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No Playing on Playground
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DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA – It's a great swimming pool. There is no question about that. The question is – four months after a grand opening of the city's new community center – why are gates remaining locked on the $20 million facility.
Would be pool-goers have the same question about a gym fully stocked with brand-new exercise equipment gathering dust and a fantastic never-used children's gym equipment remaining all locked up while people looking for health and wellness get fatter and more lazy.
"It is a beautiful pool, I'd love to be able to use it. My kids asked me why the playground is always locked up and I don't know what to tell them."
said Julie Chapman, a Desert Hot Springs resident who has her two boys enrolled at the Boys and Girls Club next door.
A report scheduled to be presented to the city council at an April 30, 2013 council meeting may provide the answer. The city is struggling over funding issues to operate the pool. A consultant hired by the city suggests a solution to those funding problems is to operate the pool just four months a year.
The report did not address the hundreds of thousands of dollars of health and wellness exercise equipment funded by the Desert Health Care District that is also out of reach of residents. Neither did it address the playground locked inside the pool area. It appears that the playground area access is restricted to access accompanying the pool area. If one is locked up so is the other.
According to the report, the single largest cost to open and operate the pool is salaries of those who will manage and oversee the facility, including the pool. The cost estimate to keep the pool open for four month's of operation is in excess of $350,000.
To oversee the entire facility, a foundation board was created under the leadership of city manager Rick Daniels. In February, the board approved the reassignment of the city's project manager for construction of the facility, Rudy Acosta, to serve as facility manager with a salary in excess of $160,000 per including benefits.
Acosta served as the city's redevelopment agency director but the State of California has since eliminated redevelopment agencies in the state.
In addition to other ongoing operational costs, the salary of the one facility manager hired so far finds the city having spent over $50,000 before ever opening the gates to the facility. Of the $20,000 million project, only one section is being used for operations of the Coachella Valley Boys and Girls Club.
Wrong Design?
The swimming pool design has also come under challenge with residents pointing out it was not built to meet the needs of the community, specifically the elderly and for leisure aquatic activities. The pool is designed as a competition swimming pool for youth sports swimming. By all standards, it is an excellent competition pool.
"Service areas can also vary in size with the types of amenities that are included in a facility. An aquatic center with a strong leisure pool (zero depth entry, interactive play features, slides, etc.) will generally have a larger service area than a more traditional flat water competitive oriented facility. Since the John H. Furbee Aquatic Center has a large traditional pool and only a small splash pad, the market area will be smaller." Page one from the John H Furbee Aquatics Center Final Report by Ballard, King and Associates.
This translates to less use by the young children and the elderly. It also signifies that the design chosen will bring in less revenue causing a greater burden on the city.
The city does own a second pool located at Wardman Park that has for years been used for youth swimming and aquatic exercise by senior citizens. As long as that pool remains open, the limitations of the Health and Wellness Center pool does not rise to a level of concern.
However, money and a tight city budget are forces combining to put the Wardman Park pool at risk.
In October of last year a recommendation by the city manager to the council was to close the Wardman Park pool and completely remove it by tearing it out and filling it in. That suggestion was met with resistance by Council Members Russell Betts, Scott Matas and Adam Sanchez, telling the city manager to hold off on eliminating the Wardman Park pool.
However, the consultant's report that will be presented at the April 30 meeting, recommends that the pool be closed. The reason; the money used to keep the Wardman Park pool open is needed to pay for the operational costs of the new pool at the Health and Wellness Center.
Renee Hickey, the longtime Aquatics Coordinator for the city pool at Wardman Park is not happy with that suggestion and has been outspoken about discussion to close the Wardman Park pool and the failing of the new pool design for youth and seniors. The proposal by the city manager surprised Green who brought a troop of seniors to the city council meeting to voice their concerns.
"The new pool was not designed for water aerobics," Renee said, "No one bothered to ask the people that use the city pool what was needed. There is no way water aerobics can work in the new pool, so the city is going to have to keep Wardman Pool open for us all to keep using the old pool."
Kaboom Goes Bust
The public was not at all involved in any form of open engagement in determining the use of facilities or design of the community center. There were no public meetings to solicit community input. Sketches, designs and plans never were never presented to the Planning Commission for approval. Members of the public were simply not invited to participate in any part of the design phase.
However, in an effort to claim community involvement, the city successfully rounded up over 400 people to do the work of assembling the massive playground known as Kaboom. No citizens participated in any of the choices or decision making.
The confluence of community members and civic leaders lured the media to record the event. Of course, every politician took advantage of the photo opportunity and to bask in ribbon-cutting glory. No one at the time thought the entire facility would get stuck in mothballs.
Gym Locked
Unlike the swimming pool, there have been no operational reports done for the city owned state of the art gymnasium. No one can touch the brand new equipment because there is no one to operate the facility and no insurance. No one can say if the facility will ever be open to the public.
After construction started for the swimming pool, the city authorized an independent operations study to calculate costs and revenue projections. The report by Ballard, King and Associates is eye-opening in contradicting what was built with what was affordable or practical.
Using statistics and sophisticated metrics the Ballard report paints a bleak picture of the pool.
An analogy might be if you went out and bought a BMW car and drove it home and around town for a month. Then when the mail delivered you a payment request you suddenly realized you didn't have enough money for the car payments. You could let the car sit in the garage and not drive it around but you would still be on the hook to make the monthly payments even if you could not afford them.
That is the dilemma the city now finds itself in.
When the project was first announced it was $5 million. The last public announcement made by city manager Rick Daniels was the project cost $20 million. One of the subcontractors has made a public allegation that one reason for the rise in costs was a $5 million change order – that was never approved by the city council.


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Evacuations for Irene mean many people are cutting short their vacations, and that is bad news for motels and other businesses in the area.
At the Palm Suites hotel in Atlantic Beach they asked visitors to be gone by tomorrow morning and they are not accepting anymore reservations until Monday when they say they will reevaluate after the storm.
