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Rolex introduced the red and blue bezel on the Rolex GMT-Master now commonly known as the "Pepsi." It quickly became one of the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer's most beloved models, not least of all due to its high quality and second time zone.
In the mid-1950s, the American airline Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) needed a watch with a second time zone. Rolex created the GMT-Master (GMT standing for Greenwich Mean Time) for the airline in 1954. The watch features a bidirectional 24-hour bezel and a second hour hand. The second hour hand makes one full rotation per day and displays another time zone in conjunction with the bezel. This feature is ideal for pilots, businessmen, and politicians.
The "Pepsi watch" has a red and blue bezel, which earned it its nickname, as the Pepsi logo uses the same color combination. The bicolor bezel has a practical use: The red half symbolizes day while blue represents night. One glance is enough to differentiate between night and day in the second time zone. The first GMT-Master II, introduced in 1985, featured a red and black bezel. Therefore, it's nicknamed the "Coke watch".
|Price (approx.)
|Production period
|GMT-Master Ref. 6543
|Bakelite or aluminum bezel, no crown protector
|GMT-Master Ref. 1675
|Calibers 1565 and 1575, crown protector
|GMT-Master Ref. 16750
|Caliber 3075 with stop-seconds mechanism and Quickset date
|GMT-Master II Ref. 16710
|Calibers 3185 and 3186, sapphire glass
|GMT-Master II Ref. 116719 BLRO
|18k white gold, Cerachrom bezel, Triplock crown
Across the 60-year production period, Rolex released the GMT-Master in a variety of colors. However, the combination of a black dial with a blue and red bezel remains the most popular among Rolex fans and collectors. Early models, such as the first GMT-Master with the reference number 6542 and its successor, the ref. 1675, are especially highly coveted. The former was only manufactured from 1954 to 1959 and lacked a crown protector. In the beginning, its bezel was still made of plastic Bakelite, which tended to break and was quickly replaced by aluminum. Plan to spend around 43,200 USD on a ref. 6542 in good condition.
Its successor model with the reference number 1675 was part of the Rolex catalog for more than 20 years and is one of the most sought-after Pepsi models today. Unlike its older sister model, it features a crown protector and was outfitted with the caliber 1565, which was later replaced by the caliber 1575. Depending on its condition, plan to spend between 14,900 and 32,500 USD on one of these watches. Rolex introduced the GMT-Master with the reference number 16750 in 1981. It was powered by the caliber 3075, which provided it with a stop-seconds mechanism and a Quickset function for the date. It also had improved water resistance – from this model on, all GMT-Masters were water resistant to 100 m (10 bar, 328 ft). Set aside around 11,000 USD for a never-worn piece from this series. Pre-owned models are slightly less expensive at about 10,500 USD.
Only a few years later, Rolex added the GMT-Master II with the reference number 16760 into the mix. Thanks to its somewhat thicker case, Rolex fans dubbed this model the "Fat Lady." Rolex equipped this watch with a black and red bezel, meaning it isn't technically considered a Pepsi, but rather a Rolex Coke. Nevertheless, it brought with it certain features that would also be significant for future Pepsi models. For example, the caliber 3085 made it possible to display three time zones at once. In addition, Rolex provided this watch with a larger crown protector and replaced the Plexiglass with sapphire glass . You can get a "Fat Lady" in fine condition for around 9,700 USD.
The next stage in its evolution followed in 1989, with the reference number 16710. Rolex first outfitted this timepiece with the caliber 3185 and later with the caliber 3186. This watch is markedly thinner than the "Fat Lady" and came with neither the Pepsi nor the Coke bezel. Instead, it came with a blue and black Batman bezel, a reddish brown root beer bezel, or a black bezel. These watches were also the first to use SuperLuminova as the luminous material instead of tritium. You can purchase a pre-owned model in good condition starting at about 9,000 USD. Never-worn pieces start around 13,000 USD.
In 2014, Rolex rereleased a GMT-Master II with a Pepsi bezel, which can be found under the reference number 116719 BLRO. This model is only available with an 18-karat white gold case . What's more, the Swiss watch manufacturer furnished it with a Cerachrom ceramic bezel, a triple-sealed Triplock crown, and a so-called "maxi dial" with enlarged, glow-in-the-dark indices. The chronometer-certified caliber 3186 with a Parachrom hairspring ticks away inside this watch. One of these watches costs about 32,500 USD new and 30,200 USD in very good condition. In 2018, Rolex began offering this timepiece with a blue maxi dial instead of the previous black dial. This new model is priced at 41,200 USD.
At Baselworld 2018, Rolex announced that they would be adding a stainless steel GMT-Master II with a blue and red Cerachrom Pepsi bezel (ref. 126710BLRO) to their catalog. In addition to the material and slightly altered case design, the watch manufacturer also made changes on the inside of this model. It is now powered by the in-house caliber 3285, which comes with their patented Chronergy escapement. Thanks to the use of a nickel-phosphorus alloy, this escapement is not only unaffected by magnetic fields, but also much more efficient. The Jubilee bracelet made of so-called "Oystersteel" stainless steel is also new. This GMT-Master II in stainless steel was released in spring 2018 for a price of 10,400 USD.
If you frequently travel through different time zones, you already appreciate the advantages of a GMT watch. In no time at all, you can know what time it is in a second time zone thanks to the 24-hour bezel and second hour hand. Wearers frequently set this to their home time. The three traditional hands for hours, minutes, and seconds display the local time. The bicolor Pepsi bezel helps you differentiate between night and day. Therefore, you always know the perfect time to make a phone call home.
Reading the second time zone using the 24-hour bezel is fast and easy. The bezel has 24 markers that correspond to the 24 time zones. You can set the bezel with a few turns (clicks) to any time zone in the world. The only requirement is that the hour hand is set to Greenwich Mean Time in London. For example, when it's 14:00 (2:00 PM) in San Francisco, the GMT hand points to 22:00 (10:00 PM) on the bezel, which is set to zero. The time difference between London and San Francisco is eight hours. If you're in Central Europe and want to know how late it is in San Francisco, then you turn the bezel eight clicks to the right. If you want to know what time it is in a time zone east of GMT, then you have to turn the bezel to the left. To tell the time in Moscow, you turn the bezel left three times. For Hong Kong, you turn it eight times to the left.
Since the introduction of caliber 3085 in the GMT-Master II, you can set two time zones without turning the bezel. First, you unscrew the crown counterclockwise. Then, you pull it into the second position, where you can set the hour, minute, and 24-hour hands. You can set the local time, or the central hour hand, with the crown in the first position. The hand jumps from hour to hour. You can also set the date in this position.
The Rolex Pepsi is a member of the Oyster sports watch collection. With its distinctive red and blue bezel, the Pepsi is one of the most striking GMT-Master models. Watches such as the Submariner, one of the first diving watches in the world, have also become watch icons.
Just as distinctive are the green Submariner models, also known as the "Hulk" or "Kermit." The Hulk features a green dial and bezel, while the Kermit only has a green bezel. The Pepsi and the Submariner both have 40-mm Oyster cases and three-piece link Oyster bands . Due to safety reasons, the Submariner's bezel can only be turned counterclockwise. Divers use the bezel to keep an eye on their dive time. The first 15 minutes have individual minute graduations. Altogether, the bezel covers a time span of 60 minutes.
The Rolex Daytona, the Swiss manufacturer's chronograph, is the perfect stopwatch. It has a diameter of 40 mm. The bezel features a tachymetric scale so you can determine speed over certain distances. The small seconds is located at six o'clock, the 30-minute counter at three o'clock, and the hour counter at nine o'clock. The Daytona is available in stainless steel, bicolor (stainless steel and yellow gold), or in solid yellow, white, or Everose gold. There is also a solid platinum model, which has a Cerachrom bezel. This type of bezel has been used with the stainless steel models since 2016.


