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Green Bay wide receiver Donald Driver announced his retirement Thursday, with a public ceremony planned for Feb. 6 at the Lambeau Field Atrium.
"I've always said I never want to wear another uniform. I've always said that I owe it to the fans to retire as a Packer," he said.
Driver finishes his 14-year NFL career as Green Bay's all-time leader in yards receiving (10,137 yards) and catches (743). A four-time Pro Bowler, he was part of the team that won the Super Bowl after the 2010 season.
Teammate Aaron Rodgers tweeted, "Thanks for the memories quickie, you will be missed (hash)Packer4Life."
Quickie is Driver's childhood nickname.
Drafted by Green Bay in the seventh round in 1999, Driver has a book coming out in September. The "Dancing with the Stars" champion is also exploring broadcasting possibilities.
Seahawks: Linebacker Leroy Hill made his first King County District Court appearance since he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend. He is being held on $150,000 bail and has a second court appearance Friday on felony charges. According to a probable cause statement, Hill's girlfriend told police she was assaulted numerous times for more than five hours Tuesday. The woman told police she was struck 15 to 20 times by Hill, including being hit with a bottle of alcohol in the legs and torso.
Etc.: Three black former head coaches -- Tony Dungy, Herm Edwards and Jim Caldwell -- say the league needs to rethink its Rooney Rule for promoting minority hiring after eight head coaching jobs and seven general manager positions were all filled by white candidates after the regular season.


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WHEN THE U.S. ECONOMY BEGAN TO DEPRECIATE, I said that I expected the recession to last maybe two years — maybe three. Now the signs are still not good, and we are into what some are calling a worldwide depression on the order of the Great Depression of 1929, which lingered on for several years.
To have a handle on when this mess will turn around I have been monitoring a list of indices that have served me well when it comes to calling an end of economic dislocations before the general public has become aware. We aren't there yet, and I am not saying that the reports of the continued sales slide are telling me this. Housing is still losing value across the nation, but there is some sign that it is nearing an end. I am not one that believes in spending trillions to bring an end to the banking problems that are tied to the housing problems. I hate to see my four grandkids face paying off the debt that will accumulate from Congress's posting of the so-called earmarks that are designed more to gain re-election than to fix roads and bridges in the states. We are probably inexorably fixed on this direction set by our new president. (Click on charts for larger view.)
Now to sales: You can see our scary predictions by looking at the charts on this page and the next. We predict that motorcycle sales of all types will be down 17 percent, which would be the first double-digit annual drop in several years. This negative percentage includes a big forecasted drops for cruisers (15 percent) and sportbikes (17 percent), which will be among the worst hit. But one shining light has been the under-500cc sportbike class, which brought our forecasts up. This class includes what I call the "Baby Ninjas" kept in the market among the favorites for many years by Kawasaki. I am forecasting them to be up 10 percent in the face of a negative market.
Then there are the ATVs that we are currently forecasting to be down 15 percent. We predict Kawasaki quad sales will be down 8 percent, which is almost the same drop we forecast for Honda. Nobody has been that close to Honda in ATVs for quite a while.
Among the most serious downward pressures on the powersports industry is the debt our country has accrued. What this means is our dollar has and will continue to lose its intrinsic value. And even more to the point is that there doesn't seem to be any way to reverse the trend toward inflation. It will be hard to prevent or combat the stiff price increases in motorcycles and imported parts.
And because aftermarket companies rely heavily on imports, prices of aftermarket products will on balance increase to the point of being too high for many younger customers who need access to more inexpensive products.
