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Well, I have been out of commission the past two days due to a little stomach bug and a pretty bad headache. Don't worry, I called my mom the first thing in the morning to let her know that everything was all right and that there is no need to buy a ticket to India and bring me some Chicken Noodle Soup. Ok, so maybe I didn't say that last part, but I assured her I was ok.
Today, I woke up feeling much better, but not really wanting to do much, since it's roughly 1000 degrees outside (yes I counted the zeros). So, AnneMarie and Ram left for Hyderabad two days ago, so I am all by my lonesome, just when I got sick (Karma? I hope not). Thankfully, my friends down the street, our helpers at the office, and Uncle and Auntie (landlords) all came to check up on me to make sure everything was all right. I was given fruits and water, and for dinner I had some Curd Meal, which is basically Curd (yogurt) with Rice, and it turns out that I am growing to like it. The even better news, I think I am getting over my whole "lactose intolerance" thing because of all the milk products I have had, such as the curd, well only curd, but I have had a good amount (for a self proclaimed lactose intolerant).
Also, MIchael and Jenneli came back from their three weeks of travel today at 6 a.m. It was kind of funny because I am a hard sleeper and I cannot hear the doorbell in my room, so it took them about 10 minutes to try and wake me up. But they brought back some fun stuff, such as a bunch of DC Comics that I have thoroughly enjoyed today, turns out that they only cost 15 Rs. per issue (less than 50 cents).
Oh, so the other day we installed some handpumps for one of the villages and I was able to get my biosand filter installed in the school. I just love those kids, they are really funny. For some reason they all started copying everything I was doing and saying, so I made it into a lesson by pointing to objects and saying the English word which they usually were able to repeat.
It's sad that I only have just a few more days left in Ongole because of all the people I have met and the friends I have made. But, I do miss my family and friends back home in the States. I'm also ready to hit the ground running with all of my activities this next year… don't worry Ali, I will still have time to hang out. Maybe I will be able to come back soon to check on the status of other projects, maybe not, but I do not think this will be the last I have seen of Ongole … or even India for that matter. Remember, the parrot said I would be back.


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In his Monday Morning Quarterback column for SI.com a couple of weeks ago, Peter King ranked Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer second on his list of NFL assistants most likely to get looks for head coaching jobs after the season.
Zimmer should be familiar with the attention. He's gotten several head coaching interviews in the past, including looks from the Dolphins and Buccaneers after last season, and the way the Bengals defense has performed this season won't do much to hurt his chances at more looks this time around. They rank eighth in the NFL in yards allowed and are tied for the league lead in sacks, a big reason why the team is riding a four-game winning streak into Sunday's game with the Cowboys.
So Zimmer is likely to get some interviews again this offseason, although he's determined not to pay any attention to the chatter about his coaching chances because it winds up leaving him feeling bad when he gets passed over.
"Honestly, I don't listen to that stuff anymore. Honest to God's truth," Zimmer said, via Joe Reedy of the Cincinnati Enquirer. "I've had for so many years people say, 'This is your year.' Then at the end of the year for about three days I'm totally depressed because I see this guy get a job, that guy get a job, that guy get a job. So it's in my best interest not to think about it, talk about it and just try to do the best job I can because I'm like (everybody else), I get disappointed too."
It's impossible to know how good a job Zimmer might do as a head coach until he is a head coach, but his resume is certainly as good or better than several other coordinators who have gotten top jobs in recent years. That makes it easy to understand his disappointment, but it doesn't mean that things will fall into place for him this time around as NFL coaching searches don't always follow the most sensible paths to the eventual hire.

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CISS at the International Studies Association Annual Convention 2013
21 March, 2013
Our CISS staff will be attending the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in April 2013 in San Francisco, California.
ISA's Annual Convention 2013 (April 3-6) is titled "The Politics of International Diffusion: Regional and Global Dynamics." Our academics are looking forward to taking part in this exciting global event. Please find below details of the sessions in which our people will be participating.
The full program can be found on the ISA website.
Director of CISS and the Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Professor Der Derian will be participating in a day-long workshop 'Filming/Film in IR: Visual Methodologies, Aesthetics and Ethics in International Relations' (PWK03: Tuesday 9 AM-5:30 PM).
He will also be chairing a panel, 'Biopolitics of the War on Terror: Theorizing Different Sites/Sights of Power' (FA56: Friday 8:15 AM-10:00 AM). He will act as a discussant for two panels, 'Strategy Through Social Theory?' (FD28: Friday 4:00 PM-5:45 PM) and 'World Politics and Diffusion: The Case of Popular Culture' (SD24: Saturday 4:00 PM-5:45 PM).
He will also be screening the new Global Media Project documentary, Project Z: The Final Global Event as part of the 11th Annual Human Rights Film Festival. CISS will be co-sponsoring a reception prior to the screening. Click here for more details.
Assoc. Prof. Jingdong Yuan will present two papers and serve as a discussant on a panel at the Convention.
He will present papers as part of 'China and Raw Materials Exporters' (TA65: Thursday 8:15 AM-10:00 AM) and 'China's Military: Recent Developments' (FA45: Friday 8:15 AM-10:00 AM).
Dr Yuan will serve as a discussant at the panel 'Challenges of Chinese Foreign Policy' (TC30: Thursday 1:45 PM-3:30 PM).
Dr Frank Smith will present a paper at a panel, 'Perspectives on Security Theory' (SD43: Saturday 4:00 PM-5:45 PM).
Dr Adam Kamradt-Scott will present a paper and serve as a discussant on a panel at the Convention.
Dr Kamradt-Scott will present a paper at the panel 'Infectious Disease Control: Securitization and Policy Under Globalization' (SB29: Saturday 10:30 AM-12:15 PM). He will act as discussant at 'War, Medicine, Security' (SA48: Saturday 8:15 AM-10:00 AM).


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"Free Birds" PG � "Free Birds" joins other recent animated 3-D films that seem to aim their humor equally at parents as kids � too much so. That doesn't mean "Free Birds" isn't funny, because it often is, and it should give kids 6 and older a good giggle. But it feels like it was made by committee.
The hero is a farm-raised turkey named Reggie (voice of Owen Wilson), an undersized outlier with a blue head and neck, who's smarter than the rest of the comically clueless flock. He knows they're all headed for the ax as Thanksgiving nears.
But Reggie gets lucky. He becomes the turkey that the president (Jimmy Hayward) pardons. He gets to live at Camp David with the president's little girl (Kaitlyn Maher) and learns how to order pizza. Life is good until Reggie is abducted by a big dumb turkey commando named Jake (Woody Harrelson), from the Turkey Freedom Front.
The TFF aims to remove turkey from the Thanksgiving menu. Reggie has no desire to fight, but somehow he and Jake land inside a top-secret time machine about to be tested by the military. The machine's silky-voiced computer S.T.E.V.E. (George Takei) zaps the two birds back to Plymouth Colony, circa 1621.
The wild turkeys of Plymouth are smart. They have a hideout beneath the forest, and they make it tough for the villain, Cmdr. Myles Standish (Colm Meaney), to shoot them. The Pilgrims are starving and the Thanksgiving feast with the Native Americans happens in a couple of days. Reggie and Jake meet the wild turkey Jenny (Amy Poehler), pretty daughter of turkey Chief Broadbeak (Keith David). The usually nonviolent wild turkeys team up with Reggie and Jake to try to defeat the Pilgrims, but narrowly escape disaster. The Time Machine comes to the rescue.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The film subtly implies the slaughter of modern turkeys, with a farmer carrying one bird by the neck, but we see nothing. Myles Standish's snarling dogs are scary. Two male wild turkeys fight over Jenny, inflating their chin wattles until they nearly pop.
"Last Vegas" PG-13 � A little too lewd for middle-schoolers, but OK for high-schoolers 15 and older, "Last Vegas" may give those older teens a satisfying laugh.
The story of four aging guys who grew up together in 1950s Flatbush, Brooklyn, wouldn't seem to be a natural for teen audiences, but, they have grandparents, right? So watching four ordinary men in their theoretically late 60s party in Las Vegas could be fun if the men are likable, and these are. "Last Vegas" has a script full of cliches and clumsily crafted conflict, but actors at the level of Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas and Kevin Kline working together can occasionally lift the script above itself.
The film starts with a charming prologue of the friends as kids. Then we cut to now. Billy (Douglas) is the one who got rich, lives in Los Angeles and played the field rather than marry. He gives the eulogy at an L.A. friend's funeral, feels his mortality, and proposes to his 32-year-old girlfriend (Bre Blair) on the spot.
He calls his "Flatbush 4" pals Archie (Freeman) and Sam (Kline) to tell them. They decide to meet Billy in Vegas for a bachelor party and even convince the recently widowed and very depressed Paddy (De Niro) to come, too. Paddy has a long-standing beef with Billy, but he agrees.
Once in Vegas, Billy meets a lounge singer (Mary Steenburgen) closer to him in age, and they connect in a way he doesn't with his fiancee. Archie and Sam just have fun, and Paddy and Billy rehash their teenage tug-of-war over the woman Paddy married.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The guys have crude nicknames for one another and make a lot of semi-graphic jokes about male and female parts and sex acts. They drink and ogle many women in string bikinis who shake their behinds to music or to impress the guys when they judge a bikini contest. The male emcee of the contest also strips to a thong and shimmies in De Niro's face � a gratuitous moment. Sam's wife (Joanna Gleason) sees him off with a whatever-happens-in-Vegas blessing, a condom and a Viagra pill.
"About Time" R � What a treat for this leading edge of the holiday season � a sweet, uncynical love story with a light touch from writer/director Richard Curtis, who gave us "Love, Actually" (R, 2003) and "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (R, 1994, writer only). Actually, it's a sweet, uncynical love story with a dash of low-tech time travel. Rated R for language and sexual innuendo, the film is fine for most high-schoolerss.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The script includes a lot of profanity, including many F-words as nonsexual expletives, as well as a nongraphic verbal joke about oral sex. Sexual situations are implied but never explicit. There is a liquor-fueled car wreck and a theme about grieving over a lost parent.


