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Zaskar 100 9R Carbon Expert From GT
Description: The only X/C racing hardtail durable enough to have won a World Championship in downhill, the Zaskar has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the most trusted X/C race bikes on the planet. The all new Zaskar carbon line-up, featuring both hardtails and 100mm travel frames in 26" and 29" variants, proudly continues this legacy. With numerous improvements to the bikes suspension design, carbon layup, and fabrication techniques, the new line-up is both lighter and stiffer than the bikes it replaces.
Price: $4,400.00 Visit the Website
Pro Ball Baseball Clinic
Description: An instructional baseball clinic once designed specifically for the adult player has evolved into something even more special. Over the past decade, this three day camp has grown to teach high school and college-aged sons and fathers how to better improve their baseball skills. The father-son aspect brought a whole new dimension to the clinic. The Pro Ball baseball Clinic is now for anyone over the age of 14 who wants to become a better baseball player or baseball coach; and that is exactly what they get as they learn from some of the best baseball coaches in the world, including Kevin Long (Hitting coach, NY Yankees), Eric Owens (Hitting Coordinator, Los Angeles Dodgers), Mike Butcher (Pitching Coach, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) etc…
Price: $2,295.00 to $2,795.00 Visit the Website
2011 Playboy Golf Tour
Description: Want to wow Dad this Father's Day with something other than socks, a tie or Aqua Velva? Well now is your chance to shoot up to the top of Pop's list with the gift of Playboy Golf. The 2011 Playboy Golf Tour just launched and is hitting the links in cities around the country, culminating in the Playboy Golf Finals next spring, which features an exclusive Lingerie and Pajama Party at the legendary Playboy Mansion. Cities like San Diego, Toronto and Boston will host Playboy Playmates and Girls of Playboy Golf, for a day on the green like he has ever experienced before. Foursome prices range from $1100 to $3000, with hotel specials in many cities if you'd like to check out any of the other tour stops. Check out www.playboygolf.com for more information on Playboy Golf.
Price: $1,100.00 to $3,000.00 Visit the Website
The 'Fairway' Golf Divot Tool Series By William Henry Studio
Description: Unlike anything you've ever seen – or anything that's ever been made – the D3 Fairway is a divot tool that stands apart and above. This gorgeous golf tool is designed for a lifetime, built with precision and passion, and works with the comfort and style you expect from William Henry. The handles in hand forged damascus, mokume or stainelss steel, conceal the automatic mechanism that operates the stainless steel fork. The inlays range from 10,000 year old fossil mammoth tooth to mother of pearl, wood or carbon fiber. Each tool in this collection includes a PGA regulation size ball marker crafted from stainless steel, and finished with custom 'guilloche' engraving on the border. Zwarovski gemstones on button lock complete this unique and spectacular piece of functional jewelry. The Fairway is an automatic tool – the two pronged fork is spring powered and quickly opens by pressing the button lock. It is just pure fun to play with and use – and completely legal everywhere. The automatic mechanism is complimented by a sliding safety on the back of the handle, which secures the tool in the closed position for safe carry. Each D3 Fairway includes a lined leather ClipCase© for easy and secure carry, and ships in a presentation box with our Certificate of Authenticity.
Price: $600.00 to $1,250.00 Visit the Website
HEAD GP 84 Skis
Description: In the pipe you need lightning-fast skis, that's where HEAD GP 84 comes in, proving speed isn't just for racers. Designed by Jon Olsson, who showed the Swedish alpine GS team how it's done, these skis were made to go big and fast, just how you need them. These skis can handle any park abuse. Shred the pipes without fear, transition to and from rails effortlessly with extra durable ABS side walls, grab some big air, and be the envy of the park with this ultra-unique design. Lengths: 171 / 176 / 181 Radius: 20.2 @ 181 Sidecut: 121/84/110 @ 181
Price: $549.00 Visit the Website
HEAD Evil KERS Flamba Snowboard
Description: There's a new Flamba board in town and it's sure to make you king of the mountain with its speed, pop and stability. With the tip to tail Carbon and Kevlar jacket, the Evil combines the perfect mixture of Carbon for pop and Kevlar for a smooth ride. This board is superior from the inside out with KERS technology, straight out of Formula One R&D, KERS captures energy from vibrations during edge to edge transfer and boosts it back to you, helping you speed up at the end of any turn or increase your Ollie after any transition. Designed by George Bates, the HEAD Evil KERS Flamba board is truly something to look at…that is of course if anyone can catch a glimpse when you speed by down the mountain.
Price: $449.00 Visit the Website
DnA Golf Driver
Description: DnA Golf's revolutionary new drivers use a patented detachable face technology that optimizes both distance and acoustics. DNA Golf has patented "tunable" DNA Technology and can therefore deliver clubs that are virtually at the 257 µs limit, delivering the highest face-flexibility (and thus distance) allowed by the ruling bodies of golf. The detachable face permits access to the inside of the driver, and allows us to offer 3 distinct acoustic profiles. Each DnA Driver comes complete with a Fujikura shaft and Golf Pride grip. Customers can choose their shaft flex, loft, and acoustic profile. Also included is a t-10 torque limiting wrench (for screw removal) and an embroidered ultra-leather head cover. Custom logos can be added (with sufficient quantities) to the head cover, shaft, grip, and packaging. Make each driver one of a kind for dad by adding his company logo, favorite sports team, military affiliation or family crest to the top of the driver so there's no mistaking his driver one the course.
Price: $395.00 Visit the Website
Portable Training Soccer Goal
Description: GOLME's Professional Training Goal is the first truly portable regulation size training goal. All models weigh 26 pounds or less and fit in a carry bag 2.5 feet long by 1 foot wide, so you can take them anywhere the game takes you. The Professional Training Goal provides teams with the convenience of a pop-up net and the realism of a regulation size goal. GOLME's patented design makes it effectively one piece, which means no lost parts or nasty tangles. Setup and takedown is a quick 3 minutes. It just makes sense to train on the same size goal you compete on. Choose the model that's best for you.
Price: $299.00 to $699.00 Visit the Website
HEAD YouTek Speed Series Racquet
Description: HEAD proudly presents the second generation of YouTekTM Speed racquets, which again has been developed with and for world No. 3 player Novak Djokovic. The new YouTek™ IG Speed Series combines the best feature of the well-accepted YouTekTM, d3o™, with HEAD's new Innegra™ fiber technology. Innegra™ promises to bring racquet innovation to another level. Extremely tough and light, Innegra™ has the lowest density of any existing fiber and, combined with carbon fiber, forms an ultra-tough hybrid-composite structure. The result: improved stability and increased shock absorption. Racquet vibration from ball impact is reduced by up to 17 percent, yielding unmatched control and precision.
Price: $210.00 to $225.00 Visit the Website
Wilson NFL Golf Bags
Description: Wilson Golf has expanded its line of Official NFL (National Football League) logo golf bags. With this year's additions, the 2010 bag line now includes all 32 NFL teams and allows Wilson Golf to help football fans across the country extend their team spirit from the gridiron to the golf course. Available in all official NFL team logos and colors, the Wilson NFL golf bags are available in both cart and carry options.
Price: $199.99 to $249.99 Visit the Website
Basketball Shoes That Prevent Ankle Sprains, Ektio
Description: Ektio (www.Ektio.com) is a physician-designed, clinically-tested athletic shoe specifically created to provide rock solid ankle support. The brand was named after the two Greek words 'Ektor' and 'Alexio,' which mean to 'defend' and 'protect.' Though Ektio's functional properties are totally unique to any footwear on the market today, the hip, urban stylings of the Wraptor and Post Up models rival any celebrity named athletic shoe available today. Ektio shoes are available at major athletic shoe retailers online and at Ektio.com.
Price: $199.00 Visit the Website
HEAD YouTek IG Instinct
Description: The latest addition to the HEAD tour racquets features a slim, aerodynamic frame geometry in the racquet head, making the racquet more maneuverable and allowing for fast swing speeds. The newly designed racquet shaft has a robust and stable cross-section, which provides maximum stiffness in the area with the highest bending moment. Behind all of the science and technology is a simple result: through better maneuverability and less energy loss during impact, Power can be created much easier; or, in other words, effortlessly!
