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• A review of splenic injuries at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center from July 1978 to June 1980 revealed this form of injury in 29 patients. Treatment without surgery was successful in 21 patients. Seven patients required operation. One patient died shortly after admission of severe associated injuries. All patients admitted with blunt abdominal trauma were initially treated conservatively. If the clinical state improved, after transfusions if necessary, or remained stable and there were no objective signs of further blood loss, conservative therapy was continued. Liver-spleen scans were obtained on an urgent basis to confirm the diagnosis of splenic injury in patients who did not undergo surgery. No complications of treatment without surgery were recognized. The satisfactory outcome in these patients suggests that there is a place for treatment without surgery in some children with splenic injury.
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RECAP: Replaces existing revenue limits with a new limitation based on inflation and population changes.
Ballot Summary
This proposed amendment to the State Constitution replaces the existing state revenue limitation based on Florida personal income growth with a new state revenue limitation based on inflation and population changes. Under the amendment, state revenues, as defined in the amendment, collected in excess of the revenue limitation must be deposited into the budget stabilization fund until the fund reaches its maximum balance, and thereafter shall be used for the support and maintenance of public schools by reducing the minimum financial effort required from school districts for participation in a state-funded education finance program, or, if the minimum financial effort is no longer required, returned to the taxpayers. The Legislature may increase the state revenue limitation through a bill approved by a super majority vote of each house of the Legislature. The Legislature may also submit a proposed increase in the state revenue limitation to the voters. The Legislature must implement this proposed amendment by general law. The amendment will take effect upon approval by the electors and will first apply to the 2014-2015 state fiscal year.
The measure proposes replacing existing revenue limits with a new limitation based on inflation and population change. Any funds that exceed the revenue limits would be placed in the state's "rainy day fund." Once the fund reaches
10% of the prior year's total budget the Florida State Legislature would be required to vote to either provide tax relief or reduce property taxes. The Florida version is Constitutional Amendment 3 on the November ballot. This would replace the current cap on allowed state revenue increases with a new cap.
The current cap baseline of 1994 and allowed grow based on personal income. The new cap would have a baseline of 2013 and revenues would be limited to change in population and inflation as measured by CPI. Money raised over the limit would be deposited to fully fund the Budget Stabilization Fund, additional monies would then be used to reduce the Re-quired Local Effort for school districts and finally, if both are fully funded re-funds would be issued to taxpayers. Mechanisms have been built in to allow the Legislature to raise the limit or they can ask the voters to do so.
The proposed legislation is modeled after Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights which limited state revenue using a formula based on population growth and inflation. The measure was approved in Colorado in 1992. In 2000 an amendment to Amendment 23 required education spending to increase and in 2005 voters approved a ballot measure that loosened many of TABOR's restrictions. However, in 2008 voters rejected Colorado Initiative 126, also known as Amendment 59, which would have extended the 2005 amendment past it's 2010 date. See also: Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR)
Senate President Mike Haridopolos is a long-time supporter of "Smart Cap." On February 24, 2011 he said, "Florida's families are forced to spend their money responsibly and so should state government. Historically government has spent more when times are good and then been forced to make dramatic cuts when the economy takes a downturn. The 'Smart Cap' amendment ensures the state budget doesn't grow beyond a family's ability to pay for it."
Opponents include groups like the AARP and the League of Women Voters.
Jack McRay of the AARP said the proposed revenue cap could prevent government services from keeping up with demand. .On March 2, 2011 the League of Women Voters officially announced their opposition to SJR 958. "The League has opposed this bill since it was first introduced in Florida in 2008. TABOR has been brought up and defeated in more than twenty states; the only state to pass TABOR is Colorado," said the league.
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gaming was long dominated by Nintendo with Sony coming in a distant
second. That was until Apple stormed onto the scene with its
iPhone and stole
the show. Today the iPhone is arguably mobile
gaming's most influential platform.Microsoft hopes
to steal Apple's thunder when it releases Windows
Phone 7 Series phones later this year. This week
Microsoft shared some details about what gaming on the new operating
system will look like.Unlike the Zune and Courier prototype,
which are both powered by NVIDIA's Tegra, most Windows Phone 7 Series
phones will use a Qualcomm
SnapDragon chipset that contains a GPU from NVIDIA-rival
AMD. The GPU, the AMD Z430, features a unified pixel &
vertex shader pipeline (based on the Xbox 360 Xenos
GPU).Unfortunately, developers won't be able to use the GPU's
shaders in 3D game titles at launch. However, an update to
Direct 3D Mobile will provide this functionality sometime late this
year or early next year. Describes Microsoft's Shawn Hargreaves
in a
blog, "
phone supports full hardware accelerated 3D, but we are not exposing
programmable shaders in this release. Charlie Kindel summed up the
reason for that in a great article about
focus and priorities:
will do a few things and do them very, very well; we are better off
not having a capability than doing it poorly. There are always future
of programmable shaders, we augmented the existing BasicEffect with
four new configurable effects: SkinnedEffect, EnvironmentMapEffect,
DualTextureEffect, and AlphaTestEffect. These are designed to run
efficiently on the mobile GPU hardware, and I think do a good job of
providing enough flexibility for developers to create awesome looking
games, while also meeting our goals of being able to ship a robust
and well tested product on schedule.
