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Senior Associate Dean Bhaskar Chakravorti interviews Jon Brookfield, Associate Professor of Strategic Management and International Business
Bhaskar Chakravorti: I was reading about one of several trips that Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, had made to China. It was in the wake of negotiations that GE senior executives had with the Chinese authorities on their requirements regarding local sourcing and using Chinese suppliers as part of their policy to promote "indigenous innovation". Essentially, the Chinese authorities were negotiating to get GE to comply by not only using the lever that they would lock GE out of the Chinese market, but potentially they could even lock GE out of the African market. They were playing this global game with GE. Jeff Immelt could borrow from the ambassador's playbook or from that of a highly competitive CEO. So the question is: are you better off as a diplomat or as a game theorist in order to win in the Chinese market?
Jon Brookfield: I like this question. I think it is fun. When I first saw this question, it seemed important to me to think about what we mean by game theorist and what we mean by diplomat. Game theory is really a sub-field of mathematics (even if economists have appropriated a good portion of it because of its utility in an economic context). Diplomacy is the art and practice of international relations (and may also be thought of as a kind of tact or skill in dealing with people).
If you see it at that level, then it seems quite straightforward who will win in the China market. It will be the diplomat. You have mathematics on the one hand, which tends to be a very formal and often abstract system. On the other hand, there is someone who dives into things in terms of practice and people – a good set of skills for the China market. Of course, it depends on how exactly you think about what it means to be a game theorist or diplomat. I've just drawn it as a story of contrasts, but I think that that's overreaching a bit. I don't think diplomacy and game theory are in opposition to each other, and you can see that in a couple different ways.
For example, just look at the nature of The Fletcher School. One of the purposes of Fletcher is to provide diplomatic training for those that will go into foreign service, both in the United States and abroad. If we think about Fletcher's intellectual food groups, we've got law, we've got politics and diplomacy, we've got economics, we've got international business. That's all part and parcel of a well-prepared diplomat's training. With part of that training being economics, and part of economics being game theory, it's hard to say, at least at Fletcher, that they're in opposition.
Game theory can offer several insights into good business practice. If you think about end games, for example, the question of what you want and what you can see becomes: can you see an outcome that actually works knowing the configuration of players and interests? That is a lesson from game theory being applied to business practice and is an important way to think about the Chinese market. It also happens to be very similar to the way that some people conceptualize politics (a key part of the diplomat's toolkit). If you think about politics, some have called it the art of the possible. Well, thinking about that and endgame planning, there's a lot of overlap between those two ideas.
I was reading Lucian Pye (the sinologist and political scientist) who was quoting Bernard Crick (the political theorist), who was, in turn, paraphrasing Aristotle – so this goes way back. Roughly the comment was that politics is a great and civilizing human activity – precisely because it's an activity through which contending interests are conciliated and differences reconciled. Again, that has a flavor of the art of the possible.
While there is a characterization of game theory and diplomacy that sees them as quite different and at that level they're going to have different implications, thinking about each of them more deeply, they seem to share a lot of the same areas of inquiry and frameworks for thinking about solutions. From that perspective, I think both approaches can be useful for understanding the China market. With a good understanding of politics, the diplomat seems pretty well positioned. With a framework that is reasonably amenable to understanding political processes, the game theorist should also be okay.
Of course, Lucian Pye would say that China has never developed a genuine political process, the potential for interest articulation and hence real politics having been stifled. According to Pye, in imperial and also communist China, rulers are supposed to take care of everyone's interests, so nobody is supposed to advance any particular interest.
Now, if based on the above characterization, I say that there is no politics in China, that's kind of an odd statement, especially given that most observers see China as an intensely political place and good business-government relations as important to business success.
So how do we reconcile those two opposite conceptions? Pye's point, roughly speaking, is that China is interesting because they have administration without the rule of law, and they have politics without interest articulation. Now this doesn't mean politics disappears. It just means it's a different kind of politics, and the way that's usually encapsulated is in a single word: guanxi. It's the politics of personal relationships and interconnections – that's where much of the substance is.
Now if you're interested in relationships and interconnections, Fletcher is a pretty nice place to be. I have a business school background, and with that often comes a view of the world that sees things in terms of functional food groups: you've got marketing, you've got accounting, you've got finance. That's the way you'll see the world from a traditional MBA. In contrast, if you're at a school of international affairs, often what you get is kind of a high politics view of the world. Both are useful, but what is so nice about Fletcher is its willingness to engage in the messy middle. Here you get to think about how politics gets expressed in business and vice versa.
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BC: Well, that's certainly very thought-provoking and I think it is interesting that you suggest that there's actually a false dichotomy between the game theorist and the diplomat. There is indeed an overlap between a successful game theorist and a successful diplomat. The game theorist looks ahead and anticipates the reaction to the action taken. Part of the actions taken may involve elements of diplomacy, because perhaps they anticipate that a politically astute overture may generate reactions that are beneficial. Similarly, a successful diplomat thinks through the second and third order effects of the overture that they make.
One direction I would take this, then, is why do we ask this question in the context of China? Is China that different from, say, Germany or France or India?
JB: That's a fair question and actually speaks to some of my current research. It's a question of how you situate China in a larger context. Over time, there have been stories of exceptionalism in Asia, as in Japan. It's just different. Similarly one could make a bold statement along those same lines. China: It's just different. Of course, this begs the question: why?
There's a wonderful conversation around people trying to understand the Chinese experience by analogy, by structured comparison. One classic comparison is China versus the old Soviet Union: Big Bang versus gradualism. Another way is thinking about the People's Republic of China and how it fits into a story of East Asian developmental capitalism – a China to Japan or South Korea comparison. Yet another lens is thinking about the PRC as a Chinese economy, looking at a comparison of China to Taiwan, Singapore, or Hong Kong. Economically, you could possibly see Hong Kong as a canary in the coal mine. Others are comparing PRC to India, or Brazil. So there are a lot of rich and interesting comparisons and some commonality between the Chinese experience and a number of other experiences. Given all that, I'm hard-pressed to say the Chinese case is unique, because in lots of different pieces you're going to hear echoes of other experiences.
That said, something that's important in the PRC is the centrality of political organization. Because the PRC has a legacy of a totalitarian system, that affects the overall society, and it's not like what you would expect to see in the United States or a number of other countries. Because of the existence and centrality of the Chinese Communist Party, most analyses of the PRC need to focus on business-government connections in a way that you might not have to in some other economies (although, even that assertion is a bit overstated if you think about Fall 2008 in the United States. As an investor, if you want to understand what happened between then and the Spring 2009, if you don't attempt a political story, there's basically now way to understand what actually happened).
BC: Let me ask you a final question. It has to do with an issue that is useful regardless of whether you are a game theorist or a diplomat because it helps you get a better read of the other party: this is the issue of symmetry. Consider the dynamics of competition between, say, IBM and HP or Coca-Cola and Pepsi. What tended to happen was that the major actors, in the process of competing with each other, started resembling each other; each wanted to have a counter point to whatever point the opponent had. Over time, do you expect the Western economies to start looking more like China as it does today or China to look more like Western economies as they do today? If so, where would they converge?
JB: The easy answer is it's going to be somewhere in the middle because in the process of competition both are going to end up shifting. To be slightly more provocative, perhaps, I'd say that if you want to see the world as it might be in the future, don't look at Beijing, don't look at Washington. The future is Hong Kong.
BC: Why is that?
