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MIDWAY | Ret. Cpl. Jessie Fletcher of the U.S. Marine Corps says he went to battle for the American dream. The wounded Marine experienced part of that dream Thursday afternoon.
MIDWAY | Ret. Cpl. Jessie Fletcher of the U.S. Marine Corps says he went to battle for the American dream. The wounded Marine experienced part of that dream Thursday afternoon.
"I fought for a lot of things, fighting for every American to have a dream house falls into that category," he said.
Fletcher and his fianc�e, Emily Ball, welcomed about 100 people to the site of their new home on Willow Ridge Lane off Hickory Tree Road in the Midway community for a groundbreaking ceremony. Helping a Hero, a Texas-based nonprofit that provides support for military personnel, severely injured in the war of terror, is responsible for building the couple, both 24 years old, a new home in the Kensington Estates subdivision.
"I had no idea so many people would come and show their support," Fletcher said. "… Having seen as many people show up as today, it takes that flame inside of every one of us that we always remember what happened after Sept. 11, we all remember after any tragic event, America really rallies behind the troops. We always seem to forget that they are doing it every day. Today really showed me that."
Fletcher, a New York native, joined the Marines immediately after high school graduation in June 2008. He was a Marine scout sniper who served in the First Battalion, Sixth Marines. Fletcher lost both of his legs after he was wounded Oct. 17, 2011, as a result of stepping on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. He also lost multiple fingers and hearing in one of his ears. His recovery was 14 months before he walked out of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and began his new life in Winston-Salem.
"I couldn't have made it through that recovery without Emily," he said. "Emily was the sound rock that I was able to stand on when I couldn't do it."
Fletcher, who was in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years, said he joined the military because he has a total of nine brothers and sisters.
"I wanted to make sure they had no excuse to do it for duty and for their country," he said. "I let them know it was my choice to do it for them,"
Fletcher met his bride-to-be at the Marine Corps Birthday Ball on Nov. 13, 2010. The two went with friends who were dating each other. Fletcher and Ball, a Winston-Salem native, discussed about getting their friends to dance with each other, at which time Fletcher also asked for her to dance with him.
"Emily said, 'Yes' to me dancing and now we dance every weekend," he said.
Fletcher said he and Ball chose to live in northern Davidson County because his wife's family lives in the area. He said he and his fianc�e are in the process of continuing their education. Ball is also a paralegal. They are set to get married Nov. 16.
"When I got the phone call that he was injured, I did not know what to expect, so this is a dream come true," Ball said.
Brad Leonard Builders in Welcome is serving as the contractor for the couple's home. Jordan Leonard, CEO and president of Brad Leonard Builders, said his company was selling the acre of land and Fletcher found the land that is more than an acre. Helping a Hero contacted him to get involved in the project.
"I'm excited to be involved in it," Leonard said, adding that he plans on having the 2,500-square-foot house completed in early November.
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr and Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines participated in the groundbreaking.
"Jessie has given more than most, and it's only appropriate we would make sure we reward with him with the adaptive housing that his needs in fact require," Burr said "I am here to say thank you to this community."
"We are so delighted that this is happening in our community," Joines said. "I want to personally thank all those who are helping to make this happening for the builders, suppliers and the others who have rallied together to honor this wonderful young man and his family what he has done for our country,"
Bill Fleming, who will be a neighbor of Fletcher, welcomed the couple to the neighborhood.
"We are happy to have him," Fleming said. "It's certainly an honor to have a hero right next door."
The National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association, Smith Phillips Building Supply in Winston-Salem and Lindsey Architecture in Greensboro are also involved in the project. Members of the R.J. Reynolds High School Junior ROTC also participated in Thursday's ceremony.
The couple's residence will be the 90th home and second in North Carolina built by Helping a Hero since it was founded seven years ago. It will be four bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms and wheelchair accessible home. The value of the home and the land will be $300,000, said Meredith Iler, national chairwoman and founder of Helping a Hero. The house, she said, will be built on in-kind and cash donations, as well with a $50,000 mortgage paid by Fletcher and Ball.
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Fox Uses Bogus DMCA Claims To Censor Cory Doctorow's Book About Censorship
from the but-of-course dept
When TorrentFreak asked Doctorow for comment, he joked, "I think you can safely say I'm incandescent with rage. BRING ME THE SEVERED HEAD OF RUPERT MURDOCH!" But, perhaps there's a more serious response. In response to Doctorow tweeting about this last week, Paul Levy from Public Citizen -- famous for defending people on the internet (including, at times, us) from bad things -- responded by asking Doctorow if he wanted to litigate.
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The phones are red hot and the emails are flying down the wire. The office is starting to buzz with anticipation and all those little pieces of magic that we have poured over and sifted through in the last few months are starting to fit together into a magnificent tapestry of cutting edge performance.
Artists from all four corners of the earth now have those three days in June highlighted in their diaries and what was last weekend, a beautiful Somerset cow farm in spring sunshine will soon host one of the largest gathering of Circus and Theatre performers ever assembled under canvas.
Acts that you've heard of, acts you'll never forget and acts you just won't believe are possible. Put a date in your diary and come and check out Theatre and Circus – just watch out for the Trolls lurking underneath Bella's bridge. You hug a troll, you become a troll, just ask Bill Bailey.
Headlining the Circus Field are the UK's number one touring circus No Fit State Circus, with a brand new show called 'Barricade'. It's political, personal and, knowing this bunch, it will challenge your preconceptions of what circus can do. Look out too for Circolombia who work with the favela kids of Colombia to create mesmerising world-touring performances.
The more nomadic circus folk (over 100 of them) will continue their wanderings through the fields, including the peripatetic Village Disco, Rumple the Kangaroo Fool of Oz during the day and fire-dancer Jay Toor by night. Heads up for The Pirates of the Carabina, they will be swinging in by zip wire from the tent tops and even the most squeamish have no cause for alarm with the astounding aerial show Insect Circus.
Hilarious strip-tease act Naked Lunch will be entertaining the hungry whilst Dirty Fred amuses and abuses from his podium. The Powderpuff Girlz strut their stuff across the Sensation Seekers stage.
Enjoy a non-chemically-induced giggle in the comedy tent with quick-tongued laughs from Shappi Khorsandie, a witty ditty from Mitch Benn and tinkling humour from 4 Poofs and a Piano. And for quick-fire political satire Mark Thomas is on his way from South London.
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Public executions, bullfights and aristocratic duels: the rectangular Plaza Mayor has been the setting of almost every imaginable type of bloody ritual. Today it is a peaceful place, a square filled with shops and outdoor cafés. This is the beating heart of the oldest part of the city, the Madrid de los Austrias district, built in the 16th century by the Habsburgs.
Step through the arches around Plaza Mayor and you step back in time. Small shops sell statues of saints, stamps and souvenirs, with shop windows and storefronts that have remained unchanged for decades. The names of the shops are displayed in decoratively painted letters on windows and signboards. At the centre of the square is a horseman statue of Philip III, the Habsburg king who ordered the construction of the square as it stands today.
It started with a modest market at the same location outside the city walls in the Middle Ages. It was called Plaza del Arrabal at the time and, later on – sailing on the winds of history – Plaza de la Constitución, Plaza Real and Plaza de la República. But it has always been known by the locals as the 'main square' – Plaza Mayor. The Habsburg King Philip the Fair considered it a shambles and ordered court architect Juan de Herrera to completely renovate the entire square with the Casa de la Panadería (Bakery House), richly adorned with frescoes, as its pièce de résistance. After a series of city fires, the square gained its current form: rectangular in shape with gates on all sides, 2 perky towers across one another, and fringed with 4-storey red ochre buildings. The people of Madrid could also watch the public executions and bullfights from one of the 237 wrought-iron balconies overlooking the square.
