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APTOS -- Aptos High's girls soccer team continued to impose its will on offense, routing short-handed Soquel 4-0 in the teams' Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League game on Tuesday night at Trevin Dilfer Memorial Field.
Since playing league-leading Scotts Valley to a scoreless tie on Jan. 21, the Mariners have outscored their past three opponents -- St. Francis, Santa Cruz and Soquel -- 11-0.
Fourth-year Mariners coach Jessica Perkin said her team's 1-0 loss to San Lorenzo Valley -- its first loss to the Cougars since 2007 -- helped emphasize Aptos' need to improve offensively.
"We've been practicing finishing in the final third (of the game)," Perkin said. "We couldn't put the ball in the net (against SLV). I'm proud of the girls. Our practices have been great."
The Mariners' recent success in practice has carried over to games.
Stephanie Buecheler, Payton Evers, Rachel Salazar and Lauren Inman scored for the Mariners (9-3-1, 5-1-1), who remain in second place in the SCCAL standings behind the Falcons (8-3-4, 5-0-2). The Mariners take on host Harbor on Thursday.
Soquel (5-8-2, 3-4-1) has a bye Thursday and looks to rebound on Tuesday against visiting Harbor.
"It's a really tight league," Perkin said. "In order to feel secure, you need to have a few (goals), two, three, four. Two isn't going to always do it."
The Mariners jumped to a 2-0 lead by the half, converting on a pair of long-range shots from Buecheler and Evers.
Buecheler scored in the fourth minute after settling a cross from a teammate and blasting it over the head of goalie Megan Nelson from 30 yards out.
Evers' well-placed blast in the 19th minute found the upper right corner of the net. Brianna Miltimore was credited with the assist.
Such success from outside the box inspired defender Halley Bermingham to attempt a shot from 45 yards out late in the half, but Nelson made the save, her third over the opening 40 minutes.
Soquel had a couple shots knocked out of bounds to set up corner kicks. Melissa Sanchez took four corners but her teammates were unable to knock the ball into the net.
Knights coach Michael Fong said he was proud of his team's effort, especially since four of his players -- goalie Sydney Rastatter and field players Annakin Cowell, Mekaela Valdez and Evanda Goad -- are out with concussions.
"They're battlers," he said. "The character of our team showed. It was 2-0 early on two long goals and it was still a game to us, it seemed like, to the end. And those were two good goals."
Aptos stayed on the attack in the second half, missing out on several quality chances early.
The Knights defense stepped in front of Miltimore to stop one shot from point-blank range and a header by Evers on Buecheler's corner kick was saved in traffic by goalie Melissa Toorani.
Toorani, Soquel's fourth goalie used this season, finished with five saves in the second half.
Aptos' Anna Burke, who went unrewarded on several quality runs, was finally rewarded for her consistent hustle late. She set up Salazar's goal in the 78th minute and Inman's goal in the 79th.
"We're good all-around," Burke said of Aptos' offense. "Every player wants to score. Every player wants to win."


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Past important news and announcements for CalSTRS members and stakeholders.
CalSTRS celebrates and honors its dedicated members. In this first of an ongoing series of member profiles, we spend a day with 55-year CalSTRS member Dr. Genevieve Shepherd, principal at Tom Bradley Global Awareness Magnet school in Los Angeles.
The Irvine Member Service Center maintains the same environmental standards and energy efficiency that reflects CalSTRS' commitment to California's public educators and aligns business and technology changes to improve member services.
The Irvine site was selected as a result of an extensive site search that included a demographic analysis and comprehensive member survey sent to both active and retired Orange County members.
From April through June 2014, Caltrans is rehabilitating a section of U.S. Highway 50 in Sacramento, both eastbound and westbound directions, with a five-day break for the Memorial Day holiday. This project is called Fix50, and it will affect individuals visiting CalSTRS' headquarters and Member Service Center in West Sacramento.
Beginning in 2014, CalSTRS' Retirement Progress Reports (annual member statements) will be delivered online at myCalSTRS. Members who wish to continue receiving their statement by mail will be able to do so by changing their delivery preferences. If you would like to receive your 2014 report by mail, your request to continue delivery by mail must be received by June 16, 2014.
See the Retirement Progress Report Going Paperless Frequently Asked Questions for more information.
The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2013 details the performance of our state funds.
CalSTRS Director of Corporate Governance Anne Sheehan writes to Oracle shareholders with severe concerns about executive compensation and proper board accountability at Oracle Corporation.
The Teachers' Retirement Board recently voted to change how the cost of purchasing service credit is calculated. The contribution rate structure for permissive service credit will change from the current 10-year age group increments to 1-year increments.
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This week provides an opportunity to reflect on your personal retirement goals and determine if you are on target for your secure future.
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And then there's defensive tackle Devon Still, who figures to see a jump in playing time just from the fact that Pat Sims left via free agency this offseason, and once he returned from the PUP list in the second-half of last year, Still went from getting about 10-15 snaps per game, to being a gameday inactive in the last eight games and for Wild Card playoff.
Sims wasn't a player who racked up tackles or pressure opposing quarterbacks. He's a guy who consistently used his 335 pounds of glory to clog up running lanes and draw double-teams to free up other defenders to make tackles close to the line-of-scrimmage. He was a key reason the Bengals were arguably the best defense in the NFL over the final eight games in 2012, and everything just mentioned will be what Still is expected to do this year.
At 32o pounds and a full 3 inches taller than sims (6'5″ to Sims' 6'2″), he may not have the same weight, but his extra length can make him just as much of a disruptor in the middle while Geno Atkins, Vontaze Burfict and (hopefully) Rey Maualuga are racking up tackles-for-loss.
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|To solve iteratively linear system with large sparse strongly non-symmetric matrix we propose preconditioning , where respectively lower and upper triangular matrices and are so that . Such preconditioning technique may be treated as a variant of ILU-factorization, and we call it MSSILU --- Modified Skew-Symmetric ILU.
We investigate and optimize (with respect to ) convergence of preconditioned Richardson method (RM) of the following special form: , where is the same as in . For this method we give an estimate for rate of convergence in relevant Euclidean norm for the case of positivereal matrix .
Numerical experiments have included solving linear systems arising from 5-point FD approximation of convection--diffusion equation with dominated convection by MSSILU+RM, MSSILU+GMRES(2) and MSSILU+GMRES(10).
