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Most of us are familiar with company executives having "golden parachutes" when they leave their jobs; lots of stock, money, and bonuses even if they've done a lousy job. But now Amazon is offering its own version in the form of a mini-parachute—quit your job and they'll pay you up to $5,000.
Pay to quit
The offer you might refuse was first unveiled by Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, in his annual shareholders letter, and was revealed according to a report by Yahoo Finance published earlier today.
In short the program is called "Pay to Quit" and is targeted at Amazon employees working in the many distribution warehouse centers sprinkled throughout the nation.
The idea behind this is to give an incentive to employees who aren't truly happy or fulfilled, so to speak, in their jobs. Basically, happy workers are productive workers, and if you aren't happy, Amazon isn't happy with you either.
No hard feelings
By offering cash incentives to employees to leave their posts at Amazon, the company could theoretically save oodles of money from not paying less productive workers (read: slackers).
Amazon will offer $2,000 for a trip through the exit door starting this year. Each year thereafter the amount will increase by $1,000 until the maximum amount of $5,000 is reached and the offer is taken off the table.
Hope you don't go
Although Bezos is making this offer each year for Amazon associates to leave voluntarily, he also hedged his bets by saying that he hoped his loyal staff would not take the offer.
Bezos stated:
We hope they don't take the offer; we want them to stay. Why do we make this offer? The goal is to encourage folks to take a moment and think about what they really want. In the long-run, an employee staying somewhere they don't want to be isn't healthy for the employee or the company.
We wonder if Jeff would be willing to throw in a free one-year subscription of Amazon Prime to sweeten the deal...probably not.


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 8/7/2014 (723 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeg-based choreographer Jolene Bailie creates an absurd, cake-fuelled world filled with Elizabethan collared unicorns, tiny bulls, mountains of plastic beer cups and manic "Panties for Peace" campaigns.
A series of episodic vignettes explores "what it means to be human," with Bailie's 14-year old contemporary dance troupe members — Claire Marshall, Hélène Le Moullec Mancini, Krista Nicholson, Sarah Roche and Jillian Groening — performing with conviction and energy.
Many striking stage pictures abound. Particularly haunting is the black-hooded trio of women — or the unicorn that grunts and shakes responses to recited cue cards.
In many ways, the 60-minute, surrealistic production is the perfect fringe show. Poetic, spoken references to Canadian painter Alex Colville's galloping horses run like a narrative thread throughout. The show also pops in the surprisingly dance-friendly theatre, brilliantly lit by Hugh Conacher with evocative soundscapes by Susan Chafe.
Some of the choreography feels underdeveloped. And no definitive answers are given at the end. However, the show's final scene, where dancers bob up and down on orange-rimmed trampolines, still musing about life while eating tortes, brings us full circle in his collection of theatrical images, albeit enigmatic.
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Oct. 22, 2010
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Sean Collins, Arizona Athletics Media Relations
TUCSON - With the upcoming Arizona Wildcat men's basketball annual Red-Blue Game, sophomore Solomon Hill and junior Brendon Lavender spoke with the local media on Friday. They also shared their thoughts on the first week of practice.
Under the direction of second year head coach Sean Miller, the Wildcats will host their preseason scrimmage at 1 p.m. MST, Sun., Oct. 24, in McKale Center. Sunday's contest marks the first of two exhibition opportunities before the UA opens the regular season on Nov. 14 vs. Idaho State.
"Practices have been competitive, they've been great," Hill said. "A lot easier than last year because everybody knows where Coach Miller is trying to go, especially with a year under our belts. Practice feels a lot better, as far as pre-season workouts, everything has been going smoothly."
The Cats are challenged by replacing senior Nic Wise who graduated after the 2009-10 season but have plenty of options available. Junior Jesse Perry, the NJCAA All-American, and freshmen Daniel Bejarano and Jordin Mayes, both two-time state champions in their respective states, have all caught the eyes of their elder teammates in the first week of practice.
"They are all willing to work hard and learn," Lavender said of his newest teammates. "It's good to see these guys come in here, willing to work hard and listen to everything coach tells them. We all have the same goals and we all want to win. It's going to be more competitive (than last year) since we've been with each other for the last year. We don't see the Red-Blue game as `Midnight Madness'. This is real; it's going to be game simulated so we'll be getting after it."
The Red-Blue Game's greatest benefit for the squad will be watching the film after the game with Miller, something the newcomers have not experienced yet.
"The film after the scrimmage will be just like a game," Hill said. "If you mess up on the court, you might have to do some running. The film after the game will be the most important part."
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. and fans in attendance will have the opportunity to pick up the 2010-11 Arizona men's basketball schedule poster, schedule card and schedule magnet while supplies last. The Arizona Adaptive Athletics wheelchair basketball team members will scrimmage on Lute and Bobbi Olson Court. The first half will start at noon and the second half will be played during halftime of the Red-Blue Game. A portion of each ticket sold goes to support Arizona Adaptive Athletics.
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Drug trials often include placebos,
which may have their own benefits and side-effects, says Northern Arizona
University (NAU) Associate Professor Alison Adams in the Department of
Biological Sciences.
"The placebo is a very powerful tool
and the vast majority of people know absolutely nothing about it," said Adams. "People
think it's just trickery of the brain." In fact, it is much more than the
popular notion of a useless sugar pill. According to Adams, a placebo "could
potentially be an effective agent in its own right."
Adams arrived at an interest in the
topic of placebos after a four-year foray into alternative medicine.
Postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge,
MA, and Genentech, headquartered in South San Francisco, CA, had taken her deep
into yeast genetics and cell biology. But in 2000, Adams "took a break from
science" to study acupuncture in England.
"At the time, I was ready for
something different," Adams said. "I was open to whatever direction I was going
in." That openness extended to collaboration with George Lewith, a professor of
health research at the University of Southampton and a longtime researcher into
alternative and complementary medicines.
But Adams hadn't left science very
far behind.
"I realized there's a lot of biology
behind placebos," Adams said. "It turns out that when you're given a placebo
pill, there's a whole series of steps that occur physiologically." The fresh
perspective remained with Adams when she returned to science and came to NAU in
"The placebo response is something
that actually gets initiated by the context of medical procedures," Adams said.
In Western medicine, seeing a doctor in a white coat helps the patient form an
expectation that "the person is here to help them."
By that reasoning, "an increased
exposure of the patient to contextual factors in the clinic may maximize the
innate response," Adams said. In other words, "a doctor spending more time with
the patient might be better than prescribing more pills."
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I LOVED this recipe! So did my meat-eating boyfriend (he was very hesitant to believe a soup could be protein rich and filling.) I substituted brown rice, and added some pepper, and I will definitely make this again!
Creamy Tomato Bisque with Mozzarella Crostini
From EatingWell: December 2005/January 2006, The EatingWell Healthy in a Hurry Cookbook (2006)
We use high-in-protein and low-in-fat silken tofu and a bit of rice instead of heavy cream to thicken this French-inspired tomato soup. Topped with a melted-cheese crostini, it's almost like getting your grilled cheese and tomato soup all in one.
9 Reviews for Creamy Tomato Bisque with Mozzarella Crostini
I used Basil, Garlic, & Oregano Stewed Tomatoes.
I would add a bay leaf, some basil and oregano, and sea salt, let it simmer for a little while to season before pureeing. Its good and creamy but a little light on flavor as is, kinda like pureed tomatoes. I'll definitely make it again, just makes you want a grilled cheese!
This worked great for our large family event!