That is the case for many hotels and other businesses in the area. Many were battening down the hatches Thursday and boarding up in preparation for the storm.


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Reagan death More than 12 hours before the body was scheduled to arrive, admirers of Ronald Reagan were already lining up on Capitol Hill to pay their respects to the late president, dead at age 93 after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer's disease. The June 11 funeral at Washington's National Cathedral was expected to draw the capital's largest-ever crowd of international dignitaries, from former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
The outpouring of admiration for the 40th president seemed to catch even his closest supporters off-guard. At the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., more than 100,000 mourners filed past the casket, many of them waiting more than eight hours for the chance to say a one-minute farewell (see cover story).
President Bush declared a national day of mourning for June 11, and ordered flags flown at half-staff for a full month. Republicans on Capitol Hill quickly began drafting memorial legislation, with proposals that ranged from renaming the Pentagon in Mr. Reagan's honor to putting his likeness on the 10-dollar bill.
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While several Democrats suggested Mr. Ashcroft's refusal approached contempt of Congress, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) offered some rare, nonpartisan perspective. "We ought to be reasonable about this," he said. "I think there are very few people in this room or in America who would say that torture should never, ever be used, particularly if thousands of lives are at stake."
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We've been discussing the idea of having some sort of golf event with the folks at Tavern Hawkeyenation.com over the past few months and I thought I'd float this out here to see if there was any interest from you guys/gals.
We'd be looking to have a 4 person best shot at a golf course in the DM area, we'd try to fill the T times half way with Tavern Hawks, and the other half with Cyclowns. Everyone would get together, have a good time, play some golf, drink some beer, maybe raise a little money for a charity or two, and most importantly battle for the first ever...
Squawk-Clown Trophy
What is the participation interest level for something like this for you guys?
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really? No one is interested?
if you have more details..........date, place, costs. i am sure you can get people on here to sign up. there has been a number of conversations of golf tournaments over the years.
I'm terrible at golf and would only hurt the cause.
In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.
Originally Posted by Al_4_State
I'm terrible at golf and would only hurt the cause.
I have witnessed this...... I think my wife is better than you.
I would love to do this. My Dad is a Hawkeye and Brother-in-law a Cyclone, so we would have a mixture team if that's ok?
Cyclone Sports: The next best thing since MOTHER'S MILK!
Originally Posted by yler4cy
I would love to do this. My Dad is a Hawkeye and Brother-in-law a Cyclone, so we would have a mixture team if that's ok?
No it's not OK, it's simply wrong but that doesn't mean you can't do it.
and I'm all out of gum.
I'd be in. Can the charity be the men's basketball programs at each school?
"95% of all quotes posted on Facebook are either made up or mistakenly attributed to someone famous." - Albert Einstien
I'm thinking this event could be used for one of those Geico commercials -- you know like the "Is having a snowball fight with Randy Johnson a bad idea?" commerical.
I can tolerate good Hawkeye fans, but you have to figure that there would be one or two "hok" fans that would get under my skin enough for me to wrap a 7 iron around their neck.
I think it is a brawl waiting to happen.
Like the idea, hate the name of the event.
I'm down. Time, place, and cost and I'm in.
Yeah TOAST!!!
My father-in-law (Hawk fan) brother-in-law (Clone fan) my buddy (Hawk fan) and myself would all be interested, where and how much?
I'm in
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You really think getting two groups of people together in one place with alcohol and weapons is a good idea?
That being said I doubt I would do it mostly because I cannot stand hawk fans or any fan for that matter that can't see reality and can only see ferentz or whoever is their god and nothing else, everyone else is below them no matter how good they are. You know the kind, the one's that say that everything was rigged this year and they never get any respect meanwhile they are top 10 in the country. Little babies imo.
I'm in if someone can set me up with a Whizzinator so I can put some maple syrup into it.
"Me not winning isn't important. You do!"
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Airlines world over have traditionally been tough businesses with few carriers able to make money consistently. In India, the first round of privatisation, in the early 1990s, saw no survivorsall three carriers East West, ModiLuft and Damania sank without a trace. Some of the second crop of players, however, have done well in a more liberalised economic environment and while some of them may be heavily indebtedJet Airways, Indigo and SpiceJethave all built up strong franchises. So far there has been one casualtyDeccan Aviationwhich was bought out by Vijay Mallya, in a spectacularly bad decision. Going by the look of things, Kingfisher Airlines could be the next. The decision to buy Deccan apart, Mallyas more than full-service model for KFA was in itself seriously flawed because there was not enough of an addressable market, over a sustained period, that would earn KFA the kind of fares that it needed to be able to cover its ever increasing costs. In other words, the top line for such a product simply didnt exist even as costs continued to rise. To their credit, the value value carriers like Indigo and SpiceJet read the Indian market more correctly by not going over the top with their revenue projections but instead keeping costs in check and focusing on service. KFAs expenses incurred in running a full-service airlineand servicing the huge debt on its bookssimply got out of hand at a time when the rising price of crude oil and high taxes on aviation fuel hit the airlines badly. Prices of ATF have more than doubled since March 2009 to around R70,000/kl and are at near 10-year highs. But despite this, Indigo reported an operating loss of just R87 crore last year on revenues of R5,552 crore while Spice Jet reported losses, post rentals, of R600 crore on revenues of R3,900 crore. KFAs losses, on revenues of R5,493 crore, were much larger at R2,328 crore.
The industry will continue to be in trouble for a while because theres simply not enough pricing power. Jet Airways is expected to report a loss of around R150 crore in 2012-13 not just because costs will double but also because the airline will pay out nearly R1,000 crore as interest; the anticipated revenues of R20,000 crore are not expected to be enough to cover these. Of course all airlines are reworking their route maps; Jet for instance, has opted out


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Drop the kids off at school in the morning, check the day-care is sorted and it is off to work. It is not always easy to reconcile work and family life.
