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New York: The full beard he wore at the time of his arrest well over two years ago was gone, replaced by closely cropped hair both on his face and head.
In an impassive monotone, Najibullah Zazi took the witness stand in federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday to begin recounting his role in what US authorities have called one of the most ominous terror threats since the September 11, 2001 attacks: a foiled al Qaeda plot to spread death and destruction in the New York City subways with suicide bombers.
The seeds for the scheme were planted about five years ago with a discussion in the parking lot of a Queens mosque, where Zazi, Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay worshipped together, Zazi said in his debut as a goverment witness at Medunjanin`s trial.
The men made an oath to leave the United States for good and "fight alongside the Taliban," Zazi testified. He said they were inflamed by recordings of US-born extremist Anwar al-Awlaki and other radical clerics.
Medunjanin believed, "Muslims should fight Americans - that it is their duty," said Zazi, an Afghan who spent his childhood in Pakistan before moving to New York City with his family in 1999.
He added that he was motivated in part by a belief that the culprit behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was "America itself."
Zazi, 26, also testified that during a subsequent 2008 trip to Pakistan, the three Americans met a top al-Qaida operative they knew only as Hamad. Authorities say Hamad was Adnan Shukrijumah, a Saudi still listed on an FBI website as a fugitive who plotted attacks for al Qaeda worldwide.
Hamad told the three former high school classmates they were best suited for an operation on US soil - an idea Zazi said they initially resisted.
"We thought it was a joke," he said, testifying at the trial of Medunjanin.
Medunjanin, 27, a Bosnian-born Muslim and naturalized US citizen, has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, providing material support to a terrorist organization and other charges. He has denied he was ever part of an al Qaeda operation.
Authorities have portrayed Zazi as a homegrown terrorist who orchestrated the 2009 scheme to strap on suicide bomb vests and detonate them inside Manhattan subways. Both he and Ahmedzay pleaded guilty in 2010 and were jailed without bail after agreeing to become government witnesses in a bid for leniency.
On Monday, Ahmedzay testified how al Qaeda operatives recruited them in Pakistan and drove them 10 hours away to a compound protected by 20-foot mud walls. After morning prayers, English-speaking terrorists taught them how to use grenades and other weapons, and ordered them to carry out an attack in New York City before the end of George W Bush`s second term as president, he said.
He also recalled returning to New York City and using his cab to drive around the city in early 2009 and casing potential targets for a terrorist attack, including Grand Central Terminal, Times Square and the New York Stock Exchange. The conspirators also considered striking Penn Station or city movie theaters before settling on attacking the subways during Ramadan, he said.
Zazi said Tuesday the men kicked around the idea of Walmart as a possible target as well, but didn`t say if they had a specific store in mind.
The testimony ended Tuesday before Zazi could describe how he relocated to the Denver area, where he used beauty supplies to try and cook up explosives in a hotel room and set out for New York around the time of the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Once he suspected he was under surveillance, he aborted the mission and returned to Colorado, where he was arrested.
He was to return to the witness stand on Wednesday.
After 9/11, Shukrijumah was seen as one of al Qaeda`s best chances to attack inside the US or Europe, captured terrorist Abu Zubaydah told US authorities. Shukrijumah studied at a community college in Florida but when the FBI showed up to arrest him as a material witness to a terrorism case in 2003, he already had left the country.
In 2004, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft called Shukrijumah a "clear and present danger" to the United States.
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The market is going up forever. It seems that way. Since this is our Super Bowl edition, I have a little analogy to share. Years ago, too many in fact, I lived in Miami during the days of the great Dolphins dynasty. That's right, I went to the Orange Bowl when Griese, Kiick, Csonka and the rest were creating history that lasts to this day. Most of you know the Dolphins are the only modern team in NFL history to go unbeaten over an entire season. In fact, about the time they won their first game the next season, there was a famous headline in the Miami Herald that said: "What If the Dolphins Never Lose?" It was a humorous story based years in the future where the Dolphins won multiple championships, never losing a game. Just as humorous was an old Munsters episode where Herman was signed by the LA Dodgers but the problem was he hit the ball out of the stadium every time he had an at bat and got kicked out of the game.
Right now it seems unbelievable that anyone should ever be concerned that Miami would never lose again. In fact, shortly after that article came out, the Dolphins did lose a game but won the Super Bowl that year anyway. What does this have to do with us? It's starting to feel like the market is never going to lose a game. All you hear on television is the market beating one resistance level after another. Goodness, we even have Bob Pisani talking about a secular bull market. Long time readers of this column know we first mentioned the word secular about a year and a half ago.
This week we hit an important time window. It will be 987 days off the bottom. That means the time window starts Tuesday. Are we going to peak? It's possible, but we also have longer range calculations that could propel the SPX as high as 1564 and the Dow a couple hundred points beyond the all-time high. But it doesn't necessarily have to be right now. We could get there but the time window is a possible stumbling block because it's not likely the SPX gains another 50 points before the end of the week.
The other stumbling block is the U.S. dollar, which is now sitting at the bottom of a multi-week/month trading range. It's testing lows going all the way back to September. This particular leg shows Fibonacci completion. If the dollar turns, the chances of a market pullback grow exponentially and then I can stop worrying about the hyper-inflationary scenario. It would be great if the dollar and equity markets could both go up at the same time, but that's not likely to happen.
What was the most important item of the week? The market survived despite a lousy GDP at -0.1%. The market survived in spite of a slightly weaker jobs number. Our view here is that markets may pull back if the jobs number is really good because that will mean the economy is moving closer to its Fed target of 6.5% where they remove the sugar fix currently feeding this market. We didn't get to test that hypothesis this month. I guess there's always next time.
If nothing else, we have a resilient market that continues to push higher despite everything. The NASDAQ loses AAPL leadership? No problem. While it's fresh, let's take a quick look at AAPL. Since it broke down from its big time window low of 501 the next low is 435 which fulfills a major hypothesis we teach at Lucas Wave, which is when a pattern violates a very important time window it won't just drop a little, it will violate it by a lot. It is already 13% lower. Right now it's bouncing into 89 days off the high. It means we could have an inversion high by Tuesday after day 90 (Gann). What I find fascinating, and what we are starting to teach clients, is to look for relationships between corrective legs. Here the November and December legs are close (not perfect) to a 161/61 relationship. People are always wondering how to gauge the pullback/spike. This is one of the ways. In Apple's case we could be close to another leg down because we have lower projections to just under 400.
