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Raleigh, N.C. — Monday: Beer month officially kicks off today, so why not celebrate at the No Foolin' Beer Dinner at Big Boss Brewing Company tonight. They have teamed up with the Q Shack to offer a seven beer and four course plus dessert picnic style beer dinner. This casual work event starts sat 7 p.m. and will include chocolate bacon cupcakes topped with maple butter cream and candied bacon. It is $26 per person.
Tuesday: 50 Shades! The Musical, a parody of the "Fifty Shades of Grey" phenomenon, starts its run at Fletcher Opera Hall in Raleigh on Tuesday. Tickets start at $30.
Wednesday: Eric Clapton and the Wallflowers will play PNC Arena on Wednesday night. Tickets start at $46.
Thursday: Polos and Pearls at Solas will raise money for the MS Society of the Greater Carolinas. Tickets are $25 in advance and $35 at the door.
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text: Television critic and blogger Tim Goodman noted last night that he has purchased an HDTV and is, like probably everyone reading this, completely turned out by it. It's true, there isn't nearly enough high definition programming (is there such a thing as enough?), but what there is almost always results in owners wondering why they didn't buy one sooner. Seeing people ditch their old 480i lifestyle is like helping a good friend leave an abusive relationship (although one could say you're entering an abusive relationship of downconversion, incompatible format wars and isolation from SD-only programming, but we'd rather save that for later, after the honeymoon). All the same, his experience mirrors that of many first time HDTV buyers, and whether you've been in the game for years or are still considering that first purchase, you may find his reflections on the transition interesting.


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If you are saying the parent coaxed or coached child to lie about it to say the District Attorney, so charges would be filed, that would be illegal. It would be a crime of false statement. You can research false statement as well as impeachment of a witness and even perjury.
That would be a false statement. If the parent was involved and it can be proved the child was coaxed, coached or otherwise forced, the parent can be charged with conspiracy to false statement, as well as false statement. Impeachment of a witness is another resource.
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The failure this year of Congress's joint deficit-reduction committee produced a spate of post-mortems. Some of these analyses focused on problems seen with the committee process itself – its structure, its mission, the weak deterrents to its failure, and others. There was also the predictable mutual blame-laying, with members on each side pointing to the other's intransigence.
As we close the books on 2011, it's worth reflecting that the joint committee's failure was symptomatic of a larger underlying problem: it was caught in the grip of powerful forces beyond its control. There are multiple reasons why a bipartisan budget accord is now extraordinarily difficult to attain – regardless of the process adopted, and no matter how sincerely legislators approach the task. (Members and staff of the joint committee, by the way, approached their task very seriously -- on both sides of the aisle -- at least until it was apparent a compromise would not be reached.)
To make progress in 2012 and beyond we must understand the substantive factors inhibiting a budget deal, and develop effective methods for dealing with them:
Factor #1: In the short term, there is no bipartisan consensus that the deficit should be reduced. For the past three years we have run historically high deficits that have both spending and revenue components. The federal government spent 23.8% of total GDP in FY2011 after spending at least as much in each of FY09-10. These were the three highest years for federal spending (relative to the economy) in U.S. history, outside of a world war. Meanwhile, federal revenues are at 15.3% of GDP, well below their historical average.
There is no consensus, however, that these unprecedented current deficits should be reduced. To the contrary, the persistently weak economy has many calling for still more deficit spending as a stimulus measure. These calls are loudest on the left end of the political spectrum but are not confined there. Until enough decision-makers perceive a limit to the stimulus efficacy of increasing these record-high deficits, no bipartisan process is likely to produce significant near-term fiscal improvement.
Factor #2: The long-term problem is huge. There is by contrast a consensus of mainstream bipartisan opinion that strong action is necessary to address the long-term fiscal shortfall. A great difficulty is that this shortfall is so large that a genuine compromise requires each side to give up more than they have ever agreed to before. Under CBO's most-plausible "alternative fiscal policy" baseline, total annual deficits would exceed 15% of the nation's entire economic output by 2035, while total public debt would be nearly twice as large as GDP. This is a different universe from 1997, when an unexpected surge in federal revenues enabled the opposing parties to agree on a balanced-budget deal with minimal heartburn.
In short: the problem is big, so a solution is difficult. As this is probably obvious to most readers, I will move on to Factor #3.
Factor #3: Under current law the long-term problem is entirely attributable to projected spending; it has no revenue component. Over the long-term under current law, both federal revenues and spending would far exceed historical norms. On the revenue side, the rise would be attributable in large part to the expiration of current income tax rates, long-term bracket creep, the tax provisions of the 2010 health care law, and a failure to annually adjust income thresholds subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).
This fiscal reality by itself increases the difficulty of reaching a long-term budget deal. To normalize the future picture, both spending and revenues must be reduced from current-law projections. In this context, those on the political right find it nonsensical to discuss further tax increases. Even a solution with a very high ratio of spending-growth reductions to new revenues would lead to spending and revenues far higher than Americans have ever tolerated before.
The political left, however, feels as though it is losing a budget negotiation if discussions focus solely on addressing the spending growth at the root of the problem. They are heavily invested in the concept of getting the rich to pay their "fair share" (i.e., a higher level) of taxes. But while this reflects an income distribution concern on the left, it has nothing to do with the long-term budgetary problem, at least under current law.
Factor #4: The long-term spending problem is entirely attributable to growth in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other health entitlements. According to CBO's latest long-term budget outlook, spending on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the new health exchanges will together grow from 10.4% of GDP in 2011 to 15.5% by 2035, while all other non-interest spending will shrink from 12.3% of GDP to 7.8%. In other words, getting projected spending growth under control is entirely a matter of reining in the rising costs of Social Security and the various federal health entitlements. This further adds to the difficulty of a budget deal, as both political parties find it much more difficult to constrain the growth of these politically-sensitive programs than to cut other spending.
Factor #5: The impermanence of federal income tax policy is a huge problem. Under current law all individual income tax rates will rise at the end of 2012, while the AMT will affect more and more taxpayers every year indefinitely. Neither party wants this to happen; there is a bipartisan consensus that current income tax rates should be extended at least for most taxpayers, and that the income thresholds for the AMT should rise over time. Recognizing this political reality, CBO provides an "alternative fiscal scenario" projection – effectively a "current policy" projection – that shows a more likely outcome than maintaining literal current law. Under this alternative scenario long-term federal revenue collections would equal 18.4% of GDP, basically approximating the historical average. Notably, deficits would become untenable under this scenario far sooner than under current law, as seen below.
This disconnect between current tax law and current tax policy engenders political paralysis. Each side seasonally extracts political advantage from the next pending expiration of current rates: Republicans then accuse Democrats of wanting to raise taxes, while Democrats accuse Republicans of protecting the rich.
