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Although Monday's home game wasn't pretty, the South Tama County baseball team continued its winning streak, which is now extended to five games.
The Trojans last lost on May 24 at Benton Community to the Bobcats, who currently are 10-3 on the season. Meanwhile, the Trojans improved to 7-1 with a home win over South Hardin on Monday.
"It wasn't pretty," coach Seth Koch said. "We were fortunate that they struggled iwth their pitching staff a little bit. I haven't looked at the book yet, but they were probably seven or eight walks and another half dozen hit batsmen. Fortunately we were able to take advantage of their miscues. We scored a lot of runs on passed balls. They had trouble keeping the ball in front of the plate."
South Tama took advantage of 10 walks and seven hit batsman as issued by South Hardin pitching in a 15-5, five-inning romp over the visiting Tigers in Monday's NICL West Division contest.
South Tama (7-1, 4-0) joined West Marshall at the top of the conference by breaking out to a 9-1 lead after just two innings against South Hardin (0-5, 0-4). Tank Keckler went four innings for the win, allowing five unearned runs with three walks, a hit batter and five strikeouts.
"Tank was throwing really well," Koch said. "He was doing exactly what he needs to do and then we decide we're going to start kicking it around a little bit behind him again.
"I feel bad for Tank and I told the kids, 'We have to learn how to play better defensively behind him, because right now we're not very good behind him,'" he added. "We had an error in right field and a couple errors at third. They put a hit together and the next thing you know, it's a 9-5 game."
South Tama responded in the fourth inning with four runs, while only giving up one as it took a 13-5 lead. The Trojans added two more in the fifth inning to finish the run-ruled victory.
"I challenged the kids a bit and told them we need to respond," Koch said. "Fortunately, we did and we got a couple timely hits. Clay Waterbury got a big base hit for us. Sam Kuhter got a base hit for us when we needed it. Kolton Smith hit the ball hard and put it in play.
"We were a little frustrated at the plate, because it wasn't quite the pitching we were used to seeing," he said. "We were out on our front foot a little too much. We just need to do a better job of adjusting."
Junior Kolton Smith was 2-for-2 with three RBIs to lead STC offensively. Sophomore Dalton Doyle had a two-run double, senior Clay Waterbury was 1-for-1 with two RBIs and senior Kaleb Davenport was 1-for-2 with an RBI. Doyle led the Trojans with four runs, while junior Nate Hala had three runs and sophomore Grant Koch and senior Sam Kuhter added two apiece.
South Tama's baseball team managed to avoid missing any players for the STC band and choir trip to New York City this week. However, the STC softball squad is missing seven players, including four starters.
"We were fortunate and we haven't been bitten by the band trip bug," Koch said Monday. "We are fortunate in that respect. We have a busy two weeks and we have to take it one game at a time. This one is over and we have to get ready for Ackley-Geneva tomorrow night."


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Former New Hampshire and Michigan State assistant Samantha Carr has joined the Harvard field hockey staff as the Crimson's coaching assistant, head coach Sue Caples announced Tuesday.
Carr, who was also a standout player for UNH, helped coach the Wildcats during the 2006 and '07 seasons and was most recently a coach with the New England Hockeymates instructional program. Before and during her stint at UNH, she served as the site director and head coach for the New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine region of the USA Field Hockey Futures Program. Carr had previously served two seasons as a graduate assistant at Michigan State.
As a member of the Hockeymates staff, Carr coached elite New England high school athletes on outdoor and indoor skill work and game tactics. At UNH, she was a key contributor in recruiting and with group skill sessions, while assisting with planning of practices and games.
In her role with USA Field Hockey, Carr directed the Olympic development program for northern New England and served on the National Tournament Selection Committee. She also served as the assistant director of the UNH field hockey camp during that time, managing the camp's budget, coaching staff and housing.
A native of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Carr earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from New Hampshire in 2004. She completed a master's degree in sports administration at Michigan State two years later. As a graduate assistant at MSU, she organized and oversaw practices and handled various compliance and administrative responsibilities.
Carr played four years of field hockey for UNH, playing at back, midfield and forward and totaling four goals and four assists. She helped the Wildcats reach the America East Championship final and NCAA tournament in 2000 and the America East semifinals in 2002 and '03.
As a senior in 2003, she earned second-team all-region and first-team all-conference honors and was a member of the America East Academic Honor Roll. Carr started all 21 games as a senior, recording one goal and three points and was named to the All-Tournament Team at the America East Conference Championships.
Photo courtesy New Hampshire Athletics

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Why such a skimpy post here? The material must have been rich. If it wasn't, the fact that it wasn't should be milked. Why are you holding back? If it was iced coffee or something pestering you in a train station, we'd have six block paragraphs! Come on! I mean [another commenter] is right that the idea of impeaching Bush is stupid. (Did you analyze the downside of success, quite apart from the miniscule likelihood?) This post is so frustrating!Now, I see, he's responded with a meaty post! Let's all go read it. Excerpt:
If the argument is that successfully removing Bush from office has the downside that somebody worse will take over -- an argument that contradicts the critics' point that impeachment won't succeed -- then the answer is that the impeachment process will significantly hamper the Bush administration's ability to (mis)govern for the next year to eighteen months. And after the hypothetically successful conclusion to the impeachment process, there would not be enough time left for a mortally wounded Cheney administration to do much damage.I don't like the idea of making the work of the President even harder than it already is. These are dire times. How about trying to help? If Congress thinks he's gone wrong, let it produce explicit legislation limiting his power. Impeachment proceedings are a temper tantrum.
I'd still like to hear descriptions of the teach-in itself. How many people were there? What did they look like? How did they act? What was the mood? Did anything funny happen? Were people reasonable or did they spew inanely? (Not that I expect Oscar to write posts to order for me....)
Speaking of Oscar, I loved his post on the Kevin Barrett controversy:
[W]ho is best served by the controversy now swirling around Barrett and his ilk?Conspiracy theories can be amusing. I like the idea of Kevin Barrett as a Rovian plant. And it's true that crazy anti-Bush theories dilute the serious criticisms. The outlandish charges are distracting, and the real criticisms go into matters too complex to understand -- at least without the heuristic device of already knowing whether you're pro-Bush or anti-Bush.
Next to the crimes alleged by the grotesque circus of the "9/11 Truth" movement, the stuff Bush has actually done -- invading Iraq based on lies, illegal electronic surveillance, presiding over and justifying the use of torture and illegal detentions -- doesn't seem nearly so bad.
So here's a conspiracy theory: how much of the "9/11 Truth" movement is actually being fueled by agents provacateurs [sic] sponsored by the Bush administration to distract the public?
ADDED: A little tweak on the Barrett as plant conspiracy theory. The students are being lured to take the class. The CIA will take that class roster and investigate the hell out of them. (But you don't need Barrett to be a plant for that to happen.)
AND: How could anyone who believes the administration is evil enough to take down the Twin Towers not feel completely paranoid about being on the roster for that class?
UPDATE: The article on Barrett that the Isthmus published has been republished here, so now I can give you a link for the quote I was referring to back here, where Barrett expresses his utter certainty that his theory is true:
Does Barrett believe there is even a teensy-weensy chance he's wrong? This he rejects as too outlandish.
"It is inconceivable that anyone could read the [9/11 Commission's] report, alongside David Griffin's critique, and accept the report as a trustworthy account of 9/11," he says. "I am convinced that any reasonable person who takes the time to read Griffin's critique, and look into the background sources and context, will agree, and admit that a prima facie case for 'inside job' exists."


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The lights are on
This morning brings news of a new batch of Star Wars-themed pinball tables for Zen Studios' ever-growing arcade of original and licensed silverball arenas. If the trailer for the Han Solo table is any indication, this will be the most ambitious pack yet.
In addition to a Millennium Falcon-themed layout (complete with Chewbacca and Carbonite Han), players will be getting tables based on Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, Droids, and Masters of the Force. The new set is coming this Spring to PlayStation systems, Xbox 360, PC, iOS, Google Play, Amazon App Store, and the Mac App Store.
Zen suggests that pricing will be consistent with previous bundle expansions, despite including an additional table. That means you can likely expect to spend about $9.99 for the bundle when it's released.
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happy birthday big ben. he's gettiing some birthday sex right now.
Happy birthday Seth.
Happy Birthday Seth!
Now where is that cake.....
Happy Birthday Bendy
Blah blah blah, something enigmatic sounding...
So does this mean Benderboy/Bendy...Sethbert/Seth
finally decided to settle down with 1 birthday per year again?
well...is whichever one of him is having a birthday
19 or 21 or 26 or ???.
Don't matter, ,
Your present sorry,no time to wrap
Enjoy blowing their candles.
"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him." ~ Robert Benchley
Happy birthday to you...etc
FPNYAnnoying JUBBERS since 2003
Happy happies to you.
Cake please.
All the best fella, hope it's a good one
Happy Birthday Bender!
It's almost tea time - be sure and have some cake.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, hope you have a great day.
as you now start another day around the sun!
You cant change the way the wind blow's, but you can change the angle of your sail to take you somewhere else!!
Happy birthday, Seth. Its always a pleasure to read your postings. Please continu with all your good work.
Happy birthday Bendy. Don't forget to call your mother.
"Love me or hate me, both are in my favour."
Happy Birthday Bender!
Happy Birthday Seth.
Happy birthday kiddo
I make my bed with the stars above my head and dream of a place called home.
What did you get for your birthday?
Hey Seth,
Hope that your special day was wonderful!
A very happy birthday to you.....
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!