For now, it really doesn't matter to the market at large but for the sustainability it's doubtful the market can stay up unless it gets new leadership. New leadership is just not likely to materialize in the same trend. After a correction new leadership is needed and the NASDAQ is the equivalent to a team playing without its starting QB. They can make a run for a while but longer term sustainability is just not likely.
Finally, the EUR-USD has some serious Fibonacci resistance from about 1.3763 to about 1.3840. It's starting to extend and get tired, leaving an upper tail on Friday. For the market to continue to 1564 now which is the longer projection it means the Dollar and EUR-USD have to break through important support and resistance right now. Is it going to do it? That's the big question of this week. The trend is your friend until it isn't so all I can tell you is the Euro relationship is a zone with 2 calculations and in the Fibonacci world if we get a validation at this level, because there is more than one relationship tied to it, chances are it will fire off.
So what do I think is going to happen? I'll let the market decide but since this is a game of probabilities I'll let the time window decide. But we are hitting a key timing point where at least part of the market has hit intermediate term targets. That's all you can do, anyone that tells you otherwise isn't honest because nobody has a crystal ball.
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Excavated Collections
The Excavated Collections include all archaeological materials that have been excavated using systematic recovery techniques. These collections include material collected by FLMNH archaeologists and graduate students during site surveys, small-scale testing, and large-scale excavations. While recovery techniques vary depending on the project, site, and supervising archaeologist, all of these collections have associated provenience data. Documentation such as field notes, maps, and photographs are often available with the collection.
Below is a select list of sites in the Florida Archaeology Collections.
Abraham's Old Town (8SM136)
Abraham's Old Town or Pilaklikaha is a multicomponent site in Sumter County. The site includes a ceramic period occupation (Pasco and Sand-Tempered Plain) and possibly a preceramic component. The site's significance is its identification as Pilaklikaha, a town inhabited by Black Seminole Indians during the early 1800s. The collection includes lithics, ceramics (both European and Seminole), glass beads, trade pipe fragments, bottle glass, brick, cut nails and other metal fragments recovered during excavations from 1998-2001 by Terry Weik.
Aucilla River Prehistory Project
The collection contains prehistoric lithic, bone and mammoth ivory tools, ceramics, historic materials, plant remains, and Pleistocene and Holocene fossils from assorted sites along the Aucilla River. Notable items in this collection include the fossilized bones of Pleistocene animals exhibiting butcher and cut marks, numerous stone Paleoindian projectile points, and carved ivory shafts.
Bolen Bluff (8AL439)
Bolen Bluff is a multicomponent site located south of Paynes Prairie. The site was excavated by Ripley Bullen in 1949. Large portions of the site were destroyed and used for fill during highway construction. The collections include numerous stone points and tools including: Suwannee, Bolen, Arredondo, and Pinellas points, as well as: stone adzes, hoes, drills, and scrapers. Pottery types span the entire range of ceramic periods in the area: Orange, Transitional, Deptford, Weeden Island, St. Johns, and Alachua.
de Soto Survey
The de Soto archaeological survey project was conducted from 1986-1991 to locate and identify early Spanish-Indian contact period sites in north Florida. The six surveys identified or revisited over 750 archaeological sites in 15 counties (Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Madison, Marion, Putnum, Sumter, Suwannee, and Union). Some of the major sites identified and excavated were: the location of the Spanish mission at Fig Springs (8CO1), the Spanish mission of Santa Fe (8AL190), and the Indian Pond site (8CO229).
McKeithen Site (8CO17)
The McKeithen Site is a Weeden Island (AD 200-900) site in Columbia county excavated during the late 1970s under the direction of Jerry Milanich. The site is composed of a village area and three mounds. The collections from the site include an excellent variety of Weeden Island ceramics, including numerous whole or almost whole vessels from different areas of the site. The collections also include a variety of stone points and tools, grinding stones, mica, and some faunal and floral remains.
Richardson Site (8AL100)
The Richardson Site is a Potano Indian village near Orange Lake that dates from the late precolumbian and early Spanish mission period. The site provides us with valuable information on Potano houses and early Spanish missionization. Collections include a large collection of Alachua pottery, lithics, glass beads, wrought nails, and faunal material.
Spanish Mission collections
The collections from Spanish mission sites are an important part of the Florida archaeological collections. The Florida Archaeology curates large collections from 11 mission sites: Baptizing Spring (8SU65), Fox Pond (8AL272), Santa Fe (8AL190), Fig Springs (8CO1), Indian Pond (8CO229), Scott Miller (8JE2), San Juan (8DU53), Beatty (8MD5), Blue Bead and Baldree (8CL72 & CL73) and the sites on Amelia Island (8NA41 and 41D). There are also numerous other Spanish mission period sites associated with missions or haciendas, including: Moon Lake, Richardson, Zetrouer, Carlisle, and Peacock Lake.
Tatham Mound (8CI203)
Tatham Mound is a Safety Harbor mound located near the Withlacochee River in Citrus county. The site was also in use at the time of the Soto entrada as evidenced by numerous Spanish artifacts dating to to mid-1500s. The collections include Safety Harbor ceramic vessels, Pinellas points and other lithic tools, and many shell artifacts: gorget, celt, dippers, and beads. Spanish artifacts include: metal beads and pendants, Nueva Cadiz and other glass beads, and metal artifacts including chisels, spikes, and armor fragments.


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MOSCOW, Idaho — A $250,000 gift from a major agribusiness company will help University of Idaho students learn how to use capital markets to manage risk on the farm.
UI officials said the donation from CHS Inc. will allow the university to bridge a gap between its College of Business and Economics and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
CHS, a Fortune 100 company, is a global agribusiness firm based in Minnesota that is owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the country.
Combined with separate $100,000 gifts from U.S. Bank and the Barker family, $100,000 of the CHS contribution will help fund a major renovation of the university's Barker Capital Management and Trading Program trading room.
Created in 2004, the Barker program provides students hands-on education in risk management using market-based solutions, including commodity markets.
The program is unique in that its students manage portfolios of funds and trade real money in real time.
"We are impressed that the University of Idaho is providing a live-trading experience and the program includes both ag and business students," said CHS Foundation President William Nelson. "We … view the Barker Trading Room as an excellent example of innovative, student-oriented, practical education in a very strong land-grant institution setting."
Barker Trading Program Director Terry Grieb said having students manage real money is a critical part of the program
"You have to understand how the market works by putting capital at risk and managing that risk," he said. "Sometimes they get their fingers burned, but overall we do pretty well."
