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Who is apologizing and why? If anyone should be begging our pardon it's Stevens Miller for wasting our Commonwealth Attorney's time along with the staff hours that went into the Delgaudio investigation. I mean he had the information, didn't Stevens to his homework? Along with Liz, Al the Weintraubs and others Delgaudio was made out to be the most heinous person this side of O.J. Stamos kicked him out the door cause he had nothing all that was accomplished was a waste of taxpayer money and another defeat for Miller, he's the one who should apologize, especially to Eugene at a BoS meeting! Where's the ethics pledge I am going to need some paper soon.
Ha. It just dawned on me. The only good news Eugene gets these days is when he sees more Internet news articles being posted above his so that the stories on him roll of the front page.
And we all know he watches his press clippings including comments and blogs.
"Hi Eugene. I am looking forward to your next news story". More meltdown entertainment is sure to be right around the corner.
People like Eugene and Dick Black are almost always a result of low turnout. A 27% turnout gave Loudoun these guys. Turnout in the 70's gave wins to Obama and Kaine. Clearly these men do not reflect the values of the population as a whole. It is just the apathy many people show in response to local elections.
I guess the bar is low for "Delgaudio apologist", when a post referring to him as a bigot, hate monger, and lacking ethics where I say I hope this is his last term is construed as somehow supporting the guy.
Can't we yell about York as well as Delgaudio?
We forgive Weiner if he'll run for President with Holder as his Vice-Presidential pick so we can have a Weiner-Holder Ticket.
The report has enough in it to get some changes made by the BoS and he might be censured but the majority of his constituents find that he does a admirable job as witnessed by his election majorities. I think you need to have a whole bunch more people who enjoy the LGBT lifestyle move to Sterling and cast their votes before Eugene is ever defeated. It's all about the money as evidenced by the Joe May's defeat and as long as Eugene votes for smaller government he will retain his Supervisor position maybe even jump up to Chairman of the Board!
Why more screaming about York's actions than Delgaudio's?
If you just claim to pray or declare actions as "youthful indiscretions" like Hyde, Craig, Vitter, and Sanford did, all is forgiven? Then why the unwillingness to forgive Clinton, Edwards, and Weiner? Social issues don't bother us unless they're negatively attributed to liberals? One party should be immune from criticism?
"Would he of (sic) acted different if he was a full time official? We'll never know."
Delgaudio's core "un-principles" would not change whether he works 30 or 40 hours. No amount of hate can be misconstrued for love. As far as incompetence and misuse of personnel goes, the report says it all.
Why does the Loudoun Times give a totally evil, ignorant scumbag like Delgaudio the time of day?
The grand jury investigation said that Delgaudio ignored constituent service, focusing on fundraising using county-paid staff. Delgaudio's newsletters are always a rant against those who don't agree with his social positions. If you live in the sterling district and aren't anti-gay, you do not have any representation in local government.
Delgaudio apologists like "Laugh" and "Troy" and "Oranges" are to be pitied. Confronted with an ethically-challenged politician like Eugene Delgaudio, they can't bring themselves to say he is a disgrace to Loudoun. Of course, were he a Democrat they'd be in frothy-mouth-bellow mode.
Let's just say that it seems like lately we have a number of politicians who may be able to skirt the letter of the law but are ethical disaster zones. Eugene is clearly one of them, as is our dear Governor.
Are we unable to call for a housecleaning because we worry about what their party affiliation might be?
Anyone else love the irony of anti gay Eugene and his personal hate mongering calling someone else a bully and comparing them to Hitler?
Troy you are correct but I don't care about his day job. I want him to be a good supervisor his social issues bother not at all. The Millers, Weintraubs, Al and even Barney advocate for tolerance but they are the most intolerant posters around. Would he of acted different if he was a full time official? We'll never know. For those who are embarrassed by his antics there is skin toughener at the CVS. For Dan I think the clown part fits if he will vote for anyone not named Delgaudio.
Godwin's Law. Eugene, you lose.
On a more basic point of who is a bully, I wonder (yes I do) why the press seems to have failed to point out that Katie Hammler was the recipient of the e-mail chain that included Mr. Chase's threats against the Town of Leesburg. Clearly, Katie Hammler was a part of the discussions to threaten the Town of Leesburg, and yet, Katie Hammler did not put a stop to it, and appears to have been a part of it all. Clearly, from Ms. Hammler's stunned expression when she learned she had leaked by mistake the emails containing the threats, she did so unintentionally. Some mistakes are soooooooooooo much fun, aren't they.
You know, if Eugene could lose the whole anti-homosexual obsession, I'd probably find him to be one of the better supervisors. He is 100% right on York. He was right on Metro. He is usually the only one pumping the brakes on these developer giveaways that the others can't vote "Yea" on quickly enough.
But unfortunately his day job is a professional bigot and hate monger, who plays loose with ethics as a public official, so I hope this term is his last.
Gaudy and Yorky gotta go ! Forget party lines, people. Oust these two jokers next election !
Well, I guess it was only a matter of time before true corrupt politics hit Loudoun County. With that being said, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors needs to step-up and clean-up their image. Right now with Delgaudio performing the actions he's doing and York responding with equivalent child-like quips, the County is going in the wrong direction. I grew-up in Loudoun County and have always been proud of this area and the residents, but Delgaudio has really put a bad taste in my mouth. I wonder how his actions are perceived by prospective businesses, or what else has he gotten away with that we don't know about? He's a joke, a disgrace, and an embarrassment, not only to the county and himself, but to his family. He just needs to go. How sad. I look forward to his replacement.
