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One of Ohio's two U.S. senators says Democrats need to get better organized so they can counteract private conservative groups that secretly draft legislation for Republican lawmakers.
The Porkopolis column in this week's CityBeat features excerpts from an interview with U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). As is often the case with print media, there was limited space available and segments of the wide-ranging interview with Brown weren't included in the column.
One of the unused segments included Brown's responses to questions about whether President Obama and Congressional Democrats are aggressive enough in pushing their agenda, and whether the Left needs a group to counteract organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
Asked if Democrats at the federal level are too reactive and need to do better at framing and guiding debate on issues, Brown said his party could use some improvement in that regard. He cited the theories of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th Century essayist and abolitionist.
"I think the Democrats could do better at that, from the president on down," Brown said. "It's always easier to say no. The one reason (Republicans) do well with message is, by definition almost, of conservative. Emerson talked about the innovators and the conservators. Progressives are the innovators and conservatives are the conservators. By definition, the conservators protect the status quo. Protecting the status quo means 'no,' 'repeal,' 'don't,' and 'not.' Those are simple concepts. Changing things is more complex."
Also, Brown wishes the media would more clearly articulate what's happening in Washington. During the recent debate on raising the federal debt ceiling, for example, it was Obama and Democrats who were willing to compromise, a fact he believes didn't receive enough attention.
"When one party digs in and is extreme, both parties look bad," he said. "When people say, 'they all look terrible in Washington,' a big reason for that is Republicans weren't willing to negotiate anything. They were willing to shut the government down if we didn't do things their way.
"We, in the end, want to be responsible," Brown added. "A bunch of senators were in the White House months ago and Barack Obama said to us, 'I'm the adult and I have to be responsible. They know I'm not going to let the government default.' Well, as long as they know that, it changes things."
Brown likes the suggestion of Democrats forming their own progressive version of ALEC — the private, corporate-backed group that writes model legislation for state lawmakers, which is funded by the Koch brothers, the National Rifle Association and others.
"That might be a good idea," he said. "The elections last year were all about job loss. Spending a little bit, but mostly about job loss. Then you look at the three most salient things this state legislature has done, which is roll back collective bargaining rights, voting rights and women's rights.
"Not only is that not solving the problems we really have, which is jobs, it's also injecting divisions into our country and our state that we don't need," Brown added. "It's made people so angry and hurt so many people's feelings in a really significant way and for what? So they can accomplish a political agenda. That's what is really outrageous."
An ardent opponent of going to war in Iraq, Brown believes some progressives' fear that Obama will extend the wars there and in Afghanistan beyond the timetables for troop withdrawals is unfounded.
"I'm confident they will be respected and I'm hoping Afghanistan's will be accelerated," he said. "I think (Obama) will stand on what he said."
The senator is more ambivalent about U.S. intervention in the uprising in Libya. "I wish the president had been a bit more forthcoming with Congress about our involvement, but people I respect have also said it would've been a real genocide there if the Europeans and we hadn't done something," Brown said. "It's an awfully difficult call."
Brown believes extremist actions by the GOP — like restricting collective bargaining rights at the state level, and trying to defund Planned Parenthood and limit access to abortion at the federal level — are out of touch with the mainstream, and will benefit Democrats in next year's elections.
"Voters absolutely see these guys overreaching," Brown said. "The voters aren't wild about Barack Obama and the Democrats, but they like the Republicans even less.
"They've overreached on Medicare, it's going after Head Start and Planned Parenthood and all the kinds of things there is general consensus about in this country," he added. "We have general consensus in this country on many things, except the Far Right, on items like the environment, on Medicare, on food safety, on voting rights. These guys have exploded that."
A post on viral web cataloger BuzzFeed accuses U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt or her staff of airbrushing the congresswoman's Wikipedia page.
BuzzFeed claims that a user bearing the Internet fingerprint shared by all Congressional offices removed the section of Schmidt's Wikipedia entry titled "The Armenian Genocide issue."
Schmidt was one of 33 Congress members alleged to have had airbrushing done to their Wikipedia pages.
Also listed was House Speaker John Boehner, who allegedly had mention of his knowledge of the Mark Foley congressional page scandal scrubbed from his page.
CityBeat on Wednesday asked for comment from the offices of Schmidt and Boehner but no response was given.
"The Armenian Genocide issue" section appeared on Schmidt's page as of Wednesday. It's unclear whether the section had previously been removed.
According to the entry, Schmidt came under fire in 2008 from congressional challenger David Krikorian for failing to publicly define the mass killing of 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians between 1915-1916 as the "Armenian Genocide."
The Armenian-American Krikorian accused Schmidt of taking tens of thousands in "blood money" from the Turkish government in order to push the denial. Krikorian's claims resulted in a defamation lawsuit from Schmidt and a complaint before the House Ethics Committee.
However, Boehner's page still contained no mention of his knowledge of the Foley page scandal as of Wednesday afternoon.
In 2006 former Republican Florida Rep. Mark Foley resigned over reports that he had sent sexually explicit Internet messages to at least one underage male former congressional page.
Boehner told The Washington Post that he had learned of inappropriate "contact" between Foley and a 16-year-old page and told then-House Speaker Dennis Hassert about it. He later told the newspaper that he couldn't remember whether he talked to Hassert.
