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In article <j4prqh$foj$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk> wrote:
> 1) It would be nice to press a button and see the hierarchy of style
> sheets leading to the notebook style sheet - preferably with their full
> pathnames.
Amen!! It's always helpful to understand the structure, the
hierarchy, the functional organization of some large and complex
mechanism you're using or are involved with -- even if you have no
intention of messing with individual components, or should actively
avoid attempting to mess with them.
> 2) What happens when a style sheet is installed - is it just placed
> somewhere in the filestore?
Amen, again -- where I take this particular (and rather minor point)
as just one illustration of the generalization in Item 1
> 3) Editing a style sheet seems too much like editing a notebook -
> which leads to confusion as to what can and cannot be done.
Actually, this may be a useful technique -- if you're specifically
told, "To modify what a stylesheet will do to all the cells having a
certain cell style, in notebooks that use this stylesheet, **find the
cell in the stylesheet itself that has that style and hand-edit its
style**". (Is that, more or less, how it works? Seems to be . . .)


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Tuesday, 12:20pm
Melbourne, Australia
"Buttula spruiks arrival of Spork at his new gig." (Actual headline in last Thursday's "The Australian" newspaper)
Reporting in from the fringes of the Outback…
… okay, I'm actually comfortably settled in an intriguing old hotel in Melbourne, nowhere near the Outback.
It still feels like I'm far from home, though.
Two weeks into this March Across Australia now, part of a bedraggled troupe of speakers, and I'm thrashed. Don't get me wrong — this is a great country, and we've been warmly embraced by the locals and shown amazingly-generous hospitality daily.
It's just a long damn trip… made longer by that nasty plate of deep-fried snapper I had Saturday night at what looked like a decent little upscale restaurant downtown. I forgot the old rule of traveling: Never eat stuff that arrives with the eyeballs still staring at you.
I deserved the ensuing bout of immune-system-destroying dysphoria, I suppose. Last December, in Dubai, a bunch of us sauntered down to the bad part of town to sample "native" fare the night before we spoke… and nothing happened. We gobbled questionable curries and unidentifiable chunks of stew, and lived to tell the tale.
Afterward, we all looked at each other and said "What have we done?"
For most of my life, I've had little angels (or maybe just confused demons, I dunno) looking out for me… so I somehow managed to stay one step ahead of the Federales in Mexico, just-missed by the would-be hit-and-run jalopy in Hollywood, and usually slightily out of reach of the snarling bugs everywhere else yearning for a vacation in my intestines. (To name a few examples out of many.)
So, this time I got caught. It's not Oz's fault. It's all on me.
And, I'm recovering fairly quickly. We have a couple of days to dig deeper into Melbourne's wonders (my second time in the city), and then travel to Brisbane for the final leg of this preposterous journey.
Seems like Sydney was a month ago.
So, anyway, I'm just checking in to let you know that I believe I've found the answer to the long suicidal swan dive that American newspapers are taking.
And it's very simple: Take lessons from the Aussie journalists.
The newspaper biz is thriving over here. Each town supports at least one local rag, plus a national one. The issues arrive each day with a thump — they are still huge, still happily sated with lots of ads, and (most important) still a rollicking good read.
That's the key, as I see it.
It's the writing. At first, it felt like I was trying to interpret a completely different language — especially in the editorial sections. But headlines like "Stone the Kroes, she's Neelie gone" actually make sense once you get into the story and make the connections. (These are names of politcians well-known to Aussies.)
More to the point… the actual journalism in the news sections performs the kind of two-step dance I remember from my teen years (when I was so in love with newspapers that I haunted journalism classes, and dreamed of being the next Herb Caen). You really can cover the standard who/what/where/why/when/how… AND inject some vivid prose with a touch of opinion… thus delivering on the basics of good reporting, while not being boring.
American newspapers are among the most mind-numbing waste of trees in world (in my humble opinion).
They didn't used to be so dull Check out some archives — you can go back to Mark Twain's day, up through WWII and into the 1970s, and find writing that pulls you in and packs a whallop.
Now? We're lucky to get a couple of decent columns from Maureen Dowd or PJ O'Rourke each year in the editorial section. It's hard to get through the news sections of the NY Times, the Wall St Journal, and the old once-venerated Washington Post without a nap anymore. Dull, dull, dull.
