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Nick Morgan, Contributor
I'm passionate about communications, especially public speaking.
President Obama gave an interview to conservative Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly before the Super Bowl last night, and the interview was more revealing of O'Reilly than the President.
O'Reilly began with an emotional thank you to the President for the government's help in protecting a couple of newspeople that "got roughed up in Cairo." That was as friendly as O'Reilly got, until the final thank you. From there it was on to Mubarak and Egypt and the President and the commentator were off and running.
O'Reilly's questions were often statements and those included too many cheap shots like, "Right. He's done the bad things," about Mubarak's partnership with the US. Of course, that partnership has gone on for 30 years, through both Republican and Democratic presidents, and for O'Reilly to begin criticizing Mubarak now is simply too easy. Now that all eyes are focused on Egypt, O'Reilly is impatient for its dictator to go. Man the barricades, and then we'll talk, Bill.
Moreover, first he said, "But the longer he (Mubarak) stays in, the more people are going to die." A heartbeat later, it was "I'm just worried that he might go off the reservation." You can't have it both ways, Bill.
Next up was the health care debate, and here a pattern was set of O'Reilly throwing a question-statement at the President and not allowing him to answer, but rather interrupting him before he'd finished and then getting the last word in before moving on to the next topic. The result was that O'Reilly looked defensive and tense, as if he were afraid he was not up to sparring with the President. The President, on the other hand, was relaxed and handled O'Reilly with ease and assurance.
O'Reilly's body language was oddly off-kilter as well. He was leaning to one side, as if off-balance, and his mouth was set in a lop-sided half-smile, half-sneer which increased the sense that he was not a happy camper. In contrast, President Obama was slouched comfortably in his chair, he smiled often, and his demeanor was easy.
The President even invited O'Reilly to the Super Bowl party at the White House, and O'Reilly's response was a suprisingly ungracious "I don't want to ruin the party for you guys." I don't know about you, but where I was brought up, when someone invites you to a party, you either accept or decline with thanks.
What did you think about the interview? Is O'Reilly usually so easily thrown off by an interviewee? Why is it so difficult for him to sustain a real argument as opposed to just hurling verbal brickbats? And where did he learn his manners?
It is very interesting to read your perspective on the interview. I beleive Bill asked the President very respectfully his thoughts on two subjects that are very important to the American people, e.g. Egypt and Healthcare. Because he was not giddy just being in the President's presence does not mean he was being unkind with his line of questioning. He is paid to ask difficult questions and not simply throw soft balls. The reason he interrupts is because Obama has the habit of giving a 20 minute answer to a question that should only take 2 minutes. With all that said both Obama and Bill did a good job!
Well I really dont like to get into politics at all. But I am so glad that someone saw the interview the same way I did. I really think that besides political different when you sit in from of the President of any country you should show some respect. O'Reilley showed that he might be graduated from college but he have no class at all and his hatred towards the president could not be hidden. He is absolutely stupid and I have no respect for a man that cannot decern the difference. Regardles of how we feel about how things are going presently we should always show respect to our leader. The president demonstrated to him and to all who hates him that he is a bigger person. And that he can keep his calm in from of those who want to take him down no matter what. So what I say to O'Reiley. LOOOOOSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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ISTANBUL (AP) -- UEFA chose Lisbon's Stadium of Light on Tuesday to host the 2014 Champions League final.
UEFA's executive committee selected the 65,000-capacity home ground of Benfica, a quarterfinalist in this season's competition, at the opening of a two-day meeting.
This season's final is played May 19 at Bayern Munich's home stadium. The 2013 final is at Wembley Stadium in London.
Lisbon last staged Europe's showpiece club match in 1967, when Celtic beat Inter Milan 2-1 at National Stadium.
The Stadium of Light was rebuilt before the 2004 European Championship and staged the final, in which Portugal lost 1-0 to Greece.
Also Tuesday, UEFA's ruling committee chose the new Juventus Stadium in Turin to host the 2014 Europa League final.
UEFA also awarded the 2015 Under-21 European Championship to the Czech Republic.

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When many people think of immigration experiences to the United States, the most prominent aspects that come to mind are stories filled with challenges and heartbreak. Portes and Rumbaut write in their book Immigrant America that an immigrant's move "is commonly portrayed as a one-way escape from hunger, want, and persecution" (Portes & Rumbaut 2006:13). When I began my discussion with Eric Anthony, who immigrated to the United States from Malaysia, he warned me that his story was not one of these, that in fact, his experience was precisely the opposite. "I'm one of those successful immigrant stories. I've had very good luck. And hard work, a combination. A lot of kind people have helped me in so many ways, with intelligent thoughts and kind words, and have always guided me. I've always felt that I was the lucky one." What I found through interviewing him, however, is that his success has been a direct result of his amazingly positive mindset, which he has been able to maintain even when faced with challenges many people are never confronted with throughout their entire lives.
"Today, I still in my heart feel that Hawaii is the place where I grew up, because I really became the person that I am, not the person that my parents would mold me to be. Hawaii gave me the safety, and the freedom. America as a country gave me that space. I think I would be a very different person if I was living in Malaysia. In my heart I would be so different, I would probably be struggling. Struggling not economically but struggling being the person that I should be… but not knowing who that was. And that's a crazy place to be, it's like being in a white room. And it's scary."After his experience in Hawaii, Eric was offered a job in Sri Lanka. He worked there for a few years and during this time was able to visit his family and return home for the first time since he had left in 1981. It had been almost 16 years since he had been back. This time was very important to him because it ended up being the last time he saw his father and it was important to him to have closure and say goodbye. After working in Sri Lanka for two years, which was war-torn and with constant threats of violence, Eric was offered jobs in both Texas and Boston. Bente and Eric moved to Boston for two years and after enduring the harsh winters they decided they needed warmer weather. At this time Eric was offered a job in San Francisco, where his sister already lived. Eric and Bente were able to buy a small house in Oakland and have lived in the Bay Area ever since.
Like all immigrant stories, Eric's is highly unique. The places that he has traveled and lived, his upbringing, and the circumstances that he found himself in have all contributed to his perspective on life and living, which is without a doubt inspiring. It is easy for anyone to dwell on the hard parts of life, but when you see someone with such a positive attitude it is something to truly learn from. "You work with the hand that you're dealt. A lot of times you don't have it figured out. You'll never have it figured out, so you have to figure it out as you go along. That's what I think living is. Bottom line is, I've had a lot of good experiences ... the light in your stairwell comes on after you take the first step into the darkness."
Portes, Alejandro and Rumbaut, Ruben. Immigrant America. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2006. Print.
Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror. New York: Little Brown & Company. 2008. Print.
U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey. 2010.
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Negotiations have been relatively non-existent throughout the NHL lockout, with the sides rarely requesting meetings. The NHL Players' Association expressed a desire to talk Tuesday night, but the league swiftly denied it.
"They have indicated a willingness to meet, but they also told us they had very little interest in the proposal we tabled last Tuesday," Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told the Canadian Press. "[They] also said they weren't making a new proposal. What would we be meeting about?"
The union informed the league it was willing to meet today "or any other date, without preconditions, to try to reach an agreement," according to spokesman Jonathan Weatherdon.