A local music teacher says Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy offered him a job and then rescinded the offer after asking him if he is gay. Jonathan Zeng says he went through the school's extensive interview process, was offered a position and then called back in for a discussion about religious questions in his application, during which he was asked directly if he is gay. Zeng says he asked why such information was pertinent, and an administrator said it was school policy not to employ teachers who are gay because they work with children and something about the sanctity of marriage. When contacted by local media CHCA released the following statement:
CHCA keeps confidential all matters discussed within a candidate's interview. We're looking into this matter, although the initial information we have seen contains inaccuracies. We will not be discussing individual hiring decisions or interviews.Cincinnati's deficit isn't going to get better any time soon, according to a new report.
The Reds drafted high school pitcher Nick Travieso in the first round of the MLB draft on Monday. Here's a rundown of their other picks Monday and Tuesday.
Senate Republicans yesterday blocked a Democratic bill calling for equal pay in the workplace, and the Dems are going to stick it in their faces during this year's campaigns. From the AP:
As expected, the pay equity bill failed along party lines, 52-47, short of the required 60-vote threshold. But for majority Democrats, passage wasn't the only point. The debate itself was aimed at putting Republicans on the defensive on yet another women's issue, this one overtly economic after a government report showing slower-than-expected job growth.
"It is incredibly disappointing that in this make-or-break moment for the middle class, Senate Republicans put partisan politics ahead of American women and their families," Obama said in a statement after the vote.
"Even Mitt Romney has refused to publicly oppose this legislation," added Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "He should show some leadership."
The Washington Post wonders whether Mitt Romney can use Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's template for surviving a recall election to try to win the presidency. It involves "big money, powerful organization and enormous enthusiasm among his base." Exit polls in the state suggest Obama is ahead, however.
China wants foreign embassies to stop releasing reports and Tweeting about its poor air quality.
Gonorrhea growing resistant to antibiotics? Rut roh.
Dinosaurs apparently weighed less than scientists previously thought. Adjust paper-mache Brontosaurus as necessary.
Facebook is considering letting kids younger than 13 use the site.
The Boston Celtics took a 3-2 series lead over the Miami Heat on Tuesday and could send Bron Bron and Co. back home on Thursday.
City Council on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a measure that will offer benefits to domestic partners of city employees. The measure was introduced by Councilman Chris Seelbach and passed 8-1, the lone "no" vote coming from Charlie Winburn. Seelbach told The Enquirer that domestic partner benefits not only affect same-sex couples, but are also applicable to non-married partners, which is an added attraction to lure talented employees to the city. Covington officials passed a similar measure Tuesday.
If you owe the city of Cincinnati any parking fines, now would be a good time to pay them. Cincinnati police are going to start hearing descriptions of vehicles with multiple outstanding tickets during roll call and then head out to find them during patrols.
Eric Deters wants to be a real lawyer again. The attorney/radio personality/cage fighter says his current predicament — Kentucky law license suspension — is mostly because someone making the rulings "hates him" and is not due to the "ethical lapses" that caused his original 61-day suspension. If Deters can't get the Kentucky Supreme Court to help him out he'll have to go in front of a Character and Fitness Committee and explain all the crazy stuff he's done.
Gov. John Kasich is making changes to the state's Medicaid program, which he and its officials say will save money, though it will cause disruptions in the form of some recipients needing to find new providers, many of which have less access to medical advice and financial help. A similar program implemented in Kentucky last year resulted in complaints that patients couldn't get services authorized and providers didn't get paid on time, according to The Enquirer.
New Osama bin Laden documents published
online by the U.S. Government show concern over Muslim distrust of
his organization before he was killed last May, and much of which was due to the high numbers of civilians it was responsible for killing.
It's not very fun to be John Edwards these days. Already charged with using $1 million in campaign money to hide a pregnant mistress, testimony in his case for violating campaign finance laws has revealed that his mistress had a better idea in response to the National Enquirer's report on the affair: She wanted to say she was abducted by aliens.
Jobless-benefits claims were down last week, and the reduction was the greatest in three months. And U.S. stock futures rose in accordance.
Target is done selling Kindles, and although it didn't give a reason analysts suspect it is in response to Amazon's attempts to get retailers who see the products in a store to then purchase them online. Amazone last holiday season indroduced a Price Check app that offered in-store price comparisons and up to a $15 discount online.
Retired NFL linebacker Junior Seau was found dead at his home yesterday in an apparent suicide. Seau, who played in the NFL for parts of 20 seasons, was found shot to death. He was 43.
Update: This blog incorrectly said Doug Preisse is the chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Party. He is the chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party.
"I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine," Doug Preisse, chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party, told The Columbus Dispatch in an email over the weekend. The admission to outright racism came at the height of a controversy regarding weekend voting in Montgomery County. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted is trying to enforce uniform in-person early voting hours with no weekend voting across the state to avoid any discrepancies that caused a previous controversy, but county Democrats in Dayton wanted to have weekend voting anyway. When county Democrats refused to back down in a Board of Elections meeting, Husted, the state official who is supposed to empower voters as much as possible, suspended them from the Board. The move sparked criticism from state Democrats, which eventually led to Preisse's admission to playing racial politics.
The Ohio Board of Education is meeting today and is expected to discuss its search for a new superintendent of public instruction. Former Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner had to leave after an investigation found he had been misusing state resources and encouraging legislation that benefited an employer.Taxpayers could be paying $300,000 so county officials can avoid a tough decision. The move would preserve the property tax rollback and let the county hold off on making a payment on the stadiums this fiscal year. Two out of three county commissioners told the Enquirer they like the idea.
Schools in the Greater Cincinnati area seem to be using different grading scales. The disparity could put some students in a worse spot when applying to college.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is suing a Cincinnati man over a Craigslist scam.The Greater Cincinnati area could soon host more film, television and video game production thanks to new tax incentives.
Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland could be making an appearance at the Democratic national convention. The convention is a time for parties to show off their new candidates and party platforms.Republican senatorial candidate Todd Akin of Missouri told KTVI-TV, "First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." The extremely offensive, factually incorrect comment was quickly picked up by media outlets, and the senatorial candidate is now saying he "misspoke." But misspeaking typically means messing up one or two words. Misspeaking does not mean making a clearly spoken argument with a very clear point.
Lack of funding could be hurting national parks.Here is a spider with claws.
If GOP leaders thought they were going to get rid of Denise Driehaus with their new state legislature map, they can think again.
Driehaus made it official today, announcing she would move into the new 31st House District before next year's election. Several weeks ago, the Republican-controlled state apportionment board reconfigured state legislative district boundaries and radically altered the political makeup of the current 31st House District, which Driehaus represents in Columbus.
The Kentucky Speedway and state of Kentucky will find out
soon whether the $10 million they spent on highway infrastructure
improvements in response to last year's traffic mess at a NASCAR race
was worth it. The Speedway and Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will hold
a news conference today to outline plans to actually get all of the
race attendees into the venue to watch the race rather than sit in
traffic all day and get super mad.
A Cincinnati police officer with a long record of wrecking police vehicles was arrested on Monday and charged with assaulting a woman who he's already been charged with assaulting once before. The Enquirer detailed the disciplinary history of officer Kevin Jones, who was also charged with two counts of assault from an incident that occurred May 19.
Politico says President Obama's recent announcement of a new immigration policy that allows many young immigrants who have never been in trouble with the law to stay in the country, and even travel across its borders, was a really smart move. The policy is not permanent, which leaves Mitt Romney to answer the question of whether or not he would repeal it if elected. The idea is reportedly similar to legislation that Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a potential Romney running mate, has been considering introducing.
"This is a stroke of political genius," Bruce Morrison told me. A former Democratic congressman from Connecticut, Morrison was chairman of the House Immigration Subcommittee, a member of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and House author of the Immigration Act of 1990. He's now an immigration attorney and lobbies on a wide variety of immigration issues.
"Obama has taken Rubio's idea and put it into action," Morrison said. "He has given these people a work permit, the ability to remain in this country, but no permanent status." Their legal status can be terminated at any time. "But it won't be terminated by Obama," Morrison said.
A breast cancer survivor who has undergone a double mastectomy has been allowed to swim topless by the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation after stating that wearing a bathing suit over her chest causes pain.
(Jodi) Jaecks opted against reconstructive surgery. "I don't see a need to fake having breasts," she said.
"My ultimate goal is to change policy at beaches and pools, to increase people's awareness of cancer and the realities of the human condition," Jaecks told Reuters.
LeBron James and the Miami Heat won the NBA title last night, completing a 4 games to 1 series victory over the Oklahoma Thunder. It is the first title for James, who has been widely mocked for stating that he'd like to win more titles than Michael Jordan's six. James, who is 27, won his first a year younger than Jordan did, thought Jordan then won the title in six of eight years.
Two alien plants planets around the same star apparently rise in the night sky of each other, looking like a giant full moon. The planets, Kepler-36b and Kepler-36c, are 1,200 light-years from Earth and 1.2 million miles apart, the closes two planets known.
Steve Chabot's self-righteous attempt to block federal
streetcar funding found new criticism yesterday, as The Enquirer spoke to
several credible sources who say his amendment is broad enough to affect
federal funding for transportation projects beyond the streetcar,
including bus lanes or ferries.
Mayor Mark Mallory and 3CDC representatives were scheduled to kick off a grand opening celebration of Washington Park at 10 a.m. this morning. The $48 million renovation includes an underground parking garage, concession building, dog park and concert space. A rally against the renovation and displacement of residents was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. CityBeat's Mike Breen blogged away yesterday about the park's scheduled weekly music series.
It's going to be another sucky hot weekend in Cincinnati.
U.S. hiring is being weak again.
Walgreens is buying mass drug store chains, preparing to cash in on that ObamaCare money.
Brad Pitt's mom wrote a pro-Mitt Romney, anti-abortion and anti-same-sex marriage letter to the editor of a Missouri newspaper. Brad, for the record, is pro-gay marriage and donated to the 2008 anti-Proposition 8 campaign in California.
I have given much thought to Richard Stoecker's letter ("Vote for Mormon against beliefs," June 15). I am also a Christian and differ with the Mormon religion.
But I think any Christian should spend much time in prayer before refusing to vote for a family man with high morals, business experience, who is against abortion, and shares Christian conviction concerning homosexuality just because he is a Mormon.
Any Christian who does not vote or writes in a name is casting a vote for Romney's opponent, Barack Hussein Obama — a man who sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for years, did not hold a public ceremony to mark the National Day of Prayer, and is a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage.
I hope all Christians give their vote prayerful consideration because voting is a sacred privilege and a serious responsibility.
First they were telling us that the Higgs boson is the building block of the universe. How Professor Peter Higgs says he has no idea what the discovery will mean in practical terms. Come on, Higgs!
Apparently 250,000 people are going to wake up without the Internet on Monday.
Scientists believe they've created the most realistic robot legs ever.


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WASHINGTON President Barack Obama on Thursday blamed immigration policy gridlock on "political posturing and special interest wrangling."
