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Lance Walsh, MDBy: Katy Hentz, Dir. Outpatient Surgical Services
Lance Walsh, MD, PhD is outstanding urologist. In the short time he has been at EMC, he has created the Genitourinary Tumor Board. This board reviews and discusses prostate, bladder and kidney cases with other urologists, radiation and medical oncologists and pathologists to pursue a definitive course of treatment for our patients. Dr. Walsh has also created the Multidisciplinary Cancer Clinic at the Luci Curci Cancer Center, a model that academic centers like USC are using to provide the best treatment and services to their patients. He is board certified and a member of the American Urological Association, the AMA, Riverside County Medical Association, and the American College of Surgeons. He is active on the EMC Cancer Committee, Riverside county Medical Review Advisory Committee and the EMC Surgical; Services Utilization Committee. Dr. Walsh has received many academic honors and awards, received research grants, and has published many articles, too many to name. He brings a wealth of knowledge and a desire to provide EMC patients with the very best care. Dr. Walsh is currently introducing the latest treatments for urinary incontinence. He is a wonderful colleague and is moving EMC in the right direction.


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After the market has a big day, as it did on Monday, the best thing it can do is to hold close to flat and consolidate gains. That means letting those who were looking for fast flips exit and those who were hesitant to chase ease in. As the base of shareholders turns over, the market builds a foundation from which it can move higher.
The timing of this action is fortuitous because it provides a good setup for the generally upbeat action that usually surrounds the Thanksgiving holiday. Every year, hot-money traders seem to find a few thinner stocks that can aggressively run up. It makes for a positive mood and other stocks tend to benefit as well. I'll be looking to aggressively trade a few small-caps tomorrow.
Overall, the big picture looks better but we can't let our guard down if the market starts to slip again. The key now is for the market to stay above recent lows. As long as it does that, we can build the support needed for a more energetic thrust to the upside. Seasonality is working for us and the news flow is a bit better now that the politicians have promised they will deal with the fiscal cliff.
I'm not convinced yet that that this correction is over, but I am comfortable that we will see some positive action in the near term. Next week we will likely have to grapple with the news flow again, but for the rest of the week, holiday cheer should be in the air.
Have a good evening. I'll see you tomorrow.

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As we reported to you from San Diego Comic-Con (see our story HERE), NECA had acquired the rights to produce 1/4 scale action figures based on Marvel characters. This includes rights to both Marvel comic and movie superheroes. At the time, the only character announced (no prototypes were shown) was Iron Man in his Mark VII suit. That said, it comes as quite a (pleasant) surprise that the first 1/4 Marvel figure revealed by NECA is another character entirely: Steve Rogers as Captain America.
Captain America will launch this new towering series as he appeared in this summer's blockbuster movie, The Avengers. The figure will stand an impressive 18 inches tall and will feature over 25 points of articulation, including neck, shoulders, torso, elbows, hips, knees, wrists, and more. The figure also includes Cap's signature shield with straps and interchangeable hands. NECA's 1/4 Scale Captain America will be limited to only 7500 pieces worldwide and priced at around $80. NECA is aiming at a Christmas release.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm
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High Cliff Naturalist, Cindy Mueller, will enthusiastically present tips and resources to get your kids interested and engaged in spending time outdoors. Adults, expect to practice play in this program! Cindy will also provide information about visiting Wisconsin State Parks. This program is part of the 2013 Fox Cities Reads.


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Stocks surge after Bernanke allays stimulus fears
The stock market is closing at a record high after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank would continue to support the U.S. economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 169 points, or 1.1 percent, to close at 15,461 Thursday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 22 points, or 1.4 percent, to 1,675.
Both indexes surpassed the record closes they set in May.
The tech-dominated Nasdaq composite rose 57 points, or 1.6 percent, to 3,578.
Investors also bought bonds after being reassured that the Fed was not in a hurry to pull back on its huge bond-buying program.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.57 percent from 2.63 percent late Wednesday. As recently as early May, it was 1.63 percent.
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As I was trying to think of an intelligent answer, or even any answer, I began reading Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," a novel in which a man from Twain's time ends up in King Arthur's rule in the fifth century. And then my friend Dave Lambert asked me to co-host and help with an event he was planning, "Stop Spying on Us," about the NSA's little eavesdropping program. Around 30 people attended.
Why don't people protest? Why did not one of the dozen local lawyers Dave invited to speak on the legality of the spying operation show up? Lawyers, after all, make the laws that make crimes like spying, pollution, torture, drones, wars and foreclosures legal — and acts of patriotism like speaking out against tyranny illegal. Make no mistake, the NSA is not after terrorists from other countries; they are after you, and me.
So, are the lawyers afraid? Are you? Is that why so few protest? Or is it you think, "I'm not doing anything wrong, so why should I care?" Or is it something even worse: "People believe their country is great," a friend said when I posed the question to her, and therefore their leaders are at least most of the time acting in their best interests. So when they say spying is in the interest of national security, they believe them.
If that's the case what would it take for you to change your mind? This? More children live in poverty in America than any country in the world except Romania (now there's something to brag about, by golly we're not as bad as Romania), and the leaders' reaction is to cut food stamps and thereby guarantee we will eventually pass Romania. Is it any wonder a country that cares so little about the most helpless and needy among us sees nothing wrong with murdering children in foreign lands with drones that rain death from the sky?
"I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. Drones don't fly when sky is gray," said Zubair Rehman, 13, whose leg was injured by shrapnel during a drone strike in Pakistan that killed his grandmother and injured his younger sister. He and his sister and father testified at a historic congressional hearing, attended by (drum roll please) five members of Congress. Five.
Now the chorus is singing the song of "entitlement reform."
"Democrats are going to have to give on entitlement reform," says Democratic Sen. Mark Warner. Entitlement being the leaders' word for Social Security, which you pay into, Medicare and Medicaid. Reform, implying they don't work and therefore the rulers are working for us by "reforming" them, when in fact, of course, they work great. (The entitlements. The leaders, not so much.)
And that, my friend, is the real reason they want Social Security, to line their obscene pockets and to make sure we have even less. But it's not entitlement when the bankers pay themselves, at our expense, outrageous bonuses.
Or when fast food CEOs make, according to a group called Fast Food Forward, $25,000 a day while the average worker flippin' your burger makes $11,000 a year. No, the entitlement screamers benefit from that system while robbing us of our sense of self-worth. The members of Congress exempt themselves from Social Security and Medicare, and we allow them to do it. One you might know voted to cut food stamps while he collects welfare handouts in the form of something called "farm subsidies" to the tune of double what a family of four gets for food stamps. He's one of 13 lawmakers who did the same. They probably were too busy collecting their handouts to attend the drone hearing.
Which brings me back to Twain. Reading the novel, I realize human nature has not changed one bit since Arthur's time. We are still a race of the haves doing everything they can to turn the rest of us into have-nots. Back then they went by titles like king and queen, duke, prince, princess, the nobles, and lived in castles while many of their subjects lived in squalor. Now they go by names like Congress and president and CEO and live in mansions while the rest of us are dangling in the net of bills and cutbacks and being spied on, and instead of fighting against our tormentors, we fight against each other, arguing over who is worse, Obomber or Bush.
When you're looked down on, the most important thing becomes finding someone you can look down on. Leaders have utter contempt for those of us dangling in the net. Superiority breeds not compassion, but contempt.
The last word to Mark Twain, speaking through his character Hank Morgan: "The most of King Arthur's British nation were slaves, pure and simple ... the nation as a body was in the world for one object, and one only: to grovel before king and church and noble; to slave for them, sweat blood for them, starve that they might be fed, work that they might play ... And for all this, the thanks they got were cuffs and contempt; and so poor spirited were they that they took even this sort of attention as an honor ... In fact, he was not merely contented with this strange condition of things, he was even able to persuade himself that he was proud of it."
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So if you have been ignoring all the re-alignment talk, here is the breakdown:
And here is what those conference look like visually (map by my friend Cassie @dagmar27):
The key points:
1. Instead of divisions and conferences, now we get 4 conferences. The conferences don't have names yet but we can refer to them based on geography for now) There are two 7 team conferences (Northeast and Atlantic) and two 8 team conferences (the Pacific and Central)
2. You will play a home and home game against every team not in your division, so that means you'll see every team at the Forum at least once per season. Gone are the every odd year schedule to see Thornton, Kesler, Doughty, Kopitar, Toews and Nugent-Hopkins in Tampa
3. The rest of the games will be against teams in your own conference. In the conference with 7 teams, we'll play six games against each team in their conference. In our conference of 8 teams, they'll alternate playing some of the teams six times and year and some of the teams five times a year.
In the playoffs*:
1. The top 4 teams of each conference makes it into the playoffs. You will then play against your own division for the first two rounds, so to win, you'll have to play your way out of the conference
2. After winning the conference, the top 4 teams will be re-seeded according to points. So the semi-final and SCF could be against anyone in the other 3 conferences.
*The playoff re-seeding idea hasn't been finalized, but this seems like the way its heading. What this means is that the Lightning could end up playing against the Pens or Philly in the SCF. That also means we could see Edmonton - Winnipeg SCF, which be a complete bomb as far a ratings go.
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Now thoughts on this:
- I love having home and home games. As a ticket holder (in Vancouver), I have wanted to see this for a long time. It will be great to see every team come through our rink at least once a year
- How the hell did we end up in the Northeast?
- There are three Canadian teams in our Conference
- That means lots of Leaf, Sens and Habs fans will be invading our building
- The two Florida teams will get an automatic boost in sales from those Canadian snowbirds wanting to buy tickets
- I still don't get how Florida is in this conference
- We are getting screwed on travel
- Rivalries may die out between clubs with the new playoff setup
- But the first two rounds of the playoffs against your own conference will build new rivalries
- This should be good for the teams like Nashville, Columbus, Dallas and St. Louis in growing their fanbases now that they don't have to play 9 or 10pm games against so many teams in the West
- If Phoenix moves to somewhere in the East it seems like and easier switch with that conference going to 8 and the Pacific dropping down to 7 teams
- Teams may get eliminated from playoff contention earlier since it's based on top teams in your conference. Puck Daddy explains this idea better here.
- If you want some numbers on how much travel each team will have to do in this new format go here
So what do I think? I really like it for the home and home games for each team because I do want to have the opportunity to see every team come to whatever city I live in every year, not every odd year. That means I will get to see the Lightning in my hometown EVERY YEAR.
We are getting royally screwed on travel as compared to the other teams in our conference but I'm sure we'll get over it. The rivalry that we have started to build up against the Caps will soon die out, but I see big potential for rivalries against Canadian teams. Fans always complain about when Canadians come to the Forum and invade the building...well it's going to happen more often. And hatred for things like this will build the rivalry between the fanbases.
Interesting to note that there were 4 BOG's that voted against this proposed re-alignment. How much do you want to bet that 2 of those teams that voted against it were from Florida?


