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"You are remembered for the rules you break"
— Douglas MacArthur
I'm not sure that I ever thought I would use a quote from one of the great military minds in United States history to describe a Utah basketball player, but here I am.
I'm sure that if you are reading this column that you know that Utah basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak kicked his best player, Josh "Jiggy" Watkins, off the basketball team this week. Watkins has been a repeat offender in the breaking of team rules department. Let me say this, I've known Josh Watkins for nearly two years now, he's not a bad kid. He's a really nice kid, with an engaging personality. He also happens to struggle with following the rules set out by his head coach. What he did and how often he did it isn't really all that important anymore. I know everyone likes to know the details and what rules were broken, but the details aren't all that important in this situation.
What is important is that the head coach, who is in his first year and trying to rebuild a program that has bottomed out, deemed the violations egregious enough to remove his team's leading scorer and best player for the remainder of the season. This is called "sending a message" or "establishing a baseline for program expectations."
In other words, no one is above the rules, no matter how big or small the rules or status on the team. Krystkowiak and his staff aren't just trying to make the product on the floor better, they are attempting to change the culture of Utah basketball, which hasn't been great. Make no mistake about this: It is a move for the long run, not the short run.
The dismissal of Watkins from the basketball team will most certainly make an already-offensively challenged basketball team much more challenged when it comes to scoring points. I'm not sure how, where or if the nearly 16 points a game Watkins averaged will be made up. But some of the younger players like Kareem Storey and Anthony Odunsi will now be given the opportunity to show what they are made of and prove that they belong at the Division I level.
Both have looked like freshmen for most of this season, which means they had moments where they've excelled, but mostly have struggled to pick up the college game. Storey has shown some flashes of brilliance on defense, but will now be asked to be the primary ball handler and the guy that gets Utah into its offensive sets. Odunsi, whose minutes have diminished during Pac-12 play, will likely see his minutes jump again.
The Utah program isn't being judged on wins and losses this year, and to be fair, it probably shouldn't be judged on wins and losses for a couple of seasons. Evaluation of Larry Krystkowiak's team will come on progress and improvement.
Unless there's a clear understanding of the rules and what is expected of players in the program, there can never be progress and improvement — or more importantly wins. So the message has been sent. Now, let's see how this young team responds.
As always, I welcome your thoughts. Please feel free to comment here or send me an email to [email protected]. You can also interact with me on twitter @espn700bill.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Four female lawmakers from Turkey's Islamist-rooted ruling party plan to wear their Islamic head scarves in parliament on Thursday in a challenge to the country's secular tradition.
The last time a lawmaker attempted to wear the head scarf in parliament in 1999 she was expelled from the assembly.
"We do not know how they will react but we are going to enter parliament with our head scarves and continue our work," Nurcan Dalbudak, one of the four Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmakers, told Reuters.
"We are going to witness the start of an important era and we will play the leading role, we will be the standard-bearers, this is very important," she said.
The head scarf is an emotive symbol in Turkey, viewed by secularists as the emblem of political Islam and its appearance in public life as an affront to the Turkish Republic's secular foundations set up by founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
While there are no specific restrictions on wearing the head scarf in parliament, opposition from secularists as well as a ban in other state institutions, which was lifted this month, have previously deterred women from wearing them.
Dalbudak and fellow AKP lawmakers Sevde Beyazit Kacar, Gulay Samanci and Gonul Bekin Sahkulubey were expected to attend the general assembly later on Thursday wearing their head scarves.
Turkey's main opposition and secularist Republican People's Party (CHP) has said it will contest the move.
"All our members are in agreement, that is, we think the AKP is exploiting religion. We will never remain silent towards actions aimed at eliminating the principle of secularism," CHP lawmaker Dilek Akagun Yilmaz told Reuters.
She said the party had agreed to show their opposition in a "graceful" manner, and it is unlikely parliament will witness a repeat of the chaotic scenes from 1999 when Merve Kavakci, an MP from the Islamist Virtue Party, a predecessor of AKP, wore her head scarf to a swearing-in ceremony.
Bulent Ecevit, the prime minister at the time, addressed the packed assembly, saying: "This is not the place to challenge the state. Inform this woman of her limits!", while half the chamber stood shouting: "Get out! Get out!" to the seated Kavakci.
The assembly was adjourned and Kavakci was forced to leave the chamber without taking her oath. She was later stripped of her Turkish citizenship after she was found to have taken dual American citizenship without informing the authorities.
The Virtue Party was closed down in 2001 for violating the secularist articles of the constitution and several lawmakers, including Kavakci, were banned from politics for five years.
Nazli Ilicak, then a fellow Virtue Party lawmaker who was sitting next to Kavakci in parliament before she was expelled, welcomed the AKP MPs' decision and said she did not expect a repeat of 1999.
"This is a positive development. I don't think there will be similar scenes to the Kavakci incident. People are now a little embarrassed about what they did in the past," Ilicak said.
The lawmakers' announcements come only weeks after the AKP lifted a decades-old ban on women wearing the head scarf in state institutions as part of a package of reforms the government says are meant to improve democracy.
But the debate around the head scarf goes to the heart of tensions between religious and secular elites, a fault line in Turkish public life.
Restrictions on head scarves at universities have already been eased under the AKP and critics of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan point to this and other policies such as restrictions the sale of alcohol as proof his party is seeking to erode the secular order of the republic built on the ruins of an Ottoman theocracy by Ataturk in 1923.
Supporters of Erdogan, whose wife also wears the head scarf, particularly in Turkey's pious Anatolian heartlands, say the Turkish leader is simply redressing the balance and restoring freedom of religious expression to a Muslim majority.
Erdogan called on lawmakers to respect the decision.
"There is no by-law in parliament that prevents this and everyone must respect the decision taken by our sisters on this subject. They have been elected by the nation and are representatives of the nation in parliament," he said.
Some opponents have criticized the timing of the decisions, saying they were aimed at garnering support ahead of an election cycle, an accusation dismissed by Dalbudak who said it had been based solely on personal belief.
"I am very happy and proud because I am completing one of the foremost duties required of me. I am experiencing an inner peace because of this," she said. "This has nothing to do with investing in an election."
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The Value of Fiction
It's a post about the value of reading fiction.
I loved how he explained how important story telling is and how Jesus told stories to get his message across.
Good fiction does this also.
Hop on over to his blog and then, if you like, let me know what you think.