It's not like we're not living though one of the more interesting times in history, either.
The Aussies show craft with their writing. They are brash, bold and fearless about challenging conventional wisdom, and speaking their minds (usually after spending at least a little time getting their facts straight).
The US news media started veering sideways around two decades ago, and hit full stride in the wrong direction right when the Weblog was invented on the Internet.
And right now, blogs are slaughtering stateside "official" journos for fleshing out stories of interest, working from kitchen tables and home offices.
There are lots of culprits available for blame in this slo-mo hari kari pact. I grew up with 3 decent newspapers working hard each day to outdo, humiliate and destroy each with better reporting, better writing, and a better experience. (Count 'em: The LA Times, in it's long-gone heyday, the dearly missed Herald Examiner, and the local Daily Report in Cucamonga).
Then, "efficiency" raised its ugly head, and savvy moguls realized they could outsource and deliver the "news" from central locations… and stop paying writers a living wage. So, instead of a full staff in towns like Reno, where I live, we've got a skeleton crew slapping together prepackaged issues that have been designed to offend the least number of folks, while efficiently delivering a "product" to wrap around the advertising.
Yuck. Same thing happened with radio. There are just a handful of media comglomerates now (including the honking big Australian invader run by Murdock), for both radio and newspapers in the states… and they possess all the verve and personality you'd expect from a distant corporate board. Zilch.
Oh, there are a couple of local writers kept on the dole to cover the rescues of tourists in kayak accidents, the wildfires, and the scandals in city hall too big to ignore. But the "coverage" is thin and frightened, like mice peeking around the corner ready to bolt at the first sidelong glance from the pussycat.
Like GMs grisly demise, this did not have to happen. The Web isn't killing newspapers. Newspapers are killing newspapers. With sheer incompetence.
I see a silver lining, though.
Now that the best and the brightest of our scribes are no longer being seduced by Wall Street (cuz there aren't many jobs left there)… and the shiny bright distraction of greed has dimmed a bit… there is an opportunity for more decent writers to re-engage with the noble profession of journalism again.
We need them, too. Desperately. This fragile little experiment in democracy can't survive without the Fourth Estate kicking ass and taking names.
It may all still end up online, which is fine. Or, more likely, some workable combination of online and offline presentation.
Maybe the new manifestation will be an actual "newsblog". The bloggers now working are limited in their ability to dig for stories from scratch — most (like Drudge) must operate solely from swiping the work of real professional journalists for the raw material.
Others (like Huffingtonpost.com) mix it up a bit more… combining nicked stories from the newswires with additional reporting (sometimes) on top of the carping and critiques. A few (like Politico), though blatantly slanted to one side or the other of the political spectrum, have actually broken major stories later picked up by the mainstream media.
It's a mess out there right now. With the not very good result of young people ignoring all actual news, and getting their worldview from places like YouTube (and their facts from the manipulatable Wikipedia). I like all these alternative sources… but it's pretty scary to think upcoming generations are relying on them.
Another advantage the Aussies have, of course, is that they're sports-mad. I believe Oz has a higher percentage of the population earning a living as a respected pro athlete than the US by a wide margin… and nearly every town has a pro team in one of the main sports.
And the best way to keep a sports nut happy is to print out detailed analysis, with lots of obscure stats, of each game… along with cheeky, opinionated, and fur-raising commentary.
(Ed Dale took us to a footie match, the home town Bulldogs against the Richmond thugs, and we had a blast. I don't understand why their version of the game hasn't caught on the States. It's a controlled riot, easily as entertaining as any sports event I've ever witnessed.)
The folks who know how to write are dominating the conversations going on right now, in every part of your life. They're scripting the movie we're all living out, and if you want to have a say, you'll need to get your chops sharpened.
The Aussie audiences love my message of learning the easy path to becoming a writer. They intuitively know the power of the pen (whether it's delivered by email, video, webpage, or with newsprint) because the evidence is everywhere.
We're losing that sense in the US. The mainstream media will sell its soul for another ad dollar in revenue, and has no interest in the common good. Newspapers, reduced to thin wrappers for the stuff that doesn't do well on Craig's List, are abandoning their responsibility to keep The Man on his toes.
This will change.