WoW! I guess the big bear hug these two guys (York and Buddy of York) gave each other, just a little bit ago, had more meaning than I thought. I guess each was actually looking to where the knife should go. This is soooooooooooooo much fun!
"Hitler"? "Clown"? Getcha popcorn ready.
I still say this hit the press way too early to do Delgaudio's opponent (is it going to be Al again?) much good. It's going to be a tough and expensive slog to keep this in the mind of my fellow Sterling voters until '15. Still, I'll vote for anyone not named Delgaudio when that time comes.
How pathetic. Told you so, Delgaudio's meltdown has started and it promises to be epic.
And Delgaudio is the same guy who calls TSA agents child molesters. This clown needs to be kicked off the board. Such an embarrassment to Sterling and Loudoun.
Delgaudio is the pot calling the kettle black. That guy is a sick joke on Loudoun Co.
Delgaudio is staying out of jail on a technicality. If he wants to make crazy ranting accusations, that's fine. We expect it.
But we also expect him to step up and refund to the county the money that was shown to be misappropriated or misspent during the course of the limited investigation.
The current BOS should demand nothing less.
I think that Al referring to Eugene as a criminal may make real criminals upset. Is Al a poor loser? I don't know but he and Stevens can commiserate about it together, they do seem to have the inside track to defeat it's in their dna.
Al is going to be angry at York for calling him a clown.
"...Nevarez said he doesn't want the conversation to be framed around he and Delgaudio" should be "...him and Delgaudio." Where's the copy editor?
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I wasn't fond of spinning when I started because it was hard on my lazy legs. However, as I began to get accustomed to the work out and saw the pounds begin to melt away faster than they had when I worked out on any other cardio equipment I was hooked. A good thirty minute workout on a Spinning Cycle can burn as much as 500 calories. Even at challenging levels other cardio equipment couldn't burn that many calories in such a short time. I usually do a workout that is 50 minutes to an hour long. Longer workouts burn from 800 to 1,000 calories.
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Spinning is primarily an anaerobic exercise, pulling energy from your reserves and building up your muscular endurance over an extended period of time. However, there are also aerobic benefits of Spinning. Planned Spinning programs include both endurance and cardiovascular training during the workout. At several points you may be required to break your steady pace and speed up to increase your heart rate. Heart health is an obvious benefit, as is lung capacity. As you work harder during your Spinning workout you will learn to work on controlled breathing, as well. This may help you with anxiety and help lower your heart rate when you get into a situation where physical exertion begins to take your breath away.
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Progress at Your Own Pace
Whether following a live instructor or video, the amount of resistance you apply, as you gain strength and endurance is up to you. Each spinning bike has a resistance control knob within easy reach of the handle bars. It works something like switching gears. While instructors recommend an RPM, as you work toward increasing your RPM and maintaining a steady pace you can't fall behind the rest of the class. You don't feel out of place for not knowing an aerobic or step routine. No one really knows what level at which you are working, so you are free to progress at your own pace. I was glad of that when I began spinning and ran the entire class with little to no resistance. I'm glad I can progress at my own pace now, because some days I want to add more resistance and work out harder.
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Time Flies
Have you ever walked or ran on a treadmill for an hour only to discover you burned around 400 calories? Did you enjoy the time on the treadmill? The treadmills at the gym where I am a member have a personal television mounted to help you pass the time. I still find it irritating to walk or run in place for thirty minutes to an hour. For me, the television makes it worse. It slows me down and annoys me to work out with the T.V. on. Time, when I'm on the treadmill, creeps by very slowly. On the spinning bike, the challenge is constantly changing. As I work through each level I tend to lose track of time.
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I have several friends who avoid the treadmill, elliptical, and stair stepper because of the traumatic impact on their knees or feet. Spinning keeps the pressure off of your knees and feet. You are able to work out hard on a Spinning bike without hurting your knees and feet. It is also a good workout for those who cannot use the treadmill or elliptical because of arthritis. I have friends who are able to join a Spinning workout who simply cannot stand the pain of high impact cardiovascular workouts.
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It will not take long for your efforts on a spinning bike to show up as weight loss, but there is another great benefit to Spinning. Spinning uses large muscle groups in your legs. It does not take long before your thighs, hamstrings, and calves begin to take shape. Three spinning workouts a week will make a difference in the shapely appearance of your leg.
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As you learn to work harder on the spinning bike you will begin to find that the breaking point, at which you begin to feel the workout, will become lower the harder you work. For me, the benefit is that once I reach a breaking point and work through it, I get the natural endorphin kick that most athletes enjoy. The great thing about working your body into this kind of shape is that you feel better without the use of drugs. You feel better throughout the day following a workout and you have more energy. You are simply training your body to work more efficiently.
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Get an Ab workout while You Spin
Spinning instructors never give up when it comes to talking about technique and posture. Correct posture is important to working the right muscle groups. In addition to the major leg muscles worked during a Spinning routine, the abdominal muscles get a workout, as well. As you spin, unlike racing a bike on the road, you get an upper body rhythm going that helps you keep your leg rhythm. The movement from a slightly bent position and side to side works both the central abdominal muscles and those along the side of your abdomens. You may not see immediate results of your abdominal work, but over time you will feel your entire body begin to tone up, including your abs.
