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Recently, The New American has reported on the efforts by radio talk show host Mark Levin and others to push for a constitutional convention (a convention of the states, in the parlance of the proponents).
In his new book, Levin argues that such a convention is the last hope "to reform the federal government from its degenerate, bloated, imperial structure back to its (smaller) republican roots."
Unfortunately, many otherwise well-educated and well-meaning conservatives have succumbed to Levin's siren song and they have gone so far as to deny the constitutionality of nullification and to insist that an Article V convention is the only way to restore the balance of federalism in our Republic.
Fighting for the Constitution as given to us by our Founders is a noble goal and the anxiety of the conservative con-con collaborators is understandable. We at The New American and The John Birch Society welcome the help of all those courageous enough to enlist in the battle to defeat the forces of federal absolutism. We part company with those pushing for an Article V convention, however, and we believe that a constitutional convention is not the right way to stop the federal assault on our Constitution and the freedoms it protects.
The New American and many other liberty-minded organizations promote nullification as the "rightful remedy" for curing the constant federal overreaching. We believe that as the agent of the states, the federal government has exceeded its contractual authority and the states as principals have the right to refuse to ratify any such usurpation.
Since the publication of Levin's admittedly popular book, the battle between those promoting nullification and those advocating for an Article V constitutional convention is a topic getting plenty of coverage in the alternative media.
There is another uncomfortable aspect of the Article V movement that is not being discussed, however, but needs to be, particularly in light of the good people who have associated themselves with it.
Within the ranks of those clamoring for an Article V convention are found numerous extremely radical, progressive, and socialist organizations that otherwise would have little in common with the conservatives fighting on the same side.
Wolf-Pac is one of the groups that this reporter suspects many Levin listeners would be surprised to know is their compatriot in a call for a con-con.
On its website, Wolf-Pac pushes for an Article V "convention of the states" as the best way to accomplish its "ultimate goal:"
To restore true democracy in the United States by pressuring our State Representatives to pass a much needed 28th Amendment to our Constitution which would end corporate personhood and publicly finance all elections in our country.
In order to persuade Americans to join its cause, Wolf-Pac will:
inform the public by running television commercials, radio ads, social media, internet ads, and using the media platform of the largest online news show in the world, The Young Turks.
The Young Turks? Most constitutionalists (and I imagine most fans of Mark Levin) don't spend much time during the day watching the Young Turks, the YouTube-based news and entertainment channel that dubs itself the "world's largest online news network."
As unfamiliar as they may be with the Young Turks, it seems certain conservatives pushing for a con-con are even more unfamiliar with who pays the bills at this online purveyor of progressive ideology: George Soros (shown). Dan Gainor reports:
In fact, Soros funds nearly every major left-wing media source in the United States. Forty-five of those are financed through his support of the Media Consortium. That organization 'is a network of the country's leading, progressive, independent media outlets.' The list is predictable – everything from Alternet to the Young Turks.
That's right. George Soros – the financier of global fascism – is pumping millions of dollars into the same Article V campaign that is being promoted by Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and other popular conservative spokesmen.
What will those in Wolf-Pac do if they are able to get "their amendment" proposed and accepted by an Article V convention?
"Celebrate the fact that we had the courage and persistance [sic] to accomplish something truly amazing and historic together."
Anything a group with this anti-constitutional agenda would do to our Constitution would certainly be historic – in the worst way.
This should be enough to convince all true conservatives, constitutionalists, and friends of liberty to run headlong away from the ranks of the Article V con-con army, regardless of how popular and persuasive their generals may be.
It will likely surprise these devoted, but deluded, Article V advocates that Wolf-Pac is just the tip of the iceberg. These good people would be wise to take a look at this heavily abbreviated roster of their radical fellow travelers in the con-con movement, each of which is a registered "founding member" of the "Move to Amend" coalition.
Alliance for Democracy
Center for Media and Democracy
Code Pink
Independent Progressive Politics Network
Progressive Democrats of America
Sierra Club
Vermont for Single Payer
Mind you, hundreds more groups "committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate rule, and building a vibrant democracy" are gathered under this umbrella.
This hardly seems to be a corps that most Levin listeners would be happy to stand shoulder to shoulder with in the fight for a "convention of the states." In fairness, these allies likely don't share their conservative cohorts' love and loyalty to the Constitution.
It's time these right-minded men and women know with whom they are associating.
Its doubtful that Mark Levin's legion of listeners would be as eager to get behind his Article V con-con agenda if they knew whom they were fighting beside and how radically their new allies want to change our beloved Constitution.
And that's the problem. Regardless of the soothing words of Levin or others in the con-con camp, they cannot guarantee the outcome of such a convention. In fact, in light of the lists of leftist groups provided above, the results of the convention could be an outright scrapping of the Constitution written by the Founders in favor of one more in line with the progressive ideologies of Wolf-Pac, the Sierra Club, Code Pink, and others.
Remember, according to the history of Article V-style conventions, regardless of any state or congressional legislation requiring them to consider only one amendment (a balanced budget amendment, for example), the delegates elected to the convention would possess unlimited, though not unprecedented, power to propose revisions to the existing Constitution, based on the inherent right of the People in convention to alter or revise their government.
The mind boggles at the potential proposals that could come out of a convention composed of such radical representatives.
Don't forget, George Soros's billions are funding these fringe groups and politicians aren't known for their ability to resist hefty campaign contributions.
Conservatives should shudder at the specter of a convention endowed with power of this magnitude, populated by activists who have a Soros credit card in their pocket and a commitment to "social justice" as their purpose. All the good intentions of the conservatives in the Article V camp would not be enough to force all these devastating changes to the Constitution back inside the progressive Pandora's Box.
Readers are encouraged to click the links provided in this article and to investigate for themselves the agenda of the various Article V advocates and to determine if it's worth the risk to our Constitution that would be posed by the presence of these groups in the "convention of the states."
Finally, the startling information set out in this article is not meant as an attack on Mark Levin or anyone else working to call a "convention of the states." Rather, it is intended to help the thousands of committed constitutionalists who find themselves believing in the Article V gospel he's preaching to realize who's sitting in the pews with them and whose money built the church.
