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The Baton Rouge Area Chamber revealed Thursday five targeted industries where it plans to concentrate its economic development efforts over the next few years.
The chamber also is targeting several countries, where it will seek foreign investment in the industries targeted for the local area.
The targeted industries, which were identified by Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, a commercial real estate consulting firm, as representing the best current and long-term growth opportunities are: chemicals and new energy production; fabricated structural materials; software design for enterprise, industrial and gaming applications; technical research and consulting in architecture and engineering, human resources, management and environmental services; and advanced shared services or satellite offices that provide back-office support services to companies' headquarters.
In addition, three other sectors were identified as emerging opportunities, which could pay off down the line: health care; emerging fuels; and film production and entertainment services.
This designation means BRAC should look at actions that would enhance the local prospects of the industries, such as supporting Pennington Biomedical Research Center, keeping film tax credits competitive with other states and being nimble to all types of emerging energy sources.
The last time BRAC identified target industry sectors was in 2006. But significant changes have taken place over the past six years, such as the easy access to ample supplies of cheap natural gas, the national recession and Louisiana Economic Development's "blue ocean" strategy, which calls for establishing footholds in industries that other states haven't cornered, such as digital media, the report said.
"In 2006, the petrochemical industry wasn't even listed as a target industry," said Adam Knapp, BRAC president and chief executive officer.
Knapp said BRAC chose Newmark Grubb Knight Frank to conduct the survey because the company has extensive experience in helping companies select sites for new plants and offices. That gave it a different perspective over economic development firms, since the company knows what factors influence industry decision-making.
The report said the countries that are the most active in originating projects in the five target industries are the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada. Japan also was mentioned as another country for seeking foreign investment.
Knapp and Iain Vasey, the organization's executive director of business development, said cities similar in size to the Capital Region have identified markets for foreign direct investment, which led to the section being added to the report. This will work along with LED's ongoing efforts to market Louisiana products for foreign export.
BRAC officials said this report will guide all aspects of their search for new business prospects in the nine-parish region, from developing marketing materials to pushing for policy changes.
"While we will continue to work with businesses in all sectors that are interested in the Baton Rouge area, this strategy will focus our outreach efforts on those industry sectors that offer exciting opportunities and will diversify the region's economy," Knapp said in a statement.

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Georges Seurat
At the Gaîté Rochechouart (Café-concert)
Georges Seurat
French, 1859-1891
At the Gaîté Rochechouart (Café-concert), ca. 1887-1888
Conté crayon with gouache on laid paper
30.5 x 23.5 cm (12 x 9 5/16 inches)
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The subject of the indoor café holds an important place in nineteenth-century French art. Starting in 1887, Georges Seurat executed several drawing of these Parisian nightspots, including the Gaite Rochechouart. Like Edgar Degas, Seurat was concerned with the effects of artificial light and its power to distort form and evoke atmosphere. By applying his conte crayon to a heavily textured paper, Seurat achieved a vibrating surface pattern of pits and ridges reminiscent of his pointillist paintings. His composition is wholly tonal, the whites created with gouache or the white of the page. Seurat's fervent interest in tight and structured compositions, represented here by the reflective stage floor that appears exactly one-third from the bottom, is in balance with the liveliness and drama of the scene.


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Joe Brown
Joe Brown (May 18, 1925-Dec. 4, 1997), a member of the Allstate Sugar Bowl's Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame, was an outstanding New Orleans-based boxer for many years. He won the undisputed lightweight championship of the world in 1956 at the age of 30 and made 11 successful defenses of his title. In 1961, he was named The Ring's "Fighter of the Year." After his retirement in 1970, he went on to become a trainer of New Orleans fighters. A native of Baton Rouge, Brown was inducted into the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame in 1977 and finally earned inclusion in the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1996.
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WHERE: Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans.
TV/RADIO: Fox/WTGE-FM, 100.7-FM, WWL-AM, 870, 105.3-FM.
RECORDS: 49ers, 7-2-1; Saints: 5-5.
LAST WEEK: 49ers defeated the Chicago Bears, 32-7; Saints defeated the Oakland Raiders, 38-17.
COACHES: 49ers, Jim Harbaugh, 2nd season (21-6-1); Saints, Joe Vitt, 2nd season (7-8).
Offense (league rank in parentheses)
Points: 49ers, 24.5 (13); Saints, 28.7 (t4).
Total yards: 49ers, 364.6 (13); Saints, 391.3 (5).
Rushing: 49ers, 165.3 (1); Saints, 94.9 (26).
Passing: 49ers, 199.3 (27); Saints, 296.4 (2).
Defense (league rank in parentheses)
Points: 49ers, 13.4 (1); Saints, 27.3 (27).
Total yards: 49ers, 277.2 (2); Saints, 462.8 (32).
Rushing: 49ers, 94.3 (6); Saints, 157.8 (32).
Passing: 49ers, 182.9 (2); Saints, 305.0 (31).
49ers: QB Alex Smith, RB Frank Gore, TE Vernon Davis, DT Justin Smith, OLB Aldon Smith, ILB Patrick Willis.
Saints: QB Drew Brees, TE Jimmy Graham, WR Marques Colston, MLB Curtis Lofton, WLB Jonathan Vilma, CB Jabari Greer.
Offense: The 49ers aren't great, but they aren't bad. They rank 13th in total yards, but lead the NFL rushing with 165.3 yards per game as Frank Gore has 831 yards and a 5.3 average. They only rank 27th in passing, but are capable of doing some damage — especially with tight end Vernon Davis.
Defense: They don't lead the NFL in fewest yards allowed, but they have a fantastic defense which showed against Chicago on Monday night. They allowed just 143 yards, including 58 net passing yards, and rank second in the NFL in giving up 277.2 yards a game. They do lead in fewest points allowed at 13.4 per game.
Special teams: The Niners have a perennial Pro Bowl punter in Andy Lee, who averages 46.8 gross yards and 42.0 net yards with 24 kicks inside the 20. Kicker David Akers has made just 18 of 24 in field-goal attempts, but one of them was a 63-yarder.
The 49ers have only two players with Louisiana ties — defensive tackle Ricky Jean Francois, a former LSU defensive lineman, and running back Brandon Jacobs, an Assumption High grad who won two Super Bowl rings with the Giants before signing with the Niners this winter. … Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio coached Saints linebackers from 1986-94 under Jim Mora and assistant secondary coach Greg Jackson is a former LSU safety who played with the Saints in 1996. … The 49ers have outscored their opponents 74-33 in the second quarter and 80-42 in the fourth. … The teams have met 71 times with the Niners leading the series, 45-24-2.
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When plaintiffs file lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of a state statute, the Indiana Attorney General's Office is obligated to defend the state statute in court.
House Enrolled Act 1210 is a state statute passed by the Indiana General Assembly April 29, 2011 and signed into law May 10, 2011 dealing with Medicaid funding eligibility for medical providers that offer abortion services.
Full text of House Enrolled Act 1210
House Enrolled Act 1210, now known as Public Law 193-2011, is currently the subject of a legal challenge to its constitutionality filed by plaintiffs May 10 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Below are court documents in the case:
U.S. District Court's Entry Denying Plaintiff's Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Setting Hearing on Motion for Preliminary Injunction, entered May 11, 2011
State's Memorandum in Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, filed May 25, 2011
Defendants' Supplemental Brief in Opposition to Motion for Prelminary Injunction, filed June 13, 2011
Exhibit A: State's Request to CMS for Reconsideration, filed June 23, 2011
State's Response to U.S. Government's Statement of Interest, filed June 24, 2011
State's notice of appeal and docketing statement filed June 28, 2011 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
June 28, 2001 News Release - State will appeal federal court ruling in Planned Parenthood case.
State's interlocutory appeal brief filed August 1, 2011 in the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The appendix filed along with the State's brief August 1, 2011 in the 7th Circuit.
August 1, 201 News Release - State files brief in appeal of Planned Parenthood ruling.
State's Reply Brief filed in the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
September 26, 2011 News Release - State files new brief in Planned Parenthood appeal
State's Brief on Petition for Reconsideration, filed October 18, 2011 in the administrative appeal to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
October 20, 2011 News Release - State's appeal argued in federal appeals court
December 20, 2011 News Release - State's administrative appeal argued in abortion provider law case
October 23, 2012 News Release - Attorney General's Statement on 7th Circuit's Medicaid defunding opinion
October 23, 2012 - Opinion of the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
February 20, 2013 - State's petition for certiorari filed in the United States Supreme Court.