We want you to be able to pursue your career – even if you have children. That is why many of our locations offer company-subsidised child day-care, adaptable to suit the needs of your personal professional situation. Whether you are organising a business trip or further training, looking for temporary day-care during the school holidays or simply need some advice, we assist you in finding the optimum solution for your family. And thanks to an ongoing policy of improvement, we are working on establishing even more family-oriented working conditions in future.
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Kirk Cameron Informs Piers Morgan Homosexuality is Unnatural, GLAAD Gets Collective Leather Silk Panties in a Bunch
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If being gay is natural, why is it impossible for a man to sindock another man in the backside and create a baby? If being lesbian is normal, why cannot two lesbian leg slapping their sassy sally jessies create a bundle of joy!
It is because God has seperated the power to create life! In man, he has put the seed and in women, thine receptacle of joy! It is gross and perverted for gays and lesbians to have a relationship, because it is against God and our country! How can we be fruitful and multiply, if all men are digging sewage holes rooter router phalluc plumber musty time with each other! How can we have One Nation Under God, if every other lesbian has her nasty mouth opened up under the carpet master of her 'Lesbro!'
Oh my friends, the acts of homosexuality are surely against nature. And it takes our good friend and Holywood movie producer Kirk Cameron to let that fact be known. In this interview, Kirk Cameron further explains why Homosexuality is Unnatural. Let's listen to this great man speak down to the Brit Piers Morgan:
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"…because it is against God and our country! "
Against your God?: Technically yes
Against our Country?: Nope
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How the hell is it against our country? And by the way, we have advanced quite far in stem cell research. In fact, we can create children by combining to eggs. So your point is moot
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Adam Nelsonreplied:
Hopefully everyone has watched Left Behind. Cameron stars in the movie series based on LaHaye's books and let me tell you, Hell is going to be torture for every 'unnatural' person out there.
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He is so correct, gays are unnatural. Just the thought of two women rubbing their pleasure areas against each other gets my blood pressure up and I need to sit down.
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Blanche Beecham
I think much of the homosexual agenda is being driven by former 80's stars like Doogie Howser. I'm proud to see Kirk Cameron stand up to his gay bully message.
Doogie can publish all kinds of pictures of his, frankly adorable, children and fit husband but the message is always the same. This will never work. Marriage isn't about going around begging for candy and then going home, reading bedtime stories and falling into bed for some sloppy, candy corn Peter Pan shenanigans.
I think Kirk can easily defeat this threat to American values. After all the liberal defeatist can't attack Kirk's sponsors unless they have a time machine.
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Do isn't a real person…He was a character.
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Kirk Cameron has already defeated the atheist evolutionists by demonstrating how the humble banana proves God's existence. Is there anything he can't do?
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I'm not even Atheist and I found that banana video of him hilarious.
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Ray Comfort is New Zealand's greatest export!
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I don't even know who that is…
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Blanche Beechamreplied:
He has the power of prayer and scripture on his side, Exbrony. Kirk was a real wonderkid back in the day.
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Doogie Howser isn't a real person…He was a character.
What does your pic have to do with anything?
"I think Kirk can easily defeat this threat to American values."
Homosexuals aren't a threat to America. Kirk Cameron is a laughing stock
(I apologize for the double post…Having computer issues)
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Blanche Beechamreplied:
That picture is an affront to marriage and everything Kirk Cameron stands for! He is fighting to end this kind of sillyness. One of those beautiful little boys has wings on for pity sakes!
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That "little boy" could easily be a little girl.
"…affront to marriage and everything Kirk Cameron stands for!"
How is people in Peter Pan outfits going to hurt marriage?
"He is fighting to end this kind of sillyness"
You think homosexuality is "sillyness"?
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Herbert Fany
If homosexuality is a sin, why did God create homosexuals?
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It sounds like you're unfamiliar with the fallacy of the false premise!
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I guess so. Will you please explain to me?
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See if you can identify the false premise in your comment. Hint: it's the part where you assume that God created homosexuals.
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Then who made homosexuals?
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You're assuming that God made homosexuals. What you're doing is begging the question.
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why are you not answering my question? I guess I'll just say it again. IF GOD DIDN'T CREATE HOMOSEXUALS, THEN WHO DID?!?!
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exbronyreplied:View March 5, 2012
Now you've changed your premise!
You started off saying:
"why did God create homosexuals?"
Now you're saying:
Those are two very different questions.
The second contains a false premise of its own, to wit: that homosexuals must have been created by some being or beings. That excludes the possibility of homosexuals having simply come to be via evolution.
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I honestly don't see how you people insist that being Gay is a choice. The only possible way to change your sexuality is through genetic tampering.
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Bonnets Not Burkasreplied:
Choice or not, our goal is to separate homosexuals and help them find straight marriages. No matter how awkward and unattractive they make each other feel, eventually they will find love through suffering together in painful desperation.
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Why exactly would you do that? How would you feel if you were forced to marry someone of the same sex until you started enjoying it? It's kinda inhumane. They are people and should be allowed to have the rights of normal people.
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"They are people and should be allowed to have the rights of normal people."
Why do you consider homosexuals to be abnormal?
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I'm not saying I'm like you guys, but this is how I see it. For population purposes, we are geared to be attracted to the opposite sex, in our hormones and genetically. Sometimes, we have genetic deviations, which cause someone to be attracted to the same sex. Even though they are attracted to the same sex, this is in no way their fault.
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and get more divorce and unhappy marriage congrats you abrely doN,t know the real meaning of love
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"The only possible way to change your sexuality is through genetic tampering."
Or hormones, maybe.
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Kirk Cameron is a great role model for all youth. I wish that all young actors would end up taking his noble path instead of going the homosexual route like Neil Patrick Harris and all of those other stupid TV actors who keep rubbing their sodomy in my face. Kirk Cameron has spoken to God and understands the truth. America needs more people like this to keep championing the bible before we are destroyed by the dangerous homosexual terrorists!