Photo of George Soros: AP Images
Source: The New American


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The government has kept insufficient metrics on savings and is unlikely to meet its goal of $3 billion in savings by 2015.
An initiative to consolidate federal data centers has yielded minimal savings so far and the government is unlikely to meet its goal of $3 billion in savings by 2015, the Government Accountability Office said in a report Tuesday.
Agencies have also failed to adequately report on their data center cost savings and officials at the White House's Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration have done too little to force that reporting, David Powner, GAO's director of information technology issues, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's panel on Government Operations.
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Data center savings are likely to follow a hockey stick pattern, federal CIO Steven VanRoekel has said, with more savings accruing in later years.
In March, VanRoekel merged the data center consolidation initiative with PortfolioStat, a program aimed at draining inefficiencies from government technology operations. Powner called that merger a natural fit on Tuesday, so long as agencies begin to adequately measure cost savings.
Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., and ranking member Gerry Connolly, D-Va., both criticized OMB and GSA for not sending representatives to testify at Tuesday's field hearing, which was held at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Mica pledged to hold additional hearings at which both agencies would be asked to testify.
In the Senate, the data center consolidation initiative is managed by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. That committee's Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., and ranking member Tom Coburn, R-Okla., issued a joint statement Tuesday praising the government for cutting data centers but scolding it for failing to keep reliable metrics.
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On Sunday I visited Ma Chang, Wild Duck Lake. April and May are superb months to visit this special Beijing site. With migration in full swing, it's fascinating to see the departure of the winter visitors, the arrival of summer visitors and the passage of migrants on their way to breeding grounds further north… Already many of the winter birds have departed – I didn't see a single crane of any species on Sunday – but many others are just beginning to arrive. Oriental Plovers – a Ma Chang speciality – are coming through in good numbers now and it's a great time, too, for wildfowl and some of the early raptors.
The excitement of my visit on Sunday was heightened by the news that a BAER'S POCHARD was found on Friday by local birders Zhu Lei and Zhang Shen (thanks guys!). This bird is classified as "Critically Endangered" and, I understand, a survey of its traditional wintering grounds in China produced fewer than 50 birds this winter. Look out for a forthcoming article in Birding Asia about the dramatic decline of this species.
On arrival I was delighted to see some ORIENTAL PLOVERS on site. I counted 14 and, after watching them briefly, I made my way to the first site for checking duck. Viewing wildfowl is not straightforward at Ma Chang; there are many areas that are not viewable and the precise location of the birds depends on many factors, such as the wind direction and speed and the activity on the lake of the local fishermen. I have two favourite locations – one at the spit by some yurts (also a good place for visible migration) and one on the 'island' to the north. On Sunday, both sites were notably empty of duck. I was beginning to think that it wasn't going to be my day and that the duck must be hiding somewhere out of sight. Then I saw a small flock of Tufted Duck (not a common bird in Beijing) fly in and go down behind some reeds. I could see that there was a track that ran close by, so I made my way to the general area and found a good place to view the duck.
Unusually, there was no northwesterly wind blowing into my face, so the conditions were good. I soon realised that it wasn't just the Tufted Duck present. There were some Ferruginous Duck (a species with which BAER'S POCHARD often associates), Shoveler, Common Pochard, Smew, Falcated Duck, Gadwall, Wigeon and Mallard all present. A careful scan revealed no sign of the Baer's but I knew there were some duck asleep in the reeds, including some Ferruginous Duck and some others that were obscured.. I settled in, hoping that one of the sleeping duck out of sight might be the Baer's.
After 45 minutes of enjoyable birding, including a nice flock of passing Swan Geese, a small passage of Buff-bellied Pipits and an early male Citrine Wagtail, I began another scan and, sure enough, in amongst the Ferruginous Duck was a stunning drake BAER'S POCHARD.
I watched the BAER'S for the next hour as it proceeded to display. Unfortunately there were no female BAER'S but that didn't seem to matter.. this lonely male threw its head back, stretched its neck high and bowed to several female Ferruginous Ducks and a slightly startled-looking female Common Pochard… I guess when your situation is as desperate as the Baer's Pochard, you can't afford to be fussy!
It was heartening to see this bird but, at the same time, sobering to think that it is likely to make its way north alone and, when it arrives at its favoured lake, there may be no females with which to breed. The situation for this bird is precarious. Encouragingly I have heard of two separate sightings from Liaoning Province in the last few days – one male and one female. Let's hope it's a good breeding season for this species.
After an hour or so, I reluctantly pulled myself away to explore the rest of Ma Chang. The Oriental Plover flock had increased to an astonishing 55 birds, with 4-5 adult males sporting gleaming white heads.
Flocks of Little Ringed and Kentish Plovers were mixed in, many of which were displaying and calling frequently.
At one point, as I was watching the flock, all of the birds suddenly took flight. I suspected a raptor and, sure enough, a quick scan with the binoculars revealed a superb male LESSER KESTREL.. wow! A nice way to end a brilliant birding session at Ma Chang.
Full Species List (62 species):
Japanese Quail – 2
Common Pheasant – 12
Swan Goose – 28
Bean Goose – 6
Ruddy Shelduck – 42
Gadwall – 78
Falcated Duck – 225
Eurasian Wigeon – 19
Mallard – 67
Spot-billed Duck – 6
Northern Shoveler – 4
Eurasian Teal – 18
Common Pochard – 12
BAER'S POCHARD – 1 drake displaying to both female Ferruginous Duck and Common Pochard. Employed three 'displays' – one involved stretching the neck high, the second throwing the head back and the third leaning the head forward and 'puffing up' the back of the neck.
