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Interview with Lion Kim, an MGoBlog exclusive.
[Ed: bump for Masters.]
For the last year and a half, one of the most exciting collegiate golfers in the Big Ten Conference has been Michigan Golf Team captain Lion Kim. In a little more than a week, Lion Kim is going to be, for at least for the month of April of 2011, the most famous Michigan athlete on Earth: as the reigning United States Amateur Public Links champion, Lion has been invited to play in the 2011 Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club. He will be watched by a billion viewers on the Masters' worldwide telecast, and untold millions in his birthplace of South Korea.
Lion was born in Seoul, Korea and emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was barely a year old, first living in New Jersey where his father operated a New York area business, and then to Lake Mary, Fla., where he worked seriously on his competitive golf game before accepting a golf scholarship to the University of Michigan.
In the summer of 2009, the Michigan golf team barely qualified for the NCAA Division I Golf Championships to be held at the Inverness Golf Club in Toledo, the historic site of numerous USGA and
The 2009 NCAA D-I Championships marked a sea change for collegiate golf; a new/retro format involved team-match play with teams grouped into brackets as in the NCAA basketball brackets. (For non-golfers, "match play" is where two golfers play against each other, counting whether each hole is won or lost. The Ryder Cup is a well-known team-match play format. "Medal play," on the other hand, is the format that most
The 2009 NCAA Golf Championship also marked a turning point for Lion Kim and the Michigan Golf Team. After having barely qualified, they proceeded to go to the semi-finals, including a thrilling victory over a highly-ranked
From then on, Lion Kim has become one of the best players in college golf. He qualified for almost every major amateur event last summer, and in five grueling North Carolina July days at the Bryan Park Golf Course in Greensboro, Lion Kim won the United States Amateur Public Links Championship. By tradition every year, the USAPL winner, as well as the United States Amateur finalists and the winner of the British Amateur, are all invited to the Masters Tournament at Augusta.
I spoke to Lion last year; he was gracious to talk for a while as he was practicing for the Western Amateur at the Skokie Golf Club just outside of Chicago. At that time, he was looking back with satisfaction on his Masters-qualifying win in the
AP: Lion Kim clinches his final match in the USAPL, 6 and 5.
Section 1: Lion Kim welcome to MGoBlog and thank you so much for taking some time to talk with us while you're playing in the Western Amateur.
Lion Kim: Yeah, no problem.
S1: First of all congratulations on the US Amateur Public Links, but also congratulations for what really now has been a great run for you for going on for a little bit more than a year now. How does it feel to be a national champion?
LK: You know, obviously it is an amazing feeling; never did I think this summer that I would win one of the biggest Amateur golf tournaments in the world. Not just in the US but one of the amateur tournaments around the world and I just feel very honored to be named a national champion and at the same time it's very humbling because I realize that, you know, with this success obviously there is going to be some expectations now, and I enjoy those types of pressures and am really looking forward for the challenge ahead of me.
S1: Your own game, Lion, seems to have gone to a new level, at the same time that the Michigan Golf Team's collective game has gone to a new level starting back last year at the NCAA's at Inverness. Can you talk about that stretch of time for us?
LK: Well, yeah, I mean since then I obviously gained a lot of confidence at NCAA's and but you know overall just, I gained so much confidence in Michigan Golf Program and the coaches and in my teammates and obviously what we were able to do at Inverness Golf Club was amazing but at the same time, honestly in my opinion I was not really surprised because I knew our team was really capable of accomplishing big things like that and ever since then you know I personally gained a lot of confidence through that experience and I just knew actually that week that I am a good player and I really start to believe in myself and ever since then I just kept working hard and am just very lucky that all of my hard work paid off at the US Public Links Championship because obviously with that win, you know, I get some cool invites to
S1: Yeah it is going to be a very, very cool year for you coming up. Any particular memories from your time at Inverness? I was there, and I happened to be standing next to Bronson Burgoon when he hit that gap wedge shot on the last hole of the last match which was pretty exciting. What are your memories of Inverness?
LK: I guess I mean it is tough not to pick my shot on 17 to close out the deal against
S1: Yeah. How did it feel to play in that new NCAA format at Inverness?
LK: Well very exciting obviously. You know in match play, anything can happen and to be honest with you, we were a good team that year but we weren't a great team and
S1: Jack Nicklaus was very excited about that format and he thinks it is a great thing for college golf. He thinks it is a great thing for young golfers that want to be better golfers to get that experience in match play.
LK: Yeah I mean, I definitely agree with Mr. Nicklaus. I think that if you become a good match play player, if you're a great match play player, it really means that not only are you a good golfer but you are just mentally tough because in match play you just really have to be tough because how I like to think of the match play is when I see our opponent plays good, you just need to play great. And if your opponent plays great, you've just got to play phenomenal golf. There is nothing to it, you got to do whatever it takes to beat your opponent and you know, you just have to answer. That is the type of attitude I have in match play and again going back to what Mr. Nicklaus said, it makes you a better player I think, when you play a lot of match play events.
S1: Yeah. Did you meet him when you were down there at Inverness?
