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How Your Thoughts Affect Your Body

Visualize the Positive
Another tip to think yourself fit is to visualize your exercise session before you even go to work out. This is a technique used by many professional athletes. Before a game or performance, they envision how they will perform in their mind before the competition even starts. And when it's game time, their brains just replay the performance they imagined and their body follows suit.

You don't have to be an Olympic athlete to picture yourself living a healthy lifestyle, making positive choices, and reaching your goals. Take some time each day to visualize yourself exercising and enjoying it! When you imagine yourself doing well and having a good time, your thoughts will be positive and you will be more likely to do the very things (like workout regularly) that will help you reach your goals.

As in most of life, your attitude will determine how well you do. Believe in yourself and talk positively to yourself, just as you would encourage a friend or loved one. Tell yourself that you CAN do it! Visualize yourself living healthy and exercising and your body (and actions) will follow. Remember that negative talk will bring you down, but staying positive will help you to think yourself fit!
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  • I will try to motivate myself to get to the gym or do exercises at home. Whether I want to or not. thank for the advice.

    Confuse1 - 11/17/2014 12:25:55 AM
  • I will adopt a mantra, thx! - 4/3/2014 11:23:12 AM
  • I need to practice this. Thank you. I am ALWAYS putting myself down before I even begin. I love this advise. - 1/24/2014 6:12:23 PM
  • Like the article. I don't let my mine take over any more. If you listen to it you will never do it. It's like your mind say stay in bed and you listen. We have to push harder. - 10/5/2013 8:09:38 PM
  • For my last marathon, I used "Just keep swimming, swimming...." over and over, from Dory in Finding Nemo. It worked. - 4/17/2013 10:09:48 AM
    I'm a firm believer in positive self talk -- I'm always doing it and getting in longer workouts, accomplishing more at work, and just getting lots done - 3/2/2013 4:16:09 PM
  • My motivation is not only for myself, but for my family as well. Especially my parents! They both have cancer and have TERRIBLE diets. I want them to see what I'm doing and my results. Hopefully they will jump on with me!
    The new products I found are helping too! - 3/2/2013 4:09:40 PM
  • I find the repetition of swimming very zen... I am up to 75 minutes non stop and use a mantra and find it relaxing and enjoy the endorphins too. - 1/5/2013 12:12:06 AM
  • Loved this article. I try to use positive self-talk in most areas of my life. Thanks for the suggestion of visualization. My daughter is an athlete and I do this with her before her competitions. I never thought of using for myself. - 11/25/2012 11:59:33 AM
    I can definitely agree with positive self-talk. When I am running and I feel exhausted, if I let the fatigue make me stop, then I feel weak but when I start pep-talking myself into finishing my run, then I always find it to finish! - 9/30/2012 9:12:27 AM
  • I try to do this. Some times though my body just doesnt want to listen to me lol Gotta keep pushing through though - 9/17/2012 7:36:33 AM
  • I always say I can stop after I adjust to my longer stride after the crest of the next hill, knowing fully well that I will have recovered from the hill by then and I won't feel like stopping! - 8/30/2012 6:35:27 PM
  • I recently found out that when I get tired during a workout, I just keep telling myself, it's just a feeling, I have to push myself instead of needing that easy break... that which I can push through until its over. If I always gave in, I sure wouldnt be making progress. - 8/30/2012 4:06:35 PM
  • Loved this artical! My mantra is usually a song. Right now I'm singing "With a smile & a song, life is just like a bright sunny day, your cares fade away......"
    It helps when I'm not remembering who & what I am!
    *~LIGHT - 8/30/2012 2:51:58 PM
  • Yogi Berra reportedly said "Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical." You can apply that to any exercise, not just baseball. - 8/30/2012 1:35:00 PM

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It’s a high stakes game of life and death. Terrorists have vowed to disrupt the winter Olympic games; while Russia has more than 200,000 military, police and secret service agents at the ready to safeguard the athletes and visitors. If you’re planning to attend, here’s what you should know:

The Threats:

