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Ortiz Versus Manny
This just sums up two guys:
"One, I have already contacted the Players Association to confirm if this report is true. I have just been told that the report is true. Based on the way I have lived my life, I am surprised to learn I tested positive. Two, I will find out what I tested positive for. And, three, based on whatever I learn, I will share this information with my club and the public. You know me — I will not hide and I will not make excuses."
Meanwhile MLB.Com quotes Ramirez, before the Dodgers-Cards in St. Louis:
"If you guys want to talk about the game and what happens now, I can sit and talk for two hours. But something happened six years ago, I don't want to talk about that. If you want more information, you have the number for the union. Call them."
Can we talk about what has now happened twice in six years? Can we talk about what happened this spring? Can we talk about how Dodger fans can look at themselves and the standings in the mirror?
Get lost, Manny.
Now you know why you will never see Manny Ramirez in Cooperstown. Unless he's there with Clemens, signing in front of the CVS.
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And can we also talk about George Mitchell's report that so carefully protected and shielded his Red Sox?
I'll admit it….I'm a Yankees fan…..and this has bugged me for years — that Clemons and Pettitte got very publicly shamed while not a single Red Sox player got publicly mentioned. The Yankees were made to look like the worst offenders in baseball, while the Red Sox were made to look like Boy Scouts.
So finally, it's revealed that the two biggest players on the 2004 championship team were also tainted by doping.
I understand the point you are trying to make here, Keith, about the difference between Big Papi and Manny, but I just wanted to finally get it off my chest that the Mitchell report was leaked to the media in a way that glorified the Red Sox while disparaging the Yankees.
Love your show, Keith….and I'm quickly becoming a fan of your baseball blog.
"Get lost, Manny."
Hear, hear.
Once again, Manny being Manny. Why do we even expect more from him?
I'm all for unions….. until they enter the sports world. This whole steroids era is a by product of a union that cares more about self preservation than it does for the game. Now that I write it down it does sound similar to what is happening in Detroit. Over paid employees that can't be fired, fined, or replaced despite the irreverisible damage done to the business.
but underneath it all I start to have a haunting suspicion that the owners we also in on the sin. In their minds just another gimmick to put souls in over priced seats.
I'm assuming Bud Selig knew about the results of these tests. A man who now sits in judgment of Pete Rose? Everybody looked the other way – the owners, the unions, the Commissioner.
Once again, it is a persons words and actions that commend them to others.
Last night watching the NYY on mlb.com the commentary on the leakage of this was interesting. If you were not listening, see if you can get to it.
Summary, publish the report in its entirely. Let us get it all done with now and move on, one way or another. Learn and teach.
BTW, another gripe of mine. Since when did slamming your bat into the ground become good gamesmanship? There are kids watching.
Now that this has come out, I really hope we can quit with the Manny fetish the baseball media seems to have. During the second game he played after his suspension, Fox cut away from the games they were broadcasting to bring us every single at-bat from Manny. Besides the fact that they were interrupting the game I tuned in to watch, it was sickening to see the amount of attention thrown on a known cheater who is completely unrepentant about it. The commentators (who spent more time talking about Manny than about the game they were calling) seemed more interested in how his swing would look after 50 games off; I'm not even sure whether they ever even mentioned the reason why he'd taken his little vacation.
I'm tired of the drip, drip, drip of these names coming out from this list.
I am wondering which big name players name will be leaked next?
Can we talk about how Dodger fans can look at themselves and the standings in the mirror?
Wow, seriously? I think Dodger fans will enjoy the reflection of their teams' postseason figure just as Yankees fans enjoyed their dynasty championships and Boston fans were ecstatic when the 'curse' was defeated with the help of Manny & Ortiz in 2004 and 2007 and just as an entire generation enjoyed watching baseball again in 1998 due to the resurgence of the long ball.
I'm more curious how you will enjoy looking at your blog in hindsight. Posting this scathing commentary about Manny Ramirez while almost praising David Ortiz after you were disgusted (http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/07/it_disgusts_me.html) by the contrast of Lou Gehrig and Alex Rodriguez?
Do you remember posting this:
Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez and the others of the PED era did not belong in baseball today, and that they did not show the requisite awareness of their own shame, only makes it worse. Lord, send us a 'roider who has the presence of mind to say: "On this day I do my penance; I don't yet belong on the field even with just the memory of this man, I hope you'll forgive me and I can again earn your trust."
How has David Ortiz shown more shame than A-Rod? Didn't they both come out and apologize AFTER their names were released by others? Or do you expect Ortiz's press conference to be filled with more sackcloth and ashes than A-Rod's?
Being one of the faithful Red Sox Nation, it pains me to hear about Big Papi. Manny? I'm SOOOO over him and his Manny-being-Manny silliness. My bigger issue is why leak one name here, one name there? Publish the whole damned report, get it all out there, let the public and press do what we'll do and be done with it.
This report is about as secret as who shot Lincoln.
Look- not all Dodger fans are happy about Manny. He has little to do with our standings. We can't help this all happened since he came here. But, its time to release the whole 104…. and its time they test all playeres as often as the French test Lance Armstrong. Once a week.
In all this a milestone goes unnoticed: the July 29th Dodgers-Cards game was the 2001st game played between the two franchises. The two franchises have been playing against each other since 1892. St. Louis has won 955 games to the Dodgers 930.
Keith, not because I am a Dodger fan–more on that below–I have to disagree in part. If Ortiz did something wrong that led to a positive test, he is as guilty as anyone else, and however he responds to the inevitable inquiry does not alter what he did. Ortiz's reaction was classier, but that ultimately isn't the issue. It's like saying Barry Bonds is the worst offender. If so, he isn't the only–and I will continue to insist that he would have received less criticism over this if he were a pleasant human being whom the media liked.
As to the steroid era, unfortunately, we have to live with it. We already have guys in the Hall of Fame who have admitted to drug use, or come from a generation in which some drugs were used (uppers, etc.). The players certainly bear considerable blame, but to blame it on their union, as one commenter did, just won't cut it. The owners didn't object. The media left it pretty much alone for a long time (remember the reporter being discouraged from telling what he knew about Mark McGwire a decade ago?). The thoughtful fan could figure out something was up.
A great line from an umpire in Bruce Weber's new book. He said he couldn't exactly go to the manager and say, did you know your third baseman is on steroids? But he also noted that this may explain some of what the fans considered questionable behavior by umpires. Maybe, just maybe, they were having to deal with ballplayers who were a bit off-center.
As a proud Los Angeles Dodgers fan I take umbrage to the reference of Manny. Sure the fans love him and he gets rousing ovations every time he is at home. Just as he did in Boston in the not too distant past.
But I don't think we would approve at all with his suspension and these new revelations. We want what every other fan and team wants, to win.
And how many players were found to be using illegal substances? It seems like it was so many that in addition to the Manny's, Big Papi's, and A-Rod's of the world there will be more names revealed. Even players who we love and will never look at the same way again after their name is revealed.
This is a tough issue I think. It is totally understandable as to why they would want to take those drugs. Look at what they do. It is SO obvious the change in an aging ballplayer who looks better aging then he did in his youth. It gives an otherwise rather sometimes tedious and boring game some zip. Who does not like the homerun ball?
On the other hand this is a game where kids look up to players. Do we want kids emulating the players and then saying its all about the money. EVEN WORSE is the physical risk of steroids. No question it increases the risk of some cancers AND it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke which when a player is young he does not think about one iota until he has a heart attack or worse a stroke…both could kill him but a stroke could make living a hell.
