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ATLANTA - Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who made a fortune as a health care executive, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After the Democratic president won re-election, the Republican governor softened his tone. He said he wanted to "have a conversation" with the administration about implementing the 2010 law. With a federal deadline approaching, he also said while Florida won't set up the exchange for individuals to buy private insurance policies, the feds can do it.
In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie held his cards before saying he won't set up his own exchange, but he's avoided absolute language and said he could change his mind. He's also leaving his options open to accept federal money to expand Medicaid insurance for people who aren't covered. The caveat, Christie said, is whether Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius can "answer my questions" about its operations and expense.
Both Republican governors face re-election in states Obama won twice, Christie in 2013 and Scott in 2014. And both will encounter well-financed Democrats.
Their apparent struggles on the issue, along with other postures by their GOP colleagues elsewhere, suggest political uncertainty for Republicans as the Affordable Care Act starts to go into effect two years after clearing Congress without a single Republican vote. The risks also are acute for governors in Democratic-leaning or swing-voting states or who know their records will be parsed should they seek the presidency in 2016 or beyond.
"It's a tough call for many Republican governors who want to do the best thing for their state but don't want to be seen as advancing an overhaul that many Republicans continue to detest," said Whit Ayers, a consultant in Virginia whose clients include Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee, a Republican who didn't announce his rejection of a state exchange until days before Sebelius's Dec. 14 deadline.
Indeed, cracks keep growing in the near-unanimous Republican rejection of Obama's health care law that characterized the GOP's political messaging for the last two years. Five GOP-led states - Idaho, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah - are pressing ahead with state insurance exchanges.
Democrats, meanwhile, hope to use the law and Republican inflexibility to their advantage, betting that more Americans will embrace the law once it expands coverage. The calculus for voters, Democrats assume, will become more about the policy and less about a polarizing president.
"It shouldn't be complicated at all," said John Anzalone, an Obama pollster who assists Democrats in federal races across the country. Anzalone said Republicans could use their own states-rights argument to justify running exchanges. Instead, he said, "They are blinded by Obama-hatred rather than seeing what's good for their citizens."
Governors can set up their own exchanges, partner with Sebelius' agency or let the federal government do it. The exchanges are set to open Jan. 1, 2014, allowing individuals and businesses to shop online for individual policies from private insurers.
Low- and middle-income individuals will get federal premium subsidies calculated on a sliding income scale.
Eighteen states plus Washington, DC, most led by Democrats, have committed to opening their own exchanges.
The law also calls for raising the income threshold for Medicaid eligibility to cover people making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line, or about $15,400 a year for an individual.
It could add more than 10 million people, mostly childless adults, to the joint state-federal insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans.
Together, the exchanges and the Medicaid expansion are expected to reduce the number of uninsured by about 30 million people within the next decade.
A Supreme Court ruling last summer made the Medicaid expansion voluntary, rather than mandatory for states. At least eight governors, all Republicans, already have said they have no plans to expand Medicaid.
The complexity is obvious.
National exit polls from last month's election showed that 49 percent of voters wanted some or all of Obama's signature legislative achievement rolled back. Among self-identified independents, that number was 58 percent. Among Republicans, it spiked to 81 percent. When asked about the role of government, half of respondents said the notion that government is doing too much fits their views more closely than the idea that government should do more.
Before the election, a national AP-GfK poll suggested 63 percent of respondents preferred their states to run insurance exchanges, almost double the 32 percent who wanted the federal government to take that role.


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Observing Baseball With Mateo Fischer (7/20/2013)
On Saturday, July 20, 2013, Tim, Kellan and I hopped in the car and headed south to our nation's capital to see the Nationals take on the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was a hot one in DC. Not as hot as the scorcher we attended in DC in July 2012, but it was toasty. According to Baseball-Refernce.com, it was still 92 degrees at 7:05 when the game started! It was even hotter at the beginning of BP.
I was sick of the $35 parking price for the lot right next to the ballpark. So we ventured a few blocks away to a no frills gravel lot. It wasn't worth it. Parking was still $25. Too much!
We walked by some fountains on our way to the park:
We were hot and sweaty after our walk so we bought some cold waters and…
…jumped in the back of the long line.
In the morning, I bought the boys new cameras. The plan was simply to get Tim a new camera because Kellan had broken Tim's camera in June at the Toledo Mud Hens ballpark. But as I was looking at the cameras, I found one that looked like a cellphone and it said it was water proof and could dropped 7 feet without breaking. It just seemed to scream out, "Buy me for Kellan!" So I did.
As we waited for the gates to open, the boys tested out their new cameras:
Once we made it into the ballpark, we headed to the corner spot in RF by the Nats bullpen. It was pretty crowded. This is what it looked like from the corner spot:
See that red line and the green arrow and "X"? He hadn't gotten any baseballs by 5:00 p.m. And then someone on the Nats absolutely blistered a line drive to RF. It was one of the hardest hit balls I've seen. It seriously seemed like it was rising the entire time off the bat.
I'm not big at chasing batted balls because I need to stay right with the boys. But this ball was just to our right about 10 feet. As the ball approached the stands (and still seemed to be rising), I darted to our right and lunged behind the gals in the white hat and the tall guy in the red hat. As I lunged with my glove (left) hand, my back turned completely to the field and I reached out with a backhand just passed the guy's guy. I thought the guy would catch the ball himself. I lost sight of the ball as it screamed passed the guys noggin. And then:
The ball slammed into the pocket of my glove.
I could hardly believe I caught. I think it is the best catch I've ever made in the stands at a Major League game. It was a lot of fun.
I walked back over to the boys with a grin on my face and showed them that I caught it.
Hooray for Daddy!
Very soon after making that catch, I scanned the crowd behind us and found a familiar face. It was Washington's and New York's and Minneapolis's own …
…Mateo Fischer.
We always have a great time with Mateo. He's just the right age to be an adult with me while still being a kid with Tim. Tim loves everyone. He's about the most social person I've ever met. And he loves hanging out with Mateo.
Tim pulled out his new camera and showed it to Mateo, and then he took this picture of (almost) all of us:
And then Kellan broke out his camera and snapped some pictures of Mateo:
While we were all hanging out with the boys taking pictures, Mateo and I watched as a Nats batter hit a foul ball into the seats down the RF foul line. Most of the balls batted into the stands are quickly fetched by dutiful ushers. But this one seemed to go unseen by the authorities.
When the rest of the stadium opened to the public, Mateo, the boys and I all scurried over to foul territory and I found the ball right where I thought it would be waiting for us.
Then we split away from Mateo – who I think headed back to the outfield.
Tim, Kellan and I headed over to the 3B foul line. The Dodgers had taken the field and Tim wanted nothing more than to take tons of pictures on his new camera. And so he did:
While Tim took photos, Kellan and I watched something rather unique happen on the field. There were two Korean-American folks right behind us (a teenager and his mom). They had a couple pearly white baseballs and they were on the lookout for Dodgers pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu. When he wandered over to the LF corner, they called out to him in Korean and he briefly chatted back to them and put up a hand to signal, "Throw me the baseballs and I'll sign them." This is what happened:
The mother-son combo tossed their two baseballs and a pen to Ryu. Ryu grabbed them and walked back into fair territory to sign them. As he walked toward fair territory, another guy behind the mother-son yelled something like, "Sign mine too!" and he tossed it onto the outfield grass.
And then baseballs rained down like a Midwest hail storm. People from foul territory and homerun territory tossed 10-20 baseballs at Ryu. He patiently signed them all. But there was a problem. Other than the mother-son, he had no clue whose baseballs he was signing. He just started chucking balls back into the crowd after signing them.
There was a fairly annoying teenager right next to us who chucked a cheap-plasticy Nationals logo ball (one of the balls with fake dirt on it that is supposed to look game used) at Ryu. His ball was the easiest to differentiate on the field because it wasn't white. When Ryu signed and tried to toss the kid's ball to someone else in the crowd, the plasticy ball fell on the warning track. The kid proceeded to have a near heart attack going crazy until he got his ball back.
See those three guys behind Ryu (but further out into LF) in the photo above? One of them fielded a batted baseball while Ryu was signing and he rolled the ball into the signature pile. It actually rolled to a stop right next to Ryu's toe. Knowing that it was *no one's ball*, I called out to Ryu to see if he would toss it to us, but he randomly hurled it into the stands.
The whole autograph session (with the exception of the whining kid with the cheap ball) was hilarious and wildly entertaining.