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Interesting but unsatisfying film about infidelity.
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Parents need to know that Nobody Walks is an interesting but lackluster drama (co-written by Girls' Lena Dunham) that has some mature themes, including infidelity. A teenage character flirts with a much older man and is uncomfortably objectified and verbally attacked by another. There's kissing/snuggling and a scene in which underwear is removed, but no nudity. Language includes liberal use of strong words like "bitch," "s--t," and "f--k"), and adults are shown smoking pot at a party where their kids are also guests.
Messages: Couples make big mistakes but try their best to make it right. Open communication works.
Role models: Julie and Peter care about each other, but they have a hard time communicating their dissatisfaction.
Violence: A grown man screams expletives at his teenage student. Another man throws a bicycle into a pool out of rage.
Sex: A couple kisses and snuggles in bed. A married man has sex with a woman who's not his wife. He's shown removing her underwear, and she wraps around his waist. A grown man flirts with his teenage tutoree, then unleashes venom when she finally tells him that she finds him abhorrent.
Language: Everything from "f--k" and "s--t" to "ass," "bitch," and "bull."
Consumerism: A glimpse of a Coke can.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Adults smoke pot and drink at a party, while their teenage kids are in the same place. Social drinking.
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Training for the Cross (TFTC), LLC is a horse training business focused on producing well rounded bridle horses and providing industry quality standards for starting a horse. TFTC LLC is owned and operated by Wade Black who, while getting his masters at Montana State University, tried to name and define (as best he could) what his grandfather (Ray Hunt) and father (Martin Black) looked for when starting a horse. After graduating from MSU, Wade took the material from his masters and expanded on it in his own horse training business to set quality standards for his employees to follow. This was to ensure a consistent product and to offer Training Quality Assurance to his customers.
Today Wade is the full time equine instructor at Treasure Valley Community College (TVCC) in Ontario, OR. Although Wade no longer trains horses for the public, he sees the need for an industry quality standard when setting the foundation on a horse, and the demand for qualified people to instill this foundation. Wade offers a certification through TFTC to students graduating from TVCC who meet the industry quality standards he set for himself in managing his own business. Students who earn this certificate will be students Wade feels are able to carry on TFTC's strict quality standards and pass on Training Quality Assurance to their customers.
You can contact Wade Black by e-mailing to: email@example.com or via the Contact Us page.
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A few months ago, I wrote about adventurer/permafrost scientist Kenji Yoshikawa's attempt to drive a snowmachine 3,500 miles from Prudhoe Bay to the Atlantic Ocean. He planned to stop along the way to visit students in 13 villages. Near their schools, he wanted to drill holes in the ground and see how cold it is.
In late April, after 43 days of travel, he and Ulli Neumann quietly executed that endeavor. From Deadhorse they bumped, bashed and slid their way to the Baffin Island village of Iqaluit.
In their journey to the Eastern Time Zone, Yoshikawa and Neumann camped just outside villages and sometimes hundreds of miles from the nearest person. Native hunters they met along the way were impressed most by their Alaska-made Arctic Oven tent, their plastic Siglin Sleds named after the Fairbanks adventurer who invented them and compact 15-gallon fuel tanks that nested in those sleds.
The adventurers needed those gas cans because their trip took them to places with no trails scratched in the wind-hardened snow. While the Yukon Quest sled dog race is impressive for its 201-mile distance between its most far-flung checkpoints, one gap between villages Yoshikawa visited in Canada's arctic was more than 700 miles. The only evidence of humanity in some places was the occasional airplane arcing above.
Yoshikawa recognized a recurring plane's path as the Frankfort to Seattle route. In a lonely stretch between villages, he looked up at that jet every day as a cold wind stung his cheeks.
"Only 10 kilometers above, people (were) drinking coffee and watching movies," he said.
Along his line drawn over the top of North America, Yoshikawa left behind a dozen boreholes he and local students will monitor to see how permafrost — ground that's been frozen through the warmth of at least two summers, often thousands of summers — reacts in years to come. He also visited underground storage areas in Tuktoyaktuk and other villages. He has now climbed into most of the ice cellars on the cold rim of North America.
As for the two Ski-Doo Tundras that carried Yoshikawa and Neumann to Baffin Island, they are resting in Iqaluit over the summer. Next fall, Yoshikawa hopes to get them shipped to Siberia, where he begins in September as a Fulbright Scholar at North East Federal University in Yakutsk.
In other Northwest Passage news, four Vancouver, British Columbia-based men are now attempting to row a 25-foot white pod through the Northwest Passage from west to east. I met two of them, Kevin Vallely and Frank Wolf, a decade ago as they mountain-biked over ice and snow from Dawson City to Nome with my friend Andy Sterns. Wolf was strong enough to peddle and push through soft snow all day and still document the trip on video.
Wolf and Vallely enlisted two other friends, Paul Gleeson and Denis Barnett, on a journey during which they row four hours at a shift. Using their arms, torsos and legs, they keep the boat moving through all 24 hours of daylight when the winds allow. They hope to reach Pond Inlet, Nunavut, on the east coast of Baffin Island, by September 1.
Why? Because adventure and new challenges make them happy. They also want to bring attention to recent warming in the North. Their premise is that even icebreakers with million-gallon diesel tanks have failed to make it through the passage over North America, but ice has become spotty enough that a team of four guys using their muscles can perhaps make it through.
As of this writing, the boys were battling winds while headed on a crooked track northeastward in the Beaufort Sea, hugging the coast. See their progress at https://mainstreamlastfirst.com/. They have a tangible deadline of mid-September, the time when northern sea ice begins to grow again. Then, the passage will become too chunky with ice, even for a boat not much bigger than a beluga.
Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.


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Allow me to tag Runs as 'with baby jogger'
NB if you do want this feature added, please click the "upvote" so that the people at Strava will be able to judge its relevance!
So, I recently started using Strava.
These days, my time to run coincides with the time that I take care of Tisa, our 10-month old daughter. Luckily, ever since we have purchased a jogging stroller these two things are possible to combine. To a certain extent at least.
While I really enjoy running with the 'jogger', it is not exactly the same as running. Of course. You're pushing a stroller, you can't really use your arms, or run at full stride. Likewise, running with a jogger makes you less 'agile', so crossing streets, or moving onto and off the sidewalks causes your speed to drop to zero. And I may be working my butt off pushing the jogger up even a slight hill, but still I will not be able to match the speed of the person who just started running last month. Naturally, this is reflected in speed, and therefore, my ego starts to complain.
I think adding 'run with baby jogger' as an activity on Strava could be welcome for people like me. For three reasons (from least to most important):
- it will do some justification as to why my splits are twice as slow as they used to be.
- it will allow me to compare my times against other 'baby joggers', somewhat like the age groups.
- it will let me explore where other 'baby joggers' go for their workouts, allowing me to discover new routes that are baby-jogger-friendly.
I realize the demand for this feature could be very small. But who knows, perhaps you have already received more of these requests. And I could imagine it would be relatively easy to incorporate into the Strava platform.
That's it.
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Senators Request Nomination of Economic Geologist to Lead USGS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, along with 12 colleagues, today sent a letter to President Obama advising him of the background they believe the next Director of the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) should bring to the job.
"It is our hope that you will nominate an economic geologist for the position of USGS Director," the senators wrote. "We believe that an individual with such a background could most effectively balance the additional activities that USGS has taken on over the years with those contemplated by its Organic Act, which provides for 'the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain.'"
The resignation of Marcia McNutt, the previous USGS Director, was announced in January and took effect today.
"The benefits of restoring an emphasis on geological surveying at USGS would be significant. Knowing how many mineral resources we have – and where they are located – can inform decisions about their development and help to attract investment for the same," the senators wrote. "An economic geologist is most likely to recognize these benefits, pursue them, and provide appropriate leadership as USGS Director."
The letter, co-signed by Sens. Alexander, Barrasso, Cornyn, Enzi, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Lee, Portman, Risch, Vitter, and Wicker is attached.


