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Diminishing and negative welfare returns of economic growth: an index of sustainable economic welfare (ISEW) for Thailand
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Volume (Year): 54 (2005)
Issue (Month): 1 (July)
Pages: 81-93
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this has inspirated kishimoto the creator of naruto and many ohters...akira is the reason manga is even better today.. thx AKIRA my manga hero
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Photographer's Note
View taken at the Vermillion Lakes, just outside of the town of Banff.
Info on the mountain from Wikipedia:
Mount Rundle is a mountain in Banff National Park overlooking the towns of Banff and Canmore, Alberta. The Cree name Waskahigan Watchi or house mountain.
Mt. Rundle could actually be considered a small mountain range as the mountain extends for over 12 kilometres (7.5 mi), on the south side of the TransCanada Highway eastward from Banff to Canmore with seven distinct peaks along the way. The third peak southeast of Banff is the highest at 9,675 feet (2,949 m).
In 1858 John Palliser renamed the mountain after Reverend Robert Rundle, a Methodist invited by the Hudson's Bay Company, to do missionary work in western Canada in the 1840s. He introduced syllabics there a written language developed for the Cree, as part of his missionary work. He only visited the Stoney-Nakoda of the area around what is now called Mount Rundle in 1844 and 1847.
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boa (7715) 2014-03-30 12:04
Hi Caleb,
It looks very, cold is my first thought about this shot, brr! It is a stunning view with the majestic mountains in the backdrop and it is probably also a wonderful place to visit during Summer season. Captured from a good spot with an excellent view of this impressive nature, tfs!
Best regards/
tatadalou (7459) 2014-05-21 10:49
Hello Caleb,
Bad light conditions but I like the framing. The little wooden hulk leads the eyes to the mountain.
ourania (51103) 2014-12-25 9:59
Hello Caleb,
this is a great image, the stillness is overwhelming and yet the view is very interesting. I like very much how you solidified your composition with the structure in the foreground and the jetty that directs our glance to the background. The area of the shore and the lake looks desolate, although there are a few signs of human presence. The mountain is awesome. There's great consistency in the colour palette and the atmosphere. Congratulations and thank you!
All the best and a very Merry Christmas!
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1Zechariah son of Berekiah received a message from the Lord. This was in the eighth month of the second year that Darius was king in Persia. (Zechariah was the son of Berekiah. Berekiah was the son of Iddo the prophet.) This is that message: 2The Lord became very angry at your ancestors. 3So you must tell the people these things. The Lord says, "Come back to me and I will come back to you." The Lord All-Powerful said these things. 4The Lord said, "Don't be like your ancestors. In the past, the prophets spoke to them. They said, 'The Lord All-Powerful wants you to change your bad way of living. Stop doing bad things!' But your ancestors did not listen to me." The Lord said those things. 5God said, "Your ancestors are gone. And those prophets did not live forever. 6The prophets were my servants. I used them to tell your ancestors about my laws and teachings. And your ancestors finally learned their lesson. They said, 'The Lord All-Powerful did the things he said he would do. He punished us for the way we lived and for all the bad things we did.' So they came back to God." 7On the 24th day of the eleventh month (Shebat) of the second year that Darius was king of Persia, Zechariah received another message from the Lord. (This was Zechariah son of Berekiah, son of Iddo, the prophet.) This is the message: 8At night, I saw a man riding a red horse. He was standing among some myrtle bushes in the valley. Behind him, there were red, brown, and white horses. 9I said, "Sir, what are these horses for?" Then the angel speaking to me said, "I will show you what these horses are for." 10Then the man standing among the myrtle bushes said, "The Lord sent these horses to go here and there on earth." 11Then the horses spoke to the Lord's angel standing among the myrtle bushes. They said, "We have walked here and there on the earth, and everything is calm and quiet." 12Then the Lord's angel said, "Lord, how long before you comfort Jerusalem and the cities of Judah? You have shown your anger at these cities for 70 years now." 13Then the Lord answered the angel that was talking with me. The Lord spoke good, comforting words. 14Then the angel told me to tell the people these things: The Lord All-Powerful says: "I have a strong love for Jerusalem and Zion. 15And I am very angry at the nations that feel so safe. I was a little angry, and I used those nations to punish my people. But those nations caused too much damage." 16So the Lord says, "I will come back to Jerusalem and comfort her." The Lord All-Powerful says, "Jerusalem will be built again. And my house will be built there." 17The angel also said, "The Lord All-Powerful says, 'My towns will be rich again. I will comfort Zion. I will again choose Jerusalem to be my special city.'" 18Then I looked up and I saw four horns. 19Then I asked the angel that was talking with me, "What do these horns mean?" He said, "These are the horns ˻(Powerful nations)˼ that forced the people of Israel, Judah, and Jerusalem to go to foreign countries." 20The Lord showed me four workers. 21I asked him, "What are these four workers coming to do?" He said, "The horns represent the nations that attacked the people of Judah and forced them to go to foreign countries. The horns 'threw' the people of Judah to the foreign countries. Those horns didn't show mercy to anyone. But these four workers have come to frighten the horns and throw them away!"
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Blog contributed by Fiona Davis, Ceramics Director at ArtisTree
In Flanders Field
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
- John McCrae, Poet, Physician and Soldier
Hand made ceramic lapel poppy, by Fiona Davis
Note that the leaf, if there is one, should be worn at 11 o'clock to signify the date and time of the signing of Armistice, on either left or right and generally in the two weeks leading up to Veterans Day, Remembrance Day or Armistice Day (depending on where you live).
We Shall Keep The Faith
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
- Moina Michael, Professor and Volunteer, Originator of the Silk Poppy
Commemorative Stamp of Moina Michael
Inspired by "In Flanders Fields," American professor Moina Michael wrote a poem in response called "We Shall Keep the Faith." She resolved at the war's conclusion in 1918 to wear a red poppy year-round to honour the soldiers who had died in the war. She distributed silk poppies to her peers and campaigned to have them adopted as an official symbol of remembrance by the American Legion. A french woman, Madame E. Guérin attended the 1920 convention where the Legion supported Michael's proposal and was herself inspired to sell poppies in her native France to raise money for the war's orphans. In 1921, Guérin sent poppy sellers to London ahead of Armistice Day, attracting the attention of Field Marshal Douglas Haig. A co-founder of The Royal British Legion, Haig supported and encouraged the sale and the practice quickly spread throughout the British Empire.
In 1926, a member of the No More War Movement suggested the making and wearing of white poppies to remember casualties of all wars, with the added meaning of a hope for the end of all wars. The first white poppies were sold by the Co-operative Women's Guild (UK) in 1933. The Peace Pledge Union (PPU) took part in their distribution from 1934, and white poppy wreaths were laid from 1937 as a pledge to peace and that war must not happen again. Anti-war organisations such as the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship now support the White Poppy Movement.
White Peace Poppy
2014 was the centenary of the beginning of WW1. To commemorate the lives lost a massive public art installation was designed and constructed around the Tower of London, in the UK.
Titled Blood Swept lands and Seas of Red, from a poem by an unknown soldier, the installation is made up of over 800,000 ceramic poppies. Each poppy was made by hand using English clay and each poppy represents a serviceman killed during the war. The staked poppies pour out of the "Weeping Window" in the Tower and cascade around the moat.
South Woodstock resident, Diana Hayes, gave a presentation last Spring to the Thompson Senior Center, about the ceramic poppy installation at the Tower of London that marked the centenary of the start of World War I. Conversations led to a collaboration between the Thompson and Artistree Ceramics Studio and a 2 session ceramics class was organised to make red Remembrance Poppies and white Peace Poppies.
Participants made a staked poppy and a small poppy that could be worn.
The Thompson will join a growing number of Poppy Projects around the world and create a small installation of the completed poppies on the front lawn on Tuesday, November 10, in honor of our Veterans (we will be closed on November 11).
The first batch of Thompson poppies from the kiln, ready to be staked for Veterans Day.
