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In less than 100 years, however, the wild population is estimated to have fallen to as low as 3,200. Entire sub-species such as the Caspian, Javan and Balinese tigers have gone extinct while the south China tiger may have also disappeared from the wild. The tiger's once wide distribution has shrunk by 93 percent and in most cases tiger populations are restricted to a few desperate refuges in these last remaining patches of habitat. The future for the tiger could not look bleaker.
Main Threats
The world's largest cat and most effective land predator, the tiger dominates the forests in which it lives. Since tigers need a constant supply of prey and, consequently, vast areas to maintain robust populations, and often pose a threat to local people and their livestock, the struggle for the tiger's survival in the wild is one of the greatest challenges facing wildlife conservation today.
What's Tigers Alive?
In response to the urgency of the crisis and to grasp the opportunities just outlined, WWF has launched a revitalised programme, Tigers Alive. We aim to stop the decline of the wild tiger and help create and support the conditions to double the number of tigers in the wild in the next 12 years.
Together with our partners, WWF is mobilising the full force of its vast network — from the field biologists monitoring the tiger and its prey, trainers building the capacity of forest staff, and rangers protecting critical sites for tigers, to the financial experts working with donors and governments to create new funding mechanisms for tiger protection, and the policy and advocacy specialists working with decision makers. WWF's Tigers Alive Initiative operates in 12 of the 13 tiger range countries – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Tiger conservation has been a priority for WWF in these countries for the past decade, and more in some. During this time, we have gained valuable experience, developed expertise, and forged critical partnerships and collaborations with various stakeholders.
TRAFFIC, WWF's joint programme with IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, specialises in wildlife trade issues, working with external partners on the ground to address poaching and trafficking issues. With the increase in sophistication in the methods of poaching and illegal trade, it has become clear that we must do more, and find new ways to complement tried and tested methods.
The Landscape Approach
Tigers are "landscape" species – they need large areas with diverse habitats, free from human disturbance and rich in prey. In all the landscapes they live, tigers play a significant role in the structure and function of the ecosystem on which both humans and wildlife rely. WWF has identified 12 landscapes where we will focus our attention. Amur-Heilong – China and Russia;Kaziranga–Karbi Anglong – India;Satpuda-Maikal – India;Western Ghats-Nilgiris – India; Greater Manas – Bhutan and India;Sundarbans – Bangladesh and India;Terai Arc – India and Nepal;Forests of the Lower Mekong – Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam;Dawna-Tennaserim – Myanmar and Thailand;Banjaran Titiwangsa – Malaysia;Central Sumatra – Indonesia;Southern Sumatra – Indonesia.
It is our long-term aim to restore tigers within these landscapes, where ensuring their security and well-being is feasible and where they will not cause unavoidable conflict with humans. Focusing on these sites supports our tiger conservation objectives, and also those of other WWF flagship species, such as rhinos and elephants, as well as other species we work on, including the snow leopard, Amur leopard, mainland clouded leopard, Sunda clouded leopard, red panda, Eld's deer, banteng and saola.


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Approximately 67 percent of high school students participate in athletic activities, all who could potentially be subjected to a random drug test in the fall of 2013.
Twenty-five parents and school employees participated in a community forum Tuesday night on a random drug testing program that the district is considering implementing. The purpose of the meeting was to generate questions the administration will answer in a fact sheet posted on the district website.
"We have a drug problem," Superintendent Dr. Sandra Brower said. "Random drug testing is happening here in New Jersey and it is generally used as a deterrent."
Random drug testing is also used for the "spillover effect," meaning students understand and know that they will be a part of a program, discouraging them from getting involved in drug use, Brower said.
"Anyone who is using, is abusing," Brower said. "We have kids who are using."
Lacey students are using everything from heroin and marijuana to steroids and alcohol, she said.
The random drug-testing program will not be a "magic wand," Brower said, and the district intends on exploring a multi-pronged approach.
Only in the beginning stages, the district is exploring implementing a random drug testing program for high school students involved in extracurricular activities and those who hold a parking pass.
Legally, the district can only drug test students in extracurricular activities and those with a parking pass because those programs are a "privilege," Brower said.
The program would be funded by the school district, which will also look into available grants, District Nursing Coordinator Anita Hergert said.
Urine testing is more cost effective than other testing methods but still accurate, she said. The test would detect numerous drugs, including methamphetamine, cocaine, opiates, PCP, oxycodone and more. Steroids would be an extra test at an additional cost.
Currently, student athletes, along with their parents, sign a paper agreeing that drugs are prohibited and can be tested if there is suspicion, Athletic Director Karen Hughes said.
The district can also test any student with reasonable suspicion.
Data shows that random drug testing is a positive deterrent to drug use, Brower said.
"We have a problem. We have kids that are using drugs that are involved in activities that you would never know are using drugs," she said.
The perception that students who are underachievers are more likely to use drugs is inaccurate, she said.
"Kids who have the highest IQ and are the highest achievers are using drugs and they're smart enough to navigate the system," she said. "[Drug testing] is another opportunity for us to identify kids who need help."
A random drug-testing program could interfere with the role of parents, resident Gary Vaccaro said.
"I'll be honest with you, I'm not sure I'm for random drug testing. Part of my feeling is parents have responsibility for their own kids," he said. "I feel strongly about that. If I want to drug test my kid, it should be my responsibility."
The district has the responsibility and resources as well, Brower said.
"We know it's affecting our kids. We're losing kids. We're not losing them to drop out, they're dying and you're not going to know they're dying because the police aren't going to tell you that was an overdose," Brower said.
Vaccaro questioned what the consequences would be if a student tested positive.
"You can have a kid who is a great student, one time went to a party, made a dumb mistake and that's going to follow them for the rest of their days, into college, because the kid made a dumb mistake," he said. "I don't know if it's getting at the kids who are continual users without having reasonable suspicion testing."
In the district's research, the majority of schools that have a random drug-testing program do not record a positive drug test in a permanent record, Brower said. Consequences would not be punitive.
Students who test positive would undergo some type of counseling program, she said.
"One of the questions that's going to be asked is what about school staff?" resident Bill Moss said.
"Our students are our first priority. We'll have to look into that. There's contracts, there's unions, there's laws," Brower said. "But honestly, this is about our students and we care about our students. We're concerned about our students."
