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Comments: When most people talk about the Kinvara they are talking about using the shoe for marathons or distance running, but I use this shoe for sprinting and it's great. They are light weight, and I feel as though with each stride I take I'm receiving more energy (pop or bounce) in return. I'm also in love with the styles that this shoe has as well. They form to the foot which was a huge problem for me while looking for a good running shoe. The material moves with the foot which makes it seem more like wearing a sock rather than a shoe. In general the Kinvara is the best shoe I've ever worn for sprint training.
From: Michael, Gresham, OR, USA
Comments: I have logged 335 miles in these shoes in the last 10 wks. They are light weight and great shoes on the long run days. The heel drop and cushioning are perfect. My only complaint, the toe box is a bit snug. I have to wrap a toe on each foot with gauze to prevent blistering.
From: John, Jacksonville, FL USA
Comments: I have been using Asics DS Trainer 15 and 16 and the Kinvara 3 was a choice for cautious transition to barefoot running because of my knee pain after running. The 1st run was 14km on tarmac and now I have ran over 100km in Kinvara 3. It definitely helped me in changing my running technique - fore|mid foot strike, 180 cadence, running stright and relaxed and most importantly no knee pain! Great shoe for slower-longer runs where I can concentrate on my technique, not that great for speekwork for me so far. I use it for trail running as well and it handles it good, didnt encouter very rough or muddy terain thought. My hart rate is 5 BPM lower than in the Asics thanks to improved technique at the same speed on the same route, which is very good benefit as well. The next step I plan to go for the merrell road glove or saucony hattori, but want to run 500 km in kinvara first to be ready as running has been for crosstraning as biking has been my main activity. In Kinvaras I started to love running more :-)
From: Dusan, Bratislava, Slovakia
Comments: I have been in love with the Kinvara since the 2nd ones came out and the 3 is no different; just as light but somehow they feel even lighter and more comfortable than ever. I run 15-25 miles a week and these shoes perform admirably for longer runs or speedwork. Ran a 5k a few days ago and pushed my mile time down to 7:11 with these shoes (I had never run under 7:35 previously) and they are great at any distance I have been able to push them to. I recommend these shoes wholeheartedly and will buy another pair when it is time for mine to retire!
From: Jason, Portland, ME, USA
Comments: Super surprised but turns out I really dislike these shoes. I have a pretty narrow foot but it turns out my 9.5's allow my heel to constantly be coming up. Any size smaller would suffocate the front of my foot. I'll be exchanging these for another pair of the Nike Free 3.0 v4's which are amazingly awesomely fantastically awesome
From: Eli, Santa Cruz, California, USA
Comments: Had the original Kinvara, 2 pr. of the 2's and on my second pair of the latest edition (3's). This is by far my favorite shoe. Fit and performance are flawless. The only watch out, I have to swap them out at about 250 miles.
From: Steve, Sturgeon Bay, WI
Comments: My favorite minimalist shoe after trying several. Good combo of low drop (4mm) with sufficient overall cushioning. Feels so much better than Nike Frees for example.
From: Matt, Indianapolis, IN
Comments: I have ran over 300 miles on these and they still feel great a lot better than the first two versions of the shoe! Saucony Great Job! one thing they could work on is the laces after about 250 miles they started to bother me a little. hoping to get over 500 miles! I run average of 50 miles a week. I hope that saucony drops their price on these shoes soon cuz im gonna need some new ones! 4mm drop is perfect never change that saucony!
From: ben, usa
Comments: I've worn everything (EVERYTHING!) out there in an effort to find a low/minimal drop shoe that has enough under it to stand up to 20+ mile runs. The Kinvara 3 wins hands down. Light with just enough cushion to take the edge off long runs. I wasn't a huge fan of Kinvara 2 (too narrow through the toe, a little stiff) but the 3 feels much better all around.
Also, a HUGE shout-out to the folks at Running Warehouse and their new return policy. I appreciate your patience and diligence (and free overnight shipping!). You've made a customer for life.
From: Anonymous
Comments: Very happy with the Kinvara 3. I had two pair of the Kinvara 1, which, when brand new, were great, but the sole wore far to fast for me. I'm a mid-fore foot striker and the outer edges of the shoe always wore down pretty quickly (really evident after just a few runs). In fact, after 10 weeks, the outer edges wore down so much that it started to affect my left foot (metatarsal pain of 4th toe).
Alas - the sole of the kinvara 3 is alot tougher - I've put in 50 miles on them so far with little to no wear on the outer part of the sole.
They are very comfortable, extremely well build and made of much higher quality materials than the Kinvara 1.
Highly recommended.
From: anonymous
Comments: Recently used these shoes for the Dipsea Race and they held up pretty well for a demanding trail race where there are stairs, dirt down hills and long hill climbs which supported my feet during the whole thing
From: Mark, San Marcos, CA, USA
Comments: Not a bad shoe. It's still as comfortable as the previous versions. One thing, though, the Flex Film that covers the mesh has already seperated from on the left shoe. The film that comes up from the sole on the inside of the toe box is no longer adheard to the mesh. I've only run about 20 miles in them, and am a bit disappointed.
From: Tim, Columbus, Ohio, US
Comments: I have been using Saucony Cortana's since they debuted last year (3 pairs) and have been pleased. I wanted to give the Kinvara 3's a try due to them being about 3oz lighter per shoe. I was a little worried that the 3oz lighter in weight would mean less cushioning and thus lower miles. Not the case! I took these out for a 25 miler on the road with 6 bridge crossings last Saturday and had no issues at all! These babies are light and provide enough cushioning for me at 170lbs. I'm a ultra runner and put lots of miles on my shoes and very happy with my purchase thus far.
From: Ash, Tampa, FL, USA
Comments: Saucony has a gem with the Kinvara 3's. They fixed the upper and added a little more material to the sole for a smoother ride. (and hopefully higher miles) I have done three runs in these shoes so far. 5 miler easy, 12 mile tempo, and 10 miler easy. I did have to buy a 1/2 size up from my normal 10.5. I have already ordered my second pair and I look forward to testing this shoe out for the marathon distance. Good job Saucony, don't change this shoe.
From: Dave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Comments: I have completed 2 runs in the Kinvara 3. One run of 6-1 mile repeats and one 18 mile long run. The upper is a great fit and a tad bit wider in the toes. I was just on the edge of needing a wide width with the Kinvara 2, so when I ordered the 3 I had a medium and wide width sent. Turns out the regular width is fine in the new model. Midsole feels very cushioned. The durability is definitely improved as after 24 miles in the new shoes there is no outsole wear. In the 1's and 2's I had visible outsole wear after one or two easy runs. It's still a lightweight, responsive trainer great for midfoot striking runners.
From: Tom, Mill Valley, CA, USA
Comments: I have had the privilege of trying these on before they hit the stores (THANK YOU JULIE IN THE SAUCONY SPRINTER) and did a little roadwork in them. My friend Chris tried them too and said,"Wow, these are light". I can say they feel lighter and they feel as if they have more cushion. I can't wait to order a pair in the black and citron!!!!
From: James, Seattle, WA, USA


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Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.
"Choose this day whom you will serve"
Well, today is the day. The day we go vote for president and our other government representatives*. How will you choose which one?
Will your choice be based on what the candidate promises to give and do for you? Or will the candidate's platform and character influence your choice?
President Lincoln said, "I know that the Lord is on the side of the right. But it is my constant prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side."
I am just speaking to people of faith here.
The Lord cannot bless a nation that embraces a culture of death concerning the unborn. He cannot bless a nation that embraces homosexual marriage. These 2 issues are clearly against His teachings in the Bible.
You cannot pick and choose which of God's principles you will obey and which you will disregard. If you do, you are in effect creating your own god, and putting it before Him. That act violates the 1st commandment: Exodus 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before Me." We are created in His image, we don't create a god in ours.
