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Christopher Tappin released on bail
Christopher Tappin has been released on bail from jail. He has been released into the care of his lawyer Kent Schaffer: a condition of his bail.
He says the first thing he is planning to do is call his wife.
His wife Elaine, said she was relieved and "grateful for the judge's humanity" after he was granted bail in Texas.
In a statement, she also said he has been locked up unnecessarily for over eight weeks.
Speaking outside a court in Texas he said he was grateful and relieved to be free, as Yao Chin reports.
Mr Tappin must wear a tracking device and live within five miles of his attorney in Houston while he awaits trial.
His family had to pay £31,000 to secure his release on a one million US dollar bond.
His lawyer, Kent Schaffer, spoke to ITV early this morning and outlined the conditions of his bail:
– Kent Schaffer, lawyer for Christopher Tappin
He is not to travel outside Houston and El Paso, he has to wear a GPS monitor, has to live with one of his lawyers, and is not permitted to have his passport".
He was disappointed that the British justice system wasn't more supportive of him and did not give him due process, but on the other hand, he's very grateful to the judge who set the bond. Because he knows that if things hadn't gone the way they did, you know he would have been in jail for the next five or six months".
He faces up to 35 years in jail if convicted of trying to sell batteries for surface-to-air missiles to Iran.

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Police say 20-year-old Darius Holley and another man took at car at gunpoint.
It happened Monday in the 1900 block of Fairmount Avenue.
Holley's bond was set at $120,000 during an arraignment on Wednesday.
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Cranes, chippers, and chainsaws- big equipment for a big job.
"Bucket trucks can weigh 15 tons, trees can weigh more, sections of trees can weigh more than the trucks," Grif Lee, who works for Kervin Brothers Stump & Tree explains.
Wednesday a crane was required to haul out a North Augusta oak that was more than 75 feet tall.
"They were massive trees, been here before I was born," Mark Baynham, the home owner says. "This was a job for professionals, not for someone like myself."
The professionals he called, say that he made the right call, but that some home owners don't.
"[They say], 'I wanna save some money, don't wanna wait for a tree guy, wait for the company,'" Lee says. "That's a good way to get hurt. The money isn't a factor if you can't go to work, be a father, be a son."
But even for professionals, with harnesses and helmets, clearing storm damage can be deadly. Earlier this week an Aiken tree remover was killed while working in a bucket truck.
"It goes to show you could go to work and not come home one day," Jeff Kervin, the owner of Kervin Brothers Stump & Tree says.
"It's a risk we're willing to take, but nobody wants to orphan their children or make their momma bury their son," Lee adds.
Working Wednesday, the Kervin crew in North Augusta kept that in mind.
"It's scary," Lee says. "You gotta know where it's going, you gotta have a game plan, and you gotta have an escape plan."
"You go out there and so something every day and it seems like repetition and you get relaxed, it's a real eye opener," Kervin says.
They say they start with safety everyday, but this is just another reminder that when it comes to safety-
"You can't have enough of it, you can never be too safe," Lee says.
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In a muddy, rainsoaked game, the Wildcats (7-3) finished their season with a loss at Ansonia (10-0) on Tuesday night. The final score was 35-6. The only touchdown of the game scored by Brian Birdsell.
Bethel had some nice runs by Trevor Ochs, Birdsell, Billy Quinn and Brandon Schmidt. Thiago Lanes with a sack and Phil Daluz and Pete Serencsics with defensive play.


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(Hickory, KY) Troy Redmond was traveling east on KY 80 when he lost control of his vehicle and ran off the left side of the road entering the median. Mr. Redmond's vehicle struck the embankment causing the vehicle to go airborne before coming to final rest in the median facing westbound. Mr. Redmond and passenger were transported by Murray-Calloway EMS to Murray-Calloway County Hospital. Both were later air lifted to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville due to their injuries and are in critical condition. Sergeant Adams was assisted at the scene by Trooper Brian Duvall, Trooper Barry Rice, Trooper Russell Boyd, Murray-Calloway County EMS, Calloway County Fire and Rescue, and Calloway County Sheriff's Department. The investigation continues by Sergeant Adams.


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Children abused at school
A report has revealed that the number of allegations of physical and sexual child abuse in schools has risen.
In the past three academic years (2008-2011) there has been a 19% increase and in that time dismissals have increased by 66% and suspensions by 41%.
The report is entitled "Safe from Harm".
It was undertaken by a legal research company looking at the effectiveness of legislation that was introduced to protect children in the wake of the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
Freedom of Information requests were sent to all 152 LEAs in England and the key findings include:
- In the past three schools years a total of 9,048 allegations of physical and sexual child abuse have been made against staff with and without Qualified Teaching Status (QTS).
- This has resulted in 1,355 suspensions and 866 dismissals of staff with and without QTS.
- only 10% of these allegations resulted in dismissal and of those suspended, 64% were dismissed.
In Yorkshire and the Humber 714 allegations were made against staff with and without QTS between 2008 and 2011. 172 staff were suspended during that time with 63 members of staff being dismissed.
– Malcolm Underhill, IBB Solicitors, who represents victims of child abuse
The information collated from the report supports my concern that there are still too many people gaining access to children, for their own iniquitous behaviour. I am equally concerned that some LEAs were unable to provide us with this data as they do not record these statistics.
– Jan Cosgrove, National Secretary of Fair Play for Children,
This Report lays out important issues in a balanced manner and we hope it will be used to promote public debate - when 10% of allegations which are reported result in dismissals we have to be concerned. What happens in the other 90% of cases? The likelihood is reprimands, retraining, employment warnings, poor practice, as well as unsubstantiated claims. This is not scaremongering - parents are entitled to know the answers where it's their children who are involved. We have to go beyond the era when questions were not asked and children had no voice.


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Members of the History faculty, including David Bailey, David Robinson,Peter Knupfer, Lisa Fine, Peter Alegi and Lewis Siegelbaum have collaborated with MATRIX on several educational projects and websites.
Professors Sam Thomas, David Robinson, Leslie Moch, David Bailey, Peter Alegi, Roger Rosentreter, Peter Knupfer, and Alan Fisher are among the faculty and graduate students who serve as editors and advisory board members for online networks in their fields sponsored by H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, which is headquartered at MSU's MATRIX Center.


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10 movies to see over the holidays
'Life of Pi' (Nov. 21)( November 2, 2012 )
To the screen director Ang Lee has brought us Jane Austen, "Brokeback Mountain" and a '70s key party in "The Ice Storm." Now he takes on the novel about the Indian boy at sea with a Bengal tiger. Some stories are geographically rangy; others, like this one, bank on compression and ticklish situations.


