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Ryan Dungey if officially back in the hunt. It's not as if the defending Supercross Champion was ever out of the battle for the top. But Oakley's star just poised himself for a major charge, powering into a mere eight points from the Championship Standings lead after grabbing first win of the season in Toronto on Saturday.
Awe-Inspiring: Ryan Villopoto Emerges Victorious at Daytona Supercross, Bubba Stewart Picks Up From Huge Crash, Finishes 9th
It doesn't get much more dramatic than this, folks. Oakley superstar rider James Bubba Stewart sustained a huge crash at Daytona International Speedway this past weekend after absolutely smoking the field from the starting gate on during the main event – sending fellow Oakley rider Ryan Villopoto to the checkered flag with his second straight Supercross Daytona victory. Defending Supercross champ Ryan Dungey also smashed his way from the middle of the pack after a shaky start – to a solid third-place finish. Of course, there's always some kind of intense action going down at Supercross. No surprise there. But this year in Florida – on a brutal, choppy track designed by Oakley Motocross Legend Ricky Carmichael – the gnarly cake went straight to Bubba, who absolutely dazzled the industry with one of the most inspiring displays of guts and talent as of late.


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Clary Gardner of Decatur, Ga., and Kristopher Aaron of Atlanta, are to be married June 27, 2009 at First Baptist Church in York. The future bride, the daughter of Rev. & Mrs. Randy Gardner of Walterboro, graduated in 2007 from Furman University in Greenville. She is employed as the Director of Children's Ministries at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Snellville, Ga. The groom, the son of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Aaron, Jr. of Hawkinsville, Ga., graduated in 2004 from Mercer University in Macon, Ga. He is employed as the Ministry Resident at Park Avenue Baptist Church in Atlanta. Both Kristopher and Clary are students at McAfee School of Theology working towards their Master of Divinity degrees.
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Carpet Cleaning Even Better: CRI Seal of Approval Program
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- Rug Warrior said...
I suppose the "even better" remark did not happen to come from any professionals in the cleaning industry, as most agree with the Racine Industries peer-reviewed white paper outlining the scientific shortcomings of the program.
- July 2, 2010 at 8:09 PM
- Bethany said...
Hello Rug Warrior,
Thanks for your comment. You are correct, a professional carpet cleaner did not write the headline for the CRI Blog you mention - I did. In fact, everything that appears on the CRI blog is clearly labeled as to who the author is, just as all of the blog's content is identified as coming from the Carpet and Rug Institute - straightforward and transparent - the way a blog should be.
But I don't agree with you that most cleaning professionals do not support the Seal of Approval program. I have met and spoken with cleaning professionals who profit from the information they gain through SOA testing and who appreciate the marketing support CRI does its best to provide. (See the recent CRI blog post on CRI's new SOA brochure).
In recent days, CRI has heard from solutions and equipment manufacturers like ProTeam, cleaning systems providers, such as Sears and Stanley Steemer, and from individual franchisees and contractors. What we consistently hear from SOA participants is that they see the SOA as the only program offering quantifiable measurement of carpet cleaning solutions and equipment. They report that the information gathered through SOA's voluntary testing program has helped manufacturers improve their formulas and increase the efficiency of their equipment and helped service providers differentiate themselves in the marketplace. One feeling I have heard expressed among carpet cleaners is that they are tired of the conflict over SOA. As one business owner from Maryland told me, "It hurts all of us."
In any endeavor such as the SOA testing program, there always will be room for improvement, and CRI has been and continues to be open to constructive suggestions. In recent days, CRI President Werner Braun has listened to Racine Industries' criticism and responded to it. In addition to Mr. Braun, the CRI Cleaning and Maintenance Issues Management Team is apprised of negative comments, such as the ones expressed in your blog post, "CRI...SOA...WTF?".
I think critics should remember that CRI's SOA is a voluntary program which seeks to provide meaningful information that is reasonably cost-efficient to the user - it doesn't set out to solve all the problems in the universe, but it is a thoughtfully designed and carefully implemented program that is intended to benefit everyone involved.
Bethany Richmond
- July 6, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- Rug Warrior said...
I'm sorry I missed your reply on this, as it's definitely worth responding to.
All you need to do is to visit any of the professional cleaners forums to truly see what the majority of them feel about the program's flaws. If it is solely a marketing ploy, that is one thing...but to imply that the testing has in any way improved product quality or cleaning performance is simply ridiculous.
That a grocery store rental machine can receive the Platinum rating as a "deep cleaning system" in the SOA program, while professional equipment receives lower than Platinum, speaks to the cronyism of the program. This has nothing to do with consumers, this is entirely built to try to build marketing fodder with no foundation in real cleaning performance.
It would have been helpful to actually have residential cleaners in the development process...we could have helped you understand what "real" cleaning looks like.
- September 19, 2010 at 2:43 AM
- carpet cleaners in md said...
yeah its good..There are many choices in professional carpet and rug cleaning companies, so consider getting your carpets and upholstery cleaned for a cleaner, more appealing environment in your home.
- November 2, 2010 at 3:51 AM
- Bethany Richmond said...
Hello Md,
Hiring a professional is a great way to get the best in carpet and upholstery cleaning - CRI recommends an SOA Service Provider to ensure your home is cleaned with the equipment and solutions that have been tested to work best. BTW, cute baby pic on your website.
Thanks for your comment -
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Girardi's coaching staff finalizedBy
The Yankees today announced their 2008 coaching staff. No surprises here as Joe had this info in October: Kevin Long – hitting, Tony Pena – 1B, Bobby Meacham – 3B, Rob Thomson – bench, Dave Eiland – pitching, Mike Harkey – bullpen. This is indeed the beginning of a new era in the Bronx.
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I really like this staff. There is a theme there. These are all young guys. Girardi and Thompson are big sabremetric guys. I think this is the first step towards the 21st century.
What happened to Joe Kerrigan? Did he stay with the organization?
They shouldn't of put Eiland's career stats up. I've been thinking what should happen if Pettitte doesn't return. Do you fill in the rotation with a FA who's not too expensive like Josh Fogg or something.
Fogg would be absolutely shallacked in the AL. For the money that someone even as good (or bad) as Fogg will get, the best option would be just to use one of the young guys as the 6th man. That was supposed to be Karstens until he hurt his arm then broke his leg. I'd rather they spend like $6million on a two middle relievers than one bad starting pitcher.
either way they're gonna need a 6 man rotation this year for all the young pitchers but i don't want to see it be Karstens.
Hey, just read that 4 were added to the 40-man roster: Patterson, White, Cervelli, and Marquez.
