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Hello Everyone,
I just found this site after signing up for my first 5k. At 50 I feel like I need to do something to slow the belly fat creeping up on me.
My question has to do with custom shoe inserts. I went to the runner's store and got new shoes and was fitted for inserts, but the first time I tried them I ended up in agonizing pain from the soles of my feet up through my shins. I tried again a week later, same thing.
Don't know what to do. How do you know if the shoes are right when you shop for them? I am a walker hoping to become a runner and any help is greatly appreciated.
Here's a good read for figuring out which shoe you need to buy... http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/info/index.jsp?categoryId=12749426&backTo=4418786&infoType=infosport
After you read this article you should have a good idea of the kind of shoe you're looking for. I think I'd forego adding inserts until you run in a shoe designed for your foot type, you may not need them.
Good luck!
Enjoy life, this ain't a rehearsal...
Why are you using inserts? What specific issue(s) do you need to address?
Because, all other things being equal, all things are never equal, and one man's
(or woman's) cure is another's poison.
My experience -- I have remarkably flat feet (and have had for ~30 years), and over
the past few years, I've developed arthritis in my big toes, which walking exacerbates.
So much so that, a year ago, I was in so much pain that I started limping when I walked.
Saw my physician, who referred me to a podiatrist. He prescribed Powerstep inserts,
which provided some relief. As did the (prescribed) Ibuprofen, which I used for a few weeks.
On my own, I tried SOLE inserts, which also worked for me -- replaced the stock inserts
in my Merrells (Moab & Ventilator) with blue SOLE inserts, and used red in my Saucony Ride 4s.
I now use the Powersteps for my dress shoes. (I also tried Superfeet, which provided me
with no relief at all.)
Flash forward 4 months -- inspired by some colleagues (and wanting to lose 5-10 pounds),
I started running (as well as strength training). See this link:
Arthritis started improving, which I attribute to both the inserts and the running.
After running for a few months while (working my way up to runs of 2 to 4 miles),
I went to a local, well-stocked running store. Picked up a relatively neutral shoe
with less heel-to-toe drop and a more cushioning under the forefoot (Brooks Ghost 5).
I find that I can run & walk in these shoes without inserts.
So, again -- what issue(s) are you trying to address with inserts? With the right shoe,
you may not need them. Consult your physician if you haven't -- don't just go by what
store personnel advise, even if they're honest & well-meaning.
- Richard
Congrats on starting a program that will bring you great benefits. I am very curious what running store sold you inserts to go with your new shoes. The bottom line is that everyone is different. There are some that can run forever with god aweful running form and never get injured while others who appear to be poetry in motion get injured very easily. it is very important to have your running gait evaluated at a reputable running store where they will reccomend a shoe for you. Because you are just starting out, you need to try running with just the shoe and the insert that came with the shoe. By adding the aftermarket insert, you are attempting to fix something that is not even broken yet. Give the new shoes a shot and let us know how it goes and then we can assist you in the next step if you still have an issue. Kappy running!
Hello Brad, and thank you for your response. It is good to have a supportive and knowledgeable source.
The shoes and inserts were from Road Runners Sports. I am going to follow advice and try just the shoes with no additional inserts. I am hyped about this and glad to have connected with you and others.
I'll agree with the others on the points of 1) congrats for getting started and 2) start messing with shoe inserts when you know you have to.
The point I'd like to emphasize is push the limit on on trying lots of things before you get to that point of heading down the shoe insert road. I think many people *and doctors* are too quick to suggest them. Even if, as you go along, you get some foot or even knee pains I wouldn't assume inserts are the answer. Lots of times those issues are rooted in problems in the hips, or running form, or a variety of other things. So if you're getting aches and pain I personally would put shoe inserts fairly far down the list of things to try to get resolution.
Good luck!
"Kick off your high heel sneakers, it's party time."
-- From the song FM by Steely Dan
Good for you for wanting to get into running. I agree with the previous poster that inserts are not important at this stage. In fact for my first year of running I just used cheap shoes from KOHLS. I think it is possible to get infornation overload as there is just so much out there. When getting started it comes down to a very basic formula. If I am going to run what is the best way to get myself to stay in a routine. The best advice I can give is start small. As you get more into it you can fine tune things.
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Reports say Taggart is next coach at USF
Published: Friday, December 7, 2012 at 11:50 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 7, 2012 at 11:50 p.m.
TAMPA — Willie Taggart, who quarterbacked Manatee High to a state championship in 1992 and went on to become head coach at Western Kentucky, is the next coach at the University of South Florida, according to several reports.
Taggart, 36, a Palmetto native who guided the Hilltoppers to their first bowl game this season, will become the third coach in the program's history. He will replace Skip Holtz, fired Sunday after managing to go just 5-16 in three seasons as the Bulls head coach.
An official announcement could come as early as Sunday.
Taggart spent three years as head coach at Western Kentucky, going 2-10 in 2010 before guiding them to a pair of 7-5 seasons.
South Florida has finished last in the Big East the past two seasons.
Ray Woodie, who coached at Bayshore and Palmetto before joingin Taggart's staff at Western Kentucky, could also return to the area as part of Taggart's staff, boosting USF's recruiting reach in the state.
The hiring was reported by 620-AM WDAE and the Tampa Bay Times Friday night.
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As I come up with the right answers for Adventurrito, I'll post them here. For those just getting started, here is a link to Adventurrito to sign up and catch up.
If you rely on my Adventurrito Answer key to "cheat" (that is, don't find the answer to any question on your own), please consider making a small contribution ($1 or more) to one of Chipotle's or my favorite causes. Here are four suggestions:
Chipotle Cultivate Foundation
Farm Aid
Unclear on the relationship between these four groups? Watch this movie: http://www.pricelessmovie.org
On a completely different but very serious note, I have started a petition, calling on Chipotle to bring back their breakfast burrito.
Click here to sign the Chipotle breakfast burrito petition
Anyway, on to the Adventurrito Answers:
Adventurrito Answer 20:
Chipotle just posted the official answers on their website here.
This is the last one – for 20 years of free burritos! Remember, you have to get this one right on your first try to be eligible to win the free burritos.
Apparently the questions are in a different order for different people. I tried to post my answers to make it clear what question they are from.
I also did not get explicit confirmation that my answers were all correct, but the system did let me through to question 20.
Q1 – This site says Rusty and Myra are on the social media team, along with Joe. I just found tweets for @ChipotleTweets signed by Nicole and Wayne. That means Bruce is the answer.
Q2 – Wikipedia says Tower was at Chez Panisse. None of the other places show up on the wikipedia page. That's my answer. Can anyone confirm?
Q3 – Fortunately I have a ton of Chipotle employees in my LinkedIn Network. KM, SM, and ATL are definitely real. I'm guessing GM2 is not, as LinkedIn found no one when I searched for that, but R+ didn't show up either – it just found references to the letter R. I could go either way. General Manager 2 or Restauranteur Plus could both exist. Anyone have any ideas? I am hearing from others that GM2 does not exist.