Doku Umarov: Russia’s most wanted terrorist, urged his followers to strike the games.
The Black Widows: suspected female suicide bombers on the loose: Three women have been trained “to perpetrate acts of terrorism”.
• 22-year-old Ruzanna Ibragimova – the widow of a suicide bomber – was reported to be at large in Sochi
• Zaira Aliyeva, 26
• Dzhannet Tsakhayeva, 34.
1,500: number of violent events in the Caucasus region since January 2010; many are within 500 miles of the Olympic Games in:
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• Ingushetia,
• Kabardino-Balkaria
• Chechnya.
Oct. 2013: 30 people killed in train station bomb in Volograd, 600 miles north of Sochi.
ONE DAY LATER: a black widow suicide bomber attacks a bus in Volgograd, 10 people killed, dozens wounded.

Prior Olympics related attacks
1972 Munich: 9 Israeli athletes killed by Black September terrorists
1996 Atlanta: 1 killed, more than 100 wounded by a pipe bomb. Domestic terrorism.
2008 Beijing, China: 16 policeman killed in Kashgar
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Feb. 7-23, 2014: Date of the Winter Olympics, the first time that the Russian Federation will have hosted the Winter Games.

About Sochi

400,000: population
3rd: Sochi is located in the third largest region in Russia – Krasnodar.
Sunshine: Sochi is Russia’s Miami, on the Black Sea
No Snow: Does it snow in Miami? Well, it doesn’t in Sochi, the city, either.
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710,000 cubic meters of snow: amount kept in storage from last winter for the games.
6,500 feet: The average height of the Caucasus mountains around Sochi.
Sochi mascots: the polar bear, hare and snow leopard.
Space is the Place: The Sochi 2014 Olympic torch was sent to the International Space Station in November.

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Winter sports represented (biathlon, bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, luge, skating and skiing)
Venues to be used in the Games
Days for Sochi Games from start to finish
Distance (in kilometers) between Sochi’s ‘Coastal’ and ‘Mountain’ clusters
Nations participating
Sets of bronze, silver and gold medals
Athletes competing in games
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Estimated cost of Sochi Olympics

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• A coastal cluster in swampy lowlands south of the old city will host indoor hockey, figure skating and the opening and closing ceremonies.
• A mountain cluster, half an hour away by train in Krasnaya Polyana, will host things like downhill skiing

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 You will be watched:
• All Internet traffic by Sochi residents, visitors, and journalists will be monitored by SORM, a surveillance system used to track telephone and Internet communications.
• Drones, reconnaissance robots, sonar systems and high-speed patrol boats” will monitor activity in Sochi 24 hours-a-day.
You will be policed:
• 100,000 security personnel overseen by the FSB will be assigned to Sochi
• 40,000 (allegedly tri-lingual) police officers (twice the number used in the 2012 Olympics) will work the Games
• 30,000 armed forces troops will be deployed throughout the Sochi area
• 10,000 additional troops will secure the Olympic Mountain cluster, supervised by a Russian military team called “Operations Group Sochi
• The 58th Army will secure the Russia-Georgia border, to the south
You will show ID (often) in:
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• Controlled zones
• Restricted areas:
• Olympic Park
• Olympic Villages,
• Olympic Mountain Cluster
• Olympic Coastal Cluster, national park, airport, seaport, and railroad terminal
• The internal border of Karachay-Cherkessia, 200 miles east of Sochi,
• Visitors moving through the “controlled zones” — areas around the Olympic Park as well as all checkpoints along the Sochi and Adler coast — will also have to submit to police inspections.
Armed and Ready:
• Soldiers carry new variants of the Kalashnikov AK-12 assault rifle
• ADS guns, underwater machine guns
• 47: types of different guns in Russian arsenal
• Tor-M air defense systems missiles
• 3 S-400 surface to air missiles

So… after all this…
Why leave home?

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The head of cycling's governing body, Pat McQuaid, has been replaced on an International Olympic Committee panel. Two Californians filed suit against Armstrong and his publishers for fraud over the fictions fobbed off as fact in the cyclist's two autobiographical books. Emma O'Reilly, the whistleblowing massage therapist whom Armstrong smeared, said she was wavering between suing him and showing him the kind of compassion he had been unable to extend to her.