Also, according to MLB.com reporter Bryan Hoch's blog, Kerrigan hasn't latched onto any staff yet. If he doesn't find a spot on any major league staff, I bet the Yanks hang onto him. (perhaps along the lines of Nardi's role)
I didn't think Cervelli and Marquez needed protection… whats the reason for that?
Can you post the link?
never mind….
Sorry, Dan…should've added a link to my original post.
The roster stands at 39 with rivera, arod, molina, pettitte, and posada still not on it. Who gets the boot(s)? my guesses– henn, pavano, bruney.
its a tough call, i'm sure they would love the insurance money for pavano but they have paid pitchers not on the roster for years (wright, johnson vazquez) so whats another 10 million ? its a shame henn and bruney can't turn it around, they both have great stuff just walk way too many batters.
how about andy phillips ? is he on the bench this year ? or put him on waivers (again) and bring up the kid, gonzalez, we got in the randy johnson trade. I'm sure they would love to keep phillips but is he worth it since they have gonzalez, duncan, and betemit already on the bench.
how about veras, hes on the roster but is he better than henn and or bruney? its a tough decision. they also have to put molina and possibly pettite on there. yikes !
they also left eric duncan off the list. not too mention a few other names, like steve jackson, but i can't imagine anyone actually taking them in the rule V draft.
Hopefully they'll stick with Shelley over Andy. Andy's career fielding percentage at 1st hovers around .987. Thats tolerable considering his power potential.
shelley's career, sorry
I think they should bring Don Zimmer back. To be the fitness coach.
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Not to be nosy, but if you have a male sexual partner(s) they need to wear a condom or you will get reinfected often. You don't need to comment on this of course. It's just something to consider - our own docs told us about this one. You can keep reinfecting each other especially if your internal flora are out of whack as they will be after serious antibiotics.
Sounds so challenging for you and the docs.
Glad the cultures were negative. Two things popped in my head. Above you is right, sex can continue the reinfection. It is the "milking of the urethral tubing (where urine comes out) that is the contaminating item.
Having a clean genital area and then URINATING immediately after sex is a very good way to prevent this. Now I am not saying this is your problem, I know I had to learn this early in my life.
"honeymoon cystitis" is an ecoli problem causing blood to show from the bladder wall and is VERY uncomfortable. Once I had the "rules down"....no more issues.
Now as we age the canal is changed with children and muscle weakening and that can give that other posts complaint of going and then leaning forward to continue to empty. The muscles of the abdomen are weakening. Keagal exercises with tighting and releasing the pelvic floor and tighting and releasing the abdomenal ones too may help.
IC( this is tough diagnosis) or really irritable bladder (for us) is part of FM. I get real complaints by the bladder when my back muscles have been pushed over the line. Pressure and frequency start but I am really fine...once I treat my back and rest I am in a better place.
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I had fevers of about 100-101 degrees for a year or so. My doctor did all the tests he could and they were all negative. It finally went away. I refused the bone marrow biopsy he suggested towards the end. He said that was the next thing to do. The fevers went away after about 1 1/2 years.
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Looks Like Samsung's Working on a Round Smartwatch Too
Which is good. Square watches are too reminiscent of the crappy digital watches from the 70s.
Which is good. Square watches are too reminiscent of the crappy digital watches from the 70s.
Control app for 'Samsung Cardboard' VR unit spotted.
Mobile VR doesn't mean walking down the street wearing an Oculus Rift. That would be silly. And dangerous.
Isn't it about time Samsung binned that button and stopped living in the 2010s?
Better workplace security, for Android L.
"Oh...it DOES explode!"
The tech equivalent of low-blowing a boxer before they've even entered the ring.
Is than an extra £500 in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?
Better death than an evening with no Twitter.
2015 models to be powered by 14nm Samsung processors, says industry watcher.
In the latest battle between the two technology giants, Samsung have declared that not only is its Tab S better, owning an iPad also makes you a terrible parent.
We've heard rumours before that Samsung and Oculus were working together on a VR headset, and this leak of "Gear VR" from Sammobile might be it.
Samsung will join Panasonic in stopping making plasma displays later this year, as falling demand from customers means there's no more money in it. The long-foretold end of plasma is near. [Reuters via Cnet]
Samsung has announced that it's closing its Video and Media Hub. Any purchases you made will still be valid, only with M-Go instead.
Samsung's Gear Live is a vast improvement over the company's earlier wearable devices. While it's got some issues, it's a great first shot at harnessing the Android Wear platform.
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Not only can this location problem affect the recovery point of your applications, it could also affect your overall recovery objective time--if the tapes weren't destroyed in the disaster but were somehow inaccessible to your recovery staff, similar to what the brokerage firm in my personal account experienced. It's not likely that the terrorists saw this vulnerable gap of time as an additional side effect, but the timing of the strikes hindered our ability to recover data. And if we still think that it's safe to play the odds on scenarios like this, then we really haven't learned very much at all with regard to DR.
One huge milestone in recovering applications using a tape-based solution is the point at which you have every tape library designated for recovery populated with the tapes that the backup server will request while directing the recovery of your production applications. Admittedly, there's quite a bit of preparatory work that's necessary to identify the most critical applications and their associated backup tapes, load and inventory these tapes in the library.
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If you compare the access times of the tape and disk approaches, you'll see that there's really no comparison at all. Even the fastest, most expensive mid-cartridge load tape drive cannot match a low-end, Fibre Channel (FC)-attached ATA disk array. The brokerage firm in my Sept. 11 experience was using DLT drives for its backup and recovery solution. These drives were engineered for raw capacity--not speed--in their load and unload operations. So, when loading and unloading a tape during the recovery, this operation was elongated and proceeded in single file, because they were essentially hardware interrupts of the same priority. At times, this caused the robotic arm in the library to be overrun with SCSI commands, and it eventually had to be reset. Unfortunately, this phenomenon was not recognized until recovery jobs started failing.
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Very Raspberry Pie Recipe
- 6 cups fresh raspberries, divided
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup whipped topping
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 graham cracker crust (9 inches)
- Fresh mint, optional
- Mash about 2 cups raspberries to measure 1 cup; place in a small saucepan. Add the sugar, cornstarch and water.
- Bring to a boil, stirring constantly; cook and stir 2 minutes longer. Strain to remove berry seeds if desired. Cool to room temperature, about 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, for filling, beat the cream cheese, whipped topping and confectioners' sugar in a small bowl. Spread in bottom of crust.
- Top with remaining raspberries. Pour cooled raspberry sauce over top. Refrigerate until set, about 3 hours.
- Store in the refrigerator. Garnish with mint if desired. Yield: 8 servings.