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Once a man was asked, 'what did you gain by regularly praying to God?'
The man replied, 'nothing… but let me tell you what I lost: Anger, ego, greed, depression, insecurity, and fear of death.'
Sometimes, the answer to our prayers is not gaining but losing; which ultimately is the gain."
W.salaam, personal experience when I didn't pray, I felt like I was the most depressed creature on Earth. Look at the people with lots of money and fame, some of them commit suicide, some of them take drugs to get that peace and content feeling. By Allah, Salah is the solution. What Allah says, it's for our best. Trust in Allah.
"Hold on to your salah, because if you lose that, you will lose everything else." — Umar ibn al Khattab (R.A)
If I say to you, start reading salah from tomorrow. You may not do it because it will be a shock for your body because you may not be used to it. So, take it easy. Pray 1 prayer, next day pray 2 etc.. till you are praying 5 times a day, you will be used to it. Once you are praying 5 times a day for 3-4 days in row, it's so easy.
The 'I don't feel well enough to pray' excuse won't work, I used to think that lol when I couldn't pray Salah properly standing up because of my injured foot. So I had to sit and pray. Imagine Umar ibn al Khattab (R.A), he got stabbed in his Salah, he fainted. He woke up, they gave him milk, what did he say? Pick me up to continue my salah. As soon as he start praying, milk start pouring out from his wounds. This is what motivates me, so the 'i dont feel well enough to pray' is a excuse from shaitaan. Don't listen to him, Allah wants the best for you. May Allah make it easy for you, ameen.


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Security tightened along Assam-Arunachal border to maintain peace
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has deployed a central police force along the Assam-Arunachal border following the killing of ten people over a land dispute.
It is believed that the locals were provoked by insurgent outfits to claim the disputed land.
On January 29, armed people from Arunachal Pradesh raided a village in Assam's Sonitpur district and gunned down 10 people and injured many. It was believed to be a border land dispute.
However, intelligence inputs reveal that assailants were provoked by Maoists or some other local militant outfit to create instability in the area.
"There is this possibility. They (NDFB-S) might try to establish a foothold in the region. Some other outfit might want the people to let them live in the area on the condition that they would protect them. Anything is possible. We are keeping our fingers crossed. We are studying the situation and we have to be extremely careful in the steps we take in the future because it will involve people on both sides of the border," said Shambhu Singh, Joint Secretary, North East, Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
A battalion of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) is patrolling the inter-state border between Bhalakpong in Arunachal Pradesh and Bhairabkunda in Assam along India's border with Bhutan to curb the movement of militants.
The forces will be deployed till the Supreme Court-appointed Commission headed by retired High Court judge Tarun Chatterjee submits it report, to define boundaries of the two states, in dispute since 1951.
The Chief Ministers of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam have condemned the incident and have ordered an inquiry.
"This incident is highly condemnable. I conveyed it at a high level meeting with the chief secretary, the DGP and the home commissioner last night, and also this morning, and I have directed that every possible step is taken to defuse tension prevailing in the disputed area," said Arunachal Chief Minister Nabam Tuki.
"We are preparing an action plan under which the presence of security forces and police outposts will be increased. I have been touch with the army and paramilitary forces to figure out necessary steps so that such incidents do not occur again. I have also written to the Government of India for a CBI enquiry into the matter," said Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
The insurgents are trying to use the Behali reserve forest in Assam as a safe haven and are trying to mislead the security agencies by creating border conflicts.
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The U.S. Army All-American Bowl is the nation's premier high school All-American game, featuring the best 90 players in a classic East vs. West match-up every January in San Antonio's Alamodome. The tradition and history of the U.S. Army All-American Bowl Game is unmatched. It has featured some of the best high school players in the nation who have gone on to be Heisman Trophy winners and it has produced over 200 NFL players.
Two Kentucky players have been selected to play this year; Quarterback Drew Barker (Kentucky commit) and defensive tackle Matt Elam (Kentucky Recruit).
Now, here's where things get interesting. We all know the impact that the Kentucky coaches have had on recruiting this year but they have also been getting a lot of help from some of their current commits and none greater than Drew Barker. It has been rumored that he and Matt Elam have been "talking up" Kentucky to several of the All-American athletes that the Kentucky coaching staff have been high on.
So first, let me talk about Matt Elam. Matt is a massive DT coming in at 6'6" and 375lbs. who has cut his list down to Kentucky and Alabama. I have long thought that Kentucky would get Matt to commit and to me, him talking up Kentucky is just more evidence that he is staying home to play for the Cats. Why would he be trying to get players to come to Kentucky if he himself were going to Alabama?
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It is deja vu, with a difference (Report from Mumbai)
There is a phrase in India that has become not so much a commonplace as a vulgar truism, one that people reach for quickly to describe India's financial capital's indomitable nature: the spirit of Mumbai. The terror attacks of November, that ripped asunder the very fabric of this resolute city, has dented that spirit. Somewhat.
For a born and bred Mumbaite like me, the attacks brought on a sense of deja vu. The city of Mumbai, with the gritty attitude of its citizens, is no stranger to catastrophe. In 1992, when communal riots threatened to rip apart the secular fabric of this most cosmopolitan of Indian cities, the spirit lived on. And again in 1993, when serial blasts tore through Mumbai, the spirit was palpable. Yet again in 2006, when bombs went off on the city's suburban train network, killing more than 200 people, Mumbai picked up the pieces and moved on. The grind continued in the face of adversity.
This time though, I noticed a difference. A tangible anger was in the air, intermingling with the panic and trauma. Over the last couple of days, this has translated into a groundswell of protest. People from all walks of life decided to gather at the Gateway of India recently, with the burnt dome of the battle-scarred Taj hotel in the background. As riveting as the pictures of the smoking Taj – flames leaping out of windows, panes shattering, crows taking off in the foreground at the sound of gunfire – were the images of scores and scores of citizens taking to the streets. From the common man to the captains of industry, they were all there. Lighting candles, holding all-night vigils, demanding that the powers that be stand up and shoulder their share of blame.
At the Gateway, I bumped into some senior directors and many employees from the drug industry. While some spoke about the postponement of the global exhibition CPhI India and how potential deals had taken a knocking, others alluded to the deferred dates of the Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, as well as the day-long ExIm (Export Import) seminar on medical devices, which delegates from Japan were slated to attend. Still, many others spoke about the Thanksgiving celebrations across the world, and how the attacks coincided with the occasion, when one is grateful for family, friends, and good health. Closer home, I was struck by the very precariousness of it all.
