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With the conviction that "effective leadership in a culturally complex world requires a combination of cultural intelligence and cross-cultural experience," Perkins School of Theology offers immersion courses and experiences for students, under the auspices of the Perkins Global Theological Education (GTE) Program. "Through seminars and significant immersion experiences in other cultures, we prepare our students for lifelong growth in cultural intelligence and cross-cultural competence. Students gain firsthand experience in building intercultural relationships, resolving cultural conflicts, and guiding intercultural ventures."
These same principles make it expedient for Perkins faculty members to have immersion experiences as well. More than leading by example, participating in events like these is important – at least in my view – because the personal growth and development that springs from such experiences helpfully supports and enhances the professional vocation of teachers and staff.
So it is that I find myself representing the Perkins School of Theology Office of Public Affairs and Alumni/ae Relations on a faculty immersion to Cuba.
Until President Obama eased some restrictions in 2009, travel to Cuba tended to be more limited. In our case, we are permitted to visit Cuba under two general rubrics – first, as faculty and staff members of Southern Methodist University engaged in research or activities related to educational purposes; and second, under general provisions that allow visits for a broad range of personal and institutional exchanges for religious purposes.
The initial planning meeting for our trip, helpfully facilitated by Carlos Cardoza-Orlandi, heightened my anticipation about the faculty immersion to Cuba.
The broad contours of the schedule: Depart Friday, March 7, from DFW to Miami.
Fly from Miami to Cuba via Sun Country Airlines on Saturday, March 8.
Repatriate Sunday, March 16.
Of immediate interest when preparing for the journey is the fact that all transactions are required to be in cash – in the form of U.S. dollars that must be converted to a Cuban currency known as CUCs. Because of economic sanctions, U.S. banks are not allowed to do business in Cuba. The 12-15% charge on currency exchanges (both from USD to CUCs and vice-versa) is an important source of hard currency for Cuba.
My initial response is concern that visitors like us might make appealing targets for criminals, since everyone would be aware that guests in Cuba are carrying cash instead of relying on credit cards. "Anything can happen," Carlos acknowledges. "But in general, Cuba is one of the safest places I've ever been." Use common sense, but on the whole: relax and enjoy the experience.
28 February
What to pack and what – given by-the-pound charges for luggage – to wait and buy upon arrival in Havana? Not an easy question to answer, in some ways.
I am specifically interested in the availability of yerba mate in Cuba. Yerba mate (mah-tay) is a type of herb tea from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and other South American countries, where it is widely consumed – usually served hot and often steeped in a dried gourd (also called a mate). I've been drinking mate every morning for about 33 years now, and often enjoy it mid-afternoon (tea time) as well. It was hard to find in Dallas stores when I first moved here back in 1982, but since that time it has become easily available. In fact, in addition to the little specialty import shops where I used to get it, mate now is stocked at "Fiesta" supermarkets and has been widely available in larger health food stores for more than a decade now.
I do not know if this popular South American tea will be available for purchase upon our arrival. Whether searching the Internet in English or Spanish, I find little information. "Yerba mate in Cuba." "¿Donde puedo comprar yerba mate en Cuba?"
Several obvious search-term variations prove uniformly fruitless, except for reference to one specific brand of bottled beverage containing yerba mate; it originated in Cuba and is available in some places in the United States.
This is the moment when the impact of trade restrictions imposed by the U.S. Government first becomes more than an abstraction to me. When is the last time you did a Google search for fairly basic information about an item for purchase that produced no helpful results?
3 March
An official publication by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control summarizes much of what is and is not permitted by U.S. citizens with regard to Cuba. It is interesting to discover that it is illegal for U.S. citizens to purchase Cuban products not only in Cuba but even in other countries. A visitor to Nicaragua, for example, would be prohibited by U.S. law from purchasing Cuban cigars there.
A broad exception falls under the rubric of informational materials (including art objects), allowing citizens to import certain items from Cuba. But in general, even "souvenirs" may not be purchased in Cuba.


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Yep this thread had to get posted.
Although it only occurred to me after reading some of the pro-gun Americans responses in comments sections/threads to you-know-what
The question is this: I live in the UK, where firearms are illegal, even the police do not have them, and the rate of gun crime is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than gun crime in the US. I have not even heard what a gun shot sounds like outside of TV and video games - think of that. With this being a fact, how can you people who are pro-guns; that don't like the idea of guns being made illegal, even rationalise why it would be a bad thing?
The only reason for thinking guns are needed, as far as I can tell, is if you think you need to kill somebody for some reason with them.
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I <3 Captcha's irony. :-)
Because there's a difference between "crime" and "gun crime", and they respond in opposite ways to gun laws.
Basically, for every person that you spare from death by bullet wound, you're getting a mugging, a rape, and two deaths by knife wound in return.
We're just better at math than you are.
Um... as somebody from the UK I have to say guns are not outright illegal.
Now, a handgun or something along those lines are illegal because their sole purpose is to kill a human being as it would be bloody difficult to hunt Game with one of those.
I don't really want to get in to a debate about guns. I've already done that on this site and it was a complete waste of time. I just want to point out to people that there is a difference between legalising guns in a country that's not used to them, and banning guns in a country that is.
But the main reason I posted here was to say that gif is both awesome and hilarious.
Also, how does making guns illegal stop CRIMINALS from getting them? Really, I'm dying to know.
Also, also, whom to trust with my life: myself, who knows how to operate a firearm safely and responsibly; or an incompetent police force? I don't think the decision is a hard one.
Also... it is worth baring in mind just how big America is in comparison to the UK.
Blightly is an island.
It's much easier to regulate what comes into the country.
It's also much easier to regulate firearms in a country that doesn't allow it's general population to carry them than one that does.
The argument I hear most frequently is that bad dudes don't care 'bout laws so we need guns to protect ourselves from the baddies.
(It's being said that the weapon the Colorado massacre was a legal rifle, AR-15, which was legalized after the ban on it ran out. So, it's possible that stricter laws could have prevented a slaughter on that scale. But, that's not really the issue, because he probably could have gotten it regardless on the black-market.)
I don't think you'll ever be able to prevent real baddies from getting these kind of weapons, or diehard hunters.
I think the answer is education and having a license to own a weapon. I need a license to drive a car legally, but I can just go buy a shotgun? Though, that's more about personal safety and won't solve the issue of massacres.