JB: I have a few reasons for saying that. First, I'm thinking structurally. Some have made a comparison, and it's a beautiful comparison, that roughly speaking land is to Hong Kong what oil is to Saudi Arabia.
Hong Kong has extraordinarily valuable land. They may not have too much of it, but what it has is in extremely high demand. Of course, as soon as you talk about property prices, you have to talk about financial systems. As we've seen here in the United States, credit is quite highly associated with property prices and vice versa. If you're going to talk about land, you're talking about financial systems. If you're talking about financial systems, the question on everybody's mind worldwide has to do with the soundness of different financial systems. And, to the degree that the entire financial system worldwide is fairly integrated, how is this going to play out?
Because the land story has been so central in Hong Kong, it may have some lessons. First, you can look at the United States 2008. We had subprime. We had a land crisis that morphed into a financial sector crisis. And on the other side, look at the PRC. One of the questions here is whether they have gotten themselves into a situation where land and the financial system are wagging the entire dog of the economy. To the degree that we've seen land and finance drive things in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong experience may have some useful lessons for other economies in the world going forward.
The second answer is that Hong Kong, as Lynn Pan might say, is where maritime China meets earthbound China, where East met West. It is really, to some degree, a cosmopolitan nexus in the world, and so a useful object of study in a lot of different ways.
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OAKLAND -- It didn't matter they nearly blew a 20-point lead. Or that Portland's rookie guard Damian Lillard made a YouTube highlight against their defense.
The Warriors are at a point on their schedule where all that matters is they get the win. And that they did Friday, 103-97, snapping their first two-game losing streak since early November.
"I think it's good for us overall because we found a way," Warriors coach Mark Jackson said. "This is preparing us. Like I told my guys, where we expect to go, in these games, you are going to have to find a way to stop special players."
Certainly, Lillard was special in the second half Friday. The Oakland native put on a show in his first pro game in his hometown, much to the delight of the bevy of supporters donning Portland's colors at Oracle Arena.
Lillard finished with a career-high 37 points on 15-of-25 shooting. He knocked down five of his seven 3-pointers in the second half, nearly leading Portland to its second thrilling comeback in two nights.
In the end, the Warriors -- now 19-1 when leading after three quarters -- made just enough shots, scrambled just enough on defense, secured just enough rebounds.
The Warriors (23-12) desperately needed a win. Not only were they pounded in back-to-back losses to the Los Angeles Clippers and Memphis Grizzlies, but their schedule gets even more brutal next week. A win in any of their next three games would be considered a feat: at Denver on Saturday, vs. Miami on Wednesday, at San Antonio next Friday.
For that reason, the Warriors could ill-afford a loss to Portland (20-16), which beat Miami on Thursday night.
"This is a tough stretch for us," forward David Lee said after totaling 24 points and 10 rebounds, outplaying Portland's LaMarcus Aldridge (seven points on 3-of-14 shooting).
"We're just going to take it one game at a time. We're going to get some oxygen right now, then go to Denver, and we plan on going there and getting a victory."
Golden State led by as much as 19 in the first half. That lead was up to 67-47 after a Lee jumper midway through the third quarter.
But the Warriors failed to put away Portland. The Blazers, down 78-63 entering the fourth quarter, got some life from their rookie point guard.
Lillard knocked down three straight jumpers, two of them 3-pointers, to put Portland back into striking distance. His second 3-pointer, which he pulled up from Walnut Creek, cut the Warriors' lead to 82-74 with 9:43 left in the game.
But Lillard was just beginning. He went on to score 17 points in the fourth quarter as Jackson turned from Jarrett Jack to Klay Thompson to Kent Bazemore to try to stop Lillard.
His driving layup with 5:21 left cut the Warriors' lead to seven. At the 1:41 mark, his runner pulled Portland within six.
Stephen Curry found forward Carl Landry for a layup with 24.7 seconds left, putting the Warriors up 100-94. But just before Warriors' faithful could get comfortable, Lillard -- inexplicably wide open at the top of the circle -- nailed a 3-pointer to cut the Warriors' lead to three.
Curry drilled a couple free throws with 16.4 seconds left. Warriors rookie forward Draymond Green secured the game by blocking Lillard's last 3-point attempt in the final seconds.
"He has talent," Curry, who had 22 points and 12 assists, said of Lillard. "He's probably going to be Rookie of the Year, and he showed a lot tonight. I look forward to playing him again. Hopefully we stop him."
"I definitely thought it was a possibility," Lillard said before the game. "I thought we could play together. I thought me and him could be on the floor at the same time the same way they do it with he and (Jarrett) Jack."
The Trail Blazers drafted Lillard sixth overall, one pick before the Warriors selected Harrison Barnes.
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"Damian Lillard is a very good player with a bright, bright future," Jackson said. "We knew it at the draft, and he has certainly done everything to show that people had the right assessment of his ability. He's a high character kid, tough, has no flaws on the floor."
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If you or a loved one is in danger, you want help as quickly as possible...but a quick response isn't easy when phone lines are tied up.
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The goal is to keep 911 calls to 60 seconds and respond minutes later. But that can be hard when three minute calls tie up the lines.
We sat in one center for about an hour, and only one call was urgent.
Several callers used 911 for directory assistance. One caller asked for the number to the DMV. Another asked for an attorney named Barber. And one caller called 911 because they kept getting sent to voice mail at the number they should have been calling.
Some of the calls could have been considered an emergency...when the incident actually happened. One caller called about records for an incident from the previous Friday.
Another caller wasted precious time on the line trying to decide if she should file an incident report. Finally she said she'd think about it...and call back.
All calls that come in, emergency or not, have to share just 12 lines.
The 911 center gets about 9000 calls every day. If you call with something that isn't a real emergency, you could tie up the phone lines and keep somebody with a real emergency from getting through.
Assistant 911 director Catherine White says for safety reasons, they respond to almost everything.
"We never take anything for granted, because a man might say 'my toe hurts'', and his foot might be gangrene by the time we get there," she told News 12. "We still respond regardless of the situation."
But sometimes, callers don't need emergency responders...they need directions.
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"They have two sets of glass doors to get out the front, and one set was locked with a key and you could not get out the door."
Some don't even know why they're calling.
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In the one emergency case we witnessed, fire was only minutes away from spreading to Mary Booth's apartment. The time all those non-emergency calls take is time she didn't have.
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Set 1: Night Speaks to a Woman > Cincinnati, Low[1], Love is Freedom[2], Cayman Review > Mozambique, What's Done[1], Drifting > Mr. Completely
Set 2: Come As Melody[1], Plasma, It's Ice[3], Bar 17[4], Push On 'Til the Day, 18 Steps[1], I Am the Walrus[3]
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[1] Debut.
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Notes: This gig featured the debuts of "Low," "What's Done," "Come As Melody" and "18 Steps" as well as the TAB debuts of "It's Ice" and "I Am the Walrus." "Love Is Freedom" featured Trey on acoustic guitar and did not include Les or Skeeto; Trey also performed on acoustic guitar for the intro to "Bar 17." "70 Volt Parade" was played over the P.A. as the band left the stage at the end of the second set.
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Spring is finally here and with it we are reminded why this part of North Carolina and southern Virginia may be the best place to live in the whole country.
Our endless spring will be followed by a beautiful summer and a breathtaking fall. This is also the traditional time for us to clean up our yards, take pride in our neighborhoods and parks, and enjoy the beauty around us.
