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Don't look now, but the Blackhawks have some offensive depth. No lie. True thing. The area that nearly ruined the defending Stanley Cup champions after the salary-cap slaughter has saved them in their miraculous comeback against Vancouver.
It starts, of course, with the Game 4 return of Dave Bolland, which is when this turnaround began because apparently Bolland was born in a manger. Or perhaps he's just mangy as he chops his way through another spring of torturing the Sedin twins. In the two games before Bolland's return, Henrik and Daniel Sedin had nine points. In the last three games, the Sedins have three points and are a minus-13. Bolland, meanwhile, has six points and is a plus-6.
Bolland's apparent Conn Smythe tour has allowed coach Joel Quenneville to move Patrick Sharp to center on a dangerous third line behind the Jonathan Toews and Bolland units. Suddenly, it's not all on Toews, Sharp and Patrick Kane. Heck, Toews hasn't even scored in this series, and yet, the Hawks are on the verge of becoming just the fourth team in NHL history to overcome a three-games-to-none deficit. Toews hasn't even scored, and yet, the Hawks won their third straight elimination game Sunday on goals from Bolland, Michael Frolik, Ben Smith and Bryan Bickell.
Frolik has two goals and five points. Smith has three goals. Even Viktor Stalberg, who has Patrick Kane's speed and John Scott's hands, has a goal. Bickell had two goals before wrist surgery, but the good news is there appears to be some depth behind this new-found depth. If Tomas Kopecky is healthy, then Quenneville makes the easy move with the two-time Cup champion and crease-crashing irritant. If Kopecky can't go, then there's veteran fourth-liner Fernando Pisani, who, by the way, has 15 goals in 32 career playoff games.
The Hawks have come a long way from all those Jack Skille questions in October, eh?
Suddenly, Quenneville has options. He's always going to change lines, but now he has choices. Good choices. He can load up Toews, Kane and Sharp the way he did late in Game 6, and still have dangerous lines he can roll, such as the new combination of Bolland, Smith and Marian Hossa that did something rather important on Sunday. Happened in overtime. Perhaps you heard.
Whatever, in the glorious spring of 2010, we'd be talking about Hawks depth in the form of Andrew Ladd, Kris Versteeg and Dustin Byfuglien. I'm not saying this is last year, but some of it is starting to look wonderfully familiar.
For what it's worth, Marty Turco, Marian Hossa and Brian Campbell are the only Hawks who have played in a Game 7. Twelve Canucks have done it.
Mike Gillis apparently is Canadian for Phil Jackson. Gillis said he isn't sure "how you explain the discrepancy'' of power-play opportunities late in the series, and I'm thinking, your players quit in the middle of Game 4 and even earlier in Game 5, so how much respect do you think you deserve?
Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault said goalie Roberto Luongo will start in Game 7, which I guess means that Cory Schneider will finish.
Luongo said Schneider is "just as good as I am,'' and wondering, then why are you making $10 million?


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All of the major commodities are likely to face some difficult decisions as they begin working on the next farm bill, but cotton's situation will be particularly difficult due to the WTO case brought by Brazil against the U.S. cotton program. Brazil negotiated a settlement with the U.S. government earlier this year. Brazil also can weigh in on the cotton program as Congress works on the new farm law. The National Cotton Council's Gary Adams discussed the situation following his presentation at the USA Rice Outlook Conference.
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Pasture-ized: Trenton Native Making His Way in an Evolving Industry
"Push 'em! Bring 'em up! Come on girls!" Eric Hoffman yells at the herd. His dog, Oakley, expertly moves the bovine bunch forward.
"The first year we had cows, the fences weren't in the best shape," says Hoffman, BS Ag '07. "Oakley was more of a fence than a dog." Hoffman looks proudly out onto his 400-acre farm. "We've come a long way since that first year. I don't have any doubts, but I'm not saying I didn't have any."
The Trenton, Mo., native is a dairyman making his way in an evolving industry. He knew he wanted to be a part of agriculture and make his life where he had grown up. "I only see more people to feed in the future, and we'll need to maximize land to safely feed the world," Hoffman says.
After exploring his options, he decided on dairy farming. "The dairy doesn't compete with other area farmers or my family," Hoffman says. The average dairy cow generates $15,000 annually in economic activity, a boon to the rural economy. Both of Eric Hoffman's parents grew up on dairy farms, but Hoffman himself didn't milk a cow until he was 19.
"Eric didn't walk into an existing dairy, and that sets him apart from most dairy farms where each generation passes a legacy system on," says Joe Horner, beef and dairy economist at MU. "Eric also started a new pasture-based dairy in a part of Missouri where almost all of the existing dairies went to confinement systems at least a generation ago."
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SETTING: Forest
(Flute music is heard from offstage. The characters of the play are lined up one behind the other creating a moving "totem pole". They peel off one by one and create a tableaux of silhouettes. The last character is TREE. )
(Little Bird sits on a branch. A flute trill plays from offstage every time she's onstage.)
Little Bird:Once upon a time a ferocious tiger, charging through the forest, was caught in a trap. Along came a poor, humble man.
(Tiger enters and gets caught in a cage. Humble Man enters and notices Tiger in the trap.)
Tiger :Oh humble one, please get me out of this trap, please, please, please!
Humble Man:Do you think I'm crazy? I know you, man eating tiger. If I set you free, you will devour me.
Tiger:I swear on my mother's whiskers that I will not. Pretty, oh pretty please. I am in pain!
(Humble Man turns and scratches his chin in contemplation. From offstage, the audience hears flute music.)
Little Bird:The Humble Man freed the tiger from the trap, and immediately the ungrateful tiger pounced on him.
(Humble Man frees Tiger who immediately pounces on Humble Man.)
Tiger:I have been hungry for many hours. I think that you will make a tasty dish.
Humble Man:(to audience)
I knew this was a bad idea.
(From offstage the audience hears flute music.)
Little Bird:The Humble Man begged and pleaded for his life. Desperate, he tried a new ploy.
Humble Man :Tiger, let us make a bargain. I will ask three things whether or not they think that your actions are just. If they say yes, then you may eat me.
Tiger:I like games, I always know how they are going to end.
(Tiger licks his lips. Humble Man runs off in search of three opinions.)
SETTING: Oak Tree
(Little Bird sits on a branch near the Oak Tree. From offstage the audience hears flute music. Oak Tree is asleep.)
Little Bird:And so the tiger agreed to the bargain. The humble man rushed off and soon he came upon a great oak tree.
(Humble Man runs onstage.)
Humble Man:Oak tree, wake up, wake up!
Oak Tree:(Oak Tree opens one sleepy eye then the other. Yawns.)
Who dares to disturb my rest? I have a thousand leaves to sprout today! Good day! Good night......
