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Roger defends his title!
It is real – Roger overcame an inspired Fernando Gonzalez to win the Australian Open finals 7-6 (2), 6-4, 6-4 capturing his 10th Grand Slam title! 15'400 spectators in Rod Laver Arena experienced a haunting Grand Slam final between our champion and a very agile and aggressive playing Gonzalez. But Roger once again showed his brilliance and is the first to win a title on a major tournament without dropping a set since Bjorn Borg in 1980. He now has been undefeated for the last 36 official matches, which is a personal record.
Roger, who was rather nervous at the beginning, struggled with windy conditions and was about to drop the first set when Gonzalez had two set points at own serve. In this crucial moment, Roger was able to turn the tide and broke Gonzalez to 6-6, forcing him into tiebreak. Roger rebounded quickly and showed his concentration and dominance prevailing the opening set 7-6 (2).
It then was about who would make fewer mistakes and the advantage went to Roger, who controlled the match thenceforward. Gonzalez committed nine more unforced errors than Roger and three times he double-faulted.
Keeping his service game consistent, Roger delivered winners 82 percent of the time on his first serve while his second serve resulted in winners an impressive 76 percent of the time.
"I'm happy that I was able to win the match in straight sets, although spectators sometimes wish to see a match over five sets." Roger said. "Fighting off Gonzalez' set points and dominating in the tiebreak was deciding for the match. Gonzalez played different today so it was kind of difficult to read his game at the beginning. But then I new Gonzalez would have to react after the first set and that's how I got back at control."
Roger improved his career record to 10-0 against Gonzalez but clearly this was the most difficult victory. Our champion was coming off a 6-4, 6-0, 6-2 dismantling of Andy Roddick and facing an opponent who had never played in a Grand Slam semifinals match much less a finals before play began at the 2007 Australian Open. It took him two hours and twenty minutes to finally shake the ninth ranked Gonzalez and capture the Australian Open Championship. The victory pushed Roger's all time record in Grand Slam final's events to 10-1.
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That was excellent play. I always believe in you, and you always prove me right. I had told my husband that you would win in 3 sets and thanks to you, he has to get a great valentine's present.
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"I'm afraid to be independent, that I won't make enough money. I'm afraid I won't have enough health insurance," she said. "I'm just trying to overcome it. It's a fear of failure."
Because of the crippling potential of such fears, Philadelphia psychologist Robin L. Smith recommends that women reserve time for themselves - away from "carpooling, problem-solving, helping those we love, and those we love and feel duty-bound to" - and take stock.
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"What I think is happening with (Amazing Adventure Women) is that they are shedding light on the fact that they are afraid," said Smith, an ordained minister and author of the forthcoming self-help book "Hungry: The Truth About Being Full." "They are bringing their fears, aches, and worry, and they are doing it within a safe village of other courageous, brave, and scared women."
On a recent Saturday, Mary Kelly Rayel, owner of the Fly School Circus Arts, led the women in a two-hour session at the Lions Camp Kirby in Upper Black Eddy, Pa., the circus school's headquarters.
"Remember," said Rayel, a longtime teacher and circus performer, "there is no such thing as 'I can't.' There is only 'I'm learning.' "
Social worker Kathleen McCarrick, 57, of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., trembled while climbing the ladder to face a fear of heights.
Photographer Judy Zabreck, 54, of Center Valley, Pa., carried the burden of self-doubt that she says kept her in a bad relationship.
But Halbsgut, toughened by years of adventure, wasn't afraid. She and her daughter, Brittany, 23, wowed the group of 10 women when the mother and daughter - in individual tries - swung from the trapeze bar to the outstretched hands of teacher Dan Stern, who caught them midair.
Melissa Kelley of Harleysville, Pa., had been so sure of herself.
The 39-year-old graphic designer joined the group to make friends and take chances in a supportive atmosphere. "The more you face your fears," she said, "it builds confidence that carries over into the other areas of your life."
As she stood on the platform, terror took hold. She jumped anyway.
"I was swinging," Kelley said, "but my stomach felt like it was still back on the platform."
Midswing, she yelled: "I can't! I'm scared! I can't!"
Rayel guided her to a safe plunge into the net.
Applause erupted.
Kelley swore she wouldn't go up again. She called the experience "scary, but inspirational."
And then she flew twice more.
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Michael Owen Johanns, a Republican, has represented the state of Nebraska in the Senate since 2009. Johanns, formerly Governor of Nebraska, was nominated to replace Ann M. Veneman as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture on December 2, 2004, by President George W. Bush.[1] Johanns later resigned to run as the Republican candidate in the 2008 congressional elections for the U.S. Senate in Nebraska.
- 1 Positions, record and controversies
- 2 Bio
- 3 Money in politics
- 4 Committees and affiliations
- 5 More background data
- 6 Contact
- 7 Articles and resources
Positions, record and controversies
Jobs, Taxes and Spending
Johanns pledges to create jobs by investing in rural development, research, technology and infrastructure. He supports making the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent, ending the death and marriage penalty taxes, creating a permanent tax credit for research and development, and fixing the Alternative Minimum Tax to inflation. Johanns also supports reducing government spending by eliminating ineffective programs and reforming the earmark process. He vows to bring transparency to the earmark process by making them open to the public. [2]
Energy Policy
Johanns supports increasing use of alternate and renewable energy sources, investing in cellulosic ethanol research, expanding domestic oil and natural gas exploration, and expanding energy supplies through nuclear power. He also supports decreasing regulation for oil refineries,and increasing car efficiency to promote conservation. [2]
Iraq War and Terrorism
Johanns opposes leaving Iraq under "artificial deadlines", but supports withdrawing slowly as the situation gets better. He proposes that Iraq pay for more of the reconstruction and security with its oil revenues, and that America should look for a stable resolution to win the war on terrorism. He supports doing so while maintaining strong civil liberties in the U.S. [2]
Johanns supports updating the housing, education, medical and long term benefits of veterans. He wants the update to include the ability of a family member to use the education benefit if the veteran does not, and expanding survivor benefits. [2]
Early life
Johanns was born on an Iowa dairy farm. During the press conference announcing his nominated as USDA head, Johanns said, "I'm very, very proud of my ag background. I do feel that those years on that dairy farm did much to define who I am as a person. In my campaign for governor, as a matter of fact, we ran a radio ad and it said, 'After growing up on a dairy farm, the son of John and Adeline Johanns, everything in life has seemed easy after that.'" [1]
Johanns received a law degree from Creighton University in Omaha, and worked for two Nebraska law firms, Cronin & Hannon in O'Neill and Nelson Johanns Morris Holdeman & Titus in Lincoln. He has held elected office at many levels of government, including as a member of the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners and the Lincoln City Council, and as the Mayor of Lincoln. His list of "major enacted initiatives" as Nebraska Governor includes "an emphasis on value-added agriculture, especially ethanol," "tougher penalties for drug dealers," an extension of "Medicaid coverage to the treatment of breast and cervical cancer for low income women," and and increase in "state funding for K-through-12 and special education costs." [2] Johanns was a Democrat for the first part of his political life; he switched parties in 1988. [3]
Governor of Nebraska
Johanns' official bio notes that he has served as the Governor of Nebraska since 1999. It has been widely noted that Johanns was the "first Republican to be reelected governor of Nebraska since 1956." During his tenure, "he has promoted an agenda of tax relief, less government, building the economy, protecting families, and ensuring the health, safety, and success of Nebraska's children," reads his biography. [4] In 2000, Johanns "drafted the Meatpacking Industry Workers Bill of Rights. The document covers health and safety issues, including the right to organize labor unions, the right to work in a safe place, the right to adequate equipment the right to information, and a right to training." [5]
