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The Giant Innocent Crush Quilt (With a Little Loulouthi Thrown In Too)
Seriously people, it's big. I'm not even sure you can call it a quilt since it's more like a bed spread. (And what is the actual difference?)
At 100h x 188w, she's the biggest quilt I've made by far and I knew going in that this puppy would not be quilted by me. I enlisted the help of the very friendly and talented Karen, of Karen's Quilted Creations to stitch these delicious loopy-loops. I really want to give props to Karen for her professionalism, courteous and prompt emails, and for her obvious care that went into the quilting. She listened to my preferences and finished in a short amount of time, which is no easy feat given how big this project was. Thank you Karen, you will be helping me more in the future I'm sure.
Here you can see the quilting on the back. I used Kona Muslin, 118″ wide in natural. It has a high thread count and the feel reminds me of Art Gallery Fabrics. I know. Soo soft!
This quilt is the simplest of designs so I figured we'd better have some good pillow action. My friend Jo who is sassy and awesome, made the Amy Butler Midwest Mod pillow to sit here on my bed. It features the same Innocent Crush print in both cotton and velveteen.
See those petals? I just love it. And little Isabel and I did some serious stitching with perle cotton on the Loulouthi pillow.
I'm not even kidding. Isabel did the blue stitches you see here and other bits on this guy. I was so excited to see her, hoop in hand and being incredibly precise and careful. Until this was finished, she asked to stitch every day.
Free-form hand quilting on the white part.
I believe I will be making more pillows because you really can't have too many pillows on your bed. I think rectangle is next.
Ok….you gotta see this…
I can barely handle the cuteness. ;)
The One With Double Gauze & Perle Cotton
So, here we are again, visiting yet another unfinished project. I have great hopes of finishing this one rather soon though, as it is quite simple. I made the quilt top in one night, and basted it the next. I am using a beautiful double gauze by Nani Iro for the raw-edge circle appliques. I am loving a few things in this project that are new to me – hand quilting with perle cotton floss, and the color combination. Both are making me very happy.
Many of these circles are being put into the border of this very simple quilt top.
I love this near-solid in bright goldenrod. The fabric is by Cosmo Cricket and it's a simple cross hatch print. Here's a close-up…
I don't quite know what hit me one night in my sewing room. I had the double gauze sitting on my ironing board, and I pulled out the yellow fabric, and sitting next to each other, they just needed to be put together. Never has an idea for a quilt come to me so quickly. Before even making the quilt top, I had cut out the double gauze circles and was going through all my perle cotton. I was slightly possessed. At the rate I'm going, I hope to have a completed quilt in the next week to show you!

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Dixon Unified trustees tonight will consider approving or disapproving a board policy on charter school authorization and oversight; and the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP), among other items on the agenda.
They also will hear a report on the Local Control Funding Formula and hear a report on the governor's proposed 2014-15 budget.
The school district governing board meets at 7 p.m. Thursday in City Council chambers, 600 East A St., Dixon.
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Council narrowly rejects placing parking lease plan on ballot
5-4. One swing vote away from this deal being killed, for all intents and purposes. This was a lot closer then I, and probably most of us, thought it would be. Let it be a reminder to not let up now. We need to make sure we flood the inboxes of the councilmembers let them know how much going forward with the ESC means to our city, and pack city hall on 2/14 for the big vote.


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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has won the last seven elections, his party control 100 of the 137 lawmakers in the National Assembly and he brings crowds anywhere in his country — yet he still isn't the most popular person in Ecuador.
He's about 800,000 followers on Twitter short from that title. In this scenario, he may have won at the polls, but he is defeated by one grandmother on Twitter.
The account's bio translates to say, "Working for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress." The default picture shows a smiling, jolly grandmother with four stylized Twitter birds around her.
Like clockwork, a new tweet appears every hour — tweets of inspirational quotes and phrases of wisdom from some of the most intelligent people to have ever lived. Some are proverbs from the Bible, others are quotes from Benjamin Franklin, and some are teachings from the Dalai Lama.
This 'Twitter grandma" knows that sometimes people just want to read some good news on Twitter, that will help them through a tough day, despite all the things that are happening in the world.
But who is @MiAbuelaSabia (translation: My Wise Grandmother)? No one really knows the identity of the person behind the account.
The only link to outside communication is an email address placed in the bio of the Twitter account, and a Facebook account which appears to be simply an aggregate of the popular Twitter account, posting the tweets on its timeline.
So far, only one reporter from the BBC has been able to get in touch with the person behind the popular Twitter account. The story was written for the Spanish-language BBC site, BBC Mundo. This was the response that the "grandma" had about the origins of the account:
On my personal account I followed a woman from Guayaquil who one day wrote 'mi abuela era sabia,' and that's where the name came from. I launched the account as a hobby in March 2010, and from there it snowballed.
According to the same BBC Mundo report, digital analysts say the success of the account stems from the strong family ties in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Mi Abuela Sabia's Popularity
Mi Abuela Sabia is ranked amongst the 800 most followed accounts in the world and ranks #1 in the home country of Ecuador.
The account's 17,000+ tweets have accrued nearly 1.8 million followers — compared with President Rafael Correa of Ecuador, who has just over one million followers.
During the 2011 Twitter boom, when loads of people were opening a Twitter account, the site began to receive dozens of followings every minute. The "grandma" told this to the BBC Mundo reporter:
The boom of Twitter was in 2011, where everyone got an account, and since that year @miabuelasabia was developed. At that time, there were many phrase accounts, but mine became something of a vanguard. In 2010 there were only two accounts that featured phrases, but even they disappeared.
Mi Abuela Sabia's inspirational tweets:
Hay pocas cosas tan ensordecedoras como el silencio. (Mario Benedetti)
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"Few things are as deafening as silence"
El amor te escoge, tu no. Por eso, no funciona perseguir al amor. Déjalo que suceda naturalmente.
— Mi Abuela Sabia (@miabuelasabia) June 14, 2013
"Love chooses you, not the other way around. Don't work to find it. Let it happen naturally."
Una persona inteligente entiende a los otros, una persona brillante se entiende a si misma.
— Mi Abuela Sabia (@miabuelasabia) June 14, 2013
"An intelligent person understands others, a brilliant person understands themselves."