(Oak Tree falls asleep again.)
Humble Man:Oak tree, oak tree, please WAKE UP! I need you to hear my story.
(Oak Tree slowly wakes up.)
Oak Tree:Oh well, alright, but make it quick, my leaves are waiting.
Humble Man:Really quick-I came upon Tiger in a trap, I set him free, and in return he wants to eat me! Is that just?
Oak Tree:(Yawning.)
Ho hum. All day long I offer shade to passing strangers, and how do they return my kindness? By cutting off my branches and using them for furniture. There is no justice in this world.
(Humble Man runs off in search of a second opinion.)
SETTING: Water hole
(Buffalo walks in circles wearing a harness attached to a water hole. Little Bird sits on a nearby branch. From offstage, the audience hears flute music.)
Little Bird:The poor humble man was terribly upset by this answer. He decided to seek out a living creature. He came upon a water buffalo - a very small water buffalo - walking in circles, turning a wheel that drew water from a well.
Humble Man:Buffalo, I need your heartfelt opinion. It's a matter of life and death. My life and death.
Buffalo:What makes you think I can spare a moment for matters which do not concern me?
Humble Man:You have a heart, you must have feelings. Please hear my tale.
Buffalo:Make it quick, my master is waiting for his barrels of water.
Humble Man:Thank you, kind buffalo, here's my story: I came upon Tiger in a trap, I set him free, and in return he wants to eat me! Is that just?
Buffalo:When I give good milk my master feeds me the finest food; but when I go dry, he chains me to this wheel all day long. There is no justice in this life!
(Humble Man's face falls. He walks off discouraged, in search of a third opinion.)
SETTING: Crossroads
(Signpost stands in the middle of the crossroads. Little Bird sits on a nearby branch. From offstage, the audience hears flute music.)
Little Bird:The poor humble man felt completely alone in the world. He sat down by the side of the road and leaned against a signpost.
(Humble man enters and sits down, leaning against Signpost. Signpost bends forward to look at Humble Man.)
Signpost:Are you going somewhere? Do you need directions?
Humble Man:(frustrated, and in despair)
(Signpost makes a humph noise and straightens up, huffily. Humble Man looks up at him.)
Signpost, please give me your opinion.
Signpost:Oh...now you want my opinion. Everyday I serve people. I make their way easier. And are they grateful? No! Never! There is no justice in this life.
(Humble Man can't believe what he's hearing. He walks off even more discouraged, to return to the Tiger.)
SETTING: On the road back to the Tiger
(From offstage, the audience hears flute music.)
Little Bird :On his way back to the tiger, the humble man met a jackal who saw the sadness in his eyes.
(Jackal and Humble Man enter from opposite sides of the stage.)
Jackal:I love me, I love me not, I love me, I love me not . . .
(Jackal sees Humble Man and stops.)
Humble man, what is the matter? You look as if the world were about to end.
Humble Man:For me, it is. Tiger was in a trap, I set him free, and now he wants to eat me! Is that just?
Jackal:(Jackal scratches her head and puts his arm around Humble Man.)
I am very sorry, but I do not understand at all. Take me to Tiger and explain the whole thing over again.
(Humble Man and Jackal walk off together.)
SETTING: Forest with empty trap
(Tiger waits for Humble Man's return sharpening his claws and licking his lips. Little Bird sits on a nearby branch. From off stage, the audience hears flute music.)
Little Bird:When they found Tiger, he was sharpening his claws and licking his lips.
(Humble Man and Jackal enter. )
Tiger:Well, humble man, are you ready for dinner?
Humble Man:First grant a minute while I explain to the Jackal what has happened. Tiger here was in a trap, and I freed him, and now he wants to eat me.
Jackal:Wait a minute, wait a minute.
(pointing to the humble man )
You were in a trap, And the tiger came along and..
Tiger:No, no, you stupid jackal. I was in the trap, and...
Jackal:Hold on, hold on.
(She holds her head in great confusion.)
The trap was in the tiger and you came walking along...
Tiger:No, no, no, you numskull! I was in the trap. Look, I'm the tiger, right?
Tiger:And this is the trap, right?
Tiger:And I was caught in the trap, right?
Jackal:(Jackal throws herself on the ground and pounds her head against a root.)
Oh, my poor brain. It cannot understand. How were you in the trap?
Tiger:Like this, you imbecile!
(Tiger jumps into trap and is caught again. He freezes with a look of disbelief at his own idiocy.)
Jackal:Ah, I see. And since you seem to like it there so well, we'll just leave you in it.
Tiger:Wait, a minute, fellas, I was just kidding about the eating part, really.
(Humble Man smiles at the jackal and takes her arm as they walk away.)
Little Bird:And after that, the humble man never doubted that there was justice in this world.
(Little Bird plays a short melody on a flute, leading the characters in a line.)
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Fonterra, the bold, new face of the lucrative New Zealand dairy industry, expects to set a global benchmark for efficiency and lowered production costs with seamless access to essential data from cow to customer.
The dairy giant is undergoing a complete re-engineering of its global information systems to work smarter and make greater inroads into the world market.
The largest dairy ingredients operation in the world, Fonterra formed in 2001 through the merger of New Zealand (NZ) Dairy Group, Kiwi Dairy Company and the New Zealand Dairy Board, which together represent 13,000 farmer-shareholders.
Fonterra chief information officer Marcel van den Assum says the global trend is to free up mindshare and dollars, liberating investment from infrastructure for applications and business processes.
"Ultimately, global infrastructure will become a plug-and-play utility, based on our resource and service requirements. We will simply buy services the same way a toaster is plugged into a power point, paying only for what we use."
The first step in taking infrastructure off the agenda came in December 2003, when Fonterra signed a seven-year $590 million contract with EDS to manage its international IT operations across 327 offices.
The standardised approach to voice and data networks includes 1000 utility and application servers, desktop and laptop computers, software including Microsoft Office, GroupWise and Lotus Notes, management tools and help desks.
Work on the New Zealand, Australian, Central and North American operations is underway. Integration of the Asian business began in June 2004 and Fonterra's European and African operations will be brought online later this year. A fully integrated global network is expected within 18 months.
Deleting double ups
Significant cost savings are expected through economies of scale, removing duplication and leveraging EDS' existing infrastructure. Fonterra has moved 150 staff across to EDS as part of the deal. That leaves van den Assum, who describes his management style as strategic and visionary, with 300 IS staff located around the world.
"I focus on the big picture and create expectation in terms of outcomes, empowering my team with the knowledge, tools and capabilities to do the job."
He's not a 'table thumper' but can be demanding when he needs to. "Part of my job is driving priorities and saying 'no' when things don't line up or the priority is not right."
