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RediClinic Shingles Vaccine at Select Rite Aid & H-E-B Stores –
What is shingles?
Shingles is a painful skin rash, often with blisters. It is also called Herpes Zoster, or just Zoster.
A shingles rash usually appears on one side of the face or body and lasts from 2 to 4 weeks. Its main symptom is pain, which can be quite severe. Other symptoms of shingles can include fever, headache, chills and upset stomach. Very rarely, a shingles infection can lead to pneumonia, hearing problems, blindness, brain inflammation (encephalitis) or death.
For about 1 person in 5, severe pain can continue even long after the rash clears up. This is called post-herpetic neuralgia.
Shingles is caused by the Varicella Zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox.
Only someone who has had chickenpox—or, rarely, has gotten chickenpox vaccine—can get shingles. The virus stays in your body, and can cause shingles many years later.
You can't catch shingles from another person with shingles. However, a person who has never had chickenpox (or chickenpox vaccine) could get chickenpox from someone with shingles. This is not very common.
Shingles is far more common in people 50 years of age and older than in younger people. It is also more common in people whose immune systems are weakened because of a disease such as cancer, or drugs such as steroids or chemotherapy.
At least 1 million people a year in the United States get shingles.
Shingles vaccine
A vaccine for shingles was licensed in 2006. In clinical trials, the vaccine reduced the risk of shingles by 50%. It can also reduce pain in people who still get shingles after being vaccinated.
A single dose of shingles vaccine is recommended for adults 60 years of age and older.
Some people should not get shingles vaccine or should wait.
A person should not get shingles vaccine who:
- Has ever had a life-threatening allergic reaction to gelatin, the antibiotic neomycin, or any other component of shingles vaccine. Tell your RediClinic Clinician if you have any severe allergies.
- Has a weakened immune system because of current:
- – AIDS or another disease that affects the immune system
- – Treatment with drugs that affect the immune system, such as prolonged use of high-dose steroids
- – Cancer treatment such as radiation or chemotherapy
- – Cancer affecting the bone marrow or lymphatic system, such as leukemia or lymphoma
- Is pregnant, or might be pregnant. Women should not become pregnant until at least 4 weeks after getting shingles vaccine.
Someone with a minor acute illness, such as a cold, may be vaccinated. But anyone with a moderate or severe acute illness should usually wait until they recover before getting the vaccine. This includes anyone with a temperature of 101.3° F or higher.
Source: www.CDC.gov
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ContemporarySanta Fe's culinary arts scene is sizzling so when you pack for your trip, make sure to bring your appetiteǃ
Consider yourself a foodie? Santa Fe is a food lover's paradise. Ask the locals to name their favorite Santa Fe restaurants and you'll end up with a lengthy list of worthy choices. Innovative Southwestern fare created by award-winning chefs and hearty New Mexico dishes such as breakfast burritos and green chile stew are reason enough for Santa Fe to have earned a prominent place on the world's culinary map. If you're hungry for creative contemporary cuisine or Asian, French, Italian, Indian or Middle Eastern cuisine, you'll find them all here as well.
New Mexicans love their chile and it isn't the kind with beans that cowboys eatǃ New Mexican chile is spicy, delicious and unlike anything you've ever tasted. When you come to Santa Fe and your server asks if you want "red or green?" this refers to the kind of chile you'd like served over enchiladas, chile rellenos or other staples of New Mexican fare. When in doubt, you can always answer "Christmas" and you'll get to try bothǃ
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Located in the heart of downtown Santa Fe, Cafe Pasqual's has been serving emphatically flavored cuisine inspired by the culinary traditions of New Mexico, Old Mexico, the Mediterranean and Asia for over 30 years. We're dedicated to using fresh, seasonal, organic and naturally raised foods. Dinner Reservation recommended. Visit our gallery and online store!
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Featuring an inspired menu and welcoming environment, with an exhibition kitchen, ample lounge and bar area overlooking the casino floor, and a 75-seat outdoor patio – Cottonwood Kitchen is sure to impress. Nightly live music, Social hour and late night menu.
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Counter Culture Cafe is the hip, happening restaurant serving up innovative cuisine to the city's favorite artists, writers and food lovers. Stop by for a breakfast burrito, gooey cinnamon buns and fresh, organic coffee. Or visit us for lunch and dinner and try our Ahi Tuna Tacos or Middle Eastern Plate.


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And now for something completely different…
Apart from the fact that a good Instructional Designer should probably not begin ANY sentence with "and", this blog post celebrates the triumphant return of The Monty Python Team, (nearly all of them…) to the London stage last night, and some complete silliness from a Skype discussion I had earlier.
I was trying to discuss the merits of 14:9 Articulate Storyline slide dimensions with a colleague versus 4:3.
When I type :3 something wonderful happened….
It interprets :3 as a cat licking its paw.
I never knew that, and I suspect you did not either. Unless you are cleverer than me and understand social media more. Or talk about eLearning or PowerPoint slide dimensions a lot in your Skype-life.
If you did NOT know this, promise me that next time you Skype someone, at an opportune moment you will just type :3, and then pretend you have no idea what you did.
We all have to right to be silly once in a while – and on that note "Hurrah for Monty Python!"
I just need to slap someone with a fish now…..
Using PowerPoint 2007 as a Replacement for PhotoFunia.
I love the photo effects at sites such as http://www.photofunia.com/, but I am never exactly sure whether I am allowed to use them for eLearning that I sell to clients. I posted about this recently on the Articulate Forums.
Earlier today, I found myself in this dilemma with an image of some food products that I created, (see below).
It is a nice enough image, but I wanted to see what I could do to replicate it, both from a creative and a legal perspective. If I could not replicate the picture exactly, I wanted to at least use the software as a prompt to spark my own creativity, using nothing but PowerPoint's standard functionality, and other freebies made available from the Articulate Forum. This is what I came up with. Not a perfect copy, but close enough, and a solid visual concept.
I see so many other folks on the Articulate forum coming up with creative ideas, and ways to use PowerPoint as a relatively good graphics package, it was nice to see that my efforts, (IMHO) stand there with them. It's interesting to see what you can do when you stop for a few minutes, get some inspiration, and then copy it with what you already have available.
Rather than worrying about if we should or should not use some of the tools out there on the web, let's use them for inspiration, then use what we know we are allowed to, and just add some personal flair and creativity.
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Groundbreaking for New Sewage Sludge Processing Plant
The first shovels will hit the ground at a ceremony on Wednesday, May 24 at 10:45 a.m. to mark the start of construction on a new sewage sludge processing plant that will allow the current sludge burning incinerators to be decommissioned. The public is invited to the groundbreaking that will happen at the Regional Water Quality Control plant at 2501 Embarcadero Way. Short tours of the incinerators will be available right before the groundbreaking.
The existing incinerators are one of the largest sources of Greenhouse Gas emissions in Palo Alto, and their discontinuation is an important component of the City's Sustainability and Climate Action Plan to control global warming.
The new facility will be used to load trucks with dewatered sludge, which will then be hauled to a regional facility for further treatment, which may involve composting, gasification and anaerobic digestion. Palo Alto will be sharing the total cost of the project, estimated at around $30 million with other surrounding cities and Stanford who are currently served by the Regional Water Quality Control Plant, and will reimburse the City for their share of the cost. The City will be responsible for a little more than a third of the cost. The RWQCP cleans about 20 million gallons of wastewater a day, with the highly treated water going to San Francisco Bay, the Renzel wetlands, golf courses and other landscaping.
The City hopes to have construction of the new facility completed by summer 2019.
There will also be longer, 45-minute tours of the entire (25 acres) Regional Water Quality Control Plant immediately after the ceremony for those wishing to attend. To schedule a tour, contact Megan Batista at (650) 329-2396. For information about the project, contact Jamie Allen at (650) 329-2243.
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We have been enjoying our newfound appreciation of wine since our visit to
Napa last May with my dad, Nancy, and brother Luke.
