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S.L.E. Lupus Foundation Hosts "Life Without Lupus Gala® 2011: A Night at the Museum"
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Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and activist Carole King Performed
(November 21, 2011 – New York, NY) – More than 700 members of New York City's philanthropic, business and health care communities joined forces tonight as the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation hosted "Life Without Lupus® Gala 2011: A Night at the Museum" at The American Museum of Natural History. This year's black tie gala, co-hosted by Willie Geist, Co-Host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, and Alex Wagner, anchor of MSNBC's Now With Alex Wagner, heralded the organization's quantum leap taking place in lupus research and raised over $2 million.
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and activist Carole King performed a "tapestry" of her songs honoring all people living with lupus, including "You've Got a Friend." Carole brought down the house with ad-lib lyrics to one of her most famous songs: "And everyone who came tonight, you know we can do it. We can find a cure for lupus. You've got a friend."
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Former NY Governor Mario Cuomo Salutes Gala 2011 Honorees Senator Frank Lautenberg
and Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg
U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg and Mrs. Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg were honored for helping to make lupus a national priority. Daniel J. Wallace (MD, FACP, FACR), founder of Lupus LA, was presented with the Foundation's Medical Leadership Award for his contributions to lupus clinical research. Lupus is a devastating autoimmune disease that affects 1.5 million Americans, 90 percent of whom are women — with a two to three times greater risk among women of color.
Dr. Daniel Wallace, Recipient of 2011 Medical Leadership Award
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Gala 2011 Honorees with S.L.E. Lupus Foundation Executive Director Margaret Dowd
Margaret G. Dowd, Executive Director of the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation, said, "Tonight, we gather with a shared goal — to help create a Life Without Lupus®. We would not be here tonight without the generosity of all of our tireless supporters, especially our honorees — Senator Lautenberg, Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg and Dr. Wallace — who have made a significant commitment to the fight against lupus. We are also so delighted to have Carole King here with us tonight, whose support and songs will touch so many of us who have been affected in some way by this tragic disease."
Recognizing Gala 2011 honorees Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg and U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo said, "We are saluting an extraordinary couple, each bringing their individual strengths to fight lupus on a personal and public level. Committed to many meaningful causes, Bonnie and Frank have made America a safer and healthier place, for people with lupus and for us all."
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Cheryl Minikes, Reneé E. Belfer, Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg, and Janet Hershaft
"Government involvement induces private sector participants to get engaged," said Senator Lautenberg. "Most notably, pharmaceutical companies begin to put their resources towards developing new drugs and universities pursue grants from organizations like the Lupus Research Institute more aggressively."
Dr. Wallace was presented the Foundation's Medical Leadership Award for his cutting-edge work in clinical trials; for providing critical support programs to thousands of lupus patients in California through Lupus LA — the West Coast arm of the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation; and for raising money for the Lupus Research Institute's grants that support the highest caliber of fundamental lupus research in academic institutions throughout the country. Serving as Honorary Dinner Chair, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg commented, "The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation is leading the search for a cure of an unpredictable disease that is hard to measure, hard to treat, hard to cope with and easy to overlook. But it affects 1.5 million Americans, including tens of thousands of New Yorkers. And while we lead the nation in research, education and care the fight against lupus is far from over. We need to continue to attract top-tier scientists from all over the world to search for a cure."
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Jessye Norman and Jennie DeScherer
This year's Dinner Chairs were Jennie & Richard DeScherer; Morrie Golick; Susan Golick & Alan Wasserman; Phyllis & William Mack; Fern & Lenard Tessler; Carol & Michael Weisman; and Lois & Andrew Zaro.
Governor Mario Cuomo and Mrs. Matilda Cuomo, Sir Deryck and Lady Va Maughan, Peter and Leni May, and Jessye Norman were among the many New York notables attending.
A live auction conducted by Jamie Niven, renowned auctioneer of Sotheby's, allowed participants to support cutting-edge studies at world-renowned institutions as well as a week at Camp Sunshine for children with lupus.
On November 27th, the event was featured in the New York Times' Evening Hours column.


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I planned to post this more than a week ago, and when I made it I added the wheatberries and mushrooms in a happy experiment that resulted in a variation of split soup I really enjoyed. Then blogging was on hold for a while, so now I'm sharing the recipe after coming home from Texas and finding to lovely warm weather in Utah. Of course this is spring, where the weather will turn to snow or rain again. When that happens I'll pull some of this soup out of the freezer and enjoy it again.
Split Pea Soup with Ham, Mushrooms, Carrots, and Wheatberries
(Makes about 6 generous servings, recipe created by Kalyn.)
1/2 cup wheatberries (soak in boiling water for 1 hour)
8 oz. sliced mushrooms
1 onion, chopped
2 tsp. olive oil (more or less, depending on your pan)
2 cups diced ham (I also simmered the ham rind with soup for more flavor)
8 cups chicken stock (I used homemade chicken stock, but can use canned chicken stock)
4 cups water +1-2 cups more added later
1 cup +1/2 cup green split peas
1 large carrot, diced into small pieces
1/2 tsp. dried thyme
2 bay leaves
fresh ground black pepper to taste
Drain wheatberries and add to soup pot. Then add diced ham, chicken stock, water, 1 cup split peas, diced carrot, thyme, and bay leaf (along with some pieces of ham rind if available) and bring the mixture to a low simmer. Cook for about 1 hour, or until wheatberries are softened and split peas are starting to soften and dissolve into the base of the soup. Then add 1/2 cup more split peas and 1-2 cups more water (depending on how thick you want the finished soup to be.) Remove bay leaves (and ham rind if using) then simmer soup for 45-60 minutes more, until second addition of split peas are soft but still mostly whole. Season soup to taste with fresh ground black pepper and serve hot.
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More Versions of Pea Soup You Might Like:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Crockpot Split Pea Soup with Chicken Sausage and Carrots from Kalyn's Kitchen
Chipotle and Black-Eyed Pea Soup with Double Cilantro from Kalyn's Kitchen
Yellow Split Pea Soup with Sweet Potatoes and Kale from Fat Free Vegan Kitchen
Meat-Free Split Pea Soup with Barbecue Sauce from The Perfect Pantry
Summer Pea Soup from Simply Recipes
Indian-Style Split Pea Soup from Lisa's Kitchen
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A Problem With PearlsProbability puzzles require you to weigh all the possibilities and pick the most likely outcome.