Van den Assum joined the NZ Dairy Board early in 2001. "It was a unique opportunity to provide leadership in the transformation of a world leading organisation. I have a real passion for New Zealand and it's great to be associated with literally trading value out of the grass," he says.
Having a global perspective was vital. "A lot of people in the NZ Dairy Board were very New Zealand-centric and culturally did not understand the global challenges of the teams offshore and the different operating companies," says van den Assum.
He also felt comfortable bridging the gap between IS and the executive, where it requires a 'sales hat' to build up knowledge and confidence about IS capability.
He says the task of integrating and rationalising systems has been a bit like rebuilding a jumbo in-flight. "You can't change everything at once. You have to work the old with the new while you are phasing the old out."
Re-keying outlawed
Previously, sales reports and requests were faxed or sent to head office in a mixture of text, spreadsheets, Word files and database formats and manually transferred into a Paradox-based planning system. This was time-consuming and the potential for error was enormous. A common electronic format with standard business rules was essential.
WebMethods middleware was deploy-ed as an interface between new and legacy systems, providing a single web-based real-time source of information, which meant less re-keying and improved accuracy. "We've stripped the cost out of building and maintaining multiple interfaces – everything is becoming plug-and-play," says van den Assum.
Fonterra's goal is to maintain its reputation as the lowest cost supplier of commodity dairy products to customers in 140 countries. To achieve this, it needs to have collection, manufacturing and export costs consistently lower than those of its competitors.
That means becoming more closely entwined with its top 15 customers, including its own New Zealand Milk Products operating company, which represents 40 per cent of its volumes and revenues and more than 40 per cent of profits.
Prior to committing to SAP for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system – with financials, optimisation planning and supply chain modules – Fonterra had no end-to-end system. "The more integrated business systems are, the more you can apply changes and make decisions across the organisation, rather than trying to deal with them in isolation as we might have done three years ago."
Van den Assum says information systems around the dairy industry are not as niche as many believe. "There's always a degree of configuration to get the full value but we haven't needed to customise the SAP solutions."
However, there are some niche requirements. The custom-built export documentation system from Vastera is relatively specialised, as is the $3 million Aspire milk management and shareholder services system from Christchurch-based software developer Jade.
This was first deployed in September 2002 by Fonterra to replace NZ Dairy Group's internal systems used for sourcing milk, scheduling tanker pick-ups from farms, providing quality information and payment to farmers.
There are also niche security, compliance and traceability applications. "The cows keep producing milk so we have to make sure we keep giving that milk to customers who give us the highest possible return. We also have to ensure our customer relationships are secured for the long-term. That's the balancing act," says van den Assum. "We're still working on ways to more easily address downstream elements and integrate them through the value chain. There's potential to do substantially better."
Fonterra is well past the $15 million first phase of the SAP implementation. Van den Assum is loathe to put a figure on subsequent development. "We have extended significantly since then but numbers are too easy to misinterpret – using a number as a one-liner doesn't make sense."
Fonterra is currently engaged in 40 different projects to achieve tighter supply chain relationships and simplify processes for inventory management, production planning and cost management. It's all about harnessing intellectual property, making information access more transparent and automating processes for better decision making using "sophisticated optimisation tools", says van den Assum.
Web wake-up call
Early on, van den Assum saw the potential for the web to provide global access to the Fonterra community. To enable that, a huge amount of back-end effort was required to ensure information integrity.
The core technology behind the FencePost web portal that provides news, delivery schedules, pricing and other essential information for NZ farmers will be replicated to the wider trading community.
Having a standardised web-based environment opens up unlimited possibilities to replace the ad hoc initiatives of the past. Soon, everyone from sales to back office support, marketing, distribution, supply chain, finance and HR will be able to select the service and configuration required from an online catalogue, based on entitlement, security and service level agreements.
"The infrastructure needs to be ready to accept those applications so we can focus on creating real value through business process enablement," says van den Assum.
The vision is also for a shared services IS function. "Previously, we had packets of application support around the world. Now, all IS internal enterprise solutions, from data warehousing to portal technologies, are being supported by a single team."
Key market differentiators for Fonterra include quality management, compliance and traceability. As global concerns such as bio-terrorism, mad cow disease and genetic engineering capture public attention, the pressure is on to be able to trace and recall a shipment from wherever it might be in the distribution chain. The European Union has a mandatory demand to trace products right through the chain. In this, Fonterra's ability was fragmented.
"Now there's a real focus on having 'one version of the truth'," says van den Assum.
Moving the merged business forward has not all been green pastures. "It's a bit like mountain climbing – you figure out how to get to the summit and you come up over the rise and see other peaks ahead. We've had to take it one hill at a time."
He says the IS team has had to go off on tangents at times but never went backwards or faced a dead-end. "It's about having confidence and being prepared to deal with the unknown."
For example, some legacy applications weren't as mature or robust as some vendors had promised. "We've seen the obstacles quick enough and always kept our eye on the long-term objective."
If necessary, priorities get shifted, such as the $120 million Empower information management system, which was due for completion in March. It has been held over until later in the year and other milestones put in its place. Van den Assum disputes media reports of an $45 million cost over-run, insisting the overall program budget is on track.
He says it's essential to have a roadmap based on a set of architectural disciplines and models, which are in turn broken down into high-level presentations. "When you face challenges, you step back – see how things fit into the big picture – explain clearly to the team and the board, and just keep going."
From cow to customer
Fonterra, New Zealand's largest company, generates 20 per cent of the nation's export receipts and 7 per cent of GDP with an annual turnover of US$6.8 billion.
The dairy giant represents more than 13,000 dairy farmers and employs 20,000 staff worldwide. It collects more than 13 billion litres of milk a year from which it manufactures and markets over two million tonnes of dairy products annually.
Fonterra is the largest dairy ingredients operation in the world, marketing more than 1000 products to the international food industry under the New Zealand Milk Products (NZMP) brand.
NZMP is made up of a myriad of operating companies and partnerships. These include a 50 per cent shareholding in Australia's fourth-largest dairy manufacturer, Victoria-based Bonlac Foods, 17.7 per cent of Australia's largest domestic milk supply company National Foods and all of Perth-based Peters & Brownes.
Locally, it markets dairy products under brands including Anchor, Chesdale, Fernleaf and Mainland, and in Australia, Bega cheese, Brownes cheese and yoghurt, and Peter's Ice Cream.
Fonterra is currently integrating IT systems across the globe and working with its Australian partners to find the best value proposition to improve its supply chain relationships. It's scouring the Australian market for other industry buy-ins, including in the milk supply arena, which was deregulated in July 2000.


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HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — A police captain says two people have been shot to death inside a nightclub in a suburb of Birmingham, Ala.