I will keep this updated as this is a very important topic to me. :) I've included the price paid and then how we/I rate it on #1-10 scale. Of course this is from a very personal and uneducated palette but then again, this is my blog.
Double Dog Dare Merlot $3. #8.5
Dancing Bull Merlot $7. #8
Columbia-Crest Chardonnay $8. #5.5
Woodbridge Merlot - probably around $8. Very dry. #6
Mallee Point Australian Merlot- $7. #7.5
Robert Mondavi Winery- Pinot Noir. Our first try at Pino. Not a fan. #5
Robert Mondavi Winery-'05 Merlot. $22. We'll stick with the cheap ones. #5
Barefoot Merlot-$8. #6
Yellowtail- Cabernet Sauvignon. $6. pending taste test.
Shiraz-Cabernet. $7. not a big fan of this blend. #7
Smoking Loon Merlot. $8. pending taste test
Gallo Family Savignon Blanc. $4. never had SavBlanc before. pending taste test.
Concho Y Torro Cabernet-Merlot. $8 1.5Liter. Our absolute favorite so far. #9


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With over 10,000 species around the globe, birds come in almost every size, shape, speed and color imaginable— from ostriches nearly 9 feet tall to hummingbirds just 2 inches long. Given the diversity of bird species, it's no surprise that avid travelers discover the beautiful variety of feathered creatures wherever they go.
To celebrate the number of amazing bird discoveries on Trover, we've collected 14 favorite shots of our flying (and flightless) friends.
1. A black swan in the Zoo Basel, Switzerland
2. A peacock in Jurong Bird Park, Singapore
3. A snowy owl on Northerly Island, Chicago, Illinois
4. Macaws at the World of Birds Wildlife Sanctuary, Cape Town, South Africa
5. Gentoo penguins on Culverville Island, Antarctica
6. A barn owl in Dunwich, England
7. Flamingos at Port Lympne Reserve in Lympne, England
8. Hummingbirds in San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica
9. A bald eagle in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
10. A Lanner Falcon in Woodstock, Vermont
11. A White-faced Ibis in the IRWD San Joaquin Marsh & Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine, California
12. A northern parula warbler in The Magic Hedge in Chicago, Illinois
13. An emu at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, Louisiana
14. Puffins on Staffa, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
To see even more fantastic fowls and where to find them, check out Trover's lists of Cute Creatures, World's Cutest Creatures, and Adventures in the Amazon. Discover the Best of Everywhere, and share your travels with us on Desktop, iOS, or Android!


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Uric Acid Testing
Uric acid tests are tests that are done to measure the levels of uric acid in blood serum or in urine.
Blood test
Patients scheduled for a blood test for uric acid should be checked for the following medications: loop diuretics (Diamox, Bumex, Edecrin, or Lasix); ethambutol (Myambutol); vincristine (Oncovin); pyrazinamide (Tebrazid); thiazide diuretics (Naturetin, Hydrex, Diuril, Esidrix, HydroDiuril, Aquatensen, Renese, Diurese); aspirin (low doses); acetaminophen (Tylenol); ascorbic acid (vitamin C preparations); levodopa (Larodopa); or phenacetin. These drugs can affect test results.
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Diagnosing a gout case can be very difficult sometimes. However, there are a few procedures that will help your doctor diagnose gout. Here are some of the medical investigations that you doctor will suggest ti diagnose gout: - a blood test is maybe the first procedure that has to be made in diagnosing gout; a blood test can measure the urate level that you have in your blood; urate is the main cause of gout; however, a person can still have high urate levels in his/ her blood and still not suffer from gout; when raised levels of urate appear in the blood, this can indicate that you have gout, but this can also be caused by other medical conditions or medication that a person takes; furthermore, a person can have normal levels of urate in his/ her body during a gout attack; - after a blood test that can give doctors an idea whether you can have gout or not, to be more sure and to be able to diagnose a gout case, doctors will examine the fluid that is found in your joints; this fluid can be extracted from your joints with the help of a needle; this can show you if indeed you suffer from gout or not; the fluid is then looked at under a microscope and if there are urate crystals( they indicate gout) , then they will be spotted right away; if indeed these crystals of urate are found in your joints, then, the blood test was right and you actually suffer from gout; this examination is not at all painful and it is very useful if your gout case starts very unusual; for example, a gout case can sometimes be mistaken for another rheumatic disease, like rheumatoid arthritis and gout can mimic this diseases very well; - another investigation that can be made to diagnose a gout case is x- ray; x- rays of your joints can betaken to see whether you suffer from gout or not, but unfortunately in most of the cases, everything will appear normal and your doctor will not be able to tell if you have gout or not;
Abnormally low uric acid levels may indicate that the patient is taking allopurinol or probenecid for treatment of gout; may be pregnant; or suffers from Wilson's disease or Fanconi's syndrome.
Gout Natural Cures Your Doctor Might Mention
We've helped thousands of sufferers cure gout and there is one thing that applies to all of them, "The only way to cure gout is to prevent it from ever occurring!"
So, if you're suffering from gout, you may want to check to make sure that you are not also suffering from sleep apnea, as it may be one of the causes of gout aggravations in your body. Then you will be able to look into both sleep apnea treatments and remedies for the gout itself. Speak to your physician about undergoing a sleep study to determine if you have sleep apnea or not.
The uric acid test requires either a blood or urine sample. For the blood sample, the patient should be fasting (nothing to eat or drink) for at least eight hours before the test. The urine test for uric acid requires a 24-hour urine collection. The urine test does
require the patient to fast or cut down on fluids. Some laboratories encourage patients to drink plenty of fluids during the collection period.
Though, natural cures have often received a bad rap. It is only in the past ten years that holistic treatments or natural treatments have been researched. Many remedies have been found to be worthless. Yet, many cures, including many gout cures, have been proven to be extremely effective.
3. Flushing Uric Acid-
There are two great ways to naturally flush the high levels of uric acid in your body! One way is to always drink 12 glasses of water per day. Water will dilute and flush your body of toxins, impurities and uric acid. The second way would be to consume high levels of fruits and vegetables which also flush the body.
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Other links between sleep apnea and gout include show up in the fact that not only are primary gout sufferers demographically the same as the primary sleep apnea sufferers (middle-aged, overweight men), but sleep apnea and gout are also both much more common among women who have been through menopause. Also, both gout and sleep apnea are associated with people who have a larger neck circumference.
In fact, many doctors prescribe pharmaceutical NSAIDs and also suggest various natural remedies that were once only found in the eastern world!
Gout is a form of rheumatism that can also lead to arthritis. It is a very painful medical condition that mostly affects men of all ages. Gout can also be found in women, but mostly those who have reached menopause.
The treatments for sleep apnea include preventative actions, such as avoiding sleeping on one's back. When sleeping on the back, the airway can become constricted and is more likely to close, causing the oxygen levels in the blood to be lower than in other sleeping positions. Therefore, changing the way you sleep can help to prevent gout attacks simply by increasing the overall blood oxygen level. Other sleep apnea treatments can include a pressurized CPAP mask or surgery.
of uric acid is seen in chronic kidney disease, low thyroid, toxemia of pregnancy, and alcoholism. Patients with gout excrete less than half the uric acid in their blood as other persons. Only 10-15% of the total cases of hyperuricemia, however, are caused by gout.
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Certain foods that are high in purine may increase the patient's levels of uric acid. These include kidneys, liver, sweetbreads, sardines, anchovies, and meat extracts.
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Blood test
Reference values for blood uric acid vary from laboratory to laboratory but are generally found within the following range: Male: 2.1-8.5 mg/dL; female: 2.0-6.6 mg/dL. Values may be slightly higher in the elderly.
The uric acid blood test is performed on a sample of the patient's blood, withdrawn from a vein into a vacuum tube. The procedure, which is called a venipuncture, takes about five minutes. The urine test requires the patient to collect all urine voided over a 24-hour period, with the exception of the very first specimen. The patient keeps the specimen container on ice or in the refrigerator during the collection period.