Over the long term, conservatives look at the rising current-law tax path and refuse to raise it any higher. Liberals look at the current-policy tax path and argue that revenues need to be raised. Unless and until current rates are made permanent – at whatever level the two sides can agree to – this situation will forever undermine our ability to broker a bipartisan budget strategy.
What to do? We won't find our way out of the thicket until we confront the substantive factors paralyzing prospects for a bipartisan budget agreement. In view of these, a few possible solutions suggest themselves:
- Bipartisan negotiators should commit up front that any rates resulting from a budget deal will be permanent. Then they can argue over what those rates should be. Conservatives will thus be assured that they will not be raising the long-term current-law tax line still further. Such a deal would benefit self-identified progressives as well. This is because any solution negotiated relative to the "current law" baseline must consist of spending reductions only, frustrating their political base. Only if a "current policy" baseline is permanently enshrined as the basis for negotiations will progressives be able to claim political credit for the revenue portions of a deal.
- The parties will start out disagreeing over tax levels no matter what. Of the negotiating approaches suggested to date, the Simpson-Bowles commission approach seems the most promising of bearing fruit. Under this approach, the left would win an increase in projected revenues (relative to the current-policy baseline), while the right would win a decrease in tax rates.
- There is no avoiding the inevitable clash over how much to constrain the growth of federal entitlement spending, because this is where the entirety of the fiscal problem lies. The two parties will find it hard to agree, and should thus try to find creative ways around those disagreements. The alternative is to bank on the improbable hope that one side might be able to force the other to permanently surrender its vision of the kind of American economy it wants to inhabit. That is to say, if half of America wants to spend 15% of GDP on entitlements and is willing to be so taxed, whereas the other wants only to spend 10%, we should revisit the question of whether all the spending growth must occur at the federal level, or whether some of it could occur at the state level -- in states where such cost growth is popularly supported.
These may or may not be foundational components of an eventual grand bargain on the budget. A budget deal is unlikely, however, until we find a means of dealing with the specific factors currently rendering it so elusive. And the two biggest structural obstacles we face are the impermanence of current tax rates, and the fact that the budget problem stems entirely and exclusively from rising federal entitlement spending. A viable budget framework needs to resolve both.
Charles Blahous is a research fellow with the Hoover Institution, a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center, and the author of Social Security: The Unfinished Work.


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Two Swedish musicians, Bröderna Näsbom (the Näsbom brothers) will be featured at an event June 11 at Cambridge Lutheran Church. The program begins at 7 p.m. with tickets available at the door for $8.
As long as they can remember the brothers have been playing together. Growing up in the Uppland region of Sweden they learned to play the fiddle from their father. Soon they were in contact with many fiddlers and folk-musicians from throughout Sweden. And while they learned tunes and absorbed many different playing styles, they developed their own unique style.
Torbjörn also began to play nyckelharpa together with the many players in Uppland who have preserved that instrument's tradition. Today he lives in Umeå and where he plays violin with the city orchestra.
Pär works as a musician in Switzerland where he has lived for more than 25 years. But as often as possible the brothers tour together playing the music that they grew up with.
After performing at Nisswa for the annual gathering of Scandinavian folk musicians, they are including Cambridge in their U.S. tour.
The program which is the first in a series of Scandinavian concerts sponsored by the Cambridge Swedish Festival Events Committee will also feature a new local spelmanslag. Calling themselves the Spirit River Scandiband, the group organized in the fall of 2011 with the purpose of playing traditional Scandinavian folk tunes, and they are pleased to have the opportunity to open for the Näsboms.
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Weapon manufacturers and retailers are being bought up to stop cuvilian sales. Looks like theyre trying to outsmart us. A few others was bushmaster, bcm, and i believe theyre trying to buy out remington. If remington goes its all over folks
Sorry, bro, but you are spreading an urban legend that has no basis in fact. Marlin was bought- by Remington. They are not closing- they did move some production. No, George Soros is not buying up gun companies. The holding company for many is called Freedom Group- and does not include Soros.
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Guilderland Archives The Altamont Enterprise, June 12, 2008
Residents see red
By Saranac Hale Spencer
ALTAMONT Village water ran red on Monday evening.
Iron and minerals were stirred from the bottom of the village's century-old pipes when construction workers at Brandle Meadows turned the valve that connects the development to the municipal system.
Local developer Jeff Thomas got access to village water for his senior-housing development that is just outside of village limits on Brandle Road after suits and countersuits between himself, the village, and the owners of property on that road where the village found water. The village has drilled two wells on that land and has connected them to Altamont's water system, which provides water to Thomas's project.
"There have been construction issues that have been worked out, which is why we're there," said Rich Straut, an engineer with Barton and Loguidice, hired by the village. Inspectors from his firm were at the site when the valve was turned, he said, and neighboring residents came out of their homes, saying that their tap water had turned brown.
Joan Kappel, who lives on Main Street, discovered her water was dark at about four in the afternoon, she said. Unable to reach village trustees or the department of public works, she ended up calling the Guilderland Police in an effort to alert village officials to the problem and found that the department had received 25 similar phone calls.
Contractors at Brandle Meadows are supposed to contact the village in writing 72 hours before doing something of that nature, Straut said. That directive came last fall when work was done without proper notice to the department of public works or Barton and Loguidice, he said.
"We told them explicitly that they cannot, without authorization, do that," Mayor James Gaughan said on Tuesday of the contractors' use of village water.
Bette and Cring, the construction manager of the project which declined comment on Wednesday, directed a worker to charge the system, said Timothy McIntyre, the village's superintendent of public works. That process drops the pressure in the village's system, he said, and "creates a whirlwind in the pipes."
The unusual flow disrupts the deposits that lie along the bottom of the pipes, he said. Both McIntyre and Straut said that the water isn't unsafe to drink and that it is expected to be out of the system within a day.
"The locus of responsibility is a serious one," said Gaughan; village officials weren't yet sure on Tuesday who was responsible for turning the valve. "This would not have happened if they followed protocol," he said.
He is currently drafting a citation, Gaughan said, and, according to Straut, other measures are being considered to safeguard the access to municipal water the village will likely install a lock on the valve.
Chariot rides into sunset, Public House opens
By Saranac Hale Spencer
GUILDERLAND Their children have now scattered across the country and the Shinases are bidding goodbye to Guilderland and the restaurant they spent 34 years building.
Mike Shinas will still cook for his wife, Penelope, but they've left The Chariot, their Greek restaurant on Western Avenue, in the hands of Brenda and Gary Evans. The Evans, who are both originally from Brooklyn but met in Stafford (Genesee County), are serving pub fare and hoping to build the banquet end of the business.
