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Ducks-backed H.S. league boasts national championby Tal Pinchevsky
Dusseldorf, Germany is a long way from the NHL, figuratively and literally.
Yet, after playing 10 seasons in the NHL, the majority of which spent with the Los Angeles Kings, Dusseldorf is exactly where Craig Johnson found himself in 2005. He went to Germany a year previously to play for the Hamburg Freezers during the NHL work stoppage. He expected it to be a one-off adventure, but an abdominal injury and complications from the surgery to correct it left Johnson out of hockey for close to a year and without a NHL contract offer.
By the time he was healthy, NHL teams had settled their rosters, so Johnson stayed in Dusseldorf for a two-year run with the DEG MetroStars of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, Germany's top professional circuit.
After 30 goals and 51 points in 75 games, Johnson was again at a crossroads and opted to return to Southern California, where he had set up roots after playing parts of eight seasons with the Kings and a portion of the 2003-04 season with the Anaheim Ducks. While considering his next move, Johnson took some time to coach his son, Eric, who was playing with the Anaheim Junior Ducks, a youth program established in 1994, not long after the NHL came to Orange County.
There was no way for Johnson to know it at the time, but the decision paved the road for a high school hockey program in California to make history a few years later.
As the varsity hockey coach at Santa Margarita Catholic High School, Johnson has spearheaded a program that, like the interscholastic league in which it competes, has seen an unlikely and meteoric rise, one which has gained praise across the hockey world.
It all started with those skates with his son and the Junior Ducks.
"My son is a 2001-birth year. He was in Mites and he was very young at the time. As I was coaching his team, I was running a lot of drills that I had picked up over the years," Johnson said. "I kind of started to enjoy it and like it. That year, when I was coaching his team, Pierre Page was over at Red Bull Salzburg and offered me a contract to come over there and finish the year there."
That was during the 2008-09 season and Johnson decided to give pro hockey another try, signing with EC Red Bull Salzburg, the defending champion of the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga, which is Austria's top pro league. Johnson played 23 regular-season games that season and 15 in the playoffs, but he used his time wisely by undergoing an intense coaching tutorial.
He threw himself headfirst into coaching, learning plenty from the team and Page, who coached eight NHL seasons with the Minnesota North Stars, Quebec Nordiques, Calgary Flames and what was then known as the Mighty Ducks.
By the time Johnson returned to Southern California that summer, hockey at the local level had undergone some interesting changes.
|Team added
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|JSerra Catholic High School
|Santa Margarita Catholic High School
|Servite High (Anaheim), Damien High (La Verne),
|Bishop Amat/Upland Christian Academy, Edison High School (Huntington Beach), Long Beach Prep
|Corona del Mar, Corona-Norco, Huntington Beach, Los Alamitos
|Bellarmine College Prep, San Diego Unified (student-athletes participating from the entire district), Villa Park High School, Woodbridge High School (Irvine), Capistrano Unified
During the summer of 2008, the Ducks launched the Anaheim Ducks High School Hockey League, a program designed to introduce varsity hockey to a region that already had a rich history in other interscholastic sports, most notably football, baseball and basketball.
While Johnson was in Austria, the charter member of the league, JSerra Catholic High School, waded through the unique experience of being its only team. After spending much of the inaugural season playing against local club teams, JSerra was about to get some company when the ADHSHL expanded to two teams with the addition of Santa Margarita in 2009.
As it turned out, the man who spearheaded the founding of the Santa Margarita program, Mitch O'Brien, was a colleague of Johnson's with the Junior Ducks. When it came time to find a coach, there was no doubting Johnson's credentials.
"It was a sell to tell kids to come play here and not play club [hockey]. A huge component of that was Craig Johnson," said O'Brien, who is the director of hockey and junior varsity coach at the school. "What they get out of it is they get Craig. The mantra we came up with is, 'We're building student athletes.'"
Though not responsible for hiring Johnson (the school made that decision), O'Brien was the man bringing varsity hockey to Santa Margarita, where his son, Connor, enrolled after playing goalie with the Junior Ducks program.
An affable hockey junkie, O'Brien jokes often about cutting a boy named Nicolas Kerdiles from a local bantam team. In 2012, the Ducks chose Kerdiles in the second round of the NHL Draft. He is starring for the University of Wisconsin men's program.
Rising in the West
Ice hockey has seen undeniable growth out west over the past 20 years, particularly in California. According to USA Hockey, these figures represent the rise in the number of registered ice hockey players in the Pacific region, which consists of California, Alaska, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii.
This chart shows the four-fold increase in the past 20 years.
|Registered players in California
O'Brien did have some bona fides on his resume. He coached the Junior Ducks Pee Wee team to victory in 2007 at the Quebec International World Pee Wee Hockey Tournament, an annual gathering in Quebec City. The championship came the same year the Ducks won the Stanley Cup.
Prior to that, O'Brien received his "Coaching Master's" while with the Junior Ducks. During the lockout in 2004-05, Ducks coach Mike Babcock, now with the Detroit Red Wings, was a fixture at the Anaheim Ice complex where his son, Mike Jr., played for the Junior Ducks. With not much else to do at the time, Babcock took O'Brien under his wing.
"Every practice that season, I came to Anaheim Ice and he had his office open and I would go in his office," O'Brien said. "He taught me how to coach the game. I got a master's degree in coaching in one season from one of the best."
Working as an assistant to Johnson with the newly established varsity team at Santa Margarita, O'Brien was counting on his son to be one of the players primed to play for the school. But when it came time to assemble a real team, there were some serious challenges. It wasn't long before O'Brien and Johnson realized there weren't enough hockey players enrolled.
Because there were two teams in the ADHSHL to that point, they were allowed to dress six players who did not attend either school. As difficult as it was to convince young players to forego their place on an organized club team so they could play for Santa Margarita, the coaching staff for the Eagles was tasked with finding players considering transferring and getting them to enroll at Santa Margarita.
Though it was a hard sell, the pitch made perfect sense to Johnson, who starred at Hill-Murray High School in Minnesota and reveres the traditions of the high school game in his home state.
"I grew up in Minnesota, where high school hockey rules," said Johnson, who was a standout with the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers before being drafted by the St. Louis Blues in 1990. "When I was younger, I didn't even think about college. I just wanted to be in that high school hockey tournament. [Former University of Minnesota and NHL player] Neal Broten was definitely an idol growing up. I didn't watch him as a Gopher when I was younger, I watched him as a Roseau [High School] Ram. That brought me into the game."
