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WOW! It has been two years that I have been posting recipes and random information at Squash Blossom Babies! I hope you have enjoyed the recipes! This has been such a great way for me to share recipes, keep myself motivated to make healthy food and hopefully inspire you to make some yummy goodness, too! Today I'm going to focus on why I started this blog….healthy food for my baby and for my family.
That baby has quickly turned from squirmy infant to messy toddler to opinionated preschooler! I'm going to share some tips on how to raise an adventurous eater and get those much needed veggies in your wee tots' tummy!
- Your children are watching you! If you don't eat the broccoli on your plate then why should they? If you reach for potato chips instead of an apple, so will they. If you try new foods, then your kids are much more likely to give it a try.
- Start early. When you start introducing food to your baby make sure that you are offering a variety of flavors and textures.
- Keep mixing it up. Once you find something they love…don't stop there. It is very easy to get in a rut of offering the same thing for the simple fact that your kid will happily eat it. BUT try not to do this. Yes, your strong-willed picky eater WILL put up a fight. But this is a battle worth fighting.
- Don't give in. Some people don't like this but at my house what's for dinner is what's for dinner. There is no making a special meal because someone doesn't like what's for dinner. With that said Ava is only 2 1/2 and I'm not in the starvation business; so if we are trying something funky, I will make sure that we have something on our plates that I know she will eat.
- Plan ahead. Your little one is not very likely to try new foods when they are over tired and super hungry. So when you are on vacation, your child missed nap time and is eating dinner an hour late….don't expect to see an adventurous eater! Lunchtime is a great time to offer up new foods and usually kiddos are feeling pretty good this early in the day.
- You have to try it. This is critical!!!! Ava must try everything on her plate, at least one bite. And if she doesn't like it, that's okay. She doesn't have to love everything but she does have to try it. Otherwise how will she know if she does or doesn't like a certain food. By the way, she almost always likes it.
- Make it fun! Get cute silverware, sing a song about what you are eating, make airplane sounds as the fork "takes off" from the plate and nose dives into your little one's mouth.
- Dip it. Offer up some healthy dips to go along with your dinner. You can get healthy yogurt-based ranch dip, ketchup and bbq sauce without corn syrup.
- Sneak in veggies. Add pureed veggies to all kinds of dishes. Soup broths, smoothies, macaroni and cheese and even spaghetti and meatballs.
- Make a deal. We have lots of negotiations at our dining room table. "Eat two more bites of broccoli and then you can have more cheese." I know there are some people that cringe regarding this subject, but I'm a Mom following my mom-tuition and it just makes sense for us. NOTE: very rarely do we offer dessert or sweets as a "reward" for eating all of her food. Studies show that you should let your child determine when they are full. Plus if dessert is always offered as the best part it could increase your child's desire for sweets.
- Let your kids get involved at the grocery store/market. If you give your child an option, "do you want a red pepper or a green pepper", it gives them some ownership in their food and in the meal.
- Let your kids get involved in the kitchen. Yes, it's going to be messier and take longer to cook dinner, BUT I can't tell you how many times Ava has chowed down on food just because she helped me make it.
That sums up my tips. Remember it's up to us as parents to help shape our children's eating habits Start them off on a path to healthy adventuresome foods!


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This is a very helpful page for learning the minor pentatonic scale for guitar.
You can practice these minor pentatonic scale box patterns just shifting the position (using a different root note). We recommend you to memorize this box patterns in string and position pairs like 3th position-root is on A string, and so on.
You can study How to Play Intervals on Guitar fretboard page on MyGuitarWorkshop and try to understand the intervals used in minor pentatonic scale. It also will improve your ability to find intervals on guitar fretboard.
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Braxton Miller helped make Urban Meyer's first game as Ohio State coach a record-breaking romp for the Buckeyes.
Meanwhile, the new era at Penn State got off to a disappointing start thanks to another team from the state of Ohio.
In Columbus, Miller rushed for 161 yards, a record for an Ohio State quarterback, and threw for two scores and 207 yards as the 18th-ranked Buckeyes beat Miami (Ohio) 56-10.
Meyer, who won two national titles at Florida, is unbeaten in 11 openers. He had worked as a TV analyst a year ago after stepping down from the Gators job due to health and family considerations.
He was hired last November to revive the beleaguered Buckeyes.
Bill O'Brien was hired by Penn State to lead the Nittany Lions in a new direction and replace the late Joe Paterno.
Penn State had an 11-point lead at the half, but Ohio quarterback Tyler Tettleton accounted for three second-half touchdowns to hand O'Brien a 24-14 loss at State College, Pa.
Matt McGloin threw for 260 yards and two touchdowns guiding Penn State's new-look offense.
There were some other changes, too: players' names on the backs of the uniforms, and blue ribbons on the back of the helmets to show support for victims of child sexual abuse.
No. 1 USC 39, HAWAII 10
LOS ANGELES — Marqise Lee caught a 75-yard touchdown pass on the first play from scrimmage and returned a kickoff 100 yards for a score, and No. 1 Southern California rolled.
Matt Barkley kicked off his Heisman Trophy campaign with 377 yards passing and four touchdowns, and Lee caught 10 passes for 197 yards for the Trojans (1-0), whose offensive stars were every bit as impressive as expected in their first game since their two-year NCAA bowl ban ended.
Silas Redd rushed for 57 yards and a touchdown on a team-leading nine carries in the Penn State transfer's debut at USC, which led 35-0 at halftime and coasted to its 15th consecutive season-opening victory.
Robert Woods caught six passes for 42 yards and two TDs, and tight end Xavier Grimble caught Barkley's final scoring throw in the fourth quarter.
No. 3 LSU 41, North Texas 14
BATON ROUGE, La. — Kenny Hilliard rushed for 141 yards and two touchdowns, and LSU opened its season with an easy victory.
While the heavily favored Tigers were never threatened, their performance did not always thrill a Death Valley crowd that eagerly anticipated the debut of Zach Mettenberger as starting quarterback.
Mettenberger, who was briefly sidelined by a vicious sack, was 19 of 26 for 192 yards, an interception and a touchdown. But LSU didn't really need to throw in a game decided by its overwhelming defense and a running game that accounted for 316 yards, including 123 by Alfred Blue.
Derek Thompson completed only 8 of 21 passes, but two passes were scoring strikes of 80 and 15 yards to Brelan Chancellor.
No. 7 FLORIDA STATE 69, Murray State 3
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Lonnie Pryor, James Wilder Jr., and Debrale Smiley combined for seven rushing touchdowns to lead Florida State.
Pryor ran for three TDs, and Smiley and Wilder added two apiece. Wilder finished with 106 yards rushing.