On Sunday, our pastor challenged us to let God shape our thinking when we vote. As a Christian, our vote represents God's voice to the government."
I am choosing the party that supports a culture of life and believes marriage between a man and a woman should be protected. That party's candidates are John McCain and Sarah Palin. Is McCain perfect? Everything I could ever ask for in a candidate? No. But he does represent my Christian values. He also happens to support my American values.
...choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods [idols] which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River... But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15
I am also voting for Jim Sensenbrenner and Leah Vukmir.
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Pawley's Island, SC – The Stetson women's golf team posted its low round of the tournament on Tuesday in the final round of the GolfWeek Program Challenge at the Caledonia Golf & Fish Club.
The Hatters posted a final round score of 290 to secure fourth place in the tournament. The 290 ties for the third lowest round in tournament play for Stetson over the last five years.
"For our first outing of the year, it was a solid performance," Stetson coach Floyd Kerr said. "The weather was perfect and the course was immaculate and that is a good combination to produce low scores. There were a lot of low scores out there."
Only tournament champion Campbell, which won the event for a second straight year, produced a round better than the one the Hatters had on Tuesday. The Camel won the tournament by 17 shots over second place Jacksonville State by posting scores of 290-288-284. Their total score of 862 was just two off their winning total from 2012, but the rest of the field improved considerably.
James Madison (883) and Stetson (887) finished third and fourth with Old Dominion (890) rounding out the top five.
In conjunction with the team improvement, the Hatters placed three players in the top 10 in the final standings. Senior Mallory Viera, who finished 28-over par in this tournament last year, improved to five-over par this year, earning a tie for seventh place after Tuesday's one-under par round of 70.
"Mallory had two really good rounds after an opening round 77," Kerr said. "She had a good summer and that carried over to the fall."
Viera's total was seven shots behind the tournament champion, Tahnia Ravnjak, from Campbell who finished as the only player in the field under par, thanks mostly to Tuesday's sparkling round of 66. She was even par on the front nine with one birdie and one bogey. She got into trouble on number 12 and had a double bogey, but answered with three straight birdies before closing with three pars.
"She didn't let the double bother her and came back strong over the next three holes," Kerr said.
Senior Jenna Hoecker and freshman Alessandra Kutz also earned top 10 finishes, tying for ninth. Kutz joined Viera with a one-under par 70 in the final round while Hoecker closed with a three-over 74.
Like Viera, Kutz had a birdie run on the back nine, and had a chance to finish two-under par before a bogey on 18 left her with a 70 for the day. Hoecker was also in contention for a higher finish before posting bogeys on three of the last four holes.
As Kerr predicted on Monday, freshman Giulia Vandenberg finished with her best round on Tuesday. After consecutive rounds in the 80s, and a four-over par start through the first five holes, she closed by shooting a one-over par over the final13 holes to finish with a 76. That was enough to make a five spot move in the final standings, up to 45th.
Senior Sammi Smith continued to struggle in the final round, closing with a second straight 79 to finish tied for 36th overall at 19 over par.
"Hopefully, this will be the kind of day we will have a lot of this year," Kerr said. "We played a solid round today. We will be playing some different people as we go through the fall schedule because we have good competition on the team. I think we will see some good scores going foward."
The Hatters will compete in their next fall event the weekend of September 20 in the Daytona State Lady Falcon Invitational. It will be the first of two fall events for Stetson at LPGA International, which serves as one of the teams' primary practice courses.


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Announcing the lineup for this week's edition of the On The Horizon radio show, he rolls right into a segment featuring his daughter's tale of a lackluster Christmas. She didn't get a gift card that would allow her to buy a satellite system to take over the world. She's a show regular, and the segment is a quirky bit of banter before Anderson cues up a guitar-driven instrumental.
"The key to the whole thing is keeping it fast and keeping it fresh," Anderson said.
This is the third year Anderson's Internet radio show, On The Horizon, has been in production. The show has gone prime time with broadcasts in Los Angeles, Rochester, N.Y., England, Australia and Russia. Not bad for a guy with a day job as operational manager for New Look Door company. He puts together his show from a home studio in Canton.
Anderson got his start in 2001 when Bill and Theta Messic — founders of New Artist Radio — talked Anderson into doing a segment called "Idiots of the Week" for the .net Web site. Based on the Darwin Awards, which honors those too dumb to remain in the gene pool, the segment ran for a year and a half.
Anderson says it was more the content of the story than his presentation that made "Idiots of the Week" a hit." In one story a guy outside Philadelphia decided to rob a house. Once inside he filled a pillowcase full. Intending to head out the garage door, he closed the door to the house behind him and hit the automatic door button. But the automatic door didn't work. The would-be burglar stayed locked in the garage for eight days, living on a fridge full of Diet Pepsi and dog food. When the homeowner returned and the burglar was freed, he filed suit against the homeowner's insurance company, winning $450,000 in damages.
"Who's the bigger idiot?" Anderson asks.
The segment's success gave Anderson an idea to capitalize on a talent and an interest he'd long harbored. Using his home computer he began piecing together a program designed for the benefit of the independent, unsigned musicians. The way he figures, every great musician started out with nobody knowing or caring who they were.
"Charlie Daniels started out unsigned," Anderson said. "Elvis started out unsigned."
Anderson doesn't hem himself in by genre or geography. Musicians featured on the show come from the world over. The show's most requested songs last year, "Coaltown Babies" and "Crescent City," were by the quartet MINiMAL out of San Francisco.
He and Elly Cirino, his public relations manager, listen to everything that comes in — a task that can be both enlightening and enslaving.
"You never know where the jewel is going to be, you never know," Cirino said.
Anderson also throws in a few local notables, like the group Stone Black, which often plays in Haywood and Jackson counties, and Bobby G, a Cruso-based guitar player who was the 16th most requested artist last year. However, including more local music is hard.
"We don't have too many local artists available to us," Anderson said.
Anderson's set up isn't conducive to live music, and many local music groups haven't yet recorded their songs. Stone Black already has one self-produced album out, and headed to Nashville to begin working on their second this past weekend.
Even with his radio show broadcast in six countries on 14 AM and FM stations and five Internet stations, Anderson isn't making any money from On The Horizon. It's a labor of love.
"It's something I can't put down, and there were times that I really wanted to put it down too," he says.
The agreements he signs with musicians featured on the show state that the airtime is royalty free. It's a set up much unlike most commercial radio where pay-for-play arrangements keep songs in constant repetition, regardless of demand. The structure can create a hit rather than let the market be driven by consumer choices. Anderson's musicians are on the low end of the music business food chain and must rely on getting heard before anything else.
"They're looking for the exposure to maybe get some interest from the record labels or promotional teams or something along those lines," Anderson said.
Listeners email in, send instant messages or even call to make their requests for the weekly program. Anderson spends about five to six hours in production to make the one-hour show, which he then uploads to his Web site every Sunday.
Though On The Horizon is re-broadcast over the airwaves during the drive to work in L.A., there's no local station that's carrying it — so far. Anderson is looking to expand, but moreover, he's looking for sponsorships. What's hard is that since his show is aired internationally, a local company won't have much resonance with a listener in Australia. The sponsors need to be recognizable on a grand scale — McDonalds, Coca-Cola — but in order to secure the backing, On The Horizon has to have something to offer.
And it just as well might. While there's no truly accurate way to gauge online listening — a system such as Neilsen ratings doesn't exist for Internet radio — the industry is paying attention to what Anderson's playing. New Music Weekly magazine awarded IRADIOLA, a station on which On The Horizon airs, Internet Radio Station of the Year. Anderson also co-hosts the station's "Indie Traffic Jam" program with Mark "Maverick" Coon, and Carmen Allgood, the producer of the "Colorado Wave" Internet radio show.
"This thing has come a long way," Anderson said.


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This month, Archelle Georgiou, MD, senior fellow at the University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality & Healing, is on a trip to Ikaria, an isolated Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea.
