10 strategies for overcoming binge eating and overeating | thinklean ...

Do you have an eating disorder? ? OK .. STOP .. for most people the immediate reaction is
?NO.. of course not, I?m not anorexic?. Instant identification with the words ?eating disorder? and anorexia is very common.. but did you know that the MOST common eating disorder is actually Binge Eating?

Anorexia or Anorexic is the word most people think of when you ask them to name an eating disorder. While Anorexia is a serious illness it?s important that you understand the very definition of ?eating disorder?:

eat?ing dis?or?der

Noun:

Any of a range of psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits

So let?s get words like ?anorexia? and ?bulimia? out of our minds for a few minutes and learn more about the most common eating disorder; Binge Eating Disorder (BED)

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Binge Eating vs Overeating

This is IMPORTANT: We all overeat from time to time?taking an extra helping at Thanksgiving dinner or having dessert when we?re already full. Occasional over eating does not make a person overweight or put us at risk for significant health trauma.For binge eaters, overeating is regular, common and at times uncontrollable.

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• Nearly 10 million females and 1 million males in the U.S. are battling eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, while millions more suffer from binge eating disorder.

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• More than 1/3 of normal dieters progress to pathological dieting. (MORE than 1 in every 3 people!)

Lets look at some statistics to put eating disorders in perspective. Over a lifetime, the following percentages of women and men will experience an eating disorder:

Female Eating Disorder Prevalence Rates

• 0.9% of women will struggle with anorexia in their lifetime
• 1.5% of women will struggle with bulimia in their lifetime
• 3.5% of women will struggle with binge eating disorder

Male Eating Disorder Statistics

• 0.3% of men will struggle with anorexia
• 0.5% of men will struggle with bulimia
• 2% of men will struggle with binge eating disorder

Yo Yo Dieting causes weight gain and obesity

Pathological dieting or Yo-yo dieting refers on-again off-again attempts at weight loss.? Yo-yo dieting rarely leads to success, and it also poses health risks such as depression, reduced metabolism, weight gain and poor heart health.

Binge Eating

People with binge eating disorder are embarrassed and ashamed of their eating habits, so they often try to hide their symptoms and eat in secret. Most binge eaters are overweight or obese, however it is possible for a binge eater to be of normal weight. If a binge eater is of normal weight however that does not mean they are immune to the harmful effects of binge eating (as listed below).

Behavioral Symptoms may include

• Inability to stop eating or control what you?re eating
• Rapidly eating large amounts of food
• Eating even when you?re full
• Hiding or stockpiling food to eat later in secret
• Eating normally around others, but gorging when you?re alone
• Eating continuously throughout the day, with no planned mealtimes

Emotional Symptoms may include

• Feeling stress or tension that is only relieved by eating
• Embarrassment over how much you?re eating
• Feeling numb while binging?like you?re not really there or you?re on auto-pilot.
• Never feeling satisfied, no matter how much you eat
• Feeling guilty, disgusted, or depressed after overeating
• Desperation to control weight and eating habits

Binge eating leads to a wide variety of physical, emotional, and social problems. People with binge eating disorder report more health issues, stress, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts than people without an eating disorder. Depression, anxiety, and substance abuse are common side effects as well. But the most prominent effect of binge eating disorder is weight gain. Over time, compulsive overeating usually leads to obesity. Obesity, in turn, causes numerous medical complications, including:

• Type 2 diabetes
• Gallbladder disease
• High cholesterol
• High blood pressure
• Heart disease
• Certain types of cancer
• Osteoarthritis
• Joint and muscle pain
• Gastrointestinal problems
• Sleep apnea

Generally, it takes a combination of things to develop binge eating disorder ? including a person?s genes, emotions, and experience. Biological abnormalities can contribute to binge eating. For example, the hypothalamus (the part of the brain that controls appetite) may not be sending correct messages about hunger and fullness. Social pressure to be thin can add to the shame binge eaters feel and fuel their emotional eating. Some parents unwittingly set the stage for binge eating by using food to comfort, dismiss, or reward their children. Children who are exposed to frequent critical comments about their bodies and weight are also vulnerable, as are those who have been sexually abused in childhood. Depression and binge eating are strongly linked. Many binge eaters are either depressed or have been before; others may have trouble with impulse control and managing and expressing their feelings. Low self-esteem, loneliness, and body dissatisfaction may also contribute to binge eating.

One of the most common reasons for binge eating is an attempt to manage unpleasant emotions such as stress, depression, loneliness, fear, and anxiety. When you have a bad day, it can seem like food is your only friend. Binge eating can temporarily make feelings such as stress, sadness, anxiety, depression, and boredom evaporate into thin air. But the relief is only very fleeting.

It can be difficult to overcome binge eating and food addiction. Unlike other addictions, your ?drug? is necessary for survival, so you don?t have the option of avoiding it. Instead, you must develop a healthier relationship with food ? a relationship that?s based on meeting your nutritional needs, not your emotional ones.

Overcoming Binge Eating and Overeating

In order to stop the unhealthy pattern of binge eating, it?s important to start eating for health and nutrition. Healthy eating involves making balanced meal plans, choosing healthy foods when eating out, and making sure you?re getting the right vitamins and minerals in your diet.

10 strategies for overcoming binge eating and overeating

• Manage stress. One of the most important aspects of controlling binge eating is to find alternate ways to handle stress and other overwhelming feelings without using food. These may include exercising, meditating, using sensory relaxation strategies, and practicing simple breathing exercises.
• Eat 3 meals a day plus healthy snacks.? Eating breakfast jump starts your metabolism in the morning. Follow breakfast with a balanced lunch and dinner, and healthy snacks in between. Stick to scheduled mealtimes, as skipping meals often leads to binge eating later in the day.
• Avoid temptation. You?re much more likely to overeat if you have junk food, desserts, and unhealthy snacks in the house. Remove the temptation by clearing your fridge and cupboards of your favorite binge foods.
• Stop dieting. The deprivation and hunger of strict dieting can trigger food cravings and the urge to overeat. Instead of dieting, focus on eating in moderation. Find nutritious foods that you enjoy and eat only until you feel content, not uncomfortably stuffed. Avoid banning certain foods as this can make you crave them even more.
• Exercise. Not only will exercise help you lose weight in a healthy way, but it also lifts depression, improves overall health, and reduces stress. The natural mood-boosting effects of exercise can help put a stop to emotional eating.
• Fight boredom. Instead of snacking when you?re bored, distract yourself. Take a walk, call a friend, read, or take up a hobby such as painting or gardening.
• Get enough sleep. If you?re tired, you may want to keep eating in order to boost your energy. Take a nap or go to bed earlier instead.
• Listen to your body. Learn to distinguish between physical and emotional hunger. If you ate recently and don?t have a rumbling stomach, you?re probably not really hungry. Give the craving time to pass. Drink plenty of water, especially during times when you ?feel? hungry but know that you?ve recently eaten and should not ?be? hungry. If you?re sticking to your schedule of snacks and meals these moments will pass faster and become fewer with time.
• Keep a food diary. Write down what you eat, when, how much, and how you?re feeling when you eat. You may see patterns emerge that reveal the connection between your moods and binge eating. I like to uses an online and smart phone app calorie counter and food tracker. My favorite is My Fitness Pal and you can find it here: http://myfitnesspal.com ? it?s free and simple to use. Once you have all your regular foods plugged in it takes only seconds to plug all your snack and meal data in, it will monitor your calories in and out, as well as let you get nutritional data on the recipes that you use so you know exactly what you?re taking in. Most people who are not regular calorie counters report consuming 1/2 to 1/3 of the actual calories they are taking in on a daily basis. Get to know your labels, get to know your food.
• Get support. You?re more likely to succumb to binge eating triggers if you lack a solid support network. Talking helps, even if it?s not with a professional. Lean on family and friends, join a support group, and if possible or necessary consult a therapist. Studies show that the best way to achieve a weight loss or health / fitness goal is by doing it with friends. If you enroll in a weight loss / health or fitness program with 3 friends or colleagues who you already know, the odds of maintaining your weight loss 10 months later goes up to 66% versus 24% if you enroll in a program alone.

