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A lively crowd gathered for a Republican rally at The Mint in Silverthorne Friday. Local and state candidates took the time to mingle at the beginning of the evening, shaking hands and answering questions from attendees.
Summit County is the first stop of a planned 'whistle-stop' tour through Colorado, which Republicans are hoping will be just enough to push the election their way.
"The key is that the people understand what choices they have," said 2nd Congressional District hopeful Kevin Lundberg. His main goal for the evening was "to meet with the people who came here."
An energetic and enthusiastic feeling accompanied the event, which state Republican Party chairman Ryan Call said has swept up the election in recent weeks.
"It's so important," he said, of the opportunity for people to meet the candidates face to face. It's easy to get tired and worn down by negative campaigning. "The opportunity to look a candidate in the eye cuts through all that noise, that propaganda you see on the trail, and strips away that false impression."
Since the first presidential debate, "there has been a shift toward Mitt Romney that's encouraging," he said. "We're more unified than perhaps I've ever seen our party."
Debra Irvine, who is in a three-way race for House District 61, agreed. "There is an excitement that I haven't seen for a long time," she said.
Throughout the night, Irvine emphasized the importance of small businesses, and the need to support them on a state level, while minimizing federal interference. She used the owners of the venue as an example. "They're a success story of small business."
During a short speech, Lundberg emphasized the importance of ignoring the negative mail and ad campaigns. "Don't stand for it, don't take it," he urged. He spoke of his experience in politics, as well as a small business owner, husband and father. He also said he was looking forward to the rest of the state tour.
"We need to go back to every corner of the county we can," he said. "We're starting right here, right now. We are going to change the make-up of this district, and we're going to change the make-up of this nation. We're in this together, and we are going to win this together. "
He urged his listeners to look to the future, and to think about the nation that their grandchildren will inherit. "We need to ensure their future."
After the candidates, Ken Gansmann, owner of The Mint, stood to say a few emotion-filled words.
"Because of all the energy of you folks here, we're gonna make it," he said, in reference to being a small business owner. Though he has been called 'right wing' for his political views, he disagrees. "We're not 'right wing.' We're just common people who support common people."
The candidates will continue their whistle-stop tour through Colorado, visiting Grand Junction today, where Paul Ryan will join them before heading to Durango on Monday. Both Romney and Ryan will be present for a rally at Red Rocks Amphitheater on Tuesday.


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Funky Johnson plays the first Friday of each month at the Goat Soup & Whiskey Tavern in Keystone and the third Friday at The Motherloaded Tavern in Breckenridge, plus most weekends in between. The group is Chris Bauer (guitar and vocals), Dan Brewer (bass), Dave Nichol (drums), Jessica Jones (vocals) and Chris Zaragoza (percussion). They play funk, old soul and rhythm and blues, including both covers and originals. Brewer and Bauer, both ski patrollers at Keystone Resort, came up with the idea that Summit County needed a funk band while sitting around jamming one night. "There is an overabundance of bluegrass and jam bands in Summit County," Brewer joked. "I'm in one of those bands and Chris plays in another, so it's just nice to play something different." Brewer also plays in the jam act, High Five, and Bauer plays with The Luv Brothers, a bluegrass band.What began as a trio in 2011 is now a six-piece band when saxophonist Jason Gabriel joins in, which has been a lot lately. Zaragoza is new to the group too, and the vocalist, Jones, came on board in the fall of 2012. "It's just getting tighter, easier for everybody," Brewer said on Funky Johnson's growing size. Jones was an important addition. "She helped us evolve into more of a soul music, R&B, Motown-type band and it just rounded us off with the female vocals being added to the sound we already had," he said. "She's got some pipes on her." Previously the group was doing more "instrumental funky-type stuff" and "a lot more jamming," he said. "Now we're doing a lot more songwriting and full-on songs." Among them are crowd favorites like "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye, "My Girl" by The Temptations and "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5. "I guess people just like old Motown music. It makes them feel good," Brewer said. "There's no age group; we get a lot of folks that are a little older and folks that are a little younger so it's pretty cool to see that. Typically at The Motherloaded they're dancing on the tables and having a good time." He recounts a night playing at the Snake River Saloon in Keystone: The dance floor was packed and people were getting down when suddenly, one of the dancers fell. "Come to find out she tore her ACL while dancing to the funky sounds of Funky Johnson," Brewer said. "An ambulance came, and a fire truck; it was the best light show we've ever had."The band's name started as a joke among friends, who - for whatever the reason - liked to call each other "Johnson." Then they put "funky" in front of it. "We never thought of the correlation of what a 'Johnson' might be until after we made the name," Brewer swears.The band is about getting folks on the dance floor - or the tables, as the case may be - and making them feel good, Brewer said. Catch the group tonight at The Motherloaded Tavern or Feb. 22 at Jonny G's in Frisco.
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A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City charged Lustyik Jr., 51, of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; Michael L. Taylor, 51, of Harvard, Mass., the principal of Boston-based American International Security Corporation (AISC); and Johannes W. Thaler, 49, of New Fairfield, Conn., each with one count of conspiracy, eight counts of honest services wire fraud, one count of obstructing justice and one count of obstructing an agency proceeding.
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Published: Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 12:19 a.m.
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The 2013 legislative session has the potential for the most productive gathering in recent memory. The major issue will be the Medicaid expansion and the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, on which action cannot be postponed.
This can be a slippery thing to get a grip on with all of the many preconceived opinions that have been voiced. In order to have a clear and transparent result by the Legislature, and realizing that the majority of legislators are not experts in the health care field, recognized and acknowledged individuals with such expertise should have input and weigh in on this vital issue.
Florida has an abundant supply of these with: Alan Levine, who has served government and private enterprise effectively in all levels of health care expertise, or Patrick Geraghty, Florida Blue CEO, the largest insurer of health care individuals and plans in the state, along with Ron Hytoff, the retiring CEO of Tampa General Hospital, which is acknowledged to be the best hospital in Florida, and many others who could be included for solid input in the evaluation of the best manner to accomplish the action.
The final result will be with Florida for many years into the future and requires deliberate and careful evaluation prior to any far-reaching implementation that will be difficult to alter after the fact. We are still finding ways to improve the Pilot Medicaid expansion in the few test counties and that is years after the implementation.
Addressing the disparity for rural residents as to access and quality of care also has to be considered. Many other parts of the issue must be resolved prior to saddling the citizens of Florida with a result that needs corrective action even prior to being put in place.
Let us hope that our legislative leaders exercise their good judgment in this process.
