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Battle for the Elephants This National Geographic special goes undercover to expose the criminal network behind ivory's supply and demand that is driving the value of the elephant's tusks to levels once reserved for gold. It also demonstrates how the elephant, with its highly evolved society, keen intelligence, ability to communicate across vast distances and to love, remember and even mourn, is far more complex than previously imagined.G
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Make Me "Live Forever" Michael Mosley seeks out people working toward the logical conclusion of modern medicine - triumph over death. At Cambridge, academic Aubrey de Grey offers prize money for the scientist who can most effectively rejuvenate aging mice. He goes to witness the application of stem cell work that is restoring vision, constructing new organs, and offers the chance of replacing body parts. Then using the latest research, some of Michael's cells are made immortal.G
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CCTV has been released after a man was glassed on a c2c train as it travelled between London Fenchurch Street and Shoebury.
The victim, a 44-year-old man from Stratford, was left needing stitches after the horrific attack at Grays.
British Transport Police (BTP) detectives investigating the incident have released two pictures.
Officers, who appealed for information earlier this month, seized the onboard camera images of a man they are keen to speak to about the incident, which took place on Saturday, 28 December.
Detective Constable David Bishop, the investigating officer, said: "Whilst on board the 8.50pm Fenchurch Street to Shoebury service, the victim, a 44-year-old man from Stratford, began to engage in a conversation with another passenger.
"At first the conversation between the two men was amicable, with the victim sharing a drink with the man.
"The conversation turned hostile however and, as the victim stepped back to move away, the man used the glass he was holding to hit the victim on the back of the head."
Both men left the carriage as the train arrived at Grays station, around 9.25pm, where the suspect ran off. Police were called and the victim later attended hospital where he was treated with stitches for the wound.
DC Bishop added: "Our enquiries have been ongoing and, after viewing CCTV from the area on onboard the train, we have today released a still of a man we are very keen to speak to.
"The CCTV images are very clear and I'd urge anyone who may recognise the man, or who may have witnessed what took place, to come forward."
Anyone with information is asked to contact British Transport Police on 0800 40 50 40 quoting incident number LNA/B6 of 30/12/2013.
Information can also be passed to the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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Today's Meditation
Read Galatians 6:1-5
If anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness.
- Galatians 6:1 (NRSV)
I had taken a rock-wall-climbing challenge on a dare, despite my fear of heights. As my fingers found themselves placed in the climbing holes, my mind raced: What happens if I fall? Will someone be there to catch me? I cautiously peered down the 36-foot wall and spotted the belayer — the person who controls the tension in the rope. Belayers give climbers slack in the rope when it's needed and pull in excess to prevent a fall. Then I was not so fearful.
In a spiritual sense, God gives us belayers in life. They may be friends, mentors, or accountability partners. God gives us relationships that encourage us upward in our spiritual growth and keep us from stumbling. These people comfort and care for us but also hold us accountable for how we live our faith.
We may feel hurt or offended when someone we love points out a shortcoming. However, spiritual friends love us in spite of our faults and challenge us to change, to grow closer to the way of Christ.
Cary Tabares
(Florida, USA)
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Prayer: Dear God, thank you for those who hold us accountable. Open our hearts and minds to accept your loving correction, and make us willing to change. Amen.
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Despite being portrayed by CNN as an "architect" of the federal government shutdown, Congressman Mark Meadows said Thursday he fought up to the final hours to prevent it from occurring and worked hard over the last 16 days to stave off its impact on his district.
Despite being portrayed by CNN as an "architect" of the federal government shutdown, Congressman Mark Meadows said Thursday he fought up to the final hours to prevent it from occurring and worked hard over the last 16 days to stave off its impact on his district.
In a phone interview Thursday as he drove home from Washington, Meadows said he spent 30 minutes with an Obama administration aide at the Capitol the night before the Oct. 1 shutdown "trying to work things out, seeing if there are some areas we could make tweaks to Obamacare and avoid a shutdown."
Meadows said he "got a lot of raised eyebrows from people in my party, because they knew who he was." The White House congressional liaison "expressed a willingness to work together, but honestly, for political reasons, there was going to be a shutdown regardless," Meadows said.
Along with fellow N.C. Reps. Walter Jones, Virginia Foxx and Richard Hudson, Meadows voted no on Wednesday evening to a measure that reopened the federal government and extended the nation's debt ceiling.
"My concern was two-fold," Meadows said, explaining his vote. "One, we should've funded the government for a year. To have to go back through this in 90 days is not what any of us want to do. And we should've gotten rid of the congressional subsidy."
Under the Affordable Care Act, members of Congress and their staffs can no longer get their health insurance through the Federal Health Benefits Program beginning in 2014. Instead, they'll have to get insurance through ACA health exchanges, Meadows said.
"But unlike the average American, who doesn't get a subsidy if they're making the money we're making, we're getting a special subsidy to match the old federal program," he said. "So we're essentially getting a special subsidy that you, if you go on the program, don't get. That's not fair."
Meadows also objected to special provisions attached to the bill ending the partial government shutdown. Though it was "supposedly a clean bill," he pointed out language allowing the government to spend $2.9 billion upgrading a 1920s-era lock and dam project on the Ohio River.
In late September, Meadows made national headlines after CNN reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell wrote a profile of him that called him "one of the most prominent developers of the plan that could shut the government down."
Meadows said Caldwell "took great liberties, took words out of context and cut off parts of quotes to tell her story. It was unfortunate."
Even before that, the freshman Republican had quickly made a name for himself, grilling administration officials about their handling of the Benghazi terrorist attacks as a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. President Obama also named him to represent Congress in the 68th session of the U.N.'s General Assembly.
But it was a letter circulated by Meadows urging House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor to "defund the implementation and enforcement of (Obamacare) in any relevant appropriations bill ... including any continuing appropriations bill" that garnered him the brightest national spotlight.
The letter, signed by 80 House colleagues, has been credited for spurring the GOP's hard-line stance that brought the federal government to close national parks and other "non-essential" services. Meadows insisted Thursday that was never his intention, adding his role has been "greatly exaggerated" by the some media sources.
"The truth of the matter is we all have consequences of taking a leadership role," he said. "Some could say if I had never drafted the letter, that wouldn't have been the case. It is what it is. And time will hopefully show that even in the midst of a very difficult thing with the shutdown, my No. 1 priority was to listen to the people back home."
At the start of the budget impasse, Meadows said, calls and emails to his congressional offices were "tracking about 60/40 in terms of being in favor of what we were doing. Toward the end, it was more evenly divided." He took many of the phone calls himself, even when they were from citizens who disagreed with his stance on Obamacare.
