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Dems in disarray over Syria
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While President Obama is plenty busy in Russia today trying to build international support for his call to strike Syria, he's been doing some long distance diplomacy back home as members of his own party recoil from his call to arms. Obama called senators to drum up support for military action. The White House has also ditched a scheduled presidential trip to Los Angeles next week in order to keep selling in Washington. Obama heads home today, but Secretary of State John Kerry picks up the ball overseas, departing for Lithuania this morning for coalition building after a series of confrontations with Congress. With Republicans uneasy about the overall strategy, a crumbling Democratic coalition poses problems for the president's plan.
[Watch Fox: President Obama holds a press conference at the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia in the 9 a.m. ET hour]
Start the clock - Obama will arrive in Washington with the clock running on an authorization vote in the Senate set for next week. And while the administration is starting to increase its outreach effort (the White House has launched an Internet site in support), hawks are growing increasingly concerned that Obama cannot deliver his own party at the critical moment. The administration has also enlisted Vice President Joe Biden to make the sale with restive Democrats.
[WaPo is tracking where Congress stands on the issue. The current whip count for authorizing a strike in the Senate: 24 against, 23 in favor, 53 undecided. In the House: 105 against, 24 in favor, 142 undecided.]
"…[W]hip counts are overwhelmingly against already, there's no reason to try to use any procedure. The House doesn't want it, the American people don't want it." – Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla. talking to reporters after a closed-door briefing on Syria
Congressional Black Caucus head tells members not to discuss Syria - Chairwoman Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, has asked members to "limit public discussion on the issue." Caucus members seem to so far be obliging.
[WSJ's Kimberly Strassel: "The press is obsessed with the Republican reaction to Mr. Obama's resolution. But the party facing the biggest split over the vote -- and whose actions will have the greatest ramifications for the presidency -- is Mr. Obama's.]
Moderate Dems call for delay - Sens. Joe Manchin D-W.Va., and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., have proposed a resolution delaying the immediate use of force compelling the president to build more international and domestic support. "Given the case that has been presented to me, I believe that a military strike against Syria at this time is the wrong course of action," Manchin said in a statement.
Obama pushing gay rights in Russia - "[President Obama] is rhetorically waving the gay-rights flag on his visit to Russia," the Daily Caller reports, "…even as he is working to soften or bypass opposition from Russia's president to a strike on Syria…[Obama will] take time to meet with Russian gay rights groups." [Ed. note: It may not play in St. Petersburg, but the president's gay-rights stand will help with the liberal base at home.]
[Noonan: "A great nation cannot go to war—and that's what a strike on Syria, a sovereign nation, is, an act of war—without some rough unity as to the rightness of the decision. Widespread public opposition is in itself reason not to go forward.]
"It appears the administration is more worried about losing liberals than conservatives on the Syria vote (although initial head counts don't look great on either side). Thursday night, Secretary of State John Kerry appeared on Chris Hayes' show on MSNBC making the case. Friday, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power, will speak at the Center for American Progress, the liberal think tank started by John Podesta.
There are already rumors on Capitol Hill that the administration isn't too fond of the broad language amended into the resolution by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Chris Coons, D-Del., -- so much so that administration officials may try to get that language dropped with further amendments brought up by supporters. Looking at all of that, you could easily come to the conclusion that the administration is making a full-court press to shore up liberal votes, correct?
Well, you could read it that way. But strangely, President Obama's former campaign, Organizing for Action, is missing in action. The group has been mobilized to defend the president's health law as well as his tax plans, his proposed immigration overhaul and other agenda items. But on arguably the biggest issue for this president -- one where his second term agenda may hang in the balance -- nada, zilch, zip from OFA.
According to a transcript obtained by Fox News, in his weekly call with grassroots supporters, OFA Executive Director Jon Carson said of Syria, 'We don't always actively organize around every issue and the debate in Congress over the Syria vote is not one that OFA is planning on organizing around.'
So, if you hear more pundits questioning the administration's commitment to get this vote across the goal line - 'OFA on the bench' is one of the reasons why." – Bret Baier.
National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports the Obama administration is considering deploying U.S. military trainers to aid the Syrian rebels, likely at training camps in Jordan. But an official said obstacles exist in vetting trustworthy groups. Griffin also reports that military planners have been asked to revise their plans 50 times since President Obama began considering a "limited" strike.
[Watch Fox: Gen. Salim Idris, chief of staff, Supreme Military Council Syria discusses the war in the 9 a.m. ET hour]
What vetting? - Washington Examiner's Byron York catalogues growing unease about the radical elements among Syrian rebel forces: "In Washington, use of the word 'vetting' is usually confined to unknown political candidates and cabinet nominees. So what is this vetting in Syria everyone is talking about? Is the U.S. government requiring opposition fighters to fill out questionnaires? Show photo ID? Hand over bank statements and tax returns?"
Vote of no confidence - "I am still and always will be in my heart a United States Marine. There is nothing I want more than to support my commander-in-chief when he draws a red line. … But since he drew that line, since [Secretary of State John Kerry] came out, he has done nothing but mess this up, and he has lost my confidence."—Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" Click here for Gretawire.
[Watch Fox: Rep. Michael Grimm,, R-N.Y, discusses Syria in the 9 a.m. ET hour]
Syria shadows in Virginia race - Virginia Republican Gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli announced his opposition to a U.S. strike on Syria. Cuccinelli's announcement came after Democrat Terry McAuliffe told reporters he does not have a position on whether Congress should authorize strikes.
[New at Fox News Opinion: Former Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Pete Hoekstra's We cannot strike Syria with the best of intentions and no long-term strategy]
WSJ: "The U.S. has intercepted an order from Iran to Shiite militants in Iraq to attack the U.S. Embassy and other American interests in Baghdad in the event of a strike on Syria. … U.S. officials said they are on alert for Iran's fleet of small, fast boats in the Persian Gulf, where American warships are positioned. U.S. officials also fear Hezbollah could attack the U.S. Embassy in Beirut."
[Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen is examining how President Obama's response to Syria could complicate efforts to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions .]
BBC - 'No decision' in Egypt on dissolving Muslim Brotherhood: "Egypt's government has denied state media reports that it has decided to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood. A social solidarity ministry spokesman was quoted as saying it would revoke the Islamist group's non-governmental organisation status 'within days.' But a prime ministerial aide, Sherif Shawki, told the BBC the solidarity minister had not issued any decision."
[WaPo: "Not just Syria but Egypt requires a 'shot across the bow'; Mr. Obama should take it before it is too late."]
Chris Wallace will question White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on the administration's war effort and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., about the growing opposition in Congress. Check local listings for airtimes in your area.
Howard Kurtz's "MediaBuzz" will launch at 11 a.m. ET Sunday on the Fox News Channel. Kurtz will be talking to media types and commentators about coverage choices, bias and the news about the news. The show will also encourage viewers sound off via Bing Pulse. [Ed. note: Very pleased to be on the first show. Thanks Howie!]
Politico reports the administration plans to spend $12 million to promote ObamaCare in states with Republican governors or legislatures. Beginning Sept. 30, the Department of Health and Human Services will begin airing advertisements to promote the health law in Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Louisiana and Michigan.
WSJ reports how the National Security Agency is bypassing encryption to gain access to global commerce, banking systems, trade secrets, medical records and other sensitive data according to newly disclosed documents.
Americans fear Facebook more than NSA - Breitbart: "According to… [A Pew Poll].. that was released on Thursday, 33% of Internet users 'wish to avoid hackers, or criminals,' and 28% want to avoid advertisers. Only 5% 'reported they wanted to avoid government observation."']
Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., has filed a motion to delay Attorney General Eric Holder's court bid to end Louisiana's school voucher program. Jindal blasts the administration in a statement, "President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are trying to legally jam the state in an ultimate attempt to force children from low-income families back into failing schools." In a WaPo OpEd, Jindal writes, "Shame on all of us for standing by and watching generations of children stay in failing schools that may have led them to lives of poverty."
The WSJ considers the outrage over ObamaCare's navigators in Navigating ObamaCare Outrage: "All of this outrage is part of the liberal alibi that Republicans are responsible if ObamaCare stumbles. But if the handsomely financed navigators can't spare an hour or two to comply with a congressional investigation, then the law must be in bigger trouble than Democrats care to admit."
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Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler , R-Wash., and her husband, Daniel, will share the remarkable story of their daughter, Abigail, today with Correspondent Molly Henneberg. Abigail was diagnosed with Potter's syndrome, a typically fatal condition, before she was born. The diagnosis often results with doctors recommending abortion. The Beutlers and Abigail's medical team will share, for the first time, how she continues to beat the odds.
On this date in 1995, Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's 56-year-old record for most consecutive games played. Ripken would go on to beat Gehrig's total by another 532 games. Ripen retired in 1998 after 2,632 consecutive games played for the Baltimore Orioles. At six feet, four inches, Ripken remains the tallest short-stop in Major League history.
"So we have to make a determination: Do we have a preference among the combatants in Syria? Where is the national interest? And the speech by [Samantha Power] our ambassador at the U.N., was a nice speech, you know, that you give in a debating society. But unfortunately the world is a tough place, and we have to make a decision not in decrying the heartlessness of the rest of the world." – Charles Krauthammer, on "Special Report with Bret Baier" Watch here
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The design fully satisfies the criteria of the brief but also provided additional benefit by introducing a range of social spaces throughout the building. Scientists know that new research directions, partnerships and even 'eureka' moments often occur in these less formal environments. The design features flexible laboratory and ancillary spaces with capacity for expansion over time as well as the opportunity to use shared meeting and event facilities within the shared collaborative zone.
The building has been developed in two wings allowing the heart of the site to be developed as a vibrant public plaza space. The separate form of the Lecture Theatre sits above the plaza as a sculptural centrepiece which affords shade and accommodates the indoor-outdoor café. It is strategically landscaped for shade and ambience shifting the emphasis from the physicality of place to embrace a sense of social belonging and community.
PACE has been designed around a flexible laboratory module with services designed with capacity for expansion and alteration to accommodate developments in technology. In an environment where stringent laboratory requirements limit opportunities for natural ventilation, the building has been designed with numerous terraces and balconies for building occupants to have easy access to the outside.
The desire for natural light and views is carefully balanced against the requirements for the exclusion of direct sun from laboratory spaces by using sunshades. The building was extensively modelled to ensure that the sun shading satisfied the strict statutory controls and the building orientated and configured to control thermal loading.


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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Comic: Spell Rebellion
As I commented yesterday,
"Regrowth came out of nowhere and beat Nourish upside the head with one of our fallen tree limbs, and dumped the unconscious Nourish in the Undercity gutter. Nourish has not recovered from the traumatic experience, yet."
Meanwhile, Rejuv, Wild Growth, Swiftmend, and Lifebloom are out partying with the new girl, Efflorescence, and Tranquility is crying on Beranabus' shoulder.
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LOL. so cute.
- October 27, 2010 at 5:18 PM
- Simon said...
I never really used Nourish pre4.0, always have been a Regrowth fan (/cry 27 HoT duration)
I love the comic tho, truly epic hehe!
- October 28, 2010 at 2:44 AM
I don't think nourish was ever the big kid on the block, maybe rejuv is sitting up above watching the other spells fight amongst each other :-).
- October 28, 2010 at 4:25 PM
- Theladas said...
Well, you don't learn to appreciate Nourish until you're asked to heal two tanks through HLK damage simultaneously. Rejuv, Regrowth, LB, and WG combined can't keep up with that. Then in walks Nourish, all pompous and mighty, and lays down the healing law. He had his moment - he just should've been more careful about offending his fellow heals.
- October 28, 2010 at 6:03 PM
- Kae said...
This was a fight among the casted heals, anyway ;) Rather than the insta's.
It's already been established that a lot of 25-man raiders just blanketed rejuv/WG, and that's because they were raid healers. Raid healers didn't need to really do much with Nourish.
Tank healers, on the other hand... as Theladas illustrated, there were many occasions of tank healing in 10's :) Nourish on a fully-hotted tank (inc regrowth) was necessary for survival!
- October 28, 2010 at 7:12 PM


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John Travolta just can't get a break.
The 58-year old actor and his lawyer Martin Singer have been sued by the author of "You'll Never Spa in This Town Again," a self-published book about gay bathhouse culture, E! Online reported.
Singer called the lawsuit "absurd," saying it was based on a private letter that "was completely privileged under the law," according to Reuters.
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In the lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, author Robert Randolph accuses Travolta and Singer of trade libel. Randolph claims that Travolta and Singer spread false statements about his mental health back in 2010 in an effort to harm book sales, Reuters reported. He is seeking unspecified damages.
The lawsuit, according to E!, stems from comments Singer made on behalf of Travolta after Gawker published an article about the parts of Randolph's book that dealt with Travolta's sex life.
Entitled, "The Secret Sex Life of John Travolta," the November 2010 article described alleged encounters between Randolph and several celebrities including Travolta.
After the publication, Singer threatened to take legal action against Gawker Media.
In a letter to Gawker that the gossip site posted online, Singer's allegations included that Randolph couldn't be trusted because he spent time in mental institutions and his memory was distorted after a 2003 attack at a spa that left him brain damaged.
"This is a ridiculous lawsuit," Singer told E! News. "It is based on our letter which was completely privileged under the law. We intend to sue the attorneys for malicious prosecution after the court promptly dismisses this baseless lawsuit."
In May the "Pulp Fiction" actor was sued by two masseurs who alleged sexual battery. Travolta denied the allegations and both men have dropped their lawsuits.
Suggested Reading: E! Online, Reuters, The Washington Post


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Hi there, iam a IT student but I cant get my head around java programming. There is this one question that i need help on, Please help me were to go.
A supervisor is getting in a muddle with his staffs wages, he has 4 members of staff, but at 2 different pay scales. There is one team leader (Bob) who is on £8 per hour and £12 for any hours that he has done over 36 hours. The rest are general staff (Jane, Tom and Claire) who get paid £5.75 per hour, and £9.25 for any hours that they have worked over 36 hours. The team leader will also get a £1 per hour bonus for all hours worked if (and only if) he works over 50 hours. General staff will receive a set £20 bonus if (and only if) they work over 50 hours. All staff are taxed at 23%. The supervisor wants to enter each workers total hours for the week just once each, the output must show by name how much they have earned as basic, how much earned as overtime, total bonus, total gross wages and total net wages.
