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1. Bucci LR. Nutrients as ergogenic aids for sports and exercise. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1993, 45-7 [review].
2. Wesson M, McNaughton L, Davies P, et al. Effects of oral administration of aspartic acid salts on the endurance capacity of trained subjects. Res Quart Exer Sport 1988;59:234-6.
3. Maughan RJ, Sadler DJ. The effects of oral administration of salts of aspartic acid on the metabolic response to prolonged exhausting exercise in man. Int J Sports Med 1983;4:119-23.
4. Hagan RD, Upton SJ, Duncan JJ, et al. Absence of effect of potassium-magnesium aspartate on physiologic responses to prolonged work in aerobically trained men. Int J Sports Med 1982;3:177-81.
5. Tuttle JL, Potteiger JA, Evans BW, et al. Effect of acute potassium-magnesium aspartate supplementation on ammonia concentrations during and after resistance training. Int J Sport Nutr 1995;5:102-9.
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The nutrition panel is impressive and I would love this product were it in capsule form. However, I could not get over the taste. I know BCAA and like powders have a strong taste but I feel like more could be done to mask it in this product. (Granted this is supposed to be all natural so I understand the restrictions.) Bottom line: I can't stomach the taste on a daily basis and will not be repurchasing.
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I tried this product after a good work out. The flavor was that of chewing a raw aspirin. Very difficult to drink. I also experienced uncomfortable bloating.
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I write from the left on politics and policy.
Using this morning's Senate Benghazi hearings as an opportunity to burnish his Tea Party credentials as he prepares for a 2016 run for the presidency, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul informed Secretary of State Clinton that he not only would he have fired her over the terrorist attack had he been her boss, but that the terrible events that occurred in Eastern Libya stand as "the worst tragedy since 9/11."
Really? The worst tragedy since 9/11?
What took place in Benghazi was, indeed, a great and terrible tragedy as four Americans lost their lives—possibly avoidably—in the service of their country.
What's more, I have not hesitated, in this column, to criticize the Obama administration's handling of the information flow in the days following the attack on our outpost in Benghazi.
However, Senator Paul's performance in this morning's Senate hearings reveals that he is far more interested in scoring political points and making headlines through the tragedy that is Benghazi than he is in learning the lessons of history or showing even the smallest shred of maturity when it comes to convincing us that he has what it takes to be the President of the United States—which he oh so clearly does not.
Were Rand Paul capable of forming a coherent thought on what has truly been our greatest tragedy following 9-11, he might have been considered the following—
Casualties in Iraq
The Human Cost of Occupation
American Military Casualties in Iraq
In Combat
|American Deaths
|Since war began (3/19/03):
|Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03) (the list)
|Since Handover (6/29/04):
|Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09):
|Since Operation New Dawn:
|American Wounded
|Total Wounded:
Over 100000
Bear in mind that these horrifying numbers—compiled in a war that nobody can really find a single good reason for having fought—do not include the many people in the families of those listed above whose lives are also forever tragically altered—each of whom suffer the same pain of loss as the families of the four souls lost in Benghazi.
Nobody should ever understate the great tragedy in Benghazi.
However, Rand Paul's desire to score points and show himself to be a 'tough guy' serves only to reveal how incredibly unprepared and unqualified he is to be holding elective office as a County dog catcher let alone considering a run for the highest office in the land.
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Proof positive, insanity often runs in families!
Aside from the 9/11 comment, what is wrong about what he said? If anyone knows his political views they would know that he is very against the Iraq war, staying in Afghanistan, and starting any more pointless wars. He may have exaggerated with that statement, but do not question his character. He pushes more for civil liberties than just about any other politician. And how do his comments make him seem like an "unprepared tough guy?" He was right in saying that Clinton should have been fired because she screwed up severely. Anyone who knows his views knows that he is the complete opposite of an "unprepared tough guy." This is just irrational criticism- the comments and the article.
By, ""the worst tragedy since 9/11," he obviously means, "the worst tragedy I can blame a Democrat for."
If Benghazi was preventable then yes it was worse then 9.11 based on the prevent ability.
It is basically retarded to consider the Iraq War a tragedy. A tragedy is usually something that makes someone innocent a victim. I do not consider going to war with another country and taking heavy casualties a tragedy. That is like someone coming to rob your store and you beating them up a tragedy. Therefore I think Rand Paul's points stand, because this is the only scenario where Americans were truly a victim, the Americans there were peaceful people, and the attack on them was unwarranted, whereas the attacks on the Americans, when they are invading your country is consequential.
I think Clinton should be fired! Because she did not take care of the situation even after many warnings from the embassy in Libya requesting that their security be boosted.
Just for your information, I do not support Rand Paul or Clinton.
The sad part it – not only the numbers killed in the Iraq war – but the number of our servicemen who are returning home, not only with physical injuries, but also mental problems, Suicides per day. Unfortunately, I believe the whole country was duped by the previous administration (predominately the vice-president) to initiate the WMD story – which turned out to be a rather large lie that has cost our country tremendously.
Poor Mr. Rand did not realize how many of us he got chuckling over his freshman antics. Sorry son but you really aren't all that.
To compare the loss in 2 wars to the fact that we were attacked on 9/11 in Benghazi is like comparing apples and oranges. He was absolutely right. She should have been relieved for negligence or incompetence. She didn't read the cables? What the hell else has she "missed" in the last 4 years? She had 4 months to prepare her rants. What exactly WAS she doing then? Getting folks out? She was personally doing that? This was not a budget issue, it was a leadership issue. She ignored cries for more security and then left them there ripe for the picking. Hell, even the Brits pulled their folks out of Benghazi.
Amen! Amen! I can't decide to go with Bozos or Dumbasses on parade.
Senator Paul is working hard to establish himself as a premier GOP curmudgeon. Trot out most any issue or idea and he has something to badmouth about it. As in typical Republican fashion, the good Senator has nothing constructive to say about anything, he has no suggestions to make to fix something. It's all about posturing for the BOZOs that will claim a moral highground when standing in a mudhole. Their solution to everything is to tear it down. They are economic and societal anarchists, more than a Libertarian.

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"Changing, evolving, genre...."
I loved Elly Griffith's first book so much that when the second came out, I bought it right away -- something I almost never do. I usually wait for a second-hand copy to become available. I enjoyed the second book, and the third, too, but not as much. This one? Not at all. The author has subtly changed genre, and this doesn't interest me anymore.
The earlier books focused on Ruth Galloway, an archaeologist and single mother, which was an interesting combination, and meant a mystery focused on ancient remains, their origins and what might have occurred. The series has now taken off in a different direction. Now the focus is equally on one of the other characters, Cathbad, a Druid, and now seems to center on his occult beliefs, rituals, super powers and abilities. We still get Ruth dealing with her young daughter, but the emphasis has definitely changed.
In reading other reader's comments, I understand that many love this new direction, the Druidical hocus-pokus, the spells and charms. I don't. I liked the more traditional detective tale involving ancient remains and what happened to them.