"I do care, and there are times when my heart knows that I'm fighting for the long-term benefit of our country," he said. "But at the same time, it's not about politics, it's about people — even the people I don't agree with."
Following the shutdown, Meadows said he and his staff "were scrambling to make sure (with) the government agencies that get federal funds, we didn't have people in our district getting hurt."
Meadows said he intervened on behalf of a Pisgah Inn concessionaire who was forced to shut down his hotel, restaurant and retail stores on the Blue Ridge Parkway. He also encouraged Gov. Pat McCrory to ante up $75,000 to help reopen the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Wednesday.
House Republicans, he pointed out, floated several appropriations bills that would have reopened parks, allowed new veteran benefits to be processed, and restored funding for social programs such as Head Start and WIC, a nutritional supplement program for women and children.
"And they never got voted on by the Senate," he said.
The results of the shutdown "obviously, are not something that any of us can applaud or feel good about," Meadows said. But he remains committed to altering the Affordable Care Act, which he strongly believes places undue burdens on American workers and the economy.
"If there's an apology that needs to be made, it's that I should've been more persuasive," Meadows said, telling the story of "hard-working American taxpayers" who are being saddled with rising insurance premiums and job-stifling bureaucracy.
Having failed to force a defunding of the Affordable Care Act, Meadows said there are four areas of the law he hopes the Obama administration will agree to alter, including the law's definition of part-time workers and eliminating an independent payment advisory board tasked with Medicare cost-cutting if spending exceeds targets in 2015.
"One of the big concerns most people have right now is with wanting to make sure that decisions are between a doctor and them and not some government agency or bureaucrat," Meadows said. "There seems to be a little bit of an open window there to address that."
He admits Republicans have lost some leverage after the government shutdown. But Meadows pointed out there are legislative goals Obama "wants to get through the House that won't cause a shutdown," including immigration reform, that need the support of Republicans to move.
"Honestly, I'm having to take the president at his word," Meadows said. "He said after this shutdown was over and the debt ceiling raised, he'd be willing to negotiate."
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I just wanted to mull over my thoughts about breastfeeding my little boy. He eats 3 meals a day though can be fussy- won't eat bread at lunchtime so I give him fruit and then some yogurt. Sometimes he refuses tea too- hard to know why. If he refuses tea he will tend to wake more in the night for milk. He usually feeds a couple of times in the day- mid morning and when I put him down for his after lunch nap. Then he also feeds at bedtime, when he wakes, and in the night once, occasionally twice or more, occasionally not at all.
He often doesn't seem particularly interested in feeding in the daytime. Or sometimes he will look pleased to have a cuddle and a "feed", but he doesn't seem to be drinking much and eventually just goes to sleep or comes off. If I didn't offer milk I'm not sure if he'd feed at all in the day!
I was wondering- is he not drinking because there is not much there or because he isn't thirsty? On occasions he has a good feed which restores my faith in myself!
Should I stop offering milk and only give if he asks? In this case, should I give him cows milk in a cup? Should I give him that anyway? Maybe he would rather this than breastfeeding. Having said that, he does smile and laugh when we lie down for a feed.
If we replaced breastfeeding altogether, is he more likely to sleep through the night? My other 2 bottle fed babies did. I'm just a bit concerned that if we did this he would miss the comfort of sucking- he doesn't have a dummy. He can fall asleep without breastfeeding.
I'm torn- part of me is thinking maybe I should give him cows milk then I won't have to worry about how much milk he's getting. The other part thinks he'll make sure he gets what he needs (maybe in the night!!) and he needs the comfort of breastfeeding.
He is a very healthy child by the way.
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Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has praised the attitude of his players despite drawing 0-0 with Osasuna on Saturday.
The Primera Division strugglers managed to shut out los Blancos for large periods of the game, restricting them to few clear-cut opportunities in an encounter which also saw Kaka sent off.
"It's not easy to create chances here against opponents like these," explained Mourinho to reporters after the match. "We had chances to score though, not many, but we had some.
"I liked the attitude of the team, and several players had great games. [Raul] Albiol and [Fabio] Coentrao deserve praise, playing very well despite just returning from long injuries."
Speculation of internal unrest has refused to go away, with Mourinho's recent decision to drop captain Iker Casillas criticised by supporters.
But the former Inter boss only had words of praise for the club icon, stating: "In our last two games, the team has played well defensively, and he has been a part of that.
"I liked how he played against Celta as well, rising to the occasion to give his team a boost. Nevertheless, it is still too early to tell if he will play against Valencia on Tuesday."
The Liga champions will now turn their attentions to the Copa del Rey, when they host Ernesto Valverde's men at the Santiago Bernabeu.


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The Walrus Says
Beth Clarke's world is music. As with all good things, it began at home, having been born to musical parents who sing with the Jamestown Community Chorus and the Jamestown Community Theatre. In fact, they met while singing in a high school chorus.
The first we learned of Beth's musical talents was when she was named director of the Jamestown Community Band two years ago. At the time, she was a real veteran with the band, having played flute there since she was 11 years old.
Beth graduated from the University of Rhode Island with two degrees this past year – a bachelor's in music education in May, and a bachelor's in music history and literature in August.
A month and a half after graduating, she submitted her job application to the Prout School, after seeing the announcement in a local newspaper from Prout seeking a new music teacher.
"I had already been applying to teaching jobs from Vermont to West Virginia since April," she said. "Prout interviewed me in June. On the day before my 22nd birthday, I received a call offering me the position. I signed the next day, which is ironic because my parents kept asking me what I wanted for my birthday, and I would always reply, 'A high school music education job!'"
Beth has completed her first semester at Prout. She teaches band, chorus, show chorus, guitar, music theory, music history and jazz band. "I love teaching there more than I could have even imagined," she said. "The staff and educators are incredibly friendly and supportive, and the students are respectful and conscientious." Having been brought up in a musical atmosphere, Beth said that music was a natural course for her life to take. She said she can remember learning the English language, but cannot remember learning to read music.
"Music has been a huge part of my life because of my parents. I also look at Karyn Kauffman, the band director at the Jamestown School, as a huge inspiration, as well as several of my music professors from the University of Rhode Island, especially in music education."
Beth did consider some other career paths in high school, among them veterinary sciences and English. "A local music teacher told me in my sophomore year that I would be student teaching with him, and sure enough he was right," Beth said. "My whole life pointed towards music, so I went with it, and have no intentions of looking back."
Beth has been cast in the role of Mabel in the community chorus' version of the operetta, "The Pirates of Penzance," to be performed next month.
