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Slowpitch Softball Bats are most commonly 34 inches in length, and between 26 and 30 ounces. The best softball bats are made from carbon fiber composite material, and are either on solid piece, or a two pieces that are joined together at the center of the bat. A good softball bat can add a great deal of distance to a batted softball. Companies like Worth, Easton, Miken, Louisville Slugger, and Combat research and refine the science of bat design non-stop. The most popular softball associations are ASA and USSSA. Each organization requires their specific stamp on a bat to be legal for use in a softball game governed by their rules. If you need help choosing a slow pitch bat, please call us and one of our friendly sales associates would be happy to assist.
Slowpitch softball bat manufacturers re-design their old bats and produce a completely new product every year that will wow players around the country. The 2014 line of slowpitch softball bats feature some of the best new bats for athletes looking to prepare for the upcoming season.
For most leagues, signups will be held within the next month and bats need to be purchased to allow for any breaking in needed. What are some of the best 2014 softball bats to get this season?
2014 Miken Psycho USSSA
This is a slowpitch softball bat that doesn't need any breaking in and is hot out of the wrapper. Miken used 750x high pressure infusion technology which injects epoxy into a high grade aerospace carbon and aramid fibers. Unlike many other popular slowpitch bats that are two pieces blended into one, this is a single piece bat that feels balanced, allowing for faster swinging speeds, improved durability and a huge sweet spot.
2014 Louisville Slugger Z2000 ASA and USSSA
This composite bat was built to be stronger and more durable than it has ever been. With this bat, you can have a smooth and balanced swing and that allows you to get the bat through the zone quicker and for more power. The 2014 model is similar to the 2013 version, but was made to be more durable. The ASA model was made with an S1iD Inner Disc that allows the bat flex more within legal limits. The USSSA model was made with Pure 360 composite that is stronger and lighter than previous versions.
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Worth is one of the best brands for power hitting because they have one of the purest composite layers on the market. They do this by removing any void that is in the material and also removes excess and unnecessary weight. They also have a new carbon fiber material in the outer layer of the bat. This improves the strength and performance of the bat, while also improving the lifetime of the bat. The 454 technology Worth uses on their slowpitch softball bats also gives users an extra two inches of sweet spot on each side of the bat.
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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he believed his contacts with Adam Smith would show he handled the BSkyB takeover bid with 'integrity'
Pressure is mounting on beleaguered Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, as a Westminster sleaze watchdog called for a swift investigation of allegations over his handling of News Corporation's takeover bid for BSkyB.
The call from the chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, Sir Christopher Kelly, came as Mr Hunt announced he was handing over text messages and emails relating to the bid to the Leveson Inquiry into media standards.
Prime Minister David Cameron has resisted calls to refer Mr Hunt to his independent adviser on ministerial conduct, Sir Alex Allan, over claims he secretly favoured the bid by Rupert Murdoch's company, arguing that the issue should be left to Lord Justice Leveson.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg called for Mr Hunt to appear before the inquiry "as quickly as possible" to give his version of events under oath.
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But the CSPL chairman said Sir Alex was the "obvious" person to conduct a probe. And he said that if the issue was to be left to Leveson, Downing Street must make clear that the judge has the power to look into ministerial conduct - something which Mr Cameron's official spokesman has repeatedly said is a matter for the Prime Minister.
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From the California State University system, to the studios of Disney's Featured Animation Division, to the base of the Sierra Nevada, Maryann Thomas has spent her life nurturing a tremendous talent and passion for art.
She'll be sharing her acclaimed watercolor works – many of them inspired by travels to far-flung locales or the views in her own backyard – with residents and visitors when Altrusa International of the Eastern Sierra highlights Thomas as the featured artist at this year's Art Show and Sale on Oct. 2-3.
The 12th annual event will be held at Floriculture Building at the Tri-County Fairgrounds, coinciding with the Owens Valley Cruisers Fall Colors Car Show and the Laws Railroad Museum Choo-Choo Swap Meet.
Thomas unanimously won "Best of Show" at the October 2009 show for her watercolor painting, "Mt. Basin Sunset."
Thomas was born in New York and raised in California. In addition to coming from a family of talented artists, Thomas' innate artistic ability and love of art were recognized early and cultivated. She received art scholarships from both the California State University system and the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and chose to complete her formal art education through the Art Center and graduated in 1984 with Honors in Illustration. Thomas enjoyed a successful freelance illustration career following college, specializing in publishing and advertising and continued to develop her own fine art style.
In 1994 she accepted a position at the Walt Disney Studios Feature Animation Division originally as a background painter and in later years as an art director.
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Her work combines the love of outdoors, travel and painting. Although she is accomplished in several mediums and styles, she favors creating landscape watercolor paintings of exotic or alluring far-off locations. Generally looking for outdoor subjects in direct natural light, she "enjoys interpreting the strong design of forms in direct light and shadow." Thomas went on to say, "My work has a variety of influences, in particular are the early 20th century American artists John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer and Georgia O'Keefe."
