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In February 2008, a helicopter transporting three U.S. senators had to make an emergency landing in Afghanistan. A crash was averted and all three - Joe Biden, John Kerry and Chuck Hagel - survived. Already friends, they bonded over the experience, say people who know them.
Now these three amigos are set to reunite in the Obama Cabinet, Biden as veep, Kerry as secretary of state, and former Republican Sen. Hagel as secretary of defense - although his confirmation hearings will be contentious. They will be working for another former Senate colleague, Barack Obama, whose worldview they echo in their statements and writing.
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A team of rivals it is not.
President Obama clearly intends to shape foreign policy in the White House, and has chosen a band of brothers to carry it out. Yet, given the huge foreign policy challenges he faces, choosing a team of the like-minded could have a real downside. It may not produce the strategic thinking needed when global crises can't be resolved according to the president's script - as happened repeatedly during his first term.
The president has made clear that over the next four years, he wants to focus on nation-building at home, not abroad. He wants to end current military engagements and avoid any new ones.
"Enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war," Obama said in the scant two paragraphs he devoted to foreign policy in his second inaugural address.
In an echo of the themes he promoted when he took office, he stressed diplomacy and engagement with enemies, along with the need to renew global institutions.
In his convivial confirmation hearings, Kerry echoed his new boss. He stressed, "We can't be strong in the world unless we are strong at home." American foreign policy, he insisted, "is not defined by drones and deployments alone."
But when it came to dealing with the specific threats the country will face, Kerry, again like his boss, was more hazy. No clarity on how to leave Afghanistan without precipitating the return of global jihadis, or whether drones alone can prevent this - despite a lot of moralizing by him and other senators about not abandoning Afghan women. (Will someone please tell me how this promise can be kept if we turn our backs on Afghanistan?)
As for Syria, Kerry also echoed Obama, hewing to the U.S. position that we have to godfather negotiations between the opposition and the regime. I'd agree if there were any sign that this were possible. But since there is none, the U.S. refusal to aid the non-Islamist Syrian opposition with guns or money ensures that hard-core Islamists will triumph if Assad falls.
Don't get me wrong. I think Kerry is a good choice. He has met practically every world leader. His impressive diplomatic skills were on display in 2009 when, after hours of talks, he repaired a near-total break between U.S. diplomats and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. (In contrast, during the three amigos' trip to Kabul in 2008, Biden got so frustrated with Karzai that he threw his napkin on the table and walked out.)
But with three former senators already on the foreign policy team (including the president), why has Obama sought out another in Chuck Hagel? And since the president, veep and future secretary of state are already focused on military disengagement, why choose someone even more averse to using force than they?
I don't question Hagel because he is allegedly "anti-Israel." A host of former Republican colleagues and top Republican officials - along with New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer - have attested to his strong support for Israel's security and his commitment to America's "historic bond" with the Jewish state.
But what strengths does Hagel add to Obama's security team? Although Hagel has some business experience, it isn't sufficient to help in the daunting task of judiciously paring back the defense budget. His "Republican" links aren't likely to help him win over fellow party members, since his views are to the left of Obama's.
Haunted by his Vietnam experience, Hagel seems even more leery of military involvement than his two Senate friends or the president. In any cabinet debate over strategy - say over policy on Syria - I can't see him breaking the current paralysis with any new ideas.
And on the one subject - Iran - where Hagel does deviate from his buddies, it's not clear what input he can offer. He has consistently opposed unilateral sanctions on Tehran - and also opposed a military strike because he thinks the costs would outweigh the benefits. On this last point, he has a strong case to make.
But Iran is the one issue where the president, and Kerry, insist a military option must remain on the table - and that containing Iran is not an option. Having been coached, Hagel will no doubt echo this position at his hearings. Yet his selection - and his past stance against military action - will be taken by Iran to mean that the White House isn't serious about a military option, no matter what Hagel says now. That, in turn, may make it less likely Tehran will make concessions in negotiations.
Rather than Hagel, Obama could have chosen someone from the business or policy communities who offered a different perspective than his legislative teammates. Instead we will have three Senate amigos helping their former colleague shape our strategy overseas.
Trudy Rubin is a columnist and editorial-board member for the Philadelphia Inquirer.


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Wearing matching game jerseys and mismatched shorts from their respective schools, the Red team gathered for a group photo following the 35th annual News-Herald Classic at Lakeland Community College on Saturday.
The Red all-stars had just been defeated by the Blue all-stars, 67-64, but the score didn't seem to matter.
The camaraderie among the girls and the sense of respect they had for one another was much more important.
"I've known some of these girls since middle school and I've grown up with them," Madison's Abbie Trivisonno said. "To get to be on the same team with them was a blast. It was an awesome way to end a high school career."
West Geauga's Sadie Poe and Brianne Goodrich said it was "bittersweet" to be coached by Cheryl Rye one last time on the Red team. But it was an experience they said they'll cherish.
"It was fun to be on the same team with girls we've played against our entire high school career," Poe said. "It was fun to be on the flip side and have them on your team."
With the score tied 57-57, the Blue team took a lead after a steal and a three-point play by Dominique Edomwande of Gilmour. They did not trail again.
"I knew Alexis Parsons (Riverside) was guarding me close, so I knew I had to lay it in," Edomwande said. "I knew if I could connect on the free throw, I would be able to keep the lead for our team."
Edomwande, who finished with a game-high 20 points, five rebounds and three steals, earned Most Valuable Player honors."I knew this would be one of my last competitive games, and I just wanted to have fun with it," Edomwande said. "I talked to Coach Rob (Koelling) and he told me, 'this is your time, just go out there and have fun.' I just went out and played the game I knew how to play."
Following a timeout by the Red team, the Blue team's Jalin Steel of Euclid hit back-to-back 3-pointers to stretch her team's lead to 66-58. Down the stretch, Becky Depp (Geneva) hit a pair of free throws for the Red team, which could not close the gap.
Steel, who won the 3-point contest, also finished in double figures with 14 points. Taylor Wawrowski of Chardon had eight. Shalai Melton (Villa Angela-St. Joseph) and Katlyn Spahar (Lake Catholic) had six each. Blue's Gabby Zuccaro (Hawken) led all with 15 rebounds.
"There was some amazing talent out here today," Steel said. "It was a privilege to play with all of these girls."
Mentor's Lauren Stefancin led the Red team with 18 points. West Geauga's Brianne Goodrich and Trivisonno had 11 each. Imani Dulin (Brush) had six points and seven rebounds.
"It was nice to meet new people and form new friendships," Edomwande said. "It's good to see all of the different talent out there and the different skills people have. This game was really competitive, and a lot of fun."

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My Fantasy WWE
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Every Monday and Friday Night i look forward to see what Vince Mcmahon and his creative team has in store for RAW and Smackdown. Honestly, if you read my last blog, you would have known that I was very dissapointed in the way things are functioning currently in the WWE. You should go take a look at it. It's a good read. Underutilized talent, and carelessness are just some of the problems of what they have. Lately i have been having dreams of what the perfect WWE would be like and I thought that i should share them with you today and I hope you appreciate my ideas.
Okay, let's get the obvious out of the way. Every member of the IWC wants a John Cena heel turn. It's that simple. What people don't realize about Cena, however, is that he consistently draws more heat than any of the heels on the roster and that's saying something considering he is a face. What's the job of a heel? To generate heat and Cena does that well. Only problem is that his behavior is not one of a heel. If he turned heel, it would be bigger than Hogan or Austin's turns and that's a guarantee. You think's he drawing real heat now? Imagine him as a heel. Beating up people mercilessly, using the cheap way out to win, and cutting heel promos. I think i just tinkled. Many people were expecting this to happen at WrestleMania 29, but, obviously enough, it did not happen. It probbably never will considering that Cena already said he wouldn't work as a heel. There's that plan out the window.
Imagine a faction of CM Punk, The Shield, and Brock Lesnar managed by Paul Heyman. Would you guys even begin to fathom how powerful that group would be? You have the best pound-for-pound wrestler in WWE in CM Punk, the greatest athlete to ever step foot in a ring with Brock Lesnar, and the undefeated Shield. With Paul Heyman, the greatest manager in WWE History, they would dominate the WWE for months upon months. You could go as far as to say that they could be the new NWO, even though hopefully we all know how the last one turned out. Random people were thrown in there like Scot Hall, Kevin Nash, Shawn Michaels and even the late Booker T. If this group were to form, i guarantee you that they would become the hottest thing in WWE and one of the greatest factions ever formed in the history of WWE.
