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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WDRB) – As much as Indiana struggled against Temple last Sunday, Syracuse struggled even more against the Owls. Temple gave Syracuse its first defeat this season – and did it in Madison Square Garden in front of primarily Syracuse fans.
Looking for another common opponent for the Orange and Hoosiers?
Georgetown qualifies. Indiana survived the Hoyas in overtime in Brooklyn last November. Georgetown played Syracuse twice – and beat the Orange twice. In fact, Georgetown limited Syracuse to 39 points when they played in the Verizon Center nearly three weeks ago.
Thursday night in the Verizon Center the comparative score game will end because the Orange and Hoosiers will play in the East Regional semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. The winner will need one more win to qualify for the Final Four. Don't ask about the loser.
The talk around town seems to be tilting toward a Syracuse victory, even though Indiana is favored by about five points. I asked former Maryland coach Gary Williams to explain why so many people like the Orange.
His answer was not surprising. Basketball insiders wonder if Indiana, a team with a pair of undersized guards, can handle the 2-3 zone that Syracuse never abandons. Zone is not the defense of choice in the Big Ten. And Indiana had some issues attacking the zone Northwestern played. Northwestern is not Syracuse.
"You look at Indiana and how many times in the last two months have they played a team that's played them all zone," Williams said. "None. That's always the advantage. You can't get your second team to play at the level that Syracuse plays the zone. What do you do?
"It's an issue where if you're in a league with them, you play five straight teams that play man-to-man, and then all of a sudden you play Syracuse. You might only have two days to get ready for a zone. Jim (Boeheim, the Syracuse coach) recruits to a zone. So they're long, thin, they can do a lot of things with the zone in terms of double-teaming and matching up in the corner.
"There's no way you can get a second team to show that in practice. You can get it off tape. But when you get out there on the court and see how big they are and how quick they are, that becomes a problem."
I checked some numbers:
The last five teams that Syracuse has played have shot at least five percentage points under their season average. In those five games, the Syracuse opponents have made only 22.2 percent of their three-point attempts, only 24 of 108.
Is there a flip side?
Williams says that there is.
"The other side of that is the ability of Indiana to score in transition is going to be really big," Williams said. "If you can do that, you don't have to worry about the zone. You're taking shots before they can get that set up. Indiana has proven to be a very good running team, probably as good as anybody in the Big Ten.
"There should be opportunities because Syracuse overall has not shot the ball that well. If they can keep them from getting second shots, they can run.
"(Cody) Zeller can run with any big man. (Victor) Oladipo is quick in transition. You see Oladipo sometimes even if the ball goes in, he's out at halfcourt before everybody else is."
There is also a dissenting voice. Former Indiana coach and player Dan Dakich likes Indiana, 74-66. He believes that the Hoosiers will be able to score on effort plays. He can see Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller causing problems from inside of the teeth of the Syracuse zone.
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The New Orleans Hornets have agreed in principle to trade All-NBA point guard Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Clippers for a package including stud shooting guard Eric Gordon, according to ESPN's Marc Stein. The package will also send veteran center Chris Kaman, young forward Al-Farouq Aminu and the unprotected 2012 first-round pick of the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Hornets.
A member of the 2008 McDonald's All-American Team and a star at Wake Forest, Aminu was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2010 NBA Draft with the 8th overall pick. He averaged 5.6 points and 3.3 rebounds in 81 games played last season, 14 of which he was a starter.
In New Orleans, he should play behind Trevor Ariza at small forward, provided that Ariza doesn't immediately go on the trade block.
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Two Albany night clubs will stay in business.
Police wanted city commissioners to deny alcohol license renewals for Charlie B's and Club Xscape because they say officers respond to too many problems there.
There weren't enough votes to deny those licenses, Tuesday, and there's an interesting reason why.
City Commissioners held hearings on Charlie B's and Club Xscape last week and voted on their alcohol licenses Tuesday night.
Commissioners Christopher Pike and Ivy Hines abstained, so there weren't enough votes to deny the license renewals. The vote was 3 - 2 not to renew. Without four votes, the licenses will automatically be renewed.
These owners are happy they get to stay in business.
"I very excited about the decision that the city commission came up with today because I really do want to keep my license and I want to continue to do business the way that I am in the city of Albany. I'm looking forward to 2013 being a better year," said Club Xscape Owner Tim Shelton.
"I was happy with it. We've broken no laws or had any code violations so I think they made the right decision," said Charlie B's Owner Frankie Pillman.
Pillman says he has taken proactive steps such as adding security workers and installing surveillance cameras.
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How much meat do you eat? Are you at a half pound or under per day? Around a pound? More than 2 pounds? Also are there other significant forms of protein in your diet?
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I'm 16, would say I eat about 1-2 lbs a day depending on hunger
I've recently been eating about a pound or more per day because I just wanted to see what it would do to my body. I know, not exactly a comforting or intelligent reason but there's also another side to it. My workout regimen involves lifting SUPER heavy (for me at least) and while I've done low to moderate protein (with moderate to high carbs) before, I can't help but wonder if my results will differ if I just did a high protein diet. There's a plenty of people out there on PH or wherever that will tell me that up to a certain point, excess protein in the diet is useless and maybe even harmful blah blah blah, however, there will also be a number of people who will tell me the opposite. GAH... Instead of just waiting around on my tush, I'm just going to find out for myself.
So, since 2 weeks ago, my diet has been changed from low/mod protein, mod/high carb to High protein, moderate carb, and low fat. I do not consciously cycle calories or macronutrients.
I have also upped my intake of bone broth by a LOT to balance my amino acid intake. I'm talking about several cups worth per day.
little observations - my skin is sooooo smooth! and my hair is growing like weeds in a abandoned yard... ( i wonder how much this has to do with increased protein intake via muscle meat or bone broth..or both)
Hi, Eric. I follow Dr. Jan Kwasniewski's recommendations for how much CHO, PRO, and FAT.
The principles of the Optimal Diet
The main principle of this dietary model is a marked increase in the consumption of fat, and the reduction in the consumption carbohydrate, as the energy source for the body. There are, however, strict rules on the proportion between the three main food components, protein, fat and carbohydrates, which need to be followed (with few exceptions) in order to achieve claimed benefits of the Optimal Diet.
