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wait, you can't trademark slurs? oh man i need to re-think my business plan.
Captain Capitulation on June 18, 2014 at 09:33 AM in freedom and copyright, Sports | Permalink | Comments (0)
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i live in york springs, pa, known locally as 'little mexico' i go with 'mini-mexico', 'micro-mexico', 'pocket mexico', 'nano-mexico', 'rednexico', or 'mexico in an andrew wyeth' depending on my mood. so i've decided i'm rooting for mexico in the world cup. (also, perhaps due to the fact that it is ruled by authoritarian dolts [harvard jd's], i'm not feeling all that patriotic about the usa; mexico is better-governed.) viva el tri!
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true i am enjoying johnny weir as a skating commentator, and it's cool that that fabulous of a queen can be on tv all day. however, i have one reservation: he very much preaches the gospel of "if you believe in yourself, you can do anything." honestly i don't know how that idea ever occurred to anyone, much less became a cliche we teach to our children, etc. it attributes actual omnipotence to any given high school schlumph. or it really creates for each of us a special religion of our self. i used to believe in god, or like, trying to do right or whatever, now i believe in myself. hence i can do anything. look, if there is anything i know by foundational, incorrigible, privileged-access introspection it is this: i am an extremely implausible candidate for godhead. if you don't know that about yourself, you are dangerously demented.
this morning johnny was saying that the skater on the ice had told him how much she had learned to believe in herself and that she could do anything. he said that just as she was going into the triple loop or whatever on which she wiped out. dude, whatever! believe insofar as possible all that is and only what is true - or at least try not to say with the utmost simulated commitment anything that you yourself know to be false and insane - and get to work!
but how about this from just now: "i love the beginning of this long program; she's just letting us all know she owns us". or he had a pretty hilarious rap on the limitations on sexual expression in a brother-sister pair, etc. he's very sexy and fun.
Captain Capitulation on February 20, 2014 at 11:09 AM in epistemology, Sports, Television | Permalink | Comments (3)
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i know you've been waiting for me to declare my position on this. no, brittney griner will never play in the nba, though she's the most dominant player in the history of women's college basketball. she's a skinny 6'8" center, and slow to boot relative to the nba. the best bet to try this, again (a few have tried before) is someone who can play point guard, like maybe the cal player layshia clarendon. meanwhile that shoni schimmel, whose louisville team just beat clarendon's, is an amazing athlete.
Captain Capitulation on April 07, 2013 at 07:44 PM in Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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beyonce's halftime show has been garnering universal ecstasy, or literal idolatry. i have to say i hate framing musical performances in these insane-scale spectacles, which beyonce's show is, even not at the super bowl. but it just invites the response that the hugeness is inversely proportional to the truth at the heart. anyone that intent on distracting attention from her music probably has very good reasons to do so. anyway, i'm just gonna stare at something like that and go: wow that cost millions. what bullshit. i don't think even the sheer spectacle had any real visual unity or a great deal of panache or anything; it was just supposed to bludgeon you into obedience.
ok beyonce can dance, but the style is still paula abdul and the laker girls with a little more stripper. the whole performance worked best as softcore porn or like one of those victoria's secret shows. i'm supposing that beyonce can sing, though i'm not as clear as everyone seems to be that she actually was. but even her voice was buried in audio sludge, and that's pretty true on the records too. i don't think the music means anything. seriously. the best riff by far was that horn thing on 'crazy in love,' which is a sample (of course there were models sort of pretending to be a horn section behind her). now i have less than no problem with sampling as a compositional and production technique; still there were no comparable musical accomplishments in her set.
the lyrics are just today's empty pop things, with the occasional pause for the 'believe in yourself' power ballad where one pretends to emote with unparalleled intensity. she does that no better than miley cyrus, and if you think that people can perform songs like that sincerely, you're not understanding that they don't engage or reflect any particular experience: they're like the self-esteem posters at the middle school. they might be aimed at your demographic, but not at you; in a way there's nothing it could mean for something like that to be sincere or even insincere. the pepsi jingle has more content, and really it might have some connection with what's inside you, or will be if you pop the top and tip it over into your mouth.
in short, that's just the kind of show caligula would have ordered up if he'd had the technology.
were i booking next year's super bowl halftime show for a useful contrast, here'd be my first brainstorm: what if we could get a reunion of the fugees instead of destiny's child? how would lauryn hill frame her voice and material? well, it would be personal. it would have dignity - she would have dignity - and believe it or not i think that is sexier. let wyclef do 'stayin alive.' wait, that's nas! maybe lauryn isn't as good a singer as beyonce (i'm not sure because no one knows what beyonce really sounds like singing in the shower or whatever). but that doesn't matter. lauryn sings great and she wants you to know what she's singing and she has a real connection to it. she might, even in this bloated context, move you, and not just her moneymaker.
i've been on this various times before, as in this, which ran in the latimes.
Captain Capitulation on February 04, 2013 at 04:34 PM in Music, Sports | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
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i can be pretty hard on reporters who get stories wrong. like i was ragging on all the misinformation they were purveying on newtown. but i'm going to forgive them on the te'o story. it's just not the sort of thing you'd think someone would make up. it spoke well for us that we wouldn't require verification on something like that, just believe the raw emotion he was...expressing. well, i suppose even things like that have to dissolve in our current context, including social media. but that's sad, see? do i resent the fact that i was laboring under a misapprehension? well yeah a bit. how much of a burden was it to continue to labor under that misapprehension for a few extra weeks? indetectible in the face of the actual burdens that confront me on any given day. this crap ain't exactly watergate. believing a college kid about his tragedy is not like believing what some politician or military spokesman or corporate flak is saying, which are real and constant problems in american journalism. so i just don't feel that there is a big media problem here, except maybe that te'o was tailoring the story to fit into espn's formulae. the formulae should be reflected on not least because the narrative forms they deploy are getting awfully old, and have the sort of falsifying imperatives that alway arise when you try to read actual life as though it were a novel.
or: how could notre dame not release this information as soon as they had it? well, this is the kind of story that there just is no urgency in reporting to anyone. now, maybe it's disturbing that they waited til after the championship game, but really we don't know how the deliberation went at all. it's sad, stupid, and fucked up no matter how it happened, but nothing turns on getting it out immediately at all: it has no, like, policy implications. no one has to make up their mind about anything on its basis, at least until the draft.