But the most truthful statement Armstrong made to Winfrey left behind the biggest mystery about doping in sports. When she asked whether he ever expected to end up where he did, admitting what he had aggressively and belligerently denied for years, Armstrong replied: "We're sitting here because there was a two-year criminal federal investigation."

Armstrong didn't fear the news media, no matter how rightfully skeptical segments of it became. "I just assumed the stories would continue for a long time,'' he said almost blithely, as if he were talking about ants at a picnic.

Getting to the truth required subpoenas and search warrants and the threat of perjury charges. Without those tools, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens would be writing their Hall of Fame speeches now. Armstrong would still be leading international conferences about cancer, competing in triathlons, possibly prepping to run for a Texas congressional seat.

So what's next?

Within just eight days this month, all three of those athletes were spectacularly humbled, rejected from Cooperstown and vivisected by Oprah.

In a movie, those eight days would have been the climax to a storyline that lasted 9 1/2 years and reeled in athletes from Marion Jones to Mark McGwire. In the real world, the credits may never roll on this drama, which began in 2003 at a lab near the San Francisco airport.

What's next, if anything at all? That would be the mystery. Will the government get out of the business of tracing the chemical re-engineering of famous athletes, turning the task over exclusively to sports leagues and Armstrong's bête noire, the U.S. Anti-Doing Agency? If so, will the absence of subpoenas and search warrants mean toothless enforcement?

USADA ultimately took down Armstrong, but only after the feds gathered the most vital information, interrogating former teammates and wielding the threat "we prosecuted Barry Bonds when he decided not to be straightforward with us. Do you really think you stand a chance?'' That's a bludgeon more potent than the biggest bat in baseball.

The next act should probably include a re-visitation of the criminal case that the U.S. Attorney for the Los Angeles area dropped without explanation a year ago, just before the Super Bowl. USADA, which had sent agents to sit in on some of the former cyclists' interviews with the feds, recovered the fumble.

A civil court case may fill the void, and replenish portions of the U.S. Postal Service's budget wasted on Armstrong's teams. The Department of Justice is considering joining a lawsuit filed by ex-rider Floyd Landis accusing the cycling team of defrauding its most famous sponsor, which inserted anti-doping language into its contract with Armstrong and his team.

The Postal Service spent anywhere from $30 million to $40 million backing Armstrong's team, and this particular type of case allows plaintiffs to collect triples damages, as a deterrent to other fraudsters. Landis, as the whistleblower, would get a cut of any award or settlement, but the government could still collect as much as $90 million to $100 million in the deal.

A return of even half that much would validate the efforts of FDA agent Jeff Novitzky in the best possible way, not through shaming of superstars or pressure on offices of a sports commissioner, but in cash.

It's hard to imagine Novitzky ending his pursuit now, even if it would mean going out on top. He may not nab another star for years, and he can't land a bigger one than Armstrong. There is no one bigger, only those who appear more unassailable -- for now.

But Novitzky's work has not focused exclusively on the rich and famous and knowingly corrupt. Tainted nutritional supplements, promising rapid-growth muscles and delivering them through products spiked with anabolic steroids, became a priority a while ago. A young man named Jareem Gunther played small-college baseball, bought a supplement online and ended up with liver damage that destroyed his career. Novitzky's office prosecuted the distributors and helped Gunther get a small settlement.

Overseas, McQuaid's ouster from the IOC panel has been portrayed as necessary relief for a very busy man. He does have a lot going on. He and the former head of the International Cycling Union, Hein Verbruggen tried to sue former London Sunday Times sportswriter Paul Kimmage for defamation after he accused them of aiding and abetting Armstrong and other doped cyclists. The USADA report ultimately forced them to back down in the fall, but not before two American cycling bloggers established a defense fund for the writer.

When McQuaid and Verbruggen killed their lawsuit, the defense money turned into a fund supporting an effort by Kimmage to lodge criminal charges against the pair. So yes, McQuaid, an enemy of free speech and possibly of his own sport, is quite busy, thanks in part to information procured by the U.S. government.

