liquidate Chlaniow in reprisal for Assmuss' death, and moved in the next day, machine-gunning people and torching homes. More than 40 people died.
"The Ukrainians were setting fire to the buildings," Chlaniow villager Stanislawa Lipska told a communist-era commission in 1948. "You could hear machine-gun shots and grenade explosions. Shots could be heard inside the village and on the outskirts. They were making sure no one escaped."
Witness statements and other documentation also link the unit circumstantially to a 1943 massacre in Pidhaitsi, on the outskirts of Lutsk -today part of Ukraine - where the Self Defense Legion was once based. A total of 21 villagers, mostly women and children, were slaughtered.
Heorhiy Syvyi was a 9-year-old boy when troops swarmed into Pidhaitsi on Dec. 3 but managed to flee with his father and hide.
"When we came out we saw the smoldering ashes of the burned house and our neighbors searching for the dead. My mother had my brother clasped to her chest. This is how she was found - black and burned," said Syvyi, now 78.
There is evidence that the unit took part in the brutal suppression of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, fighting the nationalist Polish Home Army as it sought to rid the city of its Nazi occupiers.
The uprising was put down by the Nazis in a house-to-house fight characterized by its ferocity.
The Self Defense Legion's exact role is not known, but Nazi documents indicate that Karkoc and his unit were there.
An SS payroll document, dated Oct. 12, 1944, says 10 members of the Self Defense Legion "fell while deployed to Warsaw." Karkoc is listed as the highest-ranking commander of 2 Company - a lieutenant - on a pay sheet.
Following the war, Karkoc ended up in a camp for displaced people in Neu Ulm, Germany, according to documents obtained from the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany. The documents indicate that his wife died in 1948, a year before he and their two young boys - born in 1945 and 1946 - emigrated to the U.S.
After he arrived in Minneapolis, he remarried and had four more children, the last born in 1966.
Karkoc told American officials he was a carpenter, and records indicate he worked for a nationwide construction company that has an office in Minneapolis.
A longtime member of the Ukrainian National Association, Karkoc has been closely involved in community affairs over the past decades and was identified in a 2002 article in a Ukrainian-American publication as a "longtime UNA activist."
Herschaft reported from New York and Scislowska from Warsaw; Doug Glass, Patrick Condon and Amy Forliti in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Maria Danilova in Kiev, Ukraine; Efrem Lukatsky in Pidhaitsi, and Svetlana Fedas in Lviv, Ukraine, contributed to this story.
David Rising can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/davidrising ; Randy Herschaft at http://www.twitter.com/HerschaftAP


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Washington Nationals 2011 individual game tickets go on sale to the public next Thursday, March 3, and while the Nationals game day promotion/giveaway schedule is not final, many of the details are now available on Nationals.com.
Highlights this season include bobblehead nights for Jayson Werth, Ian Desmond, and a 3rd "fan choice" which will be determined by an online and in-the-park poll. The team has also expanded the highly popular "Pups in the Park" promotion. The perennial sellout event, in which dog owners can buy tickets to bring their pets to the game, has been scheduled for three games during the 2011 season.
In addition to the known dates and giveaways listed below, Friday Night Fireworks, Signature Sundays, and Sunday Kids Run the Bases programs will return on Fridays and Sundays. Notably absent from the schedule are the team's free T-Shirt Tuesdays — a mainstay of the previous three seasons.
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2011 Washington Nationals Promotional/Giveaway Schedule
|Thu 3/31
|Opening Day Cap (first 20,000 fans)
|Sat 4/2
|Magnet Schedule/Car Magnet (first 20,000 fans)
|Fri 4/15
|Jackie Robinson Day
|Sun 4/17
|Screech's Birthday celebration
|Sat 4/30
|Umbrella (first 20,000 fans)
|Sat 5/14
|Pups in the Park
|Fri 5/27
|Frosty Mug (first 10,000 adults 21 & up)
|Sun 5/29
|Kids Bat & Ball Set (first 10,000 kids 12 & under)
|Thu 6/16
|Ladies Night
|Sat 6/18
|Kids Jersey (first 10,000 kids 12 & under)
|Sun 6/19
|Father's Day: Nationals Road Cap (first 30,000 fans)
|Mon 7/4
|Patriotic Cap (first 20,000 fans)
|Fri 7/8
|Tri-Color Cap (first 10,000 fans 21 & up)
|Sat 7/9
|Pups in the Park #2
|Sat 7/30
|Jayson Werth Bobblehead (first 15,000 fans)
|Thu 8/18
|Ladies Night
|Fri 8/19
|Black Heritage Night
|Sat 8/20
|Ian Desmond Bobblehead (first 15,000 fans)
|Sun 8/21
|Kids Duffle Bag (first 10,000 kids 12 & under)
|Sat 9/3
|Team on Field Photo Day
|Fri 9/0
|Hispanic Heritage Night
|Sat 9/10
|Fans Choice* Bobblehead (first 15,000 fans)
|Fri 9/16
|Roberto Clemente Day
|Sep 9/24
|Pups in the Park #3
|Sun 9/25
|Fan Appreciation Day
* UPDATE: Voting is completed, and the fans choice bobblehead giveaway for September 10 will be rookie second baseman Danny Espinosa.