Captain Capitulation on January 17, 2013 at 06:56 PM in journalism, media, Sports | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
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Captain Capitulation on January 17, 2013 at 05:11 AM in philosophy, Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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a few lance armstrong observations: possibly testicular cancer is a side effect of steroid abuse. and now i guess he's reached the stage of redemptive snitching. i'm not sure there's ultimately any treatment for the tendency of people to try to find one of their number to elevate into a little god, or the disease of hero-worship, but certainly no number of empirical refutations appears adequate.
Acknowledging his doping past has cleared the way for Armstrong to take the next step in trying to mitigate his lifetime ban from Olympic sports. He is planning to testify against several powerful people in the sport of cycling who knew about his doping and possibly facilitated it, said several people with knowledge of the situation.
Captain Capitulation on January 15, 2013 at 04:31 AM in Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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i have to say that the olympics track and field competition is, among other things, an amazing celebration of black womanhood. lord that field for the 100 metres: what a magnificent group of african warrior princesses, with incredible fire in the eyes (as well as unbelievable acceleration, of course). also i'll pay tribute to the rather shocking virginity of 29-year-old lolo jones. let's just say that she's running against the tendency of the culture. that is sexy.
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Captain Capitulation on August 06, 2012 at 09:33 AM in beautiful things, sex, Sports | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
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In his verdict, Riddle said there was "no doubt" that Terry had uttered the words "fucking black cunt" during the final stages of the match at Loftus Road last autumn. He had done so in anger, he said.
But it was "impossible to be sure" both of what Terry said and what Ferdinand had said to him.
Riddle concluded: "It is therefore possible that what he [Terry] said was not intended as an insult, but rather as a challenge to what he believed had been said to him. In those circumstances, there being a doubt, the only verdict the court can record is one of not guilty."
the idea that insults are crimes is insulting, hence criminal. and the idea that an insult directed at one grown man by another is a crime shows that, while we are not all 'fucking black cunts,' we are certainly a beautiful rainbow of little fucking pussies. you actually have a judge trying to lip-read videos and crap. (as well as concluding with magnificent stupidity both that there is no doubt that terry said it and that it's not certain that he did, and that 'fbc,' offered in response to an insult, is not itself an insult; these are the thoughts of a man wondering what the hell he is doing with a case like that in his courtroom.) maybe having said it 'in anger' is an element of the crime? surely terry meant 'fucking black cunt' affectionately. plus maybe he didn't start it! where's the assistant principal when you need him? by what means the government convinces itself that such things are crimes or that it is their legitimate function to intervene, it is impossible to say.
Captain Capitulation on July 14, 2012 at 06:11 AM in freedom, Sports | Permalink | Comments (41) | TrackBack (0)
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i was wrong about joe paterno.
Captain Capitulation on July 13, 2012 at 09:34 AM in education, jurisprudence, Sports | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
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sitting at home with a stomach bug watching the euro football tournament. ukrainian fans, russian fans, danish, german, spanish: they sing the riff from "seven-nation army": tens of thousands in unison. well, it's a great riff. for that matter, american college basketball crowds do the same; perhaps we'll hear those seven notes at the nba finals tonight. i wonder what it would be like to have written something like that. it's like you produced a little poem that became a world-wide universal cliche, a phrase-fad. the closest analogue i can think of is "we will rock you." now certainly you would regard it with a certain pride, but it might also be a sort of burden; nothing else you ever do will have such an effect, and now it is you: no escape or revision or re-interpretation is possible, really.
Captain Capitulation on June 12, 2012 at 02:40 PM in Music, Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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everyone seems to be calling for the head of marlins manager ozzie guillen, who expressed admiration for fidel castro. this is just ridiculous. am i called upon to agree with the politics of of the coaches of the sports teams i root for? or they with mine? i realize this is a sensitive subject in miami, but the man's opinions are irrelevant to anything and everything, including the conduct of his team and anybody's dealings with cuba. on pardon the interruption last night, the usually delightful kornheiser and wilbon were asking how people would respond if guillen praised hitler or bin laden. now, i am very not a fan of totalitarian marxists, i.e. marxists. but those comparisons are silly.
Captain Capitulation on April 10, 2012 at 06:54 AM in Sports | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
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here's a relatively typical case in which the exquisitely delicate ethnic sensitivities of the press preclude them from actually reporting the story: espn fired a staffer for an 'offensive' headline: we report the story at length, but can't actually say what the headline said. that's frigging ridiculous. we'd do our basic jobs, only we're pussies. the headline itself was only up for a half hour, and for example reading this account would make it impossible to reach an informed opinion on whether the firing was reasonable. you don't want to offend your readers, who are not at all offended for example when you report the actual facts of a murder in excruciating detail. well, lord knows this - whatever it was - was worse than murder.
Captain Capitulation on February 20, 2012 at 07:20 AM in media, Sports | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
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you often hear the term 'tragedy' used to mean almost any bad thing. but aristotle could have used joepa rather than oedipus as his model.
Captain Capitulation on January 24, 2012 at 06:48 PM in death patrol, literature, Sports | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
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what i like about this is not that it skewers tebow, who has after all been sent to save a wretch like me. what i like is what it shows about david bowie. fallon's singing is overwrought yet flimsy.the outfit is ridiculous. however, the lyrics are much better than bowie's (admittedly that would be hard to avoid), the singing no worse, the fashion sense less palpably pointless. of course bowie and tebowie more or less share the same 'melody.' it's as though bowie built a magnificent palace of suck in which every single detail sucks royally, but in which the whole sucks exponentially more than any of the constituent parts.