LK: Yes, I was very lucky enough to meet him at the player's dinner and I also actually have a picture that I took with him at the player's dinner and it is hanging up on my wall, the picture is hanging up on my wall in my home in New Jersey. A very special moment.
S1: Fantastic thing, to get a picture with him. Well you'll never forget that. I have my own picture of me caddying for him in 1973 when I was a 17 year old and he was at the peak of his powers then. At that time he was a few years younger than Tiger Woods is right now, so yeah you will love that picture forever. But I will tell you, Jack Nicklaus is a Buckeye through and through.
LK: Yeah I understood that. That is why it made it sweeter to even go up to him and say that I am Lion Kim and I play for the University of Michigan and he almost did not want to take a picture with me, but obviously he is a great man and it was just a fun thing I got from a little rivalry feeling between Ohio State and Michigan.
S1: Yeah, what is it like playing Ohio State in golf matches?
LK: You know obviously, it does not get as intense as it does in football. But we all know that Ohio State and Michigan have the best college rivalry. Maybe, in my opinion, the best rivalry in sports period. I mean it is just a fierce rivalry, but in golf, I mean Ohio State knows that they want to beat us really bad and same with us we want to beat them very bad. But at the end of the day know that we are friends and will be a gentleman and shake their hands, whatever the result is.
S1: We hear a lot about recruiting in football and basketball, but talk to us a little bit about recruiting in golf and about your own recruiting.
LK: Yeah, well you know I am a guy from Florida and everybody asked me why would I go to Michigan, going up north to play golf. You know when people or my buddies ask me that question, I say look -- plain and simple Jack Nicklaus went to Ohio State, Luke Donald went to Northwestern, Steve Stricker went to Illinois and I could go on and name all of these great players that have played school up in the Midwest or just north and you know I tell them that weather really should not be a factor and I understand golf is an outdoor sport but you know if you are really dedicated to the game and if you are really passionate you are going to find a way to improve no matter what the weather is like. That is the attitude that I have and since my first American home had been in New Jersey, I have seen the weather before and it was not really a surprise for me when I came up to Michigan.
S1: So, Joey Garber is coming down to Ann Arbor from Petoskey, he is really having a great summer too. He is out there in Chicago with you right now for the Western Am, right?
LK: Yes he is.
S1: And you have got one other teammate that has made the field at the Western?
LK: Actually there are four of us; including me and Joey, there is also Matt Thompson and Jack Schultz.
S1: (Laughs.) That's good; you calling Joey your teammate already.
Yes. (Laughs.) Right; he is, yes!
S1: Joey is having a really good summer. I am not sure; did he qualify as an alternate for USAmateur qualifying?
LK: Yeah, he is the second alternate right now. I think he just fell a couple of shots short to make it. But he is an alternate, he still has hope.
S1: So, you're exempt for the USAmateur by virtue of your great win in the Public Links. You did not have to go through qualifying, right?
LK: After my win I actually called the US AM the following day and said I am scheduled to play in my qualifier in a week and I said, you know I am guessing I am exempt, and they said yes you are exempt and we will just take your name off of the qualifying list and the lady was really nice and she said you are already set and no worries about showing up to your qualifying time. Which was a good feeling because a lot of guys over the summer really, even no matter how bad, or how poorly they were playing in the summer I think every college kid's goal in the summer really is to at least to play in the US Amateur. So, it is always in the back of our minds; Am qualifying. But for me luckily I won't have to qualify for a couple of years.
S1: Well for those that are not quite as tuned to it as you and I might be, the USAmateur is obviously the premier national championship for amateur golfers but in the exact same breath you would mention the USAmateur Public Links Championship which you won this year.
LK: Yes.
S1: The Public Links is kind of interesting because it was started specifically by the USGA to provide a championship for players that weren't members of private golf clubs.
LK: Yes.
S1: And honestly I will tell you Lion; before this interview with you I had never before seen the questionnaire form that you have to fill out for the Public Links. And they really do ask all of those questions about whether you are a member at a private club.
LK: Yeah, and you know what is funny is that they even call to make sure, they even call a club just to make sure that you are really not a member. The first year I qualified to apply for the Public Links, I sent in my application, got all of my travel arrangements ready and then someone from the USGA called me up and said, "Lion unfortunately you are not eligible to play in the Public Links yet because you did not get rid of your [Florida golf club] membership ahead of time..." What I learned then was that you have to go a full year without being a golf club member. And I had gotten rid of my club membership in high school because I was going away for college and obviously it would be a waste of money to spend the monthly payment when I am not going to be there for the majority of the year. So my dad figured well if I am not going to be there, then why bother paying all of this money. So we got rid of it. But yeah, it had been less than a year before that application. I mean they have some really strict rules, you know, they said you will be eligible for the next year, but not that year. So you're right; they are very strict about that.
S1: Yeah, it is a really interesting thing. I do not know if you were aware of it, but the origination of the United States Amateur Public Links came about way back I think in the 1920s as a result of a guy from Detroit, it was James Standish who was later a President of the USGA and a member at the Country Club of Detroit who had the idea to start the Amateur Public Links; it is his name that is on the trophy. You will have to look at your trophy to see if you see his name there.
