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This week on The Mindy Project, Danny's back in town. But that's not necessarily a good thing.
The episode opens with Danny presenting Mindy with a date (yes, the dried fruit) in a jewelry box, to symbolize his desire to a set a date for the wedding so they can stop "living in sin". Mindy wastes no time getting the ball rolling.
The two have dinner at Annette's house with their brothers, Richie and Rishi, where they ask Richie to be a bridesmaid and Rishi to be a groomsmen. Neither are happy with their position – Richie wants to be a maid of honour and Rishi wants to be the DJ, breaking out a rap to prove his point: "Here comes the bride, all dressed in cash! Church is going crazy 'cause it's all about that ass!" Meanwhile, Annette has already partially planned Mindy and Danny's wedding, even going so far as to design invitations in the theme of "very religious" and made an appointment at Gretchen's Bridal Pile & Beeper Store. Although Mindy agrees to go in order to appease Annette, she isn't pleased about it. "But your mom's going to come on the honeymoon with us, right?" Mindy asks Danny, "So she can tuck you in at night?"
At the appointment, Mindy tries on multiple nun-like wedding dresses and Annette lays the guilt on thick, telling Mindy that she never got to help out with Danny's first wedding. So Mindy buys one despite apparently already having a dress – a revealing skirt and crop top combo that Tamra models at Shulman & Associates. While the co-workers debate whether she can pull it off, Jody takes Mindy aside and expresses concern that her wedding planning is interfering with their "business venture" Later, Baby. He has arranged for them to speak at his alma mater, but Mindy says she can't go because she still hasn't told Danny about their business or even that she wants to keep working.
But that conversation is put off by the arrival of the Lahiris. Mindy's parents, Sonu and Tarun, are in New York and ready to throw an engagement party for the couple. Danny's anxious to have his mother meet Mindy's parents: "Ma only likes the people who are exactly like her culturally but slightly worse off so she can feel comfortable but superior." Mindy agrees to run interference between the future-in-laws but the next morning, they awake to Annette mistaking the Lahiris for robbers and threatening them with a butcher knife.
Later, at the engagement party, Sonu charms everyone with tales of her theatre performances, Annette tries to one-up her with a story of her trip to Seaworld, and Jody shows up to drag Mindy to his alma mater because it's "essential to their business and the business is essential to [Mindy]." When she's forced to come clean to Danny, she tells him that even though being a working mom is the hardest thing she's ever done, she loves it and wants to continue. Danny thinks that without Mindy staying home, Leo will have the same awful childhood that he had. "I am doing a good job. He is loved," Mindy retorts. "And honestly, if that is not enough for you, then by all means, why don't you give up your career and stay at home?"
Despite Danny's insistence to the contrary, Annette encourages Mindy to go on her business trip with Jody – which she does. After a conversation with Tarun, Danny follows her to Georgia and watches her presentation. It seems like he's finally on board with her plan until he tells her, "You can stay at home with Leo and do this on the weekends, like a hobby." Even though it's clear this isn't what she wants, Mindy doesn't stand up for herself. On the plane, Jody offers a bit of perspective, telling her to make sure that when she does figure out what she wants, she doesn't "lose sight of it."
While it was extremely satisfying to watch Mindy stand up for herself at the party ("I don't want to be bullied!") she still doesn't seem to be the one calling the shots. Last week, Peter pointed out the imbalance in her and Danny's relationship, and this week's episode doubles down on those issues as well as Danny's refusal to acknowledge the compromises Mindy's been making and everything she's giving up.
With one episode left before the mid-season finale, I'm holding out hope that Mindy is able to push back against Danny's expectations and reclaim some control of her life.
The Mindy Project airs Tuesdays on Hulu & CityTV


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Excerpted from Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller's Question and Answer series on Naaleh.com
I'm looking forward to setting up my own home and giving my future family all the love and care they need. However, I find housework boring and draining. I personally feel that I can only be the best me when I have time outside of the house for other pursuits. I think I'd feel resentful of a husband who expected domestic work to be my sole domain. What is the Torah outlook on this?
There is no halacha (law) requiring you to engage in housework. However, you do have a responsibility to manage your home. If you're willing to invest a significant amount of your salary into hiring help and buying yourself the best that technology offers, so that the dishwasher washes the dishes and the maid mops the floors, that's fine. You don't have to do the actual work but you do have to see that it gets done.
When I mentioned this to some women, they countered, "Even if we can afford to hire help, why shouldn't our husbands do half the work?" Here the issue isn't about your dislike for domestic work but buying into the feminist myth that men and women are good at identical things and share the same desires. There's no reason why a husband should be obligated to help in the house unless his wife needs it. This is a b'dieved (non-ideal) situation. Most women with young children require their husband's assistance, whether they work or not. In this case, of course your husband should help.
But ideally you should come to a point where you can say, "This is my home and I am happy to take full responsibility for it."

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Some years ago someone who had been on Prozac for eight years came regularly to a group i was facilitating in mid-devon.
She was put on the drug following the death of her young daughter and at a time when she herself was in an unsatisfying job.
She had, since then, found more satisfying work and so we worked through things together – she slowly came off the prozac and is relatively happy in her life.
Her openess and ability to connect, with a care for the happiness of others, means that other employees in the store where she works feel able to confide in her…and she is able to pass on some of the benefits of her experiences.
One day someone she works with came into the staffroom looking very subdued… this lady noticed and enquired… her colleague sheepishly admitted that having been to the doctors and put on prozac…
They had a conversation and then others in the room joined in…. and in this little store in mid- Devon there were four or five others on prozac.
This number…plus the others who did not share…multiplied by the number of large stores in the country…would be a staggering number in itself…then add in all the rest!
No wonder the birds have measurable levels of prozac in their bodies – they drink the water that runs into the rivers from the sewage plants…
which only remove some substances.
I can remember listening to a poet who had made a poem out of the ingredients of a shampoo which had a 'natural' marketing image.
The poem of the list of chemicals was extremely long… the small print can be very small… and I couldn't imagine any trichological necessity for most of them!
Anyway, i thought, they don't stay on my head for long… but then I imagined them going down the waste pipe into the sewerage system and on…and on…and fish swimming in it, birds drinking it and..eek!
As i see it, to be able to be allow for the arising of sad feelings is part of being alive and connected with this world… however the egoic thought–structure feels that there is something wrong with this.
If you are in connection with this world and see and feel what's going on around you, i think being sad is a completely natural experience.
When the thought that 'I should be happy' arises and links with another thought (thought of what I take myself to be) there can be a sense that something has gone wrong and it needs fixing a.s.a.p.
'I would like the world and myself to be the way I would like them to be'… so I am rejecting what is, i'm making a story about it and becoming oppositional to the arising thoughts and feelings and sensations… lumping them all together… either forgetting or not being unconscious of their transient nature.
Surely sometimes a chemical intervention is appropriate… but it can become an automatic response to 'I don't like these feelings please take them away'.
Anything that does that is not necessarily good… and they'll go anyway if you let them…crying can be a great release, not a sign of failure. Stiff upper-lips are not indicative of health and 'pulling one's self together' just tightens the knots.
To look at what's going on rather than to mask it, or go for distraction, takes courage. To ask 'what is the root cause of my suffering?' is the question which set Gautama Siddhartha off on his journey… and he realised an answer which is the same for all of us….one we can experience…that's a worthwhile journey!
But mostly it seems easier to try to sort out the external factors. Sometimes this is not so difficult, and it can be useful if it brings more of a sense of spaciousness into the situation. However these external factors are themselves impermanent and not the root cause of the problem…and the very busyness involved in changing circumstances may conceal this.