YOU CAN change the way YOU think about food, nutrition, health and overcome the mental hurdles that SO many people struggle with when it comes to our bodies and our relationship with food. All you need to be successful is the willingness to change.

About Mary

As a Certified Fitness Nutrition Coach I know what it takes to create a lean strong healthy body. As a human being who loves chocolate and is in general a self proclaimed "foodie" I work daily to find a balance between the two. :) Truth is, before I got educated on nutrition I struggled with my weight and dieting my whole life. I have found a simple solution to losing fat, being healthy, having more energy .. and most important .. maintaining those results, for life. I have changed the way I think about food, nutrition, health and overcome the mental hurdles that SO many people struggle with when it comes to our bodies and our relationship with food. I can help you .. all you need to be successful is the willingness to change. (Don't worry, it's not as scary or difficult as most people make it out to be :) To your health, Mary - Certified Fitness Nutrition Coach

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U.S. seeks patriotic computer geeks for help in cyber crisis

BOSTON (Reuters) - The Department of Homeland Security is considering setting up a "Cyber Reserve" of computer security experts who could be called upon in the event of a crippling cyber attack.

The idea came from a task force the agency set up to address what has long been a weak spot - recruiting and retaining skilled cyber professionals who feel they can get better jobs and earn higher salaries, in the private sector.

"The status quo is not acceptable," DHS Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute told Reuters in a recent interview. "We are not standing around. There is a lot to do in cyber security."

Lute said she hopes to have a working model for a Cyber Reserve within a year, with the first members drawn from retired government employees now working for private companies. The reserve corps might later look to experts outside of government.

The United States has become increasingly vocal about the need to beef up cyber defenses as Iranian hackers have repeatedly attacked the nation's three biggest banks over the past year, raising the stakes in a long-running battle to protect private companies from digital attacks.

The detonation of a cyber "time bomb" at Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company in August caused unprecedented damage at a private company, pulling 30,000 PCs out of service and raising concerns that similar attacks could occur in the United States.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on October 11 that the country faces a potential "cyber Pearl Harbor" and that foreign groups have gained access to computer systems that control critical U.S. infrastructure, such as chemical, electricity and water plants.

The Department of Homeland Security has had trouble attracting and retaining top cyber talent since it was created after 9/11 in a massive merger of 22 agencies in 2002. In its early days, the DHS farmed out cyber work to contractors so it could quickly get systems running to improve national security.

As a result, the agency tends to award the most coveted cyber jobs to outside contractors. Those positions include forensics investigators, posts on "flyaway teams" that probe suspected cyber attacks and intelligence liaisons.

"It's not the money that makes people go to the contractors. It's the cool jobs," said Alan Paller, co-chair of the DHS task force. "People want the excitement."

The task force advised the DHS to give more exciting cyber work to government workers to help with retention.

NSA VS DHS

Over the past decade, only 3 percent of students who won scholarships through a prestigious government-funded program known as CyberCorps have taken jobs with DHS. In contrast, nearly a third chose the National Security Agency, according to the task force.

Tony Sager, a task force member and former NSA senior official, said the military intelligence agency has a strong "brand" that opens doors for recruiters.

"DHS doesn't have that sense of 'Wow,'" he said. "There are plenty of cool jobs at DHS. The job is identifying them."

The NSA has spent decades building cachet with university students through on-campus programs and, more recently, with children through cartoon puzzles on the Web. Once people join the NSA, they typically stay for a long time, said Sager, who retired this year after 34 years at the agency.

The DHS task force recommended it set up two-year cyber programs at community colleges to train large numbers of people and encourage military veterans to participate. Lute said the first of those programs could start next year.

Jeff Moss, who co-chairs the task force, said the community college programs would produce more graduates than needed, but the question is how many of them would want to work for DHS.

"Hopefully we'll get our fair share," said Moss, who founded the Def Con hacking convention 20 years ago during a summer break before he started law school.

The DHS may need to boost salaries as well. One former agency official who left government for a job with a private company said that some staff quit DHS jobs, then were immediately returned as employees for outside contractors.

"On Friday they are a government employee working making $80,000 a year. On Monday they are a contractor at the same desk and the government is paying them roughly $150,000," he said.

(Reporting By Jim Finkle; Editing by Tiffany Wu and Andre Grenon)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-seeks-patriotic-computer-geeks-help-cyber-crisis-165536164.html

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Video: Conn. governor: ?Rescue efforts under way?

>> malloy is with us right now. governor, good morning to you.

>> good morning.

>> yesterday you used the word catastrophic to describe what would happen with this storm. did it live up to that expectation? how bad is it?

>> it's pretty bad. the fire fighter died in easton is emblematic of that. we have trees down everywhere, poles down everywhere. the amount of flooding damage is unbelievable. we had thousands of people trapped in homes at the height of the storm last night. in fact, i went on tv to tell people to stay in place because we didn't want people to try to be swimming out or walking out through high water or driving out. having said all of that, i think the connecticut folks responded pretty well. most heeded the call. most did the right thing to get out of harm's way. we had a series of fires last night in greenwich and saybrook. we lost a number of houses and housing units to fires, to flooding, to wind damage. obviously there will be a lot more assessment today. we know we have over 635,000 customers without power. we know we have water damage to at least three if not four major sewer treatment facilities that will take some period of time to repair. so we've got a lot of work ahead of us. i want to thank the president. united states who did a magnificent job in fema who had really done some amazing early work to get us ready, but now the hard work will start.

>> and governor, you talked about the evacuations. do you have any sense of how many people may still be stranded this morning? do you have search and rescue efforts under way?

>> we do have search and rescue efforts under way. we have -- we had mobilized 850 troops. they have been deployed throughout the state. we have a number of teams, regional teams, as well as others that are responding. the water's receded for a period of time, though they will start to come back to some extent, much lower than what we saw last night, but, you know, we're going door to door and house to house to make sure people are okay and that if they need our assistance at this point, we're making it available. we had thousands of people in shelters last night, certainly hundreds of thousands of people probably staying with friends or relatives elsewhere in connecticut . i'm very grateful to the people of connecticut to responding. our municipal officials by and large did a magnificent job preparatory to the storm so that handling the storm at its height was more manageable than we might have thought. only because of the hard work that was done.

>> well, a long day and days ahead for you and your team there. connecticut governor dannel malloy , thank you so much.

>> thank you.

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Sports stars sell memories, beat tax increase

FILE - In this June 28, 2012, file photo, New York Yankees great Don Larsen reacts during a news conference announcing the auction of his 1956 perfect game uniform in New York. Larsen is auctioning off the Yankee pinstripes he wore in 1956 when he pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, and will use the proceeds to pay college tuition for his grandchildren, one in college and the other a high school freshman. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

FILE - In this June 28, 2012, file photo, New York Yankees great Don Larsen reacts during a news conference announcing the auction of his 1956 perfect game uniform in New York. Larsen is auctioning off the Yankee pinstripes he wore in 1956 when he pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, and will use the proceeds to pay college tuition for his grandchildren, one in college and the other a high school freshman. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

FILE - This Sept. 14, 2011 file photo shows Bob Knight during a speech at Butler University in Indianapolis. Knight is selling his NCAA championship rings and other mementos to fund education in his family. "I have two grandsons," the Hall of Fame basketball coach said, "and my wife has a niece and nephew, who would get good use out of this." (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Rather than leave a 56-year-old uniform hanging in a closet at his Idaho home, Don Larsen decided it should be used for education.

