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Skip to comments.Problems With the Truth: Confessions of a 22-Year Rick Santorum Observer
Posted on 04/05/2012 8:17:49 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ive known Rick Santorum for 22 years, having first met him in 1990 before hed won his first campaign for Congress. I interviewed him on WORD-FM, an evangelical Christian radio station where I was a frequent guest host (and eventually a full-time host) early in his campaign.
If I was not the first media personality to interview Rick, I was one of the first. I had Rick as a guest at the request of my friend, Mark Rogers, who was running Ricks campaign. Over the years I interviewed Rick at least a dozen times and debated him several times as well. I personally knew most of his staff, almost hired one member of his staff as the research director of a think tank I ran, and eventually did hire another of his staff members as my administrative assistant.
As I mentioned before, I was friends with the man who ran his first campaign and who ended up being Ricks chief of staff when Rick was in Congress. I was best man at the marriage of a Santorum staff member and one of my closest friends. This couple may well be my wifes and my closest friends. Ive had dealings on more than one occasion with a media/public relations firm run by John Brabender, who has done most of Ricks media campaign work.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Devastating stuff from Mr. Bowyer, the former head of a conservative think-tank around here and former local radio talk show host.
Thanks again for reminding me on the opening day of baseball season how they did an end-run around the clear expression of the voters to build those stadiums with public money anyhow.
Claimed it would make the Pirates competitive. In 1999.
Some of us have been posting the facts here about Santorum from the start, only to be attacked as evil people who hate a "godly man," which is apparently his latest reinvention of himself once he found that it worked to get votes.
"Wish I'd known this before I voted for Santorum last Tuesday."
And why do you assume that this article is being entirely honest? After all, all of these alleged problems have been around for years, but now they are just being revealed? I love these last minute revelations - like the idiot article that kept being posted about how Santorum was really, secretly pro-abortion.
Forbes, like the rest of the establishment media is in the tank for Mittens. You are "being played", and now, because of credulous people like you, we will end up with Mittens, whom we of course know is an honorable man and conservative with deeply held conservative convictions.
Santorum isn't my first choice - or even my second or third. Maybe not even my fourth choice. Nevertheless, with whatever policy faults he has, he is vastly better than Mittens.
The establishment is scared silly of someone form there is at least one issue where compromise is out of the question.
Any candidate who said what Santorum said about George Zimmerman without any facts is a LOSER of the first order!
You knew this information before you voted for him, didn't you?
I don't support Rick Santorum. I find him as pasty and boring and uninspiring as this, uh, what is this? An article? An Opinion? Some ramblings? I could hardly read this dribble. It is written like they guy is sitting on his toilet with his iPad in hand after waking up in the middle of the night because he is constipated. He seems to be half asleep.
So, why don't you rebut what Bowyer says with specifics instead of calling Forbes a rag and bashing local talk show hosts?
Then, I might believe you. But not now.
After reading the article, all I'm going to say is that I'm a Newt supporter until the end, and I have no regrets about that.
I forgot about that one, I'm sorry to say. However, I wasn't going to vote for Mittens or whatever obscene nickname he has now. I wasn't going to vote for Newt because he's married to his mistress. (Yes, I know that's horribly judgmental in an era where Clintonian Republicans get a pass, but I don't care.)
That left Paul and Santorum. Paul actually appealed more to me, based on his ideas, but I could not forgive his associations with people such as Stormfront folks, so I voted for Santorum. So there.
Santorum has one leg in the past and one in the future. He is out of step in war advocacy as our solution for peace. But Santorum's social message is ahead of the times. He is a pioneer like Goldwater. As the moral greed and selfishness of the country increases, the moral awakening will resonate more. 'Greed is good', but doing good is better.
He's this campaign season's Huckabee, trotted out there to siphon off just enough conservative votes to secure the nomination of the establishment selected candidate. The same people fell for it last time, and fell for it again.
The MSM would never broadcast such damaging information while the lightning rod was was doing its job. Only now, when his usefulness is extinguished, do they let the information flow.
This is mere confirmation of facts that have been shown previously. It will be funny to continue to read the passionate and angry defenses of Little Saint Ricky from the willfully blind who have supporting him.
I read the whole thing... Jerry Bowyer excoriates Santo on several "things" BUT not on being a Union stooge.. Bowyer must also be a Union stooge.. Which is Santo's greatest FAULT..
Romney is also a Union stooge, you know, like OBAMA..
Funny most people are seeming to miss the main reason Santo Romney or anyone else SHOULD NOT BECOME President..
Being a GOON for the Unions.. or supporting federal givernment power for Unions.. Unions of every type and parasitic agenda.. Federal and State power for an inside group, a cabal of Vampires.. UNIONS.. all of them..
Bowyer missed all that.. ON PURPOSE.. much as Bill O'Really and all of FOX News misses it for the same reasons.. A brief look at Wisconsin will show why? Unions are parasitic and a political disease.. Unions are buried so deep in Chicagos political machine they are one and the same as the democrat party.. and the republican party AS WELL...
ONLY NEWT has "hinted" at destroying the Unions power base..
That is, Local, State and Federal Givernment support..
Only "right to work" laws can allow FREEDOM to exist..
NO "right to work" NO FREEDOM.. some States are NOT Free..
The people of PA apparently got sick enough of him to toss him out on his ass in 2006.
Interesting. I didn't find it to be "dribble." Which part is drivel? This wasn't opinion. Bowyer listed Rick's "lies" very clearly and then elucidated.
Do you have anything specific to rebut what Bowyer says? You can convince me with facts. As it is, I had heard about Rick's house-buying deceit. In my opinion, Santorum is just another dxxxed politician.
Oh, barf.
Not that you're not entitled to your opinion, but mega-barf.
I rest my case.........Now some of you can see why I have fought so hard to get the truth out about this impostor and fraud.
I am not a Santorum supporter and I go along with all of this except the real estate issue.
The people of Pennsylvania can't really expect that their senators and congresscreatures will physically live in PA and put in a four-hour one-way commute to Capitol Hill every work day. Those who work on Capitol Hill have to live within reasonable commuting distance, which means northern Virginia or close-in Maryland (= 45 + minutes drive time, depending on the state of the nightmarish traffic). Those are staggeringly expensive areas. A house in towns like Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Great Falls, McLean, or Alexandria suitable for a senator or congressperson to do professional entertaining will definitely cost upwards of a million dollars. If he can afford it, why not? And if he wants to enroll his kids in a cyber school under the supervision of their mother, as many homeschool families do, why not do that too? I see that as being better than enrolling them in local schools in Virginia.
Everything else in the article, yes.
Ouch. This is going to leave a mark.
That's not a reason to ignore the allegations though, is it? The author writes about lies Rick Santorum told when he was a Congressman and Senator for Pennsylvania. Since PA was Santorum's home state for most of his political career and the PA primary is April 24th, Santorum's record and statements as a representative of PA are relevant.
I suspect that had Rick Perry been the chosen candidate of the Christian Right, his record and statements would have been scrutinized just prior to the Texas primary in May. And that would be relevant also, IMHO.
The piece is full of things like this: "Not long after that I was summoned to Ricks office for an alleged reconciliation meeting, where I was lectured about how he really was a true conservative and that people like me should not be sore winners and should line up in support of him again.
