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Pinched Nerve in the Neck
A pinched nerve in the neck (cervical radiculopathy) is caused when the nerve that goes from the spinal cord to the arm is irritated or has pressure on it. This may be caused by a bulging spinal disk. A spinal disk is the cushion between each spinal bone. Or it may be caused by a narrowing of the spinal joint because of arthritis.
A pinched nerve can cause numbness, tingling, deep aching, or electrical shooting pain from the side of the neck all the way down to the fingers on one side.
A pinched nerve may begin after a sudden turning or bending force (such as in a car accident) or after a simple awkward movement. In either case, muscle spasm is commonly present and adds to the pain.
Home care
Follow these guidelines when caring for yourself at home:
Rest and relax the muscles. Use a comfortable pillow that supports your head and keeps your spine in a natural (neutral) position. Your head shouldn't be tilted forward or backward. A rolled-up towel may help for a custom fit. When standing or sitting, keep your neck in line with your body. Keep your head up and shoulders down. Stay away from activities that require you to move your neck a lot.
You can use heat and massage to help ease the pain. Take a hot shower or bath, or use a heating pad. You can also use a cold pack for relief. You can make a cold pack by wrapping a plastic bag of crushed or cubed ice in a thin towel. Try both heat and cold, and use the method that feels best. Do this for 20 minutes several times a day.
You may use acetaminophen or ibuprofen to control pain, unless another pain medicine was prescribed. If you have chronic liver or kidney disease, talk with your health care provider before using these medicines. Also talk with your provider if you've had a stomach ulcer or GI bleeding.
Reduce stress. Stress can make it longer for your pain to go away.
Do any exercises or stretches that were given to you as part of your discharge plan.
Wear a soft collar, if prescribed.
You may need surgery for a more serious injury.
Follow-up care
Follow up with your health care provider, or as advised, if you don't start to get better after 1 week. You may need more tests. Tell your provider about any fever, chills, or weight loss.
If X-rays were taken, a radiologist will look at them. You will be told of any new findings that may affect your care.
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Stella Nova Announces Retail Partnership for Mobile POS Pilot
Best Buy Canada to roll out SOA-based Mobile platform from Stella Nova
Wake Forest, NC (Jan. 17, 2012) — By the summer of 2012, Best Buy Canada customers will begin to experience the speed and convenience of mobile point-of-sale (POS) in select Future Shop and Best Buy pilot store locations. Implemented on the service oriented architecture (SOA)-based Stella Nova (www.sntinc.com) Mobile Retail Framework, the new Mobile POS solution is architected to keep POS functionality independent of the mobile device and its operating system. This will enable the company to adapt seamlessly to future shifts in mobility trends and technology. The system will also allow the company to manage all aspects of customer interaction via a simple, intuitive user interface, keeping employee training to a minimum.
"Over our four-year-plus relationship with Best Buy Canada, Stella Nova has come to appreciate the unique expectations of tech-savvy shoppers like Best Buy's customers. Mobile POS is vital to ensuring that these customers' experiences with Best Buy remain on the cutting edge," said John Kenney, senior vice president of business development, Stella Nova Technologies, Inc.
Stella Nova is currently demonstrating its Mobile Retail Framework, along with the company's full suite of Mobile POS solution products, at the 2012 NRF Annual Convention and EXPO taking place January 15-18 in New York City. NRF attendees are invited to experience these technologies at the Stella Nova booth (#2383) as well as at the Motorola Solutions booth (#1702).
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Mobile by Stella Nova is a cutting edge, multi-platform enabled m-commerce solution that allows retailers to seamlessly transact between traditional brick and mortar and e-commerce environments. Utilizing either in-store wireless networks or global wireless communications through the cloud, retail associates are enabled with access to key functionality required to create, transact, and finalize complex retail transactions anywhere, anytime. Mobile by Stella Nova can also be extended directly to the customer, enabling self-checkout functionality from consumer mobile devices including; phones, handhelds, and tablets. The Mobile by Stella Nova solution is comprised of two key components:
- The Mobile Retail Framework (MRF): Suite of core transaction services architected and built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, employing the latest Service Oriented Architecture design standards – and completely reusable across any core retail enterprise applications requiring transaction-enabling functionality.
- The Mobile Client User Interface: Offered on multiple handheld, phone and tablet formats and enabled on multiple client operating systems including Apple iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7 – each maximizing the unique user experiences offered by the respective technology.
For more information, please contact John Kenney, vice president of business development, Stella Nova Inc. (www.sntinc.com), by phone at 612-220-7366 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Stella Nova Technologies, Inc. (www.sntinc.com), an innovative retail POS and web application provider, is committed to creating transacting solutions that work to meet the unique requirements of today's largest retail enterprises and their customers. Stella Nova was founded in 2001 with the goal of providing national retailers with the software capabilities needed to grow their business.
Stella Nova offers products as well as custom solutions that allow retailers to manage the needs of their transaction system. Their latest product suite, the Stella Nova Mobile Framework, was developed to provide local and global retailers with a fast, secure and flexible answer to omnichannel, multi-geography transacting operations. Stella Nova's headquarters are located in Wake Forest, NC. Stella Nova also has offices in Minneapolis and in Hyderabad, India. Additional functional locations have been established along with an offshore development facility that provides easy access to a large resource pool of experienced professionals.
Best Buy stores in Canada are a division of Burnaby, BC-based Best Buy Canada Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY). We are Canada's fastest-growing retailer and e-tailer of consumer electronics, computers and entertainment products. With 77 Best Buy stores across Canada, we offer a unique shopping experience with the latest technology and entertainment products, at the right price, with a no-pressure (non-commissioned) sales environment. Every day our employees are committed to helping deliver technology solutions that enable easy access to people, knowledge, ideas and fun. We are keenly aware of our role and impact on the world, and we are committed to developing and implementing business strategies that bring sustainable technology solutions to our consumers and communities. For information about Best Buy Canada, visit www.BestBuy.ca

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The Kentucky Tae kwon do and Fitness Academy may put more emphasis on improvement than accolades but that doesn't mean the martial arts school in Crestwood hasn't seen its fair share of medals over the years.
After watching former student Kendall Yount capture two gold medals at the USA Tae kwon do National Championships in July 2012, the school is at it again, racking up nine medals at the 2013 USAT Tae kwon do National Championships July 2-8 in Chicago, Ill.
Elliot's wife asked him to leave their home. He had spent most of his life on drugs and alcohol. His life was crashing down around him; with nowhere to stay, he checked into a hotel on Christmas Eve.
He was contemplating suicide when he noticed a Gideon's Bible on top of the TV.
"Who needs that," he said to himself as he smacked it off the TV and onto the floor.
The seeds of greed are present in every human heart. In some, these seeds subtly take root and gradually begin to influence our decisions, preventing us from achieving what we value most.
In others, they grow into giant weeds that choke the joy out of life. Greed is a deep longing for something that drives us to the point where we are willing to do whatever it takes to acquire it.
They may be relatively unknown and their subject matter may be a little dry, but the eight economists who comprise the Consensus Forecasting Group have a powerful role to play: They determine just how much money state government can expect each year.
As anyone who has ever put a budget together knows, it can be tough to predict what a year will bring. Their job, however, is even more difficult: They have to look more than 30 months ahead, to cover not just the two-year span for the budget but also the six additional months needed to prepare, pass and implement it.
Don Hopper of Louisville and Martha Hopper of Taylorsville announce the engagement and approaching wedding of their daughter, Tachelle Banfield Hopper, to Tommy Burgin, son of Darlene Burgin of Campbellsburg and the late Charles Burgin.
The bride-elect lives in Taylorsville and is a 1985 graduate of the Christian Academy of Louisville. She earned an associate's degree in paralegal studies in 1987 from Sullivan University. She is the mother of Augustus and McMillan Ludwick.
The Oldham County Fiscal Court approved various board appointments during its regular meeting Tuesday, July 16.
Two men were assigned to the Ballardsville Fire Protection District. Mark Osborne has been reappointed and Douglas Wingert will replace Eugene Satterwhite. Both terms expire June 30, 2016.
Judge-Executive David Voegele also appointed Tom Emanuel to the Oldham-La Grange Development Authority board for a term ending June 30, 2017.