This is a resilient industry with companies that have a lot of practice at ferreting out sources of competitive products while holding their reputations for being competitive. Still, while the powersports business hasn't been this bad since the '80s, many of the more knowledgeable dealers seem to be weathering this "perfect storm" as if none existed. But it's just that they refuse to accept their vulnerability, and just keep on keeping on! — DJB
Editor's note: Economic conditions are affecting the powersports industry, as they are affecting many other industries. Some of the significant declines in our sales forecast could be the result of a very slow start in the first two months of 2009. This slow start could be the result of manufacturers depleting stock at the end of 2008, then not being able to have the right models for early sales. In the end, we won't know enough about what this year may do for another two or three months. Our forecasts are made with the best of efforts and techniques, but given these economic pressures, we must advise the greatest care in evaluating these forecasts. Stay tuned! — DJB
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo Chapter 99 Summary
The Law
- Mrs. Danglars begs Villefort to turn a blind eye to Andrea Cavalcanti's offenses.
- She doesn't want her family disgraced by Andrea's crimes.
- Villefort refuses to turn a blind eye (remember the two used to be lovers, once upon a time, and Cavalcanti is really the son they once tried to kill when he was just an infant).
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This winter's flu season has hit hard, and there are several months left to go. Are you doing what you need to do to protect yourself and your family? How do you know if you have a bad cold or the flu? If you do get it, how do you know when it's OK to return to work or school?
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LOCAL surfing talent is about to hit the big screen.
Ulladulla High School student Russell Bierke will be seen tackling big waves beside surfing legends including Kelly Slater and Alex Gray at the Arcadia Cinemas tomorrow (Thursday) night when The Journey and Encoded are shown as part of the Australia Surf Movie Festival.
And the highly anticipated locally made surfing movie Carpark Stories is about to have its world premiere on Friday night at AKWA Surf in Milton, which will re-open its doors at 6pm for the occasion.
Carpark Stories showcases local talents Brett Burcher who coordinated the project, along with Matt King, Russell Bierke, Scott Dennis and many more.
The movie is set to get the imagination wandering as it takes the audience on a journey among some of the most heaving surf the boys could find all around the globe.
Viewers will watch in awe as the guys prepare for surfing ridiculously bloodcurdling waves, and get up close and personal with the riders as they allow the audience a firsthand look at the sacrifice, danger and reward that goes into chasing these swells, including snippets of our local area.
People will also have a giggle as the team take two young grommets on their virgin surf trip away minus the presence of their parents.
Under 18 Australian Surfing Champion prodigy Matt King and part-Hawaiian, part-Aussie Russell Bierke are two young talents - one contest driven, the other big wave thirsty.
The boys play pranks on them, apply a little harmless grommet abuse and watch them get up to mischief while they are away on the road, create a mini rivalry and watch as they surf crazy waves and push each other to levels unseen at that age division.
If you cannot make it to the premier the movies there will be screening at 8.15 pm on Friday February 14 and Monday February 17 at the Arcadia Cinemas.
At Friday night's premiere AKWA will also be screening Nature of the Beast, another new surf movie directed and filmed by Ulladulla resident Nigel Devenport, prior to Carpark Stories.
The movie is set in the Southern Mexican state of Oaxaca .
It is filmed over three years around the beaches of Puerto Escondido, also known as the Latin pipeline.
Nature of the Beast features some of the world's best big wave paddle surfers such as Rusty and Greg long, Derek Dunfee and Mark Healy.
Devenport has been living on and off in Puerto Escondido for the past three years and is looking forward to showcasing some of the swells he has witnessed on this raw coastline.
Just prior to the event AKWA will be holding a quick Q&A with the surf stars so audience members can get a bit of an understanding of the mindset it takes to tackle 20ft slabs.
The premiere is free entry and there is a raffle running on the night with fantastic prizes including a brand new surfboard, skateboards, wetsuits, plus there will be tons of free giveawayprizes on hand.


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Release Date : June 26, 1959
Running Time : 27:31
This short is to math what Fantasia was to classical music -- a wonderful,
humorous introduction that inspired entire generations to learn about
something beautiful they might have completely neglected.
But this short changed me into a Donald Duck fan. I knew most of
the math facts but to see them in such an entertaining manner was very
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Gulf Coast attorney Patricia Willis wins Miss. House post
Willis received 52.4 percent of the vote in Tuesday's election
Gulf Coast attorney Patricia Willis has won the state House of Representatives District 95 special election.