The new "elite" will be those in possession of good information… and they will be tempted (as always) to horde it and not let anyone else in on the tips. Without good investigative reporting, they'll get away with it, too.
Good reporting requires sacrifice and nerve and hard detective work. The ranks of reporters are thin at the front lines, and they will welcome fresh help from smart, outraged, energized new writers.
Gonna be an interesting ride, at any rate.
In the meantime, dig harder for the truth when you can. Don't get lulled into a bored trance, just cuz we're lacking local chutzpah in the news media.
As the Aussies show us, it's still a noble — and very exciting — profession, when done right.
Stay cheeky,
John Carlton


text: by HOLLY SCHOENSTEIN | REPORTERStow -- Operation Open Doors is reaching out to military veterans, firefighters and police offers in Northeast Ohio who are permanently disabled as a result of an injury they sustained on or since September 11, 2001 and offering to help make their homes more accessible for daily living.Stow resident Aaron Hall, 38, is the executive director of the organization that was founded in 2006. The charity is a division of labor union The Associated of General Contractors of Ohio, Akron division.A member of the AGC of Akron came up with the idea to start the charity."Our members loved the idea and wanted to help as many veterans as we could so we started the process of setting up the not-for-profit 501(c)3 charity Operation Open Doors," Hall said. "The AGC of Akron wanted to find a way to thank the veterans who have served our country, and helping the disabled veterans get around in their homes seemed to be a great fit for our industry."Examples of home modifications include widening doorways, installing entrance ramps, remodeling kitchens and reworking bathrooms. So far the charity has completed one project, which was for Ashland resident Army Cpl. Josh Sommers, a 24-year-old 101st Airborne Division soldier who was injured by a grenade in Afghanistan."We had two weeks to completely remodel his bedroom and bathroom to make them handicap accessible. Josh was being released from the [Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center], but his home had to be handicap accessible before he arrived," Hall said. And in 2013, the charity hopes to help one or two more veterans."We are in contact with a family in the Akron area who may be in need of monetary assistance, he is a blind veteran whose spouse has cancer. Currently this is the only veteran we have been in contact with in 2012," he continued.The goal for 2013 is to help one or two veterans."Since we operate on donations, we can only help until the money runs out, but we do not want to discourage anyone from applying. We are happy to try and help as much as we can," he said.During his teen years and early 20s, Hall worked as a residential and commercial carpenter for Ver-Dick Builders in Stow.Hall has a bachelor's degree in organization communication and marketing and advertising from the University of Akron.Over the past 12 years, he's also been the executive director of four other labor unions: The Mechanical Contractors Association of Akron Inc.; Construction Industry Development Board Inc., The Associated General Contractors of Ohio, East Central Ohio Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning National Association, and Akron, Canton, Mansfield Roofing & Sheet Metal Contractors Association. He runs the unions' board meetings, handles financial affairs and day-to-day operations, including collective bargaining. For more information about Operation Open Doors, to request an application for the program or to make a donation of money, time or materials, call Hall at The Associated General Contractors of Ohio, Akron division, at 330-237-1885 or mail an inquiry to 2181 Akron Peninsula Road, Akron 44313.Email: email@example.com: 330-541-9428SS veteran home remodeling a.jpg:COURTESY OF AARON HALLOperation Open Doors, an Akron-based charity that modifies the homes of disabled veterans of all kinds, made this Ashland home more accessible. This photo is of the bathroom of that home before the project was completed.SS veteran home remodeling b.jpg:COURTESY OF AARON HALLOperation Open Doors, an Akron-based charity that modifies the homes of disabled veterans of all kinds, made this Ashland home more accessible. This photo is of the bathroom after it was enlarged and modified. The bathroom tiled and outfitted with new fixtures. SS veteran home remodeling c.jpg:COURTESY OF AARON HALLOperation Open Doors, an Akron-based charity that modifies the homes of disabled veterans of all kinds, made this Ashland home more accessible. This photo is of the bedroom after hardwood floors and larger doors were installed as part of the project. SS veteran home remodeling d.jpg:COURTESY OF AARON HALLAaron Hall, a 1992 graduate of Stow-Munroe Falls High School, is the executive director of Operation Open Doors, a charity that modifies homes of disabled veterans of all kinds to make them accessible.SS veteran home remodeling e.jpg:COURTESY OF AARON HALLOperation Open Doors, an Akron-based charity that modifies homes disabled veterans of all kinds, modified this Ashland home so that it's more handicap accessible. This photo is of the bedroom as it's being remodeled. The project also included installing tile in the kitchen and family rooms.


