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By the end of Tuesday night, we were having flashbacks to when his Cleveland Cavaliers were dismantled by the Spurs in 2007. Miami Heat star LeBron James went 2-14 on shots outside of the paint, and did not make his way to the line for the first time since 2009. In other words, he sucked. He really, really sucked. At least when his performance is held against the standard of "greatest player in the world."
"I played like [expletive], said James. "I will be better," he said. I will be much better"
Oddly enough, as I write this I have ESPN's SportsNation on in the background. And it turns out that only 37 percent of SportsNation voters feel that James will score over 30 points in game four. Which is a fair assessment, as he's failed to register more than 20 points during any of the first three games.
The members of ESPN's First Take also mentioned how James must make a decision as to whether he is Magic Johnson or Michael Jordan.
I'm inclined to think he will take on the role of a Johnson, focusing on distribution as opposed to asserting himself offensively like he has most of this series – and his career. It's just in his nature. Whether that will ultimately cost the Heat a title? We'll find that out soon enough.
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"I recently did an interview and they asked me who I thought was up-and-coming and making a difference. I said, 'She doesn't like me, but Lorde.' I'm going to support her whether she likes me or not because I think she's doing great things. Some day I will see her and we'll be cool," she told Seventeen magazine.
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Only the Strong (1993)
I forgot how young Mark Dacascos look in this one, then again it might be me getting old so every youthful character looks like a spoiled teen. Mark has always been one of my heroes and back when this movie came out I'd probably put it at a 10/10 but I just don't feel the same way about it today. It's like that with a big part of the movies I adored back in my teens and early twenties.
I think the villain is pretty buff and douchy and he kinda makes me grin from ear to ear. It's very few villains of high douche factor that does that to me ^_^. He actually looks intimidating which is a plus 'cause a lot of villains aren't these days. When it comes to the fight scenes I didn't sit back in awe watching it this time… in fact I was kinda bored. Still, it's one of the movies I really loved back in the day so it still has sentimental value to me even tho I don't find it as entertaining I used to. I guess I've gotten immune to those teachers saves students kind of flicks… They are so pre-1995… I'm over it. Nice to see Geoffrey Lewis (Kerrigan) again, such a familiar face in the 80's and 90's. Some actors/actresses are just kinda missed the last decades. When one is used to see them in every other movie it feels kinda weird not seeing them in years. I've almost forgotten about Stacey Travis before seeing this movie again. I used to like her as she was the reason I watched Phantasm II (1988) and Hardware (1990) if I remember right.
I kind of like the remixes Donovan did of the music in the movie and some of the soundtrack of this movie so I'll probably be thrawling the Google for some of those genius works of art after writing this review.
Director Sheldon Lettich did Lionheart (1990) and Double Impact (1991) with Van Damme previously. He also wrote the screenplay/story for Bloodsport (1988) and Legionnaire (1998) and even some more Van Damme movies. I'm pretty sure I've seen most of the movies on his resume 2-3 times or more.
..I rate this movie 5/10 stars..
Cradle 2 the grave (2003)
Couldn't sleep so I ended up watching yet another Mark Dacascos movie. Many added bonuses in this film… Gabrielle Union who without a doubt is the worlds most beautiful black woman and Kelly Hu who's up there on the asian side. In other words, high eyecandy factor. Awesome fight scenes with Jet Li and driving scenes with DMX. This movie is all action from start to finish. I gave it a very very high score back in the day… but I've kind of revized the rating down some (not much) as I'm comparing it to movies that came out later and want to be fair ^.^
I don't really have any bad things to say about the movie as it's a full on popcorn movie with no dead time what so ever. I'm entertained every time I watch it and it doesn't feel outdated at all when I do.
..I rate this movie 7/10 stars..
Sabotage (1996)
Two of my favorite actors from the 90's in the same movie. Mark Dacascos in a non martial arts type movie but with Carrie-Anne Moss. I've been a fan of Carrie since Models InC (1994-95) and my fandom grew with this movie and took off completely after seeing her as Trinity in The Matrix.
Sabotage had me from the moment that cannon fired from the roof top into the plane. I never grow tired of this movie. I actually watch it like once every 2 years… It's not like an awesome movie, it's just that I like the Dacascos/Moss chemistry. They should have done more movies together. Even tho it doesn't have like lots of sniping action scenes, it's still in a genre I treasure in movies. Sniper movies makes me excited ^.^ This movie is on my Dacascos top 5 tho (Drive, Only the Strong, Crying Freeman, Sabotage and Cradle 2 the Grave). I actually like it just as much after 15 years as I did the first time I saw it…
..I rate this movie 6/10 stars..
Only found a german trailer :(
Hawaii Five-O (Tv-serie)
Hawaii Five-O is one of them shows that started up last year and I kind of fell behind on following it due to spending a lot of time in MMO-gaming. I remember I loved the first episodes and was extatic to see Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica, The Border). I've spendt the last three days catching up to the series which now is in it's 2nd season.
Compared to most other tv-series, Hawaii Five-O is in a league of it's own when it comes to action sequences. It's like watching a Michael Bay action movie at times… and they have a lot a uber A-list guest actors and actresses (would love to know the budget of this show).
I never watched the original series but I doubt that it could capture my interest like this re-make (waiting for someone to prove me wrong). It's nice to see Alex o'Loughlin be in a series that lasts passed one season for once. It's a shame they cancelled Moonlight as it was one of the better newcomers at the time (plus Vampire series tend to be cheesy and twilighty… Moonlight wasn't).
Somewhere in the middle of season 1 they added Larisa Oleynik (right picture) to the series and I totally love her mystical character (plus she's sooo gorgeous). She's not in all episodes but I'm pretty sure she'll be back on the show eventually as her part isn't played out yet. Can't wait to see what happens.