Now i don't know if anyone has noticed this yet, but WWE needs to cut social media. I understand they try to get more exposure out into the economy but let's face it, nobody cares. If some fat, stupid, crosseyed wrestling fan from Madison, Wisconsin tells me his two cents about WWE and his predictions, I would not care. No one cares. So why, I ask, is it put on television for everyone to see. He gets 15 seconds of fame, and that's more than what a third of the WWE roster gets in an entire week! You see all those twitter things at the bottom left of the screen to see what's trending? I am not going to sit there and go on my computer to go on my Twitter (follow me at @TheRichReality) to see that Hornswoggle is trending. I don't need to see all the Twitter photos and all of that. Oh yea, what's a Social Media Embassador? Do we really care what celebrity comments on their twitter account during the show? We can check that out another time. This is just one issue of the three-hour format, for empty minutes like this. Honestly. It irritates me.
How about them filler matches huh? When we hear WOO WOO WOO, YOU KNOW IT!, we know its Zack Ryder. Unfortunately, we also know that he is going to lose the match. That much is pretty obvious. I need someone to tell me when's the last time he won the match that wasn't a dark match. What about The Great Khali and Hornswoggle. Is this even a tag team? They don't matter. Hornswoggle needs to just go back into his pot of gold and Khali needs to retire. Why are they still here? What about Tons of Funk? Two fat men running in the ring and landing on their opponents. Why? Just why? It turns out every Diva match now is a filler segment. Now clearly, they need their matches but their matches are always greeted with quiteness and the whole crowd cheers when the match is over. Heck, Kaitlyn doesn't even get a televised entrance anymore. Remember when Eve had one? Yea. My dream is no more fillers, social media garbage and lackluster matches. Make every moment of Monday Night Raw mean something.
Another part of my dream is a dream for no more repetitive matches. This past year, I am going to list you some matches you probbably have seen more than twice already:
Randy Orton vs Wade Barrett
Randy Orton vs Antonio Cesaro
Sheamus vs Damien Sandow
Sheamus vs Wade Barrett
Damien Sandow vs R-Truth
Antonio Cesaro vs R-Truth
Antonio Cesaro vs Miz
Mark Henry vs The Great Khali
Sheamus/Randy Orton vs 3MB, or any single member
Ryback vs Antonio Cesaro
Alberto Del Rio vs Dolph Ziggler
Dolph Ziggler vs Kofi Kinston
Dolph Ziggler vs Ryback
The Great Khali/Hornswoggle vs Primo and Epico
Kane and Daniel Bryan vs Prime Time Players
I have been paying attention to these things and I do not like them one bit. Wade Barrett and Antonio Cesaro keep getting buried by Randy Orton or Sheamus. The IC and US Titles are now essentially worthless because they can't even win a match. And guess what, most of them aren't even title matches. If The Great Khali can beat both Primo and Epico in a handicap match in under two minutes, why make the match again with Hornswoggle? Does that change anything? Well, it does make the Tag Team Division look incredibly weak. Why is Mark Henry able to beat up Khali in one instance, and the following week all of a sudden be afraid of him? Inconsistency at its finest folks. These repetitive matches need to stop because they mean nothing. Absolutely nothing. Cesaro, Barrett and Dolph Ziggler in particular are the ones that look very weak. And all of them are champions/former champions. Bad booking. Really bad.
Randy Orton needs to turn heel, and he needs to do it now. I can't put it any plainer. I know that the Smackdown roster is lacking all the main babyfaces but Orton just isn't working as a face. He does not wrestle for cheers. He is a natural heel and is a Number 2 guy in the WWE when he is at its best. This is the man that kicked Vince in the head (a feel-good moment for me), the man who DDT'd Triple H's wife and then kissed her as well as give her an RKO. This is the man that spit on Mick Foley's face and nearly killed the Undertaker and now we are supposed to believe that we forget all of that and take him seriously as a face. He just doesn't look that into it in his matches, especially seen by his awkward clotheslines. The fact of the matter is he needs a character change and quickly.
Why does WWE go by the status quo of make someone a heel and then make him a coward? Honestly. Ryback, one week, attacks Cena and destroys him. Then he is all of a sudden afraid of a man who looks up to him. Why? Why everyone who faces main-event stars like Cena become a coward when they are a bad guy. Can't we see one heel that isn't afraid to fight and just take domination. It makes them look weak and they can't be taken seriously if they are going to do the same thing every week. Why is Damien Sandow afraid of R-Truth? Is he afraid that he is gonna rap about his promos before every match? That's one thing that just plain annoys me.
Speaking of heels, has anyone noticed that the heels are the ones starting to get cheered more than the faces? There is always a collection of people who cheer top-tier heels like CM Punk or Dolph Ziggler or The Shield. There's a reason for that. There's a reason why guys like Wade Barrett was cheered in front of the New York Crowd and wanted him to beat babyface Miz.They are exciting and makes WWE fans come back every week. Not the good guys. The WWE's top level faces are either bland or just plain reptitive. Orton is not being used to the best of his ability because he is a natural heel. Cena, is well, typical Cena. Sheamus is just thrown into random feuds at a time. Del Rio doesn't have that "it" factor that makes fans want to see him again. There is really no faces that can bring crowds back for exciting television because it is the heels that pick up the slack. Heels aren't supposed to be cheered so clearly that's a problem. You would think that creative would have figured this out by now. But i guess Vince Mcmahon's 69 year old fried out brain isn't up to the task. *sigh* Oh well.
Another thing that needs to stop is the backstage interviews with Matt Striker and Josh Matthews. They are so annoying to me. They make every single thing look like a big deal. "Ladies and gentlemen, we have confirmed that Santa Claus is stabalized in the hospital." Give me a break. That's not even discretely funny. And besides, most of the times they are just going to get interrupted by who they are interviewing. After all, everyone wants to hear what John Cena has to say in his backstage interviews, like talking about Antonio Cesaro's nipples, or talking about Matt Striker's shirt. It's just so annoying. No more backstage interviews. Oh yea. How many times have we seen SmackDown open with a face and a heel arguing only to have Booker T come out and make a match later on tonight which is pretty predictable? It isn't any better when Teddy Long used to announce that "We're gonna have a tag team match! Holla Holla!"
WWE needs to teach their Divas on how to cut promos and how to make them exciting. But then again, WWE administration is behind all this. They need senior mentors like Kelly Kelly, Lita and Trish Stratus to teach them. Back then, the Divas division was so good, they once MAIN EVENTED RAW. Now Divas are lucky if they even get a five minute match. That is what it has degraded too. Over the past couple of years, we have seen Eve, Kelly Kelly, Beth Pheonix, The Bellas and Kharma leave, all for their own separate reasons. What the divas division needs now is a monster heel like Kharma was. She would have been great but it looks like she is not returning. Ho-hum. No one cares and every groans their face when we announce a Divas match because they are boring. It's a shame because they have talent, but Natalya, a woman who knows how to apply the Sharpshooter, is one who works as the valet ofThe Great Khali and Hornswoggle with a farting issue. AJ Lee is another valet but at least she gets a title shot.Layla attacks opponents with her butt. Cameron and Naomi are cheerleaders. Only AJ Lee and Kaityln can be taken seriously. No one else.Do you see where I am getting at?
WWE has seem to think that we have forgotten about some people that used to be here but is not. Guess who we have not seen in a while. Christian. Yea. I bet many people forgot about him. Captain Charisma. He is easily a top-tier superstar and could give what WWE lacks right now, main-event faces. Seriously. Who is a face that can main-event. I can only think of John Cena, Alberto Del Rio, Randy Orton, Sheamus and The Great Khali (just kidding). I would involve Chris Jericho, Undertaker and Triple H, but they are part-timers. I would add Daniel Bryan, but he is in the Tag Team Division. You see how thin the roster is. Rey Mysterio and Sin cara were poised to win the Tag Titles after they beat the champs in a match but now they are no where to be seen. Neither of them.
I will end with this. Someone needs to fire the creative team with some of the content we see every week on RAW. Why must we sit through filler matches that do not develop storylines or characters but just to give Vince McMahon a few kicks. We get that Khali can't speak English. So why make him try, especially on RAW? I mean come on now. A few chuckles and senseless humor here or there is fine, but all the comedy characters like Santino, Khali, Hornswoggle, 3MB and Team Hell NO needs to stop. Seriously. Can't we be serious for one with these guys. Everyone i just listed has potential (except for Khali and Hornswoggle). This year's generation of wrestling fans are much smarter, so WWE shouldn't be creating storylines that doesn't make any logical sense because fans will catch on. Every word that a certain wrestler says might disregard the thing they said the previous week.
