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Cape Epic South Africa
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Roel Paulissen and Jakob Fuglsang win second stage
Arguably the toughest stage ever in the history of the Absa Cape Epic presented by adidas saw the Cannondale Vredestein team - Roel Paulissen (BEL) and Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) - rise to the occasion and prove their endurance by winning both the time bonus competition, and the stage challenge of the day.
With an overall time advantage (after winning Stage 1), the Songo.Info team of Christoph Sauser (SUI) and Burry Stander (RSA) is still in the lead to wear the yellow leader jersey for Stage 3. Songo.Info crossed the finish line second, approximately five minutes after the stage winners.
For Stage 2, Absa Cape Epic riders travelled from George to Calitzdorp, a 137 km journey with 2 518m of climbing. The route took riders through a very hot Karoo (39°C) and up the toughest climbs. The first challenge of the day was Montagu Pass, with dirt roads winding 9km up an 8% average gradient through the spectacular mountains and valleys. After some loose, rolling tracks through Chandelier Game Reserve came the Gamkaberg killer - Breakback Mountain. The climb reached 1 100m in altitude with the steepest gradients at 18%. It was a technical climb and riders lost some traction with loose rocks in the path. The high-stakes descent with sharp rocks and hairpin bends made it scarier than the uphill. The last 15km to the Calitzdorp Spa was flat and fast, but still gruelling as temperatures soared and wind conditions made it worse.
Cannondale Vredestein gain time bonus and win stage
Roel Paulissen (BEL) and Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) of team Cannondale Vredestein, crossed the finish line of Stage 2 first at an impressive time of 5:07:11. They were followed by Stage 1 winners Songo.Info, Christoph Sauser (SUI) and Burry Stander (RSA) at 5:12:44. In third place was the German Alb-Gold Mountainbike team, Hannes Genze and Jochen Kaess (5:14:43), who beat South Africans MTN Energade (1), Kevin Evans and David George (5:14:46) by three seconds in a sprint finish.
For the first time in any major mountain bike stage race, time bonus points were awarded today in the King of the Mountain competition at the top of the first major climb of the day (Montague Pass), 25 km into the race. The Cannondale Vredestein team of Roel Paulissen and Jakob Fuglsang managed to gain a 40 second time bonus, thanks to their win of the challenge. They were followed by the Songo.Info team, Christoph Sauser and Burry Stander, who managed to secure a 20 second time bonus. In third place with a 10 second time bonus was MTN Energade (1) - Kevin Evans and David George.
The overall leaders are still Songo.Info at 10:24:49, no doubt feeling the pressure from Cannondale Vredestein who is only 4 minutes behind at 10:27:48. Third overall is Alb-Gold Mountainbike (10:34:05), with Bulls (10:43:29) and Dolphin (10:51:17) in the fourth and fifth places respectively.
Paulissen said that after Stage 1, where they placed sixth, they wanted to prove to themselves that it was an exception. We decided early on in the race to just go for it and take the risk, and therefore raced hard from the beginning. The first three days of any stage race is always difficult for me as I'm more used to two hour races, compared to the five hours of the Absa Cape Epic every day - but then I get stronger as we complete stage after stage. Commenting on his racing partner Fuglsang, he said that he was extremely proud of him. Jakob was leading our team for 70 to 80 kilometres of the race. He is just such a talent - I love to watch him. Not many young riders have his mental strength out there - he's a great fighter.
Kaess (Alb-Gold Mountainbike) said that their advantage during Stage 2 was that they did not push the envelope too much during the previous stage. Many riders are over-enthusiastic and push too hard from the word go, and we noticed how some had to pay for it during this gruelling stage.
MTN Energade, the team that walked away with the yellow leader jersey after the prologue, managed to make an impressive comeback during Stage 2. Kevin Evans commented that after he got ill on the road the day before, and lost a lot of fluids as a result, he recovered fully when the medical team of the Absa Cape Epic gave him 2 litres of fluids intravenously. By this time, the bug that was in my system must've been out due to my mild hydration. For stage 2 we were back in top form.
Alison Sydor and Pia Sundstedt expand their lead
For the second stage in a row, the Rocky Mountain ladies team crossed the finish line first - Pia Sundstedt (FIN) and Alison Sydor (CAN) - at a time of 6:05:53, which ones again secured them the leader jersey with an overall time of 12:33:30. Susan Haywood (USA) and Jennifer Smith (NZL), known as the Trek/VW Wsd team, were second across the finish line at a time of 6:16:46, with an overall time only 30 seconds ahead of Dolphin-Trek Mtb Racing who came in third at 06:24:54 (overall times 13:03:32 and 13:03:58).The Dolphin-Trek Mtb team of Fabienne Heinzmann (SUI) and Katrin Schwing (GER) was second during the previous race, so the ladies category will also ensure a lot of excitement during the next couple of days.
Smith and Haywood both agreed that the pace during Stage 2 was very high, even for the ladies. Comments Smith: After the second waterpoint, the pace suddenly slowed down and we were wondering why. Afterwards we realised that some people knew about the climb ahead and they were reserving their energy for the challenge ahead. We asked one of the riders how long the climb was and he said a couple of kilometres. We thought he was joking...little did we know it was 10km long!
Haywood said that they had a good ride together as they initially needed to find each other's strengths and weaknesses during Stage 1, but that they now believe that the collaboration between them is ideal. We ran out of water towards the end and we were convinced that we were just going to die out there and no one would ever find us. Fortunately, a spectator made his appearance and told us we were very close to the finish line. We were so relieved and thrilled when it was all over.
Heinzmann in turn had a scare early on in the race when another participant rode into her, resulting in a knee injury. My knee was very stiff after that and for the first couple of strokes I wasn't sure whether I would be able to go on. Fortunately, as time passed, we closed the gap between us and the group. But more hardship awaited Heinzmann when she later on rode into barbed wire, which not only damaged her tyre, but also her wheel and spikes. Yet again, we lost time while we had to fix the problem and the group was gone again. It was truly scary and tough to ride 50km on our own in the wind after everyone was gone!
Schwing in turn was still suffering from a cold, but gained her strength during the final climb and for the first time took the lead in the team. Once again they managed to close the gap between them and the other ladies teams. But towards the end we were really tired and had to concentrate going downhill. We didn't want to risk a fall and took is easy - so we lost the group again and crossed the finish line on our own.
The South African team of Hanlie Booyens and Erica Green (Absa Ladies) in 4th place today disagreed on some technical issues before the race after Booyens insisted that Green rides with a camel back and two water bottles containing almost 5 litres of water. Thank goodness we did, as we used all of it, Green said. We enjoyed a very solid ride, but we are still waiting for a day when these international monsters can give us a chance to win a stage. We know we are racing against the best in the world, but all we want is to be the best ladies team from South Africa.
The lady with the iron will
Another repeat win in the Mixed category awaited Joybike Guided by Vmt and Maloja when Germans Ivonne Kraft and Nico Pfitzenmaier completed their stage race at 6:08:03, followed by South Africans Yolande de Villiers and Johan Labuschagne (Cyclelab Toyota) in second place at 6:24:41. Hot on their heels were fellow South Africans Fourie Kotze and Amy Mundy (adidas) at 6:31:10. Overall results revealed the same order as the stage win: Joybike Guided by Vmt and Maloja in first (12:34:48), Cyclelab Toyota in second (13:03:26) and adidas in third position (13:38:02)
Yolande De Villiers said that after her six punctures during Stage 1 the day before, Stage 2 left her with legs punctures at the Gamkaberg killer challenge. But the real problem was that I couldn't feel my left arm and shoulder, which was completely numb. I tore two ligaments during the Argus Cycle Tour, but I was still determined to ride the Absa Cape Epic. But when my arm went numb, it felt like I had no control over my bike - it was very scary, especially during the technical downhill.