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I gave away 1 piece of this pie the first time I made it this summer, the rest (3 more) I ate all by myself. This is so good; I can't believe my taste buds, yum, yum... I told them where to find the recipe because it was so good. The fourth time, I did not have as many raspberries (end of season), but it was still great. If you don't like the recipe, you made it wrong. It is very sweet, but so what!!! I have told everybody I know how good it was. Thanks.
Pie was okay. Used regular 9" pie crust. Way too much filling. Enough for two pies but only had one shell. Did not need six cups of raspberries either. Huge waste of expensive ingredients since I had no second shell. The pie tasted okay though...not great, but it WAS good
My husband loved this. It was very yummy!
I give this a 4 1/2. This pie is fresh and delicious........great summer surprise.
Too sweet, filling was too soft, didn't ever set up. Big mess and waste of precious raspberries. Will make my tried and true recipe, from now on. Big disappointment
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2008-09 (Freshman)
Fall: Posted a 4-6 singles record...Lost first collegiate match before rallying to win next four ... Defeated Maria Spencely (Florida International) 6-4, 6-4 ... Teamed with Marlene Chemin and Natalie Araya for a combined record of 6-4 ... Posted 5-1 record with Chemin, winning five-straight ... Pair defeated opponents from Boston College and Georgia State.
Spring: Ended freshman campaign with a 17-14 record and was 13-8 in dual matches ... At the No. 4 position went 9-8 ... Began season going 6-1 with one loss being to No. 15 Vanderbilt's Heather Steinbauer ... Defeated Montana's Martyna Nowak 7-6 (5), 6-1 ... Posted three wins to end the season ... In doubles action went 25-13 ... Teamed with Marlene Chemin to notch wins over Chattanooga and Tennessee Tech to begin season ... Paired with Natalie Araya to defeat No. 64 Marshall's Deanna Bailey and Jessica Keener 8-5.
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Played for Steve Pace at Cartersville High School ... Lettered four years in tennis and one year in basketball ... Won an individual state title her freshman year ... Notched an impressive 63-0 record during her four-year career.
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Drive series. Take that scene where hotel heiress Paris Hilton and her material girlfriend Nicole Richie try to bottle cows' milk and make udder fools of themselves. "Bottling the milk? That's a no-no," says Danny Council, the dairy farmer who briefly employed the city slickers. "None of that meets health department standards. It was totally for the show." (The producers even had to search high and low for glass bottles, rarely used these days.) All the milk that wasn't already spilt had to be poured out afterward. At least Council got a fresh coat of paint on his barn for his troubles. The front of it anyway: "It was white, and the producers said white didn't photograph 'true,' so they painted it gray."
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Date: May 2, 2012
by: Observer staff
April 18
Sounds like a plan
11:20 p.m. — 500 block of Broadway. Disturbance. A resident agreed to get the eight or nine people at his home to be quiet or to go home after police received a complaint about a loud party in his apartment.
April 19
Setting boundaries
11:25 a.m. — Off the Key. Boat. Police found a boat that appeared vacant after receiving a report of a sailing vessel run aground. The incident was not in town boundaries, and an officer from another agency was already handling it.
April 20
Value system
9:54 a.m. — 2000 block of GMD. Lost/Missing Property. A woman reported her bicycle as missing. She said it was not expensive but held sentimental value.
Banned from the sand
12:20 p.m. — 100 block of N. Shore Road. Dog on the Beach. A man became "somewhat incensed" about having to remove his dog from the beach after police told him about town ordinances.
Call of the wild
8:24 p.m. — 5100 block of GMD. Disturbance. A woman told police she had heard the same intermittent alarm for several nights in a row and it sounded loud, frightening and "terrorist attack-like." Police realized that she was hearing the call of the Chuck-will's-widow bird and suggested she close her windows.
Writing's on the wall
8:42 p.m. — 4000 block of GMD. Vandalism. Police found graffiti on the bathroom wall of a recreation center that contained writing in permanent marker about wanting to get back with a girlfriend.
April 21
Unwanted visitor
2:43 a.m. — 200 block of Sands Point Road. Trespassing. Hotel-goers complained after a woman began knocking on doors in an attempt to find a guest. Police tried to convince the woman, who appeared intoxicated, to take a cab or call a friend for a ride home, but placed her under arrest after she continued to insist on finding the guest. Although she had told police that she had no money for a taxi, police found $59.62 in her purse along with two small bottles of Pinot Grigio.
Port of call
3:39 p.m. — Linley Street and Poinsettia Avenue. Property Found. A woman turned in a MetroPCS cell phone that she found on a boat ramp.
April 24
Gone adrift?
11:02 a.m. — 6900 block of Bayside Drive. Lost/Missing Property. A man told police that he discovered his kayak was missing two days earlier. Police were unable to determine whether the kayak was stolen or had drifted away.
April 21
Not one to take it lightly
8:37 a.m. — 5100 block of GMD. Public Service. A woman reported seeing 15 evenly spaced, slow-moving balls of orange light from her condominium unit. She told police that she was unable to contact air-traffic controllers at the local airport but said that she would report the incident to the National UFO Reporting Center.
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John Hayes, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, is retiring at the end of the upcoming academic year. Hayes will conclude a 21-year career as a college dean, the last nine of which have been at Pacific. Prior to Pacific, he was the dean of Arts & Sciences and a professor of chemistry at Marlboro College in Vermont. Since coming to Pacific, Dean Hayes has assisted in the transition from a three-credit to a four-credit system and has led efforts to restructure the College of Arts & Sciences into three schools: Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. A nationwide search to find a new dean, led by Vice Provost and College of Health Professions Executive Dean Ann Barr, is underway.


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Clinton is right. This is starting to look like the beginning of his 2nd term!
The Journal Sentinel's Craig Gilbert explores political trends in a purple state and beyond.
Will 2012 in Wisconsin be the nail-biter that 2004 was?
A fight to the end for this state's ten electoral votes invites obvious comparisons to 2004, a race that generated stratospheric turnout and was decided by roughly three votes per ward in Wisconsin.
Because it so was close, so polarizing and so potentially pivotal in the race for president, that contest is a handy reference point for sizing up this one.
Both sides have positives and negatives they didn't have in that race.