Also there is a big difference between satisfaction – being okay however things are – and the happiness of pleasure. Pursuing pleasure is to over-privilege the high points, the excitement around which is addictive and diminishes the enjoyment of everything in between…so much so that the in-between time can be just be filling-in-time between the highs.
There was a zen master who gave a teaching to an official who wanted to know how to be…how to practice within the constraints and the perceived tedium which went with his high office?
The master's blessing translates as – 'inch foot time gem' – and its recipient was nonplussed until the explanation came….words to the effect that
Every moment is a moment of life – and, as there are only so many moments in your life….why not be there for them all? – receiving and allowing them to go. Turning your face away from any of them is life denying; with the ego calling the shots life becomes constricted and tensions increase.
I like James's analogy of the 'i' as an empty wine glass for this…and if we can relax the desire… for the champagne or the happiness…whatever we might ordinarily feel would bring things to perfection…we can be momentarily full of rich burgundy, water, milk, Orangina, urine or chocolate pudding …. many many different flavours….
a self emptying, cleaning and filling wine glass…. extraordinary!
btw… along with many other drugs, the use of Diclophenac , a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, is not compatible with the use of Prozac…. and if you read the warnings about NSAID's in that Diclophenac link you might be quite slow to swallow them in any case!
…and then there's that quote of Einstein "Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig." !
The self-referential nature of the above quest keeps the blindfold in place… and so the tail can lead the dog down many a cul-de-sac!


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Mark Tremonti Reveals Another Album Beyond 'Cauterize' Already Recorded
When you're balancing multiple bands, you take the time you have with a project and do the most you can with it. Such is the case with Mark Tremonti, who reveals that there's actually another album good to go beyond his self-titled group's upcoming Cauterize disc.
He tells The Pulse of Radio (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), "We put together two albums. We have this album that's [coming] out, but in the same recording session we recorded another album called Dust. That's gonna be coming out who knows when, but probably within a year. So I want people to know that the record is part two of this record. It's not necessarily record three, it's just the second disc of this album. So there's two 10-song albums."
Tremonti and his bandmates ventured into the studio in 2014 with producer Michael "Elvis" Baskette to work on new music. Baskette has also worked with Tremonti's other band Alter Bridge and also oversaw the Tremonti's 2012 debut All I Was, so there's a history of continuity with the producer.
The group began teasing the Cauterize album earlier this year and even invited fans to Orlando for a special listening session. In a couple of album teasers, the band has previewed the songs "Radical Change" and "Flying Monkeys." They've also debuted the lyric video for "Another Heart."
Cauterize is due June 9. Stay tuned for pre-order details on the album. And just a reminder, you can see Mark Tremonti this Saturday night (March 28) on VH1 Classic's That Metal Show. More on that here.
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The good "Reverend" just never ceases to amaze me with the hypocrisy that spews out of his mouth.
April 29, 2008 —
Barack Obama made a call for nonviolence in the aftermath of the Sean Bell verdict – infuriating the Rev. Al Sharpton, who accused the presidential candidate of trying to "grandstand in front of white people," sources told The Post.
During what a source described as a "heated" phone call yesterday, Sharpton told Obama he was disappointed with the Illinois senator's words on Friday, when Obama said "resorting to violence to express displeasure" was "completely unacceptable and counterproductive."
"[Obama] issues this statement and not a single rock had been thrown," said a source. "How does the candidate of change ask people to accept a verdict that is unjust?"
The source said Sharpton had hoped Obama would "side with the Bell family" and not use it as an "opportunity to grandstand in front of white people."
An Obama spokesman described the conversation as a chance to "hear [Sharpton's] views and to get his perspective."
Grandstanding in front of white people? Really?!? So saying that violent protest is not in the best interest of either the law enforcement or the black community is not only siding against the family of Mr. Bell but is also a slap in the face of black Americans and selling out to white voters? As a "typical white person" I think I can answer emphatically that Baracks comments didnt appeal to me, but came across as standard political double speak. He managed to remain completely neutral in admonishing any side in this matter, while allowing that some form of protest could be acceptable as long as it was nonviolent. Well, kudos to him for not endorsing violence anyway.
Even more amazing is the fact that even if the allegations were true, "Reverend" Al would accuse anyone of grandstanding. I guess that grandstanding only becomes grandstanding when its done for white people. Just another day of life in the US of KKKA.
Not shut it down… shut it up!
The amazing 4 page response to the "Reverend" Al Sharpton via the New York Post.
April 26, 2008 — JUSTICE has been served in the Sean Bell case.
However horrific Bell's slaying by police gunfire, Judge Arthur Cooperman yesterday resisted pressure to make the verdict an alleged test of civil rights – a test which, according to the city's race agitators, had only one proper and predetermined outcome – and instead decided the case on the facts before him.
The New York Police Department has already begun scouring its training to try to drive down even further the chance that such a blood-curdling tragedy is repeated. Now it falls on Mayor Bloomberg to explain to the city how rare such tragedies are and to lay out the case that the NYPD is the greatest protector of civil rights in New York – given that the No. 1 civil right is freedom from fear and violence.
THE prosecution's case began falling apart almost from the start. As Judge Cooperman noted, its witnesses contradicted their own prior statements and made claims on the stand that ballistics evidence clearly disproved.
In addition, many of the prosecutions' witnesses corroborated the officers' narrative of that night's events:
* They confirmed that there'd been a tense exchange outside the Club Kalua (a crime-ridden strip joint in Queens) between an apparently armed man and Sean Bell and his companions (who had been celebrating Bell's wedding the next day with a bachelor party at the club).
* Several acknowledged that Bell and his friends had referred to getting a gun.
* Some prosecution witnesses also verified what forensics evidence unambiguously demonstrated: that Sean Bell's car had sped twice into Detective Gerald Isnora and an unmarked police van as Detective Isnora was trying to signal the car to stop.
Please read the full article in the link to the post above but the final page tells the real story that the race hustlers don't want you to hear.
ANTI-COP agitators and politicians are fond of claiming that the police are a threat to black lives. In fact, no single private or public agency has saved more minority lives than the NYPD.
Had murders stayed at their early 1990s levels, before the NYPD got smart about policing, 13,000-plus more New Yorkers – the overwhelming majority of them black and Hispanic – would be dead today.
In fact, even as the NYPD brought down homicide a remarkable 70 percent, it was driving down its own use of force. In 1973, there were 1.82 fatal police shootings per 1,000 New York officers; in 2006, there were .36 such shootings per 1,000 officers. And the vast majority of those police shootings are against criminals who are threatening the officer with force.
The department is one of the more restrained big-city police outfits in the country. Its fatal shooting rate is a tenth those of the Phoenix and Philadelphia departments, for example. While every mistaken shooting of an unarmed innocent civilian is an unmitigated disaster, the number of such NYPD shootings over the last two decades can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
ABOVE all else, remember this: The risk posed to New Yorkers by the police is negligible compared to the risk posed by criminals – and NYPD New York officers work their hearts out every day to try to protect law-abiding residents from crime.
If Al Sharpton and Charles Barron really cared as much about law-abiding minorities as they say they do, they would join the police in that mission -they'd stigmatize criminals, not the cops. They'd protest outside the jail cells of rapists and robbers who terrorize the elderly and frail; they'd call on crime witnesses to cooperate with investigators.
The sad fact is, had Sean Bell been killed by a fellow club-goer, Al Sharpton and Charles Barron wouldn't have taken the slightest interest in him. The world knows about him only because he was killed by police officers.
Need proof? A week after Bell's death, another groom-to-be was fatally gunned down by some robbers in Brooklyn who had just pistol-whipped three other victims.
