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The Central Connecticut volleyball team fell to LIU Brooklyn in an exciting five set match on Saturday afternoon. The Blue Devils (15-12, 10-4 NEC) were led by 17 kills from senior Blaike King and 15 from senior Emily Cochran.
Central won the first and third sets of the match by the score of 25-18. LIU captured the second, fourth and fifth sets by scores of 25-16, 25-15 and 15-8, respectively.
The Blackbirds (20-7, 13-0 NEC) were led by Tamara Ignjic who had 21 kills in the match.
CCSU hit .381 as a team in the opening set to take the 1-0 lead. The team connected for 20 kills on 42 attacks and made just four attack errors. King led the group with seven kills on 15 attacks. Cochran (5) and senior Jamie Rademacher (3) also contributed to the offense.
LIU rebounded to win the second set behind six kills form Mirjana Rajic. The Blackbirds also had 4.0 blocks in the set.
Central regained control of the match by winning the third set 25-18. The Blue Devil net defense delivered 7.5 blocks in the third set, including five assisted blocks from freshman Makenna Lommori. Offensively, Rademacher contributed two kills on three attacks and sophomore Rachel Dunlap added two kills on four attacks.
The Blackbirds played their best in the third set, LIU posted a .371 hitting percentage and also had three blocks. LIU's strong defense recorded five blocks in the fifth set, which helped the Blackbirds earn the set and match victory.
King (17), Cochran (15), Lommori (5), junior Veronika Ban (5), Rademacher (4), Dunlap (4) and senior Allyson Porter (1) all contributed kills in the match.
Lommori posted 38 assists as the Blue Devils' primary setter.
Porter led the Blue Devils with 20 digs. She was joined in double-digits by Lommori (12), Cochran (12) and Ban (10). Sophomore Brittany Schumacher also contributed to the reception defense with nine digs.
At the net, Lommori led the squad with eight block assists and Dunalp assisted on five blocks, but also contributed a solo block. Rademacher (5), Cochran (2), Ban (2) and King (2) all recorded blocks for the Blue Devils.
The Blue Devils will return to action on Saturday, November 10, against Bryant at Detrick Gym. Prior to the 4 p.m. match, a ceremony will be held to honor this year's volleyball senior class.


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FOOD- Kitchen Confidential: Chris Humphreys, Fellini's #9
The secret to great cooking is... simplicity. My philosophy is that there should be few ingredients, but they should be treated properly.
The secret to success in the restaurant business is... a bad attitude and a good sense of humor. Have the bad attitude to tell someone when they've done something wrong; have the sense of humor to laugh about it later.
The secret to making Fellini's #9's calamari is... use fresh seafood, and don't overcook it.
Fellini's #9's calamari
Celery– cross cut
Kalamata olives
Red grapes, halved
Capers, nonpareils
Sun dried tomatoes, julienned
Fresh, domestic calamari - cleaned and sliced into rings
Fresh spinach
Unsalted butter
Pinch red pepper flakes
Reduced balsamic vinegar
Mix celery, olives, grapes, capers and sundried tomatoes.
In a cold sauté pan add butter, calamari, a handful of the mix, garlic, red pepper flakes, salt and sauté until calamari is about ½ cooked– this does not take long! Add spinach– stir spinach until slightly wilted. Do not break sauce or overcook calamari. Serve in a pile in center of a plate, surrounded by pan liquid, topped with a drizzle of reduced balsamic vinegar.

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Nappa Vitello
With the goal of creating the softest of the soft, we began developing this leather almost thirty years ago with one of our favorite tanners. The result is classically designed pieces with the softness of lambskin and the durability of cowhide. A beautiful patina develops over time, but the real beauty of Nappa Vitello is the way it feels between your fingers. There are many versions of soft nappa-type leather on the market, but close your eyes and compare ours to any other, the difference is in the touch.