For further reading and viewing:
Gosford Poppy Project, Australia


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The last gig attended by Barack Obama, two nights before his election win, was a Change Rocks rally in Cleveland, Ohio, at which he and his family joined Bruce Springsteen on stage.
Three nights later Springsteen was to be found playing a benefit concert for wounded soldiers at New York's Town Hall, where his Harley-Davidson motorbike, leather jacket and the guitar he played at the gig were auctioned for $120,000 (£80,000). If the cause is just and the audience ready for a good time, Springsteen will be there.
What makes him special, as even the most sceptical Glastonburygoers will discover next summer, is that he can turn up just about anywhere and make it feel as if he's come to play for you alone.
The four-hour small-venue marathons of his early days may be history, but at somewhere like the O2 arena in London Docklands his sweat and conviction can make listeners forget it is a venue with fast-track entry for holders of mobile phone contracts with the title sponsor, and that half the audience is made up of investment bankers with their ties stuffed in their suit pockets.
"The reason I'm running for president," Obama told an earlier rally, "is that I can't be Bruce Springsteen." More than 30 years after making his UK debut in front of a crowd suspicious of record-company hype, Springsteen is still the best there is at conveying the sheer exuberance of rock'n'roll.
The generosity of his performances often combine with an emotional depth that can soften the hardest heart. When that harmonica wails on the intro to Thunder Road, Glasto will also prove to be a pushover.


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The class for ages 10-15 will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from July 8 through July 31. Session 1 runs from 1-2 p.m. and session 2 is from 3-4 p.m.
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Chicago Blackhawks star Jonathan Toews(notes) appeared on the 2010 MuchMusic Awards on Sunday in what could have been another important milestone in the social loosening of Captain Serious. Cracking a discernable smile after winning the Stanley Cup, and then presenting on an awards show? Based on that progression, he was on track to host "SNL" by mid-December.
Alas, there's no telling how the Blackhawks center's social comfort has regressed thanks to Miley Cyrus's inability to read a cue card or ad-lib. Watch and squirm:
Miley and Toews were introducing Drake, the inspirational artist who was in a wheelchair while attending Degrassi High before becoming a monotone, self-deprecating rap star and Canada's greatest musical export since Justin Bieber. When the show cut over to Drake after this intro, he wasn't ready to perform yet. Good times.
Unofficial tally during that 1:23 segment: Toews loses to Hanna Montana in total word count, 376,412-to-18. Should have been you, Lizzie McGuire; we know you're down with the puck.
Miley attempted to make up for the awkwardness here by later wearing this; sadly, she ultimately missed a grand opportunity to rename her current single "I Can't Be Toews" in tribute to your 2010 Conn Smythe winner.
Next time: "Party in the USA" featuring a Kris Vertseeg rap hook. (And yes, feel free to be distrubed and/or impressed with our handle on the Miley Cyrus discography.)
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Street Fighter X Tekken review
If you'd have told us a mere couple of years ago that there would be a fighting game where Zangief could wrestle a bear, or where Ryu and Ken could lob fireballs at Nina Williams, we'd have laughed you into the middle of next week. Quite simply, it should never have happened – when Metallica's James Hetfield growled about The Thing That Should Not Be, there's a 73 percent chance that this game was the very thing he was talking about. The two franchises are worlds apart, one built on command motions and range battles while the other prioritises lengthy combos and ridiculous juggles. But either blind to the gaping chasm of differences between the two fighters or confident that it can be traversed, Yoshinori Ono and the Capcom guys have seen fit to marry the classic franchises in search of a new and interesting fusion of the two universes, and you know what? They've only gone and bloody done it.
While the underlying system isn't all that far removed from that of Street Fighter IV, those elements that do stray from the comeback fighter feel more in line with the Namco Bandai series and indeed other, wackier crossover fighters. Each character now has access to a universal launcher (activated by hitting HP and HK simultaneously) with which to start juggle combos easily, plus the launcher can be added onto the end of a magic string of light, mid and heavy to both pop the opponent into the air and call in your partner. If it hits, that is – these are massively unsafe when blocked although they're really not that hard to work into combos for a safe tag. The single KO win condition is ripped straight out of Tekken Tag Tournament too, but it works surprisingly well in this environment even if it does take some serious getting used to – those used to sacrificing weak characters in tag fighters like MVC or just more accustomed to seeing these characters in one-on-one rucks can easily forget their partner in the heat of the moment and throw a round as a result.
Elsewhere, though, it's all very Street Fighter and as such, it's no real surprise that series natives play almost exactly as you'd expect, to the point where many of them can still use identical combos to ones possible in IV. Super attacks, EX specials and an Alpha Counter equivalent represent the Capcom corner brilliantly, though sadly there's no advanced defensive technique in line with SFIII's Parry or IV's Focus Attack. Similarities to IV end as soon as you hit the opponent into the air, mind – while there most normal attacks would reset an airborne opponent, here there's a far greater degree of freedom to the juggling mechanics and pretty much any air-to-air exchange or anti-air normal can be developed into a respectable combo. Most Tekken characters don't do an awful lot of jumping around in their natural habitat, so perhaps this is an attempt to screw over Street Fighter players that fight as if on a trampoline. Knowing Ono, though, it's probably nowhere near that well reasoned and we'll have read far more into it than we should but either way, the potential of this juggle-centric system makes it easy to waste hours in the lab working on impressive new strings for all occasions.
It also completely changes the game for some of the roster and while most commands are familiar on the Street Fighter side, the new system means that the tier list won't look anything like IV's did. Take Vega, for instance. With the Focus Attack rendering his off-the-wall stunts all but obsolete and so much of his game based on tricky links and perfect charge timings, the masked loon pretty much ended up propping up IV's tier list. Here, though, it's a whole different story. His obscene range gives him a huge advantage, Flying Barcelona Attack is finally a threat again and the ease with which you can turn a jab into a healthy chunk of damage under this system means his poking game is pretty much second to none. He, like many others, is also capable of far more crazy juggles than in IV too, the potential for extra hits after Scarlet Terror or EX Sky High Claw and far simpler links leading to all kinds of potential. And with countless new ways into Bloody High Claw, expect this guy to be a real menace.
Only half of the cast can really be compared to their former selves in such meticulous detail, though – things have changed so much for the majority of the Tekken fighters that they bear little more than a passing relation to their original guises. In some cases, Capcom has picked out some really odd moves as specials, though it's actually quite nice to see formerly useless moves given a chance to shine some times. Even if some are still rubbish after all. EX versions are often cleverly handled too, sometime offering common follow-ups that could be used in the 3D game and sometimes just activating extended versions of the relevant moves or mimicking their Tekken counter hit properties. There are also a fair amount of concessions to helping players not used to fireball motions and charge characters get to grips with the dimensionally-challenged versions of their favourite Tekken fighters – most have heaps of Target Combo-esque canned chains that can usually be linked into specials and supers (and often mimic their Tekken inputs, albeit as slightly confused six-button variants), so it's not too hard to make most of them far outdo their usual ten-hit show reels.
SFXT uses a three-stock super meter called the Cross Gauge to power its myriad advanced techniques – EX specials cost one stock, super arts cost two and tag supers and Cross Assaults (where both your characters fight at the same time, one under AI control) need a full bar. But there are so many other ways to use meter too – Alpha Counter-style reversals and mid-string tags cost a chunk each, while you can even shortcut a pair of your own combos with LP and HK or LK and HP and spend one stock to guarantee perfect execution thereof. Great for beginning players and those that struggle with some of the links, but the meter cost means that experienced players still have an advantage to show for their hours of constant practicing. Some of the Assist Gems consume gauge too, offering automatic throw escapes and blocking or more lenient move inputs, though again these are more aimed at less capable players as experts will clearly want to put both the meter and the Gem slots to better use.
