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Mark Davis, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dominick Cuocci throttled back. His 25-foot Harris pontoon boat abruptly slowed, its 250 Mercury murmuring in Lake Lanier's green chop.
Cuocci nodded toward a channel, a skinny pinch of water between the shore and an island. "Somewhere around here," the Suwanee resident said. "That's where it happened."
It was the latest calamity on Lake Lanier, the July 15 deaths of two couples from Kentucky. The 38-foot boat in which they were riding overturned near Cocktail Cove on the lake's south shore. One witness said it flipped end-over-end like a kicked football. None of the victims —Melissa Renee McHahan, 45, Arthur Gene McMahan Jr., 46, Tammy Reece, 44, and Anthony Reece Jr., 44 — wore a life jacket.
The latest accident underscores a morbid fact: no lake in Georgia claims as many lives as the 38,000-acre lake 40 miles north of downtown Atlanta. So far this year, nine people have died in its waters — four killed earlier this month and five who have drowned.
What is it about Lake Lanier? The credulous say there's something not quite right about it — that it's a death trap, home to monstrous catfish and currents that snatch the unwary. Nonsense, say others — the death toll at the lake is simply a matter of numbers, With nearly 8 million visitors annually, it's bound to claim lives. Added to that: Boats, say people who patrol the lake, have become larger, faster, more dangerous.
The state Department of Natural Resources is investigating the accident. And though they haven't released their findings, investigators have said this much: the boat, a Skater 388, was traveling fast.
That's no surprise to Cuoucci, who's been boating on the lake since 1985.
"I have seen a lot of foolishness," he said. "There is no ocean around us, so everyone comes here. This is a major party lake."
Cuocci, 61, edged the throttle forward a bit. The boat surged, churning a white wake. He smiled. "I'm somewhat of a partier myself."
DNR keeps statistics on all its major lakes. The numbers include accidents — they're called "incidents" — as well as drownings, boating fatalities and BUI (boating under the influence). Consider its numbers compared to Lake Allatoona's, another lake not far from metro Atlanta:
Five years ago, Lanier recorded 43 boating incidents; Allatoona had seven. Drownings? The toll at Lanier hit 10; Allatoona had seven. Lanier's boating fatalities reached seven; Allatoon's was two. BUI: Lanier 32; Allatoona, 13.
Last year, the trend remained steady. Boating incidents: Lanier 31, Allatoona 18. Drownings: Lanier seven, Allatoona three. Fatalities: Lanier two, Allatoona none. BUI: Lanier 70, Allatoona 18.
The numbers don't surprise Joanna Cloud, executive director of the nonprofit Lake Lanier Association. "It's like driving a car," said Cloud, who represents a group focused on protecting the lake and its watershed. "There are some who are more responsible than others."
The state of Georgia two years ago began requiring boating education for operators. The statute applies only to those born after Jan. 1, 1998. Legislators revised the law after three high-profile fatalities on the lake: the deaths of Jake and Griffin Prince, 9 and 13, and 11-year-old Kile Glover. The Prince boys died in June 2012 after a speeding boat hit their pontoon vessel. Kile, whose mother once was married to the recording artist Usher, died a month later when a personal watercraft hit him.
Cloud would like to see more cops on the water, issuing tickets for drunken and/or dangerous behavior.
"Speed and alcohol, they ignite each other," she said.
That's always at the back of her mind when her oldest lobbies to head out on the lake. He's 18. He's taken safety courses. He knows the intricacies of operating the family's 21-foot Hurricane. He knows to watch out for the other guy(s).
"We don't let him take the boat out (by himself)," she said. "I'm not comfortable with it."
He's heard the stories — the long-lost car discovered with a woman still in it (true), the man-sized catfish feasting on the unfortunate victims of a chicken-truck wreck (perhaps not so true). Yeah, he's also heard that the lake is haunted.
Lt. Judd Smith, who works for DNR's law enforcement division, has to laugh at that.
"When you get that many people in one place, things are going to happen," said Smith, who patrolled Lanier for seven years." "That's like saying (Interstate) 285 is haunted."
Lanier, he noted, is not Georgia's largest lake — Hartwell, straddling the SC-Georgia line, has that distinction — but it is the most heavily used. Its shore is dotted with homes, marinas, restaurants and other businesses catering to the lake set.
"There's just a lot more entertainment on Lanier," he said. "It's simply because the amount of (boat) traffic is a lot higher than at other lakes."
DNR Capt. Johnny Johnson, who's been enforcing boating laws for 29 years, concurs. "There's practically no boating law on the books that we've not seen violated from time to time," Johnson said.
And this. "Boats," he said, "are bigger."
Johnson also believes there is more activity on the lake this year than last. July has been hot and oppressive; the lake, cool and inviting. "When you have these kind of conditions, a lot of people come to the water."
Lake Lanier has its share of boneheads. That's the assessment of Trudy West, whose family has a 106-foot houseboat at the lake, as well as a runabout and a personal watercraft. On a recent sweltering afternoon she walked along the long dock where the Wests keep their boats. With her was Samantha, an amiable golden Lab.
Nearby, two of her kids splashed in the lake. "They have on life vests," West said, pointedly.
She wonders why more people do not. "Just because you can buy a boat," she said, "doesn't give you common sense."
Mark Hayes, another lake regular, has come to the same conclusion. A Buford boat salesman, he sat in his Ford Explorer at a public boat ramp while West watched her children play. On a trailer behind him were two Yamaha WaveRunners he planned to show two prospective buyers. Nearby, a man eased a red-and-white Pro Nautique into the lake.
"Some people keep their cars under control and some people don't," said Hayes, who's been boating on the lake since 1977. "It's the same with boats."
Far off, in the middle of Lanier, a speeding boat kicked up a geyser tail of water, an exclamation mark at the end of a sentence.
"It's not just this lake," he said. "It's all lakes."

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Filippo Volandri (born 5 September 1981; ) is a former Italian professional male tennis player. Volandri is a right-handed player who reached a career-high singles ranking of world no. 25 in July 2007. He turned professional in 1997 and has earned almost $4,000,000 in prize money.

Earlier career

2006: Second title
Volandri won the second title of his career in September 2006, beating Nicolás Lapentti in the final of the Sicily International in Palermo.

2007: Rome Masters & French open success
At the Rome Masters in 2007 Volandri, having entered as a wild card, recorded the biggest win of his career by beating the then world no. 1 Roger Federer in straight sets 6–2, 6–4. Volandri celebrated by doing a lap of honour around centre court, high-fiving spectators in the front rows.
Afterwards, Volandri hailed the victory as not only for himself, but for Italy, speaking of both the regard in which Federer, who holds the record for the longest spell as the world's top-ranked male player, is held, and the relative under-achievement of Italy in men's tennis at the time. For his part Federer offered few excuses for his out-of-character display.
Hopes that this might be the start of Italy's re-emergence among the top nations of professional men's tennis were heightened when Volandri went on to beat world no. 12 Tomáš Berdych in the quarterfinal. The win meant that Volandri became the first Italian to reach the event's semifinals since 1978. His run stopped in the semifinals, however, as he lost to Fernando González.

At the 2007 French Open he was the 29th seed and made it to the fourth round, rising to No. 27 in the world in the rankings, before losing in straight sets to Tommy Robredo.

Later career

Volandri struggled greatly after the dropped match-fixing allegations, his only major success since 2007 was making it to the final of the 2012 Brasil Open after he beat then world No. 38 Thomaz Bellucci in the semifinal. He lost to then world No. 11 and top seed Nicolás Almagro in 3 sets. However, since then he mainly competed on the ATP Challenger Tour, whilst since he reached the fourth round in the 2007 French Open he did not progress past the first round of a Grand Slam.

On 23 June 2015, Volandri completed 300 wins at the ATP Challenger Tour tournaments by defeating Oriol Roca Batalla at the Aspria Tennis Cup in Milan. He became only the fourth player ever who obtained this achievement.

Controversy
Volandri had earlier come under suspicion for betting and match fixing, and his name featured prominently in a list compiled by the ATP of matches under suspicion for corruption.

In January 2009, Volandri received a three-month ban from the ATP for a doping offence after testing positive for salbutamol during the Indian Wells tournament. Volandri had a medical exemption from the International Tennis Federation to use salbutamol, an asthma medication, but the ITF deemed that his use of the drug was beyond therapeutic needs. His suspension was to last until 14 April 2009 and required him to forfeit all prize money and ranking points earned from the date of the failed test until the beginning of his suspension.

In March 2009, the Court of Arbitration for Sport overruled the ATP decision and ruled that Volandri should be reinstated and his forfeited ranking points and earnings returned to him. Volandri stated that he intended to sue the ATP over the incident.

ATP career finals

Singles: 9 (2 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ATP Challengers

Performance timelines

Singles

1 Was played on hardcourt from 2002–2008.
2 Held as Hamburg Masters until 2008 and Shanghai Masters from 2009.

Doubles
''Current as far as the 2012 US Open (tennis).