Labuschagne commented that all he has to do during the race is keep up with his teammate. Yolande is so fast and a very tough lady. It is my job to protect her from the wind and make sure she doesn't get in trouble. I was worried today when I noticed that Yolande had no control over her bike. I urged her to drive slowly and carefully at times and that I would be there for her.
From foe to friend
Absa Masters, Doug Brown (RSA) and Barti Bucher (SUI), once again defended their leader jersey with yet another stage win which ended in Calitzdorp (5:45:50). Shan Wilson from South Africa and Walter Platzgummer from Italy (Adidas William Simpson) came in second at 5:58:19, followed by Pragma Masters M.C. Franken (RSA) and Peter Buggle (IRE) at 6:06:53. Overall, the teams remained in the same positions as the stage win results with respective overall times of 11:29:34, 11:42:50 and 12:19:32. Brown expressed his admiration of Platzgummer when he said that he has such a good reputation that every single stage will be a battle between them. We can never be confident that we've beaten them no matter what. I also know Shan Wilson well as we've ridden Transalp together; I know his capabilities.
Wilson got a puncture early on in the race, which provided the Absa Masters with an opportunity to pull away and take the lead. 3km later Brown got a puncture, but fortunately he fixed it before the Adidas William Simpson team could catch up with them. Both teams agreed that Breakback Mountain was one of the toughest climbs ever for any race. We had to fight with every peddle stroke, Wilson said. But we stayed calm and kept our wits about us. Brown and Wilson met each other at last year's Transalp Challenge where they were riding in competing teams. On one stage Barti broke his pedal on an uphill and kept on going as if nothing has happened. That's when I decided he would be my perfect partner for the Absa Cape Epic. I asked him after the race and his immediate response was yes! To top it off, Doug Brown and Barti Bucher share the same birthdate and year. Age is not an excuse for our team, Doug chuckled.
Cheering crowd awaits last rider in
The last to cross the finish line today before the 18h00 cut-off time was Dion Tredoux from Team Millenium - PW-R, who arrived alone without his riding partner Brenda-Lynn Robertson. My partner was not feeling well at waterpoint 3 before the big climb and she was suffering. We still had four hours to go so I encouraged her to keep going to see how far we could get. Eventually, I told her I would meet her at the top, but after a long wait I made the journey down where I waited again. Then I realised that I had to continue with the race as I was running out of time.
Tredoux, who's riding partner urged him to enter with her, said he felt he wasn't ready for the Absa Cape Epic yet as he is more experienced as a road rider. But after she secured some sponsors who paid for our entry, we started to train together in June last year.
He says that after he passed the final waterpoint with another 35km to go, a very lonely journey awaited him until he got to the finish line. But once I got there, I was overwhelmed by the support, encouragement and applause. Now that I managed to finish in time, I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
Baggage team set their own records
It's not only a tough job to ride the Absa Cape Epic, but behind the scenes over 700 staff and crew work night and day to stage the biggest full service stage race in the world. One of the integral teams servicing the riders, ensuring that their luggage arrive safely at the new destination and is sorted by number in time before their arrival, is the baggage crew - alias the baggies. Throughout the week they lift a total weight of 416 tons of more than 1000 rider bags (averaging 26kg each) by loading and unloading the baggage truck. Their all time record in loading the truck and sorting the bags in numerical order is an unbelievable 20 minutes! The fourteen strong team of University Professor Tiaan Pool comprises sport management, tourism and marketing students. The level of efficiency at what this team operates at is a reflection of their high degree of education. Before departing from the previous stage, they pack the truck in rough numerical order. Upon arrival they lay out the tent floor with ropes to structure the numerical off-loading of the bags.
Good music keeps our guys going and to warm up early in the mornings we have an exercise class, says Tool. We believe that we must make the life of our clients, the 'riders', as easy as possible. I always tell my students that we must never argue with the riders - they are tired and emotional and might say things they normally wouldn't. And if riders said something they regretted later, they always came back to apologise. The bag team works hand in hand with local porters from the various communities who take the bags after the riders have checked them out, and carry them to the riders' tents for the exhausted mountain bikers.
Next stop: Riversdale
Stage 3 of the Absa Cape Epic will take riders from Calitzdorp to Riversdale, with a distance of 133km and climbing of 2 340m. The teams are taken up a 13 km steady drag on smooth dirt roads over Rooiberg Pass. It's a long climb that steepens to 9% before a 70kph decent into the valley. After some sharp, rolling hills, riders cross game country, where antelope, giraffe, leopard, and caracal will watch the riders charge through. From there on the terrain will be tough. Maximum concentration is needed to preserve bike and body. The rock formations are as geologically fascinating as they are race threatening (if riders choose a bad line or make a bad tyre choice). Even after riders survived the punctures and the heat, there is still a long slog on dirt roads before Garcia Pass. They'll welcome the tarred, gentle climb and fast descent that takes them into Riversdale, for a hard-earned rest.