Some "Democratic critics in Nebraska" describe Johanns as "too much of a go-along, get-along guy, reluctant to take stands or to make waves on controversial issues and consequently reluctant to show leadership." But one "defining moment for him," according to Nebraska Farmers Union president John K. Hansen was Johanns' strong support of a measure that would have allowed him to appoint a panel to review a 22-year-old, popular, citizen initiative that "prohibits owners of agribusinesses who are not related by family ties to join forces." Hansen said, "It showed he was on the side of big business, not the small farmer." [6]
During his tenure as governor of Nebraska, the country's third-largest producer of corn, Johanns was a strong proponent of ethanol fuel. "Thanks in part to Johanns, who in 2001 served as chair of the Governors' Ethanol Coalition, Nebraska currently boasts 11 ethanol plants and is the nation's fourth-largest producer of the alternative fuel," wrote Amanda Griscom Little in Grist magazine. Brian Jennings of the American Coalition for Ethanol said Johanns' nomination "definitely bodes well for ethanol. We have confidence that Johanns will do everything necessary to continue growing America's ethanol industry." [7]
Mad cow disease
As governor of the top beef producing state, Johanns was highly critical of USDA's policy of announcing "positive" (or "inconclusive") results from cattle tested for mad cow disease as part of the agency's expanded testing program. "These tests are sensitive, and it's very possible that you put the inconclusive results out and say it could be BSE [mad cow disease] and then find out that it not," he told Associated Press in July 2004, shortly after two "inconclusive" results were announced. "In the meantime, you have had a tremendous impact on the market just like we have been seeing" (Associated Press, July 1, 2004).
Johanns has also stated his opposition to allowing private beef producers do their own testing for mad cow disease - the same position as Veneman's USDA. In response to Kansas meatpacker Creekstone Farms Premium Beef's petition to test all its cattle, Johanns remarked, "The marketplace, in my judgment, must be based on science-based information. Otherwise there just is no end to what you could burden this industry with" (Omaha World Herald, Apr. 4, 2004).
Johanns' initial response to the December 23, 2003 announcement that a cow in Washington state had been confirmed as positive for mad cow disease was also similar to Veneman's USDA - and meat industry groups. "The discovery ... proves the effectiveness of the surveillance techniques that the USDA has in place," he said (Associated Press, Dec. 24, 2003).
In response to the discovery of an infected cow in Canada in May 2003, Johanns "urged Nebraskans to continue eating beef." He said, "I don't have any worries whatsoever when I go to the grocery store, whether I'm buying a head of lettuce or a fillet to put on the grill. ... I certainly would not want this to have any kind of negative impact on this industry or buying habits. There's just no reason for that" (Associated Press, May 20, 2003).
A few months later, Johanns convened "a summit of about 150 ranchers, farmers and policy-makers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to see how Nebraska farmers and ranchers can establish systems to better trace commodities and market them to buyers." Johanns said, "One sick cow in Canada just changed the world. That industry has just been devastated, just annihilated, and we want to make sure we are prepared for what comes down the road" (Omaha World-Herald, Aug. 27, 2003).
Secretary of Agriculture
Bush's selection of Johanns "may reflect the administration's desire to focus heavily on farm trade over the next four years," according to Associated Press. "As governor, Mr. Johanns led a delegation of Nebraska's farm and business leaders on a trade mission to Japan, Taiwan, China, Singapore and a half dozen other countries." [8]
Environmental Working Group president Kenneth Cook called Johanns' record as governor "pro-corporate, pro-subsidy, pro-Bush." Johanns was "a huge supporter of the 2002 farm bill," said Cook. "The White House heavily recruited" Johanns, said Gary Blumenthal, a former Bush adviser. "Johanns is very popular in the Midwest," added Blumenthal. "He's shown an ability to please and motivate agrarian voters -- so he'll be very effective for Republicans in the 2006 [congressional] elections." [9]
When announcing Johanns' nomination, President Bush praised his "deep commitment to a strong farm economy." The industry website Meatingplace.com noted, "What Bush may have liked as much as Johanns' experience in agriculture and trade is his allegiance to other parts of the Bush agenda, including bitter opposition to the estate tax." Bush listed as his second term priorities as "stand[ing] behind family farmers by keeping taxes low and ensuring the federal death tax is repealed permanently." [10]
The Washington Post described Johanns as perhaps "the ideal GOP candidate to head the Department of Agriculture," because he "is risk-averse, is committed to Christianity, supports social programs like the Democrat he once was, and, by necessity, knows his beef and corn as leader of one of the nation's largest agricultural states." The paper also noted Johanns' considerable agriculture experience: [11]
- Twenty-two percent of his state is employed by farm-related industries, which account for $9 billion of Nebraska's economic base. The state is also one of the largest producers of red meat in the nation and one of the largest exporters of agricultural products, something Johanns has cultivated through trade missions. During his tenure, Nebraska exports to China increased from $51 million in 1999 to $110 million last year.
Industry reactions
Meat industry groups had a "muted, but optimistic" reaction to Johanns' nomination, according to the industry news site Meatingplace.com. A spokesperson for R-CALF USA, the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America, noted Johanns' "extensive background in the beef industry." National Meat Association director Rosemary Mucklow said they "look forward to getting to know him." National Pork Producers Council president Keith Berry said they were "very pleased with this appointment." Berry added, "Governor Johanns has a strong background in both agriculture and international trade issues that are critical for U.S. pork producers, as increasing exports will continue to shape the economic health of our industry." [12]
American Meat Institute president J. Patrick Boyle said, "We are confident that Governor Johanns will continue to provide the strong and persistent leadership for America's producers and processors that we've become accustomed to under Secretary Veneman." [13] The National Cattlemen's Beef Association president Jan Lyons said, "Governor Johanns was born and raised on a cattle operation and knows first-hand the needs of producers and rural communities. He has served six years as governor of one of our nation's largest cattle-producing states, and we're enthusiastic about working with him." National Turkey Federation president Dr. Alice Johnson called Johanns' "work aggressively promoting overseas sales of Nebraska agriculture products" the aspect "of greatest importance to our members." [14]
2008 elections
Johanns ran as a Republican replace Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) in the 2008 congressional elections. Johanns defeated Democratic challenger Scott Kleeb in November 2008 general elections. [3]
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Committees and affiliations
Senator Johanns is assigned to the following Senate committees:[4]
- Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry
- Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs
- Environment and Public Works
- Indian Affairs
- Veterans' Affairs
- American Legislative Exchange Council: Mike Johanns presented a talk called "Opening Agricultural Markets by Restraining the EPA and Expanding Trade" at the American Legislative Exchange Council's 2010 States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, DC on December 2, 2010.[5]
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- 2008 U.S. congressional elections
- Bush administration
- Mad cow disease
- Portal:Nebraska and the U.S. Congress
- American Legislative Exchange Council
- ↑ "President Nominates Governor Mike Johanns as Secretary of Agriculture," The White House, September 2, 2004.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Mike Johanns| Here Is Where I Stand
- ↑ "Nebraska 2008 General Election", TheGreenPapers.com, November 4, 2008
- ↑ Committee Assignments, Accessed July 18, 2011.