Let's examine how 2012 stacks up against the 50/50 election of 2004 in Wisconsin, and which side is better positioned this time around:
The polls. Barack Obama has been tied with or ahead of Mitt Romney in every independent public poll this fall. That stands in contrast to the polling in Wisconsin in the fall of 2004, which was all over the map: President Bush led in some surveys, Democrat John Kerry led in others; still others were dead-even. Bush was up by six and eight in two Gallup polls in Wisconsin in the final weeks; Kerry was up by six in a late Zogby poll and by two in a late Mason-Dixon survey. On the whole, the '04 polling offered no clear and consistent signal about the outcome, which turned out to be a near-tie that Democrats won by less than four tenths of a percentage point. Here's a chart, showing the margins (red for Bush, blue for Kerry) for the leading candidate in every October survey in Wisconsin. I included all public polls except for those by a firm called Strategic Vision, since questions were later raised about its credibility:
In 2012, the Wisconsin surveys disagree about the margins, which is normal. But taken together, the polls are much more consistent than they were in 2004 about which candidate is ahead here. Here's the same chart for this election, showing Obama tied with Romney in two surveys and ahead in the rest:
In fact, in the polling averages measured by RealClearPolitics, Obama has a higher level of support – 50.4% -- than he does in any of the other eight most contested states. It would be unusual for a candidate to win a state without leading in any September or October surveys (there have been 20 in Wisconsin). Matthew Dowd, in charge of polling for the 2000 and 2004 Bush campaign, observed on Twitter Friday, "When is the last time this late in modern (presidential) campaigns that the preponderance of numerous public polls were wrong? Answer: never."
Intensity. Republicans argue the public polls are off because they're sampling too many Democratic-leaning but sporadic voters and not reflecting a GOP edge in enthusiasm and motivation. How does the intensity of voters on both sides compare to the 50/50 election of 2004 in Wisconsin? That election featured fierce passion on both sides. An estimated 75% of eligible voters turned out, second highest in the U.S. after Minnesota, and one of the highest turnout levels achieved in any state in the past half-century. Many GOP voters loved George W. Bush; many Democratic voters hated him. Feeling on both sides was amplified by emotions over the war in Iraq. This time, it's Republicans who are the "anti" voters, motivated by the desire to replace Obama. That's a powerful drive, just as it was for Democrats opposed to Bush. There's a life-or-death quality to this election for many Republican voters who view a second Obama term in almost apocalyptic terms. Are Democratic voters here equally motivated to keep Obama in office? Maybe. Wisconsin has generated Obama's two biggest crowds this fall, according to campaign officials. But if not – if there is an intensity gap not fully reflected in the polls -- Republicans can do better in Wisconsin and other battlegrounds than surveys suggest.
Effort and attention. Obama is making three visits to Wisconsin in the campaign's last five days – five visits in all since late September. Romney's West Allis rally Friday was only his second visit to the state since mid-August. Republicans say the Obama visits are a sign his party is worried about Wisconsin. But if Romney suffers a narrow defeat here, it will be fair to ask if he worked the state hard enough. Consider the contrast with 2004, when the Bush campaign decided to make Wisconsin its top "blue-state" target. Three of the GOP's top ten markets for TV ads (measured by number of spots aired) were in Wisconsin. In the last month of the 2004 campaign, Bush made eight stops in Wisconsin. Only three states (Florida, Ohio and Iowa) saw him more often. Either Bush or Vice President Cheney was in Wisconsin on seven of the final eight days of the campaign; Democrats hit the state just about as hard.
"Like any Wisconsin Republican, I would have really liked to see Mitt Romney come here more often," said GOP strategist Mark Graul, who ran the Bush-Cheney campaign in this state in 2004. "But on the flip side, particularly when you look at western Wisconsin, and the amount of time (in 2004) we spent there in the Bush campaign -- time, money, energy, effort, the president of the United States doing stops in Richland Center and Cuba City, La Crosse three times and Eau Claire, we went to all those places so very often -- and we still lost. So maybe there's an argument the visits aren't as valuable."
The Ryan factor. Some Republicans say the need for Romney visits was lessened by Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan's presence on the ticket. Ryan was in the state far more often than Romney, both to visit his family and to campaign. The value of Ryan to the GOP ticket in the state is one of the most intriguing questions about the 2012 contest. It clearly represents an asset the GOP didn't have in previous races here, including 2004. But how much of an asset? If Ryan can add an extra five or six points in his own congressional district to the ticket, that would boost his statewide percentage by nearly a point.
"Obviously it helps to have Paul on the ticket. It certainly helps with intensity," says state GOP vice chair Brian Schimming. "Paul's congressional district (is) not out in the middle of nowhere. He's in the right media markets. He's in the right part of the state to move votes."
In you assume Ryan's congressional ads also help the Romney-Ryan ticket, then those TV spots increased Romney's ad volume by more than 50% in October in the Madison and Milwaukee TV markets, according to data from Kantar Media CMAG.
Former Democratic Senator Russ Feingold is dismissive of the Ryan factor in Wisconsin. "If he is as popular as they think he is (here), it should be enough to put the guy on the ticket. He shouldn't have to be in his own state all the time. They thought he was some kind of consensus figure in Wisconsin. He actually is just the opposite. He's a divisive figure," says Feingold.
In the last Marquette University Law School poll, 46% of likely voters in the state viewed Ryan favorably, and 42% viewed him unfavorably.
Incumbency. In 2004, Republicans were the incumbent party, which is typically an advantage when a party has only held the White House for one term, not two. Jimmy Carter is the only incumbent to lose in more than half a century under those circumstances. This time the Democrats are the incumbent party. While this means Obama is vulnerable in a sluggish economy to the public's appetite for change, it also means his campaign has had two or three years to design the strategy and infrastructure for his re-election campaign. That was a major asset for Bush in 2004. Democrat Kerry had to create a general election campaign overnight after winning his party's nomination, just as Romney had to do this year.
Ground game. That last point brings us to the turnout efforts on both sides. The GOP's Graul says his party in 04 "had to truly build from scratch a GOTV (get out the vote) operation that Wisconsin had never really done or seen before." But the result was a massive Republican vote, only outdone by a slightly more massive Democratic vote. Graul thinks the ground game is even better on his side this time than it was in '04, partly because it is keying off Gov. Walker's big recall victory. On the Democratic side, 2012 looks a lot different organizationally than 2004. Eight years ago, there were two big parallel field operations, one by the party, one by a consortium of labor and progressive groups. This time, labor's capacity in the state is presumably diminished after public-sector unions were substantially weakened by the labor changes Walker enacted. The Obama campaign hopes to make up the difference with technology, manpower and efficiency, and like Bush in '04, has had several years to plan and execute its operation for identifying potential supporters and turning them out.
It's very hard from the outside to evaluate political field organizations.
"I think pound for pound you probably have the two best turnout operations of any states in the country on both sides," says state Democratic chair Mike Tate, partly because of the experience both sides have acquired in waging so many hard and bitter campaigns in recent years.
