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Giffords gun control group wants $20 million for 2014 elections — (Reuters) - A new gun control group led by Gabrielle Giffords, the former U.S. congresswoman wounded in a Tucson shooting rampage, wants to raise $20 million for the 2014 congressional elections, matching …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
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In campaign for tougher gun laws, Obama and allies work to tilt public opinion
In campaign for tougher gun laws, Obama and allies work to tilt public opinion
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Expectations low for Joe Biden, NRA talks
Expectations low for Joe Biden, NRA talks
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Laura Clawson / Daily Kos: Anti-gay Pastor Louie Giglio drops out of inauguration
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Inaugural Benediction To Be Delivered By Pastor Who Gave Vehemently Anti-Gay Sermon
Inaugural Benediction To Be Delivered By Pastor Who Gave Vehemently Anti-Gay Sermon
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Josh Israel / Alternet: Anti-Gay Preacher Tapped for Obama's Inaugural Benediction Withdraws After Firestorm of Public Outrage
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade: White House mum on inaugural pastor's anti-gay sermon
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times: Louie Giglio, Inaugural Pastor, Criticized for Antigay Sermon
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The Caucus: Minister's Comments on Gay Rights Raise Questions on Role in Inauguration
Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay: Obama Inauguration Pastor Gave Anti-Gay Sermon, and His Father Created the Chick-fil-A Logo
Donovan Slack / Politico: Inauguration pastor under fire for anti-gay remarks
PZ Myers / Pharyngula: Jebus Christ, guess who's going to deliver the benediction at Obama's inauguration?
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog: Rick Warren's anti-gay evil twin Louie Giglio to give inauguration benediction
Judy Kurtz / The Hill: Scalpers hawking members' inaugural tickets online
Replace anti-gay Pastor Louie Giglio for the benediction at the inauguration with a pro-LGBT member of the clergy.
Replace anti-gay Pastor Louie Giglio for the benediction at the inauguration with a pro-LGBT member of the clergy.
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller: White House petition aims to replace 'anti-gay' pastor as Obama's inaugural benediction speaker; UPDATE: Giglio pulled
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog: Louie Giglio and the power of the blogs
Teddy Partridge / Firedoglake: White House Has No Comment on Anti-Gay Inaugural Pastor Choice
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill: Rangel: Lack of diversity in Cabinet 'embarrassing as hell'
Alexander Bolton / The Hill: Senate Republicans: Lew will have to answer for White House tactics
Joan Walsh / Salon: Does Obama have a diversity problem?
BooMan / Booman Tribune: This Diversity Charge is Bunk
Mike Allen / Politico:
11 days to inaug — NRA MEMBERSHIP SURGES — POTUS names Chief of Staff Jack Lew as Treasury secretary, 1:30 p.m. - Jim Warren to D.C. — Kevin Sheridan joins Dyke-Madden firm — TapprTumblr — THE JUICE: As pushback to N.Y. Times' A1 boys'-club photo, the White House yesterday blast-emailed …
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo: NRA To Talk To Biden, But Not About Gun Control
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New York Times:
Obama's Pick for Treasury Is Said to Be His Chief of Staff
Obama's Pick for Treasury Is Said to Be His Chief of Staff
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Taylor Berman / Gawker: Will the 'World's Worst Signature' Make It Onto New Dollar Bills?
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Obama selects White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew to head Treasury
Obama selects White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew to head Treasury
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Rick Bosh / msnbc.com: What we're reading: Thursday, January 10, 2013
Jill Lawrence / NationalJournal.com: Why Obama's White-Guy Problem Seems Worse Than It Is
Hayley Peterson / Daily Mail: Obama to appoint White House chief of staff Jack Lew as next Treasury Secretary
Chris Cillizza / The Fix: Meet the new President Obama
Rachel Weiner / Post Politics: Will Jack Lew change his crazy signature?
Manu Raju / Politico: Senate vs. President Obama over Cabinet
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Los Angeles Times:
Obama Cabinet may not meet his own diversity standards
Obama Cabinet may not meet his own diversity standards
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post: Obama needs some binders of women
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Steps Down
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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis resigns
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis resigns
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Mike Huckabee: Obama's own 'war on women'
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Obama Cabinet: Eric Holder, Kathleen Sebelius, Eric Shinseki Staying On For Second Term
Obama Cabinet: Eric Holder, Kathleen Sebelius, Eric Shinseki Staying On For Second Term
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Business leaders: Failure to raise debt ceiling will drive markets "haywire"
Business leaders: Failure to raise debt ceiling will drive markets "haywire"
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Mary Bruce / ABCNEWS: White House Won't Rule Out $1-Trillion Coin Option
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The White House:
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 1/9/2013
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 1/9/2013
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What Crazy Fascist Executive Orders Might Obama Use to Take Away Your Freedoms? — The Drudge Report is America's leading source of hyperlinks to Alex Jones articles, so I'm not sure why this splash page so shocked Washington. (Apparently there are reporters who still use Drudge as a sort of homepage?
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Biden On Guns: Executive Order Is On The Table
Biden On Guns: Executive Order Is On The Table
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Say program A closes it's write half of the connection and then
Program B, which was communicating with Program A (via a pipe), then
tries to write to the fd on Program A. Program A would generate
SIGPIPE right?