Ferruginous Duck – 17
Tufted Duck – 7
Goldeneye – 5
Smew – 12
Goosander – 4
Little Grebe – 8
Great Crested Grebe – 14
Great Bittern – 1 booming
Grey Heron – 7
Great Cormorant – 1
LESSER KESTREL – 1 male drifted northwest with occasional hovering spells (flushed the Oriental Plovers at one point)
Eurasian Kestrel – 1
Eastern Marsh Harrier – 3 (one adult male and two adult females)
Eurasian Sparrowhawk – 1
Northern Goshawk – 3
Common (Eastern) Buzzard – 2
Common Coot – 32
Black-winged Stilt – 16
Northern Lapwing – 63
Little Ringed Plover – 14
Kentish Plover – 33
Oriental Plover – 55 – the number seemed to increase as the day wore on with just 14 present early morning. Some disturbance from bird photographers and horses but they were not unduly perturbed.
Common Snipe – 1
Common Gull – 11
Mongolian Gull – 2 adults flew high west calling
Black-headed Gull – 18
Oriental Turtle Dove – 4
Collared Dove – 3
Common Kingfisher – 2
Hoopoe – 4
Grey-headed Woodpecker – 1
Chinese Grey Shrike – 2
Azure-winged Magpie – 6
Common Magpie – lots
Daurian Jackdaw – 10
Corvid sp – 15
Carrion Crow – 3
Bohemian Waxwing – 4 flew south
Asian Short-toed Lark – 5
Eurasian Skylark – 4
White-cheeked Starling – 5
Daurian Redstart – 4
Tree Sparrow – lots
Citrine Wagtail – one male
White Wagtail – 4
Buff-bellied Pipit – 26
Water Pipit – 9
Pallas's Bunting – 28
Tolai Hare – 1


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Floofy Friday and 400 Posts!
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Congrats on your 400 posts! You look soooooo floofy in your pictures! I wish I could give you a big hug :). Have a pawsome weekend!ReplyDelete
Awww, look at all that floofiness. Congrats on your 400 posts. Enjoy your weekend, Lady Finny.ReplyDelete
Congratulations on 400 posts and all that beautiful floof!ReplyDelete
OOoo, the tum-tum. (Much nicer than a kleenix box)ReplyDelete
Congrats on 400 posts! Have a great weekend.ReplyDelete
Congrats on the 400th posts. We have always enjoyed coming over to see what you are up to.ReplyDelete
Concatulations on 400 posts! Wow! What a milestone Finny! oh and look at all that amazing floof!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2010 at 8:45 PM
Hey Finnie,ReplyDelete
Congratulation on reaching such a prestigious milestone. You have been able to produce both a high quantity but more importantly a high quality blog. Good on ya girl; well done. thanks again for those fabulous Cat-O-Lympics.
Congratulations on 400 posts, that's quite an accomplishment!...We love Fin's belly shot=she has awesome fluffy furs!!...xo...Calle, Halle, SukkiReplyDelete
Concatulations on 400 posts! We've loved each and every of them and hope to see more and more!ReplyDelete
Go Fin! It's ya blog day...ReplyDelete
Happy 400 Fin!!!!ReplyDelete
What a milestone. Thanks for making us giggle and warming our little kitty hearts.
your friend,
(Glogirly's Cat)
Congratulations on your 400th post. That's a great milestone for my first comment here. I really like these fluffy looking pictures. That looks like the best kind of hair to pet.ReplyDelete
I just realised I did my 400th post last week and I completely missed it! You've got 7 to go to catch up to me, Finny!ReplyDelete
WOW! 400 posts is awesome! Concats. We love yoor bloggie!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2010 at 2:01 AM
400 posts IS quite an accomplishment! Congratulations! We love visiting you because you have such fun posts. And wonderful floof too.ReplyDelete
Congrats Fin! Here's to 400 more!!ReplyDelete
You are one of our favs!!
Big Purrs,
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Concatulations on 400 fabulous posts! :)ReplyDelete
Concats on 400 posts and heres to many more.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2010 at 4:53 AM
Time flies when your floofy...congratulations!ReplyDelete
Fabulous, fantastic floof!ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your 400th post--that's quite an achievement!
P.S. The word verification is "bless" so we'll send universal blessings to you all!
Happy happy 400th post, Finny! We love visiting here. And we can't wait for The Look! *tapping 12 front paws and 2 human feet impatiently*ReplyDelete
And da floof! *sigh* The Mommy wants to move in for a snorgle.
Purrs and hugs,
The Kitty Krew
Congrats Fin!!! We love stopping by to see you...always! Have a wonderful weekend!ReplyDelete
Congrats on 400 posts! That is quite an accomplishment...enjoyed reading about and meeting you during that time. Here's to 400 more!ReplyDelete
How often does your Mom have to comb you ?ReplyDelete
Congrats on your 400 posts!ReplyDelete
You have a cute tummy ^^
You show off your floof to perfection! Concats on your 400th post! We hope for many more to come.ReplyDelete
You look extra floofy today, Fin!! And congrats on your 400th post! Here's to hundreds more!ReplyDelete
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Allow me to spare you the hyperbole: Usain Bolt is fast.
He is, as far as we can tell, the fastest human who's ever lived — in 2009, at a race in Berlin, he ran the 100-meter dash is 9.58 seconds. This translates to an average speed of just over 23 mph (with a top speed closer to 30 mph). His '09 performance in Germany was .11 quicker than the 9.69 he ran at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the fattest chunk ever taken off a world record at that distance. Considering the unadulterated simplicity of his vocation and the historic magnitude of his dominance, it's easy to argue that Bolt has been the world's greatest athlete of the past five years. And yet there's an even easier argument to make than that one: Within the next 10 years, Bolt's achievements as a sprinter will be completely annihilated.
This is not guaranteed, of course, but it's certainly more plausible than speculative — for the past 30 years, the men's record in the 100-meter dash has been assaulted so continually that many of its former record holders don't even qualify as difficult answers to trivia questions. This was not always the case: Jim Hines broke the 10.0 barrier with a 9.95 at the (high-altitude) 1968 Olympics; that mark stood for 15 years before Calvin Smith ran a 9.93 (also at altitude) in Colorado Springs. But since 1983, the record has been shattered more than a dozen times. Ben Johnson's steroid-fueled 9.83 in '87 was the first massive blow, but eight others have chipped away at the record with increasing regularity (Bolt just happened to use a sledge hammer).