Further, there was something fantastic in days of old when a Carl Yastremski or Ted Williams or Mantle, Maris really WERE good in and of themselves. There is something to be said for that. I do not know how you can keep these drugs out except to test every player ALL the time … maybe even every game. Now some drugs are hard to detect like hormones. Still I'm sure some test they could come up with would show it.
It's just a shame because these men i.e. Clemens, Bonds, Petit, Rameriz now Ortiz and probably so many more have such talent..the question is is the talent the same with the drugs as without? Probably not.
So enough already with baseball. Who cares? It puts no money in MY bank account whether they doped or not..yeah yeah I know it's the kids….okay I still don't care. WHAT I DO CARE ABOUT is HEALTH CARE that WILL affect my bank account.
Keith we need you. This week has been drudgery and I am shamed to say it but I turned it off until Rachel. Thank god for her. This is the worst possible time for you to be away Keith in my opinion. No offense to your substitutes but man have no fear they did not surpass you. Maybe someone could try Nor Man Gold Man who fills in for Ed Schultz on his radio show. This guy is TERRIFIC…don't worry Keith though NO ONE could take your place. For once I found someone irreplaceable!
In the "for what it's worth" department, in the early 1960s, Mickey Mantle wound up on the DL with an abscess. He got it when Mel Allen took him to a "Dr. Feelgood"–it might even have been THE Dr. Feelgood–and the shot didn't work too well. Jim Bouton wrote a bit about "greenies" and the like. I suspect a lot of players we haven't thought of have used that stuff.
Keith, I took less umbrage than my fellow Dodger fan, but when you are on the same side of an issue as Bill Plaschke of The Los Angeles Times, you need to stop and think. Granted, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and Plaschke is right about Vin Scully's greatness–but who would disagree with that?
I wonder if it isn't that there's so much money involved in professional sports that a player's greed overtakes and surpasses his pride. He is so determined to succeed — to provide for himself and his family — that he doesn't care how he does it.
But I don't see athletes as any better or worse than anyone else who cheats or lies to succeed whether it's in sports or not. That includes the owners of ball clubs who look the other way just so long as the team wins and they can up the ticket and parking prices, the reporters who hide the facts so they can still be buddies with the players and the elected officials who take bribes (that's what they no matter what you call 'em) to vote against the public good.
I'd like to see the same light shine on the politicians that's being shined on athletes.
grk9 makes GREAT points. The pressure in this culture to succeed especially for people with immense talent is HUGE. Money in this culture for ANYONE really rules. Ask all those out of a job now how bad it is without it. The desperateness of some to do anything necessary legal or otherwise to get money is overwhelming like a drug in and of itself. Ask people in entertainment the pressure they feel and why so many are on drugs and why so many marriages fail. How about the lengths some go to maintain their beauty. That is the case in film and it is the case with sports. Youth with bodies of steel and great beauty is so fleeting and the need for money continuous. Youth's vibrancy is its own drug too. What does one do to maintain it without resorting to artificial props?
I do not know WHAT the answer is. Perhaps it is our need to survive and to have our progeny survive as well. Whatever is the rationale in almost ANY high powered big money field it's there. I bet its even in the news business too. Drugs though take a toll and the problem is the young simply do not see it until it's too late and their bodies just simply give out or their minds give out way before their time.
A culture OBSESSED with money is like a heroin addict obsessed with his next fix. He will do whatever is needed to get it until one day it kills him.
Perhaps an interview with someone who is or was GREAT in sport but who we KNOW used nothing but his own skill without drugs would be in order. Find out what his secret is. There must be a few to ask.
I really despise the "Manny being Manny" phrase. It's a cop out.
Manny is a selfish A-hole, period, end of story.
Hurry back-I think even O'Reilly misses you.
Regarding this issue, I'm in agreement with your reader "1948braves" from yesterday's comments that everyone from the commish down (or is it up?) to the asst. traveling teams' batboy is complicit in this scandal. Selig should have been ousted from the beginning (nobody could be that out of touch and not know or say something like stating that the newer bandbox ballparks and juiced baseballs were the reason for the increase in homer runs in the mid to late 1990s). Framing his original excuses, someone 'roided up in Colorado should have hit 100 home runs in a single season by now. But now we know why nary a soul complained about the scandal about "those" players stealing money from us "honest" guys. Roy Oswalt's false reasoning that Alex Rodriguez and other opposing cheats were hurting his ability to earn more money is specious. If anything the cheaters raised the salary level for all players – simply by the sheer number of them. It should be indignation from the POV that cheating is wrong, period. It's against the rules for a reason.
Do not confuse Manny's hubris with Manny's stupidity. I still think if Jose Canseco hadn't gone insane late in his own career there would have been plenty of teams' GMs who would have hired him as a player/'roid-HGH consultant in a heartbeat. It took Mike Schmidt, in probably one of the most openly honest comments by anyone of Hall of Fame rep (retired or non), to state he would have most likely tried PEDs himself if that extra edge was proven. But he was immediately chastised by Bob Costas and other media reps and thus "cleared up" the misunderstanding of his words. You cannot just blame the players – they were enabled and in some cases intentionally so. If all of the media (including Mr. Costas) had not been so apeshit in love with the seemingly "Dudley Doright" Mark Maguire – Sammy Sosa home run hitting contests until being ickily turned off by the whole "Snidely Whiplash" Barry Bonds home run chase, they would have done some honest journalism at least 5 years prior. The players are always going to be looking for an edge. The recent "fantastic" steroid test results that Bud is now always crowing about is an insult to all of us who know the guys are either HGHing or are taking the latest 'invisible to the naked test' designer PED.
And a lot of ESPiN commentators are saying the fans sure don't seem to care so what's the big deal? They are also saying that Congress should keep their big, fat noses out of baseball's affairs. They do not seem to remember that the only time anything was done about this scandal was when they hauled MLB's collective ***** up to the hill and insisted that MLB police themselves or risk oversight of their government. Thus, the cherry-fart testing baseball now has today. The players are laughing at these tests. Case in point – Manny's success before, during and after his suspension. Not one hint of remorse or personal responsibility – not that for even a second did we expect that to happen. All we expected was his goofy smile, his easy-going demeanor and his beautiful swing – and he delivered – easy as tying a dreadlock. Barry Bonds is spinning in his baseball grave. I remember when the BALCO scandal broke and the recently-retired, recently-hired and smilingly obese John Kruk (employed for his baseball knowledge and inroads to the mind of today's players – if today's players are all fry-cooks) told the nation there is absolutely no way steroids could improve a professional ballplayers ability. I remember laughing out loud at that. Simply because Krukky could not answer the question of "if it doesn't help your performance then why do it"? I remember when Peter Gammons was a journalist not so long ago. Watching his soft glow "blockbuster" interview of Mr. Rodriguez days after he was outed was appalling. But I did not laugh the day of Mr. Rodriguez' press conference. After reading so many columns of so many journalists in the days prior to the presser stating, with sound and fury, the types of steroids he used , the sophistication of the "cocktail" mixture of testosterone and steroids that he took for three years and his reasoning for stopping their use, I was aghast that each and every one of the reporters in that tent allowed Mr. Rodriguez to tell lie after lie without anyone calling him out then and there. It was like a prosecuting attorney listening to a witness lie knowingly and not stopping him immediately with prepared, contrary known facts. It was disgusting.
Can anyone honestly say that today's kids are afraid to take any and all PEDs after seeing the "heroic" results that the best players in the game (who have taken PEDs and are still taking them) have displayed? I mean, name me one current player whom you would trust to be THE anti-PED spokesman. David Ortiz?
