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MORRISSEY AMID 2013 D-HEAVY WHL DRAFT CLASSWed Jan 16
Written for the CHL by Steven Perko of HockeyProspect.com
Josh Morrissey is proving that his rookie season was not a fluke.
Despite playing for a team that only won 21 of 72 games last season, the Prince Albert Raiders' defenceman scored 10 goals and 28 assists in 2011/12 and set a franchise record for points by a 16-year-old blueliner.
Now, as a 17-year-old, he's trying to help the Raiders achieve what very few teams have ever done – going from worst to first. Prince Albert jumped out to a 7-0-0-1 start and they haven't looked back since. They currently lead the East Division with a 26-15-0-3 record and sit in 2nd in the Eastern Conference, behind only Edmonton.
A 6th overall pick in the 2010 WHL Bantam draft, Morrissey has already reached 32 points in only 43 games and is 7th in WHL defencemen scoring. He's recorded two or more points in nine games so far this season and is representing the Raiders on Team Cherry in Halifax at the 2013 Home Hardware CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game.
"Offensively, Morrissey has done a very good job quarterbacking the power play for the Raiders," said Charles An, a Western Canada-based Scout for HockeyProspect.com. "He makes decisions quickly and does not try to do too much with the puck."
Ranked 11th by NHL Central Scouting, Morrissey is one of six WHL defencemen ranked in the top-30 North American Skaters behind Seth Jones (POR) and Ryan Pulock (BDN), at one and six respectively, and listed ahead of Mirco Mueller (EVT) at 12, Shea Theodore (SEA) 17, and Madison Bowey (KEL) at 22.
Last season five WHL defensemen were selected in the top-9 picks of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft led by Ryan Murray chosen second overall by Columbus.
His 12 goals, including three game-winners, is best among defencemen playing in the Home Hardware CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game. He finished the weekend on a 3-game goal streak, which included the overtime winner against Red Deer on Saturday night.
However, there are more aspects to his game. He set a goal in the off-season to get better defensively and improve on his plus/minus, which is currently +16 and 3rd-best on the Raiders.
"Morrissey is a great skater, he shows good agility and quickness," stated Mark Edwards, Director of Scouting for HockeyProspect.com. "He has shown the ability to be a good puck mover. He is a dual threat D-Man with the ability to play the power play and also be a solid defender on his side of centre ice. It's abilities like these that have kept him in our top half of the 1st round."
Morrissey won a bronze medal with Team Canada at the World Under-18 Championships in April 2012 and then followed that up with a gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Tournament in August.
"He has added an element of physicality in his game this year, particularly the ability to land clean open ice hits in transition," noted An. "He has a good active stick and takes away passing and shooting lanes effectively. Going forward he just needs to get stronger along the boards and continue to develop his physical game."
Morrissey and the rest of the CHL's top draft eligible prospects and can be seen live across Canada at the Home Hardware CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game on Wednesday January 16 at 7:00 pm Eastern / 10:00 pm Pacific on Sportsnet and TVA Sports, and on the NHL Network in the United States.
For more information please visit www.homehardwaretopprospects.ca.


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The Minutewomen travelled to Storrs, Conn. on Wednesday and shut out the Huskies, 2-0. Stephanie Mayne hit a two-run home run in the third inning to account for all the scoring, while Sara Plourde pitched her eighth shutout of the season with a three-hitter. Playing in her home state, she struck out 13 batters, including the final three of the game with two runners on base. Below are recaps of the game.
The Minutewomen return home to host Fairfield today at 5 p.m., kicking off a 12-game homestand at the UMass Softball Complex.
Michael Wood of the Daily Collegian has a feature on senior first baseman Audrey Boutin. The story focuses on how the Bristol, Conn. native is a key member to the offense in 2011, and after a slow start, has caught fire as of late, batting .417 with nine RBIs in the last seven games.
With Atlantic 10 Conference play just underway and the home opener on the horizon, the Daily Collegian released its annual Baseball/Softball Issue on Wednesday with extensive coverage of both squads. Check out the links below to all of the softball coverage in today's issue.


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Packing light when traveling for the Lord
Homily for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Scriptures for this Sunday's liturgy)
Audio for homily
A friend of mine, a priest,
visits his sister in California every summer for 3 weeks.
When he leaves for Logan to catch his flight,
he carries one, medium size back-pack.
No other luggage!
When I go down to the Cape for two nights, I pack…
well, I'd be embarrassed to tell you how much I pack!
Some people pack light. Some folks pack heavy.
It's clear in the gospel today that Jesus packed really light
-and expected his followers to do the same:
no money; no back-pack and no sandals.
Can you imagine getting ready for a trip and taking no money with you?
No purse, no wallet, no money clip, no credit card, no ATM card?
Can you imagine taking a trip with no luggage,
not even a medium size back-pack?
It's hard enough to think of going on a journey
without bringing along an extra pair of shoes…
but how about leaving with no shoes?
And Jesus told his friends
not to communicate with anyone along the way.
Imagine setting off on a trip
with no cell phone, no lap top, no phone card!
And one more instruction from Jesus:
don't make any reservations for a place to stay.
Go door to door until you find a peaceable household
- and stay there.
What's going on here is that Jesus is calling his 72 followers
to a real detachment from things they're accustomed to,
things they depend on.
He's asking them to put those things aside,
to help them focus on their mission.
Well, some disciples from our parish, not 72 but 43
(34 students and 9 chaperones)
are getting ready for a Summer Service Trip to Maryland.
And in addition to packing suitcases with extra shoes and sandals
they'll bring money with them - and their cell phones, too.
And while it won't be a Marriott or a Hilton,
there's already a place arranged for them to stay.
But even with all that,
a serious amount of detachment is being asked
of the youth and adults making this trip.
• The young folks will be detaching
from a week of summer vacation to work,
while their friends at home relax and play.
• The chaperones will be giving up a week of vacation time from work.
• They'll be detaching themselves from the known and familiar --
to travel over 400 miles to work with people they've never met.
• They'll be detaching themselves from the comforts of home
and sleeping on the floor in a local school's classrooms and gym.
• Our young people will be detaching themselves from a life in Concord
where so many people do so much to serve and provide for them
and for a week they'll be serving and providing for others --
but they won't find out until they get there
the exact nature of the work they're going to be asked to do.
And not knowing what they'll be asked to do until they get there
is yet another form of detachment.
It's best if we not to get too hung up on the particulars of detachment
as Jesus articulates them here.
What's more important is understanding
that we are all better bearers of his message
when we're willing to let go some of the things we cling to.
Now, not everyone's able to go on a Summer Service trip
but all of us can watch for opportunities for little "service trips"
every day of the year.
But some detachment might be in order for us to accomplish this:
• detaching ourselves from our regular schedules
to make time for others, for serving others;
• detaching ourselves from cell phones and computer screens
to be more present to the people around us;
• detaching ourselves from our personal desires and interests
to become more giving, involved family members, friends and neighbors;
• detaching ourselves from creature comforts we don't really need
to find the resources to help those who really are in need;
• detaching ourselves from our reticence and reluctance
to share our faith with others, simply and honestly;
• detaching ourselves from desiring, thinking and acting
as if we're in charge of life
and, for an afternoon, evening, a whole day or even a week,
inviting God to decide what we're going to with our time.
That's just what the group from our parish
will be doing on their service trip next week:
detaching from the comfortable and familiar,
trusting in God, going where the Lord leads,
and doing what the Lord asks when we get there.
