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Braun fans twice as he puts winter behind him
Braun fans twice as he puts winter behind him
PHOENIX -- Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun struck out twice in his 2012 debut, a 1-1 tie with the Giants at Maryvale Baseball Park on Sunday. Braun drew a mixed reaction from 6,619 fans at the Brewers' spring home, many of whom stood and cheered the National League MVP who spent his winter mounting a successful appeal of a drug suspension. Many on hand jeered Braun, a prelude to the type of reaction he could receive when the Brewers take the road. "It's certainly going to be an adjustment, but overall it is not something that really factors into my thought process or preparations too much," Braun said.
Braun struck out swinging against Giants starter Madison Bumgarner to end the first inning and was called out on strikes against Shane Loux leading off the fourth. The Brewers slugger said he'll need some time to get his timing down. Still, it was "fun," Braun said, to get back to baseball after his long winter. "Yeah, it was great," he said. "I think for all of us as a team, you look forward to games starting. It's a little more adrenaline, little more excitement and enthusiasm. So, it was fun."
Brewers starters Randy Wolf and Zack Greinke piggybacked and threw two scoreless innings apiece, with Wolf retiring all six hitters he faced.Greinke had to work a bit harder, allowing three hits. But he mixed in four cut fastballs, a pitch he's been working on this spring, and was pleased with three of them. Greinke called the pitch a work in progress. He declined to talk about the fan reaction to Braun. Wolf said he barely noticed it. "I heard more supporting cheers today than anything else, to tell you the truth," Wolf said. "Obviously, you're going to get that more when you're in Maryvale. A lot of people got away from the cold in Milwaukee and were enjoying the nice weather." Brewers closer John Axford allowed a run on three hits in his debut, and fellow relievers Kameron Loe and Marco Estrada each worked a scoreless, hitless inning as the teams took a 1-1 tie into the late innings. The Brewers played without two regulars who were scratched from the starting lineup about 15 minutes before Wolf's first pitch. Right fielder Corey Hart needs arthroscopic surgery on his right knee and will miss 3-4 weeks, and second baseman Rickie Weeks sat with a stiff throwing shoulder. Weeks' replacement in the leadoff role, center fielder Carlos Gomez, drove in a run with a third-inning single. Up next: Monday's 8:35 p.m. CT tilt with the Giants will be the Brewers' 2012 debut on MLB.TV and is one of two night game's on Milwaukee's spring slate, and lefty Chris Narveson will be the starter. Right-hander Jose Veras, the key offseason addition to the Brewers' bullpen, is scheduled to make his unofficial debut. It'll be a day off for Braun, third baseman Aramis Ramirez and catcher Jonathan Lucroy.
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Univision owned-and-operated station KMEX-TV Channel 34 has dethroned reigning nominations champ KNBC-TV Channel 4 for the 66th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, racking up 20 nominations to KNBC's 16.
The nominations were announced early Thursday. Last year KNBC had three more nominations that KMEX. The Spanish-language station picked up speed this time around, marking the first time its led in the number of nominations.
KMEX, which frequently beats English-language stations in the ratings in the 6 p.m. hour, is up for awards in categories including hard news reporting (recognizing reporter Antonio Valverde) and investigative reporting for "La Dalia Negra" (The Black Dahlia), a three-part special from anchor Leon Krauze that reexamined the infamous 1947 slaying, in addition to the highly competitive newscast categories.
Among the gaggle of nominations KNBC received was for its live coverage of the Springs fire and its multipart report on the deadly Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Phillippines.
Coming in at No. 3 was KTLA-TV Channel 5 with 14 nominations, followed by KABC-TV Channel 7 with 13. Telemundo owned-and-operated KVEA-TV Channel 52 placed fifth with 10 nominations. Meanwhile, KCBS-TV Channel 2 placed ninth with seven nomintations.
The winners will be announced July 26 at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood.
A full list of the nominations can be found on the Emmys website.

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Dog of the Day
Cat of the Day
Pet of the Day
Awww, what a face!
I've Been Frosted
Oh my goodness. Love this! Such an adorable face,
That little guy needs a hug SO BADLY !
Sneakers, Becca, Ichabod & NA'vi
Dogs know that you love them, whether you own them or not
If youre not watching FREE TV, you should be !
I wasn't! That THUNK you just heard was me falling off my chair from the cuteness!
I've been Boo'd ... right off the stage!
Aaahh, I have been defrosted! Thank you, Bonny and Asiel!
Brrrr, I've been Frosted! Thank you, Asiel and Pomtzu!
"That's the power of kittens (and puppies too, of course): They can reduce us to quivering masses of Jell-O in about two seconds flat and make us like it. Good thing they don't have opposable thumbs or they'd surely have taken over the world by now." -- Paul Lukas
"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays." -- Persius, first century Roman poet
Cassie's Catster page: http://www.catster.com/cats/448678
What a cutiepie! Please give him a hug from me too.
Lilith Cherry
"Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents, never revenges itself." -Mahatma Gandhi
What a sweet face. "I want a hug".
Meowmie to Mr. Spunky, Lady Jane, Bob, Callie, Kimi, and fosters Lucy Lou and HRH Oliver Woodrow von Katz.
I've been Boo'd ... right off the stage!
RIP Samwise (Dec 2, 2014), Emily (Oct 8, 2013), Rose (Sept 24, 2001), Maggie (Fall 2003)
I want to give that cutie pie a hug so bad.
In loving memory of Tigger 2003-2009. In loving memory of Ashes 2001-2013.
So cute!
Clover, Loki, Shadow, Pixel and Kyo
Oh, goodness, what cuties!
I've Been Frosted
Ahhh! I'm such a sucker for these guys! We have a few puppies that come into work that are under 6 months old, every time I see them on the schedule I get so excited!
Kaitlyn (the human)
Sadie & Rita (Forever in Our Hearts) (the Labbies)
And we had yet ANOTHER one come in today... no pics of this one, unfortunately. Must be bulldog puppy season!
I could cuddle that wrinkly puppy for hours!
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The Richmond County Sheriff's Office wanted to make a big statement about traffic-related issues in 2013.
With a 27 percent increase in the number of speeding tickets issued this year compared to 2012, it did just that.
When Sheriff Richard Roundtree took office in January, he made it a priority to restructure the department's traffic division, increasing the number of officers on patrol from two per shift to 10 or more at any given time.
With more officers on the streets, the department cracked down on drunk drivers and speeders, and as of Dec. 12, the sheriff's office has issued more than 12,034 speeding citations, up from 9,446 a year ago.
Sheriff's Lt. Ramone Lamkin said the traffic division pores over statistics to determine which areas of the county are most prone to traffic violations. When a problem area is identified, the department will "flood" the streets.
"If there is a problem area, you're going to see a barrage of police," Lamkin said in October. "We're going to flood the area and try to stop the behavior."
The focus on traffic enforcement has helped in more ways than one, Lamkin said.
Through Dec. 15, the department has worked 23 roadway fatalities, which is down from 37 fatalities in the same span last year.
The county was coming off one of its worst years for traffic fatalities in 2012, with 42 total.
The sheriff's office attributes the drop to Operation Thunder, a 90-day initiative created by the Governor's Office of Highway Safety with the explicit purpose of cracking down on traffic violations to decrease fatalities.
During the three-month Operation Thunder initiative, and throughout follow-up weekends, there were no fatal accidents in Richmond County, according to a statement from the sheriff's office.
"Additionally, many other arrests of wanted felons, weapons seizures and drug seizures helped to reduce crime throughout the area," the statement continued.
During the three-month period, officers made 307 DUI arrests, apprehended 39 fugitives and issued more than 1,100 warnings. In the same three-month span, officers issued 330 seatbelt and 488 child seat violation citations.
"This is something that we really need to tackle," said Lt. Ramone Lamkin on the high number of child seat violations. "We're going to hold more events to educate drivers and make sure people know how to properly buckle their children."
Roundtree said the concentrated effort yielded favorable results.
"Anytime you can lower traffic fatalities by that much, that's huge," Roundtree said. "That's one more person who will make it home for Christmas. That's one more person who is going to make it to Thanksgiving dinner because we cracked down on traffic enforcement."
Roundtree insisted that the increase in traffic citations goes a long way toward correcting bad driver behavior.