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In my time here at Cracked, I've posted 50 videos and published roughly 200 articles, which makes the following statement all the more difficult to believe: I am your real father. Sorry. My brain doesn't allow me to pass up stupid setups like that. While it's true that you are all my children (in the sense that I've had a scarring effect on you), that's not what I actually wanted to say. My point was that despite all my freelancing here, at absolutely no time have I ever written about gaming.
I can hear you now: "But why, Daddy?"
Quit it. Again, I'm not actually your father. Still, there may be a bit of the answer in your question. Y'see, to some extent, age and timing are to blame. When I was a kid, Atari and then ColecoVision were all the rage, but my parents weren't down with that because they'd heard that those gaming systems destroyed the TV you played them through. That's why they got me one of the greatest presents ever:
Vectrex was its own self-contained unit and promptly went out of business in nine seconds, allowing me to buy every game for like five bucks -- with the exception of the 3-D imager that I really, really, really wanted, and if you somehow own one, you should contact me with a reasonable offer to sell. Anyway, I grew up, and when the new gaming systems like Nintendo and Sega Genesis came out, it seemed like kid stuff. I was busy doing my best to have sex. Then, by the time today's generation of gaming came along, I was super busy. Husband, father, career. I was pretty sure that if I got into gaming, I'd never write my movies or novels or, y'know, eat meals.
My oldest son never cared for the Nintendo DSi he got at 5, so I forgot about it. Wong and Cheese and Brockway would write their gaming articles and I'd skip over them -- not because I hate them for losing my venture capital in their Internet Men of Gaming calendar -- but because the subject was just lost on me. To me, Skyrim sounded more like what that stewardess did to me once at 50,000 feet.
Can you believe that this is the hottest pic of a stewardess Getty had? I mean, the best picture I could find of her?
But then came last Hanukkah (or as you gentiles call it, "'Hanukkah' -- am I spelling that right?"), and our three kids were suddenly all clamoring for gaming systems. My wife went to a midnight doorbuster sale at Target on Thanksgiving and secured the last Nintendo Wii for the little one who was jonesing for Skylanders, an Xbox 360 for the oldest who had to have Assassin's Creed 3, and Dance Central 2 for our daughter. And she did it all simply by stabbing several other greedy customers in the eye with pointy Christmas ornaments. Two days later, I bravely went to GameStop alone to heroically buy myself a used copy of Left 4 Dead. It was a Hanukkah miracle. After over 20 years, gaming was back in my home. What follows are the details of my inspiring exploration.
Assassin's Creed 3
The Point
Um, assume the memories of your forefathers in 18th century America to save humanity pursuant to some alien plan? Killing redcoats and stuff.
The Experience
The night before we gave our 10-year-old son this game, I sat down to play it. After all, it was rated M, and I wanted to make sure there were no weird colonial sex orgies. I also wanted to see just how graphic the violence was.
The game spread out before me in cinematic fashion. I knew that gaming and movies had become closer than ever in the last 10 years, but I had never experienced it before. The only thing I can compare it to was being 14 and seeing a porn video for the first time. Finally, I was part of a world that had been shut off to me. (Side note: While that first pornographic experience blossomed into a five-year career 1992-1997, where I performed under the name Gladbone, I don't think I'll become a professional game designer any time soon. LULZ! Gladbone! No, but seriously, I made a lot of porn.)
The game began, and I started learning the Xbox controller as I went through the training part. Finally, I was on my journey, which starts in a playhouse. The object is to find a man in a theater box and then navigate a way through the theater to kill him. I walked to my seat and then ... spent the next 30 minutes in a chair while the same five lines of play dialogue repeated on a loop. I could not get out of the damn chair. I asked my Twitter followers to help me like a noob and finally (doing everything I thought I was doing before) locked in on the guy, which allowed me out of my seat to start climbing. Then I picked a lock and stabbed the guy in the back. I went up to my wife and informed her that the game was safe for the boy. I assumed that later levels of the game grew more violent, but after spending 30 minutes in a theater seat, I was pretty sure our son would be 16 by the time he got there.
Also, the violence, while graphic, didn't feel violent, because rather than machine gunning someone's head off, you just push the "X" button, setting a murder into motion. It's a strange disconnect from the action for a kid who was used to zapping space invaders. Here's a bit of the game with some English pud narrating it:
The Aftereffects
For weeks now, I have been mumbling "X!" in the direction of anyone who has annoyed me. I've also been making up terrible James Bond-esque murder puns, like, "Could I get this in an ... X-TRA LARGE!" and "I normally don't kill slow pedestrians, but for you I'll make an X-CEPTION!"
Dance Central 2
The Point
To dance like a real live hip-hop person.
The Experience
This is an Xbox Kinect game, so it actually sees you and watches your movements. Kind of a thrill. Like most dance games, you follow the moves on the screen, and you get more points depending on how well you follow. The characters also talk really bad smack at each other.
"I'm gonna dance out your eyeballs and dance piss on your dance brain." -Not an actual quote.
It's a pretty great game. It will actually teach you how to dance and it will get your heart going and give you genuine exercise if you play enough. That's pretty impressive for a video game. During the whole time, however, I couldn't shake the feeling that there were 14-year-old boys out there masturbating while watching the sexier characters of the dance crew. Busting a nut while gangsta Jessica Rabbit busted a move. Idea for video: kid gets points for jerking off to Dance Central when his masturbatory movements resemble the motions he's supposed to copy onscreen.
The Aftereffects
I made a resolution to play every day instead of doing the elliptical. Hasn't happened yet.


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Time Magazine, May 7, 2012 edition
Graham Allison on Obama's Hardest Decision
Time Magazine Cover Story
April 26, 2012
Author: James F. Smith, Former Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
When Barack Obama became president, the trail to Osama bin Laden had long gone cold. I can only speak with authority through February 15, 2009, said Michael Hayden, who ran the CIA under George W. Bush. But at that point, when people would ask, whens the last time you really knew where he was? my answer was Tora Bora in 2001.
So begins Harvard Professor Graham Allisons dramatic cover story this week in Time Magazine. Allison offers readers a behind-the-scenes account of how President Obama made the most fateful decision of his presidency to launch the Special Forces raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1, 2011.
Allison puts readers in the presidents Oval Office chair as Obama weighed the risks of the several options he faced when evidence emerged that bin Laden was living in a compound in Abbottabad, 30 miles from the capital of Pakistan. It was never certain right up to the day of the raid that the suspect at the site was bin Laden. And key members of Obamas own inner circle, including Vice President Joseph Biden and Defense Secretary Bob Gates, voted against launching the helicopter-borne assault.
With echoes of his prize-winning 1971 book, Essence of Decision, about President John F. Kennedys decision-making during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Allison traced Obamas handling of the hunt for bin Laden from the first days of his presidency up to the decision to go for a boots-on-the-ground assault rather than an airstrike or joint operation with Pakistan.
Allison spent more than 100 hours interviewing officials in the White House, the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency to gather material for the Time article. The piece was paired with another article by Peter Bergen, a respected terrorism analyst, that tells the story of the raid itself.
Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard and was the founding dean of the modern Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Kennedy Schools principal research center for international security policy issues. He served as assistant secretary of defense in the Clinton Administration and as an adviser to the secretary of defense during the Reagan Administration.
Allison concluded that the national security decision-making in the bin Laden case offers important lessons for future foreign policy challenges. Summarized in a single line, the takeaway from the bin Laden operation is that American government worked, Allison wrote.
Allison ascribed the success in part to new capabilities of U.S. intelligence and military agencies forged in the decade since 9/11, as well as to Obamas improved national security decision-making process, developed after his rocky first year in office.
The president had the confidence and determination to slow the clock long enough to aim carefully before he pulled the trigger, Allison said. That required unprecedented secrecy. Most members of the National Security Council didnt even know of the planned raid until hours before it occurred.
