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Unfortunately Cagesiders we have to report the news of another wrestler dying at far too young an age. As f4wonline.com reported yesterday, Hector Garza, who worked briefly for WWE, WCW and TNA, and was one of the top stars in Mexico for almost two decades, has passed away at age 43 after a lengthy battle with lung cancer.
Like many luchadors, such as WWE's Alberto Del Rio and Sin Cara, Hector was a second generation wrestler who followed his father Humberto Garza into the business. Indeed, he was trained by his family and started wrestling in the autumn of 1992 on the Monterrey circuit where Humberto was a local legend. It wasn't long before the young Hector gained a following due to a combination of his good looks and graceful aerials. Most notably, he is believed to have invented the Tornillo dive (corkscrew plancha), one of the most innovative and spectacular moves of the time.
In 1994, Hector got his big break when Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) brought him to Mexico City and chose to give him a huge push, as the company was looking to create new stars in order to combat stiff competition from AAA who had stolen most of their established draws when the rival upstart was formed two years earlier.
To get him over immediately, CMLL created the Torneo Gran Alternativa, a tournament where veterans teamed with rookies, with the idea being that the youngster that won would be elevated up to main events, teamed him up with the respected tecnico Negro Casas and had them beat rudos Satánico and Arkangel in the finals. The tourney continues to this day and has been used to kickstart the careers of Shocker, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero, Místico, La Máscara and La Sombra amongst many others.
With his long black locks, Garza's calling card became defending his hair against that of other stars. In the early days he was undefeated in such matches, taking the hair of top rudos like MS-1, Satánico, El Brazo, Bestia Salvaje and Pirata Morgan.
Garza jumped ship to AAA in late 1996 due to their short-lived talent trading agreement with the WWF. Due to his working ability, he got over better than any of his peers, but the deal between the two companies only lasted a few months, as Vince McMahon quickly tired of dealing with the disorganised Antonio Peña and decided to cut short his lucha experiment, a style of wrestling that he never learnt to appreciate.
However, the decision makers of World Championship Wrestling spotted more potential in Hector, most notably their arena promoter Zane Bresloff who thought he could become a major ticket seller as a Latino hero, and signed him to a contract in May 1997. Of course, despite Bresloff's backing, for most of his two year run in WCW he was often just the in ring highlight of a meaningless trios match with other luchadors.
Hector's best remembered WCW match was on the Sep. 22nd, 1997 Monday Nitro where Scott Hall "put him over" by giving him no offence whatsoever until he rolled Hall up from behind for a fast three count when The Outsider was busy tormenting referee Mark Curtis. After the match, Hall made sure to get his heat back by planting both Garza and Curtis with the Outsider's Edge. For good measure, Hall easily got his win back just two weeks later.
Garza was also a member of Eddie Guerrero's brief heel gang the Latino World Order in late 1998, which came to an abrupt halt when Eddie was almost killed in a horrendous car accident on New Year's Day 1999.
Unlike many of his Mexican colleagues whose potential went wasted in WCW, Garza quickly rebounded by returning to AAA in late 1999 and instantly becoming embroiled in a unique four way feud with heartthrob headliners Perro Aguayo Jr., Heavy Metal and Latin Lover. He took Metal's hair on Nov. 23rd, 2001, but finally got shaved bald himself when he was defeated by Latin Lover on Oct. 26th, 2003 in two of the biggest Mexican matches of the time period.
In January 2004, Garza started working for TNA part time as part of Team Mexico with his AAA brethren Juventud Guerrera, Abismo Negro and Mr. Aguila where they would feud with high flying teams from other countries in an idea to spice up the promotion's X-Division. They beat Team USA, Team Canada and Team UK in a series of singles, tag and team elimination matches to win and retain the TNA Americas Cup. However, because Garza lost an Ultimate X match to Chris Sabin (which also featured Petey Williams), Team Mexico didn't win the first ever World X Cup in May of that year.
In late June 2004, Garza quit AAA and rejoined CMLL over a feeling that Antonio Peña wasn't paying him fairly for his work in TNA. The move was one of the best decisions of his career, as he eventually formed one of the hottest rudo groups in lucha history with Perro Aguayo Jr., Los Perros Del Mal, that helped set CMLL's business on fire together with the super push of the dazzling Místico, the former drawing the adult heel fans, whilst the latter brought in the kids and families.
Noticing how Eddie Guerrero had caught on in WWE, TNA wanted to create their own Hispanic babyface sensation (something they've unsuccessfully tried more recently with Hernandez and Chavo Guerrero too) and brought back Hector with a major push. He surprisingly won the 20-man international invitational X-Division gauntlet match at Victory Road on Nov. 7th, 2004, TNA's first ever monthly three hour pay-per-view. The following month he pinned AJ Styles, took NWA World Champion Jeff Jarrett to the limit before losing and was placed into a feud with Scott Hall, who he was to face at Final Resolution 2005.
However, disaster then struck when Garza was arrested in Houston, Texas, days before the pay-per-view, and jailed for having Deca-Durabolin and Primobolan in his suitcase. A week later, he pleaded guilty to possession of steroids and was sentenced to 15 days in prison. This also ended his TNA career, as he was deported and wasn't allowed to apply for an American work visa for five years as a consequence of this conviction. It was perhaps for the best, as CMLL was on the upswing, while TNA continued to struggle and their history proves that they didn't know how to get an ethnic babyface like Garza over.
