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Catching Up With Carlos
I met Carlos Delgado for the first time in 1991 when I was broadcasting games for the Blue Jays' top farm club in Syracuse and he got promoted from Single-A Myrtle Beach for one game at the end of the season.
He was a 19-year-old catcher and I had a full head of hair.
Nineteen years and approximately $146 million in salary later (for Carlos, not me), our paths have crossed again as the 2-time All-Star attempts to come back from the first serious injury of his career.
"I missed hanging out with the boys and competing – that's what drives me," Delgado said. "I have a passion for the game and the day that I don't, I'll tip my cap and go. If you don't have passion, it's hard to crank it up every day. You need to have that inner desire to go out there and try to out-play the opposition and I still feel that I have that. That's why I'm still taking five hour bus rides from Pawtucket to Scranton at age 38."
(photo courtesy of Jessica Kovalcin)
After two surgical procedures on his right hip, Delgado stepped into the batters box on Monday for the first time in 456 days. After taking a pitch, he swung at a curve ball and missed a home run by a few feet when Scranton/WB's Greg Golson made a leaping catch against the right field wall.
"I didn't really have butterflies, but I felt a little weird out there," Delgado said. "This is something that I've been doing my whole life, but it's been awhile since I took the field and played in an organized game.
"You let your abilities take over. I don't think that's an indication on whether I'm ready or not, but I like to think this is a little like riding a bicycle – you don't forget how to do it."
That's what the Red Sox are hoping for.
While Delgado isn't likely to ever hit .344 again (as he did in 2000), or belt 44 HR (as he did in 1999), or drive in 145 runs (as he did in 2003), he could give the Red Sox a left-handed hitting compliment to Mike Lowell at first base as Boston tries to fill the void left by the season-ending injury to Kevin Youkilis.
"When you play for Toronto in the American League East, the Red Sox and Yankees are always beating you up, so it is a little strange to be on the other side," Delgado said with a laugh. "I wish I was here under different circumstances, but it is what it is, and I'm going to try to take advantage of this opportunity and try to get ready as soon as I can."
In 17 major league seasons, Delgado has only been to the playoffs once – in 2006 when the Mets lost a 7-game series in the NLCS to the Cardinals. He does, however, have a World Series ring, as he made his big league debut with Toronto in September of 1993 before the Blue Jays won their second straight championship.
"It is a nice thing and I'm not going to try to minimize that by any means, but there is a different taste in your mouth when you actually played and contributed," Delgado said. "For that ring, I was a September call-up and I didn't contribute anything. I had one at-bat and one walk in two plate appearances. It is pretty cool and it's something you can tell your kids and your grandkids about, but it would be a better story if I actually earned it over a long period of time."
While Delgado hopes to play in a World Series, he also has a statistical goal needing 27 home runs to reach 500 for his career.
"I'm not saying that that is the reason that I'm playing, but when you play as long as I have and get as close as I am to that benchmark, it definitely becomes important," Delgado said. "But it's not a life and death situation. I want to come in after my long rehab and see all of the hard work pay off. I spent a lot of days in the clinic after the two surgeries doing rehab and there were a lot of bumps in the road. It is nice to work your way back and make it to the big leagues. From there, if I'm lucky enough to hit 27 more home runs, it would be a great honor and a privilege. But I want to play the game for the right reasons and I respect the game a lot. I want to go out there and have good at-bats and try to win."
Last year, Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated wrote a column making the case that Delgado is a Hall of Famer. I asked Carlos if he agrees.
"If you ask me, I'll say yes, but I don't get to vote," Delgado said. "I guess we're going to have to wait a few years for that. It's completely out of my hands, but it would be an honor – I'm not going to lie to you. If I get that call it would be a phenomenal honor and privilege."
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The PawSox return home on Friday to open a 4-game series against Buffalo. Delgado is likely to be in the lineup on Friday, and Dustin Pedroia is expected to rehab with the PawSox on Saturday and Sunday.
I hope you'll join us for radio coverage on Friday, beginning with the pre-game show at 6:50 on the PawSox radio network and pawsox.com.
I'd love to hear from you. Please take a moment to tell me who you are and where you're from in the comments section or you can e-mail me at email@example.com.
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- 29 juillet 2014
Dutch Digital Market Overview June 2014
Your monthly snapshot of digital audience trends
- 13.6 million people in The Netherlands accessed the internet via their desktop PCs or laptops in June 2014. Overall, 82% of all internet users also consumed videos online.
- Yahoo reached over 3.8 million users with its online offerings, making it the top performer in terms of Month-on-Month audience increase among the Top 15 online properties. Broadcaster RTL Group Sites reached 1 in 3 Dutch internet users and entered the Top 10 online property rankings for the first time in 2014.
- In June, Collective @ YouTube entered the Top 15 YouTube Partner rankings for the very first time in 2014, reaching 859.000 video viewers in The Netherlands.

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Law students awarded summer fellowships in Native Hawaiian LawUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
HONOLULU — The William S. Richardson School of Law's Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law has selected five new Summer Fellows in Native Hawaiian Law - Moani Crowell, Liʻulā Kotaki, Mana Moriarty, Chris Santos and Napali Souza.
Kotaki and Santos will be working at the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation; Moriarty and Souza will be working with the Bioprospecting Commission housed at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; and Crowell will be working at the law firm Paul, Johnson, Park & Niles, which is representing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in a pending case.
The fellowship program provides stipends to current law students wishing to spend the summer of 2007 working under the supervision of an attorney on legal issues of importance to the Native Hawaiian community.
The Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law was established in 2005 at the William S. Richardson School of Law through a Native Hawaiian Education Act grant. The Center focuses on education, research and scholarship, community outreach, and the preservation of invaluable historical, legal, and traditional and customary materials. It also offers new courses and supports Native Hawaiian law students as they pursue legal careers and leadership roles.
For more information please contact Cynthia Quinn, Director of Communications and External Relations, at 956-5545.


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Crown Beasts
Not to be confused with Legendary Beasts.
The Crown Beasts are powerful Pokémon that appear in the Pokémon movie Zoroark: Master of Illusions. They are the Shiny form of the Legendary Beasts that were born in the wild areas of Crown City. Below are the dates they were obtainable at Gamestop.
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- Raikou - January 3 to January 9, 2011
- Entei - January 17 to January 23, 2011
- Suicune - January 31 to February 7, 2011


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The state has submitted applications for $564.8 million in federal stimulus funding for high-speed rail improvement projects across the state, Gov. David Paterson announced in a press release Monday.
The state has submitted applications for $564.8 million in federal stimulus funding for high-speed rail improvement projects across the state, Gov. David Paterson announced in a press release Monday.
Locally, the effort would devote $12.4 million to relieving congestion by improving track infrastructure and signals in the Mohawk Valley between Amsterdam and Rome. An additional $6.1 million would go towards improving crossings at 22 locations on the stretch of rail that runs from Erie County east to Schenectady County, officials said.
The state has been working to set the stage for the creation of a high-speed rail line between Buffalo and Albany that would stop in Utica. The rail would enable improved speeds throughout the corridor, reduce travel times and increase on-time service, officials have said.
U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri, D-Utica, said the funds would help bring the region one step closer to creating more economic security in the area.
"Making high speed rail a reality in Upstate New York will increase jobs, improve passenger rail service, and allow business to operate more effectively and efficiently across the state," Arcuri said. "This process is ongoing and I look forward to the success high-speed rail will bring to our communities in the near future."
In March, the state released a 22-year strategic plan for the state's rail system that said a high-speed rail could double the number of intercity rail passengers along New York's three major corridors: New York City to Albany, Albany to Niagara Falls and Albany to Montreal.
State Assemblywoman RoAnn Destito, D-Rome, called the high-speed rail "one of the most critical infrastructure improvements" that can be made to jumpstart the Upstate New York economy.
"It is very important at this time when there is economic stimulus money available from the federal government that we advance this project in order to have the ability to move passengers between Upstate communities and New York's metropolitan region," Destito said.