I'm sure our prayers go with them all but let's pray, too,
that they will be models for us,
showing us in their week-long trip what each of us is called to every day:
to let go, to detach from things that own us;
to detach from schedules and comforts that run and rule our lives;
to detach and see what inhibits our freedom to reach out and serve;
to let the Lord have a voice in the choices we make,
to let the Lord be our companion along the path we walk;
to let go and let God…
We worship in the shadow of Christ's arms outstretched on the Cross,
where he detached himself from everything, sacrificing all -- for us.
As a mother feeds her child from the milk of her breasts,
so the Lord nourishes us from his Body, with the mild of his mercy
in his precious Blood, in the sacrament of his table.
May the Eucharist give us courage to let go what is vain and useless
and free us for the mission and work God gives us.
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Sometimes it is parents of young adults who must make a serious detachment from the need to protect and nurture....to let go and let God...Please keep in your prayers a group of 5 graduates from Stonehill College (my daughter included) who will be traveling to India this month to teach for a year at a school run by the Holy Cross Fathers.ReplyDelete
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I've been following (mostly online) the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Boston protests since nearly the beginning. They got traction and coverage on blogs and Twitter long before the media was covering it - in fact, before the unprovoked pepper spray incidents that made the news, the only place to read about what was happening was online.
The media complained that they weren't cohesive enough and there wasn't news to cover. Well, that has quickly changed and evolved. For starters, there were some very bad decisions from the NYPD - both institutionally, and by some idiot individuals - which put the protests on the map for the media, and solidified the motivation of participants and supporters. What's more, it seems the organic sort of organizing that has sprung up has - and I have to use the word evolved again - to meet the challenges of running a protest, dealing with the media, finding a set of demands to articulate why they are angry and not going to take it any more. OWS has spokespeople and media tents and a strong online presence - all while being relatively leadersless in the traditional sense.
In some ways, my personal cynicism alert flag is up. (Yeah, I know, I'm too young to be truly cynical…) I spent years organizing with the peace movement against the Iraq war, butting my head up against the sheer stubbornness of the Bush administration and, later, Obama's. After all, GitMo is still open, the USA PATRIOT Act was reauthorized and is being used to spy on Americans without due process, we're still in our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan though with some troop drawdown, and Obama even unilaterally bombed, for right or wrong, Libya, without the consent of Congress.
The only satisfaction we got out of our fight was that most of the American public got on our side after a while. But it still reelected Bush and let itself be lied to about Kerry's war record and ability to lead, and we never got a truly different kind of leader to replace him in 2008, either. Obama put Wall St executives in charge of the economy even after it was evident they were full of shit.
But there is something really interesting happening with Occupy[America]. For one thing, it's just average citizens (not diehard liberals or extremely informed people like me) who are protesting. Photo after photo, interview after interview, this is very evident.
There are so many people in this country who have been foreclosed on, laid off, unable to move forward, that a segment of them, with nothing left to lose, are truly taking the fight to the streets. Since they have nothing left to lose - no middle class lifestyle, no prospects - they have a lot to fight for. I always said the worst part about being an anti-war protester is that most of our citizens, even when sympathetic (and the majority was by the time I left that movement) are busy with their lives, making their livings, feeding their families, going to soccer games, and being generally content that things aren't that bad for them, personally. There's nothing wrong with this. It's totally human, and what's more, a legacy of the last century of American progress. We built the middle class. A country with a middle class able to make ends meet is a relatively politically stable country. It's a good thing.
Which is why I think there is something different in the air.
Gradually, we've seen the erosion of the buying power and the salaries of the middle class. For so many decades before, our children did at least a little better than their parents. Then, since the Reagan era, we started to see the slide. We began to only tread water…then occasionally swallowed some. Then we began drowning, but we as a people were the last to see it happen.
Even in the 2008 economic meltdown, we failed to notice our lungs filling with something other than air.
This generation of young people really are the first who truly believe - nay, who know - they are not destined to do better than their parents. Unlike the spoiled kids of my generation (raised largely in the 80s and coming of age in the 90s), they see the coming tide sweeping over them and pulling them under the water before they even get a chance to begin. They are left behind. And they know that if they do nothing, it will only get worse. They have nothing left to lose.
They join every one of their older siblings, parents, grandparents who have lost a house, a job, a future, despite being of the generations born with more promise. For some of us older ones, we've experienced firsthand how it's gonna be going forward if there are no changes. For the rest of us older ones, we are beginning to understand how fragile our position of comfort is. The OccupyWallSt movement presents this to us in bas-relief - the notion that the middle class is under siege and has been for quite some time.
The thing that is different from now from these previous movements is that the situation that has caused these long term problems is not going to be alleviated by last generation's leaders. Obama is cut off at the knees to even patch a pathetic temporary band-aid (the jobs bill) on our economic slide by Republican intransigence. And even Obama's half-measures would probably only prove to elongate the stagnation, not solve the underlying problem. We're now seeing the gap between the wealthy and the rest of us reach the levels seen right before the 1929 crash. Eventually, this was going to get noticed by someone. By everyone.
Even the Tea Party movement, while misguided to the extreme, is an expression of this loss of power by the average person. Why did they catch fire? Despite being such a minority of even the Republican party? Because poor and middle class Republicans too are suffering in this economic climate, this class warfare on us by the super-wealthy. They just aren't right on who to blame for this.
Most of America, on the other hand, already knows what and who is to blame. They already overwhelmingly want to see taxes raised back up on the uberwealthy. They know that Wall St needs taking down a peg or three, and that we need to go back to regulating our economic system so that the playing field becomes level again. They just need the energy to look up from their day to day struggles against the tide, to look up, and see that horizon again.
I don't know where the Occupy movement is going to go. It seems to change and swell bigger by the day, though it could have an upper limit, I suppose. But if this truly is the moment where the American people reach the tipping point, if this is the straw that, finally, after 30 years of straws, breaks the camel's back, then maybe we can make the changes without the economic crash that I have been foreseeing for years. That crash (which will make 2008 look like cakewalk) could still be coming. But if we organize enough in advance, if we can offer an alternative to the American people now, perhaps we will not lose a decade like they did in the Great Depression. After all, we have history to inform us how best to rebuild the American middle class and spread prosperity around to everyone.
So, occupy on! There may not be an immediate result, but it could offer a long term solution. Hats off to the most powerless among us.
I feel like I've used a similar title recently. ;-P
Anyway, who needs steenkin' poor people to make a living wage, anyway? Especially when your vote against working people is…totally moot.
Saying that the minimum wage kills jobs, yesterday New Hampshire's Tea Party-dominated legislature abolished the state's rules on the issue. As is so often the case, however, it was a meaningless move.The change takes effect Sunday, but it will have no consequence for employers or employees because New Hampshire's minimum wage was the same as the federal wage, which remains in force. During the fight over the removing the state law from the books, Republicans insisted the wage law not only makes it harder to create jobs, it kills them.
First term GOP state Rep. Carol McGuire, the repeal's sponsor, says young workers aren't worth the minimum wage anyway: "It's very discriminatory, particularly for young people. They're not worth the minimum."
Corporations don't kill jobs. Minimum wage kills jobs. *facepalm*
That's why Massachusetts, which has a higher minimum wage than the federal's $7.25 (MA is at $8.00), has one of the slowest rates of economic growth in the nation - oh, wait.