Florida State scored on their first touch of the new season on Rashad Greene's 47-yard punt return just 89 seconds into the game.
EJ Manuel passed for 188 yards and a touchdown before retiring midway in the third quarter.
Murray State's Casey Brockman passed for 117 yards, but was intercepted once and sacked six times, including four by Bjoern Werner.
The Seminoles totaled 606 yards while holding Murray State, a Football Championship Subdivision school, to 156 yards
No. 10 ARKANSAS 49, JACKSONVILLE STATE 24
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Tyler Wilson set the school record for yards passing in a season opener, finishing 19 of 27 passing for 367 yards and three touchdowns for Arkansas.
Two of Wilson's touchdowns went to tight end Chris Gragg, who finished with seven catches for 110 yards as the No. 10 Razorbacks (1-0) won their first game under coach John L. Smith.
Brandon Mitchell, the former backup quarterback turned starting receiver, joined in the fun with four catches for 122 yards and Javontee Herndon caught four passes for 96 yards.
The Gamecocks (0-1), coached by former Razorbacks coach Jack Crowe, led 14-7 in the first half. Marques Ivory had a pair of touchdown passes, while Alan Bonner had eight catches for 107 yards.
No. 11 WEST VIRGINIA 69, MARSHALL 34
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Geno Smith threw for 323 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Mountaineers past Marshall.
In the final scheduled game between the state's only Bowl Subdivision teams, it marked West Virginia's highest-scoring season opener in school history.
Smith kept the momentum going from his six-TD performance from the Orange Bowl.
The senior completed 32 of 36 passes and set a school record for career completions before sitting out most of the fourth quarter
The Mountaineers compiled 655 total yards, more than any game last year, and got the balance they've sought from their running game. Shawne Alston ran for 123 yards and two scores.
No. 12 WISCONSIN 26, NORTHERN ILLINOIS 21
MADISON, Wis. — Montee Ball rushed for 120 yards and a touchdown, and Wisconsin needed a big defensive play to survive a fourth-quarter scare.
Wisconsin's defense didn't allow Northern Iowa past the 50-yard line until the 4:27 mark in the third quarter — but then the Badgers nearly melted down.
Leading 26-7 in the fourth quarter, Wisconsin allowed Northern Iowa quarterback Sawyer Kollmorgen to throw a pair of long touchdowns to David Johnson, cutting the lead to five. With the Panthers facing fourth-and-1 at the Wisconsin 41-yard line, defensive lineman Ethan Hemer tipped the ball at the line of scrimmage to stop the drive.
No. 15 TEXAS 37, WYOMING 17
AUSTIN, Texas — Joe Bergeron and Malcolm Brown both rushed for more than 100 yards and combined for three touchdowns to lead Texas.
Texas quarterback David Ash, who won the starting job over Case McCoy in training camp, was an efficient 20-of-27 passing for 156 yards and a touchdown to Jaxon Shipley.
Bergeron had 110 yards and scored Texas' first touchdown on a 1-yard run in first quarter. He put the game away with a 17-yard TD in the fourth. Brown ran for 105 yards for Texas (1-0).
Robert Herron had touchdown catches of 82 and 22 yards for Wyoming (0-1). Cowboys quarterback Brett Smith passed for 276 yards but threw two interceptions in the second quarter that set up Texas touchdowns.
No. 17 NEBRASKA 49, SOUTHERN MISS 20
LINCOLN, Neb. — Taylor Martinez threw for a career-high 354 yards and matched his best with five touchdown passes to lead Nebraska.
The Huskers won their nation-leading 27th straight opener.
Nebraska played the last three quarters without Rex Burkhead. The 1,300-yard rusher last season went out with a sprained ligament in his left knee after opening the scoring with a career-long 57-yard run.
Backup Ameer Abdullah ran 15 times for 81 yards and made an acrobatic catch for an 11-yard TD.
Southern Miss backup quarterback Anthony Alford carried 15 times for 84 yards in his first college game.
No. 18 OHIO STATE 56, MIAMI, OHIO, 10
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Braxton Miller threw for two scores, including Devin Smith's highlight-reel, one-handed catch, for the Buckeyes.
The slow-starting Miller, who stutter-stepped for a 65-yard score just 17 seconds into the second half, finished 14 of 24 passing for 207 yards. He also hit Corey Brown on a 5-yard TD pass.
After Miller's long run made it 28-3, Bradley Roby recovered a high Miami punt snap in the end zone and the rout was on.
Travis Howard had two interceptions and Carlos Hyde scored on 4- and 8-yard runs for Ohio State.
No. 19 OKLAHOMA STATE 84, SAVANNAH STATE 0
STILLWATER, Okla. — Freshman Wes Lunt completed all 11 of his passes in a brief first outing as the new starting quarterback for Oklahoma State.
The defending Big 12 champions drove for touchdowns on their first five possessions to take a 35-0 lead late in the first quarter, and then used the rest of the game as a scrimmage to get playing time for their reserves.
Joseph Randle ran for 107 yards and two TDs on just six carries and Desmond Roland added 104 yards rushing, and Jeremy Smith ran for three scores as the Cowboys opened with an all-too-easy victory after losing stars Justin Blackmon and Brandon Weeden in the first round of the NFL draft.
The lopsided result was hardly a surprise. Savannah State, one of the worst teams from a lower division, had won only four games in against Football Championship Subdivision competition in 10 years and was playing team from the FBS for the first time.
No. 22 KANSAS STATE 51, MISSOURI STATE 9
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Collin Klein threw for 169 yards and two touchdowns, John Hubert ran 95 yards for a fourth-quarter score and Kansas State pulled away late to beat Missouri State.
Hubert finished with 152 yards rushing, Braden Wilson and Daniel Sams added touchdown runs, and Tramaine Thompson returned a punt 89 yards for another score as the Wildcats (1-0) tuned up for next week's showdown with Miami with an impressive second-half scoring binge.
The game was tied 9-9 early in the third quarter before Kansas State piled up 42 straight points against the team picked to finish last in the Missouri Valley Conference.
No. 23 FLORIDA 27, BOWLING GREEN 14
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Mike Gillislee had a career-high 148 yards rushing and two touchdowns, helping Florida beat Bowling Green.
The performance was far from perfect for the Gators, who struggled part of the game on offense and failed to generate much pressure on defense. Still, it was enough for Florida to win its 23rd consecutive opener. The streak is the second longest in the nation behind Nebraska (27).
The Gators can thank Gillislee, Frankie Hammond and two missed field goals for the latest one.