All good things must come to an end though. CMLL's business started cooling off and Garza left Los Perros Del Mal in February 2008 to became a tecnico again, naturally feuding with his former comrade Perrito. This led to his last major hair match against Perro Aguayo Jr. on Mar. 21st, 2008 in Arena Mexico, which he unsurprisingly lost, as he was always the number two guy in the stable.
Garza remained a top star with CMLL until November 2011, which included having runs with the CMLL World Trios Championships with El Hijo del Fantasma and La Máscara in 2008, the CMLL World Tag Team Championships with Mr. Aguila in 2010, and the CMLL Heavyweight Championship in 2011.
He then left the promotion without dropping their heavyweight singles belt in a match (not because he wasn't willing to, but because an upset Paco Alonso refused to allow him) and joined Perro Aguyao Jr.'s Perros del Mal Producciones promotion as a member of the Perros del Mal stable again. By this time, as well as running his own independent shows, Perro Jr.'s gang was also working for AAA, so Garza returned back there too. The duo soon worked another break up angle with an errant chair shot by Garza costing Perrito his AAA World Heavyweight Championship match against El Mesias at TripleMania XX on Aug. 5th, 2012, which led to Hector being dumped out of the group at the next television tapings.
However, the feud never got off the ground as shortly thereafter Garza was diagnosed with lung cancer (caused by excessive smoking) and retired from wrestling to focus on the chemotherapy treatment he required to get better. People feared the worst when Hector was so ill he couldn't attend his own benefit show just over a month ago. Sadly those fears came true, Cagesiders, hence the need for this obituary column.


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One major benefit of ebooks doesn't necessarily apply directly to readers — digital reading has made it a good deal simpler for aspiring authors to self-publish books and sell them through huge storefronts like Amazon's Kindle Store or Apple's iBookstore. Now, Apple is making an effort to do more promotion for those indie authors by means of a new section of its online store called "Breakout Books." According to Apple's descriptions, all of the books listed are independently published to Apple's storefront and have also received high rankings from those who have already purchased and read the books — it's like a "best of" section for the self-publishers in the iBookstore.
They're grouped in three broad genres at the moment (romance, sci-fi / fantasy, and mysteries / thrillers) with a fourth catch-all "more to explore" section as well. Many of the books are quite inexpensive, and a surprising amount are free, so there's definitely less of a financial risk to try these offerings out. The page isn't overflowing with options at the moment, but Apple says they'll keep fleshing it out as more books "begin taking off." For those interested in supporting independent authors and finding some content that isn't on The New York Times bestseller list, this might be a page worth keeping an eye on — and it gives Apple an outlet to promote its independent work, just as Amazon has made its self-published Kindle content a major part of its own store.
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By Tayleigh Davis - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Several families will have toys under their tree and food on their tables after a group of local officials have decided to give back.
Law enforcement and emergency officials from Lee County and Albany donated food to the Fincher family who lost their home in a house fire.
Fire crews and sheriff's deputies gave them turkey and all kinds of food which they say won't be wasted.
Nicole Fincher is currently staying at her in-laws' house in Lee county until they can move into a new place.
"We weren't expecting all that and it's humbling to know someone cares enough and has the love in them to help us out," Fincher said.
Officials packed gifts and food in a S.W.A.T team van and visited several other households to donate to people in need for Christmas.
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New Brunswick City Council will hold its annual reorganization meeting at 6:30 p.m. tonight, Wednesday, Jan. 2 in council chambers of City Hall, 78 Bayard St.
The council will swear in three new members: incumbents Elizabeth Garlatti and Glenn Fleming, and new member John A. Anderson.
A new council president and vice president will be chosen, and council liaisons will be set as part of the beginning of the year agenda.
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Joshua Walden
Joshua Walden earned his PhD with Distinction at Columbia University in 2008 and has held a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, University of Oxford and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. His research considers a variety of topics including musical representations of ethnic and national identities in the 20th century; music and visual arts; film music; Jewish music; and musical postmodernism. His book, Sounding Authentic: The Rural Miniature and Musical Modernism, was published in the AMS Studies in Music series of Oxford University Press in 2014. He is the editor of two volumes for Cambridge University Press, Representation in Western Music (2013) and The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music (in progress). His articles have appeared in journals including Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Society of American Music, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Musical Quarterly. He has been awarded research grants from the American Musicological Society, the British Library Sound Archive, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and the British Academy. As a violinist, he has performed in venues in New York City, Oxford, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Walden can be reached at email@example.com.
Courses taught at Peabody and Johns Hopkins:
Music History 4: Music in the Twentieth Century
Music and the Visual Arts since 1900
Opera, Nation, and the Exotic
Modern and Contemporary Opera
Jewish Music
Sounding Authentic: The Rural Miniature and Musical Modernism, Oxford University Press, AMS Studies in Music series, 2014. Published with the support of the Claire and Barry Brook Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Editor, Representation in Western Music (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music (Cambridge University Press, in progress).
Selected Articles
"The 'Yidishe Paganini': Sholem Aleichem's Stempenyu, the Music of Yiddish Theatre, and the Character of the Shtetl Fiddler," Journal of the Royal Musical Association 139.1 (2014): 89-136.
"'An Essential Expression of the People': Interpretations of Hasidic Song in the Composition and Performance History of Ernest Bloch's Baal Shem," Journal of the American Musicological Society 65.3 (Autumn 2012): 777-820.
"Representation and Musical Portraiture in the Twentieth Century," in Representation in Western Music (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
"'The Hora Staccato in Swing!': Jascha Heifetz's Musical Eclecticism and the Adaptation of Violin Miniatures," Journal of the Society for American Music 6.4 (November 2012): 405-31.
