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Sen. Warren is tribune of left and its fondest White House wish
"Is this the line for the groupies?"
Amanda Knief asked the question with a laugh, but liberal fervor for Sen. Elizabeth Warren runs deep, as evidenced by the fans who'd gathered some 90 minutes before the Massachusetts Democrat took the stage in Detroit recently at the nation's largest gathering of liberal activists.
Volunteers with a group that's hoping to convince Warren to launch a bid for the White House handed out "Warren for President" stickers and hats. As the senator signed copies of her latest book, "A Fighting Chance," supporters pressed her to consider a run in 2016.
Warren's pugnacious battle against Wall Street titans and her impassioned defense of liberal touchstones have fans swooning.
"She represents the conscience of America," said Monica Lewis Patrick, 48, a public policy analyst in Detroit.
She cited Warren's unabashed criticism of the banking industry, which the senator charges duped homeowners and helped spark the financial crisis.
"She speaks truth to power unapologetically," Patrick said.
Knief, 37, a public policy activist, said Warren was inspiring a new round of activism.
"She makes us think, 'We can do this,' " said Knief. "She's out there making things happen."
A former Sunday school teacher, Warren delivers populist stemwinders with confrontational rhetoric. She speaks more like an activist than a politician, decrying "sleazy lobbyists" and their "Republican friends in Congress," along with rapacious corporations and big banks that she says "swagger through Washington" focused on squashing any effort to regulate them.
For liberals and many who feel left behind by an economy that's supercharged Wall Street but done little to lift salaries, the subjects of Warren's ire are fitting targets.
"Most of our politicians are preoccupied with raising money, much of it from Wall Street," said Egberto Willies, 52, a Houston blogger and software developer. "We finally have a politician who truly believes and advocates for the middle class."
Warren comes by her populism honestly. She taught for two decades at Harvard Law School, but the Oklahoma native underscores her modest roots: her father was a janitor and her mother worked at Sears, earning minimum wage, Warren tells audiences.
Her parents didn't have enough money to send young Elizabeth to college, so she enrolled at a commuter school, paying $50 a semester.
Warren first drew widespread liberal ardor when she issued pointed critiques as the chair of a congressional oversight panel that monitored the $700 billion federal taxpayer bailout of the banking industry in 2008. At one hearing, she allowed protesters toting signs that read "Give us our $$$$$ back" and "Where's our money?" to stay during a nearly two-hour congressional hearing.
She left the panel in 2010 to help launch the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, aimed at cracking down on deceptive and abusive loan products. Calling for a strong consumer watchdog, she memorably said her second choice would be "no agency at all and plenty of blood and teeth left on the floor."
Many had hoped she'd become the bureau's first director, and she was a natural choice. But President Barack Obama passed her over amid staunch opposition from congressional Republicans and financial service industry lobbyists who thought Warren was hostile to their interests.
She ran for the Senate instead, defeating Republican former Sen. Scott Brown, despite what she says were pledges by Wall Street to "send money by the double bucketful" to defeat her.
Warren boasts that the financial protection agency has returned $4 billion to consumers, and as much as some backers would like her to run for president, many want her to remain in the Senate. She's repeatedly told reporters pressing her about presidential aspirations that she's serving out her Senate term, which runs to 2019.
"I am focused on the 2014 race," she told reporters after a fundraiser for Rep. Gary Peters, D-Mich., who's running for the Senate "It is absolutely critical to this country. We can't get distracted from that."
Warren's populist appeal has made her one of her party's most valued surrogates on the political circuit. She's raised $2.6 million for candidates already and has stumped for Democratic Senate hopefuls, even in red states such as Kentucky and West Virginia.
Whether or not she's firmly committed to not seeking the presidency in 2016 _ the Democratic contest is frozen, in any case, while it waits for a decision by Hillary Clinton _ Warren's fundraising and book tour gives her a chance to see how well her populist road show plays around the country.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which bills itself as the "Elizabeth Warren wing of the Democratic Party," says there's a growing audience for her message. It plans to use Warren as its standard-bearer and to pressure Democrats who seek the White House in order to see whether they, like Warren, support more Wall Street regulations and expanding Social Security.
"There's a rising economic populist tide in America, and Elizabeth Warren is the personification of that movement," said Adam Green, the committee's co-founder.
Republicans have taken note of Warren's popularity. America Rising, a conservative group that does opposition research on Democrats, says it's tracking Warren now, along with Clinton.
"Democrats are launching a campaign to draft liberal Democrat Elizabeth Warren for president," America Rising said in a fundraising appeal. "America can't afford to let that happen."
Republicans have seized on the consumer bureau's plans to renovate its Washington headquarters for as much as $216 million as a sign of government waste.
Warren enthusiasts, who can cite her stances on issues as easily as movie buffs detail their favorite actors' starring roles, say critics are aiming at the senator to avoid oversight.
"If we didn't have her voice in Congress, as one-sided as it is, it would be a disaster," said Lois McCarthy, 67, a retiree from Maryland's Eastern Shore. "She says exactly what needs to be said, what everyone else is ignoring."
McCarthy said she'd heard about Warren's push for the consumer protection board, followed her Senate race and now tracked her Capitol Hill career via Facebook.
"We bailed out these big banks, but you don't see them bailing out people," McCarthy said. "Someone has to be vigilant for the consumer, and that's Elizabeth Warren."

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Chiefs must win back the fans (Star Mentions Banner)
By SAM MELLINGER
The Kansas City Star
You wouldnt believe it if you never felt it, if you never came here before all the luxury boxes and rising ticket costs and Matt Cassel, but Arrowhead Stadium used to be quite the scene on home Sundays. They used to call this the loudest place in the NFL, and not just in one of those trendy ways that every fan base calls their stadium the loudest.
Centers only knew to snap the ball by feeling vibrations from their quarterbacks voice. The noise inside has been measured at 120 decibels, an absurd level for an outdoor stadium nearing the threshold for pain and surpassing that of some airplane takeoffs.
What is Arrowhead Stadium? was once the question to an answer on Jeopardy! about the loudest outdoor arena in the NFL.
Sunday, the Ravens will play the Chiefs in a very different Arrowhead. Theyve practiced all week as if the place will be rocking, like it was two years ago for a playoff game. But its not like that anymore. Hasnt been in a while, anyway.
Once considered the NFLs toughest place to play, opponents have now won nine of the last 12 games at Arrowhead, including margins of 34, 28, 23, and 21 points. Now this is a place where fans joke about wearing all black to mourn at games, and where assuming the weather cooperates you can see a banner over the stadium Sunday morning that says:
A fan raised the money for that banner in less than an hour.
Theres some passion behind that message, says Corey Leuwerki, a pilot for the company hired for the job. Because money is not normally raised this quick.