Some spoke about how the industry would take a fair amount of beating in the short term, but most insisted that that there would be no long-term damage. Employees of multinational corporations affirmed that it would not affect investor confidence in the country, and that even the US-India Business Council, comprising several top US drug firms, underscored the same to its members. The Council has decided to stick to its plans to bring various business delegations from the US to India.
And although the dark forces of intolerance have haunted this city for too long, the undying spirit of Mumbai seems to be coming back to the fore. This time though, it may not be an easy task. No one seems to be in a rush to restore normalcy. People want answers. And they want them now.
For the drug industry, an immediate decision has been taken, to bring together people – seniors, employees and like-minded citizens. Coalitions will be formed, to take on the forces of terror, to deliberate on how to tackle the crisis situation. Across the board, people are meeting to chart out their future course of action. From this point, there is no going back.
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text: The Artistic Life June 9, 2014 Issue Fathers and Sons By Tad Friend Table of Contents Robert De Niro Credit Tom Bachtell When Robert De Niro was young, his father would ask to paint him, but he wouldn't pose. "I wish I had," De Niro said recently, "but I didn't have the patience. You gotta sit still." Much later, the actor felt he was too acquiescent when his father neglected the prostate cancer that killed him, in 1993. Bookended by regrets, De Niro, now seventy, sat in Robert De Niro, Sr.,'s studio in SoHo. Save for installing shades beneath the skylights, he'd preserved the loft as it was: red dial phone on a pillar; shirts in dry-cleaning bags; birdcage lacking only the parrot, Demetreus. De Niro slipped his glasses on to peer at the canvases against the far brick wall—women reclining, dab and confident, fit companions to the images from Ingres, Poussin, Courbet, and Delacroix that his father had tacked up for inspiration. "To me, he's a great artist," he said. He nodded at a melancholy pastel, "Girl with Red Turban": "Such color, simplicity, and the girl has something. . . . I wish I had listened more to my father so I could speak more carefully about his work." De Niro communicates best with his limber lips and torso, marking time in conversation as if waiting for a translator. So is that a mirror one of the women is holding? "Could be." A drumstick? "Possibly," he said, staring it down. "Possibly." His father, a dead ringer for his son in all but fierceness of profile, was funny and light on his feet, a man who adored masks and Paris and Greta Garbo's face. But De Niro didn't see much of him after his parents separated, when he was two. (The elder De Niro confided to his journals, but not to the world, that he was gay.) His mother, Virginia Admiral, was also a well-known artist, but she put down her brushes to raise her son. "My father would always say, 'Tell your mother to paint more, she's a wonderful artist, blah- blah-blah,' " De Niro said, making a face. "I prefer my father's work." When De Niro, Sr., showed at Peggy Guggenheim's gallery, in 1945, the critic Clement Greenberg wrote that he possessed "originality" and "an iron control of the plastic elements such as is rarely seen in our time." Yet as his peers turned to abstraction, and then to deadpan contemplation of popular culture, he became increasingly figurative, bitter, and poor. And it was his son who got famous. Born on the wrong continent in the wrong century, the painter moved to France in 1960, but found himself out of step there, too. When De Niro visited him in Paris five years later, he recalled, "My father was in a rut. I brought him and his paintings around to galleries on the Left Bank, and, well, the people were nice, but that's not the way you do it, showing up unsolicited. So I made him come back to America, I almost pushed him on a plane. . . . After that, I would help him out, financially, and I put his paintings in the Tribeca Grill, Locanda Verde, Nobu, Nobu in Japan, the Greenwich Hotel"—his business ventures. "My father did the menu for the Tribeca Grill, and the coasters for the Greenwich Hotel, and he hung the paintings himself—he was very particular. And I've never changed it." De Niro helped make a documentary, "Remembering the Artist, Robert De Niro, Sr.," that will air on HBO next week, coinciding with a catalogue of his father's work and a gallery show in Chelsea, with prices ranging up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. "The more expensive they are, the better they're going to be protected, because they become an asset," he said. "They get good homes, if you will." However, he added, "I did the documentary, just like I kept the studio, for my children"—he has six. "I wanted them to see what their grandfather did." And? He made a temporizing face. "What are they going to do, jump up and down? But it registers." Asked if he watched over his father as a father might, tears sprang to his eyes. "Sure," he said. "I had to take care of him. He'd say, 'Artists are often not recognized in their lifetime,' so he would expect me to do this. But it won't affect his reputation, which is about timing, luck, the peculiar taste of the art world. And then you must also have talent." De Niro checked the nearest canvas, a canary-yellow farmhouse lit by the sun, and seemed reassured. "In any case, this is all here, and it's great, and it's not going anywhere." ♦ Tad Friend has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. 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Executive Director of North Central Florida March of Dimes Will Retire
By Keith Momberg on February 21st, 2014 | Last updated: February 24, 2014 at 7:17 am
After 25 years with the March of Dimes, Betsy Trent is set to retire on March 1. She is the executive director of the north central Florida division, yet no one has been selected to fill her position at this time.
GALLERY: Thousands Gather for 150th Anniversary of Civil War Battle
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The 38th Annual Olustee Battle Re-Enactment took place last weekend in Lake City, Fla.
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Lawmakers propose extending subsidized health care coverage to immigrant children – A proposed bill in the Florida Legislature would eliminate a 5-year waiting period for children born outside the U.S. to receive government-subsidized health insurance, known as KidCare. Under federal [...]
Domestic Abuse Network Plans to Expand Facilities
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Peaceful Paths Domestic Abuse Network plans to kickstart its expansion project with a ground-breaking ceremony on March 4 in its main outreach office in Gainesville, Fla.
Air Pollution Increases Pregnant Women's Risk for High Blood Pressure
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Air pollution may have adverse effects on pregnant women.
Murderer of 9-Year-Old to be Executed Wednesday
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Juan Carlos Chavez's execution by lethal injection is to be held on Wednesday after being convicted of murdering 9-year-old Samuel James "Jimmy" Ryce in1995. A controversial cocktail of drugs will be administered.
Students Support Teacher Suspended After Fight Over Alleged Affair
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A Putnam County High School teacher was suspended for fighting a district employee over an alleged affair. Following his suspension, the teacher's students showed up to a school board meeting to show their support.
