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Monday, July 22, 2013
Union, Timbers play to scoreless draw in spirited match
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CHESTER ? If there?s one thing the Portland Timbers can point to as fueling their ascent up the Western Conference standings, it?s their ability to eke out draws away from home.
They entered PPL Park Saturday night with seven on the season. They left with No. 8.
On a stormy night, there wasn?t a goal in the offing for either the Timbers or the Philadelphia Union as they played out a 0-0 draw, but it wasn?t for lack of trying.
The headlines on the day belong to the goalies on both sides. For the Union, Zac MacMath stopped the four shots that came his way and controlled the penalty area to quell a number of near threats by the Timbers active offense.
It?s his sixth clean sheet of the season, just two off the MLS lead.
?It was a good tie for us against a good team,? MacMath said. ?Portland?s been playing really well this year, and they proved that tonight. The bounces just didn?t go our way.?
His opposite number on the Timbers, Donovan Ricketts, tallied the same number of saves, but he gets the edge in degree of difficulty.
The Jamaican was at a full stretch in the 72nd minute when he got his fingertips to a drive from Conor Casey that looked ticketed for the top corner. He also made a phenomenal save in the 43rd minute, diving across the face of goal to get a hand to Danny Cruz?s drive.
?The save he makes on Conor is world class,? said technical director Rob Vartughian, who was serving as the head coach with John Hackworth suspended. ?It felt like to get to that point in the game and we?re obviously in their end pressing, we?re disappointed not to find a way to get one there. But you have to tip your hat to the guy.?
The closest the Union (8-6-7, 31 points) came to a goal, though, had nothing to do with Ricketts. After back-to-back corners in the 87th minute, second-half substitute Leo Fernandes managed to find a way through all the bodies in the box with a volley from 30 yards out. With Ricketts beat, though, the shot skipped off the PPL Park turf and hit the post.
?I definitely thought it was going in,? Fernandes said. ?? I?m on top of the box, so I?m just hoping it comes out perfectly so I can strike it and put it on goal.?
Further complicating matters in the matchup of two playoff teams was a 40 minute delay of the second half due to lightning storms in the area. It presented an added wrinkle to an already heated and chippy game.
?You?ve got guys getting their legs worked on,? Vartughian said. ?You?re not sure if it?s five minutes, if it?s 20 minutes, if its 30 minutes. It?s something that both teams have to deal with. I think we were just happy with how we came out of the break in the second half.?
Entering play Saturday, no other team had yet drawn five times away from home in MLS. But it?s become a calling card for the Timbers (8-2-10, 34 points), who sit second in the Western Conference. They?re also the first team to 10 draws in MLS this season.
For the Union it?s the first time they?ve been involved in a 0-0 draw in league play since Sept. 1, 2012 against New England. It?s only the third time they?ve been held scoreless this season and first time at PPL Park, the others being a 2-0 loss at New England April 27 and a 1-0 loss to Houston July 6.
After owning less than 40 percent of the possession in the first half, the Union managed to find a foothold in the game after halftime, they had six corner kick opportunities in the second to none before the interval.
Chances were few and far between in a chippy first half. MacMath kicked out to stop Will Johnson from the left channel on a move that started when Diego Valeri dispossessed Brian Carroll in the midfield, illegally in the eyes of the Union bench. MacMath was called to action again four minutes later when right back Jack Jewsbury found space down the wing, but MacMath did well to cling to his post and deny the defender?s sharp-angle drive.
NOTES: Casey received a yellow card in the 43rd minute for a hard foul. It?s his fourth of the season, meaning he?ll serve a one-game suspension next week against Vancouver. ? Jack McInerney started and went the first 82 minutes before being withdrawn for Antoine Hoppenot. It?s McInerney?s first game since June 29; he missed three matches while in camp with the U.S. men?s national team.
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More Idiocy in Detroit - Mike Shedlock - Townhall Finance ...