It's all a matter of taste -- this book with its phantasmagorical storyline just wasn't interesting to me. I won't bother with subsequent books.
"The series gets better. Much better."
Let me say first, I'm a HUGE fan of J. A. Jance. I've read most of the print copies of her gazillion books, and have purchased eight of her audiobooks, mostly the Johanna Brady series. This was my second Ali Reynolds -- which is a good thing: if I had listened to this one first, I never would have bought another.
First of all, this has to be one of the worst-produced audio books I've ever listened to. At random moments, some peppy, jazzy, supposedly uplifting elevator music interrupts the reading, sometimes drowning out the narrator's voice. It's so inappropriate - what on earth was someone thinking?? It's not chapter divisions, one such interruption was mid-sentence. Totally weird -- and completely destroys whatever mood the book was building toward.
Then too, much of this book is told in the form of blogs, which might work well on paper, but in an audiobook, not so much. Listening to the narrator's letter-reading voice has a limited appeal - nothing happens, no action or interaction with someone else, just pretty darn dry statements of opinion and articulation of thoughts.
Finally, a word for authors out there, even really really good ones, like Jance: Perfect people get pretty boring after awhile. It's all well and good to create a laudable character -- not ALL protagonists have to be "flawed". But there has to be a limit. If I wanted to engross myself in completely selfless behavior, I guess I'd opt for Butler's "Lives of the Saints" instead. At least those were real people. Just how perfect is our multi-fired, multi-sued, widowed, about to be divorced nee widowed girl, who always-and-forever puts everyone else on the planet's wishes ahead of her own? One example: a consummately evil man has broken into her home and is beating her to death. In the last possible second, she breaks away, gets her gun, and shoots him to death. Then we have to put up with an agony of soul searching, as Ali beats her breast over what she did to the man's MOTHER -- not anyone she knew, of course, just the woman who had given birth to this monster. "What must she be feeling? I killed her son!" Ali ponders.... well, I don't know what the mother was feeling, assuming she felt anything at all. But I guess if it were me, having marginally survived such a brutal attack, I really don't think fretting about his mother would be at the top of my list of worries -- but then, I'm not a saint. Thank Gd.
All this is overlaid with Ali's (more understandable) agonizing over the supposed suicide of her best childhood friend. She feels guilty for not having... well, you can imagine. Bottom line: too much agonizing, too much introspection, too many selfless goody-goody acts from a woman who, supposedly, was once a nationally-famous news reporter, who absolutely MUST, at some point, have kicked serious butt to have attained THAT.
One good thing: we get to find out where Sam the cat comes from, which solves that mystery. As for the rest of it, give this one a pass. The subsequent Ali Reynolds books are pretty good. I guess this was just the practice book.
"So bad it doesn't merit writing about..."
An extremely amateur -- written and narrated both -- attempt at, what? A mystery? A diatribe against the religious right? A collection of leftist cliches, thrown unto the pages, in some random order?
Only redeeming social value: if you wonder what's wrong with American colleges and Universities today, this will help you understand. With kids graduating from institutions like this, maybe it's a wonder the country isn't worse off than it is -- assuming that's possible.
"Better than I expected."
I'm an audiobook purist. In terms of narration, my wants are simple. I simply want someone to read the book to me, straight out -- no requirement for acting out each character, although for those narrators with serious talent (Scott Brick comes to mind, as does Davina Porter among many others) narrators who have the ability to give individual voices to characters without being annoying are especially appreciated. I award bonus points if the narrator pronounces location names correctly and refrains from eating while narrating (as one especially irritating narrator does.) I don't need musical introductions or interludes, and in general I don't think having multiple narrators improves anything.
So I bought this book - it must have been a Daily Deal -- without paying too much attention. Then when I started to listen, and heard that it was being read by a professional "repertoire company" I almost clicked off, right at that point. Having a book "acted out" doesn't appear at all. To me, audio books are -- as one OTR program famously says -- "the theater of the mind". I'll create my own scenes, in my mind, as we go along. I don't want actors playing the parts, dramatizing the story. If I want actual theater, I'll go to Netflix.
But I persevered - and I was surprised. It wasn't bad at all -- each of the narrators did a very good job, didn't over-act, basically they just gave individual voices to the several characters. Overall, I don't know that this method improved the book any, but it didn't detract, either. It was fine.
And the story was good -- suspenseful, believable and kept me listening. I liked it enough that I just bought a second book by Heather Gudenkauf -- which has to be the ultimate compliment. This was a good book -- give it a try!
I know I'll like this book much better the second or third time around... this first time I listened, I was holding my breath during most of it, so I couldn't really concentrate. It's VERY tense -- and if you're a crazy dog lady like I am, you will be scared to death something is going to happen to Maggie.
"Suspect" is a great book in every respect. I loved Maggie, the damaged, come-from-behind German Shepard -- everybody will love her. It would be impossible not to love a dog with that much heart. Loved Scott James, the equally damaged police officer, trying for a comeback, battling his own demons. The villains were just evil enough, perfectly believable. Crais wisely didn't try to insert a "love interest" or try to turn this into a love story, when the book needed no such thing - it was the love between Maggie and Scott that was important. MacLeod Andrews did a perfect narration -- including narrating Maggie's parts, which he did very well. All in all, just great.
Interesting that a very similar -- and equally good -- book came out awhile ago, "Burning Man" by Alan Russell, also available on Audible. In that book, the damaged police dog was "Sirius" who'd been seriously burned in the line of duty, and the also wounded police officer trying for the comeback was Michael Gideon. "Burning Man" has a more complex plot, with several "cold cases" going on, whereas Robert Crais spent more time talking about working dogs, how they learn, what they learn, what astonishing capabilities they have. I loved that book too -- they're both well done.
I'm hoping for sequels to both books -- keep 'em coming!
"Nice change of pace..."
This isn't my genre, and normally I'd give any book with the word "psychic" in it a wide berth, but it was a "Daily Deal", and I've had good luck with those, so I went for it.
I liked it. This isn't great literature, you understand, but as a nice, casual, interesting summer listen, something a little different, it was more than fine. The "psychic" element in the book didn't come off as weird or kooky, but merely as interesting. All in all, it had a well-constructed plot, interesting characters, and was well narrated.
The ultimate test? If I came across another Abby Cooper book, I'd probably go for it.
"Really good oldie.."
Listening to "Manner of Death" -- published in 1999 -- now is a delightful reminder of just how good this series was, in the beginning. And how far it fell, before author Stephen White put a merciful end to it a few months ago.
All the characters are here, Lauren with her Multiple Sclerosis in an early stage, neighbor Adrianne, alive, not married yet, no son on the horizon, and of course Officer Sam, with his homespun wisdom, his diets, not to mention his funny accent, so well replicated by narrator Dick Hill, the very fine voice of Alan Gregory.
