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Duggan vs Aluko: top female players Toni and Eni talk Everton vs Chelsea and take on the crossbar challenge by Aaron› 30 Aug 2013
Two of England's brightest female stars, Eniola Aluko and Toni Duggan, face each other this weekend in the Women's Super League as Chelsea take on Everton. We thought it was the perfect time then to get the two girls together to preview the game and talk about previous games.
We knew that with Eni and Toni being friends, we'd get some
interesting answers, but we didn't expect the full extent of what we'd end up
with. Not only did the girls talk about their last meeting on the pitch (where Toni
scored a hat-trick for Everton in a 4-1 win), they also found time for a quick
crossbar challenge before Toni turned interviewer and got the lowdown on Eni's
career in football. The video that you can see here captures all of this,
alongside a lot of laughing and general messing around!
For anyone who can't see the video, or who can't understand Toni's Liverpudlian accent, we've transcribed the video for you below. Hope you enjoy it, thanks again to both Toni and Eni for taking part!
TD: 'Coming up in the next week you're playing Everton, who have beaten you twice, shows that they've got a winning mentality, how are you going to go into that game?'
EA: 'I'm not telling you! Maybe we can do this again, after the game…'
TD: 'Let's preview the Everton game, how did you get on in your last meeting with them'
EA: 'I'm alright with it now…I've come to terms with it and moved on…'
TD: 'Who scored the goals, if you don't mind me asking….'
EA: 'I can't remember her name, one was scored by Michelle Hinnigan, I don't remember the name of the other one…'
TD: (To Camera): 'Hat-trick by me!'
EA: 'No, you were brilliant in that game, you destroyed us to be fair…'
TD: 'Wow, I'm flattered!'
EA: 'Hopefully we've learned from our mistakes, and we can get tight on you and not let you turn…'
EA: 'Crossbar challenge, three balls each, whoever loses buys dinner…'
TD: 'It's on, lets go kid!'
TD: 'So Eni, when people ask you to describe yourself as a player, what do you say?'
EA: 'I think I'd describe myself as being really direct, I like to just go for goal, or to put other people through on goal. I think I've got good vision, a lot of people think I'm just a fast player but I take a lot of pride in keeping the ball.'
TD: 'I didn't want an essay! I usually struggle to answer that question, maybe I should take notes next time'
TD: 'What was it like growing up with a footballing brother?'
EA: 'I see him as my brother first and a professional footballer second, I grew up playing football with him in the streets, and I think we've both got natural talent, something we were born with, and luckily we've been able to take it on and make a job of it. I'm so proud of him though, watching him last week at Chelsea, it's just been amazing.'
TD: 'It must have been a great day for your mum – how did she balance having two football playing kids?'
EA: 'My mum just took us everywhere, we used to play tennis as well, so she'd take us up and down the country playing tennis. My brother was really good at that, I was alright…'
TD: 'Maybe I should call you Serena Williams now!'
EA: 'And then she'd take us to games, I'd play on a Saturday, we used to have McDonalds on the way, nuggets!'
TD: 'A talented family then! You've got another talent as well – tell us what you work as outside of football?'
EA: 'I work as a trainee solitor, I studied law for three years at Brunel in London. I always knew that I wanted to go into sports law and combine it with football. I'm working at an entertainment law firm called Leigh & Thompson, we represent celebrities, artists, musicians…'
TD: 'Namedropping now….'
EA: 'I didn't mention anyone's names….. Beckham….. One Direction….!'
TD: 'OK, so stop now! On that note, would you say that you're the brainiest in the league? Because some of these big words you use…'
EA: 'I'm going to put this to bed now, as whenever anyone comes on interviews, all the England players, my name always comes up as the ditsiest player…'
TD: 'No, you are a dope, but obviously you are clever if you've got all these qualifications…'
EA: 'I think I am clever when it's something that I'm passionate about like law, but when it comes to things I don't know about I can be a bit…'
TD: 'Just everyday life then, you're just not with it…'
EA: 'Yeah, exactly'
TD: 'So, on women's football do you get a chance to much of the men's team, or is it kind of ladies over here and men over there?'
EA: 'It can be at times, it can be very separate, and I do wonder at times what they think we're going to do, whether we're going to eat the men or something! But you do photoshoots, you meet the guys, and they're actually really supportive. I think they look at us a bit like sisters, and we're doing the same thing.
We get to meet them sometimes, but they train in the day and we train at night.'
TD: 'I'm going to put you on the spot now, if you had the opportunity to bring the ladies and the men's side of the game together, what would be your ideas?'
EA: 'I think women's football needs to tap into the feminine side of it, to really tap into the beauty of many of the players, but also the fact that we're strong women, athletes, but beautiful as well.'