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Tricky - you are talking generics. What amando refers to is the vast amount of configuration options on this particular device and trying to find the correct settings for comms to take place.Hence my reference to other libs, examples that have working examples
Yes... I'm just saying you can try Manchester coding for on air transmition... I had in mind that this IC has a complex instruction set....
the RFM12 already does all encoding for you in the background using FSK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-shift_keyingimplementing your own Manchester Encoding as well would just cut your bandwidth in half.dunk.


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Monday July 23rd, 2012 4:49pm
Some notes and news from the quad-team scrimmage at Loyola University's Ridley Athletic Complex Saturday.
Four intriguing 2012 men's programs —Loyola, Stony Brook, Siena and Villanova— squared off in a four-game fallball scrimmage Saturday. All four teams are working through some new wrinkles on their rosters, including trying to fill key positions and build new chemistry.
Floating between four teams, wasn't able to keep a methodical score, but did follow top moments and shooters, and got a sense of Saturday's four programs. Check back with Inside Lacrosse later this week for full video highlights from Stony Brook-Loyola and Stony Brook-Villanova matchups.
In the first contest of the day against Siena, Loyola jumped out with a flurry of scoring started by Mike Sawyer and finished by Justin Ward and Eric Lusby. Siena was able to settle down after that and the game settled into a defensive matchup for the rest of the contest.
Loyola is purposing looking to push the tempo this year, rotating the ball quickly and attacking the goal. Possession time will be an issue for them though, especially off the face-off. In replace of former FOGO star John Schiavone, the Greyhounds rotated middies Phil Dobson and J.P. Dalton. Both are big players who, once they get the ball, can push it (Dalton scored a late goal just being on the field). The key for this group though will be the wing play, which Saturday featured Josh Hawkins and junior LSM Scott Ratcliff. Both players should help bolster that aspect of the lineup as the Greyhounds find a comfortable footing at face-off.
Hawkins in particular is fun to watch. He's one of the best middle-of-the-field players in the country, able to clear quickly and get the ball into transition. He's not the best handler, but the team isn't afraid to let help out the offense by driving the cage or setting up a shot either. Still don't expect a lot of scoring points out of him but his contributions will be big otherwise.
The competition for Loyola's open goalie spot was also on display Saturday. Junior Mike Bonitatibus isn't the biggest player (5-8, 155 lbs.) but he showed excellent hand quickness and recognition while in cage. Sophomore goalie candidate Jack Runkel is almost the exact opposite, a big player (6-3, 215 lbs.) who fills the cage but who, at least early against Stony Brook, could fall victim to quick scoring teams. Still plenty of time for this competition to playout.
The Greyhounds' most impressive player of the day was sophomore defenseman Joe Fletcher. A long 6-0, 180 lbs., Fletcher did a great job in 1-v-1 situations attacking the ball. He forced several turnovers and was adept at pushing the ball upfield. He's an emerging talent who fits into Loyola's push to up their tempo.
Scary moment in the Siena scrimmage when Saints' defenseman Pat Killeen plowed into Loyola attackman Patrick Fanshaw, who was knocked out cold for a few seconds. He was sitting up a few moments later, but as a precaution he was strapped to a gurney and taken away in an ambulance. Luckily, he returned to Loyola's sideline in street close for the day's second scrimmage, done for the day but otherwise in good health.
After a tough first quarter, the Saints settled into a grinder of a game with Loyola, thanks to the team's physical defense. Senior goalie Tom Morr was impressive in cage once settled, playing big and forcing shots that he wanted to see.
The rest of the defense played just as big, literally. Check out some of the physical credentials for the players who started for the unit today: JD Heinz, 6-4, 205, Brendan Meehan, 6-2, 190, Ken Wright, 6-0, 207 lbs. Erik Casparius, 6-1, 192, Pat Killeen 6-1, 174. Group's sliding and rotations were strong and weren't afraid to put a shoulder into players. A big, physical defense has its strengths and weaknesses, but it should definitely play out as an asset in the MAAC once again this upcoming season.
Junior attackman Danny Martinsen ran the 'x' for Siena, though most of the team's offense was initiating from midfield. Senior middies Chis D'Alberti and Chris Roth both looked strong pushing the offense from uptop.
In the first half of Stony Brook's contest against Loyola, the offense was clicking on all points until the Greyhounds' defense settled down a bit. The Seawolves used quick passing a solid 6-v-6 games to jump out with five goals. Senior Rob Campbell and sophomore attackman Matt Bellando played especially strong, with Campbell attacking from uptop and Bellando working around the cage. Going to be a very new-look offense for Stony Brook under Nagle with this crew.
Stony Brook was also trying out a new goalie, No. 18, who I believe was Nick DiGiacomo, but couldn't confirm via their current team roster. Solid on saves in the first quarter, but Loyola's offense was able to turn the tables on him in the second quarter with consecutive goals.
Check back this week for video of Stony Brook's day at Loyola.
Only caught a little bit of Villanova's play. Was most intrigued by the defensive lineup. Had Junior Billy Hurley in goal, with Remington Pope, Chris Piccirilli, Chris Conroy and Hunter Broome running the pole positions around him. Will be interesting to see if this group can keep up with the dynamic pace that former teammate Brian Karalunas was able to set for them last year. Saw a lot of penalties in the small portion of their Siena contest I caught.
Make sure to check back this week for video of Villanova's scrimmage against Stony Brook.