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I write about the economic value of nature's services.
Climate talks are underway here in Durban, and Wingnuts have responded by ratcheting up their efforts to dodge responsibility for the climate mess by discrediting the messenger.
Their latest campaign is just as lame as previous efforts, and even more embarrassing.
It's built around 5,000 blurbs culled from more than 220,000 e-mails that were stolen two years ago from servers at the University of East Anglia. These old and ill-gotten snippets were dumped on the world last week via an obscure Russian web site, and they've been showing up across the Internet ever since – usually devoid of context but embedded instead in blobs of paranoid fluff designed to portray decades of peer-reviewed research as the product of what one blogger called "an insular cadre of climate scientists coordinating efforts to place advocacy ahead of science, stifle dissent, and conceal information which detracts from a preconceived, ideologically driven, global warming narrative."
Talk about the pot calling the dandelion black!
Despite being selectively edited to portray scientists in the worst possible light, the mails actually show them obsessing over getting things right but leery of having their private conversations picked apart by propagandists looking to cherry-pick their statements and distort their views.
The fact that these private mails have been hacked, cherry-picked, and distorted by propagandists leaves one inclined to see their point.
Let's take just a small sampling – namely, those excerpts that were included last week in a post by the Heartland Institute's senior fellow for environment policy, James Taylor, on this site. The first two sentences were hacked from a mail by East Anglia climatologist Phil Jones.
"I've been told that IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is above national FOI (freedom of information) Acts," wrote Jones. "One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 (The IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report) would be to delete all emails at the end of the process"
This sounds so sinister, with apparent references to dodging FOIAs and deleting e-mails, until one considers a few points:
First, FOI laws generally apply to official communication between government officials – not to private mails, and not to early drafts of research papers. That's especially important to researchers, whose deepest fears involve publishing something that has a fundamental error in it – a fear that Wingnuts and, unfortunately, most journalists, seem immune to. They avoid this by first incubating ideas in private or in brainstorming sessions, then showing them to a few peers, testing them, refining them, and only then exposing them to the formal process of peer review. This is a grueling enough process without them having to justify their every utterance to some crackpot in the backwoods of Alabama who wants to talk about sunspots and the Apocalypse.
Granted, the legal and moral debate over the countervailing principles of transparency and privacy is a sticky one, and climate scientists are in a gray area. Their work impacts us all, but the nature of that work requires them being able to contemplate the impossible and explore strange ideas without having to present half-baked ideas as finished products.
Second, in response to the above, the IPCC has established rules of transparency – for both during and after the peer-review process.
"How can you defend this Steve?"
That's not in of the group of emails that the AGW folks have been able to come up with some alleged explanation for, therefore it doesn't exist. Everything's now been explained. The vicious science-hating wingnut agents of the oil companies have taken everything out of context. Case closed.
Thanks for this, Steve. It's informative to understand the excerpts in context. It tells the reader a lot more about the motivations and intentions of the people involved—including those choosing the excerpts!
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"Thanks for this, Steve. It's informative to understand the excerpts in context. It tells the reader a lot more about the motivations and intentions of the people involved—including those choosing the excerpts!"
Only now you don't understand the context – you've just been led much further down the garden path, and have nothing but spin to mislead you far worse than if you'd just read the excerpts.
Go read the actual email threads yourself – the perfidy, lack of integrity, and unscientific behavior displayed is mind boggling and utterly disgusting.
If you continue to let others do your thinking for you the end of their primrose path will be your final destination. Are you sufficiently informed to understand where these climate alarmists are planning to take you? If you have the motivation and the intellectual curiosity do a search on the polar ice caps and polar bear populations in the past few years and see if those sound like the result global warming to you? I'd be quite curious to know what kinds of financial positions Zwick has taken in the AGW business? Of course we know the other insistant voice Al Gore stands to make billions from its acceptance. Maybe that's why he is so anxious to put the entire scientific argument to rest and begin taxing the blood out of every living citizen on earth. No conflict of interest there, huh?
So, Mr Zwick, you have no problem with the emails where questions of what data to include and exclude are discussed, where 40 years of a data set are omitted because the results go in a direction contrary to that desired, and where caution is urged because the public statements far surpass what the results justify?
And please, none of these emails are private. They are all from university servers or government-funded research organizations like CRU. These emails are the property of taxpayers and the researchers using those facilities have no expectation of privacy.
And your use of "wingnuts" really adds to your credibility.
Enjoy your circle jerk of "If they think this is happening, THEN IT MUST BE TRUE," god forbid you actually think for a second and come to the logical conclusion that the Earth's climate goes through cycles and regardless of whether or not we're polluting the planet that it is either going to get hotter, or colder. Ignore further that the Earth is also tilted at an angle and that the Sun largely has an effect on our climate as well. No, instead we should tax one of the most fundamental building blocks of life, CO2. Brilliant solution, it's almost the same kind of logic the federal reserve is following, "PRINT MOAR MONEY, GET OUT OF DEBT WHILE STILL BORROWING!"