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December 29, 2006
"If you take a cold bath in pure libertarianism... it's horrifying. It's not a world you could want to live in."
25 comments:
- AJ Lynch said...
You'd have to be drinking heavily to resort to choosing Chait as a reasonable, even-handed judge of political platforms.
a lot of people say they're libertarian or express some attraction to it, but they don't mean real libertarianism.
Libertarianism for thee but not for me! is the cry while the loudest line up to receive their paychecks from the state, and enjoy their generous perks unique to employees of the state.
The ones in private employment don't scream too loudly about the heavy government subsidy of their mortgage payments. Until recent years, almost all were quite content for their children to attend public schools, even though their personal tax contributions for those schools never even remotely approached the cost of providing that education. Even now, when many do pay for private schooling, their chidren are highly likely to attend state institutions of higher learning.
The ones who cry about the unfairness of the government taking their money for the social security system have rarely consulted a genuine practicing actuary armed with their actual personal contributions to determine just how big an annuity they would be entitled to if it were invested in something similar. ("Tiny" is a big word for that sum.) Instead, they like to assume the employer would give them his contribution (NEWS FLASH/REALITY CHECK: No, He/She/It won't. Really, now. Wake up and smell the coffee!); that they are such smart investors all that they can achieve double digit growth in their private portfolios forever (NEWS FLASH: The '90's were a BUBBLE [See Crowds, Extraordinary Madness of. Or Tulips.], the record shows that most small investors over-trade their portfolios or divert long-term savings to personal use whenever able); and that they are "different" (NEWSFLASH: No, you're probably not.)
- downtownlad said...
There's big L libertarians and small L Libertarians.
Small L libertarians don't really want to privatize the fire department and the police department. But they would be happy with the abolition of the 16th amendment.
- Tom T. said...
George Will once referred to libertarianism as "the well-lighted prison of a single idea."
Let me put a different spin on it.
I know a bunch of people in a community near here who were never hooked up to the electric grid, as I've described in some other posts. This is because supporters of small government (both conservatives and libertarians) pulled the plug on the Rural Electrification Agency when the grid was 99% complete instead of 100% complete to save a few dollars.
Now, until they got their electricity, there was no sentiment among rural conservatives to get rid of the REA.
This is similar to the views of people who no longer have to face discrimination (for example female libertarians arguing against civil rights for minorities).
So it makes me think that the real definition of a libertarian should be this:
Libertarian: A citizen who has already benefitted by changes in Federal laws and/or received the benefits of Federal programs, but who is now concerned about whether the Federal government should be in the business of doing the same thing for others.
Prove I'm wrong about that.
- Robert said...
Pure libertarianism would result in a society of brutal efficiency and "liberty" for the strong, subjugation and desperation for the weak.
Pure conservatism would result in a society dominated entirely by traditionalist institutions upholding often hypocritical moral codes, resulting in degradation and humiliation for the 99% of the species unable to consistently live out those codes.
Pure liberalism would result in an atomized society only slightly less harsh than libertarian world, where every social institution of merit has been fragmented and politicized, where the clever and articulate wield hateful power over the cowed and less intellectual masses.
Pure ANYTHING would pretty much suck. The reason, I think, that conservatism-in-practice and liberalism-in-practice are so much less disconcerting is that those ideologies have actually held power. Holding power requires compromise and conforming of ideology to reality - if you fail to compromise and conform to reality, your ideology eventually becomes too deranged to function and power is lost. So the conservative-liberal power sharing arrangement has the effect of keeping the extreme ideology off the table.
In other words, if we had a 3-party system where libertarians ALSO had to prove the viability of their policies in the real world, then their (our, since I'm one) philosophies would not seem so deranged. The Democrats stifle their lunatic wing, as do the Republicans; libertarians don't have to worry about holding office, and so their lunatic wing ends up running the whole show. And the libertarians (like me) who think it might be bad if we just left the poor to starve end up having to go to another political grouping to get some representation.
drat that comment modification.
Internet Ronin said pretty much what I said and much more effectively. But I didn't know that at the time.
As for the idea that there is such a sharp distinction between libertarians and conservatives, one only need look at the history of the Cato Institute-- founded by outspoken libertarians, yet considered a leading conservative think tank today, about a whole range of issues. In fact, when President Bush tried to push forward his proposal to 'reform' Social Security, his handpicked commission that was supposed to represent all walks of life, in fact included five fellows from the Cato Institute (and they only have about 250 fellows total.)
While I would agree that there would be some problems with pure liberalism*, I would mention that FDR is the prototypical pure liberal (and the individual that many of us Liberals still use as inspiration) and the people only liked the way he did things enough to effectively elect him four times.
*-- Former Liberal Senator George McGovern, after he left public life wanted to open a bed-and-breakfast with his wife. He was amazed at the amount of paperwork he had to go through to run a small business. He later said that it was all stuff he'd voted for, in fact some of it stuff he'd written, and that if he realized how hard it made it to run a small business, "I wouldn't have voted for most of that stuff."
Limbaugh likes to find a few egregious examples and portray Liberals as being arrogant, but the fact is that I don't think that most Liberals are.
- LoafingOaf said...
Both Chait and Schmitt recognize that a lot of people say they're libertarian or express some attraction to it, but they don't mean real libertarianism. That resonated with me, as you can imagine.
There's big L libertarians and small L Libertarians.
Yeah, I say I'm a libertarian, but it's with a very small "l". I once flirted with joining the Libertarian Party and felt turned off. They seemed to approach every issue as, "What is a Libertarian supposed to think...that's what the right answer is."
Just because I feel mad that they're banning smoking in bars and restaurants in my city right now doesn't mean I want bars and restaurants to be able to ban black people! That would be horrific!
I suspect I'm a self-styled libertarian who largely shares Robert's stance.
From a theoretical standpoint, I've relatively recently come to the conclusion that pure libertarianism's biggest stumbling block to actual implementation is: imperfect information.
Ideally, any injustice in a libertarian society would correct itself in the long term. For a specific example, take the case of the business that discriminates against black people. To an ideal libertarian, this is either logical, or not. (It might be logical if you're casting for a play or looking for a specific genetic makeup for a medical experiment, say.) If it's not logical, then eventually the business will run into problems that make it less competitive - another business will benefit from a labor pool or market enlarged by the black population, or consumers will simply find out about the former business' practices, and vote with their wallets.
But imperfect information mucks this up. Maybe consumers won't learn about the discrimination. Maybe they don't have the time. (Do you research every single company you trade with?) Maybe the discrimination seems juuuust plausible enough for totally legit reasons that it's allowed to continue, long enough to systematically do some permanent damage to the economy.
To me, an ideal libertarian is one who believes natural selection always produces the best result. The trouble with this, then, is not realizing its statistical nature. It finds the best fit over long times and large numbers, and leaves a lot of hats on the ground. Billions of lifeforms were doing peachy keen until the Oort Cloud decided to burp and send another rock our way. Were they really unfit?
I'm a conservative leaning libertarian or a libertarian leaning conservative. I'm not sure which. Whatever the case I feel that Libertarianism is like Capitalism: the best thing going but too extreme to be allowed as a pure entity. Both require some moderation.
Anyway, I can support the Public Accommodations Act and at the same time feel uncomfortable with the fact that a private business owner loses the ability to decide what to do with their own property.
I think it is abundantly fair to raise questions like those raised at the conference to Ann. After all isn't a large part of her criticism that the Libertarians were engaging in abstraction without dealing with real world consequences? Here they are bringing up real world examples and she gets upset.
My favorite example was always: You own a house and decide to rent out a room to help make ends meet during some hard times. Do you think the government should be able to force you to rent the room to a (member of a group that makes the questionee feel uncomfortable?) Do we want equal treatment under the law or are you advocating a system wherein your whims allow discriminating against the people you happen to dislike? Is that how we want to American system to run, a never ending sqabble about how to divide benefits/punishments with all the identity group divisiveness that entails? Strikingly, the Democrats have pushed us into this exact position (affirmative action, PC thought crime codes.)
The bottom line is that one of the central pillars of why America is great is because we allow ownership of property without worry that the State will be able to step in and be able to take it away or mandate usage which amounts to the same thing. Things like Kelo, banning smoking in private property like bars, etc, etc, a neverending litany of etc are gradually eroding property rights. This is a decidedly bad thing that should it continue will undermine the system that provides for America's success with all of its attending benefits including medical advances and raising the standard of living for people of all races.
However, allowing bars, restaurants and hotels to not serve black people at that time was an even worse thing. Further, the laws served a greater purpose in breaking the back of unconscionable racism and its effects went much deeper than whether a certain person could sit at a certain lunch counter.
I'm afraid that too many modern Libertarians, many of whom came of age after all the benefits America gained and all the progress in race relations, judge such matters in our current environment rather than the circumstances at the time in question. As proof of this I submit the idea that modern day racist restaurants would be hounded out of business. What exactly does what could happen today have to do with what was certainly happening then? I'm glad of the exception to Libertarian philosophy (as, I would guess, are many if not most Libertarian supporters) but worry that further encroachment continues.
I am forced to agree that asking people to prove they are not racist is in bad form and I think Ann's question proceed directly from her mileau. The fact that her friends/colleagues all assume conservative/libertarians are racists is certainly indicative of her biases heading into the meet and undermine her credibility that her actions meet the "reasonable person" standard.
That being said, Libertarians are notorious for being poor at selling their ideas. I take this as a data point in support of that stereotype.
Radley Balko posted a response over at Reason that makes your response to Ronald Bailey look silly.
The most interesting thing he writes is this:
And oddly enough, despite the fact that I hold these opinions, I don't feel I need to to prove a damned thing to Ann Althouse about whether I do or don't hate black people.
This is the same Radley Balko who has spent the last few years of his life combatting paramilitary drug raids. As you might guess, most of the victims in these raids are African American (if doors were kicked down with any regularity in a white suburb, the political pressure necessary to end the phenomenon would be instantaneous).
Here's a URL that will allow you read his CATO study.
Incidentally, Justice Steven Breyer cited one of Balko's related articles in his Hudson v. Michigan dissent.
On top of that, his investigative journalism is almost completely responsible for getting a southern black man (Cory Maye) off Death Row.
This seems to be pretty strong evidence both that Reason and other libertarian (small "l") hubs are not filled with rascists and that the abstractions that libertarians like to discuss (in this case, opposition to government agents adopting war tactics to "save" citizens from our own unhealthy choices) do a hell of a lot of good when applied to real world scenarios.
One libertarian is clearly doing all he can to bring attention to an issue that will likely never affect him or his demographic, because of his libertarian ideology.
And the racist Reason and CATO (another racist libertarian intellectual paradise) are the agents which disseminate this information.
Does Bslko pass your racist litmus test, even though he feels no need to present his nonracism to you in a box? Doesn't Reason?
And--aside from propagating a bogus theory about the US government blowing up the New Orleans levees, staging rallies for a murdering gangbanger who shot a shop owner simply because he was Asian, or demanding intellectuals prove they are not racist before they can attend a symposium--what comparably selfless cause has Liberalism championed for African Americans in this millenium?
If there is one, where are the equivalent results?
- Zeb Quinn said...
When it comes to political or economic "isms," pure anything sucks eggs.
How we go about making the necessary adjustments is where the action is.
Do we decide that with rational ideas and thought or with tears? Both I guess.
- Ann Althouse said...
Steve: You are completely missing my point. You're going with the notion that I just think libertarians are racists. Reread the old post and try to get it straight what I was talking about, show me that you did me that courtesy, and then ask some questions that are appropriate. The fact that a libertarian took a position that was good is more a support of my position than a critique of it. See if you can figure out why.
Libertarianism is the socialism of the right. It would be nice if it were true, but in reality it's just nuts.
- Gahrie said...
How like a liberal to cite FDR's four terms as a virtue.