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Imagine a paradise where winter overcoats are traded for bikinis, snowshoes for bare feet, and cold, crunchy snow for warm, golden sand. Sounds incredible?
Not at Tropical Islands, Europe's largest tropical holiday world. Its promise is to offers its guests "the best of the tropics" without the need for a long plane journey. Tropical Islands recreates the tropical beach experiences of Asia and the Pacific, Africa and South America under one enormous roof. While wintry winds or a chilly spring breeze howls outside, the temperature inside this paradise is a balmy 26°C. Tourists and residents flock here to relax, recharge and enjoy a good time.
Tropical Islands opened to the public in 2004 and offers visitors a
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The resort, which can hold 6,000 people at one time, offers a wide range of accommodation with a choice of 200 rooms and lodges (600 beds) while 130 tents in the Rainforest Camps within the dome provide an additional 350 beds. Just outside is the Tropical Islands campsite as well as numerous holiday homes and holiday apartments.
The dome, formerly a hangar located on a former Soviet military air base, is the largest free-standing hall in the world. It offers 66,000 square meters of floorspace and five million cubic meters of enclosed space. It is covered with 20,000 square meters of UV-transparent film on the south side of the dome. It is planted with 600 species of plants numbering about 50,000.
Tropical Islands (website) is located in Brandenburg between Berlin and Dresden. The investors behind Tropical Islands are the Tanjong Public Limited Company, based in Malaysia, and Au Leisure Investments Pte Ltd. from Singapore.
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This morning I was on the "Domestic News Roundup" hour of the Diane Rehm Show, on WAMU in Washington. The topics naturally started with the latest gun-safety proposals and went on through Chuck Hagel, the economy, the Dreamliner, and so on.
This panel, and the rest of the media nearly always misses two points that are critical.- Daily gun deaths [not the big massacres] are the real killer.- The shooters are most likely to be either pissed off and jealous or perfectly rational with a heavily distorted value system, not mentally ill. And mental health experts state whenever they can that it is very hard to determine which patients will become violent. Most will not, and that is certain.The neglected mental health workers are glad to hear that they can get some attention and funding ... and the NRA is glad to put the blame on, of all things, lack of government funding for mental health.Here in tea party country, my cousin, the local outspoken liberal, is afraid to write to the paper about guns. Me, too. We are rightfully afraid of being shot. After all, the gun nuts don't have to be mentally ill to pull the trigger, just pissed off, and Limbaugh and Beck have that service covered.
This is an opportunity to mention again Dina Rasor's powerful article about the toll of the "daily gun deaths" as opposed to the too-frequent but not-quite-daily newsmaking mass killings. Previous discussion of it here.
I am beginning to sense that McCain behavior is destroying himself and that Obama has the good sense or instinct to take a deep step back and let McCain dig a hole so deep he can not get out.I think of this as "Obama overreach" in reverse: he has found a way to bait, lure, outwait, and in other ways entice his opponents to overreach themselves. And I think we see this now with:
- the GOP threat to bring on a financial crisis by not raising the debt ceiling, a position from which the party is even now in evident retreat;
- with differences in degree, the GOP positions on immigration, abortion, gay rights, etc: popular with a minority, very difficult to sell to a 51% majority;
- the Wayne LaPierre-style angry counter-response from the NRA, which in the long run will put the NRA in a difficult position. (Though it will probably win this year's legislative battles.)
- the over-the-top attempt to disqualify Chuck Hagel from Cabinet consideration by preposterously labeling him an anti-Semite rather than straightforwardly opposing him on policy grounds. This manifestly did not work in dissuading Obama, and if anything it rallied support for Hagel -- and increased denunciation of the groups and people leveling the charges. On the other hand, I agree with John Norris in Foreign Policy that the Obama administration has gone way too far in "vetting by trial balloon." That is, letting a potential nominee's name be "mentioned" and seeing how the pro-and-con goes.


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Monday morning has brought a new sound to XX Sports 1090: The voice of Lee Hamilton.
The venerable talk-show host started his new duties at 6 a.m. Monday, replacing the "Dave and Jeff Show." Dave Palet and Jeff Dotseth announced Sunday on Twitter that they were no longer with the station.
The station is expected to acquire "The Jim Rome Show" beginning Jan. 2. Rome's show, currently heard locally on XTRA Sports 1360, runs nationally from 9 a.m. to noon.
Darren Smith, 1090's afternoon host, is expected to work from noon to 3 p.m. Current midday hosts Josh Rosenberg and Charod Williams are not expected to be retained in the new lineup. John Kentera is expected to keep his 7-11 p.m. slot.


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Celeste Greig's odd remarks as president of the California Republican Assembly dismissing pregnancy as a risk from rape earlier this year -- in a national story our Capitol correspondent broke -- proved too much even for that highly conservative group to bear.
The CRA, which Ronald Reagan once called the "conscience of the Republican Party," ousted Greig as president last weekend in an 84-78 vote at its convention, replacing her with John Briscoe, a 63-year-old accountant from Fountain Valley.
Briscoe's campaign manager, Aaron Park, a conservative blogger from the Sacramento area, said Greig's comment that pregnancy by rape is rare "because the body is traumatized" was "embarrassing" and led to a collapse of her support among CRA members. He added that her failure to address the blowback compounded the problem.
Leading up to the election, Park wrote in his blog, RightOnDaily.com: "If for some strange reason Celeste Greig gets re-elected, the future of the CRA is in extreme peril because no one running for office will want a CRA endorsement."
Greig was unavailable for comment.
Statewide, GOP registration has fallen from about 36 percent in 1996 to 29 percent this past fall. Among the anti-abortion activists in the GOP base, many oppose abortion even if the pregnancy resulted from rape on grounds that the unborn child shouldn't pay with its life for the father's crime. But polls suggest most voters believe the woman still should make that choice. That's made it tough for Republican politicians.
Republican Missouri congressional candidate Todd Akin found out the hard way last year. Many said his remark that victims of "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down" sank his campaign.
Ironically, Greig was criticizing Akin's "insensitive" comment when she effectively made it her own during an interview with our statehouse correspondent before the California GOP convention in March. "Granted," Greig added, "the percentage of pregnancies due to rape is small because it's an act of violence."
