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My honey, Lesley Lambert, poses the question what are you thankful for about Western Mass? on her blog. My reply became so lengthy it needed its own space:
As a kid growing up in Amherst, I took the Pioneer Valley for granted, and lamented the things it lacked. Namely interesting things to do for teenagers, (aside from going to the movies), and not many good venues for a performing rock band (though we probably were not as good as we thought we were back then.)
I went away from the Valley for my college years, to the University of Utah, to be near my dad and family there, as well as to broaden my horizons. I loved the mountains and the time I spent there, but then I returned to Western Mass right after. As an adult, I discovered an immense beauty and wealth of resources here that I simply was not aware of in my youth. My love affair with Western Mass started with a trip to Tanglewood, but that was only the tip of the iceberg.
As I wrote in the description for the first PodCamp held in Western Mass, we have a joyous blend of urban and rural; business, academics, and the arts; it's big enough to have interesting places, things, events and people, but small enough to hear yourself think.
Here are the reasons I love Western Mass:
The Connecticut River – The word connecticut is a French corruption of the Algonquin word meaning "long river". This river is the longest river in New England, and is what brought people and industry to the Pioneer Valley. It's a beautiful river, and I enjoy looking at it every time I cross it on one of the many bridges that span it in Western Mass. There are boat tours on it out of Brunelle's Marina in South Hadley, as well as out of Northfield at the energy facility there (now called FirstLight Power).
Wonderful People – Western Mass is the perfect blend of small town, mid-size cities, rural, and educated, intelligent people. Our fantastic, world-class education attracts wonderful, quirky, thoughtful, intelligent, geo-aware folks. Our people are real, interesting, and down-to-earth for the most part. Plus the diversity of people and their interests are rather amazing. And oh, did I mention talented?
The Seasons – Exactly as Lesley states, it's an ever changing beauty, always something new. Spectacular fall foliage, summers that are warm but not too hot (usually), winter that has enough snow for fun outdoor activities like skiing and sledding, and makes being indoors cozy, and spring which is blooming and growing time.
The cute little hills most locals call mountains. Having grown up both in Western Mass and Utah, I have a tough time calling our hills mountains. But they are elevation, unlike the great plains states which have an elevation variation of plus/minus 15 feet. But our "mountains" are cute, are easily climbable, provide some elevation variety, and do have fantastic views. Mount Tom, Mount Holyoke, Mount Sugarloaf, Noble View, and the edge of the Berkshires, including Goshen, Chesterfield, etc
The Berkshires – I didn't really know much about the Berkshires as a kid, but as an adult I am thrilled to discover all they have to offer. Especially Tanglewood and….
MassMoCA – A recent addition, it's now the jewel of the Berkshires as far as I'm concerned; even better than Tanglewood – MassMoCA is a huge, converted mill building complex devoted to modern art. Worth visiting multiple times per year. Always shifting, and also includes performing arts, music, movies, etc.
Hidden Gems EVERYWHERE – So MANY things to discover here…. I think I know Western Mass well, yet I am CONTINUALLY discovering new cool places, hidden gems, such as kayaking and canoeing on the Connecticut from Barton's Cove in Gill, great trails and a spectacular view from Noble View in Westfield, incredible world class restaurants such as the Blue Heron in Sunderland, Mike's Maze (corn maze) also in Sunderland, the historic train station in Chester, Drive In movie theater in Northfield, interesting golf courses everywhere, mini golf in East Longmeadow among others, softball leagues in every town in the lower valley, world-class colleges and universities, fabulous cafes, bookstores, restaurants in Northampton, Amherst and so many other towns, the Montague Bookmill (bumper sticker: books you don't need in a place you can't find), Magic Wings (butterfly conservatory in South Deerfield), the Basketball Hall of Fame, sports teams such as the Springfield Falcons, the new Springfield Armor, UMass sports, Holyoke minor league baseball, boat tours in South Hadley and Northfield, oh, and I almost forgot the Big E that happens every September…
Outdoors – Aside from the CT River, kayaking, and hill/mountains already mentioned, there are scores of state forests, swimming, camping, hiking, and geocaching opportunities throughout all four counties of Western Mass. Notable hiking includes the Holyoke Range and Mount Tom, as well as the Appalachian Trail that goes through the Berkshires.
Scores of adorable downtowns – Many are in need of help, but there are still some great downtowns in Western Mass – Northampton, Amherst, Indian Orchard, Chicopee, Greenfield, Westfield, West Springfield, Florence, Easthampton, Shelburne Falls, Great Barrington, and I'm sure I'm missing others
Fresh Beer – Berkshire Brewing Co, Paper City, and Opa Opa. And the Northampton Brewery and the Dirty Truth in Northampton for enjoying them, among many other establishments.
Here's a link to just some of the Western Mass photos I've taken over the years.
Proximity – Lesley listed proximity to NYC or Boston. While those two cities have their appeal, there's a vast wealth of wonder which is not urban. Within a three hour drive, you can get to ALL other New England states, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, as well as New York. Also, within a five hour drive is Canada, including Montreal. Notable charms within a few hour drive: Upstate New York, including the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Albany, Schenectady, the Adirondacks, Lake George, Lake Placid, Plattsburgh. In Vermont, there's Burlington, Lake Champlain and islands, Brattleboro, Windsor, Ascutney, Manchester, and ski resorts galore. In New Hampshire, there's skiing, Lake Winnipesaukee, Squam Lake, camping, skiing, Manchester, Portsmouth, Keene, Concord, The Common Man restaurants. In Maine, there's the beaches, resorts, Rockland, Portland, LL Bean, Kittery, lighthouses, islands, and lots o mooses. In RI, there's Providence and Newport (including the mansions), and there's too much in CT to even begin listing all that that state has to offer, including wineries, beaches, camping, Hartford, adorable downtowns, restaurants, steam train rides, etc
And if you expand your horizons a bit further, within a day's drive is Bar Harbor, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Toronto, Quebec City, and Washington DC.
But bottom line are the people. People who are friendly, genuine, interesting, and most importantly, care about where they live, and the other people who share their love of all that is Western Mass. Of course, my number one reason why I love it here is that this is where my family and friends live. But aside from that, they all love it here for all the reasons listed above.
Aside from the meager reasons listed above, I guess Western Mass doesn't have too much to offer after all. 😉
What did I miss? Share it here or on Lesley's blog!


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New gardener "boot camp" will get you ready for spring in a hurry
If you're a new gardener needing to know about vegetables, soil, perennials, Colorado conditions – well, everything – you're in luck. There are still spots available in "New Gardener Boot Camp" at the Denver Botanic Gardens this Saturday, March 2.
Boot Camp begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m., and it does NOT come complete with a drill sargeant who yells at you to drop and give him 50 perfect planting holes. It does include classes on:
-Seed starting, with Patti O'Neal
-Beginning vegetable gardening, with Denver Post contributor Betty Cahill (she's the one who writes the Grow section's "Punch List" column every week;
-Soil savvy, with soil scientist Jean Reeder;
-Annuals and perennials for Colorado conditions, with Cathy Jo Clawson
The class fee is $80, but only $60 if you're a Denver Botanic Gardens member. You'll come home with a tray of seeds ready to start.