Did we miss the January thaw?
We reported in our last column about the Jamestown Community Theatre producing radio shows. There is a movie just out based on an early radio program. What is it? Did you listen to any radio shows when you were young? What were they?
Lisa Brendlinger made the dean's list at URI.
Let's see now. They've changed the date of Memorial Day so everyone can have a three-day weekend. Now, some upstate salon wants to change the date for Halloween. Is nothing sacred? What changes next, the Fourth of July and New Year's Day?
Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year. It is now the Year of the Rabbit.
During harsh winters like we're now experiencing, people aren't the only ones whose lives are affected by the elements. Our quadruped friends must also be feeling the changes in their routines. With all the snowfall, getting a walk is suddenly not a daily routine, and those great smells while on a walk have disappeared.
We asked Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic for some safety tips to protect your pets during these periods of bad weather. He suggested keeping pets, especially cats, indoors as much as possible, especially at night. With the snow, pets can lose track of the scents they know and easily become lost or seek shelter in places that are not safe for them.
He said cats may crawl under the hoods of cars for warmth and be injured if the motor is started. If you have outdoor cats in your neighborhood, bang on your hood before starting the car to scare them off. Hatch said that another concern is the risk of pets drinking spilled antifreeze, which is highly lethal, and urges people to clean up any spills and to contact your veterinarian if you think your pet may have ingested even a tiny amount. Finally, he said to clean any snow, ice, or rock salt off your pet's fur and feet whenever they come in from outside to prevent irritation to its skin and ingesting any chemicals or debris from the snow.
Great response to the poser in our last column. It was the Gershwin brothers, "Our Love Is Here To Stay," says Arthur Conlon, Robert Florentino, Ken Shane, Barbara-Ann Mac Intosh, Bob Kinder, Dave Reilly, Sam Bari, Cynthia Flagg and John Leyon.
Leyon added that one of the better contemporary recordings is by Michael Finstein. The song was written originally for the 1938 film, "The Goldwyn Follies," but is remembered best as the main theme of the 1951 musical, "An American in Paris." It has been recorded by a host of great artists including Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Gene Kelly, Joni James and Dina Washington.
With Valentine's Day just down the road, here's a love poser from B.J.: "She gives me ev'rything and tenderly."
In our item about volunteers for Threads of Love, we asked if anyone has a serger or knows what it is? Barbara-Ann MacIntosh replied that she has a serger.
"It is a sewing machine that holds five spools of thread. There is also one that works with four spools of thread. It sews a seam and can cut off the excess fabric at the same time. The challenge is threading the machine. It is complicated. It sits unused."
Gail Bolger also has a serger. She said it's a very special, but handy, sewing machine that binds up, finishes off, and cuts edges.
Thanks, guys! Sounds like something that would bind up my threads of love and turn them into threads of utter frustration.
In the event you need a warm up for St. Patrick's Day, the Celtic Harp will be at the Jamestown Philomenian Library on Sunday, Feb. 6, at 3 p.m., for their concert, "Celebrating Ireland in Story and Song." Get there at 2:30 p.m. and fiddler and harpist Mary King will teach you a jig.
A Snapple cap moment: A Venus flytrap can eat a whole cheeseburger.
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Michelin profits slump in 2013 on restructuring
PARIS (AP) — Tire maker Michelin SA says earnings slumped sharply last year as restructuring and falling prices hurt profitability.
Michelin said net profit fell 28 percent to 1.13 billion euros ($1.5 billion), down from 1.57 billion in 2012.
Earnings were hit by around 260 million euros in restructuring costs as part of the company's bid to lift profitability by 2015. Last year profitability slumped to 11 percent of sales, down from 11.3 percent in 2012. Falling prices and volumes in the market for construction equipment and other specialty tires was behind the drop.
Profits were also squeezed by the strong euro, as much of the company's sales are made in dollars.
Sales fell 5.7 percent to 20.2 billion euros, Michelin said in a statement Tuesday.


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Matchups for the Super Bowl between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 3 in New Orleans:
Ravens (13-6) on O
When quarterback Joe Flacco (5) looks out from behind center Matt Birk (77) on Super Bowl Sunday, he could be seeing two things: dollar signs and the fiercest defense hes faced all season.
Flaccos contract is up after this game, and while its a near cinch the Ravens wont let the five-year veteran leave, its going to cost a few million bucks to keep him. A victory against San Francisco and its bevy of All-Pro defenders would add even more moolah to the pot.
This is one formidable challenge for Flacco because the Niners are more versatile than the defenses theyve faced and beaten in Indianapolis, Denver and New England in the postseason.
Start with the leagues best linebacking corps, featuring two All-Pros in Patrick Willis (52) and NaVorro Bowman (53). Aldon Smith (99) is considered a linebacker but is a hybrid linebacker-defensive end, and he led the NFC with 19½ sacks. Ahmad Brooks (55) is coming off a spectacular second half in Atlanta.
But Flacco and his targets wide receivers Anquan Boldin (81) and Torrey Smith (82), tight end Dennis Pitta (88) and do-everything running back Ray Rice (27) should be encouraged by what the Falcons accomplished in the first half. They found seams and gaps everywhere, and the 49ers secondary must be stingier this time.
Boldin has been sensational on every route in the postseason (16 catches, 17.3-yard average, three touchdowns). Cornerbacks Carlos Rogers (22) and Tarell Brown (25) and Chris Culliver (29) will have a difficult time with the smart, physical Boldin.
Smith can get deep on anybody, so safeties Dashon Goldson (38), an All-Pro, and Donte Whitner (31) will have to be sharp. In each playoff game, Smith has gotten open for a long pass, even if it wasnt a completion.
And the biggest deep ball Baltimore completed was the 70-yarder to tie the game at Denver late in regulation to wide receiver Jacoby Jones (12).
Pitta against Willis, Bowman and the safeties is a juicy matchup, too.
So is the entire offensive line attempting to neutralize Aldon Smith and defensive linemen Justin Smith (94), Isaac Sopoaga (90), Ray McDonald (91) and Ricky Jean-Francois (95). The main chore will fall to left tackle Bryant McKinnie (78), who seems to have resurrected his career in the postseason, and right tackle Michael Oher (74). Right guard Marshal Yanda (73) is Baltimores best blocker.
49ers (13-4-1) on O
Everyone tries to run on Baltimore; all three opponents in the playoffs did so, and the Niners will, too. The difference: San Francisco has, by far, the best running back in Frank Gore (21), best running QB in Colin Kaepernick (7) and best run blocking, led by left guard Mike Iupati (77) and left tackle Joe Staley (74), that the Ravens will face.