Although a policy has not yet been adopted, the Board of Education has shown interest in implementing a program, Brower said.
In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled random drug testing programs constitutional. Since then more than 1,000 schools have implemented them, according to a New York Times article.
Over the past five years, teen drug use has declined 23 percent, with 840,000 fewer students using illegal drugs today than in 2001, the article said.
Brick Township has a longstanding program, Brower said, as well as Hunterdon Central Regional and Hillsborough. Brower believes those districts would credit a decrease in suspensions, dropouts and student drug use to their random drug testing policies.
"We're no different than any other town, or county or state," Substance Abuse Counselor Thomas Faulkner said. "Every town — Bayville, Barnegat, Manahawkin — they have issues just like we do. We're no better. We're no worse. But we have the problem and we have to do something about it."
Just that the district is discussing a possible random drug testing program is "very good" as it raises awareness, Municipal Alliance Coordinator Heather Scanlon said.
"Whatever decision is made, I think we're happy to have this dialogue," Scanlon said. "Early intervention is really key here."
Additional meetings on the random drug-testing program will be held in the future, eventually leading up to a presentation to the community.
Return to Lacey Patch as this story develops and when the fact sheet is released.

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"Bobcat and Other Stories" is a collection of quirky, almost otherworldly tales of ordinary people's extraordinary hijinks by author and UNC-Wilmington professor Rebecca Lee, who offers a small tribute to the Cape Fear region in the final story.
The collection, however, offers a world tour beginning in Manhattan and traveling west to Minnesota, north to Canada and across the globe to Hong Kong. The female protagonists of the stories, which all stand alone without any of the shared characters or settings that sometimes inhabit short-story collections, are smart and inquisitive but somehow swept up in a current of activity that they aren't always in control of.
It starts with a New York dinner party populated with Woody Allen-type characters, including a host and hostess whose fragile marriage painfully complements their guests' own troubles, with infidelity, child-rearing, work and identity. Gossip and witty banter tangle and culminate in one guest's tall-but-earnest tale of being mauled by a bobcat in Nepal – metaphor alert! – and the matter-of-fact denouement that gently but cruelly re-enacts the attack.
The author then transports us to the stark, less energetic environment of a Midwestern liberal-arts college in "The Banks of the Vistula," where a young student plagiarizes an essay from a dusty volume of Soviet propaganda for a linguistics class taught by a native of Poland.
Their mutual recognition of the act of plagiarism doesn't yield the usual punishment. Ghosts from the professor's past dance between the lines during his lectures, a struggle between loyalty to Poland and obedience to Stalin. When he invites the plagiarist to present her paper at a symposium, it isn't clear whether his purpose is to humiliate her or to redeem himself.
In "Slatland," a deeply depressed woman struggles with the possibility that her Romanian-refugee fiancé has a wife and children in his homeland. He yields details of his past life one detail at a time, including the existence of a beloved sister "because it is not wise to speak aloud the one thing you want more than anything," he tells her. Gravity juxtaposes with the singsong observations of the therapist who translates the packet of letters that holds the answers to her anguished questions.
"Min" offers a humorous intermission: A student becomes friends with a magnetic young man who invites her to spend the summer with him in Hong Kong. She arrives to find that her summer job, against a backdrop of late-1980s political unrest, is to interview women and choose a suitable wife for him.
Writers, students and professors dot all the stories, from the child psych professor whose peculiar therapeutic technique follows the narrator for decades in "Slatland" to the struggling TV writer whose troubles are framed against major news events of the late 1990s and early 2000s in "Settlers."
Reading stories about writers – and about academics, when a writer also a teacher – is problematic for the close (and nosy) reader. It's too easy to imagine the author scrawling down notes for a story following a classroom lecture or office meeting.
Recurring themes, characters and locations spark the kinds of questions that are probably most annoying to authors: Who's this character based on? How autobiographical is that story? Some writers address this issue head-on. Others keep us wondering.
Like the titular animal, the characters in "Bobcat" aren't entirely domesticated. They act and react in ways that are largely natural and sympathetic, but bizarre moments thrust them into a new dimension that's both lively and anxiety-inducing. It's these off-kilter moments that keep us engaged.
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My Favourite album would be Meteora and then Hybrid Theory, they are so awesome!! I wish the guys would go back to that style of music, but it seems unlikely.
I thin every album is incredibly good but the best ones are Meteora and Living Things for me.
LP`s best album is undoubtedly Hybrid Theory... then it is Meteora, the next one is Living Things / Minutes to Midnight, that is followed by all LP Undergrounds and off-record songs and at the very last end there is A Thousand Suns.
1. Hybrid Theory
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My favorite would probably have to be either Hybrid Theory or LIVING THINGS because they both have the most songs on the album that I like. I also like the song "Across the Line" on their Songs from the Underground album.
I'd say Meteora. For Somewhere I Belong, Breaking The Habit, Session, Nobody's Listening...
It's pretty much the most eclectic album to me.
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I dont know if this has happened to anybody else, But I have noticed that after taking this pill for about a year that my hair has been thinning on the top of my head. im not positive it is the pill, But I have no past history of hair loss and neither does any woman in my family. Has anybody else experienced this as well?
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I recently switched to necon from my normal bc, mononessa, due to insurance reasons. While on it I experienced abnormal weight gain I can not shed, tender swollen breasts, nausea, dizziness, migraines, overall crummy feelings. Like I am sick. Actually started to think maybe I was pregnant. Also my periods went down to a very light flow only lasting about a day (not complaining there) overall I am ... Show Full Comment
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I had taken a different birth control for almost 11 years until my body started rejecting it (apparently that is possible!). Main reason for using birth control: I have really heavy periods. I switched to Necon. Not only have I lost a lot of weight (I can't seem to gain any), but I've had crazy mood swings, and itchy swollen eyes every morning... Time to try out something else!
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While this pill is easy to use, It has not been effective for me. I am still bleeding since starting the pack and I am in the middle of the last week of pills. I have gained over 5 lbs in the first month of using it. I have been experiencing nausea, severe headaches, especially around my eye are, and and moderate to severe dizziness around 2 hours after taking the pill. I have been on other BC pil ... Show Full Comment
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It was obvious that spending from super PACs and other outside groups dominated the elections this year. The Institute for Southern Studies has done a quick snapshot showing just how much was spent in North Carolina.