Complete, but unofficial, returns show Willis received 52.4 percent of the vote in Tuesday's election to defeat three other candidates.
The 60-year-old Willis, from Diamondhead, is an attorney and Waveland city prosecutor.
House District 95 includes parts of Harrison and Hancock counties.
Others on the ballot were Grant Bower, Tommy Ballard and Sherri Carr Bevis.
Willis succeeds the late Rep. Jessica Upshaw. Upshaw was found dead March 24 of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at a home in Mendenhall.
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BOSTON � Ryan Dempster hasn�t cut baseball out of his life cold turkey. He was back at Fenway Park on Monday to receive his World Series ring � the first ring he�d earned in his 16-year major-league career.
But Dempster isn�t exactly dying to get back on the mound.
�I�ve already planned my golf trips in the summer,� he said. �I get to go camping for the first time since I was 15. I�ve done a lot of fun things. I get to be around my kids a whole bunch.�
It�s still an adjustment for Dempster, who stepped away from the game in February � not an official retirement, but something close. He�d pitched 2,387 innings in the major leagues, striking out more than 2,000 hitters and compiling an ERA of 4.35. He won 132 games and saved 87.
�It�s something I�ve done my whole life,� he said, �so to step away from this and not be playing is different. � I�ll try not to step on anybody�s toes while I�m here. It�s definitely a life adjustment, but one I�m looking forward to.�
Dempster didn�t attend the celebration at the White House on Tuesday � choosing instead to do something he wouldn�t have been able to if he still was pitching.
�It was my daughter�s fifth birthday,� he said. �I�m not going to miss that.�
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Zhou, XB, Xie, HJ, Hendrickx, JMH (2005). Statistical evaluation of remotely sensed snow-cover products with constraints from streamflow and SNOTEL measurements. REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, 94(2), 214-231.
AbstractUsing streamflow and Snowpack Telemetry (SNOTEL) measurements as constraints, the evaluation of the Moderate Resolution lmaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) daily and 8-day snow-cover products is carried out using the Upper Rio Grande River Basin as a test site. A time series of the snow areal extent (SAE) of the Upper Rio Grande Basin is retrieved from the MODIS tile h09v05 covering the time period from February 2000 to June 2004 using an automatic Geographic Information System (GIS)-based algorithm developed for this study. Statistical analysis between the streamflow at Otowi (NM) station and the SAE retrieved from the two MODIS snow-cover products shows that there is a statistically significant correlation between the streamflow and SAE for both products. This relationship can be disturbed by heavy rainstorms in the later springtime, especially in May. Correlation analyses show that the MODIS 8-day product has a better correlation r=-0.404) with streamflow and has less percentage of spurious snowmelt events in wintertime than the MODIS daily product (r=-0.300). Intercomparison of these two products, with the SNOTEL data sets as the ground truth, shows that (1) the MODIS 8-day product has higher classification accuracy for both snow and land; (2) the omission error of misclassifying snow as land is similar for both products, both are low; (3) the MODIS 8-day product has a slightly higher commission error of rnisclassifying land as snow than the MODIS daily product; and (4) the MODIS daily product has higher omission errors of misclassifying both snow and land as clouds. Clouds are the major cause for reduction of the overall accuracy of the MODIS daily product. Improvement in suppressing clouds in the 8-day product is obvious from this comparison study. The sacrifice is the temporal resolution that is reduced from 1 to 8 days. The significance of the results is that the 8-day product will be more useful in evaluating the streamflow response to the snow-cover extent changes, especially from the long-term point of view considering its lower temporal resolution than the daily product. For clear days, the MODIS daily algorithm works quite well or even better than the MODIS 8-day algorithm. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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O'Malleys celebrate 60 years
Frank J. and Virginia C. O'Malley of Sarasota celebrated their 60th anniversary Dec. 30, 2005.