As Armstrong talked to Oprah, he made it clear that the federal investigation frightened him. When the U.S. Attorney killed the case, he was enormously relieved.

"I thought I was out of the woods,'' he said. "And those were some serious woods."

But he wasn't in the clear. The investigation ensnared Bonds and Clemens and Jason Giambi and Mark McGwire and Marion Jones, plus the NFL's Bill Romanowski and Dana Stubblefield and Barret Robbins, the Raiders center who went AWOL from the Super Bowl 10 years ago and has since been shot by police and endured repeated stints in drug rehab. And it still didn't stop.

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Stan Kroenke, the American businessman who has more than doubled his stake in English soccer club Arsenal over the last 12 months, could trigger a takeover bid for the club by spending just US$9 million.

646 more shares in the club would take Kroenke to the 30 per cent mark that would oblige him to make an offer for the club's remaining shares. Whether or not that is his intention remains to be seen. 'There are strong signs that that will not be his strategy,' reported The Guardian newspaper on Thursday. 'His intention is said to be to reach the 29.9% limit, which he is expected to achieve within weeks, and staying at that level.'

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Confederate and Union soldiers re-enact a Civil War battle that occurred near Homosassa. The sides take turns winning.

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CRYSTAL RIVER -- A two-day Civil War battle re-enactment featuring blazing cannons and muskets, along with lots of period costumes, drew a large turnout last weekend.

After being defeated by the Yankees at the fourth annual Nature Coast Civil War Re-Enactment on Saturday, the Confederates rebounded Sunday. They vanquished their Union foes to the delight of the mostly Rebel crowd. Confederate flags flew in larger numbers Sunday than the American flag.

The battle was billed as the Raid on the Yulee Sugar Mill, a reference to an actual blockade skirmish that occurred near Homosassa.

The mock battles, with artillery volleys followed by charging infantry and cavalry, were more grand than the original.

Also at the re-enactment were vendors selling muskets, knives, handmade clothing and jewelry of the era.

Demonstrations in soap making, battlefield medicine, cavalry and artillery techniques were offered throughout the weekend.

Among the demonstrations was featured speaker Nelson Winbush.

Winbush, 71, is the grandson of a slave, Louis Napoleon Nelson, who fought with the Confederates during the Civil War. Nelson served with the 7th Tennessee Cavalry, commanded by Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who later formed the group that became the Ku Klux Klan.

Standing next to the Confederate flag that had draped his grandfather's coffin, Winbush defended both the service of African-Americans in the Confederate forces and the flag, often labeled as a symbol of racism.

"This is the most misunderstood flag in the world," Winbush said. "It has absolutely nothing to do with skinheads, neo-Nazis, the Klan or the Aryan Nation. This flag is very important to me."

Winbush also said that "about 90,000" African-Americans fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War.

"The first person killed in the Revolutionary War was a black man. Blacks have fought and died in every other war, so why not the War between the States?"

Winbush said that history unfairly depicts the role of blacks in the Civil War.

"The war wasn't about slavery," he said. "Only 15 percent of southern people owned slaves and most of them just owned three or four.

Winbush said that his grandfather didn't mind being a slave.

After the war, Nelson returned to "his master's" property and lived with him for 12 more years.

"That protected him from the carpetbaggers," Winbush said.

The audience cheered and applauded after Winbush finished.

Julie Munn, vice president of the re-enactment committee, thanked Winbush and invited him to visit again.

At least one person in the audience disagreed with Winbush's speech.

"Well, I guess you learn something new every day," said Cliff Christianson, a seasonal visitor from Wisconsin.

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So here it would be to sign, keep, and let go for this season in my humble opinion and let me know what you think.

