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Posted directly outside President Clinton's Oval Office, former Secret Service uniformed officer Gary Byrne reveals what he observed of Hillary Clinton's character and the culture inside the White House while protecting the first family in Crisis of Character, the most anticipated book of the 2016 election.
"Amazing Narrator... Amazing book"
Timed for the critical presidential election season, New York Times best-selling author and noted political commentator Dick Morris provides a strategy and position on the issues for Republicans to attract crucial new voters to the party in order to win back the White House in 2016 and put an end to the Obama agenda of ruinous socialism. By using new issues, attracting new voters, and offering new alternatives, Republicans can win the election of 2016 and save America!
"Informative and practical a must read"
At some point every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it's wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history.
"Entertaining and informative"
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the 20th century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Now available for the first time in unabridged audio, the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime is brought to life by acclaimed narrator Scott Brick.
"Everything I remembered about the case was wrong.."
Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese (triple what we ate in 1970) and 70 pounds of sugar (about 22 teaspoons a day). We ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt a day, double the recommended amount, and almost none of that comes from the shakers on our table. It comes from processed food. It's no wonder, then, that one in three adults, and one in five kids, is clinically obese.
"This is all too real, and YOU are the victim."
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
"Captivating (if not an outlier)"
With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money 10 years ago. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to 15 months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424 - one of the millions of women who disappear "down the rabbit hole" of the American penal system.
"My favorite book of the year, so far"
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: How do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved - and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind.
In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins. In this landmark book, scientist and psychologist Drew Westen shows how electorates vote not with their heads but with their hearts, and how the marketplace that matters most is the marketplace of emotion - filled with values, images, analogies, moral sentiments, and moving oratory.
"Good information, if a little too much of it"
In a thrilling narrative showcasing his gifts as storyteller and researcher, Erik Larson recounts the spellbinding tale of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Also available abridged.
"A Rich Read!"
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.
"You don't have to be a psychopath to like this."
In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.
"An essential read. A horrifying reality."
13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed there. Those men went beyond the call of duty, performing extraordinary acts of courage and heroism, to avert tragedy on a much larger scale.
"Spellbinding, Inspiring, Humbling"
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society--from van Gogh's sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer.
"Thought provoking and Uplifting.... A++++++++!!!!!"
Adapted from Decoded, Meltzer's hit show on the History network, History Decoded explores many fascinating and unexplained questions. Is Fort Knox empty? Why was Hitler so intent on capturing the Roman "Spear of Destiny"? What's the government hiding in Area 51? Where did the Confederacy's $19 million in gold and silver go at the end of the Civil War? Did Lee Harvey Oswald really act alone?
"I would rate as just OK!"
In The Tipping Point, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in society happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant. These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point.
"Marketing has a lot to learn from this book"
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure - until, of course, they don't.
"Another bad review for the narrator"
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
"Making Sense"
World War II had been raging for nearly a year. Hitler was now planning an invasion of England to seal Europe's fate. Though the United States was still neutral, a few Americans decided they couldn't remain on the sidelines. They joined Britain's Royal Air Force - with the future of civilization hanging in the balance. The Few tells the dramatic story of these Americans who defied their own country's neutrality laws and risked their very citizenship to fight side-by-side with England's finest pilots.
In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant, in the blink of an eye, that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept?
"Buy it now! Or not.. Trust your instincts."
White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation's diverse cultural reality, and a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority of the population, and with a black president in the White House, whites are growing anxious.
"A Primer on Racism for White People"
At the core of this book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Weaving the story of the Lafferty brothers and their fanatical brethren with a clear-eyed look at Mormonism's violent past, Krakauer examines the underbelly of the most successful homegrown faith in the United States, and finds a distinctly American brand of religious extremism.
"Interesting @ arm's length"
It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, 30,000-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over the world have begun to recognize three startling truths: Drugs are not what we think they are. Addiction is not what we think it is. And the drug war has very different motives to the ones we have seen on our TV screens for so long.
"A Must if the drug war has touched you at all"
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells, taken without her knowledge, became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first immortal human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than 60 years.
"Amazing Story"
In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America - addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland.
"American Nightmare that is Necessary Reading"
Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men - John Chatterton and John Mattera - are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister. While he was at large during the Golden Age of Piracy in the 17th century, Bannister's exploits would have been more notorious than Blackbeard's, more daring than Kidd's, but his story and his ship have been lost to time.