Captain Capitulation on January 13, 2012 at 12:45 PM in Music, Sports | Permalink | Comments (13) | TrackBack (0)
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that the nfl limits more or less everybody to a single game in the 4pm time slot is ridiculous. (right now we're all stuck watching the packers blow out the raiders, while close games are happening elsewhere.) maybe somehow they want to funnel everyone into the same advertisements at the same time. or maybe they have a deal with directv, which is the only provider that will even sell you all nfl games. but really it cannot make business sense. surely you want to maximize your total audience, so given that you've got a broadcast crew at every game, you should make them all available, even on the web. otherwise i'll be watching tennessee-martin at bethune-cookman in field hockey in a minute here. of course, many people are not in the markets of the team they root for, so while they always do broadcast the in-market team, a lot of us miss most of our games. i listen to the redskins on internet radio.
what actual businesses of now have found out is that it doesn't pay to constantly irritate and alienate your customers. you want them to have an easy and good experience every time. you want to give them what they want, a decent actual lesson of capitalism. it's like when, in the late 80s/early 90s, consultants designed stores that would funnel you down the far-right aisle to the back wall if you entered the store at all: they literally forced you to walk down a long aisle of sale items, then all the way back to the front to get anything. they might even have sold slightly more stuff per customer. but the stores were always empty because you immediately realized it was going to take you twice as long to find and pay for anything than across the street. and you immediately understood that you were being manipulated in a hideous psychological experiment, with you cast as the rodent, rather than being served. floor plans have been opening up ever since.
Captain Capitulation on December 11, 2011 at 04:37 PM in economy, Sports | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
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douthat argues today that there are parallels between catholic priests' sexual abuse of boys and the cover-ups of it and the penn state case. and folks on espn have been describing it as "the worst scandal in the history of college athletics." now let me say why i don't think these things are right, exactly. now, almost any institution - in particular any institution that deals with children - might harbor a pedophile; i guess there's a little segment of the population that is sexually configured this way; lord knows why. but the catholic church, i believe, more or less actively encouraged homosexual pedophilia for centuries. really 'celibacy' amounted to misogyny: the basic idea was not to touch women. and the idea of celibacy attracted many people who were disgusted - often for extremely good reasons - by their own sexuality. i actually think the altar boy was conceived to be a way to keep priests celibate: which is absurd, but there it is. you had thousands of abusers, layers and layers of concealment, and i think actual institutional encouragement. i don't know much about big-time college football, and it has its amazing corruptions, but it would surprise me if it had anything like that going on. what you have is one predator, and one extremely disturbing cover-up.
the worst scandals in college football are scandals that infect the whole thing routinely: those are the scandals that are peculiar to, characteristic of, the institution: scandals involving, say, cash or sex used to lure high school players to commit to a school: the way usc has conducted its program for decades, e.g. or academic scandals that amount to relieving players of their status as students. or judicial-type scandals where player misbehavior is forgiven or concealed over and over. these are the corruptions that are characteristic of the institution, as homosexual pederasty is characteristic of the catholic church. now it's probably true that sandusky was protected by a kind of culture of impunity around big-time college athletics. but it's not, i think, true that child sexual abuse is any more rampant in this environment than in any other. you'd be likelier to find that in children's charities, like sandusky's foundation, and maybe that's a place where we might focus more attention.
[let me acknowledge a little streak of homophobia in what i just wrote. and let me say that i also think that the extreme repugnance with which many people have greeted the sandusky revelations also has such a streak. 'anally raping a ten-year-old boy' causes about as severe a disgust reaction as i am capable of. and let me say: i was sexually abused by one of my step-brothers, and as an adolescent i was incessantly chicken-hawked by men: the guy on the bus who just puts his hand on your crotch; the guy who picks you up hitch-hiking and asks whether you like to masturbate etc etc. i kind of had to fight for a heterosexual identity. well obviously girls have to put up with shit like that from heterosexual men. but if that turned them against heterosexuality, you might understand it. but the homosexual element is intrinsic to the catholic situation (though of course there might be an occasional girl abused by a priest). reason tells me it's just as bad either way. nausea tries to tell me something else. no doubt further therapy is recommended.]
Captain Capitulation on November 13, 2011 at 07:05 AM in Religion, Sports | Permalink | Comments (12) | TrackBack (0)
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iverson rocked, brian. electrifying. representing the little guy everywhere. that crossover! the speed, the intensity, the skill.
Captain Capitulation on November 10, 2011 at 06:38 PM in Sports | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
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i have to say i hope that the penn state board of trustees allows joe paterno to retire with some dignity at the end of the season, and doesn't fire him tonight. i think he didn't do nearly enough when a graduate student came to him and told him (apparently) that he saw jerry sandusky anally raping a 10-year-old boy in the penn state football showers. but on the other hand, he has done inestimable good for that school. one time the chair of the philosophy department at the main campus told me that various of his programs were secretly funded by paterno. and i don't think you will be harming anyone by allowing him to persist a few more weeks. he was not the perp. and his statement of regret was about as deep and sincere as anyone could hope for,
i'm even a bit sad to see the pres, graham spanier, go. when i was teaching at penn state harrisburg, i did an op-ed for the philly inquirer defending alan iverson (my fave b-ball player ever) after he was arrested for driving a hundred miles an hour through virginia with a gun on his passenger seat. i said: yesterday i got saved from a ticket when a guy coming the other way flashed his lights at me. so i flashed on the other side. we commonly help each other evade the law, a beautiful sign of human unity. well, spanier apparently got barraged with demands to fire me etc. but he didn't, though he did draft a reply, which he asked me to approve, saying 'crispin sartwell does not endorse breaking any law.' i made him re-cast that sentence, as i recall. but he was good about the whole thing.
Captain Capitulation on November 09, 2011 at 07:42 PM in Sports | Permalink | Comments (15) | TrackBack (0)
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again this season, i'll be collecting names of college basketball players. just to say it: black folks are applying ever-more creative naming strategies (it's not like, looking at these names, you're wondering about the players' race). so how about these freshmen from st. john's: God'sgift Achiuwa and Sir'dominic Pointer. also i feel that the apostrophe is only the beginning of the incorporation of punctuation marks into the human name. i'm thinking of throwing a few question marks into mine.