- ↑ 2010 SNPS Presentations, Accessed July 17, 2011.
External resources
- Wikipedia also has an article on Mike Johanns. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the GFDL.
- Mike Johanns official biography, Governor of Nebraska website.
- 2008 Race Tracker page on Nebraska's Senate Race
- Interview on Agritalk on efforts to reverse EPA regulations, December 8, 2010.
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- Amanda Griscom Little, "Mikey Likes It: Bush's pick to head the USDA is a big ethanol booster," Grist magazine, December 9, 2004.
- Lois Romano, "A Farm-Raised USDA Choice: Cabinet Nominee Brings Heartland Credentials," Washington Post, December 10, 2004.
- Aaron Blake and Ian Swanson, "Johanns to resign, run for Senate, sources say," The Hill, September 19, 2007.
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Recipes, Summertime Favorite, Picnic, Potato Salad, Parsley, Parsley Potato Salad, Summer
In the heat of the summer, potato salad is a staple with my family. We love to try new recipes on the weekends, and when we found this recipe for Parsley Potato Salad with Turkey Bacon, we couldn't pass it up.
Amazingly enough, parsley has more vitamin C than any other culinary vegetable. It also contains substantial amounts of iron—twice as much as the superfood powerhouse spinach. And that's not all. Parsley is a rich source for calcium, folic acid, manganese, potassium, vitamin A and antioxidants.
Raw parsley is known for its ability to cleanse the blood as well as protect against heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis. It helps to remove kidney and gallstones, it can treat ear infections, and it increases sex drive and endurance. You can reduce swelling by crushing the leaves into a poultice and applying it to the bruise. It even freshens your breath if you chew it after a meal.
So take advantage of all parsley has to offer with this delicious potato salad from Weight Watchers All Time Favorites (Wiley, 2007). I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
This potato salad is both healthy and tasty. It is a great addition to any summer meal.Photo by Informationgoddess29/Courtesy Flickr
Parsley Potato Salad with Turkey Bacon
• 1 1/2 pounds red potatoes, peeled, halved if large• 4 slices turkey bacon• Olive oil• 1 small onion, chopped• 1/4 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth• 3 tablespoons white-wine vinegar• 1 tablespoon coarse-grained mustard• 1 teaspoon sugar• 1 teaspoon paprika• 1/2 teaspoon mustard powder• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
1. Put the potatoes in a large saucepan; add enough water to cover. Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and cook partially covered until fork-tender, about 20 minutes. When cool enough to handle, cut the potatoes into bite-sized chunks and put in large bowl.
2. Meanwhile, cook the bacon in a medium nonstick skillet until crisp. Drain on paper towels and coarsely crumble over the potatoes. Add enough olive oil to the bacon drippings to equal 2 teaspoons.
3. Heat the oil mixture in the same skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring, until softened, about 4 minutes. Stir in the broth, vinegar, coarse-grained mustard, sugar, paprika and mustard powder; bring to a simmer. Pour the hot dressing over the potatoes; toss gently and let stand covered until some of the dressing is absorbed, about 2 to 3 minutes. Sprinkle with the parsley and serve warm or cold.
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1.13.12 | Idaho teachers resist technology push; teens adapt the Xbox to help patients; & why learning to code may be harder than you think, all in this week's Playback.
Teachers Resist High-Tech Push: We kick off our first Playback of 2012 by continuing our coverage of how teachers are responding to new state mandates for online learning. Before the holidays, we wrote about efforts to pass state legislation to expand virtual school programs and increase requirements for online courses—and how some online charter schools are putting profits ahead of quality.
Idaho has been a leader in pushing for online courses; a new law requires all high school students to take two online classes to graduate and mandates laptops or tablets for students and teachers. The New York Times reports on the tensions this is causing for teachers in Idaho and around the country:
Some teachers, even though they may embrace classroom technology, feel policy makers are thrusting computers into classrooms without their input or proper training. And some say they are opposed to shifting money to online classes and other teaching methods whose benefits remain unproved.
"Teachers don't object to the use of technology," said Sabrina Laine, vice president of the American Institutes for Research, which has studied the views of the nation's teachers using grants from organizations like the Gates and Ford Foundations. "They object to being given a resource with strings attached, and without the needed support to use it effectively to improve student learning."
Teacher and parent groups in the state have gathered enough signatures to put a referendum on the ballot in November that could overturn the law. Seasoned educators like Ann Rosenbaum, who teaches at Post Falls High School, are skeptical that online courses can keep students engaged and get them to think critically.
"I'm teaching them to think deeply, to think. A computer can't do that," Rosenbaum said.
Proponents say teachers are nervous about how technology may shift their role from a lecturer at the front of the class to more of a guide moving students through their own self-directed learning.
Tom Luna, superintendent of public instruction in Idaho, tells the Times the computer "becomes the textbook for every class, the research device, the advanced math calculator, the word processor and the portal to a world of information."
A Golden Opportunity: In an accompanying series in the Times' Room For Debate forum, educators, administrators and technologists address how classroom technology, social networks, interactive whiteboards, and mobile devices are and are not benefiting students.
While some point to high costs of technology and a troubling "loss of emphasis on teacher-centered lessons," Eric Sheninger, principal of New Milford High School in New Jersey, writes that social media and blogging tools provide a "golden opportunity" for educators to teach digital responsibility, citizenship and critical thinking skills:
One must get past the stigma and truly experience what this free resource can do for our schools and students to appreciate its inherent value. Social media is all about conversations that center around user-created content. When structured in a pedagogically sound fashion, learning activities that incorporate social media allow students to apply what they have learned through creation. This fosters higher order thinking skills and caters to a wide range of learning styles. Social media tools allow educators to authentically engage students as they encourage involvement, discussion, communication, collaboration and creativity. These include utilizing mainstream tools such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, as well as specialized ones such as Voicethread, Glogster, Animoto and Prezi.
Using Xbox to Invent: If there are any parents left out there who think playing video games are a complete waste of time, I want to point them to this great interview on NPR I heard over the holiday break.
All Things Considered's Robert Siegel spoke with young inventors Cassee Cain and Ziyuan Liu, high school students from Oak Ridge, Tenn., who recently won the team portion of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology for their modification of Microsoft's Xbox Kinect. Their project helps to monitor the movement of people with prosthetic limbs or illnesses that affect movement.