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This effect is very similar to what happens within the cells when excess alcohol is consumed. And it should be noted that drinking alcohol can cause sleep apnea to become more pronounced. Therefore, gout sufferers with sleep apnea have two major reasons to avoid drinking alcohol.
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Alfalfa is an excellent choice to help neutralize high uric acid levels. In addition to its high source of minerals and nutrients, alfalfa has been shown to help dramatically reduce uric acid. There are also 7 other common herbs which reduce the risk.
Abnormal results
The critical value for the blood test is a level of uric acid higher than 12 milligrams per deciliter (about 3.4 ounces).
Uric acid is a waste product that results from the breakdown of purine, a nucleic acid. (Nucleic acids are the building blocks of DNA.) Uric acid is made in the liver and excreted by the kidneys. If the liver produces too much uric acid or the kidneys excrete too little, the patient will have too much uric acid in the blood. This condition is called hyperuricemia. Supersaturated uric acid in the urine (uricosuria) can crystallize to form kidney stones that may block the tubes that lead from the kidneys to the bladder (the ureters).
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How could you ever exercise with the pain of gout? You can and it will actually help to break up the uric acid crystals. Begin by taking a 20 minute walk a day to become healthy again. By the way, maintaining a healthy weight will also help you be gout free.
The laboratory should also be notified if the patient has had recent x-ray tests requiring contrast dyes. These chemicals increase uric acid levels in urine and decrease them in blood.
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Risks for the blood test are minimal, but may include slight bleeding from the puncture site, a small bruise or swelling in the area, or fainting or feeling lightheaded.
Until recently, gout and sleep apnea have been treated separately. However, many sleep apnea patients who implement treatments for that condition find that their gout improves at the same time.
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Urine test
Reference values for 24-hour urinary uric acid vary from laboratory to laboratory but are generally found within the following range: 250-750 mg/24 hours.
Holistic treatments are a fancy word for treating an ailment (gout) with a 'whole' body approach. In other words, you are allowing the body along with the right tools (vitamins, herbs, supplements, nutrition, or diet) to cure the problem.
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Filed under: 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Uncategorized | Tags: 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2018 World Cup, Andres Guardado, Aston Villa, Blackburn, Brad Friedel, Brazil '14, Brondby IF, Canada, Canaleros, Catrachos, Chester, Columbus Crew, Costa Rica, Cuba, Darren Mattocks, Denmark, El-Tri, England, Fox Sports, Galatasaray, Honduras, Ian Darke, Jamaica, Jesus Corona, John Harkes, Lincoln Financial Field, Liverpool, Major League Soccer, Marcelo Balboa, Mexico, Michael Bradley, Michael Hector, New Zealand, Newcastle United, Oribe Peralta, Panama, Pasadena, Paul Aguilar, Philadelphia, PPL Park, Reggae Boyz, Rose Bowl, Russia, Soca Warriors, Taylor Trellman, Ticos, Timmy Chandler, Tottenham, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, U.S., UCLA
Mexico shook off its funk and stormed to its seventh CONCACAF Gold Cup title, defeating upstart Jamaica, 3-1, in the final before a partisan sellout crowd of 68,930 at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field.
Andres Guardado opened the scoring in the 31st minute with a spectacular left-footed volley off a cross by Paul Aguilar. That ended a frustrating 272-minute stretch in which the Mexicans had failed to score from anywhere but the penalty spot. Jesus Corona, voted the Gold Cup's top young player, increased the lead to 2-0 two minutes into the second half after stealing a ball from Michael Hector, and in the 61st minute Oribe Peralta capitalized on another blunder by Hector to put the match out of reach. Darren Mattocks got the Reggae Boyz a consolation goal in the 81st.
The triumph earned El Tri a playoff with the U.S. on October 10 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., with a berth in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup at stake.
The U.S. won the 2013 Gold Cup and could have secured a trip outright to the Confederations Cup in Russia by winning the '15 tournament, but the Americans were defeated by Jamaica, 2-1, in the semifinals and then sagged to a loss to Panama in the third-place game at PPL Park in Chester, Penn., bowing on penalty kicks, 3-2, after a 1-1 draw. [July 26]
Comment I: An aberration? No climactic meeting of the U.S. and Mexico in the final, as the tournament promoters had hoped? Perhaps. Maybe we'll know as early as the autumn of 2017, when the CONCACAF qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup conclude. But the balance of power in CONCACAF continues to shift, and the hold of Mexico and the U.S. on the top two rungs continues to erode, by degrees.
The Mexicans needed all of three late penalty-kick calls in the quarterfinals and semifinals to reach the championship match (thanks to Guardado, they converted them all). The Americans failed to impress in group play, buried a Cuban team decimated by defections in the second round, then went back to failing to impress thereafter and were rewarded with a deserved fourth-place finish.
Are Jamaica and Panama that good? Of course not. Neither is Costa Rica, Honduras or Trinidad & Tobago. The most recent FIFA World Rankings placed the Reggae Boyz at No. 55, the Canaleros at No. 65, the Ticos at No. 38, the Catrachos at No. 81, and the Soca Warriors at No. 56.
Fortunately for the U.S. (29th) and Mexico (26th), while CONCACAF's World Cup qualifiers remain a challenge–with road matches ranging from headaches to nightmares–the outcome has been similar over the past five campaigns: The Americans and El Tri qualify and are joined by . . . who? For 1998, it was Jamaica, in its World Cup debut. For '02, Costa Rica. For '06, it was the Costa Ricans and, for the first time, Trinidad & Tobago. For 2010, Honduras qualified, and for Brazil '14 it was Costa Rica and Honduras. It's like a game of Whack a Mole, as first one CONCACAF contender pops out of its hole, then ducks back down and a different one pops up.
And so the battle for the region's 3 1/2 berths at the 2018 World Cup heats up this fall, and everyone has the U.S. and Mexico with boarding passes to Russia. Many in the media describe the October playoff between the two at the Rose Bowl as being very important because the winner goes on to the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia, "something of a dress rehearsal for the next World Cup." But the U.S. or Mexico might–just might–go to Russia dress rehearsing for nothing.
Because if there was any proof that there's no longer a sure thing in CONCACAF, it came in late 2013, when Mexico shockingly finished fourth in the World Cup qualifiers and had to sweat out a playoff with New Zealand to punch its ticket to Brazil. (Were it not for two U.S. stoppage-time goals at Panama in the region's final round, Mexico would have been eliminated for the first time since 1934–when the eliminators happened to be the Americans.) And as CONCACAF nations evolve, there's nothing to say that Costa Rica, a surprise World Cup quarterfinalist in '14; Honduras, a semifinalist in the previous two Gold Cups; Panama and Jamaica; and even Trinidad & Tobago; don't all pop out of their mole holes during a single World Cup cycle, leaving the U.S. and/or Mexico on the outside looking in. Heck, don't count out Canada (No. 101), which won the 2000 Gold Cup, finished third in '02 and now has a generation of players developing in Major League Soccer.
Comment II: The USA's breakout star during the tournament was a recent retiree. Timmy Chandler was a disaster, Michael Bradley disappointed, but former U.S. goalkeeper Brad Friedel, as a television color commentator, proved to be a find for Fox Sports during its Gold Cup coverage as it gears up for much bigger assignments, from CONCACAF World Cup qualifying beginning late this year to Russia 2018 itself.
Friedel gives you the whole field, as a goalkeeper should, but he also gives you the whole picture and speaks with the authority of a player who's gone from the top collegiate level (UCLA) to MLS (Columbus Crew) to national team (82 caps, two World Cups) to international clubs (Brondby IF of Denmark, Newcastle United of England, Galatasaray of Turkey, and Liverpool, Blackburn, Aston Villa and Tottenham, all of England). He's quick, articulate, witty and enthusiastic about the U.S. without losing his credibility–no easy task during this transitory period in soccer's history in this country. And unlike most of his predecessors, he compliments his play-by-play partner, instead of making him work.
