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Soldier Stuck In Canal
Posted by zydeco on Oct. 10, 2010
Posted by zydeco on Oct. 10, 2010
Not risking their life but wasting in invasion, yanks go home for a blowjob
respect for our country soldiers. who risk their lifes for our great country.
He has at least 50 extra pounds of gear and a 15 pound gun. Still a little pathetic though
you country wants to bring peace to Iraq, yet your soldiers can even get out of a ditch.... bit of a shot in the dark ain't it.
This is "Top Secret" information. If next U.S. enemy knows this, there will be thousands of canal in the war field.
i wudve made it, i had 2 climb steeper shit dan dat lmao, with more dan 80lbs wit me lol
Well there is like 80 pounds on his back ... plus body armour, and his secondary gear... add it to be 100 pounds over his body weight on a most likely HOT day and you get a stuck solider ... nothing wrong with him... GOD BLESS AMERICA
i can do that easly: step 1: get to back of canal step 2: RUN BABY RUN step 3: lean forward and push your self up with back of gun (make sure its not loaded)
Yes im sure all of you could do this easily after patrolling for miles carrying 40 lbs of gear in 100 degree heat. Not to mention do it every day for months at a time... lol get real. If anyones pathetic its you retards sitting comfortably at home while these guys risk there lives thousands of miles from home.
These videos are the only reason i wish this war ended. Post some videos of Sand N1gg3rs with a .50 cal through his head.
Good job to the comrades that helped their team-mate. To the guy filming and saying to let him do it on his own - he should be discharged!
Maybe if he pulled out his clip he could have safely use the rifle to connect with the first guy.
his gear doesnt weigh 80 pounds, it's more like 40, first off. he should still be about to get out of something like that. and yes, there's grass and actually lots of vegitation in afghanistan, in the spring and early summer
Speaking of discharge. Have you seen your mom's panties lately? Dude, I'm serious. I almost lost my cookies last night. Oh and can you please shave her taint? Thanks.

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How Should We Classify the Sandy Hook Killings?
The social construction of a mass shooting epidemic
The killings of 20 first-grade students and six adult staff members at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012, obviously constitutes a terrible, newsworthy event. But the news coverage did more than report the details of what happened at Newtown. It also sought to classify this incident as an instance of a larger problem. The initial news reports described what had happened as "the second deadliest school shooting," "another mass shooting," and a "mass killing" (all in stories in the next day's New York Times) and as "the second deadliest shooting event in U.S. history" (The Washington Post). The Post's website ranked the 12 "Deadliest U.S. shootings" (the earliest case on their list occurred in 1949), while the Mother Jones website added Newtown to its page "A Guide to Mass Shootings in America" (which included only cases from 1982 to 2012).
It may seem self-evident that the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary ought to be classified as a shooting event, or as a school shooting or a mass shooting. Of course we classify events into categories that make sense to us, and it is easy to take familiar categories for granted. We learn of terrible crimes and we are accustomed to commentators talking about incidents as instances. But the ways we make sense of the world—the terms we use to describe that world—are created by people, and they are continually evolving, so that specific categories come into and fall out of favor. In fact, in recent decades, Americans have understood events like the Newtown killings in a variety of ways.
In 1966, Charles Whitman killed 14 people and wounded 32 others by shooting from a 28th floor observation deck on the University of Texas campus in Austin. (In addition, before coming to the campus, he killed his wife and mother.) Whitman had been an Eagle Scout and a Marine; commentators at the time puzzled that an apparently respectable young man had committed such a terrible crime. The Whitman shootings occurred less than three weeks after Richard Speck had murdered eight student nurses by stabbing or strangling them. Reporters linked the two cases, and also mentioned other killers, such as Charles Starkweather and the "Son of Sam," in articles about mass slayings, mass killings, or multiple killings.
In the 1960s and 1970s, then, it was understood that the key feature of these cases was a high body count. These early discussions of mass murder lumped together cases that varied along what would come to be seen as important dimensions:
Time: Did the killings occur more or less simultaneously, or did they extend over several days, months, or years?
Place: Did the killings occur in a single location, or in a variety of places?
Method: How were the victims killed?
By the early 1980s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation promoted the distinction between mass murder and serial murder. The Bureau had a new databank—the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, or VICAP—that could help law enforcement identify similar crimes that had occurred in other jurisdictions. But in the aftermath of revelations about the FBI's surveillance of the civil rights movement, an effort to expand the bureau's domestic data collection invited suspicion and resistance. The FBI used the serial murderer menace—and particularly the idea that serial killers might be nomadic, able to kill in different jurisdictions without the authorities ever recognizing that crimes in different places might be linked—to justify the VICAP program. That set the stage for Clarice Starling and all the other heroic FBI agents who began pitting their wits against serial murderers in crime fiction and movies. "Son of Sam" would no longer be classified with Charles Whitman.
Charles Starkweather, who killed several people during a 1958 crime spree was also moved into a separate category. The bureau developed the concept of spree murders, a series of killings in different places over a period of time, often occurring as a fugitive tries to stay ahead of the law. Mass murder was now understood to involve, not just several victims, but killings that occurred in more or less the same place, at more or less the same time.
But how many victims are needed to make a mass murder? Obviously, whatever line is drawn will be arbitrary. Some analysts have argued for including any incident with three or more homicides; most favor four or more as the standard. The lower the minimum number of victims, the more incidents will be counted as mass murders. Setting the bar at 33 would exclude all of the killings on The Washington Post's list of American incidents (which presents the 32 murders at Virginia Tech as the deadliest U.S. shooting), although other events, such as the 77 killings by Anders Breivik in Norway in 2011, would still count.
Journalists notice patterns, so similarities between cases invite the creation of new categories. For example, in 1986, a postal worker killed 14 postal employees; then, in 1991, there were two more incidents involving former postal workers killing employees at post offices. This led to the expression going postal. Eventually, after further incidents in 1993, the Postal Service responded with a program to improve their workplace and prevent violence. Some criminologists began writing about workplace violence, although this category was defined as including any violence in a workplace, not just mass murders. Under that definition, a large share of workplace violence involved robberies. (According to one analysis, the three most common sites for workplace violence were taxicabs, liquor stores, and gas stations—all isolated settings likely to have cash on hand.)