LK: (Laughs.) Really, okay.
AP: Lion Kim, holding the Standish Trophy following his USAPL win.
S1: So there is a nice little Detroit connection there for the Amateur Public Links, he would sure be proud to see a guy from the University of Michigan win it...
Yeah, so as a result of your win at the Public Links you are going to Augusta.
LK: Ha, yes, that is the plan. I did not get my official invitation yet, but that is usually the tradition, I think when you do win the USGA, Public Links or US, you get invited to the Masters.
S1: I think you will get your invitation in about February.
LK: Haha. Okay.
S1: They will mail it to you and obviously your Masters Invitation is probably going to go into a frame and go into your office someday.
LK: Yeah, I will definitely frame it for sure.
S1: Yes. So, tell me have you ever been to Augusta?
LK: No I haven't. I have never even been to a practice round, never been to anywhere close to Augusta, the City of Augusta, period. So I am really looking forward to it. I plan on playing a practice round maybe in October. I look forward to going down there.
S1: Well I think that they will welcome you and they will be very, very happy to have you down there and you will get to see the Crow's Nest.
LK: Yeah, hopefully. I think all the Amateurs get to stay at the Crow's Nest so yeah I am looking forward to that too.
S1: So tell me who is going to caddy for you?
LK: I am not really sure yet. I mean, I have been asking a lot of my friends who have played there in the past and to be honest with you I am getting two kinds of advice. Some say you should take your dad or friend or a coach. Some people say you need to take a local caddy. But right now, I am not sure yet. I have not really made my decision. Obviously I will make my decision leading up to it, but I have a lot of time to really think about it. So, I am not really sure yet to tell you the truth.
S1: Sure, well when you go down there for a practice round, you may get a chance to meet some of the local caddies and they will surely be interested in you.
LK: Yeah, right, hopefully.
S1: You cannot believe how hilly it is. You just never see it on television. It just doesn't show up on a two-dimensional television screen. The whole thing is on a big side hill from the clubhouse at the top of the hill going all the way down to the 12th green and 13th tee, which is the lowest part of the property down there by the Rae's Creek. But the extent and the severity of the hills are just absolutely amazing. You have no idea, no appreciation until you see it live. So, it will be fun to go down there and see it for the first time.
LK: Hmm, yeah, really looking forward to it, very excited to see it.
S1: Well when you won the Amateur Public Links the first thing everyone was trying to think of was whether you would be the first University of Michigan team player to play in the tournament and as far as I have been able to tell, you are the first U of M student that will ever be a Masters' participant. But there have been some other Michigan guys that have played in it over the years. As far as I can tell the last Michigan alum who played in it was John Schroeder back in the 1970s and 80s. Before that you have to go back to the 1930s when Chuck Koscis and John Fisher played in it as amateurs then.
LK: Yep, definitely heard of Chuck Koscis for sure.
S1: Yeah, great iron player.
LK: Yes, that is what I heard.
S1: So, equipment-wise, when you go down to Augusta you are going to have to play by the new groove rules. Is that going to require you to change out anything in your bag?
LK: Ah yeah; probably my wedges. I know for sure my current wedges do not confirm with the new rule [The
S1: That is exactly right.
LK: Yeah, so I think that equipment-wise I think that my wedges will be the only clubs in my bag that I would have to switch out. But you know what, I think that I could get used to [tour-conforming wedges] very quickly. I have always practiced and played a couple rounds with the conforming groove and I did not really see a whole lot of difference. So, it should not be a whole lot of transition for me.
S1: Does Coach [Andrew] Sapp help you guys with equipment?
LK: Yes, Coach Sapp does and also fortunately for me, before I got to college I had a relationship with Titleist, so they have been helping me out since high school and even throughout right now. So, Titleist is the club that I usually play with. I found a new Taylor Made driver that was something different that I have played with for a couple months, but I am pretty sure that I will have Titleist driver in my bag leading up to the Masters.
If you get a chance to talk to talk [former Assistant] Coach Doug [Gross] he will tell you how many equipment changes I have gone through in my Michigan career. He thinks that I have probably gone through about 18 drivers since I have been in school. That is quite a bit.
S1: Sure. The new Titleist drivers are very cool; they are finally going to an adjustable hosel sleeve design which is going to make it a lot more fun, a lot easier to work with. I think the tendency with all of the Titleist drivers that you have been using in the past is that with the way that the hosel bore was set so deep -- that bore-through design -- it sort of ate up a lot of the tip on the shaft and kind of, kind of changed the way that shafts felt.
S1: Yeah.
S1: Well, lets do the lightning round here. I am going to ask you just a few fun questions, give me your fast answer, okay?
LK: Okay.
S1: Alright; your favorite place on the Michigan Campus, other than the golf course?
LK: Ahhh, Academic Center.
S1: (Laughs.) That's a good start, Lion.
LK: (Laughs.)
S1: Your favorite place to play golf anywhere?