Top 10 wins
 Volandri has an 8–23 (.258) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

References

External links

 Official website
 Volandri world ranking history

1981 births
Living people
Doping cases in tennis
Italian male tennis players
Olympic tennis players of Italy
Tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Italian sportspeople in doping cases

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Great Things Are Happening
Great things are accomplished when concept, vision, leadership and action come together, and I am pleased to report that your Republican leadership team celebrated just such an event this past week.
As you all know, for the last two and a half months we have been incredibly focused on meeting our December 7 deadline for the "Milliken Match," our effort to raise enough money to pay off our mortgage debt at the state Republican Party Headquarters.
The reason for doing so is simple: owning our building free and clear will allow us to devote more resources toward electing Republicans in 2010, which is what our state party is all about. Through the hard work and persistence of many, we achieved our goal.
In short, we raised over $370,000 in less than 90 days during some of the most difficult economic times in recent memory. The list of people to thank for this success is endless, but in the spirit of keeping this update fairly brief, I will limit my list to four!
The concept was born through Chairman Katon Dawson, who understood the party headquarters as a key element in establishing a strong party. Roger Milliken had the vision, and it was his generosity that led to the dollar for dollar match that made today's celebration possible. Ambassador David Wilkins championed all the fundraising for the Millliken Match, and former Governor Jim Edwards continues to lead the charge in raising the critical dollars for building renovations and sustainability.
We were also all reminded of just how important Roger Milliken has been in making the Republican Party what it is today. As governor Edwards noted during our celebration Friday, Roger Milliken was literally responsible for creating a two-party system in South Carolina, bringing the SC GOP from its infancy to what it is today. We all owe him our thanks, and I invite each of you to come and see the newly named "Milliken Republican Center" in Columbia if you have not done so already.
In other news, our state Executive Committee welcomed two very special guests to our quarterly meeting on Saturday – state House Speaker Bobby Harrell and U.S. Congressman Thad McCotter, chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee. Speaker Harrell updated our Committee on the three issues selected by our county leadership as being most important during this legislative session – photo ID for voting, registration by party, and more transparency. Progress has been made on each, but it is going to take a grassroots effort on the part of all of us to make sure these important issues become law. Congressman McCotter was also incredibly well received by our Executive Committee, as he updated us on what our Republican team in Washington is doing to fight back against President Obama's radical spending agenda, and what Republicans are doing to make sure we stand strong in the War on Terror.
We were also pleased to report that an audit of our Party's finances for the year has been completed, and we were thrilled by the news. Not only do we now own our building outright, but since being elected Chairman in May, we raised a 32 percent more than our entire yearly budget for the year. That, again, is a testament to the hard work and generosity of Republicans across the state.
Finally, I wanted to take a minute to share news of some new faces at our state Party. Many of you are already aware of this, but our Executive Director, Ryan Meerstein, has accepted a job opportunity in Ohio, one that as much as we all hate to lose him, is a great opportunity for him.
That being said, I am incredibly pleased to announce that we have named Todd Kincannon as our new Executive Director, effective beginning today. Many of you already know Todd, who has been a longtime activist in our Party and most recently served as our Party's general counsel. We are fortunate to have two individuals of this caliber serve as back to back state directors. In addition, Glenn O'Connell has fulfilled his transitional role as State Treasurer and as such is stepping down. John Cattano has agreed to serve as State Treasurer, with Dan Herren serving as Deputy State Treasurer.
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[OUTLOOK]Ideologues must show their flags
These days, as I watch the "Roh Moo-hyun syndrome" that has swept the country, I have the feeling that the moment when ideology will become the major driving force of political parties in Korea is not too far away.
Until now, Koreans' voting patterns could be easily pegged by where they live; they vote for people who come from their region. But comparing to the past, the roles of ideology and social class have increased.
During the Cold War era and because Korea is divided into two ideologically confrontational states, words such as "left wing," "progressive," and "socialist" were prohibited. Under such circumstances, to have called itself a liberal political party would have been suicide for any group. The further away from those ideas the better ?that was the cold reality.
But now, the Roh Moo-hyun typhoon seems to suggest that Korean society, especially the younger generation, seems to be free from the ideological restraints of the past. There is freer political competition with democratization and the end of the Cold War. Might it be possible for a socialist political party to win an election and run the country?
Even without Cold War sentiment, campaigning as a left-wing political party is not easy, as can be seen from the experience of such political parties in Europe.
In the 1990s, European left-wing parties came to power in Britain, France, Italy and Germany and were strong in other Western European countries. At the time, those left-wing parties adopted an election strategy of downplaying old-fashioned romantic socialism; instead, they chose a middle ideology, embracing the concept of a capitalist free market economy.
Their strategy was based on practicality. That kind of approach for socialist parties is often called "the third way." Europe's left-wing parties capitalized on this strategy so well that there was some thinking that such an ideology would become the standard in European politics and endure forever.
But in this decade, the left wing began to lose power. In Spain, Italy, Denmark and Portugal, the ruling leftist parties vanished, and more recently, Lionel Jospin suffered a crushing defeat in France's presidential election. In Germany, in provincial elections at Sachsen-Anhalt, the socialist party also lost power. In Germany's general elections this September, the ruling socialist party is facing a nationwide defeat.
Europe's left wing is in a crisis. A practical approach a moderate socialist political platform is no longer good enough for the voters; there seems to be a feeling that the "third way" is just an attempt to hide the true colors of a political party. A party without color is easily drowned out in the noisy turmoil of political affairs. Why do voters dislike "pale" parties?
Today the harshest criticism is that left-wing parties have adopted middle-of-the-road policies that have robbed them of their roots as true socialists. In the end, the parties became nothing more than a gathering place for political opportunists. When a socialist party abandons socialism, there is little left to distinguish it from conservative parties, and the very reason why people threw their votes to them disappears.
One other factor that contributed to the downfall of the left wing is that voters were not fully convinced when the left-wing parties announced that they would embrace free-market economic principles. Voters never fully trusted the parties of the left, thinking that their acceptance of free markets was a tentative decision compared with the enthusiasm for markets of conservatives, who truly believe in every line of their ideological book.
At the end of the day, a socialist party cannot rely on a middle way if it hopes to prevail. The moment it chooses to move to the center, it loses its identity and becomes nothing more than a mass of contradictions.
Europe's experience tells us a lot. The liberal forces that opt for a moderate "middle way" will face the same fate as Europe's left-wing parties suffered. They will find themselves caught in a contradiction, and voters who doubt their ideological identity will turn their backs on them. I just hope that they realize before it is too late that they could lose a lot more political battles if they choose to stand for something that is contrary to their nature.
The writer is the president of the Institute of Social Sciences.
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Hannibal… does not make a ton of sense. The premise is that an ex homicide detective is a brilliant criminal profiler but unable to get into the FBI because he couldn't pass the psych screening, so they just hire him as a "special agent" that does everything a normal agent does, including field work. You would think that was Hannibal Lecter, but it is not. Lecter is the psychiatrist the FBI hires to babysit the unstable profiler (who I can only imagine will one day regret copying Lecter's answers off a psych test). Lecter also accompanies the agent on field work, which I don't think even regular FBI agent's counselors are normally allowed to do. The actual profiler (Will Graham) comes up with theories more or less out of thin air and they always turn out to be correct. He insists the evidence makes it obvious.
Why doesn't the psychic Graham notice Hannibal is murdering and eating people? I'm glad you asked. Hiring a babysitter for a psychic is tricky business. You wouldn't want someone they could manipulate or even read, that would defeat the purpose. So you hire someone who's a null field to psychics, or at least your psychic. As a bonus, this person can lie to them when need be. Note that Graham says he hates going to psychiatrists- presumably every one he's been to has been unreadable to him, and he hates that.
And that's how I learned to enjoy Hannibal.
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Anton Gunn's e-mail promises I won't have a hard time picking him out in the Starbucks in Richland County, South Carolina.
Easily the biggest guy in the room, the former offensive lineman looms over an older man in an American Legion baseball cap with whom he's chatting about local business. We're just northeast of Columbia, South Carolina's capital, in the heart of Gunn's state House district.
Gunn is used to standing out. An African American representative in a majority-white district, a Democrat in a Republican-dominated state, and a 36-year-old surrounded by career politicians, he makes a fitting messenger for Obama's campaign--trail message about the need for a new kind of politics that moves beyond traditional divisions.
The 2008 election may be long over, but Obama's campaign themes are still being put to the test in states like South Carolina. When Gunn became Obama's state political director during the all-important South Carolina primary, he had already made one run at public office and lost. After Obama won the primary, Gunn ran for state representative again. This time, he won. He has also maintained his Obama-campaign ties: Gunn is the state director for Organizing for America, the grass-roots group keeping a semblance of Obama's campaign presence alive nationwide.
Gunn clearly loves the campaign trail but also seems to enjoy the Legislature. He's as at home talking about everything from the digital divide and broadband access -- "the dial tone of the future," he calls it -- to tax credits for employers who provide health care to physical-education requirements in school to corruption -- -sponsoring a bill to fight "dudes getting money on the back end from their brother-in-law's government contract."
He has gotten involved in messy issues with special relevance to South Carolina -- he joined the education superintendent in pushing for public "school choice," against some in his own party as well as Republicans who want to privatize the whole system. He also signed on to a letter to Obama from young elected officials calling for a climate deal in Copenhagen and a serious investment in sustainable-energy technology.
Gunn is up for re-election this year, and state Democratic Party activists are already floating his name for higher office. But for Gunn, South Carolina isn't a stepping stone to a national political career -- it's home, one he's chosen and wants to fight for, despite the fact that Republicans are unlikely to take his hands and dance off into a bipartisan future.
Though Democrats have turned more attention to the South in recent years, the region's political alignment that solidified in the 1990s, in which conservative Democrats were replaced by conservative Republicans, is not likely to change soon. Ed Kilgore, editor of The Democratic Strategist and a South Carolina native, notes that many in the party still treat the region as a long shot. "We're just crazy if we don't look at the excitement the Obama nominating contest created in South Carolina," Kilgore says. It's not just Obama. Democrat Jim Rex became South Carolina's superintendent of education in 2006 by a slim margin and is now fighting for the governor's mansion. And while shouting "You lie!" at a Democratic president would have once been a near guarantee of political success in the state, pollsters have called Republican Rep. Joe Wilson's re-election fight, against a well-financed Democrat, former marine Rob Miller, one to watch.
But even where electoral victories are rare, organizing can thrive and win the occasional victory for the disenfranchised of the state. Gunn's journey from organizing outside electoral politics to working from within the political system in what most consider hostile territory for Democrats provides a glimpse into what Obama's army of organizers learned on the campaign trail -- and marks one path toward a future in which true progressive politics is possible -- even in South Carolina.
Gunn moved to South Carolina for college in 1990 and has since made it his job to understand his adopted state. He played Division I football for the University of South Carolina, in Columbia. After graduating with his bachelor's in history in 1994, he went into the nonprofit world, working on children's issues and economic development. He got his real education, however, with South Carolina Fair Share, where he was hired to help low-income South Carolinians organize for affordable health care. He credits Lenora Bush Reese, who first hired him as an organizer despite his lack of experience, with shaping him as a person as well as an advocate. Many years later, he told The State newspaper, "She broadened my world view."
Fair Share fights to empower South Carolina's low-income citizens, tracks legislative activity, and provides support for other nonprofits in the state. It is officially nonpartisan, but working on issues of poverty, racial bias in mortgage lending, and health-care reform means butting heads with the state's entrenched conservative leadership, which is adamantly opposed to public spending. Chris Kromm, director of the Institute for Southern Studies, notes that it is one of the only grass-roots organizations in the state. Erica Carter, who met Gunn in 1996 at South Carolina Fair Share, says he was "like a pit bull" with his energy and dedication to the cause. His job back then, she says, was to motivate people, to get them to fight for their own issues, and also to find out their biggest health-care concerns.
She adds, "Because of his height and his size, when he goes toe to toe with people, it's something to see." But like many community organizers -- and like Obama in Chicago in the 1990s -- Gunn saw electoral politics as an obstacle and politicians as simply people to put pressure on. When she first met him, Carter says, "It was 'I don't care what that politician has to say.'"