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GUEST COMMENTARY: Blood on the hands of both sides in culture wars
(RNS) Thank you, Family Research Council, for now conceding what conservative groups have been loath to acknowledge in recent years: the truth that incendiary rhetoric indeed does contribute to a climate conducive to politically motivated violence.
Never has the moment seemed more opportune to forge consensus around an overdue new rule in the culture wars. Starting now, can we all please watch our words?
Most likely, you're aware of the incident that ignited this renewed debate about rhetoric and violence. On Aug. 15, a volunteer from a Washington, D.C., community center for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people walked into the headquarters of the Family Research Council, an influential conservative Christian organization, with a gun, a box of ammunition and a burning grudge against the group and its anti-gay politics and rhetoric, authorities said. The suspect, according to court documents, shot a security guard in the arm before he was subdued by that same guard and taken into custody.
Thank goodness no one was killed and that the security guard acted so heroically to prevent the incident from getting far worse. The group's fiercest opponents in the ongoing national arguments -- organizations representing ardent secularists and gay-rights advocates -- were quick to condemn the shooting, and rightly so. Conservatives have likewise been clear, for the most part, in their denunciations of violence committed against liberal figures over the years.
Here's where the plot gets thicker.
Since the shooting, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins has been implicating the "reckless rhetoric" that gay-rights groups have been leveling against his organization in recent years, especially the charge that FRC is a hate group. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a widely respected civil rights group, made waves in 2010 when it issued a new list of gay-rights opponents that the center deemed "hate groups" -- a list that includes FRC.
Perkins contends that the man charged in the shooting, Floyd Lee Corkins, "was given a license by ... the Southern Poverty Law Center who ... labeled us a hate group because we defend the family and we stand for traditional orthodox Christianity."
Perkins' charge is irritating for misstating the reason for FRC's inclusion on the hate-group list. As the Southern Poverty Law Center stressed when it released the list and in the days after the recent shooting, spreading false propaganda about LGBT people is the reason for the hate-group label, not FRC's stand against gay marriage or its defense of traditionalist views on families and faith. If you doubt the truth of that, consider the fact that the SPLC has notably left Focus on the Family off its hate-group list and credited the Colorado-based evangelical organization for moderating its tone even while continuing its strong stand for traditional marriage and Christianity.
Yet there's something promising about Perkins' statement: his overdue acknowledgment, unintended though it might be, of the role of rhetoric in political violence. This is something many conservative groups like his have disclaimed in the aftermath of shootings against liberal targets in recent years, from abortion provider George Tiller (fatal) to ex-congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (not fatal but career-ending).
In a revealing episode in 2009, when many liberals were implicating right-wing rhetoric in Tiller's murder, Perkins rejected any relationship between language and violence. The FRC chief rushed to the defense of Fox News television host Bill O'Reilly, who was being widely accused of stoking the shooter's rage by referring to Tiller as "Tiller the Baby Killer" and likening late-term abortions to the sinister practices of the Nazis.
O'Reilly, Perkins said at the time, was an "easy target for the liberal media who tried to pin some of the blame on O'Reilly, saying he incited the violence by decrying these unnecessary procedures on his show. "Despite the unfair allegations, O'Reilly spoke the truth, bringing new light to a gruesome procedure. On behalf of ... millions of values voters, we want to express our gratitude to a culture warrior who uses his national platform to promote life."
Given his statements since the FRC shooting, we can only assume that Perkins has now seen the light.
Is it fair and responsible to label FRC a hate group? Whichever side of the debate you take, realize the distinction the SPLC is making between the organizations on its anti-gay hate-groups list -- groups shown to repeatedly scapegoat and slander homosexuals with malicious misinformation -- and groups like Focus on the Family that have gotten out of the demonization game, and are nowhere to be found on the hate list.
Not all FRC critics, alas, are equally careful. Some gay-advocacy groups and secular-progressive culture warriors have been fast and loose with that "hate" label, indiscriminately attaching it to any traditionalist who has the temerity to voice the opinion that gay marriage is a bad idea. I disagree with that position, but I reject the notion that holding to it automatically constitutes hate.
Enough with pinning "hate group" on all conservative Christian organizations. Enough with likening abortion providers to Nazis and death merchants. Enough with campaign rhetoric such as Vice President Biden's warning to an audience with a large black presence that the Republicans are bent on putting "y'all back in chains." This "reckless rhetoric," to use Perkins' term, is not the cause of violence, but it certainly throws fuel on the fire.
Both sides in the culture war now have blood on their hands, and blood on their doorsteps. Take it from Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council -- hostile rhetoric does bear a share of the blame.
It's time to check ourselves and start taking better care of the words we use for our political opponents.
(Tom Krattenmaker is a Portland, Oregon-based writer specializing in religion in public life and member of USA Today's board of contributors. He is the author of the forthcoming book "The Evangelicals You Don't Know.")