Nobody has their head in the sand now but the sad truth is that nobody in baseball really ever did.
Seriously?! You're that ok with Ortiz, and that down on Manny? You were great on Sports Center, but your views on baseball are as polarizing as your views on politics- and just about everything else, for that matter!
A few things you neglect in your analysis-
1) There is no "Ortiz versus Manny"- they are bestest of buddies, and you can judge someone by the company they keep, at least to a point. In other words, either Manny is not the demon you perceive, or Ortiz is not such a super guy. Your attitude towards them reminds me of the whole "Beatles versus the Rolling Stones" thing- ie. the good guys versus the bad guys, when in reality, there was no discernible difference, other than the way that they were marketed. (Though looking back, "good guy" Beatle John Lennon was probably badder than the rest of them put together.)
2) Yeah, I'm a Dodger fan, but from what I've seen SO far, I think you can make a case that Manny's approach has been MORE authentic. He basically said that he's embarrassed that he let everyone down by getting caught and suspended, but shrugged it off otherwise. Not the most contrite attitude, but I'd rather he do that than pretend he thinks he did something so horrible, when he really doesn't care a whole lot (besides the fact that he got busted). By contrast, Ortiz has denied, denied, and denied for YEARS, only to find out that his name was on the list all along! To compound the problem, Ortiz had previously said that they should EXTEND punishment for anyone who uses steroids, whereas Manny never said a word about it before getting busted himself! As someone who I'd guess is not too fond of right-wing preachers that scream about homosexuality while practicing it, I'm sure you can appreciate the magnitude of his hypocrisy.
3) I don't like the idea that ANY of these guys- even those that I root against- are cheaters, but the fact is, many, if not most, athletes always seem to be looking for an edge, no matter what the cost. I think they deserve as much blame as a teenager who stays out and parties all night. In other words, they should be held accountable, but most don't seem to know better, and need some serious supervision to protect them from themselves. Where were the grownups- in this case, Bud Selig? It seems he was too busy figuring out how to make the All-Star game "count" to deal with such small issues as steroids and PEDs.
4) "Can we talk about how Dodger fans can look at themselves and the standings in the mirror?"
There's the KO we all know and love- so dramatic about everything, and I mean EVERYTHING! It's not like we SOLD him the drugs, Keith! Taking steroids doesn't automatically make ANYONE a superstar multimillionaire home-run machine (oh, how I wish it did, though), and their incredible season so far has given people around here something to cheer about in otherwise troubled times. But the MAIN reason we look at ourselves in the mirror is because we're obsessed with our appearance- you know how Californians are.
Getting back to Ortiz, I think the jury is still out on his response. He says he'll talk about it when he finds out more, and I'm on the edge of my seat to find out.
Enjoy the rest of the season,
just to tell u those were just 2 poeple and if they sat would it matter???????? there is still what 23 more poeple there not the whole team
Im new here – forgive me if this has been discussed before ( I know it hasn't been acted on)
Keith, I've loved you since you were local sports in SoCal, and I never miss Countdown, but your logic is flawed. If Manny is so not perfect then don't you also make the mistake of so many by thinking he is all the Dodgers have. Your blanket condemnation of Dodger fans is resting on the shoulders of a flawed premise.
I'm coming to this late, but I'm a Dodger fan who is quite comfortable with that mirror. Make it a magic mirror and I look in and see Pierre, Blake, Kemp, Loney, Martin…take your pick. We have a team. Manny is a member, but we still have a top-of-the-line team, with and without Manny.
Why, you ask? Perhaps it's because we have Joe Torre? Just a thought.
Also, no player exists in a vacuum. They are all products of the culture within which they exist. These days, we would all look askance at any player caught with a cigarette, let alone a hypo. Not so much so forty years ago. Things change, the culture learns and grows.
The only thing that remains the same for a big league ball player is the pressure for a gifted human being to consistently produce in a super-human fashion. Why are we still surprised when the ethically shaky find ways to put a thumb on the scale? And do we really think steroids will be the last thing of this sort that we will come to see as reprehensible? Would that it were so.
Meanwhile, GO DODGERS AND JOE TORRE! You're actually making Ned Colletti look like he knows what he's doing.


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It surprised me, too.
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Nano Rally Review
- Publisher: Sauce Digital Limited
- Genre: Entertainment
- Released: 25 Jul, 2009
- Size: 44.5 MB
- Price: $0.99
- Great level designs.
- Time shaving off your total score is a ton of fun.
- Controls are hard to master; you will need to tweak options to see what works for you.
- No multiplayer modes in a racing game are almost a sin.
- Reversing your car can be a bit hectic.
Nano Rally is an addictive small scale racer that may take some time to get used to, but once you do, it's a lot of fun.
- Full Review
- App Store Info
Nano Rally is a racing game where players take control of a miniature racecar and race around a number of tracks and areas around a house. Players must navigate, adjust car specs and race through in the quickest time possible. The track scores are all added up to a grand total, your goal is to complete all the tracks while slowly grinding down your overall race time.
You control your car by using the buttons in the lower part of the screen. Gas, brakes and steering are all controlled by tapping the appropriate button. Players also have the option to use the iPhone's tilt capabilities to steer, and can adjust the sensitivity to a preferred setting. The controls work well, but you need to find a scheme that works just right for you.
The graphics are well done and navigating between cutlery, fruit and other household items. The sound is good, but while there is no game music, players can use their iPod instead with no loss of sound effects. There is one main single player game mode, but players can submit times and highscores to a global leaderboard.
Nano Rally is a fun little game that takes some time to master. The quirky level design and great camera controls make for some really exciting gameplay, while the total highscore system will have you coming back and repeating levels for the next best score. This is a must have game if you enjoyed games like Micro Machines or Hot Wheels.
DescriptionNano Rally is a fun and addictive top down driving game, where players drive miniaturized cars around various tracks, all based on different household environments.
* Hard, Medium and Easy settings.
* AI ghost cars on track.
* Mulitple Camera modes: Rotate, Fixed Center, Pan
* Racing lines, to make navigation easier.
* Improved controls & layout.
* Landscape mode.
As with any rally, races are time trials, with points allotted for the top times. Make your way through the different rallies/environments and stages. One minute you could find yourself power-sliding around the end of a spring onion, then falling off a precariously balanced ruler the next. If you get enough points you will end victorious.
* Exclusive to iPhone/iPod touch
* Beautiful, pre-rendered design.
* 6 Environments: Kitchen, Bedroom, Office, Garden, SECRET and SECRET
* 25 different stages/tracks, each with their own difficulties.
* 100+ different obstacles, including everything from iPhones to candy bars to fish ponds.
* Customisable car setup, such as acceleration and handling, to suit the track.
* Control by touch or by tilt
* Auto gas option
* Hard, Medium and Easy settings.
* AI ghost cars on track.
* Mulitple Camera modes: Rotate, Fixed Center, Pan
* Racing lines, to make navigation easier.
* Improved controls & layout.
* Landscape mode.
* Saved best time for each track.
* Online high scores for each stage, and overall best time.
* Single race or championship mode.
* Resume game option.
* iPod music remains playing
* Settings:
The "Prefs" button on the main screen will take you to a page where you can edit settings such as: difficulty, orientation, camera mode etc.
* Unlocking more levels:
The game begins with only the Kitchen Rally unlocked. To unlock more, play in CHAMPIONSHIP MODE - if you are in the top 10 at the end of the Kitchen Rally you will unlock the Bedroom Rally. A top ten after the Bedroom Rally unlocks the Office Rally. And so on.