Friedel is far better than a long line of ex-U.S. internationals who'd hoped to be the second banana in a national soccer broadcast booth for the next couple of decades. Friedel is better than John Harkes, he's better than Marcelo Balboa, and he's better than the insufferable Taylor Trellman, whose partner, the outstanding play-by-play man Ian Darke, must dread going to work. Friedel's, literally, a keeper.
Filed under: Sigi Schmid, Uncategorized | Tags: American Soccer League, American Youth Soccer Organization, Arizona Condors, Borussia Moenchengladbach, Bruins, Bundesliga, California Kickers, CenturyLink Field, Cobi Jones, Colorado Rapids, Columbus Crew, David Vanole, English Premier League, Eric Wynalda, firefighters, Forrest Gump, Germany, Glenn "Mooch" Myernick, John Harkes, Kasey Keller, La Liga, Los Angeles Galaxy, Marcelo Balboa, MLS, NASL, National Soccer Hall of Fame, NCAA, Paul Caligiuri, Portland Timbers, Seattle Sounders, Sigi Schmid, Southern California, Spain, Tab Ramos, U.S. National Open Cup, UCLA, USSF, West Germany, Western Soccer League, World Cup
Four-time World Cup goalkeeper Kasey Keller, longtime MLS and collegiate coach Sigi Schmid and the late Glenn "Mooch" Myernick, a U.S. international and USSF youth coach, have been elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
Keller, who made 102 international appearances for the U.S. from 1990 through 2007, played in the English Premier League, Spain's La Liga and Germany's Bundesliga before ending his career with the Seattle Sounders. Schmid, elected on the builder ballot, is the winningest coach in MLS history and a two-time winner of the league's Coach of the Year award. Myernick, elected on the veteran player ballot as an American soccer pioneer, earned 10 U.S. caps and starred for the NASL's Portland Timbers before coaching the U.S. national under-23 and under-17 teams and the MLS Colorado Rapids.
Details on the induction ceremony for Keller, Schmid and Myernick have yet to be announced. [April 8]
Comment: For interesting stories among this trio, you could probably start with Keller and his family living in an honest-to-goodness castle in Germany while he played for Borussia Moenchengladbach 10 years ago. But for a career that has amounted to a sweeping panorama of the recent history of American soccer, nothing tops what Sigi Schmid has seen over the past half-century.
It's not Forrest Gump-ian, but it's close.
Born in West Germany, Schmid moved with his family to Southern California as a child in time to play for the Firefighters, one of the first four teams in the history of the hopefully named American Youth Soccer Organization, in 1964. Little is know of what became of Schmid's teammates and opponents, some of whom played this strange new sport in high-top basketball shoes. None could have known that AYSO would grow to become a national program with, currently, more than a half-million players.
Young Schmid, on his way to becoming a CPA, played midfield at UCLA from 1972 through 1975, then coached the Bruins from 1980 through 1999. He could have padded his lineup with foreign-born talent, which was common in the college game at the time, but he insisted on American players, most of them Californians. Led by future U.S. internationals like Paul Caligiuri, Cobi Jones and David Vanole, Schmid's UCLA won three NCAA championships.
An assistant on the USA's 1994 World Cup team, he served two stints as coach of the U.S. National Under-20 Team and won MLS Cups with the Columbus Crew and Los Angeles Galaxy. Now, he's the only coach the six-year-old Seattle Sounders have ever known, having guided that club to four U.S. National Open Cups, and his team regularly plays home matches before crowds of nearly 50,000.
But before USA '94, MLS and the Sounders, Schmid can remember other days. Like how AYSO, to a ragtag collection of 11- and 12-year-olds, had no business catching on and going nationwide. And despite 16 NCAA playoff appearances, how UCLA–and top-tier collegiate soccer–seemed destined to continue to labor in complete obscurity, as the Bruins drew about 300 for many home matches. And in 1989, how, while Schmid was filling a summer coaching the California Kickers, the World Cup the Americans would host in five years seemed headed for disaster on the field and at the gate. The Kickers played in the Western Soccer League, which along with the East Coast's American Soccer League, was home to nearly every U.S. international player at the time. No one, from Tab Ramos and John Harkes to Marcelo Balboa and Eric Wynalda, was paid a living wage. Each club that year played all of 16 regular-season matches. And as for the Kickers, their home games were played in a rickety high school football stadium.
The Kickers once played the visiting Arizona Condors in front of 72 spectators. Seventy-two. But Schmid, in retrospect, needn't have worried. Add 43,662, and that was the average number of fans at cavernous CenturyLink Field in Seattle who last season looked down and saw a former AYSO kid pulling the strings in front of the Sounders' bench.
Filed under: MLS teams 40th anniversaries | Tags: A-League, American Professional Soccer League, American Soccer League, Associated Press, BC Place, Canadian Soccer League, CenturyLink Field, Empire Stadium, Eric Wynalda, Fall River Marksmen, FC Portland, FC Seattle, FC Seattle Storm, Gillette Stadium, Golden Bay Earthquakes, John Doyle, Kasey Keller, Kingdome, Major League Soccer, Marcelo Balboa, Memorial Stadium, NBC, New England Revolution, New York Cosmos, New York Red Bulls, New York/New Jersey MetroStars, North American Soccer League, Pedro Morales, Portland Timbers, Providence Park, Richard Nixon, San Francisco Bay Blackhawks, San Jose Clash, San Jose Earthquakes, San Jose Hawks, Seattle Sounders, Soccer City USA, U.S. National Open Cup, University of Portland, USL-1, Vancouver 86ers, Vancouver Whitecaps, Victoria Riptides, Watergate, Western Alliance Challenge Series, Western Soccer Alliance, Western Soccer League, White House
Pedro Morales converted a penalty kick in the 19th minute and struck again on a 20-yard shot a minute later to lead the Vancouver Whitecaps to a 3-2 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes in a Major League Soccer match before a crowd of 21,000 at BC Place.
The meeting commemorated the 40th anniversary of the first game between the Whitecaps and Earthquakes, who opened the North American Soccer League season at Empire Stadium as expansion franchises on May 5, 1974. Fans at BC Place were encouraged to dress '70s retro, which many did with long-haired wigs, sunglasses, fake mustaches and bell-bottom pants. [May 3]
Comment: The match was played about a month after the Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders battled to an entertaining 4-4 draw before yet another standing-room-only crowd of 20,814 at Portland's Providence Park. The Associated Press referred to that encounter as "one of the wilder match ups of a rivalry dating to the mid-1970s." NBC, which televised the game, called it "the 85th meeting of the two teams." MLS noted earlier that the Sounders, along with a third Cascadia rival, the Whitecaps, and the 'Quakes would mark their 40th anniversary seasons this year, with the Timbers celebrating No. 39.
What a stretch of the imagination.
Those clubs have as much right to claim a 40th anniversary as a married couple who experiences divorce, death, ressurection, marriage to other partners, further divorces, identity changes, separation, multiple relocations, and, finally, rebirth, all since the days that Richard Nixon was in the White House.
True, the Sounders, Whitecaps and 'Quakes were born in 1974 as NASL teams, followed by the Timbers in '75. However, Portland, which once boldly called itself "Soccer City USA," folded after the 1982 season, and Seattle, Vancouver and San Jose (known as Golden Bay for its final two seasons) went down with the ship when the NASL itself died after the 1984 campaign.
