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Moments before the interval Rangers threatened again when veteran midfielder Travis Wilkinson was afforded too much time and space at the backpost, glancing his header inches wide. |
After the break the end-to-end exchanges continued with Broadbelt saving from Rangers skipper Vernon Perinchief, and Wilkinson forcing a flying stop from Broadbelt who tipped the ball around the post. |
Both sides then struck the woodwork in quick succession first Perinchief rattled the crossbar with a powerful effort from the edge of the area, and then Blazers striker Sergio Robinson struck the upright with a shot from an acute angle. |
Blazers had further chances to find the winner with Robinson volleying straight at Rangers keeper Jason Smith, and Gibbons missing the target with a close range header. |
Rangers caretaker coach Kwame Tucker admitted his heart was in his mouth during the tense finale which saw Wilsons goal-bound header cleared off the line in injury time. |
Tucker only took hold of the coaching reins two weeks ago after his predecessor, Keith Jennings, received a ban from the Bermuda Football Association for threatening behaviour towards an official. |
Im very relieved as it was a crucial game for us, and Im very proud of the players, he said. My heart was in my mouth a few times because Boulevard really came at us and we had to ease the pressure at times. |
Tucker, a former national team cricketer, threw his hat into the ring for the vacant role after admitting he would be very interested in the Rangers job. |
Two regular conservative letter writers appear to have joined forces with their unsubstantiated diatribes published in the March 11 letters to the editor. One, with no factual support whatsoever, characterizes the potential Democratic presidential candidates as being so far left, not even liberal California voters who ... |
Similarly, the other writer states that the Democratic National Committee should pay for the Mueller investigation, likening it to a witch hunt and claiming that it is staffed with Trump-hating Democrats. He forgets that Mueller, a well-respected attorney and investigator, is a Republican, chosen by and who reported to... |
The first writer chooses to condemn the whole Democratic party as being anti-Semitic based upon the remarks of a single, newly elected Muslim member of the House. He ignores the support the Republican party gets from the group of neo-Nazis as well as former KKK members and their leader. If his conclusion is true, then ... |
On the other hand social reform as proposed by the Democrats is an effort to see that the less fortunate among us do not live a life of suffering, without hope or are left to die without proper care. Perhaps a better word for this practice is humanitarianism. The answer to the query as to why billionaire moguls support... |
Georgia Public Service Commission Vice Chairman Tim Echols’ op-ed column against the Green New Deal (GND) published March 29 could hardly be more misleading, misinformed, and cynically ironic. |
In his deeply flawed rejection of the progressive GND proposal, Echols defends Georgia’s energy policy, falsely portraying Plant Vogtle as a praiseworthy centerpiece of our state’s achievements. Even casual observers of the protracted, wasteful fiasco known as Plant Vogtle recognize that it’s a tribute to extravagant c... |
If that profligate transfer of wealth from citizens to entrenched corporate autocracy is Georgia’s pride and joy, the state’s energy policy — and our collective future — are doomed. |
Even if Vogtle were completed — running on schedule and within budget — an impartial, complete assessment of nuclear power explains why there are so few plants now being built. True, unlike coal and other fossil-fuel power-plants, no carbon emissions are produced in generating electricity with nuclear reactions. But, l... |
• Accidents such as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island demonstrate costly, dangerous public safety risks of nuclear power. |
• Mining and processing nuclear fuels, combined with construction and close-out of nuke-plants, produce huge amounts of carbon emissions. |
• After nearly 70 years of investigating, no acceptable method for long-term storage of deadly radioactive waste has been found. |
• The cost of building a nuclear plant requires corporate financing, lavishly supplemented by government-guaranteed loans, without which the nuke industry would not exist. |
Unlike nuclear power, solar equipment can be scaled-down to ownership by individual households, reducing revenues primarily benefiting major corporations that further concentrate wealth among executives and well-heeled stockholders. |
One of GND’s major goals is correcting unfair and unhealthy income disparities, which are facilitated by public policies that reward corporations at the expense of the public. By supporting decentralized energy technology, such as rooftop solar, and omitting corporate-dependent power sources like nukes, the GND will he... |
Contrary to Echols’ claims espousing the scandal-ridden Plant Vogtle project, GND’s aims — though ambitious — are legitimate. Providing clean energy while overhauling U.S. public policies to offer greater access to living-wage employment and equitable business opportunities is a commendable, timely enterprise vital to ... |
