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CARSON, Calif. – Real Salt Lake dropped the first leg of its Western Conference Semifinal series with the LA Galaxy on Sunday night, conceding early in the second half to fall 1-0 to the defending MLS Cup champions in front of a sold-out StubHub Center.
DF Sean Franklin scored the game's lone goal in the 47th minute, running onto a loose ball in the middle of RSL's third and blasting a gorgeous first-time effort into the back of the net from 35 yards out.
RSL now must win the series' decisive second leg on Thursday at Rio Tinto Stadium in order to have a shot at advancing to the Western Conference Final. If the teams are tied on aggregate at the end of regulation in Thursday's second leg, there will be a pair of 15-minute extra time periods. If the teams remain tied following extra time, the series will be decided by a penalty kick shootout.
Real Salt Lake began the match in a 4-5-1 formation, departing from its usual diamond shape in an effort to stymie the potent Galaxy attack. LA took advantage of RSL's defensive posture, controlling most of the first half and collecting the better chances throughout the 90 minutes.
LA had the first clear opportunity of the game in the 12th minute. MF Gyasi Zardes collected a ball on the left flank and slipped FW Landon Donovan behind the RSL defense with a long through ball. Donovan collected in the left side of the area, taking a touch before rolling a 10-yarder inches wide of RSL GK Nick Rimando's far post.
The Galaxy had another big opportunity in the 19th minute. Donovan collected a loose ball in the middle of RSL's half and caught the Claret-and-Cobalt in transition, slipping FW Robbie Keane behind for a 1-v-1 with Rimando. As he has so many times this season, the veteran 'keeper came up big for the Claret-and-Cobalt, getting low to hold Keane's 12-yarder.
RSL hit back with an opportunity of its own in the 26th. MF's Luis Gil and Ned Grabavoy combined nicely on the counter, with Grabavoy eventually releasing Gil at the top of the box for an 18-yard half-volley that flashed just wide of the right upright.
Franklin had a decent chance in the 28th minute, collecting a short corner kick at the top-left corner of the 18 before flashing a right-footed shot just over the bar.
RSL MF Javier Morales tried one from distance in the 36th, forcing Galaxy GK Jaime Penedo into a diving stop at the left post with a low effort from 30 yards.
Claret-and-Cobalt DF Chris Schuler saved a sure LA goal in the 42nd minute. Donovan and Keane again combined to create the chance, with Donovan starting the move by playing Keane through into the left side of the area. The Irish international carried the ball to the end line, eventually squaring it across the face of goal, past Rimando and toward Donovan at the back post. It looked like a sure tap-in for Donovan, but Schuler came in with a huge clearance, using every inch of his 6-foot-4 frame to make a miraculous sliding clearance out for a corner.
The Galaxy had another opportunity in the 43rd. MF Juninho played a corner to MF Robbie Rogers at the top-right corner of the six, allowing Rogers to flick a looping header just wide of the far post.
RSL fell behind in the 47th minute, when Franklin scored a wonder goal to put LA on the board. Keane started the play, collecting a ball on the left edge of the area and playing a deflected pass through the top of the box and back to Franklin in the center of RSL's third. The Galaxy left back took it from there, running onto the ball 30 yards from goal and absolutely smashing a right-footer that dipped to the right and slammed home just inside the right post.
RSL Head Coach Jason Kreis made a pair of attacking substitutions in 57th and 61st minutes, bringing FW Robbie Findley on for MF Yordany Alvarez before inserting MF Sebastian Velasquez for Grabavoy. The changes gave a boost to RSL, which quickly registered a pair of chances. FW Alvaro Saborio had the first look in the 65th minute, collecting a bouncing ball at the top of the 18 before turning and rifling a left-footed side volley just wide. Velasquez had the second opportunity in the 67th, getting on the end of a DF Tony Beltran cross in the left side of the area before hitting an eight-yard half volley off of a closing Galaxy defender.
Real Salt Lake had two more looks in the 73rd and 78th minutes, with MF Kyle Beckerman curling a 20-yard left-footer on frame that Penedo pawed out for a corner kick and Gil driving a 20-yard effort over the bar from the right side.
RSL's best chance came in the 80th minute. DF Chris Wingert started the play, floating a ball into the box from the left flank. An unmarked Gil got on the end of the cross at the right edge of the six-yard box, chipping the ball past the onrushing Penedo and across the face of goal. Substitute FW Devon Sandoval looked poised to head home from close range, but the rookie striker couldn't get on the end of it, going down under contact from Galaxy DF Todd Dunivant before he could finish the chance.
Keane could've made it 2-0 in the 85th minute. A pressing RSL side got caught out on the counter, with Keane collecting a flicked header on the right flank and running in behind the Claret-and-Cobalt defense. The Designated Player dribbled unimpeded into the box and fired a low right-footer that curled wide of the far post from 12 yards out.
Real Salt Lake had one final half chance in second half stoppage time. Beckerman clipped a cross into the right side of the area, with Gil rising and laying a header back to Findley just outside the box. The speedy striker volleyed a shot into the area, with Sandoval deflecting the bouncing effort wide of the right post.
RSL will host the second leg of the Western Conference Semifinal series at 7:00 p.m. MT on Thursday at Rio Tinto Stadium. Tickets to the decisive second leg are on sale and can be purchased at the Rio Tinto Stadium box office, online at www.RealSaltLake.com/Tickets or over the phone at 801-727-2700.
Click here to access video highlights and the RealSaltLake.com MATCHCENTER for RSL 0-1 LA
Real Salt Lake Match Notes – RSL 0-1 LA
- Sunday's match was RSL's third-ever playoff match against LA. The Claret-and-Cobalt beat the Galaxy in penalties in MLS Cup 2009 in Seattle and lost 3-1 to LA in the 2011 Western Conference Final in Carson.
- RSL now must win the series' decisive second leg on Thursday at Rio Tinto Stadium in order to have a shot at advancing to the Western Conference Final. If the teams are tied on aggregate at the end of regulation in Thursday's second leg, there will be a pair of 15-minute extra time periods. If the teams remain tied following extra time, the series will be decided by a penalty kick shootout.
- Real Salt Lake MF Ned Grabavoy left Sunday's match in the 61st minute for MF Sebastian Velasquez due to a left hamstring injury. The substitution marked just the third time in Grabavoy's 30 MLS starts this year that he did not play the full 90 minutes.
- RSL FW Joao Plata and DF Lovel Palmer were both unavailable on Sunday night due to injuries suffered in the Claret-and-Cobalt's Oct .23 regular season finale against Chivas USA. Both players are dealing with left hamstring strains; RSL is hoping to have both back for Thursday's second leg at Rio Tinto Stadium.
- Sunday's match marked the fourth time this season that Real Salt Lake did not start a match in its usual diamond formation. The Claret-and-Cobalt were 3-0-0 in the previous three times they departed from the diamond setup, beating Toronto FC 1-0 at BMO Field on June 29, topping FC Dallas 3-0 at Toyota Stadium on July 13 and beating the Houston Dynamo 1-0 at Rio Tinto Stadium on Aug. 10.
