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Sad news for baseball fans.
Over the last 15 seasons, Mariano Rivera has been the most consistently dominant pitching force in baseball.
Eventually, that run had to end, but after a brilliant 17-plus seasons with the New York Yankees, the best closer in the game deserved to go out on his own terms. Instead, the final image of Rivera on the field could be the 42-year-old veteran writhing in pain on the warning track before Thursday's game in Kansas City.
No, it wasn't supposed to end like this, but if there's one constant in this changing world, it's that all good things must come to an end. But seeing a unanimous first ballot Hall of Fame career abruptly end like this still hurts.
I must confess that I haven't watched very much baseball this season. Work commitments and other interests have turned me into a fair weather lifelong Yankee fan. I did catch the 9th inning of a game last week that Mariano saved. At the time, I wondered how many more chances I'd have to see number 42 close a game. At age 42, I knew there would not be many. I never imagined those few moments of a game last week would be my last chance.
I have a good friend Rick from Central Pennsylvania who like me is a huge Yankee fan. We usually go to a Yankees-Orioles game or two each year at Camden Yards. We've seen Mariano record a number of saves for us over the years. Rick's job takes him all over the world, but somehow he'd never been to Yankee Stadium heading into its last season before the team moved into what Wright Thompson of ESPN calls "The House Next to the House that Ruth Built." But then, I've been to hundreds of Yankee games, but had never heard Mariano's Enter Sandman theme played live at the Stadium.
I finally got a chance to reciprocate my friend Rick's generosity over the years by snagging tickets for us to see the Yankees host the Seattle Mariners during the last season in the old Yankee Stadium. It was a chilly Bronx night with intermittent drizzles, awful baseball weather. Not enough rain to postpone or even delay the game, but miserable enough for two middle-aged guys not used to shivering for three and a half hours, while washing down cold $8 hot dogs with flat watered-down $10 domestic beers.
Chen Ming Wang started the game that night and pitched very well. Remember him? Wang had an unhittable 94 MPH sinking fastball before injuries cut short a promising career. That's baseball. Injuries are part of the game, and pitchers especially break down as often as Kentucky thoroughbreds. The ones who stay healthy eventually lose their velocity, their control or their command of one of their repertoire of pitches.
Mariano was the exception to the rule in every sense. For eighteen seasons, he was without question the best closer in baseball. He didn't have a repertoire of different pitches to fool batters. No, he had one pitch, a cut fastball that broke sharply in on left handed batters, broke countless bats, nicked the outside corner on right handed batters. Every batter knew exactly what Mariano was going to throw. He didn't try to fool them, he didn't have to.
A few years ago, when his velocity dropped from the mid-90s to the low 90s, it was suggested that he add an offspeed pitch to his repertoire. Mariano said he might add a changeup eventually, but not yet. "Because," he said, "I don't need to."
Back to our game. The Yankees led by three runs heading into the bottom of the eighth. Rick and I were excited waiting for that Metallica track to announce Mariano's entrance. However, the Yanks got an extra insurance run in the bottom of the 8th. Normally we would cheer each run, but this time we diehard Yankee fans were deflated because it was no longer a save situation, and we figured we'd missed our chance to see Mariano's entrance.
Now Rick and I are the type of fans who'll stay to the bitter end of late weeknight games when our team is trailing by several runs and we have to get up early for work the next day. Our loyalty (or is it insanity?) has been repaid with a few dramatic late-inning heroic comebacks over the years. This time, between the rotten weather, our disappointment over missing Mariano's entrance, and realization that we faced a long three hour drive back home after a subway ride back to Manhattan, this time we opted to leave one inning early.
We were outside the Stadium heading for the No. 4 subway when the 9th inning began. We knew the exact moment the 9th inning started because the opening notes of Enter Sandman rang loud and clear. Unbelievably, Girardi was bringing Mariano into a non-save situation on a chilly night in May. I shook my head both at the manager's decision and the fact that we'd exited the park at the perfectly wrong moment: right before Mariano's dramatic entrance.
But at least we got to hear it. From the elevated subway platform, we could see a sliver of the playing field grass and the small pitch count scoreboard in the right field upper deck. The scoreboard showed there were 2 outs and 2 strikes. Moments later, we heard the roar of the crowd and the golden voice of another legend began to sing:
Start spreading the news,
I'm leaving today.
I want to be a part of it,
New York, New York.
These vagabond shoes
Are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it,
New York, New York.
I want to wake up
In the city that doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap
The-e-e-e-se little town blues
Are melting away
I'm gonna make a brand new start of it
In old New York
If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere!
It's up to you
New York, New York!
I just hope we get another chance to see Mariano play. Next time, if there is a next time, I won't leave early even if it starts to snow or we're losing by 10 runs. I wouldn't miss another chance to see this for the world.