LK: Ahh, I would have to go with Cypress Point in California.
S1: Oh, really you played there?
LK: Yeah, Coach Sapp and one of the Michigan alums, Tony Ridder, [he of the Knight-Ridder newspaper family] he invited the team to play at Pebble Beach, Cypress Point, San Francisco Golf Club and Spyglass.
S1: Wow.
LK: Yeah, we got to play some really nice tracks while we were down there. Beautiful, beautiful scenery.
S1: That's nice. San Francisco Golf Club is seriously nice, too.
LK: Yeah, very nice, right.
Tony Ridder (far left) with the Michigan Golf Team and Coach Sapp (far right) on the first tee at Pebble Beach Golf Links. (Lion Kim 3rd from right.)
S1: Okay, back to the lightning round. Your favorite website?
LK: Facebook
S1: What is on your Ipod?
LK: Korean music. The majority of them are all Korean music.
S1: That's cool. What is the weirdest thing in your golf bag?
LK: So you warned me about this question, so I have been thinking about that, it is actually my baby oil --
S1: Oh, wait, I know that. That's not so weird.
LK: (Laughter.) Haha, okay.
S1: I know that; you put baby oil on the finish of your Scotty Cameron putter. (Laughter.)
LK: Yes, correct, correct, it will rust.
S1: I have an old Scotty Cameron Oil Can Laguna, I have to put baby oil on that one as well.
LK: (Laughter.) Oh yeah, okay. Man you know a lot of stuff.
S1: (Laughter.) Well that is just the way that we take care of them, right?
LK: That's right. (More laughs.)
S1: Well Lion Kim, thank you so much for taking time while you are in the middle of a competitive week. We are all wishing you luck in the Western Am, which is one of the great amateur tournaments in the Country and we wish you success in the US Amateur out there in Chambers Bay and we send you sincere congratulations and the pride of everybody at Michigan on winning the US Amateur Public Links and being Michigan's National Champion in 2010.
LK: Thank you SO much. Thank you. It is very exciting and I feel very honored to always represent the block M everywhere I go, so it is an amazing feeling to be a National Champion of the year.
S1: Well, fantastic! Lion Kim Go Blue!
LK: Go Blue!
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So Cushman seems to have taken it upon herself to tell the story of her family, and specifically her father, from her perspective – leaving no topic off-limits.
"I try to frame it in a way that makes sense and resonates with people," Cushman told NBC News. "Like many families, we had a hard time and we've all moved on. And we're all focused on helping each other."
In fact, several times during her five-stop jaunt through South Carolina's Upstate, Cushman chose to address the divorce issue head on, using a half/serious, half/humorous anecdote about when her father and then-boyfriend Jimmy Cushman met for the first time, at a bar.
Standing next to two other men at the bar, Cushman said she heard one say, "There's Newt Gingrich. I heard he abandoned his wife and children."
"I felt compelled to turn around and explain to this guy that that was not true," Cushman told a group of supporters at a cocktail party in Greenville. "And I almost felt bad for him because obviously he was shocked and terribly embarrassed."
He was, Cushman suggested, a consumer of misinformation, which Gingrich has been combating since his days on Capitol Hill.
"I let you know that story -- it is kind of funny -- to let you know that there are a lot of things out there that aren't true," Cushman said, imploring the 20 supporters gathered to visit the "answers page" at Newt.org for more information about the divorce issue.
Cushman also mentioned several times a different story dealing with a much-publicized scenario in which Gingrich visited his soon-to-be-ex wife Battley in the hospital.
Reports at the time said Gingrich demanded a divorce while Battley was on her deathbed; Cushman recently wrote an op-ed saying the divorce was already in progress and her mother was getting a tumor, which was benign, removed.
In Cushman's anecdote, a woman who heard the hospital story said she thought Cushman's mother was dead. "Because she had heard these terrible rumors on the Internet which are not true, she assumed that my mother must be dead," Cushman said.
In addition to, as she puts it, "setting the record straight" about her father, Cushman also intends to show voters how Gingrich has changed since leaving the public eye. For one, his faith is deeper, she said, as a result of trying to move beyond his infidelity.
"He's talked about how he's made mistakes in his past. He's talked about how he's had to ask for God's forgiveness. He' stalked about reconciling with God and with others," she said.
His professional demeanor has also changed, she said.
"Because he hasn't been in the public eye for over a decade, when you first mention his name, many people think about the news reports that were reported when he was speaker. And he had thousands and thousands of negative articles at that time," Cushman said.
"But in addition to being disciplined, he's now very cheerful and very optimistic and I think it's a very good example of a happy warrior out on the campaign trail," she added.
She also dismissed as sour grapes complaints from his former Congressional colleagues, like Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) who called Gingrich too erratic and self-centered to be president.
"He balanced the budget with President Clinton. He reformed welfare, cut spending and cut taxes. That is a level of real change in Washington and to go through that type of change, not everyone is going to feel comfortable," she said.