The renovation will allow the program to significantly increase the number of trading stations, from seven now to as many as two dozen, Grieb said.
"The bottom line is, the program has grown beyond the space we have in the lab," he said. "These gifts will allow us to do a better job of delivering the program."
The university plans to have the new trading room ready for the beginning of the 2014 school year.
The remainder of the CHS donation will support three years of the program's operations and will allow significantly more CALS students to learn about trading agriculture commodities and risk management in the farming industry.
There are people who understand the capital markets but have no agricultural background and people with an agricultural background who don't understand how to manage risk using the markets, said Grieb.
"We want to bring them together," he said. "We're trying to provide both of those pieces."
Idaho grain farmer Bill Flory said there is increasing demand in the industry for people who know how to use capital markets to manage risk in an agricultural setting.
"Capital is one of the major legs (farmers) stand on every day," he said. Without having the ability to manage risk "as one of the tools in your tool box, you don't have much of a tool box to operate out of in this production age."


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Anxious About Anxiety
I've had some firsthand experience with anxiety over the past few weeks. Anxiety—as a frequent comorbid condition of ASD—may be very familiar to parents in the Autism Universe. My previous experience with anxiety had been primarily as a spectator. Watching Cameron obsess over an upcoming event has often left me scratching my head. Why does he keep asking me about the details over and over again? Why, after I told him we had cookie dough ice cream for his birthday celebration, does he have to dig through the freezer to see said ice cream before he believes me?
Well, I am starting to understand Cameron's anxiety in a way I never have before. On top of hitting the height of the juggling act that chairing Cameron's school auction has become, in recent weeks I've also experienced the decline and death of my grandmother. Stressful times, for sure, but on the bright side, I now have a better understanding of what Cameron might experience when his anxiety rears its head.
This anxiety I'm experiencing is something I feel in the pit of my stomach. I have the same sensation as if I was stuck in a horrific traffic jam on the way to the airport, and I'm going to miss my flight. It's the same feeling I get when I have that recurring nightmare about trying to get to a college final exam, and realizing I have forgotten to go to class the entire semester. So I walk around all day with this nervous energy gurgling in my gut. I have a hard time focusing because I have the constant feeling I should be somewhere else, and I'm late getting there. It's very distracting. But I'm fortunate in that I can recognize this anxiety. I understand that the current circumstances of my life have resulted in me feeling this way, and as these circumstances are temporary, so too is my anxiety. I'm fortunate in that my husband knows me well enough that he doesn't take it personally when I snap his head off for no reason. I have an arsenal of remedies at my disposal such as deep breathing, exercise, and maybe an extra adult beverage every now and then.
When I compare my own anxiety to Cameron's, the primary difference is my ability to recognize the anxiety and the resulting actions around that recognition. I can rationalize what I'm experiencing in my gut. I've never asked that of Cameron, but is there a way I could help him recognize his anxiety? How in the world would I even begin to work with him on these concepts? Is there an app for that? (I've actually been told there is a relaxation app that does wonders for reducing anxiety.) In my mind, empathy is always a good thing. Anytime I can put myself in Cameron's shoes and better understand what makes him tick, I can better understand the type of support he needs. So maybe understanding what anxiety feels like will help me help Cameron. And that's one less thing to be anxious about.


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Pamela Anderson and her ex-husband Rick Salomon are married — again!
The news emerged Saturday on the red carpet for Sean Penn's Help Haiti Gala in L.A., where Anderson was flashing a big ol' sparkler on her left hand. When asked by E! News if that meant the two had wed, the "Baywatch" alum answered, "Yes."
"Our families are very happy and that's all that matters," Anderson told E!, noting that she and film producer Salomon were pleased as well.
No wedding date was revealed.
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Rumors about the two had been swirling since they were spotted on a topless beach in France last year. In October, Anderson described their relationship to Ellen DeGeneres as "best friends with benefits."
Anderson, 46, and Salomon, 45, first got married in Las Vegas in 2007 and stayed together for two months before having the union annulled. The two had gotten hitched during a 90-minute break between shows in which Anderson was appearing, according to People.
This most recent is a fourth marriage for Anderson, counting the first one with Salomon. She also tied the knot with Motley Crue rocker Tommy Lee in 1995 after a very brief courtship (that union lasted until 1998, and then the relationship went off and on in the years following) and briefly (think a little more than three months) with Kid Rock in 2006. She has two sons, now teenagers, with Lee.
It's also a fourth for Salomon, according to Celebuzz, which also noted that he's notorious for costarring in Paris Hilton's sex tape.
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GREENVILLE, Ill. -- The men's basketball team won their second game in a row, defeating Blackburn 77-73 on Saturday afternoon. Markeith Brown and Jonas McBride led the way for the Panthers netting 17 and 16 points respectively.
Ben Giertz was Greenville's leader in rebounds with eight, and K.J. Hilliard and Joe Redmond led the team in assists with three each.
Greenville trailed with the score of 44-35 at the half but fought back in the second half and held off Blackburn in the end to pull out the 77-73 win.
Greenville's record improved to 5-5 (1-2 SLIAC) on the year, and the Panthers will pick up again next week at Westminster College on Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 8 p.m.


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July 22. 2013 9:34PM
Title game
One game, Salem vs. Rye, for the state Little League title
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Members of the Rye Little League team celebrate thier victory over Salem on Sunday evening in Manchester. The two teams are now tied one game each in the best of three series that will conclude Tuesday night. (Bruce Preston / Union Leader)
Dean Borrelli was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 20th round of the 1998 Major League Baseball draft. He played eight seasons in the minors, three on the Triple-A level.
A catcher who was drafted out of UMass-Amherst, he is now the manager of the Salem Little League All-Stars.
Today at 5:45 p.m. at Manchester Central Little League's Sam Harris Field, Salem meets Rye in the third and deciding game of the New Hampshire 11-12-year-old Little League Tournament.
Having played, coached and seen hundreds of games throughout his lifetime, Borrelli said there's only one thing teams can do when involved in a deciding game.
"You have to control what you can control out on the field and not worry about the results," said Borrelli. "Just go out, play to the best of your ability and let the rest take care of itself."
To that, Rye manager Ron King added "Confidence is half the game. You have to enter that game with confidence if you want to win."
On Saturday, District I champion Salem opened the best-of-three tournament with an 8-4 win. Rye, the District II champion, responded with a defensive 2-1 decision powered by solo homers by Max Malila and winning pitcher Dylan Chase, who struck out 10 batters in a complete-game win.