The ideal proportion between the main food components of protein, fat and carbohydrates should be in the range of: 1 : 2.5 - 3.5 : 0.5 In order to work out the correct daily food intake using this proportion, one has to know how many grams of protein needs to be ingested in a day to satisfy body's requirements. This amount varies from person to person and depends on a "due body weight". Due body weight, in kilograms, is equal to person's height in centimetres less 100 (± 10%). Thus, for a person 160 cm tall, a due body weight is 60 kg ± 6 kg.
A correct amount of protein to be consumed in a day is approx. 1 g per 1 kilogram of a due body weight. Thus, a 60 kg person needs to consume 60 ± 6 g of protein to satisfy body's daily needs. Any excess of protein, above the daily requirement, is converted by the body to fat, provided energy requirements are met by other components.
Having worked out the amount of protein, one can then calculate the amount of other components in a daily menu. Thus, for our typical 60 kg person, the consumption of 60 g of protein has to be accompanied by between 150 to 210 g of fat, and 30 to 50 g of carbohydrate in order to follow the principles of the Optimal Diet.*
There are links at that site on different aspects of the diet. Here is a link to the page on protein:
The site is not run by Dr. Kwasniewski, but by some folks who follow his plan.
Dr. Kwasniewski's site is in Polish, and google translator does not do a good job.
One of Dr. Kwasniewski's main tenets is that the food needs to be high quality and what he calls "bioavailable".
He recommends egg yolks especially, liver, brains and other offal, as well as muscle meat and fat.
The kind of meat is as important as how much.
Here is some information on his premise, from that same page on the Optimal Diet:
The Optimal Diet is not a form of medical treatment. It is the correct nutritional supply template of all the necessary nutritional elements needed by the body in order to sustain a healthy life. Diseased individuals who adopt this type of nutrition quickly return to health, regardless of the type of disease, since the diet does not treat the particular disease, as does a pill or a specific treatment. The causal treatment associated with the Optimal Diet is based on the delivery of the most important nutritional elements, e.g., the most valuable proteins and fats, whilst leaving the body in charge of the distribution of these elements to the most critical areas. Thus, the Optimal Diet firstly treats the underlying disease and then subsequently (rapidly) removes the burden of unnecessary body weight, whilst increasing the strength, the energy, the resistance and the vitality of the body.
And that is how the principles of the therapeutic function of this diet should be understood.
Therefore, this type of diet, or rather a healthy eating habit, can and should be adopted by sick and healthy individuals. Various disease states, which can be corrected (and in many cases cured) by the Optimal Diet are described below.
AFAIK, there isn't a web forum in America of folks on Dr. Kwasniewski's diet. From reading blogs and LC forums, it seems to be a popular diet among older folks with ailments and illnesses who are keen to be as healthy as they can.
Being one of those older folks, I can say that it has helped me very much. :)
I eat three eggs and about a pound of meat. I weigh 140 ish, 5'7''
I would tend to eat about 1-1.5lbs a day of meat (70% cow, 20% seafood, 10% pig), handful of nuts, and about 5 eggs and maybe an ounce of cheese.
Coming from the bodybuilding world.....roughly the body needs 1g of protein per 1lb of body weight JUST to maintain your current muscle. If you want to actually build muscle, you need to take in 1.5-2g protein per Lb.
So I am 200 lbs, I take in about 250-300g of protein. Sounds like a lot, but it adds up quick if you think about 8oz of chicken breast containing 50g of protein
I was eating over 2lbs of meat/egg/fish per day, i thought this was what i needed as i eat low carb most of the time, everyday i kept looking worse and kept upping my protein because i thought maybe i wasn't getting enough to meet my glucogenesis needs, the higher i went the crappier i looked & felt.
I now think i was eating way too much for my needs so have halved my protein down to 1lb per day, i feel like i've already seen an improvement after 2/3 days, i look better and i feel like i'm finally burning fat more efficiently.
I'm 16, 6'5 and 190 pounds pure muscle. Huge into movnat! I eat 4-5 pounds a day and include 4-6 eggs in on top. I also consume kale like a dumpster! I follow the rules very strictly and have not gained a bit of fat!


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By Keith Eddings
---- — LAWRENCE – The city is heading into Tuesday's election with an elections board hobbled by vacancies, constrained by delays and vulnerable to challenges and with a two-year record of violating a core provision of the state's open meetings law.
The board – which conducts recounts and rules on voter challenges at the polls and on the validity of absentee ballots – has no chairman and keeps no minutes of its meetings despite the state law, which requires all public bodies to "create and maintain accurate minutes of all meetings."
The five-member board also has had as few as two members since Jan. 25. It now has three, just enough for the quorum needed to conduct business. When one of the three sitting members is absent, as has happened at least three times since the Sept. 17 preliminary election, the board can't act.
Last month's canceled meetings included one when the registrars were to begin questioning the city's bilingual election coordinator about allegations that he forged signatures on nominating petitions for state Rep. Frank Moran last fall – an investigation that the board waited 12 months to open.
And as both Mayor William Lantigua and challenger Daniel Rivera warn that they will be on high alert for voter irregularities on Tuesday, one registrar who will be deciding which challenged voters can vote and which contested absentee ballots will count has been an active foot-soldier in Lantigua's re-election campaign.
Registrar Ana Medina, whom Lantigua put on the board in 2011, has contributed $400 to Lantigua's campaign this year, attended several of his rallies and fixed Lantigua bumper stickers and posters to her car and home.
Medina is not shy about her support for Lantigua: one of the posters in front of her Marston Street home is 32 square feet, more than five times larger than city zoning allows.
Medina heads Casa Dominica, a social service agency that has received $28,000 in funding from the Lantigua administration over the last three years. The money appears to be the agency's only source of funding.
The state's narrowly drawn ethics laws allow members of town and city boards of registrar to work on political campaigns. But Pam Wilmot, the executive director of the Massachusetts chapter of Common Cause, said Medina's efforts on behalf of Lantigua's re-election could expose her to allegations that she has the mayor on her mind when she considers voter challenges and related issues.
"Clearly, the optics are not good and she's going to have to bend over backwards to prove she's not being biased," Wilmot said. "Ideally, election officials are completely impartial and are not participating in political campaigns, because it does raise the appearance that they're not going to be fair, and that's a problem."
Medina has declined several requests for an interview about her dual role as a city registrar and a Lantigua volunteer.
An effort to track how Medina voted on the Board of Registrars since Lantigua put her on it in 2011 revealed that the board has kept no minutes for at least two years, despite the state mandate that every public agency keep records of its meetings.