On Friday, a Michigan Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina ruled?Detroit bankruptcy is unconstitutional.?
?On Friday, a circuit court judge in Ingham County ruled that Detroit's federal bankruptcy filing violated a part of Michigan's constitution that protects union pensions. She ordered it withdrawn, a day after Detroit became the largest U.S. city in history to file for chapter nine bankruptcy.?Judge Rosemary Aquilina also said the filing did not honor President Barack Obama's work for the city, who she said "took [Detroit's auto companies] out of bankruptcy." Aquilina said she would send a copy of her order to Obama.?
?It?s cheating, sir, and it?s cheating good people who work,? the judge told assistant Attorney General Brian Devlin. ?It?s also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit?s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.?
The Detroit News reported "attorneys representing the pension boards hurried into Aquilina?s court to ask for a restraining order" on July 18, but Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and Detroit's emergency manager Kevin Orr "beat them by a few minutes" in filing for bankruptcy. The filing did not deter lawyers for union pension boards, who can use "court maneuvers to slow down federal bankruptcy proceedings."
Source: http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2013/07/22/more-idiocy-in-detroit-n1645929
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Calif. crews battle raging Mountain Fire as possible thunderstorms loom
By Andrew Rafferty, Staff Writer, NBC News
Possible weekend thunderstorms could be a mixed blessing for fire crews battling a massive blaze in Southern California.
Officials said rain would help in the fight against the 27,000-acre wildfire and help bring down temperatures that have neared the triple digits. But a thunderstorm could also make the fire that has threatened the mountain resort of Idyllwild, Calif., even more unpredictable.
?[Thunderstorms] could produce strong down draft winds which could cause erratic fire behavior and unpredictable fire spread direction,? Edwin Simpson, spokesman for Cal Fire, told NBC Los Angeles.
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This July 17, 2013 image provided by Meagan Greene shows wildfire smoke near Idyllwild, Calif. Area thunderstorms this weekend may be a mixed blessing for firefighters battling the blaze.
Around 3,350 firefighters were battling the so-called Mountain Fire for six days and had the flames 50 percent contained, making major progress in the past 24 hours, NBC Los Angeles reported. Still, many area residents remained evacuated and the blaze continued to grow.
Late Friday, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency while filling in for vacationing Gov. Jerry Brown.
About 6,000 residents remained evacuated from Idyllwild for a fourth straight day, and nearly 700 more people were advised to evacuate by fire officials. Officials declared evacuations for Idyllwild and Fern Valley. ?An evacuation warning was in effect for nearby Pine Cove, officials said.?
Twelve buildings were destroyed along with dozens of other structures in the San Jacinto range, according to NBC Los Angeles. Officials say 5,600 homes remain under potential threat.
The blaze was less than two miles from Idyllwild and Palm Springs on Saturday.
Crews have been battling the so-called Mountain Fire in California for six days and have the flames 25 percent contained, making major progress in the past 24 hours. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
?It?s hard to come back and see your stuff is no longer there,? Shanda Paul told NBC Los Angeles as she surveyed the charred remains of what was once her home.
Around 30 aircraft were battling the flames in temperatures that have ranged from 75 degrees to 110.
Along with communities, the wildfire has shut down camp grounds and a 30-mile stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail.
?A fire of this magnitude can take weeks to reach full containment,? Chris Gaulding of the U.S. Forest Service told NBC Los Angeles.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Number of the Week: As Mandate Looms, Millions Turn Down ...
By Ben Casselman
22.5 million: The number of American workers that have access to health benefits from their employer but don?t accept them.
In recent months, public attention on the Affordable Care Act(better known to some as ?Obamacare?) has tended to focus on two elements of the law: the employer mandate and health insurance exchanges.
The employer mandate requires that most companies offer health insurance to full-time employees. It was originally meant to take effect next year, but the Obama administration recently announced it would delay implementing the rule for another year.