By Wesley Robinson
News intern, The Oldham Era
The South Oldham Fire Department wants you.
The department is holding an open house from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 27, at its department at 6310 Old LaGrange Road, Crestwood.
Oldham County Schools Superintendent Will Wells said the district is in no hurry to implement a new state law raising the age students can drop out of high school.
Senate Bill 97 raised the legal age for dropouts from 16 to 18 earlier this year. The new law was a voluntary mandate until it was adopted by 55 percent of the state's school corporations. Last week, 96 school corporations adopted the law, which means it will be effective in every district by the 2017-18 school year.
While the proposed compensation tax for people who work in La Grange was defeated three weeks ago by city council, a wage tax may not be dead yet.
The city's ordinance committee met Thursday, July 18, to discuss new ways to borrow money, after Moody's Investment Services downgraded the city's credit rating from A2 to Ba2 – two levels below investment grade.
The committee also discussed a new proposal compensation tax.
Mayor Bill Lammlein said after the July 1 vote that he wouldn't bring up the tax again.
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You must add the "Thickness" graphics directive, to do it type:
As you can see this is not as elementry as that...
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We first arrived at San Diego State and walked around. It was a very bright campus. Even though some buildings were old, they were all painted bright white so everything looked clean and nice. We wandered about. I found a starbucks at the student center. Not just a little coffee stand but a full sized Starbucks store. They even made me a really good white mocha. =P
The campus was quite lovely. Most interesting was the library. The library was called the Love (or something sounding like love) but it resembles the Louvre in Paris, France. But, rather than a glass pyramid, it was glass dome with the library underneath
UC San Diego
After seeing San Diego State, we drove back to La Jolla to see UC San Diego. A much larger campus to walk around in. We walked to the Price Center (the student center) but it looked like it was part student center, part convention building as there were various meeting rooms in the building. The student center also had a various array of restaurants for students to eat at as well as a game room with pool tables (but it doesn't beat the MU Games at UC Davis!).
We walked and saw an unusual shaped building which was apparently the library. Khang explained that the library was designed to be shaped like a tree, thus it's odd shape. I don't know what it is about libraries but I guess some universities want the library to stand out on campus.
As we were wandering, we found the Engineering buildings. They were quite grand structures which my brother was in awe of. He ran all up and around each building checking it out. He said he has to reconsider his list of schools now and believes that UCSD is moving up to the top of his list of schools to go to
Also, the weather was quite lovely here in San Diego. High 70s is what I was seeing, maybe in the 80s. But, vastly different than the 100+ temperatures of Davis/Sacramento.
Hanging out in San Diego
After checking out the universities, we were going to go back to Charles/Khang's house and then I would take Jimmy to the beach. However, Jimmy just wanted to bum around the house. He said it was too hot which made me laugh since this weather in San Diego is rather pleasant to the weather at home.
But, i enjoyed not having to take him anywhere. I milled about playing with my laptop. I did some laundry in the laundry room at the apartment complex. The dryer was quite a janky machine making quite a bit of noise but it was nice to wash some of my clothes. Been on the road for far too many days now! I also wrote a many postcards that I hope some of you will receive.
Khang returned home from work later that evening. Then, we all headed out to the beach
After the beach, we went to grab a bit and then went to see Talledega Nights (a movie my brother has been wanting to see since the start of the trip). The movie was really funny and it was nice to just go to the movies rather than romp around.
Tomorrow, my brother wants to "do something" which I don't know what that will entail. He didn't seem to want to do anything today. Whatever goes on tomorrow, tomorrow evening, we will return to Los Angeles as my brother has a flight on Wednesday morning back home. And then, I head to Vegas for some "me" time and also time with my best friend (which is much needed!). =D


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WILMINGTON — The Bruins took the ice at Ristuccia Arena Monday morning as they gear up for a stretch this week that features three games in four nights. They'll kick things off Tuesday in Montreal before hosting the Sabres Thursday and heading to Long Island on Friday.
Everyone was accounted for at Bruins practice but Mark Recchi, Steve Kampfer and Andrew Ference. Patrice Bergeron returned to the B's for Monday's skate after missing Saturday's game due to personal reasons. With Recchi not on the ice, Tyler Seguin took his spot on Bergeron and Brad Marchand's line.
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This is normal. Many people have complained about this before (including Fiesta owners), but they're just not used to dual clutch transmissions. This isn't a PowerShift exclusive issue either. The DSG system used in Volkswagens have the same issue. It's just how these transmissions work. They have a very notchy feel to them because they're technically automated manual transmissions.
What makes this different from regular automatics is the absence of the torque converter, which smooths out the shifting process. You're probably asking "well why the hell don't they have one?" Because torque converters are highly inefficient and sap a lot of power from the engine and reduce fuel economy considerably. The only solution would be to switch to a CVT or another traditional automatic car.
Sorry to put it so bluntly but that's just the reality of it. If it makes you any happier Ford is talking about development of an 8-speed transmission in the future (which is not dual clutch). Personally I would love to get my hands on a PowerShift car. Ford is probably the only manufacturer in America that is pioneering this wonderful technology for entry level cars (bonus points for using a maintenance-free dry system).
Well Moose, I would be happy to sale you mine. I've had it for 3 weeks, it has 1300 miles on it. you can have it for what I paid.
We have almost been broad sided because it likes to stop after accelleration and try to figue out what gear to go to next. Problem is, the program is designed to "learn" our driving habits. Well, that may be fine if there is only one driver but, when there is 2, It can't handle the pressure. There are other issues with it as well; Shuddering, studdering and just when you get used to the hesitation, it shoots off the line making it impossible to learn to guage the merging process.
I took it back today They have 3 attempts to fix it and after 15 days "out of service" I can send FoMoCo the little form in the back of the Lemon Law brochure.
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Is Otis Redding the greatest soul singer of all time? Fans of James Brown or Solomon Burke, among others, might disagree, but the Big O certainly delivered the goods. There's no better place to explore the legacy of the Georgia great than this irresistible three-disc, 70-track set, which includes every original A- and B-side in its original mono mix (a recent trend in reissues that makes sense, since '60s singles were targeted to AM radio).
While casual fans may already know "Respect" (which predates Aretha's cover), Redding's rowdy version of the Stones' "Satisfaction" or "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay," his biggest hit, released shortly after his death in 1967, there's a wealth of other down-home R&Br to discover here.
Backed by his ferocious Stax colleagues, including Booker T and the MGs and the horns of the Mar-Keys, Redding always went full-force, whether revamping the Sinatra standard "Try a Little Tenderness," shouting "Look at the Girl" or sparring playfully with frequent duet partner Carla Thomas on "Tramp." A compilation of his lesser-known flip-sides alone would have been a godsend. The Complete Stax/Volt Singles Collection is essential.
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Quoting Dragonmamas:I think hopefully he takes this term more seriously than the last. We can't afford another four years of bullshitting.
I'm so happy lol. I just hope he takes this term and actually does something more then what he did last term.
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Montreal-based CGI Group Inc. is hitting back against critics that have blamed it for the glitch-ridden release of the website at the heart of U.S. health-care reform, arguing the Canadian company is not the "quarterback" that bears the overall responsibility for the failures.
The Canadian IT company designed the online marketplace that allows Americans without health insurance to pick and buy a plan. But the healthcare.gov website, which is a key part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act otherwise known as "Obamacare," has been plagued with problems since it launched on Oct. 1, kicking users offline and at times generating false data, according to various reports.
Republican lawmakers and critics of health-care reform have seized on the website's failings to attack U.S. President Barack Obama's signature policy. And the President himself has expressed frustration, saying "there's no sugar-coating it. The website has been too slow, people have been getting stuck during the application process."
But now CGI's U.S. subsidiary, CGI Federal Inc., which has become caught in the middle of a highly partisan fight, is trying to shift the blame away from its employees and onto the U.S. government agency that is stick handling the whole project, which has many contractors.
"The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have the overall responsibility for administering the (market place for insurance)," said Cheryl Campbell, a senior vice-president at CGI Federal, in written comments posted on Wednesday evening to the website for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which is conducting a hearing into the matter on Thursday.