His name was Earl Williams – and no one ever protested his death. But New York's police force worked to find his killer – and continue today to risk their own lives to safeguard ours.
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Reid was joined by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) in criticizing Republicans for any potential delays. And then who actually causes the delays? Politics…you gotta be disgusted by it.
Almost a week after the death of a truely great american, I ran across a speech that the late Mr. Heston gave at Harvard in 1999. I feel compelled to share it now.
The speech with partial audio can be found here.
"I remember my son when he was five, explaining to his kindergarten class what his father did for a living. "My Daddy," he said, "pretends to be people."
There have been quite a few of them. Prophets from the Old and New Testaments, a couple of Christian saints, generals of various nationalities and different centuries, several kings, three American presidents, a French cardinal and two geniuses, including Michelangelo. If you want the ceiling re-painted I'll do my best. There always seem to be a lot of different fellows up here. I'm never sure which one of them gets to talk. Right now, I guess I'm the guy.
As I pondered our visit tonight it struck me: If my Creator gave me the gift to connect you with the hearts and minds of those great men, then I want to use that same gift now to re-connect you with your own sense of liberty … your own freedom of thought … your own compass for what is right.
Dedicating the memorial at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln said of America, "We are now engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure."
Those words are true again. I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood of liberty inside you … the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the miracle that it is.
Let me back up. About a year ago I became president of the National Rifle Association, which protects the right to keep and bear arms. I ran for office, I was elected, and now I serve … I serve as a moving target for the media who've called me everything from "ridiculous" and "duped" to a "brain-injured, senile, crazy old man." I know … I'm pretty old…but I sure Lord ain't senile.
As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issues. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our Land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.
For example, I marched for civil rights with Dr. King in 1963 — Long before Hollywood found it fashionable. But when I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else's pride, they called me a racist. I've worked with brilliantly talented homosexuals all my life. But when I told an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe. I served in World War II against the Axis powers. But during a speech, when I drew an analogy between singling out innocent Jews and singling out innocent gun owners, I was called an anti-Semite.
Everyone I know knows I would never raise a closed fist against my country. But when I asked an audience to oppose this cultural persecution, I was compared to Timothy McVeigh.
From Time magazine to friends and colleagues, they're essentially saying, "Chuck, how dare you speak your mind. You are using language not authorized for public consumption!"
But I am not afraid. If Americans believed in political correctness, we'd still be King George's boys-subjects bound to the British crown.
In his book, "The End of Sanity," Martin Gross writes that "Blatantly irrational behavior is rapidly being established as the norm in almost every area of human endeavor. There seem to be new customs, new rules, and new anti-intellectual theories regularly foisted on us from every direction. Underneath, the nation is roiling. Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong. And they don't like it."
Let me read a few examples.
At Antioch college in Ohio, young men seeking intimacy with a coed must get verbal permission at each step of the process from kissing to petting to final copulation … all clearly spelled out in a printed college directive.
In New Jersey, despite the death of several patients nationwide Who had been infected by dentists who had concealed their AIDs — the state commissioner announced that health providers who are HIV-positive need not… need not … tell their patients that they are infected.
At William and Mary, students tried to change the name of the school team "The Tribe" because it was supposedly insulting to local Indians, only to learn that authentic Virginia chiefs truly like the name.
In San Francisco, city fathers passed an ordinance protecting the rights of transvestites to cross-dress on the job, and for transsexuals to have separate toilet facilities while undergoing sex change surgery.
In New York City, kids who don't speak a word of Spanish have been placed in bilingual classes to learn their three R's in Spanish solely because their last names sound Hispanic.
At the University of Pennsylvania, in a state where thousands died at Gettysburg opposing slavery, the president of that college officially set up segregated dormitory space for black students.
Yeah, I know … that's out of bounds now. Dr. King said "Negroes." Jimmy Baldwin and most of us on the March said, "black." But it's a no-no now. For me, hyphenated identities are awkward … particularly "Native-American." I'm a Native American, for God's sake. I also happen to be a blood-initiated brother of the Miniconjou Sioux. On my wife's side, my grandson is a thirteenth generation native American … with a capital letter on "American."
Finally, just last month … David Howard, head of the Washington D.C. Office of Public Advocate, used the word "niggardly" while talking to colleagues about budgetary matters. Of course, "niggardly" means stingy or scanty. But within days Howard was forced to publicly apologize and resign.
As columnist Tony Snow wrote: "David Howard got fired because some people in public employ were morons who (a) didn't know the meaning of niggardly,' (b) didn't know how to use a dictionary to discover the meaning, and (c) actually demanded that he apologize for their ignorance."
What does all of this mean? It means that telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America's campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who're supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression? Let's be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason.
You are the best and the brightest. You, here in the fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River, you are the cream. But I submit that you, and your counterparts across the land, are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that … and abide it … you are – by your grandfathers' standards – cowards.
Here's another example. Right now at more than one major university, Second Amendment scholars and researchers are being told to shut up about their findings or they'll lose their jobs. Why? Because their research findings would undermine big-city mayor's pending lawsuits that seek to extort hundreds of millions of dollars from firearm manufacturers. I don't care what you think about guns. But if you are not shocked at that, I am shocked at you. Who will guard the raw material of unfettered ideas, if not you? Who will defend the core value of academia, if you supposed soldiers of free thought and expression lay down your arms and plead, "Don't shoot me."?
If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe. Don't let America's universities continue to serve as incubators for this rampant epidemic of new McCarthyism.
But what can you do? How can anyone prevail against such pervasive social subjugation? The answer's been here all along. I learned it 36 years ago, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., standing with Dr. Martin Luther King and two hundred thousand people.
You simply … disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom. I learned the awesome power of disobedience from Dr.King … who learned it from Gandhi, and Thoreau, and Jesus, and every other great man who led those in the right against those with the might.
Disobedience is in our DNA. We feel innate kinship with that Disobedient spirit that tossed tea into Boston Harbor, that sent Thoreau to jail, that refused to sit in the back of the bus, that protested a war in VietNam. In that same spirit, I am asking you to disavow cultural correctness with massive disobedience of rogue authority, social directives and onerous law that weaken personal freedom.
But be careful … it hurts. Disobedience demands that you put yourself at risk. Dr. King stood on lots of balconies. You must be willing to be humiliated … to endure the modern-day equivalent of the police dogs at Montgomery and the water cannons at Selma. You must be willing to experience discomfort. I'm not complaining, but my own decades of social activism have taken their toll on me.
Let me tell you a story. A few years back I heard about a rapper named Ice-T who was selling a CD called "Cop Killer" celebrating ambushing and murdering police officers. It was being marketed by none other than Time/Warner, the biggest entertainment conglomerate in the world. Police across the country were outraged. Rightfully so – at least one had been murdered. But Time/Warner was stonewalling because the CD was A cash cow for them, and the media were tiptoeing around it because the rapper was black.
I heard Time/Warner had a stockholders meeting scheduled in Beverly Hills. I owned some shares at the time, so I decided to attend. What I did there was against the advice of my family and colleagues I asked for the floor. To a hushed room of a thousand average American stockholders, I simply read the full lyrics of "Cop Killer" – every vicious, vulgar, instructional word.
It got worse, a lot worse. I won't read the rest of it to you. But trust me, the room was a sea of shocked, frozen, blanched faces. The Time/Warner executives squirmed in their chairs and stared at their shoes. They hated me for that.
Then I delivered another volley of sick lyric brimming with racist filth, where Ice-T fantasizes about sodomizing two 12-year old nieces of Al and Tipper Gore.