Un verdadero amigo ve el dolor en tus ojos mientras todos creen en tu sonrisa.
— Mi Abuela Sabia (@miabuelasabia) June 13, 2013
"A true friend can see the pain in your eyes, while everyone else believes your smile."


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Last month the University of Mississippi Medical Center announced it was closing it's school for children with autism. Almost immediately, the state department of education was contacted by another university about reopening the school.
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CISAC Co-Director Amy Zegart and Hoover Institution research fellow Marshall Erwin note in this opinon piece that there are many misperceptions about what the NSA actually does, yet the more Americans learn about the U.S. spy agency, the less they come to trust it.
In a YouGov poll that they commissioned, 74% of respondents could identify Miley Cyrus as the person who twerked on nationwide TV while only 43% of Americans could identify James Clapper as director of national intelligence. They also found that in many cases, more knowledge of the National Security Agency correspondended with less support.
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text: Judith D. Boa, 74, of Las Cruces, died Friday, March 1, 2013. Judi as she was fondly known was born March 4, 1938 in Seattle, WA to Dallas L. Donnan and Barbara Ehrlich Donnan. She was a graduate of Saint Nicholas High School Class of '56' in Seattle, WA, attended Centeniry College in Hackettstown, NJ class of '58' and the University of Washington Class of '60'. Judi had been a police officer with the Seattle Police Dept. with more than 7 years of faithful service, she was an avid golfer including 2 holes in one, enjoyed home restorations, gardening, wood working and traveling, but her passion was for her family. Mrs. Boa will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her. Judi is survived by her loving husband of 38 years whom she married in Seattle, WA on May 1, 1975, Ernest D.S. Boa of the family home; daughter Tina Boa-Robinette and husband Michael of Fremont, Ohio; brother Dallas "Mike" DeHaven Donnan; grandchildren Sierra, Carly and Kaitlyn. Judi is also survived by her nieces Dorothy Launius of Grapevine, TX, Deborah Stamey of Seattle, WA and Barbara Cleventer of Arlington, WA. She was preceded in death by her parents Dallas and Barbara Donnan and a brother Thomas Donnan. At the family request cremation will take place and private services will be held at a later date.


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Fareed Zakaria Praises Obama's Mideast Foreign Policy 'Restraint'
CNN foreign affairs analyst Fareed Zakaria – who has recently had off-the-record conversations with President Obama on foreign issues – noted the president's "restraint" in his dealing with the "Arab Spring" and the conflict in Libya Wednesday. Zakaria previously gave a thumbs-up for Obama's Mideast speech in May and later defended the president's plan for removing American troops from Afghanistan.
The point-of-note is that this is the same analyst whom, according to the New York Times, President Obama "sounded out" while shaping his foreign policy. The two simply had "off-the-record" conversations on foreign issues, according to Zakaria, and the CNN host claimed he was not an advisor to the President.
However, he continuing doling out good grades to the administration's foreign policy Wednesday on the blog for his CNN show, Fareed Zakaria GPS. He insisted the Obama administration "is more realist than people are willing to acknowledge" in its dealings with the Middle East. The analyst then gave a rundown of the administration's foreign policy toward certain Mideast countries, highlighting certain points for praise.
The foreign affairs analyst was positive toward Obama's cautious approach with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, framing it as an "incremental" policy focused on the "long-run."
Zakaria also defended Obama's controversial military action in Libya, deeming it "carefully-calculated" and "incremental." Overall, Zakaria lauded Obama's Mideast policy as an "appropriately practical approach," seeming to fend off attacks on the administration's policy by claiming that its fruits will come about in the long-term.
It was this paragraph in the May 11 edition of the Times that broke the news of Zakaria's conversations with the president:
At night in the family residence, an adviser said, Mr. Obama often surfs the blogs of experts on Arab affairs or regional news sites to get a local flavor for events. He has sounded out prominent journalists like Fareed Zakaria of Time magazine and CNN and Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist at The New York Times, regarding their visits to the region. "He is searching for a way to pull back and weave a larger picture," Mr. Zakaria said.
However, that news which circulated around the internet still raises questions every time Zakaria comments on Obama's foreign policy. How much information did he share, and what perspective did he provide Obama? Did it in any way lend to his overall positive critique of the president's foreign policy speeches?
To read Zakaria's entire blog post, click here.
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Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 6:25pm.
"Fareed Zakaria Praises Obama's Stool" tomorrow on CNN.
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You're a sick man and you
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 12:33am.
You're a sick man and you need help, BK!!! Of course, since this 'foreign policy expert' Mooooooooooooooooooslem is also an advisor to Boy bin Barry, he might be praising his own stool as well!!! And since they both are so full of crap, it's probably pretty easy for them to do..................
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Is "restraint" a new synonym for "incompetent"?
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 6:39pm.
Ear Leader sat on the bench while Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and Syria first started to foment. After that we have absolutely no substantive action taken towards Iran's advancing nuclear program or North Korea's festering Stalinist regime while it takes action against a close ally. Lest we forget, his administration has managed to offend the British and dare to dictate Israel's national policies. If incompetence and restraint are now synonyms, that is the only way Imam Fareed's brainless cheerleading would be correct.
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Of course Zakaria approves of Obama's foreign policy...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 7:10pm.
He may very well be one of the incompetent fools who are advising him to do what he's doing.
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WH Spokesman Zakaria
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 7:11pm.
Any pretense at credibility and integrity that this guy may have had evaporated when he admitted that he has advised the President on several occasions.
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I didn't know "restraint" was
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 7:23pm.
I didn't know "restraint" was a synonym for "waffling."
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Obama has only one FP goal in the ME region that I can detect...
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 7:28pm.
...and that is to do all he can to remove the "moderate" Arab leaders and see to it that they are replaced with hard-core, true-believing, flaming Israel haters who have the stamp of approval of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Because that is exactly what he is doing.
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Damned right
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 7:46pm.
You're damned right, Dave, after all, they opened official contact and dialogue with the MB last week and they had been in contact with DuhOne unofficially several times in the last year alone. Zakaria is one of the ring leaders and if I didn't know better, I can't help but wonder if there are hidden messages in what he says when he says it because otherwise, it's, as I like to say, a bunch of unmitigated balderdash.