"Think like a pirate!"
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage', historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,' she wrote, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.'
Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the discussion and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well.
Frank DiMatteo was born into a family of mob hit men. His father and godfather were shooters and bodyguards for infamous Mafia legends, the Gallo brothers. His uncle was a capo in the Genovese crime family and bodyguard to Frank Costello. Needless to say, DiMatteo saw and heard things that a boy shouldn't see or hear. He knew everybody in the neighborhood. And they knew him...and his family. And does he have some wild stories to tell....
When Vonlee "Nicole" Titlow and her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, came home from a night of gambling in a casino near Detroit, they told police they found Billie's husband unconscious on the floor of the Rogers' mansion. Just another of his alcoholic benders, they assumed. But this time, Donald Rogers didn't wake up.
The good news is that the great thinkers from history have proposed the same strategies for happiness and fulfilment. The bad news is that these turn out to be the very things most discouraged by contemporary culture. This knotty dilemma is the subject of The Age of Absurdity - a wry and accessible investigation into how the desirable states of well-being and satisfaction are constantly undermined by modern life.
For most of us, the idea of life inside the golden triad of Park Avenue, Sagaponack, and St. Barths is just as exotic as the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Luckily, Richard Kirshenbaum has a VIP pass to the Upper East Side and is willing to share the wealth - of gossip. His New York Observer column on uptown social life provides a fascinating glimpse behind the gilded curtain into the swanky restaurants and eye-popping vacation destinations where the one percent gathers.
In his account of the sensational life and murder of Grady Stiles Jr., also known as the legendary carnival freak Lobster Boy, author Fred Rosen explains how Stiles' death was engineered by his wife, Mary Teresa, the carny known as the Electrified Girl. Rosen describes how Mary Teresa arranged for her husband's murder after years of physical and emotional abuse. During Mary Teresa's dramatic trial, Rosen becomes a character in his own book.
Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is the most closely bound up with who we are. From tool handles to arrows, wheels and bowls to furniture and baseball bats, humans have made more and varied use of ash than any other kind of wood. Journeying across the English-speaking world, Robert Penn meets craftsmen with rare skills and a knowledge of the properties of ash developed over millennia.
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from 45 to 72 years. The Rise and Fall of American Growth provides an in-depth account of this momentous era.
Liberals take great pride in their supposed openmindedness. Yet when it comes to hot-button issues like radical Islam, global warming, and abortion, "openminded" liberals go to great lengths to discredit and suppress the ideas of their opponents. Breitbart senior editor Joel Pollak exposes the 19 key ideas that today's liberals are desperate to suppress, revealing the blatant hypocrisy of leftwing leaders and pundits who preach tolerance but practice intolerance.
According to W.V.O. Quine, no observational datum supports any given hypothesis more than it supports any other given hypothesis, our belief to the contrary being nothing more than a prejudice born of our irrational preferences for certain rules of inference over others. In this very short work, it is shown that Quine's thesis is false and that his argument for it is broken. A corollary is that Kuhn's relativism ("truth is paradigm-internal") is false.
The author of The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS and The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran returns with the sharp wit and boundless courage needed to expose the oncoming storm from Iran.
A true insider's story of the backpacker murders from the detective who led the team that arrested Ivan Milat. Milat - the serial killer who preyed on young hitchhikers. The backpackers - the innocent victims of a brutal murderer. Belanglo - a place that became synonymous with pure evil. It was the biggest and most complex manhunt in Australian history, an investigation that gripped a nation. Behind the many false leads and dead ends, precious clues emerged that pointed to one man.
Over the years, there have been many strange or unexplained phenomena that people have experienced or witnessed in their lives. These experiences have been passed on from generation to generation. However, as time passed, most of these may have been forgotten or simply remained unsolved. There are hundreds of paranormal stories and personal experiences that have happened over the last century but there are some that truly stand out and have become incidents that people never forget.
Between 1865 and 1890, in the aftermath of the Civil War, virtually every important American labor reform organization advocated "cooperation" over "competitive" capitalism and several thousand cooperatives opened for business during this era. The men and women who built cooperatives were practical reformers and they established businesses to stabilize their work lives, families, and communities. Yet they were also utopians - envisioning a world free from conflict where workers would receive the full value of their labor.