Though CRA members are strongly anti-abortion, Park said, "you cannot put faith in someone who's talking about the virtue of saving babies but looks like they don't care about women who are sexually assaulted."
Chavez receives backing of S.J. budget director
If you were checking labor leader Cindy Chavez' list of folks endorsing her Santa Clara County District 2 Supervisor campaign, you might have stumbled on the name of San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed's budget director, Armando Gomez.
Reed, Gomez' boss, trounced Chavez in the 2006 mayoral race and has since endorsed Chavez rival Teresa Alvarado for the District 2 supervisor's seat. It would be fair to say Reed and Chavez aren't chummy.
But neither are Gomez and Reed's political consultant, Vic Ajlouny, who is working on a political committee opposing Chavez's supervisorial bid. Gomez, a longtime Milpitas city councilman, had accused Ajlouny a year ago of working on an effort to recall him.
Gomez has reason to court Chavez, a top Democratic Party official in the county who for years has sat at the helm of labor's potent political machine. Gomez is thinking of running for the 25th Assembly seat of Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, who is expected to run for the state Senate. But Gomez said he isn't seeking political backing from Chavez, with whom he has worked to promote the BART extension to Milpitas, or to settle a score with Ajlouny, whom he says he's getting along just fine with these days.
Officials join ceremony to mark fall of Saigon
In the Kremlinology of Silicon Valley politics, it's interesting to see who shows up at public events -- and who doesn't.
Consider last week's "Black April" ceremony at San Jose City Hall to commemorate the anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Among the many politicos in the crowd were Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese, widely presumed to be running for San Jose mayor, and Councilman Kansen Chu, who's seeking an Assembly seat. Both were prominent backers of the "Little Saigon" movement during San Jose's brouhaha over commemorating a strip of Vietnamese businesses. Also there was Ly Tong, the South Vietnam Air Force veteran turned provocateur whose hunger strike finally forced the city to compromise on Little Saigon.
San Jose Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen also attended. The council's first and only Vietnamese-American member, her resistance to Little Saigon led to a 2009 recall effort, which she handily beat.
"Many of the youth who helped organized the event are supporters of mine," she said, adding that San Jose Deputy Police Chief Phan Ngo, who spoke at the ceremony, thanked her later for helping represent the Vietnamese-American community.
Mayor Chuck Reed, Nguyen's ally during the Little Saigon controversy, "just couldn't fit it in his calendar," his spokesman said.
Two Santa Clara County Supervisorial rivals were pressing the flesh: Labor organizer Cindy Chavez and Teresa Alvarado, a water district official whose mother served on the county board. Chavez and Alvarado exchanged warm smiles and an embrace. On a night dedicated to reconciling the wounds of a war, both seemed to sense it was not a time for partisanship.
NAACP chief voices anger over delay of 'curb-sitting' policy
The controversy over San Jose's acting police chief suspending a new "curb-sitting" policy gained a higher profile when the NAACP's national president chided him during a gala last week.
Attendees said Benjamin Todd Jealous mentioned "outrage" over Larry Esquivel's decision to halt the new regs, signed by outgoing Chief Chris Moore in January. Jealous spoke about the importance of the policy that would compel officers to document their most common "stop and frisk"-style searches and detentions. It was spurred by long-held concerns by community groups and Independent Police Auditor LaDoris Cordell that minorities were disproportionately ordered to sit on street curbs during patrol stops.
Esquivel has said the suspension is only temporary, pending a computer system upgrade. Cordell said she believes him and that Jealous might not have understood the technical issues involved when he laid into Esquivel.
Famous World Cup goal still surprises Chastain
The San Jose Sports Authority's annual REACH Youth Scholarship breakfast drew some influential locals last week, including downtown Councilman Sam Liccardo, Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone and Sharks' top business executive Malcolm Bordelon.
But the biggest stars were REACH chairman and 49ers Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott and co-chairwoman Brandi Chastain, the San Jose soccer great. A short video sequence of each was shown, and Chastain seemed transfixed at the podium by her montage. It concluded, of course, with her famous game-winning, bra-baring penalty shootout kick that won the 1999 World Cup for the U.S.
Chastain told the audience that there's a reason why she watched the clip so closely.
"Every time I see that penalty kick, I don't think it's going in," admitted Chastain, 44, who still looks like she could play for the national team. "I get so nervous. I'm just so happy to see it hit the back of the net."
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Mark Montieth article about Lance after tonights game.
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Mark Montieth article about Lance after tonights game.
Lance, I'm giving you some lengthy rope. Don't hang yourself with it.
Small sample size and all, but I'm also in favor of starting Lance alongside the 2 Georges. He does fit the starters better, and I guess we'll just have to live with his learning curve.
And wow, its looking like we'll finally have a project player amounting to something. Jamison Brewer, Orien Greene, Rawle Marshall, Stephen Graham and probably tons more that I can't remember. We can finally exorcise those ghosts
So far, I have been pleasantly surprised.
"But, first, let us now praise famous moments, because something happened Tuesday night in Indianapolis that you can watch a lifetimes worth of professional basketball and never see again. There was a brief, and very decisive, and altogether unprecedented, outburst of genuine officiating, and it was directed at the best player in the world, and that, my dear young person, simply is not done."
Lance is very scary in the open court. The way he can explode after a rebound is quite entertaining to watch. Look at the size of the steps he takes, he is like a bull rushing the goal. I would like to see him running the break quite a bit more with his passing and finishing ability.
I think he would of won the game last night if vogel would not have called that timeout. He had three seconds I think and was already at half court.
This space for rent.
It would have been a better chance than David West for 3.
Lance's energy changed the game last night in the 2nd. Even though he missed a couple layups, the pressure he put on the D allowed our guys easy offensive rebounds. He wasn't perfect, but I don't think anybody played harder than Lance night. He earned those xtra minutes.
my personal favorite, Kenny Williams. I thought that dude would be great. Shows what I know.
I admit, I was one of the ones who was really against Lance a couple years ago. Although it's still early, I am really impressed by his improved confidence, game and maturity so far.
Here's one thing I'd like thoughts on.
I like Lance coming off the bench since it seems to me that Lance and Hans have a nice 2 man game going. I think Lance has been one of the factors leading to Tyler's improved play. As Peck said in his Odd Thoughts: "Why is it that Tyler is the one player this season who has not disappointed me? I think its because I had such low expectations of him that if he comes into the game and doesnt proceed to throw his own defecation at his team mates I am happy with him."