"That Saturday game was our first loss of the year," said King, whose team went undefeated during the round-robin format of the District II tournament. "We've been here before, know the situation and we responded to that loss with a great effort Sunday."
Two years ago on the 9-10-year-old state level, Rye battled back from an opening round loss to Bedford in a best-of-three series to win the state tournament.
"We lost by the 10-run rule to Bedford in the first game and came back to win the next two," said King. "The core of our team is very competitive, confident and knows how to win. That's all good going into the last game of this series."
Pitching will be a factor entering today's game and, according to Borrelli, Salem is in good shape.
"We have Max Morasse and Jake Delaney (Saturday's starter) both available for 85 pitches apiece," said the Salem manager. As for Rye, King said he will not have Chase or Malila available because of the pitching rule.
The starting nod may go to either lefthander Jon Swenson, Dylan King (who is the starting catcher) or 11-year-old Nick Guerin.
"Pitching has been great from both teams and I will expect the same for Game 3," said Borrelli.
King called Salem a "big team which hits the ball well and they will continue to hit. We need to counter it with offense of our own and rely on our speed on the base paths."
Said Borrelli: "We've got a lineup where any one of our players is capable of hitting the ball out of the park," he said. "I'm not worried about our hitting. I told our team after Sunday's loss, we're just moving on to the next game."
A win in the next game means a trip to Bristol, Conn., for the 2013 New England Regional Baseball Tournament beginning Aug. 2.
And for Borrelli and everyone else connected to today's game, a lot is at stake.
"These are two evenly-matched teams and as a coach, I have to say I'm as excited as the kids playing in the game," said Borrelli.


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STOCKTON - A judge overseeing Stockton's bankruptcy on Tuesday set a four-day trial one month from now to resolve a hard-fought battle over the city's eligibility to seek Chapter 9 protection.
STOCKTON - A judge overseeing Stockton's bankruptcy on Tuesday set a four-day trial one month from now to resolve a hard-fought battle over the city's eligibility to seek Chapter 9 protection.
Attorneys for the city in an hourlong hearing tried to convince U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein that the trial was unnecessary, adding costs and further delaying resolution of the bankruptcy.
The judge has a right to declare the city eligible for Chapter 9 protection without the hearing, Stockton bankruptcy attorney Norman Hile argued.
Klein said he was inclined to agree. But he once served as an appellate court judge and said he believed that if he granted the city's request, creditors would immediately appeal, further dragging out the case.
"Particularly, in a case like this, where you know the enemies are well-organized and well-financed, the prudent thing to do is to put it in the traditional mold," Klein said. "I think in the end I'm saving everybody money."
Stockton filed for Chapter 9 protection on June 28 and immediately received challenges from creditors who stand to lose millions on their investments into the city.
Those creditors are Assured Guaranty Corp., National Public Finance Guaranty Corp., Franklin High Yield Tax Free Income Fund and Wells Fargo Bank.
Guy Neal, an attorney for Assured, spoke on behalf of all the capital market creditors asking Klein for the trial.
The upcoming trial will likely focus on arguments that Stockton was not broke and city officials failed to negotiate in good faith before turning to bankruptcy court.
If the city's request for bankruptcy is approved, it then can draft a plan of adjustment, which may force some of the creditors to take losses.
Klein and the attorneys on both sides in Tuesday's hearing also began setting the terms of the trial, set to begin March 25. Klein divvied up the time down to the minute.
After the breaks in court proceedings, the city and creditors will each have 700 minutes to make their arguments, call witnesses and make closing arguments, much like a criminal trial.
Klein said he will hold the "chess clock," and he urged the attorneys to use their allotted time wisely.
There will be no jury, because Klein will decide the case. The judge said he wants Stockton's trial to be done within one week, and at the end he will likely give his ruling from the bench.
He said a similar trial for Vallejo's bankruptcy took up nine days, but it was spread out over several weeks.
Klein said he did not wish to repeat that, comparing the trial to pulling off a bandage quickly.
"Get over a lot of pain as quickly as possible," he said.
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SPRINGFIELD (AP) – As lawmakers strain again this week to find a fix for the state's $97 billion pension crisis, the stalemate between House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton highlights the evolving relationship between two powerful Democratic friends who've seldom had such a prolonged disagreement on such an urgent issue.
The motivations behind Madigan and Cullerton's refusal to budge on conflicting reform plans may be complex and murky, as is much of what happens in Springfield. But the standoff illustrates the contrasts in their leadership styles and what some see as Cullerton seeking a stronger posture for himself and his chamber against his one-time mentor's dominance in the General Assembly.
The two Chicago Democrats, who've worked closely together since 1979, dismiss the idea of personal tension between them, portraying their differences as an honest policy dispute over the correct course for Illinois. But their inability to settle the issue has fomented surprise and suspicion in a state with a refined reputation for the backroom deal.
"I told the two leaders, who have known each other for 34 years – they are very close friends, they are family friends – when they want to put something on my desk that's their priority, they know how to do it, " Gov. Pat Quinn said last week.
The Democrat-controlled Legislature is scheduled to address the pension crisis again Wednesday, when Quinn has called a special session after lawmakers adjourned 2 weeks ago without taking action. The state's unfunded obligation to retired employees has grown exponentially over the years, and now costs Illinois $17 million per day to finance.
Madigan proposes unilaterally imposing pension changes on state workers, including a higher retirement age. Cullerton's rival plan would give retirees choices over benefits, which could stand a better chance of surviving an expected court challenge, thus saving at least some money though not as much.
The Senate rejected Madigan's plan, but passed Cullerton's, which has union support. But Madigan has refused to call the Senate bill for a vote in the House, insisting that Quinn and Cullerton try harder to pass his plan in the Senate.
"I wouldn't call it a family fight," Madigan said Friday. "From the beginning of the Democratic party there's been differences among Democrats, and I'm sure that in due time the differences will be worked out and there will be success."
Some Republicans accuse Democrats, traditional allies of state employee unions, of not truly wanting to solve the problem. But the speaker rejected that argument Friday as mere rhetoric.
Madigan, 71, and Cullerton, 64, are both Irish Catholic lawyers from Chicago. The speaker was first elected to the House in 1970 and has controlled it as speaker for 28 of the last 30 years. Soon after becoming majority leader in 1979, he named Cullerton his floor leader and the two developed a close relationship.