Goals by Period 1 2 F
Real Salt Lake 0 0 0
LA Galaxy 0 1 1
Scoring Summary:
LA – Sean Franklin (Robbie Keane) – 47'
Misconduct Summary:
RSL – Kyle Beckerman (Yellow Card; Foul) – 23'
LA – Juninho (Yellow Card; Foul) – 25'
LA – Rafael Garcia (Yellow Card; Foul) – 83'
Real Salt Lake (4-2-3-1): Nick Rimando; Chris Wingert, Chris Schuler, Nat Borchers, Tony Beltran; Yordany Alvarez (Robbie Findley, 57'), Kyle Beckerman (C), Luis Gil, Javier Morales, Ned Grabavoy (Sebastian Velasquez, 61'); Alvaro Saborio (Devon Sandoval, 79')
Substitutes not used: Jeff Attinella, Abdoulie Mansally, Carlos Salcedo, Cole Grossman, Devon Sandoval
LA Galaxy (4-4-2): Jamie Penedo; Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, Kofi Opare, Todd Dunivant; Robbie Rogers (Hector Jimenez, 61'), Juninho (A.J. DeLaGarza, 90'+1'), Marcelo Sarvas (Rafael Garcia, 83'), Gyasi Zardes; Landon Donovan, Robbie Keane (C)
Substitutes not used: Brian Rowe, Leonardo, A.J. DeLaGarza, Laurent Courtois, Jose Villarreal
Referee: Kevin Stott
Assistant Referees: Kermit Quisenberry, Fabio Tovar
4th Official: Juan Guzman
Attendance: 27,000
Weather: Clear and 64 degrees


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With the fall season, IHOP restaurants across the county have added to their menus. As I went into IHOP the other day it was decked out for Halloween. Cobwebs and spiders covered the pictures on the walls, along with friendly pumpkins on display. The wait wasn't long to be seated. I glanced through the menu, but what caught my eye was the picture of the Scary Face pancake.
It's probably not everyday that an adult orders the Scary Face pancake with no kids at their table. My waiter just smiled and said okay. As I waited for my meal my waiter brought me the Splashberry drink I ordered. At first sip I tasted mostly the strawberries at the bottom of the drink. As I gently stirred up the drink, lemon-lime soda and orange juice flavors began to creep in until it was like a fruit medley in my mouth.
At last the Scary Face pancake arrived. The plate size buttermilk pancake looked and smelled delicious. With oreo's stuck on whip cream for eyes, a strawberry nose, and candy corn on whip cream for the mouth and teeth, I wondered how it would taste.
I've had pancakes with chocolate chips, blueberries, and more, but never oreo's and candy corn. As I took a bite of one of the eyes on the Scary Face pancake the taste was delicious. The candy corn I thought may have been too much sugar, but I was pleasantly surprised. The face got scarier as I slowly carved through the pancake and poured red strawberry syrup over it. It was delicious to the very last bite.
For those looking for a safe place to eat out on Halloween, IHOP is the place to go. Kids 12 years and under get a free Scary Face pancake on October 31st! When you order a Scary Face pancake for kids 12 and under, the kids will get a chance to make it into as scary, or as funny, a face as they want. The Scary Face pancake comes with a strawberry nose and delicious decorations to let your imagination run wild!
Even though the Scary Face pancake is here for a short time. The pumpkin pancakes are here for the season. The pumpkin pancakes go great with a nice warm cup of hot cocoa or coffee. Though I was full from my pancake I ordered some pumpkin pancakes to go. They smelled so good, like fresh pumpkin pie, it was hard not to take a bite. The next morning they tasted just as delicious as they smelled the night before.
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Recently, hunters shot a hippo in the wilds of Australia's Northern Territory.
Read that again.
A hippo. In Australia.
Not a kangaroo, a platypus, a wombat or a dingo. No: This was one of Africa's most iconic animals.
And while this incident may just be a sad but isolated example of game preserves gone awry, I think it also provides a symbol for the strange new world conservationists are facing.
This wasn't just any hippo, but a pygmy hippo, an incredibly rare and elusive large mammal.
Pygmy hippos, one-fourth the size of the common hippopotamus, live deep in the forests of West Africa. They're nocturnal, shy and live in low population densities — making them extremely difficult to spot and study.
They're also in trouble. Their habitat happens to overlap some places with violent and chaotic recent histories, like Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The chances of seeing one in the wild are incredibly remote (unless you're Conservancy lead scientist Sanjayan, who saw one in 2004 and took the first photo of a wild one. Ever.)
And now one turns up on another continent, bagged by Aussie hunters who thought it was a feral pig.
The hippo likely escaped from a fenced wildlife preserve nearby. If that's the case, it has roamed Australia for several years, as the preserve closed in 2006.
There are lessons here on the realities of keeping large, non-native animals in fenced areas, as Feral Thoughts blogger Tony Peacock points out.
Good fences may make good neighbors, but they're generally poor at ensuring wild animals don't escape.
And you may ponder too why people continue to think that bringing new animals into a country is such a cool idea. It's a story that so often ends badly, yet people still move around carp and pythons and other invasive species.
Just this month, my state of Idaho became the latest to confirm the presence of destructive, non-native feral hogs — intentionally introduced because someone thought free-roaming pigs would make great game animals.
Mostly, though, I see the Australian pygmy hippo as symbolic of the strange new world we inhabit — a world where what we thought we knew about wild animals and where they live is no longer true.
Herds of African and Asian antelopes roam freely in Texas and New Mexico. Pythons gobble up small gators in Florida. Australian eucalyptus (sans koalas, for now) sprout across California.
This elicits predictable consternation among conservationists. We're supposed to believe that such non-native plants and animals are noxious, nasty, even evil.
These are anthropomorphic judgments, of course. The plants and animals are not malevolent; they're just surviving and adapting — a story as old as evolution.
With climate change, altered habitats, global travel and a global economy, we can expect more strange new creatures where they've never been before.
No, you likely won't have a herd of pygmy hippos in your backyard anytime soon. But feral hogs? Parrots and pythons?
Without better means to keep non-native species from spreading, it's hard to know what plants and animals might show up — and what might stick around.


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Union Pacific Invention Still Takes Skiers to the Top
2006 Marks the 70th Anniversary of the First Chair Lift Operation
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It's the summer of 1936, in Omaha, Nebraska, as the world's first snow ski chair lift is ready for a round of testing to determine a comfortable speed for snow skiers to get on and off the lift. The world's first two first snow ski chair lifts were debuted by Union Pacific Railroad at the opening of its Sun Valley, Idaho ski resort in December 1936.
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Omaha, Neb., February 27, 2006 The 2006 ski season marks the 70th anniversary of the world's first chair lift operation at Sun Valley, Idaho.
Where was the chair lift invented? Omaha, Nebraska. And the company that invented the chair lift? Union Pacific Railroad.
Why would a railroad invent a chair lift? To provide a service, a "transportation" service, for its customers. Union Pacific passenger trains brought skiers from across the country to Sun Valley and a new, convenient way for them to get to the top of the slopes was the next logical step in the design of a premier ski resort.
During the 1930s, Union Pacific Railroad Chairman W. A. Harriman saw Americans beginning to embrace winter sports. Harriman's railroad operated through some of the most scenic and mountainous territory in the western United States. His vision – develop a world-class winter sports facility served by Union Pacific.
Harriman enlisted Austrian sportsman Count Felix Schaffgotsch to find such a location. In the winter of 1935, Count Schaffgotsch found the area that would become Sun Valley in south central Idaho, about 100 miles northeast of Boise.
"Among the many attractive spots I have visited, this [location] combines more delightful features than any place I have seen in the United States, Switzerland or Austria, for a winter sports resort, " Schoffgotsch wrote to Harriman.
The original 4,300 acres, adjacent to the Sawtooth Mountain National Forest, was the perfect spot. The Sawtooth Mountains, running east and west, protected the future resort area from northern winds. The mountains surrounded a small basin, with the hills and slopes largely free of timber. Snowfall and sunshine were abundant. And natural hot springs would provide outdoor swimming year round.
Construction began on the Lodge, and other facilities, in April 1936.
Meanwhile, nearly 1,200 miles away in Omaha, at Union Pacific Railroad's headquarters, members of the engineering department were designing various ways to "transport" skiers up the slopes. Several mechanical engineers looked to adapt rope tows, J-bars and cable cars. One young engineer had a different idea.
Jim Curran had worked for an iron works company in Omaha as a structural engineer prior to joining the railroad. His concept was to adapt a system used to load bunches of bananas onto boats into a "transport" system to move people up slopes. Curran's design called for replacing the hooks for the bananas with chairs for skiers to sit on, while wearing skis! The chairs would be suspended from a single cable running above the chair. His co-workers thought the idea was too dangerous.