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MARYSVILLE — A 15-year-old Marysville-area boy was arrested and expelled from school Wednesday morning after allegedly bringing a cap gun on campus.
Marysville Pilchuck High School and two other schools were put in lockdown while police sorted out what was going on.
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Hi there,
I am using the following plugin: http://www.thepixelart.com/demo/jticker/
It doesn't however, accept a callback and I'm more of a mid-weight JQuery user so I was wondering if any of you ninjas can add one. I imagine you can do in a few minutes what I probably won't be able to work out with hours of research.
thanks in advance
What sort of callback do you want, and how do you intend to use it?
Hey Paul,
Well I am using the plugin in a very simple way because I only want it to happen once when the page loads. So I just use:
type: "control",
item: 0,
rate: 10,
delay: 2000
I want a function to be called when the stop event occurs this is so that I can perform some other animations. At the moment I am using delay(3000) before these other animations in order to stop the browsers trying to execute both the ticker and my secondary animations at the same time.
This is fine on newer browsers because I sorted out the bug that we discussed the other day and the ticker is flying along nicely but on IE7,8 sometimes the ticker takes longer than 3secs to finish which leads to the two effects executing simultaneously which slows the ticker and the other animation.
So I want to either pass Jticker a callback function or to add some sort of onstop event.
I would appreciate it if you are able to explain what you do to achieve this. I have had a go but I am not quite there yet. I don't imagine it will take long as jticker isn't a lengthy script.
Well here's the existing code for the stop piece:
.bind("stop", function(e){
var data = elem.data(name);
data.running = false;
A callback function could be added, with:
.bind("stop", function(e, callback){
var data = elem.data(name);
data.running = false;
if (callback && typeof(callback) === "function") {
I see what you've done, very sleek thanks very much
However , if I call it now even when I send it the name of the function to be called as below , the function is called before and not after the plugin is finished executing. I checked this with an alert and the alert happens rights away.
jQuery("#ticker").ticker({ type: "control", item: 0, rate: 10, delay: 2000 }).trigger("play").trigger("stop", myfunction);
Does anyone have any idea why this callback fires before and not after the plugin executes, is there something to do with the architecture of jTicker that I'm not seeing?
I have since found that things can't work that way.
What may work though is instead of a callback, to just add another function to the 'stop' event.
jQuery("#ticker").on("stop", otherFunction);
That way when the stop event is triggered, the original function associated with it and your other function both get called.
Hey thanks for the suggestion Paul but that doesn't do the trick either.
Well that's odd - according to the on documentation it should work.Perhaps by changing the event from #ticker to the body element instead?
Yes I had a read it should work fine but no luck or with the body tag either. I don't think that it's a standard event with this plugin. He calls trigger("play") and not jTicker("play"). I am going to try to work out what it does by looking at the plugin as a whole but I have only written one plugin before so it takes me a long time to understand them. Thanks anyway.


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Here is a cool interactive infographic I came across that might be of interest to you:Salaries Around The World Infographic
It shows how designers and developers are paid (in average) around world. Interesting information since it shows how significant the pay differences are.
For instance, some countries are just paid a tenth of what others are receiving. I am also surprised at how Australian designers are paid. Are they receiving this much?
What do you think? Do you have experiences hiring designers and developers? Or, are you one of the guys in this infographic?
Info like that is not worth much, IMHO. Here in Australia there is a huge range in what people get paid, depending on various factors.
Of course. Considering the nature of their work which are totally different, the pay should be different too.
True. Economic factors play a great factor too. Like cost of living, etc.
Yes, and experience counts for a lot. I know some freelance designers here who charge a very high hourly rate, and others who are employed at a firm and get paid slave wages (a tenth of what the freelancers can get per hour). So it's more complex than just what country you are in.
Great point! Maybe the best measure would be to just look at his/her work. Maybe doing a test before hiring or something like that? You just can't be sure right now. Some charge really high even though they don't have that much experience yet.
Read it. I think it's a very cool Infographic. If only I'm a developer or a tech geek, I'd definitely consider relocating to Australia.
Based on the experience ,they will be paid .I think developer will be paid a lot, when compared to designer


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JOSHUA TREE - Two parents pleaded not guilty Tuesday to child abuse charges that were filed after their 7-year-old daughter consumed methamphetamine in the house.
Johnnie Koranda, 32, and Michelle Beamer, 30, of Joshua Tree have been behind bars since Friday after the child was hospitalized, San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said.
"She's slowly recovering," said San Bernardino County sheriff's Sgt. Jason Radeleff. "She's no longer in ICU but she's being monitored because of what she went through."
The San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office on Tuesday filed four counts of child abuse against the couple. They were arraigned in Morongo Superior Court and pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Sheriff's deputies began investigating the case after they received information that the child was in critical condition at Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree.
The girl was suffering seizures, a severe fever and had an elevated heart rate. She tested positive for methamphetamine.
Paramedics flew her to Loma Linda University Medical Center.
Detectives learned the child consumed methamphetamine, thinking it was candy, at a home in the 5000 block of First Street. They didn't specify where in the home the child found the drugs, but said they were easily accessible to the victim.
San Bernardino County Child and Family Services officials relocated three other children living at the residence.
Radeleff said they found an amount of drugs consistent with personal use.
Deputies suspect the version of meth found is known as Strawberry Quik, due to its flavor. But they plan to conduct tests on the seized drugs.
"It's not uncommon for us to search residences and find narcotics in residences where kids are in the house," Radeleff said. "But fortunately, it is a rarity for the children to ingest the narcotics."
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Disney's latest multijillion-dollar entertainment extravaganza, World of Color at California Adventure has the power to make you feel like you're tripping balls—even if you're stone-cold sober. All your favorite Disney scenes are projected onto a massive wall of mist surrounded by mile-high, dancing streams of water, complete with musical score and a dazzling neon rainbow of lights—it's almost seizure-inducing. Definitely impressive, and should you be on any kind of hallucinogenic, World of Color is absolutely mind-blowing. The show would also go well with marijuana (medical or otherwise); add one of Disney's famous corn dogs to the mix, and you've got yourself one hell of an experience.
Orange County hockey fans can rest easy knowing that despite all rumors to the contrary, this 40-year-old family man from Coto de Caza by way of Finland isn't retiring just yet. That's good news for the Anaheim Ducks because Teemu Selanne is just about the greatest living hockey player anywhere on the planet. Among the top 20 goal scorers all time, he holds the record of all-time highest scorer in Olympic hockey with 37 points. In 2007, when he scored his 300th goal for the Ducks after joining the team just two seasons earlier, he became the biggest point-earner in the history of the franchise. While his speed and grace on the ice earned him the nickname "The Finnish Flash" even before he joined the NHL, Selanne has since earned a reputation for sportsmanship both on and off the rink that seems increasingly hard to come by in a sport in which brawls and cheap-shot checks are all too common. Just don't smash him against the glass, or he'll chase you down and try to slice you in half—with his stick. Just ask Dmitri Mironov.
The lanky right-hander is Exhibit A in the case against wins and losses as a worthwhile statistic for pitchers. Last year, Jered Weaver went 16-8 in 33 starts. This year, he went 13-12 in 34 starts. So, he had a better year last year, right? Sure, if you're stoopid. Wins and losses are a team stat; a pitcher can't control whether or not your best hitter breaks his leg stomping on home plate, eviscerating your offense for pretty much the whole year, fer crissakes! So, why was Weaver better this year? Let's look at some real stats: He has always had good control and has continued to not walk guys, but in 2010, his strikeouts were waaaay up (233, good for the American League strikeout crown). His ERA was a tick above 3 runs per game (quite a feat in the AL), and his WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched) was just a few ticks above 1. That's sick. Some see a bit more velocity on his four-seam fastball—which also leads to more swings and misses on his straight change—as the biggest factor here. Others assert that his greater use of his two-seamer helps him keep hitters more off-balance. We've got a better explanation: He finally ditched that Carol Brady flip of blond locks that used to sprout from the back of his cap. Never underestimate the power of a decent haircut.
In a year when a lack of clutch offense—hell, any offense—was the team's biggest problem (10th in AL slugging percentage; 13th in AL on-base percentage), we just couldn't give anybody who swings a bat on this team our nod for best overall player. Yet Torii Hunter deserves at least a little love. He has, after all, continued to do his thing: hit for pretty good average, draw some walks, hit a lot of doubles and more than 20 home runs. But what makes him impossible to ignore? The quotability factor. In this dreary season, scanning the sports section for Hunter's latest gem has been one of the few highlights for Angels fans, be they boneheaded ("People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African-American," he said of Latino players of African descent. "They're not us. They're impostors") or classy ("I could say I want to go for that 10th Gold Glove," he said about his move to right field. "But all that individual stuff, you let that go"). The Angels may lose, but Hunter is never at a loss for words.
During his 10 years with the Angels, Darin Erstad plowed into outfield walls, made hard slides into second base and generally showed more regard for winning than for his own body. Yes, the North Dakotan was slowing down a bit by the time he left Anaheim with a World Series ring, two All-Star appearances and three Gold Gloves, finishing his career with the Chisox and Astros. These days, he's a hitting coach for the University of Nebraska, but Ersty and his wife, Jessica, have not forgotten Orange County. She annually hosts the "Not So Serious" Women's Golf Outing to benefit the Orange-based Child Abuse Prevention Center, which also receives funds from the auctioning of baseball memorabilia donated by her husband and players he shared the field with. First runner-up is Tim Salmon, who also spreads the time, handshakes and autographs for many charities here in Halosland.
As far as we know, nobody showed up to any of the eight home games the former USC and Chicago Cubs phenom pitched for our local Golden Baseball League team dressed in a dark sweat shirt, a Cubs cap, glasses and headphones. Which is great, because we here in Orange County are far too gracious to remind a guy of his role in the 2003 playoff-dream-killing meltdown that merely added to the Cubs' long history of such things. Well, most of us are, anyway.