|1. Rocky Mountain (Pia Sundstedt/Alison Sydor)
|2. Trek/VW WSD (Susan Haywood/Jennifer Smith)
|3. Dolphin-Trek MTB Racing (Fabienne Heinzmann/Katrin Schwin
|4. Absa Ladies (Erica Green (RSA) & Hanlie Booyens (RSA)
|5. Scott Contessa (Jane Seggie (RSA) & Ischen Stopforth (RSA)
|1. Cannondale Vredestein (Roel Paulissen/Jakob Fuglsang)
|2. Songo.Info (Christoph Sauser/Burry Stander)
|3. Alb-Gold Mountainbike (Hannes Genze/Jochen Kaess)
|4. MTN Energade 1 (Kevin Evans/David George)
|5. Dolphin (Bart Brentjens/Alban Lakata)
|6. Full-Dynamix Rsm (Fredrik Kessiakoff/Massimo Debertolis)
|7. MTN Energade (2) (Mannie Heymans/Melt Swanepoel)
|8. Bulls (Karl Platt/Stefan Sahm)
|9. USN (Brandon Stewart/ Max Knox)
|10. Trek/VW (Jeremiah Bishop/Chris Eatough)
|200. Perfect Strangers ( Werner Folscher/Pierre Billet)
|312. FAMA (Gavin Brown/Michael Golinski)
|1. Absa Masters (Doug Brown/Barti Bucher)
|2. Adidas William Simpson (Shan Wilson/Walter Platzgummer )
|3. Pragma Masters (M.C. Franken /Peter Buggle)
|4. Gpsupload.Com (Douw Andrews/Rich Bartlett)
|5. Private Client Holdings (AJ Cillie/Leon Oliver)
|69. Kandu (Jeff Levin/John Ramsden)
|1. Joybike Guided by VMT and Maloja (Ivonne Kraft/Nico Pfitzenmaier)
|2. Cyclelab Toyota (Johan Labuschagne/Yolande de Villiers )
|3. adidas (Fourie Kotze/Amy Mundy)
|4. Novatec - CK MTB Dohnany (Janka Stevkova/Tomas Legnavsky)
|5. X.O Felt Swiss (Adrian Burri/Franziska Roethlin)
|31. Blueline (Cathy Ross/Chuck Fortier)
|1. Rocky Mountain (Pia Sundstedt/Alison Sydor)
|2. Trek/VW WSD (Susan Haywood/Jennifer Smith)
|3. Dolphin-Trek MTB Racing (Fabienne Heinzmann/Katrin Schwin
|4. Absa Ladies (Erica Green (RSA) & Hanlie Booyens (RSA)
|5. Scott Contessa (Jane Seggie (RSA) & Ischen Stopforth (RSA)
|1. Songo.Info (Christoph Sauser/Burry Stander)
|2. Cannondale Vredestein (Roel Paulissen/Jakob Fuglsang)
|3. Alb-Gold Mountainbike (Hannes Genze/Jochen Kaess)
|4. Bulls (Karl Platt/Stefan Sahm)
|5. Dolphin (Bart Brentjens/Alban Lakata)
|6. Full-Dynamix Rsm (Fredrik Kessiakoff/Massimo Debertolis)
|7. MTN Energade 1 (Kevin Evans/David George)
|8. Etto Hoydahl (3) - Martin Bratland/Kristian Torgersen)
|9. MTN Energade (2) (Mannie Heymans/Melt Swanepoel)
|10. USN (Brandon Stewart/ Max Knox)
|198. Perfect Strangers ( Werner Folscher/Pierre Billet)
|318. FAMA (Gavin Brown/Michael Golinski)
|1. Absa Masters (Doug Brown/Barti Bucher)
|2. Adidas William Simpson (Shan Wilson/Walter Platzgummer )
|3. Pragma Masters (M.C. Franken /Peter Buggle)
|4. Gpsupload.Com (Douw Andrews/Rich Bartlett)
|5. Private Client Holdings (AJ Cillie/Leon Oliver)
|77. Kandu (Jeff Levin/John Ramsden)
|1. Joybike Guided by VMT and Maloja (Ivonne Kraft/Nico Pfitzenmaier)
|2. Cyclelab Toyota (Johan Labuschagne/Yolande de Villiers )
|3. Novatec - CK MTB Dohnany (Janka Stevkova/Tomas Legnavsky)
|4. X.O Felt Swiss (Adrian Burri/Franziska Roethlin)
|5. adidas (Fourie Kotze/Amy Mundy)
|28. Blueline (Cathy Ross/Chuck Fortier)
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"I thought about it yesterday, but I didn't think about it on the mound," Carmona said through interpreter Luis Rivera. "It was a very good night ... especially against that team. I got some hard times last year from those guys. What happened last year, I didn't want that to happen again."
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The sinkerball specialist allowed four hits, walked two and struck out six. He had thrown 113 pitches through the eighth, so Wedge elected to give the ball to Borowski to face the top of the Boston order in the ninth.
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The only run of the game scored when Franklin Gutierrez led off the third inning with a home run to left on a 1-0 fastball from Beckett (13-4).
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The Indians hadn't followed a 1-0 loss with a 1-0 win since April of 1942.
"In this day and age, you don't see that a heck of a lot," Wedge said. "It says a lot about our guys. The skin's a little bit thicker and they're a little bit tougher."
Nobody's skin has thickened over the last 12 months like Carmona's.
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Game #62: Jays at Dodgers pregame
Toronto (29-32) at Los Angeles (35-27)
at 4:0 p.m. ET at Dodger Stadium
Today's lineups:
Alex Rios, RF
Matt Stairs, 1B
Vernon Wells, CF
Troy Glaus, 3B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Adam Lind, LF
John McDonald, SS
Sal Fasano, C
Roy Halladay, P
Rafael Furcal, SS
Tony Abreu, 2B
Russell Martin, C
Luis Gonzalez, LF
Wilson betemit, 3B
James Loney, 1B
Andre Ethier, RF
Juan Pierre, CF
Jason Schmidt, P
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I don t think Halladay is 100%fit,just watching him in Los Angeles seems there is still a hangover from Tampa!!
I cant understand why they would let the doc. hit in the 7th in a 10-2 game.why take a chance on him getting a ball on the hands and out for another year.The Manager should know better.I know he[theDoc.]wants to pitch but we need him down the road
I was at the Saturday and Sunday games, and it was nice to see the team pull out some offense for once. I just hope they have some left for the SF series (which I will also be at two games of).
While I want to wear something that shows my support for the team when I go to the west coast games this year, I want to wear something a little more creative than just a regular Jays jersey. Jordan, can you find out what uniform number Matt Stairs wore when he played for the Chunichi Dragons?
Hmm… it looks like the place I was planning on getting the Chunichi Dragons jersey from is out of stock on the home style jersey, and the away version is only customizable in a size that probably won't fit me. So there goes that plan.
There are the bluejays that I like to see. Good pitching and the offence that we are all use to.
I hope Gibby keeps that slugger RBI guy called Halliday available for pinch hitting in San Francisco.
Goes 2 for 4 and knocks in an rbi-how good is that.
Maybe he should be considered for the 3 or 4th hole when we get back in Toronto-it'd be different having production from that slot. LOL


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By Bradley Voytek / Source: Oscillatory Thoughts
One of the more interesting parts about being a neuroscientist is when I'm suddenly struck by how absolutely weird our brains are.
And I'm not even talking about the super trippy stuff like free-will; even the mundane things are really mind-boggling.
For example: what does it mean to experience the world around us? We "see" things because photons that manage to pass through the inside-out design of our retinal cells cause a molecular change in the photoreceptors such that 11-cis-retinal isomerizes... etc.
(Tons of way overly detailed biology cut from here...)
When we "hear" things, the sound pressure waveform hits the tympanic membrane (eardrum) and ultimately causes the basilar membrane in your cochlea to vibrate. The basilar membrane is stiffer at one end (the basal end) and less stiff at the other end (the apical end). This fact was observed by Georg von Békésy (and earned him the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine).
Okay, great, so we know a ton of the basic biology and cellular mechanisms of the signal transduction mechanisms of our sensory apparatus.
But damn if I'm still not amazed by the actual experience of sensation.
Even beyond the philosophical wonder of passively sampling our outside environment in a shared, meaningful fashion is the ridiculous sensitivity of our senses.
We're used to thinking of our senses as being pretty shite: we can't see as well as eagles, we can't hear as well as bats, and we can't smell as well as dogs.
Or so we're used to thinking.
We All Have Superhuman Senses
It turns out that humans can, in fact, detect as few as 2 photons entering the retina. Two. As in, one-plus-one.
It is often said that, under ideal conditions, a young, healthy person can see a candle flame from 30 miles away. That's like being able to see a candle in Times Square from Stamford, Connecticut. Or seeing a candle in Candlestick Park from Napa Valley.
Similarly, it appears that the limits to our threshold of hearing may actually be Brownian motion. That means that we can almost hear the random movements of atoms.
We can also smell as few as 30 molecules of certain substances.
I mean, we're talking serious Daredevil-level detection here!
These facts suggest that we all have some level of what we'd normally think of as "super human" sensory abilities already.
But what the hell? If I can supposedly see a candle from 30 miles away, why do I still crack my frakkin' shin on the coffee table when it's only slightly dark in my living room?
Well, for one thing, attention plays a very important role. For example, consider the very famous visual attention experiment below:
How can we see TWO PHOTONS, but miss THAT!?