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/** * @(#)program2again.java * * * @Nicola Evans * @version 1.00 2010/10/4 */ import java.util.Scanner; class program2again { public static void main (String []args) { Scanner input = new Scanner (System.in); String name; int hours = 0; int overhours; int tax = 23; String employee; double pay; String postion=(""); String programclose =("No");// needs to be yes before the program can start DONT FORGET TO DECLARE IT BEFORE RUNNING while (!(programclose.equalsIgnoreCase ("Yes"))) // yes this program will work, if it is no it will end { System.out.println("Type a employee name to start"); employee= input.next(); System.out.println("Is " + employee +" a team leader, or a general worker?"); postion = input.next(); System.out.println("How many hours has " + employee +" worked "); hours = input.nextInt(); if ( employee.equalsIgnoreCase ("general")) { if (hours >50) (hours - 50 if ((hours-50) && (hours>=50)) pay = (hours*9.25); pay = (hours*generalover); // if "hours" > 50 then pay the thingy } else { pay = (hours*leader); System.out.println("The wages for " + employee +" £" + pay); postion = input.next(); } //Closing program in this section System.out.println("Have you finished with the program? Yes or no?"); programclose= input.next(); } //This part is to close the program politly if (programclose.equalsIgnoreCase ("NO")) { System.out.println("Thank you for using this program"); } } }


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- Customizing P90X® for Skiing: How to Structure a Short Training Cycle
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You must find ways to stay in the game.
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Customizing P90X® for Skiing: How to Structure a Short Training CycleBy Steve Edwards
Since I'm sitting here in a snowstorm, it seems like a good idea to address how to use P90X to get your body ready for snow sports before it's too late. If you recall the principles discussed 2 weeks ago (see "Customizing P90X for Specific Goals: Part I" in the Related Article section below), you might think it's already too late. Luckily, Tony is a skier and he always designs programs with skiing in mind. This makes customizing P90X for skiing very simple.
It's funny how we don't get ski questions until it's already snowing outside. In a perfect world, you'd begin your training for skiing as soon as the last season ended. This would give your body time to adapt and grow strong before it needed to engage in the rigors of the sport. But we don't live in a perfect world, so today we will look at how to structure a short training cycle.
Your foundation
Last time we covered your foundation and how effectively P90X develops it. No matter what your goals are, you first want to make sure your fitness base is sound enough for you to engage in more specific training. Skiing is a core- and leg-based sport, meaning that a customized program includes more targeted work on these areas. However, if you can't do all the movements in Legs & Back or fall over during Plyometrics, you need to continue building your base before you start to customize.
Remember that Tony is a skier. This means P90X is already good conditioning for skiing, and mastering the basic schedule is more important than customizing, even if you have a ski trip on the horizon. This is different than if you had, say, an upcoming triathlon. Endurance-based sports (or power-based sports) require a different strategy that we'll get to in another article. For skiing, your first goal is mastery of the classic P90X schedule.
All training programs are somehow based on periodization. If you don't know what that is, read "Customizing P90X for Specific Goals: Part I" in the Related Article section below. Periodization involves you doing blocks of training designed around a goal before you move into the next block of training. The various blocks of a program lead toward a point where your body should peak. Below is an example using P90X.
Foundation phase (Power 90® or what you did pre-X) + block 1 + transition/recovery + block 2 + transition/recovery + block 3 + recovery = peak (final fit test)
A training cycle can be any length of time. P90X is 90 days, but you can effectively design a training cycle that lasts anywhere from 2 weeks to an entire year.
The longer the cycle, the harder the individual blocks can be. The reason is that you only need to peak at the end of the given cycle. Therefore, it's okay to design your training to the point where you're in a state of almost total breakdown early in a program. Most people hobble around during the first couple blocks of P90X. During this period, you wouldn't want to ski (or do anything) at your highest level.
This means that short training cycles should be easier than longer ones. Excessive breakdown, like the kind you may have experienced the first couple of times you did Plyometrics, happens when you engage something called type IIb muscle fibers. These are fast twitch muscle fibers that your body has saved for emergencies. These fibers are essential for maximum power, but once you use them, they take a long time to heal, usually around 2 weeks. So you obviously wouldn't want to destroy them at the start of a 2-week training cycle.
This is why your foundation is so important. If you can't do P90X classic without getting sore, it won't help you to make this schedule harder, especially close to a ski trip. It would just result in further breakdown and have you hitting the slopes without a full contingent of your fast twitch muscles fibers, which are exactly what you'll need to land a jump or dart between trees at 30 mph. If you want to stay injury free, you won't want to hit the slopes in any state of breakdown.
Progressive overload
You always want progressive overload to occur in a training program (defined in "Customizing P90X for Specific Goals: Part I"). This simply means that the program should build on itself over time.
Defined in "Customizing P90X for Specific Goals: Part I," recovery promotes the healing of your fast twitch muscle fibers. When you recover toward a peak, it's to allow your body to build these muscle fibers up. Only high-level training engages fast twitch fibers, which is why recovery weeks skip heavy lifting and plyometrics and focus on aerobic conditioning, flexibility, and training your stabilizer muscles.
Putting it all together
The first thing you need to consider is how much time you have. The longer the better (you know, "plan ahead"). No matter what your training program is, it should target a specific date you want your body to be at its peak.
When you have a long period of time, you can structure your training toward your weakness. For example, if you don't have the leg strength to land a certain jump, you could build up the size and then the strength of your legs during the off-season. If you're already in the season, however, the muscular breakdown required to do this will inhibit your ability to ski well.
Short cycles should focus more on mastering sports-specific movements. To do this, you use what are called integration exercises. These are the opposite of the types of isolation movements that you do for sheer hypertrophy, or muscle growth. Integration movements target strength, speed, and neuromuscular coordination. P90X is loaded with integration movements.
For our example, given that it's December, let's use a 1-month time frame. This is a very short training cycle, but it's still enough time to fine-tune your body. Shoot, Rocky only had 3 weeks to train for Apollo Creed!
The next thing you do is decide which workouts are the most sports specific. For skiing, you obviously want Plyometrics and Legs & Back. Tony Horton's One on One Plyo Legs (Volume 1, Disc 1) is a unilateral (one leg at a time) workout that is outstanding for skiing. Yoga, too, is very ski specific, and it trains the stabilizer muscles that get worked overtime when you do a sport on an unstable surface like snow. You don't need much upper-body mass to ski, but you do need upper-body strength. Therefore, the standard weight-training routines should be dropped in favor of Core Synergistics. Again, we're looking for strength and balance moves together—integration. So the key elements of your program will be the legs workouts, core synergistics, and yoga.
Alpine skiing (Nordic skiing will be addressed during the endurance sports article) doesn't require any specific cardio training if your foundation is strong. It's what's called a power-endurance sport, meaning that your anaerobic system is taking the brunt of the abuse. You need a solid aerobic base to recharge your anaerobic system, but all of P90X's workouts address that aspect to some degree. Therefore, workouts like Kenpo X will be fillers and not an essential part of your training structure. This means that if something in the schedule is getting skipped, make sure it's your cardio workout.
Sample schedule
Here is a sample training cycle using P90X, designed for a ski trip that's 1 month away. This schedule is for someone who can do a given week of P90X classic without getting very sore. Note that this cycle has no training blocks. There simply isn't time.
Week 1
- Day 1: Plyometrics
- Day 2: Yoga X
- Day 3: Core Synergistics
- Day 4: Legs & Back
- Day 5: Kenpo X
- Day 6: Plyometrics
- Day 7: Yoga X
Note: There is no "rest day" because of the time constraints of the program.
Week 2
- Day 1: Core Synergistics
- Day 2: Legs & Back
- Day 3: Kenpo X
- Day 4: Plyometrics
- Day 5: Yoga X
- Day 6: Core Synergistics
- Day 7: Legs & Back
Week 3
- Day 1: Kenpo X
- Day 2: Plyometrics
- Day 3: Yoga X
- Day 4: Core Synergistics
- Day 5: Legs & Back
- Day 6: Yoga X
- Day 7: Plyometrics
Note: The change at the end is for maximum breakdown during the last hard bit of the 1-month cycle. Now it's time to slow down before your trip. Hard training during your recovery will negatively affect your ability to perform well.