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March 9, 2011
By Eric Trainer, Associate Director of Media Relations
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Eleven members of the Tennessee men's and women's track & field teams are in the Lone Star State this week. They are slated to compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships, Friday and Saturday, at Texas A&M University. The Gilliam Indoor Track at the McFerrin Athletic Center will serve as the national indoor meet venue for the second time.
Nine Lady Vols qualified for the meet in six different events, while the Vols have two making the trip to take part in two different events. Joe Berry qualified in the men's pole vault but will not make the trip due to a violation of team rules.
Below are Tennessee's media notes, the NCAA meet schedule, UT athlete bios and updated statistics and records.
Tennessee Track & Field Meet Notes Package
UT On Twitter: Vol_Track and LadyVol_Track
NCAA Indoor Meet On Television: The 2011 NCAA Indoor Championships will air on a tape-delay basis on Weds., March 16, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Eastern on ESPN2.
Live Web Streaming: ESPN3.com will stream live portions of the meet, while NCAA.com / AggieAthletics.com will carry the rest. The live streaming schedule follows:
Friday, March 11
10 a.m. - 3:55 p.m. CT - NCAA.com/aggieathletics.com
3:55 p.m. - 8:40 p.m. CT - http://espn.go.com/espn3/index?id=146312
Saturday, March 12
Noon - 4:55 p.m. CT - NCAA.com/aggieathletics.com
4:55 p.m. - 7:50 p.m. CT - http://espn.go.com/espn3/index?id=146382
J.J. Clark talks about the NCAA Indoor Championships.


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Do you really want to know how to make your service fast? There is only one way to improve performance and that is to set a goal and test your system under load. The trouble is that there are few good load testing tools for WCF.
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May 04, 2013 10:50 AM
The Rotary Club of Indiana-Midday recognized 14 Indiana Area Senior High School seniors for their voluntary community service at its April 25 lunch meeting.
The students worked many hours with their school and clubs for benefits like the Teddy Bear Fund Drive, Relay for Life, Thon and many others.
Pictured, front row, from left, are June Stewart, Rotary Club member; Olivia Stossel, Tiffany Bray, Rotary President Wendy Nyland and Don Hogan, Rotary Club member. Back, Shelilah Reynolds, Emily Lauber, Ben LoPresti, Justin Spencer, Kaitlin Palmer, Sean Coleman, Katie Jack and Tyler Cousins.
Alexis Tshudy, Caitlin Paterson, Molly Masterson and Savanna Smith were absent from the photo. (Mike Walker/Gazette)


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Indiana Borough council Tuesday agreed to use about $130,000 of the borough's Community Development Block Grant money in each of the next three years to pay off the $391,000 bank loan helping to finance the latest round of streetscape improvements in the downtown business district.
The ongoing downtown revitalization work is now centered on North Seventh Street, where a plaza-like area to be known as IRMC Park is nearing completion, and along Water Street, where new steps up to Vinegar Hill and a new retaining wall at the bottom of the steps are being built.
Councilman John Hartman said he hoped the motion to use the CDBG money to retire the loan would pass because the borough is obligated to pay off the debt. But then he added he would vote against the motion to emphasize what he said is a need for change in the priorities for the grant money.
The downtown business district has received its fair share of CDBG dollars for economic development, Hartman said, adding that more improvements in the downtown business district should no longer be the No. 1 priority for CDBG money after the loan is paid off.
Hartman said there are lots of other problems in the borough, including flood control, that need attention and will require dollars to correct. It's been almost 10 years since CDBG money has been available for making infrastructure improvements, especially in residential neighborhoods, he said, because the grant money for so long has been earmarked for the downtown streetscape improvements and as the borough's contribution to the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.
Also at Tuesday's meeting, borough manager Bill Sutton outlined a tentative schedule of meetings to prepare and pass a 2014 budget for the borough before Christmas. Council took one early budget action and approved the minimum amount the borough must contribute to meet its pension obligations for next year.