To put it in simpler terms for those of you from Rio Linda, it flies in the face of reality.
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Check with Norquist....
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 7:58pm.
who is not only an authority on taxes, but, according to David Horowitz, enjoys a special relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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That may be true, Jer,
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 10:10pm.
but Norquist isn't the President, is he? He's not "incrementally" increasing the crap that's going on in Libya, is he? We watched LBJ "incrementally" increase the troops in Viet Nam, and the bombing of the North, that worked out so well for the U.S., didn't it?
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I'll grant you that, UpNorth...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 11:03pm.
but unlike Vietnam where Johnson rapidly enlarged our pre-existing military footprint, the Libyan intervention has been notable for the limited and subordinate role of the US. There is no indication the administration envisions any significant escalation, and neither Congress nor the American public would stand for it. They are "warred out", and a tough economy only adds to the weariness.
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True, Jer,
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 11:12pm.
but other than hitting the links, this President doesn't do anything rapidly. 16 hours comes to mind. And, he picked the wrong fight, Syria has killed far more of it's own people than Libya, yet that doesn't concern him. Would that be because Syrai launders the money for Iran, that ends up in Gaza, that will probably end up in the Obama campaign coffers?
The MB allied itself with the Nazis and has done nothing to disavow that connection in the 70 years, or so, that have followed, and yet, the administration has "contacts" with them. "Contacts"? I wouldn't be surprised if the State Dept wasn't financing them.
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Not you too, UpNorth...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 11:46pm.
with the 16 hr nonsense. I really expected you would take a less partisan 'let's-find-something-to-criticize' view of the OBL take down.
I'm well aware of the unsavory MB history, but sometimes one has to play the hand that's dealt. And, in the spirit of partisanship, I suppose I could mention that GWB's administration took a far more active role in destabilizing Mubarek. So there.
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Did he, or did he not
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 11:53pm.
take 16 hours to make up his mind? If you can provide proof that he didn't, I'll take the 16 hour reference back. I thought it was pretty much accepted by left and right, he sought the counsel of that stellar mind on national security, Valerie Jarret, and took that long to make a decision. If he did, some think that Panetta painted him into a corner. That he gave the go-ahead, finally, was a good thing. It's the process that I question.
As for your assertion that GWB took " a far more active role", I don't recall GWB having the power to say that "Mubarak must go", as he wasn't the occupant of the White House, at the time.
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Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 12:08am.
and I'm glad he did. It was a highly risky exercise for which failure would have carried with it immensely negative geopolitical consequences and a few more hours of deliberation had no deleterious impact operationally.
I think the only ones who have slammed him for it are the usual suspects from the righty blogosphere and Limbaugh nation. I don't recall any GOP congresspersons critical of the 16-hr interregnum, but there may have been a couple. Maybe you can supply me with the quotes.
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Nice try at deflection, I wasn't talking congressmen and women
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 12:34am.
being critical of the lag.
"Deleterious impact", do you know for a fact that Al Zawhiri wasn't there the previous day? If he had moved earlier, might they have bagged #1 and #2? We'll never know, will we?
As for "slamming him", yeah, I am. He made a political calculation, based on what Jarret was telling him. He dithered for 16 hours, much like he dithered for 6-9 months over Afghanistan.
And, I still believe he was forced to move by Panetta, I don't believe he wanted to, but that's just my opinion.
And now, it comes out that the man who claimed to have a plan to get the US out of Iraq by March of '08, may, in fact, be considering leaving troops there past the absolute, final withdrawal date. I'd bet that Code Pink, when they get back from their failed flotilla, will be outraged.
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Forgodsakes, UpNorth...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 1:07am.
you're not regugitating the loopy White House "Insider's" preposterous fable peddled by Pamela "the Birther" Geller, are you? Because that's where I recall the "Jarret pulling the strings on the OBL decision" BS originated. There and Ace of Spades.
Good grief.
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Actually, Jer, it's
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 9:00pm.
For God's sake, and no, I didn't reference Pamela Geller. There is more than one person stating that Jarret was "involved" in the decision. If you have a source who indicates that this is, in no way true, not possible, I'd be more than happy to read it. Let me rephrase just a bit, a neutral, unbiased source.
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Submitted by Jer on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 5:27pm.
When I checked into the source of the 'Jarrett the puppet master' claim at the time, all roads led back to the so-called WH "Insider". Obviously, you heard or read it repeated some place. Tell me where and that will give us a starting point from which to track its origin.
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Nope, the game isn't played
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 11:41am.
that way, Jer. Like I said, if you have an unbiased source, give it to me. If it totally and irrefutably debunks the notion that Jarret had a hand in the deliberations over a military operation, I'll gladly acknowledge it.
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Yes, the game is played that way, UpNorth...
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 4:01pm.
You're asking me to provide irrefutable evidence that an event didn't happen. I have read numerous accounts chronicling the meetings of the principals [which included the President]-- and the discussions among them--leading up to the final go ahead for the OBL mission. Not one of them mentioned the Jarrett involvement which you have described, but you could always insist those articles have omitted and covered up her political string-pulling role (and in effect demand that I prove a negative).
The only source for your allegations which I encountered at the time was the WH "Insider" whose claims concerning Jarret were then repeated by Geller and others. You are making the positive assertion about Jarret's role and politicization of the OBL decision. I am asking you to source your assertion. The onus is on you. You may decline it if you wish, but that's how the game is played.
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So, we seem to be at
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 10:23pm.
an impasse, Jer. Cuz, I don't dance to the tune that you play. Link me one unbiased source that says that Jarret wasn't there, didn't participate, and I'll gladly admit you were right. Last time I checked, you weren't the rules master around here, so pardon me, but I don thin so, amigo.
So, Ace of Spades is not a credible source of anything? But, in your posts you tell us that HuffPo is?
And, when it comes down to it, we're still talking 16 hours, when someone else was excoriated for 7 minutes. And, we know that Rove wasn't next to Bush during that time, because there were cameras there.
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Then you simply don't dance, UpNorth...
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 10:58pm.
because that is the tune everybody plays.