He's auctioning off the Yankee pinstripes he wore in 1956 when he pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, and will use the proceeds to pay college tuition for his grandchildren, one in college and the other a high school freshman.

"I'm not getting any younger and I want to see them get an education before I leave," the 83-year-old Larsen said. "They'll be appreciative later, more so than now, I'm sure."

Similarly, Bob Knight is selling his NCAA championship rings and other mementos to fund education in his family. "I have two grandsons," the Hall of Fame basketball coach said, "and my wife has a niece and nephew, who would get good use out of this."

In fact, a slew of sports memorabilia is on the market, coincidentally or not, just ahead of possible tax increases that could eat up some of the proceeds.

Also up for auction in coming weeks are baseball star Ozzie Smith's Gold Gloves, Evander Holyfield's boxing championship belts and an original of the agreement Pete Rose signed when he was banned from baseball for life in 1989.

"Sounds like a bunch of guys with full expectations that the Bush tax cuts are going to expire by year's end and not be back for next year," said Steve Gill, associate professor of accounting at San Diego State's Lamden School of Accountancy.

And starting Jan. 1, there will be a new Medicare tax on income from investments for higher-earning people. The IRS hasn't issued rules yet, so money from the sale of collectibles may be subject to the new levy.

"The 3.8 percent Medicare tax would probably be the thing that immediately popped into my mind in terms of what folks may be thinking about," said David Boyle, Americas director of personal financial services for the accounting firm Ernst & Young.

Some athletes used to give away the shirts off their backs or leave them in the clubhouse at season's end. Not anymore.

"If I knew then what I know now, I would have saved all my uniforms," baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra said.

These days, polyester double-knit has replaced wool flannel uniforms, and the 10,000-plus outfits sent to the 30 big-league clubs by Majestic Athletic are highly desired by fans. But it is gear from decades ago that is more prized.

"It's just a more honest period of time. Things were clearer. Things were simpler," said Brandon Steiner, whose Steiner Sports Memorabilia is auctioning the Larsen jersey and Knight collection in an online sale that will end Dec. 5.

Retired athletes and auction houses took notice in May when a circa-1920 Babe Ruth jersey was sold by SCP Auctions for $4.4 million to Lelands.com, which had a buyer lined up.

"Now not everybody is going to have a $4.4 million piece of memorabilia, but they might have something that is worth between $25,000 and $250,000," said Ken Goldin of Goldin Auctions, which is selling the Rose agreement. "So different deals are being cut with the auction houses to bring that particular memorabilia to market while the players perceive it to be a good time to do so."

Larsen threw his last big-league pitch in 1967? when the average major league salary was $19,000. That would cover only a small slice of the price of top memorabilia these days.

In the same auction as the Ruth jersey, a 1934 Ruth Yankees cap that was owned by pitcher David Wells sold for $537,278, about $507,000 more than Wells paid for it.

The baseball that rolled through the legs of Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series sold in May for $418,250. Two years ago, the bat Kirk Gibson used for his game-winning home run for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first game of the 1988 World Series sold for $575,912.

Those were bargains compared with a rare 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card that sold for $2.35 million in 2007, then resold six months later for $2.8 million to Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick, who allowed baseball's Hall of Fame to display it.

"Sports people are nuts," Knight said. "Look at how much they would pay for Babe Ruth's cap or Honus Wagner's card. I guess these are people who want to own things, things that are the results of what someone else did in sports."

Wealthy sports junkies view a 1952 Mickey Mantle card the same way others look at their 401(k).

"While the stock market is up and down, and while real estate is up and down, the memorabilia market has really gained a lot of steam over the last couple years," said Goldin, whose Rose auction runs through Nov. 17.

Instead of being auctioned online, Holyfield's collection will be sold Nov. 30 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, Calif., which also sells rock 'n' roll and Hollywood memorabilia.

"People look at these items not just as fans. They look at them as an investment. It's a way to diversify their portfolio," owner Darren Julien said. "We're very popular in Asia and Russia, and that's where a lot of the money is coming from. Items that used to sell for $8,000 to $10,000 can bring $200,000 to $300,000 now."

Holyfield, like Larsen, said he didn't consider the tax implications of selling items now rather than after the first of the year.

"This is something new to me," the former heavyweight champion said.

But the auction houses say the tax issues come up in the planning.

"As players get older, they certainly don't know what's going to happen with an estate tax, and I guess they figure they'd rather have it sold now than after they're passed and lose an unknown percentage," Goldin said.

And it extends beyond the sports sales.

"We've had other people, not just athletes, but we've had other celebrity personalities talk to us about that because it is an issue," Julien said.

In Gill's calculation, tax changes next year could push the rate on proceeds from these sales from 28 percent to 33 percent. In addition to the Medicare tax and the possibility of higher tax brackets, there could be a limitation on itemized deductions for higher-income people.

"I might just hurry up and sell it right now," Gill said. "Anything you would be selling in the near term, hurry up and sell in December."

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AP Basketball Writer Jim O'Connell and AP Sports Writer Tom Canavan contributed to this report.

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Career Skills Workshop, Pt 1: Rock Your Professional Development ...

It?s career coach Friday again and I?m launching a ?career skills workshop? series here at www.mariewetmore.com!

Let?s kick it off today with a talk about keeping a delta file ? a critical career skill to help you be more effective and improve your productivity in the workplace.

I have to thank my husband, ever the productive professional, for introducing me to the concept of a Delta file. It?s going to rock your world, just like it rocked mine ? helping you continually improve your performance and increase your productivity year after year.

So what is a Delta file?

It?s a central location where you keep all your notes about how you?d improve your performance in the future. As you move forward with your career, your delta file is always there as a reference, reminding you of the productivity strategies, career skills, and professional lessons you learn over the years.

Not sure what to write in your file? Here are some questions to trigger ideas:

• Are there mistakes you want to avoid in the future?
• Is there anything you did recently that you would do differently in the future?
• Did you see someone make a professional blunder that you don?t want to make yourself?
• Did you get feedback that you don?t want to forget about?
• Have you read any articles about new tools or strategies that you want to try?

It all goes in your delta file!

How do you stay consistent with your delta file?

First, create a central location. It can be physical paper file, Word document, or text file. Then you can use these strategies?

If it?s a physical paper file, then you can simply use whatever note taking scheme you like, simply marking the pages that should go into the delta file as you take your regular notes throughout your workday. Then you can file it when you do your regular filing.

If you prefer typed notes, just create a regular routine for reflecting on your work performance and take notes. If you use Stephen Covey?s Getting Things Done (GTD) method for processing your papers, tasks, and ideas, then you can add notes to your delta file during your regular weekly review.

Whatever routine you choose, make sure it?s regular and that it?s??captured in your schedule. That way you won?t forget about it!

And just as a note, Jeff and I don?t just use our Delta files for our professional lives, we also use them for house projects, travel experiences, and even gardening. So ultimately, a delta file is not just a career coaching technique, but a life coaching strategy you can use anywhere you want to make improvements in your life!

What do you think? Do you keep track of your self-improvement ideas? Would you be more likely to take action on them if you did?

If you liked this article, check out: Multitasking Is Ruining Your Career ? 5 Ways To Stop Multitasking And Start Being Productive??