When it came time to fill the Santa Margarita team with club-level talent, Johnson and O'Brien immediately pounced on a pair of brothers, Max and Michael Kilkuts, living an hour from the Rancho Santa Margarita campus who had played club hockey for Johnson.
Fortunately, Terri Kilkuts, the boys' mother, was looking for a new place for her sons to play. Quickly, Max and Michael became the foundation of the fledgling program.
"We were the product of a public school system that had changed. We were kind of looking around for a private institution at that point. They did play hockey. I guess someone had told me about Santa Margarita and everything kind of fell into place," Terri Kilkuts said. "With four boys, I never cared if I raised athletes. I wanted to raise fine young men. And Craig provided that both on and off the ice."
Having played with Johnson in the Junior Ducks program, the Kilkuts boys barely hesitated before committing to their new school.
"[Johnson] took the job at SM and it was a no-brainer for us to go there. He's the best coach in youth hockey in California, hands down. It was an opportunity we couldn't pass up," Max Kilkuts said. "He knows everything about the game. His hockey knowledge is above anybody else's I know."
With 18 players on the roster, including six who didn't attend the school, the Santa Margarita Eagles had a real team. And they were good.
With one other team in the league, they played most of their games against local club teams. That 2009-10 season expanded the sporting legacy of a school that, aside from being known for its high academic standards, had seen star athletes including Heisman Trophy winner Carson Palmer and NBA star Klay Thompson navigate its halls.
Best of all, the student body at Santa Margarita, which for years had never considered the possibility of having a varsity hockey team, enthusiastically embraced the squad. Though games weren't played close to campus, students and teachers flocked to them and showed their school pride. Most of the Eagles' games are played at Anaheim Ice complex, located 30 miles from campus.
It wasn't long before Santa Margarita, and the league it inhabited, started expanding at a rate no one could have foreseen.
"What we're building here [are] student athletes," O'Brien said. "We're giving them a leg up in both athletics and a high school that gets them prepared to go to a major university. Next thing I know I have a kid from Finland's dad emailing."
The email was from Juka Kunnas, a Finn who years earlier attended school and played football (the American version) in the United States. Kunnas' friend, as it turned out, was an acquaintance of Anaheim Ducks star Teemu Selanne, a fellow Finn. When the subject of Kunnas' son, Joona, attending a school in Southern California came up, Selanne mentioned Santa Margarita.
"The father had experienced high school and college over in the States and wanted to give the same experience to his kid," Johnson said. "The dad said, 'He's a defensive defenseman.' All of a sudden he came over and I was like, 'If he's a defensive defenseman, he's our best one.' He was so skilled."
Kunnas starred for a year with the Eagles and now plays at the University of Connecticut, simultaneously becoming the first foreign player and first Division I success story in the program's brief history. But Kunnas' success wasn't unusual. In just a few years, Santa Margarita has become one of the top programs in the Anaheim Ducks High School Hockey League, which itself saw meteoric growth.
By 2010-11, two years after the League started with a single team, it expanded to five teams. Two years after that, it had 14 teams, including nine varsity programs. In a true showing of how quickly the league had grown, the ADHSHL opened the 2013-14 season with 28 teams, including two in San Diego County. Fifteen of those are varsity programs.
"We're pretty surprised, especially this last year. We realistically thought we would add five or six teams. Our goal was to get to 20," said Art Trottier, who as president of the Junior Ducks program and founder of the ADHSHL, has witnessed the first Golden Age of California high school hockey. "In the last few years, we're finding kids are opting to play high school more and more, which is very interesting. I think it's trending that way. The first couple of years, the majority of kids played both, just to see if this was going to fly or not. As the league has grown and gained a lot more respect, kids are opting to leave club hockey and just play high school."
Programs like Santa Margarita's were beneficiaries of this shift in California youth hockey. After starting with a dozen SM students on its roster, the school has more than 40 active hockey players, including Johnson's son, Eric. That's enough to populate a varsity and a junior varsity team.
The Eagles program may have expanded quickly, venturing as far as Colorado to compete in tournaments against top teams from the United States and Canada, but playing opponents from traditional hockey hotbeds, it is apparent, at times, California hasn't yet earned the respect of its hockey-playing peers.
"Every tournament we usually go to, especially before with my young kids or the high school, I think kids are kind of excited to play California right away," Johnson said. "You hear a lot of times, 'Well, at least we have California right away, it will be a good warm-up.'"
In recent years, that sentiment has started to change.
As the high school league expanded, Santa Margarita established itself as a state power. In 2011-12, with many of the initial players entering their junior and senior seasons, the Eagles seemed poised to do the unthinkable: make a real run at the USA Hockey High School Boys Varsity National Championship.
But with hopes as high as they had ever been, Santa Margarita lost in the quarterfinal of the 2012 national championship to Iowa's Waterloo Warriors, who would advance to the final before losing to Colorado's Regis Jesuit High School.
With a number of the Eagles' top players, including goaltender Connor O'Brien and defenseman Mike Kilkuts, graduating, the impression was that Santa Margarita may have missed its best opportunity to show the hockey world that Californians were known for more than surfing. Disappointed by the result, Johnson couldn't help but feel like an important chapter in the history of this young program was ending.
"It was one of my favorite teams because of the people that made it up and kids that were willing to sacrifice club experience for something that was brand new," Johnson said. "Without them we wouldn't have high school hockey like it is now. Without those kids, we're probably not even talking right now."
The following season, Santa Margarita started strong despite the graduation of those prominent players. Its freshman class seemed to defy expectations, and it was bolstered by a new pair of brothers who became an important part of the team: Eemil and Eetu Selanne, the sons of Teemu. Adding to the recent, if unusual, tradition of Finns playing at Santa Margarita, the Selanne brothers were joined by their cousin, Tatu Hiltonen, the son of Teemu's sister-in-law.
All of a sudden, the Santa Margarita program featured some star power.
"Those [Selanne] kids have to be tough. When you go to these high school tournaments and you've got Selanne on your jersey, they're watching you. They're both very skilled players, but that's just a down-to-earth family," O'Brien said. "They're very family-oriented and they're just good people. Leevi, they're youngest one, is coming in next year."
With Eemil playing as a sophomore and Eetu as a freshman last season, it was quickly apparent the pair were more than just the sons of a hockey legend. They established themselves as key components on a deep team expected to miss a step after losing a strong senior class.