At the end of the 1990s, attention shifted to schools. During the 1997–98 academic year, there were heavily publicized incidents in West Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Springfield, Oregon. The Jonesboro story made the cover of Time, which featured a photo of one of the shooters as a young child wearing camouflage and holding a rifle, with the caption "Armed & Dangerous." Thus, the expression school shooting was already familiar a year before the April 1999 killings at Columbine. Advocates and academics began compiling databases of school violence, although the results were surprising: The average number of deaths per year fell, from 48 during the period from the fall of 1992 through the spring of 1997, to 32 during the period spanning September 1997 through the end of the school year in 2001, even though Columbine and the other best-publicized cases occurred during the latter period. In spite of commentators declaring that the nation was experiencing a wave or epidemic of school shooting, the evidence suggested that violent deaths in schools were declining.
It isn't entirely clear what counts as school violence. The Journal of School Violence began publication in 2002, but its pages tend to be filled with articles about bullying, sexual harassment, prevention and response programs, and other topics that define violence broadly. The killings at Virginia Tech (2007) and Northern Illinois University (2008) were referred to as school shootings, indicating that colleges could count as schools.
Defining the problems in terms of its setting, such as workplace violence or school violence, suggests that steps need to be taken to protect people in those settings. Thus, the Postal Service devised a program to address workers' frustrations and to prevent violence, just as, post-Columbine, many schools sought to beef up security measures. The response of the National Rifle Association following the killings at Newtown—recommending that more schools be staffed with armed security personnel—implied that the problem was violence in schools.
But the Newtown shootings followed a number of other high-profile shooting incidents outside of schools, including the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D–Ariz.) and some 2012 incidents at a movie theater near Denver, a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee, and a Minneapolis factory, settings with little in common. Gun control advocates, of course, had viewed school shootings as shootings, rather than tragedies in schools. They had been calling for a new federal "assault weapons" ban ever since the earlier ban expired in 2004, and the Colorado movie theater shootings had involved an assault weapon, so some of the commentary following that incident emphasized the nature of the gun. But the weapons used in other incidents, including the Giffords shooting, were pistols, leading most gun control advocates to emphasize that there had been a wave of mass shootings: that this was a gun problem that needed to be addressed. Many liberals had been critical of the Obama administration's reluctance to draw attention to gun control as an issue during the 2012 presidential campaign. But the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary occurred after the election, and pro–gun control advocates and commentators now became even more vocal in drawing attention to mass shootings. Since the Newtown killings also involved an assault rifle, some advocates called for limiting magazine capacities or otherwise restricting assault weapons.
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Defining the problems in terms of its setting, such as workplace violence or school violence, suggests that steps need to be taken to protect people in those settings.
Let's not forget Nidal Hassan, everyone's favorite case of "workplace violence".
What a useless article. No new information, shed no light on a new, creative way to view these situations. Nothing. A big, fat zero.
Thanks for wasting my time, Reason!
The guy is a professor of sociology.
This is a very good point. My bad for missing such an obvious warning to avoid this article!
Here's a good sociological look at rampage killers. Interesting read.
Article should be retitled: "How Should We Pick Fly Shit Out Of Pepper".
According to The New Republic, there were 70 mass shootings between 1982 and 2012, leaving 543 people dead.Using a gun for mass murder is rather inefficient. McVeigh's handiwork claimed 168 lives. One guy with a truck, some diesel and some fertilizer.
The Feds used fire to slaughter ~70 people in Waco and yet the agencies involved are still operating.
543 deaths over 30 years doesn't seem like too big a deal. Each individual death is a tradgedy but I'm certainly not loosing any sleep even thinking about mass murder. Mass shootings are usually the result of some random nut job, and a free society can't be free of risk. However, the deaths caused by government employees, local police or feds are genuine cause for concern. In fact, just in 2012, a single year, not three decades, 587 people died by being shot by the police. So the pigs beat the nut jobs handily. No doubt some, perhaps most, of those shootings were justified, but it seems that I'm more likli to be shot by a government employee than I am by a crazed, angry person with a gun.
We need government control, not gun control. But then everybody here already knows that....
You SF'd the link.
But THIS is a very good point.
Reason, can you see fit to let crashland write an article about this subject? I bet he's not a Sociology Professor (just a guess).
Many of Reason's commentators are brighter and more interesting than Reason's writers.
But do we want Warty to write articles about perverted sex?
If there are to be articles about perverted sex, I would much prefer them to be written by SugarFree.
Only 587 killings by police? Even if as many as half of them are unjustified that actually seems incredibly good if it's nationwide. Does it seem strange to react that way?
" it seems that I'm more likli to be shot by a government employee than I am by a crazed, angry person with a gun."
A non-empty intersection to be sure.
My point is that it is possible to characterize Newtown as an instance of a lot of different social problems: as a mass shooting; as a school shooting; as mass murder; as workplace violence (remember the staff members who were killed were at work); as a crime involving an assault rifle; as a case of a mentally ill person committing acts of violence; and so on.
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Good intentions like thinking a sign that says "Gun Free Zone" will keep kids safe, when in fact it emboldens murderers since they can be confident that no one in the "Defenseless Victim Zone" can shoot back.
I don't think those are good intentions.
That's because you're thinking. You're supposed to emote.
"Guns around children? What if someone gets into an argument? What if a child gets their hands on the gun? What if there's a dispute over a parking space? SOMEONE WILL DIE!"
Journalists notice patterns when they want to, or when it is ideologically convenient to do so. It's a truism that any paper can create a "crime wave" by simply being diligent about reporting. The "epidemic" of mass shootings and "gun violence" is largely a media creation, as the statistics show.