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Texans fans, I am a broadcast journalist for Mid-Utah Radio in Manti and RIchfield, Utah and often write numerous sports articles. I am currently doing a rundown of NFL team in alphabetical order and the lot fell on the Texans today. Please feel free to comment. All comments will be weighed carefully, whether they be negative or otherwise. Your feedback is important so here goes.
Today, we explore the Houston Texans, a team with impressive talent and sky-high expectations that has never fully grasped its potential.
Nevertheless, there is reason for optimism in H-Town as the Texans boast the NFL's 2009 passing yardage leader in Matt Schaub (4,770 passing yards last season, 29 TD's 15 INT's, while completing almost 68 percent of his passes).
As always, Schaub has one of the NFL's more prestigious receivers in Andre Johnson (an NFL-best 1,569 receiving yards last season, 9 TD's and a healthy 15.5 yards per reception average) who only needs three more games where he amasses at least 10 receptions and 100 yards to become the NFL's all-time leader in either category.
Although the injury to promising rookie Ben Tate hurts the Texans' offense, tailbacks Steve Slaton and Arian Foster will both play a huge role in Houston's high-octane attack, which amassed 383 offensive yards per game in 2009.
Of course, the Texans' defense is also rife with studs, such as Mario Williams, Bernard Pollard and Brian Cushing, who will undoubtedly have much to prove if his fight against an NFL-imposed suspension proves unsuccessful.
Ultimately, I think the Texans can achieve the great expectations placed upon them if they get a more solid performance from kicker Kris Brown.
Last season, Brown's dismal 2 of 6 performance on kicks beyond 40 yards doomed the Texans in key divisional losses to Indianapolis and Tennessee so if this improves, so should the Texans' prospects.
Since Gary Kubiak is a product of the Denver Broncos, I wish him good luck but we'll see what this season has in store. If nothing else, it should be interesting in the Texas Gulf Coast region.


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I have the same question. Chris, did you end up buying one?
Is anyone using the Easy Labeler HC6 to do small runs of manually applied labels?
If so, I'm curious about your experiences with the equipment. What works, what doesn't, etc. Or if I should go running and screaming away from it.
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I have the same question. Chris, did you end up buying one?
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No, I found a barely used RL-1 from Race Label that I had heard good things about and it was the same cost as a new EasyLabeler so I bought the Race one instead.
I had a few email exchanges with EasyLabeler and they seem to stand behind their product and have a money back guarantee so as long as you buy it just before you are ready to start using it you should be able to return it if you don't care for it.
Good luck and if you end up buying one, share your experiences.


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Bella Thorne And Tristan Klier Spend The Whole Night On The Phone
Aww! Bella Thorne shared the sweetest detail about her relationship with boyfriend Tristan Klier. It turns out that the pair spend the entire night on the phone together, every night!
Bella revealed:
A little secret.. Did u know that @tristanklier89 stays on the phone the whole night w/ me when we are sleeping? He's my first good morning.
That is adorable!
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text: After looking at the Saints perspective picks in the first round, I have narrowed it down to 3 positions and I am sorry Mr. Davis, QB isn't one of them. The first one would be a solid choice but might not fit our system. Justin Houston the LB/DE from Georgia is an absolute monster but I view him as a 3-4 LB and Greg Williams doesn't run that system. The next pick would seem like a no brainier but Muhammad Wilkerson, the DT out of Temple, is a position of need but again this is Temple and he hasn't played against very good competition. This one is kind of a sentimental pick for me being that his dad was the Iron Head but Cameron Heyward could be that pass rush that we have been missing from the left side DE position. He kind of underachieved last year but has started since his first year at Ohio State. When it's all said and done we have to get better on defense and we all know that SP is very unpredictable. I believe that all 3 of these guys could contribute immediately but at the end of the day I think you have to go with Houston. This kid could be dual threat as a rusher and as a LB. When I see him, the first name that comes to mind is Clay Mathews and GW has shown his propensity to blitz and blitz from different angles. What do ya'll think?


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Meriden gypsy site protests: 1000 days on
Thursday 24th January 2013 - a thousand days on since green belt protesters began campaigning against an illegal gypsy site in Warwickshire.
Despite recent record levels of snowfall and floods in the area, protesters have maintained their non stop vigil to protest against the site.
Back in April 2010, 8 families in 17 caravans moved onto green belt land without planning permission. After illegally bulldozing the land, the gypsies have since lost all of their bids for approval in a battle with locals and the council.
In March last year, gypsies controlling the site lost a High Court battle and have to leave the site by March 31st 2013.
– Mr McGrath, Chairman of protest group, Residents Against Inappropriate Development (raid)
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Unless you have a grudge against political rock, I don't see how anyone can trash this C.D. or say it's overrated. This C.D. is one of my favorites and, in my opinion, was the second best C.D. of 2001 (second only to Tool's "Lateralus".) I wouldn't call it nu-metal– sure, there are typically heavy riffs and drum beats, but the soulful vocals (sometimes soulful, granted they sometimes yell) and meaningful/thought-provoking lyrics make this more than nu-metal. I'd call it intelligent metal. The lyrics aren't entirely political (although they often are) also deal drugs and groupies, and other issues (over population, and science failing "mother earth").
Highlights include:
"Prison Song" opens with a hard hitting riff which startled me at first. It then turns to chugging, machine gun riffs and drums, in between which singer Serj Tankien whispers "they're trying to build a prison." The song's "boom-boom" riffs remain throughout the song while Serj's angry voice sings Rage Against the Machine-esque paranoid lyrics about the government, prisons, and drug money.
"Needles" is as heavy as "Prison Song", but it has a dark theme and when guitarist Daron Malankian sings two minutes into the song (and Serj later joins him), it turns melodic. It then turns to turns back to hard, chugging guitars while Serj alternates between almost soulful and yelling.
"Deer Dance" is a personal favorite. The guitars are slower, but equally as heavy. Lyrically, it's about crooked cops shooting little kids. My favorite part of this song is when Serj's voice comes down after the chorus, he sings the following verse slowly (whispering at some points) until the build up of the next chorus. Here, you'd think there'd be a heavy break down, but Serj and Daron sing a capella for about two seconds. Then, the bone crunching riffs and yelling return to end the song.
"Jet Pilot" is really fast with some good guitar work, but Serj's nonsense lyrics (which I think are about war) drag this song down a bit. It sounds good, though.
Surely, most of us know how good the hit single "Chop Suey" is. It's brilliantly combines metal, melody, soulful vocals and thought provoking lyrics. You can put your own meaning to this song; since it's lyrics deal with religion (Jesus, angels and spirits) and suicide.
I think "Bounce" is thrown in purely for mosh pit purposes. It's not political, it's just a fun song to listen to. The guitar chugs fast, and Serj sings a head banging chorus ("Bounce! Pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo!")
"ATWA" goes from slow verses to fast choruses, with great riffs. Serj shows his vocal range, here.
"Toxicity" has great drum work (the best on the C.D.) with more irresistable riffs and deep, soulful vocals.
"Psycho" builds slowly to another irresistable chorus that you'll have in your head for days. The guitars and drums hit equally as heavy and simultaneously.
"Arials" is, again, beautiful and heavy. Serj does some more real singing, in between the choruses (where his voice raises.) The lyrics, which compare life to a waterfall, are almost poetic. My favoirte part of this song, though, is at the very end of the song (when you think it's over). Here, an instrument that sounds like an Indian flute plays a solo for a few seconds, then is joined by soft drumming and chanting. Brilliant.
So, this album is a masterpiece. Again, I wouldn't call it nu-metal, but I'd recommend it to nu-metal fans, as well as Rage Against the Machine fans, fans of intelligent metal, melodic metal, and thoughtful lyrics.


