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Another perspective on the Mirkarimi case
We have an interesting opinon piece in this week's paper by a close friend of Eliana Lopez, the wife of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. It gives a very different perspective on the situation than we've seen in the media so far. You can read it here.
"""Yet in the eyes of Ivory Madison, Phil Bronstein, District Attorney George Gascon, and even the Director of La Casa de las Madres, once her husband had grabbed her arm, Eliana was simply no longer competent and her wishes were irrelevant."""
I knew it!
A vaste right-wing conspiracy!!
Vaste righ-wing feminist conspiracy, too!
"""Kathy Black, the director of La Casa de las Madres, called Eliana twice. At the same time, Black and other domestic violence advocates were calling on Ross to step down, raising money to put up billboards, and mobilizing for the anti-Ross campaign, trying him in the press"""
It sucks when your own boy gets caught in the web of moon bat legislation.
The wacky left just hates it when the government they love to enable fucks them.
This essay is well done. There needs to be a correction for the overreach in DV law caused by reaction to the OJ Simpson case, and the days when police and prosecutors ignored even violent domestic violence related incidents. "Go walk around the block man," was what police told perps. In the absence of violence, therapeutic interventions for first time offenders and misdemeanor cases would be a more humane alternative to what we have now.
When there is a pattern of abuse or a violent act, the existing punitive model is appropriate, but our laws need to be capable of addressing the range of possibilities and not just superimpose a "one size fits all" model.
high gear this week. First Tim breathlessly promotes this piece - which restates everything Steven and Tim have written about the case so far - but from a "Latina, feminist" perspective. Then we all await tomorrow's front page article - which will no doubt feature Ross, tied to a metaphorical burning stake while shot through with arrows a la St. Sebastian.
What we're really witnessing is the immolation of the progressive movement in this city - at the hands of the very person the Guardian promoted as its savior. These are the bellows of dying elephants.
reporting is.
Do the believers just proclaim the conspiracy against them as fact because it is all so obvious to them, or do they spin it all out one step at a time for their own fantasy?
A wise Latina agrees with the opinion of the progressives, who could dare argue with them now, they have the sainted opinion of race theory on their side.
At this point I think we're all pretty much thinking, "Wow, holy sh*t, they're really going there..."
They doubled down on Mirkarimi about two months ago. It really didn't work out. What they're doing now - I don't even know what you call it. Can you quadruple down? Perhaps cash in some wedding rings or the kids 529 college savings plan? It's sort of like that.
don't work..they are just funny..and not in a good way.
It's *three* headlines down, dude.
I realize you guys thought it was a super powerful letter or something... but it wasn't. Mainly because it was just recycled bullshit about how domestic violence is somehow now ok among progressives provided it's not too bad and how we should simply examine it on a case by case basis. (Oh, by the way, when you guys are spouting that shit, do you actually think about what that would entail? Exactly how efficiently do you think our government operates? Particularly law enforcement? Maybe we could appoint some sort of oracle who just knows when it's a serious bruise or just a one time bruise... that should work, right?)
But more importantly, I want you to know - THAT SHIP HAS SAILED THE FUCK OUT! lol... Ross is done, and he did a bang up job of taking you guys with him. Repost this letter every day, for five years, nobody will care because case is closed.
You lose.
being against one size fits all legislation.
to declare things over that are no longer interesting to him,or are too difficult for him to comprehend..even though the most important part is yet to come..
apologist liberal hats on?
Shame on you. But then again, SFBG is an all-white enclave so you must have really had to go outside your comfort zone there to find her.
Time for another article on blacks, perhaps. Oh wait . .
" But then again, SFBG is an all-white enclave"
...just like SF's most powerful "progressives".
It will be funny to see the Guardian support Ross' argument that he can't lose his job as sheriff because he committed his crime before he became sheriff, so that shouldn't count.
Good thing he didn't murder someone before he became sheriff...
he didn't hit, break,bloody or slap or slug anyone either...much to your dismay.
running the probation service. Ross gets to decide the salary increases of his own probation officer. Conflict?
Oh yeah, and he's pleaded guilty to false imprisonment, yet wants to still run the prison service.
And BTW, a Bruise is "bloody" - it is congealed blood beneath the service of the skin.
Tim needs to 'bump' up a post published in his own paper a few hours earlier. Yes, we know that more people see the average tweet from @bigbob423 than an SFBG post but it is a kick to see how things work nowadays at the Guardian
An unhappy childhood endows you with the privilege of smacking your wife around -- as long as you're a liberal. Good to know!
there is no allegation of smacking..much as you wish there were.
a blow or a very firm, restraining grip.
Either way, it's assault and domestic violence.
What the naive progressives don't understand is that this was NEVER about domestic violence. Both Eliana and those Casas de Madres fools were just pawns. The real game was about getting ROSS. Ross never had any business being elected in the first place. Sometimes voters make mistakes like that, but fortunately we have a lot of tricks up our sleeves to correct those mistakes. I'm getting tired already of posting the same point -ROSS IS DONE! How many times do I have to say it? We win. You lose. Ha-ha! Let this be a lesson to any progressive who runs for citywide office!
He just wants so badly to feel like a winner, but nobody hears or cares. Sad case.
Now that Eliana Lopez and her son are safely out of the country, we are gifted with this teary-eyed missive from her "close friend", setting forth a sympathetic account of Eliana's victimization as an immigrant and person of color, married to a dysfunctional mixed race child raised in an all-white community. The decision to submit this piece to the Guardian was no doubt discussed before Ms. Lopez's departure for Venezuela, and carefully vetted by legal counsel for both spouses. How much of this was written by the author as opposed to Ms. Lopez, her husband and/or their handlers?
Progressives and feminists produced the current DV laws in this state. And now that one of their own has been caught, this latina feminist wants to have a "non-law enforcement intervention" in the Mirks case. If the Mirk was some ordinary joe, this latina feminist would not be writing an essay on reforming the current DV laws to give the police and prosecutors more leeway. You progressives wrote the DV laws now live with them.
Man, there sure are some mean mother f*ckers who post here. But that's the way of the world.
Just one word-of-the-day: hyperbole. Know what it means?
Here's an example:
"What we're really witnessing is the immolation of the progressive movement in this city - at the hands of the very person the Guardian promoted as its savior. These are the bellows of dying elephants."
I'm going to repost a quote that I think is relevant to this whole debacle. You meanies can take it or leave it. But in the end, I hope it gets consideration:
"Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and freedom."
-- Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
apparently begins and ends with insufferable new-age bromides.
Victor Frankl was a holocaust survivor. His book was published in 1946. Don't see too much new-aginess happening there. But, whatev.
But here's a bromide for you:
Have a nice day.
any number of new agers almost to the point where his original point has been lost and distorted.
You have a nice day too. But surviving the Holocaust doesn't make one a philosopher, as evidenced by your quote, which is indistinguishable from the literary pablum of a thousand self-help books. But, whatev. :)
Not sure if I spotted some type of error or not.. I clicked on the article titled:
"Another perspective on the Mirkarimi case"
but it led to a piece with exactly the same perspective that's been written about here for weeks now.
Is there an article here that I somehow missed that provides 'Another perspective'? Would love to see it.
"Our same ol' same ol' attempt to cover up and belittle a crime of domestic violence just because the perp is a left winger and his wife is hispanic".
Also two opinions in today's Kronikle worth reading. Good to see Eileen is still fighting the good fight.