They were married Dec. 30, 1945, and are recent residents of Sarasota.
They are the parents of Salie O'Malley of Sarasota and Corleen Wheeler of Delray Beach and the late Jeffery F. O'Malley.
The couple has two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Mr. O'Malley retired from McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. He served in the Navy Air Corps.
Mrs. O'Malley retired from Boston College School of Management in Brookline, Mass.
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This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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No plot so narrow, be but Nature there
No waste so vacant, but may well employ
Each faculty of sense, and keep the heart
Awake to Love and Beauty! (63-66)
A modern-day microbiologist would be proud of Coleridge's thoughts here. We have an easy time appreciating natural beauty when it takes grand and dramatic forms: blazing sunsets, towering mountains, crashing waves; but less so when it comes to the details: the structure of plants, the color of light passing through leaves, the composition of soil. It all depends on perspective.
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For thee, my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom
No sound is dissonant which tells of Life. (76-78)
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JACKSON - Leona May Greenlee, 90, formerly of Sikeston, died at 5:40 a.m. Feb. 16, 2003, at Jackson Manor.
Born May 6, 1912, in Canalou, daughter of the late George and Jessie Newton Dismuke, she was a homemaker and a resident of Jackson for the past 28 years.
On July 1, 1928, at Matthews, she married Roy Greenlee who preceded her in death on June 16, 1991.
She was also preceded in death by one son, one daughter, two brothers and two sisters.
Survivors include: one son and daughter-in-law, J.L. and Frances Greenlee of Sikeston; three daughters and one son-in-law, Edna Peetz and Lucreda Spears of Jackson and Darlene and Gary Hodkiss of Iona, Mich.; and 13 grandchildren, several great-grandchildren and several great-great-grandchildren.
Friends may call from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday at Blanchard Funeral Chapel in Sikeston where services are scheduled at 2 p.m. Wednesday with his great-grandson, the Rev. Brandon Marshall of North Carolina, officiating.
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What could they have been thinking, if they were thinking at all? Did they decide that Klinghoffer would accept death more docilely than other passengers aboard the hijacked Achille Lauro? He was a semiretired appliance manufacturer, a man who worked in his New York City store almost every day after his father died in 1929. If they thought him submissive, they were wrong. "Nothing came easy for Leon," recalls his sister, Ruth Mintz, 70. Neither did death.
Klinghoffer did what even the 330 able-bodied crewmen of the Italian cruise ship did not: He fought back. Confined to his wheelchair, he reacted angrily when one terrorist stole his watch and his lighter. He bit the hand of another.
Perhaps the terrorists expected the murder of an elderly Jewish invalid to be digestible, that this was a man no nation would mourn. "If so," says Justus Rosenberg, a professor at New York's Bard College, "the terrorists made a tremendous psychological mistake when they picked him."
If there is such a thing as an American creed, it encompasses protecting the weak and the helpless. The death of Klinghoffer outraged his countrymen and inspired a bold fighter mission to seize his killers. They could not have anticipated so angry a reaction: To a terrorist, the individual counts for nothing and the cause is everything.
Stanley Kubacki, 70, a Philadelphia judge who was aboard the Achille Lauro, believes the terrorists murdered Klinghoffer "because he was a nuisance to them in his wheelchair." To them, he was the most disposable of the hostages, a discard in their lethal game. He surely surprised them, as did his wife, Marilyn, 58. Her rigid composure and fierce dignity following the death of her husband was, in its own way, as courageous as his defiance. After the capture of the terrorists, she went to Sicily to identify them in a lineup. She did not request anonymity or protection. She walked up to each Palestinian and called him "murderer" to his face.
The terrorists took over the Achille Lauro on Monday, October 8. According to Kubacki, they herded the passengers into the ship's lounge and began segregrating them. One Austrian couple responded when the terrorists asked, "Any Jews here?" They were isolated with 12 American tourists and six British entertainers. Kubacki, while a prisoner, asked one of the terrorists, "Why are you doing this to us? None of us are involved in Middle East politics." He got no reply.