Gingrich also occasionally defend her father's recent proclamations on the campaign trail. One voter at the Spartanburg Republican Party's Christmas party, the last event of the day, brought up Gingrich's assertion that he would potentially subpoena "activist judges" to justify any controversial rulings.
"It's fairly steeped in controversy right now," said Hugh McMillan, 63, of Spartanburg.
Just as she had with the more personal issues of the day, Cushman explained her dad's side of the story, saying that he supported abolishing entire courts, like the Ninth Circuit of Appeals, if they were found to have gone "beyond how originally they were set up in terms of our Founding Fathers."
She then, as she had for questions over the divorces, referred McMillan to Newt.org, which addresses both the personal and the political, and those instances in which the two are hard to distinguish.
But Cushman did most of the defending of her father face-to-face with voters.
This close to the holidays, Cushman said that Gingrich was nothing like the grouchy Christmas antagonist with a similar name as his: the Grinch.
"He's my dad and he's never stolen my Christmas," Cushman said. "He wasn't that person then and he's not that person now."


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Reader Peter Rice is retired from the United States Foreign Service. He spent his first four years with the government as an Army officer, including one year of service in Vietnam. Mr. Rice writes to comment on Susan Rice and the Washington Post editorial "The GOP's bizarre attack on Susan Rice." As Mr. Rice points out below, the adjective "bizarre" more aptly applies to the Post editorial:
This past Thursday the Washington Post published what I view as its most bizarre editorial ever. They condemned all who oppose Susan Rice as the next US secretary of state, implying that the opposition is largely racist white men from former Confederate States. In addition to the bizarre editorial, see the 5000-plus comments that it generated.
Ninety-seven members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to President Obama concerning the nomination of Susan Rice to be the next Secretary of State. Notably, two black Republican Representatives, Tim Scott and Allen West, as well as a number of female Republicans, also signed the letter. Apparently, the Washington Post considers these black and female Republicans to be typical white male racist bigots.
Over the years I have observed both Condoleezza Rice and Susan Rice. They have been of interest to me partly because they share the same surname as me and also because my beautiful wife of 42 years, Frances, is black. Frances is often asked if she is related to Condoleezza Rice. She is not because I am not. Frances is a lawyer and a retired Army lieutenant colonel, Judge Advocate General's Corps. She is also active in the Republican Party, serving as chairman of the National Black Republican Association. Hence I do not suffer from white guilt.
What makes the Washington Post's editorial so peculiar? There is NO mention of two former black secretaries of state—Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell—both appointed by Republican President George W. Bush. Nor is one word written about the multiple and reprehensible racist attacks by the Left against Powell and Condoleezza Rice, including overtly racist cartoons, some published in the Washington Post.
I reviewed a substantial portion of the comments posted in response to the Washing Post's editorial, about 90 percent of which supported the idea that it was racist to oppose Susan Rice. I detected only three comments that mentioned Powell and Condoleezza Rice. All three of those comments declared the two black Republicans to be liars. Almost all of the comments struck me as inarticulate and often very nasty–not at all the type of reasonable assessments one would expect from college-educated readers of the Washington Post. Our country is in dire straits if these readers are typical of what is produced by our liberal colleges today.
How could the editors of the Washington Post proffer the notion that the Republicans who supported Powell and Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State are now racist for opposing Susan Rice? Obviously, these Republicans are not racist. Rather, they are opposed to having as our Secretary of State a woman who deceived Congress and the American people just to help a Democrat president get reelected. She is a woman whose moral compass is so skewed that she willingly lied about the al Qaeda attack on our consulate in Benghazi, where four Americans including our ambassador to Libya were killed.
I remember Susan Rice from the late 1990s when she was Bill Clinton's Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. To me, she seemed to be an ignorant, typical anti-capitalist Marxist useful idiot whose world view is that America is always wrong. It surprised me to learn recently that she received a Rhodes scholarship. Nothing I observed about her during the late 1990s or over the past four years has impressed me. Her most important attribute appears to be her loyalty to Obama.
Our diplomats, CIA officers and armed forces who go to dangerous places such as Benghazi expect our country's leader to come to their aid when aid is requested. President Obama heard the three requests from Benghazi, refused to send aid, proceeded to cover up his despicable conduct and got the assistance of Susan Rice with the cover-up. Now our diplomats, armed forces and CIA officers know they cannot expect President Obama to respond to a plea for help. Instead, Obama's response will be as a corrupt Chicago politician. Factored into his calculation will be what helps or hurts Obama, nothing more. We are stuck with President Obama for four more years, but we do not have to accept the appointment of Susan Rice to be Secretary of State.
For more on the points addressed by Mr. Rice, see Bill Jacobson's post "Saturday night card game" and the New York Post editorial "Race rants over Rice."


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Anakin's starfighter began as a standard Delta-7 Aethersprite that he extensively
customized to suit his demanding tastes for speed and control. With four Taim
& Bak laser cannons bracketing each wingtip and a proton torpedo launcher
along the ship's dorsal centerline, the speedy combat vessel had greater firepower
than the standard fighter. Anakin's fighter underwent numerous modifications
in its lifetime, meaning that its performance varied depending on its latest
features or what tricked-out power plant it sported.