There's a couple of slimy ex-FBI agents who make you wonder, a sizzling hot former classmate, one of Alan's old flames, who looks for a little while like she might give Lauren a run for her money, there's Emily, the Bouvier, plus a list of characters with walk-on parts who prove interesting... and a plot that holds your attention, minute by minute.
Listening to this book was like a visit with old friends.... I'm sure I'll tune in to it again and again.
"Too grim and angry for me"
I'm about two hours in and I quit. I may come back to it at some time -- I generally enjoy Sara Paretsky's books -- but this one is filled with so much anger and bitterness I just can't take it anymore.
Justifiable anger and bitterness, most probably, especially the Holocaust victims/scenes. But even the rest is rendered in a harsh Germanic accent, so with everyone shouting at everyone else, making accusations, the bitterness and the bombastic talk everyone affects -- even Mr. Contreras comes off as a shouting old man -- then it's too much.
I don't know if you want to listen to this when you're in a good frame of mind, and can tolerate it. Or when you're already miserable, in which case it won't make it worse.
Maybe better read than listened to? Could be.
"Fabulous beyond words...."
Back in 1961, FCC Chairman Newton Minnow called television a "vast wasteland" -- and he was right, back then. Today, television is in a magnificent resurgence, with exceptional programming like BBC's "The Street", PBS's "Sherlock", and best of all, BBC's
"Call the Midwife", which I first encountered via Netflix. Seeing that first episode, I was entranced -- and spent the next several evenings watching every episode available. Amazing, the acting, the stories, the history, the clear but soft presentation of moral issues -- no preaching -- not to mention the insights into life in London's East End in the 1950's -- not that long ago, in the scheme of things.
So it was with some trepidation that I bought the audio book -- which was the exact reverse of a situation for me. Normally I read the book, and then am reluctant to see the film because it's almost never as good. In this case, I'd seen several seasons of the astonishingly good television series, and found myself wondering if the actual book could be anywhere near as fine.
It was. And then some -- in fact, the TV series follows Jennifer Worth's written memoirs very carefully, at least in the situations and scenes presented. The TV producers added a little more love interest than was in the memoirs -- for several of the young women, not just Jenny -- but otherwise it's all there, the Sisters, with their various eccentricities, Jenny, with all her sincerity, Fred the handyman with all his schemes, and of course "Chummy" -- well, how would anyone describe Chummy? But the book character is very similar to that played by the enormously talented Miranda Hart. I find myself smiling whenever she appears -- whether in the book or in the films.
There are a few more historical details in the book than in the series, which I found fascinating. Again, 1950 wasn't all that long ago, but it continued to amaze me that so many medical advancements we take for granted now weren't available then.
The audio book is greatly enhanced by the perfect narration by Nicola Barber. Her very soft voice, perfect enunciation, is absolutely the right choice for this memoir. Well done!
All in all, highest recommendation possible for this audio book -- and for the BBC series!
"Very good!"
A new author to me, happy to have come across this one as a Daily Deal. (So pleased with Audible for offering 'Daily Deals' -- it lets us test run new authors or genres without a major investment. I've found some awfully good listens this way -- new authors I'll be looking for in the future.)
Like this one: "Rogue Island" is a good solid detective story, lots of fascinating trivia about Rhode Island, which was fun -- who knew?
Downside? A little too much baseball lore. For those of us who don't either know or care much about professional sports, at times it felt like I was listening to someone else's conversation, most of which was going over my head. The names of players being tossed around were all foreign to me, and I kept wondering of there were clues there, that I was missing. (There may have been -- I still don't know.)
Another curious thing that puzzled me throughout the entire book: DeSilva has a lawyer character -- a bad apple -- playing a prominent role. He names this character "Brady Coyle", and has him based in Boston. Which is very strange, because the protagonist of the best-selling -- 24 books strong -- legal thriller/detective series by William Tapply is a Boston lawyer named Brady Coyle. Tapply's "Brady Coyle" is a good guy, big time. DeSilva's is a crook.
Why would a new author do that? Steal the name, profession and even home base of another author's well-known fictional character, but make his new character the exact opposite of the original one?
What? There aren't enough names to go around?
Funny, too, because until very recently, there was a triumvirate of detective fiction writers based more or less in Boston, who -- in real life -- were close friends: Tapply, Phillip R. Craig and his Martha's Vineyard series, and Rick Boyer with his Doc Adams tales. Tapply and Craig are now, sadly, deceased, Boyer is still writing. But because all three loved fishing, and because they write the same general genre, set in more or less the same locale, it was common for one writer's characters to appear, playing walk-on parts in another author's book. So Tapply's lawyer Coyle already had a reputation for turning up in Phillip Craig's books, and in those by Rick Boyer. Which meant that when DeSilva introduced his own "Brady Coyle" there was every reason to believe this WAS the same Tapply character -- except that it wasn't. A needless confusion, I'd say. No point to it at all.
Other than that, it was an enjoyable listen -- great narrator, too. I'll be looking for more by these two.
"Fabulous -- and a puzzler"
Quite possibly one of the best short stories ever written. An amazing little tale, lots of authentic details, unparalleled suspense, an ending... well, no spoilers here. Scott Brick's narration is perfect.
I listened to it, was so taken by the story I wanted to send a print copy to an elderly friend who only reads paper books, not audio or electronic. Surprisingly, the book is not available. In fact, it's not available as an audiobook from Audible right now, either.
Not sure what's going on, but I will continue to look for a paper copy -- if you haven't read/heard this one yet, you've missed something. Hope it will be available again soon.
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(Born December 20, 1906) -- The number of people who remember the 1940's version of the Buffalo Bills - the ones in the All-American Football Conference - is obviously small. That means Lowell "Red" Dawson is becoming more obscure as that team's coach.
Dawson did a bit of traveling in his life. He was born in Minnesota but played his college football at Tulane from 1929 to 1931. The pro ranks weren't too tempting back then, so Dawson turned to coaching for his football fix.
He was an assistant at Minnesota under the legendary Bernie Bierman for four seasons, and then became the head coach at his alma mater in 1936. Dawson coached the first college football game in War Memorial Stadium history against Colgate that year. He stayed through 1941, where he had a record of 36-19-4. Dawson had one more year as an assistant at Minnesota before he took a break, probably because of World War II.
The AAFC arrived in 1946, and the Bills came with them. Buffalo went 19-25-4 in the next four years, getting as close as the league championship game in 1948. The Cleveland Browns were too much for everyone in that league, including the Bills.
Dawson eventually landed as the head coach at the University of Pittsburgh. He went 9-11-1 there, and left football to work for Gulf Oil.
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ECCo plans Thismia Hunt 2011: Celebrating 20 Years of Conservation in Calumet for August 13, 2011
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On August 13, 2011 the Field Museum and partners will be gathering volunteer botanists and community members for a botanical foray and search for Thismia americana, a rare and elusive plant known only from the Calumet region. The plant was documented and described by University of Chicago graduate student, Norma Pfeiffer, in 1914. The small saprophytic plant, whose closest living relatives are known from Tasmania and New Zealand, has not been seen since 1916. The type specimen, or specimen selected to serve as a permanent reference for a named species, is one of the Field Museum Botany Department's approximately 33,700 vascular plant type specimens.