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Here's a question that may have already been answered: what is the name of the song that a lot of arenas play after the home team scores a goal. It sounds a little electronica-ish, certainly not metal or even rock (I think). I've heard it played at Mellon and some of the Canadian arenas. I can't even give you lyrics -- there might not be any.
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Thanks I always wondered what the name of the song was, Itunes made a sale today. You should be on commission.
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Wabash Hosts Illinois College in 1st Roundby Jim Amidon • November 13, 2011 Share:
The Wabash College football team will play host to Illinois College in the first round of the NCAA Division III Football Championship on Saturday, November 19 at 12:00 p.m. The Little Giants finished the regular season 10-0 after Saturday's 45-7 win at DePauw. The Blue Boys received an at-large bid with a 9-1 record and riding a six-game winning streak.
See the entire Division IIII Playoff bracket here.
Saturday's playoff match-up will be just the fifth time the two schools have played and the first time since 1950. Wabash won three of four games played in the series.
Illinois College ended its season on November 5 and finished second in the Midwest Conference. When the Blue Boys travel to Crawfordsville, one of the nation's top offenses will clash with Wabash's defense, which was dominant in 2011.
The Blue Boys' offense packs a punch — averaging over 40 points and almost 500 yards per game. Freshman quarterback Michael Bates (right) is a dual threat. The Auburn, Illinois product is a 62 percent passer who has thrown for over 2,900 yards and 28 touchdowns, and he's run for another 468 yards and four scores.
Eight players have caught 10 or more passes, but none are as dangerous as senior Brock Thompson (below left), whose 69 catches and 12 touchdowns lead the team. Juniors Colin Duling and Kevin Wallace have 40 and 34 catches, respectively, and have combined for another nine touchdowns.
Illinois College boasts two excellent running backs, including sophomore Cecil Brimmage, who rushed for 1,062 yards and 10 touchdowns this year and averaged 7.4 yards per carry.
The Blue Boys have scored more than 34 points in every game but one — a 55-14 loss to playoff-bound Monmouth College. The team has averaged more than 46 points in its last six wins.
Coach Garrett Campbell's team has given up a lot of points — 320 — but employs a ball-hawking defense and has won close games. The team opened the year with an overtime win at Millikin and sneaked away from Ripon with a one-point win.
Senior Eric Fisher has six interceptions to go with 70 tackles. Junior Dylan DeFauw has five, and the team has picked off 20 passes on the season. DeFauw's brother, Jake, is a 6-0, 210-pound senior linebacker who leads the team with 88 tackles.
Defensive lineman Stephan Odarczenko (6-4, 250) leads the team with 5.5 sacks. Sophomore linebacker Carter Cox has 75 stops on the year.
Wabash finished the regular season with a 45-7 win at DePauw in the 118th Monon Bell Classic. The Little Giants' defense forced five turnovers and scored three times in Wabash's third straight win in the historic rivalry.
Wabash is participating in the NCAA Football Championship for the seventh time. Illinois College qualified for the first time in school history.
Tickets for the game are $8 for adults and $4 for students, and will be sold at the gate, which will open at 10:30 a.m. Kickoff is at 12:00 p.m. Wabash students will have their tickets paid for by the Student Senate and will need to enter the main will-call gate off of Jennison Street to gain admittance to the stadium.
For those unable to attend the game in person, a live video stream will be provided free of charge by Wabash College. The game can be viewed at sports.wabash.edu/video/WabashTV. Joe Emmick, Steve Hoffman, and Mark Maxwell will serve as the announcers.


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The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is now requiring boaters to decontaminate their boats before leaving Lake Powell. The recent discovery of 14 adult mussels at the lake prompted the order, which was recently signed by DWR Director Greg Sheehan, according to a news release.
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Dalton said the order will remain in place for an indefinite period of time.
"The order will stay in place as long as there are mussels in Lake Powell," Dalton said.
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Quagga and zebra mussels move from water to water by attaching themselves to boats and other equipment that comes in contact with the water, Utah DWR officials said.
Dalton said cleaning, draining and drying the boat and any recreational equipment that comes in contact with the water is the key to eliminating the mussels.
"You can do this yourself and it won't cost you a thing," he said.
The Utah DWR outlined three steps to clean, drain and dry a boat:
• Remove all of the plants, mud or animals (attached mussels or fish) from the boat's exterior and interior by wiping the exterior and interior clean.
• Drain all the water from all places in the boat where it may have accumulated. This includes the ballast tanks, the bilge, live wells and the motor. Even coolers that contain water from the lake should be drained, officials said.
The first two steps should be done immediately after pulling the boat from the water and up the launch ramp.
"Doing these steps should become as routine as securing your boat to its trailer," Dalton said. "Make sure you do them every time."
• Dry the boat and all the equipment that got wet (water toys, anchor or tie ropes and the anchor chest) at home or where the equipment is stored. The Utah DWR recommends allowing 18 days for proper drying in the months of March, April and May; seven days in June, July and August; 18 days in September, October and November; and 30 days in the winter months of December, January and February.
Temperatures that drop below 32 degrees Fahrenheit for three straight days will also kill the mussels, Utah DWR officials said.
A video demonstrating proper boat decontamination techniques is available at the Utah DWR's YouTube site — www.youtube.com/UDWR. The video is titled "Stop the spread of invasive mussels from Sand Hollow — clean, drain and dry your boat."
"If you want to get your boat on the water before the drying times allow, you'll have to get it professionally decontaminated," Dalton said. "Decontamination equipment is available at most of Utah's popular boating waters,and the service is typically free."
A certified operator will wash the boat inside and out with scalding hot water and will also use the hot water to flush the boat's raw-water circulation systems. To locate a decontamination unit, call a regional DWR aquatic invasive species biologist. In southeastern Utah, contact biologist Mike Bolinski at 435-630-3132. Telephone numbers for Utah DWR biologists across the state are available on line at http://go.usa.gov/RfK.


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Goldman 'wheeze' was a requirement, Letter to the Editor, Financial Times by Lucas van Praag
Financial Times - 24 Apr 2009 - By Lucas van Praag
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Sir, William Cohan makes a number of points in his article "Clever wheezes will not mend the banks" (April 23), and one deserves to be addressed. He says there is "sleight of hand" involved in our decision to change our fiscal year-end from November to December. He goes on to say (quite logically) that our first- quarter numbers for the three months ended March 31 2009, did not include our "horrific December results" - into which, he says, we "threw everything but the kitchen sink".
What he ignores is that when we became a bank holding company, we were required to change our year-end to December. We would have preferred to leave it unchanged, but that wasn't an option. We formally announced the change on December 16 2008, and included information about a $850m write-down in December in our 10-K, which was published on January 27 2009.
Our first-quarter earnings release had a full page of information about December. Mr Cohan is a former investment banker and, one would have thought, has some facility with numbers. If he had cared to try to prove his point about throwing everything but the kitchen sink into December, he could have done this simple sum: divide our fourth-quarter numbers by three, and then compare the result with the information we provided for December. If he had felt even more adventurous, he could have applied a 48 per cent compensation to net revenue ratio and "normalised" December's Compensation and Benefits line - that would have given an even greater degree of comparability. Having done this, he would have seen that December's results were broadly in line with the very difficult fourth quarter, but showing signs of improvement.
The rules give firms like us the option of restating prior periods but, since we're not in a seasonal, predictable revenue business, we determined that restating earnings for last year would have been pretty meaningless. If we had, however, arguably the details for December would never have seen the light of day.
Mr Cohan's argument on this subject is a house of cards, but I note that he did manage to convince the Huffington Post of its merits.