Obi-Wan Kenobi was concerned that his Padawan was regarding this special project
as a possession -- something frowned upon by the Jedi order. Jedi Master Saesee
Tiin, a skilled starfighter pilot, encouraged the young man to keep pushing
the fighter's limits, since he hoped to see the improvements pioneered by Skywalker
integrated into the next generation of Jedi starfighter. Despite the Jedi mandate
of severing all ties to his previous life, Anakin raised a few concerned eyebrows
by including a paint scheme similar to the one used in his beloved Podracer.
Since the varied campaigns of the Clone Wars saw atmospheric combat as well
as spaceflight, Anakin incorporated articulated stabilizer foils to assist in
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First up is a Uniden BC346XT handheld scanner in very good shape. A few scratches here and there, but it performs flawlessly. Includes antenna, belt clip and AC power adapter.
Next is a Grecom PSR-310 handheld scanner also in very good shape. Shows some signs of use, but it too works flawlessly. Includes antenna, black batter holder (yellow holder NOT included), belt clip and an AC power adapter.
Finally, as part of this bundle, is a Radio Shack PRO-107 handheld scanner. This scanner shows signs of use, so it's condition is good, but like the others, it works flawlessly. Includes the antenna and US and Canada database on a 2GB SD card. If I can find the iScan program CD, I will include it in the packaging.
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Women's Eagles Sevens Squad Departs for Dubai 7s
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – The USA Women's Eagle Sevens depart today for Dubai, the first stop in the IRB Women's Sevens World Series. Head Coach Ric Suggitt has selected 12 women to compete in this inaugural series, which kicks off Nov. 30, 2012.
Some changes have been made to the team since the team's win at the Women's International 7s Invitational in Guangzhou, China (October 27-28), most notably the return of Vanesha McGee from injury, who will be taking over the role of captain from Deven Owsiany.
"Deven Owsiany has done an excellent job at getting the team to where it is at this stage. The current attitude and work ethic of this team has been amazing, and Deven is responsible for the formation of the squad," said Suggitt.
Contracted players Kimber Rozier and Kaelene Lundstrum will be absent as they are on tour with the Eagles 15s in Europe, but filling out the roster will be Emilie Bydwell, Victoria Folayan, Christina Mastrangelo and Lauren Doyle.
Seasoned sevens athletes Christy Ringgenberg and Nathalie Marchino will be traveling for their second tour with the Eagles since becoming contracted players in September and October of this year, respectively.
The remaining contracted athletes, Bui Baravilala, Jill Potter, Katie Dowty, Kelly Griffin and Owsiany, provide the core of the team with months of training together under their belt.
"We have assembled a squad that is full of potential," said Suggitt. "We are excited to see where we are in comparison with the other 11 teams in Dubai. The squad has trained very well together and are excited to start the series."
The Eagles will play France, Netherlands and Australia on Nov. 30. Tournament fixtures can be found here:http://wsws.irb.com/destination/edition=1/fixturesresults.html
Following Dubai 7s, the series continues in the US (Feb 1-2), China (March 30-31), and Netherlands (May 17-18).
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How the Darwinists help the ID guys (# zillion and three)
Nobody seems to be blogging these days, including me, but a friend sent me something interesting: I've often said that the ID guys owe a good deal of their success to their opposition, and here is an example of just what I mean, kindly provided by ID embryologist Jonathan Wells's Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design (Regnery, 2006) about Paul Mirecki:
From Chapter 15 (p. 173):
Anti-Christian zealots are often in the forefront of attacks on intelligent design. In 2005, the chairman of the University of Kansas Religious Studies Department, atheist Paul Mirecki, proposed to teach a course titled "Intelligent Design Creationism and Other Mythologies." Mirecki boasted on a web site that "fundies" would see the course as a "slap in their big fat face." He also endorsed a description of Pope John Paul II as "a corpse in a funny hat wearing a dress." [13]
[note 13] Laura Bauer, "Intelligent design backers criticize KU course title," The Kansas City Star, November 23, 2005. Available online (January 2006)
Scott Jaschik, Emails Kill a Course, Inside Higher Education, December 2, 2005. Available online (January 2006)
Michelle Malkin, "What Happened to Paul Mirecki?" December 7, 2005. Available online (January 2006)
Now, this kind of thing raises an interesting question: Why would anyone expect to be taken seriously if this is the best they can do?
Or is my conspirazoid coffee buddy right - the nefarious Discovery Institute is paying people to act this way? Naw, that level of PR fiasco is pretty hard to fake. Isn't it? Surely the political parties would have scarfed up anyone with that kind of talent long ago, outpricing the Discos easily.
But gee I wish Mirecki's course had run. Just think of the great quotes I could have got for my blogs. Rats. Now I have to work.
(Note: I have altered the end note [13] above by embedding the links, so as to avoid broken links. )
My other blog is the Mindful Hack, which keeps tabs on neuroscience and the mind.
If you like this blog, check out my book on the intelligent design controversy, By Design or by Chance?. You can read excerpts as well.