"Summoned" by who? "Lectured" by who? When did this happen? Around 1997 it seems?
There are a lot of words in this thing that was written but not much to chew on. Not a great deal of supporting facts that I see. Not that I care. As I already said, I do not support Santorum.
I've been following all this left-wing attacks on Santorum, and that is virtually the only one where he actually said what they say he said. He screwed up big time on that one. But it's an exception. All the other attacks, on examination, took his words out of context and lied about what he actually said.
Typical is the headline currently on Drudge, one of the giants of the Romney Lie. Rick is taking a four-day weekend from the campaign trail, and with it is a picture of some kind of comic puppet.
Well, those four days happen to be Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter. A lot of us will be taking the time to observe Holy Week, I would imagine. Even the banks and the markets are taking an extra day off. But Drudge makes it seem as if it's Rick's comical cave=in to Drudge's gay god, Mitt Romney.
So, you've decided to skip the "lies," and focus on minor details. Not convincing.
You would have to really wonder about anyone who would willingly form an alliance with former Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy.
Murphy is a singularly dishonest and unlikeable character.
In case you didn't notice, that was almost entirely the fault of Bush and Rove. The Democrats swept the country in 2006, and built their congressional majority that year. Pennsylvania is a swing state, and not an easy victory for a conservative Senator, especially with a strong opponent who was a very good liar and also had the sympathy vote. Bush won big in 2004, but over the next two years he disappointed his base and threw it all away. 2006 was a disaster over most of the country.
Rick did endorse Specter, for several reasons: Because Bush and Rove, not yet discredited, said they needed him to put through more pro-life SCOTUS nominees like Clarence Thomas, who never would have made it without Specter's powerful support. And indeed Specter did push Roberts and Alito through, before he went south again. Also, because Specter had endorsed Santorum earlier, so he owed him. Although Specter then betrayed Rick and turned his back on him.
Pennsylvania happens to be a swing state, and without Specter's support, plus the base voters who were foolishly angry about the Specter endorsement earlier, plus Bush's growing unpopularity, Rick was bound to lose.
It's Bush's fault!
If you say so.
Oh absolutely! And it's very disheartening they've learned nothing of how the game is played and only see who they might "like"....They should have seen the media 'play' in New England when they lifted Santorum to the front.....he sure didn't get it by his popularity.
They gave him the stage thereafter....and with Romney's ads in Florida we watched as they continued to push Newt off the stage.
Makes my blood boil that the best man for the job,, Newt, could not be seen thru the media blackout and the sudden appearance of Santorum....simply was a matter of the Pied Piper doing it's work and the Republicans following.....same o' same.
An interesting and telling article, but much was already known and it will not make a difference with those that support Saintorum.
-His supporters will either ignore it, attack it or make excuses for Rick... just as they have done all along.
-Any article bringing attention to his deficits are too late to stop him, and if discredited.... too late to help him.
Unless this entire mess goes to a contested convention, where a rabbit is pulled out of a hat, this game is over......meaning that Romney will get the nomination and go on to lose against Obama.
PREPARE for 4 more years of pain and suffering, because that is most likely what we are going to experience.
Well, it is a fact that the 2006 election was a disaster for the Republicans.
The 2002 midterm election went surprisingly well for the Republicans, since midterms tend to be difficult, historically, for the incumbents. And Bush did very well in 2004, with a huge turnout of Evangelicals.
By 2006, that enthusiasm was gone, and millions of Christian conservatives who turned out for Bush in 2004 stayed home.
It is certainly a fact that Santorum was not the only incumbent who was thrown out in 2006. It was a disaster over most of the country.
I'm not here trying to "convince" you. I don't care what you think about this "thing" that was written as if it is some kind of thunderclap. It has the word "confession" in the title but the guy is not someone that is on the inside of anything that I can see. His views are external to his subject. He does not "confess" anything other than what one might read in some response to a google inquiry. Even he says he is an "observer". Well, I have observed the Pope but I can't "confess" a darn thing to you about him. My point is that this is a lighweight piece with not much to get excited about. Just some stuff stitched together then he speaks in a very serious manner. LOL!
Again, I don't care about Santorum. Frankly, I find him kind of creepy. So that is my "confession". I declare Santorum creepy after observing him. Maybe I should write a piece about that and send it to Forbes because it seems they need any kind of content filler they can get...
"Now some of you can see....."
Deer see the headlights of a car coming at it at 70mph.... they either freeze and do nothing, run off into the woods and hide or jump in front of the car.
If this one video didn't make folks realize that Saintorum was unfit for the job, nothing else will. After all, he was once an alter boy.
Here is the only real conservative in that has been in the race... and he loves the constitution:
Well, I guess what I'm doing is begging someone to prove to me that there is a candidate for me to vote for— to prove to me that one or the other should be Obama's opponent.
I'll hold my nose and vote for the Obama's opposition, and I don't think that will be Santorum. But, if it is, I'll vote for him.
I then added some very inappropriate comments about the OP's motives for which I have apologized. CAWW has since made clear that he agrees Romney needs to be stopped; beyond that, I don't want to speak for him and run the risk of saying things he would not say.
Bottom line — the Santorum campaign **MUST** respond to this. The article is damaging. I believe it can be responded to, but I'm the wrong person because I don't know Pennsylvania politics, and in any event, I'm not in any way formally connected with the Santorum campaign and Santorum's people, not just his supporters, need to respond to an article capable of causing this magnitude of damage.
59 posted on Wed Apr 04 2012 13:06:55 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by caww: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jerrybowyer/2012/04/04/problems-with-the-truth-confessions-of-a-22-year-rick-santorum-observer/
I've been around politics long enough to know that something like the article caww cited didn't come out of nowhere. It's virtually tailor-made to damage Rick Santorum in his home state with his core constituency of conservative Christians. While I am not going to criticize the motives of the author and am inclined to take him at his word about his reasons for writing and maybe even his own timing, the timing of the article's prominent appearance in a major conservative magazine like Forbes is pretty likely intended by the Romney campaign to attack Santorum and is likely part of an effort to knock Santorum out of the race by wrecking his polling numbers in Pennsylvania.
I know nothing about the author or his background as an Christian broadcaster or his credibility in Pennsylvania. I also don't know local issues. What I do know is this article has to be rebutted by the Santorum campaign, and rebutted quickly.
I see at least two potential problems with the article. There may well be others which I have not noticed because I don't know Pennsylvania politics, and what I write here is tentative. Somebody from the Santorum campaign needs to write a much better response.
First, the article uses the lie word in ways which are questionable at best. That is a very, very serious charge. That word needs to be used very rarely and only when it can be proved that someone has deliberately stated things he knew to be false with an intent to deceive. Most statements by political figures are made carefully enough that they can't be caught in a deliberate lie, so even if I think an elected official lied, I usually can't prove it, and if I can't prove it I'm not going to make the accusation.
In this specific article, while I think some of the accusations (i.e., the charitable giving) are potentially capable of being proved to be deliberate lies, I'm not at all convinced the article has proved that Santorum lied even about that, and much less so the other accusations. I don't recall any case where I have accused Gingrich or even Romney of lying, and the evidence the author cites is weak in at least some of the situations he cites. I'm not saying it's wrong, only that the evidence isn't there.