Well, i have tons of more stuff in my dreams but i have limited time so I hoep you liked a tour of my mind a little bit. Thanks for writing and don't forget to write a comment and follow my Twitter (listed already). Farewell for now.


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Usefulness of Calprotectin for Colon Adenoma Screening
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified November 2012 by Chul Min Park, MD, Konkuk University Medical Center.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
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Konkuk University Medical Center
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The fecal calprotectin assay is used widely for inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis and the assessment of the disease activity. Some adenoma patients have elevated fecal calprotectin level, which could mean the role of fecal calprotectin as a screening marker for colon adenoma. We will investigate the usefulness of fecal calprotectin as colon adenoma marker for screening in this study.
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It's been said that variety is the spice of life, and I think that goes for a library's collection of books, too.
"We strive to buy a wide variety of genres and topics because our goal is to have materials on the shelves that appeal to a wide variety of people," said Lisa Sampley, who manages and purchases the books, CDs and DVDs for the ten branches and bookmobile in the Springfield-Greene County Library District.
With a budget of $1.5 million, she and her co-workers each month add 5,000 to 8,000 new items to the District's collection of approximately half-million books. "About 24% is fiction, about the same percentage nonfiction and the rest is children and teen titles," she said.
A stroll through the "new books" shelves at the Library Center was an easy demonstration of Sampley's focus on variety. Here's what I found:
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ChUcK wrote:Roy wrote:If I pick off some guy walking down the fairway, am I going to do any less damage with a 150g disc?
Yes. Mass = Inertia, which is a measure of how difficult it is to change an object's motion. The more massive an object, the harder it is to change its motion (in this case, it takes more work done by the skull on the disc to stop its flight). That "more work" is equivalent to "more skull damage".
I understand the physics of it smashing into someones skull. It's just pretty dumb IMO.
Why not use 125g discs? That would be safer than a 150.
Do they have lighter baseballs? lighter automobiles? lighter pom poms? You get the point.


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Jefferson City—At 5:00 pm on Wednesday afternoon, the south lawn of the Missouri Capitol teemed with nearly 1,300 pro-agriculture supporters. The rally, organized by Missouri Farmers Care, focused on the joint effort of Governor Jay Nixon, Missouri legislative leaders, agriculture advocates and animal welfare experts to craft a "Missouri Solution" for the problems caused by Proposition B.
"Today, hundreds of Missourians travelled to the Capitol to let their leaders know that Missourians won't stand idly by as big-money, special interests attack our farm families," explained Don Nikodim, chair of Missouri Farmers Care. "That's why Senate Bill 113 and the Missouri Solution are so important. We have to protect agriculture from radical groups like HSUS."
The highlight of the rally came when Jon Hagler, head of the Missouri Department of Agriculture, announced Governor Nixon's support for a "Missouri Solution" that will fix Proposition B. The result of an agreement between Missouri's agriculture community and local animal welfare advocates, the "Missouri Solution" will ensure that dogs and puppies receive the treatment and care they deserve, while preserving Missouri jobs and protecting Missouri farmers.
"We're proud that Governor Nixon is standing with us against radical outside interests like HSUS," Nikodim said. "The Missouri Solution is a clear example of what can happen when we all work together. Missouri's farmers, pet providers and animal welfare experts all support this agreement that eliminates cruelty while protecting our homes, farms and jobs."
The "Missouri Solution" proposal will complement Senate Bill 113, sponsored by Senator Mike Parson (R-Bolivar), which improves enforcement of current animal cruelty laws, strengthens standards for animal shelters, cracks down on unlicensed breeders and removes controversial provisions hidden in Proposition B that threatened animal agriculture in Missouri.
Also speaking at the event were; House Speaker Steve Tilley (R-Perryville), Senate Pro Tem Rob Mayer (R-Dexter), Senator Mike Parson (R-Bolivar), Senator Brian Munzlinger (R-Williamstown), Veterinarian Dr. Alan Wessler and local farmer Chris Chinn. The event was emceed by Missouri Farmers Care Chair, Don Nikodim.
"It was inspiring to look out and see so many people coming together to fight for our farms and our families," Nikodim concluded. "We sent a strong message today that Missouri will continue to stand strong against radical outside interests like HSUS that threaten our homes, our jobs and our values."
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A District Court judge has upheld that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to set and enforce Total Maximum Daily Load for the Chesapeake Bay. The case has implications for Midwestern farmers and ag retailers.
U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia Rambo in Harrisburg, ruled that EPA could impose nutrient standards on six states and Washington, D.C., that have waters that flow into Chesapeake Bay. Rambo rejected arguments that EPA had overstepped its bounds under the federal Clean Water Act, created an unfair process and used standards that were flawed or unlawfully complicated, the Associated Press reported.
The American Farm Bureau Federation, which originally filed the suit in 2011, issued a statement regarding the judge's decision.
American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman issued the following statement regarding the court's decision:
"The American Farm Bureau Federation is deeply disappointed with the district court's ruling upholding the Environmental Protection Agency's total maximum daily load for the Chesapeake Bay.
"We believe the ruling is incorrect and has huge implications for farmers and many others in the Bay area and nationwide.
"Win or lose in this lawsuit, farmers care deeply about our natural environment and want to do our part to improve water quality.
"But Congress did not authorize EPA to dictate how farmers, builders, homeowners, and towns would share the responsibility of achieving clean water. That is the states' job.
"We believe EPA's approach wrongly puts federal agency staff in charge of intensely local land use decisions.
"AFBF and our allies in this case are reviewing the decision and evaluating next steps."
AFBF was not alone in its lawsuit. Other industry groups that joined AFBF include the Fertilizer Institute, the National Pork Producers Council, the National Corn Growers Association, the National Chicken Council, the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association and the National Turkey Federation.
National Corn Growers Association President Pam Johnson released the following statement in response to the district court's ruling upholding the Environmental Protection Agency's Total Maximum Daily Load for the Chesapeake Bay:
"The National Corn Growers Association is disappointed to hear the court's decision to uphold the TMDL in the Chesapeake Bay. We continue to believe the Chesapeake Bay TMDL goes beyond the scope of Clean Water Act authority and has a negative impact on agricultural production and innovation.
"America's farmers are the original environmentalists. They care deeply about the land and water quality from which they make their livelihood and raise their families. However, the policies and science behind the Chesapeake Bay TMDL are wrong.
"NCGA and our agriculture partners are reviewing our options and next steps."


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Owner of Lavabit Faces $10K Fine For Protecting His Users From Federal Spying
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November 13, 2013 12:14 PM
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Protecting your customers may lead to big penalties in today's police state
Ladar Levison had a thriving business. His encrypted email service was heavily used by corporate users that valued protecting their trade secrets. The Obama administration, however, stepped in and crushed this American success story.
I. Feds Demand Lavabit Hand Over Keys to All its Corporate Customers' Communications, Opening the Door for Corporate Espionage
Mr. Levison had a client whose name today is well known --
Edward Snowden
. It is perhaps unsurprising that a man who was smart enough to
dupe supposed computer espionage experts into giving up their logins
would be savvy enough to find a well encrypted email service to protect his work while he prepared to
blow the lid off the Obama administration's
unprecedented campaign of spying
After it was revealed that the Obama administration was
nullifying the Constitutional protections against search and seizure
in order to execute warrantless seizures of
the metadata of America's law abiding majority
, the administration struck back. Members of Congress, including numerous Republicans that showed a surprising solidarity with the Democratic President,
labeled Edward Snowden a "traitor"
Ladar Levison was forced to abandon his thriving email business to protect his users from spying by the Obama administration. [Image Source: D Magazine]
In the aftermath, one of the Snowden reports carelessly showed his email --
revealing he had a Lavabit address
. Now President Obama and his bipartisan backers had a new victim to sink the teeth of the judicial system into.
Mr. Levison was ordered not just to hand over Mr. Snowden's encryption keys, but the keys of all of his users -- every single one.
Mr. Levison was faced with a tough choice. He could give the government the keys, which federal officials could potentially use to conduct corporate espionage on behalf of their campaign donors without the victims or public ever knowing. That was choice A. Or he could defy the order and face imprisonment under the provision of
(which define the federal government's rights to unconstitutional seizures) and
50 USC § 1881a
(which defines the punishment for exercising ones Constitutional rights and refusing to comply to said seizures). That was choice B.
Instead he opted for choice C -- to act in civil disobedience while being careful not to directly defy the legal statutes of the
Act. He allegedly ducked out his back door when he first saw federal agents coming to his home, denying them a chance to deliver a subpoena.
The Obama administration's FISA court was not happy with this action.