It is said that a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. |
This is a reminder of the often misuse of social media, though the benefits far overshadow the negatives, depending on one's level of maturity and critical thinking. |
The advent of high-speed computers exposes us to a world outside of our personal boundaries to experience life across the vast oceans. We are also bombarded by news, though failing the credibility test, are fed to the vulnerable with predictable consequences. They've risen to the apogee of fake news well packaged to fo... |
Nary a day goes by without learning about dangers lurking in our food supply: additives that are carcinogenically presenting grave risks to our health. Some people understandably become alarmed at the government's failure to protect its citizenry, raising their anxiety to levels that trigger reactions in their impaired... |
It was announced that the Environmental Protection Agency will allow new asbestos products to enter the market. The current administration will not set a drinking water limit for two toxic chemicals that are contaminating millions of Americans' tap water. EPA's decision means the chemicals will remain unregulated under... |
The difference between someone exposed to the same environmental conditions is predicated on the inner reaction of someone like my nonagenarian father who did not experience diabetes and multiple conditions that befall others of his age. His immune system remained impenetrable. Why he and many of his generation were ab... |
A man jumps from a height of 1,000 feet in a free fall. It's not the height that kills, it's rather the sudden stop. |
The question that was asked several years ago by our 40th president, Ronald Reagan, calls for an examination of our current conditions: Is the country better off now than it was three years ago? |
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Packet was featured in a VatorNews article: "Daily funding roundup - September 11th, 2018" |
The glittering ball drop in Times Square had nothing on the flickering lights illuminating Mike (Sports Pope) Francesa's WFAN balcony on New Year's Eve. If we are to believe he is serious, the final countdown to the pontiff's FAN exit, the end to nearly three decades of dismissive pontificating, is on. |
As a matter of fact, Sunday will mark Francesa's final regular-season "Football Sunday" show. Last week, on the air, Francesa said he won't do the program in 2017 because he would be leaving FAN in December and could not chronicle the NFL season in its entirety. |
If these are the final days, there can be no denying Francesa had a tremendous, even historic, run. With much pomposity he has not only been THE go-to Gasbag, but maintained high ratings, which kept the "competition," ESPN-98.7, in the Pope Mobile's rearview mirror. |
No doubt the story of Francesa's exit from FAN will be one of the bigger ones of 2017. It will be accompanied by twists, turns and speculation. We are skeptical he will actually depart and won't believe it until it happens. The fact Francesa announced his intentions a year before his departure date is curious and raise... |
At the time of his announcement, the radio business was on shaky financial ground. It still is in the toilet. In terms of earnings, FAN is not what it once was. And its anemic bottom line is adversely impacted by over-paying the Yankees for their radio rights. And, to a lesser extent, paying Francesa a salary that cann... |
Did Francesa read the tea leaves and figure out his salary, between $3.5-4.5 million per, was going to be drastically cut? Did he want to give the suits more time to ponder what his exit would mean to the station in terms of further losses from an advertising sales standpoint? |
What would happen (and it's a longshot) if management did not cut his salary or even increase it? The bet here is the Pope's WFAN career would continue. Another scenario: Management splits afternoon drive into two shows, with Francesa doing one. Obviously his salary would be cut but he could justify it because he would... |
If he does actually leave, where will Francesa land? Although he would immediately juice 98.7's ratings, ESPN is not paying Francesa-like money to a local talkie. |
Like Bill Simmons, will Francesa create his own media company, develop programming, and sell the rights to a distributor? Or will he cut a deal with James (Guitar Jimmy) Dolan and create a new show for the MSG Network. Anything is possible. Yet, it's hard to imagine Francesa totally getting out of the business and not ... |
Whoever has to follow his act will not have an easy time. Only N.J. Guv Chris Christie could — literally — fill Francesa's chair. Still, there will be no shortage of suspects, too numerous to name, who will trample over each other to get the gig. FAN boss Mark Chernoff and Chris Oliviero, CBS Radio's VP/programming, wi... |
Brandon Marshall was AGAIN a no-show on Showtime's "Inside the NFL." So, he was unable to elaborate/spin some of his recent comments (he was surprised there were no "fistfights" in the Jets locker room) or use the national platform to answer some of his detractors. |
It's been a rough couple of weeks for Marshall. His made-for-TV image took a beating. And not just from Sheldon Richardson. On SNY's Jets postgame show following the Pats debacle, analyst Mike Westhoff, after listening to Marshall's esoteric comments, mocked him, saying: "Next, I expected to hear something about chanti... |