is offering developers two screen resolutions -- a 480×800
(WVGA) display resolution and a 320×480 (HVGA). The HVGA
resolution will come post-launch as an update. Developers can
pick which resolution to run, and Microsoft is dictating that its
handset partners use dedicated scaling hardware to prevent GPU
resources from being gobbled up and to provide better quality
scaling. Touch input will automatically scale with whatever
resolution you pick. For example, if a user with a
WVGA phone fires up a HVGA iPhone port on a Windows Phone 7 Series
phone with a high resolution screen, the hardware will seamlessly
scale the game up. This allows game developers flexibility and
potentially better performance. Describes Hargreaves, "480×800
is a lot of pixels! This is a great resolution for displaying text,
browsing the web, etc, but it can be a challenge for intensive 3D
games to render so much data at a good framerate. To boost
performance, some games may prefer to render at a lower resolution,
then scale up to fill the display."According to a
separate Joystiq interview with
Xbox Live GM Ron Pessner and XNA Game Studio manager Michael Klucher,
developers will have two options for writing games -- Silverlight
(Microsoft's Flash competitor) or the XNA Game Studio and the
XNA framework. Developers can reuse assets, but they will have
to port their efforts in Java or Flash to these new platforms.
Silverlight games will be fully able to access Microsoft's Xbox Live
gaming service.One final tidbit is that it sound like it will
be ridiculously easy to use Microsoft XNA Game Studio to port Zune
titles to Windows Phone 7 Series phones and vice versa. States
Microsoft, "Another big point is -- just like the portability
piece we've shown here -- we've done some work internally and with
some of the other Zune HD developers, and again, it's 90, 95 percent
code reuse. Literally, in an hour or couple of hours, we're taking
games that were written for Zune HD and putting them on the phone. We
can do the same in reverse. Game Studio is a really powerful platform
for portability between these different devices. We think there will
be a series of developers that will want to target both platforms and
Game Studio gives them a really great way of doing that."While
it may be a bit of work to port iPhone titles to Windows Phone 7
Series, it certainly seems like a tempting target, given its ability
to exploit higher screen resolutions and likely larger amounts of
texture memory. This is good news for Windows Phone 7 Series,
as a lot of the iPhone's popularity has been due to its gaming
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quote: David Wu - Global Crown Capital Bob, the last question is this: The hand-held is $23 million. Now the part that is not sold to Qualcomm, I guess, is going to stay with you. Can you give us an idea of how big that number will be for the rest of this year?
quote: Robert J. Rivet It'll stay in that current zip code. It's really on an end-of-life, supporting existing customers there were designed in from that product. We're not putting any new engineering to continue to elongate the product line, but it'll be in that $20 million per quarter zip code for awhile.
quote: For example, if a user with a WVGA phone fires up a HVGA iPhone port on a Windows Phone 7 Series phone...
quote: One final tidbit is that it sound like it will be ridiculously easy to use Microsoft XNA Game Studio to port Zune titles to Windows Phone 7 Series phones and vice versa.
quote: It's really no different than most of the other platforms out there.
quote: It will be a cinch to port titles between the Zune, WPS7, Xbox360 and PC.
quote: Then again, M$ didn't build an empire based on compatibility.
quote: Then again, M$ didn't build an empire based on compatibility.


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Ever played a video game with a friend and had to sit there while he hogged it, leaving you to do nothing but watch for what seemed like hours?
On he goes, blowing things up and randomly wreaking havoc. Although it can be interesting in bits and pieces, you're never really invested in the outcome. The overall effect is one of boredom coupled with wasted time.
That's what watching "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" is like. Director Jon M. Chu has the controls in hand, and we sit idly by, watching explosions and seemingly endless fight scenes. To keep things moving he doesn't waste our time with things like sensible plot direction or character development (this is a movie franchise based on toys, after all). But man, after a while, what a slog.
In the film the G.I. Joes are, for those who didn't see the 2009 original, an elite team of soldiers. (For those of us of a certain age, they were also plastic action figures, the same size as and ideal husband material for Barbie, until Hasbro shrank them down. Ken? Ha.)
They're led by Duke (Channing Tatum), who sports the scar on his cheek that G.I. Joe collectors will recognize. Tatum's a good actor, but here he seems to be channeling the plastic toy soldiers, only if they were made of wood. His team includes Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson), a wisecracking tough guy (imagine), Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki), Flint (D.J. Cotrona), Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and Jinx (Elodie Yung).
At one point they visit Gen. Joe Colton, "the reason we call ourselves Joes," Roadblock explains, played with a notable lack of energy by Bruce Willis. (To be fair, he is retired.)
Without giving too much of the "plot" away, it's probably OK to say that the Joes, as they're called, find themselves on the outs with the government, as well as the president (Jonathan Pryce), who has been behaving strangely of late. Not himself, you might say.
The Cobra villains, led by Cobra Commander (Luke Bracey), are causing trouble again. The Joes must thwart a threat to the world instigated by Cobra, because that's what heroes do in movies like this, even though everyone thinks they've gone rogue. How the citizenry reacts to this news is never shown. Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick do that a lot. Instead of working out what could be a thorny plot problem, they just skip ahead to the next thing. And why not? Another fight awaits.
One in particular is pretty spectacular, involving ninja sword battles in the Himalayas, with the participants swinging around on cords as they duke it out. It's dizzying fun, but, alas, you can't fly that high forever. Soon enough the action is brought down to earth.
Johnson is good with a quip and a gun, which is what's called for here. Everyone else is pretty interchangeable, with the exception of Pryce, who is the best thing about the movie. More than anyone else, even Johnson, he seems to be having fun with his role; a line about taxes is laugh-out loud funny. You know, funny on purpose. Not every funny thing about the movie is.
Dumb fun can be, well, fun. "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" is way too much of the former and not nearly enough of the latter.