Hoover police Capt. Jim Coker tells Al.com (http://bit.ly/UPLtlX ) that the two people were pronounced dead at the scene. The shootings happened around 11:30 p.m. EST at Martini's nightclub in Hoover.
Few other details were immediately available in the investigation, which Coker says is in its early stages. He says both victims are adults but didn't say whether they are male or female.
Information from: The Birmingham News, http://www.al.com/birminghamnews


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Google Earth
Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographic information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a company acquired by Google in 2004. It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe. It is available under three different licenses: Google Earth, a free version with limited functionality; Google Earth Plus (discontinued), which included additional features; and Google Earth Pro ($400 per year), which is intended for commercial use.
Link to a quickstart guide for using Google Earth.
Read this post about how it was used in a class setting.


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UPLAND – A jewelry sale of a collection of costume, vintage and fine jewelry will be held Jan. 25 and 26 at the Discovery Shop of the American Cancer Society.
The Discovery Shop is still accepting donations for the special event. Items can be dropped off at the shop, 1236 W. Foothill Blvd. Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.
Proceeds from the shop support the work of the American Cancer Society.
Information 909-981-7466.


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Nashua gas station clerk faces gun during robberyBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
August 26. 2013 11:12PM
NASHUA - Police are searching for a man who robbed a gas station clerk at gunpoint Sunday night.
According to Lt. Denis Linehan, the Sunnyside Stop Sunoco at 270 W. Hollis St. was robbed about 9:35 p.m. Sunday.A man disguised with a black hair band over his nose and mouth approached a store clerk, pointed a black semiautomatic handgun at the employee and demanded money, said Linehan.
"He did obtain an undisclosed amount of cash," Linehan said of the robber, who was able to flee the scene on foot.City police and a canine unit searched for the robber Sunday evening but were unable to locate the individual. Authorities believe he left the store and traveled toward New Dunstable Road on foot.
Police are also looking for a newer-model hardtop Jeep Wrangler, dark in color, that may have been involved in the crime.The robber was a white male wearing a black baseball hat, black sweatshirt, black gloves, black pants and gray sneakers.
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By Mariam Karouny
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels including the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front have counter-attacked east of Damascus to retake a town that served as a conduit for arms from Jordan into the capital before it was seized by government forces last month, rebel sources said.
The rebels' struggle to end four decades of Assad family rule has been complicated in part by internal divisions along ideological and political lines, as well as a shortage of heavy weaponry that could decisively turn the tide of conflict.
But in a rare move, brigades operating in Ghouta, a largely agricultural region on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, have united under one command to wrest back the town of Otaiba, two miles northeast of Damascus international airport.
"This is a huge target no brigade can deliver on its own, even al-Nusra cannot do it alone, so we all agreed to unite to retake it," said a commander whose brigade is one of the 23 taking part in the battle.
"With God's will this will be a decisive battle in rural Damascus that will stop the advance of the regime army and reopen the supply route."
Brigades from the Western-backed rebel General Command and Islamist units joined forces over the weekend and pledged to share weapons and fighters. They took as their flag a white banner with the Muslim declaration of faith: "There is no god but God; Mohammad is God's prophet".
"We are fighting for the same goal and that is to topple Assad - so why shouldn't we unite?" said a commander from an Islamist brigade involved in the battle.
Government forces have regained the initiative in the past few weeks, pushing rebels from areas close to central Damascus.
Rebels said they wanted to take advantage of the unusual unity among brigades in the latest campaign - named Al Furqaan after a chapter in the Koran - to press on to Damascus airport.
The bloc of brigades was agreed only for the current battle, the rebels said, but it was driven by a heavy setback last month when their feuding and failure to reinforce local fighters allowed government forces to advance.
"How could they allow the loss of their supply line? How could they all just sit there and watch the regime throttling their lungs?" said a rebel from Otaiba. "Now they are paying the price - some shipments that were delivered earlier are stuck and need a path so they have to open the route."
In addition to al-Nusra Front, Islamic groups like the powerful Liwaa al-Islam, Liwaa Martyrs of Douma and Ossoud al-Allah are also in the union under the command of Abu Salah Taha, head of the Martyrs of Douma.
The agreement signed by the brigades commits them not to pull out of battle or hold back their weapons, as some rebel groups have done in other provinces, and those who break the code are to be held to account.
"So far everyone is committed and everybody is using their weapons. They are all present on the front, which is 8 kilometers (5 miles) long," said a fighter via Skype.
The Islamist commander said hopes were high in this offensive and that if it succeeded it would pave the way for rebels to work together in a national body.
"This is like a rehearsal for a wider cooperation across the country. If this is successful then all of us will consider forming a national army."
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Based on the collections of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, artifacts and concert footage come together in this dynamic exhibition. Whether it's forging human bonds, building a sense of community, providing broad exposure for musical artists – both old and new – or as one of the most important economic engines of the music industry, the story of the music festival is inextricably linked with music's powerful cultural impact around the globe. This Exhibition was curated by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio.


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Library Link of the Day pointed to David Weinberger's recent Tech Talk at Google, in which he flog's his latest book, Everything is Miscellaneous. The talk is an entertaining rendition of why digitization averts the problem of trying to have a single-best-organization for the world. The book, which I've just started, reaches deeply and none-too-gently into our notions of how the information domain is or should be structured. David dedicated the book 'to the librarians', though librarians may be forgiven for squirming a bit, especially during his viciously funny send up of Melvil Dui...er... Dewey.
The essence of his argument is that the transformational technology of Web 2.0 is creating an infrastructure of meaning that, in aggregate, is more about us and what we are interested in, than any authority-mediated source like a traditional newspaper or encyclopedia can possibly be.
This isn't to say that David rejects all authority, but rather that hammering its artifacts into pre-categorized structures is inimical to its efficient utilization, and preemptive about what constitutes authority to begin with. The distinctions between metadata and data disappear in this view -- any fragment in or about a work can be useful in retrieving that work, and the fact that they are all digital allows us to start anywhere and end anywhere. Herman Melville can lead us to Call me Ishmael, and Call me Ishmael can lead us to Herman Melville. The other Melvil need play no role.
The buzz du jour around the the offices here today was Facebook's claim as a social utility -- a major primary platform for social networking (thanks to Lorcan for bringing this to my attention). Part of the announcement included a piece about book reviews:
For example, Facebook and Amazon.com developed a "Book Reviews" applications that lets Facebookers write and show book reviews on their profile pages, and add Amazon 'Buy' buttons.