1) It is quite clear that much of the impetus for his three re-elections had much to do with the US being involved in the Great Depression and WWII, and the understandable desire by most people for stable leadership. (not to mention party machine politics and the losses the Dems took in the 1938 elections)
2) The unwritten rule was that no man would run for re-election after two terms in office. This went back literally to Pres. Washington. Because FDR violated this convention, the Congress felt the need to pass the 22nd Amendment.
- Bruce Hayden said...
I think that previous posters had it right - the problem with [L]ibertarians is that they don't ever have to rule, so they can be as pure as they would like. Conervatives and liberals do occasionally get control of the country, or at least some of its power, and as a result, have to live with the results of their actions.
That point about McGovern was pertient. As an aside about him and his run for the president, we, being good Republicans, put anti-McGovern stickers on our cars. The one I liked was McGovern/ McNothing. So, my (soon to be liberal) brother cut out the McGovern/Mc part, leaving the Nothing.
- Bruce Hayden said...
I would suggest that the liberalism of FDR is pretty minor compared to what we see today. Much of this is probably historical - he was taking the country from a place of limited federal government to a place of greater federal government. But he is unlikely to recognize the process he really got going.
Part of the problem with [L]iberalism is that it is partially predicated on the theory of the philospher king. Or, rather, in this case, the genius philospher king. That the people you have running parts of the government are smart enough to run things (meaning that they are smarter than those trying to exploit the system), and that they are pure enough not to run things for venal reasons. Both are demonstrably false. The aggregate intelligence trying to exploit any system or government program is always significantly higher than that designing it. And most people are, to some real extent, greedy (which is why capitalism works, and socialism does not).
So, the natural outgrowth of liberalism is invariably some form of socialism. Not necessarily economic socialism, but at a minimum, government control of some, if not many, facets of our lives, in the name of having the government solve social problems.
But invariably, venality wins out. Government agencies become self-perpetuating, and power is acquired in them for personal profit, whether that be in a higher civil service salary (for having more responsibility, subordinates, etc.), or in bribes.
So, in the end, you have the smartest, most ruthless, taking control of the levers of power. Sounds like Libertarianism doesn't it? Except that instead of using private means to enforce their will over their fellow man, Liberalism uses the government to do so. All, of course, in the name of it being in the best interests of those being helped like that.
Luckily though, as I pointed out in my previous post, pure Liberalism isn't given a real chance here, since liberal politicians have to live with the results of their actions. HillaryCare looked good to a lot of liberals on paper, but Clinton ditched it when it lost him the House.
- bearbee said...
I don't know what real anything is - liberal, libertarian, conservative, republican, democrat - since everything is fluid and dynamic, it changes and overlaps and eventually can come back on itself.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy identifies both 'right-libertarianism' and 'left-libertarianism.'
The definition of liberalism varies by country and breaks down between political theory and general philosophy
Real libertarianism - how can you debate it without first fully defining what you think it is?
Without moderation any ideal will eventually disintegrate into totalitarianism then into chaos.
*-- Former Liberal Senator George McGovern, after he left public life wanted to open a bed-and-breakfast with his wife. He was amazed at the amount of paperwork he had to go through to run a small business. He later said that it was all stuff he'd voted for, in fact some of it stuff he'd written, and that if he realized how hard it made it to run a small business, "I wouldn't have voted for most of that stuff."
Good argument for term limits. Get politicians out of their cocoons to experience feet-on-the-ground reality and the consequences of their actions. Then get them elected to clean it up.
Credit Where Credit is Due Dept:
Well Ann, it seems your initial comment, originally panned as too brief and cryptic, has hit more than a few buttons and testy nerves, and not just among the people assembled at the conference.
For some strange reason, people who weren't at the conference are feeling compelled to writing essays about how talking about federalism really isn't using a code word in defense of racism or policies that promote subjugation of racial minorities.
People who were at the conference are busy writing outraged notes that they did, too criticize the real-life application of some of the theories celebrated at the conference. In the corridors, or late at night in small self-selected groups, it would appear, judging by most of their statements.
The people who were actually present at the dinner (and stood by and did nothing in the Niemoller tradition) are now outing themselves, busy reassuring their public that their private behavior is not really what it definitely appears to be while attempting to deflect their personal responsibility for their own actions (or lack thereof) onto you, because you are an unstable female who weeps. Or cries. Or bursts into tears. Or whatever.
Major websites with average daily readerships that probably dwarf yours are devoting impressive amounts of space to you and your observations.
It is interesting to watch the conversation morph along the way, to observe the attempts to personalize the debate rather than address the issues involved. A bit funny how many are amazed that someone has the temerity 9and the patience) to actually answer back.
It will end up in the mud. These things always do. Mud is useful - makes everyone involved looked equally dirty to the observer, and the real issues are usually long forgotten in the process. That's why it works so well in political campaigns, of course.
In the end, though, your readership will climb.
- Paul Zrimsek said...
I would mention that FDR is the prototypical pure liberal (and the individual that many of us Liberals still use as inspiration)
You mean the man who herded all those Japanese-Americans into camps? How do I know you're not a racist? Waaaaahhh!
Paul, while its true FDR signed the orders, we can all thank Earl Warren for that nonsense. He was California Attorney General at the time, knew a free ticket to governship when he saw it and the presidency perhaps, so he ran and placed himself at the head of the line of loud-mouthed rabble rousers.
His was the loudest voice, and the most influential. It got him into the governor's chair, a vice-presidential nomination in 1948, and a long tenure as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. What a guy, huh?
I have re-read your post, but I think you may have misunderstood my points more than I've misunderstood yours. This is entirely my fault. I simply wasn't clear enough, and was, admittedly, a bit angry at some of the implications.
I was absolutely not trying to prove to you that some libertarians have done good things for race because of our nonracism.
You wrote: I talked about how important it was to distinguish yourself from racist things that adhere to your abstract ideas. If anyone at that table had had the decency to say sincerely that they cared about civil rights
I responded by citing the work of a journalist from the same organization who clearly does pass your "civil rights sincerity" exam, and he, too, refuses to "prove to (you) that (he's) not a racist."
This was point number one. Most libertarians will feel that they are under no obligation to prove any such thing to anyone. Libertarians like me see that as a McCarthyist question (as well as illogical since it is a fallacy to demand someone present the non-presence of a non-thought) and would refuse to play along. Even if he or she could easily demonstrate that the implication was untrue.
Point number two was that libertarian abstractions do have real world relevance and that these abstractions do do real world good. Balko's investigation of the use of pseudo-soldiers to police (what libertarians see as) victimless crimes led to Cory Maye's new trial. He started with his abstraction.
Had he been investigating a more liberal, more concrete subject like "Black people are oppressed. How can I help black people not to be oppressed?" (the notion that the urban black man needs some white guy from the suburbs to save them is insulting to African Americans, in my opinion) we'd have only a study full of empty sermonizing from charlatans like Jesse Jackson, and Cory Maye would be dead.
For more abstractions that have relevance to real world injustice, you should read Matt Welch's work on men who are being forced by the state of California to pay child support on children that are not their own. In some cases these men haven't even met the mothers, the state acknowledges this, but simply doesn't care or have any mechanism with which to remove them from their (non)obligation.
These were my two points, and I do think they were addressing specific objections brought up in your post.
As far as your main point, that libertarians don't care about discrimination by private business, I think you are misunderstanding our objection to such laws.
We believe that government's purpose, and only purpose, is to grant its citizens the freedom to pursue our life, liberty, happiness and prosperity in any way we see fit that doesn't infringe upon these same rights of another, and to ensure that these rights are not taken from us against our will.
To use smoking in restaurants as an example, as public opinion turned against smoking, many restaurants began banning smoking on their own accord. I can't, for instance, remember the last time I saw an ashtray in a fast food joint. It seemed only a matter of time before almost all restaurants banned smoking. Which was fine with us. A smoker can't demand a restauranteer allow smoking if he or she doesn't want to and isn't forced to go to a restaurant anyway. Nobody loses.
Then government involved itself and began its blanket bans, everywhere. One city in California recently banned smoking in cigar bars, thus stealing the livelihood of people who owned legal businesses selling a legal commodity to willing customers.
The market was already taking advantage of the changing attitudes and working itself towards a new equilibrium. Government then intervened (with the best intentions) and accidentally, unnecessarily, and illogically robbed some of its citizens of their legal means of making a living.
Now, local governments are certainly not treating smokers the way local governments treated blacks. I'm not saying that. Nor am I comparing dinosaur smokers to dinosaur segregationists. I'm just trying to show that government intervention sometimes creates more problems than it's solves in a situation that's fixing itself anyway.
Would restaurants and hotels have desegregated without the Civil Rights Act? Houston did (on the grounds that it would be better for local businesses).
Is it naive to think other cities would have followed suit? Maybe. But maybe not.
I don't think it's any more naive than trusting that Hillary Clinton better knows how to raise our children than we do.
I don't think it's any more naive than trusting Sam Brownbeck to faithfully represent the people of Kansas (even though he has expressly said he has no intention of representing his constituency and, therefore, bears false witness and takes the Lord's name in vain every time he swears his oath of office).
Would the deaths that occured in the extended time it took for desegregation in private businesses have been more egresgious than the consequences of the CRA (extension of the commerce clause resulting in the Federal government prosecuting people in Alaska for possession of marijuana, even though that's not illegal)? Most likely.
Is the CRA a good thing? I'd say it's done more good than harm and that it's intentions are beyond rapproach.
Should it be beyond discussion? Of course not.
- Kev said...
This is a tad OT, but it was prompted by something written by an earlier commenter:
"You own a house and decide to rent out a room to help make ends meet during some hard times. Do you think the government should be able to force you to rent the room to a (member of a group that makes the questionee feel uncomfortable?) "
A while back, I was looking to get out of apartment-land and rent a house; one of my friends--both of us were single guys at the time--wanted to join me in this quest. We found a rental house we liked (owned by an individual and managed by a Realtor). We were all set to sign the lease, but the Realtor came back and said that she'd talked to the owner, and he was unwilling to rent to two single guys, because he was afraid that "we might throw wild parties, or that we might be gay" (in which case he thought we'd throw really wild parties? Who knows...).
We didn't take any further action and eventually found a better house that was leased by the same Realtor. But my question for the legal types on this blog is: Were my then-roomie and I the victims of illegal discrimination in this instance, and would we have had a case against the owner had we gone forward?
- class-factotum said...
Also a little OT but in response to internet ronin's comment, The ones in private employment don't scream too loudly about the heavy government subsidy of their mortgage payments.
I lean toward libertarianism on many issues, but I have been paying my mortgage off as fast as I can (75% gone after 6 years in the house) because I don't see the point in spending a dollar to save 35 cents on my taxes. Maybe all these other alleged libertarians are bad at math.
(And yes, I know the "invest the cash in the market" argument, but I don't buy it. Get out of debt first.)
- Simon said...
Schmitt's point a few minutes in about liberalism's "embrace" of states seems wildly off. To the extent that liberals have embraced states is not out any grand realization that they were wrong all along about the issue, it's because they lost control of the Federal government. Liberals were all for federal power right up until they lost control of it, whereupon they encountered a conversion on the road to Damascus. IIRC, Justice Brennan made a similar journey, suddenly dicovering a newfound respect for state courts when, in the Federal courts, "clumsy new artisan-judges moved onto the scene and staged a slow-down, abandoned some of the projects, and threatened to topple key structures ... [and] the Golden Age [began to] seem[] less and less like the True Law and more and more like a historical period, the result of a social context and intellectual fashions that no longer hold sway."
An even less charitable explanation would be a generalization of Ann's observation the other day that people who are for abortion tend to be for abortion and any line of reasoning that supports it; generalized, liberals are for federal power when it can help their cause, and against it when it will hinder their cause. What matters to them is the cause, not the principle.
As for Chait's idea that conservatives lost interest in federalism with the end of Jim Crow, that beggars belief. It's as if Chait slept through the 1980s and 1990s.