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Treasury bond yields declined sharply in a surprise move late last week, and the 30-year mortgage rate – which takes its cue from Treasury bond yields – similarly fell in the most recent week, reaching a new 2014 low. Freddie Mac's (FMCC) latest weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey reported that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate averaged a six-month low 4.21% in the week ended today, down from 4.29% a week earlier. A year ago that rate averaged 3.42%. The average 15-year fixed-rate mortgage rate slipped to 3.32% from 3.38% a week earlier, up from 2.61% a year ago.
A similar 30-year mortgage rate measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association's latest weekly survey fell to 4.43% in the latest week, also a six-month low, from 4.49% the week before. The average rate for jumbo loans of more than $417,000 remains below the rate for smaller loans. falling to 4.29%, the lowest since June 2013, from 4.37% a week earlier.
The MBA's survey also showed mortgage applications rose by 5.3% in the latest week, led by a 9% increase in purchases, while refinancing activity rose by just 2%, halting a longer-term downward trend.
"It is official: we are in a majority purchase market for the first time since 2009," said Mike Fratantoni, MBA's chief economist, in a statement. "A sizeable increase in purchase applications last week likely reflected the impact of somewhat lower mortgage rates as well as continued growth in the job market, as confirmed by Friday's employment report from the BLS. Despite the strong increase in the purchase market last week, volume continues to run 16 percent behind last year's pace."


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The Jacksonville Jaguars placed running back Jalen Parmele and cornerback William Middleton on injured reserve Tuesday amidst a flurry of roster moves.
Parmele, who rushed for 143 yards on 40 carries this season while seeing an expanded role due to Maurice Jones-Drew's midseason foot injury, hurt his groin during Sunday's 24-19 win over Tennessee. He had 45 yards on eight attempts before exiting.
Middleton sustained a concussion in Jacksonville's 43-37 overtime loss at Houston on Nov. 18 and sat out last week's contest as a result. The fourth- year pro had recorded 20 tackles and made three starts in 10 games prior to the injury.
The Jaguars also released wide receiver Micheal Spurlock and veteran safety Chris Harris while signing cornerback Antwaun Molden and wide receiver/return specialist Quan Cosby. In addition, the team inked running back Jordan Todman off the Minnesota Vikings' practice squad and rookie wide receiver Toney Clemons off the practice squad of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Molden owns four years of NFL experience with Houston and New England and compiled 36 tackles and two interceptions while playing all 16 games with the Patriots in 2011. He signed with the New York Giants during the offseason, but did not make the team's final roster.
Cosby has previously played for Cincinnati, Denver and Indianapolis during a four-year career spent primarily as a return man. The 29-year-old owns a 10.0 overall average on 97 punt returns and a 22.4 average on 33 kickoff runbacks.
Spurlock appeared in six games with Jacksonville after being released by San Diego in October and had 14 receptions totaling 121 yards with one touchdown as a Jaguar.