Recent history. That brings us to last two historic years in Wisconsin politics. Any comparison of 2012 with past elections has to account for the exceptional events of 2010 (the GOP wave and rise to power), 2011 (protests, labor wars, legislative recalls), and 2012 (Gov. Walker's victory in the recall fight).
Republicans like to say they have proven they know how to win elections in Wisconsin. The GOP base is impassioned. Independents swung to Republicans in 2010 and June 2012. The recall "woke up a tiger," GOP Senate candidate Tommy Thompson told a raucous crowd at the Romney rally in West Allis Friday. If you're wondering about Republican enthusiasm, "just inhale the air here," said Thompson. At the same time, polls showed that some Walker voters in June were Obama supporters who rejected the recall process. And it will be a different and bigger electorate voting for president than voted in Walker's two victories.
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We just had the best jobs report in 8 months, and Aug & Sept. numbers were upward revised.
Clinton is right. This is starting to look like the beginning of his 2nd term!Hide replies
Last months unemployment number was 7.8 %. This time around it's 7.9%. We are going in the wrong direction.
The unemployment rising in the case was a GOOD sign. It means more people are looking for work, people who were formerly discouraged about finding a job, now are searching because of the improving economy. When it went down to 7.8 Republicans whined it was because people stopped looking. Now it rises because people are looking, and Republicans whine again. Can't have it both ways.
Obama minupulates the "who is looking for a job" nonsense to make the numbers look advantageous to him. Obama's economic policies have been a disaster, 4 more years will be an even bigger disaster
You are right, we can't have it both ways. The unemployment rate sucks whether it's 7.8, 7.9, 8.0 %. It's time for a change.
The unemployment rate is bad, I agree. We're almost done cleaning up the mess created by America's worst (and dumbest) president Bush. By the end of Obama's 2nd term, unemployment will be under 6.
Bush's lowest unemployment rate was 4.2% in Jan 2001. The highest unemployment rate during President Bush's entire eight years in office was his last at 7.8%, compared to President Obama's low of 7.8% in September. Obama had a high of 10% in Oct. 2009.
Yeah......It's Bush's fault!
Here's where you use something called common sense...and I know Republicans struggle with that, so try to bear with me...
After Clinton the economy was at it's peak, a budget surplus, as good as things could get. Now, Bush is bad...but not bad enough to destroy all of that work in only 1 year, hence a low unemployment at the beginning of his term. Then he put in place his wonderful cough policies, and you saw a steady increase in unemployment. When he left office, we were deep in recession and things were only gonna get worse for a while, and they did. Now, we have a real president back in office...and if you'll notice, unemployment is on the decline again.
Jessie - you just keep posting the same thing over and over and over on all the different blogs....no original thought or discourse??
Jan 2001? Does anybody with a functioning brain really believe Bush had absolutely any impact on the employment rate during the month that he was president for all of 11 days? Get a clue.
Subtract all the public sector jobs that Republicans supposedly hate so much that were created at un unprecedented rate during Bush's presidency and the unemployment rate during his pathetic reign of incompetence is much higher.
Republicans constantly run around wailing about how awful it is to expand government and public sector jobs especially at then expense of increasing the country's debt, but Bush does all three and here you are telling everybody how great he was for doing it. Walker makes a career out of demonizing public sector workers and he's lauded as a hero for it. Yet a sizable chunk of the unemployment rate during Obama's first term comes from massive jobs eliminated in the public sector, and now Republicans want to have it both ways and say that means he must be failing.
The numbers you present are so thin and distorted, people might mistake it for one of Ryan's failed budgets.
Republicans blaming Obama for the economy is like John Wilkes Booth blaming Lincoln for missing the second act of the play.
No nail biter here, Obama will win here easily. Let's here it Conservatives, FOUR MORE YEARS.Hide replies
We heard that during the Walker recall too. How did that work out for you?? Romney wins by 7 points.
No, you didn't here that. Democrats, unlike Republicans, look at polling and don't turn it into a conspiracy. We saw Walker ahead in polling, and knew it'd be an uphill climb. We see Obama ahead in polling, and know were heavy favorites.
lou, Get over the Walker thing, you can't hang on to that the rest of your life. We are talking the Presidency, not the pea brain you elected as our Governor, stay on the subject or don't comment.
Romney wins WI and Ohio.
loueegee: based on what, your "feelings" about the race? Or do you have some secret data that nobody else knows about?
Righties, better have crying towels the size of king size bed sheets.
We know President Obama has our best interests in mind. He has introduced to congress jobs bills, veteran's jobs bills, and bills punishing companies that outsource, only to have republican lawmakers shoot down every one. We also know that Grover Norquist makes elected republicans sign a pledge of allegiance to corporate interests, in the guise of not raising taxes, rather than to the American people. Our republican legislators, as well as any republican who would be elected president, will put the interests of greedy corporate pigs over those of everyday Americans. Romney/Ryan=sinister implications for America.
Romney isn't getting Ohio so this would croak him.Hide replies
Romney isn't getting Ohio. Virginia is trending Democrat. Nevada is comfortable. And Iowa is comfortable for Obama as well. Not only is Obama going to win, he will likely eclipse the 300 electoral vote mark.
And I'm likely to get my drink on Tuesday night in celebration
Better make it a beer so you'll have something to cry into when Zero loses.
Got to make sure lots of fraudulent votes get added in. Dems are counting on those!
If Romney wins here, it was Obama who lost the race here. He won the state by 14% in 2008, it is pathetic that the Obama campaign even has to consider this a swing state after winning by such a large margin.
Clearly the internal polling is showing a sign of trouble for the Obama campaign. Now instead of campaigning in swing areas of the state (NW Wisc, North Central Wisc, and the Fox Valley) they are going to Milwaukee and Madison. They must believe getting out the base instead of fighting for independents is going to win this race.
The Romney campaign is harder to peg, since he has only visited twice. But Ryan's consistent visits to the swing areas of the state show they must be feeling good about winning these areas of the state.
It will be interesting to see who comes out to vote and how each county has changed over the past 4 years.Hide replies
Or maybe they know that giant turnouts in Milwaukee and Madison guarantee a victory? Not to mention they had Biden in the Chippewa Valley 3 times, Green Bay area as well. Clinton was in...Waukesha? They've hammered the whole state. The reason they're hammering this state is Ohio Wisconsin = win. It's not hard to figure out...
You also are missing the point, why do they have to "hammer" a state that was won by 14% in 2008? They should be a sure fire win and they should not even have to be here.
Correction: This should be a sure fire win and they should not even have to be here.
And on election day, I'm predicting a sure fire win of roughly 7 in Wisconsin for Obama. And over 300 electoral votes. You don't get bonus points for blowouts. It might hurt Obama's BCS ranking, but a win is a win...