* Controls:
For more responsive controls, raise the handling in the car setup.
* Accelerometer:
You CAN play by accelerometer. Select "prefs" on the main menu, then edit "tilt" to one of the four sensitivety levels.
For VIDEO of the game in action, screenshots and track previews visit the site:
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"If you're looking for fun micro-car game, you should look no further than Nano Rally" slidetoplay.com
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From the nineteen thirties through the nineteen sixties, Sandusky had several five and ten cent stores. In July of 1919, the S. S. Kresge Five and Ten Cent Store leased the southeast corner of Market and Columbus Avenue for twenty five years. By 1941, there were two Kresge stores in Sandusky, both on Columbus Avenue. In 1941, Neisner Bros., Inc. was located at 133 E. Market Street, opposite the Feick Building. The 1962 Sandusky City Directory, under the section "Department Stores – 5 cents to $1.00.," listed the W. T. Grant Store at the Sandusky Plaza, the S. S. Kresge Co. at 202 Columbus Ave., Neisner Bros, at 133 E. Market St., and two Woolworth stores, one at 220 Columbus Ave. and one at the Sandusky Plaza.
The first F. W. Woolworth store in Sandusky was located downtown on Columbus Avenue. Later there was an F. W. Woolworth store in the Perkins Plaza, and for a time the Sandusky Mall also had a Woolworth's, located where the T. J. Maxx Store is presently. The downtown Woolworth's closed on Christmas Eve in 1971.
Below is a scene of the east side of Columbus Avenue at the time of the January 5, 1960 fire at the Woolworth building. Both the Kresge and F. W. Woolworth buildings can be seen.
Views of the interior of the S.S. Kresge Co. in 1930 show a lunch counter, and several items for sale for under one dollar.
Today the five and ten cent stores are just a memory, while larger discount stores and department stores are found along Route 250 in Perkins Township. Library staff members recall watching donuts being made at the downtown Sandusky dime stores, buying candy before seeing a movie, seeing counters filled with household items, buying paper doll and coloring books, and grabbing a sandwich and a coffee at the lunch counter. If you have memories of the old Sandusky five and ten stores, please leave a comments section of this blog posting.


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Welcome to Newport Baptist Church
Are you looking for a church home? Perhaps you have questions about God, eternity, or life's origin and purpose? Maybe you've been struggling and need hope and encouragement? Whatever your pursuit, we invite you to join us as we search for answers and grow, together. We believe the Bible offers tenable solutions to life's most daunting questions and problems as it points us toward a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As you explore our site please note:
If you've moved to the Newport area or plan to vacation in Northern Vermont, please stop in, we hope to see you at one of our services.
Thank you for visiting our web site!
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The '58 Lincoln put up a good showing, but in the end the Porsche 928 takes the prize, with 56% of you choosing Polyester-Clad White Powder Distributor over Chain-Smoking Rat Pack Player in Monday's Choose Your Eternity poll. But with a Datsun nearly beating a Peugeot last week, not to mention an Acura winning the 24 Hours of LeMons, we felt the need to turn Japanese for today's challenge. As always, the challenge with finding good candidates for Japanese Project Hell is that damned Japanese build quality and reliability, not to mention the ease of finding parts... but we've managed to find a couple of potentially-fast-yet-nightmarish Hondas to make your tools burn right through your flesh!
We'd sure love to have an NSX, but it's pretty tough to find an example that's really a low-cost-of-admission project, for the same reason it's tough to find cheap project Ferraris. But how about that sweet DOHC NSX V6 engine in a more affordable car? Like, say, this Legend with a '97 NSX engine (go here if the ad disappears), which 500 bucks plus a trip to the bustling desert metropolis of Bullhead City will make your very own
nightmare pride and joy. Five hundred little dollars! That's a 290-horse C32B in there, friends... well, it had 290 horsepower when it left Honda's hands; we're guessing a few of the ponies may have fled by now. The transmission is bad, and the condition of the body suggests that the car may have been hooned to oblivion driven enthusiastically prior to the transmission failure, but: cheap! Oh yes, the statement "in rage of tranny going out the windshield with need replaced" seems to indicate that the owner of this car has had enough... but you won't feel that way when it's your punishment dream car!
Thanks, and a half-credit towards a PCH Tipster T-shirt, to EMPM Esq for the tip!
Maybe you're hoping for something a little more sleeper-ish than a Legend, since everyone knows even the stock Legends are fairly quick machines. How about a Civic sedan stuffed with lots and lots of boost? You can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of turbocharged Civics that look like plain-vanilla commuters, so imagine the fun you'd have smoking the front tires through all the gears in a fourth-gen Civic sedan (and nuking your third transaxle in a week, but you'll deal with that later). Now, the cheapest and easiest way to dive into Blown Civic Hell is to take on someone else's unfinished project, and we've found a real screamin' deal for you: this '90 Civic with turbocharged D15B VTEC engine (go here if the ad disappears) for only $1,500. Normally, we'd say the first thing you'd need to do with such a project is finish the running gear setup, but with this car we need to declare a 27-alarm emergency on the paint job, which appears to be a sort of Yakuza Police black-and-white deal. Once you're done making it look like Grandma's commuter econobox, you can do something about the fuel-delivery system; looks like the current owner installed a turbo kit without upgrading the fuel injectors... and has been driving it that way, which means the engine is getting fed a cutting-torch-lean fuel/air mix every time the turbo takes effect. Don't worry, though, because the seller has only "taken into boost 1 TIME YES IT WILL BOOST" What could go wrong?


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Success of 'The Bible' Sparks 'Jesus of Nazareth' Spinoff
The immense success of the History Channel's "The Bible" miniseries has led to the decision on behalf of a major Hollywood production company to create a faith-affirming spinoff, "Jesus of Nazareth."
"We believe the audience continues to have a hunger for life- and faith-affirming films," Michael Landon Jr., who will be writing and producing "Jesus of Nazareth" along with fellow screenwriter Brian Bird, who worked for five seasons on the hit show "Touched by an Angel," told The Hollywood Reporter in a recent interview.
"The monumental success of Mark Burnett and Roma Downey's 'The Bible' just underscores that," Landon added.
The "Jesus of Nazareth" spinoff will reportedly be a six-hour, $20 million miniseries produced by the Motion Picture Corporation of America.
The spinoff's two writers, Landon and Bird, are both self-professed Christians, and they told The Hollywood Reporter that this new spinoff will be angled toward skeptics of Christianity, rather than believers, in the hopes of educating them on the teachings of the bible.
"['Jesus of Nazareth'] will be traditional in the sense we're going to stay true to the Gospel, but it won't be traditional in the sense that our version is actually going to be made for the skeptic, not the believer," Landon told The Hollywood Reporter.
"The Bible" miniseries has become the talk of Hollywood since it premiered on March 3, as it has received record-breaking ratings, thus revealing that perhaps America's viewership is craving more faith-inspired programming.
Since its premiere, "The Bible," which was produced by Mark Burnett of "Survivor" and Roma Downey of "Touched by an Angel," has received over 10 million viewers each new episode, thus making it the most watched television program on Sunday nights.
Phil Cooke, a media consultant focused primarily on the Christian market and founder of Cooke Pictures, previously told The Christian Post that many leaders in the film and television businesses understand that America wants to see more Christian-themed shows.
"There's no question that decision makers in Hollywood and the media business are getting the message … It's simply good business to respect that audience, and I think the vast majority of media leaders I encounter totally get that," Cooke told CP.
The theme of Christianity is not only hitting the television outlet but also the movie business.