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Along with the closely related Jeep Patriot, the Jeep Compass is one of the lowest-priced off-road-capable utility vehicles on the market when equipped with the optional Freedom Drive II Off-Road Package, yet it packs that in a vehicle that rides and handles for the most part like a car. Ease of parking and maneuverability are strengths for this model, and it's also reasonably fuel-efficient at an EPA-estimated highway 30 mpg. The Compass can also optioned to tow up to 2,000 pounds--enough for a couple of jet-skis.
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The Limited trim has been dropped for 2016, and Bluetooth is now standard radio items across the board.
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The Jeep Compass combines competence and predictable maneuverability with smooth powertrains and an ample selection of standard equipment at affordable prices. Fuel economy is not a strong point, however, and the 2016 Compass is a dated product lacking the latest technology and safety features.
Compass was launched as a 2007 model and updated for 2011. The 2016 Jeep Compass lineup has been trimmed to two levels: Sport and Latitude. Though dated, the current-generation Compass has been refined and considerably improved since its introduction.
All 2016 Compass models come with Uconnect hands-free calling and satellite radio compatibility. The 2016 Compass Sport SE is a new package with heated cloth front seats, 18-inch wheels, and rearview camera. The High Altitude Package remains as an option for four-wheel-drive models with automatic. It offers most of the features from the previous Limited model, plus a sunroof and chrome-clad alloy wheels.
The Compass profile is essentially trapezoidal, subdued by soft detailing. For 2011, Compass adopted styling cues from the big Grand Cherokee.
The interior has been updated with elements used on other Jeep and Dodge vehicles.
Base engine is a 158-horsepower 2.0-liter four-cylinder with a choice of 5-speed manual gearbox or optional 6-speed automatic transmission. Limited models use a 172-horsepower 2.4-liter engine with a 6-speed automatic.
Jeep continues to offer the CVT. In fact, it's the only choice if you want the highly capable Trail Rated four-wheel-drive system. That combination stands ready to churn through dirt or sand, and engage in moderate rock-crawls, though not with the capability of a Wrangler.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gives Compass only three stars for frontal crash, four stars for rollover and overall, and five in side-impact testing.
Compass Sport ($19,495) comes with air conditioning, manual windows and door locks, cruise control, foglamps, illuminated cupholders, and 16-inch wheels. All-wheel drive ($2,000) is available and comes with 17-inch wheels. Compass Sport SE ($21,740) comes with heated cloth mesh front seats, a leather-wrapped steering wheel with audio controls, 18-inch Mineral Gray wheels, and rearview camera. (All prices are MSRP and do not include destination charge.)
Compass Latitude ($23,795) gets power windows and locks, keyless entry, heated cloth front seats, 60/40-split reclining rear seats, 115-volt inverter, and a leather-wrapped steering wheel. Compass High Altitude ($24,790) includes leather-trimmed seating, a sunroof, six-way power driver's seat, and 17-inch chrome-clad wheels.
Safety features include active front head restraints and electronic stability control.
Essentially obsolete, the Compass has been available for a decade, without a significant redesign. Yet, it doesn't seem quite as outmoded as its years suggest. That's because a number of notable changes took place for 2011, sprucing up some of the awkward elements of the original design. 2015 brought some detail changes, led by a new grille.
Overall, Jeep's smallest crossover looks somewhat like a miniature Grand Cherokee. Boxy-looking wheelwells and an ungraceful rear uptick stem from the early Compass, now in a softer form. A few imperfect angles remain evident, yet the elements fit together better.
Taken as a whole, the cockpit comes across as straightforward and functional. One oddity makes it seem especially dated: Occupants sit well below the beltline, in contrast to the configurations found in most modern crossovers, including the Jeep Renegade.
As a result, the dashboard seems high. The comparatively low seating position makes visibility a challenge when parking or changing lanes. That makes the rearview camera a compelling option for the Compass.
Front-seat comfort is adequate, but no more. Worse, the back bench is one of the hardest and flattest that we've ever tested in a vehicle of this type.
Acoustic laminated front windshield glass helps control engine noise, which has been an issue from the start. At least, noise levels have improved lately.
Sensibly laid-out, the interior has such appealing features as outward-facing tailgate speakers. All told, though, the cabin ranks near the rear of its class in detailing and refinement.
Cargo space is in short supply, though rear seatbacks flip forward easily.
The Compass drives nicely, though its main distinction is its off-highway capability.
While a 5-speed manual gearbox is available, the 6-speed automatic is nicely refined and impressively responsive, so it gets our recommendation for most buyers. The automatic has a high top gear that helps highway fuel economy, plus a low-ratio first gear for more spirited launches. Manual shifting is available, too. While drivability with the manual gearbox is decent, a notchy shifter and imprecise clutch action takes much of the joy out of manually shifting.
Partly because it incorporates a Low range, the CVT is required if you want a Trail Rated badge and the best off-road system: Freedom Drive II four-wheel drive. With that setup, a Compass can undertake far more off-road situations than most crossovers of its size.
Ride and handling are fine in most street and highway conditions. With its short wheelbase, the Compass can feel busy over imperfect pavement. The ride leans toward the harsh end of the spectrum, making it feel more like being in a small car than in a compact crossover. Steering is weighted well enough; but here, too, a Compass drives like a tall small car.
Two distinct all-wheel-drive options are offered. Freedom Drive I is more basic, simply providing rear-wheel torque when needed. Freedom Drive II is more effective, teamed with a CVT that includes a low range.
Compared to most newer rivals, the Jeep Compass trails in fuel economy. With manual shift and the 2.0-liter engine, Compass is EPA-rated at 23/30 mpg City/Highway. Automatic and all-wheel drive drop the estimate to 21/27 mpg City/Highway. Pick Freedom Drive II, and mileage sinks to 20/23 mpg.
The 2016 Jeep Compass is a dated product with little to distinguish it other than off-highway capability. Look for deals or wait for the next-generation Compass.
Driving impressions by Bengt Halvorson, The Car Connection. James M. Flammang contributed to this report.
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GSA Releases Networx Program RFPs
May 9, 2005
Contact: Mary Alice Johnson, (202) 501-1231
Washington, DC – The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) released the request for proposals (RFP) on www.fedbizopps.gov for the Networx program acquisitions on May 6, 2005.
"GSA has worked closely with our stakeholders during the development of these RFPs to ensure that these acquisitions are well-defined and provide federal agencies—at low cost—the best telecommunications services and solutions that industry has to offer," said GSA Administrator Stephen A. Perry. "I am confident that the Networx Universal and Networx Enterprise acquisitions will be attractive to customers for the breadth of services and solutions offered and the flexibility the contracts provide agencies to secure leading edge services."
These acquisitions will serve as the primary replacement for expiring governmentwide telecommunications contracts.
Networx Universal service providers will provide service to all government locations currently served under existing programs, as well as all commercial locations served by the offeror. Networx Enterprise offerors will bid a core set of Internet Protocol or wireless services to a specified geographic profile. "The services provided by Networx will help the government move towards greater security, seamlessness, and interoperability, said Acting Federal Technology Service Commissioner Barbara Shelton. This added measure of value is essential for this day and time.
Industry responses to the Networx Universal RFP are due August 3, 2005. Responses to the Networx Enterprise RFP are due on August 5, 2005. A link to a portal providing secure, electronic access to traffic data (e.g., location, type, and quantity of services) is available at www.fedbizopps.gov.
The Networx program goals described below were developed by GSA in consultation with federal agencies via the Interagency Management Council (IMC).
- Service continuity. All services to all locations that are currently provided on the FTS2001 and Crossover contracts must be included in the Networx program.
- Highly competitive prices. Prices on the Networx program must continue to be better than prices available elsewhere in the telecommunications marketplace.
- High quality service. Service on the Networx contracts must be provided by high quality telecommunications providers. The contracts must include enforceable agreements that will ensure high quality service is delivered throughout the term of the contracts.
- Full service providers. Service providers who are awarded contracts on Networx must be capable of providing a broad array of services.
- Alternative sources. Networx must provide access to a broad spectrum of industry service providers.
- Operations support. Improve ordering, billing, and inventory management.
- Transition assistance and support. The contracts must include provisions that facilitate transition coordination and support.
GSA is a centralized, federal procurement, property management and policy agency, created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. GSA acquires, on behalf of federal agencies, office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies and services. It also plays a key role in developing and implementing governmentwide policies. GSA's 13,000 associates provide services and solutions for the office operations of more than one million federal workers in more than 8,000 buildings the government owns and leases in 2,000 U.S. communities.