Based on incomplete reports final financial disclosures arent due until January the analysis shows the scope of the funding: more than $14 million on state-level races.
More than 90 percent of it came from 10 groups, dominated by conservative or Republican-leaning organizations, which spent more than twice as much as liberal/Democratic-leaning groups. Races for governor and state Supreme Court dominated the money game.
The biggest spender was the Republican Governors Association, which reported close to $5 million spent on Gov.-elect Pat McCrory. More than $8 million went into the governor race, with 68 percent benefitting McCrory.
The institute tracked $1.9 million in expenditures for super PAC N.C. Judicial Coalition, formed to re-elect Justice Paul Newby. The super PACs largest donor was another super PAC Justice for All N.C., which in turn received more than $1 million from the Republican State Leadership Committee, based in Washington, D.C.
Whatever impact super PACs and outside money groups may have had or not had nationally, they were a big factor in North Carolina state elections, the institutes executive director, Chris Kromm, said.
For the specifics, check out the institutes searchable money-tracking database at www.FollowNCMoney.org.
Appealing for a delay
At the first of the year, up to 2,000 people with mental disabilities living in group homes may find themselves without lodging because of a change in Medicaid rules.
Gov. Bev Perdue said last week that shes working on a solution, but for now, state officials, legislators, and advocacy groups are promoting a plan to flood the administrative court system with appeals from Medicaid recipients affected by the new rule.
Recipients benefits will continue during their appeals, and the idea is that pumping thousands of appeals into an administrative court system with fewer than a dozen judges will give the legislature time to fix the Medicaid problem when it gets back to work in late January.
Chief Administrative Law Judge Julian Mann said being handed thousands of cases at once would be difficult, but the court could hire temporary administrative judges, if necessary, to help handle the workload.
The administrative court has 10 judges available to hear cases.
Mann said he could not comment on using administrative appeals as a stall tactic.
Our responsibility is to absorb as efficiently as possible the cases and dispose of them in a timely manner, Mann said. But, if you pour enough water into the canal, it will eventually overflow.
Educators group hires leader
The N.C. Association of Educators has hired Ann McColl to be its first in-house lawyer.
In addition to legal work, shell work on policy and lobbying.
McColl moves to NCAE from her job as lobbyist for the State Board of Education, where shes been for about two years.
Ann brings a wealth of experience, talent, and commitment to our Associations work, said NCAE President Rodney Ellis. Whether the issue is employment, working conditions, or education reform, Ann believes that educators deserve a strong voice. NCAE is stronger with Ann on our team.
Transportation leader awarded
North Carolina Transportation Secretary Gene Conti has been honored with a national award for outstanding contributions to highway engineering.
Conti was presented the Thomas H. MacDonald Memorial Award, the highest designation of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, during the groups annual meeting in Pittsburgh earlier this week.
According to AASHTO which represents state departments of transportation in every state, D.C. and Puerto Rico Conti has demonstrated a personal commitment to serving as a transportation advocate and has worked tirelessly to advance transportation on the federal, state and local levels during his years in public service.
The award was established in 1957 to honor the former chief of the federal Bureau of Public Roads and is given to an individual that has rendered continuous outstanding service over an extended period of time or has made some exceptional contribution to the art and science of highway engineering.
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The Panthers (2-6) head into their bye week as the last-place team in the NFC South after dropping four of their last five games, including a 24-21 loss to the Vikings, who had one win prior to Sunday.
Carolina had a chance to tie the game as the field-goal unit set up for a try with 29 seconds remaining, but PK Olindo Mare missed a 31-yard attempt. A kneel-down by Vikings rookie QB Christian Ponder, who notched his first victory in his second career start, ended the game. It was yet another close loss for the Panthers, who have been beaten by three points in two of their last three losses and have had all but two of their games decided by seven points or fewer.
The field-goal miss could haunt Mare, and it's earning him attention he wants no part of. Yet, as Cam Newton and other players said after the game, the Panthers could have avoided putting him in that situation.
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Mare wasn't alone in missing the mark and costing Carolina against the Vikings.
The Panthers' offense sputtered, stringing together three straight three-and-outs in the second half before moving the ball on its final, and ultimately fruitless, possession. A holding penalty on Steve Smith negated a Newton run that would have given the Panthers a first down inside the Vikings' 10-yard line with 36 seconds to play. Newton, who showed how special he can be, throwing three touchdowns and no interceptions and leading the team in rushing (six carries for 53 yards), also had the ball stripped from him twice in Panthers territory in the first half. The Vikings recovered both fumbles before scoring touchdowns off each turnover.
With a bye in Week Nine, Carolina won't get a chance to change the story line until Nov. 13, when the Titans visit Charlotte, and it's hard to envision the Panthers catching fire and changing the course of their season, given their schedule in the second half of the season. After Tennessee, the Panthers have three straight games on the road, where they are 0-3 this season. Only three of the team's last eight games are at Bank of America Stadium, and all but one of the eight games remaining are against an opponent with a record above .500.
It doesn't appear the Panthers are headed for a significant upswing this season. A good start would have been compiling back-to-back wins for the first time since 2009 by beating the Redskins and Vikings in consecutive weeks, but Carolina missed an opportunity Sunday.
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Tweeting, Facebooking, Skyping smartphone users are costing U.S. states and cities revenue as taxes rooted in old-fashioned telephone service fail to keep up with the Internet era.
In Phoenix, Ariz., the loss of $1.3 million in telephone tax revenue translates to the cost of training and equipping 10 police officers, said Mario Paniagua, the budget and research director. In Springfield, Illinois, a $200,000 shortfall in telecommunications revenue is keeping the library from extending hours.
"I imagine at some point you'll have an app called the 'Call Your Friend' app and you won't be using the phone network at all," said Max Behlke, the manager of state-federal relations for the National Conference of State Legislatures in Washington. "It is a concern for states and localities because this has been one of the most reliable revenue streams they have. Phone service is almost as much a necessity as food."
Just as they created new business models for retail sales, taxi service, short-term accommodations and watching movies and listening to music, smartphones and the Internet are changing how people dial each other up. Tax-dependent governments, still struggling to recover from the 18-month recession that ended five years ago, find themselves seeking to compensate for a once-reliable source of money.