"Public executions and bullfights could be watched from one of the 237 balconies"
Plaza Mayor is a popular sight that attracts thousands of visitors each day. Many come to admire the grandeur of the historic square, but also for a cup of 'café con leche' or a plate full of tapas at one of the sunny outdoor cafés. Admittedly, the cafés are touristy, but the bars and restaurants a few steps away are still quite authentic. Mesón de la Guitarra is great for a glass of chilled wine or pitcher of sangria, while Museo del Jamon serves refreshing cold beers and Iberian ham sandwiches and Mesón del Champiñón offers are wide range of tapas that are to die for.


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Are Figure Skating Costumes Really That Bad?
Every Olympics I get all kinds of tweets, emails and texts from friends reeling from some pretty terrible figure skating costumes. Believe me, I know they exist. There are numerous blogs, like this Tumblr Skating Fugly, dedicated to gross get-ups.
But, let's be honest. Not every Olympic sport wins when it comes to costuming and uniforms. Not only were the US speed skating suits blamed for poor race times, they were made even stranger by those weird gray crotch circles that couldn't help but draw the eye.
Images via Marissa Babin and UnderArmour.com.
Here's a tip that may help you to understand some of the bizarre costumes you'll see over the span of the Olympic Games. Remember, costumes are meant to help portray the program's theme. Weird, nude cutout mid body? Perhaps the skater is trying to bring Scheherazade's Persian court to life. Similarly, too many feathers may be an attempt at Stravinsky's "The Firebird."
I'm not saying they are always a hit, but when it comes to figure skating costumes, context is everything.


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Attempted capital murder: Wrong-way driver pleads not guilty
The man who drove the wrong way down Interstate 64 in June pleaded guilty to drunk driving, but not the attempted capital murder of a police officer.
Michael Dennis Hogberg, 26, of Crozet faces a maximum sentence of 15 years for his guilty pleas to driving under the influence for the third time, felony driving with a suspended license, and felony eluding.
After entering the three guilty pleas in Albemarle Circuit Court November 30, Hogberg said he was not guilty of attempting what Virginia code calls the "willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of a law-enforcement officer" on June 20, which was his birthday.
Defense attorney David Heilberg asked Judge Cheryl Higgins to dismiss the capital charge, arguing that attempted capital murder relies on circumstantial evidence of the defendant's state of mind and intent to kill.
"On his birthday, he did a terrible thing," said Heilberg. "He has not denied that. To convict him of attempted capital murder is a different thing."
While it's possible to kill without intent, said Heilberg, "You have to have intent to kill to be guilty of attempted capital murder." And his client, said Heilberg, was too intoxicated to form that intent in the 15 seconds he drove toward Virginia State Police Trooper Kevin Frazier on I-64 at approximately 75mph without swerving.
Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Elliott Casey argued that Hogberg knew he was going the wrong way, recognized that Trooper Frazier was law enforcement, and recognized that if he hit Frazier head on, he would have killed him.
"The defendant never deviated or swerved from Trooper Frazier," said Casey. "That period of time is a lot of time."
"That's a lot of time if you're sober," replied Judge Higgins.
Casey noted that when Hogberg fled, he was very careful to remove the car keys and turn off the headlights, and was well concealed in his hiding place.
And when he was found, Hogberg told the state trooper, "I'm sorry for trying to kill you," said Casey.
Heilberg responded that the impairment of someone as intoxicated as Hogberg, who had a blood alcohol level of .15, combined with adrenaline, could manifest itself with the presence of mind to do some things, and not others.
Hogberg made the news a year ago at the UVA-Virginia Tech game at Scott Stadium when he was arrested for public drunkenness, ran, and was Tased while handcuffed, the latter captured on camera by the Newsplex. The same officer who Tased him, which led to a rewrite on county police policy on Tasing handcuffed suspects, Albemarle Officer Eric Kudro, was the arresting officer in the June incident.
As for how a drunk driver would be charged with willfully planning to kill a cop, police watchdog Steve Shifflett opines, "They charge him for the worst and hope to plead him down."
Adds Shifflett, "That's a strange charge because he was obviously drunk. It's not like it was premeditated. He probably didn't swerve because he was too drunk to make a fast decision."
Judge Higgins will rule on the defense motion to strike the attempted capital charge on December 7.
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all yall need to stop hes a good guy
@Toadstool: "The Hook couldn't find a lawyer?"
Preferably one who has not been disbarred for sleeping in court. ;)
Looks like the Boys In Blue might have finally showed up! :)
Well Chucky, in that case, and if I were you.... I would march right down to The Hook headquarters, slam your fists on the desk a few times, and tell 'em your problems with this story and it's content. This is America, you don't have to tolerate this foolishness from a weekly newspaper! :)
Furthermore, Tim was in a comical mode when he mentioned me. (Sing along!) He's just a good ole boy, never meaning no harm. Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day he was born!
Straightening the curves, flattening the hills. Well someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will. Making his way, the only way he knows how. That's just a little bit more than the law will allow.
Just a good ole boy, wouldn't change if he could. Fighting the system like a modern-day Robin Hood. Yee Haw!
So according to Gasbag's logic, the police officer who was traveling on the correct side of the road should have either stopped or moved out of the way so the drunken driver could have continued driving the wrong way down the road, potentially killing or maiming a civilian. I bet the Marine who takes a grenade for his fellow Marines is viewed similarly in Gasbag's eyes--notwithstanding the fact he has no idea for how long both cars were traveling at each other after the Trooper saw Hogberg, or if it was a direct path the entire way.
Also, why is The Hook interviewing him for this story? He was a deputy; that's like having a TSA agent commenting on the federal 9/11 trials. The Hook couldn't find a lawyer?
Wrong as usual.
Typical GSOE though: Someone calls him out on his BS and he deflects instead of responding.
@Gasbag: "EVERYWHERE? You're the one who mentioned me first in this thread. You can't have it both ways. Either you want my opinions or you don't. If you don't, don't mention me."
WRONG. Tim Brown mentioned you first, and I mentioned no names in my initial post.
While I can usually ignore your opinions in thread discussions, in this case you were quoted in the article itself. So my post was as much an admonishment of the Hook for deferring to your dubious expertise as it was of you for your propensity to hijack threads.
No Devil, I know about some of these things whether I was there and invoved or not. I know I would never play "head on chicken" using motor vehicles. And even if I did, I would be ashamed to admit I lost and sweerved first. :)
Maybe the kid got 15 years because of some other aggravating factor that none of us know about but which the Defense, Prosecution, and Bench did. Wecan't jump both feet on either party here folks without adding the input from the judicial officers. They didn't lose any sleep over 15 years....Why? I bet there is a good reason.
Somebody, sounds like the major problem in your case was most likely the fact it wasn't caught on video??? If what you say is 100% true, it might not have caused policy to be changed, but it sure would have gotten one or more cops terminated in the blink of an eye.
boooo!, I'm not probably right. I am right.
@Wog - I agree actually, and probably should have been more thorough in my respnose. But I feel as JJ Malloy does - that maybe 5 (or 2-3) years, or something along those lines, would be more appropriate than 15, and that 15 is a bit harsh and too much. Clearly the guy could benefit from some alone time, away from the sauce, to detox and rehab and get himself in order. I once spoke with a guy who was in jail for two years on alcohol related offenses, and used that time to rehabilitate himself. He told me how he went in one way, all screwed up, addicted, and with a short fuse, and came out completely different. Was counseled (spiritual counseling) by other inmates and came out completely calm, focused, and in control, as well as physically rehabbed. Upon release he hit the ground running by getting three jobs, plus squeezing in volunteer work on top of that, in between jobs. Amazing story. So, yeah, sometimes jail is needed, and can be good thing. But in moderation, and it needs to match the crime. Putting the guy away for 15 years when even some actual murderers and child molestors don't get that long is ridiculous. In this case I'm thinking Gasbag is probably right in that the previous tasing bruhaha might be causing some desire for payback.