Just for comparison, NH does have a low unemployment rate of just 5.2%:
But you'll note that VT also has a very low rate of 5.7% as well, and their minimum wage is higher than ours ($8.15). And to add to that, between workers working in MA, VT, ME etc, fully 19% of NH's workforce don't work in NH.
Just sayin'. Not that we don't welcome the 13% of NH's citizens paying our income tax, mind you.
There's reality, and then there's the redneck leaders of NH's ginormous volunteer legislature…
[HT to the Mr.]
I really like to use Facebook. That may not shock you, denizens of the blogscape or "Boggers" as Armand Mercier calls us, but suffice to say FB is often scoffed. Scoffed as a frivolous fad, and it may be. For me, however, it acts as a news aggregator. My "friends" on FB are mostly fellow polinerds. So my "wall" is a constant stream of videos, editorials, jokes and rants. My best "friends" can ball all those things together. ;v)
This morning, I found this: New Jersey Must Return $271 Million Spent on Hudson Tunnel, U.S. Insists
On Friday, the Transportation Department flatly rejected the state's arguments for refusing to repay $271 million that was spent on a project, canceled last year, to build a pair of rail tunnels under the Hudson River. The message to Gov. Chris Christie was blunt: Repay now or we will collect the debt the hard way. Plus interest.
When federal transportation officials demanded that New Jersey repay money already spent on the project, Mr. Christie hired Patton Boggs, a Washington law firm, to challenge that demand. The lawyers, who reportedly have billed the state and New Jersey Transit about $800,000, argued that the state stopped the project because of unforeseen costs that were beyond its control. …
So Gov.Christie has found a conservative principle upon which he can crawl atop and strike a curious pose. Curious, I maintain, because of the unemployed construction workers languishing on "the dole," skyrocketing fees to DC law firms and reported $50,000/day interest charges on the unpaid debt that is claim by DOT. Damn, Gov. Christie! That adds up to a lot of teachers, cops and firefighters.
If just the $50,000/day was considered, you could envision a line of NJ low salary workers walking out on a plank. Each day, one worker would step off into oblivion. How long that line is, is up to Gov.Christie and his principles.
I say this because locally we are faced with decisions to create our city and school budgets. Please consider, as our elected folks strike curious poses, what the hell the consequences will be.
In light of the uprising in Egypt, one could say that ideas are very dangerous. After all, it's the idea of a better life, of more control over their political future, the idea of maybe seeing a glimmer of democracy for themselves that is fueling the disruption of that entire nation.
Or you could ask King George, if he were still alive, just how quickly an idea can take hold and burn like fire.
In a fair marketplace for ideas, some rise to the top, and some don't. In an unfair market for ideas, some are suppressed when others are giving unfair advantage. In our modern age, money gives a lot of unfair advantages to ideas, but the internet is a great leveler and might, just might, save us from ourselves. We can hope.
So off of the abstract and onto specifics: the Lowell Sun wrote a piece on the simple, rather boring and wonky paper that we (Move Lowell Forward) submitted to the City Council - our second, for the record - this one on local jobs. (You can read it here [PDF]). There has been some fuss from some corners regarding this paper, which I found pretty hilarious because that fuss created a need for coverage by local media outlets where none would have existed, which I do not think was the intent of the complainers.
In the article, Rita calls me out by name, which is predictable, since she has disliked me ever since I started this blog and publicly disagreed with her. The last straw for her, I think, was that I thought at the time (2005) that no city councilor other than Milinazzo should have been reelected (at the time no one was doing anything about Cox, but Milinazzo persistently showed up for many local groups' meetings, even during a non-election season, which I felt was a good thing). I know this because she said it to me. Yes, the internet has archives and you can go back and examine them. Welcome to the modern world.
However, Rita has little to complain about regarding not getting endorsed by Move Lowell Forward - the first qualification for getting endorsed by any organization is to return the organization's questionnaire. She never has (not mine for the blog, and certainly not Move Lowell Forward's). Had she returned her questionnaire, it would have been evaluated along with her voting history on many key issues and would have acquired an objective numerical score by our endorsement committee. It was quite possible that she would have ended up endorsed by MLF in that case, as we were strict about those rules.
Anyway, the Sun piece has interesting quotes and differences of opinion from various councilors on the ideas that our paper presents, which is great! We hoped that our boring little policy piece might spark some ideas or debate, and it obviously has. Of course, we just thought it would be a little discussion on an obscure subcommittee about tax rates, local businesses and how to entice them, how we deal with TIFs, etc, but we're happy to see that it has some mental wheels turning, even if it's a quick examination and dismissal of the ideas in the paper. What we did was to look at what the candidates (both successful and not) said in our questionnaires in 2009, so really, a lot of the paper is about ideas others had.
What I find interesting about this whole exercise, is that it illustrates the very differences between governing philosophies that MLF as a group, and I as a blogger, have always been after in the first place.
The councilors near the top of the article being quoted are looking at the ideas in the paper, and remarking upon them (both for and against). Councilor Mercier, on the the other hand, calls me out personally by name and attacks my commenters. (Never mind that she's wrong, that "three bloggers" do not "assume 40 different names" just to attack her. When I catch someone doing this - which I can do because we record IP addresses on the back end - any time someone "astroturfs," it's to attack me or someone I am supporting.)
This is the politics of the personal versus the policy. MLF, and this blog, have long been about trying to get us on track for real and serious policy debates. And when I see someone like C. Mercier saying or doing something that is counter-productive, or even, outright misleading, I call them on it. And they hate that, and attack me. Honestly, I don't care one way or the other about Rita Mercier the person. I care about Rita Mercier, the elected politician who is making policy and public statements that have serious consequences. It's never been personal (all right, I do enjoy waxing sarcastic once in a while to relieve my feelings, but that's not why I blog). But to people like Mercier, it's always personal. There is no separation between getting the job done and their intimate feelings about the person delivering the message. I know which way I prefer the people I elect to govern.
I did also want to briefly refute another point the "fussers" are making regarding one's access to presenting ideas to the Council or on the Council floor, in light of MLF's paper presentation being compared to the decision not to hear Sean Burke in front of full Council.
What was not evident in some of the coverage of Burke (or should I say, biased Sun editorials) is that Burke did get his time to speak, in front of the relevant subcommittee, and thoroughly aired what he wanted to say there (not to mention he himself wanted to provide the service for a fee). His ideas were presented to Lynch prior to that as well, and thoroughly digested for their merits or lack thereof.
The reason Burke was refused a second airing in front of the full Council later on is that he was already heard, and his ideas presented in the appropriate forum. And my understanding is that his ideas were rejected for reality-based reasons.
This is the same access, in fact, MLF is asking for, and for far less of the Council's or Subcommittee's time - "here's some ideas [for the economic subcommittee if that's the right place], read or don't read, and use or don't use them, as you will." We really didn't think there was anything controversial about it, but of course, this is Lowell, and there is always someone willing to inject controversy where none exists.
We weren't expecting a full debate at a CC meeting, but the procedure for correspondence to the the Council is it must be "accepted" as such by the full Council, then "sent" to a subcommittee for review. We were exactly following procedure as outlined in the rules and laws. It might well be that the Council decides it needs to go to a different subcommittee, or do something else entirely with it (circular file, maybe). It's totally up to the Council. We just threw it out there; it is a completely volunteer effort, and there is no agenda other than our stated goals in our mission statement.
The fact that not one of us has any personal stake in the acceptance of those ideas should be pretty obvious to anyone who reads it - except, of course, that we are all Lowell residents (with a healthy mix of "grow-ins" and Lowell-born by the way) and that all of us stand to gain if the city does better.