Unlike voice calls, which face levies either on landline or mobile networks, data use can't be taxed under federal law. And that's where the growth is. Mobile Internet use more than doubled last year from 2012 to 3.2 trillion megabytes, according to a report released this month by CTIA-The Wireless Association, an industry trade group.
While voice use over cellular networks rose 14 percent, multimedia-messaging soared 29 percent, according to the trade group. Text messaging, which uses the same mechanism as voice calls and is also taxed, fell 13 percent.
"It's not that people are talking less," said Scott Mackey, a partner at KSE Partners LLC, a lobbying and public- relations firm in Montpelier, Vermont, that represents the cellular industry. "It's that people are talking less on the public switched network. Down the road, voice is going to become another application on your Internet service."
The pace of change has outstripped tax structures created for an era in which telephone service meant a trusty rotary-dial Western Electric 500 plugged into the wall. Phone companies in the U.S. had 140.9 million phone lines at the end of 2012, down from 161.8 million five years earlier, according to Bloomberg Industries.
In Illinois, taxes on telecommunications fell to $572 million for the year ended June 30, down $98 million from 2011, according to the state Department of Revenue. In Arizona, Phoenix's revenue from phone-call taxes slid 7.2 percent in the past year.
Officials there are looking for ways to close a shortfall in next year's budget created in part by the city council's lowering of a grocery tax as well as the $1.3 million drop in telecommunication revenue, Paniagua said.
"We're not talking about a huge amount of money, but it puts a further strain on our budget," he said.
In Springfield, the capital of Illinois, taxes on telecommunications provide $3.1 million of the $4.5 million budget for the main library. They fell $200,000 behind the mark for the year that ended Feb. 28, said William McCarty, the city's budget director.
So the library, which cut hours during the recession, stays open only until 6 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays and 5 p.m. on weekends, he said.
"Even to just maintain the services that we have, we have to dip into the general fund," he said.
The Illinois state government, collecting 15 percent less in telecommunications revenue than two years earlier, has recouped the loss through higher taxes on cigarettes and liquor, said Susan Hofer, a spokeswoman for the Revenue Department.
Florida's telecommunications-tax revenue fell 6 percent between 2011 and 2013, according to its Revenue Department. In Seattle, telephone taxes have declined since 2002 because of a "lackluster" economy, industry consolidation and competition from non-taxed Internet voice services, the city said in its 2014 budget. Telecommunications tax revenue dropped 3.7 percent between 2011 and 2012.
Software that replicates the function of phone calls has been beyond the reach of state and local tax collectors since President Bill Clinton signed the Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1998.
Now, users of Microsoft's Skype, the most popular so- called voice-over-Internet application, spend more than 2 billion minutes a day connecting with one another, said Ali Dwiggins of Waggener Edstrom Communications, a spokeswoman for the company. Apple has a similar application, FaceTime, used 15 million to 20 million times a day, the company said in February. Text messaging is being eroded by free Internet-based alternatives such as Facebook's WhatsApp, a service that it acquired in February for $19 billion.
Internet-based calls have better sound quality and flexibility to add video and data, said John McGlory, 23. He answered a call to his Phoenix-based information technology consulting business, Metro Ventures, with an application that adds a second line to mobile phones, tablets and computers, called Line2. Plus, they're cheaper.
Cities and states have no business taxing calls or other functions on the Internet, he said.
"The Internet isn't a right, but I almost see it that way," McGlory said. "You are not using any city equipment or facilities."
Mackey, the cellular industry representative, said cities and states need to wean themselves from dependence on chatty phone customers.
"Thirty, 40 and 50 years ago, they were able to grant franchises on local telecom services and collect revenue from them," he said. "This is no longer a good way to tax in the 21st century."
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Did you hear that Brent Krahn and Matt Climie?
Last night, on his blog, Russo said the Dallas Stars could be a potential suitor for Josh Harding at some point. Interesting thought ... and obviously this is just one guy talking. But the thing that I really laughed out loud about was the following quote (see especially the part in bold) from Russo:
"Dallas is one team that may be interested in Harding at some point. I'm told the Stars like Harding, and it's becoming more and more apparent that Dallas' future will be without Marty Turco. There's not really a goalie of the future inside the organization right now."
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Probably just a mis-print. It should have said "There presently isn't a decent goalie in Dallas".
- January 19, 2010 at 11:34 AM
- Ms. Conduct said...
Wellll, I don't think that's such a huge dig at those guys. Krahn's been around a while, was a high draft pick for the Flames but was slow to develop (and then promptly broke himself as soon as he finally started blowing teams out of the water).
Nothing wrong with late bloomers, but I don't think he was ever seen as a "prospect" by the Stars organization, was he? He's really had kind of a journeyman type of career until he came out of camp seemingly on fire this year.
Climie's not too different, but a shade younger and undrafted, so he's a great "find". Not sure he'll see regular NHL minutes, but he's played well when called upon. He's just solid and that translates pretty well up and down.
And Bachman, who is their only actual draft pick playing pro (AFAIK), in the ECHL is doing quite well, too. He'll be in Texas next season, I'm sure.
Granted, Dallas isn't like Vancouver or LA where there's an heir apparent sitting in the minors, but they've still got better depth than most teams IMO. Depth for NOW, not depth for the future necessarily.
Unlike the Wild who simply have a lot of goalies. They're not committed to Barry (obviously), Dubie isn't even supposed to be here, and Anton's way too inconsistent for the NHL. Here's to that Hackett kid living up to some lofty expectations...
- January 19, 2010 at 11:51 AM
- Lax Guy said...
When the Stars had their affiliate in Des Moines, they had two quality netminders. Both of them are playing in the NHL, but neither is with the Stars. Mike Smith and Dan Ellis were great prospects for Dallas, but they let them get away.
Dallas had nobody decent in the minor rotation their last year in Iowa. Tobias was god awful despite winning the ECHL the year before. The whole organization is a mess and will become a bottom feeder soon.
- January 19, 2010 at 2:35 PM
Anton did well in last nights All-Star game. I was a bit surprised but he made some fantasatic saves. There were three goals against, but after all, it was an All-Star game.
- January 20, 2010 at 9:54 AM
- Ms. Conduct said...
And one of those shouldn't have counted as it was batted in with a high stick. He was fantastic.