Week 4
- Day 1: X Stretch
- Day 2: Core Synergistics
- Day 3: Kenpo X
- Day 4: Cardio X
- Day 5: Yoga X
- Day 6: X Stretch
- Day 7: X Stretch
During your trip, begin the day with some light yoga to warm you up for skiing. Ending each day with X Stretch or something similar will help you perform better the following day. Now rip it up and have fun!
Related Article
"Customizing P90X for Specific Goals: Part I"
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P90X in Africa
Beachbody® Coaches Brad and Alicia Crawford moved to Uganda to serve as missionaries. And they brought P90X along to share with fellow missionaries. Enjoy this inspirational story of how Brad and Alicia are making a difference on a global level.
2nd Law of Exercise: ConsistencyBy Tony Horton
Improvement and change occur when you do things often. Stopping and starting all the time will kill any momentum you need to succeed. You must find ways to stay in the game. Done consistently, moderate forms of exercise provide far better results than the occasional full-body pummeling. A lifestyle that includes doing multiple forms of exercise 5 to 6 days a week guarantees results.
There are certain things that rise to the surface when it comes to staying consistent. One of them is staying motivated. How does anyone sustain anything without motivation? You bought one of my programs because you're committed to making huge changes in your life. Being consistent is critical. But being consistent and staying motivated can be difficult at times. It's easy to create reasons not to do P90X or Power 90, especially when you're feeling weak and puny, and my jokes aren't funny anymore. We travel, get sick, get tired, and often get discouraged. We work too hard, we under-sleep, and we get stressed out. So what do we do about it? It can be overwhelming. What about the people who don't quit? Who are they? Are they super android robots from a galaxy far, far away? What the hell makes them so special? Why are these robot people consistent and others aren't? The answer is that successful, consistent, and motivated folk have tricks . . . Aha! They have found a way to do it anyway.
Here's my list of tricks that will help you stay motivated and consistent.
- Stop beating yourself up if you can't sustain and/or maintain your "perfect" plan. It's okay to miss a workout once in a while. It doesn't mean that your process has gone to hell in a handcart. It doesn't mean you have to start over. Life happens. Priorities shift. So what? Big deal. Just start up where you left off. If you're doing Power 90 or P90X®, just add the missed days to the end of the program. I decree the burden lifted! Of course, you must recognize the difference between a missed workout or two and a missed week or two. If you miss 2 weeks of exercise, it will take at least that long to get back to where you left off. If you miss one workout once in a while, you lose nothing. The extra day off can even do the body good.
- Don't freak out if you don't see results in the first 45 days. "What?! No results in the first month and a half?!" See, I knew you'd freak out. The reality is that we all have different starting points. The 90 in Power 90 and P90X stands for 90 days, not 90 minutes. Some folks will see results the first week—bastards! Others will have to wait a little longer, based on age, body weight, how out of shape they are when they start the program, flexibility, balance, athletic background, etc.—this is normal. The variety of workouts in P90X and Power 90 purposely plays into your strengths and weaknesses. Both programs were created to have a 30- to 50-day "adaptive phase." This phase is shorter for some and longer for others. Be patient. Your body will adapt, and you will be amazed at how you look and feel.
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Winners of the Fifth Annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Story of the Year were announced February 28 on BestTravelWriting.com, by the editors of Travelers' Tales.
I'm pleased that my story "Wrecks and Pissers: The Bombay-Pune Road" has won a Bronze Certificate in the category "Destination: The best story about a place that captures its essence and reveals its attractions, making the reader want to go there."
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Experience classic elegance at one of Virginia's Historic Hotels and Inns. Throughout the Commonwealth you will find places to stay that are steeped in history and that offer world class amenities. Each has its own distinctive charm and style with dining options sure to please the palate.
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Recognized as one of the finest hotels in the United States since 1895, The Jefferson Hotel is known for its awe-inspiring architecture, elegant decor, luxurious guest rooms and friendly service. You will surely have a memorable stay at The Jefferson.
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Chief executives of major U.S. companies will meet with top House Republicans on Wednesday morning to talk about what House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy is calling a "balanced fiscal cliff solution."
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User talk:Scdbackup
- 1 About the changes on the wiki
- 2 Burning
- 2.1 Install burning utilities
- 2.2 Making an ISO image from existing files on hard disk
- 2.3 Learning the name of your optical drive
- 2.4 Reading an ISO image from a CD, DVD, or BD
- 2.5 Erasing CD-RW and DVD-RW
- 2.6 Burning an ISO image
- 2.7 Verifying the burnt ISO image
- 2.8 ISO 9660 and Burning On-The-Fly
- 2.9 Multi-session
- 2.10 BD Defect Management
- 2.11
Additions to the list of GUI tools
- 2.12 Burn Backend Problems
- 2.13 GUI program log indicates problems with backend program
About the changes on the wiki
Hello. I appreciate your great interest and I agree with some of your requests, especially on clarity. Do not use the main page for experience any changes, because it is a reference page for the entire community. You have to follow a path, discuss the changes, what to change and how to change, apply a "template" to signal to the whole community of possible changes etc. .. Also, any changes must be described on the main page, and in the event of major changes effettualri step by step. Other users can't understand all the changes made. This procedure may seem slow, but considering that it is not a personal wiki, but Community. good weekend.Veleno (talk) 11:00, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
- It is well understood that i need approval. Especially since i am an interested party in the field of optical media. The proposed changes are listed at the talk page. What kind of approval do i have to wait for ?
- How do i apply a "template" ? (I guess it is a way to expose an implemented proposal for approval.)
- Your proposed changes are wide margin, reflecting a possible reorganization of the entire page. You rightly point out that there are gaps and that it can improve the whole. I answered you on the talk. I think you can from your proposal to amend the best across the page, for example, by combining the relative sections of CD and DVD in one section. does not exist a body that approves, you expect a few days, if no one dissenting opinions, you can operate to change. What you propose is not a small change, but I think a broader change that, in my opinion, it should be well organized. that's all. I apply a template that links to the discussion. ;) Veleno (talk) 11:37, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
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<!ex CD burning , replacing section 1>
The burning process of optical disc drives consists of creating or obtaining an image and writing it to an optical medium. The image may in principle be any data file. If you want to mount the resulting medium, then it is usually an ISO 9660 filesystem image file. Audio and multi-media CDs are often burned from a BIN file, under control of a TOC file or a CUE file which tell the desired track layout.
Install burning utilities
<! ex Install programs for ISO 9660 and burning of CD, DVD, or BD - replacing section 1.1>
If you want to use programs with graphical user interface, then follow this link to the list of GUI programs.
The programs listed here are the back ends which are used by most free GUI programs for CD, DVD, and BD. They are command line oriented. GUI users might get to them when it comes to troubleshooting or to scripting of burn activities.
You need at least one program for creation of filesystem images and one program that is able to burn data onto your desired media type.
Available programs for ISO 9660 image creation are:
genisoimagefrom package cdrkit
mkisofsfrom package cdrtools
xorrisofsfrom package libisoburn
The traditional choice is
Available programs for burning to media are:
cdrdaofrom package cdrdao (CD only, TOC/CUE/BIN only)
cdrecordfrom package cdrtools
cdrskinfrom package libburn
growisofsfrom package dvd+rw-tools (DVD and BD only)
wodimfrom package cdrkit (CD only, DVD deprecated)
xorrecordfrom package libisoburn
The traditional choices are
wodim for CD and
growisofs for DVD and Blu-ray Disk. For growisofs and BD-R see the bug workaround below.