"We've had a good response," they said on Tuesday, during a party they hosted for the departing Shinases. The full bar now offers 42 beers, including six on tap, and they're happy to accommodate customer requests, the couple said.
Brenda Evans's parents ran a country inn in Stafford, where the pair learned the ropes. They saw that the rural Guilderland eatery was for sale four months ago and have been running Evans Public House for the last month.
"It's not for everybody," said Brenda Evans of working with her spouse, as she threw a good-hearted glance to her husband.
"It was a dream," said Mike Shinas, who has worked in restaurants his whole life, of running The Chariot, which his wife found when it was run down and without plumbing almost 40 years ago.
Both born in Greece, Mike Shinas arrived in America at age 13 and was later drafted into the Army and sent to Germany. It was there that he met Penelope, who was visiting a friend. "The rest is history," he said. The pair were wed in Greece before coming to settle in Albany, where they raised three children. Now that the children have grown and moved on, the Shinases are leaving for Florida.
"We're going to miss you guys," said one farewell partygoer in a booming voice as he came through the door on Tuesday. "You made us feel at home," he told Mike Shinas, who, with his wife, greeted everyone with a hug.
New 911 system for Guilderland pinpoints caller's location
By Saranac Hale Spencer
GUILDERLAND Some emergency calls will be routed differently now that a new 911 system has been installed at the town's police station.
Departments across the county are being outfitted with new technology that connects 911 calls from cell phones directly to the department that covers the area from which the call is made and the new system can pinpoint where the caller is located, said Tim Chouinard, who was installing Guilderland's system on Wednesday. So far, he said, nine of the 11 departments in the county have been updated.
"It's a state of the art system," said Lieutenant Curtis Cox, who estimated that the Guilderland department gets between 25 and 30 calls to 911 a day, not all of which are emergencies.
The $1 million system was paid for by a federal grant, said Greg Chudzinski of the Albany County Sheriff's Department.
By using GPS technology, the new system pinpoints where a call is made from and shows the location on a map, Cox said.


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I think it looks great, especially with tanned skin (not always natural but hey) and a toned tummy which I try and keep!
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Few things are such a quick turnoff to me as piercings. I don't even like pierced ears. A single discreet tattoo can look okay, but more than that is trashy. Just my opinion. YMMV.
Don't have one myself but some look really cool
No bit old for piercings but do like some same with tat's they enhance beauty in some
vanity is human and not that bad, I guess we wouldn't even keep our hair clean and combed if we didn't have any vanity! but I'm too scared and now too old for that kind of thing. I also think it looks good on a nice tummy, even a little soft tummy like a belly dancer....


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As I have more and more discussions on-line one of the most common responses to rejecting claims that I have heard is "educate yourself".
This is a utterly useless statement. It's a throwaway. It's a statement to make when someone has no interest in continuing the discussion. That's usually (in my experience) because they cannot support their claims and don't want it shown.
Why is it useless? In general, there are two types of people who are engaged in these arguments. The first is people who have a particular belief structure and no amount of evidence will change their minds. The other are people who are trying to learn, trying to develop good arguments, and are amenable to evidence.
These first types of people will not educate themselves. They also (probably) think that they are more educated on the subject than anyone else… at least that's my experience with creationists. These type of people have no interest in educating themselves. Indeed, they are actively trying to diseducate (uneducate?) others.
The second group probably are educated about the subject, but disagree. These people are willing to learn more, but the phrase "educate yourself" doesn't say anything about how to do that. I talk to a creationist about genetics. He says "educate yourself" (or a variation thereof). How? I already read Science and other peer-reviewed journals. I've already read dozens of books, by leading authorities on the subject. How can I further educate myself? Where/what should I read to gain the level of knowledge that the opposing party suggests?
It's a throwaway because it doesn't contribute to the discussion. Again, it's not giving a link to a website, a textbook, or other source of information. It's merely a statement that the opposing party thinks that you are uneducated, but they have no interest in helping you.
This is one thing that I have never understood about creationists. When they yell at you for being too dumb to understand or say that you misrepresent their position or say that you don't know what you are talking about… look at the one thing that they don't ever do. They never point to a source[1].
Instead of being advocates for their position. Instead of being educators. They yell that everyone else is stupid. They yell that they are misunderstood. They even curse. But they do not educate. They do not, never have, taken even a few moments to explain, to give examples, to do the calculations that they claim to have.
That is just not making a good impression. The person who sits down and explains everything, in detail, time and again, may not be right, but at least he's putting for an effort to educate. No just demanding that everyone accept his authority on a subject.
Finally, I've noticed that when someone has a relatively untenable position. They do something to get out of that situation and generally don't further respond. The regulars at After the Bar Closes call this a "flounce".
I will no longer engage with you meanies.
If the 'meanies' in question where merely asking for evidence to support a position, then that's a flounce. It is usually stated as someone not discussing with a particular person (or a particular subject) until they have educated themselves. The implication here is that "I won't talk to you until you agree with me."
For many people (and groups), that's exactly what it is. They don't want you to be educated, they want you to agree with them. If you agree with them, then they think that they have power over you. Their 100,000 twitter followers are a valuable commodity to them and reinforces their need to control their environment (by controlling others). Sadly, this includes people in every movement; creationists, skeptics, religious, humanist, theocracy, and democracy.
Personally, I have opinions about a great many things. It's possible, even likely that many of them are wrong. Maybe I'm not educated enough on a subject. Maybe I don't have a complete picture. Or maybe sufficient evidence doesn't exist.
Telling me to "educate myself" isn't going to change any of that. What will?
Evidence. Present a sound argument, backed by evidence.
I always try to assume that the person I'm talking to is interested in learning. So I try not to talk down to them. I present evidence. I don't yell, I don't ban them for presenting dissenting opinions.
Now, after several weeks of someone not even responding to the evidence, then I just stop talking to them. There's no point. There's only so many ways you can try to teach someone before accepting that they are not interested in having a discussion. They are there to convert or demand compliance, not come to a consensus. Still, even against this knowledge, I will try to respond in the best way possible to present my case with data and evidence to back it up.
This is in contrast to the person who demands "educate yourself".
I'm happy to learn things, but I'd at least like a starting point.
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The fundamentals of snow sports, of course, are snow and equipment to slide on it. But to Herb Stevens, who is as passionate about golfing in spring and summer as he is about skiing in winter, the fundamental underpinnings of all outdoor sports is simple -- weather.
There's little surprise about this vision by Stevens, who, for the last 18 years, has been known as "The Skiing Weatherman," a TV feature that analyzes the coming conditions for those about to invest time and money in snow sports.
Stevens appeared on Channel 56 for the last 18 years, before the station was bought by Channel 7. (He says he is close to finalizing a deal with NESN.) His reports, among others, are sought out by ski resorts throughout the winter.