This so-called "Feminist Latina Perspective", despite seemingly examining DV and the legal system from a survivor's perspective, ultimately misses the mark by a wide margin. Its most dangerous proposition is taking DV on a case by case basis. Furthermore, to describe Mirkarimi's offense as "grabbing her arm" is absolutely outrageous (based on the information that has been presented so far)! The Bay Guardian and the progressive community (and I count myself among them) are doing themselves no favors by engaging in this type of minimization. Let's not get caught up in the political aspects of this case, DV is NEVER acceptable.
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Cons – Big disconnect in the sr mgmt and corporate office. Little compensation and salary for the work they require.
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They have OK benefits
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Senior management stop hiring a new manufacturing manager every year each one of them introduces new policies that will take a year to implement then they are gone
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Edward Snowden's recent revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance tactics give us reason to ask whether the government is operating within those principles. President Barack Obama and Congress must fully explain the latest electronic surveillance programs and make sure safeguards are adequate to protect individual privacy.
The nation debated this issue during George W. Bush's administration, resulting in the passage of the Patriot Act, which was unprecedented legislation that this newspaper supported to bolster intelligence gathering. But debates over where to draw the boundaries of privacy and national security will never be completely settled.
The potential for government overstep will continue to crop up with time and technological advances. For protections to remain strong, checks and balances designed to balance individual rights with the collective safety of the nation need to be constantly reviewed.
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Information can be efficiency's best friend. The more participants in the marketplace know about the true costs and benefits of various goods and services, and about the behavior of other individuals and firms, the easier it is for them to get the most for their money.
The U.S. health-care system notoriously lacks transparency, which may be a reason why it produces poorer results at higher cost than do systems elsewhere.
Now a federal court in Florida has opened a legal pathway to more Medicare transparency. Judge Marcia Morales Howard vacated a 33-year-old injunction that barred HHS from ever telling the public how much it reimburses individual health-care providers. The gag order was imposed at the request of the American Medical Association, which claimed its members' financial privacy was threatened. Critics argued successfully that doctors' privacy is now outweighed by the public's interest in knowing what happens to a flow of taxpayer funds.
However, mandatory public disclosure remains the unrealized goal of a bipartisan Senate bill which seeks to set up a free, searchable Medicare-payment database.
Doctors should stop resisting the transparency movement and join it. After all, their profession is founded on a belief in free inquiry and the unhindered flow of useful information.
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Why the Marketplace Fairness Act is ... fair
A bill that would require the collection of sales taxes due for online purchases sailed through the U.S. Senate in a 69-27 vote in May, but it faces tougher going in the House.
The Marketplace Fairness Act would require virtual merchants to collect sales taxes just as their Main Street rivals do. It would bring equity to a marketplace now tilted against brick-and-mortar retailers.
Online sellers enjoy an unfair advantage now because they're not required to charge for state and local taxes. Their customers are supposed to pay the tax to their states, but rarely do so.
Some House members oppose the bill because they say it amounts to a tax increase — that sounds like an argument against any effort to clamp down on illegal tax avoidance. The tax already exists, the obligation to pay it already exists. But the tax isn't being collected by some merchants.
Online merchants complain that it would be burdensome for them to calculate the many different local tax rates and remit money to the states.
That argument was more compelling at the dawn of e-commerce — when cellphones were still dumb and this Internet thing was an iffy proposition.
It's time for the House to move on this. Online businesses will adjust to the new landscape in no time. Every merchant should be treated equally when it comes to collecting sales tax, no matter where and how they operate.
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Expect more defensive holding, illegal contact flags this year
NFL rules have already done plenty to favor the passing game, but this year may be the biggest passing season yet.
That's because, as explained by veteran referee Ed Hochuli, NFL officials are planning to emphasize defensive holding and illegal contact this season. Hochuli said that early in the year, when defensive backs haven't yet learned how strictly the officials are going to call the penalties, the flags will fly frequently.
"I would expect there may be more fouls called in the first preseason game and the first regular-season game," Hochuli told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "The big one is holding. We've also tightened up the rule on illegal contact. We've always given a little leeway on that.
Opposing offenses complained last season that the Super Bowl champion Seahawks were grabbing and holding and not getting flagged for it. This year the Seahawks may have to adjust their style. And offenses across the league may put up even bigger numbers than ever before.
Report: Seahawks workout tight end Steve Maneri
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While the team isn't pursuing Jermichael Finley, the team did bring in another veteran tight end for a workout this week.
According to Adam Schefter of ESPN.com, the Seahawks brought in Steve Maneri for a workout on Thursday.
Maneri is a former offensive tackle that was converted to a tight end by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2012. In five years, Maneri has played for the Houston Texans, New England Patriots, Chiefs, Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Maneri was released by the Buccaneers in May. With his former offensive line background, Maneri is a proficient blocker at the tight end position. Behind starter Zach Miller, the rest of Seattle's current tight end group is far more proficient as pass catchers than blocking options.
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According to Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News, New York Jets quarterback Michael Vick says he wants to play until he's 40.
Vick, 34, signed a one-year deal with the Jets earlier this offseason to serve as a veteran backup to second-year starter Geno Smith.
While Vick doesn't view his skills as being relegated to that of a backup quarterback, he has accepted his role as a backup and mentor to Smith for the Jets.
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Vick threw for 1,215 yards and five touchdowns with three interceptions in seven games for the Philadelphia Eagles last season before an injury handed the starting job to Nick Foles.
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The 31-year-old Roland has played in 71 regular season games (30 starts). He has experience both as a tackle and an extra blocker. Roland appeared in five games for Cincinnati a season ago, all as a reserve.
Roland's most extensive starting experience came in 2009 and 2010, when he made nine starts apiece at right tackle.
Roland's signing comes one day after Bears reserve tackle Eben Britton suffered a hamstring injury.
In a corresponding roster move Thursday, the Bears waived undrafted rookie free agent tackle Cody Booth.
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Per a source with knowledge of the situation, a "slight chance" of a resolution exists. Any deal presumably would entail a suspension for Gordon that lasts less than a year.
If one side is less inclined to negotiate than the other, it's possible that the hearing officer will send signals, indirect or explicit, that it would be wise for that party to be more open-minded. Which could get a deal done during the hearing or after it.
A ruling is expected fairly soon. The substance-abuse policy requires only that the decision be issued with a "reasonable time."
49ers, Harbaugh pull plug on contract talks until after the season
Whatever 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh wants on a new contract, whatever the 49ers have offered isn't good enough. And so Harbaugh and the team have agreed to table any discussions on a new deal until after the season.
"We actually just had this conversation [Wednesday]," owner Jed York said on CSN Bay Area's Yahoo! SportsTalk Live. "Lots of people were talking to him about it. We just said, 'You know what, let's not do anything during the season. Let's sit down a week or so after the season is over and let everybody know we're not focused on anything that's off the field right now.'
"Jim and I will sit down a week or so after the season is over and we'll figure out where we go."
Where they go after the season will depend in large part on where they go during the season. If Harbaugh wins the franchise's first Super Bowl in 20 years, his leverage and price go up. If he has another season that entails knocking on the door but not kicking it in, he may still want more than the 49ers want to pay.
And if that's the case, the 49ers will have to decide whether to let Harbaugh coach out his contract and become a free agent, allow him to leave if a college program offers him the money he wants, or trade him to another NFL team — as they came a lot closer to doing with the Browns than anyone will admit.