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dinner, boating anything by the ocean
My first date would be a nice dinner over looking the city lights with jazz music and soft lighting maybe a drink or not
A very leisurely dinner with a great bottle of wine, soft music and lots of time to get to know each other.
My desire is, You and I on an isolated, romantic, tropical Island. With me I singing love songs, gently into your ears.
Just enjoying the finer things in life wherever & whenever they are.
A quiet dimly lit dinner at a restaurant near the ocean. Lots of time to dialog...organic wine and some fish for me..
A drive up the beautiful California coast..more dialog..more connection..
First date- would love to go horseback riding, go fishing, then be swept away to a romantic dinner and stroll on the beach, a lot but definitely dreamy
My first date idea would be a lunch date. My ideal date is a romatic dinner with someone special.
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Ashton Perritt was named a Great Lakes Summer League All-Star and lead the league in hitting, this summer.
Liberty's Ashton Perritt was named a Great Lakes Summer League All-Star and leads the league in hitting heading into the circuit's playoffs this week. Perritt, playing in the outfield for the Licking County Settlers, was selected to the North All-Star team. The rising junior finished the Great Lakes League regular season with a loop-leading .355 batting average. In 27 games, the outfielder collected 37 hits, while scoring 23 runs and driving in 14. He also added 12 stolen bases. His runs scored and RBI total were second in the league. During the summer league's regular season, Perritt helped lead the Settlers to a 24-16 record, tying for second place in the Great Lakes standings. The league opens its playoffs tomorrow. Perritt had a breakout season in 2013 for the Flames. After starting the year as a relief pitcher, the sophomore made his first start in the outfield in game one of the doubleheader with Longwood on March 30 and quickly became a fixture in the Liberty outfield as well. The utility player was voted the 2013 Big South Tournament MVP and later, was named to the VaSID All-State team. During Liberty's run to their first Big South title since 2000, Perritt hit .400 with two home runs as an outfielder and did not allow a run in four appearances as a pitcher, recording four saves. In the title game vs. Campbell, Perritt drove in the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth and then pitched a scoreless bottom of the ninth to secure the Big South crown for the Flames. Besides being named the tournament's MVP, he was selected as the utility player on the All-Tournament team as well. In 40 games, Perritt hit .343 with 34 runs scored and 18 stolen bases. The Liberty leadoff hitter also hit six home runs. He posted 20 multiple-hit games, including seven three-hit games, and scored two or more runs in nine contests. On the mound, the Whiteland, Ind. native went 3-2 with a 2.09 ERA and 10 saves over 38 2/3 innings. His 10 saves rank second on Liberty's all-time single season list.
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Have a blast creating your own unique wood sign from scratch! We will walk you through the entire process during the workshop. All needed materials will be provided for you. Please be sure to let us know which project you chose from the gallery. Don't forget to include the personal info we will need to make your stencil (such as your last name or special date).
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Flame and blame in the Northwest
Loggers urge fire sales
While the ashes of this summer's Western forest fires still smolder, pressure to salvage vast tracts of fire-blackened timber already has kindled a new political firestorm in the Intermountain West.
The post-fire controversy pits timber companies eager to log against environmentalists who warn that hasty salvage operations could further damage soils and streams and limit future management options in the fragile forests east of the Cascade Mountains.
The U.S. Forest Service comes down somewhere in the middle, though Chief Jack Ward Thomas told a congressional subcommittee in Boise Aug. 29 that the agency "cannot, in my opinion, simply step back and wait for "nature" to take its course."
Wildfire scorched about 1.5 million acres in eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, Idaho, Montana and portions of Utah and Nevada this summer. All but 200,000 acres was federally managed land.
Thomas said he knew some critics would question any aftermath that includes cutting trees. But he made it clear that the Forest Service won't delay efforts to restore burned forests to some semblance of their historic condition through salvage logging, prescribed fire, mechanical removal of dead wood and thinning of densely stocked stands.
In late August, timber corporations took the offensive, buying ads in 12 daily newspapers and spots on more than 30 radio stations in Washington, Idaho and Montana. The ads blamed conservationists in part for this summer's fires.
"Sadly, this year's tragic losses may be but a preview unless public-land managers are immediately allowed to harvest dead and dying timber on our national forests," warned one ad, billed as "a message from the Forest Workers of the Intermountain West."
"The irresponsible actions of a few radicals have blocked even the most modest efforts to return to safe and healthy condition through thinning and selective logging," the ad accused.
The timber industry also is pushing the government to authorize intensive thinning operations aimed at averting future fires in thick stands weakened by drought, fire suppression and insects.
Mike Bader, executive director of the Missoula-based Alliance for the Wild Rockies, says the timber industry and its allies in Congress are preying on people's fear of devastating wildfires to stack the decks in favor of massive salvage logging and "forest health" thinning operations.
"It's not as bad as the timber beasts say," responds an ad prepared by the alliance. "Where there's smoke there's liars."
"Are we saving the forests? Or are we saving the trees for the timber industry?" Bader asked at an Aug. 29 news conference in Boise. He said his group probably would challenge salvage sales through the Forest Service appeals process.
"The timber industry is taking advantage of a void in public understanding," said Lisa Lombardi, a wildlife biologist in Moscow, Idaho. "Fires are not like logging. Many species depend on snags and downed logs. Those snags left on the land are the only remaining biomass' after fire sweeps through, she said.
But the rush to salvage is on. Sam Gehr, supervisor of the Okanogan National Forest, predicted in August, while fires still raged in eastern Washington, that 30 million board-feet of timber could be salvaged from his forest.
That provoked a letter of protest from 14 conservation groups to Jeff Blackwood, director of the federal Eastside Ecosystem Management Project, which is preparing a scientific study of all federal lands in the Interior Columbia Basin and a comprehensive management plan (see accompanying story).
"We caution you not to put the Forest Service in the position of defending how your management is going to restore acres or limit future fires at this time," the conservationists wrote. "The (Project) is attempting to deal with these complex issues, and promotion of aggressive salvage or thinning, especially lacking a landscape perspective, is highly premature."
Instead, the conservationists suggested that the Forest Service use the 1994 fires to educate the public about the role of fire in Eastside forests. "When hot, dry conditions occur, Eastside forests burn. These fires are a normal ecological event, if viewed from a historical perspective."
Blackwood said at a mid-August meeting of the Eastside Ecosystem team that he "has no authority or expectation to jump into the middle of decisions on fire rehabilitation."
Environmentalists who urge a go-slow approach say that promises of high-volume salvage sales, like Gehr's, put them on the defensive. "This kind of story is putting great pressure on environmentalists," said Jere Payton of Oroville, Wash. "We can't even respond because then we will be blamed if the 30 million board-feet doesn't materialize."
Conservationists are trying to counter the timber industry's ad campaign with their own logic. For instance, they say that much of the Tyee Creek fire, which scorched 135,000 acres in eastern Washington, burned mainly in previously logged stands, not pristine wilderness - stands where past management practices and eight years of drought had left insect-damaged trees vulnerable.
Tom Graham, who is overseeing short-term rehabilitation of the 135,000-acre Tyee Creek fire on the Wenatchee National Forest, says critics are right, to a point.
"It's way more complicated than either of those generalizations," Graham said. "If you look at gross area burned, I'm guessing that easily more than 50 percent was in areas where we've been allowed to manage." But within those areas, some untouched watersheds also burned, Graham said. "The fire was influenced in some cases by past management activities, in other cases not at all."
Environmental lobbyists worry that Northwest lawmakers will attach a surprise rider to the 1995 Forest Service appropriations bill seeking to capitalize on this summer's fires. Among the possibilities, says Jim Owens of the Western Ancient Forest Campaign, are "a salvage bill disguised as a forest health bill or a fuels-management amendment that is really a thinning-and-high-grading bill."
At an Aug. 29 field hearing in Boise, Forest Service Chief Thomas stressed that the forest health problems plaguing the Intermountain West had their beginnings more than a century ago. He said the forests have suffered further from drought, exclusion of fire and removal of the healthiest, most fire-resistant trees from the ecosystem.
"The forest health problems and associated high intensity wildfires are indicators of an ecosystem that is not in balance, and the concerns will not go away when cooler and wetter fall weather arrives," the chief said. In the long run, he said, a comprehensive strategy must await the completion of the scientific study that is part of the Eastside Ecosystem Management Project under way in Walla Walla.


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Newborn screening (NBS) is a state level public health program that provides early identification and follow-up for treatment of infants affected by certain rare but serious genetic, metabolic, hormonal and/or functional conditions. Many of these conditions can be treated if found early. Most NBS tests are done using a few drops of blood from the newborn's heel, usually taken in the hospital 24 to 48 hours after birth.
In 2010, the Secretary of Health and Human Services adopted a Recommended Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP) to be used as a nationwide standard for state NBS programs. The RUSP, when first developed in 2004 by the American College of Medical Genetics, consisted of 29 disorders, called core conditions, for which effective treatments were available. The RUSP also included 25 secondary conditions that could be diagnosed while testing for the core conditions, but for which there were no documented treatments or there was limited knowledge about the disorder's natural history.
Following an update in March 2015, the RUSP now includes 32 core conditions and 26 secondary conditions. States may also screen for additional disorders. Because each state operates its own NBS program and decides which tests are required, states vary in the number and types of conditions for which they screen.
Detailed data at the state level will be added to PeriStats in future updates.


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Liberty News
Liberty dedicates new Center for Medical and Health Sciences
On Friday, Aug. 22, Liberty University unveiled its new Center for Medical and Health Sciences, hosting a ceremony in its courtyard attended by some of the area's top influencers in government and public welfare.
The 162-member inaugural class of the Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) joined Liberty staff, faculty, and community leaders in celebrating the new building and the launch of the new medical school. Classes began on Monday, Aug. 4.
The 144,000-square-foot, four-story facility is equipped with two auditoriums, 16 small group study classrooms, 12 conference rooms, and 15,000 square feet dedicated toward its anatomy, clinical medicine, and osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) laboratories. Each lab is built to accommodate live, broadcast-ready video feeds and 3-D video content for students to interact with on the floor.
"I look forward to the day that my own medical care will come from doctors trained right here," President Jerry Falwell told the crowd. He then joked, "I am 52, so I am hopeful that my health will remain solid until you students have some experience under your belts."
Ronnie B. Martin, D.O., FACOFP-dist, dean of LUCOM, challenged those in attendance by reminding them that the students and faculty, not the building, will give the building its true value.
"This magnificent structure behind me, alone, will not improve public health, expand access to healthcare, or promote wellness," Martin warned. "Its strength and its stability will not be measured by the tensile strength of concrete and steel, but rather by the commitment of the hearts, the minds, and the hands of those here today and those that will follow."
President Falwell also attested to the dean's high emphasis on teaching medical students to display Christ-embodying character, saying, "In the short time that I have known Dr. Martin, I have watched him practice what he preached."
Sharing the stage with Dr. Martin and President Falwell was the president's sister, Jeannie F. Rivers, M.D., who was the first female Liberty graduate to attend medical school. She earned a degree from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and is now Chief of Surgery at Hunter Holmes VA Medical Center, making her one of only a handful of women in the nation to hold the position. In her address, Dr. Rivers shared her father's own commitment to family-work balance, encouraging students to achieve the same and to always view medicine as a ministry.
"Strive to be the best that you can as you go forth, and most importantly, keep God first in your lives and in your practice, and your families first."
Liberty University broke ground on the Center in November 2012, with President Falwell calling it "the last piece of the puzzle" in his father's original vision for a world-class Christian university.
Arif Haseez, an EMT from New York and a LUCOM student doctor, felt honored to be a part of this milestone.
"The building is beautiful. We have state-of-the art equipment to teach us, and I feel really blessed to be here and to be using all of this," said Haseez.
Nichole Pinkleton, an alumna of Liberty now enrolled in the D.O. program, was also excited about the new facility.
"There are so many great features. The technology is tremendous," she said. "I really can't speak highly enough about the facilities, the faculty, and staff."
Funded by a $20.5 million grant from the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission, the building represents "the largest single financial commitment" made by the Tobacco Commission, said Del. Kathy Byron. The purpose, she said, is to meet the critical need for healthcare in the underserved, rural areas of Virginia.
"The Commission participated in this project because the respective visions of the college and the Commission are so closely aligned. The College of Osteopathic Medicine presented the rare opportunity to fulfill the needs of our region," Byron said. She also noted that as LUCOM continues to serve the community into 2018, when the first class will graduate, "more than $45 million of annual, direct economic impact on the region is predicted."
Byron marveled that the "missionary spirit" of Liberty's medical students was further proof of God's blessing.
"It's amazing to believe what Liberty University can do in such a short period of time."
President Falwell also expressed his appreciation to the Tobacco Commission, honoring Byron and Del. Terry Kilgore, chairman, for their efforts to support community-based medical access where it is most needed in southside Virginia.
"Without the $20-plus million in grants that the VTC provided to this endeavor, we would not have ventured out so boldly and so soon," Falwell said. "This great school would have been delayed for many years and might not have become a reality at all without your help."
Also present was Lynchburg City Mayor Michael Gillette and state senators Steve Newman and Frank Ruff. Dr. Elmer Towns, former dean of Liberty University Baptist Theological Seminary and the School of Religion, delivered the final dedicatory prayer.
LUCOM is the second medical school in the state and the 30th in the nation to offer the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree.
The Center for Medical and Health Sciences is also home to the Master of Public Health program under the School of Health Sciences.