Bravo good sir, bravo.
Steve Zwick seems amazingly uninformed in this strange effort to pretend there is nothing to see, just move on regarding the miasma that climate science hysterics have created.
Climategate is not taking place in a vacuum, and his assertion that the skeptics are simply seeking to blame the messenger is ironically bacwards, since all Zwick does is blame the skeptical messenger for the climate science mess.
Climategate exists in a context of multiple credible reports showing the IPCC is a corrupt and message distorting process. Climategate exists in a context that shows that those exposed by climategate knew that many of their critics were correct, but they chose to 'stay on message' (lie) about this in favor of 'the cause'.
Climategate exists in the context that the latest issue of "Science" magazine shows that the earlier hysterical claims regarding CO2 dangers tot he climate were sigificantly over stated.
But Zwick, oddly, blames the skeptics.
This is the same sort of great thinking that allowed the SEC to dismiss the multiple reports and complaints regarding Madoff and Stanford over the years and allowed Forbes and so many other publications to get surprised by the fraud.
so keep up the self-imposed ignorance, Steve. We expect little else from journalists these days.
I see we've dropped all pretense of scholarly journalism when "wingnut" is used in the first sentence.
I'm surprised Forbes doesn't have stronger controls in place to prevent damage like this to their brand image.


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Becoming a professional tattoo artist requires skills, talent and experience. Certifications are also important to build customer trust and rapport, as well as to establish reliability. For aspiring artists, looking for the appropriate tattoo training courses plays an important role. Although it is true that everyone can be a great tattoo artist, there are important aspects one has to make sure that are presented in the courses they are about to take.
First and foremost, these training courses must be comprehensive and must contain essential information that can help you proceed and become successful in this profession. The entire process must be well explained, and follow a logical line of detail.
There are physical attendance courses that you can go for, while some others prefer going online. Either method is suitable and depends on the individual. Check the number of sessions per course and makeg sure that all topics will be covered and you won't miss anything out.
Some Tattoo studios might offer classes, but this doesn't often give you a chance to show your skills. When looking for courses like these you have to be able to find out if you will be allowed to test your skills so that you feel confident to tattoo in the real world.
Having said that, it is important that aside from the actual tattoo training courses, hands on training needs to be sought as well. To become a great tattoo artist, you must be able to practice, enhance and hone your skills before even moving on to another customer, after another.
The certifications also play an important role when choosing the course for your profession. Sometimes, certifications aren't provided, and you won't be able to call yourself a professional artists without these.
Schools, courses or studios that do not offer certifications are not legitimate ones. Always remember that.
If possible, you also have to consider finding one that doesn't just teach you the art of tattoos, but also a course that guides you on how you can start your own shop, or alternative how to gain a position in an existing business. Unfortunately, there are some great tattoo artists that are not known for their craft, simply because they are not given the chance to showcase their talent.
"I'm done with the tattoo training courses, now what?"
Congratulations on making it! Now that you are a certified and professional tattoo artist, you have to find your first prospective clients. If you haven't decided to start a shop yet, or if you don't have the funds to do that as of the moment, you can always start by offering your services online.
As a matter of fact, many people are dying to see your art, and would be interested in doing business with you, especially if you presence is available online.
Learning the art of tattoo and finding suitable courses for you isn't that difficult. You just need to know which course suits you best, and what you'll do as an artist as soon as the courses are finished.
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Tattoo training courses are generating a lot of steam among the general masses lately. Tattooing is almost becoming a new revolution which is being initiated by the fashion industry.
Gone are those days when only prisoners, models, celebrities, rock stars etc. would proudly display their tattoos on their body parts. Even regular people are getting attracted to tattoos and finding it quite acceptable and fashionable.
It might come across as a surprise that you no longer need to rely on getting appointments from the local tattoo artist to get a job done. There are quite a few inexpensive tattoo courses available online which can be quite easy to follow.
Do you know that a number of institutes, schools and academies have sprung up which provide you with a hands on experience on how to craft tattoos? Most of the established tattoo artists learned this beautiful art from their mentors by observing and applying. The available tattoo training courses usually take you from basic to advanced level by teaching you the appropriate methods of sterilization, tattoo machines, making tattoo stencils etc. The popular courses usually have training videos apart from manuals which can be used as a step-by-step guide.
The next generation of tattoos is surely the tattoo 3d which are extremely cool and even scary to look at. A tattoo artist needs to be quite creative and skilled to pull off such an exquisite piece of art. A tattoo 3d is a far more expensive and painful option as compared to the 2d images. However, when it comes to learning this level of tattoo artistry, you may not be able to reach such a high level if you just rely on online or offline tattoo training courses.
Tattoo training courses also educate about the standards of hygiene and safety operations which needs to be maintained. Such kind of courses usually come with a money-back guarantee so if you are not completely satisfied, you can always apply for a refund. Perfection and excellence in this skill would, of course, take dedication and patience.