If the 49ers make it to the playoffs, the potential universe of NFL openings will be known before York and Harbaugh have their chat. And with most owners inclined to fire coaches of bad teams making up their minds to make a change well before the end of the season, there's a good chance that the 49ers will have a good idea what they could get for Harbaugh, if they decide to swap the final year of his deal for draft picks.
So this could indeed be Harbaugh's last year with the 49ers. And now any potentially interested college or NFL program can decide whether to include him on their wish list.
LeSean McCoy gets quicker by cutting out junk food
Eagles running back LeSean McCoy led the NFL in rushing and yards from scrimmage last season, but McCoy says he's faster now than he was last year.
After making a concerted effort to cut out junk food (particularly late-night snacking on Doritos), McCoy says that he's down about five pounds from the 215 he weighed last season, and he can feel the difference.
"At a lighter [weight], I feel like I'm so much more effective," McCoy said, via CSNPhilly.com. "I looked at all my old film and saw how much quicker I was when I was 210 [pounds], 209. It's a big difference. And I'm feeling like that again."
McCoy says a five-pound weight loss might not mean anything to a back who makes plays by running through tackles, but McCoy says that with his running style, every extra pound counts.
"I play with leverage," McCoy said. "Certain guys are different. A guy like Marshawn Lynch, he's more of a running through a guy. Mine is to get a guy off balance and going through an arm tackle, go through a shoulder, those types of things. Get them going one way and try to hit the other side."
McCoy will hit the other side just a little bit more quickly this season. That's well worth resisting a late-night craving for Doritos.
Johnny Manziel admits he's having growing pains
For all the attention he's gotten thus far, Johnny Manziel is still the Browns backup quarterback.
He admitted Thursday it's going to take him a minute to push through that, but the Browns appear willing to let him ease into it a little at a time.
"It's a process for me," Manziel said, via Pat McManamon of ESPN.com. "It's not something that I should just come in here naturally because I played well in college and just know how to run this offense.
"It's a complete 180 from everything that I've been used to. And it's going to take time. It's a process coming from a spread, air raid system in college to a pro style system that's very unfamiliar [to] me as far as terminology and routes."
"I think I'll play whenever these coaches decide that I'm ready," Manziel said. "I don't think there's any rush. For me, it's whenever coach [Mike] Pettine, coach [Kyle] Shanahan and the staff here decide that. I don't think they want to throw me into a situation I'm not ready for or something I can't handle. I don't know if they drafted me necessarily thinking that I should come in and start Week 1. I think they wanted to see where I'm at and how I progress."
Using Manziel as part of specific packages is an option, as he brings and athleticism to the position Brian Hoyer doesn't have. But the acknowledgement he has some ground to cover is probably a good one for the rookie, who will end up with the job eventually.
Seahawks bumped up Marshawn Lynch's 2014 salary
The Seahawks got their starting running back in camp today, and Marshawn Lynch got something out of his brief holdout.
A league source tells PFT that the Seahawks agreed to bump up Lynch's base salary to persuade Lynch to report.
Under Lynch's previous contract, he was due to make a $5 million base salary this year, plus $500,000 in per-game roster bonuses, and he could have earned another $500,000 in incentives if he had rushed for 1,500 yards. Now Lynch gets a base salary of $6 million (meaning the Seahawks effectively guaranteed the $1 million he previously would have had to earn), plus they're taking $500,000 that he had been scheduled to get paid in 2015 and giving it to him now instead. In all, Lynch will make $6.5 million this year.
The Seahawks also agreed not to enforce the fines that they were entitled to dock him from the work he has already missed. We're also hearing that the league office was pressuring the Seahawks to go after some of Lynch's signing bonus money if he refused to report, as teams are permitted to do under the Collective Bargaining Agreement. But the Seahawks resisted that.
Instead, the Seahawks and Lynch reached a deal amenable to both sides, and Lynch is in camp, making more money in 2014 than he was scheduled to make under his old deal.
Peterson, Sherman, Haden contracts all comparable
Lost in the u-mad-bro back-and-forth between Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson and Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman regarding their one-up contracts is the fact that Browns cornerback Joe Haden got a pretty good deal, too.
All three deals were strong; whether one guy or another got the "best" deal resides in the eye of the beholder, as influenced by the specific factors considered.
Peterson got the most in "new money," thanks to another $50,000 added to the final-year base salary that pushes the average from $14 million (which Sherman got) to $14.01 million. Haden's deal averages $13.5 million in new money.
But Haden has the highest "true" guarantee at signing, with $22.678 million, more than $6 million more than Peterson's $16.25 million. At signing, Sherman received $12.431 million fully guaranteed. Haden also pockets the most total cash in each year through 2018. Starting with $20.878 million in 2014.
Then again, Haden started with a higher base salary for 2014 than Peterson and Sherman. Haden, due to make $6.678 million, had the bulk of that money shifted to a signing bonus, dropping the base salary to the minimum. Which allowed Haden to craft a higher guarantee out of the gates.
When it comes to the conversion of injury-only guarantee to fully-guaranteed money through the February 2016 waiver period (which comes days after Super Bowl 50), Peterson leads the way with $42.6 million. Haden through the same point will have $41.078 million guaranteed. Sherman will see $35 million become fully guaranteed by then.
All three deals are very good. Peterson got his with two years left under contract, a point that shouldn't be overlooked given the injury risk he managed to push to the team. With Sherman and Haden, even a Brewster's Millions effort to spend every penny would make it hard for the trio to run out of cash in their lifetimes.
Don Jones says he learned after discipline for Michael Sam tweet
Dolphins cornerback Don Jones says he has learned a lot in the last couple months, after his reaction to Michael Sam becoming the NFL's first openly gay player got him suspended from the team.
When TV cameras captured Sam kissing his boyfriend, Jones reacted by calling it "horrible." The Dolphins' response was to send Jones home from offseason work and say he couldn't return until he completed sensitivity training. Now Jones says he realizes his choice of words was poor.
"I didn't intend [any] harm," Jones told the Miami Herald. "I just made a bad mistake. I had to learn from it."
Jones said that he has no animosity toward gays, despite what his tweet suggested.
"I don't have [a] problem with gay [people]," Jones said. "Shoot, I do have a bunch of family members that are gay. My brother, my cousins. I never really had a problem."
On some teams, Jones's tweet probably would have resulted in nothing more than a stern talking-to, but the Dolphins are particularly sensitive about the need for players to treat each other with respect after the Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin fiasco last year. Jones put something stupid on Twitter, but he deserves credit for dealing with it forthrightly and moving on.
Marshawn Lynch ends his holdout, reports to Seahawks
Reports on Thursday afternoon indicated that running back Marshawn Lynch was set to make his delayed arrival to Seahawks camp in the next 24 hours, but the team didn't have to wait that long for Lynch's return.
Lynch arrived at the Seahawks' facility a bit later on Thursday, a moment broadcast on NFL Network and shared on Twitter by Mike Garafolo of FOX Sports. Curtis Crabtree of PFT is at the team headquarters and passes along word that Lynch's arrival at the building was met by loud cheering from an auditorium and that a Brinks truck pulled up to the facility a few minutes later.
If the earlier report from ESPN about Lynch not getting a new deal is correct, the truck is just a humorous coincidence. There are reportedly some "financial concessions" coming Lynch's way, which could be the forgiveness of the fines that Lynch accumulated while staying away from the team.