If Program A generates a SIGPIPE, how can the fd on Program A be ready
for writing? Ie, if program A closes it's write end, then how can it
be ready for writing?


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(Dear Summer)
When you come up, I come in
It's like a revolving door with this music biz
I seen you love, I'm seeing you hate, I'm seeing you love him again
But I'm happy you that let me come and be your friend
Cause last year your man had the streets on fire
But you cheated with a dude who did through the wire
The only man you had that I loved retired
And this year you had some dude who won a fuck ?
But I swear at the same time you fucked with this man
Summer, maybe you the reason them cats ain't friends
Cause 50 had you locked in '03, fucked his friends in '04
But Summer, that ain't the shit that I go for
You need to calm down and show me you love me
Cause whenever you come 'round shit gets ugly
Niggas be shooting cause they don't know what to do with you
And I can't move on, I'm just so used to you
And all these little cats be hawking down you
Matter fact, Usher's Confession was talking about you
I seen you show him love, him man Lil' John
How can you do this, you supposed to be my baby's mom
Bullshit catching up, hip-hop mad at us
Everybody love you, Fat Joe's trying to snatch you up
Hov had Nas scared even to holla back at you
Every seven years Dre come around and fuck with ya
The past tow, the Dirty South had you getting crunk and stuff
I'm kinda mad at that, I'm kinda jealous
But overwhelmed at the fact that I want you as well as every nigga that raps
Except for maybe Eminem, he got to win a lot
He even promised he could drop weak shit and never flop
You showed Nelly mad love, I knew that was great
Cause that means you're starting to spread you heart my way
If you can just give me the time of the day
And half the whole world after X-to the-V
I promise I will never leave you or let you stray every single day
But don't have me waiting for long, ma, c'mon
I'm taking three minutes out to write you a song
You can reply back, besides that, to see where your mind's at
I know you drop niggas, I mean, see where Ja's at?
But I don't work extra hard just to get your heart
There's no sleeping if you let me keep it
I swear there won't be no lying or cheating
I'll open up my soul, Summer, tell you all my secrets
Just give me your time
I know the last letter you received had you crying and you ain't never lie
I see you kinda stingy I can tell by how you did Bleak
Look at his first week
I mean, damn
How you gonna do bleak like that
As I head home and call it a day, I hope you think about the things that I say
It's a cruel, cruel world, ma, I know that now
But I'm the only one that will truly hold you down
Every single year I will come around, I did that 4 times and I'm still unsigned
Legacy in '02, The Answer in '03, Overture in '04
I ain't saying no more
(Bonus Track)
They just ?
Police is watching, the streets is talking
They just ?
That I'm a rapper, dude, that's what they notice first
And that my rapping crew makes situations worse
So I can I give my view on how you give us cues
Like we just rap, hoop, talk loud and barbecue
Niggas don't hear the dude, they all skip the message
Too complex with my complexion, man, get to stepping
And they don't know that I'm close to a deal, think it's a counterfeit marker on my $5 bill
I wear my hat the the side, roll with a couple of thugs
Bump my shit in my ride, turn it all the way up
Call a cutie a honey, call a hoochie a ho
Middle fingers to the cops, yeah, you already know
I wear a do-rag to lay down my waves, but somehow they turn that around to I'm in a gang
Instead of staring, just try to wave and say 'hi'
And keep moving, cause I'mma do me and stay fly
They just
Rappers are ? killers, we got the vultures with us
We tell the world that we cold killers and drug dealers
I'm so ill and realer than most
Killing the flow, and still you keep feeling the ghost spilling you
I'll be damned if I let a nigga choose my look
You can't describe me through the pictures in you're rapping books
You can't allow the money stacking in my platinum jeans
Allow you to think that you know me in the magazines
Just allow the scene and the songs I bring
X out the thoughts you brought and describe me to the V
Don't allow my status being king of the city take your perception quickly
Cause I'm a gentleman like Mr. Bentley
Sometimes I don't want to be bothered with talk
"And, like, how can I get on," I just hear it too often
So when I say I'm busy, guess I'm pleading the fifth
I bet I'll make my way to Heaven with all of these fears


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Discussion in 'Former Pro Player Talk' started by pc1, Sep 17, 2012.
As late as June 1964, Hoad was still regarded as one of the top two professionals.
With how many big events won?
In 1964 Hoad won the New Zealand tour, beating Laver 3 matches to 1, Anderson 3 matches to 1, and was 1 and 3 against Rosewall (losing the first 3 matches, winning the fourth and series-deciding match).
Laver was 1 and 3 against Hoad, 3 and 1 against Rosewall, 3 and 1 against Anderson.
Rosewall was 3 and 1 against Hoad, 1 and 3 against Laver, 2 and 2 against Anderson.
Anderson was 4 and 8 overall.
By June, Laver had still not won an important pro event, but would soon win the US Pro at Longwood.
As a pro?
Two world pro tournament championships in 1958 and 1959.
The 1960 New Zealand Tour (over Anderson, Sedgman, and Cooper.)