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) � Dairy Queen now owns the world record for the largest fruit sculpture ever after hiring an artist to build a 10-foot-tall tree.
The restaurant chain sponsored the fruit sculpture in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, earlier this month as part of a promotional event for its Orange Julius smoothies.
Sculptor Shawn Feeney used 1,200 pieces of pineapples, oranges, strawberries, peaches and mangos to build the tree.
Guinness World Record officials were present to certify the record.
The Dairy Queen chain based in Minneapolis is part of Warren Buffett's Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate.


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Installing DotNetNuke Modules
DotNetNuke is a powerful content management system for developing custom websites and content whose functionality can be extended through the installation of modules.
Not all modules included with DotNetNuke install automatically during application install. To add a module to those available for installation, FTP its zip file to the Install\Module folder off the DotNetNuke root.
To Install a DotNetNuke Module
- Log in to DotNetNuke as super user.
- From the Host menu, click Module Definitions.
- Scroll to the bottom of the installed modules.
- If you are installing a new module, click Install New Module.
- Choose the location of the module zip file from your local directory structure.
- Click Install New Module.
- Select the modules you want to install.
- Click Install Selected Module.


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When 4 Billion Isn't Enough
I'm not sure if you have heard the news, the end of the internet is near. That is IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4). As a home owner should you be worried about that router and network adapter? Maybe. Let the upgrade to IPv6 begin!
The "end of the Internet"? Never! Reality is less extreme than that. IPv6 is the successor to IPv4—complicated sounding stuff that's actually very simple.
Like your physical home address, every personal computer is assigned an address. In the world of computers, this is called an IP address, designated under the IPv4 standard as four groups of numbers; such as 192.168.1.1.
Now, here is where the number 4-billion comes into the story. With IPv4, this results in approximately 4 billion different possible number combinations and believe it or not, we are running out of unique addresses for the world to use.
Four billion was a lot when the internet standard was introduced in the early 1980's. Now in 2011, with cell phones and other equipment getting addresses, we're running out of them fast.
To meet the demand, IPv6 was created... a new standard which will allow many, many more IP addresses.
Right now, word is there is no need to worry about buying new equipment. Most operating systems already have the IPv6 protocol so the transition should be seamless. And with your home router and network adapters, a software or firmware update should be all you need.
Check the support website of your hardware manufacturer for specific details.
Thanks to Geek Squad agent Ismael Matos for clearing some of the questions on IPv6.


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Litigation Release No. 19378 / September 15, 2005
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. RODNEY R. DRINEN, GERALD R. HOLMES, THOMAS P. McHUGH, NANCY M. McHUGH, PRESCOTT B. NASH, and CHRISTINA H. NASH, DEFENDANTS, Civil Action File No. 05-CV-8015 (S.D.N.Y.).
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the filing of an action against six individuals for engaging in illegal insider trading in the securities of CryoLife, Inc., a Georgia company that preserves and sells implantable human tissue. The Commission's complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges that in August 2002, four CryoLife employees and the spouses of two of them obtained material nonpublic information pertaining to a nationwide hold on tissue shipments that they used to obtain ill-gotten gains and to avoid losses in CryoLife securities.
The six defendants are:
Rodney R. Drinen of Phoenix, Arizona, was a CryoLife salesman in the Mountain Region prior to being promoted to regional manager in November 2002;
Gerald R. Holmes of Blue Springs, Missouri, is a CryoLife salesman in the Mountain Region;
Thomas P. McHugh of Hollis, New Hampshire, was a CryoLife salesman in the Northeast Region during the relevant period;
Nancy M. McHugh of Hollis, New Hampshire, is the wife of Thomas P. McHugh;
Prescott B. Nash of Englewood, Colorado, was a manager for CryoLife's Mountain Region until September 2002; and
Christina H. Nash of Englewood, Colorado, is the wife of Prescott B. Nash.
The Commission's complaint alleges that on August 13, 2002, after the stock market closed, the FDA issued a Recall Order ("Recall Order"), requiring, among other things, that CryoLife retain, recall and destroy the majority of its human tissue products. During the evening of August 13 and the morning of August 14, each of the defendants learned that there was a nationwide hold on tissue shipments by CryoLife. On the morning of August 14, trading resumed in CryoLife securities without the public dissemination of information about the Recall Order.
Each of the defendants, while in possession of nonpublic information, sold CryoLife stock during the morning of August 14 at prices ranging from $9.20 to $9.41. In addition, the McHughs also bought PUT options and sold CryoLife stock short. All of the trades at issue occurred before the news was widely disseminated by the wire services and prior to CryoLife issuing a press release.
Later that morning, after various news services learned of the Recall Order from the FDA and began to report that news, the trading volume of CryoLife stock dramatically increased and the stock price dropped 42% from $9.46 to $5.50 . Subsequently, the New York Stock Exchange halted trading in the stock and shortly thereafter CryoLife issued a press release disclosing the Recall Order. The next day, on August 15, trading in CryoLife stock resumed and traded actively before closing at $2.03 per share. Cumulatively, the defendants' losses avoided and ill-gotten gains totaled approximately $136,334.
In a separate action, the Commission filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against a former CryoLife sales person, James J. Farley and his wife, Shelley J. Farley, both of Medford, New Jersey, for engaging in similar illegal insider trading activity.
The Commission acknowledges the assistance of the New York Stock Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionĀ in this matter.


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Smart Goal Setting for 2010
This post proves that setting "SMART" goals is always timely. To ensure success and empower ourselves to achieve both our professional and personal goals, goals need to be specific, measureable, attainable, relevant, and fit within a defined time frame.
When It Comes to Brands and Content, Simplicity Matters
The practice of using simple language to engage and connect with a target audience has always been an important part of solid communications. However, this is often easier said than done – especially for PR professionals working in specialty fields where communicating complex information is the norm. Few people have little patience for jargon and pretentious language. And this is equally true for journalists and bloggers who are often working under tight deadlines. This post reflects on several questions savvy PR professionals must ask themselves before pitching "Aunt Edna" and "Uncle Walt."