The easy hypothesis? Attention.
Attention is the Secret
You see, in the experiments testing the physical limits of the human sensory systems, the subjects involved are dedicating a lot of attention to the one sense being tested, almost certainly at the exclusion of the other senses.
I think we all have a pretty intuitive grasp of this. And sometimes our intuitive corrections are pretty damn funny. If you watch people's behavior carefully you'll notice some strange behaviors that we do.
Have you ever been driving around, trying to find a particular address, and then turn down the radio as you get close to where you think your destination is? Why would you turn down the radio when what you're doing is looking for an address? Seems pretty silly.
Do you close your eyes when you're trying to do calculations in your head? Why?
I think the answer to these questions is because we're trying to reduce sources of noise to maximize the amount of attention we can pay to the task at hand. The sounds from the radio capture your attention, making it hard to visually search for the address numbers on the house you're trying to find. Visual distractions in our surroundings may prevent us from maximally focusing our attention internally when trying to do hard math problems in our heads.
It strikes me that the experiments on the physical limits of our perception are probably also related to the adage that if you lose one sense, your remaining senses get heightened. This is a pretty common saying, but is it really true that if I became blind that I'd suddenly gain super-human hearing?
In a series of Nature studies published in the 1990s, it was shown that blind subjects reading via Braille actually use their visual cortex when reading by touch. This was demonstrated not only using brain imaging (PET, in this case), but also more causally via disruption of the visual cortex via TMS, a technique that can safely and reversibly disrupt the ability of a small region of the brain to process stimuli.
When TMS was used to disrupt the visual cortex of blind subjects, their ability to read Braille characters dropped!
Anecdotally, the impressive sensory adaptations by blind people can be seen in two particularly striking subjects.
The first is a blind boy who was able to navigate so well via echolocating his own clicking sounds that he could ride a skateboard.
The second example is of another blind young man who was able to play video games by sound alone. The guy could track the sounds in a game and use them to play through to completion.
In my own research I've tried to identify which regions of the brain are critical for attention and working memory, to understand how cognitive functions reorganize after brain damage, and to provide a physiological basis for how sensory and cognitive systems could interact.
In my future research I will further examine how sensory and cognitive systems interact and interrelate in more detail.
For now, sometimes the only thing I can do is sit back and marvel at how amazing it is that this three pounds of fat and water in my head does anything at all.
Related Article: Your Brain is More Powerful than all the Computers on Earth


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PORT LAVACA - The sky is inky black when Danny Harborth steps from the waterlogged wooden dock of Poor Boy Bait onto his boat, the Yuma.
He slides the thick rope deftly through his wide calloused fingers as he unties it from the dock, bringing the engines to life with a roar, shattering the stillness of the early morning.
As the engines settle into a steady putter, he sits in the captain's chair, moving the vessel away from the dock with a few brisk turns of the wheel.
Harborth is a bait shrimper. He spends his days moving through the bays studying the water and looking for the best place to bring in live shrimp for fishing.
He's a tough-looking man, barrel-chested with shaggy rust-colored hair and a bristly mustache that makes him look like a messy Teddy Roosevelt when he smiles.
"I don't think it's so much shrimping being in my blood as it is being on the water. It's ... I don't know, it's just the way it is. I'm comfortable out there. It's like a second home," Harborth said.
The boat moves across the dark water past Alcoa and the other industrial plants that line the shore, radiating copper-colored light.
Harborth grimaces a little as the Yuma goes by the industrial plants. Shrimping and the sea may be in his blood, but he also has worked at almost every plant that lines the coast near Port Lavaca.
Soon he's out in the darkness again and, slowly, the sun begins to peek over the horizon. For a few moments, the light is perfectly balanced and the sky and sea are both bathed in pale orange.
Shrimping is an art as much as it is a learned trade. Harborth grew up on the water, but after years in the Navy and then time spent jumping from job to job at the various industrial plants, he came back to shrimping 10 years ago. He had to put in a lot of effort to learn how to shrimp on his own.
To shrimp, you have to know how shrimp work. You have to know that good shrimping happens when the water is murky and the shrimp can't see the nets. You need a map of the bays and estuaries printed on your mind, to know where the shrimp tend to go, where the water is deep and where a boat is likely to get snagged because the water is too shallow. The moon, the tides, the weather, the seasons - all of this plays a part in the art of shrimping. It's not something just anybody can do.
"Shrimpers are a dying breed," Harborth said, standing at the wheel of his boat. "It doesn't matter, though. I'll keep on shrimping."
Just after 6 a.m., Harborth lowers his nets into the Matagorda Bay Ship Channel. The boat begins turning in wide, stately circles like some fading dowager queen.
Most shrimpers have help, but Harborth prefers to work alone. He used to take on deckhands, but the men were unreliable.
Some didn't like the work, standing on deck in all weather, sorting shrimp from the rest of the catch hauled in by the nets. Shrimp, octopus and croakers are culled from piles of gleaming ribbon fish, and the occasional shark and crab that get dredged up from the water.
The main thing a bait shrimper has to do is keep the bait alive. One unfortunate deckhand was fired with a verbal dressing down worthy of a retired Navy man after he let the motors on the tanks run out of gas, killing most of the live bait for the day's catch.
"I may have lost my temper a little, but that was a whole day's work, gone," Harborth said, shaking his head.
Another hand worked through a week without any problems, seemed to be getting along all right. Then he called one morning, said he was having car trouble, but he'd be there soon. Harborth waited for him at the dock, but he never showed. He's worked on his own since then.
Harborth grew up in a shrimping family. He started shrimping at the age of 4, a barefoot kid on the boat of his grandfather Fred Weber, standing alongside him after the shrimp were pulled in and dumped on the deck, watching intently as the old man sorted his catch. Weber was an old-school shrimper from Seadrift. When Harborth's younger brother, Myron Harborth, was old enough, they both went out on the water, learning from their grandfather.
"I thought it was the greatest thing in the world," he says.
A lot has changed in the trade since those days. Shrimpers used wooden boats back then, the kind that needed to have their nooks and crannies stuffed with cotton to stop the leaks. They didn't have sonar, GPS or any of the modern-day gadgetry that Harborth employs. They were just beginning to deal with government regulations.
"He always said if you do something, do it right the first time. I'm kind of the same way, I guess," Harborth says, laughing.
The day everything changed
That all ended, or seemed to, on June 18, 1970. Harborth was working as a hand on another boat that day, but he was within eyeshot of his grandfather's boat.
The radio exploded with chatter that someone on the boat was in trouble. His brother had fallen overboard and was drowning.
By the time help came, it was too late. His brother had been knocked overboard by the rough seas, someone told him. His grandfather jumped in, trying to save the boy, and both drowned.
Their bodies were pulled from the water, and Harborth took the helm of his grandfather's boat to bring them back in.
"I can't even tell you what that moment was like," he said.
He stopped shrimping after that and left to serve in the Navy.
"I guess you could say I was running away, but it was even harder being away from home and dealing with that. It was a hard time in my life."
He spent almost 30 years in the Navy, traveling the globe and living on ships. Those were his wild years. He moved through two marriages and a distinguished number of women, drank and developed a natural talent for trouble. Finally, he retired and brought his third wife home to Port Lavaca. He took jobs at Formosa and Invista, but it was never a good fit. He found himself craving the water.
His stepfather, the owner of Poor Boy Bait, asked if he wanted to learn to bait shrimp and he said yes, he was aching to get back to the sea.
