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Sunday, March 31, 2013
HBT AL East preview: Yanks down, Jays up?
For the past few days?we?ve been previewing the 2013 season. Here, in handy one-stop-shopping form, is our package of previews from the American League East.
The Blue Jays totally revamped the rotation and added Jose Reyes and Melky Cabrera to the lineup. Is that enough for a 20+ game swing and the division title?
The Rays lost James Shields but they still have tons of pitching. But where is the offense going to come from?
Is the Jeter-Rivera Yankees dynasty finally over? Do the Bombers have a better chance at first place or the cellar?
The Orioles shocked the world by making the playoffs in 2012. Was it smoke and mirrors or the beginning of a sustained return to prominence in Baltimore?
The Red Sox? 2012 was a train wreck. Are they back on track in 2013?
Below are our team-by-team previews for the AL East as well as our HBT Extra feature on the division. Enjoy.
Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/29/2013-preview-the-american-league-east/related/
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
'Girls' Gone Wild by J. Hoberman - The New York Review of Books
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Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers, the new film by Harmony Korine, opens with an impressively staged shot of pure pulchritude?a mass of golden bodies gyrating on a Florida beach?rendered somewhat absurd by the cartoonish sounds of Skrillex?s wacky techno distortions. The luridly saturated colors are pure Pop Art. The casting is conceptual. Korine employs a pair of Disney teen princesses?Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens?along with TV soubrette Ashley Benson and his wife, Rachel Korine, to play a quartet of co-eds who escape from their emphatically non-Ivy League college to join in the spring break frenzy. That these students are too busy establishing their sexual bravado to heed their professor?s droning lecture on the civil rights movement, however, signals that Spring Breakers has more on its mind than youth?s inalienable right to party.
Spring Breakers is a crowd-pleaser, although given its confounding creepiness, the crowd it pleases most is surely the forty-year-old filmmaker?s intellectual fan base. Korine?s college girl protagonists finance their trip by stealing a car and robbing the local Chicken Shack, using toy guns and moves swiped from Quentin Tarantino movies. (?Just pretend it?s a fucking video game,? the leader advises her cohort.) The robbery is filmed as Brian De Palma might, in a continuous take as watched outside from the revved-up getaway car. Down in Florida, all four join the bacchanal, get busted?for reasons never made clear?and, in the movie?s most lubricious stunt, are locked up, still in their bikinis. They never seem more vulnerable or freer.
Then the movie turns. A knavish knight errant arrives in the form of an impossibly skeevy rap-artist-cum-dope-pushing-gun-dealer called Alien (played by James Franco, with corn-rows and a set of gleaming grillz). He bails them out and takes them under his wing, leaving the audience to wait for the worst or imagine it. Alien?s home is a literal trophy house, a palace consecrated to consumable iniquity, overstocked with weapons and drugs. Bouncing on the trampoline-sized bed, the girls, who have been reduced in number to three (Selena Gomez?s character, a young Christian named Faith, has gone back to campus), turn his guns on him and make him fellate the barrels. Unabashed, the now feminized Alien leads the trio in singing the wistful ballad ?Everytime,? a song written by the best-known of fallen mouseketeers, Britney Spears. Then, together they go on to terrorize a few hapless male spring breakers, who have been amusing themselves drenching their comatose female counterparts with an ocean of beer, and participate in Alien?s comparably ineffectual vendetta against his African-American rival (rapper Gucci Mane). Alien goes down but the surviving girls are like Valkyries who whisk themselves up to Valhalla, chanting the movie?s inane mantra: ?Spring break for-evah!?
Korine has enjoyed a healthy career as a provocateur and Spring Breakers, however extravagantly prurient, marks his entry into middle-age; it feels mature. Korine hasn?t exactly aged out of nihilism but the movie?s production values do suggest the work of a man with a career to maintain and a producer?s investment to protect. It?s been eighteen years since Korine wrote his first screenplay, Kids (1995), the avid expos? of unprotected, young teen sex in New York City during the AIDS crisis directed by photographer Larry Clark. Korine?s subsequent movies Gummo (1997) and julien donkey-boy (1999), both made before he turned twenty-six, were more deliberately off-putting, candy-colored freak shows alternately disgusting or stupefying.
After furnishing Clark with another script, Ken Park (2002), that revisited the world of addled teens, this time in suburban California, the enfant terrible laid low before showing his sensitive side with Mr. Lonely (2007), a tepid, French production in which a Michael Jackson impersonator has a fleeting romance with an ersatz Marilyn Monroe. This was followed by the movie I regard as his best, the daringly low-tech Trash Humpers (2009), purportedly a deteriorated VHS tape of inane acting-out in a derelict landscape, in which a cadre of supposedly geriatric punks, often in wheelchairs, stage a sort of desecratory anti-social guerrilla theater. Slick and stylish, Spring Breakers would appear to be Trash Humpers?s polar opposite but it too flirts with the d?class?; in essence the movie puts a Duchampian frame around the Girls Gone Wild genre of documentary soft-core porn, if not its hard-core online analogues.
It?s unlikely that, outside the world of international film festivals, Korine was ever saddled with the burden of being a generational spokesperson but, in any case, that position is now occupied by Lena Dunham, who at twenty-six is scarcely older than Korine was during his initial successes of the 1990s. With Girls, her ubiquitous HBO series in which a quartet of relatively privileged young women, recently graduated from college, try without much success to navigate a world of dead-end jobs and deadbeat boyfriends, Dunham has tapped into a vein of tragicomic sexual naturalism in which, as in the novels of Czech writers Milan Kundera and Ivan Klima, social constraint (here economic) makes sex, however messy, the lone arena of freedom.