Well, I won't do to you here what I did to them. Let's just say I left the room in echoing silence. When I read the lyrics to the waiting press corps, one of them said "We can't print that." "I know," I replied,"but Time/Warner's selling it." Two months later, Time/Warner terminated Ice-T's contract. I'll never be offered another film by Warners, or get a good review from Time magazine. But disobedience means you must be willing to act, not just talk.
When a mugger sues his elderly victim for defending herself … jam the switchboard of the district attorney's office.
When your university is pressured to lower standards until 80% of the students graduate with honors … choke the halls of the board of regents.
When an 8-year-old boy pecks a girl's cheek on the playground and gets hauled into court for sexual harassment … march on that school and block its doorways.
When someone you elected is seduced by political power and betrays you…petition them, oust them, banish them.
When Time magazine's cover portrays millennium nuts as deranged, Crazy Christians holding a cross as it did last month … boycott their magazine and the products it advertises.
So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobediences of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men, by God's grace, built this country.
If Dr. King were here, I think he would agree. Thank you. "
You represented the best of what this nation is and we owe you a debt of gratitude for your courage.
Rest in peace sir.
Some people never learn the lessons that have cost us so dearly. In yet another example of Democrats efforts for peace at any price, Jimmy Carter has decided to meet with Hamas in Syria.
NEW YORK CITY — Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.
The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on April 18.
Deanna Congileo, Carter's press secretary, confirmed in an e-mail to FOXNews.com that Carter will be in the Mideast in April. Pressed for comment, Congileo did not deny that the former president is considering visiting Meshal.
"President Carter is planning a trip to the Mideast next week; however, we are still confirming details of the trip and will issue a press release by the end of this week," wrote Congileo. "I cannot confirm any specific meetings at this point in time."
Meshal, who lives in Syria to avoid being arrested by the Israeli government, leads Hamas from his seat in Damascus, where he is a guest of Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The State Department has designated Hamas a "foreign terrorist organization," and some groups hold Meshal personally responsible for ordering the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack once said of the prospect of meeting with Meshal, "That's not something that we could possibly conceive of."
Some Carter critics called the latest reports typical of the ex-president.
"It's about par for the course from President Carter, demonstrating a lack of judgment typical of what he does," said John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. "To go to Syria to visit Hamas at this point is just an ill-timed, ill-advised decision on his part."
"I'm not surprised that Carter would do this, as he has been supporting Palestinian extremism for many years," said Steve Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a watchdog group.
Carter would be the first Western leader of his stature to meet with the Hamas chief. Though Meshal met with Clinton officials in the 1990s, the Bush administration has sought to isolate Hamas, enforcing rigid sanctions on its government in Gaza and refusing to meet with its leaders unless it recognizes Israel and abandons terror.
"I think this [visit] undermines the U.S. policy of isolating Hamas," said Emerson. "I think this encourages Europeans to further dilute their sanctions against the Hamas government."
"When you put the prestige of a former president of the United States in a meeting with one of its terrorist leaders, you're giving it a legitimacy and currency it never had," said Bolton.
But Ibrahim Hooper, communications director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a non-profit advocacy group, said Carter's efforts demonstrate he's a true partner in peace.
"I think if true, this report would indicate that President Carter is willing to travel any road in search of peace," he said. "I think President Carter would only undertake such a mission if he believed that something could be achieved in terms of peace and reconciliation in the region."
Hooper added that because of Carter's reputation among Palestinians he might be able to bring some pressure to bear.
"Obviously President Carter has a great amount of credibility in the region because of his past efforts seeking peace internationally," Hooper said.
The Al-Hayat report stated that Carter would be traveling in his capacity as head of the Carter Center, and not in his capacity as a former president.
"That's a distinction that's absurd," said Emerson.
"Maybe he'll give up his pension, but he's always a former president," said Bolton.
Unfortunately, this is just the latest in the trend of diplomatic efforts by Democratic party leaders. Nancy Pelosi, Jim McDermont, both had smashingly successful talks in the middle east (yes thats called sarcasm). Even leading presidential candidate Barack H. Obama wants to start a new dialog with Iran. Maybe Jimmy is on to something here though. No matter that the Hamas charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, removal of infidels from muslim lands and even states that peace conferences are "ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Muslims as arbitraters." Yes no matter how useless and wasteful negotiating with this group is Mr. Peanut may one day yet be able to say we again have "Peace for our time."
And yet another example of how the third party payment system is inefficient and fraudulent. When will we learn that the buyer-seller model is so much more desirable than the buyer-seller-receiver model? Today's AP report on the VA is just the latest example of the failures of this bureaucratic model.
Veterans Affairs employees last year racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in government credit-card bills at casino and luxury hotels, movie theaters and high-end retailers such as Sharper Image and Franklin Covey — and government auditors are investigating, citing past spending abuses.
All told, VA staff charged $2.6 billion to their government credit cards.
The Associated Press, through a Freedom of Information request, obtained the VA list of 3.1 million purchases made in the 2007 budget year. The list offers a detailed look into the everyday spending at the government's second largest department.
At least 13 purchases totaling $8,471 were charged at Sharper Image, a specialty store featuring high-tech electronics and gizmos such as robotic barking dogs. In addition, 19 charges worth $1,999.56 were made at Franklin Covey, which sells leather totes and planners geared toward corporate executives.
On at least six occasions, employees based at VA headquarters made credit card charges at Las Vegas casino hotels totaling $26,198.
When the buyer gets no direct value from the purchase and an unlimited supply of funds are available by which to make the purchases, corruption and fraud are soon to follow.
right now and her opening joke was about sniper fire. (Also, Leno just referred to the media as "us.") Leno of course isn't asking hard questions about the Bosnian sniper lie or other issues, and he probably shouldn't, that's not his job. But in his usual brilliance, Christopher Hitchens has asked some hard questions and deduced some worrisomely inexhorable conclusions. It's worth a read.
Congress' grilling of oil execs for their companies' profits brought to mind an old post of mine from last year where I brought up a few numbers on oil profit and government inlays from gas taxes. Original article, most of which had nothing to do with oil, here. Here's the relevant snippet:
Remember how irate the Left was when despicable Exxon-Mobile made–gasp!–nine cents of profit per dollar of oil? Imagine what Liberals would do if somebody tried making 18 cents. (Turns out the answer to that is "absolutely nothing" since the federal government alone leeches 18.4 cents per dollar spent on gas—again, angelic Big Government makes twice off of gas what evil Big Oil makes–and what makes one angelic and the other evil? The fact that one forcibly took that wealth and the other had the unmitigated audacity to earn it.)
Where is the global outrage over this film? Will "peace loving" Muslims denounce this message?
The following transcript is from a video made by Muslims for Muslim children. The video shows a child stabbing President Bush to death and turning the White House into a mosque.
From MEMRITV:
Bush: Who are you? What brings you to my home? How did they let you in, boy? My guards! My soldiers! Get this boy out of here.
Child: Nobody will take me out of here.
Bush: Who are you to come here and threaten me?! You are on my own turf, you little child, you! Get out. My dear, bring your father, your grandfather, or your mother, so I can talk to them. Get somebody older and smarter than you. What, you came here on your own?
Child: You killed daddy in the Iraq war. It's true, you killed him in the Iraq war. As for my mom – you and the criminal Zionists killed her in Lebanon. You and the criminal Zionists also killed my younger and older brothers in the Gaza holocaust. I'm an orphan, you criminal!
Bush: What are you talking about? Where did you come from? Don't I have enough troubles already? Where did you come from?
Child: I have come to take revenge with this sword – revenge for my mother and my sisters. You are a criminal, Bush! You are despicable. You made me an orphan! You took everything from me, Bush! I must take revenge on you, with this sword of Islam, the Prophet's Al-Battar sword.