The bin Laden case demonstrates why success requires both discovering secrets and then keeping them, allowing a President time to reflect in private and permitting him to reach a decision and act. As [National Security Adviser Tom] Donilon likes to say, There is only one way to keep a secret: dont tell anybody.
However, such secrecy bears a cost, Allison said, by excluding people who might bring in perspectives not considered by the small group involved in the decision. One consequence may have been inadequate attention to the implications of the raid for Pakistan, which was not consulted.
To the surprise of everyone in Washington, the treasure trove seized in the raid suggest that Pakistani military and intelligence leaders didnt know bin Laden was living in Abbottabad, Allison said -- leading to a genuinely frightening thought.
Could it be that a nation that is unaware that bin Laden lived within its borders for six years, moved five times with three wives and fathered four children (two born in local hospitals) is also a nation that is in control of some 100 nuclear bombs? That seems unlikely but the evidence so far suggests exactly that.
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My 1 yo is primarily self-fed and has been for a few months now. The exception is yogurt, oatmeal, and applesauce. If given a bowl, she will smear it all over and eat a little...forgetting that it's food. My DH is a SAHD and will not let her just play with those foods. (Party pooper!)
With a few exceptions, she almost never reaches for the spoon from our hand....she isn't all about "me do that."
How and when do you start to get them used to eating with utensils. I'm certain I don't NEED her to eat with utensils today, but I know at some point she will need to civilized and was wondering how and when that process gets going. Or will she just "take over" when she is ready?
I ask because my BFF's 3 yo still eats with her hands a lot and it's a bit unsettling to me.


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For a day trip that is much closer to home and doesn't require much more than 15 minutes of driving time, visit the Blackwater Draw Museum outside Portales.
This museum was opened to the public in 1969 as a means of displaying artifacts found at the Blackwater Locality No. 1 site. These artifacts and displays within the museum are used to describe and interpret life at the archaeological site from Clovis times, according to the museum's brochure. This was a period approximately 13,000 years ago.
According to the brochure, Blackwater Draw was first discovered in 1929 by a Clovis resident named Ridgely Whiteman who recognized the importance of such a site. Blackwater Draw has been studied by numerous organizations such as the Carnegie Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Academy of Natural Sciences, National Science Foundation and others. Blackwater Draw site has been declared a National Historic Landmark and incorporated into the National Register of Historic Places.
What is it:
There are two separate locations for the Blackwater Museum and Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 site.
The site was first recognized in 1929 and is located within the Blackwater Draw near Portales. According to the brochure, it is one of the most well known and significant sites in North American archaeology. Early investigations at Blackwater Draw recovered evidence of human occupation in association with Late Pleistocene megafauna, including Columbian mammoth, ancient bison, large horses and large turtles.
Besides artifacts and displays explaining the site, the museum also has "touch and feel" exhibits for children, with parking for RV's, and picnic and camping facilities are available nearby.
Where is it:
The museum is located approximately five miles east of Portales on U.S 70 on the right. From Clovis it is approximately 14 miles west. To find Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 site from Portales, drive east on U.S. 70 and turn left on NM 467, headed north, about five miles on the left. From Clovis take 467 south, approximately 12 miles. The turnoff to the site is a short distance north of Oasis State Park.
Admission:The hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. The museum may be closed during major holidays.
Contact: For further information, call the museum at 562-2202, or the site at 356-5235.


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Matt Lauer and NBC have continued the ignominious media tradition of feigning to bring "balance" to the issue of vaccine safety. In the Dateline episode A Dose of Controversy, which aired on Sunday night, Matt Lauer interviewed Andrew Wakefield, the originator of the MMR-causes-autism myth, and highlighted his work at Thoughtful House, the autism treatment center he created in Texas after he was exiled from the U.K. He also interviewed (as "balance") Dr. Paul Offit, a renowned expert on vaccines and pediatric infectious disease, and Brian Deer, the British journalist whose investigative reporting on Wakefield revealed the true, dark underbelly of the story. Of course, no balance was required to cover this story, since there is no balance from a scientific perspective. There is the evidence – that there is no causal association between the MMR vaccine and autism, and there is the myth, belief, and dogma (and a smattering of fraud) backing the notion that there is. A good piece of journalism covering this topic would have discussed Wakefield only as reference in the narrative of the story. But then that wouldn't be nearly as good for ratings. Tension, controversy, personalities, that's what makes for a good story. And that's just what Dateline provided it's viewers. Unfortunately, what it probably didn't do was ease the fears of parents who have been thrown off course by misleading media stories and the speed-of-light trajectory that has characterized this myth. Worse, by simply shining light on the debonair Dr. Wakefield, the show may have misled even more parents into believing this dangerous myth. (more…)


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Since their inception, I've been an advocate of parental responsibility with video games, because even though I don't believe that video games make people more violent, I do think that it's important to know what information is entering your child's stupid, fragile skull. But recently, thanks to the release of Grand Theft Auto V, my stance on video game violence has been shaken to its very core. Despite my beliefs, I can't deny what I've witnessed with my own eyes. It has changed my son in some pretty shocking ways. For instance ...
4He Became a Rage-Fueled Monster
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Even though my son is 11, I let him play certain M-rated games because he handles the content very well and has never shown any signs of it affecting him in negative ways. Until now.
He was on an early mission that required him to drive alongside a semi and catch someone as they jumped into his car. I was in the other room, researching something testicle-related for Cracked, but I knew he was failing because I could hear the same character conversation over and over again as he repeated the attempts. On the fourth try, he couldn't take it anymore, and he said under his breath, "This is stupid."
Pictured: stupid.
I shot out of my seat, concerned at the monotone quietness his rage had produced, and bolted into our family room.
"Hey, hey, hey! There's no need for that. You need to calm down," I said in a panic. "It's just a game. There's no need for you to explode like that."
He glanced up at me, the rage flooding his eyes with indifference, and said, "Oh, no, it's not a big deal. These cars are just kind of hard to get used to when you first-"
I threw up my hands in defense and tried to wrangle his hatred. "Whoa there, cowboy! There's no need to take your frustrations out on me. Everyone in this house loves you very much. We just want to see you happy. Do you need some time to take a break and cool off?"
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That level of unsustainable rage can break a man.
He sighed and hit the "Retry" button, saying, "No, I think I can contain myself, Dad. I'll try not to fly off the handle like that again."
Always leery of Satan's trickery, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and cautiously backed out of the room, warning, "I'm watching you, devil host. You control your demons, or I will control them for you." I'd like to say that our problems ended there, but unfortunately, they were just getting started ...
3It Turned Him into a Thief
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Everyone knows that three of the eight commandments are "Thou shall not thy steal thou." That's Hebrew for "Don't steal shit." Think about that. More than half of the commandments are devoted to this rule, which means that it must be pretty important. This is why, when I heard my son doing a holdup mission on the game, I developed a plan to test his resolve.
Scanning the family room, I saw that he had a half-empty glass of iced tea. Or was it half full? I pondered this question for about 45 minutes before I decided that it was neither and picked up his cup. Taking it to the kitchen, I put my plan into effect, filling the rest of the glass with tea and then placing it back where I found it. Now we'd see what he was truly made of. The top half was clearly my tea because I poured it. The bottom half was his. If he was an honest man, he'd poke a hole in the bottom and drink only his own.
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"Here's a bunch of lemons with it, too, because I know you're a pretentious asshole."
As if it presented no moral conflict at all, he picked it up and thanked me, his tone that of hate-stained mockery disguised under a deceiving veil of casualness. Then he took a long drink, as if to say, "This is my world, old man, and I take what I want!"
"I KNEW it," I screamed, slapping the glass from his hand. Thousands of tea droplets sprayed the walls and the TV screen as my son jerked in surprise.
"What was that for?" he yelled, wiping tea from his face with his now soaked shirt.
"You know damn well what that was for. That game is deviling your mind with urges of thievery, and I won't stand for it. Now you get in that shower and wash the devil away!"