In the early 1990s teams of volunteers organized several "Thismia Hunts" to search for the plant. Although these organized searches did not find Thismia americana, they were successful in garnering regional attention to the important biological diversity of the Calumet region. "Thismia Hunt 2011" will honor the many conservation accomplishments made in the region in the last 20 years: including over 1500 acres of natural areas that have been either protected, dedicated as nature preserve, and/or restored since the first "Thismia Hunt". Additionally, we hope to document regional biodiversity; activate scientific interest in Calumet, foster a sense of regional identity; and bring people together to have fun and celebrate our region's unique natural history.
We are looking for lead botanists, survey volunteers of various botanical skill levels, and volunteers to serve on the post-survey party committee.
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IIT's "sterling reputation" for exemplary graduate programs influenced Manu Vora, who came from Mumbai, India, to study at IIT. His days at IIT laid the groundwork for his dual passions: quality management/business excellence and fundraising. He credits his analytical and thinking skills learned at IIT to his successful career at AT&T Bell Laboratories for more than 17 years. Vora served as an adjunct faculty member at IIT Stuart School of Business from winter 1993 to spring 2005. In 2000 he founded Business Excellence, Inc., a global quality-management consulting service firm.
During his IIT days, Vora discovered the joy of raising money for good causes. Since 1970, Vora has raised more than $7 million working on over 30 campaigns for social and charitable causes. As a founding director and president of the Blind Foundation for India, Vora and his team have raised more than $3.5 million to support over 15 million visually impaired people in India. Vora is a recipient of the 2011 Ellis Island Medal of Honor and has been recognized with a President's Call to Service Award for his lifetime of voluntary service.
Vora served on the board of directors of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for six years. He has published more than 40 articles in professional journals and conference symposia and has delivered more than 315 presentations on business excellence around the world. Vora is a recipient of ASQ's Hutchens Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Grant Medal, and Lancaster Medal. From 2006–2010, Vora volunteered as a chair of the IIT Alumni Awards Judges Team. He has been honored with the IIT Professional Achievement Award, the IIT International Alumni Leadership Award, and the IIT Alumni Medal.


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Spain dominates European football at all categories!
Iberians won the European Championships U19 after they defeated Greece in the last act of the competition. And this happened just two weeks after La Furia Roja managed to make history by being the first team in football history who managed to win three international trophies in a row: EURO 2008, World Cup 2010 and Euro 2012.
The only goal of the match was scored by Jesé Rodríguez in the 80th minute.
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Whether it was frustration, disappointment, exhaustion or all of the above, Kevin Durant understandably hung a low head after Wednesday's 88-84 loss to Memphis that saw the Thunder bow out of the NBA playoffs.
Since Russell Westbrook's post-season ending injury in game three of the Houston series, even more pressure than usual has been put on Durant to deliver Oklahoma City deeper into the playoffs. Unfortunately, 5-for-21 from the floor and a quiet 21 points was all he had left.
"He missed some shots," head coach Scott Brooks said about his star man after the game. "You can miss shots in the first quarter to start the game as you can miss them late in the game. We talked throughout the game. He wanted to play. I was going to try to rest him a minute or two, but the game did not dictate that."
After taking a 23-18 lead in the first quarter, the Thunder were pinned back by a 9-1 Memphis scoring run to begin the second frame. It was a difficult night for Durant, with trips up and down the court and a constant barrage of Memphis bodies exhausting the Thunder star player by halftime. He managed a quiet 12 points by the break, but eight of those came from 11 attempts at the free throw line.
"I gave it all I had for my team," Durant said. "I missed 16 shots, but I kept fighting on the floor and kept being aggressive. That's all I can ask for. It's tough to swallow right now, but I'm sure we'll look back on this down the line and appreciate this tough time. It's something we have got to embrace and get better from."
Durant's best spurt away from the charity stripe came in the third, when his seven points, including a clutch jumper as the clock ran down, helped bring the Thunder to within two. He also began spreading the offense around more, recording six assists in the second half and giving players like Thabo Sefolosha (2-for-5, five points) and Kevin Martin (3-for-6, eight points) a chance to take some of the offensive weight from Durant's back. Usually known for his defensive duties, Serge Ibaka even got involved in spreading the attack around, finishing the night with 17 points after making eight of 17 shots.
This helped the Thunder to within two points of taking the game to overtime with about 10 seconds of a dramatic fourth quarter left, when the star was called upon again to muster a moment of greatness only to see the ball bounce off the back of the rim and out.
"Obviously it was going to KD," Brooks said. "He had a great look, and that's the shot we wanted. If they were going to collapse on him, he had 3-point shooters spacing the floor. If he had no look, he had those guys to pass to. But, he had a great look. That's the shot I would live with 100 times out of 100."
With 28 points and 14 rebounds, Grizzlies power forward Zach Randolph did his part to help his team to reach the Western Conference Finals, a height they have never seen before in franchise history. Another double-double from point guard Mike Conley – 13 points and 11 assists – was simply the icing on the cake for a well-rounded and increasingly more dangerous Grizzlies team.
A larger wealth of talent is something the Thunder could have done with down the stretch to put them over the edge, Brooks said.
"If you're asking are we a better team with Russell [Westbrook], that's the easiest question you've asked me all year," Brooks said. "I don't look at it that way. Going into game three, we knew we had enough to win the series last time when Russell got hurt. That was the belief in myself with our guys. I'm disappointed that we didn't win the series. With Russell, it's hypothetical and there's no reason to look at that. I'm looking forward to the summer and getting back."


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This week's "My turn" column is by Garrick Hoadley, an active member of the American Red Cross Disaster Action Team in Otsego County.
"So Garry, what was it like in Texas?"
This was the greeting I heard meeting friends and family after returning from a three-week trip last September.
I wasn't on vacation, but deployed with the American Red Cross to help those affected by hurricanes. As the current hurricane season nears its peak, I would like to share this memoir from 2008.
If you remember Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike, there was a fairly long lead time while they milled about in the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico before actually touching land.
No one knew exactly where or when or if they would come ashore. The Federal Emergency Management Association and the Red Cross did not want to get caught unprepared, so eight volunteers from the Red Cross Southern Tier Chapter, four from Otsego County, were among several hundred "prepositioned," sent first to Mississippi, then to Florida when Hanna was a threat, and ultimately to Texas to help Ike's evacuees.
My team finally set up in College Station, home of Texas A&M University, to staff a small shelter in a church youth center. This was not in the predicted path of Ike and was where evacuees from the coast were being sent.
With five other shelters in the area, we were an overflow shelter and never had more than 32 evacuees.
The Grace Bible Church people had the place well organized when we arrived, with inflatable mattresses, fleece blankets and a pillow for each resident set out on the gym floor. The kitchen was overflowing with donated food.
