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The not so young Mosquera wins at the Bola del Mundo
It was a fantastic race with the relatively unknown 34 years old, Ezequiel Mosquera, racing up to the Ball of the World with a persistent Nibali fighting to keep the leader's jersey. A classic Vuelta stage.
I might have to watch the final stage tonight, a 85 km criterium around Madrid...
1 Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 4:45:28
2 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo 0:00:01
3 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha 0:00:23
4 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 0:00:35
5 Xavier Tondo (Spa) Cervélo Test Team 0:00:39
6 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Ag2R-La Mondiale 0:00:42
7 Mikel Nieve (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:00:50
8 Peter Velits (Svk) Team HTC-Columbia 0:00:52
9 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) FDJ 0:00:55
10 Remy Di Gregorio (Fra) FDJ 0:01:00
11 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Cervélo Test Team 0:01:27
12 Oscar Pujol (Spa) Cervélo Test Team 0:01:30
Week Thirty Seven: Build
Time: 15 h 30 min
Dist.: 412 km
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As we move rapidly into December, we want to stop and take a quick moment to say one last goodbye to Movember! If you didn't realize why so many men were sporting mustaches last month (and you didn't check out our earlier post), Movember is a worldwide movement to raise awareness and funds for men's health issues during the month of November, with a focus on prostate cancer awareness and research. Here's part of our team of "Mo Bros", clean-shaven at the start of the month:
And here they are in all of their follicular glory, at the end of Movember!
Will's mustache was acclaimed to be the "most impressive" by our panel of entirely subjective judges:
But they all sported their 'stache with pride, and showed off some impressive grooming skill (especially Jason's General Burnside look on the left below):
We hope you had a successful Movember of your own, or at least supported someone who did! Performance Bicycle made a donation to the fight against prostate cancer in support of our crew of Mo Bros. In the end, that's what Movember is all about–raising money for and awareness of men's health issues that all-too-often are not talked about… although we have to admit that is was also worth it just for these pictures of our coworkers!
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SEATLLE, Wash. (Feb. 7, 2010) - Just when it looked like ETSU men's tennis freshman Jesus Bandres (Caracas, Venezuela) was ready to pull out his clinching three-set match at No. 3 singles, which would have gave the Bucs a huge upset over No. 24 Washington, Huskies senior captain Derek Drabble stormed back from a 0-2 deficit to lead host Washington to a 4-3 win inside the Nordstrom Tennis Center.
With their loss late Sunday evening the 60th-ranked Bucs fall to 2-4 on the season, while the Huskies improved to 7-1 after winning its second straight Great Northwest Shootout title.
ETSU opened the match as Bandres and sophomore Sander Gille (Kuringen, Belgium) - who is currently ranked 52 in doubles by the ITA - picked up the Bucs lone doubles win with a 9-7 win over Drabble and Martin Kildahl.
After Tobi Obenaus gave UW at two point lead, junior Grega Teraz (Mojstrana, Slovenia) continued his impressive play in Seattle with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Kyle McMorrow at No. 2 singles. Overall, the 82nd-ranked Buc has played some of his best tennis over the past two weeks. After Teraz posted back-to-back wins against Mississippi State and Washington, the Mojstrana, Slovenia native has now won his last four straight singles contests.
With Teraz pushing the score to 2-1, Gille continued the Buc comeback after he tied the match with his 6-4, 6-4 straight set win over Kildahl at No. 4. Washington then responded as Jeevan Nedunchezhivan outlasted junior Charles Bottoni (Bois Guillaume, France) in a long three-set contest at No. 1 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, to regain the lead.
After Buc freshman Juan Ramirez (Asuncion, Paragury) countered the Washington advantage with his 7-6, 6-4 win over Alex Rosinski, all eyes turned to Bandres' contest, where the Huskies prevailed with the victory.
ETSU will have the next week off, returning to action February 20 at Wake Forest.
Washington Men's Tennis
Great Northwest Shootout
February 7, 2010 - Seattle, Wash.
Nordstrom Tennis Center
No. 24 Washington 4, No. 60 East Tennessee State 3
1) Nedunchezhiyan/McMorrow (UW) def. Teraz/Bottoni (ETSU), 8-6
2) (52) Gille/Bandres (ETSU) def. Drabble/Kildahl (UW), 9-7
3) Obenaus/Rosinski (UW) def. Isaza/Akser (ETSU), 8-6
Order of finish: 1, 2, 3
1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (UW) def. (89) Charles Bottoni (ETSU), 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
2) (82) Grega Teraz (ETSU) def. Kyle McMorrow (UW), 6-3, 6-4
3) Derek Drabble (UW) def. (51) Jesus Bandres (ETSU), 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-2
4) Sander Gille (ETSU) def. Martin Kildahl (UW), 6-4, 6-4
5) Tobi Obenaus (UW) def. Robin Akser (ETSU), 6-3, 6-0
6) J.C. Ramirez (ETSU) def. Alex Rosinski (UW), 7-6, 6-4
Order of finish: 5, 2, 4, 1, 6, 3
For more information on the ETSU men's tennis team please visit, www.ETSUBucs.com.


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The most commonly used colorectal cancer staging system is known as the TNM system, which has been established by the American Joint Committee on Cancer. The TNM staging system looks at three key factors to determine the stage of cancer:
A number (0-4) or the letter X is assigned to each factor. Using this colorectal cancer staging system, a higher number indicates increasing severity. For instance, a T1 score indicates a smaller tumor than a T2 score. The letter X means the information could not be assessed.
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TX: The main tumor cannot be assessed.
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Application-oriented range of current transformers provide safety, flexibility
Carlo Gavazzi has launched the CTD Series, a range of solid core current transformers that provide both innovation and functionality.
The CTD Series has reportedly been developed to provide the market with an application-oriented range of current transformers, which are easily installed, thus providing optimum safety and extremely flexible. They are connectable with all types of wiring terminals and can be installed on DIN-rail or directly to the back panel, therfore giving the possibility of bridging the secondary without changing the connections, thus avoiding dangerous overvoltages. The size of the CTD Series allows their use where limited space is available amongst bus-bars, in applications such as those found within Motor Control Centers (MCCs) or Power Control Centers (PCCs), according to Carlo Gavazzi.
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Obama, Democrats win big in New Hampshire, take governor's seat, 2nd Congressional District
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Democratic Gov.-elect Maggie Hassan isn't going to face the huge Republican majorities in the Legislature that retiring Democratic Gov. John Lynch had to deal with.
Tuesday's election was a reversal of fortune for Democrats swept largely from power in 2010.
Two years ago, voters gave Republicans big majorities in the Statehouse that meant they could overturn Lynch's vetoes whenever they wanted if they stuck together.
All the votes weren't totaled Tuesday night, but it was clear Hassan will have a more evenly divided House and Senate. Not surprisingly, Hassan is calling for bipartisanship, which she will need to get bills passed.
Democrats also picked up the state's four electoral college votes for President Barack Obama and the two congressional seats.
Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter reclaimed the 1st District seat that Republican Frank Guinta had taken from her.
Democrat Ann McLane Kuster, who lost by 3,500 votes in 2010 to Republican Charles Bass, easily beat him to take the 2nd District seat and make New Hampshire's congressional delegation all female.
Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen represent New Hampshire in the Senate. Neither was up for re-election.
Hassan took control of the governor's seat, beating Republican Ovide Lamontagne.
Going into Tuesday's election, there were 288 Republicans and 102 Democrats with 10 vacancies in the House. There were 18 Republicans and five Democrats in the Senate, with one vacancy. Although not all the votes had been counted, it appeared late Tuesday that the two chambers would be more evenly divided.
Hassan extended a hand across the aisle in her victory speech, noting the early indications are that the Legislature would be more Democratic.
"We should see this not as an obstacle but as an opportunity to move beyond the partisan divide," she said.
Hassan succeeds Lynch, the governor since 2005 who served four two-year terms.
Hassan's campaign stressed the need to repair damage they said was done by the Republican Legislature in its last budget, particularly by restoring deep cuts to public colleges and the state's hospitals. She said the way to help the economy is to invest in education so business has the workforce it needs.
"We will build a New Hampshire that nurtures innovation and entrepreneurs," she said in her victory speech.
Hassan successfully painted Lamontagne as too radical for New Hampshire, particularly for women.