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Peace be upon you BA,
I think it is impossible that what this Japanese person describes could take place, here are some examples:
1- "I realized that people were watching me even from the actions taking place in the programs of TV stations. It was in 1993 that I realized that people in TV stations could tell when I switched on the TV and turned in on their TV channel to watch their program. It seemed to me that one TV station was informed of my watching by a light coming on. I seldom watch TV, except the news and sports programs.
After a while, when I watched TV, the TV newscasters began to express hatred on TV, and I very clearly understood that baseball and soccer players began to fix games. Moreover, I came to suspect that the people in the TV stations were spying on me via the TV cable, so that I seldom watched TV except during meals from 1996.
2- These phenomena also explain the shameless performances on stage, like メNohモ performances, and fixed sports games, which must be the duty of the perpetrators and the secret assistant groups.
I was interested in baseball and soccer. When I went to see a game or watch it on TV, the players began to play a fixed game after being informed that I was watching. How should I understand this abnormal spirit although everybody else saw the game in a stadium or on TV? The abnormality is that they can engage in shameless acts and people are indifferent, nobody complains. This shows the confidence of the perpetrators and its secret assistant groups to perform shameless acts. I have come to know their real ability.
from http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~mcva-jp/englishversion01.html
I have no intention to insult this young man, but i think the Jinn-invisible-demons are the ones who are trying to intimidate and control him, which actually happens with everybody of us to varying degrees.
The answer to his problem is simple, return to God and don't fear anybody or anything besides Him.
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Which Movies Have One Ending Too Many?
Some films just don't know when to quit.
Without giving anything away, we'd like to heap hosannas on Source Code for having a great ending. The last scene is intelligent and emotional and there's a hell of a final image ... the only problem? The movie keeps going after that, and then there's another, far less effective ending. Of course, this isn't the first time a film didn't know when to quit — who didn't watch Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence and wish that it had the guts to wrap up with Haley Joel Osment at the bottom of the ocean instead of adding an additional, unwieldy epilogue? Which other films have had one (or even two!) endings too many?


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Review: Naughty By Naturebyvelvetpie©
The Best Sex Ever, Episode Twenty-Five (25). Naughty By Nature.
Starring Angela Davies (as Veronica), Ava Vincent (as Valerie), Randy Spears (as Ned), Mandy Fisher (as Aimee) and Matt Dalpiaz (as Jim).
A camping trip leads to lust among the pines when a conservative husband and wife learn to open up thanks to a much more liberal couple.
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Angela Davies stars as a radio talk show host, Veronica, and her role serves as the recurring base theme throughout the series. Her character introduces each segment by posing a question to her audience. In Naughty By Nature, she asks listeners to tell her about the best sex they've ever had outdoors. She says there's something raw and unbridled about being naughty in nature.
Jim is the first caller and he says that he never liked camping until he went with his wife. He grew up in Queens and didn't know anything about camping but his wife, Aimee, was studying plant extinction as part of her studies at the university and she recruited him to go with her. Unfortunately, he went but was not very happy because the weekend meant dusk-to-dawn sports for him.
Aimee and Jim are hiking along a trail. Aimee is admiring the beauty of the outdoors while Jim is trying to get the game to come in on his hand-held radio. He complains that he can't get the game and she says that he's supposed to be enjoying the outdoors. When he suddenly shouts to stop, she thinks he's seen something like an animal or a plant, but he's just able to find a station. She's upset but he's happy, saying that life is improving now that he's found a station. He doesn't care what game it is, as long as it's a game.
Aimee comments that the air feels nice and that being alone in the woods with him kind of turns her on. She kisses him and rips the earplug from him, commanding his attention. Jim's worried that someone might see them but she tells him not to worry. They take off their back packs and jackets, then shirts as they continue to kiss. He pulls her shirt off and sucks on her nipples, sliding down to remove her pants and panties. Jim leans Aimee back against the bridge rail and goes down on her. When she's nice and wet, he pushes into her from the back, fucking her until they both cum.
Later, at the campsite, they start unpacking and when Aimee starts to unroll the tent, he stops her, saying that he'll do it. Aimee decides to go start with her cataloguing and Jim says that he'll set the tent and the rest of the site up. While Aimee walks around, checking out the plants, Jim wrestles with the tent and is obviously having problems getting it assembled. Just as he's about to throw the pieces down in frustration, a camper drives up. He watches as Valerie helps her husband, Reed back the vehicle up into an adjacent space.
While Reed hooks up the electric, Valerie meets and makes small talk with Jim. Reed helps Jim set the tent up. That night, the two couples roast marshmallows together and they start talking about the best sex they've ever had. Valerie tells a story about how she and Reed had sex while the neighbors were watching and Reed says that sometimes, a tweak in the program, can make things much better. As he says this, he rubs Valerie's breast under her shirt, then gives her a kiss.
Valerie asks Aimee and Jim if they've ever had sex in front of anyone and they reply, "No, just the dog." Uncomfortable, Aimee stands to clean up and Valerie and Reed go into their tent. While Aimee watches, Valerie and Reed begin to kiss. Jim joins her, worried that they're being rude, but Aimee tells him that they watch them to watch. Reed takes his shirt off, then Valerie's and rubs her breasts. Next, he pulls her shorts off and lays her down on the sleeping bag, then goes down on her.
Aimee and Jim head off to their own tent. Reed pulls his pants down and moves behind Valerie, pounding into her from behind. They change positions with Reed lying on his back and Valerie straddling him, her back to him. She rides him until they cum.
In the morning, Aimee and Jim are making breakfast when Valerie and Jim come over. Aimee offers breakfast but Valerie says that they ate awhile ago and are going hiking. She invites them to go but Aimee says that she has a lot of work to do and Jim wants to listen to the ball game. Reed tells Jim that he's welcome to watch it in their RV on the TV set and check his e-mails on their computer.
After Aimee returns, she joins Jim in the RV and they end up kissing on the bed. Kissing turns into undressing and he rubs her breasts while eating her out. Then, he moves up behind her, taking her from behind, then lets her ride him until they cum. Valerie and Reed arrive back with the excuse that they forgot their sandwiches and catch them naked, which embarrasses Aimee. She want to move to another campsite but Jim calms her down, telling her that they came back early to catch them in the act because there are no sandwiches in the fridge.
That night, the couple is hanging out again and Aimee and Jim tell Valerie and Reed that this is their last night and that they want to try something they've never done before. They want to make love under the stars and Jim leads Aimee to a makeshift bed he's made up outside the front of their tent. Valerie and Reed head over to their own blanket and both couples begin to kiss and undress. While Jim goes down on her, Aimee watches the other couple and closes her eyes.