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The Coastal Carolina University womens basketball team (3-5) had a five-point lead with 10:38 left in the second half, but a 30-5 run by the University of South Carolina (5-6) at the end of the game gave the Gamecocks a 70-50 win Dec. 29 in the first round of the University of South Carolina Invitational in Columbia, S.C.
Coastal took a 7-4 lead at the 16:08 mark of the first half on a three from senior Courtney Brown (Chesapeake, Va./Western Branch), but South Carolina took a three-point lead at 14:53 on an Ilona Burgrova layup. Coastal took a 19-16 lead on the Gamecocks at 7:03 on a three-point play from sophomore Vanessa Laug (Cincinnati, Ohio/Oak Hills). The game was tied as late at 3:36, but South Carolina went on a 7-2 run to end the half to take a 30-25 halftime lead.
Coastal was led in the first half by Brown, who had six points. Laug had five, while junior Amber Rose (Bloomington Springs, Tenn./Upperman) and junior Kim Turner (West Memphis, Ark./Hiwassee C.C.) had four apiece. Johnson ended the first half with 10 first-half points for the Gamecocks. Coastal shot 40.9 percent from the field and had seven steals. South Carolina was 13-of-28 (46.4 percent) from the floor.
Brown opened the second half with two straight threes to cut the Gamecock lead to 32-31. When junior Jasmine Tyler (Jacksonville, Fla./Okaloosa C.C.) connected on a fastbreak layup at 17:47, Coastal took a one-point lead. At 16:10, Turner hit a layup and was followed by a Tyler three to give Coastal a 40-36 lead. South Carolina tied the game at 40, but five straight points from Tyler gave Coastal the 45-40 lead. The Lady Chanticleers led as late at 8:18 on a Laug free throw at 8:18, but South Carolina took a double-digit lead on two Johnson free throws at 4:02. The Gamecocks went on a 9-0 run in the last 3:06 for the 20-point win.
Brown and Tyler led the Lady Chants with 12 points each, while Turner had four rebounds for the Lady Chants. Sophomore Alisha Dill (Johnson City, Tenn./Science Hill) had four assists. Johnson had 18 points, 18 rebounds, seven assists, five steals and four blocked shots for South Carolina, while Burgrova had 15 points, going 6-of-9 from the field.
Coastal shot 40 percent from the field and 5-of-15 from three-point range. The Lady Chants held South Carolina to just 3-of-17 from three-point range, but the Gamecocks outrebounded Coastal 39-26.
Coastal will play in the consolation of the USC Tournament Thursday, Dec. 30, at 5:30 p.m., against Campbell University.


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The account, which was awarded to OgilvyOne, Grey, M/SIX and the behaviour science specialist #Ogilvychange in a closed WPP pitch process in April 2012, is centralised in a dedicated multidisciplinary business unit called Team News.
However, Wunderman has replaced OgilvyOne as the agency in charge of direct marketing. None of the other agencies on the Team News roster has been replaced.
Sources said that one of the reasons for the change was that Wunderman had worked with News UK on a social media project around the launch of Sun+, the success of which led to it being handed the whole account.
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In these sections, Keynes finishes demolishing the classical understanding of unemployment that he started in section II. By the end of section V, his theory of employment should start(START!) coming into focus. If by the end of section V, you don't understand his argument of why there is involuntary unemployment in a money economy, I would reread sections II through V over and over until you do before moving on.
Section III
Section III starts off by repeating that workers have no mechanism to lower their own REAL wages across the economy. This is such an important point, Keynes can be forgiven if he repeats it a couple (or even a hundred) times. Workers can only cut their dollar-wages, but that doesn't necessarily lower their REAL wage. Understanding this is critical to Keynesian economics. From Section III
In other words, the struggle about money-wages primarily affects the distribution of the aggregate real wage between different labour-groups, and not its average amount per unit of employment, which depends, as we shall see, on a different set of forces. The effect of combination on the part of a group of workers is to protect their relative real wage. The general level of real wages depends on the other forces of the economic system.
I cannot over stress the criticality of understanding this. Keynes is pointing out that because people make their deals in money-terms and not REAL-wage terms, there is no way for workers to increase the general level of employment by accepting wage cuts. Even if workers start a cycle of slashing their wage demands, all that will happen is either the price of what they're making is slashed or their wages will be redistributed to other groups. If all workers lower their dollar-wage, it redistributes wages to capital or land in the form of interest and rent.
More detail on how and why this is will be explained later and throughout the book. For now, just understand that Keynes rejects the notion of obstinate workers as an explanation for involuntary unemployment.
Keynes also points out now why it is actually logical(remember how the Classicals thought it illogical) for workers to resist reduction in dollar-pay, but not resist loss of REAL wages from a sudden increase in the cost of living. A rise in cost-of-living affects all industries equally and happen so often that resisting them is impractical. Of course, Keynes, being thorough, does point out that there are exceptions when things go to the extreme(i.e. A very high increase in cost of living).
Section IV
Section IV is where Keynes takes up the task of defining involuntary unemployment. He makes some obvious caveats about his definition and existing definitions first(you shouldn't have a problem with theses). Then he gets to his definition. It is a complicated definition:
Men are involuntarily unemployed if, in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage, both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment
Fortunately, if you have a hard time deciphering this "an alternative definition, which amounts to the same thing, will be given in the next chapter". What he's saying here is if the cost of living rises, but dollar-wages stay about the same, and more people are working after the rise than before the rise, then there was some involuntary unemployment.
Keynes in this section then reiterates that his problem with "the classicals" isn't their reasoning, it is their assumptions. They have assumed, whether they realize it or not, that "Full Employment" already exists.
Section V
In this section Keynes comes puts and explicitly states that he does believe a reduction in REAL wages will in fact increase employment(assuming land and capital remains even). He is not disputing this. Only thing he is disputing is the ability for workers to cut their REAL wages. At the end of the section he states, "The theory of wages in relation to employment… cannot be fully elucidated, however, until Chapter 19 and its Appendix have been reached."