Lamontagne, a Catholic, strongly opposes abortion and gay marriage, though he did not emphasize his support for imposing limits on abortion or repealing New Hampshire's same-sex marriage law in his campaign. He supports replacing gay marriage with civil unions for heterosexual and same-sex couples but doesn't support invalidating existing same-sex marriages. He also supports exempting religious organizations from contraceptive mandates in insurance coverage.
Hassan highlighted her support for the rights of workers to unionize, for women to have access to abortions and birth control and for gays to marry. Hassan was instrumental in the Senate passing the state's law legalizing same-sex unions in 2009. An effort to repeal it fell short this year.
Exit poll interviews with New Hampshire voters showed Hassan drew support from women, unmarried voters and those whose annual family incomes totaled less than $50,000.
Independents were also key. According to exit polls, Lamontagne and Hassan each captured more than 90 percent of their respective party bases, but Hassan led among the 4 in 10 who consider themselves independents.
In conceding, Lamontagne said he was disappointed, especially in the negative ads.
"I wish you all well and I wish the people of New Hampshire well in this critical time," Lamontagne said.
Both Hassan, 54, of Exeter, and Lamontagne, 55, of Manchester, are business attorneys and campaigned on the need to grow the economy and jobs. Both promised to veto personal income and general sales taxes.
The race was Hassan's first try for governor and Lamontagne's second bid. He lost to Shaheen in 1996. He also ran unsuccessful campaigns for Congress in 1992 and U.S. Senate in 2010.
Hassan lost her first bid for state Senate in 2002, but won the seat in the following election. She was defeated during a Republican sweep in 2010.
John Babiarz, a libertarian from Grafton, also sought the office.


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I have tried to find out this answer for severl years now, but no one seems to know. I was just wondering if during Easter when we can not eat meat if that would include the beef flavored roman noodles?? They do not have actual meat in them they are just a flavoring.I hope someone can give me the answer to this.. Thank you & God Bless
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Look at the ingredients. If there is meat in the flavoring, then steer clear of beef flavored noodles on Fridays in Lent. Have the shrimp flavor instead.


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In 2009, Town Council approved the development of our own building and codes department. Before this action the building permits for the town were issued through Beaufort County Building Department.
The town's building safety office is responsible for ensuring that construction within the town of Bluffton complies with adopted building codes and other regulations related to construction within the town. Construction plans are reviewed and approved by staff and inspections of job sites are conducted. The building safety office is a part of the town of Bluffton's growth management department.
Since 2009, the building safety office has issued 2,100 building permits and in the year 2011, more than 250 new single-family home permits were issued for the town of Bluffton.
During the calendar year 2011, inspectors conducted about 6,000 site inspections. Inspectors are able to spend more time in the field completing the heavy inspection load due to the use of field computers which allow for posting inspection results from the field. The building safety office is also responsible for enforcing the town's regulations related to unsafe and uninhabited structures. Through these efforts 34 unsafe and uninhabited structures have been removed thereby improving the safety and health of the community and enhancing the character of neighborhoods.
The building safety office was originally located on Bluffton Road but moved in August to Town Hall at 20 Bridge Street. This move has improved customer service by consolidating various approvals and business processes into one location.


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ALARMclock: A New Way to Start the Day?
A new alarm clock may be able to motivate you more to seize the day. Or will it? This new clock displays personal information like bank account balances, number of friends on social media accounts and how many days one may have left to live.
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3.1 Phillip Lim
By Booth Moore, Los Angeles Times fashion critic While designers may be taking inspiration from the deconstructed, black-and-white anti-fashion of the 1980s, they aren't forgetting what sells -- color and shine. Nearly every collection had at least one piece with a dusting of sequins (DKNY's sequined garden floral boyfriend jacket, Phillip Lim's sequined coat dress, Michael Kors' inkblot sequin shift), proving that the love affair with sparkle is not ending any time soon. This season also saw a revolution in prints, as young designers such as Thakoon Panichgul, Peter Som, Proenza Schouler and Jason Wu experimented with dip-dyed, bleeding floral, digitized animal spot and Rorschach-like prints to beautiful effect. As for color, enjoy the neon brights now, while you can. Come spring, when all the new clothes we've seen this week will be in stores, those colors will be but a distant memory. The week's "it" color was red, whether cerise, lipstick or pimento. Among red highlights: Phillip Lim's lipstick-red suit with a double-breasted jacket and fold-over waistband pants; Victoria Beckham's cerise double crepe, flared skirt dress, Badgley Mischka's pimento-colored linen kimono jacket, Derek Lam's red wool front wrap skirt with gold toggle closures, DKNY's rose stretch silk Shantung wrap dress, and Diane von Furstenberg's red-tan, palm tree-beaded sheath dress.
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Short story writer, novelist, and essayist Cynthia Ozick is credited with the quote, �We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.�
Short story writer, novelist, and essayist Cynthia Ozick is credited with the quote, �We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.� For what are you thankful? To what or to whom do you offer your gratitude on Thanksgiving Day?
I propose we should offer gratitude first to that which many of us have taken for granted in the 21st century: that we take the time as Americans � at all � to be thankful. If our forefathers had not had the foresight to proclaim the fourth Thursday in November as an annual day of national thanksgiving, tomorrow would be just another busy day of rushing around, failing to stop and ponder the bigger questions of America�s overall prosperity and success and offer thanks for them.
My Dad said, �Some days you just can�t make a nickel,� referring to the reality that we scurry about in our busy lives thinking we have made �progress� and nonetheless at the end of the day we find it has been two steps backward and only one step forward. Thanksgiving could have been just another day of barely making a nickel were it not for the vision of the founders and succeeding leaders.
Regardless of the contention by some that secularism was a founding principle of America, the founders peppered religious legislation throughout their writings and laws, especially as it related to thanking God for the blessings of liberty. Thanking God had and has to be done because a founding principle of our liberty is that the God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people, and since God grants these rights, only God can take them away. Man cannot take away our liberties because he did not and does not grant them. America was the first nation in the history of the world to proclaim these facts.
The Continental Congress, that body that governed the United States before our present Constitution was adopted, offered the following proclamation in 1782: �(We) request the several states to interpose their authority, in appointing and commanding the observation of Thursday the twenty-eighth day of November as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving to God for all His mercies; and (we) do further recommend to all ranks to testify their gratitude to God for His goodness by a cheerful obedience to His laws � which is the great foundation of public prosperity and national happiness. ...�
Seven years later, President George Washington made the following proclamation and created the first Thanksgiving Day on Oct. 3, 1789: �Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, (I) recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.�
Then on Oct. 3, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln made the following proclamation (written by Secretary of State William Seward): �(We) should solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledge as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States � to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. ... .�
So as of Thursday, Thanksgiving Day has been celebrated every year in America since President Lincoln�s proclamation in 1863. Let us, then, be thankful that we have seen fit as a people to recognize our prosperity as a nation is the result of divine liberties that are not man�s to take away.
We too often, though, take this day for granted. Regardless of whether we make a nickel or not, gratitude humbles us and helps us to appreciate the larger force to which we are indebted. As American author and journalist E.P. Powell is quoted as saying, and we need to remember: �Thanksgiving Day is a jewel to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day and leave out the gratitude.�
Barry Fetzer is a columnist for the Havelock News. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I dont want to be that girl
The one who sits at home and cries
The one who thinks of him and always sighs
The one who gets used
The one whos abused
The one whos seriously confused
I dont want to be her
Her pain is great
The guy she loves is late
He has yet to figure out shes the one
The one thats beauty far surpasses her looks
The girl you hear about in books
The one who holds him as her world
The girl
Evil convenience at the most up-wrecked time.
Sitting there all alone, your life worth a dime.
You can see your future in your own zombie-like dreams.
But you could care less, it could be some devil-like scheme.
You walk alone in day or night, with no sign of fright.
You eat alone all year long, with no sense of delight.
Blood oozing from the 6 inch depth wounds.
Hoping that you'll fall over dead, but not too soon.
You want
Princess Dominica looked so beautiful
All dressed in black
With white make-up and dark purple lips
She sat on the throne so full of majesty
The onlookers were dazzled by her beauty
And worshipped the ground she walked upon
The King was not well
And expected to die soon
And the Queen had died long ago
So the young princess would soon rule the Kingdom
The day came too fast,
I forgot to get out of bed and woke to the moon,
I couldn't read a book,
The letters was too big and the words made sense,
I tried to feel today,
But I'm horribal at emotions,
Now I know why the meds keep them at bay,
I need to stop dreaming,
I need to wake up,
I've got an appointment with my bed and she hates it when I'm late
I can't wait till I'm grown up,
Wait, sorry
I know you are gone,
I have accepted that,
But I still have scratches and bruises,
That you just keep jabbing at.