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Lena Dunham (second from right) in her show Girls
The pseudo ?money shot? in the penultimate episode of this past season?s Girls in which, having sexually humiliated his annoying new girlfriend, the protagonist?s ex climaxes on her chest is at once more diffident and more shocking, not to mention more authentically Girls Gone Wild, than anything in Spring Breakers. I?m not alone in sensing a kinship between Korine and Dunham?or Spring Breakers and Girls. The Hollywood Reporter produced a mash-up in which Dunham?s character Hannah Horvath engages in split-screen dialogue with Alien, allowing the viewer to compare their various raps and tattoos?while imagining Hannah?s experience of Easter in Florida. The real connection lies in their programmatic use of the nubile body. The female form is their canvas.
Two prodigies, Korine and Dunham both grew up in bohemian milieus, the children of artists. That Korine?s father Sol was a PBS documentarian specializing in Southern subcultures offers a particular path into his son?s work, feasting as it does on fancifully lumpen redneck antics in films like Gummo or Trash Humpers. Dunham actually cast her real mother, photography-artist Laurie Simmons, as her on-screen mother in her quasi-autobiographical first feature Tiny Furniture (2010), which also served to satirize Simmon?s art, involving dolls and miniatures. Lena?s father, Carroll Dunham, is a successful painter and, although he declined to appear in his daughter?s movie, it?s hard to miss, if not necessarily explain, the affinities between her work?which so often involves placing her ample, unclothed self in awkward situations?and his cartoonish paintings of rotund young women, seen from the rear and sometimes bending over as they bathe in a wildly phallic landscape.
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Dunham is a burgeoning New Yorker humorist in the tradition of Woody Allen, and a post-Roxanne, post-Seinfeld self-dramatist who simultaneously creates and comments on a fictional world revolving around an exaggerated alter-ego. When I watch Girls, however, I see her less as an exponent of sitcom psychodrama than as someone who has given a narrative dimension to those activities classified in the early 1970s as Body Art. Dunham?s method of self-portraiture recalls the late performance artist Hannah Wilke (n?e Arlene Hannah Butter), who frequently put her own naked body on display (and as a somewhat older and wilder contemporary from a similar suburban background, surely must have played some part in the aesthetic formation of Dunham?s mother). Dunham?s exhibitionism, already evident in the videos that she made while an undergraduate at Oberlin, has been well-noted in the commentary on Girls as the show?s trademark?along with her character?s astonishing and less-than-likeable self-absorption.
Hannah Wilke satirized art-world sexism by presenting herself as a pin-up, sometimes adorned with vaginally-shaped pieces of chewing gum. Dunham?s character in Girls, Hannah Horvath, dresses badly and undresses frequently; self-abnegating and ungainly, she regularly challenges social attitudes that are even more ingrained. Indeed, as the second season came to an end, Dunham grew all the more assertive in establishing Hannah?s physicality?developing a tic, twitches, and a boil on her buttocks, injuring herself by jamming a Q-Tip in her ear. Her show is a hall of mirrors in which Girl Power and female powerlessness are endlessly reflected.
With its hot-bod young delinquents, Spring Breakers is hardly a critique of gender stereotypes, no matter how much its co-eds humiliate the seemingly dangerous Alien or claim ownership of the term ?bitch.? Where the actresses in Spring Breakers collude in their own abasement, Dunham uses hers as a weapon. Scarcely less debauched than Spring Breakers and equally an expression of directorial will, Girls is a far more complicated and troubling creation. The spectacle that Dunham makes of herself does not offer the illusion of liberation, except that, in fact, that?s exactly what it is.
March 29, 2013, 4:19 p.m.
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Source: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/mar/29/girls-gone-wild/
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Okla. governor signs horse slaughter legislation - NewsOn6.com ...
By TIM TALLEY
Associated Press
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma's 50-year-old ban on horse slaughtering was lifted Friday when the governor signed a new law that will allow facilities to process and export horse meat, despite bitter opposition by animal rights activists.
Supporters argue that a horse slaughtering facility in Oklahoma will provide a humane alternative for aging or starving horses, many of which are abandoned in rural parts of the state by owners who can no longer afford to care for them. Gov. Mary Fallin also noted that horses are already being shipped out of the country, including to facilities in Mexico, where they are processed in potentially inhumane conditions.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 166,000 horses were sent to Canada and Mexico last year alone.
"In Oklahoma, as in other states, abuse is tragically common among horses that are reaching the end of their natural lives," the Republican governor said. "Those of us who care about the wellbeing of horses - and we all should - cannot be satisfied with a status quo that encourages abuse and neglect, or that rewards the potentially inhumane slaughter of animals in foreign countries."
She noted that law strictly prohibits the selling of horse meat for human consumption in the U.S.
Similar efforts are under way in other states, but not without controversy. In New Mexico, a processing plant has been fighting the U.S. Department of Agriculture for more than a year for approval to convert its former cattle slaughter operation into a horse slaughterhouse. In Nevada, state agriculture officials have discussed ways to muster support for the slaughter of free-roaming horses, stirring protests.
The Oklahoma legislation received bipartisan support and was approved by wide margins in both the state House and Senate. It also was backed by several agriculture organizations including the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association and American Farmers.
But animal rights groups fought hard against the plan, including the Humane Society of the United States. Cynthia Armstrong, the organization's Oklahoma state director, said she was disappointed.
"It's a very sad day for Oklahoma and the welfare of the horses that will be exposed to a facility like this," Armstrong said. "It's very regrettable."
In addition to animal welfare concerns, opponents have said slaughtering horses for human consumption could pose a threat to human health and safety. American horses are often treated with drugs and medications that are not approved for use in animals intended for food.
Horse slaughter opponents are pushing legislation in Congress to ban domestic slaughter, as well as the export of horses to other countries for slaughter. Many animal humane groups and public officials are outraged at the idea of resuming domestic slaughter. But others - including some horse rescuers, livestock associations and the American Quarter Horse Association - support the plans.