While they could easily have been a game-breaking nuisance, Gems generally offer such minor buffs that they serve only to gently augment particular play styles for a while. Each has an activation criteria to meet (anything from landing a launcher to blocking a number of attacks) and a fixed active time, and the more potent variants are more demanding in their requirements and sometimes even feature a negative effect to offset the enhanced positives. The most common types buff speed, defence or power and with three slots to fill, there are some decisions to be made in setting up your load-outs, a little like Garou's T.O.P. system – do you aim to make a set of Gems that all activate together for a brief burst of noticeably improved performance or try to employ lesser buffs spread out over the course of the match? Despite generally not being all that much of a game-changer, stacked gems can be dangerous, making any character with a glowing aura seem more daunting than they likely are. It's hard not to let this affect your approach to a fight, though a good knowledge of all of the available Gems is recommended – combos and game plans can be altered in order to try and activate the opponent's Gems in a controlled manner.
What remains to be seen, however is how much Capcom's greed will taint the metagame when paid DLC invariably introduces new and more powerful Gems. It'd be all too easy for online play to be torn asunder should the Gem market get out of control, dividing the player base into those willing to fork out extra cash for buffs and those playing with the on-disc selection – it's something you see all the time in freemium titles but really not something you want to see mirrored in a full-price console release, least of all one so inherently competitive. We can only hope this won't be the case, though given the furore surrounding the pre-order Gem sets (not to mention Capcom's track record when it comes to DLC), it's hard not to fear the worst.
And SFXT could really do without making enemies. It might draw from two of the most popular brands in the genre but as a 2D fighter, it remains to be seen how many Tekken players it will actually attract – there's a huge divide between 2D and 3D fighters as discussed earlier and for some, this simply won't click. For Street Fighter players, the new challenges and potential mean that most people will end up making changes to their game or even running with entirely new characters, while Tekken fans have a whole lot of relearning to do. Trials are back, Street Fighter IV's template followed to the letter with 20 increasingly demanding combo lessons per character giving a rough idea of what that fighter is capable of and how their basic combo options work out. As ever, it's the perfect starting point when trying to decide on a team, even if having the first bunch as just single special moves without explanations of properties or anything is a bit of a wasted opportunity. Capcom could really do with taking a look at BlazBlue in this respect.
While not without its problems and questionable design decisions, Street Fighter X Tekken is miraculous in that it even works at all. It simply shouldn't. Namco has the tougher job when it comes to filling out the fireballs and crazy mix-up games of characters designed to operate on a 2D plane, sure, but you can't take anything away from Capcom's efforts simply because some mountains are bigger than others. Like so many modern fighters, there's a decent argument to be made that SFXT could use some more single player content – it offers little beyond the nonsensical narrative of Arcade mode and various missions and trials – but as we've said of other fighters before, it's a multiplayer-focused game. AI will never truly match the nuances, habits and mistakes of a human player, so why would anyone buy a fighter exclusively to play it single player? That's like buying a Frisbee to chuck around in the park on your own. Get some friends together (or recruit some surrogate ones online) and SFXT is, to continue that odd analogy, an awesome Frisbee – the rich and complex system offers depth for hardcore players and accessibility to newcomers, while the roster is about as diverse as they come. If you plan on going it alone, though, just do the sensible thing and don't buy a bloody Frisbee in the first place.


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NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Local motorists will endure yet another detour in coming weeks as the Maddock Road overpass above the Ohio Turnpike undergoes several weeks of improvements.
According to a notice issued Tuesday by B.G. Trucking & Construction Inc., of Akron, Maddock Road will close to traffic from Center Ridge to Sugar Ridge Road during the construction, slated to begin Aug. 18 and continue until Sept. 29.
Traffic will be detoured along Sugar Ridge Road to Race Road to Center Ridge Road, according to the company.
B.G. Trucking was awarded the job with a bid of $706,832, said Brian Newbacher, who works in the communications office of the Ohio Turnpike.
The company will perform repairs and upgrades to the bridge deck but will not include a total deck replacement. "They will overlay pavement onto the existing roadbed," he said.
The project calls for other repairs to the bridge overpass as needed.
B.G. Trucking has performed similar work for the Turnpike in the past, Newbacher said.
The project marks the first time the overpass has been resurfaced since 1988, Newbacher said.
A week before the work begins, construction crews will install wooden boards under the overpass to catch any debris that might fall, Newbacher said. That work will not adversely traffic on Maddock, he said.
The bridge project is part of the state's 2014 program of bridge repairs and resurfacing work totaling $8.7 million.
The Turnpike's 2014 capital budget totals $110 million in roadwork, including bridge repairs, lane resurfacing and construction of the final phase of the toll road's third lane in Lucas County in western Ohio.
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Dallas-based AT&T Inc. confirmed recent speculation by saying Sunday that it would acquire California-based DirecTV in a cash and stock deal valued at $67.1 billion, including debt.
AT&T's takeover bid for DirecTV is significantly larger than its failed attempt to acquire T-Mobile USA in 2011.
But chief executive Randall Stephenson said Sunday evening that AT&T learned from that failure. He's confident the new deal will be approved by federal regulators.
"We think this is a different competitor in the marketplace and will be viewed as such," he told reporters in a conference call.
He said the transaction would be "pro consumer" and said AT&T has made "some unprecedented commitments" for when the deal closes. He predicted that the approval process will take 12 months.
AT&T will pay $95 — $28.50 in cash and $66.50 in AT&T stock — for each share of DirecTV, valuing the equity portion of the deal at $48.5 billion.
Stephenson called the acquisition a "unique opportunity" to redefine the video entertainment industry. He called DirecTV the premier brand in pay television and said he was most excited about the opportunity to "bundle mobility."
He said the new company will be able to deliver new combinations of services and content on mobile devices, TVs, laptops, in cars and on airplanes.
DirecTV CEO Mike White said in the same conference call that one of the big attractions for his company was access to AT&T's more than 100 million wireless customers.
"This is a transformative strategic agreement between our two companies," White said.
The combined company would have nearly 26 million customers in the United States.
DirecTV has more than 20 million U.S. subscribers, and AT&T's U-verse has close to 6 million. DirecTV also has 18 million customers in Latin America.
The deal, approved by the boards of directors of each company, comes three months after Comcast's offer of more than $40 billion for Time Warner Cable.
In March, Stephenson called the Comcast deal a "blockbuster" and "industry-redefining." The merged company would serve 80 percent of U.S. households.
"How we're viewing 2014 … changed a bit just literally in the last few weeks," Stephenson said then.
In years past, AT&T and DirecTV had talked about a potential combination, but nothing happened. Circumstances changed after Comcast-Time Warner was announced.
White said the "transformative" opportunities for this transaction became clear over the last two months.
After its failed $39 billion bid for T-Mobile, AT&T focused on acquiring valuable wireless spectrum in smaller deals. It recently closed on a $4 billion acquisition of Leap Wireless International and its no-contract, lower-cost Cricket brand.
The company has also focused on building out its latest-generation LTE wireless network and expanding U-verse television and high-speed Internet service, which is now the fastest-growing segment of AT&T's business.
U-verse revenue was up nearly 30 percent in the first quarter and accounts for nearly $14 billion in annualized revenue.
Among the commitments Stephenson mentioned, AT&T would expand its plans to build and enhance high-speed broadband service to 15 million customer locations, mostly in rural areas where it does not currently offer that service.
AT&T also said it would continue DirecTV's nationwide package pricing on a stand-alone basis for at least three years after closing.
The deal doesn't change AT&T's plan to "meaningfully" participate in the Federal Communications Commission's spectrum auctions. The company said it intends to bid at least $9 billion in the planned 2015 incentive auction, with some conditions.
In recent years, AT&T has focused on becoming a creator of content as well as the conduit. For example, the company's naming rights deal for AT&T Stadium in Arlington includes content development and revenue sharing with the Dallas Cowboys.
AT&T emphasized DirecTV's strength in content, especially live sports programming. DirecTV has exclusive pay-TV rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket, which provides access on all devices. The deal expires at the end of next season, but White said he was confident it would be extended.
"The new AT&T will be better-positioned to develop unique content offerings for consumers," the company said.