What if I read on some lefty blogs a claim reported by an alleged super-secret WH insider--and I then repeated--that George Bush once privately referred to Cheney as an "insufferable jerk", and when challenged by you I replied "prove that he didn't". Same deal.
btw...you are wrong about my representations about HuffPo. I've said that since the site began total moderation and monitoring of all comments a couple of years ago, there is no longer the flaming and verbal abuse that once proliferated in the comment section. I said NOTHING about HuffPo as a source.
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Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 11:15pm.
Pffffft !!
Obama - pos.
Jarrett - same.
You are forever mentioning HuffPo, but now dance to the tune called the barrister's boogie. Also known as the lawyer's shuffle.
Pfffft !!!
Pffft is in place of the words I can't use.
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Submitted by Jer on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 11:21pm.
I'm trying to dance with UpNorth. Quit cutting in. But, since you're here, note my correction of UpNorth re HuffPo. It applies to you, too.
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Your corrections, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 11:28pm.
as always, are your own interpretations of what you say, state, or post.
That doesn't mean anyone has to take them for gospel.
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It would be helpful if the interpretations of others
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 11:35pm.
were at least based on facts. Please show me where I've touted HuffPo as a source.
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Does it escape you, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 12:28am.
that after mentioning HuffPo lebenty leben times in order to edify us dull conservatives as to how clean an operation they now run, that the fact you mention having been there and "read" there, means that you are, ipso facto, using them as a source?
If you are not using them as a source, then you must have made that sh*t up.
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If you say so, Matthew...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 12:31am.
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OK, Jer,
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 9:26am.
having perused the intertubes and finding most articles refer back to the "WH insider", that's what I'll go with. Along with all the references to the "insider", I found nothing to refute the story.
Seems contradictory to me, for years we were told that "unnamed sources" were as good as those who actually ID'd themselves, now that the jackboot is on the other foot, we're told that an unnamed source is just someone lying. Is that a correct summation, Jer? To quote, "good grief".
Now, if you can point me to someone who went on the record, saying this is all made up, that Valerie Jarret wasn't there, and said nothing about the operation, other than, perhaps, the taxpayer funded internet czar who's refuting all those nasty things said about Obama, please do.
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Obama is a---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 1:13am.
pos, but Jer is of a mind that he isn't.
Liberals are that way; gotta attempt every chance they get to try and lighten the load of that Messiah turned albatross hanging around their neck..
That means polishing the turd at every opportunity.
I would point out that it is a thankless undertaking, and that there is always going to be room under Obama's bus for all manner of acolytes, but it is becoming quite apparent that that liberals are into masochism.
At least the ones who hang around NB's. :o)
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Oh, c'mon, Matthew...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 1:31am.
Lyndon LaRouche (is he still alive?) is as reputable a source as that make believe White House "Insider". And he's the source who concocted, excuse me, reported the Jarrett/Obama/OBL fairy tale, excuse me, scoop.
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C'mon, yourself, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 1:41am.
I'm merely taking the opportunity to give you a hard time, which is fun - ;o) - ; and to rag on that worthless, lying pos in the Oval Office.
It is bad enough that he is a poseur, he is also an arrogant one without justification for being that way except in his own warped image of himself.
I know you love him dearly, but there are some of us who do not.
Don't take it personally.
On second thought, go ahead and do so; as those who so admire him inflicted he and his stench upon the rest of us.
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Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 1:42am.
I just cain't help myself. I heart Barack Hussein Obama...um, um, um!
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Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 1:44am.
gotta call it a night. Turn out the lights.
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Ok, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 1:47am.
catch you on the next round.
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Oh yeah, md? You've been trying for two years now...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 1:56am.
what makes you think you'll be any more successful the next round?
BTW, Brawley: 1987 Rosenbaum: 1991 Same era of Sharpton's consistent repugnance
Now, good night! dammit,
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Repugnance doesn't go away, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 2:23am.
same as Sharpton won't.
The eternal kvetcher.
He must be a liberal.
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You know what, I could care
Submitted by buddyc on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 8:13pm.
You know what, I could care less what some idiot like Fareed says. But when he agrees to teabag Anderson Cooper on his show, let me know. I will watch that.
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Go Home ARAB!
Submitted by email@example.com on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 8:15pm.
This incompetent immigrant needs to go back to his 3rd world country. And take client #9 with him.
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Give me a break
Submitted by NC Cop on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 8:20pm.
"He has sounded out prominent journalists like Fareed Zakaria of Time magazine and CNN and Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist at The New York Times, regarding their visits to the region."
I hear the Love Boat theme music in the background!!!!
Please! His first mistake was referring to Zakaria as a journalist.
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Why are we even talking about this clown?
Submitted by KyWriter on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 8:43pm.
He is an Obama shill and an Arab apologist, not to mention a classic Israeli hater. A journalist he is not.
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Are you saying his trademark demonic stare is a dealbreaker?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 10:22pm.
I dunno, I sometimes find myself strangely transfixed like a cobra...°¡®†åƒ˚˜ß…
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Read NB's motto
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 1:18am.
Why are we talking about Zakaria? Because he, as an "Obama shill", "Arab apologist", and "Israeli hater" has a show on a "mainstream" cable news network - that's why we're talking about him. If he wasn't all those things - we wouldn't be - except maybe in a positive way. You sort of answered your own question.
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Zakaria obviously dropped
Submitted by jdhawk on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 11:58pm.
Zakaria obviously dropped this, "I am so important, the president confides in me" crap to make himself look important. I am convinced!
However, what it reveals is the hundreds of billions of dollars that our tax dollars buy for all manner of intelligence is lost on duhbama. Instead, he gets his "intelligence" from a bunch of socialist propagandists masquerading as jouranlists.
This points to a disturbing pattern of dimocrat presidents. During clintoon's first term, R. James Woosley was his CIA chief. Sometime after 9/11, Woosley intimated in an interview that he had briefed clintoon exactly twice the entire time he was the director. clintoon just wasn't interested in what he had to say. Is it any wonder that clintoon missed entirely the fomenting terrorist threat in the middle east?
Fast forward to the present. We are engaged against a 5th rate military in Libya for months now with little to show for it. duhbama's strategery is to put NATO in charge? NATO is made up of a a group of countries that last went to war in the late 1930's.