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A good friend of our community here in Culver City,CA, Darrell Fusaro, wrote this reflection on St. Vibiana, the patroness of the first cathedral in Los Angeles. The reflection is not about cinema but about life and spirit, also the domain of cinema. The article has gotten such good responses on Facebook that I thought I'd share it here as well:Tucked away in the basement of the downtown Cathedral in Los Angeles, CA, are the remains of a nobody.Whenever I visit the Cathedral of Our Lady … [Read more...]
Blessed are the Nobodies
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Topic: Shivering
In the past two days my husband has woken up from a daytime nap with violent shivering. Even with two duvets he can't get warm. I am assuming this has something to do with the liver which controls temperature, does anyone know anything about this and how it can be dealt with?


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On O'Franken Factor : O'Reilly guest shared a "story about how O'Reilly distorts and lies"; O'Reilly called guest "SOB" off-air
Research ››› ››› GABE WILDAU & CAROL REICHERT
On June 21, David D. Cole -- professor at Georgetown University Law Center, legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and author of Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism -- appeared on FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor to discuss an article in that day's New York Times about interrogations of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. What O'Reilly Factor viewers saw was not unusual: a spirited debate -- which became increasingly acrimonious as it progressed -- among O'Reilly, Cole, and former Defense Department official and Ohio State University Mershon Center visiting scholar Mark Jacobson.
As a guest of host Al Franken on the June 24 edition of Air America Radio's The O'Franken Factor, however, Cole described some of O'Reilly's behind-the-scenes distortions, which he witnessed at the FOX News Channel studio on the afternoon of June 21. He also recounted a portion of his debate with O'Reilly that O'Reilly and his producers decided to edit out before the show aired that evening.
From the June 24 edition of the Air America Radio program The O'Franken Factor:
COLE: Well this was the first time I agreed to do O'Reilly, he called me and asked me to talk about the Guantanamo detainees story in The New York Times. So I show up at the Washington studio and I'm listening to him tape his introduction, his sort of daily rant. It's about The New York Times and how they're always misleading us and mischaracterizing things and especially mischaracterizing the fact that there is a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, and so then he says here's what Governor Kean had to say about it this weekend.
FRANKEN: The chairman of the committee.
COLE: Right -- the chairman of the 9-11 Commission, and he plays Kean's quote in which he says something like: "There is -- we have found no evidence whatsoever that there is any link between Saddam Hussein and any attacks on the United States including 9-11, however we have found some contacts between the two." And, you know, originally I think, well maybe what Al Franken said about Bill O'Reilly is false, because here he is, he's playing a balanced quote. But he immediately interrupts and says, "We can't have that quote, we've got to redo this whole thing." And two minutes later, he re-records the whole thing, and this time, when he gets to the Kean part, he doesn't play the soundbite, and instead he says, "And Governor Kean over the weekend, head of the 9-11 Commission, said there's definitely a connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein."
FRANKEN: Uh-huh.
COLE: So then we get into my thing, which is discussing this New York Times article, and he repeatedly mischaracterizes the article and said that it said that the Guantanamo detainees were innocent, harmless, that they should ... that it questioned why they were being held. And I kept saying, "No, in fact, the Times article doesn't say that. You're saying that they're misleading the readers -- you're misleading the viewers by mischaracterizing the Times article." He says, "No I'm not, no I'm not." The usual kind of, you know, highfalutin ... uh, debating.
FRANKEN: Bloviating.
COLE: Right. So then I said, you know, why not push it a little bit further, so I said, "It seems to me, Bill, that it's the pot calling the kettle black, because I sat here not five minutes ago and heard you re-record the introduction to this show to take out a statement from the head of the 9-11 Commission saying that there is no evidence whatsoever of any link between Saddam Hussein and 9-11." He goes ... um, I'm not sure what to call it ...
FRANKEN: Berserk.
COLE: Yeah, berserk, that's a good word. And basically calls me an SOB repeatedly and tells me there's no way this is gonna get aired, and ...
FRANKEN: Now did he call you an SOB, or did he spell out son-of-a ...
COLE: No no, he said, "SOB."
FRANKEN: Oh ok.
COLE: He didn't need to spell it out.
FRANKEN: Yeah.
COLE: And then he said I would never, ever be invited to be on the show again. Which, at that point that I wasn't sure whether to take that as a threat or a promise.
FRANKEN: But he went berserk.
COLE: Yeah. And now, of course ...
FRANKEN: And this airs later?
COLE: Yeah and he cuts it, as he had promised, he cut it right before I accused him of basically doing exactly what he was accusing The New York Times of doing.
FRANKEN: So in other words, what he does -- this is a perfect example of what he does -- because he pre-tapes his show. So if anyone goes on the show and actually beats him up.
COLE: Catches him, right.
FRANKEN: Or catches him, he cuts it out.
COLE: Yeah. Absolutely.
FRANKEN: Isn't that amazing.
COLE: Yeah. Now the most, I thought the most. Yeah, right. The most outrageous thing he did I thought though, you know, is that in referring to this Iraq-Al Qaeda connection he said, "The Factor established the connection last week."
FRANKEN: Prove it, prove it.
COLE: But what was outrageous was that he calls his show The Factor. But you've got the Factor too -- he should call his show A Factor, not The Factor.
FRANKEN: That's what I've been telling him.
COLE: Haha.
FRANKEN: No it's fine, he can call it The Factor, he was The Factor first. I don't mind that.
Thank you, David Cole, for the story about how O'Reilly distorts and lies.
Here's the section Cole referenced from the "Talking Points Memo" segment of the June 21 edition of The O'Reilly Factor that immediately preceded the debate with Cole and Jacobson:
O'REILLY: As you may know, The Factor provided the link between Al Qaeda and Iraq last week. And since that time, The [New York] Times and other newspapers have been under heavy fire for their misleading headlines, basically saying there was no link between the two. Governor Thomas Kean says definitely there was a connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda. And he's the 9-11 investigative chief, but that's not enough for the Times, which continues to deny the Iraq-Al Qaeda association.
While Media Matters for America cannot be certain what clip of 9-11 Commission chair Thomas H. Kean O'Reilly decided to cut from his show at the last minute, it was probably this one from the June 20 broadcast of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
KEAN: [O]ur job is 9-11, and what we have concluded, there is no evidence that we can find whatsoever that Iraq or Saddam Hussein participated in any way in attacks on the United States, in other words, on 9-11. What we do say, however, is there were contacts between Iraq and -Saddam Hussein. Iraq, Saddam -- excuse me. Al Qaeda didn't like to get involved with states that -- except -- unless they were living there. They got involved with Saddam. They got involved with, in, where they lived, but otherwise, no, so, but there were contacts. We don't know what they are. We don't know how shadowy they are in some cases, but they existed.
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West Valley City • The City Council on Tuesday approved the appointment of Clintepious "Clint" Gilmore as Justice Court judge.
Gilmore, West Valley City assistant chief prosecuting attorney, replaces Judge Keith Stoney, who is retiring Dec. 31. Gilmore has worked for the West Valley City Prosecutor's Office since 2005. He was promoted to senior prosecuting attorney in 2010, and to his current position last year.
"I'm excited about this new opportunity," Gilmore said.
City Manager Wayne Pyle had appointed Gilmore to the bench, subject to council approval. Stoney announced his retirement in September amid a flurry of complaints, including one that he apparently had ordered an excessive $10,000 cash-only warrant against a woman cited for a traffic violation, possibly as retribution for her rudeness to court clerks.
Gilmore has prosecuted cases as a special deputy district attorney for the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office and as a special assistant U.S. attorney for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah. He was honored with the Director's Award for Superior Performance from the Executive Office of the United States Attorneys in Washington, D.C., in 2007.
Gilmore earned a law degree from the University of Utah in 2003 and an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University in 2000.