Cain and Liu hope their invention can be used by clinicians to fit prosthetics, improve diagnoses, and help with therapy and rehabilitation. Combining their interests in medicine and computer science, they worked full-time at Oakridge National Lab over the summer to learn programming languages and to better understand work that had already been done in the field of gait analysis.
Siegel points out that the students have found a way of applying technology - a motion sensor for videogames with a camera – that is actually a common, but powerful, piece of household technology. For their project, the two teens combined the Kinect with a robotic leg to analyze leg motions while walking.
"This is a device that you can go buy at Walmart," Cain said, "and take out of the box and use, so it really adds to the portability and accessibility of this device and also the affordability."
It's Harder Than You Think: Finally, earlier this week I covered a new startup called Codecademy that has been signing up thousands of people for its Code Year, a free class designed to teach those of us new to computer science how to code via programming lessons sent each week to our inboxes. Its numbers have jumped to over 300,00, and the initiative has gotten tons of attention online.
Yet a few wise souls took a more measured look at the explosion in interest in learning to code, questioning how much all of these people are actually learning from online programs like Codecademy, and debating how it might make the most sense to teach them.
Over at Hack Education, Audrey Watters has this great take (from back in October, but I'm behind) on her own efforts to learn how to code. As she puts it bluntly, "it's actually damn hard to learn to code if you have no background in engineering or math. And frankly, Codecademy has been no help."
Developers can be a hard group to communicate with, and I sometimes find myself thinking: "I wish I could just do this myself. How hard can this be?" This is a good reminder that we need to define what we mean by learning to code, and, most importantly, we need to pay attention to pedagogy.
Julie Meloni, an author of many how-to tech books and the former lead technologist of the online library environment at the University of Virginia, takes up where Watters leaves off and points out that we need more attention to how we teach and how learners learn these new languages. Despite the importance of information and coding literacy, it's not that easy to make everyone into a coder. Nor should it be.
"Yes, the interface is shiny and the badges are neat, but no, it is not teaching you how to code," she writes. "It is teaching you how to call-and-response, and is not particularly helpful in explaining why you're responding, why they're calling, or—most importantly—how to become a composer."
Watters says the crucial question is: "'how many of those 500,000 Codecademy users actually learned any JavaScript?', the answer is actually really important."
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Six Nations preview: France v Ireland
By Tadhg Peavoy | Updated: Sunday, 05 Jul 2015 17:12 | Comments
By Tadhg Peavoy
Paris: the graveyard of Irish rugby dreams. Since 1972 Ireland have won just twice in the City of Light, making the city the most inhospitable of destinations. Since then, Ireland's tally comes to 19 defeats, and two victories.
But damn all that to hell, statistics are there to be altered, and on the basis of their performances in this Six Nations, Ireland's squad should full well believe that they can account for France and secure a championship in the process.
Schmidt's side has looked comfortably the better of the two teams over the last four matches, and will be brimming with confidence as they go to Stade de France, following their seven-try demolition of Italy at the Aviva Stadium.
France, by contrast, have been a stuttering, under-performing team, that is struggling to find rhythm under head coach Philippe Saint-André.
Their two-point victory over Scotland last week was more testament to their staying power than any conviction in their playing abilities.
If one thing is likely this weekend, it is that France will be much better than they have been in their last two outings, against Wales and Scotland.
If one thinks back to the first two rounds of the championship and their home victories over England and Italy, France were a far more assured, confident team, displaying swagger and revelling in their home support.
It's hard to imagine them not getting much of that gusto back this weekend and raising their game to a sufficient level that they make this a very close battle.
Being clinical and accurate
How do you beat France in Paris? I think Cian Healy gave the answer very concisely when talking at Carton House this week: you beat them by being clinical and accurate.
Ensuring parity in the scrum in Paris is famously hard. The props in France are the rock stars of the team, and bayed on by the partisan home crowd, this becomes a battle ground for the visiting props, that if lost can lead to disintegration of other areas of the game as the hosts concede penalties and find themselves pinged back into their own half with place-kicking.
The lineout is similarly crucial. A sloppy lineout, with badly presented ball to the halfbacks puts the visitors on the back foot, and with the France backline impressive in its pressure on nines and tens, this causes huge pressure at a critical juncture.
France thrive on loose, spilled ball and devour opportunities from that position. Ireland need to ensure they gave as little of this as possible to Les Bleus for the duration on Saturday evening.
Sexton versus Machenaud
The fact that Johnny Sexton and Maxime Machenaud play together at Racing Métro adds extra spice to the occasion; whoever manages to impinge on the other's game more could gain a vital upper hand that will swing dominance in the halfback position, one way or another.
Both players will be briefing their compatriots on their club team-mate, and dossiers on how to disturb them best will be of paramount importance. It's a fascinating sub-plot to an already hugely intriguing encounter.
France's scrum and lineout last week was abysmal against Scotland. They lost eight lineouts out of 14 and two scrums out of four on their own put-in.
If those stats continue against Ireland, one would imagine that whatever their backs do, Ireland will triumph. In truth, they are almost certainly not going to be that poor in the set-piece.
Szarzewski and Picamoles both back for France
Hooker Brice Mach has been dropped from the match day 23 following his throwing nightmare, and Dimitri Szarzewski is into the XV in his place. Immediately, France are strengthened in the No 2 jersey.
Add to that Louis Picamoles returning to the backrow at blindside flanker, and France have reselected two of their three most influential forwards; the other being lock and captain Pascal Papé.
Looking out towards the back divisions, there are so many intriguing battles across the park.
Tales a weakness at number ten?
The half-back battle has already been alluded to, with the other interesting call being Remi Tales in at No 10 for France.
Jules Plisson has been the starting 10 for all of France's previous four championship ties, and parachuting Tales in at this late stage is a massive tactical switch.
How well he can gel into a team at such late notice is going to be pivotal, and Ireland will target him early on in a bid to unsettle the stand-off and put him under the kind of pressure that will lead to confidence diminishing mistakes.
The French backline will be attempting to protect him and stop this happening, which could in turn lead to weaknesses around the breakdown area that Ireland's pack will hope to exploit with broken field pack runners.
To that end the scrum will also be crucial; any strategical wheels by both props will give Chris Henry and Jamie Heaslip that crucial edge space-wise as they attempt to close down Tales before he has time to kick for possession, carry, or offload to the centres outside.
Midfield tackling more important than ever
And that brings us to Mathieu Bastareaud and Gael Fickou in midfield. The former has been criticised for the duration of this tournament as overweight and over-rated; I disagree with this assessment.
Sure, he is heavyset and very route one, but that makes him extremely difficult to stop and as a result he pulls in defenders creating space for the men outside to exploit. Chop tackles are the order of the day here, and jackal tackles also.
Stop him dead, and attempt to get the missile at the ruck to snaffle possession back. This is where Peter O'Mahony performed so well in the first three matches of the championship and where he can come potentially come up with the goods again.