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As the European IDUG conference approaches, it's good to remember the outstanding technical experiences discussed at IDUG with DB2 for z/OS and LUW from many user companies. The knowledge is from users, consultants and IBMers who have implemented systems and applications and have that extra in-depth knowledge of the multiple versions of DB2, including DB2 10 from the beta program. The presentations always provide a little extra tidbit that helps you avoid problems because speakers discuss the details of their scars from the front lines.
At IDUG North America, all the DB2 10 beta users' presentations was really great. Most of the DB2 10 beta customers gave their impressions and testing results of DB2 10. They demonstrated why DB2 10 would be rolling into production environments soon. Some companies were even planning on consolidating DB2 systems or data sharing members because of the improved memory capabilities and since a single DB2 10 system can now handle almost 10 times more users as previous versions.
Several companies were evaluating DB2 10 against SAP and PeopleSoft applications. The testing of these applications has gone well and the companies were waiting for SAP and Oracle to get back to them with their certification of DB2 10. It seems the beta customers are testing more extensively and faster than these software companies. It really doesn't surprise me that Oracle would be late to certifying their application since Oracle continues to lose customers due to the improvements on the mainframe and other versions of DB2.
Also the talk at the North American IDUG conference was that many Oracle shops that also have DB2 LUW are converting a large number of their Oracle instances to DB2 because of the crazy Oracle priced contracts. Saving money with DB2 LUW over Oracle continues as companies look at the performance and reliability of DB2. Expect that trend to continue as DB2 10 rolls out and companies are even consolidating their Oracle instances into their DB2 for z/OS environments.
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As authorities investigated the rampage that killed six people and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, they compiled nearly 3,000 pages of documents that include everything from interviews with survivors and victims to police reports filed from the scene of the crime.
Giffords released a statement after the records were released. She said:
"The details released today regarding the shooting in Tucson reaffirm what this country already knew: The mentally disturbed young man who shot me and murdered six should never have had access to a gun. No one piece of legislation will end all gun violence, just like no one piece of legislation would have prevented the Tucson shooting.
"However, I hope that commonsense policies like universal background checks become part of our history, just like the Tucson shootings are - our communities will be safer because of it. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of all who were at the Congress on Your Corner event with me, and all who were affected by the shooting, and give thanks for the bravery of all the first responders who tried to limit the carnage and protect human life that day. "
The documents were released Wednesday, and they provide new insight into how the shooting occurred and the motivations behind gunman Jared Loughner. One of the main themes to emerge was the increasingly erratic behavior of Loughner, perhaps summed up best by his father as he told investigators: He "just doesn't seem right lately."
A look at some of the major findings:
The gunman was polite and cooperative with authorities who were holding him the afternoon following his morning shooting rampage. The conversation as Loughner sat in restraints in an interview room was mainly small talk. Little was said over the four hours. Loughner asks at one point if he can please use the restroom and says "Thank you" when allowed. At another point he complained that "I'm about ready to fall over."
Loughner's mother, Amy, described his run-ins with authorities, his use of marijuana and cocaine, his journals and his increasingly erratic behavior. She also says the parents took a shotgun away from Loughner after he was kicked out of a community college and tested him for drugs because his behavior was so strange.
Despite the bizarre behavior and his school's recommendation he undergo a mental health evaluation, the parents didn't seek help for him. Loughner, who was ultimately diagnosed with schizophrenia, often talked to himself in the year before the shooting and even laughed during the conversations, which weren't angry or about hurting anyone, his mother said. "And sometimes he would look like he was having a conversation with someone right there. Be talking to someone. I don't know how to explain it. I don't."
Randy Loughner said his son became increasingly difficult, and it was a challenge to have a rational conversation with him. "I tried to talk to him. But you can't, he wouldn't let you," he said "Lost, lost, and just didn't want to communicate with me no more." Randy Loughner said his son "just doesn't seem right lately."
Despite their son's increasingly bizarre behavior, Loughner's parents never got him help. Randy Loughner said his son had never been diagnosed with a mental illness. Had he seen a doctor, the detective asked. "No," replied the father. The parents were also asked about any journals or writings that Loughner kept. The father said they were written in an indecipherable script.
Loughner went to a convenience store immediately before the shooting and had the clerk call a cab for him. As he waited for the car, he was pacing inside and outside the store and went to the bathroom three or four times. The employee said that as Loughner was waiting for the cab, he looked up at a clock and said, "nine twenty-five, I still got time."
A wildlife agent pulled Loughner over earlier in the day for a traffic violation. He cried and said, "I've just had a rough time," and then composed himself, thanked the agent and shook his hand after he was let go with a warning. The agent asked Loughner again if he was OK, and Loughner said he was going home.
Giffords intern Daniel Hernandez helped tend to his boss after she was shot in the head. In an interview, he described the chaos: "She couldn't open her eyes. I tried to get any responses for her. Um, it looked like her left side was the only side that was still mobile. Um, she couldn't speak. It was mumbled. She was squeezing my hand.
"I did some training as a Certified Nursing Assistant and as a phlebotomist, um, when I was in high school. So I knew that we need to see if she's got a pulse. She was still breathing. Her breathing was getting shallower. Uh, I then lifted her up so that she wasn't flat on the ground against the wall," he said.
Hernandez described how constituents and other people were lining up to see Giffords, and he was helping people sign in. He recalled handing Loughner a clipboard. "The next thing I hear is someone yell, 'gun,"' he said.
Doris Tucker was talking to Giffords when she was shot. All she recalls of Loughner was a dark, slim shape. "I remember screaming and ... hearing the terrible noise, and seeing the cartridges fly," said Tucker, whose husband was wounded. "I was talking, the next thing I knew, she was down. ... I saw her fall." Witness Lane Beck was pulling up in her car, with Giffords and the line of constituents in full view. Loughner was "kind of hopping up and down as he was shooting," she said. "His face was very animated."
Patricia Maisch said Loughner walked up the line of people waiting to talk to Giffords and shot people at random, including the woman next to her. Then, three men tackled him. In the ensuing struggle, Loughner tried to reload. "He was partly on top of me. I had laid down to get out of the line of fire, I didn't know what else to do. ... Apparently he was out of bullets. He pulled the clip out, so I grabbed the clip and would not let him have that." Maisch then kneeled on Loughner's ankles while others held him down, until she noticed that one of the men was bleeding from his head. She went into the Safeway supermarket to get paper towels to stanch the flow of blood.
On the day of the shooting, Loughner friend Bryce Tierney told investigators that Loughner had called him early in the morning and left a cryptic voicemail that he believed was suicidal. "He just said, 'Hey, this is Jared. Um, we had some good times together. Uh, see you later.' And that's it." He tried to call back, but it was a restricted number that didn't register on his phone.
Loughner's father considered his son's firing as a salesman at an Eddie Bauer store to be a turning point. Asked about how the firing affected his son, Randy Loughner said: "He just wasn't the same. He just, nothing, nothing worked, seem to go right for him."
Hours after the shooting, Randy Loughner mentioned a video that caused Pima Community College to expel his son. "They didn't like his video. `Cause, he's always, his First Amendment rights. He's, uh, he's too intelligent. You know? And they, and it, and they, they dismissed him from school. Told him he needed to go see, seek medical help to come back to school. ... He felt that the pigs were out to get him."
Loughner bought a 12-gauge shotgun in 2008, but his parents took it away from him after he was expelled from college and administrators recommended that any firearms be taken away. The shotgun was the only gun his parents knew Loughner owned.
A few weeks before the shooting, Loughner showed up at the apartment of boyhood friend Anthony Kuck with a 9 mm pistol in his waistband. Loughner said he bought the gun for Christmas for "home protection." Kuck's roommate, Derek Heintz, said Loughner left a bullet as a souvenir. Kuck said he had seen Loughner deteriorate over time: problems with drinking in high school, trouble with police, being kicked out of college, then showing up with a shaved head, bullet tattoos on his shoulder and a gun. "I just know his personality is not normal."
A firefighter described how he cared for Giffords after arriving at the scene. "You'd ask her to grab your hand and she would grab your hand," he said. He and paramedics rushed her to the hospital in an ambulance, giving her oxygen and an IV.
One-time Loughner friend Zachary Osler was an employee at a store where Loughner later bought a Glock handgun before the shooting. Loughner bought the Glock 9 mm handgun with a 15-round magazine in November 2010. Loughner had a military style haircut and cleared all background checks. He used a Visa card to pay the $559 for the gun and a box of ammo. Osler was questioned about seeing Loughner shopping inside, sometime before Thanksgiving. He describes an awkward encounter with his former friend. "His response is nothing. Just a mute facial expression. And just like he, he didn't care." Osler told investigators he had grown uncomfortable with Loughner's personality, "He would say he could dream and then control what he was doing while he was dreaming." Osler says Loughner never mentioned Giffords to him. Osler remembered Loughner coming into the gun store on at least two occasions in the previous year, including once to apply for a job, for which he was denied. Osler said hello to Loughner during one of the visits, but Loughner didn't acknowledge or look at him and just continued onward.
Osler said when he learned that Loughner was the suspect in the shooting, "my jaw just dropped. And I was like I know this person. Why he would do it? What would his motive be? If he had people help him? I do not know."
A few weeks before the shooting, Loughner showed up at the apartment of boyhood friend Anthony Kuck with a 9mm pistol in his waistband. Loughner said he bought the gun for Christmas. He insisted it was for "home protection," Kuck's roommate, Derek Andrew Heintz, told a Pima County Sheriff's detective and FBI agent who interviewed him the evening after the shooting. Loughner left Heintz with a souvenir: A bullet.
Police reports show what authorities found in Loughner's possession after the shooting. In Loughner's left front pocket were two magazines for a Glock, both fully loaded. In his other front pocket was a foldable knife with about a 4-inch blade. In his back right pocket, he had a baggie with some money, a Visa credit card and his Arizona driver's license. He was wearing a black beanie, a black hoodie-type sweatshirt, khaki pants and Sketchers shoes.
At Loughner's house, police found two shotguns in the trunk of a car parked in the garage, where they also found photographs of President Bill Clinton and other Pima County officials, including Rep. Raul Grijalva eating at a Mexican restaurant. A search of a safe in Loughner's room turned up a gunlock, an envelope with his Glock's serial number on it and two spent bullet casings. The envelope said he planned to go ahead with an assassination. Items seized included a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook, photo negatives and writings.
A witness described seeing an ominous-looking man in his early 20s wearing a backpack near the shooting scene. The witness later described recognizing Loughner as the same person from photos on the news.
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Big Sky Getaway Information
The Lone Peak Tram makes a single leap up the summit cone of Lone Mountain, more than 1,400 vertical feet in half a mile or so, without a tower between the tram's base and summit stations. This gives you some idea of the terrain from the top, all double diamond or nearly so, and a somewhat different world than that at the base, 4,350 vertical feet below. Many will never survey the view from the 11,166-foot summit, but may nevertheless feel that it's just as impressive from below.
Lone Peak may be Big Sky's most visible asset, but it's by no means the only one. With 3,812 acres of terrain and 150 named runs, covered (on average) by 400" of snow a season, there's quite likely to be more than enough choices for all abilities. And the self-contained nature of Big Sky - a necessity considering its location - encourages a week of exploration.
While hard-core skiers and riders crow about the tough stuff, novices, beginners, and intermediates have plenty of excellent terrain to keep them happy. The Ramcharger and Swift Current high-speed quads, both rising from Mountain Village, access about two dozen trails, most of them blue, but with a few long greens thrown in, too. The Explorer Double and the Southern Comfort Triple (the latter over on the sunny side of Flat Iron Mountain) are devoted to beginners, with miles of well-groomed trails. There are even a couple of upper-mountain cruisers - Sunlight off the Shedhorn Double and Upper Morningstar off the Lone Peak Triple - that allow intermediates to experience the alpine aspects of the resort.
By the same token, you don't need to venture to the very summit for challenging terrain. Weather or conditions might not allow it in any case, but there are plenty of black diamonds lower down (and four short double blacks off the Challenger chair), distributed among nine lifts. So if you can't play hero off the summit, you can play hero with your family and still find satisfying challenges.
For those who find challenge off the beaten path, book a day of cat skiing. The venue is 1,000 acres on the north side of Lone Mountain. Full and half day trips are available, with up to 10,000 feet of accumulated vertical.
Snowboarders will find a couple of natural half pipes around the mountain, and a groomed one and a terrain park off the Ramcharger Quad on Andesite.


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May 4, 2006
Did they Wendy-ize Tiffani?
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- chrisburp said...
Was it me, or earlier on Top Chef, did they make it out that Dave's mac & cheese was not going over well with the chef-judges? I was surprised that his (Dave) was the favorite of the judges.
It would be a hoot if Dave won it all, but I think he'd have a stroke or heart attack if that happened. :)
- Marghlar said...
Yeah, they do go a bit over the top trying to spook us out and create suspsense -- but hey, it's a reality show, so what do we expect, right?
I think all they did was display an aspect of Tiffani that did seem to be there in earlier episodes...I wouldn't really want to work with her, either. On the other hand, her food does consistently look and sound great.
- Elizabeth said...
I'd work for Tiffani or Harold, but I'd want Dave to work for me. I love his little emotional ticks and jerks, and he's truly a good, focused worker in the kitchen. But I don't think he has the big picture needed to be a chef. Leeann is a fine cook, and a good chef, but not as experienced as either Tiffani or Harold, and her inexperience came through several times in making hasty decisions and overworking her food.
Steven is my vote for the Omarosa of this group. I kept thinking someone had to be scripting him, he was so true to form. He had to go, but I miss his little Steve-o-centric musings on the general unworthiness of everyone around him, and the misunderstood grandeur of his creations.
Tiffani's main failure is a refusal to recognize the service aspect of the kitchen. She's not appreciative of the fact that her clients are her audience, not parishioners. Harold and Dave are the most professional of the bunch, but Harold's the better cook, and better manager.
I've watched other cooking competitions (Food Network Star), but this one is the first to really feel like my days in the kitchen.
I like me some Top Chef!
- Moanique said...
I've liked Harold in this from the beginning. Some combination of competence and actually seeming like a real person. He also seems like a practical guy who understands the business.
I'm not sure I'd want to eat at Dave's restaurant since I don't aspire to eat anything that was possibly in his vicinity during an emotional moment. I loved the idea of him doing mac and cheese though.
I tuned Tiffani out pretty much after the show where she had immunity...I think it was the episode where they cooked for schoolkids. I was hoping that would be brought up before they sent her home since someone made the remark that if she hadn't had immunity she would be packing up that night, but alas. Tiffani as 'bad girl' started there for me.
Sorry to see LeAnn leaving. I liked her.
- Elizabeth said...
Moanique, I agree! Dave tends to get way too many bodily fluids involved in the cooking process! He runs his hands through his hair, and over his eyes and nose and mouth whenever he gets flustered or emotional. I'd want him to wear a holster, with a bottle of anti-bacterial goop attached at all times.
Nonetheless, I like him, and would want him as a sous chef.
- Oscar Madison said...
I don't think Dave is on the verge of a nervous breakdown -- he's just a cryer and a rush-arounder, but I don't see him cracking or freaking.
To me Tiffani is more like Santino but without the charm and humor -- kind of the way the entire show is missing something (several things) that Project Runway has. Yeah, she wants to win, but her duplicity -- if that's what it is -- has been pretty low level. Wendy didn't seem very talented and just somehow slid by -- perhaps simply by being obnoxious. Tiffani is good and deserves to be there. Though I think as between her and Leann she may well have made the cut because her personality brings slightly bigger reality TV into the mix.