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April 12, 2007
Before we 'kick off' this project in April and May, we would like to learn from teens how they could best use the OTC. We plan to hold focus group session(s) with teens ages 16 - 19. With their input, we will be able to create a program that will best meet their needs, and hopefully prove to be a valuable resource to them as they continue to grow from and grapple with the challenging issues around 9/11 and terrorism.
We invite any teen, 16 to 19 years old, to join our focus sessions. Please tell teens in your family about this opportunity and let us know if they are interested by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. Indicate if your teen can only participate online, or if they can attend an in-person session. For the in-person focus groups, please let us know your geographic location and best time of day. We will try to hold the sessions in a convenient location. Dates to consider would be April 27th, April 30th and May 9th. We will follow up with dates and location for possible focus sessions.
The FOS11 Chat program sessions are facilitated by FOS11 Advisory Board member, Dr. Donna Gaffney and administered by FOS11 staff, Rebecca Hansen (click here to learn more about them). The environment is safe, secure and supportive. To date we have had more than 200 participants from 18 states and welcome the opportunity to offer teens their own program.
Note to parents: We are committed to making this a safe environment for teens. This online environment requires enrollment, secure sign-in and permission forms will be required.
If this message has been sent to you by a friend - FOS11 membership is free. Visit our website to become a member and learn more about what we do.


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Foot sprain - aftercareMid-foot sprain
There are many bones and ligaments in your foot. A ligament is strong flexible tissue that holds bones together.
When the foot lands awkwardly, some ligaments can stretch and tear. This is called a sprain.
When the injury occurs to the middle part of the foot, this is called a foot sprain.
More about Your Injury
Most foot sprains happen due to sports or activities in which your body twists and pivots but your feet stay in place. Some of these sports include football, snowboarding, and dance.
There are three levels of foot sprains.
- Grade I, minor. You have small tears in the ligaments.
- Grade II, moderate. You have large tears in the ligaments.
- Grade III, severe. The ligaments have completely torn from the bone.
What to Expect
Symptoms of a foot sprain include:
- Pain and tenderness near the arch of the foot. This can be felt on the bottom, top, or sides of the foot.
- Bruising and swelling of the foot
- Pain when walking or during activity
- Not being able to put weight on your foot. This usually happens with more severe injuries.
Your doctor may take a picture of your foot, called and x-ray, to see how severe the injury is.
If it is painful to put weight on your foot, your doctor may give you a splint or crutches to use while your foot heals.
Most minor-to-moderate injuries will heal within 2 to 4 weeks. More severe injuries, such as injuries that need casting or splinting, will need a longer time to heal, up to 6 to 8 weeks. The most serious injuries will need surgery to reduce the bone and allow the ligaments to heal. The healing process can be 6 to 8 months.
Symptom Relief
Follow these steps for the first few days or weeks after your injury:
- Rest. Stop any physical activity that causes pain, and keep your foot still when possible.
- Ice your foot for 20 minutes 2 to 3 times a day. Do not apply ice directly to your skin.
- Keep your foot raised to help keep swelling down.
- Take pain medicine if you need it.
For pain, you can use ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen (Aleve, Naprosyn), or acetaminophen (Tylenol). You can buy these pain medicines at the store.
- Talk with your health care provider before using these medicines if you have heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, or have had stomach ulcers or internal bleeding in the past.
- Do not take more than the amount recommended on the bottle or by your health care provider.
You can begin light activity once the pain has decreased and the swelling has gone down. Slowly increase the amount of walking or activity each day.
There may be some soreness and stiffness when you walk. This will go away once the muscles and ligaments in your foot begin to stretch and strengthen.
Your doctor or physical therapist can give you exercises to help strengthen the muscles and ligaments in your foot. These exercises can also help prevent future injury.
- During activity, you should wear a stable and protective shoe.
- If you feel any sharp pain, stop the activity.
- Ice your foot after activity if you have any discomfort.
- Talk to your doctor before returning to any high impact activity or sport
You may not need to see your doctor again if your injury is healing as expected. Your doctor may want to follow up if the injury is more severe.
When to Call the Doctor
Call the doctor if you have:
- Sudden numbness or tingling
- Sudden increase in pain or swelling
- The injury does not seem to be healing as expected
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While the BBC is still recognised by many as a worldwide standard in communication, there are parts of the organisation receiving criticism from programme listeners.
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As people in major towns of the UK sweep their lives back into order, it has been suggested that the national riots were triggered after a 29-year-old man, Mark Duggan, was shot in London by police officers. But the absence of plain English in a major public crisis has again made matters worse with details of the shooting being poorly communicated by the police force, and the difficulties experienced by police officers in deciphering the street language of young rioters.
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Does playing music with your baby on the womb helps increase intelectual ability?
Hello there,
While i was at my first trimester, i was advised by many mums to play music with my baby on the womb. They say by doing it increases the intelectual ability of the baby. Is it really true? Is there any relative explanation on how and why it happens?
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17th April 2012 01:47 AM #2
Hi Mandee,
This recent study looked at the outcome of music played to babies in the womb. It shows that babies could remember the music played even 12 months after they heard the music in the womb. The study also explains that the type of music does not matter (previously some thought that particularly classical music could increase a baby's intelligence). So the evidence is that it has a positive impact on memory but whether on not this increases the baby's intellectual ability is still not directly verified.
I'll be interested to read about any other research into this topic here.
p.s. In the study I quoted above the impact of music on the memory is most significant if the music is played in the third trimester.