"CGI Federal and the many other contractors selected to develop the (insurance marketplace) perform under the direction and supervision of CMS," Ms. Campbell wrote. "CMS serves the important role of systems integrator or 'quarterback' on this project and is the ultimate responsible party for the end-to-end performance of the overall (marketplace)."
Ms. Campbell also wrote that a key problem in the complex software platform – which manages users' secure identities – was built by "another contractor." That contractor is QSSI Inc. though Ms. Campbell does not name it. QSSI, in its own submission to the committee, said a "late decision" to require that users register an identity before being allowed to browse for insurance plans likely overloaded the system – leading to problems gaining access.
The written statements ahead of the Thursday committee hearing are certainly not the end of the process. U.S. lawmakers will have a chance to grill the assembled executives at the hearing.
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27-year-old Harold High and 22-year-old Angelique Williams were leaving their apartment complex at 4500 E. Sunrise Drive around 1 a.m. on June 7, when an unknown subject shot multiple times at their vehicle.
Both victims were struck and although they were injured, they were able to leave their vehicle for cover until the Pima County Sheriff's deputies arrived, according to Chief Deputy Chris Nanos.
Mr. High was transported to the trauma center with life threatening injures. He underwent surgery and is expected to survive. Ms. Williams was also transported to the trauma center with non-life threatening injures.
The Sheriff's Department Robbery/Assault Unit responded and took over the investigation.
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LYNCHBURG—Randolph College will host Eric Anderman of Ohio State University on Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. The free event is open to the public and will be held in Wimberly Recital Hall in Presser Hall.
Anderman, a professor at Ohio State University, is known for his research on academic dishonesty. His lecture is entitled, "Academic Cheating: Who Does it, Why Do They Do it and How Can We Prevent it?" Anderman will review research about the causes of academic cheating and offer suggestions on how to use this research effectively to prevent cheating.
In addition to his public lecture, Anderman will participate in a session with Randolph's student judiciary committee as well as a brown bag lunch session with faculty members.
"We are excited Dr. Anderman is coming to Randolph to discuss his research on cheating and academic integrity," said Holly Tatum, a psychology professor who helped organize Anderman's visit along with Beth Schwartz, the Catherine E. and William E. Thoresen Chair in Social Sciences and assistant dean of the College. "His work fits nicely with our ongoing research on the effectiveness of different types of honor systems at colleges and universities," she said.
Anderson's visit to Randolph coincides with the VFIC Wells Fargo Ethics Bowl, which will be held on campus Feb. 10-11. Randolph is also celebrating Honor Week Feb. 11-15.
Tatum and Schwartz have previously researched Honor Codes and how instructors and students are affected by an established honor system and its governance. They are now currently working with Megan Hageman '13 to collect data for a second study comparing traditional, modified, and no honor system schools.
"The effectiveness of an honor system is dependent upon the continued discussion of the honor and integrity," Schwartz said. "Honor Week highlights Randolph's honor system and provides an opportunity to cultivate and reinforce academic integrity on our campus. Our findings indicate that the presence of an honor system changes students' perceptions of and responses to academic dishonesty. We hope to contribute to the understanding of how and why honor systems work on college campuses."
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Making progress- amx thermometer any good
So, quick question. Have bought the house and will spend really the next 9months preparing. However, house needs new HVAC,etc. I am likely going to go with amx. Any experience with their thermometers ? Any reason to avoid?
If you want to use the weather forecast option, a 3 year license is included, then I think you have to pay for use after the 3 years expires.
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You might call it "doing a Theresa". A female Conservative minister has told her party to stop saying what it hates, and start saying what it likes, if it wants to win the next election. Echoing the infamous phrasing of Theresa May, now home secretary, who told the Tories they were seen as the "nasty party", the Treasury minister Nicky Morgan has called for an end to negativity.
The Conservatives must come up with a "positive plan", the economic secretary says, rather than just "we're against this, we're anti that, we don't like them, we don't want them here, we don't want them doing this".
Well, fine, except I get the feeling that Morgan, a rising star on the liberal wing of the party, fundamentally misunderstands what Conservatism is about. People who call for Tories to stop opposing things and sounding negative seem to me to make a crucial error of judgment. The Conservative party exists to conserve, or at least it used to, and in doing so it necessarily opposes things.
And Conservatism is rooted in reality. Tories know what works, and most of the time this is not something that sounds fluffy, friendly and fun. Unchecked immigration, building on green fields, law-making from Brussels, crime going unpunished … The party exists to take tough decisions on these matters in order to provide quality of life for citizens. But Morgan wants the Tories to sound more positive, which may be a good idea in this image-obsessed age.
So let us at least give her the benefit of the doubt, and try to come up with some ideas for how traditional Conservative ideas could be dressed up to appear more cheerful. Let sunshine, as David Cameron once said, win the day:
1. Instead of opposing immigration, the Tories could announce that they are opening the doors to skilled migrants. Anyone with a skill Britain needs will be allowed to stay, and anyone already in the country with skills we need will be offered an amnesty. Those who want to come to Britain to claim benefits will be prevented from doing so, along with those who refuse to learn English, in order to let in those who want to work and integrate. They could call this "controlled open-door immigration".
2. Rather than saying they oppose house-building, rightwingers should call for the protection of farmland for food production and the safeguarding of the countryside around cities which is providing an oxygen belt and a precious arena for leisure and family quality time. They could call this the Green Lifebelt.
3. The right should stop complaining about big infrastructure projects such as HS2 and start campaigning to save the taxpayer £50bn. It could promise every region of the UK a new hospital, new flood defences, new bus services, new cycle routes, and a new local railway station with the money saved. This would quickly become known as a golden age of essential service provision.
4. Conservatives need to stop saying they don't like European human rights law and EU regulations such as health and safety legislation. Instead, they could offer the British people a chance to say how much they like them. They could call this a referendum on continued membership of the EU.
5. Instead of banging on and on about how they want to overturn the ban on fox-hunting, not to mention carping endlessly about fishing quotas, the right should offer voters the historic opportunity to end the need to kill anything, from pests to farm animals, by proposing a system of mandatory national veganism. They could call this the Veg Society.
There, I've been relentlessly positive. Now don't say rightwingers never try to sound upbeat.


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Conservative talk show hosts are all in agreement that the president's plan to invest in innovation, infrastructure and education will lead to economic ruin and a weakened America.
Laura Ingraham
Despite being afflicted with a bad case of laryngitis, Ingraham felt compelled to appear as a guest on her own show (listen to clip here) to warn the public about the dangers of the president's proposals.
"It's not realistic. We're going to have high speed rail in every port? We're going to have high speed internet access in the far reaches of the United States? We're going to do all these things? Yet, obviously, there isn't any clear pathway to pay for any of this. We're already in huge debt in our country as Paul Ryan pointed out. So none of that really added up. The numbers didn't add up."
Ingraham doesn't go into specifics about the numbers that don't add up (never let detail get in the way of a good radio riff), but she didn't disagree entirely with the president, at least with regard to the country's need to be taken in a new direction.
He [President Obama] did talk about this idea of America in decline and he did, even though I disagree with his solutions, he did sort of lay out a general framework, a liberal framework usually, but a general framework for combating that.
Acknowledging that we have a problem is a brave move from someone so firmly rooted in the "America is No 1" camp, but when it came to proposing alternative solutions, Ingraham had nothing to offer other than the usual two-pronged conservative strategy to bolster the economy – keeping tax cuts for the rich (check) and making sure healthcare is only available to those who can afford it (a work in progress). Ingraham's main concern was that nobody be fooled into thinking that Obama's plan to invest in new enterprise was anything other than a welfare package in disguise.
What we're seeing is a recalibration of the same old liberal message. This is liberalism warmed over and called something else now, because he sees that liberalism itself isn't popular – right, we all knew that. So he has to frame it in a different way. So, now, it's "we're going to be No 1 by spending a lot of money and we're going to call it investment in the future, winning the future, together we thrive." That's the new mantra.
That was all her compromised voice could manage, but Rush Limbaugh took up the mantle.