They point to a 2011 report from the federal Government Accountability Office that shows horse abuse and abandonment have been increasing since Congress effectively banned horse slaughter by cutting funding for federal inspection programs in 2006. They say the ban on domestic slaughter has led to tens of thousands of horses being shipped to inhumane slaughterhouses in Mexico.
Although there are no horse slaughtering facilities in Oklahoma, the Humane Society said the USDA has received an application for horse slaughter inspection permits from a meat company in Washington, Okla., about 40 miles south of Oklahoma City.
Fallin said her administration will work with the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture to ensure that any horse meat processing plant in the state is run appropriately, follows state and local laws, and does not pose a hazard to the community. The law takes effect Nov. 1.
"It's important to note cities, counties and municipalities still have the ability to express their opposition to processing facilities by blocking their construction and operation at the local level," the governor said.
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Whenever You Criticize Someone, Criticize Yourself First
It's hard to give criticism without getting overly excited and bashing them. Jason Fried over at weblog 37signals shares a tip on how to avoid this tired practice.
Criticism, he notes, is different than bashing, which is generally an aggressive, knee-jerk, useless response. So, he says, bash yourself first:
A good trick that helped me cool myself down a couple years back was to institute a personal "1:1 bash ratio". I didn't always hold myself to it, but basically it went like this? Before every external bash, I had to bash myself first. If I'm going to bitch about someone else's work, what about my work? If I have a problem with how someone runs their company, how about how I run mine? If I'm going to complain loudly about someone else's point of view, what about mine? Are there any flaws in my way of thinking? There must be, so what are they? What am I getting completely wrong?
It isn't a new idea, he says, but it is a new approach that may change your behavior if you bash just a little too often. Hit the link to read more.
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Greenwich resident Grainger wins squash title at Chelsea Piers ...
Greenwich resident and Chelsea Piers squash director Natalie Grainger receives her trophy for winning the United States Squash National Championship on her home court.
For Greenwich resident Natalie Grainger, the timing couldn?t be more perfect for her return to competitive squash.
Grainger, who is the Chelsea Piers Connecticut Racquets Director, got a unique opportunity and made the most of it.
It turns out that Chelsea Piers hosted the United States Squash National Championships and Grainger jumped at the idea of competing once again on her home turf. Not only did Grainger get to play the game she loves, but she won the national championship and reclaimed the No. 1 ranking in the country.
?It was fantastic,? Grainger said. ?To see so many friends and family come to the club to watch and support made it that much more special. There were little kids there watching and being able to produce a good outcome on the day in front of those people that wanted me to win was great.?
During the U.S. Championships Women?s Open Singles event, Grainger was the No. 2 seed and was able to take care of her first round opponent, Niki Clement of Bryn Mawr, Pa. (6,2,5). The semis had Grainger up against Wilton?s Olivia Blatchford, but again it was Grainger with the 4,4,3 victory.
In the championship match, Grainger was up against a familiar foe, top-seed, Amanda Sobhy from Sea Cliff, N.Y. and Grainger won the championship with a score of (8), 3, 3, (5), 7.
?I knew it was going to be a very tough match against Amanda,? Grainger said. ?It meant that in order to win that title, I would have to play a phenomenal opponent, who is on the rise of her own career and she?s someone that I?ve coached and mentored in the past as well. It was a great match and it was clean. Amanda is a champion, so it meant a lot to actually have a tough and accomplished opponent.?
The victory against Sobhy gave Grainger the sixth national championship of her career. However, this title was more rewarding.
During her previous five championship runs, Grainger was an active member on the squash tour and was also ranked one of the top players in the world.
Now things are different. Grainger has been retired from the tour for a few years now and is currently teaching and directing squash full-time at The Squash Club at Chelsea Piers Connecticut, a 12 International court state-of-the-art facility in Stamford.
?I could have showed up with the expectations of really having to play well, but I felt like there wasn?t as much pressure because of being retired,? Grainger said. ?It meant a lot to me to win the event.?
In order to get ready for the championship, Grainger had to change things up a bit. With the success of The Squash Club at Chelsea Piers Connecticut, Grainger has been coaching quite a bit, but didn?t really have the time to play some competitive squash.
Leading up to the national championships, Grainger did her best to prepare. In the weeks before the championship, Grainger got in a couple of matches a week with some of her fellow pros that work at Chelsea Piers and from other pros from around the area.
While lightening her coaching in the days before the tournament, Grainger also entered a tournament in New York and played in the men?s division so she could get a little bit of match practice under her belt.
?We just finished with the height of the season and I just finished coaching in the junior championships, so my focus had to be on them,? Grainger said. ?I was able to get a couple of matches a week with some pros and I entered a tournament in New York and played in the men?s division there, so I could get a little bit of match practice. That was really helpful and that gave me a wake-up call to remind me not to do too much coaching in the lead-up to competing because it makes your legs so heavy. I lightened my coaching mode a day or two leading up to the event.?
While winning the championship in front of all the local supporters was an amazing feeling for Grainger, seeing the Squash Club at Chelsea Piers roar to life was equally exciting.
?The club was able to hold a great championship,? Grainger said. ?Everybody that I talked to had such a phenomenal time at the tournament. The masters players really enjoyed the club and seeing people enjoy the facility and having it spring to life with such a major championship was really exciting.?
Although competing at a high level, as well as winning championships, never gets old, don?t expect to see Grainger giving up coaching the sport she loves any time soon.
?The interesting thing about Chelsea Piers is that we have a lot of kids in our program that have never been exposed to the sport of squash,? Grainger said. ?It?s great to have this facility Chelsea Piers and the ability to take squash outside of some of the private clubs and have kind of an all-access facility. To build a program where kids can enjoy the sport is phenomenal because it?s such a fun sport for young kids to try.?