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Syria commits to 4-day truce, but prospects dim

BEIRUT (AP) ? The embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad promised Thursday to observe a U.N.-proposed truce during a four-day Muslim holiday, while rebels claimed major gains in the key battleground of Aleppo.

But prospects of the cease-fire taking hold are dim, given Assad's history of broken promises and the rebel momentum in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, where fighters said they advanced into several regime-held neighborhoods.

The truce plan by U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has been endorsed by the U.N. Security Council, including Assad allies Russia and China. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged all countries and groups with influence in Syria to pressure both sides to stop the violence in the civil war, his spokesman said.

The holiday cease-fire was the least a divided international community could agree on after the failure of a more ambitious plan for an open-ended truce and political transition talks by Brahimi's predecessor, Kofi Annan, in April.

Even the current truce, to begin Friday with the start of the Eid al-Adha holiday, appears in jeopardy from the outset. Neither side has shown an interest in laying down arms, instead pushing for incremental military gains.

The truce plan remained vague Thursday evening. It wasn't clear when exactly it was supposed to begin, and there were no arrangements for monitoring compliance. Brahimi never said what would happen after four days, a potentially dangerous omission considering that Assad and those trying to topple him sharply disagree on a way forward. Assad refuses to resign while the opposition says his departure is a prerequisite for talks.

"It's a longshot," Beirut-based analyst Paul Salem said of the cease-fire. "We are completely in war mode, at least for the next many months."

Both sides kept fighting into late Thursday.

In an apparent setback for the regime, activists said rebel fighters pushed into predominantly Christian and Kurdish neighborhoods in northern Aleppo that had previously been held by pro-Assad forces.

"It was a surprise," local activist Abu Raed said via Skype. "It was fast progress and in an unexpected direction."

He asked to be identified only by his nickname for fear of reprisals.

The battle for Aleppo, a former regime stronghold and Syria's business hub, has been largely deadlocked since rebels first captured parts of the city in late July. A complete rebel takeover could change the momentum of the war, although in recent months, front lines have shifted repeatedly and it was not clear if rebel fighters could maintain Thursday's gains.

Activists also reported fighting and shelling by government forces near the capital of Damascus, and scores of people were reported killed nationwide. Since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, more than 35,000 people have been killed, including more than 8,000 government troops, according to activists.

Even as it lost some ground in Aleppo, the Assad regime said Thursday it would abide by the holiday truce. With Russia backing the truce and presumably bearing down on Damascus, such a step had been expected. Another Syria ally, Iran, welcomed what it called a "positive action" by Syria's army.

But in endorsing the plan, the Syrian military added major loopholes, saying it would respond with force not only if attacked, but if it believes opposition fighters are reinforcing positions or smuggling weapons from abroad.

The regime also accepted the previous cease-fire plan ? proposed by Annan ? which called for an open-ended truce to begin April 12. But it failed to implement major provisions, such as withdrawing troops and heavy weapons from urban centers. The truce soon collapsed.

Opposition leaders and rebel commanders dismissed Thursday's announcement by the regime as empty talk. Some said opposition fighters would halt their fire but respond if attacked by regime troops.

Gen. Mustafa al-Sheikh, a commander of the Free Syrian Army, said that "the brigades operating under the umbrella of this council will respect the cease-fire, if the regime indeed stops operations."

"However, we have experienced the regime's promises and lies before, ... Unfortunately with such dictatorial and sectarian regimes, you cannot believe such promises will be kept," he said.

The Syrian opposition is fractured and rebel fighters are organized in different groups, with rival agendas and command structures. Jabhat al-Nusra, a radical Islamic group that has been fighting alongside the rebels and has taken a lead in the battle for Aleppo, said it won't comply with the truce.

The U.S. put the onus on the Assad regime. "What we are hoping and expecting is that they will not just talk the talk of cease-fire, but that they will walk the walk, beginning with the regime," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi welcomed the cease-fire as a "positive action" in a telephone conversation with his Syrian counterpart, Walid al-Moallem, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.

In Aleppo, it remained unclear how significant the rebels' gains were, as their forces often push into new areas only to swiftly abandon them when the regime bombs their positions.

An Aleppo activist reached via Skype said rebel fighters had seized the predominately Kurdish neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh and were pushing into Al-Siryan al-Jadideh, a nearby Christian neighborhood, where they were trying to capture a security office used as an army post.

The advance expanded the fight for Aleppo from the poorer, mostly Sunni Muslim neighborhoods on its eastern and southern sides ? where the rebels can often count on support from the local population ? into a new section of the city farther north.

The city's northwest has seen very little rebel activity since fighting in Aleppo began, and it was unclear how residents would react to the rebels, who are mostly from the countryside.

While the uprising has split Syria's Kurds between the rebels and the regime, the country's Christians have tried to remain neutral.

Abu Raed, the activist, said neither group had actively joined the uprising and that many were fleeing as the regime struck back.

"They have started leaving the neighborhoods because the shelling has started," he said.

Amateur video posted online Thursday showed gray smoke rising from a cluster of apartment buildings in Aleppo. A narrator said the video showed the aftermath of government shelling in the Midan neighborhood. In another video, a rebel fighter fired a machine gun from the back of a pickup truck before the vehicle sped off to take him out of the line of fire.

The videos appeared to be genuine, matching activist descriptions of events.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists, said more than two dozen people were killed in the city Thursday, including eight Kurds who died when mortar rounds exploded in their neighborhood. It was unclear who fired them, it said.

The Observatory also said about 20 people were killed in shelling and clashes near Damascus, most of them in the restive suburb of Duma.

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Associated Press writers Zeina Karam and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed reporting.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syria-commits-4-day-truce-prospects-dim-195013524.html

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Five reasons to oppose the Del Mar school bond - Del Mar Times ...

By Marsha Sutton

Marsha Sutton

Proposition CC, a $76.8 million General Obligation bond measure sponsored by the Del Mar Union School District, asks homeowners on Nov. 6 to approve taxing themselves $8.44 per $100,000 of property value annually.

According to the San Diego County Taxpayers Association, the DMUSD proposes to issue the bond in five phases ? in 2013, 2018, 2023, 2028 and 2033. The total debt service is expected to be paid off in 2058.

It?s costing the DMUSD about $13,140, according to the Registrar of Voters, to place Proposition CC on the November ballot.

Under the terms of a GO bond, the money can only be used for capital improvements and facilities needs. The measure requires 55 percent approval to pass.

Although there are more, here are five reasons to oppose this bond.

1. The district openly admits its intent to use General Obligation bond money to offset general fund expenditures, in violation of the conditions of a GO bond.

The San Diego County Taxpayers Association opposes Proposition CC, noting this reason in its key findings: ?District has stated intent to use bond to offset General Fund expenditures.?

In a letter to the editor published in this newspaper on Sept. 20, 2012, Suzanne Hall, co-chair of the Yes on CC campaign, said, ?As Sacramento continues to turn down the tap on education funding, the DMUSD finds itself in the same hole than many other districts have already succumbed to: find an alternate source of funding or make cuts that impact the classroom.?

Hall also wrote, ?Though the funds from our bonds cannot and will not be directly applied to the salaries of the district staff, the money can take pressure off the general fund that pays for those classroom expenses.?

In a story in the Oct. 11 issue of this newspaper, Hall said the driving force behind the bond is that state funding has been on a consistent decline for several years.

?Another key component on the General Obligation bond,? DMUSD superintendent Holly McClurg wrote in an email in August, ?is to relieve/insulate the general fund of the school district.?

At the Sept. 19 school board meeting, McClurg, in a presentation to trustees on the initiative, again said the bond money could offset general fund expenses. As an example, she referenced $600,000 spent on school fencing that she said could have been funded by the bond but instead came out of the general fund.