For writing TOC/CUE/BIN files to CD, install
The free GUI programs for CD, DVD, and BD burning depend on at least one of the above packages.
The programs
mkisofs, and
xorrisofs all three support the genisoimage options which are shown in this document.
The programs
cdrskin, and
wodim all three support the shown wodim options. Program
xorrecord supports those which do not deal with audio CD.
The installed files of packages cdrkit and cdrtools are in conflict. If you want to install cdrtools, make sure that you build a package using makepkg and install with pacman. Pacman wrappers may resolve to cdrkit instead.
Making an ISO image from existing files on hard disk
<!ex Making an ISO image from existing files on hard disk, replacing section 1.9> <!ex Example (DVD burning), replacing section 2.2.2> (moved before sections about burning media)
The most simple way to create an ISO image by help of genisoimage is to copy the needed files to one folder ./for_iso and to do:
$ genisoimage -V "ARCHIVE_2013_07_27" -J -r -o isoimage.iso ./for_iso
The meaning of the options is:
- Gives the filesystem a name which will probably show up as mount point if the medium is mounted automatically. The ISO specs allow only "A" to "Z", "0" to "9", and "_". 32 characters at most.
- Prepares names of up to 64 UTF-16 characters for MS-Windows readers. Aka "Joliet".
- -joliet-long
- Would allow 103 UTF-16 characters for MS-Windows readers. Not conformant to Joliet specs.
- -r
- Prepares names of up to 255 characters for Unix readers and gives read permission for everybody. Aka "Rock Ridge".
- -o
- Sets the file path for the resulting ISO image.
You can let genisoimage collect files and directories from various paths
$ genisoimage -V "BACKUP_2013_07_27" -J -r -o backup_2013_07_27.iso \ -graft-points \ /photos=/home/me/photos \ /mail=/home/me/mail \ /photos/holidays=/home/me/holidays/photos
- -graft-points
- Enables the recognition of "pathspecs" which consist of a target address in the ISO filesystem (e.g. "/photos") and a source address on hard disk (e.g. "/home/me/photos"). Both are separated by a
So this example puts disk directory /home/me/photos into ISO as directory /photos, disk directory /home/me/mail into ISO as /mail, and /home/me/holidays/photos into ISO as /photos/holidays.
mkisofs and
xorrisofs accept the same options. For sincere backups consider to use
xorrisofs with option
--for_backup, which records eventual ACLs and stores an MD5 checksum for each data file.
See the manuals of the ISO 9660 programs for more info about their options: http://linux.die.net/man/1/genisoimage http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/man/cdrecord/mkisofs.8.html http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/man_1_xorrisofs.html
Learning the name of your optical drive
<!ex Modifying the CD-RW , replacing section 1.2>
For the remainder of this section the name of your recording device is assumed to be
Check this by
$ wodim dev=/dev/cdrw -checkdrive
which should report "Vendor_info" and "Identification" of the drive.
The next guess could be
If no drive is found, check whether any
/dev/sr* exist and whether they offer rw-permission to you or your group.
If no
/dev/sr* exists then try
$ modprobe sr_mod
Reading an ISO image from a CD, DVD, or BD
<!ex Making an ISO image from an existing CD, replacing section 1.8> (moved before sections about burning)
Unless it is a factory pressed ROM medium you will have to determine the size of the ISO filesystem before copying it to hard disk. Most media types deliver more data than was written to them with the most recent burn run.
Use program
isosize out of package util-linux to obtain the image size
$ blocks=$(expr $(isosize /dev/cdrw) / 2048)
Have a look whether the obtained number of blocks is plausible
$ echo "That would be $(expr $blocks / 512) MB"
That would be 589 MB
Then copy the determined amount of data from medium to hard disk
$ dd if=/dev/cdrw of=isoimage.iso bs=2048 count=$blocks
count=$blocks if you did not determine the size. You will probably get more data than needed. The resulting file will nevertheless be mountable. It should still fit onto a medium of the same type as the medium from which the
image was copied.
If the original medium was bootable, then the copy will be a bootable image. You may use it as pseudo CD for a virtual machine or burn it onto optical media which should then become bootable.
Erasing CD-RW and DVD-RW
<!ex Erasing CD-RW , replacing section 1.3> <ex! Re-writable DVDs , replacing section 2.3>
Used CD-RW media need to be erased before you can write over the previously recorded data. This is done by
$ wodim -v dev=/dev/cdrw blank=fast
Unformatted DVD-RW media need the same treatment before re-use. But fast blanking deprives them of the capability for multi-session and recording of streams of unpredicted length. So one should apply
$ dvd+rw-format -blank=full /dev/cdrw
dvd+rw-format is part of package dvd+rw-tools. Alternative commands are
$ cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrw blank=all $ cdrskin -v dev=/dev/cdrw blank=all $ xorriso -outdev /dev/cdrw -blank as_needed
Formatted DVD-RW media can be overwritten without such erasure. So consider to apply once in their life time
$ dvd+rw-format -force /dev/cdrw
Alternative commands are
$ cdrskin -v dev=/dev/cdrw blank=format_overwrite $ xorriso -outdev /dev/cdrw -format as_needed
All other media are either write-once (CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, BD-R) or are overwritable without the need for erasing (DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, BD-RE).
Burning an ISO image
<!ex Burning an ISO image , replacing section 1.4> <!ex Overview (DVD burning), replacing in part section 2.2.1>
To burn a readily prepared ISO image file
isoimage.iso onto an optical medium, run for CD:
$ wodim -v -sao dev=/dev/cdrw isoimage.iso
and for DVD or BD:
$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdrw=isoimage.iso
The programs
cdrskin, and
xorrecord may be used on all kinds of media with the options shown with
Make sure that the medium is not mounted when you begin to write to it. Mounting may happen automatically if the medium contains a readable filesystem. In best case it will prevent the burn programs from using the burner device. In worst case there will be misburns because read operations disturbed the drive. So if in doubt, do:
# umount /dev/cdrw
growisofs has a small bug with blank BD-R media. It issues an error message after the burning is complete. Programs like
k3b then believe the whole burn run failed.
To prevent this, either
- format the blank BD-R by
dvd+rw-format /dev/cdrwbefore submitting it to growisofs
- or use growisofs option
Verifying the burnt ISO image
<!ex Verify the burnt ISO image , replacing section 1.5>
You can verify the integrity of the burnt medium to make sure it contains no errors. Always eject the medium and reinsert it before verifying. The kernel will learn about the new content only by that reinsertion.
First calculate the md5sum of the original ISO image:
$ md5sum isoimage.iso
e5643e18e05f5646046bb2e4236986d8 isoimage.iso
Next calculate the md5sum of the ISO filesystem on the medium. Although some media types deliver exactly the same amount of data as have been submitted to the burn program, many others append trailing garbage when being read. So you should restrict reading to the size of the ISO image file.
$ blocks=$(expr $(ls -l isoimage.iso | awk '{print $5}') / 2048)
$ dd if=/dev/cdrw bs=2048 count=$blocks | md5sum
43992+0 records in 43992+0 records out 90095616 bytes (90 MB) copied, 0.359539 s, 251 MB/s e5643e18e05f5646046bb2e4236986d8 -
Both runs should yield the same MD5 sum (here:
e5643e18e05f5646046bb2e4236986d8). If they do not, you will propbably also get an i/o error message from the
dd run.
dmesg might then tell about SCSI errors and block numbers, if you are interested.