Of course, the lie is that they have the resource to even put an air patrol in the skies over Libya. Think about it for a moment. To put four F-16s over Libya requires 18 tanker sorties to keep them aloft. If the F-16s use their afterburners, we are talking over 30 sorties to keep them aloft. Look over the tanker capability of the air forces "engaged" in Libya. Yeah, that's right. Only the US has these tremendous resources. Yet, we put a bunch of pussies in charge of the effort in Libya.
This is simply embarrasing and sad.
Recall President Bush simply invaded Iraq and Ghadafi, the moron, came to him to surrender his nuclear weapons program. Not a shot was fired in his direction.
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if ($390,000,000,000 ==
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 1:03am.
if ($390,000,000,000 == $1,700,000,000,000)
talking_head = IDIOT;
Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
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From what I have observed,
Submitted by 4eyes50 on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 8:57am.
obiwan's "foriegn policy" consists of this: he and his "advisors" gather together with their beer and pretzels and play "RISK" until the wee hours. As with everything else to these people, ours and the rest of the worlds' lives are just a game to them.
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Tifton- G. O. Bailey first grade students in Mrs. Beggs class are excited about reading.
"These children came to me reading from kindergarten, and I haven't had that happen," admits first grade teacher, Lola Beggs.
Eight years ago Tift County implemented a new reading program called Literacy Collaborative in their primary schools, which are all Title I recipients. And this year they all made adequate yearly progress.
"It really emphasizes the students and where they are, and how they are reading. We take children where they are and we move them up," says G. O. Bailey Primary School Principal Joy West.
In fact, Tift County has never had to allow transfers because of failing schools, an accomplishment administrators attribute to their reading programs.
"The programs that we've tried to put in place in our schools, Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative are in fact working. We have worked hard to identify research based programs and we are indeed seeing the result," say Betty Newkirk, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction.
"It's been the best training I've ever had, and this is my 27th year teaching," adds Beggs.
In addition to just a library, Literacy Collaborative allows teachers to chose from literally thousands of leveled books for students to read, and in turn students can advance at their own pace.
A formula the that means success for turning out lifelong readers and schools that continue to make the grade.
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Bartlett, TN (WMC-TV) - Health officials announced Monday afternoon that heat likely contributed to the death of a Bartlett man who died while mowing his lawn.
Stuart Evans, 66, is the ninth person to die from heat-related complications this year, and temperatures aren't cooling down anytime soon.
"He was a good man, he was a man of God," his neighbor, Keith McGoldrick said.
Evans collapsed in his yard while mowing his lawn at around 5:00 p.m. Friday.
"We left about 4:30 at that time he was mowing the yard, and I thought, gee whiz, Stuart shouldn't be out mowing the yard at 4:30 with this temperature," Pervis Ballew said. "I just waved and we went on, and that was the last time we saw Stuart."
McGoldrick says Evans, who was in poor health, was apparently trying to start the mower for his wife, because they were having problems with it.
McGoldrick's wife noticed Evans collapsed by the lawn mower as they were driving by.
"I tried CPR, and I wasn't unsuccessful," McGoldrick said. "The paramedics came within probably 5 minutes, I only got about 60 compressions in."
The Shelby County Medical Examiner ruled Evans' death resulted from chronic illnesses, with heat being a contributing factor.
Action News 5's Dave Brown says the heat index was 103 degrees at 5 p.m., following hours of excessive heat.
McGoldrick says Evans enjoyed caring for his yard.
"He did take pretty good pride in his yard."
Evans was a retired Sales Manager for Memphis Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens. He and his wife Gail were married for 31 years. He is survived by his wife and three adult daughters.
In the extreme heat we're having be sure to drink plenty of water. If a person's skin feels extremely hot, but the person stops sweating, it should be considered a medical emergency.
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Honors Intrigue for RoboRetina™ – an Adaptive Imaging
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Intrigue receives 2006 Technology
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PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania– February 4,
2007 – The Frost & Sullivan 2006
Technology Innovation Award in the field of image
sensors for autonomous applications goes to Intrigue
Technologies Incorporated, headquartered in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Intrigue has solely designed and developed
the RoboRetina™, an adaptive image sensor concept
in which pixels intelligently adapt to local illumination
conditions in the environment. Akin to the human
eye, the system is able to sense high dynamic range
scenes without any loss of data while producing illumination-invariant
images that allow reliable image interpretation and
object recognition under various illumination conditions.
Imaging applications are numerous and the image sensor
market is visibly booming. It is currently driven by
digital cameras and cell phones; however, the next
growth spurt
image sensors is expected to be in autonomous vision
system applications – automotive and transportation,
security/biometrics, and robotics and unmanned systems.
These applications require vision systems that can
operate over a wide range of lighting conditions. Image
sensors used in digital cameras and cell phones have
so far failed to perform in such general operational
scenarios. For example, in sun-lit scenes current technology
produces images that routinely saturate for brightly
illuminated surfaces, while shadows come out completely
black. Such degraded images with missing details in
shadow and/or bright areas causing
system to fail, since a machine (or human operator)
cannot tell what is in those images. The human eye,
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extreme conditions.
RoboRetina™ is a platform technology that mimics
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Every part of my body is sore this week. I've been exercising like a mad woman. And no, it's not because of some wacky New Year's Resolution. It's something else entirely. Here's to:
1. Trying things again.
I live in Minnesota and it would be entirely embarrassing if I wasn't a good skier and skater. The problem is that the last time I went skiing (6 years ago) I broke my thumb. I built up in my mind that I couldn't do it, because I might fall and this might happen all over again. To my wonderful surprise this week, I wasn't nearly as bad at traversing those hills as I thought I'd be. In fact, I only fell once and had a blast.
2. Conversations that surprise you.
I love WTF with Marc Maron. I get him. I empathize. I rely on him for twice-weekly distractions from being a working girl. (You know what I mean.) Every once in a while a guest comes on and totally surprises me. I'm behind the times, because technically Michael Keaton's episode was last week, but his discussion of Batman and books was truly enjoyable.
My phone isn't busted after a nasty fall. And it looks hot. Double win.