The cost of the class even covers lunch, and we have it on good authority that it's not military fare.

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Brian Urlacher will not play for another team in the 2013 season.
The sure-bet hall of fame middle linebacker released a post on the social media site WhoSay.com letting fans know that he will be ending his career as a Bear.
"After spending a lot of time this spring thinking about my NFL future, I have made a desicion," he wrote.
Urlacher, 34, played 13 seasons for Chicago, earning numerous honors including Defensive Player of the Year in 2005 and Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2000. Urlacher was selected to 8 Pro Bowls.
The defensive stalwart parted ways with the team shortly after the free agency period began. Bears General Manager Phil Emery offered Urlacher a deal that amounted to just over the veteran minimum to stay with the club, Urlacher declined the offer and moved on.
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The Architects Registration Board (ARB) confirmed that the annual retention fee will increase by £6.50
The rise, which was approved at the board's meeting earlier today (18 September), takes the annual retention fee up to £105.
The increase follows last September's 20 per cent hike in the annual charge which saw the cost balloon from £80 to the current charge of £98.50 (see: 'Never a good time' for ARB fee hike - AJ 14.09.2012 )
Defending the move, ARB chair Beatrice Fraenkel said: 'The ARB's retention fee remains below the level set by many other regulatory bodies'.
She added: 'As ARB becomes better known and understood and the register continues to grow, there is greater demand on our resources and inevitably upward cost pressure'.
The board also confirmed that the cost of re-registering would be cut by £10 while the cost to for a prescribed examination to be referred to a lead examiner was also raised by £70, to £300.
The full statement from ARB chair Beatrice Fraenkel
'We are conscious of the desirability of keeping down costs and are making every effort to do so, while meeting our statutory objectives. The ARB's retention fee remains below the level set by many other regulatory bodies.
'As ARB becomes better known and understood and the Register continues to grow, there is greater demand on our resources and inevitably upward cost pressure. We continue to achieve efficiencies and are seeking to mitigate cost increases further by offering more self-service through improved technology, in areas such as online registration and payment facilities. This itself requires investment, but we can already see increased customer satisfaction about the registration process as a result of the self-service options we have offered to date.
'In the coming year, there will be a yet greater workload arising from the Government's Periodic Review and from initial work on considering implementation of the EU Professional Qualifications Directive (PQD), so that overall we will need to add temporarily to management resource.
'Our principal responsibilities are to protect the users and potential users of architects' services and to support architects through regulation, and we constantly strive to deliver value to all our stakeholders while fulfilling these objectives.'
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Another year, another increase in ARB fees
The Architects' Registration Board (ARB) looks set to follow through on its earlier promise to ramp up its 2014 annual retention fee by £6.50 to £105
The increase, which is almost certain to be rubber-stamped at a board meeting on Wednesday, follows a 20 per cent hike in this year's fees (compared to 2012's rates) which took the cost from £80 to the current charge of £98.50.
In a statement ARB said the new £6.50 rise was necessary to '…ensure that it could deliver its 2014 business plan and meet the objectives of protecting the users and potential users of architects' services and supporting architects through regulation.'
On Wednesday the board will also vote on a proposal to cut the cost of re-registering by £10 and also whether to significantly boost the cost for those who wish to have an 'application for a prescribed examination referred to a lead examiner' from £230 to £300.
Currently, in addition to the annual retention fee, architects also pay £35 to register with ARB.
There are also plans to boost the retention fee again in 2015 by another £5.
Previous story (20.09.2012)
20% ARB fee hike approved
The ARB board has unanimously approved an increase in its annual retention fee from £80 to £98.50.
Equivalent to 36 pence per week, the increase would see architects paying £18.50 more to remain on the register in 2013.
The rise followed a 'significant increase' in costs relating to misuse of title and complaints referred to the Professional Conduct Committee which threatened to breach the organisation's minimum cash reserves level.
The increase was criticised by architects including AHMM's Simon Allford who called for mass resignations from the register in response.
RIBA president Angela Brady has however given her support to the fee rise.The RIBA fees were also recently increased by 3.5 per cent to £383.
Increases to application, readmission and exam fees were also ratified at today's ARB board meeting (20 September).
University of Bath architecture head Alex Wright and Bartlett School of Architecture director of professional studies Susan Ware however both voted against the proposal which would see the cost of the prescribed examination rise from £1,390 to £1,671. John Assael of Assael Architecture abstained.
The ARB board also voted to establish an investigations oversight committee to report on the progress of its newly established investigations pool.
ARB chair Beatrice Fraenkel said: 'No regulator likes having to increase its retention fee, but we recognised that a failure to do so on our part would have a severely detrimental effect on our ability to deliver our statutory duties under the Architects Act. We were, however, resolute about keeping the increase to the barest minimum, while still ensuring that we could meet our obligations under the Act. ARB's retention fee has always been one of the lowest fees paid by any professional, and we were determined to keep it that way to minimise as far as possible the financial burden on architects."
RIBA president, Angela Brady, added: 'The retention fee should be seen as an integral part of a practice's overheads, and ARB has done well to hold the fee at the same level for two years running. They are making every effort to contain costs through careful budgeting and by investing in technologies that deliver efficiency savings. I appreciate that increasing the fee was a difficult decision for the Board to take, but it is a decision that I fully support. Now we all face the real increased costs of providing the best service for consumers and architects which adds value to our profession and to the public.'
Future of ARB again under scrutiny
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Stalker Prince 42Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 12:18.
Act 2 Scene 16
Lisonse unlocks the door to Abberline's apartment.
Abberline: "What's with the sack?"
Lisonse: "Borrowed a bunch of stuff from the Recycling Center. I'm going to give it back. Wait."
Lisonse pulls a wrapper from the sack and starts scribbling stuff.
Sim: "A list of things you've stolen?"
Lisonse: "This isn't working."
Abberline: "What?"
Lisonse: "Sorry, just thinking out loud."
Sim: "It does occur that we know pretty much nothing about Mr.Walson."
Stalker Prince 40Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 12:13.
Act 2 Scene 14
Lisonse puts his thumb drive in the computer and load the recording. He cuts most of it out.
Sim: "Going to try and splice his "destruct" and "Unit four, deactivate system"?"
Lisonse nods and plays it. Nothing happens.
Sim: "Doesn't sound right. Flow or something. Check the HELP thing for pitch."
Lisonse types away.
Lisonse: "Says a subscription is required."
Stalker Prince 39Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 00:31.
Act 2 Scene 13
Lisonse jumps from the roof tops, landing relatively softly on the ground.
Waitress 1: "This is my apartment building. It's not much, but it's home."
Lisonse: "It'll certainly do. Do you have a computer?"
Waitress 1: "Yes, but what do you want it for?"
Lisonse: "It's complicated. Suffice to say, nothing illegal."
Wiatress 1: "Alright then… I'm going to get something to eat. Want anything?"
Lisonse: "Sure, I'd…"
Waitress 1: "You alright?"
Lisonse: "Sure. Probably never better."
Stalker Prince 38Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 10:42.
Act 2 Scene 12
Alpha, Beta, and Gamma begin circling Waitress 1.