He asked his mother for a small oval picture. It showed a captain at the wheel of a boat on stormy seas, with the image of Jesus looking down with his hand touching the sailor's shoulder, a shelter in the storm. The picture was his grandfather's. Harborth bolted it to the wall in the wheel house of the Yuma, and he was ready to shrimp.
Cowboys of the sea
Shrimpers are a dying breed. Once the cowboys of the sea, their way of life is becoming a thing of the past. They used to be able to support large families with the catch they pulled out of the Gulf and the bays. Now, they can barely keep the business running well enough to pay for the gas to get them out there.
"Sometimes you go out and you get nothing," Harborth said. "Some of these guys don't get anything, and it's rough on them with gas so high."
Harborth works all the time. He's usually on the boat heading out to sea by about 4 a.m., earlier if he's going farther out. When he gets back to the dock in the afternoon, he'll spend an hour or two cleaning the boat before calling it a day.
He takes his days off sporadically in the middle of the week, whenever business is slow. He bides some time in a little good-natured bickering with his wife. The father of a son and daughter, he spends time with his grandchildren or doing a little work on the restaurant building his daughter is planning to open in Port Lavaca.
His grandfather made a living because gas was cheap and shrimp were $3 a pound. Today's shrimpers wouldn't know what to do if they got $3 a pound, Harborth said. Gas prices have skyrocketed, but shrimp prices have not increased to match it. The creation of government regulations has been a problem, too.
There aren't many boats out on the water today. The radio crackles every once in awhile as shrimpers exchange greetings and some good natured ribbing with each other. It used to be going nonstop.
An hour passes, and the sun is beating down on the moss-green water.
"All right, let's see what we've got," Harborth says, hitting the wench to pull the net in.
It appears, half full with wriggling creatures. He swings the net over one of the tanks on deck and everything drops into the tank water with a splash. Goggled-eyed shrimp swim in circles with gold and silver skinned croaker fish, dagger-toothed ribbon fish, baby octopi, a few stingrays and even a shark or two.
With a net, he pulls the shrimp out, dropping them, the croakers and the octopus into separate holding containers.
He plucks a shrimp from the tank. Feelers moving frantically, legs wheeling, the shrimp springs from his hand to the deck.
"Now, that's what you call fresh shrimp," Harborth says, laughing.
He goes back to his catch, his smile fading. The tank is chock full of ribbon fish, a "junk fish" not much good to anyone except seagulls, pelicans and dolphins that follow the boat.
"Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic," he mutters, his frown deepening.
He tosses ribbon fish over the port side of the boat. Seagulls and pelicans swoop wildly at the gleaming silver fish, tearing their slick bodies to pieces and gobbling the flesh in greedy gulps. Anything the birds miss are pounced on by sleek brown dolphins in the water below.
"Let's see what we've got here," he says, walking over and shaking out the turtle excluder device that dangles from the nets. A few crabs and some larger fish flop back into the water, where seagulls, pelicans and dolphins fight to get at them.
Once, Harborth found a sea turtle in the nets. He tugged the creature loose and set it on the deck for a moment. The turtle was still breathing so he threw it back into the water.
"I think he was still alive," he said.
With a sigh, he brings the engines clattering to life again and walks back to the wheel house to find more shrimp.
Static fuzz comes over the radio. Another shrimp boat captain's voice bursts into the cabin.
"I'm out here getting two pounds of nothing worth catching. I'm thinking of heading back in and saving my fuel, and it looks like Danny is heading my way."
Harborth radios back, "Nah, Jesse, you keep all your two pounds to yourself. I'm thinking of trying the flats."
The boat moves out, and Harborth goes through the process again, dragging and sorting, dragging and sorting, with deeper lines digging into his face as each drag brings up fewer and fewer shrimp he can use.
His ears prick up when someone calls out on the radio that a ship is coming up the channel. He starts up the engines and moves in, waiting for a purple steel barge from a local plant to lumber through. The blue-green water turns muddy in the ship's wake, and Harborth is smiling again, a gleam in his eye.
"This is my last try for the day, but it might be good," he says, suddenly giddy.
He pulls up the nets the way kids open Christmas presents, so excited by what he might find when he dumps them in the tanks.
A small catfish slices his finger open, and he looks down and laughs.
"Ah that's nothing. If I leave here on a day without bleeding, that's a rare day," he says.
Soon the smile sags a bit, the catch isn't quite what he was dreaming of. He packs the nets in and starts for shore, ready to try again another day. It isn't much, it isn't the thousands of pounds that used to show up on deck in his grandfather's time, but it's enough. He'll go out again tomorrow, and when he opens the net, he'll have the same thrill, the same giddy expectation that this time his bet will pay off and he'll get something good.
"There have been days I've come in whining like a dog, didn't catch anything. But the next day, you go back out and you maybe do better. You never know. Nothing is ever the same. That's what I love about it."


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|e to the pi Minus pi
Title text: Also, I hear the 4th root of (9^2 + 19^2/22) is pi.
e is a mathematical constant roughly equal to 2.71828182846. π is another, roughly equal to 3.14159265359. Both are transcendental numbers.
The first panel discusses eπ - π, which is around 19.999099979 — very close to 20. Black Hat explains how he tricked a programming team into believing that eπ - π is exactly 20, and that if the system they were building didn't agree, there were errors in the code. This made them waste a lot of time trying to find a nonexistent bug until they realized that Black Hat was lying.
Floating point numbers are how computers store real numbers — or rather, approximate them: a true real number requires infinite amounts of data to represent. The "floating-point handlers" would be the code performing the eπ - π calculation.
ACM is the Association for Computing Machinery, sponsoring the International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Some random facts about the math here:
- eπ - π is an irrational number, but this is not a trivial fact. It was proven by Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko in the late 20th century.
- The mysterious almost-equation is believed to be a mathematical coincidence, or a numerical relationship that "just happens" with no satisfactory explanation. It can be rearranged to (π + 20)i ≈ -i, so cos(ln(π + 20)) ≈ -1. Piling on a few more cosines gives cos(π cos(π cos(ln(π + 20)))) ≈ -1, which is off by less than 10−35!
The title text pokes fun at another coincidence: ∜(9² + 19²/22) ≈ 3.1415926525, close to π. The humor comes from the fact that π is meant to be transcendental. Transcendental numbers are numbers that cannot be expressed through basic arithmetic with integers; one cannot end up with the exact value for any transcendental number (including π) by adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, exponentiating and/or taking the nth root of any whole number.
A much later comic, 1047: Approximations, puts forth quite a few more mathematical coincidences.
- Cueball: Hey, check it out: e^pi-pi is 19.999099979. That's weird.
- Black Hat: Yeah. That's how I got kicked out of the ACM in college.
- Cueball: ...what?
- Black Hat: During a competition, I told the programmers on our team that e^pi-pi was a standard test of floating-point handlers--it would come out to 20 unless they had rounding errors.
- Cueball: That's awful.
- Black Hat: Yeah, they dug through half their algorithms looking for the bug before they figured it out.
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Asserting that the programmers' algorithms truncated to three decimal digits is an unsupported and unnecessary extrapolation. Most floating-point implementations use binary, not decimal, and 19.999099979 looks very much like a rounding error in binary floating-point that has accumulated over several operations. Daddy (talk) 12:39, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
The "not good at math" might be too harsh, if they've (tried to) read the floating point spec. Depending on precision and rounding regime and order of operations, I could easily imagine the "equation" to be true ... and therefore a test that you were rounding "properly", even when it wasn't intuitive.