The bottom line this year, says Stevens, who has been skiing for more than 50 years, is that we should be spared the January meltdown that fairly scuttled last season.
"An extended warm spell anywhere close to that duration is not going to happen this winter, I don't believe," says Stevens, peering into his computerized crystal ball.
"Having just come off the ski show circuit," he says, "it will probably come as no surprise that the main topic of conversation was not new lifts, new skis, or season pass deals. It was the weather. And the questions were the same everywhere: 'What's with the El Niño? Does it mean we'll have a bad winter? Will we have another major meltdown?'
"I'm happy to report," he says, "that the majority of signs for the upcoming winter are positive, and the purpose of this discussion is to break down those signs and give people some sort of idea about what to expect over the next 4-5 months."
El Niño is a climatologic and oceanic condition discovered by Peruvian fishermen that can affect the weather worldwide.
"We are in a weak to moderate El Niño this year," Stevens says. "That magnitude usually produces a pretty good quality winter for Northeast skiers and riders, in terms of temperature and snowfall. I think New Englanders will end up with a 10-20 percent above snowfall average."
That does not mean the season will swing into gear anytime soon. "Early season is a crap shoot this year," says Stevens. "The wide temperature swings of November are going to continue well into December, so the start of this season has more bumps in the road to negotiate yet."
For snowhounds planning an early trip out West in search of white gold, Stevens has some added advice: "Stay north of I-70, where snowfall has been abundant late this autumn.
That part of the country will turn out dry after mid-December, however, and trips west in the second two-thirds of the season should be taken to resorts south of I-70, where El Niño will produce a boatload of snow this year."
Interstate 70 runs west out of Denver, bisecting the Great Divide of the Rocky Mountains in Summit County, stringing ski areas such as Arapahoe, Copper, Keystone, Breckenridge, Vail, and Beaver Creek. How the weather breaks along this 2-mile-high mountain ridge is determined to a large extent -- at least this year -- by the El Niño currents. Stevens has spent much time studying such currents because their effects are so telling at North American ski resorts.
In late December every 3-7 years, he says, fishermen off the coast of Peru, Ecuador, and the west coast of South America have noticed huge amounts of dead fish in the water instead of the teeming schools they usually found.
Scientists discovered the cause of the massive fish deaths was a current of above-normal water temperatures, the warmth depleting the water's oxygen.
In strong El Niño years, the excessive heat from the Pacific streams gets into the jet stream and results in a mild winter across the continent, though the high peaks of the southwest and Rockies usually get large snow dumps in such conditions.
This year, says Stevens, the El Niño is weak, "and the overwhelming consensus of forecasts for the next several months is that it will remain weak" indicating that the cooler eastern Pacific waters may well produce the winter of skiers' dreams in New England -- lower temperatures and bigger snowfall.
Because of the jet streams in the northwestern Atlantic and unusually warm water, arriving cold fronts can turn into "formidable coastal storms," says Stevens, setting up a pattern that will provide "two of the three prime ingredients for northeasters, which I happen to think will be fairly common this winter.
"I also happen to think that the odds are that we will see one or two major coastal storms -- the type that gets talked about for years."
Bottom line, look for cooling temperatures and some decent snowstorms this winter, but remain patient.
Says Stevens, "The downside to warm Atlantic waters is that they will tend to insulate coastal locations from early season snow, so if you're looking to energize skiers and riders with backyard snow early in the season, Mother Nature probably won't be able to help too much."


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OSAKA – A driver whose vehicle killed a pedestrian and injured others in one of Osaka's busiest districts on Thursday may have suffered a fatal aortic dissection just beforehand, the daily Asahi Shimbun quoted investigators as saying on the day.
According to the report, investigative sources received the information from rescuers who brought the driver, 51-year-old company owner Atsushi Ohashi, to a hospital soon after the accident. They said he had symptoms of aortic dissection, which often causes sudden death.
On Thursday, Ohashi's car drove onto a sidewalk and plowed into pedestrians. The black car was seen hitting several people crossing a street before driving onto the sidewalk in front of a complex of hotels and shops on the north side of JR West Osaka Station in Kita Ward.
According to witnesses, the driver appeared to be unconscious as the car hurtled toward the pedestrians.
Police said Ohashi, who was from the city of Nara, was alone in the car. He did not have external wounds.
Ohashi and a male pedestrian in his 50s were later confirmed dead, while a woman thought to be in her 20s was taken to a hospital showing no signs of life, police said.
Eight other adults sustained a mix of light and severe injuries.
Onlookers were heard screaming as the car drove for about 40 meters along the sidewalk before colliding with a flower bed and coming to a stop. A man was seen trapped in front of the damaged car.
Police said they will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of Ohashi's death, with witness statements and his lack of external injuries suggesting he may have become incapacitated while driving.
A woman who saw the car pass in front of her as she was crossing the street said the driver appeared to be unconscious at that point.
"The man was slumped over in the driver's seat and didn't seem to have his hands on the steering wheel. His arms looked limp," the 56-year-old flower arrangement instructor said.
Police said they had not found tire marks at the scene to suggest the car braked, while several witnesses said they did not hear brakes screeching.
Police are now looking into the possibility that the car entered the intersection on a red light without slowing down and may have hit a roadside barrier located in front of the intersection that was found to have marks suggesting an impact.
Immediately after the crash, bystanders began to aid several people lying on the road with apparent head injuries, while some witnesses sat on the ground in shock.
Police and firefighters responded about 10 minutes after the crash.


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Lincoln Charter has hired former Bandys coach Bradley Gabriel as its new men's varsity basketball coach.
"We have hired a great coach who will add a lot to our program, his passion and vision will be great additions to our athletic program," Lincoln Charter athletic director Daniel Schmitz said in a press release. "He has lots of experience at several schools on various levels. Coach Gabriel understands both women's and men's basketball very well. He has a great ability to communicate. He's a perfect fit for what we're trying to accomplish at Lincoln Charter School."
Gabriel, who will teach English, played collegiate basketball at Montreat College and Western Carolina University.
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Steamboat Springs' Kiwanis club is looking for new members who would be interested in providing service to the community as well as attending weekly meetings on Tuesdays at the Steamboat Springs Community Center. Annual dues are $125. Kiwanis was chartered in 1948 and is Steamboat's oldest service club. For more information, call Bud at 970-879-0064 or Johanna at 970-879-0211.
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The sun shone brightly as Ron Suffron gazed across the lush, green Queen's Park Stadium baseball field.
The sounds of balls smacking gloves and pinging off bats echoed off the grandstand in the grand, old ballpark. The press box behind home plate stood sentry as it overlooked all the activity. Flowers atop a rockery lined the right field fence with trees standing tall behind left field providing a picturesque backdrop.
It has the feel of a field right out of a Hollywood movie like A League of Their Own.