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Nothing says hip like a #TeamVogel hashtag. If there were a Pacers coach straw poll, Frank Vogel would win it. Players like Roy Hibbert and Dahntay Jones have openly pined for the 38-year-old's return. Fans have launched a Facebook campaign. NBA writers, led by Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated, have themselves fallen into full-fledged group-think: Larry Bird should make Vogel the Pacers' permanent head coach.
We disagree. Hiring the youngest coach in the league is not the best thing for a team whose starting lineup is young enough (average age: 24) to just trail the kiddies in Oklahoma City (23) and Washington (22) for greenest in the NBA. In an ideal world, do you really want coach and players learning together? Especially when you could get a great, known commodity like Rick Adelman, Lawrence Frank, or Mike Woodson?
In the end, Bird's probably going to hire Vogel. But here are 10 reasons why he shouldn't.
1. Strategy Not as Infallible as Commonly Believed: Vogel receives a lot of credit for more consistently using Paul George, particularly in the playoffs, where everyone fawned over the decision to check Rose with the rook. But Hardwood Paroxysm recently reexamined the choice to start George over Mike Dunleavy.
"As SI's Zach Lowe explained prior to the start of the playoffs, maybe that wasn't the best idea:
The Pacers have played much better with Dunleavy on the floor this season than they have with either George or Brandon Rush at shooting guard, and it's not close. Indiana's current starting lineup — Darren Collison/George/Danny Granger/Tyler Hansbrough/Roy Hibbert — has been outscored by about 10 points per 100 possessions, according to Basketball Value. The margin stays just as bad if you substitute Rush for George. But in 152 minutes with Dunleavy at the 2-guard spot, that lineup is +4 per 100 possessions.
Dunleavy was the only shooting guard on the roster consistently capable of creating offense, which Lowe explains could mean more to the Pacers than defense (which makes a bunch of sense when you consider just how awful this team was on offense)."
In the loss to Chicago, Indy managed point totals of 99, 90, 84, 89, and 89. The Pacers shot just 40.9% from the field in the playoffs, surpassed in futility by only the injury-riddled Knicks. George shot 10-of-33 (30.3 percent) in the series.
2. Streaks: If the Pacers had flipped a switch and performed consistently well throughout Vogel's time, that's one thing. But Indiana was inconsistent from start to finish. Check out the roller coaster.
In chronological order: Pacers won 7 of 8, lost 4 of 6, lost 6 of 7, won 5 of 7, won 3 of 5, and then lost 3 of 5.
At the end of the regular season, there was none of this clamor for Vogel to be retained. And which sample is more reliable: four close/competitive playoff games, or 38 wildly variant regular season contests?
3. What Vogel Did Is Not Unusual: Since 2000, 109 teams in the major professional sports (NBA, NFL, MLB) have made a midseason coaching change. After the switch, 68 percent of those clubs enjoyed improved win-loss records, according to ESPN Next Level. (Data as of Feb. 2011)
The headline of Peter Keating's article for ESPN the Magazine was, "Don't let miracle-worker coaches fool you. Turnarounds aren't always what they seem."
Keating went on to explain, "Every year, a handful of coaching changes seem to trigger turnarounds. Fans inevitably react to these reversals of fortune by crediting the new guy ('Jason Garrett really brings out the best in the Cowboys…') while questioning the old guy ('…but man, the team must have really been mailing it in for Wade Phillips'). But that's misguided. Even the most incompetent headman is likely to enjoy a bump out of the gate, thanks to a statistical law of gravity called regression to the mean, [which] says they were bound to improve simply because they had been so bad. Most of the swings aren't really meaningful at all once you consider how much team records jump around due to sheer chance. Sports teams, like panicky investors, tend to sell low, which leaves midyear coaching replacements nicely positioned to enjoy the bounce that comes as things inevitably even out. To judge a marriage, you need a lot more to work with than the honeymoon."
So there you have it. The fact that Vogel coaxed a 20-18 finish from Indy means next to nothing. Unfortunately, most everyone has rushed to judgment on the grounds that it was some kind of miraculous/unexpected turn. As you will see below, it was clear that the Pacers were destined to play better, regardless of the coach, simply due to the NBA calendar.
4. Easy Schedule: Prior to Vogel moving into the big chair, Indiana faced opponents with a collective .521 winning percentage. Frank, on the other hand, had the luxury of coaching against a much softer .461 schedule. Of his 38 regular season contests, Vogel faced 22 teams that were .500 or below. He earned 14 of his 20 victories against losing teams.
Even more stark is this angle: an astounding 61.4 percent of O'Brien's contests came against teams .500 or better. Only 44.7 percent of the time did Vogel face such a tougher opponent.
Not only was the schedule easier, but as Indiana had shown the past three seasons, it is always simpler to win games in the second half of the season, when teams out of the race play younger players, when teams already locked in playoff position rest starters, when injuries deplete rosters, when teams waive the white flag (see: Bobcats, Charlotte), etc. In the first half of the season, everybody's fresher, everybody's still doing all they can to try to win.
5. PLAYOFFS?!!: Much-repeated is the fact that Vogel led Indiana to its first playoff berth since 2006. But that should be largely irrelevant in terms of evaluating his future as coach.
See, in seven of the past nine seasons, 37 wins would not have been good enough to make the postseason in the Eastern Conference. Vogel caught the league at a very fortuitous time. The ineptitude and stench of Milwaukee and Charlotte had a lot more to do with the Pacers' playoff spot than Vogel's coaching. To credit Vogel for making the eighth seed is almost like a father praising his son for not being a total screw-up.
6. Blown Leads: This was an alarming on-court trend after Vogel took over. For our purposes, a blown lead is one in which the opponent comes all the way back to either tie or go ahead. Whether the Pacers eventually won or lost is not considered here. We're just looking at the number of times Indy failed to protect a double-digit advantage. (Note: each of the numbers below comes from its own, separate game).
Without further adieu, here are the blown leads: 20 points, 17 points, 13 points, 14 points, 15 points, 16 points, 13 points, 15 points, 20 points, 10 points, and 11 points.
Additionally, there was a game in New Jersey in which Indiana allowed an 11-point lead with 2:24 to play to be cut to three with 40 seconds remaining. The Nets missed a tying shot.
And there was a contest against Milwaukee at home where the Bucks trimmed a 14-point, second-half deficit to a single point. Drew Gooden missed a game-winning three, and the Pacers barely escaped with an 89-88 victory.
Such sloppiness doesn't speak well at all for Vogel, and it happened in 13 of the 38 games he coached. Yikes. But it seems he's gotten a pass for all the big, blown leads. Not sure how.
7. Old Regime: First, the obvious. Vogel was part of the staff that has already departed. Jim O'Brien was here along with Walter McCarty, Vitaly Potapenko, and Jay DeFruscio. All of them are gone. Except Vogel. It's a weird way to bridge eras.
To make matters worse, Vogel never coached on anyone else's staff BUT Obie's. And if Jim was fired ostensibly because some of his ideas/strategy/style didn't work, why hire a successor exposed to nothing BUT the ideas/strategy/style of the guy you let go?
8. Doesn't Share the Players' Perspective: In NBA history, coaches with Association playing experience have accounted for 58.7 percent of the championships won (37 of 63). Vogel didn't make the league. Nor did he even play high-level college basketball. This does matter. A few years ago, The Atlantic published a paper from Cornell researchers titled, "Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge."
Recounted the magazine: "The authors calculated NBA coaches' winning percentages between 1996 and 2004 over 15,000 regular-season games. They found that coaches who had spent some time as a player got far better results out of their teams than those who hadn't. On average, teams with former all-stars as coaches placed six spots higher in league rankings than teams with coaches who had never played in the NBA, a huge bump-up in a league with only 29 total teams during the years studied….Leadership skills tend to derive from expert knowledge of a given trade, not from some mysterious alchemy of natural intelligence and interpersonal skills."
That's bad news for Vogel's infamous boasts and brags. It suggests the rah-rah statements only go so far.
9. Going 'Good Cop' to 'Bad Cop': Vogel was able to become close to certain members of the team as an affable assistant. How could this be a negative, you ask? Well, going from aide to head coach is hard enough. Those who have had the experience say the transition is even more difficult when it occurs with the same team.
Pat Knight was an interim head coach elevated from the bench after his father's retirement. He had the interim label removed in 2008 and, after an unsuccessful tenure, was fired by Texas Tech in March. He said part of the problem was he never got past the substitute teacher stigma. "I think it's hard for anybody who takes over when he was an assistant first," Knight said. "[The players] don't look at you as the head coach."
10. Most Coaches Fail: According to BookOfOdds.com, the average tenure of a coach in NBA history is just 2.6 seasons. The chances a coach will last longer than that average are just 1 in 3.75. So when an owner and GM huddle over a list of candidates, their goal has to be hiring someone to run a team for four, five, six years. Does it not? Getting that far almost certainly indicates some measure of success.
Okay. So, if time of employment is a harbinger of winning, who are you betting on to last longer in a job with the Pacers? Frank Vogel, a blank slate minus a track record? Or Rick Adelman, who coached six seasons in Portland, eight years in Sacramento, and four in Houston? How about Lawrence Frank, who ran the Nets into his seventh season? Even Mike Woodson, a veteran of six years in Atlanta? It's as easy as the difference between someone you know can build a foundation versus someone you hope can solidify the franchise against more coaching turmoil.