On Sept. 21, The Eagle-Tribune filed a request with City Clerk William Maloney, who serves on the Board of Registrars, for copies of the board's minutes over the last two years. The newspaper filed the request under the state's Public Records Law, which allowed Maloney 10 days to respond.
Maloney did not acknowledge the request. The newspaper appealed to the state Supervisor of Records, a division of the Secretary of State.
City Attorney Charles Boddy then responded that the board has kept no minutes over the two years but began keeping minutes on Oct. 12, which was its first meeting following the newspaper's request.
Massachusetts General Law requires all municipal boards, councils other public agencies to "maintain accurate minutes of all meetings, including executive sessions, setting forth the date, time and place, the members present or absent, a summary of the discussions on each subject, a list of documents and other exhibits used at the meeting, the decisions made and the actions taken at each meeting, including the record of all votes."
Maloney did not return a phone call Friday.
Minutes "allow the public to see the government at work," said Peter Caruso, a First Amendment lawyer who represents several news organizations in the region, including The Eagle-Tribune. "By keeping these records secret, you keep secret the actions of public officials."
Although the Board of Registrars is independent, Rivera, the two-term city councilor challenging Lantigua, said Lantigua bears responsibility for its deficiencies.
"The way they do business under this mayor is that whatever they want to do, they do," Rivera said. "It doesn't matter what the law is or what common sense says. They just do it. Of course it's important that the board keep minutes. It's the elections board for the city. There's nothing more important than that."
At least one of the board's deficiencies could be corrected Wednesday, the day after the election, when voters will choose not only a mayor but also a City Council and two school committees. Lantigua last month nominated Francisco Surillo and Ricardo DeJesus to fill the two vacant seats on the board. The council could vote on the nominees on Wednesday.
Surillo is the brother-in-law of Deputy Police Chief Melix Bonilla, who managed Lantigua's 2009 campaign. Lantigua kept Bonilla on paid leave from his $140,000-a-year job even after Bonilla was indicted on extortion and other corruption charges 14 months ago.


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Public buildings and private finance? That's a formula for tomorrow's slums
Larry Elliott
Monday August 29, 2005
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That's it for another year. The annual summer ritual is over, following last week's publication of the GCSE results. Are the pupils getting smarter or the papers getting simpler? Who knows? But even if the exams have not been dumbed down, the buildings in which they were sat certainly have been.
So here's a multiple-choice question for you. Is this the fault of (a) local education authorities, (b) the government or (c) the private finance initiative?
You get no marks if you answered (a), two if you answered (b) and a full five marks if you answered (c).The government spin on PFI is that it has harnessed private sector money and expertise to clear the backlog of work in the public sector without skimping on quality.
This is poppycock. At best, the schools, hospitals and prisons being built are depressingly mediocre - bog standard, to coin a phrase. At worst, they are the slums of tomorrow. There are people in government who know this and are worried about it.
At root, however, there is a tension between the pile 'em high and build 'em quick mentality that lies behind the PFI and Labour's historic commitment to quality design in the public sector that goes back to the days of municipal socialism and beyond. As William Morris once said: "Commerce has become of very great importance and art of very little."
Defenders of the PFI approach say it is a question of priorities. Quite rightly, they argue that there was an enormous backlog of work in 1997 after 25 years of neglect of the public realm and it was vital to get children out of portable classrooms and to prevent cancer patients being trundled for miles around the corridors of Victorian hospitals.
That's only part of the story, however. The PFI was a wheeze dreamed up by the Treasury for Kenneth Clarke when the Tories had run out of money in the early 1990s and were looking for a live-now-pay-later way of financing public infrastructure. But by the time Labour came to power in 1997, the PFI was clearly not working and could have been painlessly killed off.
Labour - perhaps to show it could now rub shoulders with the big wheels of finance - decided to breathe new life into the PFI and made it a flagship policy. What had been little more than financial sleight of hand under the Tories became an article of faith under Labour.
From the start, though, PFI proved controversial, particularly with the party faithful. Indeed, the PFI would probably be right up there with Iraq on the list of reasons why Labour's natural supporters are fed up with the government. As Peter Robinson of the Institute for Public Policy Research showed as long ago as 2000, there was never any fiscal rationale for the PFI. Gordon Brown could have borrowed the money in the traditional manner without breaking his financial rules, which explicitly allow the government to borrow for infrastructure projects.
It's true to say that most of the attention since 1997 has been on whether PFI projects really cost less - they don't - and whether they are good value for money - they're often not. Less attention, though, has been focused on the quality of what's being built, and that's a shame, because if the buildings are not as good as those that would have been built in the traditional fashion, that's a false economy.
Again, the government would probably say that it has few complaints from teachers and doctors about their new PFI buildings, but that's hardly surprising. The quality of design and the likely longevity of a building come some way down the list of priorities if you've been working in a draughty 100-year-old hospital where the roof leaks. An independent report prepared for the Building Research Establishment in 2002 said the design of PFI schools compared unfavourably with those procured in the traditional manner, adding that there was a "sparsity of finishes" and a "utilitarian aesthetic". Writing in the latest edition of Soundings, Ken Worpole, a writer on urban design, said the government had succeeded in transferring risk for projects to the private sector but only at the expense of "asset-stripping and de-skilling local authorities in their historic role as architects, planners and publicly accountable asset-holders. At the same time, PFI projects tend to produce bland design and build formulaic architecture that pays little or no attention to local circumstances or conditions."
It's easy to see why this should be. Traditionally built schools and hospitals start from a simple premise: what will be best for the pupils and patients. In PFI schools, design is only one part of the mix. Consortiums have to be careful that the designs are not so bad that their reputation suffers (the Jarvis syndrome), but they invariably go for the no-frills, low maintenance, economies of scale approach.
Paradoxically, there is more innovation and risk-taking in publicly procured projects than under the PFI; the bankers and the lawyers have a tick-box mentality. They will meet all the targets set for them but they are not in the slightest bit interested in trying anything original. Originality means risk, and risk can be expensive.
The picture is not universally bleak. Some local authorities have maintained their own design teams and have been able to eschew the PFI route. Hampshire county council, for instance, is seen by architects as a beacon of excellence for its in-house designed schools, and there are other authorities which have retained enough expertise to see when a PFI consortium is cutting corners. But this tends to be the exception rather than the rule. All that's left in Britain is the husk of a once proud municipal tradition that spanned left and right, and included millionaire philanthropists as well as town hall socialists. When it came to the public realm, there was agreement that beautiful buildings were not just desirable in themselves but contributed in a fundamental way to the creation of the good society.