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The Optimus G2, which we've been waiting for, has been subject to rumor after rumor. A few days ago, we finally heard something official that probably tells us the G2 will have a Snapdragon 800 processor (LG and Qualcomm stopped just short of explicitly naming the device), but tonight we've got something a little more fun.
Infamous leaker @EVLeaks has just dropped a series of still images that look to be from a video subtitled "Learning from you." They show the G2 and its rumored back-mounted controls.Read More


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Photograph - Demolition of Eltham Shire Offices, 895 Main Road, Eltham, August 1996
From the Collection of Eltham District Historical Society Inc 728 Main Rd Eltham Victoria
- Roll of 35mm colour negative film, 10 strips
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- eltham shire office, demolition
- Print copies originally located in a small pink (with decorative flowers) album, suede spine, 18 x 18 x 6 cm, 50 page inserts, 100 photo capacity.
The Shire Offices opened in 1965 and were extended in 1971. The final Eltham Shire Council meeting was held in December 1994 before the forced amalgamations of municipal councils by the Kennett Government. The State-Government-appointed Commissioners (1994-1996) took the decision in July 1996 to demolish the Eltham Shire Offices. The demolition works started within 24 hours of the decision being made.
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The Linux Mint blog has announced the release of Linux Mint 13 RC. This brings us closer to the final release of Linux Mint 13, which should be sometime during the last week of this month. The RC is polished, and looks crisp as seen in these screenshots from the Linux Mint blog.
This latest release of Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu 12.04. As Ubuntu 12.04 is an LTS release, so is Linux Mint 13, and it will be supported until April 2017. Linux Mint 13 RC sports the latest version of Cinnamon 1.4 and the Mate 1.2. While the Mate desktop is focused on productivity and is more mature, the Cinnamon desktop is a new product Linux Mint is trying to develop alongside its Mint distro. With such a large user base, Linux Mint has good testing grounds for its Cinnamon desktop.
Cinnamon was released in the last week of this January. It boasts of a better user experience than Gnome 3. It is based on the Gnome shell 3.2.1 released in October last year and borrows heavily from MSGE. Cinnamon is on a roadmap to creating a complete desktop environment ecosystem, thus making it a self-sufficient product unlike MSGE, which had no individual identity. Cinnamon has ambitious plans, and it will be interesting to see if it attracts more users for Linux Mint.
Intermediary releases of Cinnamon are available on GitHub in a "stable" branch. Get download links and more details for this RC release at the official Linux Mint blog.


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Earlier this year, Neil Young reassembled his legendary fuzz-rock band Crazy Horse and released Americana, an album of amped-up versions of classic American songbook entries. But the band didn't leave the studio after finishing that album. As Young announces on his website, they recorded another LP, this one called Psychedelic Pill, immediately afterward, and they'll release it in October. The band has already debuted some of the songs live, most likely including their new 20-minute epic "Walk Like A Giant." The album will be a double-CD, and because they'll be making videos for all of the songs, it'll also be available as a Blu-ray.
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The sun is shining, your golf clubs are dusted off ahead of the new season, and weekly golf is on the horizon. We love spring.
Before you take to the course again this month, take a look at the condition of your golf shoes. Is it about time they were replaced?
We have plenty of stylish new shoes sitting on the shelves in-store, some with your name on.
And, because we love this time of year so much, we're offering money off selected golf shoes in-store until the 28th April when you trade-in your old pair (no matter how old they are!).
Just bring in an old pair of golf shoes to us next time you're at the club, and we'll point you in the direction to some brand new options that have money off.
Terms and conditions
- Offer available from Monday 1st April - Sunday 28th April 2019 or while stocks last.
- Professional staff reserve the right to end the promotion at any time without prior notice.
- Offer available on below models only.
- Offer available on in stock shoes only.
- Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.
- ContourFIT - £20 trade in value
- ARC SL - £20 trade in value
- Women's Leisure - £20 trade in value


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Crazy country bordering South Africa. Interesting facts: this country is larger than the state of Texas (Texas has more
cattle), but smaller than the state of Alaska. Most common name in Namibia is Gunther, pronounced Goon-tee-r. Exotic game hunting is a large part of the economy here. They enjoy 'up-dog' when visiting the US.
Gunther is from Namibia.


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Strength & Balance - Tuesday
From: Tuesday December 3, 2019, 10:30 am
To: Tuesday December 3, 2019, 11:30 am
These classes are designed for seniors and so the cost is low. $5 per person (subsidised).
Karen Taylor is the teacher during term time.
When there is no teacher. The class will be run by 2 members
No booking needed.
Come to a class if you are interested.
Enquiries at firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include Strength and Balance – Tuesdays in the Subject.
VenueWaverton Community Hall
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Charitable Contributions Policies and Procedures
South Coast Winery Resort & Spa takes great pride in supporting the community. Since its launch in 2003, South Coast Winery Resort & Spa has invested thousands of dollars back into the community through its contributions to a variety of charitable causes. Due to the volume of requests received, South Coast Winery has established a new program to ensure fairness to all organizations requesting funds, eliminates duplication, and ensures that we continue to meet the needs of our community.
1. Only California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations will be considered.
1. Requests from organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender or national origin will not be considered.
All organizations requesting assistance can complete a special application available at South Coast's resort. Each request must be made in writing on your organization's letterhead and be accompanied with a completed copy of the special application. Only those organizations completing and returning the application in its entirety will be considered, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Community groups falling within the guidelines set forth above are requested to mail their written requests, along with the completed application, in writing to the following address:
Ms. Elizabeth Morales
It should be noted that South Coast Winery Resort & Spa's contributions fund does have limitations and each application is reviewed by special committee based on merit and other standard requirements to ensure fair distribution.
A minimum of two weeks is required to conduct a preliminary evaluation of your written application. If this preliminary evaluation shows there are sufficient grounds for your request to go before Committee, another five weeks will be required before a decision can be made. Not all applicants will be notified of the outcome of the donations application process.


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Sight and Suds, 1927
September 28, 2010
Norma Shearer, as Kathi, introduces the central motif
Pardon this bit of throat-clearing. Hope you had a good summer.
Twice in the past few weeks, TCM aired the 1927 silent film The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. Made in the same year the Victoria Cafe Orchestra recorded Moonshiner's Dance, and sometimes just as sodden with alcohol, the film might still retain the world's record for the most beers consumed in one movie — something like 500 steins worth.
There are scenes that almost play like beer porn — a "Girls Gone Wild" in which beers instead of breasts are fetishized to the point of self parody. (Incidentally, I've run across 1929 newspapers ads for an actual Fox studio film called Girls Gone Wild, although it doesn't yet appear to have been reissued.) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg even finds ways of involving alcohol in a wide variety of metaphors and plot points.
A clip from The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg is currently available on YouTube. It's a well-chosen clip, featuring a bit of this beer-guzzling and illustrating some key plot elements.
In it, Prince Karl Heinrich watches from a balcony as his new love interest, Kathi the barmaid, delivers beer to grateful college students in Heidelberg. A sheltered young prince of a fictional European nation, he longs to experience the pleasures and freedoms of normal life — and his time has finally come, now that he's been sent to Heidelberg, a notorious party school.
The clip ends with Prince Karl pouring himself a glass of water and drinking it, but the clip ends a couple seconds too early to show the prince dashing the water glass to the floor in a fit of frustration.
The 1927 audience out there in the theater seats was living under Prohibition, of course — for them, beer-guzzling violated the Constitution of the United States. It must've been easy to identify with Karl's frustration, and with his voyeurism.
On the other hand, the audience wasn't all that thirsty, since Prohibition had failed to keep virtually anybody sober. In another scene, as the students hoist their steins and sing a drinking song, the song's sheet music suddenly appears onscreen much like a silent-film dialog card. The sheet music stays onscreen a good long time, giving the audience time to strike up a sing-along right there in the theater.
The scene leaves the impression that the audience could not only get a drink if they wanted one, but might have been actually drunk at the time of the screening. Hip flasks were everywhere, of course, and I'm reminded that the largest theater firm in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area was partly backed by the area's most prominent brewing family. (I'll have to look into this ... anybody have info about movie theaters doubling as speakeasies?)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg is set in both Germany and a fictional Old World nation.
The common folk in the film look a little less stereotypical than the lederhosen-clad townsfolk in early monster movies, but they are pretty quaint. I've often seen such characters pictured in 1920's newspaper advertisements — always for liquor-related items such as malt sold for home brewing of strictly non-alcoholic "Old World" beverages (wink wink, nudge nudge!).
It's clear to me that the German peasant image immediately brought beer to mind for Prohibition-era viewers — the dirndl as the era's "4/20." Notably, the German immigrants who dominated the brewing industry were among the fiercest opponents in the battle against the ratification of the 18th Amendment.
As the historian working on Moonshiner's Dance, all of this has me jumping out of my seat during The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg.
Both documents are booze voyeurism — vicarious drinking binges for the already drunk — delivered with a Bohemian accent. They both represent the way alcohol became much more than a drink during Prohibition.
By 1927, booze had evolved into a signature experience and an organizing metaphor of the era. At least in a lot of the cultural texts the era left behind, it was a pervasive medium that oriented and disoriented everything — even, or especially, when it wasn't around.