That being said, my father owns a gun. It's a 9 mm and probably doesn't even work at this point. It's pretty much a bluff weapon.
I'm in Northern Ireland, would just like to point out we're in the UK too, most households I know have at least one firearm (we have 8), our police all get firearms, even traffic stops involve MP5's and G3's.
The illegality of weapons didn't stop paramilitaries getting their hands on enough firepower to force the army to be very careful about how they moved around the country, by air and ground.
I'll concede we do have to be considered an anomaly when weighing certain statistics though.
I'm gonna have to go with that. You see, with the issues of gun crimes, there's also the silver lining. We have the background checks, the waiting periods, the armed civilians who if pushed can fire back... A man with a gun in the UK could go on a rampage because he's one of the few packing. A man in the US with a gun has to worry about ANYONE in his immediate area and beyond packing as well.
Here's the thing, O UK-gun-control-question-man. It is true that there is the difference in the kinds of crimes committed and how bad things can get because of who has what guns, illegal or not. However, there is just as equally the consequence of trying to change that here. It's not the whole of gun-owning society that's doing this. It's the crazy, stupid shitheads. Everyone else just wants to use a gun properly. If you try to take that away, you'd have - I'm guessing - at least a solid billion saying NO, people who didn't DO anything wrong, and you would be wrong to take from them what's theirs.
A license is only required if you're driving on public roads. You can drive on your own private land without a license and the cops can't do shit about it.
Similarly, a license shouldn't be required for owning a gun and using it on your own turf, but if you want to take it onto government property, the government might want to make sure you're not a drug kingpin. Similarly, the owner of a nightclub or bookstore or anything else can say "no guns beyond this point" as easily as they can say "no skateboarding in my goddamn parking lot", and the Second Amendment can't say shit about it.
Oh dear lord this thread again.....
I'm going to say that I'm in support of greater gun control laws in America, but not necessarily against gun ownership. What I think is that people should probably get psychologically checked before they're allowed to handle a weapon. And don't tell me about the whole 'right to bear arms thing'. That was from a different era when it was basically a necessity.
Take this scenario:
Say you track this big buck to the outskirts of town, and you find that he as made himself a makeshift home in an abandoned warehouse. With a handgun you could easily sneak up on him and get a deathshot! That way he won't be running around with your daughter any more and filling up her head with ridiculous ideas and corrupting her character!
OT: Who gives a crap, it's not like the US government would change it.
Well, no. You can drive anything on your own property. But for the safety of the public and yourself, you have to pass a test on the basics and show an intermediate knowledge of how to commandeer a vehicle and of your state's road rules. (At least while driving a street-legal vehicle on public roads.)
I know (most) people don't read their car's manual or read their state's driver's ed manual, but I read all of mine. Even the moto section. :D
Guns are also used for sport. There are a lot of people who like hunting bucks with a rifle. The United States (of America) expressly gave citizens the right to "keep and bear arms" so that if the government started stepping on toes and shoving it's nose in places it shouldn't, the people would have the power to change that. The founders of the United States didn't want the citizens led around on a leash, but many citizens are.
I'm a US citizen and largely pro-gun. Largely. I still think there's room for much improvement, but keep in mind that undoing the current system requires a massive cultural paradigm shift, and what works for a single European country does not apply when you're talking about a collective of States that is 15-100 times larger than a single European country and with a similar magnitude (or more) in population as well depending on which country you talk about. Combine the above with the effect of cultural indoctrination and additionally overcoming States'desires to outline their own rights are significant hurdles to overcome to even begin to discuss changing the system.
Yes, I think some things could use better control, in regards to high-powered handguns and easily modified semi-auto ARs. But at the same, I'm conflicted with the belief that the populace plays its minor vigilance role and even the thought of a well-armed retaliation may deter some violent crime, and do also worry about some NWO-style conspiracies that stripping the population of its arms is the first step into an oppressive death spiral we would then be ill-prepared to fight (again, this is an effect of cultural indoctrination, largely). These feelings are hard to reconcile, they are ingrained so deeply in the way we approach our "gun culture" around here.
It's such a tough two-way street. It really is.
So gun-control threads are going to be the hot topic again? Boy, this is going to be just as enjoyable a month as the last four have been.
I don't care about guns. I don't care if they're more strictly regulated than they currently are in the US, because it wouldn't have any effect on my life as it is right now.
I'm going to start avoiding threads about guns now, it seems...
EDIT: Also, I've never heard a gunshot outside of television or video games either, and I do live in the US. Maybe stop generalizing the entire population over here as crazy, gun-toting maniacs who spend all of their days shooting up the streets.[1]
In fact, the only gun I've ever actually seen is a hunting rifle that my friend's mom has.
[1] That was hyperbole, and meant facetiously.
This should go to religion and politics.
Head over to R&P Moth_Monk, all will be revealed.
But in short: What works in the UK won't work in the US. We Americans (Most of us, anyway) know this, which is why we are so adamant in our defense of the individual right to own firearms.
How about because we do not want to end up like Australia?
Wild pigs in the US- 4,000,000
Wild pigs already do billions of dollars in damage every year in the US and we hunters are the only thing that actually prevents them from taking over like they have in Australia (and that is not the only species that is breeding out of control in Australia). In addition to that is just general pest control.
Or how about because we still have dangerous (not just annoying) animals in the US like wild bear- http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Alaska-woman-recounts-terrifying-ordeal-with-bear-3707497.php#ixzz20eC0iwhF
Or how about because we feel the need to protect ourselves? A friend of mine lives on the border, you can literally see the border from his home (or at least the place where the sign that is supposed to mark the border is). Drug runners regularly use his property to smuggle drugs in. If he called the police it would take them 20 minutes or better to get to him. Do you think it is a good idea for him to be disarmed? And before anyone says it, he cannot move, his grandparents bought the property, he cannot afford to purchase a new home, and no one in their right minds would buy that property. Then you have a friend of mine who was raped. She carries a gun on her because she doesn't want it to happen again. And of course you have incidents like this- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31416285/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
There are other things but let us focus on the economics for a moment.
The basic fact is that attacking the gun industry is harmful to the world's economy. You may not realize this but your police force and military practices with ammunition. That ammunition is cheap because the US produces a tons of it and exports. Either practice goes down or costs go up.
Plus, you are talking about tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of jobs. You have gun shop owners, ammunition manufacturers (both large companies and small businesses), unrefined resource providers, military contractors, etc. Where do you think the materials to make these firearms and ammunition come from? What about all of the leather used in holsters? Where do you think the computer chips used in gun owners tech comes from? And on.