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Ride Together
Regardless of your fitness level riding Spinning bikes keeps everyone together. This goes beyond sitting in the same spinning class, but each individual works equally as hard at their own level. It is amazing how you can feed off of the energy of other riders when you begin to fatigue and start thinking you might want to quit.
Riding together also gives you the opportunity to encourage others. You can inspire those who have not yet reached your level of fitness, while those stronger than you inspire you. Working together, everyone who spins can reach their goals.
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I've found Spinning does two things for me mentally. First, the warm up and cool down are great ways to relax. Before and after putting my body through a strenuous Spinning workout I can close my eyes, work just a little, and allow the physical exertion to become a catharsis for releasing pent-up emotions. Spinning also builds mental strength. When you spin, there are good days and bad. The important thing is that you carry through with your regular Spinning routine. Push through difficult times. Push up hill climbs and push through endurance training. Self discipline of the mind gained in spinning can be applied to all areas of life. I have found it most beneficial in areas of self-control and confidence. Spinning helps develop a positive, "can do" attitude.


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Code language is probably as old as language itself. Now, two Northwest university professors have launched a competition to test students' code breaking skills.
Steve Scher explores the probabilities of seemingly improbable events with mathematician David J. Hand. The mathematics professor in London has written, "The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, And Rare Events Happen Every Day."
He's being called the "Jeopardy villain," but Arthur Chu of Broadview Heights, Ohio, considers himself more of a "mad genius." The 30-year-old insurance analyst and voiceover artist has won three times since he came on the show last week.
Some say Chu is taking all the fun out of the game. He goes for the hardest questions first, slams down his buzzer incessantly and tries to get the host to speed up. It's all part of his strategy inspired by game theory — a model of strategic, mathematical decision making.
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American 15-year-olds continue to turn in flat results in a test that measures students' proficiency in reading, math and science worldwide, failing to crack the global top 20.
The Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, collects test results from 65 countries for its rankings, which come out every three years. The latest results, from 2012, show that U.S. students ranked below average in math among the world's most-developed countries. They were close to average in science and reading.
Seattle educator Dan Finkel says grown-ups often forget that math is not exotic to kids; it's very close to them.
For example, Finkel recently taught a class kindergarteners and first graders, and he said to them, "You know what, let's just count stuff today." Immediately, the kids pointed to the windows and ceiling tiles and more. He told everyone to pick something and tell him how many there were. They dove right in.
You've heard that America must train its children for careers in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math. But math is not just a stable, sensible career.Seattle educator Dan Finkel says math is a joy. If it's a drag, why would you inflict it on your child?Finkel and his wife, Katherine Cook, run an education program called Math For Love. Long before he got his PhD in math from the University of Washington, he was a kid, wondering why he was learning math in school.
Two months before high school commencement, 9,083 seniors still haven't passed Washington state's new math graduation requirement.
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Candidates in political races representing the Carmichael area shared advice with students and their parents at Rio Americano High School on Saturday morning.
"Our legacy is how the next generation does," said , who is running for U.S. Congress against U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren. "I'm running because I do believe in a better tomorrow for America."
Bera and six other candidates or representatives addressed students and voters during an annual candidates forum breakfast known as "Pancakes and Politics" put on by Rio's Civitas group.
Voters were able to ask candidates questions and Bera was the most popular, speaking on everything from health care to the Middle East.
"Health care... should put patients first before profit," he said. "This is going to be an incredibly important election.
After Ted Wolter, the chief of staff for Sacramento County Supervisor Roberta MacGlashan spoke, , a Rio Americano teacher and candidate supporting the Occupy movement, spoke about why he is running to unseat MacGlashan.
"Over the past eight years, sales taxes are up and county services are down and people are frustrated and angry that our board of supervisors are in the pockets of the special interests," Blenner said. "I want to provide for jobs and I feel that government can be the spark for job creation if this region's economy is going to improve."
Jeff Kravitz, another Occupy candidate who lives in Carmichael, will run against the current incumbent , to represent District 3. The district also includes Fair Oaks, Arden-Arcade, Cordova, North Highlands and Foothill Farms.
"Democracy is not a spectator sport," said Kravitz, who has taught constitutional law at the Lorenzo Patino School of Law in Sacramento and has a daughter who attended El Camino High School. "Supervisors have run unopposed with no debate...I'm going to bring my experience to the board of supervisors."
, a Carmichael native and alum, is one of three candidates running for the new state Assembly District 8, which includes Carmichael.
"I'm a candidate who has bipartisan support," Tateishi said. "We have to make sure California is a viable state for children to grow up, find a job and raise their families."
The Civitas breakfast is an annual fundraiser and is organized by freshman and sophomore students, said Linda Reed, the Civitas coordinator at Rio.
"Civitas is about giving children the tools and desire to give back through service to the community from a young age," said Rio senior Or Taylor. "Meeting candidates is great because we can see how our votes and volunteering affects the election cycle and the issues."
Ken Cooley of Rancho Cordova is also running for state Assembly District 8.
"People feel like we're suffering from (political) gridlock," Cooley said. "Part of seeing economic success hinges on a legislature that works."
A representative for Elizabeth Emken, who is one of 24 candidates running against U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein also spoke Saturday.


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of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that last week's executive privilege ruling by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy shows that Congress has the stronger argument in its fight for White House documents on U.S. attorney firings, but that a rule of law ethos cannot be restored to relations between Congress and the White House unless Congress is willing to back its legal stance with political muscle....