"The league is apparently unwilling to meet," NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr said. "That is unfortunate, as it is hard to make progress without talking."
In presenting its proposal last week, the league said a new collective bargaining agreement would need to be completed by Thursday in order to conduct a full 82-game season. With no talks scheduled, it's unlikely to happen.
The league has canceled all games through Nov. 1, and a much larger chunk could be whacked this week.
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Racial Gap Persists in Women's Heart Health Knowledge: Survey
While awareness has increased for everyone, minorities still lag behind, researchers say.
A new survey says that 56 percent of women now say they are aware that heart disease is their Number One killer.
By Alan Mozes
HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Feb. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A new survey suggests that while public health campaigns have prompted a growing number of American women to recognize that heart disease is the biggest risk to their well-being, a racial gap in awareness remains as wide as ever.
Overall, 56 percent of women now say they are aware that heart disease is their Number One killer, up from just 30 percent back in 1997, according to the authors of the American Heart Association (AHA) report.
[READ: The Truth About Women's Heart Health]
A steep climb in overall awareness was also observed among both black women and Hispanic women during the 15-year period. But the respective rise from 15 percent and 20 percent awareness in 1997 to 36 percent and 34 percent awareness in 2012, means that a notable gap in awareness has remained doggedly persistent.
"The results show we may be winning the war in the past 15 years to raise awareness of heart disease in women, but we are still fighting an important battle to close the minority gap," said study author Dr. Lori Mosca, director of preventive cardiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
Mosca and her colleagues report their observations in the Feb. 19 online edition of Circulation.
The survey was conducted by telephone and online from August to October in 2012. More than 2,400 women over the age of 25 participated.
Among the findings: While 35 percent of women said they (erroneously) believed that cancer was their number one killer in 1997, that dropped to 24 percent by 2012. Today, 56 percent of women accurately cite heart disease as their primary health threat, up from 30 percent in 1997.
On the downside, information strides made among black and Hispanic women had only lifted both groups to awareness levels already seen among white women back in 1997. The result: a racial spread in heart disease awareness that remains the same as it was 15 years ago.
"Sustained efforts are critical, because African-American women have the highest risk of heart disease and Hispanic women have the highest risk of diabetes, a powerful risk factor that is increasing in epidemic proportions," Mosca said.
The poll authors also observed an age gap, with both overall awareness and the likelihood of discussing heart disease with a doctor particularly low among the 25- to 34-year-old set, the youngest group polled.
[READ: Facebook Post-Breakup: Bad for Your Heart?]
On the prevention front, women seemed more motivated to make lifestyle changes to feel better and improve their health, rather than to live longer. The team also noted that women continue to have "low" awareness levels when it comes to knowing the atypical symptoms of heart trouble that are unique to women, such as nausea.
However, Mosca did note that one particularly encouraging and surprising finding was that patients do seem to trust their physicians. "This was perceived to be a historical barrier," she noted, "[but] the new data suggest there is an important opportunity for health care providers to help raise awareness among high-risk women, which is the first step in patients taking action to lower risk."
Dr. Jennifer Mieres, a professor of cardiology at North Shore-LIJ Health System in New Hyde Park, N.Y., said that media-savvy public health campaigns (such as last week's annual celebrity-driven "Red Dress Event" in New York City) are the key to raising awareness.
"When the AHA's 'Go Red' campaign got started, it was sort of a recognition that most women, when they were asked where they get their information about heart disease from, said they got it from the media. Seventy percent said their information came from magazines, TV, radio shows. Only 24 percent said they got information from their medical providers," Mieres said.
"So, it was a wake-up call," she added. "Because while one in 20 or 30 women die from breast cancer, one in three women die from heart disease. But the breast cancer community had done an amazing, and much better, job of getting the message out about that important disease by using celebrity spokespersons and focusing on the importance of mammograms," Mieres explained.


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The ugly subculture of neo-Nazi punk rock is back in the news after the shooting at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee. But within the punk community itself, many voices have loudly opposed this strain over the decades and worked to combat it with music.
Jello Biafra, the founder of the pioneering Bay Area punk band Dead Kennedys, label owner and one of the most outspoken leftist activists in music, wrote perhaps the defining anti-Nazi punk anthem in 1981. We can't print its title, but we spoke with Biafra -- who now fronts Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine -- about the history of Nazi punk and his own legacy in opposing it. A condensed and lightly edited transcript of his remarks follows:


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Target Practice: Tracking opportunities in Patriots passing game
Posted By Christopher Price On November 27, 2012 @ 8:16 am In General | No Comments
Targets have been compiled by the NFL since the start of the 2009 season, and while it remains an imperfect stat — a badly thrown ball from a quarterback can often go against the record of the receiver as opposed to the quarterback — it remains a good indication of the confidence level a passer might have in his pass catcher. Here's a look at the target breakdown for the New England passing game through the first 11 games of the 2012 regular season:
WR Wes Welker: 80 catches on 115 targets
TE Rob Gronkowski: 53 catches on 75 targets
WR Brandon Lloyd: 49 catches on 88 targets
RB Danny Woodhead: 24 catches on 29 targets
WR Julian Edelman: 20 catches on 29 targets
TE Aaron Hernandez: 19 catches on 27 targets
WR Deion Branch: Nine catches on 20 targets
RB Shane Vereen: Seven catches on 10 targets
RB Stevan Ridley: Six catches on 11 targets
TE Daniel Fells: Three catches on eight targets
RB Brandon Bolden: Two catches on two targets
TE Michael Hoomanawanui: Two catches on three targets
TE Kellen Winslow: One catch on two targets
TOTALS: 275 catches on 419 targets
By position
Wide receiver: 158 catches on 252 targets
Tight end: 78 catches on 115 targets
Running back: 39 catches on 52 targets
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Today I read an article in the Harvard Business Review called Open Source Software Hits a Strategic Tipping Point. Author Laurie Wurster writes, "Based on surveys my colleagues at Gartner and I have conducted over the past several years, mainstream adopters of IT solutions across a widening array of market segments are rapidly gaining confidence in the use of open source software, with many now stressing its valuable features more than its risks."
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A first cousin of the recent Heartbleed attack affects EAP-based wireless and peer-to-peer authentication.
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FOSS community acts to protect freedom of choice for laptop devices.
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The USMNT may have some big problems to fix, but Jurgen Klinsmann still has me excited about the future.
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Costa Rica 1, United States 0
Date- September 2, 2011, Home Depot Center LA, California
Goals- Rodney Wallace (65')
Announced Attendance- 15,798
Starting XI's:
United States- Howard, Chandler, Bocanegra, Castillo, Orozco, Edu,Torres, Shea, Rogers, Donovan, Altidore
Costa Rica-Navas, Umana, Johnson, Miller, Acosta, Barrantes,Azofeifa, Sanchez, Saborio, Brenes, Martinez
If you watched the first 20 minutes or so of the United States vs. Costa Rica match yesterday, you would have thought the Americans were going to run away with the game. However, Costa Rica survived an initial impressive performance from the American side, and eventually took the lead off a Rodney Wallace diving header in the second half to put the game away.