It?s hard to decide whether to give the district credit for honesty (that they openly acknowledge an intent to use bond money to bolster the general fund) or condemnation for dishonesty (that doing this is illegal).

2. Programs funded by a GO bond should be for immediate, critical facilities needs.

A General Obligation bond is not a wish-list for projects that would be nice to have, such as allocating $6 million for a special education preschool as the DMUSD plan states.

It?s also not for undefined problems that might happen in the future.

According to district figures, enrollment as of June 2012 was 4,401 and in September was 4,302 ? 100 fewer students. Demographic studies show this trend continuing for a number of years. There is no shortage of seats in the district, which is currently experiencing declining enrollment.

Yet DMUSD board president Scott Wooden said in an interview in August that the bond money can help build a school in Pacific Highlands Ranch when a likely need is projected in 2018 to 2020.

?It?s going to be a long time before the state starts funding new schools again, and we?ll have to start looking at that in five to seven years,? he said.

Wooden also said some bond money would be set aside for improvements to newer schools ?as they age over the next 20 to 30 years? ? like Ocean Air which he said will eventually need a new roof. Ocean Air opened in 2007.

?When you look at the schools that are newer today, you will need to maintain those schools,? he said.

At the school district?s board meeting on Sept. 19, McClurg said of the bond money:

?The bond ?will allow for money to do work long-range.?

?It is ?impossible to say what the needs will be 15 to 20 years from now.?

??A school [may not be] ready for work now but will be in 10 to 20 years.?

In its overall summary, the SDCTA offered this additional objection: ?The district is proposing to use bond funds paid over the next four decades to support ongoing, short-term maintenance needs.?

The SDCTA noted that Sacramento ?recently allowed school districts to allocate deferred maintenance funds to the general fund.? As a result, Del Mar eliminated funding for deferred maintenance in Fiscal Year 2011 through FY 2013.

A GO bond is not for possible future needs, items on a wish list, or regularly scheduled maintenance. Immediate, dire facilities needs and relief of existing overcrowding are acceptable uses.

3. Schools are in good shape.

A Jan. 11, 2010 District Advisory Committee report commissioned by the DMUSD found the following: ?The schools in the DMUSD vary in age, from 45 to 2 years old, and all are in good repair and fully functional.?

With the exception of Carmel Del Mar, ?all other schools are modern with no serious defects or deficiencies,? the DAC noted.

4. The district plans to use bond money to pay for technology? with a short life span.

?The district proposes using long-term bonds to pay for student devices that will only last three to five years,? objects the SDCTA.

Other objections in the SDCTA review for Proposition CC include:

??The [district?s] presentation includes reference to General Fund relief resulting from ?teaching devices? and ?student devices? paid for from the bond.?

? ?The district plans to use bond funds to ?purchase portable learning technology equipment.??

Many districts, including San Diego Unified, have been harshly criticized for using taxpayer bond money to purchase devices with a limited lifespan. Del Mar Union?s program to buy personal technology qualifies for legitimate criticism on this point.

5. The idea for the bond was slapped together at the last minute, with little long-range planning or due diligence.

The DMUSD revealed its interest in a bond measure to surprised neighboring districts not until March 2012.

?This was not on anybody?s radar,? said San Dieguito Union High School District superintendent Ken Noah in May.

Contrast this with the approach taken by SDUHSD which is also asking voters to approve a GO bond this year.

SDUHSD transparently created a task force nearly four years ago to investigate the condition of its facilities and precisely specify the work needed, making sure along the way that the public was well-advised of the district?s aim to provide in-depth information to support a GO bond.

In Del Mar, there was no similar facilities task force and nothing leading up to its surprise announcement.

The claim by the DMUSD that its bond is based on a two-year strategic plan for facilities is not credible. Every school district has a facilities plan; serious work on what a bond measure entails is quite different and demands dedicated attention to details not generally covered in a strategic plan.

After surveying community members at the behest of the board on a 3-2 vote, the Dolinka Group financial consultants determined that about $8 per $100,000 was the optimal amount that at least 55 percent of voters would support.

But the way it?s supposed to work is that school districts identify a need first and then ask for funding ? not grab a big pile of money, based on what consultants think voters will sit still for, and then figure out how to spend it.

Disturbingly, the three board members who voted with Wooden to place the bond measure on the ballot at the July board meeting did so without seeing any specific information on costs, projects or per-site improvements.

Wooden, who insisted on reviewing some specifics from staff before voting on the measure, said he was ?disappointed? when the packet for the board?s July meeting lacked bond detail.

Board members are stewards of the public trust, and the public rightfully expects trustees to vet this information sufficiently and scrutinize these kinds of measures with careful analysis and due diligence, before presenting it before voters for approval.

In its analysis, the San Diego County Taxpayers Association weighed in on Del Mar?s apparent lack of preparation:

? ?The technology component for each site has not been specifically outlined.?

? ?Schedule regarding projects has not been provided.?

??The project list that will be presented to voters does not identify the list of improvements by site.?

Lani Lutar, president of the SDCTA, said in an interview that Del Mar missed the deadline for submission to the SDCTA. Other school districts also missed the July 5 deadline, but each approached the SDCTA beforehand and explained why they would be late.

?We granted extensions for a few districts that requested more time early on, but in each of those instances, the school districts had requested meetings with us prior to the deadline and made their case for why they needed more time,? Lutar wrote in an email.? ?That is not true of Del Mar Union.?

Del Mar did little upfront preparation, threw together a hastily prepared package, and is now broadcasting ?sky is falling? doomsday scenarios and expects taxpayers to go along quietly.

Will you?

Marsha Sutton can be reached at SuttComm@san.rr.com

Related posts:

1. San Diego County Taxpayers? Association supports high school district bond, opposes Del Mar school district bond
2. Del Mar school district to conduct bond feasibility study
3. District should come up with something affordable ? Vote ?No? on high school bond Prop AA
4. Proposition CC: Why we need a bond to support the DMUSD
5. Del Mar school district continues to move forward on bond

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Sandoval's 3 HRs lead Giants to 8-3 romp in opener

San Francisco Giants' Pablo Sandoval (48) watches his solo home run against the Detroit Tigers in the first inning during Game 1 of baseball's World Series on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Jose Luis Villegas) MAGS OUT; TV OUT (KCRA3, KXTV10, KOVR13, KUVS19, KMAZ31, KTXL40) MANDATORY CREDIT

San Francisco Giants' Pablo Sandoval (48) watches his solo home run against the Detroit Tigers in the first inning during Game 1 of baseball's World Series on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Jose Luis Villegas) MAGS OUT; TV OUT (KCRA3, KXTV10, KOVR13, KUVS19, KMAZ31, KTXL40) MANDATORY CREDIT

San Francisco Giants' Pablo Sandoval hits a two run home run during the third inning of Game 1 of baseball's World Series against the Detroit Tigers Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

San Francisco Giants' Pablo Sandoval hits a home run during the fifth inning of Game 1 of baseball's World Series against the Detroit Tigers Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Detroit Tigers' Justin Verlander reacts after giving up an RBI single to San Francisco Giants' Marco Scutaro in the third inning, of Game 1 of baseball's World Series Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

San Francisco Giants' Barry Zito throws during the first inning of Game 1 of baseball's World Series against the Detroit Tigers Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? A roly-poly Kung Fu Panda outslugged the Triple Crown winner. An October outcast outpitched the Cy Young ace.

With Pablo Sandoval and Barry Zito taking star turns, this World Series is off to a rollicking start.