The big-picture upshot to all this measured subtraction is simple: Over the past 40 years, man has improved his ability to run 100 meters by .37 of a second. That's a rough average of .01 a year, but that kind of math is deceptively understated — though the year-to-year improvement isn't exponential, it also isn't gradual. The rate of change keeps accelerating. As of this June, 17 men had already run sub-10.0 100 meter dashes, the most ever in the span of a year (with six months still on the calendar). Were he to get in the same physical condition he was in 2009, most track experts concede that the 25-year-old Bolt has the potential to breach the 9.50 barrier at any moment. And this raises the central question fans of track and field have always wanted to know: Is there a ceiling to how fast a man can run? Will there be a day — maybe in 50 years, or maybe in 500 — when someone runs the 100-meter dash in 8.99 seconds?
"In order to answer this question, you have to think like a sprinter. And sprinters believe that — someday — somebody will run the 100 meters and the clock will read 0.00." Ato Boldon tells me this over the telephone. Boldon is now known as a track analyst for NBC and CBS, but he's also a four-time Olympic medalist and the fastest man the island of Trinidad has ever produced (in 1998, he ran the 100 in 9.86). "And when a sprinter thinks like that, he's not trying to trick himself. It's how you have to think. This idea of human limitation is exactly what we're competing against. It's thinking about running a 8.99 that gets you down to 9.58. That's how it works."
Obviously, it's impossible to talk about sprinting records and human potentiality without mentioning steroids. It's more than the rhino in the room; it's possibly the reason the WR in the 100 didn't move for 15 years and then started falling like an air conditioner shoved out an open window. But for the sake of this specific discussion, PEDs don't really matter. It isn't a moral (or even competitive) issue. The question is not what speed a man should run; the question is how fast a man could run, through any means necessary. Steroids tend to be a secondary issue for track fans, principally for two reasons:
- 1. Though nobody will ever talk about it on the record, PEDs have become an integral part of sprinting. It's pretty much like cycling: There's just an unspoken "everybody does it" concession. There are sanctioned rules, and athletes get penalized if they get caught breaking them. But nobody really worries about this, simply because
- 2. People who love track want to see guys run fast. That's the whole game. There is nothing else. The sport is not built on personal rivalries or constructed purity or nationalism or the import of tradition; the sport is solely driven by the excitement of people doing what no one has done before. In this one specific instance, the ends truly do justify the means. And unlike other sports, there's no rhetoric or concern about steroids warping statistics, because the only stat that matters is who's fastest right now. Once a record has been broken, it instantly becomes meaningless. Not even track historians use comparative times as a way to establish greatness. Easy example: Which of these men was the greatest sprinter — Jesse Owens (who won the 1936 Olympics with a time of 10.3), Carl Lewis (whose career best in the 100 was 9.86), or Leroy Burrell (who ran a 9.85)? Track and field is about running fast today. It's a bottom-line endeavor.
This is not to say that steroids don't make debates about human speed complex, because they do. Around the same time Ben Johnson ran his (then unthinkable) 9.83, Florence Griffith-Joyner destroyed the women's 100-meter mark with a 10.49, and that record has not been seriously challenged in the 23 years since. Was something happening with PEDs in the late 1980s that has since been removed from the sport? Why do men keep getting faster, but women do not? These are questions that science cannot seem to answer (or even guess at).
"Bolt's 9.58 is so low that perhaps no one gets close to it for a very long time, just like Flo-Jo's record," says Boldon. "But scientists are always wrong about this stuff. Scientists once believed that if a man ran a four-minute mile, his lungs would explode."
The scientific understanding of sprinting is pretty immature," concedes Peter Weyand, and — since Weyand has become the de facto American expert on the science of sprinting — that tells you just how mysterious this phenomenon is. A physiologist and biomechanist at Southern Methodist University, Weyand specializes in terrestrial locomotion; while at Harvard in the '90s, he directed experiments at Concord Field Station, a facility where researchers regularly placed animals such as cheetahs,1 wolverines, and kangaroos on treadmills to understand the mechanics of movement. Now 50, Weyand was also a fairly swift runner in his younger days, having run the 100-yard dash in 10.8 as a high school student. "The one thing about sprinting we all understand is that speed comes from how hard the runner's foot hits the ground. Someone like Bolt is hitting the ground with 1,000 pounds of force, and we just don't how he does that. For example, we have a very accurate understanding of how much weight someone can lift — we can take a person's frame and his muscle mass and accurately estimate how much weight he'll be able to bench press. But world-class sprinters deliver twice as much force as our estimates indicate, and we don't know why."
With Bolt, there's also a second component: Height. While most world-class sprinters are short, Bolt is 6-foot-5 and his stride is an insane 2.44 meters long. When Bolt ran 9.58 in Berlin, he needed only 41 strides to traverse those 100 meters; the man who placed second, 5-foot-11-inch Tyson Gay (who still managed an incredible 9.71), needed 44½ strides. This has led to a popular pet theory about the future of sprinting: Bolt has the proportions and mechanics of a conventional sprinter, but he comes with an inordinately long skeleton. So what would happen if an even taller man were able to move with this kind of fluidity? What if someone with Kevin Garnett's 7-foot frame moved as naturally as Bolt does at 6-foot-5? Would this hypothetical supersprinter be able to travel 100 meters in only 33 strides? Might sprinting become dominated by sleek, long-stepping giants?
Perhaps. But probably not.
"Being tall is really a disadvantage," says Weyand. "Bolt is just a freak. Generally, the smaller you are, the stronger you are in relation to your weight. Bolt defies the laws of biology in terms of his start. He's good out of the blocks, and he shouldn't be. It's so strange because Tyson Gay is basically as fast as Bolt once they hit full speed."
The idea that Bolt's height is his not-so-secret weapon makes sense geometrically, but not in practicality — he seems to be the only person who somehow benefits from this "disadvantage." Francis Obikwelu (the 2004 Olympic silver medalist for Portugal) is almost 6-5 himself, and he once ran an impressive 9.86 — but he simply can't turn his legs over2 as quickly as Bolt. His length gets in the way. For whatever the reason, Bolt is flat-out superior at every aspect of high-speed locomotion — stride length, stride power, and the amount of time it takes to reach his top speed. It's almost like he was designed to do this by a track-obsessed God.