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RORY MCILROY WILL TAKE A four-shot lead into the final round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club. McIlroy fashioned a solid 70 on Saturday while his closest pursuers failed to mount a charge. Patient and poised, McIlroy birdied three of the final six holes to put himself in position to not only win his first major, but to do it in dominating style with a wire-to-wire romp through the world-famous former nursery.
But it's not over.
The Irish phenom must survive a pressure-filled Sunday to earn his spot along the game's greatest champions at America's most exclusive golf club. Those who hope to have something to say about the outcome include the quartet at 8 under that trail McIlroy's 12-under total. They are 2009 Masters champion Angel Cabrera, Charl Schwartzel, K.J. Choi and Jason Day.
Adam Scott and Luke Donald are another shot back at 7 under. Bo Van Pelt is alone in eighth at 6 under.
Carding a 74, Tiger Woods lost all the momentum from his exciting Friday charge up the leaderboard. His putting woes continued after the flash of the old Tiger. Whereas the putter used to save Tiger time and again, now it's the most troublesome club in the bag. This isn't new. I first noticed putting problems on Sunday's back nine in 2008 when Trevor Immelman won. It happens to all the greats.
Keep an eye on that Cabrera character, especially if McIlroy stumbles on the way to Butler Cabin. Angel slipped into Kenny Perry's Green Jacket two years ago and swiped the U.S. Open trophy from Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk at Oakmont in 2007.
But Rory will do it if his mind is right on Sunday. I don't know how he could look more ready.
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Survivor: Sol Berger
"Where are the dollars?" two plainclothes Gestapo officers demanded as they appeared without warning on both sides of Sol Berger. Sol denied any knowledge, even though the daughter of a local currency dealer was hovering nearby at the train station in Tarnow, Poland, holding the dollars he desperately needed to immigrate to Palestine. The officers led him to Gestapo headquarters where, in a small second-floor room, they interrogated him, repeatedly beating him with a rubber stick and boxing both ears simultaneously. Finally, after two hours, one said, "He's had enough for today," and they left the room. Bruised and barely able to move, Sol spied a small, iron-barred window in the corner. He managed to squeeze his thin body through an opening and slide down a gutter. He reached the ground and ran. It was spring 1940, and Sol was 20 years old.
Solomon Berger was born on Oct. 28, 1919, to Jacob and Rose Fabian Berger in Krosno, Poland. He was the eighth of nine children. His father's tailor shop occupied one room in the house, the same room where the observant family celebrated Shabbat dinner on Friday nights.
On Sept. 1, 1939, Sol was awakened at 5 a.m. as the German air force dropped bombs on Krosno's airport and factories, causing the entire city to erupt in flames. Sol and his younger brother, Michael, were drafted into the Polish army, returning home 10 days later.
In early 1940, the Gestapo required all Jews to wear white armbands with blue stars and all young men to perform slave labor. It was during this time that Sol, who had participated in Zionist activities, hoped to flee to Palestine.
After his escape in Tarnow, Sol hid with a Jewish family there for three weeks, disguising himself by wearing a wig and women's clothes.
Back in Krosno, he was recaptured by the Gestapo and jailed with 10 political prisoners, including a Roman Catholic priest who said Mass daily and tutored Sol on Christianity, later enabling him to pass as a non-Jewish Pole. After six months, he was released.
During this time, Sol's father worked as a tailor for the Germans, and the family was allowed to remain in their house. This ended on Aug. 9, 1942, when all Jews were ordered to report the next day to register for new permits.
That morning, before 9 a.m., Sol, his parents, three brothers, and one married sister and her family huddled together in the old marketplace. Trucks surrounded the area, along with Gestapo, SS and police. A selection began. Sol's father was ordered to board one of the trucks, but first he put his arms around his four sons and said, "Boys, try to survive any way you can." The trucks pulled away, accompanied by vehicles with machine guns mounted atop.
Two hours later, the trucks returned empty. (It wasn't until 1978 that Sol discovered that the 500 elderly Jews had been executed in a nearby forest.) This time, the Nazis selected 600 young people, including Sol and his three brothers, for slave labor. They were taken to the ghetto and crammed 20 to a room. "We had to sleep sitting up," Sol said.
Meanwhile, after standing all day in the hot sun with no food or water, the 1,400 Jews remaining in the marketplace — including Sol's mother, sister, sister's husband and their two children — were loaded into cattle cars and, Sol later learned, transported to Belzec, where they were all murdered.
The next morning, Sol and his brothers were assigned to work in the tailor shop. Two weeks later, his brothers Moses and Michael were sent to work as tailors at a Ukrainian SS training camp.
On Dec. 3, 1942, marching back to the ghetto after work, Sol and his brother Joshua saw Gestapo surrounding the area. They decided to split up, escape and meet in Czortkow, where Tadeusz Duchowski, the husband of a Polish family friend, supervised a construction crew.
That night, Sol slipped out through a secret passageway. He made his way to the house of Maria Duchowski, Tadeusz's wife, who hid him for three days. Then, traveling as Jan Jerzowski, he took the train to Czortkow. Joshua never arrived.
In Czortkow, Tadeusz registered Sol as a Polish worker and put him to work building a bridge over the River Dniester. After three months, the project was completed.
Sol and about 100 Polish workers then escaped to the forest, joining the partisans and blowing up railroad tracks and highways. The group kept moving, sleeping in caves at night. "That was the hardest time of my life, surviving for 14 months," Sol said. He had to bathe in private to avoid being recognized as a Jew, listen to partisans' anti-Semitic insults and drink a lot of "stinking vodka."
In March 1944, after the Russians moved into Poland, the partisans were inducted into the Soviet army. Sol, who became Ivan Marianowicz Jerzowski, secured a job as a translator in the interrogation department, avoiding fighting in the front lines.
In April 1945, Sol took a leave from the Soviet army. In Krakow, he met Gusta Friedman, who had survived disguised as a Christian, and together they decided to escape from Poland.
Sol and Gusta traveled to Cluj, Romania, where they were married on May 18, 1945. They then went to Santa Maria di Bagni (later referred to as Santa Maria al Bagno), a DP camp in Southern Italy, where Sol contacted his three surviving sisters, who were living in the United States. He also learned his brother Michael had survived Auschwitz.
But Sol and Gusta remained another three years in the DP camp, where Sol worked as an ORT instructor and where their son Jack was born on Aug. 24, 1946. They then lived in London for two years.
The family finally arrived in Los Angeles in early July 1950, and their daughter, Marlene, was born on July 21, 1951. Sol worked as a machine operator in a clothing factory, as a liquor store co-owner with his brother Michael and as a Realtor in Beverly Hills, retiring in 1992.
Sol has been married to Gusta — now Gertrude — for 67 years. They have four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Sol began telling his story publicly in 1992, after promising his brother to do so when Michael was dying of lung cancer. For the last 20 years, Sol has been speaking three times a week at The Museum of Tolerance and the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust as well as to student, military and police groups.
"I realized I must tell my story, as much as it hurts," Sol said.
A version of this article appeared in print.