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Holding down electricity prices would create 40,000 jobs in Ontario, Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak promised Monday morning.
Reevely: Hudak promises to get hydro under control
Holding down electricity prices would create 40,000 jobs in Ontario, Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak promised Monday morning.
Instead of wind and solar farms, Hudak said, a Tory-run Ontario would rely on the "workhorses of our system": hydro dams and gas and nuclear generating stations. The idea is to stabilize prices — not to lower them, despite the Tories' hot rhetoric, but to head off further increases after the doubling of the average price of electricity in Ontario in the last decade or so.
"We need to end these expensive subsidies for the wind and solar projects that are driving our rates higher and higher still," Hudak said.
The food-container manufacturer at whose Niagara plant he made the promise, Stanpac, has a factory in Texas, too. Electricity costs are 60 per cent cheaper there, its vice-president said in introducing Hudak. It's a more attractive place to expand than Ontario is. Hudak fretted about losing business and good jobs to the south.
Texas's electricity is cheaper. But its electricity system is not a textbook example of greatness.
Its structure is similar to Ontario's: it has local delivery companies that own the wires and are mostly monopolies, and they're distinct from the generating companies that make the electricity the wires carry.
Texas's generating companies are mostly private, which is unlike Ontario. The biggest of them, TXU Energy, with about 1.7 million customers, was taken over in a leveraged buyout in 2007. Loaded up with the billions of dollars in debt its new owners took on to acquire it, TXU's parent company killed plans to open eight coal-powered generating stations it had expected to construct (it still set out to build three).
Two weeks ago, TXU's parent filed for bankruptcy protection. Regulators have stepped in to promise Texans their light switches will still work.
It didn't help TXU to have its coal-based electricity undercut by natural-gas prices that have plunged thanks to fracking, which is huge in Texas. That's the underlying reason electricity is so cheap there: Texas sits on a vast reserve of shale gas and producers are shattering the ground to siphon it out.
It's a jurisdiction whose administration of electricity actually makes Ontario's look good.
The last time the Tories were in power, they broke up Ontario Hydro and devised a plan to pay off its monstrous debts, racked up by decades of keeping electricity artificially cheap. They replaced it with the current family of smaller companies, each with its own bureaucratic aristocracy.
The problems the Progressive Conservatives left for the Liberals, the Liberals have mostly solved. Remember summer brownout warnings? We haven't had one in nearly a decade. The Liberals have phased out coal power, a major achievement whose very invisibility is part of what makes it so impressive.
Having done that, the Liberals created new problems: the Green Energy Act, aimed at making Ontario a global powerhouse in windmill and solar-panel manufacturing, has not conspicuously done so. But it has driven up electricity prices and locked us into paying for power we don't need, while enraging rural Ontarians who don't like to see windmills off their back decks.
The royals, the people at the very top, aren't paid as well as they were under the Tories. But they do still run a system where loads of people make the annual $100,000-a-year list.
Even so, it's not quite the problem Hudak said it is on Monday.
"We need to pare down that massive hydro bureaucracy," Hudak said. "They have 11,000 people in the hydro bureaucracy making 100 grand a year. Can you believe that? Eleven thousand. Let's pare down that bureaucracy and pass the savings on to consumers."
That's only fair if your definition of a bureaucrat includes people who spend their work days in cherry-pickers and in the control rooms of nuclear power plants, who make up most of the entries on the $100,000 list. Perhaps they're overpaid, but we can't just pare them down as if they aren't needed.
The Liberals are fairly content with where things stand, promising only tinkering with the details of Ontarians' bills. The New Democrats promise an arbitrary $100 annual rebate and to take the HST off hydro bills, which means we'd pay less but would do nothing about the underlying pressures on prices.
That those pressures are difficult for a government to do anything about is the central problem. We underpaid for electricity for decades and the shock of more realistic prices hurts.
All the parties acknowledge this implicitly, since none of them promises to take electricity prices back to where they used to be. But wouldn't it be nice if one of them were willing to say it out loud?


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Carmon1274 wrote:Also if schools bribe players, or give them money.
It's not wrong for Professional teams to distribute heavy $$ to refs then right?
How you equate those two...I don't know, besides you being painfully stupid.
Players should be allowed to skip college and go straight to the NFL to make their money, if they can. If not, let college football be their grounds to develop. Forcing them to pay for free (essentially) and risk career ending injury is silly. Colleges should also not be able to sell ANYTHING that relates to the player, no jersey with numbers on them, no pictures, no nothing without the player getting a cut of some sort, period. A scholarship is nice and all, but how many of these kids don't even bother to get their degree? The reason being college football is a FORCED stopping point before jumping to the pros. Take away the "forced" and let college football rest on its own merits or pay the kids relative to the risk they take and the money they bring in. Eventually there's going to be a lawsuit on antitrust grounds that will eliminate the requirement of any time in college football/time after highschool requirement by the NFL. The NCAA should jump ahead of it or just wait to fall victim to it.