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Majestic glaciers. Outdoor adventures. Ancient cultures. What's your ultimate Alaska? The best way to experience the heart of this incredible state is on an inspiring Land+Sea Journey throughout Alaska with Holland America Line. Enjoy a 360-degree perspective of Alaska that combines a luxury cruise, sightseeing by rail and total immersion into Denali National Park and the Yukon. This all-encompassing journey allows you to see the destination on your terms, so all you have to do is focus on the adventure ahead.
As you sail along the Inside Passage on a three or seven-night cruise, call upon Alaska's most iconic ports for tailor-made excursions that appeal to every type of traveler.
Your Land+Sea experience includes ample time on land before or after your cruise to explore rugged Denali National Park and the remote landscape of the Yukon.
Your adventure will leave you in awe of the Great Land, with experiences tailored just for you. When you reserve your Holland America Line Alaska and the Yukon Land+Sea journey with us, we'll make sure you see the state from every angle to discover your ultimate Alaska.


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THE opposing sides of Initiative 1183 to privatize liquor sales in Washington state spent more than $30 million in a battle for your vote in 2011. The proponents promised the voters more convenience and the opponents predicted our favorite beverages would cost a lot more.
It turns out they were both right: Convenience has come at a price.
One reason liquor is more expensive is that the initiative established new taxes and fees on the distribution and sale of liquor to offset losses to the state from losing its monopoly. I-1183 also promised that a portion of that new revenue would go to cities and counties to support law enforcement and public safety. Unfortunately, that promise has not been kept.
Whether or not the public thought liquor would be less expensive or more convenient to purchase, a majority voted yes believing that I-1183's promises would be honored – there would be no cuts to local funding, and there would be at least $10 million in new funding for local law enforcement.
We can't say it any clearer than I-1183 did when it appeared on the ballot: "Maintain the current distribution of liquor revenues to local governments, and dedicate a portion of the new revenues raised from liquor license fees to increase funding for local public safety programs."
Historically, the state shared liquor revenue with local governments to help defray the costs of DUI enforcement, pay for the expense of treating alcohol abuse and support law-enforcement services.
I-1183 was written to not just maintain that funding, but to increase revenue, for the state, cities and counties. In fact, that was one of the key differences between I-1183 and the liquor-privatization initiatives that failed in 2010.
As pointed out in a Seattle Times June 28 news story, the state has actually realized a healthy windfall from liquor privatization, collecting $521 million in 2013, an increase of about $73 million from 2011. So what happened to the share of liquor revenue promised to local public safety programs?
In 2012, the state Legislature was balancing its budget and chose to ignore the voters and I-1183's clear wording. Lawmakers diverted more than $100 million in liquor revenue from cities and counties to the state's general fund.
Drawing conclusions about whether liquor privatization has caused an increase in DUIs, emergency-room visits or shoplifting is difficult, but it is clear that impacts from liquor consumption continue to be felt in the state's communities.
Whether in response to disturbances fueled by alcohol, drunken driving or the range of services needed by those who abuse it, having alcohol available in many more places certainly has not lessened local government's responsibilities.
City and county law enforcement currently handle half of all DUI arrests, and cities employ two-thirds of the state's public safety personnel. The Legislature's action to reduce liquor revenues for local government is a direct cut to funding for local law enforcement.
Over the next several weeks, the first of up to 334 licensed marijuana retail locations are opening in cities and counties across the state. Marijuana legalization will add new costs for local law enforcement to police legal sales, crack down on the illegal black market and to enforce impaired-driving laws.
However, to add insult to the injury of the liquor-revenue cuts, the Legislature has ignored cities' and counties' requests to recognize the local impact from marijuana legalization, and share some of the estimated millions of dollars a year in new tax revenue.
Legislators are running for re-election this year, which is their opportunity to defend their records and make new promises. Voters should ask for an explanation of what happened to the will of 59 percent of voters who supported I-1183, and what the Legislature should do to restore the cuts to local public-safety funding. Keeping cities strong and safe is important to our citizens and communities. It's much of what makes this a great state.
Francis Benjamin is a Pullman City Council member and president of the Association of Washington Cities. Paul Roberts is an Everett City Council member and vice president of the association.
Source: Seattle Times


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By Andrew Liszewski
Your Flickr feed might be chock full of retro-looking snapshots, but I'm afraid you just don't look the part when you're out there taking photos with your high-tech looking iPhone 4. So the makers of the Hipstamatic iPhone app have created an official HipstaCase that makes your iPhone look a little more like a retro film camera.
But it's not just about looks. The case is semi-functional too since it features a hidden slot on the front allowing you to attach an included tripod adapter. There's even a set of holes on either side of the bottom allowing you to use an included lanyard and keep your phone dangling from your wrist, ready to snap a hipstery photo at a moment's notice. Available May 5 for $39.95.
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The past three economic recoveries have been "jobless" ones. Job growth has lagged far behind GDP growth. In "Jobless recoveries and the disappearance of routine occupations," economists Henry Siu and Nir Jaimovich point out that since the end of the Great Recession in June 2009, U.S. real GDP per capita has grown by 3.6% but per capita employment has fallen by 1.8%.
Popular explanations include lack of demand and policy uncertainty. But Siu and Jaimovich offer another explanations.
They argue that jobless recoveries "can be traced to a lack of recovery in a subset of occupations; those that focus on "routine" or repetitive tasks that are increasingly being performed by machines."
Now it is hardly news that robots and computers have had a big impact on employment over the past thirty years, from machinsts to bank tellers:
All of the per capita employment growth of the past 30 years has either been in 'non-routine' occupations located at the high-end of the wage distribution, such as software engineers and economists, or in low-paying jobs, such as service occupations like restaurant waiters and janitors.
But the striking finding by Siu and Jaimovich, which can bee seen in the above chart, is the link between this phenomenon and the business cycle:
Following each of the 1991, 2001, and 2009 recessions, per capita employment in routine occupations fell and never recovered. This lack of recovery in routine employment accounts for the jobless recoveries experienced in the aggregate.
And what if routine jobs bounced back as they did in previous recoveries? "Had employment in routine occupations recovered as it did prior to job polarisation, the US economy would not have experienced jobless recoveries," the economists conclude. It would seem that during downturn, companies turn to technology to replace labor and maintain productivity. Here is what the current recovery would look like under that scenario:
This reminds me of a chat I had last year with Erik Brynjolfsson, co-author of Race Against the Machine:
Me: The book suggests the pace of technological change is accelerating, yes? If machines can learn and evolve faster than men, how will we ever catch up and "race with the machines?" Is better education, for instance, a solution or just a mitigating force?
Brynjolfsson: Education is a mitigating force for sure, and to the extent it helps people adapt faster, perhaps more than just mitigating. We don't need to win a race against machines. As the book argues in ch 4, the right approach is to race using machines. That means entrepreneurs need to keep inventing new ways combine technology and people to create new industries and innovations. There's never been a better time to be a a talented entrepreneur and they will be needed even more in coming years as the economy undergoes faster creative destruction.


