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PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican member of the Arizona House who supports GOP Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand Medicaid received an obscene and threatening voicemail at her office, a sign that the rancorous debate over embracing a signature component of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in the state is far from over.
A visibly shaken state Rep. Kate Brophy McGee of Phoenix urged fellow members Thursday to tell their constituents to be civil, after a fellow lawmaker encouraged opponents of the plan to call Brophy McGee and other GOP supporters.
"Let's tone down the rhetoric, let's focus on the issue, and let's disagree without making someone like me frightened to come to work," Brophy McGee said on the House floor.
Other lawmakers who support or are believed to back Medicaid expansion reported getting email and phone calls containing varying layers of vitriol.
"We're all getting these," said Rep. Bob Robson, R-Chandler, who has not publically committed to expansion.
Arizona is among nine states where Republican governors have accepted the Medicaid expansion offered under Obama's health care law. Of those, six have been able to get a deal with their legislatures or are on track to do so.
The six are Arizona, Iowa, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico and North Dakota, with Arizona in the midst of a heated Legislative battle. The three other GOP governors ran into trouble with lawmakers of their own party, and prospects look dim for Medicaid expansion in Florida, Michigan and Ohio.
Brophy McGee got the threatening message after Republican Rep. Bob Thorpe of Flagstaff sent an email earlier in the week urging his constituents to call her and five other GOP House members who support Medicaid expansion. Thorpe said he sent an apology to the lawmakers late Wednesday, telling them he "screwed up" and wouldn't do so again.
"I think that kind of behavior is intolerable and terrible and it's very unfortunate that that happened," Thorpe said of the threat against Brophy McGee. Thorpe, however, said he's not to blame because he specifically urged people to be polite.
Brophy McGee said it was, "too little, too late." She added that while she takes, "a fair amount of insults and abuse, this was beyond the pale."
Brophy McGee said her assistant called state House security Thursday upon hearing the male caller begin making threats in the message. Brophy McGee said the caller sounded intoxicated and left a telephone number. House security is investigating.
Other groups have also named the GOP lawmakers supporting Medicaid expansion, and it isn't known if Thorpe's email prompted the caller. But state House speaker Andy Tobin said he talked to Thorpe and the apology followed.
"I don't think he urged them to call and threaten," Tobin said.
The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate passed a state budget last week that included the Medicaid expansion provision championed by Brewer. Five Republicans joined all 13 Democrats in adding the provision to a budget bill, and a sixth GOP lawmaker then joined them in approving the entire package.
Conservative Republicans were furious at the supporters. The head of the Maricopa County Republican Party, A.J. LaFaro, called the day of the vote "a day of infamy."
"Their political careers are all but over and their days numbered," he said of the GOP proponents.
The House is similarly split on the provision, but there appears to be enough Republican support to push it through with all minority Democrats on board. A vote could come soon.
Brewer shocked many in January when she announced she wanted to embrace a key part of the Affordable Care Act by expanding Medicaid after being one of the most outspoken governors against Obama's plan.
The federal government will pay 100 percent of most costs for three years and 90 percent thereafter, a much more generous share than with the rest of the Medicaid population. The governor's proposal includes a "circuit breaker" that would cut the new insurance if federal funding drops below 80 percent.
AP reporter Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar contributed from Washington
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Massachusetts visitors continued to out-visit and out-spend Rhode Islanders at Twin River Resort casino in 2012, according to a study released Sunday by the Center for Policy Analysis at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. And they made up nearly a third of visitors to Connecticut's Foxwoods Resort.
If the state Gaming Commission awards a casino license to applicants in Southern or Central Massachusetts, it could take a slice out of its neighbors' revenue.
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Counting Newport Grand Slots with Twin River, Bay Staters made nearly 2.3 million visits to Rhode Island's slot parlors and spent $295.3 million, compared to Rhode Islanders' 1.1 million visits and total spending of $269.5 million in 2012.
In 2011, Massachusetts spending at casinos added $149.5 million in tax revenues to Rhode Island state government.
Mr. Barrow said in the news release, "Despite being located in Rhode Island, Twin River is now more than ever dependent on spending by Bay Staters. Its success in attracting Massachusetts residents will prove to be a double-edged sword."
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"It has become conventional wisdom that the BP-funded response to the spill was a chaotic and mismanaged affair, driven by corporate avarice, lacking in urgency, and at times willfully negligent of the problem's scope … The evidence for this is much like the imagery of heavy oiling: vivid and convincing upon first consideration, but also fragmentary, anecdotal.''
In sentences much more eloquent and much longer than mine, The New Yorker also has reached a most blasphemous conclusion about the Gulf oil spill.
The Gulf appears to have survived. The federal government is not so incompetent after all. BP did a decent job cleaning up its mess.
Much of what you saw in the media was not reality. It was a scripted show.
I recall a spill scientist, frustrated by the sensational reporting, asking me why the media continue to "believe the loudest and most radical voice.''
This was my answer: "In stories like this, we follow a template. We seek villains and doomsday scenarios because they drive the storyline. And so everything BP does is driven by evil intent. Everything (the federal government) does is to cover up evil. We then create heroes to battle the evil. And as the information begins trickling in that contradicts the storyline, it doesn't matter. The big tent has folded up and people have lost interest. So there is no accountability.''
You can find accountability in The New Yorker, which is hardly an apologist for Big Oil. (Full disclosure: I own some stock in an oil company, but not BP.)
Consider this excerpt from the magazine about a patch of oily marsh: "By then heavily oiled marshes had become the staple subject of television crews and photographers. Their images, typically in tight focus, showed suffocating swirls of shimmery crude and sickly pelicans. The scenes were riveting and heartbreaking but they fundamentally misrepresented the situation. For many responders, the amount of oil in the marshland was a relief.''
Of the 1,600 miles of Gulf coastline, 25 were oiled.
There was a reason you saw no panoramic views of oiled shorelines on the nightly news.
But there was plenty of drama. CNN fell in love with Billy Nungesser, a colorful Louisiana parish president who lashed out in his Cajun accent at the feds. Oh, how the big-city media love this shtick.
Nungesser was a hero battling evil. That got him an audience with President Barack Obama.
The feds had to demonstrate they were taking action, even if there was nothing to act on. This created a frenzied, almost comical demand for ever more oil-containing boom, which often just piled up at storage sites. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told The New Yorker that "the amount of boom sent to various states was almost a political litmus test on federal support.''
It became known as "Boom Wars.''
Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana became a hero for the conservatives. Because it was against their storyline to bash Big Oil, they bashed President Obama for a dawdling, ineffective response. Jindal, on the other hand, was a leader who took charge. He demanded more boom. More boom! And he joined Nungesser in demanding that 80 miles of sand berm be built around the Mississippi delta to block the oil.
But the lousy feds wouldn't let them do it!
"We know it works; we have seen it work … ," said Jindal.
Adm. Allen knew this was a bonehead idea but relented. The berms that did go up were completely ineffective and made Jindal, a Republican wunderkind and Rhodes scholar, a laughingstock.
There were two ongoing operations in the Gulf. One was a marketing operation on the coast that had little to do with actually cleaning up oil. The other was a massive and pretty successful operation offshore to keep the oil from hitting the shore.
"In just half a year, the response expended nearly 60 million man hours, roughly nine times what it took to build the Empire State Building,'' says The New Yorker. "After the well ruptured, BP accepted help from competing oil companies and hired the world's leading oil pollution specialists to run key operations.''
The article states that BP gave the Coast Guard nearly everything it asked for. And because the oil company was in a much better position than the feds to mobilize resources, the feds smartly let them do it. That caused the perception BP was running the show, which it was not.
Do you recall the demand that the feds take over the well-capping operation to prove it was in charge? Thank God someone had better sense.
This is not to praise BP. The company should be horse-whipped. But it was in BP's selfish best interest to minimize damage from the spill.
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There's no telling how this fine buck's head and antlers ended up this way, so we can only surmise and guess what happened.
Could the deer have died next to a small tree, which grew over time around the antlers and skull?
Maybe a hunter placed the skull against the tree. Why anyone wouldn't take this home with them, we don't know. Poacher? Someone who didn't care about antlers, since you can't make soup out of them?
Perhaps a dog or animal dragged off the skull from a deer camp or found a dead deer in the woods, and then dragged it away.
Nature isn't always pretty and sometimes it's perplexing. This photo definitely shows us that in the grand scheme of things, we don't always have an answer for what happened.