In 2000, when Gunn was in graduate school pursuing a master of social work, his brother Cherone was one of 17 seamen killed in the U.S.S. Cole bombing. At the memorial service at Arlington National Cemetery, Gunn spoke on behalf of the family: "I'm very proud," he said. "He made his family proud. He made his country proud." Later, he told a Washington Post reporter, "Remember, they died for the country. They died defending a country we love."
His brother's death made him deepen his commitment to community service, and Gunn says he was finally pushed to run for office by his frustration with "old-school bad politicians," who made life so hard for him as an organizer. "Who are these clowns that refuse to do what people ask them to do, and why are they there, and what can we do to get rid of them?" he asked himself.
So in 2006, Gunn ran for the state House of Representatives, losing by less than 300 votes out of 14,000 in a majority-white district long held by a white moderate Republican. "I just ran out of time," Gunn later told The State. "If I had talked to 298 more people, then I would have won." South Carolina politics are notoriously top-down and loaded with quid pro quo endorsements. "Street money has been part of things for so long, people don't even question the ethics of it anymore," Kilgore says. But even though he lost, Gunn's upstart campaign surprised cynics. He took the rest of 2006 off, and in January of 2007, when much of the Democratic old guard had already been snapped up by then-presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton, Gunn was one of the new crowd brought in to help elect "that skinny dude from Illinois," as Gunn jokingly calls him. He had recently stumbled across The Audacity of Hope in an airport bookstore and says he was drawn in by the message as much as the idea of an Obama presidency -- and knew he had to get involved. (He was clearly inspired by Obama: Gunn's first book, self-published last year, is called The Audacity of Leadership.) Gunn famously called Obama to say, "I may not know a whole lot about politics, but I know a lot about South Carolina." He was hired. Early on in the primary, Clinton was getting as much African American support as Obama. The post-election narrative that black voters were in the bag for the black candidate from the start -- fostered in part by Bill Clinton's comments comparing Obama's campaign to Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 primary efforts in the state -- was far from true. At times, Gunn and others on the campaign had to push Obama to court black voters. The New York Times reported that, on the night before the primary, Gunn pushed hard to get the candidate to attend a gala for the African American sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, enlisting Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett in his effort.
"We were being told at every barbershop and beauty shop we went into that this was Clinton country," says Gillian Bergeron, who was an early campaign staffer in the state. At her very first staff meeting, Gunn laid out the rules. "Under no circumstances are we going to do South Carolina politics as usual. We're not paying for a vote, we're not paying for an endorsement, and we're not going to talk about the fact that other candidates are doing that," Bergeron recalls him saying.
She continues, "Considering how much I heard from ministers or 'neighborhood leaders' saying, 'If you want the black vote you've got to pay for it,' I can't imagine what he was hearing as our political director."
Gunn stuck with the organizing strategies he'd mastered at Fair Share, talking to people in their homes, hangouts, and churches and registering new voters. In the end, more than eight out of 10 black voters went for Obama. Kilgore notes that the campaign managed to get black voters to turn out for Obama without heightening the severe racial polarization of the state. "[It was] an example of how you can use an organizing method that not only works and makes people feel empowered in a way that just giving them a ride to the polls doesn't," Kilgore says. The massive Obama victory in South Carolina -- 55 percent to Clinton's 27 percent -- was the moment that the Obama campaign proved its wider ability to win -- even without the establishment.
Carter, Gunn's former community-organizing colleague from Fair Share, says that the Obama campaign shaped Gunn as much as he shaped it. "Now he's seasoned a little bit," Carter says. "He understands that politics can be tricky and you have to finesse people. You can't make enemies out of everybody."
After the primary, many of the organizers from South Carolina packed up and state-hopped around the country, getting promoted again and again within the campaign until they landed in administration jobs. Gunn could have done the same, but Bergeron says he "stayed with his original vision." He returned to his district to run for the state House again. Excitement over Obama's candidacy and the infrastructure from the campaign were fueling voter turnout, and some Obama supporters offered financial backing as well -- Gunn drew nearly $80,000 in donations from around the nation. But he stuck with the strategy that had served the Obama campaign so well: Gunn went door to door, reaching out voter by voter in his sprawling district.
Spanning parts of Richland and Kershaw counties, Gunn's district is nearly three times the size of other state House districts and is the fastest-growing in the state. It's mostly suburban, with some rural areas, and most of the population growth comes from people who relocate from the North or whom Gunn calls "half backs" -- people who moved to Florida and then came halfway back up the East Coast. People's incomes as well as their education levels are higher here than in most of the state, though still below the national average. Forty percent of the voters in 2008 were African American; the first time Gunn ran, 68 percent of the voters were white.
To stay in touch with the people in his district, Gunn has been holding town-hall meetings -- "not ginned-up town hall meetings" but regular opportunities to converse with voters. Many of the constituents he faced at the three town halls he held in August and the three in December were not supporters, to put it mildly. But, Gunn says, "I get encouraged by people who didn't vote for me who say, 'Keep speaking the truth. Don't tell us what we want to hear, tell us what we need to hear.'"
Still, he faces challenges. Gunn notes that people still come to town meetings unsure of what their state representative actually does. "I get a lot of calls that say, 'Dismantle the IRS, government is bad, don't vote for cap-and-trade' -- first of all, I'm not in Congress so I don't get to vote for those things," Gunn says. Yet he's frequently the target of critiques of the president. "'Obamacare is socialism, Obama's a communist.' I've gotten called all of those things. It's painful to hear that resentment," he says. Whether or not he agrees with the Glenn Beck fans in his district, Gunn knows he has to try to understand them. More important, he has to try to get them to understand him.
Progressives might be angry with Obama's professed commitment to bipartisanship at a time when Democrats enjoy a large majority in Congress, but to get anything done in South Carolina, possibly the most conservative and Republican state in the country, Gunn has to work with the other side and try to win over Republican voters. "There were people who had my yard sign right next to John McCain's yard sign," he notes.
Gunn says he's focused on doing what he can while he's in office -- which is why he's co-sponsored 204 pieces of legislation -- and colleagues from across the aisle vouch for his willingness to try to bridge the party gap. "He works to find common ground, which is something we need more of in politics," says state Rep. Nathan Ballentine, who sits next to Gunn in the House. Ballentine is a Republican, but he and Gunn have co-sponsored a couple of bills -- including a proposal to amend the state constitution's ballot-initiative process -- a cross-party collaborative effort he says is rare in the South Carolina Legislature. In the latest budget fight, Gunn managed to get passed an amendment focused on government transparency, a difficult feat even for Republicans.
Kromm says of Gunn, "Because of his background with Fair Share, he brings an insider/outsider perspective to politics. He definitely wants to be and is an emerging political leader, but he has one foot outside realizing that we need a movement behind it, we need organizing behind it. He's going to maintain that critical distance." As Gunn likes to say, "People don't vote rationally; they vote emotionally." But his very success might belie that observation. To get elected, he had to convince at least some people to put aside emotional reactions and actually listen to him, to talk about issues like sewer problems on one side of his district and traffic on the other. To stay in office, he'll have to keep talking about the issues he can actually do something about.
Those in his party seem pretty satisfied with Gunn's approach. As Terry Bergeron, a Democratic Party activist and mother of Gillian, said when she introduced Gunn at a rally this summer on Hilton Head Island: "Remember the name Anton Gunn. You'll be voting for him when he runs for statewide office."
There's a sense among some state Democrats that this could be the year when they begin to make some gains. After all, South Carolina Republicans have made all sorts of negative headlines lately. Some, like Rep. Joe Wilson and Sen. Jim DeMint (known for his obstruction of Obama's nominees and his visit to the coup government in Honduras), are still popular with their conservative base. Others, like embattled Gov. Mark Sanford, have embarrassed their party to the point of impeachment. Sanford is protected only by the fact that his would-be replacement, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, has embarrassments of his own, ranging from multiple traffic offenses to a vicious rant against people who receive public assistance.
A plurality of voters say the state is headed in the wrong direction, and Republicans seem to have lost sight of the compromise that had allowed them to govern the state for most of the last two decades. In the 1990s, South Carolina Republicans managed to temper fire-breathing conservatives who wanted to keep the Confederate flag on the state's Capitol with more moderate, business--oriented figures, like the late Gov. Carroll Campbell Jr., who want the low-wage, anti-union state to remain controversy-free and attractive to employers. "As long as the Republicans continue to mismanage -- which they will -- there are always going to be opportunities in the South," Kilgore says. In Gunn's view, issues such as poverty (15.1 percent of South Carolinians lived below the poverty line in 2007) and the economic crisis have lessened people's appetite for hyper-partisan bickering. "They're sick and tired of being laughed at by the entire nation," he says. "They're sick and tired of being ranked at the top of everything bad and at the bottom of everything good." The number of Democrats in the state is on the rise, partly due to transplants from more progressive areas of the country. Though the state doesn't track voter registration by party, a 2008 survey found 34 percent identified as Democratic and 33.5 percent identified as Republican.
Nora Kravec, a volunteer with Organizing for America, notes that the group has picked up new volunteers who weren't part of the campaign, and OFA has maintained staff in Charleston, where she lives, as well as in Columbia. "We've gotten a few people who've said, 'Boy, I wish I'd done this before,'" she says. Volunteers collect declarations of support for the health-care bill, hold rallies, and attend church events like they did on the campaign trail. Kilgore points out that just having a Democratic infrastructure in place in the state is a huge step forward. "The last successful Democratic year, in 1998, when we won the governorship and Senator Fritz Hollings managed to hang on for another term, the campaign was totally financed by the video-poker industry," he says.
The divides in the state are still vicious -- Ballentine expresses disappointment that most votes in the Legislature break down along party lines, and Gunn says that some Republicans will agree with him behind closed doors but won't vote that way when it comes to the floor. Andre Bauer's comments comparing poor people to "stray animals" and Wilson's shout heard 'round the country may be extreme examples, but Gunn points out that they come out of a particular political climate.
"If you'd have told me someone was going to scream at the president and call him a liar, he'd have been the last person on my list. Joe is an aw-shucks kind of guy," Gunn says. "When you want to breed negativity, it can infect anybody, and it can take people to a level they didn't think was possible."
Kravec calls Sheri Few, Gunn's 2010 opponent, a "tea bagger," and Gunn notes that Few uses the tea party?style anti-Obama rhetoric against him. Her support of tax credits for parents sending their children to private schools makes her a polarizing candidate in a district that actually has some of the state's best schools, and she's run several times and lost, but Gunn notes that she has always been well funded.
Still, people seem to want to hear what Gunn is saying -- Kravec says that his involvement in an event guarantees a crowd, and she thinks he could win higher office. If he has political aspirations beyond South Carolina, Gunn doesn't talk about them. "This is my home. I want to do everything in my power to make this state great. I'm invested. I have a 4-year-old girl who's going to grow up in this state," he says.
He continues, "We still do have our pockets of those folks who want to hold on to the old vestiges of South Carolina from yesteryear, and they have their influence. That's why the Confederate flag still flies, but I don't really care. ... What's more important is figuring out how we get to the nitty-gritty on issues like education, which is the great equalizer. There are people who try to hold us back, but as the days go by, there's a lot less of them and a lot more of me."
Gunn doesn't want to fight the culture wars -- he talks public--school choice and small-business tax credits, not abortion rights and marriage equality. He downplays traditionally explosive racial issues and calls the Confederate-flag issue a distraction. But as Kilgore says, it's almost impossible to ignore race in South Carolina.
"It's never going to go away," Gunn says. "The vast majority of progress has been made over the last 40 years, which is only a tenth of the time that it has been a problem." Still, he points out that race is only one piece of the messy puzzle that makes up his opposition. "You also have some people who I think are not focused on race; they're rightly focused on the debt of our country, the economy, and the only person they can see who should be doing something about that is the leader of the free world."
Kilgore thinks that the Obama campaign and people like Gunn, who both influenced and were influenced by the election, laid a path for organizing in the South that goes beyond racial polarization. Kromm notes, "You have the makings of something different, but it has to be nourished, it has to be strengthened, it has to be invested in." As the OFA state director, Gunn is tasked with maintaining some of that investment. While other state legislators also have day jobs -- Ballentine works at Wells Fargo -- Gunn's day job is keeping South Carolinians involved in progressive politics. From new-media tools (he's a frequent Twitterer) to door-to-door canvassing and visiting churches and union events, Gunn and OFA are focused on the issues -- health care, education, and jobs, jobs, jobs -- not the implications for the national Democratic Party. We've seen Democrats lose elections this year when they've lost touch with the people, and Gunn isn't likely to forget that. It's not hyperbole when he says, "We literally changed the course of American political history by what we did here in South Carolina during the primary."
Maybe the best thing about the way Obama changed campaigning is that he left people like Anton Gunn, who already knew how to organize, knowing how to win elections.