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Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy walked off the golf course Thursday and faced some compelling questions.
Does Tiger want to remarry Elin? Does Rory want to divorce Nike?
"I'm not going to comment on my personal life," Woods said.
With that, the 2013 season golf season could be declared off and … struggling. Woods shot par 72 and McIlroy had a 75 in the first round of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship.
Never mind that it's the first stop on the European Tour, or that Abu Dhabi is 2,000 miles from Europe, or that they were finished before most Americans woke up. This year more than ever, the golf universe will revolve around Tiger and his new best buddy Rory.
When they swing, we will watch and listen. It would help matters if they didn't chop it up like they did Thursday. But it's still bigger news if they shoot 79 in the desert this week than if Webb Simpson shoots 59 at La Quinta.
And stop the presses if Woods is spotted with his ex-wife, or McIlroy flings his new Nike driver into the Persian Gulf. Or vice versa.
McIlroy's club selection is currently The Big Story. Switching equipment is risky, and it's not as if he were struggling with his old Titleist golf balls.
McIlroy showed up with his new cavity-backed driver Thursday and hit his third drive into the parking lot. He hit only six fairways. He finished in 89th place. It was a good day for Taylor Made.
"I'm thinking it's the swing more than the clubs," McIlroy said.
Of course he thinks that. Nike is paying him a reported $200 million to think that. The true figure is probably only half that for five years. Whatever it is, it will be a huge story if McIlroy's game regresses.
Nike certainly didn't spare any expense turning Abu Dhabi into a launching pad for its newly minted recruit. There was a news conference at a hoity-toity hotel, replete with lasers and video testimonials from Roger Federer and Wayne Rooney.
They welcomed McIlroy to the Nike family, where golf is something of an orphan. It has been all about Tiger since 1996, and lately he hasn't really moved product.
Maybe there's a Nike Curse. Bo Jackson (hip), Michael Jordan (Bobcats), Lance Armstrong (conscience). Get in bed with Phil Knight and bad things happen.
McIlroy is willing to take the chance. The company debuted a commercial showing Tiger and Rory hitting trick shots and yukking it up on a driving range. It's titled "No Cup is Safe."
I'll let you make up your own Tiger-brassiere joke. One guy who probably has is McIlroy, who seems to have formed a genuine bond with the famously protective Woods.
They posed the other day in their Nike sweaters as a man pretended to pour them a drink from an ornate pitcher. Then the golfers locked arms like a bride and groom and pretended to sip their drinks.
You never saw Tiger do that with Phil Mickelson. Nike and the PGA Tour would love for Tiger and Rory to turn into Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.
The old duffers hit it big in the 1930s with their Road movies. They went to Hong Kong, Zanzibar, Rio, Bali, Morocco, Utopia and Singapore. But no Abu Dhabi. If only the younger duffers would perform well at Augusta, the U.S. Open and the TPC Stadium Course.
The good news from Thursday is you can't base anything off one round. It doesn't wipe out last season's trend lines, which had Woods continuing his crawl back to relevance and McIlroy convincing everyone he might really be the next Tiger.
Woods is up to No. 2 in world rankings. He still has a bigger house than No. 1. McIlroy moved from Northern Ireland to south Florida and bought a $9.5 million house in Palm Beach Gardens. Tiger's just up the road in his $46 million compound.
That's a lot of house for a single guy, which brings us to the other stuff that makes people watch Tiger. The National Enquirer reports he got down on bended knee and asked his ex to remarry him over the holidays.
Color me skeptical, especially since an Austrian paper reported he stopped off in Salzburg on the way to Abu Dhabi to visit Olympic ski champ Lindsey Vonn. It even ran photos of him in a snowstorm wearing Yankees cap.
Tiger was back in his Nike cap Thursday when the topic came up. He preferred to talk about golf, though don't be surprised if his new BFF asks if he should have signed a pre-nup with Nike that allows him to experiment with other clubs.
"I'll go to the range and work on it," McIlroy said. "It will be fine."
Don't worry about the slow start, golf fans. From Salzburg to Abu Dhabi to Augusta, we're on the road to a very interesting year.


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Convergent charging and VOIP
Convergent charging and VOIP
Convergent charging (also known as convergent charging, converged charging and convergent billing), is a solution in the telecommunications industry that enables common management of all users and all services for operators. It includes convergence of payment methods like prepaid and postpaid, as well as access methods and services like fixed and VOIP telephony national and international, mobile telephony, data, sms.
Characteristics attributed to a convergent charging & billing system include support for multiple service types such as voice, data, multimedia and content, support for bundling of services and the ability to create a single bill and statement for all communications services including fixed and mobile services.
A converged charging system is described as having the ability to control services and manage balances in real-time. This includes, for example, authenticating the subscriber and checking the account balance before service delivery to the end user. A converged charging system can also notify users when the account balance threshold set by the operator is reached, or terminate service connectivity when real-time charging indicates that credit has been depleted.This real-time capability can be used to deliver promotions and notifications to service users to stimulate usage.
The need for convergent charging & billing has been partly explained by consolidation within the communications industry, the launch of new multimedia services and the increasing emergence of multi-play service offerings on mobile networks.
A number of motivations have been suggested to explain why mobile telecoms providers use convergent charging & billing. One is the ability to offer mobile service packages that include both pre- and post-paid services. Another is a sustained drop in Operating Expenditure thanks to reduced billing system complexity, since operators run a single billing platform rather than multiple ones.
The telecoms and software consulting firm Ovum has said that convergent charging can greatly reduce revenue leakage. Swedish telecoms supplier Ericsson has stated that convergent charging & billing can increase marketing flexibility for operators and create revenue growth. Telecommunications software provider Tribess has said that convergent billing allows operators to launch targeted promotions quickly and deliver an improved subscriber experience. Convergent charging & billing has been credited with reduction of OPEX.
Challenges of VOIP billing
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- Retail Billing, Reseller, Wholesale Billing - National and International
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- Fast adpotation of new services/packages: Data, Voice SMS, Video
- Challenges to the introduction of convergent charging & billing include migration from existing billing systems for an incumbent telecoms operator.