Are you looking for one of the following stories?
My recent series on the spate of anti-God books, teen blasphemy challenge, et cetera, and the mounting anxiety of materialist atheists that lies behind it.
My review of Francis Collins' book The Language of God , my backgrounder about peer review issues, or the evolutionary biologist's opinion that all students friendly to intelligent design should be flunked.
Lists of theoretical and applied scientists who doubt Darwin and of academic ID publications.
My U of Toronto talk on why there is an intelligent design controversy, or my talk on media coverage of the controversy at the University of Minnesota.
A summary of tech guru George Gilder's arguments for ID and against Darwinism
A critical look at why March of the Penguins was thought to be an ID film.
A summary of recent opinion columns on the ID controversy
A summary of recent polls of US public opinion on the ID controversy
A summary of the Catholic Church's entry into the controversy, essentially on the side of ID.
O'Leary's intro to non-Darwinian agnostic philosopher David Stove's critique of Darwinism.
An ID Timeline: The ID folk seem always to win when they lose.
Why origin of life is such a difficult problem.
Blog policy note:Comments are permitted on this blog, but they are moderated. Fully anonymous posts and URLs posted without comment are rarely accepted. To Mr. Anonymous: I'm not psychic, so if you won't tell me who you are, I can't guess and don't care. To Mr. Nude World (URL): If you can't be bothered telling site visitors why they should go on to your fave site next, why should I post your comment? They're all busy people, like you. To Mr. Rudesby International and Mr. Pottymouth: I also have a tendency to delete comments that are merely offensive. Go be offensive to someone who can smack you a good one upside the head. That may provide you with a needed incentive to stop and think about what you are trying to accomplish. To Mr. Righteous but Wrong: I don't publish comments that contain known or probable factual errors. There's already enough widely repeated misinformation out there, and if you don't have the time to do your homework, I don't either. To those who write to announce that at death I will either 1) disintegrate into nothingness or 2) go to Hell by a fast post, please pester someone else. I am a Catholic in communion with the Church and haven't the time for either village atheism or aimless Jesus-hollering.
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Phaethornis superciliosus (eastern long-tailed hermit)
Long-tailed Hermits (Phaethornis superciliosus) lek (A Lek is a place where males of a species gather to display their wares to the available females in the area.), as do Little Hermits. This sample is a male on lek in Carara Biological Preserve. The lek was approximately 30x100 meters and held 8-10 males.
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Net::DNS::GuessTZ - guess the time zone of a host
version 0.004
use Net::DNS::GuessTZ qw(tz_from_host);
my $tz = tz_from_host('cr.yp.to');
Brazenly stolen from Plagger::Plugin::Filter::GuessTimeZoneByDomain, this module makes an effort to guess an appropriate time zone for a given host. It will look up the location of the IP addresses owner and it will also consider the country code top-level domain, if the host is under one.
my $tz_name = Net::DNS::GuessTZ->tz_from_host($hostname, %arg);
This routine returns a guess at the given host's time zone, or false if no guess can be made.
Valid arguments are:
priority - which method to give priority to: "cc" or "ip"; default: ip
ip_country - whether to check the IP address's owner with IP::Country;
defaults to true
Unlike the Plagger plugin, this routine will gladly make a guess when the country it finds has more than three time zones.
This is fine if you don't really care too much about being correct. It's probably better than just always assuming local time.
Still, if possible, ask the user for his time zone when you can!
Ricardo SIGNES <email@example.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2008 by Ricardo SIGNES.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.


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- Accommodation with daily breakfast bases on twin/double sharing
- Meals as indicated in the itinerary (B: Breakfast, L: Lunch, D: Dinner)
- Transportation by private vehicle with A/C
- Bike rental
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- Local English speaking tour guide
- All entrance fees and permits where applicable
- Meals that not mentioned in the program
- Travel insurance
- Vietnam visa (Upon request)
- International flight to/from the start/finish city of the trip
- Tipping, drinks and other personal expenses
Day 1: Arrive Ho Chi Minh City arrival (D)
Arriving at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City, you'll be met and driven to your hotel. After checking in, you'll be free for a preliminary wander around the hustle and bustle streets of this busy city. In the evening, your guide will take you for dinner in a good local restaurant. You will spend the night in a hotel.
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After breakfast, you will drive to My Tho where you will board a boat cruise in the Mekong River. Your guide will take you to visit the fruit orchards, a traditional family-run brick kiln, and some long established cottage industries. After lunch with Mekong Delta's specialty, you will have a 2-hour ride along a narrow road and pass local farms and fruit orchards. You will have dinner and spend the night in a local family house.
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The bike ride today will take you to An Hoa and then onto Chau Doc. This is a long day on two wheels, going through immense rice fields and countryside villages. After lunch, you will be transfered to Chau Doc, then on our bike again for Sam Mountain. On arrival, you will hike up 2.5km to summit of Sam mountain where you will enjoy sun set over the panorama rice fields between Viet Nam and Cambodia. You will spend the night in Chau Doc.