The past 30 years have seen that tradition virtually disappear. Local government has been stripped of its powers and the values of the market have come to dominate the public sector. But behind all the talk of efficiency and delivery, we have witnessed the ascendancy of the philistines. It's not too late to act, and there are some encouraging signs that thought is being given to the issue of quality in public sector buildings.
In education, for instance, the government has announced a £2bn programme, Building Schools for the Future, that makes the right sort of noises. According to the No 10 website, the scheme will mean that within 15 years every child will be educated in a 21st century environment. The idea is that schools will be "rebuilt, remodelled or upgraded to provide flexible, inclusive, attractive learning environments that teachers want to teach in and pupils want to learn in. Schools will have high-quality facilities and integrated IT to help deliver personalised learning tailored to the needs, interests and aptitudes of every child". So is what the prime minister is calling "the greatest school renewal programme in British history" too good to be true?
According to architects it is, because of the fundamental incompatibility between the vision of Building Schools for the Future and the harsh reality of life under the PFI. The government sees no such incompatibility. It says a new body, Partnerships for Schools, will develop "innovative and effective models to streamline procurement" and create long-term public-private partnerships to deliver the government's vision.
If that sounds like PFI by any other name, that's because it is. "Partnerships for Schools will work with LEAs, helping them to select a private sector partner to form Local Education Partnerships that will bring together the best private sector expertise to construct, maintain and operate the new facilities, supporting headteachers in creating new schools and allowing teachers to focus on what they do best."
All this brings a hollow laugh from those with hands-on experience of life under PFI. There is currently much talk about the possibility of Labour urgently needing to find a way of reinventing itself in office after seeing its majority sliced in the election. But so far, that's all it has been: talk.
If the government is really ready to change course, there would be no better place to start than with a radical rethink of the PFI. Britain is an immeasurably wealthier country than it was when loving attention was paid to the detail of schools, health centres and public housing of the 1930s. The government is forever boasting about how the UK is now the fourth biggest economy in the world, so there is no obvious reason why we can no longer afford what was deemed essential for the public realm then.
Ministers argue that initiatives such as BSF are vital if Britain is to develop a workforce with the right skills and knowledge to meet the challenge of globalisation. They have backed that analysis with serious amounts of cash. The difficulty is that the PFI will frustrate, rather than help bring about, the government's lofty aims. If the architects were working for the schools rather than the money men, there would be a real chance of success. But that means breaking the habits of a lifetime and removing the financial and ideological shackles binding local government.


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I Ask You: Is Loyalty or Honesty More Important
Honesty or loyalty…it's a simple question, right? Or is it? Those three words have stirred up some enlightening conversations in my world as of late and I felt the need to share them with you. I have come to the conclusion that leadership is 95% a...
Honesty or loyalty…it's a simple question, right? Or is it? Those three words have stirred up some enlightening conversations in my world as of late and I felt the need to share them with you. I have come to the conclusion that leadership is 95% a state of mind and 5% application! Now, in that context these two concepts are perhaps the crux of your success or failure, and let me say they cut both ways. Equally of note, to define true "brotherhood" those I have asked used these two terms interchangeably.
Please allow me to paint a picture; recently I participated in a promotional board, not unlike others I have conducted, and in the process of helping an agency determine the best candidate for promotion a question was asked that shook the foundation of my moral being. Imagine if you will three professionals on one side of the table and one hopeful candidate on the other. Predetermined questions were fired at the first candidate and answers were given as one might expect. After the official experience had been given its due, one of my peers on the board posed a question that at first seemed routine, but inevitably took root in my simpletons' brain. He offered, and I quote, "No explanation is necessary, please answer from your heart. Which is more important to you, honesty or loyalty?"
Holy co! Insert Mack truck here……What an amazing question! I know, I know, you are thinking that this big guy has gone off the deep end. Well perhaps, but I assure you that this is not where my train derailed. Stay with me for a minute and I assure you it will be worth it, or at the very least be entertaining.
As some 20 or so people came into the board that day, I sat and waited for each response to my colleague's inquiry like a crackhead waiting for payday. First of all, I challenge any who read this article to answer that simple question without an explanation, I will offer that I find myself grossly incapable of doing so. Then, go a step further. Pose this question initially to your crew/shift/ bay floor. Watch the discussion fly! Now, if you are as amazed at the replies as I found myself, go yet a step further. Pose this question to your superiors!
Now, please don't go hounding the chiefs to the point of dismissal. But wait for the appropriate time and place and in common conversation and feel free to throw me under the bus. Try something like, "Hey Chief, you know I read an article on Firehouse.com the other day and this jackass suggested that I ask you…." I grant you full rights and privileges to do exactly that, because I have learned what that one simple question can offer us all as insight and understanding of our culture, our peers, and our people in general. Now, fair warning be given – you have to be open minded and you have to listen.
In the interest of sharing, I will tell you the following:
- There is no correct answer (I can hear a lot of people screaming at this one)
- Those who answer the question truthfully will have an explanation
- Some will say that the question sucks (It depends on… or…that is stupid)
- The conversation will continue periodically throughout the shift/day
- You will gain insight into the values and moral fabric of whomever answers
- Remember that we all have different views
- Don't hold someone's answer against them. Work with their answer to the collective benefit
- You should compare your thoughts to every answer and be willing to adjust accordingly
In my conversations, the answers I have heard have reaffirmed my belief in some people's strength of character, while others have caused me concern. I have heard answers like:
- You can't have one without the other
- I'd rather someone be honest to me than loyal
- I'd rather someone be loyal to me than honest
- You can't be honest or loyal all the time
- You are loyal by being honest
- You are honest by being loyal
- Well, if this or if that, yada, yada, yada…
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Tomorrow is our nation's 236th birthday, traditionally known as Independence Day. The significance of July 4 is based on the fact that our Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress on that day. An interesting and little known tidbit is the fact that the Declaration wasn't actually signed by the members of Congress until Aug. 2, 1776, according to most historians.
The 4th of July is more than a day for fireworks, picnics and family outings. It is a time to remember what, traditionally, this country stands for; we were, after all, the first people in the history of the world to separate ourselves successfully from our mother country. It had never been done before throughout recorded history. Some people deride the notion of "American exceptionalism" as a self-centered and egocentric arrogance on the part of our fellow citizens. We are not, opponents contend, an exceptional people. I would argue that American exceptionalism is an expression of who we are and what we stand for as a unique nation of people who came, and still continue to come, here because this a land of freedom and opportunity.
