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Bears fans, prepare to be stunned. Again. You're about to lose a perk that made it cheap to travel to Soldier Field.
As part of the fare hikes the CTA proposed last month to close its budget shortfall, the agency wants to increase the round-trip fare of the No. 128 Soldier Field Express from $2 to $5. Under the current system, Bears fans can pay $1 to take a bus from the Ogilvie Transportation Center and Union Station to Soldier Field.
The $5 roundtrip to Soldier Field is more than the cost of a regular bus round-trip ride, which is $4 if the rider uses a transit card and $4.50 if the rider uses cash. This is the only bus route that will see an increase in its base fare as the CTA attempts to "right the financial ship."
Bears fans can't catch a break on the transit front. The Soldier Field tailgating fee increased from $46 to $49 this season. Meanwhile, a Green Line station at Cermak Road, not 18th Street, which was considered and is closer to Soldier Field, is slated to open in 2014. And now the CTA wants to charge more for slow service.
The idea behind buses to Soldier Field is admirable, but the problem is that these buses have to deal with Soldier Field vehicular traffic. There's no bus lane to bypass this traffic, and it seems that walking may be faster than this bus.
When Going Public took the No. 128 bus to a Bears game last year, it took 37 minutes to travel from Union Station to Soldier Field.
The No. 128 only runs on Bears game days. The bus saw 6,500 riders this year through October, CTA data shows.
The other public transportation options for Bears games are also lackluster. Riders can get off at the Roosevelt stop in the South Loop and walk more than 10 minutes, sometimes in cold weather, to the game. The No. 146 Inner Drive/Michigan Express also is an option, but these buses can be packed.
It's too bad CTA service to Bears games isn't as good as it is to Cubs games. It's easy to take the Red Line to the Addison stop for a Cubs game. It used to be easy to take the Red Line to the Sox station for a White Sox game, but the CTA is shutting down that stop from May to September so the agency can overhaul Red Line track.
There's no CTA station outside the United Center. Mayor Emanuel has mentioned building a stop there, but the CTA has previously told Going Public that "building a new station, even along existing track infrastructure, costs millions of dollars and CTA does not have capital funding available for a stop there."
The No. 19 United Center Express, which saw more than 26,000 riders this year through October, travels between the Magnificent Mile and the United Center, home to the Bulls and the Blackhawks. The No. 19, which costs the regular bus fare, is not slated to see an increase next year under the CTA's proposed fare hikes, which are up for a board vote later this month.
If these hikes are approved, some Bears fans will have to dig deeper into their wallets, and that's never a fun game.
A weekly dispatch from a CTA station of note
This week: Ashland/63rd Green Line
The Ashland/63rd stop in Englewood is the end of the Green Line but the start of new beginnings. The station is undergoing an overhaul thanks to next year's Red Line project on the South Side. Because the CTA expects the Ashland station to see increased capacity during the Red Line shutdown, the agency is painting the station and upgrading its roof. The project is slated to be completed by spring, the CTA said.
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Sorry unlike you in the states airdates are anounced 2-3 weeks before the airdate.
Quote from: theamazingracer21 on May 11, 2012, 07:04:24 PMSorry unlike you in the states airdates are anounced 2-3 weeks before the airdate.As an Australian I agree with this - I'd even say 2-3 weeks is being generous. In some cases shows I watch have gone from 'coming soon' to its on in three days with no warning.
May 25th??
23rd 9pm after AGT
Quote from: georgiapeach on May 12, 2012, 10:59:57 AMMay 25th?? I'm hoping it'll start around that time, but the 25th is a Friday, and I doubt it will be on a Friday, especially with all the sport that it would have to compete against for viewers.
that was meant to be a 3 lol! May 23??This is so strange to us Americans! I like to know ahead of time!!
23rd would be awesome, but I think if 23rd was the day, we'd probably have seen some advertisements about the airdate by now. I would love TARAus to take the Thursday 7:30pm timeslot, personally. There's very little to watch on Thursdays, lol, and nothing good is on at that time. But I do think that Wednesday would be the most likely timeslot. There's reruns of things giving (I think) aside from Talent. The dramas on Thursday won't finish for a while. Once Upon A Time started today on Tuesday, and I think Tuesday is completely infeasible.If they did Monday nights again like last season, they could potentially grab a LOT of viewers by airing it before/after Revenge.
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Existence after mortal death...
21-01-2013, 06:31 AM (This post was last modified: 21-01-2013 06:36 AM by Hafnof.)
RE: Existence after mortal death...
I'm wondering if you are trying to understand, or trying to be difficult. The brain is analogous to a motor engine as you say. The brain when it is active and alive is producing electricity and waste heat. Humans have effective cooling mechanisms in place to exhaust this waste heat. Like a radiator in a car our sweat and various skull cavities cool the engine. Like a fan in a computer our sweat and various cavities cool the CPU.
The batteries that supply energy for work in the brain are things like glucose, oxygen, ATP etc - chemicals stored in cells and chemicals transferred from food through the bloodstream. These are used by cells to drive the required chemical activity. When we stop eating, when the blood stops delivering molecules to be consumed, and when the cells run out of the chemicals they need they fail to operate further and they die. Our bodies can survive a certain rate and quantity of cell death but when many fail at the same time the systems that they make up also fail. When they fail and die, we fail and die.
This isn't difficult to understand. Do you find it hard to understand what happens to a plant when we kill it and eat it? Do you find it hard to understand what happens to a lobster when we kill it and eat it? When you die the remaining chemical energy within your body is consumed by fungus, bacteria, perhaps some larger creatures, and perhaps the flames of the crematorium. Where did your energy go? Where did your heat go? It went into the creatures that ate your body. It went into the heat given off by your funeral pyre. That chemical energy became part of another generation of life (approximately 10% of your calorific value will become part of your consumers' calorific value). That heat was radiated or conducted into the atmosphere and into the earth.
If you are interested in what science knows about this process then by all means ask and learn about it. If you are not interested in the process and your questions are rhetorical (nobody knows what happens!!) then asking won't relieve your ignorance. If you understand what we know and are asking deeper probing questions about what else might be true beyond what we know then by all means speculate about what else might be true, but speculate also about how you would test what you think might be true.
This is science:
* Come up with good ideas
* Figure out how they could be wrong
* Test them to see if you could prove them wrong
* Modify or throw away the ideas that are definitely wrong
* Repeat until your ideas make inerrant predictions for cases we commonly deal with, and most alternative ideas have been proven false. Whatever's left is good enough to call scientific knowledge.
This is not science:
* Come up with good ideas
* Cherry-pick facts and data that you feel support your idea while ignoring facts that don't fit your model
* Discuss provably false ideas with like-minded individuals while patting yourselves on the back for being deep and for thinking things that other people aren't thinking.
These things can be good in their own way, but you're not on the path to scientific knowledge until they lead to ideas that are consistent with known facts and which make new unexpected predictions you can prove false. You must eventually find a way to show that your explanation is at least as good as current scientific knowledge at explaining known facts and also produces surprising additional predictions that contradict the current scientific knowledge but turn out to be accurate.
One should not cut off a brainstorming ideas session too early - yes that inhibits science. However, a brainstorming session that only produces unfalsifiable ideas, a brainstorming session that produces only ideas that contradict known facts - these are not a path to scientific knowledge - and ignoring what science knows about the world is simply a path to deeper ignorance.
Give me your argument in the form of a published paper, and then we can start to talk.
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RE: Existence after mortal death...
(20-01-2013 11:27 PM)SarnDarkholm Wrote:We don't have a battery. We have no stored electricity.(20-01-2013 11:21 PM)Chas Wrote: I must be missing your point. Of course we emanate heat and electrical energy constantly - while we are alive.
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Science is not a subject, but a method.
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I doubt that there can be consciousness after death. A friend of mine studies biology and I once asked him how what we refer to as "consciousness" works. Now I can't really recall everything he told me about neurons, synapses etc etc (I'm a noob at biology) , but he told me that in the current state of our understanding consciousness is the result of the brain continuously "scanning" itself and its thought processes. Basically like a system software.