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A Bethlehem-Center teacher hired to produce the spring musical in the Charleroi School District will stand trial on charges he had sex with a 15-year-old girl in the Charleroi Area Junior-Senior High School auditorium.
Jeffrey A. Hahn, 23, formerly of Belle Vernon and now living in Allison Park, Allegheny County, was a seventh-grade teacher at Bethlehem-Center Middle School when he was arrested last month. He is currently suspended without pay from his teaching position, said district solictor Lane Turturice, who attended Wednesday�s court proceeding.
Hahn waived charges of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault and indecent assault in addition to charges of statutory sexual assault and corruption of minors added to the complaint. He had been scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Central Court before District Judge Jay Weller.
The alleged sexual encounter reportedly occurred May 4 in the basement of the school�s auditorium. Charleroi police, in documents filed with the court, indicated that Hahn started sending the girl text messages on March 4. Five days later, the two pledged their love for each other.
While Hahn is out of Washington County Jail after posting $100,000 bond, Assistant District Attorney Traci McDonald asked Weller to maintain the provision that he have no contact with the girl, her family or witnesses.
�There are many minor witnesses involved,� McDonald told Weller. �And I want to be especially clear that includes text messages, e-mails, Skype and posting on Facebook or any other public electronic bulletin boards.�
�Information posted on these sites continues to be a problem in cases of this nature,� she added.
Weller warned Hahn not to violate the terms of the bond.
�I can�t tell you how many times people have gone to jail for sending text messages or contacting the victim through social media or third party,� Weller said. �No contact means no contact.�
McDonald also asked that Hahn be prohibited from contacting anyone under the age of 18 since the arrest stemmed from a school activity and because he had been a teacher. She also requested that he refrain from using social media and online dating services.
Defense attorney Steven Toprani called the latter requests �broad,� but said he client would abide by the restrictions.
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Dr. Myron Noonkester Chosen as WCU Humanities Teacher of the Year
Hattiesburg, Miss., November 4, 2013 - Dr. Myron Noonkester, dean of the Noonkester School of Arts and Letters, has recently been named as the 2013 Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the Year for William Carey University. A faculty member from each of the community and senior colleges in the state is chosen for this recognition each year.
Dr. Noonkester presented his humanities lecture titled, "The Last Shoe to Drop: The Educational Foundations of William Carey (1761-1834) and William Thames (1866-1942)" on October 30 in the lecture auditorium of Fail-Asbury Hall. His lecture focused on parallels in the lives and educational backgrounds and methods of William Carey, the "Father of Modern Missions" and the university's namesake, and William Thames, the educator who founded the institution that evolved into WCU.
Dr. Noonkester has taught at WCU for 30 years. He obtained his bachelor's degree in history at Duke University before earning his master's and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.
The Mississippi Humanities Council is a private nonprofit corporation funded by Congress through the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide public programs in traditional liberal arts disciplines to serve nonprofit groups in Mississippi. MHC sponsors, supports, and conducts a wide range of programs designed to promote understanding of our cultural heritage, interpret our own experience, foster critical thinking, encourage reasonable public discourse, strengthen our sense of community, and thus empower Mississippi's people with a vision for the future.


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But there are some geeky gifts that I want and that would be really useful as a mom that are, sadly, impossible. But it doesn't stop me from dreaming about them. Here's the top five of my list.
1. The TARDIS minivan
Make sure you're never late to pick up the kids! Load all their classmates inside too! Though there's always the chance you might screw up exactly when and where you land. A bit awkward, especially when explaining to other parents.
2. A Time Turner.
Hermione must wish she saved this one for when she had kids.
3. Merlin's packing & pick-up spell, "Higitus Figitus" from Sword in the Stone.
One wave of the wand and the house clean will clean itself! Brilliant! In a pinch, I suppose I could buy a Roomba. In case the brooms start taking over, ala Sorceror's Apprentice.
4. Jamie Madrox's Multiple Man powers.
What Mom can't use an army of duplicates? There are already times when I need to be in two places at once. This why, I could avoid the time paradoxes.
5. Oracle's Watchtower
How else can I keep an eye on the kids? They'll never know, right?
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It may not mean much on December 28, but Harborfields proved Wednesday that for now, they are the top team in Suffolk.
Lucas Woodhouse scored 20 points and added a bevy of assists and Justin Ringen had a game-high 23 as the Tornadoes (4-2) defeated host Half Hollow Hills West, 78-66, in a non-league game between of two of Long Island's best teams.
The Tornadoes held in check Hills West star Emile Blackman, who had just six points through the first three quarters before scoring 13 in the fourth to finish with a team-high 19.
Woodhouse's superior playmaking, Ringen's accurate shooting, Harborfields' vexing zone defense and a surprisingly large contribution from big man Chris Brady frustrated the two-time defending Long Island Class AA champion Colts, who at one point trailed by 21 in the fourth quarter.
Blackman showed flashes of his All-Long Island talent, cutting the Tornadoes' lead to seven with just over a minute to go in the fourth, but Hills West (3-2) never got any closer.
Harborfields was in control, opening up an early 14-4 lead and frustrating the Colts with a zone that kept Blackman and fellow slashers Mical Boyd and Terry Harris out of the paint.
Offensively, Woodhouse was the orchestrator, setting up teammates with nifty no-look passes and nailing clutch free throws late to put the game out of reach. Ringen benefitted from the Tornadoes' fast-paced ball movement, which led to repeated open looks for the senior sharpshooter.
Harborfields also got a boost from 6-9 junior Chris Brady, who had 10 points and dominated the paint on both ends of the court. Brady grabbed five offensive rebounds in the second quarter alone as the Tornadoes took a 40-30 halftime lead. Brady also had three consecutive blocks in a 42-second sequence in the third quarter.
"[Rebounding] is something that coach [Chris Agostino] and I work on in practice," Brady said. "We just go through drills, trying to get offensive and defensive rebounds."
Brady no doubt benefitted from the absence of Hills West big man Neneyo Mate-Kole, a 6-6 junior who is out with a knee injury until February.
But it was Woodhouse's precision ball movement, Ringen's ability to stretch the defense and Hills West's inability to penetrate the zone that made the biggest difference.
There are still two months to go before the playoffs begin in Suffolk; there's still time for Mate-Kole to recover and still time for Hills West to reclaim the title of the dominant team in Suffolk. But on Wednesday, those bragging rights went to Harborfields.