A year later, with professional soccer in the U.S. resembling a moonscape, two new teams, FC Portland and FC Seattle, joined with a reconstituted San Jose Earthquakes and the soon-to-be-forgotten Victoria Riptides to play in a hopeful attempt to revive high-level soccer called the Western Alliance Challenge Series (San Jose finished first with a 4-2-1 record). The WACS morphed into the Western Soccer Alliance, then the Western Soccer League, then, through a 1990 merger with the East Coast's year-old American Soccer League, the American Professional Soccer League. FC Portland, born as an all-amateur side made up primarily of University of Portland players like Kasey Keller, and their rival, since renamed FC Seattle Storm, folded after that year.
As for the San Jose Earthquakes, they were replaced by the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks in 1989; after U.S. internationals like Marcelo Balboa, Eric Wynalda and John Doyle led them the to APSL title in '91, they dropped into the USISL by '93 as the San Jose Hawks and then folded. After three years of darkness, the San Jose Clash became a charter member of MLS. It shed the regrettable Clash nickname in 1999 and went on to win two MLS championships as the 'Quakes, but it wasn't enough to prevent the poorly supported team from moving to Houston in 2006. Two years later, an MLS expansion team, named the Earthquakes, was awarded to San Jose; this fourth version of the 'Quakes will move into a new, soccer-specific stadium, in 2015.
Vancouver? It returned to action in 1986 as a freelance team, then joined the new, short-lived Canadian Soccer League the following year. After six seasons as a CSL power, the 86ers embarked on an 18-year odyssey that took them to the APSL, A-League and USL-1. Along the way, the 86es nickname was changed to Whitecaps.
These 40-year anniversaries are all well and good, but they ignore the difficult days between NASL and MLS, when there was genuine doubt that pro outdoor soccer would ever be seen again. Ask those in the crowd of 34,012 who watched the Sounders beat the Timbers at the Kingdome in 1979 if any of them were among the 1,500 or so who saw an amateur Portland team play a semi-pro Seattle team at the old Memorial Stadium eight or nine years later. Would any of them have drawn any sort of parallel between the two games? Could any of them have foreseen a day when an MLS Portland Timbers and MLS Seattle Sounders would meet at Seattle's CenturyLink Field in front of 66,452 in 2012 or 67,385 last season?
Given the ups and downs–and glaring gaps–in these and every other major soccer-playing market in the U.S., creating milestones like this is a shameless example of revisionist history. If not, the New York/New Jersey MetroStars (now the New York Red Bulls) should've just claimed the legacy of the New York Cosmos as their own and begun life in MLS in 1996 with five NASL titles to their name. Better yet, the New England Revolution should've simply traced their roots to the Fall River Marksmen, founded in 1921. That would've given the Revs an immediate 75-year history, plus seven American Soccer League championships and four U.S. National Open Cup crowns. A stretch? Fall River, which of course is part of New England, is only 36 miles from the Revolution's home field, Gillette Stadium.
These MLS clubs are right to give a nod to their respective cities' rich soccer histories. But the Whitecaps, Earthquakes (with their new stadium on the horizon), and Timbers and Sounders (with their routine sellouts) should celebrate the here and now without trying to re-write history–especially without forcing themselves to drag memories of mutton chop sideburns, Watergate and disco into the equation.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Akron, American Professional Soccer League, Big West Conference, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Dominic Kinnear, Eric Wynalda, Gauchos, Harder Stadium, Indiana, La Playa Stadium, Louisville, Major League Soccer, Marcelo Balboa, Martin Vasquez, Maryland, Miami Fusion, NASL, NCAA Division I, Real Santa Barbara, Robin Fraser, Romania, Santa Barbara City College, Tim Vom Steeg, U.S. National Team, UC Santa Barbara, UConn, USL, Virginia, Western Soccer League
A crowd of 13,822 was on hand at Harder Stadium to see the host UC Santa Barbara men defeat Big West Conference rival Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 2-0. [November 4]
Comment: Absolutely anywhere in America can become a soccer hotbed, even the laid-back, sunsplashed, tony beach town of Santa Barbara, CA.
Consider that when Harder Stadium played host to the most significant soccer match in its history, just 9,127 showed up to see the U.S. National Team–16 months ahead of the 1994 World Cup it would host–hold Romania to a 1-1 draw.
This match's significance was along the lines of, perhaps, a game in the French fourth division. In winning, the Gauchos clinched the No. 3 seed in the Big West Conference playoffs and avenged a loss at Cal Poly earlier in the season. Hardly anyone in U.S. collegiate soccer noticed. But those among the 13,822 who hadn't made the trip down the coast from San Luis Obispo went home happy and will be back again.
Somehow, Santa Barbara has become a soccer hotbed, at least on the collegiate level. Last year, Harder Stadium was site of six of the season's 10 best-attended men's matches. An early-season game against UCLA drew a throng of 15,896; followed by Duke at 11,242. UCSB hosted the 2010 NCAA Division I men's final between Akron and Louisville, and that attracted 9,672. In all, the Gauchos, in 12 home games, led NCAA soccer in total attendance, 70,471, and average turnstile count, 5,873. By comparison, the late, unlamented Miami Fusion could muster only an additional 1,500 per home game before it was booted out of Major League Soccer.
There are other collegiate soccer hotbeds, like reigning champion Akron, and long-time powers Maryland, UConn, Virginia and Indiana. Like those schools, UCSB men's soccer is a winner and represents a school far from any bright lights, but it has the additional advantage of not having to compete for attention with a gridiron football team. Regardless, most NCAA Division I men's teams are lucky to break four figures on a regular basis, and nearly every NASL and USL club would kill for the Gauchos' box office numbers.
Gaucho coach Tim Vom Steeg must be left marvelling at it all. When he was a younger man, standout defender Vom Steeg was a member of the now-forgotten Real Santa Barbara (1989 and 1990), then of the Western Soccer League and American Professional Soccer League. It was the highest level of soccer in the U.S. at the time. Playing a few miles down the coast at La Playa Stadium on the campus of Santa Barbara City College, Real Santa Barbara faced the likes of Marcelo Balboa, Eric Wynalda, Robin Fraser, Martin Vasquez and Dominic Kinnear. Announced attendance was always in the neighborhood of 830, but reality said that there were no more than a hundred souls in the stands, and most of them could be caught gazing beyond the field, past the gently swaying palm trees and marina to the blue Pacific. The prospect of any Real Santa Barbara game being televised nationally–like the UCSB-Cal Poly match–would have been both laughable and embarrassing.
Obviously, things have changed in Santa Barbara. But there is the suspicion that the biggest change involves the rise of a generation of soccer-savvy young people who are willing to rally around the right team at the right time and who realize that those good times they see beamed from major European stadiums can be replicated here in the U.S.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alejandro Bedoya, Alexi Lalas, Brek Shea, Carlos Bocanegra, Chris Wondolowski, Clarence Goodson, Claudio Reyna, Clint Dempsey, Cobi Jones, Earnie Stewart, Eddie Pope, Eric Lichaj, Eric Wynalda, Futbol de Primera Player of the Year, Hugo Perez, Jermaine Jones, Jonathan Spector, Jose Torres, Jozy Altidore, Juan Agudelo, Kasey Keller, Kyle Beckerman, Landon Donovan, Marcelo Balboa, Maurice Edu, Michael Bradley, Michael Orozco Fiscal, Oguchi Onyewu, Robbie Rogers, Sacha Kljestan, Steve Cherundolo, Thomas Dooley, Tim Howard, Tim Ream, Timmy Chandler, U.S. National Team
Some 200 journalists from across the nation are submitting ballots to decide which U.S. National Team member will be the 2011 Futbol de Primera Player of the Year.
Sponsored by FDP, the exclusive radio broadcaster of the 2014 World Cup in the United States, the award–the most prestigious annual honor in American soccer–goes to the best player who appeared in at least three matches for the U.S. in the calendar year. Those who qualified are Juan Agudelo, Jozy Altidore, Kyle Beckerman, Alejandro Bedoya, Carlos Bocanegra, Michael Bradley, Timmy Chandler, Steve Cherundolo, Clint Dempsey, Landon Donovan, Maurice Edu, Clarence Goodson, Tim Howard, Jermaine Jones, Sacha Kljestan, Eric Lichaj, Oguchi Onyewu, Michael Orozco Fiscal, Tim Ream, Robbie Rogers, Brek Shea, Jonathan Spector, Jose Torres and Chris Wondolowski.