The first Japanese Pro Championship in 1960 (on clay over Rosewall, 11-9 in the fifth set).
Two Kramer Cup wins in 1961 (beating Trabert in the final, deciding match), and 1962 ( a ferocious performance in the final against Olmedo).
The 1962 Facis Trophy Italian tour.
An 8 to 0 win against Laver in the 1963 Australian tour, including the big one at Kooyong (6-3 in the fifth set).
The 1964 New Zealand Tour.
Dan, I'm convinced urban meant only 1964.
Whatever he meant, this answer should cover it.
In L.A., Hoad was coming off a 3 to 1 tour victory over Laver.
That should answer the question.
One should add the 1957 South African tour, which he won over Rosewall, Segura, and Kramer.
It was during this tour that the famous incident took place in a South African bar, when the players entered and one South African man apparently made an objectionable remark about Segura.
Hoad walked over to the man, grabbed THE FRONT LEGS OF HIS CHAIR, and raised him up to eye level, saying "Shut the.....up", and let go the chair.
I do not see anywhere that Segura ever returned to play in South Africa.
Incidentally, I do not see that Hoad had any back trouble between June 1957, following a six-week body cast, and February 27, 1958, when his back gave out again at Palm Springs, after he had dominated a string of matches against Gonzales 15 to 3. (Yes, that is 15 to 3.)
Thus, his back allowed him to perform the famous feat in South Africa.
Hoad moved to south side of Spain and many aussies feared he´d make them DC champions in 1967 when Australia hosted Spain at Melbourne¡¡¡
was 1958 Melbourne RR Pro tournament played on grass?
veco, Yes on grass of the famous Kooyong stadium.
In later years the Australian tennis officials did not allow the pros to use such "holy" amateur venues.
It is possible that Kramer did say this (in order to impress the crowd and justify their ticket-prices), but that it was not a actual fact.
(Kramer was always very head-strong and opinionated.)
This was in 1964, before Laver had won his first important tournament in the pros.
Why the new name Dan?
I have learned that my relative Dan Lobb, famous British TV star and former tennis pro, who once defeated Tim Henman, shares common descent from John Lobb, who lived in the early 1500's.
Not as close as I thought.
Don't want to confuse anyone.
Too talented, too athletic, too handsome, too nice folk
Hoad is more a Hollywood mith or legend than anything else
It would' t be fair to common mortals if, in addition, he also happened to be the greatest ever
Maybe best ever would be good For him
He was very mortal, with human fallibilities.
There are legends of him drinking beer all night, and then working the booze out of his system before playing a big match the next day against Davidson in the 1956 French final, or Laver in 1963 at Sydney.
Dan L, Welcome back. I have missed you.
Good to hear from you, Bobby.
We share an interest in the famous Tennis Twins.
it was regarded as a gang **** in those years...they rather have the cows eat all the grass than letting the outlawers step onto it.
The Maleevas, of course
I am happily married, too happily for that.
good to have you on the forum again, Dan
Considering the praise he gets from the likes of Rod Laver, Pancho Gonzales, and Ken Rosewall, I don't think Hoad was just a "myth." He had a rather successful doubles career teaming with Rosewall if you don't think his singles career was much.
Vensai, Yes, Hoad won 21 major doubles, thus No.2 behind Rosewall (24). Mostly the "twins" played together. Among others they won two Wimbledon titles and five Wembley titles...
The last time the pros were allowed to use major Australian tennis facilities was in January 1963, when Laver debuted as a pro against Hoad and Rosewall at White City and Kooyong.
The Australian tennis federation was supposedly upset that Laver had apparently agreed to turn pro in 1962.
The amateur managers got nasty and banned the pros from major venues, and upped the "stipend" and "service fees" paid to amateur players.
This starved the pro ranks of new players, because the leading amateurs could make more money than the leading pros.
Dan, would you like to do an post (or maybe a few posts) on why Hoad could be the greatest on my new Positive Discussion thread?http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=497232
See you there.
Hoad is the one guy I never watched live that I would want to attend a match.The first one of my list that includes the likes of Cochet,Doherty,Tilden,Budge,Perry,Crawford,Sedgman,Gonzales and Kramer to start with...
Roche regards Hoad as GOAT, although he never saw him play in his prime years.
Dan, Roche does not regard Hoad as GOAT, only as strogest player when "on".
No, when Roche was asked who was "the greatest player of all time", his response was,
"Hoad was great, but I never saw him in his prime."
Speaks for itself.
Roche was close to Rosewall and so were Stolle and Newk right bobbyone?
The other aussie gang was the farmers:Anderson,Emerson and Laver
None can truly consider Hoad as the GOAT.
His achievements are just not worthy of such an accolade.
Dan, That's not "the greatest player of all time". Come down again to earth!
kiki, Do you think that's witty??
I don't consider Hoad the GOAT by accomplishments. I can possibly see him as the GOAT for one match but that's debatable too.
Pancho Gonzalez did however call Lew Hoad and I quote "probably the best and toughest player when he wanted to be."
Gonzalez ranked Hoad, Laver, Budge, Kramer and Frank Sedgman on the same competitive plateau.