As an added bonus this series has Mark Dacascos playing the bad guy. He was my big hero back in the 90's (Drive, Sabotage, Only the Strong and Crying Freeman). I think he suits being both good and bad.. and it's fun to see him kick some ass in the show as well. So far I've only seen him fight Terry o'Quinn, something I'd never picture ever if it weren't for this show. Poor Terry ^.^ Hope to see more cool fights in the future.
Hawaii Five-O is one of the few shows that has crossover's from other series. Kensi Blye (Daniela Ruah) from NCIS L.A had a part in one of the episodes which is cool. That means we might even see someone from NCIS again in the future ^.^
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I'm glad he was honest, stating that Blizzard isn't known for having the best story team in the industry. It's true. While I think they've improved greatly over the past two expansions (they stopped pulling some of their punches in Wrath, and have really turned the story on its head in Cataclysm), they nevertheless continue to, at times, suffer from Saturday Morning Syndrome.
Warcraft isn't Bioshock. It isn't A Game of Thrones. The story *can* get deep... only to veer off course into the territories of "a wizard did it" or "magic will fix it." Metzen's right, there's heart and soul -- the people behind WoW, SC and Diablo are putting their backs into it -- but unless a real paradigm shift occurs, and they decide to appeal to a more mature audience overall, I won't be looking to Blizzard for my "great fiction" fix. Or as Metzen refers to them, "hot sentences." There's just too much cartoony garbage going on.


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The City Series is a collection of wood sculptures that represent a woodworker's journey from the suburbs to the city. Each piece depicts the outsider's perspective of the urban landscape. Made entirely of scrap wood, this work is an interpretation of making something out of nothing. Each piece is cut intuitively on a band saw. The result is a collection of architectural forms, each distinctly different from the next.
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"In Search of Shakespeare" is a four-part series exploring the life of the world's greatest and most famous writer. Surprisingly, it is the first time that a full-scale life of William Shakespeare has been attempted on TV. Presenter-led, mixing travel, adventure, interviews and specially shot documentary and live action sequences with the RSC on the road, this is an innovative TV history series from the award-winning team which made "In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great" and "Conquistadors."
The four shows follow Shakespeare's life from cradle to grave in a way never hitherto thought possible. In them we see how his life and work were shaped by his times; how he created some of the greatest literature in the world, and why we still love him: For in these films we see how Shakespeare in his life and work sums up English (and British) history – and the English character too – more than any other person. Decent, humane, open minded, tolerant, witty, bawdy, sexy, diffident, guarded, sceptical, wary of any political system, identifying himself with the "Other" – in his great portrayals of black people, women, the poor, Jews, – and even evil people – Shakespeare is an artist born out of turbulent times. But also, as his old friend Ben Jonson said:
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Moultrie -- A 62-year-old husband, father and grandfather is killed after state troopers say he was struck by an underage drunk driver.
Cecil Bowers was walking his dog just before 7 AM Saturday morning when an 18-year-old driver over corrected a turn, hitting the Moultrie man and his dog.
Both Bower's and his dog died from injuries sustained from the impact.
Bower's daughter said her dad was just getting ready to retire. He had recently purchased his dream car, a Corvette. She also said he had been walking three miles a day to stay in shape so that he could someday see his 2-year-old granddaughter graduate from high school.
Tire marks along Old Timey Trail indicate where 18-year-old Carson Spivey lost control of his Jeep Cherokee, which fatally struck Bowers and his dog right outside of his home.
"He was negotiating a curve. He veered off the curb of the road and struck an elderly gentleman who was walking his dog. The point of impact was in the subject's driveway. The pedestrian was pronounced dead a couple of hours later at the hospital," said Cpl. John VanLandingham, Georgia State Patrol.
But troopers say that prior to the fatal accident, Spivey had been drinking. He now faces a list of charges and is currently being held in the Colquitt County Jail without bond.
"Mr. Spivey has been charged with first degree vehicular homicide, DUI, also there is a charge of failure to maintain lane, and underage consumption of alcohol," said VanLandingham.
While driving under the influence is illegal at any age, underage drunk driving, as in this case, can prove deadly.
VanLandingham says, "First of all, if you're under 21, it's illegal to drink. In the state of Georgia, the legal limit if you are under 21 is .02%. This subject was considerably higher than that. If you have any doubts about your ability to drive, you should make a judgement call and not drive at all."
A broken mailbox, a torn down road sign, and scattered debris - now a grim reminder of an accident that will forever change the life of one Moultrie man whose actions claimed the life of another.
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AT On: Jack Kerouac, Resolutions, Squiggles, and Art In The Home
We made a simple resolution on New Year's Eve, to draw a squiggle each day for a year. We've been drawing and painting them every now and then for about five years, but not enough to figure out why we are so drawn to them and where they are leading us. So we decided to step it up. We also decided that it was a really lovely way of adding artwork to our home...
In Jack Kerouac's Big Sur, he writes a poem every day and sticks it on a nail in his little cabin in the woods. It's a meditation, but it's also a daily living element in his home - sort of like fresh flowers. We wanted to do something similar with drawing and see if we could create a small spot for this daily drawing in our home that would really shine.
So far, so good.
We've been at it each day for the past seven days and it's going well. It's really really nice to do a small drawing each night after dinner and then to see it around the house the next day. And while they're not all good, they're good enough to be on view for one day.
Another part of our resolution was to share the progress of the squiggle or the Daily Drawing with readers in an attempt to inspire similar behavior over the course of the year. We also may sell them off to interested readers via Ebay and give the money to charity. We certainly don't need to keep all of them in our home when the year is done!
For the time being, however, just look out for Daily Drawing updates and wish us luck. New Year's resolutions are deceptively hard to keep and it will definitely be a test of our sanguine nature!
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At the end of the year, you could have a very conceptual view of life in your house through the squiggle book, if you keep them all in one notebook, that is.
It will be interesting to look back at the squiggles at the end of the year to see how personified it's become.
hmmm... does the photo above look familiar to anyone that looked at "New Family Home House Tour #3"???? I think the cat is out of the bag Maxwell. :)
Enough of the teasing!! We want to see more of the new home and most importantly, the story behind it. Then we can talk squiggles ;-).