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Kilrah_il writes "The National Endowment for the Arts recently published their criteria for next year's Arts in Media grants. One of the key changes is the inclusion of video games as works of art. 'Projects may include high profile multi-part or single television and radio programs (documentaries and dramatic narratives); media created for theatrical release; performance programs; artistic segments for use within an existing series; multi-part webisodes; installations; and interactive games. Short films, five minutes and under, will be considered in packages of three or more.' For those who worry that game companies will try to get a grant for a commercial game, notice that the grant is only for non-profit organizations."


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GREEN BAY—Slowly, but surely, the Packers are changing. That high-flying offense that breezed through the 2011 season is now near the top of the NFL's rush rankings. These Packers move the ball the old-fashioned way: They pound it.
"That was big for us. We ran it good today. That set up a lot in the passing game,"
The words were twinged with pain. You could hear it in his voice. Hey, why not? We're talking about a man who throws the ball effortlessly. He throws the ball into hoops from 60 yards away. He's the quarterback equivalent of "The Natural." Just give him the ball, coach.
On Sunday, however, the ball was given to
Rodgers was sacked only once, and that's a very good thing for a team whose future success is tied directly to Rodgers. As long as he's their quarterback, the Packers are a Super Bowl contender. Without him? You know the rest.
"We wanted to run it a bunch. It helps to slow their pass rush down. The offensive line did a great job. We had good movement in the run game and a very nice pocket," Rodgers said.
They also had a maddeningly slim lead for most of the game, and it's neither Rodgers' nor his head coach's natural personality to nurse slim leads. They are men of attack, but on this Sunday they were men of patience and resolve, and they are the personality traits of a strong running game, and they are becoming the personality traits of an offense that's changing its identity.
"We are a spread offense. We're a three-receiver offense and we're going to make teams declare what they're going to do, play two-high or tackle a 230-pound running back," Rodgers said.
Truth be known, the Lions never really declared their intentions. They did a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but they didn't do enough of either. They spent much of the game guessing.
"We're going to continue to let the run game set up the pass. That balance is going to help us out come November and December," Rodgers added.
It would especially help this team in January, in places such as San Francisco and Seattle, where they also play football the old-fashioned way: They pound it.
The rest of the league still regards the Packers as a pass-first team. Mystiques die hard. Selling the league on the Packers' new-found commitment to the running game will require much advertising. The league rankings will help, and the Packers were No. 9 in rushing heading into Sunday's game and they'll no doubt have moved up a few spots following Sunday's 180-yard effort.
This personality change will take time to execute. Most of all, it'll require patience, and that's what the Packers expressed on Sunday, in a game that stayed so maddening close for so many tense minutes that it no doubt caused a lot of nervous fans to yell out, "Come on, throw the ball."
They didn't. They just kept running it, and by the time the Lions finally got it, finally understood that these are the new Packers, the issue had been decided.
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One of the perks of being a mech pilot is travelling the galaxy and visiting many planets, seeing the sights and taking in the culture before loading up your missiles and heading off to explode men. Add a pin for Frozen City to that big map on your bedroom wall, as MechWarrior Online developer Piranha Games has revealed the icy environment and its chilling effects on combat.
Snowfall comes and goes in Frozen City, so you'll need to rely more on sensors and scouting as the blizzards roll in. The inclement weather also means heat builds up in weapons more slowly, so you can blast away for longer. Ice underfoot means heavy mechs will be even less nimble, taking longer to stop when they're at speed. A lovely place to visit, clearly.
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This is the fourth class I have taught at UBI so far and this group is working at a faster pace than any class I have instructed. It isn't just one or two accelerated students, it is pretty much the whole group. I feel very lucky to be able to teach at UBI and even more so with a class like this.
No matter what, the experience here is very rewarding and it helps me become a more organized thinker.....a great side benefit. As always , I hae to build a frame along with the eight students. This frame, a steel 29er will be property of UBI and will get ridden by the staff. I'm happy to build them a frame that I hope will be useful i the future.
This student came from Canada and was one of five international students in the class. There is a bit of a language barrier with a couple of the students but they are not deterred by this, they just put on the helmet and weld away until tey get it right.
Even the boss , Ron Sutphin came in and taught mitering on the Bridgeport today. The school is a result of his vision and ability to get like-minded folks on the staff. This might be the best school of its kind anywhere.
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I loved the time I spent at UBI and recommend it to everybody who asks about framebuilding.
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House Republicans led by Speaker John Boehner are working to overturn the ban that was passed in 2007, by a Democrat Congress, on incandescent light bulbs. Many people are unaware that the ban begins on January 1, 2012, when 100-watt bulbs are outlawed.
A key House committee staffer emailed today that "It looks like light bulbs are one of the final sticking points on the Omnibus Appropriations bill that would block the light bulb ban from taking effect.
The replacements available for the standard lightbulb include two versions of bulbs that are not really ready for prime time — the twisty compact fluorescent with its eye irritation, slow warm-up and generally bad light, or the LED bulb which has baffles to attempt to get it to spread its light in the right direction. The ban was instituted at the behest of the major bulb-making companies, GE, Sylvania and Phillips, who found they could make way more money on CFL bulbs made in China, and claim energy savings as the rationale. With the exposure of the global warming fraud, this is a little hard to swallow. The lost jobs when the U.S. bulb factories were closed are just more additions to the long list of jobs lost because of Obama administration regulation.
You can make a difference. Please email your two Senators and your Congressman immediately. Tell them to support language in the Omnibus Appropriations bill that would block the light bulb ban. email http://www.house.gov and http://www.senate.gov to find the email addresses for your representatives. Urge your friends and family to join you in the effort.
Even better, is a phone call. The Capitol Switchboard number is (202) 225-3121. A live operator will direct you to the right offices if you give them your State and zip-code. Your representatives are more impressed if you make the effort to phone — it tells them that you're serious.