Oh my, the United States started this game looking like a completely different team than the Bob Bradley "counter-attack" teams that we have known throughout his tenure as the coach of the USMNT. The Americans were sublime early on, showing a substantial amount of flair, and confidence in their passing and their aggressiveness. We got an early sneak peak of what kind of team we should maybe expect from new coach Jurgen Klinsman.
I have to say, early on I was elated. I've been waiting for a long while now for a US team to attack the way that the Americans did last night during the first half. It was definitely a beautiful thing to watch, most notably midfielder Jose Torres, who was consistently creative with his passing all night long. It kind of makes you wonder why Bradley buried Torres on the bench all of this time. Torres was a difference maker last night, and from an American perspective, he was the clear cut Man of the Match for the US. Torres is the kind of player that should thrive under Klinsmann's coaching.
In general, it looked as if the US squad was more relaxed then they ever really were under Bradley. Klinsmann's moto seems to be "Have fun with the game. Work your tail off, but have fun." He definitely allows the US players to express themselves on the pitch, much more so then we've seen in recent years.
Landon Donovan started the game, and had a few good moments, but also missed a sure goal early in the first half. Seeing as the game was played at the Home Depot Center, had Donovan scored, it may have changed the entire outcome of the match. The place would have been electric. But it wasn't meant to be. It wasn't exactly the quintessential Donovan performance we've grown accustomed to, but I understand that this is a completely new system employed by Klinsmann, and it's going to take time for the players, even players as good as Landon Donovan, to figure out exactly how they fit into the new scheme. Last night was one of those nights where chances were in abundance for the US, but actual scoring never materialized.
I was glad to see Klinsmann naming so many young players in the starting lineup. One thing you have to be excited about if your a United States fan is that it seems Klinsmann is a lot more willing to give younger players in the U.S system a chance. Brek Shea is one of those players that I think will end up shining the brightest because of this philosophy. Shea looked good for most of the night, as he was confident and aggressive all match long. The one down side being that his crossing in the game left a lot to be desired.
Crossing in general, seemed to be one of the biggest problems the US were having vs. Costa Rica. The crosses, whether from Shay, or Robbie Rogers, were simply not accurate enough to actually create any real chances. Had they been more accurate, perhaps we would be talking about a 2-1 US victory instead.
The second half would probably be best described as lackadaisical from a US perspective. The performances from most of the first half compared to how the USMNT played in the second half were night and day. The Americans struggled to regain possession from Costa Rica. The few times they actually did regain possession, they had a hard time keeping it. The only real explanations being that after Costa Rica survived the initial onslaught from the US, they actually settled down, and started making things happen. I'm sure the Americans inexperience came into play as well. Hats off to the Costa Rica team, by the way. They weren't at full strength either, and it was rather impressive watching them regain their composure after the early minutes, and dominate the second half the way that they did. Rodney Wallace's score was a well deserved outcome, as US goalie Tim Howard had just made a nice save of a Michael Barrantas shot, but was unable to handle the ball, and Wallace converted off a diving header.
There are still a slew of problems Klinsmann will have to solve if this US side is going to flourish. I still don't think we have an honest clue on who's going to play left back for the American side. Edgar Castillo had a couple of nice plays, but for the most part looked overmatched, and easily pushed off the ball. The Americans must also find a way to finish their chances, as they were aplenty early in the 1st half and yet the United States never capitalized.
Definitely a Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde performance from the United States in this one, which is to be expected from a team with so much youth, and with a coach trying to put together the massive jigsaw puzzle that is the American roster. Maybe I'm grasping for straws as a US fan, but those first 20 minutes or so of the game were beautiful to watch, and hopefully an indication of things to come in the Klinsmann era.


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Within a mile of the Los Angeles Airport, the Westin provides complimentary scheduled airport transportation 24 hours a day. Area beaches are within nine miles, and Hollywood is 17.5 miles away.
Guests traveling to Manhattan Beach Pier, Manhattan Village Shopping Center, and Plaza El Segundo can check with the concierge regarding price and schedule of the Ocean Express Trolley.
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Inspired by the great city grills of yesteryear with intimate booths, private dining, and bar, Daily Grill offers an All-American menu.
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The Westin Los Angeles Airport is a smoke-free property.
Continental breakfast is also available in the lounge Monday - Friday, and at the coffee cart Saturday and Sunday.
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The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
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Check-out time is noon
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Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
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Pets allowed, Only dogs are allowed
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
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Christmas Eve is the Feast of the Seven Fishes to all Nablidons and Sicilians, although Linda hasn't done it in a big way for years since we began our other tradition of family dinner on Christmes day. Hence, she can be excused since this year her planning includes a sit-down dinner on Christmas Day for 28 assorted relatives. (Happily for me, this year's acceptances include several cousins I haven't seen in a long while who are usually away for Christmas.) More happily for Linda, our two sons will be home and for a Sicilian mother nothing, I mean nothing, beats two sons being home for Christmas. It's a great thing too for an Irish father, but for a Sicilian mother? Fuhgettaboutit. To give an example, I can easily imagine that heavenly day when Linda and the Blessed Mother are chatting. Linda will say, "yes, your Son was pretty advanced, but I'm sure my sons walked on water well before they were 30."
See link, Edible Brooklyn, for a fun article on the feast of the seven fishes featuring one of Linda's culinary gods, Marcella Hazan, and Marcella's ignorance of the feast, attributable to a childhood spent north of Naples. And so, from the article, my suggestions for the Christmas Vigil dinner,  la sette pesci: grilled calamari and octopus, rock shrimp aioli, linguini with clam sauce, branzini, corvina ravioli, Arctic char crudo with Sette Anni pepper.
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Once again, tax season is upon us. NBC 7's Consumer Bob shares tips on how to prepare your taxes early and efficiently.
Despite delays due to the 2013 government shutdown, the IRS has officially begun accepting tax returns for the 2014 tax season. Here are some tips on navigating tax season:
Why should I file a tax return?
Because it's the law. If you don't file your taxes, you risk losing your tax refund. The average taxpayer refund was $2,755 last year, according to the IRS. And if you owe money, you can face serious penalties, and even jailtime, if you fail to pay.
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On the Internet: the IRS offers Free File. E-filing also allows the IRS to process your return more quickly than filing by paper. In 2013, more than 122 million taxpayers filed their individual tax returns using IRS e-file.
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The sooner you file a tax return, the sooner you get your tax refund. According to the IRS, you can expect your refund within 21 days. But if you wait too long to file, you may run into delays. You can check on the status of your refund using the "Where's My Refund?" tool. If you e-file your taxes, you can check the status of your refund within 24 hours. If you file by paper, you'll have to wait four weeks.
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If you know your taxes won't be finished by Tax Day, then you can request an automatic 4-month extension. However, an extension of time to file is not an extension of time to pay. If you owe the government tax money, then you still have to pay it on time.
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BENZONIA — The Friends of the Benzonia Public Library will hold a used jigsaw puzzle sale on Saturday, Sept. 28.
The sale will be open from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the library on U.S. 31. Proceeds support the library. For details, call 882-4111.
