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Another Debate, Another Litany Of Romney Falsehoods: Will Media Take Note?
Research ››› ››› SOLANGE UWIMANA, MELODY JOHNSON & EMILY ARROWOOD
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney rehashed at least seven previously debunked claims during the October 22 presidential debate, including the phony talking point that Obama went on an apology tour. Romney's dishonesty, now apparent in the third straight debate, continues to present a challenge to the media.
Romney Campaign Dismissed Fact-Checkers
Romney Surrogate: "We're Not Going [To] Let Our Campaign Be Dictated By Fact-Checkers." During an ABC News/Yahoo! News event at the Republican National Convention, Romney pollster Neil Newhouse suggested fact-checkers were biased and stated: "We're not going [to] let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers." From ABCNews.com:
O'Connor said she thought their ad "Right Choice" attacking Obama on welfare reform has been the most effective so far, despite its being given "Four Pinnochios" by a Washington Post fact check.
Newhouse brushed off the fact check as par for the course in political campaigns.
"People are always going to get Pinocchios for this stuff," Newhouse said. "We stand behind those ads and behind the facts in those ads."
Newhouse suggested the problem was with the fact-checkers, not the facts themselves: "Fact-checkers come to this with their own sets of thoughts and beliefs and you know what? We're not going let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers." [ABCNews.com, 8/28/12]
ROMNEY LIE: Tax Plan Will Create 12 Million Jobs
Romney: "I Know What It Takes To Create 12 Million New Jobs." During the October 22 presidential debate, Mitt Romney said that he "know[s] what it takes to create 12 million new jobs":
ROMNEY: And when it comes to our economy here at home, I know what it takes to create 12 million new jobs and rising take-home pay. And what we've seen over the last four years is something I don't want to see over the next four years. [The New York Times, 10/22/12]
Wash. Post Fact Checker: Math Underlying Romney's Claim "Doesn't Add Up." Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler wrote that the math underlying Romney's claim "doesn't add up," calling it a "bait-and-switch" that fudges timelines, and quoted Glenn Hubbard, one of Romney's chief economic advisers, acknowledging as much. [The Washington Post, 10/16/12]
Wash. Post's Klein: Romney's Jobs Claim Relies On "Misreading Studies To Get To A Number That's Pretty Easy To Reach." In an October 16 entry on his Washington Post blog, Wonkblog, Ezra Klein criticized Romney's claim for relying on dubious assertions and setting a goal economists say the economy is already on track to meet. Klein noted that Romney employs "a lot of misreading studies to get to a number that's pretty easy to reach." Klein explained: "Romney's claim of 12 million jobs over four years breaks down to 7 million jobs over 10 years in an economy that's already at full employment, 3 million jobs over eight years that have nothing to do with any of Romney's policies, and 2 million jobs if China suddenly became very, very respectful of U.S. intellectual property laws." [Wonkblog, The Washington Post, 10/16/12]
ROMNEY LIE: Obama Said We'd Be At 5.4 Percent Unemployment By Now
Romney: "The President Said By Now We'd Be At 5.4 Percent Unemployment." Romney said that Obama promised we'd be at 5.4 percent unemployment at this point in his presidency:
ROMNEY: The -- the president said by now we'd be at 5.4 percent unemployment. We're 9 million jobs short of that. I will get America working again and see rising take-home pay again. [The New York Times, 10/22/12]
Sub-8 Percent Figures Were Projected Figures, Not A Guarantee. According to PolitiFact, the claim that Obama promised unemployment would stay below 8 percent is "mostly false":
[Congressman Paul] Ryan said the Obama administration promised "unemployment would never get to 8 percent."
Obama didn't say that. Rather, his Council of Economic Advisers predicted that the stimulus would hold it to that level. Their report included heavy disclaimers that the projections had "significant margins of error" and a high degree of uncertainty due to a recession that is "unusual both in its fundamental causes and its severity."
The sub-8 percent prediction did not hold true, but it's still incorrect to characterize it as a promise or guarantee. [PolitiFact, 10/22/12]
FactCheck.Org: "Romney Is Referring To A Speculative Report" Based On Models That "Underestimated The Depths Of the Recession." Also from FactCheck.org:
Romney says Obama "said by now [unemployment] would be down to 5.4 percent." But Romney is referring to a speculative report issued at the beginning of Obama's presidency containing projections -- not promises. Those projections relied on prevailing economic models that quickly proved to have underestimated the depths of the recession at that time. [FactCheck.org, 9/20/12, via Media Matters, 10/17/12]
ROMNEY LIE: Obama Has Been Silent On Iran
ROMNEY: In Iran, "The President Was Silent." During the debate, Romney claimed that "when there were dissidents in the streets of Tehran, ... the president was silent." [The New York Times, 10/22/12]
Wash. Post's Kessler: Obama Not Quite "Silent" On Iran. Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler wrote that Romney's claim that Obama was "silent" on Iranian protests "is not quite correct":
Mitt Romney said that Obama was "silent" on the protests in Iran but that is not quite correct.
Obama's response was initially muted -- in part out of caution and also because he was preserving the ability to relaunch negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. It is important to remember than in Iran's complex political system, Iran's president is not the key figure. Instead, it is a religious leader, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Obama finally toughened his stance a week later, on June 23, after more violence erupted.
"The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, the beatings and imprisonments of the last few days," Obama said. "I strongly condemn these unjust actions, and I join with the American people in mourning each and every innocent life that is lost." [The Washington Post, 10/22/12]
ROMNEY LIE: I Would Have Saved Detroit
Romney: "I Would Do Nothing To Hurt The U.S. Auto Industry." Romney claimed during the debate that he would "do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry":
ROMNEY: [T]he president mentioned the auto industry and that somehow I would be in favor of jobs being elsewhere. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit. My dad was head of a car company. I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry. [The New York Times, 10/22/12]
Romney Advocated For "Post-Bankruptcy Financing" For Auto Companies. In a November 2008 New York Times op-ed, Mitt Romney advocated for "post-bankruptcy financing" for the auto-companies:
The American auto industry is vital to our national interest as an employer and as a hub for manufacturing. A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs. It would permit the companies to shed excess labor, pension and real estate costs. The federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing and assure car buyers that their warranties are not at risk.
In a managed bankruptcy, the federal government would propel newly competitive and viable automakers, rather than seal their fate with a bailout check. [The New York Times, 11/18/12]
Automotive Economist: Private Bankruptcy For Automakers Would Not Have Been Possible Because Credit Markets Were Frozen. Reuters reported that supporters of Romney "point out that airlines and other large businesses have been able to reorganize in bankruptcy without government help." Reuters continued:
"There were two ways to do it - either use crony capitalism, where government picks the winners and losers, or you go through the traditional reorganization process," said Saul Anuzis, a Romney supporter and former head of the Michigan Republican Party.
Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the Center for Automotive Research, or CAR, said there was one problem with that argument: a private bankruptcy for automakers would not have been possible during the 2008-2009 financial crisis because credit markets were frozen and GM and Chrysler were unable to get private financing to keep operating through bankruptcy.
Without federal help, the companies could have been forced to shut down, which would have devastated parts suppliers and threatened solvent carmakers such as Ford and Toyota, McAlinden said.
The intervention saved 1.3 million jobs in 2009, CAR estimates.
"It was the most successful peacetime industrial intervention in U.S. history," McAlinden said. [Reuters, 2/10/12]
The Economist: "The Credit Markets Were Bone-Dry, Making The Privately Financed Bankruptcy ... Improbable." Robert McShane, The Economist online U.S. editor, wrote:
Following the bail-outs, the president eventually forced Chrysler and GM into bankruptcy, a step Mr Romney thought should occur naturally. And the government oversaw painful restructurings at both companies, which were largely in line with Mr Romney's broad suggestions. But the course Mr Romney recommended in 2008 began with the government stepping back, and it is unlikely things would've turned out so well had this happened.