First place selections receive three points, second place two points and third place one.
Past winners of the award, until recently known as the Honda Player of the Year: Hugo Perez, 1991; Eric Wynalda, 1992; Thomas Dooley, 1993; Marcelo Balboa, 1994; Alexi Lalas, 1995; Wynalda, 1996; Eddie Pope, 1997; Cobi Jones, 1998; Kasey Keller, 1999; Claudio Reyna, 2000; Earnie Stewart, 2001; Landon Donovan, 2002; Donovan, 2003; Donovan, 2004; Keller, 2005; Clint Dempsey, 2006; Donovan, 2007; Donovan, 2008; Donovan, 2009; Donovan, 2010. [October 21]
Comment: Who would you vote for? Let us know.
Last year's vote from here got it wrong. Donovan won, with Bradley the runner-up and Dempsey the third-place finisher. Our ballot went to Donovan, Bradley and Cherundolo. So we need your help before our ballot is submitted in the middle of next week.
Give us a post and list your three top choices, in order. And feel free to do some lobbying if you so choose. Bear in mind that the award is for a player's body of work for the year, so take into account a candidate's performance for his club as well as his contributions to the U.S. team.
Update: Dempsey won the award for the second time after being named first choice on nearly half of the ballots submitted by the 202 U.S. journalists who took part. Howard was second and seven-time winner Donovan was third. [November 2]
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They threw open the gates to the upper deck at CenturyLink Field and 64,140 turned out to see the Sounders defeat the San Jose Earthquakes, 2-1, in the final 2011 regular-season match in Seattle. Sammy Ochoa and Fredy Montero scored in the last 10 minutes and goalkeeper Kasey Kelly stopped seven shots to send the throng home happy.
This was not part of a doubleheader, and there was no fireworks spectacular offered. Both sides had qualified for the playoffs. The attraction was goalkeeper and native son Keller, who plans to retire at the end of the season. [October15]
Comment I: Appropriate, and well deserved.
With all due respect to Brad Friedel, Tony Meola and Tim Howard, Keller, 41, will step down as the best goalkeeper produced by a country known, internationally, for its goalkeepers. The pride of Olympia, WA, never had a three-week stretch like Friedel, who started ahead of Keller at the 2002 World Cup and was spectacular for a hot team. And Keller largely went down with the ship as a starter at the 1998 and 2006 World Cups. But from 1990 to 2008, he was world class in England (Millwall, Leicester City, Tottenham, Southampton, Fulham), Spain (Rayo Vallecano), and Germany (Borussia Moenchengladbach), blazing a trail for the likes of Alexi Lalas, Carlos Bocanegra, Steve Cherundolo, Clint Dempsey, Frankie Hejduk, Brian McBride and, yes, Friedel and Howard.
Keller's career spans an amazing stretch in U.S. soccer history. A star at the University of Portland, he played for FC Portland of the Western Soccer League in 1989. The WSL's players were semipro for the most part, but Portland was made up of college players protecting their amateur status; young Keller posted a 0.38 goals-against average and won the league's MVP award ahead of players like Marcelo Balboa, Dominick Kinnear and John Doyle. Twenty-one years after playing in front of hundreds at Portland's Civic Stadium (future home of the MLS Portland Timbers), the crowd watching him is an adoring 64,140, the third-largest for a stand-alone game in MLS history.
At least Keller will always have the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup, where he made 10 saves–most of them bordering on the miraculous–to turn away Romario, Edmundo and Brazil, 1-0, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the semifinals. It was the greatest performance ever by an American goalkeeper in a high-profile match. But some will speculate what might have been had coach Bora Milutinovic decided to put up with what was then a young, headstrong Kasey Keller and chosen him ahead of Meola, Friedel and Juergen Sommer for his 1994 World Cup squad. If Keller, not Meola, was covering the near post during the USA's final first-round match, a 1-0 loss to Romania, maybe the U.S. wouldn't have had to face Brazil in the second round. Instead, the opponent would have been a somewhat softer Spain, in Washington DC, and hard to say if Bora's Boys wouldn't have bought an appearance in the rarified air of the quarterfinals and with it another week in the national spotlight.
Comment II: The crowd at CenturyLink Field was the fourth-largest worldwide that weekend–trailing only those at FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. It lifted Seattle to a final average attendance for the regular season of 38,496 (nearly 3,000 above stadium capacity) and made the Sounders the best draw in MLS for all three years of their existence. More important, it helped boost the league's average gate for 2011 to 17,795 with one week remaining, thus breaking the record of 17,406 set in MLS's inaugural 1996 season.
There were a few factors that made that 17,406 possible. First and foremost, there was the novelty factor as an entire league debuted. There also was the blessing and curse of the many gridiron football stadiums the teams were forced to call home: While four-figure crowds looked pathetic in these cavernous stadiums, when it came to home openers or games with post-game fireworks shows, there were plenty of seats for all, like the Rose Bowl crowd of 69,255 that saw the Los Angeles Galaxy's first match. And there were turnstile counts that deserved an asterisk, like the 92,216 back at the Rose Bowl on hand for a twinbill involving the Galaxy against the now-defunct Tampa Bay Mutiny and the U.S. National Team versus Mexico. (Easy to conclude that it wasn't Mutiny fans who flooded the stadium that day.)
No such gimmicks or mitigating factors today, which only makes Keller's big night all the more impressive. No fireworks, no giveaways, no glitzy foreign opposition–just a love affair between the Sounders' amazing following and a hometown boy who makes good and returns to close out his career. Think of it–an American soccer player as a major drawing card, at least for one night. The Emerald City is the exception to the rule in so many things MLS, but Keller's big night suggests the possibility that the league has reached the point where its clubs should consider staging testimonial matches for its most popular American players.
The last true testimonial match held here was Pele's farewell at Giants Stadium in 1977, when he played one half each for the Cosmos and his former Brazilian club, Santos, before a packed house. Since then, the only thing close was the 2004 farewell tour by the U.S. National Women's Team as Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and Joy Fawcett called it a career. It's too late for favorites such as Cobi Jones (L.A.), McBride (Columbus) and Balboa (Colorado), but it's time for MLS to recognize that the pull of certain popular, long-time players is stronger than it may have previously realized.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, Andres Guardado, Bob Rigby, Bruce Savage, Carlos Bocanegra, Clarence Goodson, Dan Canter, David Brcic, David Vanole, Eric Lichaj, Freddy Adu, Giovani Dos Santos, Jeff Durgan, John Doyle, Jonathan Bornstein, Kevin Crow, Landon Donovan, Marcelo Balboa, Mark Dodd, Mexico beats U.S. in CONCACAF Gold Cup final, Michael Bradley, Pablo Barrera, Paul Caligiuri, Philadelphia Atoms, Steve Cherundolo, Tim Howard, Winston DuBose
Mexico recovered from a two-goal deficit and roared to a 4-2 victory over the United States to win the 2011 Gold Cup before a Rose Bowl crowd of 93,420 and secure a berth in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, the dress rehearsal before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
The win gave El Tri, which met the Americans in the two previous Gold Cup finals, a second consecutive CONCACAF championship and its sixth overall. U.S. goals by Michael Bradley and Landon Donovan were cancelled out before halftime by Pablo Barrera and Andres Guardado; Barrera put Mexico ahead for good in the 50th minute, and Giovani Dos Santos applied the clincher with a brilliant individual effort in the 76th. [June 25]
Comment: Kevin Crow, Dan Canter, Jeff Durgan, David Brcic, Winston DuBose, and Bruce Savage, and, later, David Vanole, Paul Caligiuri, Marcelo Balboa, Mark Dodd, even John Doyle.