Your attack on the gun industry would send shock waves throughout the entire economy. There is no major part of the US and world economy that is not somehow connected to the firearms industry. How many ranchers are going to lose money when the demand for leather goes down? How many businesses built around firearms companies are going to survive if the largest business in the area goes under? How many mining companies are going to feel the effects of a fall in the brass market? How many ranges are going to go under and thereby force Police Departments to build actual ranges and how much money will that cost? Etc.
Then, in addition to that, you are going to have to get rid of the firearms somehow. Ignoring the how for a moment, let us instead focus on the cost to do that. First you are going to destroy hundreds of multimillion dollar businesses directly unless you pay them off (lots of money there). Then you have the 80 million gun owners in the US. If ever gun owner owns $300 in guns and firearms accessories that equals $24,000,000,000 you have to pay them (unless you are just going to take the guns and say fuck you to every gun owner). Of course that number is vastly underestimated. I myself own several thousand dollars in firearms and accessories and I am rather young. Plus, most bolt action rifles cost over $300, most semis cost over $600, and most pistols cost over $400.
In other words, firearms are necessary in the US and it would cause a huge harm to get rid of them. Not to mention the basic fact that it is impossible to get rid of them. 300,000,000 guns do not just disappear because you want them to (not to mention all of the guns outside of the US and all of the illegal guns).
BTW guns are not illegal in the UK, just heavily regulated.
I wish I could post some pics of the guns I've modified over the past month. I just had a cop bring me a .308 FN rifle he'd like converted into a sniper variant.
Ex military gun enthusiast by the way. In my off time I compete in a lot of tactical shooting competitions, train with police and do some gunsmithing on the side. I've been referred to as "The Gun Whisperer" because I can make any piece of shit gun really bad ass with the right amount of modifications and cash.
That was a lot of wasted effort. It's been scientifically proven that you can't teach ignorant people to believe things they have decided not to ever consider.
In any case I agree with you in large part.
The US and the UK are two very different places. America has a large gun culture and has always had access to them so the argument that 'if we outlaw guns only the criminals will have them' makes sense there. Everyone has guns, you suddenly try take them away and only the people who have them are those who are ignoring the law anyway.
The UK however has almost no gun culture. Hardly anybody has a gun in this country and if we suddenly had access to them we wouldn't know what we were doing and it could get pretty dangerous. Gun control makes sense for the UK.
In short what I'm saying is what works for the UK doesn't necessarily work for the US and vice versa.
Well obviously gun crimes will be lower since guns are illegal in the UK . But that doesn't mean crimes will be lower .
See that isn't an interesting comparaison . An interesting comparaison would be , "crimes resulting in death" in the US and "crimes resulting in death" in the UK. So what % of crimes in both areas result in at least 1 death . The methode is irrelevant . Is the crime rate really lower? Or are the methodes of commiting crimes different?
I don't think a gun crime is worst than a "knife crime" . If someone dies , someone dies . Rule of thumb , if someone wants someone else death , they will do it whatever the means . Sure guns make it slightly easier , but it doesn't mean if guns were illegal , people wouldn't die . Not to mention that real criminals will be able to get guns anyways.
Also take into consideration the amount of people living in the area . The more people living in a country , the more likely there is to be crimes . There is a bigger chance that the number of people that gets killed in a country with 50 million inhabitants is higher than one with 10 million. Althought you cannot neglect the fact that are many factors that affects the crimerate , like poverty for example .
Well according to Wikipedia the homicide rate for the UK is lower (1.23 per 100,000 people) compared to the US (4.8 per 100,000 people)
Because they're, you know, illegal. That means you can't buy them without the right underworld connections and a shitload of money.
Generally only the big criminals can afford firearms, and those that do don't use them against the public, because after that the entire police force will be after them, and they've just wasted something worth € 3000+ on a lousy robbery that brings in € 10-50. Criminals are commercially oriented people; if it's not profitable, they won't do it.
Of course they have guns, they wouldn't have been able to shoot that drug dealing gangster if they didn't. I also wouldn't be one to brag about the British law enforcement, considering how powerless they were in stopping last years rioting from going on for three days strait. I wouldn't argue that America has a very large violent crime rate for a developed state, but I wouldn't argue that gun-laws affect that rate, considering we allow all sorts of weapons in Canada and we have some of the lowest violent crime rates in the world.
That's really nothing special. Many Americans have never personally heard a gunshot either (if you exclude black powder rifles, I've never heard a gunshot that wasn't on TV or in a game either).
Or if they shoot competitively (I know someone who does this--she almost went to the Olympics). Or they have wild animals to deal with. Or they do reenacting. Or they collect them. Or they like to take them apart and fix them, then give them to members of the other groups. Or they're hunters.
You raise an interesting point I will elaborate on for people who might not be aware of the implications and effects the conflict in Northern Ireland had for UK gun crime. Criminal syndicates set up lengthy and elaborate supply chains through eastern Europe and the mainland UK in order to provide weapons for the paramilitaries on both sides.
The first effect was the gradual trickle of some of the weapons intended for Northern Ireland ending up on British streets, the second more serious effect was after the ceasefire. Paramilitaries stopped stockpiling firearms, the guns that where once destined for NI where now all ending up in the hands of criminals.
It took a long time for that supply to be broken up, luckily now most guns in the hands of criminals are either stolen from legal owners or converted replicas and reactivated decommissioned guns.
Yeah outlaw guns cause we all know how criminals just love to follow the law...
That works for you in the UK great, but don't assume it would work here too. We're just too different.
Because freedom, that's why.
My stance on gun control is as follows:
Yes because criminal really care about doing illegal things. I'm just going to assume you are being intentionally disingenuous here, its better for my own sanity that way. The fact here which you so willfully ignored is that if a criminal wants a gun badly enough a law isn't going to stop them. That you think criminals only care about money is as ludicrous as it is false.
Different strokes for different folks. Or in this case, different laws for different cultures. America has more guns than people, in other words over 300,000,000. And I don't believe that includes illegally possessed ones. That would be a lot of guns to try and take out of society, given people don't just hide them, or the black market buys up several million to keep themselves perpetually stocked and ready to serve a wave of new customers.