Rush Limbaugh
"He [Obama] is talking about the need to rebuild our crumbling roads and bridges – which is one of the primary reasons we spent a trillion dollars in the stimulus bill two years ago, to rebuild our crumbling roads and bridges. How did that work out? Obviously, it didn't work out. The roads and bridges are still crumbling! Now, he hasn't cited any. He didn't point out any crumbling roads and bridges. We're just supposed to accept the fact that there are crumbling roads and bridges and we need to get serious now about repairing them and we need to get serious now about our deficit." (Listen to clip here)
Not for the first time, Limbaugh is tripping over himself, torn between the desire to disagree with every word the president utters (in this case, that our roads and bridges are crumbling) and the desire not to acknowledge that America is facing any sort of problem that requires a concerted effort to fix. There are plenty of examples of bridges and roads in disrepair, like the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi river, which collapsed three years ago during rush-hour, killing 13 people. And as the president pointed out in his state of the union address, the overall grade awarded our infrastructure by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2009 was a "D".
Limbaugh claims to be more concerned about rising unemployment, however, and would rather see more focus on job creation.
The guy who has destroyed American jobs with his policies, the guy who has led to double-digit unemployment with no end in sight, and they actually write that he has a "jobs-centric philosophy". What is the jobs-centric philosophy? Where are all the jobs? Where's the focus on the jobs?
For some reason, Limbaugh fails to see the connection between the need to repair and build new roads and bridges and the need to create new jobs. When President Obama introduced his $50bn infrastructure initiative back in October 2010, he pointed out that one in five construction workers were still unemployed. Yet the bill was unanimously shot down by conservatives, with Limbaugh one of the loudest detractors.
In addition to his opposition to any kind of new investment in infrastructure or innovation, Limbaugh is also opposed to allocating more resources to education (or specifically to making higher education more affordable). This is perhaps understandable as his high school-only education has served him (if not the general public) pretty well so far. His competitor, Dr Michael Savage, did, however, identify some areas in the education sector that could be improved upon.
Michael Savage
Savage opened his segment (listen to clip here) on education by reminding listeners that he has a PhD (from UC Berkeley) and two masters degrees, so he reckons he has as good an idea as anyone about how to fix America's education system.
"Why do you suppose that the students of America are not excelling in science and math? Could it be because they're teaching them how to put condoms on cucumbers; that the founding fathers were racist; that America is no good; that they spend half the day talking down about America and half the teachers are science illiterates?!"
So Dr Savage is not denying claims that China is producing more English-speaking engineering graduates than the US or that we are in danger of being "out-educated" by developing countries like South Korea and India, but he had his own ideas about how to address this imbalance – and they were not in line with the president's goal of diverting more resources to the areas of science or math.
Well, you could achieve that in other ways, as well. You could eliminate all programmes in ESL. Eliminate English as a second language: you'll save billion of dollars, that's No 1.
In addition to not teaching English to immigrants, Dr Savage thought that if we really want to compete with the Chinese, we need to stop pandering to liberal notions of promoting diversity and multiculturalism.
You think China spends money in that manner? You think China spends money in their schools telling people how evil China was under Mao Tse-tung when 60 million Chinese died. You think they spend money in the curriculum teaching Mandarin as a second language? Tell me which school in China spends any portion of its budget on Mandarin as a second language for, let us say, illegal aliens from Korea, or illegal aliens from God knows where? Answer: none!
Finally, Dr Savage proposes that, instead of making education more accessible to the cash strapped masses, as the president would like to do, we should focus our efforts on those who are already ahead of the game.
You want my idea? Start spending money on the children who are smart and fast. That's what I say. You're never going to bring up everybody to an equal level. Some kids are smarter than others. Some kids are more motivated than others. Some kids come from better families than others. You have to fund those kids! Those are the kids who need the help! Instead, the society has gone upside down.
I guess we can all be grateful that Dr Savage abandoned the educational field for broadcasting.


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Places to cool off during the July 2013 heat wave!
Avoid the city's rising temperatures at these indoor summer sanctuaries for families—all with air conditioning!
Tue Jul 9 2013
Photograph: Cinzia Reale-Castello
There's no denying it—it's hot and sticky outside! In addition to keeping cool at one of our favorite city pools, beaches or sprinklers, we've rounded up some great indoor spots to soak up the AC.
Hit up a cinema
Watching a film on the big screen is the perfect way to spend a hot afternoon (the theaters tend to be cold, so your crew may even need to bring along a sweater!). Now playing for families: Monsters University and Despicable Me 2. Other kid-friendly flicks, including The Smurfs 2, open later this month.
Mosey around a museum
Learn icky science facts at the Liberty Science Center's "Grossology," view 3-D art displays at CMOM's "Red Grooms' New York City," be amazed at Lego sculptures in Times Square or check out one of the other awesome new exhibits to land at city museums this summer.
Pop into a play space
Burn off energy by exploring an indoor play space. While some spots are for members-only, many offer open play hours for a nominal fee.
Visit an activity complex
Chelsea Piers boasts no shortage of indoor activities—think batting cages, a driving range, a Little Athletes Exploration Center and indoor ice rink (yes, we said ice!). Alley cats can head to one of our favorite ten-pin venues for a day of bowling.
Spend the afternoon in a library
There is nothing a little imagination can't fix—even the heat. Head to one of our favorite city libraries (including the Children's Center at 42nd Street) to experience escapism at its finest. Pick up a book and transport your crew to a wintry wonderland or an underwater abode.
Go "shopping"
Bask in the ventilation provided by the Time Warner Center or Chelsea Market. Get creative and have a window shopping scavenger hunt to kill the time and make it an activity instead of an expense.
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BASSETT - A man who dropped by a neighbor's yard to wish them a "Merry Christmas" got bit by two dogs Christmas eve, deputies said.
The incident happened at 10:55 p.m. in the 400 block of Basetdale Avenue.
A man wanted to give a holiday greeting to a neighbor, opened the neighbor's gate and was attacked by at least two dogs, according to Lt. Richard Shear of the sheriff's Industry station.
He said the man was bitten on the arms and abdomen and taken to a hospital for treatment.
Deputies determined no crime was committed.
Shear said Animal Control responded.


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- 04.14.10
Milan 2010: Kartell Collaborates With Design All-Stars
Designs by Tokujin Yoshioka, Front, and Philippe Starck.
Fresh from the Milan Furniture Fair, Kartell, the Italian design firm specializing in high-end plastics, has send FastCompany.com its new designs for 2010.
This year, the firm has tapped Tokujin Yoshioka as its main event. The Japanese master of minimalism created Kartell's display booth (pictured above)–festooning the space with a lattice of plastic "snowflakes":
But in terms of things you can actually buy, Yoshioka also created the "Invisibles": A line of tables and chairs made of crystal-clear plastic that virtually disappears:
Meanwhile, French designer Philippe Starck–who has created a number of Kartell's best-selling designs–created a new line of outdoor chairs, with the rather creepy title, "Magic Hole." Coming in a two-seater sofa, an armchair, and a dining chair, each one has a hollowed-out cavity that serves as a magazine holder and a dash of color:
And last but not least, Swedish trio Front created a magazine rack that looks like pages in a magazine that you're leafing through:


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Bruce W. Bengtson
PEQUOT LAKES — Bruce William Bengtson, 61, of Pequot Lakes, passed away Nov. 11, 2011, at his home in rural Pequot Lakes, surrounded by his family. He was born June 5, 1950, to Bill and Renata Bengtson (Pohl) in Brainerd, Minn. He and his wife Barb were married August 24, 1974. They had two children, Matthew (Jolene), Ryan (Cara), and four cherished grandchildren, Halie, Molly, Levi, and Emma. He lived in rural Pequot Lakes for most of his life. He was a member of Pequot Legion and served in the National Guard.
He worked for Gambles Hardware, Western Electric, US West, and Qwest Communications. He retired in 2007, after 35 years of service and was currently working part time for Century Link. He volunteered as a youth baseball coach, and served on the cemetery board for his church. He also enjoyed working on his family farm, and spending special times with his grandchildren, wife, and helping out his boys and their wives on their many special projects.
Bruce was preceded in death by his parents, grandparents and other family. He is survived by his wife of 37 years; two sons; four grandchildren; siblings, Gayle Jaben, Rodney (Mona) Bengtson, Eric Bengtson, Kathy Malloy, David (Kathy) Munson, Debbie (Steve) Troxler, Danelle (Dave) Johnson; stepmother Shirley Gorman; and many other cherished family and friends.