When Lee H. Hamilton joined Congress in 1965 as a US Representative from southern Indiana, he began writing commentaries for his constituents describing his experiences, impressions, and developing views of what was right and wrong in American politics. He continued to write regularly throughout his 34 years in office and up to the present. Lively and full of his distinctive insights, Hamilton's essays provide vivid accounts of national milestones over the past 50 years.
American democracy can be...messy, sometimes. With all the voices and commentaries around us, making sense of the American democratic tradition may seem overwhelming. This collection of books will help. With these Quick and Dirty Guides, you will be that much closer to sifting through the noise being an informed citizen. They are non-partisan and honest (if a bit cynical); just the kind of balanced information you're looking for.
In 2003, for the first time since the Second World War, the UK took part in an opposed invasion and full-scale occupation of a sovereign state - Iraq. Cabinet decided on 17th March to join the US-led invasion of Iraq. That decision was ratified by Parliament the next day and implemented the night after that. In June 2009, Prime Minister Gordon Brown ordered an Inquiry to be conducted to identify lessons that could be learned from the Iraq conflict. This audiobook is an unabridged reading of that report's executive summary.
If you're like most people, you think that your choices and behaviors are driven by your individual, personal tastes, and opinions. You wear a certain jacket because you liked the way it looked. You picked a particular career because you found it interesting. The notion that our choices are driven by our own personal thoughts and opinions is patently obvious. Right? Wrong.
This short work proves that we have knowledge that cannot possibly be derived from observation.
Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities.
"book about crybabies"
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control.
"Colossus: The Forbin Project is coming"
Based on seven years of ground-breaking research and hundreds of interviews, I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity. Our vulnerabilities are not weaknesses; they are powerful reminders to keep our hearts and minds open to the reality that we're all in this together.
"Good self-help book; not well-suited for audio."
What drug lords learned from big business. How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola.
"Worthy book in the "economics explains X" genre"
Tribes are groups of people aligned around an idea, connected to a leader and to each other. Tribes make our world work, and always have. The new opportunity is that it's easier than ever to find, organize, and lead a tribe. The Web has enabled an explosion of all kinds of tribes - and created shortage of people to lead them. This is the growth industry of our time. Tribes will help you understand exactly what's at stake, and why YOU can and should lead a tribe of your own.
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark best seller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long-awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book." The man went on to tell Talese an astonishing secret: that he had bought a motel to satisfy his voyeuristic desires.
"Strangely captivating"
400 Things Cops Know shows police work on the inside, from the viewpoint of the regular cop on the beat - a profession that can range from rewarding to bizarre to terrifying, all within the course of an eight-hour shift. Written by veteran police sergeant Adam Plantinga, 400 Things Cops Know brings the listener into life the way cops experience it - a life of danger, frustration, occasional triumph, and plenty of grindingly hard routine work.
"Well Done. Misinformation present but minimal."
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives. In A Guide to the Good Life, Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life.
"Finding your inner stoic"
Something is wrong with our banking system. We all sense that, but Mervyn King knows it firsthand; his 10 years at the helm of the Bank of England, including at the height of the financial crisis, revealed profound truths about the mechanisms of our capitalist society. In The End of Alchemy, he offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance.
"Two books in one, both very fine"
By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counterintuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on the important ones and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.
"The Tyranny of Pop Economics"
Hillary Clinton is running for president as an "advocate of women and girls", but there is another shocking side to her story that has been carefully covered up - until now. This stunning exposé reveals for the first time how Bill and Hillary Clinton systematically abused women and others - sexually, physically, and psychologically - in their scramble for power and wealth.
"Well written and seems well researched"
The Antidote is a series of journeys among people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. What they have in common is a hunch about human psychology: that it's our constant effort to eliminate the negative that causes us to feel so anxious, insecure, and unhappy. And that there is an alternative "negative path" to happiness and success that involves embracing the things we spend our lives trying to avoid.
"The Antidote explores the negative path."
Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today's developing countries—with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.
"Best Summary of Political History I've Read"
From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you'll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more.
"Statistics is like a high caliber gun, very useful"
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered.
"The Best of all Biographies"
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos.