Q4 – The Beatles were covered by both Willie Nelson and Coldplay. I found Willie's list here and Coldplay's list on wikipedia here. Both have The Beatles on their list.
Q5 – I know the IPO price was $22, but I found multiple references saying it closed at $44 that day…which is not an answer available. Maybe by "Closing Market Price" they mean what I would call IPO price, which was $22, and is an option for an answer?
Q6 – I see from wikipedia that Nate Appleman won Chopped All-Stars but was eliminated from Next Iron Chef. Sorry for posting the wrong answer earlier, and thanks to those who corrected me.
Q7 – Tote is $13.20, Skatedeck is $36, water bottle is $14.36, varsity hoodie is $52, total is $115.56, which is an available answer. Apparently searching for Giuseppe Arcimboldo sends you to the veg head t-shirt, which is 17.60 and would take the total to 133.16.
Q8 – McDonald's used to own Chipotle.
Q9 – This page on Chipotle.com says 350 miles is how Chipotle defines local.
Q10 – Chipotle's rejection of the sub-therapeutic use of antibiotics in animals was the topic of Steve Ells's testimony before Congress.
Q11 – Hoping the original Chipotle location on Evans in Denver has not changed its number in 20 years…(303) 722-4121 – which sums to 25 – please don't call them and overwhelm them.
Q12 – Food With Integrity highway – my wife got this one for me – "Gourmet Restaurant Where You Eat With Your Hands" was officially trademarked and used as far back as 1997. She and I both remember that one from back in the day, when we first started enjoying Chipotle, too.
Q13 – Here is the Denver Cultivate festival menu. I see everything except fajita veggies on it.
Q14 – Professor Pimental says on this page that on average the ratio of fossil fuel calories to meat calories is 28 to 1.
Q15 – Wikipedia list of Top 100 from July 13, 1993: SWV (Sisters With Voices) – "Weak"
Q16 – Here is one of many sites showing the large rope handle bag with Ipsom Lorem text.
Q17 – Simon Cowell appears to have no connection to Chipotle. Did you know that Mitt Romney went to my neighborhood Chipotle? I was not there at the time, but heard all about it.
Q18 – Wikipedia shows the first Chipotle outside Colorado was in Ohio, and only one option shows Ohio first.
Q19 – Russ Kremer inspired "Back to the Start" according to this page.
Adventurrito Answer 19: No, McDonald's does not own Chipotle. Chipotle went back out on their own in 2006. They issue a Chipotle IPO (ticket symbol CMG) in January, and McDonald's had sold off all interest by the end of the year. I own a little Chipotle, though 🙂
If you want more Chipotle trivia, try my "Fake Adventurrito" questions.
Adventurrito Answer 18:
Bestfriends (This one took me a few minutes)
Blitzen Trapper (I know a pug when I see one)
LP (Not many curly hair options)
Youngblood Hawke (Chest hair and crazy shirt made it easy)
Adventurrito Answer 17: I81UCN2
The only store available everywhere is online: Store.Chipotle.com. They have an itty bitty burrito shirt listed, and one of the picts says to look at the product detail, which says you want the style number, and can't actually buy the Itty Bitty Burrito Tee. And the "Add to my Cart" Button doesn't work, either. I tried.
Adventurrito Answer 16: GREEDY
Someone was nice enough to list here all 13 of the characteristics that employees should have. If you pick some of the short ones on the list (like happy), you discover that it is a simple substitution "encryption" of one letter for another. The tenth one is Greedy – obviously not part of the normal list of positive attributes.
Here is the decoder (plug in the second line, if the letter is from the first line):
Adventurrito Answer 15: The answer is Acidosis. You do have to call 1-800-Chipotle, and then go through the Adventurrito prompts (3, then 1, then 3) to find out that you want to "retrace your prompts" to find the page and word. That's page 313 of the book Righteous Porkchop by Nicollete Hahn Niman. So I guess she's going to be selling a ton of books tonight?
Or you can use Amazon.com's Look Inside feature:
First word on the index is acidosis
Adventurrito Answer 14:
1: Hello Dolly – Chipotle opens in 1993
2: Farming Forward – Chipotle serves naturally raised pork in 2001
3: Tasty Shares – Chipotle goes public in January, 2006 (I bought some then!)
4: Say No to Drugs – No more rBGH in 2007
5: Green Cuisine – LEED Certified store opens in 2008 (the store is actually in Gurnee IL, not IN like the clue says)
Adventurrito Answer 13: I got this one on the first try, because I knew they must be talking about Shophouse Asian Kitchen. On this page of their site, if you take the inspiration tour, you see a picture with a white board with this written on it:
40g Cilantro
8g Fish Sauce
36g Shallots
16g Chile Jam
10g ginger
Adventurrito Answer 12: omnivore – As in an omnivore's dilemma. I get the answer, and they confirm it with the books they recommend after you enter the right answer. But I didn't get the pig grid. I was thinking binary maybe, but had no idea how to translate that. Thank you to gdesignr for this explanation (and to coopastor for explaining the process as well):
Robots speak in Binary. Convert the rows to binary with a empty box being a zero and a pig being a one. You get: 01011111000001001000011001010110
Plug that into a converter like this one:
You get: 1594132054
Google that and you get
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Adventurrito Answer 11: The answer that works: 36 – though I swear I counted 49 cows. Apparently 37 works as well. Maybe I double counted some in the beginning when they first get CAFO'd (that's a word now, right?). How many do you all count?
Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfSGt6rHos
Adventurrito Answer 10: Guacamole! (minus the !)
In cased you missed it, there was a hacked Chipotle Twitter account – though now I think it was faked for the contest. Apparently someone wanted guacamole from the Arvada Chipotle?
Guacamole is also my 2 year old son's favorite food.
Adventurrito Answer 9: 1993
Looks like the common theme to the songs is 1993 – as in the year Chipotle was founded. Supposedly that's when the songs from the playlist came out, but that didn't seem to be the case for the songs I looked up. Either way, 1993 is the right answer.
Adventurrito Answer 8:
Wiers Farm
Here is the page with their picture on it.
Adventurrito Answer 7:
Chipotlaway from the Dead Celebrities episode of South Park
Full bar code is 758524899876
Adventurrito Answer 6:
Alex, Steve, Monty
Here is one site with the transcript.
Adventurrito Answer 5:
I would have had this up faster, but the site kept timing out before I could confirm all of the answers. Kinda frustrating. Here are the answers:
Part 1: Usually, when you roll something this good, it's illegal
Part 2: The happy pill. Now in a 567,000mg dose.
Part 3: Open wide, no wider.
Part 4: The gourmet restaurant where you eat with your hands.
Part 5: They beep when they backup.
Adventurrito Answer 4: Here is the video.