Reunion postponed
TRAVERSE CITY — Because of low ticket sales, the Traverse City West Senior High School class of 2003 has postponed its 10-year reunion.
Originally scheduled for Sept. 21, the reunion now will be held Saturday, Dec. 28, from 6-10 p.m. at InsideOut Gallery, 229 Garland St. Tickets are $20 in advance or $30 at the door. For advance tickets, send checks payable to TC West Class Reunion, to 5412 N. Winthrop Ave. #1N, Chicago, IL 60640.
Navigation class
TRAVERSE CITY — The registration deadline is Monday, Sept. 30, for a navigational charting class being offered by the Traverse City Coast Guard Auxiliary.
The class will meet from 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Coast Guard Air Station. Students will learn how to chart a boating course in West Grand Traverse Bay. Charts will be provided.
The $10 class fee includes the textbook. For details or to register, call Dianne Walker, 941-8076.
Botanic Gardens
TRAVERSE CITY — Three garden authors and designers will participate in a Tuesday, Oct. 1, "Evening with the Authors" to benefit construction of the Botanic Garden's Walled Garden.
"Revolutionary Gardens: Past, Present and Future" starts at 7:30 p.m. at the City Opera House, 106 E. Front St. Speakers include Warren Byrd, award-winning landscape architect and designer of Traverse City's Historic Barns Park and Botanic Garden; Peter Hatch, author and plantsman who restored Thomas Jefferson's gardens at Monticello; and Andrea Wulf, English author and design historian. They will share stories and backgrounds about their books, their gardens and their experiences.
Tickets are $20 each and available at www.cityoperahouse.org or 941-8082.
Artist residency
EAST JORDAN — Applications are due Tuesday, Oct. 1, for the December 2013 to May 2014 artist residency season at Hill House.
The Hill House Residency supports non-studio artists, emerging songwriters and writers at all stages of their career. Residencies include a two, three or four week stay in a semi-secluded log cabin with a well-stocked kitchen near East Jordan and within walking distance of the Jordan River.
Hill House now accepts parent artists who may bring up to three children and/or caregivers. Artists from different disciplines also may be in residence together if they are either collaborating on a project, or in a relationship. Each artist must apply individually and be accepted into the program.
For details about Hill House residencies including a link to the online application system, visit www.artmeetsearth.org, email email@example.com, or call 622-5252.
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EMPIRE — Kathleen Stocking will give a 30-minute lecture on African American pioneers in the area at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, at the Empire Museum, 11544 S. Lacore Road. The public is invited.


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return to the bargaining table later today to try to avoid a possible strike.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 12:28 PM
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on Oct 10, 2013 at 8:22 am
Fire them all.....they are lousy lazy union workers anyway with ghetto attitudes in most cases.
on Oct 10, 2013 at 8:59 am
Yes Tanya is correct. She has the guts to say it out loud.
But I would go 2 more steps...Terminate 100% of the BART System...Managers and most of all the BART Board...Get rid of everyone and start over.
The rotten apples are rotting everything and everyone.
Close down BART for 7 days and put the signs out "HELP WANTED"...Print up a working agreement and hand it to every person looking to get hired.
This must come from the Governor. He must appoint a committee of at least 7 independent people the restructure the entire BART operating system.
Thank for listening, Julia Pardini from Alamo.
And yes I will be first in line to file a application to be hired.
on Oct 11, 2013 at 12:09 am
News report just showed a really pathetic, scary, motly crew of union workers hovering around the microphone. I didn't see a single one of the droolers, that could be worth the $100k packages they receive. The system is failing us, the taxpayers and riders. It is so wrong that the public should be held hostage by this scux.
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Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino slammed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to allow local governments and school districts to spread out employee pension payments.
"It's a gimmick and it's very bad," he said.
The county executive spoke about the issue at his "Ask Astorino" forum on Tuesday night at New Castle Town Hall in Chappaqua. He argued that it could mean having to borrow for the obligations and resulting in governments having to deal with "huge, huge ballon payments down the road."
Cuomo, who lives in New Castle, included the item in his proposed 2013-14 budget.
The voluntary program is officially called the Stable Rate Pension Contribution Option, which would allow for participating entities to lock in a constant contribution rate for several years. The legislationin the governor's budget calls for having the fixed contribution rate set at 12 percent. Payments for the system could be amoritized, which prompted concern from Astorino.
Cuomo's office contends that the system could yield savings for entities would choose to participate in it, avoiding the volatile nature of the traditional system. The system relies on school districts, municipalities and counties having to pick up the slack when investments do not perform well enough to provide for a guaranteed rate of return for the state's various pension funds.
Astorino is the latest official to come out against the idea. According to published media reports, elected officials who are skeptical about it include State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli (who would have oversight of the plan) and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner. Cuomo's office, meanwhile, has released a list of local officials who support the plan, which can be found here.
Among those listed in the statement of support for Cuomo's plan is Westchester County Board of Legislators Chairman Kenneth Jenkins, a Yonkers Democrat who has announced that he will run for county executive, and challenging Astorino, who is a Mount Pleasant Republican, for the office.
Cuomo's office claims that the pension proposal would save Westchester County $40.1 million for the 2014 fiscal year and $140.3 million over a 5-year period.
Meanwhile, Astorino sounded a proverbial alarm bell at the New Castle gathering, noting that the county faces a roughly $91 million pension bill for 2013, versus just about $3.3 million in 2001.
The county executive is also lukewarm on the new pension Tier VI, which Cuomo signed into law last March. It includes a higher retirement age, a longer vesting period and an optional 401(k)-style plan alternative for some state employees. However, the measure will only apply to new employees, and Astorino argued that the savings will not be realized for years.
In the meantime, Astorino argued, the pension contributions are an example of unfunded mandates that come from the state and are posing a fiscal threat.
"We're ready to drown, all of us," he said about the financial climate.


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Who doesn't like receiving a cheerful holiday card this time of year. We enthusiastically open it to read the cheerful greeting--included may be a short personal note promising to keep in touch next year.
But, what happens to that giddy feeling when you sift through the pile of mail and behold the thick envelope addressed by you-know-who? It's the annual holiday update letter.
The holiday letter can be a great way to let those who care, get a glimpse of what you've been up to.
Make sure that your holiday letter is one they look forward to receiving. Here are a few timely tips to consider:
Tip #1: Send it only to people who want to know.
Tip #2: If they've never met your child(ren), they probably won't be interested in reading about the "Soccer Participation" ribbon they received.
Tip #3: List only 2-3 highlights for each family member.
Tip #4: Make it brief; one page, two max.
Tip #5: Do not include: financial woes, kitchen remodel horror stories...keep it uplifting. It's supposed to be a "greeting", not true confessions.
Tip #6: Avoid garnishing ordinary tasks or accomplishments.
Tip #7: Do not include people you see on a regular basis; they've heard it.
Tip #8: Include the letter in a card, signed by you.
For more of my timely holiday tips, go to:
Etiquette approach: Use discretion when writing a family update. Not all details need to be disclosed. Be aware of a boastful tone. If you know that someone has been out of work for several months, going on and on about your bonus, vacations, new car, and your growing 401K, may not be wise or kind. Be sure to wish them a happy, healthy, and prosperous year.