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Edmonds native Aaron Voros and his band Hotels are on the road to Las Vegas, where they will participate in Billboard's Battle of the Bands concert May 18 and an opportunity — if they win — to play during the nationally televised Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand on May 22.
My Edmonds News wrote about Voros, Hotels' drummer and a 2005 Edmonds-Woodway High School grad, and the band here. At the time, Hotels was one of three finalists vying through online voting on the Billboard website to represent the Northwest in a battle of promising unsigned bands. Hotels ended up winning that stage of the contest, and band members left Thursday for a road trip to Las Vegas, where they will battle it out against five other bands (each representing another U.S. region).
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Miranda Kerr rocks two different dresses at the Samantha Thavasa Omotesando Gates Store fan event held at Akasaka Britz on Thursday (April 3) in Tokyo, Japan.
The 30-year-old model was joined at the event by singer Takahiro of the Japanese band Exile.
The day before, Miranda's ex Orlando Bloom received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where he thanked her in his speech!
"No success could happen or even feel vaguely this sweet without the support of family and great friends," Orlando said during his speech. "My dad, my sister, my cousin, my old mom back in England who couldn't make it today, my best mates Mark and Chris. Miranda for giving me the greatest gift of all, my son [Flynn]. You know I love you all and thank you for everything."
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Montreal's new mayor, who pledged to stamp out corruption at City Hall when he took office late last year, was arrested by Quebec's anti-corruption police squad on Monday, numerous Canadian media outlets said.
Michael Applebaum, the French-speaking city's first anglophone mayor in more than a century, was arrested at his home early Monday morning by the Unite permanente anticorruption (UPAC), a police spokeswoman told the La Presse newspaper and other media outlets.
The charges against Applebaum were not immediately known, and police did not immediately return calls from Reuters. They are due to hold a news conference at 10 a.m. local time (1400 GMT).
The arrest is the latest in a string of scandals surrounding Canadian municipal politics.
Montreal's previous mayor, Gérald Tremblay, stepped down in November amid allegations he turned a blind eye to corruption and illegal spending by his political party. He denies wrongdoing.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been in the headlines after two media outlets said they viewed a video that appeared to show him smoking crack cocaine. Ford says he does not use crack cocaine, and Reuters has not been able to verify the existence of the video.
In Quebec, Canada's largest province by area and home to big companies like plane and trainmaker Bombardier Inc, politicians at both the municipal and provincial level have been implicated in two years during a public inquiry over allegations of municipal contract rigging, kickbacks to politicians and illegal financing of elections.
Gilles Vaillancourt, the mayor of the Montreal suburb of Laval, stepped down in 2012 but denied allegations of corruption. Vaillancourt was arrested last month and charged with gangsterism, fraud and corruption.
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>Those great greeks you speak of killed to gard their >knowledge
Duhhh.. If knowledge is at any rate useful, you respect that knowledge by making use of it... If you don`t use it..you don`t need the knowledge therefore don`t need to respect it.
Wow....clap clap... same #ing response as anyone being into any religion (thinking THEY are the ones, THEY are the best, etcc...). Same answer from me: YOUR boundary is Freemasonry. Period.
Yes..you got my friend going nut.
But see what muslims have done ??? Fanaticism is not a joke.
Alas.....I fell on a bunch of fanatics....
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Oh the ideal of brother hood huh?
freemasons hate the catholic church and want it gone from society, and even had
plans of infiltrating it because they believe its a god tellling us what to do.
What god do they believe?
How can all men be of god?
They believe in freedom outside of religion, when they themselves are a religion.
if they would open their eyes and heart they would believe in christ who sent them miracles upon miracles, yet their goal is
the destruction of the church of god.
they hate the church.
But one of their teachings is, god is the center of their faith.
what god?


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More than half (52%) of electric cars in the U.S. can be found in 5 cities
Can you guess which?Not too surprisingly, the distribution of plug-in vehicles across the United States is not even. They tend to cluster in certain regions and cities, which is not surprising because population is not evenly distributed either; but even taking that into account, certain places are definitely more EV-friendly than others. According to the latest data from R.L. Polk, 52% of the electric vehicles in the country can be found in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.
That's alphabetical order, though. If you look at sales, the order changes to: San Francisco first with 19.5%, Los Angeles second with 15.4%, Seattle third at 8%, then New York City with 4.6% and Atlanta with 4.4%.
San Francisco is definitely punching above its weight in this list, though that's not too surprising considering the city is very eco-friendly and tech-friendly.
Via R.L. Polk, WIRED
See also: Tesla Model S gets highest safety score of any car ever tested by NHTSA (5.4 stars)


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Options we offer
There are three main packages that we offer: Short Safari; Cultural Safari; and Great Water Adventure. The activities are arranged here to suit visitors with between 2 and 4 nights to spend with us, but they can be put together in any way you want.
1. Short Safari – 3 days and 2 nights
This is a popular option for people working in Dar es Salaam, because it can (more or less) fit into a weekend. However, anyone is welcome to choose this package, and you can do this 3 day/2 night option at any point in the week.
Day 1
Private pick up from Dar and arrive for lunch, or if arriving late then just light refreshments.
Sunset cruise on our comfortable river boat, looking at hippos, crocodiles and birds, and enjoying the spectacular sunset over this enormous river. This is one of Africa's five greatest rivers, over half a mile wide where the lodge is, with panoramic views across the water to distant hills. The colours are breathtaking.
Cold drinks from the bar, then dinner.
Day 2
Early breakfast at 06.00 and then a 30 minute drive to the Selous Game Reserve. All day private game drive in a specially modified safari vehicle with a professional guide, in which you should see and learn much about a large number of animals, including all the great favourites – lion, elephant, giraffe, buffalo, zebra – and all the other major species including the rare African wild dog. Great variety of bird species. Wonderful scenery, with varied topography: wetlands, dry grassland, light acacia forest and higher ground with long views to far-off mountains.
Packed lunch and time to rest. Your guide will select a location with shade and water nearby to watch animals coming to drink – a place with a clear view all round so that no predator can creep up unseen!
Back to the lodge by 6.30 for sunset and dinner when you're ready.
Day 3
Up early for a walk through the bush and along the riverbank to learn more about the local environment. Our local guides will tell you all about the fauna & flora; almost every plant and tree is used locally in one way or another. You will be fascinated.
Back after the walk for breakfast, and then departure for Dar.
2. Cultural Safari – 4 days/3 nights
Days 1 and 2
as for the Short Safari above.
Day 3
A relaxed start to the morning, as spending all the previous day in the game reserve takes plenty of energy.