An 81-year-old woman writes in to say she has better luck getting to the bathroom on time than Cassel has of throwing an accurate pass.
Longtime season-ticket holders say they are fed up, Google an address to let owner Clark Hunt hear about it, and joke that $27 no longer seems so bad to park since tailgating is by far the best part of their Sundays.
This is more than the kind of frustration youd expect for a 1-3 team. This is something different, a stronger flavor in a town full of fans whove become unwitting connoisseurs of various sports failure.
If you follow this kind of thing closely, you start to sense a trend. The Chiefs losses to Atlanta and Buffalo removed the bandwagon fans, the ones who will come and go with every touchdown or fumble.
But while the comeback win in New Orleans may have held off the angst for a week, six turnovers in another blowout loss to the Chargers at home put the Chiefs in the foreign position of turning even some of their most die-hard fans away.
The people in the building know it, too.
They hear your complaints and understand them, too, even if theyre not yet ready to speak publicly about it. And how could they not be aware of it? The Chiefs have been booed at both home games, this following their quarterback getting booed at the celebrity softball game at Kauffman Stadium during All-Star weekend.
Its one thing to be bad, but its quite another to be disliked by fans. Its one thing to lose games, but its quite another to be without apparent hope. Its one thing to be blown out, but its quite another to do it while wasting the primes of careers of players who shouldnt be this collectively bad.
This season was a referendum on general manager Scott Pioli from the beginning, and the early returns could not be worse. The quarterback he handpicked and stuck with has 10 turnovers in four games. The head coach he promoted and allowed to juggle duties as defensive coordinator appears over his head.
The Chiefs have not led for a single second of game action this season, and have trailed for 204 of a possible 249 minutes by at least 18 points in all four games. The NFL in general and the Chiefs in particular have a hold on us, so the games will always draw big ratings, but there is a chunk of the fan base even the normally loyal that is finding more time for yard work.
You can see the cracks. Romeo Crennel talks openly of giving backup quarterback Brady Quinn whos been behind Derek Anderson, Charlie Frye, Ken Dorsey, Bruce Gradkowski, Tim Tebow and Kyle Orton in his five-year career a chance if Cassel continues to falter. Rumblings are making their way through the league that this could be it for Pioli in Kansas City if things dont improve quickly.
Inside those walls, the Chiefs are a fragile group right now. Inside those walls, they are talking about this. They know it, and they feel it. They need to be further along. Time is running out. Even their most loyal supporters are screaming their anger. Sooner or later that turns into unsold tickets, possible blackouts, and apathy.
Which makes Sunday one of the most important games of Piolis time with the Chiefs.

The Ravens are an entirely inconvenient opponent for a game that may be the last chance to save the season. This is one of the leagues five best teams against one of the five worst, an offense thats averaging 30.3 points against a defense thats giving up 34. Joe Flacco is one of the leagues most efficient quarterbacks this season, and the Chiefs turned even Ryan Fitzpatrick into a one-game stud.
Or theres this: the Ravens are bringing a team better than the one that won a playoff game here two years ago, and the Chiefs are bringing one thats worse.
But convenience has nothing to do with it. By their own failures and certain circumstances outside their control, the Chiefs will play a game Sunday that they know is their last real chance to make fans whove given up on this season reconsider.
Win, and the Chiefs are 2-3 going to Tampa Bay for a game that suddenly looks more winnable. From there, maybe the Chiefs can be 3-3 heading into the bye week.
Lose, and the Chiefs are 1-4 and itll be hard for even the marketing department to keep a straight face.
This is judgment day, in other words. Careers hang in the balance, and its worth remembering that the last two times nobody off the payroll gave the Chiefs a chance they beat the Saints and Packers.
But there are plenty of reasons people keep assuming the worst. Time is running out for the Chiefs to make it change.
To reach Sam Mellinger, call 816-234-4365, send email to firstname.lastname@example.com or follow twitter.com/mellinger. For previous columns, go to KansasCity.com.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/06...#storylink=cpy
Hell ya!
**** you Fat Scott
Really good piece. Prop things to Mellinger.
Good article Sam.
He's right. The KC fan base would absolutely be crazy if the had good teams. They want so bad to support their franchises. You put a playoff contender on the field arrowhead and the k are sold out. Every game
Lovely the kc media has figured out that there is no reason to be nice to Scott he gives them nothing. Most important is he deserves all this.
this is the kind of scrutiny this sorry franchise has deserved for years...
Only way to win back this fanbase.
1)Fire Pioli, Crennel and Cassel.
2)Clean house on the coaching staff.
3)Draft 1st round QB
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In May of 2012 Kapitall interviewed Richard Rudden, Managing Partner of Target Rock Advisors. He highlighted the rapid increase of dollars invested in socially responsible firms and suggested utility stocks are a logical and profitable place for socially responsible investors. "Utilities are rarely considered candidates for the large and rapidly growing number of socially responsible investing funds," Rudden had said, "But we want to call attention to the industry for people looking for more income producing steady growth in their portfolio." To that end, his firm creates unique sustainability utility indexes ranked by environmental stewardship, economic performance and societal contribution. Together their "triple bottom line" approach has led to some impressive index results with strong payouts, average earnings growth, and names that consistently grow or maintain their dividends. Target Rock's high-sustainability index, listed here returned an impressive average 16% 1-year return . In the lead is Sempra Energy (SRE) with a 37% 1-year return. The firm also ranks highest with the "triple bottom line" approach. 2013 Winners With its flagship index, the Target Rock Sustainable Utility Leaders Index (SULI), the advisory team focuses more on comparing sustainability leaders with non or lesser sustainability leaders. On Tuesday morning (March 26, 2013) Managing Partner Richard Rudden and co-founder Kyle Rudden announced updates to the index. According to the press release the 2013 winners "have been chosen from a field of approximately 150 publicly traded energy utilities and related companies domiciled in the United States, representing some 350 distinct operating subsidiaries. The awards are grouped into market capitalization categories to acknowledge the different challenges faced by utilities because of their size." Investing Ideas Target Rock says their The Sustainable Utility Leadership Index can be used by investors to guide sustainable and socially responsible portfolio decisions. Interested in making a sustainable investment? Here are the award recipients sorted in categories in alphabetical order: For the 9 stocks listed below the list average 1-year return is 17%. Top 3 Large Cap Award Recipients: 1. Duke Energy Corporation ( DUK): Operates as an energy company in the Americas. Market cap at $49.58B, most recent closing price at $70.28. Dividend yield 4.35%. Payout ratio: 101.15%. 2. PG&E Corp. ( PCG): Operates as a public utility company that engages in electricity and natural gas distribution primarily in northern and central California. Market cap at $19.13B, most recent closing price at $43.59. Dividend yield 4.18%. Payout ratio: 95.71%. 3. Sempra Energy ( SRE): Engages in the development of energy infrastructure, operation of utilities, and provision of energy-related products and services worldwide. Market cap at $19.28B, most recent closing price at $79.22. Dividend yield 3.18%. Payout ratio: 67.52%. Sempra's rank as #1 in sustainability was announced March 19 during the 'State of Energy' dinner at the EnergyBiz Leadership Forum in Washington, DC. Average return of the large cap award winners is 17%. Compare performance with the Turbo Chart below: Top 3 Mid-Cap Award Recipients: 1. IdaCorp, Inc. ( IDA): Engages in the generation, transmission, distribution, sale, and purchase of electric energy in the United States. Market cap at $2.38B, most recent closing price at $47.43.Dividend yield 3.2%. Payout ratio: 40.70%. 2. NV Energy, Inc. ( NVE): Distributes electric energy in Nevada. Market cap at $4.67B, most recent closing price at $19.77. Dividend yield 3.84%. Payout ratio: 46.85%. 3. Pinnacle West Capital Corporation ( PNW): Provides retail and wholesale electric services primarily in the State of Arizona. Market cap at $6.22B, most recent closing price at $56.64. Dividend yield 3.85%. Payout ratio: 75.36%.
Top 3 Small Cap Award Recipients:1. ALLETE, Inc. ( ALE): Engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power in the United States. Market cap at $1.91B, most recent closing price at $48.29. Dividend yield 3.93%. Payout ratio: 73.28%. 2. MGE Energy Inc. ( MGEE): Operates as a public utility holding company. Market cap at $1.27B, most recent closing price at $54.80. Dividend yield 2.88%. Payout ratio: 55.78%. 3. Unitil Corp. ( UTL): Engages in the distribution of electricity and natural gas in the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine. Market cap at $384.19M, most recent closing price at $27.84. Dividend yield 4.96%. Payout ratio: 99.69%. Interactive Chart: Compare changes in dividend yield over the past two years for all 9 utilities mentioned above: - Rebecca Lipman, Kapitall