In a speech, Obama took Republicans to task, in particular 11 GOP senators who supported recent efforts to improve the immigration system. He did not name any, but told his largely supportive audience at American University that those lawmakers had succumbed to the "pressures of partisanship and election-year politics."
Seeking to build new momentum on an issue many advocates hoped would be resolved by this point, Obama laid out his rationale for a comprehensive approach to fixing what he and others, Republicans included, say is a broken immigration system.
He said the problem cannot be solved "only with fences and border patrols" but said the government should be held accountable for its responsibility to secure the border. Obama also said that businesses should face consequences for knowingly employing illegal immigrants. And he said those who enter the country illegally should own up to their actions before they can begin the process of becoming citizens.
"The question now is whether we will have the courage and the political will to pass a bill through Congress, to finally get it done," the president said. "I'm ready to move forward, the majority of Democrats are ready to move forward and I believe the majority of Americans are ready to move forward. But the fact is that without bipartisan support, as we had just a few years ago, we cannot solve this problem."
"Reform that brings accountability to our immigration system cannot pass without Republican votes," he said. "That is the political and mathematical reality."
In response, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, one of the 11 Republican senators Obama alluded to in his talk, said he had a good reason for his position this time around.
"My constituents have said do everything you can to secure the border first," Kyl told Fox News Channel. "It's our job to secure the border, whether or not we end up passing so-called comprehensive immigration reform."
White House officials say recent developments influenced Obama's decision to give his first formal speech on the issue as president, most notably Arizona's enactment of a tough anti-immigrant law and the reaction to it across the country. But advocates also have been pressing him to give such a speech as a demonstration of his commitment to seeing the effort through.
Obama didn't dwell on the Arizona law in the speech. He called it an understandable byproduct of public frustration with the government's inability to tighten the system, but also said the law is ill-conceived, divisive and would put undue pressure on local authorities.
The law requires police enforcing another statute to clarify a person's immigration status if there's reason to believe that person is in the U.S. illegally. Immigrant advocates want the Justice Department, which is reviewing the law, to sue Arizona to block it from taking effect this month.
In the speech, Obama extolled America's history as a melting pot of immigrants and lauded their many contributions to the nation.

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McCOMB -- Brandon Austin and Joseph Clark led a running attack that grounded out 368 yards and had five touchdowns Friday night to push Parklane Academy to a 38-20 victory against Starkville Academy. Austin rushed for 260 yards and two touchdowns on 22 carries, while Clark rushed for 98 yards and three touchdowns on 19 carries. Austin scored the first touchdown on a 62-yard run. Clark added scoring runs of 15 and 5 yards to help Parklane take an 18-0 lead in the second quarter.
CARROLLTON, Ala -- The first one is always sweet. First-year head coach John Gartman earned his initial victory as head coach of the Pickens Academy football team with a 27-0 decision against South Choctaw on Friday night. The 31-year-old Gartman, who played at the University of Alabama, is in his first season at Pickens Academy after being the defensive coordinator at Morgan Academy for five years and Montgomery Macon-East the past three years. John Morgan Owens rushed for 164 yards and three touchdowns. Owens scored on runs of 30 and 10 yards in the second quarter and on a 34-yard run in the third quarter.
STARKVILLE -- Starkville Academy soccer coach Robert Gardner believes he's found the perfect assistant coach for the Volunteers' upcoming season. Gardner is currently in the middle of the Lady Vols' soccer season, but wasted no time in hiring former Caledonia High School and East Mississippi Community College standout Louis Alexander to his coaching staff. Gardner, whose lauded the contributions of current Lady Volunteers assistant and former Mississippi State player Katelyn Graben, was keen to hire a boys' assistant who brought collegiate experience to the training ground.
CALHOUN CITY -- The Immanuel Christian football team scored its most points in a game in four years Friday night in a 51-20 victory against Calhoun Academy. It was Immanuel Christian's highest-scoring output since beating Brooklane Christian 54-38 on Sept. 22, 2006. Norris Harris rushed for 179 yards and two touchdowns and Michael Tate rushed for 164 yards and three touchdowns to lead Immanuel Christian (1-3).
The Columbus High School football team scored 25 consecutive points in the fourth quarter Friday night to beat New Hope 39-22 at Trojan Field.
STARKVILLE -- Auburn overcame its own missed chances and a resilient Mississippi State defense to escape with a 17-14 win Thursday night. The anticipated shootout between two of the Southeastern Conference's highlight offenses from the opening week of the season never materialized as both offenses were held to less than 350 yards. Mississippi State's passing game accounted for just 129 of the team's 246 yards as quarterbacks Chris Relf and Tyler Russell looked nothing like they did a week ago against Memphis, when they combined to throw five touchdown passes.
STARKVILLE -- After lighting up the scoreboard against a woeful Memphis defense this past Saturday, much was expected in Act 2 of Mississippi State's burgeoning passing game. But on Thursday, the curtain came down on the aerial attack as soon as it took off when Mississippi State quarterback Chris Relf had his first pass dropped by wideout Chad Bumphis. Relf was off-targed on throws to several receivers, but wasn't aided by five drops, the final going through the hands of Leon Berry on the second-to-last play of the game in a 17-14 loss to Auburn.
All the Mississippi State football team had to do was grab it. The Bulldogs had every opportunity Thursday night to back up all of their excited talk after a lopsided victory against the University of Memphis. Instead, faced with an opportunity to beat a ranked team at home in their Southeastern Conference opener, MSU struggled to find someone -- anyone -- to make a game-changing play. As a result, No. 21 Auburn escaped with a 17-14 victory in front of a crowd of 54,806 at Davis Wade Stadium.