David and Facebook and Amazon all agree that book reviews are pretty important metadata. Conversations about the uses and users of bibliographic information in our own community evidence a rising awareness that our own metadata, designed for management and repurposed for discovery, is sorely in need of re-engineering. We could do a lot worse than follow Weinberger's (and Facebook's and Amazon's) lead... read a book, write about it, and link to the library supply chain. Perhaps his book dedication is more in the nature of an invocation.
Oh... yeah... Paris Hilton.... Stars and planets, and self-rounding... watch the video.
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Monarchs stumble in ConnecticutStaff report
February 17. 2013 8:04PM
The Connecticut Whale scored goals just 16 seconds apart with under three minutes to play to turn a one-goal deficit into a 3-2 win over the Manchester Monarchs Sunday in Hartford, Conn.
Steve Eminger scored at 17:17 of the third when Brandon Segal found him in the slot with a nice pass.
Just 16 ticks later, Brandon Mashinter scored the game-winner when Segal got him the puck inside the right wing face-off circle.
Manchester (22-24-2-3) is in fourth place in the AHL's Atlantic Division with 49 points. Connecticut (25-21-4-2) is in second place in the Northeast Division with 56 points.
Manchester looked to be in good shape with a 2-1 lead late in the first game of a six-game road trip. Linden Vey scored for the Monarchs on the power play at 6:24 of the first. Tyler Toffoli connected with Vey in the slot, and Vey redirected the pass for the goal.
Christian Thomas made it 1-1 at 7:35 of the second but Manchester regained a two-goal margin when Toffoli found the back of the net with 54 seconds remaining in the second. Nick Deslauriers picked up an assist on the Toffoli goal.
Martin Jones (12-18-3) made 26 saves on 29 shots for Manchester. Jason Missiaen made 27 saves for the Whale.


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Sharon Kay (Hall) Bostick passed away June 15, 2013. She was born February 12, 1941 in Burke, SD to Emerson Hall and Ora
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ried 26 years to James Howard Bostick. She had 4 children, Frankie Clark, Roberta Bostick, Michelle Clark and Robert Clark. She lived in the San Joaquin Valley 43 years. She was a member at New Life Christian Fellowship. Her dogs Chloe and Sammy were her constant companions. She was a strong, beautiful woman and leaves a legacy of 4 children, 14 grandchildren, and 21 great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband, her parents, 12 siblings, and grandson Eriah Zellner.
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I just got my grubby little paws (OK, not so little) on a Nuvi 255W. It took me a while, but I've downloaded a bunch of caches onto it, and while driving around, I've had it go "BING" a few times (my wife doesn't mind me geocaching, but said that driving with me now is going to be a lot more interesting). I've already used it to get to a cache that was newly published and I got a FTF out of it (the Nuvi lead me to the parking lot, and I pulled out ol' yellow to get me the rest of the way there).
Anyways, my question is this: I've got some time off over the next few days and I want to go looking for a bunch of caches. Is there a way I can tell the Nuvi, "I want to go to points A, B, C, D, and E, map out my route" or do I just bring up the cache one at a time, say, "Guide me here" and when I find that one, say "Guide me to the next one?"


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This collection contains records of births, marriages, and deaths from civil registration in different districts of the Bahamas. Earlier records are handwritten in narrative style; later records are handwritten in formatted records. The text of the records is in English. Records are listed in chronological order.
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The earliest reference to public registration of records in the Bahamas was in 1764. By 1862, a separate office named the Registry of Records was created to record the civil events; later, the name was changed to Registrar General's Department in 1914. At that time, there were a few registrars legally appointed to record the events of birth and death, or marriages, or other life event. Before 1914, each registration form was to be filled as accurate as possible and subsequently returned to the Registry of Records, now the Registrar General's Department, where all the records are properly archived.
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A Bailey man died Tuesday afternoon after his motorcycle went out of control in Turkey Creek Canyon.
Larry Hackett, 62, was driving north on U.S. 285 about 3:30 p.m. when his motorcycle crashed at mile marker 247, about halfway between Parmalee Gulch and Colorado 8, said Morrison police Lt. Anthony Joiner.
"The driver lost control of his motorcycle, fishtailed for a little bit, hit the guardrail (and) was ejected from the motorcycle," Joiner said.
Hackett's motorcycle was the only vehicle involved.
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Distance from Clarkson, NE to North Loup, NE
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Leaving from Clarkson, NE you would reach North Loup, NE in about 2 hours 39 mins if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.


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Hoboken's Havana Café and Lounge fills patrons' bellies with old-fashioned, passed-through-the-generations Cuban fare "like Grandma used to make," manager Alan Fox said.
Well, sure, if Grandma lived in a hip and trendy Soho apartment and regularly hosted Latin DJs and local Cuban bands.
In a gastronomic era marked by the tendency toward fusion food plagued with multi-flavored "foams" and "essences" and decidedly un-Grandma-like culinary innovations such as garlic ice cream and edible menus, this Newark Street restaurant serves up the sort of cuisine that is, quite frankly, refreshingly straightforward.
And the mojitos – Dios mio, the mojitos – come in 12 creative flavors that are rotated regularly and set to multiply for the summer season for the bargain price of $8. Anyone who's ever made a mojito, particularly one with additional ingredients like the bar's basil coconut version, knows that the labor alone warrants a higher price.
Not also to mention, these rum-based beverages (or their alcohol-free cousins) are simply fantastic, particularly when sipped while salsa beats keep Latin time in the background.
Havana meets Hoboken
Simply because the recipes were brought from Cuban generations past to Hoboken by the Becerra family doesn't mean that Havana Café and Lounge itself is not cutting-edge. The décor seamlessly mingles old world charm over top a clean, sleek, modern backdrop with commissioned shadowbox artwork lining the main dining room walls. One contains stacks of canned Goya products, and upon further inspection diners will notice that the artist changed one of the can's brand names from "GOYA" to "YOGA" – "because Hoboken is so health conscious," Fox explained.
Other boxes boast collages created with beans Fox finds essential to Cuban culture (coffee, black, and jelly), and four large portraits are tastefully hung around the restaurant. Artist Rachel Marino blacked out large square pieces of plywood with paint and then delicately scratched in the faces of Celia Cruz, Desi Arnez, Carmen Miranda, and Ernest Hemingway with a sander.
Architect Rob Feinstein gave the restaurant's black, white, and silver façade a minimalist and inviting feel as the backdrop for those who wish to dine al fresco in the warmer weather, sangria in hand, as the people go by.
In addition to a sizeable main dining room (whose chairs and tables can be rearranged in the evenings for dancing purposes), Havana Café and Lounge has a separate bar and lounge area with a private booth beneath a large stainless steel sailfish with the Cuban provinces etched in black.
Hoboken's Havana Café and Lounge fills patrons' bellies with old-fashioned, passed-through-the-generations Cuban fare 'like Grandma used to make.'