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The 2013 U.S. News & World Report "Best Colleges" issue, which is scheduled to be on shelves Tuesday, features some local faces.
The popular issue of the magazine, which ranks colleges and universities, came to Somerville High School and profiled eight members of the class of 2012 for an article titled, "Success! How They Made It."
Unfortunately, the article is not available online (although the college rankings are), so you'll need to get your hands on a hard copy to see the profiles.
Somerville Public Schools got an early copy of the magazine and let Somerville Patch peek at the article.
"This spring, U.S. News visited Somerville High School near Boston to ask members of the Class of 2012 to talk about their journeys and pass on any helpful advice," the article says.
It describes our city as "home to a mix of blue-collar families, young professionals, college students and recent immigrants."
Here are the students the magazine profiled:
- Zachary Sciuto, a three-season athlete headed to Syracuse University
- Zoe Blickenderfer, class valedictorian, who's going to University of Pennsylvania
- Julia Zoukhri, a swimmer who's off to UMass Amherst
- Johnson Thomas, a Haitian-born basketball player going to Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I.
- Tania Ahmed, a science whiz and musician headed to Wellesley
- Norman Li, a musician and tennis player who's off to Boston College
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The classical service has seen a steady growth in listeners since we signed on three years ago. In fact, listenership increased 35 percent in 2013 versus 2011. A good sign. More people are using the service through different devices – HD Radios, the new WOSU smartphone app, and certainly online, where we have listeners throughout the world.
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Rep. Al Baldasaro, R-Londonderry, said he would be the ideal person to replace Shaheen next fall.
"What I see in Washington aggravates me every day," Baldasaro said. "Her votes are not for New Hampshire."
Baldasaro has served in the New Hampshire House for seven years, where he is on the Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee. He served in the Marines for 22 years.
"I'm a loud voice, not a politician," Baldasaro said. "I will tell it like it is. If I don't support an issue, I will tell them."
Baldasaro would join former Sen. Jim Rubens, former U.S. Sen. Robert Smith and activist Karen Testerman as Republicans who want to challenge Shaheen. Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, formerly a Massachusetts Republican and now a state resident, is rumored to be contemplating a run as well.
"He's a nice guy, but I don't think he's running," Baldasaro said of Brown. "He's helping the party and selling his books, but I don't think he's even an issue."
Baldasaro has been a source of controversy in the state for comments about gay rights and gun issues. New Hampshire Democratic Party spokesman Harrell Kirstein spoke out against Baldasaro yesterday.
"Al Baldasaro is wildly out of touch with New Hampshire values and would be a rubber stamp for the radical Tea Party," he said. "Baldasaro opposes a woman's right to choose, common sense gun violence prevention laws, and rights for New Hampshire's LGBT citizens, including marriage equality. He epitomizes the NH GOP's far-right ideology."
Baldasaro said he would decide by next month whether to run. He said money is his major concern at this point.
"It's going to take a lot," he said. "I've never really done any fundraising. I've got some people looking into it. I'm going to start making phone calls and see what's out there."
Windham GOP Chairman Bruce Breton said he has already heard from people who would support Baldasaro.
"I have high respect for (Baldasaro)," he said. "He's been great for servicemen and veterans. He can make sure they get benefits and protect the health and welfare for all of them. I had coffee with some ex-veterans (yesterday) morning and they were all really happy to hear he was considering running."
Baldasaro touted his political experience as a big factor in his candidacy.
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But nooo, they just yell at me! Truly mind-boggling...
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Well of course they yell at you, you idiot. The only way this would ever work is if you encapsulate it in a VB GUI.
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[–]xpansive 10 points11 points12 points 1 year ago
It's probably because you're using C++. Try rewriting it in a real language like Java or Brainfuck.
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Try doing this:
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You just needed more recursion to impress them. That should fix it.
For bonus points, allocate some shared memory before that return statement.
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That's because encapsulation is fucking stupid and a waste of time. They are basically functionally equivalent to UNICODE, functions, namespaces, and any language that is not in the C family of code (anything that is not Cobol, C, C++, C#, C#++, or C+##. Don't forget CUDA either, like hemis lol!~.)
One thing i see in your code is that you have bad form calling exit(0);
exit() takes as input a boolean value, so you are setting it to FALS, meaning that exit(FALS) isn't actually doing anything.
It's equivalent to this:
unsigned int const = 0;
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if (FALS < 0 || FALS > 0 || FALS != 0)
} }
end if;
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A world that exists in the shadows of our own.
A conflict we will never see.
One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.
Maya is hiding in plain sight in London. The twenty-six-year-old has abandoned the dangerous obligations pressed upon her by her father, and chosen instead to live a normal life. But Maya comes from a long line of people who call themselves Harlequinsa fierce group of warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to protect a select few known as Travelers.
Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are brothers living in Los Angeles. Since childhood, the young men have been shaped by stories that their late father was a Traveler, one of a small band of prophets who have vastly influenced the course of history. Travelers are able to attain pure enlightenment, and have for centuries ushered change into the world. Gabriel and Michael, who may have inherited their father's gifts, have always protected themselves by living off the Gridthat is, invisible to the real-life surveillance networks that monitor people in our modern society.
Summoned by her ailing father, Maya is told of the existence of the brothers. The Corrigans are in severe danger, stalked by powerful men known as the Tabularuthless mercenaries who have hunted Travelers for generations. This group is determined to inflict order on the world by controlling it, and they view Travelers as an intolerable threat. As Maya races to California to protect the brothers, she is reluctantly pulled back into the cold and solitary Harlequin existence. A colossal battle loomsone that will reveal not only the identities of Gabriel and Michael Corrigan but also a secret history of our time.
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I think the first time I realized it had become permissible to like Journey was in 1995, when the Foo Fighters performed a sincere cover of "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" as a concert encore at the New Daisy Theatre on Beale Street.
Since then, the classic rock band with the pop hooks, scarab beetle logo and nine-times-platinum 1981 album "Escape" has become, yes, inescapable.
Sometimes Journey's arena anthems of yearning and encouragement are employed with irony, as when lesbian serial killer Charlize Theron rollerskates with Christina Ricci to "Don't Stop Believin'" in 2003's "Monster." That song also was used in 2007 in the controversial final scene of the final episode of "The Sopranos."
More often, the Journey songbook is embraced -- and exploited -- for its celebratory, inoffensive uplift. Journey covers have become staples of "Glee" and "American Idol," demonstrating that the band has surpassed such fellow travelers as Van Halen and REO Speedwagon as classic-rock standard bearers in the popular-culture mainstream.
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The movie tells the "fairy tale or "dream" story (to borrow the words of its subject) of Arnel Pineda, a Filipino bar-band singer plucked from obscurity in Manila to be the new lead singer of Journey after guitarist Neil Schon discovered Pineda's performance videos on YouTube.
With what might be called lazy efficiency and economy, Schon had been searching the site specifically to find a Steve Perry soundalike, as an alternative to mounting an expensive and time-consuming cattle call for singers. (Apparently, the Internet has become the Swab's Pharmacy of the social media/music video era.) Pineda's fortune has some precedent: In 1996, Ohio's Tim "Ripper" Owens, lead singer in a Judas Priest tribute band, was recruited to replace Rob Halford as the frontman for his British heavy metal heroes after a fan-made videotape was given to Priest drummer Scott Travis.
Five years old when Journey was formed in 1973, Pineda -- whose long straight hair and baby face are as Perryesque as his soaring vocals -- grew up in poverty and was homeless as a teenager. He spent several years drugging and drinking in Hong Kong, pursuing his rock-and-roll dreams, before returning to a more stable life in Manila. (He describes his original songs as "the fruits of drugs, alcohol and tears.")
The call from Journey's management arrived like a transoceanic bolt from the blue, but he passed the screening process and auditions, and overcame his doubts. ("I'm short, I'm so Asian," he says, admitting he was worried that people would assume he was a hoaxer who had Photoshopped his image into band portraits.) In 2008, he made his arena debut with Journey in front of 18,000 screaming fans in Chile; eventually, he won over the Perry loyalists and racist "haters" who had labeled him a "monkey" and "karaoke boy" on Journey fanboards. (The Pineda-led Journey played FedExForum in 2011, headlining a tour that included Foreigner and Night Ranger.)
Director Ramona S. Diaz, also a Filipino, apparently spent a lot of time with Pineda and he band, at home and on the road, but she includes nothing (intentionally) embarrassing. We see no evidence that founding members Schon and bassist Ross Valory or the later additions to Journey continue to revel in rock-and-roll excess and decadence, although Pineda -- who seems like a nice guy, with a wife and young kids -- does confess to having "more opportunity to commit a sin," saying "you have to look away" when certain women come around. We don't see many of these women, but backstage in Los Angeles, we do watch a man introduce himself to Pineda with these words: "I'm the guy who replaced Peter Cetera in Chicago."
The movie, to its credit, is smirk-free, but Diaz fails to craft the material into much more than an infomercial; Journey's continuing -- in fact, renewed popularity, since Pineda's arrival -- is taken for granted and subjected to no analysis beyond the idea that Baby Boomers sure like to party. Schon (at one point seen wearing an arguably incongruous "The Clash" T-shirt) admits that Journey makes "classic rock" for "fans who are used to hearing it one way, and they want to hear it that way"; he still rocks, but he doesn't rock the boat. Does this make him more sell-out than artist? Is there a difference at this level of success? Such issues aren't broached, even when Pineda, early in the movie, worries that the requirement to provide Journey's "legacy sound" may not allow "my real self" to come out in the vocals. Presumably by now, he's found a way to express himself with Journey, or found other compensations. As keyboardist Jonathan Cain, who joined in 1980, reports: "I made my first million the first year I was in the band."
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What's the Anti-Romney Right To Do?