Two hundred and sixty-three years, as the lives of nations are measured, isn't long at all. But during those more than two and-a-half centuries, Americans have stood for one value, one ideal, one principle that overrides all the others. That value is freedom.
There are those who will argue that our history does not reflect that value in any consistent way. I would agree, but we have been a nation that has continued to evolve and to this day continues to try to live up to the ideals the Founding Fathers thought were important. At the core of it all is the concept of freedom. That's what the American Revolution was about, winning our freedom from Great Britain. Once that was accomplished, Americans have consistently been willing to help set others free.
There have been times in our history when we had to fight to help set others free. Ultimately, the American Civil War was about preserving the Union and setting people free. If one looks at just a few of the other conflicts in which we've been involved, establishing freedom has been at the heart of why we fought. The Spanish-American War was about freeing the Cubans from domination by Spain.
World War I was about freeing Europe from the occupation of the Central Powers, the most dominant of which was Imperial Germany.
In a letter home, written Nov. 11, 1918, the day the armistice was signed, a doughboy wrote home to his parents from Paris: "I have had many an old French couple come up to Major Merrill and me and throw their arms about us, cry like children, saying, ÔYou grand Americans; you have done this for us.'" And we did do it for them. Throughout history wars have been fought for a variety of reasons: to gain territory, to enslave others, to acquire wealth and riches, or for one country to extend its power over others. Very few armies have gone forth to set other people free without expecting something in return. At the end of World War I, the American army did not stay in France or Germany. They came home. Essentially the same happened again 20 years later. American exceptionalism shone forth again during World War II. We did not start that war, nor did we exact tribute or plunder from the vanquished nations of Germany and Japan. We still have troops stationed in both countries 67 years after the guns stopped firing, but as allies, not occupiers.
The vast majority of American troops came home when the shooting stopped and the people of Western Europe and Southeast Asia had been set free.
Once again, during the Korean War, American troops were sent to help South Korea defend itself from an invasion by the Communist North Koreans. Subsequent conflicts, like the Vietnam War, had murkier goals than establishing freedom in some remote corner of the world. The Vietnam War, at least in my opinion, was the one conflict that should never have happened. That fact that it did happen does not detract from the sacrifice of Americans who fought and died there. Vietnam was a tragic example of the State Department completely misjudging what was happening in that part of the world. We thought we were there to stop the spread of Communism. The North Vietnamese thought they were fighting to unify their country. When that finally happened, Vietnam came under Communist rule, not because the North Vietnamese hadn't asked us for help; they did, but we declined to help because of our wartime alliance with France. So, the North Vietnamese looked elsewhere and found the help they sought in Communist China.
More recently, it is clear that the swift defeat of the Iraqi army in the Second Iraq War, along with the capture, trial, and execution of Saddam Hussein, freed the Iraqi people from his tyrannical rule. Ê
If going to war and sacrificing American lives to set other people free isn't an example of American exceptionalism, I can't imagine what else it is.
Throughout our history, Americans have fought for the freedom of others, remaining true to the central principle upon which this country was founded 236 years ago. No other country in the history of the world has been willing to go to war so many times to free others. It just has not happened, and, because we have done it, that, in my view, makes Americans exceptional.
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She is survived by her husband of 65 years, James W. Adams of Laurel, DE a daughter, Gail Stevenson and her husband Robert of Seaford, DE; two brothers; Francis Hudson and wife Virginia of Seaford, DE; Vernon Hudson and wife Madeline of Laurel, DE; sister, Josephine Morio of Wilkes-Barre, PA; granddaughter, Tracy Ellsworth and husband Allen of Seaford. DE, two great grandchildren, Matthew Adams and Justin Ellsworth, and her beloved grand-dog Shiloh. She is also survived by extended family members and friends.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (BP)--Conservatives in Maryland and Washington state are learning that the battle about "gay marriage" is far from over, despite court rulings in their favor in the past 18 months.
In both states homosexual leaders are hoping their respective legislatures will do what the courts would not do -- legalize "marriage" for same-sex couples. Both courts said the issue was for the legislative branch, and not the judicial branch, to decide.
Dan Furmansky, executive director of the homosexual activist group Equality Maryland, told The Gazette news service in Maryland he is working to get moderate and conservative Democrats on board supporting "gay marriage." Maryland and Washington have Democratic-controlled legislatures and Democratic governors.
"I think that marriage equality will mirror every contentious social issue that the Democratic Party faces. This is a flashpoint issue," Furmansky said. "These elected officials are sent to Annapolis to make life better for all of their constituents, and they need to address the problems that same-sex couples face because they're treated like legal strangers."
The Maryland Court of Appeals -- the highest court in the state -- issued a ruling in September refusing to legalize "gay marriage."
Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. said "gay marriage" is an issue "whose time has not yet come," but Del. Heather R. Mizeur, a Democrat and open homosexual, said the issue shouldn't be put on the backburner, either.
"The fundamental question in this debate is how do we get equal justice under the law," she told The Gazette. "There aren't many permutations to that answer."
In Washington state, where that state's Supreme Court ruled against "gay marriage" in July 2006, homosexual activists are pushing for additional legislation a mere five months after a new same-sex domestic partnerships law went into effect. The law grants homosexual couples some of the legal benefits of marriage.
"We hope to increase the protections available to gay and lesbian families in Washington state," Josh Friedes, advocacy director of Equal Rights Washington, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "We recognize that we are not at the point were we can pass the marriage bill. In the interim, while we continue the dialogue about marriage, we do believe it is possible to increase the rights."
Additionally, supporters of "gay marriage" say that with an election approaching, they will work to put legislators in office who are more favorable to the issue.
"The entire focus had been on the courts," Washington state Sen. Ed Murray, an open homosexual, told the Seattle newspaper. "We have yet to go through an election cycle where we talk to legislators and raise money for legislators around the issue of marriage."
Expanding the domestic partnerships bill, Murray said, would be another step toward "gay marriage."
Meanwhile, an election in Washington state between Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi -- who Gregoire defeated in a recount after the 2004 election -- could impact the issue. Rossi opposes "gay marriage." Gregoire signed the domestic partnerships bill and previously said she opposed "gay marriage" but has not said as such recently. Asked her views on the issue recently, she said, "I do not believe the state should discriminate against any citizen."