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The Supreme Court's hot/cold audio-casting policy
Here's one for the "Gift Horse in the Mouth" department.
Yesterday the Supreme Court announced that it will release the audio of oral argument in next Monday's two big affirmative action cases. For only the second time this term, the court has granted a request to broadcast particular arguments—with a slight time delay—so the public can tune in live on C-SPAN. The first time this term was with last month's "partial-birth abortion" cases.
As someone who has long pushed for the audio broadcast (if not live video coverage) of every oral argument at the court, I'm about to sound way ungrateful. But the court's policy of allowing the public to listen in on some oral arguments and not others is a huge mistake for about a million reasons. It's the modern-day equivalent of the feudal lord opening up the castle to his serfs for one drunken night at Christmas: It's condescending, it's irrational, and it reinforces the worst stereotypes about a secretive, elitist high court.
The court's formal approach to audio broadcasting is a bit hard to pin down. The gist seems to be that certain media outlets make requests of the chief justice (here's a recent example), and the chief justice then decides whether to grant them. The standard cited in both the request letters and the orders granting permission is whether there is a "heightened public interest" in the matter being argued. That language goes back to the court's rationale in granting permission to allow the first audio release of oral argument in Bush v. Gore.
Since that time, numerous media organizations have made numerous requests to then-Chief Justice Rehnquist and now-Chief Justice Roberts for time-delayed audio-casts of various cases. I know, because my name was on at least one of them. Some of these requests are granted. Some are denied. C-SPAN will be documenting its own efforts for broader audio-casting here. Last term, for instance, the court agreed to release audio broadcasts of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the military tribunals case, the parental consent for teen abortion case, and the case involving military recruitment on campuses. It declined to allow audio for the cases testing the limits of the Clean Water Act or Texas' voter redistricting. But why?
Assume, for a moment, that the court's implementation of its policy, whatever that may be really, isn't arbitrary. Assume, even, that there is some objective instrument with which the chief justice can measure the magnitude of public interest in a given case. The policy of only allowing audio broadcast of the so-called important cases would still be a terrible one. First of all, there is no such thing as an unimportant case at the high court. And since when is a case's importance measured by public interest? A lot of people think tomorrow's global warming case is pretty important. Many more penguins would agree.
The implication that the court can gauge "public interest" in a case by the number or intensity of media requests makes no sense. The parental abortion notification case was important to some Americans, certainly. But the eminent domain case, Kelo, from the prior term is still causing political aftershocks, yet seems not to have warranted a broadcast request at all. Many more Americans will be directly and personally impacted by the court's criminal sentencing cases than by this term's partial-birth abortion cases. These guys may not watch C-SPAN. But their interest is "high" just the same. It is doubly crazy that a body charged with looking out for the disenfranchised and the unpopular is making decisions about public access to its proceedings based on popularity and public opinion.
But the court's hot/cold audio policy isn't just unfair. It's also self-destructive. If you look at the list of the cases for which the court has granted same-day audio access, it's a festival of hot-button, crazy-making social issues, guaranteed to rip the country in two. Unless I am miscounting here, the court has allowed audio casting on the two upcoming affirmative action cases; the two most recent abortion cases; the monster enemy-combatant case from last year; the "don't ask, don't tell" case about the army's policy on gay soldiers; and another abortion case from early last term. The year before that, the court released audio of three more big enemy-combatant cases, including the first Guantanamo case, and the case about Dick Cheney's supersecret energy commission. For good measure, the court also allowed us to listen in on the first round of affirmative action cases and campaign-finance reform cases, and, of course, Bush v. Gore.
Those aren't necessarily the court's most important cases, by any historical or constitutional measure. But they sure are the ones that cause conniptions over at the Wall Street Journal and New York Times editorial pages. And if I go back and count votes in the above-mentioned cases, a lot of them were decided by tense, close margins, along the very ideological lines that track the New York Times/Wall Street Journal editorial divide.
If the Supreme Court justices really want the public to recognize that what they do is subtle and legal, as opposed to ideologically driven, why would they release the audio in precisely those cases in which they are most stridently split? Why reinforce the stereotype of a partisan 5-4 court that splits along the most-basic liberal/conservative lines? Maybe the court should do itself a favor and broadcast only the easiest cases (where the justices all agree) or only the most technical ones (where nobody gets to say the word fetus). If the justices learned anything at their respective Thanksgiving tables last weekend, you'd think it was that if you must bicker about affirmative action and abortion, it's better not to do it in front of the children.
Orin Kerr makes this point better than I have: Tapes of all oral argument are released within a year and archived for public consumption. It's simpler and fairer to just make them all available the day they are argued. There is no good reason not to release them, and if the justices really want to stay in the judging business, they should probably get out of the public opinion business altogether.


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A few years back Stuart Staniford, (who is one of the most brilliant people I know) and I had a lively debate about the future of small scale agriculture over at The Oil Drum. Stuart argued that agriculture would continue to get bigger and more industrialized, because its fossil fuel dependency really wasn't that great. I argued that in fact energy and environmental pressures would push us back to smaller scale agriculture. So it is nice of Staniford to note that at least at this particular moment, there's a small general trend in my direction ;-):
I've circled the 4% increase between 2002 and 2007. Note that the reporter is incorrect that this is the first such increase since 1920: there was a large increase in 1935, presumably due to the effects of people going back to the land in the great depression. Note also that the 2007 census is just before the great recession and it's possible the 2012 census will show a larger increase given both the recession and, perhaps, an ongoing trend amongst young people of returning to agriculture.
So, we are a long way from Sharon Astyk's Nation of Farmers, but it certainly looks like the giant loss of US farm count in the mid twentieth century has stabilized and perhaps now begun some kind of bounce back**.
I would actually suggest that at this point, this is a voluntary back to the land movement – that is, we are not yet seriously experiencing the kinds of pressures that may drive us in the future. So in some respects, I don't think the issue that Staniford and I debated back then is really in play yet – instead, the growing local food movement is creating a trend that is taking us in a useful direction – towards more farms – but not necessarily because we HAVE to have more farms, but because we WANT them. Don't get me wrong, I think this is a good thing, but I'm not sure that I would draw any conclusions from this particular trend – except that doing this keeps land in agricultural usage and begins to create the next generation of farmers – which we need for purely demographic as well as energy and resource reasons (I'm not entirely clear that the demographic pressures are yet in force here either, really – we just haven't fully grasped how badly we need these young farmers EVEN IF we engage in exactly the same kind of industrialized agriculture – the average US farmer is nearly 60, and his or her children have already left the farm with no intention of coming back).
Let us say that we will need only 2% of the US population to become farmers. But since the vast majority of farmers are facing retirement within the next two decades, and under 35 farmers are such a tiny percentage, that means we will need to train 30-50 times as many young farmers in the next two decades as we have been doing. The numbers could be substantially higher. But where would even those small numbers of farmers come from? Even if the younger farmers were to have a lot of kids and encourage them to stay on the farm, that doesn't resolve the problem.
So where do they come from? This is a new problem for human society – while we've always had some people take up agriculture as a new profession (and when that happened, say, during the settlement of the US west, there were always extremely high failure rates and ecological costs), the vast majority of those who did the work and stayed at it grew up on farms. We have never before in human history (except perhaps when we developed agriculture, and that didn't happen all at once) had to teach an entire generation of non-farmers to farm. But that's the problem we face.
So yay for the movement of young farmers to the land, for whatever reason. In the end, we need a lot more of them, no matter what.