Beta: "Yo, baby. That purse's looking might heavy. Maybe too heavy for you."
Waitress 1: "You know…"
There's a thump in the background.
Waitress 1: "You're not going to get away with this."
Beta: "Catch phrase of my life. I'm on my eighth strike. Two more and I get switched to a different kind of community service. Guess I'll have
to make this one semi-special…"
Stalker Prince 37Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 09:38.
Act 2 Scene 11
Sim and Lisonse lay on the roof top.
Lisonse: "Alright, who do we know?"
Sim: "The reporter seemed down with it?"
Lisonse: "I'd rather not."
Sim: "Mr.Chesney?"
Lisonse: "Mabye."
Sim: "Mr.Richards is pay roll."
Lisonse: "Granted, but he might want
revenge or something."
Sim: "Nope, too cowardly."
Lisonse: "That's not very nice."
Sim turns to Lisonse, then throws up on him. Lisonse twitches as he tries to scrape it off. He closes his eyes and it's gone.
Stalker Prince 36Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 11:12.
Act 2 Scene 10
Lisonse: "That would've been helpful to know."
Lisonse gets up.
Lisonse: "What now?"
Sim: "I'm sure folks in here have already sent something out alerting the authorities, so first we need to leave. Maybe, make an example out of somebody."
Lisonse: "I'm not doing that."
Lisonse goes to walk out but stops at Librarian1. She looks scared.
Stalker Prince 35Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 10:47.
Act 2 Scene 9
Lisonse: "We need to find a public place to snag the file."
Sim: "Library's closed. What about the college?"
Lisonse: "Maybe. We need another directory though. I've never checked out the one here."
Lisonse takes to the building tops until he can find another directory. He looks up the local college and disappears again.
Once at the college, Lisonse looks around.
Sim: "Just go in. The stealth stuff's probably just brainwashing or something. If you're making me stupid, I'll take us both down."
Stalker Prince 34Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Sun, 10/24/2010 - 18:47.
Act 2 Scene 8
Lisonse waits for about half an hour.
Lisonse: "Jeez, why are they so slow?"
Sim: "Maybe they're calling for reinforcements? Maybe they're alerting The Organization. We might need to kill them and their families just in case."
Lisone: "It's unfortunate that you're the only person I can semi-trust right now."
Stalker Prince 33Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 23:50.
Act 2 Scene 7
Santi: "Unit 5, activate."
Santi transforms into a seventh unit.
Lisonse: "We don't have to do this."
Santi: "Yeah, we kinda do."
Lisonse: "We've been brainwashed."
Santi: "Yeah, we know. Knowing's
kinda part of it."
Santi punches Lisonse. It doesn't do much more than push him back a little.
Santi: "Fair enough."
Stalker Prince 32Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 13:26.
Act 2 Scene 6
Lisonse: "Unit 4 deactivate system"
Nothing happens again.
Lisonse: "Deactivate system, Unit 4.
Unit 4 system off. Unit 4 power down system. Unit 4 system power down."
Sim: "Looks like we have a problem."
Lisonse: "It won't work."
Lisonse begins to breathe hard and
pace around.
Sim: "That doesn't help."
Lisonse: "Shut up!"
Juppin: "I didn't say anything."
Lisonse: "I wasn't talking to you!"
Juppin backs against the wall.


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For more than a century, Kraemer Gallery has been the source of significant examples of French 18th century decorative arts that are now in the permanent collections of major museums in Europe and the United States. They include :
The Kraemer Gallery is the oldest family owned company in Paris, specialized, since 1875, in 18th century furniture and objets d'art.
Among the many salons of their Mansion house at 43 rue Monceau in Paris, they present several rooms with a very contemporary décor where also displayed are Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture and objets d'art.


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The legend of " Banh Chung"
Chung cake was invented by the 18th Prince of Hung Emperor in the contest of looking for new Emperor. According to the legend, 3,000-4,000 years ago, Prince Lang Lieu, made round and square cakes, the round Day cake symbolizing the sky and the square Chung cake symbolizing the Earth (under the ancient Vietnamese perception), to be offered on the occasion of Spring.
In the ancient conception, the Earth is square, hence Chung cake's shape is square, too, to reflect the Earth shape. Since the cakes he offered were of special meaning and delicious taste, Lang Lieu was selected to be the next Emperor. Since then, in honor of this 18th Prince, Vietnamese people always make and have Chung cake in the Lunar New Year. Up to now, Chung cake has become the most famous and irreplaceable traditional Vietnamese food in Tet Holiday. This legend aims to remind the next generations of the ancient tradition as well as the primary of Chung cake. Besides, it emphasizes the important role of rice and nature in water rice culture.
How to make a "Banh Chung"?
In contrast to the fast food in modern life, the process of making Chung cake is time-consuming and requires the contribution of several people. Main ingredients are glutinous rice, pork meat, and green beans wrapped in a square of bamboo leaves that will give the rice a green color after boiling. The sticky rice must be very good and was soaked in water in the previous day. Rice cake is wrapped in square shape, and the wrapping power must be neither tight nor loose. Then the cake will be boiled in about 12 hours by wood. The Green Chung cake has nutrition with an original tasty flavor and may be kept for a long time. Eating Chung cake with vegetable pickles will bring you unforgettable taste!
In the traditional conception of Vietnamese people, the process of making Chung cake is the opportunity for family to come together. Sitting around the warm fire, all members in the family tell one another the past stories and are ready for a New Year with wishes of best things. Nowadays, in some big cities, the business lifestyle of modern society prevent people from preparing the cake, however, the habit of worship ancestors with Chung cake never changes. It is the evidence of the Vietnamese loyalty and deep gratitude to ancestors.
More Vietnamese Foods:
"Cơm Việt" – a different taste!
Bun (rice vermicelli), the origin for many Vietnamese delicious dishes!
Come to My Tho for tasting Hu Tieu
Strange foods - why don't you try?
Vietnamese Cuisine
Vegetarian eating in Vietnam – same, same but different!
Grilled shrimp paste-a whole ocean in one bit!
Cha ca La Vong (grilled minced fish)
Hue beef noodle – the typical culinary art of Hue!
Green Chung cake - the soul of Vietnamese Lunar New Year!
Fish Sauce – a famous Vietnamese condiment
Spring roll (Chả giò)
My Quang (Quang soft noodle soup)
Cao lau Hoi An (Hoi An vermicelli)
Com hen song Huong (Perfume River mussel cooked rice)
Banh cuon (rolled rice pancake)
Pho (rice nooddle soup)
Corn noodles in Vietnam?
Nem chua - Vietnamese fermented pork roll
"Mứt Tết", very delicious preserved fruit!
"Banh gio" – Pyramidal rice dumpling
"Banh khuc", so delicious!
"Cốm" - Autumn's special gift
A unique "banh xeo" in Vietnam
"Ô mai" – a dilicious nosh!
"Banh it" - sticky rice cake
"Banh Phu The"– Vietnamese conjugal cake
Quang noodle, so good speciality!


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Never be a Child's Last Coach
Last week at the LTAD Conference in Canada, I found it most intriguing that of the many ideas I shared, the one that resonated the strongest was the title of this blog. After my keynote speech, just about every following speaker noted it in some fashion, tying it into their own presentation. So I thought I would dig a bit deeper into why I came up with that measure of coaching success.
