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Alonso vs Raikkonen, 2014
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10th September 2013, 23:54 at 11:54 pm #133582
Hey there. Read a little peace of an interesting opinion about the inevitable rivalry between Raikkonen and ALonso, _if_ Kimi joins the Scuderia. It was from Andrew Benson on BBC-Sport, link>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/24031963.
Quoting him: [[ Seeing Alonso and Raikkonen battle it out in equal machinery would be a prospect many would savour – it would be fascinating to find out who would come out on top.
That will be debated endlessly – as comparisons between all the top F1 drivers always are. But one engineer who has worked closely with both is in doubt.
"I think Alonso, pretty convincingly," he said. "Everywhere – especially qualifying and the first laps of the race." ]]
So, back to you, what's your take on this?? Will Alonso destroy Kimi, or do Kimi have any chance??
The last bit from the quote, is _the_ most interesting thing, imo. =)11th September 2013, 1:48 at 1:48 am #241666
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It's hard to say, because both have probably lost that last tenth of outright pace, have fantastic consistency, are both all-round complete drivers..11th September 2013, 3:13 at 3:13 am #241667
Massa recently said in an interview that Alonso had been his toughest team mate in Formula 1, and he has driven against both Fernando and Kimi in equal machinery for 7 years. [Link]
I am leaning towards Alonso in this one, though that is only my guess.11th September 2013, 3:47 at 3:47 am #241668
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It's not confirmed yet, is it? I'm still clinging to the hope that Hulk gets the Ferrari seat.
But, hypothetically, if Kimi were to move to Ferrari …. I'd say Alonso would prevail. They have similar strengths and weaknesses as drivers, but there are a lot of intangibles in Nando's favor.11th September 2013, 4:10 at 4:10 am #241669
BBC says it's confirmed that Raikonnen is joining Ferrari, but no other website is reporting that.11th September 2013, 5:56 at 5:56 am #241670
@Ninad That's not what this topic is about.
I'm going to have to agree and say Alonso will convincingly win this. He's so consistent it's crazy, somehow he always seems to find his way onto the podium and gain at least 3 places driving around others just after the start. I'm not saying Raikkonen couldn't, but I've seen Alonso do those things for years in a row now…11th September 2013, 6:05 at 6:05 am #241671
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If it happens, I expect Alonso to win comfortably. He's already got the team built up around him, and the only reason why Raikkonen won his title was because McLaren imploded in 2007.11th September 2013, 6:26 at 6:26 am #241672
Well, I do think Alonso is overall better driver than Räikkönen (and I'm a Räikkönen-fan) but who knows what will happen. Did anyone expect Hamilton to beat Alonso in 2007? ;-)
Anyway, if it happens, it will be great to see these two fellows in the same team. It's up to Ferrari now to build a good car.11th September 2013, 6:28 at 6:28 am #241673
Well, it didn't take long for this debate to start, Kimi's isn't even formally signed up yet! :-)11th September 2013, 8:57 at 8:57 am #241674
I actually don't think much of Kimi's return. It's a whole load of consistency, minus killer speed IMO. He has probably done the least pitstops this season, but I put that down to the car more than I do the driver.11th September 2013, 9:17 at 9:17 am #241675
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Yeah, I don't think his return was necessary. The sport wasn't crying out for his return, and while it might be richer for his presence, it won't be poorer for his absence. Especially since his total departure could open up a seat for a promising young driver, like Felipe Nast.11th September 2013, 9:31 at 9:31 am #241676
Back to the topic:
I think it's more likely Alonso will gather more points during the season. He has spend the last four years at Ferrari and has been able to build the team around him. Alonso is also a lot more political driver than Kimi and Ferrari is a political team.
But who knows? As some have stated, who expected Hamilton to beat Alonso in 2007? Besides, it seems Alonso is the only one who is disturbed by the situation. Obviously Räikkönen doesn't mind having Alonso as a team mate.11th September 2013, 9:33 at 9:33 am #241677
I guess the neat thing about them being paired (assuming it does happen) is that it will give an answer to the question without the need for this sort of speculation. But of course, things in F1 are never black and white. There will always be circumstances where one driver or the other may not be able to maximise his performance. People will still debate this no matter what actually happens on track, especially when you consider how fanatical Raikkonen's fans can be. Even if Alonso comprehensively destroys him, there will still be people who refuse to believe it, and vice versa.
Personally I don't envisage either driver to have an enormous advantage over the other. Over the course of the season I'd expect Alonso to maybe edge it, but I doubt there'd be a lot in it.11th September 2013, 9:36 at 9:36 am #241678
The radio conversations between Rob and Kimi will be interesting to say the least!!11th September 2013, 10:08 at 10:08 am #241679
@hotbottoms I agree with that. Some fans are always 100% certain that driver X is going to beat driver Y even though X and Y have never been team mates before and both are highly regarded. I also expect Alonso to beat Raikkonen but not many expected Rosberg to beat Schumacher, Hamilton to beat Alonso or Button to be so close to Hamilton.
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So, you would be better off letting another living creature destroy your life, and in the process making it impossible for you not to practice the Dhamma in the process of your life becoming a well of pain. As I said, your position makes no sense.Virgo wrote:tiltbillings wrote:Geez, Kevin, if you get a tape worm, you will let it have its way in your body, even as it makes its way to your brain to it damage up there?What about compassion for the flea who dies by the press or your thumb and possibly reappears in a hell? Is that compassion? Many beings are reborn in hell. if you had not killed it, would it be in hell now?
Or how about an infection of the acanthamoeba parasite that would eat your cornea, causing considerable pain and likely blindness? You would not kill it, cause its demise?
And you would not kill the fleas that would be harboring the Black Death, letting them spread it far and wide?
And if some random human infected with fleas, lice, ticks, and other personal livestock, the person should just suffer and possibly die from bacterial, viral, and parasite infection mediated by these pest?
Your position makes no sense.
You'd be better off not killing it. Of course, I do not know whether I would be able to actually do that or not. Nevertheless, killing even such a creature would still be akusala kamma pattha, not as bad as killing for some other reasons, but akusala kamma none-the-less, and the result would be unwholesome.


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U.S. crude trading volumes were 18 percent below the 30-day moving average, while trading in Brent crude was 17 percent below the average.
Fuelling investor caution about demand for oil is the uncertainty about talks on mandated U.S. tax hikes and spending cuts investors fear may pull the world's biggest economy back into recession.