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A Hubert man wasted no time in adopting "Arthur" on Friday.
The puppy was found wandering in a Jacksonville neighborhood, during the height of Hurricane Arthur. He was taken to a pet-friendly shelter where the Red Cross and Onslow County Animal Services kept him safe until the hurricane passed.
The dog was then taken to the county animal shelter, where after five days they put him up for adoption as his owner didn't come forward.
Stephen Mills says he saw "Arthur" on our newscast several days ago and was first of five people on the list who wanted the puppy.
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The search is on for the owner of a puppy found during the height of Hurricane Arthur last week.
The American Red Cross has nicknamed the puppy "Arthur".
The dog was found wandering behind the Dunkin' Donuts on North Marine Boulevard and was delivered to the pet-friendly shelter at the Jacksonville Commons.
The Red Cross had two people from Onslow County Animal Services on hand, so they were able to provide the pup with a safe place for him to ride out the storm. Afterward they arranged a place to care for him until his owner could be located.
"Arthur" is being kept at the animal shelter in Jacksonville. If he is your dog you should call the shelter at 910-455-0182 to claim him.
If no one claims "Arthur" by the end of the week he will be available for adoption.


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It's a busy, busy week, what with people fresh back from the Thanksgiving holiday and organizations trying to rush their activities in before the New Year sneaks up. That's why you can see any of several Christmas-themed stage plays: DTC's A Christmas Carol, Theatre Britain's panto of Mother Goose, MBS Productions' saucy Bur-Less-Q Nutcracker and WaterTower's staged reading of It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. You can also see the real Nutcracker in Dallas before it moves to Fort Worth, courtesy of Texas Ballet Theater.
If you're not really in the holiday mood, though, never fear: Friday night get drunk on French wines at the annual Beaujolais Festival: Beaujolais & Beyond, this time in the fresh new Irving Convention Center. It kicks off at 7 p.m. Or stay closer to downtown with Dick's Night Out at Ku•De•Ta. Museum junkies can go to the Perot Museum — finally — on Saturday, as well as a new exhibit of Frank Lloyd Wright at the Arlington Museum of Art. And the Holocaust Museum debuts a collection of 71 private family photos take of Anne Frank by her dad Otto. And you can stop by Ro2Art Gallery on Sunday at 7 p.m. for a farewell meet-the-artist reception for gay collage artist Gary Farrelly. His show continued through Dec. 8.
For the music-minded, Jekyll & Hyde, with club diva Deborah Cox and American Idol's Constantine Maroulis, opens at the Winspear. And it's a concert-heavy week, with Mary Fagan, Patti Larkin, Duncan Sheik and Amy Cook all performing throughout the week. And Willam Belli, my former roommate at a breakout star of RuPaul's Drag Race, performs at the Rose Room on Sunday.
And there are still some great movies of there, including Skyfall, Argo, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Life of Pi, The Sessions and Lincoln (skip the dreadful Silver Linings Playbook), but one of the best is this week's new release, Hitchcock.
And finally, Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day. You can make a difference and still have a little indulgence by stopping by Sprinkles Cupcakes on Saturday. Proceeds from the sale of the special red ribbon cupcake will be donated to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.


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One early May morning a few years ago, I scrambled around Chicago's high rises in search of dead birds. Talk about a somber start to the day. Just imagine standing there, looking at a bright, tiny feathered form lying completely still among grey, dispassionate buildings. Now envision witnessing such a sight for days on end during migration season. Who would do that? The nonprofit Chicago Bird Collision Monitors (CBCM), for one. That May morning, I was out with the organization's energetic director, Annette Prince. She and her volunteers troll Chicago's most notorious bird-killing buildings during the spring and fall for avian victims, transporting the dead to the Field Museum and the living to a wildlife rehabilitation center. That day, Annette and her crew rescued 17 birds and found 20 deceased. And that's just in a portion of one city in one day. Imagine the carnage during a season.
Why are these birds dying? You might be tempted to say "lights." Well, that's only a part of the answer. Sure, birds can be tricked by building illumination, thinking it's a navigational cue like the stars or moon. But typically birds don't just crash into those lit facades to rain on the ground below. Rather, pulled of course, they likely settle into the city to rest, where they risk flying into a window (say, in a lobby) when they take off again. "It's not, in my view, beacons that are attracting these animals to their deaths on the tops of the buildings," said Daniel Klem, an ornithologist at the Acopian Center for Ornithology, in an article I wrote after my trip, "It's a secondary effect that gets them, and that's the glass on the ground."
The thing is, birds don't see windows as a barrier. That's one of the reasons that glass is the second-largest manmande threat to birds after habitat loss. Klem estimates that at least a billion birds—roughly five percent of the bird population after breeding season—die annually across the United States by colliding with windows.
And this isn't just happening in cities. It could be going on in your neighbhorhood, in your own backyard, out of sight, any time of year. To read one man's grisly tail of what happened to a feathery visitor after it conked itself out on his window, click here.
So what can you do to outfit your house with crash deterrents? The list below came from a paper by Daniel Klem, which he presented last year at a Partners in Flight conference.
1) Cover windows with netting.
2) Move bird feeders, watering areas, perches, and other attractants to within one meter or less of the glass surface.
3) Place decals on or hang strings of objects in front of windows such that they uniformly cover the surface and are separated by 10 cm (4 in) or less in vertical columns or 5 cm (2 in) or less in horizontal rows. (*Author's note: In other words, one lonely decal isn't enough of a warning sign. The idea is to produce a visual disturbance that signifies to birds, "Stop!")
4) Use one-way films that consist of patterns and color shades acceptable to homeowner and commercial building manager; these films provide a minimally obstructed view from inside while rendering a window opaque or translucent when viewed from the outside.
5) Reduce the proportion of glass to other building materials in new construction.
6) Use ceramic frit glass with 0.32-cm diameter translucent appearing dots separated 0.32 cm apart in new or remodeling existing structures.
7) Angle windows 20 to 40 degrees from vertical in new or remodeled construction.
And what about building managers? There are various solutions, such as installing netting over lobby windows, like Chicago's FBI building did after a regular spates of avian fatalities. Last summer, Audubon Minnesota revised a set of bird-friendly guidelines that New York City Audubonhad published, with expert input, in 2007. See this post for links to those resources. And see if your city participates in Lights Out campaigns.
Stay tuned next week for more on bird collisions.
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"Law and Order: Special Avian Victims Unit (Or, the Trouble With Windows)" (September, 2010): Last September, several groups prosecute a Tronont-based building complex for emitting a harmful contaminant that affects birds.
"Pain in the Glass" (November, 2008): Each migration season, millions of birds die in cities by crashing into buildings. Now a growing trend toward sustainable design could open the door to safer passage.
"Clear and Present Danger" (March, 2004): Millions of birds perish every year from crashing into glass windows. After decades of inattention, biologists, builders, and architects are joining together on solutions that will benefit both people and the birds.