Bush: No… No, my dear. I give you my word that this is it. I repent, just don't kill me. Where are my guards? Where are my people? Help! Help! He wants to kill me. Help!
Child: There are no guards, and your people have surrendered, Bush. I have not come alone, Bush. I have brought thousands of thousands of children from Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Afghanistan. You have denied all these children their fathers and mothers. That's why I have come to take revenge on you and on all the criminal traitors who collaborated with you.
Bush: Okay, fine, that's enough. I will give you whatever you want from me.
Child: What can you give me? All I want is one thing. Bring back my father and mother. I don't want anything from you. I don't want anything from you, just bring back my father and mother. I place my trust in Allah. I need to kill you.
Bush: No, my dear. Enough. I will give you anything you want. I also… Enough with that. Come with all your friends to the White House. I will give you food and toys. We will sit in the White House and talk. You will get whatever you need.
Child: You are impure, Bush, so you are not allowed inside the White House.
Bush: What are you saying?! Why am I not allowed into the White House?
Child: Because it has been turned into a great mosque for the nation of Islam. I will kill you just like Mu'az killed Abu Lahab. I will kill you, Bush, because that is your fate.
Child stabs Bush repeatedly
Child: Ahhh, I killed him.
For months the media has been forecasting a major economic recession, and yet American taxpayers are still forced to fund this $1.12 billion empire. PRNewswire reports:
"It is absolutely incredible," said Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League, "but the annual report just released by Planned Parenthood Federation of America shows that $114 million of the government funds received by Planned Parenthood were not needed and only increased the abortion giant's assets."
Sedlak was referring to the 2006 — 2007 PPFA annual report released late last week. The report shows that PPFA had a total income of $1.02 billion. Of that total, $258.7 million came from donations; $366.9 million came from fees charged customers at its clinics; and a whopping $336.7 million came from the American taxpayer.
The report also showed that PPFA recorded a profit of $114.8 million and increased its total assets to $1.12 billion.


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THE greatest collection of ancient oak trees anywhere in Europe has been discovered in Britain after research uncovered them in a Medieval deer park.
At least 60 Middle Age oaks have been unearthed in a survey of the grounds of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, with four of them measuring almost 30 feet in diameter.
The huge width dates them to the Medieval period - between 960 and 1196AD.
It was previously thought that Moccas Park, in Suffolk, Windsor Great Park, in Berkshire and Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, had the largest collection of the ancient trees, but the new research means Blenheim Palace has overtaken them.
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The Telegraph-Journal, has issued an apology for a July 8 story that claimed, among other things, that PM Stephen Harper pocketed a communion wafer during former governor general Romeo LeBlanc's state funeral. The newspaper published its apology on Tuesday, July 28. Here is an excerpt:
"There was no credible support for these statements of fact at the time this article was published, nor is the Telegraph-Journal aware of any credible support for these statements now. Our reporters Rob Linke and Adam Huras, who wrote the story reporting on the funeral, did not include these statements in the version of the story that they wrote. In the editing process, these statements were added without the knowledge of the reporters and without any credible support for them.
"The Telegraph-Journal sincerely apologizes to the Prime Minister for the harm that this inaccurate story has caused. We also apologize to reporters Rob Linke and Adam Huras and to our readers for our failure to meet our own standards of responsible journalism and accuracy in reporting."
Now that the newspaper, which was the source of the story, has formally apologized, one wonders whether others who repeated the lies and spread them across the nation, including Canada's main television networks will have the decency and journalistic integrity to also apologize. I doubt they will.
It is interesting to note, however, that—according to the National Post—the names of the newspaper's editor, Shawna Richer, and the publisher, Jamie Irving, do not appear on the masthead of Tuesday's edition[1].
Look for the mainstream media to jump on the apology story without accepting any culpability of their own.
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Maybe it's the change in clocks, but I feel as though I'm a bit "stuck" with inner dialog and anger. I'm falling back – doing what I did pre-affair.
Is it normal for recovering from infidelity? Probably. Is it fun? No, it's not.
I had a bad day yesterday. It was Tuesday. I woke up at 4am and my mind started the replay. EB was off all last week and I was able to breathe. Yesterday, I felt the breath leave me. I hugged him when he left for work and just said, "I hate Tuesdays." He gruffly said, "I know."
I was in a funk all day because of it. I went into my office and brought home three boxes of crap, as we are cleaning out and preparing for the big office move. Even with all that going on, I was still preoccupied – distracted – disconnected.
Question to the BS's out there…how long did it take for you to start having "back talk" in your mind and noticing those small things that annoy you about your spouse?
This has just started for me. I used to have it pre-affair. Twenty three years married of "little things" and grumbling under my breath at things he would do or say. I'm worried. I don't like it.
After the affair, those little annoyances didn't bother me. In some f'ed up way, they were endearing. I was just so happy to be together.
Now, I'm not so sure. Perhaps I'm finally out of the BS fog. You know, the honeymoon sex, the "he walks on water" and "isn't he so hot?" I'm not happy about it. The BS fog was nicer. It formed a bubble/cocoon that prevented the shit from becoming real.
But, what's really bothering me is that I'm feeling a bit stuck for not knowing what he's going to do about a new job. He keeps surfing next vacations, stupid sports scores, but not even a hint at looking for another job.
He's smoking again, too — has been since the summer. He smoked last year and on 10/17, I threw out his pack of cigarettes, out the truck window. He quit cold turkey then. Weird how I remember all the specific dates of things that week. But, I'm sure we all do to some extent…
Guess who also smokes? Yup, Ms. Evil Bitch. Oh, but "they don't usually smoke alone." Another person "almost always joins them."
I resent both of these things: no new job and smoking.
I think that's part of my pent-up anger and it's going to boil over soon.
I'm scared, guys. I'm scared that he won't find another job and that will be it for us. I think I've swallowed enough pride and paid my dues from my past sins. At least, I think I have. He must still be punishing me. I just can't imagine what his motive(s) are if he isn't.
We are getting the remodeling done. Final things selected and it should be full remodel mode by early December. All I am thinking lately is…well, it will be good for resale because I don't know if we'll be here much longer.
Didn't think my heart could break anymore. I was wrong. It just keeps breaking a little each and every day.


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Check out our photos of Sunday's hard-fought game against the Jaguars.
Arizona in 2009. Baltimore in 2010. Oakland in 2011.
This was that game for the Texans. The one they seemingly have every season where they repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot with self-inflicted errors and stage a valiant comeback, only to find themselves in a hole one play too large.
This year, with the help of career days from Andre Johnson and Matt Schaub, they finished that game. Even with an understandable letdown after the emotional Sunday night win in Chicago.
That's the optimistic outlook, of course.
The pessimist would say red flags are abundant. The Texans (9-1) needed a miraculous comeback and overtime to beat now 1-9 Jacksonville. The league's No. 2 ranked defense surrendered 37 points to a team directed by Chad Henne. The meltdown against Green Bay was excusable because of MVP Aaron Rodgers. This one? Not as easy to explain.
Which side is more realistic? Let's take a look.
1. The secondary. The same unit that looked flawless in Chicago appeared helpless against the Jaguars. Three pass plays of 60+ yards. Two touchdowns of 67 and 81 yards, one after a blown tackle (by Kareem Jackson) at the five-yard mark, and the other after Brice McCain and safety Danieal Manning collided and took themselves out of the play. It's now twice in five games that Wade Phillips' defense has been shredded against the pass.
"They caught us," said safety Glover Quin. "It seemed like every time we did something, they had the right play called."