Thinking about America, would that be a good thing? What works for Europe works fine, but things are a bit different here. We already have a lot of guns, a huge part of the economy is dedicated to it, it won't stop people who truly want to cause harm with guns from getting them, and it won't curb people's desire to harm themselves or others. Teen wants to commit suicide? A bottle of pills works just as well as a gun. Crazy person wants to kill a lot of people? Plenty of improvised explosive devices, or a thriving post-ban black market.
Again, what works for other people works, nobody is denying that. But trying to get rid of guns in America would cause more trouble than it's worth. More lives would be lost, and more would be made unsafe than made safe.
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Nov. 14, 2004
The men's Cross Country season came to an end on Saturday at the NCAA Western Regional Championships. The men finished 10th of over 26 division 1 teams on the West Coast at Woodward Park in Fresno. After a strong Conference finish, the men were looking to improve on their 10th place ranking. However it was not to be as the Gauchos finished exactly where they were predicted to finish in 10th place with 263 points. The team was the second Big West Team behind Cal Poly who finished 3rd. ASU finished second and Stanford claimed the team title.
The team was once again led by Chris Ashley who concluded a very strong sophomore year where he led the team in every race. The San Mateo native finished 37th of 151 finishers covering the 10,000 meter course in 31:27. Following Ashlee was Mike Chavez (42nd, 31:38), Alex Cardiasmenos (60th, 32:08), JD Krawczyk (66th, 32:16), and Jeff Gardina (72nd, 32:28).
The 2004 season will hopefully be a year that the Gauchos gathered experience to build a future on. With the exception of senior Jeff Gardina, the Gauchos will return everyone from this year's roster . The team will now take a short time off to rest and then begin training for track season.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia transit officials say a mother and grandmother left behind a baby while trying to avoid paying full subway fare.
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority says it happened Monday on the Market-Frankford El. The Philadelphia Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/10eTdRk ) the unnamed adults had a single, one-day convenience pass that allows one person to take eight rides.
SEPTA spokeswoman Heather Redfern says a cashier punched the pass and allowed the mother to enter. She handed the pass to the grandmother, who was going to use it at another station to avoid suspicion.
But Redfern says they accidentally left the baby behind and didn't realize it until they got to the next station.
A cashier kept the baby inside the booth to keep warm. The women were reunited with the child and Redfern says they won't be cited.
Information from: Philadelphia Daily News, http://www.philly.com


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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina may drop its three-decade-old requirement that high school students pass an exit exam to graduate.
Legislation that would the mandate has widespread support from parents, educators and legislators of both parties. They say a single test should not determine a student's future.
Advocates for children with disabilities say the test can be the lone hindrance for students who can otherwise earn the 24 credits needed to earn a diploma.
The bill would still require students to take the exam because it is used for state and federal accountability laws. But the idea is to eventually replace it with tests relevant to students' pursuits beyond high school. The measure would create a study group to explore the options.
Neighboring states have already deleted their exit exam requirements.
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It's been a long while since we announced our Alpha 2 release back in June of 2013, but today after months of very hard work we are very proud and happy to provide our latest release to the community now named "LuneOS".
The first eye catching change is the new name we'll be using for our project going forward. The distribution will be called "LuneOS" instead of "WebOS Ports Open webOS" because it wasn't very catchy. Lune is the French translation of moon and refers to the user interface we all love so much in legacy webOS, LunaSysMgr, which is named after the Latin/Spanish translation of moon.
The release model for LuneOS is a rolling one where each of the releases will get its own name from a list of coffee beverages. This first release is "Affogato".
It only supports the Nexus 4 and HP TouchPad, for now. Their focus is to provide a stable base for these devices, but they won't try to compete feature-for-feature with the likes of Android and iOS. Essentially, it's webOS for those of us who remember the operating system fondly - hopefully with some of the rough spots ironed out.
Interestingly, it makes use of libhybris, which is a contribution from Jolla's Carsten Munk to the mobile world. It allows Wayland to run atop Android GPU drivers. Open source can be a beautiful thing.


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The 21-year-old pulled out of the England squad ahead of the World Cup qualifying double-header against San Marino and Montenegro after suffering from a recurrence of the ankle injury that kept him sidelined for 16 months last season.
As Goal.com exclusively revealed last week, Wilshere faces an uphill battle to feature for either club or country for the remainder of the campaign due to the problem.
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"Honestly, is very difficult to say [when he will be back] - maybe in two weeks," he told reporters. "It is an inflammation of his bone, and we have such history with him so we are a bit more cautious.
"We have deferred his rehab by one week. We gave him one more week rest because it was wise medically to do it.
"We will rest him when it is needed. He knows he has to take care of his future. He is a very young player, he accepts it.
"He doesn't need any special treatment. You just have to be cautious with the inflammations of his ankle at times. He has been out for 17 months, so he wants to play. I understand that.
"If he is selected [to play for England this summer], he will go. It depends what kind of shape he will be in. If he has no problems, why not?"
The Frenchman also explained that Theo Walcott, Kieran Gibbs and Abou Diaby are likely to join the midfielder in missing out on Saturday's clash with Reading.
"Wilshere will still be out. [Theo] Walcott is injured, [Abou] Diaby has a problem we will have to check and [Kieran] Gibbs has been ill.
"We have a good relationship [with England]. Walcott's injury was an accident."
Wojciech Szczesny was recently forced to apologise for his father's public criticisms of Wenger, but the 63-year-old dismissed suggestions that the goalkeeper would be moved on as a result.
He added: "He's nearly played 100 games for this club. That is fantastic. He has a very good future and has accumulated a lot of experience."


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Euromoney names UBS best global private bank
UBS wins Euromoney's inaugural "Best Global Private Bank" award, ranks first in Europe and numerous other countries.
Euromoney today named UBS the "World's Best Global Private Bank" in its first annual survey of the global private banking industry, which it conducted during the summer and fall of last year.
UBS won an impressive number of awards in the survey, significantly outperforming all its competitors worldwide, among them "Best Private Bank in Western Europe" award, as well as in the Bahamas, Jersey, Luxembourg, Monaco, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates. It was also ranked first for an impressive number of wealth management services in various regions and countries, key among them the "Best at Servicing International Clientele" in Western Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UAE, and the U.S. UBS was ranked second in Switzerland.
The survey is based on peer reference and by information provided by UBS. Through peer nominations, Euromoney indentified the companies that are recognized by competitors and industry players as being exceptional in specific categories of client and product segment.