"'On the String in the Peasant Style': Performance Style in Early Recordings of Béla Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances," in Performers' Voices Across Centuries, Cultures, and Disciplines, ed. Ann Marshman (Imperial College Press, 2011).
"Recent Research on Musical Performance and Sound Recording," Musica Humana 2.1 (Spring 2010): 89-98.
"Leaving Kazimierz: Comedy and Realism in the Yiddish Film Musical Yidl Mitn Fidl," Journal of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 3.2 (Autumn 2009): 159-93.
"Music of the 'Folks-Neshome': 'Hebrew Melody' and Changing Musical Representations of Jewish Culture in the Early Twentieth Century Ashkenazi Diaspora," Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 8.2 (July 2009): 151-72.
"Composing Character in Musical Portraits: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and L'Aly Rupalich," Musical Quarterly 91.2 (Fall-Winter 2008): 379-411.
"Lip-sync in Lipstick: 1950s Popular Songs in a Television Series by Dennis Potter," Journal of Musicological Research 27.2 (April 2008): 169-95.
"What's in a Name?: C.P.E. Bach and the Genres of the Character Piece and Musical Portrait," in Genre in Eighteenth-Century Music, ed. Anthony DelDonna (Steglein, 2008).


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Traffic at the Chicago Rockford International Airport was down last month, but overall 2012 traffic was up compared to 2011.
Just over 15,120 passengers passed through RFD in December, down 16.9 percent compared to December 2011's number of 18,214. Flights last month were 88 percent full.
Despite the decline, 2012 saw a 10.3 percent increase in traffic for the airport, serving 210,406 passengers. The airport served 190,767 passengers in 2011.
The airport will begin service to Montego Bay through Apple Vacations on January 28, 2013, and service to Ft. Myers/Punta Gorda, Florida through Allegiant on February 14.
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Among those in the running to be named "greatest stage actor" is Mark Rylance (center), an actor that I noticed for the first time this weekend. Some know him for his role in Patrice Chéreau's 2001 film, "Intimacy", but Rylance is acclaimed for stage work. At a party last night, few of those that I polled informally had heard of the actor and former artistic director of the Globe theater.
So, I was introduced to the Brit in the third preview of "La Bête" yesterday afternoon. Wow.
Rylance bursts onto the stage through a side door and right into an incredible 30 minute comedic monologue. Thirty minutes that start with him spitting out food as he rapidly speaks, ending when he curls up into a wooden box at the center of the stage. It's truly something awesome to experience (and is delivered in rhyming couplets).
Set it 17th-century France, "La Bête" features Rylance as a self-absorbed street performer at odds with an uptight theater director (David Hyde Pierce) who are each essentially trying to gain the affection of an intrigued Princess (Joanna Lumley!!). Not surprisingly, it loses a bit of momentum when Rylance is silenced or off stage. But, for the power of Rylance's hilarious endurance of a performance, its a real must-see.
The trailer below doesn't really do the show, or the performance, justice:
rgm | September 26, 2010 7:00 AM
I was in the audience for the Sat. matinee. YES.
A Rylance fan, I once saw him at the London Globe in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. The Globe was being true to Elizabethan tradition then. Rylance was the best Cleopatra I have ever seen. However, I think his finest movie work may be in a 1995 film, Angels and Insects.


text: Hi, Bruce. If I understand the problem correctly, the following should solve it (I suppose all VNC Servers listen on 5900): On the client, run the following ssh command (or configure 3 port forwardings on your SSH Client): client# ssh -L5901:vnc_server1:5900 \ -L5902:vnc_server1:5900 \ -L5903:vnc_server1:5900 \ ssh_server Then on the client, if you want to connect to VNC Server 1, you use "vncviewer localhost:1", to connect to VNC Server 2, you use "vncviewer localhost:2", etc. >From the firewall point of view, only TCP port 22 to the SSH Server needs to be open. Does this solve your problem? Best regards, Miro > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Atherton [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > Sent: Mon, Nov 18, 2002 21:12 > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: Accessing multiple VNC servers using only one SSH port? > > > I've gone through the FAQ and mailing list looking for an > answer to this > problem, but so far I haven't seen anything relevant. Sorry if I just > missed it. > > I'm trying to figure out a way to use a single open port on a > firewall to > connect to one of several VNC servers. Something like this > (apologies to > the proportional font crowd): > > -- VNC Server 1 > | > Client -> Internet -> Firewall -> SSH ---|- VNC Server 2 > port 22 Server | > -- VNC Server 3 > > If you already have a solution for this problem that works, I > would love to > hear about it. If not, then I have a way to get this > behaviour but I don't > know how to set it up currently, and would love some advice. > > This isn't a hard problem from an architecture point of view. The SSH > server could have a program run by the client that opened a > socket to a > named machine and port and that returned that socket on its > standard out. > The VNC client could have a facility for communicating over > its standard > in, piped in from the ssh client (after dealing with the password). > > So, if a program on the SSH server was called "opensocket" > and the firewall > was configured to forward port 22 to the SSH server, on the > client you > could run something like: > > ssh firewall.my.org opensocket vnc1.my.org 5901 | vncviewer - > > and have it all just work, even if multiple clients are connecting to > different servers across the firewall at the same time. > > Due to blocking you may not want to use pipes, but you get > the idea. Does > anyone know of any way of accomplishing something like this? > > Any ideas at all gratefully accepted. Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > email@example.com > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list


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Hejlsberg: Yes. All of what I'm talking about is beyond Whidbey. But the thing that's interesting about Whidbey is that in Whidbey we are laying the groundwork for a lot of this that I'm talking about now. For example, C# now supports generic types that I just talked about, and it turns out that in order to really do some of this deep integration that I'm talking about, you need types that can be parameterized because otherwise the type system isn't rich enough. Another thing that C# 2.0 adds is nullable types ... All of those things are sort of cornerstones for the next level of progress that we can make into this domain of better integrating data with programming languages.