TD: 'So you want a make up artist to do your make-up before a game?'
EA: 'No, that's not what I'm saying! But you see it in the men's game – you see Beckham, you see Lampard, you see Rooney…well, maybe not Rooney. You see Ashley Cole, doing photoshoots because they're good looking guys. So there could maybe be more of that, like a Chelsea shoot where you have some of the guys and some of the girls.'
TD: 'So you think you'd be in that category, you're the Beckham or the Ashley Cole of women's football?'
EA: 'I think I'd be up there! What are you trying to say, trying to get me to say whether I'm ugly?!'
TD: 'No comment, I think we'll move on…So women's football has grown massively now and you played a big part of that in the Olympics. What was that experience like?'
EA: 'The Olympics were amazing, probably the greatest thing I've ever been part of, because it was bigger than football. I think sometimes as footballers, we can get locked into this bubble, but at the Olympics we were with top athletes like Mo Farrah, Jessica Ennis, Anthony Joshua, these people who have worked so hard to get to their level as well.
It was just an amazing experience, and playing in front of 70,000 people at Wembley was just crazy – mad!'
TD: 'You've also had an interesting opportunity playing in America – how did that go and what did you learn that the English game could maybe take on board?'
EA: 'In America, I went as an international player, and you could only have five in your team, so you were the best of a big bunch of people. So for me just to be picked, to be drafted as they call it, was amazing. But you're also amongst the best players, so you have to raise your game otherwise you won't get to play. So that made me a stronger character, I started a few games but didn't score so I sat on the bench for a bit, the coach couldn't speak English so he couldn't communicate with me, I just had to figure it out basically, and that made me the player I am today. And now I'm back in England, I know that America made me the winner I am.'
EA: 'I'm going to put you on the spot now, can you tell us the story of how you got the blue tick on Twitter? And you have to be honest!'
TD: 'So, you know Siobhan Chamberlain, our England team-mate? See was supposed to be sorting this blue tick out for me, I'm not going to lie, I wanted it!'
EA: 'Why did you want the blue tick?'
TD: 'Because everyone who went to the Olympics had one, and I felt left out! So that happened but my blue tick wasn't there, I was waking up every day and checking. So I popped a little email over to my mate Chris Doolan at Umbro and asked him to sort my verification on Twitter.'
EA: 'So my question is, now that you have your blue Twitter tick, is your life complete? Has it made a difference?'
TD: 'I wouldn't say it's made my life complete, but I'm very honoured to be verified!'
EA: 'I'm honoured too. We can be blue tick mates.'
TD: 'To finish, have you got another interesting fact about myself that you can tell us?'
EA: 'An interesting fact….. wow….this is a hard question….'
TD: 'Shortest answer yet….'
EA: 'I cook a lot… Can I answer that again?'
TD: 'No, it's done now!'
EA: 'No, interesting fact about myself, I've travelled to a lot of places in the world.'
TD: 'Right, so I'm trying not to laugh here but Eni's interesting fact is that she's travelled to a lot of places in the world. I hope you really enjoyed our chat today and got to find out a lot of interesting things about Eni. Bye for now'
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Canada finishes sixth at NORCECA women's volleyball championships
CAGUAS, Puerto Rico – Mexico defeated Canada 22-25, 25-23, 25-18, 25-22 in the fifth place match on Saturday NORCECA (North and Central America and Caribbean) Continental women's volleyball championships.
The Mexican team took advantage of 42 Canadian errors. Canada held a 10-6 margin in blocks and both teams scored six aces.
Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ont., led all scorers with 18 points while Kyla Richey of Robert's Creek, B.C., and Tammy Mahon of Holland, Man., each added 10 points apiece.
"We couldn't find our rhythm and it was a well played match for Mexico," said Mahon.
"Mexico played better than us and deserved the victory," Canada's head coach Arnd Ludwig added.
The U.S., defeated the Dominican Republic in straight sets to win the gold medal and earn a ticket to the World Cup in November. Cuba beat Puerto Rico for the bronze.
Canadian roster for the women's volleyball NORCECA championships set for September 12-18 in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Julie Young: Red Deer, AB
Tammy Mahon: Holland, MB
Claire Hanna: Calgary, AB
Carla Bradstock: Richmond, BC
Sarah Pavan: Kitchener, ON
Marisa Field: Kelowna, BC
Tasha Holness: Calgary, AB
Liz Cordonier: Vancouver, BC
Jennifer Hinze: Vancouver, BC
Brittney Page: Vernon, BC
Kyla Richey: Robert's Creek: BC
Lauren O'Reilly: Langley, BC
Head Coach: Arnd Ludwig
Assistant Coach: Scott Koskie
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On March 15-16, 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice's Coordination and Review section in partnership with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, National Virtual Translation Center, Social Security Administration, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services; U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Civil Rights; U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service all worked together to co-sponsor the conference. The conference provided a unique opportunity to share with and learn from leaders in the field of providing language access, include federal, state, and local officials; funding organizations; language service providers; and others.