Free-marketeers that we are, The Economist agreed with Mr Romney at the time. But we later apologised for that position. "Had the government not stepped in, GM might have restructured under normal bankruptcy procedures, without putting public money at risk", we said. But "given the panic that gripped private purse-strings...it is more likely that GM would have been liquidated, sending a cascade of destruction through the supply chain on which its rivals, too, depended." Even Ford, which avoided bankruptcy, feared the industry would collapse if GM went down. At the time that seemed like a real possibility. The credit markets were bone-dry, making the privately financed bankruptcy that Mr Romney favoured improbable. He conveniently ignores this bit of history in claiming to have been right all along. [The Economist, 2/14/12]
Reuters' Wapshott: Romney's Claim That His Auto Industry Plan Is The Same As Obama's Is "Far-Fetched." In an October 17 blog post, Reuters reporter and author Nicholas Wapshott wrote that "Romney's sly suggestion now that you can't slip a cigarette paper between his [auto bailout] plan and Obama's is, to put it politely, far-fetched." [Reuters, 10/17/12]
ROMNEY LIE: Obama Went On An "Apology Tour"
Romney: Obama Has Gone On "What I've Called An Apology Tour." During the debate, Romney repeated the debunked lie that Obama has apologized for America:
ROMNEY: I think from the very beginning, one of the challenges we've had with Iran is that they have looked at this administration and -- and felt that the administration was not as strong as it needed to be. I think they saw weakness where they had expected to find American strength.
And I say that because from the very beginning, the president, in his campaign some four years ago, said he'd meet with all the world's worst actors in his first year. He'd -- he'd sit down with Chavez and -- and Kim Jong-Il, with Castro and with -- with President Ahmadinejad of -- of Iran. And -- and I think they looked and thought, well, that's an unusual honor to receive from the president of the United States.
And then the president began what I've called an apology tour of going to -- to various nations in the Middle East and -- and criticizing America. I think they looked at that and saw weakness. [The New York Times, 10/22/12]
NY Times: Obama "Never Said He Was Sorry For American Values Or Diplomacy." During the debate, the New York Times debunked the idea that Obama has apologized for America, writing:
News organizations have repeatedly found the claim that Mr. Obama has apologized for American values and principles to be inaccurate.
While Mr. Obama has admitted American failings at times -- and, like President George W. Bush, has apologized for specific acts of American wrongdoing abroad -- he has never explicitly apologized for American values or principles.
Republicans have sought to use a number of excerpts from Mr. Obama's speeches or interviews to make their case that he has. One of the most commonly used is a 2009 speech in France in which Mr. Obama said that "there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive." But critics typically ignore what Mr. Obama said next: "But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what's bad." In other words, Mr. Obama was saying that the United States and Europe had at times each dealt unfairly with each other -- he never said he was sorry for American values or diplomacy. [The New York Times, 10/22/12]
Associated Press: "Obama Has Not Apologized For America." The Associated Press has written that Obama "never made" any apologies and added:
Obama has not apologized for America. What he has done, in travels early in his presidency and since, is to make clear his belief that the U.S. is not beyond reproach. He has told foreigners that the U.S. at times acted "contrary to our traditions and ideals" in its treatment of terrorist suspects, that "America has too often been selective in its promotion of democracy," that the U.S. "certainly shares blame" for international economic turmoil and has sometimes shown arrogance toward allies. Obama, whose criticisms of America's past were typically balanced by praise, was in most cases taking issue with policies or the record of the previous administration, not an unusual approach for a new president -- or a presidential candidate. Romney's actual point seems to be that Obama has been too critical of his country.
But there has been no formal -- or informal -- apology. No saying "sorry" on behalf of America. [Associated Press, 6/3/11]
PolitiFact Has Repeatedly Labeled "Ridiculous" Apology Claim "False." PolitiFact has repeatedly labeled Romney's claim that Obama "apologized" for America "false," saying "it's a ridiculous charge." [PolitiFact, 9/22/11; 1/20/12]
Wash. Post Fact-Checker: "The Apology Tour Never Happened." The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler gave the repeated charge that Obama has apologized for America its worst rating of "Four Pinocchios":
The claim that Obama repeatedly has apologized for the United States is not borne out by the facts, especially if his full quotes are viewed in context.
Obama often was trying to draw a rhetorical distinction between his policies and that of President Bush, a common practice when the presidency changes parties. The shift in policies, in fact, might have been more dramatic from Clinton to Bush than from Bush to Obama, given how Obama has largely maintained Bush's approach to fighting terrorism.
In other cases, Obama's quotes have been selectively trimmed for political purposes. Or they were not much different than sentiments expressed by Bush or his secretary of state. Republicans may certainly disagree with Obama's handling of foreign policy or particular policies he has pursued, but they should not invent a storyline that does not appear to exist.
Note to GOP speechwriters and campaign ad makers: The apology tour never happened. [The Washington Post, 2/22/11]
ROMNEY LIE: U.S. Navy Is Smallest Since 1917
Romney: "Our Navy Is Smaller Now Than Any Time Since 1917." During the October 22 debate, Romney repeated his debunked claim that "our Navy is smaller now than any time since 1917":
ROMNEY: Our Navy is older -- excuse me -- our Navy is smaller now than any time since 1917. The Navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mission. We're now down to 285. We're headed down to the -- to the low 200s if we go through with sequestration. That's unacceptable to me. I want to make sure that we have the ships that are required by our Navy. [The New York Times, 10/22/12]
In Fact, As PolitiFact Noted, "Counting The Number Of Ships Or Aircraft Is Not A Good Measurement Of Defense Strength." After Romney claimed during a GOP primary debate that our "Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917," PolitiFact ruled the statement "false," noting that the comparison is based simply on the number of vehicles the Navy operates, which is "not a good measurement of defense strength":
Counting the number of ships or aircraft is not a good measurement of defense strength because their capabilities have increased dramatically in recent decades. Romney's comparison "doesn't pass 'the giggle test,' " said William W. Stueck, a historian at the University of Georgia.
Consider what types of naval ships were used in 1916 and 2011. The types of ships active in both years, such as cruisers and destroyers, are outfitted today with far more advanced technology than what was available during World War I. More importantly, the U.S. Navy has 11 aircraft carriers (plus the jets to launch from them), 31 amphibious ships, 14 submarines capable of launching nuclear ballistic missiles and four specialized submarines for launching Cruise missiles -- all categories of vessels that didn't exist in 1916.
Romney appears to be using the statistic as a critique of the current administration, while experts tell us that both draw-downs and buildups of military equipment occur over long periods of time and can't be pegged to one president. Put it all together and you have a statement that, despite being close to accurate in its numbers, uses those numbers in service of a ridiculous point. Pants on Fire. [PolitiFact, 1/18/12]
ROMNEY LIE: Repealing Health Care Law Will Reduce Deficit
Romney: Repealing Obamacare Would Reduce The Deficit. During the October 22 debate, Romney claimed the first thing he would do to reduce the deficit would be to repeal the Affordable Care Act:
MR. ROMNEY: Well, let's -- let's come back and talk about the military, but all the way -- all the way through. First of all, I'm going through, from the very beginning, we're going to cut about 5 percent of the discretionary budget excluding military. That's number one. All right?
MR. SCHIEFFER: But can you do this without driving us deeper into debt?
MR. ROMNEY: The good news is, I'll be happy to have you take a look. Come on our website, you'll look at how we get to a balanced budget within eight to 10 years. We do it by getting -- by reducing spending in a whole series of programs. By the way, number one I get rid of is "Obamacare." There are a number of things that sound good but, frankly, we just can't afford them. And that one doesn't sound good, and it's not affordable, so I get rid of that one from day one; to the extent humanly possible, we get that out. We take program after program that we don't absolutely have to have and we get rid of them. [The New York Times, 10/22/12]
NY Times: "Repealing The Health Care Law Would Actually Increase The Federal Deficit." The New York Times fact-checked Romney's claim and found that "repealing the health care law would actually increase the federal deficit":
When Mr. Romney was asked how he would find the money to pay for the increased military spending he seeks, he said: "We do it by getting -- by reducing spending in a whole series of programs. By the way, No. 1 I get rid of is 'Obamacare.' " But repealing the health care law would actually increase the federal deficit.
This summer, after Republicans in the House of Representative passed a bill to repeal the law, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that doing so would increase the federal deficit by $109 billion over the next decade. That is because the parts of the law that would require more spending to expand coverage would be offset by the parts of the law that raise new revenues and curb spending -- including provisions calling to curb the growth of Medicare costs and several new taxes and fees. Repealing the law would also mean that 30 million fewer people would have health insurance in 2022, it projected. [The New York Times, 10/22/12]
Congressional Budget Office: Repealing Obamacare Would Mean "Adding $109 Billion To Federal Budget Deficits" Between 2013-2022. In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner scoring the cost of repealing the Affordable Care Act, the CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation concluded repeal would result in a $109 billion net deficit increase over the 2013-2022 period:
Assuming that H.R. 6079 is enacted near the beginning of fiscal year 2013, CBO and JCT estimate that, on balance, the direct spending and revenue effects of enacting that legislation would cause a net increase in federal budget deficits of $109 billion over the 2013-2022 period. Specifically, we estimate that H.R. 6079 would reduce direct spending by $890 billion and reduce revenues by $1 trillion between 2013 and 2022, thus adding $109 billion to federal budget deficits over that period. [Congressional Budget Office, 7/24/12]
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 3/3/2013 (1633 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
I may not know a lot about modern art, but I know what makes my tail wag.