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Rimini Street Named a Finalist for 2012 Red Herring 100 Global Award
Award Recognizes Company's Success Worldwide as Leading Third-Party Software Support Provider
LAS VEGAS - November 28, 2012 - Rimini Street, Inc., the leading third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) software and Oracle Corporation's (NASDAQ: ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database and Hyperion software, today announced that it has been selected as a candidate for Red Herring's 2012 Top 100 Global award, a prestigious recognition honoring Rimini Street as the leading global provider of enterprise software support services in the industry. Rimini Street also was selected as a Red Herring Top 100 Americas 2012 winner earlier this year.
The Red Herring editorial team selected the companies demonstrating the most innovative technologies and business models originating from more than 1,000 companies from 40+ nations. These companies, representing past Red Herring Asia, Europe and North America awards, are judged on a range of qualitative and quantitative metrics, including but not limited to, technology innovation, financial performance, growth criterion, management's execution standards, potential globalization of the strategy and market share improvement.
"Technology companies are becoming the bright spot in the economic outlook based on their increasing role within macro-economic environments," stated Alex Vieux, Chairman of Red Herring. "2012 has confirmed the sector's vibrant activity and its resilience to widespread economic problems. An unprecedented number of entrepreneurs are attempting to jump ahead of the competition and aspire to make a difference. Breakthroughs obsolete each other faster than ever before. Rimini Street has performed exceptionally in its field and strongly deserves to be singled out as one of the Red Herring Global Finalists. At this stage, we are left with the daunting task to select the best qualified companies for the 2012 Top 100 Global Award."
"Rimini Street is proud and humbled to be selected as a Red Herring Global 100 finalist. We are singularly focused on meeting the needs of Oracle and SAP licensees around the world with an innovative, award-winning service model that is delivering ultra-responsive, concierge-level support to more than 525 clients, including 61 of the Fortune 500 and 15 of the Global 100 across more than 70 countries," said Seth Ravin, Rimini Street CEO. "In addition to leading the market with unique and valuable services like full support for customizations at no additional annual fees, Rimini Street is also saving its clients up to 90 percent in total cost of maintenance."
About Rimini Street, Inc.
Rimini Street is the leading third-party provider of enterprise software support services. The company is redefining enterprise support services with an innovative, award-winning program that enables Oracle and SAP licensees to save up to 90 percent on total support costs over a decade, including saving 50 percent on annual support fees. Clients can remain on their current software release without any required upgrades or migrations for at least 10 years. Hundreds of global, Fortune 500, midmarket, and public sector organizations from virtually all industries have selected Rimini Street as their trusted, independent support provider. To learn more, please visit www.riministreet.com or call within the USA 888-870-9692 or internationally 702-839-9671.
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Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance, term used to describe a flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly in the Harlem district of New York City. During the mass migration of African Americans from the rural agricultural South to the urban industrial North (1914–18), many who came to New York settled in Harlem, as did a good number of black New Yorkers who moved from other areas of the city. Meanwhile, Southern black musicians brought jazz with them to the North and to Harlem. The area soon became a sophisticated literary and artistic center. A number of periodicals were influential in creating this milieu, particularly the magazines Crisis, which was published by W. E. B. Du Bois and urged racial pride among African Americans, and Opportunity, published by the National Urban League. Also influential was the book The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925), edited by Alain Locke.
Responding to the heady intellectual atmosphere of the time and place, writers and artists, many of whom lived in Harlem, began to produce a wide variety of fine and highly original works dealing with African-American life. These works attracted many black readers. New to the wider culture, they also attracted commercial publishers and a large white readership. Writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance include Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Toomer. Visual artists connected with the movement are less generally known. Among the painters are Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, Malvin G. Johnson, and William H. Johnson. The best-known sculptor is probably Augusta Savage. Photographers include James Van Der Zee and Roy De Carava. The Harlem Renaissance faded with the onset of the Great Depression of the 1930s.
See D. L. Lewis, ed., The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (1994) and as author, When Harlem Was In Vogue (1981, repr. 1997); N. I. Huggins, Harlem Renaissance (1971); B. Kellner, ed., The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era (1987); M. S. Campbell, ed., Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America (1987, repr. 1994); L. Harris, ed., The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond (1989); H. Bloom, ed., Black American Prose Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (1994); J. O. G. Ogbar, The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters (2010). In addition, many materials relating to the period can be found in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City.


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Why is it taking a year to fix a Riverside pothole? | News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- There is a barricade in the middle of Oak Street, a two lane
road in the Riverside community and Drew Johnson said it has been there way
too long.
"They just come out and put a barricade and forget about it," said Drew Johnson. "It is crazy we just got our tax notices and they're building a new pool at the stadium but can't fix potholes. It is pretty outrageous."
Johnson, a business owner and Riverside resident, said there are too many barricades in his community and nothing is being done.
On Belvedere Avenue, the yard of the month is being humiliated by a road cave in and another barricade.
"I got an email from the city that the Oak Street problem would be corrected in March. It is still there," said Johnson.
Business owners nearby said the barricade has been replaced several times because motorists keep hitting the structure.
John Winkler lives and operates a law practice in the area.
"When I saw that there's actually grass growing in the hole, I was amazed," said Winkler.
Winkler is also the president of Concerned Taxpayers of Duval County. He said upgrades to EverBank Field should not be done if simple things like a pothole cannot be fixed.
"If we can't take care of the core functions of city government," said Winkler, "We have no business putting a swimming pool in the stadium and we certainly don't have $43 million to contribute to the world's largest score board."
Johnson wants it corrected and offers a simple solution for fixing potholes.
"Don't bring a barricade when it is reported," said Johnson, "Bring a bucket of asphalt and fix the hole."
What happened? City spokesperson Debbie Delgado said when it was reported to the city the issue was referred to JEA.
JEA spokesperson Gerri Boyce said they investigated the area and concluded it was not a JEA issue, but no one told that to the city.
Now that the city knows, Delgado said Public Works will fix the year-old pothole.