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RIDGECREST — One point separated Trona and Immanuel Christian in both teams' first Hi-Lo League game.
The Trona girls basketball team beat Immanuel Christian 37-36 Tuesday in the Kerr McGee Center.
"This one hurt," ICS Coach Bob Smith said. "It's devastating when you don't feel like you played as a team, but Trona played well. I thought it was their best effort of the season."
Five points was the biggest lead any team had and that was in the first quarter when ICS jumped out to an early 7-2 lead.
Trona came back with eight unanswered points of its own, getting baskets from Liz Gammett, Keandra Renzlemen and Tia Renzlemen to give the Tornadoes their first lead of the game.
By the end of the first frame, the score was tied at 10-all.
Trona got all five of its points in the second quarter from Tia Renzlemen.
Although the Tornadoes only managed five points, the Crusaders couldn't take advantage.
Morgan Lieser, Tara Henderson and Elicia Hazlewood managed to scrap together five points of for Immanuel during a tough-shooting second quarter by both teams.
"We shot 23 percent in the first half on our 2-point shots and we were 1-of-12 on our 3-point shots," Smith said. "It just wasn't a great performance from us tonight. We have to learn a lesson from this and move on. We have Mammoth (today), so we have to forget about this one and win (today)."
The second half the game was just as close as the first 16 minutes of play. Tia Renzlemen scored eight straight points for the Tornadoes, while Vanessa Sandoval got steal after steal to give the Tornadoes a 27-26 lead early in the fourth quarter.
Smith went to a box-and-1 to slow Tia Renzlemen down, but other players began to step up.
Sandoval, Gammett, Keandra Renzlemen and Ashley Vassar all hit important shots down the stretch to take a slim 37-35 lead into the final 30 seconds of action. Trona went on to win 37-36 and start the Hi-Lo 1-0.
"We would take a couple good steps, then we would make a few missteps," Smith said. "We now have to get some help and take care of business for the rest of the season."
Tia Renzlemen led all scorers with 15 points and added 17 rebounds. ICS' Jennifer Mondragon led her team in scoring with 13 points and had 13 rebounds.
For ICS, Hazlewood had eight points and four steals, Lieser had eight points and four rebounds, and Tara Henderson had six points and 11 rebounds.
For Trona, Sandoval had four points and seven steals, Tia Renzlemen had four points and six rebounds, Gammett had four points and seven rebounds and Vassar had four points and two steals.
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FHP seeks hit-and-run driver
Published: Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 7:43 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 7:43 a.m.
MANATEE COUNTY - The Florida Highway Patrol is seeking the driver of a pickup truck that reportedly caused a chain-reaction accident Friday afternoon in Manatee County.
According to a report, the accident happened at 3:55 p.m. in the left southbound lane of 26th Street West, approaching 49th Avenue West. The report says the truck hit the back of a 2012 Chevy Malibu driven by Mary Gaughan, 65, of Dorchester, Maine, pushing the car into the back of a 1999 Ford Taurus driven by Joann Savard, 48, of Bradenton. The collision subsequently propelled the Taurus into the back of a 2009 Ford Mustang driven by Hope Barbera, 38, of Bradenton.
The report describe the vehicle that caused the accident as an older-model, black pickup truck with chrome accents. The driver is described as a black male, possibly in his 30s, with scruffy hair.
Savard and a passenger, Dustin Morton, 27, of Bradenton, sustained minor injuries, the report says. No other injuries were reported.
Anyone who may have witnessed the crash or has any knowledge as to the identity and or location of the hit-and-run vehicle or driver can contact the Florida Highway Patrol at (239) 938-1800.
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UPDATE: Man injured in Sarasota shooting
Published: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 6:14 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 11:42 a.m.
SARASOTA - Sarasota police are investigating a shooting in the Newtown area that injured a man early Wednesday morning.
According to a police report from the Sarasota Police Department:
At about 2 a.m., a man who was sitting on the porch of a home in the 1700 block of Gregg Court was shot twice by another man.
The injured man was flown to Blake Medical Center. His condition was listed as serious, according to Sarasota Police.
Police officers searched for the suspect with dogs but were unable to locate him.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Sarasota Police Department Bureau of Criminal Investigations at 941-954-7070 or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers by calling 941-366-TIPS (8477), or online at http://www.sarasotacrimestoppers.com/
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DETROIT -- There's a scene in "Bull Durham" in which veteran catcher Crash Davis tells his wild-armed pitcher: "Don't think. It can only hurt the ballclub."
With Tim Lincecum this postseason, the line has an echo of truth.
Among the benefits of the Giants sending the struggling right-hander to the bullpen this October is that it cut down Lincecum's thinking time. And with his brain switched off, the talent flickered back on.
"He doesn't have time to think about his delivery or anything," manager Bruce Bochy said Sunday before Game 4 of the World Series, which the Giants won 4-3 to complete a sweep. "It doesn't take him that long to get ready, so it's not like he has a lot of time to think about it."
And, boy, did his not thinking ever help the ballclub: The results of his five playoff relief outings: 1-0, an 0.69 ERA, three hits allowed and 17 strikeouts in 13 innings. Those numbers look especially absurd in light of the regular season that preceded it: 10-15 with a 5.18 ERA and a career-high 90 walks.
As bad as the game days were, the four days in-between, conspiracy theories and "What's Wrong with Timmy?" questions echoed over the airwaves.
Now? Lincecum simply hears the jingle of the bullpen phone and goes to work.
"We did discuss that this might help him, not having all night to think about, 'Hey, I'm pitching tomorrow,' " Bochy said.
In his latest outing, Game 3 on Saturday night, Lincecum breezed through 21/3 scoreless innings and served as the bridge between starter Ryan Vogelsong and closer Sergio Romo in a 2-0 victory.
Lincecum's velocity touched 93 mph on the stadium radar gun -- a rarity a month or so ago -- and his changeup was a butterfly again. Prince Fielder and Andy Dirks both struck out swinging at off-speed stuff in the dirt.
"He has grown so much through what he's done and he realizes, again, how good he is," Bochy said. "It's nice to see him throwing the ball the way he is at the end here.
"Hopefully, he can carry that through the winter and into spring training. That's what Timmy should carry with him."
Lincecum's first two World Series appearances both lasted exactly 21/3 innings (and exactly 32 pitches): The combined line: 0 runs, 0 hits, 8 strikeouts and 1 walk.
He faced 16 batters, allowing only a walk and one other base runner on an error by Brandon Crawford.
Lincecum has no desire to become a reliever full-time -- and the Giants have no plans to move him there -- but in the playoffs, the bullpen feels like his natural habitat.
"It's pretty fun," Lincecum said Saturday night. "We've got a great group of guys on this team. So as focused as we are on the game, we still mess around down there.
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Published: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 9:48 p.m.
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Several vending machines in Terrebonne businesses have been damaged, and authorities are searching for the culprit.
The man in this photo may have information, Sheriff's Maj. Malcolm Wolfe said. Anyone who knows this person can call the Sheriff's Office at 876-2500.
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ORINDA -- In an era of increasingly bold home burglaries, deception has become the new dark.
Just ask Colleen Rovetti, whose family's Overhill Road home was stormed by thieves just after noon on Jan. 23.
"The people who burglarized my home this time aren't concerned about stories in the newspaper or being caught on camera," she says, during a phone interview after the third break-in in three years. "That's why they sent two women to case the place, then wore hoodies."