One of Bastareaud's finest hours in a France jersey came in 2010 when he did O'Driscoll with a sensational underarm outside pass while he held off the Ireland centre, who failed to chop, or choke.
O'Driscoll, aided by his backrow team-mates, need to stop that happening again. The challenge for Gordon D'Arcy at first centre is a different one. He faces the electric and inventive Fickou, who possesses the pace and lines of running to do terrible damage to Ireland in midfield.
The challenge here is to prevent him getting space to run into in and around the backline; if he is allowed space, time and freedom to roam then I would worry about his ability to offload to supporting French runners in space.
He is the classic example of French flair and containing him is crucial to Ireland. Similarly the back three of Brice Dulin, Yoann Huget and Maxime Medard are, on their day, a superb trio that can devour teams in broken play.
Paul O'Connell highlighted this week that the kick-chase is an area that will be crucial on Saturday.
If the French back three aren't met by Irish jerseys up at pace on the rush defence they will take lines that cut holes in the Irish defence and create space and broken play to do damage within. Ireland will be aiming to get all of the above elements close to perfect play-on-play, but their own attacking game is where the game will ultimately be won.
Ireland will spread wide and stretch the French defence
You would be inclined to think that Ireland will need to score at least one try, maybe two, in order to win the match in Paris.
Being more creative and out-thinking their opponents is clearly the way this Irish team will gain those crucial five to 10 points. Spreading wide early on, and stretching the French pack with regularity, attempting to tire them and create gaps is the way forward.
It's far easier said than done, and fitness will play a factor. The accusation of late is that the Top 14 is producing athletes that are not as fit as the Pro12 or Premiership players, and if Ireland can prove that to be the case then it could be a crucial factor on Saturday evening.
What impressed about the Ireland attack against Italy was the manner in which they varied their attack channels, spreading wide with regularity, but not failing to see gaps around the breakdown, which was best demonstrated by Fergus McFadden's excellent try late on. However, Italy were poor in Dublin, and France's rearguard in their own '22 will be a far more concrete unit to demolish.
France have put a six-two forward-back split on their replacements bench, and to that end I believe they are anticipating Ireland's superior agility and attempts to run the pack out of the game. Schmidt's team need to be wary of a forward-dominated upsurge from a freshened France pack late on.
A further element is the crowed, that crucial 16th man. If Ireland go behind in the first half, then the French crowd will back their team. But if the reverse happens, and Ireland can gain a foothold, this crowd can work against their team and become an asset to Ireland.
For that reason a good start is essential. If Ireland can get that start, maintain the set-piece dominance they have had in 75% of their championship matches thus far, and find the spark in attack they were largely missing against England in London, then they should win this match.
Verdict: Ireland to win by four.
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The long-anticipated rumor was made official Monday as Ron Francis was named the new general manager of the Carolina Hurricanes. Longtime GM Jim Rutherford will now serve as president, but will not have anyone report to him (something he seemed pretty damn happy about), and Brian Tatum has been promoted to assistant general manager.
Today's press conference was about as cut-and-dry as possible, and that's a good thing, especially considering a certain owner with a penchant for rubbing the fanbase the wrong way was seated front and center. Karmanos later told media he would be looking for a place to live in Raleigh and become more involved in the team's business operations (including the anthem singer of all things). However, during the press conference, the most interesting word from PK was that he doesn't have a budget in mind, but this year showed him that spending to the cap doesn't equate to wins.
Jim Rutherford was (to no surprise) very classy on stage today, thanking everyone from the fans and media, all the way to Gary Bettman. He noted that regardless of the outcome, the 2013-14 season would be his last as a general manager, and he'd been thinking of stepping down/aside/(insert preposition here) for a few years. He'll stick around as an adviser should Ronnie choose to pick up the batphone.
But of course, the big story of the day is the new man, a man who is his "own man", at the helm in Raleigh. After several years in various front office and coaching positions after hanging up the skates, Ron Francis certainly has ties to the Hurricanes. The combination of his time in this organization and said team's perceived hesitation to bring in new people raised questions about Francis being a new enough voice to truly bring some change to the club after a 5th straight disappointing year.
Francis has plenty of decisions to make this offseason, and the man behind the bench is likely priority #1. I'd imagine we'll hear something regarding Muller's job status in the next 2 weeks or so. He mentioned playing for the logo and needing consistent effort on multiple interviews yesterday. If those are the things he wants to stress, perhaps a couple guys who have lead the way to 5 straight seasons that end at game 82 might not be here this Fall.
Perhaps I'm reading too much into his comments, but with no Canes hockey to dissect, that's all we're left with. There's sure to be plenty of activity in the PNC Arena offices this summer, and I can't wait to see Francis shape this hockey club.


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You need a little extra cash to make your dream home perfect -- whether that means new flooring, or a master suite addition -- and home-equity financing is there to help. What's not to like? Dipping into the equity you have in your home gets you money lent out for better terms, and lower interest rates, than you get with unsecured loans. Borrowing against your home comes with risks, though, so do your research before you decide on a loan product -- or if you want to increase the amount of money you owe on your home.
The basic difference between a home-equity loan and a home-equity line of credit is that equity loans give you a lump sum of money, and a home equity line of credit provides you with a predetermined amount of credit, which you access as you need it. Home equity loans are more like traditional loans, and home-equity lines of credit more closely resemble credit cards in structure. Both use your home as collateral.
You start making interest and principal payments on a home equity loan as soon as you receive the money, and you keep paying until you either pay down, or pay off the loan. You only pay for the amount you use in a home-equity line of credit, and you either pay off, or add to the amount borrowed, up to the stated limit.
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Home-equity lines of credit usually have variable interest rates. The payments you make monthly depend on the amount of money you draw on your account, and on the current interest rate charged. Home-equity loans feature either fixed or variable interest rates. The prime fixed-rate products usually require good credit scores and low loan-to-value ratios. Loan-to-value ratios refer to the amount you owe on a home, as compared to its current market value. Lenders generally require loan-to-value ratios less than 80 percent for fixed-rate loans. When you have high LTV ratios, or low credit scores, your options for loan products narrow. Beware of interest-only loans, which end in you still owing a large payment at the end of the term.
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Martin St. Louis looks to set a Tampa Bay Lightning record by recording a point in 14 straight games when his team visits the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday before heading into the All-Star break.
St. Louis matched the franchise record on Thursday, when he assisted on the second of two goals by Brad Richards in a 3-2 shootout win at New Jersey. St. Louis also reached the mark from Feb. 5-March 3, 2004.
Brian Bradley and Vaclav Prospal also recorded a point in 13 consecutive games for the Lightning (25-22-2).
St. Louis, who finished with 31 goals and 30 assists in 2005-06, has already surpassed that point total this season with a team-leading 64 and is tied with Vincent Lecavalier for the team lead in goals with 29.
Both players will represent Tampa Bay at Wednesday's All-Star game in Dallas.
St. Louis has 19 goals in 31 games against Carolina (25-19-5), while Lecavalier has 33 points in 42 games against the Hurricanes.