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Friday, September 22, 2017
If you are like most Americans, fitting time for exercise into your busy schedule is a real challenge!
According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), you need 150 minutes of moderate intensity aerobics training a week to improve your aerobics fitness level. This would include activities such as brisk walking, water aerobics or bicycling slower than ten miles per hour to name a few. The CDC also recommends that you strength train at least two times per week to increase lean muscle mass, improve balance, and reduce the risk of bone density loss.
So how do you fit the required aerobic exercise along with two strength training sessions into every week?
One way is to increase your workout intensity from moderate to vigorous! When you partake in what the CDC calls vigorous exercise, you only need 75 minutes a week of aerobic exercise. That is only 15 minutes of exercise a day, five times a week! Some examples of vigorous activity include running, swimming laps or bicycling more than ten miles an hour. These activities are harder than moderate intensity training, and therefore require most people to build up their endurance first.
Before You Try These Techniques:
*It is important to note that you should have a good cardiovascular and strength base already built up before trying these techniques. Vigorous training can be quite difficult and taxing on the body. You will most likely be sorer when performing vigorous exercise compared to moderate exercise levels. This is especially true when beginning an exercise program. When first attempting vigorous levels of exercise, try to complete a few 30-second intervals per exercise session. If you are going to do any vigorous cardiovascular training, always warm up and cool down to prevent injuries and maximize your workouts.
Always consult your physician before starting a workout routine.
Interval Training
One way to work up to 15 minutes of vigorous activity is a training method called interval training. Interval training allows you to mix vigorous and moderate intensity exercise so that you can build up your endurance easier and at a more gradual pace.
To start interval training, warm up with a moderate activity such as briskly walking for five minutes. Next increase the exercise intensity to a vigorous level such as running, a ten mile per hour biking pace, or a quick lap swim in the pool. Continue this pace for a minimum of 60 seconds. Then slow back down to a moderate pace for 60 seconds to give your body a short breather. Repeat the 120 second vigorous and moderate intensity pairings four more times for a total of five intervals. Finally cool down with ten minutes of moderate intensity exercise. This entire interval workout will only take you 20 minutes! That's a 50 minute reduction in total exercise time you need per week!
Every week work to increase your vigorous exercise time between five and thirty seconds per interval while simultaneously reducing your moderate training time by the same amount. Continue to build up endurance until you can do 15 minutes of vigorous training without stopping.
What about strength training, you ask? One way to reduce your strength training exercise time in half is to complete a training intensifier technique called supersets. Supersets are when you complete two exercises back to back, with no rest in between.
To complete a superset, do two different exercises immediately one after the other. Only rest long enough to walk to the next machine, switch dumbbells or change positions. Stick with a weight where you can complete eight to twelve challenging repetitions. Try doing two related (pushups and bench press for chest), unrelated (sit-ups and calf raises for abdominals and calves), or opposing muscle group exercises (bicep curls and tricep press downs for biceps and triceps) to change up your routine and keep it fresh.
So there you have it, two techniques that can reduce your exercise time in half! Go out and give interval training and supersets a try!
How much physical activity do adults need? 17 Dec. 2008. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 14 July 2009.
Tabata, I, et al. "Effects of moderate-intensity endurance and high-intensity intermittent training on anaerobic capacity and VO2max." Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, v. 28 issue 10, 1996, p. 1327-30.
Trapp, EG.; Chisholm, DJ.; Freund, J.; Boutcher, SH. "The effects of high-intensity intermittent exercise training on fat loss and fasting insulin levels of young women." International Journal of Obesity, v. 32 issue 4, 2008, p. 684-91.
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December 11, 2012
Anytime Fitness in South Lake Tahoe is collecting toys for Toys for Tots.
Donations may be dropped off at the business, located at 212 Elks Point Road, No. 550, in Zephyr Cove. Toys will be collected until Dec. 21 and will benefit local children.
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STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, announces Teseo III, a single-chip standalone positioning product family capable of receiving signals from multiple satellite navigation systems, including the Chinese BeiDou, the US GPS, European Galileo, Russia's GLONASS and Japan's QZSS.
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On July 23, 2013, the State Board of Elections (SBE), in partnership with the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), launched online voter registration as a result of recently enacted legislation sponsored by Delegate David Ramadan (HB2341). Eligible citizens of the Commonwealth are now able to submit a voter registration application or update their registration information online.
In order to complete the application process online, citizens must provide their Virginia DMV customer identifier number, which is displayed on DMV issued identification cards or Driver's Licenses. Citizens who do not have a Virginia DMV customer identifier may still fill out the registration application online, but will be required to print and return the completed application to the appropriate local voter registration office.
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|YDS: 5.10 French: 6b Ewbanks: 20 UIAA: VII- ZA: 19 British: E2 5b [details]
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|RAIN, WET ROCK and RAPTOR CLOSURES: The sandstone around Moab is fragile and is very easily damaged when it is wet. Also please ask and be aware of Raptor Closures in areas such as CAT WALL and RESERVOIR WALL in Indian Creek MORE INFO >>>
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By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
Apr 12, 2002
|When I climbed Lighthouse Tower (~4 years ago) there was a metal spike pounded into the top. If you slung this, it made a decent anchor so that the person downclimbing the final moves had a TR.
By Joe Collins
Apr 15, 2002
|There isn't a metal spike there anymore.
By Stan Pitcher
From: SLC, UT
Oct 21, 2002
|I followed the guide and went all the way to the anchors for the first pitch - a mistake! It is very uncomfortable and there's risk of of the leader falling onto the belayer while doing the crux moves right above it! The large ledge that would make a much better belay is about 30-40 feet below the anchors. There's good ~hand-sized placements there. At the top of second pitch I was very happy to clip a wedged sling protecting what I thought were pretty dicey moves above a ledge. I didn't find the summit too 'R' as I was able to place 2 pairs of equalized TCUs (0-3) in the crumbly rock between the last anchor and the summit.
By Bernard Gillett
Apr 19, 2003
We brought RPs as suggested, but never used them. There's a good small wire (#2 Rock) 6 feet above the rappel station (the one just below the stem box crux), and a great #7 Rock placement 6 feet higher. In 6 more feet the good ledge on the left is reached.
We also didn't use the aforementioned rap station to descend -- looked to me like the rope could get stuck rappelling from the three bolt belay atop the 2nd pitch to the rap station below the crux. Instead, we did a short rap from the last anchor (the chains 20 feet below the summit) to the large shelf on the left side on the NE face (this shelf is 10 feet left of the bolt on pitch 3). From here, it was one long double rope rappel to the base of the NE face (170 feet). We used a 50 meter rope with a 60 meter trail line, and the 50 m just made it to the ground -- I'm pretty sure two 50 m ropes would be sufficient (there's a big shelf 15 feet above the ground, from which one could easily downclimb if two 50 m ropes didn't quite make it).
I'd agree with Stan's comment on the summit pitch: not too bad, mostly just a mind game. There's a good horizontal crack 8 feet below the top, and I placed a #7 Hex on the far right (great directional), then two small cams, and then a #2 Camalot on the left. The old Desert Rock guidebook used to rate the final move 5.8 (and it felt even easier than that to me). Nice route with a super summit.
Bernard Gillett
By Max Schon
May 6, 2003
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
|I don't know how all this bad beta about rapping off started, but the good beta is as follows: one double rope rap to the ground from the bomber anchor on the top of pitch two. Yup, it's that easy. When pulling your rope, make sure you stand back a ways and everything should be fine.
By Joe Auer
From: Moab, Utah
Nov 30, 2003
|#00 tcu is nice to have on the crux pitch. pulling out of the stem box on the jugs is wild!!!
By Holly Barnard
Mar 29, 2004
rating: 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
What a great route! I can't believe it isn't talked about more. I'm 5'6" and I imagine the stem box would be pretty difficult for anyone much shorter than me. Although, it looks like you could do some off-width tricks in the wide crack on the right. I felt like the hardest move was actually getting up to belay ledge after coming out of the stemming section. There are some good holds at the lip of the ledge, but getting to them was a little tricky.
As for the rap, we had 2-60m ropes and followed B. Gillett's suggestion. This drops you off right at the top of the 5.7 approach pitch and the ropes pulled pretty easily.
Note - esp. towards the tops of the route, there is plenty of friable rock around, wear your helmet and be extra careful with parties below you.
By Max Schon
Jun 10, 2004
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
|You can easily rap from the top of the second pitch to the ground with two sixty meter ropes. When pulling your ropes, just make sure you stand back a ways and they should pull fine.
By Tony B
From: Around Boulder, CO
Oct 26, 2004
rating: 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
|The climb is a fun outing and a very low-stress desert tower. A good one for anyone who can lead 5.10 and doen't mind a little runout on the summit cap.I can see why there is no anchor in that summit cap- since it is pretty crumbly... I wouldn't trust it to rap on. How we managed it as follows: my partner climbed it on lead, placing pretty good gear in horizontals to the lat 2 meters of jug-hauling to the summit (not the crux, maybe rated like gym-juggy 5.8?), then one on the summit flipped the rope throuth the notch on left below the cap, up over the top, and down-climbed on a "TR" over to the other belay. I went up, re-clipped the rope through the pro to run the right direction for my lead, unflipped the rope from below, relead the pitch, then down-lead it, pulling the gear as I cam down. This felt pretty safe and reasonable- better than trusting a bolt to rap from the shattered dinner plate flakes above.We rapped off with a single 70M. Once from the summit to the shoulder towards Dolofright (~16 meters) and one more down to the back side of the rock, all the way to ground just north of the base of the route (~34 meters). A 60M rope would work too, if you are OK with down-scrambling the back side of the shoulder for 15 feet oif easy-to-moderate climbing.
By toddgordon Gordon
From: Joshua Tree, California
Apr 30, 2007
|I know;... the 5.8R and no anchors on top is "all part of the experience..." ..but I found the last pitch and no summit anchors irritating.......maybe it's just me.......the rest of the climbing was fun, straight forward, and cool. Did this climb in March 1997 with Dave Evans, Margy Floyd, Richard White, and Dana Adler.
By Laurent Meillon
From: Golden, CO
May 7, 2008
|P1 is 120'. I kept going to the uncomfortable rap anchors below the stem box and my 45m rope still touched the ground. P2 & 3 combined are no more than 100' total. P4 looks like it could be removed altogether with a crow-bar! - good pro goes in that horizontal break and would prevent hitting the ledge if you pealed off the very cool summit!
By Dean Hoffman
Sep 16, 2008
|The first two pitches of this climb were worth the hike alone. Unfortunately we didn't get a good look at the summit due to an inaccurate description in the falcon guide we had with us. Sure would have been nice to know that you're supposed to head up from the bolt on the third pitch instead of going all the way around the corner to the anchors over there. I would agree that the best belay for pitch one is off a gear anchor on the big ledge, comfy and safe, much nicer than the hanging belay above. Very very cool climbing on pitch two.
By Courtney Pace
From: Sandy
Mar 18, 2010
|I just climbed the first pitch on 3/15/10 and we had to bail which required leaving a large nut and a #2 rock empire cam. If anyone heads up there and finds this gear I would love to get it back. Great pitch!
By Rob Griz
From: Frisco
Apr 19, 2010
|A .5 Camalot protects the initial summit moves, and a Red BD C3 fits perfectly in a deep, old pin scar (?) just below the lip of the summit. Of course the sandstone is quite soft and friable there too. An old drilled angle hole is atop the summit. The crack at the exit of the stem chimney on P2 grabs ropes real well...we set in a small stone to keep the ropes clean, pullin them on rap. Sandy as shit when we hit it, gotta love the desert.. makes you appreciate clean granite.
By Spencer Weiler
From: Salt Lake city
May 17, 2010
|I did not find this climb sandy at all. Very cool route, with pitch 2 being quite strenuous with only a small nut protecting the crux moves. The top pitch I found exhilarating but easy. I am in full support of not having anchors up there. One word of advice, Do not rappel down the stem box! You are almost guaranteed your rope getting stuck in the crack above the stem box. From the anchors atop pitch 3, rappel hard to the climbers left to a fat ledge with bomber anchors, maybe 20 feet is all. These anchors can be easily seen from the bolt on pitch 3. 1 double rap with 2 60's gets you down right on top of the approach pitch and the pull is like butter. Easy.
By e Dixon
From: Durango, Colorado
Jun 6, 2011
rating: 5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b
|Brought the RP's and didn't use or need them. A #4 Camalot was nice on P1. Summit pitch is no big deal. (1) double rope 60m rappel to the ground from the top of P2 was the way to go. Overall, a fun route and worth doing.
By Michael Ybarra
From: on the road
Mar 28, 2012
Excellent climb.
Placed an HB #6 above the bolted anchor to pro the stem crux.
On P3 we kept going on the traverse past the bolt, which puts you at a bolted anchor. There's a shinny new, huge rap anchor about five feet away from this station on the ledge. On the way down, we did a double rope rap back to the notch from the new P3 rap station. Ropes wouldn't pull. A team behind us try to free the ropes but they still wouldn't pull. The Boulder boys kindly moved the ropes to the old anchor (decent bolts) and they pulled easily. Someone should chop the new rap station and put that hardware someplace it can actually do some good.
By Sam Lightner, Jr.
From: Lander, WY
Mar 29, 2012
|I believe that anchor was added by the slackline community so they could walk between Lighthouse and the Butte.
By Nolan Robertson
Apr 11, 2012
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
Went up this with only 1 70m rope, made the rap really awkward and stressful, i will deffinately bring 2 ropes if i do this again.
Otherwise, Pro on 2nd pitch was better than i thought it would be, i actually ended up squeezing into the crack on the right after getting to the bolts halfway through the pitch, throwing a sling around a chalkstone, and then moving up higher to place a yellow alien and green camalot to protect the crux.
Topout is freaking awesome, little bit spicy, way easier than i expected.
By Fritz N.
From: Durango, CO
Dec 9, 2012
|I also hopped into the squeeze chimney on the right side of P2 after clipping the old anchors in the stembox. Great size, felt much more secure than dinking with little gear on the left side. A bomber BD #.4 protected pulling out of the chimney. I'm 5'10", and the stemming at the end was kind of wild. Spandex tights are a plus for making every inch count, and for making your belayer lose the will to live.
By JF1
From: Las Vegas
Apr 27, 2013
|Two 60s got us from the second pitch anchor to the ground with room to spare.
By Cocanower
From: The High Country
Mar 29, 2014
|Second pitch was incredible! jugs appear right when you need them.
By Robes
From: Leavenworth, Washington
Apr 18, 2014
rating: 5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
|Went up with a single 70. Dumb. Was not stoked on possibly having to rap off the knotted cord stuffed behind the block at the top of p1. Saved from having to do this by partnering with another party. Easy double rope rap from the free-hanger in the stem box. Don't be dumb.
By Greg Gavin
From: SLC, UT
Apr 13, 2015
The single 70m rap beta is as follows:
Rap from summit pitch belay (2 bolts with chain, and a random SMC hanger glued in) directly toward Dolomite tower. The station you're aiming for can be seen at the edge of a large ledge facing the river. The belay consists of 2 expansion bolts (1 glued SMC hanger bolt, 1 cold shut bolt, and a single star drive equalized with chain and cord).
The next rap is a perfect 35m rap directly to the ground. You are now rapping past the NE face route, and it's ancient piton/hardwear.
Walk back about 50 ft to pull your line, and it falls perfectly to the base.
Finish by rapping the short 35ft approach pitch. Belay consists of 1 drilled pin, 1 old bolt, and one new rap bolt.
3 raps + 1 rope = easy as pie.
By Jeff McLeod
Oct 10, 2015
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
Classic route - Fully stemmed out and cranking on jugs!
Don't kid yerself - if you for some reason decide to blow the 5.8 moves on the summit pitch you will take a ledge fall. Pro placed in the crumbly junk below the lip is useless. It will explode in your face and you will still take a 10 ft ledge fall. BUT do this pitch, it is worth it. just don't fall! Easy mantle move on huge holds!
Also, after reading one previous commenter who had the same experience, will go ahead and mention that our ropes also did not pull through the newer rap anchors on the ledge left of the bolt on p3. I think it must be a rope drag issue. We were lucky enough to have another party free them for us. If you decide to go this rap route, don't use these anchors, there's another set a few feet above.
By James Garrett
Oct 14, 2015
|I did this route and led everything in the late 80s when it was considerably new. All I remember most of all was that At the time it was rated either "easy 5.9" or even 5.8:).... I was intimidated as hell and thought it was the greatest sandbag I had ever managed to grovel my way up:)!.... Adventuresome, but I would never even contemplate repeating it ...even if someone paid me to take them up it!!! Inthink climbers today must simply be way more hardcore!!! The move off the summit, you blow it, your gone and that is all she wrote about that:)
By Chris Archer
Oct 12, 2016
rating: 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b R
|Great route! Each pitch is unique & memorable. High over Moab & Greg G are spot on about rapping with a 70m. 2 raps from belay below last pitch. We went up & met a party coming down w 2 ropes. They read us MP comments on how grim rapping with a single 70m rope was. We were pleasantly surprised to find how obvious & easy it was. All that being said, if I was a local I'd replace the anchors on the last rappel on the Carter route.
By Scott
From: Colorado
May 3, 2017
rating: 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
|My partner couldn't get a BD C4 0.3 out of the crack right above the offwidth on pitch 1. If you recover this piece and want some good karma and beer, please let me know. If not, enjoy the gear
By Matt M Jones
From: Colorado Springs, CO
May 26, 2017
|Greg G's rap beta is spot on (single 70m). A #3 BD was the largest piece I placed (I lead every pitch). I was able to fit a small pink tricam in the horizontal crack out left on the last pitch.


