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Socio-economic policies implemented by the government in 1994 have positive impacts on population growth, demographics, housing and utility services, according to a recent national survey of 130,000 families.
Al-Sahafa daily reports that the local population growth ratio dropped from 1.7 percent to 1.15 percent during the years 1994-1999. Furthermore, the local population grew from 8,785,700 to 9,442,900 during those years, with the average family size decreasing from 5.2 to 4.9 persons during the same period.
The survey also revealed that more people have housing. The number of available houses rose to 2,204,300 in 1999, up from 1,780,100 in 1994. The percentage of sheds and tents out of the overall available houses declined from 2.7 percent to 1.2 percent during the same period.
Moreover, the survey showed that 94.6 percent of the population had electricity in 1999 versus 85.9 percent in 1994. In terms of connection to drinking water, those with access jumped from 69.1 percent to 75.2 percent during the same five years.
Finally, the survey showed how the combination of rising living conditions and improving health services have expanded the population segment between the ages of 15 and 59. Presently, this age category constitutes 60.1% of the overall Tunisian population, compared with 56.9% in 1994. The population segment in the age category 0-4 years decreased from 11% to 9% during the same period. In addition, there has been a rise in the population segment in the age category above 60 years.
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A pit bull was shot and killed over the weekend by a city police officer after the dog bit a woman, then jumped on the responding officer and attacked him, police said.
Police said they were called to the Grafton Street area around noon Saturday for an animal problem.
The officer, who was not identified, met with a 23-year-old woman who said she was walking toward the rear stairs of her Orient Street apartment when the first-floor tenant opened her door.
�At this time a pit bull ran out from the first-floor apartment,� police said. �The first-floor tenant was unable to stop her dog from running toward the victim. The dog bit the victim on her right side.�
The officer went to the owner�s apartment and knocked on the door. A person answering the door told him to go to the back door. As the officer headed toward the back of the house, he saw a large brown pit bull charging at him, police said. The owner, a woman, was several feet behind the dog.
�When the pit bull reached the officer it jumped up and attacked him,� police said in the news release. �The officer yelled at the animal to stop.�
Police said the owner did not give the dog any commands to stop or try to control it.
The officer fired one shot into the pit bull. The dog stopped its attack.
The officer was unhurt. The alleged victim in the attack did not want to comment to a reporter.
A woman with the victim said everyone in the building was upset the dog was shot and died. No one answered the door at the 31 Orient St. home where the dog lived.
An animal control officer came to the house and took the dog to an animal rescue league, where it was euthanized. The dog was not licensed, and there were no records of its shots being up to date, according to police.
The incident remained under investigation.

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I was trying out the LogMeIn service, which is a remote access program like Gotomypc
When I connect to my pc using LogMeIn and open Pocomail, I get an access violation in pocomail
When I close LogMeIn I have no problems with pocomail
Anyone else try Logmein with pocomail?
~ Moved from PocoMail, since it's not exactly Poco who's at fault. This is a 3rd party app which PSI doesn't support - Eric ~


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FBI tape wraps Donovan into probe
NEW HAVEN -- Chris Donovan, the former state speaker of the House was aware that Harry Ray Soucy was working to stifle legislation that would tax roll-your-own tobacco shops last spring.
In a May 2, 2012, call recorded by an FBI wiretap, Donovan tells Soucy "I'm working on it. It's something I care about. I understand where the concern comes from and I'm working for it."
The tape was one of several played Thursday morning by Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Glover as he continued questioning Soucy, who provided campaign contributions from roll-your-own tobacco store owners to Donovan's ill-fated congressional run.
While Donovan has denied and was never charged with any wrongdoing, two members of his campaign were.
One of them, Robert Braddock, the finance director, is on trial here for falsifying federal campaign contribution records.
Soucy, who was paid $3,500 for using his influence with Donovan, was arrested April 25, 2012, and began working for the FBI recording video and audio for them.
He met with Donovan at the May 14 nominating convention in Waterbury.
During the conversation Donovan told Soucy "I took care of you didn't I."
Soucy replied that he had another $10,000 "tonight for killing the bill."
"I didn't kill the bill. I worked on the legislative side. I did what's right." The bill never made it out of the state Senate for a vote last spring.


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Monday, May 19, 2008
When Cosby blamed whitey
Y'all know Cosby likes to flaunt his doctorate, right? He even puts "Ed.D." on some of his television credits. You ever wonder what his thesis was about?
Here's the title: "An Integration of the Visual Media Via 'Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids' into the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased Learning."
Cosby presented this dissertation in September 1976 at the University of Massachusetts.
Here's what's interesting about it. Whereas Dr. Cosby has lately been stressing personal responsibility and the failure of black folks to lift themselves up, he was humming a different tune 30 years ago.
Back then, it was all whitey's fault.
"Schools are supposed to be the vehicle by which children are equipped with the skills and attitudes necessary to enter society," Cosby wrote in his introduction. "But a black child, because of the inherent racism in American schools will be ill prepared to meet the challenges of an adult future. The 'American Dream' of upward mobility is just another myth."
Yeah. Bill Cosby wrote that.
He was wrong then. He's right now.
"Far from being prepared to move along an established career lattice, black children are trained to occupy those same positions held by their parents in a society economically dominated and maintained by a white status quo," Cosby continued in his dissertation.
"Because urban children come from a poor socio-economic environment, teachers – instilled with their own racist attitudes – are quick to make assumptions about the cognitive abilities of their students."
"The failure that minority children experience from the very outset can only reinforce the debilitating sense of worthlessness whites convey in a variety of ways," Cosby wrote, "and so feed the self-hatred produced by discrimination and prejudice."
Damn. He was on some Jeremiah Wright shit! He even quoted from Stokely Carmichael's book "Black Power" to define the scope of white racism in American society.
According to Cosby, "[t]he ferociousness with which racism is perpetuated transcends all class levels." And white people "are raised with a counter myth of white supremacy (power and domination) and intellectual superiority (by which to assert their power and domination)."
Of course, with the passage of time it's now evident that no matter how high you pile the leftist horseshit, it won't make black kids do better in school... and it won't decrease the rates of black violent crime.
Those are things only black people can fix.
39 comments:
- Kellybelle said...
Interesting shift on Cosby's part.
Maybe way back then, there was more of the soft bigotry of low expectations--like on 'Everybody Hates Chris' whenre the white teacher always assumes his mother is a heroin addict.
- May 19, 2008 at 1:29 PM
- Thembi said...
Wow, I always thought it was honorary since he dropped out of Temple. I cant wait til I get old and mean!
- May 19, 2008 at 1:48 PM
- Phelps said...
I have to disagree. I think that there was still a good degree of racism and bigotry in public schools 30 years ago. We taught white kids and failed to educate black kids.
Now we fail to educate all kids equally.
- May 19, 2008 at 3:00 PM
- Bay Radical said...
I think I have a sense of where you stand on politics and social issues UBM, and then you surprise me: do you really think kids of the 70s weren't impacted by racism in the school setting? Was there NO racism, unequal allocation of resources, or culturally biased content in schools 30 years ago? And if I'm misunderstanding what you're getting at, can you clarify?