Second, I am not at all convinced that Santorum backing a proposal to use government funding to keep professional sports teams is a good example of his supposed big government views. Do I like such things? No, but the reality is that I live in an area where the entire future of our community depends on Department of Defense spending, and where things like TIFs and CIDs and NIDs and other things of that type are standard engines of economic growth which the broadcaster dismisses as Keynesian economics.
I think it's clear that Pennsylvania is far from the only area where governments have spent tens of millions of dollars to keep a professional sports team in town, or to provide some other incentive to a private business to keep its owners in town or convince its owners to move to town or expand an existing operation. We can say Santorum was wrong to do that, and that's fine, but blaming Santorum for doing what his constituents wanted, especially when what they wanted has become standard practice in economic development, is asking Santorum to be the sort of elected official who probably can't get re-elected in a moderate-to-liberal state.
If that's the worst example the author can come up with of Santorums supposed big government views, I think the author is proving only that Santorum is from a northern rustbelt state where the government has been involved in providing incentives to business for at least a century. I also think it wouldn't be too hard to find lots of conservative Southerners who support the same or similar incentives to business. Feel free to disagree that's a fair question but those who disagree would have been in a very small minority of people in government until the current economic crisis in which lots of people agree staving off bankruptcy needs to be the key priority.
I'm 100% with you on that!
PING for later.
Except who did he actually siphon votes from?
Back in Iowa, he ended up winning, and for all we know if he hadn't, RIck Perry might have been that dark horse rising from Iowa. That would have changed things greatly.
He certainly didn't siphon votes from Gingrich.
Ditto that ...
The whole thing stinks to high heaven IMO....we have been boxed in and barely with a fight. If this does not go to convention then I'm genuinely done with politics altogether.
Primarily because even when we get our guys in office they quickly lay their gloves aside....and doing so sets us, in the field, back years of what might otherwise be.
Sometimes the idea of the whole system crashing is not hard to imagine as a good thing....and may take just that for Americans to ever really wake up. Too many are still far to comfortable in their lifestyle and it won't be until they see a tornada actually take thier home will they rise to the occassion....if that.
I know and it deplorable to say without knowing the facts! What else does Santorum say and do without knowing the facts???
I'm really waiting for Hades to be raised at the convention! Maybe something radical will happen which will dismantle the whole republican rino establishment.
As convoluted as this may sound, Romney might be the nominee, and if he is I hope he beats Obama, but I won't vote for his sorry rino ass!
Iowa. Just like Huckabee...
Both Perry and Gingrich are both far superior candidates than Little Saint Ricky, yet do not mercilessly flog their faith in everyone's face. Evidently, enough voters see this as a plus, and not a flashy curtain obscuring utter vapidity on nearly all matters pertaining to governance that this charlatan was able to stay in the race.
It also helps that the MSM went total blackout on Newt after Florida, instead only reporting on the "two front runners" in Mittens and Little Saint Ricky. Newt was too effective against them, so they shut him up.
With Little Saint Ricky and Mittens, the Establishment wins either way. Both are big spenders and will further the expansion of Big Government. Slower than Il Douche, but expansion nonetheless.
Santorum's last minute surge in Iowa started when the media started putting forward the narrative that Santorum would get a "second" look..... He was a desperation vote since Cain was gone and Newt took damage, and Ron Paul was possibly going to take the win.
And the author is to be trusted? Forbes? How about NBC or CNN?
At this point, I think the timing of the allegations is a good reason to treat them with extreme scepticism. People don't have to invent things to have something to criticize Santorum over.
Unfortunately, no sitting politician has a record that is entirely wart free. Mittens' handlers have been very good at getting conservatives to devour their own while he stands on the sidelines. Now all the geniuses here who posted with vitriol against Perry, Cain, Santorum, Newt, RP, and Bachman get Romney.
The Rs aqren't called the stupid party for nothing.
The point was that the establishment is petrified of anyone with a backbone. Since Santorum is avowedly against abortion, I don't think it needs further proof.
OK, since people asked. I don't really care myself, and I don't have time for detailed analysis, but I'll take a stab.
"Lie 1" - raise local taxes or teams would leave". I am wary of ever calling future predictions "lies", because nobody can tell the future. In this case, the taxes weren't raised. But we don't know whether the teams would have left, because they found a way to get alternate tax money without a local tax increase; although it did bankrupt the city, it seems to have saved the teams. Now, was Santorum "lieing", because he didn't know they'd bankrupt the city and raise state taxes to save the team? Did it turn out better for Pittsburgh to be bankrupt than to have the tax increase? I'm not going to argue in support of taxes paying for stadiums, but that is a policy question. I judge that there is no lie here.
"Lie 2 : No Plan B to save teams". Author provides no evidence there was a plan. When taxes were rejected, a new plan became known, but for all we know that plan started formation when the tax increase failed. And since that plan bankrupted the city, it wasn't a very good plan, and one could say it wasn't a "plan" so much as the inevitable consequence of the tax rejection. Again, this was no Lie.
"Lie 3: (2) Where Santorum Lived" - this story is well-known, and the author shows no indication of a lie. Santorum attacked the previous office holder for not living in the district, and said he would, but again, this is a prediction of the future. He owned a residence which is what many in DC do to maintain a legal residence, so that wasn't a lie. He wasn't found liable for the cost of the charter school, and the whole "cost" thing is one of those fictions of government accounting, as they pass fake money around and pretend they are spending it. Who thinks it really cost and extra $100,000 because Santorum's kids took online courses that already existed? The programs were paid for, the computers were operating, the teachers were being paid whether there were 5 extra kids or not.
"Lie 4: He claimed he wanted to live in Pa, but then didn't when he was fired" — once gain, this is a future prediction problem. That he didn't move back to Pa in 2006 doesn't show that in 2004 he wished he could. Maybe getting soundly beaten in an election made him change his mind about where he lived. When my son asked if i wanted to do a C&O Canal bike trip, I said no way. We just did it — does that mean I lied? No, I changed my mind. Did Santorum ever promise that he'd be a life-long Pa resident? no.
"Lie 5 : Santorum said he was underwater" — This is the first lie where there is some actual evidence. Except the evidence is a newspaper attempt to assess the value of a "2 million dollar home" in a collapsing real estate market. Actually, here in Northern Virginia house prices bounced back somewhat pretty quickly. My house was once listed at $500,000, and later was around $220,000, and then some around me sold for $350,000. If my loan was $300,000, and I said in one month I was underwater, and a paper came 3 months later and saw the recent $350,000 sale price, they would conclude I wasn't underwater, but I might have been when I said it. I might have still been, because who knows if I could actually sell my house. Certainly not a "lie".
"Lie 6: Santorum said his child cost a lot so he gave little" — Actually, the author never refutes that claim, he just says it doesn't actually explain low giving. But it certainly could explain the low giving in that year. If I never gave any money and instead bought pizza every day, and then one year I couldn't buy pizza because I spent all my money caring for my sick wife, and then I was asked why in that year I didn't give more money, it wouldn't be a lie to say that I could not give more money because I spent it all on my sick wife.