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This example shows how to improve the quality of raw mass spectrometry data. In particular, this example shows the typical data flow for dealing with protein surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectra (SELDI-TOF). The data in this example are from the FDA-NCI Clinical Proteomics Program Databank.
Mass spectrometry data are usually stored in text files with two columns, the mass/charge (M/Z) ratios and the corresponding intensity values. To load the data, use one of the following MATLAB® I/O functions:
dlmread, or
textscan, or you can use
jcampread to load JCAMP-DX formatted files,
xlsread to load a spreadsheet in an Excel® workbook,
mzxmlread to load mzXML formatted files, and
tgspcread to load SPC formatted files.
For this example, we use spectrograms taken from one of the low-resolution ovarian cancer NCI/FDA data sets. These spectra were generated using the WCX2 protein-binding chip, two with manual sample handling and two with a robotic sample dispenser/processor.
Files are comma separated and the data start at the second row (after the headers). Most of the time
importdata can determine the structure of the data.
sample = importdata('mspec01.csv')
sample = struct with fields: data: [15154×2 double] textdata: {'M/Z' 'Intensity'} colheaders: {'M/Z' 'Intensity'}
The M/Z ratios are in the first column of the
data field and the ion intensities are in the second.
MZ = sample.data(:,1); Y = sample.data(:,2);
For better manipulation of the data, you can load multiple spectrograms and concatenate them into a single matrix. Use the
dlmread function to read comma separated value files.
Note: This example assumes that the M/Z ratios are the same for the four files. For data sets with different M/Z ratios, use
msresample to create a uniform M/Z vector.
files = {'mspec01.csv','mspec02.csv','mspec03.csv','mspec04.csv'}; for i = 1:4 Y(:,i) = dlmread(files{i},',',1,1); % skips the first row and reads only % the column with intensities end
Use the
plot command to inspect the loaded spectrograms.
plot(MZ,Y) axis([0 20000 -20 105]) xlabel('Mass/Charge (M/Z)');ylabel('Relative Intensity') title('Four Low-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Examples')
Resampling mass spectrometry data has several advantages. It homogenizes the mass/charge (M/Z) vector, allowing you to compare different spectra under the same reference and at the same resolution. In high-resolution data sets, the large size of the files leads to computationally intensive algorithms. However, high-resolution spectra can be redundant. By resampling, you can decimate the signal into a more manageable M/Z vector, preserving the information content of the spectra. The
msresample function allows you to select a new M/Z vector and also applies an antialias filter that prevents high-frequency noise from folding into lower frequencies.
Load a high-resolution spectrum example taken from the high-resolution ovarian cancer NCI/FDA data set. In this case you will use some spectra examples already saved in
.mat format.
load sample_hi_res
ans = 355760
Down-sample the spectra to 10,000 M/Z points between 2,000 and 11,000. Most of the mass spectrometry preprocessing tools have a
SHOWPLOT property that creates a customized plot that helps you to follow and assess the quality of the preprocessing action.
[MZH,YH] = msresample(MZ_hi_res,Y_hi_res,10000,'RANGE',[2000 11000],'SHOWPLOT',true);
Zooming into a reduced region reveals the detail of the down-sampling procedure.
axis([3875 3895 0 90])
Mass spectrometry data usually show a varying baseline caused by the chemical noise in the matrix or by ion overloading. The
msbackadj function estimates a low-frequency baseline, which is hidden among high-frequency noise and signal peaks. It then subtracts the baseline from the spectrogram.
To show how to correct the baseline, this example uses four low-resolution examples, taken from two different NCI/DFA ovarian data sets.
Adjust the baseline of the set of spectrograms and show only the second one and its estimated background.
YB = msbackadj(MZ,Y,'WINDOWSIZE',500,'QUANTILE',0.20,'SHOWPLOT',2);
Miscalibration of the mass spectrometer leads to variations of the relationship between the observed M/Z vector and the true time-of-flight of the ions. Therefore, systematic shifts can appear in repeated experiments. When a known profile of peaks is expected in the spectrogram, you can use
msalign to standardize the M/Z values.
To align spectrograms, provide a set of M/Z values where reference peaks are expected to appear. You can also define a vector with relative weights that is used by the aligning algorithm to emphasize peaks with small area.