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Liu Wen BiographyBefore Liu Wen was born there in 1988, China's Hunan Province was known more for its fertile rice fields and fish than its leggy supermodels. After school, she worked as a tour guide, using her outgoing personality and sharp wit to carve out a nice niche for herself.
However, like any new grad setting out into the world, money was tight. Liu Wen wanted a laptop, and to get the money she made a decision that would change her life forever.
liu wen enters the new silk world model contestA friend suggested she try the 2005 New Silk Road World Model Contest, whose first-place prize money would more than pay for her computer. She had no experience, just a tall, lean frame and phenomenal bone structure that was phenomenal enough to garner her first place in the provincial qualifying round. It looked as if her days of guiding tourists around the country were forever behind her.
The New Silk Road World Model Contest is a big deal in China, and Liu Wen faced fierce competition when she arrived at the national stage. Perhaps hindered by her inexperience, Liu lost but caught the eye of many prominent industry types. They were moved by her unpretentious attitude and viewed her plain features as a blank slate onto which they could craft countless personae. Liu Wen wasn't going to have to worry about paying for her laptop after all.
liu wen appears in vogue and signs to marilyn agencyLiu Wen soon started appearing in the Chinese editions of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, garnering her first cover just months after beginning her career (almost unheard of in that credential-obsessed industry).
Big time Parisian modeling agency Marilyn took notice and signed the budding star in 2008. That relationship gave her the contacts she needed to start working runway shows in fashion capitals like Milan, Miami and New York. She went from train-riding tour guide to jet-setting supermodel in just a few months.
Karl Lagerfeld, Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren, Chanel -- the titans of the fashion industry have all employed Liu Wen to wear their collections. In Spring 2010, Liu Wen walked in 70 shows in New York, Paris and Milan, making her the second most booked model of the season. While Liu Wen has been touring global runways, she's become a superstar in her native China and has broken new ground for Asian models. She was the first model of Chinese descent to walk for Victoria's Secret in 2009, and in 2010 became the first Asian face of Estée Lauder.
She continues to work a hectic schedule, with magazine spreads, fashion shows and a burgeoning collection of endorsements from bottled water to perfume. She's defied the odds her entire career, and is now reaping the rewards.
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TAMPA — Last year, Pat Underwood was too tired to get another job and too young for Medicare.
So doctor visits took a back seat — until a friend told the retiree about free breast and cervical screenings at a local clinic.
Underwood, now 62, set an appointment last year for her first mammogram in four years.
Today, she says, the free exam proved crucial in her health.
Examiners found a lump in one of her breasts, and later a Pap smear revealed precancerous cells that she wouldn't have known about otherwise.
"I really wanted to know," Underwood said. "Do I have cancer? Now I want everyone to know about this service."
Free mammograms, like the one Underwood received, have caught at least 13 people in Tampa with cancer out of 300 screened in two years, said Estrella Clement, a nurse who works with Meditech Medical Center clinics, which offer the free services.
Many more have likely been diagnosed in the 15 years since the program has existed at other clinics in Florida.
The problem is that many women don't know about the service, Clement said.
Orlando de la Paz, director of Meditech, said the services are part of an effort to establish a preventive medical network.
"We are always trying to help," said de la Paz. The centers offer community health fairs, targeting specific health risks such as diabetes and providing low-cost services to people who are underinsured and uninsured.
Locally, three Meditech offices — two in Tampa, one in Brandon — offer the free mammograms and Pap smears to women ages 50 to 64. Several grants, including the state's Florida Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, pay the expenses.
The early detection program, established in 1994, is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at $3.9 million annually, and Medicaid at $2.7 million annually.
Underwood, who lives in Carrollwood, had worked as a telemarketer selling magazines before retiring. She was nervous about skipping routine care but hoped to skim through without mammograms till age 66, when she will be eligible for Medicare.
"I was suffering in silence, not knowing because it cost too much," she said. "If it doesn't say free, I couldn't go."
At the clinic last year, doctors found a lump in her breast, which turned out to be a cyst, and precancerous cells after a Pap smear.
"A person with precancerous cells has a very good chance that it will come back," de la Paz said. It's important to monitor levels with annual exams, he said
Underwood was treated at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute. The treatment was also free through the early detection program.
Aside from the state funding, Clement pulls together grant money and negotiates deals for the program with providers such as Bayview Radiology, which analyzes test results without making a profit. Also, the Tampa chapter of Sisters Network Inc., a national organization for African-American breast cancer survivors, funneled grant money it received to local Meditech centers.
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women, according to the National Cancer Institute. Early detection, sometimes even before tumors can be felt, increases chances of successful treatment. In 2005, Florida had 2,663 deaths due to breast cancer. The institute recommends mammograms every one to two years for women 40 and older.
As for Underwood, follow up tests this year came back clear.
All told, she suspects the tests would have cost her thousands of dollars — if she had ever taken them in the first place.
She plans to use the free service for a checkup next year. Meanwhile, knowing she is cancer free gives her peace of mind.
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March 1st, 2013 Poulsbo Washington State 2013
Today the crocuses are up, the daffodils are budding, and the primroses are colorfully stalwart. The temperature is 60 degrees and the Northwest March wind is blowing spring in whether Spring is ready or not! The sun was out, and we reveled in the in-coming season. Blow, wind – and bring spring in! We can feel the earth turn – and digging the food garden is an urgent task. We want to be ready two weeks from now when the planting begins.


