U.S. House Speaker John Boehner says the federal government needs to focus on basics such as budgeting and cutting spending.
Boehner Monday toured a window-making plant in Hamilton, in his southwest Ohio home area, on the eve of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night.
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YORBA LINDA, Calif. ? The BYU women?s golf team shot back-to-back rounds of 321 (+33) to finish day one of The Gold Rush in fifth place.
Shooting a 642 total (+66), the Cougars currently stand one stroke ahead of sixth place CSU Fullerton and 12 strokes behind fourth place UC Irvine.
?We started poorly and we finished poorly, but in the middle we played some really good golf,? BYU head coach Carrie Roberts said. ?There are some bright things, but we also have to play better. It?s a very difficult golf course and to start off on this course is tough. I thought the girls fought, but we have to start off a little bit better and finish a little bit stronger.?
Yorba Linda Country Club proved to be difficult for many teams featuring tight fairways and fast, sloping greens.
Sophomore Maria Yacaman led the Cougars on the day going 16-over-par to tie for 20th place. After shooting an 82 (+10) in the first round, Yacaman found her swing in the second round, converting three birdies and seven pars to finish six-over-par.
?Maria just fought her way and did the best she could,? Roberts said. ?Something clicked for her swing and she started hitting it better and trusted it. She was hitting it really good.?
Freshman Lea Garner followed up Yacaman for the Cougars finishing the day at 17-over-par. Garner played solid golf on the back nine during the first and second rounds, going two-over-par twice on the back nine.
Junior Annika Kahaiali'i had the biggest turnaround on the day for the Cougars. Despite struggling in the first round shooting a 16-over-par 88, Kahaiali'i shot a second round 76 (+4) converting two birdies and 11 pars.
?Annika played out of fear, realized what she was doing and turned it around,? Roberts said. ?She decided to play with confidence and did so. It was a very impressive turn around.?
Conference foe Gonzaga currently sits in second place (+41), six strokes behind leader Long Beach State, while Santa Clara is tied for ninth place.
The Cougars will look to improve upon their standing during tomorrow's final round with tee times set to start at 8 a.m. PST. Follow the Cougars at golfstat.com.
Team Scores
1 Long Beach State +35
2 Gonzaga +41
3 San Diego State +47
4 UC Irvine +54
5 BYU +66
6 CSU Fullerton +67
7 Portland State +68
8 Nevada +70
T9 CSU-Northridge +71
T9 Santa Clara +71
11 Washington State +75
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Feb. 11, 2013 ? Moderate intoxication may help a person notice minor changes in a visual scene, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have found. During tests of "change blindness," the inability to notice minor changes, intoxicated participants detected as many changes as sober subjects and with shorter response times.
"Both the sober and drunk people find the same number of changes, but drunk people find them faster," says Jennifer Wiley, professor of psychology at UIC and senior author on the study.
Two experiments comprised the new study, which was published online in the journal Consciousness and Cognition.
First, 48 males were given a baseline task-set to make sure the drinking and non-drinking groups were equal at the outset.
The drinking group then watched an animated movie while consuming vodka and cranberry juice until they reached approximately .08 percent blood alcohol content -- legal intoxication. The nondrinking group watched the same movie.
Researchers then challenged each group using a flicker paradigm (going back and forth between two versions of the same image with one small change) in eight rounds of the test. Each round featured an everyday setting, such as a farmers market or an office. Participants had to indicate when they noticed an item change, and identify it.
People typically used one of two strategies, Wiley said.
"As western readers in the U.S., we usually start at the top-left corner and scan back and forth looking for anything that might be changing," said Wiley, in describing a systematic approach.
An alternative method is not to scan. Rather than focusing attention, the subject waits for the change to "pop out."
"Our suspicion is that the sober people are using a more systematic, methodical strategy, and the drunk people are waiting for the 'pop out,'" Wiley said.
A second experiment, using working memory tasks -- which require focused attention -- proved more difficult for the intoxicated group. These tests require remembering sequences of letters or shapes while performing another task, such as solving a math problem, at the same time.
"These tests require you to go back and forth between two tasks, which means you need to be directing your attention," Wiley said. "So there is a lot of updating, and a lot of back and forth. Drunk people are less able to do this, and they did 15 to 30 percent worse on these tasks."
Co-author Gregory Colflesh, now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, says the findings "nicely supplement our previous research illustrating that moderate intoxication improved creativity."
In that study, Wiley, Colflesh, and UIC graduate student Andrew Jarosz found that participants who were slightly under the .08 percent legal limit for blood alcohol outperformed sober subjects in solving word association problems.
Wiley says for some tasks, like change detection and creative problem-solving, "you are sometimes better off not trying to direct yourself to find an answer."