Gonzalez commented that the only player he feared was Hoad. A host of other professionals and amateurs during that era revered Hoad's ability. Hoad had one flaw, his love of drink. I think Hoad's flaw detracted from his ability, but it was a different era with different standards. Hoad, although completely different in his mentality, reminds me of a current day Rios. The other players were in awe of him and couldn't beat him on his best day, but neither of them ever rose to the top on a consistent basis.
Personally, I think Hoad and Rios fit into the same category, more talent than anyone else they just didn't have the special ingredient that a player like Rosewall or Sampras or Laver or Borg had.
Agreed. I also think a great talent that people don't think about is the ability to play at a high level every match. Hoad played a very low percentage game and he was bound to be off on occasion and lose to lesser players. The margin of error wasn't as high for Hoad as with other greats. A great player like Connors for example seemed to never be "off" his game and rarely lost to an inferior player. You can say the same about Rosewall, Federer and Nadal, generally speaking.
Over the course of a few years I would tend to think Hoad's gamestyle may not work as well as a player who has a very high level consistent game.
100% agree, the only thing I would add is that Hoad/Rios would always play "that" match that you would just be in awe of and never forget. Rios/Agassi at the Lipton was one of them. Rios made Agassi look like a beginner.
Well what an overstatement!!!
Hoad would be insulted with this comparison
At least if you brought up Mecir...
Please explain. I said Hoad had a totally different persona than Rios. Hoad was a typical Aussie.
Bobby, all I did was quote Roche on the issue.
If you have a problem with it, take it up with Tony.
Just because these great players don't say what you think they should say, that doesn't give you the right to change their words.
Hoad actually was a consistent player throughout the period 1956 to 1960.
If there were bad patches, it had to do with his back injury, not his mental approach or concentration.
Just look at all the close matches he won against Gonzales and Rosewall.
No problem with mental concentration.
He would lose to inferior players in minor events, but I think this was partly to avoid excess strain on his back.
He saved his best efforts for the major series.
His winning percentage on the two championship series in 1959 was 70%, which is comparable to the winning percentages of Kramer and Gonzales in their championship tours, and also for Rosewall in his tour win over Laver in 1963.
I am not sure of Rosewall's percentage for 1964.
What did Rios win?
I think that Hoad's year in 1959 was superior to Laver's in 1969.
Considering the level of competition, and number of matches played in the championship events.
Well, I don´t know what you really mean by witty
I simply don´t think Hoad and Rios belong to the same league, not on talent.Don´t take it bad, it is just my style.
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Young had an impressive training camp, catching everything thrown his way, and appeared to be on the verge of a breakout fall. But a lingering knee injury limited his practice time, and Young languished on the depth chart through five games, catching just 11 passes and struggling to find a rhythm with Matthew Stafford.
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In 1967, two rival football teams, two legendary coaches and two talented quarterbacks broke the color barrier in collegiate football, revolutionizing college sports and ultimately transforming the National Football League (NFL).
On Thursday, Sept. 26, at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum located at 441 Freedom Parkway, N.E. Atlanta, author Samuel Freedman brings to life his historic saga of the battle for the '67 Black College Championship between Grambling College and Florida A&M in his book titled "Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights."
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You've answered your own question when you said that the physical is born in the mind. There's no real need to differentiate between the two, because the negative or positive feelings associated with the physical are in fact entirely mental in nature. So really there's only mental 'worst things'.Future Bhikkhu wrote:Hi jack
Could name the five worst things that you experienced physically and the five worst things you experienced mentally. I know that the physical is born in the mind but you know what I mean. Example: It was cold (physical). No family (mental).
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1. Mosquito bites (of which I was extremely susceptible)
2. Monkeys (mostly frustrating and humorous, but can be quite dangerous if you act in any way aggressive)
3. Ants (If you leave any food out at all, or even if an insect dies in your kuti, they will swarm in. On several occasions the small biting ants decided to nest under my jandals (flip flops) which I left outside my kuti. When I went to put them on in the morning the ants swarmed over my feet and bit the living daylights out of me. The bites sting too, a bit like a wasp sting. There's a larger 'bull ant' which bites too, the bite hurts a bit more than the small ants, but bull ant's are more docile, and generally not a problem.)
4. Scorpions (Found one in my toilet once and spent a couple of hours trying to coax the deadly thing out.)
5. Other assorted dangerous wildlife (Including snakes, especially the young small ones, which you have to be very careful of - I almost stepped on a deadly baby once, fortunately the monk infront of me on the path pointed him out just in time. Centipedes are also pretty bad, but not generally deadly. You just have to be very careful where you put your feet. I once mistook a deadly tarantula for a leaf while sweeping the path one morning. I only saw another once during my stay, so they weren't that common.)
Some might reckon me a bit of a wuss. That's not really true, I dealt with most of it at the time with a smile and a reflection that it's just the way it goes. By the end of my time there, I had grown quite accustomed to all of it. It was only with the idea of being rid of all of that, that these things stood out again as distinctive and unpleasant parts of my day. But I've grown up in the deep south of New Zealand where the only insect of note is the common house spider which you might only see once every 5 or 6 months. We only have two dangerous mammals - Drunken men and badly trained dogs.