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The Way of Knowingness: The Intuitive Path to Your Spiritual Destiny
A new book by Kim O'Neill
Renowned author, psychic, and angel channel Kim O'Neill takes you on an amazing soul growth journey sharing astonishing new insights on ways to unlock the secrets of your destiny, bringing you total peace and a deep sense of purpose, happiness, and fulfillment in her new book. Below is an excerpt from Chapter 3: The Five Guiding Principles:
Issues represent all of the different forms of human experience on the earthly plane. An issue is best described as a necessary learning experience that helps an individual evolve emotionally and spiritually.
Simply put, resolving your outstanding issues is paramount in allowing you to improve the quality of your life. You can easily recognize the issues you are currently working through by examining the apparent problems or patterns of turmoil in your life. There are some issues that remain so painful for us that we carry them from lifetime to lifetime, attempting repeatedly to resolve them. Other issues can be easily worked through without much anxiety or suffering…
If your childhood was traumatic, remember you purposely planned that situation as part of your destiny in order to evolve to a higher level of enlightenment. It might be said that those people who exposed you to their toxic dysfunction when you were a child have been your very best teachers.
You deliberately picked those troubled people because you expected them to behave just as they did at their existing levels of enlightenment. Keep in mind that although you most likely suffered many wounds, it was a very strong and courageous decision on your part to plan something so distressing, especially knowing that in your most formative years you would be utterly dependent on those from whom you would experience the greatest adversity. Think for a moment about all of the spiritual wisdom and maturity you gained from those impossible relationships and how you learned what not to do from them. And if you've already learned everything you had intended, you'll blessedly never be exposed to those issues again!
After I had been dating my husband, Britt, for several months, we started to talk about our respective histories, which included some painful memories of past relationships and the fact that both of us came from troubled families. I described how my alcoholic father had brutalized my mother verbally and physically throughout my childhood. Britt's eyes filled with tears as he warmly embraced me, and then he murmured, "What a wonderful teacher he must have been. I can see why you chose him as a father. You were very fortunate."
Very fortunate? I thought Britt was nuts! I was aghast that he said such a thing about a man who had traumatized my entire family. What could I possibly have learned from a man I could never respect or depend on as a father? I was fortunate to have a father who rejected and abandoned my brothers and me from the time I could remember because he was so consumed with destroying my mother and himself? Having endured emotionally painful therapy for some time to heal from these childhood wounds, I should be grateful to this man?
Britt saw my shocked expression, and before I could stutter a reply, he explained softly, "Don't you understand? You chose him as a father because you knew he would behave exactly as he did. You must have had some issues that you needed to address, and your father fit the bill perfectly. You're the person you are today partially because of that turmoil."
His statement rang true to me, and I began to listen more openly. I started to see things in a very different light. We discussed the idea that because of the absence of my father's love, I had no feelings of security or consistency as a child. And due to my father's drinking and abusive behavior, I grew up in a war-zone environment that was characterized by ongoing financial hardships, fear of the sporadic beatings he gave my mother, and the awareness that at any time he might decide to make good on one of his frequent threats to kill her.
Britt helped me recognize that I didn't have to respect, admire, or even like someone who had a purpose in my life as a teacher. Spiritually speaking, it was my father's responsibility to me to act the way he did, and then it was my responsibility to myself to transcend the adversity and learn from it. So what was I able to learn from my father?
The early heartache of his neglect, rejection, and disinterest in me began the process of independence and empowerment that I am so proud of today. His abusive behavior toward my mother taught me about setting boundaries and helped me to understand the emotionally crippling effects of low self-esteem. In addition, as a result of moving beyond this difficult time, I was able to develop the determination to address my subsequent issues with less fear and unwillingness.
Upon further reflection, I realized that I also learned what not to do. In my interactions with other people, particularly children, I always try to remember that every human being should be treated with dignity, respect, and consideration. Although my old wounds are healed and I've never been happier or more at peace, I can still vividly recall the terror of cowering from a parent gone berserk because of a combination of anger and alcohol. The memory of those early years helps me to share a heartfelt sympathy and compassion for those who have endured similar experiences.
Even in therapy, I hadn't considered that my suffering could have been a precious opportunity to learn from my father, who was destined to be one of my most valuable teachers. Britt taught me, with his greater maturity and wisdom, that traumatic or disturbing issues can always be reframed as positive learning experiences as long as I am ready to become a willing student.
Kim O'Neill, voted Houston's Top Psychic by Houston Press Magazine, is the author of How to Talk with Your Angels, Discover Your Spiritual Destiny, The Calling: My Journey with the Angels, and new book from 4th Dimension Press, The Way of Knowingness: The Intuitive Path to Your Spiritual Destiny. For over two decades, Kim has conducted private channeling sessions for an international list of clients, including business, media, political, and religious leaders, and fellow psychics, and established seminars and workshops designed to help people transform their lives and develop greater spiritual awareness. Her Web site is Kimoneillpsychic.com.


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Double the party! Star Wars creator George Lucas celebrated his June 22 nuptials to businesswoman Mellody Hobson with another star-studded party on Saturday, June 29 at the Promontory Point in Chicago, Ill
According to The Hollywood Reporter, guests including Prince, Robin Williams, Mark Hamill, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Al Roker, Gayle King, Jesse Jackson, Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson and Ne-Yo were among those in attendance for the once-in-a-lifetime bash.
The site reports that Prince performed with a 22-piece band under a huge tent, which was set up in the Hyde Park neighborhood. In a previous report by DNAInfo Chicago, crews reportedly built the 100,000 air-conditioned tent to cover a newly-constructed platform, as well as a $60,000 lighting rig. The platform was reportedly going to be torn down July 4, and the couple's lavish affair required special permits to raise the temporary structure at the park.
As Us Weekly reported on June 25, Lucas, 69 and Hobson, 44, a Chicago native, wed at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, Calif. on Saturday, June 22. According to a source, 200 guests including Oprah Winfrey, Robert De Niro, Glenn Close, Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart, Quincy Jones and Rashida Jones were all present.
The pair announced their engagement in January following a seven-year courtship. The Indiana Jones creator was previously wed to film editor Marcia Griffin from 1969 to 1983.
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Read here from the newer blog (and a good one) called the nationalfootballpost (edited in part by former Packer VP Andrew Brandt). Harris may have ruptured his spleen which could be a season-ending injury. Not sure why Brandt and co are speculating re this, but fact is, they have really good sources inside the Pack's organization.
Al Harris may be out for year????
7 Responses to "Al Harris may be out for year????"
PackerBelle Says:
September 22, 2008 at 4:19 pm |
There are many words that are not appropriate for polite company running through my head right now. I hope that the injury isn't that serious but if it is I wish Al a speedy recovery. And then I'll start banging my head against a wall somewhere.
lostinutah Says:
September 22, 2008 at 4:35 pm |
Oh dear…that would suck majorly. I surely hope for him (and us) that it is not that serious.
Aaron Says:
September 22, 2008 at 4:54 pm |
Tramon Williams, Will Blackmon and Pat Lee will step up.
Jarrett Bush will be Jarrett Bush.
daveK Says:
September 22, 2008 at 9:26 pm |
Ace Says:
September 22, 2008 at 10:59 pm |
To SFH. Similar collision injured K. Rowe in state regional soccer finals. Blood in urine an indicator of spleen injury. Out for year! KR and AH gone. Look for teams to ignore Woodson and bombard T. Williams who was not bad last night save the 3rd and 20 for a td. Coverage was good on that play until they bumped each other, then goodbye.
Scott in Wisconsin Says:
September 23, 2008 at 12:52 pm |
Do you even need your spleen? Can't they just slice it out of him, staple him up, let him recoup a few weeks and get back in the game?