The delay turned attention back to the so-called individual mandate, which requires that all Americans have health insurance starting next year or pay a penalty. Those who can?t get insurance through their employers will be able to buy it through government-run marketplaces known as ?exchanges,? which are now being set up across the country.
But not all the uninsured will need to turn to the exchanges for coverage. According to data released by the Labor Department this week, the ?take-up rate? on employer-provided health insurance was 75% in March. That means that one out of every four workers who was offered coverage?some 22.5 million people?turned it down.
Not all those workers are uninsured. Many of them likely receive coverage through a spouse or parent?s employer or through a government program such as Medicare or Medicaid. According to Census data, 82.6% of Americans (including children and retirees) had health insurance in 2010, four-fifths of them through private sources.
Nonetheless, there?s little doubt that some of the nation?s 45 million uninsured adults lack coverage because they?re turning down benefits offered by their employers. So it?s worth looking at who?s opting out and why. The answer in a nutshell: The people who are turning down insurance are poor. And the insurance they?re turning down is expensive.
Nationally, 75% of workers who are offered health insurance accept it, and the employer covers 81% of the premiums. But those are national averages. Benefits tend to be more generous in the public sector, for example, with the employer covering 87% of premium costs. The same goes for union jobs. No surprise, then, that the take-up rate for health insurance tops 80% in both categories.
Where are take-up rates particularly low? Only 69% of employees in sales positions accept health benefits, and only 61% of private-sector service workers. Both groups also happen to shoulder a bigger share of premiums. The disparity is even clearer among part-time workers: Only 54% of part-timers accept benefits, likely in part because they have to cover 28% of the premium costs. (Part-time workers also tend to be younger, and therefore may be more willing to go without insurance.)
The group least likely of all to accept benefits: Low-wage workers. Of those with wages in the bottom 10%?those earning $8.75 per hour or less?just half accepted benefits; those who did had to cover 29% of premium costs.
And those costs are substantial. The government hasn?t yet put its 2013 data into dollar terms. But in 2012, workers with wages in the bottom 10% paid $125.85 per month on average for individual coverage, 21% more than workers in the top 10%. The difference is even starker for family coverage: $574.55 per month for low-wage workers, 47% more than the $389.76 paid by workers in the top 10%. Put in terms of hours, it takes workers at the bottom of the earnings spectrum more than 65 hours of work to pay for a month of family health coverage, versus less than 10 hours for those at the top.
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Many resonate with Obama's remarks on race
MIAMI (AP) ? When President Barack Obama told the nation on Friday that slain black teenager Trayvon Martin could have been him 35 years ago, many black Americans across the nation nodded their head in silent understanding.
Like the president, they too have seen people walk across the street and lock their car doors as they got near. They, too, know what it's like to be followed while shopping in a department store.
In many ways, it was the frank talk on what it can be like to be black in America that many African Americans had been waiting to hear from Obama, especially since a Florida jury last weekend acquitted neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Martin's shooting death. And it generated a range of reactions ? a reflection of the diverse opinions and experiences the conversation on race in the U.S. provokes.
"I think he was trying to give the other side of the equation," Angela Bazemore, 56, an administrative assistant who lives in New York City, said. "Black people and brown people everywhere feel like they've been heard."
Others felt his comments, while helpful, still only scratched the surface of an issue that is inherently more complex than the color of one's skin.
"I was really happy with what he had to say, but I do feel like him being a multi-ethnic person and Zimmerman being multi-ethnic, are really downplayed when we talk about black and white," said Hank Willis Thomas, an artist whose work frequently focuses on themes of race and identity.
In the unscheduled appearance before reporters at The White House, Obama said the nation needed to look for ways to move forward after the shooting and trial in Florida and urged Americans to do some soul searching about their attitudes on race.
It was the first set of extended remarks Obama has made on the Martin case since Zimmerman was acquitted by a six-woman jury of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in Martin's death last year. Jurors found that Zimmerman had acted in self-defense when he shot the unarmed teenager. Martin was black. Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic.