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Drone industry worries about privacy backlash
WASHINGTON (AP) ? It's a good bet that in the not-so-distant future aerial drones will be part of Americans' everyday lives, performing countless useful functions.
A far cry from the killing machines whose missiles incinerate terrorists, these generally small, unmanned aircraft will help farmers more precisely apply water and pesticides to crops, saving money and reducing environmental impacts. They'll help police departments find missing people, reconstruct traffic accidents and act as lookouts for SWAT teams. They'll alert authorities to people stranded on rooftops by hurricanes and monitor evacuation flows.
Real estate agents will use them to film videos of properties and surrounding neighborhoods. States will use them to inspect bridges, roads and dams. Oil companies will use them to monitor pipelines, while power companies use them to monitor transmission lines.
With military budgets shrinking, drone makers have been counting on the civilian market to spur the industry's growth. But there's an ironic threat to that hope: Success on the battlefield may contain the seeds of trouble for the more benign uses of drones at home.
The civilian unmanned aircraft industry worries that it will be grounded before it can really take off because of fear among the public that the technology will be misused. Also problematic is a delay in the issuance of government safety regulations that are needed before drones can gain broad access to U.S. skies.
Some companies that make drones or supply support equipment and services say the uncertainty has caused them to put U.S. expansion plans on hold, and they are looking overseas for new markets.
"Our lack of success in educating the public about unmanned aircraft is coming back to bite us," said Robert Fitzgerald, CEO of The BOSH Group of Newport News, Va., which provides support services to drone users.
"The U.S. has been at the lead of this technology a long time," he said. "If our government holds back this technology, there's the freedom to move elsewhere ... and all of a sudden these things will be flying everywhere else and competing with us."
Since January, drone-related legislation has been introduced in more than 30 states, largely in response to privacy concerns. Many of the bills are focused on preventing police from using drones for broad public surveillance, as well as targeting individuals for surveillance without sufficient grounds to believe they were involved in crimes.
Law enforcement is expected to be one of the bigger initial markets for civilian drones. Last month, the FBI used drones to maintain continuous surveillance of a bunker in Alabama where a 5-year-old boy was being held hostage.
In Virginia, the state General Assembly passed a bill that would place a two-year moratorium on the use of drones by state and local law enforcement. The measure is supported by groups as varied as the American Civil Liberties Union on the left and the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation on the right.
Gov. Bob McDonnell is proposing amendments that would retain the broad ban on spy drones but allow specific exemptions when lives are in danger, such as for search-and rescue operations. The legislature reconvenes on April 3 to consider the amendments.
"Any legislation that restricts the use of this kind of capability to serve the public is putting the public at risk," said Steve Gitlin, vice president of AeroVironment, a leading maker of smaller drones, including some no bigger than a hummingbird
Seattle abandoned its drone program after community protests in February. The city's police department had purchased two drones through a federal grant without consulting the city council.
Drones "clearly have so much potential for saving lives, and it's a darn shame we're having to go through this right now," said Stephen Ingley, executive director of the Airborne Law Enforcement Association. "It's frustrating."
In some states economic concerns have trumped public unease. In Oklahoma, an anti-drone bill was shelved at the request of Republican Gov. Mary Fallin, who was concerned it might hinder growth of the state's drone industry. The North Dakota state Senate killed a drone bill in part because of concern that it might impede the state's chances of being selected by the Federal Aviation Administration as one of six national drone test sites, which could generate local jobs.
A bill that would have limited the ability of state and local governments to use drones died in the Washington legislature. The measure was opposed by The Boeing Co., which employs more than 80,000 workers in the state and which has a subsidiary, Insitu, that's a leading military drone manufacturer.
Although the Supreme Court has not dealt directly with drones, it has OK'd aerial surveillance without warrants in drug cases in which officers in a plane or helicopter spotted marijuana plants growing on a suspect's property. But in a case involving the use of ground-based equipment, the court said police generally need a warrant before using a thermal imaging device to detect hot spots in a home that might indicate that marijuana plants are being grown there.
In Congress, Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., co-chairman of the House's privacy caucus, has introduced a bill that prohibits the Federal Aviation Administration from issuing drone licenses unless the applicant provides a statement explaining who will operate the drone, where it will be flown, what kind of data will be collected, how the data will be used, whether the information will be sold to third parties and the period for which the information will be retained.
Sentiment for curbing domestic drone use has brought the left and right together perhaps more than any other recent issue. "The thought of government drones buzzing overhead and constantly monitoring the activities of law-abiding citizens runs contrary to the notion of what it means to live in a free society," Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said at a recent hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Privacy advocates acknowledge the many good uses of drones. In Mesa County, Colo., for example, an annual landfill survey using manned aircraft cost about $10,000. The county recently performed the same survey using a drone for about $200.
But drones' virtues can also make them dangerous, they say. Their low cost and ease of use may encourage police and others to conduct the kind of continuous or intrusive surveillance that might otherwise be impractical. Drones can be equipped with high-powered cameras and listening devices, and infrared cameras that can see people in the dark.
"High-rise buildings, security fences or even the walls of a building are not barriers to increasingly common drone technology," Amie Stepanovich, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Council's surveillance project, told the Senate panel.
Civilian drone use is limited to government agencies and public universities that have received a few hundred permits from the FAA. A law passed by Congress last year requires the FAA to open U.S. skies to widespread drone flights by 2015, but the agency is behind schedule and it's doubtful it will meet that deadline. Lawmakers and industry officials have complained for years about the FAA's slow progress.
The FAA estimates that within five years of gaining broader access about 7,500 civilian drones will be in use.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., recently drew attention to the domestic use of drones when he staged a Senate filibuster, demanding to know whether the president has authority to use weaponized drones to kill Americans on American soil. The White House said no, if the person isn't engaged in combat. But industry officials worry that the episode could temporarily set back civilian drone use.