It held Mr. Levison in contempt of court and authorized the
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations
(FBI) to install malware on Mr. Levison's servers --
-- and fine him $5,000 for every day he did not turn over his customers' encryption keys.
Mr. Levison exercised his Constitutional rights and waited two days, before defiantly delivering a printout of the keys printed in size 4 font. But by then he'd already shut down his business and purged his servers, leaving nothing for the feds to collect.
Mr. Levison stated in a brief release, "[I refuse] to become complicit in crimes against the American people."
D Magazine
written an excellent in-depth story
about the scuffle and an interview with Mr. Levison.
II. I Fought the Law and I Won -- But It Cost Me
The Obama administration was outraged at that refusal.
The U.S. Department of Justice
(DOJ) briefly considered seeking his imprisonment, according to sources. But after Mr. Levison
collected $100,000 USD
in donations to support a legal defense, the DOJ declined to seek prison time for Mr. Levison's acts of civil disobedience. Instead it opted to just punish Mr. Levison with the financial penalty stated in the original contempt order -- a fine of $10,000 USD.
Mr. Levison refused to accept even that punishment. He has appealed the fine to the
U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals
in Richmond, Virginia, arguing his Fourth Amendment protections against search and seizure were violated. He asserts that his business was founded on U.S. privacy and that the government was behaving illegally when it order him to violate all of his users privacy by handing over everyone's encryption keys, in order to allegedly target just one user.
The DOJ is fighting back, looking to nail Mr. Levison with the $10,000 fine. In a just-filed appellate brief it
Mr. Levison [illegally] alerted all of Lavabit's users, including the target of the investigation, that Lavabit was engaged in litigation with the government and that, rather than comply with the court's orders, he decided to shut down his business.
The pen/trap order and the search warrant issued by the district court were plainly lawful. The information used by Lavabit to encrypt communications on its systems, what has been referred to as SSL or encryption keys, was both necessary to the installation and operation of a lawfully ordered pen register/trap and trace device as well as subject to disclosure pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2703. As such, it was within the district court's power to compel the production of those keys.
Lavabit Government Reply Brief (PDF)
Lavabit Government Reply Brief (Text)
It remains to be seen whether the appellate judges will uphold the $10,000 fine. But for now the worst is presumably over and Mr. Levison can celebrate victory to an extent. He won. His client's data is safe from the Obama's administration's PATRIOT Act seizure attempt. And despite that he's a free man.
Yet the victory is also bitter and Pyrrhic. Lavabit was a thriving business. Now it is but a memory, in an era where
digital privacy is slowly becoming illegal
in the U.S. as Big Brother tightens his grip.
U.S. Appellate Brief
D Magazine
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THE JEWEL IN THE MANUSCRIPT Plays ADOBE Theater, Now thru 11/11
The Adobe Theater's production of "The Jewel in the Manuscript", a new play by Santa Fe author Rosemary Zibart, will feature some actors new to the Albuquerque theater scene and some familiar favorites. Brian Hansen, director of this world-premier production based on the life of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, is pleased with the "extraordinary cast for a very demanding play."
As the lead figure, David James will play Dostoyevsky. Mr. James comes to Albuquerque from years of stage and film work in Los Angeles and Chicago. Jessica Quindlen will make her Albuquerque debut as Anna Snitkina, the young stenographer who is thrust into the unsettling world of Dostoyevsky's enormous talent. Linda Williams, a favorite with local audiences, will be playing Anna's mother, the one person to whom she can unburden her heart. Ms. Williams was last seen earlier this summer as Maria in the Vortex Theatre's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". Her most recent role at the Adobe was the maiden aunt Lizzie in "Is Life Worth Living?" Joining the company fresh from playing Charlie in the Vortex Theatre's "Death of a Salesman" will be Tyler Strand, as Dostoyevsky's best friend Milyakov. Mr. Strand will also serve as the production's dramaturg, based on his deep knowledge of Russian literature and his years of residence in Russia.
The central situation in "The Jewel in the Manuscript" is based on an actual incident in Dostoyevsky's life: in 1866 he had accepted an advance from an unscrupulous publisher for a new book. If he was unable to produce the completed manuscript in an impossibly short period of time, the rights to his other books would revert to this publisher. In desperation, Dostoyevsky turned to something entirely new: dictating his work to a stenographer. Little did he anticipate that the stenographer would be a woman. Their struggle, both personal and literary, is one of the great stories of Russian literature. And it makes for a memorable evening in the theater.
"The Jewel in the Manuscript" by Rosemary Zibart opens tonight, October 19th and plays through November 11th at the Adobe Theater with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. Tickets for this world premiere are only $15, students and seniors $13. Reservations can be made at www.adobetheater.org or by phone weekdays.


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Why Alberto Del Rio hasn't Worked
by, 07-09-2012 at 12:28 PM (12220 Views)
Alberto Del Rio will get a title shot at MITB against Sheamus, so during his injury, the wrestler that was used to fill in his spot Dolph Ziggler, who was well received. WWE have clearly let us know they have no plans to drop Del Rio yet and considering there's a big chance he might be the champion soon, I think it's worth analysing him.
I'll start by saying I think Alberto Del Rio has the ability to be a good heel, his built nicely, has the reputation, has the smug look and he can carry a match. But his promo skills are shockingly bad, while that is a well known fact, WWE has always had solutions to fix this problem, a valet, a tag team partner and in Del Rio's case, a manager. Ricardo Rodriguez, whose increasing popularity has to a backlash for ADR. Nevertheless you need the main man to get over and that just hasn't happened yet, here's some of the other reasons why:
Firstly his character just isn't working , The gimmick of a rich cocky money man similar to that of Ted Dibiase and JBL seems abit too artificial. Tthis is a gimmick which in the past have done wonders for the heels but for ADR to have it now seems a bit too soon to be used again, Dibiase is regarded as one of the greatest heels with that gimmick and after that WWE shelved it for a new generation of fans to experience when it is time to put on another wrestler. Then about 15 years later JBL had this gimmick in 2004 with somewhat of good run as champion even though I wasn't a fan. After JBL left, it would have been smart to shelve the gimmick for awhile but WWE felt the need to put it on ADR in a speedy push. Similar to the new Spiderman film, they've rebooted it too quickly. So other than having the response WWE was craving (heat from fans for being cocky rich guy, someone they can't relate to), they got instead what every wrestler fears most, No Reaction.
Second point is that ADR can wrestle I know but his style of wrestling might be one of his downfalls which not a lot of people think about, but I'm going to throw my theory in anyways. With ADR's wrestling is that watching from a spectator point of view it comes of as boring. He isn't a HBK doing innovating moves like the Showstopper always did but ADR wrestles from a point of view where only a wrestling purists can really enjoy. His move set involves a lot of grapple moves that holds a wrestler down for about 2 minutes until the opponent breaks out of it by using the power of the fans built up mundane claps. Then a little while after ADR will get into another grapple to hold back and forth, after that, maybe some karate style kicks to spice things up.
Then comes his finisher, a Cross arm bar. My issue with this is that it's a total anti climax of a move, from a little spin twist then to bending the arm backwards. No matter how hard you try The fans nor I will ever be conviced that the move is the Signature move to finish of a match. Just watch an ADR match and wait for the moment he does his finisher, the crowd barely react with the absence of any shock factor. Your trying to tell me, an arm bar can be a wrestlers 'Hadouken'. Change it up, give this guy a new explosive finisher. Maybe borrow one of Sheamus's finisher, who by my counting has 5 really good moves to finish a match and God knows how many his going to come up with. I've always been on the edge with a wrestler having a submission for a finisher and while is worked with some great wrestlers, a normal move is just plain easier to get over with the fans.
It also doesn't help that Del Rio was rushed to the top way too quickly before a lot of the universe can get used to him and give him a fan following. His Royal Rumble win was out of the bloom and after that run failed, they wasted the MITB win on him giving two undeserved, forgettable WWE title runs.
It was all abit forced down our throats and the WWE universe didn't like it.
Every wrestler talks about how ADR is tough in the ring and can kick their asses. His past has allowed him to gain a reputation and is the reason for his current state of main event status. As a former MMA fighter, Del Rio needs to learn from Brock Lesnar and be more aggressive in the ring, this I reckon would be a step forward to make ADR an effective heel.
I wait to see if he wins at MITB as I feel it's time for a heel to have one of the main titles. So maybe if his next title run is booked better and he is given a different gmmick or image, it might turn the tides for Del Rio. Many things are against Del Rio and usually this would signal a 'Future Endavoured' alert, but WWE clearly see some potential in him, so they havn't let him go.