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I've wanted a tattoo for as long as I can remember. Not a sleeve covering an entire arm or multiple images inked onto various parts of my body; just a single piece of art on a discreet area of skin. A tattoo with a video game reference which subtlety displays my love for the adventure genre without being too over-the-top. Nothing like Jack from Mass Effect.
If I was brave enough, what would I go for? Here are some of the best and worst I've managed to find across the internet, along with a few which may manage to convince me to get inked.
The gorgeous LightningEllen from LightningEllen's Release and lovely Nathan from Hurricane thought process are the proud owners of the first two tattoos above – you can read more about their inky experiences by clicking on those links. It's artwork like this, and as shown in the other images in this section, that make me want to pluck up the courage to go under the needle myself.
No… just no. It's tattoos like this which put me off the whole idea and not want to bring a needle anywhere near my skin. I understand body art is a very personal thing and means something to the owner that others may just not get; but some of these are so badly designed or poorly drawn, and I feel sorry for these people who are going to be marked for the rest of their lives.
It's probably no surprise to most reading this that I've included a few Monkey-Island-inspired works here! I really like the one of Murray; it's definitely something I could see myself opting for because it's subtle and he's such a great character. The last isn't a tattoo but an absolutely beautiful image by vapidity on DeviantArt, but it would make a great piece of body art.
I've always wanted a tattoo, but I've never known what to get. Not sure I'd get a video game tattoo though, really can't think of one I'd get. Maybe a SEGA logo?
That's actually pretty awesome, maybe a smaller version might work!
Nah – I only have enough money for the weekly shop. I'll get killed if I return home with no food and a shiny blue Sega tattoo!
Love the 3 headed monkey one! My top tips for ending up with a great tattoo are A: don't make it small just because it seems less scary, a lot of people regret getting really small tattoos eventually because often slightly bigger ones look better in the space. B: Thoroughly research your artist, make sure that not only do they do the type of thing you want, but also that you like them! Might sound obvious but if you're comfortable with them you'll be less nervous! My first tattoo was something from Final Fantasy VII, still love it now! This has reminded me of some ideas I'd been planning, I really must try and save up enough cash for them!
I've asked several people and the answers I've been given about pain are so varied – from 'it's a slight scratch' to 'it's painful but I enjoy it'. If only there was a way to test how it felt without committing to entire tattoo first!
When I went for my first one the artist took a few seconds to do a 'dry run' to see how I reacted, so you might be able to get something like that.
Totally with you on this, I've been trying to pluck up the courage for 20 years. I didn't rebel as a teenager, so I missed out! My wife has several tattoos from her teens, just because she could.
It would either be that, or Vault Boy from Fallout. Some pixel art would make a really cool tattoo though!
I've always wanted the Bioshock "chain" one, but I don't think my wife would be happy about it! The Guybrush one is brilliant, but I think it would become less well defined over time.
Didn't think of that; very good point. Maybe something with less sharp edges would be better… I have to say I'm pretty tempted by a Murray the skull.
So long as it's clear who it is rather than just looking like a generic skull.
I can see why I shouldn't have one really, I'd probably overthink what I'm getting and never get one anyway!
Thanks for featuring my ink! I took my time and did lots of research into tattoos and artists before taking the plunge. I recommend anyone interested in getting a tattoo think about it very carefully. The artist you choose is kind of a big deal, haha.
I have a fear of getting any piercings (my ears aren't even) but I have no issues with getting inked, apparently. 😛 The tattoo process feels like a sunburn in most areas, but I wanted to scream a bit during the tricep parts on mine, not gonna lie.
Later this year, once I've slimmed down some more, I'm having this done in black on my back, not just because of my love for the series but also because the symbols in it have ad deeper meaning for me.
I'll record it, that way, if you ever need some audio of someone swearing like a sailor in two languages, you'll have something perfect for the occasion.
One thing though, is that some people have told me that the outlining hurt most and others have told me coloring hurt most. I believed that coloring wouldn't hurt as much but man was I wrong.
Oh no… was it really painful? Damn myself for being such a wimp ha ha ha!
It wasn't too painful! It wasn't painful enough to stop me from wanting more haha. Everyone seems to be encouraging you to get one and I think so too!
My friend who has been to multiple tattoo artists said that usually female tattooists have a more gentle hand, so maybe you can take that into consideration too!
Oh really? I'd never heard that before but it sounds like good advice, so thank you!