Either way, Lynch is back now and should resume his place as a centerpiece of the team's offensive attack. With a salary that could reach $7.5 million due next season, it will be interesting to see if this is Lynch's final year in Seattle as the Seahawks will need to keep some money free for possible extensions for quarterback Russell Wilson and other younger players finishing up their rookie deals.
Redskins rookie regrets letting teammates cut his hair
Kicker Zach Hocker found himself in a position familiar to many NFL rookies at training camp on Wednesday.
Hocker was supposed to perform a skit to amuse his veteran teammates, but came up empty. As an alternative, he offered to cut his hair however his teammates decided and wound up with a shaved head except for a strap of hair across the middle of his head.
Kai Forbath, Hocker's competition for the kicking job, did the shearing. The results, which you can see at right, don't say much for his future as a hairdresser but make it easy to understand why Hocker probably wishes he had just done a five minute reading from Dr. Seuss instead of offering up his locks.
"I kind of regret it now," Hocker said, via ESPN.com. "In the moment it was fun, but now I wish I had thought of something funny for the team … I didn't anticipate this. I got up on the stage and they put up three pictures for the team to vote on. This was my look. They let me have it and there I went."
Hocker said he wants to shave off the remaining hair before the team's preseason opener next week, but his teammates have yet to give him the green light.
Reggie Wayne feeling no pain in Colts camp
There's going to be concern with any player coming off an ACL.
When that player is a 35-year-old wide receiver such as Reggie Wayne, people are going to be watching his every move.
But so far, Wayne has cruised through camp as smoothly as since the day he pulled into camp in an Indy Car.
And the work he's done on the field is just as fast.
"Like I've been saying, so far, so good," Wayne said, via Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star. "I haven't had any problems, nothing out of the norm.
"I haven't had any pain. Nothing has set me back. Just go out there and be the Reggie of old."
Wayne's condition has been foremost on the Colts' mind since he tore his right ACL last October, and the fact he's coming along so well is a huge boost.
But because of the way Wayne has worked throughout his career, it's also not a surprise.
"That's the way it looked to me," Colts coach Chuck Pagano said. "When you go back, you watch it live and then you go back and watch it on film. It's really incredible.
"But again, it probably doesn't shock anybody here. It certainly doesn't shock me. We all know his mindset, his work ethic and his determination, and how bad he wanted to get back."
With so many other Colts going down in practice, there's a bit of breath-holding with Wayne. But so far, the knee has held up, and he's looked like his old self.
Steve Gregory signs with Chiefs
The Chiefs have a couple of safeties on the injured list right now, which may have helped them decide to add some depth at the position.
Agent David Canter announced on Thursday that his client Steve Gregory has signed with the Chiefs for the coming season.
Gregory was released by the Patriots in February after playing 26 games with the team over the last two seasons. Gregory started 23 of those games, recording 116 tackles, four interceptions and two forced fumbles.
Eric Berry left Chiefs practice early on Thursday with an ankle injury, although coach Andy Reid and others have downplayed the severity of the injury since Berry was removed from the field. Sanders Commings had ankle surgery on Thursday, however, and that absence could stretch a bit longer.
Even with everyone healthy, Gregory would be a viable competitor with Husain Abdullah for the starting spot next to Berry. He'll get the chance to win that job over the next month or so.


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Media outlets also have called the overall race for Obama.
In the 2008 presidential election, the state voted for the Democratic candidate, and in recent elections has voted for the overall winner of the presidential race 3 out of 5 times.
Romney and Obama did not campaign aggressively in Michigan. The state has typically been a Democratic stronghold in recent presidential elections.
The economy was a key issue for many voters in the state, as was the auto bailout.
Voter turnout in Michigan was high throughout most of the day, with long lines in the morning in many cities in the Detroit area.


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The local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is closing its doors effective Monday.
NAMI Cambria County, a nonprofit organization located at 240 Vine St. in downtown Johnstown, has provided free support and education, and
advocated on behalf of individuals and families affected by mental illness for 28 years.
The problem boils down to lack of money.
"Despite the generosity of local funding organizations that provide grant money for specific programs, we have been unable to recover from the significant loss of income that sustained our basic operations," said Jean Sobecky, NAMI Cambria County president.
Until January 2011, the organization had been largely funded by the county to provide NAMI services and programs and to run a drop-in center for adults with mental illness.
When the drop-in center became a nonprofit itself, titled the Peer Empowerment Network (PEN), funding was redirected to support PEN's role.
"With about $110,00 redirected from us, NAMI can't sustain the building, staff or programs without that funding," Sobecky said.
She said NAMI offers all of its services for free.
"Unlike other organizations, we do not generate income from the work we do," Sobecky said. "Our fundraising efforts have been very successful, but not sufficient to maintain an office and staff."
NAMI worked to educate the community to increase awareness, dispel stigma, confront discrimination and provide numerous seminars, conferences and special presentations that brought expert speakers on mental illness to the area.
"My biggest concerns are for the families of our consumers because the county is not known as we are for supporting family members to maneuver through the system once someone has been diagnosed with mental illness."
NAMI has been trying to sell its building since late September for $29,000.
"We dropped the price to $19,900 and had an open house Sunday and no one showed up," Sobecky said.
At the national level, NAMI is part of Vice President Joe Biden's task force developed in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy.
"In the aftermath of events like this that ignite fear and concern about people with mental illness and stir questions about the integrity of the mental health system, it is unfortunate to not be part of the important dialogue that should be happening here on a local level," said Wendy Stewart, former executive director of NAMI Cambria County.
"While tragedies of this magnitude shake us to our core, they also awaken us to the need for change. Sadly, as those who know what it's like to encounter the pitfalls of the mental health system, NAMI's organized voice is needed more than ever right now."
Stewart said she and other NAMI board members met Monday with PEN network to offer the organization a gift of the Vine Street building for $1.
Nothing was resolved at the meeting.
"If not Peer Empowerment, then we would be willing to gift the building to another community nonprofit," Stewart said.
NAMI Cambria County represented the unified voice of concerned citizens on numerous community boards both locally and at the state level, working and often partnering within cross-systems to improve care, quality of life and outcomes for people with mental illness.
The Laurel Highlands Region Police Crisis Intervention Team is one such program that began as a local NAMI initiative to divert individuals with mental illness away from the criminal justice system and into more appropriate treatment.
Among other positive changes, the organization had long advocated for mental health courts and worked to increase understanding of veterans' issues and is heartened to see the establishment of a Veterans Court for Cambria County.
NAMI notified its membership of the impending closure in December.
The organization will retain its 501c3 nonprofit status for a period of time and continue to hold a monthly volunteer-run support group with the hope that it may one day be able to resume operations in full.
"We most likely will look for a church to conduct such support groups," Sobecky said. "Ironically, that's how NAMI started nearly 30 years ago and we are going back to the basics."
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A Mullens man was charged after the Mullens Police Department executed a search warrant at a Second Street apartment, located in the Steele's Tavern building.
Johnny Joe Marcum, 55, was charged with possession with intent to deliver, according to Police Chief Ray Toler. Officers recovered cash, drugs and food stamp cards.
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Vice Presidential Debate Expected to Pit Experience Against Youthful Exuberance
Biden, Ryan match-up will make for good television but may not move voters.
They may not be at the top of the ticket, but there will be plenty to watch nonetheless when Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan face off in Kentucky on Thursday night.