And it was wagging a lot when I heard about a wildly creative performance art piece that made its Canadian debut at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre last Thursday in front of an appreciative, albeit confused, crowd of about 300 spectators.
I am referring here to Dachshund UN, an art installation wherein world leaders are replaced by wiener dogs in a miniature version of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
Seriously. Instead of dogs playing poker, this work, which wrapped up Sunday, consisted of 36 dachshunds and their volunteer owners filling in for UN representatives from the U.S., France, Germany, Zambia, Senegal and other nations.
In Toronto, the wiener dogs, sitting behind little signs bearing the names of the countries they represented, spent about 50 minutes snoozing, chasing their tails, attempting to mount one another and yipping and yapping at anything that moved.
So, as far as anyone could tell, it was identical to an actual meeting of the human version of the UN Commission on Human Rights, which I assume was the artistic point.
Australian artist Bennett Miller told reporters he whipped up the wiener dog work to, quote, "question humanity's potential for creating a universal justice system."
Everybody got that? Good! According to news reports, Miller used wiener dogs because "their racial variety of red, black, tanned, short-hair and long-hair makes them (as diverse as humanity) and is similar to a United Nations meeting."
The important thing is, as the owner of a long-haired miniature dachshund, I agree the world would be much better off if, instead of humans, wiener dogs resolved our critical political issues, such as...
1) International terrorism -- The current approach among human UN representatives is to sit around, day after day, wringing their hands, blaming everyone else and blathering on in monotonous tones until everyone on the commission lapses into a coma.
Dachshunds, however, would take a more direct approach to dealing with this global scourge. First, they would root through the garbage to ensure it doesn't contain anything potentially harmful, such as a leftover sandwich or used Kleenex, then they would chew on it for a while before -- and don't try to tell me this would not make everyone feel safer -- burying the problem in a freshly dug hole in the back yard.
2) Bringing peace to strife-torn regions around the globe -- Again, the current human UN approach basically involves talking endlessly and, every once in a while, dispatching teams of peacekeepers to stand around in blue helmets.
Whereas wiener dogs would bring bravely opposing forces together via the time-tested method of "going for walkies" and, in extreme cases, "going for a nice car ride." Also, no one would get a cookie or a belly rub if they didn't play nice.
So I think we can all agree the world would be a much gentler place if wiener dogs really were put in charge of the United Nations. Think about it: The threat of nuclear annihilation would vanish because, as it says on my favorite coffee mug, wiener dogs "never bite when a growl will do."
Sure, there would be chaos whenever someone rang the doorbell at the UN or when the postman arrived, and it might get nasty if Cuba deposited an unexpected gift on China's seat, but, for the most part, there is almost no downside to replacing human beings with yappy little dogs.
Except it wouldn't be safe to let them ride in motorcades, because, unlike most world leaders, they really love to stick their heads out the window.


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SAINT LEO, Fla.- The No. 20 Saint Leo University men's basketball team (3-2) fell to Armstrong Atlantic State (4-1) by a score of 72-60 on Friday night in the opening game of the Ames Classic. The Pirates' win tied the all-time series between the two schools at 3-3. In the loss, Marcus Ruh entered the 1000-point scoring club for his career.
"We had a chance to take the lead there multiple times there in that run," Head Coach Lance Randall said postgame. "I thought they outplayed us. We struggled, and played behind a good portion of the night."
Armstrong's Aric Miller led the game with a stellar 35-point performance. The senior transfer from Bethune-Cookman shot 12-18 from the field and 5-9 from beyond the arc to lead the Pirates to their fourth win of the year. Armstrong shot 45.3 percent for the game and went 17-21 from the charity stripe.
Five Lions scored in double-figures in Saint Leo's second loss of the season. Ruh and Trent Thomas each dropped in 13 points. Shaun Adams notched 12 points and added eight rebounds. Chim Kadima contributed 10 points and nine rebounds in just 22 minutes of action. Jerrel Harris totaled 11 points on the night, after dropping in two three-pointers in the final minutes.
Three first half three-pointers from Trent Thomas kept Saint Leo in the game and down just four at the half, after Armstrong Atlantic shot 50 percent from the field. The Pirates were led by Aric Miller, who led the first half in scoring with 19 points.
In the second half the Lions found themselves down 44-33 with 15:45 to play, but quickly began chipping away at the Pirates' lead. Over the next minute, the eleven point deficit was cut to four after an Adams three and a steal and assist from Thomas. Less than one minute later, Ruh hit his third three of the game to cut the Lions' deficit to three.
With 11:41 remaining, Kadima sank a jumper to move the Lions within one point of Armstrong, but that would be the closest the Lions got during the rest of the contest. Down 12 points with just over five minutes remaining, the Lions began what would be their final run of the game.
Ruh dropped in a pair of free throws to notch his 1000th point of his career with 1:42 remaining and Harris followed it up with a trey to get within five of the Pirates. Armstrong went 11-12 from the free throw line in the final minute of the game to put away the Lions.
The Saint Leo men's basketball team gets right back into action tomorrow against Fort Valley State. Tip-off is set for 4:30 p.m.


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Rebuilding the Burnt-out House of Missionary Sisters in Uganda
Friday, January 11, 2013
Success Story
The missionary Sisters of Our Lady Queen of the Apostles, who devote themselves principally to the care of women and children living in slums, have been present since 2009 in Jinja in the southeast of Uganda. Here they run a mobile clinic where they treat the poor and needy who could not otherwise afford medicines or medical care. The cost of these medicines is prohibitively high, since almost all of them have to be imported into Uganda.The Sisters treat more than 1000 patients every month in their mobile clinic.
Among those the Sisters treat are many malnourished children, since many local families can only afford one meager meal a day. The maize gruel that represents the principal diet of the people in this region is so nutritionally poor that the children in particular display many severe signs of deficiency diseases, which in some cases can adversely affect their brain development. The Sisters try to help the mothers by providing them with supplementary food for the children and by teaching them how to achieve a balanced diet. They have also set up a kindergarten and take in and care forhandicapped children and young girls who have been forced to give up their schooling.
Two years after they had begun their work in Jinja, the Sisters suffered a heavy blow. At 6:30 a.m, they had just gathered in the chapel for morning prayers with the children in their care, when a careassistant called out, "There's smoke, fire!" The Sisters only just had time to get themselves and the children, some of whom are physically handicapped, to safety. Within moments the whole house was in flames, blazing before the horrified Sisters and the weeping children. It was only thanks tothe quick response of the fire services that the fire, which had been caused by an electrical fault, did not spread to the second building. The priests and the neighbors who came running to help dideverything they could to comfort and support the Sisters and the children. Sister Maria Goretti Quadros, the general superior of the congregation, wrote to ACN shortly after the fire. "I am so grateful to these good people for having helped our Sisters to face this catastrophe with courage and for supporting them with food and taking them into their homes. I will be forever grateful to the Lord for having saved our Sisters, the handicapped children and the girls living in the house, with His sheltering presence," she wrote.
She continued, "This event has made us even more determined to fulfill our mission, which is a great challenge for us. Nothing will destroy in us our dreams for the poor and suffering people in this part of the world.We firmly believe that with faith in God, and in His great sympathy and providence, and with the help of good and generous people, we will overcome this tragedy."
On June 6, 2012, not even a year after the catastrophe, it was possible for a new house to be opened and blessed, thanks in large measure to the contribution of $19,100 from you, our generous benefactors. For your generosity in helping them to rebuild their house so quickly, the Sisters now send a heartfelt "Thank you!"


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St Albans City have signed goalkeeper Joe Welch after releasing club legend Paul Bastock following their promotion.
Welch, 25, started his career with Southend United before moving to Histon where he played more than 50 matches in the Conference.
The shot stepper then moved to Stevenage on loan before joining Ebbsfleet United. Welch moved to Bromley in 2012 and was voted their supporters' player of the season for 2012-13.
Veteran Bastock, 44, played a crucial role in helping the Saints win the play-offs but City have decided they need to bring in a younger keeper for next season in the Conference South.
Joint manager Graham Golds said: "It was a very tough decision because he's been absolutely outstanding for us and was brilliant last season. He made a great save in the play-off final when we were 1-0 down and he has saved us on so many occasions.