"They're both quality players. Eetu plays center for us and he's very good defensively. He makes good reads with the puck, he's good offensively," Johnson said. "Eemil has a lot of speed on the wing. When he uses his speed, he's very hard to beat. He looks like the young Finnish Flash."
By Presidents' Day weekend, the Eagles appeared to be finding their stride. In a tournament in Colorado, they more than held their own against a strong team from Burnaby, British Columbia in the final and came back to California looking like a potential favorite at the national championship. After winning their state tournament, the Eagles went undefeated in pool play at the 2013 national championship in Coral Springs, Fla., before beating Centennial (Tenn.) in the quarterfinal and earning their revenge against Waterloo in the semis.
With that, Santa Margarita advanced to the final against the defending national champion, Regis Jesuit.
SM took an early 3-1 lead and appeared on its way to earning a national championship in its fourth season. But the defending champ wasn't going away quietly.
"We went up two goals after the first and kind of kept going," said Max Kilkuts, who was closing his varsity career with that game. "Their goalie played really well. They got a couple of good bounces and we just had to battle it from there."
Regis Jesuit tied the game late and earned a power play with 2:58 remaining in regulation. The Eagles killed the penalty, setting the stage for overtime. At 2:01 into the extra period, Kilkuts scored off a feed from Hiltunen, and California won its first varsity national championship.
Santa Margarita Catholic High School now boasts
a national champion hockey program. (Click to enlarge)
Courtesy: Santa Margarita Catholic High School
"Tatu Hiltonen was on the backcheck. He pushed the issue on offense and took it to the net. He was battling at the side of the net and the puck popped out to me and I was lucky to put it in," said Kilkuts, who plays club hockey at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is majoring in engineering. "It's still the best moment I've had in hockey and one that I won't forget soon."
The incredible finish was a crowning achievement for Johnson and Santa Margarita, which had won numerous state titles in football but now could boast a national championship hockey team. For the entire school it was a special moment, especially for those on the staff who had grown up watching hockey.
"Just talking about it, I get goosebumps," said Sammer Darwazeh, the school's director of activities and the person responsible for coordinating with Johnson on administrative issues including budgets and schedules. "It's a blessing. I grew up a hockey fan. I played roller hockey. I grew up following hockey. The Ducks were my team through my childhood and to this day. It's extra special to me personally. I grew up with it and now coming to work and being able to help these kids, they're doing some great things right now. It's something I never dreamed of. It blows my mind."
As much as anything, Santa Margarita's national title signified the incredible rise of hockey talent in California. It was accelerated by grass-roots programs established by its NHL franchises which helped groom some of the top young players in the game.
For the championship coach, this improbable journey began with a desire to be closer to his son. Now, that son plays on Santa Margarita's JV team as a freshman and could someday join his dad with the varsity squad and add a chapter to California hockey history.
By his own admission, Craig Johnson never saw it coming.
"The high school league was brand new. Truthfully, I didn't know it would grow like it did, so fast," Johnson said. "I knew there would be interest but to go from two teams to 28 is pretty incredible. As far as where we got last year, that was another thing that was a little bit of a surprise. This year, everything just kind of came together. The kids peaked at the right time, they started to play great hockey. We had a great little run there."


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Apple has implemented a new rule that means its executives have to hold triple their base salary in AAPL stock.
In addition, Non-Employee Directors must hold five times their annual retainer, and Apple CEO Tim Cook must hold ten times his annual base salary in AAPL stock, according to Modmyi.
The move was implemented on 6 February, according to the Wall Street Journal report. Apple posted a notice on its website on 6 February, one month after it first issued its definitive proxy statement, according to Apple Insider.
This is despite the fact that Apple's board had urged shareholders at its shareholder meeting on Wednesday to oppose a similar measure. Proposition 5 was titled "Shareholder Proposal Entitled Executives to Retain Significant Stock," and it recommend that executives retain 33% of their stock holdings until retirement. It was proposed by a shareholder.
The change was discovered in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing yesterday. The filing also revealed that all members of Apple's Board of Directors, apart from Apple CEO Tim Cook, received 562 restricted stock units as part of an automatic grant. Those shares are currently worth over $230,000, writes Apple Insider.
That same notice stated that board members' retainers start at $50,000 per year. The base salaries for the majority of senior executives in 2013 was $875,000 and Cook is thought to have had salary of $1.4 million.
Last year a number of Apple executives sold of shares. For example, in November 2012 we reported that Apple's Bob Mansfield, senior vice president of the newly created Technologies role at Apple, has cashed in more than $20 million worth of Apple shares. In December we reported that Apple's Mr Fix it Eddy Cue had cashed in $8.8m AAPL stock for $8.8 million. In addition, in May we reported that Apple's Senior Vice President (no longer employed by Apple now) Scott Forstall, and director at Apple, Millard Drexler, had sold thousands of Apple shares worth millions of pounds. Many Apple executives are incentivised with share packages that mature at a certain date, which may explain the sell offs.
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Without the Big East's leading scorer to turn to, the No. 12 Bluejays struggled offensively and the Red Storm came away with a 70-65 victory on Sunday night at "The Garden, capturing St. John's sixth win in seven games. The only loss during that stretch came at Creighton two weeks ago.
St. John's (15-9, 5-6 Big East) won its first game against a ranked team since the Red Storm topped then-No. 12 Notre Dame, 67-63, at The Garden on Jan. 15, 2013.
"McDermott beat us last time," said St. John's swingman Sir'Dominic Pointer, who spent much of the evening draped all over the Big East's Preseason Player of the Year, sharing defensive duties with sophomore JaKarr Sampson. "We thought we'd let someone else try and beat us this time."
Nobody stepped up for Creighton, but Red Storm junior guard D'Angelo Harrison scored 19 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:08 to play, for
"The game was still in hand and we got a big shot from a big player," Pointer said before rethinking his answer. "We got a great shot from a great player."
Harrison's 19 included a pair of 3-pointers and a 9-of-10 effort at the line, to go along with five rebounds and two steals. Sampson scored eight points with five rebounds and used four of his fouls during a concerted effort to limit McDermott. Pointer scored nine points and added four rebounds and classmate Phil Greene IV also had nine.
McDermott matched his conference-leading average with 25 points for the Bluejays (19-4, 9-2 Big East), who had won 14-of-15 and were tied for first place in the conference with Villanova.
"They did a great job of taking me away," McDermott said. "I thought they did a great job of switching whenever I came off screens. They were really disciplined a lot more down the stretch, so you've got to give them credit."