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General Prevention
Centers for Disease Control (2006)
School Health Profiles: Characteristics of Health Programs among Secondary Schools
This report contains prevalence data from secondary school principals and teachers from Connecticut (~250 schools) and 36 other states, including health education and policies and programs in tobacco, nutrition and physical activity:
Community Alliance for Research & Engagement (CARE)
The Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) was established in spring 2007 as an integral component of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI). A goal of YCCI is to translate research from "bench to bedside"; the Alliance will help to take that one step further -- translating research from "bedside to community."
Connecticut Association of Directors of Health (CADH)
CADH is a not-for-profit organization that provides a basis for local directors of health to work together to strengthen and assure the efficient and effective delivery of public health services at the local level throughout the State. Public health issues that CADH addresses include advocating for comprehensive tobacco prevention initiatives and promoting public health practice standards.
Partnership for Prevention. 2008.
The Community Health Promotion Handbook: Action Guides to Improve Community Health.http://www.prevent.org/content/view/142/173
The Community Health Promotion Handbook is an evidence-based tool that consists of anIntroduction and five Action Guides. Each Action Guides translates a specific recommendation from The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) into "how to" guidance to help public health practitioners and others interested in promoting health implement effective community-level health promotion strategies. The five Action Guides address diabetes management, physical activity, and tobacco-use treatment.
Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease
Promising practices
Tobacco Prevention and Control
Connecticut Department of Public Health (2002)
Connecticut Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Plan. Hartford, CT: Connecticut Department of Public Health. (PDF, 570 KB)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Tobacco Control Program Guidelines and Data.http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
The Toll of Tobacco in Connecticut
Nutrition and Obesity
Connecticut Department of Public Health
Healthy Eating Active Living – Obesity Plan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Defining Overweight and Obesity.
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity – Yale University
The Rudd Center assesses, critiques, and strives to improve practices and policies related to nutrition and obesity so as to inform and empower the public, to promote objective, science-based approaches to policy, and to maximize the impact on public health. The Rudd Center conducts cutting-edge research and acts as a clearinghouse for resources that add to our understanding of the complex forces affecting how we eat, how we stigmatize overweight and obese people, and how we can change.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:
Action Strategies Toolkit with Policy approaches and resources related to childhood obesity prevention
Download full toolkit and executive summary at http://tinyurl.com/ptqslf.
Provides guidance on some of the best approaches policy-makers can use to make their states, communities and schools healthier places to live. The toolkit offers practical examples of policy approaches and resources that can help state and local policy-makers prevent childhood obesity and improve children's health. It covers a wide range of issues, including increasing access to parks and recreation centers, improving safety for bicyclists and pedestrians, offering healthier foods in schools, and attracting grocery stores that provide healthy, affordable foods to lower-income communities.
Online Courses
Northeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies
Northeast CAPT, a technical assistance provider for the Center for Substance Abuse Protection, offers several interactive online courses that help practitioners to explore current research, obtain practical tools, participate in structured learning activities and share their knowledge, experiences and perspectives with one another.


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The most compelling public appearance President Obama made last week was not his State of the Union address, but his dialogue Friday with House Republicans in Baltimore.
The most compelling public appearance President Obama made last week was not his State of the Union address, but his dialogue Friday with House Republicans in Baltimore.
It was a great move by the House GOP caucus to invite the president to address its annual issues conference. It was a crafty move by the White House to ask that the meeting be opened to live TV coverage. The result: a remarkable, riveting debate that reminded many observers of the British tradition of "question time," when the prime minister engages in a rapid-fire give-and-take with members of Parliament.
Without veering into name-calling, both the president and the Republican congressmen and women questioning him made sharp points about their failure to get along over the past year. Obama complained that "you guys" have been portraying a moderate, centrist effort to reform the health care system as "some Bolshevik plot." Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) countered that Republicans have been "stiff-armed" by the Democratic leadership in the House and that members who offer alternatives to Democrat plans are subjected to "the attack machine."
The most important point Obama made was that compromise and consensus — without which nothing can get done in a democracy — becomes impossible when one side demonizes the other. As he bluntly put it, there's no way to find bipartisan common ground with lawmakers who portray him as a guy "doing all kinds of crazy stuff that's going to destroy America."
This 90 minutes of frank talk was far more illuminating than a million hours of yammering by designated demagogues on TV talk shows; far more revealing than White House and Capitol Hill news conferences; and a vast improvement over rude outbursts ("You lie!") during formal speeches.
Responding to Roskam, Obama said: "I think both sides can take some blame for a sour climate on Capitol Hill." He suggested he could help by bringing "Republican and Democratic leadership together on a more regular basis with me."
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Educators are invited to learn more about the programs and facilities of the Mercer, Fonthill and James A. Michener Art Museums during an open house starting at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 29.
The event will include an opportunity to visit the Michener's new wing and a free audio guide tour through the Mercer Museum. Also, staff from each of the institutions will introduce teachers to the museums' various services and activities.
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The PSID, begun in 1968, is a longitudinal study of a representative sample
of U.S. individuals (men, women, and children) and the family units in which
they reside. It emphasizes the dynamic aspects of economic and demographic behavior,
but its content is broad, including sociological and psychological measures.
As of 1995, the PSID had collected information about more than 50,000 individuals
spanning as much as 28 years of their lives.
The Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, at the University
of Michigan and the Economic Research Service have developed new questions and
modified existing questions on the PSID questionnaire pertaining to food expenditure
and food assistance programs. Both the modification of existing food questions
and the addition of other questions are necessary for program and policy analysis.