Anyway, we decided to head over to the seats behind the Dodgers bullpen:
A couple homeruns got hit into the bullpen while we were back there, including one that was hit directly in line with us, but fell too short.
At one point, Dodgers coach (and former Mariner) Steve Yeager came into the bullpen and tossed one of the baseballs to the lady next to us. I think they knew each other. He stood below us and chatted with her for a bit. During their chat, Yeager ended up tossing a baseball to Tim.
Thanks, Steve!
When we got home that night, I looked in my old pictures and made a neat picture:
That's me and Steve Yeager (wearing No. 7 for the Mariners) in the Kingdome on photo day in 1986 and Tim and Steve Yeager (wearing No. 7 for the Dodgers) in 2013.
After BP, we headed to the kids play area in the CF concourse. But, guess what? It was closed…
…for excessive heat. We asked an usher what was up with the play area and they said it was too hot that the hard plastic of the playing-contraption could burn the kids.
We decided to put the old switcheroo. We headed to the upper deck for the dessert portion of the switcheroo.
Near home plate, there is an elevator that will take you up to the upper deck at Nationals Park. We got smashed way in the back of an elevator full of catering stuff. All of a sudden, it sounded like running water in the elevator…and then the back of my leg felt wet. Oh no!
One of the bottles of water opened up in my backpack and 20 oz. of water poured straight through my backpack and onto the elevator floor.
That was less than ideal.
As they sometimes do, the boys made the decision to get dippin' dots instead of ice cream helmets. They ate their frozen treats one of the blue picnic tables behind home plate:
In the top of the first, I got my first look (the boys had a limited view from the picnic table) at Yasiel Puig:
He grounded out harmlessly, but really busted it down the line trying to beat out the throw.
Soon, we met up with vegetarian sabrmetrician, Mateo Fischer, who was unfamiliar with this view…
…and, more understandably, these delicious Nationals Park chili nachos:
We crushed those nachos. Tastiest nachos in MLB!
Here's a fun view that I always enjoy from the LF upper deck at Nats Park:
While Mateo and I chatted and watched "Cranky" Zack Greinke…
…pitch to the Nats, the boys pulled out their cameras and had a professional-caliber photo session:
Eventually, we headed over toward our seats in section 417. Our actual seats were in about row 6 or so, but it was pretty crowded around there. So we headed up to the back row…
…where this was our view of Nationals Park:
And this was our view of Bryce Harper hitting a foul ball:
While the boys and I were taking tons of pictures, I noticed something that neither Mateo or I had ever noticed before:
Check out that little handicapped seating cross aisle at the front of the upper deck in RF foul territory. That's pretty cool. We'll have to check that out some day.
Kellan was taking tons of pictures while we were in the upper deck. I managed to get this cute picture of him…
…during one of the brief moments he wasn't holding up his camera taking pictures.
As usual, the Presidents' race was thrilling…
…and it was won by the new guy, Mister President/Chief Justice William Howard "Bill" Taft, after he fooled the other Presidents into taking a detour into the stands – classic Presidential hijinks.
Here's more Puig:
He went 0-5 on the day – very un-Puig'ish.
After spending a couple innings up in the upper deck, we decided to do some roaming round the stadium. On our way out of the upper deck, an usher took a horribly blurry photo of us…
…, which is too bad because the coloring of the photo (particularly the sky) is pretty cool.
We headed down the ramp on the 1B side…
…and headed down to the 200-level where the boys and Mateo posed for a picture with a Thomas "Tom" Jefferson bobblehead:
We walked across the 200-level concourse all the way out to CF where it ends with a stairway leading down to the field level. We were heading to the play area. It was much cooler now. No chance of kids burning their skin on the hard plastic toy. But it was still closed. I figured they probably told the employees charged with running the play area to head home for the day, so they had no one to run the play area once the temperature went down to an acceptable level. Oh well.
By the way, the score was still zero-zero. In fact, one two runs were scored during "regulation" – the Nationals scored 1 run in the bottom of the sixth and the Dodgers tied it up with their own run in the top of the seventh.
Anyway, we headed over to LF and loitered in the concourse for a bit behind Bryce Harper:
This was my view with Kellan lounging on my shoulders while resting his batting-glove clad hand on the bill of my hat:
We decided to head back up to the upper deck. We trudged up the switch-back ramp in the LF foul corner. We headed up to the same spot where we ate our nachos and Tim and Mateo grabbed a prime spot to watch the game…
…while I followed as Kellan ran up-and-down…
…and up-and-down (repeat, repeat, repeat) from the bottom of the top leg of the ramp and the table where Tim and Mateo were watching the game:
As I mentioned earlier, upper deck concourse in LF is pretty cool at Nationals Park. We had a great view of the U.S. Capitol building:
Here are a couple of view of the game from up there:
And a panoramic view of Nationals Park from the same spot:
In the eighth inning, we decided to head down toward home plate and the umpire's tunnel. Before heading out, we asked a lady if she could take our picture and then began the longest three-picture photo session in the history of the world.
In the photo she took on Mateo's cellphone, she cut off Kellan and stuck her finger in the shot. For me, the lady held the camera noticeably crooked. It was amazingly slow and awkward waiting for this lady to take two photos for me. But, hey, she did the job:
As you can see, Tim had his camera ready for the lady to take more pictures. But I had to shut him down. We didn't have another hour to wait for her to take one more picture.
Instead, we headed to the concourse behind the home plate end of the 3B dugout. There is a camera platform right where we were standing waiting for a break in the action. During a break in the action, the camera man called Tim up and let him run the camera:
The camera guy told Tim that his cameraman work would appear on the Los Angeles game broadcast. So, all of you Angelinos, I hope you enjoyed Tim's handiwork.
In the ninth inning, we grabbed some open seats with a great view of the action:
The game was still tied 1-1 after nine innings. In the top of the tenth, Adrian Gonzalez led off with a double to CF. Red hot Hanley Ramirez (batting a mere .390 at the time) followed with an RBI double to CF. Ramirez advanced to 3B on a sacrifice bunt by Juan Uribe and he scored the third Dodger run of the game on a sacrifice fly by Andre Ethier. Despite two more Dodger hits in the inning, that was all the scoring for the Dodgers.
Kenley Jansen came in for Dodgers in the bottom of the tenth and shut the Nationals down with two strikeouts and a groundout to end the game.
Dodgers win 3-1. Chris Withrow, who pitched the ninth inning for the Dodgers, earned the "W" (the first of his career).
After the game, Mateo and Tim both tried to get an umpire ball, but neither succeeded. Kellan and I went to the dugout and were quickly joined by Tim and Mateo. As the victorious Dodgers cleared the field, Kenley Jansen tossed a baseball to Tim. We were all set to head to the gates when Jansen popped his head back over the top of the dugout and asked to trade baseballs with Tim. Turns out he had given Tim the ball that recorded the final out of the game, thus earning Withrow his first career win. Tim tossed Withrow's "Win" ball back to Jansen and caught the replacement ball that Jansen tossed to him.
Thanks, Kenley!
Before heading to the gates, I took a group selfie (featuring a Monkey pose by Kellan):
We had a great time hanging out with Mateo, as we always do. We walked part way to our car with Mateo because the route matched his walk to where he was going to catch a train (or a bus…some sort of public transportation).
The boys quickly fell to sleep once we got on the road…
…with Kellan still holding the baseball Jansen tossed to Tim.