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WASHINGTON -- The FBI investigation that led to the resignation of David Petraeus as CIA director Friday began with a complaint several months ago about "harassing" emails sent by Paula Broadwell, Petraeus' biographer, to an unidentified third person, a government official briefed on the case said Saturday.
When FBI agents following up on the complaint began to examine Broadwell's emails, they discovered exchanges between her and Petraeus that revealed that they were having an affair, said the official, who spoke of the investigation on the condition of anonymity.
The person who complained about harassing messages from Broadwell, according to the official, was not a family member or a government official. One congressional official who was briefed on the matter Friday said senior intelligence officials had explained that the FBI investigation "started with two women."
"It didn't start with Petraeus, but in the course of the investigation they stumbled across him," said the congressional official, who said the intelligence officials had provided no other information about the two women or the focus of the inquiry. "We were stunned."
Petraeus said in a statement that he was resigning after 14 months as head of the CIA because he had shown "extremely poor judgment" in engaging in the affair. He has been married for 38 years.
Neither the congressional intelligence committees nor the White House learned of the investigation or the link to Petraeus until last week, officials said. Neither did Petraeus' boss, James Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence.
A senior intelligence official said Saturday that Clapper had learned of Petraeus' situation only when the FBI notified him about 5 p.m. Tuesday. That night and the next day, the official said, the two men discussed the situation, and Clapper told Petraeus "that he thought the right thing to do would be to resign," the intelligence official said.
Clapper notified the president's senior national security staff late Wednesday that Petraeus was considering resigning because of an extramarital affair, the official said.
Some congressional staff members said they believed that the bureau should have informed at least the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees about the unfolding inquiry. The committees are likely to demand an explanation of why they were not told.
"Why didn't the FBI tell us?" said Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. "Why was the FBI investigating the CIA and this was involving a compromised computer of the director of the CIA, nobody told the president or the White House?"
White House officials said they were informed Wednesday night that Petraeus was considering resigning because of an extramarital affair. Thursday morning, just before a staff meeting at the White House, Obama was told.
That afternoon, Petraeus went to see Obama and informed him that he strongly believed he had to resign. Obama did not accept his resignation right away, but Friday, he called Petraeus and accepted it.
The government official dismissed a range of speculation that the FBI inquiry might have focused on leaks of classified information to the press or even foreign spying. "People think that because it's the CIA director, it must involve bigger issues," the official said. "Think of a small circle of people who know each other."
The FBI investigators were not pursuing evidence of Petraeus' marital infidelity, which would not be a criminal matter, the official said. But their examination of his emails, most or all of them sent from a personal account and not from his CIA account, raised the possibility of security breaches that he needed to address directly.
"Alarms went off on larger security issues," the official said. As a result, FBI agents spoke with the CIA director about two weeks ago, and he learned in the discussion, if he was not already aware, that they knew of his affair with Broadwell, the official said.
Web-based email like Gmail and Yahoo Mail can be quite vulnerable to hacking, and it is possible that FBI experts were studying whether Petraeus' accounts had been compromised. Any possibility that hackers could use the CIA director's email as a route to break into sensitive government computer systems would be an obvious concern.
But the fears of bigger security problems proved unjustified, and the security questions were resolved, the official said.
But there are still several unanswered questions surrounding the circumstances of the FBI investigation and about the affair between Petraeus and Broadwell, officials said Saturday.
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More Law Schools Cut Class Sizes
In June, we reported that at least 10 law schools were cutting their class sizes, or considering it, largely in response to a weak job market for lawyers and a dwindling number of applicants. A new survey of admissions officers at 123 of 202 accredited law schools offers a broader view of the trend.
A new survey of admissions officers at 123 of 202 accredited law schools offers a broader view of the trend.
The big number: More than half of the law schools cut the size of their 2012 entering classes, according to the survey, conducted by Kaplan Test Prep between August and September.
51% of law schools have cut the size of the entering class; 63% said the reason was the contraction of the job market in the legal industry. And more cuts may be on the way; of the law schools that have not cut the size of their entering classes, 28% say they will likely do so for the current application cycle.
Kaplan also asked admissions officers about changes to curricula:
68% of law schools have already revamped their curriculum to make their students more "practice ready"; 5% say they've decided to so, but haven't implemented the changes yet; 9% say they are considering making curriculum changes; and 18% say they have no plans to make curriculum changes.


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Lake West Cinema had Gravois firefighters out to the theater on Hwy. O in Laurie to visit with kids for the local opening of the movie "Planes, Fire and Rescue". Kids got a tour of a Gravois fire truck as well as their own fire hats.
From right, Shift Leader Matt Holladay and firefighters Nik Keller and Christian Ducray are pictured with some of the children who attended.
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Matt Moulson scored twice and Frans Nielsen added a goal in the third period for Islanders (7-9-1), who trailed 2-0 and 3-1 but came back to end a two-game slide and win for the third time in 10 games.
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If, for whatever reason, you have done some digging on me you will have discovered a dark secret. Well, not quite a secret as I do not hide it, nor is it that dark, more of a information non publiée.
I am involved in local politics, and my political party is the Tories.
There, I have said it. I have come out of the closet. I have admitted it. I can now wander around the Free Software Magazine pages without hiding my true nature. I am free!
The reason for me being a supporter of the Tories are outside my writing obligations for Free Software Magazine. So, I will not bore you with my political dogma and ideologies. However, today I am feeling happy, for very much to my surprise there is a BBC report stating Tories want to open source Whitehall.
I would argue that whatever your political colour is, this is good news. The more awareness of the free software issues the better, and for any political party of that stature this is even more so. For senior politicians to understand the benefits of free software also means they understand the attacks from unethical closed software companies and know not to be duped by them.
The fact this has happened is surprising to me. I was somehow invited to a "do" involving senior members of the party in 2003 and I managed to corner some of them for a while. When I mentioned "Open Source for IT" then the replies I got were in the form of "Open what?" or "What is IT" or "Yes I understand, leave me your card and I will get back...", which they never did. IT and computers are not the traditional areas of expertise of Tories. Remember, this is the party of Margaret Thatcher.
I suppose the old move on and the new move in, and it is good to see the current lot are free software advocates. I find this to be brilliant news and amazing. I would never have suspected it. A cynic would say they are saying this to try and drum up popularity. However, my reply to that is if this concept either drums up or is considered to drum up votes then so much the better for free software. As my daughter would say, "Woo-Hoo!". If other political parties jump on the bandwagon, then that would be fantastic. Unfortunately, it does not look as though Tony Blair's lot will any time soon though.
It is just a shame the Tories' announcement of this is overshadowed by a report that a Tory front-bencher has been sacked due to "unacceptable comments about race in the army". Ah well, such is the behavior of politicians and the media...