In an email exchange hours before the deal was announced, Dallas Mavericks owner and television entrepreneur Mark Cuban said of the acquisition: "I think it would be good for all involved."
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is the largest shareholder of DirecTV, with more than 36 million shares, according to DirecTV's recent proxy statement.
"This is a terrific transaction for all involved: enhanced choice for consumers coupled with increased value for both AT&T and DirecTV shareholders — a natural," Berkshire investment managers Todd Combs and Ted Weschler said in a joint statement.


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The California drought could be a ray of HOPE for the Monarchs. Who would have thought that anything good could come out of the crisis in the West? BUT, it appears that this might be it: The California drought offers a ray of HOPE for one of the Wonders of Nature, the MONARCH!
While catching up on reading my local paper this morning (In paper, not digital form), I came across a positive article that agrees this might be possible, and explains why: "Monarchs Get Help From the Drought in California" by Gillian Flaccus (Associated Press). I would gladly give a link here, but I could not find the article online, only in print.
Californians are removing their lawns, a major part of their high water-dependent landscapes, and replacing them with drought-tolerant natives. These plants are natives to Californian deserts and chaparral. Native milkweeds, that being used in this lawn substitution, are essential to Monarch survival.
The female monarch will only lay her eggs on milkweed.
Every spring the monarch butterfly migrates thousands of miles in search of a milkweed plant, on which to lay her eggs. When the eggs hatch, the caterpillars feed on the milkweed leaves. The milkweed plant then provides the perfect protection for one of the wonders of nature, as the caterpillar turns into a chrysalis, before transforming into an even greater wonder: a monarch butterfly, which flies away.
The milkweed seeds also fly away, on the wind.
***This cycle has gone on for eons.***
It's a fascinating journey, this cycle of the monarchs: It's the monarchs that are born in early fall that make the long journey to Mexico, where they travel from 50-125 miles in a single day until they arrive in the fir forests of Mexico in early November & blanket the forest by the millions. The usual life span of a butterfly is 4 to 6 weeks, but this fifth generation of monarchs that journey to Mexico usually live 8 months, or more.
What an amazing journey, it is!
Have you seen a monarch, lately? I saw just ONE last year!
Their milkweeds are gone! Monarchs have been dying out over the past two decades, with numbers dropping from 1 billion to less than 60 million. The milkweed, that monarchs depend on for survival, has been killed off in part by development, but mostly by Monsanto's GMO crops that are repeatedly sprayed with Roundup. The spray and drift hits crops and kills everything else that exists in and around the fields. It has been killing all the "weeds", everything on the edges of the fields that was once left for wildlife and pollinators. Everything is killed except the genetically engineered crops that were created to tolerate repeated chemical dousing.
Nothing else stands a chance!
Hope for the Monarchs:
Back to the drought in California and how it's giving Monarchs hope: Ecologists are hopeful that California gardeners' use of plants that can help save water, can save monarchs at the same time. Nurseries are increasingly stocking multiple varieties of native milkweeds. In Vista, California, Tom Merriman says his native plants nursery did not sell milkweed at all 5 years ago, but sold more than 14,00 plants this year and sent truckloads of milkweed seedlings to California and other dry Western states, like Arizona. He has an atrium next to his greenhouses, with monarchs flying about, and chrysales throughout the nursery. "If you plant, they will come", Tom says.
California gardeners are doing this out of necessity: giving up lawns for native plants, thereby offering a ray of hope to the monarchs of the west. Why can't gardeners everywhere do the same? Plant native milkweeds!
Notice this map showing the amazing annual migration path of the monarchs back to Mexico, each winter. The main "path" is not the west, along California. The main path is through the center of the country, and east, where most of the agriculture is located.
Monarchs need all the help they can get!
How about finding out which milkweeds are native in your area and planting some in your garden?
A couple of places to get you started.
Monarch Milkweed Seed Mix for Southern States, 100 Certified Pure Live Seed
— Species are native and adapted to region
—- We are seed growers so we control quality
—- A mix of 4 milkweed species that are host plants
– and food sources for Monarch larva
– as well as nectar sources for adult Monarchs
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And, why not get rid of your resource-guzzling lawn and replace it with MILKWEEDS and other native plants?
This different kind of drought resistant landscaping, without lawn.and with native plants, will most likely become a necessity for all of us, eventually. BUT, the Monarchs and other endangered creatures, cannot wait. Why not give Hope for the Monarchs, NOW, and start planting native plants, especially milkweeds!


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Few scientists have affected the world's knowledge in the expansive and continuing way that Albert Einstein did.
Born in 1879 in Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany, Einstein died in 1955 in Princeton, N.J., and during his life he made discoveries that changed the way we view the world.
"My Einstein" is a gem of a book that celebrates not only Einstein the scientist but also Einstein the man, even though it is a collection of essays written by scientific figures. Each views Einstein as both a great scientist and as an unusual person who had an important impact on their lives.
In 2005, the world celebrated the major accomplishments of the scientist in the form of several seminal papers, the first on light and photoelectric effect (for which Einstein received a Nobel Prize), the second concerned small particles as connected to the molecular-kinetic theory of heat, and two papers dealt with special relativity, from which his famed theory of relativity emanates.
Einstein spent his middle years in a quest for a unified-field theory, a set of equations that would join the laws of gravity and electromagnetism. He thought they were the two fundamental forces in nature, and such a theory would therefore solve all of nature's puzzles. But that question was not to be satisfied, and today scientists believe the forces of nature are not so easily contained.Comment on this story
For many years, there have been a number of stories told about Einstein's personal life, the kind of things that are bound to happen to an icon. Unfortunately, most of them appear to be mythical. The contributors to this book deal both with the scientific genius of Einstein and his personal life as they knew it. The result is a remarkably well-rounded figure . . . whether or not all of it is true.
The British scientist Roger Highfield looks at all the most commonly believed Einstein traits and deals with them in terms of fact. Allegedly, Einstein began life as a dyslexic and a dullard in school. Not true. But he did grow up into a disheveled genius who hated socks. He had white and wild hair and a lined and a wise face.But what we don't know usually is that, as a young man, Einstein was powerfully built with brown eyes and a mass of curly black hair and a "raffish moustache." He enjoyed the company of women and they enjoyed his company.
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Good grief. Only in the bizarre mind of a Leftist – but this Leftist is the senior adviser to the President of the United States!
Here is video of Valerie Jarrett speaking at North Carolina Central University extoling the virtues of "unemployment checks." After all, they stimulate the economy!
"People who receive that unemployment check go out and spend it and help stimulate the economy, so that's healthy as well."
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You can save a fortune on restaurant guides and eat well by doing your research before you go.
Old-fashioned US diners are increasingly difficult to find among the clutter of Taco Bells, McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts. Roadside and Diner City (dinercity.com) try to preserve the phenomenon.
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With particularly good sections on New Orleans, Paris, Provence, Californian wine country, and the 119 eating places in and around Walt Disney World in Florida. It also reviews restaurants in US national parks. The Americans' favourite, Zagat (zagat.com), whose reviews are a hotchpotch of readers' impressions, is occasionally glib but worth checking.
Tokyo Food Page
Where and how to eat and drink in the Japanese capital. You can also download the contents on to a PalmPilot.
The new Red Guide for France is currently Britain's best-selling travel book. Do all these people know that all the listings - and directions to them - are available free on this site? The reviews are hardly lyrical, but they are in English. If you're visiting the countryside around Bergerac (as many people plan to do, now that Buzz -buzzaway.com - flies there directly), try pays- de-bergerac.com/pages/vins/. Unfortunately, the gastronomic section hasn't been translated.
New York Restaurant Video Tours
New York Resturant Video Tours
How else are some of us ever going to get into Alain Ducasse? The New York Times's restaurant critic, William Leith, narrates this vicarious taste of US haute cuisine. His most recent reviews can be found at nytimes.com/pages/dining/ columns/. (Visitors to this site need to register, which is free).