Joe Strummer argued that the future is unwritten, and he'll be correct about that forever. But that doesn't mean we can't try. Is there an irrefutable dead end to the 100-meter dash? Is there a speed at which a human body would just break down and disintegrate, no different than a machine pushed beyond the capacity of its individual components? Some have been arguing "yes" for years. Reza Noubary, a professor of mathematics, computer science, and statistics at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, has estimated "with 95 percent confidence" that the ultimate time for the 100-meter dash is 9.44. That number seems as good a guess as anything else. But if Noubary is correct, it would force us to accept a depressing, unreliable notion — it would essentially mean we're about 25 years away from the pinnacle of human performance. It would mean that most of us will see the fastest man that could ever exist within our own lifetimes. And something about that just seems unlikely. Beyond the (pretty clear) evidence that people are getting bigger, faster, and stronger at the same time, there's also been a massive uptick in cultural motivation: There has never been a time when being the fastest man in the world3 was worth so much money (particularly in the 100 meters, where the difference in notoriety between who's no. 1 and no. 2 is especially vast).
"I wouldn't take 9.0 off the table," says Weyand. "Scientists don't like making these kinds of predictions, and for good reason. A world record is the most extreme fringe of performance, and weird things happens at those fringes. I need to take off my scientist hat to make that statement and just speak as the Average Joe. But my gut feeling is that it will probably happen in our lifetime, and that feeling is driven by the incentives of modern sports."
Boldon is less confidant than Weyand; he says he'd bet against a man running 9.0 in the next 40 years, based on the premise that "a pen is harder to refine than a tractor." The race is short and the moving parts are minimal — at some point, you simply run out of details to improve upon. For a more personal perspective, I e-mailed Tyson Gay (who was nice enough to return my e-mail on the same day he underwent surgery for a torn hip labrum). Gay is the fastest American of all time, having run a 9.69 in the 100 (he's also the first man to break all three magic barriers within the sprints — he's run under 10 seconds in the 100, under 20 seconds in the 200, and under 45 seconds in the 400). I posed him two simple questions: (1) If you ran a perfect race under perfect conditions, what time do you think you'd run, and (2) when you're an old man, how low do you think the world record in the 100 meters will be? His response was rather curious:
I think with everything perfect I possibly could run 9.4, hahahaha. I know that sounds crazy but just being honest. I think the record will be in the 9.4 to 9.3 [range]. Maybe 9.2 range, and that's only if people can grasp and believe that's possible. All about the mind.
What's so interesting about this answer is the dissonance between Gay's self-perception and his perception of the world at large. He believes he could run almost .3 of a second faster than he ever has — yet he also assumes that specific time is almost the top of the mountain, even 50 years from now. When I read this e-mail to Boldon, he laughed with an immediate sense of recognition. "Typical sprinter narcissism," said Boldon. "I could run a 9.4, but nobody could run a 9.2." Even sprinters don't understand what they do (or how they do it). In an era in which science is able to explain and predict almost everything, it's amazing how little we know about the potential of rudimentary movement. Sprinting has represented half of the "fight or flight" instinct for the totality of human existence, yet we still have no idea of our true limitations which explains why track and field will always matter, even if no one in America seems to care.
Chuck Klosterman is the author of six books. His novel The Visible Man will be released in October.


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In the process of metal sawing, the heat generated by the saw blade when sawing the work piece is transferred to the sawdust through the saw teeth, the saw blade and the work piece are kept cool. Cold cutting saw machine is different from traditional friction saw machine. The friction between work piece and friction saw blade results in high temperature of friction saw and work piece. Cold cutting saw machine has high section accuracy, no burrs inside and outside, smooth cutting surface, no need for follow-up treatment such as flat-headed chamfering, reduce the processing intensity of the next process, save time and raw materials, work piece will not change performance because of high temperature caused by friction, improve cutting efficiency, no spark, no noise, environmental protection and energy saving.
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NEW YORK — The subject of bad dates comes up during an interview with Krysta Rodriguez, and she offers up a doozy.
A few years ago, she and her boyfriend spent a ton of money on an expensive meal to celebrate their one-year anniversary. Around the dessert course, a man at a nearby table had a seizure and collapsed.
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"My boyfriend was so upset by it that he vomited the whole dinner. He had to run outside in the flower bed out front of the restaurant and throw up," she says, laughing. "I ended up taking care of him all night long on our anniversary while he literally vomited $400 worth of food."
Rodriguez tells the story because romantic missteps are on her mind these days: The Broadway and "Smash" veteran is starring in a new musical about a blind date opposite Zachary Levi, who starred in the TV show "Chuck."
In "First Date," by "Gossip Girl" writer Austin Winsberg, Rodriguez plays Casey, an artsy-cool downtown hottie who is a little abrasive after years of serial dating. She meets the sweet but slightly nerdy Aaron, played by Levi, at a bar.
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Rodriguez, a California native who just turned 29, is single and can relate to some of Casey's frustrations with men in the city. But they don't see eye to eye when it comes to bad boys.
"While I've not always made the best decisions in my dating life, I wouldn't say I'm attracted to bad boys. I like men that love their mothers and follow rules," she says, laughing. Take that un-bad boy who threw up their anniversary dinner: They dated for almost three years more.
"Hey, I couldn't fault him for it," she says.
Rodriguez may be only a year shy of 30 but she's a stage veteran, having prepared for 20 roles since making her Broadway debut at age 19 in "Good Vibrations." In that show she was a swing who understudied no less than nine roles.
"I got thrown into the fire immediately," she says.
She was soon in the Broadway casts of "A Chorus Line," ''In the Heights," ''Spring Awakening" and "The Addams Family," originating the role of Wednesday Addams alongside Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth.
Rodriguez had actually been acting long before — she had starred in Francis Ford Coppola's musical "Gidget" in 2000 and, even earlier, the TV show "Colby's Clubhouse." She is the product of a "lovely, sun-filled, love-filled childhood" but admits she's a bit of a workaholic.