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P. Dickens and T. Morey (2013), Increasing the Scalability of PISM for High Resolution Ice Sheet Models, 14th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-14), Boston, MA.
The issue of global climate change is of great interest to scientist and a critical concern of society at large. One important piece of the climate puzzle is how the dynamics of large-scale ice sheets, such as those in Greenland and Antarctic, will react in response to such climate change. Domain scientists have developed several simulation models to predict and understand the behavior of large-scale ice sheets, but the depth of knowledge gained from such models is largely dependent upon the resolution at which they can be efficiently executed. The problem, however, is that relatively small increases in the resolution of the model result in very large increases in the size of the input and output data sets, and an explosion in the number of grid points that must be considered by the simulation. Thus increasing the resolution of ice-sheet models, in general, requires the use of supercomputing technologies and the application of tools and techniques developed within the high-performance computing research community. In this paper, we discuss our work in evaluating and increasing the performance of the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) [6, 25, 38], using a high-resolution model of the Greenland ice sheet, on a state-of-the-art supercomputer. In particular, we found that the computation performed by PISM was highly scalable, but that he I/O demands of the higher-resolution model were a significant drag on overall performance. We then performed a series of experiments to determine the cause of the relatively poor I/O performance and how such performance could be improved. By making simple changes to the PISM source code and one of the I/O libraries used by PISM we were able to provide an 8-fold increase in I/O performance.
S. Nittel, C. Dorr, and J.C. Whittier, 2012, LocalAlert: Simulating decentralized ad-hoc collaboration in emergency situations, in: N.Xioa, M.P. Kwan, M. Goodchild, and S. Shekhar (eds.), Geographic Information Science — Seventh International Conference, GIScience 2012, Columbus, OH, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7478, Springer, pp. 146-159.
Today, advances in short-range ad-hoc communication and mobile phone technologies allow people to engage in ad-hoc collaborations based solely on their spatial proximity. These technologies can also be useful to enable a form of timely, self-organizing emergency response. Information about emergency events such as a fire, an accident or a toxic spill is most relevant to the people located nearby, and these people are likely also the first ones to encounter such emergencies. In this paper we explore the concept of decentralized ad-hoc collaboration across a range of emergency scenarios, its feasibility, and potentially effective communication protocols. We introduce the LocalAlert framework, an open source agent simulation framework that we have developed to build and test various form s of decentralized ad-hoc collaboration in different emergency situations. Initial experiments identify a number of parameters that affect the likelihood of a successful response under such scenarios.
R. Moratz and J.O. Wallgrün, 2012, Spatial reasoning with augmented points: Extending cardinal directions with local distances, Journal of Spatial Information Science, Vol. 5.
We present an approach for supplying existing qualitative direction calculi with a distance component to support fully fledged positional reasoning. The general underlying idea of augmenting points with local reference properties has already been applied in the OPRAm calculus. In this existing calculus, point objects are attached with a local reference direction to obtain oriented points and able to express relative direction using binary relations. We show how this approach can be extended to attach a granular distance concept to direction calculi such as the cardinal direction calculus or adjustable granularity calculi such as OPRAm or the Star calculus. We focus on the cardinal direction calculus and extend it to a multi-granular positional calculus called EPRAm. We provide a formal specification of EPRAm including a composition table for EPRA2 automatically determined using real algebraic geometry. We also report on an experimental performance analysis of EPRA2 in the context of a topological map-learning task proposed for benchmarking qualitative calculi. Our results confirm that our approach of adding a relative distance component to existing calculi improves the performance in realistic tasks when using algebraic closure for consistency checking.
T. Mossakowski and R. Moratz, 2012, Qualitative Reasoning about Relative Direction of Oriented Points. Artificial Intelligence Journal, Volumes 180-181, pages 34-45.
An important issue in qualitative spatial reasoning is the representation of relative directions. In this paper we present simple geometric rules that enable reasoning about the relative direction between oriented points. This framework, the oriented point algebra OPRAm, has a scalable granularity m. We develop a simple algorithm for computing the OPRAm composition tables and prove its correctness. Using a composition table, algebraic closure for a set of OPRAm statements is very useful to solve spatial navigation tasks. It turns out that scalable granularity is useful in these navigation tasks.
J.M. Loomis , R.L. Klatzky, B. McHugh, and N.A. Giudice, 2012, Spatial working memory for locations specified by vision and audition: testing the amodality hypothesis, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 74(6):1260-7.
Spatial working memory can maintain representations from vision, hearing, and touch, representations referred to here as spatial images. The present experiment addressed whether spatial images from vision and hearing that are simultaneously present within working memory retain modality-specific tags or are amodal. Observers were presented with short sequences of targets varying in angular direction, with the targets in a given sequence being all auditory, all visual, or a sequential mixture of the two. On two thirds of the trials, one of the locations was repeated, and observers had to respond as quickly as possible when detecting this repetition. Ancillary detection and localization tasks confirmed that the visual and auditory targets were perceptually comparable. Response latencies in the working memory task showed small but reliable costs in performance on trials involving a sequential mixture of auditory and visual targets, as compared with trials of pure vision or pure audition. These deficits were statistically reliable only for trials on which the modalities of the matching location switched from the penultimate to the final target in the sequence, indicating a switching cost. The switching cost for the pair in immediate succession means that the spatial images representing the target locations retain features of the visual or auditory representations from which they were derived. However, there was no reliable evidence of a performance cost for mixed modalities in the matching pair when the second of the two did not immediately follow the first, suggesting that more enduring spatial images in working memory may be amodal.
J L Fastook and J W Head, 2012, ">Mid-latitude Amazonian glaciation on Mars: Controls on accumulation and glacial flow patterns, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXXIII, Houston TX.
A model of flow into a crater from episodic layering events driven by obliquity demonstrates that even at Amazonian temperatures, concentric crater fill can be formed in as little as 50 m.y., whereas flow from a single persistent layer takes 450 m.y.
J L Fastook, J W Head, D R Marchant, F Forget, and J-B Madeleine, 2012, Early Mars climate near the Noachian–Hesperian boundary: Independent evidence for cold conditions from basal melting of the south polar ice sheet (Dorsa Argentea Formation) and implications for valley network formation, Icarus 219(1): 25-40.
Currently, and throughout much of the Amazonian, the mean annual surface temperatures of Mars are so cold that basal melting does not occur in ice sheets and glaciers and they are cold-based. The documented evidence for extensive and well-developed eskers (sediment-filled former sub-glacial meltwater channels) in the south circumpolar Dorsa Argentea Formation is an indication that basal melting and wetbased glaciation occurred at the South Pole near the Noachian–Hesperian boundary. We employ glacial accumulation and ice-flow models to distinguish between basal melting from bottom-up heat sources (elevated geothermal fluxes) and top-down induced basal melting (elevated atmospheric temperatures warming the ice). We show that under mean annual south polar atmospheric temperatures (100 C) simulated in typical Amazonian climate experiments and typical Noachian–Hesperian geothermal heat fluxes (45–65 mW/m2), south polar ice accumulations remain cold-based. In order to produce significant basal melting with these typical geothermal heat fluxes, the mean annual south polar atmospheric temperatures must be raised from today's temperature at the surface (100 C) to the range of 50 to 75 C. This mean annual polar surface atmospheric temperature range implies lower latitude mean annual temperatures that are likely to be below the melting point of water, and thus does not favor a "warm and wet" early Mars. Seasonal temperatures at lower latitudes, however, could range above the melting point of water, perhaps explaining the concurrent development of valley networks and open basin lakes in these areas. This treatment provides an independent estimate of the polar (and non-polar) surface temperatures near the Noachian–Hesperian boundary of Mars history and implies a cold and relatively dry Mars climate, similar to the Antarctic Dry Valleys, where seasonal melting forms transient streams and permanent ice-covered lakes in an otherwise hyperarid, hypothermal climate.