I simply think one of the ways coaches need to evaluate each season is in seeing how many kids play that sport again in the following season. It is a key role of the coach to be a relationship counselor between each player and their love of the game. These athletes have chosen a very random sport, and one where every match played always has a loser on the scoreboard. So, along the way of the season you are being a sport's coach, you need to be aware of how your teaching, line up selections, and both on and off the court actions and decisions, are impacting your athletes love of that very sport. Ask yourself- "How many of the kids YOU have coached are still involved in volleyball, how many have quit the sport?"
One of the reasons we MUST focus on this love of the game with younger players -- through the process and effort and fun parts of the game – is because of future coaches. If you give a player a real love of the sport, not only will you not be that player's last coach, but you will have given them the passion to play past the poor coaches and adults they might encounter after they leave your tutelage. I have no doubt that your players, as my kids have, will run into coaches who demean them, punish them, and put them down for reasons of their own coaching incompetence. If you have given them a true passion for the joy of playing, such adults cannot stop them from returning to play.
While the conference was going on, reports would be shared of how the Canadian men's team was progressing in the FIVB Jr. World Beach Volleyball Championship. They ended up winning the gold medal, a first for their nation. What they did not know is that two USA players on the women's side were doing the same thing. One was a player I had the fortune to coach and guide when she was just 14 years old. Tara Roenicke's mom wrote back in 2004 when we were selecting players for the HP Beach Volleyball Camp I was directing that "She would definitely benefit! Gotta have good coaching to get where you need to be. We all understand that! She just wants a shot at beginning her dream! She works hard and is extremely focused on what she wants!" That is an understatement. Tara went on gain her AAA beach rating (one of the youngest ever) against adults, and while still playing indoors, her love of playing volleyball was as clear as she also grew taller and stronger. Earlier this month, this passion culminated in her winning the gold medal in Turkey at worlds, with another great role model for our sport, Summer Ross.
Tied into this concept is making sure your athletes understand this Chinese proverb – "Winning and losing are temporary, friendships last forever." Some of you may have seen our silver medal winning coach from Beijing, Lang Ping, back in 1984 when she defeated our USA women in the gold medal match. What many may not know is that just a few months later, she was living in my home in Albuquerque, N.M, learning English and sharing volleyball ideas. She spoke those very words of the proverb at the opening ceremonies of our 1987 Jr. Olympic Volleyball National Championships…and then 20 years later was coaching in her home nation, against her old team, and leading our USA team to another silver medal. Since then, I have made extra efforts to help the teams I work with bring that proverb to life, and to meet our opponents, getting to know those who share our same love of the game, but just happen to be on the other side of the net when you play. Get to know them off the court, you are likely to make some great friends for life.
Rick Reilly, who lives up north of us in Denver, has been voted National Sportswriter of the year, and wrote a related article on giving back to the sport called "For the Love of the Game" which can be read here. Remember, we will be asking for players' and coaches' signatures and words of wisdom on at least one used volleyball at the end of the season each year, so that others not as fortunate as your program can benefit. The "Leave a Ball Behind" program (CLICK HERE to learn more about this program) is growing larger each year, and we thank you for your help in sharing the love of sport in this way too.
Finally, I think a club should take a long look at their own success by seeing how many of their coaches return to coach the sport again – even if they do not return to their own program. With good coaching education, you can take the core concepts and philosophy, and have success in other sports too. I have coached ice hockey and lacrosse since the mid-1970s and loved seeing all the jr high aged boys and girls move en masse up to their next year's coaches. I also take a lot of pride in seeing so many of the kids I have coached, returning to coach our sport after they finish with their university education. Those former players make me so proud to have worked with them, for they are giving back to our sport in the most valuable of ways.
Our "enemy" is never another sport, for what counts is that our youth are being active in whatever sport(s) they love. What we need to fight with and for are those who are not active, and those whose coaching "skills" drive players out of sport. It is not any other sport… We must remember the research that notes that 75% of kids quit a sport because is simply is no longer fun. That is one very, very large percentage to be aware of – while also noting that "not winning enough" was ranked down at about the 10th reason they quit. Number two? The coach was a poor teacher….I hope you all do your best, in learning how to be the best teacher you can be, and never end up being a child's last coach.
My son is on a recruiting trip to a men's Division One volleyball program this weekend, after being his high school varsity lacrosse and tennis captain, as well as becoming a pretty darn good skier and flyfisherman. He is also coaching at a local high school this fall, for that which you teach you learn. Most rewarding of all, is that he and his sister both love to play volleyball, and will be playing it next year no doubt….and skiing with me when fresh powder falls and our schedules allow. Give your players a love of sport and physical activity – even if it is not our lifetime sport. While you are at it tho, do me one favor – make sure your players ALL know that after their school careers end, that they can play for decades more in USAV adult competition and the US Open, where we have 75 & over age group competition. Too many kids are not aware of how volleyball remains an option – coed, beach, grass, masters, and beyond…remind them as they continue on and ensure you are not their last coach…We all thank you.
The following comments were made on our previous web platform and have been transferred here to maintain the historical record.
On October 05, 2010 Paul Clarke wrote
Hi John...another really good article. Keep it up. I have a quick question. You stat re. 75% of kids leaving sport because it is no longer fun. Can you tell me where I can get more info on this statistic?? thanks very much, Paul
On October 05, 2010 Jeremy Brahm wrote
I attended one of your clinics in the Portland area in 1989 to demonstrate as a player for the coaches that were in attendance. My club coach, who is now the head coach at the University of Portland, Joe Houck was a great mentor when I was a player because I learned about the game from him. My club team didn't win a lot at first, but I could see how I was improving over my three years in high school. In early August I went and watched one of his teams practices for the upcoming season and in his office, I saw a last minute opening for the head coaching position at the Oregon School for the Deaf. I applied and got the position. This is my first head coaching or even coaching position. The conference that we are in has some very good teams, but I can see that the girls are improving even though we have not won a match or a set in league play. At times I can tell that the girls are frustrated with the losing, but I point out, look you are passing better, we are getting the ball over the net on three hits and we are getting the ball in the air on spikes. We have had few practices in the last couple of weeks, so they are improving in games and not practice, which for me is good. I still have to work with them in practice of course to improve passing and movement. I told them last night after we lost to the #7 team in the state in our class level. "Don't worry about the scoreboard, with these teams we have to look at what we were able to do."
On October 06, 2010 Alan Chew wrote
John, your blog is still as inspiring as usual. Ups and downs now in my life of volleyball. But reading your blog gives me lots of strength. "Growing the game together".
On October 07, 2010 John Kessel wrote
Paul, Jeremy, and Alan - Thanks for helping our sport grow, it is leaders like you who are really making a difference. I think all readers of this blog should visit the Youth Sports Quality Institute Blog - specifically per Paul's question, this link... http://ysqi4ed.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/primary-reasons-why-kids-drop-out-of-community-sports-programs/ What a great HS season it has been! John
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April 24, 2013
Alex breaks down the latest blockbuster movie 'Oblivion'.