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If you want to vacation with friends and you want outdoor fun then you want to go to Utah. It is as if everything is built from the ground up with the idea that the best times are had in the company of others. You can go on your own. It isn't that you have to travel in a group. But wherever you go, it will be easy to meet folks. It's like camaraderie is mixed with the oxygen in the Utah air you breathe.
Utah is a really great place for women to vacation whether solo or with friends. It has all the adventure you could want at whatever level of fitness you bring to the Beehive State, plus you will feel safe and secure. And since the average adventure traveler is a 40-something size 12 woman, you won't be a fish out of water. Hotels and guides automatically cater to female abilities and sensibilities. I am a used-to-be fit now pretty-out-of-shape writer who had a fantastic, physically challenging, safe, within my limits adventure through the amazing land that is Utah.
I went on a Girlfriend Getaway trip put together by the office of tourism. Our host explained that the itinerary included all his favorite summertime places and activities in the state. It was extravagantly beautiful and wonderfully exhausting. You can see all we did and use it as a start for your own itinerary. All the places we stayed and ate are locally owned instead of national chains, so you can get a real feel for Utah hospitality while you are marveling at its extravagantly beautiful natural wonders.
Capitol Reef National Park
Capitol Reef is the park to go to for those who want to enjoy the rugged beauty and active challenges of the Utah wilderness without the crowds. It is the least visited of the National Parks in Utah while giving you the same spectacular natural beauty and challenges of the other Utah parks. Hickman Bridge is not a well known as, say, Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, but it is an equally surprising natural formation that I think is a better hike.
Cougar Ridge Lodge - Torrey
If you have a large group, and want to stay in your own Utah ranch while you ride, boat, and hike in the outdoors with your friends to return to the lap of luxury Western style, then try to book a week at Cougar Ridge. I say "try" because the owner only rents the place out for 15 weeks a year and only books the entire Lodge. Cougar Ridge sleeps 12, but 4 of those beds are bunk beds that are comfortable, but not as private as the rooms with their own hot tubs, steam showers, and balconies. Cougar Ridge Lodge is a dream of comfort and fun, with only the best of everything from furniture to beds to bar to hot tubs to stables (yes, you can bring your own horse). Plus there is a second kitchen designed for cooking classes, beer and wine making, a bowling alley, a fire pit, a wood working shop. Cougar Ridge Lodge is an amazing destination all by itself, even if it weren't smack dab in the middle of some of the best outdoor destinations in the world.
Cafe Diablo - Torrey
Cafe Diablo is one of those foodie gifts that pop up in out-of-the-way places when a great chef falls in love with a small town. Cafe Diablo in Torrey, Utah is only open 6 months a year, but when it is, locals and tourists alike can enjoy world class cuisine and presentation in the signature camaraderie of Utah social life. This Southwestern restaurant serves a fabulous margarita. I had to try the Rattlesnake Cakes appetizer so that I could check off "eat rattlesnake" from my bucket list. And while Cafe Diablo is famous for its Crown Rack of Glazed Ribs, I couldn't pass up the local Marinated Loin of Utah Lamb. My only regret is that the pre-sliced lamb morsels tempted everyone else to grab a bite and there was less for me. Well, I also regret that I do not have the double-stomach anatomy like some animals, and had to stop when my one tummy was full.
Goblin Valley State Park - Green River
When we drove to Goblin Valley, I was sure I would not be into it. We'd already hiked a lot in some pretty amazing places at Capitol Reef Park. I was tired, my knee hurt, and it was beastly hot. From the parking lot, the formations looked interesting, but not anything I would have voluntarily gone down to explore. Then, once I got down among the "goblins" I was hooked. I kept going further and further, always seeing one more "goblin" that was cooler than the last. Goblin Valley State Park is about halfway between Capitol Reef National Park and Canyonlands National Park not too far off the 70. Definitely worth a visit, especially if you have kids. Or are a kid at heart.
River Terrace Inn - Green River
Built right on the Green River, River Terrace Inn was a sweet spot for us to relax after a day of hiking. Checking in at the front, it was halfway between a motel and inn with rooms overlooking the river with sliding doors out to a comfy patio. River Terrace Inn has a terrace down by the river if you want a lazy riverside evening in the greenery that is so refreshing after a day of desert rock and sand. The buffet breakfast served in the lobby with dishes cooked to order is a favorite among travelers. Its location just off the 70 and its proximity to Arches National Park all make this a great place to stop and stay in the middle of the state.
Ray's Tavern - Green River
The burger fixture in this part of Utah, Rays Tavern has the warm feel of a local joint while being a long time icon among southern Utah visitors. On the menu: burgers. Oh, there are other things, but after hiking or river rafting, the standard fare is a great burger, fries and one of the local microbrew beers. Yes, Utah has beer, and the part of the population that drinks makes up for the part of the population that's dry. Some sort of cosmic natural equilibrium must be at work. Whatever the reason, Utah has a whole lotta great local beer to go with the local beef at the local eateries like Ray's Tavern.
Rim Tours - Moab
If you go to Utah to vacation, you must mountain bike. Don't bring your own. Sign up with a tour operator, ride one of theirs with the latest, high-end shock absorbing engineering masterpieces. Rim Tours took us on a moderately challenging ride and I, who am more bike challenged than fit, was able to negotiate it just fine. There are easier rides and much, much harder one. We had a breathtaking backcountry ride in the La Sal Mountains. We were up at the crack of dawn so we could ride in the cool morning air. Before we took off, Rim Tours cooked and served a fantastic breakfast out of the back of the van. We ate overlooking the mountainside that was our destination. Our guides then packed up and instructed us, making sure we were up to speed, so to speak, on our machines. Along the whole 18-mile trek, the Rim Tours leader up front kept riding back to check on the slowest (that would be me) while the van followed well behind, enough to keep out of site. Anyone who faced a challenge that was too hard could ride in the van until ready to resume the ride. Our guides from Rim Tours were fun and professional and I couldn't recommend them more highly. I wanted to go out with them again the next day, but we were on to our next destination.
Peace Tree Juice Cafe - Moab
Hot from mountain biking and ravenously hungry, we went into the Peace Tree Juice Cafe and had the most wonderful smoothies. Peace Tree specializes in wraps as well as smoothies, and if I hadn't been so hungry that I just inhaled mine, I would be able to tell you more than that it was delicious. I can say that under normal circumstances, I would have been finished after eating just half, and gotten the other half wrapped to go. Our guides ordered something that was not on the menu at Peace Tree - a peanut butter wrap with fruit and granola that is apparently a signature treat that is a pain to make so the kitchen doesn't do it unless asked. I didn't get a chance to taste it because apparently our guides were as hungry as I was and that thing just disappeared.
Arches National Park
Even in the 104º heat, the path to the leading attraction at Arches National Park was busy with visitors hiking up to the Delicate Arch. The more intrepid of our group took to the climb. I went with our guide to a shorter hike that gives you a pretty decent view, but doesn't let you actually pass under the landmark. If you want to do the hike up to the top and are not a hard-core desert hiker, my best suggestion is that you go in the morning, since the hike has almost no shade and the hard rock path accumulates and radiates the heat of the sun. Even so, those who made the trek were glad they did. The rest of the park is spectacular as well, and even if you think you will just want to drive through Arches National Park and look from the air-condtioned cool of your vehicle, at some point you will feel you just have to get out and walk among these stunning rock formation.
Moab House, Moab
Most people who plan an adventure travel vacation in Utah and want to be located in one place choose to stay in Moab. Some of the best white water rafting, mountain biking and hiking in the world are all within reach of the desert town. If you plan to stay more than a night or two, consider renting a small house. I stayed in Moab House, a real home base for the active adventures and misadventures of our trip. Moab House offers you your own kitchen, living room with tv for movies at night, clothes washing machine, hot tub with killer jets for sore muscles, and generally a place to feel at home. Wifi codes are in the welcome book. Plus, there were home made chocolate chip cookies on arrival. It was a great place to hang out with the others and yet allowed everyone to come and go on their own speed, especially in the morning.
Singha Thai, Moab
Singha Thai is a hole-in-the-wall restaurant that shares an outside door with a barbershop. The real entrance is inside, where you will find a small restaurant that serves up decent Thai food that makes a nice change from the average fare on the road. If you are looking for a change of pace, you can get some spice in your life at Singha Thai.
Sheri Griffith Expeditions, Moab
White water rafting in Utah is another must. Along with mountain biking, it is the essence of the Utah adventure. If one of them doesn't hook you, the other one will. Our all-day trip was organized by Sheri Griffith Expeditions. The bus ride to Westwater Canyon on the Colorado River takes quite a while. Moab may be in the middle of the wilderness, but the rapids are even farther out from civilization. The two biggest dangers of white water rafting have nothing to do with the river. They are dehydration and sunburn, so they make sure you are prepared to drink and block. They loaded us on rafts and we headed downstream. The first leg before lunch was pretty tame and was all about getting us used to working as a team. Then the rapids began, and the excitement started. Our captain was fantastic; the other rafts on the river gave him the nod to go first through the rapids. I think they all respected his skill and wanted to see how he ran them. It turned out ours was the only raft that took the more difficult, wilder route through the rapids nicknamed "The Skull" and we got a fantastic rush from it. For the final leg of the 17-mile trip, they lashed the rafts together and we relaxes as we motored to the pickup location, tired and exhilarated from a fantastic trip down the Colorado River.
Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City
Best museum ever. Every kid in America should visit this museum...whatever their age. Go there before you explore the state because if you see something that interests you at the NHMU - a geological formation or a habitat or a petroglyph - there is a small wifi node by the exhibit where you can load its real-world location onto an app on your smart phone. Then go find it as you travel the state with the app as your guide. But even if you are just there for the museum itself, everything is so well thought out and presented as to make it fascinating fun. Start at the top of the NHMU, work your way down. Play with all the cool interactive features that appeal to you. Near the bottom you walk through dinosaurs and come out in the bright modern atrium. Grab some coffee and meditate on the wow! of this world we live in. Best museum ever.
Grand America Hotel, Salt Lake City
Built for the Salt Lake City Olympics, the Grand America Hotel is grand luxury all the way. The 24-story edifice is imposing and a bit intimidating as it overpowers its neighbors, but the minute you walk inside you are in a warm and inviting atmosphere of hospitality. The staff at the Grand America is gracious, the rooms elegant, the common areas lovely and comfortable and the amenities sumptuous. The Grand Spa reminds me of the best European spas and where I got an absolutely fantastic massage. There is an outdoor pool for summer and an equally large indoor pool for all seasons. The Grand America Hotel decor has a decidedly Old World feel, but the warmth of the staff is Utah all the way.
Copper Onion, Salt Lake City
The Copper Onion is great dining. The light and ambiance are designed to create the perfect atmosphere for a companionable evening with friends or loved ones. The food is deceptively simple, in that the flavors of the underlying ingredients, whether meat or vegetable, rise to your palate in full flavor. Only the best ingredients could be so "naked" and still be so delectable. Yet the overtones of the dishes suggest more complexity and skill that only the best can pull off without seeming to try to impress. The Copper Onion staff accommodates special requests and substitutions that communicates to patrons that the first desire of the kitchen is to please your palate, whatever its idiosyncrasies. A perfect coda on a fabulous dream vacation in the state of Utah.