In the YouTube video she posted in hopes of helping the police to identify the burglars, a dark blue sedan with a paper (possibly fake) license plate backs down the driveway. Two women climb out of a blue sedan, ring the doorbell and wait. Twelve seconds later, they climb back in the car.
They're leaving, right? Wrong. Ten seconds later, two men emerge -- one hooded, the other lifting a coat to shield his profile. The first man holds onto his partner, steadying himself as he fiercely kicks open the door. They disappear inside. After 30 seconds, bursting from the home, they hurl themselves into the car and drive off.
The entire incident, from ringing bell to robbery interrupted, takes two minutes.
Unfortunately for the Rovettis, the first time their home was broken into, the thieves had oodles of time.
"It was 2003 and we were in Hawaii," Rovetti recalls. "It was during the Gray Davis recall effort, and kids were going door-to-door, canvassing for petition signatures. Those kids were in our house for a couple of hours. "
After losing almost everything of value, the Rovettis installed a Sonitrol alarm system and cut back the tall hedge obscuring the front entry.
In April 2011, their close-to-the-freeway, recessed-drive home was under construction. They had another "visit."
"They kicked in our back garage door and stole three computers," Rovetti reports. "They dropped a receipt in our house from Nation's burgers. The police subsequently posted a video from the restaurant."
Nothing came of it, despite the promising pictures.
In September 2012, the burglars used five minutes in the home to steal approximately $25,000 worth of jewelry. The most valuable items belonged to Rovetti's father-in-law. The Rovettis were shocked to discover nothing was insured because their policy did not have individual riders.
The alarm, set to "silent" upon advice Rovetti says she received from the police (that this would link it directly to the police department and un-alerted burglars would be apprehended) had allowed the thieves just enough time to grab and go.
"The police tell me they were here in six minutes," Rovetti says.
The Rovettis then bought a safe and bolted it into the wall. They also installed a surveillance camera.
When the fourth hit happened, her husband had left his championship football ring in a bedside table. The thieves grabbed it while the (now loud) alarm rang.
"Should we put up a cement wall?" she asks. "Short of a moat and sharks, I kind of feel like putting a sign that says, 'You've taken everything: you don't need to come here anymore.' "
Orinda Police Chief Jeffrey Jennings says the Rovettis have been "wonderfully responsive" to suggestions.
"The home is right next to a thoroughfare and, unfortunately, appears to be an attractive target," he replied in an email. "The only other thing they could do with that location is to put a fence around the exterior of their property to include the driveway."
"We're frustrated and cynical," Rovetti admits. "We're kind of scoffing at Orinda as a safe place to live. But I think the police are terrific. They've been responsive: it's just our situation that's unfortunate."
Jennings said Orinda had a 9 percent decrease in residential burglaries from 2011 to 2012. With 0.8 officers per 1,000 residents and a city council determined to keep policing a priority, he said understaffing is not the problem.
"The beauty of the contract with the Office of the Sheriff is that I can request force multipliers with a minimal increase of expense and sometimes with no increase," he said.
Asked why she wants her family's story told, Rovetti says, "If you see something suspicious, you have to call it in. Our neighbor saw the blue car drive up, but because it was brand new, they didn't call. But this morning, we had a person replacing flooring and one of our neighbors called (after seeing a van parked in the drive) and the police came right away."
To see the security video of the burglars who broke into the Rovettis' home go to www.youtube.com and type "OrindaBurglary.avi" into the search function.


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Hummingbird 1
Enjoy spectacular views from this Tobago holiday apartment
Hummingbird 1 is a one-bedroom Tobago holiday apartment with air conditioning, surrounded by lush tropical gardens and offering affordable, secluded accommodation. Located below Rainforest apartment, it has astonishing views of the beach and the whole of Castara Bay. It also looks east across the garden to the village beyond and to the rainforest ridge in the distance, where the sun rises. Manta rays can regularly be seen in the ocean below and hummingbirds arrive every few minutes to feed on the bananas and colourful flowers. Bananaquits have even nested in the candle holders that we provide for each accommodation!
The apartment has a private entrance via a flight of steps that leads onto the spacious 20-foot long covered terrace that spans the front of this accommodation.
Hummingbird 2 adjoins Hummingbird 1 and it is possible for two couples or a family to rent both these apartments. When the wooden dividing wall between the terrace areas is retracted it creates a spacious 32-foot terrace that spans the whole front of this accommodation with comfortable seating and dining options.
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- Bedroom: Air-conditioned double bedroom (12 x 15 foot) with queen size bed, looking directly out to the ocean and beach, and a fitted hardwood wardrobe.
- Shower room: Good-sized shower room and toilet that is beautifully tiled and lit by flush spot lights with dimmer switch.
- Kitchen: Spacious and well-equipped kitchen, finished with hardwood windows, doors and cabinets, all made by local craftsmen. The kitchen has the same spectacular views as the terrace and looks to the ocean and beach as well as to the garden and is located to allow ease of access and socialising with both the indoor and outdoor terraces which makes serving meals and drinks easy and relaxing.
- Indoor terrace: Covered terrace to dine, read, and absorb the ever-changing landscape of ocean, beach, garden and rainforest. This terrace is surrounded by colourful tropical plants that are much visited by a variety of birds and offers seclusion and privacy to those seeking to stay in our Tobago holiday apartment. There are tables and chairs for inside and outside dining,
- Outdoor terrace: The spacious outdoor terrace is the perfect space for sunbathing, al fresco dining and watching the stars.
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TRACY - The Manteca girls basketball team scored five consecutive points in a span of 12 seconds late in the fourth quarter Wednesday to close to within three points, but host West held on for a 39-35 nonleague victory at Steve Thornton Gymnasium.
Trailing 35-27 with 1 minute, 28 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Manteca's Elizabeth Tolbert made a field goal to draw the Buffaloes within 35-29. Twelve seconds later, Mikayla Hasal converted a steal into a basket and then Abigail Behler made 1 of 2 free throws to make it 35-32 with 1:16 remaining. The Buffaloes couldn't get any closer.
"We couldn't get into a flow offensively," Manteca coach Cody Norman said. "We started to battle there toward the end of the fourth quarter, but it just wasn't enough."
The Wolf Pack's Emma Bell scored six of her game-high 16 points in the fourth quarter, including a perfect 4 for 4 from the free-throw line in the quarter.
"It was close at the end," Bell said. "We had our ups and downs, but when it wasn't going well we settled down. We are improving and learning how to work together."
West (4-2) has just two seniors with two juniors, three sophomores and four freshmen.
"We are young," Wolf Pack coach Joe Hernandez said. "But we are getting better every game. We have to cut down on the mental mistakes and play a lot more aggressive and a lot smarter."
West was 8 for 10 from the free-throw line in the final quarter with Ileyah Costa going 4 for 4, getting six of her seven points in the period. Kate Bell finished with nine points for the Wolf Pack.
Hasal led a balanced attack for the Buffaloes (0-1) with nine points, followed by Jessica Hasal with seven points and five apiece for Manveer Hundal and Abigail Behler.
- Dave Campbell, Record Correspondent
At Linden, the Lions (1-5) earned their first victory this season behind Kendra Champion, who scored 10 points. Darcy Castelanelli scored 10 points for the Tigers (1-4).
At Turlock, Aaliyah Cooke scored a team-high 15 points and Kelsey Bumanglag had 11 for the Titans (3-2).