Incredibly interesting, though was running slow tonight. A little more than halfway through, a guy says
Which is a sort of a "supersized pig on steroids"
Adventurrito Answer 3: The correct answer is
13, 2013, 20, 7305, 3, 2, 411, 140, 2, 20, 10, 20, 50, 2063
But I have not idea why. I still don't even understand the question. An explanation would be greatly appreciated.
OK, so several of you have posted that the answer is from the basket lining at Chipotle when you dine in. Pretty smart way to get more people to dine-in. Thanks! Of course, my first instinct was to ask my math talented friends to take a look, even though it was pretty clear that math had little to do with the answer.
Adventurrito Answer 2: I tried London first. No good. So I thought, must be Paris or something in Canada. Let's go with Paris. Bingo!
Address is 20 Boulevard Montmartre, 75009 Paris, France
Good luck!
Adventurrito Answer 1. My first answer: Niman Ranch – OK, so apparently that's wrong. I guess they are looking for something more specific? Niman's ranch is in Bolinas, but that doesn't work, and that's in California anyway. Paul Willis' farm is in Thornton, Iowa, but that didn't work. The name I have found for his farm is Dream Farm, but that doesn't work either.
The correct answer (thank you Chipotloco readers) is Pork Utopia
I put it in as two words, just like that, and got through.
If that doesn't work, try it as one word, all caps: PORKUTOPIA
Here is the only reference I found online to Pork Utopia and Paul Willis:
Thanks to BeesKnees for this YouTube video reference:


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Has Mike Comrie suddenly become the "Dead Man Walking" of the Ottawa Senators?
Quietly, Comrie has begun to disappear into the lineup, playing marginal minutes on the third line and being fairly invisible on the power play.
Comrie hasn't had a point since March 22 against the Rangers (He got one tonight). That was 8 games ago.
Before that Ranger game, Comrie had gone 5 matches without a point. So that math is now 2 points in his last 13 games. In total he has 7 points in 19 games as a Senator.
Not only is Comrie not making a case for himself to stay near his current 4 million salary, he's making himself an also-ran in the unofficial "Comrie or Neil" sweepstakes.
Bryan Murray may only have the money to sign one of Comrie or Chris Neil and right now, it's a no-brainer. Neil is the guy.
Just take a look at tonight's physical match in Montreal. Neil was noticeable all night long in a game that was as close as the Senators will get to a playoff atmosphere. Comrie was tiptoeing through the tulips.
It's clear that Ryan Shannon has outplayed Comrie and has gained the trust of Cory Clouston. That's why Comrie is treading water on the third line.
Comrie is an excellent player at times and he still has a lot to offer a team like Ottawa, but right now it doesn't look like his head is into it. I'm not saying he's pouting at the minutes he's getting, but he's also not proving Clouston wrong by playing his way back up the charts.
I'd expect Murray to look elsewhere to park Eugene Melnyk's money next season. The feeling is likely mutual.
Larry Brooks of the NY Post makes a great point about the overblown hullabaloo surrounding Sean Avery's comical Slapshot act with Bruins goalie Tim Thomas:
"Excuse me, but Milan Lucic sticks out his leg and injures a defenseless Nik Antropov by going knee-on-knee midway through the second period on Saturday, and it's Sean Avery who should be suspended for kind of stupidly using his stick to tap Tim Thomas on the back of his helmet during a TV timeout?
The absence of context is the crux of the issue here, just as always. Headhunters such as Chris Pronger and Gary Roberts, who historically injure opponents, are routinely deified, notably by the sanctimonious brigade north of the border, but Avery, who has never hurt anyone but himself, must be banned for the good of the sport? "
To be honest, it's getting a little tiresome listening to the morality brigade trying to kick Avery out of the NHL for even the mildest of incidents.
What Avery did to Thomas was hilarious and solidly in the long NHL tradition of the pest.
The self-righteousness of the punditry when it comes to Avery is getting stale. They complain the game doesn't have enough personalities yet they hammer down every nail that dares to rise up from the grain.
One minute they love Alex Ovechkin and his wild celebrations, the next they want him humiliated for celebrating too hard.
And Brooks is right. The hockey media establishment in Canada thinks they own the game and deem themselves the ultimate arbiters of taste and behaviour. They haven't seen an outrageous personality like Avery before and they don't like it (yet they forget the likes of Eddie Shack and Tiger Williams were almost equal the morons of a guy like Avery. Williams once did the same thing except it was to Scotty Bowman's head when he was on the bench watching the play down the ice. True story. Look it up.).
They try to pin the blame on Avery for the Dallas Star's lost season but in reality, it was not having a healthy Sergei Zubov and Marty Turco playing the worst hockey of his career that led to their downfall.
They've been rid of Avery for a long time now but they completely faded down the stretch on their own.
So save the morality lessons and let the kid goon it up. It's fun to watch.


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Hundreds of Brits may be upset with The Sun's decision to reprint pics of Prince Harry's naked Vegas romp, but thousands of others the world over couldn't be happier — and they're showing their support by following the heir's example and shedding their threads.
A Facebook page called "Support Prince Harry with a naked salute!" has already recruited over 16,000 members, and many of them have contributed a saucy pic of their own [NSFW link], complete with the now-iconic "covering of the crown jewels."
The group, which began life as a way for servicemen and women to express solidarity with the prince in his time of scandal, has since been opened to the exhibitionist public at large.
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If there's one thing I've learned at Tufts, between re-watching Charlie Brown holiday specials, trick-or-treating at Gifford House, and reverting to complete romantic ineptitude, it's that college kids love reliving childhood experiences. There's something about acting like a little kid again that makes the foreign environment of a faraway place seem a little more like home. Perhaps WMFO's "Bouncy Castles" was born out of this mindset.
But in the period between this past Saturday and the most recent time I had been on a bouncy castle, a lot had changed. For instance, if I wait a few weeks, I can get some nylon-string-colored hair to sheepishly crawl from my face. Additionally, I'm not quite the limber young dynamo I once was, running off a seemingly inexhaustible energy source powered by Capri-Suns and Lunchables, immune to any possible injury. In fact, I'm relatively laconic, sheepish in both physical and mental respects.
Nonetheless, I made the trek to the Academic Quad for "Bouncy Castles" and was greeted by roughly what I was told to expect. A bouncy castle, a bouncy obstacle course race thing, some music, and three tables arranged in a triangle with maybe twelve boxes of plain pizza. Like anyone would be, I was eager to get my bounce on and (after taking off my shoes, of course) I hopped right into the castle and bounced for the ten minutes I could bounce before getting kind of tired and also a little bit hungry. I got a slice of 'za, ignoring the fact that the further bouncing I intended to do would likely not aid my digestion.
After eating my first of what would be three slices of pizza, I made my way through the obstacle course and did relatively well against my opponent save for getting caught in the net at the end which frankly I think is totally unfair. The obstacle course was pretty fun and relatively challenging, but I had just the slightest inkling that perhaps the obstacles would be a bit more difficult for a smaller variety of person, namely: children. That being said, the course became more of a race and battle of the wits (should you go over or through the three cylinders at the end?) than one of endurance and physical strength. That's fine, I'm known more for my brains than my brawn anyway. The fact that I lost every race that I ran was likely a statistical anomaly or else foul play on the part of my opponents.