Next Season Salary (Must be between $58 to $70 million. We can get up to $70 million before tax happens)

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Joseph $1.1 mil salary next season gone
Blair $1 mil salary next season gone (depends on Duncan taking $12 mil a year)
Bonner $3.6 mil salary gone (for some type of cash or draft picks)
Diaw gone

In regards to Lebron and Wade in Miami by 2014, that could quickly change, especially if they lose tonight. If Lebron could reduce his salary to only $16 million a year to try to win a championship when he could have easily received $26 million a year, than I think Lebron in a few years would decide to go back to a small market team like the Spurs to try to win one. The Spurs will still have a nice core of talent at that time too.
How can you let go Joseph and Bonner? I'm sure teams would give you back some salary. What about euro guys they drafted recently that they want to bring in? They won't take chicken feed to come over. I don't see Wade and LeBron going to small market teams ever. But I like your pro active stance though.

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Here are my top 10 gigs of 2010. It's probably a bit of a stretch listing 10, since 7 of them were festival sets, but I felt both SoundWave and The Big Day Out were extremely strong this past year.

I skipped Muse's late year arena shows since their headlining spot at January's Big Day Out festival was more than enough to keep me satisfied for a long while. Playing practically a full set & including a tremendous light show, the English trio were right at the top of their game and almost as good as when I saw them in early '07. The new songs sounded better than I expected, while their set was pretty spot on apart from excluding Stockholm Syndrome. It was great to get right up near the front & the crowd surge just before they came on almost swept me off my feet. Better was the sight of practically everyone within the D barrier bouncing along to the chorus of Time Is Running Out, which was the set highlight. That song, along with Starlight & Uprising were the sing-along stand-outs, prior to the sensational encore which included Jet's Nic Cester coming out to sing Back In Black, before Muse finished it off in grand style with Plug In Baby & crowd favorite Knights of Cydonia.
2Biffy Clyro

I had heard the anecdotes about how accomplished Biffy Clyro were live, but I still had no idea how exceptional a show this would turn out to be. The Scottish trio worked like a well-oiled machine all night as the Johnston twins provided a stunning musical accompaniment to Simon Neil's rapid-fire, pleading howls. Over an hour and a half, one could not help but be extremely impressed by the front man's ability to pull off all kinds of sounds on his multitude of guitars, while also singing away as if his life depended on it. Much respect should go to the band for playing these 21 songs as if they were an unknown band who had just released their debut LP. No additional guitarist or keys/synth players! Just 3 guys rocking the fu*k out until sweat is flying everywhere. Thoroughly recommended.

Appearing mid-afternoon on the main stage at the SoundWave festival, when Placebo walked on stage, I first had to wonder "Who are all these people"? This is a trio, yet there are 6 people on stage! This included a lady who played keys, violin & a theremin. Thankfully, it was all worth it since the sound they made was nothing short of fantastic. While I'm certain there were a few attendees who felt they just stood there and played, who cares when they get their sound so right. From oldie Special K through to new single Bright Lights, Placebo hit all the right notes. My only minor gripe was that their best song Every You Every Me was performed as a fast rocking track. It was still great, but it took me so much by surprise that I only got into it towards the end. The highlight of an excellent day!
4Jimmy Eat World

Not far behind Placebo in quality at SoundWave were Jimmy Eat World. Talk about a deep set! From the woh wohs of opener Sweetness through to the fantastic sing-along closing quartet (Hear You Me, Bleed American, Pain and The Middle), this was just a fans dream setlist. A nice combination of rock and pop, I was surprised at how much lead guitar Jim plays. The weakest songs were their most recent, but Always Be was helped immensely by some redhead named Hayley coming out to sing with them. Too many bands shy away from ballads at rock festivals and J.E.W proved why that is a mistake. Hearing 23 and Hear You Me while the sun was setting was a fantastic experience.
5Birds Of Tokyo

Having only seen front-man Ian Kenny's "other" band Karnivool live (& being a little disappointed), I was not sure what to expect from Birds Of Tokyo. It did not take long for my doubts to be cast aside however. Mr. Kenny simply has the best vocals in the land right now & while the band played competently throughout, the audience were undoubtedly in Ian's hands from beginning to end. For the most part, their setlist was well selected. Predictably, Silhouettic and set closer Broken Bones were the highlights... As well as new song Plans, which especially had the audience's larger than expected female turn-up singing along at full voice.
6Hilltop Hoods

