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Stamford the Lion has been busy in December attending two special schools events held by the Chelsea FC Foundation in Guildford and Leatherhead.
Firstly, he was at the Guildford Spectrum Leisure Centre as eight schools from the area accepted an invitation from the Foundation to attend a day of sports and activities hosted by the Foundation's coaches.
Soon after, he was at the Leatherhead Leisure Centre with youngsters from five schools in attendance as the number of children involved across both days reached more than 200.
The days were designed to show local schools the work being done by the Foundation in the Surrey area, with pupils participating in various football and other sports-related sessions.
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Steve Shipp, area co-ordinator for Surrey, who arranged the event in Guildford, said: 'We had a really successful day. It was great of the Guildford Spectrum to let us use the facility free of charge.
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'Feedback from the schools has been extremely positive and I am sure all involved have had a great day.'


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The U.S. House on Friday overwhelmingly passed a measure that would end unpaid furloughs for air traffic controllers at larger airports, including St. Louis Downtown Airport in Sauget, and avert scheduled layoffs for traffic controllers at 149 smaller airports around the country, including in Bethalto and Carbondale.
The House approved the measure on a 361-41 vote, a day after the Senate swiftly passed the legislation Thursday. The vote came as lawmakers prepared to leave Washington for a weeklong spring recess and travelers around the country were experiencing long delays at airports.
President Barack Obama still must sign the bill. It remains unclear whether he will do so, or how soon any changes would take effect.
The furloughs of air traffic controllers who work directly for the Federal Aviation Administration, along with scheduled layoffs of contract controllers at smaller airports, were part of the $85 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts -- known as the sequester -- that began to take effect last month at government agencies.
Like scores of other airports, St. Louis Downtown Airport has been coping with federally mandated furloughs for its one dozen air traffic controllers.
But in contrast to the flight delays experienced at larger airports this week because of the furloughs, St. Louis Downtown Airport, previously known as Parks Airport, so far had not seen problems involving delays or safety issues, according to Airport Director Bob McDaniel.
"What they have told me is that by reducing some of their administrative time, they're able to cover all shifts and all traffic loads with no reduction in service expected," said McDaniel, whose facility handles up to 900 daily take offs and landings of small passenger aircraft in good weather.
Despite the latest action in Congress, avoiding the layoffs of tower controllers at the smaller airports is far from certain, said David Miller, the director of St. Louis Regional Airport, in Bethalto.
"It's a little too early for the champagne, but there has been some forward movement," he said.
Responding to an outpouring of complaints about delays at major airports around the country caused by controller furloughs that began Sunday, Congress passed the bill that gives the Federal Aviation Administration power to move $253 million to end the furloughs and avert the layoffs of contract controllers.
Gary Shafer, director of Southern Illinois Airport near Carbondale, noted the measure that Congress passed does not contain language directed specifically at protecting contract air controllers at his airport from being laid off.
"It's still unclear how the FAA will administer that money that they've just been given," Shafer said, "or whether it's going to include retaining the contract towers through Sept. 30, which is all the authority they were given. We've got a ways to go yet. We're still holding our breath."
Unlike St. Louis Downtown Airport, the Bethalto and Carbondale airports rely on outside contract controllers, all of whom are slated by the FAA to be laid off beginning June 15, pending action by the president.
Even if it loses its traffic control tower, St. Louis Regional Airport plans to remain open, because pilots are trained to perform takeoffs and landings without control tower help, said Miller.
"It's very important to understand that the official verbiage is that this would be a 'non-towered' airport," Miller said, noting that flights from his facility would still be controlled out of St. Louis. "It would not be an uncontrolled airport."
Miller, however, called the impending loss of air traffic controllers a "risk management issue" that is difficult to quantify in terms of safety.
"It just makes good safety sense if you have an extra set of eyes and ears up there watching the airfield," he said.
The loss of its tower staff at the Carbondale airport could jeopardize the aviation program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, which depends on airport tower staff to ensure a safe flight environment for 80 or so university aviation students each semester, said David NewMeyer, chairman of SIUC's aviation and flight program.
"The key thing for us is safety," NewMyer said. "We have a parallel runway system here, and we just don't see it being used without a tower."
Shafer, the airport director, called it "one of those airports that just can't live without air traffic control. It would be extremely dangerous to try."