Tuesday morning, the segregated passengers were ordered to climb to the deck above the lounge. Klinghoffer, paralyzed on his right side from a stroke, remained behind in his wheelchair. When Marilyn asked about his welfare, a terrorist said, "Don't worry. He'll be taken care of."
Kubacki recalls that "at about 11:10 a.m. I heard the shots that killed Mr. Klinghoffer. I knew in my heart he had been killed." Hours later, when they climbed back down to the lounge, Klinghoffer was gone. Kubacki said to Marilyn, "I heard these shots and I fear for your husband." She turned ashen, and other passengers upbraided him.
On Wednesday, after the terrorists were off the ship, Kubacki escorted Egyptian and American officials to the spot where Klinghoffer had last been seen. He says that "on the pristine, white-painted side of the boat was a splash of blood." Kubacki says a bartender who witnessed the killing told him Klinghoffer had been shot twice, in the chest and in the head. Kubacki determined that the fatal bullet was fired by the Palestinian he had considered the most humane. "He put the bullet in Mr. Klinghoffer's head."
The unjust death of Leon Klinghoffer meant nothing to the terrorists. They could not be expected to comprehend a man like him. His life was not political. It was only human. A terrorist would not understand.
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This post by WSJ's Naftali Bendavid also appears on the Washington Wire blog.
We're not doing anything wrong. And besides, the Republicans did it more.
That was much of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's message today as he struck back at critics of the legislative tactics Democrats are using to push through their health overhaul bill. Dismissing the criticism as an inside-the-Beltway fixation, Hoyer said the American public cares about what's in a bill, not the process by which it passes.
" 'So what?' says the American public," Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, told reporters. "What they're interested in is what resulted. 'What did you do for me and my family to make my life more secure?' "
Republicans have been complaining loudly about the legislative process used by the Democrats as they struggle to push their health overhaul over the finish line. In particular, GOP leaders have criticized the planned use of "reconciliation," a provision that allows the Senate to pass a bill with a simple majority of 51, rather than the 60 usually required for controversial bill.
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Democrats circulated background material showing that deeming was first used in 1933 and, since then, has been used more often by Republicans than Democrats. Republicans respond that these tactics have never been used for bills as sweeping as the health care overhaul.
Hoyer said Democrats are contemplating the moves only because Republicans are using Senate rules to thwart the majority's will.
"The Republicans have been yelling about process," he said. But "this bill has received more careful consideration, more exposure, more transparency, more debate, more hearing time, more debate time, more amendments offered than almost any bill I can think of in my time in the Congress of the United States."
Besides, Hoyer added, House members will vote on whether to approve the Senate bill, even if it's by deeming it passed as they make changes to it. "Does anybody in this room doubt that you have to vote on that?" he said. "We will vote on it, in one form or another."


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The first New York City police officer to face manslaughter charges in nearly six years pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning in connection to the fatal shooting of an unarmed Bronx teenager.
Officer Richard Haste, 31 years old, turned himself into authorities around 7:15 a.m. following his indictment Monday in the death of 18-year-old Ramarley Graham in February. A narcotics-enforcement team had pursued Graham into his apartment, where he was shot by Haste at close range while trying to flush a bag of marijuana down the toilet.
He stared straight ahead without expression as attorneys for both sides offered differing accounts of what happened the day. As the proceeding ended, Haste posted $50,000 bail and walked into a raucous scene outside the courthouse.
Graham's friends, family and supporters of Graham, including Rev. Al Sharpton, packed the courtroom, many wearing blue ribbons. His relatives wept during parts of the hearing.
"Nothing's going to bring their son back," Sharpton said after the arraignment. "This is the first step in getting justice, but this is not about revenge and certainly not about celebration. This young man was killed."
About 20 police officers turned out to support Haste, including Pat Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.
Lynch said that the police union respects the family's grief and called the shooting "a tragedy," but said Haste was doing his job.