Two and three slices of pizza into the event, the bouncing was starting to get to me. Each bounce sent the half-digested food careening around my stomach, sloshing this way and that. But I wasn't going to let the threat (or reality) of gastrointestinal discomfort stop me from enjoying some bouncy fun. I bounced, I played bouncy castle games, I played with beach balls in the bouncy castle, I even sat in the bouncy castle with my legs crossed while other people bounced around me.
While a young child and his alumnus father were trying to get into the at-the-time unoccupied castle and Gucci Mane was singing from the stereo "I like them Georgia peaches but you look more like a lemon / These sour apple bitter bitches I'm not fucking with 'em," I realized that perhaps some aspects of the event may have been ill-conceived. There were a shocking amount of children on campus on Saturday and each one had to come to terms with the fact that this was not a children's event: your child risked colliding with a full-sized college student at high velocity or else being subjected to the depraved lyrics of the ASAP Ferg song that the police had to ask our DJ to turn off. So I felt somewhat sad watching that same father put his kid's shoes back on before they had even stepped foot into the castle—he must have realized his mistake—but also not that bad because I was having a lot of fun and listening to "Some Type of Way" ("Bouncy castles make me feel some type of way") while bouncing with friends is pretty funny.
So perhaps these nostalgic reversions to the safety of childhood memories are always tainted by the irreversible loss of innocence that's likely hit you by the time you arrive at Tufts, or the latest when you go to your first Fall Ball. The unfortunate reality of the situation, though, was that the joke was on us. Some say youth is wasted on the young, but the truth is that the young are the only ones with the energy to survive the sheer physical strain of childhood fun. As I learned playing outside during the massive snowstorm last winter, just because you're having fun horsing around, that doesn't mean that you can't sustain real injuries. I'm more than a little bit sore even today, after ample time to rest and heal. My feet are sore, my arms are sore, my shoulders are sore, my butt is sore. In short, I'm all bounced out. The physical injuries combined with the harsh realization that this kind of carefree youthful activity is a thing of the past comes as a harsh reality check, but I'm fully prepared to ignore it and get black and blue again at next year's event.


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- Mar 19:
- How to choose a tax preparer
For Oscar Sotelo, tax season was a gold mine for two years running. He found a man who prepared taxes in the Central Valley, promised big refunds -- and delivered.
Then the IRS letters started coming. Sotelo was never supposed to get that money; now, the IRS wanted it back.
The IRS says Sotelo was the victim in 2009 and 2010 of tax preparer fraud, a widespread scam that can leave innocent taxpayers with a mountain of debt and put them in the crosshairs of the IRS. In this type of fraud, a tax preparer creates big refunds by lying on the tax return, giving both the preparer and taxpayer a nice payday. But when the IRS comes knocking, it's the taxpayer who's on the hook.
"There's this huge refund that goes out the door that the taxpayer is clearly not entitled to, but they don't know that," said Caroline Chen, assistant clinical professor of law and director of the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at Santa Clara University. "They find out later, after the money, of course, is spent."
The cumbersome tax code, insufficient regulations and under-resourced enforcement agencies have helped create a breeding ground for tax preparer fraud, experts said. Even in California, a state with some of the toughest oversight, there are up to 5,000 tax preparers practicing illegally, possibly hundreds in the Bay Area alone, according to estimates from the California Tax Education Council. Each year, they strike, leaving their frequent victims, low-income and immigrant taxpayers, in financial ruin.
"There's a lot of people who prepare tax returns who are not qualified," said Special Agent Arlette Lee of the IRS Criminal Investigations for Northern California. "Tax return preparers may be doing this, and the taxpayer has no idea."
The fraud happens in a few different ways. In some cases, the preparer lies on the tax return, fabricating deductions such as charitable contributions, property taxes and business expenses. The taxpayer often doesn't know the preparer is lying on the return or is tricked. The fictitious deductions inflate the amount of the refund, and the preparer demands a generous percentage -- a billing system the IRS says is illegal.
"These preparers get paid and then they disappear," said David Freeman, a third-year law student at Santa Clara University who helps at the tax clinic. "And then the clients show up a couple years later to us."
Tax refunds are paid automatically and immediately, and the IRS has up to three years after the refund to audit, Chen said.
Sotelo, a truck driver and father of four from Livingston, in Merced County, already had several notices from the IRS by the time he went to the SCU tax clinic last year. His preparer, Sarad Chand, who operated S. Chand Tax & Accounting Service in Ripon, had told him to ignore the letters, Sotelo said.
"I felt bad in the beginning. I had to pay so much money," Sotelo said in Spanish. "I didn't understand why."
Chand was charged in December with 10 counts of falsifying tax returns as part of a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme. He pleaded not guilty and was released on a $100,000 bond. His clients have to pay thousands of dollars back to the IRS.
"They are ultimately responsible for the information listed on the tax return -- no matter if it is right, wrong or even fraudulent," said Gigi Campo, spokeswoman for the California Tax Education Council, a nonprofit created by the state legislature to oversee tax preparer education and compliance. "The damage those tax preparers committed on the tax return is still the consumer's problem to deal with."
That damage can be devastating, because scheming preparers target the most vulnerable -- poor and non-English speaking communities.
"They are attractive to people who don't like bureaucracy," Freeman said. "To them, H&R Block probably looks like a DMV."
But the taxpayer has to take some responsibility, said Randy Warshawsky, an IRS enrolled tax agent at The Tax Man in San Jose. They need do their homework to find a reputable preparer. With at least 41,000 certified tax preparers in the state, there are options.
"It's your responsibility to sign the tax return and to make sure what's being reported is correct," he said.
Campo said the number of illegal preparers -- those working outside state laws -- has dropped by half since 2005, when the Franchise Tax Board began enforcing tax preparer requirements. California has some of the toughest regulations in the country, and requires that tax preparers who charge a fee must be either an attorney, a CPA, an IRS enrolled agent or a registered tax preparer with the Tax Education Council.
Still, Campo said, illegal preparers are always going to be a problem. Just last year, the Franchise Tax Board fined 122 tax preparers for practicing without the proper licenses.
"You'll always have those questionable people out there," she said.
Contact Heather Somerville at 925-977-8418. Follow her at Twitter.com/heathersomervil.
Do your homework. Make sure they have the Preparer Tax Identification Number required by the IRS, check their history with the Better Business Bureau and ask about any disciplinary actions.
Check your preparer's work to make sure it is accurate.
Sign your tax return, and make sure your preparer signs it and includes the identification number. Never sign a blank or incomplete form.
Keep a copy of your tax return.
Don't use preparers who charge a percentage of your refund.
Stay away from preparers who advertise that they can get you bigger refunds than their competitors.
Make sure your bank account number -- not the preparer's -- is on the return to receive the entire refund.