Needed pepper, IMO, but otherwise great. I used someone elses fire roasted tomatoe suggestion---nice. BIG TIP---try doing a pesto and goat cheese crostini with this soup---awesome! Just spread some pesto and sprinkle some crumbled goat cheese on your whole grain bread slices and toast in the oven like the mozzarella ones---wonderful compliment to the tomato.


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Flip a Coin Activity
Your kindergartener is beginning to explore basic probability concepts in math class. Although she may not express probability in terms of fractions or percentages, she's definitely capable of determining if an activity or game is fair or provides everyone with an equal chance of winning.
Want to help your little one get familiar with the practice of tossing a coin while practicing basic probability? Challenge your child to find out if a coin toss is really fair by conducting this coin toss experiment.
What You Need:
- One coin
- Paper
- Pencil
What You Do:
- Begin this activity by showing your child the coin and pointing out the pictures on both sides. Tell her that the side that shows a person's head is called "heads" and the side that shows a different image, be it an eagle, a buffalo or a landmark is called "tails."
- Tell your child that you are going to conduct a coin toss experiment to find out if there is an equal chance of getting heads or tails when a coin is tossed. Allow her to make a prediction before beginning the experiment. You may want to provide a real-world connection to this concept by discussing the coin toss used in sporting events or watch the beginning of a game on television if your child isn't familiar with the practice.
- Use the plain paper and pencil to prepare a recording sheet. Draw two columns on the piece of paper. Label one of them "heads" and the other one "tails".
- Allow your child to toss the coin. Using the recording sheet, place an X in the appropriate column (heads or tails).
- Have your child toss the coin 50 different times and record her findings in the correct column each time the coin is tossed. Discuss the results of your experiment. Then, have your child tell you whether or not she thinks there is an equal chance of getting heads or tails when tossing a coin and encourage her to explain why she thinks what she does.
Latrenda Knighten has spent 19 years teaching in a variety of elementary school classrooms, from kindergarten through fifth grade. For nine of those years, she taught kindergarten. She also served as an elementary school math and science specialist. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.


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Medicalization of Mental Disorders OnlineJuly 22, 1996
Borderline personality disorder is mental disorder as defined by the American
Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders, Fourth Edition. Like all personality disorders, it tends to be
an intrinsic style of coping and dealing with the world in a manner that is
not all that beneficial either for the person who has it, or those who interact
with that person. And when I say "not all that beneficial," I really mean "it
ain't working."
An example of this could be a person's relationships with others in their life. In borderline personality disorder (BPD), the individual goes back and forth in an emotional state, hating and loving the person depending upon their feelings of dependency (or not) on another. These emotional swings can often be intense, and therefore the person with BPD might feel a need to let out some of these emotions. However, here's where the quandry begins... If you tell someone you hate them, they aren't likely to like you very much and a person with BPD, because of their dependency needs, fears that person leaving them. So they cannot (or have not found adequate ways in which to) express themselves emotionally.
So often someone with BPD will turn their intense emotions as much inward as possible. This can result in self-harm behavior and suicidal attempts, as is often the case when anybody is feeling very angry and depressed about themselves at the same time. Sometimes, for some people with this disorder, some of the emotions do get out, and they let people know they've harmed themselves or need attention or the like.
Now the problem arises when mental health professionals put down individuals with this type of disorder, explaining away every behavior and interaction with another human being with, "Oh, her? She's borderline." Yeah, like that says it all. As I've talked about here before, this demeans the individual not only because it describes them merely in terms of their disorder ("Oh, he's schizophrenic." You wouldn't say the same thing to someone with cancer, "Oh, he's cancerous!") It's mean and unthinking to talk in terms like this, and rather patronizing to boot.
But what's worse with people with BPD is that many mental health professionals act as though the person with this disorder is a child. Or irresponsible. Or that their emotions are somehow "fake" and not as felt as "real" emotions. While this could be the case in some people with BPD, I'd argue this could be the case in some people in the general population, regardless of whether they have BPD or not. To dismiss or pretend to explain away a person's feelings with such a label is doing a disservice not only to the person who has the disorder, but more importantly the validity of their emotions and feelings. If we start denying people their feelings, what's next?
If you're a mental health professional and you see yourself in the above, please stop and consider this next time you're amongst your colleagues discussing cases. I have sat in hundreds of case conferences and staff meetings where live human beings were reduced to nothing more than their disorder and everything was explained in that one or two words. It's dehumanzing and it can stop with you. If you're a client in treatment now, ask your therapist why he or she might use that term to talk about you and see where it leads to in a discussion. I'm sure it'll be interesting, regardless of your or their views.
As more and more health-oriented sites come online, I'm beginning to see a lot
more of what I call the "medicalization" of mental disorders. I visited a new
Web site last week and found an article on depression where they stated time
and time again that it is a fact that depression is caused purely
by biological conditions and only medication is the real treatment. I thought,
"What a crock of horseshit," and promptly wrote them some e-mail telling
them so.
They promptly wrote back, and, in part, said:
"Thank you for your thoughtful and extensive comments on our www site. As
you recognized from our site, we take a very medical and biological approach
to the topic of mental illness. I will indeed review the site to make our
focus more clear."
Hmmm, that's interesting. Any objective reading of the entire literature across disciplines clearly shows that a) we don't know what causes mental disorders like depression and b) we do know that it appears that a number of equally important factors are a part of almost every mental disorder, such as biological, psychological, and environmental.
My point? Watch out for these sites as they come online and carefully review their material and what they're saying with what the rest of the mental health profession is saying. Just because you read it online by someone with some fancy degrees after their name doesn't make it true.
I'm planning some sort of redesign of the home page soon. It's getting boring
and losing whatever originality it once (if ever!) had.
Also, check out the latest edition of the mental health magazine we publish over at Psych Central every other month, Perspectives. It's our best one yet!
And, if you're a Prodigy member, check out my weekly mental health chats there in the Health n' Fitness area in the Psych Central room, Sunday nights, 9-10:00pm EST (-5:00 GMT).
If you want the whole shi-bang of over 3,650 separate resources that have to do with psychiatry and mental health online, then you might want to visit Psych Central. It's the largest and most comprehensive site of its kind in the world and we're looking to build upon it in the upcoming years, acting as a super guide to mental health online. If you didn't find what you needed here, look there next!
That's it for this time... As always, keep in good mental health!
Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 29 Mar 2015
Published on PsychCentral.com. All rights reserved.


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District Collector Office, Ahmednagar is announced Notification for Recruitment of 98 Clerk cum Typist & Talathi posts, eligible candidates can apply before from 17/07/2013 to 05/08/2013 though online.
Important Dates to Remember :
Online registration starting date: 17/07/2013
Online registration last date: 05/08/2013
Closing Date for Fee Payment in SBI: 07-08-2013
Date of Written exam: 01/09/2013
Post names and Vacancy Details :
|Name of the post
|No. of posts
|Clerk cum Typist
Educational Qualifications : Applicants must complete SSC with Marathi & English Typing for Clerk cum typist, Degree from Recognized University or equivalent qualification for Talathi.
Age Limit : Applicants age limit 18 years to 33 years as on 17/07/2013. Age Relaxation will be applicable as per rules.
Application fees : Un-reserved applicants need to pay Rs.350 and reserved applicants need to pay Rs.200 pay at SBI. No fee for Ex-serviceman.
How to Apply : Eligible applicants can apply through online www.ahmednagar.nic.in or www.oasis.mkcl.org/nagarcollector2013 on or before from 17/07/2013 to 05/08/2013. for more details checkout notification.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Lou Amundson scored a career-high 21 points to help Indiana beat the Portland Trail Blazers 92-75 on Tuesday night, snapping the Pacers' four-game losing streak.