Price: $180.00 to $190.00 Visit the Website
Discover Scuba Diving
Description: You always wanted to try it, but never had the time or were unsure about a full certification course? When you participate in a Discover Scuba Diving program with Ocean Adventures, you will discover excitement, adventure, freedom and serenity. Nothing compares to the "weightless" exhilaration of breathing underwater. Only a diver knows that feeling! You will start your experience at Ocean Adventures with your equipment fitting. You will then be briefed on basic safety precautions. The Discover Scuba Diving program lets you experience the thrill of diving under the supervision of a PADI Professional in a pool or pool-like conditions first. During your adventure, you'll master some basic concepts and scuba skills and might even head off to experience an open water adventure. During our journey to the beautiful island of Catalina you will learn about the different types of the marine life that you may encounter when we take our dive at California's famous Casino Point. Your instructor will guide you through the practice of a few simple skills, and then accompany you on an amazing journey. As you enter the beautiful kelp forests, you will see the State of California marine fish the Garibaldi. You could encounter many other creatures such as bat rays, horn sharks, Pacific lobster and much, much more. Pool Experience Only: Includes all equipment and an instructor supervised dive in the pool. $149 Catalina Ocean Dive Option: Includes all equipment, transportation, and 3 instructor supervised dives at Catalina Park. $499
Price: $149.00 to $499.00 Visit the Website
Cannondale Teramo Helmet
Description: Pave. Tarmac. Country lane. Highway. Whatever you call it and wherever you ride pavement - in any time zone, in any hemisphere - Cannondale's Teramo will help you keep your cool when the riding heats up. Unmatched fit, outstanding function, and a bevy of safety features back up the good looks. Bottom line? The Teramo is everything performance riders seek.
Price: $109.99 Visit the Website
Description: Golf enthusiasts, rejoice! Based on the demand for wallet-friendly golf specials, TheEarlyBirdie.com was started to help golfers gain access to the best courses without the hefty price tag. Similar to the concept of Gilt.com, TheEarlyBirdie is a collective buying site that showcases deals each week at a discount of up to 50% off! How it all started: Due to the economic uncertainly in today's market, golf courses are struggling for business. In addition, the average golfer has less discretionary income devoted to golf. TheEarlyBirdie has the negotiating power to cut down the average costs and offer special deals and promotions. Golf courses now have the resource to showcase their clubs, while golfers have the ability to cut down the costs of their recreational hobby.
Price: $85.00 Visit the Website
Wenger EvoWood Knife
Description: EvoWood is the latest in the growing Evolution series created by Wenger in 2005, more than 100 years after the original Swiss Army Knife design. Wenger is commited to protecting the environment and these products, which are "grown" in Switzerland, demonstrate the innovative ways in which we can approach production to help conservation. The handles for each of these pocketknives are constructed from sustainable top quality walnut using what would otherwise be waste material from other production processes. The natural walnut, which is durable for light outdoor use, is colored in a rich dark stain to create individual shades and grain patterns in each knife, making every product a one-off.
Price: $79.95 to $159.95 Visit the Website
Gibbon Slackline Kit
Description: Gibbon makes easy to use 2 piece slackline kits for the whole family to enjoy in the backyard, over a pool, or in a park. Slacklines are strips of dynamic webbing that are hung low to the ground between 2 trees or other anchor points. They are a balance challenge, sport trainer, backyard game and all around fun piece of equipment. Gibbon specializes in 2" wide webbing kits with ratchet tensioning systems, making it very easy to set up. Within this style is the FUNLINE made for beginners with thick, more static webbing and a sticky grip to help while learning. For the more advanced or adventurous types there is the JIBLINE made of trampoline material providing extra bounce and more of a challenge. Slacklining began as a cross trainer and has progressed to a fun backyard activity and sport all of its own. It's the perfect gift the whole family can enjoy. Give it a try!
Price: $74.99 to $139.99 Visit the Website
HEAD Cloe Snowboard Helmet
Description: HEAD's Cloe Pink helmet couples feminine design with groundbreaking technology to provide women with superior protection and a comfortable fit. Wrapped in a beautiful, sleek design, the interior of the helmet has been created to maximize temperature regulation. Snowboard in true style and comfort this season with the equally functionable and fashionable Cloe helmet. This ultra-chic helmet is also available in white and black.
Price: $70.00 Visit the Website
Description: NEW ERA BY YOU is a customizable cap studio, where you will be able to personalize your cap for the very first time. With more than 150 logos (including 30 Major League Baseball teams), more than 60 fabric colors and 150 colors of thread, consumers are in control to create a true one-of-a-kind cap. In a few simple steps, shoppers can customize all panels of the cap, the logo and even thread color. Caps will be delivered in 45 days beginning on November 18th. This is a great stocking stuffer and perfect for the person "who has everything".
Price: $59.00 to $59.95 Visit the Website
HeadBlade Signature Series Hockey Jersey
Description: Inspired partly by Happy Gilmore, partly the Bruins, the HeadBlade Signature Series Hockey Jersey is a great gift for him. Even non-headshavers look good in this jersey. Made from 55% polyester, 45% cotton, this black jersey comes in two colors: yellow and white stripes (as featured) or grey stripes. Check it out today along with our full line of headcare products and grooming accessories. Enjoy!
Price: $40.00 Visit the Website
Chicken Stick - Wii Golf Club
Description: The Chicken Stick® is a Patent Pending golf club for use with Nintendo Wii® golf games. Fully compatible with Tiger Woods PGA Tour®. Ages 8+ Features: -- Substantial weighted feel - when combined with the Nintendo Wii Motion Plus® and Controller, the Chicken Stick is weighted to feel like an actual golf club. -- Golf Pride® grips - this top-selling grip has laid claim to more major wins than any other grip company -- True Temper® shafts - widely used by golf pros around the world, these steel shafts are the top-selling shafts in golf -- One year limited warranty. Made in the USA. Nintendo Wii Remote and Motion Plus NOT included. All cited trademarks and logos not owned by Bad Chicken, LLC are properties of their respective holders, and these respective holders have not sponsored, endorsed or approved this product.
Price: $39.99 Visit the Website
Performance Mouth Gear By Power Balance
Description: Power Balance presents its revolutionary NEW product, Performance Mouth Gear. Unlike traditional mouthguards designed only to provide oral protection, the premise behind Performance Mouth Gear is to deliver multiple physiological performance benefits by incorporating innovative technology to properly align the jaw and the spine through optimal positioning of the bite. This special product is already showing up in the mouths of NFL stars like Clay Matthews and Darren Sproles, and comes at a cost exponentially cheaper than its competitors.
Price: $39.99 Visit the Website
Black Hologram Series Wristband By Power Balance
Description: Created at the suggestion of elite athletes and at high consumer demand, Power Balance has released a new line of wristbands featuring black holograms. This durable, 100% surgical grade silicone wristband can go anywhere, on and off the field. Seen on the wrists of athletes from all sports, fans are finally able to purchase the black series bands, beloved by Drew Brees, online and at all Dick's Sporting Goods stores nationwide.
Price: $34.99 Visit the Website
Legendary Golfer Tom Watson's New Book, THE TIMELESS SWING
Description: From one of golf's greatest players—a lifetime's worth of brilliant play distilled into one definitive guide, with essential lessons on how to be a better golfer at any age. In The Timeless Swing, Tom Watson draws on all the knowledge and expertise accumulated over the course of his astonishing forty-year career, creating lessons that will help golfers of any age play better and enjoy the game more. From grip, to taking aim, to stance, to follow through, Watson breaks down the swing into all of its basic parts and explains with his trademark straightforward voice the best ways for learning each of them. And he offers his insights on specialty shots, exercise and fitness, and other topics for advanced golfers. With a Foreword by Jack Nicklaus and stunning photographs by award-winning Golf Digest photographer Dom Furore, this is an indispensable guide from a consummate teacher and one of the most iconic players in the game.
Price: $29.99 Visit the Website
Wool Evo Beanie With Dri-Release Lining From Chaos Thermal Regulation.
Description: From Chaos Thermal Regulation, this hat was designed to meet the needs of today's active lifestyle and exercise enthusiast. This warm yet sleek hat will keep you toasty on the slopes or while on a brisk run on a chilly day - the DriRelease lining combined with the wool outer layer provides the perfect amount of warmth without the weight or itch. This hat will never feel clammy against your skin; it's ideal for layering underneath another hat or on its own. Available in black, dark grey, turquoise, and olive.
Price: $27.99 Visit the Website
NIKEiD Gift Cards
Description: For Dads this year, get the gift that always fits, with digital or physical NIKEiD Gift Cards. NIKEiD offers the perfect portal into a design community, both virtual and hands-on, for consumers with the ability to customize top performance footwear and apparel. Premium NIKEiD is also available at select retail locations where teams or individuals can customize authentic footwear or apparel with a Nike design consultant in one of Nike's exclusive design studios. There are more than 115 key styles that can be customized on site. No expiration. No fees. Free shipping and can be redeemed online or at any Nike retail location.