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We're not fancy. We just serve really tasty food, fresh from the carving deck and pizza oven at prices that are honest and fair. We pride ourselves on our succulent slow-cooked roasts, our 100% fresh dough pizzas and our juicy burgers and pub classics all with help yourself chips, salad and veg included in the price. Not up for a big meal? Our starters are great for a social snack with drinks.
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Groupon Adds a Dash of CRM to Its Breadcrumb POS App
Oct 10, 2013 5:00 AM PT
On Wednesday Groupon announced that it has added new CRM features to its Breadcrumb point-of-sale app with the potential to drive traffic and improve customer relations for Groupon merchants.
Customer tracking, for instance, is one of the new features now included in Breadcrumb, which was acquired by Groupon in May 2012. Specifically, the software tracks customers, stores their contact information, analyzes purchase behaviors and records notes on their preferences.
"When I check out the tea place down the street from my apartment or my barber, the reason I leave with a strong sense of loyalty is because they remember me and what my preferences are," explained Varun Krishna, director of product at Breadcrumb POS. "We're providing local merchants across the country with the ability to develop the same type of relationship with their customers using automated insight."
Also included in the software are an employee management feature that can establish tasks for specific roles or employees, assign transactions, filter sales and product reports and track commissions and tips; and the ability for users to scan standard barcode SKUs to edit items as well as upload images for each menu item to make them easier to find.
"We approached this project with the idea that the entire view of the point of sale begins with the customer record," Krishna told CRM Buyer. [*Correction - Oct. 10, 2013]
"It is not about, or not just about, the transaction or the checkout, but rather, for the merchant who is the customer and what is their history with me," he said. "The checkout is just part of that larger interaction."
'A Larger Trend'
Retailers are increasingly demanding technology that can help them engage with customers in ever-more-sophisticated ways at the point of sale, and a growing number of vendors are putting out products to meet this demand.
"It is a growing trend for all mobile applications and most especially apps in the mobile POS to bring more CRM capabilities into their service platform," Chia-Lin Simmons, vice president of marketing and content at Harman International, told CRM Buyer.
The new features Breadcrumb has added -- allowing users to track customer preferences, such as whether a customer likes her coffee black with no sugar -- are "part of a larger trend of personalization in e-commerce," Simmons said.
Other Vendors
There are other vendors targeting this same space, albeit in different fashions.
Many companies are taking an inventory-centric approach, connecting to SKU-level purchase data, Dax Dasilva, CEO and founder of LightSpeed, told CRM Buyer.
"Capturing this data allows retailers to provide a certain level of value, service and loyalty to the customer," Dasilva explained.
Leaf is a startup that just announced a US$20 million investment from Heartland Payment Systems to develop a purpose-built tablet POS that operates on an open platform.
"The open platform is an important differentiator that will further the proliferation of things like CRM apps," Sebastian Castro, Leaf's cofounder and COO, told CRM Buyer.
"Basically, everyone now seems to have a vision of what the mobile POS should look like," Brian Reale, CEO of Colosa, told CRM Buyer.
'The Omni-Commerce World'
That observation -- different vendors, different visions -- also applies to how these players see the POS further unfolding and what additional features will be added.
"One capability of these systems that will become more prevalent in the small business market is the automation of this POS data into targeted marketing campaigns, as well as other ways to make the sales process more personalized," predicted Jeff Shanahan, president at CardConnect.
"Another innovation will be not only adding these automated CRM capabilities to simply the mobile POS market, but truly applying them across the omni-commerce world," he continued. "This would allow a merchant to understand a customer's purchases in their entirety -- from e-commerce to mobile to in-store -- instead of receiving silos of disparate data from many different vendors."
*ECT News Network editor's note - Oct. 10, 2013: Our original published version of this story mistakenly stated that a Groupon spokesperson was not immediately available to provide further details.


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WoW Archivist explores the secrets of World of Warcraft's past. What did the game look like years ago? Who is etched into WoW's history? What secrets does the game still hold?
Hallow's End is once more upon us. Last year, the Archivist uncovered WoW's most terrifying secrets. But much of what's terrifying in WoW is right in your face, trying to eat you, or stomp you, or shatter your mind with madness. Let's take a look at the scariest bad guys from every era.
Mrrglrlrlrmgrrr: Monsters of classic WoW
To some, they're adorable, misunderstood frog people. To others, they are the amphibious stuff of nightmares. In vanilla WoW, it was nearly impossible to fight a lone murloc. Their tight-knit societies and tendency to flee meant fighting one murloc often evolved into fighting two -- or twenty. A good many early players found themselves torn to pieces by slobbering murloc hordes. Some still shudder when they hear that distinctive battle-cry.
Sons of Arugal
I'm not sure how Arugal managed to father so many sons while tucked away in the tower of Shadowfang Keep, but the guy certainly got around. Horde players questing in Silverpine Forest lived in dread of these elite worgen, who always seemed to aggro at the worst possible time.
That damn Lurker in the water leading up to the Wailing Caverns entrance
For me, this one is personal. In vanilla, fighting your way to the Wailing Caverns entrance was like a mini dungeon run all by itself. One of the caves had a small but deceptively deep pool of water. During my first trip there, I decided the water was a safe place to fire from while our tank scooped up the locals. (It was a habit I picked up.) Then something large and unknown rose up from the darkness and bit me. I've never gone for a swim there since.


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Emma Watson looked so chic at the premiere of her new flick, This is the End in LA last night.
Emma Watson Channeled Her Inner Kardashian For 'The Bling Ring'
The actress wore a black and white printed bustier top by Roland Mouret with black cropped pants and pumps and looked every bit the style icon she's morphed into over the past few years.
Emma Watson's 23rd Birthday Involved Tons of…
Plus, her tucked-under faux bob and plum lip were the perfect hair and makeup finishing touches. Not too fussy, but still full-on sophisticated—just like Emma.
Who Wore It Better? RHONJ's Melissa Gorga vs. Princesses' Chanel Omari
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So I have this thing with clothes. I kind of really love it and I share about my personal style on my blog. I love fashion. I love Thrifting. I love going and searching for those hidden treasures. I'm a thriftaholic. I love finding vintage stuff that if they could talk, they would tell the most awesomeness story ever. Something else I love about thrifting... the prices. My husband also loves that little part since we're poor college students. He always says... "My wallet thanks you!" He cracks me up.
I feel like my style is always evolving, which I love. I love to take those little fashion trends and make them my own, with my own little touch. I love blogging because you can see how much you grow as time goes by, how much your style changes, it's basically your own public journal.
I also love creating. Anything really.
I love making jewelry, home decor, clothe refashion, you name it I love to "diy" it for cheaper. I have a tab on my blog sidebar titled "i make stuff" if you ever want to check it out. Your welcome ;)
If you'd like to see a little more about us just check out my little ol' blog.
I'd love to have you there.
Hugs... Ana.
Thank you beautiful girl for babysitting my little blog while I'm away!


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UH community joins clean up effort in historic neighborhood prior to 11th annual Discover Moiliʻili DayUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
UH Office of Sustainability
Community volunteers will pick up trash, paint over graffiti and beautify their historic town at the 3rd annual Moiliʻili Clean-Up Day on Saturday, September 30, in preparation for the 11th annual Discover Moiliʻili Day the following Saturday, October 7.
Joel Elies, who is organizing the event for the Old Town Moiliʻili Business Association (OTMBA) says, "So many people talk about making our community better, but very few are willing to do something about it. I would like to see those who care about our ʻaina come out to the clean-up and prove it by spending a few hours working in the hot sun."
Linda Day, of the UH Office of Sustainability, is assisting Elies as part of the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa's support of the event. Day says, "Moiliʻili is like a diverse mixed-growth forest — buildings, businesses and people that are both wizened old trees generated from the deep roots of many cultures, and quirky new saplings from recent introductions.
"Past clean-up volunteers have included everyone from a retired Chinese immigrant who has lived in the neighborhood for half a century, to a sunburned college coed who just got off the plane from Missouri and is staying in a UHM dorm. This neighborhood has a lot of character."
Volunteers who want to participate in the clean-up are asked to come to Kalo Place Mini Park (at the end of Varsity Place off University Avenue) beginning at 8:00 a.m. this Saturday to receive gloves, tools and instructions. Free mahalo drinks and chili-rice bowls, music and a short ceremony to thank volunteers are all on the schedule at the conclusion of the clean-up back at the park at 12 noon.
Free parking for volunteers is available at Puck's Alley and on the UH Manoa lower campus (enter through Varsity Place gate).
The clean-up is supported by a partnership of community, government and business organizations, including OTMBA, Hope968, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, Kamehameha Schools, First Hawaiian Bank, Professional Image, ISI
Paints/Dulux, Sodexho, Clear Channel, City and County of Honolulu, Ala Wai Watershed Association, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi, Moiliʻili Community Center, McCully-Moiliʻili Neighborhood Board, and the Parents and Friends of UH Manoa.