Under that budgetary plan, the borough must show an expenditure of $458,224 to meet its pension obligations, but the borough will also show state aid revenue of $299,068 for the pension, leaving the borough to come up with the remaining $159,156.
Council Tuesday also approved two conditional offers of employment to two prospective police officers. The offers were extended to Terry Cramer, of Penn Run, and Adam Lewis, of Colver.
Cramer's tentative hire date will be Sept. 16, and Lewis is expected to join the force on Oct. 1.
Both men are U.S. Army veterans and their hiring will bring the Indiana Police Department up to 22 sworn officers.
Sutton said council's Sept. 17 work session will have one focus — a dialogue between council members and members of the Indiana Borough Planning Commission on the borough's traditional neighborhood development overlay zone and other aspects of the zoning ordinance.
And Robin Gorman, Indiana University of Pennsylvania's non-voting representative to council, invited council and the public to attend the university's 9/11 memorial service that will begin at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 11 in the Oak Grove on campus.
Indiana Mayor George Hood is coordinating another 9/11 memorial service that will start at noon on Sept. 11 at the Indiana Fire Association station along the 800 block of Water Street.


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The "supercommittee" of Congress tasked with finding at least $1.2 trillion to reduce the deficit has received millions of dollars from a wide range of special interests in the past decade, according to a new independent analysis.
Political action committees have given nearly $65 million to the six Republicans and six Democrats on the Joint Special Committee on Deficit Reduction from 2001-2010, according to the analysis by MapLight.org, which tracks money in politics.
Lawyers and law firms were the top donors by industry, contributing more than $31.5 million to the "supercommittee" members, the analysis shows.
That amount is more than the $11.2 million donated by people in the securities and investment industry, the analysis shows. Democratic/liberal interests, health professionals and the real estate industry round out the top five industry donors.
The "supercommittee," headed by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington and Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, was created through the compromise deal between congressional leaders and President Obama to raise the nation's debt ceiling.
Panel members were named last week and must recommend to the full Congress a list of spending cuts and other ways to reduce the deficit by Nov. 23.
Various watchdog groups have weighed in with their concerns about the "supercommittee" being beholden to special interests. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., is calling on panel members to disclose political contributions of $1,000 or more within 48 hours of receipt.
"It becomes clear that in order to restore credibility, 'supercommittee' members need to keep the influence of moneyed interests out of negotiations that will impact the finances of those very same industries and companies," writes the Public Action Campaign Fund.
The conservative Club for Growth is the top organization contributor, giving slightly more than $1 million to the Republicans on the "supercommittee." That amount includes donations from the club's PAC, its employees and members.
The group, which supports fiscal conservatives, donated to Hensarling in 2002, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., in 2006, and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., the club's former president, in 2010.
Microsoft, the University of California, Goldman Sachs and EMILY's List round out the top five organization contributor to the "supercommittee."
"The support of club members and the impact Club for Growth PAC-endorsed candidates are having now reflect the fact that the Club for Growth is the most effective advocate of free-market principles in Washington," club spokesman Barney Keller said in a statement.
Toomey did not vote for the debt-ceiling deal that created the panel, saying it was "not a serious effort" to change the nation's fiscal course.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
USA TODAY's Jackie Kucinich (@jfkucinich) and Fredreka Schouten (@fschouten) also contribute to the OnPolitics blog.


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Houston Race Fans Hurt in Grand Prix Crash
The Houston Fire Department reports that 13 people were hurt at the Grand Prix of Houston, when debris from a crash flew into the crowd.
Most were treated at the scene, but two were taken to the hospital.
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Indy car driver Dario Franchitti's vehicle went airborne into the fence on the final lap at Reliant Park. Franchitti's injuries are not yet known, but he is said to be conscious and alert.


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Cat Back System
Hey there everyone,
Im looking for a good full cat back system and i wanted some suggestions from any fellow drivers. I would like something with a nice low humm...and not a loud obnoxious one. I was looking at the HKS system for the SVT focus...any suggestions?
i love my magnaflow
Well the SVT system is pretty darn good already, any gains with aftermarket catbacks are minimal.
There is a post around here about someone who took out their rear lunch box resonator of their SVTF, and they liked the sound that it made after that. That would be a cheap and viable alternative so you can spend the un-used money on other, more significant mods.