The former Massachusetts governor keeps hanging on while his rivals fight one another.
Maybe Mitt Romney is like MP3-quality audio.
Back in the days when the iPod was new and exciting, technology buffs and audiophiles came to the reluctant conclusion that, for the vast majority of music listeners, "good enough is good enough." Superior sound quality had taken a permanent back seat to portability, convenience, and storage capacity.
With that realization in mind, I picture Romney. The former Massachusetts governor keeps hanging on the periphery of the scrum while his rivals fight over the ball, only to watch it squirt from the pile and into Romney's undirtied hands.
Conservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin surveys the scene and floats a similar-sounding "good enough" scenario, under which Romney prevails over the purists and proves impossible to dislodge:
Like characters in a murder mystery, Romney's rivals have fallen one by one. Tim Pawlenty has vanished. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) impaled herself on her rhetoric. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is in critical condition from self-inflicted wounds. And now Christie goes down without a fight. Romney is the living incarnation of the adage that sometimes it is better to be lucky than good. In Romney's case, he may be just good enough to win the nomination.
Then again, as Jonathan V. Last points out, Rubin is among the Beltway conservatives (Michael Gerson and Karl Rove being two others) who have helped bloody Perry over the last couple of weeks.
What's the increasingly anxious anti-Romney right to do?
Last recommends that Perry find a way to "pole-ax" Mitt, and soon:
Romney presents four avenues of attack, and at last week's debate, Perry road-tested three. (1) He suggested Romney was a liberal. (2) He charged that Romney was a serial flip-flopper. (3) He argued that Romney can't be trusted on Obamacare, because of Romneycare.
At the debate, Perry didn't make any of these arguments well. But that hardly matters. You do the important hatchet work on the stump and in ads, not in debates. And besides, there's a fourth option: (4) Romney as the layoff king and destroyer of jobs at Bain Capital.
At RedState.com, Neil Stevens holds out hope that the incremental structure of the nominating process could ensure that Romney rivals Perry and a currently surging Herman Cain will have enough delegates to sustain a true three-way race.
Reflecting on all this, I took a look at my own recent posts on the primary battle. One could fairly accuse me of painting an incoherent picture of Romney.
On the one hand, I've said he's basically a sane technocrat who opportunistically pretends to be a conservative ideologue when he needs to.
But on the other, I've said it's impossible to know what Romney truly believes about anything.
So which is it, Galupo?
I really don't know.
I still like vinyl records, after all.


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9:29am Monday 25th June 2012 in News By Paul Cahalan
Lambeth's street and indoor markets will be celebrated during Love Your Local Market fortnight, which started on Saturday.
To mark the national campaign, which aims to promote markets and their importance to the local economy, Lambeth Council has waived pitch charges for all Lambeth registered casual traders on National Market Day (today) and pitch fees for registered permanent traders for one week.
It is also offering trader workshops for people who are considering taking up street trading.
And on Sunday, Herne Hill will have a new community led market on Railton Road, which will sell locally sourced produce and crafts to local residents and visitors.
There are eight different markets in Lambeth - including Brixton Farmers' Market, Brixton Indoor Market, Clapham Farmers' Market and Clapham's Venn Street Market – which offer a variety of food, clothes, books, organic goods and arts and crafts.
Councillor Pete Robbins, cabinet member for neighbourhood services, said: "Street markets are a vital part of London life. People want markets that offer something a bit different from the normal products found in the supermarkets.
"The Venn Street scheme has been a fantastic success story, providing a permanent home for the market and giving the area a real buzz.
"The revival of Brixton Market has been another success story, creating jobs and attracting shoppers to the area. Markets help support the local economy and make our town centres more attractive."
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President Barack Obama declared the Iraq war ended Tuesday.
I wonder how he could tell?
Perhaps it is because hundreds of American troops are leaving the country daily. U.S. military camps are deserted. Equipment not yet removed sits idle.
Declaring victory in the modern era does not have the same gusto it did when America was victorious over Japan and the Axis powers of Europe. One would hope for a celebratory kiss from a beautiful stranger and throngs of people lining a ticker tape-littered street. Smiles would be on every face.
It hasn't been that way in America since 1945.
Oh, we have fought our share of wars since 1945 but — unlike the war won by the greatest generation — no one seems to celebrate victories any longer.
It may be Americans became aware in 1954 the Korean conflict was more a "tie" than a victory. It could be argued Vietnam was America's first "loss" on the battlefield. There was some celebratory fanfare after America fought — and soundly defeated — all 24 crack military troops in Granada in the 1980s.
As much as we tried to celebrate the first war in Iraq, the negotiated peace settlement in 1991 left a dictator in charge and American troops miles short of the target in Baghdad. It was clear America's allies in that conflict were prepared to become non-allies if the juggernaut that is the U.S. military continued to pursue the war. I mean, honestly ... Iraq's elite fighting force we were warned about took to surrendering to CNN news reporters.
The end of the present-day Iraq war does not feel like a victory, hence no kissing or street parties.