The media can also do the opposite, as they have with all the racial violence in recent years, in which mobs of black youths attack whites. There have been dozens or even scores of such attacks, but the only people who mention the racial component are some right-wing bloggers and the White Pride types. Journalists just describe it as "youths" attacking people, because it doesn't fit the PC narrative to go too far into the details, though of course they would if the races were reversed. Heck, even bringing it up as an example risks someone calling me a "racist."
A friend who gets most of her news from the NY Times was astonished that she'd never read about these attacks. I wasn't. Far from doing any "racial healing," Obama's election has made it harder to accurately perceive and talk about anything awkward regarding race.
Yes. It has long since become a joke. If they don't give the race of the mob that attacked someone, you know said mob was black or maybe Hispanic.
The corollary is that in a case of political corruption, if the party affiliation of the corrupt pol is not mentioned (particularly in the first paragraph), 99% of the time they are a "D".
Yes. It has long since become a joke. If they don't give the race of the mob that attacked someone, you know said mob was black or maybe Hispanic.
Say it again!
Say WHAT one more time!
I dare you! I double-dare you, motherfucker!
"any paper can create a "crime wave" by simply being diligent about reporting"
I recall in the months leading up to the gun cobtrol votes during Clinton our local tv media spending half there news programs reporting every gun murder that happened aroubd the country. Had never done that before, and they stopped doing so immediately after it passed. Unfortunately the sheeple were suckered in by this and did not see through it for what it was.
as a crime involving an assault rifle
Unless I'm mistaken, it would be an "assault weapon", not an "assault rifle". An "assault rifle" refers to rifles with selective fire, while "assault weapon" refers to weapons (including but not limited to rifles) that have one or more (depending on the legislation) common features categorized by law. The rifle at Sandy Hook would did not have selective fire, and thus would not be an "assault rifle".
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Saw this on Instapundit. What happens when a little idiot liberal journalist chick buys a gun to make some stupid point about gun control? Terror.
Tony told me a Glock doesn't have an external safety feature, so when I got home and opened the box and saw the magazine in the gun I freaked. I was too scared to try and eject it as thoughts flooded my mind of me accidentally shooting the gun and a bullet hitting my son in the house or rupturing the gas tank of my car, followed by an earth-shaking explosion. This was the first time my hands shook from the adrenaline surge and the first time I questioned the wisdom of this 30-day experiment.
Contains comments, which contain projection.
Bob Bates says:
June 13, 2013 at 2:11 pm
Heidi dramatically makes the point that our society permits and indeed encourages easy access to guns. Those who argue she should learn to shoot are missing the point. The point is that there is no sensible reason to allow citizens do buy firearms in the way our national, piecemeal state by state system functions.
She did not buy the gun for self protection. She bought the gun to demonstrate the idiocy of a system that allows just anybody to legally purchase a weapon of gross destruction. Our society is awash with guns. You gotta believe most people who own them have no idea how to use them. Let's change the system.
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More evidence that Epi is right that these people are animists.
I needed help. I drove to where a police officer had pulled over another driver. Now, writing this, I realize that rolling up on an on-duty cop with a handgun in tow might not have been fully thought through.
I told him I just bought a gun, had no clue how to use it. I asked him to make sure there were no bullets in the magazine or chamber. He took the magazine out and cleared the chamber. He assured me it was empty and showed me how to look. Then he told me how great the gun was and how he had one just like it.
The cop thought I was an idiot and suggested I take a class. But up to that point I'd done nothing wrong, nothing illegal.HAHAHAHAHA! Oh man, surprised she didn't roll up to the cop, fumbling with the gun saying, "Officer! How do I put the thingy in the thingy?! Does it have bullets in the..."
Police Officer: STOP RESISTING!!!!
Oooh, more yummy, sweet projection:
Again (see my comments above): not everyone who buys a gun knows how to use it. There is no check on that whatsoever. Now she can take it to starbucks and shoot kids by accident (or not by accident, whatever she feels like actually, maybe she hs a hell of a day and gets a little crazy).
I wonder if the author of the piece would use her scary gun if she actually had a home invasion during her little experiment. Or will she just shoot her kid to make a political point.
They keep talking about all these people who could potentially shoot someone because they "have no training," and how easy it is to obtain a gun. Why, you'd almost believe there are millions of untrained people carrying guns into Starbucks everyday. And yet I never hear the news story about how some moron accidentally shot someone at the grocery store or coffee house or playground. Why, it's almost as though they have no idea what they're talking about.
Look at 'em paws, man...
Reminds me of something.
I'm going to say....no.
Potential mate for Steve Smith or Ben Roethlisberger.
My Month With a Gun: Week One
Tune in again next week, after she's been confronted by a dude who dared her to shoot him or get raped.
We have to keep up with this story. I'm predicting and exponential rise in lulz as the month goes on.
Let me go ahead and deconstruct this sophist article for you.
We have a mentally inept and possibly retarded left-winger, who doesn't want a gun for any reason pertaining to its use, buy a gun without doing any research or having any intent on training with said gun. An analog to this would be someone buying a sports car,then towing it to their drive way and (without turning it on for fear of the car going through his/her garage and into the neighbors house and bursting into flames) sitting in the drivers seat playing race car driver. Now, can anyone show me a person who does this that isn't a complete hack or mentally disabled?
It is because they are fixated on the object. Gun is just another in the endless stream of scapegoats human beings have been using to better cope with things they can't change.
In the past people would fixate on witches or certain kinds of animals and such to explain bad harvests and other things they couldn't control or understand. Today we have the fact that at any moment some nut somewhere can go crazy and kill a few people. And just like bad harvests back in the day, there is nothing anyone can do to stop it. So these people fixate on something they think they can control.
They then accuse gunowners of fetishizing firearms.
And did you know that you can walk onto ANY car lot and they'll sell you a 4000lb death machine without any evidence of training or a permission slip from the government?!? The very same object that kills 30,000+ Americans every year! O M G !
"[...] a Glock doesn't have an external safety feature, [...]"
Not true, the safety is located on the trigger.