That would mean however that, without a brain to perform these "scans", consciousness cannot exist. Hence when your brain ceases to work your consciousness should, too.
My friend told me though that consciousness is one of the least understood concepts/ topics in neurobiology. Who knows if there's more about it.
When it comes to the concept of an afterlife I'm pretty sure that whatever goes for the human species has to go for *every* species of animals, plants, fungi, bacteria etc in this universe, because we are really not that damn special. The only thing that sets us apart from other animals is our intellect. But biologically we are just another species of apes. So maybe the question that needs to be asked is: Do you think chimps have an afterlife? Or crocodiles? Or fish? Or bacteria? Trees, perhaps? If you find any of these possibilities ridiculous then the idea that humans continue to live after death is equally ridiculous. I think that whatever goes for every other living organism in the universe (maybe even on another planet) also goes for us.
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one."
- Albert Einstein
"Nothing cannot exist forever."
- Stephen Hawking
"Hmmm, Bacon..."
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21-01-2013, 02:40 PM (This post was last modified: 21-01-2013 02:51 PM by Luminon.)
RE: Existence after mortal death...
(13-01-2013 09:24 PM)mawil1013 Wrote: Hi, I'm new, I'm not atheist, at one time thought I was, currently, I'd define myself as a non active Baha'i.Even if you throw around the words like dimensions or quantum, you won't get wiser.
For me, the existence after the mortal death is obvious, because I can physically feel it. I can feel that besides the biologic body of cells and tissues there is another body, of something like plasma structured and fixated by electric/magnetic fields. It has lines and conduits of energy (electric energy, probably) and major vortexes of energy.
The answer is, that there are more kinds of matter than just the one we consider solid and visible. Dark matter is the best explanation on what I describe. (just after a lifelong permanent hallucination) There may be a set of degrees of matter, that form a set of corresponding bodies that permeate us like overreaching spheres. Which would mean multiple deaths ahead us. But death in this notion is not an end, it is merely a loss of one vehicle, loss of an access to the layer of matter that this vehicle represented, but gaining of a greater clarity of consciousness. One less intermediary between you and the hypothetical highest body, the hypothetical source of consciousness. One more layer of lampshade off the lamp.
It is of course my experience. It is important to realize, that science covers some reality, but reality does not end with science. Science is only the reality we manage to pin down and get under control through scientific method, but there is a plenty of reality out there that isn't under our control. It comes and goes as it pleases and is as relevant as anything. If only empirical knowledge was relevant, how would we prove that? Empirically? We can't. This is why we shouldn't shut down our observing and judging capabilities and wait till some people in laboratories tell us what to do.
I had a nice series of mystical and occult experiences in recent weeks, even looked them up later in the occult literature. Looks like I'm not the only one who went through such experiences. I'm sorry I can't join you guys yet in your materialistic worldview with just one type of matter. I suppose Chas won't be happy about this, but if something is my experience, I can't deny it and I can't leave others in ignorance who might experience something similar.
Yes, I am a pattern of matter and energy flowing through it, just in a little more broader and dynamic sense.
However, I can't join the believer crowd either, because they have nothing, no experience, no knowledge, just a few poorly understood words they borrowed from science.
Over the past few weeks I literally experienced some passages and sequences from this document:
The serpent force or Kundalini is an extremely dangerous thing. I am not scared only because my experiences did not involve the lowest spinal center where it resides and also that the experience was totally unexpected and spontaneous. Non-spontaneous, artificial waking of Kundalini force is the shortest way to lifetime of a crippled nerve system or perhaps even death. My situation was rather some preliminary waking of one of the spinal channels and a couple of lower chakras, a sweeping of cobewebs so to speak. The actual Kundalini waking might not even come within my lifetime, which is certainly a reassuring thought.
Of course, this is no direct sign of afterlife. It is merely a perception of a piece of process that the literature claims it takes many lifetimes, incarnations to go through.
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RE: Existence after mortal death...
(21-01-2013 02:40 PM)Luminon Wrote:(13-01-2013 09:24 PM)mawil1013 Wrote: Hi, I'm new, I'm not atheist, at one time thought I was, currently, I'd define myself as a non active Baha'i.Even if you throw around the words like dimensions or quantum, you won't get wiser.
I see your woo senses are in fine form.
"I had a nice series of mystical and occult experiences in recent weeks, even looked them up later in the occult literature."
I'm trying to figure out what that means.
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21-01-2013, 05:05 PM (This post was last modified: 21-01-2013 05:37 PM by Luminon.)
RE: Existence after mortal death...
(21-01-2013 04:05 PM)Chas Wrote: I see your woo senses are in fine form.Well, it's a lifetime condition, probably hard-wired in my brain. To feel it vanish would be the weirdest experience of my life and that says something. I'm glad to see you're not too horrified of my woo propaganda I'll try to explain.
I used a jargon... Mystical experiences, these I classify as feelings of happiness, ecstasy, pleasure, impersonal love and joy, coming out of the blue, just like that. Mind you, I feel these feelings as streams and vortexes of energies that play around and within my head, spine and torso. The chakras along the body are probably some plasma vortexes or jets where the main energy channels combine together, but they can be likened to holes on a flute, each gives a different "tone" of emotion. Perhaps that is the symbolics of Krishna the flute playing shepherd in Hinduism. Human body is a flute, chakras are the holes on it and there is the soul, superconsciousness, the Atman, that tries to play some "music" as it wills, stream some more energy through, so it needs to open the chakras, clear the spinal channel and make the person a well-responding instrument of its artistic expression. Anyway, this is mysticism, more feeling, less understanding.
But the occult aspect of the experience is more technical. If something like that happens with my body, it's impossible to overlook. If I feel some weird feelings, I can pinpoint where they are. I can look them up on the net. I can tell if the feelings come from the hypophysis or the pineal gland. Man, I felt like my pineal gland had become a vibrating, shining, hissing and ringing object! Deep inside my head, a little to the back. When energy was pouring from the topside chakra, it felt like my head became one large tongue and somebody was pouring a pot of viscous honey over and inside it. Then I felt the energy streaming into my spine, powerfully shifting there like a masseur's pressure, pouring in and out of the chakras, firing them up forward and backward in some kind of slow irregular sequence. So intense, it was slightly painful at times. The central channel was certainly used, but only to awaken the left spinal channel, called Ida. This one got really fired up, a line of heat and nice irritation to the left of my spine, leading all the way to the top. I looked up what this channel is supposed to do.
And what it does when it's not yet activated. I never felt the spinal channels before, and see what it says:
Elation/depression, lethargic and self-obsessed, that describes me closely. I suppose these conditions might get better now.
Problems of the left side tend to result in passivity or emotional extremism whereby we are thrown between elation and depression. With this type of imbalance, self-discipline becomes difficult and bad habits become hard to correct. In the worst case, we become lethargic and self-obsessed. Because this channel feeds also into the skull area, pressure on the brain becomes excessive. This cycle is what causes such problems as mental breakdown, epilepsy, and senility (decay of the brain).
Anyway, I want the understanding to be, that this is a very technical, physiologic process. It's not just feelings and emotions. There are streams of energy (probably some electrically charged plasma of dark matter) that are interpreted by our bodily apparatus as pleasure and joy or other emotions. It is a process by which the "soul", which is probably wholly made of such high-frequency (blissful) energy, tries to take a grip on its lower bodily vehicle. Besides the brain and nerve system, it tries to gain access into the energy centers that correspond to the major endocrine glands, so that it can literally steer the person around by stimulating the glands. The biologic person is largely autonomous, so he must seek out this process willingly and actively, in the beginning. It is accompanied also by health and psychologic changes. The body has an electric aspect, its inner conductivity and so on. We know that the skin changes electric resistance based on moods, but such changes of resistance may occur in all volume of the body, not just on skin. There may be health problems caused "merely" because the old electric conductivity pattern of the organism can't handle the inflow of higher energies. It will result in a somewhat inexplicable health problem in a particular place ( in my case, the molar teeth), which needs to undergo something invasive, a surgery. (I'm going to the dentist again tomorrow) The resulting trauma will alter the conductive pattern there and will free the energy to find a new pathways for the new, higher intensity and/or frequency.