Indeed, one feels as if a shower is needed to cleanse away the ugly truths about this particular conflict that was neither necessary nor beneficial for America.
Now, America may turn its attention to the conflict in Afghanistan as we attempt to find a way to declare victory and get the heck out of Dodge. There are disconcerting photographs of U.S. soldiers marching peacefully past poppy fields — whose harvested nectar is destined to deliver the scourge of opium addiction to our shores. The picture is wrong and America knows it.
Indeed, modern era warfare is not for the faint of heart. So many unholy alliances have been forged we have lost count of them.
Nothing was asked of Americans. There were no ration coupons for gas, or bacon, or meat, or rubber, or sugar. There was no sacrifice asked at all except on those Americans called to duty and the loved ones left behind.
That is why there are no celebrations, no smiling faces, no ticker tape parades, and no lasting victory smooch to linger fondly in our collective national memory.


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There's nothing quite like a rack of juicy, tender, messy ribs smothered in tangy, spicy BBQ sauce. How to get those, besides going to your favorite hole-in-the-wall BBQ joint, is another matter. Everyone has his favorite way of doing it and usually swears it is The Only Way. We've decided to experiment and this was round number one, slow cooked and smoked on the grill with indirect heat.
I love Everglades Seasoning and have no idea why I'm just discovering it. I've seen it on the shelf but haven't tried it until now. It's a tasty combination of flavors but for this it was a bit lot too salty. I'll have to find their rub for the next experiment.
I also experimented with making my own barbecue sauce. That's another thing that can be controversial. I'll post it separately but it was definitely a success.
There are more Rib Experiments in the future. In the meantime, these were pretty good for a football Sunday, served up with Potato Salad and a cold beer.
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- Cider Vinegar
- Everglades Seasoning
Remove the membrane by pulling it up on one end and peeling it away. Holding on with a paper towel made it easier to get and keep a good grip on it.
Brush them generously with vinegar. White vinegar would work too but we used Cider Vinegar because it's what was in the pantry.
Sprinkle with seasoning. We were a little too generous here, which is why they were quite salty.
The grill has three burners and racks. The ribs took up two racks. The small pan with water and wood sits directly over the only heat in place of the third rack. The ribs are never over direct heat.
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Put the ribs on, let the wood chips provide a little smoke and let 'em cook. Try not to open the grill and peek too often. They'll stay on for five or six hours. (Be sure you have enough propane!)
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The Township of Lyons is preparing its legal case against former school treasurer Robert Healy with the aim of recovering over a quarter million dollars in taxpayer money that Healy allegedly cashed in unused days off, The Doings La Grange reports.
While the total amount allegedly paid to the ex-treasurer was about $539,000, Healy offered to return about $262,000 of that in his late-August resignation letter, according to the paper.
Healy's actions, along with other alleged questionable practices by the Township School Treasurer's Office, have been reported multiple times by the watchdog group Better Government Organization.
Township school board trustee Theron Tobolski told the paper of the intent to pursue a lawsuit, declining further comment due to Healy's pledge to countersue. Tobolski also said that the Cook County State Attorney's Office would be involved.
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Water, Water Everywhere
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's celebrated poem, "The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner," the hero describes his voyage into uncharted seas, "As idle as a painted ship;
water, water, everywhere ... nor any drop to drink."
Area artist Joan Sporn isn't lost at sea, and fresh water abounds in the High Country, but the "painted ship" caught the attention of Alta Vista Gallery owner Maria Santomasso-Hyde.
She'd been noticing a trend in Sporn's paintings - water. From there, the two dove right into a concept show, "Water, Water Everywhere," this month at Alta Vista in Valle Crucis.
"There's just something very attractive and enticing about water," Sporn said. "I had a couple paintings already, and I thought it sounded like a good subject, a good theme."
And it's a vast theme. Sporn hasn't limited her painting to only the sea, as the show features water in varying capacities, from rivers to lakes to streams to San Pellegrino mineral water.
Sporn captures her subjects through photography and then recreates the scene to her imagination's extent in her studio.
"That's what you call artistic license," she said. "You make your own mountain, your own trees."
Sporn's paintings are in oil and acrylic, some done by brush and others by palette knife.
"The photo dictates certain things," she said. "If it was a picture I'm going to do of people, I wouldn't even think about using my palette knife."
She's admitted to a growing fondness for the tool, also using it in combination with her brushes.
"It makes me feel very free and more involved in the painting, when I can grab a glob of paint and just go for it," she said. "I think the strokes come out very nice."
This is especially true for water and its reflective quality.
"There's a peacefulness to it," Sporn said. "Tranquility and peacefulness would be two words that come to mind."
But there's another side.
"If it's still water, it's peaceful, but if it's moving water, like in our mountain streams, it's envigorating," Santomasso-Hyde said. "In Joan's show, you get both, and she's captured both - exciting waters and the still waters."