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He shook his head and stood up. "I have to take a shower anyway because you drenched my hair with tea. And you can't just refill someone's glass and then claim that he stole it. What is wrong with you?"
He stomped off toward the bathroom, and I followed. "What's wrong with me is that I will not have a son who is infected with the heartworms of sin! 'Thou shalt not thy steal thou tea of purity!' Read the Bible, sinner!" I blessed the shower to turn it into holy water, made a mental note to market a Christian tea called "Puritea," and then left him to his devil washing.
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Meeting Minutes - March 14, 2003
In attendance: Jacob Rosenblum, Art Costantino, Bill Zaugg, Frank McGovern, Don Bantz, Ann Daley, Mike Segawa, Steve Trotter, Kathy Hogan, Michel George, Rob Rensel, Bob King, Collin Orr
The following business plans are being forwarded to the College Budget Council for consideration:
1) Web payments with convenience fees
2) Automated telemarketing system
3) Market Assessment of alumni/donor database
4) Conference Services revenue increase
5) Acquisition of personal computers
6) Continuing Education (planning already in progress)
The following business plans will be held for long range consideration:
1) Utilities conservation
2) Wireless communications enhancement
3) Additional work on Conference Services revenue increase
4) Additional work on the acquisition of personal computers
Based upon the Business Plans submitted, the projected net revenue increase for 2003-04 as a result of these initiatives is $405,000. This is $105,000 over the original goal set by the group.
The 2004-05 projected net revenue increase of these initiatives is $655,000. This is $55,000 over the original goal set by the group.


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Clovis – September 19, 2013 – On Thursday, September 19, 2013, at approximately 12:08 PM, the Clovis Police Department responded to the area of 14th Street and Sycamore on a report of a man wearing blue shorts and a striped shirt running south from the grounds of Yucca Middle School with an AR-15 Rifle in a backpack.
Upon arriving on the scene, officers located a man matching the description who began running from officers south on Walnut Street from the apartments at 12th and Walnut/Sycamore Street area. The man had dumped the backpack in a covey area outside the apartments. This was pointed out to officers by people on scene at the apartments and the backpack was recovered by Detectives. Among other items, a fully loaded .223 Caliber AR-15 Rifle and a loaded Walther P99 9mm pistol were found in the backpack the man had dumped.
Clovis Police Officers flooded the area. Two officers located the man matching the description hiding behind bushes located on the east side of the old radio station at 10th and Sycamore Street. He was taken into custody without any further incident. He was not armed when captured, but was found to be in possession of Marijuana in one of his pockets.
The man was identified as 23 year-old Andrew J. Chavez JR of Clovis. Chavez had an active arrest warrant for Battery on a Police Officer and was an absconder from the NM Department of Corrections Probation/Parole Department.
Yucca Middle School and Parkview Elementary School were placed on lockdown for a short time while Clovis Police Officers searched for the suspect in the area. Clovis Police were present at the two schools during the lockdown.
Investigation so far has revealed Chavez had just stolen the black backpack and firearms from a home burglary he had committed on Kingston Avenue, just a few blocks away from Yucca Middle School. The case is still under investigation.
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Kerala Village Fair, Kovalam, Kerala
Mid January is the time for cultural events in the lush villages around Kovalam every year. Traditional thatched houses are decorated during this 10-day festival and are the venue for folk dances, music and festivities. A typical Kerala village -'gramam'-- is recreated replete with the traditional Nalukettu houses, local teashops, etc. In the evenings, almost every dance, art and martial art form of Kerala is performed in the open-air auditorium of the gramam.


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Many people will one day stand before God and hear these shocking words: "I never knew you; depart from Me." Could you be one of those people? How can you tell if you're self-deceived about your standing with God? John MacArthur helps you evaluate the genuineness of your faith in his study Salvation Survey.
Is it possible to understand the gospel message, have strong religious convictions, serve in a Bible-believing church, and be convinced you have a saving relationship with God, and yet still not get into heaven when you die? The Bible couldn't be any clearer on the answer. Yes, many people will one day stand before God and be shocked as they hear Him say, "I never knew you; depart from Me."
So does that mean it's impossible to really know if you're saved? Can you ever be certain of your salvation? How can you tell if you're self-deceived about your standing with God?
Don't live in fear and uncertainty—take John MacArthur's Salvation Survey and settle, once and for all, the most important questions you will ever face.
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February 25, 2014
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Event - The Profit on CNBC presented by Small Business Fueling America,
Date - Sunday, March 2, 2014
Venue - Phoenix International Raceway
Richard Childress Racing's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history at Phoenix International Raceway ... Team owner Richard Childress has five victories at Phoenix International Raceway, ranking him third on the all-time car owner victories list at the Avondale, Ariz. facility. This includes RCR's most recent points-paying NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win with driver Kevin Harvick last November; Harvick's November 2012 win and Harvick's sweep of both races at PIR in 2006. Prior to that, Dale Earnhardt won the Checker 500 on Nov. 4, 1990. In 89 races at PIR, the Welcome, N.C.-based organization boasts 17 top-five and 37 top-10 finishes.
RCR in the NSCS ... In 2,384 Sprint Cup Series starts dating back to 1969, RCR has amassed 44 pole awards, 105 wins, 449 top-five finishes and 947 top-10 finishes, with an average starting position of 17.8 and an average finishing position of 15.8. RCR has earned 15 total championships (six Sprint Cup Series championships with Earnhardt in 1986, '87, '90,'91, '93 and '94, six NASCAR Nationwide Series titles, two NASCAR Camping World Truck Series titles and one ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards title) and was the first organization to win titles in NASCAR's three national series.
Save Kids' Lives by Joining the Childress Champions ... Help support the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma by selecting your favorite driver when making a bronze level donation of $33 (Austin Dillon), $27 (Paul Menard) or $31 (Ryan Newman) to CIPT. To make a tax deductable donation, visit: https://www.wakehealth.edu/OnlineGift.htm?fid=45. The Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma invests resources in research, education and awareness to improve the treatment for critically injured children in the U.S. The Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center was established through the generosity of Richard and Judy Childress. For more information, please visit www.InjuredKids.org.
Interactive RCR ... For up-to-date news and exclusive content, visit RCR's Twitter page - @RCRracing - along with the RCR Sprint Cup Series team Twitter pages - @RCR3ADillon, @RCR27PMenard, @RCR31RNewman, and driver Twitter pages @austindillon3, @RyanJNewman and @BScottRacing. Information about the 15-time championship winning organization can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RichardChildressRacing and at www.RCRracing.com along with official driver pages - www.facebook.com/austindillon3 , www.facebook.com/PaulMenard27 and www.facebook.com/RyanNewmanNASCAR.
Catch the Action ... The Profit on CNBC 500 presented by Small Business Fueling America will be televised live Sunday, March 2 beginning at 3 p.m. ET on FOX and will be broadcast live on the Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Austin Dillon
No. 3 American Ethanol Chevrolet SS
This Week's American Ethanol Chevrolet at Phoenix International Raceway ... Austin Dillon will pilot Chassis No. 430 in the Profit on CNBC 500 presented by Small Business Fueling America at Phoenix International Raceway. This is the same Chevrolet SS the Gil Martin-led team utilized at Phoenix International Raceway in November 2013, racing to Victory Lane.
Dillon at Phoenix International Raceway ... Although this weekend marks Dillon's first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start at Phoenix International Raceway, the Welcome, N.C., driver has made five Nationwide Series starts at the one-mile track, earning a fifth-place finish in November 2013, a sixth-place finish in March 2013, a sixth-place finish in November 2012, a fourth-place finish in March 2012 and a 34th-place finish in April 2009. In two NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts at the track, he has a pair of top-10 finishes and has made one start in the K&N Pro Series West at PIR, finishing 15th in 2009.