"We're working toward voluntary compliance," Roundtree said. "It's not about the ticket for us. My officers don't have a quota or anything like that. If they wrote warnings all day long that would be fine by me. I just want people to start obeying traffic laws and get home safely."
Despite the success of the traffic division this year, Lamkin said he is far from satisfied.
"Are we done? No," he said. "We still have our work cut out for us. I'm glad we almost cut traffic fatalities in half, but I want to get that lower."


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Welsh Secretary: Labour Market Statistics 'encouraging' but we must do more to boost economy in Wales
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Secretary of State for Wales has cautiously welcomed the latest Labour Market Statistics which indicate employment levels in Wales have …
The Secretary of State for Wales has cautiously welcomed the latest Labour Market Statistics which indicate employment levels in Wales have increased. Cheryl Gillan urged the Welsh Government to work with the UK Government, to help turn this single set of positive figures into a long-term upward trend.
The latest statistics show that employment levels in Wales have increased and unemployment levels have decreased slightly. The economic inactivity level and rates decreased significantly and the claimant count signalled that more people moved off Jobseekers Allowance than moved onto it.
Mrs Gillan said: "This is encouraging news, but we need to bear in mind that this is a single set of figures and there is still a long way to go. The task ahead of us is a great challenge, as the unemployment rate in Wales is still unacceptably high at 8.9% and there are still 130,000 people looking for work.
"This is the second month in a row in which more people are moving off Job Seekers allowance than went on to it which is welcome news. We need to ensure there are ample conditions for growth, in order to ensure that there are real opportunities for the people of Wales to show what they can do.
"I urge the Welsh Government to work with the UK Government, to help turn this single set of positive figures into a long-term upward trend. We know that we have the resources and the support available to make Wales a first class business destination, so it is up to all of us to work together to promote Welsh business opportunities and attract inward investment."
**Notes for Editors: **
- The employment rate in Wales was 68.2%, an increase of 0.9% from the last quarter
- The unemployment rate was 8.9%, a fall on the last quarter of 0.1%, but is 0.5% higher than the same quarter of 2010
- The economic inactivity rate was 25.1%, a fall of 0.8% on the last quarter and a fall of 1.0% on the same quarter last year
- The Claimant count unemployment rate was 5.5% in December, unchanged from November 2011 and 0.5% higher when compared with last year.
- The Youth Claimant Count Unemployment level was 26,200, an increase of 3,000 on December 2010.
- The ILO (International Labour Organisation) unemployment is a count of those who are out of work and want a job, have actively sought work in the last 4 weeks and are available to start work in the nest two weeks; plus those who are out of work, have found a job and are waiting to start in the next 2 weeks.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. ---- Ever dream about a honeymoon in space? You may want to think twice after you hear about Joe Tash's research.
The near-zero gravity of Earth orbit may do serious harm to themale and female reproductive systems, the University of KansasMedical Center biologist has discovered.
Sperm counts drop. Egg-producing ovary cells waste away. At least that's been the case among the laboratory and space-traveling rodents that Tash has studied.
What prolonged exposure to microgravity does to an astronaut's fertility remains a big unknown. But Tash's hypothesis isn't reassuring: Long-term spaceflight renders people "reproductively compromised."
"We have a lot of tantalizing data that require more rigorous investigation," Tash said. "It's unfortunate that we're discovering this just as the shuttle program is winding down."
Tash will have an experiment with mice on board in February forone of the final space shuttle flights. His work remains a NASApriority, but in the future he will rely on commercial and foreignspaceflights to get his animals into orbit.
"Right now, there isn't a lot (of reproductive system research) we're looking at. Joe's got the most interesting finding," said Ken Souza, a space biologist working with NASA's Ames Research Center in California. "We're very excited from the biological standpoint of pursuing this."
Scientists know plenty about how weightlessness impairs healing and weakens the immune system and how it causes muscles to atrophy and bones to lose calcium. And they've come up with some effective countermeasures like exercise for astronauts.
If exercise keeps muscles in shape, what countermeasure might astronauts use to maintain reproductive health?
Souza laughed. "That's a good question," he said.
The human reproductive system remains the final frontier for biological research in space. And scientists haven't approached it boldly.
"There's a general unwillingness to go into that sensitive area of health," Tash said. "It's politically incorrect.
"But it also has been relatively unimportant to the success of spaceflights, and that may be a reason for the meager amount of research, suggested Richard Jennings, a physician and aerospace medicine expert at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
"If you get sick in space, that's a safety of flight, life or death issue," Jennings said. "When you prioritize what you do in science, that's the first thing you look at. Reproduction was certainly way down the list."
Jennings has been involved in space medicine since 1987. He hasn't seen evidence that floating in a spacecraft affects astronauts' fertility, or their sex lives. On the contrary. "We've had astronauts ---- after a two-week flight, they were able to get their spouses pregnant a day or two after landing," Jennings said.
A 2005 study Jennings co-authored counted 17 babies born to female astronauts after they had been in space. The astronauts had a high miscarriage rate, but women who've gained the seniority to go into space tend to be near the end of their child-bearing years, Jennings said.
"No matter what you do for a living, your fertility is dramatically reduced with age," he said.
Most of Jennings' experience has been with astronauts on short spaceflights. Longer missions may warrant more study of the reproductive system, he said.
Tash's research suggests that the reproductive system is at serious risk during spaceflight.
He has studied the effects of weightlessness on earthbound male rats by using a harness to keep their hind legs elevated above the cage floor. Scientists consider this technique a valid simulation of microgravity.
Other researchers already had found that weightlessness compromises sperm development in animals. But none had studied the animals for more than a few weeks.
Tash kept his experiment going for six weeks, a duration more like the time astronauts spend on the International Space Station.
His results were more dramatic than anything found previously: The rats' testes shrank and their sperm counts dropped so low the rats were infertile.
Tash's experiment with female mice that flew on the space shuttle Discovery in April showed effects that were equally devastating.
"Fifteen days of spaceflight shuts down the ovaries," Tash said.
Tash and his KU collaborators, Viju Gupta, Lesya Holets and Katherine Roby, examined the mice shortly after they landed.They found that ovary cells called follicles that produce eggs were dying. And genes involved with the female hormone estrogen had switched off.
"The surprising thing for us was how dramatic it was," he said.
Souza, the NASA biologist, thinks Tash's research may do more than help protect the health of astronauts; it may benefit Earthlings, as well.
Just as the rapid deterioration of bones and muscles in microgravity mimics the effects of years of aging on Earth, Tash's research may provide a model for studying how the reproductive system changes with age.
As scientists learn how reproductive hormones are affected and what genes are switched on or off, they may find ways to maintain sexual vitality or minimize the symptoms of menopause, Souza said.


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Fragments Of Unbecoming Album Set For November Release
That's right, you harlequins of smut.
We told you last month that German death metal band Fragments Of Unbecoming were working on their fifth album.
Now, we can tell you that album — The Art Of Coming Apart — will be in stores November 30 on Cyclone Empire.
The band says the new album will "contain eight brutal Swedish death metal songs and two instrumentals."
"The songs sound awesome after being mixed in Soundtunnel Studio by Ingo Maier and mastered by Dan Swanö," the band proclaims.
I loves me some Fragments Of Unbecoming, I do.
You should too. In fact, let's listen to some Fragments right now.


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Jacob's Ladder
Conversations that the author conducted with Jacob Turkel reveal that he does not intend to reapprove Yoav Galant's appointment as IDF chief of staff.
A common narrative device in the thriller, whether in print or on screen, is the unexpected return of the hero after his removal from the scene, or to put it another way, a character who was shot in the first act suddenly resurfaces in the third. That surprise ending is what Ehud Barak and Yoav Galant attempted to effect this weekend, pinning their hopes on public remarks by Jacob Turkel that were interpreted as expressing his willingness to reapprove Galant's appointment as Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, were it resubmitted to the senior appointments committee chaired by the retired Supreme Court justice.
After two conversations that we conducted with Turkel, however, it is clear that this was not his intention. Galant could be headed for an embarrassing fall if he tries, with Barak urging him on, to climb Jacob's ladder again in order to reach the closed door of the chief of staff's office.