Truth be told, in the end life is stressful whether you're a monk or a layperson. When I was young I thought that one would give up a substantial portion of one's suffering just by leaving the householder life. For some this might prove true, not for me, not last time around anyway.


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Commissioned by Infosecurity Europe, 27% of respondents said they couldn't live without an Internet connection, up from 17% last year.
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GRAMMY Foundation, MusiCares Elect New Board Members
The GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares Foundation — the affiliated charities of The Recording Academy — announced that their respective Boards have elected new Officers and Directors.
Scott Pascucci has been elected to serve as the Chair of MusiCares, with Jon Platt, president of North America creative for EMI Music Publishing, elected Vice Chair, and Gary Veloric elected Secretary/Treasurer. In addition, Paul Caine, executive vice president and chief revenue officer of Time Inc., will now be the Chair Emeritus of MusiCares.
The GRAMMY Foundation's Board leadership remains the same with Board Chair Beatriz R. Perez, chief sustainability officer for Coca-Cola North America; Vice Chair Rusty Rueff, former CEO of Snocap; Secretary/Treasurer Tim Bucher, founder and CEO of TastingRoom.com and Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur; and Chair Emeritus George Jones, chairman and CEO of Caravan Entertainment.
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Today is the last day of work for Victoria Billings, our intrepid communications and public programs student assistant. Of course, this is the right thing considering she is now a Cal Poly journalism graduate. The world awaits! A world, I hope, in which she can use her fluent French and fluent writing skills. But, even though this day had to come, it is still bittersweet.
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Veterinarians say the identification of the parasite in a Florida horse is cause for increased vigilance. Read More
New MRI for Horses Available at Florida Vet School
November 04, 2009
A new clinical imaging system in place at the University of Florida (UF) Veterinary Medical Center will enable veterinarians to obtain diagnostic images of previously inaccessible and larger parts of the body, such as the upper legs of horses Read More
University of Florida Vet Faculty Work to Solve Polo Pony Mystery
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Postmortem testing conducted by University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine pathologists and toxicologists on a group of prized polo horses that collapsed and died April 19 in Wellington, Fla., drew international attention, with riveted Read More
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David Freeman, MVB, PhD, Dipl. ACVS, an equine surgeon and professor in the University of Florida (UF) College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named interim chairman of the college's department of large animal clinical sciences and chief of Read More
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The foal unit is Florida's only equine neonatal ICU that provides treatment by board-certified internists for critically ill foals and their dams, around-the-clock, 365 days a year. Read More
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A mobile service for equine reproduction at the University of Florida (UF) aims to better serve area horse breeders while simultaneously moving students at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine more frequently into the field.
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Florida Vet School Launching Forensic Sciences Program
January 19, 2009
The University of Florida has the first Veterinary Forensic Sciences Program for crimes against animals. Read More
University of Florida Veterinarian Troubleshoots West Nile Virus
November 10, 2008
In 2001, University of Florida veterinarian Maureen Long, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, became an authority on West Nile virus by accident. That year, Long and other UF Large Animal Medicine clinicians saw some of the first Florida horses breaking with Read More
University of Florida Veterinary Disaster Response Team Learns New Skills
September 11, 2008
When it comes to teams representing the University of Florida, the national champion football and basketball teams might be getting all the headlines, but the University's College of Veterinary Medicine Disaster Response Team should not be Read More
Florida Vet School Names Award Honorees
June 05, 2008
A South Florida equine practitioner and the director of the University of Florida's mobile equine diagnostic service have been honored for their career accomplishments by the University of Florida (UF) College of Veterinary Medicine. Read More
Brazilian Olympic Horse Treated at University of Florida
May 10, 2008
After surviving an odyssey of complicated medical problems and difficult surgeries, a Brazilian Olympic dressage horse named Livello has lived to train another day and is recuperating back in his home country, thanks to University of Florida Read More
University of Florida Offers Equine Lameness and Imaging Service
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Sanchez named as NL All-Star reserve
Trip to Midsummer Classic will be second baseman's third
By Jenifer Langosch / MLB.com
Sanchez was chosen as a reserve for the 33-player National League team, which will be managed by Philadelphia's Charlie Manuel in the 80th All-Star Game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on July 14. He was named to the team through the manager's selection process.
"Obviously, it's an honor to make the team," Sanchez said after the Pirates' 5-0 loss to the Marlins on Sunday. "To be chosen by Charlie, Tony [LaRussa] and Joe [Torre], those are some Hall of Fame managers. For them to even consider me was an honor. It's an honor to be able to represent the Pittsburgh Pirates."
The 80th Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and Sportsnet HD and televised around the world by Major League Baseball International, with pregame ceremonies beginning at 8 p.m. ET. ESPN Radio will provide exclusive national radio coverage, while MLB.com will provide extensive online coverage. XM will provide satellite radio play-by-play coverage of the XM All-Star Futures Game.
Sanchez, the only Pittsburgh representative elected, becomes the first Pirates player since Jason Kendall to be a three-time All-Star. Sanchez is one of three second basemen on the NL team. Philadelphia's Chase Utley was voted in as the starter, and Dodgers second baseman Orlando Hudson was voted in through the player's ballot.