N.H. LAW TO TAKE EFFECT -- New Hampshire's civil unions law takes effect Jan. 1, and same-sex couples -- including Democratic state Rep. Gail Morrison and her partner -- are planning to have a group ceremony on the steps of the state capitol at midnight. The law will grant couples the legal benefits of marriage, minus the name.
"My partner and I have been talking about wanting to do it the minute it was possible, and where else do you celebrate those state accomplishments?" she told the Associated Press. "It's a combination of very private dedication to one another, but within the context of a historic state event, so the Statehouse steps seemed absolutely the perfect place to be."
TWO FATHERS, TWO MOTHERS, ONE BABY -- Christian conservatives worried about the collapse of the natural family found another reason in mid-December to have concern when the Los Angeles Times reported the birth of a baby born essentially with two mothers and two fathers.
With the help of a fertility clinic, homosexual couple Chad and David Craig of Atlanta had their sperm -- mixed so they would not know who the father was -- united with a donor's egg and implanted into a surrogate mother. The baby boy, O. Jansen Hodge Craig, has a biological mother, birth mother and two fathers -- one of them being the biological father.
But that was just the end of the story. They had been trying for four years to have a baby, and as the Times reported, "went through three egg retrievals, 65 eggs, seven fertilization attempts, three surrogates and more than $200,000 in expenses."
The birth mother, who lives in Massachusetts, even is pumping and freezing breast milk and shipping it in dry ice to Atlanta weekly.
One of the men said of taking care of the baby, "[W]e're just going through what all parents go through."
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council disagrees.
"[T]hey have gone to such great lengths to ensure that this child will not 'go through' the experience that most children enjoy of being raised by both a mother and a father," Perkins wrote in his daily e-mail. "It is outrageous that courts in some states have become complicit in this denial of biological reality by allowing homosexual couples to have custody of newborns and birth certificates that mislead about the true parentage of the child."
Michael Foust is assistant editor of Baptist Press.
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the Waters Edge Cabin in Cadillac
- bedrooms 5
- baths 3½
- sleeps 20
- pool no
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed no
- type Cabin
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rates (USD)
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$ 2,000 - $ 3,400 / week
vacation rental description
- New "Natural Log Cabin" on a private 7 acre lake. this 20 acres has a nice blend of low swamp like land to higher ground with suger maples--ash--wild cherry---beech---hemlock--and a few others. Each area has its own beauty and wild life.
Virgin Forest= I personally really enjoy the 3 or so acres of virgin forest, the softness of the floor , large hollow trees, which harbors its own set of wild life.
Rainbow Bridge= This is my fun project, the bridge is a 56 feet span..this bridge goes across the canal to the virgin forest.
Lake= This Quiet Private Lake is deep. its also cold enough for rain-bow trout. We stocked trout--blue-gill --bass--perch..
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property availability
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Last modified on 02-2-2013 at 9:03 PM.
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Richard Troyer 231-743-9516
cabin rental amenities
Porches = the front Porch is only 35 ft. from the waters edge, overlooking the lake. side porch with gas grill and porch swing.
Great Room - 8 reclining chairs & sofa's, beautiful fireplace with game table and chairs. Lake veiw.
Kitchen - Side by Side refrigerator with ice maker, electric cook stove, microwave, pop corn popper, toaster, coffee maker. All you need except the food.
Master bedroom= King bed, private bath with jet tub and shower
Loft= 2 bedrooms with queen beds and one baby crib and 1 full bath, out-back balcony, relax on the futon - or floor and enjoy the view from above
Basement - Washer & Dryer, one private Bedroom, one large bunk bedroom with 3 double bunk-beds , Ping pong and other games.
activities and attractions in Cadillac Michigan
Relaxing= by catching up on much needed communication ; singing together; playing some volley ball, horse shoes, hiking, away from the busy life, to where you have only each other;
Try canoeing or canoe races, or paddles boating.
20 acres to roam and enjoy.
Beautiful Rainbow bridge will take you over to the Virgin Woods on 3 acres that has never been logged.
boat dock In front of cabin= Reached by way of a 37' log naturally cut into a stairway;
Star gazing. bird watching, take some walks in nature. Nature trail nearby to enjoy.
Snowmobiling nearby';
Fishing= Our lake has rainbow trout, bass and sunfish and other small fish in it. Larger lakes to do motor boating within 15 minutes of here. You may rent a motor boat from here. The canoes and paddle boat are free. (we get $20.00 per day to restock)
Golfing ; Steelhead fishing; samon fishing; nearby.
Deer, turkey-grouss are lots of fun to stauk in early mornings. and evenings.
vacation rental rates
June 7 through Sept. = $2000. per wk. Friday to Friday and $20. per person over 10 per night.
October through May= $175.00 for first 4 and $15 per person over 4 people; Children the same. 3 night minumum
HOLIDAY WEEK= $250.00 for first 4 people and $20.00 per person over 4 people.
Deposit = $ 200.00 security deposit to book;
Richard Troyer 231-743-9516
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Top things to do in Cadillac
- Boating , Fishing
- Shopping - walmart and lots of stores
- Restaurants - Chinese, Fast foods, Culvers, Many Many more
- Skiing nearby
- Golfing nearby
Top things to do on a budget
- hiking
- biking
- swimming
- canoeing or paddle boating
- games
Top things to do with a family
- Relax around a camp fire
- Hike together
- Sing together - Read a book together
- Biking
- Fishing
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You guys may have already come across this news and if you haven't please find it here http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18202900
Since there are no managerial vacancies at any top clubs in Europe other than Chelsea and Liverpool, we can assume Pep is referring to these two only. Also we can safely assume that Chelsea has the higher chance of 'seducing him' as he has said in these quotes. But I am very suspicious about someone leaving Barcelona and coming to Chelsea because we have known these people to be very arrogant and they look down upon the manner in which Chelsea played against Barca. Unless some politics is going on at Barca and Pep had a huge disagreement with some one in a high position there, I don't understand Pep's motives at all. I have some theories regarding this and I am very interested in what everyone at WAGNH thinks about this.
Pep really had a fall out with Sandro or someone high up at Barca and wants to go somewhere else. If this is the case there is really a chance that he will end up at Chelsea because Roman will pursue him aggressively just like the way he did with Torres. In this scenario, there is nothing to be suspicious about and we can have hopes that Pep will succeed in doing what we all were expecting AVB to do last year. Pep will transform the way Chelsea plays and we will no longer be hated for our style not that I care about others hating us.