The thing that bugs me about Cosby's whole bootstrap rap is that his own particular trajectory is the very one he's saying is impossible: he dropped out of school (initially) and made it big not in business or academia, but as an entertainer. When he did go to school, he relied on sports scholarships (which clearly aren't available to everyone) and he only got that dissertation years after he was already successful in a field that relies heavily on blind luck. The guy has determination, stick-tuitiveness, and a strong sense of what people want to watch too, but shit, his life just isn't possible for most people.
- May 19, 2008 at 3:43 PM
- Bay Radical said...
And more importantly, have you checked out this comparative analysis of who Obama should choose as a running mate?!
- May 19, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Racism, what racism?? ...Cosby is nuts!
Man, I can still remember my jr. high/high school days in the late 60s' and 70s', my teachers were great. Mr. Mathews taught me everything there was to know about metal shops, shite, I was an expert at making ash trays. My woodshop teacher was a great mentor too, constantly encouraged me to focus more on constructing those wooden birdhouses instead of the simple name plaques. Then, my print shop teacher would always let us out early because we never had enough ink to press our papers, and sometimes he just didn't show up himself, ...that was nice. Oh yeah, can't forget typing class, even got to see Cortez Peters. Rest of the time I just hung out in art and music class all day. The fine arts instructors were cool, I could cut all my other classes and hang out there as long as I cranked out at least one painting or pastel drawing per day. I found out later that my white art teacher was selling my works. Best thing is, all my teachers always gave me excellent grades, even got B's for some classes that I hadn't been to for weeks at a time - go figure???
So, I don't know what Cos is talking about. My white teachers were great, taught me all the skills I needed to get out here and make that money. Yeah!
BTW,...anybody interested in some nice vintage ashtrays, ..cheap!
- May 19, 2008 at 5:22 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
Was there NO racism, unequal allocation of resources, or culturally biased content in schools 30 years ago?
Bay Radical: I attended elementary school in the '60s and early '70s. Every teacher I had was black. I excelled. Why? I was raised in a house full of books, for one thing.
What can a public school do if a kid isn't raised in a home or a neighborhood where academic success is highly valued?
- May 19, 2008 at 5:53 PM
- Bay Radical said...
What can a public school do if a kid isn't raised in a home or a neighborhood where academic success is highly valued?
Sure. I agree that a single school can't solve all the social problems of a community. But if we're going to have public schools at all, shouldn't we expect them to serve all kids equally, and to provide appropriate resources for all kids? Shouldn't we critique them when they fall short of that?
Given the massive challenges facing poor people of all ethnic backgrounds, what do you see as a solution to the problems that urban kids face? If your parents don't have a house full of books, let alone if your parents lack job skills or struggle with drug addiction - then what should you do?
I see the limit of only blaming the system, but I also see the limit of only emphasizing personal responsibility in a world where there are structural inequalities.
- May 19, 2008 at 6:33 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
If your parents don't have a house full of books, let alone if your parents lack job skills or struggle with drug addiction - then what should you do?
The question is what should the state do? What can the state do? The state can't raise children. The state can't prevent people from becoming drug addicts.
The root of my disenchantment with the left is the ideological belief that the government -- and not the family -- is responsible for creating productive citizens.
- May 19, 2008 at 7:04 PM
How to make fucked up families whole and healthy enough to raise healthy kids? The miracle child from a fucked up family that is motivated and bright needs all the help he can get from his school. School should be the last safe place for our kids. If their parents are too poor, too stupid, too high or too busy to have an impact then the government should do something beside lock them up later. It is fucking frustrating watching kids swirl down the tubes because of fucked up families and schools still waiting from Ronnie Reagan's bullshit to trickle down.
- May 19, 2008 at 9:01 PM
And more importantly, have you checked out this comparative analysis of who Obama should choose as a running mate?!
I think this is my favorite:
- is Joe Lieberman
- no, seriously, is Joe Lieberman"
- May 19, 2008 at 10:34 PM
- DeAngelo Starnes said...
I have to agree with bayradical on this one, Dave. I think you take too narrow a view point on Bill's dissertation versus where his head is now.
I won't repeat radical's well-articulated position. I will add, however, that I don't see a problem with the dissertation nor do I see it as a flip-flop with where he is now. People change based on what they experience over time. Hell, I thought Spyro Gyra was some hip music at one time. Had up there with Weather Report. Now how sad is that?
Anyway, Cos might've gotten frustrated along the way. Maybe he doesn't disagree with some of his points that he made in the 70s but by the 00s feel like expecting white benevolence ain't the answer. And if you consider that, at the time he wrote his dissertation, Reagan hadn't even come into office to take money out of the schools, he probably threw his hands in the air. You get older, you get less patient with some things. Bill was crossover before crossover was big. He doesn't want to bite the hand that fed him and so he won't continue the same critique. He turns to the Black community and shouts "Wake Up!" Black people are more apathetic now than they were in the 70s.
That's my take.
Check me out getting my ass kicked on backing the elimination of gay marriage over at ebonyjet. Check Critical Evaluation: Expanding the Social Order. Talk about closed-minded and apathy.
- May 19, 2008 at 10:36 PM
- DeAngelo Starnes said...
I meant my support of the elimination of the ban against gay marriage.
- May 19, 2008 at 10:37 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
Here's the link for DeAngelo's latest at EbonyJet.com.
- May 19, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Speaking of the whole books in the house thing, David, a recent study found that no matter the school and no matter the race, there is a direct correlation to a child's academic success and how many books the family OWNS. Not gets from the library or reads at bedtime, but OWNS. The suggestion being that the presence of books as a constant seems to be the most significant motivator of children to take the initaitive to read.
i guess a naysayer would tie that to income, but there's a whole lot of $1 book days at bookstores. You can pretty much make a Kool Aid vs. book decision in somebody's Goodwill store fairly easily.
- May 20, 2008 at 9:37 AM
I have to go along with UBM about the book thing. And when books weren't around in plenty, the uncles and aunts took us to the museums. Even church played a role. They didn't have the opportunities and resources we had (they gave us) growing up, and they treated books with reverence and the ability to read as a treasure. Even the old drunks and addicts in the neighborhood would tell us to "go to school" and be somebody. It's a question of priorities for these people with humble resources - which is why we have to make the options available for advanced education or vocational training.
I'm also on the same page to a point with UBM about how people learn (previous blog). I was never told there's a Black way, a White way, a Hispanic, Asian, or American Indian way to learn. There are cultural approaches in the K-12 years to teaching or passing on information, but it's not about race, it's about culture. And in the end, if you want to go to college or university, you have to shift gears to make the transition to learn and put the information out "their way." Cosby still had to defend his dissertation in the format, tradition in which these things are done. I'm a visual, hands on learner. Teach me plain math - nothing; teach me how to apply the math and assign me a project - I'll build you a city. But bottom line, I still had to do it "their way" too to graduate.