Comida y bebida (food and drink)
Chef Pedro Cano, who has been cooking American and Spanish cuisine for 10 years, is in charge of recreating the Becerra family recipes for hungry guests. He says the secret is in the sofrito – an aromatic tomato and chopped vegetable flavor base used frequently in Latin cooking – and Cano prepares his expertly.
Any diner must insist on sampling the house mojo (pronounced mo-ho), which is a garlic sauce commonly found alongside Cuban dishes. Some can be overwhelming in their garlicky-ness, but Cano's is the right balance of piquant and herby and ethereally elevates the $5 appetizer of mashed, fried green plantains called tostones to new heights. Think ketchup and fries on tasty Cuban steroids, and you've got it.
"It's the best I've ever had," bartender Orlando Castilla crooned, "although you may not want to kiss anyone for a few hours, unless you both eat it." This is the mark of a good mojo.
The menu offers an even fancier version of the plantains in $7 tostones rellenos form, which is the crispy signature app stuffed with – wait for it – a bit of the hearty sofrito mixed with tender miniature shrimp. And for diners who wish to stuff themselves with stuffed things, there's the bargain $3 papa rellena, which supplies the hungry with a crispy fried cut-in-half ball of airy mashed potatoes full of seasoned ground beef.
"They go perfectly with our house hot sauce," Castilla explained as he brought out a small vessel of chipotle-based sauce that packs a smoky, decent punch, but does not overwhelm the subtle flavors of the food.
The telltale sign of a well-cooked meal, foodies say, is when the salt and pepper sit untouched on the table, and at Havana Café and Lounge, particularly with all of the expertly prepared sauce accompaniments, this is the case. For lunch, dinner, and brunch, they offer set menu items, but daily specials rotate seasonally and according to taste.
Cano recommends the $15 dinner lechon asado as an entree, which is shredded, marinated, roast suckling pig, and a typical Cuban dish. What has proven to be most popular, both Castilla and Fox agreed, is the churrasco.
For those who've never known the sizzling, dripping-with-juiciness, flank steak companion of sautéed onions and a chimichurri (garlic herb) sauce, que Dios le ayude (may God help you). And for this $21 iron platter of love, the churrasco virgin no longer has an excuse.
While Cuban cuisine tends to be meat-heavy, Fox explained, there are ample alternatives for the flesh un-inclined. Cano whips up a variety of salads such as the $5 ensalada de la casa (house salad) and several fishes like the $19 grilled salmon and the $19 Havana classic pargo frito: fried whole Florida red snapper that practically transports one seaside.
For dessert, the $5 house made flan is a classic must, and presented artfully to please both eye and tummy.
And what would food be without beverage? In addition to the mélange of mojitos (stay tuned for the upcoming espresso and ginger varieties, Castilla said), Havana Café and Lounge offers a full bar and a Latin-focused variety of red and white wines hand picked by Fox and house sommelier Paola Congote.
The crisp, minerally Argentinian Opala Vinho Verde runs $6 a glass, and a plethora of sangrias of the red, white, and sparkling varieties tantalizingly await the thirsty patron. Oh, and don't forget half-price Mojito Mondays, sure to increase Tuesday morning productivity and please bosses everywhere.
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Havana Café and Lounge offers live Latin Cuban jazz Thursdays at 8 p.m. and Fridays, too, beginning soon. Friday and Saturday nights at 11 p.m., after the bar closes, Latin DJs move the tables, dim the lights, and allow those looking for late night salsa dancing to take a turn across the floor.
The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for lunch Monday through Friday, and for dinner from Sunday through Wednesday until 10 p.m., and from Thursday through Saturday until 11 p.m. Brunch runs Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the menu boasts the same sort of tasty authentic Cuban fare (plus a few Havana-infused egg and pancake dishes) as the regular menus.
Havana Café and Lounge is located at 32 Newark St. in Hoboken and can be reached at (201) 216-1766. Their website may be found at www.havanacafelounge.com.
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Overall it was a pretty balanced contest this year with a little something for everyone. There was a lot more humor this year and yet some good dark videos as well. We had an almost even gender balance of judges from both Canada and the USA. After the dust settled, it appears that it was a year for nature-themed videos to sweep the top awards. Congratulations to all who took part in this year's festivities and the Friday night party. Your input will be used to make next year's event even better.
Anime North 2005 Anime Music Video Competition Winners
Northern Lights Award (Best Overall Video)
"Scenic Study - Mononoke Hime" - Fred Graupp (Studio Tarantella)
Music: Delicate - Patrick O'Hearn
Footage: Princess Mononoke
An experimental attempt to emulate the style of music videos set to landscape photography with new age music using animation. The result was an mesmerizing experience that drew the judges into a state of reflective contemplation.
Momiji no Video (Judge's Choice)
"The Significance of Scenery" - Tim Park (Doki Doki Productions)
Music: Rocks and Trees - Arrogant Worms
Footage: Fushigi Yuugi (and others)
Tim's goal was to try and entertain the world and help promote Canadian tourism as well. Never let it be said that he panders to his audience, but this was still the judge's favorite - even the Americans.
Criterion Award for Editing
"Love Love AZuManGa" - Sylvester Ng (Panda Productions)
Music: Love Tropicana (TV Mix) - Sister Mayo
Footage: Azumanga Daioh
Awarded for its editing of Azumanga Footage into a kareoke video using the theme song from "Guu".
Criterion Award for Cinematography
"As the Warlock Said..." - Andre Marentette (Legaecy Productions)
Music: Gravity of Love - Enigma
Footage: Shadow Hearts / Shadow Hearts: Covenant
The uplifting vocals and dark music matched with the footage and special effects in a powerful way that the judges felt was outstanding.
Criterion Award for Creativity
"C is for Cakey" - Carly Gaudreault
Music: C is for Cookie - Sesame Street
Footage: Descendants of Darkness
Only a caffeine high would make someone think of this. The judges never knew that Cookie Monster was such an accomplished voice actor and awarded this for how goofy it made the characters sound.
Criterion Award for Artistic Vision
"The Search and the Why" - Miles Klub
Music: Why? - John and Audrey Wiggins
Footage: Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito
The creator adequately conveyed the heroine's longing as she searched for a loved one despite their betrayal.
Momiji's Challenge Award (The One-Minute Video)
"Pandas" - Michael Martingetti (Blurry Line Media)
Music: Pandas - Corky and the Juice Pigs
Footage: Panda Go Panda and various
The judges were delighted with the various creative ways that the creator devised to kill these cuddly bears and the song chorus was infectious.
The Newbie Award (Best NoviceVideo)
"Centennial" - Rick Thompson (Mousou Studios)
Music: 100 Years - Five for Fighting
Footage: Millenium Actress
Rick chose good scene and song selection to create a bittersweet review of an aging actress at the end of her career that struck a chord in the judges with his creativity and artistic vision.