Sanchez was also selected as a reserve player back in 2006 and '07, but it may have been his absence from the All-Star Game in '08 that spurred him to earn the honor this season. After a shoulder injury affected Sanchez both defensively and offensively much of last season, the second baseman dedicated himself to getting healthy this offseason.
Sanchez came into Spring Training in peak shape and, except for the back spasms that pushed him out of the lineup this week, has been at full strength all season.
"I feel like I worked to get my shoulder right, to get my body feeling good," Sanchez said. "It's definitely rewarding that much more, knowing the effort that I put into the offseason and that I'm still putting in as the season goes on."
There is no question that Sanchez's numbers are All-Star-worthy this year. Heading into Sunday's game against the Marlins, his .316 average was the best among all second basemen in the Majors, with Kansas City's Alberto Callaspo and Arizona's Felipe Lopez trailing him for a distant second with averages of .301.
Few would know that, though, with how quietly Sanchez has gone about becoming one of the league's most consistent hitters this season.
"I think his numbers always have [gone under the radar]," shortstop Jack Wilson said. "That tends to happen when you're in a smaller market and not too good in the standings. You tend to get overlooked a little bit. He definitely deserves to go."
Sanchez already owns the distinction of being one of two players to record six hits in a game this year, having accomplished the feat at Wrigley Field on May 25. The second baseman has 25 doubles this season, trailing the league leaders by just one, and has 31 multihit games, beaten only by Houston's Miguel Tejada in that category.
"He's had a great year," manager John Russell said of Sanchez. "Freddy has worked awfully hard. It started in Spring Training, and he still has a lot of energy right now. I think he feels better about himself this year. I think he's put together a very solid first half."
Not to be overlooked, either, is Sanchez's defense. He has committed only one error, and his .997 fielding percentage is tops among all Major League second basemen. Much of the credit, Sanchez said, goes to infield coach Perry Hill, who joined the organization this offseason.
"Working with him is unbelievable," Sanchez said. "He's the best in the game. I worked so hard with him in Spring Training, and I feel like I've come so far at second. He's a huge part of this."
With only two shortstops and two third basemen named to the NL team, Sanchez will certainly be a versatile option for Manuel. He already holds the distinction of being the only player to have played second, short and third in the All-Star Game and could be used at any of the three positions, if needed.
Sanchez has missed the past three games with lower back spasms, though he expects those to calm down this week in time for him to be cleared to play on July 14.
In addition to earning the distinction of being a three-time All-Star, Sanchez is now closer to assuring that his $8 million option for 2010 will be exercised. The club option was to be guaranteed if Sanchez reached 635 plate appearances this year. However, that threshold was to decrease to 600 plate appearances if Sanchez was named to the All-Star team.
Sanchez entered Sunday with 329 plate appearances this season. If he maintains the same pace, he'll have 658 by season's end.
Sanchez will have to explain himself to his sons Evan and Ryan, though, who had been told they would be spending the break relaxing at a resort for kids.
"Obviously, those plans have changed a little bit," Sanchez said.
Now, along with Sanchez's wife, Alissa, the boys will be joining him in St. Louis.
This is the 14th time in the past 16 years that the Pirates will be represented by just one player in the All-Star Game. Left-hander Zach Duke was also expected to get some consideration for an invite, but he dropped to 12th in the league in ERA and has a pedestrian 8-7 record, largely the result of inconsistent run support.
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Discussion in 'Future of Trek' started by Jetfire, Aug 18, 2011.
Holy crap, I've always thought the same thing. That Marsters should've played Shinzon!
The TOS characters (as distinct from the actors) have a lot of oomph to them. Even re-cast, they still have a great deal of appeal.
But the TNG characters just aren't like that. Maybe some rewriting could improve them, but if you're going to put that much work into things, why not just invent new characters? The TNG characters as such really aren't that compelling. Data is the only really iconic one of the bunch.
But the real problem is that to Hollywood, TNG = old stuff that failed and Abrams' Trek = new stuff that makes shitloads of money. You are never going to be able to get them interested in TNG again, because looked at simplistically (and it goes without saying that's Hollywood's mindset), TNG is what killed Trek and TOS resurrected it.
Picard is also pretty darn iconic, and I think there's a pretty open and shut case to be made for Worf. It's harder to argue for the iconic value of the rest of the cast, sure, but then the TOS films (and series) rested themselves squarely on the shoulders of the Big Three more often than not so I do not see that as a problem.
Picard was an old fart. there's something very detached about English people even the guy who played bond. There's something wierd about them. Even the guy from dune laughed at Stewart when he referred to himself as an ass in the desert. He's a nincompoop. Compounded by Brannon Braga also being detached and the rest just being greedy and power hungry. Sex appeal and magnitism is what Shat had in spades. avery Brooks was emotionally unavailable. His wife was killed horribly by the Borg, Picard's people, and he had a teenage whinny and emotionally needy kid and his hands full. Janeway was lost and loved holographic characters. the chemistry of enterprise sucked. T'Pol was incredibly uninteresting. they should have made her T'Pau at least. It's the tiniest of things that make the biggest difference. They didn't want the legal expense. They got 9000 lawyers working for them. No, Not Hal 9000. Braga is just stupid in many ways. Nobody can do everything. Berman was hamstringing him, bringing in Coto the clown over him. I mean how much can you take even if you are a genius. The rug was pulled over even his head by the power hungry political juggernaut politics in hell entrenchment that was Rick Berman.