Price: $25.00 to $200.00 Visit the Website
AB Golf Designs Throwback Collection
Description: The new "Throwback Collection" head covers from AB Golf Designs are eco-friendly, traditionally-styled and available in a variety of color combinations and sizes for woods, hybrids and putters. Retailing from $24-$28 for individual pieces, these classic striped knit stockings with pom-pom tops look and feel like wool yet are crafted from polyester fibers made from recycled plastic bottles. Stand out on the course with these stylish new offerings. More info at www.abgolfdesigns.com.
Price: $24.00 to $28.00 Visit the Website
How Do Athletes Roll? Barbara Terry's New Book Is The Perfect Holiday Gift!
Description: If there is one thing that America loves, it is celebrity athletes. Whether it's Sunday night football, the Stanley Cup, or the World Cup, we are right there, absorbing every minute. We even follow those athletes off the court or field, curious about what they eat, how their marriages are doing, and even where they shop. Now, with the help of Barbara Terry's new book, which makes the perfect stocking stuffer, we can even get a glimpse of what they drive! Her book, "How Athletes Roll" features a profiled look at 40 popular athletes and their wheels. Famous competitors from football, Nascar and golf are featured, as well as athletes from hockey, wrestling, boxing and olympians. Some of the professional athletes spilling the goods about what they drive include Arnold Palmer, Ric Flair, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Rod Brind'Amour. In addition to finding out what these celebrities are driving today, readers can even get the juicy details about such things as an athlete's first car or most unique one. People can log onto the book's site at www.howathletesroll.com to get a peek at what to expect from the book, including videos of athletes talking about their cars, interview excerpts, photos, and more.
Price: $22.79 to $29.99 Visit the Website
Good Gear Activewear
Description: Bamboo is a highly sustainable and organic fabric source that is ideal for active people everywhere. Good Gear bamboo activewear is committed to making smart, driven athletes feel good about their gear through highly functional, yet affordable sports apparel. Bamboo fiber has unparalleled advantages, including strength, versatility, and luxurious softness. Good Gear's bamboo clothing line is dedicated to spreading awareness about eco-friendly manufacturing processes and educating consumers about natural solutions for activewear. With Good Gear, feel good about your gear!
Price: $22.00 to $25.00 Visit the Website
Six-card Pack Of 2010-2011 Panini Rookies & Stars Cards
Description: Panini America has teamed up with Kids Foot Locker for a unique basketball card promotion for the holidays. Kids Foot Locker shoppers who spend $20 on NBA- licensed merchandise will receive an exclusive gift with that purchase: A six-card pack of 2010-11 Panini Rookies & Stars cards featuring Kobe Bryant, John Wall, Rajon Rondo, Derrick Rose, Evan Turner and Wesley Johnson (while supplies last).
Price: $20.00 Visit the Website
Loudmouth Golf
Description: Loudmouth Golf is the perfect gift for the golfer in your life. Founded in 2000 in Sonoma, Calif., Loudmouth Golf is recognized as a leading brand in stylish apparel for men and women. The Loudmouth line features bright colors in striking patterns in a wide selection of pants, shorts, shirts, skorts, sport coats, belts, snow wear, and accessories – all designed by the founder, Woody. Whether you are playing golf, relaxing on vacation, or enjoying a night on the town, Loudmouth apparel is perfect for all your occasions.
Price: $20.00 to $325.00 Visit the Website
USTA 10 And Under Tennis Equipment
Description: The USTA recently launched its "Give the Gift of Tennis" holiday campaign that will encourage fans to match young tennis players with properly-sized tennis racquets, and with proper compression balls. The campaign includes the USTA's first-ever promotional sweepstakes on Facebook where fans can win free equipment and the chance to play tennis with new U.S. Davis Cup Captain Jim Courier. The campaign begins December 1 and continues through the holiday season. In addition to the "Give the Gift of Tennis" campaign, the USTA is also launching a tennis equipment sweepstakes via the USTA's Facebook page. Each day from December 1 through December 15, the USTA will give away 50 kids-friendly tennis packages that will include two 21-inch tennis racquets, two 23-inch tennis racquets and six red foam tennis balls, to highlight the USTA's new approach to teaching the sport of tennis to younger players. In all, 3,000 racquets and 4,500 balls will be given away this holiday season. In addition, one lucky fan will also win a grand prize – the chance to play tennis for one hour with new U.S. Davis Cup Captain Jim Courier at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The total retail value of this promotion exceeds $50,000.
Price: $19.99 to $119.99 Visit the Website
Ladies Links Fore Golf Magazine
Description: Ladies Links Fore Golf Magazine is the only national women's golf magazine written by women golfers for women golfers. Features interviews with the top stars of women's golf, such as Paula Creamer, Cristi Kerr and Stacy Lewis, as well as golf tips from top teaching professionals. LL4G Magazine also features stories on women-friendly golf courses, top women's golf products,golf travel and more. Subscribers recieve Ladies LInks Fore Golf Magazine delivered to your door four times a year, as well as access to our digital online version of the magazine and access to all back issues. Annual Subscription Rate: $14.99
Price: $14.99 Visit the Website
Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park
Description: "Jump" for joy this holiday season by giving a gift certificate to Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park, the world's first wall to wall trampoline park. The 20,000 sq. ft. facility, with 10,000 sq. ft. of trampoline courts, has a wide array of activities and programs ranging for the whole family. Whether playing 3-D Dodge Ball or taking a session of SkyRobics, parents, teens and kids will all have tons of winter wonderland fun!
Price: $12.00 Visit the Website
Strat-O-Matic Baseball Express
Description: Strat-O-Matic Baseball Express is an entry-level, "Super Easy Play" version of the famous Strat-O-Matic Baseball board game. With simplified rules and smaller playing charts, Baseball Express is the ideal game to introduce kids (ages 8+) or new players to Strat-O-Matic. While quick and easy to play, like all Strat-O-Matic products, it is rich in baseball statistics and educates players on the intricacies of managing a baseball game. Strat-O-Matic Baseball Express includes 42 All-Star player cards, three dice, the famous Strat-O 20-sided die, small playing charts, game markers and a playing board tray. As an added bonus, consumers can receive a free Personalized Batter Card by submitting their stats online. Once the card arrives, gamers can insert themselves into the lineup and play alongside their favorite All-Stars. It is availabe for an SRP of $10.99 at Toys R Us and www.toysrus.com.
Price: $10.99 Visit the Website
Description: Fishing season is right around the corner and this year there are some new tools that are helping fishing experts catch big fish. Lunkerhunt has created a whole line of high quality fishing products that are helping prize winning fishermen catch big fish. All products are designed attract all the fishes senses from sight, smell, and feel. The innovative products include the new swim n jerk bait, spicy bites scented capsules, river worm bait and much more. Please let us know if you are interested in more information about Lunkerhunt products
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From Beth Manning and Justin Garner, dolphin trainers at the National Aquarium
There has been a lot of media coverage suggesting that Michael Phelps swims like a dolphin. So much so that even us trainers have gotten in on the action – reminding Phelps that dolphins are still the fastest swimmers in Baltimore. So the question arises, how fast is Michael Phelps compared to a dolphin?
Most popular literature quotes dolphins as having top speeds of 20-25 mph, though up to 16 mph is more likely. The higher speeds have been recorded when bow riding, when their speed is most likely facilitated by being pushed along in front of a boat cutting through water. More typical speeds recorded in both wild dolphins and in aquaria and zoos indicate sprints peak at 18 mph, with a cruising speed of 6.21 mph.
Top swimming athletes are said to average 5.25 mph. But in the case of Phelps, let's round up to 6 mph. So is it a photo finish? Does Phelps get "touched out"? It seems so. Phelps top speed only approaches the cruising speed of a bottlenose dolphin, and is nowhere near the maximum velocity. In addition, when cruising at top speeds, dolphins will often leap their full body out of the water as they take a quick breath, and still maintain their pace. Let's see you try that Phelps!!