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Biden, the experienced former Delaware senator with strong foreign policy credentials and blue collar roots, is often mocked by conservatives and those in the media for his frequent gaffes. He once asked a wheelchair-bound local political worker to "stand up." He called his eventual running mate, President Barack Obama, "articulate and bright and clean." And in 2010, when Obama signed his healthcare reform bill into law, Biden leaned over and said, "This is a big f-ing deal."
But to count on Biden, 69, to deliver a goofy or off-putting performance underestimates him and his ability to connect with everyday, working Americans, analysts say. On the campaign trail, though he often puts his foot in his mouth (earlier this year, he told a mixed race audience that those who want to deregulate Wall Street want to "put y'all back in chains"), he also delivers passionate addresses that bring crowds to their feet. He often touts his family's working-class, Scranton, Penn., roots and during his 30-year Senate career got the nickname "Amtrak Joe" because he was a fixture on the train from Delaware to D.C.
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Obama even picked him as his No. 2 in part because he was impressed with his debate performances during the 2008 Democratic primary when the two men were rivals, recent reports say.
Ryan, on the other hand, is just 42-years-old and considered more of a budget-wonk than a zing-maker. But his age belies his own experience as a seven-term congressman who has debated each of his Democratic rivals at least once. And Republican nominee Mitt Romney picked Ryan for a political partner because of the energy he brings and his popularity with the base.
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Ryan's upbringing was steeped in hard work, manifested both in his family's successful business and the array of jobs he worked while making his way through college. And on the campaign trail, Ryan's easy, folksy manner paired with his mastery of complex policy has been an asset to the Romney campaign.
In terms of the issues, it's likely Biden will attack Ryan on his budget proposals, which have called for deep cuts to spending in areas like education and welfare. On Medicare, Biden will highlight the Romney-Ryan plan to transform the program from a guaranteed benefit to a premium support, or voucher, program for those under 55-years-old.
Ryan, on the other hand, will go after Biden on the Obama administration's driving up of the federal deficit and oversight of one of the slowest economic recoveries in history. The nation's more than 40-months with unemployment at more than 8 percent provides Ryan with plenty of ammunition to attack Biden on the Democrats' economic policies.
Healthcare is another ripe target for Ryan, who will likely come armed with statistics about how Obamacare has failed to lower insurance premiums costs and has raised taxes on many.
[READ: Paul Ryan's Plan Brings Choice to Medicare]
How Biden handles Ryan's economic attacks and how Ryan responds to Biden critiques on foreign policy will be key things to watch. If one or the other can beat expectations in what is seen as their weak areas, he will come away with the upper-hand.
The debate, though expected to be widely viewed, has an even smaller impact on how voters will ultimately decide to cast their ballot than the actual presidential contests. But as last week's first face off between Obama and Romney showed, a commanding debate performance can help build enthusiasm with your base and create momentum as early voting gets underway.


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San Antonio's air quality is weighing on the minds of local leaders who think a plan of action needs to be taken now to reverse the trends of more polluted air.
This is why District 6 San Antonio City Councilman Ray Lopez has already created what's known as a council consideration request (CCR) to begin the process.
Lopez has received the support from four council members, including District 2 Councilwoman Ivy Taylor, District 4 Councilman Rey Saldaña, District 7 councilman Cris Medina, and District 8 Councilman Ron Nirenberg, to form a group to create a plan of action.
Due to the federal government shutdown, the training of new border patrol agents is at a standstill and many of the offices, such as the Border Patrol Training Facility in Artesia, New Mexico, are closed due to furloughs.
About 350 trainees have been sent home and will not return until the shutdown is over.
Shawn Moran is the vice president of the National Border Patrol Council and said the border patrol is already a step behind smuggling organizations.
The UT Health Science Center's Medical School has corrected non-compliance issues that led to a two-year probation period imposed by the organization that accredits medical education programs for doctors in the U.S. and Canada.
While on probation with the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the school maintained its accreditation for students.
The federal government shutdown could impact cities the longer it continues. Tom Downs, the City of San Antonio's federal consultant, believes an agreement might be in the works, but city leaders are closely watching out for possible consequences.
Downs held a video-conference with city leaders on Wednesday from his office in Washington, D.C. and said he's closely monitoring the situation for San Antonio.
The mood for compromise has been slow because the Republican-controlled House and the Democratic-controlled Senate want different things.
It's pretty much just an overgrown and forbidding area on the Southside -- the space beneath the I-35 overpass between Theo and Malone -- but here your tax dollars have created something special in Ballroom Luminoso, a public art project that has won the SXSW Eco Award for Transformative Design in the Public Space Design Competition.
The transformative design award recognizes excellence in how a design shapes or reinterprets the physical environment.
Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is the perceived front-runner on the Republican ticket for governor, spoke to the Texas Association of Realtors in Austin today, asking for their vote.
Abbott steered away from the women's issues he focused on during his speech in El Paso on Tuesday, and instead returned to more traditional GOP topics.
"I'm running for governor because I believe that your business and your future should be defined only by the size of your dreams not by the size of your government," Abbott said.
After six years of arts and experimentation, the committee behind Luminaria is now working on how to advance the annual visual art expo over the next five years.
The annual event, which is usually held in the spring, is hard to miss downtown with its vibrant light displays and visual projections. It started using several streets around the Alamo and then moved into Hemisfair Park, but now its creative team is looking at the future, of when, where, and how long it should be.
A special committee in the Texas Senate may have found a solution to the hundreds of miles of roads in South Texas and the Permian Basin that were slated to be converted into gravel.
The Texas Department of Transportation announcement near the end of the summer surprised members of the legislature and as the discussions wore on, the number of miles that were up for conversion grew into the hundreds.
The University of Texas Health Science Center and a coalition of 11 South Texas health concerns will share a $22.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant, which will be spread over a five-year period, will fund research for Bexar and 38 surrounding counties.
The Clinical and Translational Science Award is designed, in part, to accelerate research discoveries from the laboratory to practical applications.
Gov. Rick Perry inspected the water levels at Lake Travis and then urged voters to approve proposition 6, the water project funding program that would pay for the next 50 years of water projects in the state that is up for a vote on this November's ballot.
Prop. 6 would take $2 billion from the Rainy Day Fund and place it in a separate fund which would then be loaned out to organizations around the state to fund water projects. Those organizations would then pay back the loan with interest to keep the fund going.


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Published: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 9:24 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 9:24 a.m.
SACRAMENTO — Federal prosecutors say a Northern California man who belongs to a group that believes tax laws are unconstitutional has been convicted of committing nearly $1 million in income tax fraud.
U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner said Thursday that Randy Barker of Chico falsely claimed more than $1.4 million in income for 2008 and that the same amount had been withheld in taxes, leading to a refund of nearly $1 million.
During the two-day trial in Sacramento, evidence showed Barker and his wife spent most of the refund within weeks, including buying a house for $495,000.
Court documents also say Barker is a member of the "Tax Challenger," a group that doesn't believe in tax laws.
Barker could get 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he's sentenced May 1.
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The central themes that run through my research are the processes that modify solid surfaces and the spatial and temporal scales that control environmental processes on the Earth. Because surfaces lie at the interface between the solid interior of a planet (from the shallow subsurface to the deep interior) and the fluid exterior (atmosphere, hydrosphere, etc.), their composition and morphology record the interesting interplay between interior and exterior processes.
I received my B.S. with Honors in 1983 from U. British Columbia and my Ph.D in 1990 from Brown University. Following postdoctoral research in the Department, I was appointed W. M. Keck assistant professor (research) in 1991 after a nationwide search. My interests in the applications of remote sensing have been integral to the Department's interdisciplinary work with Environmental Sciences, the Environmental Change Initiative and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) joint program.