P = [3991.4 4598 7964 9160]; % M/Z location of reference peaks W = [60 100 60 100]; % Weight for reference peaks
Display a heat map to observe the alignment of the spectra before and after applying the alignment algorithm.
msheatmap(MZ,YB,'MARKERS',P,'RANGE',[3000 10000]) title('Before Alignment')
Align the set of spectrograms to the reference peaks given.
YA = msalign(MZ,YB,P,'WEIGHTS',W); msheatmap(MZ,YA,'MARKERS',P,'RANGE',[3000 10000]) title('After Alignment')
In repeated experiments, it is also common to find systematic differences in the total amount of desorbed and ionized proteins. The
msnorm function implements several variations of typical normalization (or standardization) methods.
For example, one of many methods to standardize the values of the spectrograms is to rescale the maximum intensity of every signal to a specific value, for instance 100. It is also possible to ignore problematic regions; for example, in serum samples you might want to ignore the low-mass region (M/Z < 1000 Da.).
YN1 = msnorm(MZ,YA,'QUANTILE',1,'LIMITS',[1000 inf],'MAX',100); figure plot(MZ,YN1) axis([0 10000 -20 150]) xlabel('Mass/Charge (M/Z)');ylabel('Relative Intensity') title('Normalized to the Maximum Peak')
msnorm function can also standardize by using the area under the curve (AUC) and then rescale the spectrograms to have relative intensities below 100.
YN2 = msnorm(MZ,YA,'LIMITS',[1000 inf],'MAX',100); figure plot(MZ,YN2) axis([0 10000 -20 150]) xlabel('Mass/Charge (M/Z)');ylabel('Relative Intensity') title('Normalized Using the Area Under the Curve (AUC)')
Standardized spectra usually contain a mixture of noise and signal. Some applications require you to denoise the spectrograms to improve the validity and precision of the observed mass/charge values of the peaks in the spectra. For the same reason, denoising also improves further peak detection algorithms. However, it is important to preserve the sharpness (or high-frequency components) of the peak as much as possible. For this, you can use Lowess smoothing (
mslowess) and polynomial filters (
Smooth the spectrograms with a polynomial filter of second order.
YS = mssgolay(MZ,YN2,'SPAN',35,'SHOWPLOT',3);
Zooming into a reduced region reveals the detail of the smoothing algorithm.
axis([8000 9000 -1 8])
A simple approach to find putative peaks is to look at the first derivative of the smoothed signal, then filer some of these locations to avoid small ion-intensity peaks:
P1 = mspeaks(MZ,YS,'DENOISING',false,'HEIGHTFILTER',2,'SHOWPLOT',1)
P1 = 4×1 cell array [164×2 double] [171×2 double] [169×2 double] [147×2 double]
mspeaks function can also estimate the noise using wavelets denoising. This method is generally more robust, because peak detection can be achieved directly over noisy spectra. The algorithm will adapt to varying noise conditions of the signal, and peaks can be resolved even if low resolution or oversegmentation exists.
P2 = mspeaks(MZ,YN2,'BASE',12,'MULTIPLIER',10,'HEIGHTFILTER',1,'SHOWPLOT',1)
P2 = 4×1 cell array [322×2 double] [370×2 double] [324×2 double] [295×2 double]
Eliminate extra peaks in the low-mass region
P3 = cellfun( @(x) x(x(:,1)>1500,:),P2,'UNIFORM',false)
P3 = 4×1 cell array [81×2 double] [93×2 double] [57×2 double] [53×2 double]
Peaks corresponding to similar compounds may still be reported with slight mass/charge differences or drifts. Assuming that the four spectrograms correspond to comparable biological/chemical samples, one may want to compare peaks from different spectra, for this you need to perform peak binning (a.k.a. peak coalescing). The crucial task in data binning is to create a common mass/charge reference vector (or bins), ideally bins should collect one peak from each signal and should avoid collecting multiple relevant peaks from the same signal into the same bin. This example uses hierarchical clustering to calculate a common mass/charge reference vector. This approach is sufficient when using low-resolution spectra; however, for high-resolution spectra or for data sets with many spectrograms, the function
mspalign provides other scalable methods to estimate a common mass/charge reference and perform data binning.