"A very strong theme in my life has been 'Setback First, Success Second.' I usually don't get in the first time. So I try again and I get in the second time," she says. "It's made me who I am. I know that I'm more appreciative of every experience I have because of all those things."
It was that confidence and those experiences that impressed Bill Berry, who directs her in "First Date." The team was looking for an actress who had the singing chops and the ability to be both emotional and still a bit secretive.
"When we were going through the audition process, she was one of the first people that we saw that we said, 'Aha! That's the first piece of the puzzle,'" he says.
"She's got ideas. She comes to the table with thoughts and that's always so much more interesting than with someone who's waiting to be told exactly what to do."
She was cast before Levi, even though he's arguably the bigger star, having been on TV for five years. But there's something about Rodriguez that signals a new star has arrived and is ready to headline for the first time.
"This is her time," says Berry.
She almost missed it.
Rodriguez sought new challenges in 2012 after six years of Broadway and went to Los Angeles to audition for TV. She tested for six pilots — one that even featured Levi as her brother-in-law — and then was forced to come back or lose her New York apartment.
Out of nowhere came her most famous part — a role on the second season of "Smash." She had gone across the country to land a TV show, only to come home and find one — about a Broadway musical.
Rodriguez played Katharine McPhee's roommate Ana Vargas and got to show the world a smart, sexy, funny beauty in a cool blunt cut who could belt out gorgeous versions of "Broadway, Here I Come!" and "If I Were a Boy."
Fans lining up outside the "First Date" theater have come to cheer Rodriguez because of "Smash," but the experience of the show is bittersweet. Sweet because of the exposure and the people she met. Bitter because she couldn't stop the show from cancellation.
She cites a number of reasons for its demise — internal problems, too many cooks in the kitchen and a time slot from hell, Saturday night. Many fans recorded the show on their DVRs — therefore not helping the ratings — and many critics were unwilling to give the show a second chance.
"We kind of didn't stand a chance. We were trying to please a group of people who didn't want to be pleased. They had already made up their minds," she says. "In its afterlife, it's so well received. But when we were doing it, we were in the crossfires of everybody's anger."
But she loved doing the show, and it inevitably led to "First Date." She's enjoying every minute of her return to Broadway, even if her co-star's dressing room is larger.
"He was on five years of television," she says, laughing. "I was only on one."


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Perfect Pan-Seared Steaks Recipe – oday we're getting back to the basics, exploring a few of the simplest, yet most persistent points of contention amongst steak-fryers and grillers.
If you've been a longtime reader of the Food Lab, you've already got your head around a few of the basics, like why you should cut against the grain (it makes for more tender bites), or why you need to rest your steak after cooking it (keeps it nice and juicy). If you're really clever, you'll figure out how to apply some of the principles outlined in our Roasted and Reverse Seared Prime Rib recipe and tests on how often you should flip a burger to ensure that your steak is cooked perfectly evenly from edge to center (hint: warm it up first, flip it over and over as it cooks). Want the ultimate in even cooking and tenderness? Try cooking it in a beer cooler, using this sous-vide steak primer for temperature guidelines.
Yeah, I like beef, I guess.
But, if being married has taught me anything, no matter how much of an expert you are in a given subject, there's always more to learn. Take memorizing dates, for example. Apparently just anniversaries aren't good enough—I've also got to find room in my head for birthdays. Luckily, hers falls two days before Dumpling's (which is today!). This makes it both an easy date to remember, and a very hard date to remember on time. D'oh! Happy belated birthday, dear.
Anyhow, today, we move on to discuss a few more of my favorite steak-related things: salting, poking, and searing, in that order.
When to Salt Steak
Read a half dozen cookbooks or listen to a half dozen celebrity chefs, and you're likely to hear at least as many different responses as to when you should salt your meat. Some claim salting immediately before putting it in the pan is best. Others opt not to salt the meat at all, instead salting the pan and placing the meat directly on top. Still, others insist on salting and resting for up to a few days in advance. Who's right?
To test this, I bought myself a half dozen thick-cut bone-in ribeyes (I love the smile butchers get in their eyes when you do this) and salted them at 10-minute intervals before searing them in a hot skillet. So the last steak went into a pan immediately after salting, while the first steak went in a full 50 minutes after salting. All of the steaks were allowed to rest at room temperature for the full 50 minutes, ensuring that they were all at the same starting temperature before the cooking began.
The results? The steaks that were salted immediately before cooking and those that were salted and rested for at least 40 minutes turned out far better than those that were cooked at any point in between. What was up with those 10, 20, and 30-minute steaks?
Here's what's going on.
- Immediately after salting the salt rests on the surface of the meat, undissolved. All the steak's juices are still inside the muscle fibers. Searing at this stage results in a clean, hard sear.
- Within three or four minutes the salt, through the process of osmosis, will begin to draw out liquid from the beef. This liquid beads up on the surface of the meat. Try to sear at this point and you waste valuable heat energy simply evaporating this large amount of pooled liquid. Your pan temperature drops, your sear is not as hard, and crust development and flavor-building Maillard browning reactions are inhibited.
- Starting at around 10 to 15 minutes, the brine formed by the salt dissolving in the meat's juices will begin to break down the muscle structure of the beef, causing it to become much more absorptive. The brine begins to slowly work its way back into the meat.
- By the end of 40 minutes, most of the liquid has been reabsorbed into the meat. A small degree of evaporation has also occurred, causing the meat to be ever so slightly more concentrated in flavor.
Not only that, but I found that even after the liquid has been reabsorbed, it doesn't stop there. As the meat continues to rest past 40 minutes, the salt and brine will slowly work their way deeper and deeper into the muscle structure, giving you built-in seasoning beyond just the outer surface you'd get from cooking right after salting or salting the skillet.
Indeed, the absolute best steak I had was one that I had salted on both sides then allowed to rest on a rack overnight in the refrigerator uncovered. It appears to dry out slightly, but it's only superficial—the amount of drying that occurs from an overnight rest (about 5% moisture loss) is negligible compared to the amount of moisture driven off during cooking anyway (upwards of 20%, even more in the hard-seared edges). As the salt makes its way back into the meat, you'll probably also notice that it becomes a deeper color. That's because the dissolved proteins scatter slightly differently than they did when they were still whole.