Bet you a Dollar to a donut that before she first used Office, she took a course on how to use the component parts (Excel for Dummies).
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If I recall correctly, this morning Donna Brazile claimed (with no supporting evidence whatsoever) there have been something like fourteen "mass shootings" since Newtown. As usual, nobody called her on it.
I was too scared to try and eject it as thoughts flooded my mind of me accidentally shooting the gun and a bullet hitting my son in the house or rupturing the gas tank of my car, followed by an earth-shaking explosion.
I'm sure from this day forward she will be on disability, unable to work do to constant fear caused by this terrifying traumatic experience.
She did not buy the gun for self protection. She bought the gun to demonstrate the idiocy of a system that allows just anybody to legally purchase a weapon of gross destruction.
Apparently, even on the Montana concealed carry application there is a "Why do you need this?" question. I don't feel the need for one, so I have never seen a copy of the application. Any time the topic comes up, I suggest they put down, "Because THIS IS AMERICA."
"Ask me again and you'll find out!"
Today, they have a woman with absolutely no firearms training and a Glock on her hip sitting within arm's reach of small children, her hands shaking and adrenaline surging.
"I'm a moron; loud and proud. Hear me roar."
The narrative is set way before the events happen. If gun control is the narrative, then no matter what the actual facts are in any given tragedy, the events will be broadcast in such a way as to support that narrative.
There's a narrative about how rednecks are bad people, too. How they hate gay people and how we should take their guns away.
To whatever extent the president conforms to the narrative, that's the extent to which he can influence the narrative.
That's how, for instance, the president got a free pass to give AR-15s to Islamists in Syria--it was partially because he conformed to the narrative by trying to take AR-15s away from Americans.
It's all about conforming to the MSM's narrative in most ways as closely as possible.
In Syria, it's all good;
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This is the Best article I have read on the subject.
Absolutely right. The war-zone levels of daily nonnewsworthy incidents of gun violence in this country, of course, should play more of a role in the gun control debate.
Fuck off, sockpuppet.
Hey, Tony! I'm still waiting for you to apologize for lying about the Oath Keepers and calling me a "quasi-White Supremacist" because I'm a member.
Or does being Tony mean never having to say you're sorry?
Oh, and you're lying through your teeth about the "daily war-zone levels" of gun violence. You have no fucking idea of what a "war-zone" is. I could introduce you to some of my Libyan, Syrian, Sudanese, or Bosnian students who do, though. Though, I doubt they would look kindly on your hyperbole.
Not to mention, that any place a person would call a "war zone" in the U.S. would be right in the middle of a democratically controlled urban area.
Yeah sure, Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, Philly, L.A., New Orleans, Gary, etc, etc are war zones, but they sure as hell weren't made that way by libertarians or libertarian policy. You own them, Tony.
Not to mention, that any place a person would call a "war zone" in the U.S. would be right in the middle of a democratically controlled urban area.
You mean down in the holla, drunken good ol' boys aren't daily, nay, hourly, shooting at each other like the Hatfields and the McCoys?
Only when Marshal Raylan Givens is out of the county.
I remember back in '96 when Virginia was upgrading its concealed-carry law from "may issue" to "shall issue". So many anti-gunners were wetting their pants you could smell the urine stink all over the state (especially in northern VA, where anti-gun judges had pointedly refused to issue permits no matter how good the reason it was requested).
They not only whined their usual whine that Virginia would become "the Wild West" (which of course didn't really exist), there was even a Washington Post op ed that said that Virginia would become "Beirut".
I was in Beirut in the fall of '83 with the SHTF; those idiots at the WaPo probably didn't even know where Beirut was.
I have friends from Sarajevo. You, like most left-wingers on this subject, insult people who have actually lived through wars.
The war-zone levels of daily nonnewsworthy incidents of gun violence in this country, of course, should play more of a role in the gun control debate.
You're right, although not for the reason you think. Yes, let's look at those incidents of violence: who is perpetrating them, and why. And also look at who's not perpetrating them.
Then we'll see if your narrative about the causes of the violence holds up.
My only comment is that the word "event" should be purged from the English language. What does the wishy, washy, vapid and wimpy word "event" add to any of the following descriptions: Snow event, rain event, meeting event, social event, accident event, nuclear event, sunshine event, heart event (my favorite all time big pharma doublespeak term for heart attack as a !possible! side effect) and now may we present you with.....a shooting event. I feel like having an event event.
Hear, hear!
An "event" is my cousin's wedding.
On the way to my daughter's dance recital today, I drove a road I don't normally take and I noticed that in my little region of suburban/exurban New Hampshire there were two new gun stores along a road that already had two others.
We're winning.
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What we have in all of the incidents mentioned by the author, is a fall-out from living in a free society, where no one is guaranteed a risk-free life, but many assume that there are no negative consequences to be wary of.
We have lost the ability to be of aware of our surroundings, and the risk contained therein, to a great degree.
We tell people who complain about unfairness that it is not written anywhere that life is fair.
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Not so good. The right idea, but inconsistent application.
One would think that a piece posted under the heading "Reason" wouldn't fall for the simplest trick of reason's enemies. That trick is the obfuscation of terms. Sloppy terminology leads to sloppy argument and sloppy thinking, and sloppy thinking is a weapon against reason, fact and logic. I refer to the inconsistent and misleading use of the scare term "assault weapon" and its assumed synonymity with "assault rifle".
We've been explaining the distinction to the press for DECADES and, by this point, it's pretty clear that they all know about it but perpetuate the confusion deliberately.
So what's Reason's excuse?
The gun-control crowd started calling ordinary semi-auto rifles "assault rifles" solely to scare the public and stampede them into support for proposed legislation. Surely you've heard well-meaning but ignorant types say "I don't support overzealous gun control, but something has to be done about these assault rifles." However, the phrase "assault rifle" has had a fairly specific and standardized meaning since the 1940s. And that has caused two problems for the gun controllers.