ISO 9660 and Burning On-The-Fly
(new section)
It is not necessary to store an emerging ISO filesystem on hard disk before writing it to optical media. Only very old CD drives at very old computers could suffer misburns due to empty drive buffer.
If you omit option
-o from
genisoimage then it writes the ISO image to standard output. This can be piped into the standard input of burn programs.
$ genisoimage -V "ARCHIVE_2013_07_27" -J -r ./for_iso | \ wodim -v dev=/dev/cdrw -waiti -
-waiti is not really needed here. It prevents
wodim from writing to the medium before
genisoimage starts its output. This would allow
genisoimage to read the medium without disturbing an already started burn run. See next section about multi-session.
On DVD and BD you may let
growisofs operate
genisoimage for you and burn its output on-the-fly
$ export MKISOFS="genisoimage" $ growisofs -Z /dev/cdrw -V "ARCHIVE_2013_07_27" -r -J ./for_iso
(new section, in part from remaindings of "DVD burning")
ISO 9660 multi-session means that a medium with readable filesystem is still writable at its first unused block address, and that a new ISO directory tree gets written to this unused part. The new tree is accompanied by the content blocks of newly added or overwritten data files. The blocks of data files, which shall stay as in the old ISO tree, will not be written again.
Linux and many other operating systems will mount the directory tree in the last session on the medium. This youngest tree will normally show the files of the older sessions, too.
CD-R and CD-RW stay writable (aka "appendable") if wodim option
-multi was used
$ wodim -v -multi dev=/dev/cdrw isoimage.iso
Then the medium can be inquired for the parameters of the next session
$ m=$(wodim dev=/dev/cdrw -msinfo)
By help of these parameters and of the readable medium in the drive you can produce the add-on ISO session
$ genisoimage -M /dev/cdrw -C "$m" \ -V "ARCHIVE_2013_07_28" -J -r -o session2.iso ./more_for_iso
Finally append the session to the medium and keep it appendable again
$ wodim -v -multi dev=/dev/cdrw session2.iso
cdrskin and
xorrecord do this too with DVD-R, DVD+R, BD-R and unformatted DVD-RW. Program
cdrecord does multi-session with at least DVD-R and DVD-RW.
Most re-usable media types do not record a session history that would be recognizable for a mounting kernel. But with ISO 9660 it is possible to achieve the multi-session effect even on those media.
growisofs and
xorriso can do this and hide most of the complexity.
Multi-session by growisofs
growisofs forwards most of its program arguments to a program that is compatible to
mkisofs. See above examples of
It bans option
-o and deprecates option
By default it uses the installed program named "mkisofs". You may let it choose one of the others by setting environment variable
$ export MKISOFS="genisoimage" $ export MKISOFS="xorrisofs"
The wish to begin with a new ISO filesystem on the optical medium is expressed by option
$ growisofs -Z /dev/cdrw -V "ARCHIVE_2013_07_27" -r -J ./for_iso
The wish to append more files as new session to an existing ISO filesystem is expressed by option
$ growisofs -M /dev/cdrw -V "ARCHIVE_2013_07_28" -r -J ./more_for_iso
For details see the manual
and the manuals of
Multi-session by xorriso
xorriso learns the wish to begin with a new ISO filesystem from the blank state of the medium. So it is appropriate to blank it if it contains data.
$ xorriso -outdev /dev/cdrw -blank as_needed \ -volid "ARCHIVE_2013_07_27" -joliet on -add ./for_iso --
On non-blank writable media it appends the newly given disk files if command -dev is used rather than -outdev. Of course, no command -blank should be given here
$ xorriso -dev /dev/cdrw \ -volid "ARCHIVE_2013_07_28" -joliet on -add ./more_for_iso --
For details see the manual page and especially its examples http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/man_1_xorriso.html http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/man_1_xorriso.html#EXAMPLES
BD Defect Management
(new section)
BD-RE and formatted BD-R media are normally written with enabled Defect Management. This feature reads the written blocks while they are still stored in the drive buffer. In case of poor read quality the blocks get written again or redirected to the Spare Area where the data get stored in replacement blocks.
This checkreading reduces write speed to at most half of the nominal speed of drive and BD medium. Sometimes it is even worse. Heavy use of the Spare Area causes long delays during read operations. So Defect Management is not always desirable.
cdrecord does not format BD-R. It has no means to prevent Defect Management on BD-RE media, though.
growisofs formats BD-R by default. This can be prevented by option
-use-the-force-luke=spare:none. It has no means to prevent Defect Management on BD-RE media, though.
xorriso, and
xorrecord do not format BD-R by default. They do with
cdrskin blank=format_if_needed, resp.
xorriso -format as_needed, resp.
xorrecord blank=format_overwrite.
These three programs can disable Defect Management with BD-RE and already formatted BD-R by
cdrskin stream_recording=on, resp.
xorriso -stream_recording on, resp.
xorrecord stream_recording=on.
Additions to the list of GUI tools
(temporary section, to be merged with section 4)
- isomaster — ISO image editor
Burn Backend Problems
(new section at end of burn backend sections)
If you experience problems, you may ask for advise at mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com . Or ask for advise at the support mail addresses if some are listed near the end of the program's man page.
Tell the command lines you tried, the medium type (e.g. CD-R, DVD+RW, ...), and the symptoms of failure (program messages, disappointed user expectation, ...). You will possibly get asked to obtain the newest release or development version of the affected program and to make test runs. But the answer might as well be, that your drive dislikes the particular medium.
Translators: What advise do you have for people who cannot communicate in english language ?
GUI program log indicates problems with backend program
(new section for section 6 "Troubleshooting")
If you use a GUI program and experience problems which the program's log blames on some backend program, then try whether you can reproduce the problem by the logged backend program arguments. Whether you succeed with reproducing or not, you may report the logged lines and your own findings to the places mentioned in section Burn Backend Problems.


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Adrian Dater's spotlight on center Sidney Crosby
Spotlight on… Sidney Crosby, center, Team Canada
When: Crosby, the NHL's acknowledged greatest player going, leads Canada into the Olympics in Sochi as the defending gold-medal champions. Round-robin play starts this week.
What's up: Crosby scored the overtime winner for Canada in 2010 in Vancouver, dubbed "The Golden Goal." It came against the United States, after the Americans tied it late in regulation.
Background: Crosby hails from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, the same hometown as the Avs' Nathan MacKinnon, who figures to play on a Canadian Olympic team before he's done. The first pick in the NHL's 2005 draft, Crosby has been every bit as good as advertised since coming into the league.
Dater's take: The Canadians take international tournaments so seriously, there is more pressure on Crosby than probably any other hockey player in Sochi.
But he always handles pressure with such ease. Crosby was groomed for the big stage at an early age, and hasn't disappointed. He has already won a Stanley Cup and a gold medal, and he's only 26.
Canadians love Crosby not only for his talent, but his humble nature. He goes about his job like a dedicated backshop employee, never asking for the spotlight. But his talent is such that the spotlight is unavoidable. He is arguably the greatest player in the world.


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Clooney & Murray in Italy
We all know George Clooney summers at Lake Como and entertains a revolving door of celebrity visitors – the latest is the recently single Bill Murray. Boys on vacation…smutty trouble!
Here they are on the water, paddling, and um, enjoying the view. Then at night it's out for dinner, throwing back some drinks, obviously accompanied by the ladies, one of them supposedly an Italian actress called Manuel Arcuri.