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by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) implicitly raises the question: is "separation of powers law" an oxymoron? Senator Leahy's statement responds formally to a June 28, 2007
from White House Counsel Fred Fielding conveying President Bush's decision to invoke executive privilege and direct non-compliance with Judiciary Committee subpoenas for documents relating to the controversial discharge of United States Attorneys. The Fielding letter relies, in turn, on an
furnished a day earlier by Solicitor General and then-Acting Attorney General Paul Clement that purports to find all responsive documents properly subject to an executive privilege claim.
Both sides in this dispute concede that executive privilege is not absolute; each recognizes that Congress's entitlement to the documents depends upon a principled balancing of the competing institutional interests of the legislative and executive branches. For two reasons, however, it is patent that this balancing favors Congress – reasons that the executive branch documents simply refuse to acknowledge.
First, it is not clear that the documents at issue are even properly within the category of materials about which the executive branch can legally claim executive privilege as against another branch of government. As Senator Leahy points out, the White House has vigorously denied President Bush's involvement in the U.S. Attorney firings. There is thus no reason to think that any of the documents touches on presidential privacy at all, or on the branch of executive privilege that protects presidential deliberations.
If the communications in question were not undertaken as part and parcel of a process calling ultimately for presidential decision making, then the only form of executive privilege applicable to them would be the general "deliberative privilege." Claims of general deliberative privilege are unavailing in judicial proceedings when non-presidential documents are relevant to the investigation of government wrongdoing. As explained by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit: "[W]here there is reason to believe the documents sought may shed light on government misconduct, 'the privilege is routinely denied,' on the grounds that shielding internal government deliberations in this context does not serve 'the public's interest in honest, effective government.'" In re Sealed Case, 121 F.3d 729, 738 (D.C. Cir. 1997). Given Congress's constitutional responsibility to investigate government wrongdoing and the strong evidence already elicited in committee testimony that the U.S. attorney firings may have entailed violations of law, "deliberative privilege" for the documents in question should simply be unavailable as against Congress, as well.
Second, the executive branch's attempts at balancing are all highly generalized. They speak to the importance of confidentiality to the integrity of executive branch decision making in general, but not to the specific factors at stake in the current investigation or the threat to the public interest posed by the disclosure of any particular document. In contrast, Senator Leahy has documented a specific need for White House documents to follow up strong preliminary indications that the firings at issue were both illegitimate and unlawful. He has indicated his committee's willingness to weigh privilege claims with specificity on a document-by-document basis. His case thus rests not only on the general interests of Congress that are entitled to as much general respect as the general interests of the executive branch, but on a showing of need rooted in the facts of this particular dispute. Such a nuanced approach to the branches' competing interests is inherently more compelling than the blanket privilege claim tendered by the White House.
Unfortunately, however, White House intransigence in this, as in other separation of powers contexts, threatens to render the relative strengths of the two branches' legal arguments all but irrelevant to the outcome of subpoena fight. Senator Leahy has threatened to push for contempt sanctions, a route already initiated by the House Judiciary Committee. But - even putting aside the announced position of the White House that the Justice Department cannot be compelled to prosecute contempt against witnesses asserting executive privilege claims - the President is armed with the pardon power. Given the President's solicitude for former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis Libby, no witness facing contempt charges based on the Leahy subpoenas can reasonably be fearful of ultimately suffering any legal sanction.
For these reasons, I believe the White House can be shocked into taking the law seriously only if Congress stands ready, willing and able to use its inherent political powers as aggressively as the Bush Administration. In a recent
Roll Call
I argued that, until the White House complies with the Judiciary Committee subpoenas, Congress should refuse any further appropriations to pay senior advisers in the Executive Office of the President who are not serving in advice-and-consent positions. As I there stated, "Congress decided under President Franklin Roosevelt to fund a generous staff of senior confidential advisers to the president to help him conduct the affairs of state. It is fair to tell his successors that they may not use these resources to deprive Congress of information genuinely relevant to a good-faith investigation of possible executive branch wrongdoing."
We have been brought to the current impasse because the Bush White House ignores the reality that a successful separation of powers system depends upon interbranch norms of mutual accommodation, as well as each branch's principled assertion of its constitutional prerogatives. The past seven years have escalated the assault on those norms that has become all too routine since the Reagan Administration. As a result, and paradoxical though it may seem, any successful return to a "rule of law" ethos between the elected branches now requires Congress to back its legal arguments with political muscle.
Peter M. Shane teaches separation of powers law at the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. His forthcoming critique of the theory and practice of presidentialism is being published by the University of Chicago Press in February, 2009.
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There was a chance we'd find out Maryland's kicker today.
Guess not.
Post-practice availability has been scrapped, and it's not that big a deal. Technically, there have been about 19 pregame availabilities for the opener if you include all of camp.
So no answer is coming, though it's a safe bet both Nick Ferrara and Mike Barbour will make the trip.
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If you have a really popular website, the idea of expanding that site to reach more languages has probably crossed your mind. Such an expansion could mean a broader audience reach in more countries, higher traffic, and the potential for more revenue.
The latest webmaster help video, featuring Google's Developer Programs Tech Lead Maile Ohye, gives some great advice and best practices for expanding into additional languages and country-based language variations and ensuring your site is search-friendly.