This may sound silly, but these guys were the surprise of the Big Day Out for me. Not only did they bring a fun, crowd-involving atmosphere to proceedings, but they also sounded just as clear as on record, which is not always the case with rappers. Furthermore, they showed off their rapping talent, especially MC Pressure who occasionally sped up his delivery to add some variety. They played all the crowd favorites to a huge audience and it just seemed right for the occasion. I know the music isn't live, but the DJ's couldn't be faltered either.
7Rx Bandits

Opening proceedings at SoundWave, it should be illegal for the first act of a festival to be this good! As they came on, my better half shot me a "who are the 3 hippies & why do they have an I.T guy with them?" look, but then they started playing... And it was near-perfect. These 4 guys have completed a thesis in how to play their instruments... Chris is a fantastic drummer, while Matt & Steve were like a well-oiled machine on their guitars. How Matt can do what he does on guitar & still sing to such a high quality is beyond me. I'd love to one day see them play a longer set.
8The Blackout

This sextet supported fellow Welshmen Lostprophets & while it was a close call, they ended up putting on a better show. Playing their melodic & accessible brand of post-hardcore, front-men Sean Smith & Gavin Butler especially put on one hell of an entertaining show. Come the mid-way point of the set, it seemed as if everyone had been won over... If not by the music, then by Smith.s curiously forthright & endearing stage banter... He even managed to make everyone get down on their knees during sing-along highlight Save Ourselves. Heavy, catchy & FUN!
9Rise Against

It's always a pleasure to see Tim & the boys belt out some songs & their rapid-fire performance at the Big Day Out was no exception. Full throttle energy & passion from start to finish, with Tim actually sounding better here than he did when I saw them headline a show in 2009. The usual scream-along highlights were all there, while it was also great to finally hear Savior played live. Tim forgetting the words to the 2nd verse of Hero of War was more funny than disappointing, while the crowd was as hot & sweaty as expected.

The English quartet's performance at the Big Day Out probably would have been ranked higher had I had a better vantage point, but an amazingly large crowd saw a sensational set which spanned the Brits' 3 albums. The sing-along factor was higher than anybody could have imagined... So much so, that lead singer Meighan seemed far too appreciative to do his usual messiah act.
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Political majority on Stamford boards, commissions could shift

Magdalene Pere, Stamford Advocate
Published 4:09 am, Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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STAMFORD -- When the city gave the go-ahead for Trump Parc, it was volunteers on the Zoning Board who ultimately approved the luxury condominium plan. When the police department takes in new recruits, it is the Police Commission that has final say on hiring decisions. And as the city considers revising rules and regulations for use of city parks, it will be the Parks and Recreation Commission that shapes the debate this fall.

Although often less visible than elected officials, the appointed members of the city's 50 volunteer boards and commissions make decisions that affect every part of life in the city, from public safety to municipal golf courses to shellfishing.

This year, after 14 years of Democratic dominance, the political balance of these often-powerful bodies may be shaken up if Republican mayoral candidate Michael Pavia is elected in the fall. Pavia is running against Democratic nominee and longtime Board of Representatives President David Martin.

Because the mayor nominates candidates for city boards and commissions, he has much say over who gets appointments and which party holds a majority on city boards. Traditionally, the mayor chooses candidates based on names submitted via the Democratic City Committee and Republican Town Committee, although there is no rule in the charter mandating such a system. The nominees must also go before Board of Representatives for approval.

"Historically, the mayor has nominated a majority from their party, but that's not written in stone," Mayor Dannel Malloy said. "Under normal circumstances, if there's a six-person commission, four would be from the majority party and two the minority."

With the possibility of a Republican mayor tantalizingly close, the RTC has responded by abstaining from submitting names for the boards to Malloy for nomination. At the same time, the Democratic City Committee has taken the opposite approach, working to fill all available vacancies.

Both moves can be viewed as logical contingency plans in case of a Pavia win. The Republican party believes it will get better reception for nominees under a Pavia administration, and the Democratic party will hold on to majorities longer -- until its members' terms expire -- if all its vacancies are filled.