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Q: In CKEditor 4, allow both  and  tags Using CKEditor 4 I've changed the I button so that it generates <i> tags instead of <em>:
coreStyles_italic = { element: "i", overrides: "em" };

This works.
However, I also wish to add a style so that it's possible to add <em> tags too:
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This superficially works — the little status bar at the bottom of the form field shows "body p em" – if I view source, or save the form, the <em> tags have been replaced with <i> because of the coreStyles_italic override.
Is there any way to allow both <i> and <em> tags?
(I also want to allow both <b> and <strong> tags, but assume that any fix will work for that too.)

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Q: Show that $(I,J,M)$ are colinear Let $(ABCD)$ be a non-cyclical, convex quadrilateral, with no parallel sides.
The lines $(AB)$ and $(CD)$ meet in $(E)$. Let $(M \neq E)$ be the intersection of the circumcircles of $(ADE)$ and $(BCE)$.
The internal angle bisectors of $(ABCD)$ form a convex, cyclical quadrilateral with circumcenter $(I)$. The external angle bisectors of $(ABCD)$ form a convex, cyclical quadrilateral with circumcenter $(J)$.
Show that $(I,J,M)$ are colinear.

Solution: Let $ W $ be the intersection of the external bisector of $ \angle A, $ $ \angle B $ and define $ X, $ $ Y, $ $ Z $ similarly. Let $ F $ be the intersection of $ AD, $ $ BC $ and let $ \Phi_M $ be the inversion with center $ M, $ power $ MA $ $ \cdot $ $ MC $ $ = $ $ MB $ $ \cdot $ $ MD $ $ = $ $ ME $ $ \cdot $ $ MF $ followed by reflection on the bisector $ \tau $ of $ \angle AMC, $ $ \angle BMD, $ $ \angle EMF. $ Since $ \measuredangle AZE $ $ = $ $ \measuredangle FYC, $ so by conformal $ \Longrightarrow $ $ \Phi_M(Z) $ lies on $ \odot (CFY). $ Similarly, we can prove $ \Phi_M(Z) $ lies on $\odot (BFW), $ so $ \Phi_M(Z) $ is the Miquel point of the complete quadrilateral $ BWYC $ and $ \Phi_M(Z) $ $ \in $ $ \odot (J). $ Similarly, we can prove $ \Phi_M(W), $ $ \Phi_M(X), $ $ \Phi_M(Y) $ lie on $ \odot (J), $ so $ J $ $ \in $ $ \tau. $ Analogously, we can prove $ I $ $ \in $ $ \tau. $
Could someone solve this problem by elementary mathematics, please?
I also don't believe the above "solution" is totally correct.
(Z prime lies on circumscribed circle of CFY)


The BBC television starts talks that could eventually lead to wimbledon being shown on Pay-TV. Amid fears of cuts to it's license in the next round of negotiations in 2016, BBC starts to build alliances with the commercial sector to share Wimbledon broadcasting rights.
The BBC and BT Sport already share a coverage of FA Cup and this year began broadcasting together UK's pre-wimbledon grass tournaments. BT Sport has already exclusive rights to WTA Tour, and Wimbledon coverage would be a great opportunity to fill it's schedule outside the Football.
Since 1937. the BBC has broadcast tournament on TV in UK and it will be also a host broadcaster in 2015, covering matches between its two main channels, BBC One and BBC Two. You can also watch BBC coverage online through iplayer (only available to UK IPs).
Almoust every broadcaster worldwide have official Wimbledon live streaming channel, like Sky Go in Germany, giving opportunity to their customers to follow tennis from All England Club "wherever and whenever".
Wimbledon is one of the few sport events in UK that have protected status under broadcasting regulations, althought that only applies to the finals weekend.
All England Club will definitely have "last word", but it's completely unaware of any move of TV rights in Pay-TV direction. Is there a chance maybe for ITV to open negotiations and broadcast Wimbledon on their free to air channels?


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Headlines for June 08, 2015 | Democracy Now!
The United Nations say 20 million people, 78 percent of the population, need urgent humanitarian aid in Yemen. That's an increase of four million from just three months ago. Aid agencies have urged Saudi Arabia to ease a naval blockade depriving Yemen of basic goods. Saudi Arabia has also failed to hand over any of the $274 million it pledged to the U.N. emergency humanitarian fund for Yemen in April. The news comes amid continued fighting between Houthi rebels and rival forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition. On Sunday, dozens of Houthi-allied soldiers were killed in an airstrike in the capital Sana'a. Saudi Arabia also shot down a Scud missile fired by Houthi forces across the border from Yemen. This comes days after a Saudi airstrike in Saada province killed at least 50 people, most of them civilians.
President Obama is joining other world leaders in Germany today as the G7 summit comes to a close. Heads of state are holding talks in a secluded resort inside a 100-year-old castle. Outside the summit, protesters have been met by a massive show of police force, with as many as 20,000 officers deployed. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets Saturday in the nearby town of Garmisch. On Sunday, leaders and reporters had to be shuttled to the G7 talks by helicopter after protesters blocked a main road. Issues under discussion include climate change, austerity, Greece's fiscal crisis, the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, and what President Obama called "Russian aggression" in Ukraine.
Turkey's ruling party has lost its parliamentary majority in a major defeat for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Justice and Development Party, or AKP, still won the most seats, but lost legislative control for the first time in 13 years. The result will thwart Erdogan's bid to increase his presidential powers. The pro-Kurdish HDP party won seats for the first time after appealing to Erdogan's leftist and secular opponents.
Pakistan has acknowledged it has cleared eight of the 10 people convicted for the attempted murder of Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai. In 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman who boarded her school bus. She survived serious wounds and now continues to campaign around the world, winning the Nobel Peace Prize last year. In April, Pakistan said 10 men had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the attack. But Pakistan now says eight of them were actually acquitted due to a lack of evidence.
Protests broke out in parts of Mexico on Sunday as the country held midterm elections. Both striking teachers and relatives of 43 students missing since last year burned ballots in acts of anti-government unrest. The PRI party of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto retained its congressional majority, though with a smaller number of seats.
Thousands of people have rallied in Honduras calling for the resignation of President Juan Orlando Hernández over a corruption scandal. The protesters turned out after Hernández admitted his election campaign received donations from companies linked to social security embezzlement.
Hernández has denied any personal involvement in the payments.
Saudi Arabia's top court has upheld the controversial verdict against activist Raif Badawi. Badawi was arrested in 2012 after setting up a website for political and social debate. He was sentenced in January to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison.
Two people have come forward with specific allegations of child molestation against former House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Hastert was indicted last month on federal charges of lying to the FBI and illegally paying $3.5 million to hide alleged "misconduct." FBI sources say Hastert was making payments to a former student to conceal sexual abuse that occurred during Hastert's previous career as a high school teacher and coach in Illinois. Now the sister and a classmate of another former student, Stephen Reinboldt, have identified him as at least the second potential victim of Hastert's abuse. The unidentified friend spoke to NBC News.
Meanwhile, Stephen Reinboldt's sister, Jolene Burdge, said she found out when Reinboldt told her he was gay.
Reinboldt died of AIDS in 1995. According to Jolene Burdge, Hastert showed up at her brother's funeral. She says she confronted Hastert about the abuse.
The former student whom Hastert was paying has not been identified. According to CBS News, authorities believe there could be a third victim. Hastert served as speaker of the House from 1999 to 2007, making him the longest-serving Republican speaker in history.
Thousands of people marched in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Saturday in a show of opposition to tar sands pipelines. Organizers focused on calling for the cancellation of the proposed Sandpiper pipeline, which would run near pristine water reserves. Saturday's action is said to be the largest anti-tar sands rally in the Midwest to date.
A manhunt is underway in New York after two convicted murderers escaped from a maximum-security prison. The prisoners used power tools to drill through the walls and break out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. Charles Guess of the New York State Police said the pair may have had help.
A Texas police officer has been put on leave after video emerged of him wrestling an African-American teenage girl to the ground, pulling her hair and pulling his gun on another teen. The officer was helping respond to neighbors' complaints about a disturbance at a party the teens were attending at a local pool. Several African-American teens in attendance say a dispute only broke out after local white residents voiced anger at their presence. The video appears to show the officers singling out the African-American teens.
A coroner has ruled the death of a 21-year-old Nigerian native in a Savannah, Georgia, jail cell a homicide. Matthew Ajibade died on New Year's Day of what the coroner described as "blunt force trauma," including "abrasions, lacerations, skin injuries about the head and some other areas of the body." At the time of his death, he was restrained in an isolation cell after authorities said he became combative during an altercation which injured three deputies. Last month, nine Chatham County deputies were fired in connection with his death.
Meanwhile, the graphic full video of a Salt Lake City, Utah, police officer shooting an unarmed man last summer has been released. The video shows Officer Bron Cruz approaching Dillon Taylor as he walks away from him with headphones in his ears. Cruz shouts at Taylor to get his hands out, then opens fire as Taylor appears to raise his hands. Cruz then handcuffs Taylor and searches his pockets as blood gushes from his chest and abdomen. The shooting took place two days after the killing of Micheal Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The Salt Lake County district attorney ruled it justified, saying Cruz reasonably perceived a threat.
An immigrant teenage mother has attempted suicide at a private Texas family detention center after being denied asylum. Nineteen-year-old Lilian Olia Yamileth has sought refuge with her four-year-old son in the U.S. to escape severe domestic abuse in her native Honduras. But after her bid was denied, she cut her wrist and left a suicide note saying she has been "treated worse than an animal." Doctors say her wound is not life-threatening. The Karnes facility holds about 500 immigrant women and children. Last week, Karnes released five pregnant women just hours after their detention there was revealed.
A funeral was held on Saturday for Beau Biden, the late son of Vice President Joe Biden. Beau Biden died last week of brain cancer at the age of 46. President Obama delivered the eulogy.
And a young man imprisoned for three years at Rikers in New York without charge has committed suicide. Kalief Browder was a 16-year-old high school sophomore when he was detained on suspicion of stealing a backpack. Browder never pleaded guilty and was never convicted. He maintained his innocence and requested a trial, but was only offered plea deals while the trial was repeatedly delayed. After enduring nearly 800 days in solitary confinement and abuses from guards, Browder was only released when the case was dismissed. Browder died last week at his home in the Bronx. He was 22 years old.