After Cullerton moved to the Senate, Madigan worked to secure his bid to be the chamber's president in 2009. Their close relationship was seen as a way to ease gridlock in Springfield, since Madigan barely had spoken with Cullerton's predecessor, Democrat Emil Jones, who was an ally of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
The two also are close personally. Cullerton is godfather to Madigan's only son, Andrew. Madigan's wife, Shirley, and Cullerton's wife, Pamela, are friends, and the Cullertons live close to Madigan's eldest daughter, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, making inter-family visits easy.
But a contrast in leadership styles has long been evident between the two leaders.
Madigan radiates discipline and control. Intensely private, he is known to work alone and above the fray, rarely granting interviews. His third-floor Capitol office is shrouded in mystery, and he's known for dining at the same table at the same Italian restaurant, working with a few aides or House members at a time.
Cullerton's office, by contrast, bustles with activity. Members caucus inside to talk about key issues, trickling out a few at a time through Cullerton's open office door. He is treated more casually by other lawmakers, and has been known to do impersonations of famous people during breaks in lawmaking.
Cullerton is known for trying to work collaboratively with interest groups and fellow senators, both Democrat and Republican. Madigan is known for his strategic control of House matters through his years of experience and formidable fundraising powers. Currently, he controls more than $2 million he can distribute, while Cullerton oversees funds with about $100,000 in them.
Cullerton "likes to bring parties to an agreement," said Sen. Don Harmon, an Oak Park Democrat. His pension proposal "is the first and only time (state) workers impacted have agreed to meaningful pension reform. ... He attempts to simultaneously do what's in the best interest of the state and what the caucus would like to do."
Rep. Lou Lang, a Skokie Democrat and assistant majority leader under Madigan, argued that part of the problem is senators under Cullerton who bristle over the speaker's influence. Cullerton has to deal with members that "go overboard not doing things the speaker's way," Lang said. "The senate wants to have its own identity."
But Kent Redfield, a former House staffer who teaches political science at the University of Illinois Springfield, believes Cullerton has more to gain from taking a tough stand at an opportune moment. He says Cullerton realizes his pension proposal likely has the most support in the legislature, and that's why he's still pushing it regardless of how he and Madigan have worked together in the past.
"Part of it is redefining those roles ... Cullerton does not want to be in a position of weakness," Redfield said. "He's got an agreement with the unions that puts him in a pretty strong position."
Uncharacteristically, Madigan and Cullerton have expressed frustration with each other in public.
Exiting the Capitol late one evening, Madigan said Cullerton's failure to push the House plan showed "lack of leadership." Cullerton, asked in an Associated Press interview about Madigan refusing to allow a vote on his bill, said he was puzzled too, even though he speaks with the speaker all the time.
"What's the fear of calling the other bill? I don't know. I don't know," Cullerton said. Madigan "says he doesn't think about it. Or he doesn't want to think about it."


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BRADENTON, Fla. — – The Orioles thinned out their spring roster Monday, with eight players sent out of camp, including right-handers Brad Bergesen and Jason Berken and middle infielder Matt Antonelli, all of whom were optioned to Triple-A Norfolk.
Two more players, second baseman Brian Roberts (concussion) and left-hander Zach Britton (shoulder), were placed on the 15-day disabled list.
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(Editor's Note: The following write-up was submitted by Mtbr intern Cindy A. from Santa Clara, CA. She had quite an adventure on her very first mountain bike ride – Cindy is an experienced road cyclist who decided to try a different kind of challenge this summer!)
Hopped on my first full suspension mountain bike the other day in Bolivia to descend 11,800 feet on the World's Most Dangerous Road, a.k.a. Death Road.
I went with the company that invented the ride: Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking. You're just one slip on a nasty rock away from falling to your doom, talk about once in a lifetime! The reality is unless you are incredibly unlucky or reckless you're pretty safe on the World's Most Dangerous Road. Also when you're getting your insides jumbled around for the first time over some melon sized boulders and get a glimpse of what looks like a never ending fall, it's nice to know you are there with the best guides!
Walk around Bolivia's urban capital La Paz and you will be bombarded with different knock off companies doing the Death Road ride for a lot cheaper. I met quite a few tourists that had horror stories of having to use their foot on the tire to brake, bikes literally falling apart, and constant flats. If you ever find yourself in Bolivia make sure you go with Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking, it is worth the few extra bolivianos! They have higher quality bikes that are maintained, all the guides are bike mechanics, and the best part is they're the only company to drive you back up the World's Most Dangerous Road after the ride so you can really get a good look at what you bombed down!
You can sign up for a ride with usually just a few days notice online or in person. I went down to the office in person and tried on helmets and gloves to make sure I got stuff that fit.
A few days after I signed up we met at a coffee shop for breakfast before splitting off into two groups. We got in our vans to drive less than an hour to La Cumbre to start the ride. We were given our helmets, gloves, element proof jackets and pants, and free buff bandanas! The vans are equipped with optional full-face helmets, kneepads, and elbow pads if any riders prefer it. Our guide suggested going with less gear because sometimes it causes riders to rely too much on the gear instead of being a mindful rider. Our bikes were adjusted for size and any mechanical issues. Before we took off we all took turns toasting with 95 proof alcohol and spilling a little for Pachamama (Mother Earth) then on our bikes for a good ride.
The rules were simple: be a responsible rider and don't do anything stupid. Fast confident riders could go as fast as they liked as long as they stayed behind the guide in front and slow riders could take their time with a guide bringing up the rear at the last riders pace. No one was held back and no one was pressured to go fast.
The ride started out on a paved highway so we could get a feel for our bikes. The spectacular mountain views were too beautiful to put into words. We stopped at a cliff where we were shown a bus that had gone over the edge on New Year's Day and reminded to be safe and call out when we passed slower riders. We had to walk our bikes through a drug checkpoint and then had the option to ride on a slight incline. This was a real challenge because of the altitude: 15,000+ feet!
When we got to the beginning of Death Road we were reminded again to be safe and responsible riders. I can't tell you how important it was to be told that over and over again. Many riders from other companies were out with us that day and they did some stupid things, sneaking up on slower riders without calling it out, riding recklessly, passing cars with cars in both lanes, and definitely relying on their safety gear a little too much.


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You're meticulous about monitoring the expiration dates on milk cartons. You carefully check sell-by dates before putting meat in your shopping cart. And you take a moment to scan cans, bottles and jars for their "best before" dates.
But have you ever checked the expiration dates on the contents of your first-aid kit? Do you even have a first-aid kit?