There's zero logic in that theory. Clinton is going to make an appearance this weekend in Minnesota where Obama has an even wider lead over Romney than he does here. Why would Clinton do that? Not for Obama's sake, but because Michelle Bachman still can't close the deal against a Democratic challenger despite outspending him by a margin of 12 to 1. Guess who won't come to the gopher state to try and lend a hand to the Tea Party clown queen? Romney.
Even Thompson in an extremely tight race has largely steered clear of both Romney and Ryan. It's because he's smart enough to know that they are losing this state and he'd look like a loser if he's standing next to them and their pathetic ideas this late in the game.
Oh, yes - Biden visiting 3 times is a HUGE benefit....
"There hasn't been a day in the last 4 years that I have been proud to be his Vice President....Not 1 day!!!" Go Joe Go!!!
Odd you'd criticize Joe Biden. The majority of Americans felt he won the debate against Paul Ryan. What does that say about Ryan...
Correction - The majority of Americans were disgusted by the amazing display disrespect shown by Joe Biden throughout the debate. The only ones who think he won it are hard core Democrats like yourself. How you can feel proud about such a blatantly ridiculous display is beyond me. I do believe, however, that you must be paid by the post the way you keep repeating the same well scripted lines over and over and over again.
No.Hide replies
Yes, it will be a nail-biter, all for naught, for Zero and sideshow Joe. If it was in the bag for them, he wouldn't be ending his Presidency here having Katy Perry and Bruce Springsteen pimpin' for him.
....Didn't Romney have superstars Meatloaf...and Ted...Nugent...........
...pimping for him?
Better Katy and Bruce lending their support for Obama than some old bitter crank spouting insults at an empty chair like Eastwood did for Romney. Easily the most pathetic convention Republicans put on since nominating Goldwater in '64.
The only nail biting in WI on Tuesday will likely be from members of the right wing clown fringe out of anger that all that money from billionaires pitting up signs trying to intimidate inner city voters couldn't save a candidate as phony and inept as Romney has turned out to be.
Speaking of clown,
In Beloit yesterday, Biden tells his 1100 supporters "there's never been a day in the last four years I've been proud to be his vice president."
What a clown. And what's even worse, is the crowd cheered him on.
Oh my god! THAT WASN'T NATIONAL NEWS?!?!?!? After months of non stop campaigning, a political figure made a very tiny speaking error?! Call Fox! Asap! This is huge!
Rather have a clown than a bogus, lying P90 freak.
The media is misleading people when they say this election is going to be a nailbiter.Hide replies
True. Nate Silver's polling blog (with the NYT) has moved WI from "likely" to "safe" Obama. More here: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
Scroll to near the bottom of the right column for a summary and list of the WI-specific polls and their margins.
Obama's not in much danger, if any of losing this state and the polling clearly indicates that. Baldwin, however, faces much steeper odds of being able to win her race and Obama's team is well aware of that, which is why he shows up here with a pop singer trying to motivate the youth vote to turn out big for Tuesday. The president knows that he hasn't won much of anything in the long run if the Democrats can't retain a majority in the Senate and he'd rather see Baldwin taking over for Kohl than Thompson. With the Senate race too close to call, any help he can give to Baldwin could easily make the difference.
The best the GOP could advance as a Cranbrook plutocrat that is a job outsourcer who parks his stash in offshore accounts, and who "toughed out" the Vietnam War in France, and kept all 5 of his sons out of Iraq.
Talk about truth stranger than fiction! :-)Hide replies
I could care less about your slanderous drivel.
Obama is an Epic Failure with a record he can't run on, but runs from.
@aka. Then use your multiple aliases to give me a few thumbs down. Oh, that's right, you already did, now more people will read it :-)
There you go with that "multiple aliases" nonsense again. Take off the tinfoil hat and stop drinking the koolaid.
yes Graeme, you have no...... (from ghost busters Bill murray yes mayer he has no...)
"I could care less about your slanderous drivel."
You're on. What's slanderous about what It Can't Happen said.
Oh yeah I forgot. The Medieval Right doesn't believe in facts, only fantasy.


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By BEN JOHNSON
Sports Editor
Vernon Jones says he is due for a haircut. However, when he trims up the dark fuzz atop his head is up to him and his teammates.
"I don't plan on cutting my hair until we win the first game," the Northeastern State cornerback said. "That's why it's growing."
Still far from an overgrown afro, Jones' hair will have to at least wait until early September to be scaled down. But, he vows to avoid the clippers until NSU cracks the win column.
"I know it looks funny right now," said Jones, who, along with the rest of the Riverhawks, will open up the 2013 campaign at Pittsburg State on Sept. 7.
"Everyone keeps telling me I need to cut it, but..."
Those plans on are hold.
First up on Jones' to-do list is get back into shape after sitting out spring practice.
"I missed out on the running," Jones said. "Now I'm just trying to work on my conditioning."
The Jacksonville, Fla., native was forced into a sabbatical during the spring months because he lost a semester of athletic eligibility by playing basketball for one year in junior college at New Mexico Military Institute. And in order to play for the RiverHawks in 2013, Jones had to sit idly by while his teammates laced up and put the pads on in March and April.
"I hate watching," said Jones, who is 5-foot-11 and 170 pounds. "That's like playing on the bench. So I just had to get back into football mode, that's about it."
That wasn't much of a problem for Jones. He's well-versed in college football by now.
During his junior season, Jones recorded five interceptions for the RiverHawks, which landed him in a tie for third in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association category.
"As far as a coverage-type person, Vernon is probably the best in the MIAA," NSU head coach Kenny Evans said. "He ended up as one of the leading guys, in terms of picking off balls. He probably had his hands on more balls that he could have picked off, too."
Teaming up with Victor Johnson, Marquin Watts and Kyler Harris, Jones will be an integral part of a senior-laden secondary in 2014. It's a unit that could allow NSU to mix things up elsewhere.
"How they all play in the secondary," Evans said, "could allow us to get creative up front with a younger, less-experienced group."
And when it comes to pass coverage, Evans knows he's not going to have to worry about Jones' proximity to his targeted wide receiver.
"He is always in the right position," Evans said of Jones, who also ended up with 26 tackles, four tackles for loss, one sack and five pass break-ups last season.
"Vernon has great foot work and his coverage ability sets him apart from others."
In addition to playing at "a thankless position, much like an offensive lineman," as Evans put it, Jones will serve as the RiverHawks' punt returner again in 2013. His return game is one area where he felt like he needed to get better prior to his senior year.
"I need to get a punt return for a touchdown," Jones said. "Other than that, I just need to get stronger and faster."
If he does, he can plan on cutting his curls sooner rather than later.