San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Franciscans take their food very seriously, even in these hard-up times. The Bay Guardian, along with its rival SF Weekly (sfweekly.com/issues/ current/dining_toc.html), reflects their obsession. The latter even publishes the menus of a few dozen local restaurants.
Wine Country Guide
The Bay Area Traveller advises visitors to the Napa Valley wineries on the best places to stay, taste and picnic. Napavalley .com does an equally good job.
Recommends accommodation and restaurants in 23 of Australia's wine regions.
South African Wines
Print out a map of one of the suggested wine routes.
More of an introduction than a comprehensive guide, Bordeaux, like Champagne (champagne.fr), is a little too much like sitting through a tourist office's slideshow. Burgundy (burgundy-tourism.com) does better.
Not so much gastronomy as necessity. (I'm also hoping that if I mention the World Vegetarian Restaurant Guide, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will forgive me for implying that leather airline seats were more comfortable than the cloth variety. Let's call a truce).


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Revenue from Google's search pages and other assets such as YouTube rose by 22 per cent to $12.9 billion as companies increased their online marketing spending in the run up to Christmas.
Analysts were particularly relieved that the price of search adverts, called cost per click, had fallen by only 6 per cent in the last three months of 2012, the lowest decline of last year.
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Today I'm interviewing Anna Hackett about her science-fiction romance novel At Star's End, the first in a new series. I really enjoyed the heroine, Dr. Eos Rai, a highly principled intergalactic archaeologist who's now working with treasure hunters to search the galaxy for a tiny remnant of the Mona Lisa. Sexy treasure hunters, I must add. I kept thinking how much fun Indiana Jones would have in the future Anna created.
A little about Anna (courtesy of the author):
I write action romance stories to thrill you, excite you and leave you inspired. I write about people overcoming unbeatable odds and achieving seemingly impossible goals to inspire you with the truth that the possibility exists for all of us to do the same. I love car chases, explosions and spaceships … and of course when the boy wins the girl. Oh, and I'm a sucker for that moment when the team is walking in slow motion, shoulder-to-shoulder heading off into battle. After reading, watching or writing an awesome action romance story, I'm left energized and feeling like anything is possible. I aim to give the same to my readers.
Here's the blurb for At Star's End (Phoenix Adventures) (courtesy of Carina Press):
Dr. Eos Rai has spent a lifetime dedicated to her mother's dream of finding the long-lost Mona Lisa. When Eos uncovers tantalizing evidence of Star's End—the last known location of the masterpiece—she's shocked when her employer, the Galactic Institute of Historic Preservation, refuses to back her expedition. Left with no choice, Eos must trust the most notorious treasure hunter in the galaxy, a man she finds infuriating, annoying and far too tempting.
Dathan Phoenix can sniff out relics at a stellar mile. With his brothers by his side, he takes the adventures that suit him and refuses to become a lazy, bitter failure like their father. When the gorgeous Eos Rai comes looking to hire him, he knows she's trouble, but he's lured into a hunt that turns into a wild and dangerous adventure. As Eos and Dathan are pushed to their limits, they discover treasure isn't the only thing they're drawn to…but how will their desire survive when Dathan demands the Mona Lisa as his payment?
Veronica: What was your inspiration for the book?
Anna: I wanted to write an action-packed, thrill ride of a treasure hunt. A fun, scary, exciting, heart-pounding adventure. I wondered what it would be like for explorers and treasure hunters of the future discovering artifacts from Earth, and the Phoenix Adventures series was born.
Veronica: Who was the most challenging character in the series to write and why?
Anna: No one's been a huge challenge yet, but some are certainly going to give me trouble in the future. Rival treasure hunter Nera Darc appeared (unplanned and without my permission!) in At Star's End — she's deadly, ruthless and very mysterious. She and Niklas Phoenix have a crazy game of besting each other going on. I'm guessing unraveling Nera's story is going to be a huge challenge.
Veronica: Oh, yes, characters will do that, pop up when you least expect them and demand to play a part. Will there be more adventures in this universe? Perhaps for the female treasure hunter, Nera? I found her fascinating and wanted to know more about her for sure.
Anna: Absolutely! There are many more treasures to be found. Book two, In the Devil's Nebula (Zayn Phoenix's story), has just released! After that is cousin, Malin's story, On a Rogue Planet, which will be out before the end of the year. And, yes, both Nera Darc and Niklas will get their stories!
Veronica: Why did you pick the Mona Lisa vs. any other Earthly treasure?
Anna: I wanted to write about the most recognizable treasure we have today. The Mona Lisa is the most visited painting on the planet and I was intrigued to think what might happen to it in our future.
Veronica: Do you have a favorite line from your new book?
Anna: One of my favorite lines from my latest release, In the Devil's Nebula, is when Zayn and heroine Ria meet crazy teenage explosives expert Lastite Lala:
"I'm Lastite Lala to my friends … hmm, and Lastite Lala to my enemies as well."
Veronica: What's your guilty pleasure?
Anna: Diet Coke! I know it's bad for me, but I love the stuff. I limit myself to one can a day.
Veronica: What's on your Bucket List?
Anna: To take my two boys (when they're older) to see the pyramids and temples of Egypt. I've been a couple of times, and there is no adventure like stepping into an ancient temple at dawn or seeing ruins go past as you sail the Nile.
Veronica: No argument from me — I love all things to do with ancient Egypt. How do you celebrate when you finish writing a book?
Anna: Usually it's the chance to sit down with a new book on my Kindle (usually by one of my auto-buy authors like Nalini Singh or Meljean Brook) and just read, read, read.
Veronica: I'm a huge Nalini Singh fan, too! What book by another author would you recommend to readers who are new to reading science-fiction and/or fantasy romance?
Anna: Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair. Love that book! I want my own Kel-Patten.
You can learn more about Anna and her books at www.annahackettbooks.com.
I had to ponder what movie to recommend with this column. Just about any Indiana Jones movie would do and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull did involve aliens along with artifacts, but to be brutally honest, I wasn't a major fan of that installment. So I put science-fiction and archaeology in as my search terms and the first result was the 1994 movie Stargate. (Pets the pretty stargate.) I loved that movie. There wasn't enough ancient Egypt in it for me, but everything inside Ra's spaceship was fabulous. My family and I watched it so often for a while there we learned parts of the Egyptian dialogue. (Everyone does that, right?) James Spader was excellent, Kurt Russell was steely, Mili Avital was indomitable as Sha'uri … OK, I'm settling in with my popcorn. What are you doing tonight?
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Hot Dog and Bob and the Seriously Scary Attack of the Evil Alien Pizza Person
Copiously illustrated with wacky cartoons, the debut Hot Dog and Bob caper introduces a normal kid named Bob, who discovers a talking hot dog in his lunchbox. The wiener explains that he is from the planet Dogzalot, where Big Bun commands superhero hot dogs, dispatching them on missions "whenever there's big alien trouble on another planet." Because his memory is murky, Hot Dog needs a partner and tells Bob he's the boy for the job. Before Hot Dog can explain his mission on earth, Bob's teacher morphs into Cheese Face, an "evil mutant alien pizza person" (oozing melted mozzarella from every pore). After she turns most of the students into walking, talking pizza slices, Hot Dog flies out of Bob's lunchbox to save the day but can't remember "the plan" and has forgotten that he neglected to relay it to Bob. Pushing buttons on his bun, Hot Dog emits streams of mustard and other condiments, drowning Cheese Face in a "sick sea of slime." But—gasp!—she resurfaces, only to be defeated in a fittingly kooky finale. Those who relish the zaniest sort of slapstick will eat this up and dig into the second helping—Hot Dog and Bob and the Particularly Pesky Attack of the Pencil People (ISBN 0-8118-4464-1)—due the same month. Ages 6-10. (Aug.)
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Three links from Football Study Hall: Adjusted POE, Highlights Yards, and a LaTech Bulldog breakdown.
– Brophy on Frontline on Football.