Charlie Proctor, a consultant brought in by Union Pacific to help with the design of the resort, was a famous skier from Dartmouth College. He saw Curran's plans and the rest is history.
Soon, prototypes of the chair lift were being built and tested at the locomotive and railcar repair shop complex in downtown Omaha.
Once the chair design was established, the next step was to determine the speed the chairs would travel.
A lift chair was attached to the side of a truck for the test. Because it was summer in relatively flat Omaha, engineers wore roller skates to simulate skis running over snow. It was determined that between four to five miles per hour would be a comfortable speed to pick up and drop off a skier.
When Union Pacific Railroad opened Sun Valley Resort in December 1936, the world's first two chair lifts were put into operation. As with anything new, skiers had to get used to these new contraptions. But once they did, the adapted banana-loading system changed the sport of snow skiing forever.
Union Pacific sold Sun Valley on November 15, 1964.
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Union Pacific Corporation owns one of America's leading transportation companies. Its principal operating company, Union Pacific Railroad, is the largest railroad in North America, covering 23 states across the western two-thirds of the United States. A strong focus on quality and a strategically advantageous route structure enable the company to serve customers in critical and fast growing markets. It is a leading carrier of low-sulfur coal used in electrical power generation and has broad coverage of the large chemical-producing areas along the Gulf Coast. With competitive long-haul routes between all major West Coast ports and eastern gateways, and as the only railroad to serve all six major gateways to Mexico, Union Pacific has the premier rail franchise in North America.
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hammock material, either taffeta or ripstop and either nylon or polyester. colors: forest green, tan, coyote brown.
weather shield set, top and bottom. If 1.4 oz poly ripstop is a bad hammock would use this for shield. will get from jeff, once the money comes...
tarp, leaning to the SG 9x9
Ed's hammock camping book. since I dont plan on ordering anything from him as of now.
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Dylan Hockley laid to rest
BETHEL -- Nicole Hockley takes comfort in believing her 6-year-old son is still being cared for by Anne Marie Murphy, the special education teacher who was fatally shot trying to protect the boy during last week's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"Knowing that has eased our pain," she said Friday afternoon at a memorial service for Dylan Hockley inside the packed Walnut Hill Community Church. "Dylan is not alone."
England-born Dylan, friends and family said, was an autistic boy with bright blue eyes who flapped his arms when he became excited, a tendency common in children with the developmental disorder. Dylan once told his mother he did it because he was a "beautiful butterfly."
After his slaying, Dylan's mother and father isolated themselves from the flurry of media coverage but emerged from their "cocoon" to realize there had been an outpouring of support from people around the world, "proof of the inherently benevolent, good nature of people," Nicole Hockley said.
"We (started) to understand and appreciate how what happened last week is starting to change the world," she said. "I don't know what that change will be. But I think it is very fitting that this new change, this new beginning, is from a peaceful, quiet place aptly named Newtown."
She recalled how Dylan's big brother, Jake, asked his family over breakfast on Thursday why the world was fixated on the deaths of Dylan and 19 classmates.
"A relative of mine provided the answer: `The world is talking because of the children. Even in horror movies and violent video games, it is unacceptable to kill children. People might want to be scared or thrilled, but they do not want to lose faith in humanity.'
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Suppose $X$ is some algebraic variety. It can be over $\mathbb{C}$, but it doesn't have to (but char $0$ preferred).
Is it possible that the additive group $\mathbb{Q}$ acts on it birationally, without this action extending to a birational action of the additive $1$-parameter group $\mathbb{G}_a$?
What if we further assume that we do have an extension of a continuous action of $\mathbb{G}_a$, but only on some subset of the variety (the field now has a topology)?
Possible variations would be:
- What if we have an action of $SL_2(\mathbb Q)$?
- Instead of $\mathbb{Q}$, consider the additive group $\mathbb{Z}[1/2]$.
- The field I'm actually interested in is $\mathbb{R}$, but examples over $\mathbb{C}$ would be great, too.
Essentially, I would like to know if people have considered when can a very divisible group act on an algebraic variety?
Remark: What I mean by a "birational action" of a group might be vague, but one interpretation could be a birational map $\mathbb G_a \times X \to X $ with the compatibility conditions making it an action.
Added Feb 6, 2013 (Corrected, thanks to Jérémy) According to the paper linked at in this MO question by Francesco Polizzi, in the algebraically closed case, the birational automorphisms of any $X$ inject set-theoretically into those of $\mathbb P^n$, with $n>\dim X + 1$. However, the group structure need not be preserved.
I've added another possibility, say we have a birational action of $SL_2\mathbb Q$ (or $SL_2 (\mathbb Z[1/2])$). Need it extend to the full group (of $\mathbb C$ or $\mathbb R$ points)?


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UNESCO's World Heritage Committee ended its 38th session Wednesday after having added or expanded 30 sites on its World Heritage list. All but one (Iran's ancient city of Shahr-i-Sokhta, known as the "Burnt City") are depicted in the photogallery above.
The World Heritage list now totals 1,007 sites: 779 chosen for cultural significance, 197 for natural features and 31 mixed, found in 161 nations and administrative regions. Thirty-one sites cross national borders, including the newly added Andean road network known as Qhapaq Ñan and the newly expanded Wadden Sea listing that now includes Denmark's portion of the vast tidal flats as well as those of the Netherlands and Germany.
Meeting in Doha, Qatar, the UNESCO committee also named three sites to its World Heritage in Danger list, and removed another, bringing that total to 46. "Palestine, Land of Olives and Vines — Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir" was added simultaneously to the World Heritage list and the list of World Heritage in Danger, due to construction of an Israeli wall of separation.
Also newly designated as endangered: Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, due to poaching, and the city of Potosi, Bolivia, due to "continued and uncontrolled mining operations in the Cerro Rico Mountain that risk degrading the site," according to UNESCO. The committee also removed one entry from the World Heritage in Danger list: the ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara in Tanzania, added to the endangered list in 2004 but now believed to be adequately safeguarded.
Highlights of all-new World Heritage listings include the first site in Burma (Myanmar)—the remains of the Pyu Ancient Cities, three walled and moated cities that thrived between 200 B.C. and 900 A.D.—and the first in Louisiana. The latter, known as the monumental earthworks of Poverty Point, is named for a nearby 19th century plantation but was created by prehistoric people in northeastern Louisiana. Already a national monument (though one managed by the state), the ceremonial site of five large mounds and six concentric walls form the 22nd World Heritage Site for the United States overall.
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§1258. Pollution control in the Great Lakes
(a) Demonstration projects
The Administrator, in cooperation with other Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities is authorized to enter into agreements with any State, political subdivision, interstate agency, or other public agency, or combination thereof, to carry out one or more projects to demonstrate new methods and techniques and to develop preliminary plans for the elimination or control of pollution, within all or any part of the watersheds of the Great Lakes. Such projects shall demonstrate the engineering and economic feasibility and practicality of removal of pollutants and prevention of any polluting matter from entering into the Great Lakes in the future and other reduction and remedial techniques which will contribute substantially to effective and practical methods of pollution prevention, reduction, or elimination.
(b) Conditions of Federal participation
Federal participation in such projects shall be subject to the condition that the State, political subdivision, interstate agency, or other public agency, or combination thereof, shall pay not less than 25 per centum of the actual project costs, which payment may be in any form, including, but not limited to, land or interests therein that is needed for the project, and personal property or services the value of which shall be determined by the Administrator.
(c) Authorization of appropriations
There is authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 to carry out the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, which sum shall be available until expended.