These changes will provide a more complete accounting of food available to the
household (either purchased or donated) and participation in food assistance
programs which was inadequate in the previous version of the PSID. Initial questionnaire
development has been completed. A shortened variant, about one-third as long,
of the Food Security Supplement originally executed in conjunction with the
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I am not as informed as you on the good things Jones has done. But from the videos I've seen, he is definitely not the type of person that should be anywhere near the President. And this growing number of Czars that don't need to be confirmed by Congress is quite frankly a bit scary to me. And pretty stupid as well, considering we're in a Recession.
Bush opened the floodgates on spending right before he left with that bank bailout. And since he's been in, Obama's cranked em open even wider. How do you spend almost 2 trillion dollars more than you take in, in a single year? And that doesn't even include this trillion dollar monstrosity of a health care bill. A bill most of these Congressman haven't even read. Unemployment is still rising. At 9.7%, it's the highest it has been in 26 years. Yet no one is holding Obama responsible for anything.
Anyway, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. All I want is a smaller Federal Government, to find a way to make Medicare and Medicaid work before we had more of the same, to find a way to spend less than we get in so we can start paying off some of this 12 trillion dollar debt. And I'm ready to bring all of our troops home. I could care less about abortion or immigration, and I'm not religious. So I'm not really sure what that makes me, all I know is this partisan divide and tribal voting is destroying this country. Let's agree on things that need to be fixed and fix em. And start voting more competent people into office.
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The only differences between Bush and Obama are superficial and meaningless. Both worked for banks, and both are dyed in the wool warmongers.
The unemployment numbers are really closer to 20% though because the gov. figures don't count people who's claims have run out and those who have just given up on looking for work.
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I used to watch and listen to Beck before he went to Fox News. Now, it seems everything he does is just fear mongering and over-the-top reports and creation mass hysteria yet people actually buy into it rather than coming to their own conclusions and taking a few minutes to actually research the information that's spewed forth. It's unfortunate that the media and their reports are either too far left or too far right making it nearly impossible to get any accurate, independent news from any credible source.
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Oklahoma legislative leaders announced a non-partisan commission on Thursday geared toward ensuring school safety.
Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb, Sen. President Pro Tempore Brian Bingman, House Speaker-elect T.W. Shannon and Sen. Democratic leader Sean Burrage made the announcement from the state Capitol.
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Moshe Goldfarb
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:15:47 -0700 (PDT), Doug Mentohl wrote:
>> "I invite you to check Amazonâs Bestsellers: The most popular items in
>> Computers and PC Hardware list .. eight of the top 25 sellers are
>> Linux-powered Asus Eee UMPCs"
>> "Windows is losing its grip on the desktop .. if things continue in
>> the way they have been, Iâll be ready to say Windows is collapsing"
>> http://practical-tech.com/operating-...legs/#more-152
> Hahaha...
> You bumbling idiot.
> That's not what Redhat says BTW.
> They say Linux desktop can't compete with Microsoft
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04...esktop_market/
> Red Hat scurries away from consumer desktop market
> By Kelly Fiveash
> Published Thursday 17th April 2008 11:04 GMT
> Linux and open source software giant Red Hat has abandoned plans to develop
> a consumer desktop product because it cannot compete with the might of
> Microsoft.
Huh? But Roy told us MS were going bust and Linux had 17%
| The firm said in a statement yesterday: âAs a public, for-profit
| company, Red Hat must create products and technologies with an eye on
| the bottom line, and with desktops this is much harder to do than with
| servers.
| âThe desktop market suffers from having one dominant vendor, and some
| people still perceive that todayâs Linux desktops simply donât provide
| a practical alternative.â
Whoops. Looks like some of us were right and Spamowitz, Kent and Homer
were wrong. No surprise there then.
And this is wonderful! They should have got Willy Poaster on
board. Apparently HIS desktop worked for him 10 years ago! LOL!!
| Itâs encountered a variety of problems with developing the product
| including startup delays with resellers, hardware and market changes and
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Jack Canfield is a motivational speaker best known as the co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series (along with co-author Mark Victor Hansen). The series contains nearly 200 titles (2008), with over 112 million copies in print in over 40 languages. He writes a syndicated newspaper column which appears in 150 papers worldwide, and a radio program syndicated throughout North America.
He holds the Guinness Book World Record for having seven books simultaneously on the New York Times Bestseller List (beating out author Stephen King). He has won many awards for his self-help books, coaching skills and speeches. For example, he has been inducted into the National Speakers Association?s Speakers Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the Rotary Club?s Paul Harris Fellowship, is a recipient of the Golden Plate Award from the National Achievement Summit, and received the Chancellor's Medal from the University of Massachusetts. He has also been named Motivator of the Year by the Business Digest twice, received the Speaker of the Year Award from the Society of Success and Leadership and received the National Leadership Award and the Champion's Award from the National Association for Self Esteem.
Canfield was born on August 19, 1944 in Fort Worth, TX. He graduated from the Linsly Military Institute in Wheeling, WV in 1962, received a BA in Chinese History from Harvard in 1966, and in 1973 received an MEd at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is currently married to his third wife, Inga Marie Mahoney and together they live in California. He has three children from his prior marriages.