After breakfast we visit local villages where activities can include looking around the market and shops, visiting schools, visiting work places such as a carpentry workshop, and paying a visit to a family at home.
Back to the lodge for lunch.
In the afternoon by boat to visit people who live by fishing or farming along the river, and learn more about life in rural Africa. Back in time for sunset, drinks and dinner.
Day 4
The day begins with the bush walk already described. Back after the walk for breakfast, and then departure for Dar.
3. Great Water Adventure – 5 days/4 nights
Days 1, 2 and 3
as above.
Day 4
Early breakfast, and then to the game park by private vehicle again to visit some areas of the park which you have not seen on Day 1, with different terrain and animals. Packed lunch.
After lunch, we will pick you up inside the park in our boat and take you back to the lodge by river, which will take all afternoon. If the water depth is adequate, this will include exploring some of the large lakes that are linked to the Rufiji River. Access is through narrow channels where you have to duck down beneath the trees and bushes to pass for a hundred metres or so before emerging in open water. This is exciting stuff, and enables you to reach places inaccessible by vehicle.
Along the river you may be lucky and see elephants bathing and drinking, while large numbers of hippo are more or less guaranteed, mainly in the water but from time to time coming up on to the banks. We turn off the engine for a while once in the mainstream and drift with the current back down to the lodge with just the sound of bird call, timing arrival for sunset.
Day 5
As above – start with a local bush walk, then back for breakfast before departure for Dar.
For prices, please see Prices & Booking.


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Scott Downs loped into the outfield grass, and Red Sox outfielder Jackie Bradley, Jr., understood his night was over. He turned his back to the diamond, waiting for a pinch hitter to replace him. The impending maneuver appeared obvious to so many inside Fenway Park, except the man behind the controls inside the Royals dugout.
"I outsmarted myself," Ned Yost said.
Into the sixth inning of an eventual 5-4 Royals loss stepped Jonny Gomes, and with one simple stroke, Boston manager John Farrell had out-foxed his managerial counterpart. Downs is 39. The White Sox released him earlier this month. His sole value is an ability to baffle left-handed hitters – which is precisely what Gomes is not.
Asked to procure one out to protect a one-run lead, Downs held the line for five pitches. His sixth was blasted over the wall in center field for a two-run shot, and the Royals never recovered. They frittered away a three-run lead in that deciding frame, and face-planted to start the season's second half.
The blame started at the top. Because it was the sixth inning, Yost explained later, he did not expect Farrell to make a move. Yost found himself caught flat-footed. He regretted removing starting James Shields from the contest with a runner at second after 112 pitches, and did not consider walking Gomes to fill the opening at first base.
"When you analyze it after the fact, which is a lot easier to do before the fact, it was the wrong move," he said. "Gomes makes a living off left-handed pitchers, coming in spots like that. It was just a bad decision on my part."
The sixth inning represented a systematic failure for the Royals (48-47). Their ace, Shields, yielded a two-run homer to a strikeout-prone rookie. Their two best outfield defenders, Alex Gordon and Lorenzo Cain, failed to flag down catchable balls. At last some blame belongs with Downs, foolish enough to challenge Gomes with an 89-mph sinker at the thighs.
"He won that battle," Downs said. "I made my pitches. I wouldn't change a thing."
The decision to insert Downs into this scenario can be considered curious at best, mind-boggling at worst. Farrell cannot even be credited with setting a trap. He merely reaped the benefits.
After skidding into the All-Star break, the Royals continued to tumble on Friday. Shields allowed four runs in 5 2/3 innings. Despite a three-hit night from Eric Hosmer, the offense failed to properly punish Boston starter Clay Buchholz despite 10 hits. The defense lacked his usual crispness: Gordon dropped a ball when diving to start the sixth, and Cain could not catch up to a ball in the gap two batters later.
The misplay by Cain, which granted Stephen Drew a double, set up the critical scenario with Downs. The decision to remove Shields and crack open the bullpen fell to Yost.
"I didn't do my job getting outs," Shields said. "We had some unfortunate plays happen."
The irony of Friday night's result is Yost cast himself as something of a harmless observer beforehand. During a four-day respite this week, Yost rode his tractor through his farm in Georgia. As chigger bugs attacked his legs, leaving them pocked with bites, he considered how his club might combat the second half of this season.
"You're thinking all the time," Yost said. "But thinking and doing are two different things. I mean, you're thinking about 'How can we hit better?' We've got to hit better. 'What moves can we make?' We can't make no moves. 'How do we get Billy [Butler] going?' Billy's got to get going."
The onus, he concluded, fell on the players to produce. "A lot of stuff," he said, "you've just got to go do it."
The quest to do just that began on an idyllic, 68-degree night at Fenway Park. After trading runs early, the Royals reclaimed the lead in the fourth, but squandered a chance to batter Buchholz. The frame featured a quartet of hits, a pair of unproductive groundballs and one mistake by a ball girl down the first-base line.
The mistake occurred after Infante raked a leadoff single. Hosmer smoked a grounder past first baseman Mike Napoli and just inside the bag. The ball girl stepped out to scoop it, anyway. From his spot in the dugout, Yost looked perplexed. The umpires placed Infante at third and Hosmer at second.
Yost protested the ruling, positing that Infante could have scored if the ball caromed off the wall. His hitters rendered the point moot soon after: Salvador Perez and Alex Gordon each ripped RBI singles to plate the two runs. With runners at the corners and none out, though, both Billy Butler and Moustakas failed to advance runners with groundouts.
"We did leave a couple runs on (the table)," Yost said.
The at-bats haunted the Royals as the game dragged on. Hosmer added an RBI single in the fifth, but from there, the bats quieted. With one out in the eighth, Gordon found himself at third base. He represented the tying run.
There he remained. Moustakas chopped a 2-0 curveball into the waiting glove of Dustin Pedroia, and Escobar managed another measly groundout. Yet the manager would shoulder the blame.
After the game, as the players drifted into the night, Moustakas approached Yost to atone for his failure in those spots.
"We had enough runs to win," Yost told him. "If I would have run the pitching right."
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Question: Why do the inhabitants of cold climates eat fat? How would you find experimentally the relative quantities of heat given off when equal weights of sulphur, phosphorus, and carbon are thoroughly burned?
Answer: An inhabitant of cold climates (called Frigid Zoans) eats fat principally because he can't get no lean, also because he wants to rise is temperature. But if equal weights of sulphur phosphorus and carbon are burned in his neighbourhood he will give off eating quite so much. The relative quantities of eat given off will depend upon how much sulphur etc. is burnt and how near it is burned to him. If I knew these facts it would be an easy sum to find the answer.