Before he was appointed to the bench, at the age of 32, Turkel served as a soldier in the Givati Brigade and as an officer in the Artillery Corps, including as a forward observation officer during the 1956 Sinai campaign. He was transferred to the military courts unit. Like most Supreme Court justices, his army reserve duty was as a military judge, a service he has continued on a volunteer basis, now at the rank of colonel. He is no stranger to military issues.
Turkel likes and respects Gabi Ashkenazi. After the chief of staff's confidential testimony last August before the public committee investigating the Gaza-bound flotilla raid, Turkel, who chaired that panel as well, heaped praise on Ashkenazi. In granting his approval to Galant's succession of Ashkenazi in the position, Turkel was less than enthusiastic - "Galant can be appointed chief of staff." This was very different from the language he used four years ago, in approving Ashkenazi's appointment - "The committee supports ..." For Turkel, the difference is significant.
In light of the findings and rulings of the past five months, Turkel and his three committee colleagues would have rejected Galant. The misleading impression that the retired justice would have maintained his original position in a second round stemmed from Turkel's expression of sympathy for Galant "on the personal level," as he put it.
In their shared sense of being victims of the media, Turkel and Galant are on the same side. Both believe they were punished for doing good, that the homeland they came to serve turned its back on them.
Turkel's compassion for Galant is closer to a judge's reflections before pronouncing sentence on a defendant who has already been convicted than it is to the question of whether to convict or acquit. That compassion would not have been translated into a repeat of the misguided decision to approve the appointment before all the facts were known. As an accomplished judge, Turkel prides himself on his ability to change his opinion in the transition from a small panel to a larger one, or when faced with new evidence.
The problematic member of the Turkel committee on senior appointments is not Turkel himself, a thorough man who cross-checked the tiniest details in order to obtain an accurate picture of the flotilla raid. Were Turkel to resign in favor of another retired Supreme Court justice, the inherent impediment posed by the committee's composition would remain; that is, the fact that its three other members are tainted with the same defect they are supposed to detect and disqualify in those they vet - ties to political figures.
Only the government in power is represented on the panel, by means of two of the coalition parties, Likud (former justice and finance minister Moshe Nissim ) and the National Religious Party (former MK Gila Finkelstein ), and an official who is subordinate to the prime minister (the civil service commissioner ). This creates a dangerous opportunity to lobby and influence committee members.
Turkel did not succeed in foiling such attempts the first time around. Before the cabinet reconsiders the chief of staff appointment, it would do well to dismiss the Turkel committee's junior members in favor of individuals with a high public and professional stature, and no political background.
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From Pre Law to the 1% – Interesting Statistics on Attorney Earning Prospects
A serious motivational factor for many aspiring lawyers is the potential income that top attorneys earn. A recent New York Times article strives to deconstruct "the one percent", and the folks at the Above The Law blog have pulled out the data from the article relevant to lawyers.
They point out, among other cool factoids, that only physicians, CEOs, and public administrators rank ahead of attorneys on the list of livelihoods represented among the 1%.
There are some truly compelling statistics in this article, and a very interesting interactive breakdown of earnings by career.
How many of you are going to law school with the hopes of joining the 1%?


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Although CSCs have been popular in Europe for years, they only gained wide-spread adoption in the United States after their use as a voting method on the immensely popular "American Idol" television show. Cross-carrier CSCs were launched in the United States in 2003.
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Official download site for Firefox RPM
Know this sounds weird but I cannot find the RPM for Firefox 1.0.2 (also Thunderbird and Mozilla) at www.mozilla.org
Is there an official site that I somehow missed?
Appreciate some direction :)
I don't believe that Mozilla provides rpm for each individual distros. Other people provide the RPM's. There are many sites out there providing Suse RPM's.
Run through http://www.planetsuse.org for info, take a look at http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/index.php
http://www.planetn.org - blog aggregator for a bunch of Novell people.
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IBM, Microsoft, Novell/Suse and Sophos Consulting
Yes, I believe that they provide executable binaries as tar.gz files. Simply unpack and run. For SUSE rpm you can also look at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla
I think mine was autoupgraded with YOU.
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LONDON, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Alice Herz-Sommer, who played music to survive in a Czech concentration camp and the oldest known Holocaust survivor, died at 110, her grandson said.
Herz-Sommer died in London Sunday with her family at her bedside, Ariel Sommer, told CNN.
"Much has been written about her, but to those of us who knew her best she was our dear 'Gigi,' Sommer said. "She loved us, laughed with us and cherished music with us. She was an inspiration and our world will be significantly poorer without her by our side."
Herz-Sommer, originally from Prague, was locked up at the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II.
The talented musician and pianist performed concerts with other inmates that entertained their Nazi captors.
"My world is music. I'm not interested in doing anything else," she said in a 2014 Academy Award-nominated documentary, "The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life."
"I knew that we will play," Herz-Sommer said in the documentary. "And I was thinking when we can play it can't be so terrible. The music, the music! The music is the first place of art. It brings us on an island with peace, beauty and love."
Herz-Sommer was living in Prague when she and her 5-year-old son, Raphael, received deportation orders from the Nazis and were sent to Theresienstadt, the documentary's website said.
Herz-Sommer performed in more than 100 concerts in the camp and tried to protect her son physically and emotionally, the documentary's website said.
As an adult, Raphael, who was an accomplished cellist, said he had few dark memories of Theresienstadt, once writing his mother managed to create a Garden of Eden for him in the midst of the ordeal.
Herz-Sommer and her son returned to Prague after they were freed by the Soviet Army in May 1945, the documentary's website said. She eventually settled in London.


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The word is still out on whether he gets any virgins
If it turns out that Jamal al-Jamal died in an accidental explosion, the word is still out on whether he gets any virgins. But when you're a member of the Fatah terrorist group and you're blown up in an explosion, it's hard to believe that you had nothing to do with it.
The Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic was killed in an explosion when he tried to get into a safe which had been sealed for 30 years, the Palestinian foreign minister said.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki told The Associated Press the safe was recently moved from an old embassy building and had not been opened in 30 years.
"The ambassador decided to open it. After he opened it, apparently something happened inside [the safe] and went off," Malki told The AP.
Reuters, quoting a Czech government source, said the explosion was probably caused by a security device on the safe.
Some safes are fitted with mechanisms to destroy secret documents in the event they are tampered with.
The AP said it was unclear where the safe had been three decades ago, during the Cold War, or how the foreign minister could be sure it was sealed.
There's all sorts of fun questions to be asked about that such as why the PA's politicians back in the West Bank of Israel seem to know more about what happened than the local Czech authorities do and why the Czech authorities don't seem to want to discuss it, also why a supposed ambassador was trying to break into a safe and whose safe was it.
Jamal al-Jamal, the terrorist so Jamaly that they named him that twice, was working the Eastern European beat back in the Cold War days. He was born in Lebanon, like so many Palestinian Arabs who claim to be from Israel, but actually come from other countries entirely.
Fatah members often die in accidental explosions, but it's because they've been playing with bombs. It's hard to believe that Jamal al-Jamal would be the exception that proves the terrorist rule.


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We have written about private online communities and social media listening separately many times before, but this blog post is dedicated to the power of integrating the two disciplines.
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November 11, 2011
So, Joe Paterno enjoys the all-time college football coaching win record. My question to JoePa: Was it worth it? Konrad Moore Bakersfield :: Joe Paterno said, "With the benefit of hindsight, I would have done more. " Joe, with the benefit of hindsight, I would be a gazillionaire. This is about doing the right thing, the moral thing in the moment. Paterno passed. See no evil, speak no evil. Pass the buck down the road and let someone else deal with it. Joe Paterno is a silent partner to Jerry Sandusky's horror.
Top 25 countdown: No. 5: Penn State
August 30, 2009
Chris Dufresne
The Times' Chris Dufresne unveils his preseason college football top 25, one day (and team) at a time. No. 5 Penn State Penn State is poised for a terrific fall, a possible sixth undefeated season under Joe Paterno, and has to be considered a candidate to make the Bowl Championship Series title game next January in Pasadena. We know this because, at a news conference in early August, Paterno said: "Nothing excites me yet. I'll be honest with you. We're lousy. I have nothing to be excited about right now as a team.