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"Nuclear testing" was an Israeli test of car bombs(IsraelWire-3/10) Former MK Abd el-Wahab Darawsha, last year accused Israel of conducting secret nuclear testing in the Gulf of Eilat. ISRAELWIRE on June 16, 1999, reported that the MK raised the issue in the Knesset, demanding an explanation of what was recorded by Egyptian scientists. Darawsha based his Knesset query on a report submitted by an Egyptian nuclear expert, Dr. Tariq el-Nimar, who indicated that Israeli nuclear testing in the Gulf has taken place, and he indicated a test was conducted on May 28, 1998, which caused an earthquake in the area. According to a report in the daily Ma'ariv, the tests that were conducted a year ago were dealing with the ability of buildings to withstand car-bombing attacks following the attack against the Federal Building in Oklahoma City in the United States. Israeli officials according to Ma'ariv were studying the phenomenon of car bombing attacks against buildings in an attempt to better prepare security agencies for such eventualities in Israel. Ma'ariv concluded that official IDF sources stated it is likely that Egyptian seismological readings led experts to suspect a nuclear test. The senior officials acknowledged the car-bombing tests, which they added, contributed a great deal of knowledge to local officials in the continuing battle against terrorism.


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By Official release
Posted May 4 2009 4:20PM
NEW YORK -- LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers is the winner of the Maurice Podoloff Trophy as the 2008-09 NBA Most Valuable Player presented by Kia Motors.
James totaled 1,172 points including 109 first place votes, from a panel of 121 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Players were awarded 10 points for each first-place vote, seven points for each second-place vote, five for third, three for fourth and one for each fifth-place vote received.
Rounding out the top five in voting for this season's award are the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant (698 points), Miami's Dwyane Wade (680), Orlando's Dwight Howard (328) and New Orleans' Chris Paul (192).
As part of its support of the Most Valuable Player Award, Kia Motors America will donate either a new Borrego SUV or Sedona minivan on behalf of James to The Urban League of Akron. Kia Motors is presenting a brand new vehicle to the charity of choice of each of four 2008-09 season-end award winners as part of the "The NBA Performance Awards Presented by Kia Motors."
James, the first Cavalier to win the award, led Cleveland in scoring (28.4 ppg, second in the NBA), rebounds (7.6 rpg), assists (7.2 apg, fourth), and steals (1.7 spg, eighth). Since the 1973-74 season when steals became an official stat, James is the fourth player to lead his team in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals, while also leading his team to 50-plus wins (Larry Bird 1985-86; Grant Hill, 1996-97; Kevin Garnett, 2002-03). The 6-8 forward helped Cleveland to an NBA- and franchise-best 66-16 season, a 21-game improvement over last season (45-37), marking the 12th time an NBA team has reached 66 wins in a season.
James led the league in triple-doubles (seven) and became the 12th player in NBA history to record three-consecutive triple-doubles (March 7, 10, 12). In his sixth season, James became the ninth player in NBA history to have at least five consecutive 2,000 point seasons.
Since the NBA began voting on the Eastern and Western Conference Player of the Month separately in 2001-02, James is just the second player to receive the award four times in one season (Kevin Garnett, 2003-04). James was voted the Eastern Conference Player of the Month in November, January, March and April. James was also named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week seven times (Nov. 10, 17; Dec. 29; Jan. 26; Feb. 9; March 16, 23).
The NBA MVP trophy is named in honor of the late Maurice Podoloff, the first commissioner of the NBA who served from 1946 until his retirement in 1963.
The 2008-09 NBA Most Valuable Player Award presented by Kia Motors is part of a series of on-court performance awards called "The NBA Performance Awards Presented by Kia Motors." The awards, which are part of a multi-year marketing partnership that makes Kia Motors America the official automotive partner of the NBA, also include the Most Improved Player, Defensive Player of the Year, and Sixth Man Awards. The series also includes the Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Month presented by Kia Motors. For more information on the "The NBA Performance Awards Presented by Kia Motors" click here.
Season - Player, Team
1955-56 - Bob Pettit, St. Louis
1956-57 - Bob Cousy, Boston
1957-58 - Bill Russell, Boston
1958-59 - Bob Pettit, St. Louis
1959-60 - Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia
1960-61 - Bill Russell, Boston
1961-62 - Bill Russell, Boston
1962-63 - Bill Russell, Boston
1963-64 - Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati
1964-65 - Bill Russell, Boston
1965-66 - Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia
1966-67 - Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia
1967-68 - Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia
1968-69 - Wes Unseld, Baltimore
1969-70 - Willis Reed, New York
1970-71 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Milwaukee
1971-72 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Milwaukee
1972-73 - Dave Cowens, Boston
1973-74 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Milwaukee
1974-75 - Bob McAdoo, Buffalo
1975-76 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles
1976-77 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles
1977-78 - Bill Walton, Portland
1978-79 - Moses Malone, Houston
1979-80 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles
1980-81 - Julius Erving, Philadelphia
1981-82 - Moses Malone, Houston
1982-83 - Moses Malone, Philadelphia
1983-84 - Larry Bird, Boston
1984-85 - Larry Bird, Boston
1985-86 - Larry Bird, Boston
1986-87 - Magic Johnson, L.A. Lakers
1987-88 - Michael Jordan, Chicago
1988-89 - Magic Johnson, L.A. Lakers
1989-90 - Magic Johnson, L.A. Lakers
1990-91 - Michael Jordan, Chicago
1991-92 - Michael Jordan, Chicago
1992-93 - Charles Barkley, Phoenix
1993-94 - Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston
1994-95 - David Robinson, San Antonio
1995-96 - Michael Jordan, Chicago
1996-97 - Karl Malone, Utah
1997-98 - Michael Jordan, Chicago
1998-99 - Karl Malone, Utah
1999-00 - Shaquille O'Neal, L.A. Lakers
2000-01 - Allen Iverson, Philadelphia
2001-02 - Tim Duncan, San Antonio
2002-03 - Tim Duncan, San Antonio
2003-04 - Kevin Garnett, Minnesota
2004-05 - Steve Nash, Phoenix
2005-06 - Steve Nash, Phoenix
2006-07 - Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas
2007-08 - Kobe Bryant, L.A. Lakers
2008-09 - LeBron James, Cleveland
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10 Questions for U S Nationals champion Patricia MirandaPATRICIA MIRANDA
2002-03 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 48 kg/105.5 lbs.