2. The kicker. Indoors, anything of 50 yards and closer should be almost automatic. Shayne Graham missed two, including a 47-yarder that would've won it in regulation. Moreover, in the first half, Gary Kubiak opted to punt from the Jacksonville 36-yard line - an indication that he may not trust Graham's leg. Graham hasn't held a full-time kicking job since his postseason meltdown in January 2010 with Cincinnati. If the Texans need a long kick in a pressure situation, it's hard to trust Graham right now.
"You can't make them all," said Graham after the game. "You wish you could. It's not a great feeling, but that's over with and now we move on for the future."
3.) The pass rush. Has anyone seen Antonio Smith lately? The Houston defensive end has now gone three consecutive games without as much as a half-sack. On Sunday, his most notable contribution was a 15-yard personal foul in overtime that jumpstarted a Jacksonville scoring drive (field goal). While Smith has struggled, so has the rest of the Houston pass rush - with only J.J. Watt being somewhat of an exception.
"We needed to get a little more pressure and do what we did at the end of the game," said Watt. "Do what we did in the overtime period, get pressure, bat some balls."
Until overtime, the Texans were unable to generate much pressure on Henne without blitzing - and when that happened, it left holes in the secondary for the likes of Justin Blackmon. Things did turn around late, though, with Watt notching a critical fourth-quarter sack and the defense collectively knocking down several passes in overtime.
4.) The coach. This was not the 13-6 defensive slugfest we saw in Chicago. Unfortunately, it took a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter for Kubiak to recognize that. While trailing or tied with a dynamic offense, Kubiak opted to punt from the Jacksonville 36, kick a field goal on 4th-and-inches inside the 10, run a draw on 3rd-and-17 (which ended in a fumble) and settle for a 40+ yard kick in the closing seconds with a shaky kicker. The final decision was particularly egregious, considering Schaub was set up at the Jacksonville 30 with a minute left, two timeouts and moving the ball at will. Instead, the Texans twice handed off to Arian Foster and took their chances with a lengthy kick.
Appropriately, it missed.
"I'll have to go back and look at every situation," said Kubiak, who was asked about the playcalling. "We tried to stay aggressive, but at the same time they made us be patient the way they played us. "
Those types of conservative decisions make sense in games like last week with a lights-out defense. It was obvious early on that this was a very different style of game, yet Kubiak stubbornly clung to a defensive posture until it was almost too late. Are he and the Texans capable of learning this lesson without actually losing? We'll soon find out.
1. Andre freakin' Johnson. Remember a few weeks back, when a few writers (this one included) were ready to concede that the 31-year-old Johnson had turned the page to the next chapter of his career as a possession receiver? Uh, scratch that. Johnson's 14 catches for 273 yards were a career-best game, and his burst on the winning 48-yard bubble screen looked as good as ever.
"Like I said before, I've been telling you guys I've been feeling better and better every week," said Johnson. "Maybe you guys will believe me after that."
The point was certainly hammered home against the Jaguars. If the Texans find themselves in a postseason shootout with Peyton Manning or Tom Brady, Johnson and Schaub (527 yards, 5 TD) showed they have the firepower to win one of those games.
2. Defense not consistently bad, steps up when needed. It would be easy to write off a 37-point, 458-yard performance as a disaster for the Houston defense. But look closer, and this was far from a typical bad defensive game. The Texans weren't consistently gashed. They forced a pair of three-and-outs in the fourth quarter and held in overtime after a Jacksonville 1st-and-goal at the 6 (needing a touchdown) and a 1st-and-10 at the Houston 47 (needing a field goal). Both times, they were roughly 10 yards or fewer from losing. On each occasion, they made plays when they had to.
"Down the stretch we were able to come together as one defense and shut them down," said Jackson. "We played the way we expect to play late in the game."
For the most part, Jacksonville's success came courtesy of a select few big mistakes. Jackson's whiffed tackle led to the 67-yard touchdown. McCain and Manning's collision caused an 81-yard touchdown. Arian Foster's fumble set up Jacksonville at the Houston 11, practically gifting seven more. Taking a step back, for a unit that was No. 2 in the league through 10 games, it's hard to imagine those types of mistakes being repeated. It seems much more likely to reflect an emotional letdown or a clichéd "trap game", sandwiched between the Sunday nighter in Chicago and Thanksgiving Day in Detroit.
3.) Martin's breakout game. For much of 2012, special teams have been an unmitigated disaster for Houston. On Sunday, we saw the first signs of hope. Rookie Keshawn Martin returned five kickoffs for 162 yards (average of 32.4) and two punts for 76 yards, including a 71-yarder that almost went the distance. The blocking schemes looked much improved and Martin routinely flipped field position for the home team.
"It means a lot," said Martin. "It shows that I'm getting more comfortable out there, especially with the returns. I'm getting better every day and I want to keep doing that."
Martin also added a 9-yard receiving touchdown, the first of his career. Pundits have questioned if the Texans have enough explosive playmakers, both in the receiving corps and on special teams. On Sunday, Martin showed flashes that he could become one of those guys.
4.) They CAN come back! Analysts have questioned if the Texans could win a shootout. For much of this year, the Texans have ridden superb balance on offense and strong defense to coast to businesslike wins. They haven't had the Eli Manning specials - that is, stealing a game in the final minutes when the other team knew they had to throw. Even with Jacksonville as the opponent, overcoming a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter is a massive achievement. There's a reason only one quarterback has EVER thrown for more yards than the 527 accumulated by Schaub on Sunday.
"I knew that if we ever got in a situation where we had to throw it 50-plus times, our quarterback is capable of doing it," said Kubiak. "We don't want to do it. It's not how we want to play, but we got caught in one of those games today. And obviously he took us down there and made some huge plays."
Better yet, the team as a whole maintained peak effort and poise throughout. When Schaub underthrew Johnson in overtime and was intercepted, Jacksonville corner Derek Cox had open field ahead and seemed highly likely to return it into field goal range. Instead, Owen Daniels scrambled into position and tackled Cox at the Houston 47, keeping the Jaguars out of range by 10 yards or so. The defense held, and the rest is history.
"We never gave up," said Daniels. "We stayed optimistic. Great teams find different ways to win no matter the situation or circumstance."
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The verdict: The Texans won a week ago in a defensive battle. They beat Jacksonville on Sunday in a shootout. That versatility counts for something. Schaub has long maintained that the brilliance of the Texans is that they can win in many different ways. Never has that been more apparent. On the other side, it's hard to completely sour on a top-five-ranked defense based on a few wild plays in one game.
The minor concerns center on coaching and the kicking game. Can Kubiak adjust his strategy and take a more aggressive approach, when necessary? And will Shayne Graham hit pressure-packed kicks of more than 40 yards?
We may not have to wait long to find out. The Lions (4-6) have the league's No. 2-ranked offense, and desperately need a win at home on Thanksgiving. Three weeks from today, the Texans take on Brady and the Patriots (7-3) on Monday Night Football. Both games are likely to be close, and high scores wouldn't surprise. If the Texans make the necessary adjustments, experiences like Sunday could be very beneficial.
"This is stuff that we can build on as we get into the stretch run here into December," said Schaub. "Something we can look back on as we move through this because there are going to be games like that. It's not always going to be a two- or three-score lead in the fourth quarter where you're trying to run the clock out. There is going to be close ballgames where you have to go make plays, and guys did that."