Later in the week, it got tougher. In so many words Willie Colon questioned his former teammate's motives and sincerity. "All I've seen is theatrics out of Brandon instead of production," Colon said on SNY. "What Sheldon is saying is 'you're supposed to be our leader and we can't find you.' If you want to point your fi... |
Marshall is scheduled to return to "ITN" this week. He should have plenty to discuss. |
Sometimes it's just better to cut your losses. |
Unfortunately, ESPN-98.7's Anita Marks doesn't subscribe to that theory. Wednesday morning on "Mike & Mike" she vapor-locked. Rather than calling Aaron Rodgers the Packers QB, she kept calling "Brett Favre" the Green Bay QB. Ok, it was early. Not the end of the world. |
Instead of letting it go, Marks returned to the 98.7 airwaves a few hours later trumpeting her mistake. Guess she thought it was funny. Or maybe she just needed some material. Marks made the moment even more curious, and cringe inducing, by asking if her gaffe was "as bad as that Dallas weather report," an obvious refe... |
This must be what sports-talk radio at its finest really is, right? |
With all the hot air blowing from the sports media machine, it's hard getting a sniff of anything different. |
Fox's Terry Bradshaw cut through the gusts with his commentary on Mike Tomlin, calling the Steelers coach a "cheerleader." For his cutting remarks, Bradshaw was sliced and diced in numerous media quarters, which included former players turned yakkers like Phil Simms and Norman Julius Esiason. |
Yet in a media world where participants are encouraged to bring attention to themselves, T.B. was just following the doctor's orders. Not that this is anything new to him. Bradshaw has been ticking people off, including NFL media types, for years. |
Now, he has basically an hour to play with on Sunday morning. One of 17 hours of pregame programming. Bradshaw on Fox still remains a must watch. For you never know what he might say. |
Listening to some fascinating discussions on how HOF voters are softening their position and casting votes for Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens seems to always include a line like this: The steroids era is a part of baseball's history and should be included in Cooperstown. |
That's fine. Question: How does anyone know the "steroids era" in baseball is actually over. Players still get busted and suspended for PEDs. If this is now accepted as routine, common place, if steroids cheats will be la-dee-da-ing their way into Cooperstown, does this mean investigative sports reporters, who once wer... |
The changing media priorities, combined with the financial state of the biz, seems to be making this aggressive coverage a thing of the past. And that's troubling. |
If nothing else, John (Pa Pinstripe) Sterling is consistent. Working a few midday shifts on WFAN last week, Sterling returned us to the days when he was Gasbagging on WMCA. Back then, he despised being interrupted by a caller and he still, given his condescending remarks, doesn't dig it. Maybe that's why Suzyn (Ma Pins... |
For their ticket sales gimmick. Face it, when you haven't won an NBA title in many moons you need to be creative and willing to gamble to lure new customers. So, the Bucks have introduced an inventive 10-game ticket plan "10 WIN SUPERPASS" enabling fans to buy a ticket to the next 10 "Bucks home wins," but you only pay... |
Earlier this week Russian athletic officials admitted even they can no longer claim that a systemic, illegal and dangerous practice of doping to try to win more Olympic medals did not take place on their watch. The evidence is monumental, the impact devastating. So the next time a media outlet tries to wrap the idea of... |
What Chan Gailey said: "I think it's a myriad of things that happened at different times that created problems for us." |
What Chan Gailey meant to say: "We sucked!" |
In today’s world of budget cuts and environmental concerns, colleges and universities are becoming increasingly interested in implementing new technologies that are environmentally friendly and financially viable–and one such technological approach, virtual computing, could help to meet the educational needs of student... |
Lea Michele is preparing to say goodbye to her role as Rachel Berry on the hit TV series Glee. The show will air part one of its final episode on Friday night. |
In a recent interview with the L.A. Times, Lea Michele talks about the show that made her famous–and paired her with her first real love, the late Corey Monteith. |
Monteith died of an accidental overdose in Vancouver in July of 2013. He and Lea Michele were in love. He was honored in a farewell episode in October of that year. |
“That was the day I fell to my knees and cried. I literally had to call my mother to come,” Lea said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. |
When discussing the show’s finale, Lea Michele remembered the first time the cast was together. |
“I will always remember the pilot episode. Singing “Don’t Stop Believing” with the original kids. That will be forever frozen in my mind. Everything from then on was just this whole sort of spinning,” she said. |
E! News writes about one scene in particular that was viewed prior to Friday night’s Glee finale. The cast even shared word of this scene with Ellen DeGeneres during a recent visit to her show. |