Captain Capitulation on November 09, 2011 at 06:18 PM in race, Sports | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
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i'm not really into a left-right shooting war, since i don't know which side i'd be on, and i don't want to get caught in the crossfire. but let's get andrew breitbart and matt taibbi shoot it out on national television. thanks, tom.
Captain Capitulation on September 19, 2011 at 12:53 PM in politics, Sports | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
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i have to say that in my head 9.11 is quite polluted by nationalism. they just unfurled an exactly-football-field-sized flag at the ravens-steelers game. at least budweiser will never forget.
Captain Capitulation on September 11, 2011 at 12:04 PM in Sports, terror and war | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
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it's weird how you can feel like you know someone without ever meeting him. i've got to say i was shocked by the death of mike flanagan, the orioles pitcher/exec/announcer. i saw him pitch many times, particularly in the o's world championship season of 1983, when i lived a few blocks from the old memorial stadium. he was a sort of neighbor, or at least he lived (and died) rural halfway between here and baltimore. i loved him as a color man on o's broadcasts; he was very funny, laconic, low-key but also sharp. one sad fact about us people: a lot of times you really can't see that anything's wrong. he shot himself in the face, making the body hard to identify, and apparently was in despair about money. fuck.
there is too much death.
Captain Capitulation on August 25, 2011 at 05:18 PM in death patrol, Sports | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
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asks whether brian wilson has the biggest beard in the history of baseball. near thing, but i givin it up to the house of david. they didn't wear spandex tuxedoes, though, as far as i know.
Captain Capitulation on July 14, 2011 at 08:05 PM in Sports | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
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Ace Sanders of South Carolina. He is not as good as Randall Cobb regrettably, but contrary to what Mel Kiper thinks, he could be a T.Y. Hilton type in this draft. In any case, it beats hoping/waiting for Joe Adams to pan out.
Since I mentioned mock drafts, I will take a stab at it.
1. Sheldon Richardson or Shariff Floyd (other DTs are rated higher and more polished but these are the ones who will most likely be able to rush the passer ... the Panthers have LBs to stop the run so don't really need a big run stuffing NT like Johnthan Hankins, Star Lotulalei or John Jenkins as much, plus they can get a run-stopping DT like Kwame Geathers in a later round).
2. RT D.J. Fluker. I know, his pass protection skills are suspect, though some are saying not as nearly as previously thought. That is not my biggest concern. My biggest concern is that by playing on an Alabama OL that has 3-4 other guys who may start in the NFL, how good are any of the individual players? However, the good news is that of those guys, Fluker and Cyrus Kouandjio are probably the best natural athletes. As far as pass protection goes ... Newton is a dual threat QB. With Newton, Stewart and Williams, the Panthers need to be a running team, and Fluker is the best run-blocking lineman in this draft.
3. Ace Sanders
4. Zeke Motta, FS, Notre Dame. Has size, speed, can run, can cover, can hit.
5. Levine Toilolo, TE, Stanford. The Panthers badly need a backup TE, and this guy would start for nearly all college teams. He just happens to be stuck behind Zach Ertz, the #1 TE in the draft. 6'7", 265 lbs, can block, catch, run, jump etc.
6. Jeff Baca, OG, UCLA. A pass blocking interior OL to challenge for time at RG (we hope). Or if a run blocker is better, Josh Dworaczyk of LSU or John Sullen of Auburn.
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These teams are very even. Minn. does not have many injuries (they are missing a starting linebacker) so they are very similar health wise as well. Take for example how their statistics for total offense and defense compare:
The Cowboys offense ranks 14th in points per game and 2nd in yards per game.
The Minn. offense ranks 2nd in ponts per game and 5th in yards per game.
The Cowboys defense ranks 2nd in points per game and 9th in yards per game.
The Minn. defense ranks 10th in ponts per game and 6th in yards per game.
Taking these statistics into account it seems that if the Boys can prevent the Vikes from scoring they can win a feild position battle. Thats why the Spencer vs Loadholt matchup is so key. Loadholt is a rookie starter who may be slowing down. If Spencer can outplay him it will traslate into sacks and more freedom for Demarcus. A strong pass rush is key to corraling big plays and forcing teams into punts and feild goals. The one matchup that I think the Boys can exploit is Spencer vs Loadholt, it is the only area along the line where there is a true mismatch in talent when Minn has the ball.
The one thing Minn. can do to counteract this mismatch is to match the Cowboys pass rush with their own. I think we can trust the cowboys line (and Romo's mobility) to take care of the Minn D line aside from Allen. Allen is the one question mark though. From what I have read most of his production comes latter in games and that may be what tips the scales in our favor. Lack of rush early may amount to a lead, and a lead will allow the Cowboys to run the ball and play to Allen's relative deficency vs the run (as opposed to his proficency vs the pass). A lead neutralizes Peterson as well.
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Although wolf packs do cooperate strategically in bringing down prey, they do not do so as frequently or as effectively as lionesses do; unlike lions, wolves rarely remain with their pack for more than two years, thus they have less time to learn how to hunt cooperatively. Contrary to lion prides, food acquisition per wolf decreases with pack size.[95] Overall, single wolves or mated pairs typically have higher success rates in hunting than do large packs. Single wolves have occasionally been observed to kill large prey such as moose, bison and muskoxen unaided.[96] When hunting, wolves will attempt to conceal themselves as they approach their prey. With ungulate herds, they then either attempt to break up the herd, or isolate one or two animals from it.[97] If the targeted animal stands its ground, the wolves either ignore it, or try to intimidate it into running.[98] When chasing small prey, wolves will attempt to catch up with their prey as soon as possible. With larger animals, the chase is prolonged, in order to wear the selected prey out.[96] Wolves usually give up chases after 1–2 km (0.62–1.3 mi), though one wolf was recorded to chase a deer for 21 km (13 mi).[32] Sometimes, a single wolf will distract the herd with its presence, acting as a decoy, while its pack mates attack from behind.[63] Wolf packs may also set up ambush trails; Indian wolves have been observed to chase gazelle herds through ravines where other wolves lie in wait within holes dug prior to the hunt,[99] while Russian wolves will set up ambushes near water holes, sometimes using the same site repeatedly.[97] Both Russian and North American wolves have been observed to drive prey onto crusted ice, precipices, ravines, slopes and steep banks to slow them down.[100]
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On March 8, 2001, Karla Homolka was officially denied early statutory release. The National Parole Board released its ruling after a review of the case, ordering that Homolka remain detained past her July release eligibility date. ''The board is satisfied that, if released, you are likely to commit an offence causing the death of or serious harm to another person before the expiration of the sentence you are now serving,'' said the order. The families of her schoolgirl victims are delighted with the result, according to Tim Danson, their lawyer.