At Brookside, Eric DeAnda and Kameron Vales had 17 points apiece to lead the Knights (5-0) past the Hawks (2-2), who were led by Jordan Thornton's 15 points.
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With Apple's (AAPL) announcement Tuesday of record iPhone sales but another round of lackluster earnings, the pressure is turned on high.
Apple and CEO Tim Cook now face a nearly six-month trial by fire. After changing the world with the iPhone and iPad, the tech icon has seen its performance slow and its stock price plummet, in large part because of a glaring absence of new products. Investor and fan fervor is cooling, and some experts say time could be running out for Apple to prove it still has the mojo that co-founder Steve Jobs unleashed upon the world.
"Everyone is watching and everyone knows that this is either the earnings trough -- it better be the earnings trough -- or else Apple is in real trouble," said Laurence Balter, an analyst at Oracle Investment Research. "It's important for management to communicate to shareholders that this is not the end for Apple, but rather the beginning of the next phase. And they really need to say that because shareholders have lost faith."
The coming months are key: Apple traditionally releases new products in the fall, and Cook has made cryptic references to both improvements in its Apple TV as well as an interest in "wearable technology," which helped fuel already rampant rumors that Apple was working on an iWatch. On Tuesday, though, he was focused on existing products. "We are especially proud of our record June quarter iPhone sales of over 31 million and the strong growth in revenue from iTunes, software and services," Cook said in a news release.
But while analyst Colin Gillis with BGC Financial conceded that "Apple's flagship product is doing just fine," he said that Cook, after having proved himself to be a "fantastic" chief operating officer, needs to prove himself as CEO.
Analysts agree that Apple must not only say the right things in coming months, but come up with another blockbuster, such as a new and improved Apple TV.
Balter said the next obvious chapter in the Apple story is the integration of the iPhone into the rest of our lives, such as our cars and kitchens and living rooms. Others think Apple could recapture the groove it found with the 2007 launch of the first iPhone by jiggering the shape and size of existing products.
"We will be looking for signs of new products such as the low-priced handset," Societe Generale analyst Andy Perkins wrote in a note to investors, "and possibly the iWatch."
What Apple pulls out of its hat in the next few months could be far more important than the comparatively tepid earnings it reported Tuesday. Its revenues were $35.3 billion, slightly above analysts' estimates of $35 billion and essentially flat with the same quarter last year.
It reported profit of $6.9 billion, or $7.47 a share, above analysts' estimates of $7.33 a share in a survey by FactSet but well below the $9.32 a share it reported a year ago.
In the most encouraging number in the otherwise lackluster earnings, the company said it had sold 31.2 million iPhones, setting a record for the June quarter and handily beating the 26.5 million analysts had expected it to sell.
Before the announcement, Apple shares had closed at $418.99, down $7.32, or nearly 2 percent. But the stock was up about 4 percent in after-hours trading.
Meanwhile, analysts are forecasting little or no revenue growth in Apple's current fourth quarter for the first time since the debut of the iPhone six years ago. They expect $35 billion in revenue again.
Clearly, Apple has lost the red-hot momentum it had going into the end of 2012, when it announced the iPhone 5 to great critical acclaim.
It's been an underwhelming year so far for Apple, prompting many to wonder if the tech icon has run adrift. Investor angst has hammered the company's stock price, at one point dragging it below $400 a share after it was hovering near $700 a year earlier. After years of exciting launches, including variations of the iPhone and iPad, there've been no new product announcements in 2013.
"This has been a very tough period for Apple and it's made worse by the fact that the company doesn't talk openly with people, so you don't know what's really going on inside," said analyst Roger Kay with Endpoint Technologies. "But it does seem as if there's been a dearth of announcements the entire year and the momentum Apple had before is almost entirely dissipated."
Kay said it's now showtime. Apple needs to prove it still has the goods, he said, and it needs to start talking about them "in the next few weeks."
Or as fellow analyst Van Baker with Gartner Research put it:
"The clock is ticking."
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689; follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc.
Apple's quarterly earnings by the numbers:
31.2 million: Number of iPhones sold, up from 26 million in the year-ago quarter
14.6 million: Number of iPads sold, down from 17 million a year earlier and up from 9.5 million in previous quarter
3.8 million: Number of Macs sold, down from 4 million a year ago
$35.3 billion: Revenue; essentially flat year over year
$6.9 billion: Net income; down from $8.8 billion a year earlier
$146.6 billion: Amount of cash on hand; up from $144.7 billion in previous quarter
Source: Apple


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Today�s guest post is by my friend Jessica Marvin, a 32 year old Army wife and mother two. I asked Jessica to share what she is using to shed the last bit of baby weight.
I started my weight loss adventure back in 2011 when I realized I was not in my 20's anymore and the baby weight would not just fall off like the first time. That December we moved to Fort Leavenworth and set out on a quest to find a gym for our family. After 5 months of searching, our family joined Leavenworth Country Club/Great Life Fitness. Shortly after joining I heard there was a personal trainer who ran a program called �Superpump.� Joining this workout program has really been an amazing journey for me. All the ladies are really motivated and keep me committed to the program. They also introduced me into another community known as MyFitnessPal, a free food/exercise tracker website. With a comprehensive database of over 2,322,000 foods and restaurant items you can track your food choices with a few clicks. This app fits a number of popular diets like Atkins, the South Beach Diet, the Zone, or customize your own diet profile. MyFitnessPal has a free that is available on most smartphones and has the ability to connect with other 3rd party fitness gadgets like the FitBit. You can make the settings public so your friends can have access or keep them private so nobody else can see them. I find it motivating to keep my setting publics so when you eat two pieces of cake one night and the next night you just finish the whole thing, your friends can send you a message and get you back on track. With the help of Superpump training and myfitnesspal app, I am already down 5 pounds in one month.Connect Adventures with Gadget Girl on Facebook or at email@example.com view the blog at http://www.adventureswithgadgetgirl.com to view pictures associated with this post.


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SAN ANTONIO, TX (KKCO) A memorial service was held Saturday for 24-year-old Ghawi in San Antonio, Texas, where she grew up. She was living in the Denver area pursuing her dream of becoming a sportscaster when she was struck down during the shooting rampage in Aurora. One-by-one several family and friends walked to the podium to remember her life. The most emotional moment came when Ghawi's brother talked about how her dreams would live on.
"I just wanted to leave you with two things, and one is if this coward could've done this with this much hate, imagine what we could do with this much love. The other thing is, if you're putting your dreams on hold, you stop that right now, you chase those dreams, you don't know how long you have here, you've read her blog, you know that life is ephemeral and you should not live with regrets. Take what my sister had to say, do follow her interactions and chase those dreams. Dad, I want you to know, mom, I want you to know, I know you're hurting and I haven't lost it yet, but I'm hurting with you and her story will continue to be told and she's going to live on at least through this scholarship fund. She will live on, her dreams were not fulfilled but through her others will," says Jacob Ghawi.
Jessica Ghawi had recently blogged about her narrow escape during a shooting at a Toronto shopping center, only to fall victim at the Aurora theater.


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U.K.-based music retailer HMV Group filed for administration Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The Chicago Tribune (sub. req.) has the third part of a four-part report on the collapse of Tribune Co.
The New York Times looks at the collapse of San Bernardino, Calif.
Hotel owner Madison 92nd Street Associates LLC sued Marriott International for $500 million, accusing it of conspiring to keep two of its properties free of unions, Bloomberg reports.