Now I am considering the same reasons for leaving Barcelona as I did in the previous case but I doubt his commitment to the cause because introducing tiki taka at Chelsea is going to require changes at our grassroot levels and will be a long term process. If Pep tries it with our current set of players, he is likely to end up with similar results as AVB and will have to leave at the end of one year. In this case Pep will return to Barca or maybe Man utd (Fergie will have to retire at some time!!) at the end of 1 year with a boat load of cash and Chelsea will become the laughing stock of the whole world especially if they finish outside the top 4. Of course the popular argument against this will be that Pep won't be foolish enough to try tiki taka and high pressing with our current players and will adapt his tactics and style to our players. But I am doubting his commitment to Chelsea and fear that he may look at this as the 1 year break that he wants.
Pep is just trolling Chelsea with these quotes and checking if we will delay telling de Matteo about his future based on hopes of landing Pep. It will be highly unfair to Roberto if we don't inform him of the decision withing weeks and he may not even wait longer than that to find out. We may finally end up with neither Pep nor Roberto and Hiddink will be the only good choice we will have left then.
Kindly share your views regarding this and I am suddenly in a hurry now to see Roberto being appointed because I feel we don't have many good alternative choices available.


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Gary Roberts believes City's FA Cup adventure should give his players the confidence and self-belief to continue climbing the league table in a push to claim a place in the Premier Division promotion play-offs.
City's cup run came to an end with a 6-1 loss at Milton Keynes Dons on Tuesday night but the goalless draw against the League One side in front the television cameras 10 days earlier, and the win over Billericay and AFC Totton in the previous rounds, showed what Roberts' men are capable of.
And with just the league campaign to now focus on, there is no reason why City cannot take that form into their upcoming matches.
"The way we've played in the cup has given us confidence," said Roberts. "We've got to reproduce that now in the way we have done over the last couple of (league) games. It's a case of keeping it going. Momentum is a good thing to have.
"It was a fantastic effort by the boys and they're aware of that. I said so at half time on Tuesday and again afterwards.
"I wanted them to realise they're a decent group."
In between the two cup games against the Dons, wins over Bedworth United and Bedford Town lifted City to eighth place in the table.
Tomorrow's trip to Weymouth promises to be another tough game on the back of Tuesday's effort but Roberts will be ringing the changes to keep the squad fresh, ahead of making more longer term changes.
Christian Lester and Jonathan Stynes have been released this week but Roberts also hopes to bring new players in over the coming weeks.
"There are a few irons in the fire," he said. "We're looking more in the midfield area and defensive cover, maybe loan deals."
Roberts said the additions would be within the original playing budget and said there were ongoing discussions with the board about the possibility of increasing that budget in the wake of City's FA Cup run.
For the time being though, Roberts will rotate strikers Craig Hammond, Mitchell Bryant and Adam Marriott. All three started on Tuesday but that will not be the case at Weymouth.
"I'm not going to be playing all three," he continued. "I'll rotate them a bit to get the best out of all three at all times."
Lee Chaffey and Tom Pepper picked up knocks during Tuesday's replay but Roberts expect them to be fit and available for selection.


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(Mooresville, NC) August 16, 2014 - JP Morgan, driver of the No.23 www.soldbyjackiemorgan.com Chevrolet held off Brian Keselowski's No. 29 Highland Wealth Advisors LLC/ Dollhouse Alley Ford on green-white-checkered finish to clinch Morgan's third season victory by .16 of a second in Saturday nights' X-1R Pro Cup Series Food Country USA 200 presented by KOMA Unwind at Motor Mile Speedway
Some other competitors were not so lucky to have crossed the finish line Saturday night, of whom were No.2 Boswell Electric Chevrolet of 2013 X1R Pro Cup Series ROTY (Rookie of the Year) Brady Boswell and the No. 05 Grant County Mulch Chevrolet of Codie Rohrbaugh. On lap 77, a stuck throttle sent both of them up the track and into the wall at turn two taking both cars out of the race and throwing the second caution for the night.


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Gloucester Daily Times
---- — The free concerts at Harbor Loop kick off Sunday, a few days late.
Originally scheduled to begin Thursday, a forecast calling for thunderstorms prompted organizers to postpone the show.
"We just didn't want to take a chance with all the sound equipment," said organizer Harry Pardee. "We are going ahead with the same full line up with a special Sunday concert July 14."
The music starts around 5 p.m. on the hillside of Fitz Henry Lane Park overlooking the historic Inner Harbor.
The first concert will still feature local band Full Circle opening for Digney Fignus, whose band includes local favorites. Among those members is Alizon Lissance, an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music, on keyboards and squeeze box.
"She's a Boston rock legend," said Fignus. Also in the band are Jon Donohoe on fiddle, mandolin, banjo and saxophone; Perry James on drums; and Wolfe Ginandes on bass.
Pardee may be contacted at 978-979-2224 with questions about Sunday's show.


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There's a new way to measure the performance of schools in Georgia. The State Department of Education on Tuesday released scores for individual schools and districts around the state based on the new Georgia College and Career Ready Performance Index. Schools are measured on a 100 point scale that replaces the old Adequate Yearly Progress measurement that was part of No Child Left Behind.
The overall scores are made up of scores received in three major criteria – Achievement, Progress and Achievement Gap. A school can also receive "Challenge Points" based on the number of Economically Disadvantaged students, English Learner students and Students with Disabilities.
Overall Chatham County scores trail the state average. See the basic breakdown below. For a more detailed breakdown of the measurements that make up the score and for information regarding other counties in the state – please follow the link associated with this story.
Elementary Schools
State – 83.4
Chatham – 76
Highest Performing – Jacob G. Smith – score = 95.9
Lowest Performing – Haven – score = 54
Middle Schools
State – 81.4
Chatham – 70.9
Highest Performing – Garrison – score = 99.4
Lowest Performing – Mercer – score = 56.8
High Schools
State -72.6
Chatham – 68.3
Highest Performing – Savannah Arts – score = 98
Lowest Performing – Johnson – score = 58.5
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A state budget proposal that would cut Indiana's personal income tax 5 percent over the next four years and make slight increases in school funding faces final votes in the Legislature.