"He was obviously disappointed but I think he's been given another offer closer to his home in Boston. It's just one of those things where we are in the Conference South and we have to push on."
Bastock made his debut for the Saints ten years ago and helped the club win promotion to the Conference in 2006 when he was named named supporters' player of the year.
The keeper moved to Rushden and Diamonds before returning to Clarence Park in 2008 when he helped City avoid relegation. He was named the supporters' player of the year again, making him the only player to have received the award twice.
Bastock had spells at Boston United and Worksop Town before returning to the Saints at the start of last season where his form helped them win promotion. In February, the fans' favourite made his 300th appearance for the club against Bideford.
The Saints have agreed a new contract with James Comley. The former Crystal Palace midfielder made 53 starts for City last season, scoring seven goals.
Golds said: "It's good news for us because he was influential for us last season and outstanding in the final. I feel he is one of the best midfielders in the league and he is young so can push on and could get back into the professional game again."
St Albans have also handed new deals to defenders Ben Martin and Darren Locke along with former Chesham United midfielder Steve Wales.
Golds said: "Ben is our club captain and he stands tall in the big games and leads the way. Darren did really well when he had his chances. He broke his cheekbone but came back in for the last seven games and did not put a foot wrong."
The manager continued: "We brought in Steve because we felt we needed more goals from midfield and he was exactly what we needed.
"He came in at just the right time for us. Steve scored in the semi-final and final so the signing could not have worked out better for us in terms of that."
Left-back Lee Chappell and midfielder Ram Marwa have been named in the Calor League team of the year.
Golds said: "Lee was outstanding for us last season. He played virtually every game and never let us down. It's nice that Ram has been given that accolade because he is an unsung hero.
"We see what he brings to the squad with his work-rate and energy and sometimes that gets overlooked. He's a disciplined player who works solely for the team."
The club have increased the prices of match tickets for next season following their promotion.
Prices for games have gone up to £15 for adults which is an increase of 50 per cent from 18 months ago. Tickets will cost £10 for concessions, over-65s, unemployed and students.
Under-16 prices are £3 while anyone aged between 16 to 21 can get in for £5 if they apply for a free young adults membership card. Adult season-tickets will cost £250, while concessions are £168 and £50 for juniors.


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With the opening of Bottega Italiana in the Westfield UTC mall, San Diego's frozen dessert scene got a big boost. The Seattle import, whose other location is in the Pike Place Market, slings artisanal gelato and sorbetto, made fresh each day.
My eyes briefly passed over the two dozen (or so) flavors in the case, locking on a tub of mojito sorbetto. It's deeply refreshing—almost bracingly so—like a supercharged frozen cocktail (minus the rum) that's packed with intense flavors of real mint and fresh-squeezed lime juice. A single scoop will set you back $3.75, but, I'd do it as a double ($4.75) with a scoop of strawberry gelato. Adding a smoother, more mellow scoop to the mix is a better way to showcase the invigorating properties of the mojito sorbetto and also guards against flavor fatigue by introducing a creamier, contrasting texture.
Want something minty but not as aggressive? Go for the mint chocolate gelato. It's mellow enough to eat solo, but even better with a bottom layer of dark chocolate gelato.
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>Cross Training>Where to Bike?
I'm new to this forum (usually post in the masters running group), but I have a question for you cyclist / triahletes out there, as I'm new to cycling.
I was riding my bike along a suburban road this morning on my way back from the gym. The road I was on has two lanes each way, a narrow sidewalk on either side, and no bike lane. I started out on the sidewalk but remembered that as being a "no-no", so I rode in the right side of the right lane on the road. Speed limit is 35, and I go nowhere near that (new to cycling, riding my little mountain bike). But there was whole 'nother lane for folks to pass me in, traffic was light, and the sidewalk was in use by a few wakkers and joggers.
On my way home, a police officer pulled up beside me and told me I cannot ride in the road if I'm impeding traffic, that I have to be able to go the speed the traffic is going. I asked if I could ride on the sidewalk, and he said yes, so that's what I did.
It's kind of funny to have it pointed out just how slow I am (how slow is she? impeding traffic slow , but now I really am wondering where I'm supposed to ride. While this road would not be my first choice of relaxing places to ride, I really would like to be able to ride to/from the gym like I did today. Any insights from you more experienced cyclists would be appreciated.
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1st, welcome to biking.
It's my opinion that the Police Officer was full of garbage. I could easily be wrong since laws can change from state to state, county to county and city to city. BTW, Almost every where, riding in the side walk is against the law.
Next, if you can bike at 35 mph then you ought to be in France right now.......I wouldn't even begin to worry about the speed limit.
Give me a little while and I'll get you a link to a bike advocacy group. They're pretty good at keeping up with local laws and regs.
With the big green push right now most cities are trying to become more bike friendly.......I live in redneck country and this is not a bike friendly town. I bike commute most every day. I've had the local police here try to tell me that I was in the wrong......that I have since learned was rubbish. I ride according to the law.
Keep riding and when I get a little time I'll get you a link.
I have to be honest with you Carol......sometimes it ticks me off when the bikers are out on the road (on the right side) and I need to get by them, but cant cause its a narrow road and there is a car coming the other directions............
BUT --- I also know that the bikers are not breaking the law by riding on the road (and they have to ride somewhere)......so I just have to suck it up until I can get past them...........I think your COP friend doesn't know what he is talking about......which doesn't surprise me. I think about 50% of the 'things' that the local police say are not correct, or are made up laws..
I'll bet you are right and he is full of it (if fact, I would probably bet money on it).....
Champions are made when no one is watching
Texas looks to be a pretty bike friendly state. Here is your states advocacy group. http://www.biketexas.org/
Make sure you check out the "Rules of the Road" under the Resources tab. Again, your city or county may have a different regulation.
I'd email them, shoot them the name of your city and I'm sure they would be happy to get in touch with your local law efforcement to inquire about the local laws.
John A.
Thanks for sucking it up.......(not being sarcastic)......I know I'm not the most liked person when I'm on my bike but there really ought to be many more of us on the road for numerous reasons.
Thanks so much Slo, Joe, and John!
Hey Joe, good to see you...remember you from the D forum.
Slo, I really appreciate the links and will check them out. If I continue to bike to the gym, I'll probably run into this officer again so need to know what the law says.
John, I hear what you are saying about those narrow roads. But the road I was on had two lanes each way, traffic was not bad, and the road is straight. So there was plenty of room for folks to see me (wearing bright pink), move into the left lane and go around me.
I'm in the very early stages of training for hopefully my first sprint triathlon in the fall. I'll likely stick to the local trails when I just ride, but since it's over 100 degrees most days here, being able to bike to the gym, run/swim/lift there, and bike home is quite handy execpt for my policeman friend.
Puttin' on the foil
The laws in each state are different. Where I live (Washington State), the law provides that a cyclist is required to ride as far to the right as practicable. However, in my state cyclists are entitled to ride on the road, subject to the same rights and responsibilities as car drivers. I too would guess that the cop is full of crap. However, you might want to check with your local bike shop for favored cycling routes. We have bike maps in Spokane made by a planning department that identify roads that are favored for bikes, like those with wide shoulders and bike lanes. There are a couple of heavily traveled roads where bikes are prohibited. You might want to check with your local government.
Good luck and keep at it!
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Go to the links section to find advocacy groups.
Run until the trail runs out.
The pain that hurts the worse is the imagined pain. One of the most difficult arts of racing is learning to ignore the imagined pain and just live with the present pain (which is always bearable.) - Jeff
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putting on my driver's hat, i was rear-ended a month ago because of a bike. cyclist was in right lane and everybody slammed on brakes to avoid. driver behind me didn't stop in time so i got lovely impression of her toyota tacoma in the back of my car. it wasn't the cyclist's fault and not really the first driver's fault. just a case of someone going 15 mph on the road full of vehicles going 45 mph. doesn't work so well.
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I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
The Tacoma was driving too close to you.
Yep, the problem is that there are cyclists that can't cycle and drivers that can't drive. For cyclists that can cycle the drivers that can't drive have much more of an "impact" than a cyclist that can't cycle to drivers.
45 to 15 mph is not a big issue. If you can't control a car at 45 when something is riding along the road at 15 then we have one of those drivers that can't drive. I would hate to see them hit highway speeds. If the cyclist is all over the place it just means the drivers have to be more vigilant. It would be like seeing a car weaving in and out of lanes and not being extra careful. Car drivers see those as threats but fly by the cyclists and honk their horns in displeasure that they had to slow down and be careful.
it wasn't really the first driver's fault. just a case of someone going 15 mph on the road full of vehicles going 45 mph. doesn't work so well.
it wasn't really the first driver's fault. just a case of someone going 15 mph on the road full of vehicles going 45 mph. doesn't work so well.