M. Dube and M. Egenhofer, An Ordering of Convex Topological Relations, in: N.Xioa, M.P. Kwan, M. Goodchild, and S. Shekhar (eds.), Geographic Information Science — Seventh International Conference, GIScience 2012, Columbus, OH, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7478, Springer, pp. 72-86, September 2012.
Topological relativity is a concept of interest in geographic information theory. One way of assessing the importance of topology in spatial reasoning is to analyze commonplace terms from natural language relative to conceptual neighborhood graphs, the alignment structures of choice for topological relations. Sixteen English-language spatial prepositions for regionregion relations were analyzed for their corresponding topological relations, each of which was found to represent a convex subset within the conceptual neighborhood graph of the region-region relations, giving rise to the construction of the convex ordering of region-region relations. The resulting lattice of the convex subgraphs enables an algorithmic approach to explaining unknown prepositions.
C. Farah, K, Beard, C.T. Hess, and J. Hock, 2012, Analyzing Spatial and Temporal Radon-222 Trends in Maine. Health Physics. 102(2) 115-123.
Prolonged radon exposure has been linked to lung cancer. Cancer registry data indicates excess risk for age-adjusted lung cancer in Maine. Maine's mean residential radon activity exceeds the EPA maximum contaminant level (MCL). This paper describes the application of spatial autocorrelation methods to retrospective data as a means of analyzing radon activity in Maine. Retrospective air and well water radon activity data, sampled throughout Maine between 1993 and 2008, are standardized and geocoded for analysis. Three spatial autocorrelation algorithms-local Getis-Ord, local Moran, and spatial scan statistic-are used to identify spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal radon activity clusters and/or outliers. Spatial clusters of high air- and well water-Rn activity are associated with Maine's Lucerne and Sebago granitic formations. Spatial clusters of low air- and well water-Rn activity are associated with Biddeford Granite and the metamorphic bedrock formation Silurian Ordovician Vassalboro. Space-time analysis indicates that most spatial clusters persist over the period of sampling. No significant temporal clusters are identified. Persistent spatial variations in radon may help to better understand and predict radon-related health risks associated with Maine residences.
K. King and S. Nittel, 2010, Efficient Data Collection and Event Boundary Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Tiny Models, International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience), Zurich, Switzerland, Springer LNCS.
Using wireless geosensor networks (WGSN), sensor nodes often monitor a phenomenon that is both continuous in time and space. However, sensor nodes take discrete samples, and an analytical framework inside or outside the WSN is used to analyze the phenomenon.. In both cases, expensive communication is used to stream a large number of data samples to other nodes and to the base station. In this work, we explore a novel alternative that utilizes predictive process knowledge of the observed phenomena to minimize upstream communication. Often, observed phenomena adhere to a process with predictable behavior over time.We present a strategy for developing and running so-called 'tiny models' on individual sensor nodes that capture the predictable behavior of the phenomenon; nodes now only communicate when unexpected events are observed. Using multiple simulations, we demonstrate that a significant percentage of messages can be reduced during data collection.


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I write about video games: the industry and the culture.
As much as I loved finally being able to play Dark Souls on PC, the port itself was a disaster. From Software's inexperience with PC led to a game with no graphical improvements and only the barest-bone keyboard and mouse support left many feeling let down with the title.
Contrast with CD Projekt RED's Xbox 360 port of The Witcher 2. The game looks and plays remarkably well on the Xbox 360—in fact, its gamepad support is so good I switched to an Xbox controller for the PC version as well.
In fact, the Xbox 360 version had some choice graphics upgrades compared to the initial PC release, though all those enhancements were released, free of charge, for PC players as well. So while the console port may not look quite as good as the game does on your custom-built gaming rig, it still looks amazing.
This is a port done with all the care and attention to detail a game as quality as The Witcher 2 deserves. Hopefully the next in the franchise will release across consoles and PC. And hopefully it comes out soon. The wait, as they say, is killing me.
Then again, we won't have to wait long…at least for some news.
I think that The Witcher 2 (and Battlefield 3) proves that making good PC games isn't hard. Just develop for the PC first, since it is way ahead of the consoles and scale it down afterwards, not the other way around.
I'm not saying that Dark Souls should have been made that way but it's a great way to utilize the strengths of the PC, mainly graphics quality and make sure its running smooth.
Best port of 2012…it's not like there is stiff competition. The one thing even Valve can screw up (I know they outsourced it, but you would think they would care a little more).
So…you finally finished TW2 Erik?
Originally I didn't think that much of the colours and "stunning scenery" it was hyped to have, but after playing Skyrim and being severely disappointed with the graphics on that, I changed my opinion about The Witcher 2.
When you say "graphics updates" do you mean via patches, or as part of the shipped disc?


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Meet The Professor Series
A&S hosts monthly "Meet the Professor" Luncheon Talks at the University Club on UofL's Belknap Campus. The hour-long presentations by A&S faculty are normally held on the first Thursday of the month during the academic year.
Established in Fall 2006 during the A&S Centennial celebration, the "Meet The Professor" Series has included faculty presentations on a broad range of topics representing the depth and breadth of the college. With 24 departments and more than 70 degree programs, A&S encompasses a diverse range of disciplines, and this series showcases the diversity of research and scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences today.
Reservation Information
- $14 per person ($7 for students) includes lunch.
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Spring 2014 Schedule
Stewardship in the Time of Global Climate Change
Professor Keith Mountain, Geography and Geosciences
Keith Mountain, Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Geosciences, will address the issue of how global climate change has become a measurable reality and how humankind has contributed to the observed trends. Given the consequences of shifting climate, it becomes important to merge the social, economic, and political structures so that appropriate strategies will be considered and implemented. This talk will propose some options for environmental management under conditions of change.
- Thursday, January 9 at 12 noon, University Club
Behavior and Ecology of Ants in the Tropical Rainforest Canopy
Professor Steve Yanoviak, Biology
Steve Yanoviak, Professor of Biology and Wallace Chair of Conservation, will focus his talk on ants. Ants are conspicuous and diverse in tropical rainforests. While inhabiting tropical treetops, ants face some unique biological and environmental challenges. In his presentation, Professor Yanoviak will highlight some amazing aspects of ant behavior, ecology, and evolution that have been discovered in recent years.