Ask for an e-file.
Report fraudulent tax preparers at www.irs.gov or call 800-829-3676.
Sources: National Taxpayer Advocate Service, IRS, California Franchise Tax Board
finding tax return preparers
Find licensed and registered tax return preparers in California at:
California Board of Accountancy: dca.ca.gov/cba
California Society of Certified Public Accountants: calcpa.org
State Bar of California: calbar.ca.gov
California Society of Enrolled Agents: csea.org
California Tax Education Council: ctec.org
IRS: irs.gov
Sources: California Franchise Tax Board, California Tax Education Council
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Free tax return assistance is available to some taxpayers:
Santa Clara University Low-Income Tax Clinic, open Wednesday evenings at the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center, at 1030 The Alameda, San Jose. Call 408-288-7030.
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance clinics offer free tax preparation across the Bay Area. Find a site at irs.treasury.gov/freetaxprep/
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My most recent pair of running shoes has been the Mizuno Wave Inspire 8. They're good stability shoes, I guess I pronate a bit, but I feel like I have the weight of bricks on my feet with these shoes. Can anyone suggest a womans lightweight stability shoe, or should I give a more minimal one a try and see how it goes?
Mama, I think you need to go to a running store that will watch you run and recommend shoe, then you can try it on and see how it feels. The incorrect shoe can lead to issues. Hard for anyone on the boards to give you your needs with shoes.
IMO, the less shoe you can get away with, the better. I highly recommend New Balance 730s. They are lightweight, yet still offer some cushioning. This is probably considered a minimalist shoe, so I probably would not recommend it unless you have good running form (land on your mid or forefoot under your center of gravity with good posture and high cadence).
I have worn the Inspires and never thought of them as that heavy. But your perception is what counts. I could recommend shoes that work for me but they might be terrible for you. My current shoes, heavy to light, are Asics DS Trainer, Mizuno Wave Precision, Saucony Mirage, Saucony Kinvara 2.
Take a look at the latest Runners World shoe reviews(March, 2013, I think) to get some ideas of shoes that meet your needs (some stability, enough support for a marathon, relatively light weight). Then head to your friendly running store (NOT a "big box" store like Dicks) to try on as many as you can. Run around the store in each, or on a treadmill if they have one (some will even let you run a little outside). Pick the one you think will work the best and feels good. Personally I find that what feels best usually works best. Remember that you'll be running 26 miles in them. Do at least one run over 12 miles in them before the marathon.
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Yu Darvish has pretty much had his way in his first year and half in the major leagues.
There is always an exception, and that exception cropped up again Tuesday when the A's Jarrod Parker clearly outpitched Darvish, who gave up homers to Brandon Moss and John Jaso in a 6-2 Oakland win over Texas.
Darvish, signed for a boatload of cash out of Japan a year and a half ago, has gone 22-8 against the rest of baseball. Against the A's, however, he's 1-4 after taking Tuesday's loss, giving up five runs (four earned) in six innings. Oakland also beat him 1-0 on May 21, also in Texas.
Parker, meanwhile, allowed just three hits in seven innings, none of the hits coming after the third inning. He wound up with his fourth consecutive win and his eighth consecutive quality start in lifting the A's back to three games ahead of Texas in the American League West.
"You can't afford to think about who (is pitching against you)," Parker said. "You just know you've got to be on your game. You don't want to change too much. I just had to pitch my game and not think about who was on the mound for them."
That's fine for Parker. For the A's hitters, on the other hand, they came into the game knowing they were facing a bulldog of a pitcher who has a wider repertoire of pitches than anyone in the game.
"He has too many breaking balls. He throws from too many angles," Moss said. "He's going to get his strikeouts. There's no way to know what he's going to throw. So anything that was over the plate I was going to swing at."
Moss, leading off the second inning, hit an 0-1 pitch out to right field for a 1-0 lead.
Jaso, leading off the third inning, hit an 0-1 pitch out to right for a 3-0 lead.
Jaso said being aggressive early in the count paid off for the A's.
"If he gets to two strikes, then he's going to drop in one of those big curves of his," the veteran catcher said. "The way to avoid that is to not let the count get to two strikes. We did a nice job tonight of hitting pitches in the zone."
Parker, meanwhile, did a nice job of throwing pitches in the zone, pitches that the Rangers couldn't handle.
"His fastball was running a lot," Jaso said. "He made it tough for hitters to get a good look at it."
Later in the game, when hitters might be expected to catch up to the heater, Parker mixed in his increasingly reliable changeup.
"It's really starting to come around," Parker said. "It's such an equalizer."
The Rangers tried to a rally in the bottom of the third. A single, a walk and a sacrifice bunt put men at second and third with one out, and A.J. Pierzynski slapped a single to center, cutting the deficit to 3-2.
That was Texas' third hit. And it was the last hit the Rangers got.
"The key was that he came back in the fourth with a big shutdown inning," manager Bob Melvin said of Parker.
The A's got two runs in the fourth with the help of defensive troubles on the part of the Rangers. When Texas batted in the fourth, it didn't sniff at a rally. The same was true in the fifth, sixth and seventh before Ryan Cook and Grant Balfour each threw one scoreless inning.
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Wind Farms Sharing Weather Data with NOAA
November 21, 2012
Two of the nation's largest producers of wind-generated electric power will share privately-collected weather data with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), providing agency scientists with additional observations from wind farms across the nation for research and operations. NOAA now has data sharing agreements with Iberdrola Renewables of Portland, Oregon, and NextEra Energy Resources of Juno Beach, Florida. These are the country's two largest producers of wind-generated electric power, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
The companies will provide valuable weather observations from instrumented towers in their wind farms and wind speed data from instruments atop wind turbines. While the observations are business-sensitive and will not be redistributed outside of NOAA, the agency's scientists will use the data to validate and improve weather models at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory and at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction. See the NOAA press release.


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HOMEWOOD, Calif. — Official and unofficial investigations continue regarding the shooting of a black bear at Lake Tahoe in July, with concerned residents and organizations chipping in $15,000 for a reward to anyone with specific information on the case.
The body of the bear, named "Sunny" by local residents, was found early in the morning on July 30 on a beach at Homewood. Since, the Department of Fish and Game's Law Enforcement Division has officially taken over the investigation, but to some Tahoe residents, the division's efforts might not be enough.
BEAR League Executive Director Ann Bryant and the league, a nonprofit organization committed to protecting Tahoe's animals, collected the $15,000 from various groups such as the Humane Society of the United States, the BEAR League itself and many individuals with the hope it will lead to more information on the case and ultimately a conviction.
"It's growing every day. Within 20 minutes it was up to $3,000, and then it was $10,000 and then it was $15,000. I'm sure it will keep growing," Bryant said.
Bryant said she's mystified by the current investigation, and isn't convinced Fish and Game is doing all it can to pursue the case.