Laura, that ship already sailed a few posts ago. Here's the link to the first really revealing link:
Matilda, I suspect Maxwell will be revealing more of their new home as we go along with the squiggles. They are both works in progress.
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Some people monkey around a little, some people monkey around a lot, and then there's Tim. He's a prince among primates, presiding over hundreds of fellow bipeds in the often-brutal Texas outdoors. There's no ape escape for Tim and his crew, but no matter. They love to help macaques, baboons and vervets live out their lives with as much freedom as possible. And like peeling a banana, Tim's blogs take you to the good stuff inside — with a steady supplement of Texas weather updates, of course!
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Just over a year ago, we completed the transfer of 107 primates from the bankrupt Wild Animal Orphanage (WAO) to the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary. This huge undertaking was a tremendous challenge for everyone involved, and we endured many sleepless nights, our minds churning with how to best assimilate all of these monkeys into our already busy sanctuary. The largest single primate rescue in this country came off without a hitch, and it's hard to believe that a year has already passed since they bolted out of their transport crates into the south Texas sun.
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SGA's new president is promoting a culture change on campus
He's only five minutes late, but Austin Laufersweiler calls one morning in May to apologize and explain that he just got out of a meeting. As the new president of UGA's Student Government Association (SGA), he has many demands on his time. But Laufersweiler is not the average student—once a victim of bullying, he remade himself into an advocate, effecting change and receiving accolades at the local, state and national levels. Now he's putting his skills to work in the service of his fellow students at UGA.
While campaigning for SGA president during spring semester, Laufersweiler and his team emphasized retooling the organization to better serve student needs and also create a culture change—one that encourages students to get more involved on campus. Measuring success with the latter goal is going to be tough, but Laufersweiler thinks that figuring out what they're passionate about—it could be athletics, research, theater, social justice or just about anything—will help students graduate with a much better understanding of what they want from life.
"I think UGA will improve if people start to advocate for positive change in those areas that they care about," he says. "I think that promotes overall campus growth, the betterment of UGA as an institution and then society, upon graduation."
It's a lesson he learned at a young age. Laufersweiler was 16 when he decided to address bullying at his high school. That effort segued into working for new legislation at the county level and eventually into lobbying the U.S. Congress and accepting an invitation to the White House. So this 22-year-old senior from Marietta knows exactly how valuable it can be to embrace and follow your passion. It shapes who you are and who you become.
"I just wouldn't be anywhere near where I am today without those experiences early on," he says.
In June, Laufersweiler began a steady schedule of speaking to incoming freshmen, on campus for orientation, about SGA. Four times a week he addressed groups of 25 to 50 incoming students, introducing them to SGA programs and sometimes digressing to offer the insights of an upperclassman. Snelling Dining Hall, he tells them, is open 24 hours. Eating at East Campus Village, he says, is worth the hike—especially when they're serving buffalo chicken pizza or strawberry feta salad.
Speaking at these sessions, and also working twice a week at the orientation resource fair, is a significant time commitment. Instead of sending another representative, Laufersweiler is doing it himself to demonstrate that SGA is here to serve students. He wants freshmen to recognize his face when they arrive on campus.
The young man addressing crowds weekly this summer is much more self assured than the sophomore who entered a guidance counselor's office at Lassiter High School in 2007. He wanted to address bullying, but he was nervous, and for good reason. He'd been a target for years.
"I was bullied in elementary school because people perceived me as gay and feminine, and I did not identify that way," he says. "I remember in the 5th grade, in particular, I got called gay a lot and girly, and I grew to take great offense to that, because I felt it wasn't true."
In middle school, there was gossip that made him uncomfortable and more labels he didn't like. During his freshman year of high school, the bullying became more overt. Laufersweiler got pushed while walking to class. It was subtle, but deliberate. After it happened a couple of times, he changed his route.
"I didn't realize it was a problem," he says. "I had grown to accept it."
He'd also grown to accept something about himself. The day after his 16th birthday, Laufersweiler told his family that he was gay. Coming out had a secondary effect at school—no one at school bothered him anymore.
But he knew there must be others experiencing what he'd gone through.
"I had to change my daily life because of the way I was treated. Whereas it's not a huge inconvenience to walk a different way to class, I shouldn't have to," he says. "It's one thing to allow a certain student or type of student or characteristic to exist, but it's another one to embrace it or accept it or acknowledge it. And those last three were not what I was experiencing."
Laufersweiler's first step was visiting his guidance counselor's office. He was nervous, but reassured by the presence of a sticker on the door—it said "Safe Space" and included a small rainbow flag.
"To most students, I don't think that would mean much, but I was able to identify the meaning of that, which meant if you're an LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] student… it's likely that I would have a safe space there," he says. "I would be able to talk to her about things like this."
He met that day with guidance counselor Diane Wilkes and Maru Gonzalez, a school counseling intern. Gonzalez remembers a passionate but fearful young man who was fidgety and didn't make eye contact. But he did want to make a difference, and Lassiter High School's gay-straight alliance club was formed as a result. A couple of months later, Laufersweiler and other members organized a voluntary teacher training on how to create safe schools, emphasizing the academic benefits for all students, not just LGBT students. About 60 faculty members came and listened to him and other students speak about their experiences.
"It was incredibly courageous of the students to do that in this somewhat resistant environment, and it was very, very effective," Gonzalez says.
"That was the start of something really special."
In June 2010, Austin Laufersweiler found himself shaking hands with President Barack Obama during the LGBT Pride Reception at the White House. After seeing a visible transformation at his high school, he'd devoted the next year to his new calling.
"Creating a safe environment for all students became my charge," he says.
It was something of a surprise. When Laufersweiler came out to his family—his parents, Steve and Mary, who divorced when he was young, and his older sister Lindsey and younger brother Owen—they expressed concern that he would experience negative repercussions. He assured them that he wasn't going to become an advocate.