After working in insurance for some time I can say that driving drunk is not just a violation but a serious offence with strog correlation to losses and future losses. By all means, he deserves to spend some time in jail to learn from his mistakes accopanied by treatment so this is not repeated after his release. The issue surrounding the capital murder are entirely different. It has been mentioned that this would be differnet if he had hit and killed someone, but what if the officer had hit someone in his reckless persuit. What if the actions of the officer playing "chicken" cost the life of Hogberg who was not in his right mind, the officer and potential bistandards driving that night? Would the cop not also bear some of the blame. The simple fact is that this officer created the potential for harm by driving head on to stop a drunk driver not in his right mind. This is a trained officer with resources and tools at his disposal such as laying down a spike strip, taking evasive manuevers to knock the car off the road, or even shotting out the tires if so warnented. Instead, the officer tried to go head on endangering himself, the accused and other bistandards. Should the officer not also be charged with such a charge or reckless driving or driving to endanger? He may not have harmed anyone but did Hogberg? yet he is being charged with attempted capital murder on a police officer who willingly in sane mind put himself there.
15 years in jail is a little much. 5 years would do just fine.
Maybe. But also because it is EVERYWHERE.
EVERYWHERE? You're the one who mentioned me first in this thread. You can't have it both ways. Either you want my opinions or you don't. If you don't, don't mention me.
Hey, don't worry! You're not the Lone Ranger of slow learning. It took a small handful of rogue cops 15 years to learn that if they didn't want my full undivided attention, leave me the heck alone. :)
Wog, it's funny you mention "second guessing law enforcement".
If you dare to recall, it was the suspect in this case who actually had the county police chief second guessing how, when and why his own troops were using or misusing the taser. Policy was changed after the chief ruled his troops were not employing the tool correctly. I'm sure a few of the troops feel as if the suspect above is still owed a little payback for this event.
@Gasbag: "Let me ask, are you some kid who can hardly wait to get on with a cop shoppe someday in the near future? Just curious."
Hardly. Not a cop, no desire to be a cop, and not even related to any cops. But since you asked... I'm just a guy who is sick of hearing from a loudmouth with a chip on his shoulder who got canned from his cop job years ago and now thinks he can get a measure of revenge by bashing the local cops at every turn.
I see ya Gasbag!
Chucky, I didn't say a word about letting him get away. I said you don't take a state issued vehicle and continue in a head on crash course with a civilian who is refusing to stop or swerve. And if you do, you shouldn't have the right to charge him with Attempted Capital Murder when you share negligence halfway by placing yourself in that position.
Let me ask, are you some kid who can hardly wait to get on with a cop shoppe someday in the near future? Just curious.
Whateva, what happened to the sergeant who directed the trooper to push a wrecked UPS truck out of the roadway with his patrol car, do you know? Northern Virginia traffic or not, that seems like a reckless thing to order a trooper to do.
Cops up there in Northern Virginia need to take a chill pill and adopt the same policy the local cop shoppes have, block as many lanes of travel for as long as they possibly can! :)
I personally find "the watchdog" entertaining, but using him for quotes on stories now is starting to get a little ridiculous. Is he on the staff payroll or not? He recently had a big story written here about him and now he is the go to guy for all things law enforcement? really? Come on. You can do better.
Lots of people second guessing law enforcement. They're not just winging it out there, they have training and experience that the second guessers mostly don't have. And Boooo! - What works best for criminal behavior based in a mental disorder is punishment AND treatment, not just one or the other. Time in confinement to contemplate the error of one's ways and treatment at the end to give one the tools to avoid those errors.
So why read anything I compose? Glutton for punishment?
Sounds like the guy needs rehab and some serious alcohol/addiction treatment, more so than murder charges and prison. Alcohol is at the root of his troubles. Treat that, and maybe the rest would work itself out.
Gasbag! oh, snap! You said it right....my brother-in-law is a state trooper and got in BIG trouble for pushing a wrecked UPS truck out of the interstate in NOVA after being told by his sargent to "clear the roadway at all costs" (transmission in the car was kinda shot after that)......so playing "chicken" would definitely fall into the category of "are you kidding????" Not sure of all the methods used to stop this individual, but I really think there had to be a better way.
Just put him in a cage for life, next time he will kill a mother and three kids while driving drunk.
Guess there's no need to hijack this thread when you're quoted in the article itself!
doesn't eluding a man who previously tased you make a little bit of sense?
Yeah right. If the cops hadn't stopped this clown, and he'd gone on to kill a civilian, people would be on here blasting the "cop shoppe" (I'm looking at YOU Gassy) for getting it wrong.
Well, if you guys are gonna get upset when I don't comment in every thread, I will will try to do better. OK?
It sounds like to me the cop was using his state issued vehicle and playing "chicken" with the suspect. IMHO, this is another evil side effect of these new rookies having grown up playing violent video games. They can't distinguish between their joystick and reality under stress.
During my law enforcement career of almost 3 decades, I was always taught to remove myself from harm's way, not go into it 80 mph an hour head on!
We were also strongly encouraged not to demolish state issued vehicles. And God help you if you got caught out here drag racing another cop car and get involved in a citizen fatality. It just seems like this new breed of rookie is totally out of control. And then to charge the suspect with Attempted Capital Murder just because the trooper lost while playing "chicken" on the public highways.
my comment didn't even make the list and all I asked was if he was being paid to be the go to quote on all things law enforcement. guess I know the answer now.
Who cares what the rent a cop has to say anyway? They never changed the policy when they tazed me hands cuffed behind my back lying motionless on the ground because I was never even charged with a crime!
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Devil, the kid hasn't been sentenced to anything yet. :)
Correct, But aren't we ALL talking about things we don't know about if we were neither involved nor there. :) If they are willing to give him the 15 then I will assume it is warranted.


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Cooling Off: Stewart Reflects on Bristol
Matt Kenseth was nowhere near Charlotte Motor Speedway on Tuesday when Tony Stewart drove a World War II tank as part of a promotion for sponsor Mobil 1.
Even if he had been, Stewart wasn't ready to run over him "every chance I've got from now 'til the end of the year" as the defending Sprint Cup champion promised after the two were involved in a wreck on Saturday night at Bristol.
"Only if I need to," Stewart said during the promotion in which he drove a minivan, drifting car and tank. "No more than anybody else. "You can't guarantee anything is not going to happen. It's not our intention to go seek him out. We've got along a lot more races than we've disagreed."
Stewart seemed to have put most of the frustration from the Lap 334 crash with Kenseth behind him.
"You get over that stuff," he said. "That's part of racing for as long as I can remember, and that won't be the last time you ever see two drivers have a disagreement."
Stewart wasn't quite so calm Saturday, making highlight reels with his two-handed helmet toss that connected with the hood of Kenseth's car after the wreck.
"I checked-up twice to not run over him (Kenseth) and I learned my lesson there," Stewart said Saturday. "I'm going to run over him every chance I've got from now 'til the end of the year … every chance I've got."
The three-time Cup champion was in such a good mood Tuesday that he made light of his helmet toss.
"Not bad for a 41-year-old that doesn't work out," Stewart said. "I got more velocity with two hands than I would with one. It was a little unorthodox, different. I definitely got a lot more velocity on it with two."
But Stewart didn't completely back down from believing Kenseth wrecked him intentionally as payback for incidents between the two at Sonoma and Indianapolis. Kenseth said Saturday he tried to clear the air after the Indianapolis wreck, and when Stewart wouldn't talk to him he decided to race the defending Cup champion the same way.
"He flat out said it was payback," Stewart said.
After watching the replay Stewart felt Kenseth was blocking him similar to the way he did at Indianapolis.
"You know what pace you're running, and his pace on the restart wasn't what it was before," Stewart said. "When I passed him I wasn't trying to wreck him. I was trying to go on.