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-- At the "Rockhold vs. Jardine" post-fight press conference last night (Sat., Jan. 7, 2012), Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker (via Cagewriter) talks about the state of the women's featherweight division following Cristiane Santos' suspension for a failed steroid test. UFC President Dana White initially opined that the 145-pound weight class is likely done due to "Cyborg" being gone for a year but Coker, who works underneath White, mind you, seems to have other plans. His argument is that with Santos gone, the division will be reinvigorated with fresh challengers. This seems to fly in the face of what was stated previously, that they were having trouble even coming up with credible folks to fight for the title before, but that was more because of how good the Brazilian champion was. And now that her entire reign is in question thanks to her being aided by illegal substances, the division should get a fresh start, right? Coker is definitely doing some spinning to the media here but it could result in plenty of women keeping their jobs at their current weights instead of being told to cut down to 135-pounds. Plus, if Gina Carano comes back -- a prospect that looks less and less likely every day -- she could easily contest for the title in her return fight.


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Mike Lorentson is the starting pitcher for the Nittany Lions today in their season opener in Dunedin, Florida. They will take on St. John's out of the Big Least. PSU has struggled in the past few years to start off the season. St. John's is always a pretty good team, so hopefully the Nits can put it together early. Let's break the trend.
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Writer's Note: Due to my recent concussion I have not been able to make Fanposts quite as often as I normally would. I apologize.
Last Week for Indianapolis:
The Colts are coming off of a performance that NFL Network's Rich Eisen likened to "Slippery Rock College." Not that Slippery Rock should be offended, because Slippery Rock probably could have beaten the Colts on Sunday night. I even wonder why all the prime time Colts games have been opted out of by NBC and ESPN, yet because they are just that bad. As a matter of fact the Colts were so bad, that the Onion reports that the Saints are continuing to beat them to this day. This means the Colts will be looking for redemption against a faltering Titans team this week.
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A former Penn State president and two former top administrators have been ordered to stand trial on the charges against them in the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse case.
Dauphin County District Judge William Wenner found enough evidence against ex-President Graham Spanier, former athletic director Tim Curley and former vice president Gary Schultz to send the case to county court.
Tuesday's ruling came at the end of a two-day preliminary hearing in Harrisburg.
"The magistrate has made his decision. We respect that decision even if we disagree with it," Spanier's co-counsel, Tim Lewis said after the hearing.
Prosecutors allege the men failed to tell police - and covered up - what they knew about a sexual abuse allegation involving Sandusky in 2001.
Each was bound over on all charges and now await trial for perjury before the grand jury that investigated Sandusky, two counts of endangering the welfare of children, obstruction, three counts of conspiracy and failure to report suspected child abuse.
Formal arraignments in Dauphin County Court were scheduled for September 20.
The two-day hearing included testimony from the head of computer forensics for the state attorney general's office, who spoke Tuesday about finding emails that showed university officials knew of complaints about Sandusky in 1998 and 2001.
Prosecutors said in the emails, the three administrators apparently discussed how to handle the 2001 incident and a possible backlash against the university.
Curley's attorney, Caroline Roberto, said the emails would be explained at trial.
"When we are at trial and we can actually pursue what needs to be pursued related to the emails, you will be able to get a fuller impression of what was actually said and what was done," she said.
On Monday, a former Penn State assistant coach testified that he told head coach Joe Paterno, Schultz and Curley that he'd seen Sandusky molesting a boy in a locker room shower.
In his testimony, Mike McQueary said Paterno told him Penn State's administration "screwed up." He said Paterno also warned him that the university would come down on him and try to make him a scapegoat.
Lawyers for the three men questioned McQuery's credibility.
"How convenient for Mr. McQuery to remember that Mr. Paterno said to him, 'they're going to scapegoat you, they're going to turn on you.' How convenient for him to remember that just in time to litigate his whistle blower suit," Roberto said after the hearing. "How convenient there are no witnesses."
Schultz and Curley claim they weren't told in 2001 that Sandusky was molesting the boy, but that he was "horsing around" with a child in a locker room shower. Spanier says Curley and Schultz never told him about any sexual abuse.
Sandusky, a former assistant football coach, was found guilty last year on 45 counts of child sexual abuse. He is appealing his 30- to 60-year prison sentence.
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I admit it, this blogging thing (personally + a business blog) is definitely not easy and for the faint of heart and mind. As life moves faster and faster and I take on more and more I feel even too exhausted to write a simple post about what I'm enjoying out of life. To inspire myself to focus more on the site, accomplish my goals, and keep my sanity I'm going to start keeping the posts shorter with more pictures.
So what have I been up to?
Business: Al and I are working on two new business completely separate from Decanted, one is to open very soon (within a matter of weeks!) We're also opening a new office/warehouse exclusively for online sales and launching a second website (also very, very soon).
Education: I passed my second level WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust, UK) with flying colors, they call it with 'distinction' in England. I'm working on level three now and let me tell you it's no cake walk. Test is in November and to be honest I'm worried.
Writing: I just broke into the first sentences of my first book that I will be co-authoring with my sister (co-blogger on Decanted Wines), the goal is to be a fun and helpful book for women in their 20′s. Our goal is to finish by the end of the year, with an online published version due out early next.
Speaking/Presentations: Thanks to my wonderful husband it looks like I've landed my first seminars outside of Decanted. More on that in a few weeks…
Travel: We just returned from 2+ weeks in California (Central Coast, Napa, Sonoma, San Fran) and I'm even more in love than I was during the last trip. Also just got back from Ohio for a long weekend and Al's first trip to THE Ohio State University. Miami this weekend and again in 2 weeks with the Jersey Shore and Bahamas also on the docket.
Physical Challenges: Just started training again for my next race, this one is in early January a Ragnar relay from Miami to Key West. It's a 12-person team event with each runner responsible for three different legs totaling anywhere between 12 and 20 miles. If all goes well I plan on a second half marathon in February and the possibility of a full marathon in the Spring. Then I retire from running. I've also been much more into yoga recently, practicing Vinyasa weekly. My next goal in the class is to get the tea-pot stance.
Wow….you definitely are busy.
The way I see it…with life list blogs you are either not posting because you haven't been productive with your list, or you are so busy crossing things off your list that you have no time to post. I think you are doing better of the two.