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- Mar 1:
- Denver programs help with tax prep
- Feb 15:
- Tax time: What to look for, avoid when filing this season
- Consejos para ayudarle a elegir un preparador de impuestos
- Múltiples cambios en leyes de impuestos presentan desafíos para contribuyentes
- Feb 11:
- Faster tax returns could tempt many, despite fees
- Jan 3:
- New tax law packed with breaks for businesses
- Dec 17:
- Muchos pagarían más impuestos en declaración
- Nov 14:
- Despite what they say, voters favor local taxes
- TBD Colorado: Consider tax increases, constitutional reforms
- Mar 22:
- Muchos indocumentados pagan impuestos sin recibir beneficios
- Nov 16:
- Estudio: Latinos de Chicago son aportadores netos de impuestos
Tax Day is fast approaching and lots of people are in a frenzy to get their tax returns prepared and filed before the April 17 deadline - including many undocumented immigrants who, contrary to popular belief, pay taxes just like everybody else.
While anti-immigrant proponents would like you to believe otherwise, the Social Security Administration estimates that two-thirds of undocumented immigrants pay payroll taxes.
"When you're working somewhere, your employer's not going to ask you, 'Oh, are you undocumented so I can give you a tax break?'" said Marta, an undocumented 21-year-old clerk who asked that her real name not be used.
Not only do undocumented immigrants pay taxes, they are also helping to fill up the coffers of the Social Security trust fund at a time when the agency is facing a major solvency crisis, even though it is highly unlikely they will ever see any benefit from their contributions.
According to the Social Security Administration, by 2007 its trust fund had received a net benefit of between $120 billion and $240 billion from undocumented immigrants throughout the years, representing between 5.4 percent and 10.7 percent of the fund's total assets that year. So undocumented immigrants are required by law to pay into the system but cannot receive Social Security or Medicare benefits.
"It's unfortunate that people don't see how evident it is that we do pay taxes," said Marta, who came from Chihuahua, Mexico, with her mother on a tourist visa - that they overstayed -when she was only 2 years old.
To many it's anything but evident. How is it possible for an undocumented worker to pay taxes if they are here illegally?
Since they don't have the required papers - namely a social security number and a permanent residency card (or green card) - to begin with, many people believe they must get paid cash under the table.
To be clear, though, according to Stephen C. Goss, the Social Security Administration's chief actuary, about 75 percent of undocumented immigrants are on a company's payroll and therefore have the same kind of withholdings as their documented counterparts.
How do they get on the payroll? There are plenty of ways.
For starters, if they know where to go, they can buy a fake social security number and green card for a couple hundred dollars, which they then use when they're asked for proof of employment eligibility.
The 1986 law that made it a federal crime to hire anyone who can't provide proof that he's legally entitled to work created a huge black market for these types of fraudulent documents. Most employers are not obligated to check the validity of these work documents, and although many do voluntarily use the government's controversial online checking system known as E-Verify, many simply take these documents at face value - and that's how they end up unknowingly hiring undocumented immigrants.
Some employers, however, do hire them knowingly even though it's illegal. Such is the case with Marta.
"Here at my work, the owner knows my legal status, and he just asked me, 'Just give me anything, any random number so that I can register you,' so I gave him whatever random number came to my head and that's it," the undocumented student explained. "He's just been paying me that way, he hasn't heard anything from the IRS, so he doesn't tell me anything."
Meanwhile, the payroll taxes withheld from Marta's paycheck are going to what the Social Security Administration calls the "Earnings Suspense File," which according to Wendy Sefsaf of the pro-legalization American Immigration Council, "holds the money that's not associated with anyone."
Simply put, the Social Security Administration keeps a record of wages from those whose numbers don't match up with their names. In 2009, the last year for which figures are available, employers reported wages of $72.8 billion for 7.7 million workers who couldn't be matched to legal social security numbers.
The majority of those workers are believed to be undocumented immigrants. The payroll deductions made from those workers' paychecks amounted to $11.2 billion for the Social Security trust fund and $2.6 billion for Medicare. Unless the law changes, most undocumented immigrants will never benefit from that.
"If people are working under a fake social security number, I doubt they're going in and filing tax returns, but they are paying taxes," said Sefsaf. "That's why it's kind of good to at least have the ITIN because when they legalize, they can try to reattach those payments back to themselves so they would benefit from that at some point."
Sefsaf is referring to the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, which is available to anyone not eligible for a Social Security number - regardless of their immigration status - for the purpose of reporting earnings. "They [the IRS] will take your money," said Sefsaf, even if you're undocumented.
Exactly how many of the ITIN holders are undocumented immigrants is not known, but it's widely believed that it's the majority. According to the IRS, the amount of workers requesting ITINs annually almost tripled between 1999 and 2009, with more than 7.8 million distributed in the past five years.
But why would undocumented immigrants even want to go through the trouble of filing taxes?
"I just do everything in my power to follow the rules, follow the laws," said Marta who uses an ITIN to file taxes every year. "A lot of us just live under such unbearable fear that you try to do everything in your power to do everything right."
And filing a tax return regardless of your immigration status is the right thing to do if you've earned wages, according to retired accountant David Martz, the coordinator for AARP's Tax-Aide site at Centro San Juan Diego, which offers free tax preparation for low-income individuals.
"We don't care [about their immigration status]. They're there to file their taxes, and they're doing the right thing by doing that," the long-time Tax-Aid volunteer said. "I believe no matter if they're here legally or not, they have a responsibility to do their taxes, and I'm going to help them do that."
His wife, Kathy Martz, who is Colorado's communications specialist for AARP's Tax-Aide, said that volunteering at Centro San Juan Diego the past two years has been a humbling experience.
"They're such hard workers, all they want to do is provide for their families," she said. "They're coming in to have their taxes done. If they didn't mean well, why would they be coming?"
Sefsaf believes that undocumented immigrants also file tax returns because if they think they have even the slightest chance of legalizing their immigration status, it will most probably help them "to prove that they've been paying taxes."
In the meantime, pro-immigration advocates like Sefsaf believe that until people accept that undocumented immigrants are not the clandestine population they've been made out to be, myths like the one about how they don't pay taxes will prevail - even in the face of facts that prove otherwise.
People, she said, need to understand that undocumented immigrants - two- thirds of whom have been here for at least 10 years - are "so fundamentally a part of America already that, of course they pay taxes, of course their kids go to school with your kids, of course they own homes, of course they go to PTA meetings, I mean, they're just like everybody else."
Immigrants paid $115 million to Colorado in sales taxes in 2010
While many people are surprised to find out that two of three undocumented immigrants pay payroll taxes, according to the Social Security administration, it should be no surprise that every single one of them also pays sales taxes.
After all, every person in this country is required to pay sales tax whenever they purchase consumer goods, regardless of their immigration status. As one undocumented worker put it, it's not like cashiers are trained to ask people whether they're here legally or not to decide if they should charge them the mandatory tax.
"No person can survive without purchasing things in the United States because we don't have an economy that allows people to be self-sufficient," said Lisa Duran, executive director of Rights for All People. "And we all know that undocumented immigrants shop just like every one else."
In 2010, the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy estimated that Colorado received nearly $115 million in state and local taxes paid by households headed by undocumented immigrants. And the state was No. 12 on the list, which was topped by California, Texas and Florida.
And these are not the only tax contributions made by undocumented immigrants. They also pay property taxes - historically used as a major source of funding for public education in Colorado - even when they rent. According to ITEP figures, households headed by undocumented immigrants paid almost $22 million in property taxes in 2010, whether directly if they owned a home or indirectly if they rented.
Although there is plenty of information to prove that immigrants pay not only payroll taxes but also sales and property taxes, those spewing anti-immigrant rhetoric have done their job well because this topic continues to be a source of heated debates.
"The bullhorn of folks that are saying undocumented immigrants do pay taxes is unfortunately a lot smaller than the bullhorn of the folks who are repeating the lies," said Duran. "Immigrants - both documented and undocumented - are wonderful, important, vital parts of our society, but not enough of us are trumpeting the fact that we're so much better as a nation for the presence of immigrants in our communities."