UPDATE: The Conservatives, naturally, have a link on their site. It is here.
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It is rather interesting that software philosophy is eventually a distinguishing trait.
If even the Tories have learned that lesson..
..I think we're going somewhere. Don't understand me wrong, I'm on the same spot of the political spectrum as you are, but I also know their fascination with corporate products and free enterprise. A highly successful company like MS appeals to them on an almost emotional level. Still, bad products are bad products. When they are able to overcome these emotions by simply looking at the facts (pun intended) we've made a significant victory.
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Coming out of the closet is a traditional Tory pastime.
I've been using Linux for eight years, contribute to several open source projects and am a British National Party member.
Now the only question is...
...whether they will remember that in the face of pressure from Microsoft when they are in office.
Remember the 1997 Labour slogan "Things can only get better"? Given their kowtowing to big business and American imperialism, their opposition to civil liberties since they took office - not to mention the "cash for peerages affair", or my memories of Tory government - I'm not exactly hopeful the Tories will be any better.
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usually Left wing parties and advocates are the main users of free software(not open source in general but free as in freedom software), not by a rule, so anyone is welcome to use it.
There has been some political interest in this for a while
..certainly 1 Tory MP, 1 Labour MP and 1 Lib Dem MP have all been asking about open source in parliament (and being fobbed off with nonsense about 'best value' being why it's hardly used), the lib dem MP was asking back in 2004, the Tory MP has been busy asking questions about why the government isn't following the guidelines of various reports produced for the government, and the labour MP has been doing the same.
The novelty here is that it's not an obscure backbencher this time.
No talk of freedom
While any increase in the number of users of free (as in freedom) software is good for the free software community, the Conservatives haven't mentioned freedom as a benefit of using free software at any point here. The only benefit they're talking about is cutting the cost of getting hold of the software. If people are oblivious to the ideals of software freedom, they're not likely to stay with the community, as they can easily be tempted back to proprietary software if it can offer them a technical advantage, or it has a lower 'total cost of ownership'. I'm hoping that one of the major political parties in the UK will talk about software freedom at some point in the near future. I think the Green party might do a bit, but they have nowhere near as much influence as the Conservatives, and as far as I know they don't have a single seat in the House of Commons.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Shawn Flanagan will get his 14th season started at the helm of Texas A&M – Corpus Christi on Friday, Aug. 29, as the men's and women's cross country teams will compete in the Rio Grande Valley Relays in Edinburg, Texas.
The meet is set up in a two-runner relay format. Each team will run two sets of two miles for a total of eight miles.
The Islanders will look to repeat their recent success in this meet, as last year the men's team grabbed all of the top five spots and the women secured the three top finishes.
"I anticipate that we will have a good outing there," Flanagan said. "The teams have looked good in practice thus far and it's looking promising."
Both teams enter this weekend ranked in the USTFCCCA South Central Regional rankings. After finishing the 2012 season in the eighth spot, the men's team comes into the 2013 ranking one position higher in the seventh slot. On the women's side, it heads to the relays ranked 14th in the region.
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Brad Delong (@delong) says Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke haters among the hedge-fund crowd are just upset that shorting Treasurys has proven a losing trade. [DeLong | DeLong at Sohn Conference]
Jim Warren (@JimWarren55) reflects on the latest turns in the Benghazi hearings, the obvious Republican vs. Clinton dynamic and concludes, "There is a desperate lack of perspective in Washington and, quite improbably, the Benghazi episode suggests it's actually getting worse." [New York Daily News]
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is paying the political price that comes along with attempts to change education systems in big cities. In the wake of a tussle with his city's teachers union and controversy over a plan to shut 53 elementary schools, a new poll finds that six in 10 Chicagoans disapprove of the school closings, while 41% said they sided more with the teachers union on school improvement and 19% with Emanuel. [Chicago Tribune]
A telling infographic shows the highest-paid state employee in each state. Most of them are coaches. [Deadspin]
The French government's recent decision to reject an attempt by Yahoo to a buy a 75% stake in a company called Dailymotion doesn't bode well for job creation in France, which already has stimulative government spending at a level running higher than elsewhere in the euro zone and needs more foreign investment to create jobs. [Tuck Center for Global Business Development]
The Los Angeles Times' Doyle McManus (@DoyleMcManus) marked Mother's Day by checking in with his mom, described as a classic swing voter, to get her take on the politics of the day. Her verdict: "I've decided both parties are crazy," she said. "The 'tea party' is crazy; they'll ruin any Republican nominee, as far as I'm concerned. But the Democrats are off the wall, too." [Los Angeles Times]
The quest for a better umbrella. [Phys.org]
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Reporter Louise Radnofsky says the big questions facing the Obama health law include how bumpy the rollout will be and the impact on health-care costs. Another issue: even after the rollout, millions will remain uninsured.
Reporter Patrick O'Connor says the preliminary field of potential 2016 candidates – Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio, among others – is getting an early test from the immigration debate and Benghazi.
Sign of the Times
Minor milestones we've spotted:
So far this year, 64 U.S.-listed public offerings have raised $16.8 billion vs. 73 companies that raised $13.1 billion in the same months of 2012. Last week brought 11 U.S.-listed IPOs, making it the busiest week for such deals since December 2007. [WSJ]
The number of people using food stamps rose 2.7% in the U.S. in February from a year earlier; 15% of the U.S. population receives the benefits. [WSJ]
In 2012, Americans devoted 3% of their annual spending to clothing and shoes versus 7% in 1970 and 13% in 1945. [WSJ]
Newseum: In 2012, 84 journalists in 25 countries died while covering the news. [Newseum]
A record 30.7% of Australian exports are destined for China, double the level of four years ago. [Commonwealth Securities]
@georgiemark: At 347% of European Union GDP, the banking sector is 4.5 times as large as the U.S.at 74% of GDP.
The shorter your first name, the bigger your paycheck: An online job site calculates that very extra letter in a person's first name may reduce annual salary by $3,600. [Quartz]
About 40,000 babies, or nearly one in 100, are born in the U.S. each year with congenital heart disease, making it the most common birth defect. [WSJ]
Two-thirds, or 67%, of 18- to 24-year-olds engaged in some sort of social network-related political activity in the 12 months prior to July-August 2012. [Pew Research Center]
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A baby girl burned by a spilled cup of coffee at a restaurant five years ago will receive more than $30,000.
The distribution, paid by the restaurant insurer, is pending approval in Stark County Probate Court.
According to court documents:
The girl, who now lives in Canton, was 15 months old when she and her family went to breakfast at a Woodmere, Ohio, restaurant on Oct. 25, 2008. A server placed a cup of hot coffee on the table; the baby reached for it and tipped it onto herself.