McDermott had 39 points when the teams met two weeks ago, including a long 3-pointer with 2.4 seconds left for a 63-60 victory.
St. John's started 0-5 in BIG EAST play, and times were tough to say the least.
"The hardship we faced earlier in the season seems to have forged a certain strength," said Lavin. "We're not satisfied, we haven't achieved anything of significance, but tonight's win is another hurdle that has been cleared and an indication that this team is improving."
The Red Storm crosses heads to New Jersey to face local conference rival Seton Hall on Thursday, Feb. 13 (9 p.m., FOX Sports 1).


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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday said his party would take the issue of drone attacks to the International Court of Justice and appreciated the resolve of the founder of a UK-based legal action charity, Reprieve, to knock on the doors of international courts against such strikes.
He said war was too serious a matter to be left to the generals, while a grand Jirga from Waziristan, through a unanimous resolution, called upon Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to take note of the drone attacks and hold an independent and transparent probe into the matter.
The Jirga was co-organised by Reprieve and the Foundation for Fundamental Rights to raise awareness about the drone assaults and firm up a line of action on how to halt them. The Jirga demanded of the Pakistani military to stop its operation in Waziristan and said the tribal people were capable of tackling the menace of militancy on their own.
The largely-attended forum urged the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UN Special Envoy on Extra Judicial Killings Christof Heyns to help halt the US hegemony, mass killings of tribal people and undermining of Pakistan's sovereignty by drone attacks.
Various participants cautioned that after failing in Afghanistan, the US was looking for an excuse to attack Pakistan. Speakers heaped praise on Reprieve founder Clive Stafford Smith, as well as on Shahazad Akbar of the Foundation of Human Rights for their endeavours to legally fight the drones' issue and highlight it at different forums. Jemima Khan, the ex-wife of PTI chief Imran Khan, also attended the Jirga session.
Imran Khan, during his speech here at a local hotel, quoted France's ex-prime minister Georges Clemenceau and said war was too serious a matter to be left to the generals. He said generals were handling the tribal areas' policy with the civilian puppet government having no say at all.
Imran said the situation was no different in the US where generals, such as Petraeus, handled the Afghan policy and had no plan-B. The PTI chief said the anti-terrorism war was adding to the number of militants and intensifying militancy, and those who lost their relatives looked for revenge, either becoming militants or supporting the militancy.
Later, Imran addressed a rally of his party here at the D-Chowk near parliament and said every minute of the National Assembly proceedings consumed Rs66,000 but its members could not get a unanimous resolution against the drone strikes implemented.
Imran said it was a matter of shame that sessions of the lower house of parliament were costing the national exchequer so much but in return legislators had failed to come up to the nation's expectations.
Amid chants of 'shame, shame', the PTI chief said the APC resolution had clearly said that if the US did not stop drones, the Nato supply would be blocked. "Did the MNAs do so? Instead, drones continue to hit Fata," he said.
He called President Asif Ali Zardari 'Sadar Zardari, Bari Bemari' and said: "We have no hopes in him, since he is a beneficiary of the NRO, which has bound him to silently support drones and remain loyal to the US".
Similarly, Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif, whom he called the Dengue Brothers, have also disappointed everyone, Imran said. He asked why they were holding a public meeting in Lahore whereas Zardari was sitting in Islamabad.
PTI workers warmly welcomed Clive Smith, when Imran invited him to express his views on the matter. "What we need is your support and a pat on the back to take forward the issue. We need evidence," he remarked.
Clive Smith said: "We will be going to the US, France, Germany and other European countries to raise the issue". He described drone attacks on Waziristan as a criminal offence.
Earlier, the rally participants endorsed the resolution, adopted by the Waziristan Grand Jirga, by raising their hands. The Jirga's resolution confirmed that US spy agency CIA was responsible for the drone attacks in Pakistan and such strikes were being carried out by CIA agents sitting in Pakistan and abroad, which was a flagrant violation of the country's laws as well as international laws.
The proceedings were bumpy, as at one point, Kamran Khan, an MNA from Fata, and a tribal elder, Khan Marjan, exchanged hot words (mostly in Pashto), accusing each other of being non-serious about drones.
The images of collateral damage caused so far by drone strikes were shown on a projector and saddened the audience. Mutilated bodies of children and elderly people were painful for the viewers who watched with disbelief.
The resolution noted that Fata, particularly the North and South Waziristan Agencies, were part of Pakistan and its inhabitants were Pakistani citizens under Article 1 of the Constitution. However, the state and its institutions had failed to safeguard the fundamental human rights there such as the right to live. It also noted that attacks were mostly inflicted during late night so that the tribal people could remain in grip of fear and insecurity.
The resolution confirmed that drone assaults were mostly carried out on residential areas and homes, resulting into the deaths of innocent women and children.
APP adds: Addressing the rally, Imran Khan condemned what he called the 'criminal silence' of non-government organisations (NGOs) on drones that claimed to be champions of human rights. He asked the government to quit if it could not take action in this regard and said civilian casualties because of the drones were increasing with each passing day.
He said the judiciary was independent, but some people were a major hurdle in the way of the implementation of the Supreme Court's decisions. He demanded the implementation of the resolution adopted in the recently-held All Parties Conference. "After coming into power, the PTI will introduce an economic system that will protect the rights of consumers and investors, and will convince foreigners to invest in Pakistan," he added.


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|Discovered and claimed by Portugal in the late 15th century, the islands' sugar-based economy gave way to coffee and cocoa in the 19th century - all grown with African plantation slave labor, a form of which lingered into the 20th century. While independence was achieved in 1975, democratic reforms were not instituted until the late 1980s. The country held its first free elections in 1991, but frequent internal wrangling between the various political parties precipitated repeated changes in leadership and four failed, non-violent coup attempts in 1995, 1998, 2003, and 2009. In 2012, three opposition parties combined in a no confidence vote to bring down the majority government of former Prime Minister Patrice TROVOADA, but in 2014, legislative elections returned him to the office. New oil discoveries in the Gulf of Guinea may attract increased attention to the small island nation.