Think Green ... RCR's No. 3 Chevrolet team will sport the black and green colors of American Ethanol this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway. American Ethanol, a renewable source of cleaner burning energy from the bounty of America's farmers, helps create new green jobs and a renewed sense of pride for the American worker, while helping to achieve greater energy security for our country. Launched by Growth Energy and the National Corn Growers Association, along with the support of other partners, American Ethanol is a breakthrough brand that seeks to expand consumer awareness of the benefits of ethanol and E15, and takes the NASCAR Green initiative to the next level. Since the program launch for the 2011 season, NASCAR® drivers have run more than 5 million miles on renewable Sunoco Green E15.
Get to the Points ... Dillon started off his Sprint Cup Series season with a ninth-place finish in the Daytona 500 and therefore ranks ninth in the championship point standings entering this weekend's race event at Phoenix International Raceway.
Meet Dillon ... Dillon is scheduled to participate in a Q&A session at the Team Chevy Display in the fan midway area at Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday, March 2 at 9:30 a.m. Local Time.
What are your thoughts on racing at Phoenix International Raceway in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series?
"Phoenix International Raceway is a track I've been looking forward to for several weeks. I'm a rookie and I have a lot to learn - I know I'll have a lot to learn all season. I feel like I showed my rookie stripes quite a bit during the Daytona 500, but Phoenix is a track where I've made a ton of laps as a driver, so I've been looking forward to entering that race in the No. 3 American Ethanol Chevrolet. I've raced there in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the NASCAR Nationwide Series so I feel like I have a good feel for the track. It's a handling track where it's very important to work on your car and make sure it's right for the race. Getting off of each corner is important, and so is corner entry. I feel like I am working well with Gil Martin and the entire No. 3 team and we have a great chance to show everyone what our Richard Childress Racing organization is capable of doing."
Paul Menard
No. 27 Pittsburgh Paints/Menards Chevrolet SS
This Week's Pittsburgh Paints/Menards Chevrolet at Phoenix International Raceway ... Paul Menard will pilot chassis No. 448 at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR). This No. 27 Chevrolet SS is new to the RCR stable and will be utilized by the team for the very first time this weekend.
PIR Stats ... Menard has 14 starts at the one-mile oval in the Sprint Cup Series. His best start of seventh came in the spring of 2009 and fall of 2012, and his best finish of ninth came in both fall races of 2011 and 2012. He has an average starting position of 18.1 and finishing average of 21.9 in those starts. The Wisconsin native has completed 4,423 of 4,446 laps attempted (99.5%) at the Avondale, Ariz., track.
About Pittsburgh Paints ... PPG Pittsburgh® Paints is a nationally recognized brand trusted by painting contractors, building owners, architects, designers, and homeowners for over 100 years. Products include interior/exterior paints and interior/exterior stains. For additional information, please visit www.ppgpittsburghpaints.com.
Daytona 500 Look Back ... After starting 10th in the 56th running of the Daytona 500, Menard ran most of the race in the top-10 and top-five leading three times for 29 laps. However, after getting collected in a multi-car crash on lap 145 that forced him to the garage for repairs, he managed a return to action for a 32nd-place finish.
Race Rewind ... In his last appearance at PIR, Menard started the No. 27 Chevrolet SS from 16th place and took the checkered flag in the 20th position.
What are your thoughts on racing at Phoenix International Raceway:
"I always look forward to going to Phoenix International Raceway because the size and layout of the track make for some fun racing. After coming from a place like Daytona International Speedway last weekend where the aero package is everything, its different racing at PIR because it doesn't mean as much. I'm looking forward to a good race because the new surface has aged a little bit more than our last visit. We've ran well at Phoenix in the past and I'm looking for the entire No. 27 Pittsburgh Paints/Menards team to have a great run. Speaking of the track, I would like to congratulate the entire facility on their 50th anniversary of operation."
Ryan Newman
No. 31 Quicken Loans Chevrolet SS
This Week's Quicken Loans Chevrolet SS at Phoenix International Raceway ... Ryan Newman will drive chassis No. 441 in Sunday's 312-lap event at Phoenix International Speedway (PIR). It is brand new and will take to the track on Friday during the NSCS practice session scheduled to begin at Noon MT.
Newman at Phoenix International Raceway ... In 23 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts, the South Bend, Ind., native owns one victory at PIR (April 10, 2010) when he edged out Jeff Gordon by 0.13 seconds for the win. It's the closest margin of victory in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Phoenix. Of the 19 different pole winners at the track, Newman leads with a total of four, including three straight (2002-04). His average start is 13th while his eight top-five and nine top-10 finishes contributed to his average finish of 18.7. His Average Running Position of 15.3 is 10th best. Newman's Driver Rating is 85.9 ranking him 12th best. He's led 207 laps in competition and boasts running 3,723 laps in the top 15 (65.4%).
Point of Interest ... Newman ranks 21st in the NSCS point standings entering this weekend's second race on the Cup schedule. The RCR driver's 22nd-place showing in Sunday night's Daytona 500 was because of a late-race crash with just four laps remaining.
Engineered to Amaze ... RCR's No. 31 Chevrolet will sport the colors of Detroit-based Quicken Loans Inc. It is the nation's fourth largest retail home mortgage lender. The company closed a record $80 billion of volume across all 50 states in 2013. Quicken Loans generates loan production from web centers located in Detroit, Cleveland and Scottsdale, Arizona. The company also operates a centralized loan processing facility in Detroit, as well as its San Diego-based One Reverse Mortgage unit. Quicken Loans ranked #1 in customer satisfaction among all home mortgage lenders in the United States by J.D. Power for four consecutive years in 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010. Quicken Loans was named among the top-30 companies on FORTUNE magazine's annual "100 Best Companies to Work For" list for the last 11 consecutive years, ranking #5 in 2014. It ranked in the top-15 of Computerworld magazine's "100 Best Places to Work In Technology" for the past nine years, ranking #1 in 2013. The company moved its headquarters to downtown Detroit in 2010, and now more than 8,500 of its 10,000-plus team members work in the city's urban core. For more information about Quicken Loans, please visit www.quickenloans.com, on Twitter at @QLnews, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/QuickenLoan.
Media Availability ... Newman will be accessible to media in attendance at Phoenix International Raceway on Friday at 11:00 a.m. MT outside the No. 31 hauler in the NSCS garage.
What are your thoughts on racing at Phoenix International Raceway?
"The key to running well there is handling in all four corners. Each one is unique and you really cannot favor one corner over another. Plus, you have to have a good qualifying effort there because of track position. It's a tough place to pass. So qualifying will really be of interest here even more so because of the new qualifying format that NASCAR is implementing for the Sprint Cup teams this weekend. I think the fans will like fitting it all in a certain time slot. It will be a lot more entertaining and more of a must-see event versus watching an hour to 90 minutes of one car on the track at a time. For us, as competitors, it is to know that we are going to get multiple opportunities to bust off a good lap. You still have to bust off your best lap at the right time to win the pole, but the strategy that goes into it is the game changer. From a crew chief standpoint, there is a lot more that goes on in qualifying. It's not just the driver versus the race track anymore. I have said this many times when people criticize me for being a good qualifier and not winning as many races is it's just the car and the driver and the race track. Now you are throwing in track conditions, other competitors, timing, strategy of air pressure and things like that. A place like Martinsville you can be quick on your third or fourth lap. So how many laps do you run? How hot do you let the engine get? The crew chief has a lot to do with qualifying in 2014 than ever before. It's going to be interesting to watch and it will be interesting to hear what the fans have to say."


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Blame game gets intense at federal cuts draw nearBy JACKIE CALMES
The New York Times | February 24,2013AP File Photos
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, left, and President Barack Obama are the lightning rods for their respective parties as massive cuts in federal programs draw closer.WASHINGTON First the White House and Congress created a potential fiscal crisis, agreeing more than a year ago to once-unthinkable governmentwide spending cuts in 2013 unless the two parties agreed to alternative ways to reduce budget deficits.