(1) Ordinary semi-auto rifles such as the type you can buy at WalMart or gun shows are NOT assault rifles, and
(2) These people aren't really after rifles; it's handguns they want to control. After all, "Handgun Control Inc" wasn't called "Rifle Control Inc". Now even the most uninformed voter or newspaper hack realizes that "assault rifle" has something to do with rifles, not handguns. So "assault rifle" just won't do.
Enter the mythical term "assault weapon". Nobody knows what an "assault weapon" is. But that's a feature, not a bug; since it means nothing, it can be understood to mean anything, anything they want. And what do they want? We can only guess, since when they say "assault weapon" they mean something else.
Concern with terminology is not to be slighted as mere pedanticism. When one can't even agree on the terms, then one can hardly expect to agree on the concepts. If a town was having a debate over policy re packs of stray dogs, but the local press kept calling dogs "cats", that certainly wouldn't clarify matters. And it would have no effect on the real world, either; calling Fido a cat doesn't magically transform him into Morris. Just as calling a semi-auto rifle an "assault rifle" doesn't turn it into one.
The only way to deal with an issue is to be honest about terms; those who won't are probably not interested in being honest about concepts, either.


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There are three principal typologies of humanoid beings on Mars.
The first typology, which I call Homo maris terris, are our genetic relatives from the time before the solar system catastrophe of 9,500 BC, when Earth and Mars were in contact. They resemble bald, homely Earthlings. This is the type that my father and I met at Curtiss-Wright in 1970. They are human beings, like human beings from Earth. It was clear that by 1970 they both had a more advanced space-faring capability than we did on Earth and were working with the United States government.
The second typology, which I call Homo maris, are the indigenous Martian humanoids. They have narrower heads, pointier ears, longer fingers, and smaller bodies than Earthlings. They resemble the creature in the vintage film, Nosferatu. We were advised that if hungry enough, they would sometimes kill and eat human visitors from Earth, so we should be wary of them. This is the type that I encountered when walking through the dilapidated brick city to deliver the data disk to the communications center there. They gave rise to the notion of "Martian" in folklore and popular culture on Earth.
The third typology, which I call Homo maris extraterrestrialis, resemble the Grey ETs of the UFO contact literature. This is the type that Courtney M. Hunt and William B. Stillings and I of the CIA's jump room program encountered after I saw one that was sitting on the roof of the jump room facility called The Corkscrew when we arrived on Mars one time in 1981-82. As I exited The Corkscrew ahead of my fellow chrononauts, I called out to them, "Court, Brett! A Grey. On the roof. Observing us!" They are probably the result of a branch of the Greys that was left back on Mars at some time in Martian history. It was this type of Martian that is depicted in my historic image, "The Humanoid Being on Tsiolkovski Ridge," which I published in 2008 in my landmark paper "The Discovery of Life on Mars," which is the first image of a humanoid being on another planet ever published on Earth.
There is a fourth typology of humanoid beings on Mars, the tiny ones that Dave Beamer has detected being crushed under the wheels of NASA's Mars Exploration rovers. I don't include this type of Martian humanoid in this taxonomy because they are far smaller than the three other typologies of Martians and us.
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My princess, the name originally borne by Sarah (Genesis 11:31; 17:15).
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sa'-ra, sa'-ri:(1) In Genesis 17:15 the woman who up to that time has been known as Sarai (Saray; Sara) receives by divine command the name Sarah (Sarah; Sarra). (This last form in Greek preserves the ancient doubling of the r, lost in the Hebrew and the English forms.)The former name appears to be derived from the same root as Israel, if, indeed, Genesis 32:28 is intended as an etymology of Israel. "She that strives," a contentious person, is a name that might be given to a child at birth (compare Hosea 12:3, 4, of Jacob), or later when the child's character developed; in Genesis 16:6 and 21:10 a contentious character appears. Yet comparison with the history of her husband's name (see ABRAHAM) warns us not to operate solely upon the basis of the Hebrew language. Sarai was the name this woman brought with her from Mesopotamia. On the other hand there can be little doubt that the name Sarah, which she received when her son was promised, means "princess," for it is the feminine form of the extremely common title sar, used by the Semites to designate a ruler of greater or lesser rank. In the verse following the one where this name is conferred, it is declared of Sarah that "kings of peoples shall be of her" (Genesis 17:16).We are introduced to Sarai in Genesis 11:29. She is here mentioned as the wife that Abraham "took," while still in Ur of the Chaldees, that is, while among his kindred. It is immediately added that "Sarai was barren; she had no child." By this simple remark in the overture of his narrative, the writer sounds the motif that is to be developed in all the sequel. When the migration to Haran occurs, Sarai is named along with Abram and Lot as accompanying Terah. It has been held that the author (or authors) of Genesis 11 knew nothing of the relationship announced in 20:12. But there can be no proof of such ignorance, even on the assumption of diversity of authorship in the two passages.Sarai's career as described in Genesis 11 was not dependent on her being the daughter of Terah. Terah had other descendants who did not accompany him. Her movements were determined by her being Abram's wife. It appears, however, that she was a daughter of Terah by a different mother from the mother of Abram. The language of 20:12 would indeed admit of her being Abram's niece, but the fact that there was but 10 years' difference between his age and hers (Genesis 17:17) renders this hypothesis less probable. Marriage with half-sisters seems to have been not uncommon in antiquity (even in the Old Testament compare 2 Samuel 13:13).This double relationship suggested to Abraham the expedient that he twice used when he lacked faith in God to protect his life and in cowardice sought his own safety at the price of his wife's honor. The first of these occasions was in the earlier period of their wanderings (Genesis 12). From Canaan they went down into Egypt. Sarai, though above 60 years of age according to the chronology of the sacred historian, made the impression on the Egyptians by her beauty that Abraham had anticipated, and the result was her transfer to the royal palace. But this was in direct contravention of the purpose of God for His own kingdom. The earthly majesty of Pharaoh had to bow