The goal of every successful high school football program is to go undefeated on the season. It's an achievement very few teams have pulled off. If a high school team goes undefeated, it is even rarer for that squad not to allow a point. It's the dream of every defensive coordinator and the daily double of prep football, so to speak. Tonight, just such an accomplishment will be celebrated, as members of the 1977 unbeaten, unscored upon Hamilton High School football team will be honored prior to the Hamilton-Hatley contest.
Glenn Akins and Stance Henderson haven't had to talk about last season to get motivated for tonight's game. Aside from a three-game losing streak to open the season, the 2009 campaign was marked by disappointment and an inability to live up to the potential the Patriots saw in their team. Three games into the 2010 season, Akins and Henderson promise they won't let the same thing happen in their senior season.
STARKVILLE -- When a team lives on the edge long enough, a fall is imminent. Starkville Academy's soccer team was reminded Thursday what can happen to a team that lives nearly 60 minutes in its own half. The Lady Vols clung to a 1-0 lead for nearly the entire second half against Pillow Academy before conceding an 78th minute equalizer and a pair of extra-time goals in a 3-1 loss.
STARKVILLE -- Auburn overcame its own missed chances and a resilient Mississippi State defense to escape Starkville with a 17-14 win Thursday night. The anticipated shootout between two of the league's highlight offenses from Week 1 never materialized, as both offenses were held under 350 yards.
Auburn visits Mississippi State looking to replicate the same offensive performance from their Week 1 blowout of Arkansas State. The Bulldogs' offense was just as efficient and explosive in their opening-day 49-7 win over Memphis. Here's some quick keys for MSU winning tonight's game.
Timing has worked out in West Point High School's football team the past two seasons. The Green Wave used an early bye week last season to help refocus after a surprising loss to Shannon. This year's bye week has been about recovery.
On his way to becoming a head coach, Josh Harper learned a lot about football from Rusty Funk. Harper will get a second chance at 7 p.m. Friday to show what he learned when his South Lamar Stallions play host to Funk's Marion County Red Raiders in an Alabama High School Athletic Association Class A, Region 5 game.
Cameron Newton called it "probably one of the hardest decisions I've made in my recent life." It went beyond telling one of his closest mentors since high school, Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen, that he would sign with Auburn University instead of MSU this past winter.
STARKVILLE -- Cameron Newton gouged Arkansas State with runs and passes in an impressive debut as Auburn's starting quarterback. The former Dan Mullen pupil and Tim Tebow understudy at Florida had five total touchdowns and 357 combined yards in his first start as an FBS quarterback. Mississippi State's defense isn't naïve enough to think it'll shut down the Auburn quarterback or the dynamic skilled players around him in Thursday night's game at Scott Field.
It isn't hard to distinguish between Will Goodwin and the other students at Itawamba Community College. The freshman from Starkville Academy is the one being chauffeured in a golf cart across the Fulton campus from football practice to soccer practice. Goodwin is the lone kicker on Coach Jon Williams' football team and a forward on Coach Mike Sullivan's soccer team, and being escorted on a golf cart makes it easier for him to get to both team's practices.
The lessons were there Tuesday night to be absorbed. The Columbus High School volleyball team only had to watch the tenacity at the net of Annalisha Harris and Mattie Scarbrough to see how they were supposed to do things. On the other hand, the Aberdeen High girls had something to learn from Columbus. Even though they won the first two games, the Lady Bulldogs played inconsistently against the steadier Lady Falcons. Columbus' even-keeled approach helped it win game three and recapture the momentum before Aberdeen regrouped for a 3-1 victory.
STARKVILLE -- Tyler Russell's advent into college football was a reprieve for his lackluster play in Mississippi State's spring game.
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Travis must have heard that a dozen times growing up, usually before the prison doors slammed shut and his father descended back into the darkness again.
Releford often would visit his father, who would remind him: Look at me. Don't do this to yourself. Don't do this to your kids.
On the night of Jan. 2, 2011, those words cycled back, the way the words of a father often do. Travis' girlfriend, Jennifer Covell, had gone into labor while Releford and his Jayhawks were putting the hammer down on Miami of Ohio at Allen Fieldhouse.
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"Oh, he's going to be a great one. I think he's going to take a lot of pride. You know, every time I talk to Coach (Bill) Self, he says, 'He's going to be just a great dad.' And he and those coaches on that staff have been great role models for him. They all say it's forced him to grow up a little bit, and he's taken the responsibility. I think it's very important to him right now. If you would have said that four or five years ago, you probably never would've heard that come out of his mouth based on where he comes from."
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"But, of course, I didn't know what it is to have him (around)," Travis says. "I've heard of guys who grew up with their fathers, and then all of a sudden he's out of their lives. And because of that, they're angry. But I've never been angry with my dad."
You can't miss what you've never known. There were uncles and brothers for counsel, when needed. The father of his best friend, Michael Gholston, was an absolute rock through good times and bad. So was L.J. Goolsby, his AAU coach, and Zych.
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Keshi, visibly frustrated at the lack of support emanating from Lagos for his Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finalists, said: "It's a great shame that a nation doesn't have confidence in its sons, the players.
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He added: "We want to contribute something tangible to this Nations Cup, otherwise we wouldn't be here."
Nigeria captain Joseph Yobo echoed his manager's sentiments.
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It's a tough question to answer, as the reasons for either success or failure are quite different for everyone. Some players didn't succeed were that they didn't train hard enough, others were set back because of injuries, and some others just never had what it takes to be a top pro from the start.