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Gainesville residents and businesses see the effects of a national gas shortage.
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$8 Billion Upgrade Will Make GPS More Accurate
Formerly confined to bulky boxes and military gadgets, GPS has infiltrated just about every part of our lives. Just a few years after people were buying GPS units for their cars, it has become a standard feature in new phones.
But increasing the number of GPS-capable devices also increases the load on the system of GPS satellites and infrastructure, which is aging quickly and in need of serious overhaul. Everything from cell phone networks to hospitals rely on GPS every day, and those industries need a reliable replacement in order to keep functioning, not to mention the number of people who would be lost without turn-by-turn directions.
Fortunately, the government is working on an $8 billion upgrade that will make GPS more reliable and accurate.
"This new system has the potential to deliver capabilities we haven't seen yet," Marco Caceres, senior space analyst for aerospace research firm Teal Group, told the Los Angeles Times. "Because GPS touches so many industries, it's hard to imagine what industry wouldn't be affected."
Currently, GPS-enabled devices can pinpoint a location to within 20 feet, which is impressive but still a fairly large margin of error. Some are even less accurate. The new system, however, can pinpoint locations down to two or three feet, a huge improvement.
There are 24 satellites that provide GPS data, working in tandem to pinpoint the location of GPS-enabled devices around the world. The upgrade process will have to be seamless, so the satellites will be replaced one by one. The first one will be launching from Cape Canaveral this weekend.


text: Cailte asked: <<< i have only had cheese goo once... delicious with bacon and asparagus in it. however, volunteering for scullery service was an eye opener. it was incredibly greasy and hard to clean off the cooking dishes. is this standard or can i count that up to a careless cook? >>> I'm not sure that I would call this standard nor due to a careless cook. Since you are adding butter to the cheese(s), it is possible that in this case your cook chose a cheese that was fairly oily at least when it melted and didn't cut back on the butter. I have had trouble, as have others, with this cheese dish wanting to separate. If the cheese is allowed to overcook in something like a crock pot or left to sit at a table unheated, the cheese can congeal hard and be difficult to remove. I'd think the oiliness of the cheese though should actually make the hardened cheese somewhat easier to cleave off of the serving dish though. This is a dish best served in something to keep it warm, such as a crock-pot for pot lucks, otherwise it thickens up fairly quickly and is difficult to dip bread into or pour it over something. At Gulf Wars, my wife and I usually just eat STC right out of the cooking pot. Yes, barbaric. But it means one less pot to clean. Did someone put some water into the cooking dishes to soak after pouring the cheese into the serving dishes? Or since the remaining cheese should have been soft after pouring the cheese into the serving dishes, rinse them off in a sink? I think either of those two methods would have made clean-up much easier than letting the cheese dry on the cooking dishes. Stefan -------- THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas StefanliRous at austin.rr.com **** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****


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Why should a guy who drives a car make so much more money than a taxi driver?
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Well, This Explains a Lot…
The Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award Goes To …
John Murtha! Yes, "that John Murtha" … seriously:
In one of his last moves before leaving office March 13, then-Navy Secretary Donald Winter quietly awarded 19-term Democratic congressman John Murtha (Pa.) with the service's highest civilian honor.
Citing Murtha's "courageous leadership, vision, and loyalty to the men and women of the Department of the Navy," Winter presented the influential chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's defense panel with the Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award, an honor bestowed in "those extraordinary cases where individuals have demonstrated exceptionally outstanding service of substantial and long term benefit to the Navy, Marine Corps, or the Department of the Navy as a whole," a Murtha release stated.
As you can imagine, this didn't sit well with some in the military. Seems they don't appreciate seeing elected officials who condemn their comrades in arms as "murderers" being awarded medals:
The primary reason for their ire stems from the congressman's statements in May, 2006, that a squad of Marines who responded to an IED ambush and short firefight in Haditha, Iraq, rampaged through the village, murdering civilians "in cold blood."
Murtha made those comments in the heat of the 2006 congressional mid-term election campaign, in a move some political analysts saw as an attempt to stoke the anti-war vote for a Democratic takeover of the House. The former Marine and distinguished Vietnam veteran continued his accusations in follow-up media appearances before an official Pentagon and Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigation had been completed.
When the dust settled more than two years later, six of the eight Marines and Sailors accused of crimes in the Haditha incident had their cases dismissed, one was found not guilty and the last has been continued indefinitely.
Murtha has refused to recant his accusations or apologize to the Marines he accused of war crimes. When asked by Military.com in late 2007 whether he regretted his initial statements and owed the exonerated Marines and Sailor an apology, Murtha refused to comment, saying the cases were still being adjudicated.
Well, I can understand why he wouldn't apologize. After all, it's quite well known that Murtha is an officious liar, and no one should believe a word he says.
As for some actual soldier reaction, Deebow at Blackfive queries "Are You F'ing Serious?!"
I was immediately a little suspicious about what kind of award Mr. Murtha could have received, knowing that he hasn't done anything honorable lately, at least that I can remember. So I checked the Way Back Machine event tabulator I had next to my oatmeal and it says Representative Jack Murtha was an unindicted co-conspirator in the ABSCAM investigation done by the FBI, blatantly called his constituents racists and backwoods red-necks and, most recently, called United States Marines engaged in combat "Cold Blooded Killers" for their actions during a firefight in Haditha, Iraq.
WOW! Now that is one honorable Congressman…
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REALLY??? The former SECNAV thought that Rep. Murtha was someone who had "loyalty" to the men and women of the Department of the Navy? He really believed that Rep. Murtha had rendered "exceptionally outstanding service?"
Apparently he did. But, even if Deebow wasn't impressed, the Congressman himself sure was!
"I'm proud of the service and sacrifices our troops are making, and I'm honored to receive this distinguished award from the Navy," commented Murtha. "We have an obligation to ensure that our
cold-blooded murderersmen and women in uniform have the most modern equipment, effective training, first-class medical care, and family advocacy resources."
Erm … there may be some mistranslation in there somewhere.
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But one influential veterans group has reacted strongly against the award, crafting a petition to lobby the Navy to rescind it.
Vets for Freedom, a group that generally supports the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, called Murtha's award "appalling" and his accusations against the Haditha Marines "vile and despicable."
"Congressman John Murtha should apologize for slandering the Marines of [3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment], and for undermining the efforts of those servicemen and women who fought in Iraq," the online petition states. "If he does not, the Secretary of the Navy should rescind this award as a sign of his unwavering support for those who served in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom."