The HKS system will be like any other system for the SVTF, with one difference. Its design is to go underneath the rear suspension unstead of routing through it. This makes your exhaust that much closer to the ground, so if you decide to drop your car, you'll have to be careful.
Good luck on your exhaust ventures
go with borla!
I have heard great things about MBRP especially the price.
Hey thanks for the input...i think that bowersdaazian is right...i wont get too much out of a performance muffler since mine is already tuned. So i will got with the advice of getting a more resonable mod like brake kit or a good intake. Thanks again for the input
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[7UP SUENO ALIANZA] Coaches from archrivals USA and Mexico will work together at the 7Up Sueno Alianza National Finals, the crowning event of the Hispanic player identification program. U.S. U-14 coach Hugo Perez and Mexico's U-20 coach Sergio Almaguer will share the bench to guide the Alianza U-15 and U-19 finalists in a total of six games at the HubStub Center in Carson, Calif., Sept. 19-22.
Almaguer coached Mexico at this year's U-20 World Cup, where El Tri reached the round of 16, losing, 2-1, to Spain. As a player, he made 17 national team appearances and was part of its
third-place 2000 Copa America squad.
Perez, a U.S. Hall of Famer who played at 1984 and the 1994 World Cup, is also a U.S. Soccer Technical Advisor and served as Tab
Ramos' assistant at 2013 U-20 World Cup.
The Alianza finalists were chosen from tryouts in 11 cities over the
last six months. The events have become popular among scouts from the Mexican soccer federation and Mexican Liga MX clubs, 16 of which will be represented at the National Finals.
Among the
Alianza teams' opponents at the National Finals are the youth teams of Apertura 2012 champion Tijuana Xolos, who have five Mexican-American players on their first team -- Paul Arriola,
Edgar Castillo, Joe Corona, Greg Garza and Herculez Gomez -- and six in the youth ranks.
"It's natural for us to look for talent in the United
States," said Xolos scout Jose Meza while attending the Alianza Sueno event in the San Francisco Bay Area that attracted 670 teenagers to the open tryout. "It makes
geographic sense, because we're so close, and we've already established that there's a lot of talent here."
Meza says he looks for technique, leadership qualities,
athleticism and intensity when he's scouting.
"And we're always looking with lefties," he said. "Everybody's looking for good left wingers."
Club America's Youth Academy Director Jose Luis Arce believes Mexican-American players are often more advanced athletically than their counterparts south of the
"There's more sports science here," he says. "And they eat better."
While scouting north of the border, Arce says:
compare them mentally to players we have in our academy in the same position and try to see if they have something more to offer."
The Alianza events have also attracted MLS scouts,
and MLS teams provide competition, such as the San Jose Earthquakes, whose Academy teams faced Alianza's Northern California finalists, and Chivas USA, which will compete at the National Finals.
Teams from Real Salt Lake, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo and Chicago Fire have also played Alianza teams.
College coaches have been more difficult to attract to the events, but Alianza has
added a college counseling component to its program to help educate players on the college recruitment and admissions process.


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ESPN's Adam Schefter is reporting that Arizona Cardinals quarterback John Skelton is "now considered the favorite" to be the team's starting quarterback. Kevin Kolb has widely been considered the frontrunner in this quarterback competition but his poor performance in the preseason may have cost him his spot. Kolb will start against the Oakland Raiders on Friday and if he doesn't dramatically improve, his 2012 season may be a bust.
Fantasy Analysis:
Skelton outplayed Kolb last season. That's not to say Skelton was all that great, but more to the point Kolb was unreliable. Kolb went 1-for-5 for 21 yards last week in the Cards' preseason game against the Kansas City Chiefs. That performance was with the second team and in this next preseason game, he must show improvement. Skelton didn't exactly set the world on fire when he went 3-for-6 for 35 yards and an interception against Kansas City, but the coaching staff appears to have more confidence in him which is what really matters.


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Tilting head when yawning....
We have two/1 year old pups. They are the light of our life! They go and do everything we do, including eating at outdoor restaurants, frozen yogurt places and shopping. My kids never want to be without them. Hiking, swimming, day trips to antique, beach, drive in movies, carline, grocery store, lowes, pet stores, lakes, any woods we decide to hike or walk through, eating establishments all over town, parks, agility centers, play dates, and Millie's therapy work visiting hospitals cheering up the sick.