I'm gone out of your life,
Your new girlfriend has made sure of that.
I avoid seeing or speaking to you in the halls,
I need my time to let my wounds heal and all.
The few scratches I made before that had nothing to do with you,
They seem to be reopening every time you do the things you do.
My arm was healed,


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The Global Poverty Mapping Project seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live. Additionally, the project aims to assist policy makers, development agencies, and the poor themselves in designing interventions to reduce poverty.
Project Highlights
Subnational Poverty Data Sets
Spatially explicit data sets are available for selected proxy measures of poverty at global and national scales. The global data are of varying resolution, but primarily coarse; the national data sets are of considerably higher resolution. The data catalogs describe the variables available in each data set, and the underlying spatial, survey, and census data sets used to construct the integrated collection. Metadata records also provide details on source data and methods.
Poverty Maps Collection
Compelling maps illustrate how these data can be used to generate poverty maps. The collection includes poverty maps at a number of spatial scales (global, regional, national, and urban areas) and for a variety of poverty measures. Specifically, there are global and regional maps of the distribution of infant mortality and child hunger; and subnational, small area estimate maps of poverty and inequality at unprecedented levels of spatial detail.


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Passmark Advanced Multi-User Tests
Version and / or Patch Used: 6.1
Developer Homepage: http://www. passmark.com
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Many users complain that I/O Meter is too complicated of a benchmark to replicate results so my quest to find an alternative was started. Passmark has added several multi-user tests that measure a hard drives ability to operate in a multi-user environment.
The tests use different settings to mimic basic multi-user operations as they would play out on your server. Variances is read / write percentage as well as random / sequential reads are common in certain applications, Web Servers read nearly 100% of the time while Database Servers write a small amount of data.
The Workstation test is the only single user environment and will be similar to how you use your system at home.
RAID was made for the enterprise market and these tests show us exactly why that is so. Here we see the three server tests showing quite a bit of improvement with the new firmware that allows us to take full advantage of the SATA 6G Seagate Barracuda XT. The workstation test shows identical results between the firmware, but those results are also much higher than those of a single drive.
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Sheriffs, States Push Back Against Gun Control [POLL/VIDEO]
From Oregon to Mississippi, President Barack Obama's proposed ban on new assault weapons and large-capacity magazines has struck a nerve among rural lawmen and lawmakers, many of whom vowed to ignore any restrictions — and even try to stop federal officials from enforcing gun policy in their jurisdictions.
In Oregon's Josephine County, Sheriff Gil Gilbertson said Wednesday that a lot of sheriffs are standing up and demanding the Constitution - especially the Second Amendment - be followed.
And legislative efforts to pre-empt the president's proposals have surfaced in Alaska, Utah, Wyoming, Tennessee and Mississippi.
But legal experts say their actual powers to defy federal law are limited. And much of the impassioned rhetoric amounts to political posturing until — and if — Congress acts.
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Old School Charm: Classic School Supplies
We've made it through the start of another school year, and now it's time to keep everyone going all the way until spring. By now the brand new boxes of crayons and pencils are all broken in, and the notebooks creased. Maybe it's time for a quick upgrade at home to bring the magic back to schoolwork.
I'm in the mood to set up the perfect desk at home with quality supplies to elevate everyday homework doldrums. Add a beautiful modern world map above the desk, the pencils, sharpener, and supplies above and you'll be sneaking away to do your homework here too.
Geppetto's Pencil Sharpener, $11.98
Little Librarian Kit, $20
Manual Pencil Sharpener, $25.64
Scratch Off World Map, $24
Blackwing 602 Writing Pencils, 12 pack, $19.90
iWood Chalkboard Laptop, $58
Three Stars White Champagne Chalk, $10
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Some fine batting by Ryan Harris and an electrifying spell of bowling from Ben Hilfenhaus looked to have turned the first Test with the West Indies in Australia's favour on an engrossing fourth day here Tuesday.
West Indies finished the day on 71 for five in its' second innings, leading by just 114 runs after Australia's tail wagged and Hilfenhaus knocked over their top order.
Earlier captain Michael Clarke declared Australia's first innings at 406 for nine with his side still trailing by 43 runs.
It was an aggressive move allowing his bowlers to attack the West Indian batsmen either side of tea and Hilfenhaus took advantage in the 25 minutes leading up to the break removing the top three.
Harris – who had earlier hit an unbeaten 68 – added the important scalp of Shivnarine Chanderpaul shortly after tea.
"To get him out second innings for not many was a huge wicket because I think they batted around him a fair bit," said Harris.
He thought that the declaration had set the West Indies on the back foot.
"To declare and put them in straight away, it probably didn't give them a chance to get their head around batting.
"I think it showed, obviously, taking three or four quick wickets. I think it was a good declaration. We want to win the Test match."
West Indies' coach Otis Gibson thought that the 145 overs in the field had an impact on the top order.
"Hilfenhaus came out and bowled a great spell, some tired legs, batsmen didn't move their feet and so on and he got a couple of wickets.
"This is why it's called Test cricket. It's tough. It's tough on you mentally, it's tough on you physically. That three hour session this morning was tough on the guys but they hung in."
However; Gibson still believed his side could win.
"We believe if we get 200 on the board it'll be a very interesting run chase tomorrow (Wednesday)"
It was a remarkable turnaround in fortunes as the Australians had at one point been 199 runs behind with only three first innings wickets remaining.
The West Indies had looked like wrapping things up quickly when they took two early wickets in the morning session especially as one was the redoubtable veteran Mike Hussey.
However, Harris steadied the ship and played positively from the start of his innings as he and Matthew Wade added 35 runs for the eighth wicket.
Wade fell for 28 in his first Test innings when he took a wild drive at a wide Fidel Edwards ball that Darren Bravo took easily at second slip.
Harris and Hilfenhaus played gutsy innings as they gradually reduced the deficit with Harris passing his top score in Test cricket, made in his last innings against India in Adelaide.
The ninth wicket partnership of 44 was finally broken when Hilfenhaus, on 24, played an extravagant shot and Roach's delivery took out the middle stump.
The West Indies still had a 120 run lead when last man Nathan Lyon came to the crease but he and Harris played so well that Lyon hit his highest first class score of 40.
They had added 76 runs when Clarke decided to declare and Hillfenhaus took centre stage.
Barath was comprehensively bowled through the gate for two and two balls later Kraigg Brathwaite, who had played such a patient innings first time around, had an uncharacteristic go at a wide delivery and Wade took the catch.
Kirk Edwards was the next to go as he moved across his stumps to another Hilfenhaus delivery and was given out lbw.
Harris struck a major blow when he bowled the perfect line to Chanderpaul who edged to Wade to leave the West Indies reeling at 17 for four.
Darren Bravo and Narsingh Deonarine steadied things as they added fifty for the fifth wicket.
A tight spell by Siddle eventually drew Bravo into a loose shot outside of the off stump when he'd scored 32 and he was caught behind. AFP


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e-volve necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 63 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
we're looking for a redesign of http://www.windtrap.co.uk
we need a :
home page
category page
product page
please make it really good because we're so behind on this it's rediculous - arrgh!
p.s - no coding required just the design
Wind Trap
We're looking for a standard three column lay out.
New logo can be found here:
http://www.windtrap.co.uk/logo/windtrap_logo.jpg (the blue one)
Some ideas can be found here:
As you can see we have a pretty good idea of what we want but no real artistic eye to tie them all in really well.
Nitty Gritty Details:
Each Product has a sub-category, which in turn has a category. e.g. a Bio Bulb would have a sub category of Light bulb and a category of Save Energy.