According to a list provided by the Board of Representatives office, the Republican party has 46 vacant seats on various boards and commissions. In contrast, the Democrats recently submitted names and won approval for 19 board members, leaving just a handful of positions vacant.

RTC chairman Chris Munger said the party has not submitted any names for city boards and commissions since the beginning of the year. The party will not submit more names before the election, he said.

"What we're waiting for is for Mike to be elected to have him make the decisions who he wants on those boards," Munger said.

Ellen Camhi, the DCC chair, meanwhile, denies the party's move to fill vacancies has anything to do with the election. She said the Democratic party has simply had a better track record of recruiting for the slots.

"We stay up to date with it," Camhi said. "We work hard to get them filled."

Divisions have arisen along party lines on the Zoning Board. More than any other board, it has the power to shape the city by approving developments, rezoning land, and approving changes to land use regulations.

At Zoning Board meetings over the past year, there were often as many as five Democrats in attendance -- two of them alternates -- versus one Republican. Should Pavia win the mayoral seat, he would be able to appoint two full board members as well as two alternates. To gain a majority on the board, however, Republicans would need either a Democrat to step down or wait until December 2010, when one the Democrats, Maria Nakian, is set to have her term expire.

Over the years, the Zoning Board has been prone to tension that appears to be the result of philosophical, as much as political differences, from its lone Republican member, Audrey Cosentini. Cosentini, who is serving on an expired term, has been the sharpest critic of some of the board's decisions on issues like density, historic preservation and affordable housing.

Last month, Cosentini walked out of a public hearing after complaining of being "stifled" by then-Chairwoman Phyllis Kapiloff, who had cut off her remarks during the hearing. Kapiloff said she wanted to restrict the hearing to questions, not statements.

In contrast, the city's Planning Board, Police and Fire Commissions, and Parks and Recreation Commission have traditionally been governed by consensus, sources familiar with the boards said.

"I don't even know who's Republican, who's a Democrat, or who's Independent," Matt Smith, a Republican on the Parks Commission, said. "I think that doesn't come into play whatsoever."

Like the Zoning Board, the Planning Board now has only one Republican member, Theresa Dell, who is also serving on an expired term. A Republican alternate board member, Michael Raduazzo, recently stepped down from the Planning Board to join the Board of Representatives.

Republicans could win a majority on the Planning Board as early as the year's end, when the term of one Democratic member ends.

"Hopefully good, interested people with open minds are appointed, and it will continue to work in the best interests of the community," the city's land use bureau chief, Robin Stein, said about the possibility of a political shift in December, when a new mayor takes office.

Democrats now outnumber Republicans four to one on the Police Commission and three to two on the Fire Commission, which oversee personnel, budget and policy decisions within their respective agencies. On the Parks and Recreation Commission, Democrats outnumber Republicans three to two.

Asked what their approach toward the city's most important boards would be, Pavia and Martin expressed different opinions.

Pavia, a developer and real estate manager, had thoughts on how the Zoning Board should operate. He said the board should not make exceptions to zoning regulations based on specific projects, as it often has in the past.

"Once zoning regulations are established, they really shouldn't be changed unless there's overwhelming reason to do it," Pavia said. "You really want it to be a book of zoning regulations and not a book of zoning recommendations."

Pavia said he does not yet have people in mind for appointments to city panels.

Martin said he would give himself time to talk to the various boards and learn the issues before making any decisions about setting the tone for a board.

"I have to learn from them before we start talking about potential changes in philosophy or potential changes in direction," Martin said.

Contact Magdalene Perez at 203-964-2240 or magdalene.perez@scni.com. Contact Elizabeth Kim at elizabeth.kim@scni.com or 203-964-2265.


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A truck carrying fireworks intended for Chinese New Year exploded on an elevated highway, in Henan province sending cars plummeting 100ft.

Five were killed, according to China’s state news agency Xinhua, while other reports said there were 26 dead.

The blast, which destroyed an 262ft section of road, took place on the G30 expressway in Mianchi county. Part of the road collapsed and witnesses said some cars were thrown off the road by the force of the blast.