A group of about a dozen protestors stood in the street shouting, "NYPD, KKK, how many kids did you kill today?" Reporters swarmed attorneys on both sides.
Haste was on crutches for the arraignment. His attorney, Stuart London, said the officer suffered an injury unrelated to the charges and declined to elaborate.
The defense attorney said Haste was born in the Bronx and attended Lehman High School before serving two years in the military. He joined the NYPD four years ago and had been part of street narcotics enforcement unit for only about 60 days prior to the shooting.
London said Haste had never previously fired his gun in the line of duty. "He is an active, productive, professional police officer," he said.
Bronx Assistant District Attorney Donald Levin said Haste's decision to shoot was "neither reasonable or justifiable at that moment," after he cornered the teenager in the bathroom.
"Ramarley Graham was looking at the barrel of that gun, the muzzle of that gun, and then Officer Haste pulled the trigger," Levin said.
In a preview of the defense strategy for the trial, London argued that Haste's actions were appropriate because fellow officers had concluded Graham was armed. "I see the weapon, it's on him," one of Haste's partners warned over the radio during the incident, according to London.
Haste twice ordered Graham to show his hands before the fatal shooting in the bathroom, the lawyer said. Graham "decided to make a quick gesture toward his waistband, turning toward my client," London said.
Haste was so certain the teenager was armed that he yelled "gun, gun" before firing once, striking Graham. "He was positive he was going to be killed in that bathroom and wanted to warn his fellow officers," London said.
Graham's supporters contested the defense attorney's account.
"Why would he be reaching for something that he knew wasn't there?" Sharpton asked. "They're saying he reached for his band, and that he didn't know he didn't have a gun? There was no gun. At the end of the day, there was no gun. So what was he reaching for?"
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ET Now: It appears to me that clearly there is a tug of war between the bulls and the bears. The bears are of the view that US economic data of late has been anaemic, Asia is slowing down faster than expected and Europe officially could soon be in recession.
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A baby takes time to play among the group of Movement For Democratic Change supporters who sought refuge at the party headquarters in Harare, Friday, Feb, 4, 2011. The group consisting of over 80 MDC party supporters were attacked from their homes by suspected Zanu pf supporters in Harare and other parts of the country. According to independent media reports Zimbabwean Prime Minster Morgan Tsvangirai has confronted President Robert Mugabe over politically motivated violence and intimidation allegedly perpetrated by Zanu pf supporters. Zimbabwe is set to hold elections later in the year amid fears of vote rigging and political violence(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)


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Verizon CEO on Iran, iPhones and Android
Last night's "Charlie Rose" featured an interview with Ivan Seidenberg, chief executive of Verizon, who talked about communications in Iran, the company's prospects for carrying Apple's iPhone and the recent news that Verizon Wireless will carry a Google Android-powered cellphone.
Mr. Seidenberg called Iranian citizens' use of technology and wireless communications "a great thing," saying "for us as a network operator, it's the network effect. The more people on a network, the more valuable the entire network becomes. There's no question in my mind that that model will get repeated over and over and over again."
He also said that efforts to block Internet use in China, Iran and other countries will only work for a short time. "It can't work long term. The power of the people will override that without any question. And it'll happen sooner than they think because the technology is just too pervasive."
Mr. Rose asked Mr. Seidenberg if Verizon would carry the iPhone at some point.
He called it Apple's decision but said the device already has "made smart phones important, or more important." Verizon expects to launch its fourth-generation network later this year or early next year, he said, and Apple will decide whether to build a new chip for that technology.
Mr. Seidenberg hedged on a question about Verizon Wireless's reported plans to carry a new Motorola handset powered by Google's Android operating system, saying "it might be true."
He had more to say about the sometimes competitive relationship Verizon has with Google. "On one hand what they do is terrific, they provide a search capability, they're expert at the Internet, so they create demand. The more things they do well, the more people want to buy data services and the more applications," he said.