The unfortunate thing for scientists is, that most of people have yet to undergo any such influence on their organism. It is by no means a regular, prevalent thing in our society, we can't take and test a random guy on the street. Furthermore, not everyone will be as much conscious as I am, it depends on their personal constitution. My nerve system is a bit off, my kinaesthesia is lousy and I steer my body as if almost from the outside, but the lack of kinaesthesia is compensated by the awareness of the subtler aspect. People more in touch with themselves should feel comparatively less.
But still there are phrases in our language, Seth says "the fire in your belly" when you're very passionate about something. To me, it means an excitation of the solar plexus chakra, that corresponds to the adrenal glands along the spine. The solar plexus chakra is the strongest one in most of people and on emotional scale, it handles this kind of passionate energy.
RE: Existence after mortal death...
(21-01-2013 05:05 PM)Luminon Wrote:(21-01-2013 04:05 PM)Chas Wrote: I see your woo senses are in fine form.Well, it's a lifetime condition, probably hard-wired in my brain. To feel it vanish would be the weirdest experience of my life and that says something. I'm glad to see you're not horrified of my woo propaganda. I'll try to explain.
Actually, the woo does horrify me, but I'm trying to be more polite.
Everything you describe sounds like it's entirely internal to you. None of it is confirmed as even existing by neuroscientists.
Your concept of dark matter bears absolutely no resemblance to what astrophysicists or particle physicists conceive.
They postulate that dark matter is almost entirely composed of only one kind of particle and they interact very weakly.
No interesting chemistry, therefore no interesting structure or interaction, is likely.
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21-01-2013, 06:26 PM (This post was last modified: 22-01-2013 12:47 AM by Luminon.)
RE: Existence after mortal death...
(21-01-2013 05:25 PM)Chas Wrote: Actually, the woo does horrify me, but I'm trying to be more polite.What do you mean, internal? Some of my perception is felt as if outside, beyond the skin. Several inches above, for example. Depends on what, part of it is felt also inside. I'm not sure how do normal people feel, how much aware they are about the insides of their skull, ribcage and so on. how short of skin their sensitivity ends. Do they ever feel any activity in their endocrine glands like hypophysis or epiphysis, or only when their balls get full and itchy?
Also it seems that my experience is shared by people all around the world, across the history. It seems to be the common experience in Hinduism, Catholicism, Orthodox church and perhaps Kabbalah, that inspires the art and mystical symbolism. Sufism has some inklings and Rosicrucianism is basically all about it. I've noticed some fiction writers describing the same thing from their own intiative. Add to that some research like of Semjon Kirlian, which is about much more than just pouring voltage into objects and showing off coronary discharge.
I even contacted the writer Greg Bear about it, where he got this physiologic description of the mystical experience. He pointed me towards the book Cohen, J.M. & J-F. Phipps. The Common Experience: Signposts on the Path to Enlightenment. It's not in electronic form, so I couldn't get it, but it's on my mind and list. Bear's book of sci-fi describes some fairly specific neuroscientific passages, so probably some scientists already looked into it, although he calls them "preliminary and inconclusive".
(21-01-2013 05:25 PM)Chas Wrote: Your concept of dark matter bears absolutely no resemblance to what astrophysicists or particle physicists conceive.Yes, there is some partially non-overlapping information or even conflicting information.
Theoretically, the dark matter you mean might explain my experiences, for them it is not necessary to have any elements or chemistry whatsoever. It is only necessary to have a the WIM particles capable of forming clouds or streams of plasma that can be influenced, shaped, inducted by electric and magnetic fields. Plasma dynamics have enough potential of their own, for example the "sprites" and "elves" of atmospheric discharge or the ball lightning phenomenon. Furthermore, if atoms of dark matter are possible, it would be interesting to consider if they're Rydberg atoms . It seems they have little density and different and larger arrangement of electron orbitals. Great responsivity to electric and magnetic fields, too. That would explain a lot.
At the very most, there is a full-blown dark matter periodic table, I've been told of some heavy and metallic elements, very radiant and conductive ones. At the very least side, there is a scientific study saying that there is de facto almost no dark matter at all in our region of space, let's say the volume of Earth would have about one kilogram of it, not more. This is totally weirding me out, but I'm skeptical. Skepticism means in historical sense not making a decision, alternating between both choices all the time, because one of them might be true and because I'm ignorant on both.
RE: Existence after mortal death...
(21-01-2013 02:40 PM)Luminon Wrote: For me, the existence after the mortal death is obvious, because I can physically feel it.I've asked the following question of theists, too, but since when is a "feeling" evidence of anything other than your subjective, individual emotional state? Christians "feel" Jesus is real, but that just seems like they'd feel good emotionally if he were real, so they keep on believing.
Also, how can you "physically feel" existence "after mortal death?" I'm assuming you're still alive. If you were dead and could "physically feel it," maybe you'd be onto something. If you're alive, not so much.
Quote: Mystical experiences, these I classify as feelings of happiness,My first thought was it sounds like a chemical imbalance of some sort. These things aren't all gloom and doom and depression, you know. I used to get manic episodes.
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(21-01-2013 06:26 PM)Luminon Wrote:(21-01-2013 05:25 PM)Chas Wrote: Actually, the woo does horrify me, but I'm trying to be more polite.What do you mean, internal? Some of my perception is felt as if outside, beyond the skin. Several inches above, for example. Depends on what, part of it is felt also inside. I'm not sure how do normal people feel, how much aware they are about the insides of their skull, ribcage and so on. how short of skin their sensitivity ends. Do they ever feel any activity in their endocrine glands like hypophysis or epiphysis, or only when their balls get full and itchy?
Just because things feel like they are outside of you doesn't mean they actually ARE.
I believe your brain is creating these experiences and that there is no external reality to them.
I'm sure you are not unique in this regard, but that doesn't prove that there are any phenomena external to you.
As for WIMPs, you know that means weakly interacting massive particles. Weakly Interacting. They do not interact with electrical or magnetic fields, they likely cannot form a plasma that interacts with matter. Their only effect, according to physicists, is gravitational.
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My son (child #2) just had his 4 month check up today. At birth, he was in the 80 something percentile (don't remember the exact #) for weight. At his two month checkup, he was in the 65th percentile for weight. Today, at his four month, he is down to the 33rd percentile. I was really surprised because I hadn't noticed anything that would lead me to be concerned about his intake or weight gain. This is my second child. With my first, I'm pretty sure I had oversupply issues and she never had any issue gaining weight.
The pediatrician thought the issue could be low supply or it could be something else like acid reflux (he still spits up a good deal, but has never been on meds and never seems to be upset by the spit up).
Before I go crazy trying to increase my supply, I first want to know if that is really the issue. Is there a way that I can "measure" my supply? My pediatrician recommended that I pump first thing in the morning and that if I got less than 3-4 oz, that would show I had low supply. However, I'm wary of any pediatrician's lactation advice because it often seems to contradict what I find on La Leche League forums. Any better way to tell if low supply is my problem? Like I said, I'm really surprised by the lack of weight gain because I thought oversupply was my problem, not low supply.
A few details... my son feeds every 2 hours or so during the day, usually only one breast per feeding. Sometimes spits up a fair amount soon after eating. He seems content after eating. He was sleeping a 4-5 hr stretch at night but about two weeks ago, he started waking every 1-3 hours again. I feed him almost every time he wakes (unless the paci puts him back to sleep right away). I've always fed on demand and breastfeed exclusively. Early on, he was a very fussy nurser and commenters on this forum thought that he might also be experiencing oversupply issues but that all seemed to resolve itself around 2.5 months.


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Distance from Everetts, NC to Tarboro, NC
Driving distance between Everetts, NC and Tarboro, NC is 23.36 miles (or 37.59 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
Leaving from Everetts, NC you would reach Tarboro, NC in about 23 minutes if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.