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A University of Nebraska-Lincoln agricultural economist reminds producers that Dec. 10 is the deadline for the crop-insurance period.
Doug Jose says farmers who aren't finished with their harvest by
the deadline will need to ask for an extension if they plan to file
any losses.
If losses are going to be filed due to loss in quality, such as moldy corn in a field, a strip must be left behind in the field so an insurance agent can make an assessment.


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The Hollywood blockbuster machine has churned out its share of insipid box office goldmines aimed at teens during the past several years.
So, it's refreshing to see one get it right. Gary Ross's "The Hunger Games," which is adapted from the first of Suzanne Collins's enormously popular dystopian trilogy, is an exciting and occasionally – gasp – thought provoking science fiction thriller.
It's no secret that the material includes some borrowed elements, namely from Kinji Fukasaku's uber-violent cult classic "Battle Royale." But "Games" makes up for the its lack of originality in the story department with pointed social commentary, imaginative sets and costume design and a solid performance by Jennifer Lawrence.
For those not in the know, "Games" is set in a not-so-distant future following a war between The Capitol and 12 outlying districts.
As a punishment for their revolt, each district must annually choose a young man and woman to take part in the titular gladiatorial competition. Only one of its 24 contestants will survive.
Much like a season of "Survivor" or any other reality TV show, the youngsters are followed by camera crews in the weeks leading up to the games as they are trained and strutted about in stylish costumes.
Lawrence, who impressed me with her performance in 2010's "Winter's Bone," plays Katniss, a young woman from a coal mining district who takes the place of her sister in the games. The actress proves once again her ability to convincingly portray young women in dangerous circumstances.
For a movie aimed at teens, "Hunger" is pretty violent, although most of the deaths are not displayed in graphic detail.
But the grim tale features some clever commentary on the spectacle of reality television and the public's tendency to flock to the tragedy of others.
The trilogy is off to a solid start. I'm hoping next year's sophomore effort retains the first entry's energy and ideas that make the "Twilight" films pale in comparison.
Another of this week's new releases involves characters thrown into a confined space and then left to bump one another off.
Film festival favorite "The Raid: Redemption" is likely one of the most violent movies you will ever see. Set in Indonesia, the picture is a ballet of broken limbs and battered bodies.
Director Gareth Evans wastes little time setting up. A nefarious crime kingpin runs his operation out of a dilapidated 30-story building in the slums of Jakarta.
As the movie opens, we meet Rama (Iko Uwais) - a rookie cop with a young wife and baby - and his squad as they attempt to infiltrate the building and take out the entire syndicate.
And that's the story. For most its 100-minute running time, the cops and criminals engage in brutal hand-to-hand combat.
To its credit, the endless fight sequences incorporating Indonesia's martial art, Pencak Silat, are breathtaking and brilliantly choreographed.
On the other hand, the film is otherwise threadbare. A plot twist occurs halfway through the movie, but it barely registers. Another occurs near its end and has the same effect.
I'll give credit where it's due: "The Raid" includes virtuosic stunt and camera work and is a must-see for action movie enthusiasts. All others might consider proceeding with caution.
The weekend's third selection also doles out significant pain to its characters, but its story revolves around matters of the heart.
"The Deep Blue Sea" is the latest film from Terence Davies, whose work recently screened during a retrospective at Brooklyn's BAM Cinemas.
The director's best efforts – "The Long Day Closes" and "Distant Voices, Still Lives" – could be described as elegiac hymns that chronicle its characters' memories of 1940s and 1950s England.
But Davies' latest is a mournful dirge. In the film, Rachel Weisz is Hester, the wife of a British judge in 1950s London whose life unravels after having an affair with a cad, Freddie (Tom Hiddleston), who does not return her affections.
The movie is equally gorgeous to view – with its lush cinematography and imaginative use of color – and painful to watch.
A sequence in which Hester stands before an oncoming train and then flashes back to the huddled masses singing in unison in a subway tunnel during a World War II bombing is particularly effective.
Hester's obsession with Freddie is unreasonable, considering the horrid way in which he treats her as well as her husband's doting attempts to win her back.
But the story encapsulates Blaise Pascal's statement that "the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."
"The Deep Blue Sea" is a haunting film about a character's illogical descent into all-consuming love.
"The Hunger Games" is playing at Douglaston's Movie World, while "The Raid: Redemption" is screening at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 and "The Deep Blue Sea" is playing at the Paris Theatre and the Angelika Film Center.


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Even though he has the face and build of a leonine Celtic warrior, there's also something gentle and mouselike about Liam Neeson. That's what makes him such an unlikely and invigorating action hero, and it's part of what made the 2008 thriller Taken so disreputably pleasurable: Somehow, watching this sad, sweet galoot zap Albanian bad apples with a jillion volts of electricity just felt so right.
Drug abuse is primarily a medical problem, not a crime against society. American anti-drug policy is a means of social control that's rooted in racial and ethnic prejudice. The country's incarceration industry has become a self-sustaining force, predicated on economics rather than justice.
The Swiss canton of Vallais isn't exactly South Central, but it does have a crime problem: His name is Simon, and he seems to have found the perfect racket. Sister's 12-year-old protagonist (Kacey Mottet Klein) steals skis, gear and clothing at an upscale mountain resort that's just a short tram ride above his bleak flatland apartment.
Not only is the ski lodge convenient, but it's frequented by people who are too rich to sweat the loss of their stuff. ("They'll just buy a new one," Simon explains to one of the townies who buy his purloined goods.)
Every filmmaker has the right, of course, to remake his own film. And what filmmaker wouldn't relish the chance to redo something he felt he didn't get quite right the first time around, either for lack of funds or for lack of support from a studio?
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Dang if Home for the Holidays season hasn't rolled around again — that jolly time of year when screenwriters dust off childhood memories of mildly distressed families and distress them further for our sentimental education. Yet if it seems a little early-autumn yet for that sort of thing, please welcome a surprisingly superior specimen of the genre, courtesy of the best indie ensemble money can buy.


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PILOTNPAWS LOGO***TWO T.V. STATIONS came to film the arrival. I used this press release that you can use too and modify. Just fax it in to all t.v. station NEWSROOMS
Dog rescued from "the needle" in Pendleton Oregon to be adopted by "Forever Family" in Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Rescue flight will arrive at Cottage Grove airport at 9:45 am.
TV news stations around the country have broadcast stories about these flying rescue missions.