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Have you ever made a cold oven pound cake? I hadn't even heard of cold oven pound cake until my friend Donna suggested I give it a try. "It's the best pound cake ever!" she exclaimed with such enthusiasm – immediately piquing my interest.
Cold oven pound cake is made using a typical pound cake recipe, but it's baked for a longer time in a cooler oven that hasn't been preheated.
Was it simply that Donna tasted a better than average pound cake recipe, or does baking cold oven pound cake really make a difference in the end result? I was determined to find out!
Is Cold Oven Pound Cake Better?
Using the exact same recipe, I baked half of my pound cake cupcakes in a preheated oven at 350 F for 25 minutes and the other half starting in a cold oven heating up to 275 F for 60 minutes. I then subjected my friends and family to blind taste tests (not that they minded).
EVERYONE liked the cold oven pound cake better! Some people went so far as to say that the cold oven ones were like a completely different dessert. The difference was in the texture. The cold oven pound cake was denser and had less of a crumb. It was what you would expect from pound cake. I'm not a food scientist (I can't explain why this works), but I would suggest that you try this technique the next time you make a pound cake.
Cold Oven Pound Cake Recipe
The key ingredient in pound cake, of course, is BUTTER. Pound cake gets its name from the fact that the classic pound cake recipe contains a full pound of butter. For my cold oven pound cake (in cupcake form), I used butter compliments of Challenge Butter. Challenge Butter is not sold here in St. Louis, but it is available in other parts of the country. I figured that if they were going to send me butter, I needed to make something super buttery!
The cold oven pound cake recipe I used was from Annie Laurie on Bakespace. It was one stick shy of the traditional full pound of butter. Annie says that her mother was famous for it, and I can understand why. I am reprinting the recipe below with my notes and modifications to make cupcakes instead of a cake.
Cold Oven Pound Cake
- 1 1/2 C unsalted butter
- 3 C sugar
- 6 large eggs cold
- 3 C sifted cake flour I used all-purpose flour since that was all I had on hand, and it worked well
- 1 C whole milk VERY cold (I used 2%)
- 1 t vanilla extract
- 1 t almond extract Use any extract here that you like. I used coffee extract.
- Cream butter and sugar together.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time.
- Beat in flour, one cup at a time, alternating with milk.
- Add extracts.
- Beat on medium-high to high speed for two minutes, scraping down sides of bowl.
- Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full.
- Place on middle rack in a COLD oven and bake at 275 F for 1 hour.
The Frosting
I frosted these cupcake with banana whipped cream with cacao nibs. But an advantage of such a plain cake is that you can top it with whatever flavor frosting you most love!
This is not the first time that I have made pound cake cupcakes (although it's a first for the cold oven variety). I made mini pound cake cupcakes to dip in chocolate fondue for Valentine's Day. You might consider trying that same technique with this recipe for the holidays. If you make these as minis, simply bake for half the time.


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We wish everyone a Merry Christmas! This year has been wonderful for us and can only continue to get better.
The kids are really going to miss seeing Santa at the Scarborough Town Centre:
They had fun writing to Santa and getting a letter!
But as parents, nothing makes us happier than watching the two of them play together and take care of each other.
Have a safe and Happy New Year!


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The Level Making Process – Mutant Blobs Attack
Howdy all, Chris McQuinn here from Drinkbox Studios. I just thought I'd share the process we use when creating our levels, by giving you an inside view of constructing a typical section from the game from start to finish.
Alright, well, it all begins with an idea. And the thing about ideas is that they're initially pretty bad. Well, especially mine. But don't lose hope, ideas get better with iteration! First we create a section using the most basic wireframe blocks, some of the boxes are static, and others are moving threats.
This section forces the player to jump up through some crushers followed by a puzzle requiring touch platforms to be moved into lasers in order to create a safe path through.
After playing this section for a bit we conclude:
– Jumping up through the crushers is good, keep this!
– Puzzle section is a bit too easy, can we make this harder? Spice it up a bit?
Ok, back to the drawing board. Let's add some complexity to the puzzle by adding a few more lasers. In addition, why not have an optional challenge for players by teasing them with a Blob Friend. The result is below:
Great, now that we're happy with general layout of the section, it's time to add some art so we can playtest. In order to save some time for our artist – the level designers get to do some designer art (gross).
The above might make some people cringe, but it allows us to make further changes without having to go back to request additional art changes. After a bit of tweaking based on suggestions from guys around the office and some initial play-testing, we then bring in the art! Now the wireframe boxes are adjusted to match the art to be used in-game, resulting in the following:
Perfect. Finally we polish by adding some lights, including background animations, and hide the wireframes from the player to result in a final product of a typical section from Mutant Blobs Attack:


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Benjamin Walker, meet your new bride, Robin McLeavy.
McLeavy has been cast as Mary Todd, wife of The Great Emancipator in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," reported Latino Review.
McLeavy starred last in 2009's comedic horror film "The Loved Ones," about a high school girl shunned by her peers he gets her revenge by kidnapping the cutest boy in her school and throwing her own prom with the help of her dad.
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Though it was well received on the festival circuit, it never got a proper US release. We watched the trailer last year and it's a bit nuts. Seeing as Mary Todd was a bit cuckoo-bananas, the experience could serve McLeavy well in "Vampire Hunter."
"Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," being directed by Timur Bekmambetov ("Wanted"), stars Walker as Lincoln, Dominic Cooper as his mentor Henry Sturges and Anthony Mackie. Tim Burton, who bought the rights to the book by Seth Graham Smith's after seeing the trailer, is producing.
We hated "Wanted," but we're intrigued by the premise and we like the cast--done properly, this could be a lot of fun.