Gillislee scored on runs of 15 and 38 yards in the second quarter. Hammond turned a short pass into a 50-yard score early in the fourth. Bowling Green could have had a second-half lead, but fifth-year senior Stephen Stein missed field-goal attempts of 31 and 29 yards.
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The government option is in trouble.
Well played, Kos. Well played.
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi seem to be trying to accomplish the impossible. Over five months ago I boldly stated that Barack Obama had become a marginalized president—and would never again be able to get serious domestic legislation passed into law. It looks increasingly like that this is indeed the case. Obama's presidency appears finished. At the very best, he has no better than a 20% chance of turning things around.
Many well meaning Americans have gone out of their way to give Obama the benefit of the doubt. In back of their mind, however, they realize that he lacks the qualifications to be the elected leader of our country. Obama simply does not have his act together.
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…two people who haven't seen each other in years meet outside your short cubicle wall and relive years there.
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The event, hosted by the Grand Valley State University Rowing Club, features most of the top crew programs from across the Midwest — including teams from Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Cincinnati, Eastern Michigan and Drake universities.
The regatta has come a long way in a short time, according to John Bancheri, director of GVSU Rowing. He said the number of participants has increased as the race grew in popularity in the Midwest, and throughout the United States and Canada,
"More importantly, the increased competitiveness of club rowing programs in the past five years has brought a whole new level of boat speed to the Lubbers Cup," said Bancheri, who is also GVSU's varsity men's coach.
Recently, winning the Lubbers Cup has served as a springboard to success on the national stage.
"For the last three years, the winner of the Lubbers Cup was also the winner of the ACRA (American Collegiate Rowing Association) National Championship Regatta," Bancheri said. "This in and of itself proves the high level of competition to which the event has risen. The Lubbers Cup has become an early-season event that shows the rowing world who has the speed needed to compete at the national level."
Racing action begins at 8:30 Saturday morning and concludes at 2 that afternoon. The race course has been altered from previous years and will start at the west end of Spring Lake, near Veits Landing. The race will continue past the Spring Lake Yacht Club and finish at Lakeside Beach in Spring Lake, which will allow better viewing opportunities for spectators.
In addition to the college race, a high school race has been added. Teams from Rockford, Cranbrook Prep (Detroit), Absegami (New Jersey) and St. Augustine Prep (New Jersey) high schools will participate in a special morning race on Saturday.
The Chamber of Commerce Grand Haven-Spring Lake-Ferrysburg helps plan the event, and Chamber President Joy Gaasch said the regatta is a great advertisement for West Michigan.
"Our reasons for being involved are, first, to create a stronger and more visible tie with GVSU in Northwest Ottawa County, (and) to build a sporting event on Spring Lake that has the history of rowing, which goes back to the late 1800s," Gaasch said. "And thirdly, to educate these kids and their parents about our area."
While it's difficult to put a dollar value on the economic impact the regatta has in the Tri-Cities, Gaasch said it's clear the hotels in the area receive a boost from the event, and that shops and restaurants in downtown Grand Haven also benefit.
"Last year, downtown (Grand Haven) was just packed because people came downtown to eat after their kids' races," Gaasch said, noting that around 600 college students participate in the regatta.
The Chamber of Commerce will have a hospitality tent set up at Spring Lake Yacht Club, sponsored by several area businesses, with the goal of showcasing the Tri-Cities.
"These kids could eventually be new residents, or their parents could be visiting and say, 'Wow, wouldn't this be a great place to retire,'" Gaasch said. "This is community promotion at its finest."
A shuttle service has been set up in order to help spectators get to and from the Spring Lake Yacht Club. Only those with passes will be allowed to park at the yacht club on Saturday. Everyone else should park at Water Tower Park, at the corner of VanWagoner and West Spring Lake roads, and take the shuttle to the club.
Spectators can also watch the action from Lakeside Beach in Spring Lake.


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Windows 8 Developer Preview users have already started reporting Windows 8 Problems that they have encountered. This is expected since the Developer Preview is basically a buggy version, one just for the heck of promoting a few of the new features Windows 8 and its operating will include with its final release.
Now one of such problems reported by users is with remote desktop connection. This article contains information about these kinds of Windows 8 problems with remote desktop.
Details regarding this issue
Problems with launching "mstsc.exe" are very rare in nature. So the primary focus on trouble shooting this problem should be on network connectivity and permissions. And once you managed to get the remote desktop connection intact, new problems like trouble with printer comes up.
Trouble shooting techniques to establish a connection
Mentioned below are some troubleshooting techniques to fix the issue with Remote Desktop Connection in Windows 8 operating system:
- Remote desktop program
Expect for the Home Basic editions, the remote desktop program will be already installed; all you have to do is to type "Remote" in the search dialog box.
- Problems with locking of host screen
For licensing reasons, the host screen will be locked during a remote connection session which is one of its major setbacks. The only solution for this problem is to buy a third party remote desktop program which completely eliminated the point of free Windows 8 remote desktop connection.
- Versions of Windows 8
The versions/editions of Windows 8 do not create problems with remote connection. The host computer can be Windows 8 professional, business or ultimate, it can even be Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows server.
- Problems with host name
Check your network connection by using the ping command. If it shows any problems, go through the host records at the DNS server. Try using IP address instead of computer name.
If the Network Level Authentication is being enabled, then you have to type the full name of your computer at the client. To get the full name of your computer, go to "Control Panel" > "System and Security" > "System".
- Firewall
Try by disabling the firewall on both the local and remote host computer. Sometimes fire wall may prevent you from establishing the connection.
- Setting up credentials
Try to create a connection with same username and password that you have used previously to log on to that second computer. Also make sure that host computer has permission to use remote desktop.
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State-Sponsored Lawsuits Are Trial Bar's New Cash Cow
October 25, 2011
James R. Copland
Americas plaintiffs bar, which we at the Manhattan Institute have dubbed Trial Lawyers, Inc., has found a new cash cow in state-sponsored litigation parceled out by the nations state attorneys general.
Most state AGs are dependent on campaign cash -- 43 of the 50 states elect their attorneys general -- and they have increasingly turned to trial attorneys who profit handsomely by suing for the states.
The funder list for the Democratic Attorneys General Association, which has spent more than $6 million in each of the last two election cycles, reads like a whos who for Trial Lawyers, Inc.
The biggest donors to DAGA have included securities class-action firms Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann and Labaton Sucharow & Rudoff, as well as, in the 2008 election cycle, the former law firms of Mississippians Dickie Scruggs and Joey Langston, who funneled hundreds of thousands to help re-elect their states attorney general, Jim Hood, before the two private attorneys were disbarred and imprisoned on federal charges stemming from an attempt to bribe a judge.