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Wait, am I the only one who was a little caught off guard by the City Council's vote the other night to give themselves a raise?
Going into Monday's meeting, the big news—besides the rally to pressure the Sarno administration to finally implement anti-foreclosure ordinances passed two years ago—was the planned vote on whether to grant a pay raise to the mayor. Councilors ended up granting first-step approval (two more are needed) to a plan to increase the mayor's salary from $95,000 to $135,000, effective next January.
That proposal has been kicking around the city for years (six, in fact, according to Councilor Tim Rooke, who's been a long-time advocate of the idea), and has been discussed at numerous public hearings and meetings. Backers of the plan say the higher pay would better reflect the scope of the mayor's job—including managing a $572 million municipal budget—and would attract a more competitive field of candidates for the job, including professionals now making more in the private sector.
The councilors' proposed raise—which would boost their pay from $14,500 to $19,500—received first-step approval by a narrow split of 7 to 6. Voting for the raise: at-large Councilors Kateri Walsh and Bud Williams, Ward 1's Zaida Luna, Ward 2's Mike Fenton, Ward 4's Henry Twiggs, Ward 6's Kenneth Shea and Ward 7's Tim Allen. Voting against the pay raise: Council President and at-large Councilor Jimmy Ferrera, at-large Councilors Tommy Ashe and Rooke, Ward 3's Melvin Edwards, Ward 5's Clodo Concepcion and Ward 8's John Lysak.)
Compared to the mayoral raise, the councilors' proposed raise has received decidedly less public attention, with no hearings or meetings on the matter. Let's hope that lack of public input is remedied, with city taxpayers invited to weigh in on the plan.


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This Schedule splits the Mount 27 readings for March into daily segments -- making the challenge a little bit easier to manage!
Thank you for making the schedule, Eranga DeSilva!
This Schedule splits the Mount 27 readings for March into daily segments -- making the challenge a little bit easier to manage!
Thank you for making the schedule, Eranga DeSilva!
Having trouble dividing the readings? Here's a schedule of the Mount 27 readings planned by day for the months of January and February!
Special thanks to Eranga DeSilva for making this schedule!
Friends, sometimes you may be behind the schedule… but please do not give up! I was about 5 days behind and gradually caught up and I'm glad that I did not give up. Let's run the race together!
-Eranga DeSilva, Seminarian at the Mount
The idea of this Challenge reading schedule is simple. There are 260 chapters in the New Testament. If you read 2 chapters per day of the New Testament, you will complete the entire New Testament in 5 months.
It's going to be a Spiritual Workout! Here are some ground rules:
5 months, 27 New Testament Books. Start by Sunday, December 16th and end April 30th, 2013.
Each month one book of the New Testament will be read out loud as a group on a Sunday afternoon. Join fellow Challenge participants for study and catch up:
Sunday, Jan. 20th – 2 Corinthians
Sunday, Feb. 17th – Letter to the Romans
Sunday, Mar. 10th – Letter to the Hebrews
Sunday, Apr. 14th – Book of Revelation 1-11
Sunday, Apr. 21st – Book of Revelation 12-22
It's permissible to listen to books of the New Testament on CD as long as you give it reasonable attention! Campus Ministry has 3 sets of the New Testament CDs that can be checkout out.
You must stay up to date and cannot fall more than two sections behind to complete Mount 27.
There are over 75 Mount students, faculty, and staff taking up this Challenge! Find a friend and help keep each other on track and check the reading schedule. Read this blog to hear about the progress of the Challenge and find encouragement!


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HAHAHAHAHAHA that is priceless
:( For some reason I can't see it. I imagine with the caption, it's rather funny.
overheard yesterday: "don't lick the cat!"overheard today: "DO NOT EVER poke anyone in the face with a marker!"ah, childhood.
Would you believe I've had to say that also?! The things that come out of our mouths as parents LOL


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WASHINGTON (AP) — A newspaper report describes a photograph of a shirtless FBI agent in the case that forced CIA Director David Petraeus to resign abruptly as silly but not scandalous.
The Seattle Times says FBI agent Frederick Humphries sent the photograph to friend and Florida socialite Jill Kelley and others, including one of the paper's own reporters, in an email Sept. 9, 2010.
The subject line read: "Which one is Fred?" The newspaper says it shows "Humphries — bald, muscular and shirtless — standing between a pair of equally buff and bullet-ridden target dummies on a shooting range."
The photograph helped land Humphries in hot water. The FBI is investigating Humphries for talking with Republican lawmakers about the investigation into harassing emails that Kelley received from Petraeus's biographer and mistress.


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Technology disrupts. It changes how we live. It changes how we work. For managers, it changes how they strategize.
A recent New Yorker feature on Apollo Robbins described the Las Vegas-based entertainer as a "theatrical pickpocket" who, in pursuit of his craft, has incorporated principles from aikido, sales and Latin ballroom dancing. The sales part left us curious (OK, the aikido and ballroom dancing did, too), so we gave him a call.
SMM:You have a unique talent and you are in high demand for corporate functions. How does what you do translate in that setting?
Robbins: That's in transition because it used to be in the entertainment capacity; now it's more on the training side, as well as keynotes. In the past couple of years, I have worked with law enforcement, the Department of Defense and military developing training modules in applied deception. I try to teach a lot about attention and awareness in a rather unusual way. It goes into a social experiment space. I'm really passionate about the idea of experience design, and I think that the style of work that I do, which is similar and somewhat related to magic, is only a portion – like one tool in the toolbox. I like the idea of how you can create more immersive experiences for people – sometimes they entertain and sometimes they educate. The commonality of it is creating that experience that heightens their attention and that makes them more palatable to having a good time or if you're trying to input data there.
SMM: Do you hope to increase that kind of work with corporations and government entities?
Robbins: That's where my main focus is, although my agents would love for me to go more toward the Broadway show or do more movie or TV deals (Robbins is regularly featured in the National Geographic Channels' new show "Brain Games"). To me, my best opportunities have come by meeting experts in the fields that I'm looking at. I'm borrowing from a cross-section of game mechanics, alternate reality games and transmedia – where you're using multiple sorts of media – to cross over through those areas. If you've ever seen the movie "The Game" with Michael Douglas, that's the space I'm trying to play in – the man behind the curtain creating an experience. The only difference is, when they finish it, I want them to walk away with a story that is interesting. Ideally, I can covertly teach them skills so that by going through the experience they are learning something in the process.
SMM: You were in telemarketing when you were young and you have said that you incorporate aspects of sales into what you do. Can you elaborate?
Robbins: It happens when I'm performing and it also happens during the process of negotiating contracts. I've often been a fan of win-win negotiations and I don't want it to be a battle where it is win or lose. If I can align myself and my objectives with the objectives of whomever it is that is talking to me or in a performance – if it's somebody I'm working with and they are worried about the status of how they're perceived in that group – if I can align myself with that, there is not this [question] of who is the smarter person or who is going to pay the cost? Instead, I'm facilitating a way that I become a vehicle for them to achieve their objectives.
SMM: Going in the other direction, are there aspects you could take from your entertainment experience and incorporate into sales?
Robbins: Con artists are able to engage trust very quickly and to establish confidence inside their marks. Most people feel being liked is more important than trust. But trust, I feel, is much more important for a sale than liking. If you can have both, great. But if you can only have one or the other, I'd say go for trust. You can like a friend, but you may not trust their competency to do something or to deliver a service. On the other side, you can trust somebody that you don't care for. As long as they seem transparent, if you can understand their goals, where they're going and what they're trying to do, you'll do business with them. There are ways to create trust by giving a strong sense of transparency and being very simple to observe. Too many times I think when people are in sales they have what looks like a poker hand held in front of them and they're putting their cards down and looking at you and expecting you to put your cards down and you can see that there is something they're trying to hold behind the curtain. That doesn't foster trust. It slows down the relationship-building process.