"Lie 6: He said he gave more in earlier years, when tax returns show he didn't". This is the first lie that appears to have merit, if you assume the story is correct about the tax returns. I don't have time to research tax returns. The family might also have still had major expense; 7 kids and a mortgage on a 2-million-dollar house is a big deal. Note that the author plays class warfare while pretending not to. Anybody can own a 2-million dollar home, you just have to find someone stupid enough to lend you 2 million dollars. Having bought a 2-million-dollar home (which btw isn't exactly the upper crust home in Fairfax, as I said I own a pedestrian home in Prince William that was appraised at half a million at the height of the bubble (4 bedroom, 1/3rd acre in an older community with no sidewalks or curbs, and the home is poorly built), Santorum had a huge monthly mortgage, so maybe he couldn't afford to give money. I don't excuse his not giving, because charity is a calling of God. But it might not be a lie to say he had no money to give. Still, I won't reject this one — so that's one lie in the 1st 6 attempts.
"Lie 7 : (4) - disparagement of a pollster" - I guess if we are going to call attacking pollsters for bad polls "lies", we'll have to call all politicians liars. I've heard every candidate say the polls were bad, sometimes they are, sometimes they are not. Now, can I do research to find out how well the pollster does? I don't have the time, but I will note that the author didn't give any evidence to show the pollster was accurate, beyond stating that the pollster managed to release at least one poll in each of Santorum's senate runs that correctly showed who would win. Well, I would note that the poll Santorum was complaining about actually showed Santorum winning Pennsylvania, so if Santorum wins the poll would be "correct", and the argument was over the percentages. In order to show that Santorum was exagerating or lying about hte pollsters accuracy, the author needed to show that the pollster consistantly got the PERCENTAGES right in Pennsylvania races. I will say it is the responsibility of the person claiming a lie to SHOW it is a lie, not my burden to prove it isn't a lie. I reject this pollster claim as a lie of any consequence, and note the author was REALLY personally upset about this comment, and said this was the entire reason he wrote the article.
(WHich means the author, who claims Santorum is a serial liar, was HAPPY to let all of us vote for him in ignorance, until his personal friend was attacked, and THEN he decided to tell the truth. What kind of guy lets the world be mislead as it is of no consequence, only to lash out because he is personally angry?)
So there you have it. The entire article is an opinion-based attack, so I have used an opinion-based response. By my reckoning, without spending a lot of time on it, I can rationally and logically dismiss 6 out of the 7 claims of "lies" as being something other than a lie. Only one case, that of the charitable contributions, appears to be a lie, and maybe a better study of the facts might also show that to be tenuous.
This CERTAINLY is no knock-out blow, or a definitive show of the lack of moral character of Rick Santorum.
Rick is in a hard race, and he's getting frayed nerves, it appears. He's saying things in frustration and desperation, and it isn't pretty (his George Zimmerman comments were worse than anything in this article). He lashed out at a poll because at the moment he was asked, it was an outlyer, and a candidate has to build momentum by claiming things are looking up. That caused this article's author to get angry and lash out in a personal attack against Rick Santorum.
If Rick was doing better, he would be calmer and would have found a better way to speak to the polls, and this article wouldn't have been written. If you want a guy who is pretty calm and is unlikely to say rash things about Zimmerman or pollsters, that unfortunately is Mitt Romney, because he's doing well enough he isn't frazzled like Gingrich was after Florida or Santorum is now.
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South Korean DAP maker SAFA just announced the release of its latest player, the TTing, which features a unique dot-matrix display comprised of 27 LEDs. Why two 'T's in the name you ask? Because that's how SAFA rolls.
The 40x40x12mm player features 4 touch sensitive buttons around the face, 4 tactile buttons on the sides and a "G-sensor mode for interactive operation"—whatever that means. It also has a 12 hour battery life, and a speaker on the rear.
The 27 pixel LED display probably won't show you album art, but it can be programmed to display several icons and can also be used to play games such as "dice" and the age old game of "paper, stone, and scissors". So, bonus.
So where can you get it and for how much? We have no idea, SAFA failed to mention that. But we'll venture to guess it'll be released somewhere in South Korea, and judging by that FCC badge on the back, it may make a US appearance as well.
[SAFA, aving.net via PlayerBites]

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yea this has been the overwhelming sentiment. if we can keep fields thats the ideal deal.
Gallo would still start because Melo essentially replaces Chandler in the starting lineup.
On another note,we have pretty much a 7 man team why cant we get rid of the dead weight an try some d-leaguers. isnt that what the minors are for? we could get our backup pg from there. Antonio daniels anyone? Also iknow theres some rebounding bigs in the D-League


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The Jewish Exponent was awarded an honorable mention for its online presence from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Foundation.
The honor, announced this month, was one of the categories in the association's 2013 Newspaper of the Year awards.
It's the third time the Exponent's site has been recognized since the company launched a new digital operation last November, complete with multimedia features, an interactive calendar and blogs.
The site also won first place for Outstanding Website in the American Jewish Press Association's annual Rockower competition and second place for Best Overall Website from the Philadelphia Press Association (which pitted the site against daily newspapers instead of just non-dailies).


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Iowa bridge destroyed by flood nearly ready
Officials say a nature trail bridge in northeast Iowa destroyed by a 2008 flood is almost ready for the public.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports the project to rebuild the 700-foot McFarlane Bridge is almost complete. The bridge helps connect the 52-mile Cedar Valley Nature Trail, which runs from Evansdale to Hiawatha near Cedar Rapids.
Black Hawk County officials held a hearing this week to update the public on the project's status. A grand opening ceremony for the bridge is tentatively scheduled for early May.
Project organizers say the repair work took so long because county and state officials needed to secure funding.
A former railroad bridge in Evansdale also was destroyed by the flood, but it reopened in July 2011.
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"There's a new hero in town."
Down four in the eighth, the Phillies needed a miracle. A few hits and walks later, and the Phils had the bases loaded for Raul Ibanez.
Ibanez's grand slam won it, 13-11. Ryan Howard hit a grand slam before that to tie the game at 6-6. This despite the Phils pitching giving up home run after mammoth home run. The ball positively flew out of Citizens Bank Park. This, my friends, was a game for the ages. And at this point, nobody can ever count the Phillies out of any game. These guys can win anything.
The best moment came after Ibanez's shot, when fans bowed in appreciation, unworthy of the newest Phillie's talents. Ibanez has accomplished what took Pat Burrell eight years to do, and that is pretty amazing.
The numbers: Ibanez went 3-for-5 with a home run, double, two runs and four RBI. Howard went 1-for-3, but walked twice and hit the other granny. Jimmy Rollins went 3-for-5 and scored twice. Shane Victorino and Chase Utley each collected two hits.
Pitching wasn't great for the most part. Joe Blanton allowed six runs on eight hits and three walks in 4.1 innings, and Scott Eyre couldn't buy an out, giving up four runs in the process. But Clay Condrey (1.1 IP, 0 ER), Jack Taschner (1.1 IP, 1 ER), JA Happ (1 IP, 0 ER, W) and Ryan Madson (1 IP, 0 ER, SV) did the job. Happ was poised despite being handed Eyre's mess, while Madson's fastball blazed into the zone in the high-90s; when the Phils need a backup closer (like tonight), Madson truly does the trick. Ultimately, the bullpen's ability to close it out won the game.