Moral of the story: If you've got the time, salt your meat for at least 40 minutes and up to overnight before cooking. If you haven't got 40 minutes, it's better to season immediately before cooking. Cooking the steak anywhere between three and 40 minutes after salting is the worst way to do it.
Searing for the Perfect Crust
There's not all that much new ground to cover here—we all know that searing absolutely positively does not "seal in juice," right? It serves as a means of adding color and flavor and enhancing texture. That's all. We also know that the absolute best way to sear is to flip your meat frequently as it cooks so that it cooks evenly from both sides, cooks faster, and develops less of the gray, overcooked zone that you get from a traditional one-side-then-the-other-side sear, right?*
*See the links at the top if you don't believe me.
But what's the best medium to sear in? Butter, or oil? Some claim that a mixture of both is best, often using the excuse that butter alone has too low a smoke point—it begins to burn and turn black at temperature too low to properly sear meat in. Somehow, cutting the butter with a bit of oil is supposed to raise this smoke point. Unfortunately, that's not true. It's because when we say that "butter is burnt," we're not really talking about the butter as a whole—we're talking specifically about the milk proteins in butter. The little white specks you see when you melt it. It's these milk proteins that burn when you get them too hot, and believe me—they couldn't care less whether they're being cooked in butterfat or in oil. Either way, they burn.
What all this means is that the best cooking medium for a steak is actually plain old oil. At least to start. Adding butter to the pan just a minute or two before you finish cooking is not a bad idea. This is just enough time to allow the buttery flavor and texture (butter is creamier tasting than oil because it has a higher percentage of saturated fat) to coat the meat, but not so long that it will burn excessively, producing acrid undertones.
So for searing, let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up: Get oil smoking hot in a heavy pan. Add salted and peppered steak and cook, flipping every 15 to 30 seconds until the desired internal temperature is almost reached. Add butter to the pan and continue to cook until the steak is done. Remove from pan.
Follow that summary, and what you've got is a steak that's nearly perfect. What's missing, you ask?
Well, assuming you like your steaks as thick as I do, there's a significant edge that sees little to no direct action during the entire searing process, and that edge is often the fattiest, most delicious part of the steak. It deserves love just as much as the next guy.
Here's what you do:
Got it? Good.
Checking for Doneness
Watch a Johnsonville Brat commercial, and you'll be told that poking with a fork is one of the cardinal sins of sausage cookery, and they're right. A sausage has an impermeable casing for a reason: to keep all of those rendered fats and juices right in there with the meat. Pierce it, create a hole, and you'll see a fountain of golden juices spring forth. A steak, on the other hand, has no such casing to protect it, so is it ok to poke or not?
I cooked two steaks of known weight side by side. The first, I carefully turned with tongs each time. The second, I used a fourchette de cuisine (that's fancy-pants for one of those two-pronged forks), completely indiscriminately, mercilessly (though not excessively) poking the steak this way and that as I flipped it. Afterward, I weighed both steaks again. The result? Exactly the same weight loss.
The thing is, with steaks, moisture loss is due to one thing: muscle fibers tightening due to the application of heat and squeezing out their liquid. Unless you actually manage to completely pierce or slash these muscle fibers, the moisture they lose is directly proportional to the temperature to which you cook your steak. A fork is simply not sharp enough to harm muscle fibers in any significant way. Yes, you'll see a minuscule amount of juices seeping their way out of the fork holes, but it's a really negligible amount. Indeed, that's why the many-bladed tenderizing tool known as a Jaccard is able to tenderize your meat without causing it to lose any excess moisture—it separates muscle fibers, but doesn't actually cut them or open them up.
What about that most-shunned of techniques, the old cut-and-peek? Surely, actually slashing a cooking steak open with a knife and looking inside is going to have a detrimental effect on it, right?
Well, yes and no. Yes, a knife actually severs muscle fibers, allowing them to leak their contents to the outside world. But the amount of moisture loss is really very minimal. Cut-and-peek too many times, and you run the risk of shredding your steak. In reality though, one or two peeks won't really be detectable in the end product.
But there's a bigger problem with the cut-and-peek method: It's not accurate. Because of the fact that juices get squeezed out quickly from hot meat, when you cut into the center of a still-hot steak (like one that's sitting in the pan), it'll appear to be much rarer than it really is. If you continue to cook your steak until it appears right by the cut-and-peek method, it'll be overcooked by the time you actually eat it. And thick steaks continue to rise in temperature even after being removed from the pan.
What does that mean? It means that if you haven't yet, you should go out and get yourself a good, accurate digital thermometer, duh!


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Some people call them survivors, their detractors label them misogynists, others simply veterans. We prefer to call them pioneers. No strangers to controversy, or indeed extended periods at the top of the hit parade when it was a requirement to sell at least one hundred thousand records to gatecrash the top ten, The Stranglers have seen and done the lot. And much more besides.
Having initially formed as a four-piece of Jean-Jacques Burnel (bass/vocals), Hugh Cornwell (guitar/vocals), Dave Greenfield (keys) & Jet Black (drums)in Guildford at the back end of 1974, it wasn't until the explosion of punk three years later that The Stranglers became a household name. Despite being the self-proclaimed "runt of the litter", their somewhat psychedelically inspired take on the genre soon elevated them to being one of the integral forces of a scene that continues to inspire artists to this day.
Within their first year as recording artists they'd released three albums, and since then they've gone on to put out a further fourteen long players culminating in this year's Giants. The line-up has also undergone a couple of changes over the years, most notably the departure of Cornwell in 1990. Having been subsequently replaced by Paul Roberts who lasted until 2006, then-fifth member Baz Warne - recruited as a guitarist in 2000 - took over the mantle of co-vocalist with Burnel and that's how the line-up remains to this day.
When offered the opportunity of (literally) five minutes in the presence of legendary bassist Jean-Jacques Burnel, DiS naturally couldn't refuse. Here's how the conversation went...