U.S. House of Representatives Republican leaders on Monday called for $2.2 trillion in new deficit-reduction over 10 years in their latest effort to avert an end-of-year "fiscal cliff".
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Thank you for all replies about the topic : Do you know "Yoniso ca manasikāraṃ" mean?
In Vietnamese language, Bhikkhu Thich Minh Chau translated this word into Auto-self suggestion.
My master understand this meaning and use it to remind the mind an oposite way of what is thinking.
For example: If the mind is thinking about to steal something. Then we must to remind the mind the opposite way to expel the evil mind: "Stealing is bad, this evil mind must go away."
By this way of using an auto-self suggestion, my master got enlightenment more than 6 months
This method is very important. Without it we cannnot get enlightenmet. With using this method we can expel all evil thought, and the mind gradually and naturally becomes unmoveable, calm and peaceful.
Buddha said: "With using the Auto-self suggestion, unarisen fermentations do not arise, and arisen fermentations are abandoned. Without using the Auto-self suggestion, unarisen fermentations arise, and arisen fermentations increase"
In this sutras: Majjhima Nikaya 20 - Vitakkasanthana Sutta -"The Relaxation of Thoughts"
Buddha taught us 5 ways to use the Auto-self suggestion. If the first one doesnot work, use the next second, and so on.
Have you ever use this way of meaning of "Yoniso ca manasikāraṃ" to practice?
We know Buddha taught us all things in order to get enlightenment as him such as The Eightfold Path; The Four Noble Truths; Four Brahma-viharas (Highest Attitudes/Emotions); Four Foundations of Mindfulness; Seven Factors of Enlightenment, etc. We read, understand, practice and not yet get enlightenment as him. Why? The answer is our fault. We missed an important part which is the method of practicing. We have not understood all the meaning of Buddhist teaching. We missed it and we lost. When we lost we created our method for practicing. In the result, there are so many Buddhist sects and books about Buddhism around the world.
What is the method which Buddha taught us to apply in order to achieve enlightenment?
That is an Auto-self suggestion- remind the mind the opposite way of the mind is thinking to expel all desires and unwholesome thoughts.
Maybe instead of the word "wise reflection", "Appropriate attention", or "wise attention". Can we use this word "Auto-self suggestion"?
Because nobody understand the right meaning of "wise reflection", "Appropriate attention", or "wise attention". Buddha taught us concrete method, not general. So when we understand concrete method, we can start to practice. If not understand the right meaning of buddhist teaching, we lost. We lost more than 2500 years since Buddha died.
If you are the person who has a voice in Buddhist association. Please clarify this topic.
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Are Americans completely out of touch with reality?
Six out of 10 middle-class Americans say their chief financial concern is "paying the monthly bills," according to the latest Wells Fargo Middle Class Retirement study. That's up from 52 percent last year.
Paying bills is important, so I'm not surprised it's a top day-to-day concern. But this finding struck me as incomprehensible: 42 percent of middle class Americans say it's impossible to save for retirement and pay the bills. Really?
Fully a third plan to work until "at least 80" because they don't expect to have enough saved.
How many 80-year-olds do you know in the workforce?
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- 51 percent overall say they have "little interest in learning about investing."
- Among those with little interest in investing, 60 percent are in their 50s and 60s.
Is it possible for middle-class Americans to pay their bills and save for retirement?
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On the same planet but in a different world
As I was pondering our nation's apparent lack of interest in retirement planning, I heard a piece on NPR Friday morning about what poor people in Africa do with money that is sent to them directly. Do they squander it on tobacco, alcohol and gambling, or do they invest it in something worthwhile? The story by David Kestenbaum opened with an interview of Kenya's Bernard Omondi, who had expressed delight after receiving $1,000 in cash -- "roughly what he might have made from a year of work."
A study by Innovations for Poverty Action found that recipients of money used it toward better food, health care and their children's education. Some invested it in a small business or bought cows. The study found that getting money reduced stress levels among the poor.
I wonder why Americans are so stressed out about their bills. A thousand dollars can do so much to boost the quality of life for indigent people. But here in the land of opportunity, many people find it impossible to set aside 10 percent or more of their relatively generous incomes toward retirement.
Do you find this unfathomable?
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The case for Major League Baseball against Alex Rodriguez might have grown much larger Sunday night when ESPN's "Outside the Lines" reported Rodriguez paid for Anthony Bosch's attorney and made a wire transfer in April for nearly $50,000 to the attorney that she refused to accept, according to the attorney.
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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- First baseman Mitch Moreland was scratched from Saturday's split-squad doubleheader because of tightness in his right quad. The Rangers did not want him on the field because of the cold weather and wet fields from the overnight rain.
"It's not serious, but considering the weather and the field conditions, we're going to hold him out," assistant general manager Thad Levine said.
Moreland is off to a strong start this spring with eight hits in his first 24 at-bats. His two home runs are the most on the team, and going into Saturday's game, he was tied with Nelson Cruz for the team lead with six RBIs.
The Rangers are also without catcher Eli Whiteside, who is sidelined with a strained calf muscle. He is expected to miss three to five more days.
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Since the campaign launched this morning, tens of thousands of folks have signed up to say, "I'm in."
Everyone has a reason for being in for 2012—because they went door to door for Barack in 2008 and can't wait to hit the streets again, because they've seen the changes that the President's policies have created in their communities, and because they know Barack Obama is the leader who will keep America moving toward a brighter future.
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Today's post in honor of both Sunday and National Poetry Month. Tim Minchin, performing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" with Terry (Jerry?) Quinn: And yes, it's definitely poetry, because for those five minutes, Minchin and his partner made that small bar a church. (for the record, Minchin was correct that Rufus Wainwright performed the song for the … [Read more…]


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Home runs too much for Padres in series finale
Smith, Goebbert hit solo shots; San Diego allows five Rockies homers
DENVER -- He had heard the stories and seen the highlights on television, but before Wednesday, Padres rookie Jake Goebbert had never truly experienced what the real Coors Field felt like, when the wind gusts, the fly balls sail and the scoreboard never seems to stop flashing and blinking.
"You hear about it your whole life," Goebbert said. "... So it was finally interesting to see it for yourself."
After two relatively tame games in this series, Goebbert got to witness what all the fuss is about -- as the Rockies hit five home runs on their way to a 6-3 victory over the Padres before a crowd of 26,212, who probably were a little more nonplussed at what they were seeing.
All told, there were seven home runs in the game.
The Rockies, who took two of three games from the Padres, got a tie-breaking two-run home run from Drew Stubbs off Joaquin Benoit (3-1) in the bottom of the eighth inning, and Troy Tulowitzki added the second of his two homers to seal the deal.