The main alien spaceship called the Tetrad obviously represents the pyramid of control, the Illumanti power structure, centered in Rome. Note throughout the film the Tetrad pyramid spaceship, is shown upside-down to the way a pyramid is normally.
This is just like satanist turning the cross of religion upside-down to disrespect it, so the inversion of the pyramid is showing disrespect to the Illuminati power structure.
Also inverting the pyramid now places the people who were at the bottom of the pyramid above those who used to control them, showing the gaining of power by the awakened people.
By the way, people who know what's coming are taking advantage of our healthy & delicious storable food!


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Google Now is great, but it's not perfect. Sometimes it doesn't hear you quite right. If that happens though, you don't have to repeat the whole command: just tell Google the word it got wrong with "No, I said..."
As 9to5Google explains, maybe you asked for "nearby bars" but Google inexplicably gave you results for nearby cars. If you just say "OK Google: No, I said bars" Google Now will correct itself and then search for what you meant in the first place, presumably because it can figure out which word is most likely to be wrong.
It'd be better if "No, I said" was a voice search trigger word so that you didn't have to say "OK Google" again like a chump, but it's still a convenient little trick that makes asking your phone (or watch) questions feel a little less robotic and a little more personable. You'll be having real conversations with your own personal HAL in no time. [9to5Mac]


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By now, The Container Store, a national retailer of storage and container products, must have a shelf, box or drawer for the growing number of awards recognizing it as a top workplace.
Whether you're talking to John Urbin, general manager of the Edina location, or reading the words of oft-quoted co-founder and CEO Kip Tindell, the company attributes much of its success to an "employees-first" culture in place since the Texas-based chain opened its first store in 1978.
The philosophy is simple: If you take care of workers, they will take care of customers -- and that will take care of the business and shareholders.
Something must be working: Less than three years after the Edina store opened in October 2008, The Container Store placed third among 40 small companies, those with 150 or fewer employees in Minnesota, in the Star Tribune's 100 Top Workplaces 2011. With 50 employees, the Edina store qualifies as a small employer in the survey, although the 49-store chain employs more than 4,000 people across the country.
Small employers range from companies in real estate (No. 1 ranked Roger Fazendin Realtors) to health care (Valley Rehabilitation Services) to technology (NetApp), to education (Eagle Ridge Academy) and professional services (BWBR Architects).
For The Container Store, local recognition comes atop its ranking as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" in Fortune magazine's annual list a dozen years running.
"You hear from everyone in our building that they love their job," said Urbin, with The Container Store for 10 years, first in Chicago, then managing a high-volume New York City store for three years before moving to Minnesota to open the Edina store. "The employee is the No. 1 stakeholder and everything else falls into place." The privately held retailer had sales of $650 million in 2010.
Training and pay are well above industry average -- 263 training hours for first-year full-timers and average annual pay of $44,000 for a full-time sales clerk, according to Fortune.
"We don't have an operations manual," Urbin said. "Retail is far too situational. You hire smart people, give them a set of guidelines, and as long as you use those 99.9 percent of the time, everybody is thrilled with the results."
Urbin said the Edina store received 1,500 applications before it opened. With some hiring likely later in the summer, the store may have 60 to 65 employees when its busy fall season hits.
Angie's Kettle Corn, ranked No. 21, strives to maintain a comfortable work environment even as the rapidly growing Mankato company gains a national foothold. With distribution in 45 states, a January appearance on Martha Stewart's TV show and recognition as the 10th best-selling popped popcorn product in the country, sales are, well, popping.
Dan and Angie Bastian, who started making kettle corn as a weekend sideline in 2000, expect to reach 140 to 150 employees this summer. They know, she said, that working on the production floor is hardly glamorous.
"We know how hard it is," Angie Bastian said. "I think our employees appreciate that both Dan and I have done it, too, and we respect them and the work they do because we've done it."
The company brought in 100 new employees over about two months last year to ramp up for the Twins' first season at Target Field. Willing to admit what they didn't know, the couple first hired human resources director Colette Drager, who Angie Bastian said had corporate and consulting experience.
"We were in over our heads," Dan Bastian said. When hiring that many people, "you have to have someone with experience and perspective to handle it properly.''
The business offers opportunities to advance, Dan Bastian said. This summer, Angie Bastian said, they've turned over their events program, which the couple used to run, to a college student in charge of hiring and operations for the firm's tent at fairs and festivals.
"Dan and Angie truly care about and give positive feedback to their employees,'' one worker wrote on the confidential survey. "We are allowed to put family first and have flexibility in our schedule.''
Companies such as 90-year-old, employee-owned BWBR Architects in St. Paul, also were among this year's Top Workplaces. In addition to architecture, the 113-employee firm offers interior design and master and strategic planning services.
"We're not seen as just one piece of the puzzle; we're seen as part of the family," said James Lockwood, marketing coordinator. "There's a real familiar culture at BWBR. We care about you as much as a person, if not more, than we do as an employee."
The firm encourages employees to make connections outside their specialities, he said. The internal teamwork and relationships with long-time clients such as churches, nonprofits and justice and corrections agencies helped the firm weather the recession relatively well. It made 14 hires in the past year.
Freelance writer Todd Nelson writes a weekly small business column for the Star Tribune. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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When you look at innovation on the level of an entire species, it's a pretty valuable attribute. Innovation allows a population of animals to adjust to new or changing environments. But you can also measure innovation at the level of individual animals. Some particular animals are more creative and innovative than others. So you would expect individuals more prone to innovation to be more behaviorally flexible and better able to adjust to changing environmental conditions than those with lower innovation propensity, right? Wrong.
A new study demonstrates that in Indian mynas, what holds for the species as a whole does not hold for each individual animal. More innovative birds learned a new task more quickly, but were slower to change their behavior in response to a changing environment. Innovators were fast, but not flexible, learners.
Avian I.Q. Tests
Andrea Griffin and her colleagues from the University of Newcastle, Australia, chose myna birds for their study because they are opportunistic, highly adaptable birds; Griffin says they are classified as one of the top 100 most invasive species in the world by the IUCN. Such a successful invader would be expected to possess excellent learning capabilities.
Griffin and her colleagues tested mynas on two types of tasks. The first, a novel extractive foraging task, measured innovative performance. Each bird faced three different tests of innovation propensity from five possible tests. These included a piece of paper that had to be pulled out of a plastic champagne flute to access the food inside and a petri dish with an inverted lid that could only be lifted by grabbing a hook attached to its center.
The second type of task is known as a serial discrimination reversal learning test. The researchers trained the birds to sit on a perch in front of a pecking key that lit up. The birds first learned that when the pecking key lit up red, they could peck it to receive food, whereas a blue light would yield no food reward. Once they learned this discrimination, the meaning of the two colors was reversed: now pecking the blue light would deliver food and pecking the red light would lead to no reward. After learning this new discrimination, the colors switched again — and again and again, for a total of four successive reversals.
Griffin and her colleagues expected the birds that aced the test of innovation to also be able to adapt when the conditions that lead to their food reward were changed. But while faster innovators learned the initial discrimination (that one cue signaled food and the other did not), they were also slower to change their behavior when the meanings of the food cues were reversed.