"God, I love this place. It's got such character," said Suffron with a touch of sadness of the park he calls a city jewel and icon. "How can you even think about knocking it down?"
Suffron is president of New Westminster Baseball Association (NWBA). His organization is upset the city has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Vancouver Whitecaps to turn the facility into soccer only.
The Whitecaps want to base a USL Pro League team there to develop the team's younger players.
The sadness is lined with a tinge of inevitability. But the MOU is far from being a done deal, despite the perception it is. A myriad of details have to be worked out between the Whitecaps, investors Gary Pooni and Ian Gilllespie, and the city. And they need to be done by Sept. 15.
That's the deadline for an application to be made to the USL for the team to start play in March 2015.
Even though the city says it will build another full-size diamond elsewhere, Suffron and the baseball community won't give up easily. Queen's Park Stadium is where their juniors and midgets play, and they want to keep on doing it.
They were to meet Tuesday night to form a game plan to oppose the proposal. And they are scheduled to meet with the city next Monday (July 28). The first open house on the proposal is July 29 (see sidebar).
"They're not overly happy about it," said Suffron. "Visiting teams are not happy about it either."
He pointed out that the NWBA has put thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours toward a batting cage, a baseball scoreboard and the grass field.
"All of a sudden it gets canned on you which is a little bit upsetting," said Suffron. "I'm upset with the city because there's no Plan B. They tell us they're looking at alternatives for baseball, but how are you going to replace that? For baseball that's the crown jewel of where the kids want to play."
He feels realistically it would take at least two years to come up with a new park in New Westminster.
"We're going to be out of luck for at least a year, unless they find an alternate facility outside of New Westminster," said Suffron. "It's shortsighted on their part."
The scoreboard is of the items New Westminster Minor Baseball Association, whose president is Ron Suffron, helped pay for at Queen's Park Stadium.
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Coun. Jonathan Coté, chair of the city's parks committee, said the baseball community's views will have to be considered as the process unfolds.
He said they'd have to figure out if that level of baseball field could be built elsewhere in New Westminster, and if so what would it cost. He added any replacement baseball field likely wouldn't require the seating the stadium has. (It currently has less than 2,000 but USL requires seating for at least 3,500.)
"You wouldn't need to replicate Queen's Park Stadium because the stadium is not very well utilized. Having said that you would need to find an adequate field," said Coté.
While the city is interested in the opportunity the Whitecaps are proposing, Coté emphasized it is not a done deal because council needs to understand all of the implications.
"We're going to need numbers before anything is put forward," said Coté. "The devil is going to be in the details in respect to this proposal. Now it's the city that has to do its due diligence to make sure this is the right proposal to go forward."
Big plans go public
New Westminster and the Vancouver Whitecaps will present their grand plans for Queen's Park Stadium to the public next week.
An open house will be held at Centennial Lodge in Queen's Park on Tuesday, July 29. It will start with storyboards and informal discussion at 7 p.m. Whitecaps president Bob Lenarduzzi and chief operating officer Rachel Lewis will make a presentation at 7:30 p.m., said city assistant parks and recreation director Jennifer Wilson. City staff will also speak to the project's feasibility.
A similar session will be at Centennial Community Centre next to the Canada Games Pool on Saturday, Aug. 9, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wilson said the city has already either met with or is setting up meetings with different groups. Those include baseball and soccer organizations, residents associations and the Chamber of Commerce.
Any perception the initial announcement created that it's a done deal is incorrect, said Wilson. There's a great deal of due diligence to be done by all parties to determine financial, traffic and community implications.
"We're really only looking at the feasibility of this. We need to understand what the different requirements are and the different impacts and only when we have that detail will we be able to reconcile what the financial impact would be."
The USL Pro League has a Sept. 15 deadline for new applications.


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MILWAUKEE -- Manager Ned Yost figures that if his Brewers are going to hold off the charging Chicago Cubs, or any other National League Central contender, they are going to have to do it behind their stable of starting pitchers. Lately, the Brewers have not been very good in that department, and another frustrating outing by left-hander Chris Capuano in Friday's 10-6 loss to the Rockies at Miller Park left the manager mulling some changes. "We've seen 'Cap' when he's been good, and if we're going to be successful, it's going to be with our starting pitching," Yost said. "You keep working through it."
"But," Yost added, "it's not an endless rope either." Capuano slipped further down that rope after allowing five runs in three innings of the Brewers' eighth loss in their last 11 games. Their edge over the charging Cubs was trimmed to 3 1/2 games, the slimmest it has been since they led the Pirates by 3 1/2 games back on April 30. Led by two home runs and four RBIs from third baseman Ryan Braun, the Milwaukee offense spared Capuano a loss that instead went to usually-reliable reliever Carlos Villanueva (6-1). But the outing continued a "frustrating" trend for Capuano, a 2005 18-game winner and 2006 All-Star who won his first five decisions this season but since is 0-7 with a 7.74 ERA in nine games. "It can't continue," Capuano said. "I'm physically healthy. I've been successful at this level for a while. I know that around that corner are some good times. It's just a matter of trying to find my way around that corner." Said Yost: "He's going to have to find a way to get himself out of it pretty quick." Capuano and the Brewers fell into a 2-0 hole in the third inning when Todd Helton's two-run double glanced off right fielder Kevin Mench's glove. But the Brewers came back with four runs in the bottom of the frame, getting a three-run home run from Braun -- his first of two homers in the game -- followed by a Prince Fielder solo shot. It was Fielder's National League-leading 30th home run of the season. That gave the Brewers a 4-2 lead that quickly slipped away. Just like Sunday in Washington, Capuano followed a go-ahead Brewers rally with a walk, this time a seven-pitch pass to Troy Tulowitzski after getting ahead in the count, 1-and-2. Capuano was also ahead, 1-and-2, before walking Brad Hawpe. Yorvit Torrealba followed with a single to load the bases. That brought to the plate Rockies starting pitcher Jeff Francis (9-5), who hit the first pitch for a two-run double off the glove of left fielder Geoff Jenkins. Ryan Spilborghs greeted Carlos Villanueva with a sacrifice fly for a 5-4 Rockies lead. "I'm telling myself to be aggressive on every pitch," Capuano said. "Attack the strike zone. Trust your stuff. It seems like the ball is dipping a little too low or dipping outside on me lately. All you can do with that is work every day to increase the percentage of quality pitches you make. For me, I have to get that percentage up there." But he insists he is close. "Physically, I feel great," said Capuano, who spent two weeks in June on the disabled list with a groin strain. "My leg hasn't bothered me in my last couple of starts at all. My body feels good, which is always the No. 1 thing for me. I feel like if my body feels good, then I'll be able to locate the ball where I want to. "I feel close. In the last few games, it's like, for most of the game, everything is right there and then it's that one [bad] inning. For me, it's about avoiding that inning." Capuano apparently will get an opportunity to work out of his funk as a member of the starting rotation. Yost said he is not considering a change at this time, even with Villanueva or equally-promising right-hander Yovani Gallardo looming in the bullpen. "It's just a slump," Yost said of Capuano. "It happens. He's human. He's