DiS: You've been making music together as The Stranglers for over forty years now. What is it that keeps inspiring you to write and record new music?
JJ Burnel: Don't remind me! I think we almost lost track of what we were about a few years ago but fortunately it was only a passing phase. The main thing is to enjoy what you're doing and don't worry about the money so much. If you start worrying about that you'll end up doing the obvious and prostituting yourself or writing songs for the wrong reasons. Also, we get on so well with each other and have done over the years. Even though Jet (Black, drummer) isn't with us at the moment due to health reasons we still speak to him on a weekly basis to see how he's getting on. We haven't lost sight of the fact we started this band purely to make music, and if you change those ambitions by aiming to play stadiums or be million sellers your impetus changes, and I don't think that's really healthy. You don't take risks any more. We've explored lots of different avenues, been on a roundabout so to speak, and if they haven't been successful then tough shit for us. But it's much more rewarding because you learn stuff.
DiS: With seventeen albums worth of material to choose from how do you go about deciding on what to include as part of a live set? That must be a mammoth task in itself?
JJ Burnel: It's completely subjective and arbitrary. You've got to please yourself, but at the same time you've got to please an audience. They're not coming just to see us exclusively, they also want to have a good time, so if you just please yourself you could end up boring the pants off people. It becomes self-indulgent and you only find yourself playing to the real converted. At the same time, if we just played a set that was exclusively the hits we're only being prostitutes again and not really pleasing ourselves, so there's a balance. We're pretty experienced at this now, so most of the time I think we get it just about right. When you're only given a forty-five minutes slot at a festival like we are today it can be quite frustrating. If it was a Stranglers tour and people were specifically coming to see us we could indulge ourselves a bit more.
DiS: Songs like 'Hanging Around' and 'No More Heroes' are still staples of club nights frequented by teenagers even today. That must give you a sense of pride?
JJ Burnel: Teenagers have got access to so much of the past now, much more than I would have done previously, and I think that helps them become more familiar with certain songs from our back catalogue, which is great for us, of course.
DiS: The Stranglers have been cited as an influence by many current bands, the likes of Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand being two that spring to mind. Are there any new bands you're particularly fond of at present?
JJ Burnel: People tel me this, and yet I'm really not sure as to which bands they're often referring to. At one point, no one dare mention they were friendly with us let alone influenced by us! Thankfully, that's changed, which is why I guess people seem to cite The Stranglers more and more these days. I suppose we've been around long enough that we must have influenced someone along the way. A lot of people have started to cover us again.
DiS: Of those seventeen albums, which one would you say is most definitive of The Stranglers as a band? Or perhaps even a specific era?
JJ Burnel: That's a bit of an unfair question to be honest. There were a few that I feel were quite complete, if not necessarily very successful. The Gospel According To The Meninblack is very dark and reflective of a certain period we were in, and production wise it's kind of "out there". I wouldn't recommend people to hear it stone cold sober that's for sure! That's one, definitely. Raven is another I'm particular fond of, and Giants is another. I'd say that's a 99% complete album, and also the last one we did.
DiS: And going one step further, I guess many people's interpretation of the "classic" or definitive Stranglers line-up would be the Burnel-Cornwell-Greenfield-Black incarnation, but do you see the line-up of the past twelve years with Baz Warne in the band as being a progression of that?
JJ Burnel: It certainly has, and also it's definitely been a shot in the arm. He's been easily the most accepted new member of the band since Hugh Cornwell's departure. It didn't quite gel with Paul (Roberts), which is a shame because he kept us going. But we were also treading water back then whereas with Baz, we've moved forward in a creative sense.
DiS: So, will there be an eighteenth album in the foreseeable future?
JJ Burnel: Who knows? I honestly don't know. I never plan that far ahead. I'd like to think so. We're at the period in our lives whether we like it or not where there's less to look forward to. I'd like to think that none of us pegs it before the next record comes out but you never know!
The Stranglers are touring throughout March 2013 calling in at the following venues:-
1 Edinburgh Picture House
2 Glasgow Academy
4 Aberdeen Garage
5 Dundee Fat Sams
7 Liverpool O2 Academy
8 Lincoln Engine Shed
9 Leeds O2 Academy
11 Leamington Spa Assembly
12 Guildford G Live
14 Brighton Dome
15 London Roundhouse
16 Birmingham O2 Academy
18 Oxford O2 Academy
19 Nottingham Rock City
21 Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall
22 Cambridge Corn Exchange
23 Bristol O2 Academy
25 Norwich UEA
26 Salisbury City Hall
28 Carlisle Sands Centre
29 Newcastle O2 Academy
30 Manchester Academy
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Decompression Aids Spinal Injury Recovery
Done within 24 hours, the procedure improved neurological outcomes a year later.
Surgical decompression of the spinal cord involves the removal of various tissue or bone fragments that are being squeezed and comprising the spinal cord. While commonly done after an injury occurs, the timing of the procedure varies widely.
The study looked at 170 patients with cervical spinal cord injuries, graded as A (most several neurological involvement) to D (least severe), who underwent decompression surgery.
Six months after the surgery, 24 percent of the patients who had the surgery within 24 hours showed two-grade or greater improvement in their condition compared with only 4 percent in the group that had the surgery more than a day later.
"The initial results suggest that decompression within 24 hours of injury may be associated with improved neurological recovery at one-year follow-up. However, further recruitment of patients with long-term follow-up is necessary to validate these promising results," study author Michael Fehlings, head of the Krembil Neuroscience Center at the University Health Network in Toronto, said in a prepared statement.
Fehlings was expected to present the findings in Chicago April 28 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
Every year, almost 12,000 people in the United States and Canada, mostly young adults, sustain a spinal cord injury. Although surgery, such as decompression, can help, these procedures often do not dramatically improve overall recovery and outcome.
"This is an area of medicine that has not seen tremendous scientific advances, so there remains an urgent need to improve upon current interventions to help restore neurological function in patients with acute (spinal cord injury)," said Fehlings, who is also professor of neurosurgery at the University of Toronto.
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