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His seven-year Yankees tenure has been marked by scandal, physical afflications and unfulfilled expectations. Now Jason Giambi, the wild-eyed but eminently likable renegade, hopes for one last hurrah in the Bronx.
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At 37 and entering the final guaranteed year of his Yankees contract, Giambi arrived in spring training in possibly the best shape of his life, looking not only to impress a new manager, Joe Girardi, but desperately seeking yet another second act, before it was too late, before the brass upstairs told him his time in the Bronx was over for good, before he had a chance to grab one last piece of glory, a good-bye wave of grand redemption.
But as much as he wanted to put up a huge year, his season was a struggle from the start. On Tax Day, he hitting only .094; just .150 on May 4; it wasn't until May 20 that he even managed to lift his batting average over .200 for the first time. Finally, in June, he showed some glimpses of what might be, with a game-winning home run and two more homers 12 days later, while surging to the club's home run lead for the season with 17.
But he's been so scarily bad in the 2008 season that a story surfaced saying, of all things, he was resorting to the wackiest of secret weapons to snap out of his funk: a gold lamé, tiger-stripe thong worn under his uniform. Making the front page of the local papers, it stirred up not only considerable buzz but uncontrollable snickers.
"Where did that story come from?" Giambi eventually says to me privately, opening up his arms—and mouth—wide. "That thing's from years ago. What the fuck?"
Of course, only Giambi, the odd fit on this terribly vanilla team, this notorious, tattooed hell-raiser shoved into the square-pegged world of these straitlaced Yankees, could inspire such an outlandish tale, make something so unbelievable seem incredibly believable. It was simply another piece of strangeness thrown into a Yankees legacy that has offered scant few truly memorable moments and too many years of unfulfilled promise. It is a tale of a painfully endless series of tragedies and triumphs, failures and comebacks, awful slumps and wonderful power surges, signs of the end and teases of a new beginning.
"I know what it's like to be on top of the world and I know what it's like to be dragged in the gutter," Giambi acknowledges from his condo apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, speaking, typically, in these rapid bursts of words that make them all but collide into each other. "I've been booed and cheered, ripped and praised. But I'm not the type to regret things. I never backtrack. I deal with things and move on. And the journey I've had here has been incredible. Believe it or not, I wouldn't change a thing. I've enjoyed the ride, the whole circus. I've lived a lot of life here—enough for five people."
It was in December of 2001 that Giambi—already an American League Most Valuable Player and MVP runner-up with the Oakland A's, a two-time All-Star, and a brutish-looking slugger who did nothing less than terrorize the opposition—signed one of Major League Baseball's landmark free-agent deals, pocketing 120 of George Steinbrenner's millions to play seven guaranteed seasons for the New York Yankees.
While egregiously over the top, the signing was a natural for Boss Steinbrenner, who worshipped at the altar of the home run. He looked at Giambi and saw the dazzle of star power, envisioned Mantle and Reggie rolled into one, and, most of all, imagined a bulging-bigger-than-life savior who'd feed his insatiable ego the frenzy of more world championships, if not a slew of them. For Giambi, it made him very rich, even more famous, and very relevant very quickly.
And now, with the guaranteed portion of his contract finally expiring at the end of the season, a mere $5 million kiss-off option clause is all that separates the Yankees from not only spitting up a $22 million paycheck in 2009 but, at last, closing the chapter to this uneasy, oft-troubled, unsatisfying relationship forever.
It will sever seven years of such insanely bad luck, on both sides, that you wonder who broke that mirror at the start of all this: the Yankees haven't won a single championship ring the whole time, instead shell-shocked by a devastating string of postseason flops and chokes and upsets. At the same time, Giambi has degenerated from that gushing volcano of a talent that exploded in Oakland into someone hopelessly immersed in the muck of bizarre afflictions, constant pulls and strains and sprains that hobbled him to the disabled list, and being one of the central characters in one of the darkest episodes in baseball history.
Barry Bonds. Roger Clemens. Jose Canseco. Mark McGwire. Rafael Palmiero. Sammy Sosa. And Jason Giambi.
These, for many, fairly or not, are the faces of steroids. They meld into a bloated mass of freakishly muscled flesh that represents an era in baseball that skewed the numbers and screwed the record book for all eternity. They are emblems of a time when rampant cheating ruled the day and moral conscience was nowhere to be found, faded into an addictive haze of swirling dollar signs and blinding self-interests. It is a picture completed with the unseemliness of juiced-up syringes and magic balms and candy-colored pills.
A culture gone wild.
Whatever Bonds and McGwire are doing, get me some of that.
No matter what Giambi says or does from here, whether or not he continues to apologize for his own stake in this mess, he will likely never shake the taint of it for as long as he lives and probably long after that. In the end, he couldn't avoid the truth because his leaked December 2003 federal grand-jury admission revealed that between 2001 and 2003 he indulged in various performance-enhancing substances—injecting human growth hormone into his stomach and testosterone into his buttocks, swallowing what he thinks was the female fertility drug Cloimid, and putting drops of the steroid called "the clear" under his tongue and rubbing "the cream" onto his body. It has made him like a modern-day Shoeless Joe Jackson—and, to some, as sympathetic a character as that gambling-tainted player from the early part of professional baseball history. Unlike the boorish Bonds, Giambi never smirked his way through a flaxseed defense. Unlike the flinty-eyed Clemens, he never glared into a crowd and angrily proclaimed his innocence, while offering unbelievable alibis and inconsistent time lines. Unlike the ballsy Palmiero, he never wagged a finger of denial smack in our face, before almost instantly getting caught with a flunked test. Unlike the relentless publicity-hound Canseco, he never ratted out his teammates, former or otherwise. And unlike Sosa and McGwire, Giambi's friend and mentor, he never acted as if he couldn't remember the past or that the past simply wasn't worth remembering.
Whether you feel it was because he was threatened, cajoled, backed against a legal wall or otherwise, Giambi, aside from one glitch of fabrication, has seemed to try to do the right thing, even if there were awkward moments when he found himself fumbling for the right words. He fessed up to his anabolic transgressions in the BALCO case. He was the first player to formally apologize for his sins (despite never using the word "steroids"). He was the first active player known to talk with the Mitchell Investigation, and last year had the guts to tell USA Today that not only was he "wrong for doing that stuff" but "what we should have done a long time ago was stand up—players, ownership, everybody—and said: 'We made a mistake.' " He added that "we should have apologized back then and made sure we had a rule in place and gone forward. . . . But it was a topic that everybody wanted to avoid."
For a while, this was even Giambi himself, who denied up and down in 2004 that he had ever used steroids, as well as making sure never to blurt out the dreaded s-word in public. He claims now that these evasions were based on strict orders given to him by his legal handlers, who were apparently nervous about the ramifications in the then-pending BALCO trial.
"Now [that BALCO is] over, I could say the word a thousand times and it doesn't matter," Giambi says, adding: "I did the best I could possibly do, and when the right time comes, I'll talk all about it." But he won't do it for a buck or in a tell-all book, won't take down anybody else along with him. "After I retire," he says, "I'd like to go around to schools and lecture kids about it."
One gorgeous, breezy night in the Bronx, after a round of batting practice in which, as usual, Giambi swatted one baseball after the other into the right-field stands as if the wall were only yards away, shrinking the place's dimensions as few can, he and I chat in a secluded nook within the dank, shadowy lower corridors of Yankee Stadium, far enough beyond the team's clubhouse to have some rare privacy.
His massive arms are folded across his massive chest, his bat leans between his legs, and, as always, even through the worst of times, he assumes the look of a Smiley Face come to life.
The reason for this clandestine Woodward-and-Deep-Throat moment: I've asked to see his tattoos up close and personal, the huge pair of stark, eerie-looking ones that spread over his round mounds of shoulders and stretch down those gorged-vein biceps that look as if someone stuffed softballs into them.
At the beginning of Giambi's tenure in Yankeeland, these tattoos were such a taboo that Steinbrenner, during his unannounced visits to the clubhouse, would constantly, with a burning gaze and belching bellow, order him to pull down his sleeves or put on a shirt.
"Jason!" the Boss would suddenly boom. "Cover those things up, for crissakes!" So much for Steinbrenner's gentle words to him, given within a bear hug, on Giambi's first day of spring training as a Yankee: "Be yourself." Yeah, right. True to his blithe nature, Giambi never once fought with the Boss but complied with his soft, dimpled smile, just as he had agreeably lopped off several inches of his long, tousled hair, just as he had first shaved his goatee, then dialed back his five o'clock shadow to somewhere around noon, just as he had contractually agreed to cut out all the death-wish stuff—which meant, among other things, leaving four custom-made motorcycles back in California to do nothing but collect dust.