Amundson shot 10 for 11 from the field and grabbed eight rebounds for the Pacers. His previous season high in scoring was 11, but he had 13 points in the fourth quarter alone.
Paul George, Danny Granger and George Hill each added 11 points for the Pacers. Hill returned after missing two games with a sprained left shoulder.
Indiana led by as many as 29 points.
LaMarcus Aldridge scored 17 points and Nolan Smith added 10 for the Trail Blazers, who shot a season-low 31.3 percent from the field and made a a season-low 20 field goals. Portland's five assists were the fewest by an NBA team this season.
Indiana shot 54 percent to lead 48-38 at halftime. Hill led the Pacers with 11 points and David West had 10 points and eight rebounds.
Aldridge led Portland with 13 points on 5-for-11 shooting in the first half while the rest of the team went 4 for 19. The Trail Blazers outscored Indiana 19-3 from the free-throw line in the first half to stay in the game.
Indiana began extending the lead early in the second half. Back-to-back 3-pointers by Granger put the Pacers up 58-41.
A three-point play by Tyler Hansbrough after the Pacers won a jump ball gave the Pacers a 66-47 lead, and an acrobatic layup by Darren Collison on a broken play pushed Indiana's lead to 20 points. A left-handed fastbreak layup by Collison bumped the lead to 72-50, and a 3 by George helped the Pacers take a 75-52 lead at the end of the third quarter.
Back-to-back layups by Amundson pushed the lead to 79-54 and forced Portland to call timeout.
An alley-oop from A.J. Price to Dahntay Jones increased Indiana's lead to 87-60. From there, the crowd chanted "Lou" every time Amundson touched the ball, hoping he would add to his surprising stat line.
NOTES: Indianapolis native Greg Oden was with Portland and was on crutches on the sideline. Oden, Indiana's Mr. Basketball in 2006, is out with a left knee injury. … The Pacers observed a moment of silence for former assistant coach Dick Harter, who died Monday in South Carolina at age 81. Harter coached the defense under Larry Bird when the Pacers made the NBA Finals in 2000. …. Pacers C Jeff Foster was not with the team because of a lingering back issue. … Portland made 2 of 15 shots in the first quarter. The total was the fewest Indiana has allowed in a first quarter since last March 17 against Portland. It was the fewest field goals Portland has made in a first quarter since STATS, Inc. began tracking the statistic in 2002-03.


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A Database is to be designed to record Student Assignments.
This is the Start of the User specification of the Requirements :-
Students - This table holds information about the students attending a college.
Each student is given a unique identifier.
Staff - Holds information about the staff,
contains a unique identifier for each staff member
Assignments - Holds information about assignments,
has unique identifier for each assignment.
Courses - Holds information about courses,
has unique identifier for each course.
Progress - This holds information about each student's progress of each assignment.
This is also used by the staff to mark assignments, and used by the college intranet to
display to students which assignments are currently unfinished.
Many students can study on many courses.
Many staff can teach on many courses.
Each course contains many assignments.
So from the database we need to:
display new assignments for students (if any) that staff submit
find out which course the student is studying, so we can direct the student to appropriate information
display student names for a staff member for individual courses that that they study on, as well as all courses
and also some other minor queries.
This is the End of the User specification of the Requirements.
A. The Things of Interest include :-
A.1 Assignments
A.2 Courses Offered
A.3 Courses Scheduled
A.4 Placements
A.5 Progress on Assignments.
A.6 Student Registrations
A.7 Semesters
A.8 Staff
A.9 Students
B. How are they related ?
B.1 Students on a Course can be given zero, one or many Assignments.
B.2 An Assignment is associated with one, and only one, Scheduled Course.
B.3 A Scheduled Course has a defined start and end date.
B.4 Each Assignment has a start and end date.
B.5 During an Assignment, Progress can be reported at intervals.
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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2013 Article IV Consultation with ItalyPress Release No.13/362
September 27, 2013
On September 23, 2013, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Italy.1
Italy's economy has been in recession for almost two years. GDP contracted by 2.4 percent in 2012, and at a similar annualized rate in the first half of 2013. The contraction was led by a sharp fall in domestic demand, reflecting tight credit conditions, fiscal adjustment, and depressed confidence. The unemployment rate is at post-war highs of 12 percent, with youth unemployment nearing 40 percent. Weak demand has also contributed to the narrowing of external imbalances. The current account deficit has declined from 3½ percent of GDP in 2010 to near zero in the first half of 2013, reflecting mainly a collapse in imports and steady exports.
A modest recovery is expected to start in late 2013, supported by net exports. After sharp declines in previous years, domestic demand is expected to recover slowly in the face of stiff headwinds from tight credit conditions. On this basis, growth is projected at -1.8 percent this year, before rising to 0.7 percent next year. Risks to the outlook are tilted to the downside, stemming mainly from potential policy slippages and banking weaknesses.
The lengthy recession and tight credit conditions have taken a heavy toll on Italian banks. The ratio of nonperforming loans has almost tripled since 2007, while outflows of nonresident deposits and limited access to wholesale financing have raised the cost of funding. Credit conditions remain tight and have depressed private spending as Italian banks have responded to pressures by keeping lending rates high and reducing loans to the corporate sector. Notwithstanding the weak economy, stress tests results suggest that the Italian banking system as a whole is able to withstand the losses under an adverse macroeconomic scenario.
The nominal budget deficit fell to 3 percent of GDP in 2012 on the back of sizeable fiscal adjustment, allowing the country to exit from the European Union's Excessive Deficit Procedure, and is projected to be close to that level in 2013. In structural terms, the overall balance is projected to be near zero this year. Following the fiscal consolidation and the announcement of the European Central Bank's (ECB) Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) framework in August 2012, sovereign yields have fallen considerably. Debt, however, continues to rise and is forecast to exceed 130 percent of GDP in 2013.
In the absence of further structural reforms, medium-term growth is projected to remain low. The origins of Italy's low trend growth pre-date the crisis and stem from its stagnant productivity, difficult business environment, and leveraged public sector. The inefficient judicial system has also been linked to the high cost of doing business, low inward foreign direct investment, as well as the small size of firms and capital markets. Weak productivity has also contributed to Italy's gradually widening competitiveness gap.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors welcomed the important steps the authorities have taken to secure fiscal sustainability and implement structural reforms. The economy is showing signs of stabilizing but unemployment is still high and trend growth remains low. Against this backdrop, Directors stressed the need to maintain the reform momentum to sustain a robust recovery. These reforms should be complemented with steps at the euro area level to strengthen the currency union.
Directors commended the authorities on the substantial fiscal adjustment undertaken despite the difficult growth environment. This resulted in the achievement of one of the highest primary surpluses in the euro area and strengthened confidence and policy credibility. To protect these gains, Directors urged the authorities to identify measures to offset the revenue loss from the proposed repeal of the property tax on primary residences. They stressed the need to rebalance fiscal adjustment to support growth, by cutting expenditures and broadening the tax base in order to lower the taxes on labor and capital. Intensifying efforts to tackle tax evasion could also yield savings.
Directors considered it appropriate to target a structural fiscal balance in the near term while ensuring a continued commitment to meeting the nominal deficit target, in line with EU procedures. Most Directors agreed that over the medium term, after a firm recovery takes hold, building a buffer in the structural balance rule would reduce vulnerabilities from high public debt. A few Directors, however, saw merit in using a structural surplus to undertake growth-enhancing fiscal measures. Directors also noted that timely execution of the privatization agenda would help reduce debt.