More Penn State turmoil: Former athletics director is gone, too
April 20, 2012
By Michael Muskal
Mark Sherburne, who briefly served as athletics director at Penn State after the disclosure of a child sexual abuse scandal connected to the university, no longer works at the school, officials said Friday. The university would not disclose why Sherburne was no longer a Penn State employee, saying in an email that officials could not discuss personnel matters. The Centre Daily Times, which first reported Sherburne's departure, said he was fired Wednesday. Sherburne was a senior athletics official who stepped in for 10 days to head the department after the sexual abuse scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky broke.
UC Irvine men's volleyball advances with victory over Penn State
May 3, 2012
By Gary Klein
UC Irvine was not about to let another match go to five sets. The top-seeded Anteaters lost the first set, but came back to win three in a row to defeat Penn State, 18-25, 25-18, 25-15, 25-19, in an NCAA men's volleyball semifinal at the Galen Center. "Once we have our foot in the door we can do anything," Irvine outside hitter Connor Hughes said. Irvine will play for the title Saturday against the winner of Thursday night's match between USC and Lewis. Junior outside hitter Kevin Tillie had 21 kills and Connor Hughes added 10 for Irvine (25-5)
Big Ten: Penn State defeats Akron, 31-7
September 6, 2009
Associated Press
at No. 9 Penn State 31, Akron 7: Daryll Clark threw for 353 yards and three touchdowns as Penn State Coach Joe Paterno was on the sideline for the first time since hip-replacement surgery last year. at No. 22 Iowa 17, Northern Iowa 16: Iowa's Broderick Binns blocked Billy Hallgren's potential winning 40-yard attempt on first down with seven seconds left, but the Hawkeyes allowed the Panthers to recover the ball with a second left. Jeremiha Hunter got his hand on Hallgren's attempt on second down to preserve the win. at Michigan State 44, Montana State 3: Kirk Cousins threw three touchdown passes and Keith Nichol threw two for the Spartans.
Jerry Sandusky victim unhappy with sanctions placed on Penn State
January 3, 2013
By Houston Mitchell
One of Jerry Sandusky's victims in the Penn State sexual abuse scandal announced through his attorney on Wednesday that he was unhappy with the sanctions the NCAA placed on the school as punishment for its role in covering up the abuse. "Victim No. 4 was very disappointed when he learned of the NCAA sanctions several months ago," attorney Benjamin D. Andreozzi told Yahoo Sports on Wednesday. "He was particularly upset the sanctions were so broad that they impacted people who had absolutely nothing to do with the abuse or the failure to properly report the abuse.
Sandusky abuse victim intends to sue Penn State, lawyers say
July 26, 2012
By Melissa Rohlin
A man molested by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in a Penn State shower in 2001 will sue the university, his lawyers said Thursday. The man, known as Victim 2, has not yet revealed his name to the public. His lawyers will be Justine Andronici and Andrew Shubin, according to the statement released by the attorneys. Victim 2 was sexually abused in the shower on a Friday night about 9 p.m., an incident that Mike McQueary, then a graduate assistant on the Penn State football coaching staff, said he saw and reported to Joe Paterno the next day. The event became the linchpin in the case against Sandusky, who was convicted on 48 counts for sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years.
NCAA's slap at Penn State puts focus on NCAA itself
July 23, 2012
By Matt Pearce
When it comes to Penn State, there seems to be no end of judges and executioners. Top university officials have had their careers guillotined by public outrage, Jerry Sandusky has been tried and convicted in criminal court for sexual abuse, and coach Joe Paterno saw his career ended at the hands of the very university that had for so long adored him. On Monday, the NCAA stepped in to take its whack at the piñata. In a 45-minute announcement, NCAA President Mark Emmert exercised an unprecedented flexing of institutional muscle in announcing sanctions that will hobble the football program for perhaps a decade.
Mike McQueary to file 'whistleblower' suit against Penn State
May 8, 2012
By Rene Lynch
Mike McQueary, the Penn State assistant football coach whose eyewitness testimony proved central in the university's child sex-abuse scandal, now plans to sue the university. McQueary has filed the preliminary paperwork necessary for a "whistleblower" lawsuit against the university, according to a story posted online Tuesday by reporter Mike Dawson of the Centre Daily Times in Pennsylvania. The four-page document does not discuss details of the pending lawsuit but puts all parties on alert that McQueary will attempt to seek damages "outside normal arbitration limits," according to the story.
Penn State 'Victim 2' plans suit
July 27, 2012
Staff and wire reports
For months, the identity of the boy who was sexually assaulted in the locker room showers by Jerry Sandusky was one of the biggest mysteries of the Penn State scandal. Now, for the first time, a man has come forward to claim he was that boy, and is threatening to sue the university. The man's lawyers said Thursday they have done an extensive investigation and gathered "overwhelming evidence" on details of the abuse by Sandusky, the former assistant football coach convicted of using his position at Penn State and as head of a youth charity to molest boys over a period of 15 years.
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Batman has Robin, Sherlock Holmes has Watson, Shrek has Donkey, Frodo has Samwise, but celiac disease isn't as single minded.
Sometimes, regardless of how much we wish celiac disease was a loner, there's more than one sidekick to accompany it. And while a sidekick can be thought of as a good thing, some people who experience celiac disease and its sidekick(s) think of them more like The Joker and Poison Ivy. (Celiac disease is associated with greater risk of Hashimoto's thyroid disease, diabetes, and other forms of autoimmune diseases—autoimmune means that your body attacks some part of itself as though it were a bacteria or parasite that shouldn't be there.)
Heidi over at Adventures of a Gluten Free Mom has some great posts, but this one profoundly impacted me. Heidi's article talks about the 'why' of cheating on a gluten-free diet, but the reasons she lists apply to a lot more than just gluten.
I don't cheat on my gluten free diet. Given the choice of eating gluten or not eating at all, I'll pick not eating at all…even if that means no food all day. Gluten causes massive hunger for me, so being hungry for a day is nothing compared to feeling like I'm starving for as long as a few months. However, I have a huge family history of diabetes, and there have been times when I haven't been as mindful of that as I should.
I've been reading Dr. Richard Bernstein's book The Diabetes Solution and can't recommend the book enough if diabetes might be a concern for you. I don't have diabetes, but the majority of my immediate family members have been diagnosed with it. I recently learned that one of them is having readings outside of a normal range, despite a healthy body fat percentage, and that made me pause. For the first time it seemed possible that maybe there is an autoimmune component to the diabetes that "runs in my family" instead of it being entirely diet related. That's when I realized that despite eating lower carb most of the time, I might not be able to avoid autoimmune-induced diabetes. But currently I don't have it.
Eating gluten-free can be challenging, but my biggest regret is that I wasn't diagnosed sooner so that the damage it did could have been stopped. With my fasting glucose readings running around a healthy 80, I have the opportunity to prevent any damage that could be caused by a disease that I might or might not develop.
Maybe by catching the celiac disease and treating it, I prevented the progression of diabetes other family members have experienced. I'm the youngest by several years, so maybe the progression is happening but hasn't hit a noticeable level yet because of the diet I eat or just pure time. Maybe the diabetes in my family is all diet related and there isn't an autoimmune component. Regardless, I've been trying to decide how I feel about adopting a diet that limits any potential damage future high sugars could bring without knowing if I "need" to eat that way.
Dr. Bernstein, who is currently in his 80's but was diagnosed with insulin-dependent diabetes at age 12, outlines a way to keep even insulin dependent diabetics in a healthy glucose range.
One of the guidelines of Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution is to have no more than 6 carbs with any meals before noon, and to have 12 carbs or less with any meals after noon—6 carbs is about 2/3 c. of broccoli. He explains how he arrived at those quantities and why in his book.
When I'm alarmed at my family's glucose readings, they tell me I don't understand how hard it is. They might even feel like I'm being mean to suggest they shouldn't let their sugars run so far out of the normal range. I do get it, and it isn't mean to want them to avoid the long-term damage their short-term food desires will cause.
I understand the power of food, the emotions we associate with it, the social aspect of it, and what it is to know that if I want to be healthy I will never again sink my teeth into certain foods, never share them with friends or family, and never make new memories or continue old traditions with them. I know what it is to have a disease/illness feel like some undeserved punishment for a crime not committed. I also know what it is to successfully manage that disease and feel significantly better (and not like a victim) as a result.