"I remember saying to my family that I had no intentions of getting on a soapbox or trying to be public about this, but it turned out to be the exact opposite," he says. "And it was something that I fell into, not driven so much by the idea of being an activist, but there were important issues that needed to be addressed, and if not me, then who?"
He and Gonzalez, who had become a close friend, helped to create the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition, an organization devoted to eliminating oppression of LGBT students in Georgia schools. Run by volunteers, the coalition addresses policy change, offers teacher training and sponsors a gay-straight alliance summit every year. For six months the two worked to change Cobb County's anti-bullying harassment policy, attending school board meetings every month and partnering with other groups like disability rights.
"There is now in Cobb County a comprehensive anti-bullying harassment policy that protects not only LGBT students but also LGBT faculty. I think Austin should get a great deal of credit for that," Gonzalez says. "It's one thing to hear an adult say, 'Oh, I think this policy is a good idea' versus a student saying, 'Look, this is my experience in the hallways at your school, and this is why we need a stronger anti-bullying and harassment policy.' It's much more impactful."
In 2009 Laufersweiler was named the first Student Advocate of the Year by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, a national safe schools organization. He and Gonzalez, who nominated him, attended a red carpet event in Los Angeles, where Laufersweiler gave a speech in front of a crowd including cast members from "Grey's Anatomy," "Dancing with the Stars" and "True Blood." Later the two attended the Safe Schools Advocacy Summit in Washington, D.C., through the network, where they lobbied Congressional representatives for passage of the Safe Schools Improvement Act and the Student Nondiscrimination Act.
But while he was experiencing great success, Laufersweiler was also dealing with great sorrow. During his senior year, his mother died after years of chronic lung illness.
"That kind of lit a fire under me to go out and do things," he says. "She was a big support system for me, and so that was a strong motivator."
His mother, named Mary, was called "Pixie," which said a lot about who she was, according to Laufersweiler. She had "a sense of unbridled excitement" and a go-for-it attitude.
"A lot of the things that I do, I do them kind of in her memory because I know it's something she'd be excited about and care a lot about."
In March 2012 Gonzalez and Laufersweiler ran the Atlanta marathon and half marathon, respectively, to raise money for the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition. Five months later, Laufersweiler joined the inaugural Youth Advisory Board for the Born This Way Foundation. Created by pop star Lady GaGa, the foundation seeks to create a kinder and braver world. That concept—seeking culture change—is one that's important to him.
Laufersweiler's thoughts on his journey have been preserved through StoryCorps, an oral history project that records participant interviews for preservation at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. He was interviewed by Gonzalez, now a doctoral student in social justice education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
"As educators, you sort of go into schools thinking you're there to inspire students... And then someone like Austin comes along and really just transforms your way of thinking," she says. "Austin is really one of the primary reasons that I'm getting my doctorate and doing the kind of work that I do because I see firsthand how important it is."
When he was campaigning for SGA president last spring, Laufersweiler had trouble sleeping. Running through his head constantly was a barrage of questions: What could we do better? What's the next step for SGA?
"It's the greatest and most terrible two weeks of your life, because the highs are so high and the lows are very low," he says.
To relax before bedtime, he watched videos of blue whales.
"I just found them really interesting and very relaxing creatures. [They don't] seem to have a lot of concerns. [They're] too large to have any natural predators, and I thought, 'What a life to swim around the ocean without having any fear of being eaten.'"
Campaign stress is unavoidable with the entire process crammed into two weeks, but Laufersweiler inadvertently has been preparing for his role as SGA president since he arrived at UGA. During his first year he led the Freshman Board, a group of 15 students that represent their class in SGA concerns. During that year he met sophomore Belle Doss (AB '13), who was assigned to be his SGA mentor. Their first meeting was "very, very memorable."
"He had more ideas and more things that he wanted to do in the four years that he was here than anyone I'd ever met," Doss says.
She encouraged him to sustain that passion the whole time he was on campus, and Laufersweiler did his best, overcommitting during his sophomore year because he was interested in so many things. He refers to the condition as FOMO—fear of missing out.
"Once he realized that he couldn't do 35 things on campus and love them all, he really found his drive and his passion for the things that he really wanted to devote himself to," she says.
He and Doss became close friends, and he stayed with SGA, serving as a senator during his sophomore year and chief of staff during his junior year. He also worked with Designated Dawgs, which provides safe, free, nonjudgmental rides home for students, and Shop with a Bulldawg, a student organization that aims to bring the joy of the holiday season to underprivileged children in Athens-Clarke County. And he became a member of the Arch Society, official hosts and goodwill ambassadors for UGA.
When it was time to plan for his senior year, Laufersweiler made a decision that would have made his mother proud.
"I guess I could have taken a back seat, but I felt compelled to use all of my knowledge and experience in the highest capacity, and that would require running for president," he says.
"I love [SGA], but even more than that I love what it can do. I love the potential that's there."
He based his decision on passion, but Laufersweiler applied himself to the task with lots of hard work—a quality he learned from his father, Steve.
"I wouldn't be anywhere without my dad's hard work," he says. "At this point in my life, whereas I do things in memory of my mom and really keep her in mind, my dad is my biggest support system… I would not have been able to do what I have done at UGA without the support of my dad."
Laufersweiler recruited friends Uzma Chowdhury and Mary Grace Griffin as running mates. Griffin had been involved in SGA since her freshman year, but Chowdhury was an SGA outsider and took some convincing.
"It took a couple of months. I said no for a very long time," she says, laughing.
"I honestly would never have done it if I didn't know Austin."
The three developed their EmbarkUGA campaign with the intention of overhauling SGA, making it more accountable to students and putting in place long-term strategies to increase student involvement and end apathy—in other words, effect a culture change.
"It was really important to us that the motto of SGA is the voice of every Dawg, and not just people who'd been in SGA for four years," Chowdhury says.