Directors noted that Italy's financial sector has weathered the shocks from the crisis in Europe and a prolonged recession. They welcomed the stabilization of the system and banks' strengthening of capital buffers. As highlighted in the Financial System Stability Assessment, low profitability and weak asset quality remain the most pressing vulnerabilities, requiring adequate capital buffers and continued ECB liquidity support. Directors saw scope for encouraging further increases in provisions, including through improving their tax treatment, and reforming the judicial process to accelerate write-offs and support new lending. They also supported strengthening capital plans where needed, enhancing governance in certain parts of the system, and steps to improve bank profitability and efficiency. In addition, Directors considered that actions at the European level, including addressing financial fragmentation and implementing a banking union, would help to strengthen financial system resilience and reduce lending costs.
Directors welcomed the growth package and labor market measures passed during the summer, but emphasized that further reforms are needed to boost productivity and raise the employment rate, especially of youth and women. They encouraged the authorities to improve active labor market policies, simplify contracts, decentralize wage setting, and reduce the labor tax wedge. Directors also highlighted the key role judicial system reforms would play in improving the business environment.


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PITTSBURGH - When you picture an Irish festival, you're picture green. You picture beer. You picture jigs and reels played with bodhrans, tin whistles and Uillean pipes.
And yes, you picture March 17, or at least a weekend before or after it. It seems all Irish festivals take place sometime around the feast of St. Patrick.
But not all.
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The City of Pittsburgh has one of the best Irish festivals around and this one takes place in September. In fact, it starts today and runs through Sunday, inundating the Steel City with all things Eire.
The festival was created to contribute to the rich, cultural awareness of Irish history and tradition that exists in Pittsburgh, according to the events web site.
It is held at Riverplex between Sandcastle and the waterfront.
Now in its 22nd year, the Pittsburgh Irish Festival kicks off at 4 p.m. and runs through midnight tonight.
Saturday, the fun starts at 11 a.m. and ends at midnight. Sunday's events begin at 9 a.m. and end at 6 p.m.
While music and dance are the main attractions at the festival - and there are multitudes of acts to be seen - there's far more to do than simply sing and dance.
There's the food. From Irish stew and potato soup to colcannon and the famous potato pancake concoction simply known as boxty, Irish cuisine is on the menu in full supply.
Ireland is the native home to some of the most well loved dog breeds the world over. There will be a dog tent on hand, featuring some of the more popular Irish breeds: the Irish Setter, Irish Water Spaniel, Irish Terrier, Kerry Beagle, Glen of Imaal and others.
Americans love genealogy and the festival will afford its patrons the opportunity to do a little familial historical research at the genealogy pavilion.
Irish gifts will be for sale and artisans will be making their Irish artisans will be on hand making their crafts, giving demonstrations and allowing festival goers the opportunity to create a special item of their own.
Historians will also be available to discuss both historical and modern-day Irish culture and customs. A bit of hurling anyone?
And of course, there will be plenty of music to go around.
From Gaelic Storm and the Screaming Orphans to Evans and Doherty, Skerryvore and Mike Gallagher, a multitude of Irish musical performers in varying styles will fill the air with their sound.
Ranging from the traditional, pub-style sing-a-longs to more modern takes, there will be something for everyone.
Sunday will begin with a traditional mass celebrated in Gaeilge, the Irish language that, along with English, is the official language of the Emerald Isle.
Admission ranges anywhere from $12 for adults at the gate down to $8 for seniors 60 and older and $5 for active and retired military personnel, along with public safety officers, with identification. Children ages 12-and-younger are admitted for free.
And don't forget about the drinks either. There will be both a whiskey and beer tasting tents for those wanting to get a true taste of the "spirits" of the day.
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The UCLA Wooden Collection is aimed at the ever loyal John Wooden fans who continue to honor the image of the deceased coaching legend. The designs for the coveted collection were creatively conceptualized by The Original Retro Brand clothing line, who worked closely with the Wooden Family Trust, IMG, the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), and the UCLA Licensing Department. Each shirt will come equipped with a hang tag that displays Wooden's image and also lets the buyer know that a portion of the proceeds from the special collection support the "Nell and John R. Wooden Scholarship Fund". The scholarship is a reflection of Coach Wooden's values and his life with an emphasis on his love of literature. The scholarship is awarded each year to a deserving UCLA undergraduate.


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Over the course of the past year, my wife and I have had the opportunity on two separate occasions to drive across this damaged nation from Michigan to California and back.
We generally stick to the meandering highways and byways that crisscrossed the land before the invention of the Dwight D. Eisenhower interstate system. The gleaming strip of concrete that allows the typical American to bypass the quaint countryside for the preferable 80 mph, caffeinated, DVD in the headrests—gotta get to Grandmas so we can get home because I have to go to yoga—fast lane. When was the last time we slowed down and looked at the country we live in? My point exactly… we haven't… no one does. We are so obsessed with the pace that we accomplish even the most meager of tasks (your triple macchiato from Starbucks that you had to wait five extra minutes to get) that we have forgotten what it is like to be part of a greater society.
During my cross-country exploitations, I started to notice more acutely, the soft, often-times seedy underbelly of our country; almost as if someone didn't want us to see what was happening to rural America. Excuse me sir, it's better if you keep your eyes on the road…oh look… a McDonald's at every fucking exit on the shiny super-highway. Small towns, powerless against corporate conglomerates exploiting every raw material, suckling at the giant's teat so they too can get a piece of the American (soon to be Chinese) pie. People struggle, looking for some miracle that never happens. Small towns, so far off the beaten path that no one will notice or care if we take all your clean water, cut down all your timber and drill into the Earth until nothing comes out. Roads and bridges are desperately in need of repair from the heavy industry that has warped and cracked them. Just truck after truck after truck, hauling away what was once precious. Stacks upon stacks and acre upon acre of freshly cut timber falling with no end in sight. "Are we really using all of that?" I asked my wife. She shrugged.
For every wide open plain or towering tree that rises before use, we are inevitably greeted around the next bend by the grotesque and overpowering stench of a gigantic corporate stock yard; thousands of cattle, living on top of one another and on top of their own feces. "Is that where our meat comes from?" My wife asked. I nodded. I cringed. Next day on the radio, reports of "pink slime" trickle in from every station. Does it ever stop?
Frustrated. Exacerbated. I turn the radio down and look out the window. Where will it stop? When will "We The People" stop taking it on the chin? At what point do we say, "Enough is enough."
We have become a complacent society; we feed off each other like vultures on carrion. We see the next-door neighbor put out on the street and we think, "better him than me." We shut and lock our doors, close the blinds tightly as to prevent the "affliction" and "disease" of the jobless and poor from creeping into our own homes; we are powerless to stop it. Instead of reaching out a hand we turn away in disgust. We pray to whatever deity we believe in that week to "please make sure I get's mine." What exactly is "mine" anyway and at what point did getting "mine" take precedent over ours? I think it happened right about the time "The Situation" told "Snooki" to get the "fuck outta his face or he was gonna punch her in the twat." Brilliant.
The American society has been reduced to the shallowest of human emotions: greed. Our politicians revel in it daily as their concern for our well being creeps further and further from their minds, as they argue over party line minutia, while lining their coffers with handouts from lobbyist and taxpayer dollars. Fleeced, I believe is the proper term. Driving through oil fields in Nevada, natural gas wells in Utah, casinos in every other state, I feel more and more fleeced. Open 24 hours. Blinking, bright, opulence in the dark, beckoning the weak inside to gamble away the few dollars they have on hope—hope provided by the false prophet of a slot machine.
Walmart, Target, Super Walmart, Costco, Sam's Club; we depend on the giant. Ten plastic cups for a dollar, a palette of maple syrup, ten gallons of milk, big double box of cereal and oh!, don't forget the ten-cent discount you get at the gas pump when you use your rewards card. Do you have a rewards card? No… well I can sign you up now…just give me your email address. Would you like to apply for a Target Visa? You'll save an extra ten percent today. No… fuck no. I don't need ten gallons of milk, a rewards card or an extra ten percent off anything.