So far more than 35,000 supporters have signed the online petition.
If you tend to side with Deebow rather than Rep. Murtha, then you can sign too by going to this link.
Quote Of The Day
From Jim Harper of CATO speaking of the Obama on-line "Townhall meeting" yesterday:
President Obama promised to make his administration the most open and transparent in history, and taking questions from the public kind of looks like that. But it also kind of looks like gimmicky, a canned publicity stunt, rather than true openness in government.
Real transparency would include fulfilling his campaign promise to post bills online for five days before signing them. The President has now signed ten bills into law and not subjected any of them to that five-day public review.
Ten bills. That's zero for ten in the transparancy department.
Yup, we're just in too much of a hurry to really be transparent, apparently. And the press is doing such a great job of keeping Mr. Transparancy's feet to the fire, isn't it?
The Geithner Plan And Why It Isn't What It Is Reported To Be
That is, why it isn't the solution it is touted to be. Jeffrey Sachs of the Financial Times:
The Geithner-Summers plan, officially called the public/private investment programme, is a thinly veiled attempt to transfer up to hundreds of billions of dollars of US taxpayer funds to the commercial banks, by buying toxic assets from the banks at far above their market value. It is dressed up as a market transaction but that is a fig-leaf, since the government will put in 90 per cent or more of the funds and the "price discovery" process is not genuine. It is no surprise that stock market capitalisation of the banks has risen about 50 per cent from the lows of two weeks ago. Taxpayers are the losers, even as they stand on the sidelines cheering the rise of the stock market. It is their money fuelling the rally, yet the banks are the beneficiaries.
If you've been wondering why the stock market had a short rally upon its announcement, there's your explanation. You need to read the whole thing as Sachs uses a simple example to explain his point. He concludes with:
Tim Geithner, Treasury secretary, and Lawrence Summers, director of the White House national economic council, suspect that they cannot go back to Congress to fund their plan and so are raiding the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the remaining Tarp funds, hoping that there will be little public understanding and little or no congressional scrutiny. This is an inappropriate institutional use of the Fed, the FDIC and the Tarp. Mr Geithner and Mr Summers should at the very least explain the true risks of large losses by the government under their plan. Then, a properly informed Congress and public could decide whether to adopt this plan or some better alternative.
But, of course, we're just in too big of a hurry and the situation is too dire to actually discuss and debate the situation or do it properly through Congressional action. Instead we've been sold a bill of goods which, disguised as a way out, is simply a rip off of the taxpayer – again. As Jennifer Rubin notes:
So to avoid the overwhelming popular objection to perpetual bailouts and expenditures, the Obama administration will do this all "off budget" and with no hearings, Congressional debates, or votes. Not very transparent and quite imperious, when you get right down to it.
Yeah, not very "hopey changey" is it?
I'm warming more and more to my suggestion that government officials be compensated the same way they think CEOs should be compensated. If this ends up being a big loss to the taxpayer, Geithner and Summers should receive zero compensation for the outcome. And that would also go for anyone else in the administration or Congress who had a hand in implementing this plan.
The Silence Is Deafening (update)
Doug Heye points out something of which I'm sure few people are aware:
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) has apparently decided to keep $100K in contributions from Bernie Madoff, who faces up to 150 years in prison for swindling billions from the likes of Steven Spielberg, Elie Wiesel, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick in a massive Ponzi scheme.
In campaigns, one side often calls on the other to return money for one reason or another. Sometimes it's valid, sometimes not. Regardless, it's Campaign 101. But when the contributor in question is the single biggest financial criminal in history, there can be no question that those illicit funds should not remain in campaign coffers.
Given the economic uncertainty our nation faces and that Madoff not only fleeced the rich and famous but major corporations such as HSBC — in other words, Madoff swindled all of us — the DSCC's decision is shockingly tone-deaf.
No kidding. People all over have been fleeced by this guy, they're looking all over for assets with which to recover some of the funds and pay back the investors and the DSCC is keeping the funds he sent them. Shocking.
What isn't shocking, however, is what Heye notes next:
However, what's almost equally surprising is the virtual silence from the media. During the Enron scandal, returning campaign money was a daily drumbeat, as were the news stories discussing Enron's purported ties to President Bush. Now, when the Democratic Senate campaign vehicle makes the conscious decision to keep $100K in Madoff money, stolen just as if it came from a bank holdup, there's little to no outrage.
Heye seems surprised and asks "why" this is receiving no coverage.
Most of the rest of us are just shaking our heads knowingly and are not at all surprised by that fact.
UPDATE: Commenter Linda Morgan provides a link from the Washington Times, apparently the only MSM outlet which carried the story, with some positive results:
One day after The Washington Times reported that a key Democratic fundraising group was holding onto $100,000 from disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee decided to donate the money to his victims.
"We're reviewing this internally, and decided to give the money to the trustee for distribution to the victims," DSCC spokesman Eric Schultz told Roll Call on Thursday.
Given the fact the Madoff scandal is old enough that he's been to trial, plead guilty and is awaiting sentencing, you have to wonder why it has taken this long for the DSCC to "review this internally".
Is There Anything These Boobs Won't Try To Legislate Or Intrude Upon?
And yes, it's another Republican:
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, may be a skinny guy with a high voice. But he's angrily setting out to tackle the biggest powers in college football, vowing to pound them until they reform the Bowl Championship Series.
He called them out Wednesday, as he and Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisc. — respectively the top Republican and Democrat on a Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust — released a list of topics that panel plans to consider this year.
A bit buried on Page 4 of an eight-page list, amid somewhat sleep-inducing reading on oil and railroad antitrust, is a nifty paragraph about the BCS.
"The BCS system leaves nearly half of all the teams in college football at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to qualifying for the millions of dollars paid out every year," their joint statement says.
Then it drops its first unexpected bomb: "The subcommittee will hold hearings to investigate these issues."
That is followed by a second: "Sen. Hatch will introduce legislation to rectify this situation."
Hatch's office did not comment about exactly what may be in the yet-to-be-written bill — including whether it might attempt to mandate a playoff system similar to that in college basketball, or simply mandate that all colleges be given a fair shot to play their way into a national championship.
no one is particularly happy with the BCS and how they rank colleges or the method of "playoff" they've come up with. However let me be very clear here. This is none of Congress's business. None. Nada. Zip. Zero.