before the divine majesty, which plagued him and secured the stranger's exodus, thus foreshadowing those later plagues and that later exodus when Abraham's and Sarah's seed "spoiled the Egyptians."We meet Sarah next in the narrative of the birth of Ishmael and of Isaac. Though 14 years separated the two births, they are closely associated in the story because of their logical continuity. Sarah's barrenness persisted. She was now far past middle life, even on a patriarchal scale of longevity, and there appeared no hope of her ever bearing that child who should inherit the promise of God. She therefore adopts the expedient of being "builded by" her personal slave, Hagar the Egyptian (see Genesis 16:2 margin). That is, according to contemporary law and custom as witnessed by the Code of Hammurabi (see ABRAHAM, iv, 2), a son born of this woman would be the freeborn son and heir of Abraham and Sarah.Such was in fact the position of Ishmael later. But the insolence of the maid aroused the vindictive jealousy of the mistress and led to a painful scene of unjustified expulsion. Hagar, however, returned at God's behest, humbled herself before Sarah, and bore Ishmael in his own father's house. Here he remained the sole and rightful heir, until the miracle of Isaac's birth disappointed all human expectations and resulted in the ultimate expulsion of Hagar and her son.The change of name from Sarai to Sarah when Isaac was promised has already been noted. Sarah's laughter of incredulity when she hears the promise is of course associated with the origin of the name of Isaac, but it serves also to emphasize the miraculous character of his birth, coming as it does after his parents are both so "well stricken in age" as to make parenthood seem an absurdity.Before the birth of this child of promise, however, Sarah is again exposed, through the cowardice of her husband, to dishonor and ruin. Abimelech, king of Gerar, desiring to be allied by marriage with a man of Abraham's power, sends for Sarah, whom he knows only as Abraham's sister, and for the second time she takes her place in the harem of a prince. But the divine promise is not to be thwarted, even by persistent human weakness and sin. In a dream God reveals to Abimelech the true state of the case, and Sarah is restored to her husband with an indemnity. Thereupon the long-delayed son is born, the jealous mother secures the expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael, and her career comes to a close at the age of 127, at Hebroni long time her home. The grief and devotion of Abraham are broadly displayed in Genesis 23, in which he seeks and obtains a burying-place for his wife. She is thus the first to be interred in that cave of the field of Machpelah, which was to be the common resting-place of the fathers and mothers of the future Israel.The character of Sarah is of mingled light and shade. On the one hand we have seen that lapse from faith which resulted in the birth of Ishmael, and that lack of self-control and charity which resulted in a quarrel with Abraham, an act of injustice to Hagar, and the disinheriting of Ishmael. Yet on the other hand we see in Sarah, as the New Testament writers point out (Hebrews 11:11 1 Peter 3:6), one who through a long life of companionship with Abraham shared his hope in God, his faith in the promises, and his power to become God's agent for achieving what was humanly impossible. In fact, to Sarah is ascribed a sort of spiritual maternity, correlative with Abraham's position as "father of the faithful"; for all women are declared to be the (spiritual) daughters of Sarah, who like her are adorned in "the hidden man of the heart," and who are "doers of good" and "fearers of no terror" (1 Peter loc. cit., literally rendered). That in spite of her outbreak about Hagar and Ishmael she was in general "in subjection to her husband" and of "a meek and quiet spirit," appears from her husband's genuine grief at her decease, and still more clearly from her son's prolonged mourning for her (Genesis 24:67; compare Genesis 17:17, 23:1 with Genesis 25:20). And He who maketh even the wrath of man to praise Him used even Sarah's jealous anger to accomplish His purpose that "the son of the freewoman," Isaac, "born through promise," should alone inherit that promise (Galatians 4:22-31).Apart from the three New Testament passages already cited, Sarah is alluded to only in Isaiah 51:2 ("Sarah that bare you," as the mother of the nation), in Romans 4:19 ("the deadness of Sarah's womb"), and in Romans 9:9, where God's promise in Genesis 18:10 is quoted. Yet her existence and her history are of course presupposed wherever allusion is made to the stories of Abraham and of Isaac.To many modern critics Sarah supplies, by her name, a welcome argument in support of the mythical view of Abraham. She has been held to be the local numen to whom the cave near Hebron was sacred; or the deity whose consort was worshipped in Arabia under the title Dusares, i.e. Husband-of-Sarah; or, the female associate of Sin the moon-god, worshipped at Haran. On these views the student will do well to consult Baethgen, Beitrage, 94, 157, and, for the most recent point of view, Gressmann's article, "Sage und Geschichte in den Patriarchenerzahlungen," ZATW, 1910, and Eerdmans, Alttestamentliche Studien, II, 13.(2) The daughter of Raguel, and wife of Tobias (Tobit 3:7, 17, etc.).SeeTOBIT, BOOK OF.J. Oscar Boyd
Sarai (13 Occurrences)
Genesis 11:29 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 11:30 Sarai was barren. She had no child. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 11:31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 12:5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 12:11 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 12:17 Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 16:2 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 16:3 Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 16:5 Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 16:6 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 16:8 He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Genesis 17:15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)


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Sep 29, 2009This past weekend the Wine project released a new version of its Windows emulator. Apart from the numerous obligatory bug fixes, the release includes improvements to the Direct3D 10 API and an initial support for the Open Audio Library (OpenAL).
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Sep 22, 2009The KDE project's Sebastian Kügler dreams of a desktop that melts, like silk, into the Web. In a writeup to KDE developers he promotes Project Silk for better Web integration.
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Star Trek X: Nemesis follows the Next Generation crew members who are dispatched as peace ambassadors to their longtime foes, the Romulans. There, they encounter a mysterious new enemy that thwarts not only the armistice process, but Earth itself!
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Detection of a novel large deletion causing α-thalassemia in South China.