"When a guy is willing to risk wrecking himself leading the race with 180 (laps) to go with bonus points and all that … it's obvious. Why would you do that unless you were trying to?"
Stewart said there are no plans to talk to Kenseth before Sunday's race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where he will be trying to secure his spot in the top 10 with two races before the Chase is set.
Stewart is only 16 points ahead of 11th-place Kasey Kahne, but he is all but assured of making the Chase as at least a wild-card entry with three wins.
"It's not a big drama if we don't," Stewart said of talking to Kenseth. "We've both been through this before. We know what we expect out of each other. We'll go to the weekend like we always do. We've been racing each other for 15 years. We both know what we expect out of each other. Talking about it, it wouldn't be a new conversation. It's not something that has to happen."
Stewart said the good news is NASCAR said he wouldn't be fined for throwing the helmet.
"I'm glad it's approved," he said of throwing helmets as retaliation. "I figured I would get some kind of penalty for it. It's nice to know that is something we can get away with.
"I just wish we could get a more lengthy list of what we can do and can't do. I think we could make it a lot more entertaining if we had a list of what we can do."


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'Obama blinked. Now game begins'
Author suggests disputed presidency won't survive publication of book
After this morning's surprise release by the White House of what it claims is Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate, an author challenging Obama's legal eligibility to be president – whose upcoming book has become a No. 1 bestseller a month before its release – summarizes his response to the day's events in two words: "Obama blinked."
Jerome Corsi, Ph.D., whose two previous No. 1 New York Times best-sellers – "Unfit for Command" and "The Obama Nation" – both have dramatically affected the presidency, is the author of the forthcoming WND Books release "Where's the Birth Certificate: The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President." After a major story on "The Drudge Report" last week, the book shot up to No. 1 on Amazon's best-seller list and remains one of the nation's hottest-selling books three weeks before its official debut.
"Public pressure finally forced Obama to do what he did today. Now the game begins," said Corsi. "Nixon thought he could stop the Watergate scandal from unfolding by releasing a few tapes. All that did was fuel the fire."
Suggesting that Obama's presidency will not survive the revelations contained in his book – which goes beyond the birth certificate controversy to document the multiple legal problems with Obama being a U.S. president – Corsi said, simply, "When people read the book, they will see that Obama is not eligible to be president."
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Moreover, said the author, today's White House action raises more questions than it answers: "Obama spent a fortune on attorneys to block release of this document. Why? The same attorneys are still blocking release of many other vital documents – his school, medical, passport and other documents routinely released by all presidents, but steadfastly hidden by Obama. Will he now release those as well?"
Also, he asked, why did Obama withhold the birth document that had been legally requested by an Army doctor, Terrence Lakin, but instead watch him be court-martialed and imprisoned over the issue?
"I am calling for the immediate release of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, the Army flight surgeon who is now sitting in prison because Obama wouldn't produce his birth certificate," Corsi said.
Corsi considers the release of the Hawaii birth certificate that was presented to the media today by the White House a pre-emptive strike against the book's imminent release, which documents multiple bases by which Obama could be determined as ineligible for the presidency according to the standard laid down by the Constitution's framers.
Also raised in the book is the issue of the other documentation for Obama's career, verifications that remain concealed, including his passport records, kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, University of Chicago articles, Illinois State Bar Association records, Illinois State Senate records and schedules, medical records, Obama/Dunham marriage license, Obama/Dunham divorce documents, Soetoro/Dunham marriage license and adoption records.
Possible 2012 GOP presidential contender Donald Trump has been raising the questions for several weeks and said he was pleased his decision to elevate the birth certificate issue produced results.
Trump's questions often have followed – and sometimes even have been based on – research accomplished by WND on the issue of Obama's eligibility.
The release from the White House today:
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Obama administration officials called the document "proof positive" the president was born in Hawaii.
The issue has been dogging Obama since before his election, and WND has reported on the many lawsuits and other challenges to the president's eligibility. The cases center on his status as a "natural born citizen."
The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."
If the document proves valid, it could answer the questions raised by those who have alleged he was not born in Hawaii. But it also could prove his ineligibility because of its references to his father. Some of the cases challenging Obama have explained that Obama was a dual citizen through his father at birth, and they contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born citizens.
Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND, the only news agency that has waged a relentless investigative campaign on questions swirling around the Obama's eligibility for nearly three years, was elated at the turn of events.
"We're gratified that our work has begun to pay off," he said. "The certificate of live birth is an absolutely vital foundation for determining constitutional eligibility of any president. We look forward to reviewing it like so many other Americans do at this late date. But it is important to remember there are still dozens of other questions concerning this question of eligibility that need to be resolved to assure what has become a very skeptical public concerning Barack Obama's parentage, his adoption, his citizenship status throughout his life and why he continues to cultivate a culture of secrecy around his life."
Other details regarding the birth certificate issue still remain question marks. For example, if Obama was able to obtain the document, why didn't he release it earlier in response to any of the dozens of lawsuits that have been filed.
Documentation about how much money – on private attorneys or government-paid lawyers – was expended to defend against releasing the document largely remains unavailable, although plaintiffs attorneys estimate their own investment in time and resources in the millions.


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Money and clothes aren't everything. Except when they help further research and patient services at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes.
And both came into play at a membership tea hosted by The Guild of the Children's Diabetes Foundation. President Judy McNeil accepted a check for $2,463 sent by Rozemerie Cuevas, whose designs were featured at the guild's 2010 Brass Ring Luncheon, and her husband, Thomas Cuevas-Otero, of JC Collections. The money represented a percentage from a trunk show and sale held the day after the show. A second check for $688.50 was presented on behalf of Denise Leigh of Skea Limited, a sophisticated winter sportswear company in Vail.
The 75 guests then were treated to a special presentation by Ann Walters, who was raised in Englewood and now lives in Waterville, Kansas, where she owns a store called Anntie M's Attic and lectures on the history of fashion.
Walters shared an appreciation and remembrance of her grandmother's life in the late 1800s. From her grandmother, Walters said, she developed a love for women's fashion and respect for the impact women have on the nation's history. She illustrated her talk with items from the mid-1800s through present, including steel corsets, hats lined with bamboo and dresses with dozens of eyelets that needed to be laced up.
"Fashion," Walters noted, "was quite a chore 100 years ago."
The tea also served as a thank-you to Susie Hummell for her 15 years of dedicated service to the guild and the Barbara Davis Center.
New members Jo Smith, Anne Welpton and Christine Rosenfeld were among the guests, joining a group that also included Gail Johnson; Gina Abou-Jaoude; Nancy Cowee; Louise Richardson; Judy Chiodo and her daughter, Shelley Lucas; Sandy Burfitt; Ilene Milstein; Letitia Valdez and Dalya Creaghe.
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Tomorrow is Tax Day, and millions of Americans — myself included — will see a large drain from our bank accounts to satisfy our obligations to Uncle Sam. So far, though, we have not seen Uncle Sam fulfill his obligation to drain the apparent political corruption at the IRS, even with two Congressional investigations into the targeting of the administration's critics in the tax-exempt department under Lois Lerner. Barack Obama claims that there isn't "a smidgen of corruption" at the IRS, but the Washington Post's Bob Woodward scoffed at that defense on yesterday's Fox News Sunday. "There's obviously something here," Woodward said, and called into question the investigative techniques used by the House panels after George Will laid out five issues already brought to light in testimony:
GEORGE WILL, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: The investigation to take last first, has stalled because the Justice Department has already leaked its conclusion, which is that no one would be prosecuted. It rises to that level because the Internal Revenue Service is the most intrusive and potentially the most punitive institution of the federal government and has been thoroughly politicized. Let me give you five things we know that she's done right now. She said the delay on approving conservative groups is caused by a serious uptick in applications. The inspector general of the IRS says that is just not true. She said the Tea Party group was very dangerous. In Texas and Kentucky and probably elsewhere, IRS employees have violated the Hatch Act by using federal resources for campaigning and obviously for Barack Obama.