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Improving defense necessary for team success, coach says
After its 2-1 series with the Wright State Raiders over the weekend, the Horned Frogs (6-4) are aiming to beat the Dallas Baptist Patriots (7-3) in a home game Tuesday.TCU head coach Jim Schlossnagle said that in order to win, the team needs to make some improvements.
"This weekend was a struggle for us," Schlossnagle said. "We were very fortunate to win two games because we didn't really play that well."
He said the Frogs will need to be sure to make advancements in their defense. The Frogs had no errors in their final game of the weekend series – the first time this has happened all season.
"We need to continue to play better defense," Schlossnagle said. "We didn't make any errors in today's game, and that made a big difference."
The Patriots have a strong player in infielder Cody Montgomery, who already has 12 hits, 11 runs, 13 RBIs, three home runs and averages .308 for the 2006 season.
"Cody Montgomery is outstanding for them," Schlossnagle said.
TCU junior pitcher Brad Furnish, who is 1-0 and has two saves for the 2006 season, said that although DBU is talented, the team can be beat.
"They're usually a pretty good team," Furnish said, "but it's baseball. Anybody can beat anybody on any given day."
Like Schlossnagle, Furnish said, he thinks the Frogs need to focus on their defense if they want a victory over the Patriots.
"We've had some trouble as a whole playing defense," Furnish said. "But overall, if we compete like we did, there's not much improvement we need."
Furnish also said the Patriots have shown strong signs on the mound, as DBU pitcher Rodney Brantley threw a no-hitter against the University of Texas at Arlington Saturday at the Midland Collegiate Classic at Citibank Ballpark in Midland. Brantley is 3-0 for the season, has pitched 21 innings and has an ERA of 0.43.
Furnish said as long as the Frogs keep their focus and play the game their way, they are likely to have greater success.
"If we go out and compete and play the way we've been playing, we're going to make it pretty easy," he said. "The improvements will come."
The Horned Frogs take to the field Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Lupton Stadium.
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Kyle Busch sets himself up for rowdy playoff push
By George Diaz
Great stories always involve a battle between the forces of nature: Good vs. Evil; Heroes and Villains.
Kyle Busch isn't called "Rowdy" because he parties till dawn. He rocks and rolls to a different universe, often contentious and unfiltered. If that makes him "evil," so be it. But the bottom line is that he is good for a sport whose participants have become a bit homogenized over the years.
So consider it a good thing that Busch won at Texas this past weekend, his 44th NASCAR Cup victory overall.
It sets up a nice narrative for the playoffs down the road when he tangles with long-time rival Kevin Harvick, another prickly pear, among others.
Bring it, boys.
Punched our ticket into the playoffs! 🏁 #RowdyNation pic.twitter.com/7TbC5NDcij
— Kyle Busch (@KyleBusch) April 8, 2018
It had been a bittersweet season for Busch before Texas after finishing second in three of the previous four races with veteran crew chief Adam Stevens.
The tempestuous kind, Busch had an excellent filter of perspective from owner Joe Gibbs.
"Those are long weeks," Gibbs said in Texas. "He's upset afterward. During the week, we have our competition meeting. ... Kyle's got a lot of confidence in Adam and our team, but it is frustrating when you feel like — second sometimes, you know, it's so hard.
"Then when you have several of those, you just kind of feel like it kind of builds up."
It can, and it did.
The frustration spilled over to Twitter a few weeks ago after Busch was criticized for apparently blowing off the Fox Sports post-race crew after finishing third. In reality, the Fox team missed its window of opportunity to interview Busch, and it wasn't incumbent on him to stick around and wait.
It turned into a contentious sparring session in cyberspace.
"Enjoy @KyleBusch engaging the haters along with his fans on twitter. Regardless of your opinion on him, he is great for @NASCAR," tweeted Dale Earnhardt Jr. "Never boring. Makes my new job easier."
It makes everyone's job easier in NASCAR except for the drivers trying to keep up. Busch already has one Cup title from 2015 and is definitely in the mix for another early in the season.
He goes to Bristol this week as the points leader, with a rowdy round of momentum.
"As much as I love to win and hate to lose, it obviously feels a heck of a lot better when you can be in this [media] room talking about a win rather than a second or third, something like that, like we have been the past six weeks," Busch said.
No worries anymore. See you in the playoffs, and bring your contentious party hat.
We will start with the standard disclaimer: Stick to driving, kids!
That said, it was a pretty cool experience for a number of Ford team NASCAR drivers to play flag football at Dallas Cowboys' indoor practice facility.
It was an honor to host the @FordPerformance drivers competing this weekend @TXMotorSpeedway for some football at Ford Center tonight! pic.twitter.com/zG2SY1NDKI
— Dallas Cowboys (@dallascowboys) April 6, 2018
The pickup crew included Clint Bowyer, Ryan Blaney, Brad Keselowski, Trevor Bayne, Aric Almirola, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Paul Menard, Joey Logano, Matt DiBenedetto, Michael McDowell, David Ragan and Kurt Busch.
"They opened it to us a lot," Blaney said. "Ford and the Cowboys made that happen. Played flag football. I never played flag football as a kid. I think that was 7-on-7. It's good that there were 11 players on each side. It's a big field. That's a lot of ground to cover. We were huffing and puffing. It was a good time. Nobody got hurt. Clint didn't throw up."
Consider that a win, kids.
Now go back to driving, please.
Johnson going backward
It was another thumbs-down week for seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, still looking for his competitive mojo this season.
Johnson was involved in a multi-car crash on Lap 176 at Texas and finished 35th. Johnson dropped to 21st in the standings.
"Yeah, by the time I saw what went on the No. 11 [Denny Hamlin] was backwards and smoking the tires coming up the track," Johnson said. "I knew where his arc was taking him and I knew that I was in trouble in the outside lane and going to get into him some.
"And then the crash just kind of continued from there. … We will get back to our winning ways soon."
Truth or wishful thinking?
Suarez gets dinged
Keep an eye on Daniel Suarez this weekend as he deals with a thumb injury that could impact his performance.
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Suarez was involved in a multi-car wreck last weekend. Suarez posted a video after the race showing his left hand wrapped in a splint. He was scheduled to have it looked at more closely by a doctor this week.
"The impact on Lap 2 hurt my thumb a little bit," Suarez said in the video. "I just left the care center at the track. Should be good, but I think they'll look at it later in the week and see what we've got going on."
Monster Energy deal
Monster Energy will remain the title sponsor of the Cup Series through next year based on an extension announced Tuesday. After that, according to Associated Press, NASCAR intends to re-evaluate how it sells its sponsorship. The Monster contract is estimated to be worth $20 million annually.
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Mariusz Max Kolonko (ur. 6 maja 1965 w Lublińcu) – polski dziennikarz, były korespondent TVP i TVN w USA, publicysta, prezenter i producent telewizyjny. Od 1988 mieszka w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki.

Życiorys
Ukończył I Liceum Ogólnokształcące w Bydgoszczy. Jest absolwentem dziennikarstwa na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim i nauk politycznych na Uniwersytecie Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. W latach 80. XX w. jako student był prowadzącym audycję Zapraszamy do Trójki.

W 1988 wyjechał do USA. Od 1992 był amerykańskim korespondentem Panoramy, później także pozostałych serwisów informacyjnych TVP (w ramach Telewizyjnej Agencji Informacyjnej). W USA w 1993 założył swoją własną spółkę producencką – Media 2000 – która jest podwykonawcą materiałów, programów i filmów reportażowych m.in. dla Telewizji Polskiej, TV4, TVN i CBS. W 2001 stworzył pierwszą serię reportaży Odkrywanie Ameryki (dla TVP).