Put all the peaks into a single array and construct a vector with the spectrogram index for each peak:
allPeaks = cell2mat(P3); numPeaks = cellfun(@(x) length(x),P3); Sidx = accumarray(cumsum(numPeaks),1); Sidx = cumsum(Sidx)-Sidx;
Create a custom made distance function that penalizes clusters containing peaks from the same spectrogram:
distfun = @(x,y) (x(:,1)-y(:,1)).^2 + (x(:,2)==y(:,2))*10^6
distfun = function_handle with value: @(x,y)(x(:,1)-y(:,1)).^2+(x(:,2)==y(:,2))*10^6
Perform hierarchical clustering:
tree = linkage(pdist([allPeaks(:,1),Sidx],distfun)); clusters = cluster(tree,'CUTOFF',75,'CRITERION','Distance');
The common mass/charge reference vector (CMZ) is found by calculating the centroids for each cluster:
CMZ = accumarray(clusters,prod(allPeaks,2))./accumarray(clusters,allPeaks(:,2));
Similarly, the maximum peak intensity of every cluster is also computed:
PR = accumarray(clusters,allPeaks(:,2),[],@max); [CMZ,h] = sort(CMZ); PR = PR(h); figure hold on box on plot([CMZ CMZ],[-10 100],'-k') plot(MZ,YN2) axis([7200 8500 -10 100]) xlabel('Mass/Charge (M/Z)');ylabel('Relative Intensity') title('Common Mass/Charge (M/Z) Locations found by Clustering')
samplealign function allows you to use a dynamic programming algorithm to assign the observed peaks in each spectrogram to the common mass/charge reference vector (
When simpler binning approaches are used, such as rounding the mass/charge values or using nearest neighbor quantization to the
CMZ vector, the same peak from different spectra my be assigned to different bins due to the small drifts that still exist. To circumvent this problem, the bin size can be increased with the sacrifice of mass spectrometry peak resolution. By using dynamic programming binning, you preserve the resolution while minimizing the problem of assigning similar compounds from different spectrograms to different peak locations.
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Skip to comments.15 Year Old Woman Leaves Maryland Gun Grabbing Politicians Speechless
Posted on 04/04/2013 7:50:47 AM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
In another video provided by The Maryland Minutemen, a fifteen year old young woman addresses the Maryland state legislature and in doing so some of the most hardcore gun control politicians. While some girls are running around attempting to be the next Lady Gaga, Madonna or Beyonce, its nice to know there are young women with some priorities in their lives. This young lady gets it, at least where arms are concerned. Take a look as see what you think.
Though I have attempted to discover the name of the young woman that spoke, I have yet to do so. However, she is a very well-spoken young woman and carried herself with poise and ease before the legislature.
She has been shooting for almost eight years. This indicates that her parents began teaching her at an early age. She has been a part of the Maryland Rifle Club and Maryland State Rifle Team since she was eleven. To the horror of the bun grabbers, she declared, We shoot semi-automatic AR-15s and my personal rifle is a Bushmaster.
Because of her experience, she has become so proficient that she has become eligible for various shooting scholarships from around the nation from a wide array of even the most prestigious college shooting teams.
Stricter gun control laws would have obliterated any opportunity I would have had could have had to attend a decent college on a shooting scholarship, she said.
She also declared that ever since she began to learn to shoot, the issue was clear in regards to gun violence, Guns arent the problem; people are.
In addressing the legislature concerning their gun grabbing legislation, she said, By signing this legislation, you are not signing away gun violence, but instead liberating American citizens of our constitutional rights. You are not eliminating guns from society, but eliminating our ability to protect our lives, liberty and pursuits of happiness.
The young woman then went on to point out the dismal record of Barack Obamas city of Chicago, Illinois, a city with arguably some of the toughest gun laws in the country. It is twice as likely for you to be killed in Chicago as it is to be killed in the Afghani War, she stated. She then backed up her bold statement. For the past eleven year and four months, in the Afghani War, 2,166 people have been killed (obviously referencing American people). Now in only eight years in Chicago 4,265 people have been killed and 3,371 of them were from being shot.
Is that really something we want to model our state laws after? she asked rhetorically.
She went on to drive the point home that of the 3,371 that were killed in Chicago, only 37 of them were killed with a rifle. Thats barely 1%! Since 98% were killed with a handgun, the young lady says that gun control legislation that targets assault rifles (Yes, I know, its semi-automatic rifles and so does she, but shes rubbing their noses in it) has statistically proven to weed out only less than 1% of the problem if youre lucky.
She also pointed out that none of the firearms used in the Chicago shootings were either licensed or registered to the people who used them. This statistic alone should be enough to argue against background checks of any king or any type of registration or permit. After all, you dont have to have any of those things to exercise any of your other rights, so why is that imposed on the Second Amendment? (Hint for liberals: Its to control you.)
She then recounted the fact that restricting guns will not stop criminals from hurting people and pointed out that the same day of the Sandy Hook shooting that a knife wielding man injured 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in China.
Guns are not needed for mass murder and robbing American citizens of our rights to own them wont solve anything, she said. You must also consider the fact that the majority of gun violence occurs in low income neighborhoods. Raising the overall costs of owning a gun through higher licensing and registration fees denies the ability of low income individuals to protect themselves from the crime focused in the areas they live in.