According to the board report, the gravity of her crimes is part of the reason she was detained. ''The judge described those acts as monstrous and depraved,'' said the report. ''All these crimes are extremely grave... the fact that you continued your crimes after the death of your sister, which occurred during your sexual abuse of her, demonstrates clearly your difficulty in controlling your violent sexual impulses to the point of putting in danger the safety of others. Your modus operandi demonstrates a high degree of indifference to the consequences of your acts.''
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why electric field line are curved at top of two plates.
I can't understand that why electric field lines are radial between two parallal plates but curved at the end.? what is the reason.
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Near the end of either plate, the edge of the plate looks a line charge, from which the field lines would extend radially (or you can think of it as a point charge in your 2-D picture). The edges of the two plates generate field lines similar to those from two oppositely charged parallel line charge distributions, i.e. curved field lines.
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Michael Vick comeback talk is all the rage these days. We steadfastly stand by our prediction that at some point his story will be made into a full length Hollywood blockbuster and we can't wait to see it, but at the same time, there are some crimes we just can't find it in our heart to forgive a person for. When it comes to Michael Vick, we can get past the dog fighting thing. He's served his time for the crime and turned his life around. That's all you can ask of a person, really. But there's another story from Vick's past that's a little bit harder to get over. We're speaking, of course, of the Ron Mexico incident.
For those who don't remember the Ron Mexico scandal, which at this point seems like just about everyone, allow us to give you a little background information. In 2005, a health care worker named Sonya Elliot filed a lawsuit against Vick claiming the NFL star gave her herpes in 2003. Of course, giving a person an STD isn't really a crime. The world doesn't have nearly enough prison space to enforce that kind of law. But with that said, if you know you have something, it's just good form to let a person in on the secret before you go having unprotected sex with them. That's where Michael Vick made his first mistake.
According to Elliot, when she confronted Vick about her herpes diagnoses, he admitted that he had the disease and knew about it prior to their encounter. But it gets worse. Elliot also claims that Vick visited several clinics to get tested for herpes using the alias Ron Mexico. As hilarious and fitting as that pseudonym is for a person getting a herpes test, there's an inherent risk that comes with using a fake name as ridiculous as that. Specifically, you run the risk of humiliating the shit out of any dude who might happen to really be named Ron Mexico. In this case, the real Ron Mexico was an auto parts supplier who lived in Michigan. Needless to say, he wasn't thrilled with all the unwanted attention the herpes scandal brought his way.
"I've been getting a ton of calls. People are asking me if I know him. I don't, of course," said Mexico, an auto parts supplier in Brighton, Michigan.
"How do you pull a name like that out of the air? Use Bob Smith or Jim Johnson; there's 50 million of them. Out of all the names in the whole world, I wanna know how he picked this name out," Mexico wondered.
That's a hell of a question, Ron Mexico. Unfortunately, it was a question we never received an answer to. Throughout the entire controversy, Vick would only deny the allegations made by Sonya Elliot. That's fine, but given that he eventually settled the case out of court, we have reason to believe he may not have been telling the truth.
This is where the Ron Mexico scandal rubs us the wrong way. There's no strict law of man that requires a person to use a catch-all name like "John Smith" if you need to conceal the results of your herpes test, but there most certainly should be. People talk, even when they aren't supposed to. That applies to health care workers as much as anyone else. What happens when the nurse at the clinic blabs to her friends that some dude named Ron Mexico has the crotch rot? Just like that, the news is all over town. Next thing you know, otherwise innocent Ron Mexicos get their good names dragged through the mud. The herpes mud, no less.
When you combine that with the fact that he knowingly put an assuredly lovely lady in the life of fire (if you catch our drift), you get a whole lot of wrong. You just don't do shit like this to your fellow man (or woman). We might rejoice over the fantasy points Vick has been racking up for us this season, but thanks to the Ron Mexico scandal, we'll always be a little bit wary of MV7.


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Before I get to the point of this post, which is, unsurprisingly, about replacing Gareth Bale, it is worth mentioning that Gareth Bale has not actually left yet, and therefore doesn't really need replacing. Normally I would wait until news actually broke before writing this, but I probably won't be able to wait any longer. Therefore, I will have to make some assumptions about how the situation will play out:
1. Gareth Bale will move to Real Madrid for a lot of money. Otherwise replacing him would be counter-intuitive.
2. Erik Lamela will join Spurs. I know this qualifies as "moving," but it is the best name thrown out there.
3. Willian won't. Now I am definitely moving. This would be awesome in my opinion, I'll explain why later.
4. I haven't watched enough soccer for you to take my opinion seriously. This is accurate. I have seen Lamela play exactly zero times, and Willian once. This doesn't mean I'm not going to state my opinions, just that you should take them with mountains of salt.
So, now that that's out of the way, Bale. He's really, really good. I don't think this can be overstated. He is the mythical Bill Simmons $2 bill, a franchise changing star who brings the team to a certain level all by himself. One of Simmons' main theories is that you should never give up a $2 bill for $2 in quarters, or, in Spurs case, a bunch of $30 million rated players. Now, that theory is for basketball, where it is much more difficult to lose your best player, but I like the theory. If at all possible, hold onto guys like Bale.
Now, what of the event where it isn't possible? Say that Bale has quietly told Levy that he wishes to leave, and Madrid offers, to continue the analogy, $3? Then Bale is sold, and he needs replacing.