And can somebody tell me what is up with this "elitist" thing? The whole verbage about "elitism" in the USA signals an anti-intellectual, anti-smart vibe in the American culture overall. I've even seen on television, characters starting out average dumbing down to the point of wanting to pull the plug. At one time it was cool to be smart. Or am I going Cosby on this?
- May 20, 2008 at 10:40 AM
- Wonder Man said...
Cosby is right, I know people disagree, but we need to take control of our future and our growth
- May 20, 2008 at 11:15 AM
- Bklyn6 said...
The whole verbage about "elitism" in the USA signals an anti-intellectual, anti-smart vibe in the American culture overall.
Really, who wants a bunch of intellectuals running the government? :p
The culture of anti-intellectualism may seem like a current phenomenon but it goes as far back as "post-WWII society," at least that what Susan Jacoby says in "The Age of American Unreason." She talks about elitism, anti-intellectualism on The Colbert Report. She also mentions that half of Americans didn't read a book last year.
Maybe 100 years from now when the history books talk about this era and the mess this administration has made, the writers will trivialize it all as the ill-effects of the age of anti-intellectualism.
- May 20, 2008 at 1:37 PM
You're right about books.
Cosby was right in the '70s.
Cosby is right now.
- May 20, 2008 at 3:59 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
The suggestion being that the presence of books as a constant seems to be the most significant motivator of children to take the initaitive to read.
Interesting, Eric. Makes perfect sense. After all, my dad didn't tell me to read. He didn't have to.
And let's not forget newspapers. My dad used to get all three D.C. dailies: the Post, the Evening Star and the Daily News. Unfortunately, the last one standing -- the Post -- is losing a shitload of talent and institutional memory with a round of buyouts. That industry is shrinking.
My dad -- who never went to college -- also was into the Reader's Digest. Particularly the "Increase Your Word Power" game. That got me into it.
It's all about the importance of the written word.
- May 20, 2008 at 6:24 PM
"Those are things only black people can fix."
Oh yeah? How?
Cosby was selling horseshit then, and he is still selling horseshit now. And you, my brother, are buying the new improved equine scat.
- May 21, 2008 at 12:57 AM
- Undercover Black Man said...
Oh yeah? How?
By embracing the values of education, law-abidingness and work, of course. The same thing Du Bois was talking about 100 years ago.
You got some enlightenment to impart, Brian? Is it white people's problem to solve?
- May 21, 2008 at 1:03 AM
Is it just me, or was that kind of an easy slide in there for a doctorate?
Do you read other dissertations Dave?
Just wondering what you thought of the overall argument and whether the work was even worthy of the PHD.
I also have to confess right here that while I do read an awful lot and always have, my respect for most academia above college level is limited since so much of it is about politics and minutiae. Let's not even go near Deconstruction. I missed most of the Cos oeuvre since
I don't live in the US and for the same reason I have very little practical knowledge of the status of the schools at present.
It does seem to be a prima facie argument that if you want to see improvement in your part of the society, improve yourself. There is only a limited amount of incentive for the greater society to act upon the needs of the subsets and at the moment I think most of those actions have been taken and they come up rather short. So that leaves either DIY or whine.
Another painful and shocking reality coming down the tracks right now is that the economy is burned out. Anyone expecting any help from the government or other magic entities during the next ten years will be very disappointed.
To revisit my Cos doctorate question one more time and frame it correctly: is this to say that if he wrote a thesis around it John Waters might receive a Human Sexuality PHD for his insights promulgated in Pink Flamingos? Scorcese could receive an anthropology doctorate for The Godfather?
Now, I do have friends who have received Master's degrees for films on Blues musicians, but these were films made for Film degrees.
I'm all confused now. Maybe I need to get me some higher education so I can have the tools to figure it all out.
- May 21, 2008 at 4:04 PM
By embracing the values of education, law-abidingness and work, of course. The same thing Du Bois was talking about 100 years ago.
You got some enlightenment to impart, Brian? Is it white people's problem to solve?
# 1: You offer platitudes and nothing more. I don't know a single black person who doesn't embrace work, school, and "law-abidingness" (rhetorically, at the very least). Excluding the deranged and the sociopathic, who doesn't, in theory?
#2: I never said I had anything enlightening to say.
#3: What does white people have to do with what I said?
I love your site, but your analyses sometimes border on the simplistic. Cosby and you seem to have a class problem --that is, you don't see that all the problems you highlight about blacks are basically the problems of poor or lower-middle-class or working-class blacks (pick your designation). These problems cry out for class-based or race-class based or geographically based solutions, not bromides, and surely not the resurrection of Du Bois.
Love your New Orleans post, by the way.
- May 22, 2008 at 12:00 AM
I think education is a very powerful thing. Even if you are poor, you can be educated, and when you get that break , you have everything you need. All it is , is a break. Schools give you that 'break'. They show you how things are done in the society that you live. THey legitamize your studies. I was telling my friend the other day, I can very well educate myself and have the same knowledge as someone with a university degree. ALl I have to do is buy the books and read,but having legitimate resources , such as labs, industry connections ,etc. is hard because you are not working at a university. The university gives you confidence in the work environment.
So, not only do you need the parental backing but the school backing as well. It works both ways. Me and my siblings have had bad experiences with teachers at school that can be considered racist or prejudice; now add these to the normal problems students have with teachers. These experiences discouraged us alot,but thank God , I had my parents. Still, why did I have to go through such shit, especially in the 21st century. Not all parents are as supportive as my own, and not all of them are as strong either. Some students don't even have all their parents present. So how do you help a guy that really wants to learn, but needs that extra push?
- May 22, 2008 at 12:35 AM
- MIB said...
I'm taken aback by this,
"... with the passage of time it's now evident that no matter how high you pile the leftist horseshit, it won't make black kids do better in school... and it won't decrease the rates of black violent crime.
Those are things only black people can fix.",
as it suggests the structural racism Cosby wrote of in the 70's no longer exists today. Now that is horseshit, David. Pointing out the condition doesn't make one a Marxist.
I'm inclined to give Cosby a wide latitude for his (recent) comments, for I believe Black people understand a) the existence of racism and, b) the limits of public institutions simultaneously.
Outside of a few noisy crickets, I don't see or hear many contemporaries of Kwame Toure. The
'victimology' meme kicked around by so many right-of-center Blacks is a straw man.
I don't think Cosby intended to scapegoat the Black underclass for the entirety of socioeconomic ills that befall so many of us. Unfortunately, with his sidebar into 'those people' that's how he came off. As such, a lot of Cosby's audience -- the Black bourgeois -- conveniently excused themselves from having any responsibility for the structural conditions facing many predominantly Black communities.
We're reading too far into Cosby at this point, however. He's delivered a rant, and it should be understood as such.
- May 22, 2008 at 8:37 AM
- Undercover Black Man said...
The 'victimology' meme kicked around by so many right-of-center Blacks is a straw man.
I'm afraid you're wrong, MIB. Leftist "victimology" is becoming institutionalized in the academy... as with the rise of "critical race theory" and its legalistic focus on the institutionalized oppression of racial minorities.
- May 22, 2008 at 10:36 AM
- Undercover Black Man said...