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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended his oil minister Wednesday, saying he has a solid record leading the industry for a decade despite a recent refinery explosion that killed at least 42 people.
Expressing full support for Rafael Ramirez, Chavez said that if he wins re-election in October he will pick him again to head the Oil and Mining Ministry and the state-run company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, known as PDVSA.
Chavez backed Ramirez when asked by a reporter if he would consider dismissing his oil minister over the matter.
"How can someone suggest, if they still haven't completed the investigations, that I dismiss someone like Minister Rafael Ramirez," Chavez said at a news conference in a Caracas park.
"I'm forced to go out in his defense because he's a great Venezuelan, an honest man, a tireless worker who has held the post at the ministry for 10 years," Chavez said.
The cause of the Aug. 25 blast, which also injured more than 150 people, is under investigation.
Some experts have said that insufficient maintenance by Venezuela's oil company has probably made such disasters likelier. They note that PDVSA's revenues are used to finance social programs started by Chavez's government.
Ramirez and other government officials say they've spent billions of dollars maintaining the country's refineries.
The Amuay refinery, where the blast occurred, is one of the largest in the world and is part of PDVSA's Paraguana Refining Center, which includes the adjacent Cardon refinery.
Chavez flew to the explosion site after the disaster and has pledged aid for families whose homes were destroyed.
Opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, who is challenging Chavez in the Oct. 7 vote, has demanded a thorough investigation.
"When an accident happens in an industry or a refinery ... the government always wants the problems to blow up lower down, over the innocent ones, and not assume its responsibility," Capriles said last week.
During the nearly four-hour news conference, Chavez broke into song at one point, and also joked when a stray dog walked in front of him and briefly stole his spotlight. "Why, welcome, sir! What an elegant guy you are," Chavez said.
As for the presidential race, Chavez likened it to a boxing match and boasted that he expects to "knock down" Capriles like Muhammad Ali would an opponent. Chavez said he thinks Capriles could leave the elections ring "in a stretcher."
After a year of battling cancer, Chavez has said he's now better and has assured Venezuelans that physical limitations stemming from his recovery will not affect his re-election campaign. On Wednesday, he said his last medical exam in June found him in good shape.
"I feel very good, even better. Because there are some who are throwing dirt and saying Chavez can't make it — he's falling, he's dying," the president said. "They're playing with this, but it's not going to happen. We're going to have a massive victory."
Turning to another issue that has stirred controversy, Chavez said his government still hasn't found evidence of any killings in Yanomami Indian communities in the Amazon. Last week, an indigenous organization said it had received reports of a mass killing in a remote jungle village.
Nicia Maldonado, the minister for indigenous peoples, said later on state radio that officials who traveled to the area last week had on Wednesday reached the community of Irotatheri where the massacre reportedly happened. She said the team didn't find any signs of bloodshed.
Leaders of the Horonami Yanomami Organization, a community group that released the original report, couldn't be reached for comment.
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There's one thing that ties every single person on the planet together. Not love. Not a shared passion for collecting celebrity pre-masticated chewing gum. Nor a universal loathing of The Jeremy Kyle Show. Nope, the one thing that we all share is food.
We all need food. We all enjoy food. And some of us like it so much that we bathe in it, happy to sit there gleefully rubbing refried beans into our nipp.... Er... Ahem.
But there are some that are far better with food than most, so much so that they are rewarded little stars for excellence. And we don't mean the staff of McDonalds...
Great British Chefs - Recipes HD
- Format
- iPad (iPhone version also available)
- Price
- £4.99
- Where
- iTunes
Great British Chefs is a collective organisation that "celebrates and champions the best chefs across Britain", and by that it means the promotion of a collection of top restaurateurs and foodsmiths who have be awarded coveted Michelin stars. And Great British Chefs - Recipes is the brand's first application (with the HD suffix for iPad, without for iPhone).
It offers a collection of 180 top class recipes from some of the finest creative chefs working in Britain today, including Bohemia's Shaun Rankin, The Berkley's Marcus Wareing, and Restaurant Tom Aikens' Tom Aikens, and presents them in a glorious and simple to understand fashion.
The navigation is superb. You can find recipes in their own section, via one of the chefs' profiles, through a listed ingredient, or even listed per course. You can also see several entire suggested course-by-course menus from each chef, which you could make for a dinner party, for example. You really are only limited by your own cooking skills and time.
Thankfully, for the latter, as well as in-depth instructions, pictures (of the final dish, beautifully shot), and ingredients, each recipe also details the time it is expected to prepare. If nothing else, this gives you a lot more respect for the food that is served in a quality establishment, as sometimes hours and hours can be used up to make one small plate of posh nosh.
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As well as their menus, each chef is presented with a profile, both written and on video, through which you can also find out more about their respective restaurants. Bookings phone numbers, addresses and websites are also listed for each. And the app even has a list of available cookbooks featuring the chefs, should you feel the need to explore further.
In short, it's expansive but not intimidating. Jam packed with content (if not jam).
Certainly, we'll be trying some of the recipes ourselves, to see if our own culinary talents can match the undoubted quality of the Great British Chefs.
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Discussion around the final between Australia and New Zealand.
Discussion around the final between Australia and New Zealand.
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I could care less who qualify for Final to play against Aus but i would like that team to win.. I am sorry i am just tired of seeing Aus dominating and winning every single major ICC ODI tournments.
I'm definitely watching Ponting bat. He will ton up. He is Ponting. Big game player. Captain. Legend.
If Pakistan reaches final, i don't think Ponting 'll be able to Score a century in the final, it'll be a close game if Pakistan is there in the final
Ponting shall be Bonds bitch yet again.
Proudly supporting Central Districts
RIP Craig Walsh
TBA is an awesome side. Dont see the Aussies winning against their awesomeness.
NZ will win it comfortably
Long Live Test Cricket
Defo supporting TBA, hope it's Pakistan tbh, just because I think winning another tournament would be great for the people there.
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RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
Winning another tournament would be great for the people here as well
Rest In Peace Craigos
Haha indeed, don't care about you lot though
Beaten to the punch by a couple of other posters. Anyhow I'll come out and say it, TBA FTW
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BEIRUT (AP) — The planned evacuation of fighters from rebel-held parts of the Syrian city of Homs was delayed Saturday, activists said, though a cease-fire still was holding in the country's third-largest city.
Rebels in the city agreed Friday to surrender the territory in exchange for safe passage to other opposition-held areas. The agreement came after a blockade by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces caused widespread hunger in rebel-held parts of the city, which have been hit relentlessly by government artillery and airstrikes.
Local activist Samer al-Homsi and other three activists said it wasn't clear why Syrian forces weren't allowing the first phase of several hundred rebel fighters to leave.
One Homs-based activist said rebels were gathering wounded fighters, so they could be taken out as a first priority, beginning Sunday. Other Homs-based activists said they believed the delays were over a plan to allow food and aid into two blockaded areas — one blockaded by rebels in the northern province of Aleppo, and another blockaded by pro-government forces near Homs.
Activists also said a prisoner exchange deal between rebels and Assad's forces in central and northern Syria also could be delaying the move.
Homs was once known as the capital of the Syrian revolution for its fierce opposition to Assad's rule.
Assad's forces have been taking back rebel-held areas throughout Syria with a mix of blockades, deals with rebels and relentlessly pounding of opposition-held areas.
On Saturday, Assad's forces entered in the rural town of Mleeha near the capital, Damascus, state-run television and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The town was one of the last near the capital held by rebels. State television also said government fighters advanced into rebel-held parts of Aleppo.
As pro-government forces have advanced, rebels have responded by firing mortar shells and detonating car bombs in residential areas, often killing civilians.
On Saturday, as Assad forces advanced into Mleeha, a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint, causing casualties, state-run television said, without elaborating.
Rebels also fired mortars into a government-held neighborhood in Aleppo, killing at least 12 people.
Activists also said that the death toll from two car bombs that struck two small villages in the central Syrian province of Hama has risen to 23 people, including 14 children.
Rami Abdurrahman of The Observatory said Saturday that the figure was likely to rise further. The bombs exploded Friday in the villages of Jadreen and Humayri, some 19 kilometers (11 miles) apart. It wasn't clear if the two attacks were coordinated. The Observatory obtains its information from a network of activists on the ground.
State-run Syrian television also reported the bombings Friday.
Syria's 3-year-old conflict has killed more than 150,000 people, activists say. More than 2.5 million people have fled the violence to find shelter in neighboring countries, while millions more are displaced within the country.