Sorry if BSU was 13-0 and wasn't crowned national champs. But that's life and the system that's in place. Get over it and worry about the things which are important – like shrinking government instead of making it more intrusive.
I'm coming to the conclusion we should hold Congress to the same standard as concerns their pay as we held AIG about the bonuses.
If we did that, most of these yahoos would be flat broke or owning the Treasury money at the end of the year. That's certainly one way to cut spending.
[HT: Liberty Papers]
Proposed Taxes On Oil Producers Will Be Paid At The Pump
This is such a basic lesson I'm surprised it has to be repeated so often.
Under pressure to narrow projected deficits, President Barack Obama's 2010 budget proposal calls for raising more than $31 billion over the next decade by eliminating the oil and gas industry's eligibility for various tax breaks.
When you're thowing around 3.6 trillion dollar figures for budgets, someone is going to ask, "how are you going to pay for it?" A 3.6 trillion dollar budget certainly doesn't answer, "by cutting spending" does it? So new sources of revenue have to be found. But in a consumer society who is the ultimate source of all revenue? If you answered, "the consumer" you get a gold star.
So revenue is the purported reason for the focus on oil companies. Additionally, they're easy to demonize which makes for easy political pickings. That seems to be the modus operandi of this administration.
The propsoal:
The plan would slap companies with a new excise tax on production in the Gulf of Mexico worth $5.3 billion between 2010 and 2019, and repeal the industry's eligibility for a manufacturing tax credit worth $13.3 billion in that period.
In an era in which the word "trillions" is uttered with abandonment, billions suddenly don't seem like much do they? Unless of course you're a middle or lower income family. Then trillions and billions are meaningless. It's how far can you stretch the thousands of dollars you earn each year?
Well that $13 a week tax cut you're contemplating will quickly disappear at the gas pump if Congress and the adminstration get their way. Fuel prices will rise at the pump and may rise rather dramatically. That's because that approximately 20 billion you see above will most likely morph into about 400 billion cost to the oil companies during that period:
The industry says the final cost of Mr. Obama's proposals on petroleum production could top $400 billion, once his plan to put a price on greenhouse-gas emissions is factored in.
The lie:
The Obama administration has generally justified its proposals by arguing that taxpayers deserve a better deal.
Yeah, I know, "lie" is a strong word. I've always considered it to be the knowing telling of a falsehood. And that's precisely what this "justification" is. The "taxpayer" being talked about isn't you in this scenario. It's the government. You will be paying the passed through tax at the pump which the oil companies will then send to DC.
For the seeming millionth time, corporations don't pay taxes, they collect them and pass them on. Individuals pay taxes.
Last but not least – Raising taxes in recessionary times (not matter how indirect) is a recipe for economic disaster. Additionally such taxes in recessionary times may have the effect of driving jobs offshore where taxes and restrictions are less onerous and seeing oil companies produce less oil and natural gas domestically in a time when there is a growing and increasingly worrisome energy gap.
Not a very bright policy.
If The Alternative Energy Types Think It Will Be Easy …
It won't be. There's nothing "sacred" about wind and solar, certainly nothing which is going to see environmentalists back off of their opposition to anything with despoils the vision they hold of how mother earth should be:
As David Myers scans the rocky slopes of this desert canyon, looking vainly past clumps of brittlebush for bighorn sheep, he imagines an enemy advancing across the crags.
That specter is of an army of mirrors, generators and transmission towers transforming Mojave Desert vistas like this one. While Whitewater Canyon is privately owned and protected, others that Mr. Myers, as head of the Wildlands Conservancy, has fought to preserve are not.
To his chagrin, some of Mr. Myers's fellow environmentalists are helping power companies pinpoint the best sites for solar-power technology. The goal of his former allies is to combat climate change by harnessing the desert's solar-rich terrain, reducing the region's reliance on carbon-emitting fuels.
Mr. Myers is indignant. "How can you say you're going to blade off hundreds of thousands of acres of earth to preserve the Earth?" he said.
As I've said before, if you think that these groups are going to let anyone carpet the Mojave Desert with solar panels and endanger its eco system, you haven't been paying attention to what has been going on here for the last 50 years.
Terry Frewin, a local Sierra Club representative, said he had tough questions for state regulators. "Deserts don't need to be sacrificed so that people in L.A. can keep heating their swimming pools," Mr. Frewin said.
But that's precisely what it will take for solar to make any appreciable difference, given the technology available today. The ironic thing is the movement to plus up solar is being driven by a Democratic administration and putting it into direct conflict with one of its more loyal constituencies.
It is also causing dissent within environmental organizations as well:
"It's not enough to say no to things anymore," said Carl Zichella, a Sierra Club expert on renewable power. "We have to say yes to the right thing."
We'll see who wins in the end and what the eventual political cost will be – but you can rest assured, there'll be nothing easy about implementing solar and wind if environmentalists have any say.
Federal Drug Warriors Double Down On The Drug War (UPDATE)
New administration, same lame approach:
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday pledged to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with Mexico in its violent struggle against drug cartels, and acknowledged the U.S. shares blame because of its demand for drugs and supply of weapons.
She said the United States shares responsibility with Mexico for dealing with violence now spilling across the border and promised cooperation to improve security on both sides.
And it's your fault:
"I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility," Clinton told reporters, adding: "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians."
Of course, if we had control of our borders and drugs weren't "illegal", we probably wouldn't be seeing the slaughter on the border now, would we?
Look, I know, as does everyone who reads this blog, that the sudden realization that it is the prohibition that drives all of this violence and not the demand, isn't going to suddenly dawn on the politicians. The lessons of 1920's prohibition have apparently been lost on them. The lawlessness, the gun violence, the flouting of the law by a majority of the population – all were essentially eliminated with the repeal of the 18th Amendment.
I'm not going to make the argument that drugs are good for you, harmless or something I'd want my grandkids to do. But I understand, despite all of that, that our approach – prohibition – is an abject failure and the war on the border is simply a manifestation of that failure.
The key to winning this war is to take the profit motive for criminals out of the equation. For most observers that seems self-evident. No profit, no war. No war, no need for guns and killing.
Yet governments seem to resist that obvious point. Instead they wage "war" on the producers, suppliers and users. But the profits, propped up by the government prohibition, are so obscene that the replacement of producers and suppliers taken out of the "business" is almost instant. And the size of the user population is such that only low single digit percentages of them are ever caught and prosecuted. It is, relatively speaking, a low risk business with very high rewards for the producers.