I don't know a single black person who doesn't embrace work, school, and "law-abidingness" (rhetorically, at the very least).
Brian, 20 black people are murdered (by other black people) every day in America. This doesn't bespeak a culture that embraces "law-abidingness."
Black folks commit more than half of all murders in the U.S.A. Those who've been bitching for the last 40 years about "institutional racism" haven't done a damn thing to resolve this crisis.
- May 22, 2008 at 10:42 AM
- Undercover Black Man said...
Outside of a few noisy crickets, I don't see or hear many contemporaries of Kwame Toure.
Oh, and... ummm... don't forget "Black Liberation Theology." :^o
Black radicalism is alive and kicking.
- May 22, 2008 at 11:41 AM
- MIB said...
Having spent more than enough of my years in higher ed (we both attended U of MD at the same time, BTW), I can speak directly to the myth of Black people being inculcated into the philosophy White supremacy explains completely the socioeconomic ills that affect 'us'. To begin, the percentage of Black students and faculty are so low on most campuses as to be a non-factor in matters of Black intellectual study or production. AAMOF, Leftism isn't as pervasive on college campuses as you'd have everyone believe -- judging by the conspicuous lack of Che Guevaras coming out of Harvard, Yale, et al.. Even HBCU's are notorious for their ultra-conformist policies and environment.
What does exist is a few (mostly White) neo-liberals who use their media access to propigate Black stereotypes that fit their agenda. It's an ignorant reference point for a discussion on Black culture; just as oversimplified and knee-jerky as Cosby's scapegoating of the Black underclass.
- May 22, 2008 at 5:27 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
To begin, the percentage of Black students and faculty are so low on most campuses as to be a non-factor in matters of Black intellectual study or production.
Say wot? Doesn't every university in America have a black studies or Africana studies department? You think those are hotbeds of conservatism?
Julius Lester, former Black Power radical, got chased-da-funk-out of the black studies faculty at the University of Mass. at Amherst, shunned and harassed by his colleagues, after he converted to Judaism and became a supporter of Israel.
MIB, please get real about what's being taught at America's universities under the banner of black studies.
- May 22, 2008 at 6:49 PM
Maybe Julius just had a hero worship thing goin' on with Sammy D.
- May 22, 2008 at 7:20 PM
- MIB said...
"Doesn't every university in America have a black studies or Africana studies department?"
You're kidding, right?
- May 22, 2008 at 9:00 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ Dang, I didn't think I was...
- May 22, 2008 at 9:06 PM
You take the intersection of complex phenomena and then caricature it to the point where it fits easily in your breast pocket. This makes it easy for you to proffer the kinds of solutions one hears at the bus stop or at the bar stool or on the front porch --you know, the kinds that are the only options open to those such as you who reject the idea that the state of the political economy matters.
Also, you don't want to admit that out of the continuum of blacks in the US (urban, suburban, rural; wealthy, bourgeois, petit bourgeois, working class, near-poor and really poor), it is primarily a small subset of the very poor, the near-poor, and the working poor who commit the kinds of crimes and other offenses you bring up. Does this fact at all suggest to you a possible approach for dealing these problems?
Crime: UBM, I take it seriously because it is a serious issue which requires well-thought-out and serious solutions, no matter where it occurs and who commits it. What you reduce it to is a character flaw of the wrong kind of blacks who have failed in your eyes because if they aren't murdering each other, they are dropping out of school, or failing to show up for that minimum-wage job someone so graciously hired them to do.
The only thing that would satisfy you it seems is some kind of collectivist authoritarian character-building movement in the black community directed solely, of course, at the very poor, near-poor, and the working poor; after all, they are the ones murdering each other, the English language, and honest-work time --all at once. And if that is your only solution, one without ties to politics and the political economy at large, then that makes you no different from a Farrakhan, I am sorry to say.
- May 22, 2008 at 9:14 PM
- Lola Gets said...
Dude, you paid for his dissertation? Please tell me it wasnt too expensive??
- May 23, 2008 at 8:34 AM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ I'm afraid I did... and it kinda was. I don't know what possessed me, Lola. I just got tired of seeing his "Ed.D." credit and had to find out what the deal was.
- May 23, 2008 at 9:56 AM
- Vince Spence said...
Dr. Cosby's statements 30 years ago are not in contradiction of his belief that blacks (males in particular) have failed to progress past 1968 due to the lack of personal responsibility.
Screaming about white racism and blaming whitey for the crab grass in their lawn in a blog 200-300 times per week doesn't further any black cause one inch. If the black men who participate in this and other 'black is always right and white is always wrong' blogs spent 20% of that time mentoring young black males, real black growth could be realized.
Of out curiosity, what is this "Y'all" and "black folks" stuff?
- May 24, 2008 at 4:05 AM
- Vince Spence said...
bay radical said...
I see the limit of only blaming the system, but I also see the limit of only emphasizing personal responsibility in a world where there are structural inequalities.
deangelo starnes said...
I won't repeat radical's well-articulated position.
I question 'radical' but I am not surprised with Mr. Starnes' total agreement with him. We should not expect black personal responsibility until all structural inequities in the world are remedied. What if they are not resolved for 20 years, 50 years...?? Black females have already accepted responsibility and currently shoulder the majority of the economic burden in the black household - job, car, insurance and mortgage (rent) payments, etc. They obviously disagree with DeAngelo and 'Bay Radical' and have decided not to wait.
- May 24, 2008 at 1:28 PM


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Sorry I haven't posted about this sooner! It is with mixed feelings that I ceased operations back on September 1, 2016. Not enough bookings and insurance costs over $200 a month year-round. I guess I half-hoped that someone would be like "noooo" and force me to stay open but the only contact I had was someone trying to redeem a voucher we had donated in July.
The Dropship is now permanently parked in my backyard and I sold my truck since the only reason we kept it was to pull the Dropship.
I ran a heavy gauge wire around the fence to the Dropship along with a new breaker and additional GFCI outlet outside.
My daughter had her 9th birthday party November 12, 2016… the girls loved flying the Dropship over and over again! They wished that 3 could fit in the warm cockpit (it was cold outside) so I bought a jumpseat which I will install as soon as the weather is nice again.
The girls also asked about the next "level" or scenario which has given me a goal for 2017!
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Wednesday's practice had a different feel to it, unlike any the Raiders have had the past four or five weeks, according to coach Hue Jackson.
It's all about the Raiders sensing what Jackson calls the "urgency and intensity" of the situation facing them with three games to play in the regular season.
"The margin for error is gone," Jackson said. "There is no more."
Indeed. The Denver Broncos lead the Raiders in the AFC West by one game. The Raiders either need to finish ahead of the Broncos or have the Broncos lose to the Kansas City Chiefs, if they finish with identical records, to win the division.
That's a far cry from where the Raiders were two games ago, when they led the Broncos by one game with five to play. The Broncos won both those games. The Raiders lost to the Miami Dolphins and Green Bay Packers by a combined score of 80-30.
Jackson expects the Raiders team that won three games in a row to show up Sunday, not the one that lost the past two games.