InfoWorld: What is your take on Java and where that's going? Do you believe that there'll always be Java and .Net or is one going to defeat the other? What accommodation is Microsoft making for Java, especially since you're supposed to have this relationship with Sun Microsystems now?
Hejlsberg: Right. It's hard for me to say what's going to happen longer term with these two. I certainly think that if you look at where we were five years ago with .Net and where we are now, I mean effectively .Net didn't really exist five years ago, and at this point I think anyone will say that we're at least neck and neck and maybe even we're starting to actually pass them in terms of adoption. So I think we've made tremendous inroads with .Net. I think we've had the right strategy for creating a multilanguage run time as opposed to a run time for our single programming language. I think that has really panned out and has been the right strategy for us and for our customers. I think going forward, it's interesting that Microsoft in many ways is positioned to, for example, better solve the problem that I've just talked about than say Sun is with Java. One of the things that's interesting about the problem I was talking about earlier is that it isn't specifically just a thing that you do in a programming language. How do you get better integration? Well, it involves your data stack, it involves your programming languages, it involves the run-time infrastructure, etc. It's very hard for Sun to address the whole issue because they don't have a database that they could better integrate with their programming language, for example. The opportunities that we can pursue, [for example], deep integration, are what I think will set our platform apart going forward.
InfoWorld: What is your take on Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse IDE? At this point Eclipse has Sun and Microsoft not participating and everybody else pretty much is. What does that mean?
Hejlsberg: Eclipse is an open source project built around the Java platform, so I don't think it's so surprising that we're not partaking there. I would say we're competing there, and I think we're competing quite well with Visual Studio. A lot of the features you see in Visual Studio 2005 bring us not just neck to neck, but ahead of Eclipse, and I think it's healthy to have competition. As always, it's going to keep us on our toes and it's going to keep them on their toes.
InfoWorld: But you have to spend money for Visual Studio and you can download Eclipse for nothing.


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A new home-price index that claims to be reporting data with virtually no lag time said values have been rising gradually for the last three months.
The Burns Home Value Index calculates values based on the price set when contracts are signed, which typically is three to four months before the data is reported.
The index claims to be three months ahead of the median home price data from the National Association of Realtors and four to six months ahead of the widely watched S&P/Case-Shiller composites. (The chairman of the S&P index committee went on his company's blog Wednesday to defend the long lag time in a post called Speed vs. Accuracy.)
According to the Burns report, prices were up in 90 of the 97 markets in the last three months, and in 93 of those markets in the last month. The average price increase was 1.1 percent for the last three months.
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Last year we had 278 riders and raised $21,000.
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NHS Confederation: 'We know we have a way to go'
– Chief executive of the NHS Confederation Mike Farrar
The NHS is totally committed to this agenda.
We have got to ensure that a culture of compassion is running through the veins of every place that provides care - no ifs, no buts and no exceptions.
We know we have a way to go and the NHS must fully embrace this challenge on behalf of the public.
It's good to see the prime minister personally getting behind this issue. And overall these plans add up to a sensible package with the new drive around the training of care assistants particularly welcome.


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Robe Pointes tour with Chris Young
USA - Twenty-two Robe Robin Pointes enhance the set for country music star Chris Young's US tour in support of award-winning country singer / songwriter Dierks Bentley. Bandit Lites are supplying the lighting equipment to production designer Chris Lisle, and the Pointes were specified as they could cut through and stand out from the video-orientated set. Lisle has used Robe's Robin LED fixtures on random shows and one offs before, but this is the first time he has specified them for a tour. "I had been hearing great things about the ... More >>
Sennheiser and Neumann on the battlefront
Belgium - The Benelux countries are rapidly making a name for themselves as a hotbed of musicals produced on a giant scale. As Soldaat van Oranje continues to wow Dutch audiences in a former aircraft hangar, a new production, 14-18, is now doing the same in a similarly vast Belgian venue - De Nekkerhal in Mechelen. The production brings the grim reality of Flanders fields to life with a high level of intensity and immediacy for the audience, a spectacle helped greatly by Sennheiser's flagship Digital 9000 wireless ... More >>
Meyer M'elodie hits the right notes for Hedwig
USA - Sound designer Tim O'Heir has chosen a Meyer Sound system built around M'elodie line array loudspeakers to reinforce the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of the musical comedy Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The production entertains audiences with a high energy that Time Out New York says "makes Broadway rock harder than it ever has before". "The M'elodie centre array is working out perfectly for the vocals," says O'Heir. "It's a rock concert sound, but we also needed great intelligibility along with vocal punch, ... More >>
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Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich sought both to settle old scores and unfurl new attacks Thursday night in the final high-stakes debate before Florida's pivotal primary. Neil King has details on Campaign Journal.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich sought both to settle old scores and unfurl new attacks Thursday night in the final high-stakes debate before Florida's pivotal primary.