Umm, yes it was.
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Sharpie Squad and resident heartthrob (and apparently, heartbreaker), Timothy Goodman is embarking on another romantic adventure, this time on a little social experiment with friend and fellow designer, Jessica Walsh. The experiment? They are going to date. Like, for real.
For 40 days Tim, commitment challenged and serial lady killer, and Jessica, hopeless romantic on the hunt for "the one," will become a couple to discover if they can change their bad habits and make sense of the ever-elusive emotion, "love." And we get to watch. HELLLO newest reality addiction.
Every day a new "episode" will be revealed on their website documenting their journey with questionnaires, pictures and all kinds of crazy challenges, like holding hands for 8 hours straight…They also enlisted 80 designers /illustrators/artists to contribute a typographic piece that will live on the website to represent each day (2 designers a day).
Before you go thinking "PSH what's to keep this thing going?" Oh, there are rules. Major rules. As in, I don't think I have ever seen my boyfriend for 40 days-in-a-row…
1. We will see each other every day for forty days.
2. We will go on at least three dates a week.
3. We will see a couples therapist once a week.
4. We will go on one weekend trip together.
5. We will fill out the daily questionnaire and document everything.
6. We will not see, date, hookup, or anything else with anyone else.
Episode one starts right now… Head over to Forty Days of Dating and check out Jessica and Tim's first date! Be sure to check back EVERY.DAY for all the boy/girl dramaffair (new word. Made it up. I think it works.)
What do you think? Will it stick? Are these two destined to be permanently attached at the hip (had to) or doomed for failure?
We are doing our own half time show and checking back in with Tim and Jessica on July 29th and we want to hammer them with questions– so let us know what YOU want to know! We will all get answers on July 29th!
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This article was published 7/9/2012 (1810 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
For those wondering why the Bombers are moving the 2011 Most Outstanding Defensive Player out of his old position and into a new one: Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Defensive back Jovon Johnson gets his turns at strong-side linebacker (SAM) when the last-place Blue and Gold host the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the ninth annual Banjo Bowl at Canad Inns Stadium Sunday (noon). The 5-9, 182-pound Johnson replaces Brandon Stewart, who's struggled since returning from injury two games ago. In a secondary shuffle that underlines the Bombers defensive issues through this 2-7 campaign, Stewart moves to cornerback, with Demond Washington switching over to Johnson's spot.
Jonathan Hefney has also taken his turns at the SAM position this season.
Johnson, who filled in admirably at safety when Ian Logan was hurt for the 2011 finale against Calgary, says the tricky part about playing SAM involves the height of the linemen in front of him.
"The toughest thing is just seeing the adjustments (in the offence)," he said, speaking of the difficulties he might have seeing over the line of scrimmage into the offensive backfield. "I'm kind of smaller, so to see if there are two backs or three receivers is tough. I have to pay more attention to the coach on the sidelines for some guidance there. That's the main adjustment for me."
The simple act of moving closer to the football gets a player more action, but Johnson understands he could be extra busy as the Riders (4-5) will probably target him in the new spot Sunday afternoon.
"I don't expect them to come after me, but I'm sure they'll have a couple wrinkles to try and take advantage of my aggressive style," he said. "We'll see what happens."
With rookie Jordan Taormina (stinger) out, the Bombers turn to fellow import Shannon Boatman to take up the right tackle spot on the O-line. That's right, the Bombers are now down to the backup's backup. Boatman hasn't played since he started five games with the Toronto Argonauts in 2010.
"It's not easy at all," he said, when asked about drawing into a lineup that lost 52-0 the week before. "There's going to be a lot of eyes on us," Boatman said. "I'm pretty sure people are going to be critical of everything that happens."
The Bombers also confirmed that left guard Steve Morley (ankle) will be ready to play. No other roster changes are expected for Winnipeg.
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
The Phonetic Mnemonic System is one of the most useful systems for helping you memorize facts. Here are some sample facts that you can easily memorize using this system.
1. The tallest building in the world is Taipei 101, in Taiwan. It is 509 meters tall. Using the phonetic system, the number 509 translates to 'lazy boy'. Picture a lazyboy chair balanced on the spire sticking out of the top of the building, or picture a very lazy boy taking a week to walk up the stairs to the top. Now, you can easily remember the height of the building.
2. On the periodic table, iron (Fe) has an atomic number of 26 which has the phonetic word of 'notch'. Picture yourself trying to iron your clothes using an iron with a big notch cut into it.
3. The speed of sound is 340 meters per second. The phonetic keyword for 340 is 'Mars'. Think up your own association between 'sound' and 'Mars' to remember this fact.
4. World War II started in 1939. You can use any of the following keywords: Top Mop, Tie Pump or if you ignore the century you can simply use 'map'. Pick your favorite keyword and associate it with the war.
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MOTORISTS faced traffic chaos around Weymouth after a crash led to the closure of a busy route during rush-hour.
Police closed the A354 Weymouth Way between the Manor roundabout and Chafeys roundabout for about two hours today after a collision involving two cars.
Two women were injured in the smash and were both taken to Dorset County Hospital.
One of the women, who suffered head injuries, was rescued from her car by firefighters before being taken to hospital. It is not thought her injuries are life threatening.
The other woman was taken to hospital with neck and back injuries, but a spokesman for the South Western Ambulance Service said it was just a precaution.
Drivers faced a slow crawl home as surrounding roads were clogged up with traffic.
There were reports of gridlock on Spa Road, Radipole Park Drive, Radipole Lane and Dorchester Road as motorists struggled to use alternative routes during the closure.
Police said a Seat car and a Ford Mondeo, both registered to local women, were in collision on Weymouth Way about 4.30pm. It happened just beneath the Spa Road bridge and a number of emergency services vehicles were at the scene.
Firefighters from Weymouth and Dorchester used hydraulic cutting gear to remove the roof of the Seat so a woman could be taken out safely to prevent any further injury.
Paramedics were on scene treating her. Due to the rescue operation by emergency services, police closed both lanes of the carriageway.
An onlooker said: "I could see two fire engines and another fire service car, police cars, ambulances and other paramedic vehi cles. They were attending to a lady in a silver Seat and had cut the roof off the car. I could see they had fitted her with a neck brace. I hope she's okay.
"As I came away from the scene there was gridlock on the roads due to the closure."
Weymouth Way was reopened at 6.30pm after the two vehicles involved were recovered. But police warned motorists to continue to expect delays into the evening as the congested diversion routes cleared.


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Grant County Parks and Recreation is hosting its 13th annual youth cross country series for youth entering kindergarten through the eighth grade.
The enrollment fee is $10 for Grant County residents and $20 for any out-of-county residents. Included in the fee is a series T-shirt and an award for all those who complete the requirements.
Along with the awards, a traveling trophy will be awarded to the school with the most participants.
Registration is available at www.grantcountyparks.com or at Sherman Elementary at 5 p.m. Aug. 14.
The first Eagle Creek Triathlon was held on July 19. The participants completed three events: a 750 meter swim, 11 mile bike and 5K run at Eagle Creek Country Club in Crittenden.
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1st place: Rangers
2nd place: Royals
Major Division
1st place: Rattlers
2nd place: Sluggers
Minor Division
1st place: Bulldogs
2nd place: Diamond Dawgs
10U Division
Grant County 10
South Oldham B 9
South Oldham A 14
Grant County 4
North Oldham A 7
Grant County 5
Trimble 9
Grant County 4
North Oldham B 19
Grant County 9
Coach Pitch
Bluejays 12
Crush 10
Yankees 15
Reds 5
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Yankees 15
Woodslingers 5
Crush 14
Reds 12
• Minor Division
Diamond Dawgs 4
Bull Dogs 5
• Rattlers placed first in 12U Majors Baseball division with the regular season and tournament champs.
• Bulldogs placed first in the 10U Minors Tournament.
On Saturday, July 26, Owen County will host the Battle in the Bluegrass, a Grant County Special Olympics Invitational softball tournament at the Owen County Park.
Grant County Little League has just wrapped up its summer season, but that doesn't mean that work will stop at Grant County Park.
In fact, things might get a bit busier since the Grant County Little League Board will continue their renovation efforts at the park without having to schedule around games and practices.
The work began with a three to four year project that included four phases. With a lot of hard work, help from sponsors and local businesses and a little luck, the board was able to complete the project in just nine months.