She was treated for second-degree burns and her medical expenses totaled $890, according to court documents.
Court records show the family's attorney reached a $55,000 settlement with the restaurant's insurer. More than $30,000 of that is proposed to be dedicated to the girl's college fund.
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Police in Ohio say a fight between two students at the University of Toledo has left one dead and another injured.
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Only a handful of students were staying in the building.
The school's police chief says the men knew each other and that this wasn't a random attack.
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Dr. Choi joined Niagara University in Fall 2013 after he taught at Rosen College of Hospitality Management of University of Central Florida for several years. While he worked at UCF, he taught hospitality human resource management, destination management & marketing, tourism management, international tourism management, and research methodology courses. He teaches Human Resources Management, Marketing of Hotels and Restaurants, and Special topic: Issues in International Tourism Management. His ultimate objective in the classes he teaches is to build a mentoring relationship with every individual student, while implementing the concepts of 'care' and 'fairness' in course management.
Dr. Choi also put a high priority on student advisement and services, and has demonstrated his passion throughout his career as a faculty of higher educational institutes. He has participated in thesis/dissertation committees as an advisor or a committee member for both graduate and undergraduate Honor students, whose works have been well recognized by presentations in academic conferences and by receiving university/college awards. As a junior faculty at UCF, he volunteered to get involved in numerous committees both at university and at college level, and occasionally served for community organizations' task-forces. Dr. Choi has a keen interest and passion in internationalization initiatives of university/college. For the last four years at UCF, he developed and coordinated hospitality/tourism industry seminar program for Kyung Hee University, South Korea, where many motivated undergraduate students from Kyung Hee University's hospitality and tourism program had invaluable opportunities to participate in a 4-week long program that was comprised of multiple seminar sessions and site visits to leading hospitality/industry companies.
He received a Ph.D. in Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management at Pennsylvania State University with the dissertation focus on international tourism demand forecasting. His main research areas include: tourism destination management & marketing, hospitality human resource management, tourism economics, and hospitality education. His work has been published in refereed academic journals such as International Journal of Hospitality Management, Tourism Management, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration, Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & Tourism. He has also served as an editorial reviewer for various academic journals, and has been involved in professional associations for many years.
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management, Pennsylvania State University, PA, U.S.A.
- M.S., Economics, University of Wisconsin, WI, U.S.A.
- M.A., (International) Economics, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
- B.A., Economics, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Teaching Courses
- HRT 253: Human Resources Management
- MHR 346: Marketing of Hotels and Restaurants
- TRM 441: Special topic - Issues in International Tourism Management
Current Research Interest
- Subjective well-being of hospitality employees
- Convention destination marketing and competitiveness
- Destination marketing: niche market analysis, destination image/brand
- College spring break market analysis
- Economic impacts on international tourism
Selected Peer-Refereed Journal Publications
- Lee, J., Choi, Y., & Breiter, D. (in press). An Exploratory Study of Convention Destination Competitiveness from Attendees' Perspective: IPA & Repeated Measures of MANOVA. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research.
- Ro, H., Choi, Y., & Olson, E. (2013). Service recovery evaluations: GLBT versus hetero customers. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 33, 366-375.
- Kim, S. & Choi, Y. (2013). Hotel employees' perception of green practices. International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration, 14(2), 157-178.
- Choi, Y., & Ro, H. (2012). An empirical study of hospitality management student attitudes toward group projects: Instructional factors and team problems. Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 9(4), 303-312.
- Ro, H. & Choi, Y. (2011). Student team project: Gender difference on team project experience and attitude toward team-based work. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 11(2), 149-163.
- McDowall, S. & Choi, Y. (2010). A comparative analysis of Thai residents' perception of tourism's impacts. Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism, 11(1), 36-55.
- Choi, Y. & Dickson, D. (2010). A case study into the benefits of management training programs: Impacts on hotel employee turnover and satisfaction level. Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & Tourism, 9(1), 1-14.
- Chen, P. & Choi, Y. (2008). Generational differences in work values: A study of hospitality management. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 20(6), 595-615.
Selected Peer-Refereed Conference Presentations
- Choi, Y., Ro, H., & Olson, E. (2013). An exploratory study of the association between gay tourists' psychographics, their perceived destination image, and the generational factor. 2013 Korea America Hospitality and Tourism Educators Association (KAHTEA) annual conference, Nevada, LV: April.
- Tang, T., & Choi, Y. (2013). An empirical study of the Spring break market: acomparative analysis of Florida destinations. 18th Annual Graduate Education & Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality & Tourism, Seattle, WA: January.
- Bujisic, M., Choi, Y., Parsa, H.G., & Krawczyk, M. (2012). Effect of demographic factors on tipping in a convention hotel: A longitudinal study. 2012 TOSOK International Tourism Conference, Ulsan, South Korea: July.
- Xu, S., Choi, Y., & Lv, Q. (2012). Subjective well-being, work motivation, organizational commitment, and job enrichment: A moderated mediation study of Chinese hotel frontline employees. Annual I-CHRIE Summer Conference, Providence, RI: August.
- Choi, Y. (2011). Sensitivity of the U.S. inbound tourist arrivals to the exchange rate volatility. 17th Asia Pacific Tourism Association Annual Conference, Seoul, Korea: July.
- Lee, J., Ro, H., & Choi, Y. (2011). Convention destination image and attributes: an application of multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) and factor analysis. The 2011 TOSOK International Tourism Conference, Seoul, Korea: July.
- Ro, H., & Choi, Y. (2011). Student team project perception: Instructional considerations. Conference in SouthEast CHRIE Spring Meeting, Atlanta, GA: February.
Current/Past Involvement
- Editorial review board of Tourism Studies (Korean), The Tourism Sciences Society of Korea
- Ad-hoc editorial reviewer of Annals of Tourism Research
- Ad-hoc editorial reviewer of International Journal of Hospitality Management
- Ad-hoc editorial reviewer of Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research
- Ad-hoc editorial reviewer of International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
- Ad-hoc editorial reviewer of Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management
- Ad-hoc editorial reviewer of Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism
- Has been a member of The International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education, Hotel Human Resources Association (HHRA) of Central Florida, Asia Pacific Tourism Association, The Regional Science Association International, The Travel and Tourism Research Association, and The International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators
Service to University
- Committee on College Teaching and Learning, 2013 – Present
Non-committee activities
Internationalization initiatives, 2013 – Present
- Collaboration with Dr. Hung Le (Vice President of International Relations)
- Faculty advisor, International Friendship Circle (International Relations Office)
- Memorandum of Understanding between Niagara University and Kyung Hee University (Korea)
- Liaison with Korea Foundation (Korea)
Service to College
- Curriculum Committee (Online Course Design Quality Review), 2013 – Present.