“Will (Matt Morrison) appears to be singing Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s “Teach Your Children” to a room full of strangers and friends alike, including his current students and a few alumni including Tina, Artie, Sam, Blaine, and Kurt, but it’s clear that the song is really aimed at one person in particular, and that... |
“We were crying so hard they actually cut,” Lea Michele told Ellen DeGeneres. |
“She starts finding it hard to catch her breath about halfway through, which means we couldn’t catch our breath halfway through, and by the time Will blows her a kiss at the end, we were a blubbery mess. We can only imagine what we’ll be like tonight when the show says its final, final goodbyes with a two-hour finale, ... |
It must be bittersweet for Lea Michele and the rest of the Glee cast to know that tonight’s episode is part one of the show’s finale. It must be especially bittersweet for Lea Michele–even though she has moved on with a new love–to realize Corey Monteith isn’t sharing this milestone with the rest of them. |
Nearly three months after they cruised through Holmes County, as part of a cross-country road trip, the local experiences of the Duggar family was telecast on the their reality show on TLC's "18 Kids and Counting." |
The impromptu diversion through Holmes County came at the hands of Andrea Maddox, office manager for the Holmes County Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Bureau, after hearing the family would be in the surrounding area for a fundraiser. |
Maddox and her co-workers all are fans of the show that details the daily lives of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their 18 children. She e-mailed Jim Bob Duggar to suggest a stop and was surprised when his response came in the form of a phone call to the office. |
That was on a Friday, and plans were quickly made for the family's arrival on Sunday, said Bonnie Coblentz, marketing coordinator for the Holmes County Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Bureau. |
She and Maddox then joined the family on a back roads tour, courtesy of LaVonne DeBoise and Amish Heartland Tours. |
During the tour, members of the family saw a one-room school house and Amish farmsteads -- "things we see every day," said Coblentz, noting DeBoise simultaneously provided the family with an oral history of the Amish culture and religion. |
They enjoyed a homemade dinner at the Walnut Creek area home of Noah and Mary Yoder. |
As conservative Baptists, the women wear skirts and keep their hair long and the men dress rather plain, often prompting outsiders to inquire whether the family is Amish, helping to pique their interest, Jim Bob Duggar told Coblentz. |
In fact, "One thing Jim Bob Duggar had said was, 'We have more similarities than we had realized. We live different lifestyles, but we have a lot in common. We have love for God and for our families,'" Coblentz said. |
Coblentz said she hopes the added exposure is a good opportunity for viewers to learn more about the Amish culture "because a lot of people have heard about the Amish, or maybe read a little, but they might not have a thorough understanding. |
"We want them to really understand the culture, what their lifestyle is really like and realize they're people just like us. We want them to learn that they're just families with strong values." |
"We were honored to have the Duggar family in Holmes County," said Holmes County Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Bureau Executive Director Shasta Mast. |
"Their decision to visit Amish Country was a clear reflection of their desire to discover a place harmonious with their faith and family values." |
Prescott Mayor Brett Todd, vice-chairman of the Eastern Ontario Mayors’ Caucus, said widening the busy highway is obviously the best way to improve road safety and the hauling of hazardous goods. |
Todd said the widening idea was raised at last week’s meeting between Transport Minister Steven Del Duca and 10 local mayors as well at a recent meeting of the Eastern Ontario Mayors’ Caucus. |
“Speaking just for myself, this is almost certainly the one move that would make the most difference on the 401, but it’s also of course the most expensive,” Todd said. |
Todd noted that the ministry has widened the 401 throughout Central and Southwestern Ontario, but the highway remains four lanes from Kingston to the Quebec border. |
Todd said Del Duca and his officials said the widening of the 401 might come in the future, but not soon. Any new overpasses on the 401 are being built to accommodate six lanes, but road reconstruction is still limited to four lanes. |
“In this part of Eastern Ontario, it doesn’t seem to be on the drawing board yet,” Todd said. |
The issue of widening the 401 was raised in the context of the March 14 chemical spill that closed the 401 for 30 hours, resulted in the death of a truck driver and sent about 30 people including first responders to hospital. |
Todd said widening the highway to three lanes in each direction would be the best way to handle the large volumes of traffic that increase every year. |
In the short term, Todd said the ministry is considering reducing the speed of trucks during storms, better inspection of hazardous goods and expanded sign use in response to the mayors’ concerns about safety on the 400-series highways. |
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