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David Shiga writes "Astronomers have identified many objects out there that they think are black holes. But could they be portals to other universes called wormholes, instead? According to a new study by a pair of physicists, we wouldn't be able to tell the difference. They have discovered that wormholes with the right shape would look identical to black holes from the outside. But while a trip into a black hole would mean certain death, a wormhole might spit you out into a parallel universe with its own stars and planets. Exotic effects from quantum physics might produce wormholes naturally from collapsing stars, one of the physicist says, and they might even be produced in future particle accelerator experiments."


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So your saying they actually test software FIRST? Incredible!
Wouldn't "The Last Stop For Space Station-bound Software" be the space station, and not the testing environment?
Wouldn't "The Last Stop For Space Station-bound Software" be the space station, and not the testing environment?
No, from this point on it's go, Go, GO!
Yeah, QA doesn't care about it anymore. Once it's shipped, it's tech supports problem.
Wouldn't "The Last Stop For Space Station-bound Software" be the space station, and not the testing environment?
I thought more about this and I think it's correct. There are two stops the software makes: testing, and the space station. At the first stop, it's bound for the space station. At the second stop, it's not bound for the station anymore since it's already there. Thus, the first stop is the last stop for the space station-bound software. And the last stop is the first stop for the software that's a
I disagree, when the software is in the process of making the stop on the space station, it is still space-station-bound. It doesn't stop being bound for the space station until after the stop, so the stop occurs while it's still bound for the space station.
Where is place where the movies and tv's shows come from that are sent up there as they can get moves still in theaters and likely they are DRM free.
At least when it flips out and tries to kill everyone on the space station, we'll know why.
Why do you think NASA is so expensive?
Because they make us think they're going to mars so we'll give them money to do the sort of testing necessary to make things work reliably on the missions they actually fly.
They don't run Linux?
well, i'm not sure about that... but there certainly have been some interesting times with the computers on board. THere are some computers which basically are like HAL and run most of the station... they are known as C&C computers and since they are so critical... there are 3 of them. And they constantly are in hot standby.
Interesting enough, the crap hit the fan during stage 6a, and being here, I can tell you that everyone was looking to blame someone else's subsystem. The canadian robot arm was being installed and so people were very suspicious it had something to do with it, but it basically turned out to be hard drive problems on all 3 C&C computers.
The cool story here is that the idea that you could have a triple-redundant system fail seemed so far off that it was almost thought impossible. Even still, some engineer had this idea to write this little program which would jump into action if it ever saw all 3 C&C computers offline. The program was called "Mighty Mouse".
During the episode, things went really bad. Lights were out. Comm was out. At one point people were trying to confirm whether commands were coming up and down by looking out the windows and seeing lights get turned on and off. But... mighty mouse saved the day. It kept cyclicling power to the 3 C&C computers until it saw a healthy one and for a while C&C2 came back online and let the ground controllers get some data and start fixing some issues.
All is fine now. I believe they have replaced the hard drives with space hardened solid state drives... but it was one of those interesting periods during early space station construction where software was an integral part. you can read all about this here:
The cool story here is that the idea that you could have a triple-redundant system fail seemed so far off that it was almost thought impossible.
Heh, well it would be, if the estimated probability of failure for each was truly an independent random variable. The excrement usually hits the fan when it isn't. Like, say, a hard drive with an unknown defect where a certain access pattern can make it fail. 3 machines doing the same work means they could all fail for the same reason at about the same time.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) UConn executed its game plan early and perfectly. Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis scored 17 of her 24 points in the first half while
Stefanie Dolson added 14 of her 20 before intermission to help third-ranked UConn cruise to an 85-51 win over Marquette on Saturday.
Mosqueda-Lewis scored nine points and Dotson six during a 21-3 run to open the game for the Huskies (14-1, 2-1 Big East) points.
"I thought the ball movement was great that first 20 minutes," UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said. "We got the exact shot we wanted to get most every
time down the floor. It's been awhile since we've come out with that kind of focus when we start our games. It was great to see."
The Huskies had 14 of its 25 assists in the first half.
Dolson scored on a layup after UConn won the tip. Mosqueda-Lewis followed with a 3-pointer and Dolson connected on a jumper as UConn was off to exactly the start Auriemma wanted.
"We made it a point at the beginning of the game to get Stephanie the ball as much as possible," Auriemma said after his team improved to (8-0) all-time
against Marquette. "And we did. I think that created a whole other set of problems for Marquette."
The Golden Eagles have never had it easy against the Huskies. Coming into the game, UConn has averaged 29.7 points in all of the game, save one.
"UConn is the best," Marquette head coach Terri Mitchell said. "They jumped all over us. We were back on our heels."
Mosqueda-Lewis was one point shy of matching her season-high and three away from her career-best set against Marquette Feb. 25, 2012. She didn't mind being that close one bit.
"I knew I was close to my career high, but I was happy that the other guys got to go in and play," she said after shooting 6 of 8, including 3 of 5 from
3-point range. "They don't really get that many minutes. So to see them go out there and be able to learn was nice."
Kelly Faris scored 11 points, had eight assists and five steals and Brianna Banks added 12 points for the Huskies.
UConn lost guard Bria Hartley after she rolled her ankle in the first half. She played five minutes and is questionable for Tuesday's game against Louisville.
The Huskies were also without star freshman Breanna Stewart, who sprained her left ankle in practice Friday. She is day-to-day.
"I'm hopeful that both of them will be back on Tuesday," Auriemma said. "Some sprained ankles are worse than others. So, we'll see."
Morgan Tuck added seven points and grabbed a team-high and career-high nine rebounds for UConn.
Sarina Simmons scored 19 points to lead the Golden Eagles (8-7, 0-2). Her teammates were 2 for 16 in the first half as the Huskies handed Marquette its
worst loss overall this season.
Katherine Plouffe, the Golden Eagles' leading scorer and rebounder, had a tough game. She finished with a point of rebound. She came in averaging 14.1 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.
The Huskies stretched a 35-point halftime lead into a 77-33 advantage midway through the second as Dolson scored six points, Mosqueda-Lewis added five and Faris 4.
"They were on their game," Mitchell said. "Look at their numbers. They had great nights."
UConn shot 50.7 percent (35 of 69) from the floor while Marquette was 34.6 percent (18 of 52).