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BENICIA -- Charles Schwab attorney and senior vice president Peter Morgan was appointed to the Benicia school board on Wednesday night.
The seat had been vacant since the resignation of Dana Dean on March 6. Dean resigned following her appointment to the Solano County Board of Education.
Morgan's appointment was made after the board interviewed six applicants at a special meeting. He was sworn in by Solano County Superintendent of Schools Jay Speck. His term will last until the end of 2014.
"I'm thrilled and excited," Morgan said afterward. "I'm ready to get to work."
Morgan, 49, has worked for the Charles Schwab Corporation in San Francisco since 1999. He currently serves as general counsel to Charles Schwab Bank and deputy counsel to Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. He began his law career as a prosecutor in the Santa Cruz County District Attorney's Office.
Morgan is active in the community, serving as a board member for the Benicia Education Foundation, which does fundraising for the district.
He is also a father with three children in the district. His wife, Iona Morgan, serves on the PTA and site council at Matthew Turner Elementary School.
Morgan said he applied for the seat to lend his expertise on finance and governance rather than to advance any personal political agenda.
The other applicants were Thelma Bentley, Ellen Blaufarb, James "Rick" Ernst, Nicole Nunes and Tina Thorn.
Contact staff writer Tony Burchyns at firstname.lastname@example.com or (707) 553-6831. Follow him on Twitter @tonyburchyns.