WALLACE: Can we — I just want to point out — because the office of Special Council came out this week with a report and they said, now, there weren't vast cases although in Dallas they apparently — they were wearing campaign buttons and there are screen saver said Obama and stuff like that. But there was at least one case where if you called the helpline this person was in effect tell you when you should vote for Obama and not for the Republicans because they'll keep you in this mess. On the IRS helpline. So, (INAUDIBLE) with you recitation, I'm (INAUDIBLE).
WILL: Confidential taxpayer information of the organization, the National Organization for Marriage was leaked to a rival group. And finally, when Senator Schumer and Durbin and others were exerting the IRS to be more political in their application of views, she said with regard to Crossroads GPS, the most important conservative group, we are working on a denial of the application. Not expediting, not coming to a quick conclusion, but we are working on denial of it. That's why this rises because as Bob Woodward remembers, the Watergate scandal was fundamentally in the words of John Dean using the machinery of the federal government to punish our enemies.
WALLACE: All right, Mr. Woodward, you know something about scandals. And if that's forgetting them, how serious is the IRS scandal and, you know, I think one of the key questions is, does this really begin and end with a midlevel bureaucrat who we never heard of a year ago named Lois Lerner?
BOB WOODWARD, THE WASHINGTON POST: Well, there is obviously something here. And the question is does this committee know how to investigate? And they're worried about this one person who has invoked her Fifth Amendment rights not to answer questions and you have congressmen on the committee going on and saying we have evidence she's involved in criminal activity. I don't think you should cross that line. The second thing is there's always one person who's not going to talk. And when you conduct an investigation like this, I have not gone into the details, you need to find people who will talk. And there are always people who will do this. And, you know, we should dig into it. There should be answers. It's quite correct. And for the president to take that position is very, very unusual and say there is not a smidgeon of evidence here. I mean George has got a good list — I think, actually, there's more. And there's a question and you're right, the IRS particularly this week as we know will file our tax returns has a big place in everyone's life. And they have immense power. And the power of the federal government to come and say we're auditing you or we're going to do something to you, I mean it's a ten ton truck coming at you. And it's the sort of thing that the leadership and the White House should take a position. Look, we will not tolerate this.
Brit Hume blamed the media for its lack of attention:
HUME: Chris, the same set of facts that Bob and George have described would have touched off, I think, in previous days a media firestorm. What we had was kind of a campfire in most of the media, which was doused before very long and the story has been basically dormant. We at Fox News have continued to pursue it and some other media outlets have as well. But when that kind of firestorm occurs, it creates an atmosphere in Washington where for the administration with a message to try to promote day by day, you can't get it out. You can get nothing out. We can all remember what it was like. And that creates a hothouse sort of atmosphere, in which all investigations end up being accelerated. There are minute details leaked, they get reported and the thing develops a life of its own and ultimately the combination of things, you know, brings the issue out and you get to the facts. It has not happened here.
Those who wonder why that may be the case should refer back to Sharyl Attkisson's discussion with Howard Kurtz this weekend.
Bloomberg's editors say the IRS should "get … out of politics (mostly)", griping that both Republicans and Democrats shot down proposed regulations that would force the IRS to do the opposite:
Last year, the IRS issued draft guidelines to help clarify which activities are considered political. One might think that both Democrats (who like to complain about secret money in politics) and Republicans (who like to complain about the IRS intruding into politics) would welcome this move, or at least not oppose it.
One would be wrong. The agency received more than 150,000 comments on the proposed new rule, a record. Groups on the left and the right deluged the agency with objections, arguing that such regulations would prevent them from even conducting voter registration drives and issuing voter guides that rate candidates on issues. Even if that's the case, so what? Such political activity should be funded by political committees subject to disclosure rules, not social welfare organizations.
Issuing more regulations and creating more ways to intervene in politics is a funny way to advise the IRS to "get out." The IRS should just end tax exemptions from those running advertising for political purposes, and Congress should eliminate direct-contribution limits to candidates and political parties. That would encourage the money to flow toward political accountability rather than away from it, and would have the extra added benefit of truly getting the IRS out of the role of political-speech referee.


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Pirates battle but can't stop streaking Brewers
MILWAUKEE -- Jonathan Lucroy singled for the tie-breaking run in the eighth inning Saturday, as ace setup reliever Mark Melancon and the rest of the Pirates again fell victims to the scalding Brewers, 3-2.
With a Miller Park sellout crowd of 42,828 already frenzied by a sharp defensive play that thwarted the Bucs' potential go-ahead rally in the top of the inning, Ryan Braun singled with one out in the bottom half. Aramis Ramirez followed with another single, as did Lucroy to bring home Braun and snap a 2-2 tie.View Full Game Coverage
MILWAUKEE -- Jonathan Lucroy singled for the tie-breaking run in the eighth inning Saturday, as ace setup reliever Mark Melancon and the rest of the Pirates again fell victims to the scalding Brewers, 3-2.
With a Miller Park sellout crowd of 42,828 already frenzied by a sharp defensive play that thwarted the Bucs' potential go-ahead rally in the top of the inning, Ryan Braun singled with one out in the bottom half. Aramis Ramirez followed with another single, as did Lucroy to bring home Braun and snap a 2-2 tie.View Full Game Coverage
Milwaukee's rally spoiled another strong start by the Pirates' Edinson Volquez, who held his ground into the seventh against Brewers ace Yovani Gallardo.
The Pirates took a basepath gamble in the eighth that badly backfired. With Starling Marte on third and Travis Snider on first, Andrew McCutchen popped out to catcher Jonathan Lucroy, to a spot perhaps 15 feet behind the plate.
After the catch, Snider took off for second -- with the obvious intent of getting into a rundown long enough for Marte to scamper home. But shortstop Juan Segura paid Snider no mind, instead firing to pitcher Jim Henderson covering the plate, and Marte slid into his tag.
"They executed the play, and kept us from taking the lead," Snider said. "You have to hand it to them."
"It is a play we have in place. We work on it all spring," manager Clint Hurdle said. "We tag up at first, draw the throw to second, and send the runner from third once the ball is out of the catcher's hand."
It is known as "Rudy" in the Pirates' playbook, and it won a game for them last season "against Houston," as Hurdle recalled.
Being in a 2-2 standoff, and with two of the league's best bullpens about to go at it in the wake of a stiff duel between Volquez and Gallardo, Hurdle thought it was a good time to play his surprise card.
"We tried to steal a run, and they made a baseball play to prevent that," the manager said. "It had been a crazy game. We gifted them a run. It seemed like a good opportunity to catch them off guard."
That, they did.
"I've never seen that one before," Lucroy admitted. "I've seen them where you throw a guy out at second and he stops and the guy goes from home to third and we throw him out there, but never with the pitcher covering. That never happens."
It did this time. In reality, Henderson blew up the play by alertly covering the plate.
"My focus there was just to get my glove out in front of the plate. I really didn't know where I was positioned on the plate, because it happened so quickly," he said. "I'm glad I covered home in the first place. Some pitchers -- that ball was only 10 feet from the plate -- may just hang out by the mound."
Tony Watson turned in a marvelous rescue effort to keep the game tied in the seventh after a leadoff fielding error by McCutchen in center field, a walk and the ensuing sacrifice bunt led to Volquez's exit with the lead run on third and one out.
Pinch-hitter Rickie Weeks did tee off on Watson's first pitch -- but lined it, hard, at Marte in left field. Khris Davis held at third, respecting Marte's arm. Carlos Gomez ended the threat with a routine grounder to short.