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Arizona Diamondbacks fans had some high hopes coming into the 2012 season after winning the division in 2011 and making their way back to the playoffs for the first time 2007. The 2012 off-season saw them bring in free agent OF Jason Kubel. The season started off great with a three game sweep of the San Francisco Giants, but when CF Chris Young went crashing into the wall to catch a deep ball against the Pittsburgh Pirates the team was never the same. The Diamondbacks are in tough division the NL West, which is known for pitching. They will have to rely on their young starters if they hope to compete with San Francisco Giants & Los Angeles Dodgers. The offense will have to get better with manufacturing runs and instead of depending on the long ball to score runs. They traded away RF Justin Upton and 3B Chris Johnson, but they brought in versatile player Martin Prado and pitching prospect Randall Delgado.
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I got a promo email (again) for Star Wars TOR's free to play re-launch. The all new payment model based upon getting cash for extra raids and novelty items, rather than monthly subscription.
Sorry SW, this ship has sailed. I am too far into WoW's Mists of Pandaria to switch to a game even though it will save some dollars per month. Perhaps when WoW's Tier 14 is old and cleared, and the Diablo shine has gone I'll try SW ToR again – but all that tells me is that I will try Star Wards when I'm bored, and that it has no true draw on my aspirations beyond being better than playing a facebook or iphone game. And yes, that is meant as an insult when you consider it was a huge MMO with very large aspirations and a darn healthy budget.
WoW's draw is still stronger despite the shitty grinding of Valor on dailies.
The game had potential, but what I saw on login was a very similar experience to the re-grind of every MMO (including Warcraft) and therefore I choose the devil I have invested in, rather than starting out as a newbie. I can see why players do like it too, as it has a a very reasonable level of detail in the leveling stories, and feels very Star Wards in nature.
What did it for me (or didn't do it) was the lack of breadth in choices (like not being able to alter class specialisation) and the vast gap between the promise of "no grinds" which was made very early on in the dev hype cycle and what I saw in the end. It did some great things (like crafting/gathering by npcs, nice logical professions, reasonable level rate, and some of the quest mechanics were good).
So close, but not now. Happy Killing.
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Johns Hopkins researchers report they are one step closer to having a drug-delivery system flexible enough to overcome some key challenges posed by brain cancer and perhaps other maladies affecting that organ. In a report published online Aug. 29 in Science Translational Medicine, the Johns Hopkins team says its bioengineers have designed nanoparticles that can safely and predictably infiltrate deep into the brain when tested in rodent and human tissue.
"We are pleased to have found a way to prevent drug-embedded particles from sticking to their surroundings so that they can spread once they are in the brain," said Justin Hanes, Lewis J. Ort Professor of Ophthalmology and project leader in the Johns Hopkins Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence.
Standard protocols following the removal of brain tumors include chemotherapy directly applied to the surgical site to kill any cancer cells left behind. This method, however, is only partially effective because it is hard to administer a dose of chemotherapy high enough to sufficiently penetrate the tissue to be effective and low enough to be safe for the patient and healthy tissue. Furthermore, previous versions of drug-loaded nanoparticles typically adhere to the surgical site and do not penetrate into the tissue.
These newly engineered nanoparticles overcome this challenge. Elizabeth Nance, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Graeme Woodworth, suspected that drug penetration might be improved if drug-delivery nanoparticles interacted minimally with their surroundings. Nance achieved this by coating nano-scale beads with a dense layer of PEG or poly(ethylene glycol). The team then injected the coated beads, which had been marked with a fluorescent tag, into slices of rodent and human brain tissue. They found that a dense coating of PEG allowed larger beads to penetrate the tissue, even those beads that were nearly twice the size previously thought to be the maximum possible for penetration within the brain. They then tested these beads in live rodent brains and found the same results.
The results were similar when biodegradable nanoparticles carrying the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel and coated with PEG were used. "It's really exciting that we now have particles that can carry five times more drug, release it for three times as long and penetrate farther into the brain than before," said Nance. "The next step is to see if we can slow tumor growth or recurrence in rodents."
Woodworth added that the team "also wants to optimize the particles and pair them with drugs to treat other brain diseases, like multiple sclerosis, stroke, traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's." Another goal for the team is to be able to administer their nanoparticles intravenously, which is research they have already begun.
Additional authors on the paper include Kurt Sailor, Ting-Yu Shih, Qingguo Xu, Ganesh Swaminathan, Dennis Xiang, and Charles Eberhart, all from The Johns Hopkins University.
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In Vancouver you will find sailing, hiking, skiing. And fighting. Vancouverites are fighting over preparations for the 2010 Winter Olympics, preparations that involve efforts to curb aggressive panhandling, sleeping, crack smoking, pissing and even shitting on the streets by Vancouver's underclass.
On the right is Mayor Sam Sullivan. Sullivan introduced "Project Civil City" earlier this year to curb "public disorder" in Vancouver. The Civil City initiative, the Mayor has officially announced, will target homelessness, the open drug market, aggressive panhandling, and will attempt to increase satisfaction with how public nuisance complaints are handled.
On the left is Member of Parliament Libby Davies and others she refers to as "progressive electeds" and activists. The left takes the position that the Mayor's Civil City erodes civil liberties of the poor and addresses symptoms of poverty rather than underlying causes.
On Tuesday evening, representatives of Vancouver's left came together in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, the poorest neighbourhood in Canada, to criticize the Mayor's Project Civil City. They called the event, "Civil City Slam".
The Forum was chaired by Libby Davies, known simply as "Libby" by many on the Downtown Eastside where low income people vote for this federal politician en masse. Davies told the crowd in the church auditorium that Project Civil City will hurt the poor while making Vancouver "squeaky clean" for the Olympics.
In the leaflet widely distributed to advertise the Civil City Slam, a column by left-leaning Allan Garr in the Vancouver Courier newspaper was re-printed. Garr had mentioned this month's visit by Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin to address the Vancouver Board of Trade about Atlanta's 1996 Summer Olympics experience. Franklin admitted that Altanta had made a mistake by investing in temporary shelters to get the homeless off the streets, only to discover after the Olympics that when the shelters disappeared, the homeless reappeared. What Franklin had not spoken about though, Garr wrote, was the civil liberties mistakes made in Atlanta during the Olympics:
"What she didn't mention was this: Before the games, Atlanta passed a half dozen laws that made it illegal to panhandle aggressively, urinate in public, lay on a park bench and - my favorite – walk across a parking lot if you don't have a car parked there. Homeless activists in Atlanta report the laws were later thrown out. But over the course of the games, thousands of homeless men were arrested."
Inside the Civil City Slam at First United Church there was a standing room only crowd. To get in though, you had to pass a man on the steps handing out literature accusing Israel of apartheid, and a woman at the door of the auditorium with a table of literature which included Anti-Poverty Committee leaflets accusing Olympic Committee director, Ken Dobell, of being a "capitalist hog".
David Eby: civil liberties abuses could result from changes ranging from new police powers to charge civilians and a "broad interpretation" of who is sufficiently mentally ill to be institutionalized
One of the first speakers was David Eby, a tall, thin, young lawyer with light brown curly hair who works for Pivot Legal Society. Eby mentioned media reports that City Councilors and Olympic Committee directors are feeling threatened by the Anti-Poverty Committee which recently stated an intent to evict Olympic Committee directors from their comfortable offices and homes, just as poor people are being evicted from their homes during preparations for the Olympics. (The APC had just hours earlier carried out an eviction by trashing the Vancouver office of Olympic Committee director Ken Dobell, within the Canada Place offices of Premier Gordon Campbell.) Eby pointed out that for the Olympic Committee, "the biggest threat to what they have planned is meetings like this."
Eby said he has already noticed an erosion of civil liberties on the Downtown Eastside as the City prepares for the Olympics. He mentioned the raid on the offices of the Downtown Eastside Residents Association by police searching for the stolen Olympic flag, even though another organization had taken credit for stealing it.
Regular reports by Downtown Eastside residents of getting "jacked up" are another sign in Eby's view, that civil liberties are being eroded as Vancouver gears up for the Olympics. Eby explained that each pair of police officers working the streets of the Downtown Eastside is expected to meet a daily quota of civilians they have had a conversation with. What that conversation entails, he said, is taking the person's name and running it through the police computer system for no reason. These quotas work out to 303 people being stopped a day on the Downtown Eastside. That's "the kind of civil society" the neighborhood is being subjected to. If you do the math, Eby explained, it works out to every resident of the Downtown Eastside being stopped six times a year. Eby got his point across, but the reality is that myself and my friends and acquaintances on the Downtown Eastside not involved in street life are not finding ourselves randomly stopped by police.
Eby says Project Civil City is bringing in a "No sit, no lie" bylaw. Anyone who walks around Vancouver knows who this bylaw is aimed at: the homeless who sleep for hours on benches and sidewalks both day and night. But Eby says that even people who hang around on a park bench can be targeted.