My short term goals are to be around the top 500 by the end of this year, while
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I first tried playing tennis around the age of 5, but I didnt start playing on a regular basis until I was 7 or 8. Even then I only played a few times a week. I would say I got a lot more serious about my training when I was 10 or 11 years old. I don't really remember how much I played exactly back then, but it wasn't as much as I needed to, as I had trouble finding hitting partners.
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My dad definitely deserves most of the credit for developing me until I started working with Tennis Canada, midway through the year I turned 15. Afterwards, I started working with Guillaume Marx and Jocelyn Robichaud, who are still my coaches at the moment, as well as Kieran Foy as my fitness trainer.
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I see Dickerson and Hanigan kind of in the same light... they *could* be excellent contributors, because they have some skills, they've had plenty of minor-league seasoning and they're coming in just about when you'd expect them to start peaking. At the same time, guys with serious talent usually don't spend that long in the minors, so they probably have deficiencies that might be exposed. Hedge the bets, is what I'm getting at here. Give them the opportunity to win a job but don't put the team in a position where we don't have a recourse if they're OPSing .600 in May. This particularly applies to Hanigan, since a team really needs two catchers anyway.
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I'm kind of on the fence regarding Coco Crisp. The +/- system has Crisp all over the board the last three years: -7 in 2006, +26 in 2007, and -2 in 2008 as a CF. He was great in 2007, but below average in '06 and slightly below in '08. His offense has also gone south since his strong 2005 season. In the last three years he's posted OPS's of .702, .712, and .751. I wouldn't have minded picking him up for peanuts, but I wouldn't have traded a Jared Burton or our own Ramon Ramirez for him.
I miss Adam Dunn.
General manager Walt Jocketty thought he might be able to swing a deal that would have brought outfielder Coco Crisp to Reds. Crisp, instead, was traded from Boston to Kansas City Wednesday.
"We were close," he said. "I thought we had a shot. Obviously, it didn't happen."
Crisp, a switch-hitter who can play center field, would have fit nicely for Reds. He hit .283 with a .344 on-base percentage in the 118 games for the Red Sox.
Also from Jocketty:
--He said he was somewhat surprised that left-hander Jeremy Affedlt signed so quickly with San Francisco. The Reds had to talked to Affeldt about returning. "I was a little surprised," Jocketty said. "But knowing what happened to him last year . . . and he was offered a lot of money." Affeldt didn't sign until Jan. 23 last year.
--The Reds have talked agents for some of the available free agents. Jocketty wouldn't say which ones. But don't expect any quick signings. "Right now, everyone is asking for the moon," he said.
--The Reds have been in contract with the agents for David Weathers, Mike Lincoln and Jerry Hairston Jr. since free agency opened up Friday. But no deals are in the immediate offing.
--With Affeldt gone and Weathers and Lincoln looking around, adding bullpen help is a new focus. Jocketty said the Reds are looking at free agents at well as trade possibilities.
--The contracts of pro scouts Ross Sapp and Jim Thrift were not renewed. Jocketty hired three top-level people last week.
"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
I can at least say that this is a sign that Walt's targeting players that make sense.
It's somewhat refreshing, and it will be interesting to see where things end up.
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" ~ Jim Bouton
Jocketty also seems to be keeping things close to the vest. I don't recall seeing the Reds in the mix on the rumor sites...I happen to like that approach. I also have more confidence that Walt using this approach will lead to results that the Reds weren't getting before...
Jocketty better get on it. From CNNSI via the Chicago Tribune.
For Pie, Cedeno or Fontenot? Please Walt get DeJesus and keep him from them. Now would be the perfect time to put together a Stubbs, Bailey, Roenicke + Francisco/Turner deal for Greinke and DeJesus. I would then flip Greinke to Texas for a package with Andrus heading it, if they balk at that I go to Atlanta with Arroyo for Escobar + a prospect.Ryan Dempster's signing makes the Cubs' starting rotation five veterans deep and seems to free GM Jim Hendry to get serious about adding a left-handed bat to the lineup. Free agents Raul Ibanez and Bobby Abreu have been mentioned, but don't be surprised if Hendry instead adds a lesser hitter with more flexibility, such as the Kansas City Royals' Mark Teahen. According to major league sources, Hendry spoke to the Royals' Dayton Moore about Teahen and David DeJesus at the general managers' meetings two weeks ago. Since then Hendry has concentrated on re-signing Dempster -- accomplished Tuesday -- or trading for Jake Peavy, putting other matters on the back burner. But sources indicate the Cubs-Royals talks will heat up with Dempster's deal done. DeJesus would not be moved cheaply, but sources hinted the Cubs could get the 27-year-old Teahen for a package built around either Felix Pie or one of two young infielders, Mike Fontenot and Ronny Cedeno.
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"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."
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I guess this little piece isn't much but this seems like as good a place as any to put it, a potential Red Sox deal. Also via CNNSI.
Boston dumps Crisp and Lugo just like they wanted too. But they would have to be smoking something to take on Willis.The Tigers are contemplating a deal with Boston to send either Nate Robertson or Dontrelle Willis for Julio Lugo, but some money issues must be resolved.
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"Reality tells us there are no guarantees. Except that some day Jon Lester will be on that list of 100-game winners." - Peter Gammons
Rotoworld guesses Roenicke was the one Jocketty attempted to deal for Crisp.
The Reds believed they were close to pulling off a deal for Coco Crisp before the Royals acquired him from the Red Sox.