My main point is that it cannot be done. We went through this last summer with Modric. There is no way to spend on one player who can do the job that Bale can do, and we shouldn't try. I am of the opinion that Lamela would be trying. Correct me if I am wrong, but the assessment of Lamela that I get is of a goal scoring winger, with essentially the same style as Bale, who could potentially be that same player as Bale. I'm not a huge fan of this; as Lennon's Eyebrow said, Lamela is the magic box. He could be anything, even Gareth Bale! Getting Lamela, with no other purchases, would seem like forcing him into the exact same role as Bale.
This isn't so much an issue with Lamela, it's an issue with Bale. Gareth Bale's role with Tottenham last year was the largest in the league, with only Robin van Persie rivaling him. Trusting that to a player who notably is not Gareth Bale would be a mistake to me; there are only about three wingers on the planet who can do that. Lamela may become one of them, but he isn't now.
Which is why upgrading the team in other areas is a must. "But Drew," you say, "we already bought Paulinho and Soldado! Isn't that enough?" Possibly. It's a fair point if you want to believe that those constitute upgrades, then fine, just take Lamela and roll with it. It's fine, but I don't think this is the mindset we want to have. I see those as huge deficiencies that needed addressing, Bale or no Bale. Well, they are addressed, now deal with Bale.
Assuming Bale is sold, we would need to upgrade the wings. Why? Because that would be our biggest weakness, so getting talent there would offer the most significant upgrade per dollar spent. Lennon-Townsend certainly isn't bad, and Andros has a bit of that magic box feel to him doesn't he? But that is by far the worst wing combination of any team competing for the top four, and therefore should be be seen as a deficiency, not an asset. So, how to best upgrade the wings? I think it requires two signings. One option is Willian. This would probably be the best, in my personal opinion, because he isn't Bale and never will be. He can't be considered Bale's replacement, and should fit in with just about any other signing. Whether it works or not is down to Villas Boas, and whether he could divide the offense amongst the talent that he has without losing production. I'll tentatively say that he can. The key would be another signing.
Having said that, screw Chelsea.
The other option is Lamela. I'd be in favor of this, surprisingly enough. The key would be to have other ways to take him out of a Bale role; to separate him form the tag of Bale Replacement, a task that many managers have failed at in the past. Again, that would be down to another player taking a larger role.
Of course, that all hinges on making one new signing to drastically upgrade the team: buying a right back.
I can see you calling me a Walker hater already. I accept that. But I ask you to hear me out. Kyle Walker is not too weak defensively to be a right back. He is not our weakest piece. In fact, Kyle Walker is the closest thing possible to a Bale replacement.
Now, that's kind of a huge deal. What I am saying is that the best way to improve the production of our offense is to increase the role of it's best players. As of right now, that means Kyle Walker.
Hear me out on this. Right now, Walker is fairly restricted to the right wing, where he is forced to either pass in, pass to Lennon, or cross. His attacks on the box don't often result in shots on goal from Walker himself, which I think isn't a problem as the team is currently constructed. However, in not allowing those shots (and crosses and attacks), you are taking away a weapon which could be very effective. Walker has the best shot on the team (not including Bale and potentially Rose), and as a right back that skill can only be used situationally. That's fine when we are getting shots on target from elsewhere, and Walker's speed can be transitioned to defense.
That's also what we thought when Bale was a left back. Turns out that emphasizing the best parts of his game worked well. Obviously Walker is not Bale, but I tend to like the idea. Focusing on Walker as a runner, shooter, and crosser should help absorb many of the possessions that losing Bale would entail. As an added bonus, he plays basically the same style as Bale, so taking on extra possessions wouldn't necessarily require a shift in tactics. Overall, there is still a large hole to be filled, which is why the left winger would be upgraded as well, and there is the not small matter of actually buying a right back. It's really just a theory, but one that I think is well worth considering. Lamela-Walker does a great deal of what Bale does, without forcing either into Bale's role permanently. Worst case scenario, we have two magic boxes. I want magic boxes.
Personally I'd prefer Willian there (he fits in so well with Soldado and the new midfield), but Lamela works very well and has an extremely high ceiling. He wouldn't have to be Bale in this case too, which is a major plus to me. As an added bonus, fullbacks tend to be much less expensive than wingers of the same status.
I am aware, as well, that the argument that I just made against Lamela being the first option fits in with Walker as well. He'd have to take up a very similar role to Bale without actually being Bale, which is definitely an issue. I like it a little more so because Walker is already on the team, plus he doesn't necessarily have to do what Bale does. Things like that happen when you do something which hasn't been tried before. However, as a tricky way of upgrading the squad, I think this works. If Lamela and Walker are both half of Bale, and their styles are very similar to Bale, then you get one Bale. Voila! (Nevermind that Lennon's production is suddenly gone too. This is tricky.)
One thing that I should mention is that I think Walker could be a very, very good right winger. Damn near elite. He has many of the raw skills that Bale has, namely pure speed, size, a rocket right foot, and high-end crossing ability. You just aren't seeing the end result yet, in a sense making him the opposite of Lamela. In Lamela's case, his staggeringly good results at a young age suggest talent that could continue to mature into great. However, his style is essentially locked in, and need not change over the course of a career. Walker is different in that I see the underlying skills there, and the trick is to mold them into the type of player we need. Walker is a magic box too, but one where you should be able to guide the outcome towards the exact type of player that you need. He is a type of player that managers would kill for a chance at, a young winger with unpolished skill that matches the best. He is, essentially, a long term replacement. Since there is no direct way to replace Bale, indirectly trying may just work. Last time, we got Bale.


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Dinner Cruise In Tampa
Share a Three Hour Tampa Bay Dinner Dance Cruise For Two
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Experience a dazzling evening of dinner and dancing during this Tampa Sightseeing Dinner Cruise. Step on board the StarLite Majesty, an elegant three deck ship and be escorted to your seat for this delicious dinner on a boat in the elegant dining room.
During your three-hour Dinner Cruise in Tampa, you and your guest will enjoy a comfortable dining experience at a reserved table with large picture windows to view the beautiful Tampa Bay. Enjoy music with your dinner entrées which are made fresh, right on board. After dinner, grab a drink and wander to the outer deck to gaze at the stars and Tampa sites. As you travel along the Intracoastal Waterway, the two of you will be able to spot Tampa Bay's glistening beaches.