Much of the video covers things like how you should approach a language expansion, things you should consider before doing it, and cases on how this can be done. It also touches on a couple of the more significant search issues that can impact a website regarding multiple languages.
One of the more important things to be sure you include on international variations of a website is the special language and regional tags that can help Google understand how they should be serving your websites and to what languages and countries. The use of rel="alternate" hreflang="x" is highly recommended to prevent many issues. Google has an entire help document on how to use these tags correctly and effectively.
One large potential search issue sites discover with language expansion are when sites the incorrect page is shown in the search results for the incorrect user. For example, this could mean showing the search results of the landing page URL of www.example.com/en-us/pretty-things when the user is searching Google from www.google.co.uk, when there is an en-uk version of that page available.
Another common issue is when the search results show similar URLs from your site, which confuses the user about which pages they should be going to, and why there are two different pages offered for seemingly the same site and content.
Lastly, search engines might not be aware of all the different languages and language variations that website make, or they omit some pages for different languages because Google doesn't recognize that the seemingly duplicate pages are actually serving a different audience or language variation.
The entire video is very detailed and lengthy. It is well worth watching if you're considering expansion into different countries and languages, so you can be aware of all these types of problems and how Google recommends you solve them to best serve your users.
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Both the Ben Davis boys' and girls' soccer teams fell in sectional play this season, with each squad advancing to the sectional final.
The Ben Davis boys' soccer team missed its opportunity to put an exclamation mark on a season that had its fair share of ups and downs as they fell to the Pike Red Devils in the sectional final, 4-0.
"I won't say I'm disappointed, but I do feel we didn't play to our potential and as a coach I can't control who is healthy and who is not," Ben Davis coach Andrew Robinson said. "It's tough to lose a game. It's frustrating, but we didn't play Ben Davis style of soccer. We didn't show up."
For the Giants, it was a mixture of missed opportunities on second chance goals and struggles on defense as Ben Davis could not stop Pike's advance.
"We didn't have the same intensity," Rolinson said. "We were lackadaisical and instead of taking it to them we wind up down 2-0 at halftime. I reminded them, 'you dictate your future — this is your last 40 minutes' but we didn't come out to play. We didn't win 50/50 balls, today just wasn't our day."
Facing adversity was an added obstacle this season as the Giants battled injuries and finished the season below .500.
The 2013 season was one that could have been a lot more rewarding for the Giants but the plan moving forward will remain the same as Ben Davis continues to build a culture of winning.
"This season was a season of almost," Robinson said. "We almost had every game. We outplayed Carmel for the first half when we played them, but we just didn't finish. We played great soccer but great soccer doesn't put the ball in the net. Next season needs to be a season of make it happen. We will keep doing what we have been doing even if it doesn't give us the best results right away."


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After all these years of just being comfortable with them sucking and feeling like I knew what they needed to do to get back on that long road back to respectability (suck a little more so they could draft high), now they are not only proving me wrong, but getting my hopes up.
Then in game one they break my heart. Then in game two they look like a solid, but somewhat incomplete team. Now, in game three, they got me back to thinking they can go as far as their collective effort/dependability can take them.
If we play like we did tonight in game 3 (especially on the road) we can beat any team. I mean, even with our level of play tonight we might not beat some of the truly elite teams in a best of 7 (Miami is the only one left in tact in the east). But, we'd take 'em to 6 or 7 games with tonight's effort. Now, we mix in some games like game one and game two and we're swept.
Truth be told, we are not out of the woods right now. But, I think with a 2-1 series lead and a clearly deeper, more talented team, we can make it out of this series alive even when the Magic put together 4 quarters of good defense and hot shooting (which I think they are still capable of). I don't want to act like I'm looking ahead, but that bitch slap back to reality we got in game one probably couldn't have came at a better time for the Pacers and might be the difference between an embarrassing first round upset and a respectable 2nd round showing.
But, the title of this post is misleading. I should have said, if they come out and lay an egg on Saturday, and then don't hold a comfortable lead at half-time in game 5....I will look back and be very upset at our boys for all the hope they gave me tonight.
GO PACERS!!! Get it Saturday and let's close this one out at home next week. Save me the grief.


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The forex market is a continually flowing river of financial opportunities. Each week the market presents opportunities for savvy trader to take advantage of in combination with using leverage to multiply their money. However, it is no easy to ask to trade the forex market with consistent success, this is reflected by the fact that the majority of traders give up, usually out of frustration from losing so much money.
So, as you learn forex trading, you must understand some basic truths that many novice traders either are unaware of or that they simply ignore. Some of the truths you must learn are; over-trading and over-leveraging are the two quickest ways to lose all your money, simple forex trading strategies are the best, elimination of emotional trading is necessary to succeed in forex, and learning from a professional trader and mentor is the ideal forex education scenario.
• Learn Forex Trading Without Committing These Two Errors:
Over-trading and over-leveraging one's trading account are probably the two biggest and most committed trading mistakes. They are also the reasons why most traders end up blowing out their accounts and quitting all together. As you learn forex trading, you have to be very conscious and cautious of these two trading errors, they often sneak up on you without you really being aware you are making them. The most vulnerable time for traders to commit one or both of these mistakes is right after a trade closes out, whether it's a winner or a loser.