W latach 2001–2005 był amerykańskim korespondentem dziennika TVP Wiadomości. We wrześniu 2001 nadawał w 1. programie TVP informacje z Nowego Jorku po dokonanych w dniu 11 września zamachach na World Trade Center. W 2004 w badaniu OBOP sklasyfikowany w pierwszej czwórce najpopularniejszych dziennikarzy w Polsce (obok Kamila Durczoka, Tomasza Lisa, Elżbiety Jaworowicz). Od 2006 współpracował z telewizją TVN, przygotowując korespondencje dla programu Dzień Dobry TVN. W maju 2006 wydał książkę Odkrywanie Ameryki. Zapiski w Jeepie. Od stycznia 2007 był felietonistą "Super Expressu" w coponiedziałkowej rubryce: Ameryka według Mariusza Maxa Kolonko. Został publicystą "Focus Historia", tygodnika Angora, od maja 2008 tygodnika "Newsweek", a od 2009 dziennika "Rzeczpospolita".

Od kwietnia 2007 był prowadzącym i producentem programu Odkrywanie Ameryki o nieznanych stronach USA dla TV4. Od września 2007 jest twarzą telewizyjnej kampanii reklamowej amerykańskiego przedsiębiorstwa z branży ubezpieczeniowej Liberty Direct (oddziału Liberty Mutual) na polskim rynku. Równolegle w maju 2008 został twarzą kampanii reklamowej "Newsweeka" Angielski na Maxa, obejmującej reklamę telewizyjną, radio, internet, outdoor oraz tytuły wydawnictwa Axel Springer Polska: "Newsweek", "Forbes", "Dziennik", "Fakt", "Auto Świat", "TV Kultura" i "Przegląd Sportowy".

W sierpniu 2008 w rankingu "Forbes" sklasyfikowany na pozycji 9. wśród najcenniejszych dla reklamodawców dziennikarzy w Polsce (64. na liście najcenniejszych polskich gwiazd).

W kwietniu 2009 wygrał proces sądowy przeciwko portalowi Pudelek.pl o naruszenie dóbr osobistych. W maju 2010 wygrał proces sądowy o zniesławienie, który wytoczył w 2008 dziennikowi "Fakt" za serię artykułów na temat jego związku z Weroniką Rosati.

Jest blogerem amerykańskiego portalu The Huffington Post (na portalu znajdują się teksty jego autorstwa opublikowane między majem 2011 a grudniem 2017).  Był komentatorem wyborów prezydenckich 2012 w USA dla Onet.pl i telewizji Superstacja. Prowadził program Kwadrans na Maxa w Superstacji.

Przeprowadzony z nim wywiad "Jakiś gówniarz mówi mi, jak mam żyć" wygrał w konkursie Best of Onet 2012 na najlepszy tekst roku, generując ponad milion odsłon, ponad 3500 komentarzy i wywołując dyskusję na temat poziomu dziennikarstwa w Polsce.

Jest twórcą budzącego kontrowersje nieformalnego ruchu obywatelskiego o nazwie #R Revolution. Jako sceptyk polityki prowadzonej przez PiS oraz PO wzywał m.in. do utworzenia obozów pracy dla najważniejszych polityków tych partii. W 2019 roku został inicjatorem utworzenia Komitetu Wyborczego Wyborców Patriotyczna Rewolucja Maxa Kolonko na wybory parlamentarne w tymże roku. Komitet nie zarejestrował list w żadnym z 41 okręgów wyborczych. Planował start w wyborach prezydenckich w 2020, jednak nie złożył w PKW 100 tys. podpisów wymaganych do rejestracji kandydata. 27 czerwca 2020 na Twitterze wezwał swoich zwolenników do bojkotu tych wyborów. 4 lipca ogłosił się samozwańczym prezydentem Polski ad interim, deklarując ustanowienie "Stanów Zjednoczonych IV Republiki Polskiej" oraz "wybuch patriotycznej, narodowej, republikańskiej rewolucji".

Portale społecznościowe

MaxTV (YouTube)
Od listopada 2012 roku dziennikarz prowadzi w serwisie YouTube kanał Max Kolonko – MaxTV, na którym w ramach programu Mówię jak jest (ang. Telling It Like It Is) publikuje komentarze do bieżących wydarzeń politycznych i kulturowych, a od grudnia 2013 roku siostrzany kanał MaxTVNews. Programy realizowane są w języku polskim i opatrzone opcjonalnymi angielskimi napisami. 16 października 2016 kanał MaxTV z 134 filmami znajdował się na 42. miejscu listy najpopularniejszych pod względem liczby subskrypcji polskojęzycznych kanałów w serwisie YouTube z wynikiem 603 604 subskrypcji. MaxTVNews z 153 filmami znajdował się na 77. miejscu tej listy z wynikiem 426 646 subskrypcji. Na kanale MaxTV były publikowane filmy z serii Odkrywanie Ameryki. Niektóre materiały Mariusza Kolonki przed premierą na jego kanale były dostępne na kanale Superstacji.

Pozostałe
W portalu społecznościowym Twitter Mariusz Kolonko posiada konto o nazwie maxkolonko, które w czerwcu 2020 miało 144 tys. obserwujących. Stworzył też konto w portalu Facebook o nazwie Mariusz Max Kolonko, które w czerwcu 2020 miało 712 tys. polubień.

Książki
 Odkrywanie Ameryki. Zapiski w Jeepie, Zysk i S-ka, Poznań 2006, .

Nagrody i wyróżnienia

 Zdobywca nagrody Wiktora 2001 dla najlepszego dziennikarza roku.
 W 2008 srebrna (najwyższa) nagroda 29th Telly Awards za dokument The Shield o tarczy antyrakietowej USA.
 W 2008 dwie nagrody (srebrna i brązowa) na 9. Effie Awards w kategorii Launch i Media House za kampanię reklamową Liberty Direct.
 W 2009 brązowa nagroda na 10. Effie Awards w kategorii Usługi Finansowe za kampanię reklamową pt. Mariusz Max Kolonko w Polsce – Grupa Ogilvy.
 W 2016 Nagroda Kisiela w kategorii publicysta.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna telewizja internetowa Mariusza Maxa Kolonko
 Oficjalny kanał Mówię jak jest na YouTube
 Oficjalny kanał MaxTVNews na YouTube
 Strona ruchu #R
 Max Kolonko: Mówię, jak jest – artykuł w wyborcza.pl

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Dziennikarze polonijni w Stanach Zjednoczonych
Laureaci Nagrody Kisiela
Ludzie związani z Bydgoszczą
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Osobowości telewizyjne związane z Superstacją
Osobowości telewizyjne związane z TVN
Osobowości telewizyjne związane z Polsatem
Osobowości telewizyjne związane z TVP
Polskie osobowości YouTube
Memy internetowe
Polscy blogerzy
Polscy dziennikarze telewizyjni
Redaktorzy PR1
Redaktorzy PR3
Urodzeni w 1965
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American-Exceptionalism expert from Australia Nick Adams here Tue. July 2
June 30, 2013 By Brazos GOP
Internationally renowned Australian speaker, lecturer, author and media commentator Nick Adams will be at the Republican Party of Brazos County Headquarters Tuesday, July 2 at 6:00pm. Refreshments will be available.
From his media release:
He is best known for his work in the field of American exceptionalism, and is credited with a resurgence in the idea worldwide. Having authored two books, both held by the Library of Congress in Washington DC, his contributions conclude that the American success, power and influence of today rest strongly with the traditional family and biblical values of the nation yesterday.
Honorary citizen
Mr. Adams is a staunch defender of traditional marriage, and the rights of the unborn, and advocate of Christian leadership in all areas of life and industry. He has been at the forefront of the culture war, with his work featured across national media mediums in America, including CSpan, Fox News and Sirius XM Radio. Adams has received several state awards, including honorary citizenships in America.
As a professional speaker and entrepreneur, he has given major addresses in several countries. His work in the United States has seen him speak in more than twenty states, at conventions, corporate meetings, military bases, universities, high schools and churches. He is a survivor of childhood cancer, given at the age of sixteen months just a five percent
chance of survival.
Mr. Adams earned both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Sydney. During his studies, Mr. Adams was publicly elected the youngest Deputy Mayor in Australian history in Sydney at the age of twenty-one. He is fluent in German.
His website is www.nickadamsinamerica.com.
Nick is a successful and sought-after author, having published two books, with a third currently under negotiation.
Exceptional America: A Message of Hope from a Modern-Day de Tocqueville
The worsening debt crisis, the plague of political correctness, and the threat to personal freedoms would make a lesser nation and her people crumble. Yet Americans possess an unrelenting desire for a better life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. As Australian Nick Adams travels throughout America celebrating the character of her citizens and the causes she champions, he provides a historical roadmap, connecting our doggedly determined past with our uncharted future.
Exceptional America takes you into the heart of the nation as you rediscover that those ingrained qualities of her people that first made her a superpower are the same that make America so exceptional today, and the same that will
secure our destiny.
Free preview here.
America: The Greatest Good
Is America the indispensable nation, and if so, what makes us unique? Sometimes it takes someone on the outside to help us answer those questions. Young Australian Nick Adams does this, with his analysis of America based on his travels stretching coast to coast.
His fresh look at our culture is deep and his insights brilliant, examining everything from patriotism to Christianity. The conclusions in America: The Greatest Good are profound, and leave the everyday American with a
refreshed and newfound appreciation their nation.
Free preview available here
Adams is also a regular columnist for both WND.com and PatriotUpdate.com, an initiative of Liberty Alliance.
Major Addresses
Some of Nick's major addresses include:
Live C-SPAN Coverage- Special Address to Austin Republican Women, Texas 2012
Arizona NRA Centenary Celebrations 2012, Phoenix, Arizona 2012
Texas GOP State Convention 2012, Fort Worth, Texas 2012
FreedomFest, Las Vegas, Nevada 2012
The Citadel Military College, Charleston, South Carolina 2012
Denton County Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner, Dallas, TX 2011
Walmart/Bentonville Chamber of Commerce, Bentonville, Arkansas 2010
Ground Zero, New York 2009
For a full list, and speaking map, please visit http://www.nickadamsinamerica.com/activity.html.
Key Video Links- Media and Speeches
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/308732-1
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Home Voorhees News Voorhees and Evesham announce extension of free Saving Lives designated driver program
Voorhees and Evesham announce extension of free Saving Lives designated driver program
ZANE CLARK
Intoxicated Voorhees and Evesham residents can get free rides home through Uber from bars and restaurants in the two townships.
Voorhees Mayor Michael Mignogna speaks about the extension at a press conference this week.
Residents of Evesham and Voorhees townships have another year of no excuses ahead of them if they get caught trying to drive home impaired after drinking alcohol at local bars and restaurants.
For that, residents can thank Evesham and Voorhees officials for announcing another one-year extension of the free Evesham/Voorhees Saving Lives designated driver program.
For nearly two years now, the program has partnered with private transportation company Uber to provide residents of Evesham, and later Voorhees, with free rides home from all of the nearly 30 bars and restaurants that serve alcohol in the two townships.
Rather than taking the risk of trying to drive home in their own vehicles, impaired residents are only a few phone clicks and swipes away from a free ride through an Uber vehicle every day of the week between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m.
With the geo-location technology of smartphones, Uber is able to determine if an app user is at an Evesham or Voorhees establishment. In addition to the normal Uber vehicle options, Uber's app will present residents at those locations with an option to use the Saving Lives Program.
When Uber drivers arrive, the drivers will then only take residents to their residential address within the limits of the two townships.
At a news conference last week, Evesham Mayor Randy Brown spoke of designing the program two years ago with Evesham Chief of Police Christopher Chew and the success township officials have seen since.
Through the program's two-year history, Brown said the non-profit foundation established to fund the program has spent more than $10,000, bringing somewhere between 5,000 to 6,000 people to their homes.
With rides averaging around $5, Brown said the nonprofit foundation funding the program continues to operate solely through private donations and without the use of taxpayer dollars.
While the earliest days of the program saw the use of township buses and partnerships with private designated driver services, the program eventually relied predominantly on Uber.
"We talk about in politics private-public partnerships, well today is truly a day that we can proclaim the success of private-public partnership," Brown said.
Brown also praised Evesham neighbor Voorhees Township, which joined in the program in December 2015.
Although Brown is a Republican and Voorhees Mayor Michael Mignogna is a Democrat, the two men said they saw past party affiliation when it came to saving lives, and Mignogna quickly had Voorhees join the Saving Lives Program when offered the chance.
"The one thing we agree on as elected officials is that the safety of our families is the most important job, our most important role is keeping them safe," Mignogna said.
Each mayor also said they would also be continuing efforts in the coming months to further educate the owners and employees of local alcohol-serving establishments about the program and how to promote the program to their patrons.
Last week's press conference also saw additional donations upward of $1,000 to the program's foundation from local business Evesham Mortgage and soon-to-be-opened Chickie's & Pete's.