Top Navigation
To include tabs and subcategories (acting as reference for where visitor is in website - sub categories might need to be over two lines). Actual Categories (categories in bold):
- Save Energy- Energy Meters
- Power Factor Reducers
- Standby Savers
- Lightbulbs
- Recycling
- Wind Up
- Kettles
- Lighting
- Laundry
- Water Powered
- Generate Energy- Wind Turbine Kits
- Wind Turbines
- Regulators
- Batteries
- Inverters
- Cabling
- Weather Stations
- Energy Saving Advice- Categories
- To
- Be
- Decided
- About Us- Categories
- To
- Be
- DecidedLeft Navigation
To be an expandable version of top nav
Right Navigation
To include cart and top ten sellers/what's new
Bottom Navigation
The usual
Product Page
Should have tabbed content in page so that we can display loads of different info about the product (see ideas number 3 & 4 above)
- Good tab Navigation to act as reference for where visitor is in website
- Quite a modern slick look to match the new logo
- Not too graphics based as we need to make this as SEO'd as possible
- anything too eco.


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Last week was a bit like that due to the huge amount of rain we have been getting around here. Almost one third of my training time spent on the wind trainer. Pretty tough sometimes as the mind drifts and questions on the point of doing it at all comes to mind.
At times like that, I try to focus on the season and races ahead and tell myself that I need to do the work if I want to do well.
It is as simple as that.
Week Eight (Base):
Time: 14 h 45 min
Dist.: 400 km


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Landon Lassiter, Carley Tysinger, Jordan Ramsey, Kelly Secrest, Jordan Hudson and Hannah Alexander are some familiar names who distinguished themselves on high school athletic fields in Davidson County.
Landon Lassiter, Carley Tysinger, Jordan Ramsey, Kelly Secrest, Jordan Hudson and Hannah Alexander are some familiar names who distinguished themselves on high school athletic fields in Davidson County.
They're in college now and last weekend, they all did quite well for themselves.
Lassiter, playing as a true freshman at North Carolina, went 4-for-5 with two RBIs in a 6-2 win over Clemson that began on Sunday and ended on Monday due to stormy weather. It can be said that Lassiter is storming through college pitching. Heading into Wednesday's game at UNC-Wilmington, Lassiter is hitting .390 with an on-base percentage of .541.
If he keeps it up, Lassiter is setting the table for a nice career in professional baseball. The Arizona Diamondbacks drafted him in the 16th round last year. Just think of the possibilities if Lassiter tears it up for three years at UNC. He could be a first-round draft pick as a junior just like Levi Michael. Right now it looks like the sky is the limit for Lassiter.
Tysinger, a freshman at Catawba College, pitched 4 2/3 innings of one-hit relief, striking out seven, in a 6-1 win over Tusculum. From the time she hit .800 in the Final Four as a freshman at Central Davidson and helped the Spartans win a state championship, Tysinger has played at a very high level. The seven strikeouts gave her 238 for the season, a school record.
Then she broke her own record on Tuesday — and set another one.
Catawba swept Brevard 2-0 and 9-0, as Tysinger hurled a seven-inning one-hitter and a five-inning two-hitter. She is now 20-6 with a 1.14 earned run average and 248 strikeouts in 171 2/3 innings. Tysinger's nine shutouts for the season is a new single-season record, breaking the old mark of eight set by teammate Emily B. Huneycutt two years ago. With three more seasons to go, Tysinger looks like a lock to set all the career records at Catawba.
Ramsey was the staff ace at North Davidson with a fastball timed as high as 94 mph. Stuff like that gets one noticed by the pro scouts and the Kansas City Royals drafted the tall, lanky right-hander in the 28th round. Ramsey chose to go to UNC-Wilmington and he's making his mark there. In a 6-3 win over Old Dominion, Ramsey scattered four hits and gave up an unearned run in seven innings. Secrest, another former Black Knight, got the last out for his second save.
Things are shaping up quite well for Ramsey. A sophomore, Ramsey has a 4-2 record with a 1.46 ERA. If he keep this up, Ramsey could easily be drafted in the first 10 rounds after his junior year.
Hudson, a former three-sport standout at West Davidson, pitched two-thirds of an inning and got his second win of the season in UNC-Charlotte's 9-8 win over Virginia Commonwealth on Saturday. A junior left-hander, Hudson is 2-0 a 0.90 ERA in 10 innings.
Alexander, one of many great sofball pitchers to come out of North Davidson, went six innings and got the win in USC-Upstate's 7-5 triumph over Kennesaw State. A junior, Alexander is 12-2 with a 1.70 ERA and 90 strikeouts in 86 innings.
A good job by all.
Mike Duprez can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 218 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I'm not alone in owing my allegiance to zinfandel to things like old Ravenswood zin and David Darlington's book Angels' Visits. These days you might know Ravenswood as a ubiquitous brand on grocery store shelves across the U.S. Back in the day, Ravenswood was a small Somona producer of serious zinfandel, wine at the time considered "big" but downright subtle by today's alcohol and ripeness standards. I can relate to founder Joel Peterson, starting a winery with a day job and a passion or obsession with a certain vision for wine.
Nearly 20 years ago when I got into wine, I first read Angels' Visits, what was a new book at the time. Subtitled An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel, it was just that -- a journalist's inquiry into the story and appreciation of California zin. If you like wine and wine books, you might have found like I have that you can read a good book about wine, even wine you don't know about or care about, and both LOVE the book and find yourself compelled to seek out the wines mentioned therein. Good travel writing is similar. You read something and find yourself compelled to travel somewhere you would never have guessed. Happily, with wine that travel can be a lot simpler.
Angels' Visits is one of those books, and something that many wine lovers I know will easily suggest if asked about good wine books for a summer trip or just lounging around the house, preferably with a glass in hand. It's set in the late '80s, chronicling the '88 harvest at Ravenswood with lots of juxtaposition with Ridge winery down in the Santa Cruz mountains, another zinfandel legend.
There's also a great recounting of zin's mysterious history in California, somewhat out of date given more recent genetic study of zinfandel's origins but still worth knowing for the CA history and what zinfandel meant twenty and more years ago. There are visits to specific vineyards, like Old Hill and Dickerson, and California wine legends like Darryl Corti of Corti Brothers in Sacramento. There's dinner at Chez Panisse, reason enough to read anything in my mind. And there's homebrewed zin. The author Darlington contributed to my winemaking inspriation by making his own home zin with Ravenswood-sourced grapes as a narrative foil to the zins he observed in production all over northern California during the time he wrote the book.
One of the several threads in the book is the critical reception of the 1987 Ravenswood Zinfandel Dickerson Vineyard. Dickerson is one of the top sites for zin in California, interesting for being in Napa (cabernet country) where most top flight zinfandel comes from Ravenswood's home, Sonoma. Dickerson is known for producing wines with intense minty eucalyptus character, like the old Martha's vineyard in Napa, similarly surrounded by oily eucalyptus trees. Without being a spoiler, near the end of Angels' Visits we learn that Robert Parker of The Wine Advocate has awarded the '87 Ravenswood Dickerson 93 points, then an extremely high score (things have changed in that arena). The implication is that the Dickerson reputation is reaffirmed.
Fast forward to last year when I found a bottle of 1987 Ravenswood Dickerson Zinfandel at auction for a pittance. Why not buy and see if a premise in the book, supported by Parker's reviews at the time, was true - zinfandel could age and Ravenswood Dickerson zin especially could age, perhaps turning Bordeaux-like.
So with Thanksgiving dinner, the American holiday, a quintessential American wine opened alongside a cabernet-based Bordeaux, the 1994 Cos d'Estournel St. Estephe. The Cos was prototypical Medoc wine, gravelly cassis and bell peppery cabernet with resolving tannin, a good amount of French oak, but nice length and savor. I was really impressed with this wine, which is still young but drinking well. By contrast the 1987 Ravenswood Dickerson was evolved, still together and to my taste delicious but clearly on the far end of the evolutionary spectrum. Not tannic as the Wine Spectator apparently complained on release. Lots of eucalyptus notes that people seem to either love or hate (the former for me in this case). And sweet/savory dried red fruit flavors that went well with the earthy flavors of Thanksgiving dinner.
Before you dismiss the zinfandel as an overdone new world mess unfit for any dinner table, note the 13.8% alcohol on the label, back when that was high, justifying Ravenswood's now tired slogan "no wimpy wines." Whatever happened to 13% range zinfandel that can age and match with food, even decades into its life? There are a few still out there, but if you're like me, you're also trolling the auctions to find these lately unwanted gems. And thinking about pulling out Angels' Visits for yet another read. Like some wine, great books can get better with time.