Marcel Rohner, CEO of Wealth Management & Business Banking, commented: "These awards clearly display how our global Wealth Management franchise stands out in a fiercely competitive industry and in tough times. Our superb rankings are a testament for the excellence and dedication of our people. This success confirms our strategy of concentrating on our strengths. But our competitors are not sleeping and they feel especially challenged by our success. That means that we have to continue to work to differentiate ourselves from the rest of the industry."
The magazine said won UBS the award because the firm successfully managed to provide the widest range and highest quality of services worldwide.
Raoul Weil, Head of Wealth Management International, characterized the awards as a further indication of how UBS's satisfies client needs: "It is not only Euromoney -- over the last 12 months we have been increasingly recognized around the world for the superb way in which we serve our clients. I am proud and delighted about these awards. But, because our success is built on the our clients' success, our task in the future is to exceed our clients' expectations."
Alain Robert, Head of Wealth Management Switzerland, noted: "The survey makes it clear that we are extremely well positioned in a highly competitive market environment. Clients have perceived the progress we have made and our commitment to anticipate their needs. Our goal is to set new standards in the way clients experience wealth management. "
Juerg Haller, Head of Products & Services, added: "We are proud to receive this accolade for a great number of services. It confirms how we actively strive to support the success of our advisors. For us, these awards are a further incentive to continue developing our products and services to better serve our customers."


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How can you be so crap and still win? - when you're playing eternal under-achievers like Spurs, that's how.
Rosicky put us ahead inside two minutes with a belter of a strike that will stay in thememory a long time, but from that point of we squandered what few chances we had, and simply gifted the ball to the opposition.
If we play like this against Chelsea and Man City we'll get murdered - simple as.
Never mind - three points it is.
Arsenal won the north London derby 1-0 against Tottenham to boost their Barclays Premier League title bid.
A thunderbolt from Tomas Rosicky after just 72 seconds proved enough for the Gunners to earn a first victory over Tottenham at White Hart Lane since September 2007.
Tim Sherwood's hosts should have taken something from the match after they dominated possession for long spells and saw midfielder Nacer Chadli spurn a glorious chance to equalise following a mistake by Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny.
But the hosts survived and Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger will now take his side to Chelsea for his 1,000th match next weekend only four points off the leaders and with a game in hand.
Spurs, though, are all but out the race for the top four, now seven points behind Manchester City.
Arsenal were ahead inside two minutes with a goal of the highest order.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain pushed the ball out to Rosicky on the right, and he returned a pass back to the England man. The ball then broke again off Oxlade-Chamberlain into the path of the Czech playmaker who fired a fizzing angled drive past Hugo Lloris into the top-left corner.
Sherwood's side - whose collective character has been questioned by the manager in recent weeks - soon regrouped and caused Arsenal a few problems with probing balls into the penalty area.
Arsenal, though, retained possession well and it should have been 2-0 on 15 minutes when Oxlade-Chamberlain robbed Nabil Bentaleb on the halfway line and sprinted clear.
Oxlade-Chamberlain, so impressive in the midweek Champions League draw at Bayern Munich, darted to the edge of the penalty area, but as Lloris came off his line the Arsenal man screwed his attempted chip horribly wide - with Lukas Podolski screaming for a square pass for what would have been a tap-in.
That let-off gave a huge lift to the home side, who immediately went on the offensive with a low cross from Andros Townsend on the right flying through the six-yard box.
On 21 minutes, Arsenal full-back Bacary Sagna slid into a challenge with Danny Rose which - although he probably touched the ball first - totally upended the Spurs defender. Sherwood was off the bench demanding a red card but after a stern talking-to referee Mike Dean produced only a yellow.
Spurs continued to play a very high defensive line, which was breached again when Podolski raced clear down the left. His cut-back was just behind Rosicky but Oxlade-Chamberlain connected with a strike that was deflected out for a corner.
The home side should have been level at the start of the second half following two terrible handling errors from Szczesny. First the Pole flapped at a cross on the edge of the Arsenal penalty area, which Sagna hacked away as Chadli chased the loose ball. Then, inexplicably, Szczesny failed to collect a high cross into the box, which this time did fall for Chadli, but somehow Laurent Koscielny blocked his goalbound shot at point-blank range.
With 20 minutes left, there was a double change for the home side when Paulinho and Gylfi Sigurdsson replaced Chadli and Sandro.
For Arsenal, Rosicky was taken off as defensive midfielder Mathieu Flamini came on.
Wenger was off his seat and protesting for what he felt was a penalty after Koscielny was sent tumbling by Jan Vertonghen, but the referee was not interested.
Lloris then made a smart reaction save after Mertesacker lashed the ball goalwards from a deep free-kick.
Tempers boiled over in the closing minutes as Sherwood twice hurled the ball at Sagna when Arsenal had been awarded a throw-in.
Arsenal midfielder Mikel Arteta was less than impressed and eventually it needed Wenger to move in and act as peacemaker in a crowded technical area as his side played out the four minutes of stoppage time without further incident.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man accused of imprisoning three women in his Cleveland home for a decade spends most of his time in jail resting or asleep, with breaks for pacing, showers and cell cleaning.
New jail logs released Friday also document defendant Ariel Castro thanking a guard for bringing him breakfast and wishing him a good day.
Castro, 52, remains on suicide watch with his activities documented in writing every 10 minutes at the Cuyahoga County jail.
He faces preliminary charges of rape and kidnapping following his arrest last week on suspicion of kidnapping the women off the streets near his west side neighborhood, then holding them against their will and sexually assaulting them over the next 10 years. DNA tests showed Castro is the father of a 6-year-old girl born to one of the women during her time in the house.
Castro, a former school bus driver, was arrested May 6 shortly after one of the women, Amanda Berry, kicked out part of a locked door of his house and yelled to neighbors to help her and call police.
Police quickly arrived and found Berry in the street holding a girl and then raced through the house, freeing Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. The women were admitted to a hospital but have been released and have remained in seclusion, appealing for privacy.
The three disappeared between 2002 and 2004, when they were in their teens or early 20s, authorities said.
Castro has been jailed on $8 million bond.
Castro's attorney, Craig Weintraub, has described Castro's cell as a 9-by-9-foot cell containing a metal bed with a thin mattress covered in plastic, a metal sink, and some kind of mirror.
Previous logs said Castro walked around the cell naked early in his confinement, though he later covered up.