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Oklahoma's Advance Directive for Health Care allows you, if you are 18 years of age or older, to inform physicians and others of your wishes to accept, decline or withdraw life-sustaining medical care and to donate specified organs when you have been diagnosed by your attending physician and another physician to be in a terminal condition, a persistently unconscious state, or an end-stage condition. The Advance Directive also allows you to appoint a Health Care Proxy to make certain decisions on your behalf.
If you have completed an Advance Directive and been diagnosed as terminally ill or persistently unconscious by two physicians as defined in the Advance Directive and your attending physician does not want to comply with your wishes, that physician must act promptly to arrange for your care by another physician or health care provider.
After you complete an Advance Directive, you may revoke it in whole or in part at any time and in any manner, without regard to your mental or physical condition. A revocation is effective upon your communication to your attending physician or other care provider or a witness to the revocation.
Make copies of your Advance Directive for your personal records, your family, your physician, your attorney, your Health Care Proxy and your alternate Health Care Proxy. If your physician is unwilling to comply with the Advance Directive, the physician must tell you.
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Most of us do not work in a lounge chair on a white sand beach with attentive talking parrot servants to refresh our tropical drinks and sing us show tunes.
And so we complain about work.
But even if we were on that beach with those beverage-toting parrots, we'd probably still find something to gripe about — perhaps one of the birds was a bit flat on "Everything's Coming Up Roses."
We have become, it seems, a nation of complainers, and there is no more fertile ground for grumbling than the workplace.
But why do so many of us forge office friendships from the fires of grousing and commiseration, and then start each day with coffee and kvetching? (I am nothing if not a master of synonyms.)
Michael Cunningham, a psychologist in the department of communication at the University of Louisville, says we were born complaining.
"That's why as infants we come out crying," he said. "You express distress in an incoherent manner in hopes there's a nurturing person who will figure out what you want and give it to you. Some people never get away from that."
In fact, there are probably some people sitting a couple cubicles over from you who've never gotten away from that. Every office has at least one chronic complainer. But there are many other classifications and varying motives for our gripes.
Cunningham said we have different ways of using complaints to seek social support: "The most common is people who just want solace. They want other people to give them emotional support and say, 'Oh, you poor thing.' The goal there is to simply have your status as a suffering martyr be recognized."
But complaining can also be strategic, like when you want people to rally around an issue and possibly push management to make a change.
"It's a bit like people gathering a posse," Cunningham said. "If you find other people who feel the same way you do about a particular issue, you might complain about it with the hope of gathering enough people to turn it into something actionable."
I, for example, have tried for years to rally my co-workers by complaining about the lack of a chocolate fountain in the office. We remain fountainless, but I am optimistic.
Complaints also prompt others to tell stories: "You think this is bad, there was this one time when ..." and that can be an excellent source of advice for navigating the workplace.
"Sometimes complaining about challenges or problems is a way of learning survival skills," Cunningham said. "There are all sorts of hints you can learn in different organizations about to how to handle various types of problems."
But as most office dwellers know, complaining can swiftly move from social or strategic to incredibly annoying.
"I know that I personally am crossing the line if I hear myself telling the same story to more than one person," said Chrysta Bairre, a personal and business development coach and creator of the blog "Live Love Work" (liveandlovework.com). "If I'm repeating that experience and verbalizing that experience over and over again, maybe I've crossed the line from just releasing tension to hanging on to the experience too much and spreading it around."
The problem complainers are those who aren't seeking solutions. If a person keeps coming back with the same gripe when you've offered advice and comfort, it might be time to change your behavior.
"Repetition is never a good thing, but it's a tough situation because most people don't even realize they are complaining," Cunningham said. "If they've already told you about it four times and they haven't followed your advice, then you can say something like, 'What can I do for you?' You're basically saying you're at their service if there's something you can accomplish. Saying that prompts them to stop and think instead of just complaining."
For managers of the office gripe-meister, Bairre suggests treading carefully.
"You have to walk a fine line between managing behavior and trying to control someone's behavior," she said. "If I have someone who's the office complainer, I might just go to that person and check in with them, use it as an opportunity to open up a dialogue and see if there's anything I can do to help them. Rather than focusing on the negative behavior and saying they have to change it, say, 'What's going on with you. How are things going?'"
This brings us to a recurring theme in this column — communication. If I had to bet, I'd say a majority of workplace complaining comes from poor communication: bosses who don't give feedback; co-workers who don't say exactly what they need; representatives who don't really listen to customer needs.
So when communication breaks down, what do we do? We complain.
Workers complain to each other rather than communicating problems to the boss. And bosses often hear the complaining and don't really try to address the root cause.
Granted there are other reasons for our snarling. The soda machine ate our money, the cafeteria's attempt at Tandoori chicken was amateurish at best, Hal dropped a box of Xerox paper on my foot — again.
But when workplace stuff is bugging you, try to find a path toward making it better. Don't just grab a co-worker and say, "You won't believe this!"
And managers, don't write off employee gripes as meaningless. Step out of your offices — we know you're just playing "Minesweeper" in there anyway — and figure out what's causing the problems.
Now if anybody needs me, I'll be making fliers to protest my chocolate-fountainless workplace, and probably complaining because the printer's out of toner and my parrot can't remember the words to "Oklahoma!"
TALK TO REX: Ask workplace questions — anonymously or by name — and share stories with Rex Huppke at firstname.lastname@example.com, like Rex on Facebook at facebook.com/rexworkshere, and find more at chicagotribune.com/ijustworkhere.


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[Yung Joc]
What it is man (sup?)
Yung Joc, Block Entertainment
Yeah, you wan' know somethin? (What'chu wanna know nigga?)
I'ma take this motherfuckin time to let y'all niggaz know
I'm tired of playin games.. I'm tired of playin wit'chu man
(Preach on) Y'all niggaz comin up short on your money
Your re-up shit ain't right (nope, nope)
Your grams off nigga, get that shit right
(Tell 'em shawty) Let me talk to y'all
This ain't make believe so why the fuck is you playin
You better listen close to what the fuck I'm sayin
Cause really all it takes is a couple grand
Like AT&T I reach out and I touch a man
Or I can let it go cause it ain't nuttin man
But naw it's the principle so fuck what you sayin
E'ry dollar I want it, e'ry dime I need that
So when it's time to break bread gimme no feedback (shhh)
Cause you don't want to piss me off
And I get to poppin like we poppin Cristal
See I cain't help it, that's just how we get down
Let off a couple rounds, turn your smile to a frown
Yeahhh I know, you think I'm bluffin
'Til I kick the do' and the goons they rush in
Lay down on the flo' where you keep the coke in
You say "I don't know" then your blood start gushin
[Chorus 2X: Yung Joc]
I done told your ass once (once) told your ass twice (twice)
Fuckin with my paper, you're fuckin wit'cha life (wit'cha life)
Don't play with it (blam) don't play with it (blam)
Don't play with it (blam) nigga don't play with it (blam)
[Big Gee]
Here he come once again Mr. Murder Man
Smokin on the purple bad, pistol in my other hand
Fuckin with my rubberbands get your ass murdered fast
Chop you up and chop ya, then stuff ya in a duffel bag
Ride wit'cha in the trunk 'til ya smellin bad
Get your daughter after class, ride by snatch her ass
I know a pussy nigga owe me a couple stack
Pop him like he never had, but the nigga holdin back (nah)
I ain't trippin now I'm lettin 'em pass, got that ass
So I'm in the good, nigga smokin like a thermostat
Flashin hella stacks, pie nigga Pontiac
Actin for these hoes with my money, what kinda shit is that?
I ain't feelin that, pay me for my fuckin pack
E'ry dime off e'ry zone, don't gimme that (nah)
See it time for the chrome, go on pull it out
Sad Sunday service for the sucker in the parking lot
[Yung Joc]
Better know the repercussions fuckin with my dividends
Yeah I got a hitman for the hitmen
Leave your baby momma numb and I touch many fans
If ye ain't tryin to see it I suggest you start prayin
All I'm sayin; don't try to play me like I'm soft
Treat you like mosquitoes when I skeet you with that Off
That Joc crawl blood, nigga call me Red Cross
Leave your wig leakin like you spilled spaghetti sauce
[repeat 2X]
Fuckin with my paper - ye ain't right
I'ma send them gators - in the middle of the night
Let 'em split your tater - in front your wife
No one can save ya - put out your lights
[voice speaking over Chorus to end]
C'mon man
That ain't how you do the shit bruh
Out'chea playin with a nigga money and shit
That ain't the shit to be fuckin with
It's hard out'chea in these streets nigga
Fuckin people fuckin wit'cha
Niggaz rattin and shit
That ain't what's up dawg
It's the big dawg Diesel
Yung Joc in the building, ya heard me?


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MESURTMgauge, MESURTM Lite, and WinWedge software packages expand the functionality of force and torque measuring instruments by allowing for the transfer, manipulation, and analysis of data. WinWedge is a highly customizable communication program, while MESURTMgauge is an integrated data collection, graphing, analysis, and reporting program. MESURTM Lite is a basic data acquisition program included free with new force gauge series.


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Spread 1 tablespoon dressing on each muffin half. Top each bottom half with lettuce, tomato, turkey, avocado and alfalfa sprouts. Top with remaining muffin halves. If desired, serve with additional dressing.