Nearly 6,000 flight delays occurred nationwide for the three-day period beginning Sunday, when the federally mandated furloughs took effect. This compares to 2,500 delays for the same period a year ago, according to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, the largest union that represents controllers.
The FAA estimates the air controller furloughs will save slightly more than $200 million through Sept. 30.
The furloughs of FAA-employed air controllers, as well as the impending lay-off of contractor controllers, have led to a series of efforts to end the sequester-induced furloughs and layoffs apart from the legislation passed by the House and Senate.
The first attempted remedy is a federal lawsuit, filed in San Francisco, that Southern Illinois Airport has joined as one of 20 plaintiffs. The lawsuit aims to stop the FAA from imposing the controller layoffs at the Bethalto and Carbondale airports, plus airports at 147 locations nationwide.
The second attempted remedy is a separate bill co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, that aims to force the Obama administration to restore funding to all 149 airports scheduled to lose their tower controllers. It's still unclear whether the legislation passed Friday by the House would render this bill moot.
Davis' measure would compel Obama to move FAA dollars from less important programs to keep the traffic controllers at the smaller airports on the job. Davis notes that Obama has already stepped in to move money to prevent furloughs for federal meat inspectors and prison corrections officers called for by sequestration.
"They've got the money," Davis said. "This is a priority problem on behalf the FAA."
Davis, who sits on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and who also serves as vice-chairman of that panel's aviation subcommittee, noted the FAA spends $500 million per year on outside consultants, plus another $100 million annually operating its own fleet of aircraft.
"They ought to be able to reprioritize the money they spend and keep passenger safety a priority instead of just playing politics," he said. "We want them really to look inward at their budget and find ways to cut, and to find ways to make better decisions so that those towers can remain open."
(Some information for this story came from the Associated Press.)


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"There are lots of ways to lose weight. The hard part is doing it in a way that the weight will stay off," Natalie Maniscalco, a registered and licensed dietician at Cheaha Nutrition Management in Anniston, explained. "All these commercials and the media telling people they can lose 20 pounds in a week, it's just garbage."
But the number of fad diets on the market continues to rise along with the waist lines and health care costs of its audience.
Last month, the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released F as in Fat, a report on the obesity epidemic in America. With 32.3 percent of the adult population obese, Alabama was named the second fattest state in the nation, earning an F as in Fail along with almost every other state in the Deep-Fried South.
Twenty years ago, Alabama didn't even make the top 20. Now, the state has the second fastest-growing obesity rate, jumping 16.5 percent since 1995.
It should come as no shock then that Alabama also had the largest rise in both diabetes and hypertension.
Diabetes, which often goes undiagnosed and therefore untreated, can lead to problems such as nerve damage, kidney damage, circulation and heart problems Maniscalco said. She went on to say that breast cancer and many digestive cancers have been linked to obesity as well as countless other conditions.
"I would go so far as to say many of our emotional disorders stem from being overweight," she added.
Rosemary Blackmon is executive vice president of Scale Back Alabama, a state-wide weight loss competition developed by the Alabama Hospital Association five years ago in response to the state's plummeting performance in national health reports.
"It was almost a no-brainer," she said. "The reports were showing that this may be the first generation to not outlive their parents. That's not a good statistic."
Last year, 33,000 participants in 64 counties lost a total of 143,309 pounds during the 10-week competition. The method: following safe and simple rules of healthy weight loss.
For those who want to follow their example, the rules are not some big secret. Maniscalco and Blackmon emphasized the same common sense guidelines almost everyone knows by heart: healthy eating, regular exercise, lifestyle changes.
These guidelines are also the heart of two inspiring success stories of locals who took control, cut the fat and lived to tell the tale.
Steady progress quiets the naysayers
Helen Bailey of Gadsden can pinpoint exactly when and why her overeating began. She was in second grade and her dad had just returned home from a tour in Vietnam.
"When he came back he would say, 'Look how she cleaned her plate,'" Bailey recalled. "I got attention by eating."
The pattern of emotional eating continued into adulthood. Bailey admitted food was her source of comfort when she was stressed, nervous or even bored.
"Some days I ate everything in the house out of boredom," she said. Marriage and two children caused more weight to pile on and by the fall of 2008 she had hit 266 pounds.
"You didn't have to tell me I was obese. I couldn't walk from my parking spot at work," she said.
When Bailey heard a Weight Watchers program chapter was starting at her church, she knew she had to give it a try and was there the Sunday it opened in September 2008. She can still be found there every Sunday, rain or shine and even one Christmas Day.