In the third, the Pirates gave Gallardo, who did not allow a run in his first two starts, an ERA. Travis Ishikawa led it off with a double and stopped at third on Jordy Mercer's bloop single to center. Ishikawa held at third as Mercer moved to second on Volquez's sacrifice bunt -- and they took turns scoring on Marte's grounder to deep short and Snider's single.
Those runs neutralized Gomez's first-inning leadoff homer, and a second-inning run scored on a Volquez wild pitch.
That second Milwaukee run was set up by an intriguing MLB trend. As the use of defensive shifts increases, so does their exploitation. The Bucs went into the shift against left-handed hitting Scooter Gennett, leaving only the third baseman, Alvarez, midway between third and second. Gennett poked a ball down the left field line. Davis, on first via Alvarez's fielding error, motored to third, in position to score when Volquez bounced a pitch through Martin.
The Pirates were confounded twice in that sequence.
By Gennett's shift-buster … "Sometimes, it's because of the location of the pitch, I haven't checked it out yet," Hurdle said.
And by that wild pitch … "Did you see where it bounced? It hit the corner of the plate,' Hurdle said. "Like I said, one of those weird games."
If not for the Alvarez error that enabled that run, the only damage against Volquez would have been that third-pitch homer by Gomez. He outshone even his impressive starting debut of last Sunday, when he held St. Louis to a run and four hits in 5 2/3 innings.
This time, Volquez went 6 1/3, again allowing one earned run and four hits while walking two and fanning four.
"We kept putting him in peril and he kept the damage to a minimum," Hurdle said. "A real good outing. Another one. He really battled the hot right-handed power in that lineup."
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As a Cuban exile living in the Springfield area, I read the article, �Cruz�s father compares Obama to Castro,� with great interest.
In it, Sen. Ted Cruz�s father, Rafael, indicates that he left Cuba in 1957 and that President Obama �acts no different than that bearded guy I left behind in Cuba.�
Regardless of one�s political affinity, we must have our facts correct.
Castro and his band of thugs did not come to power until January 1, 1959 � two years after Cruz left Cuba. His trademark revolution began July 26, 1953, with the infamous attack on the Moncada Military Garrison. Cruz was an eighth grader at the time. After much turmoil in Cuba, Castro went to Mexico and did not return to the island until December 1956. Cruz was a teenager. The chronological facts simply do not support his assertions of being tortured, imprisoned and forced to leave Cuba.
Cruz also claims to have �fled� Cuba with a $100 bill sewn to his pocket. In 1957 travel between the U.S. and Cuba was not prohibited. As a matter of fact, travel between the two countries was very encouraged at the time. Money did not have to be hidden, nor was it limited when taken to the U.S.
Our island has suffered immensely under the Castro tyranny; however, the flight, plight, struggles and successes of Cuban exiles in the U.S. should not be trivialized for the sake of political opportunism.
Cruz says, �It�s time to stop being politically correct.� I say it�s time to be factually correct.
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Full body training is the way to gain strength and fitness for a natural trainer
Now, my routine Manly Strength has you training every time in a holistic fashion, that is, you will be training your whole body in every session. Yes people, this is a full body routine. You see, back in the day when there were no flashy gyms with fluorescent lights and smiling personal trainers with colourful badges, weight training peeps used to simply lift barbells in a compound fashion every time they trained. Whether they were Olympic weighlifters or physical culturists (the antique name for a bodybuilder), they would do full body training sessions, repeating each full body session whenever they felt recovered. Sometimes they would hit the gym in a more of an activery recovery fashion and other times they would go hard and heavy. In essence, they were self-modulating their workload instinctively way before terms such as "overreaching", "supercompensation" or "creatine" were even thought of. Through trial and error, the weight training community found that anywhere from 2 to 4 days per week of training was ideal, with 3 days being the number that most adhered to. Timeline of this is from the 1920's until the late 1950's. A good time to be a bodybuilder.
John Grimek was a great bodybuilder in the 30's and 40's who would train full body
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A natural weightlifter cannot train like a steroid user
It was not until the discovery of anabolic steroids in the late 50's and their ensuing introduction into the weight training scene that weight trainers started changing things around. Anabolic steroids allow one to recover faster which meant one could train much longer, much more frequently and with much more intense workloads. Split routines were popularized in the following decade by the Venice beach crowd and the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, a great bodybuilder who would have a whole chicken and a pint of beer after training. Now, that sort of advice is the stuff that I like and, really, no one can question how these guys would train. However, the weight training community started emulating the sort of workouts of these steroid-fuelled super humans.
From the rising popularity of steroids and onward, silly routines were sponsored by questionable individuals as the holy grail of muscle gain and non-steroid users would buy into these routines. All the stuff that was learnt decades before from years and years of trial and error was lost in a sea of extremely muscular bodies and polluted advice, and routines that were intended for steroid users became the norm. An average routine would have the user "killing" a bodypart one day, waiting a whole week to kill the bodypart again, and training everyday of the week while dedicating training days to minuscule bodyparts such as arms! While that suits a professional bodybuilder who dedicates his life to training and is willing to use steroids, it really does not fit non-steroid using weight trainers seeking strength and muscle mass, and also seeking to have a life outside the gym.
Luckily, the field of sport sciences kept up with the times and was not tainted with the popular skewed bodybuilding advice. Amongst many discoveries, research proved that muscles can be stimulated frequently and that for strength gains, frequent stimulation is also desired. These discoveries actually paralleled all the training knowledge that was common before the introduction of steroids. Hence, frequent full body training stands strongly, in this day and age, as a training philosophy that is not only backed by history but also by research.
The Manly Strength program: a full training beast
All right, enough of historical stuff. Let's get on with the program. With The Manly Strength Program, you are going to train three times a week, you are going to train with compound heavy exercises and you are going to train with intensity. A training day will, at most, take you 90 minutes. That's 90 minutes three times a week, warms ups and all that included. You actually get to have a life outside the gym with this routine and if you put effort into it, you will get great strength and muscle mass gains. The inspirations and credit for my Manly Strength program come from the different Olympic weightlifting coaches I have had in the past, my own strength training experiments, Bill Starr and his great The Strongest Shall Survive strength program (from the 70s) and Reg Park's 5×5 methodology (from the 40s and 50s).
With Manly Strength, every training day has you doing a push exercise, a pull exercise, a leg exercise and one or two accessory exercises. Out of those three days, one is trained with the heaviest weight, the other is done with high repetitions and the other is done with an emphasis on volume. After three weeks of training (a training block), you train for a week with less volume and test your strength, this is known as a deload week. After the deload week, you do another training block, deload, and continue infinitely, until you stop progressing and then take a week off training. Progression is measured by increasing the weights lifted, either by repetitions or weight load. If you get stronger and eat plenty, you will get bigger, in fact, with this routine you can expect to put on up to 20lbs of body weight in the first three months, most of it being muscle and provided you increase your strength numbers every week.
Below is the routine and format of the Manly Strength program.
The Manly Strength Program
Here is the beast. It is essential to keep a record of all sets and reps for every training day:
Day 1
Squats: work up to a set of 5 reps in 5 sets. Increase one rep per week.
Bench press: same as above
Barbell rows: same as above
Lying leg raises: 1×20
Day 2
Squats: work up to 2 sets of 8 repetitions in 5 sets, first 3 are ramp up sets and then do 2 working sets. Increase one rep per week.
Military press: same as above
Barbell rows: same as above
Chest flyes: 2×12
Lying leg raises: 1×20
Day 3:
Squats: five sets of 4 reps, all sets with the weight used on Day 1. Increase one rep per week.
Bench press: same as above
Barbell rows: same as above
Straight leg deadlift: 1×15
Bicep curls: 2×12
Lying leg raises: 1×20
Note that whenever a a numerical format is used, the first number is for the set and the second number for the amount of reps, thus 2×12 means 2 sets of 12 reps.