Despite the oversize role played by DAGA, the relationship between state AGs and the trial bar is hardly a partisan affair and includes numerous Republican state AGs. For example, Utahs Mark Shurtleff entered into a contract with the Steele & Biggs firm to sue Eli Lilly over its drug Zyprexa after the firm had given $58,000 to his campaign; the firm netted $4 million representing the state in that litigation.
Another Republican, former Alabama Attorney General Troy King, hired the Beasley Allen firm to sue 73 pharmaceutical companies over Medicaid reimbursements; the firm netted millions in state lawsuits after pumping $760,000 into political action committees that spent $240,000 to support Kings campaign.
Such lawsuits against pharmaceutical and other health care companies -- a staple of state-sponsored, privately run litigation -- typically assert that states Medicaid health costs have been inflated by some business practice, drawing upon a theory originally pushed by Scruggs and former Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore in the multistate tobacco lawsuits that resulted in a massive $240 billion settlement in 1997.
Although state AGs offices may need to hire outside attorneys because they lack in-house manpower and institutional expertise to handle all legal matters, states contracting with such lawyers on a contingency-fee basis -- the common private practice of paying lawyers nothing up front in exchange for a share of the litigation proceeds -- raises hosts of ethical quandaries.
The huge windfall fees generated by state-sponsored litigation bear little relationship to work performed and create at least the appearance of "pay to play" arrangements in which lawyers donate campaign dollars to state officials who return the favor by handing their donors no-bid contracts entitling them to monies that would, assuming the underlying lawsuits have merit, more properly belong to the states taxpayers.
Moreover, by avoiding the need for legislative appropriations and undertaking lawsuits with broad regulatory goals, state AGs have often been circumventing legislatures in setting policy. Indeed, the AGs are often essentially delegating such authority to private parties with venal interests, because in many instances the lawsuits do not originate with the state officials but rather the private attorneys who approach them with ideas.
To remedy these problems, 10 states have passed variants of a model bill drafted by the free-market American Legislative Exchange Council, the Private Attorney Retention Sunshine Act, which insists on competitive bidding, legislative oversight and fee standards for state contracts with outside counsel.
Most states, however, have essentially no rules governing state AGs ability to contract with outside attorneys. Heres hoping the state legislatures wake up soon and take action to rein in this new and growing form of lawsuit abuse.
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A group of University of Bath students have been giving shoppers the chance to channel their inner Willy Wonka for the day as part of a charity fundraising event.
The collaboration with The Fudge Kitchen, in Abbey Street, saw passers-by invited to come up with weird and wacky ideas for fudge flavours.
All those who took part had to give a £1 donation, with all the proceeds donated to Bath Food Cycle, a charity which aims to reduce food waste and poverty by using leftover food to produce healthy meals.
The winning idea – for Haribo flavour – was then drawn from a hat and made into a bespoke batch of fudge.
At the beginning of the day, The Fudge Kitchen's fudge maker Nick Hutchinson said he was slightly apprehensive about what the winning flavour would be.
He said: "Certain ingredients don't set very well, raspberries for example. However, if the flavour is really good maybe we will even start selling it."
The driving force of the novel fundraiser was student Olly Box, who had been tasked with a competition challenge as part of his business administration course. He said they had some unusual suggestions, including green tea, avocado and Eton mess, but in the end the winning idea had proved a success.
"It consisted of a vanilla base and then pieces of Haribo being folded into the mixture as it set," he said. "It took a little time to set and it was tricky to cut up into slices because the white parts of the sweets had spread through the fudge.
"When we came to trying to slice the fudge it crumbled a little but we got a sharper knife and in the end it worked OK. We ended up getting one big slice and putting that in the box for the winner."
Fellow student Jo Stovell said they had been keen to support a local charity which helped local people.
She said: "Bath Food Cycle is an action project that benefits the community and helps the unprivileged around Bath. We really want to raise awareness for this organisation."
For more information or to donate to Bath Food Cycle visit www.foodcycle.org.uk.


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MINNEAPOLIS -- A gentleman sitting in the auxiliary press area at Target Center on Wednesday night looked on as the Minnesota Timberwolves prepared to face the Memphis Grizzlies and wondered aloud about how the home team would respond.
His point was a good one.
The Wolves opened a five-game home stand last Friday against defending Eastern Conference champion Miami. That was followed by back-to-back games against Dallas and San Antonio.
The Mavericks beat the Heat in the NBA Finals last spring and the Spurs had a 16-game winning streak against the Wolves.
Motivation against such foes would not be an issue. Those games provided the young Wolves with an opportunity to prove themselves.
Rick Adelman's team responded with a performance that came up just short against Miami before beating the Mavericks and Spurs.
The victories gave the Wolves a chance to pull to .500 with a victory against a Grizzlies team that entered Wednesday with a 2-3 record and without star forward Zach Randolph.
More than 17,000 Minnesota sports fans desperate to see a winner showed up for the mid-week game.
So how did the Wolves respond?
The disgust in Adelman's voice as he summed up what went wrong in an ugly 90-86 loss was all you needed to hear. "It was disappointing the way we played tonight," he said. "I don't think from the start of the game that we came at it with the right attitude."
The patrons at Target Center, some of whom had been moved to boo the home club, certainly had to agree with the veteran coach.
Adelman actually had cause for concern long before those fans arrived. As the Wolves went through shoot-around on Wednesday morning, Adelman realized he wasn't watching a team set on winning a third-game in a row. Instead, he saw a club that he later described as "lax" in its approach.
That carried over into the evening.
The Wolves trailed 8-0 before finally getting their first basket and were down by 15 points at one point. The fact the Wolves rallied to take a third-quarter lead or held a five-point edge in the fourth quarter mattered little to Adelman afterward.
This is a franchise that has won 32 games over the past two seasons. There was no excuse for coming out flat or believing a two-game winning streak meant they had achieved any measure of success.
"You haven't won anything," Adelman said. "How did you win them? Learn from (from those victories)."
The Wolves missed 11 free throws and committed 17 turnovers. It's already apparent Adelman is sick of seeing his team throw away the basketball.
At the Wolves media day last month, Adelman talked of having come into Target Center as coach of the Houston Rockets for the regular-season finale last year.
Both teams were out of the playoffs and had no little reason to give their full effort. The Rockets cruised to a 121-102 victory and even Adelman made it clear he was disgusted by the effort he saw from the Wolves.
One of Adelman's main goals in taking this job was to change that culture. Make sure he had a team that if nothing else put forth an effort and played smart basketball on a nightly basis.
He didn't see nearly enough of that on Wednesday and had no trouble pointing it out.