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June 15, 2013
For the first time in 30 seasons, a Big Ten program was taking the field in the College World Series. Capturing the attention of the college baseball universe, the upstart Indiana Hoosiers crashed a tournament of bluebloods. Joining Indiana's first round opponent, Louisville, filling out the tournament bracket were LSU, Mississippi State, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Oregon State and UCLA. Reaching its first College World Series after knocking off perennial power Florida State, while the front of the Indiana's gray uniforms read in crimson script HOOSIERS, Cinderella was also a fitting moniker.
It wasn't just that the boys from Bloomington weren't supposed to be there, what business did the Big Ten have being in Omaha? This was a year before the conference moved its postseason tournament to TD Ameritrade Park, where Omaha was synonymous for the tournament at the end of June, not the one at the end of May. And unfortunately the place that too often felt it was on Pulto, not in Nebraska.
Before Indiana hosted and won Bloomington Regional and commenced the program's storybook postseason, a Big Ten program last hosted a regional in 2008, with the Ann Arbor Regional. And that, too, was five years after the last out of NCAA Tournament contest came on a conference field, when Ohio State hosted the 2003 Columbus Super Regional. And while Indiana wasn't that far removed from NCAA play, the Hoosiers won the 2009 Big Ten Tournament to join Minnesota and Ohio State in regional action, the Big Ten only produced four total NCAA teams between 2010-2012. Before the Power 5 label was in the conscience of sports fans, the Big Ten was a distant cousin of its to-be autonomous conference brethren.
Indiana knocked off Louisville, 2-0, before falling to Mississippi State 5-4 and Oregon State, 1-0, to bow out of the tournament. Kyle Schwarber would go on to be a household name and help the Chicago Cubs win a historic World Series in 2016. Sam Travis would be a second-round pick in 2014, and eventually be joined by teammate Aaron Slegers, the 2013 Big Ten Pitcher of the Year, in the big leagues. With the success of individuals going forward and the team's tight contests with the best of the best, Indiana removed all doubt and proved it belong there. But there was one question that would go unanswered as Indiana bowed out and the clock struck midnight: What would happen to Cinderella?
Realizing a the possibility of a new reality for Big Ten programs, was Indiana's run just a great story where generational talents spearheaded a once-a-generation feat? Was this truly the dawn of a new day in Big Ten baseball? Would the glass slipper return and another long-shot from the Midwest return? Or would it be left behind for another 30 years?
June 15, 2019
Six years to the day of Indiana's victory over Louisville, the Big Ten claimed another two-run victory of an Omaha staple. After cutting the Big Ten's College World Series drought by 80% over its last period of absence, Michigan knocked off Texas Tech, a team appearing in its fourth College World Series in six years, 5-3. The outfit of Wolverines that have led the program to the College World Series for the first time since 1984 are similar to those Hoosiers in many ways.
Where Indiana had a potent 1-2 punch that served as the catalyst to the team's success, Schwarber and Travis, Michigan has a pair of top two round picks of their own, with Tommy Henry and Karl Kauffmann leading a rotation that can go toe-to-toe with any in the country. Michigan's run saw them advance through a regional with a household name, Oregon State, just like Indiana turned away a Bloomington Regional field that saw Florida in it. And where IU went on the road and knocked off heavy favorite Florida State in super regional play to reach the pinnacle, Michigan grabbed two games against the tournament's top overall seed, UCLA. In fact, in addition to knocking off #1 UCLA, one wouldn't be wrong to say Michigan was more of an underdog to reach Omaha than Indiana.
An underdog they may be, but here's where Michigan and the state of the Big Ten diverges from 2013: this isn't a Cinderella story. The Wolverines aren't coming from a home that's looked down on and an outcast.
In the five previous years before the Big Ten's last College World Series appearance, there was just the one, 2008 Ann Arbor, NCAA Regional on a conference campus. What's happened in the five years before Erik Bakich, the NCBWA National Coach of the Year, has guided Michigan to college baseball's final destination? Indiana hosted the 2014 Bloomington Regional as number fourth national seed. Illinois hosted the 2015 Champion Regional and Super Regional as the tournament's sixth overall seed. Minnesota hosted and won the 2018 Minneapolis Regional. Only once, in 2014, did the Big Ten fail to produce three Regional teams, while twice placing five teams in the NCAA Tournament, 2015 and 2017.
And now, in 2019, the Big Ten is another five-bid conference, matching the number of teams placed in a regional by the Big XII and Pac 12. With Michigan knocking off Texas Tech, they stepped into the same batter's boxes and on the same pitching mound as a team from a conference the Big Ten is now a peer of. Over the last five NCAA Tournaments, the Big Ten has produced 22 regional-bound clubs, just one off 23 the Big XII and Pac 12 have produced.
Michigan's second round contest is against the same team Indiana knocked off to turn the college baseball world upside down, Florida State. A win for the Wolverines would do the same, and put Michigan in the driver's seat of their bracket, within them three victories from claiming the program's first national title since 1962 and the Big Ten's first since Ohio State won it all in 1966. As one of the last four teams in the NCAA Tournament, a Michigan victory certainly would elicit more stories of the little team that could, of the mighty underdog and perhaps a few mentions of Cinderella story in a story here or there.
If that is the case, the glass slipper is indeed placed upon the Wolverines, it's time for them to destroy it once and for all. Michigan has proved the conference is now in the same neighborhood as the home of those blueblood elites, ending the season in the place where the preseason favorite should. Regardless of whether Michigan wins it all or finishes with the same 1-2 showing as Indiana, the ending of this story doesn't change. There's no concern of what happens when the clock strikes midnight, the Big Ten has proven it is and will be back.


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Christian Pyagbara targets NPFL title with Akwa United
Christian Pyagbara has expressed his desire to win the Nigeria Professional Football League title with Akwa United.
The striker's solitary effort saw the Promise Keepers defeat Kano Pillars at the Sani Abacha Stadium - their first home defeat this season in front of their fans.
After grabbing the Uyo based outfit's winner in Kano, the Nigeria international attributed Abdul Maikaba's coaching tactics for his side's 1-0 victory against the former Nigerian champions.
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"It is my job and much like a normal thing for me," Pyagbara told Goal.
"I'm happy helping my team beat Kano Pillars and we played well to deserve it. Scoring goals is my job and it is exciting always getting on the score sheet and ensuring my team wins.
"We worked towards the victory and fought together as a team and our coach's instructions helped us greatly in the game.
"We usually train around 4pm but because of the match he insisted we train about 1pm to acclimatize with the Kano weather which really helped us.
"My ambition with Akwa is to win the title this season. I'm working hard as a player to be on top of my game and as a team - we are doing our best to challenge for the top places.
"Coach Abdul Maikaba is doing a great job at Akwa United. At the beginning of the season, we struggled a bit with new players but now we are getting to understand ourselves.
"We are confident that our best will come out in the second round of the season. We will just hope to maintain our form and improve with every game."


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McKinstry: 2014 gubernatorial run by Rob Astorino is unlikely
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's name is among those being tossed around for a potential gubernatorial run in 2014 but don't expect to see his name on the top of any GOP ticket.
He's not looking to relocate to the executive mansion in Albany. Not next year, anyway, since the governor is even considered by many Republicans to be unbeatable.
The first term Republican is among several candidates floated by state GOP Chairman Ed Cox as a possible challenger to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, also of Westchester, whose once colossal poll numbers are coming back down from those highs.
Other names mentioned in published reports and by Republican insiders include Harry Wilson, a hedge fund manager from Scarsdale who ran an impressive race in 2010 against Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and county executives Marc Malinaro of Dutchess and Greg Edwards of Chautauqua in western, N.Y.
The name dropping comes as Cuomo is expected to begin a victory tour after passing a third consecutive on-time budget.