We set up an around-the-clock watch to check in new arrivals, keep the place clean and serve meals. One of our members liked to cook and, with the bountiful supply of ingredients on hand, we prepared most of our own meals rather than depend on food from the central kitchen run by the Southern Baptist Convention and delivered by the Red Cross.
Our first clients, a Mexican family, arrived the night Hurricane Ike passed by. They lived near Houston and had been unsuccessfully trying to find a room until a motel employee who worshiped at the church suggested our shelter.
They were soon joined by others, including one young man who rode up on a bicycle in the pouring rain and gusting wind with all his worldly possessions in a large trash bag.
Disaster officials consolidated shelters as power was restored and people returned home. Our evacuees, all with their own transportation, gradually left to resume their lives.
When the church shelter closed we were reassigned to a large shelter in a community center with about 250 residents, including mandatory evacuees who had been brought by bus.
The gym floor in this former high school was covered with rows of cots divided into family units, with all their belongings piled around. The shelter population was a microcosm of any town or city in Texas, with the old, young, healthy and sickly, and all other conditions of mankind present.
Those evacuated by bus were not as free to return home and had to wait until their local authorities provided transportation. Then word spread that buses would be there the next day.
We wished them well and sent them off with a good supply of snacks, water bottles, hand sanitizer and our prayers. Then it was our turn to come home. When those of us who volunteered speak with each other, we say "I wonder what happened to Calvin," an older, garrulous gentleman who used a walker, who lived alone in his own mobile home but needed electricity to power his well pump.
He was fond of sharing his three jokes and it didn't matter that it was always the same joke, just with different characters, we still laughed.
Or we say, "I hope Maggie is all right." A retired public health nurse, she was writing a history of Texas disaster response. She'd experienced hurricanes for years and had seen it change from heading to the nearest church hall where neighbors brought food, to the massive evacuation and sheltering operation she had just been a part of.
I told her about the FEMA website that offers on-line courses in disaster management and she was eager to get home and get online. Then there was Alice, who came by bus in a wheelchair with her three young grandchildren. She had heart problems, used oxygen and didn't know where her daughter, the children's mother, was.
These then are the most important things we did in Texas: cared for people, shared their stories and showed real concern for their welfare. Yes, it's all about the people: those of us from upstate New York and all over this country, some 20,000 who went to Texas to help out and, of course, those we helped.
That's what it was like in Texas.
Hoadley lives in Gilbertsville. He is enrolled in the Disaster Services Human Resources pool for response to national disasters and helped in New York City at 9/11 and in several hurricane relief efforts in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. He was named 2006 Otsego County Outstanding Red Cross Volunteer.
American Red Cross training that will qualify one to serve as a Disaster Action Team member or DSHR enrollee are free to volunteers. For more information, call an Otsego County office of the American Red Cross at 432-5353 or 547-2441, or visit www.redcross.org.
To write for "My turn," contact Daily Star Publisher Tanya Shalor at email@example.com or 432-1000, ext. 214.


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Our nation must look for common ground. A forthright discussion on patriotism and how it should influence the decisions we make relative to the economy would be a good place to start.
During the past 11 years, giving thanks to our military for protecting our freedoms has become routine. The military has fulfilled its responsibilities to us and is deserving of our gratitude.
It seems that the rest of us, including consumers, members of financial institutions and corporate executives, have forgotten that we have responsibilities to fulfill as well. One of those responsibilities is to protect the economy so that when members of our military return home there are good- paying jobs waiting.
The "Buy America" campaign of old is all but forgotten. More accurately, since many of our manufacturing jobs have moved to foreign countries, it has become increasingly more difficult to buy products that are made in America.
A company that is forced to leave the country because it is not making a profit is regrettable. A company that is profitable and moves only to increase its bottom line is inexcusable. One that moves to a communist country is incomprehensible and anyone who makes that decision should be classified as un-American.
Those who believe that the previous statement is without merit must believe that the Cold War is truly over and that many of the more than 800 bases our military occupy around the globe, especially those in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, can be closed.
Furthermore, they must believe that the planned military buildup in Australia is not necessary.
The immediate benefit would be a reduction in the federal government's expenses. In turn, the budget could be reduced and a reduction in income taxes could follow.
Eventually, corporations that left to avoid paying taxes might consider returning.
(Currently, the Pentagon's budget exceeds the sum of the next 12 highest military budgets, including those of Russia and China.)
Curiously, there are politicians who remain silent while our corporations and jobs move to China. Yet they speak out against the growing threat that China poses to our national security. And they speak very passionately when they insist that the military's budget must be increased.
Their ideology does not appear to be rational.
The term "venture capitalist" under certain circumstances is an oxymoron. Those who move manufacturing jobs to communist countries with the intent of shipping their goods to capitalist markets should, instead, be called "venture communists."
Regrettably, there are consumers who come to their defense. Their logic is that they want the freedom to buy products at the lowest price possible regardless of who makes them. Carrying their rationale further, they must believe that it would be acceptable to move all of our manufacturing jobs and outsource all of our services to communist countries. For good measure, perhaps all of our utilities, schools, hospitals, financial institutions and even our government should be run by communists.
Their logic is not totally flawed. Goods and services would certainly be cheaper and we would have more leisure time to enjoy all of the products that communist countries such as China produce.
Of course, the unemployment rate in the country would increase to 99 percent from the current 7.7 percent.
Only farmers, professional athletes and members of the entertainment industry would most likely be employed.
President Richard Nixon has been given credit for initiating the beginning of the end to the Cold War. In February 1972, to the astonishment of most of the world, Nixon met with Chinese Premier Zhou En Lai. The shock was understandable. The communist nation had been isolated since 1949, when Mao Zedong took control, and the United States cut diplomatic ties.
In March 1969, because of a border dispute between the Soviet Union and China, the relationship between the two world powers had become strained. Nixon used the meeting with the Chinese to increase leverage against the Russians. He also maintained relations with the Russians as leverage against the Chinese.
In 1972, the war in Vietnam was three years away from ending. China was an ally to then North Vietnam and was supplying it with food and weapons. Nixon and the Chinese discussed the war and the freeing of American prisoners. Also on the agenda was China's claim to Taiwan.
Economic ties with China date back to the 19th century. It can be argued that Nixon secretly hoped to eventually reopen the Chinese market, one which included more than 500 million consumers, to American goods. It cannot be argued that he intended for American corporations to move there and export goods to the United States.
It is interesting to note that Americans while living in China have reported that they had been unable to purchase goods that had been made there and sold in the United States.
Freedoms that we enjoy are to be valued and protected. However, let us hope that all of us, Democrats, Republicans and independents, can agree that when it comes to the greater good of the nation, certain freedoms should be limited.
To be clear, these limits should be self-imposed and should be a matter of common sense. That is to say, patriotism must be felt. It cannot be legislated.