[At this point in the interview, Robbins mentioned using "pattern interrupts" or "cognitive hiccups" to inject unexpected behavior into a conversation as an element to create trust and gain an ally. He used the example of conversations with customer service representatives who are used to hearing complaints as a main component of their job.]
"They become jaded, desensitized and they're not going to respond to you. They're going to have certain responses that they are trained to say. So if you can change that pattern and pull the anchor up so they don't have a foundation to work on, you can now take the lead and they can look at it with fresh eyes."
[Robbins recalled a time when his wife and he were stuck in Europe as a result of a canceled flight and needed to get to Las Vegas for an important business appointment. They were due to fly out the next morning, but they were told there were no flights available. His wife was getting nowhere with the airline customer service rep despite stressing the importance of this business appointment. Robbins got on the phone and turned the conversation around.]
"I said, 'You seem to know quite a bit about your job. Is there something we're not seeing… something we don't know about how you do what you do that would help us?'" He stressed the importance of getting to Las Vegas, and how it could mean the difference between he and his wife keeping their jobs and losing them.
"I removed myself from the frustration and put myself alongside her. She said, 'Just a moment.' A few minutes later she came back on the line: 'Mr. Robbins, you're flying out at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning…'"
They arrived in Las Vegas on time.
SMM: In the New Yorker profile you talked about "grift sense," defining it as the ability to step outside yourself and see through the other person's eyes and think through their mind. That, it seems, is a skill that salespeople could make some hay with.
Robbins: Grift sense for me is understanding the mindset of the person you are dealing with. I've always felt like a con man's golden rule would be different than the traditional golden rule. Instead of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," the con man would say that is very selfish and would never work because you're only thinking from your perspective, and what if they don't want what you want? The better way would be "do unto others as others they would have done unto themselves." That's translatable to sales as well. The more information you know about their goals, how they perceive things and what their biases are, the more you can develop a grift sense.
Apollo Robbins has joined forces with likeminded individuals to form Ludus Development, a company that approaches corporate training with an emphasis on games and challenges. For more information, email email@example.com.
SMM: What have you read lately that is non-sales related but would help salespeople in their jobs?
Robbins: "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman is almost magical in discussing how the mind works. He talks about the process of the brain. It's a diamond. You can't believe your mind works that way.
See Apollo in action HERE.


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The Professional Development Virtual Chapter for PASS is holding its first virtual meeting on Thursday, May 13 at 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacfic time. Andy Warren (@sqlandy) will be the speaker. Click here to attend via Live Meeting. Also, check the http://prof-dev.sqlpass.org web site and RSS Feed for ongoing updates and details.
After struggling to defend my SQL Servers from a political attack recently, I realized that I needed better tools to back me up, and SQL Sentry is the leading candidate.
A couple of weeks ago, seemingly from out of nowhere, complaints from the business users started coming in that one of the core internal applications was running dramatically slower than normal, and fingers were being pointed at the SQL Server. Unfortunately, we don't have a production DBA whose entire job is to monitor and maintain our SQL Servers. The responsibility falls to me to do the best I can, investing only a small portion of my time, because there are so many other responsibilities to take care of, and our industry is still deep in recession. I inherited these SQL Servers and have made significant improvements in process and procedure, but I had not yet made the time to take real baseline measurements or keep a really close eye on the performance. Like many DBAs, I wrote several of my own tools and used the "built-in tools" like Profiler, PerfMon, and sp_who2 (did I mention most of our instances are SQL Server 2000?). These have all served me well for in-the-moment troubleshooting and maintenance, but they really fell down on the job when I was called upon to "prove" that SQL Server performance was acceptable and more importantly had not degraded recently (i.e. historical comparisons). I really didn't have anything from a historical comparison perspective, but I was able to show that current performance was acceptable, and deflect attention back onto other components (which in fact turned out to be the real culprit).
That experience dramatically illustrated the need for better monitoring tools. Coincidentally, I had been talking recently to my boss about the mini nightmare of monitoring several critical and interdependent overnight jobs that operate on separate instances of SQL Server. Among other tools, I had been using Idera's SQL Job Manager which is a free tool and did a nice job of showing me job schedules and histories in a nice calendar view. This worked fairly well, and for the money (did I mention it was free?) it couldn't be beat. But it is based on the stored job history in MSDB, and there were other performance problems that we ran into when we started changing the settings for how much job history to retain, in order to be able to look back a month or more in the calendar view. Another coincidence (if you believe in such things) was that when we had some of those performance challenges, I posted a couple of questions to the #sqlhelp hashtag on Twitter and Greg Gonzalez (@SQLSensei) suggested I check out SQL Sentry's Event Manager. At the time, I just thought he worked there, but later found out that he founded the company. When I took a quick look at the features & benefits, the one that really jumped out at me is Chaining and Queueing which sounded like it would really help with our "interdependent jobs on different servers" issue.
I know that is a lot of background story and coincidences, but hopefully you have stuck with me so far, and now we have arrived at the point where last week I downloaded and installed the 30-day trial of the SQL Sentry Power Suite, which is Event Manager plus Performance Advisor. And I must say that I really like what I see so far. Here are a few highlights:
That is just my first impressions from using the tools for a few days. And I haven't even gotten into how it showed me where I was completely mistaken about one aspect of my SQL Server disk configurations. I'll share that lesson in another blog entry. But I have to say it again, the combination of Event Manager and Performance Advisor working together have really made me a fan.
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Hyporthodus nigritus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Hyporthodus nigritus (Holbrook, 1855)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
Epinephelus nigritus (Holbrook, 1855)
Hyporthodus nigritus (Holbrook, 1855)
Serranus nigritus Holbrook, 1855
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Craig, M.T. and Hastings, P.A. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of the groupers of the subfamily Epinephelinae (Serranidae) with a revised classification of the Epinephelini. Ichthyological Research 54(1): 1-17.
|Taxonomic Notes:
|A recent publication changed the generic name of this species to Hyporthodus (Craig and Hastings 2007) and a change of family name to Epinephelidae (Smith and Craig 2007).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered A2d+3d ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Ng Wai Chuen & Huntsman, G. (Grouper & Wrasse Specialist Group)
|Sadovy, Y. & Koenig, C. (Grouper & Wrasse Red List Authority)
Hyporthodus nigritus is primarily caught by hook and line and bottom longlines; the species is caught incidentally in the deepwater snapper/grouper fishery. The major threat to the Warsaw Grouper is mortality as a result of fishing or by-catch release mortality (due to barotraumas since it is deep-living).
Both recreational and commercial fisheries for Warsaw Grouper are currently regulated in the south Atlantic; the South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council considers the species as overfished and undergoing overfishing (NMFS 2003). In the Gulf of Mexico commercial fishery, there are no possession limits for the species for federally permitted reef fish vessels, and the species is managed under the deep-water grouper commercial quota. The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council classifies the status of Warsaw Grouper as "unknown".
The status of the species is ambiguous. There is concern that even if the deeper parts of the range have healthy fish stocks, the shallow areas are much depleted. Despite the introduction of management, there continues to be killing of the species in bycatch which is unlikely to be reported. The designation of large marine protected areas is likely to be the most effective conservation measure for this species.
Despite the continuing poor knowledge about this species, there remains concern about its present and future status given that management action may be too little and not effective enough. A threatened category listing is warranted, given the intrinsic vulnerability of the species and the possibility that US waters hold much of the species. Despite a possible increase in landings, fishing effort is not known and there is concern that much other fishing effort is moving offshore and will increasingly impact this species. Musick et al. (2001) considered the species to be endangered. It is not clear whether this species fits better in the Endangered than Critically Endangered category. The listing as Critically Endangered is retained (a) because there is no good evidence of a change in condition since the last assessment was conducted; (b) there is no clear indication that management is being effective; and (c) a precautionary approach is being taken, given increasing fishing effort in offshore waters where the species occurs.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The species occurs in the Western Atlantic from Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, Trinidad, and as far south as Rio de Janeiro. Warsaw Grouper seem to be rare in the West Indies, with single records from Cuba, Haiti, and Trinidad; this rarity and the apparent absence from the western Caribbean shelf may be due to the dearth of deep-water fishing in this area (Manooch and Mason 1987, Heemstra and Randall 1993, Robins and Ray 1996).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Bahamas; Barbados; Brazil; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Mexico; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Turks and Caicos Islands; United States
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – southwest
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|No abundance population data have been reported for the species.