In reality, a criminal business is motivated by the very same things as is a legal business. It responds to the same sorts of market incentives as a legal business. The market, however, isn't created by natural demand and regulated by competition. Instead, the market is one created by government prohibition. No prohibition, no "illegal" demand. No illegal demand, no possibility of the obscene profits enjoyed and no real appeal to a criminal enterprise or syndicate.
So calling for more of the same in terms of addressing this problem seems insane. As long as the prohibition remains in place the profit motive for the criminal gangs remains in place as well. And as long as the profits are large enough to more than offset the losses incurred in the distribution process (and the fight with governments and police), they will continue in their "business" until such a profit motive disappears. And as long as the price of drugs remains reasonably low and readily available (and the enjoyment remains high), and the population wanting them remains large, demand will remain pretty constant.
As has been demonstrated for decades, governmental efforts to stem both supply and demand through prohibition has been a pitiful failure. Yet here we are, getting ready to double down on this horribly failed policy.
In reality, this is again a manifestation of the nanny state. It is a determination by government that something it has decided is detrimental to individuals should be denied them. Instead of approaching the issue as it did with alcohol, our government has eschewed the lessons learned and the success of that effort in favor of the approach it is now taking.
To most rational people such an approach seems absurdly irrational. Yet there is no serious debate within government circles about the failure of the present approach or discussion of alternatives. And that's in the face of evidence that drugs are now being used to finance terror organizations.
Something has got to change. And it needs to change quickly, or what you see on the border now will only grow worse. We've talked about how governments can distort markets. What you see now is a classic example of the results of such a distortion.
UPDATE: New York is trying something different in terms of combatting drugs. Although still not signed into law, the Governor and legislature have agreed to legislation which would dismantle much of the '70s era "mandatory sentencing" laws and put more of an emphasis on treatment:
The deal would repeal many of the mandatory minimum prison sentences now in place for lower-level drug felons, giving judges the authority to send first-time nonviolent offenders to treatment instead of prison.
The plan would also expand drug treatment programs and widen the reach of drug courts at a cost of at least $50 million.
New York's drug sentencing laws, imposed during a heroin epidemic that was devastating urban areas nearly four decades ago, helped spur a nationwide trend toward mandatory sentences in drug crimes. But as many other states moved to roll back the mandatory minimum sentences in recent years, New York kept its laws on the books, leaving prosecutors with the sole discretion of whether offenders could be sent to treatment.
"We're putting judges in the position to determine sentences based on the facts of a case, and not on mandatory minimum sentences," said Jeffrion L. Aubry, an assemblyman from Queens who has led the effort for repeal.
"To me, that is the restoration of justice."
To me, it's a start.


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I was fiddling a little bit with Skype when I discovered that I could
login at the same time from two different terminals unlike other
messengers such as MSN. In such a scenario if someone gets hold of
your skype identity you would never know and he might just successfuly
abuse your account again and again.
-> Multiple login seems to be a known feature:
"Skype currently permits multiple concurrent logins"
-> If you want to evaluate the possibility of a replay attack, have a
look at the authentication scheme:
If you want to go farther than authentication (e.g. listening at
conversations), you will need to get access to the original session keys
from Skype process memory ...
Anyway, this attack is unpractical unless you have an Open Source Skype
client :)
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We've written about virtually every angle that's out there on the alleged Pistons boycott, and although there are many theories about what happened, NBA.com's David Aldridge points out that because of the rampant dysfunction in Detroit prior to this incident, the perception nationally is obviously that this was some type of organized attempt to undermine an unpopular coach.
But Aldridge touches on one angle that has largely been ignored locally as a result of local reporters having to track down the details of the story and try to find out what actually happened. Because of the overwhelmingly coverage, does this boycott become a tool for the league and owners to prove that players have too much power? Aldridge asked Dirk Nowitzki about that:
I had asked Dirk Nowitzki on Saturday if he expected blowback from the owners during collective bargaining because of the perception that players were more in control than usual.
"You don't want all the power with the owners," Nowitzki said, "but you don't want to have the players with all the power, boycotting practices and stuff like that. That's taking it a little far. So hopefully we can find a happy medium somewhere."
Aldridge also endorses a candidate for next coach of the Pistons:
The Pistons should send Hamilton home, and whether they can buy him out or not by tomorrow — the deadline for players to be added to other team's rosters to be playoff eligible — doesn't matter. Let Prince leave via free agency. Let Kuester finish the season with some dignity, and then make a change. Longtime assistant coach Darrell Walker has been sitting there waiting for a chance for years, while the Pistons went to Michael Curry (one year) and Kuester (two). Walker, who has head coaching experience in Washington and Toronto, would be a perfectly good choice for a young, rebuilding team, and he won't cost the new owner the kind of money it would take to lure the likes of Nate McMillan.
At this point, I have no idea whether the Pistons actually had some type of team-wide communication to organize a boycott. More and more it seems like an emotional reaction with the long-term ramifications never entering the minds of people who may or may not have participated in what may or may not have been a boycott.


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Believers in fate, fortune, omens and all things karma — such as TML his ownself — take note. T. Brady in a car wreck Thursday AM, en route to practice. The Pats QB is fine, but the tarot cards consulted the Ouija board and decided the seance suggested that the Bengals are a lock on Sunday…
Seriously, I believe The Men are seriously undervalued by The Experts. Two hesitations re Sunday: (1) The first-team pass rush hasnt shown up yet, and if you don't get up in Brady's facemask, he will make you regret it; and (A), Not sure where the trust/chemistry factor is yet between Nine and every receiver not named Planet Ocho. I understand all the extra work put in etc., but work after prax bears no resemblance to a 260-pound OLB crashing the edge.
Still, I do like me some Men, partly because I'm a contrarian.
The Pick: Men 27, Patriots 23.
Speaking of: A big reason the NFL is more popular than MLB is because we bet it. It's easier to bet. We have office pools, neighborhhood pools, family pools. You can get sick betting the NFL. Ask Schlichter. It's also a dummy's game. I can't tell you how many games I'd have bet your house on over the years, and lost.
The Vegas guys are smarter than we are. Almost always. They set lines for a living. If they're not good, they're unemployed.