I think it's Lance. Watching the last 2 games, while Lance is not shooting great he's getting to the rim and drawing defenders leaving Hans open to get the offensive board and score. It's also letting Tyler play closer to the basket and get the pass in the low post. I've only seen Tyler shoot a couple outside jumpers so far all year (thank goodness).
Anyone else feel that Lance and Tyler complement each other?
I think Lance compliments whoever he's on the court with. He's our best passer. He feeds the post really well.
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
So do Paul and Hill. so maybe McKey Fan is right. Boy do I hope Lance continues to play well. He really does complement the other starters with his ball handling.
I'm sorry, but a timeout with less than 5 seconds left as a team is sprinting up court doesn't make sense, at least not with this team.
What's better: Lance/George/Paul running a semi-fastbreak, or trying to inbounds/get a shot from half-court with 3 seconds left? Lance had momentum and could have gotten to the basket, at least giving the team a chance. I don't think a person in the fieldhouse last night thought they were gonna score out of that TO.
Lance has been under-control so much, it's been a really impressive start to the season for a guy that hasn't shown anything in his young career. I'm really happy for him, I hope he can become a sort of "X" factor, a guy that brings energy and effort off the bench to the backcourt. He's the sparkplug for the guards, Tyler for the bigs. I like it.
Add me to the list that agree with you. I also think DJA has the same knack with Tyler. I really like the idean of DJ and Lance in the back court together. I think Lance can defend either guard position of most team's 2nd unit.
Now it's time 2K recognized Lance's improvements. Being rated a 59 is embarrassing! C'mon, he's more like a 69 like they have OJ (who hasn't even played a game).
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
My Team is no fun now every game the opponents have 6 or 7 all stars wish their was a salary cap of like 350 VC even that is high. 3 stars and a silver is more than a super team. If I was in charge it would be 250. Maybe next year their could be a system where you can choose between having 2 golds and then all bronze or have 5 silvers or something like that. The way it is now isnt much fun.
Vogel needs to give Lance the green light! Lance is very good in the open court naturally. Lance is building confidence with these past two games.
I wish there were some statistics, but it sure seems it would make more sense to let guys make a play, rather than stopping momentum and trying to get a jumper out of a timeout. Plus, with only 3.6 seconds left, the best shot you're gonna get is *likely* a jumper. I'd prefer Lance rolling up-court getting to the rim then a jumper off an an OOB play.
Regardless, I suppose it's more common to call the timeout, I'm more or less considering the viability of alternatives.
I would like to have seen what Lance might have done in those last few seconds, especially in hindsight.
But I don't fault Vogel for the timeout, especially if he called it just as we got the rebound. Pretty standard stuff.
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
I was at the opener and got to see Lance up close and personal. There are a couple of things I think he still need to work on...
1) Don't get fancy around the rim. There were a couple of times where he was trying too hard to get the ball around someone and he ended up with an awkward (missed) layup. He needs to understand that with his body he should be going right into guys who are challenging him at the rim looking to initiate contact first. He can then use his body to protect the ball and get off an easier shot.
Mark Jackson was the master at this. Watch how in this video he first gets his shoulder into Bol and then ends up with an easy bucket and the foul...
...I would love to see Lance do that.
2) When he came in with the second unit he was incredibly aggressive, but he became tentative again when he was with the starters. Instead of relentlessly attacking the defense he was often just looking to rotate the ball off of pick and rolls. Attack attack attack!
3) He still has no clue where to be on defense half the time. His on the ball D looked much better than I had seen in the past, but when he was off the ball or forced to rotate to someone else's man he often looked lost and got burned a few times. Thornton looked like an all-star when they were matched up against each other.
All in all I really enjoyed watching him and was encouraged by what I saw... it's just going to take Lance awhile to figure things out because he's still young and, as we saw with the "I had to take her down like Chris Brown" incident, not always using his head...
This quote from Lance really shows how much he's grown.
"I'm happy I'm getting more minutes, but I'm hoping for Danny to get well soon," Stephenson said.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
It was a bang-bang play, but I do wish Frank would have allowed them to run the fast break and see what happens. The worst possible outcome would have been better than West hoisting up a 3.
With the exception of Paul George, I thought Lance was our best defender out there against the Kings. I also thought that was why Vogel chose Lance over Green. He also happens to be the best player on our team at denying the ball while chasing around a guard.
I'm not sure why you think it's weird Thornton "looked like an all-star" against Lance. He's one of the best scorers in the league. He's scored 20 ppg since being with the Kings and he scored 26 last night, which is not really that far of a stretch. Especially considering he had 20 points except for his 2 last 3 pointers. The first one was actually when PG was guarding him and relaxed off of him because he thought there was either a shot or a turnover coming. The second one he made (in OT) he made with Lance right in his face. So he scored 2 shots more than his average, with the difference not being a lapse in Lance's ability.


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As you may or may not be aware, the Colts have several players entering the last years of their contracts, with the two biggest names being Marvin Harrison and Edgerrin James. It's an absolute fact that the Ponies won't be able to afford to keep the trio intact after this season, and from what I've read, we'll be spending the money to keep Marvin, since it's much harder to get a top-tier WR than a solid RB.
With that being the case, what do you guys see happening with the Colts' RB situation after this season? I'm not nearly as familiar with trade scenarios and restrictions in the NFL as I am with the NBA, so I don't know if we could do a sign and trade at the end of the season to get some high draft picks and use one of those on a new back, or if we'll hope that Dominic Rhodes can come back from his injury and improve on his performance from two seasons ago when he ran for over 1,000 yds when Edge tore his ACL. Thoughts?


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Marie Abbott has mastered several arts: stone sculpting, ceramics, painting, jewelry, fused glass and photography. Her work can be seen in a show starting First Friday, May 2, at the Artists Gallery in Racine.
The exhibit opens with a reception at 6pm on May 2nd and runs through the month of May.
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FOOTBALL continues to almost be a sideshow at Hereford United following Tommy Agombar's departure as owner.
While the Bulls prepare for their third game in the Southern League Premier Division, a trip to Dorchester Town tomorrow (3pm), the future of the club remains uncertain.
Majority shareholder Agombar has sold his shares in United to a 'purchaser of distressed debts' after being forced to step aside in the wake of failing the Football Association's owners and directors test for club ownership.