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You may not be too concerned about the fact you aren't sleeping well, but below are six diseases that your lack of sleep could be causing. For the below reasons, it may be time to consider a better sleep routine.
Lots of things can interfere with your sleep, like a late night at work or various things to get done around the house before you head to bed. However, continually depriving yourself of the recommended time asleep (six to eight hours) can mean you become very sick down the line.
Endangering Your Heart and Bones Are Serious Matters
stroke- higher blood pressure and a higher level of the chemicals that lead to stroke in the blood stream are both linked to lack of sleep on a regular basis.
diabetes – eating poorly is a result of lack of sleep, since you tend to eat more at meals and also lean toward junk food more than you would with a proper amount of sleep to back you up at meal times. Therefore, the risk of suffering from diabetes is increased.
osteoporosis – This and other conditions related to the bones can result from continued lack of sleep. This is due to the fact that mineral density in the bones seems to decrease when you continue to not get an average of six to eight hours of sleep per night as an adult.
Other Conditions Are Inconvenient and Downright Scary
The following conditions are serious inconveniences when you are trying to get work done or simply enjoy life during the day. Others, like breast cancer, can mean death just when you thought you beat it and have your whole life left ahead of you:
memory loss – when you are not sleeping, your brain is not at its full ability. Eventually, you will have serious memory loss that can become permanent if you don't start getting some more sleep and quickly.
breast cancer – breast cancer sufferers actually are prone to a recurrence of the disease when they do not get sufficient sleep. So avoid having to deal with cancer again, when it was bad enough the first time, by getting more sleep.
Incontinence – getting up in the middle of the night usually results in a trip to the bathroom, for a reason to move around if nothing else. However, over time that trip to the bathroom becomes necessary and in turn makes sure you do not get enough sleep. The cycle feeds itself and you have the issues with your bladder to deal with during waking hours as well.
As you may notice, skipping a couple hours of sleep has a lot more serious consequences than simply being tired the next day. Therefore, it may be wise to do what you can but make sleeping the proper amount a priority to avoid more serious issues in the future.


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Here's some good news: Cheap Trick has announced through its website and Facebook page that Sandy, the truck driver who was injured when the stage collapsed during the band's concert at the Ottawa Bluesfest on July 17th, has been released from the hospital.
The following review originally appeared in the Illinois Entertainer in 1993.
Robin Zander's self-titled solo effort isn't as much of a radical departure from the usual Cheap Trick fare as Interscope Records claims, but it does offer some interesting duets and collaborations with an impressive list of guests. "Boy (I'm So In Love With You)" teams Zander with Christina Amphlett of The Divynyls on a dreamy techno ballad about a rekindled love affair, and Maria McKee adds harmonies to the catchy opening track, "Reactionary Girl." The amiable light rock tune 'Secret" gets a boost from Stevie Nicks on back-up vocals and Mick Fleetwood on drums. Other guests include J.D. Souther, Don Felder, Dave Stewart, Dr. John, members of The Heartbreakers, and Cheap Trick bassist Tom Petersson.
Still, Zander pretty much follows Cheap Trick's more recent (and successful) formula of balancing power pop with lush ballads, while avoiding the AC/DC overkill of the band's leaner times. A few of the ballads, like "Show Me Heaven" and "Time Will Let You Know" are a little tepid, but the infectious energy of "I've Always Got You" and "Tell It To The World," as well as a rousing cover of Harry Nilsson's "Jump Into The Fire" ensure that Robin Zander is a success.


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God particle
"As they weren't discovered while I was at school, I actually don't have an opinion concerning these particular particles... Hey that rhymed! Everything I say is funny, I just can't turn it off. Wow."
"Darn, they found it! I really thought I had hidden it better than that."
The God particle is a hypothetical fundamental particle in the Standard Model of religion. It is a component of the God field, which spontaneously breaks the SO(3)_{Moral} gauge symmetry, endowing the moral vacuum with direction, and giving a definite meaning to concepts such as morally right and upstanding. Without the God field, decency, sanctity, and family values would be massless. Morality would only be defined relative to the surrounding society, and the comparison would be ambiguous in the presence of a nonzero SO(3) field strength. In God's spare time, it is believed that He goes on publicity tours with physicist Leon Lederman, helping him sell more pop-science books.
The God Particle is worshipped by the followers of Physicism. The God particle isn't a ball as we visualise it but an indiscrete entity, like pollution, or rape. It is therefore impossible to visualise, unlike Jesus. This makes physicism less popular than Christianity, although it could win in a fight. Worship of the God particle began, in effect, when the sub atomic theories and quantum physics were adopted by Christian scientists. As always, the addition of another prophet to a religion just made it more violent. If Einstein wasn't an atheist, he would be a Physicist, but he didn't need a God, as he married his Cousin. Forget his hair, that guy was freaky for other reasons. But he wasn't gay. I digress...
The Gospel of the Higgs Boson is effectively relativity, but dumbed down a bit. As the God Particle is responsible for mass, fat people are considered holier than attractive size zero models. members of the religion meet, ideally every Sunday, to take part in Mass.
A typical mass would go as follows.
- Priest - Yea, we all come together under gravity, let the Lord our Particle hold us together, with a non-polar force.
- Everyone - Unlike Static electricity or magnetism
- Priest - Gravity, the weakest of the forces, but the only bisexual one, specifying no preferred charge. Holy bender of time-space. Lift up your hearts.
- Everyone - We lift them to the lord
- Priest - Can you feel their mass?
- Everyone - Yes, Oh Lord, make us heavy.
- All come forth and share communion, eating lead wafers, and drinking mercury, so as to become heavier.
- Priest - The Lord be with you
- Everyone - And also with you
- Priest - Lord grant us that all attraction is purely physical, and that we revel in the shallow glory of Gravity.
- Everyone - Amen
- Priest - Right, who pronounced it "Ay-Men"... It's "Ah-Men", you stupid slave.
Some more modern versions of the Physicist church try to do away with the ecclesiastical nature of this communion, and as a result are full of Black people, who say "Ay-men" and annoying born-again physicists Like you, Camilla Gale and Phedre Nicholson, and that Zimbabwean girl as well! who don't actually understand the gospel as they didn't pay enough attention in Physics class, but make the most noise about it, and kill the most abortionists. A Physicist's mass is not to be confused with atomic mass, which does not really venture beyond an atomic level.
"Evolution" of the religion[edit]
ha, funny story, I was once approached by a crazy christian missionary lady, and she said to me that I should worship jesus etc. And I got into a debate with her. Eventually I came to the point where I was trying to explain how a religion could just be a group of beliefs that try to spread through a population and ended my sentence with "It's called memetics". She responded "Yes, I know that, actually". What the fuck? Like hell she knew what memetics were. She was clearly bluffing. She did seem a bit crazy though, mybe she's dead now. Anyway, as with most religions, Physicism is actually judaism but with loads of extra stuff. The tree of its development could be shown as follows:
Judaism - Mostly Jews in a desert being tortured by a racist, homophobic, sexist, psychotic God.
- + Jesus
- = Christianity - Sanctimonious Gentiles suddenly feel it involves them, even though it clearly states otherwise in the Old testament
- + Mohammed
- = Islam - Everyone hates them because they don't eat pork, and for some reason are at war with Christians all the bloody time!
- + Relativity
- = Creation Science - This shit never makes sense, I think they are havin' a laff.
- + Quantum
- = Physicism - The World's least sexy people find beauty and religion in subatomic interactions and bent time space.
Finding God[edit]
This particular "God of the gaps" is very elusive. We can see its effects, in the way that Matt Groening's gut hangs over his belt, but The God Particle might not be responsible, so it might not be his effect afterall. To spot the deity, the truly pious undergo a pilgrimage to CERN, and look for god in the Large Hadron Collider. If they are lucky, he will send messages to them, scrawled in a weird yellow line in what I used to think were cloud chamber photos but are actually computer rendered. Some very holy people are told to lose weight by the Lord, supposedly a great blessing, as it means that they are more holy than necessary, but many choose to continue to gain mass, in tribute to their Lord.
Physicists believe that when we die, the atoms of our body do not lose mass, because of the second law of thermodynamics, and therefore our masses are immortal. In forums, if you say that when you die you will become one with nature via the immortal nature of atoms, everyone will ridicule you, and if you then say that you have a degree, they will assume that you come from America, and not New York or Britain.