"Some of the things that we had a problem with or had concerns about, we thought, you know there's really no one better to solve these problems than us," Griffin says. "And if we really want to see a change, then we have to be the ones to make it happen."
And for perhaps the first time in years, Laufersweiler did not have to talk publicly about being gay and being bullied.
"It was significant to me that it wasn't a part of the campaign at all," he says. "No one brought it up, and a lot of people knew, but it was just never a point of contention. I thought, 'What if they ask me about it during the debate?' They didn't do that, didn't go anywhere near that. We didn't lose support, to my knowledge, because of it."
Ask Austin Laufersweiler whom he admires, and he comes up with two names: C.J. Cregg and Toby Ziegler. They're characters from "The West Wing," a TV show that followed the lives of White House staffers and ran from 1999-2006.
Press secretary Cregg and speechwriter Ziegler represented two parts of the communication process for their fictional president—shaping the message and crafting the message. For Laufersweiler, who's double majoring in communication studies at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and political science at the School of Public and International Affairs, it's the perfect combination of his interests.
"I'm fascinated with why people believe what they do, and I think when you can answer that question, it makes people much easier to reach."
Like many seniors facing graduation, Laufersweiler isn't sure how to translate his interests into a job. Speechwriting for a politician would keep him in messaging and politics and also provide the opportunity to respond quickly to issues and events—where he sees a lot of potential to do good.
"I don't think I'm an 8 to 5, Monday through Friday kind of person. The spontaneity of a high-stress, high-impact situation—that's what drives me," he says. "That's why I loved the SGA campaign so much. That was probably the happiest I have been, despite the stress."
The general consensus from his friends is that Laufersweiler has the talent and the drive to do whatever he wants.
"I just kind of sit back in amazement at how far he's come since that afternoon in my office," Gonzalez says.
"Austin is one of the most passionate people I've ever met about everything that he does," Chowdhury says. "And he doesn't give up on things. I'm really excited to see what he does in the future… because I expect really big things from him."
For the next year, Laufersweiler will devote himself to serving UGA students and leaving SGA in a position to continue improving after the Embark team is gone. After that, he'll continue to follow his passion wherever it leads.
"I believe that people are on this Earth for a reason," he says. "I want to find my purpose. I want to have an impact. That is how I am fulfilled—by knowing that I have changed something for the better."


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A tourist asks George to look after a bag full of clothes. The man never comes back, so George starts wearing them. He later meets a woman from the tourist bureau (Rena Sofer) under the impression that he's a tourist from Little Rock, Arkansas, as a hen supervisor for Tyler Chicken. To stay in character, George gets a hotel room and considers 'moving' to New York, later showing her his 'new' apartment and job with the Yankees. The Tyler Chicken job backfires when Steinbrenner calls the CEO of Tyler Chicken. They eventually agree to trade George for changing all concession stand food into chicken styled for the stadium. For example, hot dogs are replaced with chicken dogs, pretzels are replaced with chicken twists and beer is replaced with alcoholic chicken.
Jerry accidentally shaves his chest hairs, but soon realizes his girlfriend likes hairless dogs.
Elaine and Kramer join Peterman at a book signing of his autobiography. Kramer is startled to find that Elaine put his life stories into the book, so Kramer grabs a seat next to Peterman, and calls himself "The real Peterman", only to be thrown out. Elaine runs into Mr. Lippman, and tells him that she eats only the tops of muffins. Inspired, Mr. Lippman opens a muffin store called "Top of the Muffin to You!", but business isn't well, until Elaine recommends to bake a whole muffin and then throw away the stump, which helps.
To spite Peterman, Kramer acquires a school bus and starts a "Peterman Reality Tour" for $37.50 a ticket, which Jerry and his girlfriend ride frequently, despite some angry customers.
An orphanage next door to the muffin shop is angry because of the stumps in the alleyway, so Elaine asks Kramer to take out whole bagfuls of stumps to a town dump on his next run, but none of the dumps will accept the bags. Jerry's chest hair starts to grow, to his chagrin, and has to scratch behind his girlfriend's back, a la the Wolf Man.
The next morning, Elaine hires a "cleaner" (Newman, in a spoof of Pulp Fiction) to eat the muffin stumps. He enjoys them with a glass of milk.
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Saturday morning started for me in a mid-priced hotel about a mile from the location of our dinner. It has been said that the best coffee shop in Chicago was right around the corner from us – this I cannot confirm or deny. Having entered bed well after 3:00am I was slow to rise when my alarm started making robot noises at 9:00am. It was when I reached over to quiet the singing machine that I noticed that I had missed a handful of calls and text messages from Daniel who stayed in our host's condo with some of the rest of our team the night before. It was clear from the series of messages that he was trying to explain to me that there was a flood of biblical proportions at the apartment and I needed to come quickly.
After volley of retaliatory missed calls and text messages, I collected myself and prepared for a day during which I would be cooking in what I could only imagine was waist-deep water. Collecting a couple gallons of coffee from the aforementioned purveyor we dove head first into what could have only been a nightmare.
Upon breaking into the confines of our temporary home, I was relieved to see that there was no standing water and the only real causality for the evening was everyone's sleep and a rug of Crate and Barrel origin. Since I had not been there I leave it to Mayur Subbarao to recount the evenings happenings to you:
Now it was late. Twenty-four courses of culinary madness served and cleared, no thanks to my own rather comical blunders: Cacao spheres in trays that had miraculously managed to invert 90 degrees onto their sides; a freezer-bowl full of cuit sous vide caramel ice cream base that had shot itself out of the freezer door all over me, my fellow dessert cooks, and the floor.
Now it was quiet; most of the cooks, including our fearless leaders Michael and Daniel, had left, and I was tidying up a few things in a kitchen that was dead silent, except for the sloshing and gurgling of a washing machine full of aprons, napkins, and caramel-soaked rags.