But the Ravens have the most physical and fundamentally sound front seven that San Francisco has seen in the playoffs.
Ray Lewis (52), the 17-year linebacker playing his final game of a Hall of Fame-quality career, looks like he is in his prime and has 44 tackles in the three playoff wins. Fellow linebackers Dannell Ellerbe (59), Terrell Suggs (55) and rookie Courtney Upshaw (91) must be particularly active in getting to the holes if San Franciscos line remains dominant.
To prevent the 49ers from winning in the trenches, defensive Haloti Ngata (92), nose tackle Terrence Cody (62) and defensive end Pernell McPhee (90) need to be stout.
Gore is complemented by rookie running back LaMichael James (23), who has a nice burst, and of course, Kaepernick. The second-year QB set a record for the position with 181 yards rushing against Green Bay in the divisional round. He didnt run much against Atlanta but presents a major challenge whenever he tucks the football.
Or when he is throwing it. Kaepernick isnt just a threat to use his Usain Bolt-style long strides to break down defenses. His arm is strong and accurate, and he isnt timid about letting go into tight spots to connect with tight ends Vernon Davis (85) and Delanie Walker (46) and wide receivers Michael Crabtree (15) and Randy Moss (84).
Ravens pass rushers Suggs, defensive end Paul Kruger (99) and McPhee will need help containing Kaepernick, so watch for frequent blitzes from the secondary of safeties Ed Reed (20) and Bernard Pollard (31) and cornerbacks Cary Williams (29) and Corey Graham (24).
Controlling Davis will be critical because hes a nightmare matchup for Baltimores less-than-fast linebackers.
The Niners could break some long plays in the secondary, too, because many of Baltimores backs are mediocre tacklers.
Pollard, however, will rock your world.
Special Teams
Baltimore has the edge here on returns and field goals. San Francisco gets the nod in punting.
All-Pro Jones led the NFL in kickoff returns with a 30.1 average and scored twice. He also ran back a punt for a score.
Rookie Justin Tucker (6) has been a stud, making 30 of 33 field goals, including the winner in double overtime in Denver. But punter Sam Koch (4) had too many low kicks that New England returned for good field position in the AFC title game.
The Ravens were solid on coverages during the season but fell apart against Denver as Trindon Holliday ran back a punt and a kickoff for scores. They also struggled stopping Wes Welkers punt returns in New England.
San Francisco placekicker David Akers (2) has gone from All-Pro in 2011 to slumping this season, and he missed his only try against the Falcons. But the Niners have stuck with him.
Andy Lee (4) is among the top punters in the NFL. James and Ted Ginn Jr. (19) have breakaway capabilities on returns but arent consistent.
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The Harbowl XLVII is unique but hardly a fluke. Both Harbaughs owe a strong debt to their dad, Jack, a lifelong coach who not only taught them how to play football but how to teach football.
Johns pro résumé is record-setting: the only coach with wins in his first five postseasons. He was selected over Rex Ryan and several others to take over the Ravens in 2008 after making his mark as Philadelphias special teams coordinator.
Unlike John, who did not play in the NFL, Jim quarterbacked 14 seasons with four teams after being selected in the first round of the 1987 draft by the Bears. He has been in coaching a relatively short time, but his meteoric rise took him to San Diego the Toreros, not the Chargers and Stanford, where he tutored Andrew Luck.
Jim Harbaugh was the 2011 NFL Coach of the Year as a rookie, guiding the Niners to the conference championship game.
Both of them will make the difficult decisions that sometimes change the course of a season or career. John fired offensive coordinator Cam Cameron in December. Jim Caldwell took over, and the offense, particularly Flacco, has been strong since.
Jim made the move to Kaepernick in November, and we all know how that worked out.
Baltimores additional boost actually has become tangible with the way the Ravens have performed at such a fevered pitch during Lewis final postseason. Saying goodbye by giving him the Vince Lombardi Trophy to parade around is pretty darn motivating.
For the 49ers, a record-tying sixth Super Bowl Pittsburgh also has six but has been beaten twice, while San Francisco is 5-0 and a first since the days of Steve Young is quite an inducement.
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Lorenzo McCloud scored 18 points and Pacific went on a 17-2 run in the second half to pull away from Saint Mary's 76-66 in the semifinals of the DirecTV Classic on Friday at the Anaheim Convention Center Arena.
Lorenzo McCloud scored 18 points and Pacific went on a 17-2 run in the second half to pull away from Saint Mary's 76-66 in the semifinals of the DirecTV Classic on Friday at the Anaheim Convention Center Arena.
The Tigers (3-2) play Cal (5-0) in the championship game at 6 p.m. Sunday on ESPN2 after their second win over a high-profile opponent in this eight-team tournament.
On Thursday, Pacific celebrated Thanksgiving with a 70-67 win over Xavier, which has made seven consecutive appearances in the NCAA Tournament and has reached the Sweet 16 four times in the past five seasons. The Gaels, a future foe of Pacific's in the West Coast Conference, has played in the NCAA Tournament in three of the past five seasons and reached the Sweet 16 in 2010.
Pacific hasn't played in the NCAA Tournament since 2006 after making three consecutive appearances.
"Just a great team effort," said Pacific coach Bob Thomason, who is in his 25th season at his alma mater. "I thought our toughness showed the whole game again just like (Thursday). I thought we battled on the boards with a taller team unbelievably.
"I'm extremely happy about the short turnaround, to be able to take a plan defensively and execute a plan about as well as we think we could have executed at this time. I take my hat off to my guys. They locked down and did a great job."
Pacific's main objective was to contain Gaels' guard Matthew Dellavadova, a member of the Australian national team, considered one of the top shooting guards on the West Coast. Sama Taku and Rodrigo De Souza switched off against the 6-foot-4 senior and held him to 16 points, exactly half his point total Thursday against Drexel. Dellavadova's frustration was evident late in the game when he was charged with a technical foul after slamming the ball on the court.
"I don't think we could have played better defense on him than we did," Thomason said.
McCloud got tied up with Dellavadova late in the game, and McCloud's head bounced off the floor as both players fell to the ground. Later, McCloud leapt over the media table along the sideline and landed hard on the concrete floor, only to hustle back onto the court. McCloud handled the ball, drove to the basket, made some tough shots, and found open teammates when Saint Mary's didn't rotate defensively.
"That's what I try to do every time I step on the court," said McCloud, who made 5 of 10 shots from the floor, 8 of 9 from the line and had three assists. "That's just working hard each and every day."