In 2014, a revamp of the movie "Left Behind," which tells the story of the Rapture among other biblical themes, will be released.
"Left Behind" will star Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray and Ashley Tisdale.
"The Bible" wraps up its 10-part miniseries this Easter Sunday, March 31, with a two-hour episode featuring the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.


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Norco is a brand name for the combination prescription drug acetaminophen/hydrocodone. It's used to treat moderate to severe pain.
Vicodin, Lorcet, and Lortab are other brand names for this combination, which is also available as a generic.
Hydrocodone is a narcotic, while acetaminophen is a mild painkiller. Combined, they belong to a class of drugs called opioid analgesics, which work by blocking certain nerve cell receptors in the brain.
Manufactured by Watson Pharmaceuticals, now Actavis Inc., Norco was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1997.
Doctors have prescribed acetaminophen/hydrocodone "off label" for coughs and insomnia.
As with all prescription drugs that contain acetaminophen, the FDA requires that the labels carry a "black box" warning highlighting the potential for severe liver damage, and another warning about the potential for allergic reactions.
Before taking Norcol, it's important to tell your doctor about any allergies you have, not only to hydrocodone and acetaminophen, but to other narcotics, such as morphine or codeine, and whether you have liver or kidney disease.
Since hydrocodone can slow or stop your breathing, your doctor also needs to know about any brain disorders or head injuries, asthma, chronic disruptive pulmonary disease, sleep apnea, or seizures. Like any narcotic painkiller, hydrocodone can become addictive.
You should be candid with your doctor if you've had a personal history of drug or alcohol abuse.
Norco is in FDA Pregnancy Category C, meaning that it's unknown if Norco can harm a developing fetus because no adequate and well-controlled studies have been carried out in pregnant women.
However, it could cause shallow breathing and symptoms of physical dependency and withdrawal in a newborn, and is therefore not recommended during pregnancy.
Since acetaminophen and hydrocodone are excreted in breast milk, it's best not to breastfeed while taking Norco.
Hydrocodone, the narcotic component of Norco, makes it ripe for abuse, especially since it's easily available as a generic and is not an expensive drug. The drug can give users a feeling of euphoria that lasts several hours.
Abuse of any narcotic drug, including Norco, can result in addiction, overdose, or death, especially in a child or other person using the drug without a prescription.
Going cold turkey, or stopping the drug abruptly after developing a dependency on it, will likely bring on withdrawal symptoms. These usually include sweating, a runny nose, watery eyes, goose bumps, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, restlessness, and agitation.
Lying down can lessen the side effects of Norco. Tell your doctor if they continue or get worse.
Get medical help at once if you experience any of these serious side effects.
Always tell you doctor about all other drugs you are taking whether they're prescription or non-prescription, legal, illegal, or recreational — including herbal remedies and nutritional or dietary supplements — as they might interact with acetaminophen/hydrocodone.
Avoid drinking alcohol when taking Norco, as adding alcohol to acetaminophen can increase the risk of liver damage.
Alcohol can also intensify the dizziness and drowsiness that can accompany the drug.
You should not drive or operate heavy machinery while taking acetaminophen/hydrocodone.
Taking Norco with other narcotic painkillers, or other drugs that make you drowsy and slow down breathing, can be dangerous, even life-threatening.
Don't take antihistamines, muscle relaxers, anti-anxiety, anti-seizure medications, or antidepressants while taking Norco without first checking with your doctor — the dose of one or both drugs might need to be reduced.
Norco can interact dangerously with the following:
Remember that acetaminophen is a common ingredient in other over-the-counter painkillers. It's important to read the labels to make sure you're not taking another drug that contains acetaminophen (often written as APAP), which could be dangerous.
Norco can be taken with or without food, but taking it with food might deter nausea.
Acetaminophen/hydrocodone is sold as tablets and is available in three strengths:
Under the brand name Norco, acetaminophen/hydrocodone comes in two strengths:
The dosage for acetaminophen/hydrocodone, regardless of the strength, is usually one tablet at four- to six-hour intervals, or as needed for pain. You should not take more than six tablets in one day.
If the drug doesn't seem to be working or has stopped working, talk to your doctor. Do not increase the dosage.
Norco should be prescribed cautiously to older people, as it is more likely to cause breathing problems in that population. Older people are also more apt to develop liver and kidney problems as a result of taking acetaminophen/hydrocodone.
There have been no studies on how Norco might affect children. It is usually prescribed only for adults.
An overdose of acetaminophen/hydrocodone can be fatal. If you think you've taken too much, seek medical attention or call a poison control center immediately.
Slow breathing, extreme sleepiness that progresses to stupor or coma, muscle flaccidity, cold or damp skin, slow heart rate, and extremely low blood pressure signal an overdose of hydrocodone.
Loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, dark urine, and jaundice signal an acetaminophen overdose.
If you are taking this drug on a regular schedule, take the forgotten dose as soon as you remember, but skip it if it is close to the time of your next dose. Never double up on doses.
By Karin Halperin | Medically Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD
Latest Update: 2015-01-02
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An artistic artichoke salad with adult tastes in mind.
Preparation Time: 50 mins
Cooking Time: 8 mins
Extra Time: 40 mins
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ARTICHOKES AND PEPPERS: Cut cooked artichokes in half lengthwise; scoop out center petals and fuzzy centers. Remove outer leaves and reserve to garnish salad, or refrigerate to use for snacks another time. Thinly slice hearts. Cover and set aside.
Place whole bell peppers under preheated broiler; broil under high heat until charred on all sides, turning frequently with tongs. Carefully remove from oven with tongs; place in a paper bag for 15 minutes to steam skins. Carefully remove peppers from bag; remove seeds and ribs. Strip off pepper skins and slice peppers into julienne strips.
ROASTED RED PEPPER DRESSING: In blender or food processor, place 1/4 of the bell pepper strips, vinegars, garlic, basil, rosemary and sugar. Cover and process until well blended and nearly smooth.
ASSEMBLE SALADS: On 8 salad plates, arrange reserved cooked artichoke leaves or lettuce leaves. Arrange sliced artichoke hearts, remaining 3/4 of the bell pepper strips, red onion and olive slices on artichoke or lettuce leaves. Spoon dressing over salads.
If fresh basil and rosemary are unavailable, substitute 1 teaspoon crushed, dried basil; and 1/2 teaspoon crushed dried rosemary.
Chill dressing. Arrange salad, then cover and refrigerate up to 4 hours ahead. Spoon dressing over salads just before serving.


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It looks like I just have to tread water until mid-June and then I may not feel like I'm sinking any longer. Either way the conference did nothing but keep my motivation up to get out from under this volunteerism that keeps biting me in the behind. So on that note, I'll continue with day 3 of the conference!
|Jenn Woods, Alison Stacy, me and Ellie Woods (Jenn's daughter)
8am - "Reporting the Facts: Record as You Go" presented by Pamela Boyer Sayre, CG, CGL - a very big take-away from this class is that whether you are a genealogist doing your own research or a genealogist being paid to do someone else's, don't feel guilty about taking time to write your reports. They are an essential part of your research and need to be completed in a timely manner (and "on the clock"). After all the reports are a very important part of what the client is getting! The reports are going to help explain to your descendants what all these files you bothered saving actually say and how you came to your conclusions! If you write as you conduct research the majority will be done apart from some tweaking. The hardest part is to get in the habit of doing just that. The class was more in depth than that and we were shown how to generate a Table of Contents, Index, Footnotes, etc to make our reports look more professional. It may sound boring, but it wasn't and this class was excellent.