American Airlines is going to start getting its 787 Dreamliner airplanes delivered earlier than it had previously planned, the Dallas Morning News reports.
Reuters discusses who owns American International Group's mortgage-backed securities fraud claims.
According to Deal Journal Australia, David Scott Olivet, a former chief executive of Oakley Inc., has been tapped by Altamont Capital Partners to bid on surfwear company Billabong International
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Transcripts, Day 27: Electronic Edition
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1 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] All the evidence I have by Michael Schmidt, and especially
2Michael Schmidt who was there at the time and in his book
3and four days long, you know, whole videos of that, this
4is a short version we saw, I would say that in my overall
5cautious judgment I cannot say yes to your implication.
6 Q. [Mr Irving] Since we are talking about this demonstration, I had
7£2,000 worth of books on the book table at that function.
8Would I have left them unattended with 800 people in the
9hall in order to join a demonstration?
10 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] You joined this going, and all the sources I had says,
11including Althans, that this was going to the
13 Q. [Mr Irving] Did you read my diary covering that particular episode?
14 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Yes, I read.
15 Q. [Mr Irving] Did you read the police statements that were taken
16describing what had happened in the file which was made
17available by discovery?
18 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] You know, I think I did it also in the report, I read this
19and I came to the conclusion that there are more reasons
20for the case I state that you joined for a given period of
21time this march.
22 Q. [Mr Irving] You think I would have just left £2,000 worth of books
23unattended on a book table in a beer hall with 800
25 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] I do not know. There are other possibilities to take care
26and maybe you did and you joined. I do not know.
1 Q. [Mr Irving] Do you remember the police statements that were made at
2the time?
3 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] I read the things that are of interest all around this
5 Q. [Mr Irving] But my question was, do you remember the police statements
6that were made covering this particular event, the
7demonstration and the reason that I was taken in and so
9 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] I think I recall, but help me.
10 Q. [Mr Irving] Yes. Well, if you have not read them there is not much
11point in my putting it to you.
12 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] I think I had.
13 Q. [Mr Irving] Are you aware that Michael Schmidt who took the videos and
14on whom you rely is a paid police informer?
15 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] No.
16 Q. [Mr Irving] Well, are you aware that this emerges from the police
17dossier which is in my files which were provided by way of
19 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Michael Schmidt was not a police informer.
20 Q. [Mr Irving] Where did the police obtain the video from on the basis of
21which they prosecuted me?
22 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] But I have no evidence that he sided police functions, no
23evidence whatsoever.
24 Q. [Mr Irving] Have you read in the police dossier the words, "Michael
25Schmidt has come forward and volunteered to us a video
26which he took at the Lowenbrau meeting?
1 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] This is a different, this a different, you know, what is
2it, observation. That does not include that he is paid or
3whatever integrated in this secret or police system.
4 Q. [Mr Irving] You referred repeatedly in your report to that fact that
5in the written agreements between myself and Dr Frey it
6was stated in writing that I would not talk about the
7Holocaust in any of my talks?
8 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Yes, Frey again and again reiterated that. He may have
9had reasons. I do not know.
10 Q. [Mr Irving] Yes. Well, can you speculate on what the reason would be,
11possible reasons?
12 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] You were there too. The one is not to be illegalized; the
13other is that you may depart from it.
14 Q. [Mr Irving] Would you agree that the more likely reason is in the
15German climate, that even though neither of us intended,
16neither Dr Frey nor I, should speak about that subject, it
17would be alleged against us by malicious parties and we
18wanted it therefore to be set out in writing that that was
19not an agreed topic, and that this is the reason why it
20was fixed every time in writing between us?
21 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] It seems ----
22 Q. [Mr Irving] So we could not be tricked.
23 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] It seems the case.
24 Q. [Mr Irving] Yes, and using your own political nouse, your ability,
25your acumen, would you agree that this is probably the
26more likely conclusion on the basis of the correspondence
1as you have read it?
2 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] It does not defer from what I wrote or did I get it
4 MR JUSTICE GRAY: No, I think you are all agreed. It was a
5precaution that he took to protect himself, his party and
6indeed Mr Irving from being prosecuted.
7 MR IRVING: It was a precaution we both took, my Lord. Can
8I add another question as rider? Have you seen any
9reference or indication of the fact that at any of the DVU
10meetings I departed from that agreement and that I spoke
11Holocaust denial?
12 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] I mean there was the quarrel between Mr Frey and Mr Irving
13with respect to the other activities you took at that
14period of time, and that was also in relation to the, to
15quote, "Hitler and Jews" thing. So this made him
16concerned that you will lose the ability, that Mr Irving,
17so to speak, lose the ability to stay freely and to speak
18freely in Germany and he lost.
19 Q. [Mr Irving] Yes, but will you now please answer my question because it
20is important. Have you read any indication anywhere, in
21my diaries or on the speech notes or anything like that,
22that I spoke on Holocaust denial or the Holocaust or
23Auschwitz at any of the meetings that Dr Frey commissioned
24me to speak at?
25 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] So far as I recall not, no.
26 Q. [Mr Irving] And the same goes for anti-Semitism of course, that I did
1not go vapouring on against the Jews at any of these
3 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] So far as I see, not with respect to the DVU, but in other
4circumstances very different.
5 Q. [Mr Irving] We will take each one as we come to it. In paragraph
63.4.1, and I am nearly at the end, you say that I was a
7main speaker for the DVU?
8 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Yes.
9 Q. [Mr Irving] Is not the correct way to say it in fact that I was
10speaker frequently hired by the DVU as an historian, that
11I never spoke for them? I was not a spokesman for them?
12 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] You were a star speaker used by the political party for
13political aims.
14 Q. [Mr Irving] Why do you call me an agitator for the DVU in that same
15paragraph, an agitator?
16 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Because of that.
17 Q. [Mr Irving] Would you like to justify the last sentence beginning,
18"The DVU is itself a party that propagates hatred against
19foreigners, an-Semitism, revisionism, incites violence"?
20Is this not again an example of your loose writing, you
21just throw these things in there?
22 A. [Dr Hajo Funke] Not with respect to the DVU. As I stated it before, you
23did not do that. Is it is very interesting to describe
24this. The speaker, Irving, is cautious in sticking to the
25law as he can with respect to the DVU, but the DVU itself
26is taking him as a star speaker, and representing their
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The Lakers never quite solved the Highlanders this year.
After three narrow defeats at the hands of their lakeside rival, the third-seeded North Tahoe boys soccer team lost 1-0 to Incline in the semifinal round of the Division III state championship tournament in Henderson on Friday.
"We played well, like always. We just couldn't finish," said North Tahoe head coach Beto Alcaraz, adding that his team had one near goal bounce off the post. "It was an even game, just like the other ones we played against Incline. I thought we played a good game."
The Highlanders, seeded No. 1 from the North, went on to defeat Whittell 4-3 in overtime the next day to win the Division III state title. It was the first year the Division III (formerly 2A) held a separate state championship tournament from the Division I-A (formerly 3A).
Alcaraz described Incline's one goal as "unfortunate," as the Highlanders fired a long, high shot late in the first half that was seemingly headed over the goal, but instead got caught in the high wind and wound up in the Laker goal.
"I thought it hit from behind the goal. But that was it," Alcaraz said.
The coach said his players, especially the six seniors, were disappointed with the result, but he was pleased with their effort and marked improvement from a season ago.