The two leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination traded barbs over immigration, housing and Mr. Gingrich's promises to fund often-costly projects in each of the early nominating states.
The harsh tone underscored the importance of the final on-stage bout before Tuesday's winner-take-all primary. With polls showing the race in Florida a close two-man contest between Messrs. Gingrich and Romney, both candidates are desperate to claim victory to bolster their candidacy for later nominating contests.
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney had several fiery exchanges during the Republican presidential debate Thursday night in Jacksonville, Fla. Associated Press
Mr. Gingrich has used the debates to score important points in the race, but Mr. Romney was more aggressive in attacking the former House speaker. The fight began over immigration, when Mr. Romney tore into Mr. Gingrich for airing an ad that accuses him of being "the most anti-immigrant candidate."
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"The idea that I'm anti-immigrant is repulsive," Mr. Romney said, after calling the ad "inexcusable" and "inappropriate" and reminding the audience that his father was born in Mexico and his wife's father was born in Wales.
The two have sparred for weeks over Mr. Gingrich's call for allowing some illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. for years to apply for permanent residency. Those attacks became more hostile when the candidates landed in Florida, the first nominating state where Hispanic voters make up more than 10% of the Republican electorate.
Meantime, former Sen. Rick Santorum, who lags far behind in the polls here, used Thursday evening's debate to take on both of the leaders. He harshly critiqued the health plan Mr. Romney championed as governor of Massachusetts, insinuating that nominating Mr. Romney would be the equivalent of giving away the issue in the general election.
WSJ's Neil King reviews Thursday's GOP debate, the last firum before the January 31 Florida primary. AP Photo/Matt Rourke
Rep. Ron Paul, for his part, argued that he is the most electable because the votes he has drawn so far show his message of liberty and personal freedom appeals to voters across the ideological spectrum. And in one of the debate's lightest moments, he parried a question about his age—76—by challenging the other candidates to a 25-mile bike ride in the Texas heat.
But the most spirited sparring was between Messrs. Romney and Gingrich, who turned from a feisty back-and-forth over preventing illegal immigration to a more personal fight over housing, a particularly salient issue in a state rocked by foreclosures.
The debate was held before an audience at the University North Florida. Getty Images
"Speaker Gingrich was hired by Freddie Mac to promote them," Mr. Romney said of the $1.6 million the former House speaker earned as a consultant for the government-backed mortgage giant. "He should have been anxiously telling people that these entities were causing a housing bubble that would cause a collapse that we've seen here in Florida and around the country."
Mr. Gingrich shot back with his own claim: "We discovered, to our shock, Gov. Romney owns shares of both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
He also laid into Mr. Romney for his Goldman Sachs Group investments, saying, "Gov. Romney...has an investment in Goldman Sachs, which is today foreclosing on Floridians. So maybe Gov. Romney, in the spirit of openness, should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments."
In the final debate before Tuesday's GOP Primary in Florida, Mitt Romney showed a tougher side, taking on Newt Gingrich on immigration, government spending and entitlements. WSJ's Patrick O'Connor gives his impressions.
In response, Mr. Romney asserted that his investments are in a blind trust whose trades he doesn't control, and the Fannie and Freddie shares were held by mutual funds rather than as individual stocks. He asserted Mr. Gingrich owns similar funds.
Mr. Romney also unveiled a new attack on Mr. Gingrich when he criticized him for promising to fund projects desired by residents of the early voting states, including costly plans to dredge the Port of Charleston, S.C., and his recent calls for expanded space exploration to fuel job growth along Florida's beleaguered space coast.
Mr. Romney chastised his rival for telling voters in each of the early nominating states "exactly what that state wants to hear."
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich pushing debate moderator Wolf Blitzer to stay on track, Blitzer challenges Gingrich to address prior statements during the Republican debate in Florida. Courtesy of CNN.
The frequent debates have taken on an outsized importance, particularly for Mr. Gingrich, who is at a fund-raising disadvantage in a large state with expensive media markets. He has faced an onslaught of criticism in Florida over the $1.6 million he earned consulting for Freddie Mac.
After riding a wave of momentum from his commanding victory in South Carolina, Mr. Gingrich faces a tougher fight in Florida. He was leading in polls here earlier this week, but two new polls out Thursday put Mr. Romney ahead in the state.
Mr. Romney led with 40% of likely GOP primary voters, compared to Mr. Gingrich's 32%, in a poll by InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion Research done for Newsmax. Mr. Paul and Mr. Santorum picked up 9% and 8%, respectively.
A Rasmussen Reports poll, meantime, had Mr. Romney leading with 39% and Mr. Gingrich in second at 31%.
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich sparring over housing and Gingrich's record of consulting at mortgage giant Freddie Mac at The Republican presidential debate in Florida. Courtesy of CNN.
But among Republican voters nationwide, Mr. Gingrich remains the favorite, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. It showed 37% of Republicans favored Mr. Gingrich compared to 28% for Mr. Romney.
Mr. Gingrich is beloved by many GOP voters, but his relationship with the Republican Party is more fraught. His recent rise drew alarm Thursday from conservative commentators and party leaders who have dealt with the former House speaker.
The conservative website Drudge Report blasted Mr. Gingrich on its home page with headlines including "Newt's Not Reagan" and "Gingrich Repeatedly Insulted Reagan."
Bob Dole, a former U.S. senator and presidential candidate, released a statement assailing Mr. Gingrich's time in the House and urging voters to side with Mr. Romney.