Years on Team USA: 5 (1998-00, 2002-04)
Residence: Colorado Springs, Colo.
Club: Dave Schultz WC
College: Stanford Univ.
High School: Saratoga, Calif.
Born: June 11, 1979 in Manteca, Calif.
Height: 5-0
1. You recorded three pins at the U.S. Nationals along with one technical fall. Did you expect to dominate this tournament so much?
Miranda: I didn't expect much, but I think that's because I don't focus on the outcomes of matches. When I visualize my opponents, it's more about my effort level and making sure I am leaving it all out there at the end of the match. I was surprised by the outcomes, but not because I didn't expect to do well, but more because I don't prepare for outcomes.
2. Now that you have begun to have a good taste of international competition, is it hard to gear yourself up for major U.S. tournaments like the nationals or the World Team Trials?
Miranda: Not at all. I think that's my personality. I tend to overestimate, rather than underestimate, people in general. Every match is an opportunity to do something I haven't done before. Any time there are two wrestlers going at it with the ref and some fans, that creates the drive in me to compete, whether it be international or domestic.
3. Last year you did not place at the World Championships after winning a silver medal in 2000. To what would you attribute your losses at the Worlds last year?
Miranda: I think one thing that has helped me with the Worlds is owning that loss and taking responsibility for that loss. I don't think there is an excuse or any easy thing I could point to. I wasn't prepared and the result was indicative of that. Mainly I wasn't mentally prepared. It's better to put it out there and have lost than losing without risking it. I lost and I was a little tired. That was real turning point. Even though it really hurt to lose, I wouldn't change that for the world. I think that has helped me become a better wrestler.
4. Since that time, you have been dominant in both the U.S. and on the international level. What has changed for you since last year's World Championships?
Miranda: Viewing wrestling as not being a threat. It was all how I perceived the sport. It is not something about having to keep my title. Before, each time I went out there is a chance to fail. People never get to see how far they can excel in their passion. I have basically been handed that. Viewing it more as a gift is how I alleviate pressure. This is my opportunity. It's about exploring, not about hanging on to what I've already done.
5. You have been accepted into the Yale Law School for when you are done training for the Olympics. With both being an Olympic champion and completing law school being major goals for you, was it hard to put one ahead of the other?
Miranda: My dad would say yes. It wasn't that hard when the decision came. I am sort of blessed that I get to do both. If I had to do one or the other, it would have been a harder decision. But because I can do both, it was a no-brainer. I was able to compete in college and keep up with the academics at high levels, but I felt like if I wanted to get to that elite level of either one, I would have to focus more on just one. It's a matter of respecting the goal enough to commit to it.
6. What have you been able to improve on since you became a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center?
Miranda: The obvious answer is freestyle. At Stanford, training with men, I could do some freestyle after practices, but it was mainly a collegiate focus. It has helped me with my timidness. I have always been an aggressive wrestler, but at Stanford, I was always smaller and a little weaker. When I would go out against someone my size and strength, I was timid because I was so used to getting squashed all the time. Now I get to actually train aggressively. It's not out of the ordinary for me to dominate someone, but at Stanford it was really weird.
7. As one of the leader's of the U.S. squad over the past year, have you noticed an improvement in the technical skills of the U.S. women?
Miranda: Definitely. Terry Steiner is above average on technique. Just having a full-time coach that is giving us attention on technique is a big help. He watches our tapes and is slowly, but surely, filling in the gaps in our wrestling. It's just basic technique that women hadn't picked up on. We had always been add-ons to most of our wrestling teams. We didn't have the basics much before a coach started paying attention to it.
8. Is there anyone in the U.S. right now that you think can dethrone you?
Miranda: Wrestling is a great sport. Hard work can make up for a lot of things. On any given day, anybody can win. All I can do is ensure that the things I can control, how hard I work, how smart I work and how focused I am, are at the best they can be. Can somebody beat me? Yeah. They are going to have to fight really hard. They are going to have to go through hell and back to do it.
9. When 2004 is done, whether you make the Olympic team or not, do you plan to retire or could there still be a future for you?
Miranda: Terry is working on me. He is pushing for the six years. I do think that even if I do come back and wrestle through 2008, I want to believe that I am only going through 2004. I am going to train so hard that I want to never train again after 2004. If I do go through 2008, there will be some sort of break time. I have to go do something with my brain. I have to believe that I am going to walk away because that is the only way I can sustain my level of training right now. This way it is like only having one shot at this goal.
10. Who was the wrestler you looked up to the most growing up?
Miranda: Growing up, I never really thought much about the sport of wrestling. I liked doing it and that is how I got into it, not through another wrestler. I have focused so much on my own training since then that it has been hard to pay attention to other wrestlers that closely.


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Review: Johnny Depp gives good Hunter in 'The Rum Diary'
"The Rum Diary" is not a very good book.
It's an early piece of work by Hunter S. Thompson, but anyone who picked it up looking for the voice that distinguished his classic work was likely disappointed. He wrote it in his early 20s, and it went unpublished until 1998. More than anything, it serves as a fascinating glimpse at a raw, unpolished talent, and it offers up some autobiographical details hidden amidst the twists and turns in the story of Paul Kemp, a reporter who moves from New York to San Juan, Puerto Rico in order to kick off his career as a writer.