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Hughes was sent to the stands in his side''s 5-1 Barclays Premier League loss at St James'' Park.
A FA statement read: "Stoke City manager Mark Hughes has been charged by The FA following his side''s game at Newcastle United yesterday.
"It is alleged that his behaviour in or around the 40th minute of the fixture amounted to improper conduct.
"Hughes has until January 2, 2014 to respond to the charge."
If he accepts the charge or is found guilty, Hughes faces a financial penalty in a standard case and no touchline ban.
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was punished similarly for his dismissal against Cardiff earlier this season.
Hughes'' charge relates to his conduct on the touchline and not his post-match comments.
The Welshman was ordered from the dug-out after he reacted in fury to the dismissal of midfielder Glenn Whelan, and he was still making his way to his new vantage point when defender Marc Wilson followed inside three dreadful first-half minutes with the visitors leading 1-0.
Whelan picked up two yellow cards, the first for kicking the ball away and clashing with Yohan Cabaye after being penalised for a foul on Moussa Sissoko, and the second for a foul on Cabaye.
Wilson followed for hauling down Loic Remy inside the box and although goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen saved the resulting spot-kick, the writing was on the wall for the numerically-disadvantaged Potters.
Following the match Hughes hit out at referee Martin Atkinson.
He said: "From one of our arguably most senior referees, I was absolutely dismayed by his performance, to be perfectly honest.
"We were very much in control of the game and then the referee makes a couple of decisions which change the course of the game.
"We all say, managers, players, everybody, that you just want the referees to make decisions that are correct and make the key decisions that don''t have a direct impact on the result.
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I know I'm not alone in imagining that being alive in the 1960s meant I would walk down a naturally yellow-tinted street, wave to my friends John, Paul, Ringo, and George, hop into a van of friendly strangers, and drive across America till we found ourselves (and ourselves) in California, Joni Mitchell waiting for us at some canyon next to a lady who sells magical beads on a rug. Or that in the '80s, I would've gone to school with Molly Ringwald during the day, and gone to clubs with Debbie Harry and Stephen Sprouse at night. Tumblr is full of teenagers moping about being born in the wrong decade and YouTube is full of people complaining that the Little Monsters of today will never know music like it once was. Most of the time I feel convinced that the whole internet is devoted to trying to preserve, remember, and figure out what life was like without the internet.
But you know something? It's not all that bad, this here 21st century. At least, I hope not. Here is a list of things that will either make you more OK with being a youth nowadays, or convince you I am in total denial about this whole thing.
First, a few good things that did not exist before.
1. Harry Potter
It's about time that I tell you that I have never read or seen Harry Potter. I don't know why! I just never got into it? Got around to it? Please don't hate me. I'm not trying to be one of those people who pride themselves on having different taste—I'm actually quite ashamed. But I have never really regretted this lack of a relationship with HP so extremely until this past summer, when the last movie came out. Picture a cluster of people I've been in school with for years huddled together, crying, and me jaunting over to fake-sob and pat everyone on the back and scream IT'LL BE OK, WE'LL ALL BE OK! while they close me out of the circle and speak to one another in spell names.
It's not that I felt uncool or abnormal. (One thing that's so great about Harry Potter is that it transcends both the "mainstream" and "indie" categories.) It's that I missed this great cultural bonding moment! Years from now, when you are a person on the social prowl at your new friend's housewarming party, a Harry Potter mention will spark enthusiasm in everyone there. Meanwhile, I will hide under a table and nibble on cheese.
2. Mean Girls
Again, cultural bonding. I am 99% sure that 99% of the people who are currently teenagers know 100% of Mean Girls by heart. It is a fact. I surveyed every teenager alive and then put a percent symbol next to it so you know it's real. If you ever find yourself in an awkward situation with a bunch of peers you don't know, a Mean Girls reference is sure to break the ice. If no one knows what you're talking about, you have obviously been tricked into joining some kind of cult for stupid people and you need to get some new friends, goddamn.
3. The Disney Channel of the early 2000s
I'm just going to keep talking about generational bonding until you all realize I just really want a friend :((((((((((((
4. Awkward humor
While shows like The Office, Community, Arrested Development, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, and Curb Your Enthusiasm are only possible because of shows like Seinfeld before them, there's no way they could've been made before nowadays. This shit is hilarious. If you are a smart dork who has always talked like you belong at the Parks department of Pawnee, IN, you are about to have the social world in your hands, you little butterfly, you.
5. Miranda July
An embarrassing amount of my time is spent searching my brain for some kind of reference that will make my current setting feel somehow aesthetically pleasing. I can tolerate school because I feel like I'm in my favorite John Hughes movie, I don't mind suburbia because there's something kinda cool and creepy about it in a the-neighborhood-in-Edward Scissorhands kinda way. This can be difficult, however, since things no longer look like this. Cars today are just ugly. Clothes are kind of ugly. CAN'T EVERYONE JUST CHANGE THEIR LIFESTYLE SO THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS EASIER ON MY EYES????
Sure, lots of pretty movies have been made nowadays, but so few of them actually take place now. Or if they do, they're stylized beyond recognition. Like, what do Wes Anderson's characters do about food? Vintage Hot Pockets? Get real, man.
Miranda July's movies, especially Me and You and Everyone We Know, which is more visually intense than The Future, will make you happier about where you live and ugly cars and boring blinds.
6. Talented people
Moping about the latest Disney Channel offerings aside, our generation has some really good representatives. You just know that Chloe Moretz, Hailee Steinfeld, Elle and Dakota Fanning, Gabourey Sidibe, Jennifer Lawrence, and Saoirse Ronan will be like, those classic stars who will still be going to the Oscars when they're 80 and making speeches reminiscing about that time they all rode a golf cart together on the set of The Powerpuff Girls, while a short red-haired blogger ran along the side telling them how pretty they all are.
7. Pixar
Thank you, Pixar, for The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Up, Cars, and Ratatouille. But especially for The Incredibles, and Jack-Jack, who only supports Hazel's fear of babysitting.
8. Good nostalgia
Our nostalgia might not be cute or heartwarming, but it is hilarious and sweet in its own way. Here, there's even a Tumblr for it already.
9. And more.
Like, a lot more! To me, this includes things and people like Adele, Nicki Minaj, Girls, Janelle Monae, Hunx and his Punx, Arcade Fire. And that's just music-wise! I'm sure I'm missing a trillion things.
OK, now that the laundry list of redeemers is done, these are more general.
10. Whatever idea we have of the past is romanticized, greatly.
The internet is a big, talkative, bottomless pit. Way back in ye olde 1960s, tweets were delivered not by obnoxious smart phones, but by birds resembling the doves on the Woodstock poster, reaching people staying in communes on different ends of California. Right? RIGHT?
Probably not. I don't want to upset any adult readers who maintain that the '60s or '70s or what have you actually were that magical (hi Dad), but they sure weren't the version I've scrapped together from movies and old photographs. In reality, things back then were still kinda trashy—there was already a tabloid culture, for example. And when things weren't trashy, it was often because conformity was much more a rule of Being a Person than it is now. Of course, that means rebellion was more fun back then, but ultimately, it's a positive thing that no one would ever make this video today, no?
People complain about how ladies used to be so classy, and how nowadays they are such goddamn hoes, but the expectation to dress like that was about showing you had money, and being conventionally attractive, and finding a man. I guess things are still like that in a lot of ways, but at least there are more options now if those goals aren't in your interest, more people creating spaces where those aspirations aren't relevant. Plus, it's easier to be of color or a girl or queer nowadays, and that's, you know, nice.
11. If a song, a book, anything is really good, it will transcend time.
I get really depressed thinking about how much more special my favorite band would have been if I'd discovered it in a record store in the middle of nowhere, and it was unlike any kind of culture I'd previously been exposed to, and I had to get to the store and bring home this big fat circle and put it on this box and put the needle on the circle and even then only get a crackly sound to hear it at all. But, if not for the internet, I wouldn't ever have found a lot of the music and movies I love at all, or at least for a while. Most of the time it's harder to appreciate a song or video online since there's so much of that stuff, but the very best will always stick out. A powerful song is a powerful song, and while certain songs might've come out at just the right time for culture's sake, they can still get to you on a personal level as much as they might've if you'd been alive back then.
12. The internet, OK?
Look, I'm not going to get into an argument with anyone over whether the internet is, ultimately, a good or a bad thing. It's here and it's not going away, so we better make the best of it. We had a good decade there where 99% of the online world was stupid YouTube videos and celebrity gossip, but I think creative communities are growing now, and only like 90% of the internet is that annoying and stupid. Every month we talk about some of the 10% that can be funny and smart and beautiful, and I'd hope you'd think that Rookie fits in there, too. And now I must be off to go make us a membership card for the Internet Elite! Seriously though, the combination of creativity with community is inspiring. Also, finding people who like the same stuff as you is way more convenient now and for most people pretty comforting.
13. Options.
Though I would love to stroll down my yellow-tinted '60s street with my buddies from Liverpool, I'm also really glad I get to enjoy Hole, and David Sedaris, and other things that came later on. Part of being a teenager is figuring out what stuff you like, and those who are teenagers now have a whole all-you-can-eat buffet of things to enjoy.
Use the internet to discover shit you like, and use the beauty of tangibility which so many believe no longer exists to absorb yourself in it. If you hear an album you love on Bandcamp, buy it on vinyl so you can watch those golden sounds get churned out. Watch videos of your favorite bands performing live on YouTube, then form your own. Listen to a great mix on 8tracks, then make mixtapes to decorate and give to your friends. Find zines on Tumblr or Etsy and then make your own.
I was talking about this with Anaheed and she remembered some Winona Ryder interview where Winona was like, "I wish people still baked bread!" You can still bake bread, Noni! And people can still play records and read magazines and listen to the Who. It's just that, well, most people don't. And you know? Maybe that even makes it more special. ♦