I find it very amusing how sinister some people have made this all out to be. It's pretty clear who is being overwrought about this, so hey, I'll just take heart from all our unexpected free publicity that will help our ideas will go out there and compete in the world of ideas, sinking or swimming on their merits or lack thereof.
No quid pro quo about it.
Or rather, it's full of sh*t. Probably another edition of Jim "Logic? What's that?" Campanini drivel. It has his signature pull-it-out-of-my…well. You know.
In it, he blames Obama, Patrick, and the Democrats for the reslumping economy we are, it appears, going through now. Of course, Campanini (ahem, I mean "the editor who wrote this") has a real, electoral reason for doing this - he wants Republicans to win, so he's gotta paint this as a problem with the leadership of the Democrats. To do so, he has to ignore general consensus of real economists (the reality-based ones who don't work for the Heritage Foundation). Particularly with Mass job increases at 20 year highs, he has to make you think that despite this progress, it's not progress.
All the real economists (the ones that win Nobel Prizes) have rejected trickle down (hey even Bush Sr. called it "voodoo" after all), affirmed Keynesian economics, and basically have said for a couple YEARS now that the big problem with the economy is that we didn't stimulate it enough - and 1/3 of that stimulus bill we did get was, actually, useless tax cuts, to boot. (I find it odd how this is never mentioned in the context of conservative rants about the stimulus package. Maybe because it would help prove they are full of crap?)
These smart economists are now saying that what we're seeing has an awful lot in common with the slowdown and retrenching of the unemployment rate in the 1930s after FDR and Congress got all deficit-hawky. And they are right, there's a ton in common. And this deficit worry is the prevailing idiocy here and around the world. End result? Since we haven't yet dug ourselves out of the hole we were in, we're sliding back in now that we put the brakes on powering our way up.
It's sort of like worrying about how to fix the patient's broken arm while he's still on the surgeon's table having a heart attack. Simple triage dictates you deal with the worst problems first, then move on once you've stabilized the patient. This is pretty conventional wisdom for those who don't still believe in the tooth fairy and Reaganomics.
And I love, just adore the whole concept of ignoring why we're in this mess of a economic pothole in the first place - the tender ministrations of one George W. "I went to business school!" Bush. Who. Cut. Taxes.
Here's the other piece of logic stupidity this editorial commits - it fails to take into account that the ONLY reason Obama has not fixed the economy more substantially (besides just how bloody deep it was to begin with) is the Republicans (and the few conservaDems) watered down any attempt to actually do the real things that needed doing - like going all in on stimulus rather that doing what most economists tell us is dipping one's toe in.
If anyone's to blame for the failures of this economy, it's Bush, first, and second, Republicans in the Senate who prevented Obama from enacting a decent agenda that had a shot at actually working. But I can tell you, far smarter people than Jim Campanini say that the only reason we're treading water instead of drowning to our deaths is because of the stimulus that was put into place. Without it, we'd be far, far worse off.
Oh, hell, for fun, because I haven't done this in a while, let's pick apart the arguments in the editorial one at at time…
Both Obama and Patrick have tried to tax and spend their way out of the recession rather than rein in fiscal policies and promote business investment.
In a recession, (says all the smart people in the world), if unemployment is high and there are no buyers, businesses will not invest in anything. Why in the hell would they?? They won't create widgets (or houses, or sell services) if people are not buying them. Businesses are not stupid. They know that a widget sitting on a shelve is lost revenue. Apparently, this editor thinks that businesses are dumb and will build widgets if they get tax cuts - regardless of whether or not they have buyers!
However, if more people are employed (those much-maligned teachers and fire fighters and public employees whose essential jobs were saved, to name a few), they buy things. They buy services. They, in effect, create, what's that word…demand. But this writer here thinks the Demand Faerie brings that to businesses in the night, I guess…
Democrats who once hailed the Obama administration's $787 billion economic stimulus plan are now making excuses for its failure to create jobs. They say the package wasn't big enough. What gall.
Who has gall? This writer ignores the fact that fully one third of the stimulus was in tax cuts as a sop to the GOP to get them to stop filibustering it. Otherwise, it would have been 1/3 more effective than it was. It was, at the time, being lamented as too small - our economy is just too big for a few hundreds of billions to drag us out of a Bush-dug recession.
Reviving the economy should have been Obama's No. 1 priority.
I agree. And it was. The Republicans however, prefer a shitty economy so they could run on it, and blocked all the effective stuff that would have been otherwise directed towards the economy. Note, however, that the stimulus bill was basically one of the first things Obama ever worked on - a fact conveniently not noted here.
Instead, he directed Democrats to push through a costly health-care law that, when it kicks in in 2014, will add more financial burdens on business and workers.
Again, that was after the stimulus-that-was-small-and-1/3-tax-cuts was passed, and it was evident that none more would be had with the Republican filibuster threat. Also, health care is a huge, just ginormous portion of our GDP - more than all the socialized countries who've taken health care off the books of their private sector. Addressing it was a necessary long-term help to our economy, though obviously not a short term solution. Our businesses are drowning in health care costs that are just insane.
The bulk of the money has gone to protect government jobs — union teachers, police, firefighters, etc. — while ignoring the private sector, which creates jobs.
Yeah, cuz we don't need those stinkin' police, firefighters, and teachers…or their spending money to stimulate the economy, either. And of course, the editor here ignores the 20-year-high rate of private sector job increases in MA in the last few months. Funny how that happens. How much better does he think the private sector job growth can get, without breaking all records??
With more one-time stimulus money on the way, Patrick will be spreading the wealth to municipal governments to protect even more union jobs. It's an election year, after all. A responsible leader, however, would tuck that money away in the state's rainy-day fund, leaving it for the challenges of fiscal 2012.
Shorter Jim Campanini: unions suck. I hate them! Damn the weekends they gave us, and damn them for serving the Commonwealth with crazy policing, firefighting, and teaching all over the place. They should paid $20K a year, or not at all!
And, in the middle of the worst recession in ages, we should be SAVING! Saving for a rainy day! The hell with the reason we have a rainy day fund in the first place!
God, can you get any sillier than pretty much this entire editorial?
Of course, if you're Campanini (*ahem* this editorial writer), facts and the words of real smart economists don't really influence your view of the universe. You have your narrative all picked out and then torturously try to twist everything fit it. Reality doesn't really factor in to it.
Whereas I'd rather actually solve the real problems of our time. But hey, that's just me.
The country might be in a bit of trouble, but the trends in MA have so far survived. Massachusetts added 19,200 private sector jobs in July, losing some (primarily federal census workers) to create a net gain of 13,200 jobs. This held the unemployment rate steady, but the jobs creation in MA this year is the best growth in 20 years. This graph in johnk's BMG post really just sums it up - not only are we growing jobs, but we're increasing the total workforce number, so far. (Numbers in graph are in the thousands - johnk's source according to him via email.) If you click on that link, you'll see a pretty even distribution of job growth in the private sector categories across the board.
In all, 60,200 jobs have been added in MA since December. And Massachusetts in the second quarter has grown at twice the rate as the nation.
It's not all great news. While we're doing much better here, nationwide, a mere 71,000 private-sector jobs were added nationwide in July. Mass's share of those jobs (if the national number is the total # of jobs, not net) is an astounding 27%. Even if the 71,000 jobs is the net number, MA would account for 18%. But it's hard to know how sustainable our decent level of growth is while the rest of the nation slows. So cautious optimism is called for.