I blogged about the game (though not focused a whole lot on the Aeros guys) over at Ms.C. http://msconduct10.blogspot.com/2010/01/ahl-all-star-wrap-up-spoilers-ahead.html
- January 20, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Yes, Brusty did all right during his 20 minutes of goalie terror.
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text: Nov 3 Crazy Christmas Crafter: Mod Podge Rocks! Posted November 3, 2010 by Jamielyn & filed under Christmas, Crafts, Crazy Christmas Crafter, Tutorial. Well hallo there! This is Amy from Mod Podge Rocks. Some say I'm addicted to Mod Podge, but I say I have a "healthy appreciation" from it. Perhaps this is what all addicts say? I'm so happy to be here today, and thanks to Jamielyn for having me. I think after trying this project, you are going to be addicted to Mod Podge as well – or if not you, your children! These ornaments would make a great gift idea, plus they are a hoot to make. I had a great time. I think you will too. Introducing Mod Podge fabric ornaments! On some boring weekend, you can set your kids at a table with these fabric scrap ornaments and let them go to town. Once you are done, slap them on the tree (okay, not so much slapping as placing). They are so easy and inexpensive, you probably have everything you need already, and your kids are going to have fun. Gather These Supplies Mod Podge – your choice of flavors. I used Glitter Gold, Glitter Silver and Gloss Paper mache ornaments – as many as you want to make Fabric scraps – I didn't have any holiday ones specificially so I bought 1/8 yard pieces from JoAnn. They were only around $.30 a piece with the sales right now Embellishments – whatever you have laying around; I used ribbon and buttons Flat Paint Brush – one for everyone! Beacon 3-in-1 Advanced Craft Glue Scissors Here are the goods. A couple of paper balls and some fabric. Oh, styrofoam works too, but I liked these because the hanger was attached. I have little patience when it comes to hanger-ing. Cut your fabric into manageable bits – circles, squares, octahedrons – whatever! Parents, you obviously might want to do this part depending on the child's age. Kids love to get messy, and so do I! Work one or two shapes at a time, putting Mod Podge down on the ball and then placing the fabric squares. Tell the kids not to do too big of an area at once – we don't want crying when the Mod Podge dries and nothing sticks! Kids should keep coating and adding fabric. I had a great time! Cover the entire ball. Use your Glitter Podges to coat the outsides. It's so fun and it really sparkles. Add as many coats as you like! Set the ornaments asie to dry for 15 – 20 minutes. Use your Beacon craft glue to add embellishments. I added buttons, ribbon, etc – whatever floats your boat! Again, make sure your glue is child safe if the little ones are going to be attaching embellishments. Set to dry for at least a few hours before hanging on the tree. Your kids had a great time, didn't they? This might be good for them to make as gifts for family members. You can even have them Mod Podge pictures of themselves or names on top. And as I said, you can use Christmas fabrics, but it would also be fun to use any fabrics and embellishments you have lying around. Thanks Jamielyn, for having me. I appreciate it, and I hope to see you all again soon. Cheers! —————————————————————————— Thanks Amy for a great tutorial! These look so fun and easy to make, I can't wait to try them! Make sure to stop by Mod Podge Rocks where you can learn how to decoupage just about anything! Jamielyn Nye is the owner and managing editor of I Heart Nap Time. She aspires to reach women, get their creative juices flowing, and to genuinely inspire. Her unique projects have been featured on many popular websites, including: BHG, Martha Stewart, Fox, ABC, People, Parents and more. When she's not creating . . . Jamielyn loves to chase her two little monkeys and snuggle up on the couch with her man.View all posts by → You might also like Printable Watermelon Doily Garland {Hello Summer}Color-Wrapped Mystery Braid Bracelet {Hello Summer}


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Mitt Romney has spent months selling himself to the Republican base. Now, Barack Obama is working overtime trying to re-sell himself to his base of voters age 18-29.Team Obama knows that hard times and the growing libertarian leanings of young voters will make them a more difficult target than four years ago.
Just as there is no doubt Romney will easily carry reluctant Tea Partiers and social conservatives, Obama will again win the age cohort I call First Globals. But it seems unlikely he will again win 66% of their votes, or that they will equal their turnout of 2008, which matched the historic high set in 1972, the first year the voting age was lowered to 18. Four years ago, First Globals made up 18% of all voters. In 2010, that fell to 12%.
Very few of Obama's young supporters from 2008 are likely defect to Romney. Some may not vote, and I see the possibility of others abandoning both parties and instead choosing the Libertarian candidate.
My most recent polling with JZ Analytics found Obama's approval rating among the 18-29 group in the high 50 percentile, up from where it had been a few months earlier. Approval rating is a good indicator of whether voters will support an incumbent, so you can see Obama is behind where he needs to be among younger voters. Obama's youth vote problem is most acute among those 18-24 who entered the job market since he took office and are not finding work that meets their expectations.
Last week, Harvard's Institute of Politics released an online study of more than 3,000 U.S. adults ages 18-29. This exhaustive look at the policy priorities of First Globals finds the economy and jobs are far and away their highest concern. That data point and others show why support for Obama has slipped since 2008. They favor Obama over Romney, 43%-26%. There is an 11-point difference in Obama's margin between those 25-29 (23 points) and those 18-24 (12 points.) Congressional Democrats have a higher approval than Republicans, 39%-25%.
However, on some key issues, majorities of First Globals are not doctrinaire liberals. The poll found less than majorities agree with liberals on some of their most cherished beliefs. For example: 44% agree health insurance is a right government should provide for those who can't afford it, 43% agree with the same statement about food and shelter, 37% agree government should spend more to reduce poverty, 20% agree government spending is an effective way to economic growth and 28% agree government should do more to curb climate change even at the expense of economic growth. (That last number has to hurt environmentalists.)
Lest Republicans get too giddy at those findings, they should also know less than majorities agree with these conservative and neo-con ideals: 22% agree it's sometimes necessary to attack potentially hostile countries rather than waiting until we are attacked, 23% are willing to give up some personal freedoms for the sake of national security, 39% agree cutting taxes is an effective route to economic growth, 24% agree we should eliminate all barriers to trade, 25% agree recent immigration has done more harm than good, 21% agree religious values should play an important role in government and 25% agree homosexuality is morally wrong.
These attitudes betraying both the traditional left and right fall generally within the bounds of libertarianism. Live and let live. Individual responsibility is as important as collective responsibility. Avoid military interventions. Distrust both government and corporations. Protect civil liberties.