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|MLBPA Press Release
Courtesy of the players charitable foundation, the children will receive round-trip transportation to the game, meet the players, and receive free tickets, food, beverages and souvenirs. Buses for Baseball will provide many of the children with their first chance to attend a Major League Baseball game.
This season, Buses for Baseball, a program administered by the Players Trust and underwritten by Majestic Athletic, a division of VF Imagewear, Inc., will provide transportation and personal greetings for more than 1,500 underprivileged children attending Major League Baseball games as invited guests of their big league heroes.
The Players Trust enjoys support from the Toronto Blue Jays organization and First Student Transportation in providing this unique, up close and personal opportunity to share the thrill of Major League Baseball with those less fortunate.


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Pot 5 Reasons: Cannabis Should Be Legal Part 1
Here in California, the legal cannabis debate is often superseded by the fight for Medical Marijuana, which appears reasonable as ill patients are in need of medicine for their aliments more so than the casual user wants his civil liberties. However we should not forget that the legality of cannabis effects both our medical and civil rights.
While I hate to say that one right is more important than another. Rights are like our children or creations, we must love them equally or at least see them as equally important. Yes, the patient's right for their doctor agreed upon medicine is more important than the wants of the recreational user. Yet, their want for open civil rights is still important and should not be overlooked.
Not to mention that the medical debate leaves the casual user stone cold sober, while the quest for legalization is all-inclusive.
To further the push for legalization, I give you five reasons why marijuana should be legal. They are not the only reasons for a legal cannabis country but a selection that I have deemed most shocking and/or logical to unlock the doors to a world of cannabliss.
Pot Five Reasons Why Marijuana Should Be Legal
#5 – End The Underworld's Cannabis Profits
Currently, every week a news outlet somewhere runs a story about how the Cannabis trade is the largest profit maker for the Cartels. If we are to take these numerous reports to be true than One is left to assume that legalization is the only way to wrestle our marijuana money from the black market.
In the halls of history, we can find one example of how the largest profit maker for a black market was changed into an above-the-board non-profit organization that benefits society. I mean, of course, the lottery.
Long ago in the days when televisions had dials, one of the largest money makers for outlaws was to run illegal lotteries, or "running numbers" as was the term of the time. A Numbers racket worked like this:
How Numbers Ran:
1. A customer would walk into a bar / candy store / retail outlet.
2. They bought their numbers at the counter.
3. A mobbed-up "underworld type" would go around to the various outlets and collect the numbers.
4. On a prescribed day, a number would be picked and the customer with that number got cash.
This system worked for a long time. However since the 80's, running numbers is no longer a profitable venture for the underworld. The lottery changed the game. You can no longer profit from running numbers as anyone, who is anyone, can now go into any convenience store and buy a lotto ticket. Yet, not only a lotto ticket but a legal, state verified lotto ticket.
How Lotto Runs:
1. A customer walks into a convenience store.
2. Customer buys lotto ticket at the counter.
3. Lotto Numbers are collected by state run machines.
4. Lotto numbers are picked and winning numbers collect cash!
As you can see from the example above, America did not stamp out the citizens ability to gamble. Instead we made the lotto legal. We took the profits out of the black market and put them to good use in our school and public health systems. Thus to END the machine of terror that collects our cannabis proceeds, we need to take the profits out of the black market and put them to good use in the general and legal economy.
#4 Cannabis Industry Means More Jobs
When we put the Black Market's cannabis proceeds into the general economy, then we also add all the jobs that once where part of the Black Market. Just look around the medical marijuana industry and see at all the different jobs that are created.
Sure, there are the growers and the dealers. On the farm, there are helpers, trimmers, and baggers, oh my. On the streets, there are wholesalers, drivers, and street-level traders. These are positions that directly trade over from the black market.
However, the industry in the medical marijuana industry create even more jobs. Here in California, there are bud tenders, security guards, and administration at all the dispensaries. There are labs, filled with scientist, that test the potency of cannabis. There are kitchens filled with cooks who make medicated snacks. Factories who make containers. And the list goes on.
Where the underground market sees marijuana as a commodity, with maybe three different levels; schwag, Beasters, and Nugs, with one basic effect. The medical marijuana industry sees an ever-growing list of strains and byproducts where each one comes with at least one taxable employment slot.
I was at the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Cup and I marveled at the number of booths and the range of products displayed. As from above, each booth and product is another job that was added to the economy directly from the impact of Proposition 215.
Cannabis Numbers #3, 2, and 1 to Come…
Our first two reasons to end cannabis prohibition are down. We need to end the black market's cannabis profits. If we end the illegal profits by legalization, then we will create an industry from the ashes of our misguided past.
While these two reasons maybe enough of a justification for Legalization, we still have three more reasons to go.
Join us next time for Pot 5 Reasons: Marijuana Should Be Legal Part 2
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Farm Bill Divides South Dakota's Senators
In what passes for a bipartisan vote in today's US Senate, the $100 billion dollar a year farm bill was passed by a tally of 66 to 27. The rare showing of Democratic and Republican camaraderie didn't translate into a unified South Dakotan front. Senator Thune voted against the bill, while Senator Johnson was for it.
According to Senator Thune's webpage, his opposition to the bill stems from the inability to have amendments that he favored attached to the text. He is, however, credited with authoring or cosponsoring several amendments that did make it into the final wording.
Most at issue for Thune is that the half of a percent decrease in nutritional assistance called for by the bill does not cut deeply enough for his taste, while keeping in place subsidies for crops such as peanuts and rice that are not grown in South Dakota. Nutritional assistance, including food stamps, makes up approximately 80% of the bills total cost.
There is a sense in which Thune's opposition to subsidies for crops not grown in South Dakota is respectable. He is, after all, one of South Dakota's US Senators, and hence his job is to represent the interests of South Dakotans, not necessarily of farmers in other states. It is left to you to decide whether Thune is representing the interests of those South Dakotans who require nutritional assistance.
There is always a rush to include pork barrel spending into bills such as this one, and efforts to keep the cost down for the taxpayers should be made. There is an easy fix here though that ensures that common sense savings don't fall on the backs of the needy, be they farmers or low income citizens in need: means test the subsidies so that large, profitable operations do not receive them.
The bill includes one such measure. It reduces, not eliminates, the government's contribution to crop insurance premiums for farmers with a gross income of more than $750,000. It is indeed a very small step, but at least it is in the right direction.
The bill now waits for the Republican controlled House of Representatives to pass one of their own. That version will likely be more in keeping with Senator Thune's priorities and include deeper cuts to food stamps, no means testing, and oodles of unnecessary spending and corporate giveaways. The GOPs desire to cut the deficit apparently applies only to the part of the farm bill designed to help the poor and hungry.