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Life on the rooftops in flooded
Philippines cities
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A resident traverses between two buildings on a rope in Pasig City,
east of Manila, Philippines, on August 9, 2012.
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People stay on the rooves of their houses due to floods in Marikina
City, east of Manila, on August 9, 2012.
Reuters reports — The Philippines began a massive clean-up on
Thursday after floods swept the capital and nearby provinces,
forcing residents to wade through shoulder-deep waters in some
places after nearly two weeks of monsoon rains killed 91 people.
Power, water and communications services were restored as
floodwaters started to recede, allowing many to return home
to fix their houses. Nearly 300,000 people remained in
temporary shelters, disaster officials said. Read the full story.
See more pictures of flooding in the Philippines on PhotoBlog
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A resident holds on to a rope as he wades through floodwaters
in Marikina City on August 9, 2012. Large parts of Manila were
still swamped in floods on Thursday, after continuous rains
pounded the capital overnight.
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Rescue workers help flood affected people return to their
house near a river that overflowed in San Mateo, Rizal,
suburban Manila on August 9, 2012.
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Deep, automatic federal spending cuts do not start for 10 days, but the blame game is already in full swing.
Pointing a finger at Republicans in Congress, President Obama painted a dark future Tuesday of weakened national defense, sidelined first responders, and shuttered school programs if the $85 billion worth of "brutal" spending cuts this year alone – called the "sequester" – go into effect.
The look of Mr. Obama's latest bully pulpit moment was familiar: He spoke from a White House auditorium, surrounded by "real people" who would be affected – in this case, emergency responders in uniform. And his rhetoric was biting, a signal that he's not trying to woo Republicans but rather position himself for the debate to come after the sequester goes into effect, as is widely expected.
Congress, in fact, is on recess this week. So Monday's show seemed principally for the cameras.
"Republicans in Congress face a simple choice," Obama said. "Are they willing to compromise to protect vital investments in education and health care and national security and all the jobs that depend on them? Or would they rather put hundreds of thousands of jobs and our entire economy at risk just to protect a few special interest tax loopholes that benefit only the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations?"
Neither side, of course, wants the sequester to kick in. It was designed in 2011 to spur both sides to reach a compromise. But the usual sticking point remains: taxes. Obama says a sensible solution includes targeted spending cuts and tax increases via the closing of certain loopholes and deductions. Republicans say they're done with tax hikes; they gave in last December during the fiscal cliff talks, agreeing to an increase in the top marginal rate for the wealthiest taxpayers.
House Speaker John Boehner (R) of Ohio slammed the president for putting on a "campaign-style event," and blamed him for ignoring legislation that has passed the House – a plan that contains "common-sense cuts and reforms" that won't threaten public safety, national security, or the economy.
"Once again," Speaker Boehner said, "the president offered no credible plan that can pass Congress – only more calls for higher taxes."
Last week, an exasperated speaker declared that he was finished trying to reach an agreement with the Democrats in Congress and the White House.
"Frankly, every time I've gotten into one of these high-profile negotiations, you know, it's my rear end that got burnt," Boehner said.
What the speaker didn't say is that he gets in as much trouble with factions of his own party as with the White House. So it may be that any eventual resolution of the sequester could come down again to two old Senate hands – the Republican minority leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky and Vice President Joe Biden, whose years as a senator schooled him in the back-room art of deal-making.
But for now, the klieg lights are on Obama, and he sees the inevitable approaching: The sequester will go into effect, and he is angling for political advantage.
On the broader range of issues, including immigration reform and gun control as well as fiscal matters, the president has faced cries of frustration from bipartisan-minded Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill that Obama is not reaching out to them. The idea is that these senators could provide cover for other Senate Republicans, and eventually Republicans in the House.
"I view this as a time to turn the page and take a fresh approach from both the White House and the congressional perspective and try to work together on these difficult political issues that have to be addressed," Sen. Rob Portman (R) of Ohio told Politico recently. "Doing it at the level of our leadership and the president hasn't worked."
The Democrats have a 55-to-45 majority in the Senate, but need to reach a filibuster-proof 60 votes to pass major legislation.
On the sequester, Obama need look no further than public opinion to see who has the advantage. The president is hanging on just above 50 percent in job approval, compared with Congress, which is mired in the teens. Capitol Hill gives Obama an easy foil.
But he could be taking a risk in hanging back and hectoring congressional Republicans as the clock ticks down to deep cuts, and not being seen as rolling up his sleeves and negotiating.
How risky is this for Obama?
"Clearly, I think he believes that his public strategy will help him get a better outcome," says Steven Schier, a political scientist at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. "Republicans certainly don't agree."
The real question is how Obama's approach affects the Republican-controlled House.
"There is a risk in drawing such bright lines against the Republicans in the House that you impede progress legislatively," Mr. Schier says. "I don't quite see what the public benefit is in being so obstreperous toward Congress. It's not like you're going to mobilize public opinion to get the House Republicans to change their stripes."
It's an unusual strategy, says Schier, but as Obama starts his second term, it shows he's confident.


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ORLANDO, Fla. – A cross-dresser who had just left a women's clothing store with a friend was shot by a gunman who demanded the victim's purse.
Shan Devine Sherrington was walking home near the intersection of Beecher Street and Hernandes Drive in the Pine Hills area of Orlando when he was ambushed, according to his family.
"Someone came up behind them and was like, 'Punk, give me the (explitive) bag! Give me your bag!'," said Sherrington's sister, Sierra West. "He was like, 'no.' The next thing he knows he took out the gun and started shooting."
Several bullets struck Sherrington in the leg. Immediately after the shooting, the gunman ran away without stealing anything, according to family.
"Whoever did it, they still didn't get nothing," said West. "So basically they ain't succeed in what they did."
Orange County sheriff's deputies searched for the gunman for more than two hours using canines and a search helicopter, but were they were unable to find him.
Sherrington's sister does not know if the robber mistook her brother for a woman because of the way he was dressed Friday night, or targeted him for more personal reasons.
"Why they had to shoot him? Cuz he say no?," asked West. "They knew he was a dude. And they didn't want to fight. That's probably what it was."


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The 2014 Legislative Session was productive and meaningful for the State of Florida. Senator Bill Montford (D-Tallahassee) was an active part in passing many bills that will help the hardworking communities of North Florida. He maintained strong advocacy for the needs of his 11 counties: Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla.
When asked about the 2014 Session Senator Montford said, �The country can easily look to Florida as an example of how common-sense and principled answers can be found on both sides of the aisle and quite frankly in the middle of the aisle. We have and will continue to work together, Senate and House, Democrat and Republican to do what is best for Florida.�
In the 2014 Session, Montford helped shape the following legislative decisions:
Springs Protection: Montford co-sponsored legislation with four other senators in a bipartisan effort that became known as the �Springs Bill,� which addressed the many water issues that the state is facing. While the bill passed the Senate, it did not make it out of the House. �We started very important and dire conversations about the state of our invaluable and irreplaceable springs in Florida and we have every intention of continuing them next year,� he said.
Maintaining the Florida Retirement System and state employee health insurance: Montford is well-known in the Senate as an advocate and voice for state workers and as such he helped to maintain the current, sturdy Florida Retirement System that faced many challenges throughout the 2014 session. He was also instrumental in defending the well-managed health insurance policies for state workers.
Preservation of the Instructional Materials Process: Montford was pivotal in the preservation of the statewide instructional materials process, which will not only maintain cost savings for local school districts but also give parents more opportunity for input in their child�s learning materials.
Effective timeline for school accountability: As a longtime educator, Montford advocated for a realistic timeline to ensure the proper implementation of the many facets in the Public School Accountability program including technology and testing.
Local pharmacy choice: Communities will now be able to choose their local pharmacies or mail-order when ordering prescriptions on the State Group Insurance PPO (Preferred Provider Organization).
Tax cuts: The Florida Legislature came together this year to offer many hardworking Floridians much-needed tax cuts totaling $500 million. It included reduced annual motor vehicle license renewal registration fee, which alone will save drivers between $20 and $25 each.
Rural Areas of Critical Economic Concern (RACEC): The Legislature passed legislation to help cities in RACEC communities avert the cost of removing or relocating utility lines on the State Highway System in certain circumstances, by allowing FDOT to pay for such costs. In addition, the legislation will allow municipalities within a RACEC or a RACEC community to compete for project funding using Small County Outreach Program (SCOP) criteria.
Flood Insurance Legislation: Legislation was also passed to establish a private flood insurance market in Florida, which will hopefully lower flood insurance rates for Florida citizens. The proposal is aimed at addressing the federal flood insurance crisis caused by the rising rates being imposed by the National Flood Insurance Program.
Budget Items: In recognition of the importance of acting this year on Florida�s springs, the legislature funded $25 million for spring�s restoration plus another $1.7 million for springs monitoring.
The legislature recognized the importance of improved learning environments for children and funded $14 million for public school construction in Montford�s district.
The Senate and the House agreed on $6,937.23 per student, public school funding, which is $176 more per student than last year, and totals $18.9 billion towards public schools.
What got funded
Sen. Bill Montford worked to ensure Franklin County was awarded the following allocations. All line items are subject to the governor�s veto.
Local projects
Apalachicola Bay oyster processor facilities upgrades $768,060
Chapman School Building $497,000
Fort Coombs Armory rehabilitation $350,000
Vrooman Park $50,000
Carrabelle Old City Hall - Phase II historical rehab. $50,000
Chapman Auditorium reroofing $50,000
Apalachicola Center for History, Culture & Art $25,000
Franklin's Promise Coalition. - Weems Arts In Medicine $25,000
Dixie Theatre Foundation, Inc. $16,950
TOTAL $1.83 million
FDOT road projects
Apalachicola Regional Airport stormwater and drainage $2.4 million
SR 30 (US 98) Ave. E from west of CR 384 (12th St.) to Apalachicola Bridge $833,096
Apalachicola Regional Airport rehab runway 18/36 Phase II $265,147
Carrabelle-Thompson Airport extend runway 5/23 $181,818
Crooms Inc. Transit Section 5311 Non-urbanized Area $131,628
SR 300 Island Drive from SR 30 (US 98) to St. George Island Bridge $75,441
TOTAL: $3.89 million
GRAND TOTAL: $5.72 million