No word on what they offered, but given their lack of depth elsewhere and Boston's desire for a reliever, we wouldn't be surprised to learn that right-hander Josh Roenicke was the bait. That the Reds were after Crisp suggests they're not sold on Chris Dickerson as their regular center fielder. They could still try for free agents Jim Edmonds and Mark Kotsay.
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Thomas Edison famously said that genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. But that's old economy thinking: for the web worker, working hard is no longer enough. These days, genius is one percent attention and ninety-nine percent stack management. Whatever your online field of endeavor, if you can manage your personal stack more effectively than the bulk of your competitors, you'll stand out as a genius.
Effective stack management requires two things. First, you need to have the most important stuff at the top of the pile at all times, ready to work on. Second, you need to make sure that the less important stuff doesn't get lost as you concentrate on the top of the stack. Both halves are critical to being smarter than the average bear. Fortunately, there are all sorts of ways you can help make yourself a better stack manager. Here are four of them:
To-do Lists – This may be our all-time personal favorite here at WWD; we've covered 20 different ways to track them. Whatever method you choose for tracking your to-dos, make sure that you can easily access the list, keep it up to date, and that it's well backed up: losing the list is like suffering a painful bout of memory loss.
Getting Things Done – The goal of the GTD system is simple: it tries to present you with the one next thing you should be working on at all times, by applying a series of principles to keep your stack organized. Even though GTD doesn't work for everyone, if it clicks with you this system is a great way of making sure that you don't lose the important trees in the forest of your task list.
Browser Tabs – As a web worker, I find the tabbed browser interface to be one of the greatest inventions for stack management ever. My daily work has me constantly running across blog postings, articles, and other URLs that I should read when I have the time. With Firefox (or insert the modern browser of your own choice), I just pop them open in a new tab for later. A quick scan of the tab list shows me what I've got stacked up awaiting my attention. As far as I'm concerned, this beats using a bookmarking service like del.icio.us, where things tend to fall prey to "out of sight, out of mind."
Use Deferred Email – If you know you're not going to need to work on something for a week or a month, get it out of your inbox and file it away. The trick then is to make sure you get a reminder when it should come back to the top of the stack. One possibility: send yourself an email in the future. If you're a Google Calendar user, you can schedule an event and then go into Options and set an email reminder, though this does have the side effect of cluttering your calendar. You can also use an external service such as FutureMail, which lets you send yourself time-delay e-mail. The advantage of this method over simple putting a task with a deadline on your task list is that it gets the future task completely out of your face until you can actually work on it.
A short explanation for those of you who aren't programmers: a stack is a way to store information in a computer program where only the most-recently added item is available at any given time; older items are pushed down like a stack of dishes in a cafeteria (a simile that is becoming increasingly obsolete in these coffeehouse days). Our brains function much the same way, as the famous magical number seven research indicates: we can only concentrate on a limited number of things at one time. Add a new thing to the mix, and an older thing drops out.


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If Wonda doesn't sound like your average artist, that's because he's not. A struggling artist born in West Africa but raised in the Chicago, Wonda is influenced by everything from hip-hop to UK Garage music, influences that are evident on his DJBooth debut, Memories of U. I'm not sure there's a genre producer ViLL?GE doesn't eventually draw from for Memories' beat, and in similar fashion Wonda isn't shy about pulling out every vocal trick in the book to relay his story of a love that came so close, but ultimately slipped away. While this one isn't part of a larger project yet, those finding themselves intrigues can be sure to check out further releases from Wonda during his ongoing #SummerTimeChi Series.
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Finding the perfect personal trainer for you is like trying to find the perfect doctor or hairdresser. All personal trainer have their specialties, niches, personalities and style of training. There is also a wide
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Here are a few tips on how to pick a trainer. You need to make sure that they are highly qualified, experienced and knowledgeable for your needs.
The first thing you need to think about is whether you would like to train at a studio, a gym, a garage or home gym, or in the comfort of your own home. Once you know that, you can start looking for a trainer. Keep in mind that if you are not a member of a gym or studio, you will need to pay not only for the personal trainer, but for the gym membership.
Convenience should be one factor when choosing a facility and trainer. One of the most common excuses to skip a workout is that people do not have time. Having a trainer makes people responsible for showing up.
Once you have chosen the place, figure out what your short-term and long-term goals are. Dave DePew, a personal trainer from Escondido Sport and Fitness, has been training clients for more than 13 years. Dave says, "Fitness is a journey, not a mere destination. Any goal should be driven on an overall outcome and not on an immediate result."
Figure out if your goal is to lose ten pounds and keep it off or to simply live a healthier lifestyle. If you have specific medical conditions, interview each trainer to make sure they are knowledgeable in that field.
A personal trainer is going to be not only your physical coach, but a person whom you would want to spend time with. You need to have common interests other than keeping you fit. Pick a personal trainer who balances motivation with genuine care and concern. You want a trainer who would treat you as if you were the only client they had.
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BAGUIO CITY—Former Sen. Santanina Rasul and her daughter, Amina Rasul Bernardo, urged Malacañang to make adult literacy a feature of the Bangsamoro transition plan that is taking shape to end conflict in parts of Mindanao.
Speaking at this year's National Literacy Conference at Teachers' Camp here on Thursday, Rasul and Bernardo said half of the 1.2 million voting population of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), who will benefit from a peace settlement, are illiterate.
Bernardo, president of the Literacy for Peace and Development Foundation (Lipad), said 80 percent of the ARMM's labor force and self-employed could neither read nor write.