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text: News Kate Gets Snap Appy 15 July 2014 Lauren Milligan Kate Bosworth for Topshop Picture credit: Michael Polish KATE BOSWORTH is launching a new style app to help fashion lovers like herself track down the pieces that they most covet. Called Style Thief, the app - created with co-founder Samantha Russ - lives up to its name by letting users snap a picture of a piece that they want to buy and click through to shop with ease."Everyone has fashion envy," Bosworth said. "Everyone can relate to that feeling of looking at an editorial, for example - or a friend, or the runway, for that matter - wanting to steal something exactly as you're seeing it, or something similar."Bosworth's new role as chief marketing officer for Style Thief will go some way to setting it apart from a host of other similar apps on the market - including Style-Eyes, ASAP54, Snap Fashion and Styloot - that also tap into the lure of street-style images and mobile shopping."It's a natural evolution of my interest in tech and fashion," Bosworth - who has moved on from a two-season Topshop deal to a new collaboration with an as-yet-unnamed LA fashion brand, set to be released next spring - told WWD. "In this particular sense, the simplicity of how the tool was designed was what I was attracted to. Our intention is to be a tool for consumers to find something and ultimately purchase. It's as easy as that." Related Reading Get The Look ASAP 10 Apr 2014


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Jeansonne has been a reporter in Newsday's sports department since 1970 and has covered 11 Olympic Games and
Ethically speaking, should the Seattle Seahawks be expected to give back Monday night's victory?
There is precedent. In 1940, Cornell University president Edmund Ezra Day, upon learning that his school had scored the winning touchdown against Dartmouth after game officials inadvertently provided Cornell a fifth down, ordered a forfeit.
"We have done the right thing," Day told his football team, ranked No. 2 in the nation at the time, "and this will live with us. We shall not have to spend the rest of our lives apologizing for a tarnished victory."
Conspiracy theorists might have noted that the magnanimous Day happened to be a Dartmouth alum. But, at the time, the New York Herald-Tribune editorialized that Cornell's gesture was "magnificent; there seems again to be hope for the world."
So now, 62 years later, we have another team benefiting from ham-handed refereeing. Seattle bore no moral responsibility, yet the replacement zebras' goof on Monday, magnificent though not malicious, nevertheless swindled the Green Bay Packers.
Given that, should Seattle be bound to follow Edmund Ezra Day's lead?
"I don't think so," said Randy Cohen, for 12 years author of The Ethicist column in the New York Times Magazine whose most recent book is "Be Good, and How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything."
To Cohen, the ethical violations were committed by the NFL owners, for throwing maladroit substitutes into the fray during their referee lockout, without implementing special mechanisms to deal with logically expected failures.
"They created a situation where every single person on Earth knows that they would get bad calls," Cohen said in a telephone interview. Why, he wondered, hadn't they -- at the least -- set up a short-term system to override replacement errors. The technology for additional replay review was available.
"We tolerate a certain amount of bad calls, hoping, over the course of a season, it all evens out," he said. "But our commitment to that approach is put to the test when we see a call that everybody agrees is that egregious.
"If you believe the rules of sport are a moral code, the game is defined by that. And there's something to how public these transgressions are. Millions of people who care about this game can watch and say, 'This is unfair.' They screwed up, and we say, 'That's correctable.' "
Cohen does not condemn the replacements for their series of bloopers that have come to resemble something out of a feverish dream; rather, he takes them to task for accepting their jobs in the first place.
"Officials are human," he said. "They make bad calls all the time. Whether scabs are human is another matter.
"If you're an unbelievably poor person and you cross a picket line at a coal mine in Kentucky in 1890, there might be a moral gray area there. People have to live. But these are scabs."
"And there is a greater transgression here. Are the owners morally wrong for failing to have settled this thing?"
Money -- big, big money -- defines the NFL, and always is a primary element in a labor dispute. Beyond the league and its employees, there are the television bucks, the ticket sales, the enormous gambling totals.
But that, Cohen said, isn't the point. "It's not the amount of money that makes stealing wrong, whether taking $100 is OK but not $1,000. With ethics, I don't make that distinction."
Bottom line: The Seahawks need not spend the rest of their lives apologizing for a tarnished victory. (Not that they would think of doing so.) But this might live with the NFL a long time.


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My second cosplay Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII.
tifa lockhart beatifull cosplay and red boots
Are you selling this?
fico identico, linda
Cute girl, great legs, and great cosplay. You're a great Tifa.
Love the expression...