"We're hoping the DFG will follow through with an investigation. If they don't, I'm worried about the public's reaction," Bryant said. "They want justice. I think everyone is hoping a case will be brought against him. If it doesn't happen, then all bets are off."
Fish and Game Enforcement Information Officer Patrick Foy said the agency is doing all it can, but without hard evidence, investigators can't press suit against the man, an unidentified person the department is calling the main person of interest. The man hired an attorney immediately after the shooting and refuses to speak with DFG representatives, Foy said.
The Sierra Sun's sister newspaper, the Tahoe Daily Tribune, also tried to contact him, but did not get a response.
"If he doesn't want to talk, we can't force him to. If there were a big blood stain on his property and we found an empty shotgun shell, then we could file for a court order," Foy said.
Foy expressed frustration regarding calls he's received from people lamenting the lack of information about the investigation and highlighting evidence such as a recent video published on the web that Foy said just doesn't cut it when it comes to a criminal investigation.
"People call me telling me I'm stupid and incompetent. I've been on the Wall of Shame," Foy said. "We would love to catch the guy who killed this bear, but it's not helping that people are telling us that we're stupid and incompetent."
Since July, many people have voiced their reactions to the killing on the Lake Tahoe Wall of Shame Facebook page. The Wall of Shame was founded last year as a place for open, uncensored dialogue, said Incline Village resident Mark Smith, administrator and spokesman for the site. But recent threats toward the alleged shooter have forced the administrators to change their policy.
"Some of the threats went in a direction I was uncomfortable with. We tried to guide the conversation. It's a fine line between giving people a place to make their comments and crossing that line," Smith said.
The public response was unprecedented, he said. He entered into private conversations with some of the users regarding their comments and even blocked some of the worst offenders from posting on the page, but ultimately he tried to keep it as open as possible.
Some of those comments might even cross into cybercrime territory, according to one attorney.
Internet law can be a murky issue, with its very existence up for debate, but postings stating the suspect's name, address and phone number could have legal repercussions, according to Nasir Pasha, an attorney with Top Floor Legal, Professional Corporation. The California law firm has dealt with cyberlaw when common law cases become connected with the Internet.
"The right of privacy is actually a constitutional right in California. When it comes to publishing personal information — a phone number and address — it could be a violation of privacy," Pasha said.
A viable defense would include proving that the information is already part of the public record, say on Google.com for example, he said. Defamation could also be a consideration, but then the case's facts would have to be taken into account. If someone names the suspect as the bear's killer, and the man is then proven to have shot the animal, it wouldn't be defamatory, Pasha explained.
He compared the situation to ABC's Brian Ross' gaffe, linking the suspect in the Aurora, Colo., theater shootings to another man of the same name with no connection to the case.
A restraining order could be in order if posts calling to burn the man's house down and threats against him were part of an organized effort to harass the man, Pasha said, but ultimately the situation is a complicated one and actual damages would be hard to prove in a lawsuit.
As far as the $15,000 reward goes, neither Foy with DFG nor Placer County Sheriff's Office Lt. John Weaver see any legal issues with it. In fact, both agree it's a positive move and hope information will come out of it.
"If somehow a reward would help someone with information come forward with information about the case, we're all for it," Weaver said.


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The Heat began playing basketball in 1988 as an expansion franchise. Wins were few and far between for Miami early on, as the Heat set the record for futility by losing 17 straight games to begin the franchise's existence. Miami made strides in the 1991-92 season, making the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. In 1997 Miami started a run of four straight Atlantic Division titles, going head to head in what became a very heated rivalry with the New York Knicks. Miami was led by a pair of stars in Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway, with additional production coming from budding stars P.J. Brown and Jamal Mashburn, and a grizzled veteran in Dan Majerle. The Heat would only get as far as the Eastern Conference Finals once in those four years, being thwarted by the Knicks in each of the other three. In 2006 Miami won its first NBA title, riding Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal to a 4-2 series victory over the Dallas Mavericks. The Heat are now again at the top of the basketball world, sporting big three of Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh. By pairing reliable veterans with that trio, Miami has won back-to-back NBA championships. Score with TicketCity - the place to go for Miami Heat basketball tickets.
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This rivalry intensified in the mid-90s when these two teams met in the playoffs four years in a row. Rated as one of the best rivalries in the NBA, this matchup has been highlighted by physical play and an intensity level that is hard to match. The bad blood started when head coach Pat Riley joined the Heat after leading the Knicks for many seasons.
If you like two teams and fan bases that hate each other, then this is the matchup for you. This rivalry has been about physical play and often times playing after the whistle has been blown. This rivalry has picked up steam in recent seasons and will only continue to get better in the years to come.
As state rivals, it is only natural for these two teams to not get along. With over 95 games played including a playoff matchup, this rivalry continues to get better and is often filled with intense and physical play games. With icon Shaquille O'Neal playing for both franchises throughout his career, the connection between these two teams stretch farther than just playing in the same state.
Though the Heat and Bulls have been fighting for Eastern Conference supremacy since the early '90s, the rivalry has just recently began to peak. Becoming a consistent match up in the playoffs, the Miami Chicago rivalry is often an extremely physical game leading to trash-talk and in multiple occasions an ejection or two.
The Heat have been around since 1988 and have established themselves as one of the premier franchises in the NBA. Miami has 9+ division titles including a run of four straight from 1997-2000. With multiple conference and NBA championships, the Heat will only continue to add to a number that has put them in the discussion of top organization in the league.
Doors at American Airlines Arena open to the general public an hour before tipoff. The Heat are known for having one of the flashiest and most entertaining pre-game warmups in the league. It is not uncommon for there to be impromptu rain dances, extravagant handshakes, and of course unbelievable dunks that are worth getting there early to see.
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Some of the best food in all of Florida is within walking distance of American Airlines Arena. If you are a barbeque junkie we recommend taking the short walk from the arena to Sparky's Roadside Barbeque. For all of the "foodies" out there check out Michael's Genuine Food and Drink. Michael's is one of those places where you want to try everything on the menu, but you may want to have a reservation, as it is known to have a wait. No Miami food recommendation is complete without Cuban food. El Mago De Las Fritos, Morro Castle, and La Rosa Restaurant are all within 6 miles of the arena and worth checking out.
The Heat 2016-2017 schedule is listed as soon as it is announced by the NBA. The Heat play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference, which means games against the Atlanta Hawks, Washington Wizards, Charlotte Bobcats, and Orlando Magic. Game times are announced by the NBA as soon as the TV schedule is set. Miami Heat's home opener against the Chicago Bulls is typically one of the most popular games. If you are looking for Heat news or scores, then visit our partners at CBS Sports. They are also a good source for the official Miami Heat team roster.
Because the arena backs up to the water, it reduces the area of entry and exit (unless you are heading to Miami Beach). If you are looking to forgo the hassle of driving, the MetroRail is a great option. From 7:30 to midnight trains typically run every 30 minutes and are full of enthusiastic Heat fans. If you are going to drive, there are parking lots from Biscayne Blvd. to Miami Ave. with parking passes getting you entry into the most convenient. Whichever method of travel you choose, it is always best to arrive early.