"It was awesome," Jackson said of practice Wednesday. "I mean, it really was. It probably was different than it's been in the last four or five weeks because, again, these guys understand. I know this football team and I know where their head is, and they understand what we need to do, and we'll come play, and we'll play the way we're supposed to play."
Quarterback Carson Palmer said this year's Raiders team will be defined by how they play the next three games.
"We have a chance to get to the playoffs," Palmer said. "We have to go 3-0 in the next three weeks. There is no other option, there is no other route. We know that, especially if you want to make it to the playoffs and then you want to play well in the playoffs, you have to be playing really good football at this time of year. For us, we got to start on Sunday."
Linebacker Kamerion Wimbley said he and his teammates know what's at stake. Hence, the more-spirited practice Wednesday.
"Yeah, there's a lot of energy," Wimbley said. "We know we're at that point where opportunities are few and far in between and we need to take advantage of them when we can. The guys know that. That's why, in practice, we get after it with a sense of purpose."
Punter Shane Lechler and kicker Sebastian Janikowski maintain their lead in the fan portion of the Pro Bowl voting, with one week left.
Lechler is the top vote-getter among fans for the AFC punter spot. Janikowski leads all AFC kickers. Fans voting accounts for one-third of the process. Coaches and players get one-third each, as well.
Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh returns Sunday from a two-game suspension for his egregious actions against a Packers offensive lineman on Thanksgiving.
To hear Lions coach Jim Schwartz tell it, Suh is just misunderstood and not as bad as people make him out to be.
"He's a good teammate, he's a hard-working guy, he's very, very serious about football and he's a very good football player," Schwartz said in a conference call Wednesday. "His penalty on Thanksgiving was the first penalty that he's gotten that's been truly an after-the-whistle penalty, where he lost his composure."
Other than that, Suh is a model player, Schwartz said.
"Other than that, I really can't speak on what his perception is," Schwartz said. "I know he's a good football player, he's a good teammate, and we're glad to have him on our team."
Raiders quarterback Carson Palmer said Suh is someone he and the rest of the Raiders offense will be well aware of Sunday.
"He splits double-teams, he pushes double-teams out of the way," Palmer said. "He's a guy that we're very focused on, and we're going to understand where he's at at all times, and you have to because he's a heck of a player."
Of the Raiders league-high 130 penalties, 45 resulted in first downs for the opponent. Also, those penalties kept alive drives that resulted in points 16 times.
The 45 first downs as a result of penalties are the fourth-most since the merger in 1970. The 1998 Kansas City Chiefs hold the record during that span, with 56.
That Chiefs team holds the league records for most penalties in a season (158) and yards penalized in a season (1,304). Even those aren't safe. The Raiders are on pace for 160 for 1,374.
Jackson said he has done everything short of screaming from the rooftop at 1220 Harbor Bay Parkway in Alameda in an attempt to get his point across.
"I can't beat myself up about it," Jackson said. "The one thing I know I am doing is trying. It would be different if I am not trying. I am doing everything I know how to do. I have called other people that I know in order to fix this, and it's going to take some time, and I hope everybody understands that. There is no magical stuff that I can throw on this team and say, 'No more penalties.' That's not how it works."
Palmer said he and his teammates got the message again this week, in no unmistakable terms.
"That's something that coach Jackson definitely addressed with us this week … loudly," Palmer said. "It's been going on for too long; it's something he said. We'll continue to work on it. It's something that we understand that that can be the difference in a win and a loss."
Cornerback Stanford Routt expressed surprise when informed that the Raiders are on record paces.
"Obviously, aggressive penalties you can't do too much about those," Routt said, "but offsides, false starts, stuff like that, personal foul, silly penalties we can definitely clean up. That just comes down to discipline."
Fourth-year safety Tyvon Branch has witnessed penalty-fests seemingly on a weekly basis since he joined the Raiders.
He said the solution, as Jackson said, isn't anything magical.
"Play smarter, man," Branch said. "That's the thing that's been plaguing us since I've been here. We've just got to play smarter."
The Houston Texans clinched a playoff berth with their victory last Sunday. The New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers are in position to nail down spots this weekend.
Once that happens, as expected, there will be only two spots left open — the AFC West and the second wild-card spot. The Raiders remain in contention for both spots.
The 49ers, Ravens and Steelers might beg to differ, but as far as Palmer is concerned the two best defensive fronts will be on display Sunday, when the Lions and Raiders play.
"We're a lot bigger, they're probably faster," Palmer said, "but as far as just having great players all over the place, both fronts are fantastic. You can't think of two other better fronts, I don't think, in the rest of the league. They have two big inside guys, we have two big inside guys. They're very fast and small on the edge, but very fast. We're fast and physical on the edge, but both teams have great 'D' lines."
The number of foot injuries to Raiders this season has caused Jackson and the training staff to try just about everything in attempt to find the root of the problem.
To no avail. At this point, Jackson is inclined to think it's either a coincidence or the result of players not having the advantage of easing ino the season because of a lockout that wiped out the offseason.
"I've never seen anything like it," Jackson said. "Never seen so many of the same type of injury, and it being a foot. So you go through it all. You go through the weight room, you go through in the medical department, you go through everything, trying to figure out why it's like this."
Jackson said he is out of ideas.
"We've done the shoe thing, orthotics, nice shoes, bad shoes, we do it all trying to figure it out," Jackson said, "and there's no pattern. And if you look around the league, it's been more probably foot injuries this year than anything. And coach Jackson thinks, maybe it was because there wasn't any offseason."
Cornerback Chris Johnson was excused from practice because he was at his sister's funeral in Texas. His sister Jennifer was shot and killed by a 46-year-old man last week. The same man shot and wounded Johnon's mother Della.
The exacting toll of the tragedy caught up with Johnson in Green Bay, which prompted him to tell Jackson before the game that he didn't feel up to playing.
"Right before, he came to me and said, 'Coach, I can't do it. It would not be doing the team a good service.' He says, 'My mind and my heart are struggling right now,' " Jackson said. "We kind of embraced for a second, and I understand that. We don't want to put him in a tough situation, or our team in a tough situation, so he didn't play."
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The Yankees and the Red Sox have what may be the biggest rivalry in baseball, if not all sports.
But for one night, they put aside their differences in a somber show a solidarity, honoring victims and survivors of the horrific bombing in Boston on Monday.
Before their game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Yankees held a moment of silence. And after the third inning, Yankee Stadium rang with the voices of fans belting out "Sweet Caroline," the Neil Diamond anthem so closely associated with the Red Sox.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and the families who were affected by the bombings and our respect and admiration go out to the police, medical personnel and first responders who acted so heroically," the Yankees said in a statement. "We stand united with the participants, volunteers, staff and spectators of the Boston Marathon and the people of Boston."
.@yankees Thank you! We appreciate your support.— Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) April 16, 2013
After the song, Diamond tweeted his appreciation, telling the Yankees "you scored a homerun in my heart."
Thank you NY Yankees for playing 'Sweet Caroline' for the people of Boston. You scored a home run in my heart. With respect, Neil #OneBoston— Neil Diamond (@NeilDiamond) April 17, 2013
Other Major League ballparks across the country joined in the moment, playing the song that has been an eighth-inning staple at Boston's Fenway Park for every game since 2002.