2013 C&S Fan Stats
|18 Games
|18 Teams – Mariners, Royals, Phillies, Red Sox, Rays, Orioles, Yankees, Dodgers, Reds, Nationals, Marlins, Pirates, Blue Jays, Twins, Tigers, Mets, Brewers, White Sox
|31 Ice Cream Helmets – Phillies (jumbo) 3, Phillies (normal) 2, Red Sox 2, Yankees 2, Orioles 4, Nationals 2, Pirates 2, Blue Jays 2, Tigers 6, Mets 2, Reds 4
|86 Baseballs – Mariners 11, Royals 4, Phillies 14, Rays 2, Orioles 7, Dodgers 3, Umpires 7, Reds 9, Nationals 3, Marlins 4, Pirates 1, Blue Jays 2, Twins 3, Tigers 1, Mets 3, Yankees 2, Brewers 2, Red Sox 6, White Sox 3
|10 Stadiums – Citizens Bank Park 2, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, Camden Yards, Nationals Park, PNC Park, Rogers Centre, Comerica Park, Citi Field, Great American Ball Park
|32 Player+ Photos – Oliver Perez, Lucas Luetge, Hisashi Iwakuma, Carter Capps, Daniel Nava, Alex Wilson, Andrew Bailey, Pedro Ciriaco, Mike Carp 2, Koji Uehara, Will Middlebrooks, Joel Hanrahan, Jonny Gomes, Alfredo Aceves, Clayton Mortensen, Rick Anderson, Tom Gorzelanny, Joe Savery, Jonathan Pettibone, Carlos Ruiz, Charlie Manuel, Justin DeFratus, Ryan Howard, Ben Revere, Larry Anderson, Gary "Sarge" Matthews Sr., Kyle Kendrick, Ryne "HOF 2005" Sandberg, Michael Stutes, Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Rowland-Smith
|10 Autograph – Hisashi Iwakuma 2 (English & Japanese), Carter Capps, Ryan Hanigan, Jesus Tiamo, Mike Carp 2, Ryan Rowland-Smith 2, Felix Hernandez


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This meeting was held within the framework of the follow-up initiative financed by the European Union to encourage decisive steps toward providing a better environment both for foreign investment and local enterprise development. This project is a continuation of work already undertaken and is focused on further improving the legal and financial environment for investment, as well as on stimulating entrepreneurship at local and regional levels.
The purpose of the roundtable discussion was to highlight the main legal issues raised by local and foreign firms in running their daily business based on the results of detailed interviews conducted.
Key issues discussed at the meeting were the potentially conflicting provisions in the Civil and Commercial Law, legislative gaps and impractical provisions in the Company Law, existing mandate and power of the Anti-Monopoly Commission including the prevailing penalties for violations of the Antimonopoly and Unfair Competition Law, and other issues such as the rules on hard currency proceeds from sales and current notarization procedures.
The meeting brought together about 40 legal experts as well as representatives from international organisations (EBRD, World Bank). Other participants included senior policy makers from relevant ministries, private legal firms, local company representatives and investors associations.
A background paper incorporating contributions received from participants will be published and a set of recommendations will be presented to the Ukrainian authorities to support their on-going reform process in this area.
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|October 5, 2013, 03:13 PM
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Pumpkins are fun to shoot (not to mention you now have a use for that rotting Jack O' Lantern after Halloween).
Where I work, we used to get several cases of tool catalogs every year. Since one was more than enough, I'd take the spares to use as targets. You'd really be surprised what will and won't go through a case of catalogs (they will stop a .44 Magnum, but not a .41 Magnum).
I've also done a fair amount of shooting at used oil filters in the junk pile on my Grandfather's farm.
Finally, a couple of my great uncles used to put rat poison in their corn crib certain times of the year. They would then open the doors and, when the rats came staggering out use them for target practice with their .22's.
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|October 6, 2013, 07:28 AM
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It was a total pain to clean up but as an IT guy destroying this old Dell was therapeutic. I felt like Michael Bolton using a baseball bat on the old printer in Office Space ~ 340 rounds of 9mm from an Uzi smg.
|November 18, 2013, 09:54 PM
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Tile left covers...I bug a couple of guys in the trades for them....car windshields too if they only have a small crack.
|November 20, 2013, 01:50 PM
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An old Jeep Grand Cherokee the Floyd County Sherrifs Dept left out at the range. Had fun shooting the mirrors off with my then-new M1A.
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|November 22, 2013, 09:53 PM
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Well, yeah, CARS! I rented time on a MG42 at Knob Creek once. It was on the infantry tripod, so the pattern was pretty tight. The owner said that most people were targeting the wheel on the car that was set on a large wire spool.
I replied 'you Kentucky boys don't know s**t about shooting cars. That car still has it's windshield and rearview mirror intact'. 100 rounds (10 seconds) later, I fixed that.
And 2lbs of tannerite, set on the backrest of an 87 Toyota pickup, will blow the windows out and unpeel the welded seams.
|December 7, 2013, 12:33 PM
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I can tell you what not to use as a target.
Just a kid and had a 22 rifle. Went to the dumps to shoot up anything and everything.
Shot an old wore out tire and almost took the bullet flying back at me.
It wizzed by my head. I was only ten feet from the tire.
Dumb, but learned real quick to shoot at stuff that will allow the bullet to
|December 7, 2013, 12:49 PM
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I can see where the dump would make a excellent target range though if upwind.
We used to have alot of fun shooting rats & bats on a cattle & grain farm. They would line up for is just after sunset and just before sunrise.
In the daytime someone would go in barn and give the silo top a slight crank to make the pigeons fly out for skeet practice. It was good for 6 or 7 cranks with 3 or 4 birds flying out each time.
|December 7, 2013, 05:54 PM
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well when I was younger my older brother and I both worked at the same grocery store. we got in an entire pallet of crumpled cans of tomato soup and couldn't do anything with. so my brother and I took a couple boxes to the local range and blasted away for a few hours... whoever used the range next must have thought they wandered into a crime scene because the next time we went out there they had a sign that said "no soup".
ignore my complete lack of capitalization. I still have no problem correcting your grammar.
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|December 9, 2013, 01:43 PM
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Ha ha "NO SOUP FOR YOU"!!!
|December 9, 2013, 10:07 PM
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Cans of cheap foam shaving cream make a nice white explosion!!!
I heard a story of some guys that went out and caught a prairie dog and spray painted its back red, then let it go back home down in its tunnels. A couple days later they go back to the field, set up a couple hundred yards away in the beds of their trucks and had a large sum of money laying by for the guy that can locate and drop the painted prairie dog....
"Reckless hell!! I hit just where I was aimin'!"
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|December 13, 2013, 08:19 PM
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had saved up a bunch of cans of ether(sp?)! Either full and not working, or empty ( which they never are!) Started a bonfire, and set the cans on a log in front of the fire! At about dark thirty, they make a great flash when you hit one with a 22!!!
|December 14, 2013, 08:42 PM
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I have been looking at many different postings, from this site and other forums, to find home-made shoot and see self-healing targets, for me to use while shooting my SR22. You know…the ones that once hit, reveals a bright color for you to see where the bullet hit and on the backside, the exit hole seals up and is not noticeable, so that later, you can use that side also. I saw one, in which a kneeling pad, usually smaller than 8"X15", and costing around $6, was used. But, I found a much larger pad, for just a couple dollars more. I found a 12"X24"X1" closed cell foam pad at austinkayak.com, for $7.99, and currently with free shipping. I have ordered 2 pieces. They also sell the 12"X24" in ½" and 2" thicknesses. I wasn't sure if the ½" thick would self-heal, as well as the 1", so that is why I chose the 1".
I have purchased a 20 yard roll of yellow duct tape, for $3.71 and a flat black, can of spray paint for under a $1, from Walmart. I can have 2- 12"X24"targets, 4- 12"X12" targets or adhere them together, making 1-24"X24" large target. You can always cut them to any size you want, making many more targets. Then, take the yellow (or any bright color) duct tape and completely cover one side of the foam. Take the black paint and spray it over the duct tape. Then, you can use a paper plate, with cut out circles, squares, etc. to use as a stencil and use another color of spray paint, to put those designs on top of the black paint. Instead of using the stencil and paint, you can tear off pieces of the duct tape and stick it on wax paper and paint it a different color. Then peel off and stick it on top of the black paint, in any pattern you want. You can always paint any design you want, on top of the black paint, instead of using the stencil. When you shoot the target, the black paint will chip off, revealing the colored duct tape, where your bullet hit. The back of the foam will almost look untouched, as it self-heals, by sealing back up, as the bullet passes through. You can use the front of the target, as long as you like, or until it is just too shot up. Then, remove the duct tape and repeat the procedure on the backside, where you can have a brand-new shoot and see target! You can experiment and see how often you can repeat the process, until the target is non-useable. Depending on how many targets you make out of the pieces that you have and how many times you can re-do the target, you can save a lot of money.
I am looking forward to getting my foam and making my targets. I know that I am probably not telling you anything that you don't already know, but you will be hard-pressed to find that closed cell foam at a better price. I am not sure how long the free shipping is going to last. I hope that this may have been helpful to you. Happy shooting!
|December 15, 2013, 07:56 AM
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Some of the various things I have shot over the years
Potatoes, tomatoes, ears of corn, pumpkins (the day after Halloween) cans of tomato sauce, oranges, apples, cans of pop, cans of Pam cooking spray, cans of expanding foam, shaving cream, bags of flour, milk jugs filled with water...both liquid and frozen, phone books, mini propane tanks, a 4 lb roast that was on clearance at the grocery store, eggs, a kids big wheel bike, an inflated car tire still on the rim, and a Ford Fiesta.