The Padres (41-50) hit two home runs themselves, including a solo home run by Goebbert in the fourth inning, his first big league home run. Seth Smith hit his team-leading 10th home run of the season in the fifth inning, but the Padres, who outhit the Rockies, 10-8, were 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.
The Padres were 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position in Tuesday's 2-1 loss.
"We had some chances, but couldn't seal the deal," Goebbert said. "I know that I had an opportunity but couldn't do it."
Colorado jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the first inning as Charlie Blackmon started the inning with a home run. Tulowitzki added a home run later in the frame off Padres starter Eric Stults.
"He's a pain in the neck for us. I can see why he's an All-Star. He's really coming into his own," said San Diego manager Bud Black of Blackmon, who had two hits. He also had two hits and a home run Tuesday.
Wilin Rosario launched a home run off Stults in the bottom of the fourth inning to make it 3-1, but the Padres answered the next inning when Smith homered.
The Padres then tied the score later in the fifth inning when Chris Denorfia scored on a wild pitch by Rockies starting pitcher Jair Jurrjens.
Jurrjens allowed three runs on eight hits with two walks over 4 2/3 innings. Stults allowed three runs on five hits with no walks and five strikeouts in five innings.
"First inning, first batter, I fell behind, 1-0, and didn't want to fall behind, 2-0," Stults said. "[Blackmon is] pretty aggressive for a leadoff hitter. With Tulo, I was trying to throw my fastball off the plate. In that first inning, I was just sort of missing my spots with the fastball. My fastball location today was pretty average."
As for Benoit, he came into the game with the longest current streak of scoreless outings (19). But he allowed a single to Blackmon before Stubbs drove a ball the other way into the seats to right field.
"He pitches away a lot, so I was just looking for a fastball out over the plate. He missed with one outside the first pitch. The second one, I was able to get a good swing on it," Stubbs said.
San Diego relief pitcher Blaine Boyer retired all six hitters he faced, all right-handers. He has now retired 26 consecutive right-handed hitters this season, all since being promoted from Triple-A El Paso on June 15. He's also worked 13 1/3 scoreless innings in that stretch.
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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WORCESTERSHIRE have announced that they generated a profit in excess of £200,000 for the year ending September, 30 2011.
Despite the perilous trading conditions of the current economy, the New Road club managed to create good financial results.
Up to September 30 last year, the County produced a surplus of £211,893 which was £122,912 better than the previous year. The accounts will be presented when Worcestershire hold their annual general meeting at New Road on Monday, February 27.
Chief Executive David Leatherdale said: "Comparatively recently we regarded £50,000 per annum profit before interest/tax as a good figure, we are now hoping to continue to achieve approximately seven to eight times that figure.
"It is stressed that while at present profits are needed to repair the ravages in our finances in the period 2007-2009 when the combination of floods, other losses, capital spend and falling property prices resulted in a reduction of 40 per cent of our asset value, it is not intended to starve cricket."
He added: "Cricket is no different to any other sport or business and, as the economy still finds itself dealing with crisis after crisis, it is vital that we continue to be as prudent as possible in order to sustain the club's long-term viability.
"Developing a competitive team on the pitch and improved facilities off it will be key to the long-term future of the club. All at New Road are working hard to put this into place, but it can only be done with the continued support of all our loyal members and supporters.
"Having gained promotion to Division One of the LV= County Championship in 2011, retaining this status for 2012 was a key target and to have managed this with a young and developing squad is a major achievement.
"The support from members and spectators continues to be strong which has seen a growth in revenue from both membership and ticket sales, as well as an increase in physical numbers attending matches, and is no doubt a reflection on the loyal and growing support the club has.
"The recent announcement with regards the potential new hotel and additional conference facilities for the club, combined with the already successful Graeme Hick Pavilion, will continue to develop the club as a 365-day-a-year sporting and conference venue which, in these uncertain economic times, is key to our sustainability as one of only 18 first-class county clubs.
"It is encouraging to see in excess of 150 new members have already joined for the 2012 season, which gets under way on April 5 against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and at New Road against the same opponents on April 26.
"I am sure 2012 will be another challenging year but we hope to continue the progress made during 2011, both on and off the pitch, and look forward to another exciting summer ahead."


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Referees Get a Lot of Help, Huskies Get a Lot of Support
March 15, 2010—
The referees assigned to the NCAA Division II Midwest Women's Basketball Regional held on the Michigan Technological University campus are getting plenty of help from the stands. A group of students dressed in referee shirts has been leading cheers and "working with" the referees all through the tournament and the GLIAC tournament that preceded it.
"We ref high school ball and intramurals, and we thought, 'We've got to do something to support the women,'" explains Steve Short, one of the "refs" in the stands. "They're such a special team."
He found a like-minded teammate, fellow football player Anthony Santi (Short is the Huskies' quarterback), and the number of refs has grown from there. They even stayed on campus during spring break to support the team, leading the fans with their cheers and antics.
"They deserve our support," Short says. "It's great entertainment."
And so are the student refs, who line up where the real refs would before the game, give the proper signals for infractions and occasionally give the NCAA refs some "guidance" over controversial calls.
"We don't harass them too bad," Short says. "We don't want to be a distraction, so we don't heckle too much over calls."
Santi agrees that they get along with the NCAA officials.
"We hung out with them Friday night," he said. "The head of the officials was there, too, and he gets a kick out of us."
Of course, some of the student refs wear glasses to suggest some eyesight problems and do their stretches just like the real refs. And the NCAA refs now expect to see them.
"They'll say, 'We'll take it from here.' when we are at center court," Short reports. And during the game, the NCAA officials are silent, but "they'll give us a wink," Santi adds. "When people say, 'Refs can't hear the crowd.' I know that's not true!"
Short says their attire and antics are different from the usual chest painting, and they'd love to continue to "help" the officials in St. Joseph, Missouri, if the Huskies advance to the Elite Eight.
"It'll be tough with our schedules," he says, "but people are talking . . . "
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BILLY Driver was unable to stop Southend suffering a 51-14 defeat at Canterbury on Saturday.
But the winger remains certain the Seasiders will soon work their way up the National Two standings.
"I am 100 per cent sure that we won't be towards the bottom of the table come the end of the season," said Driver, 22.
"I don't know why things aren't going our way at the moment but we have a group of good players here and things will definitely come together for us soon."