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Gretchen Craft Rubin spent a year testing out every tip and truism about happiness that she could find; she documents the results in The Happiness Project, which is due out from HarperCollins in 2009. On her blog about the project, she shares her own formula for happiness, inspirational quotes, and insightful posts about finding joy in life. Raised in Kansas City, the lawyer-turned-author lives in New York City with her husband and their two daughters.
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Seven years after their "Great American Boycott" put the immigrant rights movement on the map, advocates are expecting smaller Bay Area crowds this year for immigration reform marches marking the first day of May.
Immigrants and their allies and family members plan to march Wednesday through San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco, Mountain View and other cities around the state and country.
"We want an immigration reform," said Angel Santuario, an organizer for Peninsula Interfaith Action, but he said many activists are wary that some of the proposals being developed by members of Congress are "going the wrong way."
Santuario was among thousands of Latino protesters who avoided working or shopping and marched through the streets of Mountain View on May 1, 2006, a day when historic immigration rallies happened in big and small cities across the nation. On Wednesday, he hopes for an equal or even bigger crowd now that immigration is on the agenda again in Congress.
Other activists, however, said turnout is unlikely to top the marches of 2006 and 2007. After years of political defeat, some seasoned advocates have shifted their focus from marches to direct lobbying of lawmakers.
And while this year is politically different, with leading Republicans on board with a path to citizenship for many of the nation's 11 million people living in the country illegally, local advocates said it can be hard to rally immigrants to skip work for a cause that sounds similar to others that have failed before.
Some who marched seven years ago are not here anymore. Nearly 2.5 million people have been deported from the United States since 2006, according to federal statistics.
Immigration reform advocates will march and rally Wednesday in the East Bay and South Bay.
Oakland: 3 p.m. rally at Fruitvale Plaza (near BART); 4 p.m. march to rally at Mi Pueblo, 5 p.m. continue march to Josie de la Cruz Park; 6 p.m. closing rally at the park.
San Jose: Noon to 3 p.m. immigration issues teach-in at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 2020 E. San Antonio Street, march at 4 p.m. to San Jose City Hall for a rally.
Mountain View: 4 p.m. marchers leave Rengstorff Park to 6 p.m. rally at the Civic Center plaza, 500 Castro St.


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$10,000 Grant to Fund Bastrop State Park Trail Building
BASTROP – Bastrop State Park will use a $10,000 grant from Coca-Cola to underwrite the continued building of new park trails.
Bastrop State Park is receiving the grant in connection with Coca-Cola's "America Is Your Park" campaign, in which parks nationwide competed to win the most votes for a top grant of $100,000. Bastrop State Park came in 12th with 661,565 votes.
"The tremendous support we received from people and companies for Bastrop State Park is testament to the special place this park holds in the minds and hearts of Texans," said Brent Leisure, Texas State Parks director. "We are very appreciative of Coca-Cola's $10,000 donation that will allow us to hire America's YouthWorks to complete new trails in the park."
Bastrop State Park has been making a strong comeback since last Labor Day Weekend's horrific wildfire that burned most of the park.
Since last year's tragic Labor Day fire that hit 96 percent of the 6,500-acre state park, more than $200,000 in donations for Bastrop State Park recovery have come from a variety of sources. The donations have helped TPWD initiate a contract with American YouthWorks to assist with restoration efforts that include clearing downed trees and other debris, restoring park trails and constructing hand-hewn pine log bridges.
Despite the destruction of much of its loblolly pine forests, Bastrop State Park is seeing the growth of some vegetation and the return of park customers who are coming to camp, rent a cabin, fish, play golf and picnic. Visitors can stay at all four campgrounds and the 13 climate-controlled cabins, which are sporting new shingle roofs, and most of the park trails have been reopened.
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Brown Arrests two Individuals for $678,000 Medicare Rip-off
Los Angeles – Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced that agents from his office late last night arrested two individuals who bilked Medicare out of $678,000 by submitting phony bills for walkers, wheelchairs, diabetic shoes and even body braces and canes, using the proceeds for luxury goods including a gold-colored Hummer H200.
A third suspect remains at large.
"At a time when government needs every dollar it has, these individuals submitted completely false claims for equipment they never purchased," Brown said. "Such callous disregard for the public interest is intolerable and warrants swift prosecution."
In April 2009, agents from the Attorney General's Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched a joint investigation into dozens of suspicious Medicare claims for durable medical goods.
The four-month investigation found that, beginning in November 2008, the defendants established dummy medical supply companies, obtained stolen social security numbers and physician providers numbers, made counterfeit state IDs, and used the information to submit false claims totaling $678,000 to Medicare.
After receiving payment from Medicare, the defendants deposited the funds into an account at Center Bank in Los Angeles, using them to pay for luxury goods, including the Hummer that Odonnell purchased.
Brown's office filed charges Tuesday in LA Superior Court and yesterday arrested the following individuals:
• Monica Odonnell, 44, of Canoga Park, on four counts of misapplication of records, and computer access and fraud. She is being held on $15,000 bail in the Los Angeles County Jail. Odonnell is a Department of Motor Vehicles employee.
• Ekaterina Shlykova, 23, of Los Angeles on one count of perjury. She is being held on $25,000 bail in the Los Angeles County Jail.
• A third individual -- Evgeny Lyadov, 32, of Los Angeles -- was charged with 36 counts of grand theft, making fraudulent claims, identity theft, and perjury. Lyadov remains at large. A search of his office uncovered over $170,000 in cash, fraudulent credit cards and duplicate passports.
Medicare schemes are often uncovered when one business submits an unusually large number of claims for the same device or beneficiaries. To evade detection, these defendants sought to give the impression that doctors were ordering medical equipment for different beneficiaries at different stores.
Ultimately, however, the actual Medicare beneficiaries complained that their monthly statements showed that they had received medical equipment from businesses in Los Angeles, when they had not.
Auditors investigated and discovered a large number of claims for the same devices were being made from a company called "North Hollywood Medical Supply" and referred the suspicious activity for prosecution.
"Medicare fraud is an increasingly serious problem that costs taxpayers billions in lost and wasted dollars,' said Sarah J Allen, Special Agent in Charge for the San Francisco Region of the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health of Human Services. 'Today's arrests represent one victory in a bigger battle to stop these fraudulent schemes so that Medicare can better serve those who really need and deserve help.'
If convicted, Odonnell and Shlykova could receive up to three years in state prison. Lyadov could face more than 15 years in prison.
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I don't know much about FreeBSD's sound management, but this could be an issue with the .openalrc file, as Roots said.AMDmi3 wrote:Same here
Just a guess: the game takes 100% CPU, so maybe sound thread doesn't get enough ticks? I've seen it before in other games with OpenAL..
With Linux, you have to set it to look for the sound daemon: Arts for KDE, ESound for GNOME, and ALSA or OSS if you're using neither. Do you know what the proper sound backend is for your system/environment?