Project Civil City will also tackle aggressive panhandling, the open drug market, and public nuisance complaints, according to Eby, by allowing police to directly lay charges. Previously Vancouver Police had to wait for Crown prosecutors to approve charges. Crown prosecutors, Eby explained, tend to be more cautious than police, throwing out cases for such reasons as evidence being collected through an illegal search. Police are being given these new powers, Eby believes,"because the Crown is just getting in the way."
Another tool police may finally be given on the Downtown Eastside is close circuit television cameras, according to Eby. Cameras to fight the open drug market and other crime have been proposed over the years by police, only to be opposed by the left wing establishment at Carnegie Centre which publishes the popular Carnegie newsletter.
"New drug treatment programs for chronic offenders", are a specific Civil City strategy that Eby thought needed more discussion. New approaches to drug treatment will include, if Mayor Sullivan has his way, an expansion of NAOMI, a drug maintenance program on the Downtown Eastside which a couple of years ago began dispensing free heroin to addicts. But City Councilor Raymond Louie, who lent his name to the Civil City Slam brochure as an endorser, says opening a "pharmacy" for the city's 700 chronic offenders would be irresponsible, without integrating them into the community. Eby's concern about the focus on chronic offenders, he told spectators at the Slam, is the possibility that, "If you want to get into this innovative drug treatment, first you have to get arrested, and you probably have to plead guilty."
Institutionalization of the very mentally ill is yet another goal of Civil City, Eby told the crowd. But here's the problem, he said: "There is no real definition of who the very mentally ill is. I suspect there could be a very broad interpretation of that."
When it comes to employing a very broad interpretation of mental illness for institutionalizing people, though, some of the "progressive electeds" who endorsed this Civil City Slam in promotional literature – Vancouver School Board trustees Allan Blakely and Allan Wong, for example — are in no position to point fingers.
With Blakely and Wong as trustees, the Vancouver School Board had been accused of political psychiatry, using an interpretation of mental illness broad enough to muzzle a political adversary. The Downtown Eastside Enquirer blog has obtained a police and psychiatric report in one well known case in which a political adversary was targeted by the Vancouver School Board. It was a case in which the Vancouver School Board arranged to have a Downtown Eastside resident targeted for an "assessment for apprehension" immediately after that resident expressed in writing an intent to campaign in the School Board election, then just 3 weeks away. This resident and several others on the Downtown Eastside were were fed up after independently lodging complaints against a verbally and physically abusive teacher, only to receive evasive and at times hostile responses from the VSB.
The Vancouver School Board, dominated by left wingers at the time who knew that they were about to lose their elected majority, hastily arranged to have the notorious police "Car 87" – a police car containing a constable and a psych nurse – visit and assess the prospective campaigner for "apprehension". A letter in which the individual had stated an intent to campaign in the election, a letter which included a routine freedom of information request, was the sole evidence filed with police and the psych system to support this visit. In the accompanying psych report, nurse Don Getz entered the fact that this DTES resident had made "freedom of information requests" as the official reason for the assessment.
Just hours after the visit, VPD Sergeant Garry Lester admitted in a taped telephone conversation that he had emphasized to the VSB, when they were arranging the visit, that there was "nothing untoward" about this DTES resident's letter.
In 2005, VSB trustees — including the few left wingers who had managed to keep their seats as trustees, Blakely (pictured left) and Wong — held an in-house review of the case and did not invite or allow input from the targeted individual. The targeted individual claims that political psychiatry instigated by the VSB shortly before the Nov. 2004 election has resulted in ongoing harassment, for which there is supporting evidence in the form of letters and voice mail from police.
Stories of political psychiatry perpetrated by members of the left wing establishment in the Downtown Eastside, which has been dubbed Canada's "socialist experiment", are rampant. Carnegie Centre, which sent a representative to sit on the panel of the Civil City Slam has been accused of at time favoring a politically convenient, broad interpretation, of mental illness. During a "Never trust a nurse" poster campaign on the Downtown Eastside in 2005-06 to fight alleged nurse involvement in political psychiatry, an allegation specifically against the Carnegie Street Nurse Program of collusion with political psychiatry surfaced and has yet to be resolved.
Even former mayoral candidate, Peter Haskell, recently alleged that he had become the target of psychiatric tactics at Carnegie. He told Vancouver's Republic newspaper that when he expressed opposition to user fees at Carnegie, a staff person telephoned his mother and recommended that he be put on medication.
Andy Yan: Civil City is based on the "broken windows" theory in the U.S.
Andy Yan, a chubby Chinese-Canadian man in his late twenties or early thirties, works for the Carnegie Centre Action Project which has an office on the Downtown Eastside. Yan told the crowd at the Slam that Civil City is based on the "broken windows" theory in the U.S. which Carnegie sees as the wrong approach to addressing street disorder. What has actually been proven to work in both the U.S. and Canada, Yen said, is "permanent homes as opposed to shelter beds." He also wants welfare rates increased by 50% from current levels (the basic welfare rate has recently been raised by $100), and an elimination of barriers to getting welfare such as the 3 week waiting period. The position of the Carnegie Action Project, Yan said, is that we can "eliminate the symptom of homelessness by eliminating the causes."
It came as no surprise to Downtown Eastside residents that Yan focused on housing for the homeless, not civil liberties for the homeless. Carnegie Action Project staff work out of the Carnegie Centre – Libby Davies' organizing base – which has gained a reputation for trampling the civil liberties of the homeless. In January, homeless man Bill Simpson was barred from the Carnegie Learning Centre, accused of blogging about political issues at Carnegie. He was found guilty of blogging by Board members and staff during a 'star chambers' hearing to which he was not invited.
Although Simpson's case was the most publicized, there have been other cases of disrespect for the civil liberties of low income people at Carnegie. Staff in the Carnegie Action Project office at Carnegie called security guards on a Carnegie volunteer, Frank, and had him escorted from the premises, after he stopped by to tell Carnegie Board member Bob Sarti that it was wrong to bar Simpson for freedom of expression.
During the hunt for bloggers at Carnegie, a volunteer at Carnegie revealed that he had been questioned by Carnegie Director Ethel Whitty and Learning Centre Co-ordinator Lucy Alderson about a low income person under suspicion of blogging about Carnegie politics.
Even the Vancouver Network of Drug Users, which had a representative sit on the same panel as Carnegie at the "Civil City Slam", had once had a lawyer threaten to take legal action against Carnegie for violating the civil liberties of marginalized people.
Sara Kendall: "racialized youth", "neo-liberal agenda", and other buzz words
Sara Kendall, tall, slim, with super short brown hair, a youth worker with the Vancouver Network of Drug Users – one of the groups that pushed for North America's first Supervised Injection Site just two blocks west of First United church – also spoke on the panel at the "Slam". But it was difficult to hear her message through her buzz words and phrases — "racialized youth", "neo-Liberal agenda" "queer youth", "culture of violence". She even spoke of people "reaching out to another person from their place of need" — in plain English, that's panhandling.
Kendall did manage to explain a form of street clearing that youth are being subjected to by police: "relocation". That's when police pick up a young person on the streets and drive them to another neighborhood and dump them.
Kendall identified government "cuts to public services" as part of the problem. She had worked for the City until the last election when the left wing Council lost power and the newly elected Mayor Sullivan axed her job.
Michael Vonn: "Olympics are a downhill event"
Michael Vonn – that's a woman – Policy Director at the B.C. Civil Liberties Association also sat on the panel and told the crowd that from a civil liberties perspective, the "Olympics are a down hill event." Vonn, in her late 30's, slim, with shoulder length curly brown hair, announced that a stated goal of Project Civil City during Olympic preparations is to address "quality of life crimes." "Oh please!", she added. What the Mayor's Civil City initiative really comes down to is "street sweeping the poor", Vonn said.
A stated goal of Civil City is to "reduce aggressive panhandling by 50%" but, Vonn says, "we have no idea what the current base rate of aggressive panhandling is." The same goes for homelessness and drug peddling which the goal of Civil City is to reduce by 50%. "The evidence doesn't matter," she told the crowd.
It's people's "perception of being at risk" that matters, Vonn explained. Police could potentially "charge someone for being the object of someone else's fears."
Apparently eager to assure the crowd that she was one of them, Vonn quipped, "Blue is not a good color on me."
Dag Walker: "There are no consequences."