Now that those cuts are imminent because compromise is not they have created one of Washingtons odder blame games over just whose bad idea this was.
The battle lines over cuts that are scheduled to begin Friday, known in budget parlance as sequestration, were evident Saturday in President Barack Obamas weekly address and the Republican response, by Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota.
The idea for sequestration did come from the White House, as news accounts made clear at the time Jacob J. Lew, then Obamas budget director and now his nominee for Treasury secretary, was the main proponent.
Lew, who was a senior adviser to the House speaker in the 1980s, lifted language from a 1985 law he helped negotiate, the Gramm-Rudman law. It was conceived by two Republican senators to be a sword of Damocles, as they said at the time, one that hung over the two parties, poised to strike unless they compromised on deficit reduction.
The law was ruled unconstitutional, and afterward, the Democratic-controlled Congress and President Ronald Reagan enacted a modified version, which resulted in relatively minor cuts until 1990.
Fast-forward to the summer of 2011. Obama and congressional Republicans were able to agree to nearly $1 trillion in reductions over a decade in discretionary spending programs, which cover just about everything the government does except entitlement programs.
But they could not agree on the final $1.2 trillion. The president demanded that that amount come from higher taxes on the wealthy and some reductions in entitlement spending. Republicans insisted on entitlement cuts only.
So both parties started negotiating for a trigger, as they called it an undesirable, automatic action that would slash deficits if Democrats and Republicans could not. Obama and Democrats wanted a trigger mandating automatic spending cuts and tax increases; Republicans insisted on spending cuts only.
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In our ongoing series of how cities in Michigan got their names, we've been able to share with you the history of cities from around our state. In case you missed them, here are Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 , Part 9, Part 10 and Part 11.
Today, we share the stories of how five more Michigan cities were named in part 12.
The village of Hillsdale was incorporated in 1847 and became a city in 1869. The geographical make-up of the Hillsdale area, which consists of hills and dales, influenced the name "Hillsdale". Though Hillsdale does not have any mountain to create dales, or valleys, it has heights that reach up to 1,250 feet above sea level, allowing dales to exist.
Handy Township, the township in which Fowlerville is located, was surveyed by Sylvestor Sibley in 1825. Calvin Handy and his family were the first settlers to arrive in Handy Township on June 16, 1836. Later that year, Ralph Fowler from Livingston County, New York, moved to the northeast portion of Handy Township. Considered to be the first permanent resident of this area of Handy Township, the area was named Fowlerville. The village incorporated in 1871.
Reed City
Before its establishment, Reed City was first known as Tunshla and then Todd's Slashing. It was plotted in 1870 by Charles Higbe, Ozias Slosson, and Fredrick Todd who re-named the village Reed City, after J.M. Reed. While the land was named after Reed, the streets and avenues were named after the village's other incorporators.
Monroe was first named Frenchtown in 1784. It was the third European settlement in the state of Michigan. In 1817, President James Monroe visited Frenchtown, causing the location to be renamed after the president in his honor. The newly named Monroe was then re-incorporated as a city in 1837.
St. Ignace
St. Ignace's name is derived from the Roman Catholic missionaries who settled the area during the time of the French and British explorers and fur traders. The Jesuit missionaries christened the community in honor of the founder of the Society of Jesus, St. Ignatius Loyola, and named the city in his honor. Among these Jesuits priests were Fathers Marquette, Charlevoix, and Allouez, whose names may sound of other familiar Michigan cities.
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"Institutions for Energy Innovation: A Transformational Challenge"
Paper, Energy Technology Innovation Policy Project, Belfer Center
September 2009
Authors: Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Research Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Science, Technology, and Pubic Policy Program, Laura Diaz Anadon, Associate, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Ambuj D. Sagar, Visiting Scholar, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy; Environment and Natural Resources; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
"The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away from its dependence on imported oil and coal-fired electricity and by increasing the efficiency with which energy is extracted/captured, converted, and utilized if it is to meet the urgent challenges facing the energy system, of which climate change and energy security are the most pressing. This will require the improvement of current technologies, and the development of new transformative ones, particularly if the transition to a new energy paradigm is going to be timely and cost-effective.
The Obama administration and the Secretary of Energy understand that the status quo will not deliver the results that are needed and have significantly increased funding for energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment and are putting in place new institutional structures. But policymakers must also pay much more attention to improving the management and coordination of the public energy technology innovation enterprise. For too long a focus on design and management elements necessary to allow government-funded innovation institutions to work effectively has largely been absent in policy debates-although not from many analysts minds and reports.
The United States is, in fact, at a historical point where the nation's energy innovation system is being examined, significantly expanded, and reshaped. As the country does this, it not only has a rare opportunity, but indeed a responsibility, to ensure that it improves the efficiency and effectiveness of this system to make sure that the country is getting the maximum payoff from its investments. In this context, the importance of improving and better aligning the management and structure of existing and new energy innovation institutions to enhance the coordination, integration, and overall performance of the federal energy-technology innovation effort (from basic research to deployment) cannot be over-emphasized. The technology-led transformation of the U.S. energy system that the administration is seeking is unlikely to succeed without a transformation of energy innovation institutions and of the way in which policymakers think about their design."
With this article, the authors wanted to present their principles as a starting point of a much-needed conversation among analysts, managers, scientists, and policymakers on how to enhance the effectiveness of these institutions.
Comments are welcome and may be directed to Venkatesh Narayanamurti at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Mailbox 53, Cambridge, MA 02138.
The authors are grateful to the Climate Change Initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for supporting the work of the Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project and the Science Technology and Public Policy Program, both at the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs of the Harvard Kennedy School.
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December 26, 2012 —
ALBANY, NY — Sullivan County's Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program faces the possibility of losing $18,000 in funding beginning in April. This is because New York State's Unified Court System, in its proposed budget for the next fiscal year budget, has dropped funding for CASA programs statewide, a cut of about $800,000.
"Sullivan County CASA has so little to start with," the organization's board president Shelly Field said last Friday. "It's just staggering," and then she added, "Without these funds, we might have to close our doors."
"This has nothing to do with the importance of CASA," she added, "but only to do with their need to make a balanced budget."
"It's a horrible thing to lose funding," Field said, "but we need to find a way to work with it."
Field said that people who want to take action to try to stave off the CASA budget cuts may contact Chief Judge Lippman at the Office of Court of Appeals, at 212/661-6787 and urge him not to allow the elimination of CASA funding statewide. Another option is to contact individual state assembly representatives and senators to ask for their support.


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Cranberry Medley
Makes 12 (1/2 cup) servings
Getting started Equipment you will need: cutting board/knife, large saucepan, spoon, large bowl Do right away when you get home: Remove cranberries from freezer if using frozen.
2 medium apples (any variety)
1/2 cup dried apricots
1 large navel orange
1 bag (12 oz.) fresh or frozen (thawed) cranberries
1/2 cup honey
3 Tbsp. cider vinegar
1. Chop and peel apples. Chop apricots into small pieces. Peel and finely chop orange. Put all into large saucepan.
2. Add cranberries, honey and cider vinegar to saucepan with other ingredients. Cook, uncovered, over medium heat until the berries pop, about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Transfer to a bowl; cover and refrigerate until chilled. Serve.
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Beats, Rhymes and Ink: Pooh Bear
When I ask about who the best tattoo artist is in the city 3-4 names pop up. Amongst those names is always, Milwaukee tattoo artist Pooh Bear-owner of Double Happiness Tattoo. Peep some of his art below,
At Hinterland, a tasting menu for diners who love vegetables
Hinterland, 222 E. Erie St., has begun serving a four-course, $40 vegetarian tasting menu.
It's to take advantage of summer's bounty, and will continue as long as the restaurant's farmers who supply the kitchen are harvesting, said chef Dan Van Rite. »Read Full Blog Post
Music, singing shine in 'Phantom of the Opera' at Marcus Center
In any production of "The Phantom of the Opera," things first really kick into gear when Christine descends into the Phantom's lair, lured by that intoxicating voice that's already firmly lodged inside her mind.