As you learn forex trading, you must realize that each entry into the market is unique, and it cannot be influenced at all by your previous trade. It is often hard to tell if you are letting your previous trade(s) influence your current one, so the best remedy is to simply walk away from your trading station as soon as a trade closes out, walk away for at least 24 hours. Many amateur traders will jump right back in the market as soon as a trade closes out, either to try and "make back" money they just lost, or because they are on a euphoric high from hitting a winner or a series of winners. You should never force a trade where there isn't one; you cannot control the market, but the market CAN control you if you let it, all you can do is control yourself.
• Learn to Be Emotion-free as You Learn Forex Trading
As you learn to trade forex it is very important to understand the impact of your own thoughts and emotions on your trading account. The more you treat the forex market like a casino; becoming addicted to being in a trade and getting a "high" from the feeling of greed and hope, the more money you will lose. This seems like pretty obvious common-sense advice, yet most traders end up trading emotionally, whether they realize it or not.
The best way to learn forex trading without becoming emotional is to become calm and calculating in every interaction you have with the market. If you pre-plan for all scenarios you might experience while trading the market, there will be no surprises, if there are no surprises then you will have nothing to become emotional about. Most traders simply do not have a trading plan and they don't have trading journal, they trade in a very haphazard and unorganized way, thus opening their minds up to become emotional. As you learn forex trading, it is imperative that you understand the importance of creating a forex trading plan and a forex trading journal, keep both of these and you will be far ahead of the majority of other traders.
• Learn Forex Trading from a Professional
Many aspiring traders want to become professionals and learn forex trading good enough to make a full-time living at it. The problem these aspiring forex traders face is that they often do not learn forex trading from a trusted and experienced source. This source should be someone who is already a full-time professional trader, instead of someone who is simply out to sell you their forex trading "robot" or mechanical trading system.
The importance of learning to trade from someone who is actually already successful at trading cannot be over-emphasized. Just like you need to learn from a mentor or a professional in any other field when acquiring a new skill, you need to learn from a mentor and professional trader when you learn forex trading. Many beginning traders think they can teach themselves to trade successfully, while it is true that with enough time and effort you can teach yourself to trade, it is much cheaper, quicker and more effective to learn from a trusted professional trader.
• Learn Simple Forex Trading Strategies
When trading the forex market it is important that you do not over-complicate your trading strategy. As you learn forex trading, you need to make sure that you don't fall prey to one of the many internet scammers out there who are trying to sell some trading software system or lagging indicator system. These trading strategies do nothing but over-complicate your charts and your mind to the point where you become confused and frustrated and start second-guessing yourself.
When you learn simple forex trading strategies you can see the market more clearly, and you can read the price movement easier and more effectively. It is very ironic that so many traders decide to over-lay indicators all over their charts, all this does is cover up the raw price action of the chart, and it is this price action that you are trying to interpret. It is analogous to trying to read a book with glasses on that are the wrong prescription and make everything all blurry. Yet, floods of newbie forex traders try to interpret numerous lagging indicators and trading robot signals, when they could just simply learn to analyze the price action setups that occur on a plain vanilla price chart.
So, as you learn forex trading, the best way to learn is from an experienced professional trader who trades using nothing more than price action analysis. By learning the method of price action trading from a trusted professional, you will obtain a perspective on how markets move and how they work that you did not possess before. This perspective is born from understanding how price action is somewhat like the "language" of the markets, once you learn to "speak" this language it will be like a whole world opening up before you that you did not previously know about. Check out this forex trading course to learn more about price action trading.


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Join Portfolio Coffeehouse [2300 E. 4th St., LBC; 562-434-2486], the premiere coffeehouse of Long Beach, for an intimate evening of fingerstyle acoustic guitar featuring Scot Ryder, Jim Earp and Kev, Saturday, January 26th, 7-9pm. Last January's acoustic guitar event was a huge success, so get there early to guarantee a seat!
Every year in January the NAMM Show (National Association of Music Merchants) in Anaheim brings out some of the top musicians from around the world. This will be the 3rd year running that Portfolio has been the host to the Fingerstyle Acoustic Concert Series.
Scot Ryder is an energetic fingerstyle acoustic guitarist hailing from San Diego whose style can be described as a mix of folk, classical and flamenco, blended with harmonics, tapping, percussive guitar slapping. His playing has often been compared to guitarists such as Preston Reed, Michael Hedges and Stephen Bennett. Ryder's debut solo recording, Inspiration, was released this past April. Previously, he'd been touring with medieval folklore band, Enchanted Realms, with two release to their credit including Enchanted Realms (2010) and Medieval Tales (2009). Ryder's guitars of choice include a Taylor 712ce and 514ce for studio recordings, and a Taylor 414ce and 514ce for live performances. Ryder is a member of the AFM (American Federation of Musicians) local 325 and owns San Diego's largest rehearsal & recording facility, Superior Sound Studios and Room 16 Recording Studio.
Jim Earp is a dynamic guitarist from San Diego, California who describes his style as noveau-celtic-classical-folk, as demonstrated on his latest release, Smiles To Go. His guitars of choice include a Custom Rosewood 6-String Cutaway and a Steinberger GM. Jim has been a two-time "Top Five Finalist" in the International Fingerstyle Guitar Competition in Winfield, KS, and his music has appeared in songbooks and CD compilations alongside such guitarists as Pierre Bensusan, Phil Keaggy, Andy Mckee, Doug Smith, Stephen Bennett, and Pete Huttlinger. Earp can be heard on the sampler, Acoustic Guitar Highlights Volume II, alongside cuts from, among others, Elton John's bandleader Davey Johnstone, The Hellecaster's John Jorgenson, and ex-Wings guitarist Laurence Juber.