Answer: An inhabitant of cold climates (called Frigid Zoans) eats fat principally because he can't get no lean, also because he wants to rise is temperature. But if equal weights of sulphur phosphorus and carbon are burned in his neighbourhood he will give off eating quite so much. The relative quantities of eat given off will depend upon how much sulphur etc. is burnt and how near it is burned to him. If I knew these facts it would be an easy sum to find the answer.
A tree is beautiful, but whats more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!
As geologists, we learn that it is not only the present condition of the globe that has been suited to the accommodation of myriads of living creatures, but that many former states also have been equally adapted to the organization and habits of prior races of beings. The disposition of the seas, continents, and islands, and the climates have varied; so it appears that the species have been changed, and yet they have all been so modelled, on types analogous to those of existing plants and animals, as to indicate throughout a perfect harmony of design and unity of purpose. To assume that the evidence of the beginning or end of so vast a scheme lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to us inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations which subsist between the finite powers of man and the attributes of an Infinite and Eternal Being.
But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.
By felling the trees which cover the tops and sides of mountains, men in all climates seem to bring upon future generations two calamities at once; want of fuel and a scarcity of water.
Coal We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization; for coal is a portable climate. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comforts bring its industrial power.
Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
Environmentalists may get off on climate porn, but most people just turn away. 'If it was really so bad, they'd do something,' says one colleague, without specifying who 'they' are. The human tendency to convince yourself that everything is OK, because no one else is worried, is deeply ingrained.
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.
For terrestrial vertebrates, the climate in the usual meteorological sense of the term would appear to be a reasonable approximation of the conditions of temperature, humidity, radiation, and air movement in which terrestrial vertebrates live. But, in fact, it would be difficult to find any other lay assumption about ecology and natural history which has less general validity. Most vertebrates are much smaller than man and his domestic animals, and the universe of these small creatures is one of cracks and crevices, holes in logs, dense underbrush, tunnels, and nestsa world where distances are measured in yards rather than miles and where the difference between sunshine and shadow may be the difference between life and death. Actually, climate in the usual sense of the term is little more than a crude index to the physical conditions in which most terrestrial animals live.
Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity of the Siberian taigas, over the brown deserts where the Earths salt shines, over the high peaks capped with silver, over the shivering jungles, over the undulating forests of the tropics! Day after day, through infinite time, the scenery has changed in imperceptible features. Let us smile at the illusion of eternity that appears in these things, and while so many temporary aspects fade away, let us listen to the ancient hymn, the spectacular song of the seas, that has saluted so many chains rising to the light.
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How to start on my adventurehow to become a foresterwas not so simple. There were no schools of Forestry in America. Whoever turned his mind toward Forestry in those days thought little about the forest itself and more about its influences, and about its influence on rainfall first of all. So I took a course in meteorology, which has to do with weather and climate. and another in botany, which has to do with the vegetable kingdomtrees are unquestionably vegetable. And another in geology, for forests grow out of the earth. Also I took a course in astronomy, for it is the sun which makes trees grow. All of which is as it should be, because science underlies the foresters knowledge of the woods. So far I was headed right. But as for Forestry itself, there wasnt even a suspicion of it at Yale. The time for teaching Forestry as a profession was years away.
If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.
In our daily lives, we enjoy the pervasive benefits of long-lived robotic spacecraft that provide high-capacity worldwide telecommunications; reconnaissance of Earths solid surface and oceans, with far-reaching cultural and environmental implications; much-improved weather and climatic forecasts; improved knowledge about the terrestrial effects of the Suns radiations; a revolutionary new global navigational system for all manner of aircraft and many other uses both civil and military; and the science of Earth itself as a sustainable abode of life.
It is hard to imagine while strenuously walking in the heart of an equatorial rain forest, gasping for every breath in a stifling humid sauna, how people could have ever adapted to life under these conditions. It is not just the oppressive climate - the tall forest itself is dark, little light reaching the floor from the canopy, and you do not see any animals. It is a complete contrast to the herbivore-rich dry savannahs of tropical Africa. Yet there are many animals here, evident by the loud, continual noise of large cryptic insects and the constant threat of stepping on a deadly king cobra. This was my first impression of the rain forest in Borneo.
It is interesting to transport ones self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how errors have got mixed up with truth, have delayed the knowledge of it, and retarded its progress; and, after having followed the various epochs and traversed every climate, finally to contemplate the edifice founded on the labours of successive centuries and of various nations.
It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.
It was through living among these groups and much more I think, through moving regularly from one to the other and back again that I got occupied with the problem of what, long before I put it on paper, I christened to myself as the two cultures. For constantly I felt I was moving among two groups [scientists and literary intellectuals] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington House or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.
Knowing Pains
I studied parts
of a flower
to understand
its flowering.
I learned much
about my limits.
I had forgotten
Earth and climate.
I studied parts
of a flower
to understand
its flowering.
I learned much
about my limits.
I had forgotten
Earth and climate.
Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves. They will control the climate and the Solar System just as they control the Earth. They will travel beyond the limits of our planetary system; they will reach other Suns, and use their fresh energy instead of the energy of their dying luminary.
Now it is a well-known principle of zoological evolution that an isolated region, if large and sufficiently varied in its topography, soil, climate and vegetation, will give rise to a diversified fauna according to the law of adaptive radiation from primitive and central types. Branches will spring off in all directions to take advantage of every possible opportunity of securing food. The modifications which animals undergo in this adaptive radiation are largely of mechanical nature, they are limited in number and kind by hereditary, stirp or germinal influences, and thus result in the independent evolution of similar types in widely-separated regions under the law of parallelism or homoplasy. This law causes the independent origin not only of similar genera but of similar families and even of our similar orders. Nature thus repeats herself upon a vast scale, but the similarity is never complete and exact.
Nowhere is water so beautiful as in the desert for nowhere else is it so scarce. By definition. Water, like a human being or a tree or a bird or a song gains value by rarity, singularity, isolation. In a humid climate water is common. In the desert each drop is precious.
Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,the stronger ejecting the weaker,the more vigorous overgrowing and killing the more delicate. Every modification of climate, every disturbance of the soil, every interference with the existing vegetation of an area, favours some species at the expense of others.
Professor Whitehead has recently restored a seventeenth century phrase"climate of opinion." The phrase is much needed. Whether arguments command assent or not depends less upon the logic that conveys them than upon the climate of opinion in which they are sustained.