But Google also provides services that wireless carriers like Verizon themselves offer, or considered providing, such as search. "They also like to provide services that in effect sometimes compete with the things that we do," Mr. Seidenberg said. "They're on the right side of most of the things that are important to us in terms of growing the business, and the places where we compete, you know, we're big boys, they're big boys, we'll talk about it when we need to."


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- U.S. sicker than rest of developed worldŌĆönutrition industry speaks out
- LeDoux: It's 'sick care' not 'healthcare'
- Mister: We can deliberately defy unhealthy culture
- Craven: Let's lead by example
Despite paying more per year on healthcare, Americans are unhealthier than other developed countries. Nutrition industry leaders Mark LeDoux, Steve Mister and Robert Craven comment on the findings of this study.
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A new report released last month found that Americans are unhealthier than 16 other developed countries.
The report, which was compiled by the National Research Council and the Institutes of Medicine, found that, despite the fact that Americans spend the most money per year on healthcare, we're not healthier or living longer than other countries.
Several factors contribute to U.S. debility, such as a large uninsured population, high consumption of calories, high drug abuse, less use of seatbelts, high levels of poverty, high reliance on cars and low physical activity. No single factor explains the overall status of American health.
Of the health areas studied, Americans ranked worse than other countries in nine categories, including, among others, drug abuse, heart disease, obesity and diabetes, and lung disease.
The study found that U.S. men live the shortest lives of all 16 countries at 76 years, and U.S. women ranked second-to-last at just under 81 years. Americans are more likely to die younger because of illnesses like obesity and heart disease.
"I don't think most parents know that, on average, infants, children, and adolescents in the U.S. die younger and have greater rates of illness and injury than youth in other countries," said Dr. Steven Woolf, chair of the panel and of the department of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, according to NBC News.
But there is a silver lining. Americans who live to the age of 75 are expected to live longer than those in the other countries. Not to mention people in the U.S. control blood pressure and cholesterol better and have a lower death rate from cancer.
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The nutrition industry is concerned with the results of this study because of its implications for the world of consumer health and the industry's interest in improving the well-being and health of the country.
Industry experts Mark LeDoux, chairman and CEO at Natural Alternative International, Inc.; Steve Mister, president and CEO of the Council for Responsible Nutrition; and Robert Craven, CEO of FoodState, commented on the findings of this study.


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Drinking from The Firehoses at Future of News and Civic Media Conference 3.0
The report provides a detailed overview of Knight Foundation's third annual Future of News and Civic Media Conference at MIT, attended by 200 "digerati," journalists, social media mavens and academics.
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News and Noise Podcast
April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Ryan and Mike railed and ranted (and offered a bit of hope) on dead-tree newspapers. They are irritated at the poor and shrinking local coverage, sloppy reportage, and bottom-line orientation of owners. The stereotype of the newer generations reading less and being more online oriented seems true. (See the 2-year-old Pew Online News report.) Yet […]
Beyond Pennsylvania
April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We dove into the results of this weekend's BlogLeft gathering in Lowell. Ryan and Lynne took the initiative to present a proposal for ramping up a netroots drive. We agreed to work together as bloggers for some progressive goals. Definitely to be continued. Ryan and Mike both expressed impatience with getting a nominee is place […]
Chang-Diaz Loaded for 2nd Suffolk
April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Sonia Chang-Diaz joined us today and was unflappable across a range of soft and hard questions. She's running against long-term State Senator Dianne Wilkerson, after narrowly losing to her as an unknown two years ago in a sticker campaign. She grew up in a do-gooder family, with a social worker for a mom and an […]
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April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Showtime in Second Suffolk and showtime on today's podcast. For our weekly festival of sound, we bring on Sonia Chang-Diaz to kick around strategy, integrity, progressive goals, race and culture. This is a cross-post from Marry in Massachusetts. Two years ago, she came damned close to unseating long-term State Senator Dianne Wilkerson. It was a […]
Deval, Make It Work
April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Lynne got to play our intrepid reporter this week. She reprised her Left In Lowell interview-like-object with Gov. Deval Patrick last week when he was in her fair burgh. She had gotten 30 minutes with him, addressing local and commonwealth issues. We teed off from those topics to cover bond issues, other funding possibilities, and […]
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We started by indulging Mike, who attended a same-sex marriage symposium on Friday at Roger Williams University. It had a speaker and two expert panels on the culture of SSM in New England. That gave us a chance to wander about GLBT and more general civil rights. We plugged the April 19th BlogLeft netroots gathering […]


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WILLIAMSTOWN - Hino Motors Manufacturing USA continues to fulfill its promise of being part of the community after employees organized and held a fundraiser for the Humane Society of Parkersburg.