However, Southend are currently struggling to impress on a consistent basis and have now lost five of their last six matches to sink to third from bottom in the table.
Their latest defeat came in Canterbury but Driver felt the final score-line did not reflect the closeness of the game.
"I thought the result flattered Canterbury in the end if I'm honest," said Driver, who scored his second try of the season during the defeat.
"They went from 25 points to 50 points in no time at all and we were punished for any slight lapse we made."
The first of those came after just four minutes when Sonny Gay failed to collect a high cross ball. After allowing it to bounce he was quickly smothered by the advancing Canterbury players and the ball was turned over, leaving him injured on the ground.
Canterbury took full advantage with full back Martyn Beaumont racing clear and touching down in the corner.
The conversion attempt failed but the damage was compounded when Gay had to leave the field and was replaced by Danny Cleare. Southend tried to respond positively but some loose handling and turnovers at the breakdown gave the ball back to Canterbury on many occasions.
One such error allowed Canterbury to score their second try as winger Ricky Mackintosh touched down to make it 10-0.
Play continued back and forth but Southend were unable to build any momentum.
Continued errors and penalties frustrated them time and time again and Canterbury were having much the best of play.
As a result, the Kent club went further ahead in the 30th minute when their other winger Kwaku Asiedu burst through three missed tackles to score.
The difficult conversion was missed again but the score moved on to 15-0.
Southend seemed lost but just on half time replacement back row Jamie Douglas forced his way over the line following some sustained pressure from the pack.
Bradley Burr converted and Southend went in to the break within touching distance at 15-7 down.
But, two minutes after the break, Scott Browne kicked a penalty before converting a try of his own.
Ruairi McLeod then also went through with Browne adding the extras to make it 32-7.
The Seasiders hit back with Driver scoring a try which Liam MacGeachy converted.
However, Canterbury made sure of the win with Beaumont adding a further three tries with Browne again the extras to pile more misery on Southend who have still not won away from home in 2012.
Southend: Gay, Billings, Vaughan, MacGeachy, Driver, Burr, Branch, M Guess, Grier, Bailey, McClintock, Ox, Barker, Hudson, Cook
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'The Sabres continue to sit in fourth place in the Eastern Confrence with 93 points, but the recent losing skid has allowed Philadelphia and the New York Rangers to reel them in. The Flyers have 90, but are in third becuase they the Atlantic Division. The Rangers trail by four points with 89 and will face the Sabres Monday night at Madison Square Garden.'
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Just once we'd like to know how it feels to be a Republican extremist in the second decade of the 21st century. Just for a day.
It must feel good to be so sure of things, to be so certain in our beliefs that we can ignore data from science, economics and history, to say nothing of religious teachings. It must be great to be free of doubt.
How wonderful it would be to go to church, open our hymnals and sing out loud, secure in the certainty that whatever we tossed in the collection basket covered it. How nice to believe that "love your neighbor" is an individual mandate (to coin a phrase) not a societal rule. How comforting to render unto Caesar as little as possible.
How nice to be, say, Jason Smith of Salem, Mo., elected to the United States House of Representatives this year right before his 33rd birthday. How great to be young, Republican and represent the 11th-poorest of America's 435 congressional districts, 30 counties across south and southeast Missouri. What a great day Sept. 19 must have been, to join 216 of my GOP colleagues (including the five other GOP members from Missouri) in voting to whack $39 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program program over the next 10 years. Never mind that one in every five families in my district gets food stamps.
Even better than cutting food stamps from these wastrels would be the knowledge that you preserved subsidies for big agriculture in the process. How freeing it must be to be Rep. Vicki Hartzler, R-Mo., and preserve farm subsidies for her family while taking food from the poor people of her district. It's not that we oppose government handouts; it's that we want the Right People to get them. Makers, not takers. Job-creators. Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.
What would it be like to be Ted Cruz for only a day, and to spend that day standing on the floor of the United States Senate, railing against the Affordable Care Act? To be a United States senator from Texas, just like Sam Houston and Lyndon Baines Johnson.
How great would that be, to ignore my party's own leaders and threaten to plunge the nation into fiscal crisis, all in a futile effort to stop a duly passed, signed and constitutionally upheld law that could bring health insurance to 25 million of my fellow Americans? And not care one whit about them!
How fabulous to command the nation's attention and compare the Affordable Care Act not only to Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham," but to Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of the Nazis at Munich, thus demonstrating an ignorance of children's literature, 20th-century history and rhetorical excess all at once.
How marvelous to be a graduate of Harvard Law School and not know or care that researchers across the campus at the medical school had concluded that the lack of health care contributes to the premature deaths of 45,000 Americans each year.
How soul-enriching it would be to say to the nation's poor and uninsured working poor, "It's your own damned fault."
And oh, to be part of the GOP _ God's Own Plutocrats _ like Robert Benmosche, the chief executive officer of AIG, and say to the Wall Street Journal that the uproar over bonuses paid to AIG executives who helped crash the economy in 2008 was like a public lynching.
The uproar, he said, "was intended to stir public anger, to get everybody out there with their pitchforks and their hangman nooses, and all that _ sort of like what we did in the Deep South (decades ago). And I think it was just as bad and just as wrong."
Just as bad! Just as wrong! Being irate that guys who had casually underwritten tens of billions of dollars worth of derivative trades that went sour that they weren't going to get six- and seven-figure bonuses was just as bad as hauling men from their families and hanging them from trees!
To be able to think like that for just a day, and be so clueless as to say it into a tape recorder held by a trained newspaper reporter, well, what a gift that would be. And to know, despite it all, despite having to apologize for a "poor choice of words," that a compensation package worth $15 million was still waiting, well, that would be heaven.
How sensational to gaze at "the American people" and discover that they all think and look and love just like you. How simple to turn a pluralist republic into a tea-party rally. How marvelous to judge people not by the color of their skin or the content of their character, but by whether they are likely to turn out at a Republican caucus in Iowa in January 2016.
How liberating to ignore the changing demographics of America, or think they can be finessed by suppressing other people's right to vote. How bold to think compromise is for weaklings.
How comforting it is to know you are doing the will of the privileged class, to know you won't hurt for money for your cause, to know that many of the same people whose pockets you are picking are so confused that they might actually vote for you, or so discouraged that they won't vote at all. How fun to build straw men and tear them down, to settle for comforting myths.
How great would it be, if you could just sleep at night.