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The Carter reforms have been playing on the minds of every lawyer who makes a living representing the poor. Designed to slash the cost to the taxpayer of the countrys legal aid system, in which people who need legal advice but cannot afford it get a lawyer paid for by the state, the reforms look set to change the lives of legal aid lawyers forever.
But the concern is not just among the legal aid community.
Legal aid is seen by many people as essential to justice as it ensures that everyone facing trial understands their rights, is treated fairly under the law and has the best possible chance to defend themselves. The system is seen as the only way of making sure that the law works for everybody, not just for the rich.
But as you can imagine, funding thousands of lawyers each year is not cheap and by 2005 the Government argued that the cost of the spiralling scheme to the state in other words, the taxpayer was out of control and drastic action was needed to rein it in.
But that is easier said than done. Central to ideas of justice and freedom, legal aid is usually seen by politicians as a ringfenced subject, politically too dangerous for them to meddle with. Yet in failing to tackle the cost of the system the Government would be forced to either raise taxes or divert money from other important areas both of which would be unpopular moves.
In short, the Government faced a dilemma: either find new ways of funding the ever-growing cost of legal aid solicitors, or mess around with a system seen as an essential part of a fair society.
Carters report
To try to find an idea that could save both legal aid and tax pounds at the same time, in July 2005 legal big cheese Lord Carter of Coles was charged with conducting an in-depth review of the way the entire system works.
When Carter and his team began there was already a number of proposals for them to look at. These included slashing the large number of legal aid firms in favour of a small handful of big ones, which would, in theory, be willing to handle each individual case for less if they were guaranteed a bigger total number.
Another suggestion was to bring down the cost of legal aid work by making legal aid law firms tender against each other for contracts, in the same way that other government suppliers of everything from military hardware to office cleaners already do. The competition would force firms to drop their rates for work, it was argued, as well as forcing them into beauty parades to demonstrate their abilities, thereby ensuring that the Government gets the very best lawyers for the job.
Most radically of all, it was also suggested that the Government could even take the legal aid work in-house, setting up large teams of state legal aid lawyers who would do the work for a yearly salary rather than a billable hour basis as they do at the moment.
When Carter finally published his report in July 2006 he boasted that the reforms he was recommending could save the state 100m a year. He also predicted the end of the 1m-a-year criminal defence barrister as a result of his review, and said there will be a smaller number of larger, more efficient, good-quality suppliers by 2009.
To achieve this he made 62 recommendations. These included
setting fixed fees for police station and magistrates court work; giving more work to firms that show they have increased the amount of work they are able to do; and encouraging smaller firms to merge or form consortia that can work together when it comes to legal aid.
Carter said the new system would mean an end to unreasonably large amounts of money paid to some leading barristers for complex cases and predicted a wave of mergers and the death of some 400 small criminal practices.
Predictably, the recommendations caused uproar. As Law Society chief executive officer Desmond Hudson said at the time: Its difficult to recall any other issue generating so much strength of feeling among solicitors as the Governments legal aid reforms. Even solicitors who dont work in this sector fear the Government is overseeing the piecemeal destruction of this vital public service.
Seemingly oblivious to the fact that Carter had explicitly predicted it already, thousands of lawyers complained that the reforms would drive small practices out
of business.
Others complained about the effect the reforms would have on people needing legal help in the countryside, where there is already a shortage of legal aid solicitors, arguing that this would be made worse by concentrating suppliers into a smaller number of larger, centralised firms that would in all likelihood be based in cities.
Ethnic minority legal lobby group the Black Solicitors Network, meanwhile, accused the reforms of ignoring the impact that price-competitive tendering would have on ethnic minority firms a worry that was echoed by the Criminal Law Solicitors Association and the Solicitor Sole Practitioners Group.
Many experienced practitioners and firms may leave legal aid work, and prospects for long-term performance may not be attractive enough to attract new recruits. This could do lasting harm to sustainability and leave the system in little better condition than at present.
Law Society report, October 2006
Fixed fees might work in a steady state environment, but the criminal justice system is not in a steady state The probable outcome of using fixed fees within a wider system that is not fixed is a serious reduction in the quality of service to clients.
Legal Aid Practitioners Group director Richard Miller
We believe these changes will jeopardise the independence of lawyers and put them under pressure to act in the best interests of their employers rather than their clients. They will do nothing to improve access to justice for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people or those who need legal aid for complex and difficult cases.
Legal Action Group director Alison Hannah
The Government is rushing through these proposals without the degree of detailed consideration thats vital. The overall effect of these many changes is uncertain if they are introduced to the current timetable. Theres a real risk that legal aid solicitors will soon be rarer than NHS dentists.
Law Society chief executive Desmond Hudson
We in the UK pride ourselves on our legal aid system, but there will be nothing to be proud of if the reforms ultimately mean vulnerable people are not helped simply because their problems are more complex.
Citizens Advice director of policy Teresa Perchard
Recognising the strength of the hostility, in 13 July 2006 the Legal Services Commission (LSC) and the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) decided to launch a consultation with the legal profession to sound-out its views.
Ongoing battle
The months between then and now have seen running battles between the two sides. Flashpoints included a report commissioned by the Law Society last September, which revealed that, contrary to Carters prediction that 400 small firms would be likely to close, the reforms would in fact lead to the death of 1,300 small outfits or in other words, most of them, as first reported on www.thelawyer.com (26 September 2006).
By November the Law Society had convened a special general meeting to coordinate resistance to the reforms. The meeting followed a motion put forward by Southampton-based solicitor Roger Peach to reject Carters proposal for competitive tendering for criminal legal aid services, a motion that was supported by a further 175 solicitors, as first reported on www.thelawyer.com (13 November 2006).
Later that month 28 top UK law firms, including the worlds largest law firm Clifford Chance, signed a letter of rebuke to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, slamming the reforms set out by Carter. Short and to the point, the letter urged him to reconsider [his] plans and safeguard the future of this vital public service, as first reported on www.thelawyer.com (24 November 2006).
Even law schools got in on the act, with a survey by the College of Law revealing that 90 per cent of firms believed the reforms would threaten their ability to continue to undertake legal aid work, as reported on www.thelawyer.com (27 November 2006).
Yet, despite all the flak, the Government has pressed on with the reforms. With the issue of the DCA and LSC report on 28 November 2006, Falconer gave details of the next stage of the changes, which he said would reward efficiency and help build public confidence in the legal aid system. For all the protests, fixed fees will still be introduced for simple criminal cases, and magistrates court and Crown Court cases will feature competitive tendering.
Far from admitting defeat, opponents of the reforms are fighting on and have been joined by new forces. At the time of writing this feature, 400 solicitors at a Law Society special general meeting voted unanimously to resist the Governments proposals, as reported on www.thelawyer. com (17 January), while other recruits include charity Citizens Advice, the Legal Action Group, the Legal Aid Practitioners Group, the Sole Practitioners Group and the Legal Action Group, which represent high street firms and their clients. Place your bets.