"Occasionally, as a group, we at Hino identify a group, organization or some other entity in the area that has a need we can help support," said plant manager Steve Stalnaker.
This month, team members at the Williamstown truck manufacturing plant chose to support the Humane Society of Parkersburg through the collection of items before they decided to take the collections a step further and organized a fundraiser.
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Team members of the Hino Motors Manufacturing USA plant in Williamstown held a dodgeball tournament on Saturday at Williamstown Elementary School to raise about $200 for the Humane Society of Parkersburg.
"In the plant, we have been collecting items, such as dog and cat food, litter, bleach and other items, for the humane society and several of our team members decided to do more," Stalnaker said.
This something more was a dodgeball tournament in the gymnasium of Williamstown Elementary School, a partner in education with the plant, last Saturday.
About 30 of the Williamstown Hino team members participated in the games, which raised about $200 for the animal shelter.
Funds were raised during the Saturday afternoon event through a participation fee paid by each participant as well as a $2 entrance fee for those who wanted to watch.
Attendees were encouraged to bring items for donation, which included pet food and treats as well as cleaning supplies and other things the shelter needs, instead of money for admission.
"We didn't raise a lot of money, but every little bit will help the animals the humane society is taking care of," Stalnaker said.
Volunteers with the shelter attended with several dogs available for adoption.
"I am not sure if any of the dogs were adopted, but I do know one family was interested in one of the dogs, so, hopefully, we were able to give at least one of them a chance at a new and better life," Stalnaker said.
Doing things to help organizations and groups within the local community is not new to team members with Hino, the plant manager said.
"We are part of the community and have committed to making it a better place to live for everyone," Stalnaker said. "Our team members often volunteer their time to help others by participating in programs and events throughout the year."
When officials with the State of West Virginia and Hino Motors Manufacturing, a Japan-based company that is part of the Toyota Motor Corp. family, announced the Williamstown facility in 2007, they stated the plant would be part of the community and do things to help.
In the past, team members have participated in the annual Ohio River Sweep, adopted a highway to keep clean of litter and helped the Williamstown community through building of shelters and other projects.
"By being part of projects and doing fundraisers, we are getting out into the community and showing them Hino is here," Stalnaker said. "The community gives us a lot and we want to give back in any way we can."


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MANVEL, Texas — Gary Haynes of Manvel High School is known all around the Web as the teen who can catch his own football pass.
His Vine video posted on Sunday shows him throwing the ball up high and then running quite a distance to catch it.
He says it was 45 yards.
"I didn't think it was gonna blow up to be this big to be honest," admits Haynes. "I just kept hearing my phone going off and looked at it and it was Twitter from ESPN, Sports Nation."
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Some allege the video is fake, pointing to the fact that you can't see the ball's shadow. It wouldn't be the first time a little trickery was used in a Vine video.
Haynes' coach at Manvel was skeptical, too.
So, he shot a video on Tuesday of his 17-year-old player doing it again.
"He thought I could do it but he wasn't sure," says Haynes. "He wanted to make sure I could do it before going on different TV shows."
Haynes has never left Texas or flown on a plane before. Thanks to his great catch, he was set to do both on Wednesday.
He's flying to New York to do an interview about his viral video.
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