Sandoval hit three home runs and joined Reggie Jackson, Babe Ruth and Albert Pujols as the only boppers to do it in the Series, and the San Francisco Giants jolted Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers 8-3 on Wednesday night in Game 1.

"Man, I still can't believe it," Sandoval said.

A boisterous AT&T Park crowd ? a sea of black and orange outfits ? roared as Sandoval connected in his first three at-bats. Popular in the Bay Area for his outgoing personality and unusual physique, he went 4 for 4 and drove in four runs. A Giant panda for sure.

From the first pitch to last, it was basically a perfect game by the Giants. Coming off a Game 7 win over St. Louis on Monday night, they looked totally fresh.

"We played our last game only two days ago," Sandoval said. "We're still hot. We just came here and played our game."

Verlander, the reigning Cy Young winner so dominant in this postseason, looked uncomfortable from the outset and constantly pawed at the mound.

As fans filed out singing along with Tony Bennett's standard "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," the final score raised a nagging question for manager Jim Leyland and his favored Tigers: Did too much rest after a playoff sweep of the Yankees mean too much rust?

"I just didn't execute tonight," Verlander said. "It was kind of a battle from the get-go. They took advantage of that and swung the bat pretty well, especially Pablo and (Marco) Scutaro. A couple of good bounces their way, bad for us."

Game 2 is Thursday night, with Doug Fister starting for the Tigers against Madison Bumgarner.

Left off the 2010 World Series roster by the champion Giants, Zito shut out the Tigers until Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera's RBI single in the sixth. The Giants won for the 14th straight time with Zito starting.

"Just the opportunity alone was mind-blowing. Me and my wife were dancing around when I heard," Zito said of getting the Game 1 start. "And then the boys came out swinging and played great defense."

Sandoval did his damage with his bat. He donated the wood he used for the first two homers to the Hall of Fame ? no need for it anymore, he broke it on the backswing of his second shot.

It was certainly a moment of retribution of Sandoval. He was benched during the 2010 World Series, his production and confidence down, his weight up. In the stands on this night, fans wearing furry panda hats celebrated with him.

"You have to keep working. I've never lost faith to be here," he said.

Get this: It was the first three-homer game at the stadium originally known as Pac Bell Park since the very first one, when Kevin Elster did it for the Dodgers in 2000. Nope, not even home run king Barry Bonds had done this.

Tagged by Sandoval for a solo shot in the first inning, Verlander could only mouth 'Wow!' when the Giants star launched a two-run drive in the third that set off another blast of fog horns. Sandoval reprised his power show from this year's All-Star game, when his bases-loaded triple highlighted a five-run first inning against Verlander.

Quite a blast from a team that finished last in the majors in homers.

"We're not known for our power," manager Bruce Bochy noted.

And if there was any doubt that Verlander was shaky, the clearest sign came in the fourth. That's when Zito, a career .099 hitter, sliced an RBI single with two outs off the current AL MVP for a 5-0 lead.

The festive crowd stood and applauded when it was announced that Verlander was being pulled for a pinch hitter in the fifth. Sandoval gave his followers another reason to get up moments later when he hit a solo homer off reliever Al Alburquerque in the fifth, answering the cheers by waving his batting helmet in a curtain call.

The Tigers seemed out of sorts in their first game following a five-day layoff. That was an issue in 2006, too, when Verlander and his teammates had nearly a week off before getting wiped out by the Cardinals.

"I'm one that's been around long enough to know that a lot of things happen in this game. This was a big-hyped game with Justin, probably a lot of pressure on him," Leyland said.

"But I don't think it had anything to do with the pressure. His fastball command was not good. He got out of sync. He got on fast forward. He just did not pitch well tonight. It's that simple," he said.

Pujols homered three times last year, Jackson accomplished the feat in 1977 and Ruth did it in 1926 and again in 1928.

For good measure, Sandoval lined a single his last time up.

"We were hoping for a water shot but he got a lousy single. Kind of killed the whole deal for us," Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt kidded.

Sandoval is one of a record nine Venezuelans on the Series rosters, and his power performance attracted attention way beyond the ballpark.

"There goes the third! Pablo makes history," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tweeted in Spanish.

Scutaro, the NL championship series MVP, twice hit RBI singles after doubles by Angel Pagan. NL batting champion Buster Posey contributed two hits, left fielder Gregor Blanco made diving catches to rob Cabrera and Prince Fielder, and Tim Lincecum came out of the bullpen to prevent further damage.

The Giants kept getting good bounces, with Pagan hitting a double that hopped off the third-base bag. ALCS MVP Delmon Young, meanwhile, failed to run after a tapper in front of the plate that the Giants turned into a double play.

Pitching in San Francisco for the first time since 2008, Verlander scuffed at the rubber while warming up for the first inning, pulled off his glove after badly overthrowing a curve and kept taking deep breaths. He hardly resembled the guy who was 3-0 with an 0.74 ERA in three playoff starts this year.

Ever since two poor outings in the 2006 Series against St. Louis ? punctuated by two throwing errors ? Verlander has worked hard to harness his emotions and 100 mph heat in the early going.

Verlander was trying to settle in when Sandoval tagged him, pouncing on an 0-2 fastball and lining it into the front row over the center-field wall.

Verlander got into trouble again the third, and pitching coach Jeff Jones strolled to the mound when the count went to 2-0 on Sandoval. Verlander stared at Jones and shook his head. On the next pitch, Verlander could do little but watch the ball sail into the front row in left.

To some, this looked somewhat similar to the 2010 Series opener. That day, the Giants beat up the supposedly unhittable Cliff Lee on their way to a five-game romp over Texas.

"Well, you know, it's hard to figure this game sometimes. You hear the old adage ? 'That's baseball.' These guys are human, and sometimes they're not quite on top of their game," Bochy said.

This is how bad it got for the Tigers: Former closer Jose Valverde made his first appearance in 11 days. Leyland still isn't sure what he'll get from the struggling reliever.

Lincecum, meanwhile, retired seven straight batters and struck out five of them. The two-time Cy Young winner has embraced his new role in the bullpen.

Jhonny Peralta hit a two-run homer for the Tigers in the ninth off mop-up reliever George Kontos.

NOTES: Tampa Bay's Desmond Jennings was the only other player this year to homer twice in a game off Verlander. ... Willie Mays and fellow Giants Hall of Famers Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda and Gaylord Perry took part in the first-ball ceremony. ... Tigers great Al Kaline, now a team executive, watched Detroit take batting practice from behind the cage. ... The Game 1 winner has won eight of the last nine championships. ... Cabrera and Posey marked the first set of batting champs to face each other in the World Series since 1954 when it was Mays of the New York Giants and Bobby Avila of Cleveland. When Cabrera walked on a close full-count pitch, he playfully patted the Giants' All-Star catcher on his way to first base. ... Tigers bullpen catcher Jeff Kunkel wandered the stands well before the teams took the field for warmups, snapping pictures of the stadium and field with his cell phone. ... The Giants franchise played its 106th Series game ? they have won 50 ? trailing only the Yankees (225) and Cardinals (112). The Dodgers are fourth with 105.

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Golden Hawk Athletics & Recreation - Seunarine named OUA All-Star

Seunarine named OUA All-Star
Womens rugby first year half-back lone Hawk to earn honour

HAMILTON (October 24, 2012) - Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks women's rugby player Emily Seunarine of Brampton, Ont., was named an OUA All-Star on Wednesday afternoon as the conference announced its major award winners and all-stars.

Seunarine, an Archaeology student, earns all-star honours in her first season competing at the OUA level and was the lone Hawk to be named to the Sheils Division team. She dressed in all six games for Laurier this year, starting in four of them.