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Diving & Marine Conservation Volunteering in Thailand - Monthly Updates
- Project Overview
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- Divemaster Course Add-on
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- Management Plan, Data & Reports
Conservation in Thailand - Monthly Update September 2012
Diving Based Projects:
Overall this month, we had quite a bit of bad weather. There was a lot of rain, high winds, and large waves. Because of this, we spent most of the month diving locally. The volunteers did a great job collecting a lot of debris. We had some sites where 10- 15 kilos were brought up on one single dive. For a few days when the weather cleared up, we were able to get out to Phi Phi and dive Maya Bay, where we saw 10 sharks, and Viking & Philey wall which had a variety of species that the volunteers learned about. The volunteers also worked together to average their Reef Survey information and learned how to enter the data on the various Project's Abroad sites.
Reef Check Survey
During our reef check survey this month we did spot some interesting and exciting species, a total of 11 black tip sharks were spotted this month, and 10 of them were in one sitting. Other rather rare sightings consisted of a baby stingray, a green turtle and also a stick pipe fish. The volunteers were extremely excited about the 10 black tips in one dive.
Species that was spotted most of was bicolor parrotfish, cleaner wrasse, sea whip, moorish idol and brain corals.
Project AWARE - Dive Against Debris Survey
During September we had 12 different dives for debris. What we noticed this month was that the most amount of debris that was picked up were usually bottles. More plastic bottles were salvaged but also a significant amount of glass bottles. We feel that the reason behind this is that in September the storm systems wash much more debris in to our water ways.
The most interesting item salvaged has to be a fishing trap, even though there wasn't any marine life caught inside at the time, in the future it would have definitely caused problems for our eco system. It was nice of the volunteers to spot this and remove it.
Endangered Species Work
It is sad to report that the only endangered species that we had to report to the Phuket Marine Biology Center (PMBC) was the one green sea turtle, because of the bad weather it is extremely difficult to spot these animals when they breech the surface for air. We also noticed there were many turtles that had been rescued by PMBC due to the bad weather entangling the turtles.
Land Based Projects:
Forest Regeneration
September has been a good month for our reforestation project, this month we spent a lot of our time working with FORRU in their tree nursery. Learning how to pot seeds and germinate them was one of our biggest jobs this month. We also did plenty of weeding, and clearing debris out of the tree nurseries, basically general tree nursery care. This is great practice for our volunteers whom also have their own tree nursery to attend to at our accommodation.
On one of the days, due to heavy rain, instead of being in the tree nursery we had a chance to visit some of the children in the kindergarten in the local area, the volunteers drew pictures of animals for the kids and taught them how to say what they are in English. The children and the volunteers all had a great time. We also have started preparing the walls of the kindergarten to paint some nature inspired murals for the kids.
On the last reforestation day of September, the volunteers were invited by the local government to help plant trees at the Emerald pool area, this was not only great publicity for our cause but the volunteers were also invited to the hot springs for a dip after.
Beach Clean Ups
In September we had two beach cleans, one of our beach cleans was here on our own back yard. Ao Nammao, the other clean up session took place in Nopharathara beach, volunteers managed to pick up a total of almost 265kg, which is not bad at all for two beach cleans. The most unusual items picked up was an ID card, an umbrella, and part of a ripped tent.
20kg of the trash picked up was recyclable the rest was all general rubbish.
Turtle Rehabilitation Work
Due to lots of storm systems in the area, we heard that PMBC had many turtles that were injured due to ghost nets and other marine debris. So when we arrived, the volunteers were put straight into work, staring with cleaning the tanks. After the tanks were nice and clean they were asked to assist the vets with applying medicine to the many injured turtles.
When all the work was done, we went to the marine mammal rehabilitation pool where unfortunately there was a dolphin that was being cared for as it had beached on the other side of Phuket Island. The PMBC staff asked if any volunteers wanted to stay the night by the pool and care for the dolphin for the night shift. We had two volunteers who jumped the chance to PMBC's delight. The dolphin is stabilising but still being monitored. We will send all of our positive energy to that dolphin.
Community Outreach Day
On our community outreach day we went to Thup Prik where the volunteers learned how to build eco mud houses, also known as adobes. The project that we partnered up with is called "Num Thang" which means "lead the way". They are all about sustainability, form self sufficient crop planting to harvesting solar energy.
On the day we learned how to build mud bricks, which we then learned how to layer them using nothing but a mixture of earth and water as glue. The volunteers also mixed bio mud pain that was used to finish the walls once the bricks were layered. As hard working as the volunteers were, it all ended with a fun mud fight. The area we worked in also had a little pond that the volunteers could wash off and have a swim after.
Other Stuff
The social activities that took place in September were, sea kayaking and Tiger temple/Huay Toh waterfall visit.
We started kayaking from Ao Nang, and visited many beaches along the way. We ended up on Phranang Cave beach where the volunteers went trekking into a cave system and ended up on a small opening at the side of the cliff. The view was perfect as the weather was great.
Tiger temple was also a great success; firstly the volunteers get a blessing from the monks and observe the actual caved temple area. After that they head up the 1200 plus steps to the top of the temple, as tiring as it is they always seem thrilled when they get to the top. We then made our way to Huay Toh waterfall where the volunteers had lunch and went for a swim in the falls.
Vishal Pawa
Conservation Project Manager, Thailand


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The announcement of Food & Wine Magazine's Best New Chefs signifies the start of spring. And despite the "out like a lamb" downpour during the publication's tentpole event, the mood inside the Edison Ballroom in Times Square was as warm as the season we all yearn for, and deserve.
With passed chicken confit bites served on buckwheat crepes from Koran Grieveson, to the rich and spectacular Humm Dog from Daniel Humm, a bacon wrapped hot dog under a melted slice of gruyere with black truffle mayo and celery relish, or the perfectly balanced sweet and spicy hand-pulled noodles with Szechuan shrimp and sausage from Stephanie Izard, the evening, emceed by Dana Cowin and Christina Grdovic, was a celebration of the publication's namesake, Food & Wine.
For those in attendance, whether it be Daniel Boulud or David Chang, Jamie Bissonnette, or Anne Burrell, the media, the Instagram'ers or the foodies lucky enough to be extended an invite, the festivities were an occasion to honor and recognize the next class of cooking talent from across the country. Here they are:
Bryce Shuman; Betony; New York City
Michael Fojtasek and Grae Nonas; Olamaie; Austin, Texas
Zoi Antonitsas; Westward; Seattle
Jake Bickelhaupt; 42 Grams; Chicago
Jonathan Brooks; Milktooth; Indianapolis
Katie Button; Curate; Asheville, North Carolina
Jim Christiansen; Heyday; Minneapolis
Tim Maslow; Strip T's and Ribelle; Boston
Ori Menashe; Bestia; Los Angeles
Carlos Salgado; Taco María; Costa Mesa, California


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