But really, it was "Ribbie," the new hero in town.
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Ibanez is the ballplayer's ballplayer! We have one of the greats on this team!
Cannot believe I opted out of going to this game in favor of tomorrow's bobble head giveaway.
Worst decision ever.
Although, Raul is on my fantasy team. Though, so is Zimmerman.
In talking to family/friends after the game, I've decided this team can win any game. No matter what. This is incredible.
Seriously, the dude is tearing it up this April.
Lidge has inflammation in his knee. Day to day. That's why he was unavailable tonight.
This game really made me miss Kalas. I can't even imagine how great that Grand Slam call would've been. What a game.
WOW! Unbelievable. 2 slams is unheard of and completely awesome. Once the pitching comes around, we'll be REALLY dangerous. No deficit is insurmountable. This was was SWEET!
Amazing! That was a dog dirt terrible pitching performance until the last few innings. However, the offense STILL kept on coming back and coming back with monster clutch hits. Two slams in one game!!! Raul Ibanez is on fire, what a great player in the clutch. Oh, and Ryan Madson was throwing some high cheese in there. WOW!
Wow. It's silly to think that Ibanez will continue this torrid pace, however, even if he does slow up, we see that he can get runners over, he can come through in the clutch, and so far, covers way more ground than Burrell. He is a contact hitter with a nice bit of power. I have been touting this dude since he got here, but I never thought that he would have the possibility of being an all star. He will be an all star.
Ibanez shall def. be an all star. Utley, Howard, and Ibanez!
Keith… just on name recognition, Rollins may get voted in from fans too. Won;t deserve it, but it's possible that the Phils have 4 maybe 5 all stars.
Harry wouldve had a great call, that is true. McCarthy does a nice job though, hes just a different type of announcer. Kalas is old school original. McCarthy is more new age, but still effective.
Heres the thing about Harry though, I already know in my head what his call would sound like. Thats how special he was. His voice will never leave your mind.
well Rollins might deserve it by the time of the game, we'll see . . .
Lost in all of this was that they did an incredible job of getting RISP in tonight and not leaving them on base. That's a good sign. 6-11 with only 6 LOB.
Same for me Geoff. I was forced to watch the game on mute because I was at the library, and when he hit it I immediately thought "long drive."
We should all stop with the Ibanez/Burrell comparisons. Its obviously easy to do given the situation, but they are two different players. There's too much "oh, Burrell wouldn't have done that" in my opinion. Ibanez has been great, but lets not forget the Holy Diver's irreplaceable contributions to get that elusive WS ring.
I thought Franzke and Larry's call was pretty good. They were so excited they could barely describe it.
Whatta W., but I'm starting to worry about the pitching. Almost a month in and we're pushing a 6 team ERA. We've yet to hold the Nats to less than 8 runs in three games. Here's hoping for a big start from Hamels to cool down those Washington bats.
Not to be a party pooper, but I would love to see a couple of pitching duels once in a while, homeruns are a dime a dozen in today's game. What has happened to the fine art of pitching? Is it the smaller parks? Are the hitters better? Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled the offense is on fire, but I wish we didn't always need to score runs in double digits.
Wow. Talk about comeback kids. Everyone should now walk into the park with their rally caps already on.
i think the fans can officially get fully on board with Raul right now. if we had pat out there instead of Raul this year we'd probably have about 4 less wins than we do.
Homeruns arent dime a dozen as you think…Last year was one of the lowest output of homeruns in a long time…Not 1 50 Homer guy…and only like 2 or 3 with 40….Phillies are an offense first team and the pitching will come around if the offense carries them out of their pitching slump
Georgie, it's all of the above. Not to take anything away from yet another thrilling come from behind win (9th time they accomplished it), but it also helps to have an opponent like the hapless Nats. 😉
Also one could say the quality of pitching is spread so thin among 30 MLB teams. In the last 50 years of expansion, a total of 14 teams have been added. The last expansion came in 1998 with two new additions: Arizona in the NL and Tampa Bay in the AL. However, the one crucial factor that has been noted by several baseball historians, is when MLB voted in 1968 to lower the pitching mound from 16 inches to 10 inches. Prior to 1968, pitchers in general had the upper hand with low ERA's and runs allowed. All that changed after 1968. Soon it became evident as MLB kingdom had hoped when runs and batting averages significantly rose to levels that have not been seen for decades. And of course, it helped boost attendance in many parks.
It's late and I'm cutting short the history lesson. 🙂
finally JRoll had a good offensive game maybe he will pull out of his slump, a bloop double can do that some times, patiants at the plate and timly hitting by the lead off guy nice to see, and Pete Happy with some nice at bats coming off the bench on his bithday. And of course the big guy and Raul being clutch was awsome. Lets just hope we don't need 13 runs all series, a nice 5 2 win tomarrow for the Phils would be nice.
I can't remember another stretch like this. In the last four days we have had three absolutely increadible wins. The tenacity and determination of this team is something amazing to watch. I could feel that Ibanez slam in my bones before he hit it.
Fantastic win! Very exciting right through til the end. Talk about a team with confidence and a never ending will to win – Geeze! Ibanez is a beast! He has impressed the heck out of me.
I absolutely hate Chris Wheeler! He is the most dreadful and annoying annoucer that I have ever heard! All that I could do during the game was think of Harry the K, and how he would have called that game. I think from now on I am going to have the HD on and listen to the radio to hear game called by Scott and LA. Someone please sh!t-can that POS Chris Wheeler!!!!!!
Raul will own this town by the 4th of July.
Phillies Nation got a chance to meet Raul and his family in Clearwater, what a class act and a a hell of a hitter. Don't forget to vote him in the All-star game.
Bask in my glory… I was at the game. One of the funnest games that I've ever been to… falling behind WS Game 5 and the 2008 NLE clincher… it was electric when Howard hit the first Grand Slam. Of course, there were many fans that left early… thankfully, I stayed and it was sheer madness after Ibanez hit the second grand slam. People jumping around, throwing stuff. I can only imagine what it would have been like if all 41,000 had stayed. There was a slight wind blowing out to centerfield and the ball was carrying in a big way… some of those shots were MONSTER HR's. There was a mile's worth of homeruns and NEAR homeruns last night. I was wondering why Lidge wasn't in the game… the knee thing is a huge concern because we need him. Our pen is under stress right now and we can't go without any of these guys.
Ibanez is one miraculous catch or homerun away from being mayor of Philadelphia.
Greg B, there is nothing wrong with the Ibanez/Burrell comparisons. No one here has forgotten Burrell. He was in the field, and also came up with some pretty clutch hits at times to help win the WS, but you are acting like Phillies Phans have forgotten about Burrell. The point in these comparisons is simply most (not all) were PISSED when Burrell left, and Ibanez came into town. I recall the first week after the signing was VERY HARSH against Ibanez, but he has come through HUGE for the Phightin Phils, and honestly from a life long Phillies Phan, and a Burrell fan during his time here, to me, comparing the two, and being impressed with Ibanez, and saying he has been more clutch is a testament to Ibanez skill and clutch hitting.