The votes expected Friday by the Republican-dominated House and Senate are likely formalities after legislative leaders and GOP Gov. Mike Pence reached a budget deal Thursday.
The compromise gives Pence half of the income tax cut he sought and includes immediately eliminating the state's inheritance tax.
Democrats say Republicans are shortchanging education by increasing school funding by 2 percent in the budget's first year and 1 percent in the second after big cuts were made during the recession.
An initial cut in income tax would take effect in 2015, with a second step in 2017.


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Thursday, October 19, 2006
The House is the Monster
To quote from Drkrm. Gallery's PR:
Roger Corman is a living legend in the film industry. Known for his lean budgets and savvy knowledge of what works in Pop Culture. Between 1960 and 1964, he would make eight film adaptations from the works of Edgar Allan Poe, seven of which would star Vincent Price. Together, Price and Corman became such a team in the public eye that each new Poe production was met with critical as well as world wide, box-office success.
Roger Corman turns 80 this year and in honor of him, The Del Valle Archive and Drkrm Gallery have assembled a collection of rare photographs from these eight films: HOUSE OF USHER, PIT AND THE PENDULUM, THE PREMATURE BURIAL, TALES OF TERROR, THE RAVEN, THE HAUNTED PALACE, THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, and TOMB OF LIGEIA. We pay tribute to them, the legendary Roger Corman and the late Vincent Price with this exhibition of their greatest work together, the likes of which we will see... NEVERMORE.
David Del Valle has achieved national recognition as a journalist, columnist, film historian and radio & television commentator. His articles and interviews have appeared in such publications as CINEFANTASTIQUE, FANGORIA and FILMS IN REVIEW. David oversees The Del Valle Archive, a collection in progress of thousands of still photographs, artwork and ephemera dealing with the horror/fantasy/sci-fi and cult movie genres.
NEVERMORE will have its opening reception 7pm until 10pm on Saturday October 21st, 2006. The exhibit will run through November 18th, 2006. Regular gallery hours are Tues-Saturday 11am-5pm.
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Incidentally, David informs Video WatchBlog that Roger Corman himself has promised to attend the opening, and reclusive PIT AND THE PENDULUM star Barbara Steele has RSVP'd as well. Furthermore, VW's own Sam Umland is reportedly flying out to attend the exhibit, as he and David are preparing to collaborate on the ultimate book about the Corman Poe series (which will make exclusive use of these photos from the Del Valle Archive). It promises to be an amazing evening. True... true... True!
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Philip Strick (1939-2006)
"More sad news, I'm afraid. This in from the Critics Circle -- 'Mrs Lizanne Strick has asked me to inform The Critics' Circle membership of the death of her husband Philip, a Film Section member since 1972. He passed away suddenly on 7 October and a private funeral is being held this Wednesday.'
"I always thought Philip was one of the most underrated genre critics," Kim continues. "His SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES is still a smart, entertaining study which makes unusual connections. He contributed a batch of erudite, witty entries to my BFI COMPANION TO HORROR and was reviewing regularly for SIGHT & SOUND until fairly recently. I reprinted his 1968 review of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in a S&S reader a few years ago - I'm still impressed that anyone could be so perceptive about a movie that colossal within a few days of seeing it for the first time."
Kim's right; this well-observed, skillfully crafted review of 2001 -- which appears in Kim's anthology SCIENCE FICTION/HORROR: A SIGHT & SOUND READER -- is indeed worth finding and reading. Interestingly, considering that he voiced some initial reservations, Philip later included 2001 in his SIGHT & SOUND Top Ten Poll 2002 list. His choices include some (like 2001) that also found their way onto my list, which makes me regret all the more that I didn't know him personally.
Here, for your reading pleasure, are links to THE MATRIX, THE NINTH GATE, THE SIXTH SENSE, MISSION TO MARS, WHAT LIES BENEATH and A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, as reviewed for SIGHT & SOUND by Philip Strick -- clearly one of our most thoughtful and eloquent explorers of speculative cinema.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Good Monday
This is a publicity photo taken on the set of HOSTEL: PART II, currently in production. It was leaked by the film's writer-director Eli Roth (the guy in the CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST T-shirt) on his blog and shows him directing one of the film's stars... the ever-beautiful Edwige Fenech! To paraphrase JERRY MAGUIRE, Eli had me at the T-shirt, but for him to be bringing Edwige Fenech back to the screen in a major American motion picture? THIS IS GOOD! Hell, this is practically Mother Earth momentarily back in balance, if you ask me.
And while we are honoring that which is (or was) good...
Re-fasten your centenary belts because Léon Klimovsky -- the director of WEREWOLF SHADOW, DR. JEKYLL AND THE WEREWOLF, VENGEANCE OF THE ZOMBIES, THE DEVIL'S POSSESSED, THE SAGA OF THE DRACULAS, THE VAMPIRE'S NIGHT ORGY, THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK, and many others... also the man who gave Jess Franco his start in movies as a screenwriter... was born 100 years ago today. Yo le saludo, Maestro, y gracias.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Awards Coming Home
Visit www.cinemasitges.com for a complete list of award winners.


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Town Square
Brock Roby honored with 2013 Mayor's Award
Original post made on Sep 30, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, September 30, 2013, 7:59 AM
on Sep 30, 2013 at 9:44 am
I recently met Brock at a Human Services meeting and was greatly impressed with his compassion, intelligence and desire to do the right things.
on Sep 30, 2013 at 9:52 am
I agree completely with this honor bestowed on Brock. I served with him on the Human Services Comm. for awhile and his leadership and manor was always filled with compassion. He also has a great sense of humor.
on Sep 30, 2013 at 1:37 pm
I don't know Mr. Roby but I know he is the current Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce here in Pleasanton. I can't help but make the connection to recently elected Jerry Thorne and his promise to cow tow to local businesses, now starting with this award. Politics run amuck!


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L to R R to L Alpha
A newer route so not in the guidebook. The first bolt is low and protects you off the deck. Climb up to a nice ledge, where the second bolt can be clipped from a great stance. Continue up through a small bulge and to the anchors. Nice exposure for the grade as it climbs just left of, or on the arete. The climb can be done along the arete, or slightly left of it for two different variations.
Far left end of the Rad Wall on the arete. On the right side of the entryway to the corridor. This route is listed as #1 in the Rad Wall topo.
5 Bolts to chain anchors. Recommended to keep the first bolt clipped while cleaning to prevent an exciting swing.


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