Tonight we're all Bostonians. Join @yankees fans in singing 'Sweet Caroline' after the 3rd inning: atmlb.com/10cOUuW— MLB (@MLB) April 17, 2013
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. @mlb Fans singing Sweet Caroline to show support for Boston: atmlb.com/11uzfUy— Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) April 17, 2013
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All parents want their new baby to be as healthy as possible. Sadly, one of every 33 babies born in the United States has a condition that affects the structure of one or more parts of its body, sometimes referred to as a birth defect. These conditions range from minor problems to serious issues that cause death in one of every five affected infants.
While some birth defects may be linked to a person's genetic background, medical conditions or exposure to materials in the environment, others can be prevented. Michael Warren, MD, MPH, director of Family Health and Wellness for the Tennessee Department of Health, said women can never start too early in planning for a healthy baby.
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Women with diabetes or other medical conditions that require medication should talk with their health care providers before attempting a pregnancy. Poor control of diabetes immediately before and during pregnancy can cause birth defects in the baby and pose serious health threats to the mother.
Some medications, such as Accutane and other brands of isotretinoin used to treat acne, can increase the risk of birth defects. Discuss with your health care provider all medications you have used, including over-the-counter medications and any herbal or dietary supplements you may take, to be sure none would contribute to birth defects.
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Avoid alcohol, all tobacco products and drugs not prescribed by your doctor.
Obese women are at higher risk of having a baby with defects of the brain or spine and some heart defects. Achieving a healthy weight before becoming pregnant can reduce the chances of birth defects.
Infections during pregnancy can cause birth defects. It's important to wash your hands often, avoid sick people, not drink unpasteurized milk, cook meat thoroughly and stay away from pet rodents and cat litter.
"Don't wait to start healthy behaviors until you find out you're pregnant," said TDH Commissioner John Dreyzehner, MD, MPH. "A great way to give your child an optimal start is to have a planned pregnancy, and to have conversations with your doctor about what you can do to make sure your body is ready for a best start for your baby. Many pregnancies are unplanned so this is an important conversation for any woman of child-bearing age to have. While we strongly advocate planned pregnancies, we also emphasize planning for the unplanned, because a pregnancy can occur when you don't expect it."


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Fortune: inherited
Source: Hearst Corp
Net Worth: $2.0 bil
Country Of Citizenship: United States
Residence: Los Angeles, California , United States, North America
Industry: Media/Entertainment
Marital Status: single,
Grandchild of publishing legend William Randolph Hearst, who assumed control of San Francisco Examiner from his father. Built what once was one of nation's largest newspaper chains via sensational "yellow" journalism. Hearst Corp. still controlled by grandchildren; nonfamily member Victor Ganzi runs day-to-day business. Today empire comprises newspapers (San Francisco Chronicle), magazines (Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping), cable channels (stakes in ESPN, Lifetime, A&E), TV and radio stations.
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A few hours later the tournament was rocked again when seventh seeded Czech Tomas Berdych announced he was withdrawing due to gastroenteritis, handing Nadal a free pass.
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The walkovers, however, left the Sony Open with a mouth-watering final featuring the world's top two players, Nadal and Djokovic set to clash for the 40th time.
Nadal leads the head-to-head 22-17 but has never lifted the Miami title despite reaching the final three times.
"Only chance to win against Novak is play to the limit, play my best and hope that he is not going to have his best day," said Nadal. "For me, I am going on court and trying my best. (It) doesn't make any difference if it's one tournament or another one.
"For sure, Miami is a very important tournament that I never had the chance to win in the past.
"It is my fourth final. It's positive results. To be able to play four finals in one tournament is because you did well, and I am going to try to be ready for Sunday."
Berdych said that all seemed normal following his quarter-final win over Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov until he woke up Friday morning.
"I just woke up with a pain in my stomach, just went for toilet and got really strong diarrhea," said Berdych. "Since then, it starts to go on and on. More time, diarrhea and then also throwing up and stuff like that.
"I lost so much of the liquid and all the possible energy I could have.
"Came here. Tried to do as much as I could, see the doctors, receiving the IV and basically not with good results."
Nishikori had reached the last four after registering a pair of three-set upsets, defeating Spanish fourth seed David Ferrer in fourth round followed by a quarter-final win over Swiss 17-times grand slam winner Roger Federer.
The Japan number one said that the groin had been bothering him for some time but it flared up against Federer in a match that ran late into an unusually cool evening in south Florida.
Nishikori also retired during the Delray Beach tournament in February for a similar complaint.
"I really felt the last match against Roger, the quarter-final," he said. "It's really sad, of course, semi-final in a big tournament.
"Was really playing well and beating (Grigor) Dimitrov, David (Ferrer) and Roger (Federer). I was really excited to play here.
"But unfortunately I couldn't move side-to-side. Just tried to warm up today, but I couldn't move."
The walkover was the second of the tournament for Djokovic, who had a free pass in the third round when Florian Mayer pulled out with a groin injury.
Djokovic should be well rested for Sunday's final, not having played in four days and contested just three matches the entire tournament.
"It's such a big event, and from a player's perspective, it's never nice to have a walkover to go on to the finals without a fight," said Djokovic. "Now the only thing I can think about is finals and focus on winning the title."


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Yum, that food you ordered is so beautifully-presented that you're going to take a lovely photo of it, aren't you? I bet you're going to use the flash because it's dark in this fancy restaurant, too, huh?
The NYT has a funny story about restauranteurs who've absolutely freaking had it with the photo habits of their patrons, and we have to say, we agree. As if the loudmouthed jerks sitting next you weren't enough, right? You should really be able to enjoy your delicious steak frites without some jerk snapping a photo next to you, right? Right? [NYTimes]


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This is an excerpt from Bigger Faster Stronger, Second Edition by Greg Shepard
If a team is used to training in the off-season and doesn't train during the in-season, the players will be mentally down at play-off time because of a perceived weakness. Conversely, if a team trains during the in-season, it will be confident for the play-offs and will be physically stronger than many teams who were stronger at the start of the season. What's better: being stronger at the beginning of the season or during the play-offs? Athletes simply must take the time to weight train. Here are the components of a successful in-season program.
The beauty of performing the box squat during the in-season is that recovery occurs almost immediately. Research has shown that the lowering (i.e., eccentric) part of an exercise produces the most muscle damage, and the greater the range of motion, the more muscle mass is involved in the lift. The box squat focuses on the lifting (i.e., concentric) part of the exercise through a shorter range of motion so that athletes retain their strength without overtaxing their ability to recover. You can box squat heavy on Thursday and still play hard on Friday. To avoid overtraining, male athletes should generally keep the weight on the box squat within about 100 pounds (45 kilograms) of the parallel squat. Female athletes should stay within about 75 pounds (34 kilograms). Using heavier weights puts excessive compressive forces on the spine, making it difficult to perform the lift safely.