The third bullet-point above needs changing... (9^2+(19^2/22))=97.4090909091 which is close to pi to the fourth power, so it should be (as noted in the text) (9^2+(19^2/22))^1/4 Squirreltape (talk) 19:27, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
- Actually, in-case you didn't notice, it says "∜(9² + 19²/22)", not just the sum on its own. I checked the sum on my calculator, and it is equal to what the page is saying. "∜(9² + 19²/22)" means "4th root of (9^2+19^2/22)" (What the title text is saying), or on Windows Calculator, "(9^2+19^2/22) yroot(4)" (Basically what the sum is saying). So, the 3rd bullet point is correct. --Katavschi (talk) 22:48, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
It says above that (π + 20)^i ≈ -i, but this should be (π + 20)^i ≈ -1. Proof: π + 20 ≈ e^π => (π + 20)^i ≈ (e^π)^i = e^(πi) = -1.
The ACM competitions are famous for being under tight time pressure. Making your own team waste time would absolutely get you kicked out (and make enemies) Mountain Hikes (talk) 04:40, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
- "If they thought about the mathematics"
hm, are you saying it is obvious that e^ pi - pi is not 20? How would you know without approximating it? The sum of two irrationals is not necessarily irrational. 184.108.40.206 01:58, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
- approximate e^pi using slightly bigger numbers than e and pi (say e: 2.7183 and pi: 3.1416) and subtract a value that is slightly smaller than pi (say 3.1415). The result is less than 20 and a upper limit for e^pi - pi 22.214.171.124 19:59, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


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The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Brno is located on the Petrov hill in Brno-Center. It is a national cultural monument and one of the most important architectural monuments of South Moravia. The interior is mostly Baroque, while the impressive 84m high towers were built between 1904 and 1905 by architect August Kirstein in the Gothic Revival style.
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Brno is Czech's second largest city. It's a place full of peaceful country folk who drink more wine than Bohemians, their Czech friends to the west. Brno hasn't been trampled by many tourists, so it has quite a different character than the capital city, especially from the eyes of a visitor.


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UK: Government upholds religious schooling
Faith schools remove the rights of children to choose their own religious, philosophical and ethical beliefs. They also sanction ethnic segregation and create tension and divisiveness within society. Schools should be places where children are given a free education, not centres for indoctrination. Creationism and other religious myths should not be taught as fact regardless of the funding status of a school. Abolishing faith schools will provide children with more freedom of choice and help to promote a fully multi-cultural, peaceful society."
"The Government remains committed to a diverse range of schools for parents to choose from, including schools with a religious character or "faith schools" as they are commonly known.
Religious Education (RE) in all schools, including faith schools, is aimed at developing pupils' knowledge, understanding and awareness of the major religions represented in the country. It encourages respect for those holding different beliefs and helps promote pupils' moral, cultural and mental development. In partnership with national faith and belief organisations we have introduced a national framework for RE.
In February 2006, the faith communities affirmed their support for the framework in a joint statement making it clear that all children should be given the opportunity to receive inclusive religious education, and that they are committed to making sure the framework is used in the development of religious education in all their schools and colleges.
The Churches have a long history of providing education in this country and have confirmed their commitment to community cohesion. Faith schools have an excellent record in providing high-quality education and serving disadvantaged communities and are some of the most ethnically and socially diverse in the country. Many parents who are not members of a particular faith value the structured environment provided by schools with a religious character."
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Samsung confirmed the Galaxy S III Pebble Blue version has been delayed as it has to meet the "highest internal quality standards", although factory-line sources claim a company blunder is to blame.
While the Samsung Galaxy S III launched today across the globe, only the white version of the handset will be available, with the company assuring customers "a short supply of the Pebble Blue version is expected in some regions in the next 2-3 weeks."
Samsung was rather vague on specific reasons for the delay, simply reiterating that it "comes with a newly invented blue colour and special hyperglaze material" and that the limited supply was due to meeting quality standards.
However, sources close to the manufacturing process told Reg Hardware that Samsung had sent the team incorrect computer-aided design (CAD) files at the last minute, prompting the production of "millions of dollars worth" of cases with incorrect measurements.
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STRANGE BUT TRUE- Dream strangers: They say a lot about you
A. Dream images come from your personal experiences filed in long-term memory, either people you know or have seen in a movie or photograph or just imagined, says psychologist Rosalind Cartwright. The interesting issue is why you see them on any particular night. They are triggered by some emotional response to an experience during the day that you may not even be aware of consciously.
Your dream strangers are never there just by coincidence, adds psychologist Gayle Delaney, author of In Your Dreams. To figure out what they mean, ask yourself: What does the stranger look like, what is he or she wearing and doing and thinking and feeling in the context of the action of your dream. Write down four or five adjectives to describe his or her personality, then ask if there is someone, some part of yourself or something in your life that is like this figure. You may be surprised at how familiar that unknown stranger really is.
Q. How is your happiness level influenced more than you know by people you don't even know? It's the same with whether you drink, are overweight, vote or don't, and so on. –M. Zuckerberg
A. Research by Harvard medical sociologist Nicholas Christakis suggests our moods and behaviors are far more strongly influenced by those around us than we tend to think, says Michael Bond in New Scientist magazine. And it's not just our friends, but friends of our friends, and friends of friends of friends– "people three degrees of separation from us whom we have never met but whose disposition can pass through our social network like a virus."
Check out the burgeoning numbers for this "social contagion": If you have 10 friends, and each of them has 10 friends, and so on, that's 10 x 10 x 10 ... or thousands of people before you know it. Even more, it's becoming clear that a whole range of things is transmitted through this social network in ways not entirely understood: not just happiness but depression, obesity, drinking and smoking habits, tastes in music or foods, even the inclination to vote in elections. So remember the new adage: "We are who we hang out with."
Q. Some ants are farmers (cultivating fungus) and others are herders ("milking" aphids). But do any of them obey right-of-way traffic rules? –T. Longo
A. Carnivorous army ants of Central and South America stage colossal "swarm raids" in search of prey, killing as many as 30,000 animals per raid. Up to 200,000 near-blind ants stream out of their nest and form multiple freeway-like trails up to 20 meters wide (65 feet) and 100 meters long (330 feet). These are marked by smelly chemicals, or pheromones, that the ants follow. Since outbound and inbound ants both follow the same trail, massive gridlock can occur.
But research by Princeton biologist Iain Couzin and his University of Bristol colleague Nigel Franks (in Science and National Geographic News) reveals that the ants avoid congestion by obeying a simple rule: inbound ants move along the center of the pheromone trail while outbound ones follow the outer edges. Inbound ants, laden with food, are less willing to turn to avoid oncoming traffic than are their unencumbered outbound brethren. The result is an efficient traffic-flow solution.
Q. What do the ancient Greek mathematicians Pythagoras and Euclid have in common with the 20th U.S. President James A. Garfield (1831-1881)? –A. Onasis
A. All three derived original proofs of the "Pythagorean theorem," which states that for a right triangle ABC, side A squared + side B squared = side C squared (the hypotenuse).