I am interested in the composition of planetary surfaces and the surface processes that modify them. A key interest recently has been Mars where I and my students and colleagues have developed a new paradigm for the evolution of Mars. Based on new European and NASA spacecraft data, we show that during the earliest period of Mars, prior to 3.8 billion years ago, abundant phyllosilicate formation occurred. This implies that clement environments existed (temperature, pH) that would have been supportive of habitable environments. Subsequently Mars became colder and drier leading to an era of sulfate formation which then transitioned to a very dry era with only minor alteration minerals formed.
My environmental science program is focused on Land Use-Land Cover Change (LULCC) research. This is an interdisciplinary field seeking to understand the intersection of human activity and natural processes in the transformations occurring on the Earth's surface. Understanding these questions requires contributions from economics, demography, sociology, earth science, and ecology and I've been developing the contacts necessary to push the research agenda forward. This will clearly benefit from the Environmental Change Initiative as well as the MBL-Brown program.
B.Sc. Geological Sciences (Honors), May 1983, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. CANADA M.Sc.Geological Sciences, May 1986, Brown University, Ph.D.Geological Sciences, May 1990, Brown University.
Member, American Geophysical Union, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member of Space Studies Board Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX), 9/98-8/02 and Decadal Survey (6/01-6/02). Member, NASA Space Science Advisory Committee (SScAC), 2002-2005. Chair of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group, 2007-2009, Member, NASA Science Definition Team for Mars '05 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, 2000-2001. Secretary for the Planetary Sciences Section of AGU and member of the AGU Fall Program Planning Committee, 2000-2002. Spacecraft Mis-sions: Member of the Earth Observer 1 Science Team; Co-I on the OMEGA instrument on the Mars Express Space-craft, Deputy PI Compact Resolution Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on the Mars Reconnaissance Or-biter. Co-organizer of Fall AGU Special Sessions 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007
Sigma Xi (1992)
American Geophysical Union
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Alliance for Marine Remote Sensing
American Association for the Advancement of Science
GEOL 0160 C: First Year Seminar: Global Environmental Change
GEOL 1330: Global Environmental Remote Sensing
GEOL 2330: Advanced Remote Sensing
Current Graduate Students:
Kevin Cannon
Tim Goudge
Rebecca Greenberger
Marc Mayes
Stephanie Spera
Xi Yang
Former Graduate Students:
Bethany Bradley, Ph.D. '06
Hongwei Chen, Sc.M. '01
Christopher Cooper, Ph.D. '04
Bethany Ehlmann, Ph.D. '10
Andrew Elmore, Ph.D. '03
Jeremy Fisher, Ph.D. '06
Teresa Garcia, Sc.M. '08
Gillian Galford, Ph.D. '10
John Hays, Sc.M. '95
Lisa Kanner, Sc.M. '06
Lin Li, Ph.D. '02
Ralph Milliken, Ph.D. '06
Leah Roach, Ph.D. '09
Mark Salvatore, Ph.D. '13
John Roma Skok, Ph.D. '13
Stephanie Tompkins, Ph.D. '97 (co-advised w/Carle Pieters)
Janette Wilson, Sc.M. '12
Funded Research
Active Grants:
NASA: The Moon as a Cornerstone to the Terrestrial Planets: The Formative Years (Carle Pieters, PI)
NASA: Geologic Characterization of Phyllosilicate Deposition on Mars
NASA: Liaison Activity Between Omega and CRISM Instrument Teams
NASA: Hydration and Mineral Abundance from Reflectance Spectroscopy
National Science Foundation (NSF): Disaster, Resilience and the Built Environment on the Gulf Coast (John Logan, PI).
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM).
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Liaison Activity Between Omega and CRISM Instrument Teams.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Hydration of Geological Materials from Reflectance Spectroscopy.
Web Links
- Life on Mars? New Data Reveal Places to Search
- Gathering evidence toward the possibility of life on Mars
- Brown team's Mars site makes short list for 2009 NASA mission
- Martian soil may contain detrimental substance
- The Planet will be fine...
- Sun Goes Down on Mars Phoenix Lander
- Methane Belches on Mars Point to Life?
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Stay safe out there, really appreciate you stepping up and giving some years to the Navy.
The Navy's got a special place in my heart, both of my grandfathers had something to do with the Navy. I don't mean to hijack your thread, but I think the navy needs to be talked up from time to time.
My Dad's Dad (Grandpa George) worked in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard as a master shipfitter. He was "drafted to his job" during WWII and spent his time during the war finding better and faster ways to get commercial ships turned into Navy ships.
For example, the Navy was getting all these merchant marine vessels and their doors open backwards compared to navy ships. So they were torch-cutting the hinges off all of the doors, then flipping the door around and making new hinges. At a big production meeting he offered up the suggestion, "why don't we just cut a big hole in the metal around the door and just flip the whole thing around and not mess with the hinges?" I think they gave him a promotion and a bottle of brandy for cutting the process down about 80%.
My Mom's Dad (Grandpa Bob) graduated college in June 1942 and went immediately to the Naval Academy to become a pilot (where they made him play football for another year actually - that ticked him off as he was technically drafted by the Steelers, but anyhow...) and he eventually became a dive bomber then they gave him a Hellcat. He shot down a zero in his dive bomber so they made him a fighter pilot.
He had 6 air-to-air kills, had to ditch a couple of times in the Pacific, was awarded the Navy Flying Cross and ended up as a flight trainer on the old abandoned Moses Lake Navy flight training center in the middle of Washington State.
More recently, my brother (David) did 10-years as an air traffic controller before he made the jump to the FAA, I've got a cousin (Robert) who's going for 20-years, he just made Senior Chief Petty Officer (I forget where he's at now ...) and one of my best friends (Patrick) made it through nuke school and did some sub-time before he got picked up for ROTC and ended up working in navy hospitals for another few years.
Not surprising, but we've been doing a lot of genealogy over the last few years and one side of the family has been into sailing, ship building and merchant marine ship owners for hundreds of years ... all the way back to the Mayflower and early Massachusetts settlers in the 1600's.
Unfortunately, I was in a bad accident in high school so they wouldn't let me join any of the armed forces. I tried and they told me to go home.
Anyhow, GO NAVY.
Thanks, for letting me rant on this subject for just a few minutes.
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Well it's my last day in Portugal. After this, I'll be home in about a week and working on my truck some. She's got some problems. She got a new transfer case, hood, hood hinges, tailgate and bumper. So my brother has been working on her for me but I'll do some too when I'm home. Planning on takin her back up to Norfolk starting on the 16th. Be on the lookout for a help me post lol
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Hey there shipmate (I know I know, I cursed at ya! you'll be ok. First round will be on me if yer ever round my neck of the woods), first off THANK YOU for your service! I know it's a bit late now, but congrats on Airman and it doesn't hurt to study early for the E-4 exam! Take yer time with yer ride, she'll see you through thick and thin during your career! Oh and a little friendly advice from another sailor: when you hit a foreign port, SIGN UP FOR AS MANY TOURS AS YOU CAN!!!!! you can hit up the bars after the tours! As much fun as I had, that's prolly my only real regret from my ship time! lots of tours, lots of pictures, and lots of drinkin afterwords LOL . Thanks again, and keep yer head on swivel out there!