To all here. I am begging forgiveness. I turned the game off in disgust after the Nats hit 2 more homers to make it 11-7.
Please forgive me!
Keith E….. I did the same thing ,but something brought me back to see Ibanez grand slam.WOW..
I never thought they could come back AGAIN to win after doing it twice over the weekend.
Never, ever in a million years could I ever turn off or leave a Phillies game early. This team, more so than any other I have seen, plays with so much heart and conviction – do or die mentallity! It is unbelievable. It is to the point where I am beginning to think that if the Phillies are losing it is a good thing: "Oh, we will just wait until the 7th inning to mount a come from behind win".
In 2007 I walked out of a Phillies vs. Mets game in the 7th inning: Phillies were winning 8-5. By the time I got in my car, they were losing 9-8. I went to my local watering hole to finish watching the game with my baseball buds. The Phillies won the game 11-10 in extra innings. From that day forward I vowed never again to leave a Phillies game!!!
Go Phillies!!!!!!!
Mr. Clean is some RBI machine. This guy keeps doing this and he's going to be a legend here.
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- Program started as a text to PostScript converter, with pretty printing and all the expected features of this kind of program, but it can now handle other file types (PostScript, Texinfo, DVI, web-authoring, PDF, etc.) provided you have the necessary tools. While highly configurable, everything was designed so that even a novice can do complicated PostScript manipulations. For instance, the program can delegate the processing of some files to other filters (such as groff, texi2dvi, dvips, gzip,etc.) which allows a uniform treatment (n-up, page selection, duples, etc.) of heterogeneous files It also includes support for a wide range of programming languages, encodings (ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc.), medias, and Native Language Support (NLS).
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- 'ansiprint' is a utility for printing text files (or stdin) from remote terminals using ANSI telnet escape sequences. Output is to either stdout (default) or /dev/tty (in case something is trapping stdout). The program prints a form-feed character to separate multiple file; it can also print a form feed after all pages/files are printed (both of these functions can be optionally disabled). The user can specify the size of the read/write buffer. The program is based on 'pine' but has been completely re-written in C++.
- The Common Unix Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX(r)-based operating systems. It has been developed to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley commandline interfaces, uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues, supports (with reduced functionality) the Line Printer Daemon ("LPD"), Server Message Block ("SMB"), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols, and adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD")-based printing options to support real-world printing under UNIX. CUPS also includes a customized version of GNU Ghostscript and an image file RIP that are used to support non-PostScript printers. Sample drivers for HP and EPSON printers are included that use these filters.
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- Enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript and stores generated output to a file or sends it directly to the printer. It includes features for "pretty-printing" (language sensitive code highlighting) in several programming languages. It supports ten different input encodings, Adobe Font Metrics files, and user defined fancy headers. AFM files for the most common PostScript fonts are included in the distribution; the program itself can download PostScript fonts. Other features include language sensitive highlighting, N-up printing, inlined EPS images, comments, and the ability to change body color and font on the fly.
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- Gnome Ghostview is a PostScript document viewer. Features include gconf-based configuration, display of the last visible area when scrolling, coordinate display and an all-new bonobo control that integrates with the Nautilus file manager. The package has been partially or completely translated into more than thirty languages.
This project was a GNU package. It has since been decommissioned and is no longer developed.
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- GNU Trueprint takes C source files and other text files and prints them on PostScript printers. It is intended to be used by programmers; therefore, it includes features like diff-marking, indentation count, function and file indices, and many others that are useful when printing source code. It currently supports C and has more limited support for other languages, including C++, Java, and Perl.
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From that year, the fourth year would be 60 percent, third year 40 percent, second year 20 percent and the final year would be zero.
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Gillian Christensen, a customs enforcement spokeswoman, said the cases were reviewed over the past week as part of agency preparations for $85 billion government-wide cuts due to take effect on Friday absent congressional action to avert them.
"As fiscal uncertainty remains over the continuing resolution and possible sequestration, ICE has reviewed its detained population to ensure detention levels stay within ICE's current budget," she said in a statement.
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican and a vocal critic of President Barack Obama, called the move "pure political posturing and the height of absurdity."
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Separately on Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder warned the spending cuts, also called sequestration, would leave Americans "less safe."
"We'll do the best that we can to minimize the harm that actually occurs as a result of the sequestration, but the reality is there is going to be harm," Holder told the National Association of Attorneys General in Washington.
Holder had barely finished his remarks when the leading Republican on the committee that oversees the Justice Department sent Holder a sharply critical letter about the agency's plans.
Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, cited a recent Holder letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee outlining operational cuts in spending for the FBI and other agencies totaling about $1.6 billion.
CNN's Kevin Liptak, Terry Frieden and Carol Cratty contributed to this report.


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Groups push state to spend on treatment, not incarceration
Right now there are about 22,000 adults behind bars in Wisconsin.
That's about 5,000 inmates above capacity.
But two groups say the state can cut down on the bloated prison and jail populations by making an investment in prevention.
One is WISDOM, a Wisconsin network of 145 religious congregations that work on issues of social justice. They teamed up with Human Impact Partners, a non-profit organization that researches how public policy affects public well-being.
They're recommending the state spend nearly $100 million to treat offenders' addictions and mental health issues, instead of just locking them up.
Mario Street remembers sleeping in the streets, strung out on drugs. He was arrested more than 70 times and spent years of his life behind bars.
"It didn't do anything. What it did was it sat me down to sit around a bunch of people that were thinking the same way I was thinking, and I was learning from them how to do it 'better' when I got out," said Street.
It's a cycle he said was finally broken with Drug Court and Justice Sanctions, which counsels offenders and administers drug tests.
"They pretty much pushed me to find a new way of life, pushed me to find that new circle of people to be around or go back to jail," said Street.
Now, as the owner of I.M.P.A.C.T. Recordz, he's pushing dreams instead of drugs.
The research by WISDOM and Human Impact Partners claims that if Wisconsin spent $95 million a year on treatment programs and other supportive services, the state could decrease prison admissions by 40 percent, decrease jail admissions by 10 percent and prevent 1,100 crimes over five years.
Jane Klekamp is the manager of La Crosse County Chemical Health and Justice Sanctions, which sees about 550 people a month, but gets zero funding from the state.
She said the program is anything but a get-out-of-jail-free card.
"There are some people who would say that being on Justice Sanctions is actually more difficult in some ways because they have to provide for themselves, they have to do a lot of drug and alcohol testing," said Klekamp. "If we want people to be productive in the community, we have to have them practice skills in the community."
It's a community Street said he didn't know he could fully be a part of until Justice Sanctions showed him how.
"The crime, the drugs and all that -- I didn't realize that that community was only this big inside of a huge community. I didn't see that. And a lot of people don't see that," said Street.
The $95 million figure WISDOM and Human Impact Partners are suggesting might sound like a lot, but the groups argue it will actually save money in the long run. They say it's four times more expensive to put someone behind bars for a year than to put them through one of those alternative treatment programs.
As many as 70 percent of Wisconsin inmates have a substance abuse addiction.
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February 22, 2013 - 8:17am
POPLARVILLE - The Pearl River Community College Alumni Association will host the annual Little Black Dress Charity Luncheon on Saturday, April 13, at the president's home.