The thing is, at the end of the day the fair or unfair of it doesn't matter. The simple truth is that we can't control our family history or the autoimmune diseases we do or don't have. But once we know we have a disease that is strongly affected by diet, we're the only ones who can limit the damage the disease does.
So even though things out of your control are happening, you're not powerless. And while I know that it may not feel like it now, eventually you might even be grateful for the lessons learned as you journey towards better health.
Oh, and by the way, I decided that unless (hopefully not until!) I'm diagnosed with diabetes, I'm going to eat according to Dr. Bernstein's recommendations for 98% of my meals. It's not really all that far from the gluten-free diet I've been eating, and it stacks the odds in my favor that I'll avoid ever being diagnosed. Unlike the damage eating gluten would do if I included it in my diet, there's a good shot that there will be no ill consequences for eating more than 12 carbs at a meal if kept to just 2% of the meals I eat each month.
Some of you reading this may be thinking that you're super glad you don't have to deal with celiac disease, diabetes, or any other autoimmune disease. I'm sincerely happy for you. There's probably even a few of you who felt some contempt toward those who don't manage their diets.
But instead of casting this article aside, I challenge you to start tomorrow and eat gluten free and low carb for forty days. Tomorrow? Yes. Pretend you just got diagnosed. Start gluten-free tomorrow and be following Dr. Bernstein's diet recommendations within a week (that gives you some time to read about the basics on his website.) In this world of booming rates of diabetes and increasing numbers of celiac disease, if it isn't you, one of your friends, family members, or coworkers will be diagnosed (and has probably already been misdiagnosed) in your lifetime.
But what are you going to do for food at your business meeting? What if the airplane/hotel/restaurant etc., doesn't have food that's on your new safe list? What are you going to do when your friend invites you over for dinner/a party? How are you going to handle the weekly gathering of friends/family at the bar/restaurant/church, etc.? There's gluten in chewing gum and some meats? Is there gluten in the tea or coffee you drink every day? Do I realize how much time it takes to read all the labels and that many restaurants have no clue about how to prevent cross-contamination of food…do you really have to read the label each time and ask the server to make sure your food has no gluten? Yes, you do. How do you make meat, veggies, nuts/seeds, and dairy into meals you won't be bored out of your mind with after a few days? What about Thanksgiving with stuffing and pumpkin pie…is there anything there you can eat, will you have to bring your own food just to be safe, and what will your family say when you can't have the food your family eats every year at Thanksgiving and have since you were born or before???
40 days…most of you reading the above paragraph told yourself there was no way you could do it. You might have said maybe you could do gluten-free or low carb, but not both. But for those who are really diagnosed, we have to find a way to succeed and thrive for the rest of our lives at what you just thought seemed an undoable task for even just 40 days. We also have to deal with people who think it's impossible (and therefore think we should just eat their way) because the idea of that much social and emotional change scares the crap out of them. And then there's the scariest question that I didn't include above, 'what if decide to do the challenge and I feel better at the end of it…what if the skin rash, headaches, mood swings, brain fog, canker sores, stomach problems, constipation, diarrhea, aches, and pains, or other symptoms I've had for years go away?'
*You should always check with your doctor before making any diet or exercise changes. If you are already diabetic and lower your carbs significantly, your insulin is likely to need to be adjusted to prevent you from having a dangerous low. Therefore, it may not be possible for you to start the challenge tomorrow, should you choose to do it at all. The point of making the challenge was to get you to think about the issues facing those with diabetes, celiac disease, or both—to get you to understand that changes in diet go way beyond the food itself, and to get you to question why you let your sugars run high if you have diabetes. Given that currently nearly 27% of people over 65 and 11% of people over 20 have diabetes (and those numbers are expected to rise to an even higher rate in the next 20 years…so 1-3 out of every 10 adults currently with more than that in 20 years!), you or someone you know will be affected by it. Celiac disease is less prevalent, but as diagnostic tools and awareness improve, the number of people accurately diagnosed with celiac disease is likely to increase significantly. Awareness now might prevent more disease and damage in the future. Wouldn't it be cool if those numbers went down instead of up in the next 20 years?
Useful Links
http://www.diabetes-book.com/ You can read part of Dr. Bernstein's book online for free there.
http://amzn.to/uzhzwV is Dr. Bernstein's book on Amazon


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Leinster take positives as young guns go down fighting
Northampton Saints 33 Leinster 21
Leinster were forced to dig deep but ultimately came up short against Northampton at Franklin's Gardens on Saturday.
Matt O'Connor fielded a largely youthful side, with several players making their first appearances for the province.
Northampton included far more international experience in their starting XV and they raced into a 21-0 lead at the break.
The Pro12 champions showed tremendous character to claw their way back into the game but a late try from Welsh winger George North ended any hopes of what would have been a stunning comeback.
Leinster started brightly but a couple of wayward lineouts cost them decent field position early on.
Tom Stephenson got the scoring under way for the hosts when he capitalised on a poor throw, and out-half Will Hooley converted.
Kahn Fotuali'i dotted down for Saints' second try before Leinster second-row Ben Marshall was sent to the sin bin for a late tackle. Substitute Luther Burrell scored the Premiership champions' third try.
O'Connor changed his half-back partnership for the second half, with Luke McGrath and Cathal Marsh both introduced but Northampton continued where they left off as North got in for a try in the corner,
Cian Kelleher began the fightback when he collected Steve Crosbie's pass to score. Marsh added the extras before Saints scrum-half Lee Dickson was shown a yellow card. Dan Leavy made his side's numerical advantage count when he got over for a second try that Marsh converted.
The young fly-half was central to the 'A' side's British & Irish Cup success last season and he will be hoping for further first team opportunities this year. Judging by his second-half display, he should indeed get more regular game time.
Clontarf winger Michael McGrath's converted try gave Leinster real hope of overturning the half-time deficit but their hopes were dashed when North streaked clear to score late on.
James Wilson's conversion put the gloss on the scoreline but there was plenty for the visitors to take from the defeat ahead of the start of the new season.
Leinster take on Ulster in their final pre-season game in Tallaght Stadium on Saturday.
Northampton Saints - B Foden; J Elliott, D Waldouck, T Stephenson (L Burrell 23), K Pisi; W Hooley, K Fotuali'i; A Corbisiero, R McMillan, S Ma'afu; J Craig, C Day; P Dowson, Tom Wood, S Manoa.
Leinster - B Dardis (C Kelleher 50); D Fanning (A Byrne 57), B Macken (R O'Loughlin 57), J Coghlan (S Crosbie 50), S Coghlan Murray (M McGrath 50); J Gopperth (C Marsh, h-t), I Boss (L McGrath h-t); M Bent (S McCarthy 32, E Byrne 68), B Byrne (T Moran, 62), T Furlong; B Marshall (G Thornbury h-t), T Denton; J van der Flier, D Leavy, D Ryan (J Slattery 62).
REF - L Pearce (RFU)
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The lesson there is you'd better have more going for you than SS!
No reasonable person would argue that having more than SS is a good plan, but many people can't. People at the bottom will not be investing money they aren't forced to pay to SS as wealthier people may. They will be using it to survive. Any good conservative would say that if SS is insufficient in the future, let's get rid of it today. I say let's improve it.
Then lets improve it by making it only mandatory to those below a certain percentage of the poverty line. I dont need it i dont want it with my education im making 40k starting out i dont need it and im intelligent enough that i will invest it and invest it well.


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Wednesday, 12 January, 2000, 12:00 GMT
Spin doctors face greater controls
The independent Committee on Standards in Public Life has called for tougher rules to govern the growth of unaccountable political advisers and spin doctors in Whitehall.
Delivering its sixth report into standards, the Neill Committee said that while the public believed that conduct in public life had improved, concern had shifted to the workings of government.
The committee called for Parliament to set a limit to the number of political appointees that a government would be allowed to bring into departments to work alongside impartial civil servants.
These special advisers, paid for by the tax payer, would also be subject to a beefed-up code of conduct clarifying the nature of the role that they play in relation to the civil service and departmental heads of information.