Still, these are really impressive numbers, and as johnk says, "It's getting more and more difficult to take other candidates seriously when they repeat how Massachusetts is losing jobs."
Meehan appears to be in hot water, with both public support, and the Attorney General of Massachusetts.
…more than 500 union tradesmen formed a moving rally from the Tsongas Arena to the steps of City Hall Wednesday, accusing UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan of bypassing the competitive bidding laws in its plan to lease a new dorm.
State Attorney General Martha Coakley says the contract with Brasi Development Corp. violates the law.
How anyone could undertake a major project like building a dorm, in a public university using public money, and not expect to go through the correct bidding process is beyond me. Does Meehan really believe he's above such rules? Who could have possibly advised him this was a correct course of action?
As to the Lowell Superior Court judge who overturned Coakley's ruling on this…the word "Lowell" is in the guy's title…it makes one wonder…anyone know who the judge was in this case, and if there's any untoward connection there? Did that ruling seem to skirt outside the law, or did that judge really have a good reason for overturning Coakley? Inquiring minds.
This needs to get outside of Lowell jurisdiction, where no appearance of conflict of interest exists, and kudos on Coakley for going for the appeal.
While the drama unfolds off the Horn of Africa where Somali pirates are holding the captain of an American-based ship hostage, I can't help but think of the captains of industry that are holding us hostage.
Imagine someone came into your office, and announced, "We're shutting down this office unless you do one or more of the following: take a 20% pay cut, eliminate our the company's obligations to match any contributions to your 401K, lose the benefits of paid vacation and sick days, and let us reneg on our negotiated contracts with you."
Even in this pretty serious downturn, wouldn't you say that's asking more than the fair share from the workers, who have, on top of this threat, been recently decimated with round after round of deep layoffs?
And yet, this is how the NY Times Company is holding its workers at the Boston Globe hostage. That phrase is not just rhetoric, it really is like a loaded gun held to the head of every Globe worker, and by extension, every worker, in this country. This sets the worst kind of precedent imaginable for every other struggling newspaper in this country, and eventually, for every worker who could be caught between their own desperation to keep at least some semblance of of dignity and ability to survive, and having to pay for the consequences of the idiot owners of their company who made very poor business decisions. This is not a communist manifesto (let's nip that stupid talking point in the bud) but the god's honest truth. Workers are under attack in this country, and there is class warfare being waged - by the rich and wealthy. And they are winning.
You want to know what I think? I think we're seeing the results of same sort of accounting bullshit that we saw from Enron, only legal. How much do you want to bet that the Globe is completely profitable, even today, if you do not put the debt from its own acquiring by the NYT Co on its books? I would like to know if the NYT Co, which claims its flagship NYTimes paper is profitable, is taking their liabilities for that debt off the books of the main company onto a subsidiary that ostensibly owns the Globe, making that other paper look like a golden child of profits while the Globe has to make enough to meet the debt payments and only then have its income considered profits?
This is complete bullshit, and nothing shows that we need to break up these dangerous media conglomerates more than what is happening to the rank and file of the Boston Globe. I say that we need to step in and forcibly take the Globe from the NY Times, and leave the Times Co with the debt that they moronically decided to take on.
In case you missed my interview on WUML this morning with Bob Forrant about his new book, you can listen or download it here. Thanks to Bob for coming in and giving an interesting overview of the economic history of the rise and fall of industrialization in the Connecticut River Valley!
Sorry if the audio is an issue at any point, I did my best to fix the levels.
This dkos diary by TocqueDeville, besides sounding the alarm that half of America's credit lines will be cut (which is terrible timing considering that the American consumer is already not spending), also says one of the things that has been at the back of my mind a long time (emphasis mine):
How did we allow ourselves to be brought to our knees by parasites who produce nothing, and a monetary/banking policy that has sucked all of the money away from the real producers?
Corruption. Plain and simple.
Most people go their entire lives without even questioning where money comes from. It's just always been. But currency is supposed to be a symbol, a tool. Not a shackle. We, as a society, have grown so accustomed to never asking questions about where the money comes from, that we don't see the most obvious thing in the world - we have become slaves to bankers who make more money off the money itself, than the goods or services the money is supposed to represent.
Money is supposed to represent real wealth - so you don't have to carry around your chickens. It should never be the sole source of wealth. Anyone who is making money solely off of money is a parasite.
What kind of system penalizes the producers of real wealth, things that have real value, and rewards the parasites? A system designed by parasites.
This is the greatest opportunity in almost a century to fix this absurd monetary system, and rebuild our country. But it won't happen because the parasites also control our political system. So the people are being taxed to death to pay for the parasites ponzi scheme.
This is the meat of the nut of the whole entire problem. The reason the economy is failing and the credit crisis exists is because people making money off of money (mortgage-backed securities et al.) screwed all of us true producers of real wealth (the workers and the companies that produce things). They not only screwed us of our own money, but they overreached and overextended their investments and screwed us with the very real failure of their money, and now we are bailing out these parasites, because we have no choice, our whole system is going down because of it, and we all would lose if that happened. This crisis has shown us what this system truly is - of parasites, for parasites, so help me God.
The deck is stacked against the producer and the real wealth generator in this system, and it appears there's nothing we can do about it. The robber barons will continue to make money with our money, our wealth, stealing it from us as surly as if they held up a bank. Which is, essentially, what they have been doing all these years under our noses.
And then, on top of all this, they pass themselves off as patriotic and American heroes. They pat themselves on the back, these giants of industry, and think they deserve the accidents of their birth or their luck in getting to robber baron status. Then as they begin to be buried by the detritus and dung that is a result of their greed, they come to Washington, with their hands out, to ask us, the producers they stole the money from in the first place, for more money to bail them out. It's criminal.
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Bad times
Bad times not only in the car industry. For example AVS:
But I currently buy adventure games! :) Love them. Especially such games like "Edna bricht aus" and AVS.
Can you translate that? I guess it's saying that the game hasn't sold very well so far? :(
the important bit:
Almost 1700 copies of AVS were sold in Germany the first week it became available, but less then 500 in the following months.
Does anyone know a context for those figures? What are the numbers for other games in Germany?
Also, I wonder how many people bought it digitally...
And where did they get those figures?
This makes me sad. I really hope there's some bad maths going on here.
I know that I for one haven't bought the game because I just cannot afford it right now.
Edna: ~9000
The best adventure titles 2008 have bad sales and the bad adventures have better sales numbers. Imho!
Except Mata Hari. It was not so good and sales are badier than AVS.
The opposite:
BioShock: 63.000
Ok for AVS:
"A Vampyre Story is proof that even the enthusiastic players are weary of waiting. Nearly 1700 units slipped into the first weeks on the sale of shop counters, and in subsequent months, each less than 500 The fact that ex-colleague Burtchens mouth angle whistled down, was not with the sales figures. He was just disappointed - after so many Delays by developers Crimson Cow measurablelath anticipation was high. Too high. But anyway: A Vampyre Story is one of the list of loving Adventures, the dramaturgy of thanks and great dialogues. If you have a good eye-to-press, press one. With the other one looks you know better anyway."
Hmm. Too bad.
I do kinda blame it on Tiller though. I mean it did come out three years late, people lose interest over that kind of period (unless it's Halo 4).
Sven, did only adventure games sell badly in Germany during the end of the year?