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Back to The Near East: A.D. 1001 to 1100
In the north and east of this area the power of the Seljuqs waned as Sultan Sinjar died and the entire Near East became divided among warring kings, all Moslem. The western marches of the Sultanate of Hamadan were in the control of various emirs or atabegs (guardians for infant princes) and they were unable to prevent the founding of some Crusader states, such as Edessa and Jerusalem. In A.D. 1121 the Georgians from the Caucusus swept down as far as Tiflis. But a counter-blow by Zangi and his son Nureddin, establishing the Zangid Sultanate, soon unified Syria, with the absorption of Damascus and soon Egypt. (Ref. 137) The Crusaders kept on trying for territory, even after Saladin controlled the entire area. France's Philip captured Acre in 1191 and Richard of England negotiated with Saladin in 1192 and obtained a 3 year truce allowing the Christians a coastal strip between Joppa and Acre and access to Jerusalem. The Knights Templar and Hospitallers continued their mercy and military presence in that city. (Ref. 86)
The century opened with the Seljuq Sultan of Hamadan controlling all of Persia except a small region south of the Caspian which was still ruled by the Assassins of Alamut. In the last half of the century, however, the sultanate was shrunk by inroads from the Arabian Peninsula of a new Abbasid Caliphate and from the west by the Zangid Sultanate which extended out from Syria. New emirates from Armenia and Azerbaijain on the western Caspian shore also appeared. (Ref. 8)
The 1st Crusade left Anatolia in some confusion, with several small states, but although the remnant of the Byzantine Empire still held the coastal areas bordering the Aegean Sea (See map on page 575) the rest of Turkey became de-Hellenized and the Moslem culture predominated. Byzantine Emperor John II Comnenus did manage to exterminate the Patzinak Turks in the Balkans in 1122 but this was followed by a four year war with Venice. Peace with both Hungary and Venice occurred in 1126. (Ref. 222) The Sultanate of Nicaea, which had originally taken the major part of the Byzantine land, broke up with the Seljuqs holding the southwest half of Iconium and the Danishmandids inheriting the region northeast of that. The former soon broke up into still smaller emirates, however. (Ref. 137)
Armenia proper was now ruled by Moslem Turks and Kurds but across the Tarsus Mountains in Cilicia, the Armenian people formed the country of Lesser Armenia, which now stood off all attacks and reached unparalleled prosperity.
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David Knepper
It has been 40 years since President Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer, an affliction he viewed as the deadliest and most elusive enemy of mankind.
Congress agreed that this was a noble cause and quickly allocated slightly more than $332 million for fiscal year 1972 to fund the National Cancer Act of 1971.
Presently, Congress allocates almost $5 billion a year for the National Cancer Institute to conduct and to coordinate cancer research. As a result of this nation's determination to win the war against cancer, it now appears that after four decades, the U.S. medical community is finally gaining the upper hand on some of the most common types.
Prevention programs, early detection and new treatments are our best hope to win this war. The next cancer breakthrough is waiting to be discovered, and Congress should continue to increase funding as advocated by the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network.
Based on data compiled by the American Cancer Institute for 2010, 1,529,560 people in the United States are expected to be diagnosed with cancer. It remains the No. 2 killer of Americans, with about 560,000 deaths annually, eclipsed only by heart disease.
But we should never forget that behind these statistics are those who lack adequate health insurance coverage that may prevent them from receiving optimal health care.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 46 million Americans were uninsured in 2008; more alarming is that approximately 28 percent of Americans ages 18 to 34 years old and 10 percent of children had no health insurance coverage.
Uninsured patients and those from ethnic minorities are substantially more likely to be diagnosed with cancer at a later stage, when treatment can be more extensive and more costly.
These are family members and friends in your community who are without medical insurance as a result of job loss or who simply cannot afford to pay costly insurance premiums for quality health-care protection.
Shouldn't we give them hope that they will prevail in their battles with cancer without worrying how they are going to pay their medical expenses?
Unfortunately, the amount of funds spent yearly on cancer research has become a point of contention in the political arena, for while billions are allocated yearly to cancer research, far more money is spent frivolously by our government.
For example, Congress approved spending $1.1 billion to send a spacecraft to Jupiter to study how that planet was formed rather than increase spending by a like amount on cancer research to help the more than 1.5 million people who are diagnosed with cancer each year and to help save the nearly 600,000 people who die annually from cancer afflictions.
Don't put away your adding machine just yet when tallying the dollars that are falling through the grate. There are widely circulated published reports that the Pentagon has wasted more than $30 billion on contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan due to shoddy management and a lack of competition, an independent inquiry revealed.
"Tens of billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted through poor planning, vague and shifting requirements, inadequate competition, substandard contract management and oversight, lax accountability, weak inter-agency coordination, and subpar performance or outright misconduct by some contractors and federal employees," the co-chairmen of the panel, Christopher Shays and Michael Thibault, wrote in The Washington Post.
There is one bright spot, however, that is an outstanding example of the splendid cooperation demonstrated by private and public organizations.
Working together, especially, at the local level, volunteers and health-care professionals have spearheaded campaigns to promote cancer awareness.
Such campaigns have been most successful in educating the public on the importance of choosing a healthy lifestyle – which constitutes healthy food choices, more physical activity, weight control, avoidance of fatty carcinogenic foods – that plays a major role in cancer prevention. Their message is simply: "Be healthy, be happy, be well!"
On a personal level, many of you have been so wonderful in your support of my family due to the recent loss of our son, David.
For more than a year, he fought his own battle with cancer. He did not lose this fight, for he is now in the loving arms of our Lord – free of the pain and suffering that he endured. But he was not alone in his struggle. There were so many "angels" walking with him during this time to provide comfort and support and care these many months, at home, at Windber Medical Center and UPMC-Shadyside at Pittsburgh.
What they do every day for their patients is done with much love and commitment to save lives – a most noble act of giving that few of us will ever have the opportunity to achieve.
However, there is something that all of us can do – right now – and that is make today your opportunity to make an impact on someone's life. Live your life to help others and to make people feel loved and happy. Begin by loving yourself and to believe in yourself.
Smile more, laugh more and be happy! Be that angel walking among us – be your confident self. Love.
Begin to nurture your own immortality of influence by taking the time to reach out with a helping hand for those many among us who are today walking along without a guardian angel. No doubt many of you have seen an insurance company's television commercial where a small gesture of helping a stranger becomes contagious.
When our son passed away last month, his sister, Sandra, established a living memorial fund called "David's Helping Hand" as a testament to David's kindness toward others he touched when he was on this earth.
Your contribution will go to those who need a helping hand and not a handout.
Information: http://www.DAVIDSHELPINGHAND.org/
David A. Knepper is president of Allegheny Development Group LLC and is currently the executive director of the Forest Hills Regional Alliance. He holds a doctorate in educational administration from Penn State. His column appears the first Sunday of each month.
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Imagine competing in the open water swim section of an Ironman Triathlon.
Cold, dark lake water. Thrashing limbs. Bodies charging forward in all directions. Kicking legs churning up water and spray.
Sound tough?
Now imagine doing it blind.
That's what Patricia Walsh tackles every time she sets foot at the start line of a triathlon. The 30-year-old Seattleite must swim without sight, relying on a guide tethered to her with a 3-foot rope. Since she and her guide can't hear or talk to one another while in the water, Walsh sometimes swims right over her companion, catches her arm in the tether, or runs into other swimmers.
"It's terrifying," Walsh said.