Non-committee activities
- ACPHA Accreditation Preparation, 2013 – Present
- College student recruiting, Fall 2013; Hosting students from three local high schools to HRT 253 classes, North Tonawanda HS (10/23/13), Charter School for Applied Technology (11/4), & Grand Island HS (11/13/13)
- Best Paper, 2013 Korea America Hospitality and Tourism Educators Association (KAHTEA) Annual Conference, Nevada, LV, U.S.A.: April. Choi, Y., Ro, H., & Olson, E. (2013). An exploratory study of the association between gay tourists' psychographics, their perceived destination image, and the generational factor.
- Highly Commended Award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence (2009), Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Chen, P. & Choi, Y. (2008). Generational differences in work values: A study of hospitality management. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 20(6), 595-615. Top 20 most downloaded articles during the 6 months immediately following the month of publication (among the articles published in IJCHM: 2006 -2008).


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ANDREW Neil describes the BBC as "one of the last unreformed institutions". He is right. This curious entity - not quite a quango or yet a nationalised industry - has remained inviolate since it was contrived by accident when radio was an utterly new technology and television merely a twinkle in the mind of a Helensburgh inventor.
The British Broadcasting Company was gifted its primary asset - its chunks of space on the electro-magnetic spectrum - by a Home Office totally unaware of what it was doing. The evolution of the BBC will end its cycle when the government forces the corporation to switch off these analogue signals and only transmit in digital format. This sounds a bit technical. It is. It is also crucial.
The entire £3.4 billion operation has been built on the error that broadcasting "space" was rare and had to be rationed by authority. The arrival of the three techniques - cable, satellite and internet - render these policy assumptions obsolete. It is time the BBC was gifted back to those of us who have been subject to its bizarre poll tax funding device: the licence fee. Other privatisations have consisted in us all buying back what we nominally owned already ... British Airways, British Steel, British Rail.
Let the licence certificate be deemed to be a share certificate. In future, we should all expect a dividend. My suggestion is that it be paid just before Christmas every year.
It would be unkind not to praise the BBC for some of its output. We all have our favourite programmes and prized actors. I enjoy listening to the daily Radio Four early morning advert for more subsidies for farmers. It irritates me out of bed.
The fact we have some much loved sequences does not dent my point. All these features could still be available if the BBCâs monolithic inertia was broken. The pretext behind which the BBC camouflages itself is "public service". I have never seen it defined. It seems to mean merely that the market place is far too vulgar and our betters must provide uplifting, measured or balanced output.
John, now Lord Birt, the former supremo of this singular bureaucracy described the BBC as "wasteful" and "Byzantine" and like an "unwieldy Soviet-style command economy". He spent millions on management consultants and brushed away a few cobwebs, but it remains a remnant of a Britain long gone.
We think its assets are its buildings, transmitters, talented staff and archives of past hits. In the marketplace, we would see if this was really true. My hunch is that its primary asset is the intangible one - the electro-magnetic spectrum space plus the brand, particularly overseas.
The Home Office and the Treasury astonished themselves when they sold off the spectrum space for the "third generation" phone licences. Selling off the BBCâs space would be a fascinating venture. Is it not suspicious the Treasury is instructing the BBC to switch off that tasty analogue space by 2006 ?
Most households receive torrents of entertainment and information from sources other than the BBC. Why do we need the vexatious and antique tax when advertisers would plainly pay to reach us?
Margaret Thatcher, even at her most radical, funked tackling the BBC. She let Channel Four arrive in 1982 and Channel Five has since emerged. Yet the politicians barely imagined, let alone understood, how new transmission techniques would marginalise conventional TV and radio.
The BBC has a large staff working at MPs and other "opinion formers" to preserve its poll tax fee - and increase it when they feel the urge. What is needed is a device to waken the Commons up to the popular opportunity that lays dormant in converting the licence into a dividend-paying prospect.
So anomalous is the BBC that it is not subject to the scrutiny of the National Audit Office or by the Public Accounts Committee of the Commons. It is an utterly opaque organisation dependent on our affections for particular programmes. That is no longer good enough. In calling for the BBC to be dissolved, I am not knocking its better talents. They would flourish on their own in smaller production companies. The diversity on offer would be far wider. Programmes would improve.
The ace up the BBCâs tactical sleeve is the World Service. I admire its output. It could surely be better still. Yet it is subsidised by the Foreign Office and is more an adjunct to the BBC than really part of it.
The BBC is already quietly evolving into a commercial operation. It merchandises much of its wares to other nations and is selling CDs and T-shirts. We are halfway to achieving full reform. There may be some pleasing statistical fruits to be won by converting it into a body that pays us rather than the other way round.
It would act as an amusing blip on the GDP figures â¿ is it a transfer payment or a value-adding transaction? The Retail Price Index would take a little dip as the fee dropped out of all our budgets and our dividend would come in the post instead of those threatening letters. It is only when we start to trade our licences as share certificates that the real value of the BBC can be tested â¿ by the discovery process that competition brings.
Can our tentative politicians ever be emboldened to sell off the mighty BBC? Yes, the moment they think it will be popular. How could an annual dividend not be tempting? Selling your licence certificate might even be worth £1,000. There, Iâve gifted Iain Duncan Smith his chance to become Prime Minister.
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Noodles & Company Adds Pork to the Menu [1]
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Noodles & Company, the fast-casual restaurant concept with more than 300 locations throughout the U.S. that features a collection of dishes from around the world, is bringing slow-braised, naturally raised pork to the menu.
As one of the most popular meats across many of the world's cuisines, the addition of slow-braised pork allows guests to further enhance the global flavors found on Noodles' vast menu.
To highlight the new slow-braised pork offering, Noodles has introduced a Barbecue Pork Mac and Peppery Pork Sandwich, both available for a limited time.
The recipe for the slow-braised, naturally raised pork was developed with versatility in mind. A go-to favorite is completely transformed by adding the tender, mildly peppery, shredded pork.
"We wanted to create a shredded pork that is amazing on its own, but nothing short of mind-blowing when paired with most any of our global dishes," says Tessa Stamper, Noodles & Company chef and registered dietician. "It's yet another way for our guests to get a different taste every day."
The new slow-braised, naturally raised pork has decadent flavor without a hefty nutritional price tag. Being a lean protein, it has just 160 calories and 8 grams of fat per serving. "
We specifically developed this protein with nutrition in mind," Stamper says. "It's one of the leanest cuts from the pork shoulder, typically thought to be a rich and fatty cut. By cooking it sous-vide style, we lock in its natural juices and cook it low and slow for five hours. That keeps it incredibly moist, but not greasy."