"Overall, I think we had a great season," he said. "I'm very proud of the boys, with how they played and how they improved from last year. You could see it in their passing and trapping and technical skills. I'm really happy about that. I'm very happy with the success of the season."
In the girls state tournament, top-seeded Incline defeated White Pine 5-0 in the semifinal before shutting out Whittell 4-0 for the championship.


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October 05, 2011
Hydrogen Student Design Contest Inspires and Opens Doors
Since 2004, the Hydrogen Student Design Contest has challenged university students from across the globe to use their skills in design, engineering, economics, environmental science, business and marketing to devise innovative hydrogen energy applications for real-world use.
"You have to be innovative and you have to stretch yourself—it was a powerful experience for all of us," said Juliette Bohn, who, along with fellow team members from Humboldt State University, won the 2005 competition.
As part of the competition, which is co-sponsored by the DOE's Fuel Cell Technologies Program, the Humboldt State University design team submitted a proposal for a hydrogen power park that converts landfill gas to electricity, heat, and hydrogen vehicle fuel.
The team's proposal generated significant buzz at the competition. "We received a very good response, a lot of industry partners were interested in our design," said Juliette. There was so much interest that Chevron Corporation, along with Humboldt State's Schatz Energy Research Center, worked with the students to fund feasibility studies that allowed them to explore options for bringing their concept from design to implementation. See the Energy Blog post.


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Politics Counts: GOP's Very Slow Shift on Gay Marriage
Dante Chinni writes Politics Counts every Friday. Mr. Chinni is the director of the American Communities Project at American University, which examines different types of communities across the U.S.
In the space of a decade, same-sex marriage has gone from being an issue Americans overwhelming oppose to one a majority increasingly supports, according to a long list of polls. And a string of court victories for gay marriage supporters in recent weeks, from Virginia to Texas to Tennessee, has only solidified the notion of the issue's growing momentum.
But politically, same-sex marriage is still a complicated matter, particularly for the Republican Party. While the public, on the whole, seems to be casting off in the direction of legalizing same-sex marriage, Republicans are moving much more slowly – and that's true even when one takes factors like geography into account.
That means that, despite what the polls say and despite what the courts rule, gay marriage seems likely to remain a hot topic and a divisive issue in politics in the 2014 midterms and the 2016 presidential race.
Few issues have moved as far as fast as same-sex marriage.
In the 2004 presidential election, Republicans reportedly pushed to get anti gay marriage initiatives on the ballot in key states to help bring out the vote for then-President George W. Bush's re-election efforts. At that time, about 60% of Americans opposed same-sex marriage, while only 31% favored it, according to data from the Pew Research Center, and, of course, Mr. Bush won.
The latest figures from Pew Research, however, show 54% now favor gay marriage, while only 39% oppose.
That's a pretty big gap, some 15 percentage points, and polls like that have prompted some in the GOP to talk about changing the party's position or at least its tone on gay marriage.
Richard Tisei, a gay Republican who married his partner last year and who is running for congress in perennially blue Massachusetts, used a speech last weekend to criticize the GOP for being "stuck in the 19th century" on issues like personal freedom, particularly gay marriage. And in Illinois, three Republican state representatives who defied the party to support gay marriage to win their respective primaries on Tuesday despite being target by gay marriage opponents.
Officially, however, the Republican platform in 2012 backed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between one man and one woman – and the party reiterated that position last year.
And when you look at the numbers, any changes in the GOP's stance on gay marriage are likely going to take time. While the nation as a whole has come to accept gay marriage, polls indicate that Republicans, as a group, have not.
Approval for gay marriage among Republicans runs only at 32% in the latest Pew poll, far below the numbers for Democrats and Independent voters, which show approval rates of 67% and 59% respectively.
And Republicans disapproval is pretty consistent.
Pew last week noted that there is considerable support for gay marriage among Republicans under the age of 30, but that is the only age group in the party that supports it. And those younger voters are only a small part of the current GOP, which relies more heavily on older voters than the Democratic Party. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney won only 37% of the vote from 18- to 29-year-olds in 2012.
More important, slicing the Pew Research sample differently shows gay marriage disapproval runs very deep, even cutting through the important urban/suburban/rural divide.
Among Democrats and independents, more than 60% of those in urban locales support gay marriage. Among urban Republicans, the figure is only 34%. That's a big gap.
Urban voters usually lead the way on supporting gay marriage. For Democrats, the gap between urban and rural voters supporting gay marriage is 20 percentage points – 71% in favor versus 51% in favor respectively. Those urban voters make up a vocal constituency advocating for the issue.
Urban Republicans are slightly more in favor of gay marriage than their rural counterparts, but they still aren't close to producing majority support for it. And the weak support for gay marriage among Republicans in different places is fairly uniform. There is only a 7 percentage-point difference between support numbers for urban and rural Republicans.
In other words, the intra-party constituency for gay marriage is pretty weak.
Remember too that the GOP relies heavily on rural America, at least where national politics is concerned, and those rural Republicans tend to the ones that most strenuously oppose gay marriage.
When you add it all up, it simply doesn't look easy for the Republican Party to shift its stance on gay marriage, even if it that's the aim of some in GOP. The party rank and file looks pretty solidly dug in against it.
That's a big reason why Republican politicians in Texas and Tennessee quickly announced plans to appeal the court rulings that overrode those states' laws on same-sex marriage. In an election year, the polls may say gay marriage is supported by a majority within the U.S. and that it is becoming more accepted, but within the GOP the picture is very different.
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Wednesday December 7, 2011
Waynesboro, Ga--The countdown clock is speeding up a bit as the anticipation grows for Burke County's quest for a state title. It'd be the first in school history as they make their second ever appearance.
While the kids may be a little intimidated by the situation, that shouldn't be the case for the coaching staff. Offensive line coach Mercedes Hamilton has one with Tennessee and defensive cooridnator Michael Youngblood has a couple at Georgia Southern. Youngblood was also an assistant at Tucker in 2009 when they claimed the high school crown. He's anxious for some well deserving people to get their due.
"I really want this coaching staff and these kids and this community to experience that feeling we had on that night in 2008" said assistant coach Michael Youngblood "I'm not really worried about myself. I would like coach (Eric) Parker to get his first championship and all these coaches and this community finally can get their first championship ever"
You have to give this coaching staff a ton of credit. They have put the pieces in the right place to get the bears where they are at and these kids truly believe they are the best in the state and for good reason. Peach County 4:30 Saturday in the Georgia Dome for the title


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- Nov 15:
- NCS Division V: Valley Christian 50, St. Bernard Catholic-Eureka 18
- NCS Division III: El Cerrito 64, Tamalpais 8
- NCS Division I: James Logan 14, Liberty 7
- NCS Division I: Granada 24, Amador Valley 20
- NCS Division II: Northgate 41, College Park 29
- NCS Division II: Montgomery-Santa Rosa 27, American 0
- NCS Division I: California 37, Dougherty Valley 12
- NCS Division II: Clayton Valley Charter 62, San Lorenzo 7
- Nov 15:
- East Bay high school/community college scoreboard for Friday, Nov. 15 events
- NCS Division I: Pittsburg 47, Irvington 13
- Friday's NCS high school football scores
ANTIOCH -- Deer Valley High quarterback Nsimba Webster was a mover and a shaker in the Wolverines' 49-21 win over visiting Castro Valley on Friday night in the first round of the North Coast Section Division I playoffs.