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But baulks at debate on representative art
Since the UK Passport Service started to go digital last year, some applicants have run into a little Rise of the Machines-related trouble. Maybe your skin's the wrong colour (which takes you back, but they don't mean it in the old sense), or your baby's too shiny, or for some reason won't look straight at the camera.
People who look like people as far as other people are concerned do not always look like what the UKPS photo digitisation system thinks people ought to look like. Hence, the photo is rejected and the applicant is encouraged to try to look more like the UKPS' concept of what they should look like. It seemed clear to us when the new photo guidelines were announced that the sensible thing to do would be to snap yourself digitally and then give yourself a quick Photoshopping, adding or subtracting tan as necessary, matting yourself up a tad and knocking your teeth out, should the raw image exhibit an excess of Jenny Agutter (only a machine could conceive of such an "excess" being possible, surely).
Obviously we didn't mention this at the time because if it came to the Home Office's attention that it was poised on the brink of a nightmare philosophical argument about art, images and representation, it would put a stop to it right away. Which it now has. According to Home Office Minister Andy Burnham guidance was updated in December to advise "customers" that "the digital enhancement of photographs was not recommended." Actually the guidance was updated in the old news announcement, which hardly anybody's going to read now, but seems not to be present in the standard guidance that most people will consult. Joined up government in action.
No matter, because it's a bit of a cop-out anyway. Given that UKPS remains happy about receiving pictures taken by digital cameras and produced by digital printers (1200dpi or better recommended), we really need a better definition of what it means by digital enhancement. If the enhancements are part of the camera's standard processes, then is that OK? Shouldn't whatever it is that UKPS' systems are doing to the picture count as digital enhancement, and if so, why is it OK for them but not for you? Is it just a case of you not being supposed to make yourself look prettier (e.g. spot removal)? Would it be OK to make yourself uglier (digital degradation)?
The announcement has, as you see, merely postponed the Home Office's long overdue debate on the nature and purpose of representative art. Perhaps someone should ask Culture, Media and Sport instead. ®
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RIAA Exec Jumps To The ESA: Expect Lawsuits Against Video Gamers
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The Entertainment Software Association -- basically the RIAA for video game companies -- has apparently hired a high level RIAA exec. And not just any high level exec, but the guy who was in charge of the RIAA's disastrous litigation efforts. The ESA hasn't been as widely reviled as the RIAA or MPAA (or even the BSA), but it has had its run-ins with folks in the past. And, of course, it was just about a year ago that the ESA's boss was whining that he wished more countries copied the DMCA. No wonder Davenport Lyons is having a field day suing people for file sharing video games. It appears that the video gaming industry is looking to follow in the footsteps of all the RIAA's mistakes.


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The University of Central Missouri Department of Music recently recognized the dedication of a member of its emeriti faculty with the dedication of the Russell Coleman Rehearsal Hall in the university's Utt Building.
Congratulating Russell Coleman, right, on the dedication of the Russell Coleman Rehearsal Hall are, left to right, UCM President Chuck Ambrose; Gersham Nelson, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; and Steven Moore, chair of the Department of Music.
The dedication of the Russell Coleman Rehearsal Hall followed the UCM Alumni Band gathering and concert on Saturday, Jan. 12. The event brought many of Coleman's former students together to participate in the dedication, including a former student who traveled from Wyoming to participate.
Steven Moore, chair of the UCM Department of Music, introduced Gersham Nelson, dean of the UCM College of Art, Humanities, and Social Sciences; UCM President Charles Ambrose; and Dale Carder, Warrensburg, who served as UCM Marching Mules drum major for four years under the direction of Coleman. Each expressed their appreciation for the dedication of Coleman and his wife, Alice, to the university's music program and the community.
"This really isn't about me," Coleman said. "It recognizes what my students and I were able to achieve in this room. This recognition is the result of the efforts and successes of the students and faculty I had the pleasure to work with."
Coleman, a resident of Warrensburg, was a member of the university's music faculty from 1964 until his retirement in 1996. During that time he served as director of bands, including the Marching Mules and the Concert Band, and provided private instruction.
During Coleman's tenure, the UCM bands were invited to perform at variety regional and national conferences, establishing the Central Concert Band as a major ensemble. Coleman and the Department of Music also established a close relationship with Frank Erickson and Claude T. Smith, nationally known composers of music for concert band. The UCM Concert Band recorded many of their compositions for distribution by publishing companies. Hundreds of high school and college band directors began their career under the direction of Coleman.
Coleman also served as one of four directors of the Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble in Japan, traveling to Japan for a three month period four times between 1997 and 2007. He directed the ensemble during a U.S. tour in 2006.
While at UCM Coleman also was elected to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. He currently is one of only three members of the national organization from Missouri. Following his retirement, he was elected to the Missouri Bandmasters Hall of Fame and the Missouri Music Educators Association Hall of Fame.
Coleman also has been active in the Warrensburg community as the founding conductor of the Warrensburg Community Band, which has provided a summer concert series for the Warrensburg community since it was founded in 1985.


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George A. Cannon, 84, passed away peacefully Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, in Cape Coral. He was born and raised as a Catholic in Philadelphia, the son of Ethel Herion and George Cannon. He proudly served our country in the U.S. Navy at the end of World War II. In 1967, he founded G. Cannon Roofing and Siding in Norristown, Pa., still a thriving family business.
In 1982, he moved to Safety Harbor, Fla., with his wife, Carmella, where he loved to fish and they shared a passion for golf at Chi Chi Rodriguez Golf Club in Clearwater.
He is predeceased by his wife of 45 years, Carmella (Rossi) Cannon, and two brothers, Jack and Don. He leaves behind his children, Robert (Patricia) Cannon, Kathleen (Earl) Scott and Cheryl Kuhles; brother, Jerry Cannon; sister, Sue (Cannon) Curtain; grandchildren, Aimee, Kimberly, Luis, Earl Jr., Brian and Rachel; and great-grandchildren, Mikaila, Cooper, Trevor Jr. and Leaf. He was loved and will be missed by many.
A memorial mass will be held at 12:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Espiritu Santo Catholic Church in Safety Harbor, Fla. Flowers can be sent or in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Hope Hospice in memory of George A. Cannon and sent to 2430 Diplomat Parkway East, Cape Coral, FL 33909.
Please visit www.coralridgefuneralhome.com to leave thoughts and memories for his family.


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UH Mānoa partners with White House on energy savings for Hawai'iUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Posted: Dec 2, 2011
Today the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa was recognized for national leadership in sustainability and invited to participate in a White House Better Buildings Challenge, at which President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton announced their commitment to fulfilling new energy reduction goals. This initiative also is an opportunity to create green job training and employment opportunities for the people of Hawai'i.
Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw joined a growing group of selected leaders to advance energy efficiency and renewable energy strategies in the building sector throughout the country. UH Mānoa and Hawai'i were identified for outstanding leadership in setting and achieving energy goals for the campus and the State.
The Better Buildings Challenge initiative announced by President Obama and former President Clinton aims to upgrade building energy performance by a minimum of 20 percent by 2020 and represents nearly $4 billion of investments in combined federal and private sector energy upgrades to buildings over the next two years. These investments are designed to save billions in energy costs and, according to independent estimates, create tens of thousands of jobs in the hard-hit construction sector throughout Hawai'i and the rest of the nation.
Chancellor Hinshaw and Assistant Vice Chancellor Steve Meder noted that the partnerships in Hawai'i, reflecting bold state initiatives, are moving us forward in meeting this critical priority. "This is not simply about sustainability, but rather about survivor-ability—and Hawai'i can lead the way," she said.
A widely acknowledged leader in sustainability, UH Mānoa has adopted energy reductions goals of:
- Overall campus energy reduction of 30% by 2012
- Overall campus energy reduction of 50% by 2015
- 25% renewable energy by 2020
- Energy, water and waste independent by 2050
"We are on target to achieve our first milestone of reducing overall campus energy use by 30%, through our energy conservation measures and thanks to support from our Legislature and other partners who have helped fund modernized cooling systems and renewable energy projects," said Chancellor Hinshaw.
"Completing our other goals will require sustained commitment by our campus and our community partners to continue the momentum we've created toward energy independence," she said.
UH Mānoa's half-century-old Kuykendall Hall is the focus of the Better Buildings Challenge program. Proposed $36 million renovations would make the instructional building an example for UH and Hawai'i to move toward longer-term energy independence goals and demonstrate innovation in sustainable tropical architecture. It would be the first zero net energy (non-fossil fuel dependent) retrofitted building in the State of Hawai'i. Funds for construction are being requested from the State Legislature.
Design for the project is supported through the U.S. Department of Energy National Commercial Building Partnership Program as one of only three nationally to create a high-performance net zero energy design. Ben Woo Architects of Honolulu led the impressive design effort. The design team includes nationally recognized experts in natural ventilation and acoustics provided by the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and supported by technical input from the Center for the Built Environment at UC Berkeley.
More information about the Better Buildings Challenge may be found at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/02/we-cant-wait-president-obama-announces-nearly-4-billion-investment-energ.
For more information about UH Mānoa's sustainability initiatives, see: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/facilities/ or http://manoa.hawaii.edu/chancellor/sustainability/.