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Career prep, technology featured at spring board meeting
May 23, 2013
Undergraduates' future career success and technology in higher education took center stage at the spring meeting of the Lewis & Clark Board of Trustees. The May 17 meeting also witnessed updates on retention and entrepreneurship and the passing of the chair's gavel from Jim Richardson to Mark Dorman.
At the Academic Affairs Committee meeting, CAS Dean of Students Anna Gonzalez briefed the trustees on structural changes in the Student Life division aimed at better preparing students for career success. In a presentation titled "Building a Culture of Career Engagement," Gonzalez detailed changes including the separation of the two primary areas of engagement—careers and community service—now housed in the Center for Career and Community Engagement (3CE). Beginning June 1, career development will go forward in an enhanced fashion in a newly named Career Development Center under the direction of current 3CE Director Minda Heyman; community engagement will be part of a student leadership and service office reporting to Associate Dean Tricia Brand.
Through more active outreach to students beginning in their first year, the new career office will help students optimize their curricular and cocurricular experiences and learn how to best present them to prospective employers and graduate programs, Gonzalez explained. At the same time, the office will further develop networks of alumni mentors and employers interested in hiring Lewis & Clark students and alumni for internship and jobs.
With this new approach and more focused energy, Gonzalez says, "We will align our career services with the critical thinking and leadership skills our students are learning, and with the need for them to position themselves for the job market and graduate and professional schools." The new structure was devised after a yearlong process that included an external review, a survey of students using 3CE, and recommendations from a career development committee.
In a plenary session presentation on technology in higher education, Chief Information Officer Adam Buchwald spoke about massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other new technologies for teaching and learning.
MOOCs, Buchwald explained, are essentially a "wrapper" around a variety of digital-learning resources widely created and employed by Lewis & Clark and other colleges, such as video and digital information-sharing platforms. Debunking the idea that MOOCs will replace the kind of education offered by Lewis & Clark and other liberal arts colleges, Buchwald said, "We pride ourselves on rich face-to-face interactions—research, residential experiences, and international and experiential learning. None of those things translate to a MOOC."
But that's not to say that colleges like Lewis & Clark have no use for online lectures and the like, Buchwald said. Among other uses, students can consume these outside of class as part of their coursework and come ready to discuss and apply them in class. "It's about freeing up time so you can devote class experience to discussing, applying, and creating new knowledge," he said.
Buchwald's presentation followed an inspirational speech by graduating senior Julia Huggins. While describing the rich educational experiences she had through College Outdoors and international study and research programs, as well as in classrooms and labs on campus, Huggins thanked the board for the scholarship support she has received during her four years at Lewis & Clark, including funds donated by trustees Kent Swanson and Stephanie Fowler.
Among other actions and reports, the board:
- Thanked outgoing chair Jim Richardson B.S. '70, J.D. '76 for his service and installed Mark Dorman B.S. '83 as the new chair
- Approved a resolution honoring trustee and past-chair Ron Ragen for his distinguished service on the board and approved his new status as life trustee
- Discussed the success of undergraduate science education at Lewis & Clark and possibilities for fundraising for new science facilities
- Heard an update on CAS retention efforts, including the decision to have students declare their majors as sophomores rather than juniors
- Received an update on entrepreneurship, including the venture competition and the search for a managing director for the new entrepreneurship center
- Approved for board membership Ruth Sigal of Princeton, N.J., whose daughter, Ilana Sigal, just graduated from the college
- Attended the annual Philanthropy Leadership Dinner, held May 16 at the Fred and Suzanne Fields Ballroom at the Portland Art Museum


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2 Ind. tickets just missed giant Powerball prize
2 Ind. tickets just missed giant Powerball prize
Hoosier Lottery officials say Indiana retailers sold two tickets that just missed on winning a share of the giant Powerball jackpot.
While the two winning tickets for the estimated $580 million jackpot were sold in Arizona and Missouri, two tickets sold in Indiana are worth $1 million each.
Lottery officials say those tickets were sold at convenience stores in Vincennes and Highland. Those tickets matched the first five numbers, but not the Powerball number.
The numbers drawn Wednesday night are: 5, 16, 22, 23, 29 and Powerball of 6.


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Yes, Justin Timberlake Will Perform at the Grammys
Mr. "I'm a Singer Again!" will make his television comeback at the February 10 ceremony, as God and promotional cycles intended. So, does this make the Super Bowl surprise rumors more or less believable? Beyoncé did say she was working with him. Maybe he can sub in for Michelle.