Title | Detection of a novel large deletion causing α-thalassemia in South China. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Authors | Jia X, Huang R, Lei Z, Yao L, Wang L, Li Y, Meng D, Zhou Y, Liu J, Zhang X |
Journal | Experimental and molecular pathology |
Volume | 95 |
Issue | 1 |
Pagination | 68-73 |
Date Published | 2013 Aug |
Abstract | α-Thalassemia is an inherited autosomal recessive disorder. It is one of the most common monogenic abnormalities known in the world and is prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions. α-Thalassemia is more frequently caused by deletional type than non-deletional type. Recently, we identified a novel large deletional type of α-thalassemia named --(FZ)/αα from a family in South China. Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification was used for diagnosing the carrier and prenatal diagnosing for a fetus. Real-time PCR was employed for characterizing the deletion breakpoints and the deletional segment was determined as 300 kb in length extending from the telomere to AXIN1 gene on the short arm of chromosome 16. The carriers in the family members were detected by real-time PCR using designed primers. |
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Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones Joins as Collaborating Organization
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Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones will be a Collaborating Organization for National Archaeology Day 2012. Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones is a web resource that encourages the study of archaeology and the social scienes through lessons/resources related to the adventures of Indiana Jones. Now in their fifth year, the Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones website reaches thousands of visitors from around the world annually and has a presence on facebook and twitter through which it will promote National Archaeology Day. They are also currently working out details for an event to be held in October.
Project Archaeology at the Beaverhead Museum hosted a teacher/student Archaeology Day for the region.
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Gus Powell took this series of images during the first night of MOMA's Creative Capital film series. The exhibition opened with the Braden King's "Here [The Story Sleeps]," a combination of film and musical performance, with live accompaniment by Michael Krassner and the Boxhead Ensemble.
Off the Shelf: Ron Galella's "No Pictures"
This week in the magazine, Tad Friend has a Talk of the Town piece about the paparazzo Ron Galella. Friend writes:
Ron Galella's assignations with movie stars were legion. For decades, Galella was the world's leading paparazzo, a tireless stalker with an Elmer Fudd laugh, so it was only natural that, when he jumped from behind a post with his Nikon flashing, the stars would respond to him. Often, they'd beckon coyly with a middle finger, or send over a bodyguard to suggest a tension-relieving service that he could perform on himself.
Some responded more emphatically than others; in 1973, Marlon Brando broke Galella's jaw. (The full story is available to subscribers.) Here's a selection from Galella's new book, "No Pictures."
Off the Shelf: Zwelethu Mthethwa
The South African photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa's large-format photographs document the rural-industrial peripheries of South African cities and the migrant workers who live there. His first monograph, recently published by Aperture, provides an overview of his work from the last decade.
Mthethwa's process is one of exchange and collaboration. In an interview with Isolde Brielmaier, included in the book, Mthethwa says, "It was important that I offered them the chance to decide how they wanted to be photographed, and in this way it became, in a sense, about giving them back their dignity and authorship." Aware that he is often entering a private space, Mthethwa asks for permission before taking a portrait, and often waits patiently as his subjects, who work in cane fields and gold, quartz, and coal mines, adjust their appearance to their liking—washing or changing clothes, straightening a room. Mthethwa's subjects appear to know their role in the image; there is a sense of agreement in his vision.
Mthethwa's photographs suggest an energetic ambivalence between documentary photography and fine-art portraiture. (It comes as no surprise that he was trained as a painter.) In his "Interiors" series, Mthethwa frames his subjects among the decorative details of their homes: makeshift wallpaper, tablecloths, patterned linoleum, folded blankets. The way each individual organizes his space and possessions is as specific and idiosyncratic as a fingerprint. His striking photo of a man seated next to a neatly arranged collection of toiletries on a bedside table—deodorant, baby powder, a book of matches—shows how intimate these mundane and disposable objects can be.
Aperture has video of an interview with Mthethwa and the curator Okwui Enwezor; keep your eyes open for his upcoming show at Studio Museum in Harlem this July.
All images copyright Zwelethu Mthethwa.
On and Off the Walls: Liu Bolin, Hiding in the City
I first encountered Liu Bolin's photographs in perhaps the ideal way: by chance, on a city street. Walking aimlessly through Soho the other day, I happened to peer into the Eli Klein gallery and saw large prints of what first appeared to be empty landscapes in China. A closer look revealed a camouflaged human form in the middle of each scene. It turns out that for this series, "Hiding in the City," Liu had himself painted to blend in with a variety of backgrounds all over Beijing.
The result is both witty and unmistakably political. Liu says he began the series after authorities shut down Beijing's Suo Jiacun (Artist Village), in 2006. "At that time," Liu told the Daily Mail, "contemporary art was in quick development in Beijing, but the government decided it did not want artists like us to gather and live together." The photographs require him to pose for as long as ten hours while his collaborators perfect his painted disguise. "I am standing, but there is a silent protest, the protest against the environment for the survival, the protest against the state," Liu said. "My work is a kind of reminder, to remind people what the community we live in really looks like."
The show at Eli Klein, "Liu Bolin: On Fire," closes on June 4th, and includes a variety of Liu's work, including sculpture. Here's a selection from "Hiding in the City."
Frames From Fiction: Raimond Wouda's "School"
While researching images for this week's fiction story, "Agreeable," by Jonathan Franzen, I considered images from Raimond Wouda's body of work "School."
Wouda, a Dutch photographer living in Amsterdam, began the project in 2002, when his studio was across the street from a secondary school. While the Dutch media tended to focus on the poor quality of education and students' bad behavior, Wouda saw secondary schools as rich laboratories where young people form social networks, search for identity, and process complicated psychological questions about themselves.
"It's a period of searching, hormones, lots of energy, rebellion, aggression and fragility," Wouda writes. "It's life in its extremes." To Wouda, secondary-school students make good subjects because they express their questioning of identity and society "in a very drastic way," and their ideas are "visible and photogenic." Aside from changing fashions, Wouda doesn't believe that his experience in school was much different from that of current students. The main questions, he writes, remain the same: Who am I? Where do I belong? How do I relate to the group?
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They may be dead, but they have the time of their lives. Pick up some Espolón Tequila and celebrate the season with the best holiday mascots ever.
Halloween is near. F*ck sentient evil skeletons.