It's still more thrilling — in the revamped and lavishly designed touring "Phantom" now at the Marcus Center — to watch Christine take that precarious, vertigo-inducing plunge along a series of seemingly free-floating stairs, which emerge one by one from a revolving, two-story turret. »Read Full Article
RiverMill Foods opens in its new location, in Elm Grove
With its remodeling of the former Nora B's in Elm Grove complete, RiverMill Foods opened in its new, larger home late this week.
The restaurant moved from downtown Waukesha to be more centrally located to its catering clients, owner Laurie Runyan said. It's open to the public for sandwiches, wraps, salads, soups, breads and cheesecake, and has added breakfast items at its new place, at 890 Elm Grove Road in the Village Court plaza. »Read Full Blog Post


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Hayley Jean Campana becomes bride of Mark Thomas Valentino
Hayley Jean Campana and Mark Thomas Valentino were united in marriage during a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at Stambaugh Auditorium's Anne Kilcawley Christman Memorial Hall in Youngstown by the Rev. John Pratt.
She is the daughter of Robert and Carmen Campana of Southington. He is the son of Thomas and Susan Valentino of Salem.
The bride wore an ivory Casablanca bridal gown of perfecting satin, ruched stretch satin accented on the front and back with Swarovski crystals and pearl beaded appliques accompanied by an ivory satin flower for the hair. She carried a bouquet of ivory roses accented with pearls, greenery and eggplant ribbon.
Brittney Walczak, the bride's sister, was the matron of honor.
Jacob Valentino, the bridegroom's brother, served as best man.
Completing the wedding party were Laura Campana, the bride's sister-in-law, and Terry Clutter, Danielle Carlier and Jennifer Zador. Dave Wyemura, Matthew Ross, Jeff Berger and Joe Herrod, served as groomsmen.
A reception was held at the Davis Center at Fellow Riverside Gardens at Mill Creek Park. Music was provided by Millennium Sound. Catering was provided by Aulizio's Banquet Center.
The couple honeymooned a week in Costa Rica.
The bride is a graduate of Southington-Chalker High School and graduated magna cum laude from Kent State University with a bachelor's of science in exercise physiology and a bachelor's of science in nursing. She is employed as a registered nurse for the Cleveland Clinic's Moll Cancer Center.
Mr. Valentino is a graduate of West Branch High School and Ashland University with a bachelor's of science in middle childhood education and a master's of arts in education administration from Baldwin Wallace College. He is employed as a language arts educator at A I Root Junior High School in Medina.
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By Robert Cox, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension agent, horticulture
September and October bring on "Aspen Days" in Colorado, when families head to the mountains for a glimpse of gold.
There's nothing quite like the brilliant gold color of leaves poised against a background of deep azure-blue sky. Enjoying the color is one thing; knowing why leaves change from green to brilliant hues is another.
Fall color of aspens and other deciduous trees is determined by genetics and environment (weather, altitude and soil conditions, for example). Brightest color results from bright sunny days, cool nights and drier soils high in iron content.
Leaves are green because of chlorophyll, a complex pigment involved in photosynthesis. Chlorophyll continually must be synthesized as sunlight degrades it. As days shorten and nights cool, synthesis of chlorophyll ceases and the remaining chlorophyll in leaves is broken down by enzymes and sunlight. As leaves lose chlorophyll, other pigments that were masked by chlorophyll become apparent. Yellow colors are the result of carotene pigments; reds and purples from anthocyanins. Orange fall color is caused by mixtures of carotenes and anthocyanins.
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The Airport is situated only 6 km. from the centre of Aalborg and is an international modern airport with daily domestic and international flights - and more than 16 daily flights to/from Copenhagen.
Aalborg Airport is the third largest airport in Denmark. You will find many domestic as well as international flights every day. You can see more about the flights on Aalborg Airport's homepage.
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Catalyze CU is open to CU-Boulder students and faculty to help them turn their innovations and technology into companies.
The first cohort of six ventures that include a total of 22 students kicks off Saturday and runs for eight weeks. During that time, Catalyze CU will provide the ventures with mentorship, grants and space at Spark Boulder – a student co-working space on University Hill – as they develop their products and business plans.
"Our goal is to move them to the next stage, whatever that is," Doug Smith, assistant dean for programs and talent at CU's College of Engineering and Applied Science, said in a statement. "It could be product development, raising capital funds and, in some cases, releasing their products on the market."
Catalyze CU is modeled after other business-accelerator programs around the country, with local notables like the Foundry Group's Brad Feld and Jason Mendelsohn and TechStars' co-founder David Cohen providing their expertise.
More than 35 teams applied to be part of the first Catalyze CU cohort. The six selected include:
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Advanced Micro Devices has announced that it would bring forward the introduction of its code-named Ontario low-power low-cost chip that combines x86 processing units with graphics engine on the same piece of silicon. Unfortunately, speed up of the launch seem to have negatively affected qualities of the products: it is no longer aimed at slates or other innovative form-factors.
"We are excited about the opportunities Ontario offers. It's a game changer that significantly expands our adressable market. Based on strong customer demand and an accelerated engineering cycle, we now expect Ontario to be the first Fusion APU we bring to market. We plan to ship Ontario APUs in the fourth quarter of this year [for revenue], ahead of schedule," said Derrick Meyer, chief executive officer of AMD, during the quarterly conference call with financial analysts.
The chip designer expects actual systems based on the code-named Ontario accelerated processing units (APUs) to become available early next year. Unfortunately, those devices will not be revolutionary technological masterpieces, but rather prosaic low-cost netbooks with improved performance of microprocessor as well as DirectX 11 graphics support. While at present there are no netbooks with such feature-set, it is not generally clear whether there is demand for advanced graphics on netbooks with small screens.
Even though earlier AMD have said a number of times that Fusion and Ontario would revolutionize the market of tablets or target new form-factors, it looks like the forthcoming code-named Brazos mobile platform will only aim netbooks or even low-end notebooks, not slates.
"We clearly have the capability to create products targeted to tablets, but that will not be where Ontario will be targeted. It will be more netbooks and up into the low-end of mainstream notebooks," stressed Mr. Meyer.
The reasons behind AMD's decision to no longer target rapidly developing market of tablet PC with Ontario APU and Brazos platform are unclear.
AMD code-named Ontario features two x86 cores based on Bobcat micro-architecture, integrated DirectX 11-class graphics core and DDR3 memory controller on a single-chip system-on-chip (SoC) device. As reported previously, the Bobcat micro-architecture features x86-64, virtualization, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 technologies and will be single-threaded with out-of-order execution. The actual Ontario microprocessor, which is a dual-core chip, will be able to offer 90% of today's "mainstream performance" in less than half of die area. AMD claims that Bobcat-based products are sub-1W capable. The SoC will be made using a 40nm fabrication process at TSMC. AMD Ontario is the key part of AMD Brazos platform for low-power devices.


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In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), The Vendo Company of Fresno, CA has announced the extension of its retrofit program undertaken in April 1989 to address deaths and injuries to consumers due to tipover of vending machines.
The purpose of the retrofit program is to add anti-theft levers and warning labels to certain Vendo machines manufactured between January 1982 and May 1985. The anti-theft lever prevents the dispensing of a free product if these machines are rocked. In the last several years, there have been numerous deaths and injuries caused by the rocking or tilting of vending machines. A substantial number of the targeted vending machines have not yet been retrofitted and labelled by their owners. CPSC and Vendo urge these owners to complete the retrofit program as soon as possible. Consumers should protect themselves from serious injury or death by refraining from rocking or tilting any vending machine. The program has once again been extended. Owners are being credited $20 for each machine retrofitted up to the extension date. For further information please contact Ms. Peggy Ayres of Vendo at (209) 439-1770.
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