Yet despite the challenges of swimming in open water without sight, Walsh finished the Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas in May. Not only did she cross the finish line, but she broke the previous blind female Ironman record by three-and-a-half hours, and the male record by 55 minutes. With her time of 11 hours and 50 minutes, she was 13th overall for women competitors. And, perhaps most importantly to Walsh, she managed to not freak out during the open water swim.
"I didn't have a panic attack in the water," Walsh said. "It was such a victory for me."
Walsh, a software design and test engineer at , began competing in Ironman triathlons just last year. An Ironman consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run (a marathon). Though she's still new to the sport, her recent success in Texas has led her to enter the Accenture U.S. Paratriathlon National Championships at the New York City Triathlon this weekend. Walsh hopes her time in the Olympic-distance race will take her to the World Championships in Beijing on Sept. 9.
Walsh's foray into endurance athletics began when she started running at age 22. At that time, Walsh smoked regularly, and hadn't pushed herself athletically since she was 14, when she became completely blind.
Walsh began to lose her vision when she developed a brain tumor at age 5. She underwent major surgery to remove the tumor. While the surgery was successful in eliminating the tumor, recovery took two full excruciating years, and she never gained back full sight.
Then, at age 14, the scar tissue from the surgery completely destroyed Walsh's vision. Once a high achiever in the classroom and on the athletic field, Walsh found herself struggling to re-learn how to read and perform basic functions. She felt like she'd become a completely different person, and she longed for her former, confident self.
By age 22, fitness had become a low priority for Walsh. Then, she watched her father begin having health problems due to his own smoking habit. Walsh decided she needed to shelve the cigarettes. As motivation to quit, she signed up for a marathon.
That first marathon, Walsh planned to recruit a friend who would help her navigate the course. But her companion bailed out after just 4 miles because she hadn't trained, at all. Not wanting to give up herself, Walsh ran the rest of the marathon alone. She fell four times, veered off course more than once, and ran into a traffic cone.
"I looked like someone had beaten me up when I crossed the finish line," Walsh said.
But despite the bruises, Walsh completed her first marathon. The event was more than a simple road race; completing it proved that she could still achieve things, even without her vision.
"In hindsight, finishing the marathon was the pinnacle of feeling like I had control of my life again," Walsh said.
Once Walsh ran one marathon, she was hooked. She learned that she could recruit professional guides to help her navigate courses. When she didn't have to worry about falling down or finding her way, she immediately slashed 20 minutes from her previous time. She'd finished eight marathons and qualified for Boston twice by age 28.
That year, a friend suggested she try out a tandem bike. Walsh hadn't sat on a bicycle since junior high school, when she could still see. To her delight, she discovered tandem cycling was a total blast. The two pedaled all over Seattle that day. Walsh had discovered a new sport.
Not long after, a friend suggested she take her marathon endurance and try doing an Ironman Triathlon. Though Walsh had never competed in any distance of triathlon at all, she loved the idea of a new challenge. She signed up for Lake Placid Ironman the same day.
Last year, Walsh completed Lake Placid. She faced a tough, hilly course with serious headwinds. To make matters more complicated, the guide she'd trained with dropped out at the last minute. Walsh scrambled and found a new partner, but they had little time to practice racing together. On race day, the two women swam the lake tethered to each other, rode a tandem bike, and ran with a rope between them.
Walsh crossed the Lake Place Ironman finish line in 14 and a half hours—slower than she'd anticipated, but a finish nonetheless. Drained from the experience, Walsh vowed to never do an Ironman again. She'd spent hours training by herself on an indoor bike and treadmill—both more efficient and easier than trying to navigate outdoor streets—and had long ago grown weary of the long, tedious workouts.
But as it turns out, it didn't take long for Walsh to be sucked into the Ironman circuit again. Just as she planned to move on from distance triathlons, a professional guide contacted her and asked her if she'd want to do Ironman Texas. Flattered by the invite, Walsh agreed, and began logging hours of swimming, biking, and running all over again.
"I made training my sole focus," Walsh said.
Then, just four weeks before Ironman Texas, Walsh's guide told her that because of her existing brand sponsorship, she couldn't ride Walsh's tandem bike (which was a different brand). Once again, Walsh was left scrambling to find a guide. This time, she recruited two: Sonja Wieck and Michelle Ford.
The night before the race, the three met in the hotel parking lot. Ford and Walsh rode two loops around the lot on the tandem bike, and then they tried out a five-minute swim together. Wieck would step in for the run.
The next day, Walsh and her guides raced Ironman Texas. The race wasn't completely flawless. Ford felt so uncomfortable on the tandem bicycle, she didn't want to take her hands off the handlebars to grab food at the transition areas. Instead, Walsh and Ford rationed the three Clif bars they were already carrying for the five-and-a-half hour ride.
Even with a few hiccups, the three women persevered. Wieck and Walsh ran the marathon portion of the race together, and then Ford joined them for the last bit of road. Walsh, Ford, and Wieck crossed the finish line together. Walsh had set a new blind athlete Ironman record.
"I'm still shocked it all worked out," Walsh said.
Walsh is now focusing on New York City and Beijing—and perhaps even the Paralympic Games in Brazil in 2016—but is also still enjoying the thrill of her accomplishment in Texas.
"I'm so, so proud of Ironman Texas," Walsh said. "I worked so hard for it."


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Police to discuss alleged north side beating
A top Milwaukee police department official is expected to hold a news conference this afternoon to discuss a Jan. 26 incident involving police and a 19-year-old man near a north side gas station.
Inspector Edith Hudson of the department's Neighborhood Policing Bureau will meet with the media to discuss the case. She is expected to show two videos in connection with the incident. One video is from a squad car. The other video came from a gas station and convenience store in the 3300 block of N. 35th St.
According to police, Jordan Cain was stopped by police the morning of Jan. 26 for having an unregistered vehicle. Police said they noticed Cain trying to ingest a plastic baggie.
A struggle ensued and two officers, later joined by an on-duty sergeant, subdued Cain.
A photograph believed to be Cain was later posted on a Facebook page, showing the right side of his face bruised and bloodied. Cain was taken to a hospital after he was arrested and later admitted to officers that he had tried to ingest narcotics, police said.
Cain was later charged with Cain was charged with obstructing an officer and bail jumping. The bail jumping charge apparently stems from a December charge of resisting or obstructing an officer, Stanmeyer said. Cain is scheduled to be sentenced on the December charge on March 7, according to online court records.
Cain's family has said Jordan Cain was beaten by police. But Cain has not commented on the incident.
Cain's mother, Charise, told officials that she planned to file a complaint about the incident with the city. Mike Tobin, executive director of the Fire and Police Commission, said Tuesday he had not received a complaint. The Cain family also has the option to file a complaint directly with the Milwaukee police department.
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you know....in all honesty, I am finding it more and more difficult to have sympathy or even empathy for 19 year old, repeat offenders who always seem to be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.....his mother can file a complaint all she wants to but I strongly believe that in most instances, with other knuckleheads out there behaving badly, the majority of police officers have better things to do than to single out black males....bottomline: don't resist arrest, don't obstruct officers and don't have illegal drugs on your person....if you don't do these things, you should be ok...Hide replies
yep PR, if it smells like p00p, it's p00p. Boo Hoo, this kid was doing many things wrong, they are probably looking for a lawsuit.....
@youwill- funny how you agree with me when I'm calling out black folks but when I'm calling out idiot, close minded white males, who happen to be conservative, then you got issues.....glad you agree....