– David Simon of The Wire fame opens up.
– Very interesting post on the economics of scheduling cupcakes in football.
– Les Miles kissed a pig on purpose.
– Andy Staples on Keyshawn Johnson doing the 7-on-7 thing.
– Purdue recalls its new mascot after like, an hour.
– Houston Nutt, destroyer of quarterbacks.
– The big Huffington Post unpaid blogger lawsuit looks like a loser.


text: Janet Moyle Nielson1928 ~ 2011Our beloved sister, wife and mother, Janet Moyle Nielson, died on December 7 at 4:00 a.m. surrounded by her husband and six children. She was born to Henry & Alberta Moyle in Salt Lake City on June 17, 1928. She graduated from Granite High in 1945 and then attended the U of U for three years, where she affiliated with the Pi Beta Phi sorority. She attended Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School in Boston, where she met and dated her future husband, Veigh Jensen Nielson. Janet & Veigh married in 1949 in the Salt Lake Temple. They spent their early marriage in San Francisco and New York and then moved to Bartlesville, Oklahoma where they resided for 32 years. She was active in the Bartlesville community, serving as president of the Needlepoint Guild and participating in the Bartlesville Pi Beta Phi sorority. Throughout her life, Janet served actively in the LDS Church Relief Society and on the Central States Mission board. She supported Veigh in his many LDS leadership callings. When Veigh retired in 1983, Janet and Veigh served in the LDS England Coventry Mission as Mission President and "Mission Mum" to many loyal and grateful missionaries between 1984 and 1987. They also served in the Dallas Texas Temple from 1990 to 1993 as Temple President and Matron. Following their mission to England, Janet & Veigh moved to their final home in Salt Lake City. Janet had a zest and zeal for life that was not outweighed by her compassion and love for others. She has enjoyed many collections throughout her life including cookbooks, dolls, limericks, books, baked goods & chocolates, and other "rare finds."She is preceded in death by her parents, brothers James and Richard (Karen), sisters Marie (Wangeman) and Virginia (Marsh). She will be greatly missed by husband, Veigh, and her children Dina (Randy) Wyatt, Kathy Richardson, Veigh (Marilyn), Henry (Diane), David, Jan (Andy) Christensen. Her 19 grandchildren and 14 great- grandchildren already miss their fun-loving, beautiful, sweet Nana.Funeral services will be Saturday, December 10, 12 noon, at the Eagle Gate Stake Center, 135 A Street. Friends may call Friday, December 9, 6-8:30 p.m., at Larkin Mortuary, 260 East South Temple, and Saturday, 10-11:30 a.m., at the Stake Center. Interment at Salt Lake City Cemetery. Online condolences at larkinmortuary.com


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GUELPH -- Daniel Erlich spent his holiday running on a beach in Mexico.
Michael Hutchinson played shinny with his buddies back home in Barrie.
Big Leigh Salters rested his sore hand for the OHL stretch drive while Phil Varone wiped the slate clean on a four-goal first half.
Get them all back together on the ice and the outcome proved nice -- a 4-2 London Knights victory over the Guelph Storm before 4,811 at the Sleeman Centre.
A tanned-up Erlich put the Knights up for good on a sneaky wraparound 37 seconds into the second period.
Clearly, he hadn't been lounging around sipping virgin mojitos down south. Instead, he was bolting down a strip of sand with his dad Arie, getting ready for Round 2 of the OHL season.
"You don't get to see your family all year so you try to take advantage of the time off," he said, "and then, it was time to go again. This was our first game back and I thought we worked super hard and played a great road game."
Those had been few and far between in London's visiting black jerseys this season.
But they found a way to win and propel themselves back into the Western Conference's second seed with Kitchener's defeat. They even scored a couple of key power-play goals away from the friendly John Labatt Centre.
The suffering Storm, of course, discovered a new way to lose. Death by a thousand goal posts.
Well, five of them, anyway.
"Three of those shots, I didn't even see," Hutchinson said with a grin. "I got a little lucky there."
But he was certainly solid again. He didn't go near the crease or his pads back home.
"I played out, so I got to be more of a goal-scorer," he said. "I hit one post."
So he can't properly empathize with the Guelph shooters.
But Varone can.
"Them hitting posts -- a lot of that is Hutch, too," the Knights forward said. "He plays his angles and that happens."
Varone angled his way in to score a brilliant individual power-play effort in the second period that would've made Nazem Kadri smile. It came as a big relief to a frustrated scorer.
""I don't care what anybody says, I know I can score goals," the San Jose Sharks pick said. "I just put the first half behind me and decided the second half, I'd start from scratch and it was a brand-new season."
Salters got it all started, but his hand still hurts.
On Dec. 18, he punched Soo Greyhounds defenceman Dylan King in the helmet and hurt a knuckle on his right hand.
But the X-rays were negative. He's going to tough it out.
"They didn't find anything so it might just be a deep bruise," he said, "but I still have to see a hand specialist until we find out what it is. I just have to be careful.
"The gloves will have to stay on for a little while."
He's the only charter member of the Wrecking Crew still in the lineup.
Dominic DeSando, out for a month after a hernia operation, is day-to-day. And Zac Rinaldo found out at 10:30 a.m. yesterday he received a two-game suspension for his head check on Soo defender Michael Quesnele in that pre-break tilt.
"We're a little short right now," London assistant coach Jacques Beaulieu said, "but the guys we have in there did a nice job and Michael was good for us at the right times."
The Knights got a big scare in the final minute of the second period. Guelph defender Adam Comrie ran speedy Stephen Sanza hard into the end boards and the 19-year-old Londoner had to be helped off the ice.
It's a suspected concussion. He sat out the rest of the game.
"Dale (Hunter) and I didn't see the hit, we'll have to watch the tape but he (Sanza) was out (cold)," Beaulieu said.
It's not good news heading into a couple of games against Sarnia wrapped around New Year's.
The Knights are already playing without rookie defenceman Scott Harrington. He's trying to help Ontario win a third straight gold medal at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Timmins.
Nazem Kadri (Canada) and Phil McRae (United States), of course, are set to collide tomorrow at the world juniors in Saskatoon.
What will the Knights look like when they get back? General manager Mark Hunter was scouting in Toronto last night.
"It's my last year and I want to take a crack at it," over-ager Salters said. "I know guys don't want to be moved, but if that's what (Hunter) has to do to make us better, than you hope we do something to help us out."
Knights 4, Storm 2
London goals: Leigh Salters, Daniel Erlich, Colin Martin, Phil Varone
Guelph goals: Taylor Beck, Vadim Guskov
Next: London's annual New Year's home-and-home with the Sarnia Sting has been tweaked this year. Tomorrow's game at the John Labatt Centre starts at 4 p.m. Then the teams are back at it Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Sarnia.


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Tamaqua routs JT
bob ford/times news Kori Kabilko (11) of Tamaqua looks for an open teammate as Jim Thorpe's Cat Condly defends.
Tamaqua Lady Raiders coach Joe Berezwick certainly has had his fair share of talented players over they years. Maybe none greater than the nucleus of players that formed the 28-1 squad in 2010-11 that defeated perennial power Allentown Central Catholic to win the the District 11 title.
This year's Tamaqua team has the last of that bunch from the Raiders championship season with seniors Maria Streisel, Christine Streisel, Amanda Solt, and Kori Kabilko. The 2012-13 Raiders also haven't played so bad themselves this year, going 15-6, currently sitting in the fourth spot for the District 11 AA playoffs. The Lady Raiders continued their strong play closing out their home schedule with a bang dismantling Jim Thorpe 53-20 on senior night.
Tamaqua's defense played a key role in the win, not allowing double digits in any quarter on the evening. Christine Streisel also got the Lady Raiders offense on track with another hot shooting performance. She canned three triples in the frame, helping Tamaqua get out to a 19-5 lead after one.
"Defensively we did a good job, just like the other night against Lehighton and again we focused on moving the ball against their zone," said Berezwick. "Our teamwork throughout the year has just been great and you can tell just by watching us that we don't have a selfish girl out there. I'm happy with the way the girls played and happy with another win for sure."