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WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts joined two other members of the Senate Banking Committee in calling for Republican lawmakers to vote on confirming the appointed director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The agency, the Warren brainchild created in 2010 to regulate financial services such as mortgage lending, has been controversial on Capitol Hill. GOP senators have pledged to block the confirmation of Richard Cordray, director of the body, until the agency is overhauled.
The agency's hazy path forward has created uncertainty in the financial sector, as banks do not know which rules to follow, Warren said Wednesday at a press conference with Senators Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Sherrod Brown of Ohio.
"It's time for the United States Senate to give Rich Cordray an up or down vote," Warren said.
The call to action came a day before the Senate Banking Committee's hearing on Wall Street reform. Cordray and other regulators will testify.
Republicans have threatened to block his appointment through filibuster until the agency comes under congressional oversight and adopts a five-member board of directors, among other changes.
"Allowing a single unelected official to define their own jurisdiction and regulate vast segments of our economy without accountability or restraint is irresponsible," said Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican.
But Reed said such action will "eviscerate [the agency] so it won't operate" correctly.
Consumers "have got to know that they have an agency that's out there to protect them," he said.
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Kerry hoping for a peaceful solution to crisis in Syria
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Wednesday that he has ideas on how to change President Bashar Assad of Syria's calculation on remaining in power, suggesting the Obama administration could put additional pressure on his regime.
Kerry told reporters after meeting with Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh of Jordan at the State Department that he hoped Assad could be convinced to enter into a negotiated solution with the Syrian opposition that would end almost two years of bloody violence that has killed nearly 70,000 people and move forward with true democratic reform.
"We need to address the question of President Assad's calculation currently. I believe there are additional things that can be done to change his current perception," Kerry said.
Kerry did not elaborate and pointedly offered no guarantee of success, particularly since Assad has defied calls to step down and clung to power throughout the crisis that has grown increasingly desperate. But, Kerry said, his priority was to find a peaceful resolution.
"I can assure you my goal is to see us change his calculation, my goal is to see us have a negotiated outcome and minimize the violence," he said. "It may not be possible. I am not going to stand here and tell you that's automatic or easily achievable. There are a lot of forces that have been unleashed here over the course of the last months."
The former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will discuss his ideas when he visits European and Middle East officials beginning the last week of February.
As a senator, Kerry had floated several ideas for ramping up the pressure on Assad, including creating protected safe zones for regime opponents and arming the rebels.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that Assad is living in a "fantasy world" if he thinks he can survive the rebellion.
Associated Press
Pentagon creates medal for troops not on the battlefield
WASHINGTON — They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens.
But the troops that launch the drone strikes and direct the cyberattacks that can kill or disable an enemy might never set foot in the combat zone. Now their battlefield contributions could be recognized.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Wednesday that for the first time the Pentagon is creating a medal that can be awarded to troops who have a direct impact on combat operations, but do it from afar.
"Modern tools, like remotely piloted platforms and cyber systems, have changed the way wars are fought," Panetta said. "They've given our men and women the ability to engage the enemy and change the course of battle, even from afar."
The new blue, red, and white-ribboned Distinguished Warfare Medal will be awarded for "extraordinary achievement." But unlike other combat medals, it does not require the recipient to risk his or her life.
The medal will be the first combat-related award created since the Bronze Star in 1944.
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Bourg resident Mira Moorman said she received a call earlier this week from a Chauvin woman who asked her why she had been repeatedly calling her home.
Bourg resident Mira Moorman said she received a call earlier this week from a Chauvin woman who asked her why she had been repeatedly calling her home.
The 67-year-old's number showed up on the woman's Caller ID, but she said she never made the calls.
"She said I had been calling her every 20 minutes all day long. It was my number on her Caller ID," she said. "She said every time she answered it was someone asking her if she wanted to lower the interest rate on her credit card to 1 percent, so she called me to see who was calling. It wasn't me."
After calling the Federal Communications Commission Moorman said she realized she was a victim of spoofing, when scammers use a number other than their own to trick people into giving out their personal information.
"Callers can deliberately falsify the telephone number and or name relayed as the Caller ID information to disguise the identity of the calling party. For example, identity thieves who want to collect sensitive information such as your bank account or other financial account numbers, you Social Security number, your date of birth or your mother's maiden name sometimes use Caller ID spoofing to make it appear as though they are calling from your bank, credit card company or even a government agency," an FCC representative said.
Moorman isn't the only area resident whose number has been used in this manner. .
"I have received a couple of calls from my own house number," said Carolyn Babin, 60, of Raceland. "I didn't answer it because how can I call my own number from my own house phone? There's crazy stuff out there."
Missy Granier, 49, of Vacherie, said she and her neighbor have had their numbers used for scam phone calls.
"We get calls from our own number about credit cards and senior health care. I even got a call from my neighbor's number. When I answered it, the person said I had won a cruise," she said.
State Police Troop C spokesman Evan Harrell said residents can protect themselves from would-be scammers such as these by refusing to give out personal information over the phone unless they are able to verify the person's identity.
Staff Writer Jordan Gribble can be reached at 857-2208 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @JGrib_Courier.


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The victory put the No. 7 seeded Bearkats in the Southland Conference post-season tournament semifinals for only the third time in the Kats' 10 appearances in the event.
Sam Houston won the doubles point then combined the victories at two and six positions with a straight set win at number five by Nadia Dubyanskaya for its four points.
Sam Houston State (12-8) advances to Friday's semifinals to face the No. 3 seeded UT Arlington Mavericks at 2 p.m. Texas State ends their season with a 14-6 overall record.
One week ago, the Bearkats lost to this same Bobcat squad 5-2 in San Marcos. Head coach Jim Giachino was proud of his team's turnaround from their loss to the Bobcats last Saturday.
"It was a hard fought match, no question about that," Giachino said. "Texas State beat us a week ago. We knew they were going to play just as hard as they did last week. We showed a lot of heart out there, but it could have gone either way. To me, it was just a fantastic collegiate match."
A key to the match came early as the Kats won the doubles point after losing it in the regular season finale last weekend.
Texas State took the No. 1 doubles match 8-2, while Bearkats Sheridan Currie and Natalie Petaia defeated Gabriela Rojas and Berenice Van den Bergh at No. 2 and Imke Jagau and Olivia Battye took the No.3 match from Mariana Perez and Rachel Baldree with an 8-4 decision.
In singles, Currie battled to defeat Melissa Hadad in three sets at No. 2 6-4 5-7 6-4. Nadia Dubyanskaya took the No. 5 set 6-3, 6-3 while on the No. 6 court, Battye came from behind for a three-set victory against Van den Bergh 4-6 6-1 6-1. Bobcats Jessica Kahts and Gabriela Rojas both won their matches in straight sets while Baldree came from behind to earn Texas State's third match point against Tatyana Postnikova at No.4. l
Sam Houston trailed 3-2 with Currie and Battye still on the court. After Battye won, Currie earned the decisive victory.
"I felt I just had to win for the team," Currie said. "Everyone played so hard today I just couldn't let them down."
Sam Houston lost to UTA in Arlington in their regular season encounter 4-3.
"We got a lot of help by winning the doubles point, obviously that means so much and then after that every singles match was simply a struggle," Giachino added about Thursday's win ". It came down to a tight third set that could have gone either way. Texas State could just as easily have taken that match from us. I'm not saying we were lucky to win it because we showed a lot of heart out there, but it could have gone either way"
Tennis Match Results
Sam Houston State vs Texas State
Apr 26, 2012 at Nacogdoches, Texas
Sam Houston State 4, Texas State 3
Doubles competition:
1. Jessica Kahts/Melissa Hadad (TXST) def. Tatyana Postnikova/Nadia Dubyanskaya (SHSU) 8-2
2. Sheridan Currie/Natalie Petaia (SHSU) def. Gabriela Rojas/Berenice Van den Ber (TXST) 8-5
3. Imke Jagau/Olivia Battye (SHSU) def. Mariana Perez/Rachel Baldree (TXST) 8-4
Singles competition:
1. Jessica Kahts (TXST) def. Imke Jagau (SHSU) 6-2, 6-3
2. Sheridan Currie (SHSU) def. Melissa Hadad (TXST) 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
3. Gabriela Rojas (TXST) def. Natalie Petaia (SHSU) 6-3, 6-1
4. Rachel Baldree (TXST) def. Tatyana Postnikova (SHSU) 4-6, 6-1, 6-1
5. Nadia Dubyanskaya (SHSU) def. Mariana Perez (TXST) 6-3, 6-3
6. Olivia Battye (SHSU) def. Berenice Van den Ber (TXST) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
Match Notes:
Sam Houston State 12-8
Texas State 14-6
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (1,3,4,5,6,2)
2012 SLC Women's Championship Tournament - Opening Round


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U.S. Navy Frigate Departs To Combat Drug Trafficking In Central America
A guided-missile frigate left San Diego Tuesday morning on a six-month deployment to Central American waters. Its mission is one well known to law enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border. Jill Replogle from our Fronteras Desk was at the send off.
Texas Legislature Reverses Course on Immigration Laws
The Texas legislature convened in Austin this week. Texas lawmakers gather once every two years. And in regards to cracking down on illegal immigration the political pendulum swing is certainly evident this time around. Fronteras Reporter David Martin Davies has more.
Refugees In City Heights Fight For Better Medical Translation
Federal health reform is expected to change the face of the nation's insured population. Researchers predict one in five insured patients will be non-native English speakers. That's up from one in eight. But already, medical providers across the country are having trouble keeping up with the demand for translation. From San Diego, Megan Burks reports refugees are demanding a more culturally competent health care experience.
Affordable care act will mean unequal care for families of mixed legal status
When the Affordable Care Act goes into effect, millions of new patients will have access to health care. But the law deliberately excludes undocumented immigrants -- estimated to be about 11 million nationwide. What does that mean for the many families with mixed immigration status? Some covered under the act, and some not. Reporter Megan Burks from KPBS and the Speak City Heights project in San Diego reports.
Heather Boerner contributed to this story with support from the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism.
Criminal Charges Against Unauthorized Immigrant Workers Questioned
The push in Congress for immigration reform could begin as early as this month. In the meantime, there are daily reminders of a broken system. In Arizona's most populous county, a battle is playing out in the courts over unauthorized immigrants who get hired for work by using fraudulent social security numbers. Law enforcement has been cracking down, but some defense attorneys are questioning their authority to do so. From the Fronteras Desk in Phoenix, Jude Joffe-Block reports.