That said, the PDoc Family and a few fortunate hangers-on will crack open the piggy banks beginning tonight, for the 17-week picking season. We weigh each game with a point value. If it's a 16-game week, your mortal lock gets a 16, your I Have No Clue gets a 1, and everything in between. We've done it this way at least three years. I've never won. Understand: There are only 5 or 6 people, max, in this thing.
So what do you do, Mobsters? I know you toss hard-earned coin at the NFL. Everybody does. How do you do it?
Speaking of TML's Knowing Nothing: Reds are 0-4 since I proclaimed them Central champs. They looked dead last night. I still say it's because they're playing teams with winning records, who are at home and who are motivated by wild card possibilities. I still say everything will be solved starting Friday, when a 7-game homestand against MPWS and AZ will have everyone back on the bandwagon. Besides, if the Reds are bad right now, the Cards are no better.
You might disagree. This guy who e-mailed me does:
Veterans such as Rolen and Gomes look spent, the starting pitching looks to be falling apart at the time of year good pitching prevails and the injuries to the outfielders seemingly will go un-addressed. Frankly it is embarrassing that a team in a pennant race has to play with 3 outfielders for over a week and has to use Aaron Harang to start a game. Games should never be conceded before the game starts, but that is what the Reds did on Monday.
It may be a big if, but "if" the Cards get hot the Reds will not make the playoffs. The more I watch how poorly they play against teams who will finish the season with winning records the more I question their ability to continue to overachieve against the teams you refer to as the "dregs". They look lost right now. (and the Rockies are not one of the league's better teams)
If they hold on I look forward to the "I told you so's in TML and to going to a playoff game.
Are you nervous, Morning People?
Now, then…
* The Petefest is at 630 Sat. night. Are you going? More to the point, are you going to see Pete? I maintain that 25 years is a long time. Pete visits occasionally, but he's certainly not part of the local fabric, and hasnt been since he lost his baseball job. Unlike his peer Johnny Bench, Pete gives nothing back to the community that supported him above and beyond. It's nice that Baseball permitted his participation. It's nice the Reds are remembering. But if I'm the average 30-something fan, I'm not all that interested.
Maybe you are.
BTW, if you want to see Pete, you better not blink. He will be in and out rather quickly, given his prior commitment to a casino.
Your take.
* The ancient, 100-year-old shagbark hickory operates on the every-other-year plan, when it comes to shedding its nuts. This is the year. The nuts fall on the roof of the house and on the deck. They sound like small-arms fire. If one connects with your head, you know it for about a week. But the meat within is fabulous. If you like that sort of thing. Which I do.
* MISTER GREEN JEANS UPDATE: For whatever reason, the green peppers are emerging now, thick and large. All summer, nothing. Now I'm giving 'em away. How come? The tomatoes are still around, but they've smalled up. The cukes are adios.
* TEXTING WHILE DRIVING. Guilty as charged. Stupid as hell. What is it about us now that we feel such a need to be connected, we're willing to endanger our lives and the lives of others to ensure it? We're gonna get fined for doing it around here, and that's a good thing.
Old Guy that I be, I've never understood texting. My bride texts with our son in Columbus all the time. "Why dont you just pick up the phone and call him?" I ask. "This is easier," she says.
Really? How?
* STADIUM STUPIDITY, Part 2: The NY Times yesterday did a story on how cities with new palaces still havent finished paying for their old ones, most of which were razed. Here's a column by G. Vecsey which says it all:
What a world. As city employees in Camden take a cut in pay and its residents face the padlocking of libraries, the Jets and the Giants can afford a new palace. While it is true that the owners of the two teams paid for the new stadium, the state provided all kinds of goodies known as infrastructure — and it built the old stadium, which has yet to be paid off.
You could call out my hypocrisy on this one: Guilty as called. I make my living covering teams. If we have no teams, because they move somewhere for a better palace, I have to find real employment. However…
I've never said it's anything other than ridiculous that we can subsidize millionaires who provide a service that isnt needed. Appreciated? Of course. But not necessary. The lousy economy only exacerbates an already bad situation. There was nothing structurally lacking in almost all of the places that were replaced. They just couldnt make owners (and by extension, players) the sort of cash they felt they should be making. If a society is judged by how it spends its treasure, how are we to be judged?
Thus endeth the lecture.
* The NFL will have me bitching about its over-the-top self before the kickoff of Saints-Favres tonight. Enough is never enough in the NF of L. But I will watch the game, and enjoy it very much.
* YOUR NFL TV FIX, FROM SI.COM I'm at games, so I dont watch them, unless it's Monday night or tonight. Question: When you're watching the Bengals or Whoever, does it really matter who's calling the game? It's a visual production, right? I'm always amazed at the hoopla surrounding the Super Bowl announcers. You're at a party or a bar, you're not listening to the guys call the game. Are you?
That said, I still think Collinsworth is the best. And if I hear Phil Simms reference "the football" one more time, I'm gonna shove "the football" down his cliche-loving throat.
Pardon the hostility, Mobsters. But no announcer can make it through a quarter w/o saying "the football" just so we know he's not talking about a canteloupe or a wheel of cheese. Baseball people don't say "the baseball", basketball guys dont say "the basketball." Why do football guys kill "the football", year after year?
OK, enough. I have real work to do, such as investigate 3D TVs for a hard-hitting column in the Traditional Media.
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Someone told me today I look so different with make up on. They didn't recognize me (Taken with instagram)
So I joined a group of awesome ladies who actually care about working out. We push each other…so amazing. love it. And we all bring along our kiddos…ages vary!
Thanks this I finally stepped off the 200 mark…granted I'm only 198 but woohoo!! I have 2 more months to reach my goal! Woohoo!!
I feel soo much better, its amazing. I actually like what I see in the mirror…abit. I'm still not 100% happy, but much happier. Whats also great about this boot camp, she also works with prenatal ladies! Aka when Im carrying my 2nd and 3rd I can still work out! I'm sure by than I'll be doing okay on my own but extra motivation always helps. Plus its soooo fun!
Okay Im down pumping now…off to bed! :)
So the diet worked, I still keep on top of things with Declan's supply so no worries. I kept testing how much I could control of what I eat. I went alittle low that it gave me headaches but added a fruit smoothie/protein shake and I'm good to go! I'm down to 200lbs still pretty high but i got off the rut of 210 I was suck on. Now hopefully if I keep at this rate I will 170 in time for COCKSPARRER in Philly!! I can wear one of my lovely dresses!