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Where do you think terrorists are from? I'm just asking for your opinion.
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because from what you people give me to understand, only and all muslims are terrorists, and Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan hate homosexuals more then we Americans do.
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don't mind echristopher he think everything Non white non american are terrorist in other word 99% of the world is a terrorist to him
sound paranoiac much
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God bless Kirk for being honest, despite the huge liberal media campaign to abuse him. Now they're saying that Kirk himself is a secret homoexual with a long history of cruising the Hollywood's Griffiths park for man meat. There are quite a few reports about this floating around and the silly thing is that they have zero proof.
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How many opponents of homosexuality have ended up being gay themselves? Quite a few. You're a closet case yourself there, you psychotic fuck.
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Stephenson Billingsreplied:
Men are frail, they break and they fall. We all must ask for forgiveness, we all must be re-born in the blood of the Lamb. I know I am only human but I humble myself and pray to Jesus Christ because I truly want America to be a better place. Don't you?
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When was the last time you ever asked for forgiveness? When was the last time you ever admitted you were wrong?
You're constantly telling others how wrong they are for their beliefs, and you REFUSE to admit when you're wrong. Whenever you talk about yourself, you make yourself look like some kind of demi-god, you aren't humble in the very least bit, your massive ego is preventing you from seeing the truth.
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Stephenson Billingsreplied:
You have an incredible ego if you think I have an obligation to beg for YOUR forgiveness. You are a criminal and a thug, a slacker and a hoodlum. You bully people left and right and I am one of the few willing to call you out on the lies. Please don't lecture me about living a decent, moral life. I have more beauty in the first 10 minutes of my life than you have in a year of yours.
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Billings, maybe you don't know this, but bullying others is exactly what you do. You're getting your just desserts. You want to tell others that they're wrong and that they should be ashamed? Well then, guess what's going to happen to you! You want to tell people what they should do in their bedrooms? Well then, guess how people are going to treat you!
The fact that you're so surprised at all of the hate you get is astounding. You're going to tell people that they're wrong for enjoying things other than God or Jesus 24/7, or that they enjoy playing video games or watching movies or watching adult material, how do you think people are going to act when you try to butt your nose into their personal lives? What people do behind closed doors with other consenting people, if any others, is completely up to them and in no way, shape, or form does that mean you should get involved unless asked directly.
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Christopher Christensonreplied:
Ellen, Stephenson is not a homosexual, he is a good man. And by suggesting that believing in traditional love and traditional marriage, you are suggesting that high-profile noble individuals such as Rick Santorum, Fred Phelps, Maggie Gallagher, the pope, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, the writers of this site and other glorious true Americans are latent homosexuals. More and more boggling nonsense keeps ejecting itself from your mouth, and you might want to check yourself in with a therapist to make sure that you're not projecting your own repressed desires on the great individuals of this nation.
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Yeah, actually, I'm saying that they're all stuck in the closet as well if they absolutely hate homosexuals. Maybe if you stopped and realized that not everyone gives a shit about your religion and that true peace is everyone keeping quite about it, you might realize that they aren't bad people after all. You can't tell the difference between a straight person or a gay person until you see who they're in love with.
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Christian and GayView March 5, 2012
One question for you. If a relationship is only natural if it produces children, then why don't you call old or infertile people unnatural? After all, it's not like they can produce children.
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St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) - Matt Holliday hit a two-run homer as part of
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Two Texas wind energy leaders win 2011 Public Power Award
(Note: Submitted to DOE's blog by Western's Renewable Energy Program Manager Randy Manion.)
With their successful and creative use of wind power, Texas' CPS Energy and Denton Municipal Electric beat out 15 other nominees to win the 2011 Public Power Award on June 21, reported the Department of Energy's blog.
The winners
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CPS Energy, based in San Antonio, Texas, provides 10 percent of its total energy through its voluntary Windtricity program—and expects to increase this to 20 percent by 2020.
Denton Municipal Electric of Denton, Texas, purchased enough wind power—539,000 MWh—from the Wolf Ridge Wind Farm last fiscal year to power about 49,450 homes. In just one year, Denton's purchase has reduced air pollution by preventing the release of 424,128 tons of carbon dioxide, 206 tons of nitrogen oxide and 1,257 tons of sulfur dioxide emissions.
The annual Public Power Award, sponsored by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Wind Powering America initiative and the American Public Power Association, recognizes public power utility companies at the forefront of developing America's vast wind resources and providing affordable electricity to customers. The program is managed by Western's Renewable Energy Program.


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I've now noticed two closed questions that didn't have a reopen link:
Is this a special kind of lock that moderators are putting on questions, or is it always that way when a mod does the final closing and I've just never noticed until now?
EDIT: The answers and comments cover it. The first is a bug, the second I just missed.


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Kirstie and Phil catch up with two families who were selling up to fund their dream business.
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Kirstie and Phil provide an update on two couples who came to them looking for the dream life in the country.
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A species of small chimp which dwells in the nether regions of the North Saharan Desert. It fornicates not with its own species but with the larger sand beetles and termites who live under the sand.
"I was trekking in the desert when I saw a Nick Waldron"
"Was it copulating with a sand beetle?"
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A simple tale that avoids spareness thanks in part to an ever-present, expansive Algerian landscape, "The Yellow House" is too good-natured for its own good.