Blue is a good color on Dag Walker who, like other members of the Vancouver Chapter of the Blue Revolution, wears a blue scarf to his meetings. Every Thursday evening Walker, in his early fifties, walks downtown to the Vancouver Public Library where their meetings are held and sees the public disorder on the streets.
Walker does agree with some issues raised at the "Civil City Slam", like the fact that giving police power to directly lay charges is a "slippery slope". But he also believes that leftists in Vancouver tend to downplay how serious the problem of public disorder is. "It's out of control," he says. People are fed up with the panhandlers who hound them day after day in coffee shops and on the streets, panhandlers whose "place of need" is, in his view, more often than not a crack addiction.
"When I was at London Drugs a few weeks ago", he says, "somebody had shit on the sidewalk." He actually saw it happen; a woman whom he suspects was on drugs defecated in broad daylight as pedestrians walked around her. And he points out that some streets smell like urine, "People piss everywhere." He doesn't share the left's view that social conditions cause this public disorder. He attributes it to the fact that, "There are no consequences."
Former Attorney General appointed to new position of Civil City Commissioner to tackle public disorder
It may not be a coincidence that the left held their Civil City Slam just a week after former B.C. Attorney General, Geoff Plant, was appointed to the newly created position of Civil City Commissioner in Vancouver. Plant's appointment was seen as a coup for Mayor Sullivan but a set back for Vancouverites on the left arguing that more money for the social safety net is a solution to street disorder, not "criminalizing poverty".
Plant's appointment, lawyer David Eby told the crowd at the Slam, signals that Project Civil City will emphasize a "law and order" approach. But at the press conference announcing his appointment a week earlier, Plant hinted at a multi-pronged approach, "I am committed to tackling the underlying root causes of Vancouver's challenges, while also dealing with some of the more straightforward, public disorder issues that we are experiencing."


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Canada is going to erect The National Holocaust Monument in the National Capitol Region (Ottawa-Gatineau) of Canada. .
Although construction has yet to start on the Monument, as the press release says "it will bring Canadians of all faiths together to remember the millions of innocent men, women and children counted among its victims. The Monument will help ensure the memory of the Holocaust is never lost. The hope is that by teaching current and future generations of Canadians the roots and causes of this atrocity, future acts of genocide will be prevented".
Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research in Canada http://www.holocausttaskforce.org/memberstates/member-canada.html
The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre http://www.mhmc.ca/en
The Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society http://vhec.org/index.html


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Taking from the rich and giving to…the rich
Mike Krauss
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As I reported months ago in this column, the administration is preparing legislation to provide rental assistance to those who need housing.
In other words, those who still have jobs and a home will be taxed to support "home rentership," to make sure that the 1 percent get paid for the homes they effectively stole and will now rent back to the 99 percent.
Who will, of course, have little left in their paychecks or unemployment checks to maintain those homes rented from suburban slumlords.
Kiss your neighborhood goodbye, Morrisville and Lower Makefield. The Ozarks are moving in.
Is there an alternative. Yes.
Cities and counties from California to Michigan, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and even nearby Reading, are moving to use public funds — the common wealth — to form partnership banks that can not only get critically needed affordable credit flowing in local economies, but can also take vacant homes by eminent domain, and work with community banks, homebuilders, skilled trade workers, realtors and housing authorities to maintain these properties and put people back in them on affordable terms as owners, and rescue their communities from the pending Obama nation.
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It would seem that everyone is forgetting the "Bank of North Dakota".
It's unique in all the States. And, only does business with Gooferment entities. Political subdivisions MUST bank with BND. And, it has specific programs to buy assets in North Dakota. So a farmer's mortgage may be held by the BND. So to corporate loans, mortgages, and venture capital funding.
They are in essence a one state version of the Federal Reserve working for the benefit of "We, The People".
Surprisingly, it works and is apolitical.
Why doesn't EVERY "State" have one of these?
Cause the Federal Reserve System would be out of business in short order!
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We are seeing more "positive" real estate reports published these days. As a matter of fact, the most positive reports since the crash of 2008.
The last quarter of 2012 was a big quarter for property owners who were tax averse or had a great sum of wealth tied up in their property or both. The looming threat of the 2103 increase in capital gains, was too much to bear for some. A number of sellers dropped their asking price by millions to avoid paying additional taxes (perhaps in the thousands) to the government. The reality is, many of those sellers were finally motivated to price their homes at market value after years of wishing, wanting, hoping for the price they would've, could've, should've taken in 2007.
Buyers have been waiting patiently on the sidelines for sellers to get real with offering prices. It seems that the threat of increased taxes, only trumped by death, was just the elixir that brought motivation home to roost for many. Quite clever, that Uncle Sam.
So, while Manhattan and The Hamptons are seeing record sales, many other parts of the nation are seeing increased sales as well. California, Arizona and Florida have seen increased values and numbers of sales, but coming back from a 50%, 60% or even 70% drop in value was inevitable. Even as my friend, Alison Rogers, writes in Time Business about Home Prices "Jumping", it's not happening in every market.
Jonathan Miller posts about the Pre-Covery (a term shouted out by my other friend Phil Faranda, one of the sharpest tools in the shed ). Read the Jonathan Miller post and the Robert Schiller NYTimes piece for more insight.
The way I see it, business has maintained a pretty healthy level of activity as we have arrived into 2013 and I believe it is going to be a good year for many in the market, but for different reasons. We are still left with three basic groups in today's real estate economy; The Good or the "Haves", The Bad or the "Holder-On-ers" and the Ugly – the "Have-Not's".
The Good (Haves) may have lost some of their net worth during the last 5 years, but still have plenty of assets at their disposal. They know that many property values are down to 2004/2005 levels and the cost of borrowing money at historic low levels. The Good know now is a good time to invest. While many sellers have been resilient, holding on to their 2007 asking prices, the Good have been even more resilient. They walk through homes, take notes, ask about length of time on the market and price history (or more often tell the agent about them based upon their online research). If the price is out of line, they don't bother to make an offer, unless its a one-of-a-kind, gotta-have property that has particular appeal to them. They don't need a recovery.
The other sub-set of Haves are the young, responsible up-and-comers who were too busy either finishing school or getting their career started during the fat-and-happy days. They didn't get caught up in the Irrational Exuberance. They watched home prices escalate rapidly in the '00's thinking they may never be able to buy a home and are now delighted to buy their first home from a bank or a motivated seller at prices they saw 8 years ago.
The Bad (Holder-On-Ers) are just holding on for dear life. They were either able to move laterally in their career or are still there, watching company blogs and listening for the next round of layoffs…kind of like my older buddies waited for their number to be called in the '69-'72 draft. Many of them resisted using their homes as an ATM during The Roaring '00's and are able to pay their bills and get by. Some were hoping for retirement or an easier pace of life by now, but the depletion of their investment accounts and loss of value in their homes has made that unattainable. Maybe they would like to move, but can't afford to sell their house, buy a new one and the jobs that were once plentiful are now scarce. Left wondering why the stock market is back up to 2007 highs and their investment accounts and property values are not, they feel stuck, waiting for something to get either better or worse. They are hoping for a recovery.
The Ugly (Have Nots) have lost the life they once new, only a few short years ago. They not only over refinanced on their home (or homes) at the peak of the market, but they lost their ability to pay for it when the job market crashed or their company went out of business. Some of them were making $200k a year as a sales rep for just showing up and now can't get hired for $75k, even though they learned to tap dance to Yankee Doodle Dandy. Many of them saw their credit lines shut down, their credit card interest rates double or triple and they are drowning in a sea of lack. Not a fun place to be. Others are making decisions for them right now. Maybe they were granted a loan modification and since then, have failed to keep up with new payments. They're either just waiting for the bank to take their home or it already has and now they are renting. Dazed and confused about how the last 4-5 years could have happened. They are praying for a recovery (and filling out their Peace Corps application).
One thing is for sure: the economy is getting better – incrementally – for SOME , but not for all. Fortunately for us, the Hamptons has more of the Good…and Wall Street bonuses are unfolding….and spring rental and sales season is here…and the snow is melting…and life could be much worse.
It's very exciting news that the Sag Harbor Village Boards are, one by one, approving the plans that have been put forth by Cape Advisors for the Bulova Residential Plan. It's been said that the project will take 5 years, and the economic rewards to the village will last for at least 100 years.
Peter Neely and Hamptons.com did a video of local merchants here
For more info, also goto: www.savesagharbor.com/


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Life begins at 40? I don't know about that, but, for an increasing number of American women, 40 is around the time motherhood begins.