A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17, at Gloria Dei Church, Pequot Lakes. Visitation from 5-7 p.m., Wednesday at Kline Funeral Home in Pequot Lakes and one hour prior to services at the church on Thursday. Arrangements are with Kline Funeral Home, Pequot Lakes.


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Concordia search is abandoned
Divers have finally abandoned their search for remaining bodies in the flooded section of cruise ship Costa Concordia, which capsized off the coast of Italy on January 13. The Civil Protection agency said it was too dangerous to continue.
Relatives and diplomatic officials representing the countries of the 15 passengers and crew still listed as missing have been informed of the decision.
The agency says emergency crews continue to inspect the part of the ship that still above the water line and will use specialist equipment to check whether there are any bodies on the sea bed.
Meanwhile, Costa Corporation, parent company […]


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Advertising keeps inventing new and better way of selling products and services, and we keep getting bored of them really fast. Vrtii.Me is trying to fix that and make advertising fun for both the advertees and the advertising audience by making it a game of chance.
Vrtii.Me is essentially a smartphone game which looks like a digital slot machine, and you might not be surprised to hear that the founders got the idea for this kind of advertising when they were in a casino. Instead of a jackpot in change, you have a chance to win coupons for different products and service, freebies or discounts. As they told in their interview for Netokracija, the founders, Ivan Mrđen and Igor Gertić, were talking about the Million Dollar Website project, and pondered on doing something like that, but optimized for smatrphones.
First they wanted to make an advertisement roulette, but that turned out to be too complicated. A slot machine, on the other hand fit the role perfectey.
They decided to reinvent mobile advertising, because they thought the market was stagnating. Sure, banners were optimized for smartphone screens and a few new ideas cropped up here and there, but it is mostly just transferring the same old ways of advertising to a different format. Some guerilla marketing ideas tend to catch on during a certain campaign, but are soon abandoned when that campaign is done.
They don't want Vrtii.Me to be used in one brand's campaign and then forgotten. They want to make it an advertising platform that will stand the test of time. They also want to show that advertisement can be fun and beneficial for users and advertisers.
They got the idea in 2011 and had a bumpy road ahead of them, with no investments to ease their way. But their team has grown, and it now comprises Ruđer Novak-Mikulić, Marinko Murgić, Luka Blažecki and Marjan Patača.
They knocked on many doors, looking for investors, applied to different bootcamps but were told that the project is to far along for such events, and it wasn't quite in that phase where venture capitalists would consider serious investment.
According to their calculations, Vrtii.Me need around 30 thousand Euros of investment to be up and running and ready for the international market. Their efforts, however, did not go urewarded in other ways- they got two very positive reviews by American marketing agencies and one mobile operator. After they gather the required funds, they plan on kicking off their project off in Vancouver, Canada.
Actually, they launched a campaign at Sell an App where 68 pledgers pledged more than $19,000. Good luck to Vrtii.Me, we wish them all the success and hope we will spin that slot machine on our smartphone soon.
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Golf can be a bitter-sweet mistress.
Bitterness has come many times: the 18-month spell when I shanked two of every three iron shots; or the time I played the wrong ball out of the rough to lose a Ryder Cup-style knock-out tournament on behalf of myself and five team-mates.
And then there was the day when, after a year or two hacking round local municipals with borrowed 60s blades, it dawned on me that I would never, ever be good enough to become a tour pro and play Augusta.
The sweetness, though far less common, is obviously always better: the time I holed a wedge for an eagle; the day I broke 80 for the first time; and, top of the list, the day I got to play Augusta, after all.
It all came about while I was covering the Masters for a golf magazine and was picked from the media draw to play the course on the Monday after the event.
And so, the morning after Tiger Woods had defeated Chris DiMarco in a play-off, I became, officially, the jammiest of jammy b*****ds.
So what was it like? I won't bore (and infuriate) you even further with a blow-by-blow account, but here's a flavour of it.
The grass truly is that perfect, the rough is like a shagpile carpet, the fairways are like Fuzzy Felt (if you remember that), and the greens are so smooth they might as well be painted wood.
Everyone always talks about the place being hillier than you think, but that doesn't quite capture it; it's still hillier than you think even though you have gone there fully expecting it to be hillier than you think.
You could, quite literally, hold a ski-jump competition down the 10th fairway, given enough fake snow.
And the greens? Well, they're quick - but not unfeasibly quick. What you don't realise is that the greens are as crazily undulating as the fairways, and once the ball gets on a downhill roll there is nothing to stop it except running out of hill.
I feathered a putt - on caddie's advice - from the top of the slope at the back of the second green, and watched in amazement as it rolled 90ft down towards the hole.
The TV-friendly holes - Amen Corner, 15 and 16 in particular - are fantastic, but other holes are just as good. The seventh is a gorgeous par-four, the fifth breathtakingly tough, the 14th green alone is unforgettably bonkers and the 10th is far and away the best on the course.
For the record, on Amen Corner I three-putted 11 for a bogey from the front edge; pushed a six iron into the drink on the 12th and ended up with six; and hit a (hastily borrowed) wedge stiff on 13 - my second-best shot of the day - for a glorious par after topping my drive.
My best shot of the day? The only other perfect strike, a six iron on the sixth to 10ft; the birdie lipped out, ran six foot past and I was lucky to make par. I shot 96 in total, off a 14 handicap, and played well to do so.
There were down sides, and although grumbling about them is like bedding Angelina Jolie and then complaining that she didn't make you breakfast, here they are: I teed off on the 10th rather than the first; I was forced to use a half-set of borrowed clubs which included a miniature child's putter, a 30-year-old persimmon driver (my only wood) and no wedges whatsoever; and, er, well, that's it actually.
It was amazing, the fulfilment of an ambition that I never had any right to expect to fulfil.
I've never cursed my luck since, and probably never will.


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Mini Roadtrip In Norway...
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Sometimes you just have to get away from it all and see some new sights. For instance in the country that you live in :)
Norway is a big country though, so we decided to do it piece by piece. Here is the first!
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Our luxury, Mediterranean house plan, Bay Colony, is flanked by two charming turrets. Bay Colony has a spacious floor plan with 4152 square feet of living area, three bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms. The front door, topped by a radius window, opens to a foyer with a soaring fourteen foot barrel ceiling. Directly ahead, columns outline the entry to the living room. The living room features a coffered ceiling and opens to the expansive rear lanai. The study in Bay Colony is housed in one of the turrets. It is accessed by double doors and features a wall lined with built-in shelves. A tray ceiling further enhances the study. A spacious bedroom, with a private bathroom and walk-in closet, resides in the other turret. The dining room, enhanced by a bay window, sits just beyond the living room. It is conveniently close to the kitchen and charming breakfast nook. A petite butler's pantry with a sink allows easy service from the kitchen to the dining room. The kitchen's snack bar counter overlooks the leisure room. A fireplace is the focal point of the nearby leisure room in Bay Colony. The leisure room also boasts built-in shelves and corner sliding glass doors that open the room to the lanai and its outdoor kitchen. For extra convenience, the kitchen also enjoys a central island and access to a walk-in pantry. The cozy nook in Bay Colony is perfect for casual meals. It boasts a bay window that views the lanai.
In the left wing, the master suite reigns supreme. The suite showcases a bay window, two walk-in closets and a splendid bath. The master bathroom features his and her vanities, a corner spa tub and a compartmented toilet and bidet. It overlooks a private garden area. Double doors in the master bedroom open to the lanai. Upstairs, a loft area with a walk-in closet, private bath, and access to a deck can serve as a guest or in-law suite.
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Program Description:
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Click on the following link to apply: Study Abroad Germany Travel Study 2014
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Follow the instructions and complete the checklist of each application piece associated with your program
Submit your application as soon as possible, but no later than 4:30 pm on December 13th, 2013 . Please also make sure the faculty member has submitted your recommendation by that time.
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Personal Journal
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To participate in the Germany Travel Study, students must meet the following requirements:
Travel Leader:
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"I quite agree," said Fernández-Armesto. "Everyone should learn Spanish." The Air Force instructor seemed surprised, so Fernández-Armesto reminded him that "Colorado" itself is a Spanish word.