The news comes as creditors met to consider a proposal for a Company Voluntary Agreement.
A statement from Marc Landsman, the insolvency practitioner overseeing the CVA application, says Agombar is no longer associated with the company or club.
He also said that Hereford could be kicked out of the Southern League if Agombar remained at the helm.
"In the absence of any realistic offers from anyone with links to the football club to buy his debts, Agombar sold them to an independent third party introduced to him as a purchaser of distressed debts and similar," said Landsman.
"As at the time of this update no claim or proxies had been received from the new owner (a limited company) in relation to these debts. The shares were sold to the same company."
Landsman added: "They were sold by Agombar since the Football Association had made it clear that if he did not cut all potential positions of power within the club, including the debt owed to him since they considered that this could place him in position of control due to the high level of debt, the football club ran the risk of being suspended or expelled from the Southern Football League."
Hereford followed up last Saturday's 2-0 home defeat to St Neots with a midweek 2-2 draw against Slough Town.


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(2008) The 19th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop
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Linguistik , Korpus <Linguistik>
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Finnish , New Year';s speech , small corpus , Teko project and method , corpus and text analysis
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The New Year';s speech by the President of the Republic is one of the most important political speeches in Finland. We have gathered all the speeches from 1935 to 2007 into a corpus containing the speeches in writing. Our objective is to explore what the speeches are like in terms of linguistic choices and as a set or type of texts. We are also interested in the social dimensions of the speeches and the ideological meanings produced in them. This paper presents an analysis of our research questions and methods of analysis, rather than going into empirical results. We present the method and project we have decided to call "Teko'; (from text to corpus), based on the compilation and structuring of small, mutually comparable corpora, as well as on detailed quantitative (corpus linguistic) and qualitative analysis (based on text analysis, applying, e.g., the process analysis of the Systemic Functional Grammar). We are considering the following research positions and questions of analysis related to them: the uniformity of the speeches as compared to another set of texts, i.e. that of news (e.g. based on their morphological features that have been analysed semiautomatically), the internal uniformity of the speeches judging by how the
speakers refer to themselves (differences arising from the speakers on the one hand and the topics on the other hand) and the uniformity of the speeches on the basis of process analysis (distribution of processes by presidents and topics). Our fundamental question in this paper is how the quantitative analysis of a small corpus can be connected to a qualitative analysis of individual texts.
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When folks sift through the Denver Broncos loss to Baltimore on Saturday, it will be big plays that get most of the attention. The 70 yard missle-shot up the sideline here. The misplayed ball there. The interceptions, fumbles and returns for touchdowns.
But how the Broncos fared on some of the smallest plays of the day, the ones that needed to cover just one or two yards, also had a lot to say in the outcome.
They also say a lot about what the Broncos' offense needs to address for 2013.
The Broncos faced six situations in the game of third-and-2 or less when they tried to run the ball Saturday. They had one third-and-2 and five third-and-1s.
They converted just three of those plays.
That left three drives on the table when they had to cover 36 or 72 inches with a running play and couldn't do it.
Either the Denver offensive line couldn't get it blocked, or their running backs couldn't break tackles. But the offense won't be all it needs to be until the Broncos can run the ball when they want to, especially in end-of-game situations or when they need a short conversion to keep the ball.
They don't have to dominate in the run game, but they do have to be functional. And being unable to convert more than three times when you run the ball on third-and-2 or third-and-1 is not being functional.
The Broncos lost their best inside runner when Willis McGahee injured his knee against San Diego and then lost McGahee's backup, Knowshon Moreno, to a knee injury Saturday.
And the offensive line with a backup center, Dan Koppen, and right guard Chris Kuper having missed nine full games this season and played on special teams only in two others, couldn't carve out enough room in the middle of the field.
Ronnie Hillman converted his only third-and-1 chance with a 1-yard run, but the Broncos didn't convert a third-and-2 and didn't convert two third-and-1s when Jacob Hester, a player the team signed Nov. 26, carried the ball.
One of those plays was wiped out by a Kuper penalty that pushed the Broncos hack 10 more yards.
But it's clear, even with Peyton Manning at quarterback, the Broncos will need to address their run game in the coming draft and free agency seasons. Because with all that went on Saturday night, if the Broncos could have gained a yard or two when they really needed to, they would still be playing this weekend.
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My last blog focused around what WWE SHOULD do this year, I know that none of it will actually happen, so here's my predictions of what WWE will actually spend their time doing in 2013.
1) John Cena Will Headline More Non-Title Pay-Per-Views
Here's a fairly obvious one, although CM Punk spent the entire of 2012 as WWE Champion, he was rarely the main event, sometimes being eclipsed by "special attraction" matches like Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar or The Rock vs. John Cena, but other times he was looked over for John Cena vs. Kane at Elimination Chamber, the epic CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan match was overlooked for John Cena vs. John Laurinaitis, at Over The Limit John Cena vs. The Big Show was the main event, there wasn't a time when CM Punk's historic title reign was given a headline slot without John Cena. So in 2013 what can we expect? The exact same thing. When the WWE Championship falls to Punk again, or whoever wins Money In The Bank this year, most of the summer will be spent with John Cena feuding with someone outside the title picture but still as the main event. While this is done because WWE think that John Cena draws money, there's proof that it really isn't true. Hell In A Cell was a pay-per-view with no mention of John Cena at all, and the buy rate was more than 10% more than Hell In A Cell 2011 (which had John Cena in the headline match). And then Tables Ladders and Chairs, a PPV with no WWE Championship match but headlined by John Cena vs. Dolph Ziggler (again replacing the much more hyped Shield vs. Ryback & Daniel Bryan) had buy rates 30% lower than the previous year which featured CM Punk capturing the championship. It's just proof that respect has to be given to the championship as it's not just enough to throw John Cena in any main event and assume that it will be for the best.