Different Lifestyles, Different Learning Styles
What does this mean for the intelligence of mynas? While a universally agreed upon definition of intelligence remains elusive, one hallmark of intelligence is flexibility. If innovation measures cognition, one would expect it to be correlated not only with learning but also with flexibility. But that's not what these researchers found.
Griffin and her colleagues suggest that individual innovation propensity may be associated with certain personality types. Innovative, but inflexible, mynas have a faster lifestyle, exploring their environment quickly and superficially. Slower-paced mynas explore their environment more slowly but also more carefully and are more likely to adopt new behaviors when environmental conditions change. Fast, inflexible mynas may favor speed over accuracy relative to slower, flexible mynas. "These two personality types have been found in other bird species and are thought to be adapted to stable environments (fast paced individuals) and variable environments (slow paced individuals), respectively," says Griffin.
There is still the matter of why more innovative species are more behaviorally flexible, and yet more innovative individuals are less flexible. Griffin and her colleagues suggest that both personality types are associated with increased neural processing power and larger relative brain size, and a species with high neural processing power is made up of individuals of both personality types.
When researchers study innovation in species in the wild, they are counting innovative behaviors performed by the innovators themselves (the fast learners) as well as innovative behaviors performed by individuals that have copied them (the slow, flexible learners). "There is evidence to support the idea that slow paced individuals are also more attentive to social information, so our idea fits with this, too," Griffin says. "This would explain why species with high processing power have high innovations, and high flexibility: The flexible individuals and the innovative individuals are different individuals within the same species."
So it takes all kinds in a myna bird population. Each personality type has its strengths and contributes to the success of the population as a whole.
Griffin, A. S., Guez, D., Lermite, F., and Patience, M. (2013). Tracking Changing Environments: Innovators Are Fast, but Not Flexible Learners. PLoS ONE 8(12): e84907. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084907.


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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
Coming up this evening at 9, as the flu crosses the epidemic threshold this week, with one of the deadliest, strands of the flu virus ripping across the country, "Piers Morgan Tonight" invites Dr. Mehmet Oz to share his perspective on healthy living and protecting yourself from sickness and death.
When it comes to the flu shot, the famed television medical professional advises that "it's one of those smart things."
"In life there's some things that are predictable, there's some things that aren't," says Dr. Oz. "This is one of those events that I think it will be beneficial with very low side effects. We've got 130 million of these little vials out there to help people with. Let's take advantage of it."
During this hour long special in front of a live studio audience, Dr. Oz also gives tips on preventing and handling illnesses as well as ways to maintain general healthy living.
Watch the clip as Dr. Oz administers Piers Morgan's first flu vaccination and tune in tonight as the doctor evaluates some of Morgan's health stats and takes a few heath-related questions from the studio audience.
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These flu vaccinations have a long history of causing dementia, autism, and a general breakdown of the human immune system.
not to mention irrational thinking, obesity, anal leakage, and the inability to spell
Good, maybe PMorgan with get sick and die! He a bully and should be deported from our country. He has no 1st or 2nd. Amendment rights. Send him back home!! And leave our country and its laws alone.
We all know that the average recipient of a vaccine takes in a preservative and irritant of mercury, msg or other. My guess is that PM did not have a normal toxic additive vaccine.
There is compelling evidence between aluminum in vaccines and autism spectrum disorder (ASD),
That has been proven completely wrong. The autism data was made up by a bigger quack than Dr Oz.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen"
Dear Piers Morgan,
Would you please ask one of the pro gun advocates on your show the following questions:
If Mrs Lanza (sp?) did not own a gun, will she be alive today? Her guns did not protect her did it?
If Mrs Lanza had, say a hand gun, could the mass shooting have been averted?
Some gun owners say their semi automatics guns are meant to protect the owners from a possible tyrant government. Why don't they therefor advocate lifting the ban on fully automatic and maybe even more deadly weapons which will better 'protect' them?
Basically, some gun owners say rather than try to prevent assault rifles from ending up in the hands of 'bad people', let us let the 'bad people' own assault rifles, and then shoot them when they try to use it. Sounds like plan F to me.
What if people were held accountable for their own actions. How about we don't give the perpetrator so much airtime and make stars out of them. How about enforcing the laws on the books, i don't know where you live but the State Attorneys office here regularly bargains away the gun charges to get a guilty plea. They are more concerned with their conviction records than having to put any effort into the cases. Then again we could all hide our heads in the sand and blame the gun, it is easier isn't Concerned.
You my friend are an example of a media brainwashed American
Dear concerned
I'll answer your if you can answer mine considering the murder rate in the UK is so much higher than the US and that "assault" rifles makes up less than one percent of all gun related deaths in the US why is the how more important than the why or who?
Machineguns are legal ,,proof > http://www.knobcreekrange.com/next-machine-gun-shoot-dates April-12-13-14-2013
Oct.- 11-12-13-2013 April-11-12-13-2014 Oct.- 10-1-12-2014 West Point, Kentucky see Videos of The
Knob Creek Machine gun shoot on Youtube.com you don't see this on CNN because they don't want anyone to know it exists. It Is REAL,,we do it every year.
Don't get Morgan going on Class 3 guns, he's confused enough on this subject as it is.
1. FLUZONE by Sanofi Pasteur
** Toxic Ingredients **
Formaldehyde: Carcinogen
Octylphenol Ethoxylate: Immunotoxin
Thimerosal: Neurotoxin
2. FLUVIRIN by Novartis
** Toxic Ingredients **
Beta-Propiolactone: Carcinogen
Nonylphenol Ethoxylate: Immunotoxin
Neomycin: Immunotoxin
Polymyxin: Neurotoxin
Thimerosal: Neurotoxin
3. FLUMIST by MedImmune, LLC
** Toxic Ingredients **
Dibasic Potassium Phosphate: Immunotoxin
Gentamicin Sulfate: Nephrotoxic
Monobasic Potassium Phosphate: Immunotoxin
Monosodium Glutamate: Neurotoxin
4. FLULAVAL by GlaxoSmithKline
** Toxic Ingredients **
Formaldehyde: Carcinogen
Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin
Thimerosal: Neurotoxin
5. FLUARIX by GlaxoSmithKline
** Toxic Ingredients **
Formaldehyde: Carcinogen
Gentamicin Sulfate: Nephrotoxic
Hydrocortisone: Myelin Degenerator
Octoxynol 10: Immunotoxin
Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent
Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin
Here is 'Dr. Oz's' REAL outlook on his OWN children receiving vaccines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1-LuDt6nYg
For irresponsible gun owners, gun insurance required. Every city and town in the US, the police should put check points. The check point signs reads "Gun and gun permit control" like the auto insurance and registration control for car owners.
Please consider interviewing individuals who have an expertise in a subject area. Dr. Oz has obviously no clue about nutrition and exercise. There is very little data that says the macro-nutrients we eat have a significant impact on our risk for disease. In contrast an imbalance between caloric intake and expenditure in favor of more intake results in weight gain, in favor of expenditure weight loss. The amount of physical activity we partake in has a significant effect on our risk for disease and early mortality. Walking activities are great but is not sufficient. We must stimulate our musculo-skeletal system (especially our core muscles) using resistive exercises. We must engage in a well-rounded activity program to ensure all organ systems adapt.