This was an "Aha" moment for Fernández-Armesto, a 63 year-old British historian of Spanish descent. "I discovered," he said, "that these nice, cultured, well-educated people had little understanding of the country's Hispanic past." So he set out to write a book that examined American history from a fresh perspective. "I wanted to go beyond the traditional, from east to west, sea-to-shining-sea narrative," he said. "The truth is that U.S. history crosses the continent in both directions, as well as from south to north."
The result is Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States. "The U.S. has a longer Hispanic past than an Anglo (white) past," he said, "and without acknowledging this, we are incapable of understanding what America is – and what America will be in the future."
Here are five takeaways from Our America:
1. American colonial history does not start where you think it starts. Do you think it began with landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in 1620? Guess again. How about Jamestown, Virginia in 1607? No. St. Augustine, Florida in 1565? None of these answers is completely accurate. Fernández-Armesto writes that the true starting point of our colonial history was Puerto Rico in 1493, when Christopher Columbus landed on the island and named it San Juan Bautista. And the first Europeans to settle in what is now U.S. territory were three pigs and a few goats; Columbus released them with the idea that they might multiply and provide a food source for future settlers.
2. The history of Texas was shaped by undocumented immigrants – who happened to be white Americans. Once Mexico achieved independence from Spain in 1821, it allowed Americans to settle in Texas in order to populate its northern frontier. This liberal immigration policy arose in part because of the geographic and political distance between Texas and Mexico. In fact, Texas was so far from Mexico that Mexico's President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna compared the relationship to Siberia and Russia. As Americans increasingly moved into Texas, Fernández-Armesto writes, "Mexico's centralist government suspended the settlement policy, but immigrants from the United States continued to be the 'illegal aliens' of their day." These settlers poured into Texas, and later came into conflict with Mexico over the issue of slavery, which was illegal in Mexico. By 1836, Texas had wrested its own independence from Mexico, and then became a state in 1845.
3. The Statue of Liberty went up just in time for immigration controls to begin. Prior to 1886, when Lady Liberty was erected in New York harbor, there were few restrictions on immigration. But by 1891, Congress set up a board of inspectors to process those "huddled masses yearning to breathe free." The government began rejecting people as undesirable or unsuitable, just as America's growing industries hungered for immigrant labor (a situation not unlike today). Tightening the controls on immigration, however, proved an exercise in futility. "Even as the hoops got tighter," Fernández-Armesto writes, "more people squeezed uncomfortably through them."
The first Europeans to settle in what is now U.S. territory were three pigs and a few goats.
4. New Mexico was denied statehood for years because it was too Hispanic. Congress refused fifteen applications from the "Land of Enchantment" to become the 47th state. According to Fernández-Armesto, New Mexico was long excluded from statehood because of "xenophobia verging on racism and a narrow-minded understanding of what it means to belong to the United States." In his view, the federal government was wary of bringing a territory into the union that was largely populated by Native Americans, Mexicans, and Hispanos (descendants of Spanish settlers). It wasn't until the white population began to approach a majority tipping point that statehood was confirmed in 1912. Ironically, today the demographic pendulum has swung back the other way. With a population that is 47 percent Latino, New Mexico ranks first among the states in Hispanic population.
5. The civil rights movement of the 1960s owes a debt to a group of concerned Latino Dads. In Mendez v. Westminster School District (1946-47), a group of Mexican-American fathers in Southern California sued their local school district for insisting that their children go to a school reserved for Mexicans. The parents claimed that their children were being discriminated against, and that their equal protection rights were being violated. Ultimately the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in their favor, a decision that Fernández-Armesto cites as "the first breakthrough in anti-segregation customs and laws in the United States." Not only did the Mendez case lead to the desegregation of California schools, it laid the legal groundwork for the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. The Board of Education (1954), which struck down segregation in public schools as unconstitutional.


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Pollution Blamed for French Heatwave Deaths
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Experts believe that air pollution could be responsible for the death of thousands of French people who died during the recent heatwave. The French government say that 11,400 more deaths than usual occurred in the first two weeks of August 2003. Seniors were the worst affected by the heat, with many succumbing to hyperthermia and dehydration as temperatures soared to 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius). However, a recent study suggests that air pollution may have been responsible for many of the deaths, as the unusually hot weather and a lack of wind led to record-breaking pollution levels and left a cloud of smog blanketing the French capital Paris. Jean-Felix Bernard, president of France's Conseil National de l'Air, an air quality agency attached to the Environment Ministry, estimates that this pollution may have been responsible for the death of "between 1,000 and 3,000" people. Bernard said that he based his estimate on a 2002 study, which showed that people exposed to air pollution for several days had a significantly higher than normal risk of death.
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ECV Credited for 30% Reduction in Palm Beach False Alarms
Palm Beach County has shown a significant reduction in false dispatches following the instatement of ECV by Florida law...
February 6, 2007
Palm Beach County has shown a significant reduction in false dispatches following the instatement of a Florida law governing burglar alarm response. The law calls for state dispatchers to use Enhanced Call Verification (ECV), the practice of calling two phone numbers before dispatching police to an alarm. When implemented on July 1 of last year, Florida became one of the first states in the country to require such a practice. As a result, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department reduced its dispatches from 12,712 between October-December 2005 to 8,802 during the same time frame in 2006.
Sheriff's Department officials estimate approximately 80 percent of the improvement can be attributed to ECV, which was passed along with other dispatch reduction methods.
With numbers just beginning to become available from across the state, the Alarm Association of Florida (AAF) claims nearly every county appears to have made positive progress.
The proliferation of cell phones is credited as a major proponent for law enforcement agencies across the county to implement ECV, according to the Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC).
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Three Palestinians have been rescued after spending five days under the rubble of a tunnel in Rafah which was targeted by Israeli aircraft.
The tunnel which links the Gaza Strip to Egypt was hit by Israeli warplanes on Tuesday, and the three had to struggle to survive until Saturday when they were saved by Egyptian rescue workers.
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4th and Long
|4th and Long
|Created by
|Michael Irvin
|Michael Irvin
Joe Avezzano
Bill Bates
|Country of origin
|United States
|Original language(s)
|No. of episodes
|Executive producer(s)
|J. D. Roth
Todd Nelson
|Running time
|60 minutes (including commercials)
|Original network
|Original release
|May 18 – July 20, 2009
|External links
4th and Long is an American reality television series hosted by Michael Irvin that premiered on Spike on May 18, 2009. The winner of the show earned a spot at the Dallas Cowboys training camp - with a shot of making the roster. The show puts six wide receivers against six defensive backs. The show was filmed at the Cotton Bowl, with Joe Avezzano as the coach for the receivers and Bill Bates as the coach for the backs.
The athletes have varying backgrounds, including national champions, CFL players, arena league veterans, semi-pro players, and those who have tried to make NFL rosters.
- 1 Contestants
- 2 Episode progress
- 3 Episodes
- 4 Notes
- 5 References
- 6 External links
|Jersey Number
|Jesse Holley
|North Carolina
|Winner in Episode 10
|Andrew Hawkins
|Ahmaad Smith
|Tennessee State
|Eddie Moten
|Texas A&M–Kingsville
|Moses Washington
|Cut in Episode 9
|Montrell Jones
|Cut in Episode 8
|Donte Gamble
|San Diego State
|Cut in Episode 7
|Steve Gonzalez
|Menlo College
|Cut in Episode 5
|Luke Swan
|Cut in Episode 4
|Erick Jackson
|Cut in Episode 3
|Preston McGann
|Seminole Community College
|Cut in Episode 2
|Stephen Andrews
|College of New Jersey
|Cut in Episode 1
Episode progress[edit]
|Jesse Holley
|Andrew Hawkins
|Ahmaad Smith
|Eddie Moten
|Moses Washington
|Montrell Jones
|Donte Gamble
|Steve Gonzalez
|Luke Swan
|Erick Jackson
|Preston McGann
|Stephen Andrews
- The contestant won the competition.
- The contestant was summoned to the war room.
- The contestant was cut.
- The contestant was cut immediately after a drill or practice
- The contestant performed the best or won the challenge therefore winning the reward.