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Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH) Enphase Energy invites the solar industry to attend its online Enphase Commercial Solar Summit on Thursday, February 28, 2013 from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
The event will feature successful installers and financiers alongside Enphase?s expert microinverter team to share examples of current, profitable business opportunities associated with commercial systems in four 45-minute sessions.
?For the summit, several customers will participate who have already successfully applied our technology to impressive municipal, educational, agricultural and retail projects.?
?We are proud of the rapid adoption of the Enphase? Microinverter System in commercial projects and want to equip solar developers and installers with a full scope of information that can help them win new business,? said Bill Rossi, CMO of Enphase Energy. ?For the summit, several customers will participate who have already successfully applied our technology to impressive municipal, educational, agricultural and retail projects.?
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I?m something of an audiophile. My father loved music. My mother loved it equally, but in more sentimental ways. So it?s no wonder I slowly gained the ability to listen to an album and know which three songs would be the band?s first, second and third singles. It became a parlor trick I used to prove to myself that I was worth a damn. Of some kind.
Today, I want to provide you with some solid tunes about being or having a dad. These songs about fatherhood are near and dear to me. They could be called the best of the worst. Or the worst of the best. The only reason I say ?worst? is that each of them relies on tricks that can appear pandering or confusing or overwrought.
But I love them all equally. Nostalgia is addictive.
Here?s my mixtape, for you, on Dadhood.
This is unexpectedly sentimental for me. The original song is a very touching rendition of what it?s like to be a father. But when UKJ sings the lyrics, there?s a whiney adolescent quality to it. I?m not gonna lie: I had this playing on my walkman when I was younger.
I guess the song could also be classified as another attempt by Alternative music to prove it had grown up? Did people think a 12-string guitar solved all of rock-n-roll?s ills? Make it more emotional? Mature?
Can Will Smith be my dad? I don?t even know WHY I want him to be my dad (besides being the Fresh Prince). This song was so overplayed but the Bill Withers hook is undeniable. It takes me back to being a teenager, and already thinking about fatherhood.
Damn you, Will Smith. Damn you.
?I tried hard to have a father/But instead I had a dad? became the mantra of Gen-X and beyond. In the wake of fathers realizing things about their own childhoods coupled with stoic, distant treatment by the men in their lives, dads claimed their new place. Kurt Cobain had a troubled relationship with his dad, but never wrote about it. Until this song.
Teenage angst and confusion about the role of parents in the age of Grunge led us to where we are today. It?s a bit amorphous, but I?ll take it.
This song would eventually become an anthem for kids who didn?t know or feel connected to their fathers. The autobiographical nature of Eddie Vedder?s lyrics recounted his discovery that his father was in fact his step-father, and his biological father had already died, but ?I?m still alive? has taken on a ton of different meanings.
In fact, Vedder himself has said the original meaning of his verse and chorus was about the burden of finally knowing the truth. But his fans and their positive, life-affirming response to the song changed it for him.
Vedder, now a father himself to two daughters, would be an interesting conversationalist about the topic of fatherhood.
Was this song a commercial attempt at pulling our heartstrings or an honest account of growing up? I have no idea. I just know it became the song that made me turn off the radio. Overplayed would be an understatement.
Listening to it now, however, I don?t care what its origin story is. I hear the words of one refrain and know EXACTLY what he means: ?Now, I?m a grown man with a child of my own/And I swear I?m not gonna let her know all the pain I have known.?
Music is a time machine, and a bookmark.
There are so many more songs than these, but I figured this would serve as a good start.
What are some of the worst or best songs about fatherhood you?ve heard, from the 1990?s or otherwise?
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Source: http://www.howtobeadad.com/2013/15024/top-5-fatherhood-songs-from-the-90s
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We're pretty sure you've heard of the BlackBerry Z10 by now, but have you heard of Solavei? Let us jog your memory: Solavei is a virtual operator (MVNO) here in the US which rides atop T-Mobile's GSM / EDGE / UMTS / HSPA+ network and offers unlimited voice, SMS and data for $49 a month, contract free. The company further sweetens the deal with discounts when you sign up friends. As for the Z10, you probably know that it's already on sale in the UK and Canada but isn't supposed to land on US carriers until mid-March. Well scratch that, because starting today Solavei is teaming up with GSM Nation to bring Blackberry's flagship to its customers. We've confirmed with Solavei that pricing for the handset is a hefty $999 (unsubsidized, clearly). The company currently offers the ATIV S for $605, the Galaxy S III for $575, the Nexus 4 for $405 and the Ascend P1 for $391, to name a few. It also welcomes unlocked phones. Full PR after the break.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/11/solavei-becomes-first-us-carrier-to-ship-blackberry-z10/
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