Weintraub, who has said Castro will plead not guilty, did not immediately return a message left Friday about the logs.
The logs show that Castro periodically asks for the time, looks out the window and stares at the ceiling.
"... up and pacing," according to a handwritten note at 8:10 a.m. on Tuesday, which follows an entry on Castro going to the bathroom.
"Inmate laying on mat staring at the floor," says an entry that night at 7:30 p.m.
"Inmate laying on mat staring at the ceiling," says an entry 10 minutes later.
Wednesday morning beginning at 10:20 a.m., Castro cleaned his cell for 40 minutes, according to the logs.
"Thank you," Castro says when he received his breakfast at 6:36 a.m. on Thursday, the logs said.
"Thank you have a good day officer," Castro says about 15 minutes later, according to the logs.
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Winifred 'Pat' Morse, 88
Winifred "Pat" Morse, 88, of Farmersburg, formerly of Spencer, passed away Sunday, October 21, 2012. She had previously lived in Stroud, Oklahoma. She was born in Kokomo on October 10, 1924 to Noel Henry and Ora Rose (Arnett) Pamplin. Mrs. Morse retired from Pinkerton Security in Terre Haute after several years of service where she was stationed at the DADC plant. Earlier in her life she worked in the meat department at Rhims IGA in Ellettsville. She loved to travel, camp, fish, draw, paint and shop.
She is survived by her children, Kenneth (Debbie) Wrightsman of Spencer, Keith (Cindy) Wrightsman of Farmersburg, Betty (Van) Lehman of Owensburg and Shirley (Dude) Bandy of Spencer; stepson, Jack Morse of Vail, Colorado; sister, Edith (Norman) Jones of Terre Haute; 17 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; and four great-greatgrandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Morse; and a grandchild.
Graveside services will be held at Mount Olive Cemetery in Ellettsville at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, October 25, 2012. Pastor Allan Lewis will officiate. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m., Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at West & Parrish & Pedigo Funeral Home in Spencer. A memorial service will be held at 8:00 p.m., with Dr. Mark Fleschner officiating.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Wabash Valley in care of the funeral home.
Online condolences may be made to the family at www.westparrishpedigo.com.
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Chinese Man Hospitalized After Sticking Live Eel Up His Rear End
OK, let's just get this out of the way up front: I don't care how big they are or how they look or feel -- live eels should never be used as sex toys. Ever. Period.
Unfortunately for one man in southern China, he didn't get that memo. The man had to have emergency surgery after inserting a 20-inch Asian swamp eel into his anus, a move he reportedly saw in a porn video. (Side note: I know there are some weird fetish videos out there, but damn.)
Eels have small but very sharp teeth, and the eel did what came naturally after it was inserted where the sun don't shine -- it tried to get the heck out of there. The 39-year old man had to check himself into the hospital in excruciating pain after the eel ate through the wall of his intestines.
The eel was actually removed alive, but it died shortly after the man was treated. The man is currently recovering in the hospital, and local officials are weighing filing animal cruelty charges. Again, damn!


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Hayden Christensen Visits Ex Rachel Bilson's House
Hayden Christensen leaves the home of his ex-girlfriend Rachel Bilson after visiting on Tuesday (November 2) in Los Feliz, Calif.
The couple called off their engagement back in August as things "weren't working out."
Meanwhile, the 29-year-old actress has been getting ready to film her new comedy BFF & Baby with Kate Bosworth and Krysten Ritter.
On Monday (November 1), Rachel went shopping for some lingerie with a gal pal.
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I don't want to know what is hard.....but maybe you should work on hanging out with IceyHotShots...then slowly introduce him to some of your "girlsfriends"...cough cough reference to cable guy cough cough.
Are you sure you want to not post til IceyHotShots gets laid?
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It was great. We had a weird crowd around us with some drunk, chatty old bag next to me which sucked. But I moved and found my zone.
BTW, it was a pleasure to meet you & your lady. Did you enjoy the show?
Oh and . . . your girlfriend's hair is not blue.
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just wanted to say I believe thats the same guy that has my pone he says he found it but I am sure he came into the camp ground and helped himself to it. the phone will be useless from here on, he stated he had "found" over 10 Iphones", go figure.
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Friday, June 24, 2011
It's time for the Dodgers to bring up Trayvon Robinson
Dodger left fielders have hit a collective .216/.286/.298 with 2 HR, 20 RBI, 15 2B (9 of which came from Jerry Sands), 27:59 BB:K ratio. That is absolutely putrid coming from a traditional "power" position.
It started with a platoon of Tony Gwynn and Marcus Thames. I wrote back in Spring Training that Gwynn could have filled a huge need for the Dodgers by living up to his potential. He has decent on-base skills and is a really good defender. If all went well, he would have succeeded as the Dodgers' No. 2 hitter and left field wouldn't have been a problem.
Sadly and unsurprisingly, that did not happen. Gwynn has put up an uninspired .222/.266/.291 line through 64 games (117 ABs). He hasn't had a chance to play everyday, but I don't think even if he did play everyday that he'd be the answer in left field.
Thames, who has dealt with injury issues, has been even worse: .193/.246/.333 in 57 at-bats.
Sands was recalled and given a shot in left. He started off slow, got hot and cooled off. He hit .200/.294/.328 in 125 at-bats. He has since returned to Triple-A for a little more seasoning. He is the Dodgers' future in left field or at first base -- it remains to be seen which position in which he'll settle.
Which leads us to Trayvon Robinson. He has been on fire for the last month, raising his slash line to .317/.388/.575 with 16 home runs. He's drawn 29 walks in 259 at-bats -- good for an 11.1 percent walk rate. That's actually a decrease from last season (16.8 percent), but still a good rate. However, his strikeout rate has jumped about 2 percent -- from 28.8 last season to 30.9 this season. Another concern is his stolen base numbers have decreased for three consecutive seasons -- from 47 in 2009 to 38 in 2010 to just seven in 2011.
Despite the negatives, it's time for Robinson to get a shot in left field. He certainly cannot be any worse than the players the Dodgers have sent out to left field this season (Gwynn, Thames, Jay Gibbons Xavier Paul, Jamie Hoffmann and Trent Oeltjen).
Dee Gordon, Rubby De La Rosa and Sands have all gotten the call -- each of which was surprising. So, why not Trayvon?
In theory, Robinson is the Dodgers' future in center field, pushing Matt Kemp to right field and Andre Ethier to left field (if he isn't moved). That would make the Dodgers' outfield much better defensively.