So you're not fond of the English then?
You're right, those English are weird people, unlike Americans.
Anyways, I would be pretty surprised if they remade a show with as iconic characters as Picard, Data, Worf and Geordie on TV now. TNG might be dead, but it just doesn't feel like it's been long enough to do that. It would feel like too much Deja Vu too soon, and I would think it's a little like putting Clinton's face on the dime. It just hasn't been dead long enough.
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It doesn't matter to me who the poeple are. It's all about outer space and rocket ships. But they should be A) alive and B) good looking and available. What ever happened to central casting? Even Riker's eyes were not straight. Conception is eveything. TNG was based on GR's TMP and no different.
Picard isn't very iconic when you separate him from Patrick Stewart playing him. Worf is basically just an iteration on Spock.
Iconic characters are the ones that can be recast and just continue merrily along, like JJ Abrams proved with the TOS characters. Do the same with the TNG characters, and I'm not sure what you'd have. Data would be the most reliable, because of his iconic status, but the rest could be dull or a train wreck or both.
For instance, folks are suggesting that Picard be actually French this time around. Interesting idea, but it takes the serious risk of a lead character who comes off as an obnoxious, stuck-up prig.
Stewart playing Picard got around that danger, but it's far from certain another actor wouldn't stumble right into that trap, especially if he has the handicap of an actual French accent, and let's be honest, that would be a handicap. People will either think he's an asshole right off the bat, or a joke like Inspector Clousea or PePe LePew, because that's how we've all been conditioned.
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Over the years, Picard basically became English; he had a very Anglo-Saxon attitude and stoicism, which went along with his being played by a fine English actor. So I think a re-cast Picard would probably have to at least look and act a little like Patrick Stewart.
But had he been played by someone like Jean Reno or Vincent Cassell, or some other charismatic French actor, who works well in English (this does not include Gerard Depardieu who can only do French, IMHO) I think he could have been an equally iconic though very French character.
I can see another actor having a stab at Data and providing a slightly different take on him, but Dorn and Stewart have very distinctive presences and with the possible exception of Geordi the other characters are, frankly, kind of generic. So we have a show where the distinctive characters are distinctive because of the performances of the actors and generally not in a way that lends itself to imitation or reinterpretation. I'd also question the wisdom of recasting and rebooting something that became - and for all I know still is - the most successful syndicated TV show in history. It would no doubt produce a lot of nostalgic discussions about how Picard (TV Picard) was the bomb and how Stewart was the only man for the job. Jean-Luc would have been a very different character without Stewart, who invested him with a dignity and forbearance that at times seemed almost superhuman.
No, no, no, no. Let's not even think about this.
TNG was made, it was done.
Come up with something new and different. Re-hashing TNG would serve NO purpose.
Worf would in many ways be the easiest to recast. Data would be the most interesting.
That doesn't begin to make sense. Captain Kirk was also strongly tied to William Shatner. Some of the most famous or infamous things about Kirk (such as Shatner's unusual delivery) are directly attributable to the actor. Picard is an eloquent Man of Reason, a stoic and cultured and literate and accomplished starship captain. He had one of the biggest pop culture impacts of any Star Trek character, I know people who are not science fiction fans, aren't Star Trek fans, but still speak of 'Picard' or 'the one with Picard' as the one they liked.
Which says nothing. Data is also an iteration on Spock as far as that goes. Worf, by himself, is an iconic Star Trek character. He's the face of the Klingons, one of Star Trek's most popular - or at least well known - alien races. He's still the go-to guy example for honourable alien warrior - and that's something he didn't get from Leonard Nimoy's Vulcan.
Which just goes to show how un-iconic Picard, the character, is. His identity is too strongly associated with a certain actor.
Why bother dusting off a character who doesn't have a strong identity as written? Why not just have someone write a new character?
Kirk was tied to Shatner in both positive and negative ways, which is why when he was successfully recast with Chris Pine, it was a benefit that Pine shucked off a lot of the silliness.
The fact that Kirk survived recasting and a bit of reimagining underscores how iconic he is. An iconic character is one who transcends any given actor.
You're ignoring the other influences on Data - Pinnochio, the entire realm of artifical intelligence characters that predated him in science fiction. Data's iconic status was only partly created by Star Trek anyway; he was a pre-existing iconic type imported into Star Trek. Spock was pre-existing, too - the outsider alien, the "half breed" type from Westerns - but he was greatly adapted for Star Trek. Data wasn't adapted nearly to that extent.
However, I don't object to Worf as a fairly iconic character, the "noble savage type." Maybe I just find him a tad racist and it makes me uncomfortable?
I agree. I don't see the benefit, vs all the different character types and premises that could come from just inventing something new. Why give up the huge promise that lies in an entirely new story and cast of characters?
Because it worked for Kirk, who is also iconic. And I'd point out that if you take many of the Star Trek scripts - particularly the early ones - you could easily swap Captain Kirk for Jeffrey Hunter's Captain Pike or Leslie Nielsen's J.J. Adams.