not out there trying to let things get out of hand, but sometimes they get out of hand. They got out of hand for him today real quick in the fourth inning. He throws the ball really, really well and then he starts to fall behind in the count and things develop from there." Told of Yost's "it's not an endless rope," comment, Capuano said he couldn't concern himself with those thoughts. "You can't as a player. You simply can't do it," Capuano said. "You just have to be ready to take the ball when they give it to you again. When you run into a string of bad outings, you can't see around that corner. Just like when things are going bad in your life." Even after that inning, the Brewers still had life. Corey Hart's double in the fourth inning tied the game at 5 but the lead again slipped away from the Brewers. Villanueva walked a pair of batters in the fifth inning and both scored on two-run homers by Tulowitzski and Torrealba, and Matt Holliday added a solo shot in the sixth. Like Capuano, Villanueva was charged with five runs in three innings. He had not allowed more than two runs in 35 straight outings, since he surrendered three Dodgers runs on Opening Day. "I gave up three hits, and three home runs," Villanueva said. "I made mistakes when I shouldn't have. I didn't execute there with two strikes." With the Cubs on a roll, are the Brewers starting to feel the pressure? "Not really, because we are in the driver's seat," Villanueva said. "We're in first place right now. If we win and they win, we're still up. We need to take care of our own business and not worry about anybody else."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Fraxel Repair is fractionated CO2 laser as compared to Fraxel Restore which is fractionated erbium laser. Other systems use fractionated energies as well, such as Sciton Profractional FX and FXC. They both are ablative, in that they are removing and destroying a certain percentage area of the skin being treated. A CO2 introduces more heat destruction, so therefor is better for tightening of the skin, but the heat of CO2 does increase risk of pigment changes. The erbium laser has virtually no heat generated in destruction so is better when pigmentation is a risk or when there is no need for tightening of the skin. This is ideal for both acne scars and scars in general. I have no idea what the charge per pixel means. Most charge by the area being treated and the amount of time it takes to do the procedure.
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SEATTLE -- A principal believes a former student may be responsible for breaking into her South Seattle home and pepper spraying her bed, according to the Seattle Police Department.
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Measuring Backlog
EP Editorial Staff | June 1, 2003
Second in a series of articles discussing the management of backlog
The first article in this series, "Essential Elements of Backlog Measurement and Analysis," defined backlog as the classification of work that, for whatever reason, has not been completed.
Measuring backlog allows a manager to set priorities. As previously stated, because backlog is measured in planned hours, providing estimated durations for backlog work orders determines the accuracy of the end data and the decisions that can ultimately be made.
Workload backlog is commonly measured in hours. But this means almost nothing without the use of a second method of measurement in weeks.
In theory, measuring backlog in weeks gives the supervisor an idea of how long he can keep personnel employed with the current amount of backlogged work. How is this determination made? This issue has several schools of thought. For this example, assume a maintenance shop has 10 technicians available for work.
Backlog weeks based on credit hours earned
The first of these schools is the measurement of backlog against the performance of work for the prior period of work. If this group of technicians completed only 350 planned hours in the prior week, then the current backlog is worth around 10 weeks of employment for that shop.
This method has some specific problems. In order to provide an accurate measurement of any value, there must be a stable comparison value to calculate it against. This method uses two moving values to produce the weeks measurement. First, the hours of backlog increase and decrease with the amount of demand for service and performance of work. Since this is the value being measured into the weeks method, it is not the problem with this method of calculation.
Second is the use of the total earned hours for the prior week. If backlog hours are continually moving up and down and productive labor earnings are doing the same, using this value is a sure way of causing confusion to anyone trying to interpret its meaning and validity. Fig. 1 shows that the effect of attempting to evaluate backlog weeks in this manner produces an erratic and unpredictable measurement. Thus, this method of calculating the weeks value is not only highly volatile but also extremely inaccurate.
Backlog weeks based on payroll hours expended
The second method of calculating the weeks measurement is much like the first except that it attempts to evaluate the backlog weeks using another moving number which represents the amount of payroll hours that were actually expended on the jobs performed for the prior reporting period (Fig. 2).
This method has the same problems as the first method with an added bonus—the unpredictable hours of overtime and double time can significantly skew the data.
Backlog weeks based on regular payroll hours available
The third method of calculating the weeks of backlog resolves the two moving numbers problem of the first method, producing a more stable backlog effect. But the method still is problematic (Fig. 3).
The method is based on the division of the backlog hours by the amount of annual regular hours for the group of technicians performing the work. So, if we take the 10 maintenance technicians who work 40 scheduled hours each period and divide the current backlog hours by their scheduled time we get around 9 weeks of backlog availability.
The problem with this method is that, while resolving the two moving numbers problem, it is based on the total amount of regular hours that the organization will pay the technician during this period. It does not take into account the availability of the employee due to paid holidays, vacations, and sick leave, not to mention the performance requirement. The paid time off variables can significantly skew the weeks measurement since this is time that can, at any given moment, reduce the scheduled regular hours of the technician. The performance requirement is more complicated, but it is essentially the amount of variation the organization allows between the planned amount of work and the actual performance of that work.
A complete and accurate method for calculating the weeks measurement is to take the basic elements of the prior three methods and resolve their problems.
Backlog weeks based on average availability of hours
With the moving number problem being solved by method number three, the paid time off variable needs to be addressed. In addition to the known items with the maintenance shop, these employees enjoy an average of about 15 days of paid vacation, 10 paid holidays, and have an allowance of 13 paid sick days per year. Now this information can help to produce an availability factor.
I prefer the worst-case scenario. The worst-case scenario assumes that every technician will take all the paid vacation, holidays, and sick time available throughout the year. This is a good practice since, if you plan for the maximum deviation of the variables involved in calculating this measurement, you can only do better than the worst case. Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.
The availability factor involves averaging the effect of the annual paid time off variables across the year and producing a modified average availability for the technician for each pay period. This produces the ideal available hours value.
Once the ideal available hours have been figured it will have to be adjusted once more to include the performance requirement of the organization. This involves deciding how much of the work must be planned in advance, what is the minimum performance required for planned work, and how much of a credit penalty should be assessed should a work order be performed without advance planning or using a pre-plan for similar jobs. These are entirely organizational issues and can vary greatly.
The required performance adjustment involves evaluating the value of planned/unplanned work.