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adjective: Sao Tomean
|Ethnic groups:
|mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cabo Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese), Asians (mostly Chinese)
|Portuguese 98.4% (official), Forro 36.2%, Cabo Verdian 8.5%, French 6.8%, Angolar 6.6%, English 4.9%, Lunguie 1%, other (including sign language) 2.4% note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2012 est.)
|Catholic 55.7%, Adventist 4.1%, Assembly of God 3.4%, New Apostolic 2.9%, Mana 2.3%, Universal Kingdom of God 2%, Jehovah's Witness 1.2%, other 6.2%, none 21.2%, unspecified 1% (2012 est.)
|197,541 (July 2016 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 42.47% (male 42,660/female 41,234)
15-24 years: 20.33% (male 20,358/female 19,808)
25-54 years: 30.66% (male 29,728/female 30,829)
55-64 years: 3.7% (male 3,342/female 3,959)
65 years and over: 2.85% (male 2,506/female 3,117) (2016 est.)
|Dependency ratios:
| total dependency ratio: 84.2%
youth dependency ratio: 78.5%
elderly dependency ratio: 5.7%
potential support ratio: 17.6% (2015 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 18.2 years
male: 17.8 years
female: 18.6 years (2016 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|1.78% (2016 est.)
|Birth rate:
|33.3 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Death rate:
|7 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|-8.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
| urban population: 65.1% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 3.58% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|SAO TOME (capital) 71,000 (2014)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 0.96 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.84 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.81 male(s)/female
total population: 1 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
|Mother's mean age at first birth:
|19.4 note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2008/09 est.)
|Maternal mortality rate:
|156 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 46.6 deaths/1,000 live births male: 48.5 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 44.6 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 64.9 years male: 63.6 years
female: 66.3 years (2016 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|4.4 children born/woman (2016 est.)
|Contraceptive prevalence rate:
|38.4% (2008/09)
|Health expenditures:
|8.4% of GDP (2014)
|Hospital bed density:
|2.9 beds/1,000 population (2011)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 98.9% of population
rural: 93.6% of population
total: 97.1% of population
urban: 1.1% of population
rural: 6.4% of population
total: 2.9% of population (2015 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 40.8% of population
rural: 23.3% of population
total: 34.7% of population
urban: 59.2% of population
rural: 76.7% of population
total: 65.3% of population (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|0.78% (2014 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|1,000 (2014 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|100 (2014 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|10.6% (2014)
|Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
|8.8% (2014)
|Education expenditures:
|3.9% of GDP (2014)
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 74.9%
male: 81.8%
female: 68.4% (2015 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 13 years male: 13 years
female: 13 years (2015)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
conventional short form: Sao Tome and Principe
local long form: Republica Democratica de Sao Tome e Principe
local short form: Sao Tome e Principe
etymology: Sao Tome was named after Saint THOMAS the Apostle by the Portuguese who discovered the island on 21 December 1470 (or 1471), the saint's feast day; Principe is a shortening of the original Portuguese name of "Ilha do Principe" (Isle of the Prince) referring to the Prince of Portugal to whom duties on the island's sugar crop were paid
|Government type:
|semi-presidential republic
| name: Sao Tome
geographic coordinates: 0 20 N, 6 44 E
time difference: UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|2 provinces; Principe, Sao Tome
|12 July 1975 (from Portugal)
|National holiday:
|Independence Day, 12 July (1975)
|approved 5 November 1975; revised several times, last in 2006 (2016)
|Legal system:
|mixed legal system of civil law base on the Portuguese model and customary law
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President Evaristo CARVALHO (since 3 September 2016)
head of government: Prime Minister Patrice Emery TROVOADA (since 29 November 2014)
cabinet: Council of Ministers proposed by the prime minister, appointed by the president elections/appointments: president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 7 July 2016 and second round held on 7 August 2016 (next to be held in July 2021); prime minister chosen by the National Assembly and approved by the president
election results: Evaristo CARVALHO elected president; percent of vote - Evaristo CARVALHO (ADI) 49.8%, Manuel Pinto DA COSTA (independent) 24.8%, Maria DAS NEVES (MLSTP/PSD) 24.1%; note - first round results for CARVALHO were revised downward from just over 50%, prompting the 7 August runoff; however, on 1 August DA COSTA withdrew from the runoff, citing voting irregularities
|Legislative branch:
| description: unicameral National Assembly or Assembleia Nacional (55 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote to serve 4-year terms)
elections: last held on 12 October 2014 (next expected in October 2018)
election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - ADI 33, MLSTP-PSD 16, PCD-GR 5, other 1
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Supreme Court or Supremo Tribunal Justica (consists of 5 judges); Constitutional Court or Tribunal Constitucional (consists of 5 judges, 3 of whom are from the Supreme Court) judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court judges appointed by the National Assembly; judge tenure NA; Constitutional Court judges nominated by the president of the republic and elected by the National Assembly for 5-year terms
subordinate courts: Court of First Instance; Audit Court
|Political parties and leaders:
|Democratic Movement of Forces for Change or MDFM [Fradigue Bandeira Melo DE MENEZES] Independent Democratic Action or ADI [Patrice TROVOADA] Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tome and Principe-Social Democratic Party or MLSTP-PSD [Aurelio MARTINS] Party for Democratic Convergence or PCD [Leonel Mario D'ALVA] other small parties
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|Association of Sao Tome and Principe NGOs or FONG other: the media
|International organization participation:
|ACP, AfDB, AOSIS, AU, CD, CEMAC, CPLP, EITI (candidate country), FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)
|National symbol(s):
|palm tree; national colors: green, yellow, red, black
|National anthem:
| name: "Independencia total" (Total Independence)
lyrics/music: Alda Neves DA GRACA do Espirito Santo/Manuel dos Santos Barreto de Sousa e ALMEIDA
note: adopted 1975
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Carlos Filomeno Azevedo Agostinho das NEVES (since 3 December 2013)
chancery: 675 Third Avenue, Suite 1807, New York, NY 10017
telephone: [1] (212) 651-8116
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
|the US does not have an embassy in Sao Tome and Principe; the US Ambassador to Gabon is accredited to Sao Tome and Principe on a nonresident basis and makes periodic visits to the islands
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This small, poor island economy has become increasingly dependent on cocoa since independence in 1975. Cocoa production has substantially declined in recent years because of drought and mismanagement. Sao Tome and Principe has to import fuels, most manufactured goods, consumer goods, and food, making it vulnerable to fluctuations in global commodity prices. Maintaining control of inflation, fiscal discipline, and increasing flows of foreign direct investment into the oil sector are major economic problems facing the country. The government also has attempted to reduce price controls and subsidies. Over the years, Sao Tome and Principe has had difficulty servicing its external debt and has relied heavily on concessional aid and debt rescheduling. It benefited from $200 million in debt relief in December 2000 under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries program, which helped bring down the country's $300 million debt burden. In August 2005, the government signed on to a new 3-year IMF Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility program worth $4.3 million. In April 2011, the country completed a Threshold Country Program with The Millennium Challenge Corporation to help increase tax revenues, reform customs, and improve the business environment. Considerable potential exists for development of a tourist industry, and the government has taken steps to expand facilities in recent years. Potential also exists for the development of petroleum resources in Sao Tome and Principe's territorial waters in the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea, which are being jointly developed in a 60-40 split with Nigeria, but any actual production is at least several years off.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $694 million (2016 est.) $667.3 million (2015 est.) $641.6 million (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $351 million (2015 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|4% (2016 est.) 4% (2015 est.) 4.5% (2014 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $3,300 (2016 est.) $3,300 (2015 est.) $3,200 (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|Gross national saving:
|19.5% of GDP (2016 est.) 16% of GDP (2015 est.) 3.7% of GDP (2014 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 85.2%
government consumption: 14.9%
investment in fixed capital: 48.5%
investment in inventories: 0.5%
exports of goods and services: 9.6%
imports of goods and services: -58.7% (2016 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 85.2%
government consumption: 14.9%
investment in fixed capital: 48.5%
investment in inventories: 0.5%
exports of goods and services: 9.6%
imports of goods and services: -58.7% (2016 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|cocoa, coconuts, palm kernels, copra, cinnamon, pepper, coffee, bananas, papayas, beans; poultry; fish
|light construction, textiles, soap, beer, fish processing, timber
|Industrial production growth rate:
|4.5% (2016 est.)