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MYRTLE BEACH, SC – The Clemson women's basketball team shook off a slow start to surge past Providence (2-8), on Wednesday night at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. The Lady Tigers (3-7) set a school record that stood for more than 27 years for shooting accuracy in a half, hitting 15-20 (.750) from the field in the second half.
"I saw perseverance," said Itoro Coleman, whose team has won three of their last four games. "We came together and played hard. We did whatever we needed to do to get the W. Everyone that played contributed. This was a great team win."
• Who: Samford Bulldogs• When: December 22 – 1:00 PM• Where: Littlejohn Coliseum• TV: Not Available
• Social Media: @CU_Athletics | @ClemsonWBB
The Tigers dressed just seven players for a second straight game, both double-digit wins.
Clemson shook off a 12-point deficit early to lead by as many as 15, with Clemson outscoring the Friars, 47-20 over a 20-minute span from the 8:12 mark of the first half to the 12:00 mark of the second half.
Nikki Dixon led Clemson with 18 points on 7-15 from the field. She's now scored 64 points in her last three games, and 43 of those have been in the second half.
Aisha Turner played a terrific game at the point with 12 points (5-9 FG, 2-2 FT), six rebounds, and six assists in 38 minutes. She was the catalyst behind Clemson's 18 fast break points and 30 points in the paint. Quinyotta Pettaway gave the Tigers a third player in double-figures with 13 points, and a team-best seven rebounds.
Clemson committed a season-high 28 turnovers, but forced 27, and the Tigers were simply more efficient with their opportunities. They converted 15 of their 20 attempts in the second half to set a new school standard. The previous mark was a 28-38 (.737) first half against Presbyterian in 1985.
The first half was a tale of two halves in itself. Providence led, 17-5, with 11:50 to play. Their aggressive 1-3-1 was stunting dribble penetration and forcing jumpers. However, an Aisha Turner hoop finally stopped the bleeding, and Dixon scored a pair in transition.
When the dust settled, Clemson had responded with a 19-2 run to take a 24-19 lead with 1:14 to play. Over that 11-minute stretch, Clemson allowed just one field goal, and went 7-8 from the line as they opened up a small lead. Clemson shot .308, but held the Friars to a .257 mark, including 0-8 from behind the arc. Clemson took a 26-21 lead into halftime.
Clemson scored six straight points early in the second half to take a 38-26 lead with 14:33 to play. The Friars trimmed it to as few as seven with 13:53 left, but were not able to get closer the rest of the way. When Nyilah Jamison-Myers hit her only bucket of the game with 9:56 to play to give Clemson an 11-point advantage, Clemson didn't relinquish a double-figure lead the rest of the game.
The Lady Tigers will play Samford on Saturday at 1:00 pm in Littlejohn in the final game before breaking for the holidays.
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Dr. Michael Jipping of the Hope College computer science faculty is author of a new book that demonstrates operating system concepts with experiments on smartphones.
The book, "Smartphone Operating System Concepts with Symbian OS," has been published by John Wiley and Sons as part of Symbian Press.
Smartphones are mobile phones with expanded capabilities usually found on desktop computers. These capabilities include Internet and e-mail access, the ability to read documents and scheduling software. Mobile phone manufacturers that use the Symbian operating system include Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung.
The book is part of the Symbian Academy Series. Symbian Academy is a series of materials designed support institutions wishing to teach the knowledge and skills associated with software development on Symbian OS smartphone platforms. Jipping's book will become part of the Symbian Academy curriculum.
Jipping is a professor of computer science and chairperson of the department, and has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1987. With the new book, he has authored four books. Two books, co-authored with Professor Herb Dershem, were on programming languages. The third book, "Symbian OS Communications Programming," was written with Symbian Press in 2002.


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A burglar napping on the job got himself caught when he fell asleep inside the Southern California home he was trying to steal from, police said.
A man was sleeping in bed with his wife when he felt something touch his leg, according to a release by the Santa Ana Police Department. When he looked to see what it was, he realized it was a man he knew from his neighborhood sleeping at the foot of his bed.
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The resident chased the man away, but later realized items from his home were missing.
The alleged burglar, Ruben Diego Ortega, 20, admitted to seeing the home's open window and going inside to "see what he could steal," police said.
Ortega told police he was crawling out of the house with the loot and "must have fallen asleep."
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Since the victim knew Ortega, he went to Ortega's home in the 1200 block of West Highland Street and got his cell phones and Sony PlayStation back.
Ortega was arrested in connection with the burglary and is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.