I was on board with the Thames signing and playing Gwynn, but the experiment has failed. It's time to start fresh with some young blood.
3 comments:
- AnonymousJune 24, 2011 at 4:10 PM
I think it's going to happen anyday. Seems like they have been giving Thames his last shot out there lately giving him tons of playing time. Than again, bringing up Trayvon would make Gwynn even more expendable. Or they could take the easy way out and send down Oltjen. Love to see the Aussie stay tho. - TrippReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 2:22 PM
Love the blogs, but disagree completely. Robinson's K rate is as bad as ever and he needs to learn how to protect the plate and take the ball opposite field more. HRs in the PCL are a given, but to make a successful jump, he needs OBP and the ability to fight off the nasty stuff MLB pitchers can throw.ReplyDelete
Sands is till swinging better IMO and the best option to bring back. No one should come back up now though.
Anonymous "2" - Definitely valid points. I wouldn't be opposed to Sands coming back before Robinson, but I think it's time for him to get a shot. I even singled out fact that his K-rate is less-than ideal.ReplyDelete
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Rockets-Spurs Preview
Fine or no fine, Gregg Popovich isn't likely to change his
philosophy on resting starters throughout the season.
So far, the San Antonio Spurs' bench has been ready to answer
the coach's call.
The Spurs, though, won't get a break in the schedule Friday
night when they host the Houston Rockets, losers of five straight
on the road.
San Antonio's reserves nearly led the team to a win at Miami on
Nov. 29 after Popovich sent four starters home to rest before the
nationally televised contest.
Popovich, whose team was later fined $250,000 for his action,
went to his bench out of necessity on Wednesday night.
With Danny Green (hamstring), Stephen Jackson (finger), Kawhi
Leonard (knee) and Patty Mills (ankle) out because of injuries, the
Spurs displayed their depth again in a 110-99 victory over
Gary Neal started in place of Green and scored 22 points, Tiago
Splitter finished with 15, Manu Ginobili had 11 and Matt Bonner
added a season-high 12 rebounds off the bench.
Even with Neal moving into the starting lineup, San Antonio's
bench had 40 points, 25 rebounds and 13 assists, and fueled a late
36-13 run that keyed the team's seventh win in eight games.
The Spurs (15-4) rank near the top of the Western Conference in
bench scoring at 39.8 points per game. They'll continue to need a
complete team effort with this contest starting a stretch of three
games in four nights.
"They're talented," said Tony Parker, who led the starters with
22 points. "They showed it in Miami and they showed it again. Pop
is always trying to do stuff to make sure our bench is
Tim Duncan, who had 17 points and 10 rebounds, and Bonner led an
impressive performance on the boards. San Antonio outrebounded
Milwaukee 53-36, including 28-17 in the second half.
The Spurs hope to match that effort against the Rockets (9-8),
who rank near the top of the NBA in rebounding (45.2 per game).
Omer Asik ranks third in the league with 12.1 per contest.
The Rockets also received a boost from their bench on Tuesday
night. Toney Douglas scored a season-high 22 points, Greg Smith
added a career-best 21 and Carlos Delfino had 15 in a 107-105 win
over the Los Angeles Lakers.
"We had a lot of guys struggle, but our bench was good," said
interim coach Kelvin Sampson. "There is a lot to be said about
having guys on the bench that you trust that can come through."
James Harden, the team leader with 23.6 points per game, will
try to break out of a 13 for 51 (25.5 percent) shooting slump over
his last three games.
After averaging 23.0 points in his previous three games, Patrick
Patterson is also looking to get back on track after a six-point
effort on Tuesday.
Houston shot just 37.6 percent from the field – including 7 of
34 (20.6 percent) from beyond the arc – against the Lakers after
shooting 50.3 percent in its previous four games.
While the Rockets have averaged 111.7 points in winning five of
six, all five of those victories have come at home. They're just
2-5 on the road and haven't won there since the second game of the
Houston, which split the four-game series with the Spurs last
season, will try to avoid a sixth straight loss in San Antonio.


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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana --- Mississippi State could match a monster offensive afternoon by the LSU baseball team Sunday afternoon.
The Bulldogs dropped the final game of a three-game Southeastern Conference series, falling 17-4 to the Tigers at Alex Box Stadium. LSU tallied its best afternoon in conference play with 17 runs scored and 20 base hits.
LSU handed MSU its first three-game sweep of the season. The Bulldogs are now 20-13 overall and 6-6 in league play, while the Tigers improved to 24-8-1 and 6-5-1.
"Things are bunched in our league and it is going to be a wild race to the end," MSU head coach John Cohen said. "Quite simply, things did not happen for us this weekend. We had some hard-hit balls. We couldn't turn those into runs. On the mound today, we couldn't contain them. That has not happened very often this season."
LSU quickly built a 7-0 lead with two runs in the first and second innings and three more scores in the third inning. The Bulldogs crawled back into the contest with single scores in the fourth and fifth innings.
In the MSU fourth inning, Jake Vickerson singled and later scored on a double by Gavin Collins. In the MSU fifth inning, Brett Pirtle reached on a dropped third strike. Derrick Armstrong followed with a single, while C.T. Bradford connected for an RBI single.
The Bulldogs left the bases loaded in that at-bat and could get no closer.
LSU went back to work, putting the game away with three runs in the fifth inning and six runs in the sixth inning. In the sixth inning, the Tigers homered twice with Christian Ibarra hitting a solo home run and Kade Scivicque later lining a grand slam.
The Bulldogs scored in the eighth inning when Collins doubled and later scored on an RBI-ground out by Cody Walker. Bradford finished a two-hit night with an RBI-double in the ninth inning.
"We hit a lot of balls hard in this game," Cohen said. "In the second inning, Seth Heck lines a ball to first when the bases loaded. If there ball is another inch either way, we have a chance to score two or three runs early. It was that type of weekend."
For MSU, Dakota Hudson (1-2) drew his first start in league play and took the loss. Hudson allowed six hits and six run (five earned) in 2.2 innings of work. Jonathan Holder, Myles Gentry, Vance Tatum, Austin Sexton and Lucas Laster worked in relief.
Laster allowed three hits and one unearned run in 2.2 innings of relief.
Offensively, the Bulldogs had 12 hits, including a three-hit game by Jake VIckerson and two-hit games by Armstrong, Bradford, Collins and Zack Randolph.