That is it. Take a rest day between each training day except for after Day 3, when you will take two days off before doing Day 1 again. A convenient training schedule is Monday-Wednesday-Friday, with the weekend off from training and left for leisure activities and winding down. Follow the structure of days, that is, do Day 1-Day 2-Day 3, do not alter the order of days.
An initial warm up is composed of 5 minutes of stretching and doing 10 reps of bodyweight squats. Then take the unloaded barbell and do another 10 reps. You are now ready to commence the training session with squats. Do the same 10 reps with the unloaded barbell to warm up for the other exercises when you have to do them.
Repetition format
To start this program you need to do so conservatively as the frequency of training will have you sore and fatigued for the first few weeks. Do not underestimate the program, squatting three times a week is a special task on its own! Hence, I want you to start with a weight that you can do with perfect form and leaving two reps in the tank for Day 1. So, if you can squat 200lbs for 7 reps, use 200lbs as a finishing weight for Day 1 so work up to a set of 5 reps with 200lbs and that's it. Only do one set, with perfect form and confidence, your sets to get to 200×5 may look like this:
Squat: 100×5, 115×5, 150×5, 175×5 200×5
The final set is your work set, whereas the other sets building up to your work set are ramp up sets. The weight used to increment your ramp up sets should be between 25lbs to 100lbs, or even lower (e.g. 10lbs) if you are at a strength stage that doesn't allow for such increments yet. Likewise, you can do the barbell alone x 5 as your first set (provided the barbell is of the Olympic type which weights aprox. 45lbs). Just go by feel and make sure to use the same weights for the ramp up sets every time you do the exercise of that day.
You goal is to increase ONE repetition for the work set in every Day 1, so the second week after starting the program, you have to do 6 reps. the third week you will do 7 reps and so on. Apply the same concept to the remaining exercises of Day 1. Once you can 10 repetitions on each exercise on Day 1, increase the weight 25lbs for squats and 10-15lbs for bench press and barbell rows, and start again at 5 reps. For lying leg raises, increase one rep per week until you hit 30 reps, then either add 10lbs (strapped to feet) or do 2 sets of x20 and build up again to 2×30. You can also increase the incline on the bench and start again at 1×20, I leave it up to you.
For Day 2, start the first week with a weight you can do for 2 sets of 8 repetitions with perfect form and grinding the last rep of the second set (this is approximately a weight you can do for one set of 10 reps). You goal is to work up to 2 sets of 12 in the coming weeks, increasing ONE repetition per week. The progression would look like this:
Week 1: 2×8
Week 2: 1×9, 1×8
Week 3: 1×9, 1×9
You do the same for all exercises of Day 2. The military press is a great exercise to build strong shoulders and core, work it hard. End Day 2 with chest flyes and more lying leg raises, and increase one rep per week.
Day 3 has you using the same weight as Day 1 and doing 5 sets of 4 repetitions. You should be able to do four reps on all sets if you chose the right weight for Day 1. It is imperative to start the first week with these 5 sets of 4 reps because your goal is to now work up to 5×5 in the coming weeks. Again, increase ONE rep every week so in the second week, your sets would be: 5 reps, 4 reps, 4 reps, 4 reps and 4 reps. On the third week you do 5,5,4,4,4. You goal is to eventually do 5 sets with the same weight you could only do for one set on Day 1. Congratulations, you got stronger as you do five times the amount of what you could originally do once. Do the accessory exercises and work the straight leg deadlift hard, increasing one rep per week until you get to 1×20, then add 10lbs and start again at 1×15. Bicep curls are done up to 2×15 and then add 5-10lbs to work at 2×12.
You may be wondering how long you should be resting per set. The ramp up sets should be anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Your work set or sets should be anywhere from 2-4 minutes, with the longest rest used for the work sets of Day 1 and 3. If you are not breaking a light sweat by the time you have finished the first exercise of the day, you are resting too much.
Deload week
After each 3-week training block, you then do a week in which you only train two days, dedicating one day to testing your strength for two repetitions on all main exercises and the other day to training in a casual manner. The week schedule looks like this:
Day 1
Squat: work up to a 2 repetition max
Bench press: same as above
Rows: same as above
Lying leg raises: 1×20
Day 2
Squat: 5×5 with 80% of weight used on Day 3 of last week of training block.
Bench: same as above
Rows: same as above
Do one accessory exercise as you desire.
That is your deload week.
Day 1 of the deload week should be done three days after Day 3 of the training block and not two days after as you would normally do for a Day 1 of a training block. This means that if you normally do Monday-Wednesday-Friday on your training block, Day 1 of the deload week is to be done on Tuesday, not Monday. This is very important so do not skip any rest days. Rest three days after Day 1 and then do Day 2, so if you did Day 1 on Tuesday, Day 2 is done on Friday. Rest two days after Day 2 and start a new training block, again, do not skip any rest days even though you will probably be feeling fully rested a day after Day 2. You should be commencing the training block on the same day as usual, in this case a Monday, as you abide by the structure of the deload week.
On Day 1, dont worry about how many sets it takes you to hit a two repetition max. Just do it, get to a weight where you are grinding the second rep and move onto the next exercise. Record each weight lifted for two reps on each exercise as this is now your benchmark to test. On every deload week, you should be trying to do a bit more weight on Day 1 than the previous deload week. If you do 300lbs for 2 reps on your first deload week, you should be striving to get 305 or more for two reps on your next deload week. If you have been working hard on each training block, you will find yourself increasing the weight for the two reps on each deload week with relative ease, as your body gets stronger and stronger per training block.
You will be blown by now, so this is how you deload:
After Day 1, rest three days and do Day 2 which consists of training with 80% for 5 sets of 5 reps with the weight used on Day 3 of the last week of the training block. So if you did squats with 200lbs on Day 3 of the third week's training block and your sets looked like 5 reps, 5 reps, 4 reps, 4 reps, 4 reps, your Day 2 of the deload week would look like:
Squat (80%): 160lbs x 5 sets of 5 reps.
Apply the same percentage and set/rep format (80% and 5×5) to the weights used for the bench press and the rows. Make sure to lift explosively and take short rest periods. Aim to get out of the gym in less than 30 mins. You can include one accessory exercise of Day 3 (training block) if you want, this is optional and I leave it to your discretion. The point of this day is to get in, do a quick workout and get out. You have worked very hard for the last 3 weeks so you deserve this workout.
Measuring progression
As stated before, progression is measured by either increasing reps or weight load. As you should know by now, the program calls for starting with a set of 5 reps on Day 1, 2 sets of 8 reps on Day 2 and 5 sets of 4 reps on Day 3. You goal is to increase reps and eventually weight load too. This is how you must go about your progression:
Day 1: increase 1 rep per week on your work set until you get 10 reps, then add 25lbs (squat) and 10-15 lbs (bench press and rows) and start again at 5 repetitions.
Day 2: increase 1 rep per week on one set of the two sets of 8 reps until you get to 2 sets of 12 reps, then add 25 lbs (squat) and 10-15 lbs (military press and rows) and start again at 2 sets of 8 reps. If you increase one rep on the first set on one week, the next week you increase a rep on the second set.
Day 3: increase 1 rep per week on one of the 5 sets until you get 5 sets of 5 reps, then add 25lbs (squat) and 10-15 lbs (bench press and rows) and start again at 5 sets of 4 reps.
Can you see the pattern? It will take you 6 weeks (counting the deload week) to get to 10 reps on Day 1. Likewise, it will take you 6 weeks to complete 5 sets of 5 reps on Day 3 with the same weight you could only do for one set of 5 reps on Day 1. At the 6 week mark, you will throw in the additional stipulated poundages for each exercise on Day 1 and Day 3, always using the same weight for both days provided you get one rep every week (which is something you must work hard to achieve). It will take you a few more weeks to throw in more weight on Day 2 but the point remains, add a rep per week.