After four years, she can count the meetings she has missed on one hand.
To Bailey, the support she gets from her weekly meeting is crucial to her success.
"You see other people having success and celebrating your success, people in your community, people you go to church with. You know these people."
Besides the encouragement of fellow members, she said Weight Watchers meetings keep members accountable with weekly weigh-ins, give them a place to share tips and award milestone in their weight loss. Bailey's group recently helped her celebrate a memorable milestone.
"Every time you lose 25 pounds you get a medal," she explained. "I got my fourth one in May."
At 163 pounds, Bailey has lost more than 100 pounds since her first weigh-in. She said she tries to do at least 30 minutes a day on her Wii Fit exercise console.
"It just clicked for me," she said. "It's a lifestyle change. It's something I'm going to have to do for the rest of my life but it's something I can do for the rest of my life."
Two years ago, already down 60 pounds, Bailey missed her first meeting when she had to go in for surgery. She remembered many people telling her she would put back on all the weight she'd lost; she was determined to prove them wrong. Just before going into the hospital, she got a source of inspiration that is still with her today.
"My wedding ring had been stuck on my hand for 10 years. I knew I was going to have to figure out a way to get it off before surgery but it just came right off," she said. "I still have a scar the ring was so tight."
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As a school principal in St. Clair County for more than 30 years, Ronnie McFarling, 58, said years of cafeteria food started to catch up with him around the same time his wife was pregnant with their first child in 1985. She got pregnant again in 1988 and he gained a little more. In 2009, he topped out at 288 pounds.
"A lot of people talk about events. I'm not sure that's what happened to me. Here is what I think, people who are really overweight think about it all the time." McFarling, who had his gall bladder removed in December 2008, said, "I didn't come home from the hospital and say, 'OK this is it.' I was just always thinking about it."
McFarling laughed when he admitted it was an Oprah episode that changed his life. Marie Osmond was sharing her weight loss success on the Nutrisystem diet program. A few weeks later, a fellow principal invited him join some friends at the Pell City tennis courts, a sport he'd excelled at many years and pounds before.
"I called my wife and said I think I'm going to go play tennis and she said, 'Really?'"
After struggling through a few rounds that first day, McFarling said he was too sore to accept their invitation the next day. They invited him again the following day, and he again declined. The day after that he called and ordered Nutrisystem.
Following the program to the letter, McFarling lost 18 pounds the first month. He kept playing tennis and was soon competing and winning matches against the same guys who had worn him out a few months before.
"In my mind, I wanted to see if I could get to 250," he recalled. After meeting that goal in just three months he decided to try for 230, then 215. "Then it occurred to me I might actually get under 200 again."
In less than a year McFarling reached 175 pounds, what he weighed in high school. Today he stays between 185 and 190. He is still on the Nutrisystem plan but now uses it as a supplement to his diet. In June his tennis team won regionals and went to the state competition in Mobile. He and his youngest daughter celebrated Father's Day by entering the Callaway Gardens Sprint triathlon in Georgia.
"I had tried South Beach, Weight Watchers, Slim Fast," McFarling recalled. "All of those programs work if you follow them. Everything just came together for me with Nutrisystem."
'Keep it simple'
Bailey and McFarling may be extraordinary but they didn't do anything that couldn't become ordinary.
The substantial benefits of shaping up and slimming down are pretty much common knowledge. Yet the state with the highest obesity rate 15 years ago would have had the lowest today.
"It doesn't have to be some complicated, elaborate plan. Keep it simple, just start somewhere," Maniscalco encouraged. "You have to be patient and work at it but you will be so much happier once you do."
By the numbers: 'F as in Fat'
16: States where adult obesity rates rose over the previous year
0: States where adult obesity decreased
12: States where the obesity rate is more than 30 percent. They are Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.
34.4: Percentage of Mississippi residents who are obese, the highest in the nation
19.8: Percentage of Colorado residents who are obese, the lowest in the nation
19.4: Percentage of Mississippi residents who were obese 15 years ago.
9: Number out of the top 10 most-obese states that are in the South. The sole exception is Michigan.
32.8: Percentage of high school dropouts who are obese.
21.5: Percentage of college or technical school graduates who are obese.
11: Number of states where adult diabetes rates increased over the past year.
10: Number of states where diabetes rates have doubled over the past 15 years.