Yet the giant chugs along destroying everything in its path. The villagers are useless to stop it because they are the ones who created it, fed it and invited it in to stay. It watches you. It listens to you from the cell phone towers that dot the horizon, even if they are shaped like friendly pine trees. The giant craves the attention, "more, more!" it cries, "give me more." I need to take up as much space as possible, talk as loud as I can on my phone, ignore my children and text on my phone while my husband sits across the dinner table from me and does the exact same thing. Oh shit. The giant is U.S.
So now what? I only ask because I don't know the answer. Is there a David for our Goliath, a Beowulf to beat down the Grendel, an Odysseus to slay the Cyclops? I believe there is, but we need look no further than our own selves. The observations made in this editorial are not works of fiction. They did not manifest themselves after a bad serving of clams or invade my nightly musings whilst I slept. I have seen all of these bemusements happen, right in front of me, over and over again. Some might ask, "Why don't you do something instead of writing a snarky column pointing out our flaws?"
I will. I will do something to stifle my giant. Maybe it starts with a simple "please" or "thank you." Maybe, it starts with a smile or friendly conversation with the guy next door. I don't know. I haven't figured that part out yet, but I do know that something has to change.


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Lawmakers are grilling the group trying to find out why no one realized T.D.C tax money was being used to buy expensive items never intended for the county.
The Joint Legislative Auditing Committee spent three hours asking about the hundreds of thousands of dollars that were misspent by the former T>D.C Director. Mark Bellinger bought a Porsche, a yacht, and a luxury house using public money.
Two ad agencies were instructed to pay and then bill the county for the purchases. Ellen Wingard of Lewis Communications says she invoiced the county more than seven hundred thousand dollars, then wired the money to a bank account controlled by Bellinger.
State Representative Dan Raulerson asked the agency how that was possible. "And no one in your firm determined or verified the ownership of that particular bank account where you were sending 747,000 dollars. Is that what I heard you say?"
Ellen Wingard of Lewis Communications replied. "No, we did not. We had his email from the county that told us to do it and that you know that's what we did."
"Ok. Thank you."
State Senator Rob Bradley wanted to know how a Tallahassee ad firm, Zimmerman, got reimbursed after sending 48 thousand dollars to a north east Porsche dealer. "How it is that Zimmerman came about asking for 48,000 dollars from the county to buy Porsche?"
Richard Long of Zimmerman Advertising answered. "Ok, Mark Bellinger sent us the invoice from the dealer said I've already made a deal to purchase this Porsche. I need you guys to send a dealer check for the 48,000 and then turn around and bill the county for that 48,000 under the description of a viral marketing campaign."
Representative Matt Gaetz, who represents Okaloosa County in the Florida legislature finds the stories unbelievable. "It's just unbelievable that ad agencies or public officials or people that worked in financing departments were writing checks to pay for houses, Porsches, motorcycles and that never occurred to anyone that that might be wrong."
Reporter: "And you think that may have been a profit motive on their end?
Gaetz, "I think that ad agencies were certainly motivated to keep Mr. Bellinger happy and I think they were willing to do just about anything to make that occur."
Bellinger committed suicide last May after the purchases were disclosed.


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Position: LB
Height: 6-2 Weight: 236 lbs.
Born: February 17, 1961 in Los Angeles, CA
High School: Granada Hills
College: UCLA (school history) (Montgomery college stats)
Drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 3rd round (59th overall) of the 1983 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 4 (9949th overall since 1950)
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It was a good news / bad news night for the Toronto Raptors (46-33), who lost 108-100 to the hungrier New York Knicks and fell back to the No. 4 seed in the East, but also clinched the Atlantic division title and secured no worse than the No. 4 after the Brooklyn Nets fell to the Atlanta Hawks. Still, Friday night's performance showed the Raps that plenty of work remains ahead of the start of the postseason.
Against the Knicks, Toronto's shooting struggles (30-76, 39.5%) were exacerbated by defensive woes that allowed NY to shoot 29-49 (59.2%) from inside the three-point line (compared to 15-43 / 34.9% for the Raps for the same distance) and get to the charity stripe 36 times (they made 32, with Carmelo Anthony's 13-14 leading the charge).
The back court of DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry combined for 51 points and 22 attempts from the line while Jonas Valanciunas posted a monster 14-point, 21-rebound performance, but Lowry also happened to be the only Raptor starter to make half of his shots. Instead, poor shooting by the likes of DeRozan (6-18), Valanciunas (5-14) and Terrence Ross (4-12) prevented the home side from matching their visitors offensively.
The Good:
Atlantic Champs
Despite Dwane Casey's protestations to the contrary, the second Atlantic division title in franchise history is well worth celebrating (even if it does come in a division with a collective .426 winning percentage). It seems so recent that the NBA postseason was just a pipe dream, something that Toronto might have had some meager hope of squeaking into as a No. 7 or 8 seed in a weak conference. It's hard not to notice that the division win comes thanks to a loss by the Nets, the prohibitive division favourites who have shown plenty of chinks in their armour this season, and on the same night as Toronto hosted the Knicks, Brooklyn's expectant division rivals who have grossly underperformed and are life and death to reach the postseason. Now, Raptor fans (myself included) are having fretful discussions over the No. 3 seed vs the No. 4, a Nets-or-Wizards first round series and even the specter of a second round tilt against the Heat or Pacers. That being said, I'm glad to see that the Raps were hardly in a celebratory mood last night.
The Bad:
Stumped by Shump
Iman Shumpert isn't an elite NBA defender, but he certainly looked like it at times on Friday night. In playing just 27 minutes, Shumpert looked to be just about everywhere on the floor, collecting two steals, goading many of the 14 Raptor turnovers and forcing bad shooting nights from DeRozan and Greivis Vasquez (six points on 2-6 shooting). For DeRozan, a balanced offensive approach that has included career high assist numbers and free throw attempts has helped mask a recent stretch of poor shooting in which he has shot over 50% in just two of his past 20 games. If, as things currently stand, the Raps come up against Brooklyn in round one, they will have to contend with strong perimeter defenders in Paul Pierce and former Raptor Alan Anderson.
The Bigs
Other than JV's 21 rebounds, it wasn't a great night to be a Toronto Raptors big man. Amir Johnson had a quiet return to the lineup, going scoreless and picking up three rebounds in 17 minutes of what was an easing-back-in effort to test his sore ankle. Meanwhile, Patrick Patterson picked up five fouls and a team-worst -18 plus/minus mark over just 15 minutes. Neither Tyler Hansbrough or Chuck Hayes (no points, two rebounds, three fouls between them) could get much going in limited duty. On the other side of the court, Amar'e Stoudemire put up 24 points on 10-14 shooting, 11 rebounds and a +14, while Tyson Chandler added seven rebounds and a +9 mark.
The Random:
Spotted at the ACC on Friday night: soon-to-be No. 1 pick (???) Andrew Wiggins.
The Opposition:
The chase for the No. 8 spot does not look good for the New York Knicks. Two games back of Atlanta with three remaining, the Knicks have a fairly tough slate of remaining games (vs Chicago, @ Brooklyn, vs Toronto), all of which they have to win. Meanwhile, the Hawks need to win just one of a slate that includes a season-ending visit to Milwaukee to face the 14-win Bucks. If the No. 8 seed isn't decided before then, it's hard to imagine that it won't be that night.