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Vienna mourns Goodwin at funeral
Long-time firefighter served more than 40 years
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VIENNA — Fire department representatives from across West Virginia attended the funeral of long-time Vienna Volunteer Fire Chief Danny Goodwin....
My sympathy goes to the family of Mr. Goodwin, however as a past affiliate of the department I think it's important to remember that everyone's a "hero" upon their passing. VVFD has needed some drastic changes for some time now and perhaps this will be the opportunity for growth under a new leadership team. It easy to become lost in our own visions as opposed to the one that's best for the entity as a whole. I hope that vision can be restored for the citizens of Vienna and the growth and continued success of the VVFD.
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Yes Vienna lost a great leader and man . But the local News paper did not pay him the right coverage as Did Wtap had 30 senconds. but what do you excpect from our Medie
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What a loss - not only the personal and professional losses of three respected volunteer fire chiefs in the past year, but the loss of "institutional memory" in the affected communities. Let's hope their successors can fill these big shoes!
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Thibodaux Police searching for man wanted for theft
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Thibodaux Police are asking for the public's help identifying the man pictured who is wanted for felony theft.
A news release from Thibodaux Police said the man pictured is believed to be driving a white Chevrolet Avalanche with stock wheels, a gray bug detector and a sun roof. Police believe the vehicle's model is between 2007 and 2010, according to the release.
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PMS is the coolest software, genuinely amazing what can be done. However, it seems to be missing WebM support? AFAIK MEncoder can cope with WebM. Well, WebM wrapper is VP8 video with Vorbis audio right? So we already know audio should be no issue and it's just the VP8 video.
I had a look in /renderers/PS3.conf but this seems to state what a device can natively handle. So perhaps it's somewhere in the source that is not allowing WebM/VP8? I tried changing the extension to see if it was ignoring WebM simply based on my original extension (.webm) but it wasn't, so I have a feeling somewhere in the code it's not allowed.
I didn't want to checkout the SVN as I am no Java expert, so thought I would raise a feature request instead. I hope very soon Sony will release a firmware update with a full HTML 5 browser and native .webm support, until then if PMS can server my WebM I would be over the moon.


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After Hillary Clinton's historic moment on Thursday in which she broke the glass ceiling by becoming the first woman ever to win a major party nomination, some folks were wondering what would become of her husband -- the 42nd president of the United States.
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|Anabolics discussion on Can i take both at the same time???, within the Bodybuilding Forum; Is it poss for me to take dianabol and clenbuterol at the same time??...
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Can i take both at the same time???
Is it poss for me to take dianabol and clenbuterol at the same time??
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D-bol isnt suitable for a cycle by itself, and no, clen doesnt count.
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I just took dbol and clen together
I did 25mg of dbol for 3 weeks. On the last week I through in the clen. I took the clen for 2 weeks and am now on a break. I will be starting the clen again for another 2 weeks starting in 5 days.
I know this cycle isn't typically recommended but I feel for what I wanted to accomplish that this was the best thing for me. To eloborate, I had done one cycle(my first and only) for 3 months of anadrol, omandren and sustanon. This cycle I took now was just to add some of the muscle I had lost in the 4 months since I ended my first cycle. The 3 weeks of dbol gave me the added 6lbs of muscle I was looking for before I wanted to start cutting up. I was doing a lot of cardio when I was on the dbol as well because my main objective was to shred.
I have only done 2 weeks of clen and when I am done the next 2 weeks, I will update this thread on how it worked for me. So far, my first two weeks on clen were not great. I found my muscles took longer then usual to heal and I experienced some minor cramping.
So far I went from avg. 190 - 192lbs to maxing out at 198lbs and now stabilized 195lbs. I ate a lot on this cycle but did very intensive cardio workouts. The last time I checked my body fat several months ago was @ 17%. This is before I started doing cardio. If I had to guess, I would say now i'm at 15% at best. I am trying to get to 10 - 12%.
Sorry for the long post, just thought I throw my 0.02cents in as a point of reference.
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Why didnt you use Winny and Clen?
And bro, your first cycle
Not what you would exactly call a beginner cycle.
I hope you had some Nolva or a AI.
Also, with Clen, you'll have receptor downgrade. To combat this, you can take Benadryl, at around 50-100mgs/night before bed (at the beginning of every 3rd week or so, for that week). However, Beta receptors are embedded in the cell's outer phospholipid membrane. The stability of the membrane has a lot to do with the proper function of the receptors. Methylation of the phospholipids is stimulated by the binding of beta agonists to their receptors. Methylated phospholipids are foreign to the body, and when the body recognizes tham as foreign, it breaks them down with phospholipase A2. This changes the structure of the outer membrane which results in desensitizaton of the beta receptors. On the other hand, agents that inhibit phospholipase A2 slow desensitization.
Cationic ampiphylic drugs are known for their ability to inhibit phospholipase A2. Benadryl (diphenhydramine) is a cationic ampiphylic drug.
Ergo, Benadryl slows desensitization of Beta receptors (i.e. Upgrades them) by inhibiting phospholipase A2, which is the enzyme that breaks down methylated phospholipids, and this action in turn keeps the phospholipid membrane stable, and thus keeps the receptors functioning properly. This will allow you to use clen for much longer and it'll still have the same effects. Also, since Benadryl is an anti-histamine, and histamines have a direct effect on beta-adrenoreceptors (not just Beta-2s but all of them), using an anti-histamine will have a direct effect on reducing beta-receptor stimulation, and thus upregulating your beta-receptors.
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If you've been a part of a team or league for even a short time, you've probably already seen it. An administrator, coach or parent decides to send an announcement or ask a question via email to the entire team or league. There may be ten people on the distribution list. Or there may be 1,000. Almost always, though, there is at least one person on the list who decides his or her response or comment is worthy to be seen by everyone else. So, he or she opens the email and clicks the handy "Reply to All" button and off it goes.
This one action kicks off what is sure to be an endless stream of questions and comments and replies from everywhere across the league or team and the administrator is pulling out his hair trying to put and end to it all. For a few minutes, hours or even days, everyone is distracted. Everyone's time is wasted. The team or league experience just became a little less rewarding and, worse yet, someone is embarrassed or has hurt feelings by comments made and viewed by tens or hundreds or thousands of people.
In light of this very real problem, maybe we should encourage leagues to ban the "Reply to All" across all team sports? Recently, in government and the corporate world, we've seen well-intentioned folks do just that. The State Department recently sent out an edict that banned employees from sending reply all messages and included "disciplinary actions" for diplomats who send them. And in the corporate world, ratings giant Nielsen decided to go even further by removing the reply to all button altogether on their corporate Microsoft Outlook application for 35,000 employees worldwide.
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As Romney's plane took off from Denver for Virginia Thursday, there were claps and whistles from Romney aides as the pilot announced that the control tower had commended Romney's performance when the plane was cleared for takeoff.