The elusive Webster accounted for six touchdowns -- three rushing and three passing -- as the No. 4-seeded Wolverines (10-1) broke open a 14-14 tie and won going away.
Castro Valley (4-7), the 13th seed, battled the Wolverines every step of the way.
But the Trojans just couldn't match the quick steps of Webster.
After the Trojans cut the deficit to 28-21 on a 12-yard run by Namane Modise, Webster nearly brought down the house. He scored on a spectacular 51-yard run in which he eluded at least six would-be tacklers in a tight area before racing another 45 yards into the end zone.
Webster tacked on another 4-yard scoring run on the Wolverines' next possession after running 31 yards on the previous play. He finished with 155 yards passing and 112 rushing.
"Nsimba Webster had a heck of a game," Deer Valley coach Rich Woods said.
"That run he made -- two of his runs -- were incredible. What a competitor."
The Wolverines will face either Liberty or James Logan in the quarterfinals.
Woods also credited linebacker Malik Hutchings with stellar play, especially on a goal-line stand in the fourth quarter.
The Trojans moved the ball well, led by Demareyeh Lane's 163 yards rushing.
"That's a good football team," Woods said of Castro Valley. "We knew they run a similar offense that we've been working against. We kind of held them, but the guys that need to make plays really stepped up."
The Wolverines' Kyle McDonald rounded out the scoring with his second touchdown on a 26-yard run.
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OAKLAND -- Caltrans officials confirmed Monday that rain is leaking inside the new Bay Bridge but said it is manageable and not an unexpected maintenance problem.
"This is not surprising to us," Rick Land, Caltrans' chief deputy director, said Monday morning during a media tour through a lattice work of steel and spaces in the belly of the bridge. "We deal with issues like this on all our projects."
A story in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday suggested leaks inside the bridge pose a serious problem, the latest structural concern with a $6.4 billion span that had problems with flawed welds that had to be redone and cracked steel rods that had to be reinforced.
At a Monday news conference called by Caltrans to assuage any public concerns, officials said the bridge is safe. They said there is no risk to drivers from the leaks on the self-anchored suspension span, the showy centerpiece of the new eastern span of the bridge.
"If we ignored it, it would become a problem in the long term," Andrew Gordon, a Caltrans spokesman said, "but we're on top of it."
State officials said they aren't sure what caused the leaks, which create a corrosion risk to metal, but said they have a likely suspect.
Land said engineers believe rain may be flowing along electrical conduits and seeping into bolts that secure four guardrails on the sides of the westbound and east decks.
Officials also suspect the seeps may be related to strong Bay Area winds blowing water sideways, circumventing rain collection and drainage systems built into the bridge.
The amount of water appears to be small.
"It's a drip every once in a while. There are no locations where it's running," Land said, pointing to some of the bolts located under the westbound traffic deck.
Land swiped his finger on top of a bolt and came back with damp fingers then swiped them over another bolt and came up dry.
A few feet beneath the damp bolt, a thin narrow strip of water glistened on a v-shaped piece of metal illuminated by a news camera light.
Officials said that if the bolts are the source of the leak, Caltrans likely would fix it by caulking the bolts and tightening them down.
"We expect issues to come up during the shakedown period for a new project," Land said. "It's not a design issue, and it's not construction issue. It's something our inspectors find, and we figure out how to deal with it."
Caltrans officials said that the leaks were first discovered during storms in early December but that they couldn't assess the problem well until the big downpours began last week.
Land said he expects a team of engineers and other technical experts to pinpoint the cause in a few weeks. He had no estimates of repair costs.
Caltrans officials said they don't think the water is leaking through the deck because it has layers of caulk and epoxy coating under the concrete road bed.
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"Glee" (8 p.m., Fox):
It's a "Glee"-ful milestone as the musical drama airs its 100th episode. Joining the celebration are Gwyneth Paltrow and Kristin Chenoweth, along with original gleeks Mercedes (Amber Riley), Quinn (Dianna Agron) and Brittany (Heather Morris).
"Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe" (8 p.m., ABC):
Calling all fanboys and girls: The special takes viewers behind the scenes and shows how the superhero sausage is made. Included: sneak peeks at upcoming films.
"Pretty Little Liars" (8 p.m., ABC Family): The title of tonight's season finale is "A Is for Answers," meaning Aria, Emily, Hanna and Spencer (Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell, Ashley Benson, Troian Bellisario) are supposedly finally going to get the answers they've been seeking about Ali (Sasha Pieterse) and the night she disappeared. But you know how it works. The answers will probably only lead to more questions.
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Solves the 'where did I save that file' problem.
Fresh was born on that sinking feeling we have whenever we head into the Finder to 'Find' that file that we are working on, just downloaded, or like to keep handy. Fresh is designed to hide itself when you are not using it - keeping your onscreen clutter of windows more managable.
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I just love this application and I think I'm using it about 10 times an hour, each and every day.
First and foremost, I love that it monitors the filesystem for added or changed files, which instantly lets me find that file which was saved in some obscure place on my harddrive.
Secondly, its "Cooler" facility provides a great shortcut to common or temporarily used project folders and files.
Version 1.2.1 crahses all the time
Very cool piece of software. It takes my favorite feature of Path Finder (an app I tried the demo of, but did not find enough to like to warrant the $40 price tag), the "Drop Stack", and builds a whole application around it. You could duplicate the "Fresh Files" panel with a smart folder, but Fresh's interface and hotkey launching are worth the modest price.
I love that Fresh's tagging feature now integrates [seamlessly] with Leap (which is an excellent application that I use constantly).
Fresh took a while to really win me over. But it has now done so, and I can see it saving me a lot of time. I see the 'cooler' reducing the friction that multitasking creates, while also keeping me more focused.
I have nothing but love for Fresh. I realize that it isn't for everyone, but for those of us who have put up with years of apps that present everything as contexts, focuses and the GTD-method, it is refreshing--aha, a pun--to work with an application that suits my un-GTD brain.
@pandamonia and all the others who are mad about the fact that it has to be in the dock: Use Dock Dodger. Close Fresh -> Start Dock Dodger -> Move Fresh-App on Dock Dodger -> Start Fresh -> Be Happy running Fresh as Background-Application! If you need the Preferences (because in this way you won't get the Menubar ->
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I got it from macheist.... I do have Leap and Yep but I love this app for its simplicity!
It took me a week to finally "get" this program. Now I use it more and more each day. So nice.
How is this better than having a Download folder stack?
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Sourdough Bread
5 comments:
- Carla said...
it took me 9 (count them 9) fails to get my first sour ciabatta that totally worked. its about perseverance hey! congratulations!
- June 28, 2009 at 9:24 PM
- Judy's Nutrition said...
I have been wanting make my own sourdough bread for about a year now, but strangely enough, I've not yet tried. I think you have given me the necessary motivation - I will read up on your links and go from there. Thanks!
- June 29, 2009 at 9:03 AM
- Vicky said...
I have never beed successful with starter either. I always tried in winter as well. Maybe we feel the urge to bake more in winter, idk? I will try this method, thank you so much!
- June 29, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- Chrissy said...
do you know anything about harvesting wild yeast but NOT for sourdough-just instead of buying it at the store to make anything! i have been doing lots of searches and putting out feelers like this but to no avail.
- June 29, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Sorry, I have not heard of such a thing. I suppose it can be done though since bakers used to harvest their own yeast in the days before commercial yeast.
- July 6, 2009 at 10:08 PM


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