...like you are about to KICK SOME ASS!!!
...like you are about to KICK SOME ASS!!!
amazing cosplay ! you're so beautiful *////////*!!!!
one word - hawt
such a pretty tifa
You certainly do a good job of pulling off Tifa's look.
That's pretty damn impressive!
You got very lovely legs, my dear Tifa.
I like it so much
Very cute!!
Great Tifa and look really good, nice legs, sexy shot.
really nice shot and cosplay!
You make such a lovely Tifa! Your body is perfect for her cosplay! You are very curvy, in the photo, and have long sexy legs! Although it would be nice to see you smile
Wow really good <3
That's a simple, but very good cosplay! I like how you look serious in the photo and you're so beautiful as well. Great job, girl!
Excelent Tifa interpretation, best I´ve seen here, I´ll be watching waiting for more
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What drug would give a false positive for cocaine?
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5 Oct 2010
I believe I posted this article for you before. So many testing facilities have less quality control and over sight than many restaurants. There may be other medications (besides the ones listed below) that may cause a false positive for cocaine. Take care, concrispy!
Laboratory slip-ups are to blame for many of the mistaken test results. But even perfect labs running perfect tests will also find many false positives.
False positives are caused by:
*Nasal decongestants such as Dristan, Neosynephren, Vicks Nasal Spray, and Sudafed, which cause false positives for amphetamines.
*Poppy seeds like those on a dinner roll, which cause false positives for opiates. Even the highest-quality test currently available, the GCMS test, still confuses poppy seeds with heroin.
*Pain relievers such as Advil, Nuprin, Midol, Trendar, or any medicine containing Ibuprofin cause false positives for marijuana.
*Antibiotics such as amoxicillin or ampicillin cause false positives for cocaine.
The above list is only a beginning. Most substances which people have in their blood have never been tested to see if they cause false positives. Indeed, even some natural body enzymes cause false positives. According to research validated by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, melanin, the natural pigment which makes skin dark, can cause false positives for marijuana.
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- 1 tablespoon spring onion, finely chopped
- 1⁄2 tablespoon red chile, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
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Springdale, Arkansas 72764
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Springdale, Arkansas 72741
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(MONTREAL) -- Lying in the streets naked could get you in trouble in most places, but in Montreal Saturday some 2,000 people stripped with the blessing of authorities to pose for a New York photographer famed for juxtaposing flesh and concrete.
Spencer Tunick had asked Montrealers to strip for his latest ``human sculpture'' - part of his Nude Adrift series that will take him to every continent, including Antarctica, to shoot group nudes.
The throngs began disrobing enthusiastically at 5:30 a.m. as the morning air hovered at 55 degrees. Two young women and a man apparently changed their minds and tried to make a run for it once the order to get naked was given - but could not get into a nearby mall. Its doors had been locked to prevent photographers from entering to get good shots of the nudes.
``I want to thank the city of Montreal for recognizing this as art,'' Tunick told the crowd. ``This is art. Not good art or bad art, but it's art.''
Tunick first had his nude models lie down side by side in curled positions on the corner of St. Catherine and Jeanne Mance streets. Nearby, Montreal's Museum of Contemporary Art ran an exhibit featuring his photos called Metamorphosis and Cloning.
He then had them lie face up for a second shot.
People were naked for about an hour. Tunick received a loud ovation when he told people they could put their clothes back on.
``I feel extremely energized,'' said Jean-Pierre Leclerq, 41, after taking part in the session, ``It was a lot fun. Nobody was uncomfortable, we all seemed very at ease.''
Tunick said he was impressed by the turnout, which topped all this previous nude shoots, and praised Montreal as a ``very open-minded and progressive'' city.
He's been arrested for some of his previous work including shots he did in his native New York City.
Tunick says he is attempting to show humanity's collective vulnerability in a cruel, harsh world.
``It's an abstraction, that seeps into and onto the pavement, that creates a sense of vulnerability to the body juxtaposed (against) a very harsh outside world with many things coming against us,'' Tunick said after the shoot. ``Environmental issues, social issues, anything coming up against the body, which is pure. So this is where the body tries to overpower the street.''
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Are tie games really such a bad thing?
Before we get started, let's clear up one popular misconception right away: A tie is nothing like kissing your sister.