9:30am - "Helen F.M. Leary Distinguished Lecture - The Genealogical Proof Standard: What It Is and What it Is Not" presented by Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS - If you've been following the other bloggers that attended the NGS conference, I'm certainly that you heard that Tom Jones' lectures are a cannot miss...that is 100% true! If you ever get to hear him present, don't pass it up! As I mentioned, I took a class on what a "reasonably exhaustive search" is and that theme does not go away in many of these classes. It can't. It's essential. If you are just looking at an abstract or a transcript of a document, you need to stop and find that original (or the closest thing to the original as possible). Abstracts and transcripts can be WRONG! Human error. Seriously, we type or blogs and by the time we get to the end there are mistakes. Well, if someone is making an abstract/transcription, they are subject to the same human error. If they are making a lot of them, how soon do you think it would take before you're going blind on paperwork? Cite your sources (another element that is pounded into us and needs to be) and make sure that your work is clear, concise, and cited so that someone else can repeat it and hopefully agree with your conclusions. The standards are laid out quite nicely in the BCG Standards Manual. It really is an essential book even if you aren't considering certification. It helps you make sure that you've done all you can and that the conclusions you are coming to are the best and most accurate they can be!
11am - "Kinship Determination: Are They Really My Ancestors?" presented by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG, CGL - I'm so glad this class wasn't given after lunch or someone would have had to douse me with water to wake me up. I felt like I was back in the Army and felt like I should probably stand up and move to the back of the room so as to not fall asleep. I didn't do it, but staying awake was hard. To sum up...I took absolutely no notes in this class. I was afraid I would drool on my notebook...
2:30pm - "Speaking from the Grave: Exploring Probate Files" presented by Sharon Tate Moody, CG - Confession time. I never ordered a probate file. I naively figured that since my ancestors were fairly poor that it wouldn't be worth my time. Yes...I'm a dumbass! It never even crossed my mind that if I ordered my 3rd great grandfather's probate file that it might name his siblings in America (that I believe, but cannot confirm, lived in Pittsburgh) or their children. It has the potential of revealing so much information when you think that you are at a dead end. The motivation I felt leaving this class is almost indescribable! Just keep in mind that even if your ancestors died intestate (without a will), if they had property (and I'm not just talking about land) it had to be taken care of. That's not to say that everyone had a probate file, but you will most likely found that in more cases than not, there is one, so why not check! Ms. Moody recommends a legal dictionary/source book to use when researching and the older the better! Remember, we care about those old outdated definitions and how things used to be done. Also, when looking at an ancestor's probate, make sure you understand what the laws of the time and region were regarding inheritance. It may explain some odd things you come across in the packet!
4pm - "Building Better Citations" presented by Alison Hare, CG - I know...classes on citations probably excite you about as much as writing citations, but that doesn't mean that we can ignore them. It's important that we learn to do them, do them as we research, and do them right! Footnotes are preferable because if someone is reading your research they should be able to check the citation at the bottom of the page and not be continuously flipping to the back. It was noted that endnotes are fine for citing your own family's research. Naturally, Evidence Explained (affiliate link) was mentioned as the source to have. If you don't own a copy, why don't you? Elisabeth Shown Mills has put together an excellent guide that will show you how to cite almost every possible resource we as genealogists would come across. Ms. Hare makes some excellent points including the fact that the more you cite, the easier it will become. Yes, you will have to check the book until you get used to citations, but they will come to you eventually and "click". You will understand how they flow and be able to write them out like a pro with practice. In the meantime, don't be afraid to make mistakes!
Friday the 13th was actually a pretty good day at NGS!


text: Share: April 11, 2010 | by David C. Richardson Climate Change We identify the seasons through changes in biological and physical phenomena such as flowering, breeding or animal migration that mark an expected break in the pace of nature.Doesn't it feel like spring has finally sprung when the crocuses, tulips and daffodils poke through the soil? Fall is definitely in the air when the leaves change and the highways of the Hudson Valley are crowded with leaf peepers. The migrations of raptors and geese each year signify that the weather is starting to become too cold for the birds. The study of these phenomena is called phenology ("phen" means "phenomenon" and "ology" means "study of").Phenological data have been used in many ways to estimate changes in regional climate. For example, a 300-year record of the date when cherry and apple trees have flowered in Switzerland has been used to reconstruct the average temperatures from February through April preceding flowering. Another example is a 600-year record of the start of the French grape harvest that has been used to create historical records of spring and summer temperatures in Europe.One phenological measurement noted all over the world is the ice-out date, the day in the year when a lake's ice coverage first breaks up. People have recorded ice-out dates for hundreds of years to know when to remove their ice-fishing huts from the lake, when it is not safe to walk, skate or ski or snowmobile on lakes, when seasonal flooding will start, or even the earliest time to put boats safely in the water.Now, with a global focus on climate change, phenological records such as ice-out dates can provide us with a long-term record of climate, even if that wasn't the intended purpose of the data collection. Ice-out is a more effective measure of climate change than short-term weather patterns, because it takes more than one warm day or one big snowstorm to affect the ice cover on a lake. To melt the ice on an entire lake, there must be a consistent pattern of warm weather, more rain and less snow during the long months of winter and early spring.Many lakes and rivers across the world have well-established ice-out records, including Lake Suwa, Japan (since 1443) and the Red River, Canada (since 1799). Lake Mohonk in Ulster County has an ice-out record dating to 1933, thanks to observers at the Mohonk Mountain House and Mohonk Preserve.Lake Sunapee in southern New Hampshire has a detailed ice-out history dating to the mid-19th century, thanks to local homeowners, lake associations, and scientists. For lakes in the northeastern United States, most ice-out dates occur from late March to late April, but vary depending on conditions.Global climate change patterns become more obvious when we examine these long-term records. During the past 40 years, global climate began to change dramatically, and global average temperature began to increase rapidly. In this same time period, the ice-out dates for lakes have advanced rapidly so they are now on average two to three weeks earlier than 100 years ago.In another century, if the current rate of change holds, Lake Mohonk could have only two months of thin ice cover each year, down from more than four months of cover in 1940, most likely the result of a later freeze and an earlier thaw. Ice-out dates are nature's thermometer of changes in regional climate.What does this mean for us? For one, the world around us is changing. In the northeastern United States, we will see earlier springs and shorter and milder winters. Fewer and fewer lakes will be safely covered by ice all winter.Early ice-out can also have profound implications for each lake ecosystem. According to a 2005 scientific report on climate change in the Northeast U.S., published by the organization Clean Air — Cool Planet and the University of New Hampshire, ice cover can play a role in controlling lake chemistry such as oxygen concentration and pH and lake biology such as fish habitat and algal blooms.So next time you see a phenomenon that indicates the changing of the seasons — such as the blooming of apple tree blossoms, the changing of the leaves to spectacular fall colors or the melting of your favorite ice skating pond — make a note for the future. Understanding climate change could depend on it.David C. Richardson is a biology professor at SUNY New Paltz and an adjunct scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook. Joshua J. Dorsi is a senior majoring in psychobiology at SUNY New Paltz. Share: Feature Ice-out records track climate change › April 11, 2010


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ESA takes first step to a new era in environmental monitoring
The gestation period was ten years, and the preparations were intense. Now the waiting is nearly over, and the European Space Agency's ambitious new Earth-observing satellite Envisat is en route for Kourou in French Guiana where engineers will prepare the satellite for its launch this autumn.