February 22, 2013 - 8:28am
HATTIESBURG - Long-time Pearl River Community College math teacher Jacki Runnels and military veteran Louie Forsmark will be honored Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Higher Education Appreciation Day-Working for Academic Excellence events in Jackson.
Runnels and her husband, Rudy, and their 15-year-old son, Riley, live in Magee.
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February 22, 2013 - 10:39am
Dr. Kyle Hill, director of bands at Pearl River Community College, conducts the Symphonic Band during
a Feb. 15 concert for the 250 high school students attending the PRCC Band Clinic.
The French horn section plays during the Symphonic Band concert at the Pearl River Community College
Band Clinic on Feb. 15. They are, from left, Samantha Dixon of Columbia, John Garner of Foxworth, Heather
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The JazzCats perform during lunch on Feb. 16 for the high school students attending the PRCC Band Clinic.
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February 22, 2013 - 3:36pm
Pearl River Community College is proud to host the 2012-2013 MACJC Basketball Tournament. The tournament starts Monday, February 25 through Thursday, February 28 at the Shivers Gym located on the Poplarville, MS campus. The Wildcats' Men's team will play Tuesday night at 7 p.m. vs. Coahoma.


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When installation is initiated on a client, two Norman processes will appear in the Task Manager - zlh.exe and zanda.exe. Zanda.exe is the Norman agent, which is responsible for getting the remaining files from the distribution point.
When nothing seems to be happening, one can get a clearer picture by running elogger.exe (...\norman\npm\bin), which will reveal that some activity is indeed taking place.
For instance - several lines like this will be seen:
Zanda.exe (0) NupdInitStates: Cannot find C:\Program Files\Norman\download\NVC208_002.NSA
Followed by lines like these:
Zanda.exe (0) Zanda.cpp(540): NupdInitStatesEx() returned NUPDRC_MUST_GET_ARCHIVE
Zanda.exe (0) Waiting for connection to server
Zanda will eventually connect to the distribution point after an intentional delay and finish the installation on the client. The delay is set to 20 minutes by design to minimize load on the network and the distribution point.
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With the best of intentions you have begun a new year with the goal of losing weight. So how's that going?
Yes, it's early in the process and you should understand that shedding pounds might not be as easy as you think it will be.
"Losing weight is one of the top resolutions made every year, yet only 20 percent of people achieve successful weight-loss and maintenance," said Jessica Bartfield, MD, who specializes in nutrition and weight management at the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery & Bariatric Care in Chicago.
Despite that fact that two-thirds of Americans say they are on a diet to improve their health, very few are actually seeing results. Bartfield says it's because dieting is a skill. It takes practice to get there.
Knowing why people fail to lose weight might help you avoid some of the common mistakes. Bartfield says there are four main reasons dieters don't lose weight.
1. Underestimating calories consumed
This is a biggie. Most people underestimate the number of calories they eat per day. That's why you have to read food labels and look up the caloric value of foods. Writing down everything that you eat -- including drinks and "bites" or "tastes" of food -- can help increase self-awareness.
Pay attention to serving sizes and use measuring cups and spoons as serving utensils to keep portions reasonable. Food eaten outside of the home tends to be much larger portion sizes and much higher in calories. Frequent restaurants that post the calorie content of their food.
2. Overestimating Activity and Calories Burned
If you underestimate how many calories you consume you might also overestimate how many calories you burn in a typical day. The older you get the fewer calories you burn.
"Typically you need to cut 500 calories per day to lose one pound per week," Bartfield said.
This is very hard to do through exercise alone. It would require most people to add 60 minutes or more of vigorous activity every day. Exercise is important to good health but it's much easier to reduce the calories you consume than burn them off once you've consumed them. And when you do exercise be careful -- exercise is not an excuse to eat more!
3. Poor Timing of Meals
Bartfield says people need a steady stream of glucose throughout the day to maintain optimal energy and to prevent metabolism from slowing down. Eat breakfast every day within one hour of waking up, then eat a healthy snack or meal every three to four hours. Fasting is actually counter-productive. Try not to go longer than five hours without eating a healthy snack or meal to keep your metabolism steady.
4. Inadequate Sleep
Studies have shown that people who get fewer than six hours of sleep have higher levels of ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates appetite, particularly for high-carbohydrate/high-calorie foods. In addition, less sleep raises levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, which can lead to weight gain.
"Good health practices are more than just learned, they become a regular habit and a way of life," Bartfield said.
A good first step is to determine how many calories you need each day. The American Cancer Society maintains an online calorie calculator to help you arrive at your number.
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HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich. â Josh Thompson of Indianapolis, Ind., leads the Boys Division after the first round of the AJGA Boyne Highlands Junior. Thompson fired a 3-under-par 69, and holds a 1-stroke lead over four players. Lisa Maunu of St. Thomas, Ontario, leads the Girls Division, finishing with a first-round 69.Conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, the AJGA Boyne Highlands Junior is a 54-hole stroke play event being held at the Boyne Highlands Resort â Moor Course. The tournament features 144 of the nationâs premier junior golfers from 17 states and Canada.Thompson, 17, carded a 35 on the front-side and finished with a 34 on the back. Thompson was able to play virtually error-free golf during his round, making 15 pars and three birdies. He credited his driver with giving him an opportunity to make several birdies. Thompson was able to make birdie on Nos. 5, 12 and 18.âI have been hitting my driver pretty well coming in and was able to keep it straight today,â Thompson said. âI only missed one or two fairways, which gave me lots of opportunities to make birdies. I was able to use my driver on almost every hole and that really played into my game,â he said.Thompson is hoping that his strong first round, coupled with two more solid days of play, will give him his first AJGA victory.âIt would be nice to win and finish strong,â the upcoming high school senior said. âThis is my first year playing out of state and I would like to place well.âFour players trail Thompson after carding 2-under-par 70s. DJ Magee of St. Charles, Ill., Clark Klaasen of Grand Rapids, Mich., Brandon Edwards of Peterborough, Ontario, and Andy Connell of Lima, Ohio, all sit one-stroke back. Andrew Miller of Oakland Township, Mich., Brad Revell of Kingston, Ontario, and Ryan Linton of Lake Forest, Ill., all shot 71 and sit tied for sixth, after the first round.Maunu, who is playing in her first career AJGA event, posted the lowest round of her career. She was able to take advantage of a hot putter and make five birdies during her round. It was birdies on Nos. 2 and 3 which jumpstarted her first round.âI was able to hit my approach shots close on both holes and that carried over onto the back-nine,â Maunu said. âI hit my shots tight and everything went really well. This course is playing at a good length for my game and I hope to continue to hit the ball consistently,â Maunu commented. âI just need to make one putt at a time, like I did today.âMaunu holds a 2-stroke lead over Carling Coffing of Middletown, Ohio, who shot a first-round 71. Coffing, who will be attending the Ohio State University this fall, carded nines of 37 and 34 on day one. Katie Sylvan of San Diego, Calif., recorded a 73 and is four shots off the lead.The second round of the AJGA Boyne Highlands Junior will begin at 7:30 a.m. off the Nos. 1 and 10 tees.The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The largest association of its kind, the AJGA has a junior membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.Titleist, the AJGAâs National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Associationâs success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.For more information about the AJGA Boyne Highlands Junior, please contact the AJGA Tournament Headquarters at (231) 526-3102.