2) Release A Superstar With Great Potential
The locker room is literally bursting at the seams with new superstars at the moment, I even wrote in my last blog about how they shouldn't debut anyone else until after SummerSlam. The only problem here is that with everyone trying to grab the spotlight, someone's going to be left out, and it's going to be a shame. Because they received a push so quickly in their careers they won't be allowed the time on Superstars / Main Event / NXT to continue their skillset expansion, rather than be viewed on as a failure and released. While it's a shame I'll predict that one member of The Shield will be released this year after they break up and I think this years wild card entry may be Kofi Kingston. They continually drop the ball with something with such potential as Kofi, as he's recently returned to his jobber role, only getting TV time for a few spot monkey moments and then quickly pinned. It's a shame, as at one point during his feud with Randy Orton years ago it looked like he was going to be huge. Hopefully I'm wrong about this prediction, but by the time we hit 2014, we'll be checking in on TNA to see how a certain someone is doing.
3) Continue To Keep JTG employed
This isn't just a focus on JTG, but he seems to be the figurehead of confusing keeps in the WWE. So much so there's even a website based around it (http://lolwrestling.com/howlonghasjtgbeenemployed/) , what I'm trying to get across here is that while there will be several releases this year that will leave us scratching our heads and shouting that we're boycotting the WWE until they're back, there will be several superstars that just seems to stay in the background for no reason. While I'm not wishing anyone to lose their jobs, no one can deny their reaction of "holy crap, Yoshi Tatsu and Alex Riley still work there?" reaction to their segment on Raw this week.
4) Drop The Ball With Undercard Championships
2012 was a great year for the undercard championships. The Tag Team division seems to boom, Cody Rhodes, Kofi Kingston, Big Show and Wade Barrett added some real meaning to the Intercontinental Championship, and even though there was a dark spot with Santino and Jack Swagger holding the US Title, there was some real excitement around the belt when Zack Ryder won the belt from Ziggler, and Antonio is starting to wipe the dust of this championship and quickly proving that great wrestlers can hold the championship for a long time. However in the first part of 2013, something terrible has happened. While Daniel Bryan and Kane have been feuding mostly with themselves of Rhode Scholars, there's been no advancement with other teams, Prime Time Players have disappeared again, the Uso's are gone, the only tag team getting any TV time at the moment are 3MB squash matches. And Tensai and Brodus Clay... woo. I predict that when Bryan & Kane drop the belts, it'll be a long time before the belts have any real meaning again. The Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett went on a five match losing streak, losing to Bo Dallas and Randy Orton three times, only just breaking that by squashing Kofi Kingston, it looks like they're looking to make Bo Dallas seem like a big deal right away by possibly giving him the IC Title soon, but when they do there's a chance that people might not care as much about the belt, people haven't had time to care about Dallas enough to focus on him as a champion. Although I'm a fan of his, the majority of the crowd may just wonder what Wade Barrett has done to deserve it. As for the US Championship, Cesaro will eventually fall to an American title holder, who that will be I have no idea, but I think when they win the belt it'll be someone who's just taking the belt so Cesaro can move on to greater things and will be left holding the belt with no one to defend it against.
5) Triple H Will Continue To Pretend Like He's A Hall Of Famer
Much like Bret Hart, I am not a huge fan of Triple H. Yes he had a period of being one of the biggest stars, but that was a time when The Rock and Undertaker was gone, Austin was injured and Kurt Angle and Chris Jericho were only just breaking through as superstars. Since then, the only time I've ever been excited for a match that had a huge focus on Triple H was because of Shawn Michaels and their rivalry in 2002. However, Triple H continues to get the push like he's done a lot for "this business" as much as other people around him. Now that Undertaker is on his way out, Shawn Michaels has retired and The Rock probably won't be here for long past Wrestlemania 30, Triple H will now be presented as the next Undertaker. Returning for a month out of the year to have a big match at Wrestlemania. Although he MAY put some superstars over by winning the match, which is highly unlikely considering he lost the last two years, most of his time will be spent taking someone away from possibly having a great Wrestlemania match, and putting them into a program where Triple H ultimately looks strong either way, never losing cleanly, and having a very limiting match considering Triple H's old injuries will start haunting him soon. This one is inevitable. The only way of stopping this is getting everyone to pretend that Triple H really is as big as he thinks he is and definitely NOT chanting "you tapped out" the next time he loses. He'll just keep coming back until he gets the ovation his "amazing career" deserves.
That's it folks. You can follow me on twitter @DanHarrington91 and tell me I'm wrong. Or just yell in the comments.


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Understanding Bad Cholesterol
What does "bad" cholesterol mean? I was told by my doctor`s nurse that a normal level is 99, but mine is 138. Could you please tell me what this means?
This isn`t "alternative medicine", but I can answer it! The "bad" cholesterol refers to the LDL cholesterol. That`s the part of the total cholesterol that, if elevated, increases your chances of having a heart attack. Normally, if you don`t have heart disease or diabetes, it is suggested that your LDL should be below 130. If you have heart disease or diabetes, it is suggested that you keep the LDL below 100. Plenty of fruits and vegetables and weight loss can help. Garlic may be helpful as well. Your doctor may want to give you a cholesterol lowering medication right now to lower it quickly while you work on your diet and try to lose weight. It is possible to come off of that medicine (sometimes) if you can get to your ideal body weight. Even though it is counter-intuitive, the Atkins diet which lets you eat all the meat and fat you want has actually been shown to lower the total and LDL cholesterol. It is a great way to lose weight. I put many of my patients on it. Instead of eating lots of red meat as Atkins suggests, you might want to stick to fish, fish, fish, and some poultry.
Tanya I Edwards, MD, MEd
Formerly, Associate Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University


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STAGE TUBE: Meet The National Arts Centre's 2013-14 Acting Ensemble!
During the launch of the 2013-14 National Arts Centre English Theatre season, Artistic Director Jillian Keiley introduced the members of the new season's acting ensemble. Watch the video below to hear the actors' thoughts on the upcoming season!
Ottawa's National Arts Centre's English Theatre season starts on October 15 with TARTUFFE and continues with HAMLET, KIM'S CONVENIENCE, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, ENROS, SEEDS, HUFF, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, OIL AND WATER, and DID AND DOB AND THE JOURNEY HOME.
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The National Arts Centre (NAC) raised its curtains for the first time in 1969. Created by the Parliament of Canada as a Centennial project during the 1960s, the NAC has become Canada's foremost showcase for the performing arts.
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A woman who allegedly embezzled approximately $2.1 million from a small credit union has pleaded guilty to two felonies punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Sharon Broadway, 61, of Toledo, Ohio, was the manager, secretary, board member and sole employee of United Catholic Credit Union in Temperance, Mich.