The journey began at 10.15 CET on Monday when the 2-billion Euro satellite and its police escort left the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands for Amsterdam's International Airport. Here Envisat was loaded on to an Antonov 124, the only transport aircraft large enough. Two 747s and the transport ship Toucan are additionally carrying nearly 400 tonnes of testing and support equipment to the launch site.
The satellite is pivotal in ESA's strategy for Earth observation. From its vantage point of an 800-kilometre-high orbit over the Earth's poles, the satellite will, for the next five years, monitor environmentally crucial processes as diverse as changes in ocean circulation, the ice caps, land use and atmospheric pollution.
Its instruments are either new developments or major improvements of those that flew on ERS-1 and -2, the Agency's groundbreaking Earth observation satellites of the 1990s. Besides contributing to a broad range of science and application, Envisat's multiple instruments will play a crucial part in helping to implement an initiative on global monitoring for the environment and security proposed last year by ESA, the European Commission and the French Space Agency.
Envisat's roots
Envisat has its roots in a time in the late 1980s when the philosophy within space agencies around the world was to develop large multi-purpose missions. At the time satellite and launcher technology were less sophisticated and flexible than they are today, economies of scale underpinned much thinking about technological development in general and the thinking was that a broad range of applications were needed to justify any space project.
Since then space technology has moved on, and there is increasing emphasis worldwide on small, flexible missions that can be developed quickly and cheaply. "Certainly Envisat's size and multiple missions make it risky, and we are now moving to a new logic and era that will see the launch of small satellites with specific missions," says Claudio Mastracci, ESA's director of space applications, "but Envisat is a miracle of engineering and it will provide invaluable data for environmental monitoring."
One of the satellite's strengths, he argues, is that it could provide data for 7 to 10 years (design life is five years, but both ERS-1 and ERS-2 have significantly exceeded their design life), which would allow continuity of observation over slowly changing environmental phenomenon.
Testing time
For the moment, though, it is not Earth-observing strategy that is at the forefront of the minds of the Envisat team, but the welfare of the satellite that has captured their professional attention for the past decade. Earlier this year, the satellite was fully assembled to permit a final test of every instrument, antenna, microprocessor and line of software.
Vibration testing exposed the satellite to forces equivalent to those from an earthquake of 7.5 on the Richter scale, and acoustic tests battered the satellite with the volume of 156 rock concerts. For a month, the satellite sat in massive chamber from which all the air was sucked, exposing the spacecraft to the hard vacuum and extreme temperatures of space. During that time, software engineers tested the thousands of lines of code that will control the satellite's operations and instruments.
In separate radio frequency tests, all the antennas were operated simultaneously to ensure their transmission patterns did not overlap in unforeseen ways. Each instrument was switched on to check that its electromagnetic field did not impinge on the operation of nearby microprocessors.
Mission controllers at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany established telephone links to the satellite in ESTEC and practised controlling the satellite and its instruments. And at the European Space Research Institute (ESRIN) in Frascati, Italy staff are preparing for the deluge of data - a minimum of one CD-Rom per minute ... every minute!
Every test indication was that Envisat will withstand the rigours of its launch aboard an Ariane-5 rocket and is ready for its task in orbit.
With the testing complete, engineers disassembled Envisat into two sections small enough for shipping. After arrival in Kourou in the early hours of 16 May, it will be allowed to sit for a day so that the air temperature inside the shipping cases equalises with that in French Guiana. Then engineers will open the cases to begin assembly of the satellite, make final tests and integrate Envisat with the Ariane-5 for launch. The coming months will see the culmination of 10 arduous years of complex engineering, and then Envisat will be ready to begin its task. "I am," says Mastracci, "very proud of the teams at ESTEC and ESRIN and of the scientists and industrialists around the Agency's Member States [Canada is an associate member] who have worked on Envisat and are preparing to exploit its data."


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Public's View of Congress' Competence is Troubling to Lee Hamilton '52
December 16, 2012
"As we move deeper into December, the question is: Can members of the House and Senate do something to make the public feel more positive about Congress' competence, or will 2012 end on the familiar note of Americans taking an unrelievedly dim view of its job performance?," asks Lee Hamilton. The veteran statesman and 1952 graduate of DePauw University examines the results of a survey sponsored by the Center on Congress at Indiana University, which he directs. It finds that 91% of the public disapproves of the job Congress is doing.
"When the survey was conducted earlier this fall, public awareness was just beginning to build about the 'fiscal cliff'," Hamilton writes in newspaper op-ed. "Strong majorities said they prefer Congress to compromise to make good public policy."
A Democrat who served 34 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, and later co-chaired the 9/11 Commission and Iraq Study Group, Hamilton notes, "Examining the relationship between citizens and Congress has been an important focus for the Center on Congress since its founding in 1999. The Center regularly conducts polls to gauge if Americans feel Congress is relevant to their lives and living up to the framers' expectation that it should be the responsive 'people's branch' of the federal government."
Learn more about the 2012 survey in Hamilton's complete column, which you'll find in Florida's Stuart News.
Lee Hamilton majored in history as an undergraduate and starred on the Tiger basketball team (and is a member of both the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and the DePauw Athletic Hall of Fame). He has been a frequent visitor to DePauw over the years, and delivered an Ubben Lecture on March 15, 2011.
The Indiana Society of Chicago Foundation honored Lee Hamilton as its "Hoosier of the Year" at the Society's 107th Annual Dinner on December 1. You'll find details in this story.Back


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If your meat could talk, it would probably scream in a high pitched voice about the cruelty of slaughterhouses, the pain of being cooked on the grill, and the indignity of being eaten by a chubby guy in an A1-stained "Vote for Pedro" t-shirt. Which is why there's no technology out there to give a voice to the silent meat population, natch.
What there is technology for is a thermometer that talks to tell you when your meat is done being cooked. The Oregon Scientific Talking Wireless BBQ/Oven Thermometer proves that the pleasant sounds of "Your rare steak is done" are much nicer than the disembodied screams of a slaughtered bovine. What's even nicer is that you can have it tell you that your food is ready in Spanish, German, French, or even Danish if you so desire. Jeres kød er beredvillig!


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Murdered nurse led secret life as masseuse
Name: Lea Angela Lobmeyer
Location: Found in her car on Julian Street in north Denver
Agency: Denver Police Department
Date : July 24, 1992
Cause of death: strangulation
Suspect: None identified
To fellow workers, Lea Angela Lobmeyer was a quiet homebody, a loner who spent most of her free time playing the flute she loved.
But Lobmeyer, a 30-year-old nurse and student who was found strangled in her car, lived a secret life that could have led to her murder.
Lobmeyer had a sideline as a masseuse, working for a man who police said ran a prostitution ring.
"We were surprised to find out that she was doing what she was doing on the side — that just floored us," said Susan Hollingsworth, an administrator with Accent on Independence, the home health care agency where Lobmeyer, a practical nurse, worked.
Sixteen years after her partially clothed body was found in her car on a north Denver street, the case remains unsolved. "We didn't have sufficient evidence to proceed," said Denver police spokeswoman Sharon Hahn.
Police said that Lobmeyer might have been killed because she refused to have sex with someone who wanted more than a massage.
Lobmeyer's mother, Martha, said last week: "I wish he would get caught, whether he is still on the loose or in jail someplace. It wouldn't bring her back, but it would be nice to know that whoever did it is paying for it," she said.
Lobmeyer was a talented woman who had a flare for the dramatic, said Martha Lobmeyer, a bassoonist who has played with the Denver Pops Orchestra.
She began teaching her daughter music when she was small but soon turned the task over to another teacher.
"She was a quick study, a very good flautist who won a number of awards in school," Martha Lobmeyer said.