Brunette, curvy, sexpot. Totally Clooney's type.
This is good, why change it? Of course he doesn't want to settle down. Would you?
And don't start with the MiniVan monologue about being lonely and wanting more out of life. How much more out of life does it get than George Clooney's life?
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One University of Alabama student has big dreams, motivated by the students who fought so hard to get an education there in 1963. NBC's Lester Holt reports.
By Amber Payne, Producer, NBC News
At the Boys and Girls Club of West Alabama, 300 children with unbridled energy are ordered to scream at the top of their lungs, three times.
As their joyous shrieking fills the auditorium, Tyler Merriweather smiles and joins right in.
Ten years ago Merriweather was a "club kid," as he affectionately calls them. He found security, escape and emotional release from struggles at home. Today, the 18-year-old works as a mentor and counselor for their summer program.
"I see a lot of myself in them," he said. "I have to make sure that every day is a great day for them. Because I don't know what their family situations are."
A proud product of the club, Merriweather knows that the program is much more than an after-school program for these children.
"That is their safe haven. It's a place that gives them hope and gives them a sign that they can be greater than their circumstances," he said.
Hope is something Merriweather knows a lot about. A sophomore at the University of Alabama, he is the first in his family to go to college. Instead of attending a historically black college, Merriweather deliberately chose to attend a state school still scarred by an ugly moment in history.
AP, file
Gov. George Wallace blocks the entrance to the University of Alabama as he turned back a federal officer attempting to enroll two black students at the university campus in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on June 11, 1963.
Fifty years ago, on June 11, 1963, Gov. George Wallace stood in the doorway of the Foster Auditorium, physically barring two African-American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from entering.
Wallace, who proclaimed the rallying cry in his inaugural address, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," was determined to keep a campaign promise to block integration at the university, reflecting a sentiment felt in much of the Deep South.
Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach delivered a stern warning in front of media and hundreds of onlookers, asking the governor to "responsibly step aside" -- but he boldly refused.
That afternoon, President Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard to force Wallace to stand down. And the governor, flanked by state troopers, peacefully stepped aside.
With that, Vivian Malone and James Hood walked through the doors, past Wallace, and into history.
AP, file
Vivian Malone and James Hood stand in the doorway of Foster Auditorium to hold what they called their "first and final news conference" after the two African-American students registered at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. Earlier, Gov. George Wallace had barred their way from the same doorway.
President Kennedy told the nation in a nationally televised address that he believed the fight for civil rights was a "moral issue" not just a regional one.
"If an American because his skin is dark cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place?"
Those words still resonate with Dr. Art Dunning, a student at the University of Alabama in the 1966. He remembers very clearly what it was like to be one of just a handful of African-American students.
"I was in my third year before someone sat by me in a classroom," he said.
Dr. Art Dunning and student Tyler Merriweather reflect on the University of Alabama's pivotal role in the civil rights movement.
Dr. Dunning, now a professor and senior research fellow at the university, is still troubled by how much intellectual capital was lost by the policies of the past.
"I'm really struck by how many generations out there could have succeeded here, had they been allowed to go here," he said. "Yet I'm also excited by seeing these students who are here today succeeding and doing well."
Today, the student body is 33,000 and minority enrollment stands at 20 percent with African-Americans comprising 12 percent.
Growing up in Tuscaloosa, Merriweather has seen progress in his short lifetime but feels personal responsibility to open new doors for those coming in behind him.
"They grew up in a time where racism was supposedly ending however a lot of people were still stuck in their ways. It ended as a law, but didn't end as a way of life."
He is proud to be from Alabama.
Standing in the cover of the clock tower emblazoned with the bronze images and the words of the civil rights pioneers before him, Merriweather, an early education major, proclaims that he is determined to make a name for himself at the University of Alabama -- but also literally.
"My name will be engraved here at the university," he vowed.
Merriweather knows he is following in their footsteps, but is looking to carve his own unique path.
"It wasn't just them fighting, I felt like it was me fighting," he said. "Because they are me. They are my past, and I am the future."
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The Woodinville Winers visit Trust Cellars
On one of our recent trips to the Tourist District, we stumbled upon Trust Cellars (www.trustcellars.com) and decided to give it a try. Trust is yet another example of a great Eastern Washington winery opening a tasting room in Woodinville.
At the time we didn't know much about them and were pleasantly surprised.
The Trust tasting room is located near the Purple Café in Woodinville where we met Terry Christiani, one of the most knowledgable tasting room managers we have ever met.
Terry started us off with the 2011 Riesling from Columbia Valley. As we started our tasting, we asked for tasting notes and found out that Steve, the winemaker, doesn't believe in them. We couldn't agree more.
It has always seemed strange to the Winers that so many people let others tell them what they should be tasting in wine.
We remind readers that you are the only one with your particular palette and are therefore uniquely qualified to judge the taste of wine on your palette.
We applaud Steve's stance on the topic of tasting notes.
As we moved onto the reds, Terry told us some other interesting stories about Steve, who was a television producer for CNN on the East Coast in his past career.
In 2005, Steve had a mid-life crisis (not our words!) and decided to move with his family to Walla Walla, Wash., to make wine, which he knew nothing about.
Washington has been benefitting from his wines ever since.
We contrasted two different Syrahs from Trust, namely the 2008 Syrah from Columbia Valley and the 2010 Syrah from Walla Walla.
This was a great demonstration of the different AVAs, with the Columbia Valley proving to be more about earth and spice and Walla Walla being more about fruit and pepper.
This was a true reminder of how great the Syrah grape is in Washington state — a grape that very well may be the grape of Washington's future.
The highlight of the tasting was a 2010 "Mystery" Syrah from the Columbia Valley. Not even Terry could tell us about it as Steve insisted in making it a mystery to all of Trust's employees.
This wine had a distinct nose to it — a subtle "grassy" and "barnyard" nose.
We rated it the highest on the day.
While we did try some of the other wines from Trust, we highly recommend the Syrahs.
Trust also makes a very nice red blend called t.a.t.t. (tried and true table wine), which we would also highly recommend in the value category if you are looking for a good overall red table wine.
The tasting room is located at 14469 Woodinville-Redmond Rd. and tasting room hours are: 1 - 6 p.m. Friday & Saturday, Sunday 1-5 p.m.


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Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
Authors work at their abilities, often every day. The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another. Writers do this by using motivation, chararacterization, and powerful word combinations among other things. Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal.
The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically. It's important to have a wide arsenal of choices at your disposal, because if we keep doing the same 'tried and true' methods, their emotional effects will wear off as the songwriting becomes caged into a predictable movement.
If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.
It is like this: when you are a computer genius and you want to tell someone how to fix their computer, you have to speak in their terms so they can understand what the heck you are saying.
If you speak in your lingo, you will most likely lose them in techno-talk. Another example is the author. He can write a story with the largest, most sweeping words he knows- but if the reader does not know what those words mean, the entire meaning gets lost.
Overcomplicated songs will lose the average listener.
Now, other hardcore musicians will greatly appreciate your abilities and probably get more feeling from it- but the common person will most likely not be able to follow.
Once again you should ask yourself when you write a song: Who am I making this music for and will they be able to relate?
Not to say that you can't invigorate your mind again, but it is saying that it is harder to do so. Just like weight lifting. If you haven't worked out in awhile, it is quite hard to lift as much as you did when you were lifting every day.
So this is my first suggestion. Practice. I'm not talking about technical ability this time (although you should practice that too!). I'm saying that you should practice making new songs. Make a goal to make 1 new song every week, even if it is only 50 seconds long.