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John Harvard, Samuel Adams, Joseph Hooker, Paul Revere, James Michael Curley, Make Way For Ducklings.
Famous local statues, all.
Now make way for Yaz.
Carl Yastrzemski's statue was dedicated outside Gate B at Fenway Park Sunday morning. At long last, the top performer in pennant-race history is cast in bronze outside the hardball house where he made his magic.
"It's a tremendous honor,'' Yaz said after the 40-minute ceremony. "This statue means as much to me as being inducted into the Hall of Fame and having my number retired.''
Boston's team owners and city fathers are assembling a nice little Freedom Trail dedicated to Hub sports. You can rub Red Auerbach's bald pate as you stroll through Faneuil Hall Marketplace, salute Bobby Orr on the way into North Station, stare into the eyes of Cy Young in front of Churchill Hall at Northeastern, and admire Doug Flutie's "Hail Mary" form outside BC's Alumni Stadium. Pretty soon we'll be toasting Bill Russell at City Hall Plaza, and the Sox already have immortalized Ted Williams and his "teammates" (Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio, and Johnny Pesky) at the intersection of Ipswich and Van Ness streets.
Appropriately, Yaz will stand forever at the same junction, just a few feet from bronzed Teddy Ballgame. The new monument celebrating Yaz (sculpted by Toby Mendez) features a 44-year-old Yastrzemski tipping his helmet toward Fenway fans before his final career at-bat in 1983.
"I look pretty young,'' Yaz said as he gazed up at his bronzed image. "The hair's not gray.''
There's nice symmetry in the unveiling of a Yaz statue on the last home date of this 2013 season. The 1967 Red Sox were the Cardiac Kids, a band of baseball brethren who vaulted from ninth place to first and made it to the seventh game of the World Series. They saved baseball in Boston. And now we have the 2013 Cardiac Adults, a worst-to-first edition that went from loathed to loved in seven short months. Sox manager John Farrell and players Dustin Pedroia, Jonny Gomes, and Daniel Nava attended the Yaz unveiling before going to work against the Blue Jays Sunday. The playoff-bound Sox of 2013 hope to follow the cleat prints of the team Yaz carried on his shoulders in Boston's greatest baseball summer.
In the final two weeks of the 1967 season, Yaz hit .523 with five homers and 16 RBIs. He went 7 for 8 in the final two "must-win" games of the regular season, then hit .400 with three homers in the World Series. Greatest thing since sliced bread? Yaz was more than that. He inspired his own line of loaves — "Big Yaz Bread" hit the grocery stores in 1968.
The son of a Long Island potato farmer, Yaz replaced Williams in left field at Fenway in 1961 and played in 3,308 games, hitting 452 homers, winning a Triple Crown, three batting titles, seven Gold Gloves, and the 1967 Most Valuable Player award. He went into the Hall of Fame in 1989 (appearing on 95 percent of ballots cast) and assumed the title of "greatest living Sox player" when Williams died in the summer of 2002.
Because of his performance and longevity, Yastrzemski is a New England baseball institution. A generation of New Englanders grew up, married, and began raising families while Yaz patrolled the patch of grass in front of the Green Monster. From 1961-83, a tourist tour through Boston included the State House, the Hatch Shell, the Union Oyster House, and Yaz at Fenway. No player in baseball history played more seasons (23) with one team.
When Yaz retired, he disappeared. Twenty-three years on the field was enough. He left us his game and rarely felt compelled to come back to his longtime summer workplace. He was not one for coaching, managing, or lacing up the spikes for an old-timers' game. Literature has J.D. Salinger, film has Garbo, the Dodgers have Koufax, and we have Yaz; an iconic figure who just wants to be left alone.
"I don't like to reminisce about when I played,'' Yaz said in 2011. "I had my day in the sun and it's over with.''
Yaz lives on the North Shore with his wife, Nan, and keeps track of his daughters and grandchildren. His grandson, Mike Yastrzemski, hit .273 in his first year of minor league ball in the Baltimore Orioles system this summer.
For a couple of weeks each spring, grandpa Yaz works with young hitters in the batting cages at the Red Sox training facility. Many days he'll take a long walk around the ballpark's warning track with former teammates Luis Tiant, Jim Rice, and Dwight Evans. Most days, Yastrzemski is fishing and/or golfing by early afternoon.
He appears annually at Fenway for a Genesis Fund event and — in the tradition of the late Thomas A. Yawkey — Yastrzemski is a lifelong supporter of the Jimmy Fund. When the Sox need autographed baseballs for any charitable cause, the balls are left for Yaz in the back room of a North Shore butcher shop, then picked up (signed) a week later.
Otherwise, the Sox leave him alone. He is not a regular in the meet-and-greet "Legends Suite" at Fenway. He regularly rejects offers to speak, or shoot television commercials. Two years ago, when a major book publisher came at him with an offer that required a day of promotional interviews in New York, Yastrzemski said, "I won't go to New York for a million dollars.'' There was no book deal.
Mayor Thomas Menino and Sox owners Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino were among those who came out to honor Yaz Sunday. A barbershop quartet sang "The Impossible Dream" and Jess Cain's immortal cornball ditty "Carl Yastrzemski" was played over a loudspeaker. Sox favorites Tiant, Frank Malzone, Bill Monbouquette, Bob Stanley, and Bill Lee attended and Rice and Evans delivered brief remarks.
Toastmaster Dick Flavin kept the ceremony moving and spoke fondly of Yastrzemski's dad, Carl Yastrzemski Sr.
"My dad was a quiet man and a hard worker,'' said Yaz. "He instilled that in me. He was a tough, good man.''
Yaz could have been speaking about himself.
He stuck around to toss the ceremonial first pitch before Sunday's regular-season home finale against the Blue Jays. Yaz performed the same chore before a game in the 2004 World Series and again when the Sox won in 2007. He said he's keeping his arm loose for next month.Dan Shaughnessy can be reached at email@example.com.


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Jeffrey Garten, whose professional credentials include Juan Trippe Professor of International Trade, Finance and Business in the Yale School of Management; chairman of Garten Rothkopf (an international advisory firm); and former dean of the Yale School of Management, compares the current global financial crisis to "the eye of a massive storm."
"We are at the beginning of a massive transformation of the global financial system," Garten told participants of the recent Sourcing USA Summit in Austin, Texas. "No part of the global economy is unaffected."
Garten admitted to being a bit more pessimistic about the worsening economic crisis than some of his colleagues. "I expect extremely strong headwinds," he said, and long-term trends that will continue to influence global markets.
Garten told the group of cotton buyers and sellers from around the world that three to four decades of trade liberalization could be in peril. "The big question is whether we're at the beginning of a new system that will not be as friendly to global business," he said.
Several issues contribute to the downturn, including the "deteriorating U.S. housing market, which is at the center of the global financial crisis. I see no light at the end of the tunnel for the next several months," he said.
A decline in U.S. manufacturing also contributes to the economic downturn. "So does decline in production and employment in other countries," Garten said.
He said the growing weakness in U.S. consumer demand is a big concern. "The U.S. economy is driven by consumption."
He cited distressed finances as a critical element. "The (distress) level is so high that getting back to normal will require a high magnitude of change."
He said other contributing factors include rising default rates, plummeting global growth and the collapse of the global economy. "We saw negative growth for the third quarter in all industrialized countries for the first time," he said.
Garten offered three possible scenarios for the economic crisis and labeled them V, U, and L.
V is the most optimistic outcome with recovery within six to eight months. U is a bit more pessimistic and puts recovery off until a year-and-a-half to three years. L is a representation of a previous Japanese financial crisis that was long term and severe.
Garten expects the crisis to follow the U trend with recovery at about two years. "We haven't seen the bottom yet," he said.
To accomplish that recovery, he suggested countries will need to cooperate on broad-based stimulus packages. "We also expect financial bailouts, a second wave of them."
He said industrial bailouts may open a Pandora's Box. "After an auto bailout, we'll see a line of others. Where do we draw the line?" he asked.
He said countries must avoid falling into trade protectionism. "I'm worried about holding the line," he said. "We haven't seen it yet but pressure will mount."
Garten said investment pullback is likely. "But we have to see a revival of private investment before we see an improved economy." He said the ramping up of regional investment access across borders over the past few years has "come to a rapid halt."
He said industrialized countries have depended too much on emerging markets to stimulate growth. "Those markets have been significant and account for 100 percent of global growth. That's unrealistic."
Energy prices will jump again in the medium term, Garten said, because of lack of investment in infrastructure and exploration, as well as the demand from China. He also predicted that food prices will rise.
"We will see a new structure for the U.S. and Asian economies. We do not come out of a crisis the same as we went in."
He said the United States may need to curb rampant consumerism. "The United States is a nation of consumers who don't save," he said. "We have to curtail consumerism because current deficits are not sustainable. We are over-indebted."
He said Asia faces a different challenge. "Domestic consumption has decreased and exports have increased. Asia's basic growth model is to export without enough emphasis on domestic consumption."
Garten said the current crisis "is not a normal kind of recession that lasts for one to three quarters with a loss of 1 percent to 3 percent."
He wonders if globalization will slow. "Is the last half century an aberration? I'm not sure."
He anticipates "implications for diplomacy around oil" with producers like Russia and Iran.
Emerging markets will continue to play a significant role in long-term economies, Garten said. In 2000, the world population stood at 6 billion people with only 1 billion living in "rich countries." In 2050, world population will reach 9 billion and still only 1 billion will live in "rich countries."
He predicted "astounding growth of cities. We will see either a total breakdown or a growth stimulus. I expect the latter. By 2050, two-thirds of economic growth will come from emerging markets."
He said the growth will demand a "massive increase in investment in infrastructure, $41 trillion minimum within the next 20 years."
Garten admitted that some experts posit a more optimistic case and project:
• The market is just now beginning to understand government actions and will respond.
• Global fiscal stimulus programs will work.
• Cheaper commodity prices, especially oil, will help stimulate the economy.
• The new U.S. president will have a positive effect on the economy.
"This more optimistic scenario represents a consensus of Wall Street Journal experts who believe we will come out of the recession in 2009," Garten said. "I don't agree. I expect one-and-a-half to three years. Many predict only a year; I expect two."
That extra year makes a big difference, he said. "A year could be a matter of survival for some companies."
Garten said an even more pessimistic outlook, the L scenario, "is not out of the question. But long-term, I'm more optimistic. I think the market will respond."
And he expects the United States to lead the way. "The United States is flexible and can move quickly. If we see a turn-around in the United States, other countries will take their cue from us. Confidence here spreads through the (global) market quickly."
He said China also is a key. "If China's growth drops below 8 percent, expect problems. If it stays at about 9 percent," it will be okay."
Garten said the worst case scenario would occur if we have "a couple of false recoveries — if we seem to be out of the woods and then have another big financial institution fail. Also, if governments bail out industries we could see trade fallout. Instead of industries competing against each other, we may have governments competing against governments. I'm not pessimistic enough to think that will happen, but fear of the worst demonstrates healthy thinking."
Garten predicted an extended period of low interest rates. "The government will do all it can to prevent long-term inflation and the challenge will be to mop up all that money when the economy improves or face inflation."
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Image Gallery: Fashion Less Waste parade, 2009
Fashion Less Waste is a Learning Services fashion design competition. In this inaugural year, it heralded the opening of the exhibition Climate Change: our future, our choice. The winners and runners-up were decided during a fabulous fashion parade of the finalists at our 2009 Teachers' Information Night on the 6th of May.