Next, the required performance adjustment is applied to the ideal available hours and produces a final value representing the total credit hour capability for each pay period for the shop. Finally, the total backlog hours are divided by the maintenance shop's credit hour capability to complete the figuring of backlog weeks (Fig. 4).
While this method is somewhat lengthy to implement into the weeks measurement, it is the necessary, final step in taming an otherwise wild calculation and setting the bar for stable backlog analysis and decision-making.
A future article in this series will cover backlog analysis. MT
Jason Aughenbaugh is a business analyst with Amgen, Inc., MS 21-2-A, One Amgen Center Dr., Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-1799
Method 1. Backlog Hours Divided by Credit Hours
Fig. 1. Backlog weeks determined by credit hours earned in the prior reporting period.
Method 2. Backlog Hours Divided by Expended Payroll Hours
Fig. 2. Backlog weeks determined by payroll hours used from the prior reporting period.
Method 3. Backlog Hours Divided by Regular Hours Available
Fig. 3. Backlog weeks determined by the total regular hours available per reporting period.
Method 4. Backlog Hours Divided by Average Available Hour
Fig. 4. Backlog weeks determined by availability factor.


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Hello! I'm currently trying the sample codes included in the RF Synchronization Suite. However, I'm having a hard time understanding the effect of the "phase offset" on the IQ data which I generate (or acquire).
For the generation part, I'm testing the sample code named "PXIe-5673 Phase Coherent Arb Waveform Generation with NI-TClk Example". If for example, I entered 0° as my phase offset for channel 1 and then entered 10° as my phase offset for channel 2, does that mean that my data for channel 1 is AMPLITUDE1∠0° and my data for channel 2 is AMPLITUDE2∠10° in polar form? If so, do I enter these values before running the code, or while running the code (and after which I click the "Update Phase Offsets" button)?
Thank you very much for your time! God Bless!
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Everyone has a different home remedy to treat an illness, but the next time we have a cold, we're going to deal with it Kate Walsh's way.
The "Fargo" star recently fought a bout of laryngitis, tweeting that one unexpected side effect was a craving for junk food.
"That's how I handle the flu — plenty of sleep, lots of liquids, chips and chocolate," Walsh jokingly confirmed to TODAY.com.
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It's been a while since I last shared a round-up of my personal beauty favourites, and in that space of time there have been a few notable changes. I have a new go-to foundation and a new signature scent. Get all the details on the six products I can't stop raving about right here…
Scents: If you prefer men's colognes to overly floral perfumes I have just the scent for you: Amber Eau de Toilette by Laboratory Perfumes (£55). It's warm, woody, spicy and very strong. Basically heaven in a bottle! And if Amber isn't for you, the rest of the Laboratory Perfumes line is just as delightful. Make sure you go in for a sniff next time you're passing Liberty or Donna Ida.
And, in other scent news, I'm also loving Neom Organics' Sensuous Home Candle (£39.50), which is a rich blend of Ylang Ylang, Frankincense and Patchouli. It's said to ease tension and anxiety, but I'm more excited about the 50-hour burn time and slick, black packaging.
Eyes: Charlotte Tilbury's makeup collection was my favourite beauty launch of 2013, and the Colour Chameleon Eyeshadow Pencils (£19) are high on the list of must-have products. The shades are cleverly matched to different eye colours and the creamy texture makes it easy to layer other shadows on top. Lately I've been covering my lids with 'Dark Pearl' for brown eyes, before finishing the look with a slick of Long–Wear Gel Eyeliner by Bobbi Brown (£17.50). The Bobbi Brown liner in 'Black Ink' isn't as dark as MAC's jet black gel liner, but I find it glides on easier.
Brows: If you find eyebrow pencils a bit of a struggle (how do you find the right colour?!?) you might be pleased to discover B by Blink Brow Bar's Brow Powder (£15). At the moment there are only two shades available – 'Cinnamon Spice' for dark blondes and 'Indian Chocolate' for brunettes – which isn't great. But the powder is slightly easier to control than a pencil, blends easily with a spoolie brush and stays in place for hours.
Skin: And, last but not least, comes my latest foundation obsession… I've been using By Terry Serum Foundation for a few months, but felt it was time to switch up my routine as the matte coverage has started to make my skin look dry (I blame the cold, windy weather). After much deliberation I finally settled on Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua Foundation (£32). The ultra-fine fluid formula blends beautifully and creates a really pretty glow, which magically makes my skin look a little tan. If you like a heavy base this foundation isn't for you, but for a step up from tinted moisturiser you can't beat this product. It's my new personal favourite!
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LAKEPORT -- If Sonoma Academy is the gold standard by which all Division III girls' soccer teams in the North Coast Section are measured, the Middletown Mustangs have arrived.
Behind second-half goals from Hannah Diaz and Kaleigh Alves and a rock-solid defensive effort led by keeper Jessie Flynn, Middletown High School beat Sonoma Academy for the second time this season, a 2-0 decision in the NCS championship game on Saturday afternoon at Don Edwards Stadium in Lakeport.
Middletown capped an undefeated 2012 season with its 21st win in 22 games. The only non-win was a 3-3 tie in late September against the Cloverdale Eagles, a team the Mustangs would beat on two other occasions, most recently in the NCS semifinals on Wednesday in Middletown.
Knocking off powerhouse Sonoma Academy (17-5), the NCS champion three years running from 2007-09, made the championship just that much sweeter.
"They have a great tradition of soccer, a great coach," Middletown coach Lee Hoage said of the Chris Ziemer-led Coyotes, who were the No. 2 seed in this year's NCS tournament to Middletown's No. 1.
"We played them early in the season and lost 6-1 (on Sept. 7 in Middletown) so we knew they were a quality team," Ziemer said of the Mustangs. "We hoped to played them again so that we would have an opportunity to beat them, but in the end they beat us twice and you have to respect that."
Ziemer said Flynn's performance in the net definitely was a huge factor.
"Their keeper made great saves to keep us off the board," he added of Flynn, who made a beautiful foot save in the first half and then went nearly up to the top of the frame to deflect another scoring chance by the Coyotes late in the second half.
"We created some great chances in the first half and were unlucky not to get on the board, but you also have to give Middletown some of the credit for that," Ziemer said.
Middletown also had scoring chances early, in fact the junior Diaz, recently named the MVP in the North Central League I for a third straight season, missed a couple of point-blank shots in the opening minutes of the game.
Likewise the Coyotes had a breakaway scoring opportunity 27 minutes in and another golden scoring opportunity just three minutes after that only to be denied by Flynn both times.
"She had a tremendous season," Hoage said of his primary keeper. "The amazing thing is she had never played keeper before this season. She just doesn't have any fear back there. She has heart and physicality. The one shot she punched over the (top of the) goal there at the end, that was just amazing. She has surprised us with great saves all season."