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Surgical hijinks unfold as ace Army cutters subvert the Korean War, drive lieutenants over the edge, chase after wary nurses, and have fun with syringes during an epic football game--all the while remembering that they're living in the backdrop of a seemingly senseless war zone.
Starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall
Directed by Robert Altman
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Genre - Comedy
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The Detroit Lions are benching wide receiver Titus Young this week after what coach Jim Schwartz called "unacceptable" behavior during Sunday's loss to Green Bay.
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) ? The Detroit Lions are benching wide receiver Titus Young this week after what coach Jim Schwartz called "unacceptable" behavior during Sunday's loss to Green Bay.
Schwartz did not characterize the move as a suspension, but he said Young was sent home from the team's practice facility Monday and will be inactive for Detroit's game against Houston on Thanksgiving. The coach did not say what Young specifically did wrong.
"When you play a team sport, you need to put team before yourself," Schwartz said. "There's no room for selfish behavior."
Young, a second-year receiver out of Boise State, has 33 catches for 383 yards and four touchdowns this season. He caught one pass for 24 yards Sunday.
Young was involved in an altercation with teammate Louis Delmas last offseason. When he was in college, he missed most of the 2008 season for disciplinary reasons.
"That is ground that we've already covered, and I thought that we would be past this, but we haven't been," Schwartz said. "His behavior on Sunday was unacceptable, and it hurt the team, particularly on offense."
The Lions lost 24-20 to Green Bay, falling to 4-6. With their playoff hopes dwindling, they face Houston (9-1) on Thursday. The Texans enter the game tied for the NFL's best record.
At times, Young has looked like an ideal complement to star receiver Calvin Johnson. Young caught nine passes for 100 yards against Seattle last month, including the winning touchdown in the final minute. But now he's facing another setback.
"Coach felt it necessary, and I obviously support our head coach," quarterback Matthew Stafford said. "I support our players too. I want the best for everybody out here."
Schwartz said he doubts Young will practice Tuesday.
Young's demotion wasn't the only issue Schwartz had to address Monday. Detroit had to settle for a field goal deep in Green Bay territory when a touchdown would have given the Lions a 10-point lead. Then the Packers promptly drove for a TD and took a 21-20 advantage, and Detroit turned over the ball on downs.
Toward the end of the game, Detroit receivers coach Shawn Jefferson was seen screaming in the direction of offensive coordinator Scott Linehan.
"We certainly don't want to let our emotions get the best of us on the sideline," Schwartz said. "I've been a part of the NFL for a long time, and there's very rarely a game that goes by that something is not said, usually over the headset or something, that somebody takes offense to or interprets the wrong way.
"It was the frustration of the game situation. We had a chance to pretty much seal the game with a touchdown. We didn't get that done. We had a chance after that to drive down and potentially get a game-winning field goal, which we've done quite a few times. We didn't get that done."
Schwartz said the two assistants are fine going forward.
"The thing about it is they were both on the same side of the argument, but in the heat of the moment, they ended up missing that fact," Schwartz said.
NOTES: Schwartz said DB Drayton Florence was diagnosed with a concussion Monday. Schwartz said Florence "passed all the tests on the sideline" after leaving early in Sunday's game. "He returned to play ? played pretty well ? didn't have any signs as we went forward," Schwartz said. "Wasn't having any symptoms after the game. This morning, woke up with a headache." ... Schwartz says OL Jeff Backus, who hurt what appeared to be his right hamstring, will probably be doubtful for Thursday's game. Backus has started 186 straight games.