(d) Lake Erie demonstration program
(1) In recognition of the serious conditions which exist in Lake Erie, the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to design and develop a demonstration waste water management program for the rehabilitation and environmental repair of Lake Erie. Prior to the initiation of detailed engineering and design, the program, along with the specific recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, and recommendations for its financing, shall be submitted to the Congress for statutory approval. This authority is in addition to, and not in lieu of, other waste water studies aimed at eliminating pollution emanating from select sources around Lake Erie.
(2) This program is to be developed in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency, other interested departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Federal Government, and the States and their political subdivisions. This program shall set forth alternative systems for managing waste water on a regional basis and shall provide local and State governments with a range of choice as to the type of system to be used for the treatment of waste water. These alternative systems shall include both advanced waste treatment technology and land disposal systems including aerated treatment-spray irrigation technology and will also include provisions for the disposal of solid wastes, including sludge. Such program should include measures to control point sources of pollution, area sources of pollution, including acid-mine drainage, urban runoff and rural runoff, and in place sources of pollution, including bottom loads, sludge banks, and polluted harbor dredgings.
(e) Authorization of appropriations for Lake Erie demonstration program
There is authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 to carry out the provisions of subsection (d) of this section, which sum shall be available until expended.
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A bug in the popular metrics-tracking platform Sitemeter has boxed Internet Explorer users into a quiet little corner of the internet since late yesterday afternoon. Any site using Sitemeter now displays the following cryptic message to IE users: "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site – Operation aborted." The bug affects IE 5.5, 6, and 7, but we have three ways—including use another browser!—to restore access to the full internet in all its horrible glory, inside. (Note: we've put in a fix so IE users can continue to read Consumerist without changing their settings.)
The Internet Explorer developer's forum has developed one solution:
Here is the fix for users of IE 6 and 7 who are getting the "operation aborted" message.
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ville5 wrote:1. Keep Hammer.
2. Sign Bourn
3. Trade for 1 of Morales/Morse
4. Sign 2 FA pitchers with at least winning records.
5. Catcher than can throw a dam base stealer out.
But hey, that'd require spending $$$. And everyone but the sheeple know that's not happening.
Rocco wrote:ville5 wrote:Rocco wrote:Isn't improving the catcher position, even if it's a slight upgrade (and it's actually about a 2-win upgrade according to WAR), something to improve the team?
Do you think this team makes playoffs? Finish over .500?
There's not one position that's obviously been downgraded from last year's team. They're still one starting pitcher short and they need someone out of the Snider/Sands/Sanchez/Robinson group to develop. But since they didn't sign Hamilton they're incompetent.
Rocco wrote:If it devalued Bourn that much he would have signed by now. He wants to get paid.
ville5 wrote:Rocco wrote:If it devalued Bourn that much he would have signed by now. He wants to get paid.
Other way around. Bourn and Borass thought he'd make more than Atlanta offered. But noones gonna pay over $13 mil and give up a 1st.
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Sources: #Pirates, Liriano have adjusted and finalized 2-year agreement. Liriano will assume risk due to injury to right (non-throwing) arm.
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If Liriano misses no time due to specific right arm injury, he still gets original $12.75M. First-year salary would reduce if he misses time
ville5 wrote:I can almost guarantee certain people in this thread will be the 1st to ***** WHEN Grilli falters. There's a reason he was in the minors in his mid 30s.
Closers are dime a dozen, fine. But if the best return you can get for your all-star is questionable, pass. Sands might be another Pearce. Pay the $7 mil and deal with Hammer closer to the deadline.
Off the top of my head, Joe Saunders has a winning record. And his slightly above 4 era should drop to an acceptable level in the NL. And I don't have rest of FA list in front of me to see who was/is available. And too much of a pain to get on my phone.
Bourn will play for whoever pays him.
Of course the Bucs will never have a $200 million payroll. But they are never gonna win anything with a $50 million one.
viva la ben wrote:Best rotation in baseball.....six years ago
viva la ben wrote:If the rotation can hold up it will be much better than previous seasons.
Mr. Colby wrote:Anyway, looks like there's only 1 pitching spot available, if you assume Leroux and Morris make the team (which I am) and there are no injuries.
It would go to Locke, Mcpherson, J. Wilson, Mazzaro, Stewart, Oliver, or Welker probably
ville5 wrote:Of course the Bucs will never have a $200 million payroll. But they are never gonna win anything with a $50 million one.
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Ireland's Dundalk progressed to the Champions League's playoff stages after a 3-1 aggregate defeat of BATE Borisov -- securing European group-stage football this season.
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Updated at 4:50pm ET With a lame-duck session of Congress set for the weeks after the Nov. 6 election, members of Congress face the task of taking steps to reduce the deficit before inevitable interest rate hikes push the nation into a debt crisis with profound, long-lasting consequences.
Former President Bill Clinton gave a reminder of the task ahead as he renewed his warning Sunday about a surge in interest rates and a potential debt crisis.
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Former President Bill Clinton introduces his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, before her speech at the Clinton Global Initiative 2012 in New York on September 24, 2012.
"If interest rates were the same today as they were when I was president, the payment on the debt, that is, what the taxpayers have to pay every year, the financial debt (payments) would go from $250 billion to $650 billion a year," Clinton warned on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday.
Congress and President Barack Obama, he said, "can't let that happen" – so they must strike a deal on reducing deficits and debt.
While acknowledging that the U.S. economy right now is anemic, Clinton said, "When the economy starts to grow and people start borrowing money again, and banks start loaning money to small businesses and not just big ones, interest rates will go up, because there will be more competition for money."
Clinton has been trying for months to warn of what he sees as a danger. Last May he said as soon as the economy begins to grow "interest rates will go through the roof, the cost of financing the deficit will be staggering, and the private sector will be screaming for affordable credit."
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The federal government's cost of borrowing has been kept artificially low since 2008 by the financial crisis, the recession, and the fiscal turmoil in Europe. That European factor makes U.S. Treasury securities look safer than the sovereign debt of many European countries.
Right now, the yield on the ten-year Treasury note is about 1.72 percent. That compares to the average yield over the past 60 years of about 6 percent on the ten-year Treasury note.
Steve Bell, senior director of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington and former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee, said Monday, "President Clinton is right." Bell said the average rate on the ten-year Treasury note over the past three decades has been about 4.75 percent. The Bipartisan Policy Center estimates that if that interest rate were prevailing, "we would spend more money on the interest payment on the debt than we would for all of our national defense."
NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro discuss Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's upcoming bus tour through Ohio and last night's '60 Minutes' interviews with Romney and President Obama that served as a preview of the upcoming presidential debates.
In the fiscal year which ends next week, the government will have spent about $220 billion on interest payments and $670 billion on defense, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
He added, "Interest rates are going to rise from here; the question is whether they're going to rise quickly or whether they're going to rise gradually. History teaches us that they can rise very quickly once the economy starts getting into full gear – around 3 percent real GDP growth."
Bell said when European economies sort out their debt and fiscal problems, "the unusual flight to safety, which has really kept American interest rates so low – because people put their money here rather than risk it anywhere else – that will slow down and then cease."
Bell said in four years if interest rates gradually return to historic norm of 4.75 percent on the ten-year note, the federal government will be spending as much on interest as it does on all discretionary programs, both defense and non-defense.
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Bell said many, perhaps most, members of Congress have been lulled into a sense that low interest rates and low federal borrowing costs will continue.
"Most of them looked at last year's debt ceiling debacle, they saw that Standard & Poor's downgraded the United States debt – and that interest rates went down after that, instead of going up," Bell said. "So when we go on the Hill and we warn them that, 'Hey, something bad will happen if we get downgraded again they say, 'That's what you said last year and it didn't happen.'"
Clinton's interest rate warning came a week after a group of conservative economists and former Treasury officials including former Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State George Shultz sounded the same alarm in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. "The debt burden will explode when interest rates go up," wrote Shultz, joined by Stanford University economists Michael Boskin, John Cogan, and John Taylor, as well as Carnegie Mellon University economist Allan Meltzer. Boskin and Taylor served as economic advisors to President George H. W. Bush.