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"No one likes a moralizing coprolite."
That's how I might have responded to a listener's e-mail on a recent edition of The Diane Rehm Show. The topic was the sad and disturbing phenomenon of hoarding. After hearing experts describe the way hoarding takes over and destroys hoarders' lives, the listener's take was simple and to the point: These people are lazy.
Fortunately, Rhem's guests were more tactful and constructive than I would have been. They noted the effort involved in acquiring and keeping all that "stuff" and rightly concluded that whatever else you might say about hoarders, "lazy" is possibly the least accurate way to describe them.
Not that it matters. The kind of moralizing on display in the e-mail and throughout modern life has nothing to do with accuracy. Who needs the facts when an epithet will do? Why let fairness, perspective, and true understanding keep you from mounting your high horse?
For instance, Rick Santelli of CNBC became an overnight sensation when he accused the government of "promoting bad behavior" and railed against subsidizing "the losers' mortgages." His call to instead support people "who might have a chance to actually prosper down the road and reward people who actually carry the water instead of drink the water," rather than helping the neighbor who "has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills" is credited with helping to ignite the Tea Party movement.
Missing in all of this moralizing was the fact that very little, if any, taxpayer money went to help "losers" pay their mortgages. Instead, our money went to prop up banks and bail out AIG, which, in a process that Matt Taibbi hilariously likened to the scene in Goodfellas where the mobsters take over a restaurant, suck it dry, and then torch it for the insurance money, amounted to the same thing.[i]
Nor was any consideration given to why the "losers" did what they did. The public image of the subprime mortgage crisis was people like the Las Vegas stripper who owned five investment properties and the California tomato picker earning $14,000 a year who got into a $750,000 home with no money down and no English.
But a great deal of the problem, especially among lower and middle class Americans, was the result of refinancing and taking out second mortgages. People, as the expression goes, treated their homes as a kind of ATM, borrowing against the unrealized appreciation in their home's value. Unfortunately, "unrealized" is a synonym for "theoretical" and "paper," and the "appreciation" was itself an artifice of the real estate bubble. When the bubble collapsed, they found themselves underwater and trapped in homes they could no longer afford.
Why did they do it? Some of it was predatory lending, especially among the elderly and minorities; some of it was foolishness; and some of it had to do with the fact that middle-class incomes, adjusted for inflation, have been stagnant since the 1970s. They borrowed to maintain the middle-class lifestyle they and the rest of us had implicitly been promised as our end of upholding the "American way of life." (Or they borrowed to pay medical bills and/or send their kids to college.) As Steve Eisman, one of the protagonists of Michael Lewis' The Big Short put it, "How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans."
I'm not excusing improvidence, and my sympathy for someone who took out a second mortgage to pay for an RV or motorcycle (or a luxury kitchen and/or bathroom remodel) is probably as limited as yours. But calling people losers without even trying to take into account the circumstances isn't moral reasoning -- it's posturing.
The same kind of posturing was on display on yet another edition of The Diane Rhem Show. There, the subject was the "obesity epidemic." (This time they are scare quotes.) After the kind of earnest handwringing that is the show's stock-in-trade, the panelists and Rhem talked about the use of stigma to help America lose weight. The mandatory analogies to smoking were invoked and everyone seemed, well, open to the idea.
Everyone except Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center, bless his heart. He pointed out the cruelty inherent in such a proposal. It was fascinating -- if by "fascinating" you mean "infuriating" -- to observe people who would no doubt consider the statement "marriage is the union of one man and one woman" to be a form of bigotry, enthusing over the prospect of humiliating fat people.
It was literally thoughtless. They assumed that people are overweight because of some personal defect: They are stupid, lazy, unmotivated, etc. They never stopped to think that overweight folks not only know what to do, or at least what "experts" think that they ought to do, but that many of them have tried to do it on numerous occasions without the success that the moralizing coprolites expected.
I'd like to say that Christians are immune to this kind of thoughtless moralizing but that would be ridiculous. If anything, we are more prone to it, at least in our public pronouncements[ii]: Combine the all-too-human need to feel superior to your neighbor with the "when all you have is a hammer all the world looks like one big honking nail" kind of thinking that passes for "Christian worldview" in many circles; add the well-documented anti-intellectualism and throw in a dash of "thus says the Lord," and the wonder is that we are not more prone to vacuous moralizing than we are.
The sad thing is that not only is moralizing a sin against charity, it's counterproductive. "Gaydar" may not be reliable, but almost everyone can tell a moralizing coprolite when he/she encounters one. The smell of the combo platter of self-righteousness, self-importance, and the urgent need to be heard is unmistakable. Those of us who are not complete masochists know to tune these people out.
We tune them out not because we think that they're Jeremiah in Jehoiakim's Jerusalem, but because they've become the equivalent of the guy talking out loud to himself on the subway or Hari Krishnas at the airport back in the 1980s (good times!): a persistent irritant of contemporary life. In a world of instant communication, where pronouncing doom is a just a tweet away (a suitably sparse medium given the lack of thought that goes into most of these pronouncements), you learn to ignore the background noise.
Of course, sometimes it's more than noise, and that's an even sadder part of El Kabong moralizing: In a kind of Gresham's Law of morality, all the thoughtless moralizing makes people even less likely to hear and receive the kind of moral instruction that would do them good. It's kind of like spam filters in an e-mail program.
The saddest part of all is that moralizing is not only unnecessary and counterproductive, but we also have it on good authority that it's bad for our souls. In the optional part of the New Testament, a.k.a., the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says, "Do not judge so that you will not be judged."
If there's a scarier verse in Scripture for many Christians, I'm not familiar with it. Like much of the optional part of the New Testament, we tie ourselves in knots trying to explain that Jesus couldn't have really meant what He said. The knots usually don't hold and are frequently comical, but what's worse is that we're so busy trying to clarify what Jesus didn't mean that we neglect to understand and teach what He did mean.
The answer to that lies in the rest of the verse: "For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you." A kind of reciprocity and proportionality figure prominently in Jesus' descriptions of the Kingdom of God: We forgive as we are forgiven; we receive as give; and we are judged in proportion to our willingness to judge others. Note that in each case, God is the one doing the reciprocating.
If we insist on pointing out the speck in another person's eye, the beam in our own will be duly and promptly noted -- not by the other person but by God Himself. If we are stingy when it comes to mercy, we cannot expect God to be generous with His mercy when it comes to us.
And, mind you, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is infinitely better at discerning what lies behind the façade of rectitude than even the most judgmental person you can imagine. Moralizers, almost by definition, are easily deceived by appearances. It goes with saying that God isn't.
This should give us pause but it probably won't. A lot of moralizing is happening for reasons that have nothing to do with the Kingdom of God, and that which ostensibly does fails to apprehend the nature of that kingdom: It operates from a belief that God's purposes will somehow be thwarted if I don't "say something."
The opposite is a lot closer to the truth: In a world as thoughtless as ours, respectful and prayerful silence is a sign of the Kingdom.
Roberto Rivera is senior writer for BreakPoint.
[i] The conditions imposed by Treasury and the Federal Reserve on AIG in connection with its bailout included AIG agreeing to not to sue its counterparties and paying them 100 cents on the dollar. When was the last time government was this assiduous in looking out for your interests?
[ii] The odd thing is that, in my experience at least, Christians tend to be non-moralistic in their personal dealings. This, of course, is taken as a sign of decadence and infidelity by moralizers.