Harp and fingerstyle guitarist KEV (Kevin Rones) is also based in San Diego and is an author and educator. His music is a fiery blend of slapping, tapping, picking and plucking, weaving in flavors of Celtic, Flamenco, Blues and Rock into his fingerstyle guitar compositions, and tying it together with his own style and sound. KEV is known for his high energy live shows. Among his many accolades, KEV is the founder of the San Diego Guitar Society, The School of Guitar Wizardry™, and is a Taylor guitar artist and guitar inspirer for the Taylor Guitars in Schools program. He is also a top competitor in the International Fingerstyle competition held in Winfield Kansas, a promoter of The Acoustic Underground Concert Series, and the author of QuickstartGuitar™ and Quickstart Ukulele methods. His latest projects include a new CD release, Guitar and Harp Guitar Inspired and a new Centerstream/Hal Leonard instructional book titled, KEV's Quickstart Fingerstyle Ukulele Set for international release in February 2012.
About Portfolio:
For nearly two decades, Portfolio has hosted legions of local coffee drinkers amidst the tree-lined neighborhoods of Midtown Long Beach. This premiere neighborhood, watering hole embodies the true essence of European culture, offering a welcoming setting for friends to gather, artists to collaborate, and business colleagues to meet. Offering a wide selection of handcrafted food & pastries—and of course enticing coffee/tea brews—Portfolio also presents live music, poetry readings, and fine art exhibitions regularly in an eclectic locale. With the Art Theater on the west end (near the intersection of 4th and Cherry), and Portfolio at the east end, this block of 4th Street provides a pedestrian-friendly shopping and entertainment destination for downtown residents and visitors.
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Join Portfolio Coffeehouse [2300 E. 4th St., LBC; 562-434-2486], the premiere coffeehouse of Long Beach, for an intimate evening of fingerstyle acoustic guitar featuring Scot Ryder, Jim Earp and Kev, Saturday, January 26th, 7-9pm. Last January's acoustic guitar event was a huge success, so get there early to guarantee a seat!
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Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, has posted a photo on Instagram along with a note explaing that she is considering canceling her European tour due to bankruptcy and health concerns. Full text of the post follows:
I may have to cancel my European tour due to bankruptcy & my health struggle with angioedema. I have not thrown in any towel, I am trying ot figure out what best I can do. Heart broken. Worked so hard. Got sick day after Sun came out & been struggling to keep all points of me in equilibrium: mind, spirit, body healthy, centered & grounded. I am doing the best I can. I fucking love this planet. I refuse to give up. Though I may need to restrategize for my security & health.
Cat Power will wrap up her North American tour on November 8th at Los Angeles' Hollywood Palladium. Her European tour is scheduled to start on November 26th in Amsterdam.
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Black Atticus, aka Joseph Woods, has been performing as a slam and spoken-word poet competitively and professionally for about 10 years. He and Rhea "Sunshine" Carmon began Black Sunshine Arts-N-Entertainment in 2002. Along with hosting the Knoxville Poetry Slam for the past eight years (currently at Time Warp Tea Room on the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 7 p.m.), they are co-hosting the 18th annual Southern Fried Regional Poetry Slam. An Austin-East graduate who recently expanded his mostly hip-hop slam repertoire with a performance at Breaking the Silence 2010 in support of LGBT teens, Black Atticus took time out to explain what draws this creature known as the slam poet to the mic—and what Moon Pies have to do with it.
Is slam poetry all spontaneous, or does it just come out that way?
Some slam poetry is freestyle, but for the most part it's written out, memorized, edited, and tested over and over again. At bouts, each poet has three minutes to perform one poem of their own construction, and then five judges from the audience give it a score from zero to 10. The format helps people fight through stereotypes. I may get up and remind you of somebody who used to beat you up in high school, so at the beginning you already might not like me. In three minutes, I may change your mind. The whole point is to get to the final stage, to win cash, and cases of RC Cola and Moon Pies. We all want that, the honor of throwing that at the audience—not the cans.
It sounds so much more organized than you'd expect.
It's very organized, kind of a spinoff of National Poetry Slam, Inc., mimicking their national tournament. There are 22 adult teams, including one from Hawaii, coming in for Southern Fried; they are the best of each city. Some even do this professionally. And this will be the first time there's a totally separate preliminary and finals for youth; they'll be regionally ranked. We're big time ahead of the curve with that.
This has grown to be the second largest poetry slam competition in the U.S. How come?
Mainly, we added a lot more open mics, started dealing with new communities who have a voice. We've got queer slam, hip-hop, spiritual, nerd slam, like that. Slam poetry, spoken word, it's for all ages, all races, creeds. The only thing is, you have to be very much prepared for freedom of speech. I've warned the venues. No one says anything that would piss off an entire audience, because that's counter to the mission. No pornography, and hate messages normally don't make it.
No pornography at the Erotic Open Mic?
That's late night, and it goes into every bit of erotic territory. All the open mics are very true to their titles...
And the "nerd slam," is that a standard title?
It's a highly acceptable term, and the nerd slam is one of the most popular bouts. You have to take a test to make sure you're nerdy enough to compete. Sci-Fi City at the mall is sponsoring, and they have this nerd questionnaire they make you take before you even get hired. We'll let them decide who's nerdy enough. It's really cool.