They noted that the Treasury "now has a preponderance of its debt issued in very short-term durations, to take advantage of low short-term interest rates. It must frequently refinance this debt which, when added to the current deficit, means Treasury must raise $4 trillion this year alone."


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Rob is a young black man coming to terms with his sexuality amid the backdrop of a sometimes homophobic and hyper-masculine U.S. Army. After surviving the notoriously brutal Infantry basic training, and simultaneously remaining closeted to all but a few of his colleagues at his first duty station, he is thrown into dangerous territory when the United States declares war on Iraq and his unit is one of the first called in. Deftly navigating the intersections of race, sexuality, and public policy, "Confessions of a 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Soldier" is alternately thought-provoking, humorous, and harrowing. Rob's experience offers a ground-level view of life on the front lines of race and sexuality in the United States military, in an unforgettable gay coming-of-age story — with a military twist.


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You've probably never heard of a band called "The Pretty Reckless," but you might think the singer looks awfully familiar.
"Gossip Girl" star Taylor Momsen is working on a second career as a rock and roll singer, touring with a band of seasoned veterans. They recently played Dallas' Vans Warped Tour festival, where Momsen thrilled the crowd and then spoke of her passion for music.
"Music is the best. Music is self-expression. You kinda can't go wrong there," the 17-year-old Momsen said. "Music has totally saved me and all of us here. That is why you do it."
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The group's first release "Make Me Wanna Die" is on the soundtrack of the Movie "Kick-ass" which you can already download on iTunes. The album "Light Me Up" drops on Aug. 30 in the UK but doesn't have a U.S. release date yet.
Momsen credits the greats like Led Zeppelin, Oasis, The Who, Nirvana and Pink Floyd as musical influences for the band, whose sound is all rock 'n' roll.
"I write about my life. I write about things I've done, the things I've seen, the things I know," said Momsen. "So everyone lives their lives a different way. Mine has been an interesting one I guess. So it's something to write about."
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Rep. Foster Votes For Republican Proposal To Raise Debt Ceiling
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11) released the following statement on his vote to support the Republican proposal to raise the debt ceiling for the next three months.
"We need a long term solution to address the national debt, not more short term fixes as House Republicans presented today, however, I voted for the temporary debt limit suspension because protecting the full faith and credit of the United States government is our most important obligation.
"Defaulting on U.S. debt payments would trigger a massive increase in U.S. borrowing costs, tarnishing our credit and greatly increasing the national debt."
As part of the package, Foster also voted to protect benefits for veterans and seniors from cuts proposed in the Republican budget, which was defeated on a largely party-line vote.
"What is necessary to bring our debt under control is to adopt a balanced, bipartisan 'Simpson-Bowles' type approach to debt reduction -- an approach supported by moderate Republicans and Democrats including myself, but one that the House Republican majority has unfortunately rejected," Foster added.
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On Friday May 4th, 2012 a lot of Eastern Washington Adventures members meet up at Beverly Dunes to camp for the weekend. The members did a few runs during the day and a night run. The wind made it a little cold.
On Saturday May 5th, 2012 volunteers met up at the Beverly Dunes parking area around 10 AM for the Beverly Dunes Clean-up hosted by Yakima/Kittitas Forest Watch Association (a division of Eastern Washington Adventures) with cooperation with the Department of Natural Resources. Once everyone sign in they headed out to pick up trash across the ORV area.
The clean up only took a few hours and then everyone got to play. Some that came just for the day went out on the first group run of the day. There were a few more runs before dinner. For dinner Icesis & Barbie cooked us a great Mexican dinner in celebration of Cinco de Mayo.
On Sunday May 6th, 2012 we woke up to a great day. It was warm and the wind was not blowing. We did a few runs before most people headed for home. A few stayed another night since the weather was so nice.
Thank you to everyone that came out to help with the clean up. Thank you Icesis and Barbie for the Cinco de Mayo dinner and Jeepscum for sharing his Sunday breakfast with us.
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Mutant pointy cowboy boots _ part Aladdin, part Las Vegas _ created a fashion craze that spread from one northeastern Mexican town.
Does this man look drunk to you?I mean, could someone who spends a lot of time sober ever possibly consider a facial tattoo like that?
This is 29-year-old Cory P. Smits, who was recently given his fifth operating while intoxicated conviction.
He's racking these things up like body art.
Smits was arrested in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, back in February when police pulled him over for swerving and found a man with glassy and bloodshot eyes.
I'm surprised they even noticed the eyes.
✪ Boater finds brick of likely cocaine, snorts some, dies
A Merritt Island videographer died in a Miami hospital Thursday after he snorted an unknown substance — possibly cocaine — from a brick he found floating off the Middle Keys, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office says.Thomas Swindal, 53, and his brother Kenneth were trolling in about 200 feet of water on Wednesday when, Detective Mark Maison said, they found what they believed to be a kilo of cocaine and brought it aboard the boat, tossing it into the bait well.
They kept on fishing and, Kenneth Swindal told detectives, he looked back a short time later and saw his brother open the package and ingest some of its contents.
He said about an hour and a half later, Thomas Swindal began to run around the boat, throw things in the water and even gaffed the engine, which fell off the boat and sank.
He continued acting strangely, running around with knives and pliers, so Kenneth Swindal threw all the sharp objects, as well as the package, off the boat.
The 29-year-old man, identified as Gerardo Martinez, answered the door shirtless with his pants down, the police report said. Officers asked him to pull his pants up and asked him about the cat.Martinez, who admitted to using meth, first denied having a cat, police said. Later, he changed his story and told police his boyfriend threw the cat from the window three hours prior, police said.
When police told Martinez that witnesses said the cat was thrown more recently, he said he attempted to have sex with the cat and then threw it out the window, along with a pornographic DVD, police said.
The recording was allegedly made at the Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas, owned by the FLDS. It begins with Jeffs asking the girl how she feels.According to the transcript made and given to the court, the girl replies: 'Feels good.'
Soon after Jeffs can be heard saying: 'Everyone else let go of me, back away a little. Please get on the other side of the bed.
'You shall learn the powers of the spirit of God as a heavenly wife should,' Jeffs tells the 12-year-old.
'Let the heavenly comfort hear us.
'We bless you, by the Lord, at this young age. To come to know God and his power, and feel his presence.'
According to CNN, many jurors lowered their heads and closed their eyes during the recording.
The voice is also heard saying: 'You have to know how to be sexually excited and to help each other … and you have to be ready for the time I need your comfort.
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ATTENTION IDIOTS IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA – Stop The Budget Lies – There Are NO Cuts – House Passes Bill To INCREASE Spending By $7 Trillion Over The Next 10 Years
Leona Baldwin's husband saw it first, and she got on the marine radio to alert others in the remote Alaska village of Kivalina that a strange orange goo was sitting on top of the town's harbor.The news attracted all the townspeople, anxious to get a gander of the phenomenon that covered much of the harbor and then began washing ashore Wednesday.
The next day it rained, and residents found the orange matter floating on top of the rain buckets they use to collect drinking water. It was also found on one roof, leading them to believe whatever it was, it was airborne, too.
By Friday, the orange substance in the lagoon had dissipated or washed out to sea, and what was left on ground had dried to a powdery substance.
Samples of the orange matter were collected in canning jars and sent to a lab in Anchorage for analysis.
Until results are known, Kivalina's 374 residents will likely continue to wonder just what exactly happened in their village.
"Hey, don't look at us" has been Entergy Corporation's response to the discovery of Strontium-90 in fish from the Connecticut River.But the contamination, revealed this week by the Vermont Department of Health, promises to complicate the utility's effort to extend the license of its aging Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant.