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Quaker Houghton Signs Contract with Constellation to Achieve Carbon Neutrality
Quaker Houghton | January 31, 2023
On January 30, 2023, Quaker Houghton announced that it has signed a contract with Constellation to acquire Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to meet roughly half of its entire U.S. based electricity requirements. Constellation's RECs are Green-e® Energy Certified and sourced from wind and solar energy facilities in the contiguous United States. Throughout the contract's life, 100% of the electricity purchased by specific Quaker Houghton U.S. sites will be acquired from a renewable source or matched with RECs, which are subsequently retired. Each Renewable Energy Certificate that has been retired represents the environmental benefits of one megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity produced by a renewable generator. Through the acquisition of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), Quaker Houghton supports the operation and development of facilities that generate clean, renewable energy in regions where on-site production is not viable. Quaker Houghton's Chief Executive Officer and President, Andy Tometich, commented, "Sustainability is core to our business and is a critical, driving force in our long-term plan. We are pleased to accelerate the achievement of our greenhouse gas emissions targets through the use of renewable energy certificates and remain committed to delivering on our ambitious 2030 sustainability goals." (Source – PR Newswire) Constellation's Senior Vice President, Retail, Daniel J. Verbanac, stated, "Constellation is pleased to support the sustainability goals of our customers." He added, "As America's leading clean energy producer, Constellation lauds Quaker Houghton's choice of renewable energy which helps reduce pollution and demonstrates a commitment to the environment." (Source – PR Newswire) About Quaker Houghton Headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Quaker Houghton is a global leader in industrial process fluids. Its high-performance, innovative, and sustainable solutions are supported by best-in-class technology, deep process expertise, and personalized services. The company has over 4,000 personnel and operates in more than 25 countries. Its clients include the world's renowned advanced steel, aluminum, offshore, automotive, aerospace, mining, can, and metalworking firms. Its chemists, engineers, and industry experts work with businesses to continuously enhance their operations so that they can function even more efficiently and successfully in the future.
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Origin Materials Reveals Mechanical Completion of Its Manufacturing Plant, Origin 1
Origin Materials | January 30, 2023
Origin Materials, Inc., the leading global carbon-negative materials firm with a mission to accelerate the global transition to sustainable materials, announced the mechanical completion of Origin 1, the firm's first commercial manufacturing plant, following the previously disclosed schedule. Critical mechanical systems were successfully installed, and commissioning has commenced as part of mechanical completion. Work will continue on-site, including electrical work, the addition of new equipment, and the refinement of technology. Following this significant accomplishment, work will continue at the facility, with plant commissioning to support the startup scheduled to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2023 and the startup commencing soon after. Origin 1 is anticipated to address the increasing customer demand for the company's renewable materials and enable clients to qualify products and applications beyond PET. On its next earnings call, the company aims to release forecasts for sales, EBITDA, and other financial measures for 2023. About Origin Materials Origin Materials, headquartered in West Sacramento, is one of the world's foremost carbon-negative materials firms. The mission of Origin is to facilitate the global transition to sustainable resources. The firm has spent more than a decade developing a platform for converting the carbon present in affordable, abundant, non-food biomass such as sustainable wood wastes into valuable commodities while simultaneously absorbing carbon. Its unique technology platform has the potential to change the manufacture of a vast array of end goods, including clothes, textiles, plastics, packaging, auto components, carpets, and toys, with an addressable market of about $1 trillion. Additionally, the company's technological platform is anticipated to deliver consistent pricing substantially decoupled from the petroleum supply chain, which is more volatile than supply networks based on sustainable wood wastes. The patent-protected drop-in core technology, economics, and carbon effect of Origin are backed by an expanding number of worldwide investors and customers.
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Chemours Launches New Ti-Pure™ Sustainability Grade for Plastics Producers
The Chemours Company | January 27, 2023
The Chemours Company, a chemistry company with market-leading positions in Thermal & Specialized Solutions, Titanium Technologies, and Advanced Performance Materials, announced the introduction of Ti-PureTM TS-1510, a highly efficient rutile titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment designed to improve processing performance in various plastics applications, including polyolefin masterbatch. The increased processing performance of this grade offers up to a 6%* reduction in the net carbon footprint of the advanced pigment manufacturing process through masterbatch production, compared to conventional TiO2 pigments, while simultaneously increasing profits. Ti-PureTM TS-1510 is the most recent pigment launch under the company's Ti-PureTM Sustainability (TS) line, a new product family highlighting Chemours' dedication to furthering societal, consumer, and business segment sustainability goals. Ti-PureTM TS-1510 was created to overcome customer difficulties and enhance their production rate and processing capabilities. Chemours developed a revolutionary technology to create this pigment with increased material bulk density in order to address these difficulties while simultaneously increasing profits and masterbatch processability. The higher level of processing efficiency provided by Ti-PureTM TS-1510 will enable Chemours' direct and downstream customers to decrease their individual environmental footprints and enhance the plastics industry's sustainability. Ti-PureTM TS-1510 offers energy and labor efficiencies for masterbatch producers, resulting in a smaller carbon footprint than conventional TiO2 pigment. In addition, Chemours delivers Ti-PureTM TS-1510 in recyclable or reusable packaging to further increase the product's sustainability. Cherie Stancik, Product Development Manager, Plastics Segment – Titanium Technologies at Chemours, said, "At Chemours, our customers' needs drive our approach to innovation. The introduction of Ti-Pure™ TS-1510 reflects our commitment to developing new products that advance the state of the industries we serve." (Source – Business Wire) About The Chemours Company Located in Wilmington, Delaware, The Chemours Company is a world leader in Thermal & Specialized Solutions, Titanium Technologies, and Advanced Performance Materials, offering its customers solutions for a diverse range of industries through market-defining products, application experience, and chemistry-based innovations. The company provides tailored solutions with a broad selection of industrial and specialty chemicals for applications such as plastics, coatings, refrigeration and air conditioning, semiconductor, transportation, consumer electronics, general industrial, and others. Its main products are marketed under well-known brand names, including NafionTM, OpteonTM, FreonTM, Ti-PureTM, TeflonTM, VitonTM, and KrytoxTM. The company has over 6,400 employees and 29 manufacturing locations, which serve approximately 3,200 clients in approximately 120 countries.
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