Likewise, the towel bench press is an effective in-season exercise because it keeps the stress level down while allowing some progress on the bench. The towel bench press puts much less stress on the shoulder joint than the regular bench press does, an important consideration in contact sports that punish the shoulders. You would do this lift on Wednesday or Thursday before the game.
You should perform the straight-leg deadlift with light weights during the season, no more than 30 percent of the parallel squat max. The straight-leg deadlift is primarily a stretching exercise to increase range of motion, so heavy weights are never used. Most high school athletes will therefore lift between 55 and 135 pounds (25 and 61 kilograms) for two sets of 10 reps. The primary objective of the straight-leg deadlift is to get a good hamstring and glute stretch while building strength in that area. Remember, this exercise is crucial to improving speed. You would not plug this exercise into the normal BFS set–rep routine because it is not considered a strength training exercise and thus it follows a different set–rep protocol.
On week 5, repeat the week 1 workout, but challenge yourself to do more. Next, repeat the week 2 workout the same way, and so on. You will likely be able to get in three full cycles during a season.
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This is the Grand Haven pier and light house. There were some people out on the pier today, but the wind was cutting through my wool coat, so I decided not to venture any closer.
This is a view of Lake Michigan. If you look closely, you can see the water behind the snowbank. I would guess that about a week ago, you would not have been able to see the sand at all. We had a thaw over the weekend that melted most of the 17"of snow that they had on Christmas Day.
Here is an action shot of my hat as it was blown off my head. (It's the black blob at upper left of the pic.) The wind carried it quite a ways, and I thought it was long gone. I had no intention of being the silly fat lady running after her hat on a windy winter day. This photo was taken at Grand Haven State Park. The yellow lines on the road are actually campsites. They are really close together and the park is usually full during camping season. The campground is closed for the winter.
See that dark spot on the sand? That is my hat. It came to a temporary stop just to tease me. I did actually end up getting my hat back when it got blown up against one of the electric boxes. But my hair was a complete disaster by then. Oh well. On the bright side, I spotted this on my trip back towards home.
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Dayuma Vargas
posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 2:42 pm
Running a latent growth model using one continuous variable measured five times I am running into a problem with poor model fit. Looking at the modification indices I see that the problem may be in the fixing of the outcome intercepts at zero, so I would like to know if there is another reason for this constrain besides model parametrization as my model would be properly identified after removing these contrains.
Thank you.
Dayuma Vargas
posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 2:51 pm
As an addition to my previous post, I see in one of the presentations from the website about LGM that "outcome intercepts [are] fixed at zero to represent measurement invariance". Does this mean that the outcome measure is invariant across time? In that case, why is it necessary to fix the intercepts to zero, why not simply contraining them to the equal across time? Also, if invariance testing of the measure shows that there in scalar invariance across time, but not metric invariance then would it not be more accurate to leave the intercepts free as we already know that they are not equal across time?
Once again, thank you.
Dayuma Vargas
posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 7:00 am
CORRECTION: I meant to say if there is metric invariance across time but not scalar invariance.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 9:03 pm
When mod indices point to the intercepts fixed at zero, it means that the growth model is not suitable, but that the means progress over time in a non-smooth fashion. Freeing them you essentially leave the realm of growth modeling. You can do that with say one intercept (at one time point) if you have some specific substantive reason for a jump at that time point. But it is not standard.
The reason you fix the intercepts to zero rather than holding them equal is that the model already has a level-related parameter, namely the mean of the intercept growth factor - if you let the intercepts be equal you are catching the same one thing by two parameters - it is superflous and therefore non-identified.
Dayuma Vargas
posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 - 7:51 am
Thank you for the clear explanation.
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At last, the royal baby has arrived, and it's a boy! Nicknamed "Baby Cambridge" by the media for now, he was born at 4:24 pm local time, weighing 8lbs, 6oz, according to Kensington Palace. Throughout the day, royal watchers eagerly awaited the birth of the third heir to the throne, passing the time by photoshopping a picture of themselves in Will and Kate's arms and plugging friends' names into the royal baby name generator. But just as the competition to correctly guess the Royal Baby's name heats up on betting sites like Paddy Power, so has the battle for the best tweet about the Royal Baby.
Here are the most memorable tweets so far from celebrities, humorists, and journalists across the Twittersphere:
Grumpy Cat reacts http://t.co/oHpar49DfH—
(@BuzzFeed) July 22, 2013
Pretty insensitive of the media to report that the royal baby is a boy before it's had a chance to establish its own gender identity.—
Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 22, 2013
This summer, a precious little bundle of sweetness was born. And Will and Kate also had their baby. http://t.co/uNeClpBbWF—
Hostess Snacks (@Hostess_Snacks) July 22, 2013
The wait is over. http://t.co/OednXu7UU8—
lululemon athletica (@lululemon) July 22, 2013
i am the royal baby i am prince—
Prince (@PrinceTweets2U) July 22, 2013
Hopefully, it's a Belieber. #RoyalBaby—
Rakesh Satyal (@rakeshsatyal) July 22, 2013
When they tie the umbilical cord will they use a Windsor knot?—
Mo Rocca (@MoRocca) July 22, 2013
What if the Royal Baby bought Detroit?—
Susie Cagle (@susie_c) July 22, 2013
BREAKING NEWS: Twitter has gone into labour with thousands of Royal Baby parody accounts expected to start tweeting today.—
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StarCraft II players using unauthorised hacks and modifications to get a leg up on the competition might want to give fair play a try, as a Blizzard statement indicates the end of the line is in sight for cheaters.
Blizzard is a company that takes cheating quite seriously. Regularly banning massive numbers of players for using hacks and mods to get ahead in the company's games, we've seen as many as 350,000 accounts suspended in a short period, when the time comes to take action, and that time is now.
Here is the warning issued today by Blizzard.
"Blizzard Entertainment has always taken cheating in any form in Blizzard games very seriously, and that's no different for StarCraft II. If a StarCraft II player is found to be cheating or using hacks or modifications in any form, then as outlined in our end user licence agreement, that player can be permanently banned from the game. This means that the player will be permanently unable to log in to Battle.net to play StarCraft II with his or her account.
"Playing StarCraft II legitimately means playing with an unaltered game client. Doing otherwise violates our policies for Battle.net, and it goes against the spirit of fair play that all of our games are based on. We strongly recommend that you avoid using any hacks, cheats, or exploits. Suspensions and bans of players that have used or start using cheats and hacks will begin in the near future. "
Going by the company's history, we fully expect to see the Blizzard ban-sledgehammer going into action any day now. You have been warned!


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In the '50s, the Everly Brothers arrived like a mirage from some deep Southern dream – boyishly handsome, guitar-playing siblings whose voices blended into something haunted, almost mystical.
"When we first heard it, it blew us away," Paul McCartney once said of the Everlys' "All I Have to do is Dream," one of a string of hits Phil and Don Everly had in the late '50s and early '60s that transformed pop music.
The sound of "All I Have to do is Dream" echoed through the minds of the still-nascent Beatles, Byrds, Beach Boys and countless other soon-to-be-icons. Chet Atkins' tremolo-enhanced guitar underlines the duo's longing, conveyed by harmonies that had been honed since childhood.