"The opposition has become very loud," said Gitlin of AeroVironment, "but we are confident that over time the benefits of these solutions (drones) are going to far outweigh the concerns, and they'll become part of normal life in the future."
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Associated Press writer Michael Felberbaum in Richmond, Va., contributed to this report.
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Traditions threatened by cuts, military academies brace for impact
By Gabriel Debenedetti
NEW YORK (Reuters) - United States military academies have trained America's future presidents, astronauts and generals, one of them for more than 200 years. But the schools' illustrious histories are not enough to spare them from looming budget cuts from sequestration, and they are preparing to furlough civilian employees, reduce training, delay construction and even scale back pomp and ceremony.
The full extent of how, and when, the cuts will affect the nation's five service academies is not yet clear. However, representatives of the U.S. Military Academy, the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy and the Coast Guard Academy pointed to some potential effects.
They said the more than $1 billion expected to be cut from Defense Department training and recruiting could mean everything from furloughs of thousands of civilian employees to delayed construction to the suspension of programs like band tours and educational trips.
No one at the Merchant Marine Academy could be reached for comment.
"We haven't had anything close to this" level of budgetary restriction in the past, said Air Force spokesman Meade Warthen.
The Naval Academy's director of media relations, Jennifer Erickson, said about 1,500 non-contract civilian employees at the school could face cuts in their work hours.
"We are deeply concerned about the negative effects of furloughs on the morale and effectiveness of our valued civilian workforce," Erickson said, also noting the potential effects on the home city of the academy, Annapolis, Maryland, and on the region surrounding the academy.
Naval Academy summer training is under budgetary pressure, and Erickson said semester abroad programs could be canceled. Sixteen educational international summer trips - involving 170 students planning to go to Armenia, Chile, China, France, Georgia, Italy, Japan, Oman, Russia and Spain - were axed, and fifteen international spring break programs for 73 students had already been canceled.
Erickson also said faculty travel would be reduced and that the academy has already pared its admissions outreach program, with implications for future classes of midshipmen.
At West Point, the Military Academy will downsize its Summer Leaders Experience program for high school students, which can be the first step for some students on their way to admission to the competitive, tuition-free school.
Other cuts are already being implemented: At least two of the academies have imposed hiring freezes and West Point has postponed the construction of its first new dormitory since 1965, slated to house 650 cadets, according to the Poughkeepsie (New York) Journal.
Francis DeMaro of West Point's public affairs office also pointed to "travel restrictions, a hiring freeze, reduction of family and community programs, and an impending furlough" of more than 2,000 civilian employees.
Travel restrictions related to cadet training have also hit the Coast Guard Academy, said school spokesman David Santos.
Other student programs have been hit hard too, with the Air Force Academy's band forced to cancel all of its national public concerts.
Even graduation ceremonies will display a bit less pomp and circumstance. The Thunderbirds Air Force Demonstration Squadron was forced to cancel its 2013 season because of the sequestration and will not perform flyovers at the Air Force Academy graduation parade and ceremony in May, according to a March 8 Academy release.
The Academy also canceled its annual Independence Day fireworks show due to budgetary concerns about sequestration, according to a March 21 statement on the USAFA website.
While the academies wait for further details on exactly how their 14,000 students will be affected, local politicians are lobbying to see if they can soften the blow.
U.S. Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, whose district includes West Point, tweeted on Wednesday that he had sent a letter to President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel urging them to find a "commonsense plan" that would reduce the impact of the sequester on the Defense Department's 800,000 employees.
"In these difficult economic times, I know that we must all make sacrifices," wrote Maloney in the letter. "But our middle class has made enough sacrifices; our federal workforce has made enough sacrifices; our military and seniors have made enough sacrifices; the staff and students at West Point have made enough sacrifices."
(Reporting by Gabriel Debenedetti; Editing by Arlene Getz, Jennifer Merritt and Steve Orlofsky)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/traditions-threatened-cuts-military-academies-brace-impact-183435978.html
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
How Online Voter Registration Might Empower Latinos And Doom The GOP ? In 2 Charts
Access to online voter registration could spell doom for Republicans in the next election. Early research on California's online voter registration system finds that "A larger proportion of Latinas/os under 35 registered online than whites or Asian Americans of any gender." [PDF]. Namely, the very demographic widely credited for boosting Democratic victories in 2013 have an affinity for digital democracy.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/vR93W_nsbyE/
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PFT: Dallas' Bryant aiming for 2,000 yards, 20 TDs
Getty ImagesBefore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo appeared at a rally at the Supreme Court, he spoke to Erik Brady of USA Today regarding the question of whether a gay NFL player will come out of the closet.
Ayanbadejo believes that it will happen in another sport first.
?I think it will happen in baseball sooner than in football or basketball,? Ayanbadejo said.? ?The reason I say that is because I think there is less of a connection to religion in baseball.? The religious roots are a lot deeper in basketball and football.? With that being said, I think baseball players are more open minded.?
Ayanbadejo later acknowledged that he ?could be wrong,? but he nevertheless believes baseball players generally are ?open-minded and not so tied to religion as much as football and basketball.?
But he also believes the NFL is ready for an openly gay player, and that the league is ?laying the foundation for a player to be comfortable and safe.?? Ayanbadejo likewise thinks that last month?s ?do you like girls?? controversy from Scouting Combine interviews has helped the situation by forcing the NFL to instruct teams to end potentially discriminatory practices.
Still, the biggest impediment to coming out may come from the external distractions.? The player will have to be willing to bear that burden, and to subject his teammates and others in the organization to questions about the situation.? Most players won?t want that, for themselves or for their teammates.
The media could help reduce that burden by not getting carried away by news of the first gay NFL player.? The reality is that, when a football player comes out of the closet, every media organization will come out of the woodwork in search of sound bites and reactions and, ideally, controversy.