|Labor force:
|70,620 (2016 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
|note: population mainly engaged in subsistence agriculture and fishing; shortages of skilled workers
|Unemployment rate:
|13.5% (2014 est.) 13.7% (2013 est.)
|Population below poverty line:
|66.2% (2009 est.)
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
| revenues: $108.6 million
expenditures: $127 million (2016 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|30.9% of GDP (2016 est.)
|Public debt:
|89.5% of GDP (2016 est.) 81.8% of GDP (2015 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|calendar year
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.1% (2016 est.) 5.3% (2015 est.)
|Current account balance:
|-$44 million (2016 est.) -$55 million (2015 est.)
|$11 million (2016 est.) $11.3 million (2015 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|cocoa 80%, copra, coffee, palm oil (2010 est.)
|Exports - partners:
|Netherlands 29.2%, Belgium 22.4%, Spain 15.5%, US 6.6%, Nigeria 5.1% (2015)
|$116.8 million (2016 est.) $118.9 million (2015 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|machinery and electrical equipment, food products, petroleum products
|Imports - partners:
|Portugal 65.2%, China 8.1%, Gabon 7.3% (2015)
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$68.3 million (31 December 2016 est.) $72.86 million (31 December 2015 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$236.5 million (31 December 2016 est.) $219 million (31 December 2015 est.)
|Market value of publicly traded shares:
|Exchange rates:
|dobras (STD) per US dollar - 22,624 (2016 est.) 22,091 (2015 est.) 22,091 (2014 est.) 18,466 (2013 est.) 19,068 (2012 est.)
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|Electricity - production:
|70 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - consumption:
|65.1 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2013)
|Electricity - imports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|20,000 kW (2014 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|75% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|25% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2010 es)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|1,000 bbl/day (2014 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|1,001 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2014 es)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|100,000 Mt (2013 est.)
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|Cellular Phones in use:
|total: 132,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 68 (July 2015 est.)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: local telephone network of adequate quality with most lines connected to digital switches
domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 70 telephones per 100 persons
international: country code - 239; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015)
|Broadcast media:
|1 government-owned TV station; 1 government-owned radio station; 3 independent local radio stations authorized in 2005 with 2 operating at the end of 2006; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available (2007)
|Internet country code:
|Internet users:
|total: 50,000 percent of population: 25.8% (July 2015 est.)
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|2 (2013)
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2013)
| total 320 km
paved: 218 km
unpaved: 102 km (2000)
|Merchant marine:
| total 3
by type: bulk carrier 1, cargo 2
foreign-owned: 2 (China 1, Greece 1) (2010)
|Ports and terminals:
|major seaport(s): Sao Tome
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|Sao Tome and Principe's army is a tiny force with almost no resources at its disposal and would be wholly ineffective operating unilaterally; infantry equipment is considered simple to operate and maintain but may require refurbishment or replacement after 25 years in tropical climates; poor pay, working conditions, and alleged nepotism in the promotion of officers have been problems in the past, as reflected in the 1995 and 2003 coups; these issues are being addressed with foreign assistance aimed at improving the army and its focus on realistic security concerns; command is exercised from the president, through the Minister of Defense, to the Chief of the Armed Forces (infantry, technical issues) and the Chief of the General Staff (logistics, administration, finances) (2012)
|Military branches:
|Armed Forces of Sao Tome and Principe (Forcas Armadas de Sao Tome e Principe, FASTP): Army, Coast Guard of Sao Tome e Principe (Guarda Costeira de Sao Tome e Principe, GCSTP; also called "Navy"), Presidential Guard, National Guard (2015)
|Military service age and obligation:
|18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory military service; 17 is the legal minimum age for voluntary service (2012)
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|Disputes - International:
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More than 2,100 firefighters battling the 30,000-acre Powerhouse blaze in southern California recalibrated their strategy Monday afternoon given a mixed blessing of expected weather conditions: cooler temperatures that could slow the spread of the monstrous inferno and erratic winds that make it hard to predict where it will go next.
The Powerhouse fire — which broke out Thursday near the Powerhouse No. 1 hydroelectric plant in Angeles National Forest north of Santa Clarita — forced almost 3,000 evacuations and has damaged 15 homes, destroying six of them. So far, three firefighters have suffered minor injuries, authorities said.
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Greg Johnson, whose home was one of the six that were destroyed, said the fire raced through like lightning.
"Whoosh. Gone. Boom. Done, like that," Johnson told NBC News. "The main thing is I have my life. My son's alive. My wife's alive. We're damn grateful to be alive."
Diana Alvear, Alastair Jamieson and Daniel Arkin of NBC News contributed to this report.
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Action Teams are at work in 162 high schools across the country and Puerto Rico. Each month during the school year, Action Team captains participate in a conference call hosted by legendary broadcaster George Grande, where a Major Leaguer and a featured Action Team of the Month discuss the importance of community service and share volunteering tips and ideas. High schools interested in joining the Action Team can receive applications and additional information by visiting www.ActionTeam.org or by sending an e-mail request to email@example.com.