"They came in Target, they were throwing chairs, everybody went running," said witness Shauny Bowe."Everybody was just running everywhere," said Bowe. "They went to McDonald's, and they told people to get out, cussing and swearing. They were about to taze people. I was scared for my life."
As members of the church cleaned up the park, they said they are saddened that a day of fun and worship is now associated with disruption and vandalism.
Twenty-six police officers hurt in clashes, with eight being treated in hospital
Scotland Yard still dealing with 'isolated pockets of crime' this morning
Mob of 500 people protest about death of father-of-four Mark Duggan who was shot by officers
100 riot police on the streets as Tottenham burns
Fears that violence was fanned by Twitter as picture of burning police car was re-tweeted more than 100 times
Shop looted and youths storm McDonald's and start cooking their own food
Mail on Sunday photographers beaten and mugged by masked thugs
Amid heavy downpours, a mother and daughter suspected of shoplifting at a Charlotte coat store ran into a swollen, fast-moving stream Friday night. Police found the mother's body at the bottom of the creek Friday, and now it is being reported that search crews have found the body of her 16-year-old daughter Saturday.
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Clusters of young men hurled bricks and aimed fireworks at riot police officers before a backdrop of burning cars and buildings early Sunday in north London as a protest turned into an all-out riot.Demonstrators on Saturday evening marched to a police station in the Tottenham area of London to protest the death of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old father of four who was killed Thursday by officers from the Trident unit of the Metropolitan Police, which investigates gun crime, according to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, an external government body which regulates the police.
By 10:20 p.m. local time, the protest had turned violent. Two empty police cars were burned and officers were "subject to bottles and other missiles being thrown at them by the crowd," according to a statement released by the police.
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination.Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it. A 2010 Gallup poll asked Americans "Do you think the Social Security system will be able to pay you a benefit when you retire?" Among 18- to 34-years-olds, 76 percent of them said no. Yet despite their lack of confidence in the availability of Social Security for them, few have demanded it be shored up by more fairly payroll-taxing the wealthy; most appear resigned to having more money deducted from their paychecks for Social Security, even though they don't believe it will be around to benefit them.
How exactly has American society subdued young Americans?
"Whatever happened to coming to the pub to engage in social interaction!?" I exclaimed.There was no response.
I looked out of the window at the multitude of passers-by, all of whom seemed to be preoccupied with whatever was on their cell phones.
"Another beer?" asked the barmaid as she punched in a few characters on her smartphone.
"What exactly are you all fucking doing?" I asked somewhat irritably.
"I'm on Twitter," she said without even looking up.
"And I'm on Facebook," remarked the fat lawyer – his beady little jaundiced eyes looked up again briefly, as if attempting to burn holes in the back of my inner skull.
"Yeah," I remarked sarcastically, "cos, so much interesting shit is going down in here right now that all your friends need an update."
"Do you want a beer or not?" asked the barmaid impatiently – her podgy little pink thumbs sliding over the touch sensitive device.
"No thanks," I said getting to my feet, "I've got walls at home I can stare blankly at."
The main obstacle to progress "seems to be a curious lack of ambition and imagination," Etzioni writes in the piece, which he acknowledges "is meant to be provocative."
A tiny second moon may once have orbited Earth before catastrophically slamming into the other one, a titanic clash that could explain why the two sides of the surviving lunar satellite are so different from each other, a new study suggests.
The latest development has to with Facebook's facial recognition feature that helps users tag photos. After joining in the chorus of European nations that objected to the feature launch in June, German authorities are now the first to declare the feature illegal. Hamburg's data protection official Johannes Caspar claims that the software violates both German and European Union data protection laws and that Facebook users don't know how to delete the data that Facebook is gathering. "If the data were to get into the wrong hands, then someone with a picture taken on a mobile phone could use biometrics to compare the pictures and make an identification," Caspar told the Hamburger Abendblatt. "The right to anonymity is in danger."
✪ Lego Minifigs Soon Headed for Deep Space
The figures, milled from aluminum, will accompany Juno on its five-year trip to Jupiter. When Juno arrives in 2016, the Lego likeness of the Roman god, Jupiter, his sister, Juno, and the Italian astronomer, Galileo, will be there to take in all the sights and bask in the immensity of the largest planet.This (until now) secret installation was initiated by NASA scientists, who love Lego as much as anyone and wanted to do something memorable for this mission. They approached Lego and the company loved the idea. It saw the project as a way to promote children's education and STEM programs.
The brick company even underwrote the project, at a cost of $5,000 for each of the minifigs, which will soon become the farthest flying toys ever. The manufacture of the figures was a deliberate process to ensure the figures would not interfere with NASA's sensitive measurements.
A U.S. federal court has ruled that the domain seizure of sports streaming site Rojadirecta does not violate the First Amendment, and has refused to hand the domain back to its Spanish owner. The order stands in conflict with previous Supreme Court rulings and doesn't deliver much hope to other website owners who operate under U.S. controlled domain names.
pseudonyms allow statements to be public and persistent, but not attached to one's real identity.I can understand why Google and Facebook don't want this to happen. It's bad for their marketing teams. It generates social problems when people don't act responsibly under the cloak of their assumed identity. It messes up the clarity and coherence of their data. And maybe those costs do outweigh the benefits pseudonymity brings to social networks.
But then let's have that conversation. Let's not pretend that what Google and Facebook are doing has long-established precedents and therefore these companies are only doing what they're doing to mimic real life. They are creating tighter links between people's behavior and their identities than has previously existed in the modern world.
IF YOUR face and name are anywhere on the web, you may be recognised whenever you walk the streets—not just by cops but by any geek with a computer. That seems to be the conclusion from some new research on the limits of privacy.For suspected miscreants, and people chasing them, face-recognition technology is old hat. Brazil, preparing for the soccer World Cup in 2014, is already trying out pairs of glasses with mini-cameras attached; policemen wearing them could snap images of faces, easy to compare with databases of criminals. More authoritarian states love such methods: photos are taken at checkpoints, and images checked against recent participants in protests.
✪ Mossad's murder machine claims another scientist's life in Israeli bid to stop Iran building a nuclear bomb
The two assassins arrived from nowhere as their victim was driving home with his wife. Trapped inside his car, he was hopelessly vulnerable as their motorcycles pulled alongside.He would just have had time to notice their blacked-out visors before they opened fire, emptying round after round into his chest.
Nuclear scientist Darioush Rezaei died immediately. His wife was critically wounded and still in hospital days after the attack in north eastern Iran.
The hitmen? They vanished into the traffic fumes of the night.
Believe it or not, one in seven Americans – 15 percent of the country – now need government-provided food stamps simply to survive, according to latest government figures.Nearly 46 million Americans receive food stamps out of a population of some 311 million people, the US Department of Agriculture, which administers what's officially called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme reported Thursday.
A comedian who threw a foam pie into the face of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch was jailed for six weeks yesterday.Jonathan May-Bowles, 26, attacked the 80-year-old chief executive and chairman of News Corporation as he gave evidence to MPs about the hacking scandal that has engulfed his company, calling him a 'naughty billionaire'.
May-Bowles – also known as Jonnie Marbles – from Windsor, Berkshire, was ordered to pay £250 costs at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court, and a £15 victim surcharge.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has plummeted by 760 points since the terms of the debt ceiling deal were announced Monday. If austerity was supposed to encourage economic growth, someone forgot to tell Wall Street.On Thursday alone, the index dropped more than 500 points, the worst one-day drop since the lowest lows of the meltdown.
Some budget-cutting enthusiasts promoted the "important economic advantages of linking the debt limit to spending reductions," and we're seeing the immediate aftermath.
Before the deal was voted on, Paul Krugman warned, "The worst thing you can do in these circumstances is slash government spending since that will depress the economy even further."
Investors seem to agree and, for the moment anyway, have decided to get out of Dodge.