Next Up:
With three games remaining and just the No. 3 seed to play for, the Raps visit the Detroit Pistons on Sunday afternoon (3:30pm, TSN). In scoreboard-watching news, the Bulls will be at MSG on Sunday night to play the Knicks.
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There is some very impressive art in Detroit. Two statues come to mind. The statues of William Maybury and General Alexander Macomb. Both of these pieces were designed by Adolph Alexander Weinman.
William Maybury was a native of Detroit and served as its mayor from 1897 until 1904. He also served in the US House of Representatives from 1883 until 1887 representing Michigan. Maybury's statue is in Grand Circus Park Historic District. This District was created by Augustus Woodward in 1890. The 5 acre park is the shape of a half moon and is bisected by Woodward Avenue.
Alexander Macomb was also born in Detroit. He served as commanding general of the United States Army from May 29, 1828 until his death on June 25, 1841. The Weinman statue was created using granite and bronze from melted down cannons. The statue was installed in 1906. You can find the Macomb statue in a traffic island on Washington Boulevard at the intersection of Michigan Avenue.
These two statues are only a few blocks apart. Wave the next time you drive by, or better yet, stop for a while and enjoy some of the great art of Detroit.
Weinman came to the United States at a young age. He was a prolific and talented sculptor and engraver. He enjoyed popularity during his lifetime. He was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the National Academy of Design, and the New York City Art Commission. You may be more familiar with other works by Adolph Alexander Weinman. He designed the Walking Liberty Half-Dollar, the Mercury dime, and the frieze on the pediment of the Jefferson Memorial.
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If you've been waiting for months for Apple to release the iOS 4.2 update, it's here. It's also an update for all other supported iPhones and iPod touches. The update doesn't support the original generation iPhone, or the first generation iPod touch; those are both at the end of their update life cycle. Some of the features in the iOS 4.2 update won't work on the iPhone 3G or the second generation iPod Touch.
To update a compatible device, you need to connect it to your computer, launch iTunes, back up the device, then click the Upgrade button, and wait, making sure you don't dismount the device until the update is complete; be prepared for it to take quite a while, and for the device in question to reboot.
This update includes AirPlay, the replacement and improved version of AirTunes. AirPlay lets iTunes and iOS devices stream video to a TV connected to the new Apple TV. What people aren't pointing out, maybe because it seems to obvious, is that if you've got an AirPort Express connected to a stereo, you can stream music over WiFi to your stereo from an iPad or iPod Touch. AirPrint is sort of, included, but it's not the version and feature set of AirPrint that was initially promised. You can't use a PC or Mac as an intermediary in order to print, at least not in this version of iOS, but you can print to an "AirPrint enabled printer." That's a pretty small list right now; let's hope it improves.
Apple is also now supporting, at no charge, the Find My Phone feature for owners of iPads, iPhone 4s and 4th generation iPod Touches. That's the service that uses an Apple ID, and a MobileMe to help you locate a missing device. Now, if you own one of the supported devices, you can us a free MobileMe account to activate the Find My iPhone services. You can track the device on a map, display a message asking someone to contact you, or have it play a tone so you can find your iPhone behind the couch cushions. You can also remotely wipe the device (or lock it), and thereby protect sensitive data.
Those of us with iPads have been waiting, with various degrees of impatience, for this update, because it supports multitasking, of a sort, and "folders," for organizing apps and Web links. Now, apps can perform some functions in the background, with another app in the foreground having "focus." Apps written to be compatible with iOS 4.2 will now save their state and "remember" what they were doing when you left them, because of the new "fast app switcher," engaged when you double-tap the Home button. So, let's say you want to listen to music while you read a book in iBooks; launch the iPod app, start some music, then double-click the Home button; a new dashboard panel slides open at the bottom of the iPad, and you can launch iBooks, and read while you listen. Keep in mind that not all apps support this yet, but I'm already already finding it useful to move quickly between Mail and Twitter as I write posts, or listen to streaming music via Pandora.
Othere updates include customizable identification tones for text alerts on iPhones, calendar support for invitations from Yahoo!, Google and Exchange calendars, a unified inbox and the ability to organize email by conversations/threads in Mail, fonts in Notes, and the much vaunted Game Center, as well as a fair number of security updates in iOS 4.2.


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Being a Beverly Hills V.I.P. comes in handy, when trying to get a table at one of Beverly Hills' best restaurants. Getting a good table at a restaurant is not just about eating; it symbolizes importance. So if you want to be a Beverly Hills V.I.P., then you need to get in with the "in crowd" at the following ultra exclusive Beverly Hills restaurants.
Beverly Hills Ambiance:
In Beverly Hills, the restaurants are on the small side and cater to the Hollywood celebrities, who make Beverly Hills their regular spot to rendezvous. One would be misinformed to believe, all the stars and celebs are in Hollywood. True, they may go to Hollywood to work at a movie studio or soundstage, but when it is time to unwind, all of the celebrities head west to Beverly Hills, California.
In fact, many of the residents of Beverly Hills are the most well-known & famous celebrities in the world. Thus, if you want to be a V.I.P. in Beverly Hills, you are going to have a tough act to follow. Due to limited seating, some of these exclusive restaurants have even turned away red hot stars at their hottest. Therefore, if you want to eat at one of these celebrity-filled restaurants, be sure to book a reservation weeks or months in advance.
Beverly Hills Geography:
Beverly Hills is, above all, a small town for the wealthy. Less than six square miles in size, Beverly Hills mainly consist of homes and shops, with barely even a billboard sign in sight, and definitely not a factory anywhere within city lines. The city has churches; restaurants; boutiques; office high-rises; parks, but nothing that would lessen the value of this prime real estate. Notably, in Beverly Hills, there is not even a hospital or a cemetery.
The prime high-rise office space housing top attorneys and talent agents, can be found in the "Golden Triangle," which is in between Wilshire and Sunset Boulevards. The other streets bordering the "Golden Triangle" include: Santa Monica Boulevard (on the northwest;) Wilshire Boulevard (on the south;) and Canon Drive (on the east.) Within the "Golden Triangle" is a grid of seven smaller commercial streets filled with shops and restaurants. Centrally located in the middle of the Golden Triangle is the world famous Rodeo Drive; Beverly Hills' fabled shopping avenue of boutiques and luxury.
Beverly Hills is, undeniably, an aesthetically pleasing neighborhood. Its commercial streets are immaculate and filled with exclusive boutiques and sophisticated shoppers. The Beverly Hills Civic Center, which houses City Hall, is not only gorgeous, it is a Spanish mission-style design worthy of an architecture award, and also, it is considered a landmark. The residential side of Beverly Hills features multi-million dollar mansions, towering trees, and miles of manicured green lawns. This is the life most people dream of. A visit to Beverly Hills can be analogous to a visit to a great art exhibit at a prominent museum.
Beverly Hills Dining:
Once you have explored the city of Beverly Hills and you have worked up an appetite; here is a list of some of the most exclusive restaurants in Beverly Hills. So exclusive, even Leonardo DiCaprio might feel like the "king of the world" to be able to get a table at one of these ultrachic eateries.