Some of the more fun/interesting ones out of all that were the expanding foam...hit it with a 12ga slug and all of a sudden there was just a huge cloud of that crap in the air and almost like slow motion it fell to the ground. Shaving cream was kind of the same way. The Pam was probably the coolest and messiest though. Hit it towards the bottom of the can with a rifle and like some crazy trick shot cowboy thing, the can flies like 20 feet in the air spinning and spraying out. Can hits the ground and theres this cloud in the air that won't dissipate, just slowly falling. The walk over to pick up the garbage was a nightmare, the grass was slippery as hell from all the nonstick spray.
While not a really unusual target, it is very cost effective. Paper plates and a can of spraypaint. I just use a piece of plexiglass with a 4 inch circle cut out of it, lay that over the paper plate and give the paint a spray...instant target center.
|December 15, 2013, 01:29 PM
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Go to your local food pantry/bank whatever you want to call it and shoot all the expired canned food then when a 12 ga slug hits one of those cans you won't belive how far the food flies its also fun to shoot cans of spray paint
EDIT: Shoot the cans AFTER you take them home I didn't want any miscommunication lol
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i also bring paper plates and a big crayon every time i go out shootingg, usually its saved for when we run out of more interesting stuff to shoot
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empty 22 casings.
ignore my complete lack of capitalization. I still have no problem correcting your grammar.
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Cheap soda cans, well shaken.
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One of my old favs is the big 5gal water jugs full of dyed water or two liters full of dyed water the make on heck of a splatter when short with a 30.06 or .270
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We used to shoot rats at the city dump at night, but they have clamped down on that for sure!
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I take several balloons put in a mixture of sawdust and chalk the stuff used in snapping lines. When i get to the outdoor range I put some air into them. Hang them up and shoot away. You can make your own self healing targets using the expandafoam in milk jugs, balloons etc. They work nice too and can take a lot of hits.
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With all the snow we got here, my kids and I made a bunch of snowmen in the backyard and went to town on them with BB guns. After they went inside, I broke out my shotgun loaded with birdshot and obliterated Frosty.
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When I lived in the woods, I'd buy cheap canned corn and tomato soup.
They make a great splat.
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I think it'd be fun to shoot cheap butane lighters with 22lr tracers. Better yet the refill cans.
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Where: prettymouthmusic.bandcamp.com or download on iTunes
More info: facebook.com/prettymouthmusic
M arie Litton, Lief Sjostrom and Ryan Longenecker are all part of different Denver bands, but together, they're PrettyMouth.
They describe their music as dark folk, and everything about their first record, Satan in Clothes fits that label perfectly. On the surface, it's the sepia-toned album art that features a skeleton, the album title and the song titles ("Morning Terrors," "The Devil You Know," "Sinisterly"). Of course, what really matters is the music, and Sjostrom's cello and Longenecker's drums provide eerie backing to Litton's dark songwriting and light, slightly twangy voice.
We got the trio on the phone to talk about the record, which is only a few weeks out of the gate, and how they got together in the first place.
How long have you been together now?
Marie Litton: Me and Lief started playing together in February — last February — and Ryan joined us in March, so not very long.
And you recorded the album pretty soon after that, right?
ML: I recorded the record in June. We did it real quick.
Lief Sjostrom: She had most of the songs written already and she found us. Then she had to pound out three or four more.
Marie, I've heard it wasn't easy finding players who suited your voice well.
ML: Well, I'm in another band called Lil' Thunder and the band's great and they suit my vocal style, but my voice is soft, so I have to have a good sound guy to push it. It's hard to find people that want to play quiet. The other people I had been playing these songs with were trying to make a rock band, but I didn't want to be in a rock band … It's hard to find people who want to play like this.
So how did you find these guys?
ML: I had met Lief at a party, but I had no idea he played cello. I went and I saw him (play in February) and I was like, "Oh my God, he needs to play in my band." I needed to start something new. The band he was playing with was about to fall apart, so he was looking for somebody, and so it worked out perfect. And I worked with Ryan's girlfriend, who said he was a drummer who wanted to be serious about music. It worked out great. It worked so effortlessly.
Tell me about Satan in Clothes. It's certainly dark, as advertised.
ML: Dark folk is the best way I can describe it. My voice is twangy and it's a little darker, it's a little depressing. I think everything I write is more on the depressing side, this is just a lot more — I wouldn't say country — but I need a word…
LS: A little more singer-songwriter?
ML Yeah. It's different.
Are you working on anything new?
ML: I'm gonna start writing a new record right away.
Ryan Longenecker: That's what Marie is doing. Me and Lief are in two other bands and we're also working super hard to promote this record and get it into the right hands, and hopefully start touring in spring of next year.
ML We're trying to get shows and be a working band. That's our main thing right now. I've been in a lot of bands in the town, but this is like… We all want to be a bigger band. We all want to make this happen. We're pushing it. We wanna do this thing.


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Without doubt, what I love best about this blog are the people it has lead me to, total strangers who have become virtual friends. And at the top of that list is a woman I greatly admire, Mary L. Tabor. And so today, it is my great honor to talk with the writer about her seductive new memoir, (Re) Making Love: A Sex After Sixty Story. First, buy the book by clicking HERE. Then, settle in for a delicious conversation with Mary, complete with her recipe for finding lasting love…
FOODINISTA: Your first book, a collection of short stories, is The Woman Who Never Cooked. Who is that woman? How does she differ from you?
MARY: I am hidden inside the fiction and oddly or maybe not so odd, I included three memoir pieces that I don't identify as such. That's the first tip-off. In the fiction, I used food and adultery as metaphor for the grief I bore through my mother's, my father's and my sister's illnesses and deaths. I wasn't sure who I was. I didn't know when I wrote "The Woman Who Never Cooked," the title story, that I would become that woman. The story relies on cooking, despite its title, and scrolls through recipes from some of my favorites: The Silver Palate Cookbook, Julia Child's The Art of French Cooking, The Ramognolis' Table, Martha Stewart's Pies and Tarts, Chez Panisse Desserts, Maida Heatter's Book of Great Desserts, Gourmet's Best Desserts, Silver Palate Desserts.
I stopped cooking after D. in my memoir left me. Was I prescient? I don't think so. I do think that cooking and love and family are inextricably entwined.
I'm cooking again. I know that's a good sign.
FOODINISTA: What is the great seduction dish of all time?
MARY: It begins with a joke and ends with a kiss. I read this recently somewhere: "Vacationing in Vermont, someone picked up the local paper to check out the forecast. It read: Today: Sunny, 76. Tonight: Not so sunny, 55." I laughed and thought of eating lobster at a lobster shack somewhere in Maine. That's near Vermont, right? Geography is not my long suit. For me, boiled lobster is the ultimate seduction dish. And I'll never forget watching Darryl Hannah eat one shell and all in a Rom-Com I love: Splash. But I hear she's a vegetarian so that was a very complicated lobster.
Complicated is good where love is concerned.
If I were going to seduce a man, I would make Pierre Franey's (the 60-Minute Gourmet whose passing left a hole in my favorite rag The New York Times that Mark Bittman has done a great job of filling) chocolate mousse and his Strawberries Romanoff (strawberries steeped in Grand Marnier, orange peel and topped with a dollop of fresh whipped cream).
Dessert first. Then make love and think about food later when you're starving.
FOODINISTA: Your new memoir (Re)Making Love is about finding love after sixty, but there are rather beautiful truths for women of any age. I particularly loved the chapter about your hair. What can a haircut say about a woman? Does long hair at 24 mean the same thing at 64? Incidentally, after a bad breakup in my 20s, I cut off all my hair and moved to Paris. The short hair played well over there. It did not have the same effect when I moved back to San Francisco.
MARY: I remember when Mia Farrow cut her hair but wasn't that after she hooked up with Frank Sinatra? I remember Jean Seberg, really cute haircut, in Breathless, but, golly, she did also play Joan of Arc.
I do think the French, despite all the bashing we Americans sometimes get from them, have an esthetic that focuses on beauty and sensuality in a way that we Americans can learn but don't grow up with: The reason your short hair in Paris was a hit.
I first cut my hair after my second child was born: Went into the bathroom and cut my ponytail off with a scissors. Something was going on with that crazy move—and I don't think it had to do with my kids—first husband maybe?