The defending OUA and CIS champion Guelph Gryphons and the Queen's Gaels, the No. 2 and No. 4 ranked teams in the CIS, topped the list of award winners, presented by Gilbert Canada. Both programs had five players named all-stars while Guelph earned one major award and the Gaels two.

2012 WOMEN'S RUGBY MAJOR AWARD WINNERS Presented by Gilbert Canada

SHIELS DIVISION

Most Valuable Player - Britt Benn (Guelph)

Rookie of the Year - Danielle Spice (Western)

Coach of the Year - Jay & Leslie Shaw (Waterloo)

RUSSELL DIVISION

Most Valuable Player - Karla Telidetzki (Toronto)

Rookie of the Year - Nadia Popov (Queen's)

Coach of the Year - Joe Costello (York)

Community Service Award - Marin MacLeod (Queen's)

2012 OUA WOMEN'S RUGBY ALL-STARS

SHIELS DIVISION

Britt Benn - Guelph

Caitlin Beaton - Guelph

Morganne Linthwaite - Guelph

MacKenzie Higgs - Guelph

Katie McNally?- Guelph

Briana Cunningham?-?Waterloo

Erinne Lee Vargas - Waterloo

Renee Woodhouse - Waterloo

Rachel Brown - Waterloo

Lori Josephson - Western

Mackenzie Fane - Western

Meaghann Buitinga - Western

Elizabeth Monkman - Brock

Mariko Reilly - Brock

RUSSELL DIVISION

Taylor White - Queen's

Bronwyn Corrigan - Queen's

Claragh Pegg - Queen's

Susan Heald - Queen's

Nadia Popov - Queen's

Sara Berry - McMaster

Marisa Ashley - McMaster

Maggie Cogger-Orr - McMaster

Stephanie Black - McMaster

Fedelia Omaghan - York

Amber Barrett - York

Mel Cunningham - York

Britt Douglas - Trent

Kaitlin Newton - Trent

Karla Telidetzki - Toronto

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Galaxy Tab 10.1 price suggestions - Cipher Web Reviews

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Swing-state voters hit with mail ad barrage

MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) ? Around lunchtime each day, the latest missives promoting or pillorying Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney arrive in Diane Ouradnik's mailbox. Before long, they're in her trash.

Tearing and tossing has become routine for battleground-state voters drenched in caustic mail ads from the presidential candidates, political parties and their allied groups.

Television commercials may be king, but millions of dollars a week are fueling the pinpointed mail ads: Gun owners are told Obama is a threat and Romney is "the clear choice." Bilingual ads going to Latino voters are questioning Romney's commitment to opportunities for "regular people." Senior citizens are getting dueling pieces from Obama and Romney casting the other as detrimental to Medicare.

"I don't even read it. It's just too overwhelming. It's too much ? from all sides," says Ouradnik, a customer service representative in this lakeside Wisconsin city. She voted for Obama four years ago but is leaning toward Romney this time because she feels the incumbent has let her down and is too willing to blame others.

Political mail at all levels is big business. Some 1.8 billion political mail pieces were sent in 2010, resulting in $338 million in revenue for the U.S. Postal Service, a spokesman said. The Postal Service expects to significantly surpass those marks in 2012.

In Romney's corner, the super political action committee known as Restore Our Future sank more than $1 million into its direct mail efforts in the past two weeks alone. Another $1 million was spent last week on anti-Obama mail by Citizens Awareness Project Inc., a new group that hasn't disclosed its donors.

Aiding Obama, the AFL-CIO has sent tens of thousands of candidate contrast fliers to union households in battleground states. A healthy share of NARAL Pro-Choice America's $1.1 million of independent spending on the race has been on bulk mail.

Strategists count on voters to at least scan what they get. In the best case, people hand the ads off to undecided neighbors or carry them to the voting booth for reference.

In a presidential campaign dominated by a focus on jobs and the economy, the mail ads often tackle peripheral issues important to niche voters.

A tri-fold flier from the pro-Romney group Crossroads GPS pans Obama as weak on border security and in favor of a plan that "rolls out the red carpet for illegal immigrants." The New Hampshire Democratic Party has a piece charging that Romney would give too much power to employers and insurance companies to deny coverage of contraceptives. A group called Catholics for Ohio addresses the birth control debate from the opposite angle with a mail piece saying Obama "wants to tell the Catholic Church what to do."

The mailers are typically more cost-effective than television ads, with some pieces costing a dime or less. And they have a more scientific reach.

"It's the difference between using a rifle and a shotgun," said Randy Borntrager, political director of People for the American Way, which is sending anti-Romney mail into Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. "With a shotgun you have a pretty widespread approach, with a more targeted rifle approach you can aim at a target at who you think is going to be persuadable."

Within the battleground states, the pieces are more likely to be steered to people with a regular history of voting. Groups like the National Rifle Association and the AFL-CIO feed off their well-honed lists. Organizations hoping to convert 2008 Obama voters have concentrated on geographic areas that backed the president four years ago but a Republican gubernatorial or congressional candidate two years later.

The Ending Spending Action Fund, a conservative super PAC bankrolled by billionaire Joe Ricketts, was on pace to send out nearly 2 million mail pieces in the month before the election, mostly in the presidential race. The group is focused on Iowa, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. In one mailing, Obama is slammed for rising debt, nagging unemployment and higher dependency on food stamps. "Obama made things worse," it says.

Brian Baker, the group's president, said the mailers are a key part of a "surround sound campaign" to also drive the same message over the airwaves, on doorsteps and through email.

On the political left, People for the American Way is directing its mail efforts at pushing up the Latino vote, a crucial bloc for Obama. The group's mailers are printed in English and Spanish, and they portray Romney as an elitist whose policies would squeeze funding for Head Start, special education and college Pell Grants. "No dejes que te enganen ? Don't be fooled ? Mitt Romney is not for us," one ad concludes.

There are drawbacks to the mail pitches. Mail takes more time to develop and distribute, so pieces prepared for the stretch run won't pivot off late-breaking moments in the same way radio and television spots can. And there's no denying that even mail can reach a saturation point.

Outside Cleveland, Jean Gianfagna has days when six or seven political mailings come in ? occasionally four versions of the same one for herself, her husband and her college-age son and daughter. The Ohio marketing consultant knows the power of mail persuasion, but even she questions whether the investment is worth it at this stage.

"At some point you reach burnout and everyone I know is completely burned out in this election. We see hundreds and hundreds of ads," said Gianfagna, who is backing Obama but getting mail from both sides. "At some point you just tune it all out."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/swing-state-voters-hit-mail-ad-barrage-070113941--election.html

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RZA Talks The Man with the Iron Fists

Wu-Tang rapper-turned-actor and composer RZA makes an explosive directorial debut with The Man With The Iron Fists, a vibrantly stylized homage to martial arts cinema that could only have sprung from the mind of the lifelong kung fu fanatic, hip-hop fixture, and Quentin Tarantino protege. Who else would think to set a Shaw Brothers-esque opening fight sequence to the infectious battle anthem "Shame on a Nigga," a Wu-Tang classic that RZA also used to inject a little of his late cousin and bandmate Ol' Dirty Bastard into Russell Crowe's swaggering Jack Knife?

RZA also stars in the film, co-written by Eli Roth, as The Blacksmith of Jungle Village, where warring clans, government agents, deadly spies, and secret enemies (including Crowe, Cung Le, Byron Mann, Lucy Liu, David Bautista, Rick Yune, and Daniel Wu) plot to slice, dice, and destroy their enemies for a prized shipment of gold.