Hm, not so much of a sloshing and gurgling any more. More of a splashing and rushing…
I turned around to see what looked like a wave of water issuing forth from the utility room. I think I must have screamed like a six-year-old girl, because Daniel and Akiko rushed into the kitchen in mere seconds, by which point I was already ankle-deep in water. I waded to the utility room in a frenzy, only to realize that there was an office between it and the kitchen. Computers! Arrgh! was the only thing running through my head as I grabbed everything that looked vaguely electronic and piled it on the desk. Daniel and Akiko were right behind me, moving away vulnerable objects and throwing down anything absorbent… most of which was currently in spin cycle in the washing machine that had caused this mess to begin with.
Having removed everything we could (it was too late for the poor rug, RIP), we went into the utility room only to realize that the pipe leading directly into the washing machine had come loose and was now shooting water all over the place. By the time I fixed it, I looked like I'd been thrown into a swimming pool fully-dressed, and the 30-degree temperature inside the utility room was certainly not agreeing with me. Meanwhile, however, the crisis had decidedly separated the professionals from the amateurs; Daniel and Akiko were calmly mopping up the flood and cleaning the kitchen (again).
"For heaven's sake, this happens all the time at work," said Akiko. "You don't want to know what gets spilled on the floor in a given day. Just go to sleep and we'll deal with it tomorrow."
We turned in rather calmly, and it occurred to me that somehow, flying to Chicago to execute a 24-course dinner out of an apartment kitchen with a minimal staff of volunteers which involved chilling wine on a garage roof and setting up sous vide baths in a bathroom sink…
…had given me a sense of proportion.
The hot coffee sparked the minds of those who had to battle the deluge all night and we got to work in quick fashion. Hours slipped by, and sometime just after noon I excused myself to do a little grocery shopping and to meet, for the first time, my lovely lady friend's father.
We were doing great on time having done most of the preparation the night before and I left Daniel, Brian, Akiko and Mayur to polishing off the last few things while Kathryn and I hit up the Treasure Island and made our way to a restaurant that only served small sandwiches for our rendezvous with her Dad.
I know the idea of scheduling such an important meeting on a day already filled to the brim with nervous tension, possible calamity and exhaustion seems reckless but life does not always allow you to choose the field for your greatest battles. I wasn't too concerned because I had some inside information that let me know that we both liked Ayn Rand, specifically Atlas Shrugged, for what I could only assume was her pride in accomplishment, enduring work ethic and rape fantasy.
Needless to say the tiny sandwiches were small, talk was delightful and uplifting and as we broke from the small building and into the brutal cold I was alive with excitement. That night we would be serving diner to two of the only people in the world who could actually give us an honest comparison to the meal that we were trying to recreate and I was giddy in anticipation.


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- 2 cups sugar
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons cocoa
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons vinegar
- 1 3/4 cups butter or margarine, softened
- 2 cups cold water
- Caramel Frosting
- Combine first 5 ingredients in a large bowl. Add vanilla, vinegar, and butter; beat well. Slowly stir in water; beat well.
- Pour batter into an ungreased 13- x 9- x 2-inch baking pan. Bake at 350° for 35 to 40 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool. Spread Caramel Frosting over cake.
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Tubbataha Reef is 181km away from shore in the Sulu Sea off the coast of the island of Palawan in the Philippines. The name Tubbataha means "a long reef exposed at high tide" and that is exactly what it is. There is a small 'shack' that sits on the reef that has a sandy beach at low tide and sits on stilts above the water at high tide. This 'shack' is a ranger station that houses 4-16 volunteer rangers who patrol the region for illegal fishing. We did a little tour of the facility and I can tell you that most prison cells I have visited are more spacious and better equipped. They have such a shortage of fresh water that each ranger is limited to a ration of 500ml of water per day… in 30C + weather. I have no idea how they recruit volunteers, perhaps it is in lieu of prison sentences? Anyway, very impressive that these guys stay out there for 6 month terms patrolling.
This was a trip that Sukhia and I had attempted to do in 2007, the last time we were in Southeast Asia. The season that you can dive at Tubbataha, however, is only about 3 months (March to May). The seas are simply too rough the rest of the time and we were unable to make it out on our last trip.
Perhaps it was because we anticipated the trip for 5 years, perhaps it was because we had just had such a wonderful experience in Raja Ampat, or perhaps because we had just been in Palau. Unfortunately, we were just not all that impressed with Tubbataha. Being on a boat that broke down several times, was covered in soot, and run by the worst dive manager we have ever met certainly did not help matters.
We made some new friends on the trip and enjoyed the company of one another. Hopefully that made it a wash? Probably not… Luckily, it was just six days in the midst of our ten month adventure. Onward and upward.
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Tubbataha reef is only accessed by liveaboard and is a dive location that has been critically claimed as one of the best dive spots in the world. I have to say I wasn't that impressed, there were a few unfortunate circumstances that didn't help our trip, like the boat and company running the Expedition Fleet but I can see how there could be spectacular diving in Tubbataha if the current is right and the pelagic fish swim past but sadly that didn't happen for us.
We had a great group of guests and it was fun to commiserate together when the boat broke for the second and third time or when our skiff motor died half way between the dive site and the boat, floating dead in the open ocean can really bring people together.
The underwater walls along Tubbataha were amazing and we always had three or four reef sharks swimming with us, dog toothed tuna would coast by occasionally along with schools of trevally. Sadly I lost many of our videos for this dive trip with a corrupted memory card but a few photos were saved.


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"Sons of Anarchy" is a one-hour drama television series that focuses on a motorcycle gang who is also associated with organized crime. It is based loosely on Shakespearean drama, specifically the story of "Hamlet."
"The Devil's Ride" is a Discovery Channel reality series about actual real rival biker gangs in San Diego and how they live through their own moral codes.
It started when Sutter took to Twitter asking if "The Devil's Ride" had been cancelled and then he made comments that made it sound like the bikers on the show might not be legitimate. Sutter said that the actors on his show work harder than the real biker gangs in San Diego. That is when one of the bikers, Mad Max, fired back with an expletive laced response.