She then points out that passing legislation such as the Maryland legislature was considering was discrimination against the low income citizens, who are actually at the higher risk of becoming victims of crimes.
Concluding her remarks, she summarized what Marylands legislature and its governor were seeking to do.
To abolish or severely limit the right of the Maryland residents, as a whole, to bear arms, which is the intent of the proposed legislation is to essentially defeat the purpose of our own U.S. Constitution. The entire foundation of the United States was formed on the principle that the government, our government, is a government of the people, for the people and by the people. Taking away the peoples right to bear arms is taking away the peoples power in the government.
It is the Second Amendment that was put in place to make sure that the government understood that men keeping and bearing arms is not at the granting or the benevolence of government. Government is simply to protect that ability from infringement, even when it is the one seeking to infringe. In fact, I would say that any American is not only acting irresponsibly in not owning a firearm, but they are neglecting their duty to their families and country (their individual state) by not owning a firearm. Bravo to this young lady for speaking the truth and doing so very precisely and poignantly!
15 year old woman?
IMO, talking to these Liberal sewer RATs is like trying to tell Hitler not to invade Poland!
True, because they are in in for power nothing else. But it is good to see that there are some young people who are not bamboozled by their liberal propaganda.
"15 year old woman?" absolutely.
Exactly. No 15 year old is a woman.
Isn't it funny when they're talking about a 15 yo black male gangbanger with a gun he's a "child". Yet an intelligent conservative 15 yo white girl is a "woman"?
My first question as well. No further comment lest I hijack the thread.
She shows more maturity than at least half those twice her age.
In fact in Maryland a 15 year old child CANNOT give her legal consent:
Maryland statutory rape laws decree that if you have sex with a person who is 14 or 15 years old, and you are at least four years older than your partner, you can be charged with and convicted of a second-degree sexual offense.
Also, if you are at least 21 years old or older, and you have sexual relations with a person who is between the ages of 14 and 15 years old, the crime is elevated to a third-degree sexual offense.
A 15-yo young lady might be a more exacting description.
The author is obviously trying to get a specific message across by calling her a woman rather than a child or a teen, in the title.
I think teen would have been fine, or even 'young woman' is commonly used for teens wouldhave been better.
Can't find the video.
Bravo to this young lady for speaking the truth and doing so very precisely and poignantly!
Girls sure didn't make speeches like that when I was a high school boy! More power to the young lady!
There is still hope for America's future, she may be rare, but such as her could start a constitutional movement among the young...here's hoping.
I know there are many like this girl, but the msm does their best to see they do not get exposure.
"IMO, talking to these Liberal sewer RATs is like trying to tell Hitler not to invade Poland!"
You are correct....but it is IMPERATIVE that they be challenged publicly in the way this young woman has done. She's a new one in the pantheon of Heros.
God bless her and protect her and all our young people and the freedom lovers of this nation!
Clearly the author was trying to get that message out.
'young woman' is commonly used for teens considered mature and it would have served the author better in the title.
The average reader will see a title '15 year old woman' and ask 'what?'
So you are saying 16 is fair game. That seems too young...
Holy crap!! What difference does it really make?
If a 19 year old can be a child then a 15 year old can be a woman.
Orthey could just describe her as an "older youth", like they did when referring to the 18, 19 yo and above who participate in looting andnassualt mobs.
Thanks for the link.
What I liked about that girl in the video was that she made some great points and she was where a cross.
Does not logically follow unless you're saying the terms "child" and adult "man"/"woman" are meaningless and I won't give you that. She may be a mature 15 yo but I guarantee you if you sit down to a conversation with her you will know you are talking to a child. I say this with some authority after having many, frequently exasperating, conversations with my wife's 15 yo daughters and their friends. The 19 yo with a gun is an adult in every respect even if he's making foolish/childish decisions. He's only a child to liberals trying to excuse his behavior.
Yep - perhaps another "Henry Bowman":
The only things obungle has been 'good' gor:
run away gun sales
tens of thousends of new women shooters
sharp uptick in young shooters
America is waking up...and a 'gun behind every blade of grass'
Where do I get a permit to speak freely?
Where do I get a permit to meet my friends?
Where do I get a permit to keep my papers at home private?
Where do I get a permit to go to church and pray?
Where do I get a permit to remain silent?
Where do I get a permit to object that the government is criminalizing law-abiding citizens?
Where do I get a permit to keep and carry a copy of the US Constitution?
I agree with you. I was just following the logic of the left.
OMG!!! She is a Bible thumping (wearing a cross on her necklace), clinging to her guns, white woman!!