Stephen J. Verotsky of Johnstown, a retired high school mathematics teacher after 36 years of service, is an occasional contributor to the editorial page.
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The antihero[1] or antiheroine[2] is a leading character in a story who lacks traditional heroic qualities[3][4] such as idealism,[5] courage,[5] nobility,[6] fortitude,[7] moral goodness,[8] and altruism.[citation needed]
Whereas the classical hero is larger than life, antiheroes are typically inferior to the reader in intelligence, dynamism or social purpose,[9][better source needed] giving rise to what Robbe-Grillet called "these heroes without naturalness as without identity".[10][better source needed]
The term is also sometimes used more broadly to cover Byronic heroes as well.[11]
The antiheroic type can be traced back at least as far as Homer's Thersites;[12] and has also been identified in classical Greek drama, as well as in Roman satire and Renaissance literature,[13] as with Don Quixote[14] or the picaresque rogue.[15]
Such figures mainly served as foils to the hero, or the heroic genre, and it was only gradually that the concept of an antihero came to the fore in its own right, (a process that Northrop Frye called the fictional "center of gravity", slowly descending from feudal aristocrat to urban democrat), and literature shifted accordingly from the epic to the ironic.[9]
The term antihero is first dated to 1714;[1] and the later eighteenth century saw an example of the type in Rameau's Nephew,[16] though here the protagonist still remained placed in dialogue with a normative representative of the authorial position.
Nineteenth century Romanticism, with its social critique, saw the antihero becoming still more prominent, often in the form of the Gothic double, until the main character of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground brought the figure into full and independent flower.[17]
Building on Dostoevsky, the first half of the twentieth century saw the heyday of the antihero, first in figures like Kafka's K, and then in the writings of the French existentialists,[18] as in Camus's L'Étranger (1942) or Sartre's La Nausée (1938) with their rootless, indecisive central characters drifting through their own lives.[19]
A decade or so later, the antihero entered American literature, to dominate till the mid-Sixties as a lonely alienated figure, unable to communicate[20] - if typically more pro-active than his French counterpart - within the works of Jack Kerouac and Norman Mailer and many more.[21] The British equivalent appeared in the works of the so-called Angry young men of the fifties.[22]
The collective protests of Sixties counterculture saw the solitary antihero gradually eclipsed from fictional prominence,[23] though not without subsequent revivals in literary or cinematic form.[24]
Literary antiheroes[edit]
Sporting antiheroes[edit]
The sporting antihero is typically not a team player; challenges officialdom; sets financial gain over club loyalty; yet still acquires a large fan following,[25] by way of his or her actualisation of the rebel archetype.[26]
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- ^ a b "Antihero - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary". Merriam-webster.com. 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
- ^ "Antiheroine - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary". Merriam-webster.com. 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
- ^ "anti-hero: definition of anti-hero in Oxford dictionary (British & World English)". Oxforddictionaries.com. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
- ^ Gioia, Dana (editor). "Definition of antihero | Collins American English Dictionary". Collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
- ^ a b "American Heritage Dictionary Entry: antihero". Ahdictionary.com. 2013-01-09. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
- ^ "Antihero | Define Antihero at Dictionary.com". Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
- ^ "Gale - Free Resources - Glossary - Home". Gale.cengage.com. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
- ^ "anti-hero - definition of anti-hero by Macmillan Dictionary". Macmillandictionary.com. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
- ^ a b Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism (1971) p. 34
- ^ Quoted in E. D. Ermath, Sequel to History (1992) p. 71
- ^ "Literary Terms and Definitions B". Web.cn.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
- ^ George Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (1967) p. 197
- ^ George Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (1967) p. 197-8
- ^ "Literary Terms and Definitions A". Web.cn.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
- ^ M. Halliwell, American Culture on the 1950s (2007) p. 60
- ^ George Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (1967) p. 199-200
- ^ George Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (1967) p. 201-7
- ^ J. E. Barnhart ed., Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Talent (2005) p. 181
- ^ G. Brereton, A Short History of French Literature (1954) p. 254-5
- ^ M/ Hardt/K. Weeks eds., The Jameson Reader (2000) p. 294-5
- ^ A. Edelson, Everybody is Sitting on the Curb (1996) p. 18
- ^ I. Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1995) p. 27
- ^ A. Edelson, Everybody is Sitting on the Curb (1996) p. 1
- ^ M/ Hardt/K. Weeks eds., The Jameson Reader (2000) p. 295
- ^ Delaney, Tim; Madigan, Tim (2009). The Sociology of Sports: An Introduction. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. pp. 72 & 284. ISBN 0786441690.
- ^ Handelsman, Bud (2009). Families and how to survive them. London: Random House Ebooks. pp. 202–203. ISBN 1407011030.
Further reading[edit]
- Simmons, David (2008). The Anti-Hero in the American Novel: From Heller to Vonnegut. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-230-60323-8.
External links[edit]
|Look up antihero in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Antihero (literature) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Character Analysis


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Whether it's a hurricane, a blizzard, a flood, or a blackout there are a number of precautions you can take to ensure the safety of yourself and your family.
The NYC Office of Emergeny Management's Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) has the following recommendations for all residents.
Make a household disaster plan
Develop and practice a disaster plan with your household members to prepare for what to do, how to find each other and how to communicate in an emergency.
- Decide where your household members will reunite after a disaster. Identify two places to meet: one near your home and another outside of the immediate neighborhood.
- Practice using all possible exit routes from your home and the neighborhood.
- Designate an out-of-state friend or relative who household members can call if separated during a disaster. If New York City phone circuits are busy, long-distance calls may be easier to make. This out-of-state contact can help you communicate with others.
- Plan for everyone's needs, especially seniors, non-English speakers, people with disabilities, children and pets.
- Buy the right insurance. If you rent your home, renter's insurance will insure the items inside your apartment. If you are a homeowner, make sure your home is properly insured- flood and wind damage are not covered in a basic homeowner's policy.
Put together an emergency supply kit
Keep enough supplies in your home to survive for at least three days. Store these materials in an easily accessible container or cupboard, and update them twice a year at daylight-saving times. Suggested items are available online or at your local grocery, drug or army supply store. They include:
- One gallon of drinking water per person per day
- Non-perishable, ready-to-eat canned foods and a manual can opener
- First aid kit
- Flashlight
- Battery-operated AM/FM radio and extra batteries
- Whistle
- Iodine tablets or one quart of unscented bleach (for disinfecting water ONLY if directed to do so by health officials) and eyedropper (for adding bleach to water)
- Phone that does not require electricity
Put together a go bag
Every household member should put together a Go Bag- a collection o ftiems you can use in the event of an evacuation. Each Go Bag should be sturdy, lightweight and portable, such as a backpack. Suggested items include:
- Copies of your important documents in a waterproof and portable container (insurance cards, birth certificates, deeds, photo IDs, etc.)