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The State of Tennessee Fire Marshal's Office received a federal grant for 20,000 smoke alarms to be distributed across the state in counties that are ranked the highest in fatal fire deaths.
Lafayette Fire Chief Keith Scruggs says up until this year Tennessee was ranked second in the nation with residential fire deaths. "It's went down a little bit," said Scruggs. "I think we are ranked fifth or sixth now, but that's still bad."
"The state's intent is to try and get a smoke detector in everybody's home," said the Chief.
"We're not trying to bring people's houses up to code. What we are doing is trying to make sure that functional smoke alarms are in everyone's homes and for us that is Lafayette and Macon County.
"Our primary responsibility is the City of Lafayette," said Chief Scruggs, "but we're not going to leave out everybody else. The Red Boiling Springs and Willette Fire Department along with the City of Lafayette Fire Department, are working together in conjunction with the State Fire Marshal's Office. Right now we have smoke detectors here at the fire station and the way they want this done is a small survey. Where we put them in, how many we put in, and how many people live in the house and all that. Once again, we don't want to scare people off, thinking we are trying to bring their home up to code."
Chief Scruggs says over the next few weeks they are going to be conducting some programs to try and get people to call and let the department know if they don't have any smoke detectors or if they don't have enough. Also if they have them but the devices aren't working they will come out and fix the alarm.
"We need people to call us if they don't feel safe about their situation. We also have other smoke detectors that have been bought with donated money and if someone doesn't feel comfortable with us coming into their home, we will still give them smoke detectors. We want everybody in Macon County to be safe."
The chief said that rarely do you have someone to die in a house fire that has working smoke detectors. "The thing is, the quicker we get rid of these first hundred smoke detectors, we can get more and keep this program going."
In Tennessee during 2011 a fire department responded to an alarm every minute and a half. A fire department responded to a fire every 20 minutes. One structure fire was reported every 55 minutes. One home structure fire was reported every hour and 10 minutes. One home fire injury was reported ever 42 hours. One home fire death occurred every five days. Also last year Tennessee had a fire dollar loss of $365 million. There were 271 fire related injuries and 98 fire related deaths. 144 fire fighters were injured, but no fire fighters died in 2011.
According to the Tennessee State Fire Marshal's Office (SFMO), Tennessee's fire mortality rate for civilians has been among the highest in the nation. The SFMO is on a mission to change that.
"Macon County is a high risk county socially and economically for someone dying in a house fire," noted Scruggs. "The State of Tennessee did a study and what they projected was where some of the next fire deaths will be. Unfortunately Macon County is one of those places."
Scruggs says in order to combat this, they need to get smoke detectors into these homes. "We don't want to prove the state right. We want to make sure that they are wrong."
Call the Lafayette Fire Department at 666-2190 and talk with a member about getting a free smoke detector.
Other high risk counties in Tennessee are: Carter, Greene, Johnson, Bedford, Grainger, Campbell, Carroll, Polk and Hawkins.


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Billy McKay's second-half goal gave Inverness a shock win over Celtic at Parkhead
Billy McKay's second-half goal gave Inverness a shock 1-0 win over lacklustre Celtic in their SPL clash at Parkhead.
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Following their 2-1 Champions League defeat by Benfica in Lisbon in midweek Hoops boss Neil Lennon had claimed fatigue was impacting on his squad and it looked that way as they never got going against the neat and tidy visitors.
Kris Commons and Mikael Lustig missed good chances for the home side in an otherwise dull first half but there was no second-half surge from the champions and indeed, after McKay notched in the 65th minute from close range, he later spurned a good chance to double their lead when he hit the bar with only Fraser Forster to beat.
Caley defender Graeme Shinnie fired a 25-yard free-kick over the bar early on before Commons had an effort which failed to trouble Caley keeper Antonio Reguero.
The Highlanders' goal almost came under threat in the 17th minute when Beram Kayal played in Lustig but his attempted cut-back from the byline to Gary Hooper was thwarted by a fine Josh Meekings tackle.
The champions then squandered two good chances to break the deadlock. In the 39th minute, as the Parkhead side broke swiftly, Hooper sent Commons through but the Scotland midfielder's angled-shot from 12 yards was wayward.
Two minutes later Lustig had a similar and possibly better opportunity when Hooper cleverly allowed a Kayal pass to run through to the right-back but he hit the side-netting with his unconvincing effort.
The visitors, resolute in defence, carried more than a hint of danger on the break in the second period, with Parkhead defender Efe Ambrose coming to Celtic's rescue in the 54th minute when he cut out a dangerous cross from midfielder Aaron Doran and although the corner came to nothing it served to accentuate the sense of frustration inside Celtic Park.
Caley's goal was not a surprise and came through another swift counter.
Roberts took a pass from Doran inside the Celtic box, turned inside Adam Matthews and Mulgrew, and fired the ball across for McKay to guide the ball past Forster, with the home fans claiming offside.
Paddy McCourt replaced Tony Watt and Brown came on for Matthews but before the second substitution there was another scare for the Hoops when Andrew Shinnie played in Tudur Jones but he could not set himself properly and his effort was easily saved by Forster.
Celtic, urged on by their fans, stepped up the pressure and Gary Warren hit his own post under pressure before Reguero made a good save from what looked to be a Samaras header.
With nine minutes remaining and the Caley goal under siege, Reguero made a fine save from Commons powerful drive from 16 yards with the Hoops midfielder firing the rebound over the bar.
In the 83rd minute Caley should have scored the second when they broke in a two-versus-one situation. Doran set up McKay who hit the bar with only Forster to beat before the Caley midfielder's shot from the rebound was cleared off the line by Ambrose.
The Highlanders were made to defend for the rest of the match but held on for the win, as Celtic Park echoed to the sound of boos at the final whistle.


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Rebels fall to Mercuries
The Moose Lake-Willow River Rebels girls basketball team struggled at the free throw line and the Mercuries were hot from three point land the Rebels fell by a score of 48-44 in Willow River on Thursday, January 24. McGregor had to hold on as they had a 28-21 lead in the first half. The Mercuries improved to 15-2 with the close win while the Rebels went to a record of 11-5 with the loss.
McGregor junior guard Abby Hawkinson, despite sitting out much of the second half with four fouls, hit a total of five threes and finished with 27 points to lead all scorers. Rebel Adri Jusczak had a fine game with a double-double. The sophomore forward ended up with 19 points and 12 rebounds for ML-WR.
The Rebels, by far, had the stronger inside game. ML-WR went 7-for-16 on the inside in the first half and was 6-for-18 in the paint in the second to finish to 13-for-35 (37 percent). The shorter Mercuries were 5-for-17 in the first half and just 3-for-12 in the second half to end up at only 8-for-29 (28 percent) for the game.
However, McGregor went 4-for-8 and 3-for-8 from three land by halves to finish at a hot 7-for-16 (44 percent) for the game. The Rebels were 2-for-6 and 2-for-8 by halves from outside the arc to go only 4-for-14 (29 percent) on threes for the game.
Plus, McGregor stepped to the line to hit 6-for-8 in the first half and 5-for-10 in the second half to go a decent 11-for-18 (61 percent) for the game. The Rebels were 1-for-5 and 5-for-11 in the second at the line to go just 6-for-15 (40 percent) for the game at the stripe.
ML-WR, behind Jusczak's dozen rebounds, hit the boards for 14 rebounds in each half to finish the game with 28 rebounds. That was a 2-1 ratio as the much shorter Mercuries were able to muster seven boards in each half to wind up with only 14 rebounds for the game.
The teams were close on steals, but McGregor did have three thefts in each as compared to one and three takeaways for ML-WR by halves for a 6-4 edge on the steals for the Mercuries in the game.
ML-WR had the better passing at five, to only one notable feed for a score for McGregor. However, the Rebels had their troubles taking care of the basketball as they had 10 turnovers in the first. ML–WR cut that stat in half as they committed only five toss-aways in the second half to finish with 15 lost possessions for the game. McGregor was not much better in the department as they had six and five by halves for 11 turnovers in the game.
The following represents points (including three-pointers) for the Mercuries. Hawkinson: 27 (five three-pointers), Korinna Mickelson: eight (one three-pointer), Kendra Mickelson: six, Amy Gelhar: three (one three-pointer), and Gretchen Grams: one.
The following represents points (including three-pointers), rebounds, steals and assists for the Rebels. Jusczak: 19, 12, 0, 2; Taylor Miller: 8 (including two three-pointers), 3, 1, 0; Shaelyn Halverson: 6 (including one three-pointer), 1, 0, 0; Kayla Radel: 3, 2, 0, 0; Hayley Johnson: 3, 5, 1, 0; Tayler Dixon: 3 (including one three-pointer), 3, 0, 1; Holly Mattison: 2, 1, 0, 0; and Jodi Michalski: 0, 0, 0, 1.
The Rebels are not at home again until Thursday, February 14 when they host the Cloquet Lumberjacks. Tip time is 7:15 p.m. Before that, it's a showdown with Carlton on January 31, Hinckley-Finlayson on February 5 and Esko on February 7.