November 28, 2010
1987 Ravenswood Zinfandel Dickerson Vineyard
Posted by Vincent Fritzsche at 6:05 PM
1 comment:
- Florida Jim said...
Four years ago, I met David in Berkeley and asked for a signed copy of his book. He had none. However many there exist, they are in circulation.
And I met Joel Peterson a couple weeks ago after not having seen him for probably ten years. We talked about some of those old Dickerson, Old Hill wines, several of which we had tried together that decade ago.
Just interesting that your article brought these two guys to mind - both, artists in their own right.
Best, Jim
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Soren Kierkegaard distinguished between three stages of existence.1 He referred to the base as the aesthetic stage, where man is committed solely to the fulfillment of his own personal desires, much in the mold of Machiavelli. The next step is the ethical stage, where man is drawn outside himself and sees obligations to others as superceding his own wants. Finally, the religious stage is the synergy of man with the Absolute. If we contemporize Absolute by defining it as empirically verifiable truth, we have a working system (albeit not one Kierkegaard would necessarily be fond of) with the third stage being the apex of an individual and by extension a society.
Why, then, does the information dissemination structure, comprised of the great triumvirate of news media, Hollywood, and academia, viciously fight to squelch the notion of human biodiversity by ignoring and marginalizing the deluge of research that suggests it is fundamental to the differences in human populations? Because there is a new secular religion borne out of the 1960s that has swept across the West that demands the equality of outcomes and the suspension of all judgment, moral or otherwise, by those non-member individuals or institutions in any position of authority. It started with Marx, but was reformed by men like Gramsci and Marcuse from being economically-based to being culturally-based. Realizing that capitalism would wipe communism every time the two came into conflict, they knew that the roots of capitalism had to first be eradicated. Christianity and the bourgeoisie class were the targets—the two stalwarts of a free market. Laying every evil of mankind on their shoulders was the way to destroy them.2
The egalitarianism myth is fundamental to this new religion—if it flounders the whole house comes down with it. A theory of massive blank-slates requires there be no fundamental differences in groups of people. This extends beyond equality under the law or spiritual equality in the eyes of God, both tremendous positives brought about by Christian Europe. They wish biological differences to be vanquished as well. Employing cultural Marxism, more benignly known as "political correctness," the new religion's adherents believe that the imbalance of power in societies and among people is artificial. All people and communities are said to equal at birth and differences only emerge due to societal (or "structural") forces. The apostles work to enforce this belief by harshly punishing those who deviate from or even question it.3
Kierkegaard called this tactic "leveling," and he would suffer dearly for coming up against the media establishment in his own time, where he was virulently scorned for his challenge to the conventional wisdom of the time.4 The faithfuls' riposte to any contrasting viewpoint is a combination of blackballing, character assassination, and supercilious ridicule. Unfortunately, the apostates possess a deadly weapon to strike back with: empirical evidence.
In Two Ages, Kierkegaard criticized leveling, describing how "it lets everything remain but subtly drains the meaning out of it… [it] has transformed the whole of existence into an equivocation."5 Frustrated by the age's desire to overthrow everything without discrimination for the sake of destroying it, he attacked the philosophical weakness and inherent lack of conviction in the equivocation that leveling desired. Today, we need not be so esoteric. Let us look now at facts that fatally stultify the egalitarianism myth.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler rabidly laments that "the Jewish influence on economic affairs grows with terrifying speed."6 He was not baseless in his assessment. Although Jews only represented 1% of Germany's population, they comprised an astounding 75% of Berlin's doctors, 80% of the country's theater directors, and a disproportionately large number of German lawyers.7 Hitler was so irked by Jewish cognitive superiority that he banned IQ tests in Germany after Jews consistently outscored the Gentile population.8 Perhaps his one-thousand year Reich have survived more than twelve years if Hitler had utilized his human capital instead of obliterating it or sending it scurrying to the enemy.
Successful Jews were not unique to Germany. In fact, to this day Ashkenazi (European ancestry) Jews are enormously successful virtually everywhere they go. Although they comprise less than 3% of the US population, 27% of Nobel Prize winners are Ashkenazi. Over half the world's chess champions are Jewish.9 A slew of intellectual titans also claim Ashkenazi ancestry, including Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, Bobby Fisher, and Sigmund Freud. IQ tests consistently show them scoring an average of 112-115 compared to the white European mean of 100 and the world average of 90.10 Yet by appearance and lifestyle, Ashkenazis are today indistinguishable from others of European descent. They go to the same schools, live in the same culture, and have the same friends as the goys they live amongst. The crucial difference is innate, and it is in the history.
Ever since the close of the fourth Century following the excoriations of Judaism by Church fathers like Saint John of Chrysostom and Saint Augustine of Hippo, European Jewish life has been largely segregated from that of Christians. The Church abhorred usury, and consequently Jews were heavily overrepresented in the areas of finance and banking. Only five percent of Jews worked in agriculture at a time when most Europeans were farmers.11 Thus, Jews relied heavily on intelligence for success. Financing and banking were among the most cognitively demanding occupations at the time. As Jews lived almost exclusively in urban areas, children were an economic liability rather than an asset as they were for farmers and other craftsmen. Therefore, the most successful Jews could afford to have the most children while the dullards could not, whereas struggling rustic non-Jews had huge families to help make ends. In addition, entering the religious order was a desired achievement that required great intellectual ability to be able to read and write in multiple languages and become well versed in theological and philosophical history and discussion. Monks were celibate, while rabbis were encouraged to have many children, thereby spreading their intelligence while many monks became a genetic dead-end. Finally, there was little intermarrying—Jews and Gentiles came from distinct stocks from before the fifth century until the mid-twentieth century, with a different set of natural selection forces at work on them. Less than one percent were thought to have married outside the Jewish community.12 Given that IQ is agreed to be 40-80% hereditable (with 75% being the most agreed upon), the differences we witness today are not surprising.13
Terrified by Jews who threaten to shatter the appeal of their special interests—that they are victims of relentless white oppression—other minority group leaders attack this tremendously successful one. Radical Colorado University Professor and Native American activist Ward Churchill rages about the "clear, and often quite overtly expressed, desire among many Jews to claim an absolute monopoly in terms of genocidal suffering."14 In the run up to the election of a new California Governor to replace ousted Gray Davis, an advocate of Aztlan's creation (making the Southwestern US become an independent nation and home for displaced Aztecs) named Ernesto Cienfuegos wrote that criticism of Cruz Bustamante (who was seeking the Governorship) was an "attack by the Jews to keep in check the emerging Mexican-American community of Alta California and to continue perpetuating their power in Sacramento."15 Black activist and former Presidential candidate Al Sharpton famously exclaimed after being heckled that "I am already in hell. I'm in Israel."16
But wait! We are attempting to use Darwinian evolution to explain biological differences in human populations. Yet was not Social Darwinism merely a perverse rendering of Charles Darwin's watershed discovery that was discredited after Hitler's atrocious disaster? Further, is not race just a social construction rather than a biological one? So goes the criticisms of "the lightly equipped encyclopedists" Kierkegaard writes of, who believe that because they have heard a bit about everything they are infinitely erudite, when in actuality they are "overwhelmed by delusions."17 That Richard Rorty proclaims it to be self-evident that classifications like "homosexual," "negro," and "female," are "inventions that have done more harm than good," does not make it a veritable truth.18
Curiously, Hitler's systematic destruction of six million people in the name of inequality has made the discussion of human biological differences anathema, while Stalin's 25 million dead and Mao's 20 million dead—both in the name of equality—has not ended the ebullient enthusiasm for unfettered egalitarianism. Yet the facile proposition that differences are due to how groups are treated by hegemons is at best only partially true. Ashkenazis are particularly potent in refuting this assumption, as they are historically the most persecuted group in the world and yet have become the most fruitful today. Ashkenazis, Koreans, Africans, and indigenous South Americans have all been brutally oppressed by industrialized nations. This cruelty is to be lamented and disdained for sure. But what is interesting is the vast variance in how these populations have made it in the world, with the former two being extraordinarily successful while the latter have not been able to adapt as well to a technologically advanced world that has been thrust upon them.