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Amazing news for all you steak lovers.
A meat specialists have discovered a new cut of beef steak that was unveiled at the Protein Innovation Summit in Chicago last month, says Dovers Cattle Network (DCN). It's called the Vegas Strip steak.
A special dinner was arranged by Rick Gresh, chef at David Burke's Primehouse at The James Hotel and others, so that industry leaders could taste the meat at the Trump International Hotel & Tower.
This is innovation at work, people. Apparently, the diners enjoyed the steak a lot!
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"The tenderness of the Vegas Strip Steak is comparable to the New York Strip Steak," said Tony Mata, of industry group Mata & Associates. "It does not require aging or marinating to achieve tenderness and its visual appeal enhances the steak eater's overall enjoyment."
The steak can be made from 4 to 12 oz of meat, and industry folk are pumped that they'll be able to get more use out of their cattle. Everyone wins!
And don't worry, we'll try the steak the second its available and let you know exactly how it measures up.


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The Broncos' victory Sunday over the New England Patriots produced an astounding 81.2 local audience share on CBS4 — meaning that more than 80 percent of the 1.57 million TV households in the Denver viewing area watching television were tuned to the game.
Nationally, CBS' coverage provided another Broncos quarterback link between Peyton Manning and John Elway.
Sunday's game produced the second-highest national ratings and audience share in an AFC championship game in 27 years, dating back to Jan. 11, 1987, when Elway orchestrated "The Drive" on NBC, leading the Broncos to an overtime victory against the Browns in Cleveland.


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For Camina Anderson, it's not if the Ravens win the Super Bowl. It's when.
"They're going to win, just so you know," the Baltimore woman said Monday morning, little more than 12 hours after her team stunned the favored New England Patriots to win a trip to New Orleans for the title game Feb. 3. "This will be a major occasion for Baltimore."
Fresh from the road victory by Joe Flacco, Ray Lewis and crew Sunday in the AFC Championship, fans drove through the city in cars decked with Ravens flags and decals, enjoyed another round of free burgers at Z-Burger, and loaded up on championship T-shirts, sweatshirts and hats in advance of the big game.
It will be Baltimore's first Super Bowl appearance since the 2001 championship. While Las Vegas oddsmakers made the San Francisco 49ers 4.5-point favorites in early betting, Ravens fans said they liked their team's chances.
"The way they're playing together, the way they've come together as a team — I don't think anyone can handle them," Les Davis said while thumbing through stacks of AFC Championship T-shirts at Dick's Sporting Goods in White Marsh.
"We are basically proving everybody wrong," said Anthony Milburn Sr., wearing a Ravens ball cap and jacket as he waited in his Hummer for a train to cross Boston Street in Canton. "Nobody gave us credit."
Milburn said he knew the Ravens had a chance. Six hours before the opening kickoff, he played Baltimore against New England in a game on his mobile phone. The final score: Ravens 25, Patriots 13 — just a Baltimore field goal shy of the actual 28-13 result.
On an ordinary Monday, Great Moments Sports Memorabilia probably would be empty, manager P.J. Tebin said. But with the Ravens Super Bowl-bound, a dozen shoppers crowded the store on the Avenue at White Marsh, and Tebin said the flow had been steady all day.
"We're selling everything," he said. "Championship, Ray Lewis. People are decorating their basements for Super Bowl parties. Decals for their cars. Face paint."
Anderson joined friends to collect her free lunch at Z-Burger on the Avenue — the restaurant again offered burgers to fans who said "Super Bowl," as it did last week after the Ravens' divisional championship win over the Denver Broncos. She said she has been a fan since the team started playing here in 1996.
Anderson savored the team's Super Bowl victory in 2001. But she said this year's run has been more emotional.
"It's because of Ray," Anderson said, referring to Lewis, who has announced his retirement after the season, and is looking for a second title to cap his 17-year career. "It's definitely special."
"That's the sweet thing about it," agreed Milburn. "We're getting ready to lose a great player. We're going to have the chance to say thank you."
Jerry Jones said he sees Super Bowl enthusiasm growing.
"With each win, you see more and more purple," he said as he tried on an AFC Champion Ravens shirt at Great Moments. "There's more vendors. It's encouraging."
Liz Gomes, who moved to the area from New York a year ago, has just joined the Ravens bandwagon. But she enjoys a connection to the team: She was a year ahead of Ray Rice at New Rochelle High School.
"I'm starting to get into the games," said Gomes, who is Facebook friends with the star running back. "I'm very excited."
For Camina Anderson, it's not if the Ravens win the Super Bowl. It's when.


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Summer. There is no better season to enjoy an almost endless variety of outdoor games with family and friends. Two games in particular seem to be exploding in popularity. The first is volleyball, which is quickly becoming the hot new summer game of choice among the Gen-Y crowd. The other is disc golf, which is skyrocketing in popularity among people of all ages.
Serve, Set, Spike
Originally called mintonette, volleyball is the second most popular sport in the world today, exceeded only by soccer. It has been part of the Summer Olympic Games since 1964. Played indoors and out, at playgrounds and parks everywhere, volleyball is also one of the most popular summertime beach games. "Just look around and you'll see parents, kids and people of all ages playing," says Chris Morton of Tachikara, the world's leading manufacturer of competition, performance, recreational, training and beach volleyballs. "Volleyball is also rapidly becoming the favorite game of the 20-something Gen-Y crowd who appreciate the social aspects of the game."
When played as a team sport, two teams of six players try to score points by grounding the ball on the other team's side of a net. But, don't let the number of players or rules get in your way. "Choose the right ball for your style of play," says Morton, "and just focus on having fun."
Tachikara's Volley-Lite® brand volleyballs are ideal for young players. They are regulation size but 25% lighter in weight to help young players overcome the fear of impact. SV5WSC-series balls feature a loose-internal bladder and Sensi-TecTM micro-fiber composite cover in several colors to deliver a winning combination of superior control and performance. Tachikara's new Zebra and Leopard brand volleyballs sport animal-themed patterns and new Sof-Tec™ foam backed covers that virtually eliminate sting during play. Matching TK-Leopard and Zebra — themed knee pads are also available.
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If you are looking for a fun new way to bring family and friends together, give disc golf a spin. It's golf — with discs. It's drives, approach shots and putts. It's players striving to complete the course in the fewest number of throws. Unlike traditional golf however, disc golf is played with durable, bevelled-edge flying discs. Courses may be wide open or have narrow tree-lined fairways. The hole at the end of each fairway is a metal basket that stands about 4 ½ feet tall, with hanging chains that catch the disc in flight.