Honourable Mentions:
"Professor Tomoe, the Science Guy" - Kalie Brown
Music: Bill Nye the Science Guy TV Theme
Footage: Sailor Moon S
For its creativity and playful send up of Bill Nye using the mad scientist from Sailor Moon.
"Keep Dreaming" - Zach Epolito
Music: Dream On - Aerosmith
Footage: Cowboy Bebop Movie
For its character study of of Vincent's dreamlike perception of reality and cinematography.
"A Hunter's Requiem" - Amanda Cilio (E&I Entertainment)
Music: Lux Aterna - Clint Maxwell
Footage: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
For its dark and brooding music that matched well with the edited footage that built from softly menacing to a resounding crescendo.
"Just Another Blue Sky" - Terry Kaleas (Astromutation Productions)
Music: Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
Footage: His and Her Circumstances
For its tight editing that captured the spirit of Kare Kano.
"My Dog" - Fred Graupp (Studio Tarantella)
Music: The Ken-L-Ration Commercial
Footage: Cowboy Bebop
For its creative use of an old TV ad with simulated Super-8 footage of Ein.
"Model of an Anime Individual" - Derek Schlag (#SD-AMV)
Music: I am the Very Model of a Cartoon Individual - Animaniacs
Footage: Trigun
For its creative song selection and matching it to the Trigun footage to create a fun video.
"Almost Finished" - Nicholas Terwoord (Tsunami Studios)
Music: Some Fantastic - Bare Naked Ladies
Footage: Steel Angel Kurumi
For its depiction of the romantic relationship between the leading characters.
"Sakura's Heroes" - Michael Martignetti (Blurry Line Media)
Music: Holding out for a Hero - Jennifer Saunders
Footage: Naruto
For being an all-around solid entry, even if it was Naruto.
"Utena" - Cynthia Delker (Baka Deshi Productions)
Music: Sexual - Amber
Footage: The Adolescence of Utena
Like the name of the chosen music, the judges felt that the creator was successful in conveying the sensuousness and eroticism inherent in the Utena movie.
We thank everyone for entering the competition and look forward to an even better competition for our 10th anniversary next year.
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Wootage! My first win at a con! I was totally a nervous wreck about this, since I had to leave early and couldn't stay for the awards >.<
Congrats to all the winners!
Congrats to all the winners!
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Re: AN2K5 AMV Competition Winners
Initial B wrote:Honourable Mentions:
"Just Another Blue Sky" - Terry Kaleas (Astromutation Productions)
Music: Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
Footage: His and Her Circumstances
For it's tight editing that captured the spirit of Kare Kano.
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Being out of town, and generally out of it, I didn't check this until now. Wow...thanks for the honorable mention. I'll post it on-line in a few days or so...
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Yantic Mobile Food Park to scale back vendors
Norwich - After becoming a popular take-out venue this summer, the new Yantic Mobile Food Park will shrink to just one or two vendors by the end of this week.
Robert Currier's growing business spot has puzzled city zoning officials and led to complaints from restaurant owners throughout the city that the vendors were being allowed to set up shop at a small vacant lot at 276 W. Town St. without zoning approval and paying only the $250 annual Norwich vendor permit fee.
Zoning Enforcement Officer Tianne Curtis said she has been in contact with Currier since he first brought his Rolling Tomato trailer to a defunct nearby gas station at 262 W. Town St. Vendors are not subject to zoning regulations, Curtis said, as long as the facilities are mobile, on wheels and removable.
But when Currier bought the vacant unbuildable commercially zoned lot at 276 W. Town St. last fall for $25,000, the operation started to grow rapidly. Currier paved a small parking lot, invited several other vendors to the site, poured a slab of concrete, set up picnic tables with umbrellas and set up a wooden fence to mark off the spot. A large sign "Yantic Mobile Food Park" hangs from the fence. An outdoor electrical panel provides power to the property.
At its peak operation, the park included Uncle D's Blazin' BBQ, Rolling Tomato, Italian Express, Rollinred's Mobile Kitchen and East Coast Tacos.
Curtis said the combination of activity presented a problem, as there is nothing in city zoning regulations that allows a mobile food park to set up on private property. Vendor permits mostly involve temporary setups on public property or at special events, city Planning Director Peter Davis said.
Curtis sent Currier a notice of zoning violation Aug. 6 and asked that most vendors leave the property by Sept. 6. She would allow Rolling Tomato to stay along with one "guest vendor."
Last week, Italian Express remained at the property, and Currier did steady business out of his largest trailer - which he bought on eBay - while three smaller Rolling Tomato trailers were parked on the lot. He uses them for catered events or to travel to fairs. He said he asked the other vendors to leave before the Sept. 6 deadline to show "good faith" with the city that he is working with officials to meet regulations.
Both the owner and the zoning enforcement officer said they have a good working relationship and said the issue should not be characterized as a "zoning dispute" or confrontation.
"He and I have always had a good working relationship," Curtis said.
"There really is no fight," Currier said. "We're just going through the process."
Currier has several possible zoning options and has chosen to apply for a zoning text amendment to city zoning regulations that would define and allow mobile food parks to operate on private property.
Jason Vincent, vice president of the Norwich Community Development Corp., has offered his assistance to write the draft regulation to be submitted to the City Council, which serves as the zoning board in Norwich.
Vincent said last week that he has written the first draft and hopes to submit it to the city corporation counsel for possible revisions within the next month.
Vincent said Norwich could be on the cusp of a growing national trend. The first reference he could find to a mobile food park was in 2010 in Los Angeles.
"This is a business incubator operation," Vincent said. "This is a trend nationally. We have an opportunity to capture some of that marketplace in a small city. We believe if he is successful, customers might clamor for a full indoor restaurant."
Currier already is working toward that possibility. Currier started Rolling Tomato as a mobile outfit four years ago, but then opened a conventional pizza restaurant in Groton. He now has eight employees and four trailers, including the large 28-foot trailer he uses year-round at the Yantic Mobile Food Park.
On Saturday, Currier posted the winning bid of $84,001 in a bank foreclosure auction on the property adjacent to the food park at 32 Yantic Flats Road. The property has a commercial building, a house and a shed. At first, he plans to clean up the property, do landscaping and expand the mobile vending operation. Eventually, he would like to turn the commercial building into a pizza restaurant.
He still plans to seek the zoning regulation change that would clearly define mobile food parks in the city, but for now, the zoning officer has allowed Rolling Tomato to remain open along with one guest vendor at that property. He envisions two vendors also occupying his newly purchased adjacent property once that is ready.