She is surprised when people call her daughter "quiet."
"I heard this from her grade-school teachers too, that she was very quiet, and I thought, Angela? She could be quite boisterous, and she spoke her mind."
Dark-haired and attractive, Lea Angela Lobmeyer worked for a local modeling agency for a time after leaving high school.
But modeling didn't pay enough to support her while she attended college.
She got her LPN license and went to work for the home health care agency, taking care of the disabled.
"She was wonderful with our clients. She went above and beyond and did things we didn't ask her to do," said Hollingsworth.
Lobmeyer would frequently bring meals to her patients that she cooked for them at her home.
She was majoring in music at Colorado Christian University even as she worked for the agency.
She also played her flute and sang in the choir at Trinity United Methodist Church, where she held a music scholarship.
"She was just an excellent musician," said Ilona Hiebert, who knew Lobmeyer from the church.
But there was something odd about the flautist, Hiebert added. She would go to extremes for attention. She faked seizures and once pretended to have cancer. "For a long time, people believed her. I thought it was a little bizarre."
Lobmeyer dated several men but didn't have a serious boyfriend, said her mother.
Lobmeyer mentioned that she was giving massages.
"She said something about giving massages but she worked as a practical nurse, and I thought it was in connection with that."
In reality, she was working for a Highlands Ranch man who ran what police said was a prostitution ring.
George Brunner, a minister at Trinity United Methodist Church who remembers Lobmeyer as "shy and sweet," is surprised at the length of time that has elapsed without an arrest in the case.
"I have wondered why it wasn't solved. We get kind of a warped view of how crimes are solved when we see TV programs, and they all get solved. That really isn't the case," he said.
Note: This cold case entry was written by Denver Post reporter Tom McGhee. Contact him at 303-954-1671 or firstname.lastname@example.com/.


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1st post here and new to java other than an intro course at the local college (got a A-)
I'm looking to implement a small windows or console app that would be launched from a windows start up folder that would effectively monitor keystokes and when a certain string is entered, a popup dialog message box would appear as a reminder to do something. In this case a bar code scanner is in use, that emulates keyboard entry, so when a particular code is scanned, a dialog appears.
The machines are pretty much dedicated as bar code scanners, but if a user where to say open email and type in the proper sequence, I'd be ok with false positives. This program will monitor all keybpoard activity and wouldn't be limited to a particular application window that has focus.
Does any one have knowledge of where I might find src code or a demo application that I could modify that provides some of this functionality.
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Dr Ferguson is going on a sabbatical from the 14th January 2016 and will return on the 29th February 2016.
All of his clinics will be covered by the other doctors in the practice with the exception of a couple which will be covered by a locum doctor.
The practice wishes him an enjoyable time on his sabbatical and will look forward to this return.
We still have some flu vaccine available please contact the surgery to see if you are eligble for the vaccine.
Friends and Family
From 1st December 2014, if you visit our GP surgery a either Corbin Avenue or Glenmoor Road you will be asked about whether or not you would recommend our surgery to your family and friends, if they need similar treatment or care.
This is called the Friends and Family Test (FFT) and it is a feedback tool that supports the fundamental principle that people who use NHS services should have the opportunity to provide feedback on their experience that can be used to improve services. It is a continuous feedback loop between patients and practices.
These slips can be found in the waiting room at both sites. Please take a few minutes to fill in the slip and post it in the ballot box provided. Alternatively, please go to the section 'Let us know what you think of about the services we offer' and complete the questionnaire online......you can do this now!
If you are unable to answer the question, a friend or family member is welcome to respond on your behalf.
The information will give our GP practice invaluable feedback on what you think of the care and treatment you have received, which along with existing ways of gathering feedback, will help us to make improvements and improve the experience for our patients.
We thank you for you support.
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Division: Monitoring and Evaluation
The Division is headed by a Deputy Director and is responsible for conducting annual human resources (HR) audits in all Government Offices, Ministries and Agencies (O/M/As). The purpose of the audit is to assess the effectiveness of HR management functions in Government and to ensure that legal and regulatory compliance with the policies, procedures and methods are in place.
In addition to the audit function, the Division is in charge of investigating complaints channelled to the Public Service Commission by aggrieved staff members, since the Commission also serves as an avenue of complaints and appeals. However, Staff Rules and Regulations are explicit on procedures to be followed when communicating complaints.
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Retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster discusses his time as President Trump's National Security Advisor, his military career that spanned 30 years including service in both Iraq wars, the rise of a new generation of geopolitical threats, and what America needs to do to stay secure.
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Kid Robot: page 73: Total should be 150.
Princess: page 77: Missing Skills entry.
And that is all for the Player's Guide errata, onward to read the other books.
Secrets of Emerald City
Overlook Park: page 19: 2nd paragraph, 2nd sentence:
Should be having.haing them void the original land grant.
Arwin Kesslar: page 24: Offense line, Initiative should be +0.
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What You Need To Know About The Polk CS10
Polk Audio has been making fantastic sounding and affordable speakers since 1975. Base in Baltimore their speakers are designed by folks with degrees in math and physics. And Polk has proven itself time and time again to be a leading manufacturer that offers a taste of the truly hifi at a pocket book friendly cost.
The CS10 center channel speaker is constantly in 'top selling product' on Amazon and is a recommended speaker at Crutchfield. And for good reason. The CS10 is designed to mate with the TSi speaker series from Polk but has been constantly reported to sound good with mix-and-matched home theater systems. Though this is generally not a recommended route for home theater design. One typically wants to make sure that all woofers and tweeters in a home theater system are the same to achieve a consistent and coherent voice from the system.
The CS10 has two 5.25-inch bi-laminate organic fiber cone woofers and a 1-inch silk/polymer composite Dynamic Balance dome tweeter. The cabinet is made from extensively braced MDF board with 3/4-inch thick baffles. It comes in either black or cherry finish. Polk's finishes are fantastic. I was very impressed with the Cherry finish on a pair of Polk RTiA bookshelf speakers I owned many years back.
Though the CS10 is designed to mate with the TSi series, Polk speakers have a very similar voicing across the brand, so the CS10 would be a good mate with the higher up RTiA or LSi series.
How Does the CS10 Sound
To my ears Polk speakers have always had a nice clear but warm mid range and a slightly rolled off high end that is solid and pleasing. High frequencies are crisp without being thin. The mid range is clear and full of life and musicality. Though I've not heard the CS10 myself reviewers and listener report a similar sound. Crystal clear voice and a large and filling center channel. With 93 reviews on Amazon and a 5 of 5 stars. There is little wonder why this is a top seller.
Set Up
There are basically two places you want a center channel to be. Right in the middle and directly under the TV or right on top and in the middle with it angled down towards your listening spot. If you put the center channel too low to the floor voices will sound too chesty and warm in the mid range. Dialogue will be harder to understand and 3D imaging will be off. There are after market mounts you can purchase to better place your center channel.
The CS10 is easy to drive. At 91dB sensitivity a moderate to high powered surround sound receiver (30W-100W) should drive this baby just fine.  You shouldn't have to spend big bucks to get good sound out of it.
The CS10 is a reflex port design, that means the closer you can get it to a wall the better bass response your most likely have.
Sub-cross over set up – You'll noticed the TSi100 roll off at about 61Hz, similar to the CS10 but the TSi200 roll off at about 50Hz.  You'll want to set up your cross over for your sub at about 60Hz if you use the TSi100 but if you use the TSi200 cross over the sub at 50Hz.  You'll most likely get better coherence from the left/right channels matched to the cross over than the center channel.
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