Just face it: It's time for a medicine cabinet makeover.
If you're like the rest of us, you are probably missing items that you or your loved ones will need in case of an injury that falls short of requiring a visit to the emergency room. And, like the rest of us, your bathroom cabinets are likely filled with items that have outlived their "use by" dates, potentially making them less potent or perhaps even dangerous. While a recent study by the California Poison Control System suggested that many drugs past their expiration date are still effective, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not mince words on its website: "Once the expiration date has passed, there is no guarantee that an expired medicine will be safe and effective. If your medicine has expired, do not use it."
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If you like a Beatley melody, some twangy guitar, a smidgen of sitar and the odd bonkers middle eight 2013 has been a vintage year so far. The rush of new psych bands that emerged in 2012 has blossomed into a worldwide movement. And it isn't all about 60 re-treads. Some of the new bands are clearly inspired by this mob and at the same time borrow as much from 80s bands like these and these as they are from the 60s originals.
Here then are my ten favourite psych albums of the year so far. The superb Bed Rugs and Morgan Delt don't make the cut as their offerings are more EPs than albums. I also have thing for the new albums from Suede, Bill Ryder Jones, Still Corners and Jagwar Ma, but none are really psych enough to make the cut. And as for the new Darren Hayman album – well that is something else…
There's loads to come too with The Soundcarriers, Len Price 3, Morgan Delt, Balduin and others all promising new albums by the end of the year. You lucky people!
10 Maston - Shadows
Bonkers debut album from one Frank Maston who attempts to re-create the kind of quirkiness that Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson were cooking up in the late 60s, except that it takes the odd Transatlantic detour too and on tracks like Strange Rituals ends up sounding like the kind of wonderful instrumentals that Blur ended up knocking out after listening to too many Specials albums. A genius pop record.


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Let's get this out of the way—the characters on "Girls" are kind of insufferable, kind of selfish, a lot self-absorbed and very much struggling human beings. They are upper-middle-class, white girl twentysomethings in 2012, after all.
And so am I! On the surface, I share a few things in common with the main character Hannah: 24 years old, aspiring essayist, decidedly funny-looking, annoyingly sarcastic at times, horrible decision maker when it comes to men, very low tolerance for drugs (none at all, really)…you get the point.
Sounds fun, right? Not really, but that's precisely why I'm already in love with this show. It sends me into fits of nervous-laughter while simultaneously making me do a double-take at the sad similarities between a small niche of metropolitan young women who just have no idea what the hell they're doing and why they continue to make a mess of their emotional states of being. I'm a glutton for punishment when it comes to self-analysis, and "Girls" absolute fits the bill.
Sure, there are plenty of things that irk me about the show—see Show Patrol's review for a taste—but with that being said—just how accurate is the day-to-day life of a struggling post-grad portrayed in "Girls"? On a scale of 1 to 10, I scored the interactions seen in this week's episode. Commence the eye-rolling and declarations about spoiled narcissists.
Scarfing down dinner when from-out-of-town parents foot the bill
Hannah is a cute, "plain Jane"—I hate that descriptor!—out to dinner in New York City with her parents, who are clearly from the suburbs.
Likelihood: 10
My parents fly in from Kansas in three weeks. I already have our dinners and menu selections all planned out. (Thanks, Mom and Dad!)
"I could be a drug addict. Do you realize how lucky you are?"
Womp womp. After a few years of financing her "groovy lifestyle," Hannah's parents tell her they're cutting her off. She's not happy.
Likelihood: 5
Yeah, I've used this on my parents before—when I was 16 and denied permission to pierce my nose.
Sleeping with the BFF roommate
We meet Hannah's roommate, Marnie, as the two are spooning together in Hannah's room after falling asleep to "Mary Tyler Moore" together. (We later find out Marnie retreated to Hannah's room to get away from her clingy, sweet boyfriend.)
Likelihood: 6
I mean, I know people who have accidentally, drunkenly wandered into their roommate's room to cuddle in the middle of the night? Same thing, right?
Showering with the BFF roommate
Hannah and Marnie wake up to Marnie's boyfriend in their kitchen and after getting some refreshments, naturally, go to the bathroom together to shave their legs, chit chat and eat cupcakes while naked.
Likelihood: 2
Call me Nancy Reagan, but if a roommate ever suggests bonding time in the bathroom naked, I'm installing a lock on the door. OK, it's not that serious, but I think it's widely true that most women are much too insecure about their bodies to let even their best friends see them naked and at their most vulnerable—while covered in shaving cream and rinsing…themselves.
Texts vs. Calls vs. The Internet
Marnie tries to talk Hannah out of texting her condescending sex buddy, Adam. Hannah says, "Didn't you say texting is the lowest form of communication on the pillar of chat?" Marnie says, "The lowest, that would be Facebook, followed by GChat, then texting, then email, then phone."
Likelihood: 10
True. True true true.
"Sex and the City" Comparisons
"You're funny because you're definitely like a Carrie with some Samantha aspects. And Charlotte hair."
Likelihood: 7
There's unfortunately a small segment of female society that still makes comparisons with and identifies as specific characters on a show that ended more than eight years ago—and, might I add, started when most of us were ELEVEN YEARS OLD. Funny how they always seem to be riding the same Red Line train as you, right?
"I was just going to have you start manning our Twitter. You have just the quippy voice for that."
Hannah explains to her boss that she can no longer work for free at her internship. He thinks she's quitting.
Likelihood: 6
Hello, have we met? Funny how having a Twitter account and being under the age of 25 in an office environment will automatically peg you as the "witty," social media "savvy" chick.
The shirtless male sex buddy who's always at home when you need a quickie because he doesn't work and refuses to be anybody's "slave"Hannah just quit-slash-got-fired from her internship and stops by Adam's apartment to let off some steam. He's home and up for whatever, of course.
Likelihood: 8
Where are their shirts? Why are these guys constantly shirtless, even in the dead of winter?
The most awkward sex of all timeOn a particularly grimy couch, Hannah lies in wait, on her stomach, trying to touch her legs and take off her leggings as Adam "considers" getting a condom. He then insists she play the "quiet game," when she chatters on about why she would want to first have a conversation about anal sex—after he attempts to go there without any warning.
Likelihood: 20+
As Hannah says, "…That. Please don't do that." The "try, try again without asking permission" method is not going to work in your favor in this instance, dudes, and it sucks that so many of you don't agree. But what sucks more? Too many women don't take charge of anything in this scenario—the condom, the off-the-limits positions—just like Hannah doesn't.