Not only adventure games. The most kids buy their stupid Ego-Shooters and action games. :rolleyes: :(
Yes, but where the heck do these numbers come from?! :P
The real numbers are: (As far as I know)
Edna: ~9000
I´d say we should wait a bit!
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"When I decided I was ready to commit, I called coach Boulware first and let him know," Johnson said. "Honestly I think when I called he was asleep or something, his voice was low and then I told him I had some good news and he got excited."
Johnson said that he also talked to head coach Bob Stoops, who told him that he believed he could be an All-American at Oklahoma. Johnson will attend Junior Day on March 1 and said that is when he will start to learn if he will remain a safety or maybe switch over to the cornerback position for his college career.
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The Bass Pro Shops Crappie Masters championship for Alabama is in the books. The final leg was completed Saturday April 5th on the Alabama River. Competitors were met with high muddy water from recent rains to complicate the fishing. When all was said and done the team of Whiter Outlaw and Mike Parrott had come out on top for the third time in their career.
"This is the 3rd time we have won this Championship," said Outlaw. "Alabama has been very good to us. We won it back to back in 2010 and 2011. Nobody had ever won twice. Now for sure nobody has ever won it 3 times!"
Given the muddy water conditions the team's strategy was to fish at the back of creeks to find decent fish. "We fished creeks and a lot of stumps from 3- down to 1 ½-feet of water." The team rigged 16 foot B'n'M Poles with Vicious panfish line in 8 pound clear blue. The business end of the rigs included Rockport Rattler jig heads with Midsouth tubes for dressing up the bottom hooks. They used Tru-Turn #2 hooks and minnows on the top drop. "Everything was topped with a minnow," stated Outlaw.
According to Outlaw the Rockport Rattler plays a big role every time they fish. It may have been even more important in the muddy water. "There's nothing on the market that compares to it. I don't use other jigheads at all anymore," stated Outlaw.
Many anglers agree that the Alabama River can be an excellent but unpredictable place to fish. "The Alabama River is a phenomenal fishery," says Matt Morgan, "yet very temperamental." Morgan is one-half of the Morgan/Watson team that finished fourth in the championship.
Morgan explained that the fluctuation in river levels make it a challenge to fish the main river with the amount of current. "One key to fishing these rivers is to call and get a generation schedule or look online at projected water levels prior to fishing. The fish are in some of the creeks in 2-foot of water and we caught fish in the river 16-foot deep on the bottom. It provides an opportunity to catch fish from shallow water to deep river ledges. Fun place to fish when it is on!"
Outlaw described the win in a modest but proud reply. "The fishing was very hard in Alabama this year. There were not a lot of big fish but everyone was in the same boat. We are so thrilled with our win. Just remember it is 10% skill, 20% equipment and 70% luck. That's what makes fishing!"
The Alabama Championship is determined after three fishing days. The first day was Saturday, March 31 on the Alabama River, Camden, Wilcox County, AL. The next two days were Friday and Saturday the following weekend on the Alabama River in Millbrook-Elmore County, AL.
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The Outlaw/Parrott team won the 1st days fishing outright and then finished 3rd in the final leg to win the overall championship.
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Pat attended Rock Island Grade School and was a 1950 graduate of Grant County High School. She then attended Fort Hays State University. She was a bookkeeper for Grant County Feeders. She enjoyed square dancing, loved sunflowers, and rivers and camping. Pat was a lifetime member of the First United Methodist Church and United Methodist Women. She married Fred Borthwick on July 3, 1982 in Ulysses, Kansas.
Pat is survived by her husband, Fred of the home; children, Stacey Bradley of Grand Junction, Colorado, Kimberly Trexler and husband Brad of Hill City, Kansas, Kirby Bradley and wife Sue of Garden City, Kansas, Shelley McLeod of Longmont, Colorado; stepchildren, Larry Borthwick and wife Paulette of Rye, Colorado, Jerry Borthwick and wife Cindy of Ulysses, Kansas, Marvin Borthwick and wife RaeLyn of Ulysses, Kansas, Bryan Borthwick and wife Carla of Ulysses, Kansas, Nancy Borthwick of Emporia; brother, John Boylan and wife Eula of Ulysses, Kansas; 14 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -Junior forward Chase Budinger scored 25 points and junior forward Jordan Hill had 24 points as Arizona used a strong second half to beat Oregon 87-77 on Saturday before 8,012 at McArthur Court.
The win clinched the first road sweep of the season for the Wildcats, who were 0-6 in road games before beating Oregon State on Thursday.
Arizona (16-8, 6-5 Pacific-10 Conference) took control of the game with a 20-4 run that gave it a 65-47 lead with 10:50 remaining. Junior guard Nic Wise, who had 17 points, began the run with a 3-pointer and a running jumper in the lane and Hill capped the run with a one-handed dunk.
Hill scored 15 of his points in the second half, including the 1,000th point of his career. Budinger scored 16 points in the first half to help Arizona take a 37-36 halftime lead. The Wildcats have a winning conference record for the first time this season.


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Well, I've been going back and forth over the next gun to get. It's been between the 642 with CT lasergrips and the XD9 Subcompact. I went to my local shop today and the only thing I could rationally do is get them both. The 642 had to be ordered and won't be here till Tuesday so I'm gonna put off going to the range until then. Safe to say I'm excited about my next range trip. It's gonna be a good one.
Now I need info on good holsters for both guns. I plan to pocket carry the 642 and have been looking at the Desanti Nemisis for that purpose. Do you guys think this would be a good choice?
Then I'd like to get a good IWB holster for the XD. I'm a fat guy, no use sugar coating it and I'd like something as inconspicuous as possible. I do tuck my shirts on work days, but could untuck after hours. I figure the 642 would serve more as my work day gun and the XD for everything else.
Opinions on any of this would be great. Also, about the holsters, I'm not ready to spend $150 and wait a year just yet so mainly looking for stuff that's readily availble and reasonably priced.
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- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour, divided
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 broiler/fryer chicken (3 to 4 pounds), cut up
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1 cup water
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 3-1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoons peanut butter
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 3 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
- Place 1/2 cup flour and coconut milk in separate shallow bowls. In another shallow bowl, combine the salt, garlic powder, ginger, cayenne and remaining flour. Dip chicken in the flour, coconut milk, then flour mixture.
- In a large skillet, brown chicken in oil in batches; drain. Transfer to a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Bake, uncovered, at 400° for 25-35 minutes or until a thermometer reads 170°-175°.
- Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine the water, brown sugar, soy sauce, cornstarch, vinegar, peanut butter, cayenne and ginger. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Stir in cilantro. Serve with chicken. Yield: 6 servings.
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Reviews for Thai Fried Chicken
"My family loved the chicken; I was the only one who really liked and used the sauce (at least they all did try it), but the rest of them aren't really "sauce" people. Love the idea to bread chicken tenders this way and use the sauce as a dip!"
"Looks really delicious, thanks for the share and I prefer a spicy hot sauce than a brown sugar. If you want a hot spicy fried chicken of course. But that's the adjustment I had when I tried this dish and a wing part of chicken."
"The chicken with peanut sauce was, absolutely, delicious! I cut served the chicken with brown rice and stir-fried vegetables, consisting of all fresh French cut green beans, zucchini, matchstix carrots, bean sprouts, and mushrooms."