I then let it grow and cut it again when a corporate job and raising two kids on my own was my stated reason, but I had also met the man I later married: my second marriage.
In 2002 when I let my hair grow again—what I refer to as the trial of the hair: Have you ever grown out curly hair?—the result gave me a new sense of my sensuality. Long and white, this hair will not see the scissors again.
So, if there's a difference, it's not age, it's Paris.
FOODINISTA: Is La Perla the best revenge?
MARY: Feeling beautiful inside is the best revenge. A good bra on the way there helps like this one from La Perla:
I don't have this bra but, if I did, I'd dance around the kitchen in it and pretend I was Lady Gaga.
Will he love you when you're 64? He will, with or without the bra.
FOODINISTA: In (Re) Making Love there were three kitchens and two husbands. Tell us about your dream kitchen and your dream husband.
MARY: My dream kitchen would have a Wolf range top, two Miele wall ovens, a Subzero fridge and freezer and a stainless steel island with lots of electrical outlets. And the sink would have a window over it.
My dream husband would cook with me in that kitchen and he'd be the man who wrote this description of my memoir: here's an excerpt of what the man I love actually wrote to help promote the book:
"A series of men appear—all identified as a lower-case first initial—while the upper-case D. weaves out and in, as both he and Mary maneuver through the separation. Along the way are the Internet dates, emails, T.S. Eliot and Nietzsche, romantic comedies and the Grimm Brothers, photographs, recipes, dreams, Obamas, and yes, even the kitchen sink. Her journey moves from her home in Washington, DC to Missouri to Australia and eventually to Paris, a visit that offers a stunning surprise that changes her life."
Gotta love him, and I do.
FOODINISTA: Please share two recipes for love—one philosophical, one we can cook.
MARY: Philosophical recipe:
Never forget the Laws of Thermodynamics. C.P. Snow provided this shorthand to remember the laws: 1. You cannot win. 2. You cannot break even. 3. You cannot get out of the game.
But if you stay in the game, you can dance even when it seems that the dancers have all gone under the hill.
Now go to the farmers market, buy corn and tomatoes and lots of basil.
Slice the tomatoes, sprinkle with some grated parmesan and asiago cheese, preferably from The Cowgirl Creamery, around the corner from me. Add a chiffonade of basil, salt and pepper. Then make Angel Hair Pasta and Pesto. I refer to this as my McDonald's meal 'cause to me this is fast food fast and it says summer.
1 or 2 bunches basil (about two cups, leaves only)
1 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese (or more; I don't measure; just look)
4 cloves of garlic
the best extra virgin olive oil you can afford
Put the garlic cloves, the basil and the cheese in your food processor. Give it all a whirl while you pour in olive oil until you see green of summer like grass in a field.
Boil angel hair pasta (the best homemade brand you can find or use DeCecco) ever so briefly. Put the pasta in a beautiful bowl, scrape all the pesto on top, pour a quarter cup or so of the pasta water on top. Toss and serve with corn and tomatoes.
Serve with one of my son's imported wines: I like S.C. Pannell's 2007 Sauvignon Blanc or try the best buy ever, my son's Woop Woop Shiraz.
Don't forget to tell jokes and kiss while cooking: You will taste both in the pesto. And remember Robert Hass the poet who says in "The Privilege of Being," "Many are making love. Up above, the angels/ in the unshaken ether and crystal of human longing/ are braiding one another's hair, which is strawberry blond … ."


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A Flaming Success at the Shelby Gem Factory
Dec. 30, 2012
Larry Paul Kelley's interest in science started early. His father, an auto body repairman, kept a valued collection of Popular Science magazines in the house, and Kelley would peruse them regularly.
Before long, he decided to attempt a few of the things he was reading about, and the foundation for his future career - as founder of the Shelby Gem Factory just south of Ludington - would be set before he knew it.
"I read in Popular Science that ruby was made from aluminum oxide and chrome oxide," he explains, "And I had noticed that the sandpaper my father used was covered with aluminum oxide. So I scraped some of it from the sandpaper and put a small piece of chrome from a car bumper in with it, and put it on a firebrick. I used an acetylene/ oxygen torch to melt it, and presto! At the age of 12, I had made my very first red colored ruby. It wasn't clear like good ruby - but it was ruby."
By the age of 13, Kelley had started launching homemade rockets over Hart Lake and making bombs, a process that got him in a snippet of trouble with local authorities, although his intentions were mostly harmless.
By 14, he'd built his own diving helmet and was walking around the bottoms of the local lakes. And a few years later, he enrolled at U of M and finally channeled all of that scientific energy into formally studying chemistry and physics. He also spent some time working as a research chemist at Dow Chemical, where he worked in high-temperature furnace building and materials processing.
"The ruby laser was invented in about 1960, although it took eight or nine years later for it to be useable, and by the time I left college, there was beginning to be a demand for large ruby crystals. I decided to make the equipment needed to manufacture them."
But making rubies for laser rods, while interesting, didn't prove very profitable. So, calling once again on the science experiments of his youth, Kelley decided to cut the rods into smaller pieces and then facet them into gems.
"Each gem could then be sold for $80- 100," he explains. "Obviously, there was more money in gems than in laser rods, so I concentrated on making gems."
Within a couple of years, Kelley had figured out the formulas for different gems, including a clear crystal that looked much like a diamond when properly faceted (their trademarked "Diamond Encore" gem), and others that look like emeralds, topaz, citrine, and other birthstone gems. And he still hasn't stopped trying to perfect the process to this day.
"We are now on our third rendition of the diamonds," he says, "each succeeding one is more sparkly than the proceeding one - it is absolutely impossible for anyone to tell the different with their naked eye between a good quality mined diamond and one of our new Shelby diamonds."
The Shelby Gem Factory was founded by Kelley in November of 1970. Born in Hart, Michigan, he chose Shelby for his factory's locale, for reasons both logistical and, at this point, somewhat humorous.
"I absolutely love the small town atmosphere, and I'd wanted to start my factory in Hart - but Hart had no industrial park, and due to the bombs and rockets I'd made as a kid, they were not anxious to have me around," Kelley chuckles. "Shelby was starting an industrial park and actually gave me encouragement and land to start a factory."
Today, Kelley and his team use two main types of methods to manufacture their gem crystals.
"By the way, none of our gems are glass," he emphasizes, "that is quite important. All of our gems are crystals."
Specialty equipment from gem furnaces/ crucibles to an $85,000 iridium cup are combined by Kelley's workers to create the gems.
One method involves "pulling" the crystals using temperature differences that create the crystals in a fashion similar to the formation of an icicle.
The second takes small pieces of mined gems, say ruby or sapphire, and then re-crystallizes the liquid into larger pieces of gemstone - "growing" the gems from these seeds, so to speak.
"As far as I know, we are the only company on Earth that uses the second method," Kelley says, "and also as far as I know, we make more varieties of gem crystals than any other company."
Once the gems are formed, they are then cut into small pieces and skillfully faceted into the gemstone shapes that most people recognize.
While Kelley used to offer a tour through the furnaces and the factory floor itself, he had to change his approach.
"The insurance companies will no longer insure us if we allow people into the factory with all the very high temperatures and extremely bright light," he explains.
But not much stops Kelley when he's got a plan. He had dozens of photos of the factory interior shot so they could be put on display, crafted a mock-up of one of the gem machines ("just not as hot!" he laughs), and installed a faceting machine that people can operate to see how gem faceting works.
He also built a 50-seat theater, and today utilizes that facility to put on a multimedia show that illustrates the factory process. By the middle of January 2013, the Shelby Gem Factory will have a completely updated theater presentation, to accommodate the many visitors that remain intrigued by the Shelby Gem Factory and its accomplishments.
And if you see something you like, you can most likely purchase it right there at the factory's own gem and jewelry showroom. Not only do they create and facet the gems on-site, they also create jewelry from them, unique pieces that upon casual viewing are quite indistinguishable from "the real thing." 14 Karat gold jewelry is currently offered, with Kelley - still moving forward - adding on a second line next year that is slightly less expensive, utilizing sterling silver instead of gold.
But in spite of the gem factory's success, from its tours to the popularity of the gems, it's always the process itself, and the science behind it, that continues to interest Kelley the most.
"Of course, most ladies love the finished jewelry," Kelley says, "but I think the best part is actually the theater show. It's very educational," he grins.