President Barack Obama was accusing Romney of being dishonest about his policies on the debate stage, but a Romney spokesman says the Republican demonstrated in the debate why he should be president.
Spokesman Ryan Williams says on the day after the debate, Obama is offering what he calls "more false attacks."
Before leaving Denver, Romney told a conservative gathering this morning that Americans saw 'two very different visions for the country" in the debate.
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This time last year, the baseball infield at Flanders Field in Harmar was overgrown, the bathrooms weren't open and the playground equipment was showing its age.
But thanks to donations from local businesses and the work of volunteers, the park has undergone what Marietta City Councilman Tom Vukovic calls a "rejuvenation" - at minimal cost to the city.
"The city doesn't have the money to spend," said Vukovic, D-4th Ward. "It's a godsend to have these people out there willing to put money and effort into our parks."
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The ball field at the park had not been used much since the women's softball league folded about 10 years ago, said Mark Duckworth, a member of the city recreation commission and the Marietta Softball Association. With less use, the field grew over and the park deteriorated.
When the Marietta Sluggers youth baseball organization needed a new field for its 9- and 10-year-old teams, Flanders seemed like a good fit, Duckworth said. The Sluggers leased the field from the city and worked with local businesses and organizations to fix it up, improving the infield surface, repairing the outfield fence and constructing new dugouts.
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Moran Construction and Chip Ditchendorf Construction, both of which have offices nearby, put in new sinks and water lines to make the restrooms operational again and replaced the roof, said Tom Kunz, city public facilities director.
Duckworth Farms helped get the infield back in shape, and Apex Feed and True Value Hardware gave the team a good deal on a Turface conditioner for the dirt, said Rob Coil, manager of the Sluggers' 10-year-old team. Slugger stalwarts Steve Hill and Deron Alkire were also helpful throughout the process, offering advice on field construction and other areas, Coil said.
Lumber for the dugout benches was purchased by the Andy Woods Foundation. Woods, who died in an automobile accident earlier this year, was the brother of Sluggers batting instructor and assistant coach Josh Woods. Smith Concrete provided the concrete, and the city bought roofing materials and donated chainlink fencing it was no longer using to cover the front of the dugouts.
"These are by far the coolest dugouts in the league," Coil said.
The team parents are responsible for maintaining the field as well.
"It's a win-win situation - get a beautiful park and took the maintenance off the city," Duckworth said.
Coil estimated the value of the work done at the field was between $5,000 and $10,000.
The Sluggers organization isn't the only group that's helped spruce up the park. The River of Life Church on Franklin Street arranged for a visiting group from the Akron-Canton area to repaint the playground equipment.
"We supplied all the material, brushes and paint ... and they did all the painting for us," Kunz said.
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HEPHZIBAH, Ga. -- Investigators say 56-year-old Hester Jackson was shot Saturday night at his home on the 2700 block of Willis Foreman Road in Hephzibah.
It's the 30th murder in Richmond County this year, and it already has investigators asking for your help.
Viola Rickerson lives about five houses down from where her neighbor was shot and killed Saturday night.
"Never heard of anything like this happening, I mean this is a big shock," said Rickerson, who's lived here for 17 years.
"This is a quiet neighborhood, so nothing like this has ever, ever happened not since I've been here," she explained.
When Jackson didn't show up for work at SRS Sunday morning, his family was worried. They called 911 and together they found Hester shot to death in his home.
"It's sad. People just don't care anymore, you know. They just don't care about each other," Rickerson said.
Investigators say Jackson came home and caught burglars inside. Neighbors say he had just returned from a quick drive-thru dinner and was shot just outside his back door. They say he tried to crawl inside to call for help but didn't make it.
Rickerson says she's on the lookout.
"Coming home wondering, 'Is somebody out there?' so now we're all on edge now because I know when I go out and come back in, I'm going to be wondering," she said.
Neighbors say Jackson kept to himself but loved to work on his cars and always waved hello.
"He done lost his life now. For no reason at all. They'd rather kill somebody ... for what?" Rickerson said.
The homes are close to the main road and close to one another. A neighbor told investigators she saw two people running from the house after she heard a gunshot, but they don't have many other details.
"It's just surprising that something like this could happen," Rickerson said.
Rickerson and the other neighbors just hope someone comes forward to help crack this case.
"If it was young boys and young kids, they're going to talk, they're going to say something, so if you hear anything please, please get in touch with someone," she said.
Hester worked in security at SRS for about 30 years. His co-workers tell us they are deeply saddened by his death. They are even offering a reward for information that leads to the conviction of the burglars.
News 12 spoke with Hester's new wife. The couple recently got married and were working to relocate her from North Carolina to Hephzibah.
Hester's family says he had a big heart and would have given the burglars anything in the house if they had asked.
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OAKLAND -- Whatever carry-over Stanford might have been expecting from its NIT championship last spring took awhile to materialize Friday night.
The Cardinal did leave Oracle Arena with a 74-62 victory over USF in the season opener for both men's basketball teams, but the Pac-12 school had a nervous moment or two facing the smaller West Coast Conference school that trailed by only one point at the half.
Stanford's Dwight Powell led all scorers with a career-high 27 points, while Avry Holmes topped USF with 17 points in a neutral site game where the sparse crowd filled only about a third of Oracle's lower bowl.
While Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins said he wasn't happy with his team's defensive play, he did find things to praise.
"I liked the fact we were very unselfish. We had 15 assists and only six turnovers. It showed a maturity on the court," he said. "Our shot selection was good. Guys got the shots where they're best at shooting them."
Both Dawkins and USF coach Rex Walters are starting their fifth season in their current jobs, with expectations decidedly higher for the Cardinal coach under pressure to produce his first NCAA tournament team. Walters, in contrast, is rebuilding a program that saw six players expected to return go elsewhere.
"Offensively, we were inept," Walters said in assessing USF's performance. "We didn't play for each other, and guys were trying to do too much."
And he didn't spare his team's performance even in a first half when Stanford needed a basket by Chasson Randle with less than two seconds left to go into the locker room with a 32-31 lead.
"Avry made some shots, but it's fool's gold," he said.
The teams traded baskets early on before Stanford went on a 13-0 roll en route to what would be 21-7 lead before the Dons not only got themselves back into the game but took a one-point lead on successive 3-point shots by Holmes and Cody Doolin.
Stanford never trailed in the second half as the Cardinal again went on an early roll, with seven straight points by Powell putting the Dons in a 51-36 hole.
The 6-foot-10, 235-pound Powell displayed the benefits that came from bulking up in an offseason that saw him gain about 15 pounds. He was 9 of 14 from the field -- including 2 of 3 from 3-point range arc -- and 7 of 9 from the foul line.
Powell did give the crowd a scare with only 1:35 left when he crashed to the court in apparent pain, then had to be helped to the bench. The problem turned out to be a muscle cramp.
"I just didn't drink enough fluids," he said, adding he learned his lesson.
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