Whether you are looking to celebrate a special occasion or looking for a unique gift for a special couple, this Starlite Dinner Cruise offers a spectacular evening taking in Florida's most beautiful starlit waterfront views during a delicious Florida Dinner Cruise.
Cruises typically board at 6:30 PM, depart at 7:00 PM and return at 10:00 PM Tuesday thru Saturday and board at 5:30 PM and depart at 6:00 PM on Sundays.
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You may purchase beverages including mixed drinks, fine liqueurs, specialty waters, champagne and exceptional wines on board.
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Very nice harbor cruise, excellent dinner and fine music entertainment. I would recommend this pleasant evening.
- Kenneth England - Clearwater, FL, Saturday, September 21, 2013
This was a lovely evening on the water, with a good meal. I can't say it's the best food I've ever had, but it's as good as something you might get at Olive Garden, and you get to eat while looking out over the water! I did wish that the ship would have gone a little farther, instead of going back and forth, but it was still nice. Some food items are extra, but the meal came with an excellent dessert. And the entertainment was good too!
- Eowyn Lewis - Clearwater, Wednesday, July 10, 2013
We had a fun time on the dinner cruise despite the rainy weather. Our server, Sandy, was the best! She was happy and pleasant and had a great sense of humor. Great service, good food. The only thing that would've made it more enjoyable would have been sunny weather which would have allowed us to enjoy the upper deck and to be able to see the sunset in the gulf. But, in spite of that, we had a great time - loved the music and danced a little! Thanks for a fun time.
- Bob & Lin Manown - Clearwater, FL, Sunday, June 10, 2012
We were enjoying the cruise. Food was very good.
- Carmine - Florida, Monday, March 19, 2012
Great food and music.
- Diane Jastram - St. Petersburg, FL, Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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The next time you spend a string of stressful days at the office, don't reach for a sugary snack to perk you up. Instead, reach for the phone and schedule yourself a professional massage. Once considered a luxury, massages are now seen by many as an important tool in the battle against tension and stress.
"The most noticeable benefits of massage are relaxation and stress reduction," says Carol Cournoyer, assistant spa director at The Spa at Norwich Inn in Norwich, Connecticut. In addition to the pampering effect, more and more people are turning to massage for the health benefits it offers. "A lot of people with back problems or athletes with injuries are getting massages," says Cournoyer. "In fact, chiropractors and physical therapists often recommend massage to their patients."
And with good reason, according to new research. Studies have confirmed that massage has many health-boosting effects including reducing heart rate; lowering blood pressure; increasing blood circulation and lymph flow; relaxing muscles; improving range of motion; boosting the immune system; and increasing endorphins. A study by Beth Israel-Deaconess Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education and the Center for Health Studies in Seattle found that was an effective treatment for patients will chronic lower back pain.
Besides these physical benefits, massages also offer these mental and emotional benefits, says the American Massage Therapy Association (www.amtamassage.org):
Photo courtesy of the Spa at Norwich Inn, Norwich, Connecticut.
Carol Cournoyer, assistant spa director at The Spa at Norwich Inn in Norwich, Connecticut explains the basics of common massage styles:
Swedish. This style is the most popular -- and what most people picture when they think of massage. It is known for its flowing movements, which usually include stroking, kneading, applying pressure, and stretching. Among the benefits: Increased circulation and tension relief.
Shiatsu. Deeper than a Swedish massage, this Japanese technique focuses on stimulating pressure points along nerve paths to release energy blockages. The result: You feel relaxed, but energized.
Deep tissue. This type of massage is similar to Swedish, but deeper and more intense. The therapist uses deep compressions to ease muscle tightness and discomfort. If you're looking for a light rubdown, this isn't the treatment for you!
Hot stone massage. A newly popular treatment, hot stone massage (sometimes called La Stone Therapy) uses smooth basalt lava rocks to warm the body and, with the addition of massage oil, integrates the stones into traditional massage techniques.
Sports therapy. This site-specific treatment is designed to relieve aches from overworked muscles as well as improve athletic performance. While the whole body can be included in the massage, the therapist focuses on specific areas, depending on the client's needs. For example, when working on a marathon runner, the massage therapist may focus on the legs and/or feet.
Phytotherapy. A specialty at the Spa at Norwich Inn, phytotherapy is a Swedish massage that incorporates essential plant oils that have different effects. Among the options: relaxation (uses a blend of ylang ylang, lavender, and tangerine), energy (combo of peppermint and rosemary), muscle relief (blend of birch, thyme, and juniper).
Thai massage. This treatment, for which the client usually wears loose-fitting clothes and reclines on a futon, has been called the "lazy person's yoga." The therapist presses deeply into the muscles with his thumbs, elbows, or knees, to open up the flow of "chi" or energy. Then he moves the client through a series of yoga positions to gently stretch the body.
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This blanket in Mirasol's Ushya yarn is knit in a squishy 2 row rib pattern. Knit with US 15 needles, it moves along quickly.
The finished blanket is pretty large, measuring 60″ x 79″, great to share on the couch during movie night or keep it all to yourself while reading on a winter afternoon.
Ushya is a braided yarn, meaning that the plies are not spun together, which adds strength and reduces the possibility of pilling. Composed of 98% Merino wool and 2% Polyamide, it is soft and springy.
The blanket, found in Mirasol Book#19 Ushya, uses 16 hanks of yarn, although if you wanted an even larger blanket, you could just keep going until you reach the size desired.
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Emergency personnel in Marion County said they have responded to plenty of accidents in the woods over the past couple of years. But, an ambulance can only get so close to the patient.
The Rescue Squad has bought a new emergency vehicle that will help it find a patient in the woods and get him or her treated faster.
"This is a UTV Rescue Vehicle that was purchased to have a better way to rescue individuals who get injured off the road," said Barry Bledsoe, Marion County Rescue Squad.
The $50,000 UTV can navigate trails to search for a missing person or rescue someone who may be injured in the woods.
"Four wheeler riders who may have wrecked two or three miles in the woods, or a hunter that fell out of a tree stand, or somebody gets bucked off a horse among other things," Bledsoe said. "It can be used for many different things."