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How Much Would It Cost To Pre-Screen YouTube Videos? About $37 Billion Per Year...
from the copyright-does-not-scale dept
Last week we reported that videos were currently being uploaded to YouTube at the rate of 72 hours every minute, and asked how anybody could expect Google to pre-screen such a deluge. Techdirt Insider xenomancer has gone a little further by working out how much it would cost to screen that material for potential copyright infringement, doubtless something the media industries would love to see imposed.Most of the calculation is straightforward, but there's one key variable: the kind of person who will do the screening. You can't just use random people off the street, or starving artists, or bored software engineers, because the crucial question they must answer is: does too much of this video infringe on somebody's copyright? Only one class of person is qualified to answer that, and hence to take on this job: judges. Or, more specifically:
horribly underpaid judges who happen to be extremely efficient at determining the copyright status of each video they watch and choose, of the little free will they have, to consider all video uploaded.Using the fact that the average pay for a judge in Silicon Valley is apparently $177,454, and that based on the volume of uploads and number of hours in a working day, a mere 199,584 judges would be required as screeners, this gives us the final figure for the cost of checking properly those 72 hours per minute:
$36,829,468,840 per year.Interestingly, Google's revenue for 2011 was $37,905,000,000.
Absurd as this calculation may be, it does reveal the key problem with unthinking calls for YouTube videos to be pre-screened for possible infringement: only suitably-qualified individuals can do that, and eventually you run out of them. In other words, attempts to police rigorously online materials are doomed to fail by the nature of the copyright system itself. Basically, copyright does not scale.
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European Fund Awards 2003: UBS named Best Overall Group
UBS Global Asset Management is Europe's top fund manager. The UBS business group came away with the highest honour, being named Best Overall Group, at the European Fund Awards 2003 in Luxembourg on Thursday, 27 February. The European Fund Awards are the result of a collaboration between the fund information and rating company Lipper, the independent Luxembourg fund advisor Fund-Market and the newspaper Luxemburger Wort/La Voix du Luxembourg. The jury awarded UBS the prize for Best Overall Group in recognition of its outstanding overall performance as a globally active fund manager over the past three years.
Michael Strobaek, Chief Investment Officer Europe, Middle-East, and Africa (EMEA) at UBS Global Asset Management, sees the award as vindication of his bank's investment strategy to date: "It confirms the value of our globally oriented, systematic and transparent investment process", says Strobaek, who also views this as an essential prerequisite for superior investment results.
Achieving this kind of distinction means a lot to Heinz Hämmerli, Head of Investment Funds EMEA at UBS Global Asset Management, especially in today's difficult markets: "This seal of approval from Luxembourg shows that a consistent, global investment strategy based on a disciplined price/value approach pays off when financial markets are volatile and the world is gripped by uncertainty."
A total of 39 funds, each from a different category, and four fund managers received awards in Luxembourg. Equity, bond and strategy funds registered for sale in at least three of the five leading European markets - France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the UK - were eligible, provided they had been on the market for a minimum of 36 months. A quantitative method developed by Lipper was used to select the winners.
The organizers said that the European Fund Awards, now in their second year, reflect the increasingly pan-European dimensions of the fund market. Introducing a European fund league table, they said, makes for transparency and an improved flow of information to investors.
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Bauer to start Clippers openeron Thursday.
Trevor Baueris scheduled tostart the home and season opener for the Clippers against Indianapolis at 7:05 p.m. Thursday in Huntington Park.
Josh Tomlin is scheduled to take the mound for Columbus on Friday against the Indians at 7:15. Beyond that the Clippers roster remains a work in progress.
The parent Cleveland Indians have signed veteran reliever Mark Lowe and catcher George Kottaras to minor-league contracts, pending physicals.
Lowe has a 294 games of big league experience with Seattle, Texas and the Angels. Kottaras has played 295 games in the majors with Boston, Milwaukee, Oakland and Kansas City. Both would likely be with the Clippers.
Cleveland also designated relief pitchers Preston Guilmet, Frank Herrmann and Colt Hynes for assignmenton Sunday to clear space on their 40-man roster. The three previously were optioned to Columbus and can remain in DFA limbo for up to 10 days.