See examples here:
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Pilot: Retired/disabled lawyer Dan Bernath 503 367 4204 firstname.lastname@example.com
Adopter: Sonja Wilkins Coordinator: Linda Watkins 208 484 2534
Rescued: Maggie was adopted from Watkins about 3 years ago; last week her owner committed suicide (bad economy-love gone wrong?). Maggie is in the Pendleton pound and needs to come back to me so I can get her down to her foster home. I had several rides fall through and now she's getting stressed and we need to get her settled! She won't last the weekend. Pilot dropped everything to fly her out Thursday.
Pilots N Paws was founded in 2008 by animal-lover Debi Boies and pilot Jon Wehrenberg. The idea first took flight when Jon agreed to help Debi by flying a rescued Doberman from Florida to South Carolina, to save the dog's life. The trip was a success and the two brainstormed on how to rescue other animals. Spay/Neuter campaigns in parts of the country were working, while in others parts, primarily in the south, pet overpopulation was still a huge problem. There had to be a way to turn a problem into a solution. Former pets were dying needlessly. They needed transport.
The dream quickly became a reality when the website, http://www.pilotsnpaws.org was launched, to provide a location where private pilots willing to provide free transport, and people and organizations who rescue, shelter or foster animals, could connect to save lives. Today the organization has 2466 pilot volunteers and 8281 volunteers.
Each year, the volunteers of Pilots N Paws save thousands of lives. Those lives come in the form of any animal that can be transported using a plane. Dogs, cats, pigs, reptiles and rabbits are just a few who have taken one of our flights.Pet overpopulation is a disturbing problem in the United States. More than 4 million no-longer-wanted pets are euthanized each year. While spay/neuter programs have worked to decrease domestic animal populations in some parts of the country, other areas are considered high-kill. A staggering 70% of dogs that enter shelters in the southern part of the country are euthanized. Until now, there have been few options for these innocent victims. Pilots N Paws is helping to change that.


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Dec. 1, 2011
College Cup Photo Gallery
KENNESAW, Ga. (seminoles.com) - The Florida State Women's Soccer team arrived in Kennesaw, Ga., on Wednesday evening in preparation for the 2011 College Cup. The Seminoles will face the Stanford Cardinal in the first semifinal match Friday evening at 5:00 p.m. at the KSU Soccer Stadium.
Thursday kicked off the festivities for this year's College Cup as members of all four teams participated in a pre-tournament press conference, practice and interviews with the talent staff from ESPN - Beth Mowins, Julie Foudy and Monica Gonzalez. Later this evening, all four teams will gather at the championship banquet which will be held at The Brickyard at Marietta.
Below is a transcript from today's press conference featuring Florida State head coach Mark Krikorian, senior midfielder Tori Huster, senior defender Toni Pressley and redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Kelsey Wys.
Seminoles.com was also on hand to grab footage from today's press conference and afternoon practice as Florida State makes its final preparations for Stanford.
Check back with Seminoles.com later this evening for more footage from Thursday night's banquet.
NCAA Press Conference Quotes
Head Coach Mark Krikorian
On the style of the game
On added pressure of playing a top-rated, undefeated Stanford team
On midseason position in ACC standings and team turnaround
On the strength of the ACC
On international players
On the defense and goalkeepers
On Kelsey Wys as a goalkeeper
On scouting report in preparation for Stanford
On improvements from the regular season up to now
On quality possessions offensively
On Tiffany McCarty's return after last season's injury
Tori Huster
On take a ways from playing with international players
On extra motivation this year following last year's quarter final finish
Toni Pressley
Kelsey Wys
On conference championship and penalty kick saves
On Mike Bristol helping her improve as a goalkeeper


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Gold Standard writer Glenn Whipp is sweeping through all 24 Oscar categories this week, assessing the races, predicting the winners and helping you prevail in your Oscar pools. He tackled the troublesome shorts categories here. Now it's time to peek behind the wall of sound.
Three movies — "Argo," "Life of Pi" and "Skyfall" — landed nominations in both the sound editing and sound mixing categories. Four of the last five years, the same movie has taken both categories, with "Hugo" being the latest to pull off that particular feat.


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Cellar/Tasting Notes The 2007 La Mission Haut Brion, a candidate for wine of the vintage, exhibits a dense ruby/purple hue along with notes of melted licorice, blueberries, cassis, burning embers, and charcoal, sweet tannin, medium to full body, a fleshy mouthfeel, and an endearing succulence as well as lushness...
Cellar/Tasting Notes "A spicy, ripe, elegant and admirably pure nose offers up notes of anise, sandalwood and clove that add breadth to the floral, earth and stone-suffused aromas. There is the same superb breadth to the rich, intense and tension-filled full-bodied flavors that possess excellent power and drive on the..
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Cellar/Tasting Notes Each year, on the third weekend of November, Beaune plays host to the world's most famous charity wine sale. Professionals, connoisseurs and wine lovers come together for festivities, the epitome of pure Burgundy tradition.
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Update (10:40 a.m., Today) As of this morning, all roads have been cleared and traffic is back to normal in Deerfield, according to the .
Update (5:30 p.m., Friday) Most Deerfield High School athletic events remain on schedule tonight despite the continuing snowfall, according to coaches and websites around the Central Suburban League.
The boys' basketball team will be playing Maine West at 7:30 p.m. in Des Plaines according to while the swimming team is currently competing in a dual meet against Niles North in Skokie.
When Patch contacted less than two hours ago, he said the Warriors were already weighing in for the Central Suburban League North Division meet at Maine East in Park Ridge.
At this time there was no indication on the Deerfield High School website the girls' basketball game at 7:30 p.m. against Maine West in the Exhibition Gym.
Meanwhile, there was approximately 3.5 inches of snow on the ground at Deerfield Square at 3:30 p.m. today, according to La Vonce Long of Deerfield who stepped outside from his job at to measure the depth.
(Update 1 p.m., Friday) will send its employees and staff home at 1:30 p.m. today because of the snow, according to communications director Natalie Kaplan.
Kaplan said the school will monitor weather conditions to determine if scheduled sports events will still take place. At this point all are going to be held.
A spokesperson for Deerfield Public Schools District 109 said there is no plan at this time for early dismissal. Both and will make their own decisions about after school activities.
(Earlier Friday) A winter storm warning went into effect in Deerfield at 9 a.m. today which could bring four to six inches of snow to the Village, according to Weather Channel.
began preparation yesterday by putting liquid salt brine on local streets to help today's snow melt more easily, according to a public works spokesperson. The spokesperson reiterated snow is more difficult to melt in colder weather.
"Salt doesn't melt at a certain temperature but the snow should be lighter and easier to clear," the spokesperson said. "People should always be very careful."
The Village's snow removal force is geared up and ready to go.
At this time, Deerfield Public Schools District 109 has no plans to close early, according to a spokesperson for the district.
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