"There was tension at the start," Giambi concedes. "But I really think the Boss eventually became cool with who I was."
Nevertheless, for eight months a year, from February to October, for the last seven years, the Yankees have owned him, body and soul, if not neutered him the way they sucked all the Idiot Caveman routine out of Johnny Damon's once-glorious persona. Giambi has needed to summon up all his willpower to tamp down that wild-eyed spirit that's dying to wiggle to the surface. The tattoos were the one thing that nobody could take away from him, and every now and then, whenever sensing the need, he admits to lifting up his sleeves to sneak a peek, if not for a spark of inspiration, then to merely remind him of a part of who he is at his core, albeit temporarily sublimated.
He got the first tattoo, the one along his left arm, when he was 25 and playing for the A's. He had it done after a day game, in a single session, sitting in a chair for seven straight hours, six of which he swears he was fast asleep. "It wasn't painful at all," he says. "It felt like when you move your arm back and forth over a flame."
The design is drawn in plain black ink: a melting skull within a bursting sun. "I wanted to be different," he says, "and I thought it looked cool." The meaning: "It's my out-of-control tattoo. Live life, taste death." And he giggles a giggle that settles somewhere between playful and ghoulish.
He then picks up his right sleeve and reveals on his biceps an open-mouthed dragon, again in black ink, with seven small skulls scattered around it, including one in the middle of a pointed tail. This was done a couple of years after the first, when he was still in Oakland. "It represents intelligence, power and wisdom," he says, suddenly staring at the tattoo and stroking it with the tips of his fingers. "This way," he says, "I have both sides of me, because even though I'm a nice guy I still have . . ."
He doesn't finish that sentence. He doesn't have to.
"Don't paint me as St. Joseph," he once said, and for good reason.
Giambi is an unabashed, walking gob of oozing testosterone, once donning a T-shirt that read the in-your-face hedonist philosophy: "Party like a rock star, hammer like a porn star, rake like an all-star." He loves telling and hearing salacious jokes, loves scarfing down greasy pizzas and greasier burgers, loves pumping iron at the gym for hours on end, loves club-hopping with the boys in the off-season and partying the night away ("I'm not as bad as I used to be," he claims. "I've cleaned it up a lot.").
Who's his favorite actress?
"Jenna Jameson," he says without flinching.
What five movies he'd want if stranded on a deserted island? "The Outlaw Josey Wales, Gladiator, and three of Jenna's."
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We trade with Boston for the #1 overall pick in the draft + Delonte West. For Jermaine O'Neal + Jamaal Tinsley
With that #1 pick we select Odin
Then with our pick we still have somewhere between 5-10 we draft some fantastic shooting guard or point guard.
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"We hope this is another step forward in the healing process for those hurt by Mr. Sandusky, and another step forward for Penn State," University President Rodney Erickson said in a statement.
"We cannot undo what has been done, but we can and must do everything possible to learn from this and ensure it never happens again at Penn State," he added.
Sandusky, 69, was convicted in June 2012 on 45 criminal counts of abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period. He was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison in a case that tarnished the reputation of Penn State and its late football coach Joe Paterno.
"The settlement amounts will not be funded by student tuition, taxpayer funds or donations," Penn State said on its website.
It said the university maintains various liability insurance policies it believes will cover the settlements.
Sandusky lost a bid earlier this month for a new trial.
Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge Jack Panella, writing for a three-judge appeals panel, rejected claims that defense attorneys were not given enough time to prepare, jury instructions were flawed and prosecutors made improper comments during the trial about Sandusky's decision not to testify.
Paterno, the winningest coach in major college football history until he was stripped of more than 100 victories because of the scandal, lost his job at Penn State for failing to report Sandusky to authorities.
Paterno died early last year at age 85, about two months after he was fired.
Three former Penn State administrators, including the former president, Graham Spanier, face criminal charges stemming from the scandal, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which regulates U.S. college sports, levied heavy sanctions against the school's football program.


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We reported on the variables that make it hard to, even at this late date, predict exactly when and where a dead 6-ton NASA satellite will fall to Earth. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, will be the biggest NASA spacecraft to crash back to Earth, but it's now baffling scientists as its descent toward Earth slows — delaying its ultimate crash until the early part of the weekend. The space agency is now predicting the satellite will crash down to Earth late Friday or early Saturday, Eastern Time.
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Agrow Fresh adds lay-flat packaging
Agrow Fresh is going toward packaging that is easier and more efficient for retailers to display, said Ed Romanelli, vice president of sales and marketing for the Chicago-based potato and onion marketer.
"We are working on a lay-flat package for a 5-pounder with one of our customers," he said.
The 5-pound lay-flat package doesn't have the wasted plastic "flower" of a typical poly 5-pound bag, he said.
Romanelli said the private-label business is very strong for Agrow Fresh, with about 80% of volume devoted to that business. Among its private-label customers, he said the company packs private-label potatoes for Jewel in Chicago and Giant Eagle in Pittsburgh.
The company ships potatoes and onions to the East Coast and to Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Anthony Marano Co. expands within facility
Anton Marano, co-owner of the Anthony Marano Co., Chicago, said the firm now uses 420,000 square feet of its 500,000-square-foot facility. The firm moved to its building in 2000.
"When we first moved into our building, we were 240,000 square feet, and we didn't know what we were going to do with that. Now we are at 420,000 square feet," he said.
The company does retail and foodservice business and offers seven specialized commodity departments for buyers to come and look at product, with departments including Western vegetables, potatoes and onions, tomatoes, melons and fruit.
Coosemans Chicago adds seasonal product
Coosemans Chicago Inc., has evolved from a specialties-oriented wholesaler serving white-tablecloth restaurants and higher-end retailers to a bigger niche, said Mark Pappas, president of the company.
"We still do that, but over time those items become commodities," he said.
Pappas said Coosemans has evolved to become a supplier of seasonal and regional produce, including shippers from Michigan and Florida.
The firm also has increased its specialty focus and handled dragonfruit out of Vietnam. Bigger volumes of dragonfruit have made the fruit more accessible to consumers, he said.
Dietz & Kolodenko works with retailers
Providing more service and forward pricing to independent retail customers is an emerging trend for Dietz & Kolodenko Co., said Nick Gaglione, president.
Independent retailers now are looking for similar kinds of advance pricing for ads that previously were only demanded by larger chain stores, he said.
"Years back (buyers) would come down to the market and they would just buy stuff, and now they want to make sure they have two pallets of grapes at this price," he said.
Working with independent retailers to set up advance pricing means communicating those needs to shippers, he said.
Everyday Fresh enters mainstream
Steve Chmelovsky Jr. will join Everyday Fresh Produce Inc. on a full time basis after his graduation from college in May, said father Steve Chmelovsky, president and chief executive officer of the company.
The senior Chmelovsky said the wholesaler specializes in Indian, Hispanic and Asian produce but has started to add mainstream commodities, including lemons, blueberries and mangoes, to its mix.
"Asian and Indian consumers are not regular customers of apples, grapes and pears, but we are starting to open up our line a little bit," he said.
The firm has added persimmons from Spain, boosted volume of maradol papayas and expanded year-round imports of mangoes, he said.
J.L. Gonzalez adds doors on market
J.L. Gonzalez is now perhaps the largest Mexican-oriented distributor in the Chicago area, said Jason Gonzalez, transportation manager.
Acquiring a portion of the market previously occupied by World Wide Produce has allowed the company to grow, he said.
The firm previously operated doors 11 through 19 on the market and now operates from doors 1 through 20, Gonzalez said. Before, the company had units 5, 6 and 7 on the market and as of mid-November they operated units 1 through 7, he said.
The firm, founded in 1993, distributes Mexican produce grown by the company's sister company in Edinburg, Texas, Gonzalez said.
The firm specializes in premium Mexican produce, including avocados, cilantro and tomatillos.
Gonzalez said the firm plans to expand its sales effort but will continue to focus on Mexican produce.
Panama Banana goes beyond bananas
With the acquisition of additional units at the Chicago International Produce Market and veteran produce salesmen, Panama Banana has become about much more than the yellow fruit that remains its logo.
"We were primarily just tropical fruit before, but now we have a complete line of fruits and vegetables," said Deke Pappas, co-owner of Panama Banana.
Along with gaining space formerly occupied by the Auster Co. Inc. in 2010, Panama Banana also hired fruit salesmen Tommy Durante and Nick Florek, formerly with Auster.
Pappas said those hires brought Panama Banana the capabilities of a full-line fruit house, and the September hire of veteran vegetable salesman Dean Kennelly provided the wholesaler with new vegetable accounts.