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Inspired by the true story of Andre Devigny, a French Resistance fighter imprisoned by the Nazis, A Man Escaped is not your typical P.O.W. story. An intense depiction of confinement, the filmis a claustrophobic portrait of a man holding on to his beliefs as others around himaccept their fate. Roger Ebert rightly regards director Robert Bresson (1901–1999), who was himself imprisoned by the Nazis, as 'one of the saints of the cinema'.
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Editor's Note: For the first time in the history of the San Mateo County Fair, a 300-page anthology has been published that includes more than 100 stories, poems and essays from writers who submitted award-winning work for the fair's literary contest. The idea was the brainchild of Bardi Rosman Koodrin, a San Bruno resident who runs the fair's literary contest, and the anthology, titled "Carry the Light," features work from many Peninsula writers.
This poem explores the world of white water rafting and brings focus on the natural forces encountered on the Class V waters of the Penobscot River in Maine.
From p. 218, "Physics on the River"
Yes! We are ready! To the river!
Little men, big egos, taking charge of the raft.
Our lead rower, my son, all of 130 pounds, leading us down class 5 waters -
The same class system used for hurricanes.
Past the gauntlet, over the crib,
Ah, a loose wave,
Slam! Slash!
The lead rower flies across the raft, into Jeff...
It was beautiful -
like Newton's cradle -
a transfer of energy...
Physics on the river...
Wes stopped.
Jeff carrying the momentum forward, over the bow,
learning yet another law of physics - that of gravity.
Jeff descended into the fridge abyss, the 62 degrees waters of the Upper Penobscot.
What to do? What to do?
First reaction - hit him!
Overriding their killer instincts, the crew pulled Jeff aboard.
Excerpted from "Carry the Light" with the permission of Sand Hill Review Press, the publisher. The book is available for purchase for $12 on Amazon.com.
Karen Blake, an award-winning poet and essayist, has taken a 15-year passion of introducing science concept through literature to the next level. She has started her own e-publishing company, Rhizome Books, to introduce video gaming aspects to explore science concepts within stories.
To see all of the excerpts published on San Bruno Patch, visit the "Carry the Light" anthology topic page.


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By Scott Smith
Tribune columnist
Freed from alignment of the planets for another 25,000 years, as well as elections for the next year, 2013 has at least the chance to start out on a bright note.
So why not make a few predictions or delusional wishes, to go along with the useless but inevitable New Year's resolutions we all get roped into?
Let's start out with the newly elected Indiana Legislature, packed wall-to-wall with freshman Republicans and leavened with a few dispirited Democrats.
Taking defeated Democrat John Gregg's warning that he was "all that stood between Hoosiers and tea party rule" as more or less fact, we see the potential for all sorts of radical legislation passing both houses and receiving a signature from the newly elected Mike Pence.
But a reading of Pence's "Roadmap for Indiana," and all of its vanilla policy proposals, makes me think Pence largely will seek to guard the strategic advances made by his aggressive predecessor.
Perhaps that's not an amazing prediction, but I think the Republican-dominated Legislature, under Speaker Brian Bosma and Senate Pro Tem David Long, will conduct itself in a business-like fashion, and that Pence will stand for GOP orthodoxy.
Think about what Mitch Daniels accomplished. He put the most unpredictable burden on taxpayers — local government spending — under strict control, by capping property taxes, shifting school funding to the state, ending state subsidies for local government spending and at least attempting to pass the Kernan-Shepard reforms.
I think the new Legislature will strengthen and deepen those advances, and will limit their social engineering impulses to measures which further the aim of the eventual privatization of public schools.
The gay marriage amendment, which is increasingly being seen by the public as backwards and mean-spirited, will not pass.
Next, as only Nixon could go to China, only the most conservative of legislatures will be able to reform the Indiana criminal code.
Two sections of the law are ripe for reform: the way Indiana treats theft, and the plethora of mandatory felony enhancements. The problem is that since the 1970s, Indiana's incarceration rate has quadrupled, even as crime rates have dropped.
Spending $600 million a year to keep 28,000 people in prison, when more than 60 percent of those imprisoned will be there for two years or less, begins to gnaw at the soul of conservative deficit hawks. When they consider the wisdom of a law which punishes minor possession of marijuana as a felony due to a similar past conviction, we might begin to see some movement.
My third prediction brings us back to Kokomo, where Mayor Greg Goodnight, emboldened by outside recognition of his quality-of-life initiatives, will hammer in a golden spike to connect the Nickel Plate and the Industrial Heritage trails. Noting the mayor's reputation for frugality, I also predict that golden spike will be a figurative golden spike.
I also predict residents will see curbside recycling return, and the optimism taking hold in Kokomo will bear fruit in the success of fundraising efforts for the downtown YMCA project. In short, I predict 2013 will be a great year for Kokomo.
The Cincinnati Reds will win the World Series, and Indiana University football will continue its irrelevance. I could go on and on with these predictions, but instead I will end by wishing all of our readers a very Happy New Year!
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non-profit) organization, independent of St. Laurence.
Mission: To educate the community, particularly people of faith, on life issues, and to
encourage prayer, action, and ministry to build a culture which respects the sanctity of
human life.
- maintaining web site with pro-life information
- weekly email featuring information, prayer and suggested action
- 40 Days for Life campaign in the spring, beginning on Ash Wednesday
- Life Chain on the first Sunday of October
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