The CDC, which surveyed data between 2007 and 2009, found that the birth rate for women over 40 in the United States rose steadily in those two years. In other age groups, it fell by 4 percent. Researchers claim that it is the sharpest decline in three decades.
…women aged between 40 and 44 experienced a 6 percent increase in births. Meanwhile, women aged 20-24 ("peak childbearing years") apparently decided to put babies on hold, as birth rate in that age range plummeted 9 percent.
One analysis attributes this phenomenon to fertility medicine. Makes sense. The study itself draws a link to the economy. That makes sense, too. And, when looking at such steep changes over such a short period of time, those things are likely no small part of the story.
But. I think there are other factors at play here, too, part of a larger trend. The same kind of things that I believe to be behind the Extended Adolescence phenomenon, the same kind of things that I believe to be behind the kind of commitmentphobia New York Magazine and Lori Gottlieb have written about.
Namely, that having a whole lot of options (or being told you have a whole lot of options) breeds a certain reluctance to commit. And what could possibly be more of a commitment than a baby? Real estate? Marriage? A job? A move? Bangs? Please. With the possible exception of a tattoo (although I hear they're doing impressive things with tattoo removal technology these days), a baby represents the ultimate in commitment. Women today have been sent out to conquer the world. We've been told we can do anything, that we can have it all! And that we are so very, very lucky to be able to do anything, to have it all! And, given those messages, is it any wonder we're a little gun-shy when it comes to commitment? Is it any wonder we want to get our fill of the world and it's opportunities before we sign on to settle down?
But it's more than that. A baby represents a far greater lifestyle change for a woman than for a man: even if the woman and the man are parents to the same child. In all likelihood, it'll be mom who'll take a time-out from the working world (and she'll probably–and by "probably" I essentially mean "most definitely"–get dinged for it)–but most families today can't afford to have one-half of the breadwinners at home forever. Especially with a bonus mouth to feed, a mouth which may one day need braces, a mouth in a head that will one day require a college education… So it makes a lot of sense that a woman might want to wait until she gets a little more established, professionally, before she takes herself out of the game, even if its only temporarily. Because once she jumps back in, she'll find she'll be paying a price.
If you ask me, that's at least a little of what's behind those numbers–but who knows? Maybe it is the economy, stupid.


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Looking for Interpreter Zero: The Strasbourg Oaths of February 842: an early assembly
Reading Nithard's (795-844) 'Histories or On the Dissensions of the Sons of Louis the Pious' we find an acknowledgement of multilingualism that sets the scene for future translators and interpreters.
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Whether or not Nithard himself had a hand in drafting these texts, his specification of the vernaculars emphasizes the importance of total intelligibility on this occasion, for the kings' audience consisted not just of magnates but of the whole plebs, that is, the lesser aristocracy as well.[1]
It is widely accepted that any historical record is marked by contingency: questions relating to whose story is being told, what sources were used and who the writers and readers are, come into play in the accounts that we have of past events. In the modern era we have to deal with the complexities of multiple voices, texts and writers. When it comes to considering the medieval era, there can be a paucity of information that makes it hard to get a clear sense of developments. If this is the case when it comes to broad political, economic or social history it is all the more so when it comes to understanding language use or the history of translation and interpreting. Looking for Interpreter Zero in the era before the Norman Conquest or the Crusades can seem unpromising. There is very little material on language use at that time, which is why the record of the Strasbourg Oaths in Nithard's (795-844) Historiae or De dissensionibus filiorum Ludovici pii (Histories or On the Dissensions of the Sons of Louis the Pious) is so significant. What we get from this history is an acknowledgment of multilingualism that sets the scene for future translators and interpreters.
The combination of contingency and scarce sources is neatly illustrated by the chance survival of this manuscript, an account of the conflicts involving three grandsons of Charlemagne - Charles the Bald, Louis the German and Lothar I - after the death of their father Louis the Pious in 840. Nithard was also a grandson of Charlemagne and a follower of Charles the Bald.
Nithard's Histories survived in a single early manuscript. But it is not hard to see why such ephemera, partly unintelligible outside their immediate historical context and often by 'unknown' authors, were not thought by learned monks of later generations to have educational value and were therefore rarely copied or preserved.[2]
Nithard's manuscript has given scholars an insider's account of the jostling for power and influence in the Carolingian Europe as well as the campaigns led by the three rivals for power in a system of partible inheritance that did not allow for one heir to the imperial throne. Charles the Bald joined forces with Louis the German against Lothar in the summer of 841. They won the Battle of Fontenoy of June 25th, 841 but Lothar would not concede defeat. The battle was a bloody one with a shockingly high loss of life; Louis's and Charles's followers had to be convinced to remain loyal as the war dragged on despite the victory at Fontenoy.[3] The kings decided to gather their forces in Strasbourg to renew their alliance at an event that has come to be known as the Strasbourg Oaths.
The need to preserve a united front made the meeting a significant one, which explains the 'extraordinary' attention Nithard gives to the three stages involved.[4] The kings made declarations to their followers. The need for clarity was such that they used each other's regional dialects: Charles the Bald addressed Louis the German's men in their language, Old High German (or Frankish) and Louis used regional Romance (or Proto French) when he addressed Charles's followers. Nithard uses the terms lingua Teudisca and lingua Romana for the two vernaculars. These languages were used again at the meeting when each king swore to help the other and never to negotiate separately with Lothar. Louis's oath was in the lingua Romana:
Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun saluament, d'ist di in auant, in quant Deus sauir et podir me dunat, si saluarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo, et in adiudha et in cadhuna cosa si cum om per dreit son fradra saluar dist, in o quid il mi altresi fazet. Et ab Ludher nul plaid nunquam prindrai qui meon uol cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit. [5]
He was followed by Charles, who took his oath in the lingua Teudisca:
In godes minna ind in thes christiānes folches ind unsēr bēdhero gehaltnissī, fon thesemo dage frammordes, sō fram sō mir got gewizci indi mahd furgibit, sō haldih thesan mīnan bruodher, sōso man mit rehtu sīnan bruodher scal, in thiu thaz er mig sō sama duo, indi mit Ludheren in nohheiniu thing ne gegango, the mīnan willon imo ce scadhen werdhēn. [6]
In the third and final part of the proceedings, each army swore to withdraw support from their king if he were to break the agreement reached in Strasbourg. The threat of losing the support of their aristocratic supporters and soldiers was to make Charles and Louis honour their commitments to each other.
Such a gathering with its attendant oaths was not an unprecedented event. What is exceptional is the survival of Nithard's text – and the fact that it includes the vernacular versions of the oaths, "thus providing the earliest surviving example of Romance and one of the earliest passages of Frankish."[7] This record has proved to be a rich source for historians, literary scholars and linguists. It can be read as very early evidence of the later kingdoms of France and Germany, a reading reinforced by the Treaty of Verdun of 843 that subdivided the Empire among the three brothers, with Louis obtaining East Francia (roughly the region east of the Rhine) and Charles, West Francia (the western two thirds of France). The text in Proto French is hailed as a linguistic milestone and cited in histories of French literature – including the one I still have from my lycée days: « De la même époque (842) date premier document que nous possédions sur la langue qui allait devenir la nôtre.[8]
The Strasbourg Oaths can also be read as part of a broader acknowledgement of linguistic differences. The Council of Tours decree of 813 stipulated that priests should preach sermons in Romanam linguam (rustic Romance language) or Theodiscan (Old German), as common people could not always understand the Church's classical Latin. The medieval coexistence of Latin and Romance and Old German is a matter of complex linguistic history well beyond the scope of this piece, but the Decree is at the very least an indication that there were obviously beginning to be problems in communication between priests and linguistically diverse congregations in the churches in the archdiocese of Tours in the second decade of the ninth century.[9]
When there are problems in communication there is often a need for translation and interpreting. The fact that different languages were used for the Strasbourg Oaths can be seen as an indication that the authorities were prepared to recognise that need. This effectively makes these texts the first official translation between "French" and "German", a Rosetta stone of sorts, a European treaty before its time[10] - bearing the name of a place that is a hub of translation and interpreting today. Practical decisions had to made in 842 as to the working languages to use. The two kings' territories included many regions, peoples and languages: the two vernaculars chosen were spoken by both kings who were thus able to address the attendance in both of them. The lingua Teudisca was spoken to the east of the Rhine whereas the choice of Proto French reflected the form of Romance spoken Charles's kingdom. We don't know if there were dozens or hundreds of participants, or if everyone followed the proceedings. What we do know is that the accidental survival of Nithard's manuscript has given us a source of both wonder and speculation.