The Tigers shot 53.1 percent from the floor and held the Gaels (4-1) to 41.8 percent shooting. Pacific outrebounded Saint Mary's 27-21 and made 21 of 26 at the free-throw line.
Taku and Travis Fulton led Pacific with six rebounds each, and Taku was one of four Tigers in double figures with 11 points. Forward Ross Rivera scored 14 points and center Khalil Kelley scored 12.
Pacific led 32-29 at halftime and led by as many as 19 points (58-39) after guard Andrew Bock sank two free throws with 6 minutes left.
The Tigers entered the DirecTV Classic having lost close games to Fresno State and Oral Roberts. They've played solid, team basketball so far in Anaheim, according to Thomason.
"We're not playing perfect right now," he said, "but we're playing well and the confidence is starting to come."
Pacific will spend some time today at Disneyland, then focus on Sunday's opponent.
"We're not done yet," McCloud said. "We're still focused on one game. It's not over yet."


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Roger Ebert is currently keeping busy at TIFF — a festival he's attended since 1977 — where he will also be present for several book signings celebrating the recently released paperback edition of his memoir Life Itself. In the book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic shares a candid and personal history that chronicles everything from his career and collaboration with Gene Siskel, to his struggles with thyroid cancer and losing his voice. It's an engaging tale that reads more like a series of intimate essays than a long-winded tome. The title received glowing reviews, with The New York Times citing it as "the best thing Mr. Ebert has ever written."
The esteemed film critic took to his Twitter account this morning to announce some exciting news related to Life Itself. "Whoa! My memoir has been optioned for a doc by Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and Steven Zaillian, with Martin Scorsese as exec producer," he detailed to his followers. Ebert, of course, has appeared in a number of documentaries — Gerald Peary's 2009 film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism being one of them — but the deeply personal tone of this project and the talent behind it makes it an exciting prospect.
In his 1994 review of Hoop Dreams, Ebert posits that the movie isn't just a documentary, but also "poetry and prose, muckraking and expose, journalism and polemic." He also called it one of the great moviegoing experiences of his lifetime. We think it's safe to say he's more than elated right now to have James behind the adaptation. Zaillian's directing credits include Searching for Bobby Fischer and All the King's Men, but his writing credits excite us more: Gangs of New York, Schindler's List and Moneyball amongst them.
The Chicago Sun-Times critic met soon-to-be exec producer Scorsese in 1969 when the filmmaker was an editor working on Woodstock, five years before his directing career would start to take off. The two share more than a few similarities where their backgrounds are concerned, and also a deep sense of admiration. "I looked him up not long after when I was in New York. We were the same age but I realized his understanding of movies was much deeper than my own," Ebert humbly writes in his memoir. "A daily critic tends to go wide. A director like Scorsese tends to go deep. There would never be a time we met when I didn't learn something useful and true about the cinema." What a gift for a truly inspiring critic, but also a man who has never lost that wondrous feeling while gazing up at the big screen.
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Stephen Antonakos was largely working in collage in the 1960s, until he noticed Times Square's lights at night: "I saw one thing that I loved very, very much right away," he says, "the garish colors that we can get from neon tubes [of light]." That moment instigated what would become the hallmark aesthetic of Anatonakos's long career, characterized by his creation of brightly colored light installations. Works like Arrival (2008) and Neon Table #1 (1986) have a kinship with the works of Dan Flavin, and the 1960s Light and Space movement of Southern California that included Larry Bell, Bruce Nauman, and Doug Wheeler. Antonakos also makes drawings, watercolors, and bas-relief moldings that demonstrate a similar affinity for minimal, abstract, geometric forms.
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Samual Eto'o put Cameroon ahead in the 62nd minute, before Thomas Mueller and Andre Schuerrle gave Germany the lead. But Maxim Choupo-Moting clinched the draw in the 78th minute after a breathless period in the second half.
Germany played without goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and defender and captain Philipp Lahm, who are nursing injuries, while striker Miroslav Klose sat out the match. Klose has been bothered by various injuries throughout the season. Left-back Erik Durm made his debut.
Germany has drawn their last two matches, with an under-strength side held 0-0 by Poland last month. The Germans also play Armenia on June 6, the day before they leave for Brazil.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The former chef at the Virginia governor's mansion pleaded no contest Wednesday to reduced charges that he stole food from the first family's kitchen and was ordered to repay the state $2,300, ending a politically embarrassing case that was headed to trial weeks before the state's hotly contested governor's race.
Todd Schneider, 52, had been charged with four felony embezzlement counts but they were reduced to two misdemeanor charges under a plea agreement approved by Richmond Circuit Judge Margaret Spencer. She suspended 6-month jail sentences for each count and ordered him to repay the state for the taxpayer-paid provisions.
The case against Schneider brought to light allegations of misconduct against Gov. Bob McDonnell and entangled Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican candidate for governor. While McDonnell cannot seek a second straight term under state law, the chef's prosecution and accusations of lavish gift-giving by a political supporter to the Republican governor has tarnished McDonnell's once-rising political star.
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Outside of court, neither Schneider nor his attorney, Steven Benjamin, would discuss details about the plea negotiations with the prosecutor, Gregory Underwood, Norfolk's commonwealth attorney. He was assigned to the case when Cuccinelli stepped aside, citing a conflict of interest.
Benjamin called the settlement "an excellent resolution" and said it was only possible once Underwood took over from Cuccinelli as prosecutor for the case. Cuccinelli's office had directed the probe and obtained the indictment against Schneider.
"This prosecution should never have been brought, should never have been initiated by an attorney general with a pervasive personal, financial and political conflicts of interest that were evident in this case," Benjamin said. "But once the indictments were brought and the conflicts were acknowledged, the court did the correct thing ... and brought in Mr. Underwood and appointed him to handle this."
In a statement, however, Cuccinelli spokesman Brian Gottstein said the plea agreement "vindicates this office's decision to pursue the prosecution of embezzlement charges against Chef Todd Schneider."
Schneider, who worked at the Executive Mansion from 2010 until his dismissal in early 2012, told investigators the first family had taken undisclosed gifts from a wealthy donor and from the kitchen, and that the governor required him and other state employees to work private and political events.
Schneider's allegations led to state and federal investigations.
Authorities are investigating the relationship between both McDonnell and first lady Maureen McDonnell and Jonnie R. Williams Sr., a wealthy donor and the chief executive of troubled nutritional supplements maker Star Scientific Inc.
Investigators are looking at whether Williams or his company benefited as a result of more than $124,000 worth of gifts and loans to the first family.