The Jim Thorpe offense much like it has all season struggled to make buckets. The Lady Olympians shot just 2-for-18 in the first half and 5-for-36 for the entire ball game. Jim Thorpe coach Rob Kovac was obviously disappointed in his team's performance, but at the same time had a lot of praise for the Tamaqua seniors.
"We've played 19 games so far and being young can't be an excuse for us anymore," said Kovac. "It's just a lack of fundamentals and we need to get a lot better if we want to be competitive in the next couple years. That being said we've seen these girls from this senior class so many times over the years and it has been a pleasure to coach and compete against them. They're not just good basketball players either they're great kids as well."
Maria and Christine Streisel were a crucial part of the Lady Raiders 2010-11 District 11 Championship team. Maria served as the point guard on that team and Christine as the sharp shooter off the bench. It has been good senior campaigns for both girls this season with Christine averaging 15 points per game and Maria putting in 14 per contest.
"It's been a great four years," said Maria Streisel. I couldn't have asked for better teammates or a better program to represent. It's to the point where you have to go out there and treat every game like it's your last. I just don't want it to be over."
As noted, Berezwick has coached some pretty successful teams over the last decade, but this is one team that will always have a special place in his heart.
"The good news is even though it's senior night there's still a lot of basketball left," said Berezwick. "We're going to really hate to see them go after everything is said and done though. They were awesome in the past and they're still awesome today. They truly are just a great bunch of kids. We'll miss them."
Christine Streisel finished with a game-high 21 points, while Amanda Solt added 10 points and 15 rebounds.
Doughty 2-3-4-7, Cope 0-0-0-0, Condly 0-4-8-4, Ennis 1-0-0-3, Rusbarsky 0-0-0-0, Cressman 0-2-2-2, Becker 2-0-0-4, Bush 0-0-0-0, Shigo 0-0-0-0. TOTALS: 5-9-14-20.
Hartung 0-0-0-0, Demetriades 1-0-0-2, Slivka 1-0-0-2, Kabilko 2-0-0-4, M. Streisel 2-2-4-7, C. Streisel 8-1-1-21 , V. Solt 0-0-0-0, Valasek 2-0-0-5, Wittig 0-0-0-0, Pratka 1-0-0-2, A. Solt 2-6-8-10. TOTALS: 19-9-13-53.
Jim Thorpe 5 3 9 3 - 20
Tamaqua 19 4 12 18 - 53
Three-pointers: JT - Ennis 1; M. Streisel 1, Valasek 1, C. Streisel 4.


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Pope Benedict will visit the Italian region of Abruzzo on April 28, the region devastated by a series of earthquakes earlier this month, the Vatican announced on Saturday.
The first earthquake, which rattled the region on April 6, left almost 300 dead and thousands injured.
On the morning of April 28, the Holy Father will travel by helicopter over some of the hardest-hit areas and arrive in the village of Onna. He will then travel to the devastated city of L'Aquila. There, he will meet with students and also visit the Collemaggio basilica.
The Pope will then move on to the barracks of the "Guardia de Finanza" where he will meet with local representatives and some rescuers. He will return to the Vatican at 12:30 p.m.


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Sierra MYC Pond Report July 3, 2011
Yo Commodores!
It is good to be back. I spent the last couple of weeks away and have missed sailing and my friends. I walked into the Holiday Inn at 9:30 today and there was Bob, and Ron, Richard and Rick waiting. Coffee was out and the waitress had memorized everyone's order, as it should be.
Rick told us his new $125 ODOM spar had arrived at his house last week after only a one year delay. Now he will feel the pressure to build the boat. Richard completed his Canterbury J deck and talked about how he built it and the issues he faced. Bob and Ron had hosted Bill Young up at their lake in Tehachapi. They talked about how he used Styrofoam on the deck and bungee cords to secure his boats for travel being held tight to the bottom of a shelf. Rick gave Bob some scale life vest for his Ace 14. I mentioned that Rob had lost an Uncle this week. Richard had brought a scroll saw for me. Thank you Richard.
The conversation went quickly and so did our happy meal and it was time to sail. As we got to the pond Commodore Don and Commodore Al were sitting on the front porch of the club house sailing a Voyager I and a Vic. It was great seeing Al and Don again.
Show and tell commenced. Don had a unique antique car that I didn't get the story behind. Maybe Don will chime in and tell us about it. The life vest fit the Ace 14. Rick showed off his expensive new ODOM mast. The show stopper was Richards Canterbury J newly finished deck. What a nice job. White bass wood strips around the hard wood planks. Turned out great.
Commodore Dennis joined us with his original 36J, he reported he shaved 2oz out of the hull and it performed better than ever. Rick brought out and worked on his Fairwind. Bob sailed his Ace 14, Ron sailed Susie Q, Richard sailed his White and Green Vic and I had my trusty old Vic.
Bob showed me his new crank shaft for his steam engine he is building. Very nice work.
At the end of the day we had some short course races between the Vics. What fun. The difference in the race were primarily decided by the one who guessed which tack to take off the mark for the return run, the Island or back to the club house. Several of the races you could have tossed a blanket over the three boats at the end. Good fun!
Tim and Richard said they might come by my shop on Tuesday. Will be nice to see Tim's new paint job on his Voyager II. Richard wants to modify his rigging some on the Vic.
Even with the temperatures hitting 102 the club house a/c left us in good stead. Charge up your batteries and we will see ya at the pond.
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The deck on Richards Canterbury J is beautiful. Looking forward to seeing it on the water.
I started a thread called Canterbury J Discussion, maybe you could talk Richard into posting a picture of the deck and tell us what wood he used and how he planked it. It would be very helpful to other builders.
It was good to see Old Friends, I had a good time.
Rick, my car is a Mamod Steam Roadster. Everyone was drooling over Richards Canterbury J. It was the first time I saw Bob's Ace 14, very nice build.
More pictures, and a video. The video is a little shakey, I'm not use to my new camera.
Cap'n Don
Sierra MYC Shop day report July 6, 2011
Richard Stafford and Tim came by today to show what they have been working on chat about boats. Richard arrived first and we worked on his Green/White Vic. We improved the way the Jib was attached and talked about some modifications he could make on his main sail attachment to the mast and crane.
Richard brought in his Canterbury J and Rick H's Cj and we talked about how he might setup his sheeting system. Nothing major but it is good to talk about stuff before you go drilling into his new hand planked deck. We may build him some through hulls for his sheeting made of Brass if he can come up with the blanks stock.
Most of the time was spent just BSing and talking about boats. Not a bad way to spend a hot July day. The shop A/C was going and brought the room to a comfortable temperature for an Eskimo.
Tim brought in his newly painted Voyager II. He found some lettering that was perfect for the Dennis Conner - Liberty paint job. He had put fiberglass and epoxy support around his keel, hopefully it will keep it from being a fishbowl when he sails it Sunday.
The guys took off around 2pm. Sure was fun to see the boats and sit and visit with friends.
I am getting Richard signed up on the CJ thread
I told Richard about the new thread for the CJ and asked if I could post some pictures that I took on July 3. The shop photos of his deck look better than most of mine, but I'll still put some out there. I told him I would forward the email sent to me about the new thread. He did a wonderful job on the deck and I'm trying to figure out how I can make mine look as good. If you didn't already know, this is the boat that was originally purchased by Ron Burgess of Tehacapi, CA. It is hull #516. I took a few pictures with the hull number visible for reference.
Looking forward to viewing the pictures or Richards CJ. I didn't realize you guys had 2 CJ's in your club. Maybe some day I can come up there and sail with you guys, maybe even have a happy meal.
Yo Ed,
We don't have two Canterbury J's, we have three. Maybe someday four. You are always welcome to join us for a Happy Meal. With Dennis having a mold for the 36" J type boat we should have a bunch of them over time too.
Rick M
Great pictures, nice shop.