Scientists can only carry on with their work, addressing legitimate questions as they arise and challenging misinformation. Scientists work to fill the gaps in human knowledge and to build a theory that can explain observations of the world. Climate sceptics revel in such gaps, sometimes long after they have been filled.
Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.
The advance from the simple to the complex, through a process of successive differentiations, is seen alike in the earliest changes of the Universe to which we can reason our way back, and in the earliest changes which we can inductively establish; it is seen in the geologic and climatic evolution of the Earth; it is seen in the unfolding of every single organism on its surface, and in the multiplication of kinds of organisms; it is seen in the evolution of Humanity, whether contemplated in the civilized individual, or in the aggregate of races; it is seen in the evolution of Society in respect alike of its political, its religious, and its economical organization; and it is seen in the evolution of all those endless concrete and abstract products of human activity which constitute the environment of our daily life. From the remotest past which Science can fathom, up to the novelties of yesterday, that in which Progress essentially consists, is the transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous.
The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests, with their underbrush, soil, springs, climate, scenery, and religion, are vanishing away in clouds of smoke, while, except in the national parks, not one forest guard is employed.
The California climate makes the sick well and the well sick, the old young and the young old.
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward—or starward—for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.
The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.
The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose home is now beneath the Equator roamed over the world from the far South to the very borders of the Arctics ... But their reign was over. A sudden intense winter, that was also to last for ages, fell upon our globe.
The oceans are the life support system of this planet, providing us with up to 70 percent of our oxygen, as well as a primary source of protein for billions of people, not to mention the regulation of our climate.
The sun is a body of great size and power, the ruler, not only of the seasons and of the different climates, but also of the stars themselves and of the heavens. When we consider his operations, we must regard him as the life, or rather the mind of the universe, the chief regulator and the God of nature; he also lends his light to the other stars. He is the most illustrious and excellent, beholding all things and hearing all things.
The world's forests need to be seen for what they aregiant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on a vast scale. They store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They act as a natural thermostat, helping to regulate our climate and sustain the lives of 1.4 billion of the poorest people on this Earth. And they do these things to a degree that is all but impossible to imagine.
Under the... new hypothesis [of Continental Drift] certain geological concepts come to acquire a new significance amounting in a few cases to a complete inversion of principles, and the inquirer will find it necessary to re-orient his ideas. For the first time he will get glimpses... of a pulsating restless earth, all parts of which are in greater or less degree of movement in respect to the axis of rotation, having been so, moreover, throughout geological time. He will have to leave behind himperhaps reluctantlythe dumbfounding spectacle of the present continental masses, firmly anchored to a plastic foundation yet remaining fixed in space; set thousands of kilometres apart, it may be, yet behaving in almost identical fashion from epoch to epoch and stage to stage like soldiers, at drill; widely stretched in some quarters at various times and astoundingly compressed in others, yet retaining their general shapes, positions and orientations; remote from one another through history, yet showing in their fossil remains common or allied forms of terrestrial life; possessed during certain epochs of climates that may have ranged from glacial to torrid or pluvial to arid, though contrary to meteorological principles when their existing geographical positions are considered -to mention but a few such paradoxes!
Unlike any creature that lived before, humans have become a geophysical force, swiftly changing the atmosphere and climate as well as the composition of the worlds fauna and flora. Darwins dice have rolled badly for Earth.
Very old and wide-spread is the opinion that forests have an important impact on rainfall. ... If forests enhance the amount and frequency of precipitation simply by being there, deforestation as part of agricultural expansion everywhere, must necessarily result in less rainfall and more frequent droughts. This view is most poignantly expressed by the saying: Man walks the earth and desert follows his steps! ... It is not surprising that under such circumstances the issue of a link between forests and climate has ... been addressed by governments. Lately, the Italian government has been paying special attention to reforestation in Italy and its expected improvement of the climate. ... It must be prevented that periods of heavy rainfall alternate with droughts. ...In the Unites States deforestation plays an important role as well and is seen as the cause for a reduction in rainfall. ... committee chairman of the American Association for Advancement of Science demands decisive steps to extend woodland in order to counteract the increasing drought. ... some serious concerns. In 1873, in Vienna, the congress for agriculture and forestry discussed the problem in detail; and when the Prussian house of representatives ordered a special commission to examine a proposed law pertaining to the preservation and implementation of forests for safeguarding, it pointed out that the steady decrease in the water levels of Prussian rivers was one of the most serious consequences of deforestation only to be rectified by reforestation programs. It is worth mentioning that ... the same concerns were raised in Russia as well and governmental circles reconsidered the issue of deforestation.
WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.
With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that. Each throb has sent pain and decay to the lands whose day was done, life and vigour to those whose day was yet to be.
Yes, Shakespeare foremost and forever (Darwin too). But also teach about the excellence of pygmy bushcraft and Fuegian survival in the worlds harshest climate. Dignity and inspiration come in many guises. Would anyone choose the tinhorn patriotism of George Armstrong Custer over the eloquence of Chief Joseph in defeat?
[My] numberless observations... made on the Strata... [have] made me confident of their uniformity throughout this Country & [have] led me to conclude that the same regularity... will be found to extend to every part of the Globe for Nature has done nothing by piecemeal. [T]here is no inconsistency in her productions. [T]he Horse never becomes an Ass nor the Crab an Apple by any intermixture or artificial combination whatever[. N]or will the Oak ever degenerate into an Ash or an Ash into an Elm. [H]owever varied by Soil or Climate the species will still be distinct on this ground. [T]hen I argue that what is found here may be found elsewhere[.] When proper allowances are made for such irregularities as often occur and the proper situation and natural agreement is well understood I am satisfied there will be no more difficulty in ascertaining the true quality of the Strata and the place of its possition [sic] than there is now in finding the true Class and Character of Plants by the Linean [sic] System.


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Rawpixel.com/ShutterstockThere's a lot to dislike about commuting to work: traffic, crowded trains, moody passengers, delayed buses. But there's another, more serious reason you should dread your daily commute — it might be slowly worsening your health, and in some severe cases, even increasing your risk of premature death.
DNAInfo's Nicole Levy reports that "the toll our daily commute takes on us has long-term implications on our mental and physical health."
She looked at research conducted by people like Richard Wener, a professor of environmental psychology at New York University and a longtime commuter, to find out how our daily commutes are affecting our health. In her article, she highlights seven insidious ways it's harming us. Here are three of them:


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Alessandra Ambrosio: Ballet Recital with Anja!
Alessandra Ambrosio helps her four-year-old daughter Anja adjust her tutu before her ballet recital on Sunday (June 9) in Brentwood, Calif.