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Friday, February 23, 2007
Beer Bong Friday: jeff...Jeff...JEFF!
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What did they have in there,3 shots of beer! Weak Jeff,very very weak.
- February 23, 2007 6:41 AM
- Out of Conference said...
Style points: 8/10 (not bad, anyone can wake-n-bake, but how many of us can stand-n-slam?)
Quantity: 2/10 (he doesn't get a 1 simply because we're not positive the dixie cup volume of beer wasn't dosed with Wild Turkey.)
Coed Factor: 0/10 (Come on Jeff, you're in a cheap hotel room and you slept in your clothes?!? We know no chick has been in that bed with you)
Overall: 3.3 but they day is young, Jeff, the day is young.
- February 23, 2007 9:26 AM
- Ddub said...
jeez you guys are harsh on this dude
- February 23, 2007 9:53 AM
- ShaunTX said...
GOD I miss those days :(
Jeff, personally I give you a thumbs up for a beer bong (lord help them if it was less then 1 beer) in the first minute of your day. Nice.
- February 23, 2007 2:11 PM
- Go Blue Gabe said...
Come on OOC you can't punish him that much for quantity. He had no say as he was sleeping.It could of been a whole beer. Maybe he's just really fast. The coed part okay I agree. But the style has got to be a ten.
- February 23, 2007 4:24 PM
- Howard21 said...
If he was smart he went back to the co-ed's room and then slept in his own room later. How would it feel to wake up next to her? Awwwkkkkwwaaarrddd
- February 23, 2007 5:46 PM
2/10. Did you see the flag in the background?
- February 23, 2007 7:21 PM


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The gag is that the Bengals drafted Giovani Bernard to be their new short-yardage back after the 5-9, 208-pound rookie slammed it over from the 1 to start Cincinnati's scoring in Thursday night's 27-10 victory over the Colts at Paul Brown Stadium in the preseason finale.
That marked Bernard's third one-yard scoring run this season it and it got him thinking about a guy he knew in college.
"A.J. Blue," Bernard said of his North Carolina teammate. "Every time we got close they put him in there. He was a big back. We'll see how it goes in the regular season."
If it goes like this in the regular season the Bengals are going to lead the NFL in rushing, which would presumably put them in the elite team category considering all their weapons in the passing game at offensive coordinator Jay Gruden's disposal.
For the third time in the preseason the Bengals had more runs than passes (38-24) and they won all three while finishing with 175.8 rushing yards per game. On Thursday they piled up 191 with three running backs gaining at least 37 yards.
And the team's leading rusher for the night (51 yards on 12 carries) and for the preseason (167 yards on 31 carries) as an NFL leader may not even make the club with
"We don't have to send that message. That's already understood. Everybody knows that," said
There is some discomfort. Left tackle
But that's nothing that 5.4 yards per carry can't cure, which is how the Bengals finished the preseason. All three offensive lines dished it and on Thursday on that first drive the first group made sure that quarterback
"Being the fourth preseason game, what better way to come out than run plays like that? Run right downhill," said center
Not knowing if Whitworth will be available for Chicago is a bit uneasy, but Cook pointed to the play of backup left tackle
"He's been around almost as long as I have (six years)," said Cook, who has been here since 2007. "It's not like he's some new guy. He's good to go and hopefully Whit will be back."
The running game showed how some of these roster battles on offense may play out. While Herron shined, Burkhead kept up with a 4.6 yards per carry average on 28 carries, and on Thursday night showed the versatility the Bengals think may give them a Brian Leonard-type who is better.
On the drive he scored a two-yard TD in the third quarter on a stretch play to the left, Burkhead kept it going when he converted a fourth-and-one from the Colts 16 with nice body lean for a two-yard gain. Then he ran a pivot route and got it to the 2 on a 10-yard catch. He also caught a screen pass for nine yards as well to go along with his 39 yards on 11 carries.
"I got to show a little bit of versatility," Burkhead said. "I feel like I had a good camp. I felt like I improved in the preseason games with experience. Hopefully the coaches liked it."
Another reason the Bengals ran it a bunch Thursday night was to have
With Eifert sitting out, the Bengals were still able to go with three tight ends on Bernard's scoring run when Charles joined
"Obviously, we are two different kinds of players," Conner said. "He has done a great job of coming over from tight end. He is more of an H-back kind of guy, and I am more of a side fullback. It kind of goes by what this offense needs and what we need at the moment. I hope I did everything that I could to make this team."
What this offense needs at this moment seems to be a couple of more balls. And that's not even talking about the passing game.
"I feel good going into the opener," Green-Ellis said. "I feel like our team is getting our health back and I think we'll be ready to roll. I think it's going to be a big year for us."


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"A glimpse inside the life of students from Senegal to Vietnam and China."
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What does this do to your ethnocentric beliefs?
Students in China take their college entrance exam lasting 9hours. To prevent cheating they all take it at the same time with 1,200 in an exam hall. In Guangdong province, on July 9, 2007.
This picture is amazing to me! It is so difficult to think about how different education looks in other countries.


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COMMERCE CITY — When spring football began, Jasen Oden said he considered himself a safety still, despite switching sides of the ball to fill in the depth at running back for Colorado State.
After Saturday's scrimmage at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in front of roughly 1,000 fans, he's changed his tune just a little bit.
"Actually man, I'm a football player, so I can play both sides," Oden said. "I'm just trying to get things going at running back, picking up on the plays, and I still know what's going on on the defensive side of the ball right now."
Oden rushed 15 times for 69 yards on the day, scoring a pair of short-yardage touchdowns with powerful runs. It was that presence that led CSU head coach Jim McElwain to make the switch, not only in the running game, but in pass protection.
His former defensive mates had a friendly bet to see who could get the best lick on him, but it was Oden who came out on the better end, proving shifty and hard to bring down as he's brought his relentless attitude from the defensive side and adapted it to carrying the ball.
"Yeah. He's around 215 (pounds), so if you don't come correct, he can bring the pain," safety Trent Matthews said.
Oden's shift also came about because of the lack of depth at the position with last year's returning rusher, Kapri Bibbs, declaring early for the NFL Draft and the sudden departure of Donnell Alexander from the program.
While McElwain said the program is still looking at one possible junior college transfer to come in for roster balance, he has been far from disappointed with the quick transition the junior has made.
"Well, that guy ran pretty well, don't you think?" McElwain said. "He's got some skills, and I was really happy to see that. What I was excited to see is how he got his pad level down, moved the pile and made a couple of really good cuts with his feet."
Oden said he's starting to feel more comfortable with the playbook, staying late after practice to learn the nuances, and some of those old instincts from his prep days are starting to return.
He had a leg injury when the Rams scrimmaged last Sunday, so he was held out for precautionary reasons. He ran with the first-team offense this time around, a necessary exercise for him to gauge his progress.
"I really needed this today. I really need the whole spring, so when I come back in the summer I should know everything, get a feeling for my blocks and my keys and my reads and stuff like that," Oden said. "Today was a big day for me honestly."
Oden's first touchdown came on a 2-yard run to end the second drive of the day for the first offense. It capped an eight-play drive on a third-and-2 carry, pushing through the pile to reach the end zone. His second came during the team's overtime session, a drive in which he carried the ball all four plays, his final one another 2-yard plunge.
He was happy with his performance, but said the summer session will loom large for him to continue his progression in learning the playbook and becoming smoother in his reads.
As for now, his offensive teammates are happy with the work he's done to this point, seeing a bright future for him.
"It's coming along nicely," Grayson said, adding Oden had a bit of a deer-in-the-headlights look when spring camp began. "You guys saw it today first hand. He's been a heck of a running back for us all spring, and hopefully he keeps it up."
Grayson himself had an impressive day, completing 17-of-21 passes for 222 yards and a 13-yard touchdown to Charles Lovett on the day's first drive. His longest play of the day was good for 40 yards to Rashard Higgins, who caught five balls for 93 yards, though he did have a drop in the second overtime session McElwain wasn't happy about.
McElwain also touted the play of the offensive line, still without starter Ty Sambrailo at tackle. Oden had holes and Grayson had time as Fred Zerblis and Jake Bennett split time at center with the first unit, the other playing guard.
At this point, Grayson feels the offensive unit has progressed better than he would have expected.
"I'd say we're ahead of where we wanted to be, to be honest," Grayson said. "I didn't expect us to be getting this far in install and everything that we're doing and moving the ball the way that we're doing. I think expectations, we've definitely met them and we're moving on up and ready to go."
Much of the offense also came against a defense that was rather vanilla, in McElwain's words. Still, he said the group as a whole tackled better and played with better pad level last Sunday.
The Rams did record three sacks, and cornerback Saladin McCullough II intercepted backup Nick Stevens in the 2-minute drill, returning it 41 yards for a touchdown. In the end, base or not, linebacker Aaron Davis said the group can play better as a whole.
"We should be able to come out here and run our base defense and stop anyone," Davis said. "That's what our mentality should be.
"We definitely could have tackled better. This week during practice I'm sure we'll have some tackling drills, and next week we'll definitely come out tackling better."
Noteworthy — Deonte Clyburn, who played with the first unit as linebacker Max Morgan sat out, led the team with six tackles on the day. Martavius Foster, Evan Colorito and Terry Jackson all recorded sacks. ... Lovett finished with five catches good for 78 yards, and new tight end Steven Walker had four catches for 34 yards. Stevens finished 12-of-18 on the day for 166 yards and scoring tosses to Joe Hansley (39 yards) and Robert Ruiz (15 yards).
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Kiwanis pancake supper Friday
Flipping for flapjacks? Begging for bacon? Swooning for sausage?If that's the case, the Kiwanis Club of Big Spring has a deal for you.The club's annual Pancake Supper is scheduled for Friday evening at Howard College's cafeteria and you can eat your fill of the above-mentioned food items for only $6.Serving will be from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the college cafeteria, located inside the student union building.Tickets can be purchased at the door Friday or in advance at the Big Spring Chamber of Commerce or from any Kiwanis Club member.The supper is the club's major fundraiser during the year and has been a local mainstay for more than 60 years."This is a long-standing tradition," said club member Ann Duncan. "We have people who remember having their grandparents take them and they have taken their children and grandchildren."This is something people look forward to each year and it's something we want to keep going as long as we can," Duncan added.Money raised from the supper will be used to benefit youth-oriented service projects in Big Spring, including the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club and Westside Daycare Center.For more information, call 432-270-2218 or 432-466-4887.