Although Adelman steered clear of naming names, the guy who already has to be driving him up the wall is Michael Beasley. In 36 minutes Wednesday, Beasley made five of 16 shots from the field, had a team-high five turnovers and scored only 11 points. (Wes Johnson, meanwhile, had no points in 16 minutes, another indication the Wolves don't really have a shooting guard.)
Beasley suffered a lacerated finger during the Wolves' victory over the Mavericks and talked about the difficulties he had playing with the injury after the loss to the Grizzlies.
But Beasley hadn't yet hurt his finger last Friday when he had only four points in 21 minutes against the Heat and did not play in the fourth quarter. He hadn't hurt his finger in the season-opener when he missed two crucial shots late against Oklahoma City. And the injury did not stop him from scoring 19 points in a season-high 43 minutes in the win over the Spurs.
Beasley's issue is that he seems to have little awareness of anything going on around him on the court. What's transpiring in the game seems to do little to dictate the approach he takes.
"I thought he took some tough shots again," Adelman said. "You have to let the game come to you a little better than that and not take tough shots. It seemed to be contagious on this team. You just have to trust your teammates.
"Especially early in the game you have to help your teammates out. Help the team and get things going. Then as the game goes on, you get a rhythm. I told them at the timeout (in the first quarter), we need to find a rhythm as a team. Everyone is trying to do it themselves. It's a process."
The Wolves will continue the process when they play host to Cleveland on Friday night before having a day off. On Sunday, they will begin a stretch of three games in three days that is the result of the condensed schedule caused by the lockout.
Adelman's savvy enough that he almost certainly saw Wednesday's performance as a chance to show his team what will happen if they think anything will come easily this season. The timing for that message isn't bad with the games in Washington and Toronto followed by a meeting with Chicago next Tuesday.
The important question will be whether Adelman's message will get through to Beasley and his teammates.
If it doesn't, it will be interesting to see how the head coach handles matters.


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The malicious emails may come from the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA), the Federal Reserve Bank, or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and they bare an attachment that carries a newer variant of ZeuS, the infamous Trojan designed to target bank account credentials.
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Radar and Links for Winter StormJanuary 4th, 2014 at 12:18 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
Snow already breaking out north of a line from S. Haven to Big Rapids. Heavier snow coming farther north into NW. Allegan, Ottawa, Muskegon, Kent – more to follow, keep coming back to the blog. Lake effect and synoptic storm snow already cranking up in Allegan, Ottawa, Kent, Muskegon, Oceana, Mason, Newaygo and Lake Counties. Drifting a factor. Check out the NAM model 84-hour snowfall (large over 18″ area!) and the GFS 120-hour snowfall (5-day totals of 16-18″ between G.R. and Indiana). Keep watching WOOD-TV and coming here to www.woodtv.com for the latest. I anticipate lots of closings/cancellations over the next several days. EUROPEAN model has 0.50″ precip. for G.R. by Monday AM – even at a conservative 20-1 ratio, that's 10″. Total of 0.82″ thru Thurs. AM would be +16″!!
Shiverin' Snowman!! Morning model data really rampin' up the snow totals: NAM (Caribou) snow totals thru Tuesday (keep in mind these are often overdone, but even if half this, with strong winds and drifting, this will be a major snow event: S. Haven 24.7″, Holland 22.4″, Lansing 19.6″, Grand Rapids 19.1″, Jackson 15.5″, Pontiac 15″, Mt. Pleasant 13.4″, Muskegon 10″, 8″ Big Rapids, 5″ Cadillac. The GFS (caribou)…first number is thru Tues., second number is snowfall for Weds. to Thurs. AM: Grand Rapids 9.3″ + 2.8″, Kalamazoo 9.7″ + 3.3″, Jackson 9.2″ + 3.5″, Ludington 3.7″ + 1.2″, Muskegon 7.5″ total, Cadillac 2.2″ + 0.4″. Big Rapids 3.2″ + 1.3″. The NAM (caribou) only takes G.R. to a low temp. of +2 Monday evening (with a 17 mph wind). The wind stays west off Lake Michigan. The wind goes WSW at Muskegon and the temp. at Kalamazoo goes to -10 (with a 23 mph wind), so Monday PM into Tuesday, the coldest wind chills will be southeast of G.R. where the wind is not coming across Lake Michigan. +2 deg. with a 17 mph wind is a wind chill of -18 and -10 with a 23 mph wind is a wind chill of -37 – Big Difference. Also peak winds today occurring now…the wind will ease back a bit as the afternoon/evening goes on. NAM/WRF has big snow dump south of a line from Muskegon to Saginaw area. The combination of synoptic snow plus lake-effect means huge snow dump somewhere in Allegan/Van Buren – maybe even into Kent, Barry, Kalamazoo. Coldest air in 20 years? Up to 16″ of snow in 24 hours in the U.P. – 52″ of snow on the ground at Painesdale. ICE expanding rapidly on the Great Lakes. Cold safety tips.
Also: Coldest NFL football games. Wind Chill Forecast for Green Bay at 1 AM Monday -38!! 11 deg. and flurries for Macon GA?? Frozen Nation! Minneapolis NWS says: ""Wind chills colder than -50F can cause exposed flesh to freeze in only 5-10 mins." Major volcanic eruption in Indonesia. VERY COLD, then a warm-up for a few days – then back to the deep freeze. Cold reloads!
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Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses why the corrupted Fourth Estate (traditional mainstream US media) needs to be supplanted by the Fifth Estate (WikiLeaks) to preserve our liberty; the State Department's successful interference with Spanish and German courts seeking to indict US officials; how the general tenor of Cablegate documents suggests an empire falling apart; the oft-forgotten lesson of history that nothing good comes from an Afghanistan invasion; how a comparison of articles written (jointly and individually) by David E. Sanger and William J. Broad of the New York Times shows the former to be the warmongering hack; and George Bush's apology to Israel and Saudi Arabia following the 2007 Iran NIE.
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Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the John F. Kennedy administration to that of George H. W. Bush. His articles appear on Consortium News and Antiwar.com.
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America's Fawning Corporate Media, as our friend McGovern calls it, is worthless. It exists only to parrot the government and corporate line, the Establishment line. Disregard it. Seek out alternative news sources, alternative viewpoints, and learn from them.