The recommendations come after growing criticism from the opposition and other groups that Labour Party-appointed figures are overstepping the mark and could lead to a politicisation of the civil service.
The committee also recommended:
Revealing the report, committee chairman Lord Neill said: "We believe that the evidence is that on the whole people think that standards have improved.
"But there is no room for complacency and there is room for amendments to the law."
Lord Neill said that the committee had taken a mass of evidence on the role of politically-appointed advisors but that the evidence "had all been one way".
"There is great advantage from the special adviser system," he said.
"But the numbers have been burgeoning. There should now be consideration given to introducing an overall number.
"We are not in the business of telling government how to govern.
"If it believes that the use of advisers and taskforces is an efficient form of government, that is a matter for ministers.
"You do get to a point where standards issues do arise.
"Parliament should be allowed to consider this issue because at the moment there is no way that someone in Parliament can take a look at it."
Lord Neill said that it had sought evidence specifically on allegations of a politicisation, looking at historical and current claims.
"There are those appointed to government because they are genuine experts in a field or those appointed for their political work," he said.
"But we have not come out with any conclusion that the civil service is being politicised."
Turning to the conduct of MPs, Lord Neill said that alleged breeches of standards could be best dealt with by a special tribunal, chaired by a legal figure from outside of parliament.
This would allow senior MPs sitting with the chair to take expert legal advice in order to deal more effectively with errant MPs.
Lord Neill stressed that the new law of bribery, first proposed 24 years ago, would allow criminal acts to be dealt with by the courts and not internally by Parliament.
Had the law existed at the time of the cash-for-questions scandal, former MP Neil Hamilton may have faced a criminal investigation over his conduct.
At the same time, the proposed law seeks to ensure that outside parties can no longer offer payments or inducements to MPs without facing prosecution.
The committee said that while it did not oppose the sponsorship of government activities, the details should be subject to the "maximum transparency".
Government defends advisers
Reacting to the report, Cabinet Office Minister Mo Mowlam defended the use of special advisers and said that the government would study the recommendations.
"We have made no secret of the number of advisers or their cost or their work," she said.
"Their role, to provide strong central support and political focus, is clearly defined.
"Cabinet ministers are required to obtain the Prime Minister's approval for all appointments of special advisers.
"The Government is totally committed to maintaining a non-political civil service."
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Rolling Stone at S.I.
This is a portrait of Wyclef Jean that I did for Rolling Stone magazine back in 2000. It was selected for an exhibit at The Society of Illustrators titled "Rolling Stone and the Art of the Record Review". The show runs from September 1 - October 22. Opening reception is September 9th at 6:30pm, 128 East 63 Street. More info on the show here


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Selling your home? The cards are in your favor.
By Beth Braverman @Money NEW YORK (Money Magazine)
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Roster Review: Robbie Hummel
Last week, in reviewing Othyus Jeffers' brief tenure with the Wolves, I made mention of the thin line separating NBA rotation players from D-Leaguers. The same could be said of the margin between making an NBA roster out of training camp and finding yourself on the outside looking in. In this most recent Timberwolves' preseason, four players were competing for the team's final two roster spots. AJ Price and second-round pick Lorenzo Brown were vying to be the team's third point guard. And Robbie Hummel and Jeffers were competing for the team's final wing spot.
Hummel, a not-terribly-athletic 24-year-old rookie with two surgically reconstructed knees may have seemed like the longshot of the two. But he had two things going for him that Jeffers did not: First, Hummel had a reputation as a three-point shooter. And the Wolves, still in morning-after mode after the worst outside shooting season basically ever, were desperate for three-point shooters. Second, Hummel's size (he's not the 6'8″ he's listed at, but he's still a big guard) allows him to guard multiple positions. Jeffers can't say the same. Hummel made the team.
Let's take the last part first. Hummel is indeed a versatile defender who can guard twos, threes and the occasional four. He doesn't lock anyone down or create holy chaos like Corey Brewer, and you certainly wouldn't want to stick him on your opponent's most dynamic scorer, but his court awareness, body positioning and great effort generally mitigate his lack of footspeed. He grabs some rebounds he probably shouldn't be able to grab; he contests some shots you wouldn't think he could contest. The Wolves were able to plug him into various spots in the lineup throughout the year without being punished too severely for it.
All of these are useful things. If Hummel had turned out to be a great or even above-average three-point shooter, they would feel like nice corollary benefits. (As in: "Wow, what a shooter–and how nice that he plays hard and can passably guard three positions!") But Hummel was not an above-average three-point shooter; he was an exactly average three-point shooter, (I mean exactly: both the league as a whole and Hummel himself hit 36% of their threes). And hitting wide-open, spot-up threes is by far the best thing Hummel does. Once he moves inside the arc, things get dicey. 27.3% of Hummel's field goal attempts came in the dreaded "long-two" zone–and he hit just 29.2% of those shots. He isn't quick or skilled enough to create space for himself off the dribble and he isn't athletic enough to hit contested shots.
And so, despite his average three-point shooting, despite his skill at spotting up in open space on the floor, Hummel's True Shooting rate was a deeply below-average 49.2%. In other words, he wasn't really helping the team much offensively. Indeed, Hummel's mediocrity was a contributing factor to the Wolves' difficulties off the bench this season and their general lack of outside shooting by players not named Kevin. I would be surprised if Hummel finds himself in a Wolves uniform again next season.
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You're leaving out one massive thing and that's his contract. Hummel made league minimum this year and will probably make the same next year. Having a semi versatile guy who can sort of shoot 3s for $500k as one of the 10th-15th people on your roster is actually valuable and a pretty good outcome for a second round pick. When someone goes down for a week or two you plug Hummel in and other than that he only sees the floor during garbage time… I'm happy bringing Hummel back for that role.
One other thing you missed. It took Hummel some time to find his groove. He shout just 29% from three before the All Star break but 44% after.
Yeah, I also want him back. He was miscast as only a shooter when he clearly plays good team defense and average-to-good individual defense. He's also an above-average rebounder for a 3 and an average rebounder for a 4. For the money, I think he'd work well as the backup 4 in small lineups (with some minimum-salary brawler playing against bigger lineups), and I don't know why he wouldn't be more effective as the backup 3 than Luc. I could see an analytically-savvy team picking him up for peanuts and him becoming a 40% 3 point shooting stretch 4; I hope the Wolves see his potential value.


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We peppered CBS News National Correspondent Ben Tracy with questions about his time on the trail leading up to Election Day. He's a big believer in the role of journalism and thinks candidates like Sharron Angle should have been more accessible to the media.
You're in Vegas the day before Election Day. What is that like? The race between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle is one of the most closely watched and important Senate races in the country so this is a great place to be. I am a political junkie, so to cover a race where the Senate Majority Leader and arguably the most powerful Democrat in Congress could lose to someone even many Republicans have described as "unqualified" for the job, is fascinating.
Are you sleep deprived yet? Not yet, but I will be as of 2 a.m. Tuesday morning when I wake up for my Early Show live shot. I have had many early mornings in the past couple of months. Working in the Pacific Time Zone means you start at an ungodly hour. When we go live at 7 a.m. on the East Coast, it is just 4 a.m. out here so it makes for a long day.
Will you do any gambling there? The only wagers placed will be between my colleagues about who will win this thing. No money will exchange hands…however a beverage may once all is said and done.
More with Tracy after the jump…
What have you learned on the trail? I've learned that a lot of people are really angry. Some have specific reasons such as the bailouts, stimulus, and health care. Others are not so sure why they are upset but there is a sense that the government just isn't working right now. In some sense people want members of Congress to work together and get things done, but in the same breath they will tell you they don't want their candidates to compromise. Those two forces are a recipe for continued gridlock. It can't be overstated that this election is about the economy. People are rightly worried and frustrated that things are not turning around more quickly. They have lost homes, jobs, and their sense of security. Many people feel powerless, but they can vote and take out their feelings on the candidates. That's why it is pretty tough to be an incumbent right now.
What has surprised you? I have been a little surprised, and pleasantly so, by how engaged people are. A wide section of people who don't normally show up at political rallies or even vote are very active this year. A lot of that can be credited to the Tea Party movement. You may disagree with their politics but they get people out of their houses and into the political debate. In America that is great to see.