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Members of Oliver Ames High School in North Easton were in shock Friday morning after hearing of the death of student Devin Ness.
"It is with a very heavy heart that I share with you that senior wrestling captain Devin Ness has passed away,'' athletic director Bill Matthews said in an e-mail. "He became suddenly ill [Thursday] night, was taken to the hospital, and passed away [Friday] morning."
Matthews had no additional information, but said, "I expect a formal announcement will be released at a later time."
According to the Brockton Enterprise, principal Wesley Paul said that Ness had died of an aneurysm. On Twitter, Paul said, "On behalf of the community of Oliver Ames, I extend our heartfelt thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of Devin Ness in his passing.''
Oliver Ames canceled all athletic events and practices for Friday. The wrestling team is scheduled to compete in the Hockomock League championships Sunday.
Boys' basketball
Everett 78, Cambridge 69 — Timmance McKinney scored 19 points and Gary Clark added 15 for the Crimson Tide, helping coach John DiBiaso get his 400th career win. "It makes me feel old," DiBiaso said. "I'm very pleased for our kids. It was a big win on the road."
Danvers 70, Revere 51 — Senior forward Danny Connors had 32 points and 12 rebounds to lift the Falcons (12-0).
North Andover 72, Methuen 48 — The No. 8 Knights were led by seniors Derek Collins (18 points) and Chris Bardwell (15).
Wareham 66, Fairhaven 51 — Darien Fernandez had 21 points to become the Vikings' all-time leading scorer. He has 1,225 points.
St. Clement 55, Matignon 53 — Ronnie Slager scored 26 points, including the 1,000th of his career, in a losing effort for the Warriors.
Carver 83, Mashpee 74 — Senior Tony Pires scored 39 points to spark the Crusaders.
Girls' basketball
Braintree 61, Wellesley 40 — Sophomore guard Bridget Herlihy led the top-ranked Wamps (12-2) with 20 points and 10 rebounds.
Reading 60, Wakefield 25 — Senior Olivia Healy had 27 points for the No. 2 Rockets (12-0).
Medfield 76, Hopkinton 39 — Kristin Fechtelkotter had 17 points and 10 rebounds for the fourth-ranked Warriors (14-2).
Newton North 51, Dedham 37 — The unranked Tigers (13-1) followed their upset of No. 1 Braintree with another impressive win. Infinity Thomas-Waheed (14 points, 19 rebounds) led the way.
Sandwich 70, Plymouth South 58 — Erin Gendreau scored 22 of her 39 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Blue Knights.
Former Lynn English running back Brian Vaughan was hired as Boston English's coach . . . North Attleboro coach Don Johnson announced the college commitments of two of his players. RB/DB Alex Jette will attend Brown and defensive end Harrison Carmichael will attend Bowdoin.For more on the new Boston English football coach, go to boston.com/bps


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Just another Idiot
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Delusion world
New comment about the original Esper ability is still welcome. At the meantime....
Now onward to magic side.
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Spoiler for Monger/ Urban Mages:
Spoiler for Coder/Code Wizard:
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|2013-03-25, 04:39
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: In my room
^that's actually nice. The way their magic works is unique and gendai mahoujin reminds me of a novel and anime before. Entitled Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō. The setting for magic there is using program to initiate the magic. Program based on electronic computers.
The use of rumors to power up their magic. Hmm interesting indeed.
But there is a misconception on the magic side. When they are using idol theory. They indeed burrow the power from higher plane but its more like burrowing the knowledge and form of it and empowering it by their own mana which is why the fake or copy can't compete on the original. The magicians that tried to emulate the power of higher beings can't produce the same amount of mana/energy/telesma to produce such phenomenon. They don't burrow the mana or telesma because its ever present in the world. Mana is everywhere while telesma or divine energy is.... well I don't know the source >_> its divine energy which is different from mana. Telesma was emitted by celestial beings while saints and the like can produce it. Saints can take it inside their body to power up their magic while the likes of Levinia can use it to power her spell.
Telesma or divine energy wasn't classified but its the energy that made up the divine beings.
A problem on that setting is the power curriculum. Those magicians can hide in the academy city by pretending to become a magician but it must be cleared that they probably take the test to become an esper but they don't take the drugs or brain alteration which is part of the power curriculum program. Because once one take part of it. A magician won't be a magician anymore. Look at Tsuchimikado. The altered brain release AIM which opposes the MANA. The science side mess up with your brain so that it can produce AIM to become an esper.
You can just say that they pretend to become a level 0 and since they are allies of the academy city. The dark side might help them on that problem as long as one has use for the other. They are branded espers but fake document because there is no way around it when a magician turns into an esper or an esper turn into magician.
Unless one modifies the body into different structure that can take on AIM and MANA together then its impossible. (For now)
|2013-03-25, 09:49
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
There is just one thing that I would like to point out: in the Indexverse, the general Japanese term for a mage is Majutsushi. On the other hand, the term Madoushi (at times translated as wizard) is used to refer specifically to those who have read and successfully mastered the contents of a grimoire.
|2013-03-25, 09:56
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Just another Idiot
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Delusion world
I dubbed it Code of God. And the Cult is the reason why Freedom Information is in AC in the first place.
Since Freedom Information name doesn't sound very religious or cult like, I think I will combine the two cults into one (cutting down the number of Factions in the story)
(Reason why I don't want them to touch with Dark Side is because I want the Cults to stay in extreme low profile)
|2013-03-25, 14:18
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: In my room
This will help you not clash with the initial setting of the story.
|2013-03-26, 08:25
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Just another Idiot
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Delusion world
I redacted the post
Included Code of Gods.
|2013-03-26, 09:34
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: In my room
-_- okay Itsuwa well..... she is shy and timid girl but when someone hurt Touma. She goes bitch insane and goes kill the guy who hurt him. Itsuwa is good at housework, cooking and all around nice and kind she is absolutely lovely!!!!
|2013-03-26, 09:57
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Spherical Cow
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In a vacuum
Age: 29
And since when does not being a single archtype equals bipolar? Are people not allow to get angry?
|2013-03-26, 12:24
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Just another Idiot
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Delusion world
Distracted by shiny game called Bioshock Infinite at the moment.... may take a while before start typing a new story.
Unrelated notes:
> Named Level one Espers are actually quite rare in story.
>Esper's power is related to their personality. So.... technically Esper's ability is personality power?
> Going to add more crazy ability. Ranging from totally useless to Fueled by rule of Cool (literally).
>Going to rewrite the story again. (mind-screw should be reserved for later).
> Arranging the plots I had along a timeline.
|2013-03-29, 01:08
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: In my room
The type of god/goddess that I'm looking for,
the first one is a vicious, merciless, wicked and like rabid god. The type that is pure malevolent of evil or so his exterior projects but the truth is his legend might be shrouded by his/her wildness and craziness but he/she is kind in the inside and has a connection to healing or revitalization or resurrection or maybe reincarnation. I need an authority that can be both dangerous and can heal. I don't plan to do the kiss thing to just heal someone (though maybe not all the time )
the other god is a god of trickery and not Loki (yet, have plans for that guy) I'm looking for a god that is known for his kindness to his people that he/she ended up being sacrifice or betraying the people for his wicked plan. A god of betrayal and destruction.
Finally is a god of pure evil that the other gods even are scared of him. The authority that can be usurped are the likes that aim to KILL or corrupt a weapon to deal inside and out damage.
That's for the gods/goddesses that I seek.
I plan to use science side weapon instead of esper abilities because I like them more so expect dragon rider back in action or a knightmare frame that Telistina used ah ah I'm having much fun planning this thing. But I really suck at planning the magic that will be usurped because most of the time I plan to use the same thing index verse where they usually don't rely on pure ability to win.
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Girls who hate having to sit down when they use public bathrooms may finally have an alternative.
The GoGirl, a new product created by Minnetonka, Minn., company FemMed, allows women to take bathroom breaks while standing up.
"Women have been faced with the challenge of unfit or nonexistent restrooms for quite some time," said Sarah Dillon, president and founder of GoGirl. Dillon calls GoGirl "the solution to any bathroom emergency a woman can face."
The GoGirl is made of a flexible, medical grade silicone and has a splash guard to eliminate messing or spilling.
The product first premiered at a woman's expo in Minneapolis in January. Similar female urination devices have already been on the market in Europe.
The Go-Girl can be purchased on its Web site for $5.99.
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This application lets you monitor and control Apple Mail from the Mac OS X Status Bar. In particular:
- it lets you know if there are unread messages in your mailboxes;
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Submission + - How to monitor a MySQL server in real time?
oliderid writes: I have almost finished a web application that should support more than 100 queries per second some tables having more than 500.000 rows. Well I'm not used to this kind of load. I did my best to apply the best practices I could find over the web, reduce the queries to the database to the minimum, indexing, etc. but I'd like to have a GPL tool to monitor this database in real-time and see clearly how often a query is done, redundant ones, be sure that my mental is respected "One query per "page", processing time, etc. See when the server is about to be overloaded. The server is remote, Linux (redhat or ubuntu). There is no Xwindow, so I can monitor it through SSH/shell or through a web application. Any idea? Thx!