There was a time when the U.S. was known for turning out nothing but goalkeepers and defenders, starting with Bob Rigby, who didn't even take up the sport until he was 15 and went on to help the Philadelphia Atoms win the 1973 NASL championship.
Times have changed, and now the U.S. is so thin at the back that when it loses 32-year-old right back Steve Cherundolo to a left ankle sprain 11 minutes into Saturday's game, it has to scramble its defense, moving left back Eric Lichaj to the right and inserting someone like Jonathan Bornstein on the left. With that, goalkeeper Tim Howard could only watch the collapse of his overmatched buddies, Lichaj, Clarence Goodson, Carlos Boganegra and Bornstein.
At least the U.S. has been consistent over the past few years. The pleasant surprise of this tournament was not a desperately needed defender but an attacker, young fella by the name of Adu.


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Baby photo contests are common events nowadays. Normally, these contests are produced and organized by companies that sell products and brands focused on the baby care sector like Huggies and Pampers. Regardless of the organizer, these baby photo contests are fantastic ways to show off your baby to the world while making a good amount of money in the process. Some contests will even get your baby discovered and can lead to other commercial modeling gigs that can translate to more money and exposure for you. Obviously, you think your baby is cute and beautiful or else you will not have searched for this article on how to enter your child into a baby photo contest. Don't worry, you are most probably right. Here are some steps on how to find the best baby photo contests out there and enter them.
Some contests will base the winner on public voting. If this is the case, remember to tell all your family members, friends, and co-workers to log on to the site and vote for your baby photo. Use social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to have other people vote for your baby.
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A bright young 21-year-old was just driving along when she noticed disabled veteran in a wheelchair. What happened next was the unexpected push of a lifetime. As soon as she saw the man, she got out of her car and walked right up to him and what transpired in the next few minutes what life-changing for sure.
The young lady, Morgan Wheeler, asked the aging veteran if he needed help moving. He insisted the answer was no, but she pushed the man anyway. With no chance of him fighting back, she helped the man get into the store that he was heading for. During that short time, they talked about each other's lives.
You might think it was her who helped push him to a place he needed to be, but it was really he who pushed her to a better place in her life. From the first push they instantly bonded and she helped him do his shopping. She then helped him get home by calling a taxi and she even purchased a few extra items. For a man who served his country, this was the least his country could do for him.
She later shared the incident on Facebook to encourage people to help each other. Her post received over 170,000 shares and her story has reached even more people than that. Just imagine all that kindness going around!
"Morgan Wheeler believes she found her angel outside a local Walmart.
The 21-year-old from Fayetteville, West Virginia, met a man who was struggling to cross the street Wednesday. Once she spotted him, she felt the urge to get out and ask if she could assist him, but the man, who she believes is in his 60s or 70s, said he didn't need any help.
That didn't stop her from insisting on wheeling him into the store. As they walked, they found out about each other's lives. She told him about her nephews and horses, while he mentioned that he's a veteran and had just lost his wife.
"He was very grumpy at first, but you could tell he was a proud veteran," Wheeler told TODAY.com. "I really wanted to help him so I pushed through his comfort zone a bit."
He handed her a grocery list with four items on it: peanut butter, soup, bananas and bread. After picking them out, she asked if he needed more basic items, such as milk, eggs or butter, and he said he was worried he wouldn't make it home without them going bad.
Once she heard how he wheeled himself all the way to the highway and hitchhiked with a trucker to get to Walmart, she immediately called him a taxi and bought him the extra items.
"He started crying when I placed a gallon of milk in his cart," Wheeler said. "That's when I knew I had really helped him."
She went home and posted the story online, hoping to inspire 300 of her closest Facebook friends at most. Within hours, the post skyrocketed and now has more than 170,000 shares***.
"I'm so glad the post has touched so many people," Wheeler said. "There are far too many people like that gentleman who need help and I want to encourage everyone to help others. Trust me, it will be a very humbling experience."
Her original post stated:
"I walked out of Wal Mart today and got in my car. As I began to pull out, I had to wait for a man in a wheelchair to pass by. As I watched him, I noticed that he was missing his right leg from the knee down and was wearing, what appeared to be, old, government issued, combat boots. He was (from my guess) in his late sixties/early seventies and seemed to be stopping to take a break. He had not realized that I had started my car and was attempting to pull out, so when he saw me, he waved in an apologetic manner and rolled forward three more times and took another break. I backed up my car the inches I had previously pulled forward, put it in park, turned off the engine, and got out.
I walked up to him and introduced myself. I asked him if I could assist him with his shopping today, and he, quite grumpily, said that he was doing just fine and was not getting much anyways. Me, being as stubborn as I am, insisted and proceeded to push him and tell him a little about myself. He interrupted me and said that he only needed help to the door, to which I picked up where I had left off before he interrupted me. I told him about Fayetteville, and my horses, and my nephews (I had parked a good ways away from the doors). And when I reached the doors, I continued to push him and talk. We reached the produce area and I asked him to tell me about himself. He reluctantly looked at me and began telling me that he lived in Sod- Lincoln County, and that he just recently lost his wife.
I asked him if he was a veteran, to which he replied that he was- but with pain on his face, so I changed the subject and asked if he had made a shopping list. He handed me a list with only four things on it: peanut butter, soup, bread, and bananas. So we began shopping and I continued to talk… hard to believe- I know.
Once we had gotten the items he needed, I asked if he needed the essentials: milk, eggs, butter. He told me that he might not make it home, without them going bad. So I questioned how he got to the store. He told me that he did what he was doing in the parking lot until he got to 119 and then hitch hiked with a trucker to the parking lot. So I called a taxi for him and grabbed the essentials plus a few other things and put them in the cart. After placing a gallon of milk in his cart he was crying. People were passing by us, looking sideways at him. I knelt down and asked him what was wrong and he replied, that I "was doing far too much for an old man that I barely knew."
I told him that where I am from, and from the family I was raised in, we help one another, no matter the task and that I had never met a stranger. I also told him that he deserved everything I was doing for him because he fought for my freedom and sacrificed so much. We made it to the check out line and I paid for his groceries, against his request. When we got outside, we waited for the taxi together. He thanked me over and over again and appeared- to me- to have been in a much better mood than when I found him.
When the taxi arrived, I helped him load his groceries and wheelchair into the taxi and asked the driver to take him home and help him into his house with his groceries. I gave him the only cash I had on me- $44, also against his will. I told him thank you for his service before closing the door. Tears formed again and he thanked me one last time and said, "God bless you." I returned to my car, and could not help but cry. This is the world we live in today.
How many people passed him and would have continued to pass him while he struggled? How many people are willing to give their money to Vanity Fair to read all about Bruce Jenner and not help a veteran pay for his groceries? Today was a truly humbling experience for me, and I consider myself extremely blessed to have the capability of understanding what is truly important in this world. THAT man was a HERO, and far too many will say otherwise.
I am sorry that this post was so long, and if you have read it to this point, I hope you are as humbled as I was. God bless the men and women who have fought for our right to view the wrong people as heroes, and thank God for the people who know better."
When was the last time that you helped someone in need? What about doing a small favor for someone? How about buying someone a cup of coffee or tea? Maybe one day someone will do something nice for you and you'll remember this story and pay it forward.
For me, just keeping my mouth shut is enough to make my wife have a good day, so I'm off to a great start already! All jokes aside, let's all reach out to someone in need and lend a helping hand.
Perhaps we can all add a brick to Donald Trump's great big beautiful wall, but don't ask me to fill out your immigration paperwork!
Ok, enough jokes.
Let's all have a good day!
*** UPDATE her post has over 650,000 shares at the time of this story being published.


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The U.S. newspaper publishing industry is constantly evolving, courtesy of rampant technological advancements that have opened up considerable scope through which the industry can reach its target audience. Quite apparent, the industry is no longer restricted to print.