The first step we can suggest to those who believe evolution abruptly shuts off at the human level—after autioning them that they may shortly feel the urge to rip the Darwin fish-creature off the back of their cars—is for said epigones to read the full title of Darwin's work, rather than the politically-correct abridged version: The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. It is difficult to imagine a phrase more inflammatory today than "favoured races," and yet proponents for intelligent design fail to utilize the cultural Marxist's own weapon against them. Darwin believed there to be differences between races, though it is crucial that he used "races" rather than the singular term "race."19 Different races have been naturally selected for the environments they live in by a process taking place over tens of thousands of years since we first began breaking away from the simians. As Darwin writes, "Natural selection in each well-stocked country, must act chiefly through the competition of the inhabitants one with another, and consequently will produce perfection, or strength in the battle for life, only according to the standard of that country."20 Clearly, Darwin understood that humans were not separated from the rest of life on earth, somehow immaculately free from the stains of diversity. In fact, humans are among the most physically diverse species on the planet, outdone only by domesticates that have been eugenically bred (like dogs).21 Different groups display different abilities and tendencies. Consequently, the desire to "level" the end result of groups or individuals is unnatural and a recipe for tension—or worse—between groups.
"If simultaneously we could spread the notion that it is all make-believe, we would approve and admire… but privately know that nothing decisive is supposed to be meant by it. And we will not be repentant, for after all we are not demolishing anything," wrote Kierkegaard, mocking the established order of his day.22 And so goes the same today in regards to that elusive term "race." There is no specific "white" or "black" gene. But that is due to the fact that race is a relative term to denote a basket of differences between human populations. It can be used to differentiate blacks from whites, Germans from British, or Irish Protestants from Irish Catholics. It is, in essence, an extended family from which there is some inbreeding present (if there were no such inbreeding we would each have billions of ancestors wandering the earth thousands of years ago, as our family pedigrees would expand indefinitely and exponentially as we moved up them.)23 A solid definition of "extended family" is equally elusive, yet no one would seriously deny the hereditary relationship between family members—if that is the case, we had all best call up our contingency lawyers to go after those swindling doctors who have been scamming us by proscribing routine check-ups based on our family history!
Geography provides a terse analogy that is initially less contentious: Are not geographical demarcations artificial? We do not see a black line in the sand separating Mexico from the US, Johnson County from Wyandotte County, or the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern Hemisphere. Yet these distinctions are of great utility as the environment in each generally varies from the other, with broader (or larger) groupings displaying more pronounced differences—as the contrasts of Canada and Mexico are more stark than those of Miami and Johnson counties. Similarly, both are going to share some traits, at least in some segments of their total area, but the tallest mountains are going to be found in Canada and the warmest weather will reside in Mexico. Likewise, race can be sliced up in countless ways, with individuals in the group differing from one another and sometimes being very similar to a member of another group, but on average there are valuable differences extant between the groups nonetheless.
Let us quickly take a few more of the most conspicuous examples of differences between populations (a term essentially interchangeable with race) before moving on. Running is a universal sport that nearly everyone can participate in and anyone can detect a natural talent for. Yet the 100 fastest sprinters in the world are all of West African descent, and not a single top runner is of Asian ancestry, even though the continent contains over half of the world's population.24 Clearly running ability is orders of magnitude away from being random—it is genetic. White males are at six times greater risk for contracting melanoma than are males of other races.25 East Asians score nearly a standard deviation higher on visuo-spatial IQ tests than white Europeans, going a long way to explain their relative dominance in fields like engineering, chemistry, and mathematics yet they fall around four or five points below white Europeans in verbal-analytical scores, which suggests an explanation for lower numbers of East Asians in fields like law or the humanities.26
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger adroitly observed, "Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy." That the relationship between males and females is portrayed as a competition, while seemingly jocular, is actually dangerously ignorant. Men are going to "win" in some arenas, and women will be victorious in others. It would be sagacious to, accepting that, look at the biological differences rooted in tens of thousands of years of human existence and base societal norms on each gender's relative advantages. But the second wave of feminism, emerging in the 1960s, militantly attacked the perceived differences of men and women in society as being one in which "men raped women physically, economically and spiritually."27 If everyone is truly the same, and it is exclusively the apocryphal nature of social constructions that make us think otherwise, then the only explanation is (non-genetic) male oppression! Of course, this begs the question of how men became dominant in the first place if no meaningful distinction can truly be made between the abilities of men and women, but we should not digress.
There is hardly any better demonstration of this fallacious thinking than the Harvard President Lawrence Summers fiasco in January 2005. In a meeting convened to discuss possible reasons that men so heavily dominate the top echelons of the hard-sciences (like mathematics, science, and engineering), Summers suggested among a host of other potential explanations that innate differences in intelligence distribution between men and women might account for the disparity. He was crucified for heresy by the cultural hegemons. The former Clinton official had to pony up $50 million in Harvard revenues and earmark them for "diversity efforts" including increased affirmative action hires and a "commitment to the advancement and support of women in academic life" at the school.28
Kierkegaard wrote that furtive envy "does not understand that it is itself a negative acknowledgment of excellence but wants to degrade it, minimize it, until it actually is no longer excellence, and envy takes as its object not only the excellence which is but that which is to come."29 His criticism was directed at those who leveled attacks at others out of a covetous desire for the knowledge or possessions they held. He could have been writing last week. The evidence for differences between sexes is overwhelming. Women have more white matter in the brain while the brain of men contains more gray matter. Different areas of the brain are activated for reasoning, emotive response, memory formation, and decision-making. Men outperform women on visuo-spatial and quantitative tests while women clean up on vocabulary and reading comprehension.30 The distribution of IQ is wider for men than for women by about one point per standard deviation, although the mean value is the same for both sexes.31 This means that 99.7% of white women (average 100) are contained between IQs of 55 and 145, while for white men it must be expanded slightly to IQs of 52 and 148 to achieve 99.7% of the population. Thus, there are more men at the highest (and lowest) intellectual echelons in society—exactly what Summers suggested.
Why then, with science on his side, was Summers persecuted successfully, especially when the discussion revolved around scientific questions? "No particular individual will be able to halt the abstraction of leveling, for it is a negatively superior force," wrote Kierkegaard about the culture in 1846.32 The stranglehold does not easily loosen. Charles Reich, a counterculture drone, enthusiastically wrote that cultural Marxism "is now spreading with amazing rapidity, and already our laws, institutions, and social structure are changing in consequence."33 What he proclaimed in 1971 was firmly implanted in the minds of Ivy Leaguers in 2005 when Harvard's faculty gave a vote of no-confidence to the institution's president for his suggestions.
Even if true, the question is sometimes asked, what good does pointing out innate differences in individuals and by extension populations do? Conditioned by years of relentless "discrimination is evil" coupled with the "inequitable results must entail discrimination" bromides, it is an understandable concern. The largely unchallenged thinking goes as follows: "If non-Hispanic whites in the US earn more per year on average than blacks, white racism must be the culprit." Kierkegaard abhors how "the drunken sailor has absolutely the same right to a public as the most distinguished of men."34 Interestingly, Asian-Americans, who have crime rates half that of whites and who outperform whites educationally and economically, are almost always ignored in media reports on racial inequality.35 They too inconveniently throw a wrench into the "white oppression" model. Irrational discrimination is wrong, as the civil rights struggle in the United States has shown. But a capitalistic republic relies on the ability of individuals and institutions to make rational choices. Neo-Marxist socialism mandates a loss of that right at grave expense, and we will pay dearly for it. Let us look at a couple issues where acknowledging human biodiversity could be of great benefit.
Unfettered immigration has taken its toll on the Southwestern Border States. California has been especially hard hit. Only a decade ago, California was the US cognitive treasure chest enjoying some of the nation's highest school test scores while being equipped with Silicon Valley and Hollywood. How the mighty have fallen. Saddled with almost $25 billion in debt with a infrastructure that is collapsing, the state was forced to close seven ERs in Los Angeles alone when they could not find their way out of the red as swarms of uninsured patients were continuously taken in.36 The state scored 44th in mathematics and 49th in reading in 2003 (out of fifty-one, including DC), among the very worst in the nation on the NAEP standardized test.37 Over one-quarter of its population is foreign-born, the highest percentage in the country, and one-third of its population is Hispanic.38 As far as even the fourth generation, Hispanics are only one-fifth as likely as the rest of the country to receive any education beyond high school.39 Leaving the discussion of why this is aside, such statistics clearly raise warning flags about the ability of the US to sustain a rapidly growing foreign-born population that tops 32 million, of which over half are from Latin America.40 Forty-one percent of foreign-born US residents from Latin America make less than $20,000 per year compared to only 16.5% of natives.41 The tax revenue derived from such an income ($5,000 as a liberal estimate) comes nowhere near covering the cost of education ($10,000 per child), road wear, police and medical services, jail facilities, and other infrastructure. With an $8 trillion national debt and unfunded liabilities of ten times that amount, the US can scarcely afford to be so profligate.42 Bring this into the debate, however, and at instant one becomes "racist" or "anti-Hispanic." The policy suggestion borne out of such a fact, however, is not one of racial motivation. Instead, it calls for some measure of merit-based immigration that is controlled so that those entering the US are both accounted for and judged to be a net benefit to the sovereign nation.