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Award-winning Chelsea stalwart Roger Platts looks at how gardening has changed in the last 100 years - plus, find out what else needs doing in the garden this week.
By Hannah Stephenson
The world's top garden designers will be celebrating 100 years of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2013 with a mixture of old and new, demonstrating the glories of the past and the gardens of the future.
Award-winning Chelsea stalwart Roger Platts, who is designing the M&G show garden, Windows Through Time, is aiming to capture the design trends and themes of RHS Chelsea Flower Shows past and present, showing how British garden design has evolved while reflecting many recurring themes that have stood the test of time.
"I believe that the three major reasons driving the development in garden design are ever-changing architecture, climate change and lifestyle changes," says Platts.
"Extremes of weather have tended to kill off some new trends in planting in recent years. It is not long since we were being encouraged to plant drought-tolerant varieties, only to find them frosted or rotted in cold, wet winters.
"It only takes a couple of years of extreme weather in close succession to remove gardeners' confidence in certain plants.
"I have always enjoyed growing a wide range of silver-leaved plants but living on heavy soil and having wetter weather, I am reluctant to risk some of these.
"For the average gardener it will always be best to grow plants tolerant of a wide range of conditions. For the enthusiast they will always be trying to push the boundaries."
Low maintenance and the need for neatness will always be a factor in gardens for the future, he predicts, especially in urban environments.
"The terms 'disease free' and 'easy to grow' and 'uncomplicated' is as much as I can predict for future gardens. It is impossible to know what other factors will dictate how gardens will look in the future."
So, how much have our gardens changed in the last century?
:: Plant pots - in 1913 pots would have been made from clay. This then developed to plastic with a recent trend towards biodegradable materials.
:: Glasshouses - then heating and propagation for glasshouses and growing frames relied on solid fuel and manure. Nowadays, electricity and bio fuels are used.
:: Fertilisers - 100 years ago most fertiliser was organic. Over the years chemicals were developed for use in fertilising. There is now a trend to returning to organic fertilisers.
:: Garden construction materials - then natural timber, stone, clay and iron and aggregates were mainly used. These would generally have been locally sourced. In 2013 we use a very similar range of materials with a few additions, such as plastics, concrete, stainless steel (invented in 1913) and imported materials such as Indian sandstone.
:: Plants - varieties we grew in 1913 are similar to what we grow now but with a wider range today due to sophisticated plant breeding and selection methods. A century ago most were raised in the ground after propagation, being 'lined out' in the field as young plants, hence the term 'liners', which is still used in the nursery trade for young plants prior to final potting
:: Lawn mowers - were in their infancy 100 years ago. Technology has resulted in garden machinery becoming more widely affordable. The basic principles of cutting grass using a cylinder mower have changed little over the century. Plastics, battery-powered strimmers and the rotary mower mean that small areas of grass are easier to maintain nowadays. Robotic mowers may be the way forward for lazy gardeners.
:: Today we grow our own food at home more as a hobby than a necessity, whereas 100 years ago before supermarkets, refrigerators and fast transport, food was grown as a basic need.
Platts's 2013 Chelsea garden will embrace both new and traditional garden features, from modern sculpture to planting, threaded with historical shrubs popular in the 1900s.
His flair for planting will be apparent throughout the garden, from wild grasses and meadow flowers to cottage roses and nodding foxgloves.
Platts concludes: "The classic look we know today has been around for some time and I think and hope that it will be with us for many years to come."
Best of the bunch - Sarcococca (Christmas box)
This evergreen shrub is much loved by flower arrangers as its branches provide valuable material for late winter displays.
It has purple-tinged stems with long, slender leaves and clusters of white- or cream-petalled male flowers, and tiny female flowers, which smell delicious, are borne along the stems.
These fragrant blooms are followed by red or black berries. Most types sucker freely and will need to be contained.
S. hookeriana var. 'Digyna' grows to around 1.5m in height and width, but if you buy a small one, put it in a pot on your patio the first winter for the intoxicating scent.
S. confusa is smaller, growing around 75cm (2.5ft) high, with glossy, dark green, oval leaves, cream-coloured flowers and a powerful scent.
Christmas box will thrive in any well-drained soil in sun or partial shade.
Good enough to eat - Turnips
No haggis feast would be complete without 'neeps and tatties', which may prompt you to grow your own turnips in the new year.
Maincrop varieties are the easiest to grow and can be sown in July and August for cropping and storage from mid-October. Good varieties include Manchester Market, which is recommended for prolonged storage, Golden Ball and Champion Green-Top Yellow.
Turnips do well in non-acid soil with reasonable drainage. They should be sown thinly in a non-shady spot and thinned out as soon as the seeds are big enough to handle, until the plants are 25cm apart.
Water them regularly. If you don't, you'll end up with small and woody roots. You should also hoe regularly around the plants to keep weeds at bay.
Start lifting them as soon as they are large enough to use, as they deteriorate with age. However, in most areas, you can leave them in the ground and lift as required. For storage, remove the top leaves and place the roots between layers of sand in a box. Store in a cool shed.
Three ways to... Zap pests the natural way
1. Make a garlic spray by blitzing a garlic bulb with a litre of water, leave it to stand for a couple of hours and strain out the bits, before putting the liquid into a spray dispenser and spraying your plants in the early evening. The compounds in garlic should deter slugs, snails and other pests.
2. Sprinkle black pepper over seed beds or on soil above newly planted bulbs to deter mice and rabbits.
3. Plant marigolds (tagetes) next to vulnerable crops to deter whitefly and other pest infestations.
What to do this week
:: Sow overwintering broad beans in pots in cold frames or unheated greenhouses and they will be ready for planting out next spring.
:: Plant garlic cloves outdoors in their final position.
:: Clear up weedy beds for spring mulching.
:: Order bulky organic matter such as well-rotted manure or compost to use as a soil improver.
:: If gardening on wet soil, work from a long plank of wood rather than treading on the soil and causing it to compact.
:: In the greenhouse, check for overwintering pests such as greenfly or red spider mites and treat accordingly.
:: Continue to pick and sweep up fallen debris to prevent disease.
:: If you have fish, stop your pond freezing over by pouring hot water on the surface until it has melted through. Do not crack any ice as this is harmful to fish.
:: Add lights and power points to sheds and outhouses so you can garden on wet days and in the evenings.
:: Prune greenhouse vines when they are completely dormant.
:: Replenish the surface of rock gardens with stone chippings to prevent the soil becoming sodden.


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PlayStation Vita Consoles
The PlayStation Vita combines the best of the PSP with features from the PlayStation 3 to create a sleek handheld like no other.
There are two kinds of PS Vita available, Wi-Fi and 3G, so you have the choice of how much you want to connect online. The Wi-Fi version gives you online access to anywhere with free Wi-Fi. The 3G version comes with a Vodafone Top Up Sim Card, meaning you'll have greater internet access wherever you go, as long as you still have credit.
As well as playing its own games, some of which are only available through PlayStation Network, the PlayStation Vita is backwards compatible with PSP games, but only when played through PSN as there is no separate UMD drive. Any PSN games you have already downloaded for your PSP can be carried over to your PS Vita. there is also the opportunity for CrossPlay with PlayStation 3 on certain titles, including WipEout 2048 and PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale.
The PS Vita requires PS Vita Memory Cards to play games. These are sold separately and come in sizes from 4GB to 32GB. The rechargable battery lasts for around 3-5 hours of gameplay, 5 hours of video and up to 9 hours of music playback, depending on the settings you use.


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Suburban voters hold the key on what party will control the governorship and the Legislature in 2014.
The Republican Party has an uphill climb among suburban voters because, by and large, suburban interests, namely the education package, have been positively received.
The cornerstone of most communities is the private and public school systems. Educating their children is why many families move to the suburban areas.
Last session, the Legislature, with the DFL Party in control, strengthened the public school system.
Notably, the Legislature appropriated $134 million so that every parent would have the opportunity to send their child to all-day, every-day kindergarten starting this fall, at no extra charge.
While some school leaders may moan about the need for kindergarten classrooms, the public in general welcomes this expense.
Furthermore, the Legislature appropriated $44 million for 10,000 pre-kindergarten scholarships.
In addition, the Legislature set a schedule of providing more funds for special education, helping local districts subsidize this expensive but necessary education.
Finally, the Legislature provided $234 million more for K-12 education, and it paid back all of the money owed local school districts that the state withheld during the rough recessionary times.
Suburban voters generally are pleased with the final local tax levies, which, in general, are flat or lower due in part to the new local government aid legislated last session.
While suburban legislators had hoped for more reductions in the property taxes, local officials and policy makers used the additional aid for catch-up on all kinds of things, including some raises in pay for the staff.
Fewer changes in the tax rate resonate positively with most voters in the suburbs.
There's also an ease in the suburban area because unemployment in Minnesota is well below the national average and tax collections are up, making projections of a surplus possible.
Even with the fuss over the Affordable Health Care Act and MNsure, it's doubtful this will change the majority of minds in the suburbs.
Time will tell how suburban voters will swing politically, but I'm betting on their voting for DFL control of the Legislature, re-election of Gov. Mark Dayton, re-election of Sen. Al Franken, election of Tom Emmer for Sixth District Congress and re-election of First District
Congressman Tim Walz, Second District Congressman John Kline, Third District Congressman Erik Paulsen and Eighth District Congressman Rick Nolan.
Editor's note: Don Heinzman is a columnist for ECM Publishers and a member of the ECM Editorial Board.


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In keeping with a new tradition on Wire to the Ear called "Sunday Sounds" where I post a music playlist each week here's the next installment: Electronic Body Music. This is my personal favorite music genre. EBM is creative, powerful and mostly electronic music. You can find some sophisticated song arrangements and vocals in a lot of EBM. The genre almost disappeared in the early 90s but it's back with new blood. Even the old guys are back on the show circuit.
I created this playlist using Imeem. You can find me there at
Are you an EBM fan?