Young voters have been the energy behind Ron Paul (remember him?) He is still in the GOP race for President, apparently looking to impact the party platform. Had Paul chosen to be the nominee of the national Libertarian Party, he would have had the biggest impact of any third party candidate since Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996. Libertarians meet this week to choose their Presidential ticket. Gary E. Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, who briefly ran for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, is the most likely nominee. He wants to legalize marijuana, and that is what the media will likely most focus on. Johnson expects to be on the ballot in all 50 states. That will be his chief resource. I don't expect the debate commission will give him a chair alongside Obama and Romney. But the I
nternet will give him access to the many First Globals who aren't keen about either major party choice.
My husband and I (both 20 somethings) will be voting for Ron Paul in the upcoming election. Romney and Obama can campaign until they are blue in the face, but we have seen and heard enough to know better than to vote for either of them.
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Bill Clinton, Al Gore & Senator Obama supported Prop. 87, a GMO corn ethanol welfare program.
Bill, Al have changed opinion on the ethanol mandate, I wonder if Obama will make this the time for CHANGE?
I support a waiver of the ethanol mandate, voluntary use of ethanol in my gas.
Federal ethanol policy increases Government motors oil use and Big oil profit.
It is reported that today California is using Brazil sugar cane ethanol at $0.16 per gal increase over using GMO corn fuel ethanol. In this game the cars and trucks get to pay and Big oil profits are the result that may be ready for change.
We do NOT support AB 523 or SB 1396 unless the ethanol mandate is changed to voluntary ethanol in our gas.
Folks that pay more at the pump for less from Cars, trucks, food, water & air need better, it is time.
The car tax of AB 118 Nunez is just a simple Big oil welfare program, AAA questioned the policy and some folks still agree.
AB 523 & SB 1326 are just a short put (waiver) from better results.
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Sorry, how is this connected to the article? Ethanol, uses crops for fuel as opposed to people being fed. I am 100% against ethanol for that one reason.
Gary Johnson will now be our best choice to restore peace, prosperity and liberty to America.
Lets not give up on Dr. Paul yet. There is a very effective strategy afoot.
Its not over for Paul, not by a long shot. Its very doubtful he will support Romney.
Us libertarians will not "get Obama re-elected" anymore than we'll get "Romney elected". Now that the neoconservatives have so ruined the Repuiblican party, libertarianism is much, much different than what mainstream gop is all about. As a result libertarinism hurts Obama and Romney equally.
We want civil liberties defended at all costs – Neither Obama OR Romney will do that.
We want constitutionally declared wars – Neither Obama OR Romney offer that.
We want an intellectually honest President – Neither Obama or Romney offer that.
We reject any form of government bailouts – Obama and Romney support bailouts.
We want government power reduced dramatically – Neither will do that.
So, perhaps one can explain to me how either candidate was ever going to have my vote?
Well said sir!
I agree with what Robert said. Libertarian leaning people will vote for Gary Johnson. There is no choice.
That's who I am planning to vote for, unless Ron Paul goes 3rd party or gets the nomination. Since Romney will get the nomination, I guess my mind is already set.
Neither one Obama or Romney will get our votes!!! Ron Paul is the only one that will do what needs to be done clean house of all corruption media too your fired only the ones of truth will be allowed!!!
Unless Ron Paul can get the R. nomination Obama will win. He's a commie, but people are dumb.
Ron Paul is not out! He has the heart, mind and soul of the young people, at least at all the rallies across the nation. I have been to two of them. It is like nothing else. Do yourselves a favor and get to one. I met more people who were not convinced until they went and heard him live. If people quit getting the diet of news from the Mainstream Media and branch out and try truly independent news sources they will find a shift in their thinking. We have all been on the corporate backed news channels far too long. It is propaganda folks. Go Ron Paul 2012. Google him and go to his official website. There you will find a section called issues. If you read them you might find you are closed to his ideologies than you think.
I am so with you! Go Ron Paul. I hate the way our media has black balled him.
I would like to point out that it isn't JUST the youth behind Dr. Paul. Many of our older generation remember what Liberty is and do support Dr. Paul. Wee middle aged are often suckered by the neocons, but many of us are not, and we support Dr. Paul.
Furthermore, I am really getting tired of hearing it is going to be Romney. That has NOT been resolved yet, and if the media would actually do their job, they would know that as of right now, Dr. Paul pretty much has 9 states in his pocket already!
Interesting piece, except for your attempts to lead and mislead your readers…
"Just as there is no doubt Romney will easily carry reluctant Tea Partiers and social conservatives" –> Please. Anybody who's anybody has seen which employees of which corrupt bailed-out bank has funded his 2012 campaign, just as they funded Obama's 2008 bid. As if that weren't reason enough to rule him out, the Godfather of the Tea Party is still out there winning delegates and making Romney look silly even in his home state. "there is no doubt" is 100% wrong.
"Obama will again win the age cohort I call First Globals" –> Not if they understand what is happening, he won't. The information control battle is a crucial one, but more and more voters every day understand that not voting for the True Peace Candidate in Doctor Ron Paul at this stage, whether one considers the Republican Party vile or not, is just another vote for perpetual war. Obama in yesterday's news committed an American troop presence in Afghanistan until 2024. 2024! This is not your Hope and Change candidate anymore, people, and to tell the truth, he never was. You..got..duped.
"Young voters have been the energy behind Ron Paul (remember him?) He is still in the GOP race for President, apparently looking to impact the party platform." –> Presentation poor, word choice deliberate. Remember him? This guy is a hero who routinely votes, alone, against pieces of legislation on principle because our country's rulebook, the Constitution, doesn't allow for it. If anyone doesn't remember him, shame on them; he is the only one in the Gang of 535 who is following his sworn oath. More importantly, he is in this race to win it. I know of NO Paul voters who would EVER be swayed to vote for Romney nor Obama, as they see no difference between PerpetualWarmongeringTyrantNeoConMan1 and PerpetualWarmongeringDictatorNeoConMan2; the sheer brilliance of these young people, one of whom I am not, to be able to understand at their young ages that politicians are not to be trusted unless they have proven themselves worthy of that trust over a lengthy period, the brilliance of these young people should not be underestimated. The Peace Doctor Ron Paul for President movement is indeed in great hands; when we achieve a brokered convention, journalists will no longer be poker-faced. Trust me.