Landings data are available from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for the period from 1950 to 2003. Landings of H. nigritus were recorded in a few southeastern states of the US, including, Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Florida (east and west coasts). Landings were variable over 40 years from 1950 to 1990, ranging from 56 to 162 metric tons; peaks occurred in 1952, '65, '81 and '88, while troughs were recorded around 1960, '80 and '84. The landings showed marked declines between 1995 and 1998 to 25 to 40 metric tons, but rose again to 114 metric tons in 2003. (For the landings figures see Table 1 in the attached PDF).
By region (see Table 1 in the attached PDF), about 99% of Warsaw Grouper are caught in the Gulf of Mexico (Texas Louisiana, Alabama and Florida west coast). In terms of location, Florida west coast is the largest landing port in the US, responsible for about 68% of the total US landings from 1950 to 1985. However, the landings showed a decreasing trend in the Florida west coast since 1985, while the landings in Texas and Louisiana increased during the same period and took over the leading place in the 1990s. The change in trends of landings may indicate a shift in abundance around the area due to natural causes or because of a change in fishing practices. Further study on H. nigritus is needed to better understand stock trends.
According to the NOAA Fisheries' 2002 Report to Congress (NMFS 2003), the status of Warsaw Grouper Gulf of Mexico stock is unknown, and the status of the Atlantic stock is overfished with overfishing occurring. Long-term and short-term biomass trends for Warsaw Grouper are unknown (Mazurek 2004).
Although Cuba is within the range of this species, no information on landings could be found and it was not mentioned in a Cuban context in the recent book by Claro et al. 2001 which discusses ecology and fisheries of marine fishes of Cuba. This strongly implies that the species is either not common, has always been insignificant in the fishery, or has been seriously depleted. However a spawning season for the species in Cuba was noted by Garcia-Cagide (1994) indicating a reproductive population in the area.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) capture fisheries data, but their records only recorded production of E. nigritus in the West Central Atlantic Fisheries Area (31), annual production ranged from 16 to 54 metric tons during the period from 1994 to 2000 (FAO 2002).
The species is reported to have low resilience, with a minimum population doubling time of 4.5 - 14 years (Froese and Pauly 2005).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Hyporthodus nigritus is classified as a deep-water grouper; they inhabit reefs (such as deep Oculina reef areas and other growth-encrusted hard bottom) on the continental shelf break in waters 76-219 m deep (Manooch and Mason 1987). The fish have their pelagic egg and larval stages pelagic offshore (Richards 1999, Parker and Mays 1998), juveniles can be found in nearshore areas, occasionally seen on jetties and shallow-water reefs (Heemstra and Randall 1993, Hardy 1978, Lavett Smith 1971). Adults are usually found on rough, rocky bottoms in depths of 55 to 525 m (FAO 1977, Heemstra and Randall 1993, Bullock and Smith 1991, Gutherz 1982).
The Warsaw Grouper is long-lived (up to 41 years) and has a slow growth rate (Manooch and Mason 1987, Musick et al. 2001). Maximum size is about 235 cm TL and about 200 kg.
Hyporthodus nigritus is a protogynous hermaphrodite, age of maturity occurs at nine years (Parker and Mays 1998, Musick et al. 2001). Spawning has been reported to occur around April and May in Cuba (García-Cagide 1994).
The Warsaw Grouper's large mouth enables it to engulf prey whole after capturing it in ambush or after a short chase. Diet items include crabs, shrimps and fishes.
|Major Threat(s):
An immediate threat to this species is related to management of the commercial bottom long-line fishery of the southeastern US. The management trend has been to restrict such indiscriminate gear to deeper waters. If this management trend continues Warsaw Grouper and other deep-water species like it (Speckled Hind, Snowy Grouper, Yellowedge Grouper, and several species of tilefish) will experience an even greater impact than they do now because barotrauma (expansion of enclosed gases in the swimbladder - embolism) results in hemorrhage and eventual death as these deepwater fish are brought to the surface (Coleman and Williams 2002, Coleman et al. 2004).
There is also a trend for the recreational fishery to operate in deeper water as shallower stocks become depleted. Even though there is a daily bag limit and trip limit for groupers, there are so many recreational fishermen (over 1 million saltwater licenses in Florida alone) that the potential impact on the already depleted Warsaw Grouper population is serious.
The limited dataset used to determine the status of the Atlantic stock, in the absence of a full stock assessment (M. Prager pers. comm.), indicates that the spawning potential ratios (SPR) for Warsaw Grouper in the Atlantic is between 6 and 14%, well below the threshold level indicating overfishing (NMFS 2003). There are no stock assessments for the Gulf of Mexico stock and none are planned in the immediate future.
|Conservation Actions:
Hyporthodus nigritus was listed as a "Candidate species" in 1997 under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) (United States), and was classified as a "Species of Concern" in April 2004 by National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Both status assessments do not carry any procedural or substantive protections under the ESA.
According to the NOAA Fisheries' 2002 Report to Congress (NMFS 2003), the status of the Warsaw Grouper stock in Gulf of Mexico is unknown, and the status of the Atlantic stock is overfished with overfishing occurring.
Current commercial grouper regulations for the Gulf of Mexico include Warsaw Grouper - no minimum size; 726 mt overall deep-water grouper quota (GMFMC 2003).
Current commercial grouper regulations for the U.S. South Atlantic include Warsaw Grouper - one per vessel per trip; may not be sold or traded; no transfer at sea (SAFMC 2003).
Status by Distinct Population Segment (DPS) US: Endangered, steady and drastic decline in abundance, males are rare (G.R. Huntsman, pers. obs.).
|Ng Wai Chuen & Huntsman, G. (Grouper & Wrasse Specialist Group). 2006. Hyporthodus nigritus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T7860A12857446. . Downloaded on 22 September 2018.
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Warriors "Richard The Lionheart and Saladin" In the year 1192 in Jaffa, a vital strategic port on the coast of Palestine, the Christians are on the brink of defeat in their Crusade against Saladin for control of the Holy Land. Richard the Lionheart of Britain is a man motivated by Christian duty, struggling with how to lead a fractious international coalition. He stakes his reputation on this final battle at Jaffa against his Muslim opponent.G
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The Ghost Army From Normandy to the Rhine in the summer of 1944, 1,100 men become a cast of thousands. They use radio transmissions, the sounds of massive armies, and visual tricks to simulate nonexistent tanks in order to misdirect the German defenses away from the actual Allied forces.G
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Constitution USA with Peter Sagal "Created Equal" The ideal that "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence, didn't make it into the Constitution until the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868, giving the federal government the power to enforce it. Sagal looks at how the ideals of citizenship, equal protection, due process and personal liberty are being used today. Part 3 of 4G
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Frontline "The Untouchables" FRONTLINE examines why Wall Street leaders connected to America's financial meltdown have escaped prosecution. Even though fraudulent practices at financial institutions contributed to the meltdown, to date none of the titans at the helm have been convicted of a crime connected to the crisis.G
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HOUSTON -- Over the last four years, José Francisco Torres has slowly grown from part-time player to starter at Pachuca and now to a member of the 2010 US World Cup squad all in the blink of an eye. And the creative midfielder has thoroughly enjoyed the ride though and the experience each step has provided along the way.
"It was my first World Cup and it was a great experience playing against great teams," said Torres. "It's a different rhythm and it's faster, and whatever I learned there I tried to bring here."
Houston fans have been witness to the development of "El Gringo." International competitions like SuperLiga and the CONCACAF Champions League have given them the opportunity to see Torres grow and develop into one of the country's rising stars. After playing Pachuca for four consecutive years, the Dynamo are impressed by the strides being made south of the border by Torres and his new teammate Hérculez Gómez.