A non-violent liberal democracy sweeping over the Middle East would be a dream come true. The US has spent nearly 2,000 American lives and $150 billion to help make it happen. But given even the best efforts of a noble and effective military, is this plausible? The average IQ of Iraq is estimated to be eighty-seven.43 Income and IQ are inexorably linked, and it has been found that countries with per capita incomes of under $3,000 per year historically do not ever become (or remain if installed externally) democracies.44 Iraq totters dangerously at $3,500 and Islamic culture does not mesh well with democratic ideals.45 Hopefully it will succeed nonetheless, but such concerns should be brought up. At a recent online discussion when I did just that, the one I was debating gave this stellar response: "I cannot believe you just wrote this. You should be ashamed of yourself."46 It seems that Iraq's intellectual capital could be increased if the damaging frequency of consanguineous marriage was reduced, and Western-style leaders may be able to help ameliorate that in time. Currently, half of all Iraq men are married to someone who is a second cousin or closer, a fact that is definitely contributing to lower intelligence and a host of other problems that are borne out of inbreeding at such close proximity.47
Finally, there is the incendiary issue of eugenics. The mere mention of the word makes people uncomfortable, and with good measure. The unintended consequences could be devastating as the science fiction industry can attest to. Unless it is situated next to the word "Nazi," it is not to be found cultural Marxist media machine, as it is blasphemous. By equating eugenic practices with Nazism and "reminding people of the past it can discourage them from all else."48 But a dearth of discussion on the subject is risky as well, for in a country of 1.3 billion people it has long been taking place.
Some 91% of Chinese scientists believe eugenic practices to be beneficial.49 The PRC has in place a law calling for the "sterilization of morons."50 Of course, the Chinese hardly have a history of success in managing people, as Mao's tragic Great Leap Forward demonstrates. The idea of forced sterilization is abhorrent to the West and to most of civilization in addition to being dangerous. Yet a more humane policy in the West could be of benefit if it was kept strictly voluntary. Sperm banks charge upwards of $5,000 for the sperm of high-IQ donors, and eggs from Ivy League graduates can fetch a price of $50,000 in some cases.51 Conversely, the non-profit CRACK (Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity) pays drug-addicted women to become sterilized.52 These stories are buried in the news if mentioned at all yet they deserve attention as both are potentially quite beneficial. As the technology advances, affluent people are going to use positive eugenic services increasingly—by not making it a public issue, we may be dooming lower classes to an even more disadvantaged status.
To attack individuals for bringing to light contentious but important issues because the result might be damaging to an ideology or purpose is fascism. Quixotically trying to mold the world to fit a preconceived notion of how things ought to be has an ugly history: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao just to name a few. Yet cultural Marxism seeks to do just that: "It now turns polemically against individuals—in order to save every single individual religiously."53 Most who react so viscerally against the suggestion of human biodiversity as a potent factor in the makeup of our world do not have a clandestine motivation—they have simply been conditioned to believe that such a suggestion, irrespective of the evidence, must be inherently evil. If that does not demonstrate a "leveling" via secular dogmatism, it is unclear what does. I realize Kierkegaard would likely come down on the side of the illogical existentialist rather than the stoic empiricist, as the latter is the object of his criticism in Two Ages. Yet in his time it was the pseudo-scientist that was perceived to hold the monopoly. Today, the tables have turned, and people are artificially discouraged from being individualistic (that is, seeking verifiable truth) in the name of individualism. Hopefully Kierkegaard would have detested that. By keeping us locked in the aesthetic stage where we live for ourselves by the approval of others, we are barred from perceiving the truth that bubbles just below the surface. Confronting reality can be difficult and even painful at times, but ultimately the truth shall set us free.
1. Clark, Kelly James et al. 101 Key Terms in Philosophy and Their Importance for Theology. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. p 46-47.
2. Buchanan, Patrick J. The Death of the West. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. p. 80-87.
3. Lind, Bill. "The Origins of Political Correctness." Accuracy in Academia Address. Speech delivered in 2000 at American University, Washington DC.
4. Shepherd, Victor. "Soren Kierkegaard." June 1999. 22 July 2005. <>
5. Kierkegaard, Soren. "Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age." A Literary Review. 30 March 1846. p. 253
6. Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. Mariner Books, 1997. Volume I, Chapter II.
7. "Arithmetic Questions in a German schoolbook." (translated) Rachenbuch fur Volksschulen. Melle, 1941. (Provided me by Professor Frances G. Sternberg of The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education)
8. Sailer, Steve. "Jewish Telegraph Agency on Ashkenazi Intelligence by Cochran and Harpending." Steve Sailer blog Archives. 8 June 2005. 23 July 2005. <>
9. Owen, James. "Did Discrimination Enhance Intelligence of Jews?" National Geographic News. 18 July 2005.
10. Dr. Cochran, Gregory et al. Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence. Department of Anthropology, University of Utah. May 2005.
11. ibid.
12. ibid.
13. Herrnstein and Murray. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. New York. Simon & Schuster, 1994. p. 23
14. Churchill, Ward. "Forbidding the 'G-word': Holocaust Denial as Judicial Doctrine in Canada." Other Voices. Feb 2000. 21 June 2005.
15. Cienfuegos, Ernesto. "Jews are behind attacks on Cruz Bustamante and MEChA." La Voz de Aztlan. 3 October 2003.
16. Newsmax News. "Sharpton Nixed Terror Victims for Arafat Lunch." 30 October 2001. 26 July 2005.
17. Kierkegaard, Soren. "Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age." A Literary Review. 30 March 1846. p. 253
18. Rorty, Richard. "Phony Science Wars." Atlantic Monthly. November 1999.
19. Sailer, Steve. "The Genetic Revolution: From Marx to Darwin to Galton." Speech delivered at Hudson Institute's Thatcher Weekend. 11 December 1999.
20. Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. 1859. Chapter Six.
21. Sailer, Steve. "The Genetic Revolution: From Marx to Darwin to Galton." Speech delivered at Hudson Institute's Thatcher Weekend. 11 December 1999.
22. Kierkegaard, Soren. "Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age." A Literary Review. 30 March 1846. p. 257
23. Sailer, Steve. "Making Sense of the Concept of Race: A Race is an Extremely Extended Family." Steve Sailer blog Archives. 1998. 24 July 2005. <>
24. Entine, John. Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk about it. Public Affairs, December 1999. BBC excerpt.
25. MMWR. "Deaths from Melanoma—United States, 1973-1992." Center for Disease Control. 5 May 1995.
26. Various authors. "Smart Fraction Theory II: Why Asians Lag." La Griffe du Lion. May 2004. Volume 6, Number 2.
27. "History of Women in the United States." Wikipedia. 12 July 2005. 24 July 2005.
28. Mac Donald, Heather. "Harvard's Diversity Grovel." City Journal. Spring 2005. Volume 15, Number 2.
29. Kierkegaard, Soren. "Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age." A Literary Review. 30 March 1846. p. 258
30. Kelly, Janis. "Men and Women Achieve Intelligence Differently." NeuroPsychiatry Reviews. March 2005. Volume 6, Number 2.
31. Langdon, Kevin and Seaborg, David. "Sex Differences in the Distribution of Mental Ability." Noesis. November 1999. Volume 144.
32. Kierkegaard, Soren. "Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age." A Literary Review. 30 March 1846. p. 259
33. Reich, Charles A. The Greening of America. New York: Bantam Books, 1971. p. 2
34. Kierkegaard, Soren. "Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age." A Literary Review. 30 March 1846. p. 263
35. Parker, Randall. "Wealth Gap Widening Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics." Parapundit. 18 October 2004. 26 July 2005.