Search and rescue efforts were continuing at the site. Eight people had been injured, Xinhua said.

The cause of the explosion has not yet been confirmed. It occurred 55 miles west of Luoyang, an ancient capital of China known for grottoes of Buddhist statues carved from limestone cliffs.

Fireworks are an enormously popular part of Chinese Lunar New Year festivities. In 2006, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, a storeroom of fireworks exploded at a temple fair in Henan, killing 36 people and injuring dozens more.

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Friday , November 15, 2013 - 2:21 PM

Bloomberg News, Ramesh Ponnuru

When he was trying to get Congress to pass his health-care law, President Barack Obama repeatedly promised that people would be able to keep their insurance plans if they liked them. Now that promise is being proved false on a daily basis: Insurance companies are canceling plans across the country, often because they don’t comply with Obamacare’s regulations.

Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress have been rushing to pass legislation that would let people stay in their insurance policies — especially because the law threatens to fine them for not replacing those policies, which is hard to do when the federal website where they’re supposed to find a replacement isn’t working.

Thursday, Obama announced that he’s going to let insurance plans that don’t comply with Obamacare’s regulations skate by. In other words, he’s not going to enforce those regulations. The legal basis for this decision — as for many of the decisions the president has made about enforcing this law — is unclear.

Also unclear is whether the decision will help anyone. As the president said, state regulators still have to decide whether to allow the old plans to continue, and insurers have to decide whether to reissue them. He didn’t mention any relaxation of the fines that Obamacare mandates on the uninsured.

If state regulators allow the plans to be reissued and insurers agree to go along, one of the law’s chief problems will get worse. Experts on both sides of the debate have long understood that the program was vulnerable to “adverse selection.” It depends on healthy people, many of them young, deciding to buy insurance. Their premiums will exceed their expected medical costs, and thus subsidize those in the insurance pool with higher expected costs.

But the Affordable Care Act also reduces the incentive for healthy people to buy insurance. It lets people who get sick buy insurance on the same terms as healthy people; they just have to wait for an open-enrollment period. If the healthy opt out, the pool will consist disproportionately of the sick, and premiums will be high. That means those who don’t qualify for Obamacare’s subsidies will be even less likely to buy insurance, and the subsidies for those who do will be larger.

The fines are supposed to give people a new incentive to sign up, but they’re lower than the cost of buying insurance, and the Internal Revenue Service has few means of enforcing them. So they seem unlikely to solve the problem. The website’s difficulties make that problem worse, because only the most motivated Internet surfers have so far applied for insurance — which is to say, the sickest ones. The president’s announcement, to the extent it affects the insurance market, will make that problem worse yet. The more people who stay in their current plans, the fewer will sign up for the exchanges. And the people who will most want to keep their current plans, one would think, are the healthy ones.

In recent weeks, proponents of Obamacare have been arguing that we shouldn’t make too much of its early troubles, because President George W. Bush’s prescription-drug program saw early fumbles, too. (The people behind Obamacare may not be good at building websites, but they’re great at manufacturing excuses.) It’s perverse, of course, to suggest that the difficulties of a smaller, far less complex program are a good omen for Obamacare. But the bigger problem is that Obamacare is vulnerable to adverse selection in a way that Bush’s program was not.

Medicare Part D, as Bush’s program is called, supplemented the coverage people already got from the federal government. The government knew who they were and where they were. It was offering them a straightforward benefit.

And it didn’t much care whether the people who signed up were healthy or sick. Whether to buy an insurance policy on Obamacare’s exchanges is, by contrast, a decision with pros and cons, and exactly who decides to sign up matters a great deal to the program’s functioning.

Obama’s announcement should also put an end to the argument that the health-care law would be working great if only Republicans weren’t sabotaging it. That argument was always strange: If your plan requires that its main opponents go out of their way to make it work, even when the plan itself is unpopular, maybe your plan needs a rethink.

But it isn’t Republicans who are flouting the law anyway. It’s Obama, who has just announced on national television that he is — once again — going to ignore its provisions.

Ramesh Ponnuru is a Bloomberg View columnist, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor at National Review.

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