4. Getting things done early.
I turned in a major grant application for a film EARLY. Do you know how insane that is. I feel like a real grown up who takes care of bizness. Now, fingers crossed this leads to being awarded the grand.
This week, I scribed these lovely posts for Apartment Therapy:
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Remember when I told you that I had never seen Doctor Who? Well, with temps over 100 in Minneapolis much of the last month I've been taking in LOTS of Doctor Who in the air conditioned comfort of my home. Slowly, I'm falling in love with the Doctor and his adventures. Mostly, I've come to appreciate the Doctor's attitude. It was this quote that really stuck with me:
Rose to alien: "If you're an alien, how come you sound like your from the North?"
The Doctor: "Lots of planets have a North."
It such a simple throw away joke, but it stuck with me. Our universe is bigger than us. If you can get out of your head and appreciate that fact, then you can always escape into the fun of fictional universes.
I decided I'd like to remind myself of this more often, so I've created an iPhone and Android background with the quote on it. And some TARDIS love too.
To download the iPhone background, click here.
To download the Android background, click here.
Want other free iPhone and Android backgrounds? The full list of downloadable freebies can be found here.
I love me some faux bling. Oddly, the cutout shape of a gem is more appealing to me than the actual gem itself. Which means I would make terrible royalty.
Anyway, remember this DIY I did a while back? It's the one where you can interchange the look of your iPhone cover for basically $1? Well, this is another design to add to that family of changeable designs. If you want to download the other ones I've designed, check out this post.
You can download the background here!
You can watch a video on how to use it here!
I made this design for Teej's mom for Mother's Day and thought some of you might also like the look of it. What do you think?
Happy Friday, friends. Thank goodness for a long weekend ahead!
I'm still bitterly fighting a cold, which means I have no energy to create a craftastrophe in my office. Instead, I've been catching up on BBC/PBS's Sherlock before the last episode tomorrow night.
In Irene Adler's words:
I am Sherlocked.
P.S. Did you know that Sherlock is the most portrayed literary human ever according to Guinness World Records?
So, I started screwing around on Photoshop to see if I could create a new lock screen background for my iPhone that matches the screen at the end of A Scandal in Belgravia. I think I've gotten pretty freaking close and it looks super cool. Now I'm sharing it with you!
You can download the iPhone background here!
EDIT: You can now download an Android friendly background here!
Happy weekend, my friends!
Last week, I showed you how to make $1 iPhone covers with the help of some free printables and an eBay iPhone cover. Well, if those designs aren't your thing, I thought I'd share my adaptation.
I got this fortune at a favorite Chinese restaurant in Minneapolis on a day when I was feeling absolutely despondent about my productivity. Probably one of my biggest personality flaws is that I have zero patience. If it could be done now, why not do it now, right? As a result, I often lose track of the big picture. This fortune was a happy reminder.
Instead of printing the free printables, all you have to do is get a fortune cookie and flatten the message. Then with a little double sided tape, tape it to the back of your phone. Put your clear cover on and you've got your fortune with you all day, every day.
Need more DIYs? I would love, love, love it if you subscribed to the Being Geek Chic YouTube channel. Go do it!
I tend to get sick of my iPhone covers, but don't like dropping $20 to $30 for every time I want something new. After discovering this transparent iPhone cover on eBay for less than $1, I thought I could come up with some new snappy ways to change up the designs.
So I present to you a DIY and a Freebie in one!
You can download the three covers I've designed here:
1. Hello!
2. Fox Face (Foxes are the woodland create du jour.)
3. Chevron
Special thanks to iapeel.com for having a blank template I could use to make these downloadable freebies. Here's how it works.
1. Print out one of the three freebie patterns. Carefully cut out the pattern with an Xacto knife and a ruler or a paper cutter. Whatever you have that allows you to cut a straight line will work.
2. Use an Xacto knife to cut out the camera hole.
3. Place the cut out freebie inside of your transparent iPhone case. Of course, the printed side should be facing out.
4. Snap in your iPhone!
And enjoy it!
You need:
One of the free printables
A transparent iPhone cover
Paper cutter
Total cost: $1 or less!


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Harrisburg Fire Dept. boats, Cumberland River Rescue, Harrisburg River Rescue and Susquehanna River Rescue loaded their boats into the water and quickly raced to where the men were located.
Fire Chief Brian Enterline described the intense moments and the problem facing the dam.
"It's a killing machine, it's a drowning machine," he said. "Once you get stuck in that backwash, it pushes you back against the face of that damn. You just continuously go in a circular motion back into the wash underneath the water."
Three boats were floating as several crews waded through the water and plucked each man way from danger. One-by-one, Harrisburg River Rescue crews brought each brother to the Harrisburg-side shore, safely. One of the kayakers gave a 'thumbs up' as he was being lifted in the back of an ambulance.
Although Chief Enterline was glad to see both men rescued without injury, he was angered that crews had to risk their lives because the men ignored the literal warning signs.
"There's signs and buoys just a hundred yards north of the dam," he said. "There's buoys that say, do not go past this point. And, every year we have people continuously come past this point."
Enterline said both men told police they thought they could go over the dam.
When asked point blank, one kayaker said, "I couldn't...I couldn't stop. That's the problem."
Water Conservation Officers said both men would be cited for 'negligent operation' and most likely be fined.
Enterline said a bad decision could have harmed crews' lives or other residents as resources were tied up assisting these men. But he is glad a poor choice did not become a deadly disaster.
"Today we are lucky that we didn't have two fatalities and were taken out by body bags," Enterline said.
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With fewer than three months until the general election, campaigns are in full swing as candidates push their supporters to show up at the polls. There's lots of buzz about what Congress will look like after November 4th, and who will be moving to Washington, but the list of those who won't be heading back…
Hot Races 2014: Biggest GOP Spending Groups Shying Away, So Far, from Georgia
April 28, 2014
While big-spending conservative groups are active in Senate races across the country, they're still largely keeping quiet in Georgia; only a few outside spending groups have stepped into the still wide-open Republican race so far.
Capital Eye Opener, Feb. 27: Lobbyists Worry About SCOTUS Case, Club for Growth Ranks Congress
February 27, 2013
Who's really sweating the McCutcheon case before the Supreme Court? Ask around on K Street. Also, tis the season for scorecards, and the Club for Growth's is out.