With thanks to Margie Ferguson.
You can find all chapters of Looking for Interpreter Zero here.
[1] Nelson, J.L. April 1985, Public Histories and Private History in the Work of Nithard Speculum, Vol. 60, No. 2 The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Medieval Academy of America. pp. 251-293, p. 266.
[2] ibid p. 283.
[3] Goldberg, E.J. 2006. Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German, 817-876. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London. P 105.
[4] Nelson. p. 266.
[5] www.liquisearch.com/oaths_of_s... "For the love of God and for Christendom and our common salvation, from this day onwards, as God will give me the wisdom and power, I shall protect this brother of mine Charles, with aid or anything else, as one ought to protect one's brother, so that he may do the same for me, and I shall never knowingly make any covenant with Lothair that would harm this brother of mine Charles."
[6] www.liquisearch.com/oaths_of_s... "For the love of God and Christendom and the salvation of us both, from this day on, as God will give me the wisdom and power, I shall protect this brother of mine, as one ought to protect one's brother, so that he may do the same for me, and I shall never go along with Lothair in anything that, by my will, would harm him."
[7] Goldberg. p. 105
[8] Brunel, P. Ed. 1972. Histoire de la littérature française. Bordas. Paris, Bruxelles, Montréal. p. 9. « The first document we have on what was to become our language dates back to the same period (842)." (My translation)
[9] McKitterick, R. 1991 in Ed. Wright, R. Latin and Romance: an historians' perspective. In Latin and the Romance Languages in the Early Middle Ages. Routledge. London and New York.
[10] Schnelzauer-Sontag, H. Strasbourg – a Hub of Translators and Interpreters. p. 2 http://eulita.eu/wp/wpcontent/uploads/files/Strasbourg%202016_Schnelzauer-Sontag_Speaking%20notes.docx (By kind permission of the author.)
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Recommended citation format:Christine ADAMS. "Looking for Interpreter Zero: The Strasbourg Oaths of February 842: an early assembly". aiic.net July 2, 2018. Accessed July 9, 2020. <http://aiic.net/p/8607>.
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The Sarasota County Commission has notified Gulfcoast Legal Services it intends to terminate its contract with the troubled nonprofit and transfer the remaining funds to Legal Aid of Manasota.
Gulfcoast receives an annual $89,621 grant from Sarasota County, which Commissioner Christine Robinson moved to cut off at a hearing Friday.
The bulk of Sarasota County's grant, $50,000, comes from the county's general fund. The remaining $39,000 comes from court fees from traffic tickets and arrests.
After reading Herald-Tribune accounts of problems with the nonprofit's Sarasota office, Robinson sent a letter to Gulfcoast's executive director Kathleen Mullin, seeking information on how she planned to handle the caseload and staffing concerns.
Mullin has drawn attention from Southwest Florida's legal and nonprofit community after firing Elizabeth Boyle, the longtime head of the Sarasota office.
Boyle maintains that her firing was partly because of her decision to provide legal assistance to Gina Ruiz, a 29-year-old quadriplegic whose case Mullin ordered Boyle to abandon after Ruiz was already a Gulfcoast client. Mullin also fired dozens of volunteers.
During the commission hearing, Robinson said she received a letter and thick packet from Mullin in response that "actually for me made it worse. It didn't make it any better."
The commission voted unanimously to terminate Gulfcoast's contract.
"Based on the reports I've been reading, I thought it important to ask Gulfcoast the status of their office and the future plans for the caseload," Robinson said Wednesday. "The letter we received back did not address their future plans or how they planned to handle the caseload. I found it disturbing, and thought it appropriate to cease funding based upon the chaos outlined in their letter to us. My main concerns were to make sure our citizens are properly represented, and to make sure public funds were properly used."
Mullin told the Herald-Tribune Wednesday that she was "very disappointed that after nine years they terminated our funding with no notice or opportunity to speak with them."
"We have many people down in Sarasota that we are actively serving," Mullin said. "Cancelling our contract without notice and without warning leaves those folks, and us, in a difficult position."
Asked whether she would have handled Boyle's termination differently, Mullin said, "I think Gulfcoast has been effectively and professionally representing low-income people in Sarasota since 1981, and doing an excellent job."
"We always make decisions based on the best interests of our clients," she said. "We've never had a problem with our reviews from Sarasota. Pulling our funding without notice is shocking to say the least."
Mullins said she did not know if Gulfcoast intends to keep its Sarasota office open.
"There's no way to know. We're 48 hours into the decision," she said. "We certainly have many clients who need our assistance. We certainly do not want to have to walk away because the County Commission has made this decision without giving us an opportunity to be heard."
Professor James W. Fox Jr., who has been chairman of Gulfcoast's board of directors for eight years, reiterated Mullin's comments, but added that the board plans to keep the Sarasota office open.
"My concern is that the needy people of the county are going to be under served," Fox said. "We believe that the county is best served by have two vibrant legal aid organizations: one with staff attorneys and the other with pro bono lawyers."
Circuit Judge Lee Haworth co-chairs the Pro Bono Advisory Board of Legal Aid of Manasota, the other nonprofit that has sought to put distance between itself and the struggling Gulfcoast.
While Gulfcoast uses paid staff attorneys to provide legal assistance to the indigent, Legal Aid of Manasota uses volunteers who work for free.
"It is understandable that the funding would be reconsidered given the turmoil Gulfcoast is facing," Haworth said. "I am pleased that Legal Aid of Manasota is there to pick up the pieces, to represent people who are in need of help in these cases. I am confident it will be a smooth transition."
Boyle, who was tending to Ruiz Wednesday at a nursing home in Bradenton, said the commission's decision "should serve as a red flag for the Gulfcoast board — another red flag."
"This will be devastating to Gulfcoast Legal Services because they have not only lost important financial support, but they've lost the trust of the public," Boyle said. "I am sure the commission terminated the contract because they only want tax money to go to an organization that's willing to be fully transparent, which takes the public trust they have been given very seriously. This situation could have been salvaged if Ms. Mullin had told the commission what they needed to hear."
Boyle pointed out that Gulfcoast's Sarasota office is still obligated to serve the city because it received funding from the Florida Bar Foundation.
"Gulfcoast Legal Services has only budgeted about $230,000 for the Sarasota office," Boyle said. "The county grant was a critical portion of their funding."
Sarasota County to sever Gulfcoast Legal pact
The Sarasota County Commission has notified Gulfcoast Legal Services it intends to terminate its contract with the troubled nonprofit and transfer the remaining funds to Legal Aid of Manasota.


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In this issue we take in the legacies of two celebrated Americans, whose love of country was profoundly qualified. Robert E. Lee, proud Virginian and American soldier, fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. And Henry James, the great novelist, disappointed by his country's hesitation to enter World War I, surrendered his American citizenship. Though unusual cases, and quite different from each other, their histories help describe the American liberality that sometimes separates action from character.
James Cobb, professor of history at the University of Georgia, follows the trail of forgetting that helped America reunite after the war and made Lee's iconization possible. Susan Goodman, professor of American literature at the University of Delaware, has adapted a chapter from her NEH-supported history of the Atlantic Monthly to describe how the expatriate James became a favorite of this Emersonian magazine. Defying common sense, editor William Dean Howells vouched for the American-ness of his great friend, James, after the author opted to become a British subject.
And yet, who would deny that Lee and James were American originals? Elastic phrase, that one, but it works.
Also in this issue, poet and editor Garrick Davis takes a look back at Understanding Poetry, the great college textbook of the forties and fifties written and edited, collaboratively, by one of the great critics and one of the great poets of that period, respectively, Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren. Read a few pages of its stately and confident survey of verse, and you'll ask, Why don't they make textbooks like that anymore? Of course, we think very differently nowadays about what freshmen ought to learn about poetry and the world, but it's worth recalling the achievement from which we've digressed.
Away from the "American Scene," as James called it, this issue reports on two major exhibits. "The Gifts of the Sultan" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers a thrilling look at bejeweled generosity in various traditions of Islamic art. And "Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance" at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum has enchanted visitors with a surprising mix of native art, tourist pieces, musical performance, and photography.
Since Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase, we've proudly talked about the "global village" as if technology and commerce could in a few decades reverse the effects of continental drift and unite what has been disparate for millennia. And yet, exhibitions such as these excite us, in part by showing that many leagues of difference—curious, fascinating difference—separate American life from other places and other ways of being human.