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What is a hero? Who is a hero to you? My definition is one who is a strong person in society, a feminist, a role model, and a caring person. My hero is Hillary Clinton.
It states in our Constitution that men and women are equal, but are they? In American society women are supposed to be housewives, or have a small job so they can still take good care of their children. If a woman is a successful business woman, she may be looked down upon. Hillary Clinton has been criticized as being a radical feminist who prefers the board room to the kitchen. I don't know how anyone can say something that is so completely sexist. She is a very intelligent, strong-willed feminist. She was the first student commencement speaker at Wellesley, part of the first wave of women to go to law school, a prominent partner in a major law firm, and rated one of the top 100 lawyers in the country. If men and women were truly equal, a woman with all these accomplishments would not, and should not, be ridiculed or looked down upon.
Hillary Clinton is the strongest woman I have ever seen in my life. She showed her strength when Jerry Brown charged that her law firm benefited unfairly from her marriage to the Arkansas Governor. To which she shot back, "I suppose I could have stayed home, baked cookies and had teas. The work that I have done as a professional, a public advocate, has been aimed to assure that women can make the choices ... whether it's full-time career, full-time motherhood or some combination."
Unfortunately though, some look down on Hillary Clinton for being as successful as she is. Too many people believe women should be unemployed, and spend their lives raising children. I do not even know of a single household where the woman does not do the cooking, cleaning, laundry, take care of the kids, etc. I also do not know of a household where the woman has a more prominent career than her husband. Does this mean men are smarter than women? No, in fact in my high school more girls receive high honors than boys. It's an eternity of stereotyping women which manipulates young women into thinking they have to be the homemaker. We need equal opportunity and pay for both men and women, and we women need to fight for it. I believe Hillary Clinton is going to set the example for modern feminism in the United States, and I hope she can help end century-old stereotypes of women. n
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The recent revelations about the USAID's farfetched scheme to foster a popular anti-government protest movement by infiltrating Cuba's mobile phone network perhaps bring full circle America's 55-year campaign to destroy the Cuban Revolution. Fortunately for the people of Cuba, none of these bewildering, hairbrained and often violent schemes – which have included countless attacks on Cuban soil – have succeeded.
January 28, 2014
By now millions of Americans have heard about COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO was the FBI's evil and illegal system of spying, lying, telephone wire taps, frame-ups and assassination that violated the constitutional and human rights that they claim to uphold. I was recently asked, while doing a Black Panther Party historical tour in Oakland, how COINTELPRO affected me personally. Here is one of my stories.
January 20, 2013
Contradictions in White America's treatment of Blacks, which were exposed by the Black Power Movement, fashioned another side of King, according to his last speech and his writings. A side that began to embrace Black nationalist tactics and strategies as a means to achieve freedom, justice and equality for Black people. A side that accelerated Dr. Kings' assassination.
October 16, 2011
"Most people realize that crime is simply the result of a grossly disproportionate distribution of wealth and privilege … an aspect of class struggle from the outset. Throughout its history, the United States has used its prisons to suppress any organized efforts to challenge its legitimacy," wrote George Jackson in "Blood in My Eye."
July 8, 2011
It is with a heavy heart that I am writing this letter to appeal to you to take heed of the message that the House of Representatives sent out to Americans on June 24 by rejecting the text authorizing U.S. military intervention in Libya and ending the on-going attacks against the Libyan people with the most extravagant excuses, like the attacks are there to protect them.
April 9, 2011
"Had the RPF not been made militarily dominant by outside support and the two presidents not been assassinated in the RPF assault for power, the ICTR evidence suggests that the Rwandan genocide would never have occurred," concludes Professor Erlinder.
February 18, 2011
On the afternoon of Feb. 21, 1965, I went to the Audubon Ballroom to hear Malcolm X speak. It was the saddest day of my life. An update has been added to this story, originally published in 2009.
January 25, 2011
It wasn't just Patrice Lumumba his assassins wanted to kill, it was the genuine self-determination, dreams and aspirations of African people, writes Horace Campbell, reflecting on the murder of the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Jan. 17, 1961. Two poems by Lumumba follow the story.
July 17, 2010
The identity, motive and/or sponsors of Professor Jwani Mwaikusa's assassins, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, may remain "unknown," meaning "unproven," for some time, but Professor Mwaikusa's friends and colleagues know that whoever was responsible deprived the legal fraternity and the entire human race of an irreplaceable, independent and incorruptible mind.
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They smiled and they grinned with the deeds they had done. / They chanted, "Chairman is dead," while they splashed through his blood. / The media made up lies; the States Attorney told tales. / Before I was born, I was cellies with my Mama in a jail cell. – POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.
December 24, 2009
It was as it should be / Young Black Panthers / Were killed for trying / To protect the cubs / For educating the cubs / For feeding the cubs / This was never the American dream / But we have lived a nightmare for days / In efforts to make our dreams / Come to life take flight / We still have to fight / It was as it should be / Giving honor to Chairman Fred / And Defense Captain Mark Clark
December 15, 2009
December 4th, International Revolutionary Day, was a historic day, not just because it was the 40th commemoration of the assassination of Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton and Defense Captain Mark Clark of the Black Panther Party, but because of the way the people responded to remember these freedom fighters after such time.
February 16, 2009
The evening before Human Rights Watch expert on Rwanda Alison Des Forges' critical quote on the secret deal worked out between Rwanda's murderous U.S.-backed President Paul Kagame and Congolese President Joseph Kabila appeared in the Washington Post, Des Forges died in a the fiery crash of Continental Flight 3407.
November 2, 2008
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Why Exercise Resolutions Are Hard to Keep
The fact that scores of people resolve to start an exercise regimen in the new year and then slide back into their old couch potato ways is common knowledge. But why is this so? Researchers in France, who published their findings in the journal Biological Psychiatry, contend that a protein called the CB1 cannabinoid receptor in a region of the brain associated with motivation and reward systems controls whether or not a person will voluntarily engage in physical activity. The endocannabinoid system is involved in physiological processes including appetite, pain, mood, memory, and – you guessed it! -- the psychoactive effects of marijuana.
A release from the research institution, called INSERM, quotes Francis Chaouloff as saying, "The inability to experience pleasure during physical activity, which is often quoted as one explanation why people partially or completely drop out of physical exercise programs, is a clear sign that the biology of the nervous system is involved."
Based on the results of this study and earlier work, the team suggests that at the beginning and for the duration of physical exercise, the CB1 receptor is constantly simulated by the endocannabinoids, lipid molecules that naturally activate this receptor in response to pleasant stimuli (rewards) and unpleasant stimuli (stress). The research shows that physical exercise can be added to the array of natural rewards regulated by the endocannabinoid system. "If confirmed, this motivational hypothesis would imply that the role played by the CB1 receptor has more to do with 'staying power' in the exercise than with actual physical performance levels", the researchers explain.
The research opens up new avenues of research into the mediators of pleasure – and even addiction – associated with regular physical exercise. "After endorphins, we now need to consider endocannabinoids as another potential mediator of the positive effects that physical exercise has on our mood," the researchers conclude.
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@IsometricPion: thanks for the links! I suspect that our own discussion here, which is based on
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instead of running to eq.11, I will first work out the example that Bell gave in his introduction, as he did not do so himself.
Note that in Bell's paper the pictures come after the text. I'll start with a partial re-take.
Elaborating on Bell's example of Bertlmann's socks, we could write for example:
P1(pink) = 0.5
Here P1(pink) stands for the probability to observe a pink sock on the left foot on an arbitrary day. An experimental estimation of it is found by taking the total from many observations, divided by the number of observations.
As the colour depends on Bertlmann's mood, we can account for that mood as an unknown function "lambda" (here I will just put X, for unknown). However, any "classical" theory that proposes such a physical model, still must predict the same observed result. Therefore, if we include X as invisible cause for the outcome, we must still write:
P1(pink|X) = 0.5
(Compare: P(head | fair coin) = 0.5)
Similarly we can write for the right leg:
P2(pink|X) = 0.5
Bell remarks:
Which colour he will have on a given foot on a given day is quite unpredictable. But when you see that the first sock is pink you can already be sure that the second sock will not be pink. Observation of the first, and experience of Bertlmann, gives immediate information about the second.
The fact that "pink" on the left foot implies "not pink" on the right foot implies a strong correlation between results. We can acknowledge that correlation as follows, with for convenience a slight change of notation:
Here L stands for "pink on left leg", and R stands for "pink on right leg".
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Here is a list of recent incidents in Upper Providence Township reported by the . Anyone with information regarding any of these incidents is asked to call police at 610-566-8445. If arrests or charges are mentioned, they do not indicate guilt or a conviction.
Fleeing from a Crash—N. Ridley Creek and N. Feathering roads at about 9:14 a.m. on Aug. 29. Police were dispatched to the area for a report of a vehicle crash but prior to police arriving the white Acura Legend fled the scene on N. Ridley Creek Road toward Chapel Hill Road after striking a fence, according to police. The Acura headed toward Newtown Square and Newtown Township Police found the vehicle traveling on Troop Farm Road at Guinevere Drive and detained the driver, a 34-year-old Media man, according to police.
The man was arrested and waived his rights and allegedly admitted to driving the Acura that struck and damaged the fence at N. Ridley Creek Road and fled the scene because his license was currently suspended, according to police. A witness to the crash identified the Media man and the Acura, according to police. The man allegedly told police that a black vehicle entered the roadway in front of him and he had to abruptly turn in order to avoid a collision and struck the three-posted wooden fence, causing extensive damage to the fence, according to police.
Through an investigation it was determined that the Media man had an active bench warrant out of Media District Court for several unpaid traffic tickets and several unpaid traffic tickets in Montgomery County, according to police. He received several citations, including driving under a suspended license. The Acura, with front end damage, was towed from the scene.
Vandalism— on Aug. 29. Unknown persons threw all of the patio furniture, including lounge chairs, picnic tables and umbrellas into the pool, according to police. The furniture was removed and police were informed of the incident.
Vehicle Damage—Route 1 near Media Bypass at about 6 a.m. on Aug. 17. The driver of a 1989 Oldsmobile reported to police that a rock from freshly milled roadway shot up and struck his windshield causing the windshield to crack, according to police. The driver contacted PennDOT and was advised to file a police report, according to police.