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January 8, 2013
Not many of those who voted against the Sandy relief package last week can afford to ignore New York and New Jersey as sources of campaign cash.
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It might be the dog days of summer, but that hasn't stopped Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) from seizing the opportunity to fill up the coffers of his political committees.
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Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) don't agree on health care reform. They don't agree on energy legislation, nor do they agree on immigration. Politically, they may not agree on much at all. However, they do share one distinction. Both have received nearly two-thirds of their campaign contributions from donors who contribute $200 or less, the Federal Election Commission's threshold for itemized disclosure. By comparison, the average House member only received 7 percent of their contributions from such "small donors."
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Here are the three most viewed Show-Me-How's from last week. Check them out while you're here. These adorable Cupcakes were shared by Jenn over at This Mommy Loves. I have to agree these are a great idea for any toddlers birthday party. Up next is an edible decoration that you can find over at the Vanilla Bean Baker. For only being at this since early 2010 she does a great job! It seems we have a lot of hungry readers, don't you agree? Our third post is an easy to do display shared by Laurie at House to your Home. I can understand wanting to find a way to display your kids collections as we have had the same problems with our boys. Let's see what you have been working on lately! Now it's your turn, share your craft or DIY projects, please be sure to include a link back here so that your readers can enjoy all the crafting goodness! The Party Guidelines have the rules all spelled out for you!


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Dan Barnes had a recent piece in the Edmonton Journal entitled, "Oilers suddenly serious about psychology", in which he explains the organization's new push towards psychological evaluation in their drafting and player development process. Barnes quoted Steve Tambellini as saying:
"It's a very big project. We are working on all components of our player development system. One of those components is the psychological aspect. Call it whatever you want, a consultant or a sports psychologist, but I want that position to be part of our player development model. I think it's very important. Some (players) already have their own. We need to do that as an organization."
Tambellini talked about using psychological evaluation as part of the draft process this season, and adding it to the player development wing of the organization beginning this year. Barnes also interviewed Dr. John Dunn, an Edmonton sports psychologist about some of the psychological testing methods that the Oilers may or may not employ with this year's prospect class.
That the Oilers are adding sports psychology to their cadre of developmental tools is a bit of a surprise. That they are adding psychological evaluations nearly twenty years behind the curve is not.
Last off-season I wrote about the Oilers' predilection towards drafting intelligent players, a trend that began with Chuck Noll and continued with Bill Walsh in the NFL, and slowly spread through football and professional sports to varying degrees. NFL gurus now focus on Wonderlic test results as a measure of intelligence, and NFL teams now do full psychological workups, but Noll and Walsh dug much deeper much earlier than anyone else, conducting prospect interviews that had little or nothing to do with football, but that helped both coaches gain insight into the minds of the players that they intended to draft. In essence, Noll and Walsh were doing their own precursors to psychological profiles or evaluations.
Psychological profiling was made famous by Walsh's San Francisco 49ers the year after he retired. The 49ers hired controversial professor Harry Edwards, who holds a PHD in sociology, to consult on a variety of issues, one of which was profiling potential draftees through a series of pre-draft interviews. The 49ers have had Edwards on the payroll since 1988 and have since added support staff for him. Most other NFL teams followed suit, and nearly all of them (I can't speak for the Raiders) now employ sports psychologists not only for draft purposes, but throughout the year, using them to evaluate players during the season, coach players through difficult times, and at times, call them in as slump busters.
Atlanta Braves pitcher, John Smoltz, is single-handedly responsible for turning Jack Llewellyn into a nationally-recognizable figure and the most famous sports psychologist in the country. Smoltz started the 1991 season by going 2-11. Out of ideas, he turned to Dr. Jack Llewellyn, at the time a noted Atlanta-area sports psychologist. Dr. Llewellyn began working with Smoltz, and as the story goes, the results had an immediate impact: Smoltz went 12-2 to close the year. Dr. Llewellyn's face was plastered all over Braves' broadcasts, his story turned up in Sports Illustrated, the USA Today and the New York Times. The Braves were convinced - they added Llewellyn as a full-time consultant to work with the entire team. Dr. Llewellyn continues to consult for the Braves today and turned his fame into a best-selling book, "Let 'Em Play", in which he dispenses advice on youth baseball.
We know that the Oilers were twenty years late to the nutrition, and strength and conditioning revolution, so as I said previously, that they are twenty years late to sports psychology doesn't come as a surprise. But does it matter? Does sports psychology have a marked impact on individual athletes and organizations as a whole? After all, even though the 49ers have been screening their draft prospects since 1988, essentially blazing the way for the practice in the NFL, they've spent first round picks on such players as J.J. Stokes, Jim Druckenmiller, Reggie McGrew, Mike Rumph, Kwame Harris and Rashaun Woods. At this point, all teams in the NFL are using psychological profiles on draft prospects, so is there any competitive advantage in them or is psychological profiling merely keeping up with the Joneses? A simple study comparing each best available player by statistical measures against the best available player combined with their profile compared to their career results should be able to quickly establish the efficacy of profiling, but no such study has been attempted.
Although the Braves have had Dr. Llewellyn on staff since 1991, that didn't stop the Braves from bringing legendary bigmouth John Rocker to the majors, nor was Llewellyn able to curtail Rocker's outrageous behavior. The Braves also watched as Andruw Jones went from a superstar to an overweight, under-motivated anchor on the payroll. If Llewellyn is responsible for saving and extending Smoltz's career, can he also be held responsible for not being able to keep Rocker under control, and should he be blamed for not being able to keep Andruw Jones away from the buffet?
Psychology remains a social science rather than a natural science, and research in the field is more often qualitative than quantitative - the branch of sports psychology is no exception. Sports psychology has much more to do with bluster, news snippets, and reputation than science. Though there are plenty of people working in the field and loads of papers on the subject, this is a common result in published papers:
Specifically, it was found that 38 of the 45 studies examined (85%) had found positive performance effects, although causality could only be inferred in 20 of these studies.
After reading the summaries of way too many of these studies, the common theme is that the subjects are author-submitted rather than controlled, and the results are always driven by correlative relationships rather than anything causal. Part of the reason for that is that the types of things sports psychologists actually do with players are fairly commonsensical: goal setting, visualization, relaxation, self-talk, etc. So how do you separate a sports psychologist from, say, Stuart Smalley or Oprah?