The Shelby Gem Factory is located just south of Ludington at 1330 Industrial Park Drive in Shelby, Michigan. To find out more about the factory and/or tour times, telephone them at 231-861-2165, or visit them online at www.shelbygemfactory.com.


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On Thursday, the Tuscaloosa City School System will hold Parent Visitation Day.
All of the system's schools will hold events so that parents can see what their children do while they're in school.
On Thursday, the Tuscaloosa City School System will hold Parent Visitation Day.
All of the system's schools will hold events so that parents can see what their children do while they're in school.
"Great things happen every day in Tuscaloosa City Schools," said Mike Daria, assistant superintendent of general administration. "We invite parents to stop by to get a first-hand look of the exciting events happening in their child's classroom."
Here's a list of events going on at each school:
- Alberta Elementary: Parent workshops and lunch art extra
- Arcadia Elementary: Parent information sessions
- Paul W. Bryant High: Technology mini-sessions, parent walk-through classroom visitation, lunch, reading/math and Common Core
- Central High: Art exhibit, parent workshop on Internet safety, school tour, lunch
- Central Elementary: Breakfast, parent workshop, homework survival kits, technology stations
- Eastwood Middle: parent informational meeting
- Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary: Parent readers (reading with the students), Common Core workshop, make-and-take art, jazz on the patio, Writing Cafe
- Northington Elementary: Lunch, musical performances, PTA informational session, Adopt –A-School partners
- Northridge High: Choir performance, Freshman Academy, expo, questions and answers
- Oakdale Elementary: Book character parade, family fish fry and classroom visits
- Rock Quarry Elementary: Lunch with your student, guest reader opportunities available by contacting your child's teacher
- Rock Quarry Middle: Helping Hands (assist with day-to-day operations) and guest speaker
- Skyland Elementary: Center Time with pre-kindergarten, carving pumpkins, pumpkin fiesta, AMSTI Workshop, technology workshop
- Southview Elementary: Parent conference, parent workshops, lunch
- Southview Middle: Spirit dress-up, candy bags, picnic-style lunch, Common Core workshop
- Tuscaloosa Magnet Elementary: Bring your parent to work day (International Baccalaureate Learner in Action)
- Tuscaloosa Magnet Middle: Classroom visits
- University Place Elementary: Classrooms visits (7 Habits and STEAM in action), parent luncheon
- University Place Middle: Expo in the gymnasium, breakfast chat with representative from the Tuscaloosa Public Library, PTA informational session, lunch chat on Internet and social media safety with representative from the Tuscaloosa Police Department
- Verner Elementary: Parent conferences, art displays
- Westlawn Middle: Musical performances, recognition of essay winners, guest speakers
- Woodland Forrest Elementary: Lunch and Learn (20-minute sessions with your child's class)


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Learn about the lawlessness of the McCullochs, for whom this elegant six-storey tower house was built.
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Learn about 400 years of monastic life in the valley of the Water of Luce.
MacLellan's Castle
See in the remains of Sir Thomas MacLellan's tower house how castle building had evolved by the late 1500s to favour comfort over cannons.
New Abbey Corn Mill
See this water-powered mill spring to life in the summer months when it's put to work to show how oatmeal is made.
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Discover the love story between John Balliol and Lady Dervorgilla that lies behind the abbey's special name, Dulce Cor.
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A joy. This brilliant new edition has a translation by Sophie Hannah (a wonderful poet in her own right) and her text teases and beguiles at every turn.... Three cheers.Kate Kellaway, The Observer
In a delightful, curious game of what comes next, Moomintroll travels through the woods to get home with milk for Moominmamma. A simple trip turns into a colorful adventure as Moomintroll meets Mymble who has lost her sister Little My. Along the way, they endue the hijinks of all the charming characters of the Moomin world including the Fillyjonks and Hattifatteners. Will Moomin ever make it home safe and sound?
A beautiful and boisterous story by internationally acclaimed children's author Tove Jansson, this picture book is sure to tickle the fancies of parents and kids as well as Moomintroll fans everywhere!
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A Zlatan Ibrahimovic brace sent Saints away from Old Trafford empty-handed.
Southampton were defeated as they took to the road for the first time this season.
Claude Puel's men travelled to Old Trafford to take on Manchester United as José Mourinho took charge of a Manchester United side which had Eric Bailly, Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic making their competitive home bows.
There were just two changes to the Saints side which drew 1-1 at home to Watford last weekend, with José Fonte stepping in to replace Maya Yoshida and Pierre-Emile Højbjerg selected ahead of James Ward-Prowse.
Oriol Romeu was an unfortunate early casualty, exiting after just nine minutes to be replaced by Jordy Clasie after pulling up with an injury.
Pogba yielded the first chance of the game when he whipped an effort towards Fraser Forster's near post, but the England stopper was equal to the midfielder's effort.
Nathan Redmond almost found Duan Tadić with an inviting cross on the break, before Shane Long sent an effort into the side-netting after turning away from his marker.
Saints were almost immediately punished, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic rising highest to send a thumping header past Forster after Wayne Rooney was allowed too much time to provide the cross.
Long almost turned home a Matt Targett cross as Puel's side went in search of an equaliser, with Tadić seeing a goal ruled out soon after.
Saints were stung again just seven minutes into the second half, with Clasie adjudged to have fouled Luke Shaw, enabling Ibrahimovic to tuck away the resulting penalty.
Ultimately the penalty seemed to kill the contest, with Mourinho's side content to keep bodies behind the ball and frustrate Southampton, while looking to find a third goal on the counter.
Virgil van Dijk twice provided timely blocks to deny Anthony Martial and Shaw, but Saints were unable to haul themselves back into the tie and left Old Trafford with nothing to show for their performance.
SAINTS: Forster; Cédric, Fonte, Van Dijk, Targett; Romeu (Clasie - 9'); Højbjerg, Davis (Austin - 67'); Tadić; Long (Rodriguez - 84'), Redmond.
Unused Subs: McCarthy, Pied, Yoshida, Ward-Prowse.


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Tuesday marked exactly 100 days until the start of the World Cup in Brazil, but it's Major League Soccer that heralds the beginning of the domestic 2014 season Saturday with seven games, highlighted by the Los Angeles Galaxy hosting Real Salt Lake.
A busy and turbulent offseason with MLS franchises and star players coming and going saw the league splash its cash out of luxury (signing English striker Jermain Defoe) and necessity (buying Chivas USA to keep the franchise alive until it's sold off).
Here are five of the most intriguing MLS teams to keep an eye on this year, at least until the World Cup begins hogging the headlines this summer:
New York Red Bulls - The club had an uncharacteristically quiet offseason, but why make many changes when the franchise ended last year by winning its first-ever Supporters' Shield on the back of an eight-game undefeated streak?
Returning are leading goalscorers Tim Cahill and Thierry Henry who, at age 36, likely is playing his final MLS season.
Rookie coach Mike Petke exceeded expectations by taking the club to the regular-season title last year. Can he go one better this year and win an MLS Cup?
Toronto FC - Former Galaxy head honcho Tim Leiweke was not afraid to brandish his checkbook to attract players like David Beckham to the club and he's employing a similar strategy in Canada.
Big-money signings Dafoe and Michael Bradley have transformed expectations at one of the league's perennial losers with fans returning in force to sell out the season ticket allocation.
Just seven wins last year means second-year coach Ryan Nelson has plenty of opportunity for improvement, but it will have to come quick to satisfy the expectations of the notoriously impatient Leiweke.
Seattle Sounders – It's a make or break year for former Galaxy coach Sigi Schmid in the wake of the $9 million signing of U.S. forward Clint Dempsey.
The Sounders, urged on by the largest fan base in MLS, have fallen in the conference semifinals in all but one of its five seasons, and that's a pattern the club's ownership group wants to break this year, given the unprecedented investment.
LA Galaxy – The Galaxy begin the season without being defending champion for the first time since 2010, but coach Bruce Arena tinkered rather than remade a team some thought was too inexperienced last year in key parts of the field.
Veteran help in the shape of 31-year-old Swedish wide midfielder Stefan Ishizaki and 33-year-old Canadian forward Rob Friend has arrived to shore up those areas. Defender Greg Cochrane, a 2013 SuperDraft pick, became the latest expendable youngster Monday when he was dealt to Chicago.
Veterans Landon Donovan, who turned 32 Tuesday, and last year's leading scorer Robbie Keane, 34 in July, will appreciate the experienced reinforcements as Arena tries to eke out another MLS Cup charge from the veteran legs at his disposal.