Suggested timesBoth Hannah and her world traveler friend Jessa are hours late to a dinner party thrown by Marnie. Jessa says she thought the start time was "suggested."
Likelihood: 9
Who shows up on time to anything these days? My generation relies so much on texts and constant communication that we apparently figure it's fine to show up late whenever and wherever—because someone will call or text if they're wondering where we are, right? Plans are for dorks.
Skipping lunchHannah tells her friends at a dinner party about getting cut off by her parents: "So I calculated, and I can last in New York for three-and-a-half more days. Maybe seven if I don't eat lunch."
Likelihood: 7
Yes! When you still have eight days left until your next paycheck, and you've just blown all but $23 on your rent, phone bill, whatever, calculating every move you make around the city is crucial. And deciding when you'll use your one lifeline meal of rice and Diet Coke each day.
High or drunk with the parentsFor "one final push" to convince her parents to help support her for a bit longer, Hannah shows up at her parents' hotel room after midnight—high on opium.
Likelihood: 0
Nope, never done that. Of course not. Seriously, Dad, never.
Propositions from the homelessWith a few twenties in hand from her departed parents, Hannah leaves the hotel to be greeted by a homeless guy on the sidewalk: "Why don't you smile? Does your heart hurt? Girl when you look at you, I just want to say, hello, New York!"
Likelihood: 10
The only guys who hit on me are generally drunk and homeless. And we really have to talk about outlawing the use of "Why don't you smile?" in conversations with strangers. I'm talking to you, Chipotle Guy.
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LONDON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Islamic militants who attacked an Algerian natural gas plant should be on notice that they'll find no sanctuary in Algeria or the rest of North Africa. Speaking at Kings College in London, Panetta says the U.S. is working with the British and Algerian governments to assess what's happening on the ground. The militants are said to be holding hostages from at least 10 countries.


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Just as noteworthy is Appleseed's atypical record. The mutual fund has been one of the best performers over the latest 5-year period, yet among the worst over just three years.
One reason Morningstar analysts give the fund a bronze-medal rating is its nearly 7 percent average annualized return over five years, a period that includes the 2008 stock market meltdown. That result puts Appleseed (APPLX) in the top 2 percent among mid-cap value stock funds.
Yet over just three years, 96 percent of those peers have done better than Appleseed's average 6.2 percent return.
Co-manager Adam Strauss says the disparity is a product of the fund's defensive approach to investing, which can help or hinder performance depending on the market's direction. It provided a big cushion in 2008 when Appleseed lost about half as much as the Standard & Poor's 500 index. Yet the fund badly trailed the market two years later, and it's having another off year as stocks continue to rally in 2012.
A key reason is the substantial amount of the portfolio that Appleseed's managers have kept out of the stock market the past few years. The fund recently held about 17 percent in gold and almost 14 percent in cash, with the rest in stocks that pass the fund's socially-responsible screening criteria.
That strategy could continue to hurt performance if stocks keep rising. One factor that's kept the rally going is the Federal Reserve's third round of bond-buying to stimulate the economy. The Fed's approval last month of the program known as "QE3" fueled short-term optimism for stocks. But there's also fear that it could eventually trigger runaway inflation.
That risk is a major factor in Appleseed's cautious outlook, including its stakes in gold and cash. In a recent interview, Strauss discussed concerns about QE3, as well as consumer debt levels that he says pose a greater risk to the economy than government debt. He also offered insights on stocks that could beat the market if inflation spikes. Here are excerpts:
Q: What's your take on QE3?
A: It's highly inflationary. It's hard to know when money goes into the system where it's going to go _ whether it will be used to buy gold, or stocks, or bonds, or to increase wages, or inflate housing prices or technology stocks. The Federal Reserve can't control what becomes inflated. So far, the stock market and commodity prices have inflated the most. Wages remain down.
Q: How do your expectations about inflation influence your stock picks?
A: We consider how a company would perform in an environment where costs are going up rapidly, including energy. In some cases, we're looking for an extra discount in the stock's price because of those factors, and sometimes we're looking at a company that could potentially benefit from those factors.
Q: What's an example of a stock in Appleseed's portfolio that could perform well if inflation spikes?
A: Shimano, the Japanese bicycle components maker. With high inflation and rising energy costs, lots more commuters will choose to use bicycles. So we're bullish about the bicycle industry. Shimano was very cheap when we first bought the stock a few months ago, and it's gone up significantly since then. It's a great brand, with terrific customer loyalty.
Q: Food prices have been rising faster than inflation in recent years. The fund's most recent top holding is Tesco PLC, the leading grocery chain in the United Kingdom. Can it withstand higher inflation?
A: Unfortunately, food prices are rising and will continue to rise. Grocery chains such as Tesco will benefit. At the same time, its price-to-earnings ratio is near an all-time low, and the dividend yield is more than 4 percent.
Grocery chains are in better position to increase prices than companies in other industries. You can cut other expenses in order to put food on your table, but people have to eat. In countries like Egypt, you can't pass on food price increases to consumers as much, or you get riots in the streets. In the U.K. and U.S., food is a lower proportion of the overall economy. So there's a lot of room to increase food prices. I'm not saying I'm happy about that, but it's where we are today.
Q: Why do you think consumer debt is a bigger problem than government debt?
A: The level of consumer debt is way, way too high for the size of our economy. There's lots of discussion now about government debt, but private household debt is a far bigger problem.
Q: If household debt is so high, what do you make of the recent reports indicating consumers are getting a better handle on credit card debt, and are increasingly paying balances on time?
A: There has been a very small amount of household deleveraging. There's still a lot more that has to happen. Part of that should happen from consumers restructuring their debts. But this process has been slow because the "too big to fail" banks are reluctant to write off bad loans which would weaken their balance sheets. So that's why the much more likely outcome is going to be inflation. Prices will be inflated so that gross domestic product seven or eight years from now will be two times what it is today. Then the old debts become a much lower percentage of GDP.
Q: What's the Fed's role in this?
A: Policymakers came to the conclusion years ago that the only politically feasible solution to the problem of excessive debt was an inflationary solution.
Whether QE3 is the right thing to do is the wrong question. The mistakes that were made that caused the Fed to approve QE3 occurred back when the housing bubble was forming. Now this is sort of a predictable outcome that the Fed is printing a lot of money to inflate us out of this debt.
Questions? E-mail investorinsight(at)ap.org


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The basement of a historic Adirondack hotel sold to a New Hampshire company earlier this month is a soggy mess after it was flooded by up to 10 feet of water from a burst pipe.