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The JewishGen Bessarabia Special Interest Group (Bessarabia SIG) was created for those with Jewish roots in the region historically known as Bessarabia, an area now comprising the Moldova Republic and parts of Ukraine. Our research also covers Transnistria (Pridnestrovie), a small area adjacent to the eastern border of Bessarabia, formerly in Kherson and Podolia Gubernia of Russia and now part of the Moldova Republic / Transnistria self-proclaimed territory.
Many Jews started to settle in this land when it became part of the Russian Empire in 1812, first as the Bessarabia Oblast and later the Bessarabia Gubernia. Many came from Galicia, Ukraine, Poland, and other regions lured by tax incentives and other favorable rules. They brought with them special working skills, such as the ability to work on the land as farmers, and practiced various crafts and trades. It was on that land that Klezmer music thrived with influence from Romanian and Roma folk music.
Bessarabia in 1897 was a home for 228,000 Jews, 11% of the total population of the region. Its capital, Kishinev, had almost 50,000 Jews, half the population of this city. Tens of thousands of Bessarabian Jews emigrated to the USA, Argentina, Palestine, and other countries at the end of 19th century, before and especially after the infamous Kishinev Pogroms of 1903 and 1905. By the eve of World War II, the Jewish population in Bessarabia was estimated to be between 300,000 and 350,000.
Bessarabia is a region between the Prut, Dniester, and Danube rivers and Black Sea,
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The name Bessarabia is derived from the Wallachian princely family of Bassarab that once ruled territory in South Bessarabia. The name is of Cuman or Pecheneg origin and most likely meant father ruler. For the geography and history of Bessarabia, Moldavia (Moldova) and Transnistria see section on General History, Governments, Maps.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass.—New England offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels recently dismissed the notion that there is a link between the success of the Patriots' running game and the overall success of the offense and team.
But with all due to respect to McDaniels, the facts are there: In the Patriots' 12 regular-season wins, they rushed for more than 100 yards; in their four losses, they did not.
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Similarly, second-year running back Stevan Ridley, who ascended to the job of New England's primary ballcarrier during training camp, was far more effective in victories than defeats. Ridley, who had 290 carries for 1,263 yards (4.4 average), produced all 12 of his touchdowns in wins. He averaged fewer than three yards per carry when the Patriots lost.
With the exception of their loss to San Francisco, New England was never in catch-up mode in those games, so it wasn't necessary to abandon the run early.
With the second-seeded Patriots opening their postseason with a rematch against the Houston Texans on Sunday—in the last of the four divisional playoff games—Ridley will look to put up those higher-level victory numbers.
He'll also be trying to put the memory of last year's playoffs behind him.
A third-round pick in 2011, Ridley was just starting to eclipse BenJarvus Green-Ellis as the Patriots' primary running back down the stretch last year when he fumbled the ball in back-to-back games—in the finale against Buffalo and then in the divisional-round win against Denver.
Not only did he not have a carry in the AFC championship game or Super Bowl, Ridley didn't even step on the field in either game. In the win over the Baltimore Ravens, he was inactive. Against the New York Giants, he was in uniform but remained on the sideline.
Ridley talked with Kevin Faulk about his situation. Faulk and Ridley both attended LSU, and Faulk was a valuable mentor to Ridley last year, his final one as a player. They continue to talk now.
Faulk also knows a bit about getting over a fumbling issue: He had three as a rookie in 1999 when he had 128 touches as a running back and return man, and six a year later when he had 259 touches.
"You're feeling like … your reps are getting taken, you're not getting on the field. Of course it affects you, but you have to have the mental toughness," Faulk said. "You think about it, but you have to make it a positive on the field."
But when the ball slipped from Ridley's grasp early in the Patriots' Week 15 loss to the 49ers this season, there were some fans of the team who started to wonder: Is he headed for a repeat of 2011?
Upon further review, the fumble was not a fumble—it was determined that Ridley was down before the ball came out. He did fumble later in the game, but it was the type of fumble a player can't do much about: San Francisco safety Donte Whitner, running at full stride, put the crown of his helmet right on the end of the ball and it popped out.
Ridley was holding the ball high and tight, so his coaches couldn't find fault with that play, but the fumble that wasn't and Ridley's goal-line fumble a week earlier against Houston were enough. In the days leading up to the game in Jacksonville, Ridley was forced to relive the plays again and again in the film room.
It was tough love for a player the Patriots believe in—a dynamic back whose final rushing yardage was the most by Patriots back since Corey Dillon put up a franchise-record 1,635 in 2004.
The message had been sent, but Ridley already knew there was no room for error.
"As a running back, that's just a known rule that you can't have the ball on the ground and for me personally it's letting yourself down really," said Ridley, who finished the season with two lost fumbles and four overall. "Because your job as a running back, they hand you the ball and they have confidence in you to hand it to you multiple times in the game; that's your position.
"Other positions, they throw it to you, but behind the quarterback, you handle the ball as much as anybody on the team. So you have to be able to confident in ball security. You have to have the coaches' confidence that you're going to bring the ball back, so anytime you let the ball down, you really let the whole team down.
"So for me, I don't like letting my teammates down—we work too hard, we're too good of an offense to make careless mistakes. It's almost like a personal thing for me, so I try to eliminate that."
There is no hard-and-fast way to eliminate fumbles. Ridley wants to be aware of how he's carrying the ball but not obsess over it. Like the rest of New England's offensive skill players, he goes through drills at every practice aimed at keeping players mindful of ball security. But he isn't taking any of the cliched measures like sleeping with a football.
"That would be lying if I said I was doing anything special," Ridley said. "But if you overthink it, you'll find yourself getting in more trouble than just going out there and doing what you know that you need to do, and that's holding onto the football.
"So that's really all I'm going to take from it—leave the past in the past. Good or bad, that's what I do and try to move forward and finish this year with no more fumbles. That's my main goal."
And he knows that another ball on the ground, at this time of the season with every mistake amplified, could likely lead to a return to the bench.


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The Sheaffer Flat Tops introduced in 1912 were made from hard rubber but it wasn't until 1924 that the first plastic ones were produced. If my research is correct, this material was Radite, a partially nitrated celluloid.
Jade green was one of the more popular colors and when new were quite stunning. Barrels often discolored and it it thought that vapors given off from the rubber sacs may have caused this. The clip on this pen, the Junior, simly said 'Sheaffer's' and was used between 1922 and 1927 at which time the hump clip was introduced. The barrel imprints here have hyphens rather that periods which again date it to before 1927 but as the white dot was introduced in 1923 it seems that this pen was manufactured between 1923 and 1927. Although the feed looks to be original, I suspect the nib is of a later date.


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Treacher-Collins syndrome is a condition that is passed down through families (hereditary) that leads to problems with the structure of the face.
Mandibulofacial dysostosis; Treacher Collins-Franceschetti syndrome
Changes to one of three genes, TCOF1, POLR1C, or POLR1D, can lead to Treacher-Collins syndrome. The condition can be passed down through families (inherited), but most of the time there is not another affected family member.
This condition may vary in severity from generation to generation and from person to person.
The child usually will show normal intelligence. Examination of the infant may reveal a variety of problems, including:
Genetic tests can help identify gene changes linked to this condition.
Hearing loss is treated to ensure better performance in school.
Being followed by a plastic surgeon is very important, because children with this condition may need a series of operations to correct birth defects. Plastic surgery can correct the receding chin and other changes in face structure.
Treacher Collins Foundation -- www.treachercollinsfnd.org
Children with this syndrome typically grow to become functioning adults of normal intelligence.
This condition is usually seen at birth.
Genetic counseling can help families understand the condition and how to care for the patient.
Genetic counseling is recommended if you have a family history of this syndrome and wish to become pregnant.
Katsanis SH, Jabs EW. Treacher Collins syndrome. 2004 Jul 20 [Updated August 30, 2012]. In: Pagon RA, Adam MP, Bird TD, et al., editors. GeneReviews [serial online]. Seattle, WA: University of Washington, Seattle; 1993-2013. Accessed September 8, 2013.


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Jessica Chastain's Cover Shoot Style
"I never expected to hear Heidi [Klum] call my name. It's the absolute best and most relieving thing you can hear on the runway." Of course, only when it's not followed by, "You're out."
Jordan Hathaway in top by Raul Osorio, and skirt by Sonjia Williams; Kailah Lindsey in jacket by Elena Slivnyak, and pants by Alicia Hardesty.