Division Standings
Coach Pitch
Rangers 14
Reds 12
Blue Jays 9
Royals 3
Crush 8
Rangers 12
Royals 9
Reds 8
• Minor Division
Mustangs 8
Bulldogs 6
Major Division
Rattlers 6
Sluggers 5
• 10U Softball Division
Dream Team 15
Owen Maroon 1
13U Softball Division
Dirt Diva's 21
Slugger 8
Coach Pitch
Rangers 9
Reds 15
Woodslingers 0
Yankees 10
Royals 4
Blue Jays 8
Crush 15
Woodslingers 3
Minor Division
Wildcats 9
Diamond Dogs 10
Bulldogs 16
Mustangs 10
Major Division
Bulldogs 7
Reds 3
Rattlers 8
Sluggers 0
10U Softball Division
Dream Team 6
Marissa Lamp, daughter to Tamie Lucas of Grant County, is a member of the Interscholastic Equestrian Association. Lamp is part of a team that rides for the Double H Ranch located in Burlington. The coach is Lynlee Foster.
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Our 2012 class of summer interns finished up their work over the past few weeks and now they're returning to school. The summer at Goldman Sachs offered them opportunities to work on many day-to-day projects with their teams, attend classes, talks and networking events, and to learn about the firm's commitment to teamwork and community.
Through a five-part speaker series featuring senior leaders — including CEO Lloyd Blankfein — interns heard perspectives on the financial services industry, career development, and the culture of the firm. One intern remarked that the series "really showed that [senior leaders] are thinking about the things that are important to us. The senior leadership at Goldman Sachs is just as interested in our growth and development as we are."
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Great news for those with maritime ancestors, Ancestry.co.uk has added another dataset to their Occupations Collection, this time it is Masters & Mates certificates 1850 – 1927. As England is an island nation I am sure that most of us have some ancestral connection to the sea and these records will help fill in the details of our families lives.
The certificates may vary slightly, but generally they contain the date of the certificate (they were also know as tickets), the mariners name, where and when they were born, how many years in the merchant navy, which type of experience they had e.g. coasting and lastly the mariners signature. All great family history information.


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>Suggestions and Feature Requests>Populate the temperature automatically
I'm sure it's harder than it sounds or everyone would be doing it but it would be nice if the temperature was automatically populated for workouts that have GPS data. I don't see any sites doing this, but the information is historical and most likely available from some online archive somewhere. Since the GPS data gives the location and time of day it seems like populating the info would be a nice thing to just plug in. Yeah I know I said "just" and "easy". Again, I'm sure it's harder than it sounds, but I figured maybe no one has mentioned it so why not throw the idea out there.
And in the end...
This is one that technically is 'easy'... but the sites that collect and retain this data... charge for access... at least when you want it ad-hoc.
Fuck it. I'm gonna PR this fall. Let's do this.
I revisited this request at the beginning of the month. Most weather websites offer only current weather or forecasts only. Weather Wunderground offers historical data but the free (developer) license allows only 500 look ups a day, which is nowhere near enough even if I store the results of the look ups. The next tier allows 5,000 look ups, which should be enough assuming I store the results, but it costs $500 a month. I would consider it if it's $500 a year.
I kept digging and found a data source that does not charge me an obscene amount of money for historical data. I managed to unpack one of the sample files and read the data. I still need to determine if all the weather stations in its network provide sufficient coverage for pretty much the entire world. If the coverage is acceptable, then the only problem remaining is the data comes out once a day. That means if you log a workout for today, chances are that it won't have weather data until a day or two from now.
I don't know how users feel about delayed weather. I suppose I can continue to provide the weather form on the workout editor, but then I'll have duplicate data. So, that's weather in a nutshell.
I vote for getting rid of weather altogether. Weather is important to know before a run, but it's useless in the training log.
Runners run.
That's not necessarily true. If your run is uncharacteristically slow, it could be you're running in a snow storm or 100% humidity. You can indicate this info in the notes, but having the actual weather condition can provide a better picture.
Don't worry Mikey, the next log update should make you happy if you don't want weather.
I'd like a streak widget for non-running, please. Weather will not be an important component.
Temperature info would be interesting, but it's typically not something I track. Interestingly, garmin has a device called "Tempe" to measure temperature. Unfortunately, it's not compatible with your typical GPS watches (except for the fenix, and some other hiking-type devices). It's too bad garmin hasn't expanded its use.
Don't worry Mikey, the next log update should make you happy if you don't want weather.
I trust you.
I am excited that the new update will control the weather. I hope Dragon helped with that feature, because, well, daaaaamn!
FWIW, I DO record the temperature, wind, and dew point (when applicable) for nearly every run and ride. However, I select various weather stations for the data depending on where I run or ride (via Underground). I put the detail in the notes.
I don't really have a need to have the data populated automatically. Some weather station data (at least from Underground which you are NOT proposing to use) are obviously inaccurate at various times (temperature sun-affected, wind sheltered from certain directions). I'd rather input the data manually than have inaccurate data automatically populated.
(And I take it from your (Eric) comment to Mikey that I'll be happy whatever you decide to do.)
I have no idea if this info would be helpful at all or not, but I thought I would add my $0.02.
I use a NOAA/NWS webpage that listed the hourly observation data for the previous three days for the station near to me. I believe this type of data is available for all of the reporting stations. The trick would be to be able to cross reference a Lat/Long to the nearest reporting station. This is the page I use for Indianapolis http://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KIND.html It seems as though you can put in different call signs and get observation data for that station.
This website has a master list of the call signs. http://www.weathergraphics.com/identifiers
I downloaded the .txt file and brought it into excel (the .xls file wasn't complete for me) and then looking at the data there it looks like column J (called "icao_xref") shows the call signs. I punched in a few and discovered that a lot of them don't actually have data. From testing a small sample of data it looks like only the stations that have spmething populated in column N (called "iata_xref") have data that can be found on that webpage. This isn't 100% correct though as I know of a station in my state that does have available data and does not have the N column populated in this spreadsheet. Columns AD and AE have the Lat and Long for the station. Somehow you'd have to connect the GPS data from someone's workout and have it go to the nearest reporting station and then grab the observation from the time that correlated with the timestamp on the GPS data.
Of course this data only goes back three days so it wouldn't work for anyone who doesn't upload their data to the site regularly. This method also wouldn't work outside of the US.


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When publishers decide that they're going to denote a second season's title with an apostrophe to make it distinct from its prequel, I think it's high time to bring back subtitles. I'm talking about Clannad After Story, Full Metal Panic Fumoffu, Naruto Shuppuuden, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. It's so much easier on the filing system and provides a convenient cue to quickly tell what you're talking about in simple conversation.
Ok, now that I've got that off my chest, Working!! 2 picks up where season 1 left off. Popula is still short, Inami is still afraid of men, Aoi is still a freeloader, Yachiyo is still carrying a katana, Kyouko is still a lazy manager and Takanashi is still a moe fanboy. It's a nice, diverse cast that is showing a lack of development, unfortunately. Taking a moe cast out of school and putting it in a restaurant was a good enough change of pace for season 1, but now that it's already been done, Working!! 2 needs something else to make it stand out from its own past success. The first episode is still funny, but I'm being led to predict stagnation. All the same, I'm hopeful that the rest of season 2 will prove me wrong. If all else fails, I'll get to enjoy the guilty pleasure I share with Takanashi.


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It's official. Ryan Riess is your 2013 WSOP Main Event Champion, picking up $8,361,570.
The 23-year-old poker pro from Waterford, MI might forever be known as "Riess the Beast" after a tour de force performance in this year's November Nine. Just one year removed from playing his first live tournament at the Horseshoe Hammond Circuit Main Event, Riess is now a bracelet winner, a World Champion, and 10th on the WOSP all-time money list.
Sporting a Detroit Lions jersey with the number of his favorite player, wide receiver Calvin Johnson, Riess prevailed over a final table line-up that included two WSOP gold bracelet winners, Amir Lehavot and JC Tran, as well as a wide range of accomplished players representing five different countries. Moreover, he topped a field of 6,352 players who ponied up the $10,000 entry fee to play in what was the eighth-largest tournament in poker history. Over the course of 261 hands, Riess played his way to victory at this year's November Nine final table, defeating Vegas-based VIP nightclub host Jay Farber heads-up for the title, bringing this year's Main Event to an emphatic conclusion.