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While Hervey struck back on Twitter in just a juvenile a manner, he then was more civil when he spoke to TMZ Live. Hervey said that Kurt Sutter thinks he is the "Moses" of the motorcycle world thanks to "Sons of Anarchy" and that the "Sons of Anarchy" creator believes that all motorcycle shows are a rip-off of his show.
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Achaemenēs (/əˈkɛməniːz/; from Ancient Greek: Ἀχαιμένης.
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Old Persian: 𐏃𐎧𐎠𐎶𐎴𐎡𐏁 Haxāmaniš[1][2]) was the eponymous ancestor of the Achaemenid Dynasty, who ruled southern Iran between 705 BC[3][4] and 675 BC.[4]
The name is a bahuvrihi compound literally translating to "having a friend's mind",[5] or "characterized by a follower's spirit".[2]
As the eponymous ancestor of the clan, Achaemenes is very often held to be legendary. Achaemenes is generally known as the leader of one of the clans, known to the Greeks as the Pasargadae (although this identification may been due to a confusion with the Persian Imperial capital city Pasargadae begun by Cyrus the Great around 546 BC), that was one of the some ten to fifteen Persian tribes. Persian royal inscriptions such as the Behistun Inscription place him five generations before Darius the Great. Therefore, according to the Inscriptions, Achaemenes may have lived around 700 BC. The inscriptions do label him as a "king",[6] which may mean that he was the first official king of the Persians.
Apart from Persian royal inscriptions, there are very limited historical sources on Achaemenes; therefore very little, if anything at all, is known for certain about him. It has been proposed that Achaemenes may merely have been a "mythical ancestor of the Persian royal house". The "Babylonian" Cyrus Cylinder, ascribed to Cyrus the Great, does not mention Achaemenes in an otherwise-detailed genealogy.[4] Some historians hold that perhaps Achaemenes was a retrograde creation of Darius the Great,[7] made in order to legitimize his connection with Cyrus the Great, after Darius rose to the position of Shah (i.e. King) of Persia in 522 BC (by killing the usurper Gaumata, the so-called "False Smerdis", who had proclaimed himself King upon the death of Darius' predecessor, Cambyses II; according to Darius, Gaumata was an impostor pretending to be Cambyses II's younger, deceased brother Bardiya). Darius certainly had much to gain in having an ancestor shared by Cyrus and himself, and may have felt the need for a stronger connection than that provided by his subsequent marriage to Cyrus' daughter Atossa. An inscription from Pasargadae, also ascribed to Cyrus, does mention Cyrus' descent from Achaemenes;[8] however, historian Bruce Lincoln has suggested that these inscriptions of Cyrus in Pasargadae were engraved during the reign of Darius in c. 510.[9]
In any case, the Persian royal dynasty from Darius onward revered Achaemenes and credited him as the founder of their dynasty. Very little, however, was remembered about his life or actions. Assuming he existed, Achaemenes was most likely a 7th-century BC warrior-chieftain, or the probable first king, who led the Persians, or a tribe of Persians, as a vassal of the Median Empire. An Assyrian inscription from the time of King Sennacherib in 691 BC, mentions that the Assyrian king almost repelled an attack by Parsuamash and Anzan, with the Medians and others on the city of Halule. Historians contend that if he existed, Achaemenes had to be one of the commanders, leading his Persians with the independent troops of Anshan, during the indecisive Battle of Halule in 691 BC.
Ancient Greek writers provide some legendary information about Achaemenes: they call his tribe the Pasargadae, and say that he was "raised by an eagle". Plato, when writing about the Persians, identified Achaemenes with Perses, ancestor of the Persians in Greek mythology.[10] According to Plato, Achaemenes/Perses was the son of the Ethiopian queen Andromeda and the Greek hero Perseus, and a grandson of Zeus. Later writers believed that Achaemenes and Perses were different people, and that Perses was an ancestor of the king.[4]
Persian and Greek sources state that Achaemenes was succeeded by his son Teispes, who would lead the Persians to conquer and settle in the Elamite city of Anshan in southern Iran. Teispes' great-grandson Cyrus conquered the Medes and established the Persian Empire. Teispes is referred to as a son of Achaemenes in the Old Persian texts at Behistun.[11]
- ^ Akbarzadeh, D.; A. Yahyanezhad (2006). The Behistun Inscriptions (Old Persian Texts) (in Persian). Khaneye-Farhikhtagan-e Honarhaye Sonati. p. 56. ISBN 964-8499-05-5.
- ^ a b Schmitt Achaemenid dynasty (i. The clan and dynasty.)
- ^ Aminisam, M.H., Pictorial History of IRAN, Ancient Persia Before Islam 15,000 B.C. --- 652 A.D., AuthorHouse Press, Bloomington, Indiana, (2006) p. 114. ISBN 1-4259-6722-1
- ^ a b c d Dandamayev
- ^ Schlerath p. 36, no. 9. See also Iranica in the Achaemenid Period p. 17.
- ^ Behistun Inscribtion, c. 4
- ^ Jamie Stokes (2009). Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East, Volume 1. Infobase Publishing. pp. 2–3. ISBN 978-0-8160-7158-6.
- ^ Livius Picture Archive: Pasargadae
- ^ Bruce Lincoln. Religion, empire, and torture: the case of Achaemenian Persia, 2007, University of Chicago Press, Page 4-5
- ^ David Sacks, Oswyn Murray, Lisa R. Brody (2005). Encyclopedia of the ancient Greek world. Infobase Publishing. pp. 256 (at the bottom left portion).
- ^ DB, column I, lines 5 and 6, from Kent Kent, Ronald Grubb (1384 AP). Old Persian: Grammar, Text, Glossary (in Persian). translated into Persian by S. Oryan. pp. 394 and 492. ISBN 964-421-045-X.