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One girl's twistedly fantastic interpretation of what the hell is really going on in those tribes.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Nina: G.I. Jane
Nina Acosta is a 51 year old retired LAPD Officer from Clovis, California and she scares me. Not only could she throw me over the roof of a car and read me my rights, but she was also the only woman among 19 men to compete for the S.W.A.T. team. Naturally, this is what I assume that experience was like:
Whatever you do, don't call her a "girl". She doesn't like that one bit. Not even a "Hey girl, what's up!" She'll cut your tits off. *shivers*
I'll tell you what, the ladies this time around are nothing to sneeze at and I'm totally digging it. The divisions will happen early and I'm thinking the bad ass babes will separate quickly from the meeker of the bunch and just pick, pick, pick the delicate girls off. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. The big question is: Will the BAB (Bad Ass Babes) stay a tribe of fearless goddesses howling at the moon or will they join forces with a few choice men only to castrate them later? I'm not sure, but I have no doubt it'll be a blast to watch.
Posted by Colette Lala at 9:23 AM
Labels: nina acosta, survivor 24, survivor one world
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- AnonymousFebruary 23, 2012 at 12:06 AM
She made millions suing LAPD. I have one question. If your life depended on it, would you want her on the SWAT team or a burly strong man. You choose. A policeman or a policewoman.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2012 at 8:51 PM
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By Molly Johnson, sports information student assistant
GREENWOOD, S.C. - The Georgia College women's volleyball squad (4-21, 1-14 PBC) fell at Lander University (17-8, 7-7 PBC) in three sets, 25-15, 25-17, and 25-15 Saturday afternoon.
Freshmen Rachel Reynolds (Marietta, Ga.), Blake Willoughby (Savannah, Ga.) and Caroline Long (Roswell, Ga) led the Bobcats with five kills each. The next closest was Micayla Patterson (Tyrone, Ga.) with four.
The Bobcats had two with double-digit digs. Caroline Ham (Marietta, Ga.) had the most with 18 and she was accompanied by Ella Anastasiades (Atlanta, Ga.) with 16. Setter Patterson recorded 20 assists.
"We are learning just how tough it is playing on the road," said head coach Gretchen Krumdieck of her young Bobcat squad, owning a 1-11 road mark. "The silver lining is that we get to finish up with four home matches."


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In a bid to plug in all the gaps in its product portfolio in the various small car segments , Tata has recently unveiled the pictures of its upcoming car 'Zica'. Codenamed as 'Kite' till now, the Zica will be slotted between the Nano and the Bolt.
The new car has absolutely fresh and new styling cues and the first look shows that designers at Tata have got the styling spot on. This car is the latest in the HorizonNext Campaign taken up by Tata and will be promoted by its brand ambassador Lionel Messi. The car will compete against other entry level B segment cars in India such as the Maruti WagonR, Maruti Celerio , Chevrolet Beat and the Hyundai i10.
The car is expected to offered with two engine options - the new 1.05 litre 3 cylinder diesel engine with optional AMT and peak power of 70 PS. The second engine will be the 1.2 Revotron petrol motor with peak power of 80 PS. The petrol engine is expected to come with manual transmission only.
In the front the car has the trademark Tata honeycomb grille and Tata has added projector headlamps and halogen lamps which is a cherry on the cake in this segment and adds to the overall look. The Zica also gets reverse parking sensors which is a segment first. A hitch in the design is that the car looks very very similar to the Grand i10 from the rear. But overall , the proportions are well balanced to give it a wholesome look.
From the few details reveled till now, we have gathered that Tata has put effort in making the interiors quite upmarket. So there will be two tone dashboard in grey and black and higher variants will get chrome and silver highlights. The steering wheel is the same as its elder siblings the Bolt and the Zest and there is a manual airconditioner. Entertainment and connectivity options include - double-din audio system with Bluetooth connectivity,the unit is expected to be a Harman one and boasts 4 speakers - another segment first!
It is expected that Tata will launch the car before the Auto Expo in January 2016. The car is expected to be launched with a starting price of Rs. 3.5 lacs.