SOURCE: "Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2011," a report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. http://www.healthyamericans.org


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Professionally, Henry works as the City of Reno Senior Code Enforcement Officer, investigating, documenting and resolving non-criminal code violations. With a constantly evolving technological dynamic, and a job that brings daily challenges and involvement in the field, Henry is required to stay on his toes — and he loves it.
"I love my job. It's different every day. It's a challenge every day. It's exciting. It's not the 9-to-5 grind," he said. "It forces you to learn."
On a recreational level, Henry keeps himself engaged in the community by coaching girls soccer at the high school and club levels. It's the daily excitement of conquering obstacles and working with dedicated athletes that keeps his passion for the sport alive.
"I love coaching soccer. It gives you a chance to teach and give back. Plus, you meet great kids and coaches," Henry said. "One of the things I love about it is that you're learning every day."
An area native, the 50-year-old Sparks resident originally hails from Stead, where he spent the first 17 years of his life before enlisting in the Marines. In fact, the first time Henry can clearly remember playing soccer was in Okinawa, Japan, where he was stationed temporarily during his three-year venture as an infantry radio operator. In 1983, Henry returned from the Marines to the Reno area, settled down and started a family. It was roughly 10 years later, after relocating to Sparks and trading in a career in concrete for a job with the City of Reno, that his then 5-year-old daughter truly introduced Henry to his current passion: the game of soccer.
Henry followed his eldest daughter, Maggie, through the echelons of the soccer world, learning the game and coaching her team from its starting point in the Sparks AYSO league up through the club and high school levels. Twenty years, and four soccer playing children later, Henry has adopted the sport as his own.
"My daughters will tell you that there's soccer on my television set 24 hours a day. I record every game there is," he said. "Once you start (coaching) there's so much passion. It gives you a chance to teach and give back; and you meet great people … You do it for the love of the game."
In the early 2000's, Henry was recruited by Spanish Springs varsity soccer Coach Mike Faker to coach the newly opened high school's JV team, where he stayed for three years, before coaching the Reno High school girls JV team for two years. Around 2006, Henry returned to SSHS where he continues to work closely with Faker as the assistant coach for Spanish Springs' girls varsity team, as well as coaching in the Spanish Springs Soccer Club's youth "Advantage Program."
For Henry, the coaching gig that started out as a parental pastime has translated into a way to give back to the local soccer community that helped raise his own kids.
"(Sparks) has such a small-town atmosphere. The whole dynamic of Sparks is great for families," he said. "We coach because we love to coach. We love to give back to the community. We meet great kids and help to build a soccer community."
Faker, who first met Henry while acting as the trainer for one of Maggie's teams, has worked with Henry within the Sparks soccer community for longer than he can remember. Unlike the many coaches who use their athletes to enhance their reputation and careers, Faker says, Henry has a genuine interest in helping every one of his athletes succeed, and it's clear that his ambitions lie in bettering the Sparks soccer community instead of his own reputation.
"There are coaches out there … who are trying to make a career out of it and who use the kids as a stepping stone," Faker said. "What makes Joe unique is that he's not looking to move on. He is invested in northern Nevada Soccer and he wants to see it improve … His focus is the progression of the kids and that's something that's hard to put a price tag on."
After working with Henry as an assistant coach, Faker considers him an invaluable second pair of eyes. Not only does he genuinely care about the enjoyment and success of the kids, Faker says, but he also lends the team the perspective of an experienced soccer-dad.
"You're always looking for good people to help you coach at the high school level … Joe is one of those guys who is in it for the right reasons," Faker said. "He cares about the kids. He has two daughters who are playing right now and one who's already gone through it, and that's good because he's seen it through the parent's perspective."
After 20 or so years of coaching in the Sparks area, Henry has begun to see the fruits of his community building labor in the form of athletes that he has coached returning to the area, and expressing an interest in helping foster the programs that trained them. For him, seeing kids who have been through the local soccer programs turn around and return the effort is a priceless reward.
"(As coaches) that's what we're looking for, to get them involved in that community and giving back," he said. "Seeing how it's grown and changed has really been phenomenal. We've had the opportunity to work with some really great people."
With two daughters playing in high school and club divisions, and with soccer-destined grandchildren rapidly approaching the age of cleats and shin guards, Henry doesn't see himself leaving the sport anytime soon. In fact, after retirement, he envisions a time where he can focus his efforts on coaching, continuing to learn every day from the girls on the field long after his working days are over.