BTW, she is not guilty of anything, except for being a very well spoken and cute girl.
15 year old young lady? To call her a girl or child would be disrespectful.
I'm not into the PC nonsense so I'd go with child or girl since that's a quite accurate description. Lady? Perhaps as an idiom.
Citizens vs Government arms race.
Are all the spelling errors in the original article?
Not a liberal but there are a few errors in the article.
Well, she tried, anyhow. SB 281 is on its way to the governor's desk.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
She was on Fox and Friends this morning and mentioned that if we cross a state line with a fire arm we cant bring it back to Maryland. WTH?
Intellectually, she is precocious, IMHO..
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Lennie Sogoloff died today on Boston's North Shore at the age of 90. He was the proprietor of Lennie's-on-the-Turnpike, a hallowed jazz club on Route 1 in West Peabody, Massachusetts, which Lennie operated between 1951 and '71. Sogoloff, who worked for Mercury Records at the time, originally provided a juke box stocked with jazz, then began presenting the living artists themselves. For a decade-plus, Lennie's was on the itinerary of just about every jazz artist of the time. Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and countless others played the room, and because Lennie was a straight-shooter and a "loving host," as Cambridge record store proprietor Jack Woker put it, they kept coming back. When he added fifty seats to the club in 1964, his ads read, "Still warm and intimate."
In my teens, friends and I traveled to Lennie's on several occasions to see blues greats Muddy Waters, James Cotton, and Charlie Musselwhite, whose group included guitar legend Fenton Robinson. Lennie's is where I first heard Clark Terry and Zoot Sims. Sogoloff's gregarious manner helped foster a close rapport with performers, many of whom impressed us with their accessibility off-stage. One especially memorable experience was sitting with the Mississippi-born Musselwhite while he ate what he told us was his first lobster. But no matter who was performing, we were always struck by our proximity to the players, and how much more lifelike they seemed than the rock stars of our generation playing on distant stages in arenas and gymnasiums. (The Jazz Workshop in Boston, whose proprietor Fred Taylor still books Scullers, offered more of the same intimacy.)
When Lennie's was destroyed by fire in 1971, Sogoloff continued to present jazz in settings north of Boston, but he worked primarily as a clothing salesman in Salem. Imagine the challenge he faced finding as much style in Hickey-Freeman as he did in Basie, Buck, and Byard. I would later see him at Boston and Cambridge nightclubs where he was invariably brimming with enthusiasm over whomever was on stage. I last saw him at a Duke Ellington symposium that I took part in at Salem State University a decade ago.
Worcester native Jaki Byard made recordings for Prestige at Lennie's, and they're among the most celebrated living artifacts from the club. That's Joe Farrell, George Tucker, and Alan Dawson burning with Byard on "King David." Argo released a lively set by Illinois Jacquet, Milt Buckner and Alan Dawson in 1964 that includes "Watermelon Man," "On a Clear Day," and "Illinois Flies Again." Sogoloff presented this trio of audience favorites more than any other act besides Buddy Rich. How's this for down home?
The documentary Mingus in Greenwich Village opens with footage shot at Lennie's in 1966. Mingus, drummer Dannie Richmond, pianist Walter Bishop, Jr. and tenor saxophonist John Gilmore are seen playing "All the Things You Are" for the first 4:15 of Tom Reichman's compelling film on the great bassist. Additional material featuring alto saxophonist Charles McPherson and trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer playing "Peggy's Blue Skylight" and "Take the A Train" is interspersed throughout, and the band is seen arriving at Lennie's at 34:25. (I wrote about Mingus in 2012 for Jazz Times. One of the comments on the article contains anecdotes about this appearance at Lennie's. Read it here.)
There's more to Lennie's legacy. In 2006, Sogoloff donated his collection of memorabilia to Salem State University, and a selection of photos from the archive is available for viewing. Click here for this treasure trove of snapshots of dozens of jazz greats. Surprises include the legendary Earl Bostic in 1965; Abbey Lincoln modeling a stunning Afro in 1963; Jimmy Rushing at the microphone, and posing with Lennie before the Fisherman's Memorial in Gloucester; Woody Herman's band on Lennie's cramped, low-ceiling stage; Howard McGhee relaxing with his beautiful wife; Jaki Byard playing tenor; Rahsaan Roland Kirk in action; and numerous place-cards naming the who's who of jazz greats who'd be appearing soon.
The Boston Globe reported on Lennie when the collection and a scholarship in his name were established at Salem State. Sogoloff told the Globe that the relatively remote location of Lennie's made it "a destination. You had to work to get here, but it was always a happy ending." There's more about Lennie's on the website of Richard Vacca, author of The Boston Jazz Chronicles, an essential baedeker of the Boston jazz scene from 1937-1962.