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A fantasy romance thriller with a deep-set mythology and expansive ideas. Violet Eden is Grigori - part angel, part human. Her destiny is to protect humans from the vengeance of exiled angels. Knowing who to trust is key but when Grigori reinforcements arrive it becomes clear everyone is hiding something. Even Lincoln. The only thing Violet does know... Phoenix's hold over her is more dangerous than ever. The race to find the one thing that could forever tilt the balance of power takes them all to the sacred mountains of Jordan, where Violet's own powers will be pushed to the extreme. And the ultimate betrayal exposed.
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"I'm a 27 year old male and I enjoy this series"
Good twists and turn's enjoyable book. Some of the narrator's accents are annoying but otherwise it's a pretty smooth listen.
I have been happily married for 17 years, I have 3 children (12, 14, & 16), and 2 dogs. I am currently working on a 2nd degree. Life is chaotic and stressful, but I wouldn't change it. I am blessed and enjoying my life.
"Better for teenagers"
Hummm I have been listening to some young adult books lately and they have been great. This one is a good story, but I think it is not one that crosses over to adults as well as some. With that said....the heroine of this story was so freakin annoying! LOL It might be because a lot of teenagers are annoying, and she is an annoying teenager. So even though the narrator is great and the author has created a nice world, I will probably not purchase the 2nd book, mainly because you should probably not want to just shake the *&%@ out of the heroine throughout the book! She had so much impassioned, overwrought, impetuous and dramatic turmoil! :) (can you picture me swooning with my wrist braced against my forehead?) This is a great book for young adults, very young adults.
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By Tony Burchyns Times-Herald staff writer
FAIRFIELD -- Classes and counseling aimed at keeping low-level offenders from cycling in and out of jail will start in Vallejo and Fairfield in April, Solano County probation officials said Wednesday.
"It's all coming together," Chief Probation Officer Chris Hansen told the panel overseeing Solano County's prison realignment effort. "It's not a quick process, but we are doing it as quickly as we can to service those in the greatest need."
On Feb. 26, the Solano County Board of Supervisors approved establishing two "day reporting centers," one in Vallejo and the other in Fairfield.
Approval of the centers followed several community forums in which some residents voiced concern that Vallejo would become a dumping ground for criminals. Probation officials, however, insist the site at 355 Tuolumne St. will serve low-level probationers already living in Vallejo.
According to the probation department, the centers -- officially named the Centers for Positive Change -- will provide behavioral classes, mental health and substance abuse counseling, GED classes, job training and drug testing. It is anticipated that both sites will be fully up and running by August, Hansen announced at Wednesday's Community Corrections Partnership meeting at the county government center.
The project is tied to state prison realignment legislation passed in 2011.
The legislation -- the result of a 2009 federal court order -- changed sentencing practices and shifted the responsibility for housing nonviolent, non-sexual and non-serious offenders to counties.
"We started at a high point of 120,000 people being supervised on parole, and once this whole shift is done in around 2016/17, we are going to be around 30,000," Northbay District Parole Administrator Deborah Johnson said. "So parole is truly downsizing. That's why you see the numbers going up in each of the counties."
As of March 7, 381 Solano County jail inmates were the result of prison realignment. Of the county's 412 "non-non-non" offenders under post-release county supervision, 152 or about 37 percent reside in Vallejo, according to the probation department.
Many are serving out sentences for drug or property crimes, and the vast majority are at "high" or "very high" risk of re-offending, officials said.
"We know what it takes to actually bring those numbers down," said Patrick Duterte, Solano County's director of health and social services. "... We have to have our Centers for Positive Change enacted and the services in place ... I don't think we can wait any longer. We're just going to continue to fill up the jail unless we move very quickly."
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Israel Folau is a union player through and through, says French centre Wesley Fofana
Wallabies fullback Israel Folau has made such a smooth transition from rugby league to union, it seems he has been playing the 15-a-side game all his life, French inside centre Wesley Fofana says.
Fofana, 26, known as "Le Guepard" (The Cheetah) in France because of his lightning speed, did not have to play for France against Folau last week in the first Test – when Les Bleus lost to the Wallabies 50-23 – to be convinced of the 25-year-old's skill. He saw how good Folau was after watching him on video beforehand.
"Before playing against him, we had all watched a number of his games," Fofana said while preparing for Saturday's second Test against the Wallabies at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne.
"I knew straight away that he is a great player, especially for his age. He was exactly what we expected: a player who plays with his strengths – his pace, power and technique.
"I can't see anything in his game that shows he is from league. It is as if he has always been playing union.
"He knows how to fill the gaps. He knows where to attack and where to run, and when I watch league it's not the same."
Fofana, born in Paris but of Malian descent, believes Folau is unlike many past code converts, such as Lote Tuqiri.
"I could see he has a league background," Fofana said of Tuqiri, who earned 67 Wallabies caps after switching from league to union.
Fofana, meanwhile, is excited about the midfield pairing of him and Toulon's Mathieu Bastareaud for Saturday, which will be his 26th Test.
Bastareaud, who has 23 Test caps, has been picked at outside centre for Gael Fickou, as one of 10 changes in the French run-on side.
Fofana says the 183-centimetre and 125-kilogram Bastareaud, who was selected after missing the first Test to recover from Toulon's victorious Heineken Cup and Top 14 campaigns, should add a lot of potency to the French attack.
"It will give extra strength, extra aggression and also there is a point of [his] freshness," Fofana said.
"We have also known each other for a long time. We played together in under-16s. I understand his game and he understands my game."
Asked about the Wallabies centre combination of Matt Toomua (182 centimetres, 89 kilograms) at No.12 and Tevita Kuridrani (196 centimetres, 102 kilograms) at No. 13, Fofana said: "Toomua is very aggressive in defence, and an opportunist in attack. He'll take any chance he can to pass or run the ball.
"Kuridrani has a lot of pace in attack and an ability to win the majority of his one-on-one duels … In defence he is different than Toomua in that he is less in control, but he is still really aggressive."
Fofana believes France can turn around last week's dismal showing. "We know we have no choice but to play a great match," he said.
But he admits he is at a loss to explain how France has a knack of following up a poor performance with a blinder.
"I don't know if it is unfortunate or fortunate," he says, smiling.
"But it is something very French – that we need to go to the bottom to achieve something great. It's the way we are."
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Pikelets really are the ultimate in easy snacks to make at home - and is there a child anywhere who doesn't love a warm pikelet eaten straight from the frying pan?
makes: 20 | prep: 0:10 | cook 0:10
- 2 cups self-raising flour
- 1/4 tsp salt (optional)
- 1/3 cup caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup (250mL) milk
- 1 tbsp butter
- Sift flour and salt, add sugar, drop unbeaten egg into the middle of the bowl and stir.