Scivicque and Ibarra each had three hits for LSU. Parker Bugg (1-1), the third of five LSU pitchers used, was credited with the win.
The Bulldogs now turn their thoughts to a week full of in-state rivals.
"It's a very big week ahead for our club," Cohen said. "It is always fun to play in Pearl and we need a big Maroon and White crowd down there supporting us. Then of course the weekend means Ole Miss and we look forward to having the best atmosphere in all of college baseball for that weekend series."
MSU faces Southern Mississippi at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday at Trustmark Park in Pearl. Southeastern Conference play resumes next weekend when Ole Miss comes to Dudy Noble Field for a Super Bulldog Weekend three-game series. The Bulldogs and Rebels meet at 6:30 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. Saturday (Fox Sports Net South) and 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
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Editor's note: The Bureau County Republican asked the four candidates running for two seats for Princeton City Commissioner to answer a questionnaire. Following are their responses.
Two seats available
Candidates are listed in alphabetical order
Paul Breseman
What do you see as the three most pressing issues facing your town?
1. South Main Street. I see too many stores and business properties vacant or for sale or rent. We should try to fill those vacancies in the South Historic District to keep it alive and prosperous and bring in more revenue to Princeton.
2. More consideration should be given to the city's infrastructure. I have heard many people complain of basement flooding from sewer backup.
3. Public education. Many people do not know anything about the city laws and regulations. Overnight parking, snow parking bans, ordinance changes, etc. We do include in the monthly municipal utilities bill when holiday garbage pickup and burning season has changes or to be enforced, and I would propose we add inserts with the monthly bill to inform residents of changes and invite them to public meetings.
If elected, what one thing would you most like to accomplish? Get the vacant stores and businesses up and running. That would bring more people into the area to shopping, dining and entertainment, which could increase city revenue that may help to fix the infrastructure.
Why should voters cast their ballots for you? I have new ideas that can benefit the city, residents and businesses in Princeton. Friends and acquaintances are always asking me for my input and advice relating to many different aspects of their lives, as they know I am very fair on judgments and have that knack to come up with solutions.
Ray Mabry
What do you see as the three most pressing issues facing your town? Princeton is very similar to other small Midwestern towns that have to deal with aging infrastructure such as sanitary and storm sewers, curbs, gutters, roads, sidewalks and water mains. Many of these elements we use everyday and sometimes take for granted are nearing 100 years old. This past couple of weeks have seen numerous pot holes appear, road surfaces broken up and sewer catch basins falling in. With limited local dollars and shrinking help from federal and state government, we are forced to use our tax dollars wisely on repairs and replacements of those structures. The new water treatment plant, although needed, seems way too extravagant with its brick/stone exterior, arched windows and mansard roof. This leads me to the second most pressing issue, fiscally sound use of taxpayer dollars. And the third most pressing issue, retaining and creating new employment opportunities in our town.
If elected, what one thing would you most like to accomplish? If elected, it's extremely difficult to narrow down to one thing I would wish to accomplish, but without doubt, we need a team approach and attitude between the mayor and city council members that allows open dialogue about issues the city is facing. Unfortunately, I believe the current mayor and city council, aside from newly-elected Commissioner Quiram, make many decisions behind the scenes, leaving little discussion at open meetings. We will always have disagreements about how to best move our city forward; a city council working together will accomplish far more. Along with working together, we just plain need to be better stewards of our tax dollars. Working together, solving Princeton's problems in a fiscally responsible manner, that's my goal during my term in office.
Why should voters cast their ballots for you? Consumers make conscious decisions. We decide where and who we will do business with. I buy my gas at one station, not because their gas is better, but because of the combination of a friendly staff and a clean store atmosphere. It's a combination of things that keeps me loyal. I bring to the table a combination of things that make me qualified to help lead Princeton forward. My background includes being a small business owner, a 20-plus year member of the United States Army Reserves, an Eagle Scout, a father of two sons who also are local small business owners. I am a hard-working person who is willing to take on a task and not easily give up. I have a vision, an eye for details, such as what our company is building on North Main. I look forward to being a part of a team approach to move Princeton forward in a fiscally responsible way.
Terry Madsen
What do you see as the three most pressing issues facing your town?
1. Marketing Princeton as a place to live and work. We are uniquely positioned among small communities to draw a wide variety of employment with our electric, telecommunications and water resources, ready-to-go development sites and a high overall quality of life. We need to work hard to use those resources to draw jobs that can sustain families. We need to work to retain and draw young people.
2. Maintaining quality local health care resources. Our hospital is one of our most important resources. We should support the hospital and other local health care providers.
3. Maintaining the infrastructure. Significant progress has been made in recent years with upgrades at the power plant, the new water plant, and street and storm water projects. There is still an issue to be resolved at the wastewater treatment plant. Addressing remaining issues of aging streets and pipes will require careful planning of very limited resources.
If re-elected, what one thing would you most like to accomplish? I would like most to maintain the quality of life in Princeton including an affordable cost of living. To me, that means retaining and building the availability of jobs that sustain families. It means keeping the cost of living here competitive on every level under the city's control. It means keeping the city safe and clean. It means encouraging entrepreneurs and business development of all sizes. It means encouraging young people to stay or return. It means encouraging local health care resources. It means promoting the availability and use of local recreation and entertainment. It means finishing the infrastructure projects we have been required to undertake and putting those resources to work for the community. Princeton is a good place to live and work. The costs of living and doing business here are competitive. We need to work to continue that.
Why should voters cast their ballots for you? I have lived in Princeton for nearly 20 years. Deb and I plan to remain here. Three of our four adult children live and work here. Our grandchildren live here. I am self-employed in my own small business here. We own property here. Princeton is more than the place where we live; it is our home. We are impacted by decisions made by the city council just like everyone else. I make every decision on the city council like I make decisions at home and work. I research issues on my own, and I listen to others. I try hard to be sure all sides of issues are heard. I consider impacts for today and for the future, and then I try to make the best decision I can with all of those factors in mind. I decide based on what is known, not on what I wish.
Bob Warren
What do you see as the three most pressing issues facing your town? Debt, economic growth, unfunded mandates.
If elected re-elected, what one thing would you most like to accomplish? Pay down the debt; business expansion in Tech Park; sell off the Logistics Park.
Why should voters cast their ballots for you? The most conservative candidate when it comes to spending issues.
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