The Galaxy play four games in 14 days to start the season, including the two-leg CONCACF Champions League quarterfinal against Club Tijuana.
Chivas USA – "Improving the present and preparing for the future," new team president Nelson Rodriguez said Monday about the deceptively simple task facing lame-duck Chivas USA before it's sold off and re-branded.
Just who will come watch a club with an ugly past and no future is unclear, but Chivas USA is unbeaten in preseason.
Spanish midfielder Daniel Fragoso, 31, was added Monday and became the latest veteran to bolster a thin, inexperienced squad that includes spectacularly-coiffed striker Adolfo Bautista.


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Discipleship is the process of becoming more like Christ. God doesn't just want you to know about Jesus, he wants you to become like Jesus.
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"Hold firmly to the Word
of Life." (Philippians 2:16a NLT)
God has
promised many wonderful benefits in your life if you will meditate on the Word
of God and then do it.
if you know how to worry, you already know how to meditate on the Word of God.
Worry is when you take a negative thought and you think on it over and over and
over. When you take a passage of Scripture and you think on it over and over
and over, that's called meditation.
There are six
ways you can get a grasp on God's Word.
But if all
you do is hear the Word of God when you go to church, you have no grip on the
Word of God, and it can be pulled out of your mind very easily.
The Bible
says in Philippians 2:16, "Hold firmly to
the Word of Life" (NLT). You don't have a good grip on the Bible unless
you're doing all six habits: hearing it, reading it, studying it, memorizing
it, meditating on it, and applying it.
Psalm 119:16
says, "Your laws make me happy. I never
forget your word" (GW). Do you want to be happy? God's principles will make
you happy, and you remember those principles by memorizing them, meditating on
them, and then applying them.
Psalm 119:35
says, "Make me walk along the path of
your commands, for that is where my happiness is found" (NLT). Usually
we're looking for happiness in all the wrong places. God says happiness is
found in the path of his commands.
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Media release –
2011 Census - shedding some light in a town near you21 July 2011 | CO/29
Just like the song, the Census goes 'everywhere man'.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics will count communities in all of Australia's small and isolated towns on Census night, Tuesday, 9 August 2011.
A team of Census Collectors have been employed 2,950 kilometres north-west of Perth at the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
Head of the Population Census program, Paul Lowe says scientists at Mawson's Huts, an Australian research base in Antarctica will also complete the Census on 9 August.
"Logistically we've had to be really organised. Census forms and eCensus envelopes were shipped to Antarctica in January," Mr Lowe says.
This year scientists working for Australia's Antarctic Division at Davis Station, Casey Station, Mawson Station and Macquarie Island will complete their Census forms online using eCensus.
"The eCensus option makes it easier to accurately measure the number of scientists in Antarctica and their key characteristics," Mr Lowe says.
It's expected that 30 per cent of the population will use the eCensus.
More information is available online at www.abs.gov.au/census or call the Census Inquiry Service on 1300 338 776.
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This Regice is an ice-type Legendary Pokémon owned by Pyramid King Brandon.
Regice was Brandon's fourth and final Pokémon against Ash, battling his Pikachu. Pikachu fires Thunderbolt, which does no damage. Regice uses Blizzard, which blows Pikachu away. Pikachu attacks with Iron Tail and Quick Attack, but Regice negates it with Ice Beam, which freezes the field. With the field covered in ice, Regice can move quicker, but Pikachu ends up slipping. Regice attempts to use Focus Punch, but Pikachu uses Thunderbolt to paralyze Regice, and then strikes the Iceberg Pokémon with Iron Tail. Regice uses Ice Beam to freeze the stadium more, creating a tomb of ice pillars that trap Pikachu.
With Pikachu immobilized, Regice uses Rest. Pikachu uses Iron Tail to free itself. Pikachu races towards Regice, but it wakes up and fires Ice Beam, this time making a direct hit and freezing Pikachu in an ice pillar. Ash orders Thunderbolt, but Pikachu seems unable to. The referee begins to declare Pikachu unable to battle, but Pikachu uses Thunderbolt to shatter the ice. Regice fires another Focus Punch to send Pikachu bouncing across the ice field. Ash manages to get Pikachu to use two Iron Tails in the row due to the ice. Regice uses Ice Beam to trap Pikachu in another icy tomb before using Rest again. Pikachu frees itself with Iron Tail and starts charging forward with Volt Tackle. Regice wakes up and uses Ice Beam to try to freeze it again, but Pikachu dodges and hits Regice before it can launch another attack, knocking it out and earning Ash the Brave Symbol.
Regice appeared again in A Pyramiding Rage, where it defeated Paul's Lairon in seconds, despite its type disadvantage and overpowered his Ursaring before being recalled.
Regice was also used to battle Regigigas, but was confused by the Colossal Pokémon's Confuse Ray and went on a rampage along with Regirock and Registeel. When the evil Pokémon Hunter J attempted to capture Regigigas, Regice, Regirock, Registeel and Brandon were all turned to stone in order to protect it. After J left due to her client cancelling the deal, the Regi's and Brandon were revived by Regigigas and stayed at Snowpoint Temple in order to rebuild it and guard Regigigas.


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Recent enforcement actions by the SEC and FINRA ensnared a former Hall of Fame college football coach charged in an $80 million Ponzi scheme and a Wells Fargo vice president for failing to disclose the risks of mortgage-backed securities.
Other actions included charges of fraud amid an emergency asset freeze to halt a $15.7 million Ponzi scheme originating in Colorado; and the barring of a firm, its CEO and CFO over findings that it misstated its financial records and for engaging in securities transactions when it was below its required net capital.
Hall of Fame Football Coach Charged in $80 Million Ponzi Scheme
Jim Donnan, a College Football Hall of Fame inductee who guided teams at Marshall University and the University of Georgia and later became a television commentator, was charged by the SEC, together with his business partner Gregory Crabtree in an $80 million Ponzi scheme.
The SEC said the two allegedly conducted the fraud through a West Virginia-based company called GLC Limited, which, according to Donnan and Crabtree, was in the wholesale liquidation business and earning substantial profits by buying leftover merchandise from major retailers and reselling those discontinued, damaged or returned products to discount retailers.
Promising returns ranging from 50% to 380%, the two only used about $12 million of the money they received to actually purchase merchandise, much of which was simply abandoned in warehouses in West Virginia and Ohio. The rest was either used to pay off earlier investors or stolen by the pair for their own purposes.
According to the SEC's complaint filed in federal court in Atlanta, the scheme began in August 2007 and collapsed in October 2010. Donnan recruited most of his investors by approaching contacts he made as a sports commentator and as a coach and then capitalizing on the relationships. For instance, he told one former player, "Your daddy is going to take care of you" … "if you weren't my son, I wouldn't be doing this for you." The player later invested $800,000. In a conference call to discuss the action, William P. Hicks, associate director of the SEC's Atlanta regional office, said that losses to individual investors ranged from about $4 million down to a few thousand dollars.
While Donnan allegedly told his investors that he was investing right along with them, by the time his scheme fell apart, he'd managed to divert more than $7 million to his own ends; Crabtree had allegedly taken about $1.08 million.
Risk Disclosure Failure Costs Wells Fargo $6.5 Million
Wells Fargo's brokerage firm and a former vice president, Shawn McMurtry, were charged by the SEC with selling investments tied to mortgage-backed securities without fully understanding their complexity or disclosing the risks to investors with generally conservative investment objectives.
Both consented to the SEC's order without admitting or denying the findings, and the firm agreed to pay more than $6.5 million to settle the charges; the money will be placed into a Fair Fund for the benefit of harmed investors. McMurtry agreed to be suspended from the securities industry for six months and to pay a $25,000 penalty.
According to the SEC's order instituting settled administrative proceedings against Minneapolis-based Wells Fargo Brokerage Services (now Wells Fargo Securities), the firm improperly sold asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) structured with high-risk mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) to municipalities, nonprofit institutions and other customers without performing adequate research, instead relying on credit ratings. The improper sales occurred from January 2007 to August 2007. Registered representatives in Wells Fargo's institutional brokerage and sales division made recommendations to institutional customers to purchase ABCP issued by limited purpose companies called structured investment vehicles (SIVs) and SIV-Lites backed largely by mortgage-backed securities and CDOs.
A number of customers purchased SIV-issued ABCP as a result of Wells Fargo's recommendations, and many of them ultimately suffered substantial losses after three SIV-issued ABCP programs defaulted in 2007.