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Schools get breather on STAAR
Students' scores on state end-of-course exams won't have to count as part of their class grade this year, Texas Commissioner of Education Michael Williams announced Friday.
Williams issued a statement saying he would delay implementation of a requirement that scores on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) end-of-course tests count as 15 percent of students' final course grades.
"Deferring the 15 percent rule for this school year relieves some of the pressure being felt in Texas districts as we continue the transition to a more rigorous accountability system," Williams said. "This deferral also allows the Texas Legislature ample opportunity to address the various issues and concerns that have been expressed about implementation of the new system."
On Thursday, Williams received letters from Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Senate Education Committee Chairman Dan Patrick requesting that he postpone the rule.
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"While we must continue to adhere to our state's accountability system, we must also recognize the importance of local control," Perry wrote.
Williams' action made this the second school year that the 15 percent requirement has been deferred.
It generated responses that offered a preview of an expected debate among lawmakers next year over possible changes to the state's education accountability system
"This is good news. It's good for everybody in the whole state of Texas," said Sylvester Perez, interim superintendent of the San Antonio Independent School District. "This was a law, or a mandate, that was frankly not thought out very well."
Bill Hammond, president and CEO of the Austin-based Texas Association of Business, disagreed.
"I think it's a basic mistake to tell kids that the exam would not be a part of their final grade," said Hammond, whose organization champions academic accountability.
"In sort of a perverse way, what the schools have done is they've released (students) from responsibility, told them that the tests don't matter," he said. "And yet they will be responsible for the kids' performance on the exam."
North East ISD Superintendent Brian Gottardy said he believes accountability is important.
"But we also believe, like the governor, that local control is important and teachers need to be able to manage their own classrooms," he said in comments transmitted through a district spokeswoman.
Patrick, a Houston Republican, already has pre-filed a bill for the legislative session that begins in January that would leave it up to local school districts to determine whether end-of-course test scores should be a part of student grades.
Perez said he supports efforts to eliminate the statewide mandate.
"This has very far reaching implications for class rank, for GPA and was about to send shock waves across the state of Texas," he said.
In district meetings with students and staff, Perez said, there was wide agreement that the rule was troublesome.
"There was not one person that did not feel that this was not only complicated but unfair and ultimately was going to result in a lot of students failing," he said.
Local school districts still can choose to include the test scores in students' grades, but during the 2011-12 academic year 1,100 of the more than 1,200 Texas school districts told the Texas Education Agency they didn't plan to do that.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is denying Turkish media reports that he had been hospitalized, saying that he had just taken a few days off to rest.
The normally tireless Erdogan, 59, had not been seen in public since a Muslim religious holiday that ended Aug. 10, leading to speculation about his health.
The prime minister told journalists on Thursday that "I am well... There was no hospital or anything like that. I just rested for a few days."
He called reports about his health "lies."
Two years ago, Erdogan vanished for several days before officials announced he had surgery to remove polyps from his intestines. Doctors said no trace of cancer was found.


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WebSockets and sub-protocols
The WebSockets protocol needs the concept of a sub-protocol to make sure the client and server are sending messages they both understand. A quake client, for example, can only talk to another quake client, not a chat client, and a quake/3.1 client might not be able to talk to a quake/5.3 client. To make sure the clients and servers are taking the same protocol, WebSockets introduces a sub-protocol validation.
Although "sub-protocol" might sound somewhat complicated, it's just recognition that applications will define simple protocols on top of WebSockets like they define XML formats and schema using the XML syntax, or JSON applications define objects to pass back and forth. Like XML and JSON, WebSockets is a layer that applications build on.
Some examples that WebSockets applications will create are JSON packets over WebSockets, XML over WebSockets, XMPP over WebSockets, and Hessian packets over WebSockets, as well as custom protocols like Quake or a tic-tac-toe game.
The client and server will validate the protocol to make sure a Quake/2.0 client won't get confused talking to a Quake/1.0 server. At the beginning of WebSockets, the client HTTP handshake sends a Sec-WebSocket-Protocol header with the sub-protocol name like quake.idsoftware.com/1.0. If the server understands that version, it will respond with a Sec-WebSocket-Protocol of quake.idsoftware.com/1.0. If not, it will close the connection.
Although the protocol string is arbitrary, it's a good idea to use unique names like "quake.idsoftware.com" with a version "/1.0″.
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Summer makes some of you nostalgic for those good old days when life was simple. Summer meant grilling with your family, long hot nights sitting on the front porch listening to the radio, drive in movies and big cars with fins. If you love classic cars, barbeque and drive-in movies, I've got the place for you. The Blair House Inn is a beautiful Texas bed and breakfast in Wimberley, a Hill Country jewel.
San Marcos,Texas, is home to Dick's Classic Garage which is a part of the Central Texas Museum of Automotive History. Founded in 1980, the museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of the history of the automobile. This great little gem is located just 20 minutes from the Blair House Inn. Dick's Classic Garage showcases vehicles and memorabilia from the 1930's though the 1950's. Considered the Golden Years of American automotive manufacturing, the Museum will take guests from the Great Depression to World War II and up to the rockin' 1950's. In addition, the museum has acquired and renovated vehicles that are of historic and developmental importance. The Museum's goal is to show today's guests and future generations the evolution of the automobile and how it has impacted society and the effect society has had on the automobile.
Summer smells of brisket and ribs smoking on the grill, potato salad and peach cobbler just like your Grandmother's. The Salt Lick, one of the Texas Hill Country's best, is just minutes from the Blair House. Indulge in your summer fantasies and order up some BBQ. If that isn't enough sign up for our August BBQ Camp cooking school, which was featured on the food network. Learn how to bring home those smells of ore to your family and friends.
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I'm trying to execute the "dir" command from inside my PL/SQL script.
If I perform this within SQL*Plus, it's works:
SQL> host dir;
But if I write "host dir;" inside my PL/SQL script, I get this error message:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "dir" when expecting one of the following: := . ( @ % ;
Can I execute OS commands from my PL/SQL script?