Officials in the village of Saranac Lake tell the Adirondack Daily Enterprise (http://bit.ly/1kItXPw ) that a sprinkler line at the Hotel Saranac is believed to have broken last Friday night after it became frozen.
The property manager overseeing the hotel for Wilton, N.H.-based Roedel Companies didn't notice the problem until Tuesday morning. By then, officials say 6 to 10 feet of water had flooded the basement of the 86-year-old hotel.
Power and water to the hotel was shut off, and fire crews and village public works employees spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day pumping out the basement.


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It's not news to anyone in farming that crop production has become several orders of magnitude more efficient over the last quarter century, with a vastly reduced impact on the environment.
It is news, though, when a diverse alliance of environmental organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy and major corporate entities such as Coca-Cola, Kellogg, and Mars agree.
A landmark study, "Field to Market," conducted by the Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture and released at the annual meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation, was backed by two dozen-plus organizations and corporations.
The report evaluated national scale data over the past 20 years for land, water, and energy use, soil loss, and the impact of climate on corn, soybeans, cotton, and wheat production — crops that in 2007 comprised 70 percent of the 305 million acres of U.S. cropland.
In the past 20 years, the report notes, soil loss efficiency trends have improved from 30 percent to almost 70 percent for the four crops evaluated; energy use per unit of output is down in corn, soybeans, and cotton from 40 percent to more than 60 percent; irrigated water use per unit has decreased from 20 percent to nearly 50 percent; and carbon emissions per unit have dropped by about a third for corn, soybeans, and cotton.
As a burgeoning world population pushes demand for food and fiber ever upward and pressures of natural resources increase, the Alliance views this report as the first step in a long term effort to quantify and improve the environmental, socio-economic, and health impacts of agricultural production.
Analysts project that the world population could increase by 3 billion by 2050, requiring a doubling of current food production levels. That is itself challenge enough, but doubly so when considering the potential environmental ramifications of such an increase.
Agriculture, the study notes, is already the predominant user of habitable land and it uses 70 percent of fresh water. Projections are that by 2030, the amount of land available per capita for grain production will be only a third of what it was in 1950 and that 17 percent more water will be needed for crop production than is available.
"Increased productivity and improved natural resource management will be vitally important as we seek to feed, fuel, and clothe a growing population on the same amount, or less, land," says cotton grower Kevin Rogers. "The best opportunity to achieve this goal will be for all groups in the chain to work collaboratively, and participation by farmers and conservation organizations will be vitally important to success."
The "Field to Market" program seeks to work with farmers to identify and crate best practices that can drive future improvements. The Alliance is beginning an industry-wide dialogue that can lead to programs for continued improvement economically- and environmentally-friendly food and fiber production.
John Wolf, a Kellogg Company vice president, notes that consumers "want to make sustainable food and fiber choices, and it's important that they understand the progress already being made" by U.S. agriculture.
(Read the entire report at http://keystone.org/spp/env-sustain_ag.html)


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Tampa Bay Buccaneers TE Drake Dunsmore has announced his retirement from professional football.
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|Buccaneers | Eight signed to futures contracts
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed QB Adam Weber, TE Drake Dunsmore, OT Mike Remmers, DE Ernest Owusu, LB Joe Holland, CB James Rogers, FS Sean Baker and FS Nick Saenz to futures contracts. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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|Buccaneers | Eight added to practice squad
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced Monday, Sept. 3, they have signed OT Bradley Sowell, LB Jacob Cutrera, TE Drake Dunsmore, WR Dale Moss, WR Bert Reed, LB J.K. Schaffer, QB Adam Weber and DE Markus White to their practice squad.
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|Buccaneers | Make roster moves
Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:54:07 -0700
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have released DT Frank Okam, DT Amobi Okoye, SS Larry Asante, WR Landon Cox, LB Rennie Curran, LB Jacob Cutrera, TE Drake Dunsmore, PK Kai Forbath, OT Jermarcus Hardrick, RB Robert Hughes, FB Cody Johnson, RB Mossis Madu, DT Jordan Nix, C Moe Petrus, TE Zach Pianalto, QB Brett Ratliff, CB James Rogers, WR Jordan Shipley and DT Teryl White. The team also waived injured OG Desmond Wynn (undisclosed).
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|Buccaneers | Seventh round draft choices signed
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed seventh-round draft choice RB Michael Smith and TE Drake Dunsmore to four-year deals. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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|Buccaneers | Feel Drake Dunsmore can help
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik liked the ability for TE Drake Dunsmore to picked up extra yards after the catch due to his speed when he played at Northwestern. Head coach Greg Schiano said Dunsmore's speed can allow the team to create some mismatches in the middle of the field. "He's very smart, catches the ball well, runs excellent routes," Dominik said. "He's a guy we really think can help us at that position."
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October 21. 2013 9:40PM
There is an effort afoot to ban smoking in private clubs in the "Live free or die" state. To compound the irony, it originated with men who fought for our freedom. Of all people, they should know better.
The state already bans smoking in restaurants and bars on the theory that they are "public" places. Private clubs have been exempt in part because they are not open to the public and in part because state politicians did not want to curtail the freedoms of war veterans — who are members of private American Legion and VFW clubs.
Sen. Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, and Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, R-Manchester, plan to introduce bills that would extend the smoking ban to private clubs. D'Allesandro told our reporter Garry Rayno that Mike Lopez, who heads Manchester's Henry J. Sweeney American Legion Post 2, asked him to introduce the bill. But Lopez's Sweeney Post 2 successfully banned smoking in July. What do they care if other private clubs allow it?
During the smoking ban debates in 2007, many bar and restaurant owners urged legislators to support the ban. They wanted to go smoke-free, but were afraid of losing customers. If the state executed the ban, customers could not leave for a competing business that allowed smoking because none would exist.
After the ban passed, business increased at many bars and restaurants — and at private clubs, where some smokers fled.
Now we have the head of one American Legion post hoping to expand his successful no-smoking policy statewide by force of law. Why? Maybe he doesn't want the competition from clubs that allow smoking. Or maybe he just really hates smoking. Either way, it's none of his business whether other private clubs allow their members to smoke or drink or spit on the floor. Nor is it any of the state's.


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Aloe Vera originates from northern Africa and is a species of succulent plant. It has been used since the first century in herbal medicines and is widely known as the 'Plant of Immortality' because of its amazing healing properties.
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