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Friday, 4 April 2014
A-Z Challenge 2014: D is for Death Certificate
Later, more modern, death certificates provide the date of birth as well (although this needs to be taken with the proverbial pinch of salt, because the informant may have been too upset to remember properly). You may find a cause of death which may give you further clues (was it phthisis? was he a miner?). A date of
death may lead you to a Will, which in turn may lead you to other ancestors in the bequests. Or maybe an inquest, if the death was sudden or suspicious - and it may have been reported in the local newspaper. A place of death may lead you to a census where the deceased/their family were living, to a census, or to a parish with its registers.
So, although a death certificate may seem like just a record of the end of your ancestor's life, it can in fact be a starting point for a lot more research.
*rubs hands with glee at the prospect*
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The death certificate is perhaps more important than the birth certificate, as we found out when we had to tie up things after my Mom passed away! Nothing moves without it!ReplyDelete
Nice theme!
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Oh I have been trying to find out about my great grandfather who was reportedly murdered in 1916 in a small town. I wonder how to access this info online and will one day but yes death certificates give alot of great info and a good start to finding out more. I find your blog really interestingReplyDelete
Great information and a great theme! Will be back to catch up on more information about this topic. have a great weekend! :)ReplyDelete
Have found your blog through the A to Z challenge - really interesting. I've signed up as a follower as tracing my ancestors is something I would like to do so all knowledge and tips are useful. Cheers.ReplyDelete
An interesting point of view, as I have tended to disparage English death certificates, as unlike may other countries (including Scotland) they do not indicate the names of parents. I know this is dependent on the informant knowing the details, so unlikely if your ancestor died in poorhouse for instance. I have been unable to trace my Lancashire grandmother's birth certificate and don't know the name of her mother - and although I have her death certificate, it really only confirms the year of her birth. Very frustrating!ReplyDelete
Sounds frustrating indeed! Contact me separately at ros.haywood @ gmail.com with the details (like name, year, place etc), and I will see what I can do. You never know, a fresh pair of eyes might spot something.ReplyDelete
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September 14, 2011
Don Gagliardo & C.C. Burnikel
Theme: Wheel of Fortune — Theme answers end with an article plus a vowel, like the way a contestant on Wheel of Fortune would say, "I'd like to buy AN A," e.g.
Theme answers:
- 17A: *"The Music Man" number (GARY INDIANA).
- 21A: *Sweet stocking stuffer (CANDY CANE).
- 34A: *Lead singer in No Doubt's hit "Don't Speak" (GWEN STEFANI).
- 42A: *Instrument using rolls (PLAYER PIANO).
- 52A: *Seven-time Grammy-winning jazz singer (AL JARREAU).
- 62A: Words in a classic game show that can be followed by the ends of the answers to starred clues (I'D LIKE TO BUY).
- several prefix/suffix entries (-ISH, API-, PERI-);
- a Random Roman Numeral (DCC);
- an awkward plural (TEMPI);
- half of a Gabor sister (ZSA); and
- ISIAH Thomas.
I have now made a puzzle constructing rule for myself. If I ever find that a grid needs to contain both SOU and ÉCU, I will scrap it and start over. I don't even think having both of those words in the grid can be counter-balanced by a phenomenal theme (which, unfortunately, isn't even a consideration in this particular case).
If you all found anything redeeming in this puzzle, I'd love to hear about it in the comments. Telling me that HOBO is awesome doesn't count, though, because that's just obvious.
Crosswordese 101 Round-up:
- 20A: Early computer (ENIAC).
- 41A: Ernst contemporary (ARP).
- 65A: Geological time division (AEON).
- 24D: Vietnamese holiday marking the arrival of spring (TET).
- 26D: Ottoman big shots (AGHAS).
- 51D: Arctic diver (AUK).
- 55D: "The Time Machine" race (ELOI).
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Banksy vandal identified, Park City police say
Park City Police Department investigators have identified a man suspected of vandalizing two Banksy pieces along Main Street just before New Year's.
Rick Ryan, a police captain, early in the week declined to release the man's name. He said the suspect is from the Los Angeles area. The Police Department is preparing an affidavit that is needed to obtain an arrest warrant for the man. Ryan said the police hope the arrest warrant is issued by the end of the week.
The suspect is in police custody in California on a count similar to a criminal mischief charge under Utah law, Ryan said. Details about the criminal case against the man in California were not immediately available.
The Police Department will seek the man's extradition to face charges in Park City. Ryan said prosecutors are considering charging the man with two third-degree felonies stemming from the Park City cases. The level of the charges is based on the estimated value of the damage, which Ryan said is at least $5,000. A third-degree felony is punishable by up to five years in state prison and a $5,000 fine. A judge often orders restitution be paid as part of a sentence. The charges could be increased to second-degree felonies if the damage turns out to be a higher dollar figure than the estimate, Ryan said.
Ryan said the suspect was identified through "just good hard police work." He said a video posted to YouTube afterward provided critical evidence. The video showed the perpetrator attacking one of the Banksy pieces in Park City. The video, though, did not provide an image of the vandal's face. A written statement accompanying the video called the Banksy pieces "vandalism spray paint."
Ryan said investigators watched other videos posted to YouTube by the same person. In one of the videos, the police saw the suspect appearing to stage a one-man protest in California, he said. The video shows a police agency in California responding to the protest, Ryan said. The Park City police contacted the agency in California to learn the identity of the person in the video, according to Ryan. The police then obtained his driver license information, he said. The Police Department developed the suspect information in the middle of January.
Information about the person would be released if an arrest warrant is issued. Details about the Park City cases would be outlined if prosecutors file formal charging documents. A charging document typically includes facts about a criminal incident as well as the police investigation that led to the charge.
The damage to the two Banksy pieces occurred nearly four years after the famous graffiti artist was in Park City for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. A documentary about Banksy screened at the festival that year.
The vandal smashed through the glass covering a Banksy image of an angel on a garage outside the Cunningham Building and spray-painted the piece. The person attempted to smash the glass protecting an image of a videographer focused on a flower on the Java Cow building but was unable to break the glass. The glass was badly damaged, though. The Cunningham Building owner hired a painting conservator in an attempt to remove the vandal's graffiti from the angel piece on the garage.
The Banksy pieces, particularly the Java Cow image, have become attractions along Main Street. People are often seen admiring the pieces and having their pictures taken with them. They have been a target of vandalism before, but the damage just before New Year's was especially severe. The Cunningham Building owner and the owner of Java Cow each paid to put their Banksy pieces under protective glass in an effort to preserve the artworks.
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In the third part of our Malaysia-expedition, we visited the Mount Kinabalu National Park in Sabah. The Mt. Kinabalu is situated in the northeastern corner of Borneo and with a height of more than 4100 metres it is the highest mountain in Southeast Asia.
The Park Headquarters are at an altitude of 1500 m and represent the entrance to a remarkably rich mountainous rain-forest, which exhibits a very high diversity of different animal and plant species, e.g. the rare Rafflesia, the world´s largest flower, or the well known pitcher-plants (Nepenthes spp.).
Within the Park there are numerous, well-marked tracks, e.g. the Silau-Silau trail which proved to be the most prolific for searching phasmids at night, due to the dense and rich vegetation which fences the trail in most parts. Along Silau-Silau trail we found Asceles margaritatus Redtenbacher, 1908, Dinophasma kinabaluensis Bragg, 2001, Lonchodes harmani Bragg & Chan 1993, Hermagoras haematomus (Westwood, 1859), Acacus sarawacus (Westwood, 1859), Phenacephorus cornucervi Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1907, Phenacephorus spinulosus (Hausleithner, 1991), Prosentoria longelaminata (Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1907), Haaniella scabra (Redt. 1906), Dares verrucosus (Redt. 1906), Phobaeticus redtenbacheri (Dohrn, 1910), Carausius sanguineoligatus (Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1907) as well as several unidentified species of Asceles, Necroscia and Nescicroa. One evenening we were very happy to find an adult male of Phyllium siccifolium (Linnaeus, 1758) which was attracted by the light in front of our lodge.
Poring Hot Springs:
On two evenings we visited the Poring Hot Springs which are also part of the Mount Kinabalu National Park but are positioned at a much lower lever, approximately 480 metres. In this very damp and tropical biotope, we found many adults of Aretaon (Aretaon) asperrimus (Redtenbacher, 1906) and Haaniella echinata (Redtenbacher, 1906) as well as Diardia relicta Redtenbacher, 1908, Calvisia medora (Westwood, 1859) and a male of a very colourful, so far unidentified species of Necroscia.
A strong lamp, which lighted up the white wall of a generators hut close to the Parks entrance attracted uncountable numbers of all kinds of insects. After some inspection we found numerous beautiful Orthoptera, amongst them a beautiful green female of a large praying-mantid (Mantodea), as well as a few specimens of the "Three-Horn-Beetle" Chalcosoma moellenkampi Kolbe, 1900 which is endemic to Borneo and different species of Trichogomphus (Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae).