The industry has come a long way from being a sole provider of news content and advertising on print publications. It has seen a rapid increase in digitalization with major sources of revenue generation being advertising, subscriptions and sales, printing services and distribution services, among others.
Changing consumer preferences and innovative technologies have altered the way in which news is offered and consumed. Readers' preference for accessing news online, mostly free, has made the industry's print-advertising model increasingly redundant. Now as readers have swamped to the Internet, advertisers followed suit and so did newspaper companies.
Trimmed print operations paved pay for online publications that led to the development of the pay-and-read model.
It goes without saying that the alignment of the print and digital model has not been an overnight phenomenon. This is because the dramatic shift to digitalization demanded simplification of the operating structure by divesting or separating broadcasting and other media operations from the print business.
This shift has prompted many operators to critically evaluate the economic viability of their traditional print operations, with many deciding to exit the print business altogether and focus on the digital format instead. Even iconic brands like Newsweek and Time have not been immune to these shifts, with the former exiting the print format altogether and the latter severely curtailing the print version.
Attractive Shareholder Returns
The Zacks Publishing - Newspapers Industry within the broader Zacks Consumer Staples Sector has outperformed both the Zacks S&P 500 Composite and its own sector over the past year. While the stocks in this industry have collectively gained 35.9%, the Zacks S&P 500 Composite advanced 12.5% and Zacks Consumer Staples Sector declined 8%.
Looking at shareholder returns over the past year, it is quite apparent that investors remained quite confident about the industry's prospects. Definitely, steps such as venturing beyond traditional advertising, strengthening of portfolio via alliances & buyouts, pay-and-read models and focus on data-driven digital marketing services have put the industry on growth trajectory. However, headwinds such as decline in print advertising and difficulties in retail advertising may play spoilsport.
One-Year Price Performance
Publishing - Newspapers Stocks Look Expensive
Owing to the outperformance of the industry over the past year, the valuation looks expensive now. One might get a good sense of the industry's relative valuation by looking at its price-to-earnings ratio (P/E), which is an appropriate multiple for valuing Publishing - Newspapers stocks.
The industry currently has a trailing 12-month P/E ratio of 23.2X, which is the highest point over the past year, with the one-year median being 20.9X. Clearly, there is limited upside potential.
The space also looks expensive when compared to the market at large, as the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the S&P 500 is 20X and the median level is 20.2.
As evident from the chart below, the premium to the broader market has started to expand since the beginning of 2018 and is still at an elevated level.
Price-to-Earnings Ratio (TTM)
Outperformance May Continue Due to Solid Earnings Outlook
Focus on realigning cost structure and streamlining operations to increase efficiency and safeguard earnings and cash flows from dwindling print advertising revenues should help Publishing - Newspapers stocks continue delivering shareholder returns over the near term. Moreover, focus on digital business and undertaking of strategic acquisitions should position the company well for growth.
But what really matters to investors is whether this group has the potential to perform better than the broader market in the quarters ahead. While the earlier valuation analysis reflects that there is little upside left, there are enough reasons for investors to continue to look for a good entry point.
One reliable measure that can help investors understand the industry's prospects for a solid price performance is its earnings outlook. Empirical research shows that earnings outlook for the industry, a reflection of the earnings revisions trend for the constituent companies, has a direct bearing on its stock market performance.
The Price & Consensus chart below for the industry shows the market's evolving bottom-up earnings expectations for the industry and its aggregate stock market performance. The red line in the chart represents the Zacks measure of consensus earnings expectations for 2019, while the light blue line represents the same for 2018.
Price and Consensus: Zacks Publishing - Newspapers Industry
This becomes clearer when we look at the aggregate bottom-up EPS revisions trend. The chart below shows the evolution of aggregate consensus expectations for 2018.
Please note that the 86-cent 2018 EPS estimate for the industry is not the actual bottom-up dollar EPS estimate for every company in the Zacks Publishing - Newspapers industry, but rather an illustrative aggregate number created by our proprietary analytics model. The key factor to keep in mind is not the earnings estimate of 86 cents but rather how the estimate has evolved recently.
Current Fiscal Year EPS Estimate Revisions
As you can see here, the 86 cents EPS estimate for 2018 is up from 85 cents at the end of May and 70 cents at the end of January. The current EPS estimate also shows a significant improvement from the year-ago estimate of 64 cents.
In other words, the sell-side analysts covering the companies in the Zacks Publishing - Newspapers industry have been steadily raising their estimates.
Zacks Industry Rank Indicates Robust Prospects
The group's Zacks Industry Rank, which is basically the average of the Zacks Rank of all the member stocks, indicates continued outperformance in the near term.
The Zacks Publishing - Newspapers industry currently carries a Zacks Industry Rank #106, which places it in the top 41% of more than 250 Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperforms the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.
Our proprietary Heat Map shows that the industry's rank has kept to a relatively narrow range over the past six weeks. We note in the said period, the industry's rank rose to 101 before slipping to 106 last week but is still in the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries.
Publishing - Newspapers Space: Earnings & Revenue Trends
The past earnings trend of the Publishing - Newspapers space reveals that although the group has witnessed a steep in decline in 2016, the trend has been quite stable thereafter. Notably, the earnings trend has shown substantial improvement from 2013 to 2015.
Publishing – Newspapers EPS
The top-line performance of the Zacks Publishing - Newspapers industry has been showing growth since 2014.
Publishing – Newspapers Revenues
Bottom Line
Although print remains a requisite, newspaper companies will continue to focus on the digital arena. Analysts believe that digital advertising will gradually take center stage and percentage of revenues from the same is likely to exceed print advertising. Companies may also increasingly rely on paywalls. Moreover, with increasing consolidation, publishing houses will continue to be disciplined buyers of local media assets.
Certainly, newspaper companies will have to remodel and restructure to better align with the growing need of marketers and millennials, affluent households and other demographic groups. Publishing companies are fast adapting to the changing face of the multi-platform media universe, which currently covers Internet, mobile, tablet, social media networks and outdoor video advertising.
Nonetheless, success is dependent on how effectively newspaper companies exploit the growing use of Internet as a medium to reach business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets. Given the significant growth opportunities, the Publishing – Newspapers industry's long-term earnings growth rate of 13% looks promising. This also compares favorably with 9.8% of the Zacks S&P 500 Composite.
Though the valuation looks a little pricey at this time, keeping long-term expectations in mind, investors may look for some good entry points in the stocks that will help them make the most of the momentum in the industry.
While none of the stocks in our Publishing – Newspapers industry currently sport a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), there is one stock that carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
New Media Investment Group Inc. NEWM: The consensus EPS estimate for this New York-based company, which owns, operates and invests in a portfolio of local media assets, has moved up nearly 10.7% for the current fiscal in the last 30 days. Moreover, this Zacks Rank #2 stock has rallied 34% over the past year.
Price and Consensus: NEWM
Given the promising prospects of the Publishing – Newspapers industry, investors may hold on to some stocks that can fetch great returns in the near future. Here are two such stocks:
The New York Times Company (NYT - Free Report) : This New York-based provider of news and information carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) and has gained 46% in the past year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the company's current fiscal EPS has been stable in the last 30 days.
Price and Consensus: NYT
Gannett Co., Inc. (GCI - Free Report) : This McLean, Virginia-based company carries a Zacks Rank #3 and has gained 20% in the past year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate of this media and marketing solutions company's current fiscal EPS was revised 3% upward in the last 60 days.
Price and Consensus: GCI
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Signal boost time: Kelci will be appearing this Saturday, July 22 at NOT AT CON DAY. It's happening at New Dimension Comics in Saint Clairsville, OH, and Kelci will be giving free sketch cards for attendees. If you can make it, HERE'S HOW TO GET A SKETCH CARD.
If you can't make it to Saint Clairsville for the show, don't sweat – Kelci will be offering other stuff for later shows.
There will also be new swag available at the show, including two new 11 x 17 inch prints and a new zine called MASKS.