Amen. You nailed it.
This whole article is a bunch of misleading BS and an attempt to present a totally wrong impression to the public. It could as well be called "Endorsing Mitt Romney, now as a libertarian, too" (which he definitely is not).
The exclusive credit should be given to Ron Paul, as the only libertarian in the race. Mitt Romney is mostly the opposite, another random pro-big-government warmonger taking care of his lobbyist friends with no principles at all and a flip-flopper attitude. But no, he gets endorsed, while Mr. libertarian himself, Ron Paul, get's a "Remember him?" note, after boldly trying to associate Mitt Romney with libertarianism. These "journalists" deserve a kick up the arse.
Ron Paul is doing great and his supporters will vote for him even if they have to write him in.
He wasn't calling Romney a libertarian, he was referring to Gary Johnson, the capital "L" Libertarian in the race.
Obama has lost favor with the youth and independents because he has been exposed. The first time around, without fighting any real revolution, he was made a cultural icon on par with Che Guevara. A generation that is infatuated with celebrity found a celebrity to fawn over. Obama spoke with an oratory reminiscent of Dr. King but without the power. He peddled hope but had no substance. Many of the twenty-somethings realized they were duped. They bought the sizzle and now they realize that they desire the steak. I don't agree with the author of this article. I'm not convinced that the tea party believes that Romney is the steak. This election appears to be another achievement to Romney rather than a duty. Romney's platform is void of many high-minded ideals. Whether a person is attracted to Paul the person or not, his platform of freedom and responsibility, and his plan to return some of those ideals back to the people is powerful stuff.
Good I hope they vote 3rd party. I know I am.
Too much bullshit. The majority of young voters are supporting RON PAUL. This media hypocrisy is getting old.
Classic Liberalism were the defenders of limited, constitutional representative government, low taxes, individual rights and moral personal responsibility.
Now that our government has essentially turned into pre-fascism statism; liberalism can return to it's origins and fight against the system.
Modern liberalism and progressive politics has taken hold of both parties.
"Ron Paul – Remember him?"
We do, mate.
This article is a pathetic attempt to associate Mitt Romney with a young, libertarian voter base.
Since when is Mitt Romney the prime example of a libertarian? He's mostly the opposite – and definitely for big government, deficit spending, regulation, reduction of civil liberties, and the same flawed, expensive foreign policy. He could as well be Obama by what he advocates. But as he's a serial flip-flopper, I would not take even that for granted.
You should really give Ron Paul the clear credit he deserves when it comes to representing libertarians. And by this I do not mean, including a "Remember him?" note and the end of an article centered around Mitt Romney.
Ron Paul is the only libertarian in the race, and the libertarian voter will certainly support him and not Mitt Romney, no matter how misleading the media reports will become. Since ignoring Ron Paul did not work, now they try to act as if the young libertarians were supporting Mitt Romney. Pathetic.
"Apparently looking to impact the party platform…". How about "trying to BECOME PRESIDENT" for gods sake?
And don't bother talking about his mathematical chances of winning or loosing – I can do the math myself. And the game is far from decided, in spite of all presumtuous reports in favour of Mitt Romney.
Ron Paul's speeches are attended by several thousand people – even outdoors in rain. How about reporting on that? The last crowd that Mitt Romney drew had like 100 People.
Choices for Ron Paulbots:
Which if the following will they do?
* Vote for Romney
* Stay home, not vote
* Vote for a libertarian candidate
* Write in Ron Paul
* Go back to Obama because he's cool
* Join up with OWS and trash or burn down the town
Obama has nothing to offer young folks. More wars, more dead children, more invasions of civil liberties, more drug raids, and sustained high unemployment are the legacy of his first (and hopefully last) term. I'm not sure who I'll vote for this coming election, if I vote at all, but it sure as hell won't be Obama.
I used to be a left-liberal but i kept running into inconsistencies. I then found classical liberalism (which is the true liberalism). Classical liberalism is typically just called libertarian today.
Ron Paul is the closest person to libertarianism that has a shot. I will write in his name if I have to. At least I will be able to sleep at night.
I forgot to mention Gary Johnson as another alternative. I just prefer Paul over Johnson on economic policy among some other quibbles.
Dear Mr. Zogby,
Mitt Romney is NOT the nominee. Ron Paul is STILL in the race, and winning delegates in many states. In fact, Mitt Romney is actually LOSING delegates at the same rate Ron Paul is GAINING them.
And by the way, the RNC is going against their own rules as they promote Mitt Romney (who is NOT the nominee) as the nominee.
For shame.
"22% agree it's sometimes necessary to attack potentially hostile countries rather than waiting until we are attacked, 23% are willing to give up some personal freedoms for the sake of national security"
Drone attacks in pakistan have at least doubled under Obama.
Clinton sanctions on Iraq for WMD and bombing in 1998.
Arguments for making war in Libya would fit Iraq and afghanistan (both had dictators, and resistance movements, northern alliance in afghanistan for example)
Recent news has cyber attacks on Iran and all across arab world said to be work of US government/obama in new york times. (Flame virus)
Try to see world from other side… suppose china was providing subs to iran for launching nuke missiles (rather than germany for isreal), and china and Iran teamed up to do massive cyber attack on US industry and iran with suspected help of china was busy assasinating US scientists… would that make US less likely to want nukes or bio weapons? – in 50 years almost every country in middle east will probably have easy time making nuclear or just as deadly bio weapons, even with cyber attacks and scientists killed. (Things get easier every year)
Funny to call something the side of one party when both parties do fairly similar foreign policy.
As someone who is in that group of first global voters, the primary things that make me more libertarian than anything are fiscal responsibility and civil liberty. The left is not attractive because of the belief that redistribution of wealth is somehow ok. The government did not put me through college nor did they take the exams that provided me with grades to be accepted into a graduate program. The fruits of that hard work are making over 100k a year, so I oppose taxing me to oblivion to pay for people who lack the skill or the drive i possess.
As for why the right is not attractive, its about freedom. The social conservative movement in this country is about legislating from the pulpit. The founding fathers of this nation were deists, not evangelicals. The writings of Jefferson and Franklin clearly illustrate this, they definitely did not believe that "the pursuit of happiness is doing what you are supposed to do" as espoused by Senator Santorum. You cannot be a member of the social conservative movement and also defend the constitution. Much of what is being put out by the right maligns any view not consistent with their views as either being treason or un-patriotic.