- Slowly add enough milk to make a thick batter. Beat well until smooth.
- Heat a non-stick pan over a medium heat, melt half a teaspoon butter and drop heaped tablespoons of mixture into the pan.
- I cooked about five pikelets at a time. When bubbles appear on the surface, turn the pikelets (muttering and cursing and chasing them all over the pan) and allow to brown on the second side.
- Transfer pikelets onto a plate and cover with a cloth while you finish cooking the remainder.
- These are so easy to pack in lunch boxes because you don't need to do anything else to them. Handy for afternoon tea, too.
- I also make these for breakfast (on those infrequent 'perfect' mornings) as a change to regulation Weet-Bix or toast.
- It can be a bit tricky getting the temperature right, I prefer to cook at a lower heat and potter round the kitchen doing other things while they cook slowly.
- This alternate recipe for pikelets is lower in sugar than this one. Make a double batch and you'll have supplies to pop into the freezer for this week's lunch boxes.
- For a savoury twist, try making these delicious corn pikelets. Toddlers especially gobble these up!
- Vegetable pikelets are a tasty way to get kids to eat vegetables. Try the tips in this recipe to make them almost invisible.
- Got some bananas going brown in the fruit bowl? Great! Banana pikelets are sweet, fluffy and the ultimate after school treat.
- You can make these pikelets gluten-free by using gluten-free flour and baking powder.
- Transform pikelets from an everyday snack to a decadent dessert by making this amazing chocolate sauce to drizzle over them.
- Discover how the addition of ricotta cheese in pikelets adds both lightness and richness. This recipe also comes with a delicious sweet yet tart berry butter.
- This recipe was created for Kidspot, Australia's best recipe finder.


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Age-old college football rivalries don't just take place in the fall, they also take place in February when those same rivals fight over the next blue-chip recruit. The battles can get as nasty as it gets on the gridiron, maybe nastier.
Michigan-Ohio State should be relatively quiet this week, as will Texas-Oklahoma and Texas-Texas A&M (take your pick). Those schools' classes are pretty much wrapped up—but here are five battles that will continue deep into the first day of the national signing period on Wednesday.
This year has been mostly all about Alabama, but Auburn was certainly putting up a fight before its coaching change. In the end though, the Crimson Tide will likely end up with longtime Auburn commitment, DT Dee Liner, who decommitted in mid-January. The Tide also snapped up linebacker Reuben Foster, who de-committed from Auburn in December. Montravius Adams has taken official visits to both schools and will pick on Wednesday, though Clemson looks to have the upper hand there. Overall, Alabama has the edge on the Tigers and will take home the Iron Bowl of Recruiting trophy.
SN's top recruits: 1-25 | 26-76 | 76-125
Every year, it seems like a few of USC's elite recruits get cold feet and sign somewhere else. Lately, Oregon has plucked away the most recruits from the Trojans, but this year it could be UCLA. Sporting News Top 125 DE Eddie Vanderdoes was once a USC commit, but could end up with UCLA—with Alabama and Notre Dame also figuring into the mix. Also, SN125 member Kylie Fitts could end up doing the same thing. He dropped USC recently and is seriously considering the Bruins.
MORE: SN's top QB recruits and where they are headed
OK, maybe this rivalry has lost some of its on-the-field luster in recent years, but this might be one of the spirited battles on national signing day. The Seminoles are making a huge push into South Florida, and are in contention for talent in Miami's backyard. Matthew Thomas, Stacy Coley and summer camp standout Denver Kirkland are each considering both schools, but it appears the Hurricanes hold the slight edge in this battle. If either class collects all three players, it'll shoot up the rankings.
MORE: SN's top uncommitted prospects
Any time there's a coaching change, even if it's not following a firing and things remain stable (like at Oregon), it still sends shockwaves through the recruiting world. Oregon is trying to hold on to a small but talented class. Its Pac-12 rival to the north—Washington—might be able to come away with the Robinson brothers, Tyrell and Tyree. Both were solid to the Ducks before coach Chip Kelly left for the NFL. The Ducks will also try to hold onto Darren Carrington, who may end up elsewhere.
MORE: Announcement times for top recruits
This has been a remarkable recruiting year for both SEC schools. Ole Miss is red hot and can finish even hotter if it can beat out its hated Egg Bowl rivals for several top in-state studs. Chris Jones has shot up the individual rankings and is a huge target for both programs, and even though he's technically a Bulldogs commitment, the Rebels have a chance to get him. Also, Tony Conner has both schools on his list, though it looks like he's Ole Miss bound. When you add in all of the other big names the Rebels may land by signing day, it is clear Ole Miss has the advantage this year.