This program allows you to keep adding reps if you stick to it and respect the structure and schedule. Even if you feel you can do two reps instead of one, which will occur at times, do not do more than the established rep per week.
When progression halts
Eventually, you will get to a stage where deload weeks are not cutting it anymore in terms of providing enough rest and a week off training is ensued. There is not a set amount of time for when will this happen and there are too many variables affecting the need for extra rest in a weight trainer: from eating enough to bad sleep to too much external stress. I have had people on this program for a year before they took a week off, although most weight trainers need a week off at about the six month mark.
A rule of thumb is, if you have not increased a rep after two consecutive weeks, take a deload week with BOTH days following the same structure of Day 2 of the deload week (80% and 5×5). Start a new training block and use the same weights and reps as those used in the week before the deload week. If you fail to progress after another two weeks, take an entire week off training.
You can also take a week off training to match any holidays or periods in which training will not be possible. Think ahead and predict these periods, and throw in a week off or even a deload week instead. However, the minimum time interval of training before taking a week off is three months as you will be progressing nicely during this period.
Wrapping up the Manly Strength program
Ok, so by now you are aware of having to train three times per week, doing three main exercises per day and training for three weeks then taking a deload week. You must increase a rep per week per exercise every training day and once you hit a maximum amount of reps, throw in more weight and start back again.
The structure of the program for the first 8 weeks would be:
Week 1: start conservatively with chosen weights. Day 1 work up to a set of 5 reps, Day 2 do 2×8, Day 3 do 5×4
Week 2: increase 1 rep in each exercise and every training day
Week 3: increase 1 rep in each exercise and every training day
Week 4: deload week. Day 1 test your strength for 2 repetitions on all main exercises. Day 2 only lift 80% for 5 sets of 5 reps of the weight lifted on Day 3 of Week 3.
Week 5: increase 1 rep in each exercise and every training day from Week 3
Week 6: increase 1rep in each exercise and every training day
Week 7: increase 1 rep in each exercise and every training day
Week 8: deload week. Day 1 test your strength for 2 repetitions on all exercises, aiming for a minimum 5lbs increase on every lift from previous deload week (Week 4). Day 2 only lift 80% for 5 sets of 5 reps of the weight lifted on Day 3 of Week 7.
A note on working hard
The Manly Strength Program is hard, I will not sugarcoat it. I have gone back to this program many times and have had plenty of people using it to their advantage. Most of the initial feedback I obtain from this program is that it is damn hard, with people experiencing walking difficulties after the first week. At the three month mark, I suddenly get people emailing me or phoning me telling of the positive changes they are experiencing and the changes become even more dramatic at the six month stage of following the program. It really delivers results if you stick to it and put the effort required into it, which brings my next point.
Along with the silliness from polluted routines used for the last several decades, there seems to be a consensus that training hard equates groaning, pumping, feeling the burn and using spotters. This is all bullcrap. While occasional grunts are expected as you grind the last reps, training hard simply equates consistency and discipline. Do not be fooled by the steroid pumping primadonna wearing tight attire who takes over all the mirrors in the gym to look at himself alternating bicep curls with tricep kickbacks while he groans like a pseudo alpha male. You go into the gym with your set amount of work to be done, you do it, and you get out of the gym. Whether you are doing a Day 1 of the program, or doing a Day 2 of the deload week, do what you are set to do.
Carry a small training notepad with you into the gym and record all lifts, even the time it took you to complete the training session. Before going into the gym, you should know exactly what you have to do for the day, all amount of reps and sets thus carrying a notebook with the already written plan is a great way to keep track without interfering into the workout. I always take 5 minutes during my itinerary to the gym to think about what I am about to do for the scheduled day and I highly recommend you to do this too.
This is me with squatting ass to grass 330 lbs (130 kilos) after only 6 months of training from ZERO. Some idiot was grunting next to me as I was squatting while he was in the rowing machine watching TV. These are the idiots I'm referring to.
It is worth mentioning that Manly Strength does not use the conventional deadlift and there are several reasons for this. First of all, Manly Strength is conceptualized from a view of having the least amount of training equipment. I developed this routine while relocating to different countries as I had to find gyms in which to train and, unfortunately, most gyms would not have 7 foot long barbells nor Olympic sized discs to perform conventional deadlifts. This is very much the case in most commercial gyms and many of you may not have access to such type of barbells. On the other hand, squat racks are much more common as so are bench press stations. Moreover, I made this program taking into account the need to have a strong lower back, as my background is in competitive Olympic weightlifting. Squats plus barbell rows performed three times per week will build a strong lower back, and military presses and straight leg deadlifts put the icing on the cake for a solid mid-section.
It should be duly noted that to progress you also need to be eating enough to support the body's growth and the gains in strength. I am not fond of pigging out on anything I see but you should be consuming enough good food in the form of lean cuts of meats, fish, dairy, vegetables and fruits, nuts and low glycemic sources of carbohydrates such as whole grain bread. On top of that, make an effort to get a minimum of 7 hours of sleep per day as sleep is key in recovering adequately from the intense training. I will be covering in the near future the topic of sport nutrition so keep an eye out for advice on what to and how to eat for strength and muscle.
All the best,


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March 8, 2007
In the second game against Indiana State, the Lady Bisons put a late rally together after falling behind early, but it was not enough to overtake the Sycamores who picked up their second win against the Lady Bisons 5-4.
"They are a good team," Head coach Kristin Peck said. "(Indiana State) beat us 6-0 down there, and they are a good team. They hit the ball well, we made one too many little mistakes."
Indiana State jumped out to an early 1-0 lead after the Sycamores got an RBI single from Stephanie Spychaj. The Sycamores added to their lead in the top of the third inning with two more runs on four hits to take a 3-0 advantage.
The Lady Bisons started their rally in the bottom of the third inning, when Leigh Little brought home Jennifer Allsup with a single to left field. It looked like the Lady Bisons would add on some more runs in the inning, but a diving catch by Indiana State's right-fielder ended the inning for the Lady Bisons.
After a scoreless top of the fourth inning, the Lady Bisons came back to tie the game at 3-3 on an RBI single from Christen Campbell, and a sacrifice fly ball from Jennifer Allsup. After tying the game at three, the Lady Bisons could not take the lead and left two runners on base.
Kim Jacobson pitched two scoreless innings in the fifth and sixth inning, but gave up three walks in the top of the seventh which allowed Indiana State to battle back and take the lead 5-3.
"We have to find a way to be more balanced and focused mentally," Peck said. "A lot of it will come through experience. We had plenty of effort; we just made some small little mistakes."
The Lady Bisons looked to get a late rally going in the seventh with two outs when Leigh Little reached on an error and then scored on an RBI single from Heather Collins. Collins reached second base on a Kellie Sirus single up the middle, but the rally came up just short, as Julia Davidson grounded out to third base to end the game.
With only one Senior on the team this year, and nine freshman, Peck said she understands that even these losing games are good experience for a young team.
"They are learning a tremendous amount through experience," Peck said. "It is tough for me to take a loss as a coach, and I don't want us to lower our expectations just because we have a few more wins this year. Games like this will help us down the road. We talked about thriving down the stretch because of games like this."
"We came out today and we were fired up and ready to go. We just ran into a good team. It was a battle today, which is what you love about softball. Today it came down to the end and that's why I love this game."
Kim Jacobson (3-5) received the loss for the Lady Bisons, and Meagan McCurdy (6-1) got the win for Indiana State.
The next game for the Lady Bisons will be next Wednesday, March 28 when they travel to Memphis to take on the University of Memphis. Game time is set for 5:00 CT.
"We are excited to have the weekend off," Peck said. "It will give the girls a chance to rest up and recoup. Memphis is a really good team. We know they will be prepared, and it will be great competition for us as we get set for conference play."


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