I like the paint job on Tim's Voyager II, it's not yellow. Ha, ha.
Off topic for Ron,
Here is the video, it's a Rockslide RS10.
Great reports, pictures and video as always. Nice selection of boats and cars. Looks like a nice time was had by all.
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Frustrated by a state agency's failure to answer questions about the placement of convicted sexual offenders in a West Seneca neighborhood, a Buffalo lawmaker has filed a formal request for a myriad of records.
"I think we've been patient long enough; I think we've been fair," said Assemblyman Michael P. Kearns, D-Buffalo, who filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request Wednesday with the state Office for People With Developmental Disabilities [OPWDD].
Late last December, under the cover of darkness, seven men were moved from the state's Monroe Developmental Center near Rochester, which was closing, to group homes at 510 and 526 Leydecker Road that originally were established to encourage independence for the developmentally disabled. Classified as moderate- or high-risk offenders, four of the men were convicted of sexual crimes involving young children.
Town police were notified in early January to register the new addresses of the sex offenders, as required by law.
Kearns's FOIL request seeks records to answer questions he's already asked a representative of OPWDD and in an April letter to Laurie Kelley, who was the acting commissioner at the time. Kelley resigned June 1.
"We could not get anything in writing – any formal answers to our questions," Kearns said.
Records sought by the assemblyman relate to policies and procedures, among other things.
"We need to understand who is making these decisions, what the process is," Kearns said. "The stonewalling has to stop."
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Metal Neck is an international surf movie starring international surfers Andrew Doheny, Ford Archbold, Creed McTaggart, Bobby Okvist, and Metal Jimmy (even though he doesn't own a passport). Filmed and edited by Matt Tromberg. The movie premeired on August 3rd at Volcom HQ in Costa Mesa California.


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Poem of the Week by Jane Sadkowsky
To Be This Hungry
By Jane Sadowsky
I was young, in school,
lucky enough not to know the meaning of hunger.
It seemed they were everywhere then,
old men in tattered coats, hands unfurled.
But it's you, I remember,
in a small store, asking, please, for food.
The young clerk dished up a cup of soup, pressed it, wordless,
into your waiting hand.
One sip, and you roared.
"It's too hot - too hot!
Do you know what it's like?
To be this hungry, have food in your hand,
and not be able to eat?"
Shaking with hunger or rage, almost weeping your despair,
you were a wildness I'd never seen,
towering over the clerk who cringed away from her good deed.
Two men grabbed your arms,
hustled you ungently out of the store, back onto the street.
Out of our lives.
Too hot to be able to eat.
Your image burned into my brain.
Later, my friends declared
we had stumbled into a bad part of town,
dismissed you.
But, I see you still.
To be this hungry, have food in your hand, and not be able to eat.
JANE SADOWSKY lives in North Tonawanda and works as an administrative assistant at the Stanley G. Falk School in Buffalo. Her poetry, which has appeared in such publications as Beyond Bones I, The Empty Chair, Voices From the Herd, The Still Empty Chair and Earth's Daughters magazine, was nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize.


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Amigos changed my son's life. He volunteered in every capacity that Amigos offered. He became a trainer for the local Amigos grooup. His Spanish skills are exemplary. NOw he works in a job that is similar to Amigos and travels often to Latin/South America.
I became a parent who trusted her child's instincts adn good judgement even tho he was far away. I have watched him grow into the wonderful, kind adult he is today.


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Janesville's rental vacancy rate a worry
"I think certainly anytime we exceed 10 percent, we're getting into an area where the supply is exceeding the local demand," said Duane Cherek, manager of city planning services.
The rental vacancy rate is up from 7.4 percent in 2000, according to census data.
Among all the city's nearly 28,000 housing units�rental and owner-occupied�2,168, or 7.7 percent, were vacant in 2010, up from 4.7 percent a decade ago, according to census data.
Local experts agree that the increase in rental vacancy is a matter of economics, and they offered theories that can't easily be quantified.
More single-family homes might be on the rental market because of the owners' economic circumstances, Cherek said.
People who lose income have to cut expenses and might move back home with parents or double up with a roommate or family, said Richard Haviza, Janesville city assessor.
Low mortgage rates and the federal first-time homebuyer tax credit might have enticed renters into buying homes. The city's first-time homebuyer classes remain popular, said Carrie Clark, city housing financial and rehabilitation specialist.
A 2006 city apartment vacancy survey found a vacancy rate of 11.7 percent for market-rate units.
Finding tenants
While a higher vacancy rate creates more competition for tenants, finding qualified tenants in Janesville has been difficult, said Dale Hicks, president of Janesville Area Rental Property Association.
Some areas of the city are fully rented, while other areas are 25 percent vacant, he said.
"People coming in are not qualifying," he said.
Landlords aren't going to lower their standards just to fill vacancies, he said, because in the end it would cost landlords more to evict bad tenants.
He said he goes through 10 to 15 applicants to find a satisfactory prospect.
It's all about jobs, he said, because tenants need to prove they have a means of paying the rent.
Along with the difficulty of finding qualified tenants, landlords also face rising costs for utilities, taxes and garbage pickup, Hicks said.
The result is several landlords on the brink of bankruptcy, he said.
Supply and demand
Some officials suggested a large supply of rental units should lower the rent landlords charge, but Hicks said he hasn't seen that.
"Primarily because there's no room to move (rent)," he said.
Occasionally landlords will offer freebies such as one month free, usually at bigger apartment complexes, he said.
"As a whole, I don't see a lot of that going on," he said.
Rent has remained steady with some increases.
Hicks said he's been able to increase his rent after tenants move out and before new tenants move in.
"We have 24 units. We probably have gotten $50 more in rent increases as a whole," he said. "$10 here, $15 there. It's just, people are tight."
A healthy rental vacancy rate of 5 to 8 percent provides competition among landlords and choice for renters, city officials said.
When vacancy rates increase, older units often sit empty because they don't have the amenities of newer apartments at nearly the same rates, Cherek said.
"Those older units begin to suffer," he said. "They become unoccupied for greater amounts of time. They limit the owner's ability to stick money back in because the revenue is not there."
Future development
"Ultimately, the market sooner or later will correct itself," Cherek said.
"If (developers) continue to add additional units in the face of excess supply, that contributes to the problem. Obviously, we're not adding additional units here in Janesville. Market forces are controlling that," he said.
In the last few years, interest from developers has been in new multi-family development geared toward baby boomers, he said.
"This wave of folks in that age group are now getting to the point of looking to perhaps downsize from their existing single-family home on larger lots, and they're wanting to maintain less�sometimes condos or apartment units," he said.
Residential development is almost nonexistent, which isn't unique to Janesville, but the limited inquiries the city has received for housing development revolve around baby boomers.
The city issued between 44 and 180 building permits for multi-family units each year from 2001 to 2004. Since 2005, however, a total of only 22 permits has been issued.
"You'd expect to see a higher vacancy rate in a time of economic distress," Haviza said. "Hopefully as the economy starts to improve, we start to see increased occupancy rates, and it'll just have to work through the cycle."
2010 census data indicates the following rental vacancy percentages for area communities:
Sharon: 29
Footville: 17
Albany: 16
Walworth: 12
Janesville: 12
Darien: 10
Edgerton: 10
Clinton: 9
Delavan: 9
Evansville: 9
Lake Geneva: 9
Orfordville: 9
Elkhorn: 8
Beloit: 8
Fontana: 8
Milton: 7
Whitewater: 7
Brodhead: 6
Williams Bay: 5
Janesville in the last six years combined has issued fewer building permits for multiple family units than in any of the four previous years individually:
2001: 88
2002: 126
2003: 44
2004: 180
2005-2010: 22
City officials say programs to help first-time homebuyers has converted renters to homeowners. The number of people assisted by Janesville's down payment program are:
2008: 40
2009: 71
2010: 45
2011: 20
Source: City of Janesville
Last updated: 6:00 pm Thursday, December 13, 2012