"This was a great dish , i used cut up chicken breast , this is a must make and its easy"
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Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973) was one of the finest actors ever to grace a movie screen. Here are the first five of a list of ten Edward G. Robinson films you must see:
Little Caesar (1931), directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The movie that made Robinson a star, Little Caesar is a little slow and creaky, especially compared to the James Cagney gangster film The Public Enemy that came out the same year. Still, Robinson is riveting as Enrico "Rico" Bandello, a low-level hood who would work his way up to mob boss. His portrayal of the gangster was so mesmerizing in its day, Robinson would be known affectionately as "Little Caesar" for the rest of his life.
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940), directed by William Dieterle. In what is arguably his greatest role, Robinson portrays the famed German doctor who discovered the cure for both diphtheria and syphilis. In a role as far removed from of "Little Caesar" as possible, Robinson proves to be not only a wonderful character actor, but one of the most versatile actors ever to work at the Warner Brothers studio.
Brother Orchid (1940), directed by Lloyd Bacon. A comedy-drama (Warner Brothers did a ton of them in the '30s and '40s), Brother Orchid has Robinson playing a gangster ousted from his own gang by his second in command, who then takes the ousted boss for a ride, shoots him and leaves him for dead. Robinson is rescued by a group of monks who allow him to become one of them. Does he stick with the religious life or go back to seek his revenge? See the movie, which features Humphrey Bogart as the second in command and Donald Crisp as Brother Superior.
The Sea Wolf (1941), directed by Michael Curtiz. In a film based on the novel by Jack London, Robinson plays Wolf Larsen, captain of the seal-hunting vessel The Ghost, as an amoral monster with little regard for human life or human dignity. It is one of his most frightening roles, one which makes "Little Caesar" look like the Outstanding Citizen of the Year. Supported by a fine cast featuring John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Barry Fitzgerald and Gene Lockhart.
Double Indemnity (1944), directed by Billy Wilder. In one of director Billy Wilder's greatest movies, insurance salesman Fred MacMurray and bored housewife Barbara Stanwyck devise the perfect murder, killing off Stanwyck's husband to collect the insurance. Robinson steals the film as the insurance investigator who cannot accept that the husband died accidentally and picks through the evidence piece by piece until it unravels. A perfect, flawless movie, one of several directed by Wilder.
The next article will offer five more films starring Edward G. Robinson that you must see.


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DE Alex Brown signed a one-day contract with the Bears Wednesday so that he could retire as a member of the organization with which he spent eight of his nine NFL seasons.
Brown entered the league when he was selected by Chicago in the fourth round (104th overall) of the 2002 NFL draft out of the University of Florida. He started 123-of-143 regular-season games in which he played and started all 16 contests in seven of his nine NFL seasons. In 2010, his final NFL season, Brown started 16 regular-season contests and one playoff contest for the Saints.
He finished with 522 tackles, 59 tackles for losses, 45½ sacks, five interceptions, 16 forced fumbles and 12 fumble recoveries during his career. His 43½ career sacks as a member of the Bears rank fourth in franchise history (since sacks became official in 1982) and his five career interceptions rank second all-time by a Bears defensive lineman, trailing Hall of Famer Richard Dent's eight.
In five career postseason starts, including four with the Bears, Brown had 20 tackles with two sacks, three tackles for loss and two pass breakups. He started at right defensive end for the Bears in Super Bowl XLI.
The 33-year-old Brown, who was out of football in 2011, will be recognized on the field prior to the Bears' preseason game with the Broncos at Soldier Field on Thursday.
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This book features 83 underwater photographs taken on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef that surrounds the small island of Utila in the Bay Islands, off the coast of Honduras. Subjects range from 1/4 inch slugs to a 20 foot whale shark, and it includes wide-angle photos of coral reefs and macro shots of corals.
After dedicating 33 years to public school education as a teacher, coach, counselor, high school principal, and assistant superintendent, Dr. Beerman journeyed to Utila to complete her PADI SCUBA Instructor certification. Her three-week adventure on the island motivated her to retire early and pursue her dual passions: SCUBA diving and underwater photography. She has completed over 800 dives around Utila at over 60 dive sites, and her photographs have won accolades from divers around the world. Her photos have been published in a major travel guide and in course materials for an international marine life organization. Although Dr. Beerman is officially retired, she makes time to teach SCUBA to students who need one-on-one attention and underwater photography to divers who want to improve their skills.
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As summer is winding down to its final weeks we have to bid adeu to our DIY distressed Levi shorts and "bro tanks". Amidst the change of seasons , crappy fashion comes and goes but the sweet , sticky and deliciousness of ice cream stays.
Some of Denver best ice cream shops not only boast of great flavors and whacky names like fluffernutter ,but their location and decor also makes a memorable impression for tourists and natives alike. Below is a list of the top 3 Denver ice cream shops based on flavor, creativity and location. These are in no general order, but if you haven't already check out these shops, do so!. You're not a true Denver native if you haven't visited at least one of these shops in your life time.
Sweet Action Ice Cream
Flavors/Creativity: Sweet Action by far has some of the most eccentric names and unique flavors. Early Grey, Hibiscus, Lavender are just some, They also have a select number of adult flavor like, White Russian and Stanahan's whisky brickle for the those inclined to kick in their ice cream. All the ingredients use Colorado dairy , natural ingredients.
Location: A 5 minutes drive from downtown Denver in Broadsterdamn , this shop is located near natural herbal shops and overpriced hipster consignment stores and great local sushi. . What else could make this the coolest location to grab a scoop. Every block you walk by is entertainment alone.
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Bonnie Brae Ice Cream
Flavors: Bonnie Brae has the traditional flavors you grew up loving in your childhood: chocolate, butterpecan , mint chocolate chip. What makes this ice cream shop having lines forming and people coming up for more? Its natural home made , creamy ice cream. They make the ice cream fresh daily . They also make a variety treats in the winter season like brownies, hot chocolate and massive rice crispie treats.
Location: In a neighborhood of Cherry Creek and a 10- minute drive to the great Wash Park. Its basically Denver's smaller version of Central Park. Make sure not to drop your ice cream cne as you run into the mothers speed walking with their baby stroller . Also, ladies try not to break your neck watching all half naked men jogging around. No complaints here.
Click here for more info: Bonnie Brae
Little Man Ice Cream
Flavors: Little Man offers a small selection of flavors, some of which are traditional flavors but also unique flavors that change daily. On your visit to Little Man you might not always see the same flavor during your previous visit. .
Creativity: If someone took a picture of the earth from space you would be able to spot the massive milk jug that is Little Man, dead on. This place is just over all, an excuse my use of teenage diction-- totally cute. The emloyees are dressed like old fashion 1950 ice cream shop employees with white and red striped hats and white crisp aprons and pants.
Location: The Highlands , Denver's own little San Francisco. Great architecture and new hip restaurants are found here with a break-taking view of the city skyline. Oh, and its located next to Linger also known as Oliger formally a mortuary . Creepy or way cool?
Click here for more info: Little Man
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Changes in Electricity-Related R&D Funding
RCED-96-203: Published: Aug 16, 1996. Publicly Released: Sep 16, 1996.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) changes in the amount of funding for electricity-related research and development (R&D); and (2) the impact of these changes on the types of R&D being funded.