1. Matsuhisa
Categories: Sushi Bars, Japanese, Food
Neighborhood: Beverly Hills
129 N La Cienega Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
(310) 659-9639
Category: Steakhouses
Neighborhood: Beverly Hills
9500 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
(310) 275-5200
3. Mastro's Steakhouse
Categories: Steakhouses, Lounges
Neighborhood: Beverly Hills
246 N Canon Dr
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 888-8782
4. Spago
Category: American (New)
Neighborhood: Beverly Hills
176 N Canon Dr
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 385-0880
5. Urasawa
Category: Japanese
Neighborhood: Beverly Hills
218 N Rodeo Dr
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 247-8939
6. Tagine
Category: Moroccan
Neighborhood: Beverly Hills
132 N Robertson Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
(310) 360-7535
7. Lawry's The Prime Rib
Categories: Steakhouses, American (Traditional), Venues & Event Spaces
Neighborhood: Beverly Hills
100 N La Cienega Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
(310) 652-2827
8. Fogo de Chao
Categories: Steakhouses, Brazilian
133 N La Cienega Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
(310) 289-7755
9. Il Cielo
Categories: Italian, Venues & Event Spaces, Lounges
Neighborhood: Mid-City West
9018 Burton Way
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
(310) 276-9990
10. Cocina Primavera
Categories: Latin American, American (Traditional)
Neighborhoods: West Los Angeles, Beverly Hills
9111 W Olympic Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
(310) 550-7834
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College Hockey:Notre Dame Rebounds To Down LSSU
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame ended the first half with a strong team effort as the Irish ended Lake Superior's seven-game unbeaten streak with a 4-3 win at the Joyce Center Sunday afternoon.
After watching the Lakers score three power-play goals on Saturday night, the Irish took the cue and scored three of their own Sunday. Senior right wing Tim Wallace led the way with two goals (one power-play goal) and an assist for the second three-point game of his career, and junior defenseman Noah Babin added the first three-point game (1 ppg, 2a) to pace the Irish offensive attack.
Senior Mike Walsh added the third power-play goal for the Irish, the eventual game winner early in the third period.
The Lakers, who trailed 3-0 and later 4-1, got goals from Trent Campbell, Mike Adamek and Nathan Ward.
"I think that we showed how we can play today against a good team," said Irish coach Jeff Jackson.
"We showed some fatigue in the third period. We wasted a lot of energy on Saturday night. Lake Superior is a senior-laden team that plays hard and they kept coming at us. The key is, we didn't let this one slip away."
The win gives the Irish more wins than they had all last season, both overall and in the CCHA. Notre Dame's record after 18 games stands at 6-11-1 overall and 4-7-1 in CCHA play. The Lakers fall to 10-6-4 on the year and 6-6-2 in league action.
After a lackluster performance in Saturday's 4-0 loss to the Lakers, the Irish wasted little time in getting out to a fast start.
Wallace snapped a three-game scoreless streak just 41 seconds into the game when he beat Laker goaltender Jeff Jakaitis with a nice move down the left side. Babin started the play in the Irish zone by breaking up a Laker pass at the blue line and banking it off the glass to Wallace on the left-wing boards. Wallace carried into the Lake Superior zone on a 2-on-1 with Christian Hanson, using Hanson as a decoy before beating Jakaitis for his seventh goal of the year.
"Noah made a great chip off the glass to give us a two-on-one," said Wallace. "I just took it to the goal and made a move around the goaltender and put it in."
Wallace gave the Irish a 2-0 lead at 14:35 with their first power-play goal of the night off a face off. T.J. Jindra won a draw in the right-wing circle back to Brock Sheahan at the right point. Sheahan moved it to Wallace at the top of the left-wing circle and the Anchorage, Alaska, native snapped off a wrister that beat Jakaitis high over his glove inside the right post for Wallace's eighth goal of the year.
"The second goal was off a power-play faceoff play that we've been working on and it worked to perfection," said Wallace. "T.J. did a great job winning the draw and then going to the front to set a screen. Brock made a perfect pass to me and I just got a shot on the goal. All I wanted to do was get it on goal and it went in. It was the perfect play for the situation."
Wallace wasn't done as he helped give the Irish a 3-0 lead at 10:56 of the second period. The veteran right wing gathered in a loose puck on the right wing boards and moved it back to Babin at the right point. Babin fired it quickly at the goal and it appeared to deflect off a stick and over the shoulder of Jakaitis for Babin's second of the year.
The Lakers finally broke through on Irish goaltender David Brown at 14:09 when Campbell slid the rebound of a Nathan Ward shot through Brown's pads for his sixth goal of the season to cut Notre Dame's lead to 3-1.
Notre Dame took its second three-goal lead of the afternoon at 2:46 of the third period on Mike Walsh's fourth goal of the season.
Mark Van Guilder set the play in motion on the left-wing boards. He moved the puck back to Babin at the left point where he fired a wrist shot towards the Lake Superior goal. The shot deflected off Erik Condra in front; the rebound dropped and before the Laker goaltender could cover it, Walsh flipped the rebound over Jakaitis to give the Irish a 4-1 lead.
Mike Adamek cut that lead to 4-2 at the 10:02, scoring off a feed from Barnabas Birkeland at the top of the left circle, where he ripped a shot past Brown for his third of the season and second of the series.
The Lakers pulled their goaltender with over three minutes left in favor of a sixth attacker and the strategy worked as Ward scored his third of the season in front of the goal to cut the Irish lead to 4-3, but Brown and the Notre Dame defense held off the Lakers' rush to preserve the win.
"I told them after the second period that we would pass all of last year's numbers (total wins, league wins) with a win today. That's another monkey off this team's back," said Jackson. "Everyone contributed to this win. The seniors played well, the special teams played well, the defense and the goaltender played well. We ended the first half on a strong note today."
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There is a growing epidemic of anti-women sentiment among Republican representatives. Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and H.W. Bush Republicans are most likely rolling over in their graves or cringing at the radicalization of their party. This malady has evolved along with the rise of the Tea Party. I don't say this frivolously. Look at the evidence.
"I'm pro life without exception. Understand though, that when we talk about exceptions, we talk about rape, incest, health of a woman, life of a woman. Life of the woman is not an exception." -- Rep. Joe Walsh (R - IL).
Paul Ryan co-sponsored a bill that aimed to give fetuses "constitutional attributes and privileges" and did not include exceptions for cases of rape, incest or life-threatening pregnancies. Ryan and Akin also co-sponsored a 2011 bill identifying cases of "forcible rape" as the only exception to an existing law that withholds federal funding for abortions.
The bill eliminates funds for victims of statutory rape including women who are drugged and raped.
Not surprisingly Todd Akin (R-MO), co-sponsor of that Ryan bill, later famously said, "From what I understand from doctors, that's (pregnancy from rape are) really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." Apparently Todd Akin thinks 32,000 rape pregnancies represents a rarity.
More importantly when is a rape legitimate? The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology says this represents 5% of the rapes in the U.S. That means there are 640,000 rapes a year.
Then there is the pièce de résistance. "Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen." -- Richard Mourdoch, Indiana Republican Senate candidate.
This was in response to whether a woman should be forced to bear the child after rape. How is it that the Mourdochs of the world know what God intended or didn't intend? How do they know that God didn't intend for such a heinous act to be corrected by an abortion? If the premise is that he and God believes life is precious then why did God allow Moses to drown thousands of Egyptians after parting the Red Sea.
In fact, why did God allow so many crimes of humanity to occur with no regard for precious life? The standard refrain is that God works in mysterious ways. Well, isn't it then possible that abortion is also one of God's mysterious ways? But I digress.
Republican anti-women positions are not just relegated to women's health issues but also to women's economic independence and safety. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 is the first legislation Obama signed into law. It ended the statue of limitations for filing a claim for wage discrimination which mostly affects women. When asked whether he would support the Lily Ledbetter act, Romney would not give a clear answer.
Then there is the Paycheck Fairness Act meant to deal with the wage gap between men and women. Republicans filibustered it twice.
On women's safety, Republicans opposed the Violence Against Women Act.
We all have women in our lives. This includes wives, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, daughters and girlfriends who, irrespective of their party affiliation, are hurt by this kind of anti-women sentiment. Women and men who support them can change this.