According to the Professional Disc Golf Association between 8 and 12 million people have played at least once and about 500,000 play regularly. "It's great fun, amazingly affordable and getting started is easy," according to Jonathon Poole of Innova Disc Golf. "Just visit www.innovadiscs.com and use the Course Search tool at the left side of the home page to find the disc golf course nearest you."
Innova offers the most popular and complete line of precision molded golf discs with over 60 models. Each model has distinct flight characteristics, defined by its speed, glide, turn, and fade. A disc's rating in each category is identified by a numeric code imprinted on the disc. There are also different weights. Heavier weight discs provide greater control in the wind.
Poole recommends that beginners concentrate on learning to throw only one disc until they develop a more powerful snap. "The Aero, Leopard, Polecat, Cobra, and Stingray are all excellent choices for new players. Once you become more comfortable, you can then experiment with different discs for different types of shots," says Poole.
Distance drivers like the Ape, Boss and Vulcan are designed for maximum distance off the tee. Fairway drivers such as the Banshee and Eagle provide excellent distance with added control and accuracy. Mid-Range discs including the Gator and Skeeter provide accuracy and control for approaches and short drives. Putters and Approach discs such as the Dart and Sonic deliver dependable, accurate putts and approach shots.
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Volley & Spin Your Way to Summer Fun
Summer. There is no better season to enjoy an almost endless variety of outdoor games with family and friends. Two games in particular seem to be exploding in popularity. The first is volleyball, which is quickly becoming the hot new summer game of choice among the Gen-Y crowd. The other is disc golf, which is skyrocketing in popularity among people of all ages.


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Internet providers East Millinocket ME – Broadband Satellite Internet Services
The internet has become a household necessity. The changing world in East Millinocket ME requires internet providers to offer faster and faster internet download and upload speeds. Gone are the days of dial-up service. East Millinocket ME internet providers must meet the demands of consumers. Streaming HD content is becoming more and more common in East Millinocket. Video requires the download of massive amounts of data. Wide screen HD TVs are one of the reasons internet providers in East Millinocket Maine are scrambling to boost speeds.
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East Millinocket Maine Cable Broadband & DSL broadband internet providers
There are 3 types of broadband East Millinocket internet providers. Typically satellite internet providers have been limited in their speeds. Satellite based broadband with speeds from 1-3Mbp has been typical (New technology has increased this to a top speed of triple that). Satellite is now offering blazing fast internet in East Millinocket of up to12mbps. The internet providers have evolved to keep up with the bandwidth demands from their East Millinocket ME internet customers.
The main advantage of a satellite provider is the access it affords homeowners in areas where DSL or cable broadband is not available. There is a vast area in rural America that depends on satellite for their internet needs. The new technology that is just being offered will enable these rural ME homes to enjoy the speeds previously limited to city dwelling DSL and Cable Broadband subscribers. As technology marches on, who knows, maybe there will be a internet satellite on homes in denser populated areas similar to the satellite TV expansion we have seen in the last 10 years.
DSL Internet Providers in East Millinocket ME
East Millinocket ME phone based DSL broadband is typically the least expensive of all the broadband internet providers. Speeds range from 1.5Mbps to 6Mbps depending on the distance from the ISP. The price is right, however DSL has a somewhat limited service area. DSL broadband has to be within an 18,000ft radius of the internet service providers central office. Call for East Millinocket ME DSL internet availability.
Many people are confused as to exactly what DSL is. DSL is delivered to your home via the good old telephone wire. Yes, the wires running around the neighborhood. These same wires that have been used primarily for phone service. Pretty amazing how the internet providers new technology allows a small copper wires bandwidth to be split between phone service and DSL high speed internet. Probably much to many peoples surprise, only a fraction of the bandwidth is actually used for the telephone. This leaves you're your local phone provider with a huge opportunity to provide you with high speed internet.
DSL is an affordable answer for many home owners who are looking for an internet connection to their home. One draw back to DSL service is that it does require a telephone line service provider. In other words to Have DSL you need a Land-line Phone provider. But don't despair, the phone service internet providers realize many people today only have cell phones and do not need a landline service too. So within the last couple of years the internet providers have begun offering DSL without landline Phone service. The DSL internet providers call this a DRY LOOP. At first this option was a little pricey but as the competition among the East Millinocket internet service providers has heated up recently, the prices have dropped. DSL can be a pretty neat alternative to Cable, as the price for internet service can be a little cheaper. If you do not have cable service at your home or use the internet where speeds of 1.5-6mbps are sufficient, then you can save a couple bucks and the internet service will be just fine.
Internet Providers in East Millinocket by Cable
East Millinocket cable internet service providers are in the middle as far as price range. Cable internet providers supply a vast part of our country with broadband internet. Cable usually is supplied to your home on a coaxial RG6 cable line from a nearby telephone pole. The readily available access to this form of broadband delivery gives your East Millinocket cable company a huge advantage in the cable service provider's world.
East Millinocket ME Internet Providers Speeds
Cable also boasts speeds as fast as 105 mbps. Although a bit pricey at these speeds, this wins cable, the holy cow that's really fast award. Typical Maine cable internet providers speeds subscribed to by the average homeowner are in the 6-20mbps. This is a great and affordable option for East Millinocket ME Internet to enjoy uploading and downloading large files and streaming a video with little or no buffering. Cable broadband internet providers have filled a new nitch in the market of ME. HD video streaming. A couple of years ago no one could have imagined the advances we have seen. What wonders will the cable internet providers achieve in the next couple of years. The internet and the data delivered to your home in East Millinocket by your cable internet providers is truly amazing.
Order Internet service in East Millinocket ME by providers you can trust
What a world we live in today. Sounds like something out of a SIFI book. East Millinocket is streaming video to their HD LCD TVs with 5.1 surround. You've arrived home and video conferenced with some clients in Hong Kong. Grabbed a cold beverage and downloaded a couple of HD movies to watch later. Your buddy calls your East Millinocket home, and you answer on your VOIP sip phone. The wife is surfing the web to shop for a new laptop. Your smartphone rings and your off to the golf course. Perfect time to pull up that new GPS golf app on your smartphone. The internet and technology sure have changed things in a very short time. One thing you can count on, your internet providers in East Millinocket Maine will be evolving with us.
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