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The Risk Management Agency (FSA) recently announced a pilot program that offers a CAT level Rainfall Index-Annual Forage Insurance Plan to producers in Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
Because there is limited time for producers in these states to transition from NAP to the new RMA pilot program, an exception was made that will allow the states to continue offering NAP coverage for 2014. However, NAP coverage will not be available for 2015 annual forage crops.
Eligible producers can apply for 2014 NAP coverage at the Karnes County FSA Office using form CCC-471, Application for Coverage. Producers must file the application and service fee by the deadline of July 15 for fall seeded crops and December 15 for crops planted in the spring. The service fee is the lesser of $250 per crop or $750 per producer per administrative county, not to exceed a total of $1,875 for a producer with farming interests in multiple counties.
Producers who meet the definition of a limited resource, socially disadvantaged or beginning farmer or rancher can request a waiver of the service fee.
NAP provides financial assistance to producers of noninsurable crops when low yields, loss of inventory or prevented planting occur due to normal disasters.
"The easiest way for producers to protect their investment is to purchase an insurance policy," said Kelley. "The past few years have proved that natural disasters are unavoidable, and producers can recover if they take the necessary precautions to mitigate risks."
For more information about NAP, please contact the Karnes County FSA office at 830-583-3224 or visit www.fsa.usda.gov.


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The U.S. Postal Service is an agency steeped in red-ink.
The agency reported a loss of a record $15.9 billion for the last budget year and more red ink is forecast in 2013. Those deficit numbers punctuated a year in which the Postal Service was forced to default on billions in retiree health benefit prepayments to avert bankruptcy.
Drastic times call for drastic measures.
The Postal Service did just that Wednesday. It came in the form of ceasing mail deliveries on Saturdays beginning in August. Package delivery those days, however, will continue.
The move is one that has been long rumored, with the intent of easing the agency's financial plight. Stopping Saturday delivery will do just that, saving some $2 billion annually.
That is a major bandage being applied to stop the agency's financial bleeding. But will it be a long-term fix?
Package delivery has increased by 14 percent since 2010, officials say, while the delivery of letters and other mail has declined with the increasing use of email and other Internet services. Thus, keeping Saturday package delivery makes sense as the volume justifies it.
The agency's biggest problem – and the majority of the red ink in 2012 – was not due to reduced mail flow but rather to mounting mandatory costs for future retiree health benefits, which made up $11.1 billion of the losses. That being said, Saturday delivery cessation may not be enough.
Postal Service market research and other research has indicated that nearly 7 in 10 Americans support the switch to five-day delivery as a way for the Postal Service to reduce costs.
That may be accurate, but Americans won't take kindly if more postal sacrifices must be made in the future.


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Source:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]NEW YORK -- As the uncertainty surrounding Rasheed Wallace's left foot injury lingers, members of the New York Knicks organization fear Wallace will be out for an extended period, possibly for the entire season, two league sources told ESPNNewYork.com.
Wallace has been out since Dec. 15 with a stress reaction in his left foot.
Knicks coach Mike Woodson said last week that he hoped Wallace would begin running this week, but he told reporters in London on Wednesday that Wallace, 38, has yet to do so.
"He'll be back -- but when, I don't know," Woodson said. "We're gradually trying to get him back where he can run again so he can get back in a uniform. But when, we don't know when yet."
The Knicks are in a holding pattern with Wallace, according to league sources. There are some in the organization who want to pursue a free agent immediately to replace Wallace.
Among those being discussed internally is 35-year-old big man Kenyon Martin.
Others in the organization, including Woodson, who coaxed Wallace to end a two-year retirement and join the Knicks, want to give Wallace time to heal before making a move to replace him.
The team originally described Wallace's injury as a sore left foot, and he was listed as day to day. The team then clarified and called the injury a stress reaction after a report described it as a stress fracture.
When healthy, the 15-year veteran has provided a strong presence in the post for New York. Wallace also has given the Knicks a strong post defender off the bench. In 20 games, he's averaging 7.2 points and 3.2 rebounds in 14.6 minutes.
When the injury first surfaced, Wallace said he'd aggravated a previous foot injury. As recently as late last month, the veteran said he expected to be back on the court.
When asked Wednesday about returning to the court, Wallace said, "It's not my call."
One source said Wallace is having trouble pushing off on his left foot.
"It's not looking good," the source said.
With Marcus Camby sidelined two to four weeks with a left plantar fascia injury, and Amar'e Stoudemire working his way back into form after offseason knee surgery, the Knicks are thin on the front line.
If the Knicks wanted to add a free agent, they'd have to cut a player on their 15-man roster.
Wallace's contract became fully guaranteed earlier this month. All 15 players on the Knicks' active roster have guaranteed contracts.
Pull the trigger?
...always something, isn't it?
Damn it was fun while it lasted. Sheed was always a guy that should have been a Knick in his prime. We came so close to landing him when he was in his final days in Portland. I still think he's a good presence to have around the team. **** if we pay baron Davis just to be Baron Davis around here, there's got to be a way to keep him
The New York Knicks are waiting to determine if forward Rasheed Wallace can return for a foot injury
am i reading it wrong or does this headline just don't make any sense?
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Rasheed Wallace says today he will play again this season
That seems to be the issue. If Sheed can come back why rush it for K-mart? Even more importantly I guess the question is who do they want around in the playoffs more sheed or K-Mart, as well as the fact Woodson asked him to come out of retirement. The media is hyping this up but I see them waiting Sheed out. His post D, ability to shoot the 3, and veteran attitude could really make a difference in the playoffs.
Sheed refutes he is done, he tweeted he's not going down because of a sore foot.
Wouldn't mind getting K-Mart, he might be the more durable choice in the long run.
Sheed did help us get off to a great start though, i can respect that.
With Smith and Shump getting 97% of the SG minutes and Kidd working with the rest, White is probably the most logical candidate to get cut in favor of Kmart. The problem is everyone has guarateed contracts so they'd be throwing away money to cut someone.
I say don't wait, make the move! Those foot injuries linger on all season (see Camby)
Real Talk
Gotta take our feelings out of this one and realize what we need for the championship. If Sheed can even run then we need K-Mart
That ain't gonna fly in the playoffs.
Pulling some bigs away from the hoop didn't hurt either; stats don't show that.
Don't get me wrong he's replaceable but he is a good to great fit for his role, especially when considering his contract. I think his intangibles are underrated.
He's not easy to replace, but we can't bank on him being a big part of the team at this point.


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May 19, 1994: The Hubble telescope has returned valuable new images of supernova 1994I in the inner regions of the "Whirlpool Galaxy," M51, located 20 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. The arrow marks the supernova's location.
The supernova was discovered by amateur astronomers on April 2, 1994 and has been the target of investigations by astronomers using ground-based optical and radio telescopes. At its brightest, around April 10, the supernova was about 100 million times more luminous than the Sun. A supernova is a violent stellar explosion that destroys a massive star.See the rest:
Credit: Robert P. Kirshner/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, NASA