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Well LSX fans, this is a day that we all knew would come. GM has announced its official plans for the fifth generation of the small block Chevy which they say will be smaller and more efficient, and perhaps even more powerful than the Gen III and IV small block LSX's we all know and love.
GM officially announced its plans for the Gen V at the Wixom Performance Build Center, as the final bolts on the monumental LS9 representing the 100 Millionth Chevy small block were tightened. In the official news release on GM's Media website, they tell us that the Gen V will build off of the small block's legacy with a more refined and efficient approach.
We aren't surprised, and you probably aren't either, at the amount of emphasis being placed on fuel efficiency with the Gen V, but GM is still promising performance to go along with it. The engine will feature the same 4.4-inch bore centers that every small block Chevy shares in common, but will also utilize direct port fuel injection in combination with high compression ratios to achieve both better performance and fuel efficiency. (Well, looks like there won't be any carburetor conversions going on with the Gen V…)
"The Gen-V small block is an all-new, state-of-the-art engine family that will offer more efficiency and refinement than any other small block in its more than half-century of production. For customers, that will mean cars and trucks that deliver more while using less gas to do it." said Jordan Lee, chief engineer.
The future is here Chevy fans. Stay tuned for more info on the Gen V in the coming weeks.


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Thermaltake, being the industry pioneer brand in PC chassis, power supply and thermal solution, introduces the Mini-ITX Chassis SD101, a case designed exclusively for Mini-ITX motherboards. The compact design has a dimension of 261 (D) x 119 (W) x 264 (H) mm helps users with space saving. The duo SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports on the front panel are provided for fast file transfers with ease. Moreover, built-in 180W PSU along with 80 PLUS Bronze certified power saves energy through its high energy efficiency of 82-88%. The air cooling system of SD101 is compact embedded in the chassis by utilizing an 80mm turbo fan and meshed side panel to maximize the ventilation system for Mini-ITX motherboard. We have asked Thermaltake for pricing and will update this post if they reply!
"We are proud to eventually have a case to match enthusiast's desire, particularly with limited space. Mini-ITX Chassis is the perfect one for users considering between compact size and excellent performance, now we have it all in one." says Thermaltake Product Manager Michael Lin. "It is truly a mini essence contains maximizing powerful ideas."
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And let Michael tell you about the biggest fashion mistake:
I think most people's clothes don't fit. I'm always bewildered. I'm like, "Do people ever look at themselves in the three-way mirror? Like, did you see what your ass looks like?" Americans get hung up on the actual size tag.


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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insists he was never interested in signing Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha.
Manchester United admit they are pursuing the 20-year-old, with some reports suggesting that the Barclays Premier League leaders are close to agreeing a £15million deal for the England international. Arsenal were also reported to be interested in Zaha, but the Gunners boss insisted that was never the case.
"We were never in for Zaha," Wenger told a press conference on Tuesday morning. "I don't know if he will go to Man United. If he goes to Man United, good luck to him."
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When attempting to summarize his six-year NFL journey,
The assessment would speak nothing of his individual contributions since being chosen with the second overall pick in the 2008 draft. It would overlook the fact that Long has fulfilled many of the hopes the Rams held for him when they installed him as a starting defensive end following that high draft pick. Serving as a mainstay along the Rams' defensive front for the last six years, Long has led the Rams with 48.5 sacks, which also ranks 14th in the NFL in that time span. If he reaches 10 or more sacks this year, Long would join Kevin Carter and Leonard Little as the only St. Louis Rams to tally double-digit sacks in three consecutive seasons.
The grade would only be attributed to the considerable promise that the future appears to hold for Long and his teammates, with the objective being a consistently contending team in St. Louis for the first time in a decade.
The Mainstay:
If there is an ideal player to personify the blue-collar, physical style of play that has been the trademark of the Jeff Fisher era in St. Louis, it would be hard to identify anyone more fitting than Long. During his first preseason as the Rams' head coach, Fisher likened Long to veteran end Kyle Vanden Bosch, who accumulated 38.5 sacks in five seasons under Fisher with the Tennessee Titans. Similar to Vanden Bosch, Long has provided not only a high-motor defensive end who rarely leaves the field during a game, but has also displayed the durability to maintain that presence each week.
Few defensive players have provided both the production and week-to-week presence as Long has since 2008. Since that rookie season, Long has not missed a single game, a feat that only Minnesota's Jared Allen and Chicago's Julius Peppers can match among NFL defensive ends.
Third-year defensive end
"What happens is he forces that thing to (DE) Robert (Quinn) sometimes because we have two guys on the outside that really do a good job of restricting the quarterback from running the ball and collapsing the pocket," defensive coordinator Tim Walton said. "The one that gets the one-on-one usually wins. He's been a great asset to us, a great combo."
True to Walton's assessment, Long and Quinn entered this week having combined for 21.5 sacks on the season, third-most by any pass-rushing duo in the NFL, just a half-sack behind Kansas City's Tamba Hali and Justin Houston. As a unit, the Rams' defensive line has accounted for 38 of the team's 41 sacks entering Week 14, with Long and Quinn serving as the leaders of a deep and talented group.
"I'm sure at times, it's a decision they have to make," Long said. "Who do they want to take away? Do they want to slide to Will (Hayes) who is a terrific inside rusher. Do they want to chip me? Do they want to chip Rob? If Eugene (Sims) is out there, he rushes well inside. It's really a group effort getting to the quarterback. A lot of people don't realize how much of a team effort it is, but when you have the best pass-rusher in football on the other side of you—and I do—it's a pretty nice perk."
The Long Road Back
Long doesn't shy away from expressing the weight of the collective frustration pent up over five losing seasons in the NFL. There is little left to the imagination when Long expounds upon the beginning of an NFL career that showed team success would come slower than any of his teammates envisioned.
There was the 7-9 2010 season, a year that left the Rams a single win from postseason play, only to turn in a 2-14 season in an injury-plagued 2011. The team struggles wore on Long, currently the longest-tenured Ram.
"For a while there, it was tough," Long said. "That being said, being better now and knowing what we have here, losses are more disappointing now because we know what we're capable of. It was tougher being up and down earlier in the season, and hopefully we have this thing moving in the right direction."
In the first year of Fisher's regime, the Rams improved to 7-8-1, the team's best regular-season finish since 2006. Similar to the days following the 2010 season, last year's finish produced a considerable amount of optimism for the future. However, Long sees far more staying power in the latest resurgence for the only NFL franchise he's known.
"We have the faith that it's going to get better," Long said. We had the faith before, but there was less evidence as to why we were going to succeed. We've exhibited that we can play with the best of the best against a tough schedule and we're a physical football team. That's the great part. To be on a team that's physical is awesome, and I never take that for granted. That's something that if it's a fistfight of a game, we can come out on top."
For Long, the defining moments in becoming sold on Fisher and the upward direction of the Rams organization came during two weekends last fall. In a pair of meetings with the San Francisco 49ers, the Rams emerged with a win and a tie, faring better against the eventual NFC champions than any other team during the regular season.
"We're a different team completely—talent-wise, scheme-wise, belief," Long said. "The belief thing is huge. It's built through success, and we're trying to build that success. We feel really good about ourselves right now, but we have a long way to go. We have the ability to take those next steps, but we have to take those steps. When you look at San Francisco, they went to the Super Bowl last year. We went toe-to-toe with them and, quite frankly, beat them up a bit. As a D-lineman, I hadn't been on a team before that had been able to impose their will on another team that was really physical and well-respected. Seeing how we could compete in the division and with some of the things we've done this year, they're just eye-openers. It just goes to show you if we can be consistent, how good we can be."
"I'm just a part of that puzzle with leadership here," Long said. "We've got a lot of good leaders. In the D-line room, we're blessed to just have guys who lead by example.
While he may be measured in how he communicates his leadership verbally, his efforts on the practice field and in games have been most influential. For young, emerging players like Quinn, the example placed on the field on a daily basis by Long, as well as other holdovers from lean seasons in St. Louis has proven beneficial.
"With him and James, those guys have been through the struggles," Quinn said. "They know the potential that we have as well as other guys. They're just ready for a change, and they know we can only control one week at a time, but also look at the big picture. "I think it makes him hungrier to perform better and help this team win. The guys on this team who have gone through the struggles and don't want to go through that again, they just stay focused and get better each and every day."
While the signs surrounding this Rams team have yielded much excitement and optimism in the present, Long knows the potential of the only franchise he's ever known remains far from fulfilled. The floor has been sufficiently raised in St. Louis, and Long has played a primary role in its most recent advancement.
"It's gratifying to be on the ascent right now," Long said. "Now when you show up to work, you know you have a chance to win. When you have a chance to compete, and if you execute well and play to your potential, we can beat a lot of people."


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To obtain this pet, you need first to catch Mr Pinchy in one of the 3 lakes of Terokkar Forest (Outland): lake Jorune, Ere'Noru or Blackwind lake. Mr Pinchy is a rare catch. You need at least a skill of 430 in fishing to have a chance of getting him and plenty of patience! Mr Pinchy can be caught only in fishing pools so don't waste your time in open waters.
Once you have Mr Pinchy in your bags, he will give you 3 wishes. Each wish rewards you with some items and amongst them possibly a that will teach you the pet. It means you will have 3 chances to get it. However there is no garantee at all that you will obtain the pet at any wish! Each wish has a 48 hours cooldown. Magical Crawdad Box
A long time ago, I caught Mr Pinchy within a few days of fishing in Terokkar and got lucky with the wishes as I obtained the pet on the first attempt. So do not despair if it takes long to catch Mr Pinchy!
Alternatively, the pet appears to be cageable, so you may find it at the AH
Good luck to every pet hunters :)