Not that I have personal experience with that (nothing against my sisters, who no doubt feel the same way about kissing their brothers), but I do know that a tie game in sports is not akin to incest. It's more like finally going on a date with that person you've had an outrageous, obsessive crush on for months, the one you fantasize about at least five times an hour. It's feeling all "romantic" as your hormones rise, anticipating the pleasures of a good-night kiss (and quite frankly, more, much more), getting yourself all worked up and then getting completely shut down at the door with a chaste hug or a weak handshake and an insincere "but I like you as a friend."
THAT'S what a tie feels like.
Unless, of course, you pull out the tie from the jaws of defeat at the last moment with a stunning, last-second score. In which case, a tie is like going on that same date, having everything go horribly wrong -- I could have sworn I paid my credit card bill last month! How could I have forgotten to wear deodorant? Why did I order baked beans? -- only to get a surprising kiss at the end of the night and a request to "call me tomorrow at work."
"When you tie and you think you could have won, you're disappointed," Alan Hinton says. "And if you tie a game when you think you really could have lost it, then you're happy."
Hinton was a successful soccer player and coach in Europe as well as in the United States. He's currently a broadcaster for the Seattle Sounders FC of the MLS, a league in which 34 percent of all games have ended in ties this season. Yes, 34 percent! And that reflects a decrease from a month ago when 40 percent of the games had ended in ties. Columbus has won just seven of its 19 games, but it's in first place thanks to nine ties. D.C. United and Los Angeles each have 10 draws in 19 games. It's absolutely, undeniably, indefensibly ridiculous.
But is it necessarily bad?
Generally speaking in this country, ties are considered an insult to sports. In 2002, Major League Baseball's All-Star Game -- an exhibition of such little consequence many players leave for the airport before the game even finishes -- ended in a tie, and the outcry was such that you would have thought commissioner Bud Selig had walked to the mound and dropped puppies one by one into a vat of boiling water.
It wasn't always this way. Maybe we never have liked ties, but there was a time when we didn't consider them on par with dogfighting and telemarketing. Top-ranked Army tied No. 2-ranked Notre Dame 0-0 in 1946. No. 1-ranked Notre Dame tied No. 2-ranked Michigan State in 1966. Both games are considered all-time classics (though Irish coach Ara Parseghian received deserved criticism for running out the clock to preserve the tie in '66). When Harvard tied Yale in 1968, its dramatic rally was so exhilarating that the student newspaper's headline famously declared: "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29!"
Those days are over. Rather than accept ties, we are getting rid of them in virtually every other sport. We hate ties so much that college football added an overtime tiebreaker in 1996 and the NHL went to the shootout in the 2005-06 season.
It is only in soccer that ties still proliferate. Especially in the MLS. But again, is that necessarily bad?
"I'm torn because I'm a sports fan and growing up in America, I can understand the common fan's frustration with the draw. You came to a game and nothing was resolved," Sounders midfielder Peter Vagenas says. "But I've also played this sport, and I can appreciate a 0-0 draw as much a 5-4 thriller. I think a true soccer fan appreciates what goes into a game, and sometimes the best games are draws. I understand that the amount of draws that we've had this year is not good, but I've been in the league where we had the shootout and that was a debacle.
"I think if you're a casual fan in Los Angeles, and you want to be a fan of the Galaxy but they draw 10 games in a row, I don't think that will help. But the true soccer fans understand it, and I don't think it affects them much. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't think the casual fan isn't taken aback. I'm a big sports fan, and I don't like to see draws in other sports. I wouldn't want to see a Lakers game if they tied in the end."
No one, not even Orlando Magic fans, wants to see a Lakers game end in a tie, but I'll grudgingly admit draws also have value. Or at least that single point you get for a draw in soccer (as opposed to three points for a win and zero points for a loss) has value. Especially when going up against a far superior team.
"You have to understand the difference between the size of clubs," Seattle goalie Kasey Keller says. "In Spain you have two giant clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona. And if you're a small club and you're playing in one of those two cities and you can get a draw, that's a massive victory for your fans because those are places you're expected to go get rolled over. It gives you something to win other than winning."
That may be true in Europe, where the gap between teams can be on par with the difference between Dennis Quaid and Randy Quaid, but such reasoning neglects to consider the fact that in MLS, the gap is more like the difference between Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Seattle and Toronto have terrific fan bases and game atmospheres, but teams still don't go into those cities worried that they won't be able to breathe due to the elevation and smog (as at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City), or have hooligans tip over their bus and set it ablaze. Going to Salt Lake and getting a tie is not as much of an accomplishment as getting one in Barcelona.