"Water, Water Everywhere" features 17 pieces, 14 of them brand new. Their subject matter spans the world, from Italy to France to Florida to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
"I like changing and doing something different," Sporn said. "I think painting just changes a little bit with time. I look back on things I've painted five years ago or 10 years ago, and without even trying, I think you simply develop. You, hopefully, are always getting better. That is something I think every artist - no matter what field you're in - wants. Don't get stagnant just because it's a formula that works. That's just not me. I like the adventure of trying something new."
Alta Vista Galley will host an opening reception on Saturday, July 23, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., featuring a meet-and-greet with Sporn and refreshments from Shelton Vineyards.
The gallery is located at 2389 Broadstone Road in Valle Crucis, right between the Mast Farm Inn and Mast General Store Annex.
For more information, including directions, call (828) 963-5247 or visit http://www.altavistagallery.com.


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Cardinals' Tony Cruz Has Matthew McConaughey's Chest-Thumping From 'The Wolf Of Wall Street' As His Walk-Up Music
Standing ovation.
Nice try, Bryce. But you got caught, big time.
Breathtaking way to pass the time.
Not too many things make as good a pairing as enjoying a tall, frosty, ale while taking in America's past time.
The MLB could learn a whole hell of a lot from Taiwan on how to properly throw out a ceremonial first pitch.
Say that five times fast.
Alcohol, without human contact
He always won 'tag' as a child.
Even the most basic elements.
This is a different kind of Instagram than Doc Gooden liked.
Hong Sung-heon is the designated hitter for the Doosan Bears in South Korea and probably the world's the foremost authority on how to flip your
But it'd rather be killing you.
For the ultimate cheapskate.
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He wouldn't be so good if he wasn't so tall.
Give Munenori Kawasaki a ton of credit.
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Blooper rule.
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It actually happened.
We'll give this lady the benefit of the doubt.
There are two things you need to see from today's Boston Red Sox White House visit. 1.) David Ortiz's selfie […]
Ouch. It's baseball season alright.
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Tiger Woods Loses Accenture Sponsorship
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Tiger Woods has officially lost his first sponsor over the scandal that has wreaked havoc on his once squeaky-clean reputation.
On Sunday, Accenture (ACN) officially announced that it would be ending its six-year relationship with Woods.
"After careful consideration and analysis, the company has determined that [Tiger Woods] is no longer the right representative for its advertising," the company said in a statement.
> > The Tiger Woods Stock IndexThe statement follows Woods' announcement on Friday that he would be taking an indefinite leave from golf to focus on repairing his relationship with his family. "We are disappointed but respect their [Accenture's] decision," said Woods agent Mark Steinberg, in an email to the Wall Street Journal. "That is all I have to say to you." Woods makes about $90 million a year in sponsorship fees, according to WSJ. and Accenture was one of his biggest sponsors. Accenture is one of the world's largest management consulting, technology services and outsourcing companies with about $23 billion in revenue in its last fiscal year.
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Deliberate events
Deliberate events cover a wide spectrum of intent and public health impact. They can be on a small scale, for example, contaminating a few samples of a product to extort money from a retailer. They can also be on a large scale, such as the deliberate release of biological, chemical or radionuclear material for terrorist purposes.
One famous deliberate event happened in 1995 when members of the Aum Shinrikyo sect deliberately released sarin nerve gas into the Tokyo subway.
In many countries, a common form of deliberate use of chemicals is the addition of methanol to counterfeit or illicit alcoholic drinks. In 2005, for example, at least 21 people died in Turkey after drinking a counterfeit brand of raki. In 2006, in Nicaragua, 788 people were poisoned by methanol and 44 died after drinking contaminated guaron – a brandy-like liquor.
Key resources
Deliberate chemical release: FAQs
Initial clinical management of patients exposed to chemical weapons - Interim guidance document
Warning signs of a chemical release
pdf, 295kb
What to do in case of a chemical release
pdf, 238kb
Symptoms of exposure to highly toxic chemicals
pdf, 212kb
Decontamination at health facilities
pdf, 300kb
Basic equipment for decontamination (A3 poster)
Decontamination steps (A3 poster)
Initial management flowchart (A3 poster)
Signs and symptoms of exposure (A2 poster)
- Public health response to biological and chemical weapons: WHO guidance (2004)
Mental and social aspects of health of populations exposed to chemical weapons: An overview
pdf, 149kb
- Mental health of populations exposed to biological and chemical weapons (2005) [pdf 121kb]
- Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers
- Health protection guidance in the event of a nuclear weapons explosion [pdf 29kb]
- How to recognize and initially respond to an accidental radiation injury [pdf 446kb]
- Radiological dispersion device (dirty bomb) information sheet [pdf 20kb]
- Guidelines for drinking-water quality (2008)
- Terrorist threats to food: guidelines for establishing and strengthening prevention and response systems (2002)
Related sites
- Chemical Safety Information from Intergovernmental Organizations (IPCS INCHEM)
- Centre for Environmental Health Activities (CEHA)