She was charged with the crimes by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette after a routine examination by the state Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation, OFIR, in Lansing discovered a substantial number of certificates of deposit went unrecorded on the credit union's books.
An investigation found that during her long-term management of the credit union, Broadway misappropriated funds, filed false financial statements, violated credit union policies and failed to comply with state and federal laws.
OFIR closed the credit union in August 2012 and appointed the National Credit Union Administration, or NCUA, as receiver. The NCUA insures credit union deposits in much the same way as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. insures bank deposits, so no depositors lost their money, according to the attorney general's office.
Broadway allegedly used a complex money-laundering scheme that involved forged checks and multiple aliases to conceal the transactions, then used the money as her personal funds.
She pleaded guilty one count each of financial institution embezzlement and racketeering and was sentenced last week by Judge Michael A. Weipert in Monroe County's 38th Circuit Court to 10 months to 20 years in prison.
OFIR has also prohibited Broadway from ever again working in the credit union industry in Michigan.
In a statement, Schuette said, "Whenever a Michigan family makes a deposit into an accredited financial institution, they should not have to worry about the safety of their hard-earned money or that their assets are being used for personal gain."
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A Pontiac caller said, "People in Bloomfield should stop complaining," and, "They don't want to pay their share of taxes." The obvious question is, what exactly is my own share of taxes? I am already paying my share through hard work. When will the caller begin paying a single dime of income taxes? I'm better off talking into a blank wall. We do not have four years to "deal with President Obama." President Obama has four years to deal with us.
-- Bloomfield Hills
This is for the White Lake Township caller who cheered Michigan's right-to-work law, saying the union strike and unusual wage demands doomed Hostess. The caller needs to keep up with the news better. Follow-up reports said that the unions had given concessions in previous years, but the company wanted more concessions even though the company's executives were awarding themselves huge bonuses. If the company had enough cash for those bonuses, it wasn't in trouble financially and it could have afforded to give back some of what the unions had given up. Also, there has been speculation that certain Hostess products will be made in Mexico. Whether or not that occurs, this was an act of pure greed.
-- Hazel Park
Someone asked about the number of Washington congressmen there are. If a person goes on Google and looks up the directory of the House and Senate, it tells all the names, states, parties and their phone numbers.�
-- Waterford
A caller asked about what kind of health care our congressmen have. They won't be on the government health care or ObamaCare that the Democrats want the rest of us to be on. Also, President Obama and his family won't be on ObamaCare. I think this is not fair that ordinary people have to have something that Congress wants us on. The Republicans never voted for this, because it's not good for our health or our freedom.
-- Commerce Township
A writer from Royal Oak wants a box to check on the ballot for not only the Republicans and the Democrats, but a third box that says "None of the above." Just so you know, the state of Nevada does have that. It is the only state that has it on the presidential ballot. This might be a better ballot for other states in the future.
-- Bloomfield Township


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In about three weeks many of us will be paying tribute to the 13 persons killed and 145 persons injured when the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed during the rush hour on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007.
The I-35W Mississippi River bridge (officially known as Bridge 9340) was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
Bookmark a Wikipedia web page to learn more about the history of Bridge 9340 and how the bridge was rebuilt.
The new bridge structure is called the I-35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge.
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge
The bridge was Minnesota's fifth busiest, carrying 140,000 vehicles daily.
The NTSB cited a design flaw as the likely cause of the collapse, and asserted that additional weight on the bridge at the time of the collapse contributed to the catastrophic failure.
Immediately after the collapse, help came from mutual aid in the seven county Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area and emergency response personnel, charities, and volunteers.
Within a few days of the collapse, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) planned a replacement bridge, the I-35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge.
Construction was completed rapidly, and it opened on Sept. 18, 2008.
A new exhibit entitled "81 Minutes: After the Bridge Collapsed" opened June 30 and tells the story of, and remembers the victims, of the I-35W bridge collapse.
The exhibit is located at the Firefighter's Hall and Museum, 664 22nd Ave. N.E., Minneapolis.
This exhibit documents the 35W Bridge collapse in greater detail.
The firefighters exhibit commemorates the fifth anniversary of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse and the astonishing rescue efforts in the minutes and hours following.
It's open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and from noon to 4 p.m. Sundays through Aug. 31.
Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, $3 for children 3-12.
The exhibit features pictures and quotes that capture the minutes between when dispatchers received the first call and the moment they cleared the last survivor from the bridge.
A KARE 11 news report quoted Steve Skaar, a volunteer at the Firefighters Hall and Museum where the exhibit will remain permanently housed, as saying, "This is all about what they faced that day, what these first responders faced that day."
The exhibit also features video documentation — including stories that aired on KARE 11 News on Aug. 1, 2007 and the days that followed.
"I just need to see this once in a while to know that there's more to life than just going to work and coming home. And this can happen in an instant," said Jeanine Greenlee, who wanted to visit the exhibit on its first day.
The tribute to the 35W first responders is part of a larger "Minnesota Disasters" exhibit — the bulk of which will be leaving the museum in August in order to tour throughout the state.
For more information about the museum, including location and hours, just go to: www.firehallmuseum.org.
Read more about the Firefighter's Hall and Museum, in Northeast Minneapolis, by going to: http://minneapolis.about.com/od/familieschildren/a/firefightershal.htm
We read, "The Firefighter's Hall and Museum, in Northeast Minneapolis, is dedicated to preserving vintage firefighting equipment.
"The museum cares for a horse-drawn pumper, a beautiful brass steam-powered fire engine, fire trucks from the 1930s, and many more fire trucks and fire engines dating back 100 years.
"Firefighting equipment that many of us have only seen in comics or cartoons are here.
"Fire departments and rescue crews really did use nets with targets drawn in the center to catch people who jumped from burning buildings, and here is one such net on display here.
"And yes, fire stations really did have dalmatian dogs – you can find out why at the Firefighters Hall and Museum.
"And there is a huge array of other vintage fire fighting equipment.
"This is a hands-on museum, and many items that can be touched, tried on (like helmets and boots) and slid down (a firefighter's pole) and climbed in (some of the trucks) to make this a fascinating day out.
"Children can also pump water, operate a fire alarm telegraph system and pretend to drive a ladder truck.
"There are survivors from before the days of cell phones – a vintage telephone switchboard which operators used to manually connect calls, and a working fire box used in days gone by to alert the fire station to an emergency, are on display.