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RealClearMarkets - The Final Frontier for Investing: Sub-Saharan ...
In popular culture, sub-Saharan Africa may still conjure images of conflict and poverty, yet investors from Wall Street to Main Street are taking a decidedly rosier view. Africa's surging growth is now well known -- the region is home to six of the 10 fastest-growing economies in the world. "Never in the half-century since it won independence from the colonial powers has Africa been in such good shape," gushed a recent special report in The Economist.
If you had jumped on this bandwagon in 2012, you too would be an Afro-optimist. Investors may be thrilled that the S&P 500 index rose a cheery 13 percent in 2012 and is up another 8 percent this year -- but this pales next to Nigeria's stock market, which spiked 35 percent last year and is up another 18 percent so far this...
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Third Energy Package: Beneficial for Whom? : Voice of Russia
0That is why Russia defends the reconsideration of a number of clauses this document contains. Its adoption means that the European Commission is seeking to establish control over the European market of hydrocarbons and to force Gazprom to pass from the contract system of gas supplies to spot prices, Russian experts say. Meanwhile, Russia accounts for one-third of oil and gas consumed by Europe, Director of the Institute of Oil and Gas problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences Anatoly Dmitriyevsky says.
0"Europe has adopted the Third Energy Package, and now the nuances are being fiercely discussed. However, of importance here is the fact that we are not the owners of the pipe that runs across the territories of European countries. The first time such a situation emerged was in Poland. ?At that time they said that Gazprom? can?t act as a gas pumping operator? on Poland?s territory since it was not Russia?s territory But where are the guarantees? that the new operator will use? the gas pipeline effectively to ensure? the return of investments to Russia."
0Russia is concerned over the fact that the European Union has actually expropriated Gazprom?s ?pipe? on the territory from the EU border and on ?domestic? lines, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy Yuri Lipatov? says.
0"The EU leadership is currently sending strange signals which makes one think that the European Union is backtracking on the democratic values it was based on when it emerged. In fact, gas supplies are being limited. ?At the same time, we know that the Nord Stream gas pipeline is working and that the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline is still on the agenda. What will occur to the European Union regarding the consumption of fuels? Of course, the consumption will grow. The only question is who will provide them."
0Today the European market is oversaturated, and the demand is growing slowly there. And still, for the time being, it remains the main market for the Russian exporting companies.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Balance transfers a boon to credit card holders
Nobody wants to carry a big balance on their credit cards. Those interest payments can really eat into the family budget.
If you have good credit, you might want to move that balance to a better card ? one that won?t charge interest on that old debt or on new purchases for between six and 15 months.
?The balance transfer offers out there right now aren't just good, they're great. They're the best I've ever seen,? said John Ulzheimer, president of consumer education at SmartCredit.com.
The average zero-percent interest introductory offer for balance transfers is now 10 months, according to the new Credit Card Landscape Report from Cardhub.com. Last year, it was 8.9 months. Card Hub?s CEO Odysseas Papadimitriou told me he believes these no-interest transfer offers are about as good as they will get.
?This is the time for anyone who has significant credit card debt to take advantage of these zero percent offers and save a lot of money,? Papadimitriou said. ?Someone who has $6,700 in credit card debt and is trying to pay this off in the next two years, could save $800 in interest and pay down their debt a couple of months faster.?
Why are credit card companies making such super offers? They want new customers who won?t default on their payments.
?And the end game for them is that, hopefully you won?t pay off the entire balance that was transferred and you will start paying interest once the ?safe harbor? period expires,? Ulzheimer said.
Understand the entire offer
The caution with any balance transfer card is to read the terms and conditions. Make sure you understand the entire offer.
?All of these cards sound great, but the devil is in the details,? said Bill Hardekopf, CEO of Lowcards.com.
Most of these offers involve a ?transfer fee? of 3 to 4 percent. That fee applies to the full balance at the time you make the switch. Move $6,000 to a card with a 3 percent transfer fee and you?ll pay $180 upfront. Your goal is to get the longest no-interest period possible and the lowest transfer fee.
?Remember, if you are late on any payment on a balance transfer card then you might forfeit the introductory period and the interest rate might jump to the ongoing APR,? Hardekopf said.
The best balance transfer cards
Based on its analysis of a thousand credit card offers, Card Hub has three top picks:
- Chase Slate: This is their favorite right now. It has zero percent interest for 15 months on both balance transfers and new purchases. There is no transfer fee if the balance is moved to the card within 60 days of opening the account.
- Citi Simplicity MasterCard: The zero percent interest period is 18 months for both balance transfers and new purchases. That?s the longest grace period you can get right now. There is a 3 percent transfer fee.
- Discover More: Zero percent interest for 18 months on balance transfers and for six months on new purchases. There is a 3 percent transfer fee.
Card Hub has a new Credit Card Payoff Calculator that will let you compare balance transfer offers.
The bottom line
A balance transfer may be the way to dig yourself out of debt That old balance isn?t costing you anything during the interest-free grace period. You goal should be to pay it off before the regular interest rate kicks in and not to run up a new balance you can?t handle.
?Be honest with yourself and what you can realistically pay off,? said Chris Fichera, an associate editor at Consumer Reports. ?If it will take you more than two years to pay off the balance, we found that the PenFed Promise card is best for you.?
This PenFed Promise card, which is available to members of the Pentagon Federal Credit Union, has no transfer fee and an incredibly low interest rate (currently 4.99 percent APR) which is fixed for the balance transferred until you pay it off. Membership in the credit union is free to military families, federal employees and members of certain organizations. Others can join for a $15 donation to nonprofit group that serves military families.
Based on its analysis for the November issue, Consumer Reports says Simmons and Iberia Bank also offer cards with low APRs on balance transfers.