Mr. Dole said choosing Mr. Gingrich as the nominee "could result in a landslide victory for Obama and a crushing defeat for Republicans from the courthouse to the White House."
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1. Syracuse (9-0): The Titans capped their first outright Region 1 title with a perfect regular-season record. With a bye this week, the Titans can rest up for a long playoff run.
2. Northridge (8-1): Once again, the Knights won by the skin of their teeth, this time against Davis. With the No. 2 seed in Region 1 locked up, expect Northridge's bench players to see time against Mountain Crest on Friday.
3. Box Elder (6-3): The Bees took their shot at league champion Logan, but came up short. A non-league playoff tuneup against Highland is next.
4. Davis (5-4): A comeback attempt versus Northridge came up short, so now the Darts must defeat Layton in a play-in game next Tuesday for the No. 3 seed in Region 1.
5. Morgan (6-3): Three consecutive wins helped the Trojans earn the second spot in Region 11 heading into the playoffs. It will be interesting to see how many starters play in a meaningless game versus Roy this week.
6. Fremont (2-7): The Silver Wolves only have two wins, but both came in crucial region games, including a 20-0 drubbing of Layton last week. Now Fremont is in the state 5-A playoffs with the No. 4 spot in Region 1 (earned via coin toss).
7. Layton (3-8): A three-way tie in Region 1 for the final two playoff spots forces the Lancers to duel Davis in a play-in game next Tuesday. Will they overlook 4-A foe Bountiful on Friday, looking forward to their showdown with the Darts?
8. Roy (5-4): Two nail-biting losses in league play will haunt Fred Fernandes and the Royals until camp begins next season. The Royals missed out on the 4-A playoffs by just one game.
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Finally, I'm home again. It seemed like I was in Hawaii forever I must say I'm pretty glad to be back. Hawaii was a pretty place with a lot of hot chicks but there was plenty of jerks there too. I just got in not too long ago after over 24 hours of traveling to get home, delays, stops, etc. I'm to get back to my normal ways and low priced food. I must say, everything in Honolulu was so expensive it made me sick. Oh yea, I met a girl down there from Minnesota, she was HOT (just figured I'd throw that in because of where she was from). I went snorkling(spl?) which was awsome and saw a lot of the island which was really nice. What's weird about the whole thing is, of all the things you hear about Hawaii, you hear the people are nice but what I found out was the only ones that were nice were the ones that were paid to be nice. Speaking of not being nice, I stopped in an airport in New York and well I'm not even going to get on the topic of those people. Lets just say, I'll never live there. Well, I'm getting really tired at this point, I need sleep, BAD, later!The best part of my day is when I get down on my knees, with my head in my hands, and thank GOD for everything he has given me.
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Welcome back Lucky!
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Welcome back Lucky, glad to hear you had a good time!! What Island were you on?
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I was talking to some people the other day that moved to Kentucky from Hawaii and they said, ya, Hawaii is beautiful but it's not anywhere near as beautiful as Kentucky in the Springtime with all the redbuds blossoming, the fields greening up and the turkeys gobbling.Kentucky Vikes Fan
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Rove: Clinton Said My 2006 Midterm Strategy Was 'Sheer Genius'
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 at 11:40 am
I've got a copy of Karl Rove's "Courage and Consequence," which is as chock-full of remembered conversations as a D.C. memoir should be. The first conversation that jumped out at me, from page 467, is Rove's recollection of a pep talk Bill Clinton gave him at the November 13, 2006 groundbreaking for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.
Rove had just presided over the GOP's loss of the House and Senate after bragging that predictions of such a thing happening were ignorant — he had "the math" that would prove them wrong. But only Clinton, said Rove, understood how the GOP's turnout strategy had staved off greater losses.
Clinton told me that before the election, he and Democratic strategist James Carville had been keeping track of the generic ballot, which measures the relative strength of the two parties. The Democrats had a 13-point advantage just before Election Day. By comparison, Republicans had a 6-point advantage on the generic ballot going into the 1994 House elections and had picked up 54 seats. Clinton and Carville thought the Democratic 13-point lead would translate into a loss of at least 60 House seats for Republicans. Instead, Republicans lost 29. Clinton told me, "no one's ever going to give you credit, but it was sheer genius what you and [RNC Chairman Ken] Mehlman did with the seventy-two hour task force. We should have won twice as many seats, but we didn't because of what you all did to get out your vote. No one will give you credit, but I know what you did."
One fact that makes this ring true — James Carville spent the week after the midterms telling reporters that "Rumsfeldian" incompetence by then-DNC Chairman Howard Dean had let Republicans narrowly hold onto around 20 seats. That's 10 fewer than even Carville had been hoping for, according to Rove. (Democrats gained an additional seat, taking them to a gain of 30, in a Texas runoff in December.) But even these recollections obscure the fact, well known in late 2006, that gerrymandering gave the Democrats higher hills to climb — congressional district-rich states like Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan had been gerrymandered after the 2000 census by Republican governors and legislatures who created incredibly safe districts for their party. Only in 2008 did Democrats mop up most of the harder-to-win seats.
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Hear for yourself — in Howard Dean's own words — how he wants Socialism in America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UScQ1lqCSmQ
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"CommieBlaster" sounds like a Cold War-era kiddie squirt gun. I wonder if this worthy individual is aware that the Berlin Wall fell in 1989?
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Just another opportunity for business class dems to stick it to popular dems like Dean. Sometimes I think the DLC types are just pining away waiting to join the GOP, their more natural companions in corporate love.