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Everlast-ing love: Fighting for the family
"In the Depression, was I depressed?"– "I'm Still Here" by Stephen Sondheim
Ron Howard crafts his movies so well it's easy to overlook their flaws. Cinderella Man immerses us in the Great Depression to make us feel better about whatever problems we have today. Then it shows a country in need of a hero and how a hero arose in that era.
Howard's excellent recreation of the early 1930s seems to go on forever, rubbing our noses in the details of poverty and the degradation it produces; but the farther James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe) falls, the more satisfying his rebound will be. That's the theory– and it works, if you believe the end justifies the means.
The screenplay by Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman, which takes liberties with the events that inspired it, combines sensitivity with intense (but kept to a hard PG-13 level) boxing violence at the risk of alienating audiences for both.
Although the "Joisey" accents are somewhat caricatured, Crowe sounds more authentic and consistent than he did as a West Virginian in Howard's A Beautiful Mind, which won them both Oscars. He's introduced in 1928 as a rising light heavyweight, a working-class Irish American with a loving wife, Mae (Renée Zellweger), and some young children.
Mae can't bear to watch Jim's fights, but waits for him to come home with the results and the money. You have to wonder later, when she begs him to quit, whether she knew he was a boxer when she married him.
The other main character is Braddock's manager, Joe Gould. The always Oscar-worthy Paul Giamatti plays him closer to Burgess Meredith in Rocky than Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby. It's a stock role, but Giamatti works wonders with it. (But why does Jim never listen to Joe's advice?)
Cut to September 1933. The Braddocks are living in semi-squalor. Jim's purses have dropped from $1000 to $50, and while he's still never been knocked out in the ring, his won-lost record isn't what it once was, a decline that began in 1929 when the stock market crashed and he lost all his money.
After a lackluster performance– he's fighting with a broken right hand, and he's never been much good with his left– the boxing commissioner (Bruce McGill) pulls Jim's license. Now his only source of income is an occasional shift on the docks, where dozens of men line up every day for a handful of jobs.
One day, Braddock's oldest son steals a salami out of fear of being sent to live with relatives as his best friend has been. Jim promises the boy that will never happen in their family, but the bills go unpaid, the power gets shut off, and food becomes more scarce.
Having lost everything else, Braddock is willing to give up his dignity before he loses his family. He signs up for relief– that's what welfare was called, back in the day– and goes begging, hat in hand, where the flush boxing promoters hang out.
When things can't get any worse, they get better. A boxer is needed on short notice to face the second-ranked heavyweight contender at Madison Square Garden in a preliminary bout before the championship fight between Primo Carnera and Max Baer. Win or lose, not that anyone doubts the outcome, Braddock collects $250; but he still doesn't get his license back.
You can write the rest of the story. Jim comes to life in the ring and pulls off an upset victory, starting a comeback that will take him to the top. Baer (Craig Bierko), the champion, balks at fighting a "chump" who's over the hill and "can't fight back"; but after Braddock eliminates the rest of the competition, he has no choice.
Then the brutal Baer, who has killed two opponents in the ring, begins a campaign of intimidation, even insulting Jim and Mae in public, to gain the psychological advantage. When they do meet in the ring, it's a long, rough fight that makes the outcome all the sweeter.
Zellweger is fine in the limited role of The Wife, but when she says, "You are the champion of my heart, James J. Braddock," it's not as catchy as "You had me at hello."
Cinderella Man (a nickname bestowed on Braddock by Damon Runyon) raises some questions other films might well address. Was boxing really as democratic a sport as this film shows? It seems odd to watch a black man punching a white man in public in 1934 when they wouldn't be able to play on the same baseball team for another 13 years.
And when the crowd cheered Braddock against Baer in 1935, was it because the Irishman was the Comeback Kid or did anti-Semitism factor in, the champion being Jewish?
If you want to explore those issues, you should make your own movie. It may be more interesting than Cinderella Man, but I doubt it can be better made.


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The American Anti-Slavery Society held an anniversary meeting in New York City in May, 1850. Frederick Douglass braved a mob to attend the meeting on May 7 so he could address the Society. The mob was led by Isaiah Rynders, the Tammany boss of the notorious sixth ward, chief of the Five Points gangs of the city and founder of the Empire Club, which rallied the Democrats of the city. This riot and the disruption of the American Anti-Slavery Society meeting received national attention, even being reported in this Greenfield, Massachusetts, newspaper. The Gazette & Mercury was the newspaper in Greenfield, Massachusetts, from June 27, 1837 to July 13, 1841, when it changed its name to the Gazette & Courier.
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Felipe García Segovia shoots fashion with the X-T20.
Spanish X-Photographer Felipe García-Segovia shares his impression on the X-T20
Since 2000: EFTI - Present.
Professor at the EFTI School of Photography and Image Center.
Conducting exclusive photography workshops and courses of lighting for photography foundations and associations in various Spanish cities.
2009 - Present
Durán Group: Production of the monthly catalog, reproduction of works of art and advertising photography.
Advertising photography for different media.
2013 - Present
Fujifilm Ambassador, testing X Series equipment provided by Fujifilm, as well as giving lighting workshops with X Series equipment.
Other photographic works:
2007 - Media Planning
Studio photography of the management committee in different locations.
2006 - Provincial Council of Zaragoza
Reproductions of works of art.
2006 - Instructor, Círculo de Bellas Artes
Chemical laboratory classes, Círculo de Bellas Artes.
2005 - 2007 Media Contacts, S.A.
Studio photography for webpage.
2005 - Compañía Española de Sistemas Aeronáuticos, S.A. (CESA)
Industrial photography.
2003 - 2009 Royal Tapestry Factory Foundation
Shooting works of art for Spain's National Heritage organization.
Analog photography (large and medium format).
2002 - 2007 Eurocopter
Industrial and air (civil and military) photography, helicopters.
2002 - 2006 EADS Casa
Industrial and military air photography. Complete project: Eurofighter, F18, Orion, etc., including the assembly chain, engineering, flights, etc.
2001 - 2007 Nota Bene (public relations agency)
Interior design and catalog photography.
1997 - 2000 Photographer, Canal + television network
Photographing various renowned personalities on different programs (Lo + Plus, Epílogo, El Guiñol) and shoots for media publications.
1997 - Present
Fotografía e Imagen, S.A.
Sporting events photography.
Advertising photography and interior design for companies such as Bulgari, Christies, Nine West, Superga, Zun Zu Accesorios, S.L., ASCOLOR (photomontages), Vía Serrano (watches and jewelry), Col y Col, Blundell Retail, S.A., Comptoir Des Cotonniers, The Northface, Sisley, Safilo, Etam, Caramelo, Sugar, Veuve Clicquot, SK II, etc.
Press releases and events coverage for businesses including Yahoo, Tinkle, Brugal, Philip Morris, Suárez, Synergie Consultores, the French Embassy, ARCO, the Spanish Federation of Environmental Associations, etc.
Training in photography
Most of my training was completed at the EFTI School of Photography, where I attended numerous workshops and seminars in different fields of photography. I continue to update my knowledge on a regular basis.
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- US Grand Prix
Austin confirms new deal to save US Grand Prix
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Ecclestone casts doubt over New Jersey
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US Grand Prix remains on FIA's 2012 calendar
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US GP deadline extended for another week
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The Circuit of the Americas has agreed a new deal with Bernie Ecclestone to ensure the 2012 US Grand Prix goes ahead, according to race organisers.
The circuit was given until December 7 to find the money to pay this year's sanctioning fee and agree to Ecclestone's terms. On deadline day the FIA announced that the race would remain on the calendar and soon after the circuit issued a press release confirming the news.
"Mr. Ecclestone received his cheque today for the USGP," Red McCombs, a founding partner of the circuit said in a statement. "We want to thank the fans supporting us, the local officials and businesses that have encouraged us, the state of Texas, Circuit of The Americas' staff and Bernie himself."
Fellow founding partner Bobby Epstein added: "Our investors have believed all along that this project has tremendous benefit for our region, and provides a strong economic engine for the future. "We remain committed to reaching our goal of being valuable community partners as we establish a platform for sports and entertainment. We're glad that Tavo [Hellmund]'s vision of bringing F1 to the people of Texas will become a reality."
The statement added that construction at the circuit will resume immediately, with president of the Circuit of the Americas Steve Sexton saying interest in tickets is high.
"We have a substantial number of fans who have expressed interest in buying tickets and hospitality, so today is a win for all of them as much as it is for Circuit of The Americas," he added.