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Logitech launches keyboard folios for iPad, iPad Mini (video)
The iPad was never designed to be a laptop, but some people can't resist the urge to change a gadget's nature. For that purpose, Logitech is outing keyboard folios for the iPad and iPad Mini that double as a hands-free viewing stand for those long-haul flights. Your fingers will be hovering over a Bluetooth keyboard with membrane scissor keys, covered in your choice of colored fabric shell. The hardware is marked down to be available in the US and Europe in April, setting you back $100 for the iPad edition and $89.99 for the 7.87-inch version -- and if you'd like to learn more, you can check out the videos we've stashed after the break.
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For Swiss disaster rescue dogs, the job - and training - never ends
Dogs from the REDOG rescue program, based outside Berne, have seen duty worldwide, from Japan to Turkey to Costa Rica, to sniff out victims buried in the rubble of earthquakes.
REDOG head trainer and veterinarian Linda Hornisberger and her Welsh border collie Sky participate in a training session at an artificially developed rubble field near Berne. Dr. Hornisberger trains Sky and other dogs to find victims who have been buried during natural and man-made disasters.
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Man?s best friend ? in this case a six-year-old Welsh border collie named Sky ? lies relaxed but attentive on the floor of his keeper?s office in this suburb of the Swiss capital, Berne.
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While his owner, Swiss veterinarian Linda Hornisberger, attends local pet owners who stop by with four-legged members of their households in need of care, Sky is merely on standby.
But as a certified search dog of the Swiss Disaster Dog Association (REDOG), Sky is ready to travel anywhere in the world at a moment's notice and do what Dr. Hornisberger has trained him for: find people trapped under disaster rubble.
Hornisberger serves as REDOG?s chief trainer for rubble search. Her unit must remain in constant readiness for calls to rush to places in Switzerland or abroad that have been struck by natural or man-made disasters.
That?s when Sky and other ?sniffer? dogs in the unit spring into action with their handlers. These teams have trained for years and passed a very thorough test.
International responders
Hornisberger's ?sideline? role as senior search expert began back in 1980 when she joined REDOG, then a group of dog handlers founded in 1971. The founders envisioned using dogs to save people buried under rubble.
The breakthrough came in 1976 when Swiss dogs found 16 people alive after a big earthquake in Italy?s Friauli region. The idea of using dogs for such work spread worldwide.
Events like the Italian earthquake resulted in training innovations still in place. One was to teach ?sniffers? to bark and scratch in the rubble upon locating the scent of people buried beneath the rubble. The signal alerted local rescuers to dig deeper.
?Experience has told us that this is the right method,? the veterinarian says.
Today ? on standby for humanitarian-aid call-ups worldwide ? REDOG has become a global role model for search-and-rescue missions. During Hornisberger?s tenure, her post-earthquake experience includes Algeria, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Japan, and two stints in Turkey. Times have changed customs greatly in some of these ports of call, and methods have been adapted. Yet REDOG?s basic rescue training routine remains largely as it was when she joined the group.
?We?ve never stopped learning,? she insists.
'Be prepared'
REDOG?s priority from the start ? to borrow the Boy Scout motto ? has been ?Be prepared!? This means constant vigilance, training for the unscheduled day when disaster occurs anywhere. You can?t even pencil in advance bookings for earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, and the like.
Preparedness, as Hornisberger sees it, means training Switzerland?s rescue teams relentlessly. REDOG does it by setting up artificial ?rubble fields? for ?hide-and-seek? exercises in 12 regions throughout this mountainous multilingual country.
In practice, this means assigning one dog handler to ?hide? as a victim or body while another accompanies the ?sniffer? to locate the missing person amid the rubble. When the dogs find a victim, they are rewarded. This approach has kept the dogs faithful to their mission since REDOG?s founding.
Experience has shown retriever breeds to excel in trainability and willingness to please.
As Dr. Hornisberger told about 800 experts at the International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC) assembled in Davos last June, ?Dogs remain the most efficient means for locating survivors below the rubble. And these days we have very high standards for all dogs serving on our teams. We combine information we get from our dogs with that found by technical search.?
The United Nations codified these standards within the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG), requiring that all dogs serving as post-disaster ?sniffers? meet them to become certified. They?re now being applied in Jordan, where REDOG is helping to support the country within a Swiss government project. It aims to build an international urban search and rescue team, using INSARAG guidelines.
?The Jordanians are working hard,? Dr. Hornisberger says. ?They had a vision of building up a search unit, and they had the fire to take on the job. Their dog trainers have now acquired knowledge and can analyze why something new might work or couldn?t.?
Unending training
She explains the challenge of building and maintaining a search unit in an analogy:
?You can use a washing machine after years of disuse, and it may still work,? she points out. ?But dogs can?t be put in cupboards. They have to be trained weekly, monthly, and for years. We have to start training new dogs again and again. It?s really hard work to keep these search units going.?
The same high standards for ?sniffer? dogs also apply to their handlers and trainers, the REDOG chief trainer says: ?We need gifted people who love dogs, possess social skills, and make a long-term commitment to remain available.?
Trainers also need exceptional lingual skills to carry out know-how transfers such as the one just being completed in Jordan. With three widely-known national languages ? French, German, and Italian ? plus a growing fluency in English, the Swiss seem to be as adept at this task as any linguists in the world.
But the REDOG training chief shows no sign of smugness.
?We need new ideas,? she admits, ?because we?re not at the end. We?re barely beginning.?
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Editors Letter: Who cares for the UNcarrier?