So what would be so wrong with the MLS saying: Hey, Americans are getting into this soccer thing. They just want to see a winner and loser at the end of the game. And we could grow the fan base by cutting down on the ties.
"They tried that in the NASL [North American Soccer League], and it didn't work that well," Keller says. "The fans are the fans of the sport. You know what I would like? A half-court shot in basketball that's worth five points. Maybe a home run that goes more than 400 feet should be worth two runs. You can make f------ stupid rules about everything, but the sport's rules are the sport's rules. You don't change it unless there is a good reason."
But other sports HAVE changed their rules. Basketball added the 3-point shot. The NFL added the two-point conversion. Baseball added the designated hitter. College football and the NHL added tiebreakers. There is nothing inherently wrong with giving fans what they want, which in this country, is a winner. You honk and curse your way through rush-hour traffic to get to the stadium, pay $30 to park, pay $50 for each ticket, spend $8.75 for a beer, $5 for a hot dog and $4 for a lousy red rope the least the teams can give you is a winner and a loser.
Or is it?
If two teams play a tremendous, very even game to the end of regulation, why should one go home with a loss due to a ball that just nicks the foul pole in the 13th inning or because it lost the coin toss or because a field goal attempt hit the upright? Perhaps we need MORE ties, and not just in team sports, but in races, where electronic timing allows us to measure performances to the thousandth of a second. Just because we have a clock that can determine a time difference that is impossible to detect with the human eye doesn't mean we should use it. When athletes train for years to compete in an Olympic race, it would not be so wrong to declare a tie and award two gold medals rather than brand someone a loser for finishing a 2-mile race the width of an eyelash behind a competitor.
Or consider Stage 4 of this year's Tour de France, when the team time trial left Fabian Cancellara and Lance Armstrong separated by 0.182 of a second for the overall lead. This, mind you, was after 273 miles and 10½ hours of racing. Fans around the world wanted to see Lance back in yellow after a four-year absence. After riding farther than the distance between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, would it have been so horrible to say Armstrong and Cancellara were tied rather than separated by the width of a tire?
Ties also help fans get to bed earlier. "In a world where everything is about what's next, there are a lot of people who don't want to go to a four-hour baseball game or a 3½- to four-hour football game," Keller says. "They know they can come to a soccer game where it's 90 minutes and they can go off to do their next thing."
Kansas City Royals bench boss Trey Hillman managed for several years in Japan, where baseball games are declared ties after 12 innings so that fans have time to go home before the subways close. He says ties have their benefits -- "It certainly saves your pitching staff and it can save a possible potential injury to a position player when he's used where he's not used to" -- but he still doesn't like them. "I grew up used to the game being concluded without a tie, and that was an adjustment for me in Japan," he says. "I was not a fan of it over there and I would not be a fan of it being implemented here."
Perhaps, as Hillman says, it simply is a cultural thing, but Americans just don't like ties. And for good reason. I appreciate the value of ties in soccer. I really do. But after thinking over the pluses and minuses, the fewer is still the better. I mean, isn't the whole point of playing sports to determine a winner? If you aren't concerned with victories and defeats, then why keep score in the first place? This isn't Little League. Not everyone needs to walk away feeling happy.
"I don't think ties would fly here," Dodgers manager Joe Torre says. "Yeah, you can cut it off at 18 innings, but when it's the 13th inning or the 14th inning, you're thinking, 'Dammit, we've played this game this long, we can't stop trying now.' It's the same in other sports. It really makes those players more competitive."
After all, no coach fires up the team before a game by urging players to go out there and tie the opponent. If that is never the goal, there is no reason to be satisfied with it as a result.
Although, Torre acknowledges, an acceptance of ties "would certainly have relieved me of a lot of stress at that All-Star Game a few years ago."
Jim Caple is a senior writer for ESPN.com.


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We took two airplanes into Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe.
Sable Antelope.
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White Pelican who lost his way. We are a long way from the ocean.
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Allen and Toni Anne Roberts on either side. It was cold in the mornings. We were birding.
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Yvonne and Ray Feltoe who we first met in Harare. They are the fine folks with the boat on Kariba.
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