"Pachuca's been a powerhouse for this region for some time now," said Dynamo defender Bobby Boswell. "To see some guys getting their name called and getting to play with those guys is good for soccer in general and this country."
For Torres, the move south of the border wasn't always as easy as he is making it look now. The talented lefty, though, is happy with the role he has carved out with the Tuzos and how his career has developed.
"It's tough working from the bottom and working your way up to the top," noted the US midfielder. "There were experienced players [here early in my career] and you have to respect them, so every time I came down for SuperLiga, I would go in [as a sub] and try to do something. I tried to do my best, but now that I am starter, I have to try to do my best and keep my spot."
Previously the lone American Tuzo, Torres now has two new countrymen as teammates. US international striker Gómez joins Pachuca after a successful stint with Puebla earlier in the year. The team also acquired defender Marco Vidal on loan to round out the trio.
"It feels good," said Torres about having his new teammates on board. "[Gómez and I] know each other well and he moves well. Now that he's on my team, I know how he wants the ball and, when he's on the run, I have to give it to him. He's a great goal scorer and a great teammate."
While Torres and Gómez were unable to unlock World Cup defenses this summer, it seems likely both are tabbed for success in Mexico this fall.
For the US National Team, having a player like Torres develop outside the country and with a skill set that differs from his national team counterparts can only help make the collective team that much stronger.
Dwain Capodice is a contributor to MLSsoccer.com. Questions or Comments can be sent via email to email@example.com.


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The Bible before Solstice
'Twas around winter solstice, alone in the house
I was reading the Bible, as quiet as a mouse.
The stories were thrown in the book without care;
contradictions abounded, mistakes everywhere.
I could not understand, or believe what it said,
its tall tales of people come back from the dead;
original sin, which was such a bum rap,
blood sacrifice, curses, and other such crap.
When deep down inside I knew something's the matter
I sprang to the web to make sense of such chatter.
Away to the Google I flew like a flash,
to try and make out heads or tails of this trash.
The search engine gave me back millions of hits;
molesters, and con men, and other such shits.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
but hundreds of gods from the earliest year.
With a little old edit, the story of Horus
I knew in a moment it must be the sou-rce.
More numerous than seagulls, gods and goddesses came,
and I whistled, and marveled, and called out their name;
Osiris! Adonis! Dionysus! Mithra!
There's Attis and Ishtar! And Baldr and Krishna!
To the land of the dead! Down to hell they all went,
to the underworld, after their lives were all spent.
Like fertility symbols these gods they all die,
and then get resurrected, back up in the sky.
So back up to heaven these deities flew,
to start new religions, and Jesus did too.
Right there in the gospels, just like you would guess,
a brand new Messiah turned up in this mess.
As I willingly tried to suspend disbelief
from the pages this Jesus guy came like a thief.
He was beat all to shit, from his head to his foot,
and put onto a cross just like Horus was put;
His birth in a manger, and marked by a star,
that's a detail he stole from the Goddess Ishtar.
His magic trick changing his water to wine,
was a ripoff of Bacchus who used to brew 'shine.
He claims to have brought people back from the dead,
that's just like the other gods—what they all said.
And in some of his stories he acts like a cad:
"Hate your mother and father! Don't bury your dad!"
Sends his guys to steal donkeys, and kills farmer's pigs,
and cusses a tree out for not giving figs.
He's a crazy old preacher, who just seems kind of silly
though I had to admit that his book was a dilly,
that tried hard to steal those old stories by stealth,
and I laughed when I read it, in spite of myself.
A shift of my eyes and a twist of my head,
to the headlines, told me I had nothing to dread:
all the Pope's rules have been shown not to work,
evangelicals picket, and act like a jerk;
they cry "war on Christmas" and make silly fusses,
when we put up billboards, or signs on our buses.
But to all the fanatics I give this epistle,
away from your church people fly like a missile,
and I have to exclaim, on this solsticey night,
that millions of us, without gods, are alright.
Happy holidays, everybody!


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At a Veterans Day ceremony at Carlton Drake Memorial Park in Newfoundland Nov. 12, veterans joined members of the community and students from Wallenpaupack School District to recognize and remember those who have served the United States.
Phillips-Zacharias-Phillips Post 859, American Legion sponsored the service, with Post Commander Jack Sparks leading the ceremony where he jokingly apologized for the uniquely warm weather, noting that during this time of year, it is normally cold, with a few snowflakes and rain.
The Wallenpaupack area high school marching band played a few patriotic pieces and from her heart, Gloria Kaye, a Vietnam veteran sang "Proud to be an American."
Rev. Gregg Schafer said a prayer and mentioned how this was the first armistice following WWI, where no veterans from WWI are alive.
Flags and wreathes were placed for all veterans, living and deceased, to show gratitude for those who served their country. The flag that was flown at the ceremony flew over the nation's capital on Sept. 8.
Makenna Peet, a fourth-grader at Wallenpaupack South Elementary School read her winning essay about what being an American means to her. Peet said she is proud to be an American because "the military fought for all to have freedom." With the military, Peet said, military men and women, police officers, doctors and ambulance workers all work to keep Americans safe and healthy. As an American, Peet said she is glad that people can try to "treat everyone equally and treat everyone fairly." In America, people are able to have nice families and friends with beautiful land and fair laws, she said. Peet ended with "I'll never forget the ones who died, who gave their life for me. I'm proud to be an American."
A fifth-grader, Taleigtha Lester, said she is proud to be an American because she is able to look at the American flag, sing the Star-Spangled Banner and say the Pledge of Allegiance, which makes her "feel so proud to be an American, to be free." Americans, Lester said, have equal rights and no one is treated differently, no matter if a person is a girl or a boy. What matters though, Lester said, is that "people will treat you the same way you treat them." In America, people are not ruled by a king or a queen who could tell "us what to do every day" Lester said. Her point, she said, is that Americans are "very lucky to be free" and she is "thankful to be an American."
Major Kenneth Quinby is serving as the executive officer for the director of field logistics support at the Tobyhanna Army Depot where he manages more than 500 personnel, at camps, posts and stations around the world. Part of Quinby's job includes providing maintenance and sustainment support to various units and world fighters who operate the sea R15 equivalent. When Sparks introduced Quinby, he said the machines Quinby uses today are quite different than that of which he used when he was in the service because the 1M1's he used were "carried by dinosaurs."
Quinby said it is important that the Wallenpaupack students understand and realize what the ceremonies like the one they were attending are about because the students will be the next generation to "support, recognize and remember the veterans." Veterans Day and November 11 are very significant days because "the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month, the battlefields in Europe fell quiet for the first time, in a long time" marking the end of World War I he said. Veterans, Quinby said, are special because they are "brave, willing to stand up and say 'I will' without even knowing what the 'will' is."
As a solider, Quinby said it is his job to protect and defend the country to keep peoples' freedoms. Noting that he does not do the job for himself, but rather, "for each one of us." Always ready to do what is necessary, Quinby said he knows what the sacrifices are and he is ready to die if need be. "If dying is asked me, well I'll bear the cross with honor. Because freedom, does not come free."


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Surging past defending champion David Ferrer, Rafael Nadal deliver a powerful 6-0, 6-2 performance in Saturday's final of the Mexican Open.
Ferrer was a three-time defending champion and had won 19 straight matches in this event, but he could find no answer to Nadal, losing to his Spanish compatriot.
Nadal surprised himself with the one-sided victory that showed he has quickly returned to near his best after a knee injury.
"I did not do anything wrong today, I had a great match, almost perfect," Nadal said. "I would have never imagined playing at the level that I played today, I'm leaving happy and surprised.
"I played a great match against one of the top players in the world, a specialist in clay who did not look like himself out there, he had a bad day."
The women's final was similarly one-sided with Italy's Sara Errani beating Carla Suarez-Navarro of Spain 6-0, 6-4.
Nadal missed seven months with a left knee injury before making his comeback in the Latin American clay court season.