Lecavalier, who had a five-game goal streak and eight-game point streak halted Thursday, has 63 points this season after finishing with 75 in 2005-06.
Richards clinched Thursday's win with the lone shootout goal against Martin Brodeur, giving Tampa Bay six victories in its last seven games.
"It feels great to beat a great goalie like that," Richards said. "When you can score on him, you take it because you know you're not going to get many by him."
Richards has four goals in his last four games overall, and 31 points in 33 contests against Carolina.
The Hurricanes are continuing a stretch of seven consecutive games against Southeast Division rivals. Carolina has split the first four, beating Florida twice and losing to Atlanta and Washington.
The defending Stanley Cup champions are in second place in the division, five points behind Atlanta and three ahead of Tampa Bay.
The Hurricanes lost 5-2 to the Capitals on Thursday, their second defeat in three games. Carolina allowed a goal just seven minutes into the game when Washington's Chris Clark dumped the puck into the offensive zone and it deflected off David Tanabe's stick and into the open net vacated by John Grahame.
"The first goal was tough the way it happened, but it happened," Hurricanes coach Peter Laviolette said.
The Hurricanes rallied to pull within one goal in the third period, but Clark and Alexander Ovechkin sealed the win for the Capitals with empty-net goals in the final minute.
Carolina has defeated Tampa Bay four consecutive times at the RBC Center.
The Hurricanes close the stretch of division games with a home-and-home series against Washington starting Friday.
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I'm sure they have got to know, Once they go live with this, it's going to end up being a basic "Freebie" for all. Once a few download a copy, I'm sure it would soon be all over the web.
Adult magazine publisher hopes to attract new subscribers, advertisers
Updated: 3:14 p.m. ET Aug. 24, 2005
NEW YORK - Playboy magazine, losing money in the face of depressed advertising, will go digital later this year in hopes of winning new subscribers and advertisers.
The first digital magazine — which will mirror the print version — will be available in September after months of testing the technology, Playboy Enterprises Inc. said Wednesday.
The move comes as Playboy Enterprises is increasingly dependent on revenue from its licensing and entertainment businesses rather than the publishing division, where it posted a second-quarter loss of $2.3 million. The media company's overall profit totaled $4.6 million.
I think we're all cognizant of the fact that there are two macro trends going on here that this product is designed to respond to," Playboy Enterprises Chief Executive Christie Hefner said in an interview.
"One is more and more consumers are getting information and entertainment online and the other is more and more advertising dollars are going online."
With the digital service, readers can buy either a subscription or single copy that can then be downloaded. The company launched the service in conjunction with digital marketing and publishing company Zinio Systems Inc.
Hefner described the start-up costs as "very modest" and said individual digital issues would be priced at the same rate as newsstand copies, while subscriptions would be slightly higher than the lowest introductory price for print editions.
She said that Zinio finds subscriptions to digital editions typically average about 5 percent of print subscriptions.
"For Playboy that would be a very large number because we have 2.8 million subscribers to the print magazine," she said. "But we aren't making any budget projections at this point."
An October issue featuring the Girls of the Pac 10 and an interview with comedian George Carlin will kick off the digital publishing. Starting Sept. 13, it can be downloaded from playboydigital.com.


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Home: How to Use Your DNA to Pinpoint Your Scottish Origin
I am Dr Tyrone Bowes and people employ my services to pinpoint where their Scottish ancestors lived using only the results of a simple commercial ancestral DNA test. This test known as the Y-DNA37 test will potentially provide one with the names of many hundreds of individuals with whom one shares a common male ancestor, but what often perplexes people is how one can match many individuals with different surnames? The answer is quite simple. Roughly 1,200 years ago one's direct medieval male ancestor, the first for example to call himself 'McGregor' was living in close proximity to others with whom he was related but who assumed other surnames like Buchanan, Drummond and Murray. Given that 1,200 years have passed since surnames were adopted, there will be many descendants of these individuals some of whom today will undergo DNA testing.
Hence the surnames of one's medieval ancestor's neighbours will be reflected in today's DNA test results. In early 19th Century UK census data, surnames could still be found concentrated in the County from which they originate. Hence when one examines the distribution pattern of the surnames that reoccur as a genetic match to you, one can pinpoint the place of origin of one's ancestors, what I like to call the 'Genetic Homeland.' The Genetic Homeland is the area (within a 5 mile radius) where one's ancestors lived for hundreds if not thousands of years. It is the area where one's ancestors left their mark in the history and place names of that area and in the DNA of its current inhabitants.
Since modern science can pinpoint a Genetic Homeland it can also be used to confirm it by DNA testing individuals from the pinpointed area. To view a short You Tube video tutorial demonstrating how to use your DNA to unlock the history of your ancestors click here, or you can click here to read sample case studies! Not had a DNA test? Then order a Y-DNA37 test by clicking here. If you have had a Y-DNA test and would like a FREE CONSULTATION you can do so by clicking here to contact me.
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If it were love I would give that love every second I had
And I do
Did I know where he'd lead me to?
Did I plan
Doing all of this for the love of a man?
Well I let it happen anyhow
And what I'm feeling now
Has no easy explanation
Reason plays no part
Heaven help my heart
I love him too much
What if he saw my whole existence
Turning around a word, a smile, a touch?
One of these days, and it won't be long,
he'll know more about me
Than he should
All my dreams will be understood
No surprise
Nothing more to learn from the look in my eyes
Don't you know that time is not my friend
I'll fight it to the end
Hoping to keep that best of moments
When the passions start
Heaven help my heart
The day that I find
Suddenly I've fun out of secrets
Suddenly I'm not always on his mind
Maybe it's best to love a stranger
Well that's what I've done -- heaven help my heart
Heaven help my heart
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Aliases for KCNMB4 Gene
Aliases for KCNMB4 Gene
- Potassium Calcium-Activated Channel Subfamily M Regulatory Beta Subunit 4 2 3
- Potassium Channel Subfamily M Regulatory Beta Subunit 4 2 3 5
- Potassium Large Conductance Calcium-Activated Channel, Subfamily M, Beta Member 4 2 3
- Calcium-Activated Potassium Channel, Subfamily M Subunit Beta-4 3 4
- Charybdotoxin Receptor Subunit Beta-4 3 4
- Big Potassium Channel Beta Subunit 4 2 3
- Maxi K Channel Subunit Beta-4 3 4
- MaxiK Channel Beta-Subunit 4 2 3
External Ids for KCNMB4 Gene
- Entrez Gene: 27345
- Ensembl: ENSG00000135643
- UniProtKB: Q86W47
Previous GeneCards Identifiers for KCNMB4 Gene
Summaries for KCNMB4 Gene
MaxiK channels are large conductance, voltage and calcium-sensitive potassium channels which are fundamental to the control of smooth muscle tone and neuronal excitability. MaxiK channels can be formed by 2 subunits: the pore-forming alpha subunit and the modulatory beta subunit. The protein encoded by this gene is an auxiliary beta subunit which slows activation kinetics, leads to steeper calcium sensitivity, and shifts the voltage range of current activation to more negative potentials than does the beta 1 subunit. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
GeneCards Summary for KCNMB4 Gene
KCNMB4 (Potassium Calcium-Activated Channel Subfamily M Regulatory Beta Subunit 4) is a Protein Coding gene. Among its related pathways are Platelet activation, signaling and aggregation and Transmission across Chemical Synapses. GO annotations related to this gene include potassium channel regulator activity and calcium-activated potassium channel activity. An important paralog of this gene is KCNMB2.