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With Dustin Moseley on the DL, and with the possibility he will miss the rest of this season staring him straight in the face, the San Diego Padres will call up Joe Weiland to start tomorrow's game against the Dodgers. He draws Ted Lilly, who will also be making his first start of 2012.
This poses two questions: (1) who will the Padres send down, and (2) will Weiland be a permanent part of the Padres 2012 rotation?
Who will the Padres send down? Recognize this is all pure speculation on my part. The Padres called up Josh Spence when they placed Moseley on the 15-day DL, so the early money would be on him returning to AAA. All the Padres relievers have pitched over the past 2 games, so there's no guy not getting any work who could be on his way out.
Spence has made 2 appearances, both against Diamondbacks catcher Miguel Montero, and thrown 4 pitches total while retiring Montero twice. Montero had one of the ugliest ABs you will ever see Wednesday afternoon against the soft-tossing lefty; none of the 3 pitches he swung at approached within a foot of the plate while breaking from right to left across the plate. Spence made him look bad.
If the Padres are looking to ship out someone currently struggling, the obvious candidates would be Brad Brach an Ernesto Frieri. Brach has faced 14 hitters and allowed 4 hits (including a HR) and 3 walks while striking out two. Frieri has been slightly better; he's faced 16 batters, allowed 3 hits (including a HR) and 2 walks while striking out 5. Now granted, 16 hitters is the epitome of a small sample size, yet these two guys are not throwing it as well as the rest of the bullpen.
We could also look at Micah Owings, who's numbers are similar (24 BF; 4H 1HR 2BB 3K); but his ERA+ (115) is better than both Frieri (68) and Brach (56).
The other criteria is the question of options. All 4 of the pitchers discussed above are on the 40-man roster. Owings has 4.053 years service time, Frieri 1.101 years, Brach 0.029, Spence 0.100. If I'm interpreting the options rule correctly Owings is out of options, Frieri has 1 left, Brach has 3 left, and Spence has 3 left. So the Padres can't send Owings down without having to pass him through waivers, but they could send any of the other 3 down with no issue. If I've screwed this up I would really appreciate a correction and tutorial on the options subject.
All that presented, I'm leaning towards Spence. Before Joe Thatcher threw a scoreless inning last night he had as many innings (2/3) in 6 previous games as Spence had since being called up. Somehow I don't think Bud Black needs two lefties in the bullpen.
Is Weiland here to stay? Most of that will depend on how he pitches. There are a number of factors here, not the least of which is starting his arbitration clock. For a cash-starved franchise like San Diego one would assume they will try to hold onto their young players for as long as possible, which means delaying their arbitration clock start for as long as possible. I don't think Weiland stays with the club for the rest of this season.
When Tim Stauffer returns from the DL (rumored to be at least another 3 weeks) Weiland will probably be sent down regardless. The Padres could call up Jeff Suppan to cover Moseley's rotation spot long-term, sending Weiland back to Tucson and Bass back to the bullpen. Or they could have something else in mind (wouldn't Roy Oswalt look good in Padre colors? Hey we can dream). Like I said, Weiland is likely here for experience and a cup of coffee only - not permanently.
No matter what, the first big prospect call-up of 2012 will happen tomorrow. I for one am really looking forward to seeing the kid pitch.
Friday, April 13, 2012
So Who Gets Sent Down?
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- AnonymousApril 13, 2012 at 5:08 PM
Send down Jason Bartlett, I would much rather see e.cab or Andy parrino at short. Bartlett was a bust and a lingering after taste from the Jed hoyer implosion season last year. You can't blame a team that contends one year, and loses 90 games the next on the Adrian Gonzalez trade. I know the GM doesn't have a crystal ball to look into, but he does have a staff of scouts and advisors.ReplyDelete
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Aral Balkan nice positive reply tweet: thank you for making me aware of the male gaze. Not something I've though about before but now I see it everywhere and it makes me angry #sexism
10608 #steps today (that's more like it!)
I'm trying to grow up but it's hard past a certain age
Ha, love it Aral Balkan :)
Checked in to the Steam Packet Inn, Totnes for the #buzz session with Robin Andrews
Current Walters #family discussion: what is more useful when job seeking, GCSEs or cake-making ability (demonstrated through providing the potential employer with a cake to try)
Just almost typed "all the bear" instead of "all the best" in an #email. Actually, I prefer the first one.
Who would win in a fight between twitter.com and app.net? There's only one authoritative way to determine such a thing: a ye olde sea battle! #silofight
fraying I don't have a pet currently but I love what you're doing with cute fight — the logos in particular are perfect
7000 #steps today
I have to say that whilst #diaspora's data export functionality is rubbish, their URLs and use of conneg made it really easy to roll my own. A little hacking with the web inspector (tracking XHR, looking up headers and content) was all that was required — and now it's documented, so no-one else will have to spend time doing so.
sophiedennis Laura Kalbag that'd be brilliant! We really need more designers/UX people helping out. Perhaps discuss it further at #digpen?
sophiedennis one of the interesting things about #indiewebcamp is that there's almost no discussion about privacy or security. It's completely focused on sharing, content ownership and lowering the barrier to entry.
Laura Kalbag also, things like Aral Balkan's great wordpress export tools make it especially easy to migrate to self-hosted indieweb — hosted w/ own domain name redirect is the achievable first step.
.Laura Kalbag "on your own space" is important but not a prerequisite of #indieweb (IMO at least). The domain name is the most important thing, so starting with hosted wordpress.com or tumblr or even just redirecting to it is valid and an easy first step.
I'd encourage you to check out the Getting Started Guide — feedback/edits gratefully accepted, it's important to me that the guide is as helpful and clear as it can be.
Laura Kalbag would you agree that wordpress.com (and to a lesser extent, other wordpress services) is non-techie-friendly? It supports most of the infrastructure we're using on our #indieweb sites (e.g. pubsubhubbub, pingback, microformats) and provided you hook up your own domain name is an equally valid way of owning your content/identity online as rolling your own.
Laura Kalbag no, no, no, the
#indieweb is the future :) Not any one silo.
Diaspora Export: Quickly generate a JSON file of all your public #diaspora posts #indieweb #ownyourcontent
Nick Charlton woah. that is insane.


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Middleweight Matthew Macklin (29-4, 20 KOs) will fight WBA and IBO champion Gennady Golovkin (26-0, 23 KOs) this Saturday night at the MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. The fight will be televised on HBO and the pair will slug it out in a contest scheduled for 12 rounds.
This will be Macklin's third tilt at a world title. He lost a controversial decision to Felix Sturm in June 2011, and his corner retired him after 11 rounds against Sergio Martinez on March 17, 2012.
Macklin faces an enormous challenge this weekend. He will fight a man who has knocked out 23 of his 26 opponents, and he will do so with only one round of competitive action since his loss to Martinez 15 months ago (a first round blowout win over Joachim Alcine in Las Vegas last September).
However, Macklin maintains that, like the champion, he possesses real power. Though he would have liked to fight a tune-up before this assignment, the window of opportunity to fight the much-heralded 2004 Olympic silver medalist for these titles was only open now, and he believes that he has what it takes to capitalize on that chance.
Macklin and his team feel that this fight might have come too soon for Golovkin, and that the Kazak's inexperience against this level of opposition will be his biggest weakness. If Macklin can withstand the power of his 31-year-old opponent in the early going and take Golovkin into the later rounds, they feel that Macklin's big fight experience could be a telling factor.
"Everyone can be beat, and Buddy and myself have spotted flaws that we believe we can take advantage of," Macklin told the Irish Voice on Monday.
"Everyone has built up Golovkin to be a monster, and of course he is a very accomplished fighter, but he's had things pretty much all his own way against lesser quality and smaller opposition."
Golovkin, through no fault of his own, has been forced to fight blown-up light middleweights, as none of the main players in the 160-pound division want anything to do with him. Before Macklin stepped up to the plate, the champion wore down Gabriel Rosado in seven rounds in January and dismantled Nobuhiro Ishida in three rounds in March.
To put the level of opposition for each man in perspective, in the same month when Macklin was fighting (and many would argue beating) Felix Sturm in Germany two years ago, Golovkin was fighting veteran Kassim Ouma (another light middleweight moving up to 160) and scored a 10th round TKO win in his longest fight as a professional (Macklin has gone over 10 rounds nine times in his career).
"For the first time, he's facing an opponent who is a naturally bigger [man] and [a] world class fighter. I believe I hit every bit as hard if not harder than him. He's had everything his own way to date in his career, but I believe on Saturday night that I can bring him to places he's never been as a pro and make it a very uncomfortable night for him," added Macklin.
Golovkin, who trains out of Big Bear Lake in San Bernardino County, California, expects a hard fight this weekend.
"I think that this will be a very difficult fight for me and for him. It will be a very close fight, and it will be a very great fight for TV and fans," he said.
The winning and losing of fights like this can come down to the fine details. Macklin says he has had a great training camp first in Marbella, Spain, and then at the Trinity Gym in the Financial District of New York City. He has sparred with the likes of unbeaten light heavyweight prospect Callum Johnson and fast-handed light middleweight Steve O'Meara, and no injuries have been reported from the camp.
The 31-year-old has eaten clean and said last week that he was already on weight. Finally, he underwent a procedure last winter to repair some long standing damage to his nose, which has allowed him to breathe better and get more oxygen into his body.
"I've definitely noticed a difference since having it done. Before I would be constantly having to clear it and literally open up the nostrils during training to try and get more air in," Macklin said.
"The procedure was essentially to center the septum. It's held up fine in sparring and I've definitely noticed a difference."
Unlike the chess match that was Macklin against the southpaw Martinez, the orthodox Golovkin will stand in front of Macklin and will be an easier target to hit.
"At times it will be tactical with spurts of toe-to-toe action," Tomas Rohan, matchmaker for Brian Peters Promotions, told the Irish Voice when the fight was officially announced to the press in April.
"Then they will probably retreat and regroup and then explode again. With this one, there will be no surprises. It is going to be, at times, an all-out war with a bit of tactics."
The fight will also pit Golovkin's trainer, Abel Sanchez, against his counterpart James "Buddy" McGirt for the first time. They both acknowledged that on a recent conference call, with Sanchez quipping that they were "finally" going to pit wits against each other.
McGirt too commented on the fact that realizing Sanchez was the opposing trainer made him "put his thinking cap on" for the first time in eight years.
"I had to focus on doing different things with Matthew to make sure that we win this fight come June 29. He's prepared now," McGirt said.
Irish American light welterweight Danny O'Connor (20-1, 7 KOs) will feature on the undercard of the fight. The Framingham, Massachusetts, native will take on Hector Munoz (21-10, 14KOs) in a contest scheduled for eight rounds.
"I'm not fighting on HBO, but I hope to impress the people there on June 29. Maybe my next fight will be on television? I'm coming off an injury and itching to get back in the ring. I'm fighting a tough veteran in Munoz, who keeps coming forward with his in-your-face style," said O'Connor in the lead up to the fight.
Tickets are available at foxwoods.com.