When a self-driving car crashes, one just has to wonder about those robots. Are they really all they're cracked up to be? Or might they be just as cracked as the rest of us?Should you have, this morning, been unreasonably detained by aggressive machines, may I tell you that Google's famed, futuristic, liberating, and ultimately superhuman machine, the self-driving Prius, was involved in a fender bender.
What seems evident from shots of the scene is that Google's robot machine ran into the back of another Prius. You might think that it was on robotic autopilot and this was some sort of mating ritual.
You might also think that a Google representative rushing to the defense of our future controllers by issuing a statement to Business Insider that a human had been driving might smack of the convenience of being chauffeur-driven.
There was a time, not all that long ago, when the Pentagon sank tens of millions of dollars into remote-controlled lightning guns that it hoped would fry insurgent bombs before they killed any more troops. Now, disassembled parts from the one-time wonder-weapons are being sold on eBay. At least one buyer snatched up the gear, hoping to use it in his latest art project for Burning Man.All of which would make for a funny little story, if that buyer didn't discover that the multimillion dollar "Joint Improvised Explosive Device Neutralizers," or JINs, were kluged together from third-rate commercial electronics, and controlled by open Wi-Fi signals. In other words, the Pentagon didn't just overpay for a flawed weapon. On the off-chance the JIN ever worked, the insurgents could control it, too.
"This is the hack of all hacks," says Cody Oliver, a freelance technologist in San Francisco. "And this is what they were selling to the government? Holy shit."
It is hard to get a fix on how much porn contributes to cable and satellite companies' bottom lines because the companies aren't transparent about it. But adult content has been a consistent source of profit, because cable operators have leverage to command margins that can exceed 90% on rentals of generally interchangeable porn movies, analysts say. "It's a relevant business simply because of its profitability," said Craig Moffett, a cable and satellite analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein.Adult movies are often more expensive, too. Many adult movies cost $9.98 to rent on Time Warner Cable in New York, while Hollywood films often cost $4.99 to rent.
The porn-cable connection tumbled into public view when NBC's "30 Rock" mocked the dependence of Kabletown—a fictionalized version of NBC's then soon-to-be owner Comcast—on pay-per-view pornography, calling it "the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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Teens shot on Detroit's east side; private ambulance responds
Detroit police investigate shooting of 2 teens on city's east side
DETROIT – Two teens were shot Wednesday night on Beniteau Street on Detroit's east side.
The teens were in a group on the street when the gunfire erupted. One was struck in the groin area.
Detroit EMS did not respond to the shooting. Instead, a private company's ambulance responded. The city has contracted ambulance companies such as Universal, Hart, Superior and Rapid Response to fill in due to a failed Detroit EMS situation. They are dispatched as units 24-31.
Related: Detroit mayor asks for donations for new ambulances
The agreement is that the private units will only respond to priority three runs. The units are all from suburban companies. The teens shot Wednesday night suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Detroit police are investigating.
Local 4 Defenders look into Detroit's EMS situation
The Local 4 Defenders have done numerous investigations into Detroit's EMS preparedness and ambulance response times. The questions now is: Does the use of private ambulance companies signal policy change for the city? The Defenders are looking into it and expect to have answers soon.
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A new photo has been leaked of Liverpool's third shirt for the 2012-13 season.
Designed and manufactured by Warrior, Liverpool's new third shirt is dark purple with orange trim. The Liverpool crest, sponsor name and apparel logo, meanwhile, are a gold-yellow color.
After a promising start by Warrior after they unveiled Liverpool's new home shirt, it's been downhill since then. Liverpool's new away shirt looks like a Batman cape. And now the dark purple third shirt (pictured above) is passable.
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Fri., May 9, 2014 3:40am
WORKING: The Pendulum Swing - Labor Shortages Coming Soon?
Economists have long been talking about the day when the bulk of the baby boomer generation finally retires. Economists at the Conference Board now say those retirements are imminent, and they're going to contribute to a labor shortage in the United States in the next 10 to 15 years. And that spells opportunity for younger workers.
Fri., April 18, 2014 3:33am
WORKING: Forget Your Resume - Where's Your Website?
Some career advisers say a personal website chronicling your work is better—and more dynamic—than a resume nowadays. The argument is that having a unique website dedicated to a job-seekers' career accomplishments and work examples helps build a tightly focused, controlled brand. Brandon Smith, GPB's regular commentator on work and career issues, said the personal website has a place—just not for everyone.
Fri., April 11, 2014 3:34am
WORKING: Sharing Employees' Salaries Might Make Them Work Harder
If you knew how much money all of your work colleagues make, would that irritate you? Or might that knowledge spur you to work harder? It may seem a silly question, but a new study from Cornell University found it's not. In fact, openness around pay can boost productivity.
Fri., April 4, 2014 3:32am
WORKING: Why Young College Grads Can't Find Work
If you have a "5" in front of your age, our Working guy says you're in trouble when it comes time to find a job. An avalanche of data is starting to show that having a "1" or a "2" in front of your age might not be so great either. Brandon Smith explains why it's hard for 16-to-24-year-olds to find work and the one simple step they can take to start reducing the youth unemployment rate.
Fri., March 28, 2014 3:30am
WORKING: Making Weekends Work Doesn't Mean Working On The Weekends
Authors and career coaches have found in talking to high-achievers that the way they handle their weekends is one element that contributes to their success. Our career expert Brandon Smith say they're not cramming in more work on those days; instead they're focusing on other parts of their lives and resetting their brains for the week ahead.
Fri., March 21, 2014 3:29am
WORKING: Good Buddies, Good Business Partners?
Lots of professionals are now supplementing their income as freelancers or striking out on their own altogether. No doubt some of those people are running businesses with their friends, even though that can be fraught with challenges, according to workplace expert Brandon Smith. He says building a business relationship with a friend requires a ton of conversation up front to set roles, expectations and ways to handle conflict.
Fri., March 14, 2014 3:32am
Accepting a great career opportunity sometimes means workers have to leave a position they've had for only a short time. Workplace and career expert Brandon Smith says such a short stint in a job has the potential to raise red flags with future employers, but he says workers can minimize such damage.
Fri., March 7, 2014 3:32am
WORKING: The Limits Of Online Connections
When Cleveland marketing professional Kelly Blazek got a LinkedIn invitation from a young woman she didn't know, she didn't just ignore it. She sent Diana Mekota a blistering response calling her "entitled," "inappropriate" and "tacky." Brandon Smith says Mekota wasn't wrong to reach out; likewise, Blazek wasn't necessarily wrong to decline the invitation.
Fri., February 28, 2014 3:34am
WORKING: When Your Boss Doesn't Like You, What Do You Do?
Last week with our Working guy, we looked at some of the signals bosses may send when they dislike an employee. This week, Brandon Smith is back to talk about how to improve that relationship.
Fri., February 21, 2014 3:34am
WORKING: Signs Your Boss Doesn't Like You
It's one of the questions our Working guy, Brandon Smith, gets most often: "I think my boss doesn't like me. How can I tell?" He says, bluntly, that's because bosses are usually terrible communicators, though they often offer some significant signals when they don't like people.


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SCMP Group Ltd. shares fell as much as 10% on Tuesday morning, as the publishing company resumed trading after disclosing it was in talks to make an acquisition.
The publisher of Hong Kong's English-language daily South China Morning Post was suspended from trading Monday, after its shares rose more than 30% before the halt. It later disclosed it is "in negotiation with third parties regarding possible acquisition of a group of media companies in Hong Kong" and that the company has entered into a "nonbinding term sheet" with the target.


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(CNN) -- Each year when I watch the British Open I am reminded of two extremely important concepts that every golfer should learn and master.
First, when around the green, putt when you can. Second, hit down on your woods like you hit down on your irons.
Louis Oosthuizen and the rest of the field (including master of the lob shot, Phil Mickelson) were putting and bump and running from fifty yards and in, all week.