State Republicans clearly like Astorino's credentials. He hasn't raised county taxes, has negotiated concessions like health care contributions for some union workers, and has shrunk the size of government. He's also a prolific fundraiser, but still may be no match for Cuomo's ability to raise cash.
In February Cox mentioned Astorino as a potential contender, just as he did during the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. in August. Actually the whispers started soon after Astorino won the county executive seat in 2009.
But before the GOP elevates Astorino to front-runner status, he's got to win his own re-election bid for county executive in November. Despite his popularity and likeability, it's no slam dunk. Astorino is a Republican in a Democratic county with a roughly 2-to-1 registration advantage. And candidates are lining up to run against him: three Democrats and a tea partier are gunning for him.
Even if he wins, don't count on Astorino to run for governor in 2014.
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Apple on Wednesday reported a profit of $1.21 billion for its fiscal second quarter ending March 28, 2009, buoyed by strong iPod and iPhone sales. Mac sales were down three percent for the quarter compared to last year, but sales of the iPod and iPhone were up for the same period.
"We are extremely pleased to report the best non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings in our history," Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO said during the conference call announcing the results.
Apple's $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share, was posted on revenue of $8.16 billion, the best non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings in Apple's history, according to Oppenheimer. This quarter's revenue and profit was higher than the $7.51 billion revenue and $1.05 billion profit posted during the same quarter last year.
Apple beat the prediction of Wall Street analysts who pegged the earnings per share to be $1.09.
The company sold 2,216,000 Macs in the quarter, down three percent from the year-ago quarter. Laptop sales claimed 63 percent of total Mac sales, with 1,398,000 units. Desktop Macs accounted for the remaining 818,000 units. Oppenheimer said that Apple believes strong sales of iWork '09 and iLife '09 had a lot do with drawing people to the Mac, and COO Tim Cook described the Mac product pipeline as "fantasic."
Analysts weren't concerned about the drop in Mac sales, at all. "For the most part that's roughly flat, which is not a huge surprise," Michael Gartenberg, vice president of Strategy and Analysis at Interpret, told Macworld. "It's indicative of the fact that consumers aren't spending as much as they did in past, but they are being careful about where they spend."
In this poor economic climate, being careful about spending means that consumers are looking for quality products, not cheap products. This plays into Apple's long time message of making quality computers.
When asked about Apple's plans for releasing a netbook, Cook said, "If we find a way that we can deliver an innovative product that really makes a contribution, then we will do that—we have some interesting ideas in this space." Cook said that netbooks currently have cramped keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, and very small screens, "not something that we would put the Mac brand on, quite frankly." He added that people who want a small computer that does browsing and e-mail might want to buy an iPod touch or an iPhone.
NPD analyst Ross Rubin doesn't disagree with Cook, but says "the drop [in Mac sales] is in part attributable to the unit volumes we've seen in the PC netbook segment." Rubin does say the iPod "touch can do some of the things that vendors have set the netbook to do, but it;s not a good comparison."
iPod sales of 11,013,000 were up three percent over the same quarter last year. Apple said its U.S. market share for digital music players is more than 70 percent, based on data from market-reseach firm NPD. The iPod also continues to gain share year-over-year in worldwide markets, with healthy unit sales growth in the U.K., France, Germany, Japan, Australia, and China.
iPhone sales were 3,793,000, up 123 percent over the same quarter last year, and Apple has sold more than 21 million total iPhones. Apple is now selling the iPhone in 81 countries. Cook said that Apple views AT&T as very good partner, and as the best wireless provider in U.S. "We're very happy with the relationship and do not have a plan to change it," Cook said. When asked about getting the iPhone into China, Cook said that Apple would like to start selling there within the next year and are working on doing so.
Apple also said that the iTunes Store had good quarter, helped but changes including DRM-free music. The App Store now offers more than 35,000 applications, compared to 15,000 available three months ago—and Apple said it was "within hours" of reaching the one billion app download mark.
Apple said that international sales accounted for 46 percent of the quarter's revenue.
Apple retail stores had $1.47 billion in revenue, compared to $1.45 billion in the year-ago quarter. Stores sold 438,000 Macs, about half of them to users who are new to the Mac platform. Apple only opened one new store in the quarter, bringing the total to 252 stores. Retail customers increased from 33.7 million in the year-ago quarter to 39 million, an increase of 15 percent. Apple remains on track to open about 25 stores in the 2009 fiscal year, half of which outside the U.S
Oppenheimer said the company's financials are "very robust, with almost $29 billion in cash and marketable securities on our balance sheet." For the third quarter, Apple expects revenue of $7.7 billion to $7.9 billion with earnings per share at $.95 to $1.00.
"These kind of numbers in this economic climate are staggering," said Gartenberg. "They even took Wall Street by surprise."
Apple stock closed down $.25 or 0.21 percent at $121.51. In after hours trading the stock is up $2.83 or 2.33 percent at $124.34.
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Joan reviewed the records for the previous two nights and found that Louise and Delia had indeed done well. The night floor supervisor had written a glowing report about Louise pointing out the underage drinker. That, along with her good suck ratings and the ratings she got from floor supervisors, along with the work she had done with Delia, convinced Joan to bump her.
Joan went to Mr. Johnson's office and knocked. When he called for her to enter, she went in and showed him the summary of Louise's records and the report from the night before. She said, "I recommend that she be given asset status. I might put her on fast track to green-collar. She'll be a sucking green-collar, but she would be more useful as a green collar."
"I agree. Get the paperwork in order and I'll sign it and send it to the slaver for processing. Do you think Delia will be able to step up and take on some responsibilities?"
"Yes, probably some minor ones, but I think she should remain white-collar even if she does leading. If she's going to be gone at the end of the summer, I don't know how much we should put into training her."
"That's a good point. I'll talk with her father. In the meantime, find something for her to do. On another note, I see that you plan on opening the punishment service?"
"We might as well just get started. I'll tell Laura to be ready at 5PM. The private room is ready. The stage has the equipment we need for whippings. I have a sign to post at the bar entrance that announces the services available. I think we'll just do that in the bar until we have some experience, before we advertise it."
"Sound thinking. My lawyer says we are within the law doing it. I just want to make sure that we can do it competently, and a low-volume trial should work."
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The Blue Light Star attunement was everything I had thought and hoped it would be. The attunement, which came through during the meditation, was strong and clear. The divine beings who surrounded me during the attunement were gentle, kind, loving and powerful. I felt honored to see so many masters around me glowing in gold and white light — it felt both very expansive and safe.
When I felt the attunement energies I realized the strength and power I was being gifted with and now feel permanently connected to Ashtar. I cannot wait to use this new energy in my healing work. Thank you, Petra, your work is going to make a real difference in my spiritual life.


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Tabbouleh is traditionally made of bulgur, tomatoes, cucumbers, finely chopped parsley, mint, onion and garlic, and seasoned with olive oil, lemon juice and salt. So, I supposed it'd be more accurate to call this a Tabbouleh-inspired salad...only 50% of the usual ingredients remain. But this was a refreshing, delicious side dish for us that incorporated my beloved ruby red, stalks.
1/2 C chopped leeks
1/2 C cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered
1/2 C chopped cucumbers
1/2 C chopped raw rhubarb
2 C red quinoa (feel free to use whatever leftover grains you have)
2 T fresh oregano leaves
2 T fresh parsley, roughly chopped
1 T fresh mint, roughly chopped
1/4 C olive oil
freshly squeezed lemon juice
freshly ground sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
Place all of ingredients in a bowl. Toss to coat. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Serve chilled. I served mine in a radicchio leaf with some more fresh oregano for garnish. What a delicious dish! Thanks, Farmersgirl Kitchen, for the inspiration.