But it was Melissa Fleis' royal-blue cowl-neck frock that earned her the win. Rightfully so. "I want to do away with typical 'office clothes,'" Fleis says, echoing a popular sentiment among so many busy ladies. "Working women today are looking for that edge in life and the workplace. I want to help them achieve it." Fleis, however, who had yet to win a challenge in the season, was shocked to have landed on top.
Alex Wynne in top by Raul Osorio and skirt by Sonjia Williams; Lacee Teel in the winning dress by Melissa Fleis.
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Top 10 moments in Booker T's career
by, 03-27-2013 at 09:05 PM (6154 Views)
I know the critics out there will come out and say something out of no where. I'm going to keep it basic here. I've only followed Booker T's career in 3 companies so be cool with me. Those 3 are: TNA, WWE, and of course WCW. So don't expect any moments elsewhere where he may have competed. Letting that out before we begin. Did this to show love to one of my favs going in to the HOF the day before Mania. Top 10 moments in Booker T's career:
10.1995Harlem Heat wins first WCW tag team titles-1 of the greatest tag teams of all-time wins their first tag team titles vs Marcus Bagwell and The Patriot. It was the first stamp of many to come from the legend this blog is dedicated to.
9.2001 King of the Ring debut in WWF attacking Stone Cold Steve Austin-It was the beginning of the Invasion angle in 2001. Booker T attacked Stone Cold with a championship belt going out through the crowd. A lot of folks didn't like the Invasion angle, but it wasn't as bad as many made it out to be. Of course I would have loved to seen the likes of Flair, Hogan, Sting, Goldberg, and so forth in it.
8.2006 King of the Ring Judgment Day vs Bobby Lashley-I know a lot of folks didn't like King Booker gimmick, but I enjoyed it. Made Booker far more entertaining and funny on top of it. Raise your pinkie high and show some class. King of the world, King Booker!! Whether you like it or not, it saved Booker's WWE career. He declined every single year since he was in the company. Main event Mania 19 vs HHH, Mania 20 tag champs with RVD, 21 winning battle royal on pre-show, and 22 before this ppv losing to the Boogeyman. Booker T saved Smackdown in probably its worst year ever in 06.
7.2006 Cyber Sunday wins Champion of Champions match vs John Cena and Big Show-I was there the night, King Booker successfully defended his world title in a triple threat match in the historic Champion of Champions match. Yes, K-Fed got involved, but King Booker proved again he is the champion of the World.
6.2003 main events Wrestlemania 19 vs HHH for the world title-Whether you like it or not, very few men can say in this business they main evented a Wrestlemania. Booker T is one of the very few on a very solid WM19 card. Everyone including myself though Booker T was going to win that match, but it didn't happen. I was shocked when Booker eliminated Rock to get in that match.
5.2006 Great American Bash wins World title vs Rey Mysterio-I probably should have ranked main eventing WM ahead of this. In any case, winning the world title in WWE meant a lot at the time. SD was torture to watch in 06.Angle leaving for ECW earlier in the year, Orton getting suspended than back to Raw, Taker's long absense after losing to Khali at Judgment day, Rey vs Helms in main event more times than I care to count, Batista being out first half of the year, Finlay main eventing ppvs. I can continue, thank god for MVP and Kennedy feuds with Taker/Kane towards the end of the year. Worst year ever for SD. Booker beating Mysterio was great for me cuz I felt he just won because of Eddie.
4.2011 Royal Rumble Booker T's return in Rumble match-Return of Booker T at the Royal Rumble is called by some as the best moment in his career. Obviously it ranks high on my list, but not in the top 3. It meant a lot cuz he left for TNA in 07. Finally returning after a long period like Christian did. It meant a lot to have him back in WWE.
3.2000 Bash at the Beach Booker T wins WCW title vs Jeff Jarrett-One could argue, but possibly the most important match in the career of Booker T's happened that night. That controversial night where Russo went off on Hogan when Hogan/Bischoff not knowing he did so because it wasn't planned. He had Booker T/Jarrett battle for the vacant title. Booker's first world title of his 5x. Booker certainly praises Jarrett for working in the situation he did that night. He spoke about this on Jarrett's DVD. If vs a higher profile guy, it would have been ranked higher. I never thought Jarrett was a main event talent. Still don't to this day. Having guys like Jarrett on top is the reason WCW was in the shape it was.
2.2001 Final Nitro wins WCW title vs Scott Steiner-The final WCW show, leaving with a victory becoming a 5x WCW champion. WCW Monday Nitro had 1 last show. The last show saw, Booker as their last champion. Which is why it is ranked so high. History of Nitro, being on the last one, and WCW history.
1.1998 WCW best of 7 series vs Chris Benoit-Whether an acknowledgement will be made or not. No one will ever forget the best of 7 series between Benoit and Booker T. Wrestlers who made top 3 matches lists had the best of 7 series with Benoit and Booker T in their tops. When wrestlers have that much respect for a mans work to have it ranked in their top 3 matches all-time. You know how good it is. It isn't just 1 wrestler or 2, several on WWE magazines. When you look back on the career of Booker T, his best matches will always be connected to the best of 7 series he had vs Benoit in WCW. No doubt about it. Top moment without question.........
There you have it! The top 10 moments in the career of Booker T in my opinion. Did I miss a moment or 2? Do you agree? Disagree? How'd I do? What is your top 10? Leave that in the comment section below. Thanks for reading.


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Q. We produce two parts that cannot be deburred in our bowl vibratory machine. One is a small (0.35 × 0.25 × 0.20-inch) machined 304 stainless part with large burrs, and the other is a 0.375-inch diameter × 0.02-inch stamped stainless flat washer. We have tried all types of media and time cycles. Is there another finishing system that would deburr these parts? —B.K.
A. Small parts with large burrs and flat parts that stick together can be difficult to deburr or process in vibratory machines. There are a number of high-energy mass finishing systems that are 10 to 20 times the energy of vibratory machines.
The centrifugal barrel (CB) is a good choice for your application because it's capable of driving smaller media with significant energy to deburr large burrs in tight areas of smaller, lighter parts. As a batch processing machine, it enables glass beads to be added to the media to eliminate the surface tension that keeps small, light, flat, wet parts from sticking together.
The CB machine looks and operates similar to a ferris wheel on steroids. The energy is produced by a variable speed (1 to 240 rpm) rotating turret, with two to four hexagon-shaped barrels mounted within the turret, counter rotating at a 1-to-1 ratio. The media and parts are contained within the fully enclosed barrels producing a compressive-sliding-grinding action.
The centrifugal barrel produces amongst the highest energy of all the mass-finishing systems, with up to 20 times the energy of vibratory systems. Other advantages of using a CB include the ability to divide barrels to separate large parts, short time cycles and the ability to process wet or dry.
Disadvantages include the fact that part loading/unloading is a bit cumbersome, taking 10-15 min of operator attendance, but it will successfully run a lot of hard-to-process parts. The CB also is only capable of batch processing, and it cannot be automated.


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I still have lots of zucchini in the garden, so I had good results adapting Elise's recipe to make Zucchini Muffins, I decided to try making zucchini bread. My first zucchini bread attempt was not a keeper, but for the second try I came up with this Low-Sugar and Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread with Blueberries and Pecans that I really liked. I'll always be more of a cook than a baker, but I was excited that I managed to adapt ideas from a few different recipes and get zucchini bread that worked for my low-glycemic way of eating.
Last night I made dinner for my sister Pam, her husband Kelly, and my niece Alyson (after Kelly hooked up my new natural gas grill, thanks Kelly!) and they gave the zucchini bread three thumbs up. Putting blueberries in was an impulse that worked out, but if you don't have blueberries I think you could use another cup of zucchini (with maybe a bit more cinnamon) or add some other type of fruit.
Mix white whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in a small bowl.
Once eggs have tripled in size, add the canola oil and vanilla and stir to combine.
Low-Sugar and Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread with Blueberries and Pecans
(Makes one loaf, recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration from several other recipes, but especially one I found in The Splenda World of Sweetness, sent to me several years ago by my friend Amy from Cooking with Amy, thanks Amy!)
1 3/4 cups white whole wheat flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon (I used Saigon Cassia Cinnamon from The Spice House)
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup Stevia In the Raw Granulated Sweetener or sweetener of your choice
2 large eggs
1/2 cup canola oil
1 tsp. vanilla (I used Mexican vanilla)
1 cup coarsely grated zucchini (I just grated with the big side of a hand grater)
1-2 T water (as needed, if batter is too stiff, I used 1 T water)
1 cup fresh or thawed blueberries
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and spray loaf pan with oil or non-stick spray. (Most recipes I saw called for 8" x 4"loaf pan, but my pan was 9" x 5" and it was fine.)
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