What has annoyed you? Candidates running for office who don't think they need to answer questions from the press about their positions. This election is setting a dangerous precedent that candidates can ignore the media and handpick who they talk to. Here in Nevada, Sharron Angle told a local reporter on Friday that she would "answer all his questions once she is the Senator." People deserve to know more and not rely on their own campaign commercials and bumper stickers. People may not like the media, but we do play a vital (and constitutional) role and we need to be able to help provide impartial information so voters can make the most informed decision. I know it sounds a bit high and mighty, but I believe if done right, the role journalists play is essential in politics.
Most amusing moment so far: The stuff they sell at Tea Party rallies is really good. I bought a roll of toilet paper that has political leaders (Republicans and Democrats) faces on it. It's hilarious and will sit on a shelf in my office. They also have great T-shirts and buttons. My favorite is "Keep the tea…dump the politicians." Clever.
Hotel accommodations (describe): Right now I am at the ARIA resort in Las Vegas at the new City Center development. It is quite nice. On the campaign trail this season I have stayed in everything from Sheratons and Hampton Inns to the Mandarin Oriental. I do like hotels so that is a fun part of the job.
Who is the best, most intriguing person you've met on the trail? By the far the most interesting people to me are voters. I met a woman in Reno who was attending a Tea Party rally where Sarah Palin spoke. She told me that she is supporting Sharron Angle because she thinks government is too involved in our lives. She considers herself a Republican because she wants lower taxes and less spending, but she also says she supports gay marriage and, while personally opposed to abortion, she does not believe the government should be able to ban it. She really was ideologically consistent but does not fit into the tidy boxes we like to create for Republicans and Democrats. I find that interesting.


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JONESBOROUGH, TN – UNCW combined for a low-round seven-under-par 281 to finish third overall and junior Payne McLeod posted his second straight top-5 finish on Sunday at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate at the Blackthorn Club.
The Seahawks (289-289-281=859) finished two strokes off the pace behind champion, 12th-ranked Missouri (285-286-286=857) and one off second-place and 31st ranked Tennessee (280-287-291=858).
'We always talk about winning that final round and today we did," said UNCW Head Coach Matt Clark. "It was fun to see all five guys in the mix and making big shots. It's been a long 10 days, but to come away with second and third-place finishes against some of the best competition in this region is great for a school from the Colonial Athletic Association."
The tournament field included five top-40 programs and eight players were ranked in the top 100.
McLeod (71-73-67=211), who tied for second earlier in the week at the Gridiron Classic in South Bend, Ind., aided the Seahawk surge in the final round, as UNCW moved from eighth to finish third. McLeod carded a career-low 67 in the third round and climbed 12 spots on the leaderboard.
"Payne was his usual consistent self, but today made a mature decision that allowed him to really take off and make a run." McLeod settled for a par on the eighth hole and proceeded to four birdies on the remaining 10 holes.
Grant Milner 967-67-72=206) of Memphis earned medalist honors finishing 10-under-par for the tournament.
Senior Thomas Bass (71-72-72=215) tied for 11th after recording his second straight round of even-par golf on Sunday. Bass has now finished 11th or better in each of his last three tournaments.
Freshman Jens Geweke (72-73-71=216) finished off his best tournament outing of the fall with a one-under-par 71. All three of Geweke's rounds counted for UNCW, which posted its lowest tournament stroke total (859) since the GolfWeek Program Challenge (843) to open the 2011-12 season.
UNCW Results: T4. Payne McLeod (71-73-67=211); T11. Thomas Bass (71-72-72=215); T15. Jens Geweke (72-73-71=216); T47. Stefan Brewer (75-76-71=222); T56. Ryan Nagy (78-71-75=224)
Team Standings: 1. Missouri (285-286-286=857); 2. Tennessee (280-287-291=858); 3. UNCW (289-289-281=859); 4. Memphis (280-291-289=860); 5. Virginia (284-286-291=861); T6. Wake Forest (285-290-287=862); Coastal Carolina (291-282-289=862); 8. Virginia Tech (289-283-297=869); 9. East Tennessee (288-297-287=872); 10. Penn State (294-296-289=879); 11. Army (289-300-292=881); 12. Furman (302-293-293=888); 13. Pepperdine (295-291-304=890)
Individual Standings: 1. Grant Milner, MEM (67-67-72=206); 2. Evan Beck, WFU (70-69-69=208); 3. Emilio Cuartero, MU (71-70-69=210); T4. Payne McLeod, UNCW (71-73-67=211); Rick Lamb, TENN (67-73-71=211); T6. Roberto Ballesteros, CCU (73-68-71=212); Mac McLaughlin, UVA (72-68-72=212); T8. Jace Long, MU (70-70-73=213); Grayson Murray*, WFU (70-72-71=213); Sebastian Soderberg, CCU (71-70-72=213)
ATLANTA, GA (CFCC women's soccer release)- CFCC 3 Georgia Perimeter College 4. The Lady Sea Devils dropped their second game in as many days with a loss to #7 NJCAA GPC. Sea Devils opened the scoring in the 1st few minutes of the game with a goal by Jaime Berti. GPC scored a few minutes later to tie at 1. CFCC regained the lead with a goal by Amanda Fenton in the 20th minute. GPC equalized just before half. GPC scored 2 goals early in the 2nd half bringing score to 4-2. Lauren Smith scored in the 70th min, off an assist by Kelly Sigmon. Smith almost tied the game 5 minutes later narrowly missing. The Lady Sea Devils are 12-2-1, 9-1 in Region X, they take on USC Salkehatchie away, this Wednesday in Allendale, SC. Kick off is set for 2pm.
NEW YORK (AP) – Anibal Sanchez shut down a Yankees lineup minus injured Derek Jeter, and the Detroit Tigers capitalized on a missed call by an umpire to beat New York 3-0 Sunday for a 2-0 lead in the AL championship series.
Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda pitched perfect ball into the sixth inning. But the slumping New York hitters looked lost a day after their captain broke his ankle in the 12th inning of a 6-4 loss.
Making his second postseason start, Sanchez pitched three-hit ball deep into the game to make Tigers manager Jim Leyland's handling of a bullpen without struggling closer Jose Valverde a lot easier.
The Tigers scored twice in the eighth after second base umpire Jeff Nelson missed a call at second base.
Game 3 in the best-of-seven series is Tuesday night in Detroit, with reigning AL MVP Justin Verlander starting for the Tigers.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Carlos Beltran and David Freese each hit two-run homers and the St. Louis Cardinals held on to beat the San Francisco Giants 6-4 Sunday night in Game 1 of the NL championship series.
The wild-card Cardinals took an early 6-0 lead and made it stand up. Two days earlier, St. Louis overcame a 6-0 deficit to beat Washington in the deciding Game 5 of the division series.
After starter Lance Lynn struggled, the St. Louis bullpen delivered with 5 1-3 scoreless innings.
The Giants dropped to 0-3 at home so far during this postseason, outscored 20-6 at AT&T Park.
Game 2 in the best-of-seven series is Monday night. Chris Carpenter pitches for the Cardinals against Ryan Vogelsong.
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Kevin Faulconer will enter the mayor's office Monday with the promise of bringing stability, respect and a willingness to work together to move San Diego forward.
A new tone at the top almost certainly will be roundly welcome after the short, turbulent era of Bob Filner. But the goodwill won't change fundamental disagreements between Faulconer and the City Council majority over several vexing and costly issues that will be difficult to brook no matter how collegial City Hall becomes.
During the recent campaign, the Republican mayoral candidate talked a great deal about his efforts to reach across the partisan divide to seek compromise with council Democrats. But the philosophic gulf between them over basic tax-and-spend concerns at the heart of the big issues suggest compromise won't be easy.
There will be battles over fees on business for affordable housing, the minimum wage and how to pay for billions of dollars for necessary and mandated infrastructure improvements.
"On the vast majority of issues, I think we are going to agree," Faulconer said in a recent interview with the U-T San Diego editorial board. "When it comes to most of those at the council I think we've done a remarkable job of working well together. That's not to say that there won't be issues where we have differences of opinion and views. And that's the nature, obviously, of city government."
Faulconer and the council do have many of the same goals on the big issues facing the city: a massive upgrade of San Diego's infrastructure, growing the affordable housing stock, bolstering the economy.