Our female Millie, loves to grab sticks and run from miles (her fur brother)....I noticed the next day she was having a hard time yawning, the following day she could not yawn or chew without tilting her head. She could not open her mouth very much and we had to soften her food so she would not whine. We took her to the vet, they did not want to hurt her, and did not want to put her under unless absolutely needed....so they gave her strong antibiotics, and a steroid to help with the swelling and pain. The vet spoke to a specialist (this vet goes above and beyond)....and he felt it was an injury, that caused an abscess....Millie's symptoms very much sounded like what the diagnoses would match. After her first dose of meds she was communicating she wanted a treat, and was opening her mouth a little wider....by day 3 she was completely back to her old self...she was snatching toys to get miles to chase her...her favorite game with her fur brother...over the last two days....when she yawns she is tilting her head again!!! While she was recovering last time, we saw the vet 6 times just to make sure she was chewing properly and that the swelling was going down like it should. So we have no problem taking her back! I just would like to know if anyone else has experienced this??? My kids are so upset and afraid she will get sick again.
There is no swelling, no marks in her mouth or around the gums. She is eating normally, Orijen puppy formula, grain free and wonderful reviews. They love the food, their coats are so soft, silky and smooth, they barely shed....and she never has had a reaction to the food before, she has been on it since she was 2 months old...! She still has ALL of her energy to play and harass her brother. They tested for yeast In the ears, they were spotless, so no infections.
The only symptoms....she will slowly grab her chuck it balls, and when she yawn...her head tilts to one side!
Someone told us we take them to many places she could have gotten some weird Bactria or injury...that dogs should not have to go everywhere their people go. Guess that is more my girls, but the dogs never turn down the chance to get in the car. Very worried parents....she has an appointment Monday if she is not better or it gets worse, I would just like to know what topics to discuss to find a solution! This is the first time she has be hurt or sick and we are so worried. If anyone has any ideas or has seen injuries like this please let us know which direction to lead the vet in....or should I skip the normal vet and go straight to the specialist?
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never had this problem, but if this were a human, i would almost think a partial dislocation of the lower jaw occurred. i would start with your reg vet.
she may have had some trauma to the area - like the stick being jammed or the other dog whizzing by and whacking the stick while she was holding it causing her neck to torque , so a muscle strain on one side . She may have had an abscess . Chances are she is sore .
Traumeel is a good safe remedy to have on hand Traumeel Home
I had a dog that had a big bruise on his face when two dogs ran through a wooded area and he hit a poorly sawed off branch that stuck out too much from the trunk of a tree . He is totally fine .
which reminds me , maybe a cold compress on the area that is favoured.
Second Traumeel.
While on subject of homeopathy...it's possible there is a splinter lodged deeper down in the throat.
To expel foreign objects, the homeopathic Silicea in 6C dose 4x a day for two weeks.
You may want to look for drops rather than little pills, Squirt under the tongue and give away from food and water (by about 15mins.)
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Thank you so much for your advice!
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the swelling did not show up till a few days later --- I would say back to normal about 10 days . Up to that point he was delicate with himself when eating his raw chicken frames , that was my first signal to watch . Instead of grabbing , crunching like some dinosaur , he would lay down and tear bits with frontal teeth. Swelling was external -- . He was stiff with his head carriage , now back to being the careless fool charging into things like normal.
Thank you again for your time....glad to hear your furbaby recovered and is back to normal.
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Apple Said To Have Filed "iWatch" Trademark
Reports coming out of Russia suggest Apple has applied for a local trademark for the name "iWatch."
According to Russian publication Izvestia.ru, Apple has applied for a national trademark for the name "iWatch." The rumor has stirred up rumors that Apple is going to enter the smartwatch race.
Though little is known about the patent filing, it seems Apple may not have gone to the same lengths of secrecy it did when filing iPad patents, where it used shell companies to conceal its identity and thus circumvent the problem of giving away details of future products.
A quick search of the US trademark database shows numerous filings for an "iWatch" trademark, some alive and some dead, and while some of them are for digital monitoring services, others pertain to sensor-laden wristwatches. None of them are evidently owned by Apple. The company is nevertheless said to be intensely interested in smartwatch technology, having built up a large team earlier this year. Tim Cook also recently noted that in terms of wearable tech, the wrist is "interesting."