Obama issued a statement after the verdict that said in part, "I know this case has elicited strong passions. And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher. But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken."
He went much further on Friday.
"I think it's important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away," he said.
Obama said that before becoming a senator, he himself experienced walking across the street and hearing the locks click on doors, among other similar situations. It's that set of experiences, he said, that informs how of the black Americans interpret what happened one night in Sanford, Fla.
While acknowledging racial disparities in how criminal laws are applied, the African-American community isn't "naive about the fact African-American young men are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system, that they're disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence," he said.
He said race relations are, however, getting better.
Civil rights leader Al Sharpton, whose National Action Network is planning rallies in 100 cities to press for federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman on Saturday, said the president's words were historic.
"There is nothing more powerful than the president of the United States, for the first time in history, saying, 'I know how they feel,'" he said.
Martin's parents said Obama's words gave them strength.
"What touches people is that our son, Trayvon Benjamin Martin, could have been their son," they said in a statement. "President Obama sees himself in Trayvon and identifies with him. This is a beautiful tribute to our boy."
Zimmerman's defense attorneys said they acknowledged and understood the racial context of which Obama spoke, but wanted to "challenge people to look closely and dispassionately at the facts."
Those who do so, they said, will see it was a clear case of self-defense and that Zimmerman is a "young man with a diverse ethnic and racial background who is not a racist."
"While we acknowledge the racial context of the case, we hope that the president was not suggesting that this case fits a pattern of racial disparity, because we strongly contend that it does not," they said in a statement.
It wasn't the first time Obama has spoken about race to the nation. He delivered a speech on race during his 2008 presidential campaign after controversy arose around comments made by his former pastor. And the issue has surfaced from time to time during his presidency, including in 2009, when he invited black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the white police sergeant who arrested him for disorderly conduct for a 40-minute chat on the Rose Garden patio.
But many in the African-American community have wanted more.
"I think African Americans in particular wanted him to speak to an issue that deals with race as African Americans see it, and I think African Americans are pleased he's done so," said Brenda Stevenson, a history professor at the University of California Los Angeles. "But I think the president wanted to do so without alienating other people."
Ana Navarro, a Republican consultant, said she cringed at first when she heard the president had spoken about the case.
"I cringed because I think the last thing we need is to insert politics into what is already a very divisive, emotional debate," she said. "When I actually read his words, I thought he had been measured, respectful of the legal process."
"I don't think he's asking white people to identify with black people," she added. "He's saying, 'This is a reality for some of us in America.'"
Some felt Obama still didn't go far enough.
"In a case that's just bristling with racial tension, this is probably a sane and reasonable statement that can be made, that we need to step into each other's shoes for a minute and understand through each other's eyes the impact of a particular situation, namely this trial and the killing of this boy," said Connie Rice, an African American civil rights attorney in Los Angeles. "The thing that he didn't say and perhaps he couldn't say is that this country is almost retarded when it comes to dealing with race."
She remembered how Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote about integration as the answer to America's racial problems.
"Well guess what?" she said. "We decided not to integrate. We decided to desegregate and we decided to end Jim Crow but we never integrated, we are not fluent in each other."
Stevenson said she wished he'd also addressed black women in his remarks.
Alexandra Grande, a 24-year-old law school student in Idaho, said she found Obama's remarks to be compelling.
"I think he was being very diplomatic," said Grande, watching as an ethnically mixed wedding party posed for pictures at a downtown Boise City intersection. "But he also let his emotions play out, and that was interesting to see. At the end of the day, he is a man with emotions."
For Nolan V. Rollins, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Urban League, having the president of the U.S. talk about racial profiling in the first person is emblematic of two things.
"It says how far we've come, no question," he said. "But it also says how far we have to go."
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AP writers Tami Abdollah in Los Angeles, Jon Gerberg in New York, and Tom Dvorak in Boise City, Idaho contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/many-resonate-obamas-remarks-race-023143570.html
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