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Clarkson University's Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering has launched its New Horizons in Engineering Distinguished Lectureship Series, dedicated to improving the understanding of important issues facing engineering and society in the 21st century.
Eminent world-renowned engineers, members of national academies, Clarkson alumni, and other leaders in their fields will present the latest advances on the frontier of engineering to students, faculty and the North Country community.
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Distinguished Research Professor of Engineering Liya L. Regel created New Horizons in Engineering (NHE) with a generous personal gift.
"Our School of Engineering has an impressive history and outstanding talented faculty, students and alumni," said Regel. "For the last decade, we've had immense and impressive changes in campus life, bringing an increased visibility of Clarkson, not only around the North Country but also abroad. We must all feel lucky to be part of it."
"We are grateful to Professor Regel for her generosity and for her insight in establishing this important series," said Clarkson President Tony Collins. "These eminent speakers will enable us to improve our vision of the future of the engineering enterprise, its challenges and its potential."
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The Colt 45 ice cream was a smash hit- more than the carbonated beverage you might expect straight from the can, the tasty treat was was more like a delicious chocolate gelato with subtle hints of malt. (That's my best "foodie" review of it, anyway.) I didn't personally partake, but a few Colt 45 ice cream beer floats were rumored to be…"floating" around.
Our t-shirts, with featured artist Colin Strandberg's winning design, "sold" like hotcakes. (And by sold, I mean given rampantly given away.) Charlyne Yi's humorous & raw lo-fi performance called to mind the anti-folk avante-garde musical stylings of the Moldy Peaches and packed the house. Colt 45 was imbibed by all (with specially-made brown paper back beer cozies). Good times abounded. Check out some snaps after the jump, and view the full set on our Flickr!
Thank you to everyone who came out, the artists Colt 45 and Synchronicity Gallery for making this event a huge success!


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WESTFIELD, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's outdoor track and field teams performed well at the Little East Conference/New England Alliance Championships at the newly-named Jerry Gravel Track Saturday.
The UMass Dartmouth men were third in the six-team LEC with 63 points, and fifth in the 12-team Alliance with 74. Southern Maine finished first in both the LEC and Alliance competition. The women were fourth in the LEC with 64 points and eighth in the Alliance with 50 points. Southern Maine won the LEC title, and host Westfield State finished first in the Alliance competition.
The Corsairs had five conference champions, and four Alliance champs. Graduate student Eric Holmes (Abington, MA/Abington HS) was the 3000 meter steeplechase champion for the third time in his career, winning in 9:38.80. Sophomore Kevin Markie (North Attleboro, MA/North Attleboro HS/Nichols) won both championships in the triple jump with his leap of 44 feet, 3 ½ inches, the fifth best in school history, while freshman Gerald Arneaud (Dorchester, MA/Newton North HS) won at 400 meters in 50-.02 seconds, the third best mark at UMD. Sophomore Jermai Harrison (Brockton, MA/Brockton HS) won both titles in the shot put with a toss of 39-1, while sophomore Linee Mello-Frost (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) won the LEC title and was second in the Alliance in the 100 meter hurdles in 15.91 seconds, placing her fourth on the all-time school list.
In the men's meet, freshman Robert Yarbrough (Fall River, MA/Durfee HS) was sixth in the Alliance and second in the LEC in the hammer throw at 138-2, a personal best and the 10th best mark at UMass Dartmouth. He was also 6th and second in the shot put at 44-11 1//2. Sophomore Eric Nygaard (Medway, MA/Medway HS) was 5th in both competitions at 1500 meters in 4:07.42, freshman Tom Barry (Wilmington, MA/Wilmington HS) eighth and second in the javelin at 163-2, the best mark at UMD, senior Jimmy Knuuttila (Lunenburg, MA/Lunenburg HS) was sixth and third in the 400 meter hurdles in a personal best 58.05 seconds, sophomore Nick Deininger (North Attleboro, MA/North Attleboro HS) sixth and fourth in the 100 hurdles in 16.54 seconds, freshman Hymlaire Lamisere (Newton, MA/Newton North HS) eighth and fourth at 100 meters in 11.45 seconds, the 4 x 100 meter relay team of junior Corey Sleep (Fall River, MA/ Durfee HS), Knuuttila, Markie and Lamisere fourth and second in 44.12 seconds, and the 4 x 400 meter relay team of Knuuttila, Nygaard, senior Tyler Buck (Valley Center, CA/Valley Center HS) and Arneaud third and second in 3:26.44
On the women's side, freshman Brittany Cole (Dartmouth, MA/Dartmouth HS) was fourth and third in the shot put at 35-3 ¼, freshman Stacey Dybel (Littleton, MA/Notre Dame HS) was fourth and second in the 3000 meter steeplechase in 13:04.03, the third best time at UMass Dartmouth, Courtney Chester was sixth and fourth in the 5000 at 20:41.24, freshman Patience Noah (Framingham, MA/Keefe Tech) was seventh and fourth in the javelin at 33-10 ¼, freshman Emily Migre (Whitman, MA/Whitman-Hanson HS) was eighth and fourth in the javelin at 111 feet, 10 inches, junior Jess Carpenter (Rutland, MA/Wachusett Regional HS) was eighth and seventh at 800 meters in 2:29.84, the 4 x 100 meter relay team of Mello-Frost, freshman Kristina Lundquist (Yarmouthport, MA/ Dennis-Yarmouth HS), freshman Sandy Fitzsimmons (West Yarmouth, MA/Dennis-Yarmouth HS) and sophomore Briley Morrill (Whitman, MA/Whitman-Hanson Regional HS) was fifth and third in 52.67 seconds, while the 4 x 400 meter relay team of Migre, freshman Megan Oliveira (Somerset, MA/Somerset HS), freshman Meaghan Bohigian (Barre, MA/Quabbin Regional HS) and Carpenter was sixth and fourth in 4:29.31.
"We had a pretty good day," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "We're taking steps forward, considering that we don't have people in all of the events right now. It's a credit to our people to have the improvement that they've shown this year. They stepped up in some events that they don't normally compete in to fill in where we needed them."
The Corsairs will return to action at the New England Division III Championships at Springfield next weekend.