McDonnell has defended not reporting the gifts, noting that Virginia's public ethics laws require the disclosure only of gifts given directly to public officials, not their family members. In July, however, he publicly apologized and announced the gifts and loans had been returned or repaid to Williams.
Cuccinelli accepted more than $18,000 worth of gifts from Williams and Star Scientific, and once owned more than $10,000 in company stock. Some of the gratuities, including a $3,000 summer family vacation and a catered $1,500 Thanksgiving dinner at Williams' palatial waterside getaway at Smith Mountain Lake near the Blue Ridge Mountains, were not disclosed until April, when Cuccinelli amended four years' of economic disclosure forms.
In July, Richmond's Democratic commonwealth's attorney, Mike Herring, said in a report that Cuccinelli broke no state law with his tardy disclosures of Williams' gifts.
Then, earlier this month, Cuccinelli gave a Richmond charity $18,000 — the same value as gifts he accepted from Williams.
After the 15-minute hearing, Schneider spoke to reporters outside the downtown courthouse.
"It's been a very difficult situation but it's a beautiful day here in Richmond," said Schneider, smiling broadly. "It's time for me to move on, love life and love myself (and) make great food for people."
AP Political Writer Bob Lewis contributed to this report.
Steve Szkotak can be reached on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sszkotakap


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They were two tiny gestures in the everyday swirl of last week's holiday hubbub, but they still resonate with hope for the new year:
They were two tiny gestures in the everyday swirl of last week's holiday hubbub, but they still resonate with hope for the new year:
A man I know only by his first name stopped me as I was hustling to get back to the office after my lunchtime swim at the Y. There were deadlines to meet, stories to write, a meeting to attend and a clock telling me I wasn't going to fit it all in.
"How," he asked, looking me right in the eye, "is your wife doing?"
When I asked what he meant, he mentioned her diabetes.
I didn't even remember that I had told him my wife has Type 1, or childhood, diabetes (which she is diligently managing). But he remembered — and cared enough — to ask.
That caring — that look in Milt's eyes of heartfelt concern — so lifted my spirits and brightened a stressed-out day, I'm even smiling as I write this.
And how much did that simple gesture of kindness take? A few seconds for him to say it. A few seconds more for me to stop and listen.
A few days later, on Christmas Eve, I decided to stop at the car wash after some food shopping. The hatchback space of my car was loaded with about eight bags of groceries.
So to have that hatchback cleaned, I unloaded the bags and schlepped them all into the waiting room, where I had to put them down to pay — much to the chuckles of the other waiting customers, who seemed as eager as I to get out of the car wash to celebrate Christmas.
While I was waiting for my car, a woman I didn't know ran out to her car and returned with a giant shopping bag — big enough to somehow fit all of my eight bags. Merry Christmas, she said.
That seemingly small gesture — by the woman named Marie — made me forget the stress of shopping and remember the spirit of giving.
At the end of a month of so much bloody violence to innocent children and adults, with Washington politicians heading toward a fiscal cliff of rising taxes because of their own selfish stubbornness, the world all too often feels like an uncaring, cold place.
Yet these two small gestures of caring from relative strangers took so little time, and made such a big difference in my life.
I'll always treasure them, and the lessons they taught me:
We may not be able to do anything to stop the senseless violence that ended the lives of the 20 innocent children and six adults who tried to protect them.
We may not be able to make those Washington politicians put aside their petty political differences and act for the common good.
But as we head into the New Year, these two simple acts of human kindness are examples of what we can all do to make our little corners of the world a better place.
Happy New Year.


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GeoCoded Art
Geocoded Art is a great website that is busy mapping the world's fine art paintings. When I first reviewed the site back in February I said I'd like to see the site available as a mobile phone application. Geocoded Art have contacted me to tell me that they are now available as a layer in the augmented reality platform Wikitude.
Currently only the 'Paintings of the Netherlands' is available but if you live in the Netherlands then you should definitely check this out. As I don't live in the Netherlands I can't get a screenshot of Geocoded Art in Action on Wikitude. However if you check out the video below and imagine the text on the phone is replaced with a painting you should have a good idea of what the Geocoded Art layer achieves.


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Asia stocks up on US company earns, home sales
BANGKOK (AP) — An increase in new U.S. home sales and strong corporate earnings across a range of industries lifted investment sentiment in Asia, where most stock markets rose Wednesday.
Luxury handbag maker Coach, Lockheed Martin and DuPont reported results that were better than analysts expected. Netflix, which streams TV shows and movies over the Internet, announced profits that delighted investors. Meanwhile, the U.S. government reported that sales of new homes rose 1.5 percent in March, adding to evidence of a sustained housing recovery.
That offset results of a survey into manufacturing conditions among the 17 European Union countries that use the euro. The monthly purchasing managers' index fell to a 3-month low in April.
"Sentiment was upbeat yesterday as solid US earnings and new home sales data helped equities shrug off disappointing PMI data earlier in the day," Gary Yau at Credit Agricole CIB said in a commentary.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.3 percent to 13,703.62. Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 1 percent to 22,014.90. South Korea's Kospi rose 0.8 percent to 1,933.83. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 jumped 1.4 percent to 5,087.90.
On Wall Street, corporate earnings propelled all three major indexes higher. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 1.1 percent, to close at 14,719.46. The S&P 500 index rose 1 percent to 1,578.78. The Nasdaq composite rose 1.1 percent to 3,269.33.
Later Wednesday in the U.S., consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble, drug maker Eli Lilly and Boeing will release earnings. United Parcel Service, Exxon Mobil and Amazon are among the corporations that will do so on Thursday.
Benchmark oil for June delivery was up 20 cents to $89.38 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 1 cent to close at $89.18 a barrel on the Nymex on Tuesday.
In currencies, the euro rose slightly to $1.2993 from $1.2991 late Tuesday in New York. The dollar fell to 99.30 yen from 99.44 yen.


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Dr. Tim Baghurst, assistant professor in health and human performance in the College of Education, coordinates the minor.
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Celebrity moms may have access to a lot more luxuries than most of us regular moms do, but that doesn't mean they are exempt from getting into any sort of trouble. Actually, it almost seems like being famous lends itself to running into issues with the law -- or at least it has for more than a few high profile mamas.
Getting arrested is embarrassing no matter who you are, but when you're a celeb mom and your mug shot gets posted all over the Internet, things take yet another humiliating turn. Remember this picture of Heather Locklear? Who can forget the time she was busted for a DUI?
She'll definitely never live that one down, especially with all that mascara running down her face.
More from The Stir: 'Teen Mom' Mugshots: A Precious Photo Album of MTV's Most Troubled Stars
In addition to Heather, here are 5 other famous moms who wound up in "time-out" when they least expected it.
Why do you think so many famous moms get themselves into trouble?
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DUBLIN (AP) — About 10,000 socialist protesters marched Saturday through Dublin in opposition to government plans to unveil Ireland's sixth straight austerity budget.
The capital's major boulevard, O'Connell Street, was filled in both directions with marchers, some donning ghostly white masks and Santa hats.
The demonstrators were from a wide range of anti-tax campaigns, labor unions and community groups, most of them with a hard-left bent. Many bore banners denouncing government leaders and vowing not to pay new and future tax hikes.
"The government can't be given a free hand to cut whatever they like. You have to be willing to get out on the streets and do something," said Lizzy Stringer, a 26-year-old school assistant who marched in a hand-made protest suit emblazoned with words summarizing the personal despair behind Ireland's debt crisis: hunger, depression, suicide.
The parade mixed darker themes with gallows humor. A rider on horseback in white mask and black cape depicting Death led the parade, while the horse had a "no to austerity" banner round its neck.
On placards Irish leaders were portrayed as serpents, with pleas to St. Patrick to return and banish them from Ireland. Marchers donned Santa hats, some bearing the slogan "No no no!" rather than ho ho ho, and warned that the government wanted to play Grinch and steal Christmas.
Ireland faces more protests in the buildup to the Dec. 5 budget, when the government of Prime Minister Enda Kenny is committed to unveiling a further €3.5 billion ($4.5 billion) in spending cuts and tax hikes in this country of 4.6 million.
Ireland already has pledged to keep imposing annual cuts and tax hikes through at least 2015 as part of its austerity program, begun in 2009, to combat yawning deficits and fund a colossally expensive bank rescue program. Ireland's long-booming economy plunged in 2008 as credit-fueled property speculation collapsed, forcing Ireland to nationalize five of its six banks.
Ireland faced the risk of national bankruptcy in 2010 when it was forced to negotiate an international bailout. The last of the €67.5 billion borrowed from European Union partners and the International Monetary Fund is scheduled to be spent next year, by which time Ireland is supposed to be borrowing normally again on bond markets. It has begun to dip its toe back into those markets since the summer.
While many on Saturday's march called for sterner action such as national strikes, labor leaders here have sought instead to negotiate with the government in hopes of minimizing job losses and pay cuts.
That tension between a radical grassroots and cautious leadership was obvious as union leaders tried to speak from a makeshift stage in front of Dublin's colonnaded General Post Office, but were interrupted by hecklers chanting "Strike!"
"We need to play our part in the growing movement of resistance across Europe," said Richard Boyd Barrett, a member of Irish parliament from a small socialist pressure group called People Before Profit. "And we have to bring this government down if they continue with this disastrous policy of austerity."
The government is trying to get Ireland's deficit back to 3 percent of economic output — the supposed limit for eurozone members — by 2015. Its deficit last year exceeded 10 percent, but this year is forecast to fall to nearer 8 percent.
Cuts and tax hikes already have reduced people's average net pay by around 15 percent from the Celtic Tiger boom days, and new annual taxes on homes and water are supposed to come in 2013. Unemployment sits near a 17-year high of 14.8 percent, a figure that would be far worse were it not for Ireland's tradition of emigrating worldwide for jobs.
Ireland is hoping for 2013 economic growth of 1.5 percent driven by the exports of the nearly 1,000 foreign multinationals based here producing goods and services, chiefly in computer and health technologies.


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Brandon Triche is Syracuse's top free throw shooter, and in his mind if the first one he takes in a game feels good he's going to have a good game at the line.
On Saturday, with West Virginia and the third-ranked Orange clawing for a victory and the score tied 61-all with 88 seconds left, Triche swished a pair of free throws — his only attempts of the game — and Syracuse held on for a 63-61 victory.
"It just happened to be me tonight," said Triche, who led the Orange with 18 points. "We showed heart, mental toughness."
After Triche's free throws — he's 38 of 44 on the season — the Mountaineers missed four straight shots, including an airball 3 by Darryl "Truck" Bryant and an attempt on the follow by Deniz Kilicli, who caught the ball under the basket. Playing with four fouls, Syracuse center Baye Keita helped deny Kilicli's shot and appeared to get away with goaltending that wasn't called.
"We did pretty good as a team," said the 6-foot-11 Keita, who matched his season high by playing 25 minutes in the absence of starting center Fab Melo and registered three blocks and four points. "I'm just supposed to try to block those shots. Luckily, I got it and the ref missed it (the goaltending call). I don't know if that's a goaltending or a block."
It was goaltending in the mind of West Virginia coach Bob Huggins.
"Do I think it was? No. I know it was. I saw the replay," Huggins said. "It's hard. You've got 30 seconds and you're trying to get them refocused and they're all thinking about other things."
Kris Joseph snared the crucial rebound for Syracuse but lost the ball out of bounds with 6.2 seconds left, prompting a tirade from coach Jim Boeheim and giving West Virginia one last shot. Unable to drive the lane as planned, Jabarie Hinds passed to Kevin Jones in the left corner as C.J. Fair stormed at him, and his desperation 3 at the buzzer fell short.
"We beat ourselves," Gary Browne said. "We've dug ourselves in a hole where we aren't supposed to be. We feel hurt right now. This loss hurt us a lot."
Syracuse won its second straight since a loss at Notre Dame and did so despite being hammered 41-20 on the boards, 24-9 in the second half, and missing 16 of 20 3-point attempts. Still, there was a battle for every loose ball under the baskets and the Mountaineers only finished with a 13-8 edge on second-chance points, not much to show for a 19-5 edge on the offensive glass.
"This was one of those games where if you don't make shots, it's going to come down to who makes a play at the end," Boeheim said.
Syracuse (22-1, 9-1 Big East) has won 13 of the past 14 games against West Virginia (15-7, 5-4). The win was the 878th for Boeheim, moving him within one of tying former North Carolina coach Dean Smith for third in Division I history.
Joseph finished with 13 points and seven rebounds, Scoop Jardine had nine points and five assists and Dion Waiters had eight points for the Orange, who played their third game without Melo.
The 7-foot center, who leads the Big East in blocks, watched the game from the bench in street clothes, shouting encouragement at his teammates. After starting the first 20 games of the season and becoming a force in the paint, the big Brazilian has not played since logging 29 minutes in a home win over Pitt nearly two weeks ago. Melo is ineligible because of academic issues but has been practicing with the team, and Boeheim is hopeful he'll be able to return to the lineup.
Jones led West Virginia with 20 points and eight rebounds. Bryant had 12 points, all in the second half, and Browne scored 11.
The Mountaineers were coming off a 78-62 loss at St. John's on Wednesday night, a game in which the Red Storm started five freshmen, but they led most of the first half in this one and never trailed by more than three points in the final 17 minutes.
Syracuse led by four to start the second half and made it 33-27 on Triche's steal and layup with 18:57 to go. After that, it was anybody's game. The score was tied seven times, the last when Jones hit a 3 from the left corner to knot it at 61 with 1:41 left.
"They do a great job of playing defense," Joseph said. "We found ways around that at the end. We did what we needed to."
The Orange were hampered by fouls to their big men. Keita picked up his fourth midway through the half and 6-9 freshman Rakeem Christmas fouled out with 4:58 to go.
Syracuse trailed most of the first half as the Mountaineers patiently attacked the 2-3 zone. Jones started the game by hitting consecutive mid-range jumpers from the heart of the Syracuse defense.
The Mountaineers led by six three times, the last at 22-16 after a 3-pointer by Jones from the left wing with 7:34 left, but they converted only one other basket in the closing minutes — a runner by Hinds — as Syracuse increased the defensive intensity with a press.
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Blogger Adds Geotagging
Blogger has added geotagging to its new post editor in Blogger in Draft. In Blogger in Draft there is now an 'add a location' button that allows bloggers to add a location to their blog post. Clicking the button opens a small Google Map. To enter a location it is possible to just click on your location on the map or use a search box to find your location.
When the post is published a geotag is displayed below the blog post as a link, which will open up Google Maps (or not, it seems, if you are using the classic version of Blogger like me). The location is also included in the blog's RSS and Atom feeds using GeoRSS
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By Los Angeles News Group editorial board
This is the week that San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed said he plans to file the paperwork to kick off a statewide initiative to bring municipal pensions back into control. The Democrat in a talk at the conservative Hoover Institute at Stanford last week that he would be filing for a constitutional amendment in "a couple of days" that would give cities the ability to scale down the pension benefits of existing employees.
Bring it on! For the sake of cities across California, we urge Reed to follow through.
If anyone can pull it off, it may be Reed, who won voters' overwhelming support (70 percent) for a citywide measure ratcheting back the city's pension liability in the June 2012 election. Measure B will make all city workers (including, notably, those workers often left out of pension reform measures, police officers and firefighters) pay up to 16 percent more of their salary toward their pensions. That's a huge deal for a city with $3 billion in unfunded pension liability.
The constitutional amendment would face voters either in 2014 or 2016, Reed said. The sooner the better, of course. Growing pension liabilities have been sucking up larger and larger shares of public coffers, leaving less money for actual service. That's an insane trend that has been one of the factors (exacerbated by the recession, of course) in the continuing ill-health of California cities. And for already bankrupt cities like San Bernardino, such a exemption of the law would lift a heavy burden.
Still, this won't be an easy fight, as a lawsuit against San Jose's Measure B indicates. In that case, employees argued that pensions are a "vested right" which cities have no authority to renegotiate. (A judge is expected to rule on this suit this month.) The statewide initiative would remove that "vested right," thus nullifying that argument.
If that happens in California, no doubt it will spread to other states. So expect a huge pre-election assault with unions from across the country mobilizing to fight it.


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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are little changed in midday trading as a three-day rally peters out.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 13 points, or 0.1 percent, at 15,010 shortly before noon Eastern Daylight Time Friday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 was down less than a point at 1,613. The Nasdaq edged up five points, or 0.2 percent, at 3,395.
Indexes were moving between small gains and losses on the last trading day of June.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion plunged 25 percent to $10.86. The company posted a loss and warned of future losses despite releasing make-or-break smartphones this year.
The S&P 500 index is heading for its first monthly loss since October. It's still on track for its best first half of a year performance since 1998.


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1) Is there a theoretical maximum number of nodes in 802.11s/OLPC mesh network? and what factors define the maximum size?
2) What is the maximum amount of hops a mesh-path can have ( is the latency a issue for TCP/IP, or something else)?
3) What is the mean latency/hop in multihop path?
4) What is the largest tested mesh that has been created with XO-gear?
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Tired of all the stuff about the Cuban kid who is rapidly being turned into the most pampered brat in the world? The press can be blamed, of course. As Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen writes, "We in the media are such self-important blockheads that we don't recognize our own role in screwing up Elián González's life. The fact that we're being played for suckers by a couple hundred noisy zealots also has conveniently escaped our attention."
Ah, the press can almost be forgiven; the temptations are great. Where else in America but Miami would reporters find a significant section of the population who–like those who wanted to touch the hem of Jesus' cloak–compete to touch Elián, fervently believing that his rescue from the sea showed him to be one of God's elect? And where else would you find a local professor who explains that it was quite natural–oh, just one of those lower-class Cuban things–for Elián's visiting grandmother to bite the tongue, unzip the pants and suggest measuring the penis of this 6-year-old boy as a way of showing affection?
As US cities go, Miami is, well, something special.
Why do US tourists waste money traveling to Mexico and to other Latin experiments in defective democracy when they can find the same social flavors, the same thrills, for a much cheaper air fare to Miami and adjacent points in South Florida? Heavy drug traffic, corrupt judges, corrupt police, corrupt politicians, corrupt bureaucrats, violent crime on a massive scale and greedy destruction of the natural environment–why, land's sake, Miami and its neighboring communities have everything you could ask for.
Many of the leading actors in this dark drama of life in cha-cha land have Latin names, which isn't surprising, since at least 60 percent of the residents of Dade County (that's Miami) speak something besides English, and mostly the other language is some version of Spanish. Cubans, born here or born there, are the largest "other" ethnic group, and because they dominate many aspects of Miami's culture and politics, Anglos have fled the area in great numbers. Most departed grumbling that Miami had been turned into a little Cuba, the same complaint heard from many Anglos who stayed. Asked for specifics, some gripe about such imports as the Santeria cult's belief in animal sacrifice, which sometimes results in the remains of chickens, turtles or even a headless goat lying about the landscape. Hiaasen, a native Floridian, writes, "For most of us, the killing of chickens is tolerable as a distant abstraction," when the end result is a meal. "On the other hand–call it hypocrisy, call it a cultural gap–most of us aren't too thrilled when one of our kids bursts through the door and says, 'Can I spend the night at Billy's? His mom's going to kill a rooster and drink its blood.'"