McMurtry was charged for his improper sale of SIV-issued ABCP, the SEC said; he exercised discretionary authority in violation of Wells Fargo's internal policy and selected the particular issuer of paper for one longstanding municipal customer. McMurtry did not obtain sufficient information about the investment and relied almost entirely upon its credit rating.
The SEC's order finds that Wells Fargo has taken a number of remedial measures since 2007 to ensure that its registered representatives have adequate information about the nature and risk of the securities they recommend and that relevant information about those securities will be fully disclosed to customers.
$15.7 Million Ponzi Scheme Halted in Colorado, Assets Frozen
The SEC announced fraud charges and an emergency asset freeze against a Denver-based company, Bridge Premium Finance, and two Colorado residents, Michael J. Turnock of Denver and William P. Sullivan II of Highlands Ranch, Colo., for carrying out a $15.7 million Ponzi scheme that harmed more than 120 investors nationwide.
The SEC alleged that Turnock and Sullivan sold promissory notes to investors through Bridge Premium Finance, which purports to be in the business of insurance premium financing. They promised investors annual returns of up to 12%, and represented that investor funds would be used to make short-term loans to small businesses to enable them to pay their up-front commercial insurance premiums. The pair assured investors that the firm's business was performing well and that investor funds were "100% protected" through various forms of collateral on the underlying loans.
However, according to the SEC's complaint filed in federal court in Denver, Bridge Premium has been paying investor returns with funds from other investors since 2002. It has not been profitable in any year since at least 1998, and has lost more than $3 million during the past five years. In May 2012, after more than a decade of Ponzi payments and operational losses, Bridge Premium owed investors more than $6.2 million, yet its insurance premium loan portfolio totaled less than $250,000 and its assets totaled less than $500,000. Because most funds were diverted for Ponzi payments, any collateral available on Bridge Premium's underlying loan portfolio will only protect a small fraction of its promissory note investors. In addition, Bridge Premium's offering was not registered with the SEC as required under federal securities laws.
The court granted the SEC's request for a temporary restraining order to freeze the assets that Bridge Premium, Turnock and Sullivan derived from the scheme.
FINRA Bars Firm, CEO, CFO on Records, Capital Deficiencies
FINRA announced that it has expelled WJB Capital Group for misstating its financial records and for engaging in securities transactions while it was below its required net capital. FINRA also barred the firm's CEO, Craig Rothfeld, from the securities industry, and barred the firm's CFO, Gregory Maleski, from acting in a principal capacity.
According to FINRA findings, from 2009, when WJB Capital began to experience financial difficulties, through 2011, Rothfeld and Maleski misstated WJB's financial position on the firm's balance sheet. In one example, Rothfeld and Maleski converted $9.8 million in compensation previously paid to 28 employees into forgivable loans. As a result, the firm also failed to provide for the appropriate payment of taxes. Had WJB appropriately recorded these loans and tax obligations, its balance sheet would have reflected substantial losses in addition to those that it was already experiencing.
Rothfeld and Maleski also misclassified some items as allowable for net capital purposes, which meant that on occasion in 2011, WJB engaged in securities transactions when it was below its minimum required net capital. For example, the firm improperly included receivables related to "non-deal road-shows" when they were not allowable assets under the net capital rule.
As a result of the misclassification of these receivables, WJB misstated its FOCUS report and net capital calculations by at least $1 million on a monthly basis for approximately two years, FINRA said. The firm also misclassified a $1.5 million loan it received from its clearing firm as an allowable asset for net capital. Rothfeld, Maleski and WJB also failed to reasonably supervise the firm's financial and accounting functions.
WJB, Rothfeld and Maleski neither admitted nor denied the charges, but consented to the entry of FINRA's findings in settling the case.
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Only a very well-established country singer would say he doesn't want to record just hit songs. That's what Tim McGraw said during an interview for the cover story in the new issue of Billboard magazine . "I hear hits every day. I pass on songs all the time that I know are hits. But I don't want to just do hits," he said. I think what he meant was — and I could be wrong — that he wants to do some songs that he loves but that may not be big radio hits. He also talks about how there are so many great songs floating around in Nashville, he has trouble narrowing them down. And how once he gets to the recording process, he likes to do things a certain way. "I try to be subtle in what I do. I like it to be dark in the studio when I'm doing vocals. I don't have any lyrics to look at, and I try to picture me sitting there on a bar stool right across from somebody, me just talking to them, trying to get a message across," McGraw said. "There's a difference between singing at you and singing to you."


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Was it only five years ago that the iPhone assumed command of our everyday lives?
Yes. Yes, it was.
The first iPhones were sold June 29, 2007, according to the San Jose Mercury News. A half-decade on, the iPhone has sold 218 million units -- including 72 million phones in the first half of 2012 alone, up from 1.3 million in 2007 -- and has generally dominated the cultural and technological landscape, according to the newspaper.
"There has been no other device that has changed social and technological life in such a short time," Clifford Nass, a Stanford University sociologist told the newspaper. "There has been nothing like it in the world."
It's true. Just ask Siri.
It's worth mentioning that analysts five years ago called the iPhone overhyped and guessed that the BlackBerry's ascendancy over "serious" users would never be threatened. Hah.
The days of the "CrackBerry" appear over, with device manufacturer Research in Motion slashing jobs and the main competitor to the iPhone being Google-powered Androids.
Apple, meanwhile, has become a corporate behemoth largely based on the success of the iPhone, the newspaper reported. The company recorded $160 billion in sales in the current fiscal year, the newspaper reported -- a 550 percent increase from the pre-iPhone days.
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PORTSMOUTH — Rick Holt knows winning.
The Portsmouth High School two-way lineman is leaving high school a football and baseball champion, and has decided to play his college football at his backyard school, which has enjoyed a fair amount of recent success as well.
Holt, a senior, made it official on Sunday, making a verbal commitment to attend the University of New Hampshire, a school whose football program has cast a warm shadow over the Seacoast during a successful past decade, but has boasted few local products on its rosters.
"Coach (Sean) McDonnell said, 'You're a hometown kid, pretty much,'" said the 6-foot-4, 270-pound Holt, an All-Division III lineman these past two seasons. "He said, 'There haven't been that many kids from this area that have had a chance to play there, but the few that do have been pretty successful.'"
Holt made three official visits: to Division II Stonehill (Mass.) College, Marist (N.Y.) College and UNH, which he made this past Saturday-Sunday, staying overnight on campus. All three schools offered him partial scholarships.
He will attend UNH his first year on a less-than-50 percent scholarship but, like many players recruited to the program, will have a chance to build it into a full scholarship over time.
"You work your way up the depth chart, then it becomes a half and then a full," he said.
Due to NCAA rules, McDonnell is not allowed to publicly comment on recruits until Wednesday, which is the national signing day in college football.
Holt will become the first Portsmouth player since Rod Walker to play for UNH. Walker, whose last season in Durham was 2011, advanced from walk-on to starting outside linebacker on a team that reached the NCAA playoffs.
"I remember him more from Little League baseball, and then hearing from the coaches that Rod was at UNH," said Holt, "that was pretty cool."
Over the last three years, Holt forged his reputation as one of the top linemen in the state, and the most dominant in Division III, where the Clippers claimed championships in 2011 and '12, their first state titles since 1981.
On the baseball diamond, where he's slotted as the team's No. 1 pitcher and off-day first baseman, he helped the Clippers win Division II championships in 2010 and '11, and had a sizeable part in the 89-game win streak that currently stands as the national high school record.
The football program he's joining has a pretty good recent record, too. Under McDonnell, the Wildcats have shared two CAA titles (2005 and 2012) and made the Division I FCS playoffs nine straight times, the best streak in the nation.
"It's always been pretty cool that we have a team like UNH that's so competitive and 20 minutes from here," said Holt. "They've always been one of the better teams in the CAA and make the (national) playoffs every year."
In high school, Holt felt he was a better defensive lineman than offensive lineman, and said coaches from UNH and Stonehill both said he'd be used there, at least initially; Marist had more need for help on the offensive line.
Getting a chance to play close to home, in front of friends, family, and past teammates and coaches, also was a factor in his decision, he said. UMass showed some interest in him, but as a "preferred walk-on" with no scholarship money.
About the only negative these days is the high school academic workload he returned to on Monday. He visited Marist last Thursday-to-Friday before making his visit to UNH over the weekend.
"Kind of stinks that I have to make up all the work," he said, "but it's good now knowing what I'm going to do."


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