The key to weight loss is the power of 500 achieved through reduced caloric intake and increased activity. Do this for a week and you will lose 3500 kcals which equals one pound.
Get active, get fit, get healthy
Cheers Piers
Dr. Oz talks about obesity, it being the number one killer in America. People eating far too much and portion sizes in restaurants far too large.
Here's an adage my mom always used: Eat and fill yourself, don't eat and kill yourself.
A simple little rule that would save you all a lot of future grief. Mom always knows best!
Dr Oz's list of most stressful jobs.. I would have to differ on Firefighters vs Police and out of the two the most stressful job is of the 911 operator. You forget it is the operator who is the first point of contact .. has the action in the moment of the greatest heat... and has to calm it down ... listen to the fighting and yelling and abuse .. and stay on the line until the police arrive... and then stay on the line until the situation is quelled. Please dont forget to add these people and recognize the level of stress ... involved in this type of job. Plus it is a sedentary job.. you sometimes have to eat your dinner while you are working at the desk .. you have to work overtime.. and most operators work 7 days a week in some capacity – their shift plus .. and work ot on weekends or days off.. and these jobs are often held for 20 years or more.
Here's another one: Air Traffic Controller
As a Deputy Sheriff, I have to agree with you Geri. You guys have s very stressful job, you're getting it from all sides, having to be a communications hub. Keep up the good work and we appreciate all you do, even when we get snickety on the radio 🙂
I bet Piers Morgan's blood pressure really went up when Alex Jones and Larry Pratt were on.
...likely saline
Dr. Oz mentioned Mike Huckabee. When I ate lunch with Mike in 2005 he was one and a half men thinner than his profile looks now. He had the vegetarian entree. People have been poisoned increasingly since 1985 with frankenfats and bisphenol A (now they get Bisphenol S which is as bad.) – Arkansas was not a great place for food when Huckabee was Gov. even tho' he had access to good food as the Gov. Old Mike still has those franken-molecules from eating deep fried twinkies, sausage from cheap meats and cheap chicken. He will get some kind of adenocarcinoma if his resilience against cancer is average, he has his friends at Walmart and Tyson's to be thankful.
Okay, I do like Dr Oz, but my Dr friend just fell off the couch, as did my other Nurse friend who works in Cardiology. I'm rather surprised. I'm am 49 and have Cardiologist with CA Pacific Med Center. He is a leading Cardiologist and had been featured on national news. He, my regular MD, all my Dr friends, medical friends will tell you that 145 for LDL (bad cholesterol) is insane. Oz is correct on HDL (good cholesterol) being 45-50, but all medical people I have or know will tell you LDL should be 65-90, NOT 145.
Piers just watched your interview with Dr. Oz and I can help you lose up to 30 lbs in 30 days. Safe, amazing and a diet that truly works. I lost 25 lbs my husband lost 30 lbs. last April and we have kept it off. Email me and I will send you the info.
What's interesting is most don't know the Flu Vaccine was created in the 1930s, and used on military soldiers in the 1940s. I'm always amazed when I hear people day it started in the 1990s. There is much misinformation. Oz says it doesn't hurt. Ha! I just had mine as I work in Law Enforcement. Every year I get one, my entire arm for up to 3 days. Not sure why that happens
My entire arm ...hurts for up to 3 days.
Please share what Dr Oz said you could soak in Vodka and use for stress. I thought it was a kind of ginseng.
I was curious about this too and looked it up. It is called Rhodiola Rosea. Not sure if the benefits are real or bogus though.
Well, that is just further proof of his mathematical illiteracy.
Between Anderson Cooper 360 and his opinions today on who has the right to free speech in America and watching the combo of Piers Morton and Dr. Oz's concerns over American's general health tonight, I don't know when I have laughed so much. Piers Morgan the purveyor of vitriol and condemnation of America's shortfall as a society and culture and Dr. Oz a guru of the American health culture desperately paired by CNN in one program attempting to garner improved ratings and revenue. That was entertainment!
CNN. The news channel. Finally out of the closet and now admittedly a pure entertainment channel. What a hoot! Thank you for the laughter CNN, Cooper, Morgan, et al. Haven't enjoyed myself so much since watching vintage comedies.
Dr Oz is blaming fat people for the DEFICIT??????????? Good God this ja needs to go. His hatred of overweight people is pathological. This is why Oprah got rid of him. What's next blaming fat people for gun violence?
Listen to your show on satellite radio and want to point out that Dr OZ stated that Rhodiola is Siberian Ginseng when in fact they are from two completely different plant sources. They are commonly found together in supplement but they are not the same. The good Dr. should make sure he has his facts straight before recommending a product and especially a supplement! Thanks.
Allopathic physicans do not have a clue about nutrition, vitamin supplementation, or treating dis-ease without big pharma toxic trash.
My guns will keep the flu away
Regarding Alex Jones: Maybe the FBI should start checking into his background.!!!!!!!!!!!!! before its too late!!!!!!!!!!
piers isn't a citizen of this country. If he doesn't like it here, don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out. He compares uk violence to the US, he will not say the percentage of blacks in the UK is less that 2%. In the US it is 14%, connection?
Blacks.....? Whites.....? Since when did this become a race issue? I am sick of people like you who jump at any opportunity to play the race card. Well, in that case, I have a question for you. How many mass killers are black?
Does Alex own a gun?? I am very worried !
Alex Jones stated in his interview with Piers that he owns fifty (50) guns, which I presume are of various types.
Yes, I agree, it's a very, scary thought. I wouldn't want to be his neighbor! He lives in Austin, Texas, I believe he said.
Mr. Morgan. I agree with you that assault weapons should be banned, but please report meaningful statistics. Since the population in the UK is much less than that of the US, reporting gun murders per 100,000 is the murder rate and a truer representation of the statistics than just the raw data. An apples to apples type of comparison.
That's why you have to wonder why the Swiss, Germans and French, who are ranked 3rd, 4th and 5th respectively in the world, on a per capita basis, in terms of private gun ownership have homicide rates that are nearly 40% lower than the British. If we were to subscribe to Piers Morgan's argument that more guns mean more crime then these three countries would have significantly higher homicide rates than the Brits, but the don't. Clearly it is not the availability of guns in some countries that's the problem.
Although I am not a pro-gun advocate, there is something about the numbers regarding the murder rate in the U.K. that Piers keeps mentioning that isn't quite right. He refers only to England and Wales. No mention of Scotland, where Dunblane is located, or Northern Ireland, which has a long history of voilence. Why is that?
Scotland and N. Ireland report separately. You're absolutely right, to paint a true picture Morgan should be talking about total homicides – gun and non gun committed murders. Most of Britain's Western European neighbors are big gun owning nations with some of the lowest homicide rates in the world. Britain by comparison has a virtual gun ban and has a significantly higher per capita murder rate than all of its big gun owning neighbors, just why is that?