Yes, Stewart helped define the character as rather British, but this was in part due to the writers playing to their actor's strengths, which is par for the course for any TV show.
This is one of those hindsight deals. Kirk's iconic and should be recast only because he has, because Picard hasn't, he shouldn't. Really, to do Picard well you need a balding Britishy actor with a bit of gravitas and some theatrical experience. You can probably throw a stone and hit someone of that vague description. He's a Dignified and Learned Starship Captain, full of Morals and Ethics and Thespain Intensity. Picard's pretty easy to type to, and he has a type, and the strength of it was sort of important to TNG's appeal.
I'm not. At least, not any more then you were when you pigeonholed Worf as 'the Spock' of TNG. Both characters owe something to Nimoy's Vulcan, but not everything.
There are certainly problems with the opposite of denigrating a foreign or 'primitive' culture because it is foreign and/or primitive, and that would be idealizing it - although I think this works in Worf's case because it's so utterly internalized.
Worf still wants to be his idea of the honourable Klingon that he so desperately loved in his basically human childhood, but The Next Generation kind of repeatedly throws cold water on the idea that the Klingon leadership is particularly honourable or even that the stiff-necked, humourless Worf actually fits in with their culture at all.
I recently had the opportunity to look back at some of the early design concepts of TNG's Enterprise interior and bridge, and I got the sense the creators in '87 wanted the ship to be twice as large, less militaristic, much more "casual" in the sense that this was To be a ship with a mission of deep space exploration that would take its crew and families years away from earth. Those artist conceptions looked absolutely impossible to create back then. Perhaps they would serve now, however, as a starting point for a 25th Century Star Trek television show.
That's my point - iconic characters are the ones worth recasting.
The way Kirk was developed in TOS, he greatly transcended the cookie-cutter square-jawed hero type. If he hadn't, he wouldn't be worth resurrecting, really. (However it remains to be seen if JJ Abrams is going to evolve his Kirk into that direction; in two hours, he didn't have much more time than just introduce him as a pretty generic smartass type).
And I agree with that. Well, broadly.*
I go further in stating that Picard is also iconic. He's easily one of the most well known Star Trek characters.
Both Pike and Adams are given to moments of introspection, and the end of Forbidden Planet, where Adams puts together the parts and speechifies wildly, could easily be the ending monologue for Kirk in a Star Trek episode. The big thing Kirk has they don't have is sufficiently more exposure, a memorable dynamic with two other characters, and William Shatner.
*Obviously if you're readapting a novel or something, you may bring back characters because they're part of the story, not because they have marquee value. And so on. Other discussion, of course.
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For residents of Palo Alto's Greendale neighborhood, the routine chore of putting out black trash bins for Wednesday's garbage pickup took on added significance this week.
That's because today was the last time that these traditional trash bins will make an appearance in the south Palo Alto neighborhood for the next year. Starting next week, the black bins will be replaced in Greendale with ones that are, appropriately, green.
The neighborhood was recently chosen by the city for a yearlong pilot project that shatters the traditional waste-disposal paradigm in which residents separate recyclable waste from the landfill-bound variety. Now, instead of weighing whether something is recyclable, Greendale residents will consider whether it's organic. If so, it would go in a green bin and head toward the Z-Best facility for sorting and composting. Otherwise, it would go in the blue bin and shipped to the Sunnyvale Material Recovery and Transfer (SMaRT) Station, where recyclable goods would be separated from everything else.
The City Council had approved the project in January but it was only in recent weeks that the Public Works Department identified the area in and near Greendale as the pilot area. The neighborhood's location had a lot to do with it. The city was looking for an area that is sufficiently isolated from other neighborhoods to avoid confusion among neighbors using the traditional model and those participating in the pilot project. Because Greendale is bounded by San Antonio Road on the south (which separates it from Mountain View) and by the softer barriers of Middlefield Road, Alma Street and Greenmeadow, it fulfilled this criteria better than other neighborhoods.
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The city has already held two public meetings on the pilot project and will hold two more this week (one tonight and another on Saturday). So far, the turnout has been decent, Bobel said. About 75 people showed up to the initial meeting and another 40 to the second. Bobel said there were a few skeptics in the initial hearing, though most people didn't oppose the plan once they understood the changes that will be made.
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debuted at a fashion show in Los Angeles on Tuesday and was announced on
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The Chemical Safety Board (CSB), a 20-year-old agency created to examine industrial accidents, is inquiring into the demise of the now-infamous Gulf of Mexico rig alongside the Interior Department and other arms of the government. At a public hearing today, CSB lead investigator Don Holmstrom raised pointed questions about whether the same risk-management failures identified during the board's probe of the 2005 BP blast were behind the Deepwater Horizon blowout.
"Despite significant progress, not all the lessons of Texas City and other CSB investigations have been effectively implemented by the oil industry," Holmstrom said.
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Sharing more accident data, as well as expanding the industry's safety focus beyond mere prevention of slips and falls, were among the priorities CSB identified during its probe of the 2005 Texas City blast. Clegg and Ian Whewell, retired director of the offshore division at the U.K. Health and Safety Executive, told board members that they too encountered oil-industry resistance to more transparency.
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