WikiLeaks is doing an enormous service in spilling stuff the U.S. Government doesn't want spilled. "All governments lie," as I. F. Stone said, and the U.S. Government goes out of its way to prove the truth of that assertion.
i find it funny that the raw story had basically the same interview 3 days later except they claimed it as a "rawstory exclusive interview"
Regarding neocons, just for those who have seen the word thrown around a lot, but maybe don't have a clear idea of what it actually means :
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The arrest of the Wikileaks editor-in-chief is again yet another knee-jerk reaction for the US Govt having its own pants down doing the dirty work in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. If you have not yet had an opportunity to get the encrypted insurance file, I highly recommend that you do so. I think that the contents of the insurance file is not any material that is in the present cable release. If anyone who likes mysterious altruism of the highest morality and likes to be an unpaid apprentice in the intelligence community, then by all means get this file. You will be sorry that you did not if and when the key is released.
in my opinion ,the media is nothing but a buffoon show!!
As Seymour Hersh reported US soldiers raped Iraqi boys in front of their mothers while it was filmed by female-soldiers. The Gestapo and the SS were nice people ! In Fallujah kids are born with two heads because of weapons with depleted uranium used by The Great Satan.
Claus…..Where can I find THAT …….?????????
Is it here Claus..??Is it here Claus..??
Hersh's contention that minors were raped by prison guards while others filmed the vulgar spectacle is backed up by a leaked Abu Ghraib memorandum highlighted in a 2004 London Guardian report, in which detainees Kasim Hilas describes "the rape of an Iraqi boy by a man in uniform". The testimony was also part of the military's official Taguba Report into the torture at Abu Ghraib.
"I saw [name blacked out] fucking a kid, his age would be about 15-18 years. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard the screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn't covered and I saw [blacked out], who was wearing the military uniform putting his dick in the little kid's ass," Mr Hilas told military investigators. "I couldn't see the face of the kid because his face wasn't in front of the door. And the female soldier was taking pictures."
Nearly two and a half million people had access to these cables and war logs; material which included archived footage of the cold blooded murder of unarmed civilians by US forces. Just one of them alone had the the conscience and the courage to do the right thing.
It has become clear today that it is the British establishment preventing Assange's release and not Sweden, as earlier reported, and so it is beginning to look as though Julian Assange might soon be joining Bradley Manning as an inmate of a US jail. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/15/julia…
Whatever happened to Seymour Hersh?
Over 35 years ago I was about to graduate from High School and had the brief opportunity to speak to a then well known european journalist. I told him I was thinking about either going into engineering or jourmalism. He told me to go into engineering. American journalism he said was composed at the top of individuals who are underworked, overpaid, extremely bias and don't check their facts. He told me that real journalists laugh behind the backs at American ones. Do I think that's the case today? No, I think the situation is even worse.
rely i appreciate the journalist who create this web site which cold wikileaks
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BEIJING - Move over, Michael. Make way for Usain.The Beijing Olympics will no longer be remembered only for what Michael Phelps did in the pool. Usain Bolt made sure of it on the track Wednesday night. Already the champion at 100 meters, Bolt whizzed through the 200, too, making him the first winner of both Olympic sprints since Carl Lewis in 1984. Yet Bolt one-upped Lewis, Jesse Owens and the other guys who've pulled off the 100-200 double. The long, lanky, joyous Jamaican also set a world record in both races, and that's never been done at an Olympics. 'I blew my mind,' said Bolt, 'and I blew the world's mind.' So now it's time for a new debate, sports fans. Which is more impressive: Phelps' eight gold medals and seven world records or Bolt leaving no doubt that he's the fastest man in the world, the fastest man ever? Bolt's victory made memorable a day that was supposed to be a bit of a lull before the big finish this weekend. Only 11 medals were decided, fewest since the first day of competition. There was other notable news, though, like the U.S. softball and men's basketball teams getting tested before moving closer to playing for gold. There also was the first-ever medal of any color at any Olympics for Afghanistan (a bronze in men's taekwondo), the debut of BMX cycling and another doping case, this one involving a medal winner. The International Olympic Committee said it is investigating Ukraine's Lyudmila Blonska. If found guilty of a doping offense, the 30-year-old Blonska would lose her silver medal in heptathlon and be expelled from the games. Another piece of news is that these Summer Games are on pace to be the most-watched in history, a figure skewed by how many of China's 1.3 billion residents were tuned in. Then again, Phelps - and now Bolt - are making for must-see TV. The United States still leads the medal count, up only 82-79 over China. The hosts bumped their gold count to 45, with a first-ever sailing victory joining the list. China already has won more golds than the United States won when it hosted the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and has tied the number won by the Soviet Union in 1992. The Soviets won 55 in 1988, which is now within range for the Chinese, especially with 86 more golds to be decided through Sunday. Track and field Bolt needed only 19.30 seconds to go from start to finish and he made sure not to waste any time showboating. Pushing with all he had in his favorite event, Bolt broke Michael Johnson's mark that had stood since Atlanta by a mere 0.02, but his margin of victory - 0.66 - was the biggest ever in the Olympic 200. Bolt is the ninth man to sweep the 100-200. But Bolt is likely more excited about being the first man to own the 100 and 200 world records since fellow Jamaican Donald Currie did it in the 1970s. One more number of note: 22, Bolt's age as of Thursday. During his victory lap, a version of 'Happy Birthday' played over the loudspeakers inside the Bird's Nest as Bolt took off his gold shoes and wrapped the Jamaican flag around his shoulders like a scarf. While most eyes were on Bolt, judges saw that the second- and third-place finishers - including American Wallace Spearmon - went outside their lanes. They were disqualified, bumping Americans Shawn Crawford and Walter Dix up to silver and bronze. Men's basketball This is what goes down as a 'tough test' for the U.S. squad of NBA All-Stars: A five-point lead in the second quarter that turned to 12 by halftime ... and was never close again. 'Sooner or later we'll impose our will,' U.S. point guard Chris Paul said. 