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Experts urge caution in linking shooter with mental illness
As the world wonders what demons caused 20-year-old Adam Lanza's killing spree, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy offered an explanation of his own Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation." "This is mental illness ... dressed in evil."
But what kind of illness? And how did it factor into Lanza's decision to gun down his mother and 26 others Friday in Newtown before taking his own life?
Marc Brackett, who, as deputy director of the health, emotion and behavior laboratory at Yale University in New Haven, focuses on social and emotional skills of school students, teachers and parents, said those questions are impossible to answer.
"The public is speculating, and until there's a lot of research done on his history and any kind of psychological makeup, it's all conjecture at this point," Brackett said. "The biggest thing for me is the earliest treatment possible for someone like this. Had there been signs, which there likely were, we need to act quickly. ... We can't (avoid) getting someone treatment -- that this may pass. It doesn't pass."
Still, media outlets grasping to make sense of Lanza's actions for stunned audiences are piecing together a profile of a brainy but aimless loner who perhaps had been struggling with an autism-related developmental disorder.
Kim Newgass, outreach director for Wallingford-based Autism Services and Resources Connecticut, said it is frustrating to witness.
"I'm like, `Oh great, here we go,'" Newgass said. "To even at this point be saying the word `autism' is doing a disservice to everybody. ... One can be a loner without having autism. One can be really bright and a loner without having autism."
Newgass' 23-year-old daughter has an autism disorder.
"There are so many kids who have been diagnosed in the school system with an autism spectrum disorder. If we start bandying about `autism' along with this particular profile, I would hate to tar the community with that kind of brush," she said. "The vast majority of them are wonderful, loving, delightful human beings."
And, Newgass said, even if personal records surface for Lanza that mention autism, it is a complicated topic the media are likely to get wrong.
"We're all kind of holding our breath with what may come out and how it might come out in the press," she said. "He may have had some form of autism, but we need to look at the other issues, not the autism."
Lanza is the latest in a line of young men across the nation and world with gunpowder and blood on their hands.
"In general, boys are socialized differently than girls," Brackett said. "From early on, boys are more inclined sometimes to play with more aggressive games and are reinforced by their families in terms of playing them."
Lanza's mother, Nancy Lanza, would take Adam and his older brother target shooting and legally purchased the three guns found near Adam's body: a semi-automatic Bushmaster rifle and Glock and Sig Sauer handguns.
Michael Brody, a psychiatrist with the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, cannot understand why any parent or guardian aware their child is wrestling with a disorder would keep firearms available.
"Assault rifles? Handguns? What is that about?" he said.
Brody also said young adulthood presents its own unique pressures.
"Somebody in their early 20s has a lot to overcome and a lot to deal with," he said. "They have to start some type of career, some type of way of supporting themselves, choose somebody or be chosen by a partner in a more intimate type of relationship. It's a very stressful time."
Ultimately Brody expects investigators will uncover some inciting incident that sparked Lanza's rampage.
"The other thing that you usually see in a situation like this, there's usually a last straw," he said. "Something happened to set this young man off."
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So far, Blair's testimony before the Chilcot Inquiry has been seen as a largely self-incriminating affair, illustrating the extent not only to which Blair was willing to lie, or deceive himself and others, to go to war, but also the extent to which he remains utterly unrepentant for doing so.
His argument scurried round the complete non-evidence of Saddam's WMD, and focused instead on the idea that the world had changed after 9/11. Before 9/11, containment would've been the normal procedure, but 9/11 proved that rogue states or terrorist networks anywhere could endanger us all. So if there was even a chance of Saddam having WMD, war was necessary. This, of course, is quite a faithful rendition of the traditional neocon position justifying unilateral pre-emptive warfare.
And evidence continues to emerge about Blair's pivotal role in the run-up to war. Although he adamantly denied that he had made his own deals with Bush about the war irrespective of dissent in his own Cabinet from the likes of senior ministers such as Jack Straw, Claire Short and Robin Cook, we now know otherwise. For instance, much has been made of Blair's meeting with Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in April 2002, particularly in the context of Elfyn Llwyd MP's claim of possessing a memo showing that "Tony Blair and George struck a deal to invade Iraq a year before the 2003 war." Several witnesses at the Chilcot inquiry corroborate this, saying that Blair assured Bush at this meeting that Britain would support the American war-drive. Indeed, Blair's foreign policy chief Sir David Manning had already referred to Blair's instructions to then defence secretary Geoff Hoon to devise a war plan nine months before the invasion.
But the deeper question is whether it is really feasible to hang primary responsibility for the war on one admittedly unscrupulous Prime Minister. Was Blair the prime culprit? Was the Iraq War a person-centred problem that could have been solved with a better Prime Minister less enamoured of war (or neocons… or Bush)? Or was the Blair-phenomenon itself a product of deeper systemic problems at the heart of the British –" and American –" foreign policy establishment?
There was certainly dissent. Then foreign secretary Jack Straw's damning letter to Blair sent 10 days before his secret Crawford love-in with Bush, pointed out that "there is at present no majority inside the PLP [parliamentary Labour party] for any military action against Iraq", that there was "no credible evidence" linking Iraq to al-Qaeda, and that 9/11 had not "worsened" the "threat from Iraq." It also added, for good measure, that there was no legal or UN mandate for the war either.
So how is it that despite the opposition of the vast majority of the public, the majority of the Labour party, senior Cabinet officials, and even the majority of mid-level civil servants (such as Carne Ross, Britain's Iraq expert at the diplomatic mission to the UN who resigned over the decision to invade), Blair was able to lead the country to a war that no one apparently wanted? This question highlights a fundamental issue that all the finger-pointing at Blair has missed –" the issue of the abject failure of Britain's democratic decision-making institutions to reign in a Prime Minister leading a government into an illegal and immoral war.
Indeed, although Blair clearly enacted a pivotal role as our own home-grown chief ideologue and salesperson for the war, we also know that by and large, the government itself did little to stand in the way. This emerged from the testimony of Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British Ambassador to Iraq (1997-2003), who told the inquiry that the government had by and large decided a year before the invasion that it was "a complete waste of time… if we were going to work with the Americans, to come to them and bang away about regime change and say: 'We can't support it'."
In other words, once the Bush administration had made its decision, Blair's government simply decided to go along for the ride. Rather than the time-line to the war being dictated by issues such as diplomacy or what the UN weapons inspectors were saying, British officials were "scrabbling for the smoking gun" evidence for WMD. According to Meyers, there was a consensus among the senior mandarins in Whitehall that the policy of containment and sanctions had "run its course" by 2002. But that was not the view of mid-level officials working directly on the Iraq question, according to Carne Ross, who noted: "The mid-level people who spent all their time doing Iraq –" our view was that sanctions had been effective in stopping Saddam rearming, and several of us believed a lot more could have been done to stop Iraq's illegal oil sales."
All this highlights fundamental problems. The extent to which Britain's special relationship with the United States implicitly informed the scope of what was expected of Britain is alarming. The US took for granted that the trans-Atlantic alliance entailed British support for a fundamentally American decision. While Blair has taken the fall, and rightly so, for his role in steering this, the fact that senior government officials and advisers largely accepted this as a reality that could not be altered, despite opposition from the lower rank and file, says volumes about the deeply damaging role of the 'special relationship' in the formulation of British foreign policy.
It also says volumes about the extent to which British intelligence services allowed themselves to become political tools. We didn't need to wait for Chilcot's inquiry to see this. It emerged in the 2003 Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee investigation of whether Blair's infamous September 2002 'dodgy dossier' had been "sexed up". Although that Committee laughably absolved the government and its director of communications Alistair Campbell of including the '45-minute' Saddam-WMD claim, it did so only by overlooking the obvious evidence. The committee's report noted that the 45-minute claim was "discussed at a meeting" of the Joint Intelligence Committee "on 9 September 2002". Yet the same report notes, and Campbell's Chilcot testimony corroborates, that Campbell "actually chaired" the same JIC meeting in which publication of the dossier was planned.
What was the government's head of PR doing chairing a JIC meeting where the heads of British intelligence are supposed to deliver impartial advice to the Prime Minister and his Cabinet on intelligence collection and analysis priorities? Who, precisely, was advising who? We don't know. As if in a bizarre parody of a Mexican stand-off, Blair says that he responded to advice from his aides, while his aides are saying that Blair did what he wanted to do –" all trying to shift the blame onto someone else, it is more than likely that they all share systemic responsibility.
Unfortunately, we will probably not know the whole truth for another 50 odd years. Sir Chilcot has agreed a protocol with the Cabinet Office that allows Whitehall to effectively control what classified documents, of the 40,000 made available to the inquiry team, are released to the public. This means that largely the real decision-making process behind the Iraq War will remain the province of a few ministers and civil servants.
This is dangerous, as the inquiry has so far failed to interrogate the fundamental problem: not simply that Blair was a liability for democracy, but that democracy was never even a particularly significant obstacle to Blair being a liability. The real decision-making processes behind British foreign policy belonged, and still belong to, a small cohort of people: the Prime Minister, his senior advisers and aides, and the intelligence services; all of whom work, it seems, rather unquestioningly within the framework of the British-American 'special relationship'. The British foreign policy establishment, in other words, suffers from a deep-seated institutional unaccountability and arrogance.
Blair did it, no doubt about it. But his accomplices still sit in Whitehall.


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Paul DeMarinis (US)
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Paul DeMarinis has been working as an electronic media artist since 1971 and has created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions. He has performed internationally, at The Kitchen, Festival d'Automne a Paris, Het Apollohuis in Holland and at Ars Electronica in Linz and created music for Merce Cunningham Dance Co. His interactive audio artworks have been shown at the I.C.C. in Tokyo, Bravin Post Lee Gallery in New York and The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at The Exploratorium and at Xerox PARC and has received major awards and fellowships in both Visual Arts and Music from The National Endowment for the Arts, N.Y.F.A., N.Y.S.C.A., the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Much of his work involves speech processed and synthesized by computers, available on the Lovely Music Ltd. compact disc "Music as a Second Language", and the Apollohuis CD "A Listener's Companion" Major installation works include "The Edison Effect" that uses optics and computers to make new sounds by scanning ancient phonograph records with lasers, "Gray Matter" that uses the interaction of body and electricity to make music, and "The Messenger" that examines the myths of electricity in communication. Public artworks include large scale interactive installations at Park Tower Hall in Tokyo, at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and Expo 1998 in Lisbon and an interactive audio environment at the Ft. Lauderdale International Airport in 2003.


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