But they have vastly different ideas of how to achieve them:
• Faulconer believes reducing regulations will make it easier to build affordable housing. The council majority approved a more than five-fold increase in the fee on commercial development that helps pay for low-cost housing. The increase would raise an estimated $10 million annually. There will be a citywide referendum, supported by Faulconer, aimed at repealing the hike in the so-called "linkage fee."
• Council President Todd Gloria, who will step down as interim mayor Monday, wants to place a minimum wage increase on the November ballot that would leapfrog the city ahead of the coming statewide minimum wage increases, though details have yet to emerge. Faulconer opposed the state legislation and doesn't favor any local boost.
• Faulconer wants to pay for needed infrastructure improvements, likely more than $1 billion, by diverting a portion of any new city revenues toward that goal and using savings he says will accrue from streamlining city operations, including putting city services up for bid through managed competition. Critics say the needs are so great that there is no way the city can finance it all that way. Gloria and others believe a big bond is the way to go. While it hasn't been determined how that would be paid off, tax increases of some sort would be on the table.
And that's just the more immediate infrastructure needs for street, storm drain and building projects. State regulations will require the city to address stormwater runoff and pollution, a costly endeavor with a $4 billion price tag over the next two decades. San Diego and other cities and agencies also may face a $3.5 billion bill to upgrade the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant to federal standards — something the region has avoided for years through waivers that no longer may be coming.
Faulconer maintains raising taxes, fees and the minimum wage within the city would put San Diego at a competitive disadvantage with its neighbors.
"The result could be that jobs get started in other cities and not San Diego. That won't benefit us," he said.
Gloria and others of a like mind counter that a minimum wage increase will not only benefit individuals but the local economy as a whole because they have more money to spend. Some are skeptical that reducing regulation would do enough to lower housing costs and it may have environmental and public safety consequences.
Like Faulconer, Gloria said there's more agreement at City Hall than people might realize. He said the council has been unanimous or nearly so on the majority of votes.
"On the very small number of issues that we may have disagreements on, Kevin and I can disagree without being disagreeable," he said Thursday at his final news conference as the "iMayor," as he came to be known.
"We can work collaboratively. We won't always agree, but on the vast majority of things we'll work together well on and that's going to serve the interests of the people well. We saw what having a council and a mayor at odds looked like last year and what that did. I'm not looking to repeat that."
Faulconer won a special election over fellow Councilman David Alvarez on Feb. 11 to replace Filner, who resigned Aug. 30 amid a sexual harassment scandal. The ex-mayor later pleaded guilty to three crimes related to his behavior and is currently serving three months of house arrest.
Before those allegations surfaced, Filner, a Democrat and former congressman, seemed in a frequent combative state, getting into high-decibel disputes in a bipartisan manner. His most notable clashes were with Republican City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, but he also publicly chastised both Democrats and Republicans on the council.
He publicly berated staff, whether or not they worked for him, and was said to be particularly brutal behind closed doors. His insistence to sign off on virtually every municipal contract nearly ground city business to a halt.
Those days are gone. Gloria and Faulconer, a councilman for eight years, have called themselves friends and have worked together successfully on important matters, such as seeking services for the homeless and sealing a labor contract with municipal unions that will reduce city pension costs over the long haul.
Significantly, they teamed up with Goldsmith to engineer Filner's exit.
But while the council majority and new mayor may agree to disagree, there are certain to be winners and losers on the big policy issues where they can't reach consensus. There always are.
Gloria might seem to have the upper hand on one level. With Faulconer on the council, Democrats held a 5-4 majority. The members get to appoint his replacement — almost certainly a Democrat, which would give them a 6-3 majority and enough votes to override a Faulconer veto.
John Nienstedt, who conducted polls for Faulconer and the Republicans, suggested that against such odds Faulconer might frame his policies as ones that would bring fairness and prosperity for all San Diegans. That was one of his campaign themes.
"If Kevin Faulconer can present that message, I think he will be successful," said Nienstedt, president and CEO of Competitive Edge Research and Communication.
If not with the council, perhaps with voters. Faulconer has not been shy about going to the ballot to change municipal policy if he can't do it at City Hall. He was among those who championed the 2012 pension overhaul approved by voters. And he's been a leading proponent for referendums to overturn council decisions regarding the Barrio Logan community plan that may have future impacts on San Diego's ship industry and the linkage fee for affordable housing.
But Faulconer makes it clear he prefers reaching agreements with the council and cautioned that issues at City Hall shouldn't always be viewed through a partisan prism.
"Give and take is part of governing and I've certainly known that. And that's one of the reasons I think that I've been successful since I've been on the council," he said. "It's about reaching out, reaching across the aisle."
Faulconer inaugural
WHAT: Swearing in
When: Monday, 10 a.m.
Where: Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, 404 Euclid Ave.
Details: Special meeting of the City Council is open to the public
WHAT: Inaugural party
When: Monday, 5-8 p.m.
Where: The Port Pavilion on Broadway Pier
Details: Tickets were given to community leaders to distribute to the public


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|Maelstrom Project 'Full Steam Ahead'
The next generation of Tulija's nuclear submarine fleet has received it's final cash injection. In light of government cuts, the Directorate has shocked the media and wider public by allocating more funding to the long awaited Maelstrom generation of nuclear ballistic missile armed submarines. Rather than address the disparity of Air Force (almost 40% more well funded than the Navy) and Naval wings head on, the government has compromised by marginally reducing the Air Forces opulent spending, and finally addressing the lack of aircraft carriers with the commissioning of 5 new ships for completion by 2015.
The modernization of the Aegis class Submarines had been on the cards since 2007, but only recently has production began on the Maelstrom generation of new, cutting edge nuclear deterrents. Half completed, this recent bolstering of funds in the face of more Libertarian policies in the government is (apart from helping complete the next gen project by the end of the year) a pleasant surprise to the men and women who are frequently overlooked in the bigger picture, and unfairly so: Tulija's brave navy. Admiral Hernan Menezes is quoted as saying "The first 3 [of 12] replacement submarines will be unveiled at the Paramaribo Naval Parade on the 3rd of May. I'll look forward to revealing to the world the next level of Tulijan engineering, prowess and prestige."
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|Daxley & Haines' Healthcare Bonanza
Despite record government cuts and slashing of bureaucracy (the 'Transparency and Minimalism' movement started by Hugh Daxley aiming to reduce waste to 0.5% and to "be honest, open and to tax the public as little as possible, and return to them the rewards of their payment as much as possible" causing Taxes to drop to 5% and some to claim the Directorate is being run like an efficient corporation), Minister of Health Malcolm Haines has successfully pushed the lacking Tulijan NHS back into the budget. Despite it's reasonable quality it has been frequently criticised for lack of specialism and neglected place in the budget, with many of the ever richer public opting out and paying into Private Healthcare schemes.
In the face of lesser funding, Mr Haines played a pivotal role in passing the "Private and Public Healthcare Accordance Bill" in the Consulary House last Autumn. The new bill will see profits from Private clinics linked to Public facilities being fully returned to the Public coffers - almost doubling spending in the healthcare departments with barely a tax increase. Plans to open 12 new hospitals in the Amapa, Tamhaws and Tresvilles districts have been given the go ahead. Despite this, EM Daxley has made it clear he wants to "increase spending to our vital pillars of state [Healthcare, Education and to an extent Welfare], and decrease subsidization in the face of our record growth". His comments last week reaffirming his support for increased assistance for "the Impoverished of our fraternity" while also maintaining his Capitalist policies in Economics meaning he has struck a balance between the rich and poor of Tulija. His approval ratings are recorded at 92.1% as of Saturday.
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|Regional Relations on the Radar
The Tulijan Trade and Relations Committee is seeking to expand friendship and cooperation with it's fellow nations in the form of trade and cultural exchanges. Following the opening of diplomatic ties with several larger nations around the world, the Committee has made clear it is actively pursuing understanding and common ground with it's regional neighbours. It requests that anyone at all can apply for embassies or trade agreements with Tulija through the appropriate avenues [PM or telegram] and insists that no hesitation be entertained. It has declared an intention to "send forth representatives and speak with the great nations of GTAF, so that mutual growth may be assured".