He has played three tournaments: making the final but losing to Horacio Zeballos in Chile, taking out the Brazil Open by beating David Nalbandian and cruising past Ferrer for his 38th clay title. Seven of those 38 have been against Ferrer.
Nadal is ready to test his knee on the more jarring hard-court surface at the upcoming Indian Wells tournament after an exhibition appearance at New York's Madison Square Garden.
"Indian Wells is one of my favorite tournaments and I want to keep competing because the knee is holding up and my heart says that I can do it, and compete is what I want to do now," Nadal said.
"Those seven months are in the past, hopefully forever. I played like that did not happened, but it did happen."
The 11-time major champion broke Ferrer five times in eight opportunities, winning 58 percent of his return points. He improved his record against Ferrer to 17-4.
Ferrer had defended titles already this year at Auckland and Buenos Aires, but was not able to make it four straight Mexican Opens.
Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
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DAYTON, Ohio -- The individual best performance in the "First Four" came from a guard who insists he's in a shooting slump.
Melvin Johnson III scored a career-high 29 points during Texas-San Antonio's 70-61 win over Alabama State. He outscored the Hornets 25-21 in the first half, hitting one open shot after another while wearing bright orange shoes with "SWISH" scribbled on the sides.
"It seems like the last four or five games, I can't make a shot," Johnson said. "I have 'SWISH' on the side of my shoes because I used to make shots. I might have to black it out for now."
Might as well leave it there for the trip to Cleveland, where the Roadrunners (20-13) will play top-seeded Ohio State on Friday fresh off the first NCAA tournament win in their school's history.
"If it gets any bigger than this, I'm not sure I'll be able to handle it," freshman Jeromie Hill said.
Virginia Commonwealth sure proved it could handle it.
After hearing almost every basketball expert question whether they had any business being in the field of 68, the Rams went out and made their case on the court.
"You guys think Jay Bilas watched that game?" VCU coach Shaka Smart said with a wide grin, referring to the ESPN analyst, after the Rams beat fellow 11-seed Southern California 59-46 in a bruising, physical, foul-plagued nightcap.
Jamie Skeen scored 16 points and VCU more than held its own inside against the bigger and stronger Trojans.
"It feels really good because a lot of people were doubting us," Skeen said. "We were able to come out and prove some people wrong. Instead of just talking about it, we just came out here and played."
The Rams (24-11) pulled away down the stretch to set up a game against sixth-seeded Georgetown (21-10) on Friday in Chicago.
Joey Rodriguez had eight points and five assists for VCU, but was one of many standouts for the Rams.
Even though the Trojans started two 6-foot-10 wide bodies inside, the Rams held a 40-31 edge in rebounding.
"We really followed the game plan in terms of what we were trying to do to stop USC," said Smart, the second-youngest coach in the NCAA field at 33. "They obviously have a lot of weapons. Our guys did a really good job for 40 minutes on the defensive end. This is as good as we've played defensively. Early on offensively we were a little jittery. But our guys really settled down and we made more than enough shots as the game wore on."
Jio Fontan had 14 points and Nikola Vucevic 11 for USC (19-15), which had just one field goal over the final 9 minutes.
After trailing by as many as five points in the first half, the Rams broke free in the second half with their 3-point shooting, building an eight-point lead
Skeen hit a 3 to open the second-half scoring and Rodriguez -- scoreless to that point -- hit two 3s for a 28-24 lead. After Maurice Jones countered by hitting USC's first 3 of the game, VCU's Brandon Rozzell hit another shot behind the arc on the left wing to push the lead to 34-27 at the 14:25 mark.
The Rams did not give up the lead.
USC pulled as close as 44-43, but then VCU pulled away again.
With the shot clock running down, Rodriguez passed up a shot and flipped the ball to Ed Nixon, who hit the 3 from the left wing -- his only field goal of the game. The Rams then added two foul shots by Bradford Burgess and a shot off glass in traffic by Rodriguez for a 51-43 lead.
Fontan, the linchpin of the USC offense, then fouled out on a drive with 3:54 left, crippling the Trojans' attack.
The Rams padded their lead the rest of the way.
UTSA's brightest star for one night, Johnson won't get nearly so many open shots against the Buckeyes, who will be playing only two hours from campus in an arena packed with their fans. The 16th-seeded Roadrunners will be trying to pull off an unprecedented upset of a No. 1 seed.
The Roadrunners left town with a little history already in the books. No Texas-San Antonio team had ever won an NCAA tournament game in any sport.
"We're very proud to be in this moment," coach Brooks Thompson said.
Might as well let Johnson decide where to put the banner in their 4,080-seat UTSA Convocation Center. The sophomore's scintillating first half set it all up.
The 6-foot-5 guard went 8 of 14 from the field in the first half, making every type of shot. His eight baskets were only one fewer than all the Hornets combined, setting up a 48-21 lead. He took only four shots in the second half.
"Johnson got good look after good look, and he also made some tough shots," Hornets coach Lewis Jackson said. "He got on a roll and it trickled down to everybody else."
It'll take something sensational -- and more -- to keep the Roadrunners in the game in Cleveland.
"No. 31, if he's on like he was tonight, it should be a pretty good game," Alabama State guard Jeff Middlebrooks said.
Johnson knows what they're up against.
"We're going to fight just like we always do," he said. "I'm not going to guarantee a victory or say anything like that."
Spoken like a man in a shooting slump.


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At least in the Fourth Circuit.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision reversed the district court's decision in Woollard v. Sheridan (which had invalidated the Maryland concealed carry statute's requirement that an applicant show good cause for issuance of a concealed carry license).
The court quoted legislative "findings" supporting the law as written:
(1) the number of violent crimes committed in the State has increased alarmingly in recent years;
(2) a high percentage of violent crimes committed in the State involves the use of handguns;
(3) the result is a substantial increase in the number of deaths and injuries largely traceable to the carrying of handguns in public places by criminals;
(4) current law has not been effective in curbing the more frequent use of handguns in committing crime; and
(5) additional regulations on the wearing, carrying, and transporting of handguns are necessary to preserve the peace and tranquility of the State and to protect the rights and liberties of the public.
The court even notes that these findings (adopted in 2002), have not been substantially changed since the Maryland legislature first adopted them in 1972.
Somehow, despite the passage of 30 years from the legislature's initial adoption to its re-adoption of these findings, the situation in Maryland has not changed (after all, if it had worked, and crime had gone down in response to any laws based on these findings, surely the present findings would differ by at least crediting the current harsh laws for the drop in crime). This is in fact strikingly similar to the Supreme Court's current case on the Voting Rights Act, in which Congress had adopted the same "findings" today as it did at the VRA's inception–in 1965.
The Fourth Circuit went on to list several other "findings" (I won't reproduce them here; if you click through to the Volokh Conspiracy and then to the opinion itself, you can read them on pp. 26-28). This reads like a litany of standard gun control fears–essentially that liberalized carry will take us back to the wild west. It hasn't (for example, despite similar claims by opponents of Virginia's bar and restaurant carry bill, crime didn't increase–it dropped).
Maryland essentially argued that they should be able to deny carry licenses to the vast majority of applicants because of public safety, and the Fourth Circuit went along with it (citing heavily to the Second Circuit's opinion in Kachalsky, but doing its best to minimize the Seventh Circuit's opinion in Moore).
Professor Volokh appears to take a dim view of the court's deference to the legislature's findings (especially coupled with this standard of review) and notes that "a constitutional right that can be trumped in nearly all its applications, under whatever level of scrutiny, is not really a right."
I agree.
I would go further, though. The various circuits, in Kachalsky, Peterson, and now in Woollard are focusing too much on Heller and McDonald's language regarding the "core" Second Amendment right. The right of armed self-defense may be strongest in the home, but as the Seventh Circuit noted in Moore, that does not mean that it is nonexistent elsewhere.
I only have one other thing to say about this case–I'm very glad it came out today and not last Thursday, or I would have had to stay up all night reworking certain parts of my law review note so I could turn it in on Friday.


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