As a film, "The Rum Diary" is far more interesting, due in no small part to the collision of talent that it represents. First, there's Johnny Depp, whose performance as Thompson in Terry Gilliam's "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas" is positively inspired, a spooky case of near-possession where an actor absolutely channels a real-life figure. The idea of seeing him play Thompson, or a Thompson stand-in, at an earlier point on his slow slide into self-medicated madness is undeniably appealing. Then there's writer/director Bruce Robinson, whose "Withnail & I" is one of the greatest films of the '80s, and one of my very favorite British films of all time. He hasn't made a movie since "Jennifer 8," a Hollywood misfire that killed his career dead, and from the moment he was announced as the man behind the camera, this became one of those films I almost refused to believe really existed. The idea of Depp reaching out to Robinson, who was always Hunter's first choice to make a "Fear & Loathing" film, and somehow coaxing him out of retirement would be interesting enough even if it were just a straight adaptation of the book.
It's not, though. It's something far stranger and richer than that, and while I don't think it's a totally successful film, it is wholly interesting. In some ways, you could argue it's a thinly veiled remake of "WIthnail" with some bare bones detail from Thompson's book grafted onto the top of it. There are many structural similarities and even some direct character corellations. In other ways, this is sort of like what Cronenberg did with "Naked Lunch," where his film is more of a "how the novel was written" than an attempt to actually film the novel. The Paul Kemp in the film is far more Hunter S. Thompson than the Kemp in the book, and you could almost view this like Thompson's superhero origin story. It's a film about a young writer struggling to find the voice that will define him, and the moment he realizes what his calling is and we see him step up to become that writer, the movie's done.
It's a shaggy film, with a lot of weird left turns, and that's sort of what made me fall in love with Robinson the first time around. Here, as soon as Kemp arrives in San Juan, he falls in with two reporters who are, to put it kindly, complete degenerates. Sala (Michael Rispoli) can at least hold it together enough to get through a work day, but Moburg (Giovanni Ribisi) has burnt his cortex out with rum and is barely functional as a human being at this point. They both seem determined to introduce Kemp to the San Juan they know, a crumbling piss-pot that only exists as a rest stop before they move on to some other job in some other place. Their editor, played by Richard Jenkins, seems enormously put upon and barely able to hold together his joke of a publication. Kemp is looking to make a mark, but he has no idea how to do it or even really what to write.
He also meets Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart), a former employee of the paper who has graduated to land development, and right away, he can see that Sanderson chose the good life. It's obvious in the cars he drives, the clothes he wears, the place where he lives, and in Chenault (Amber Heard), the girl he keeps. She is pure arm candy, and Sanderson seems to view her the same way he views those expensive cars, as a standard of measurement that demonstrates his success. Kemp sees her as something else, though, a vision, an obstacle to his happiness. Once he's seen her, nothing else will do, and that's a dangerous train of thought for a man who has nothing.
Much of the film plays out as a battle for Kemp's soul, what little evidence there is of one. I find it really interesting to see Depp, who is over a decade older than he was in "Fear and Loathing," successfully playing a much younger version of the same character. Many of the same mannerisms are there, but turned way down. This is a young man who still thinks he needs to play the game the same way as everyone else, who hasn't started to indulge his own worst instincts, who hasn't been married yet or divorced yet, who still has hope and optimism built into his world view. This is proto-Hunter, and Depp does a very able job in showing us how this could easily be the person who will later become the infamous oversized personality known as Raoul Duke.
Special credit must be given to Dariusz Wolski, because for some reason, several cinematographers who have shot films featuring Amber Heard have managed to shoot her wrong. Here, Wolski makes her glow, and she continues to get better every single time she's in a film. I think she was cast initially because she's a striking young woman who definitely holds the camera's eye, but I really think it's just been over the last few years that she's started to come into focus as an actor. It'll be interesting to see how filmmakers handle her and what sort of roles they see her in, because she could easily get sidetracked just by virtue of being stunning. Here, she and Depp have a really lovely chemistry, and the difference between the way she reacts to Kemp and the way she reacts to Sanderson is all you need to see just how good Heard's gotten.
Ribisi and Rispoli are very good, very funny, and if you squint while they're onscreen, they almost become Ralph Brown's Danny the Dealer from "Withnail" and Benecio Del Toro's Dr. Gonzo. The difference is that they gradually fall away in importance as Kemp starts to figure himself out. These guys are the flame that Kemp is drawn to, but he manages to keep from getting burnt at this stage in his life. It's only later that he'll fly right into it, welcoming the fire. Here, we have to see that this sort of lifestyle takes a toll on Kemp. He's not wired to keep up with them. Not yet. They are far gone, and he's just warming up. They are one of the necessary steps on his journey, just like Sanderson. Eckhart's good here, but it's a fairly standard rich prick role.
Do I wish the film was a more coherent whole? Yes. But even in this sort of shambling imperfect state, "The Rum Diary" is an interesting almost, a near miss that leaves you with plenty to contemplate. It is a noble shot at a novel barely worth reading, much less filming, and the fact that it comes as close as it does to really working is a minor miracle, and one worth seeing.
"The Rum Diary" opens this Friday.


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It will unspool over more than three weeks, from the Kimmel Center to Chestnut Hill to Cheyney University and back to Broad Street - 145 performances, exhibitions, lectures, screenings, readings, French lessons, wine tastings, and a street fair, all in the spirit of Paris 1910-20, with its wild profusion of artistic energies.
Conceived by officials at the Kimmel Center and underwritten by a $10 million grant bestowed by Lenore Annenberg just before her death in March 2009, the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts - PIFA - is an almost-indefinable citywide collaboration of organizations large and small. Starting with Thursday's opening-night gala, it will showcase 1,500 artists during its 25 days, a rare instance of a well-funded festival making use of mostly local talent to create unique events.