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot for KCNMB4 Gene
Regulatory subunit of the calcium activated potassium KCNMA1 (maxiK) channel. Modulates the calcium sensitivity and gating kinetics of KCNMA1, thereby contributing to KCNMA1 channel diversity. Decreases the gating kinetics and calcium sensitivity of the KCNMA1 channel, but with fast deactivation kinetics. May decrease KCNMA1 channel openings at low calcium concentrations but increases channel openings at high calcium concentrations. Makes KCNMA1 channel resistant to 100 nM charybdotoxin (CTX) toxin concentrations.
Voltage-gated potassium channels (KV) belong to the 6-TM family of potassium channel that also comprises the Ca2+-activated Slo (actually 7-TM) and the Ca2+-activated SK subfamilies. The alpha-subunits contain a single pore-forming region and combine to form tetramers.


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SCOTT CITY - Technology And Networking and Automation Services Company are joining forces.
Jason Eftink, CEO of Technology And Networking, and Michael Buchanan, CEO of Automation Services, announced the companies will combine to form what they say will be the region's largest and most experienced technology services provider.
The decision to merge the companies was well thought out and has been in planning over several months, Eftink and Buchanan agreed. Although both firms competed in the same market, each has developed unique strengths and bringing these together means the customers of both companies can now utilize the skills and expertise of each from a single source.
"When we began our talks, one thing that kept things going is that we shared a common attitude of doing right by our customers," Buchanan said. "It was really a pleasant surprise to see what a good fit this was in terms of how the strengths of each company complemented the other," he said.
"This is truly an example of the sum of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts," noted Eftink. "We feel we've created an organization that will benefit customers, employees, and shareholders alike."
The merged organization will stand out in terms of industry certifications and highly qualified technical staff, they said.
Technology And Networking/ASC will be Southeast Missouri's only Cisco Premier Certified Partner and will be accredited with Cisco specializations in IP telephone systems and security.
The new organization is also Southeast Missouri's only Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Achieving either of these industry standards of excellence requires a commitment to delivery of quality services and demonstrable expertise by the company's staff. Having both certifications within the same organization provides customers a single source of supply and support for products from world's number one networking vendor and number one software company, Eftink said.
"I think when customers of both firms see what the combined company has to offer, they will be as excited about the merger as we are," said Eftink.
"We also invite organizations we're not doing business with to contact us and learn of the new level of networking and technology service and support now available to Southeast Missouri and the surrounding area," noted Buchanan.
Technology And Networking Inc. is located at 610 2nd St. East in Scott City. Their telephone number is 573-264-4051 or they can be reached online at http://www.tanonline.com.


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Newtown -- In a hushed auditorium, harshly lit for television, the families and neighbors of Sandy Hook's lost children told visiting legislators Monday night to take a stand against gun violence, not always prescribing how.
"You are our elected officials," said Nicole Hockley, who last held the hand of her 6-year-old son, Dylan, as he lay in a small casket. "It is your duty to create and enforce the laws that protect and help us, using common sense, morals and a sense of humanity to guide you."
By the hundreds, her neighbors rose and embraced her with applause, as did the legislators. So went the routine all night, where residents aching for gun control or better mental health screening had their say, then left to applause.
Ardent opponents of gun control spoke later, most offering condolences before politely protesting that no new law would have stopped their children's killer, Adam Lanza. They also were neighbors, and they, too, left to applause.
The bipartisan legislative task force created in response to the shooting deaths of 20 first-graders and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 filled the wide stage of Newtown High School.
"Our job is to listen," House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, told them at the outset.
The hearing was like none at the State Capitol in Hartford. It couldn't be, not in a town where a firehouse is newly decorated with 26 copper stars, one for each victim. It is a place where most anything can remind residents of what happened on Dec. 14.
They gathered in the high school that once represented the distant futures of 20 absent children, the place where the parents of Jesse Lewis, Dylan Hockley, Benjamin Wheeler and the others expected them to grow, learn and graduate with the Class of '24.
Parents of those three children spoke. So did Bill Sherlach, the husband of the school psychologist, Mary Sherlach, and Peter Paradis, the stepfather of a teacher's aide, Rachel D'Avino. They were two of the six women who died with the children they taught, counseled and tried to protect.
Susie Ehrens, the mother of a girl who ran past the killer with eight classmates from the classroom of Vicki Soto, a teacher killed apparently trying to shield students, struggled for composure.
"I know how lucky we are," Ehrens said. "The fact my daughter survived and others didn't haunts me."
Ehrens made no effort to hide a coiled anger. She told the officials that America gave up its claim to greatness when it preferred the slaughter of innocents to the risk of offending gun owners.
"We stopped being something to be proud of when we love our guns more than we love our children," Ehrens said. Her closing demand was delivered like a punch to the gut: "that every decision you make as if it's your child that didn't walk out that school that day."
Andres Nikitehyuk also struggled with what might have been. His son, a third-grader taking his turn as class helper, was in the hallway when gunfire erupted. A teacher yanked him inside her class, then locked the door.
"Here is what I want to say to each and every one of you: I used to be part of the silent majority," Nikitehyuk said. "It's been long overdue, but it's clear I have to speak up."
He demanded that the legislature ban the manufacture and sale of firearms like the Bushmaster AR-15, the semiautomatic rifle Adam Lanza used in the assault on Sandy Hook.
Scarlett Lewis, whose six-year-old son, Jesse, was killed in Miss Soto's class, had no demands, just a request for everyone to let go of anger, to find a productive response. She said she was heartened by how the community has rallied.
"We need to somehow hold onto that feeling of love and oneness," she said.
First Selectman Patricia Llodra -- the title is selectman, thank you, she will tell visiting reporters -- was the first to speak. The Republican official is now a folk hero, a woman credited with keeping her small town functioning, her community intact.
In the same auditorium, she greeted President Obama two days after the killings. More recently, she opened a conversation here about what Newtown might eventually do with the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
She had no doubts Monday night about the Bushmaster, calling it an assault weapon. She wants such weapons banned: "I cannot agree that weapons such as the Bushmaster have any legitimate role in society."
Llodra said she realizes that a consensus on guns may not be easy.
"I can accept that change will be incremental, but I do demand that we get going on that right path," she said. "Let's take some of those steps to reform our gun control policies. Let's improve access to high quality mental-health care with an emphasis on early identification and intervention."
"I ask that you commit yourself to this journey of change," Llodra said. "Please be with us for the long haul."
Her constituents rose and applauded, as did the legislators on stage.