"As well as the remarkable exhibits, the museum has a serious mission too.
"Active and retired firefighters help to run the museum, and teach pre-school and school age children, as well as adults, about fire safety.
"The museum works with local schools and fire departments to teach fire safety to visiting children's groups.
"Families visiting can learn about fire safety from the museum's displays, and the immensely knowledgeable volunteers on duty.
The Firefighter's Hall and Museum is open to all on Saturdays all year round.
"Between June 30 and Labor Day, the Firefighters Hall and Museum is also open on Sundays. Groups can visit the museum on other days by appointment.
"On Saturdays from April until October, a ride in a real fire truck is included with admission – highly recommended and great fun even for adults."
Hundreds of people turned out in downtown Minneapolis almost a year ago (Aug. 1, 2011) for the dedication of a remembrance garden, in memorial of the 35W bridge victims and survivors.
The memorial overlooks the spot on the Mississippi River where the 35W bridge collapsed in 2007.
A memorial wall is inscribed with the names of survivors of the bridge collapse and the words, "Our lives are not only defined by what happens, but by how we act in the face of it, not only by what life brings us, but by what we bring to life.
"Selfless actions and compassion create enduring community out of tragic events."
The new I-35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge opened to traffic at 5 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, more than three months early.
My neighbor Bud Schmuck and I viewed the new bridge on the day it opened.
We parked on 10th Street and walked over that bridge to get a breathtaking glimpse of the 189-foot wide, 10-lane bridge.
The bridge is light rail transport-ready which may help accommodate future transportation needs.
Editor's note: Howard Lestrud is ECM online managing editor.


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Catholic Theological Union was pleased to confer its 2013 Blessed are the Peacemakers Award on Mary McAleese, Eighth President of Ireland, for her efforts in promoting reconciliation in the North and South of Ireland.
On April 17, over 400 guests gathered at the Hilton Chicago for the annual Blessed are the Peacemakers dinner to celebrate the esteemed 2013 recipient.
CTU also inaugurated a special recognition award for outstanding local leaders who have given exemplary service to our community. Diakonia is the Greek word for service used in the New Testament. The first recipient of the Diakonia Award was James J. O'Connor for his extraordinary leadership of the Big Shoulders Fund, which provides support to the Catholic schools in the neediest areas of inner city Chicago.
Mary McAleese spoke to CTU students during a community forum. Click here to view her remarks.


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After a lengthy process, California American Water has settled on a firm that has already worked on well-known local water projects to design and build the proposed north Marina desalination plant.
Cal Am officials announced Friday that Massachusetts-based CDM Constructors Inc. is its recommended choice to design and build the desal plant at the core of the Monterey Peninsula water supply project. CDM is a subsidiary of CDM Smith.
The firm is known locally for its work on the Sand City desalination plant and the Pebble Beach Co.'s recycled water project. It has technical experience in more than 40 similar projects globally, including seven in California.
Like the proposed north Marina desal plant, the Sand City plant produces drinking water from brackish groundwater. The Pebble Beach project uses treated reclaimed water to irrigate its golf courses.
The choice follows a nine-month procurement process in which a number of firms competed for the contract. The pick will now be subject to a 10-day public review led by the project's public governance committee.
"This is a major step toward solving the Monterey Peninsula's water supply issue," Cal Am President Rob MacLean said in a statement. "This procurement has brought the most reputable desalination experts in the world to the table to compete in what has been a professional and thorough process. The residents of the Monterey Peninsula will have the opportunity to review our selection criteria via the governance committee's public examination."
Rich Svindland, Cal Am's director of engineering, said CDM was ranked highest out of four finalists in an evaluation of the business, financial and technical aspects of the firms' competitive proposals. The CDM's $86 million bid was also the lowest of the four submitted, with the others ranging from $90 million to $110 million.
Svindland said all four firms had "some great technical concepts and innovations," but CDM emerged with a clear edge in the final rankings.
In a statement, CDM Smith Chairman and CEO Stephen Hickox said, "We're looking forward to being part of the Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project team. The project provides a forward-thinking and environmentally sensitive approach to solving a very serious water supply shortage. We understand the time constraints and have the capability to deliver the desalination project the Monterey Peninsula community needs."
The other firms submitting proposals were Black & Veatch Construction, CH2M Hill Engineers and MWH Constructors.
The desal plant is a key component of the Peninsula water project, which is designed to provide a new water supply to offset a state-ordered cutback in pumping from the Carmel River that takes full effect at the end of 2016. Cal Am has already acknowledged it will miss that deadline due to a series of setbacks and delays, and now estimates the project will be complete by mid-2018 barring any more major delays, such as protracted litigation.
The project's public governance committee is set to conduct a special meeting at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday to discuss the choice of CDM. The committee includes members of the Peninsula mayors' water authority board, the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District board, the county Board of Supervisors and Cal Am. The meeting is at water management district headquarters, 5 Harris Court in Monterey.
The committee hired a consultant firm, SPI Inc., to participate in Cal Am's evaluation of the firms.
"In whole, I consider the process of selection fair and typical of selection processes used by public water utilities," SPI's Alex Wesner wrote in a memo to the mayors. "My recommendation to the (committee) is to support Cal Am's selection of CDM to design and build the desalination facilities infrastructure."
If the committee agrees with the selection, Svindland said Cal Am could sign CDM to a deal by Christmas and the firm could begin work in January.
"This is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, decisions the public governance committee will make," Carmel Mayor Jason Burnett said. "There's very little room for error (on the project). We need to make sure we have a professional firm building this project.
All of the proposals and other related information is available on the project website at www.watersupplyproject.org.
Jim Johnson can be reached at 753-6753 or firstname.lastname@example.com. If you go There are three public meetings Monday to discuss Cal Am's choice of a desal plant contractor: · Technical advisory committee meeting, 10 a.m., Seaside City Hall · Board of directors meeting, 12:30 p.m., Seaside City Hall · Water management district board, 7 p.m., 5 Harris Court, Monterey
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There are three public meetings Monday to discuss Cal Am's choice of a desal plant contractor:
· Technical advisory committee meeting, 10 a.m., Seaside City Hall
· Board of directors meeting, 12:30 p.m., Seaside City Hall
· Water management district board, 7 p.m., 5 Harris Court, Monterey