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Tokyo's Nikkei 225 led Asian stocks higher Tuesday as the yen weakened after a possible candidate for Bank of Japan governor voiced support for easier monetary policy.
The yen has dropped almost 8 percent against the dollar this year after Japan elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in December. Abe has been calling for Japan's central bank to ease monetary policy more aggressively to help spur economic growth.
The Nikkei, which was closed Monday for a public holiday, jumped 2.3 percent to 11,413.38 as the weaker yen boosted export stocks. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.1 percent to 4,963.60. South Korea's Kospi fell 0.1 percent to 1,949.02 while benchmarks in New Zealand, Indonesia and the Philippines rose.
Markets in mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan were closed for Lunar New Year holidays.
Japan's central bank governor Masaaki Shirakawa, who has appeared at odds with Abe's views on monetary policy, is resigning next month, giving the government an opportunity to find a more closely aligned successor.
Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda voiced support Monday for Abe's economic policies including the introduction of a 2 percent inflation target but kept mum about speculation he may become the next BOJ governor. In an interview with media organizations including Kyodo News, Kuroda said the BOJ's introduction of the target, proposed by Abe, was "epoch-making" and should be achieved "in about two years."
Wall Street stocks drifted lower in thin trading Monday. With major indexes near records, many think the six-week rally is ready for a pause. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.2 percent to 13,971.24. The S&P 500 dipped less than 0.1 percent to 1,517.01. The Nasdaq composite slipped less than 0.1 percent to 3,192.00.
Benchmark oil for March delivery was down 9 cents to $96.94 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.31 to finish at $97.03 a barrel in New York on Monday as the euro strengthened against the dollar.
In currencies, the euro rose to $1.3401 from $1.3389 late Monday in New York. The dollar rose to 94.23 yen from 93.70 yen.
The euro has strengthened recently, raising concern it will hurt exports from the 17 euro countries. French President Francois Hollande has suggested the eurozone needs to manage its exchange rate. ECB President Mario Draghi indicated the bank does not seek any particular exchange rate, which is set by markets, but is monitoring the stronger euro's effect on inflation.
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Shoulder Season Training…Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Training this time of year is bitter sweet… You are motivated to ski faster than ever but tired from training all summer. The weather can suck for running/rollerskiing but there's not enough snow to ski. Athletes start traveling to get on snow and most everyone else tries to maintain fitness waiting for the white stuff or at least the sun to come out. My life is defined by trying to balance getting enough on snow training before the opener in Kuusamo and not spending to much time on the road before the first comps getting stale. Though it might sound weird two weeks in europe before a race can be bad if you've been doing this game for over a decade. I'm going to chance it this year and as a result I find myself anxiously hoping to back country ski or skate or jump soon but in the meantime killing time and making my workouts by improv as illustrated below:
Best punch line for:
What do you get when you put a Biathlete and a Nordic Combiner side by side on a treadmill doing classic?
Win's a 2010 Bjorn Dahlie jacket from me and some kind of squarehead triple stripped Adidas thing from Teela.


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The Queen's Diamond Jubilee river pageant reached its end as the 1,000-strong flotilla passed under Tower Bridge.
The belfry carrying The Royal Jubilee Bells was the first vessell through, followed by the million-pound row barge Gloriana led by Olympic gold medallists Sir Matthew Pinsent and Sir Steve Redgrave, rowing with 16 others.
A 41 gun salute was fired from the Tower of London to celebrate the Queen's 60 years on the throne while thousands of people cheered on the banks of the River Thames despite the wet weather.
The bascules of Tower Bridge opened for the arrival of the royal barge, the Spirit of Chartwell, as the Royal Family prepared to take their places on HMS President to watch the rest of the seven mile-long flotilla making its way down the Thames.
The Queen watched from HMS President as the procession of boats and ships continued to pass under Tower Bridge.
The pageant achieved a new world record for the largest parade of boats - surpassing the previous record of 327 boats in Bremerhaven, Germany, last year, Guinness World Records said.
The record was announced as 419 boats reached the bridge, with up to 1,000 vessels expected to complete the pageant.


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|2004-09-27, 01:10
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Irate King
Join Date: Sep 2004
Age: 31
I doubt your rating is correct, there are many strong pirates, let's just do a quick count.
White Beard
Shanks 2 or 3 outstanding people although he probably has more as ROCKSTAR has a 94 mil bounty and is considered a weak member, a little fledgeling recruit.
Blackbeards crue
Now, considering there are 7 pirate gods (6 now), I think pirates are the top of the power scale right now. Considering there are probably tons stronger than the luff man and he's you know, probably equal to a pirate god.
|2004-09-27, 01:20
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You can't understimate the Shichibukai and the Marine Grand Admrials.
|2004-09-27, 11:42
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Irate King
Join Date: Sep 2004
Age: 31
|2004-09-27, 20:54
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Also is Shanks you're average pirate? No. he's one of the strongest.
The only one there that I would put on top is Whitebeard and Shanks compared to teh Shichibukai and Marine grand admirals. Ace also maybe. Blackbeard we don't know much about.
There are 3 marine grand admirals. How do I rate there power too high? You
You said Luffy is equal to a Shichibukai. He's not. You said there are tons stronger than Luffy. That isn't saying much. His entire crew is less than the power of a ONE Grand Admiral.
|2004-09-27, 22:41
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actually the average marine and the average pirates are equal in strength. We see this in Logue TOwn when the Buggy Pirates fight the marines. The ones that deals any damage were the officers of the Buggy Pirates.
if the marines are so damn weak their base wouldve been overrun. Why would the Shichibukai want their bounties removed if the marines are so damn weak?
|2004-09-27, 22:47
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|2004-09-28, 05:47
|Link #88
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Suomi
Age: 32
Although Garp could have been promoted.
|2004-09-28, 13:56
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Irate King
Join Date: Sep 2004
Age: 31
Ugh, if you think whitebeard and shanks are the only real powerful pirates than you need realise that the anime and manga have left a lot of stuff open, and that there have to be other pirates at or near the same level. I'm sure there's tons of pirates that are stronger than most of the pirates we've seen. Do you really think we've been informed of all the strong pirates? You're forgetting that there are probably pirates with elemental devil fruit powers out there. Which is the strongest class of devil fruit power. Once again, if there are say 5 pirates with elemental powers, then including whitebeard and shanks in the mix, the pirates as a group are stronger than those marine grand whatevers.
Now, someone asked why the marines aren't overrun if pirates are stronger. Well, do you think shanks and whitebeard want the marines gone? I'm thinking they don't care at all about the marines. Getting rid of 2 of the most powerful pirate groups, why would anyone else even try to get rid of the marines when they are a force to be reckoned with?
Now someone said buggy is the average pirate? Maybe in the weak ass blue sea, but around the grand line the average pirate is a guy like luffman.
|2004-09-28, 20:25
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|2004-09-28, 22:13
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Join Date: Sep 2004
the average pirate strong as luffy?? are u insane?
let's do the math....
Don Krieg's pirate for example:
the captain is only 1.... while the 500 other pirates in his crew are all weak...
maybe ure thinking the average pirate captain, and even ten luffy is a strong one. THats why ppl were still amazed when luffy said that his boutny was 30 mil. the average pirate is the ones that luffy and crew just throws around in their own boats. if the average pirate was strong as luffy then the marines would be completely run over. since there would be 5000000000000000000000000 luffys everywhere.
|2004-09-28, 22:51
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Irate King
Join Date: Sep 2004
Age: 31
Yeah, guess I wrote that wrong. The average captian is usually around his bounty. IF I'm wrong on this, then there are still a lot of strong people as strong if not stronger than luffy, I'll probably go with 30 as the amount of people at his level (in the group of the pirates). And that's probably a lower estimate. This manga has far to go and I feel when they start getting close to the last Island we'll all learn a bit more, and the pirates will be much stronger than our current luffy.
|2006-01-20, 20:49
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Also where was it said that you have to ditch your crews to become Shichibukai? It was never mentioned.
|2006-01-28, 18:52
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: France
Anyways, the shichibukai look like small fry compared to the admirals (at least the one that has been introduced)
Mihawk is Zoro's prey and should be kept for the end, but i doubt the others will become important in the story.
|2006-01-29, 13:58
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The Shichibukai are considered one of the three powers of the world. These Pirates are not called Seven Gods of the Seas for nothing.
|2006-01-29, 18:43
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Join Date: Nov 2003
I was thinking that at some point Luffy is going to be asked to join the schichibukai at some point. Hell, his name fits the anime scheme, Monkey D. Luffy. After Enies Lobby, the straw hats are going to be world famous, and whoever hasn't heard of them before will now. Kokoro has already predicted that. Using well known pirates to intimidate others is what the schichibukai are about anyway, thats why they were hesitant to have blackbeard join because no one knew about him.
I'm sure no one has rejected an offer to be the shichibukai and lived to tell about it. Who knows if the 7 now are the original 7. If crocodile is going to be replaced, who's to say it hasn't been done before. I think the world government would offer him the posistion as long as he doesn't allow Robin to persue the lost history. That way they both would gain something. But Luffy would obviously refuse. So I bet the other members would feel it being a slap in the face, as if he was too good to join, and would go after him, or be ordered to go after him.
Anyway, I just can't see oda not using the device to the fullest. It would be a waste for any of the schichibukai to not be used, and if they are used it automatically becomes important.
|2006-01-29, 21:39
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Sorry Ninraven they would Offer the position to other pirates worthy of carring the name Shichibukai. The Shichibukai are pirates acknowledged by the Government, or could have been a serious threat to them so they made them offers to join them. Luffy is not Acknowledged like a Whitebeard or Shanks. In my opinion Shanks will be the one asked to join, if he is not a member already. The Government will not ask Luffy to become one because he is not a serious threat. Aokiji said that himself that the government does not take the Strawhat pirates seriously yet.
|2006-01-29, 22:06
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Wheather or not Luufy will get a Schihibukai offer is a big unknown... but when i think about it, i'm not to sure if i would be surprised... though we all know he would turn it down in the end
|2006-01-29, 22:44
|Link #100
I will put money that Shanks is already a member of the Shichibukai. Just read the Manga the Gouresei tell it all by their words.
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NCHSAA approves conferences for 2013-17
After hearing eight appeals from 10 schools Tuesday, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association approved a final conference realignment draft.
Of the appeals of the NCHSAA Realignment Committee's draft released March 15, only three were from the region, including Lake Norman Charter, Draughn and East Burke.
All eight appeals were deliberated, but the only changes made affected the 3A and 4A classifications.
Due to an error in average daily membership statistics, East Chapel Hill moved from 3A to 4A, while Douglas Byrd dropped to 3A.
Green Hope and Panther Creek also moved into a 4A classification.
After a vote for approval, the complete realignment plan went into effect for the 2013-17 school years.
Bandys, Bunker Hill, Maiden and Newton-Conover remain in the 2A ranks with West Caldwell, joining East Lincoln, Lincolnton and West Lincoln in a conference yet to be formally named.
In the 3A ranks, Foard, Hickory and St. Stephens also remain together with fellow-Northwestern 3A/4A members Hibriten, South Caldwell and Watauga.
Those five schools join Freedom and Patton in a new 3A/4A conference.
NCHSAA board votes again today
The NCHSAA board votes again today, this time to decide the fate of private schools.
NCHSAA board members will decide whether private schools will continue to be allowed to play public schools.