Who you send to Congress is critical to what happens to women. In our district, Jack Uppal (D) is running against Tom McClintock. McClintock opposed the Lily Ledbetter and Paycheck Fairness Act. He also voted against the Violence Against Women Act saying it was a "feel good measure." Mitigating 640,000 rapes, which are acts of violence, is not simply a feel good act. And these figures are only for rapes.
What about the non-rape related violence which probably goes into the millions. Would Tom McClintock have the same cavalier attitude if the victims were men? This hypocrisy and insensitivity is consistent with his position on Medicare covering Viagra for men but rejecting insurance coverage of contraception for women's health. Tom McClintock is on the wrong side of women.
Jack Uppal believes in women, their rights and protections. His positions on ending gridlock, bringing jobs home, strengthening Medicare, reviving the Middle Class, and accelerating the positive trend in the economy will restore prosperity for all Americans.
Vote Jack Uppal. Go to jackuppal.com/issues.html for more information.


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Published: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 4:48 p.m.
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"Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies."
Peggy Jean Briggs Hinkle. 64, of Country Club Drive, died Monday, April 7, 2014, at Hinkle Hospice House.
A funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church by the Revs. Kelley Groce and Doug Rowe followed by burial in the Lexington City Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the home and then before the service, beginning at 12:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall of the First United Methodist Church.
Mrs. Hinkle was born Aug. 16, 1949, in Lexington to Raymond Briggs and Pauline Parker Briggs, who preceded her in death.
She attended Davidson County Community College and Wake Forest University, was a member of the Lexington Garden Club and the Charity League of Lexington, and served on the board of Crisis Ministry, Lexington Hospital Foundation and Family Services of Davidson County. In the past, she served on the board of Lexington Youth Theatre, Child Guidance Center and Edward C. Smith Civic Center. She loved bridge and had been in a bridge club for 39 years. She was a member of First United Methodist Church.
Surviving are her son, Gar Hinkle of the home; daughter Rae Hinkle Pickler and husband Casey Pickler of Winston-Salem; granddaughter Maggie Grace Pickler of Winston-Salem; two brothers, Gary Briggs and wife Beth of Graham and Ronnie Briggs and wife Bebe of Lexington; nephews Mark Briggs and wife Robin of Indian Trail and Christian Fisher and wife Lorrie of Pittsboro; nieces Sherry Briggs and husband Ken Arthur of Wake Forest and Mary Fisher Davila and husband Chris of Raleigh; and husband Ed Hinkle of Lexington.
Flowers can be sent to the First United Methodist Church for the service or memorials can be made to Crisis Ministry of Davidson County, 12 E. First Ave., Lexington, NC 27292.
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Corporate price-fixing and embezzlement don't exactly seem like topics you could play for yucks on the silver screen, but the new film The Informant! – written by Scott Z. Burns, based on the same-titled book by Kurt Eichenwald, and directed by Steven Soderbergh – has a secret weapon: real-life informant and brainiac blatherer, Mark Whitacre.
Played by the dedicatedly doughy Matt Damon, Whitacre is a brilliant, goofy, bi-polar grandstander who, in the maw of a bollixed extortion attempt, turns mole for the Federal Bureau of Investigation against his own firm Archer Daniels Midland, helping the Bureau expose what was at the time the biggest price-fixing scam in history.
While Burns, a soft-spoken Minnesota native, lacks an iota of the rambling grandiosity that marks the Ivy League PhD's behavior in the film, he clearly has the wry sense of humor to know exactly how to capitalize on the absurdity of the scenario. Of his understanding of the film biz in college, he deadpans, "I didn't even know people from Minnesota were allowed to make movies," until, while studying English literature at the University of Minnesota, a friend asked him to invest money – his student loan money, actually – on an independent film by two brothers named Coen. Burns didn't cough up the dough, but the film Blood Simple got made anyway.
He spoke with the Writers Guild of America, West Web site about working with Soderbergh, researching The Informant! and his final take on whether his lead character, Mark Whitacre is a hero or villain.
Tell me about what kind of tone you wanted to set with this film being that it's a comedy but also based on a true-life story about the serious matters of agri-business price-fixing, embezzlement and whistle-blowing.
I think the thing that first attracted me to this story was the fact that, if you look at Whitacre himself through one lens, he's kind of a hero, and through another, he's kind of a bad guy. I'd find when I was pitching the movie and talking to people about the story, it was hard not to find yourself sort of dumbstruck by his actions.
When Steven and I started talking about how to approach this, we realized we couldn't do a whistleblower movie like Erin Brockovich or The Insider – both of which I really liked – largely because Whitacre wasn't a whistleblower like those people. This was someone who had a very difficult time telling the truth, which is not exactly what you're looking for in a whistleblower.
So a lot of the tonal approach was shaped after you spoke with Steven?
Yeah. One of the reasons I wanted to work with Steven came down to the fact that what he said to me at the beginning was, "Go and write a version of this that only you could write." He felt and I felt that the most original telling of the story would probably be as an offbeat comedy.
So, in a way, you thought puncturing the balloon and looking at the absurdity of this guy was the best way to grapple with the gravity of the events here?
Exactly. I don't know if this story can stand a serious telling. When you think about scenes like Mark Whitacre describing himself to his gardener as Secret Agent 0014, which really happened...
That really happened?
Yes. So how can you drop a scene like that into the middle of The Insider? Because of the antics of Mark Whitacre, there was no way that this could be told with that kind of gravitas.
How much did your knowledge of Soderbergh's films inform the tone for you?
It's hard to answer. One of the reasons I wanted to work with Steven was that from the beginning, he encouraged me to use my own voice. The great thing is that he's done so many types of movies from The Limey all the way back to Sex, Lies and Videotape, the fact that he's been so fearless, as a screenwriter, you can be free to go places and know that he'll be able to follow.
He's not a director with a very particular, rigid voice...
Exactly. When you're writing for Steven, it's also great because he's a writer. When you know who your director is and who your actor is, life gets a lot easier.
I know both you and Steven elected not to speak to Whitacre himself for this, but aside from that, this seems like it was a research-intensive project.
I spoke to as many people as I could. The A.D.M. people were not so exited to talk to me, for obvious reasons. I spent a fair amount of time taking to psychologists and [Whitacre's] lawyer... I've always tried to do a fair amount of research at the beginning.
In the book [Kurt] Eichenwald tells us that Whitacre suffers a kind of bi-polar condition, so I looked up manic syndrome. Characteristics of that are people who are grandiose, who exercise bad judgment, who are prone to distractibility and go off on rambling tangents. All of those things seemed consistent with the portrait of Whitacre in the book, so I wanted to create a character from the inside out.
So this was key research?
Research manifests itself in so many ways… There's a polar bear monologue in the film, for example. I knew from my research that that he liked National Geographic so I got some National Geographics, and there was this article on polar bears that, using his tendency to ramble, I turned into this monologue that seemed perfectly representative of his personality.
I also spent a lot of time in Decatur, Illinois [where Whitacre lived and worked], driving down the same roads he did.
Finally, for the sake of this script, as the writer, was Mark Whitacre a hero, a villain or a clown to you?
Not surprisingly, I have two answers to that. He's both the hero and villain in this movie. It's unusual to find a character like that… The other thing from a logic standpoint, at the beginning, when he says there's a mole and the mole wants $10 million, with the assumption that the 10 million was for him and he was the mole – so would Whitacre have been an informant if he hadn't dug himself the hole of this aborted extortion? He wouldn't have done it if he hadn't fucked himself over.
But at the same time, he did wear a wire and go way beyond the call. He grew into the roll of informant. I'm always fond of saying Mark Whitacre did the right thing in the worst way.


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