- Schmitt, Rüdiger. "Achaemenid dynasty". Encyclopaedia Iranica. vol. 3. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Dandamayev, M. "Achaemenes". Encyclopaedia Iranica. vol. 3. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Schlerath, Bernfried (1973). Die Indogermanen. Inst. f. Vergl. Sprachwiss. ISBN 3-85124-516-4.
- Tavernier, Jan (2007). Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550-330 B.C.): Linguistic Study of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts. Peeters Publishers. ISBN 90-429-1833-0.
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On Friday, the Labor Department reported that a dismal 88,000 jobs were created in March. That figure might be revised upward later, as previous jobs numbers have been. But there is no mistaking how bad it was. Even The New York Times offered no positive spin.
The Times reported that the unemployment rate was declining because more of the unemployed are giving up entirely. It even pointed out that "(r)elatively low-wage sectors like food services and retail have accounted for a large share of the job growth in the last few years."
The labor participation rate is 63.3 percent, the lowest it has been since 1979. The year after that was the year the nation rejected Jimmy Carter in a landslide for a President named Reagan, who offered a way out of the malaise. Yet today we accept high unemployment and snail's-pace growth in part because Reagan's party continues to be outmaneuvered by a President constitutionally incapable of governing, but born to campaign.
This is not the Bush economy. It is, as Obama said it would be by now, the Obama economy. And it is a dreadful one. Under him, it is likely to remain that way for years to come.
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OGDEN, Utah -- The best player on the Big Sky Conference's best men's basketball team has received his due reward.
Senior Devon Beitzel, one of the top scorers in the country this year who led the Big Sky in scoring for a Northern Colorado squad (19-10, 13-3 Big Sky) that won its first league championship since 1989, was honored Thursday as the Bears' first-ever Big Sky Most Valuable Player.
He joined Montana's Brian Qvale and Northern Arizona's Cameron Jones as unanimous First Team selections, while Weber State's Kyle Bullinger, Scott Bamforth and Montana's Will Cherry rounded out the First Team.
Beitzel also joined former Bears Jabril Banks (2008-09) and Will Figures (2009-10), who were also All-Big Sky First Team selections as seniors.
Northern Colorado senior Neal Kingman earned a spot on the All-Big Sky Second Team on Thursday, and senior Chris Kaba received Honorable Mention.
Qvale, the conference's all-time shot blocker, was picked as the 2011 Big Sky Defensive Player of the Year, Bamforth was honored as the Newcomer of the Year and Byron Fulton was tabbed as the Freshman of the Year by the league's nine coaches, who selected the individual award winners and the all-conference teams. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own players.
Beitzel, who also Thursday was honored as the Big Sky Conference's final Player of the Week for the 2010-11 season (his sixth career weekly award), tied a career high with 32 points last night against Sacramento State, leading the Bears to the top of the Big Sky and cementing what many have seen coming for much of the past couple months.
He put in a school NCAA Division I-record 610 points this season and ranks 16th in the country in scoring average at 21 points per game. He was also the Big Sky's top free throw shooter this season (91 percent), while making a league-most 74 3-pointers.
A two-time Academic All-American and one of 10 finalists for this year's Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, Beitzel figures to be the marquee player for the marquee Bears during the semifinals and final of next week's Banner Health North Colorado Medical Center Big Sky Championship at Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion.
"Devon was everything for us on a team that won the league," Northern Colorado coach B.J. Hill said. "Obviously he's in a group of really good players, but his numbers speak for themselves."
Kingman set career highs this season in scoring average (10.7 points) and rebounds per game (4.3) and three times scored a career-high 21 points, including at then No. 16 Illinois. He was chosen as Northern Colorado's "Most Improved Player" following his junior season and was honored on Feb. 28 with his first conference Player of the Week Award.
Kingman is just the fifth Northern Colorado player in five seasons to earn a spot on either the All-Big First or Second Teams. He's the second All-Big Sky Second Team pick, joining Beitzel who landed there last season.
Kaba was one of nine players who received honorable mention Thursday. He, like Kingman and Beitzel, set career highs in scoring (9.4 points per game) and rebounding (4.8 per) while starting in 25 of the Bears 29 games this year.
His last-second block Monday night against Idaho State's Broderick Gilchrest in Pocatello, Idaho, secured Northern Colorado of its first Big Sky Conference regular-season title, and his play down the stretch this year (11 points per game; 45 percent shooting from three-point) helped the Bears win their final five games.
Most Valuable Player: Devon Beitzel, Northern Colorado
Defensive Player of the Year: Brian Qvale, Montana
Freshman of the Year: Byron Fulton, Weber State
Newcomer of the Year: Scott Bamforth, Weber State
Scott Bamforth, Weber State, G, 6-2, SO
*Devon Beitzel, Northern Colorado, G, 6-1, SR
Kyle Bullinger, Weber State, F, 6-6, JR
Will Cherry, Montana, G, SO, 6-1
*#Cameron Jones, Northern Arizona, G, 6-4, SR
*Brian Qvale, Montana, C, 6-11, SR
*Unanimous Selection
#Two-time Selection
Glen Dean, Eastern Washington, G, 5-10, SO
Bobby Howard, Montana State, F, 6-7, SR
Neal Kingman, Northern Colorado, F, 6-7, SR
Charles Odum, Portland State, G, 6-0, JR
Gabe Rogers, Northern Arizona, G, 6-2, SO
Deividas Busma, Idaho State, C, 7-0, SR
John Dickson, Sacramento State, F, 6-6, SO
Broderick Gilchrest, Idaho State, G, 6-0, SR
Lindsey Hughey, Weber State, G, 6-3, SR
Shane Johannsen, Northern Arizona, F, 6-7, SR
Chris Kaba, Northern Colorado, F, 6-8, SR
Trevor Morris, Weber State, C, 6-9, SR
Erik Rush, Montana State, G, 6-5, SR
Derek Selvig, Montana, F, 7-0, JR


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