This is why many like will vote libertarian. Many will say that the vote doesn't matter or that a vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for Obama, but i won't vote for a man who wants to steal my money to give it to someone on welfare nor will i vote for a venture capitalist who doesn't have a clear cut position unless its already written for him by someone else. This election is about protecting freedom, the only person other than a libertarian who did that was Ron Paul, a shame the right didn't have the sense to put him on the ballot.


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No industry changed more this decade than the music industry. The rise of Napster and file sharing accompanied the decade's beginning, and music sales have never recovered. The experience of attending a movie in the theater can't be replicated on a computer. But for most people, a free mp3 is a good-enough substitute for a CD track.
Apple's iPod and iTunes service have reduced the "anything goes" file sharing crowd. But the rise of the iPod and other similar audio players have struck a blow to CDs that should prove fatal eventually. It's history repeating. The same thing happened to cassettes, 8-tracks and vinyl (which has found a younger niche audience). It's simply more convenient to carry an entire music collection in your pocket.
The album format has suffered as well. It's much easier to buy (or download singles) than it was 10 or 15 years ago. The best-selling albums of the decade say little about the decade's best music, though the gap between "best-selling albums" and "best albums" became more pronounced back in the 1980s. After all, though Leif Garrett was popular in the 1970s, he never topped the year-end charts like the "High School Musical" kids.
As the mainstream splinters further, there are very few, if any, musicians that enjoy any kind of widespread commercial success. It'll be much harder for the current generation to find even a few artists they might be able to use as cultural touchstones.
Of course, none of this means that people like music less. If anything, musical tastes will become more varied now. And the cream rises to the top. It always does, over time. Just remember that. So if you missed some (or all) of this decade's best music, here's a quick learning session.
Rock in this decade had less of a definitive sound than it did in any other 10-year span. If pressed to come up with an answer, the new garage-rock variations provided by the likes of The Strokes and The White Stripes would be our choice.
The Strokes' "Is This It" from 2001 likely stands as the most influential album of the decade. It's tight, melodic, cool, and a strong rebuttal to the fourth-rate post-grunge dreck that did (and still does) permeate "alternative" radio stations. Noteworthy groups like Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys and Interpol benefited from this sea change. The White Stripes' "White Blood Cells" had a similar effect, though the group's best album was the follow-up, 2003's more bluesy and harder "Elephant."
A great deal of respect must also be paid to the albums which explored electronic territory. At the beginning of the decade, it was "Kid A" from Radiohead and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" from The Flaming Lips. Later on, works from TV on the Radio, LCD Soundsystem and Animal Collective brought experimental sounds and melodies to a murkier mainstream.
For our money, it's a tight battle at the top. The Strokes and The White Stripes certainly deserve to be in the mix. The Hold Steady took the mantle as a modern-day Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. My Morning Jacket modernized a classic rock sound — this group might be the best takeoff point for old rockers to hear what's new. But perhaps Arcade Fire, the Canadian group with a soaring sound, best represented the boldness of the decade. These groups all released multiple great albums in the decade, but it would make sense to start with The Hold Steady's "Separation Sunday," My Morning Jacket's "Z" and Arcade Fire's "Funeral."
Ten more great albums of the decade:
Badly Drawn Boy, "The Hour of Bewilderbeast"
Neko Case, "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"
Fleet Foxes, self-titled
The Futureheads, self-titled
MGMT, "Oracular Spectacular"
Of Montreal, "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?"
Okkervil River, "Black Sheep Boy"
The Shins, "Chutes Too Narrow"
Spoon, "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"
Wilco, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
The earlier part of the decade was ruled by Eminem and Outkast; the later years saw breakthroughs from T.I. and Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne's album "Tha Carter III" and Outkast's "Stankonia" and "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" were a few of the most acclaimed albums of the 2000s.
But perhaps the most dominant figures in hip-hop during the past 10 years were Jay-Z and Kanye West. Jay-Z's "The Blueprint," another one of the decade's most acclaimed hip-hop albums, owed a great deal of its success to the production skills of West. West would soon after start his own rapping career, which took off immediately with the release of his debut, "The College Dropout."
West's persona is in stark contrast to the gangster rappers, such as 50 Cent, who had his own fair share of popular albums in the decade. 50 Cent released one of the decade's biggest commercial successes in "Get Rich or Die Tryin,' " but he famously told MTV that he would retire if his 2007 album "Curtis" was outsold by West's "Graduation." Both albums were released on the same day. 50 lost that battle, but like many rappers, he couldn't walk away from the game.
Out of the mainstream, rapper MF Doom was a dominant figure, for both his solo work and his work in the duo Madvillain.
by Britney Milazzo
Classic country artists from Johnny Cash to Willie Nelson never die, but who are the musicians stepping up to take their places, today?
Taylor Swift's awards point to her statistically in 2009, but some argue Swift is too pop to be considered country.
Take a look at some of the duos and trios of country music — Sugarland, Brooks & Dunn, Montgomery Gentry, and Big & Rich — they're the ones dominating the country charts.
The finest solo artists, like Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney say they won't quit "because it's just too fun." Heck, Tim's even been acting, recently.
But if those are the faces of country music in this decade.
If you ask me about best albums, however, nothing tops Brad Paisley's "Playlist" and Sugarland's "Love on the Inside."


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WILMINGTON, North Carolina – The UNCW men's tennis team went undefeated in singles on the final day of the Seahawk Invitational to close out the three-day event with a combined 30-3 record.
The Seahawks finished with a 19-3 singles mark and unblemished 11-0 doubles scorecard in their fifth and final appearance of the fall season.
"This was a great way for us to finish our fall season as a team," said veteran Head Coach Mait DuBois. "This group made a lot of strides this fall and it showed in how we finished the event against three very strong teams.
"I was pleased with our doubles teams going undefeated and with six of our eight players finishing undefeated in singles. We look forward to training in the off season and starting the spring schedule in January."
The Seahawks kick off the spring season on Sunday, Jan. 19, when Appalachian State visits Wilmington.
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Lightbourn/Watkin (DC) s def Hahn/Teague (Rich) 8-3
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Fenton/Kyriakides (RICH) def Bolton/Saad (DC) 8-3
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