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OTTAWA — York-Simcoe MP Peter Van Loan has apologized for using foul-language during a shouting match in the House of Commons yesterday that nearly turned into a bench-clearing brawl, national media are reporting today.
According to reports by Ottawa press gallery journalists, the Conservative House Leader left his seat in the House and crossed the floor to berate his NDP counterpart Nathan Cullen.
Microphones did not record the incident but video shows a visibly upset Van Loan pointing his finger at Cullen while speaking in a heated manner.
"I do acknowledge that I did use an inappropriate word when I was discussing this matter with the Opposition House leader," he told the Commons today. "I should not have done that and I do apologize for that."
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, Cullen's seatmate, stood up, as several New Democrats surrounded Van Loan and urged him to leave, the video shows.
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I inserted the disk, choose the destination, customized it (I have tried many different customizations) and installed it. When I restarted the computer as I was told to do, the white loading screen with the apple and loading circle below it appeared. It did it's thing and when it was finished the screen went Blue for a few seconds and then went black.
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This is the result I get when I customize the installation so that I CAN't upgrade. When I customize it so I can upgrade and then restart in the "-v" mode then it gives me the error:
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Discussed in this webinar will be: 45 CFR 46.111 (a)(2) which states, "In evaluating risks and benefits, the IRB should consider only those risks and benefits that may result from the research (as distinguished from risks and benefits of therapies subjects would receive even if not participating in the research)." So what is risk assessment and how does that affect you? The Criteria for Approval found in both the FDA and HHS regulations stipulates what will be looked at during the approval process yet many do not know how, under which conditions, their study is reviewed and therefore do not anticipate possible questions in their study design.The Federalwide Assurance is required for NIH funded studies. It is a written assurance filed with the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) that outlines under which terms a study will be reviewed, approved, and conducted. Even if the study is not NIH funded the principles in the Federalwide Assurance apply. 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Knowing what to consider and what the possible stumbling blocks could be, make getting an approval to conduct human subject's research easier. Attendance at this webinar will do just that. It will not only give you a working knowledge of the areas that create the most confusion, it will also give you an understanding that will help you avoid or work through these areas faster and be of assistance to those around you.Areas Covered in the Session:Assurances: What are these? What do they stipulate? How they affect you as a researcherCriteria for review. What to think about and consider when developing or conducting your studyConsent and assent. What is required? What choices do you have?Community research. What is involved when you ask a private physician to conduct your study or to recruit from his/her clinic?Risk/Benefit Assessment. What is it? Who makes the determination? What does that determination mean with regards to additional requirements? 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She has initiated the planning, development, authorship and implementation of many human subjects research policies, practices, guidelines, submission and reviewer forms often working with state and federal authorities.MentorHealthPhone No: 800-385-1607FaX: email@example.com Link: http://bit.ly/1pM4cgKhttp://www.mentorhealth.com/ Risk Analysis to Meet HIPAA HITECH and Meaningful Use Webinar By MentorHealth 5/7/2014 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM online event Fremont, California United States Event Listing Summary: Overview: This presentation will guide the user on the principles of Risk Analysis and Risk Management to prioritize risks. It will rely heavily on the NIST 800-30 as revised and finalized on 09/18/2012.The process of risk analysis starts with the simple principle that you must know you have an asset in order to protect it. This presentation will provide information about how to determine where the risks to the organization exist and point organizations to where to look for this information. Once information asset locations have been identified, then the risk and safeguards to that information can be explored.Risk assessments are a key part of effective risk management and facilitate decision making at all three tiers in the risk management hierarchy including the organization level, network level, and information system level.Risk Management is a process that provides for the identification, prioritization and management of technical and non-technical risk to the confidentiality, integrity or availability of information. Risks cannot be eliminated; they must be managed appropriately. A key step in security management is risk analysis; that is, identifying threats and vulnerabilities against security controls and measures. A risk analysis allows an organization to estimate potential loss. It also can help determine the most appropriate and cost-effective security measures to implement. After the risk analysis is performed, organizations should implement the safeguards and controls needed to keep risks at an acceptable level as determined by executive management or owner.Why should you attend: The HIPAA security rule requires every covered entity (CE) to conduct a risk analysis to determine security risks and implement measures "to sufficiently reduce those risks and vulnerabilities to a reasonable and appropriate level." In addition to attest for Meaningful Use and organization must complete a HIPAA Risk Analysis and implement a Risk Management Program. This would include conducting a risk analysis at the organizational, network and application levels.HITECH EMR Meaningful Use Post-Pay Audits have included a request that organizations provide proof that a risk analysis was performed prior to the end of the reporting period. 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Dean's got enough vote commitments to take the position. Rosenberg's dropped out and endorsed him. Text after the jump.