A second step would be to create a commercial kitchen inside the commercial building and make it available to vendors on a rental basis to prepare food. He would use it as well to support his concession trailer business.
Eventually in what he called the third step, Currier hopes to open a pizza restaurant at the second property, with the mobile food park operating next door if the proposed zoning regulation change is successful.
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By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday endorsed Barack Obama's bid for re-election, citing the Democratic president's efforts to wind down the war in Afghanistan and tackle terrorism as well as an improving U.S. economy.
"I think we ought to keep on the track that we are on," the Republican, who also backed Obama in 2008, told "CBS This Morning." He added, "I voted for him in 2008 and I plan to stick with him in 2012."
The move comes just days after Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney clashed over foreign policy in the third and last presidential debate ahead of the November 6 election.
Polls show Obama and Romney neck and neck. A Reuters/Ipsos online tracking poll gave Romney a 1-point edge on Wednesday, 47 percent to Obama's 46 percent.
Obama welcomed the endorsement at a rally in Richmond, Virginia.
"I was proud and humbled to learn that we have Colin Powell's support in this campaign. I'm grateful to him for his lifetime of service to his country both as a soldier and as a diplomat," he told the crowd.
The president earlier called Powell to thank him, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One before landing in Virginia, a battleground state where the military vote is important.
In his endorsement, Powell said domestic issues such as the economy, healthcare and education loomed large in his support for a second term for Obama.
"When he took over, the country was in very, very difficult straits, we were in one of the worst recessions we had seen in recent times, close to a depression ... we were in real trouble," Powell said, adding that housing market has started to pick up, the auto industry has recovered and consumer confidence is rising.
"I think generally we've come out of the dive and starting to gain altitude," he said. "I see that we are starting to rise up," he said, but added problems such as unemployment and the housing market still need work.
Powell also criticized Romney's foreign policy as inconsistent and questioned the former Massachusetts governor's ability to address the deficit and looming defense cuts.
"I'm not quite sure which Governor Romney we'd be getting with respect to foreign policy," he told CBS, calling Romney's foreign policy "a moving target."
As for the U.S. budget, he added: "It's essentially, let's cut taxes and compensate for that with other things, but that compensation does not cover all the cuts intended or the expenses associated with defense."
Powell, a moderate Republican, served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush. Some of Romney's advisers are more conservative veterans of the Bush administration.
"There's some very, very strong neo-conservative views that are presented by the governor that I have some trouble with," Powell said.
A retired four-star general, Powell was also chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under former President George H.W. Bush and was national security advisor under former President Ronald Reagan.
Republican Senator John McCain, a harsh critic of the Obama administration's handling of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, blasted Powell's endorsement.
"General Powell, you disappoint us, and you have harmed your legacy even further by defending what has clearly been the most feckless foreign policy in my lifetime," McCain, the Republican presidential candidate who lost to Obama in 2008, told FOX News Radio's "Kilmeade & Friends" program.
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NOME, Alaska (AP) — A rare blue-colored red king crab was part of a fisherman's catch earlier this month in Nome, Alaska.
KNOM reports (http://is.gd/NQ1wSP) Frank McFarland found the blue crab in his pot when fishing on July Fourth off Nome. The blue crab is being kept alive at the Norton Sound Seafood Center until McFarland can have it mounted.
The rare crab has become a rock star of sorts, with people showing up at the center to have their photos taken with it.
Scott Kent, with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Nome, says he has no idea why the red king crab is blue, but suspects it's just a mutation.
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Tim Tebow's cracked ribs are expected to limit him the rest of the week, leaving him as a possible game-time decision.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Tim Tebow has played with a broken leg. A fractured collarbone, too.
He would "love" to play Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals. But, two cracked ribs kept the New York Jets backup quarterback on the sideline last week — and he isn't sure if he'll end up back there again this weekend.
"I'm getting better every day," Tebow said Wednesday. "Slowly getting better. It's good."
Tebow was limited at practice and acknowledged that he didn't do much throwing. He's a left-handed tosser, and the broken ribs are on the left side of his torso. The injury is expected to limit him the rest of the week, leaving him as a possible game-time decision — as he was against New England last Thursday night.
"Pretty much whatever they asked me to do," Tebow said of what he did at practice. "Got a few reps here and there, so just taking it slowly."
He did add, however, that although it "might not feel the best," he thinks he could "manage" if he had to play today and take a hit from an opposing defensive player.
Coach Rex Ryan thinks Tebow will be cleared to play Sunday "like he was last week."
"We'll see how he progresses through the week," Ryan added before practice.
Tebow was injured at Seattle on Nov. 11, played three offensive snaps the following week at St. Louis. He was active but Ryan kept him on the sideline — to be used only in "an emergency" — against New England after the quarterback convinced the coach he could play following a pregame evaluation.
Ryan has been criticized by some for keeping Tebow active rather than making third-stringer Greg McElroy available. Tebow reiterated that he would have been able to play against the Patriots if something had happened to starter Mark Sanchez.
"It was a big game and definitely something that I didn't want to miss if needed to help the team," Tebow said. "I'm glad they got my input, but ultimately, it's their decision."
Tebow is not concerned about the nature of the injury making him less effective, but rather he'd be more worried about having a setback that would sideline him longer. That, he said, would be on the Jets' medical staff to determine.
"They worry about it and make sure that it couldn't get worse," he said. "That's an option and they'll do the smart thing for me."
Tebow has been known to have a high tolerance for pain, as proven in high school, when he played through a broken leg and even scored on a 20-yard run. He wasn't concerned then that continuing to play would threaten his long-term health.
"Not with that," he said. "It's already broken. It's just your fibula, and, go play. We were losing. That's what I was worried about in that game.
He also played with a broken collarbone in Denver's playoff loss to New England last season.
"It wasn't fun," Tebow said with a big smile.
Despite the fact he has had a very limited role in the Jets' offense this season, daily updates on his ribs have become national news. And it hardly fazes Tebow.
"Most things right now tend to be that way," he said, laughing.


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The U.S. Coast Guard says an explosion took place on a platform near West Cote Blanche around 8:42 a.m. Friday.
U.S. Coast Guard Captain Ed Cubanski says there were 22 workers on the platform when it caught on fire. Cubanski says nine workers were not injured while eleven were flown to area hospitals. He says at least four victims are reportedly suffering from extensive burns, and are now hospitalized. Two people remain missing.
Cubanski says workers were performing maintenance on the platform when the explosion occurred.
Cubanski says an oil sheen was spotted in the area of one-half-mile long by 200 yards, but a large release of oil is not expected.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lally, a spokesman for the Coast Guard, says two helicopters, an airplane and small boats were sent to the area. The Coast Guard has now confirmed that the fire is out on the platform.
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