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text: Show Hide image Politics 25 October 2012 The police, past injustices and rewriting history As at Hillsborough, the police at Orgreave doctored evidence. Sign up for our weekly email * The Battle of Orgreave is seared into the memory of the former Yorkshire miner Mick Appleyard. He remembers every minute of that day, 18 June 1984. He witnessed violence at the hands of the police of a kind he had never seen before and never thought could happen. Since then, Appleyard has harboured no illusions about the police being brought to book for what they did to the miners at Orgreave – the cavalry charge, the beatings, the dogs tearing at men's flesh, then the arrests and prose - cutions for "riot". The Hillsborough inquiry changed all that. With South Yorkshire Police and senior officers under investigation and facing possible prosecution for their actions, there is now a glimmer of hope in his mind that justice might be done. On 22 October, a BBC TV Inside Out documentary aired claims that officers were told what to write in their statements after Orgreave, suggesting a Hillsborough-style cover-up. Labour is calling for an inquiry. If the Hillsborough families could do it after 23 years, perhaps the miners can do it after 28. Appleyard, now 67, was a miner at Sharlston colliery outside Wakefield in West Yorkshire. He was the pit's surface workers' representative for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). The strike was four months old when Orgreave cokeworks in South Yorkshire was targeted for picketing on 18 June. There was no secret about the miners' plan. Coaches and cars full of pickets were travelling from as far away as Scotland and south Wales. Orgreave was intended to be the equivalent of the Battle of Saltley Gate, the 1972 confrontation in which thousands of engineering workers in the Midlands downed tools to reinforce pickets at another coke depot. But this time the miners, about 10,000 of them, were on their own. The police were waiting, their operation planned with military precision. "I went [to Orgreave] in a car on the M1," Appleyard recalls. When he got there, he met his old comrade Frank Watters, a Communist Party organiser in South Yorkshire. "Frank said, 'We're all right here. We've won this. The police are guiding us in. They're very nice, these police.' "But . . . there was a wall of police and they opened up and there were the horses. I'd never seen owt like it. At first they'd been so nice then it altered just like that . . . Frank was an old man. He said, 'Christ, they're going to fucking kill us.' I ran up the banking. I'd a pain in my chest. I thought I was having a heart attack. I had to lie down, and I saw, there were the horses, they were braying everybody. We'd seen . . . what the apartheid police did to people in South Africa. It was worse than that. Dogs were ripping people. I've been down the pit all my life and it was terrible conditions, but that was the worst thing I've seen in my life, those police." The miners regrouped and retaliated. Notoriously, BBC television news switched the order of events, showing the miners attacking first and the police responding. In the end, 95 miners were arrested and charged with rioting, an offence carrying a potential life sentence. The courts threw out every case and the police had to pay compensation. Now it is emerging that police evidence had been rigged. The NUM is calling for an investigation into Orgreave and the events surrounding it. The miners' experience of the police in 1984- 85 took place in a political context that went far wider than the Hillsborough cover-up. They believed the police were being used as the military wing of the government in a planned strategy to destroy the miners' union. The attitude towards the police of many of those involved in the miners' strike was changed for ever. The media had a role in Hillsborough, but with the miners it was more sinister. The rightwing press, predictably, did what was expected of it. But was the BBC acting knowingly and willingly as a government propaganda department? The switching of the sequence of events at Orgreave would suggest so. The persistence of the Hillsborough families in pursuing justice may be the catalyst for a reexamination of many more cases of alleged injustice and police corruption – the Shrewsbury conspiracy trial involving Ricky Tomlinson and Des Warren has again become a live issue. More recently, alleged rioters and looters have been given hefty sentences for apparently minor misdemeanours such as stealing a bottle of water. How many more will there be? Peter Lazenby was the industrial reporter on the Yorkshire Evening Post during the miners' strike of 1984-85 Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 29 October 2012 issue of the New Statesman, Something Rotten More


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Back in Philly, Doc planning to go back to school
Ex-Phils ace seeks psychology degree, enjoys working with young players
PHILADELPHIA -- Roy Halladay oozed intensity for 16 seasons as one of the best pitchers in baseball, but he left behind the competitor's life in December with his retirement.
These days, he flies planes. He fishes. He coaches his sons in baseball. He even tweets. But he also is looking into colleges so he can get a psychology degree. Halladay is thinking about the future, which has him helping players in the game he still loves.
Halladay returned to Citizens Bank Park on Friday as part of the Phillies' Alumni Weekend, which included a Halladay bobble figurine giveaway. He threw out the ceremonial first pitch to longtime batterymate Carlos Ruiz.
"It's different when you go from one lifestyle to another and trying to find out how you fit in, how you're going to do things," Halladay said. "The first two weeks at home, I asked my wife every day, 'What are you doing today and what do you need me to do?' After two weeks she said, 'Would you stop asking? Just plan your day and if I need something, I'll ask you.' But it takes a while to get into that. So there's been a lot of adjustments, but I've loved every second of it. I've had a blast. I'm looking forward to continuing."
He spent some time with the Phillies during Spring Training as a guest instructor. He loved it.
"I realized how much I actually loved just talking to guys and talking about the mental side, talking about mechanics," Halladay said. "Teaching, really. Teaching and just sharing what I've learned that's been given to me for free. So, I've been doing that here and there. I plan on going to school working on a psychology degree and go from there. But it's interesting to me. It's been fun to see the other side of it, talk to guys who are going through the same things I have."
Halladay said he sees himself following in the footsteps of the late Harvey Dorfman, who helped save Halladay's career by helping him with the mental aspect of his high-pressure job.
"I don't know if it's my calling, but, I think that it's unique," Halladay said. "I had a chance to go through almost everything. From growing up, at times being pushed, struggling, not just a little bit, but a lot. And then starting to understand what's going on, starting to understand what Harvey's talking about, and really just trying to morph myself into what I was hearing … and I became that. I feel like I became that. You know, I could pretty well regurgitate anything Harvey ever said.
"But there are special circumstances, which is why I'd like to go to college. I just think that's something that I can offer back to baseball. And working with players, at all levels. Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was, was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better game. And it's been a lot of fun doing that already."
Halladay has spoken recently with Jesse Biddle, the team's first-round pick in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft. The Phillies placed Biddle on the inactive list this season because they said he needed a "mental break."
Biddle just recently returned to pitching.
"I've talked to Jesse a little bit," Halladay said. "He's a good kid. It's just exactly like me -- exactly like me -- you really talk about simplifying things. That's where they don't really get what that means. They think if they simplify and, 'If I take away my slider and changeup' -- no. We're talking about thinking about one pitch, and having that calm intense focus to do one thing and think about one thing only.
"And that's what we've been talking a lot about. I think he's starting to get there. But it's not something where you can read the book and do it, someone can't tell you and do it, you really have to live it. It has to be something you have to try and live. He's doing better. I think he's feeling better. But I think the hardest thing for people to realize is what they can and can't control."
Halladay learned to control those things early in his career. It made him one of the game's greatest pitchers, which included a perfect game, a Cy Young Award and a postseason no-hitter with the Phillies. He hopes to help others succeed like that in the future.
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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By Derrek Asberry
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., expressed his support of MOX and the Savannah River Site's security efforts during his trip to the site on Wednesday.
Scott visited the site as part of his multiple-county tour of the state this week. The senator is speaking in 10 counties throughout the state in a three-day period, with today marking his last stops in Edgefield and Saluda counties.
As Scott stated during the meeting, part of Savannah River's responsibility is ensuring that MOX progresses toward completion. The senator showed his support of MOX by outlining its importance to SRS, with another emphasis on the country's agreement to Russia.
"MOX is an important part of the equation when understanding our agreement with Russia," Scott said. "As we continue to watch the process of the MOX facility being constructed and finished, we have great aspirations and hope that it will have multiple uses in the future."
Scott also spoke about federal funding of Savannah River Site, the commitment that the United States has made to Russia to dispose of the plutonium that is currently housed on the Site, and the commitment that the federal government has made to the state of South Carolina. He stressed the nations' efforts to meet these responsibilities en route to expressing his full support of the Site.