Josh Marshall has the bad habit of mentioning something ultra-interesting and then shunting it off with a "more later...", though anxious readers checking back later rarely discover more. Unfortunately, it seems his buddy Steve Clemons has seen Josh that trait and raised him a "thermonuclear exchange". In context of a post on presidential speaking fees, Steve writes:
Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage*$25,000
*(TWN Note: Armitage is worth much more as he is the guy who really did stop a thermonuclear exchange between Pakistan and India about 90 minutes before the missiles began to fly. . .no joke)
Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage*$25,000
*(TWN Note: Armitage is worth much more as he is the guy who really did stop a thermonuclear exchange between Pakistan and India about 90 minutes before the missiles began to fly. . .no joke)
So Peter Beinart is taking a leave from TNR to expand his article "A Fighting Faith" into a book. You guys remember the piece, it called for a return to hawkish liberalism and a party purge of "softs" like Michael Moore. It pitted Democrat against Democrat and liberal against DLC'er. It did, one might say, what an article is supposed to do -- inspire debate, arouse passions, and challenge assumptions. I didn't agree with everything he wrote, but it was a good, timely piece that provoked an important, if overly vitriolic, discussion. But he should have left it at that.
Wow. Strickland is either writing the epitaph of the extremist Republican leadership or the honorable Republicans in Congress. Check back in a few years to find out which.
Sen. Reid's statement on Gonzales is eloquent and inspiring. It sits after the fold, and you should read it.
Matt's a stalinist.
Sue's post about goat singing, laughing uncontrollably, and doing so at inappropriate times is hilarious. What's not so hilarious is when I do it. Mainly, that I seem to always do it. I don't think I've attended a Yom Kippur or Rosh HaShanah service where a significant chunk of my time wasn't spent convulsing in laughter, desperately trying to calm myself by reading biblical genealogies and hoping my Grandfather wasn't about to yell at me. At least I only do it around my family though, right?
From Today's Papers at Slate:
The Wall Street Journal does a "lessons learned" from the roughly 20 countries that have partially privatized their state pension systems. One: Don't give workers too many choices; they'll screw it up. Another: Going private can add lot of debt, helping to explode the economy. (See Argentina and Bolivia.)
A few days ago, I responded to a QandO post accusing the Democrats of being all opposition, no ideas. The folks over there have issued their latest missive, amending their argument to admit yes, the Dems have ideas, but they don't have any good ones.
Chew on this:
Timed as it was to get lost in the hullabaloo of the State of the Union address, the Tuesday night/Wednesday morning purge of the House Ethics Committee was still a pretty audacious move.
You're not going to find a better SOTU wrap-up than Shakespeare's Sister has penned:
I had the notion that I would do a thoughtful analysis of the State of the Union speech, and maybe I still will, but now, immediately afterwards, my feeling is: What's the point? It was all just bullshit wrapped in the rhetoric of freedom.
Freedom around the world! And end to tyranny! Liberty and justice for all! Not so fast, faggots...
I had the notion that I would do a thoughtful analysis of the State of the Union speech, and maybe I still will, but now, immediately afterwards, my feeling is: What's the point? It was all just bullshit wrapped in the rhetoric of freedom.
Freedom around the world! And end to tyranny! Liberty and justice for all! Not so fast, faggots...
• Quick query for the techies in attendance -- do RSS feeds deliver hits? By that I mean my RSS feed refreshes itself every 30 minutes, is every site it pings notching up a hit every 30 minutes? Or is it completely ignorant of RSS aggregators and thus missing all the folks (again, like me), who read blogs from the relative comfort of NetNewsWire?
• Do you guys like the font here? Is it too big? Would you prefer it smaller? Inquiring minds want to know.
New commentary up top. Your commentary in comments. Let's play ball.
7:26 -- Why do Dems need to have their leaders give the rebuttal? Our congressional heads have a lot of roles and talents, but oratory is not necessarily among them. Is there a reason we can't have, say, Biden and Tim Ryan offering the response? Anyway, I need dinner. Been fun, though.