As the first naturally raised protein on the menu, the introduction of slow-braised, naturally raised pork is evidence of Noodles' overall commitment to providing the best-quality, best-tasting ingredients available.
The brand has taken special care in each step of the process to provide an option that has exceptional flavor and is better for the animal. The animals are raised entirely without growth hormones or antibiotics and are fed a vegetarian diet.
"This will change the way people think about our food," says Kevin Reddy, chairman and CEO, Noodles & Company. "When we decided to add pork, we wanted to do it right. It's one of the best-tasting things on our menu."
Noodles & Company encourages customization of any dish, and the introduction of another protein opens up a new world of options.
The braised pork gives an unexpected twist to something familiar. The new protein can be added to any dish for $2.69.


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SOUTHBURY — Antone "Tony" Rakich, age 84, of Southbury, died unexpectedly at home on Feb. 19, 2014. He is survived by his beloved wife of 62 years, Elizabeth Colleen Rakich.
Tony was born April 24, 1929, in Waterbury, the son of the late Antone and Mary (Karzek) Rakich. A graduate of Waterbury schools and the University of Connecticut, he became a metallurgist with Chase Brass and Copper, Anaconda American Brass and T & R Metals. At the time of his passing, he was a consultant for Copper Development Associates. From his home office, he answered calls from around the world from people as wide-ranging as engineers, organ builders, and the staff of "Jeopardy!".
A lover of classical music, especially Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, Tony took violin lessons as a child and piano lessons later in life. He arranged home concerts featuring his daughter and granddaughter and took great pride in suggesting pieces to be included in the program and inviting friends and family.
An avid baseball player in his youth, Tony also organized family ball games. His annual Super Bowl party brought together sons and grandsons, regardless of actual interest in football. He followed the UConn women's basketball team with great enthusiasm. A father of six, Tony loved children, and he and his wife donated books regularly to support literacy in inner city schools.
Tony loved many things in life, but none more than his dear wife of 62 years, Elizabeth Colleen. He also leaves his six children and their spouses: Christa and Janis, Bill and Karen, Lisa and Michael, Suzanne, Andrew and Evelyn, Justine and Brian. He also leaves 10 grandchildren: Michael, Sarah, Luke, Tony, Nicholas, Daniel, Matthew, Nathan, Martin and Christa. He is also survived by two sisters, Mary Veillette and Madeleine Smethurst, and many nieces, nephews and friends.
Funeral services are private and will be held at the convenience of the family. There are no calling hours. Eastside Memorial, "A Casey Family Funeral Home and Tribute Center," 1987 East Main St. at Southmayd Road, has been entrusted to assist the family with arrangements.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Antone's memory may be made to the Children's Law Center of CT, 30 Arbour St., 4th Floor, Hartford CT 06106; www.clcct.org.
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A Canandaigua man who suffered serious injuries following a Oct. 2 motorcycle crash in Macedon has been upgraded to satisfactory condition, said a Strong Memorial Hospital spokesperson.
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SAN RAMON -- A Catholic from birth, Maureen Mancuso has always felt compelled to minister for the Roman Catholic Church. Now, she's facing excommunication for what she will do Saturday: become the first woman of her faith ordained a priest in Northern California.
"We feel the call by God, and God for us is a higher authority," she said. "I think the church has to recognize that it does have the power to ordain women, and that women can be woven into the tradition."
Mancuso, 59, of San Ramon, is a member of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests, an international group that says it has ordained about 150 women as priests, bishops and deacons worldwide -- including two priests who work in Los Gatos and San Francisco. The Catholic Church says the practice goes against the church's official canon, and women who seek the ordinations automatically are expelled from the church.
Mancuso, who was born in San Francisco and is now a teacher, attended seminary and earned a master's degree in divinity in 1996 from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. She had hoped that by the time she was ready, the church would allow women in the priesthood. Instead, the Vatican hardened against the idea. Mancuso joined the Womenpriests group, which began in 2002 when an anonymous Catholic bishop ordained seven women on the Danube River in Germany.
Suzanne Thiel, the Womenpriests group's western representative and board president, says the group has 116 U.S. members and 152 worldwide. A majority are priests, along with a few bishops, deacons and candidates. The organization is diverse -- members are single, married, gay and straight women; some are even men -- with an average age of about 57.
Unlike breakaway sects that ordain women, such as the American Catholic Church in the United States, the Womenpriests group insists it is Roman Catholic and that its ordinations are legitimate because they were passed down from a Catholic bishop.
"We maintain they're valid," Thiel said. "We're not playing house here. ... We're women who want to make a change, and to do that, we have to stay within the church."
Zach Flanagin, an associate professor of theology and religious studies at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, said the group is the latest chapter of what began with women's rights movements in the 1960s and '70s, as Catholic women began petitioning the Vatican for the allowance of female priests.
In 1975, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which oversees doctrine on faith and morals in the Catholic Church, declared that the church wasn't "authorized to admit women to priestly ordination." The justifications given were that Jesus Christ chose only men as apostles. The church has maintained the tradition with priests, and that because the priest acts as an icon for Christ, he must be a man.
In 1994, Pope John Paul II said the church had "no authority whatsoever" to ordain women, effectively shutting down official discussion, Flanagin said. He called ordination of the "Danube Seven" a "form of public disobedience" designed to reopen the issue.
"This is a live issue among American Catholics," Flanagin said.
Mike Brown, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, which serves the East Bay, said the diocese won't comment on the ordinations or the Womenpriests group.
"They can put the word 'Catholic' in the title, but it's not a sanctioned organization," he said.
George Wesolek, the Archdiocese of San Francisco's director of public policy, echoed those comments, saying he doesn't see the church changing its stance.
"The Catholic Church's teaching is pretty clear about women in the priesthood," he said. "This is a fringe group that is pushing their particular agenda."
In 2008, the Vatican took a further punitive step, declaring that any ordained woman, and any bishop performing an ordination, would be excommunicated.
Thiel said that many in the Womenpriests group aren't too worried by excommunication. Though the official church refuses to recognize them, many Catholics, she said, are supportive, even if they don't say so publicly. The group has gotten aid from non-Catholics, mostly Christian churches that offer their sites for ordinations and services.
Mancuso's ordination will be at Lafayette Christian Church, and she will serve at Namaste Catholic Community in Orinda, a small group that meets at the Orinda Community Church.
"We're not alone; we've got communities behind us," Thiel said. "The people for the most part have accepted us."
Mancuso, who teaches at Granada High in Livermore, said she considers herself part of a reform movement within the church. She is divorced with two grown sons; her family, she said, is supportive.