The two teams were locked in a scoreless struggle until the 54th minute when Diaz blasted in the first goal of the game, a rocket of a shot that easily eluded Sonoma Academy's keeper.
"That first goal helped swing momentum in our favor and the second goal took off a lot of the pressure," Hoage said.
That second goal came from freshman Alves after a long sprint down the field.
"After that we played smart," Hoage said.
Middletown moved the multi-talented Diaz from offense to defense and she spent the final minutes of the match perched deep in the Middletown end where she rejected a handful of through balls before they became a threat. Her deep kicks, even into a stiff breeze, worked their way out to midfield or beyond, taking pressure off Flynn and probably lowering Hoage's blood pressure on the sidelines.
While Sonoma Academy did everything it could to break through in the closing minutes, the Middletown defense wouldn't budge.
"We definitely turned it up from an aggressive standpoint. In the first half we were watching the ball too much instead of going after it, which we did in the second half," Hoage said.
The 2012 season was a breakthrough campaign in more ways than one for the Mustangs, who were denied reaching the NCS finals after frustrating back-to-back-to-back semifinal-round losses in 2008-10.
What made the 2012 team different ... and special?
"They just wanted to go further (this season) and they knew they could do it," Hoage said. "It's a really tight group with chemistry between them all."
An influx of talented freshmen players combined with a solid core of veterans also had much to do with the team's wire-to-wire success, according to Hoage.
"The addition of freshmen players (Alves, Taylor Montelli, Ashlyn Welton, Rosie Emerson and Morgan Backlin) gave us an element of speed, extra passing, some shooting and finishing ability that we may have lacked before," Hoage said.
"One of the biggest things is they were there for each other all season. You don't always have that."


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An easy do-it-yourself guide to Visualization
By Mystique1957, 17th Jun 2010 | Follow this author
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Visualization is a very useful technique that can and will help you, if properly implemented, anchor other mind enhancing techniques, law of attraction(effectively), reinforce subliminal and triliminal programming. Take a peek. It will not hurt!
- How to use Visualization/intro
- How to use Visualization/The Procedure
- How to use Visualization/A few closing remarks
How to use Visualization/intro
Recently a friend of mine asked me if visualization was indeed effective, or if it was an intelligently schemed ruse to have gullible people buy courses, books, products or services. My friend is very skeptical, but she knows I would try anything there is to try before I form an opinion in my head. Out of that healthy discussion this article was conceived and I thought it would be positive to share it with you.
Let`s begin by defining what visualization is: "The act of forming mental images about an idea, an object or a plan". Basically, there are two types of visualization: Creative visualization and destructive visualization. They are pretty much self-explanatory concepts.
As you should know, the universe that surrounds you expresses itself in vibrations (energy) in the form of thoughts, images and in the power of the spoken word. This principle should be digested before you can begin to consciously manipulate energy to your advantage. These are the core elements of the famous Law of Attraction.
Much has been written about visualization and still there are thousands of people out there who haven`t consciously used it, for everybody uses it unconsciously on a daily basis. Remember that thoughts and ideas of a kind attract their equal, so you must be careful of what type of energy you generate and send out, you will attract exactly the same kind.
For those of you skeptical friends, I would strongly suggest to start out with simple things to build up your confidence. You cannot create something you do not believe in. It is that simple. There are several important steps to follow in order to make the visualization process successful. See these as a manufacturer`s usage manual. If you skip a step or do not follow through, there is no guarantee of succeeding.
How to use Visualization/The Procedure
Find a quiet spot where you can begin a relaxation exercise. Being tense does not permit the smooth flow of energy but do not trouble yourself with intricate exercises as it is unnecessary.
Once you`ve found the spot where nothing would disturb you lie down or sit down comfortably and begin tensing all your muscles: Your toes, your ankles, your feet, your calves, your legs, all the way to the top. Hold your tension for as long as you can and then let go all at once.
Take deep abdominal breaths as you count backwards from 10 to 1. Feel so relaxed that your body actually sinks in your chair or bed. Focus on a single objective you feel you need. Let`s say you want to start eating healthier food because you have always been a junk food eater. Picture yourself at your own table having a healthy breakfast. See yourself smiling and truly enjoying your meal. Next, see yourself in the same attitude during lunch and dinner times.
Do not worry if you cannot actually see the images in your head. Imagination works just the same. Feel the satisfaction and the excitement it causes you as you imagine these scenes. FEEL IT!! If your mind rambles about, take 3 deep abdominal breaths and redo the process.
It is very important that you enjoy what you see or imagine, your emotions fuel your visualization. Say mental or verbal affirmations to fix the process in your subconscious mind. " I am healthier everyday", "I enjoy eating healthy food", "I am a healthy person", or any affirmation of your own. You`d know what works for you.
Remember that affirmations must not contain the word "NO" or any other negative words. Say "I love healthy food" instead of "I don`t like junk food" or "I hate junk food". Finish the visualization process with this affirmation:
"This or something much better manifests for me right now with total satisfaction, harmony and for the greater well being of all life" (You can say it in your own words. Just make sure all the elements are there). That affirmation will allow greater and even better possibilities of manifestation.
How to use Visualization/A few closing remarks
· Know that you must practice the visualization process at least once a day and preferably at the same time. However, the more you practice the sooner the manifestation will occur.
· Always do your visualizations relaxed and with a happy disposition. This is paramount. If you feel obligated to do it, believe me, it will never work! I recommend you to use relaxing instrumental music as an aide in your exercise.
· Keep this to yourself. That way energy is focused and not weakened by dissipation through the spoken word. When you spread the word of what you are doing people will tend to ask you about it. This severs the link you have been painstakingly trying to build because doubts crawl in.
· Destructive visualization is a free ticket to death row. NEVER use visualization to cause harm, obtain something which belongs to someone else, or for illegal purposes. The chain reaction you would unleash could even cost you your very life. No pun intended.
· Try not to delve obsessively in your visualization project. Go about your normal activities and if any thought of it comes around your head, just say "Thank you. I am a healthy person" or whatever phrase that applies to your project.
· If you happen to be in a depressed mood or angry, anxious or worried at the time of your exercise, skip it that day or postpone it for a later hour when you feel up to it. Joy is an irreplaceable ingredient in visualization.
· Manifestation cannot be controlled by your whims. The outcome will be a product of how perseverant and consistent you were during its creation. The best time for things to happen is when they happen. If you do your work properly and wait patiently being grateful, the results may astonish you beyond description.
Never deny yourself an opportunity of accomplishing wonderful things in your life, just because you`ve never heard of this or you`ve never tried. Try your hardest and see what happens, victory may show up around the next corner.
To your Success!
Copyright ©Mystique® 2010
Copyright ©Alberto J. Alvarez G.® 2010


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