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(Reuters) - An experiment changing how U.S. cancer doctors are compensated cut healthcare costs by a third, with no discernible decline in patient health, according to a three-year study by insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc and five medical oncology groups.
Cancer treatment is one of the most expensive and fastest growing categories of care in the United States. Oncologists and insurers have been devising new incentives for doctors to improve patient care while lowering costs.
In the latest experiment, UnitedHealth, the largest U.S. health insurer, gave participating doctors an upfront payment to cover a patient's full course of treatment, rather than reimburse them for each individual medical service such as chemotherapy. Findings from the study, which ran from 2009 to 2012, were published online on Tuesday in the Journal of Oncology Practice.
At the five oncology groups in the study, medical costs for 810 patients with lung, breast and colon cancer were $65 million, versus $98 million for similar patients whose doctors received standard payments. That represented a decline of three times what the study had targeted.
"All the physician's work of caring for a patient in the hospital was also bundled into the 'episode of care' fee. When you bundle something, you tend to get less of it," said Dr. Bruce Gould, medical director of the Northwest Georgia Oncology Centers in Marietta, Georgia and a study author.
In standard practice, medical groups are paid on a fee-for-service basis for doctor visits, hospital stays, and imaging. They also receive reimbursement for the cost of chemotherapy drugs, plus a percentage of that cost.
In the UnitedHealth study, doctors instead received an upfront payment per case, and no extra payments based on chemotherapy use. A fee-for-service payment to doctors associated with hospital stays was also eliminated.
The lower costs were the result of fewer radiation treatments and imaging as well as fewer hospital stays, which are often due to illness from the effects of chemotherapy, the authors said.
At the same time, the costs of chemotherapy spiked unexpectedly by 179 percent to $21 million, compared to $7.5 million for the standard payment group. The program had hoped for the opposite effect, expecting that by ending payments for each chemotherapy treatment doctors would have less incentive to overuse it. Those payments are larger if the drugs used are more expensive.
It was not clear if the chemotherapy costs rose because drug prices rose or because doctors administered more treatments.
The oncology groups also standardized some of the ways they delivered care after semi-annual, in-person discussions on best practices, the authors said.
For example, one group lowered its hospital stay rate for cancer patients by scheduling follow-up appointments within 48 hours for patients suffering chemo side effects such as nausea and diarrhea. That cut hospital stays by delivering treatment before the conditions became critical.
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Conservative talking heads accuse Clinton of 'clot plot'
By Susan Reimer
Baltimore Sun
Apparently, if the secretary of state needs to take a sick day, she had better get a note from her doctor. A very "transparent" note, a very detailed note. With enough copies to send to her most vociferous critics.
Hillary Rodham Clinton suffered a fall or a fainting spell in early December while recovering from a nasty flu that had left her dehydrated, and doctors said she had sustained a concussion as a result.
Right away, conservative talking heads scoffed, saying she was faking it so she wouldn't have to appear before Congress and testify about what happened in Benghazi, Libya, where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died in what is now being described as an attack by terrorists linked to al-Qaida.
"Help! I've fallen and I can't testify about Benghazi!" Richard Grenell, a political consultant who served in the George W. Bush administration at the United Nations, said on Twitter.
'Head fake'
The New York Post called it a "head fake." Columnist and Fox commentator Charles Krauthammer called it "acute Benghazi allergy." Fox's Sean Hannity said he wanted to see the medical report. Outgoing Republican Congressman Allen West described it as a case of "Benghazi flu." Fox News contributor John Bolton, a former American ambassador to the U.N., called it a convenient case of "diplomatic illness." And Republican commentator Monica Crowley called it "a virus with impeccable timing."
A group of commentators called "The Five" on Fox spent a segment laughing and making jokes about Mrs. Clinton's health.
Meanwhile, the European Union Times said that a report is circulating around the Kremlin that the secretary was actually injured in a military transport crash that claimed the life of a Navy SEAL while the two were on a secret mission to Iran — a report the State Department denied.
Then, early last week, doctors discovered that a blood clot had formed in the secretary's head, between her skull and her brain. She was hospitalized immediately and treated with blood thinners, and her daughter was seen leaving the New York hospital looking distraught.
I'm calling it "The Clot Plot."
Politics is a rough game and not for the thin-skinned, and we expect a vigorous press to show a healthy skepticism of any official statements. And doctor-patient confidentiality takes a back seat to our need to know if our leadership is well enough to do the job.
But if you believe that Mrs. Clinton — the most admired woman in America for the 11th straight year, according to a Gallup poll — faked an illness to avoid answering tough questions about what happened on Sept. 11 at the U.S. Embassy, then you probably also believe that Gen. David Petraeus' abrupt resignation as CIA chief because of an affair was nothing but a ploy to keep him from testifying, too.
Outraged voices
Oh. Wait. That was the theory put forth by outraged voices who felt President Barack Obama had something to hide and Gen. David Petraeus took the fall for him.
Though, of course, he did testify. As will Secretary Clinton, I am sure. Although some of those same commentators have speculated that she will claim not to remember what she knew, when she knew it and what she did about it — and blame the concussion.
It has been a long and mean-spirited political season, and we are all still feeling a little raw. But can we agree that Secretary Clinton would have to fake her own death to escape the grilling of Congress on this matter? That a simple knot on the head wasn't going to get it done?
Speaking of play-acting, this little drama has a second act. Critics are also saying that if she does have a blood clot, this would be at least her second one (she had one behind her knee in 1998), and that makes her physically unfit to be president in 2016.
A prisoner?
It is possible that Mrs. Clinton will emerge from this health crisis with a fractured memory of what happened in Benghazi. Or, perhaps, of how she was drugged and kept a prisoner in her own home by a strange doctor and men in dark suits wearing sunglasses and ear pieces so that she could not deliver testimony embarrassing to the president.
Could we all please stop acting like we have a medical degree or a movie pitch for Tom Cruise? This is embarrassing.
Susan Reimer is a columnist for the Baltimore Sun. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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