'I don't know if you can keep up with us for 40 minutes.' Australia sure couldn't. After a tight game into the fourth quarter Aug. 5, the Aussies hung with the American until the middle of the second quarter but that was it. Kobe Bryant scored nine points during a 14-0 surge to open the second half and the only question after that was how much they would win by. It wound up being 31 points, 116-85. Next up will be Manu Ginobili and defending champion Argentina on Friday night, with a spot in the gold-medal game going to the winner. The Argentines beat Greece 80-78, with the Greeks missing a potential winning 3-pointer in the final few seconds. Lithuania advances to play Spain in the semifinals Friday night. The Spaniards advanced with a 72-59 victory over Croatia, led by 20 points from Pau Gasol. Softball The U.S. came as close to defeat as they have in a long time. Not that it mattered in the end. The Americans were in a scoreless tie with Japan after seven innings, then scored four runs in the ninth - three on a long homer by Crystl Bustos - for a 4-1 victory and a spot in the gold-medal game. Again, their opponent will be Japan in what will be the last Olympic softball game until at least 2016. The Japanese beat Australia 4-3 in 12 innings later to advance, leaving the Aussies with the bronze. Baseball The guys went to extra innings against Japan, too, and also pulled out a win. Brian Barden singled in the go-ahead run to break a scoreless tie in the 11th inning on the way to a 4-2 victory. The Americans earned the third seed in Friday's medal round, with the Japanese getting fourth. The U.S. will play defending champion Cuba, while Japan will take on South Korea. the only undefeated team. Diving Now comes the tough part for China: The 10-meter platform, the one event the Chinese didn't win at the two previous Olympics. They're off to a good start this time, with teenagers Chen Ruolin and Wang Xin leading the women's standings in preliminaries. China already has six gold medals in diving and is looking for two more to make it a clean sweep. Attempting to avoid a second straight shutout in the diving medals for the United States, Laura Wilkinson was fifth after completing the second-best dive of the opening round. She won this event in Sydney and the Americans have not won a medal in diving since. Cycling Remember the spark snowboard cross put into the Winter Games in Turin? Maybe bicycle motorcross - BMX, to those in the know - will do the same. American racers Mike Day and Kyle Bennett gave the crowd a great introduction to the sport, with Day winning the time trial and each of his three quarterfinal heats and Bennett advancing but also dislocating his left shoulder in a wreck on his final heat. Top-ranked racer Donny Robinson also moved on, as did Jill Kintner, the lone American in the 16-racer women's field, who is competing despite a shredded knee ligament. 'You can't get much more rad than this,' Robinson said. Wrestling Ben Askren has to be thinking, 'I cut my hair for this?' The bushy-haired former NCAA champion who promised a gold medal lost in freestyle's 74-kilogram round of 16, ending his Olympics after two matches. The gold ended up around the same neck it has been placed at the last two Olympics - Buvaysa Saytiev of Russia. The three straight golds in the sport ties a record. 'I lost - I don't know what to say, my dreams are crushed,' said Askren, who cut the hair he'd been growing for two years because he feared having it pulled. Doug Schwab, a former NCAA champion, lost in the 66-kg qualifications but made the bronze-medal bracket when the guy who beat him advanced. Schwab ended up losing again. Turkey's Ramazan Sahin won the bracket. Also, the Court of Arbitration for Sport will investigate the Greco-Roman bout that so incensed Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian that he dropped his bronze medal in disgust and eventually had it stripped by the International Olympic Committee. Taekwondo Mexico's Guillermo Perez has a gold medal. And Afghanistan now has a medal, period. Perez won the men's under 58-kg division, beating Yulis Gabriel Mercedes of the Dominican Republic. A bronze went to Rohullah Nikpai, marking the first ever medal - in any sport - for Afghanistan. In the women's under 49-kg class, reigning world champion Wu Jingyu of China took the gold.
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Beijing Olympics: US men medal, advance in array of events ( August 23, 2008 )
- Bolt gets gold, another record in 200 ( August 21, 2009 )
- Medal-work
Chinese dominate on Phelps-less day ( August 15, 2008 )
- Bolt 1st with 2 golds in 200; leads Jamaican sweep ( August 9, 2012 )
- Beijing Olympics: Basketball women take gold for US ( August 24, 2008 )


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The Most Powerful Light In Your Bag
The Smith Theater, where I shot him, is big and dark. In fact, I had shot someone else there about twenty years earlier for a magazine assignment -- and the Smith Theater had kicked my butt.
I brought every light I had (many, many watt-seconds worth) but I still did not have what I really needed -- the understanding required to work in a big, dark setting.
I even had with me the exact of piece of gear I needed. It was just that I just didn't know how to use it.
Time is Your Most Powerful Light
My mistake at the time was trying to light that big cavern with flash. The best I could do was to light a section of seats and have the rest of the cave drift into darkness. And this was with several big White Lightning flashes.
There's a perfectly good explanation, too -- I was young and stupid. What I should have done was to use a longer ambient exposure to let the theater to light itself, and add just a little bit of light to my subject.
A Lighting Photographer's Best Friend
All you need to tame a big, dark space (before you add light) is a tripod. But if you are not going to buy a decent tripod, don't even bother.
The one you are looking at on the left is my sidekick for the last 25 years -- a Gitzo Reporter Performance tripod with a Slik Pro Ball head. There are a lot of places where you can cut corners in lighting gear, but your tripod should not be one of them. And frankly, most people do cut corners on their first tripod.
This Gitzo was my third or fourth tripod, if memory serves. And back then, it was pretty much the only brand to buy if you were serious about it. I resisted and bought a few crappy tripods, because the Gitzos were very expensive at the time. And they came in two choices -- heavy steel and heavy steel.
But times have changed, and now tripods are made out of things like carbon fiber and magnesium alloy. Which means lighter weight, but still very strong. And there are other companies making good tripods, too. Which is a good thing, because Gitzo tripods have gotten just silly expensive.
So why should you fork out for a good tripod, and how do you choose?
As to the first question, I tripod is not worth a hill of beans if it won't hold your camera rock steady. Seriously, what's the point? If you cannot leave your shutter open for 30 seconds and get a sharp frame, the tripod is not doing the one job it was designed to do.
And being able to keep that camera still means you can light people in big, dark spaces.
Take the photo of Stebbins, above. Rather than trying to nuke the place with more power (like I did as a pimply-faced newb) I now understand that you let the theater ambient come to you. Then you finesse your subject with small amounts of flash.
In fact, this is one of those times when a Profoto or AlienBee might not even be able to dial down far enough to help you. They might give you a maximum (i.e., widest) working aperture of f/5.6 or f/8, when you'd really rather be able to work at f/4 or f/2.8. Why do you want to work closer to wide open? Because of the corresponding shutter speed.
In my case, I underexposed the theater by about two stops by shooting at 1/20th of a second at f/4. That made the ambient light in the room become the fill. Which let me light Michael with very modest amounts of light from three speedlights.
(Of course, the theater was lit with tungsten light. So I had to shoot on tungsten WB and gel the flashes to bring it together.)
In the end, it's the room that does the heavy lifting. It lights itself -- if you can just keep your camera steady enough long enough for it to happen.
And that's the irony of the Big Dark Room. It scares you as a lighting photographer until you realize that you are only a half-second or so away from that room looking beautiful and subdued. You just have to be able to keep your camera perfectly still while the shutter is open. Then you finesse just the areas you want with a small flash or two.
In that sense, I would feel perfectly comfy heading into a portrait assignment in a big dark room with just one speedlight and an umbrella. As long as I had a good tripod to bring it all together.