It is the fact that you are working your brain out. Once you begin the song, you can latch onto ideas rather quickly. That is not the purpose of the exercise.
The purpose is to get your brain to find new avenues by exploring different ideas. It's about trying something new every time.
Find parts in your lead passage that really hook you. Now delete all the other parts. Now build off of the hook. Get it? Computers cannot find hooks, but your ear can. If you can't feel anything interesting from a part, get rid of it.
Unless of course you want to have a "boring" part to build into something grand! There's a nice strategy.
I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.
Don't mess up your song by trying to fit it in! If you can fit it in and it feels right to put it there- good shot! If it doesn't- well then you have an idea for your next song to go! Remember, the song's opinion is better than yours!
Just because you got a new toy, does not mean every song needs to have it! There, I said it. Just because you get a wah-wah pedal for your guitar, now every song you make after that needs to have a wah-wah??
I think not!
Think about what the song needs not what you want. The both of you might have varying opinions. When you make the music bigger than you are, then you'll understand what I mean- it tends to have a mind of its own.
The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about- new experiences. Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.
Open up a photo album, read old letters, visit family, friends, go do an activity, do anything but music! Read poetry, watch ballet, go see a movie, walk around in a museum, look at oil paintings and sculptures- these are all different forms of art. Music is an art form too.
Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician. Come back, after your mind has been freed, and try to write a song about it.
Throughout the excitement, we can make good mistakes. We hit the wrong key, and all of a sudden, our mind is opened to a new avenue. Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing. I think the best music sounds familiar enough to know where it is going, but unpredictable enough to avoid musical clichés!
Remember that.
If you don't have an inspiration, sometimes just 'playing around' is a good answer!
The best way to be able to attack a song from every angle is to have as many techniques and styles as possible. Your talent will tell you which ones would work for your song.
Learn country, rock, alternative even try polka! Learn as much as you can. There might be a place to use that knowledge somewhere in the future!
Just because you found a winning formula, that may only work for that particular song.
Try different avenues.
There are artists that you hear (even on the radio) that seem to have all of their songs to sound alike. Be creative.
Knowledge of the rules of music can be a great thing- if you also know that it's okay to break them. If you stay theoretically sound, you may have a generic sound.
Dissonance can be a powerful tool.
The reason why refraining this can help your songwriting is because when you stop comparing to the outside world, you can learn from them. Maybe the guitarist isn't the most technically sound, but maybe he can fingerpick like you wouldn't believe.
Learn from his strengths so they can be yours too. Examine his style and abilities and see if there isn't something you can't learn from him.
Examine the style, the mixing, how the entire song is constructed, when each instrument blends in and out of the mix, etc. etc.
You'll find that many times you can get ideas from other artists. I'm not saying steal their riffs (but go ahead if it makes you feel better) but you can take some of their ideas and blend them into your own style.
Steal an idea and then bend it to the inner workings of your mind!
When you're next to a lake, you probably get the feeling of relaxation.
When you're at a concert, I doubt you will feel so relaxed.
Where you are can impact your music.
If you are lucky enough to have your own private place in your home to play music, you most likely have it decorated with posters or something that puts you in the mood. If you don't... try it! I had a guy tell me that he couldn't write a song unless he turned off all of his lights except for one... and it was blue.
If you create an atmosphere, it will most likely affect your music. When you are in a store you act differently than at home. Even your kitchen will invoke a different type of feeling than your living room. No doubt about it..
Try to get a room that can match your musical personality and write there. Test out different places. I, personally, write my music in the dark. No blue light here.
To exercise your mind, you have to work it to its full capacity. Back to weight lifting, if you can curl 45-lbs, don't settle for 20 lbs one day. You won't get stronger.
Half-hearted songs don't count in my opinion. Playing around is nice and all, but your ultimate goal should be to write a song like you've written before. It is how we expand as musicians. Writing songs with methods that we've done before is like lifting 20 lbs.
Using new ideas and methods, that our mind would have only thought of because we've mastered the old- that's your 45 pounder!
Keep it fresh! Don't fall into the habit of generic music!!!
For example, my idea might be: well what if I wrote a dance song with a heavy guitar?
What if I wanted to write a song uses a distortion over drums? Ideas don't always evolve into songs, but they help you be creative!
The important thing is that since they are ideas (kind of like a hypothesis) you shouldn't come to a conclusion till you have tried it.
In other words, if you have an idea that running distortion over drums would sound cool over a love song, and when you try it- you may tell yourself... "no- distortion with drums sounds good on a hard rock song."
I take compliments more to heart from strangers who like my music. The most important thing is that you like the music. Will others like it as well? Maybe, maybe not.
If they offer suggestions, consider them... There is no right or wrong way to write a song. There are only songs that people can and can't relate to. And I'm sure that almost any song that was ever made could probably relate to at least 1 other person in this world.
Use words that people use everyday.
Why? Because if those same words are used in just an everyday conversation, it will remind that listener of your song.
For instance, if I said "I was outside last night and saw a twinkle twinkle little star", immediately that song pops into your mind. Of course no one would talk like that, so if you mold your song around an everyday phrase, then it will remind people of your song easier. Just think of Staind, "It's been awhile". Every time someone says that phrase it reminds me of that song.
Just think of this: Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down. That is why people who aren't healthy are tired more often.
When you're in shape, your metabolism will rise giving you an extra supply of energy that you can use to focus onto music or whatever.
Does that mean that if you're out of shape and not eating right that you can't make good music? Of course not! But what I am saying is that if you do choose to eat right and get in shape, it will help you keep your focus and energy for a longer period of time.
I can't stress enough how different one feels when they choose to get in shape, but it really helps you psychologically, mentally and physically.
Why does that make it powerful?
Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time. If there is a degree of predictability then the listener will be able to relate to the song more quickly. For instance, how many of you have said in your mind, "that would be so cool if this song did this..." and then the song took the same direction you wanted it to go.
Immediate satisfaction.
People have heard different artists use the exact same musical hooks and patterns, and if there is no unique twist then you will hear something like, "they copied (fill in the blank)'s song. Sounds just like it but with different words." You will most likely want your song to have its own identity.
Think of the texture of a nylon string guitar as opposed to the texture of a steel string. Think of the texture of a piano, and the texture of a synth.
Some of the same melodies played with different textures can completely change a song.
A lot of metal songs sound like classical pieces when played on a classical guitar instead of an electric. The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.
Textures can bring out the best and worst in a song. We pay great amounts of money to get the 'best' texture we possibly can. That is why people buy expensive musical equipment over cheap pawn shop items. Distortion has a huge variety of different tones and sounds.
Not every distortion pedal sounds the same.
Why? For texture. Don't keep using the same sounds, experiment with as many textures as you can. This is so important; I'm going to say texture 20 more times by the end of this tip. Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture Texture .
Guess what. People don't have fun making music all the time. It's really sad.
If you don't believe me, think about all the people who have been upset because of something their band did to them. Revert to the very beginning, when you first realized that you loved to create music... and have fun!
About the Author
Ken Hill is a guitarist and keyboardist for the New Age band, Torchlight Creek.
If you have any comments, suggestions or ideas about this article, please be sure to e-mail him at email@example.com


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The Biggest Fireworks Displays Across the Country
Forget about the dawn's early light, this Fourth of July is all about the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air and maybe even a couple of spiders. Those are the ones that, well, look kind of like a spider, anyway.
In honor of the Fourth, here are 10 great fireworks displays throughout the country. If your city didn't make it, don't worry, we're sure it's just as good.