Pythagoras and Euclid are no surprise, but Garfield? He never studied geometry formally, says Alfred S. Posamentier in Math Charmers, but while in the U.S. House of Representatives he stumbled upon a clever proof of the famous theorem, that landed in The New England Journal of Education. Today there are more than 400 proofs, many ingenious, many cumbersome, but all gaining their discoverers at least a footnote in math history.
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2013 record: 10-3 overall, 5-3 in SEC (third in SEC West)
2013 postseason: Outback Bowl vs. Iowa (21-14 win)
2013 final AP/coaches' ranking: 14/14
Head coach: Les Miles (123-45 overall; 95-24 in nine years at LSU)
Offensive coordinator: Cam Cameron (second season)
2013 offensive rankings: 29th rushing offense (202.3 ypg); 44th passing offense (251 ypg); 35th total offense (453.3 ypg); 23rd scoring offense (35.8 ppg)
Returning offensive starters: six
Defensive coordinator: John Chavis (sixth season)
2013 defensive rankings: 35th rushing defense (143.2 ypg); 13th passing defense (197.5 ypg); 15th total defense (340.7 ypg); 21st scoring defense (22 ppg)
Returning defensive starters: seven
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Stadium: Tiger Stadium (102,321; grass)
Last conference title: 2011
The good when it comes to the LSU Tigers is usually the following: powerful running game and dominating defense. 2014 is not expected to be any different. Sure, the Tigers lost their leading and No. 3 rushers, but Nos. 2 and 4 — Terrence Magee and Kenny Hilliard — return. Oh, and there's the addition of one of the most touted running back prospects in a decade or more, 2014 five-star signee Leonard Fournette — he could immediately make anyone and everyone say "Jeremy Hill who?" given the immense talent he possesses. Among the returning starters are four offensive linemen, three of them seniors, which bodes well for both the revamped running game and whoever the new starter under center will be. The defense returns seven starters from a group that finished inside the Top 20 in total defense and just outside the Top 20 in the most important statistical category: scoring defense. LSU has won 10 or more games in seven of Miles' nine years in Baton Rouge, including each of the last four seasons; given the amount of returning talent and the deep recruiting classes brought in year after year — all but two of those classes in the Top 10, none outside the Top 18 — don't expect that win total to dip below double-digits in 2014.
As is ofttimes the case with the Tigers, it's the departures, early and otherwise, that constitute a negative. On offense, LSU lost its starting quarterback, top two wide receivers and nearly 1,800 rushing yards. Defensively, the Tigers must replace its top two defensive tackles, although they grow athletic, dominant tackles on trees down on the bayou. All of the departures, especially offensively, could make for choppy, uneven play early on; fortunately, after the opener against Wisconsin in Houston, LSU has a four-game stretch that consists of three games — Sam Houston State, Louisiana-Monroe, New Mexico State — that are essentially scrimmages that actually count. The first conference tilt comes in the fourth game against Mississippi State (Sept.20); the first true conference test comes two weeks later against Auburn, which gives Les Miles and his coaching staff what they hope will be plenty of time to work out the kinks.
As is the case up and down the SEC, the quarterback position is a big unknown. With Zach Mettenberger's departure, Anthony Jennings and Brandon Harris — not necessarily in that order — will battle to take over as the starter. While Jennings has the edge in experience — he served as Mettenberger's primary backup in 2013 — Harris came out of spring practice looking as the slight leader in the eyes of some observers. Regardless of which player wins the job, LSU will, as it always does, rely heavily on a force-of-nature running game and ask its quarterback to be a mistake-free(ish) game manager. Can either, though, come up big in the passing game when the need inevitably arises? That question can't and won't be answered for several weeks on down the road.
MAKE-OR-BREAK GAME: at Auburn, Oct. 4
Given how the series has played out over the last few years — and how important it's been in both the conference race and national chase — I was extremely tempted to go with the Alabama game Nov. 8. Instead, I'll go with the road trip to Jordan-Hare a month earlier. After all, The Plains Tigers are the defending SEC champions and BCS runner-ups, making them the first measuring stick (sorry, Badgers) for just where the Bayou Bengals are as a team. With the two Tiger teams and the Tide all coming off a season in which they won 10 or more games — and with Texas A&M expected to dip a bit given the offensive departures and defensive attrition — most expect the SEC West to come down to, essentially, a three-team round-robin tournament. The first of the three all-important games is LSU-AU; how that game plays out could go a long way in determining the division's rep in the SEC title game. Then again, Auburn lost to LSU last year and still stood atop the league at season's end, so…
HEISMAN HOPEFUL: running back Leonard Fournette
The past two Heismans were won by a redshirt freshman for the first two times in the history of the award. Could a true freshman ever break through that stiff-armed ceiling? It seems doubtful, but Fournette certainly looks the part. Fournette is a highly-touted five-star member of LSU's most recent recruiting class, rated as the top running back in that class; the No. 1 player in the state of Louisiana; and the No. 4 player at any position in the country. He's a mountain of a man-child already at 6-1, 230 pounds, yet he's one of the fastest players on the Tigers team. His ability is off the charts; whether that ability translates into immediate on-field results is unknown, but don't be surprised if he's not at least on the periphery of the Heisman discussion at some point this season.
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It's Sunday afternoon and I've just been to Worth Abbey to the West Sussex Gold Duke of Edinburgh's Award presentation. Even though it's Sunday afternoon, Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Wimbledon mens tennis final 61 young people, carers and parents took part in the celebrations. So many times young people are maligned in the media for their anti social behaviour, their lack of interest in anything other than computers & TV, that they are no hopers, taking everything and giving nothing. These presentations however give a timely and much needed counter view of young people, congratulating instead a wide range of young people who have shown motivation, commitment and dedication over a long period of time.
Today we heard from the group who completed their expedition in canoe on the River Wye, and learnt in practice what it means to paddle on a tidal river. (With the water flowing against you for half the time it's not as simple as floating down the river!) There was a young man who had taken part in a British Schools Exploration Society expedition to the Yukon where he completed both his residential section and his expedition and another who built a kit car for his skills section and credits this with his interest in civil engineering. All of them have completed at least 12 months volunteering supporting their local communities, the environment and others. So here's to their acheivements, let's celebrate and share in their enjoyment (and see how many column inches these positive stories earn!!)


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Church singer Jermaine Sellers was one of four contenders eliminated on "American Idol" this week, but he plans to send British judge Simon Cowell a reverse parting gift.
"I'm gonna send him a Bible," the 27-year-old Joliet, Ill., singer told AccessHollywood.com's Laura Saltman on Friday.
In fact, after receiving criticism for his performance of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" on Tuesday, Jermaine suggested to Simon he should come to church with him, something the British judge said he would do. And while there are no immediate plans to make that happen, Jermaine is hoping Simon can bring a little church into his heart.
"Like I told him, he [needs] to go to church. If he had a little bit of Jesus in him, then he wouldn't be so mean," Jermaine said. "I've never known [anybody] that don't smile."
But it appears Simon did show a crack is his armor after the show last night, according to Jermaine.
"He came to me afterward, after I got voted off, and he said, 'Jermaine, I'm sorry,'" the singer said.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis clinched European approval for the first vaccine against meningitis B, and will seek to sell the drug as soon as possible.
"Novartis is working with health authorities to provide access to Bexsero as soon as possible," the Swiss drugmaker said in a statement on Tuesday.
There is currently no approved vaccine offering broad protection against "MenB," this particular type of meningitis.
Novartis won a European panel backing for Bexsero in November.