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Listening to nutrition podcasts while navigating grocery store aisles increases the likelihood of consumers making healthier choices, suggests a small but intriguing pilot study…From January to May 2011, researchers at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., recruited 56 shoppers, 44 women and 12 men age 41 years old on average, at a supermarket in the township of Woodbridge. The subjects listened to a five-minute podcast on an MP3 player that directed them to omega-3 foods in the store. The podcast stressed the importance of consuming seafood, nuts, seeds and vegetable oils – main dietary sources of omega-3s.
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Summer is coming, and we're all ready to get away and book that dream vacation.
Before you go, however, there is one thing you should know about keeping your home safe while you're away. Former CIA officer Jason Hanson says that homeowners often leave their front porch light on when they go on vacation, thinking they can trick criminals into believing they're home. This is a mistake.
What you should do instead is buy a large dog bowl and place this by your back door. The reasoning is that criminals are searching for the easiest target -- they'll go for the home next door that doesn't have a big dog.
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December 23, 2013 will mark the 100th anniversary of our Federal Reserve Bank (Central Bank). The name implies a public bank owned and operated by the federal government. That assumption is wrong. It is a private banking system that operates for profits of the private banks who are members. They have dual mandates from government. "Maximum employment and stable prices." With the Central Banks' promise came a great privilege. Money creation through credit. Banks do not lend deposits. They create credit from assets/deposits to expand the money supply.
Bayanihan — a Philippine term to denote a community coming to work together towards a specific goal. Bayani — it means hero in Filipino. On November 16, 2013 our local community came together for bayanihan to become bayani to the people of the Philippines most affected by the catastrophic typhoon Haiyan. A simple question posed on a Facebook group only 7 days prior — "What can we do to help?" — turned into a community gathering of over 200 attendees that raised over $7500. All of which are going towards relief efforts in the areas most affected by the typhoon.
It has become abundantly clear after moves by sportfishing groups to bar other user groups access to our local king salmon, that the most politically powerful seafood brokerage corporations have West Coast commercial and sports fishermen right where they want them — tearing at each others' throats. Shutting down the king fishery in local rivers, denying access to all or any user groups, will only enhance the harvest levels of king, silver and chum salmon for the American foreign trawler fleets at the upwellings in the Gulf of Alaska.
We have a problem. A big problem. Really, lots of big problems. Most of them stem from our entitlement issues. We are raised in this western culture to believe that anything we want we can have if we only go to school, go to college, work hard enough, save thriftily (unless of course you're not in the 99 percent, then please spend exessively).
I would just like to say how grateful I am that merging of SoHi and Skyview has finally been put to rest. It came as no surprise to me back in the spring when school board chose to combine high schools, or decision earlier this week when SoHi would remain the same colors and all. Even though I graduated from Skyview I am not bitter about these choices, because community can now be unified around a single high school.
Local wrestling fans were recently treated to an exciting night of wrestling between Kenai, Nikiski, Skyview, and Soldotna at the Luke Spruill Memorial Tournament at KCHS. Thank you to all the volunteers for your great team effort before, during, and after the tournament. A special thanks goes to Justin Carr, tournament director. Our sponsors also helped to make this event possible, and we appreciate their support. A big thank you goes to the following: Alaska Trading Co.
I am sitting here pondering what is happening in our great country, if you look at the way it started and the way it is headed you will see that this country has moved so far away from what our forefathers tried to build.
According to Mother Jones online news, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) was quoted "Today, the four biggest banks are 30 percent larger than they were five years ago," she said. "And the five largest banks now hold more than half of the total banking assets in the country." ("Elizabeth Warren Slams Regulators," Nov. 12, 2013)
We would like to take the opportunity to say a huge thank you to the local community for their tremendous support for our recent Food Drive. The Student Councils of both Skyview High and Soldotna High sponsored a canned food drive at their respective high schools and the response was overwhelming.
Once upon a time, a young and popular emperor came to town and proclaimed that the people should no longer buy from local grocery stores — they must now buy only from him.
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Backpacker's Pantry Beef Stroganoff Complete Dinner
|Dry Weight
26.2 oz
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Serves 4
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Backpacker's Pantry Beef Stroganoff Complete Dinner is a hearty meal for four. It includes the entree, chicken noodle soup, chocolate pudding, and a delicious berry fruit drink.
- CampSaver.com
Ingredients: Beef Stroganoff: Instant egg noodles, sauce (non fat milk, flour, salt, beef stock, soy sauce powder, dextrose, flavorings, sugar, vegetable stock, corn starch, maltodextrin, chicken stock, potato starch, onion, garlic, black pepper), sour cream (sour cream solids, citric acid, tocopherols and ascorbyl palmitate [added to improve stability], modified food starch), freeze-dried cooked beef. Chocolate Pudding: Sugar, non fat milk, modified food starch, cocoa (in chocolate flavor), partially hydrogenated soy and/or canola oils, corn syrup solids, sodium phosphates, sodium caseinates, calcium sulfate, potassium phosphate, mono & diglycerides, vanillin & ethyl vanillin, lecithin, calcium phosphate. Noodle Soup: Noodles (enriched semolina with: niacin, iron(ferrous sulfate), thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sauce (salt, chicken stock, dextrose, sugar, flavorings, vegetable stock, corn starch, soy sauce powder, chicken fat, maltodextrin, garlic powder, onion powder, torula yeast), carrots, celery, parsley, corn starch.
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