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Anti-science or anti-collectivism?
If you've been living under a rock or in a cave then the vaccination debate has been lost on you. Luckily, I live with a bioengineer, so I get to ask frequent questions when these debates come up. Usually, the arguments on one side are being levied by idiots. That's generally the way when science […]
An Unreal Dream: A Film About Wrongful Conviction and Corruption
This weekend, the Houston Cinema Arts Film Festival was held in venues all around the downtown area with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston at its center; in its final session last night the festival screened An Unreal Dream, the story about Michael Morton, who was wrongly convicted of his wife's murder in 1986 and […]
There's Something Weird (and Very Wrong) Going On with New Mexico Police
File under icky, weird, and downright sick, New Mexico police officers have apparently become obsessed with probing the anal region of persons pulled over for routine traffic stops. Twice now, individuals pulled over for minor traffic violations in Deming, New Mexico have been subjected to numerous invasive anal searches after being falsely targeted by a […]
Great Statement About Selfless Giving
We could all use a little of this lesson. Great message in a very short film.
No On Syria Bombing—No To Further Militarization Of Everyday Life
There may well be good reasons to bomb nations that use chemical weapons, but what we also get in America with more war are more huge profits for the war profiteering companies, more spying on us, more militarized police wearing camouflage in our city streets and more militarized borders. We can't go on like this while basic needs at home […]
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Her background in the high tech industry fueled her desire to make yoga accessible to "EveryBody." For many years when she worked in high tech, Zelinda spent endless hours each week hunched over a laptop, in meetings, or traveling. When she went home in the evenings, her focus turned to family responsibilities and she had little time for exercise or any form of self-care.
As she dabbled in yoga practice and then became more consistent with her practice, she began to realize the many benefits yoga had to offer. She began to feel more relaxed, more focused in her work, she felt physically stronger and more flexible. She began to lose the desire to be "right" and was more focused on maintaining her peace.
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More than 12 years have passed since the publication of the first edition of Crisis and Emergency Management. During that time numerous disastersafrom 9/11 to massive earthquakes in Iran and China, to the giant Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the Fukushima Tsunami and ensuing nuclear meltdownahave changed the way we manage catastrophic events. With contributions from leading experts, this second edition features 40 new chapters that address recent worldwide crises and what we have learned from emergency responses to them. See Whatas New in the Second Edition: Up-to-date concepts, theories, and practices Analysis of recent disasters and their effect on emergency management Policy and managerial lessons Suggestions for capacity building in crisis and emergency management The book covers a wide range of international issues using critical, empirical, and quantitative analyses. It discusses various approaches to topics such as resolving political tension and terrorism issues, the potential use of biological weapons, and the role of public relations in crisis. The author offers insight into organizational and community resiliency development; a qsurprise managementq theory in practice for upgrading the knowledge and skills in managing crises and governing emergencies; and better and more effective organizational, political, social, and managerial coordination in the processes. He presents case studies that enhance and advance the future theory and practice of crisis and emergency management, while at the same time providing practical advice that can be put to use immediately. Managing crises and governing emergencies in such an age of challenges demands a different kind of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that were not available yesterday. This book gives you valuable information with applications at the macro, micro, organizational, and interorganizational levels, preparing you for emergency management in an increasingly globalized and uncertain world.The US Army Demolitions, Booby trap, and Improvised Munitions Manuals, as well as the Anarchista#39;s Cookbook and ... These books and others like them have provided good training manuals for urban police department bomb disposal units anbsp;...
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The University of California at San Francisco has long been a center of research and graduate training in biomedical sciences. The University of California at Berkeley is universally acknowledged for excellence in engineering, physical and life sciences. The close proximity of the two institutions has fostered numerous collaborations among faculty members on the two campuses and has introduced quantitative approaches to addressing fundamental problems in biological and clinical science. It was in recognition of this synergy that scientists on the two campuses proposed the formation of a joint graduate group in Bioengineering.
This fully integrated educational program was approved in 1983 and is authorized to offer Ph.D. degrees conferred jointly by the Graduate Divisions of both campuses. For more than thirty years the UC Berkeley – UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering has been one of the preeminent educational programs in the country and is well known for the diversity and excellence of the training it provides.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- It was like the election never happened.
Long before the official results came out in Florida, before Newt Gingrich arrived for his election night rally and before most supporters had even showed up, the Gingrich campaign put a sign on the stage reading, "46 states to go." No mention of Florida, the state that was actually having the election contest on Tuesday. The Gingrich camp was moving on.
From the beginning to the end of Gingrich's election night party, the campaign and its supporters seemed to be operating outside of realities, denying the importance of this large state's primary contest and insisting that victory was going to be theirs as soon as voters opened their eyes and truly saw Florida winner Mitt Romney as a "Massachusetts moderate." Gingrich, in fact, never even congratulated Romney on his win.
Romney's victory wasn't a surprise. Polls had him with a double-digit lead in the run-up to Florida's election, and his campaign was preparing a line of retreat (even as Gingrich was still publicly saying he would "win a decisive victory" on Tuesday).
The down-but-not-out mood was perhaps best reflected in the music chosen for the Gingrich party. The first song of the night was "Don't You Want Me" by The Human League. Others included "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benatar and a remix of "I've Had The Time Of My Life."
News of Romney's win came via large televisions and speakers tuned to Fox News. The network declared Romney the expected winner as the polls closed at 8 p.m. There were no groans and no screams from the Gingrich supporters in the ballroom at the Rosen Centre Hotel. Everyone seemed to know what was coming. (In contrast, Romney party-goers cheered wildly when the results came in.)
In fact, few Gingrich supporters even bothered to show up in time for the results. The room was so sparsely filled at 8 p.m. that reporters had to compete with each other to interview attendees.
"We were expecting something like that," said Nancy Acevedo, a Winter Springs resident and chairwoman of the Florida Republican Hispanic Alliance, pointing to all the anti-Gingrich ads and media coverage as culprits. "We have 46 states more to go. It's not the end. It's just the beginning."
Gingrich's speech on Tuesday night could have been given on any other day. He barely acknowledged the Florida results, rehashing the talking points he has been using all week about Obama's war on religion, the executive orders he wants to issue if he takes office and even a well-worn crack about the media asking him too often about dropping out.
Gingrich reiterated that he sees his path to victory through a consolidation of the conservative base against Romney.
"I think Florida did something very important, coming on top of South Carolina. It is now clear that this will be a two-person race between the conservative leader Newt Gingrich and the Massachusetts moderate," he said to applause, not actually naming Romney.