"This has been a long process for me," she said.
While there are others in the Bay Area in the Womenpriests group, Mancuso is the first to have her ordination performed in Northern California. "It's a bit of a historical moment," she said. Once ordained, she will perform all the duties of a Catholic priest -- presiding at liturgies, administering sacraments, witnessing weddings and funerals -- at the Orinda community.
While she is "saddened" her decision likely means a permanent exclusion from services in an official Catholic church, she feels any backlash is worth it if she can be a voice for disenfranchised Catholic women.
"I imagine there will be some fallout, but I'm prepared to face that," Mancuso said. "I feel that this is what God wants me to do."
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The Roman Catholic Womenpriests group began in Germany in 2002 with the ordination of seven women on the Danube River by an anonymous Roman Catholic bishop. The group says it has performed about 150 ordinations of women as priests, bishops and deacons, challenging the Catholic Church's official canon. For details, go to http://romancatholicwomenpriests.org.


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today i did 720 jumpshots 100 pushups and siups. jump rope for 15 minutes.work on handeling for 30 minutes.ran 2 miles.played pickup games for 2 hours.work on post game.
Great players are great leaders.Miamiheatboy
i want to get better at my mid range shooting but i dont know how
oalcantar, a good way to get better at your mid range shot is just to practice shooting. Take a few hundred jumpers each day and you'll improve!!!
I did 425 jumpshots, 30 minutes of ball handling, 200 situps, a couples of suicides, a couple of sprints, and about a mile run. Tommorrow I start the Michael Jordan Flight School.
Great players are great leaders.Miamiheatboy
Ran 1 mile, did a 1min wall sit, ball handling for 25mins, 150 pushups, 150 crunches, and 1000 jump shots.
today did 1100 jump shots 200 pushups and situps.ran 2 miles.did 100 jumping jacks.work on post moves and ball handeling.also played pickup.
Great players are great leaders.Miamiheatboy
Wow, you are tough on yourself but that's really good. Keep workin hard like that and you'll be goin places with basketball.
thanks next cp3 i gonna keep on training and working hard im never satisfied. scchool just started so i havent been able to train alot today i did 200 jumpshots 50 pushups amd situps.did 20 mins of pickup.would of train longer but got homework
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Yesterday I worked on my left hand for 10min. did pickup for 2 hours and 30minutes and me and my friend even beat some high scholars. I also did 150pushups.
Yesterday I shot around 200 jump shots, around 10min of ball handling and left hand, and 150 pushups and 150 situps
Just curious but why do you run 2 miles? Is it for cardio or do you just like ending a workout that way? After my workouts I just jog a lap then stretch. Should I be doing more?
Yesterday did around 250jumpers, 50 pushups and 15 minutes of ball handling
i run 2 help my cardio and to be in shape sometimes just for fun
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Hey guys,
As a newbie, I'm still trying to determine baseline perfomances for my 3 events. Last night, I timed myself for a 300m sprint swim. I finished at 7:30min. HR was about 147. I felt good, and was pretty relaxed.
What pace should I be aiming for? For fitness levels: I'm 37, 200lbs, I run 3 miles in 28-30 min with HR at 165, and have a 1 rep max bench of ~200lbs.
depends on what sort of workout it is. what does yourplan say?
goals for 2011:
break 19minutes for 5k
break 2:42 for olympic triathlon probably Anthracite olympic
break 3:16 for marathon ( a long shot but it's fun putting yourself out there)
Well, that's a good question. Right now, I'm working to drop about 8 lbs by January, and my normal fitness workouts are a seven day cycle:
Day A) RUN 3 miles / moderate lift workout. about 1.5 hours & 1100 cal total
Day B) Moderate lift workout / swim 30 min about 1.5 hours & 800 cal total
Day C) Run 3 miles / swim 30 min about 1 hour & 800 cal total
Day X) Rest
with a weekly pattern ABXABCX. These workouts leave me tired, but not whipped or exhausted.
Once I hit my goal weight of 190 lbs in January, I have 4 months to train until the Tri Sprint in Mckinney, Texas. I'm working to build a base level of fitness before January, so that once I'm there, I can really attack my training plan.
So I have a month to really just get comfortable in the water and work on my stroke. What pace should I be working on while I do this?
BTW welcome to the sport. and not to be difficult but what are you planning to do with your 30 min swims? just hit laps or intervals sets or work on your form? since it's pre-base phase i say take it easy and go at an easy aerobic pace and work on your form (as an recovery from your other workouts)
goals for 2011:
break 19minutes for 5k
break 2:42 for olympic triathlon probably Anthracite olympic
break 3:16 for marathon ( a long shot but it's fun putting yourself out there)
Hey Hound Dog
My name is jason and have taken part in a few sprint races and thought my experience and training my be helpful to you. firstly i am 32 and used to be 212 pounds. i am now about 185. i am 6'1. before my first sprint race i really over thought the whole this as if i was doing an ironman. my advice to you would be to relax and not take it to serious. sprint races are fun and remember that your race, depending on your pace will only take you about 1 to 2 hours at most.
Find a pace that is comfortable for you and then start doing the distances and speed you think you will be racing at. if you are comfortable with that then you can start pushing yourself more and more.
your swim will probably be about 300 or 400 meters so you will only be in the water for less than 10 minutes. now as you are interested in your pace then know that your time of 7 minutes for 300 meters, whilst it is not bad, it isnt going to be the quickest guy out there. my swim time in my sprint of 300 was 5:47 but since then i have broken into the 4 minute bracket for a 300 m swim. so if you want and feel comfortable with it feel free to work on your speed a bit by doing some drills in the pool and specific workouts in the gym for swimming.
If you want i can look at your training plan with you some time and we can work on some times etc. i live just down the road from you and have a few friends from our triathlon club that also live in mckinney. i can put you in touch with them or you can come join us for a few workouts.
i am planning on doing my first 70.3 next year and am always looking for people to train with.
happy training
Jason Mellet
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Do we need to sell Suarez if we get an offer of around 50 MIL
At first glance, it looks ridiculous, but for me, we should not resist this offer if it comes. IMO Suarez is world class player and we have got only SG apart from him who can actually be part of any starting 11 in the world. BUT, recently I have observed that defenders can now anticipate movements of Suarez more often then not. No doubt, Suarez is at his peak and it is the right time to sell him. Also, in last couple of games, I have seen him playing very average. the reason being he is fully aware that we wil not be in Europe next season. That is a major cause of dip in his form and I think he certainly wants to leave at the end of season. SO, if he is not willing to further his stay here then there is no point to keep him. I am sure if he stays here next season, he will not replicate the form he has shown this season.