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CIU Students have a "Ball" at Disney Extravaganza
By Melissa McCutchan
CIU Student Writer
As far as we know, Cinderella got home before midnight and was in class on Monday. So was Goofy and every other Disney character that ventured off campus for a Friday night of fun at the Disney Extravaganza held at St. Andrews Evangelical Church.
CIU students and faculty members donned their most creative attire for the May 3 event sponsored by the Student Senate.
Senate Vice President Tim Caiello said the goal was for students to "chill" and "unwind a bit" before finals.
"I've never seen the student body go so all-out to dress up for an event before," Caiello said.
It was clear that a number of the CIU students spent time preparing their costumes. From a group dressed as Robin Hood and his band of merry men, to couples dressed as princes and princesses, the costumes were as diverse as the Disney film collection.
The church fellowship hall was turned into a wonderland of sorts, with a lighted dance floor and tables decorated with objects from Disney movies.
"I was really impressed with all the preparation that had gone into each table, making it unique to the particular Disney movie," freshman Anni Jackson said.
The night's activities included karaoke, dancing to Disney songs and competing in trivia games. Check out photos from the Disney Extravaganza at CIU's Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ciuimpact/sets/72157633420633989/


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BOSTON – Fans and media types alike rarely get to glance behind the scenes of an NHL franchise the way the HBO cameras are documenting the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins' trial and tribulations for the 24/7 show leading up to the 2011 Winter Classic.
The Bruins in the Claude Julien era have always played things really tight to their vest, with assistant coaches off limits to the media and players obviously urged to stay on message in interviews. There's no telling how a 24/7 show with the Bruins would go.
If the HBO cameras followed the Bruins, you know that Zdeno Chara, Milan Lucic and Shawn Thornton would be among the lead characters. Lucic, for one, would like to see how things would go with the Bruins as the focal point of an all-access program.
"It'd be kind of odd. Because we try to be on our best behavior when the cameras are around, and this is kind of a behind-the-scenes look, and gives everyone a look at kind of what it's like when the cameras aren't around," said the fourth-year forward. "So definitely that would make things odd, but you'd have to act like they weren't even there. I think it'd be fun."
Chara is famously regimented, especially when it comes to his in-season efforts on and off the ice. While as the captain the cameras would want to be on him a lot, he's not sure how he'd be able to handle it.
"That's a tough one. You want to be yourself, but to have always someone watching you … that's a tough one. I'm sure they have privacy. … But that's hard," he said.
However, Lucic thinks that if there were cameras around all the time people would get a different look at the league's tallest player.
"I think Zee, for sure, because when Zee's in a good mood, he likes to laugh, giggle and have a lot of fun and what not," said Lucic when asked which player would show a different side on an all-access show. "But also on the other hand, he's very serious in how he's in the gym, he's always working, he's got this going on or that. Definitely, he'd be an interesting guy that a lot of people would be interested, I think, in how he goes about his routine in the room.
"And Savvy [Marc Savard], too, because it's funny, he always knows how to cheer the guys up, loosen the room up and make the guys laugh."
Thornton's almost constant presence on the local airwaves would certainly continue if HBO got on the Bruins beat. Cable television would eat up his ability to deliver coherent analysis of the games and the team, and his dual personality – which allows him to duke it out with the goliaths of the NHL and then be quick with the one-liners off the ice. He says he would welcome the cameras behind the Bruins' closed doors.
As for an unsung personality that might shine on the show, Thornton picked his good buddy Mark Stuart. At first, Thornton wanted to save the reveal for a potential broadcast down the road, but then admitted that the gritty, hard-hitting Stuart can be a more bubbly personality away from the rink than the "average person" might think.
A lot has been made of the F-bombs Washington head coach Bruce Boudreau spewed during the show's series premier. Thornton is pretty certain that's not a big deal, when you compare it to every other locker room and coach's speech around sports. Lucic, though, admitted the players would probably be guiltier of foul language on a Bruins show.
"Our coaches, it'd probably be PG-13. They throw an F-bomb here and there," said Lucic. "It's not in their regular vocabulary. But the players … it's a different story for sure. But sometimes coaches lose their cool. I've heard my fair share of F-bombs from coaches. So I can see how [Boudreau's] lost his cool a little bit with them being on a little bit a skid here."
So what would Bruins 24/7 Bruins be like? We'd see a more charismatic side to the usually stoic Chara and Stuart, the requisite amount of sports-show F-bombs, and probably plenty more things no one – not even the players – would predict.


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The Headless Horsemen have challenged WAR to a battle over 45 games.
HH: Keefie
WAR: Hmsps
The 45 games will played over two sets as follows:
Set 1 4 Dubs 3 Trips 4 Quads + Random Quad (ns/c/sun) to start 15/7/12
Set 2 4 Dubs 4 Trips 3 Quads to start 29/7/12
The following rules will be in force:
Maximum 15 games per player.
No Trench, Manual, Beta, Freestyle, Speed or Nukes.
No Hive, Conquerman, Doodle Earth or Luxembourg
Map usage - each map cannot be used more than 2 times and never more than once per game type (i.e dubs / trips /quads). Random can be used unlimited times.


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Gilbert F. "Gib" Yeager
Gilbert F. "Gib" Yeager, 86, of 155 Russ Lane, St. Marys, died peacefully at his home with his family by side Wednesday morning, Feb. 20, 2013 after a brief illness.He was born Jan. 13, 1927 in St. Marys, son of the late George and Marcella Schatz Yeager. On Sept. 20, 1952 in the Sacred Heart Church, he married Frances "Pam" A. Pontzer, who survives. Mr. Yeager was a lifelong resident of the area and was a graduate of St. Marys Public High School. He was one of the original co-owners of Kersey Tool and Die, retiring in 1994.He was a member of the Sacred Heart Church, where he also volunteered; was a veteran of WWII, having served in the Merchant Marines; and a veteran of the Korean Conflict, having served in the U.S. Army. He was a member of the APMI, the American Legion, the CMF and the Tuesday morning card gang. He enjoyed golfing, playing cards, gardening and especially spending time with his family.In addition to his wife, he is survived by three daughters, Nancy DePanfilis and her husband Michael of Ridgway, Pamela Hunt and her husband Wayne of St. Marys, and Kathy Samick and her husband Ron of St. Marys; two sons, Timothy Yeager and his wife Kathy of Atlanta, Ga. and James Yeager and his wife Jan of New York; nine grandchildren, Katie DePanfilis, Ross DePanfilis, Alex DePanfilis, Megan Brennen, Erika Yeager, Christopher Yeager, Stephanie Yeager, Caitlin Yeager and Andrew Yeager; and two sisters, Martha Dale Moyer of El Segundo, Calif. and Shirley Buerk and her husband Chris of St. Marys.Family and friends of Gilbert F. "Gib" Yeager are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial to be celebrated in the Sacred Heart Church on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 10 a.m., with the Rev. Eric Vogt, OSB, pastor, officiating. Burial will be at the St. Mary's Cemetery. Full military rites will be accorded by the St. Marys Servicemen's Burial Detail.There will be no visitation.In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Community Nurses, Inc., Hospice, 757 Johnsonburg Rd., Suite 200, St. Marys, PA 15857; or to the Sacred Heart Church, 325 Center St., St. Marys, PA 15857.The Lynch-Radkowski Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.Online condolences may be offered at www.lynch-radkowski.com.