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Post subject: LOL and "Carbon-Footprints".
Happy New Year to all here on the forum,here's hoping that 2008 is full of love,light,laughter...recently doing my own reading on the various catastrophes that could await us if more action is not taken re:global warming,e.t.c,and what with Environmental Crusaders like Al Gore,e.t.c,alarming the mass population with dire statistics,warnings and ways of modifying our relative "Carbon-Footprint",it occured to me that those of us that are either LOL,are transitioning or simply eat periodically just for the sheer pleasure of it are truly part of the entire emerging paradigm of reducing humans' "Carbon-Footprint" as the saving of resources has got to have some sort of impact in relation to this cause,as the less people eat,or the less people NEED to eat and then eat just for the pleasure of it,MUST have a tremendous impact on the amount of resources and therefore a massive reduction in the emission of methane gasses,toxicity in the atmosphere as a result of food production,animal feeding,e.t.c, - so this goes beyond the efficacy that pure Vegetarianism has in reducing the general pollution associated with all sorts of food-production!!! just imaginge the further reduction in the pollution of our beautiful world as more individuals consciously and actively reduce their dependance on the world's resources?And yes,i know that Jasmuheen has covered this in much more detail in her fabuluos books and manuals,but the LOL paradigm in relation to reducing Carbon emissions really made me think of all of us here,and how we should feel proud that we are actually and actively involved in this shift in consciousness that is currently happening all around the planet - that's all,but please feel free to respond here,as this could be another interesting debate to get our teeth into,so to speak!!!Love and light to you ALL - Hara Namah XXXOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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Hi Hara - Thanks for that. Yes indeed LOL can play a big part in reducing global warming levels and generally making us more environmental friendly. Imagine the environmental benefits of the masses Living on Light - it is huge! Imagine no supermarkets and no food factories, no mcdonald's and the like!, no hospitals (as people stay healthy). What a saving in the carbon gases produced at the power stations alone to keep these establishments running. They must use huge amounts of power when you think about it on a global level. Switching to alternative natural sources of power is the way to go I am not saying here that I envision no one eating and there's no outlets where people barter for or buy some form of physical nourishment.
Just that society will be much more civilised concerning the production of food, for example the elimination of cans, cardboard packaging (let's save trees) plastic wrappers, plastic shopping bags connected to the junk- devitalised food sold in shopping centres. So much of this because we live in a society addicted to food and have lost our true source of nourishment which is Love!
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:53 am
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Hi there dear brother and All - and just recently i read AND heard on the T.V that some Scientists are predicting a Global Famine at some point in the near future,as the resources are severely dwindling - HELLO!!! - if the powers that be had taken heed earlier and eradicated third world debt and spread the resources around for all to share perhaps there would have been more for the needy and the poor to eat over the last few decades!?!?But of course as always with Universal Law there are many factors involved here - Karma,lessons,initiations,e.t.c, - and with the Solar System aligning closer and closer to the "Galactic Equator" the vibrations are increasing exponentially,especially ever since 1998,and what with our physical bodies mutating deeper and further,i actually believe that it is a matter of time before "Physical Nutrition" becomes a simple choice,as it alreday is for many people around the world.But not for a minute do i think and/or believe that Pranic Nourishers/Breatharians,e.t.c are the chosen ones or any such idiocy as that,just that the time is soon upon us to make clearer choices as a species,that's all...excuse me if this is sounding a little "trippy" or anything like that,just that recently i have been seriously considering where the human race is metamorphosing to and what service means to other individuals on a daily basis,the intensity of the energies that are becoming more obvious almost daily also,and other such factors...anyway,hope that all of you are well,healthy,happy,e.t.c,and take care,love and light - Hara Namah XXXOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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TODAY'S ARTICLE IN THE PAPER READ - "THE START OF THE FAMINE" - PEOPLE,FOOD RIOTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED BY THE UNITED NATIONS IN THE LAST SIX WEEKS AT LEAST,IN COUNTRIES SUCH AS HAITI,EGYPT,YEMEN,CAMEROON,BANGLADESH,COTE d'IVOIRE,MAURITIANA,MOZAMBIQUE,SENEGAL AND EVEN MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA!!!CAMBODIA AND EGYPT HAVE RICE SHORTAGES;"STAPLES" SUCH AS RICE,CORN,WHEAT AND SOYBEANS ARE SKYROCKETTING IN PRICE GLOBALLY;McDONALDS - ONE OF THE MOST SELFISH CORPORATIONS ON OUR BEAUTIFUL PLANET - ARE SERVING HALF PORTIONS OF RICE AT THEIR RESTAURANTS IN MANILLA;BRAZIL,ARGENTINA AND VIETNAM HAVE RESTRICTIONS OF EXPORTS WHILST INDIA HAS HALTED ALL EXPORTS OF RICE EXCEPT FOR BASMATI.AUSTRALIA,WHERE I LIVE AND BREATHE(AND STILL DRINK A LITTLE!)IS SUFFERING RISING COSTS IN BEEF AND ALL DAIRY FOODS AND EGGS,FRUIT AND VEGES ARE ASTRONOMICAL IN PRICE AND ALTHOUGH OUR ENTIRE EAST COAST IS COMING OUT OF A TERRIBLE DROUGHT,OUR "OUTBACK" CENTRES ARE STILL SOME OF THE DRIEST PLACES ON THE GLOBE AND ARE GETTING WORSE.THE WORLD BANK ESTIMATES THAT PRICES FOR ALL FOODS HAVE RISEN 83% IN THE LAST 3 YEARS ALONE!!!NOW,I'M NO "STICK IN THE MUD" OR HARD-CORE PESSIMIST - I'M ACTUALLY A HOPELESS OPTIMISTIC/UTOPIAN/"AQUARIAN" - BUT WHAT'S TO SAY OF THE SITUATION IN A FEW YEARS WITH YET MORE SOULS INCARNATING AND BUSTLING TO GET HERE???UNLESS THEY ARE ALL LIKE THE IN-COMING CHILDREN THAT ARE HIGHLY EVOLVED AND THAT ONLY REQUIRE MINIMAL AMOUNTS OF FOOD,E.T.C - WHAT ARE PEOPLE GOING TO BE EATING IN THE FUTURE?SPREAD THE WORD - BREATHING IS FREE - YES,WE ALL KNOW THAT THIS IS OBVIOUS,BUT INCREASING OUR FOCUS AND INTENT ON OUR LIFE-GIVING BREATH,IS,I BELIEVE,AN INSURANCE POLICY - IF YOU WILL!? - FOR THE SURVIVAL OF OUR SPECIES AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE...JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT,OR IS THAT THOUGHT AS FOOD?...AND GET THIS,QUOTED FROM "THE AUSTRALIAN" NEWSPAPER - "...FOOD INFLATION IS ABOUT THE HUNGER OF THE POOR,AND IF THERE'S ONE ANECDOTE THAT DRIVES HOME THE DESPERATE SUFFERING,IT'S THE STORY OF MOTHERS IN HAITIAN SLUMS WHO HAVE BEEN FEEDING THEIR CHILDREN MUD PIES MIXED WITH OIL AND SUGAR TO TRY TO MAKE THEIR HUNGER PANGS GO AWAY"!!!...
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You have said it very well Hara, Of course the masses moving into the pranic nourishment pradigm will be a potential solution to world hunger, famine, aspects of global warming etc, although this may be many decades away I admit. how long it takes is really up to individuals and how wiling they are to embrace positive change and a new way of being on this planet. Humanity must assess its relationship to food, it is simply intolerable that thousands are malnourished and dying of hunger in third world countries while so many in the so called developed world eat far more than they need just to satisfy their palate and create a massive drain on the worlds resources through their addiction to food most of which is totally deleterious to their health. There comes a time when as pranic nourishers we look past just the wonderful personal benefits that brings and become more altruistic and look at how the masses, even just going to a diet of light, live raw food will bring massive sustainability benefits. I've written elsewhere on this forum about the planetary benefits of Divine Nourishment which are enormous so I won't repeat myself here. Anyway thanks for all the recent writings on this forum Hara which are quite inspiring!
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Gary Peters leads race for Levin's seat, but still has long way to go in Senate race
Poll shows Michigan Senate race belongs to Gary Peters for now, but it's anyone's race this far out
DETROIT – Prominent Democratic consulting firm Main Street Strategies out of Lansing wanted to get an idea of where the numbers stand for Democratic contenders when it comes to filling the large shoes of longtime Senator Carl Levin.
Read: Sen. Levin leaves legacy, speculation on who will fill seat
According to the firm's poll, Gary Peters is leading the way with 24.84 percent of the vote. Former Congressman Burt Stupak has 11.74 percent, Debbie Dingell has 9.22 percent and former Congressman Mark Schauer has 9 percent.
The real number to look at is the undecided which is currently at 45.23 percent.
"This is clearly a race that's up for grabs. In the preseason you have to rank Gary Peters as the leader," said Joe Dissano, of Main Street Strategies.
Peters has to look at this poll and be pleased. However, he probably also needs to realize there is quite a ways to go in the Democratic primary.
"Mrs. Dingell would be a very formidable challenger," said Dissano.
Dissano, for his part, believes this will remain a Democratic seat but can see a real run for the money depending on who the GOP puts up. If, for example, Congressman Mike Rogers, from the Congressional 8th District, decides to go for this and nabs his party's primary, be prepared for an intense fight to the finish.
"I don't believe in a slam dunk for either party in 2014. I think it's a blue seat and I think it will remain a blue seat," said Dissano.
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I am. I was amazed by the Evers-Swindell twins, who after seeming almost invincible in 2004 have been quite frankly average since but proved themselves to be true champions when the big event came around again, and by Valerie Vili's immense performance, and I was surprised but elated with the gold medal earnt by Tom Ashley (from Takapuna! Just down the road from me. WAG). I was also proud of the other medal performances by our cyclists, rowers, Bevan Docherty in the triathlon and Nick Willis in the 1500. Also special mention for Mahe Drysdale, haven't seen a sportsperson representing NZ give as much effort as that in a long time and I'm sure he would have done better if he'd been 100% fit. Hope to see him again in four years.
Our best Olympics in the time I've been old enough to take interest, so plenty of reason to be proud. Well done NZ.