"We are going to contest every place, and we are going to win. And we will be in Tampa as the nominee," he added.
Gingrich's backers also seemed unfazed by the Florida results, as if the 50 delegates in their state were nothing.
"We'll come back, we'll come back," Orlando resident Lou Marin assured The Huffington Post.
"He needs to go down all the way to the convention," added Acevedo. "We'll get him elected as the nominee. Because eventually I think that the other two candidates [Ron Paul and Rick Santorum] will just abandon the race" and conservatives will coalesce around Gingrich.
Indeed, the first words of the first speaker of the night were not even about Florida. They instead looked to the contests ahead.
"Forty-six states to go. And I want you all to know: It's not over," said Rich Crotty, a former mayor of Orange County in Florida.
"Newt comes out of Florida in better shape financially than when he came out of South Carolina," former Florida attorney general Bill McCollum told The Huffington Post. "He's got a situation where he'll be the sole standing person -- really, as a practical matter -- to run against Romney in states that will be far more receptive than Florida has been. And he'll have money to combat. Romney won't be able to spend his money on all these states on the same level as expenditure as he just did."
The only way Gingrich should pull out before the convention, added McCollum, is if Romney "gets a clear 1,144 delegates that are absolutely uncontested." That is the number needed to win the GOP nomination.
"It will be very hard to get to the 1,144 delegates for anybody -- and certainly not to get there quickly," McCollum predicted.
Despite this enthusiasm, Gingrich has a tough road ahead. While his campaign is using the motto of "46 states to go," that's not technically accurate. Gingrich did not file on time to qualify for the ballot in Missouri, and he did not collect enough signatures for Virginia. In Tennessee, he did not qualify to win a full slate of delegates.
So for the Gingrich campaign, "Somewhere between 43.5 and 46 states to go" might be a more accurate motto.
Both the Romney and Gingrich campaigns have acknowledged that it will likely be a long primary fight, in part because more states are now awarding delegates proportionally in the GOP primaries.
But as The Huffington Post's Jon Ward pointed out, "The big question mark for Gingrich is how long he can run his campaign if he loses steam and donors, and if the biggest donor of all -- Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson -- decides to stop depositing $5 million checks in the bank account of the super PAC supporting Gingrich."
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It took a rap from the top cop to get police acting on restoring phone connections at four police stations in the crime-prone port area that had remained disconnected for more than a fortnight.
The phones had gone out of order around three weeks ago. Roads had been dug up for laying underground sewerage pipes at Garden Reach, Nadial, Metiabruz and Rajabagan as part of the Calcutta Environment Improvement Project and phone lines were damaged during the digging.
But the police allegedly did nothing about it till the bosses at Lalbazar realised the problem during a crime conference on March 30.
Pulled up by commissioner R.K. Pachnanda for making themselves inaccessible to people, the police finally got cracking.
The top cops rebuke prompted a team comprising officers of the port division to visit the telephone exchange to report the matter in the first week of April. The phone connections were restored within days of the visit.
Police officers of the port division blamed BSNL for the delay. We had told the telephone service provider about the problem. They told us not much could be be done if the telephone lines had been snapped because of some other project, said an officer of Rajabagan police station.
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A senior officer at Lalbazar said the snapped phone lines had cut off the cops from residents and crucial local intelligence.
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Baked Donuts with Maple Frosting
firstly, how funny is that, they look like they had a blast. Secondly, I always see things then think, I need that, then remember I have it already. Got to try these!
I think it's doughnut here in the UK and donut over there in the US?
Either way, I bet they were delicious! x
looks like the girls enjoyed their sleepover 🙂
and your doughnuts look so yummy. while i was living in canada, maple doughnuts were my favorite and during christmas time, they would have maple doughnuts with sprinkles… they were to die for! hehe
thanks for sharing this recipe… i can't wait to try it out 🙂
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My mouth is watering at the thought of the maple frosting. YUM!
I have never tried baking doughnuts..Love the recipe..
I don't have a donut maker :(((
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You could put maple frosting on a piece of wood and I'd eat it. :))
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Great. Now I need to buy a doughnut maker! 🙂
Stopping by and new follower from Facebook via posts from Mommy's Sweet Confessions.
One more doughnut post and I'm off to Amazon to do some shopping–it is my birthday month after all!
love that these are not fried but baked. We used to have a donut maker like that when we were growing up.
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Doughnut maker? What will they think of next? These look so good, and the kids look like they had a great time!
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Letter: Driving into a future dead zone
As I descended Rainier Hill on my way to shop in Longview, Washington, the acrid odor of toxic pollution in the air began to burn in my nose. My husband had cautioned me not to go over to Longview that day, Dec. 8, and as I drove down the hill I could clearly see the miasma that covered Rainier, the Columbia River and Longview.
Realizing the danger of this toxic air, I turned around and traveled to Clatskanie for my shopping. Of course, not all the items on my list were available in Clatskanie, but at least the air was breathable. Returning home, I noticed on my way the variance of the pollution odors.
Fortunately, living at the 900-foot level, we are sheltered somewhat from the air pollution that sinks to the lower elevations. One can't help but wonder why people who encounter this filthy poison in our air aren't outraged, aren't writing to our newspapers, to our commissioners, to our representatives to demand that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stop the causes of this recurrent poisoning of our citizens.
I can stay home, somewhat protected from this recurrent event, but there have been times when I need to work, to provide, and I've had no choice but to enter the smog zones. It is unconscionable that our political leaders not only turn a blind eye to the poisoning of our nation, but those in power now actually encourage it.
We must not allow them to kill us with new industrial pollution along the lower Columbia Corridor. We must point out the obvious; we are becoming a dead zone where "pollution will increase to dangerous levels."
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Adrian's greatest fear concerning entering treatment was whether or not he was going to be accepted and if he would face prejudice because he was gay. Now over a year into his sobriety he can reflect and say that treatment was one of the easiest experiences he has ever had.
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Robert De Niro Teaming Up With 50 Cent Again
The two will star in another cop drama.
Oscar winner Robert De Niro is teaming up with frequent Twitter fire-starter 50 Cent in Freelancers, a cop drama directed by Jessy Terrero, who previously helmed the esteemed Soul Plane. The film follows the son of a killed New York City cop, played by 50, who is taken under the wing of his dad's former partner, played by De Niro, and eventually becomes part of "a rogue street crime task force," according to Deadline. De Niro and 50 Cent previously teamed up on Righteous Kill, which didn't work out so well for them. Second time around sounds pretty similar. [Deadline via Playlist/IndieWire]


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