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" Genre: Travel / Author: Buzz Bissinger / Hardcover / Publication Date: 2012 / Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt "
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Buzz Bissinger is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer who has a mentally disabled son called Zach who is now in his late 20s. Zach is the younger of Bissinger's twin sons who were born 13 weeks early. Zach was born a mere 3 minutes after his brother Gerry but the difference between them in adulthood is stark.
Gerry is a student at Penn University and plans on becoming a teacher. Zach has spent his childhood attending special schools and retains a childlike innocence well into adulthood and has an IQ of 50. This is painful for his father to deal with - he's a high achieving, intellectual titan who is faced with a son who speaks as if punctuation doesn't exist.
Zachary has one incredible gift however - he is fascinated by maps and has an acute sense of direction, along with a memory as reliable as a good quality computer hard drive. His navigational skills are so good that his father suggests a road trip from Zach's home city of Philadelphia to Los Angeles, taking in places that have meaning for both father and son along the way. Zach is initially reluctant as he would prefer to fly but Buzz gets his own way, planning a trip that takes in places that both men have visited in the past.
Buzz Bissinger is an incredibly gifted writer, and this memoir is both searingly honest and captivating. What struck me most about the book is the almost reversal in roles between Buzz and Zach. As the parent of an autistic child I had expected "Father's Day" to feature meltdowns from Zach and Buzz describing coping strategies for dealing with them. The meltdowns however do not come from Zach but from Buzz himself whether it be over getting lost in Chicago or leaving a camera bag containing irreplaceable content outside a hotel in St Louis.
It's hard for a parent to admit to their shortcomings but Buzz does this throughout the book - with admissions of failure on his part throughout. Perhaps his biggest shortcoming is immediately blaming Zach when something goes wrong as opposed to immediately accepting responsibility himself. Zach is an uncomplicated man who doesn't deal with emotions when he speaks. Although he shows some traits of an autistic person his genuine interest in people seems to have precluded that diagnosis.
Buzz also admits to how difficult being father to such a low achieving child was for him and how he eventually passed most of the responsibility on to Zach's mother.
The conversations which Buzz has with Zach are written verbatim and work far better for it, giving the reader a genuine insight into Zach's nature. Buzz has several deep conversations with his son about things such as his divorce from Zach's mother and the fact Zach nearly died at birth. Zach's answers tend to be very short and truncated and lacking in much in the way of emotional understanding but there are times when his understanding of his situation is staggeringly clear. When his father asks him in conversation if he knows that his brain is "not a little right", Zach answers that yes he knows and that it makes him a little sad.
The simplicity of Zach's responses initially hide that sadness but when his father perseveres he admits that he feels that sadness most over not being able to go to school like his brother did, revealing a level of understanding his father hadn't previously noticed. What his father and the reader cannot fail to spot is a complete lack of any self-pity on his son's part however.
It's all too easy to be inspired by people who have challenges put in front of them which they overcome but what I find inspirational about Zach is how he uses his gifts of navigation and recall to teach his father that you can be successful without winning a Pulitzer Prize or getting top grades in education. He also somehow prises out of his father admissions of his own failure - including a particularly ill-fated spell in Hollywood as a TV writer - which come across as both painful yet therapeutic for Buzz. Zach doesn't have deep and meaningful conversations with his father which bring out these revelations however - it is his manner and his limitations which are the catalysts for them.
For all the road trip aspect of the book this isn't really a travelogue - it's more a book about coming to terms with having a child who can reach their full potential as an adult even if the potential isn't what you would have hoped for.
I really enjoyed it but as I came to the end I realised it was because Zach is, quite simply, a magnificent person. Buzz's realisation of this is a revelation too. It's not that he doesn't love his son as it's evident throughout the book that he does, it's just that it takes a while for him to realise that his son doesn't have to be top of his year in grad school to be magnificent.
It is painful in places to read - especially when Buzz is in the middle of one of his frequent meltdowns or is in danger of succumbing to self-pity himself. However his self-awareness is to be commended along with his refusal to sugar coat his feelings about parenting a child who will, in his own words, never drive a car or kiss a girl. What Bissinger leaves the reader with is a sense that none of those things matter along with a realisation of a far better understanding between father and son - with father being the one who learned the most.


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