7:23 -- Pelosi's a markedly ineffective speaker. Her facial expressions are off, delivery monotonous. She's definitely making Reid look good here. And us bad. Or at least boring.
Over at MoJo, they're finding that the revealed thrust of Bush's Social Security plan isn't matching the pre-SOTU leaks on what it'll be. Full of good intentions, they try and reconcile the two and have some trouble, but I fear it might be simpler than that. Sinclair simple. You remember them, of course. After getting crucified for a couple weeks over an obvious attempt to smear John Kerry, they came on air with a balanced, calm portrayal of the issue. No one following the controversy believed that had been their intent, but no one could prove it, either.
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Outgoing Attorney General John D. Ashcroft forcefully defended some of his most controversial policies and statements yesterday, arguing that aggressive law enforcement and intelligence gathering were "expansions of freedom" that helped prevent terrorist attacks on the United States.
Almost nowhere else is there such a tight link between class and opinions about cutting government.
For the GOP, there's no real benefit in admitting Obamacare is working.
Liberals are exasperated with conservatives' unwillingness to acknowledge fact about health care, and other things. But they'd better get used to it.
Two vacant slots offer progressives the opportunity to ensure the Board finally cracks down on Wall Street.


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Jeffrey Brown is some kind of wonderful
Jeffrey Brown — cartoonist, Lincoln Square resident, serious adult who has several cat-themed products under his name, including a box of novelty postcards titled "The Cutest Sneeze in the World: 30 Cat Postcards" — has been asking for it. For some time. Man, oh, man, this guy.
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Chelsea's Spanish quartet of Fernando Torres, Juan Mata, Oriol Romeu and Cesar Azpilicueta shared stories at the latest in our Audience With… series at Stamford Bridge on Thursday night.
On an entertaining evening in the Great Hall, fans were entertained by the four friends, who spoke openly with Chelsea TV host Gigi Salmon and a crowd of hundreds.
First up, a discussion about the Champions League and trophies…
Speaking fondly about their Champions League memories, the four players were asked to recall their favourite Chelsea moment so far.
Grinning, Torres said: 'It's easy for me to answer, winning the Champions League trophy. I have fulfilled one of the dreams of every footballer. In the next five years, I would love to win it again.'
Mata added: 'When Didier scored that penalty, it was amazing, amazing for all of us, we won the Champions League for the first time and it was a great achievement. However, this year I'd really like to win the Barclays Premier League trophy, as I've never done that before.'
Azpilicueta said: 'It's a trophy that we've won, and one that I want to win with Chelsea too. I want to win as many trophies as I can here; the Champions League was the focus, so now I want to try to win stuff too!'
Having just scored his first goal for the club from the penalty spot against Wolves in our recent Capital One Cup game, Oriol Romeu said: 'One or two of us went up to take it, and I just thought I would. When I scored it was a great feeling, really special.'
A quick review of the Premier League season so far…
Mata was asked whether his strike against Arsenal last weekend was his most important for Chelsea.
'I think it was a bit lucky!' he admitted. 'I tried to aim, but last season against Manchester United I scored too, which was probably the most beautiful I've scored so far for Chelsea.'
The quartet was then asked to name the best player they have ever faced on the pitch, Torres's was 'Messi', while Oriol recalls playing against Manchester City at Stamford Bridge, pinpointingcompatriot David Silva.
On life in London and playing for Chelsea…
There was plenty of banter, and it is clear to see that they spend a lot of time together not just on the pitch, but off it too. When asked how he is adapting to life in London, Azpilicueta explained: 'It's easy being here, I know them well from before, and I like the life here in London. I like the training here at Chelsea, and I am really happy to be here.'
Already fluent, Mata spoke about the English lessons that he is currently taking, telling the audience that 'my teacher comes to my house three times a week, and I enjoy it. I am in London and it's important to speak the language.'
Outside of Football…
Torres revealed that in his spare time, he is 'quite busy looking after his two children, his wife and tends to his two British bulldogs.'
There was intrigue from the fans around Mata's interest in Twitter. The playmaker has over one million followers on his account, and explained: 'It's great to share what's happening in your life with the supporters. I like to keep in touch with the fans.'
True to his word, immediately after the event, the number 10 took to Twitter to reveal to his fans: 'Just finished our 'Spanish Evening'. Was so funny! Thanks for coming! I'll never sing again... ;-)'.


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