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Op-ed from the Financial Times
© Financial Times
Thirteen years ago, as Latin America emerged from the debt crisis and the Berlin wall came down, there was an unusual degree of consensus about the main elements of the policy agenda that Latin American countries needed to pursue. Just like the countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, where these objectives had been motherhood and apple pie for decades, Latin American countries needed to stabilise, liberalise, and open up their economies to trade and foreign direct investment.
Until some time in the 1980s these ideas had not been part of the
conventional wisdom in developing countries. Prior to that there was a sort of intellectual apartheid, which held quite distinct policies to be appropriate in industrial versus developing countries. To convince a sceptical Washington that policies were changing, I laid out criteria by which to judge progress in policy reform, and termed this agenda "the Washington Consensus."
To my surprise, the term acquired a life of its own. In the early days some of the reformers wore it as a badge of honor that would associate them with the ideology of the side that had just won the cold war. But others resented it as suggesting that reform was being imposed on them by Washington rather than adopted out of self-interest. Opponents of reform were only too pleased to exploit such resentment to attempt to discredit reforms, and reinterpreted the term to imply a distinctly more right-wing agenda including a minimal state and rapid elimination of all capital controls than ever commanded a consensus in Washington or anywhere much else. This straw man has been widely blamed by anti-reformers for the disappointing economic outcomes of recent years repeated crises, low growth, rising poverty, and a continuation of strikingly unequal income distributions.
That is ridiculous. The Argentine tragedy, for example, was not caused by import liberalisation, or privatisation, or any of the other reforms the country implemented in the early 1990s, but by two fatal decisions. One was the attempt to peg the peso firmly to the dollar, which proved disastrous because of the devaluation of the Brazilian real and the upward levitation of the US dollar. The second was the decision to splurge when Argentina was the darling of Wall Street, instead of using the good times to work debt down to a safe level. Since a competitive exchange rate and fiscal discipline were two of the "10 commandments" in the Washington Consensus, I find it a bit rich to blame the latter for Argentina's crisis.
Nevertheless, economic outcomes in Latin America in recent years have by any standards been disappointing. It therefore seemed time to re-examine the policy agenda that the region should be pursuing, to see whether a reformulation of policy was needed to launch a period of faster, sustainable, and more equitable growth.
The resulting agenda differs from the original Washington Consensus for two reasons. First, time has passed and some reforms (such as the liberalisation of foreign direct investment) have already been accomplished, while new priorities have become evident. Second, the original Washington Consensus was an attempt to distill what commanded a consensus among third parties, which was not as broad as we would have liked. The latest effort is the policy agenda that we would like to see. If an idea is not included, it is because we do not believe it should be.
The new agenda does not reject the liberalising reforms of the Washington Consensus, although there may be a need to correct details. On the contrary, it emphasises the need to push liberalisation further in some dimensions, such as making labour markets more flexible. But it also recognises the need to complement those reforms by building, or strengthening, the institutions needed for a smart state to play its role in stimulating and regulating a market economy. Another topic that receives much attention is the need to make the economies of the region less crisis-prone than in the past. Among other things, more discipline is required over public sector debt in order to provide the latitude to make
fiscal policy anti-cyclical.
A final key respect in which policy needs to adjust is in the pursuit of lower inequality of income, alongside faster growth. Fiscal instruments (such as using property taxes to finance regional and local government) can help, but they need to be paralleled by efforts to supply the poor with assets (education, land, microcredit, titling) that will enable them to work their way out of poverty.


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Justin Bieber Gets Koi Fish Tattoo [Pic]
Justin Bieber really appears to be in an unspoken race to beat One Direction's Harry Styles to see who can get the most tattoos. The Biebs just added another tattoo to his inventory, this time a koi fish on his arm, situated near his recent "X" and his owl. It's turning into an animal conservation on his arm.
Oh, and speaking of animals, where the heck is Mally, his quarantined monkey? Maybe he should get a tattoo of Mally on his arm before he runs out of real estate.
The new tattoo is on his forearm and it's beginning to look like The Biebs is collecting pieces so it could develop into a sleeve. The tattoos are very visible and we're left to wonder if there is something connecting them and why he placed a koi fish, which is usually intricate due to its scales, on his person. Koi have become very popular among tattoo enthusiasts -- so much so that they can pretty much be considered flash at this point.
Flash, for those not well-versed in inkology, are the framed tattoos on the wall that are already drawn. They are non-custom pieces.
Beliebers, what do you think of JB's latest piece of ink? Do you love it? Is he getting too many tattoos for someone his age? Tell us your thoughts.
Watch the Justin Bieber 'Beauty and a Beat' Video


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I really love giving gifts, but I'm not so good at receiving them. I'd much rather go out and buy myself something I really want than hope the person buying me a gift makes a good guess. I'm also different from the stereotypical woman in that I loooove practical gifts. When my husband proposed, I tried convincing him that we should buy some really nice couches instead of an engagement ring. He didn't go for it. (Bet he regrets that decision now that I never wear my ring.)
Not surprisingly, my husband doesn't think I'm the easiest person to shop for, so recently I started emailing him "Things Erin wouldn't mind having" whenever I see something I like. This is a little out of the norm for my superheroes secrets posts (not super green oriented), but I thought it would be fun to share some of the things on my list.
- One of my favorite food bloggers, Smitten Kitchen, wrote a guide to building "your own smitten kitchen" last December. My kitchen is such a sad, sad place...I want every item on her list. And one of those money trees, she mentions.
- If you haven't seen Lisa Leonard's jewelry, you don't spend much time on the web. She's everywhere these days, and she deserves it. Her custom jewelry is beautiful and inspired.
- I think I'm in love with these t-shirts from rosiemusic. This one reminds me of the "dates" my husband and I sometimes go on to Borders. I also like the one with boy and girl working on laptops side by side. And the one with girl knitting while boy plays guitar...
- My husband bought me a couple prints from Marco Suarez for Christmas. I love them because they are so interesting, unique, and amazingly beautiful. Now I just need to get them framed.
What's on your "Things I wouldn't mind having" list?


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MRS Call for Papers- Deadline Approaching!
May 24, 2012
The 2012 MRS Fall meeting in Boston takes place November 25-30, but the deadline for abstract submission is just around the corner! All abstracts must be submitted by June 19th. Click here for more information on abstract submission guidleines and details about the meeting.