It seems like a year ago already, but it's been only a few days since we wrapped up our inaugural Engadget Expand event. If you weren't able to join us in person, you missed a seriously good time. Attendees got to take a ride in a Tesla Model S, perform surgery using a da Vinci robotic surgery system and cruise around the show floor on the San Francisco Special edition of the electric ZBoard, which made its debut at the show.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/22/editors-letter-who-cares-for-the-uncarrier/
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Bo Obama asked out by lady Goldendoodle to Oregon dog fundraiser
Bo Obama, the gentlemanly dressed First Dog, was asked by a Goldendoodle named Ramona to escort her to the Portland, Ore., Doggie Dash fundraiser for the Oregon Humane Society. Ramona addressed Bo Obama in a YouTube video and wrote the FDOTUS a letter.?
Bo Obama was invited to the Portland, Ore., Doggie Dash by a, so far, lovelorn Goldendoodle named Ramona.
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Owned by a presidential family, from the same litter as former-Sen. Ted Kennedy's dog Cappy, and, like The Washington Post's Manuel Roig-Franzia wrote, he's a debonair gentleman: "[He's got tuxedo-black fur, with a white chest, white paws and a rakish white goatee."??
So it's easy to see why, considering the spate of celebrities being asked to Prom through rambunctious high schooler-led social media campaigns, Bo would not be left out. Enter a doting Goldendoodle from Oregon, who targeted America's favorite coiffed canine in a YouTube video requesting his escort to the Oregon Humane Society's 26th annual Doggie Dash fundraiser.?
Bo would be made the Grand Marshal and lead some 4,000 dogs and their humans on a parade along the Willamette River in Portland, Ore.?
The YouTube video shows the Goldendoodle, named Ramona, looking lovesick and lonely. And then Crayola crayon outlined thought bubbles appear above her head, "Oh no!! I don't have a date for Doggie Dash!"??
A picture of Bo, framed inside a floating heart, appears above a hopeful name: Mrs. Ramona Obama, First Dog-Lady.??
Ramona gets busy. How does one reach the FDOTUS? She tries reaching him through her twitter handle, @ramona_the_dog, but, despite her pinpointed typing skills, she has no luck. Bo doesn't even return her Facebook message. He's unreachable (like his Dad).??
On the Doggie Dash's website, Ramona even makes a five point argument for why the pair would hit it off. They're both hypoallergenic, they both love blues music, she'd frolic in the Hawaiian sand with him any day.??
In a last-ditch effort, Ramona writes Bo a letter. She begins by appealing to his ego ? he's probably really busy and important at the White House, but here he'd be leading 4,000 dogs. Following that, an appeal to his conscience. The Oregon Humane Society doesn't get tax dollars or any other government support and they need this fundraiser so they can match their record set this year of placing 11,000 dogs into homes.?
And then Ramona throws caution aside and comes on strong: "Because I love you, and want to marry you, and be the First Dog-Lady of the United States."
Although ABC News reported the humane society hasn't heard back yet, workers did communicate with Oregon's congressional delegation to ensure the letter made it into the right hands (paws).??
A petition on Change.org had 699 signatures as of this morning.?
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The Angels Abreast Dragon Boat Team is looking for breast cancer survivors to join our team and try the sport of dragon boating. Our members will be available to chat and answer any questions, we will also have our boat at the dock for those who want to take a look. Join us in one of the fastest growing water sports. No experience is necessary and all fitness levels welcome. By participating in this sport, we increase public awareness of breast cancer and enable those living with the disease to enjoy full and active lives. Our goal is to provide emotional and physical well being and to educate others about the benefits of exercise and rehabilitation after Breast cancer.
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
SmackDown Results: With The Shield looming, Sheamus, Orton & Big Show struggled to coexist
CINCINNATI ??With WrestleMania just 16 days away, the crucial final spot in the Six-Man Tag Team Match against The Shield at The Show of Shows remained vacant, as The Viper and The Celtic Warrior were thrown into a main event partnership with The World?s Largest Athlete and forced to work together or crash and burn.
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The Miz wasted little time asking his special guests, Randy Orton and Sheamus, who would replace Ryback in their upcoming Six-Man Tag Team Match at The Showcase of the Immortals. The Viper made it clear that he wanted Big Show ? acknowledging that he would rather have the devil he knew over the devil he didn?t. While WWE?s Apex Predator appeared as the uncharacteristic voice of reason, The Celtic Warrior was not so certain.
The Awesome One then invited the giant himself to join the discussion. While acknowledging that he couldn?t stand Orton or Sheamus, Big Show argued that together they could conquer the likes of Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns. Still, his long-standing Irish adversary remained resistant and things quickly grew even more intense between Sheamus and the gigantic Superstar who ended his most recent World Title run.
But the commotion was silenced by the emergence of SmackDown General Manager Booker T, who decided the three competitors would be unlikely partners in a SmackDown main event to see if they could, in fact, get along.
In a related issue, Booker later confronted Theodore Long, expressing his displeasure with the way his Senior Advisor handled his business in the matter of Ryback?s newly created Show of Shows match against Mark Henry. (BOOKER LAID DOWN THE LAW)
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Iowa State Dismantles Notre Dame 76-58 In NCAA Tournament Second Round
Will Clyburn #21 of the Iowa State Cyclones goes up with the ball against Jack Cooley #45 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the first half during the second round of the 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at UD Arena on March 22, 2013 in Dayton, Ohio.
DAYTON, Ohio -- Freshman Georges Niang matched a season high with 19 points and Iowa State, showing it can do much more than just fire away from outside the 3-point line, dismantled Notre Dame 76-58 on Friday night in the NCAA tournament.
The 10th-seeded Cyclones (23-11) will play No. 2 seed Ohio State on Sunday. The Buckeyes advanced with a 95-70 thrashing of Iona.
Iowa State led the nation in 3-pointers this season, but the Cyclones were just as effective from short range in ousting the Fighting Irish (25-10), who played their final game as a member of the Big East and will join the Atlantic Coast Conference next season.
Melvin Ejim added 17 points for Iowa State, which shot better than 70 percent for much of the second half.
Tom Knight scored 14 to lead the Fighting Irish.
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