A simple tale that avoids spareness thanks in part to an ever-present, expansive Algerian landscape, "The Yellow House" is too good-natured for its own good. Divided into two halves, one dealing with a father's trek to retrieve his dead son's body and the other his attempt to dispel his wife's melancholy, pic has a sweet disposition, with a near-childlike quality that works against believability. Still, beautiful images and helmer Amor Hakkar's gentle, dignified presence as the lead make for an agreeable if rarely affecting journey. Fests on the lookout for North African fare are likely to come knocking.In the Aures mountains of eastern Algeria, adolescent Alya (Aya Hamdi) is told her brother Belkacem (Nouredine Menasria) has been killed in an accident. Their father Mouloud (Hakkar), a poor farmer, gets on his makeshift tractor — little more than a wide wagon hitched to a motorbike — and heads to the city of Batna to bring the body home. Everyone he meets helps him along the way, until he gets to the morgue and is told the body still needs processing. Ignoring the injunction, Mouloud brings the body back home, where his wife Fatima (Tounes Ait-Ali) is plunged into debilitating grief. A pharmacist (Ammar Ghodbane) suggests he paint his home yellow to cheer her up, but neither that nor a new dog bring her out of her funk. Then Mouloud remembers a videotape among his son's things, which turns out to be a video letter made by Belkacem. Determined to show it to Fatima, he buys a TV and VCR, but how to make it work when he lacks electricity becomes an unanticipated challenge. Pic's first half plays like David Lynch's "The Straight Story" crossed with Hassan Legzouli's "Testament," though Hakkar doesn't position the journey as one of inner discovery. In fact, there's really no development at all, in any of the characters. Auds can easily accept the almost pathological kindness of nearly everyone Mouloud meets, but it's hard to buy the idea that this man, an illiterate farmer but no stranger to the nearest town, is so clueless he doesn't realize appliances run on electricity. Thesping is unquestionably a problem, though indulgent viewers will do well to overlook the actors' limitations and concentrate on the majestic landscape, which grounds the proceedings and forms an immutable backdrop to the action. The solidity of the mountains becomes a form of reassurance, offering the promise of life's continuity despite loss and despair. Lovely images sustain interest — shots of Mouloud traveling through the night with a flashing yellow light are especially memorable, and capture the melancholy of the situation more acutely than the performers. Though Hakkar and d.p. Nicolas Roche never fully take advantage of the incongruity of the simple peasant farmhouse painted bright yellow, colors are well-balanced and lensing is crisp.
The Yellow House
A Sarah Films (France)/H.A. Films (Algeria) production. (International sales: Sarah Films, Besancon.) Produced by Celine Brotons. Executive producer, Flora Boumia. Directed, written by Amor Hakkar.
Camera (color), Nicolas Roche; editors, Hakkar, Lyonnel Garnier; music, Joseph Macera, Aurelien Dudon, Faycal Salhi, Basile Ntsika; production designer/costume designer, Karim Nezzar; sound (Dolby Digital), Kamel Mekesseur, Benoit Ouvrard; assistant directors, Celine Brotons, Marie Dumont; casting, Lotfi Bensebaa. Reviewed at Locarno Film Festival (competing), Aug. 2, 2007. Running time: 87 MIN.
Aya Hamdi, Amor Hakkar, Tounes Ait-Ali, Bissa-Ratiba Ghomrassi, Ines Benzaim, Nouredine Menasria, Abdelbaki Hamdi, Abderrahman Benghelab, Khaled Derbouche, Merah Hakkar, Amar Schaibi, Ammar Ghodbane, Belkacem Bela, Zakaria Hakkar, Kamel Salem. (Berber dialogue)


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Sadly and much to my dismay, we're not going to be able to make the game next weekend. I can't in good conscience go to the game and neglect the team I coach (wouldn't make it back in time for our first game, tried to move it to no avail).
So, some lucky Cyclone fans (hopefully) will get to attend in our place.
The seats are pretty decent, in Section 12 (lower level) about 25 rows up. Also, we do have seatbacks (not that you'll need them, but they're great for saving your spot).
$550 for all 4 tickets and the parking pass (G7).
Please post here, PM or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested.
Your posting rights are hereby revoked for 2 weeks 22...
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Just curious, who are you coaching to miss it?
ps, i hope ISU blows Iowa outta the water just to spite you not being there!
Last edited by ripvdub; 09-07-2007 at 09:16 PM.
I feel as if they should be, this really sucks. I just want to sell 'em, be done with it and put the damn thing behind me. I'm quite unhappy with the league I coach in, but that's a story for a different thread and another day.
hope you have VS. and a DVR. sorry you won't be there sir.
Originally Posted by ripvdub
Just curious, who are you coaching to miss it?
Youth league...5th graders.
Are those your 2 seats and parking pass on ebay that end in a few hrs?
Cyclone State Now & Forever
4 x 90 = 360
Originally Posted by 67CY
4 x 90 = 360
If you can find someone to sell them at face, buy them there... Even though it is not hyped up as much because ISU stinks, it is still a big game.
We've actually decided to go to the game on Saturday and plan on tailgating in G7. The tickets are no longer for sale as we'll be using them.
Originally Posted by ISUFan22
Youth league...5th graders.
Originally Posted by Mrs.ISUFan22
We've actually decided to go to the game on Saturday and plan on tailgating in G7. The tickets are no longer for sale as we'll be using them.
Boo!! What about the kids?
Question for ISUFAN22 - Since you are a moderator of this website and one who posts many inciteful messages, would you have sold your tickets to a Hawk? It appears to me that you were trying to make a profit? Are you really a Cyclone?
More importantly, are these tickets included in the season ticket total?
Yeah well, ya know, that's just, like uh, your opinion, man.
Yes - these are our season tickets. We are leaving the game a bit early in order for him to be back in Des Moines in order to coach on time.
I doubt he would have sold the tickets to a Hawk, hence why he posted the tickets for sale on this website and not on Ebay.
Yeah, as the Mrs. stated, we're going to have to leave early.
Sue me for trying to sell the tickets for what the market was. Seeing how the market severely diminished after another home loss and the fact I just couldn't miss the game - we decided to go.
Care to question my devotion to ISU athletics again?
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LOS ANGELES California will join more than 20 states by providing doctors and pharmacies with a secure Web site to track a patient's prescription drug use history.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI says agents and local police in the last week rescued 168 victims of child sex trafficking, including many who had never been reported missing.
In addition, 281 pimps were arrested as part of the same nationwide initiative, an annual enforcement push known as Operation Cross Country.
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I don't know of any advantages of doing this. First, you'll have to pay extra insurance for a rental, your taxes will be about 30% higher because you're not filing a homestead exemption on the property, and the bank will likely require more to approve the loan.
If you're going to live there, my suggestion is to by it as if it were a traditional residence.
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A recent survey of Bank CIOs shows that increased regulatory pressures falling out from new and changing regulations as well as the need to improve reporting are expected to be major drivers of increased IT spending at banks. The survey, conducted by Bank Systems and Technology magazine asked members of its Reader Advisory Board about plans for IT spending in 2011. According to the report, "most banks will undertake major systems upgrades in the next 12 months." The projects include compliance, core systems and mobile banking initiatives.
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The New York Times is reporting a story today about banks slowing their foreclosure process as a result of cutting corners to speed their way through the legal process. It turns out that the foreclosure process requires lots of signatures by the foreclosing entity and some banks deployed robo-signers–people who signed up to 10,000 documents a month. The problem is that part of what they sign says that they personally had reviewed all the documentation, which, of course, is not possible.
The result of this realized operational risk is that foreclosures and subsequent sales have slowed, tying up banks' capital for longer. We have long argued that operational risk is the linch pin in risk management. A linch pins keeps the wheel from sliding off the axle it rides on. The analytic approach used to value credit portfolios is a critical component of the overall risk management process, but the operating risks are no less important, as we read today.
Analysts Say IBM Acquisition Could 'Dramatically Shift' Market
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The announcement of IBM's intention to acquire OpenPages generated volumes of editorial response and news coverage in today's world of instant publishing. The news which provoked a very positive response across the board from OpenPages customers, prospects, media and analysts, has generated over 1,400 'tweets', numerous news stories and some thought-provoking analysis from industry analysts.
In particular, Chris McClean of Forrester raised an interesting point in his blog coverage noting that acquisitions in the GRC market over the past two years have resulted in not only vendor consolidation, but also market fragmentation. He points out that the Thomson Reuters acquisition of Paisley was meant to 'strengthen its tax and accounting business', while EMC acquired Archer 'as a dashboard (at least initially) to pull together IT risk data and processes,' whereas the IBM acquisition of OpenPages 'will likely turn the company more toward higher-level corporate performance and enterprise risk management.' I think Chris is as usual on target, yet would respectfully add that integration with the control infrastructure allows OpenPages to instrument the risk assessment and control testing process, thereby delivering the only comprehensive solution on the market.
Also published recently is Gartner's 'First-Take' on the acquisition in which analysts French Caldwell and John Hagerty report that they are expecting a 'Market Split' whereby the vendor landscape will be divided between those that have coupled qualitative risk assessments with quantitative risk analytics, and those that provide just qualitative risk assessments: 'Vendors that have a risk intelligence strategy would compete for large accounts with combined risk analytics and traditional governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) management functionality, while those without risk analytics capabilities would address less-quantitative risk assessments, compliance and audit management.'
If you're a risk manager or a business manager, the integration of risk analytics with GRC management will provide your business with more timely and more accurate information to understand the risk exposure to the business and help you make better decisions.
Spotlight on the Compliance Office
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There's been a good deal of discussion recently about organizational location and reporting lines for a company's compliance function. Some are stand alone, though many are embedded within the legal department, with concern of legal privilege among the considerations. Some report to the CEO, though for many others the reporting line is to another senior executive. And to further complicate matters, some compliance functions also have responsibility for ethics, with some being asked to take on even greater responsibility.
The Future of Compliance
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Volume and Complexity of Risks Increasing 'A Great Deal'
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The ERM Initiative at North Carolina State University was commissioned separately by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) to conduct surveys of their respective members on the state of enterprise risk oversight. While the AICPA survey was focused on US companies and the CIMA survey on global companies, not surprisingly respondents in all regions agreed in a new study titled 'Enterprise Risk Oversight, A Global Analysis,' that the volume and complexity of risks are increasing and that the need for increased risk oversight is being driven by senior executives and board members. Of greater concern, however is the number of respondents who feel that their risk oversight processes are immature. In the US, 84% of respondents rated their risk oversight processes as either 'very immature' or 'only moderately mature.' The study found that '46% of global respondents describe their risk oversight process as systematic, robust, and repeatable in contrast to 11% of U.S. respondents who believe they have a complete enterprise-wide risk management process in place.'
With recent disclosure rulings from the SEC including the board's role in risk oversight and Dodd
Public Relations Efforts Can Get in the Way of Effective Crisis Management
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The media recently has been rife with articles and commentary on what went wrong with BP's horrific oil spill, Toyota's multiple automobile recalls and stonewalling regulators, J&J's recalls of multiple products along with allegations of withholding information from regulators, and Goldman Sachs' disclosure settlement along with reports of it's taking an adversarial posture with regulators and the public. Fingers also are pointed at basketball star LeBron James for his unseemly national news conference announcing his move to South Beach, and actor Mel Gibson's words with his former girlfriend billing him as "The Worst Guy Ever."
RCSA-The Foundation for a Risk Management Program
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Many of our customers are in the process of rethinking their risk management programs. A key element of any program is the risk control self assessment, and, in fact, in many cases, provides the foundation for the overall program. The RCSA provides a baseline for risk exposure that drives further activity in key areas of risk for the business. Of course, as human judgement is involved, no company would rely solely on this single process for their exposure metrics. Many back test the RCSA process with actual loss events and validate management's self-assessment of risk through an internal audit function.
SEC Approves New Proxy Rule, Shareholders to Elect Board
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Brandishing new authority thanks to the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC was quick to act on an agenda item that had been on the table for 30 years. Yesterday, the SEC approved a 'Proxy Access' rule that allows shareholders to place nominations for board member seats on the annual proxy ballot of public companies. The rule applies to shareholder groups who have owned greater than 3% of a public company's stock for at least 3 years.