A few months ago, a young child was missing in the woods in Marion County for several hours before a man found him on an ATV.
"I kept reassuring him that everything was ok, that I was there to help him and take him home," Harper said. "When I got him, I checked him over and he was ok. I put my coat around him. He said 'I want to go home' and I said 'we are going home'. He said 'I want to see my dad' and I said, 'you're going to see your dad.'"
The new UTV is a lot like the four wheeler that rescued the child.
"This UTV is loaded with lights," Bledsoe said. "Flood lights and search lights to help look for someone at nights."
It has six wheels, allowing it to trek through mud and water. A cot can fit in the back and it provides a smooth ride for the patient.
"We're able to come out smooth and slow and have all of the equipment we need with us to be able to treat the patient and to have plenty of people on hand to be able to work on the patient coming out of the woods," Bledsoe said.
Emergency personnel are going through training right now on how to use the new UTV but it is ready now if an emergency should happen.


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Johns Hopkins Senior Associate Director of Athletics Mike Mattia announced today the promotion of women's tennis coach Dave Woodring to Director of Tennis. Woodring is the first full-time director in the program's history and will handle all the day-to-day operations of both the men's and women's tennis programs. He will also continue ... Read More [+]
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SEMINOLE COUNTY, OK -- A Seminole County inmate who escaped from the county jail and was said to be armed and dangerous has been recaptured.
Undersheriff Chris Conn says 33-year-old Donald Earl Rose escaped through a ceiling in the jail. Conn says surveillance video shows Rose leaving the jail at 3:25 a.m. Sunday.
Around 1 p.m. on Sunday, the sheriff's office reported he had been found in Seminole and taken back to jail.
Conn says Rose was being held on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, domestic assault and drug charges. He now faces additional charges.


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How long can the costume ball go on? How long can we pretend the spit in our faces is rain? There are now signs that it can't go on forever – it is not the beginning of the end, but it looks like the beginning of the start of the end of the occupation.
Some of the criticism we are absorbing is beginning to have an impact. It may not happen tomorrow, but it is possible to notice a flicker of hope. First cracks have started to appear in the mask of self-righteousness we have worn for 37 years.
The bad news is that the cracks are only the result of international pressure; the good news is that this pressure is mounting. After hope ran out that we would manage to come to our senses on our own, now we need to hope the world doesn't give up until we return to being a just state. Those anxious for the future of Israel must hope the world will move from vehement words to no less vehement action.
The apartheid regime was finally brought to an end through sanctions and by excommunication from the family of nations. That, regrettably, is apparently the only way to ending the Israeli occupation.
After long years of ignoring international criticism, apparently the fear of the world taking action – sometime between the festivities of A Star is Born to the festivities over the medals at Athens – has started to take root in Israeli society.
It began with the disengagement plan and the prime minister's comments on the impossibility of permanent occupation – no matter how hollow they sounded. It continued with the High Court ruling against the separation fence – no matter how partial. And now, it ended with the recommendation by the attorney general to "thoroughly reexamine" applying the Fourth Geneva Convention to the territories – no matter how belatedly.
All these developments show that the occupied land is beginning to burn beneath our feet. For all the years of the occupation, Israel brutally trampled over the Fourth Geneva Convention, one of the most important and enlightened international documents that the world, including Israel, adopted.
But Israel made a mockery of the spirit of the treaty on the baseless argument that the territories were not captured from a sovereign power – as if that would change the act of occupation and its ramifications for the occupied population and its rights.
Israel violated and continues to violate Article 27 of the treaty that says: "Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honor, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They shall at all times be humanely treated, and shall be protected especially against all acts of violence or threats thereof and against insults and public curiosity."
It violates this by controlling the Palestinians with military orders, imposing collective punishments; damages their property and puts severe limits on their freedom of movement, with all that implies for their lives.
Article 32, prohibiting causing physical suffering to the residents of the territories is not applied, nor is Article 47, which prohibits moving prisoners from the occupied territories to the state of the occupation power, and it certainly does not abide by the Article that prohibits moving civilian population from the occupying country to the occupied territories.
By the way, it's not only the Palestinians who are taught that the Geneva Conventions don't apply to them, Israeli children are also taught that. Civilized countries world-wide, though not our country, have long since become fed up with all of these.
But there's U.S. support and Europe's hesitation about taking more aggressive steps. Now there is a bit of hope that the rope has been stretched too far. There are no more international bodies, from the World Health Organization and the World Bank through the European Union and the Organization of Non-Aligned countries, let alone UN agencies, which have not recently laid harsh accusations against Israel.
It's very easy to ask Menachem Mazuz, what happened? What's different from one more day of occupation to two more days? It is depressing to think that his eyes only began to open when UN sanctions are at the door, as he lately warned. And the Supreme Court's eyes opened only when the ruling at The Hague was at the door.
It is tempting to condemn the awful tardiness of adopting what should have been applied from the start of the occupation. But it is certainly better late than never. The worries that have hit Mazuz about the world are indeed good tidings.
We have no Israeli leader capable of acting, we have an army that has been corrupted beyond all recognition, we have a Supreme Court that stays away from occupation issues like they were fire. So, who knows – maybe it will be an attorney general whom nobody suspected of greatness, who will be the one who brings the good tidings home from out there.


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Our friend Mike Gray in Chattanooga has this commentary about the Holston River and personal action...
There are many success stories like this; the Nolichucky River, The Big Sandy, The Obion River to name a few in Tennessee, all renewed from polluted, dead, waters. Each of these examples is a success because someone decided to make a difference and took personal action.
Thanks, Mike. Your personal
Submitted by bizgrrl on Tue, 2014/07/15 - 6:38am.
Thanks, Mike.
Your personal action may take an entirely different route. Perhaps it is recycling in your home or an organization you are involved with; involvement in a school project or as leader of a faith based initiative on the environment. It can be as simple as a stroll down the river picking up trash on the way or riding a bike or the bus to work one day a week. Regardless of the direction it is time for us all… to get personal.
The simple things can have such an impact.
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