- The contestant performed the best or won the challenge therefore winning the reward but was still called into the war room.
- In episode 6, all of the remaining players were safe.
- In episode 7, all of the eliminated players returned to compete for one of the remaining player's jersey.
4th Quarter Training[edit]
First aired May 18, 2009 Three of the twelve players were called into the coaches room and given one last chance to explain why they should stay. After careful consideration, Irvin sends Andrews home. Irvin tells Andrews that he is cut and could still play in the NFL, just not for Dallas. Before Steve Gonzalez leaves the room to go back to the sky box, Irvin pulls out a sports bag of jerseys and gives one to Gonzalez and then gives the bag to him to give to the rest of the players.
- Bottom 3: Stephen Andrews, Steve Gonzalez, Montrell Jones
- Bottom 2: Stephen Andrews, Steve Gonzalez
- Cut: Stephen Andrews for his poor showing in the punt return drill.
Within Your Grasp[edit]
First aired May 25, 2009
While in the war room, Irvin and the other coaches tell the three players why they are here and let them have one last chance to redeem themselves. Irvin tells Steve he is safe and lets him continue in the competition. The final two are then lectured by the three coaches, Irvin then tells McGann he could still play in the NFL, just not for Dallas. Preston leaves the room and writes a note to the remaining cast members. Irvin pulls out a set of playbooks and gives one to Jones then tells Jones not to lose it or he will be cut immediately. Jones agrees and then is given the rest of the playbooks to give to the team. Before Jones leaves the war room, Irvin tells him to tell the others not to lose their playbooks or they will be cut immediately as well as Jones for not stressing the importance of the book.
- Bottom 3: Preston McGann, Steve Gonzalez, Montrell Jones
- Bottom 2: Preston McGann, Montrell Jones
- Cut: Preston McGann for his perceived lack of interest in getting physical during the drills.
Game Day[edit]
First aired June 1, 2009
In a game with unnumbered players rounding out roster spots on two complete teams, the DB's take on the WR's to see who is better at their positions. In one play, Luke Swan (who is billed as "Prone To Injury") stretches to catch a touchdown pass and gets injured when one of the DB's lands on his legs as he hits the turf. As a result, he sufferes a groin injury that hampers his playing ability. His senior year of college play was cut short when he was tackled awkwardly and his hamstrings were torn from the leg bone, ending his season as he recuperated from surgery. One of the coaches questions whether the groin injury is as bad as Swan makes it out to be, or whether he is having "ghost pain" from his earlier hamstring trauma.
During the game, DB's Jackson and Smith are called into the bleachers by Michael Irvin to discuss their lack of aggressive play. One DB is pointed out for "opening the gate" and not jamming the receivers at the line of scrimmage; the other seems to be tentative in tackling larger fullbacks swinging out of the backfield.
Erick Jackson is criticized for his performance. Moses Washington is called in to warn him to practice his football skills. Luke Swan is called in to address his injury situation.
- Bottom 3: Erick Jackson, Luke Swan, Moses Washington
- Cut: Erick Jackson for his poor performance during the scrimmage game.
The Red Zone[edit]
First aired June 8, 2009
After being called into the War Room, Moses Washington asks Donte Gamble to help him with jamming receivers at the line and coverage on short yardage plays. Donte agrees and coaches Washington on his technique.
The players started the next practice with jump balls in the endzone, simulating a common Red Zone offensive play. Michael Irvin is assisted in his demonstrations and coaching by All-Pro Darren Woodson, who works with the DB's while Michael works with the WR's. The DB's dominated for most of the drills. Because of this, Michael Irvin awarded phone calls to whomever the players wanted, based on performance during the drill in an attempt to get the receivers to play harder.
The next drill was a 100-yard passing scrimmage in single-man (aka "one on one") defense, with only a quarterback and no linemen or running backs or safeties. Because the receivers had more room and the defensive backs had no help downfield, the receivers broke free and dominated. The defensive backs became noticeably winded from all the running. Donte Gamble got burned on a "hook and ladder" score at the end of the drill that Michael Irvin compared to a high school football play.
While this was going on, Luke Swan could not practice for the day due to his injury and spent the time warming up on the stationary bike under the watchful eye of the trainer, Hollie.
The next day they had morning practice and Luke Swan finally practiced but the trainer was not happy with the decision. She said he felt that he had something to prove, but the only thing he was proving was that he was injured. Luke ended up reinjuring himself in an agility drill against a defensive back.
Michael and the coaches reviewed the game tapes and deliberated about Swan's injury and whether his history of leg injuries would haunt him during a full NFL season, or whether they might be cutting a guy that could heal up and have a 15-year career. Donte Gamble was called into the War Room because of his losing sight of receivers during the one-on-one coverage drills and then getting badly beaten by the "hook and ladder" play because he didn't stay with his man. Luke Swan was called in to address his injury situation. Luke expressed regret that he ended his college career with a leg injury, and was now ending his shot at the NFL with another leg injury.
- Bottom 2: Luke Swan, Donte Gamble
- Cut: Luke Swan for his injuries being too consistent to have an NFL career
Halfway There[edit]
First aired June 15, 2009
The players are awakened in pre-dawn darkness and put on a bus to Irving, where they are each given a football and told to run the 8.5 miles back to the Cotton Bowl. The DB's win the contest and receive a DVD of their scrimmage game against the WR's as a reward.
The next drill is a form of "musical chairs" where the 8 players go downfield as 7 machines send simulated punts deep. The players have to catch a ball or get another player to fumble his ball, recover it, and bring it back to the end zone. The player who returns without a ball is out. After each elimination, one less ball is "punted".
Afterwards, there is a drill involving "yards after contact", where the WR's run a 10-yard crossing pattern and then have to go through the tackling DB to advance the ball 10 yards at a time to score. Gamble gets embarrassed when Gonzalez hurdles him. Smith gets beat several times by other WR's. The WR's march down the field before the DB's can stop them and send them back 10 yards. The WR's score soon after.
During the call-back to determine who gets cut, WR Gonzalez says that performance on the field should determine whether he or DB Smith gets cut, so a new drill is run, in full pads, with the other players watching. The two players go "best 3 out of 5", with DB Smith defending against WR Gonzalez on simulated Red Zone plays. With each player earning 2 wins, the final play comes down to Gonzalez running a crossing pattern across the front of the end zone. Smith undercuts him at the turn and manages to break up the pass, sending Gonzalez home to his young family.
- Bottom 2: Steve Gonzalez, Ahmaad Smith
- Cut: Steve Gonzalez for losing the challenge drill against Smith.
Great Sacrifices, Great Rewards[edit]
First aired June 22, 2009
With 3 WRs and 4 DBs left, the coaches decide to do a kick-off return drill with each player having a chance to receive the ball while 3 other players try to tackle him. Included in the drill are 3 black-out players: the kicker (who is eligible to make tackles) and two blockers for the returner. After each candidate has had a chance to return a kick, one blocker is removed and each candidate gets another chance to score. Then, the last blocker is removed, so that it is just the returner and three opposing players (and the kicker). Andrew Hawkins is the only player return a kick for a touchdown, but a fumble is recovered by Montrell Jones on the kicking team and returned for a touchdown.
Afterwards, the candidates are given a chance to play twenty minutes of flag football, with the losing team cooking steaks, corn, and other food on a grill for the winning team.
Later that night, all of the candidates are shuttled in a limo to a club owned by one of the coaches, where they enjoy a good meal, music, and dancing with local women. After being kidded in the limo by the other players because he was the only one wearing a blazer and a tie, Moses Washington ended up meeting the most women (who complimented him on his style). Unbeknownst to the players, this was a test to see how well they could handle the glamour that goes along with being a player in the NFL.
When the players return to the Cotton Bowl, the DBs find that their belongings have been moved into the WRs common sleeping area, so that the WRs and DBs now share the same bedroom, except that there are 6 beds and 7 players, so 1 of them is forced to sleep on the couch in the living room, in which was Moses Washington.
The next morning, the players are put through a grueling series of drills, including running the stadium stairs, until at least one of them decides to quit and turn in his jersey. After 5 hours of physically demanding workouts, none of the players quit (although Montrell Jones did complain of a hamstring injury that was looked at by the trainers), so none of them were cut.