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Fun dihedral / finger crack angling right to the PMS ledge. Stem your way up. Pay attention to avoid knocking the loose rocks on the ledge below the anchor down on those below, or take the direct finish to a recently installed 2-bolt anchor above the crack up and left of the big platform ledge.
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The Five Biggest Contradictions in Fitness
Its no secret that when people contradict themselves, it has the effect of making the flaws in their actions or statements seem glaringly obvious. But what about when WE ourselves get caught contradicting ourselves by someone else?
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Calling out Mirko CroCop
It seems MMA fans have let Mirko "CroCop" Filipovic (23-6-2) off the hook. Quotes from Mirko yesterday are hitting the blog sites and the smell of horse manure is starting to stink up my computer:
"My goal is to become the first heavyweight champion in DREAM and to do that I need to be ready to fight on September 23 [when DREAM.6 is scheduled to take place]. I'm not interested in summer time, vacations or things like that; I'll focus on getting back to shape and hopefully I'll fight in September. I would really like to fight Alistair Overeem, we all know why and I won't let it go. My career is far from being over, I'll be fighting some strong competitors soon again and hopefully I'll meet Fedor in the ring once more in 2009."
Does anything stand out to you here? Does no one remember his Parting shot to fans back in February of this year? Let me refresh your memory for you:
"I have already mentioned that I will take part in three fights for DREAM and that then I will return to the UFC," Filipovic told the website javno.com. "And to all Internet know-it-alls, I say to put gloves on and to enter the ring or the cage themselves before insulting (any) fighter. I repeat, I am not avoiding the UFC, and will come back by the end of the year."
Well Mirko, all of us internet-know-it-alls are calling bull$hit on you not running as fast and as hard as you can from the UFC and its weak heavyweight division. From the sounds of you yesterday, you have no immediate plans to make an attempt to return to the UFC by the new year, and quite frankly you sound very comfortable where your at and have long term plans for your stay in DREAM. It does not sound like the fighter who proclaimed he needed to "fight more" than the UFC could offer. One 56 second fight since February and a second tentatively scheduled for September does not seem like a schedule that the UFC could not have matched.
I am a CroCop fan. I want to see the Mirko of old head kicking the crap out of the competition. But I cannot stand people who lie, especially to the fans. A multitude of reasons could have explained his absence from the promotion, but to claim inactivity and a deviated septum as your issues and continue to present the same general malaise towards fighting that you showed in America is inexcusable.


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An Albany native won a gold medal last week in a parachute competition near Chicago.Skydiver Chris Gay won the medal in the canopy formation competition of the 2013 U.S Parachute Association National Skydiving Championships. The competition took place at Skydive Chicago, an hour west of the Windy City.According to a release, canopy formation skydiving teams of four deploy their parachutes immediately after jumping from the plane and build formations as quickly as possible while holding onto each other's canopies. A videographer flies alongside to capture the action.Chris Gay, 48, has been skydiving since 1986 and has completed 15,000 skydives.Gay's team, Clean Air, have earned coveted slots on the U.S Parachute Team, which will represent the United States at next year's World Parachuting Championships.
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