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Coping with the loss of a loved one isn't easy at the best of times, so when Mikel Jollett, the main singer and songwriter behind The Airborne Toxic Event recently revealed to DiS that four members of his family had passed away in the space of a year, one can barely comprehend the level of grief that must have consumed him. That All At Once emerged out of such a devastating period in Jollett's life serves as a testament to its creators. In many ways a concept record borne out of the effects felt dealing with sudden change, it also coincided with a conscientiously productive period in which almost 40 songs were scrapped. With so many songs confined to the back burner, one would certainly expect the quality control supervisor to have been busy. In this case, step forward one Dave Sardy, producer extraordinaire whose past acquaintances reads like a who's who of the sublime (Slayer) to the ridiculous (The Ting Tings).
While difficult to ascertain the precise level of influence exerted by Sardy, the difference in both structure and sound on All At Once compared to its self-titled predecessor is evident from the outset. Where the band's 2009 debut oozed potential,All At Once documents the realisation of said possibilities in varying measures.
Aiming for the stars from the off with the euphoric title track, the song's measured intro is suddenly overcome by a thunderous build up that explodes into life at Jollett's momentous instruction "I feel the world changing all at once, I guess it will be OK." Not content with following a similar trail to The Decemberists circa Picaresque, it then proceeds to double back on itself, engulfed by a massive coda that evolves into a second song. Only one song in and already head and shoulders above anything on The Airborne Toxic Event, keeping the momentum going after such an inspired start is a perilously tall order, yet one which the band rise to exquisitely.
The shoegaze flavoured candy pop of 'Numb' and the delicate strains of 'All For A Woman' see the band digress into previously unchartered territories, the latter's outro and pitch perfect harmonies between Jollett and classically trained multi-instrumentalist Anna Bulbrook hauntingly reminiscent of The Smiths 'You've Got Everything Now'. Apart from 'It Doesn't Mean A Thing' - a dead ringer for early single 'Gasoline' - there's very little here linking the band on All At Once to the one that put out their first record.
That they've recently been known to play a cover of Bruce Springsteen's 'I'm On Fire' during encores doesn't go amiss on songs like 'The Kids Are Ready To Die', an occasionally messy, but overtly poignant acoustic number that gets its message across fairly eloquently about the thousands of lives wasted on Afghan soil. Segueing into the blistering 'Welcome To Your Wedding Day', a riotous lust for life built around a hokline that screams "We don't negotiate with terror!" incessantly, All At Once switches direction and dimension at the drop of a hat, never resting on its laurels at any point.
'Strange Girl', meanwhile, draws on The Cure for inspiration, Jollett recalling the tale of an old flame by way of "It was an old song from 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me' that she sang". Better still is the climactic 'All I Ever Wanted', debuted on the band's live DVD of the same name and re-recorded here once again with the Calder Quartet on strings in all its pomp and glory. Careering on a virulent bassline, violins announcing the arrival of its awakening chorus that holds court on the words "Forever! Forever! Forever!" repeated intently. Surely their big radio hit in waiting and a more than worthy successor to breakthrough single 'Sometime Around Midnight', it's the most striking example of how far The Airborne Toxic Event have progressed as songwriters since albums one and two.
Not that All At Once is without any flaws. 'Changing' could be a Californian Razorlight while 'Half Of Something Else' floats by around the album's midpoint virtually unnoticed.
However, the underlying theme of All At Once is perhaps best summed up by its closing gambit, the shimmering acoustic-led 'The Graveyard Near The House'. "It seems a little less profound, that we're all going the same way down" opines Jollett solemnly, its maudlin sentiment undoubtedly summing up its lyricist's mood at the time, while hovering menacingly like a moonlight shadow over the rest of All At Once.
Having been previously accused in some quarters of being calculated and fake, the contents of All At Once paint an all too real picture of a catalogue of traumatic events dominating Mikel Jollett's thoughts. As a result, The Airborne Toxic Event can hold their heads high safe in the knowledge their supposedly difficult second album is a resolute triumph in the face of adversity.
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More Confessions of a Weekend Golfer: Tackling Foxwoods
It was not a bad weekend for "The Shotmaker." Let's put it this way: golf, gambling and all the glitter of the Northeast's hottest new hotel/casino, MGM Grand at Foxwoods. All wrapped up in one weekend. Not bad, right? The golf was almost more fun than a guy should have. It got started with me getting to play with one of my favorite golfing buddies, Champions Tour star Jim Thorpe. It got even better when we were joined on Saturday by one of his best golfing and cigar buddies, fellow Champions Tour player Dana Quigley, whom I had played with many times before and loved every time. The Saturday group was rounded out by a real American treasure, former Major League pitcher Luis Tiant, who it seemed never had a cigar out of his mouth. Michael Douglas joined me, Thorpe and Tiant on Sunday. Douglas is one of Hollywood's all-time great actors and a real gentleman, not to mention a former Cigar Aficionado cover boy in the June 1998 issue. Not a bad group, right?
The venue was great. Only three years old, the Lake of Isles golf course has been named one of the best public golf courses in Connecticut. Designed by Rees Jones, it's a tough tract with long forced carries, even from the middle tees, and pretty narrow fairways that wind between the trees of the New England coast.
There's water, island greens and lots of trouble awaiting any errant tee shots. The match on Saturday pitted The Shotmaker and Thorpe against Quigley and Tiant. What it really turned into was a brilliant exhibition of golf between Thorpe and Quigley. Dana must have made nine putts from 10 feet or longer. His putter was on fire. He shot a blistering 69 on the par-72 course playing from the gold tees of 6,862 yards. Thorpe didn't roll over … he shot a 71 and was in the match the whole way.
Tiant, a 10-handicapper, scored a very respectable 86, with 43s on the front and back. While his scores were even on the front and back nines, the 67-year-old really picked up the level of his game on the back and his shots were much sharper coming home.
The Shotmaker did show up on Saturday. But I can't say much more than that. I carded a 50 on the front nine and a 46 on the back nine. I didn't have much to brag about.
I even lost the cigar competition! Tiant smoked eight cigars during our round. The Shotmaker only smoked five. And if that wasn't enough humiliation, I smoked robustos while Tiant kept firing up much longer double coronas. His cigars were blends made for his son from tobacco grown in Nicaragua, and called El Tiante, Tiant's nickname when he was playing for the Boston Red Sox.
Now, Saturday's golf would have been enough to make the weekend memorable. But Saturday night was the grand opening of MGM Grand at Foxwoods, an 825-room hotel that is fashioned after the great mega-casino resorts in Las Vegas. The black-tie event included performances by Josh Groban, Alicia Keys and John Mayer, three of the hottest young entertainers in the world today. Not bad, right?
Sunday was in many ways more of the same on the golf course, but a totally different story for me. The Shotmaker showed up big-time. I shot a respectable 91, which included a rare birdie on the island green of the 136-yard 11th hole. It happened unexpectedly, with a 35-foot uphill putt, but it still showed a big 2 on the scorecard.
Thorpe hits a shot during the match.
Thorpe was steady as ever, shooting a par round of 72. It's always a joy to watch his easy swing and accuracy, and he seems to be in every hole.
On Sunday, Tiant came to play, too, and turned in an outstanding 81, including a 39 on the back nine. His tee shots were long, and he got up and down every time from the bunkers, showing that all parts of his game are solid.
The surprise of the day was Michael Douglas. He plays to a 17 handicap, but he was a little rusty because he hadn't had a club in his hand for a month. He was quick to make excuses on the first tee. By the fifth hole his game showed up with long drives and accurate long irons. He finished the front with a solid 45, but as the day went on, his game got stronger and stronger. He scored a 43 on the back nine and ended up with an 88 for the day.
I shared a cart with Michael as we played from the silver tees while Thorpe and Tiant played from the gold tees. We had a very enjoyable day together talking about golf, the movie business, families and life in general.
Golf is all about friendship, and this weekend was a lot of fun. Happiness is truly a four-letter world … G-O-L-F. Until next time.


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Sony's animation continues to impress on £2m, seeing off holdovers Sherlock Holmes and Alvin and the Chipmunks
Sony's animation Arthur Christmas continued on its remarkably resilient run in the UK, posting a Christmas weekend total of £2m – a 52% week-on-week increase - from 549 screens at an impressive average of £3,729.
While the slow-burner has only topped the UK chart twice during its seven-week run it has crossed the £1m mark each frame, a feat only matched this year by The King's Speech, which crossed £1m on nine consecutive weekends.
Despite not reaching the heights of Aardman's Chicken Run or Wallace and Gromit, the Christmas hit has been aided by a smart release strategy and weak opposition, and has now taken £19.7m and stands as the 12th biggest film of the year. Another solid holiday weekend is expected this coming frame.
Holdovers Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows and Alvin and The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked dropped to second and third respectively.
Warner Bros' sequel added £1.7m from a week-high 553 screens. The 2009 original opened a week earlier and stood £3m ahead of Game of Shadows after its second weekend. Going forward Guy Ritchie's action-adventure will face strong competition from Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo for the key 18-30 demographic.
Reliance's sixth-placed Don 2 was the only opener to grace the top ten, making £319,499 from only 76 screens at a week-high screen average of £4,204. The star-studded action improved on the 2006 original, which opened on £291,462 from 51 screens on its way to £1.4m.
New Year's weekend sees a wide release for Sony's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Entertainment's The Lady, a West End-opening for Oscar hopeful The Artist and a saturation rollout for Paramount's Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.


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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- An announcement that U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was stepping down brought mixed reactions from low-carbon advocates and petroleum leaders.
President Barack Obama said Salazar played an "integral role" in advancing the nation's domestic energy resources.
"In his work to promote renewable energy projects on our public lands and increase the development of oil and gas production, Ken has ensured that the department's decisions are driven by the best science and promote the highest safety standards," the president said in a statement.
Salazar made few friends in the energy sector when he said it was his department's obligation to "keep the boot on the neck" of BP during operations to control the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, described the departing secretary as a patriot.
"The American people will enjoy a brighter, cleaner energy future because of Secretary Salazar," he said in a statement.
Under Salazar's watch, Washington cleared the way for an East Coast offshore wind energy transmission line in early 2012. The Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in October, meanwhile, agreed to lease 96,430 acres of land off the coast of Delaware for wind energy development.
Salazar drew fire from the oil and natural gas sector, which complained he was too stringent with opening public land to energy explorers. Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, was quoted by Bloomberg News as saying that industry leaders, however, were able to find "common ground" on some of Salazar's policies.


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