- Extra sets of car and house keys
- Copies of credit and ATM cards and cash
- Bottled water and non-perishable food like energy or granola bars
- Flashlight
- Battery-operated AM/FM radio and extra batteries
- List of medications and dosages household members take, or copies of all your prescription slips with doctors' names and phone numbers.
- First aid kit
- Child care, pet care and other special items
- Lightweight rain gear and Mylar blanket
- Contact and meeting place information for your household and small regional map
CERT representatives are available for group presentations that can last anywhere from 15 to 90 minutes depending on how detailed a presentation a group may want.


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An online journal about visual art, the urban landscape and design. Mary Louise Schumacher, the Journal Sentinel's art and architecture critic, leads the discussion and a community of writers contribute to the dialogue.
Calatrava withdraws from Denver airport project
Santiago Calatrava has decided to withdraw from a major remake of a terminal at the Denver International Airport, due to a process plagued with "financial constraints, unnecessary time delays and deep divisions between the design team and program managers," according to a letter penned by Calatrava's wife and business manager, Robertina Calatrava, and obtained by the Denver Post.
Calatrava and his firm have been paid $12.8 million to date for the redevelopment of the south terminal, and DIA officials said they will proceed with the project using Calatrava's design ideas, the Post reported.
The plans for the new terminal, which includes a Westin hotel, an open plaza and a rail station, were revealed last summer.
The cost of the airport project has been trimmed from a projected $650 million to $500 million, and a Calatrava-designed bridge intended to serve as a point of entry to the airport complex was deemed too costly to build.
"From our perspective as the design professionals, the project still lacks sufficient funding, particularly dollars for the hard-cost components of the project," wrote Robertina Calatrava in the letter. "It continues to set an unrealistic schedule with little or no room to develop and consolidate the design in keeping with the standards and quality of a Calatrava signature design."
The Denver Post obtained the letter from Robertina Calatrava through a Colorado Open Records Act request to airport officials.
Calatrava designed the Milwaukee Art Museum, which opened in 2001.
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Calatrava is a goof who lacks vision, because of his incompetence he cost the Art Musuem 30 million in re'do, that will buy a lot of Taco's!!!!


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TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack)
Excerpted from Stroke Connection, January/February 2009 (science update October 2012)
While transient ischemic attack (TIA) is often labeled "mini-stroke," it is more accurately characterized as a "warning stroke," a warning you should take very seriously.
TIA is caused by a clot; the only difference between a stroke and TIA is that with TIA the blockage is transient (temporary). TIA symptoms occur rapidly and last a relatively short time. Most TIAs last less than five minutes; the average is about a minute. When a TIA is over, it usually causes no permanent injury to the brain.
F.A.S.T. is an easy way to remember the sudden signs and symptoms of a stroke:
- Face Drooping
- Arm Weakness
- Speech Difficulty
- Time to call 911
Additional signs of a stroke may include:
- Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body
- Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding
- Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
- Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, lack of balance or coordination
- Sudden severe headache with no known cause
According to Dr. Emil Matarese, director of a primary stroke center at St. Mary's Medical Center in Pennsylvania, if you have stroke symptoms, dial 911 immediately and go to an emergency room for evaluation. You should not wait to see if the symptoms go away.
While the vast majority of strokes are not preceded by TIA, about a third of people who experience TIA go on to have a stroke within a year. TIA is a warning stroke and gives a patient time to act and keep a permanent stroke from occurring. Although a TIA resolves itself before there is damage, there is no way to predict which clots will dissolve on their own. Stroke — and TIA — are medical emergencies; dial 911 and tell the operator you think it's a stroke and note the time the symptoms started. Remember: Time lost is brain lost.
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The California Highway Patrol offers educational classes for seniors to help those ages 65 and older with their driving skills.
According to the CHP's Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System, in 2011 more than 23,000 drivers older than 65 were involved in a collision. Among those senior drivers involved in collisions, nearly 400 were killed and more than 22,000 were injured. The data indicate that more than 50 percent of those senior drivers were found to be at fault in the collision, according to the CHP.
To help senior maintain their driving independence for as long as they can safely drive, the CHP offers a two-hour "Age Well, Drive Smart" course. Class participants can brush up on their driving skills, refresh their knowledge of the rules of the road, and learn how to adjust to normal age-related physical and mental changes.
Information on dates and locations of these courses can be obtained by calling a local CHP office or online at www.chp.ca.gov.
The program is supported by the Keeping Everyone Safe grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety.
Common Signs of Elderly Financial Exploitation
Among the warning signs:
• Money or property is missing.
• Unexplained withdrawals from bank accounts, frequent ATM use or large wire transfers;
• Unable to pay normal bills;
• Bank statements or bills stop arriving in the mail;
• Purchases of merchandise or services that seem unnecessary;
• Names are added to bank accounts that they're unable/unwilling to explain
• Unusual gifts to caregivers, family members or a new "best friend;"
• Changes to beneficiaries on a will, life insurance policy or retirement funds;
• A caregiver, friend or relative suddenly begins handling the money without documentation of the financial arrangement
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The Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants have both clinched spots in the Major League Baseball playoffs. And while both team shave a long postseason road ahead of them to get there, many local baseball fans are pining for their first Bay Bridge Series in 23 years.
The A's clinched the A.L. West Division crown Wednesday by defeating the Texas Ranger and the Giants had already won the N.L. West. The A's will travel to Detroit and play them Saturday and Sunday. The Giants will host the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday and Sunday.
Many Bay Area baseball fans think there could be another Bay Bridge series, as was the case in 1989 when the A's swept the Giants in four games in what was known as the "earthquake series" for the Loma Prieta earthquake. Do you think another Bay Bridge series could happen? With both teams looking good, it's certainly not out of the equation.
How many A's and Giants fans are out there? Who's ready for the postseason? Send us your pictures!
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Some headers and a K&N cold air intake system will give you a good bang for the buck!
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The most frustrating aspect of Campaign 2012 for me is the intense focus on Medicare benefits for the millions of Baby Boomers, or as I call us, Americas greediest generation.
While the presidential candidates debate the extent and method by which one of the richest demographics in the United States will have its health care subsidized, the challenges facing younger Americans go largely unnoticed, even though 20-somethings are suffering through Depression-like economic conditions.
Get a load of the statistics gathered by the interest group Generation Opportunity, led by Paul T. Conway, a former chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Labor.
The national unemployment rate in August was 8.1 percent (seasonally adjusted). Among 18-to-29-year-olds, however, it was a non-seasonally adjusted 12.7 percent. Throw in the 1.7 million young people who have stopped looking for a job and the unemployment rate for Millennials skyrockets to 16.7 percent. Thats a jobless rate normally associated with the Great Depression decade of 1930 to 1940.
Complicating the labor market for young people is the fact that theyre now competing with workers their parents age. In July, economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research concluded that workers 55 and older accounted for 57.9 percent of employment growth during the previous 12 months. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows the percentage of workers 55 or older in the labor force has risen by 8 percent since 2008.