- Thursday, February 6 2014 at 12 noon, University Club
Virginia Woolf Among the Lunatics: Women and Mental Illness in the Early 20th Century
Professor Suzette Henke
Why have modern scholars so persistently analyzed Virginia Woolf's mental distress as virtually unique – the affliction of a genius set apart from other men and women of the Victorian and Edwardian Age? Suzette Henke, Professor of English and Thruston Morton Chair of Literary Studies, will examine case histories and consider analogies between Woolf's reported symptoms and those observed in patients admitted to institutional confinements at the turn of the last century.
- Thursday, March 6 at 12 noon, University Club
The Nicholsons in Bloomsbury: Painting Edwardian Domesticity
Professor Jongwoo Kim, Art History
In 1906 Mabel Nicholson's family left their old home in Pilgrim's Lane in Hampstead to move to Mecklenburgh Square. Mabel was "not enthusiastic about the address; she had aspirations to Chelsea, which was then the 'fashionable' artistic quarter, and was presently to be annoyed with Orpen for labeling his portrait [of her family] 'Bloomsbury Family.'" The Nicholsons were not, in fact, a "Bloomsbury family," neither were they the consummate Victorian "paterfamilias" sort. Jongwoo Kim, Professor of Art History, examines this paradox of Edwardian domesticity and explores the nuanced images of a man, a woman, and their children who lived in London in the early 20th century.
- Thursday, April 10 at 12 noon, University Club


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Leadership Can Be Learned
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00:09 Samuel Bacharach: When we speak on leadership, one thing I think is absolutely critical and that is, I really believe totally that leadership is something that can be developed. And I remember a very well-known basketball coach, or a story of a very well-known basketball coach. I won't tell you who but you can research it out. Once went into a class of students and said, "I know leadership and you folks aren't it." This notion that leadership is some... A leader thing that's held... It is in the realm of the few, I find very disturbing. But it excludes the rest of us. If we are talking in the corporate world, in public sector, in higher education about future leaders, it's our responsibly to develop 'em.
00:54 Bacharach: You're running that organization out there, you've got there 25 people, who's gonna take over for you? You've got to develop those people. A lot of people, that may not have the personality or "we think is the personality for leadership", they maybe a little more shy, they maybe more inhibited, they may not be the right culture. But they have the skills, they have the knowledge, they know the business. We have to invest in them. Make sure they develop the skills and can lead. Because if leadership is about execution, we can give good people the skills to execute but if you're gonna still hang leadership on charisma, inspiration, etcetera, you're gonna make it the realm of very, very few. And in this culture, and in this society, we need more than a few leaders. Every organization needs a whole bunch of leaders straight up and down the hierarchy. So, let's develop it. Let's get a little more democratic about our notions of leadership.
SAMUEL B. BACHARACH | Columnist | Director, Cornell's Institute of Workplace Studies
Samuel B. Bacharach is the co-founder of Bacharach Leadership Group (BLG), specializing in leadership development programs with an emphasis on micro-skills: change, execution, negotiation and coaching. He is the McKelvey-Grant professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University's ILR School. His books include Get Them on Your Side and Keep Them on Your Side.


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Blue Raiders suffer quarterfinal heart-breaker against Denver, 58-57March 5, 2006 · MT Media Relations
Senior Marcus Morrison goes up for two of his team-high 15 points against Denver. (Joe Imel, Sun Belt)
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Yemi Nicholson's only offensive rebound of the game and layup with 0.8 seconds remaining supplied Denver (15-14) with the game-winner and brought to an end a thrilling basketball game and Middle Tennessee's season. The Blue Raiders complete their campaign with a 16-12 mark.
Middle Tennessee had several opportunities in the final minute of the game; however, they couldn't get a break and the Pioneers capitalized without leaving much time for the Blue Raiders to overcome the last-second heroics. Leading 57-56 with the ball, junior Adam Vogelsberg turned the ball over with 28 seconds remaining when he made a pass to Kevin Kanaskie, who had broke a different way.
Working for a potential game-winning shot, Denver lost control of the ball in the paint but it went through two Middle Tennessee players and out of bound with four seconds remaining. The Pioneers were trying to get the ball to Nicholson on the inbound play but when they were unable to go to option one, they got the ball to DaShawn Walker, whose shot was blocked by Marcus Morrison.
However, when the ball was blocked it bounced to Nicholson, who put it in the basket with eight-tenths of a second remaining to supply Denver with a 58-57 lead - its first advantage since midway through the first half. Morrison's desperation 3-pointer from halfcourt was off the mark as the buzzer sounded.
"I saw Walker pop free so I jumped to him," Morrison said of the final Denver possession. "I knew he was going to shoot because there were only four seconds left. I just tried to jump as high as I could without fouling him. I turned around and Nicholson was grabbing it and putting it in."
Morrison ended his Blue Raider career with 15 points, his 17th double figure scoring game of the season and 37th of his career, while Fats Cuyler ended his Middle Tennessee career with 10 points. Adam Vogelsberg, who suffered from a migraine headache and blacked out prior to tipoff, came off the bench and added 11 points. Bud Howard tacked on seven points and had a career-high 13 rebounds. Nicholson led all scorers with 27 points on 11-of-15 shooting from the field, while Walker added 21 points to give Denver only its second road win of the season against a league opponent. Both came against Middle Tennessee in the Murphy Center.
"Denver likes the Murphy Center. I know that," Middle Tennessee coach Kermit Davis said. "They haven't been very good anywhere else on the road. Their only other road win was at Northern Colorado. They have two road wins in the league and it was against us here. They have shot the ball well here."
Middle Tennessee came out strong and built an 11-3 lead out of the gate but it was unable to sustain the strong start and hit just 3-of-16 shots in the final 11:37 of the half to see a 17-8 advantage turn into a 29-24 halftime deficit. Up to that point, Middle Tennessee had connected on 8-of-16 shots.
The Blue Raiders also started the second half strong and used an 11-1 run to take a 35-30 lead on Kyle Young's jumper with 14:19 remaining. Middle Tennessee never led by more than five from that point but they never trailed by more than one as the exciting game continuously hung in the balance.
POUNDING THE BOARDS: Middle Tennessee collected 36 rebounds and limited Denver to 27 in the game. The Blue Raiders, who were led by Bud Howard's career-high 13 rebounds, also had 15 offensive rebounds to Denver's six.
CUYLER MOVES UP: With two 3-pointers against Denver, Fats Cuyler finished his Blue Raider career and moved into a tie for seventh place on the single-season 3-point field goals made list with 62. He also is sixth on the career 3-point field goals made list with 114.
VOGELSBERG STREAKING: Junior guard Adam Vogelsberg was 4-of-4 from the free-throw line and ended the season with 26 consecutive makes. He also set the single-season record for free-throw percentage at 90.8 percent (108-of-119). He is the only player in program history to shoot 90 percent or better from the line in a single season.
FIRST TIME: The 58-57 setback marked the first time Middle Tennessee has lost its first game of the Sun Belt Championships under Head Coach Kermit Davis.