GAO found that: (1) Department of Energy (DOE) funding for electricity-related R&D increased between fiscal years (FY) 1993 and 1995, but began to decrease by FY 1996 due to budget constraints and congressional appropriation committees' recommendations; (2) the electric utility industry began to reduce R&D funding in 1993, and R&D managers expect the decreases to continue as the industry prepares for deregulation and increased competition; (3) some state programs are also experiencing funding reductions, primarily due to decreases in contributions from utilities, oil overcharge revenues, DOE funding, and state appropriations; (4) proprietary data and industry restructuring make it difficult to assess the current level or project future levels of industry spending on electricity-related R&D; (5) many utilities are shifting their R&D focus from collaborative, long-term projects to proprietary, short-term projects to gain a competitive edge; (6) some R&D projects are being delayed, scaled down, or cancelled as a result of the funding reductions; and (7) DOE, industry, and state government officials who expressed concerns about electricity-related R&D funding suggested such alternative funding sources as a state-administered surcharge on all retail sales of electricity and a national wires charge on all electricity entering the transmission grid.
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Federal Research:Information on DOE's Laboratory-Directed Research and Development ProgramGAO-16-486R: Published: Apr 8, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 8, 2016.
Jan 20, 2016
Federal Research Opportunities:DOE, DOD, and HHS Need Better Guidance for Participant ActivitiesGAO-16-128: Published: Jan 20, 2016. Publicly Released: Jan 20, 2016.
Sep 9, 2015
GPS:Actions Needed to Address Ground System Development Problems and User Equipment Production ReadinessGAO-15-657: Published: Sep 9, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 9, 2015.
Jul 30, 2015
Facial Recognition Technology:Commercial Uses, Privacy Issues, and Applicable Federal LawGAO-15-621: Published: Jul 30, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 30, 2015.
Mar 13, 2015
Defense Science and Technology:Further DOD and DOE Actions Needed to Provide Timely Conference Decisions and Analyze Risks from Changes in Participation [Reissued on March 13, 2015]GAO-15-278: Published: Mar 4, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 4, 2015.
Mar 2, 2015
Federal Research:DOE Is Addressing Invention Disclosure and Other Challenges but Needs a Plan to Guide Data Management ImprovementsGAO-15-212: Published: Jan 30, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 2, 2015.
Oct 3, 2014
Technology Transfer:Federal Laboratory Consortium Should Increase Communication with Potential Customers to Improve InitiativesGAO-15-127: Published: Oct 3, 2014. Publicly Released: Oct 3, 2014.
Jul 23, 2014
Small Business Innovation Research:DOD's Program Has Developed Some Technologies that Support Military Users, but Lacks Comprehensive Data on Transition OutcomesGAO-14-748T: Published: Jul 23, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 23, 2014.
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Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education:Assessing the Relationship between Education and the WorkforceGAO-14-374: Published: May 8, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 9, 2014.
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Nanomanufacturing and U.S. Competitiveness:Challenges and OpportunitiesGAO-14-618T: Published: May 20, 2014. Publicly Released: May 20, 2014.
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On June 21, 2012, Philadelphia City Council unanimously passed Bill No. 120428-A, amending Chapter 9-3400 of the Philadelphia Code to require commercial and certain mixed-use buildings to report their energy usage to the City for ultimate public disclosure.
The City's Office of Sustainability has been charged with implementation of the ordinance as well as promulgating regulations, if deemed necessary in connection with the ordinance. The ordinance applies to "Covered Buildings," which includes any commercial building containing 50,000 or more square feet of indoor floor space, and the commercial portion(s) of mixed-use buildings with 50,000 or more square feet devoted to commercial use.
Under the ordinance, Covered Building owners must annually report their building's energy usage (electric, gas, steam and oil), water usage, and building characteristics to the City through a "Benchmarking Application" (initially the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Internet-based system, "Portfolio Manager"). Where available, Covered Building owners may arrange for their utility/energy supplier to submit the water and energy data directly to the Benchmarking Application, but not building characteristics. Building characteristics include a Covered Building's age, use(s), and operating hours, and may also include the number of computers and/or refrigerator/freezer units in use in the building and the portion of the building that is heated and air conditioned, among other information. Tenants in Covered Buildings do not have separate reporting requirements per se. However, where a leased unit is separately metered for utilities, the ordinance requires time-sensitive tenant disclosures to the owner, if requested, so that the owner may comply with its own reporting deadline.
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TUCSON, Ariz. – Arizona volleyball juniors Ronni Lewis and Rachel Rhoades along with freshman Laura Larson will travel to Colorado Springs, Colo. this weekend to attend an open tryout for the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team. The tryouts take place Feb. 21-23 in Sports Center II at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC).
Lewis played in all 34 matches and in 115 of the team's 118 sets on the year. She finished the season with 257 digs, 73 assists, 11 service aces and four kills. Lewis also had 11 matches with 10 or more digs. She finished with a season-high 18 digs in the come from behind victory at Washington State on Oct. 13. In addition, she tied a career-high with five assists against both UC Santa Barbara (9/21) and Arizona State (9/24). Lewis is no stranger to USA Volleyball as she was selected to the USA A2 Volleyball Team this past summer.
Rhoades Earned Pac-12 Second-Team All-Academic honors, while playing in 24 matches and in 56 sets on the season. She finished the season with 58 kills, 33 blocks, 14 digs, six assists and three service aces, while also hitting an efficient .325. She tied a career-high with nine kills in the victory over Eastern Kentucky on Sept. 7 and had a season-high six blocks in the win over No. 21 Oregon back on Oct. 4. Rhoades came up big in Arizona's win over New Mexico State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament as she recorded five kills on .444 hitting and three blocks.
Larson saw action in all 34 matches in her freshman campaign including 104 of the team's 118 total sets. She accumulated 80 digs, 12 assists, eight service aces and a kill on the season. She had a career-high 15 digs in a tough four-set victory against Portland State on Sept. 13 and also had 11 digs and her only career kill in the team's come from behind five-set win over UC Santa Barbara on Sept. 21. Larson had a career-high two service aces in a 3-0 win over Wofford on Sept. 21.
USA Volleyball has a projected record 246 athletes participating in open tryouts for the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team and U.S. Collegiate National Teams program (formerly U.S. Women's Senior A2 Teams).
Among the 246 tryout participants representing 107 different colleges are 63 liberos, 61 outside hitters, 60 middle blockers, 35 setters and 27 opposites. The 2013 U.S. Women's National Team Open Tryouts attracted a then-record 240 participants.
As a new feature to this year's tryout, all sessions will be video streamed live and available by clicking here. To follow the tryouts with exclusive content, follow USA Volleyball's feeds on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Colleges are encouraged to hashtag their content related to the tryout with #usavtryout.
The 27 athletes who have already completed their collegiate eligibility will be evaluated for potential spots on the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team. Athletes with remaining collegiate eligibility will be evaluated for the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team as well as the U.S. Collegiate National Teams program.
The U.S. Collegiate National Teams program has two different options if selected. USA Volleyball will have one U.S. Collegiate National Team of 12 athletes and two coaches travel to China June 13-27, 2014, for a series of training sessions and matches in conjunction with a separate team representing the PAC 12 Conference.
The second option for the selected U.S. Collegiate National Team is training and participation at the 2014 USA Volleyball Girls' Junior National Championships (GJNC) held in Minneapolis. A projected 36 athletes will be invited to participate in the program with training beginning on June 22, 2014, followed by the competition portion June 26-30. U.S. Collegiate National Teams will compete against each other while serving as inspiration for junior athletes competing in the GJNC on what the next level of competition is like in college.
This tryout is open to current college-age athletes and older born in the years 1986-1996 inclusive, AND high school athletes born in 1996 or earlier.
For continued coverage of Arizona Wildcat volleyball, visit ArizonaWildcats.com and be sure to follow the team on Twitter @ArizonaVBall.