Sherlach, the husband of the school psychologist, who was killed when she confronted Lanza with the school's principal, said he was puzzled by gun owners who say they need AR-15s as a check on government tyrrany.
"I don't understand them," he said. "In today's world of drones, missiles and other high-tech weaponry if a government wants to take out your house or your car, you will never see it coming."
David Wheeler, whose six-year-old son, Benjamin, was killed, said the legislators must find a way for authorties to better match information on the emotionally disturbed against a registry of homes with guns. No authority apparently ever challenged Nancy Lanza for keeping an AR-15 and other firearms in a home with a son who had emotional problems.
"It doesn't matter to whom these weapons were registered. It doesn't matter if they were purchased legally," Wheeler said. "What matters is that it was far too easy for another mentally unbalanced, suicidal person who had a violent obsessions to have easy access to unreasonably powerful weapons."
To gun owners who ask that their Second Amendment rights not be infringed by asking them to give up certain rifles and high-capacity magazines, Wheeler asked about another right articulated by the Founding Fathers, the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
"The liberty of any person to own a military-style assault weapon and a high-capacity magazine and keep them in their home is second to the right of my son to his life -- his life, to the right to live of all those children and those teachers," Wheeler said. "Let's honor the Founding Fathers and get our priorities straight."
Tom Swetts, a teacher at Newtown High, told the legislators he was standing on the same cold concrete floor where his students were told to lie down on Dec. 14, when the high school also was locked down.
He told them one of his former students was Adam Lanza.
Swetts said educators need to know more about students who might be struggling with mental illness, though he had no desire to be armed.
"Should teachers carry guns? I'd quit tomorrow," Swetts said.
There were dozens of dissenters to the demands for limits on the size of magazines and a ban on the possession of rifles like the AR-15, a reminder that Newtown is surrounded by gun clubs and gun ranges.
Casey Khan, the father of a Sandy Hook student, said the demand for gun control was misplaced.
Michael Collins, an emergency medical technician and NRA pistol instructor, said only one man deserves blame for Sandy Hook.
"The person responsible for this outrage was the person who planned it and carried it out," Collins said. "We must give the blame for this to Adam Lanza."
Michael Daubert, a retired state trooper from Newtown, said he once felt the same way. He said, "I was very pro gun, up until now."
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How the Moose Long for Summer
And they call ME the black sheep in the family! This is down right embarassing. If only this were the end of it (get it, end, butt) but it's not. Achorage Daily News has assembled a gallery of 135 recent "Moose" sightings and it's pretty darn cool. You might be wondering why I'm bringing this to your attention. As you'll see in some of the photos, the images are amazingly stunning and, with very little research, you can figure out how you too can photograph these great critters with some ease. In fact, three of my favorite locales are in this show. Now, if they just didn't go and show a Moose going through the Burger King drive in, how will I ever explain that to the wife?


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The Daily Start-Up: Andreessen Horowitz Backs Video Co. Jumio
Top stories in today's VentureWire:
Jumio, a video start-up founded by serial entrepreneur Daniel Mattes, has raised $25.5 million and will close another round soon.
Andreessen Horowitz led the Series B for the two-year-old company, which enables merchants to verify credit cards and process payments via video on desktops and smartphones.
The U.S. is extracting oil and gas from previously inaccessible places, moving away from its dependency on foreign sources of fuel. That's a trend that has led Insight Venture Partners to acquire a controlling stake in Drilling Info, a company that provides data and analysis services to oil and gas exploration companies.
Also in today's VentureWire: 4s3 Bioscience, whose technology enables it to deliver enzymes and other large molecules into skeletal muscle, said it has raised $20 million in Series A financing…Connotate has acquired Fetch Technologies, a competitor with a complementary business model, as the combined company sees a growing opportunity to scour the Web for data…and Warburg Pincus said it has hired Francesco Granata as an executive in residence in the firm's London office.
(VentureWire is a daily newsletter with comprehensive analysis of all the investments, deals and personnel moves involving start-ups and their venture backers. For a two-week trial, click here.)
Elsewhere around the Web:
Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson gives his thoughts on the role of a board of directors, saying the board works for the company–not the other way around.
Foundry Group Managing Director Seth Levine lays out, in no uncertain terms, why he thinks too many venture investors are beginning to fall prey to a "cult of personality about themselves," and how it's hurting the business.


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The Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion doesn't think he'd have the frame to help out Arsene Wenger on the pitch, but he still thinks he could help restore the ailing club's glory days.
"I don't think I'd be any good at playing, but I'd like to help out at the Gunners for sure," Farah said.
"I was talking to my wife the other day and I said: 'I'd make a good fitness coach for the team or something,'" he added.
"I could try to help players if they were injured or going through hard times, be able to do little things with them."
Farah has long been open about his love of the trophy-shy club, who have won nothing at all since the 2005 FA Cup.
In that time Farah has collected 10 golds, five silvers and a bronze in World and European competition; perhaps his best role with the club would be helping them cope with the pressures of success should their days of woe ever come to an end.
If he did link up with the Gunners, Farah would not be the first Olympian to try his hand at training footballers as former decathlon champion Daley Thompson has spent spells working as fitness coach for both Wimbledon and Luton Town.


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METAL CHURCH guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof will issue his second solo album (under the VANDERHOOF banner), entitled A Blur In Time, through Germany's SPV/Steamhammer Records in the spring. Included on the CD are appearances by METAL CHURCH drummer Kirk Arrington (who also played on the group's 2000 self-titled debut) as well as new singer Drew Hart (ex-TIMELESS HALL).
VANDERHOOF To Issue Sophomore Effort In Spring
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AAUW of New Jersey, a state-level organization of AAUW, founded in 1927, sponsors statewide events. Local branches actively further national and community goals and capitalize on their networking opportunities. AAUW Members often choose to belong to one or more local branches. Joining one of the local branches includes membership in the AAUW of New Jersey state organization. Individuals who do not wish to join a local branch can join by selecting "Garden State Branch" (our virtual Branch), when joining AAUW.
We communicate with our members via our website, including the "New & Events" page, our Presidents Message Page, and our "Special Projects" Pages. We also connect with others on Facebook and via Constant Contact emails. Please join a local NJ branch or the Garden State (Virtual) Branch and our mailing list, in order to receive emails. Our NJ state publication, The Garden Statement, which reported regularly on AAUW-NJ participation in public policy, the Educational Opportunities Fund, the Legal Advocacy Fund, and state and local issues, has been retired, being replaced with the other methods of communication.
AAUW NJ Highlights include:
- Raising more than $100,000 annually for the Foundation and the Legal Advocacy Fund
- Scholarships awards to New Jersey women
- Advisors to the State Department of Education on gender bias and equity issue
- Working in coalition on state issues affecting women and girls
- Lobbies for formation and continuance of county commissions on women and for economic equity
- Sponsor of voter registration drives and candidate forums
- Community projects for literacy, pre-school ed., child care, and nutrition for pregnant teenagers
- Initiate and monitor state legislation, like the New Jersey Council on Environmental Quality