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|FYI — December 2001
|By Brad Dunn
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It took two years and about a $7.5-million investment program to launch the Kos Island Marina in Greece. The ultra-modern facility with 250 berths--a combination of slips and moorings--has electricity and telephone and satellite TV connections. Yachts up to 164 feet are welcome, and a closed-circuit television system monitors the facility around the clock.
The leisure area, which will have an open-air theater, two swimming pools, restaurants, tennis courts, and a fitness club, is still under construction. For more information check out www.kosmarina.gr.
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The internationally acclaimed boatbuilder, known as much for its yacht designs as its high-quality fit and finish work, practices the interior outfitting technique where interiors are built off-site and then custom installed. For more information call (561) 844-1800.
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Benetti Group has grown even larger: In September the Italian giant
announced it would acquire Gobbi, one of the country's largest
Though the details of the acquisition were not available at presstime, the deal was another shot in the arm for Azimut Benetti, which has posted an average annual growth of 28 percent over the past 10 years.
Azimut Benetti says it's the largest displacement motor vessel maker in Europe and the third-largest in the world, last year posting revenues of about $240 million.
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Q. I answer our company's main phone line, and frequently get calls for myself. Today when someone asked for me saying, "Is Charlotte available?" I responded, "This is she." The caller promptly corrected me, informing me that I should have said, "This is her." Which is correct?
Q. Please confirm or contradict the following. The special grammatical role played by the relative pronoun "whoever" leads to a case that few seem to know how to handle: when its role in the main clause appears to be objective, but its role in the subordinate clause is nominative.
For instance, I frequently read things like "We will give the prize to whomever runs the fastest." This is incorrect; it should be "whoever." The rule is that the case of the relative pronoun is governed by its role in the subordinate clause, not the main clause. Thus, in this case, it is the subject of "runs" and is therefore nominative. The object of "to" is the entire clause "whoever runs the fastest."
If you agree with this analysis, please put something on your site about it that I can refer people to. I have some arguments I would like to win. :-)
Q. I frequently read and hear what I believe is misuse of the first person reflexive pronoun "myself." For example, someone sent me an e-mail requesting that I send him information. He wrote, "Please forward the information to myself." Today I read a statement made by President Clinton [in 1997]. He said, "I have no recollection of ordering Trooper Ferguson to arrange a meeting between myself and Ms. Jones." Is this correct? Or would it have been more correct to say "between me and Ms. Jones" or "between Ms. Jones and me"?
Q. Hello CMOS. My close friends and I have decided for numerous reasons that all of the current methods of political correctness in pronouns are silly and, simply put, not as gender neutral as they claim to be. With that in mind we decided to import the French on as both a singular and plural gender neutral pronoun. However, it has just recently occurred to me that in this situation what would be the protocol for the genitive case of on and constructions such as his/herself, would it be on self? Thank you CMOS.
Q. Is "this is mine and Kelly's cat" correct? Would you please explain the rules behind this sentence. Thank you.
Q. I am having trouble deciding if it is "Page and I" or "Page and me" in "Please let Page and me know."
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Q. When writing a proposal for my company, I typically use the pronouns "we" and "you." For example, "We are confident that the job can be done in the time frame you desire." I have a colleague who insists that I should write, "Our company (or XYZ Inc.) is confident that the job can be done within the time frame ABC Co. desires." I think the repetitive naming of the companies becomes tedious to read, and it becomes confusing to refer to each company as "the firm" or whatever. I think that after the company name is mentioned at the onset, then referring to the respondent as "we" and the recipient company as "you" makes for clearer communication and also sounds less lofty and distancing. What is your opinion?
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Q. Is it proper to capitalize pronouns that refer to a deity? For example, "God is willing to forgive anyone who comes to Him."


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Dietrich Riley had already fought his way back from one injury.
He didn't think he'd suffer another just one week into UCLA's spring camp.
After sitting out all of last season recovering from neck surgery, the redshirt junior safety out of St. Francis in La Ca ada separated his right shoulder April 6 - just the third practice session this month.
Riley had gotten his arm caught trying to pry the ball loose during one-on-one drills, and the pain he suddenly felt had him fearing the worse.
He said he tried to think positively, but couldn't contain all his emotions as the staff worked to pop his shoulder back in on the sideline.
"Sitting in that shade area with the trainer, I didn't know what to expect," he said. "I kind of broke down. I started crying because I've been working my tail off the whole offseason, just doing whatever I can to prepare myself mentally and physically. Then that accident happens."
Luckily for him and the Bruins, the most experienced member of the secondary didn't require surgery. Riley is gradually working back into practice with a red jersey. He said the shoulder feels fine, though he hasn't gone full contact yet. He rehabs two to three times a day.
"He's such a football-intelligent kid," defensive backs coach Demetrice Martin said. "When we throw him back out there, it's like he never fell off. It's like riding a bike to him. The thing is, it's going to be vital to get him back and get him healthy."
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Come fall, as many as three freshmen could be starting on the Bruins' offensive line. Since the position group is still waiting on seven incoming players, plenty of would-be reserves are getting the benefit of more practice reps. However, the fatigue is also taking a toll on them three weeks into spring camp.
"Now what happens is these kids take so many reps during practice that they're going to get tired," offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone said. "All of a sudden, they start losing their technique and things like that. You can't work on some of the things you need to work on."
Hundley eager to re-scale stairs
During the winter offseason, quarterback Brett Hundley found an unexpected challenge: the Santa Monica Stairs. Located near at the corner of Fourth and Adelaide less than a mile from the Pacific Ocean, the top offers spectacular coastal views.
To get there, though, one must first scale 189 steep steps. Together with former running back Johnathan Franklin and current defensive back Librado Barocio, Hundley took to the stairs for what he thought would be a regular workout.
"At first, we started walking up it, I asked them, `Is this the pace we're going at?"' Hundley said. "Worst thing I ever did. Worst thing I ever did in my life."
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When you type a query in Google, the search engine's algorithms go into overdrive and start to complete the question for you.
Amazing Maps has charted the stereotypes that are revealed when Google Autocomplete kicks in with: Why is [state] so [blank].
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An update of the Pixel Bender Toolkit is now available via the Adobe Updater and from the Pixel Bender Developer Connection area on adobe.com. If you have installed After Effects CS5, Flash Professional CS5 or one of the suites that includes these applications, you will see the update listed in the available updates. If you installed the Pixel Bender Toolkit via downloading it on from Adobe.com, you will need to download the update and install it by following the installation instructions.
The majority of effort in the release was on bug fixes found late in the CS5 development cycle. There have been some good bugs reported in the Pixel Bender forums, some are fixed in this release and some will be fixed in a later release.
There has been one major change in the behavior of the Flash preview in this release. In the 2.0 version of the Pixel Bender Toolkit, if you have a kernel with two inputs, the filter was treated as a Flash blend shader. This resulted in some unexpected results, especially when compared to CPU or GPU previews. Now, when you have a two input kernel, we instead create a ShaderJob and use the two input images as inputs. Hopefully, this will make things a bit more consistent. In a future version of the Toolkit, we plan to make this behavior selectable, but the blend case seemed to be very uncommon.
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"Too often, we feed 'a pound a day' of milk replacer because that's the way it's always been, and the calves seem to be turning out OK," says Betsy Karle with the University of California Cooperative Extension in Glenn and Tehama Counties. "However, when we stop to think about the biological need of a pre-weaned calf, it quickly becomes clear that we may be limiting calves' potential."
In the March issue of the California Dairy Newsletter, Karle examines the topic of feeding calves on a higher plane of nutrition, including the health benefits and tips for making it work.
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A Louisiana House committee debated for more than an hour Wednesday before advancing legislation that would soften the penalties for marijuana possession.
The sticking point in House Bill 103 was how the proposal addresses habitual offenders and other already convicted offenders.
Current law requires a third or subsequent conviction of marijuana possession to be punished by up to 20 years in prison. The felony conviction can be used to enhance the prison sentence when the offender has at least two other felony convictions.
HB103 sponsor, state Rep. Austin Badon, D-New Orleans, wants to allow those incarcerated for marijuana possession to be able to petition the court for a reconsideration of their sentences should his proposal become law.
He also wanted to stop prosecutors from using a marijuana possession charge to send offenders to prison for long sentences, including life, under the state's habitual offender law.
The House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice agreed to cut the jail time for marijuana possession. A second conviction would be punishable by up to a year in prison instead of a maximum of five years. A third conviction would be punishable by up to two years instead of a maximum of 20 years. The maximum jail time for subsequent offenses would be five years. Those already incarcerated would be able to petition for a reconsideration of their sentences.
However, the committee tweaked the habitual offender language, mandating that all of the felonies would have to involve marijuana possession. With the change in place, the House committee voted without objection to advance the bill.