One thing that is certain, the new rule reflects the anger and backlash of shareholders who feel that boards of directors were not acting in the shareholders' best interest when taking highly leveraged and risky positions that led to the 2008 financial meltdown. As Rick Stenberg pointed out in his recent blog, this indicates a clear trend toward increasing shareholder power and of companies and their boards 'opening channels of communication with shareholders.' As these channels are opened, an information architecture that provides full transparency into risk exposure and enables information sharing will help to fill the communication gap between the Board and shareholders.
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Dodd-Frank Drives Convergence
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In my last blog post, I mentioned that the new Financial Stability Oversight Council created under Dodd-Frank will collect risk data from various sources including Federal and State financial regulatory agencies and the newly created Office of Financial Research (OFR). The OFR in turn is responsible for collecting risk data from financial services institutions at the behest of the Council. These additional, external information and reporting requests will not only compound the extensive reporting responsibilities of risk committees and risk managers, but will also likely overlap with internal reporting requirements from Boards and executives.
As the Dodd-Frank rulemaking proceeds in the coming years, reacting to each new rule and regulatory requirement with siloed technology and resource investments will clearly not be effective. The financial crisis of 2008 highlighted the interdependency of risks across an enterprise (credit, market, operational) which need to be managed holistically rather than in traditional silos. A siloed approach limits an organization's ability to streamline risk and compliance processes and reduce costs. It also obscures the opportunity to integrate risk and compliance to gain a comprehensive view of the firm's risk exposure.
Gordon Burnes commented in a recent blog post that "as companies put in place this information architecture to surface enterprise risk exposure, thinking about interdependencies will be critical to reduce cost." I've worked with numerous OpenPages customers who are actively managing multiple risk and compliance programs on a single framework. The impetus behind these initiatives varies from the need to review enterprise risk and control performance at executive and Board-level meetings, to Federal regulator demands, to the need to simplify and rationalize risk and control assessments. A large, OpenPages financial services customer recently completed the convergence of risk assessments across all risk and compliance programs with the explicit intention of monitoring risk exposure across their business.
Moving forward as new Dodd-Frank requirements emerge, financial services institutions will require a converged information architecture that supports multiple risk and compliance initiatives on a single framework. An integrated risk and compliance framework can reduce the disparate databases and reporting structures, while at the same time meeting internal and external reporting requirements more efficiently. Whatever risk disciplines are significant within your firm, the goal should be to integrate them within a single framework that produces a holistic view of your risk landscape, while meeting the needs of regulatory agencies.
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Compliance in the Spotlight at Goldman
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You've surely heard about Goldman Sachs' settlement with the SEC on fraud charges related to the firm's disclosure, or lack thereof, of a collateralized debt obligation that purportedly was designed to fail. The $550 million to be paid may seem like a lot, and indeed is said to be the largest SEC fine against a Wall Street bank, but many observers maintain that the firm got off easy, especially when the amount is viewed in light of Goldman's revenue and profits.
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Who's ready for the playoffs? I'm sure most fans are, and if you are like me, then the playoffs couldn't start fast enough. I hate this time of year in the NBA. The last three weeks of the season are always the worst for me. Aside from the race to the eighth in the West, seeding seems to be all but set. We know which teams are going to be in the playoffs, and for the most part, we know which seed each team will have, give or take a spot, when playoffs start.
I am admittedly much more familiar with the Eastern Conference than the West. I'm a Toronto Raptors fan, and most TV stations around here tend to play a ton of Knicks, Heat, and Celtics games. If I'm lucky, maybe I can catch a Bulls game once in a while. The Bulls and Celtics are two of my favorite teams to watch. Whether they play each other, or other teams, I am looking forward to how these teams fare in the playoffs. Much has changed for the Celtics since last years loss in the NBA Finals to the Los Angeles Lakers. Of course, the Bulls have a completely different lineup as well, but have played very well together, and under the guidance of rookie head coach Tom Thibodeau, have the best defense in the league.
The difference between these two teams heading into the playoffs, is that the Bulls are thriving going down the stretch, while the Celtics are faltering. To be honest though, I wouldn't read too much into either event, since the Bulls have a very easy schedule headed into the playoffs, while the Celtics are a veteran team, and counting them out at any time would be stupid (remember they were the fourth seed last year).
The Bulls currently have the first seed in the Eastern Conference. They have certainly lived up to the hype, and play notoriously tough on the defensive end. In fact, the only team with a lower opponent point per game average is the Boston Celtics. The difference is though, that the Bulls also have a balanced offense. I don't think I need to mention that Derrick Rose is one of the top point guards in the league, having an MVP type season. They also have good offensive weapons in Carlos Boozer and Luol Deng, with Kyle Korver off of the bench.
One knock against the Bulls, if there is any, is that the players on the team don't have much success in the playoffs. However, in my opinion, that isn't a fair thing to point out. Derrick Rose, and Joakim Noah have been to the playoffs twice in their young careers. Boozer and Korver have both been on the Utah Jazz, which were perennially in the playoffs out West. Perhaps this team hasn't been to the playoffs together, but many of their individual players have been to the big stage. I don't think that this team has any flaws, and maybe, just maybe, they can be good enough to reach the NBA Finals.
The Celtics are worthy of making the NBA Finals once again. Every team goes through rough stretches in an 82 game season, and a team full of NBA veterans should not have any problems. I think momentum is a viable excuse for a young team, but with Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce still on the team, I don't think momentum will mean anything. So for that reason I will ignore that the team isn't playing so great as of now. What I can't ignore is this: they don't have Kendrick Perkins.
Kendrick Perkins gave the Celtics a defensive presence inside. I think Jeff Green is a better player than Perkins, but Perkins was a weapon the Celtics could have used on Dwight Howard, and Andrew Bynum, should the Lakers and Celtics both make the Finals. But with Green they get an inconsistent scorer off the bench. The Celtics should have been in a "win now" mentality, but the move to trade Perkins was clearly because they didn't want to pay him in the future. So now, the Celtics have gone from being favorites in the playoffs, to a team with a bunch of question marks.