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Submission + - Hypothetical: Can Bruce Schneier be Trusted 1
An anonymous reader writes: Security guru Bruce Schneier is, among other things, a world renowned cryptography expert, author of several popular books, and a second-order internet meme. He is also an outspoken critic of the NSA, in particular the massive NSA surveillance programs disclosed over the summer by Edward Snowden. Schneier has been involved in reviewing the leaked documents and has put in effort to determine which cryptosystems should still be considered safe. I'm a big fan of Bruce Schneier, but just to play devil's advocate, let's say, hypothetically, that Schneier is actually in cahoots with the NSA. Who better to reinstate public trust in weakened cryptosystems? As an exercise in security that Schneier himself may find interesting, what methods are available for proving (or at least affirming) that we can trust Bruce Schneier?


text: It looks like a snow cone, but it gives your bird so many different textures and colors, he'll find it hard to resist! The outside is a piece of durable bamboo, flared out at the top for your bird's shredding pleasure. Underneath the bamboo is a hard coconut shell piece to chew. Erupting out of the top is a cornucopia of preen-able, chewable, and shreddable materials including corn husks, sisal, sea shells, nut shells, and more wood. Hang this snow cone anywhere in your bird's cage and watch him have the time of his life. Sisal hanging loop included.


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Separating truth from rumor during the baseball season is difficult enough, but during the hot stove season, it's easy to get burned if you don't view everything you read with a skeptical eye. We know the deal: the rumor-mongering is intended to sell papers, conjure arguments on talk radio, and stir conversation and commentary on blogs like this to keep baseball relevant in a town where both NFL teams are in first place and the Knicks look like an actual professional basketball team for the first time in six years.
Speaking of rumors, we knew the Yankees, with their financial clout and now $32 million to work with (I like Cliff Corcoran's conservative accounting), would be big players in this winter's free agent market. The past 30 hours or so have seen one constant in the CC Sabathia Sweepstakes: the Yankees are the highest — and only — bidder to date.
Not long after our Diane Firstman gave the skinny on the landscape's analysis of the record offer made to the 6-foot-7, 290-pound southpaw, which included a quote from a Yankees official who welcomed the Mets' inclusion in the mix, Newsday's David Lennon reported that the Mets put the XX on CC. Joel Sherman wasn't as definitive in this blog post, but he did not discount the Mets as a player, if for no other reason than to jack up the price for the Yankees.
What no one needs to see as it relates to CC Sabathia are stories like this. LeBron James is a Yankee fan. He's friends with Sabathia, who until mid-summer spent his entire career in Cleveland. But do we, and should we, care what James has to say on this issue? In James' defense, I believe this is more of an indictment of the Cleveland reporter who felt compelled to ask the question more than it is on James, who could face a similar free-agent dilemma next summer. James could opt out of the remaining two years of his contract in July and go to the highest bidder, which according to the aforementioned report, is expected to be either the Knicks or the New Jersey Nets. But if you're the Cleveland scribe, why create a mess now? Haven't those fans suffered for long enough? As a former reporter, I'm embarrassed. Maybe I'd have used that question as an icebreaker for an off-the-record situation, but that's it. No way do you go to press with that.


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Clothesline rebels
Alexander Lee and other Project Laundry List members don't believe that an energy guzzler like a clothes dryer plays any role in being a good neighbor. They're fighting for the right for all Americans to dry laundry outdoors--including those living in home-owners associations and under other covenants that forbid it. "It's about not trusting your neighbor to do the right thing," says Lee, a parishioner at Sacred Heart in Concord, New Hampshire.
A few states, including Colorado, Utah, and Florida, have laws protecting people's right to line dry their clothes, but the majority don't. Several states have introduced legislation that has failed. Homeowners association lobbyists claim clotheslines bring down property values, that sheets flapping in the breeze are unsightly and indicate someone too poor to own a dryer.
College students have been among the most enthusiastic supporters of Project Laundry List--including a group at Alleghany College of Maryland who hung out 350 pieces of underwear during the Copenhagen Climate Talks last December.
Dryers use about 6 percent of U.S. residential electrical energy--and that doesn't include gas dryers, laundromats or institutional dryers used in hotels, colleges, or hospitals. But clothesline advocates say their support for line drying is about more than saving energy. Hanging clothes out on a nice day proves a simple pleasure, clothes last longer when they avoid the dryer, and clothes dried outside have a fresh smell that can't be matched by any chemical additive.
Lee says that using clotheslines, keeping car tires properly inflated, and eating two fewer meat-based meals a week are three "low-hanging fruit" actions that are easy to take yet yield significant reductions in energy usage. He urges parishes to set a goal for clothesline pledges.


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Hearing a great writer read their own work can be something very special, and Francine Prose's reading at the Kalamazoo Public Library on March 12th certainly qualifies. Prose who was in Kalamazoo as part of the Spring 2009 Gwen Frostic Reading Series, read to large crowd at the Central Library through a partnership with Western Michigan Universities Creative Writing Program.
A National Book Award finalist and multiple award-winning, novel, short-story and nonfiction writer, Prose's ability as a writer is without question. But to hear her read a newly completed short story, Prose admitted to finishing the story only a week earlier, about a jeweler in Nazi Germany and his weird and fascinating encounter with a cross-dressing, morphine addicted Hermann Göring, Nazi leader and commander of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force), in her own voice and with the intended pace was truly special.
The story was strange, satirical, haunting and contained such a well constructed plot twist that it nearly gave every one of the 100 people in the audience whiplash. What a treat it was to hear Francine Prose read and what an honor it was for the Kalamazoo Public Library to host her.
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