Freaking out people at the drive-thru will never not be funny.
American Bridge's tome. "I don't think there's been a knockout blow," says his biographer.
"Afterlife" is a series of light painting photography performed by Darius Twin, which portrays the 'secret life' of light skeletons in the Los Angeles area.
Hint: I think it's probably the finger toe shoes, dude. (via brendandonnelly.us)
These geeky anatomy lessons by Michael Paulus show us what lies underneath our favorite cartoon characters.
What do you get when you mix an eastern European woman with a knowing smile and a lot of acid? Probably this.
Two medieval skeletons were discovered in Ireland with large stones stuffed into their mouths. Archeologists say it was because the folks doing the burying feared that the dead would rise from their graves like zombies. I would have guessed that they were Vampires. That's why I got a D+ in Archeology. (via laughterkey.tumblr.com) View Image ›
The charred remains of 53 people, more than likely rebels and rebel sympathizers, were found in a warehouse outside of Tripoli today. Yet another reason Gaddafi must be found and brought to justice. WARNING: Disturbing images. View List ›
Artist Ben Cuevas created this impressively detailed hand-knit skeleton for a mixed-media piece entitled Transcending the Material. The exhibit, installed for the Wassaic Project, consists of the knitted skeleton meditating atop Borden's milk tins while disembodied body parts float overhead. I'll never look at my sweater the same way again. (From, via) View List ›
Death has never been so cute.
The Skeleclava is your best friend when it's cold outside and you want to scare your friends. [Ed. note: As therblig points out in the comments: "With a little modification and different colored yarn, that could be transformed into a cthulhu or zoidberg variation."] View List ›
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Oct 17 2012 by Jade Wright, Birkenhead News
WIRRAL restaurateurs are celebrating the news that they have been acknowledged in the Michelin Guide.
Michelin stars are awarded annually and the guide awards one to three stars to a small number of restaurants of outstanding quality.
This year Fraiche in Oxton retained its star for the fifth year in a row, making it the only single-chef restaurant to do so.
But, as well as the Michelin star system, other restaurants were also singled out for praise.
The small but perfectly formed Da Piero, in Irby, has its fourth mention in as many years.
Dawn Di Bella, who runs the 27-seat restaurant with her husband Piero and their son Alan, said: "We are over the moon to be recommended for the fourth year running."
The Richard Fox at the Leverhulme Hotel has also been included in the hotels section.
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Fire and ice. There could not be a better description of Iceland. Smoke and fire shooting high into the air during a volcanic eruption. Massive frozen glaciers that can be found throughout the interior of the country. Reykjavik has been labeled the European City of Culture, and indeed it has become known as one of Europe's hottest nightspots. Tourism, from North America and from Europe, is increasing at an amazing rate. People are anxious to see what all of the excitement is about. The cultural season is considered to run from January through May. The city is on Faxafloi Bay in the southwestern part of the country. When the first Viking settler came ashore there in 874, he called his new home Reykjavik (Steamy Bay) because of all the geothermal steam he saw rising from the ground. That steam is used today to heat the city's buildings and outdoor swimming pools. Because steam is Iceland's primary source of energy, Reykjavik's air is among the cleanest in the world, which is why the Icelandic people enjoy one of the world's highest life expectancy ratings. This is a complete guide to Reykjavik and its surroundings: where to stay & eat, what to see & do, how to get there and how to get around. Filled with maps & photos.


text: The Aviator tells the story of Howard Hughes, a complex man, a daredevil pilot and flight pioneer who struggles to keep a grip on his million-dollar empire and his sanity. Leo had dreamed of playing Howard Hughes for nearly a decade. He says he immersed himself so much in the role that sometimes he wondered if he was losing himself a little too much—in particular, trying to adapt Howard's obsessive compulsive disorder. "When you commit yourself to a character at that level, you take on certain attributes, and Howard Hughes was a germaphobe, and he had OCD to a huge degree that drove him nuts. … Unfortunately, during Howard Hughes's life, he couldn't be diagnosed with it because they didn't know what it was." |


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The move, though, is being blocked by a majority of 348 schools in the NCAA's top division (those ungrateful, whiny, non-football powers).
The Big Five could choose to break away from the NCAA and form its own organization.
"I don't see secession as a legitimate point of leverage except as a last resort," Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said at media day.
It was news, though, that Bowlsby even mentioned the "S" word.
The five power commissioners have strategically used increasingly magnified NCAA dysfunction under its president, Emmert, to launch its agenda armada.
The commissioners, one by one, almost in orchestrated concert, started laying out the future in their media-day addresses.
Bowlsby said, "Transformative change is going to have to happen."
Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, more of a traditionalist, framed it this way: "I think there's a lot of momentum for the tradition, but there are also head winds out there also."
Slive mentioned in his address, "The NCAA has not been successful in meeting the full cost of attendance of our future athletes."
Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said Friday the message was not necessarily coordinated among the commissioners. He said everything just sort of chain-reacted after Slive's opening-salvo comments.
Scott thought Bowlsby's comments about secession could have been misinterpreted.
Scott said the major football conferences can, and should, solve their problems as members of the NCAA.
He said, "I believe it would be a colossal failure by everyone" to take major college football outside the system.
The power brokers simply want to use their wildly disproportionate amount of television money the way they want.
The commissioners who cut the humongous TV deals have taken a stranglehold on the sport since the Supreme Court ruled 30 years ago the NCAA was a monopoly with no right to dictate how many games could be televised.
"You can't lose focus on the fact that before the NCAA lost control of college football TV, we had one game on a week," Delany said at Big Ten media day.
The five power conferences could opt to form another division within the NCAA.
"It's an option," Scott said Friday, "but it might not be necessary."
Scott thinks the bureaucratically bogged down NCAA simply needs to become more "nimble and flexible."
Emmert, who has maneuvered himself into a box, seems agreeable to this and has promised significant change within a year.
Some would say: What other choice does he have?
History has proved that, in most cases, you should never bet against power and money.
In the college world, football is power, and football is money.