36. Andersen, Hil. "Los Angeles Votes to Close Inner-city Trauma Unit." The Washington Post. 21 September 2004.
37. Parker, Randall. "Immigrants do not Improve Academically in Later Generations." Parapundit. 13 May 2004. 26 July 2005.
38. US Census. California: 2000.
39. Parker, Randall. "Immigrants do not Improve Academically in Later Generations." Parapundit. 13 May 2004. 26 July 2005.
40. *****. "Letter to Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (R)." The Audacious Epigone. 14 July 2005. 26 July 2005.
41. US Census. Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2003.
42. *****. "Letter to Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (R)." The Audacious Epigone. 14 July 2005. 26 July 2005.
43. Wikipedia. "IQ and the Wealth of Nations." From Lynn, Richard and Praeger, Tatu Vanhanen. IQ and the Wealth of Nations. 2002.
44. Goldberg, Jonah. "Democracy in Iraq." National Review. 31 March 2004.
45. Iraq, 2005. CIA World Factbook.
46. dmbmonkey. "Question for Conservatives." Nancies.org Discussion Forum. 26 June 2005. 26 July 2005.
47. Tierney, John. "Iraqi Family Ties Complicate American Efforts for Change." New York Times. 28 September 2003.
48. Kierkegaard, Soren. "Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age." A Literary Review. 30 March 1846. p. 261
49. BBC News. "Asia-Pacific Chinese Scientists Back Eugenics." 22 October 1998.
50. Sailer, Steve. "The Coming War over Genes: Darwin's Enemies on the Left." National Post. 1 December 1999.
51. Parker, Randall. "High Intelligence Sperm and Egg Donor Prices Rising." Futurepundit. 25 February 2003. 26 July 2005.
52. Ripston, Ramona and Watt, Kathleen. "Challenging Payment-for-Sterilization." ACLU of Southern California: News and Commentary. 12 November 1998.
53. Kierkegaard, Soren. "Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age." A Literary Review. 30 March 1846. p. 268


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BALTIMORE, MD - Johns Hopkins football coach Jim Margraff and his staff reminded the Blue Jay running backs in practice this week that the longest scoring run for the team in the first five games was 13 yards - by a quarterback! Further, despite averaging more than 240 yards per game on the ground, the longest rushing play to-date for the Blue Jays was 34 yards.
The tandem of sophomore Brandon Cherry and freshman Stuart Walters got the message loud and clear as the two combined to rush 29 times for 276 yards and two touchdowns to fuel a 42-17 victory for the 15th-ranked Blue Jays (6-0m 5-0 Centennial) over visiting Dickinson at Homewood Field Friday night. JHU had four runs that covered more than 40 yards in the game, including two that went for touchdowns.
After the team's traded first-quarter touchdowns, Walters turned the game with a pair of scoring runs that covered 49 and 44 yards in a seven-minute span midway through the second quarter. His 49-yard run capped a five-play, 71-yard drive less than two minutes into the period and he polished off a four-play, 61-yard drive with just over six minutes remaining before intermission with his 44-yard run. Both runs came after he started to the right, but cut back across the field and out-raced the defense to the corner of the end zone.
Dickinson (2-4, 2-3) sliced the deficit to 21-10 on a 36-yard field goal by Adam Kaminski on the last play of the second quarter and JHU held the 11-point margin until late in the third quarter, when quarterback Robbie Matey found senior tight end Brendan Hartman in the middle of the end zone from 15 yards out to push the lead to 28-10.
The Johns Hopkins defense allowed a total of just 61 yards on Dickinson's first three possessions of the second half - 54 of which came on one drive - and the Blue Jays dashed any hopes of a Red Devil comeback when Matey found senior Jared Beekman running free in the middle of the field for a 22-yard touchdown three plays into the fourth quarter. The scoring toss to Beekman came one play after a 47-yard run by Matey converted a third-and-two from the Blue Jay 31-yard line.
Dickinson quarterback Cole Ahnell, who rushed for 92 yards in the game, directed a nifty 11-play, 56-yard drive that he finished with a five-yard touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter that made it 35-17 with still more than eight minutes remaining in the game, but the Blue Jay defense forced a pair of Red Devil punts down the stretch and freshman Dionisio Roman scored from 10 yards out with 3:16 remaining to close the scoring for Johns Hopkins. Cherry set up Dionisio's touchdown with a career-best 60-yard run one play earlier.
Cherry rushed 14 times for a career-high 152 yards, while Walters became the first freshman at Johns Hopkins since 2006 to rush for 100 yards in a game as his 15 carries netted 124 yards and the two scores. This is the 17th time in school history that Johns Hopkins has had two players rush for more than 100 yards in the same game.
Matey was 14-of-24 for 150 yards and three touchdowns passing and also rushed three times for 56 yards as the Blue Jays punched up a season-high 360 yards on the ground, the ninth-highest single-game total in school history.
Ahnell's 92 yards rushing were more than half of the 178 the Red Devils gained on the night. Cedric Madden added 43 yards on eight carries and also connected with Colin Rodgers on a 37-yard halfback pass late in the first quarter that set up Dickinson's first touchdown - a 10-yard run by Mike Capone that answered a five-yard touchdown pass from Matey to Bradley Munday to open the game.
Sophomore linebacker Keith Corliss led the Blue Jay defense with a career-high 12 tackles, while junior defensive end Michael Longo added seven tackles, including two for losses, 1.5 sacks and forced fumble. The Devils converted just 3-of-15 third-down opportunities and Johns Hopkins registered 11 tackles for losses in the game.
Michael Miller notched a team-high nine tackles for Dickinson, but the Blue Jays averaged 9.7 yards per rush and 8.4 yards per play in running their winning streak against the Red Devils to seven games.
Johns Hopkins will return to action on Saturday, October 26 when the Blue Jays travel to Gettysburg to take on the Bullets.
Notes: Johns Hopkins ran its regular season home winning streak to 16 games and its October winning streak to 11 games with tonight's victory • Robbie Matey moved into a tie for fourth place on JHU's career victories list by starting quarterbacks as he is now 18-2 in his career • Johns Hopkins posted more than 500 yards of total offense (510) for the fourth straight game and the fifth time in six games • JHU is 6-0 for the third straight year and the fifth time under head coach Jim Margraff • Senior Dan Wodicka had four receptions to push his career total to 234 - he is now second in Centennial Conference history in career receptions and just seven shy of Justin Salton's (F&M) league record • JHU is now 31-13-1 all-time at home under the Friday Night Lights.
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It's Etodolac (Lodine). The reason Im not keen on taking them is, first of all, I like a wee drink and I dont think those mix well with alcohol in the stomach. Second of all, the flares dont happen every day so I wonder if there's any point taking the pills every day.
So here's my question - how do these anti inflamms work? Are they like DMARDs which take a while to build up, or are they meant to be instant relief (within a couple of hours i mean)?
If they're meant to be instant relief, then there's no point me taking them because they dont make a difference. I tried naproxen before too and it didnt work.
But maybe I'm meant to take them for a long period of time??
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I forgot to ask my doctor. :)
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I have found a process that works for me. I too have the mini-flares in my feet. When you wake up in the morning, you pretty much know if it is going to be one of those days, so I have a cup of coffee straight away, wait 30 minutes and get on my exercise bike and do 5 minutes (ONLY). Then every couple of hours repeat the exercise, but the coffee only again at lunch. Both exercise and cofee (if you don't abuse either) will raise your cortisol levels. I ususally takes one day of this and I am good to go for a few weeks.ReplyDelete
I don't know about you, but I usually know right when I wake up if the day is going to be good or crappy. If it's crappy, I usually try to take some anti-inflams/pain meds right when I wake up. That way, by the time I lazily stroll out of bed and off to start my day, the meds are on their way to working.ReplyDelete
If it's a good day, I don't take those and I enjoy me some drink :)
so you think they work straight away, in a couple of hours?ReplyDelete
i dont know, i generally wake up feeling ok all the time and then a flare might creep up on me in the afternoon or evening. and like i said earlier, i dont notice a difference when i take the anti inflamms for just a day or two.
I get good, fast results from naproxen but have tried to others (mobic, diclofenac) that do absolutely nothing for me. So it may be worth a try! I am by no means a medical professional but I don't have problems with alcohol as long as I take them with food. Good lucck- foot flares are the PITS!ReplyDelete
Hmm maybe it's just a case of finding the right one then. Not tried diclofenac or mobic...ReplyDelete
All types of flares are the pits!! grr