Ahead of his Iron Fists tour, RZA rang Movieline to discuss the many influences that inspired his martial arts homage, what he learned from studying under movie master Quentin Tarantino, how he landed the legendary Gordon Liu for a key role, and the elusive and obscure kung fu movie he's been dying to add to his collection.

[GALLERY: Eye-popping images from RZA's The Man With The Iron Fists]

Your history with kung fu, martial arts, and wuxia movies goes back a long way to your early days, but how did your love of these films synthesize within you into this story you?ve wanted to tell for years now? At what point in your life did you realize you could tell it in this way?
There were many days of imagining, of course, about making my own movie, just day dreaming, but I think it was more like once I worked on Kill Bill with Quentin [Tarantino] watching him work I saw that there was a way to bring some of these ideas into reality. I?ve been watching so many movies and being around it, as far as being an actor or a composer, I just wanted to one day be able to tell my story that I devised. When I talked about it to buddies like Eli [Roth] he found the story entertaining, so I figured I?d study, prepare myself, keep the dream alive and one day bring it to life.

You speak of it in terms of learning, of dedicating yourself to being a student of cinema under the tutelage of these mentors, as you did with Isaac Hayes for music. What do you feel that you learned the most from Quentin?
I basically learned to go from a musician and actor to a director. It was his guidance to lead me to feel I could command a crew, I knew how to work a camera, move cameras, and think in a director?s mind. I knew that I could bring something to the world of cinema that would be cool and even unique. Now, what it was going to be, I wasn?t sure. I wanted it to be Iron Fists; I had another one called A Hard Way To Live, but that one seemed not ready yet. But Iron Fists, I felt like I could really bring this one to life ? I see it, I know how to do it. So from him I picked up that complete knowledge of what it takes to be a director. Working on the set with him on Kill Bill and Death Proof ? it basically was a college course, yo.

With Quentin Tarantino it's as much about film literacy as it is about on-set, isn't it? What did you learn from watching movies with him?
You know, I missed Fantastic Fest but I came down many times and watched a lot of obscure films there. I also came out to QT Fest and there we watched six movies a day. So all that, every time I watch a movie I watch how Quentin watches it; we watch for education. What he taught me about watching a film was to watch for curves, dives, dips, themes, dialogue, or just even characters. People may ask, ?Why would RZA watch a movie called Revenge of the Werewolf Woman [Werewolf Woman, 1976]?? But in that movie, which is a sick movie, it opens with a werewolf dance and a sexy lady looking like a wolf just dances to music. And you watch a lot of Korean movies and you see there?s always a dance scene in every movie. So in my movie, I don?t have a dance scene but I do have the women on stage representing the Asian culture with the long silks that they wear. I love that; you?ve always got to put a piece of culture in a film, regardless.

You?ll notice in my film that, since the Chinese are known for the Chinese Opera ? Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, they started from that ? so I put a minute of Chinese Opera in my film to pay homage to the culture. But I learned these things by watching films with Quentin and these are things he points out. That movie Revenge of the Werewolf Woman, there?s a scene where a doctor actually explains the scientific reason why werewolves exist. The way he?s doing it is so convincing but it?s all a total lie. But it?s so convincing that as the audience watches, you believe it. And when you watch Iron Fists you?ll see that there are certain dialogue scenes that try to convince you of the myth of the movie ? like how Obi-wan Kenobi taught Luke Skywalker about the Force. These types of things, people leaving the theater believe the Force really exists. And that?s what movies will do.

Can you name some of the films that influenced Iron Fists?
It?s really a collage of film study and watching many movies and trying to create something of my own. When I was making music I would sample different songs and, as they say, mash them all together to make a new beat, right? Then you can?t tell where the original comes from. I think I did the same thing with the film but even in a different way because I was able to just go from total imagination with something that doesn?t even exist at all. There?s never been an idea that you could take chi energy and animate metal, or animate something else ? but there?s a martial arts idea that you would take chi energy that transfers through your weapon.

It really does feel like these films and citations and cultural lessons that you?ve accumulated over the years are filtered into this one vision, and it feels so singular from the casting to the music. Russell Crowe?s character, for example, you?ve said was inspired by Ol? Dirty Bastard.
Yes!

How did that come about?
When we talked about the character one day we had a little problem that we had to figure out on the set. And it seemed like we were going to have a bad day, so I had to go to his trailer and tell him what was going on; to get him to feel comfortable at the time, I told him a story about ODB. The story was, one day ODB walked into the studio late as hell. He was so late, he?s ruined a whole day and wasted all this money. The beat is playing, he walks in, and in one take he performs ?Shame On A Nigga Who Try To Run Game On A Nigga.? He does this song in one take and if you notice in the song there?s a part where he goes, ?Shame on a nigga who tries to run game on a?? He doesn?t really finish the hook. I was like, ?Do it over.? He said, ?No ? that?s it. I?m keeping it. That?s what I like!? One take.

And this one take idea, I explained to Russell, is sometimes just a moment we capture. It doesn?t have to be done over and over. He?s a guy that would come in and do it in one take. So I know we?re out of time, but for today you might have to go one-take, ODB-style. Now of course Russell?s a master anyway and he?ll do it in one take. But I think telling him that story at that time helped because we were about eight hours late and it helped us capture a lot of things in that one day that it would have taken us two days to do. When you see the film you will see a couple of ODB references and you?ll go, ?Okay ? that?s where he got that from. He does an ODB move exactly like ODB would do!

What was it like to have Gordon Liu on set? Obviously he and his films influenced your entire career, dating back to the very beginnings of Wu Tang. What was your first meeting with him like and how easy was it to get him onboard?
Gordon Liu, first of all, was a blessing for me. To think of when I watched the movie The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, which became the title of our first album, Gordon Liu had played a character called Master Killer, where he had to go to Shaolin to learn how to fight to get revenge for his family. But when he got to Shaolin he started at the 35th chamber but he wanted to go to the top, and when he got to the top the monks weren?t doing kung fu, they were teaching philosophy. And the philosophy that they taught was actually very profound. Now Gordon Liu is known for fighting, in Kill Bill and all of his films, but when I came to him for the role I said, ?Gordon, I want you to play that monk that you see in 36 Chambers ? not the monk who fought but the monk who disseminates all the wisdom.? He thought about that, and he?s a real Buddhist and everything, so he agreed to do it. It was an honor and a privilege for me. I came to find out he was a musician so I gave him a guitar. [Laughs] And we had a great time. He really helped this film a lot. For me, it was a blessing to have him.

Word has it he?s not been seen much lately because of his health, after filming Iron Fists. Have you been in contact with him since?
After Iron Fists he got sick and everything. I wish him well. I?ve not communicated with him personally.

You?re a known martial arts film scholar - if you had to guess, how many kung fu movies are in your home library?
At least a thousand, yo.

Great, so we're all coming to your house to borrow DVDs.
[Laughs]

Everyone has some holes in the films that they?ve seen. What?s one martial arts film you?ve always wanted to see but never had the chance to?
Well, there are actually a few that I want to collect that I can?t get my hands back on. That?s my problem! I can?t find one movie, and it?s called something like Ghost Killer ? it?s the first time you had a character that was called Ghostface, and he?s so terrifying that he?ll walk up to his victim and when they turn around they die just from looking at him. I saw it in a movie theater when I was a kid, it was a triple feature with a movie called Fearless Fighters. I got Fearless Fighters, I?ve got most of these movies, but I could never find that movie. Nobody could find it, so far. I think it?s called Ghostly Face, and it?s a movie that has vampires in it and a guy with this ghost mask. He?s a killer. It?s dope.

The Man With The Iron Fists is out November 2 - stay tuned for more from RZA's martial arts debut.

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