So what would happen if these two teams met in the Eastern Conference Finals? Let's look at the matchups.
This is an intriguing match up. Rondo is a good defensive point guard, but I think Rose will get his points regardless. On the other hand, Rose won't do much to stop Rondo, who will still be able to get his teammates involved, since he has such great court vision. However, Rose is the best player on the Bulls, and will likely average 25 ppg or more, while dishing around 7 assists a game, so I will have to give the edge to ROSE.
This match up goes to Ray Allen. Bogans is in the starting line up because of his defense and ability to hit the occasional three, but Ray Allen is clearly much better than him. Bogans is one of the worst starting players in the league, so I don't think I will waste much time with this analysis. Edge ALLEN.
I like what Deng brings to the game, but Pierce is the go to guy for the Celtics. Pierce is the better player, but this match up is closer than you may think. Click on the link to see: http://bkref.com/tiny/XVgeH. They are very close in every category. I am going to go with Pierce, because he is slightly better this season, and has had more experience in the playoffs. So I will reluctantly give the edge to PIERCE.
Defense versus offense. Garnett is still one of the top defensive players in the league, and I think he will shut down Boozer. I think Boozer will average between 16 and 18 points with Garnett guarding him. I will give the edge to GARNETT.
CENTER: JOAKIM NOAH VS NENAD KRSTIC or SHAQUILLE O'NEAL
Noah is a beast on the boards, and plays with high energy. Krstic simply isn't as good a player. Shaq is too old to be relevant on offense, and isn't as effective on defense as he once was. Any team with a good center is to be feared in the playoffs, and Noah is a top center in the league. Edge goes to NOAH and the Bulls with this match up.
I like the Celtic's bench. I also like Chicago's bench. I think Jeff Green is a decent scorer to have off the bench, and along with Big Baby Davis that can be a good combo. However, the O'Neal's and Murphy are close to obsolete. Taj Gibson, Kyle Korver and the defense of Ronnie Brewer is more valuable to me than the Celtics bench. I like the Bulls bench a LITTLE bit more than the Celtics, so the edge goes to the BULLS.
These two teams are neck and neck, and I don't like to pick one over the other, but if I HAD to, I would pick the Celtics. I never like to count out a gang of veterans, who are probably still angry over losing to the Lakers last year, so call me crazy, but I think the Celtics have one more title run left in them, Perkins or no Perkins.
Remember, these are only my opinions, so if you want to share yours, hit me up on Twitter (see bellow) or write a comment.
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The first batch of screenshots for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt have been released, following on from yesterday's official announcement. As a 2014 release, it's some way off, but it gives us a tantalising look at what the next generation of games will look like. Check them out for yourselves in all their stunning glory below:
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Benno Leaving Per Se?
Thomas Keller's star chef may be striking out on his own.
An interesting "prediction" from Gastrodamus that would be huge if true, especially in light of the perilous state of fine dining: "Jonathan Benno, Per Se's saturnine chef, will bring the skills and intellect that brought Per Se three michelin stars to his own restaurant. Yes, Thomas Keller's alter ego is finally leaving the nest, and a great blow it is bound to be to Per Se ... My dream-vision for Benno involves a restaurant of his own opening in January." [Feedbag]


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Bouhanni joins French wave of success in the peloton with Giro stage win
- By Andrew Hood
- Published May. 14, 2014
Power Analysis: Stages 1-3 at the Tour de France
- By Shawn Heidgen
- Published Jul. 5, 2013
TrainingPeaks examines power data from Juan Antonio Flecha, Romain Sicard, and Simon Clarke from the Tour's first week
Romain Sicard apologizes for DUI
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- Published Nov. 13, 2011
Romain Sicard, the promising French rider on Euskaltel-Euskadi, has published an online apology after getting a DUI this week in Toulouse.
No Tour for young French standout Romain Sicard
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- Published Jun. 14, 2010
Despite heavy pressure from the French cycling community, the highly touted Romain Sicard will not be racing this year's Tour de France.
France's great hope: Romain Sicard taking it slow in rookie year
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Roman Sicard, the reigning U23 world champion, could be the rider the French have been waiting for since Bernhard Hinault last won the Tour


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US government shutdown starts today. This is the first time since 1995-96 that this event has recurred. The shutdown was imposed as the Republicans and the Democrats failed to reach an agreement on spending and budget mainly due to their differences over the healthcare reforms, which is popularly know as Obamacare - an initiative dear to President Barack Obama who has risked a shutdown to push it through.
With neither side blinking, despite last minute hectic efforts from both side, the White House immediately ordered the federal government agencies to begin shutting down, furloughing thousands of workers and curtailing some services for the first time in nearly 18 years.
"Congress has not fulfilled its responsibility. It has failed to pass a budget and, as a result, a shutdown has been imposed on much of our government down until Congress funds it again," Barack Obama said in a video message to the armed services shortly after the shutdown came into effect.
"The threats to our national security have not changed, and we need you to be ready for any contingency. Ongoing military operations - like our efforts in Afghanistan - will continue. If you're serving in harm's way, we're going to make sure you have what you need to succeed in your missions," he said.
"Congress has passed, and I am signing into law, legislation to make sure you get your paychecks on time. And we'll continue working to address any impact this shutdown has on you and your families," Barack Obama said.
Agencies should now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations, the Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell said her a guidance to the agencies directing them to execute their plans for an orderly shutdown of the Federal government.
"We urge Congress to act quickly to pass a Continuing Resolution to provide a short-term bridge that ensures sufficient time to pass a budget for the remainder of the fiscal year, and to restore the operation of critical public services and programs that will be impacted by a lapse in appropriations," the guidance said.
Shutdown, the first in 18 years, means that national parks will close, most routine food inspections will be suspended, paperwork will slow at government offices and many federal employees will be furloughed.
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