- Bottom 2: None
- Cut: None
The Rivals[edit]
First aired June 29, 2009
All seven remaining players – four DBs and three WRs – are called to the entrance of the Cotton Bowl where they are told that they will be faced with something they haven't had to face as a group yet; a rivalry game.
The five players that had already been cut are brought back as a team, coached by famous NFL All-Pro and Super Bowl champion wide receiver Jerry Rice. The players are told that if one of Rice's players outplays him, he could lose his jersey to the player, and that player (who had formerly been cut) would take his place in the competition. Swan states that his leg injury has been rehabilitated and he's ready to play at 100%.
Irvin says the average NFL play is 6 seconds. The total time of play in an average game is 24 seconds of intensity. The players are told that they will run head-to-head against Rice's players on a treadmill set at 20 mph to simulate constant play, and the first team to reach 12 minutes will get the right to receive the kick-off at the Rivalry Game. Rice's team wins, with several players on both teams vomiting on the ground and into garbage cans.
The Rivalry Game is played between Rice's team and Irvin's team, with AFL and semi-pro players filling the spots not assigned to the competing players. Rice's team takes an early lead, with Swan, McGann, and Gonzalez making big plays. Irvin's team scores on a touchdown catch by Holley. Rice's team gets the ball but Swan and Gonzalez suffer shoulder injuries and have to withdraw. The Irvin team wins on a fumble recovery for a touchdown.
After the game, all of the players are brought into the Film Room and shown clips of the game. McGann, Swan, Gamble, and Gonzalez are told to stay after the other players leave. Gonzalez and Swan are told that they have talent, but their injuries are too great and there isn't time left for them to heal, and they are dismissed. McGann is complimented on his improved play and terrific performance in the game (he scored a touchdown and gained more yardage than the other players), but is also dismissed. Gamble is complimented on his intelligence and ability to analyze a play as it is developing, but Irvin notes that Rice kept sending bigger WRs at Gamble to take advantage of the size difference, and says that the real NFL teams will do the same thing. Gamble is dismissed.
- Bottom: All 12 original competitors
- Cut: Donte Gamble for his inability to match up with bigger wide receivers, as shown during the rivalry game.
Moose Crossing[edit]
First aired July 6, 2009
In this episode, former Cowboys fullback, Daryl "Moose" Johnston, explains and demonstrates the first drill for the contestants. The drill is running a gauntlet. The goal is to catch fifty balls as fast as possible while running between two players with pads hitting them at the start and end of the course. Jesse Holley earned the best time. The last drill of the episode was "Control the Clock". The DB's wanted to break up passes, tackle a wide out in-bounds, or return an interception for a touchdown. The wide receivers wanted to get out of bounds in order to improve field position or score. The first team to five touchdowns would be declared the winner. The wide receivers won five to zero, with Hawkins and Holley scoring multiple times.
- Bottom 2: Montrell Jones and Moses Washington
- Cut: Montrell Jones for losing a one on one drill against Moses Washington
Beating the Blocker[edit]
First aired July 13, 2009
During a drill where each player had to beat two other players blocking in order to tackle the QB dummy, Washington got so beat up that he could hardly walk. Consequently, he lost the respect of the other players and Michael Irvin, who felt he lacked the physical toughness he expects from a Dallas Cowboy player.
- Bottom: Moses Washington and Eddie Moten
- Cut: Moses Washington
Amongst the Stars[edit]
First aired July 20, 2009
The drills for this episode were focused on special teams' play. Each player received a kick while the other players beat blockers to make the tackle. Hawkins impressed with his quickness and agility.
The final drill was a scrimmage game with black-out players, with the WRs playing against the DBs. The WRs took an early lead with two scores by Holley and one by Hawkins. The DBs were down with the clock winding down. Smith was told that he had to make something happen. On the final kick-off, Smith managed to get Hawkins to fumble the ball which was returned for a touchdown. The DBs assumed that since they won the game, they wouldn't get cut. However, Moten's unremarkable play, excuse-making, and lateness to practices caught up to him and he was sent home.
The remaining three players take a tour of the new Cowboys stadium and meet Jerry Jones, where Jones informs Holley that he has been accepted into the Dallas Cowboys training camp for the upcoming season.
- Winner: Jesse Holley
- Runner up: Ahmaad Smith and Andrew Hawkins
- Cut: Eddie Moten
Jesse Holley: Member of 2004-05 national championship basketball team, failed tryout with Cincinnati Bengals in 2007 and BC Lions in 2008.
Andrew Hawkins: Tried out for Cleveland Browns in 2007 and was signed by Montreal Alouettes in 2008. His father (Artrell Hawkins Sr.), brother (Artrell Hawkins), and cousin (Carlton Haselrig) played in the NFL and one cousin (Geroy Simon) played in the CFL.
Ahmaad Smith: Played for semi-pro Mississippi Mudcats and tried out for BC Lions.
Eddie Moten: Four seasons with Philadelphia Soul. (AFL) (2005–2008)
Moses Washington: Also ran track at Oklahoma, member of 2000 national championship football team.
Montrell Jones: Played for Montreal Alouettes in 2007 and Columbus Destroyers in 2008.
Donte Gamble: Played for Sioux City Bandits.
Steve (Speedy) Gonzalez: Arena League veteran Manchester Wolves (AFL2) and Philadelphia Soul (AFL). Broke a number of Wolves records.
Luke Swan: Tried out for Kansas City Chiefs, injured in college.
Erick Jackson: Member of 2005 national championship football team
Preston McGann: Baseball player; did not play high school football.
Stephen Andrews: Tried out for CFL's BC Lions.
After the show[edit]
Jesse Holley was signed to the Dallas Cowboys. He made his debut for the team and the NFL against the Raiders in a preseason game and scored the game-winning touchdown on a punt return against the Vikings in the final preseason game.[2] He was cut by the Cowboys to make room for other players for the 53-man roster limit, but was signed to the practice squad.[3] However, on 10/15/2010 he was called up to the main 53 man roster as a special teams player.[4] On Sept. 18th, 2011, Holley again found himself with the Cowboys being put into play after injuries limited the choices of wide receivers. He made his first regular season catches, including a 77-yard reception to the 1-yard line which set up a dramatic overtime win.[5]
Andrew Hawkins, although a runner-up, went on to have the best career of any contestant on the show. On March 18, 2014, he signed a 13.6 million-dollar contract with the Cleveland Browns. Directly after the show, Hawkins went on to play two seasons for the CFL's Montreal Alouettes. After being a part of two back-to-back Grey Cup champions, Hawkins signed a two-year contract with the St. Louis Rams on January 13, 2011. After being placed on waivers by the Rams, he was claimed by the Cincinnati Bengals and was initially on the practice squad. He was activated to the 53-man roster on 9-20-11. Hawkins has become a fan favorite in Cincinnati, scoring touchdowns in Weeks 2 and 3 of the 2012–2013 NFL season, including a 59-yard game winner against the Washington Redskins in Week 3 on September 23. After four NFL seasons in both Cincinnati and Cleveland he has accumulated 149 receptions for 1,819 yards and 6 touchdowns. He is now[when?] one of the top 30 paid WRs in the NFL.
Eddie Moten was signed to the California Redwoods of the United Football League. In 2010, he was a member of the Dallas Vigilantes.
Montrell Jones was signed to the Spokane Shock of the af2.
Erick Jackson was signed to the Rio Grande Valley Dorados of the AF2.
Preston McGann played semi-professional football with the Orlando Rage (Southern States Football League) in 2009. He signed with Columbus Lions of the Southern Indoor Football League in December 2009.
Moses Washington is currently[when?] a Student Success Advocate at Broward College's South Campus, and is in charge of the Summer Learning Institute.
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- ^ "Jesse Holley Goes from Reality Show Winner to Overtime Hero for the Dallas Cowboys by Burnsy".
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- ^ http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/news.cfm?id=B145BE01-C509-CBE4-B3B2F20AF1FB0740&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook
- ^ "Holley-wood ending: Little-used WR leads Cowboys to big overtime win - SportsDay". DallasNews.com. September 18, 2011. Retrieved March 2, 2017.