Bexsero's commercial success still depends on whether individual governments decide to add it to routine vaccination programs.
MenB is caused by bacteria, leading to inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord. It can kill within 24 hours and infants are at highest risk.
Around 10 percent of those who contract the disease die, despite appropriate treatment, and up to 20 percent of survivors suffer from serious disabilities such as brain damage and hearing impairment.
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Kurt Nimmo
June 12, 2012
The people of North Dakota will go to the polls today and decide if the state should abolish property taxes. The measure is opposed by the state Chamber of Commerce, agribusiness, government unions, politicians and others feeding at the public trough.
As should be expected, the establishment media is attempting to demonize the move. "Measure 2, as the proposal is called on the ballot, would require state government to make up for property tax revenue lost by local governments but doesn't specify how," reports USA Today.
"The property tax is the foundation of local government services," Connie Sprynczynatyk, executive director of the North Dakota League of Cities, told the newspaper. "It's the predictable source of revenue to pay for police and fire and other local services in the community where you live."
The opposition has raised $500,000 to defeat the proposed law. If passed, they warn, the measure will deplete the state's coffer by $812 million.
Politicians are naturally aghast. "It's mind-boggling, really, we'd be changing everything, frankly," said Republican governor Jack Dalrymple.
North Dakota will have police and fire service after the measure passes. The law is intended to force the state to get approval for new taxes from voters for a specific purpose instead of confiscating money at gunpoint and then finding ways to spend it.
"Americans don't realize they are being gamed and huge surpluses could be realized if every tax was designated for a specific purpose rather than giving government an open checkbook to spend what revenues are collected," writes Bill Sardi.
James Madison and the founders knew that without property there is tyranny. If the state has the power to take property for failure to pay taxes, it has the power to deny liberty.
"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions," Madison wrote.
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President "Violating the principles of the Western world"
Steve Watson
July 26, 2012
British and Danish politicians have spoken out in disgust at the US policy of drone strikes in Somalia, Pakistan and Yemen, calling it targeted assassination.
"It's terrible," said Rasmus Helveg Petersen, the foreign policy spokesperson for Radikale, the Danish Social Liberal Party.
"The United States has no right to carry out these types of executions of suspected political adversaries. It contravenes international law." Petersen said in an interview with the Politiken newspaper.
Peterson added that Obama was mirroring terrorist activity by adhering to the policy. "It is tantamount to terrorism where you also kill people for political motives in someone else's territory." Peterson said.
Another Danish lawmaker, Soren Pind, of the Venstre party, Denmark's opposition party, also blasted Obama. In an interview with Ræson magazine, Pind said "I criticised George Bush for combining the presidency with something we could view as torture. But what Obama is doing is combining the presidency with assassination. In reality it is much worse. Obama is completely ignoring the western world's principles, and in the long run it will be detrimental,"
Officials from another far left party in Denmark, Enhedslisten, also weighed in, saying they would push the issue in the Danish parliament's foreign policy committee.
Denmark's foreign minister, Villy Sovndal was less critical but still intimated that the government was displeased with the US policy of drone strikes."I am not prepared to comment further than saying that we do not use drones ourselves and that international rules must be adhered to," said Sovndal.
Denmark has traditionally been a strong ally to the US. However, Ole Wæver, political scientist at the University of Copenhagen notes "Obama has used up his goodwill account…There has been until now broad political agreement that we stood shoulder to shoulder with the US, but people are slowly realising that the world order is changing."
Neither the US government, nor the US Embassy in Denmark has responded to the criticism.
Meanwhile, in Britain, a group of twelve parliamentarians are reported to have penned a letter to Obama demanding that drone strikes in Pakistan are halted.
The International Herald Tribune reports that the officials contend that the strikes are only serving to fuel hatred of the US and provide justification for future terrorist activities and that too many innocent people are being killed as a result of the attacks. The letter also notes that the strikes are a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty.
Earlier this week, it was reported that the incoming head of Pakistan's intelligence network plans to demand that the US halt the drone strikes and let Pakistan deal with weeding out militants.
In related developments, a UN report released this week states that US drone aircraft over Somalia pose a significant danger to air traffic and may also violate an arms embargo against the country.
As we reported Monday, there is a huge growing movement in Pakistan speaking out against US aggression in the country.
One prominent voice is that of Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI) who recently slammed the US policy of targeting militants in Pakistan and elsewhere with unmanned drone strikes, calling the practice "immoral and insane".
The Obama administration has been heavily criticized for moving to block the release of information relating to its overseas drone assassination programme, and will not even acknowledge that it exists, despite countless public references to the programme and the proven existence of an official "kill list".
It is common knowledge that the Obama administration has exponentially increased the use of drone missile attacks in countries such as Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
The president has referred to the programme several times in public, as have officials such as counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan.
Earlier this year, the New York Times ran a major piece on the programme, revealing that the White House has asserted the right to carry out state-sponsored assassination anywhere in the world without having to provide any evidence or go through any legal process.
Furthermore, the Times revealed that Obama adopted a policy that "in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants."
The administration merely has to state that the target is a terrorist and it doesn't matter whether they are an American citizen or not, as we saw in the case of American-born Anwar al-Awlaki and his son, who were both killed last year.
In December of last year, Obama administration lawyers reaffirmed their backing for state sponsored assassination, claiming that "U.S. citizens are legitimate military targets" and do not have the right to any legal protection against being marked for summary execution.
During a CBS 60 Minutes interview in January, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta revealed that Obama himself personally approves the policy to kill American citizens suspected of terrorism without trial on a case by case basis.
Perhaps the real reason that the administration wants the details of the programme kept under wraps is that, as reported by Propublica recently, the programme is potentially much bigger in scope than anyone had previously thought.
The administration's figures do not add up, they are chock full of contradictions and discrepancies, and there can be little doubt that there have been many many more civilian deaths as a result of drone attacks than have been publicly acknowledged.
Experts, including UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns, as well as Pakistan's UN ambassador in Geneva, Zamir Akram, have described the drone assassination programme as a violation of the international legal system, saying that some attacks may constitute war crimes.
Akram, who noted that US drone strikes had killed more than 1,000 civilians in Pakistan, also said "We find the use of drones to be totally counterproductive in terms of succeeding in the 'war against terror'. It leads to greater levels of terror rather than reducing them.
Many also contend that the attacks infringe the national sovereignty of Pakistan and constitute an act of war.
In 2010, a report by Washington think tank The New America Foundation found that 32% of the more than 1,200 people killed since 2004 in Pakistan, or around 1 in 3, were innocent bystanders rather than dangerous terrorists.
While the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has stated that the Pakistani government is actively facilitating the attacks by providing bases from which to launch the drones, Pakistani authorities have consistently voiced opposition to cross border missile strikes, which have been ongoing for years, but have accelerated since day one of Obama's presidency. During Obama's first year in office, there were 53 reported drone missile attacks; more than were carried out during the entirety of George W. Bush's two four year terms in office.
Reports from 2009, drawn up by Pakistani authorities, indicated that close to 700 civilians had already perished, with just 14 wanted Al Qaeda leaders killed in the attacks.
The ACLU estimates that US drone strikes have killed as many as 4,000 people in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia since 2002. Of those, a significant proportion were civilians.
Last week it was revealed that the families of three US citizens killed in drone strikes in Yemen last year – including al-Qaeda preacher Anwar al-Awlaqi – have filed a civil lawsuit against top US officials.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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