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More Men's Basketball NewsJul 13, 2014: Jones off to good start in NBA Summer League
May 21, 2014: Richmond commits to MT men's hoops
May 6, 2014: Raiders add Hamilton to coaching staff
Apr 24, 2014: Davis to speak at Journeys fundraiser
Apr 20, 2014: Jones named to the PIT All-Tournament Team
Apr 17, 2014: Emerald Coast Classic announces 2014 field


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Award-winning character actor Charles Durning, who has appeared opposite Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, George Clooney and many others, died Christmas Eve at age 89.
Durning, whose career included burlesque and vaudeville as well as movies and television. played a Southern politician in "O, Brother, Where Art Thou?" and the corrupt cop in "The Sting." He played the governor in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" and "Big Daddy" in "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof."
According to CNN Entertainment, as a character actor, Charles Durning won Golden Globe and Tony awards, was nominated for Emmy and Academy Awards, and won a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. He was definitely one of those actors whose face everyone would recognize, but they might not know his name.
At a time when every actor seems only to want to be a star, or at least a "celebrity," it is sad to lose another actor from a time when many only cared about acting for the love of the job and the ability to help bring to life a good story, even if the paparazzi didn't chase him and fans did not stalk him.
CNN quotes his family as saying, "Charlie loved Christmas and if he could have chosen a time to pass, he would have chosen this day."
Durning was 89 years old.
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The Palo Pinto County Fair is Jan. 9-11 at the Sheriff's Posse Building in Mineral Wells.
Entries are needed and will be accepted on Wednesday, Jan. 9, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. The fair is open to Palo Pinto County residents of all ages and features a variety of classes in art; photography; needlework, quilting, and sewing; hobbies and crafts; shop and tack; baked goods and candy; canned goods and the kiddies department.
More information and complete rules are available at palopinto.agrilife.org or by contacting Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service–Palo Pinto County at (940) 659-1228.


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Hi all! Obviously, this blog has not been updated in some time. However, we still get a fair number of folks visiting and leaving comments, so we thought we'd post this note to let y'all know where you can find us, since Sewer-Sewist is on a permanent vacation these days.
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Dark-green winter cabbage with attractive, crinkled and blistered leaves and a robust flavour and texture. It is exceptionally good for use in cooked dishes.
Choose dark-green cabbages that feel solid and heavy for their size, and have firmly layered, crisp, curling leaves. Savoys are at their best, from October to February.
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Welcome to the top tax and accounting headlines from Reuters and other sources.
* Obama assails Republican budget plan, aims at Romney. Alister Bull – Reuters. President Barack Obama accused Republicans on Tuesday of favoring the rich with a "radical" budget plan that focuses on cutting popular programs, which the White House sees as a potent vote winner for Democrats in this year's election. The Republican blueprint proposes broad tax reform, including closing loopholes to raise revenue, while advocating a simplification in the tax code and lowering the top tax rate. White House officials said the goal of Obama's speech was to hammer home a message that if Republicans win in November, their budget is coming to America. Link
* KKR's Kravis says U.S. tax overhaul needed. Greg Roumeliotis – Reuters. Henry Kravis, the co-chief executive of private equity group KKR & Co LP, said on Tuesday that a reform of the tax system was necessary to jumpstart the U.S. economy. On Monday, one of Kravis's peers, David Rubenstein, billionaire co-founder of Carlyle Group LP, defended the lower rate of taxation enjoyed by private equity managers, arguing they are merely following the laws that Congress wrote. Kravis, whose net worth as of March 2012 was $4 billion according to Forbes, refrained from making a prediction about the future tax treatment of carried interest and said he tried to keep his firm out of politics. Link
* Dividend stocks may not look so hot next year. Steven Russolillo and Alexandra Scaggs – The Wall Street Journal. Many investors have been touting dividend stocks as a way to play it safe amid the rocky economic recovery. But dividends may not be such a safe bet heading into 2013. You can blame Uncle Sam for that. As a result of the scheduled tax hike for dividends, corporations will be forced to take a hard look at the way they spend extra cash. According to current policy, taxes on dividends paid to individuals would nearly triple in 2013 to 43.5 percent from 15 percent. Link
* Property tax appeals benefit big companies. Jim Nash – The New York Times. In New York State, anyone can contest the assessed value of a property — on which property taxes are based — and, to the distress of local governments statewide, many are doing so at a time when values are falling and companies are looking to save money wherever they can. Filing an annual tax cert appeal is routine for big companies, which typically own large and expensive parcels of land, experts say. Among the corporations that have filed for refunds in New York recently are IBM, Verizon and 7-Eleven. Link


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The year saw Utah football produce its first losing season in a decade and arguably the worst basketball season in program history.
What bowl game do you see Utah playing in this year?
If you're not in El Paso, come over to the game day thread and talk about today's game! GO UTES!
Utah is familiar with the triple option, having played against it for years against Air Force. Will that help them in the Sun Bowl?
Georgia Tech & Utah have had similar seasons, albeit a bit opposite of each other. It's remarkable how similar these two teams are...so, something has to give this week. Who wins?
Getting to know Georgia Tech: A Q&A with a Yellow Jackets blogger.
Utah will take on Georgia Tech in the 2011 Sun Bowl in a rematch of the '05 Emerald Bowl - a 38-10 Utah victory.
Utah appeared to be a lock for the Alamo or Holiday Bowls. With a loss, those two seem unlikely now and it appears they could be off to El Paso to play in the Sun Bowl.
Utah still has an outside shot at the Rose Bowl, could be playing in the Alamo Bowl...or maybe the Holiday Bowl...but don't count out the Sun Bowl.
Utah moving the Pac-12 opens up an entirely new level of potential bowls. Here's a rundown of what Utah could be playing in come winter.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Eugene, Ore., police say a 9-year-old girl reported that a strange man approached her and grabbed her arm as she stood at a drinking water fountain at her school. The girl says she was able to escape and the man ran off.
Police spokeswoman Melinda McLaughlin tells The Register-Guard (http://is.gd/Jnl7JL ) that the girl is "very credible."
The newspaper says the apparent abduction attempt Monday at Yujin Gakuen Japanese Immersion Elementary School came less than four weeks after another student who attends school at the north Eugene campus reported a similar incident. Police do not know whether the cases are related.
The school shares a building and campus with Corridor Alternative Elementary School.
Police searched unsuccessfully for the man on Monday.
McLaughlin says school officials and police are "on high alert."
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Last year, food writer David Lebovitz was all set to do a demo (and take a trip) aboard the transatlantic Queen Mary 2 when those gargantuan puffs of Icelandic volcano ash descended over Europe. So now Lebovitz is taking a complimentary "makeup" trip headed to New York, where he'll visit Babycakes August 3 for a chat with baker Erin McKenna. In the meantime, Lebovitz has set his sights (and DSLR) on the liner's labyrinthine kitchens, where apparently everything is made from scratch. During each one-week journey, the kitchen breaks down and serves twelve tons each of beef, seafood, and chicken; 800 croissants and 1,000 scones are baked every day. There's an arsenal of tilt skillets, hundreds of crabcake-type things dressed and waiting for service, and speed racks loaded with Pullman loaves. There's even a dedicated butter sculptor, who does nesting eagles and one that looks eerily like an old, unsalted Samuel Beckett.
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