Another problem is that, as anyone that reads this corner of the the internet knows, quite often a slump is nothing more than a run of bad luck, and breaking out of a slump is nothing more than breaking that string of bad luck and getting back to a regular distribution. Given that a sports psychologist is often called into a situation where a player is under-performing, and that player will likely move towards his proven performance levels eventually regardless, how much of his recovery is attributable to the sports psychologist and how much is good, old-fashioned reversion to the mean?
And what happens when the therapy doesn't work, when the players don't respond, or the techniques aren't effective:
Misel has a simple explanation for these less impressive case studies. "We're only as good as the people we work with," he told the Los Angeles Times. "The talent has to be there." Other sports psychologists chalk up failure to players who won't stick with the program. It's a reasonable premise—you can't expect to see results if your client lacks ability or motivation. But from a scientific perspective, it's a sham. If you just write off negative results, how do you know your intervention does anything at all?
In the end, sports psychologists are just like any other coach or player development personnel. Sometimes the message connects (Shawn Horcoff and Craig MacTavish, or Pat Quinn and Gilbert Brule), sometimes the message doesn't get through (Rob Schremp and Jeff Truitt, or Quinn and Lubomir Visnovsky) and sometimes the message is ignored (Joni Pitkanen and Charlie Huddy, or Dustin Penner and MacTavish).
Taken as just another tool meant to help the organization get through to players in addition to coaching and player development, rather than a panacea meant to solve every troubled player's problems, it's worthwhile to add sports psychologists to the organization. As long as Daryl Katz is willing to foot the bill for some possible but not verifiable results, the Oilers can be no worse off than they were before.


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Bainbridge--Bainbridge college continues to grow. The college broke ground today for a River Regional Center.
The new addition will feature a 250-seat auditorium, computer labs, a dining facility and video production studio. President Dr. Clifford brock is confident the new development will benefit the southwest Georgia business industry and, of course, the college itself. "It's important to all of southwest Georgia. It's a critical building for the college but it's a facility we've designed to serve all kinds of needs in southwest Georgia," says Brock.
The new River Regional Center is a six and a quarter million dollar project and is expected to be completed by august of 2004.
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A Belton-Honea Path High School student and football player died Thursday night after year-long battle with blood clots.
Ben Jordan, 16, was being treated at Greenville Memorial when a blood clot made it to his lungs, according to the coroner.
Jordan was known as "Gentle Ben" and loved the game of football. BHP Head Coach Russell Blackston said Jordan wanted to suit up for the team's opener against Laurens two weeks ago.
"He was getting better every week, he was one of those kids you never have to fuss at, if you said fix it , he would fix it," Blackston said.
About 14 months ago, Jordan began feeling a shortness of breath at football camp. Blackston said something happened in Jordan's body that nobody knew what it was.
Jordan came back strong and earned the starting right guard position this summer, but his determination wasn't a cure for the condition that would eventually claim his life.
Jordan was hospitalized the day before the game against Laurens. On Thursday, he began suffering shortness of breath while at the hospital, collapsed and never regained consciousness.
He was planning to be released from the hospital today.
"It's a very emotional time, we don't understand why, but Ben Jordan isn't suffering anymore," Blackston said.
At 6'1", 250 pounds, Jordan had a warm smile and a gentle way, it's no wonder Blackston dubbed him the young man tasked with protecting his quarterback "Gentle Ben."
"It's what I want my two children to be like, like Ben Jordan, great with his manners, outstanding leader, loved by many," Blackston said.
At Friday night's game, the team will wear Jordan's initials above a star on their helmets.
Blackston said the school will honor Jordan at the team's home game against Palmetto next week.
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Smith spends semester at Focus Leadership Institute
April 04, 2010
Junior Justin Smith joins a long line of Bryan students who have spent a semester of their college experience at the Focus Leadership Institute in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Justin described his Spring 2010 class as being made up of 53 students, ranging in age from 19-26, from 27 states. "I've learned as much or even more from them than in the classroom. All of us came to FLI for different reasons. Some, for example, are here because they don't have anything else to do after graduating and are seeking direction. Others are here for very specific reasons, like mine, which is to learn how to be a godly husband and father."
|Justin (front left) and his hiking buddies.
|Cabin mates pose for the camera.
Dr. Steve Bradshaw acted as Bryan's first FLI liaison from 1995 until 2006, at which time he turned over the responsibility to Dr. Randy Hollingsworth. Dr. Bradshaw said that the majority of the students who have participated over the years have been psychology or communication studies majors. Justin, however, is an exercise and health science major who plans on teaching after he graduates.
Justin said that the FLI classes are taught from a biblical perspective and focus on training college-age students how to influence their culture and to glorify God through the avenues of marriage, family, church, society, worldview, gender, and leadership. He gave high praise to his professors, who "teach with passion and are extremely transparent with their lives. I think of them more as mentors than as teachers." The spring semester coursework consists of five courses, including an internship at a job site related to each student's respective major. Depending on the student's major, Bryan accepts the classes as either required course substitutions or electives. In addition federal, state and outside scholarships and grants transfer to help cover the cost.
Beyond the classroom, Justin says, "the activities and events are plentiful—skiing, snowboarding, rock climbing, and hiking have been a part of nearly every week I've been here. The apartments we live in have a gorgeous view of Pike's Peak, and we are just a few minutes away from the Garden of the Gods."
Drs. Bradshaw and Hollingsworth agree that the FLI students they have seen go through the program are enthusiastic about "the experiences gained, the principles learned, and the friendships made—all of which have proved invaluable long after graduating from college."
Justin still has a few more weeks left at the Institute, but this is how he describes his experience: "The most incredible aspect of my FLI semester is the people I've met here. I've also gained a much more solid foundation for why I believe what I believe. And beyond acquiring new knowledge, I am also gaining bits of wisdom about how to be a better man of God. Seeing men and women live out their lives outside the classroom in a godly and biblical manner is extremely refreshing. I have been so blessed to be able to attend the Institute, and I encourage anyone who is able to do so to take advantage of this priceless opportunity."