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ABBA once sang that money must be funny in the rich man's world, but an English footballer who pulls in a multimillion-dollar salary each season is only complaining.
Wolverhampton Wanderers player Jamie O'Hara, 26, thinks his life was much easier when he earned a fraction of his current bulging pay cheque – believed to be about £35,000 ($53,892) a week.
O'Hara, once a recipient of youth training payments, took to Twitter to bemoan the situation: "Things were so much easier when I earned 100pound a week on wts #stress."
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Unsurprisingly, many have found O'Hara's whinge a bit rich.
"You talentless gobshite," tweeted Amy Etherton. "You earn in 3 hours what I earn in a month, and I have the same bills as you."
O'Hara, a father of two, bit back – not at the hand that feeds him, but at the criticism, asking his 175,000 Twitter followers why people thought that because he earned good money, he didn't have bills to pay.
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He continued to complain that there were too many "arseholes on twitter" to explain what the problem really was and that people should worry about their own lives.
O'Hara insisted that he was lucky to have what he had, "but trust me when I was 17 on wts it was a lot more easier".
"Many peeps hating about me earning good money that show how jealous u are, instead of realising the tweet was about how hard life gets," he said.
O'Hara is married to model and former Celebrity Big Brother contestant Danielle Lloyd, who he defended earlier this year from an attack from a former Chelsea player who described his wife as "a raging slut bag".
But of course O'Hara is not the first high-profile football "star" to complain about pay.
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Chris - I haven't, personally, seen the medical forms. I'll raise the issue, along with your other questions.
Chris - I haven't, personally, seen the medical forms. I'll raise the issue, along with your other questions.
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I know several pro boxers and they have to shift at least 50 tickets to make £250 purse, so unless a pro boxer has some serious amateur honours, or is an aspiring heavyweight, then I'd say your mates are extremely lucky to say the least. On the other hand I know a pro boxer that can make 70grand a year as a journeyman, expecting to get beat.
I'm quite a skeptic about this whole governing body thing, although I do see it as a positive for the sport I'd like to ask people's opinions on:
1) Will it be viable for smaller promotions
2) Like pro boxing, won't fighters just compete 'unlicensed' ?
3) If a licensed pro competes unlicensed then what will happen to him? Will he lose his license? Will other safe mma promoters then stop using that fighter? Seriously??
4) Will safe mma be touting to the media to get them to only cover safe mma licensed events?
5) Will safe mma encourage the main player, UFC, to only recruit UK fighters that are safe mma / immaf licensed?
6) Who else can see this as the start of a lot more 'bodies' sprouting up? The kickboxing bodies like iska, et, already offered a form of regulation of events, but very few people chose to go that way. Why I wonder. I know there's an opinion of 'the kickboxing people trying to cash in' but that's irrelevant, everyone is cashing in to some degree, even immaf/safe mma.
7) How is the whole safe mma going to be enforced? Regional committees/councils? As a single office system does not work. Will supervisors be present?
I'm of the opinion that MMA promoters should always have to anawer to a regulatory body or else they do what they please. Just like when they give out meaningless British/European titles to who they think.
Let's hope Safe MMA, or whoever can organise a proper structure whereby its attractive for all to join, and will ensure safe standards and proper regulation of the sport.
Have a look at the Q&A - http://www.76harleystreet.com/images...2022-10-12.pdf and see if that helps with any of your questions.
As for we'll have a whole bunch of other "bodies" sprouting up - well, if they can get Cagewarriors, UCMMA and BAMMA in the same room working on the project, then good luck to them! The credibility for Safe MMA really does lie in the people involved.
I'd also like to emphasise that safe mma is NOT a governing body and has no plans to "regulate" the sport.
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If you didn't see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth!
So just to confirm no SafeMMA fighters will be able to fight on any show that is not a part of SafeMMA?
If a Gym is registered for SafeMMA does that automatically mean that all Pro fighters that train at that Gym would have to be signed up for SafeMMA?
Likewise, Promotions either are IN or OUT and either have to use ALL fighters from the Pool in SafeMMA or outwith? What about say for example most of Cagewarriors fighters will be signed exclusively so automatically that pool of fighters will be unavailable to other Promoters who want to sign up? same for BAMMA and UCMMA where there will be restrictions.
Personally I would have thought that some kind of tiered system should have been introduced at this initial stage to get more people involved and that would mean a sliding scale or even offer an exclusive rate for anyone that signs up within the first month. That would encourage as many as possible to sign up as I reckon there will be a load who will be sitting on the fence to see how it pans out and therefore leaving the idea of joining less appealable. If 75% of people were signed up in the first month then it would give the minority a reason to sign up. Just my thoughts.
Lets remember here even if they did it at total cost price which is probably half then they would still be able to charge the amount they are asking for now for next year and most fighters, gyms and promoters would already be onboard and sold the idea.
Another thing to point out is that most businesses don't see a return in the first year or 2 anyway, not that it should be relevant if they are a non profit business etc
If you didn't see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth!
I have not had a proper chance to look up the Q+A's as in a very limited net connection area til next week. Maybe I've got it wrong but it just seemed like they were trying to regulate the safety side of the sport, maybe not the sport
And as far as getting those others onboard then I'm sure they'd agree to any safety policies providing it was in the fighter's interest and cost effective.
Can I ask, in short what is the goal of Safe MMA?
And will SaMA be looking to align itself with a UK MMA governing body in the future?
How anyone can see this as a negative is beyond me.
Massive well done to everyone who got this ball rolling, Im sure it wasnt easy.
Some professional fighters need to realize if you want to fight in the states etc you have to pay for all your medicals/MRI/Eye tests out of your own money and it isn't cheap (One fighter i know paid over £700). This is a big step in the right direction.
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Thats the thing, people who are being negative about this before it even starts - its not compulsory, so if you dont like it, just sit back and see how it goes before making judgement anyway, at least people are finally coming together to get things off the ground in UK MMA.
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Last year, the percentage of people in America donating time to charity hit its lowest level since the government began tracking volunteerism.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statics, the volunteer rate declined 1.1 points to a rate of 25.4 percent in 2013. Some 62.6 million people performed unpaid work through or for organizations from September 2012 to September 2013. The BLS notes that the volunteer rate for 2013 was the lowest since it began tracking the data in 2002, when the volunteer rate was 27.6 percent.
Women volunteered more than men, 28.4 percent to 22.2 percent respectively, across all major demographic groups. And people ages 35-44 years old were more likely than all other age groups to volunteer with a rate of 30.6 percent. People 20-24 year olds were the least likely to donate their time, with people in that age group volunteering at a rate of 18.5 percent.
Among racial and ethnic groups, whites volunteered at the highest rate 27.1 percent and Hispanics volunteered at the lowest levels (15.5 percent). The black volunteer rate dropped the most out of all the major racial and ethnic groups, declining 2.6 percentage points in 2013 to 18.5 percent.


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