Day 4: Chau Doc/Tri Ton/Can Tho (B, L)
Get up early in the morning for a boat cruise through amazing riverside market with all its bustling activity and smorgasbord of sounds, colours and smells. You will then cruise through the fish-farm village producing tons and tons of fish beneath hundreds of floating homes. Discover the ethnic Cham village with its famous Mubarak Mosque and observe local women at their traditional weaving. You will then cycle to Cambodia border with a stopover Tra Su natural reserve, see Khmer pagoda en-route. You will spend the night in a hotel.
Day 5: Can Tho/Ho Chi Minh City (B, L, G)
After breakfast and a boat cruise you'll arrive at Cai Rang floating market on the Mekong Delta. On your return to Ho Chi Minh City, you'll call in at the beautiful and ancient Vinh Trang pagoda, 3 km from My Tho centre. You'll arrive in Ho Chi Minh City in the late afternoon and have the rest of the day free at leisure. Tour ends.
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- All entrance fees and permits where applicable
- Tipping, drinks and other personal expenses
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Except for a number of ASEAN countries a visa is required to visit Vietnam. If your itinerary requires two
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A Vietnam Tourist Visa is valid for the period of 30-days and for a single entry (unless endorsed for a double entry at additional cost). Your passport must be sent to the embassy along with payment with prepaid shipping arrangements with Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation, FedEx, etc., two completed visa applications and two passport photos. Allow five-business days for processing.
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A Double Entry Visa is a Tourist Visa endorsed for a double entry. If your itinerary requires a double entry be sure and obtain the Double Entry Visa.
Re-Entry Visa
Re-entry Visas, prior to departing Vietnam, are possible to obtain in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City through authorized agencies for a fee of approximately $25, however it requires one-to-two days and the deposit of your passport. This is not advisable unless your itinerary allows ample time and you remain in the city where the application was filed until the visa is issued. It is strongly advised to obtain a Double Entry Visa prior entering Vietnam.
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Your passport must have a validity date of at least six-months remaining after your visit to Vietnam is completed.
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Unless you live nearby a Vietnamese embassy or consulate or are experienced in dealing with embassies by mail or telephone, it is advised that you use a travel document company to obtain your visa.
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Arrival and Departure Cards are required to be completed upon entry into Vietnam; they will be provided by the airline or at the border gate. The yellow copy of the card will be returned to you and must be submitted when you depart Vietnam; keep it in a safe place. Making a photocopy of it is a good idea and keeping it with your other photocopies.
If you have been pre-approved for a Visa-on-Arrival simply process though the Visa-on-Arrival lane at immigration.
Once your visa formalities have been completed claim your baggage and process through customs.
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Exit Procedures
Complete the customs declaration and process through customs then complete the immigration processing where you will be required to return the yellow copy of your Arrival and Departure Card.
Tendering Passports
Vietnamese law requires that passports be tendered to the hotel each evening. This may appear odd to Western travelers but until the 1960's a number of European countries required that passports be tendered to the hotel each evening.
Travel Insurance
Traveler's Insurance is strongly recommended. A number of companies sell competing policies and it is a good idea to read the fine print and ask questions if you are in doubt.
Note: some insurance companies cover travel insurance in their existing policies; check, you may already be covered. Policies have differing benefits for trip cancellation, trip interruption, emergency medical and dental coverage, and emergency medical transportation, lost baggage, missed connections, and accidents.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - MA TESOL in Canada Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in MA TESOL in Canada Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General North America Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message GostaJoined: 19 Jul 2005Posts: 71Location: Tamworth, UK Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:33 pm Post subject: MA TESOL in Canada Hi guys, I'm looking for an MA TESOL course in Canada, but so far haven't had any luck with my search. Does anyone know of any courses? Many thanks Back to top santi84Joined: 14 Mar 2008Posts: 1317Location: under da sea Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:51 pm Post subject: Are you looking for a distance MA TESOL or in-person? Back to top santi84Joined: 14 Mar 2008Posts: 1317Location: under da sea Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:54 pm Post subject: FYI Most Canadian universities offer an MA in Applied Linguistics (TESL) rather than as an "MA in TESOL" - there are plenty of programs in Canada but you may just be typing in the wrong search word. Off the top of my head, MA TESOL from Trinity Western University (Langley, B.C.) MA Applied Linguistics from Concordia (Montreal, QC) ^Those are the ones I am familiar with. I believe most schools have an MA in Applied Linguistics that are geared towards TESL. You may wish to contact "TESL Canada" specifically as they should have a complete list. Good luck! Back to top GostaJoined: 19 Jul 2005Posts: 71Location: Tamworth, UK Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:49 pm Post subject: I'm looking for an in-person course. 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Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) are providing you with the January 2013 Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) Update and Uniform Collateral Data Portal® (UCDP®) Release Notification to announce the first phase of the conversion of current UAD compliance warning edits to fatal UAD edits in the UCDP. The first phase, targeted for implementation in June 2013, includes the following data fields:
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DURANT, OK -- Former Southeastern Oklahoma State University basketball standout Jerry Shipp has been chosen as a member of the 2007 class of inductees into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame.
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