The pros almost always do this when the greens are surrounded by tight fairway grass, and you should too.
From twenty yards off the green on 17 and just off the green at 18, Oosthuizen took a putter to get the ball on the green.
Why? Because that was the only club that would insure that the worst he would make was a bogey.
With an eight-shot lead, he was only interested in winning, and putting was a guarantee.
Whenever I teach a player how to approach a green, I always talk about odds. The first thing I teach my students is to always take the path of least resistance by maximizing ground time and minimizing airtime.
The idea behind this concept is that whenever you can, you should use as much of the ground as you can and get the ball rolling to the hole as soon as possible.
Your misses will be better because when you fly the ball, you need a bigger, faster swing and a more precise contact.
When you miss hit a ball with a larger swing the ball will usually go over the green and end up in more trouble, further away from the pin.
When assessing your shot, ask yourself, "can I putt this?" If the answer is yes, then putt it. It takes a lot less effort and talent to putt a ball and run it to the hole.
That's why you get three points for a long shot in basketball as opposed to two points for a lay up, it's a game of odds and on a three-pointer, the odds are against you.
Your worst putt will always be better than your worst chip or pitch. You might not get the ball up and down every time, but you will definitely eliminate the dreaded round killing big numbers.
There is an old adage in golf that says, "hit down on your irons, but sweep your woods."
However, every time I saw a pro hit a wood off of the fairway at St. Andrews, I saw divots flying.
Louis Oosthuizen hit a three-wood second shot on the par five 14th hole and right after he hit the ball, a puff of dirt exploded into the air.
When a ball is on the ground, a good player always hits down on the ball and tries to take a divot.
It doesn't matter if you are hitting a wedge or a three wood, hitting down on the ball is how you get the ball in the air and create solid contact.
The reason your divot will be more "sweeping" with a wood as opposed to an iron is because woods are longer which creates a naturally flatter swing plane and they also have much wider soles than irons.
Your attitude should always be to hit down on your woods and take a divot (except a driver on the tee) especially on closely mown grass, otherwise you will tend to hit up on the ball and hit thin, low dribbling shots.
Simple drill
A simple drill is to place a tee in the ground ahead of your ball and practice hitting the ball and then the tee. The tee should come out of the ground every time.
I always enjoy watching the British Open because from a learning standpoint the conditions that the Open courses present, teach us and remind us of the essence of what this game was about.
I have had the good fortune of playing St. Andrews and many of the links courses in Scotland and the first thing that you quickly realize is that the game was originally designed around extreme wind and weather and less than perfectly manicured lies.
You must use the ground and roll the ball when you can and when you hit a wood off those tight fairways you have to hit down and take a divot. Louis Oosthuizen was the master of these concepts this week.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Wednesday scaled back its projections for Obamacare's impact in 2014, saying the law would generate slower healthcare spending growth and provide coverage to only half as many of America's uninsured as anticipated last year.
The biggest factor in the change stems from the U.S. Supreme Court verdict last year allowing each state to decide whether to expand the public Medicaid program for the poor under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law. Republican leaders in nearly half of the nation's 50 states have rejected the expansion.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services now expects 11 million uninsured Americans to obtain coverage next year, down from about 22 million projected a year ago, according to the report, which appeared in the journal Health Affairs. It said healthcare spending would rise 6.1 percent in 2014, partly due to the implementation of Obamacare, compared with a previous projection of an increase of 7.4 percent.
The new report estimates that Medicaid enrollment will increase by 8.7 million people in 2014, nearly all as a result of the Obamacare expansion. Last year, analysts projected that about 20 million people would gain coverage through the expansion alone.
"For the states that do expand, we're expecting that some will elect to expand their Medicaid programs after 2014," said Gigi Cuckler, an economist with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the HHS agency that produced the report.
Cuckler and her colleagues also projected slightly slower spending growth among the newly insured who obtain private coverage, including those who enter new online state health insurance marketplaces that are due to begin enrolling people in subsidized coverage in less than two weeks.
The latest HHS report said 2.9 million uninsured Americans would gain private coverage next year through employers, the individual market and the new marketplaces. The Congressional Budget Office has forecast 7 million enrollees for the marketplaces alone, but that number includes people who currently have insurance and may switch to the new exchanges.
The projected spending increase would nudge the sprawling U.S. healthcare system to just over $3 trillion in total spending for 2014, representing a cost of $9,697 for every man, woman and child, or 18.3 percent of the U.S. economy. New insurance beneficiaries are expected to be "younger and healthier" and spend more of their healthcare dollars on prescription drugs and physician services rather than hospitals, the report said.
Over the longer term, the report said healthcare spending growth would accelerate to 6.5 percent by 2022, when the industry would hit the $5 trillion mark and represent 19.9 percent of gross domestic product.
Obamacare's contribution to spending is expected to diminish after 2015 as retiring baby boomers shift the momentum toward the Medicare program for the elderly and disabled.
Annual healthcare spending growth is expected to average 5.8 percent for the decade, or about 1 percent above GDP, and below historic growth rates that reached nearly 12 percent in the 1990s.
Obamacare, which will account for more than two-thirds of next year's spending increase, is expected to add only 0.1 percent to average spending growth over the decade or $621 billion in cumulative spending, the report said.
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It's taken the best part of half a year, but Australia's lame-duck press self-regulator, the Australian Press Council, has given News Limited outlet the Daily Telegraph a wet slap over aspects of its NBN coverage.
The "Daily Terror" (not to be confused with the UK publication of the same name) had, the Press Council found, published articles in June and July that would have given readers the wrong impression about National Broadband Network operational costs, take-up rates, connection fees and subscription prices.
The three articles were "Australian taxpayers' latest NBN horror show", "Join the NBN or you'll be digging deep" and "Low interest in high speed internet".
According to the council, each of the stories contained factual errors that could have been corrected by research: the first gave inaccurate information about how services were operating in Tasmania; the second misrepresented both installation costs and service prices; while the third compared current broadband costs, exclusive of the copper line charge, with NBN costs that bundle the access fee.
"The Council expressed concern that within a short period of time three articles on the same theme contained inaccurate or misleading assertions. It considers that this sequence of errors should not have occurred and that they should have been corrected promptly and adequately when brought to the newspaper's attention," the press council notes in its adjudication. ®
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Good news for tournament directors on the PGA Tour.
Tiger Woods won't be going to Sochi for the Winter Olympics.
Woods' girlfriend, Lindsey Vonn, said Monday that she won't be attending the Olympics because she needs surgery on her knee again.
There was much thought Woods might skip an event or two to be there to watch his girlfriend compete, but that won't be a concern now.
Also, Woods committed earlier this week to the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, where he's won six times.
Unless Woods pulls a shocker and plays at the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club, this is the only time Southern California fans can see Woods play golf live this year.
His tournament, the World Challenge, has moved from Sherwood Country Club and will begin play in Florida this year.
The new year has just began and Woods already has been in the news often. Golf Digest reported that he's the first athlete to reach $1.3 billion in career earnings.
Webb Simpson's PGA Tour caddie, Paul Tesori, is in Florida with his wife and newborn son, Isaiah, following complications. Isaiah, according to the Golf Channel, started to have seizures following his birth. There has been a huge outpouring of support from Zach Johnson — who just won the Hyundai Tournament of Champions — and the golf word for Tesori's son. … Rickie Fowler has hired Butch Harmon to be his new swing coach. … Jason Dufner, outspoken in his support for his alma mater Auburn in the BCS championship game, Tweeted: "Going to play Duf golf next week for my Auburn Tigers. Whatever that means.'' He's handling the loss to Florida State well.


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The report also notes, "The four steps of publishing – create, manage, publish and deliver – are all enabled with Quark Enterprise Solutions. Quark helps enterprises streamline and automate publishing processes, create content for multiple media types, edit content without altering the layout, and review and approve content in a cloud-based workflow."
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