"We understand the impact of some of the funding scenarios outlined by the federal government, and we should be concerned," he said. "With that funding in place, I think we'll meet the objectives of the U.S.-Russian agreement, and we'll also be in a position to see more happen to keep our country safe because of this facility."
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Monday, January 27, Holocaust Memorial Day, Quedgeley
Whilst this local commemoration event was held at Severn Vale School in Quedgeley, Holocaust Memorial Day is officially on January 27 each year. It is a national event which takes place in Britain to remember victims of the Holocaust and was first held in 2001. The chosen date is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Union in 1945. This year's theme centred on journeys - with an obvious link to those who had to flee their homes in Word War Two and also in more recent conflicts such as Bosnia and Rwanda. The students put on short plays and songs to represent how people fled and hid and a candle of remembrance was lit.
Tuesday, January 28 – Big planning
As you're no doubt aware, several planning applications for large housing developments and three applications for supermarkets are either under consideration or will be submitted imminently. This well attended meeting was put together to provide an update for councillors on how the planning process works on these broad controversial issues. Whilst we have a planning committee comprising 12 councillors, any significant developments will impact on the wider community, so it was an extremely useful briefing for all councillors who may have to represent them. We obviously want to ensure that any significant developments in the district are in the right place and of the correct size so that we have a sustainable and strong economy. Our local plan will do this and it is currently with the government for scrutiny. We're the first district in Gloucestershire to be at this stage but we've also been working closely with neighbouring authorities and sharing information – administrative boundaries are after all somewhat artificial, taking little account of the fact we may live and work in different parts of the county or even the country.
Thursday, January 30 – Constitutional Review Meeting,
As council watchers will know, we now work under a committee system rather than a cabinet system. These changes came into place nine months ago and meant significant changes to the council's constitution. A group of councillors is now reviewing how well the new arrangements are working and will report back its findings so that any changes can be agreed at the council's next AGM.
Friday, January 31 – Advanced Engineering Sector, Wotton-under-Edge
An event for MPs and council heads held by GFirstLEP and hosted by Renishaw. The focus was on improving communications between the advanced engineering sector and schools. Building relations between businesses and schools is something Stroud District Council supports strongly. Historically the national focus has been on encouraging schoolchildren into further and higher education whilst careers straight from school into sectors such as engineering, manufacturing and business generally have been overlooked.
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How to Write an Eye Catching Branded Cover Letter
How to Write a High-ROI, Branded Cover Letter
By Laura Smith-Proulx,
Executive Resume Writer
As a
writer who frequently assists executives and senior-level professionals to create thoughtful cover letters
, I enjoyed talking with Leslie Stevens-Huffman of Dice.com for her insightful article,
10 Ways to Screw Up Your Cover Letter
As she notes, your
search can stall if your
cover letter
fails to show your value, or makes it obvious that you're not taking the time to learn about the
's business.
Unfortunately, the job market still abounds with cover letters that look like templates – or that only rehash the resume.
So… what SHOULD you do when putting together a cover letter?
Try these solid strategies for a
compelling cover letter
– one that instantly cuts to your ROI as a leader and exemplifies your personal brand:
1. Keep any copying to a minimum.
Start fresh
each time you write a cover letter. If you're worn out from writing your resume, and can barely muster the energy to craft a reason why employers should hire you, I have some bad news:
they won't hire you.
Rather than taking the same, tired set of words from job application to job application, tap some more brain cells to figure out what this employer might need.
It's not that hard to do. Say you're applying to General Motors. Have you read their last 5 news releases? Are they scaling down or expanding?
It's the same concept if you're chasing down that great job at Cisco Systems, Citibank, or the car wash down the street. What does a Google search say about this company? What can you find out about the industry?
Now, take those ideas and tell Cisco that you understand channel partner strategy and believe you're in a position to work closely on joint planning that boosts their sales. Or mention that your interest in the auto industry has led you to research new methods of paint restoration in auto detailing.
A hiring manager at Citibank would probably appreciate hearing how you realize compliance has taken on more significance than ever in banking, that your work standards continually add to the reputation of your employers.
2. Let your reputation take center stage.
If you've been consistently promoted in your career… or you're always the person that key accounts request when they call, there's a reason.
Stop to think about why your past 2 or 3 employers hired you, and why you continued to stay on in the company. There's a message behind it, and
it's one you'll want to get out of your head and onto the page.
Senior-level executives frequently fall into the trap of thinking that, after leaving a longtime job, there's no one that understands how effective they can be. This is most certainly not true. Look around at your teams, customers, vendors, or anyone else that interfaces with you, and take their comments as proof of your personal brand value.
What did you motivate others to do (that they didn't do before you came)? How did your work take the company from planning to reality?
As an example,
"Under my direction, we took operational efficiency to a peak of 89% by implementing new methods of production automation, which I proposed and built acceptance for among Operations staff"
shows initiative, teamwork, influence, and of course, results.
3. Assume you have something unique to offer.
Yes, you do, and you can dig hard to get at it before writing your cover letter. What projects do you frequently volunteer for – and then drive to success?
How has your work made things faster, cheaper, or just plain easier for past employers? Why do others enjoy working with you? These are strengths that any employer needs to know before they're hire you.
When you mention them in the cover letter
("I consistently have higher call resolution metrics in my support roles, because I'm able to listen closely for the real issues in my customer conversations")
, you're connecting these dots and making it obvious why the employer should consider your application.
So, don't just take the easy road when writing a cover letter!
A truly masterful letter – one that speaks directly to your personal brand and ROI to the company – is the one that can have the greatest impact on your search.
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Paxton slated to throw bullpen session Friday
SEATTLE -- Injured left-hander James Paxton played catch at Safeco Field on Monday and will do so again Wednesday before a scheduled bullpen session Friday as he works his way back from a shoulder issue that has sidelined him since early April.
Paxton has been on the disabled list since his second start of the year on April 8 when he strained the lat muscle behind his left shoulder. He worked his way back to the point where he made a Minor League rehab start for Triple-A Tacoma on May 24 before needing to be shut down again when his shoulder tightened up after that three-inning outing.
After another month of rehab, Paxton's starting to build his arm strength back up and the bullpen session will be another step along that way.
"I'm feeling really good," the 25-year-old said Monday. "I've been working real hard here trying to get myself ready again. Today was probably the best day I've had just in letting it go. I'm just working on getting my timing down and today was probably the best that's felt. One day at a time."
Manager Lloyd McClendon isn't putting a timetable on Paxton's return.
"He's doing extremely well," McClendon said. "How far away he is, I can't answer that. We'll just have to wait and see."
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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