These trends are alarming. Not only do we need younger people paying taxes to help fund massive federal spending, but many of them are starting their professional lives with a boatload of debt. Outstanding student loan debt stood at $914 billion as of June 30 according to the New York Federal Reserve. The under-30 cohort held the note on about a third of that total, or $292 billion.
The average student loan for the group is now up to $20,835. In North Carolina, more than half 53 percent of those leaving college with a four-year degree step foot into the real world nearly $21,000 in debt, according to the Institute for College Access and Success. Thats a good down payment on a house.
The scenario they face is getting even darker, since starting salaries for recent graduates appear to be falling. A May 2012 study by the Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University concluded that the median first-job salary for four-year degree holders who graduated from 2006 through 2010 was just $28,000. That low figure was, in part, because 60 percent took a first job that didnt require a degree, in order to begin putting food on their table.
Eighty percent of Rutgers study respondents have transitioned out of their first jobs, but only 30 percent have found a gig in their chosen career field. Indeed, 36 percent who transitioned out their first job took their current job out of necessity, not for long-term career development.
These hard economic realities are having life-altering impacts in North Carolina. According to Generation Opportunitys August survey, made available at the start of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, nearly 40 percent of our states 18-to-29-year-olds have put off buying a home. One in three has delayed the start of a family and 22 percent have postponed marriage.
For previous American generations, the 20s were the time of life for personal, professional, social and economic growth. Today its become a time of stagnation, lowered expectations and moving back with the parents.
This is unconscionable. And it brings me to this challenge to Baby Boomers: Look into the eyes of a 25-year-old and explain why Medicare benefits must be preserved as is.
The unpleasant truth is, Baby Boomers and seniors are eating this countrys generational seed corn by electrifying the third political rails of Medicare and Social Security. Reforms under which the older generations assume more of their own medical and retirement expenses and responsibilities are essential if todays 20-somethings are to avoid becoming a lost generation.
Contributing columnist Rick Martinez (email@example.com) is news director at WPTF, NC News Network and SGRToday.com


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PEARLAND -- Students and coaches are mourning the sudden death of a popular football player at Pearland's Dawson High School.
Seventeen-year-old Falobi Akanbi was playing basketball with friends after school at Silver Lake Elementary Wednesday afternoon when he suddenly collapsed. Friends tried to perform CPR until an ambulance arrived. Akandi was pronounced dead at an area hospital.
Dawson High is an up and coming 4A powerhouse. The team made a deep playoff run last year, but now the Eagles have lost an offensive tackle, number 79.
The team's quarterback, Joshua Sharp, got the news about Akanbi's death while driving.
"I had to pull over. My body was shaking, my heart was pounding, I didn't want to believe it," Sharp said.
Akanbi had a couple of choices for college.
"He didn't want his parents to pay for his school," said Sharp. "He wanted to take care of it himself. "He had a full ride scholarship to Montana State."
Varisty football coach Wade Oliphant says this will hit the team and school hard.
"Akanbi was very well known, 6'5" 300 or 290 pounds," said Oliphant. "Everybody knew who he was. He was a great kid, probably a better kid than an athlete. He always did the right thing."
Akanbi was part of a tight-knit group of racially diverse players nicknamed the "League of Nations"
"I've never known Folabi to complain about anything," said Oliphant. "As far as I knew, he was perfectly healthy."
"He always kept God first," remembered Sharp. "Even on signing day, first thing he said when he stood, 'I want to thank God.' Second, his parents."
The Pearland ISD says counselors will be available to speak with students and staff Thursday, and as long as needed.


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RALEIGH — For the past two and a half months, the demonstrators who gather each Monday at the North Carolina Legislative Building to protest the Republican agenda have followed an orchestrated pattern.
They gather in a big open space, most recently the grassy Halifax Mall between legislative offices and General Assembly chambers for speeches, prayer, music and rallying cries.
Then those who plan to engage in civil disobedience walk slowly in the Legislative Building, wearing a green arm band to signify their plans to get arrested. They gather in a second-floor rotunda continue their protest and then peaceably wait to have their wrists bound in arrest.
This week, though, the routine was a bit off kilter.
The legislators were not meeting in the usual Monday night session, so demonstrators who planned to engage in civil disobedience to draw attention to their concerns arrived this week with toothbrushes and a few sleeping bags.
Rodney Ellis, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, pulled a new toothbrush from his pants pocket as evidence of his commitment to stay overnight in protest of the cuts to public education. But General Assembly police closed the building at about 7:15 p.m. and arrested Ellis and more than 70 others who refused to leave.
Though voter rights was the theme of the demonstration, many of the protesters rallied against the $20.6 billion spending plan released by Senate and House budget writers on Sunday night. The budget proposal takes a giant step toward the privatization of education, sets aside money for a Voter ID program, cuts government jobs in some places and adds them in others and sets a path for reorganization of state Commerce Department functions under a public-private partnership. The spending plan, the basis for policies, the structure of government agencies and ultimately the direction of the state, is scheduled for votes in the House and Senate on Tuesday afternoon.
This is a budget full of voodoo economics that hurt teachers and public education, the Rev. William Barber, head of the state NAACP, said Monday as crowds of demonstrators gathered in the waning sunlight and legislative session.
Republican leaders have largely ignored the protesters who have gathered outside General Assembly chambers all but one Monday since April 29. Nearly 920 people have been arrested at demonstrations at the Legislative Building or Capitol.
Rick Edens, a pastor at United Church of Chapel Hill, was arrested on July 1 and was back among the demonstrators on Monday.
... I and many others out here today dont really think this legislature really reflects the will of the people of North Carolina, he said.
Advocates of the Republican agenda dismiss the protesters as people who are bitter that the 2012 elections did not go their way. They argue that new policies and laws being adopted were the will of the voters.
But many demonstrators argue that the Republicans were victorious at the polls, in part, because of new legislative and congressional districts that were drawn in 2011 and more favorable to Republicans, who took control of both General Assembly chambers in 2010.
Bob Anderson, a Raleigh resident, was at the Moral Monday rally with Janice McLaughlin, hoisting a sign reminding people to vote on Nov. 4, 2014. The year 2010, Anderson said, was the nadir for Democrats. That was the low point politically, he said. But each week he and McLaughlin join the demonstrators with an eye toward the next elections.
The Moral Monday organizers have a multi-pronged approach that includes the rallies, a voter registration drive and legal challenges to legislation.
Barry Ragin, a Durham resident, said he came to the rallies to help him stay focused on whats important to him and to see some of the people who have similar political views.
He worries, though, that between now and the 2014 elections that some people might forget some of the legislative votes and actions that drew them all together.
Being motivated from now until November is going to be a challenge, Ragin said.
Others, though, are more optimistic.
Mark Kleinschmidt, the Chapel Hill mayor, noted the diversity of the crowd gathered Monday night.
This would be different if it was just like a small piece of the state population, Kleinschmidt said. When you look around, this is a piece of everybody. This is North Carolina standing up.
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