Tripod Buying 101
First: Don't buy a crappy, no-name tripod. You'll only have to repeat the process later. Trust me on that one. I learned the hard way.
Second, don't buy too much tripod. Buy enough to support whatever platform you are using. That will allow you to point your money towards good quality rather than just buying a larger piece of crap. If you shoot with a DSLR, buy a tripod that is designed for s DSLR. Don't waste money on the next size up in hope of more stability.
One exception might be if the tripod is going to do double duty (i.e., supporting a telescope, etc.) or if you plan to tether and want to mount your laptop to a dual plate up top. In that case, buying bigger might make sense to get the flexibility.
Carbon fiber or alloy? That's up to you. My recommendation is, unless you are a backpacker, go with alloy. Carbon fiber is nice, but I am looking for the most stability and quality per dollar. That's a personal choice tho, obviously.
As for the head, get one matched to the tripod. No sense in getting great legs and a crappy head, or vice versa. I like ball heads because they are very fast. But if you shoot, say, architecture, you might want to be able to adjust your axes independently.
One thing I would absolutely recommend is to choose a tripod with a stability hook. This allows you to hang your camera bag from the bottom of the tripod's center column for greatly increased stability.
Buy for the long term, and/or consider buying used if you are on a budget. You may only be dating your DSLRs for a few years each, but you'll probably marry the tripod.
And there is no reason your tripod shouldn't last a lifetime.
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His look definitely adds to his act. It makes him a whole lot funnier.zinc alloy wrote:Eddie has been top man here in England for many years but his last venture seemed to lack something.
He is a straight transvestite. He digs girls but likes to dress as one. I can't even begin to understand that but he doesn't give a shit and rightly so.
At his best he is a genius.
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daftbeaker wrote:Sorry, I'm very confused now. By Circle special are you referring to the live show, the dvd with the extras or the extras themselves?
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Participants identified a range of challenges and opportunities associated with data analytics--which involve a variety of techniques to analyze and interpret data to facilitate decision making--as discussed below.
Challenges and opportunities in accessing and using available data
Challenges participants cited include, among other issues, oversight and law enforcement entities not always being aware of all the data that may be available to assist them in their duties, and a lack of incentives for program offices to develop information-technology systems to support data analysis by oversight and law enforcement entities. Participants also noted other issues related to managing and using data such as challenges in developing a strategy to prioritize limited resources and the difficulty oversight entities face in measuring the success of fraud-prevention efforts.
Participants also identified opportunities to enhance data-analytics efforts, such as consolidating data and analytics operations in one location to increase efficiencies by enabling the pooling of resources as well as accessing and sharing of the data. Participants further identified strategies to garner organizational support for data-analytics programs, such as short-turnaround projects that produce quick, valuable successes to highlight the value of data analytics.
Challenges and opportunities in sharing data
Challenges participants cited include, among other issues, certain statutory requirements that place procedural hurdles on agencies wishing to perform data matching to detect fraud, waste, and abuse, and technical obstacles--such as the lack of uniform data standards across agencies--which make it more difficult for oversight and law enforcement entities to share available data. Participants also noted challenges in sharing data across federal, state, and local government agencies due to a variety of factors including actual and perceived legislative barriers.
Participants also discussed opportunities that could be realized if the government utilized and shared interoperable, open-source analytical tools and techniques, which could lessen the challenge of developing licensing agreements for proprietary software tools, be utilized at a low cost, and be tailored to meet the needs of individual agencies.
Next steps
Participants identified several next steps that the three sponsoring organizations agreed to implement, including: compiling a consolidated directory of data sources to increase awareness; compiling a library of available open-source data analytics, modules, and tools; developing an ongoing community of practice focused on data-sharing challenges; and examining the existing statutory framework to determine whether changes related to challenges and barriers for data analytics would be useful to oversight and law enforcement agencies in carrying out their missions.
Why This Forum Was Convened
Oversight and law enforcement agencies play an important role in eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse. Sharing data, knowledge, and analytic tools can assist government agencies in this effort. However, while there is a tremendous amount of information the government can use in preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse, using and leveraging these data can be challenging.
In January 2013, GAO, the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, and the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board convened a forum with the purpose of exploring ways in which oversight and law enforcement agencies use data analytics to assist in the prevention and detection of fraud, waste, and abuse, as well as identifying the most-significant challenges to realizing the potential of data analytics and actions that the government can take to address these challenges.
This report summarizes the key themes that emerged from the discussion in the forum. Specifically, the report discusses the challenges and opportunities in (1) accessing and using data and (2) sharing data. In addition, participants identified next steps to address these challenges and capitalize on opportunities.
Forum participants included representatives from federal, state, and local government agencies as well as the private sector.
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Alexandre Despatie is well-known for being a two-time Olympic silver medallist and three-time World Champion in diving. But during the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, the 24-year-old diver has shown quite different skills, by taking on the role of host, commentator and reporter for Canada's sports radio station RDS.
Despatie, who is very popular in his home province, Quebec, hosted the radio's French version of Difference Makers – Faire la différence – a programme which presents 17 Olympians and Paralympians from Quebec and especially pays tribute to the athletes' coaches and families and their tremendous support in both good and bad times. Moreover, Despatie acted as commentator for the French-language coverage of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies in Vancouver, joining broadcast team Pierre Houde and Richard Garneau. The Games definitely kept him busy as he also made reports from Olympic venues in Vancouver and Whistler.
Despatie's Olympic experience started in Sydney 2000, with a fourth place in the 10-metre platform event. When returning to the Games in Athens 2004, he won a silver medal in the 3-metre springboard, and a second one in Beijing 2008. Three-time World Champion, Despatie took gold in the 10-metre platform at the FINA World Aquatic Championships in Barcelona 2003 and in both the 1-metre and 3-metre springboard events in Montreal 2005. In 2007, he left Melbourne with two silver medals, one for the 3-metre and another for the 3-metre synchro event.


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2012: Saw action in 13 games making a pair of starts…A-Sun All-Academic.
High School: Prepped at North Cobb High School in Kennesaw, Ga.…Named 2011 Perfect Game All-Southeast Region honorable mention…2011 Team Captain for North Cobb HS…Helped lead the East Cobb Astros to the CABA Wood Bat World Series where he earned All-Tournament honors…Named to the 2009 Under Armour underclass team…Earned Cobb County Athlete of the Month in 2010.
Personal: Parents are Edward and Susan Cecere…Has one sister, Angela…Also recruited by Mercer, Gordon College, Georgia College and State, Florida Tech and Savannah College…Undecided major.
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