If we can sell him for 50 MIL then we can buy at least 5 quality players with 20 MIl comes from FSG and 30 MIl from the selling of Skirtl & AC. So with this 100 MIL we can easily buy some decent players like Dede, Eriksen, Williams, Alonso and of course, TORRES.
Let us think that with the inclusion of above players how would our team... definitely far better then now with starting 11: Reina, GJ, Agger, Williams, Enrique, Alonso, Gerrard, Eriksen, Coutinho, Downing, DS, Torres.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
This barely deserves a response. He is incredibly predictable, you are correct. RVP hasn't scored for 19 games, United should terminate his contract too. Torres is definiately the answer, he would fire us to the title next year. Ubelievable nonsense.
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dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Apr 11, 2013 13:22 Flag
Oh come on Hobbs you can't see the perfect logic in the idea. I mean Suarez drew a blank against West Ham so he must be done, and if someone will give us any decent bids we should take it quick. I mean maybe looking at the game on Sunday since we need a CB and Collins had such a good game shutting Suarez out, maybe we should offer them a cash plus player deal. How much money do you think we'd have to add to get Luis off our hands and bring in Collins!!!!
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Apr 11, 2013 12:27 Flag
Give Torres a 3 yr contract and we're sorted as we've young players coming through our system.. he can end his career at Atletico Madrid if he wished..
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Apr 10, 2013 14:39 Flag
In fact we never should've sold Torres and told him.."You're staying put, cos we're buying Suarez to be your strikepartner"
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dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Apr 11, 2013 13:10 Flag
With the benefit of hindsight however its seems shipping Torres was a great move. 7 goals out of 30 appearances might be better than the return from Carroll this term, but surely good enough. We've got 4 goals out of Sturridge in just 8 games played in less than half a season.
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Apr 10, 2013 14:34 Flag
Yea we'd do ok for half of the season.. with that lineup.. until Torres gets injured and we're stuffed.
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LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Apr 11, 2013 09:09 Flag
Which why we need Torres, Suarez, Carroll & Sturridge .. and rotate them accordingly.. I see Sturridge as our Drogba.. he's strong.. a potential bull in the box..
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Apr 10, 2013 14:27 Flag
If we get an offer close to £100m then yes I'd snap their hands off.. but £50m is too cheap.. as Suarez is better than Torres and is younger.
Do we need to sell Suarez if we get an offer of around 50mill ? Heres a question for u...when we bought Kenny Dalglish for 440 thousand pounds to replace Kevin Keegan if we had received an offer of one million pounds for him 2 seasons later...should we have sold him ?
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dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Apr 11, 2013 13:04 Flag
Absolutely right Colin. There is only one reason to sell Suarez, and that is if he asks to be sold, but to date while we all know he'd like CL football, all the noises coming from him and his camp is that he loves the club and the city, believes in the manager and the project underway, and therefore imo will give us at least one more season in an effort to get that CL football with Liverpool.
Simple truth as you say, is no club sells its best players unless it has to. What we need to be trying to do is buy additional players who can complement Suarez not replace him. Yes all the cash a sale could generate would be nice, however buys like Coutinho and development of players like Sterling show you don't have to break the bank to improve the squad.
My point is that if Suarez stays next season and we would not buy 3-4 QUALITY PLAYERS & not headless chicken Then he will absolutely loose interest playing with high intensity. And with FSG budget of 20 MIL I am not sure we can buy quantity with quality. Also, if we can manage to get 80 MIL with selling of Surez, AC, Skirtel, Spearing then we can definitely buy 5-6 quality players and IMO 4 very good players are better than a world class player.
You saw this against West Ham. Their tactic was to keep Suarez in control and they did resulting a draw. If we have 4-5 very good players at a time on the pitch like Tottenham then we can rely on the team and not the individuals. The reason for our inconsistency is because we rely too much on Suarez. If he has a bad day then 9 out of 10 times we can not get 3 points. Consistency comes only when we do not rely on 1 or 2 players to win us game.
For Torres, I definitely fill that he would also love to come where he is loved the most!!! Also, he is still the best finisher IMO. He knows when to hit & when to stop. I think Suarez & DS still have to learn a lot to match his finishing skill. Because of lack of finishing skills, we are having the highest number of shots off-target in PL this seaso which was not the case when Torres was here. Also, his 18 goals this season have come when he is not the first choice later on.
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Apr 10, 2013 14:22 Flag
I don't agree in selling our best players.. We should be adding to our best players not selling them.. thats why we're gonna be an average team.. we should be building a team around Suarez.. if that means bringing back Torres too then yes go for it but not \t the expense of getting Suarez. the best teams don't sell their best players.
Interesting, your view on buying Torres back.
Ultimately I think you need to keep your best players. Suarez is ours and we we should try to keep him. We do not want to be a selling club. Tottenham have and are resisting any thought of selling Bale and we should do the same. We'd be the same as Arsenal if we did and that hasn't served them very well on the playing side of things.
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Being Torres back - no no no. His head had gone for 2 seasons before he left us so we were right to cash in. It's sad seeing him now without that unbelievable pace. Nonetheless he has scored 18 goals which ain't bad. His time has come and gone I'm afraid.


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Dozens of soldiers at Fort Gordon are enjoying a night in their own bed after more than a month in the hurricane-ravaged region. News 12 is on your side with more on how their trip might become the norm in a story you'll see only on 12.
The Fort Gordon soldiers are back home tonight. But their next trip might come earlier than usual.
More than forty soldiers are back home at Fort Gordon after 35 days of hurricane relief. That includes Sergeant Tanya Barksdale.
"It's nice to be back in the barracks, be the only one in your room, be able to watch whatever you want on TV," Barksdale said.
News 12 first met Sergeant Barksdale manning a communications satellite in the heart of downtown New Orleans, the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina. She later moved on to San Antonio, two days before Hurricane Rita hit Texas.
"We've done hurricane missions down south. If we keep having hurricanes like this, I absolutely believe we will be called upon more often to provide communications for these cities," Barksdale said.
But for now, it's time for rest and relaxation. The trip home took 23 hours, with just a few stops for meals.
"It was long. Everybody had their fair share and was ready to come home," said Captain Courtney Henderson.
Some are greeted by family, but Barksdale's family is in Huntsville, Alabama. So she's hoping for a weekend off for a trip west. But first, more homework.
"We do actually go over everything from the beginning when we were pre-deployment all the way to deploying back. So we will go over all that stuff," Barksdale said.
So those soldiers have a few days off this week. But they have to report in full uniform on Thursday, ready for more training and a full review of their mission.