Unless the government improves labor force literacy, investors will end up hiring literate workers from Luzon and the Visayas, reigniting the very issues that triggered conflicts in Mindanao, she said.
Adult literacy is "the missing link" to the peace transition, Bernardo told conference participants, many of them teachers and local government officials from various regions.
But she stressed that the ARMM illiterates themselves want the educational avenues opened up.
Citing a survey of Lipad's clientele, Bernardo said many illiterates expressed the need to learn so they could draw money from automated teller machines unaided, cast their votes during elections without assistance and communicate with family, friends or business clients through text messaging.
"They know voice charges are more expensive than sending text messages," Rasul said on Wednesday, when she discussed the program with the Inquirer.
"We also spoke to this woman who had a clear candidate in mind [in a recent election] but while that candidate had a short name, she noticed that the person assisting her had put down a long name," she said.
Rasul, president of the Magbassa Kita Foundation Inc., said she began her literacy campaign in the 1960s but had seen progress only recently.
She said they were supported by local governments; the Philippine Marines, who trained to become literacy teachers in Tawi-Tawi; international aid organizations; and a telecommunications company that was drawn to the crusade because of a potentially large market.
Bernardo said Lipad conducted classes in 25 percent of the 2,490 barangays in the ARMM. "That's about 619 villages and we are [present] in 36 percent [or 42] of the 116 ARMM municipalities. We have graduated 52,000 adult learners. We have not counted the people taught by the Marines. If we add them, we may have graduated 54,000 adults as of Sept. 5," she said.
She said the foundations have trained more than 842 literacy teachers in the ARMM, who have expertise in teaching reading lessons using the mother tongue.
Testimonies from graduates, such as a Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) commander, who acknowledged that learning how to read helped him follow the peace process, "are triggers for our strong lobbying that literacy should really be considered a principal strategy for the ARMM as we work on [peace] transitions," Bernardo said.
She said the government and the MILF have formed a transition commission that intends to draft a basic law converting the ARMM into a new regional entity.
"What they want is more effective autonomy. But here's our problem: How autonomous can a region be if half of their citizens are illiterate and do not understand the concept of governance because they have been isolated due to their illiteracy?" Bernardo said.
Illiteracy also explains why the ARMM ranks the lowest in the country's human development index and why it remains the poorest region, she said.
The ARMM's life expectancy range and its standards of living are "closer to the undeveloped parts of Africa [in rank] than it is to Manila," Bernardo said.
She said the more telling information about the ARMM involves employment because many productive citizens end up selling street food for a living because of their illiteracy.
"Even if you bring billions of investments to the ARMM, if this is the capacity of our workers, how are they going to avail themselves of the opportunities? What will happen? You put up a business but where will your workers come from? Of course, outside the ARMM… It could create a new set of triggers for conflict," she said. Vincent Cabreza, Inquirer Northern Luzon
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Kentucky Rep. Thomas MassieSubmitted by LittleGuy on Sun, 09/15/2013 - 17:50
I attended an event in Bardstown Kentucky (home of "My Old Kentucky Home") to hear Rep. Thomas Massie and other liberty speakers. Here's a link to the Nelson County Gazette news article about it.
One thing I notice missing is about when Rep. Massie was explaining how many freshman congressmen are accepting staff that are referred to them by "leadership" and those who support them. Rep. Massie explained how he was careful to select his own staff and not those recommended by leadership. He explained though that he was very careful to bring balance to his staff. He said 1/2 of his staff are Ron Paul people and the other 1/2 are Rand Paul people!
Another story I love, but he didn't say it at this event, is that when he visited his doctor and they asked if he had any guns in his home he pulled his out and said "no, I brought mine with me".
I am so proud and at ease knowing that I am truly being REPRESENTED in Congress. Thank you Rep. Massie!
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Swami Vivekananda called himself "first and foremost" a poet. B. Sulochana Nair explains how. In the book Swami Vivekanandante Mystic Kavithakal, she has gone deep into the philosophy of poetry and spirituality and found "poetry to be a sort of meditation". How can such a heart, drunk in the beauty of the soul, not sing?
This, she says, is why poets of repute have displayed a self that effaces into the thoughts which shaped their words; Wordsworth's 'Daffodils' is an example. This could also be why spiritual giants such as Jelauddin Rumi, Meera, Kabir, and Milarepa penned poems that are reservoirs of love and ecstasy. Swami Vivekananda, was no different from them, says Sulochana Nair, because only an unfettered soul like him, who has found the same crux in all beings, could write a work as lofty as 'In Search of God'.
In the poem, Vivekananda talks about the yearning to find his self, the only best friend a man has. She touches upon Vivekananda's view that it is only through steadfastness and strength that love – "That seems to thrill in unison, with all the chords of my soul" – could be explored.
The book has some poems translated into Malayalam, keeping intact the simple, prose style that Vivekananda himself followed while writing in English, Bengali and even Sanskrit. They unravel the romantic in Vivekananda, drenched in the showers of love, but just that the sphere of his love transcended the frontiers of mundane love. May be because of this, his poems, like Rumi's, linger on in the reader, with a soft touch of peace that is both nostalgic and fulfilling. The marked sensitivity in him is heady, and even surprising, as he writes, "I look behind and after, and find that all is right. In my deepest sorrow, there is a soul of light."
The last part of the book is a critical analysis of the poems translated. It gives the context in which they were written and the subtlety behind the words. Rummaging through his poems, she discovers Vivekananda, the dispassionate "Hindoo monk" (as the western press called him), revelled in that beauty.
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