Phil Everly, who died Friday at age 74, once explained that their sound evolved in a way only shared by family members. He and Don pronounced and phrased words, even accented syllables the same way because they had been listening to each other talk and sing their entire lives. It brought an ache and an intimacy to nearly everything the brothers recorded.
Phil, the younger of the two, was born in Chicago in 1939, but his stay there was brief. The family, with deep roots in Kentucky, moved to the Midwest and eventually wound up in Iowa in search of musical opportunities for its patriarch, Ike Everly, who hosted a radio show with his wife, Margaret, and their two young sons.
When the family moved back South, to Tennessee, in the '50s, Atkins befriended them. The legendary guitarist guided their early career, and the duo landed on Cadence Records, where they crashed the pop charts while Phil was still a teenager. Between 1957 and 1962, they scored 25 top-40 hits on Cadence and Warner Brothers, including "Bye Bye Love," "Wake Up Little Susie," "Bird Dog" and "Cathy's Clown."
Their sound was different: the Everlys were a rock 'n' roll duo with a singing style that evoked the forlorn harmonies of the hardest, most plaintive country duos. The timeless cry of the Stanley, Delmore and Louvin Brothers had seeped into their young consciousness, nurtured by their musician parents. It's all there in the 1958 album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us," which came out at the height of their success and yet painted a stark, moving portrait of their roots in deep country and gospel.
After the Beatles arrived in America in 1964, the Everly Brothers' chart reign – and that of most homegrown artists – all but ended. But the Beatles championed the work of Phil and Don as a major influence, and the duo continued to record. Its 1968 "Roots" album is a crucial link in the development of country rock. The duo broke up in 1973, but their songs remained as popular as ever: Linda Ronstadt had a huge hit with Phil's "When Will I Be Loved" in 1975, and McCartney name-checked "Phil and Don" in his million-selling 1976 hit "Let 'Em In."
The duo was reunited for a trio of '80s albums, with the enthusiastic help of such as super-fans as McCartney, Dave Edmunds and Mark Knopfler, and their music was the subject of no less than three album-long tributes last year by contemporary artists: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones ("Foreverly," which reprised "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" in its entirety), Will Oldham and Dawn McCarthy ("What the Brothers Sang") and the Chapin Sisters ("A Date with the Everly Brothers").
But the core of the Everly Brothers' legacy remains their own recordings, an enduring reminder of just how heart-breaking two voices can sound. Here's a brief timeline of their career, arranged chronologically in song:
"Introduction: The Everly Family" and "Montage" (1952) from "Roots" (1968): "Baby boy Phil," age 13, joins brother Don, 15, and their parents to sing some gospel-infused country on their father's radio show in Iowa.
"Bye Bye Love" (1957): The raw, rhythmic drive of Don's acoustic guitar announces the Everlys' arrival on the pop charts with this, their first million-selling single. The song, written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, was rejected by other bigger-name acts until the Everlys used it to immortalize their signature mix of country twang and rock 'n' roll drive. It was later covered by Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, Simon and Garfunkel and George Harrison, among others.
"All I Have to Do is Dream" (1958): An ambience that echoes the haunting humidity of the most forlorn doo-wop ballads.
"Hey Doll Baby" (1958): One of the duo's friskiest performances as their voices frolic atop the hard-strumming rockabilly-style acoustic guitars.
"Wake Up Little Susie" (1957): Despite the risqué subject matter (or maybe because of it), "Susie" hits No. 1, the brothers' hard-hitting guitars setting the tone of breathless anxiety from the get-go.
"I'm Here to Get my Baby out of Jail" (1958): A plaintive country two-step included in the "Songs our Daddy Taught Us" album.
"Take a Message to Mary" (1959): A message from jail – "don't tell her what I've done" – to his fiancé from a condemned man. The stripped-down ballad, accompanied by little more than the clacking of what sound like stirrups, marks another stunning change of pace.
"When Will I Be Loved" (1960): A Phil original that becomes one of the duo's most enduring hits, and one of their last with a rockabilly edge. It was later covered by everyone from Linda Ronstadt, who had a major hit with it 1975, to John Fogerty and Bruce Springsteen.
"Cathy's Clown" (1960): It opens with its cascading chorus underpinned by a distinctive series of martial snare-drum ripples, and then slips into the verses where pounding piano replaces guitars as the primary instrument. The more ornate sound sets up the brothers' debut single for Warner Brothers.
"The Price of Love" (1965): A chugging rocker with a bigger beat that provides an emphatic response to the British Invasion bands who freely appropriated the Everlys' sound.
"I Wonder if I Care as Much" (1968): Don's song originally appeared on the Everlys' 1958 debut, and was reprised for the pioneering country-rock album "Roots" with a mystical, psychedelic feel.
"On the Wings of a Nightingale" (1984): The duo's comeback single was written by McCartney, with Phil soaring on the first two lines of the chorus, then swooping down, inevitably, to join Don.


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NEW ORLEANS – The UMBC men's and women's track and field teams are both ranked No. 13 in the latest United Stated Track & Field and Cross Country Association's (USTFCCCA) Mid-Atlantic Regional Poll, the organization announced on Tuesday.
The Retriever women re-enter the top-15 poll after sitting at No. 13 on Jan. 25, but falling out of the rankings last week. The men, meanwhile, enter the regional top-15 rankings for the first time this season after a record-breaking weekend in New York at the Armory Collegiate Invitational.
Team captains Sarah Daly (Lake Orion, Mich./Lake Orion), Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) and Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) have led by example for the Retrievers this indoor season. Last weekend at the Armory, Jackson set season-bests while advancing to the finals in both the 60m (7.41) and 200m dash (24.17) events. An NCAA qualifier and Second Team All-American last year in the 60m event, Jackson leads the America East Conference in both events while ranking tied for 28th nationally in the shorter sprint competition. She has already met the ECAC standard in both events.
In the longer events, Daly and Mezebish have each qualified for the ECAC Championships in the 1,000m run after an impressive display last weekend. Daly edged out her teammate in the event to take over the school record with a time of 2:53.04, while Mezebish also bettered her personal-best (2:53.23).
For the men, the distance crew has led the team into the rankings after completing an outstanding fall cross country season which included an America East championship.
Senior Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) has had a breakout final year for the Retrievers. After earning All-Conference accolades during the cross country season, Smith has captured the UMBC school record in the 800m run (1:49.15) this winter. His time ranks tied for 17th in the country while also qualifying him for the IC4A. In addition, Smith has met the regional requirement in the 1,000 (2:25.60).
Smith's classmate, Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley), meanwhile, broke the school record in the 1,000m run (2:25.48) last week in New York while sophomore Hassan Omar (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson) added the 5,000m record (14:32.71) to his haul which already included the top spot in the 3,000m run (8:23.50). Albino currently sits fourth in the America East while Omar occupies the second spot in the 5,000m event and the fifth spot in the 3,000m run.
UMBC makes its final preparations for the 2014 America East Championships on Friday when the Retrievers return to New York for the Rider/Lafayette Winter Games at the Armory.