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"CommieBlaster" sounds like a Cold War-era kiddie squirt gun. I wonder if this worthy individual is aware that the Berlin Wall fell in 1989?
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4:44 Glitch - Friends of Mineral Town
Watching TV at 4:44 on any day will result in the game being frozen in a loop where the dialog box opens and closes forever. The only way to 'fix' this is to row the direction button in a circle for some time and it will fix the problem.
In the original Japanese version, the "glitch" was not actually a glitch- it had to do with a Japanese cultural belief that the number four means death. It would spam random characters with the number 4 inserted in random places, but eventually stop. The English translators evidently didn't know about this, which caused the glitch in the international release.
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Pre-order For ASUS Dual-core Radeon HD 6990 Underway
AMD Radeon HD 6990 hasn't been officially unveiled,an Dutch website SALLAND is getting the graphics cards pre-order,which is price at €715.
As we can see from the pre-order page,the graphics card is ASUS EAH6990 3DI4S/4GD5,adopts reference design,packs 4GB GDDR5 memory,core/memory clock of 830/1250MHz(data rate of 5000MHz).In addition,it provides a DVI and four mini DisplayPort display connectors,basically the same as our previous exposure.
According to our earlier report,AMD will release Radeon HD 6990 graphics cards on March 8th.In view of the pre-order,it seems that AMD new-generation dual-core graphics card is really coming soon.
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Season stats (five games): 36 tackles, 5.5 sacks, 9.5 TFLs, 3 forced fumbles, 15 QB hurries, INT.
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Season stats (six games): 124 of 205 (60.5 percent) for 1,957 yards, 14 TDs, 5 INTs.
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Bolton at Home pledges to help domestic violence victims during World Cup
6:00am Wednesday 11th June 2014 in News By Miranda Newey, Crime reporter
A PLEA has been made to victims of domestic violence to speak out about the abuse as the World Cup approaches.
The advice comes as Greater Manchester Police (GMP) sees domestic violence reports spike during football tournaments.
When England were knocked out of the World Cup in June 2010 the force dealt with 353 incidents of domestic violence.
During the World Cup in Germany in 2006 GMP saw a 20 per cent rise in domestic incidents.
Bolton at Home has now joined forces with the police and Bolton's Domestic Abuse and Violence Partnership to offer support to victims who fear they might be at risk.
Sharon Naughton, principal neighbourhood safety manager at Bolton at Home, said: "There is a proven connection between major football tournaments and spikes in incidents of domestic violence.
"The intense feelings associated with watching football matches, fuelled by alcohol consumption, can lead to arguments between partners over trivial issues which would normally pass without incident.
"Domestic abuse or violence will not be tolerated in Bolton. Our message to those at risk is that we will listen to you and you will be believed. We can take legal action to create a safe distance for you from the perpetrator and create a safe and secure home for you to continue to live in."
Mrs Naughton said help was out there for victims and they would be treated in confidence.
She said people should not be concerned about raising alarm about domestic violence as perpetrators of the crime will be in breach of their tenancy agreements with Bolton at Home and face having their home taken from them and their tenancy agreement ended.
She said: "We encourage victims to take preventative measures where possible. Domestic violence is a corrosive crime we absolutely tackle it head on. It is everybody's given right to feel safe."
Bolton at Home deals with about 40 or more high risk domestic violence cases each month with police and other agencies.
Offenders who lose their homes are likely to struggle to find homes with other social housing groups.
Bolton at Home offers victims a case worker, to take details of the abuse suffered and pursue legal action on their behalf with consent, secure the home by offering to install home link alarms, signpost victims to support groups, and offer immediate temporary relocation or permanent rehousing if necessary.
Lawyers for Bolton at Home can secure prohibition orders, banning the offender from going near the victim's address, or face arrest.
Research suggests one in four women and one in six men will experience domestic abuse during their lives.
People at risk of domestic violence can get support through the following outlets:
• Police on 101 in a non-emergency or 999 in an emergency
• Bolton at Home's neighbourhood safety team on 01204 328143
• Homeless welfare on 01204 335826
• Fortalice support centre on 01204 365677
• National Domestic Abuse helpline on 0808 2000247
• Broken Rainbow, a service for the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender community, on 0300 9995428
• Men's advice line on 0808 8010327
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With the construction of a short remaining part of the 158-kilometres B.P. Highway, the alternative road to connect the Kathmandu valley with the Eastern Terai, likely to complete in a week, the vehicles and passengers to and from the Eastern Terai to the capital will experience a significant relief.
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« When the Passion Fades | Main | Lonely Leadership »January 3, 2012
New Year's Anti-Resolution: Stop Setting Goals
Why I plan to live with less intention
My New Year's resolution this year is unusual, really more of an anti-resolution. My hope is to become less intentional.
Less intentional, you ask? Why on earth would a person want that? I'll explain.
I'm a strategist by nature. I process things rationally, assessing situations, coming up with recommendations, tinkering mentally with life issues and circumstances. I'm also fast-moving leader and productivity-oriented, a fit-it-all-in, get-it-done kind of girl.
Put these two together and you can see that intentionality isn't a problem for me. Coming up with goals and moving toward them is pretty much how God made me.
There are many upsides to these character traits, and I thank God for how he wired me. Lately, though, I've been seeing the downsides that such attributes can bring if left to their own devices.