ACLU Louisiana Executive Director Marjorie Esman asked committee members to think about how many people they know who smoke marijuana.
"The difference between that person and the person who will be at Angola for the rest of their life is that they got caught," she said.
Esman said Louisiana treats marijuana possession worse than a drive-by shooting.
One committee member, state Rep. Dalton Honoré, lauded the legislation.
"We've got to take a different approach. Our prisons are full," said Honoré, D-Baton Rouge.
Another committee member, state Rep. Chris Hazel, scolded Esman for making it sound like people are going to prison for simple possession charges. Hazel, R-Pineville, has a legal background that includes work as a prosecutor.
He said people who go to prison do so because they've committed multiple crimes.
"People have one or two or three bites at the apple," Hazel said.
Pete Adams, executive director of the Louisiana District Attorneys Association, said habitual offenders are not in prison for life because they lit up a single marijuana joint.
"A joint is not a felony," he said.
Habitual offenders in Louisiana can go to prison for an enhanced period of time following three felony convictions.
"We don't send people to jail for life for three-time possession of marijuana. I defy you to show me one of those cases," Adams said.
State Rep. Helena Moreno, D-New Orleans, said St. Tammany Parish prosecutors worked to sentence a Pearl River woman under the habitual offender law for writing bad checks.
"My concern is parishes where people are going to jail for those situations," she said.
Avoyelles Parish District Attorney Charles Riddle said his main objection was the habitual offender and sentence reconsideration portions of the legislation.
He said the legislation would apply to people with extensive criminal records.
"If you take out the habitual offender and resentencing provisions, I'll step down," Riddle said.
Badon held his ground.
"So basically after you put the guy away, you don't want to deal with him anymore," he told Riddle.
Riddle countered that legislators should not take away the ability to prosecute the worst offenders as long as marijuana use remains illegal in Louisiana.
He said he does not put youngsters in jail for experimenting with marijuana.
"That's in your parish," Honoré said. "They go to jail. They can't get bonded out ... so they sit in there for six months."


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THE heartbroken father of a young skier killed in an accident believes better safety measures might have saved him.
Former Taunton School student Aleksander Owens-Thurston, 23, died in the high-speed crash in the Austrian resort of Kaprun during a family holiday.
His father said his death had left "a huge hole" but he hopes lessons can be learned.
Phillip Owens-Thurston said: "We're still stunned.
"He was just a young man and had his whole life ahead of him. It's such a waste.
"He lived life to the full and it's a tragedy that he's been taken from us.
"I don't begrudge a second of the time we had with him, but I begrudge the moments we'll now never have.
"He was such a wonderful young man and will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him."
Experienced skier Aleksander, who worked in IT in Reading, crashed into a metal girder supporting a snow cannon after losing his footing on a steep route near St Anton.
The Surrey University economics graduate was not wearing a helmet when he crashed into part of the machine not covered with protective padding.
His father said: "Where he hit his head would not have really been covered by a helmet anyway. The one thing that might have saved him is the padding.
"If what's happened to Aleks can save even one life, then we can take something away from it. At the moment we have nothing."
He was holidaying with his dad, mum Kasia and 21-year-old brother Richard.
His father said: "We go skiing every year and we've been doing that for ten years. He was the best of us - a very good skier. He had a big grin on his face all that day."
Aleksander, who died on February 24, will be laid to rest at Taunton School Chapel at 3pm on Friday, March 14.
Taunton School headmaster Dr John Newton said: "Aleksander was a delightful young man. He had a courtesy and set of values that made him stand out.
"He also had a huge appetite for life and packed a lot into his tragically few years. He loved Taunton School dearly, and we remember him with affection."


text: Culture 17 December 2012 Reviews round-up The critics' verdicts on David Foster Wallace, Roberto Calasso's Baudelaire and Nick Barratt's history of London's suburbs. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace, the author of Infinite Jest who ended his own life in 2008, claimed that nonfiction is harder to write than fiction "because nonfiction is based in reality – and today's felt reality is overwhelmingly, circuit-blowingly huge and complex." This posthumous collection of essays on what Wallace described as the "total noise" of contemporary life has been met with mixed reactions. Whilst critics are united in praising Wallace's idiosyncratic talent, opinions differ on whether this collection should have been published this way, if at all. In a review that raises the issue of what rightly constitutes an author's oeuvre, Leo Robson writes in this week's New Statesman: "it is […] a shame that there now exists in book form evidence of Wallace as a practitioner of modest journalistic undertakings". He considers the collection to be unrepresentative both of the author's talent, and what he would have wished: "Wallace had shown how he wanted his non-fiction to be treated and it didn't involve the conversion of emphera in to filler. In other words, if Wallace had survived long enough to preside over a further collection, it is unlikely that he would have looked like this." In contrast, Nat Segnit of The Independent, praises a work that, for him, "brims with jewels of insight and expression." Whilst Robson objects to a prose which, at times, seems to contradict what we know of Wallace's actual life, Segnit is appreciative of his "digressions and feedback loops of obsessive self-correction". David Annand writing in The Telegraph concedes that only some of the collected pieces "belong firmly in Wallace's first rank" and that, at worst, "there's something a little desperate about including a throwaway one-pager on Zbigniew Herbert" in this collection. However, he concluldes that the "the spirit which animates Wallace's essays" provides ample examples of what Annand calls "David Foster Wallace moments"- "when you get halfway through a sentence and gasp involuntarily, and for a second you feel lucky that there was, at least for a time, someone who could make sense like no other of what it is to be a human in our era." La Folie Bauedelaire by Roberto Calasso The phrase "la folie Baudelaire" has its origin in an article written by Sainte-Beuve, Baudelaire's contemporary and nemesis, which decried the poet as a drug-addled rascal, unsuitable for admission to the Académie Française. Whilst critics agree that Alastair McEwan's translation of Calasso's extended essay is succesful in evoking some of the idiosyncrasy of the "monstre sacré", they are divided on the effectiveness of the Italian's "ornate" writing style. Keith Miller of The Telegraph warns that this work is less useful than Baudelaire's Wikipedia page in communicating the "salient facts" of the 19th- century poet's life, he writes "this is in no sense a biography". However, for Miller, what the book lacks in factual detail, it makes up for in its evocation of Baudelaire's otherness: "This book, sublimely untouched by 20th-century thought […], and imperiously indifferent to any revisionist impulse is essentially content to leave him [...] magnificently marooned on his Asiatic isthmus, the king across the water. " John Simon in the New York Times finds himself frustrated by the obscurity of Calasso's prose, he writes: " the book fluctuates between criticism and biography, which is fine; what is lacking, however, is a clearly conveyed thread that unites all this material." Though he says that Calsso's writing can be "quite impressive", he concludes: "the translation into English seems correct enough", but that the "obscurantism" could do with translation into "perspicuity". Emma Hogan, writing in the Financial Times, agrees that Calasso "sometimes [...] strays too far into the realms of whimsy". She judges that the author manages to "capture the shifting, overlapping world [of 19th-century Paris]" without getting "overwhelmed by his own material". The "stories of supporting characters" are celebrated by Hogan, who writes that "such details, combined with [Calasso's] ear for a lyrical phrase, make La Folie Baudelaire a joy to read." Greater London: The Story of the Suburbs by Nick Barratt Nick Barratt's Greater London charts the development of London's surrounding land, and the role it has played in the creation of the inner city. Its scale is ambitious, spanning a period from the first century AD up to the present day. John Carey in the Sunday Times confirms that Barratt is successful in "[collecting] facts on a prodigious scale", managing to capture "London's spectacular growth." For Carey, however, Greater London, fails to fulfill its self-professed aim "to celebrate the suburbs". He argues that Barratt fails to properly represent the human element of the development it charts: "What is missing […] is a sense of how people feel about their suburbs, and what they treasure in suburban life." Rebecca Armstrong, writing in the Independent, is more convinced of the breadth of Barratt's work, which she says performs an "excellent impression of a far-reaching, in-depth yet broadly-based history of London." Though she concedes that there are parts of the book which would require one to be "enamored of local politics" in order to best appreciate them, in general she findsit to be both informative and entertaining: "You don't have to be a Londoner to enjoy this heroic tale of people – of bricks and train-tracks – triumphing to the detriment of green space." › Films of the year David Foster Wallace pictured in 1997 (Photograph: Getty Images) Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles How to talk about Harry Potter if you've never read Harry Potter Everyday superheroes - how pop culture can help overcome trauma Upon Remembering Westminster Bridge Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine