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Recruit, The (US - BD RA)
Gabe isn't exactly thrilled by this fastly aging thriller, but could've done worse...
C.I.A. spook Walter Burke (Al Pacino) thinks brilliant MIT grad James Clayton (Colin Farrell) is exactly the sort of person the Agency needs, and begins amalgamating and training him very quickly. But just as Clayton prepares to graduate, he starts to question the morality of his new job, and his feelings for fellow recruit Layla (Bridget Moynahan). Then his mentor Burke taps him to root out an institutional mole. Clayton enters his new role with caution, keeping the recruit's mantra in the back of his mind at all times—everything is a test.
This actually marks my first time viewing this five year old, and rather averagely received C.I.A. thriller, and I got more or less exactly what I expected—an average film for its type that doesn't sport a shock or surprising twist in its arsenal. I've seen other movies like this, and I'll likely see even more of them down the line. The advantage of this particular film (the only advantage really) is that not all average espionage thrillers will star Al Pacino and early career Colin Farrell, so I suppose I should counting my lucky stars for small favours. Al is sleep walking a bit, and Farrell was aiming to be the next best thing at the time, so there isn't a lot of shock or twist in the performances either, but these guys are still more entertaining to watch then a lot of other uninterested parties.
The Recruit isn't as smart, adept, or breathlessly action packed as better and more recent spy flicks such as the Bourne movies or Casino Royale. I don't feel as if I've learned a thing about modern espionage or politics. The characters aren't particularly memorable, and I feel as though I could write the plot as it unfolded, but the pacing is pretty tight, and the basic narrative is pretty entertaining. Everything kind of evens out in the end, like a lake without a current—though who really wants to watch that?
This is a particularly unassuming high definition transfer, no frills, no fuss. The image is clean, clear of compression damage, and bright enough to impress your neighbours. Details aren't really much sharper then a properly up-converted standard edition release. For an espionage thriller there isn't a lot of extreme close up on gadgets and such to really appreciate the detail levels, and the majority of the film is made under rather dull florescent lighting. Edge enhancement isn't so much an issue, but some of the contrast levels appear too highly cranked. A symptom of this can be seen in the sparkle of actor's eyes, which is a bit too sparkly. The blacks are effective, and flesh tones are very realistic, but some colours, darker reds especially are a tiny bit noisy.
Interestingly enough, as you can see from my DVD screen caps (provided by Matt, much thanks) the DVD release was 1.78:1. This Blu-ray transfer is 2.35:1. IMDb.com lists the theatrical ratio as 2.35, so this 'correct' framing may be reason enough for a repurchase for some of the film's fans.
There isn't too much bang and boom here, mostly technical jargon and 'moody' music. When you've got an actor as whispery as Al Pacino it's good to have a clear, centred, and well balanced audio track, so the track wins on that level. There's a bar scene around the half hour mark that runs out a few surround effects, but most of it is delegated to the front stereo channels. The piece is low-key overall, but this track contains a crisp subtlety that is sorely lacking in many modern thriller releases.
There are no new features adorning this Blu-ray edition that weren't already part of the original DVD release, save a couple of trailers and a 'Movie Showcase' option which is 'instant access to the most cinematic moments that showcase the ultimate in high definition picture and sound'. Things start with a commentary featuring director Roger Donaldson and Colin Farrell. Farrell does his best to maintain composure, but pretty quickly diverts into joking around, which doesn't help Donaldson's focus. It's a fun enough commentary (all Farrell's more colourful language is censored with a beep), but isn't particularly interesting or engaging.
The only featurette is a sixteen-minute look behind the scenes of the film's inspiration, or 'Spy School', which may or may not exist. Despite the focus and title, the featurette is mostly fluff. Then there are four deleted scenes with optional commentary from Donaldson and Farrell. These scenes are, as per the norm, mostly character beats, which would've slowed the well-paced feature. Interestingly, parts of the third and longest deleted scenes are partially featured in the featurette. All four are presented in non-anamorphic, standard definition.
I'm trying to figure out the point of Disney's Blu-ray back catalogue roll-out, but I'm just not getting it. Are they putting out the most average features first? Even the stuff I like ( Unbreakable) isn't universally loved by the rest of the buying public. Wouldn't it behove them to put out there really big hits first? I must not have a mind for business. The Recruit is a worthy weekend viewing, but I can't recommend a purchase, and this disc doesn't feature any new extras.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
YlowBstard66 Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 661
I like this film. I haven't seen it since it's theatrical run though, so I don't know what I'd think of it now!
Squeek81 Member Join Date: September 2006 Location: United States Posts: 150
Why would disney release all their hits when theres no market penetration for blu-ray. They will wait till more homes have a blu-ray player so when, for example the Incredibles gets released they will sell tons of copies the first couple weeks. Same reason Universal hasn't released Jurassic Park or Back to the Future, or Paramount released Indiana Jones. $$$
roadogg31 Member Join Date: February 2008 Location: United States Posts: 202
Squeek81 wrote: They will wait till more homes have a blu-ray player so when, for example the Incredibles gets released they will sell tons of copies the first couple weeks.
Which won't happen until Blu-ray players decrease in price another $100 at least. Warner Bros. has already announced that, for the time being, they are going to concentrate on their catalog titles rather than release every new film. I'm assuming this is also because of Blu-ray not being widely accepted yet. But like I said, not gonna happen when the cheapest player is still a few bucks under $300.
Which won't happen until Blu-ray players decrease in price another $100 at least. Warner Bros. has already announced that, for the time being, they are going to concentrate on their catalog titles rather than release every new film. I'm assuming this is also because of Blu-ray not being widely accepted yet. But like I said, not gonna happen when the cheapest player is still a few bucks under $300.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 3rd June 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: PCM 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English HoH, French, and Spanish
Extras: Director/Actor Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Featurette, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Conrad Bergschneider, Tony Craig, Al Pachino, Colin Farrell, Ron Lea, Chris Owens
Genre: Thriller
Length: 115 minutes
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April 29. 2013 8:23PM
Epping man loses court challenge on using his cellphone as evidence
By JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
BRENTWOOD - An Epping man charged with shooting a man with a shotgun while fighting over a woman has lost his bid to keep jurors from hearing about text messages and other evidence found on his cellphone.
Tyler Locascio, 25, of Epping, is headed to trial for second-degree assault next month for allegedly shooting Shawn Eaton of Epping with a round of bird shot on the night of Dec. 11, 2011. Defense lawyer Andrew Cotrupi argued that search warrants obtained by Epping police did not give investigators the authority to search through every message on his client's phone.
Police turned up "potentially incriminating contacts" and other witnesses during two searches Feb. 14 and March 5, according to a judge's decision.
Judge N. William Delker concluded that at least one of the two warrants allowed police to search for "any and all cellular telephone activity to include text messages, call activity," and messages saved as drafts, or deleted from the phone. Delker said in a 10-page order that police obtained a second search warrant for the phone after the defense filed a court motion seeking to have evidence from the phone tossed out of court. But the second warrant that Epping police applied for on March 5 did not mention any of the evidence found during the first search weeks earlier, according to Delker.
Even if the first warrant was not supported by enough reasonable grounds to review messages between Locascio and others, "the second warrant was valid because it was based on independent probable cause," Delker said.
At a hearing earlier this month, assistant county attorney Jerome Blanchard said Epping police learned early on in their investigation that the confrontation was set off because Locascio and the victim, Shawn Eaton, were dating the same woman.
He said phone activity among the three people was "going crazy" an hour before and after the shooting. Eaton was struck on his arms, chest and back of his head from the shotgun blast, police said. The confrontation happened about 8:15 p.m. outside the home of Eaton's uncle.
Delker also granted a request by prosecutors to call the woman involved with the two men to testify as a hostile witness at trial. The defense will be allowed to question the credibility of one state witness who was convicted of fraudulent use of a credit card. Locascio heads to trial the week of May 20.

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March 03. 2014 10:02PM
Fuller Oil customers frustrated once more
By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
State continues to monitor Fred Fuller Oil
Answers still sought from Fred Fuller
Fred Fuller: phones caused chaos, the media caused panic
State plans to probe Fred Fuller Oil's pre-buy contracts
It's deja vu all over again for Fred Fuller Oil & Propane Co. customers facing empty oil tanks and a heating oil supplier they say is making only partial or delayed deliveries.
Some customers have resorted to buying diesel fuel and hand-pouring it into their tanks. Others say they had to buy oil from other companies, even though they still have hefty balances on their current Fuller Oil pre-buy home heating contracts.
"I've never seen anything like this," Adele Mangum, 69, of Derry, an 18-year Fuller Oil customer, said Monday. She is switching to Haffner's Oil.
The head of the New Hampshire Attorney General's Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau said he spoke several times Monday with Fuller's attorneys at Preti Flaherty law firm in Concord after state agencies started receiving complaints from dozens of Fuller customers last week.
"It sounds like we are back to some of the same problems we had in December. Not the same magnitude, but some of the same kind of problems," Senior Assistant Attorney General James T. Boffetti said.
One concern is Fuller Oil may be encountering problems paying for oil given the company lost a significant amount of pre-buy business for next winter's heating season in the wake of the delivery breakdown that caused a near public safety crisis earlier this winter.
"He has had a significant reduction in people who signed up for the pre-buy (heating contracts) in 2014-2015. I don't have the list yet, but informational indications from the company is the figure is significantly reduced from the prior year (2013-2014)," Boffetti said.
Boffetti said Fuller Oil has been providing bimonthly reports to his office showing it is making deliveries on the outstanding pre-buy contracts for the current heating season and has futures contracts to back them up. He said the next scheduled series of reports are due Friday.
Fuller Oil general manager Oren Havey points to phone problems; he said he expects to have the part that will repair the most recent failure to the company's independent telephone service by today and all lines should be operational by midday. "We are trying to deliver as quick as we can to everybody we can," Havey said.
Asked why pre-paid and budget customers are receiving partial or delayed deliveries, Havey said "the only thing is the phones are making it a lot worse than it actually is."
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BOSTON — Winger Shawn Thornton didn't hit the scoresheet, but he made as big an impact during the Boston Bruins' 6-0 win over Anaheim tonight at TD Banknorth Garden as multi-goal scorers Michael Ryder and Chuck Kobasew and shutout goaltender Tim Thomas.
For 17 shifts and 11:57 of ice time, Thornton was hard work and grit personified — as he has been almost every night the last few months for the Bruins. He made his biggest splash by standing up to 6-foot-5, 231-pound George Parros after the Ducks thug blindsided Bruins center Marc Savard along the glass.
"He finished his hit on Savvy. I really didn't see if it was dirty or clean. I know he's a pretty honest player so I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt. But you know Savvy's laying there and that's my job to address that," said the 6-2, 217-pound Thornton, who scored a takedown at the end of a lengthy, even bout.
"I just get the mitts off and hope for the best, I guess," he continued. "I don't really have a game plan going in. I didn't really think about it before the game. I've seen him fight before a lot and he's a big strong man … he does a good job against all the big guys, so I knew I'd have my hands full that's for sure."
The fight with Parros made the most noise, but Thornton's sustained forecheck and ability to create opportunities with linemates Byron Bitz and Stephane Yelle was ever-present, as it has been since the trio was formed when Bitz was called up from Providence (AHL) in early January. Bruins head coach Claude Julien likes to say that Thornton is a better hockey player than he gets credit for. Thornton has a tough time accepting praise or believing the hype, but he knows he's earned the accolades.
"It's definitely been a long road, a lot of improving. I know my first few years, I wouldn't have been able to play in this league," he told TheBruinsBlog.net not too long ago.
One coach that had faith in Thornton before Julien was Ducks bench boss Randy Carlyle, who had Thornton during the Stanley Cup-winning season of 2006-07. Although the Ducks let Thornton leave after that campaign to sign a three-year deal with the Bruins, Carlyle could see that Thornton had a lot to offer.
"Thornty played for our group and was a real nice addition," Carlyle said before his team's loss. "For Shawn Thornton, our expectations were for him to continue to grow as a player and that's what he's done for the Boston Bruins.
"Again, he's not a real complicated guy, it's going to be straight lines, he's going to play physical, he's going to defend his teammates, he's going to get in on the forecheck. And I think that he's really evolved into that type of player in the last two years. Specifically with us, his contribution did not go unnoticed. And Shawn Thornton was able to take advantage of the economics of the game, finally find himself some comfort zone and it looks like he's found a home in Boston."
The kind words won't do much to change Thornton. He'll just stick to his favorite philsophy of playing hockey.
"My job is to show up and work hard every night. If not, it's a job that I can easily lose. And I've been there before and lost it, so … It's not like I'm thinking about showing up and having my best game every night. I just have to show up and be consistent every night. Hard work is easy to control so that's all I try to think about."


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The Reinvestment Fund: A Healthy-Food Financing Leader
Patricia L. Smith, Senior Policy Advisor, The Reinvestment Fund
TRFA loan from TRF helped Greensgrow Farm, a nonprofit organization in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pa., expand from an urban farm into a commercial farm, a retail nursery, a food distribution business specializing in locally grown and produced products, and a shared-use commercial kitchen.
For an estimated 24.6 million Americans, access to full-service supermarkets is severely limited, according to a 2011 study by The Reinvestment Fund (TRF). This deficit is particularly pronounced in low-income urban, rural, and minority communities. A lack of access to healthy food is preventing families from eating well and fueling the country's growing obesity problem and the high health costs that accompany it. Communities without full-service grocery retailers also lose out on steady jobs, decent wages, and other amenities these businesses can bring. TRF, a leader in neighborhood revitalization and a certified community development financial institution (CDFI), has been working to improve healthy-food access in underserved communities for much of the last decade.
Financing Food Access
Beginning with the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI) in 2004, TRF has developed a comprehensive approach to improving the food landscape in low-income, underserved communities. The FFFI was developed as a public-private partnership to serve the financing needs of supermarkets and grocery stores located in or considering operations in communities where infrastructure costs and credit needs could not be met by conventional financial institutions. The initiative relied on market analysis, leveraged capital, and the momentum of public policy to stimulate private investment that supports an increase in the availability of fresh food in low-income areas.
The FFFI was a partnership among the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; TRF; the Food Trust, a nonprofit that advocates for healthy-food access and good nutrition; and the Urban Affairs Coalition, a group of 75 organizations that work on a variety of community issues. As the development financing intermediary for the FFFI, TRF aggregated private capital (see "A Coalition of Capital" ), used local market knowledge to build a successful portfolio, underwrote and serviced projects, and worked effectively with public, private, and civic stakeholders. TRF leveraged $30 million in seed funds from the commonwealth with nearly $150 million in private and public resources for grocery stores and supermarkets. Recognized for its successes by Harvard University's Innovations in American Government Award, philanthropies, and federal, state, and local governments, the FFFI is a model for supermarket financing programs in underserved communities nationwide.
Healthy-food retail financing is now one of TRF's core lending activities. To date, TRF has made $11.8 million in grants and $104.4 million in loans to 103 projects across the mid-Atlantic region. Project development costs exceed $260 million, and these projects have created or retained more than 5,819 jobs and 1.85 million square feet of healthy-food retail space. TRF is also the manager of a food-access program launched by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority for which TRF recently secured a $12 million investment from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
TRF's supermarket customers are primarily developers and healthy-food project operators who need financing help to overcome some of the higher start-up costs associated with locating in low-income, underserved neighborhoods. TRF offers these customers access to credit at the early stages of predevelopment and site acquisition, flexible construction lending standards, and longer amortization schedules for term debt, among other flexible debt terms. Rather than attempting to subsidize projects that are otherwise economically infeasible, TRF financing provides an incentive to encourage viable operators and developers to select sites in underserved areas. Food projects can also access TRF financing at lower interest rates for the energy-efficiency components of their development projects.
Creating National Momentum
Among CDFIs nationwide, there is a growing interest in launching initiatives modeled on the FFFI. In 2010, the CDFI Fund and the Opportunity Finance Network selected TRF and others to develop a curriculum, prepare training materials, and conduct workshops and webinars for their Financing Healthy Food Options initiative. The initiative is designed to build the CDFI industry's capacity to finance projects that increase healthy-food options in underserved communities. More than 100 CDFIs have participated in TRF's training workshops so far. TRF has also advised peer organizations working on statewide or local healthy retail financing initiatives in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas.
The HFFI is a shared effort among the U.S. Departments of the Treasury, Agriculture (USDA), and Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide financing for developing and equipping grocery stores, small retailers (See "Financing Helps Rural Towns Keep Healthy Food, Community Pride"), corner stores, and farmers markets that sell healthy food in underserved areas. The federal fiscal year 2012 budget approved $32 million for the HFFI through Treasury ($22 million) and HHS ($10 million). Additionally, there are programs at the USDA that integrate healthy-food access, including Rural Development, the Farmers Market Promotion Program, Community Food Projects, and programs within the Food and Nutrition Service. In fiscal year 2011, the three agencies also used a variety of existing programs, including new market tax credits (NMTC), to bring healthier foods to underserved communities.
In November 2011, a bipartisan coalition in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate introduced legislation (HR 3525, S 1926) that will authorize the HFFI as a program within the USDA and appropriate $125 million in federal funds to improve access to healthy food. The legislation calls for a Community Development Financial Institution, selected through a competitive process, to serve as a national fund manager that would be responsible for raising private money to create a national HFFI fund and support the efforts of local public-private partnerships.
TRF's national effort continues to gain momentum through federal support, financing, and community involvement. To date, more than 90 organizations representing a diverse set of stakeholders have voiced their support for a national solution to the lack of access to healthy food. They include the Food Marketing Institute, the National Grocers Association, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the Opportunity Finance Network, the Children's Defense Fund, the National Urban League, the Food Research & Action Center, the Community Food Security Coalition, the American Public Health Association, and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
Supporting Financing With Analytical Tools
As TRF continues to work on improving access to supermarkets in underserved communities, significant resources have been devoted to understanding such access.
In 2012, with support from the CDFI Fund, TRF completed a nationwide Limited Supermarket Access (LSA) analysis, identifying communities across the nation with unmet demand for healthy-food retail options. Whereas many analytical efforts to identify underserved areas are based primarily on distance measures, TRF's methodology also factors in an area's population density and car-ownership rate, both of which significantly influence how far households can be expected to travel to shop for food. TRF's analysis identifies 1,519 LSA areas in the continental United States where there are no supermarkets. In approximately half of these LSA areas, the unmet demand within the communities is large enough to support a full-service grocery store.
The LSA analysis helps CDFIs and other stakeholders around the United States consider demand and market viability when determining the type of projects to finance in their respective markets. TRF's analyses are available free on PolicyMap, TRF's online data and mapping tool. Users can identify communities with inadequate access to full-service supermarkets and estimate the percentage of grocery retail expenditure leakage from the area. These data, when combined with health and socioeconomic data and local market knowledge, can help point CDFIs, supermarket developers and operators, and local government officials to viable areas for opening and expanding supermarkets. In New Jersey, TRF is using LSA analytics to help determine whether a project is located in an eligible area.
TRF contracted with the Econsult Corporation to conduct an econometric analysis of the effects of supermarkets using an FFFI-funded store as one of the study subjects. The study examined the effects on economic activity, employment, earnings, tax revenue, and real estate values. The supermarket's strongest impact appeared to be on real estate prices. According to the study, the introduction of a new supermarket immediately boosts the value of nearby homes. For example, a typical low-income Philadelphia homeowner living in a $50,000 home within 0.25 to 0.5 miles of a new supermarket can expect to see a home-value increase of approximately $1,500. In low-income communities, the opening of a supermarket also appears to largely mitigate any downward trends in local property values.
In 2007, with support from the CDFI Fund, TRF explored the extent of urban-suburban cost differences, the effectiveness of subsidy programs, and the impact of supermarket development on communities. TRF found that there are location-specific cost differences that make creating and expanding supermarkets in urban areas more expensive than doing so in suburban locations. For urban stores, start-up costs can be considerably higher, and the cost of training new employees can be nearly seven times higher than in the suburbs. Higher costs discourage supermarket development in inner-city communities, so residents of these areas have to travel to other neighborhoods to find affordable food options, or they must shop at smaller, more expensive stores nearby. Shoppers who can easily travel to the suburbs do so, taking their grocery dollars to neighboring municipalities and depriving the city of much-needed tax revenue. Moreover, the money they spend helps support the creation and retention of jobs in suburban neighborhoods instead of in their own neighborhoods, where steady employment is often difficult to find.
Looking Ahead
TRF is identifying more opportunities to work with food cooperatives, community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs, and food hubs. These nontraditional food retail enterprises are a growing segment of local food systems, contributing billions of dollars to regional economies. For example, TRF provided financing to Mariposa, a food cooperative in a low-income neighborhood in Philadelphia, to acquire and renovate its new facility. Despite double-digit sales growth in recent years, Mariposa's small space limited its ability to expand. With TRF financing, the co-op has relocated just blocks from its former location. Construction began in early July 2011; the doors opened on March 17, 2012. As a member-owned operation, Mariposa sells healthy, locally grown fresh produce and sustainably produced products while educating consumers on the benefits of healthy eating.
TRF is also developing strategies to broaden its successful food-retailing investment program into a diversified sustainable agriculture and local food system initiative. After examining the landscape of food production, processing, and distribution in southeastern Pennsylvania and southern and central New Jersey, TRF in 2012 provided debt capital to support the expansion of Chesapeake Gardens, a food manufacturer that purchases local produce and poultry from area farms and makes wholesome soups, stocks, and sauces for wholesale. These items are then used in school lunches for charter schools throughout the region. Chesapeake Gardens also produces individually frozen meals for retail sales in grocery stores. TRF's loan helped Chesapeake move into a larger space and purchase new equipment to fill larger orders for its customers. In addition to providing financing, TRF analyzes the requirements for supporting emerging food systems development with an emphasis on sustainability. Through this work, TRF identifies critical problem areas and expansion opportunities and successfully executes progressive investments in local food systems.
Banks can play an instrumental role in bringing healthier food options to communities that have lost their grocery stores or are struggling to keep them. Banks can use the Small Business Administration (SBA) 7(a) and USDA Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan (B&I) programs to finance healthy-food retailers and supply-chain businesses. The SBA 7(a) program offers a guaranty for the majority portion of small business loans, typically term loans for equipment, working capital and other fixed assets. The B&I program guarantees loans for economic development or environmental projects in rural communities.
The Partnership for a Healthier America, an important HFFI stakeholder, is working with major financial institutions and has secured several important commitments. In 2011, the U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation and JPMorgan Chase announced plans to use a significant portion of their NMTC allocations for projects that increase healthy, affordable food availability in low-income areas. Finally, national and regional banks also can offer NMTCs and low-cost debt facilities and grants to the growing number of CDFIs that are managing local initiatives dedicated to improving access to healthier foods in their communities. TRF's successes in Pennsylvania can be attributed to the breadth of capital sources (grants, loans, NMTCs) that enabled the FFFI to offer a broad range of financial products to its customers.
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Saturday, August 13, 2016
Head and Neck Cancer
I had stage IVa, poorly diferentiated, squamous cell carcinoma. Treatment was a Right Radical neck dissection followed by radiation with chemo. As anyone who has had this treatment knows, it`s tough. I have never smoked and rarely drank. I am 59 years old and have been married 38 years. We recently moved and I went to a new ENT. When I told him my history, he casually said, "Oh, the cause must be HPV." I am 1 year out from my first clean PET scan. I am so upset and depressed that my husband may have given me this STD. I have not been unfaithful. Is there another way to get this desease? Should my husband and I be tested for HPV? Will I just get this cancer again? I don`t think I can go through cancer treatment again if the cancer comes back. Also, I am afraid to have sex with him (but do so anyway). I am equally afraid to bring up this HPV question with him, especially if HPV is not the reason I got this cancer. My depression from cancer and other things is enough, but the ENT`s casual remark has really put me in a tail spin. Thanks in advance.
HPV may be a contributing factor to the cancer you developed. The original biopsies may or may not have been tested for it's presence. Much research is still ongoing about HPV and it's role in head and neck cancer. What early research is indicating is tumors that are HPV positive, those patients do better longer term. With regards to your fears of your husband "given me this STD," this may not be the case at all. You may have had the virus for years, even back to your infancy, as this can be transmitted during delivery.
As far as I know there is not treatment/cure for those who have tested positive for HPV. No one can say or predict if you will get cancer again. The best suggestion is to continue to be a non-smoker/non-tobacco user, limit your intake of alcohol, excerise & eat right, keep your regularly scheduled follow up appointments with your ENT and your annual physicals with your primary care physician, seek appropriate medical treatment for your depression if it continues and go on enjoying life.
Cheryl Koliha-Brandt, MSN, RN, CNS, CORLN
Clinical Nurse Specialist and Instructor of
Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Case Western Reserve University
Pierre Lavertu, MD, FRCS(C), FACS
Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University


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Jo27 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 73 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
The Wedding Site Ltd
We are a wedding website which provides information, tools and resources to brides and grooms planning their wedding. There are about 15 wedding websites in Ireland at the moment so we needed to launch into the market with something different and have a great USP. We have a section on our site called My Planner- which no other site has at the moment. Currently it is on our Home Pade and want it to remain there and every other page on the site if possible to entice the girls to register in order to use this free interactive planning tool. We need this planner tool re designed as it doesn't sell itself as it currently stands.
Mainly famale - 20-45 & some males also
Logo to stay the same
A white background behind the logo like the homepage already is essential to our brand so we can say the logo and it's clear
Do not deviate from white as the main background colour and do not use various hues of blue.
One or two is fine or whatever colour you feel compliments our brand colours ( blue and white)
Visual consistency and uniformity are key for branding.
We want the page and its elements to appear as a cohesive unit rather than looking at multiple boxes packed together.
We want to see creativity in layout and visuals within the boundaries of the brief.
The size of the site at the moment is 1,270 pixels and needs to be 960 pixels so it needs to be designed to those specs.
From the site you will see it's built on a table so my designer is finding it difficult to keep the planner column with press releases, competitions etc on all pages if we need to downsize. So the re design needs to have all these but still fit the 960 spec. NOTE: ALL CONTENT ON OUR HOMEPAGE IS READY TO GO INFORMATION - so when designing can you include all of these and not dummy images or information. We need to see what it will look like in REAL TERMS.
NOTE: All ads need to be in the same place as they currently are. The top right hand corner going downwards along the side of the page as that is where our ads will be featured on every page of the site
The second page of the site I would like to duplicate in a lot of other sections to keep it simple , for eg: grooms section/ ideas / health & beauty these need to be the same for user friendliness and not to complicate things.
Each section is highlighted on the main bar to let the bride or groom know what section they are in.
Main items on the homepage to be included in these pages also.
We'll need to see the second page also in terms of layout.
We just need a WOW factor homepage which it is lacking at the moment.
We are looking for a truly amazing web designer with excellent creativity to create the look we are going for.
We like the colouring on the HP at the moment but feels it needs slight tweaking and movement of icons to fit the brief .
http://www.wol.ie (will be my main competitor in the Irish market).


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text: Shooting: Story Story Posted 01-14-2013 'Media Day in Baghdad' SHOT Show 2013 opens with a bang as media line up at firing range By: Steve Wright, OutdoorChannel.com BOULDER CITY, Nev. — Neither 30-degree temperatures, nor 20-mile-an-hour north winds, nor a 35-mile drive away from Las Vegas could keep the media from one of its most popular rounds at the annual SHOT Show. It was nicknamed by some as "Media Day in Baghdad," unofficially, of course. The backdrop of desert hills and the sound of constant gunfire made the Iraq reference apt, if inappropriate. Despite the weather, the 8th annual "SHOT Show Media Day at the Range" was more popular than ever – sold-out, in fact. A day dedicated to shooting the latest firearms – whether rifle, sidearm or shotgun, for FREE – is a guaranteed game plan for success. It has become so popular that access was limited for the first time. Media requests after the first 1,200 were denied. Click image for the photo gallery: Though the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show is in its 35th year, "Media Day at the Range" is a relatively new development. It began when a group of manufacturers started providing the media with a hands-on experience prior to the start of annual SHOT Show. Giving the gun media a chance to fire a gun and see it in action has proven invaluable. "Of all the events throughout the year, there's nowhere else we have with this many people at one time – media who write about the firearms industry," said Gary Giudice, founder and president of Blue Heron Communications. "This is it. It's an important event." And it's important to note that this day – prior to the start of the three-day tradeshow in Las Vegas – represents only a small fraction of the industry gathered for the show itself, which encompasses 630,000 square feet and 12.5-miles of aisles in the Sands Expo and Convention Center. But the Boulder City Pistol & Rifle Range was prime real estate for some manufacturers Monday. Winchester's new AA TrAAcker shotgun shells serve as a good example of the benefits. A new wad encapsulates a fraction of each shell's pellets, and thus provides easily-visible tracking of the shot string. In simple terms, you could see where you missed, if you failed to break one of the clay targets launched at the range. Rather than a clear plastic shot-cup, these 12-gauge shells have either a black or orange wad. You can vary the colors depending upon the shooting background on a particular day. The idea sounds sort of pie-in-the-sky, so no amount of advertising copy could replace seeing these shells in action. As a training tool for shotgunners – whether beginners or those trying to sharpen their skills – the Winchester TrAAckers seem truly innovative. It's difficult for any manufacturer to come up with a stunner here in a crowd that has seen it all. However, Giudice, whose company represents Smith & Wesson, among many others, was part of one of those groundbreaking products a few years ago. It was S&W's Model 500 revolver, a .50-caliber that became the new "most powerful handgun in the world." "It was a big deal and everybody had to shoot it," Giudice said. "It still is a big deal. We don't have anything but new products here. But if we had that gun here, they'd still be lined up to shoot it. "You can't come out with a product like that every year. That was pretty special." Giudice, for one, hasn't noticed anything groundbreaking among the thousands and thousands of new products this year. That's not to say there isn't one here, or that there aren't a bundle of items that will appear on consumers' Christmas lists next December. But, again, this is a tough crowd. "It's interesting that one of the hottest guns out there is the 1911 handgun," Giudice said. "It was invented in 1907 by Mr. (John) Browning. It was adopted by the military in 1911 (hence the name), and yet it's still one of the hottest firearms out there. Everybody loves that gun. "Smith & Wesson is introducing four new guns at this event, and two are 1911s. Guys are shooting the heck out of those things (today). "It's over 100 years old, but it's one of the 'new products.' Now when you look at what we're introducing this year and the old gun, you're thinking it's not the same gun at all. But it's still a 1911. "So when you're talking about new products, what is new?" At this website, we'll make an effort this week to portray everything new at the 2013 SHOT Show. Then you can decide for yourself how to answer the question: What's new? 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News and announcements
- 2018-07-13: ORCID state of dblp
Since more than a year now, dblp has intensified its efforts to link dblp bibliographies to ORCIDs used by that author. ORCID information are now added regularly to the dblp data set. The primary sources for ORCIDs are: first, the annual ORCID open data dump and, second, metadata directly provided by publishers who have started to increasingly label author signatures with ORCID information. Neither of those data sources are free of errors and data hick-ups, so we are still manually cleaning the ORCID data prior to adding them to the corpus. But overall, ORCIDs have helped us to correct numerous cases of homonymous and synonymous bibliographies in dblp, so it is absolutely worth our time.
Since the past big ORCID update from last week (as of July 11, 2018), you can now find in dblp:
- 806,744 ORCID author signatures (i.e., author-publication pairs), that is 6.5% of all author signatures in the dataset
- 165,752 bibliographies that are linked to ORCIDs (either manually or implicit)
- 24,357 bibliographies with ORCIDs manually verified by the dblp team
If you look at computer science publications in dblp that have been published in the recent years, you will find that the fraction of author signatures with ORCID in dblp has climbed to now about 10.9% off all signatures in 2018. Of course, year 2018 is not done yet, and we are continuously working on improving the coverage further among all publications, regardless of the year of publication. The number of signatures and coverage for publication in recent years is:
- 2014: 892,240 signatures (8.2% coverage)
- 2015: 930,746 signatures (7.7% coverage)
- 2016: 984,559 signatures (6.7% coverage)
- 2017: 1,042,103 signatures (5.6% coverage)
- 2018: 439,350 signatures (10.9% coverage)
The oldest publication with an ORCID is from 1961. Because of the small number of publications in dblp from that time, the ORCID coverage for 1961 is a remarkable 0.12%.
- 2018-04-09: Historical dblp file is now available.
A historical version of dblp (called hdblp) is now available at zenodo. hdblp contains historical revisions of all metadata records in dblp. The file can be used to reconstruct dblp for each day between June 1999 and March 2018.
- 2018-02-27: dblp via HTTPS
Finally, all dblp servers now support HTTPS. We will gradually move towards exclusively using HTTPS in the future, so please feel free to update your bookmarks.
- 2017-12-22: 4 million publications!
We are happy to celebrate more than 4,000,000 million computer science publications in the dblp computer science bibliography!
- 2017-09-15: The first 700k: dblp starts integrating ORCIDs
ORCID (http://orcid.org) is a widely used persistent identifier scheme for researchers. As of September 2017, there are more than 3.8 million registered ORCIDs of which about 800,000 have at least one publication listed in the public ORCID corpus. Many publishers will now ask their authors to provide an ORCID when submitting or publishing a paper. We encourage all researchers to register and map their ORCID with their publications.
A few weeks ago, we started first experiments with integrating ORCIDs into dblp. At the moment, there are about 700,000 signatures (i.e., author-publication pairs) in dblp for which we know an ORCID. This is about 6% of all signatures. We expected ORCIDs to help us identify authors and create clear, unambiguous author bibliographies (see How does dblp handle homonyms and synonyms). We were not disappointed. For the initial import, we found in our corpus
- 600 cases where an author profile was related to more than one ORCID. This indicates that the profile actually lists publications from different authors.
- 5000 cases where the same ORCID appears in more than one author profile.
We are currently processing these cases. While we found several cases where ORCID information is wrong (e.g., authors accidentally claiming publications that where written by someone else), the data is very reliable in general. However, according to our philosophy, manual confirmation is needed. This will take some time.
A detailed description on ORCIDs on the dblp web interface and in the data dump can be found at in our F.A.Q.s.
We will keep you posted on development.
- 2017-09-05: Further modifications to dblp's XML format
With the latest release of the dblp XML data dump, we made some extensions to the document type definition (DTD) of the XML format. The goal of these changes is to lay the groundwork for a number of planned extensions of the dblp data model that will be realized at a later date.
These changes will only affect you if you use:
- the daily XML data dump, available at http://dblp.org/xml/,
- any future snapshot releases of the XML dump, available at http://dblp.org/xml/release/, or
- the live XML web API, e.g. http://dblp.org/rec/xml/journals/pvldb/Ley09.xml
Regular users of the web site or other export formats – like the BibTeX export – are not affected.
As always, the latest version of the DTD can be found at:
All upcoming as well as earlier versions of the DTD file will be preserved along with the persistent snapshot releases at:
A brief summary of the recent changes is available at:
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I had the good fortune of speaking at a local Rotary Club meeting last week, and at the end of the meeting I was given a pen inscribed with "The 4-Way Test of the things we think, say, and do."
Now this wasn't just an ordinary pen. It was one of those cool "clicker" pens, where every time you push on the top of the pen a different message appears in its side window. In this case, the pen displays each of "The 4-Way Test" messages:


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Center Ossipee shooting victim in stable condition
March 17. 2014 3:14PM
CENTER OSSIPEE — The man shot multiple times at his Jude Boulevard residence Sunday night is in stable condition at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, according to Ossipee Police Sgt. Robert King.
The victim is John Mason, who is in his 20s, King said. No one has been arrested in the shooting and King said it is too soon to say if the shooting was in retaliation for Mason's firing at two men who invaded his home Feb. 7, one carrying a knife, seeking money and other items.
Mason was cleared in connection with the shots fired because he was defending himself.
Two men were arrested in connection with that incident: James Brooks, 31, and Jeffrey Lamarche, 36, both of Ossipee and both still in custody, according to King. Lamarche was among nine people arrested in a heroin sale arrest sweep March 10 and is at the New Hampshire State Prison.
There was a third person, who drove the getaway car, according to accounts of the home invasion at the time.
Previous story follows:
CENTER OSSIPEE - Police are conducting an active investigation at the scene of a shooting in Center Ossipee Sunday night.
Carroll County Attorney Robin Gordon confirmed Sunday night that police are on Jude Boulevard investigating a shooting that has left a male with multiple gun shot wounds. Police were first called to Jude Boulevard at 8:53 p.m. Sunday to investigate reports of a shooting.
Gordon said the victim was taken to Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro and then was airlifted by DART helicopter to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. She said she could not comment on the seriousness of his injuries, or the status of his condition.
Gordon said the scene was still active, and that more information would be released as it becomes available.


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McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma death row inmate whose attorneys had claimed he was mentally unfit to be executed was put to death Tuesday for the 1993 shooting deaths of a couple during a home invasion.
In the final moments before he was injected with lethal drugs, George Ochoa maintained he was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Francisco Morales, 38, and Maria Yanez, 35, on Oklahoma City's south side.
Strapped to a gurney with his arms outstretched, he proclaimed, "I'm innocent" when asked if he had any last words.
He blinked rapidly as the drugs began to flow and appeared to stop breathing after about a minute. The time of death was announced as 6:07 p.m. CST.
None of Ochoa's relatives or attorneys witnessed the execution. But more than a dozen of the victims' family members watched Ochoa die through glass beside the death chamber and on a closed-circuit television.
The punishment came less than a month after the state Pardon and Parole Board rejected Ochoa's request that it recommend Gov. Mary Fallin reduce his death sentence to life in prison.
Investigators say Morales was shot 12 times and Yanez 11 times in their bedroom on July 12, 1993. Three of the couple's children were inside the house at the time of the shootings and later testified at trial.
Ochoa, 38, claimed he had been shocked and suffered injuries during his incarceration, but prosecutors said his claims of hallucinations and harm were likely an attempt to feign mental incompetence. Courts prohibit the execution of people who do not understand why they are being punished.
Officials said earlier psychological evaluations showed no evidence of delusions or hallucinations, and that claims about such didn't start until he was charged.
Ochoa's attorneys had maintained that his mental status deteriorated in recent years and that the state's process for determining competency is unconstitutional, claims that were rejected Monday by a federal judge and a federal appeals court in Denver.
Ochoa lost a late attempt at having his execution postponed when the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied his request for a stay.
Prosecutors said there was little evidence to suggest a motive for the killing, but no doubt that Ochoa and his co-defendant, Osbaldo Torres, 37, were responsible. Ochoa and Torres were stopped by police near the crime scene and were described by police as "sweating and nervous," court records show.
Torres, a Mexican citizen, was also convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in the shootings, but his sentence was reduced by then-Gov. Brad Henry in 2004. Henry imposed a sentence of life without parole after Mexican government officials raised concerns that Torres was not given a chance to speak with the Mexican consulate after being accused, as required by international conventions.
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Mohammed Berdai has a quick tutorial posted about getting a full installation of PostgreSQL and phpPgAdmin up and working in an XAMPP environment.
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl, plus many additional modules. The whole package is well integrated and can save a lot of time and hassle for the inexperienced web developer. [...] phpPgAdmin is a web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL, exactly as phpMyAdmin for MySQL.
It's a simple three step process (with a few sub-steps inside each) to get the system up and running - basically: install XAMPP, install PostgreSQL and install phpPgAdmin.


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Just received a text from Steelers:
We have added WR Dereck Moye to the practice squad and released TE Jamie McCoy.
Just received a text from Steelers:
We have added WR Dereck Moye to the practice squad and released TE Jamie McCoy.
It's no fun when the rabbit has the gun
That avatar is creepin me out!
He'll last as long as it takes for AB to get back, and/or they think he might have something to add for the future.
Claimed by the Saints off Waivers after signing with the Dolphins coming out of PSU. Moye, a 6-5, 210-pound wideout, entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent out of Penn State, signing with the Dolphins in May. In four seasons for the Nittany Lions, the Rochester, Pa. native finished his college career with 144 receptions for 2,395 yards (16.6 avg.) and 18 touchdowns. - source
AT least he is big Is he fast?
He's from my home town! Good for him!
"Today, I'm officially retiring a Pittsburgh Steeler. And as much as I will miss football, my teammates, coaches and everything about the game, I don't want to play it in any other uniform. The black and gold runs deep in me, and I will remain a Steeler for life."--Hines Ward
He was very good at Penn St.
This is from fox sports:
"Moye has outstanding size (6-5), but he needs to thicken up. He is a great red zone weapon and is very explosive. He is deceptively fast for his size and will get yards after the catch."
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Potato Chips with Blue Cheese and Crispy Shallots
These handmade chips are crunchy and delicious. Topped with fried shallots and blue cheese they make a delectable appetizer.
1 lb. baking potatoes
Corn oil, as needed
6 large shallots
Salt and pepper, as needed
1 cup blue cheese, crumbled
- Slice potatoes about 1⁄2-in. thick. Rinse and pat with paper towels until dried completely.
- In a large pot, heat oil and fry potatoes until golden.
- Slice shallots with a mandoline. Fill a small pan with oil and fry shallots until golden, about 10 min.
- Place potatoes in dish and season with salt and pepper. Top with blue cheese and shallots.


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The innkeepers at Blueberry Cove Inn, Narragansett, RI invite you to their world of innkeeping. This is a behind the scenes look at their version of innkeeping.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Waiting, waiting, waiting
Well, we, my peeps, are about to hit the big 250 in votes for Blueberry Cove Inn's quest to pass the first hurdle in the small business grant competition. We are down to the last 13 votes.
Sadly, I have to walk away from the computer and take brush to the dump. This is one of the more glamorous jobs at the inn and I don't dare delegate it to someone else while I stare at the computer screen waiting.
So, while I'm gone someone get organized and vote. I'll even pick up a Del's on the way home to celebrate (and rehydrate.)
You know the routine: go to www.missionsmallbusiness.com, sign in at the bottom of the page, search for Blueberry Cove Inn and cast your vote.
Got to run, the dump seagulls are calling.
Innkeeper Seely
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- AnonymousJune 28, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Seely I just texted sixteen people to do it some of them will I think we should get at least thirty extra votesReplyDelete
Thank you for your efforts. Not there yet but I enjoyed my Del's anyway.ReplyDelete
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CSB's Commitment to Education
The College of Saint Benedict was founded for women by women in 1913 by the Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict. Since its inception, the College has had an intentional commitment to the education of women and has provided strong female role models for its students.
This commitment requires an environment in which women are visible, have the power to name their reality, and are validated in their own experiences. The environment is enhanced by a religious community of women who define and shape their own spiritual growth. During her four years at the College of Saint Benedict a student will:
- identify and express her own voice
- expect to be listened to and will be heard
- develop self-confidence and esteem
- develop a capacity for leadership and become an agent for social change
- know herself within community
- challenge, process, and practice her values
- enhance her passion for learning
- become autonomous and live interdependently
- understand the wholeness of life
- express her faith and deepen her spirituality
- learn through risk-taking
- understand and expect equity
- demonstrate compassion and humility towards herself and others
With the backdrop of these experiences, a woman at the College of Saint Benedict has the opportunity to test her strengths, modify her positions, and practice her leadership in counterpoint to and in cooperation with her male colleagues at Saint John's University. It is our hope that she will enter the adult world as an integrated person who is committed to the common good. Together with her colleagues at Saint John's University, she will learn to create true partnerships with men that expect equity and are based on integrity and respect, for the benefit of their personal lives and for the benefit of all of society.


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe may have been indulging in wishful thinking when he told a reporter at the national governors' meeting this weekend that the state chief executives are aligned on so many issues that "you can almost drop the party label."
Beebe, a Democrat in a red state who is prevented by term limits from running for re-election, has understandably made the personality of the governor rather than the party a theme of his politicking.
In any event, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal didn't get the memo, because he dispelled the friendly air of bipartisanship that is supposed to characterize meetings of the National Governors Association by criticizing President Barack Obama just after meeting with him in the White House.
Jindal told TV reporters outside the West Wing that Obama "seems to be waving the white flag of surrender" on the economy by, among other things, demanding an increase in the minimum wage.
Connecticut's Democratic governor, Dan Malloy, took the microphone and sputtered "that's the most insane statement I've ever heard."
So much, it seems, for forgetting party labels.
But Beebe, who enjoys consistently high approval ratings, is living proof that some politicians can transcend party politics and prevail against the odds. Steve Beshear, Democratic governor in red Kentucky, and of course Chris Christie, Republican in blue New Jersey, are other prominent examples.
Nearly three-quarters of the states will vote for governors this year, and it is already clear that there may be more such anomalies where other factors outweigh historic voting patterns.
One interesting race is Kansas, where incumbent Republican Sam Brownback has been using the state as a laboratory for his arch-conservative notions of limited government — cutting taxes and slashing state spending even on basic public services like education.
There has been a political backlash. Public Policy Polling found in a new poll that Brownback's little-known Democratic challenger in this year's race, House minority leader Paul Davis, leads the incumbent 42% to 40%, as Brownback slumps to a 33% approval rating, with 51% disapproval.
Most forecasters in the gubernatorial races still put Kansas in the Republican camp, but the state did somehow manage to elect a Democrat, current Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, to two terms as governor, in 2002 and 2006.
In blue Illinois, meanwhile, Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn is so unpopular that a poll earlier this month found all four potential Republican challengers would beat him in the general election.
University of Virginia forecaster Larry Sabato currently rates Illinois a toss-up, along with Arkansas, Connecticut and Florida, a closely watched race where polls show that former Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican turned Democrat, could beat incumbent Republican Rick Scott.
Sabato also lists Pennsylvania and Maine, which currently have Republican governors, as likely to fall to Democratic candidates. He doesn't have any Democratic states going Republican. Of the 36 contests this year, Republicans are defending 22 state houses and Democrats 14. There are currently 29 Republican governors and 21 Democratic.
When Obama met with the governors he got a laugh by remarking that some of them may be sizing up the drapes.
Governors are considered a prime field for presidential candidates, especially in the party out of power. Sabato notes that 17 presidents were once governors, compared to 16 who were U.S. senators. (Interestingly, six presidents, all before the Civil War, were secretaries of state, so that Hillary Clinton could revive an old tradition if she runs for president in 2016 and wins.)
Chances are good we will see a number of Republican governors, past and present, running in the 2016 presidential primaries, along with a smattering of freshmen senators.
On the Democratic side, there are no governors who seem to pose a serious challenge to Clinton. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick have shown little inclination to run in 2016.
In the meantime, the voters in this year's governors' races aren't likely to forget party labels altogether, but they could well upset red state-blue state patterns for the right person.
Also read these stories:
Republicans fret as Camp prepares to unveil tax plan
Washington finally wakes up to drought crisis


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Anyone who has caught a glimpse of the presidential candidates' wives on the campaign trail knows that safe, boxy suits are not in the fashion vocabulary of either the Democratic first lady or the Republican who aspires to replace her. The appearance of Michelle Obama and Ann Romney in similarly full-skirted dresses at the third and final presidential debate prompted two editors at the Atlantic to launch into an online dialogue pondering the abundance of dresses showing up on the political stump.
Although the 1960s-style frocks seen on the cult TV show "Mad Men" have had some impact on fashion, I don't think that either political wife is channeling a tamped-down mid-century housewife or aping the rigidly constructed, unforgiving clothes of that era. Nor do I think wearing a dress is an attempt by either woman to be seen as less threatening.
They're really just following current trends, and by doing so, they come across as more hip and appealing (which is at least part of what they're trying to convey as they are out campaigning). Dresses are popular, more professional women wear them and sleeves are optional year-round. It's all part of a shift toward a freer, more body-conscious style of dressing that many working women -- except perhaps corporate lawyers and bankers -- are adopting.


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ROMEOVILLE – Morton's stellar defense entered with 20 shutouts. Naperville Central had not been shut out all season.
The Redhawks' offense got the best of the match between two of the top programs in the state, winning 2-0 in a Class 3A soccer super sectional at Lewis University on Nov. 5.
After a scoreless first half, Central broke the deadlock in the 63rd minute when Jay Tegge whipped a corner kick tight into the penalty box and it swung around Morton goalkeeper Ian Chacon and inside the far post. Central scored again four minutes later and Morton had no answer offensively.
"They got six, seven [players] that have the speed and the skill and they move without the ball tremendously," Morton coach Mike Caruso said of Naperville Central. "I thought we battled and did what we could in the first half. We had a couple great chances down there, and with the wind we knew we needed at least one if not both of those two chances to go in to give ourselves a shot. Nothing to hang our heads about. They're a good team."
Morton entered the match with shutouts in all four playoff games and clean sheets in eight of the previous nine matches. Chacon and the Mustang defense couldn't hold back the Redhawks, which had the better run of play for most of the match.
The super sectional was a rematch of the 2011 state title game, which Morton won 1-0. The win gave Central its third straight appearance in the state semifinals.
"Over the last three years they've been down there, but I think this is their best team all-around," Caruso said. "Sometimes you just got to tip your hat and say they played a great game."
The Mustangs finished the year 25-3 with a perfect record in the West Suburban Gold and made a run to the final of the Pepsi Showdown for the second year in a row.
Seniors Luis Alvarado and Edgar Garcia were a part of the 2011 state championship team and leave the program as two of the most successful players in the program's history. Alonso Fregoso and Chabelo Marquez also had standout senior seasons.
Morton has plenty coming back next season, though. Juniors Chacon and Mario Romero will enter next year as four-year varsity players. Jovany Garcia, Edgar Garcia, Hector Luna, Leo Delgado and Edgar Olaguez were all big contributors to the team that will also be expected to return.
"A great season for our guys and we got nothing to hang our heads about," Caruso said.


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So here's the deal - I'm a senior at Ohio University's school of journalism (ranked in the top 3 or 5 in the nation). I want a JD to pursue a blended career in law and journalism. With a GPA of 3.8 and hopefully an LSAT score between 161 and 165 (only two weeks away), I have in the past wanted to attend the best school in legal writing possible. I'd like to enter as a clerk and eventually write briefs before moving laterally into legal journalism.
The best schools in the legal writing field - Georgia Mercer, Temple, Ohio State, to name a few in which I'm interested - would throw me into some considerable debt.
So should I apply to a smaller T2 or 3 law school that would give me a full ride? I'd still probably be able to enter the legal workforce in some respect, but I still only see that as a necessary stepping stone into legal feature writing. I guess it's between quality (which brings more job opportunities in the legal field and, in some sense, respect) and economy (free law school YEA!). Either way, it's a JD. Thoughts?
I'm not sure who gave you that list, but they may as well have had monkeys throwing darts at a dartboard to do it.
["Legal feature writing"] is, from what little information I have on it, a very, very small field, which tells me that it's also probably highly competitive. The only person I know of offhand who did what you propose to do is Emily Bazelon. She graduated from Yale. If you think you can compete in the same pool she swims in by going to Mercer, more power to you.
I understand your confusion, but legal writing is actually a field that US News and World Report ranks here: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/legal-writing-rankings.
As far as what "legal writing" actually is, it's my impression that it's big-picture legal analysis coupled with a specific writing style used in appellate brief writing and legal academia.


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What is Needed for Undergraduate Physics Revitalization, and How Do We Know What Works?
Over the past three years, AAPT, APS, and AIP have taken some first steps to address these issues. As a result of the Physics Department Chairs Conferences in May 1997 and April 2000 (both of which focused on undergraduate physics) and the October 1998 conference "Building Undergraduate Physics Programs for the 21st Century," and extensive discussion with a wide spectrum of physicists, four key features of successful undergraduate physics revitalization can be identified:


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Does anyone have experience with this board?
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I am thinking about transferring my aging 775 system to a uATX case, so I need a new motherboard. I want to be able to use all four memory dimms. There are only 15 boards on newegg that meet this specification. I'm also trying to spend as little as possible (college student!)
The board that has the most reviews and the best rating is this one:
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I don have anything against intel, it is just $25 more expensive. The XFX board also looks like it has more features, debug led for example and better heatsinks.
I am also trying to decide between the mini p180: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product
and the Lanbox lite: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811133045
The p180 is nice by all accounts. It is more expensive and bigger. Suggestions?
The rest of the components would be: E6600, 7900GS(double width), 4x1GB DDR2, 3HDs
Edit: If I go with the p180 I can continue to use my zalman 9700 but If I get the thermaltake i'll need a new heatsink.


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Footwork and we'll call it ' spacial relation" always know what limb is going to do next.. think ahead,,, shape your foot to how it will be on the hold,, no fuckin around with shit
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goat, ruminant mammal with hollow horns and coarse hair belonging to the genus Capra of the cattle family and closely related to the sheep . True wild goats, all of Old World origin, include the Persian bezoar goat, or pasan, possibly the ancestor of the domestic varieties the several species of ibex (including the tur), and the markhor of Asia, with spirally twisted horns. The Rocky Mountain goat and the chamois are not true goats but are closely related. Goats are hardy cliff dwellers, preferring an arid climate. They live in herds and feed on grass, weeds, shrubs, and other vegetation. Goats were early domesticated they are pictured in ancient Egyptian art and mentioned in the Bible. Domestic goats, varieties of Capra hircus, are found throughout the world, most abundantly in Asia. They are raised for milk, flesh, hair and wool, skins, and, in certain areas, to control scrub growth. Goat's milk is easily digested and has greater protein and fat content than that of cows. The chief dairy breeds in the United States are the Toggenburg and Saanen (both of Swiss origin), as well as the Nubian, French Alpine, and Rock Alpine goats. Many dairy goats are hornless. The Cashmere goat is raised in central Asia, N India, and Iran for the wool of its downy undercoat. Angora goats, whose clipped wool is known as mohair, are more numerous than other breeds in the United States they are raised chiefly in Texas. The Spanish, or common, goat, familiar in the Southwest, was brought to Mexico by early Spanish settlers. Goats are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Artiodactyla, family Bovidae.
See D. Mackenzie, Goat Husbandry (3d ed. 1970).
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— I was asked by an editor today to see if there was an image to go with this story for our peculiar postings section, and I could not help but share this. You can read the enitre story here, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18735121/. I guess it is truly a complete world now. Not only can we get our cars washed but get a lap dance while we are there. At least it is saving men from lying when they want a lap dance, they are telling the truth when they say they are going to the car wash. (in case you missed the sarcasm, I am kidding)
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Untouchable , well who is in?
I am looking at wed the 6th early departure to make the most of the day light.
snomobilers welcome
Was looking at the beast in Google Earth, with the handy 1:50 K topographic overlays you can get from the biodiversity network. In my experience in Manitoba, outside of the shield country, the drawn on route of the map looks like the best potential route. However the glacial scarring in the area looks to run east-west so the topo may be deceiving and it may be a bit trickier than it looks. Anyone have any pearls of wisdom about the area that they would like to share? One piece of useful info would be whether the road south of the cache is even open in the winter. It's apparent from the topos that the cache is on the little island so one wildcard will be navigatable ice on the lake. I've had enough mid-winter open water experiences to have a healthy respect for that stuff.
Thanks Stuntman,
So using your recommended route I tried to track down some more recon online and managed to find 2 m digital orthophotos for the area from the Manitoba Land Initiative. I then tried something I've never done before and brought it into Google Earth as an image overlay. I am still flabergasted at how well that program handles imagery. Had to a bit of rotation and scaling over the right spots using Google's existing 15 m satellite imagery and then using the transparency feature it in effect fused the colour low res satellite imagery with the high res grey scale air photos and came out with amazing results. You can see the thicker patches of bush, trails and all the lovely ups and downs we will have to do to get to the lake.
So it looks to be just over a 3 km bushwack at about maybe 1 km per hour.
went looking for my snow shoes yesterday...nope not there...
oh well the wife warned me...put em away or she would give them to some kid who would enjoy em./...hummmmmmm.
Anyone gota an extra pair of sharpa's they wanna let go?
Do we want to set this up as an event? It would help with planning and may reach a wider group of potential participants. Similar to the Bent-elbow Expedition. How about "Not so untouchable" for a title?
I would like to see an event cache, I am iffy about attending them as my work scheadule is always changing... (Probably never able to host one) but with enough notice I can book a week end off...
A little scouting trip today. 1 hour snowshoeing one way on this downloaded track.
There's a groomed snowmobile and ski trail crossing P.R. 315 and heading north. Eventually had to switch off the groomed trail to ungroomed trails. After the FORK2 waypoint, going got heavy and the trail petered out.
Just nibbling.
(sorry I couldn't figure out how to upload a better image to this post)