Last fall I was talking with a friend about her son's preschool teacher. She described the middle-age woman, well-known and respected in their community, as "very intentional but lacking in freedom." On paper, the woman is inspiring–a remarkable gardener and excellent cook; a restorer of furniture and exemplary homemaker; a person who'd cultivated many talents and utilized her resources well. "But she comes across as kind of joyless," my friend said, "and her relationships with her (now adult) children seem strained."
The description gave me pause. At the time I was just beginning to observe a noticeable trend toward joylessness in my own life, especially in relation to mothering my three young children. I was so focused on trying to parent well—attending to character development, employing consistency—that I was losing the joy of daily life with my kids. My mind continually went to assessing scenarios and diagnosing methods for improvement—skills I employ in my work world. Rarely did I just sit back, relax, and enjoy the moments for what they held (or my children in them). Goals were trumping relationship.
Sometimes an intentional spirit can hamper freedom, and even love. This, I believe, is a big part of why Jesus rebuked Martha for her demeanor when visiting her household. She was so focused on what needed to be done that she couldn't relax and be in the moment with him, putting first things first. Her task list and its priority in her mindset were endangering the freedom Jesus had for her. The joy found in engaging with the most important person in her life (as my own) was taking a backseat to lesser things.
Life in the modern world can exacerbate the tendency to prize intentionality and productivity over full, free living in the moment. The priority given to efficiency and multi-tasking are enormous in our culture. The rise of the cell phones alone is enough for many people to throw things out of balance. I can answer e-mails on my phone sitting in a parking lot, but do I know what my five-year-old just said in the backseat as we wait? For a person whose struggles are flightiness or disorganization, the tools an iPhone provides are a blessing; for a person with a bent toward over-productivity, they can be anathema.
Jesus calls us to careful stewardship, and too he calls us to a life of surrender. Stewardship means intentionality and setting goals; surrender means letting go of both to God's greater purposes. These two things are in tension—opposing ends of a spectrum. The sweet spot is smack in the middle; too much of either one is trouble.
Since God revealed that I generally err overmuch on the stewardship side, high on intentionality and low on freedom and joy, surrender is in order. Letting go of some of my diagnostic and achievement tendencies with the help of Christ are merited. As I set aside my urges to assess and improve things around me, I'll look to God to help me be present and joyful in the moments he gives. No doubt this will feel counter-intuitive in settings where I'm called to lead.
What about you? Do you need to get out of the goal-setting mindset for a while? What anti-resolutions have you made for the new year?
Susan Arico is active in her church and among local Christian women. She has worked with faith-based nonprofits, such as Prison Fellowship, The Salvation Army, Promise Keepers, and others, developing programs to benefit high-risk populations, such as ex-prisoners, street children, and traumatized youth. Currently, she runs her own consulting company, Pray Creek Consulting LLC.
Personally, and as a life coach, it seems like very few goals we set come to be. I don't know why that is ... except maybe those goals weren't all that important anyway, and I find myself not wanting to be all that much inconvenienced!
I guess in order to be really motivated, what we say we want to do has to have really powerful implications for our lives.
I know again, for the millionth time, that I want to be more purposeful in pursuing time with God. Too much is grabbing at that one necessary thing ...
Your decision to not be goal-driven is a goal in itself. Being goal-driven and present/joyful are not at different ends of a spectrum.
My personal take on this is that we are called to find that balance, and this takes a lot of practice. Being mindful of the situations in which we often react in a way that will drive us to accomplish something is key. Slowing down and considering the implications of requests for our time and the resulting decisions is another.
A colleague once told me about the D-A-T-E method that she uses. Do I DESIRE to do this? Do I have the ABILITY? How much TIME will it take and how much do I have? How much ENERGY will it require? I have added another question to her list: When was the last time I had FUN or PLEASURE?
It is possible to be incredibly busy, yet full of joy!
Yep, there are to extremes to everything. I have an aunt like that. But you can't achieve much without setting goals.
Thanks for the comments. Diane, I agree that it's possible to be busy and full of joy, goal-driven and present. I daresay Jesus was likely both.
As I see it though, stewardship and surrender - while not exactly opposites - involve fundamentally different functions of the heart. The first is geared toward administrating, overseeing, and furthering; the second is simply letting go in trust. Where one's innate nature is to on the administration and "furthering" end, finding balance may come in more often scrapping the to-do list and being present to whatever the moment holds.
I resonate with what you are saying here and have been processing over 2011 how much of my doing may possibly have been a subconscious attempt to obscure the fact that I didn't know who God was inviting me first to be. As a result, I too have given up goal-setting for the time being in favour of letting God speak to my heart about who I am to become in him. My 'doing' will then, I am sure, follow very naturally from the 'being'.
More of my journey over 2011 in this area can be found in this post (and the others referred to within this post). http://theartofsteering.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/not-so-lost-in-2011/
Many thanks for your comment and your excellent and relevant post on your The Art of Steering blog. I particularly liked this line: "Goals, after all, are a great way to get things done and make progress. The only slight problem is that they can take you a very long way in the wrong direction if you're not careful!" That resonates with me, and calls out my frequent need to sit more with the Guy In Charge rather than charging off to accomplish things I feel I ought to do.
Blessings in 2012 as you seek Him.
I agree with what you said. About two years ago a had a few episodes of panic attack. I was so busy taking too much responsibility that I ended up in a psychiatric hospital for out patient treatment . Helping in Church work can be sometimes too much when you don't know how to say no? Thank God I am better than before, I learned and grew . Now this year I decided not to make any resolution and commit to only one ministry at church but I have to tell you is hard I feel so pressured by others . I pray God help both of us. Thank you


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