Here's Lennie himself recalling, "in a nutshell," the glory days of the club. I had no idea until I watched this that the aforementioned Fred Taylor played a key role in the first presentation of a name act, Roy Eldridge, at the club. He also notes that "Berklee was a hotbed for talent" as he ticks off the names of Jimmy Mosher, Hal Galper, and Alan Dawson.
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The Landscaper and I have been arguing for weeks - or more accurately, months - over where I am allowed to plant the five avocado trees I have nurtured from seedhood.
Actually, "nurtured" is a bit of a misnomer, since I threw them out the kitchen window on a day when the compost tin was full and they took root at the edge of the lawn.
It seemed to me they deserved to be potted up and now, at about 40cm tall, they have an expectation of being planted in the orchard.
For reasons best known to himself, but which probably have to do with impediments to the lawn mowing process, The Landscaper will not have it.
He has myriad excuses:
They'll grow huge and shade all the other fruit trees.
They hate wet feet so planting them on a piece of land surrounded by a stream is a totally bad idea.
They'll encourage possums.
We haven't got room for them.
As a former editor of the Avocado Growers' Association magazine, I actually know far more about avocados than he does, and far more than I ever wanted to, so I am able to refute all of his arguments.
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"Glendale was such a wonderful, nurturing environment for me," she says of her time at "junior college," "I got the [education] bug here. I was even a cheerleader. Cal State LA was very impersonal in comparison, and I always appreciated that Glendale gave me such a good foundation to build upon."
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Antonio Perez, who has led Eastman Kodak Co.'s transformation into a commercial imaging company, will serve, at most, one year as CEO after the company emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Kodak Tuesday night outlined its post-emergence executive leadership team in supplemental filings to its plan of reorganization with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The new equity investors in Kodak have confirmed their acceptance of the management team, which is a condition to Kodak's emergence equity plan, the company said.
Perez joined Kodak in 2003 and became chairman and CEO in 2005, replacing Daniel Carp.
Perez, who also will serve as a director, committed to serve the reorganized company for up to three years following the company's emergence from Chapter 11. Perez will agree to be CEO for one year from emergence, or until the post-emergence board of directors elects his successor, whichever is sooner, the company said.
As CEO, Perez will work with the board to identify his successor. Upon the appointment of his successor, Perez would resign as CEO, and work as a full-time special adviser to the board to effect a seamless transition for a period up to the first anniversary of the company's emergence. He has agreed to serve the company in a consulting capacity for up to another two years.
Not announced by Kodak as part of the post-emergence management team is Kodak President Laura Quatela, who also has served as president of Personalized Imaging. A filing with the Bankruptcy Court, however, states Quatela will serve as senior vice president and oversee the sale and transition of the Personalized Imaging business.
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In addition, Jim Mesterharm will continue as chief restructuring officer and Becky Roof will continue as interim chief financial officer, under the company's agreement with AlixPartners.
"On behalf of the entire continuing management team, we appreciate the support of our new owners and look forward to the completion of Kodak's successful restructuring, the confirmation of our Plan of Reorganization and our emergence from Chapter 11 later in the third quarter," Perez said.
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Sneak from your
Streaming into
Dreams are dying
Everyone's lying
About the end
When eyelids flutter
Lungs collapse
With a gentle swoosh
All you have
Are starry skies
In the tranquility of red
In the bareness of white
Arthritic icicles drip
Shaking with your
Pounding on
My door
Again I mistake
I must stand in
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I spoke against
It all
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Your obsession
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Arthritc icicles
Dripping still
Deadly and
A bloody body
Icing my walk
A dove in a cage
Suspended in a cage
Soaked in the
Despairing chimes
Of the time-teller
The years have kept her
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Entrapment wears the heaviest
Unable to stir her wings
Hopelessness fatigues her
Boring holes in her beating heart
Powerless and weightless
She's naked in the hole
White feathers long gone.
It came to the surface
For an anguished, choking breath
A ringing scream
Fighting to go down again
Submerge itself to be dangerous
Once more.
Hate is every color
Sqeezing from our skin
Not just one
But all
Equal but
Drowning each other
I'm on the
Corner waiting
For the black
Sedan to pick me
Up I've got this
Piece of paper telling
Me this stranger's name
I shiver because it's cold
There's a little girl
At the stop light who
Is in a car with her mom
She smiles at me
An inoccent kindness
As she draws on the foggy glass
With mitten fingers
She won't know why
I stand here for
About ten years or so
So I smile back while
Her mother growls
And drives away
You swam in my eyes
Under my skin
Dragged me under
Pulled me in
I'm lying at the bottom
Staring at the top
My last creation
Will be a cough