The thing that bugs me is, Piers keeps referring to the massacre at Dunblane, which is in Scotland, and about the handgun ban that came about afterwards and how gun related murders have dropped since then. But there are no statistics given for Scotland since that massacre occured or since the handgun ban was imposed. Does the handgun ban also pertain to Scotland as well or not? I'm certain, that if the statistics for Scotland and Northern Ireland were included, the murder rate per capita would be much higher. Just look at Northern Ireland alone. The history of extreme violence there, between the Catholics and the Protestants, is long and extensive. Things have settled down a bit over the last few years but tensions are still very high. It wouldn't take very much to get it all going again, I think.
Piers Morgan has no value as a news commentator. Very surprised that anybody watches him.
Agreed! What more can we expect from someone who comes from a background in tabloid news. Certainly he's an expert in manipulation and spin. We should remember he was fired from one of Britain's tabloids, The Daily Mirror, for publishing false and doctored pictures of British troops abusing Iraqi prisoners. Clearly the man can't be trusted with a record like this, and should have been banned from holding any position in journalism for life.
You think they will give him a shot at the beginning or the end of the show in case he has a reaction .Bet its not real. What's he going to do next to appeal to the administration ? Pump himself full of GMO on air followed by a big fish taco from fukashima? Just get out already go home REDCOAT! CNN get rid of him already
Check pics of Dr Oz when he started and now . Is it just me or does it look like he must be hitting at least a liter of booze a night?
It is very apparent as always that Dr. Oz knows nothing but what his producers tell him. Thank God for Opera, right Dr. Oz. You are a heart surgeon which mean you work with sick people. You do not understand what it takes to restore and maintain health if you are encouraging people to get the flu vaccine that has no scientific evidence of efficacy or effectiveness. It is amazing that you, Dr. Oz will decrease the health of an individual on national TV for who`s gain. It is definitely not for Pires gain. The American society is in dire harm due to Dr. Oz and his pharma influence. Without proper information the people of this world are led by fear and dogma.
It plaques this world and it no wonder we are a sicker world because of medicine.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. Thomas Edison.
I love u Piers... gotta love the haters too, thy have a job to do 🙂
"Those kind of shots wont do any good against the epidemic running out of control today. France finally got sick of trusting the Muslim in the whitehouse, and has gone it alone. I don't think anybody in Europe trust the USA now, after the re elction of this Muslim Obama."
"Quote: For years, the United States tried to stem the spread of Islamic militancy in the region by conducting its most ambitious counterterrorism program ever across these vast, turbulent stretches of the Sahara.
But as insurgents swept through the desert last year, commanders of this nation's elite army units, the fruit of years of careful American training, defected when they were needed most — taking troops, guns, trucks and their newfound skills to the enemy in the heat of battle, according to senior Malian military officials.
"It was a disaster," said one of several senior Malian officers to confirm the defections. Unquote.
"And guess where those weapons in Malia are comeing from?? Libya is supplying all kinds os weapons ro Mali, and they originally coming from Qatat, and guess who selling weapons to Qatar?? Obama is selling weapons to Qatar!"
Quote: "The coup in Mali progressed very rapidly and with very little warning," said Col. Tom Davis, a command spokesman. "The spark that ignited it occurred within their junior military ranks, who ultimately overthrew the government, not at the senior leadership level where warning signs might have been more easily noticed."
But one Special Operations Forces officer disagreed, saying, "This has been brewing for five years. The analysts got complacent in their assumptions and did not see the big changes and the impacts of them, like the big weaponry coming out of Libya and the different, more Islamic" fighters who came back.
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Who cares, Piers, if you get a flu shot or not? What about the FICA tax increases that are affecting millions of working families?
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LAKE TAHOE – "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
Surely most people who read this article are familiar with Yogi Berra and his endearing Yogi-ism quotes. Yogi was a baseball player for the New York Yankees and he uttered this phrase about a restaurant he used to visit in his home town of St. Louis.
If any "Yogi Berras" live in the Tahoe basin, undoubtedly they will be uttering this phrase as well in the years to come.
The TRPA Regional Plan Update will be voted on December 12 and it will be the road map for the use of Lake Tahoe basin land for the next 20 years.
Building heights and density will be increased to potentially build up town centers. Ski resorts, as always, are expanding.
And grab a hold of your seats folks because the TRPA is proposing a new designation for open space that will allow commercial and residential development – hotels, residential condos and commercial facilities.
Not to beat a dead horse, but most of us are familiar with Boulder Bay and the special height allowances awarded this project. Under the new code these allowances may also be extended to future projects if pursued by a developer.
The RPU will increase allowed densities for hotel/timeshare/fractional by 160 percent. For example, allowed TAU (tourist accommodation units) density will be increased from 15 units per acre to 40 units per acre. Multi-family will increase from 15 to 25 units per acre.
Today, most open space is zoned as "Conservation" or "Recreation," but under the RPU, 320 acres will be designated as "Resort Recreation" permitting tourist accommodation hotels and single family residences and commercial.
The following open spaces are affected: 250+ acres owned by Edgewood (old Pony Express Stop) and 65 acres at the top of Ski Run Boulevard (part forest/part Heavenly parking lot) owned by Vail. According to a recent change in the 208 Water Quality Management Plan, another 320 acres could be allowed within the next four years. The precedent for future uses has already begun. The skids are greased. Sit back and reflect on that, folks.
In Northstar's new master plan, Vail at Northstar is also trying to change the zoning on 500 acres of timberline production land inside the basin to allow ski runs, lifts, gondolas, support facilities. Will a proposed Habitat Management Plan save these lands?
The bottom line is that Lake Tahoe is still very sick. The U.S. Geological Survey published an article in 1997 (pubs.usgs.gov/fs/FS-100-97/) and states the following: Resource-management agencies, such as TRPA, need long-term water-quality data to assess the effectiveness of both current and new projects and regulations. It has been known since the 1950s Lake Tahoe clarity has been deteriorating, due to the following:
• Increased development included urbanization of wetland areas that had formerly served as zones for retention of sediments and nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron),
• Development on steep mountain sides with consequent sediment erosion,
• Discharge of septic and sewage systems within the basin; and
• Increased airborne nutrients from automobile emissions and wood-burning stoves.
TRPA claims that lake clarity is stabilizing based on their interpretation of UC Davis "State of the Lake" reports from the past 10 years.
I am not a scientist, but I don't think 10 years is adequate to trend long term lake clarity.
I grew up in upstate New York and went to school in Albany. Lake George is a well known resort lake just north of Albany.
A recent article about Lake George in the Adirondack Explorer magazine (Nov/Dec 2012) explains how the lake is suffering the same Asian clam invasive species angst as Lake Tahoe. The article also states that it is not just invasive species that are harming Lake George's legendary water quality, but also storm water runoff from highways and development that is increasing siltation and adding nutrients to the lake leading to algae blooms.
Does this sound all too familiar? It should because it is also reality here.
The article goes on to say that the economic future of the watershed -property values, tourism, business – relies on maintaining the lake's water quality.
In the late 1960s, lake clarity was measured at approximately 100 feet. Imagine what lake clarity was before modern man stepped in and took over. Imagine.
The RPU vote is 12.12.12. Be there.
Derrek is a four-year resident of Incline Village. He is a CPA and Systems Integration/ Management Consultant.