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2001-2002 Supreme Court term coverage
Supreme Court reviews punishing of abortion foes
Justices consider whether federal racketeering law can be used to punish anti-abortion protesters.
Free-speech cases await Supreme Court after summer break
Justices already have agreed to hear several First Amendment-related appeals, but more are in the wings.
2001-02 high court deals First Amendment wins, losses
Analysis School-voucher, judicial-speech decisions are among cases that grabbed media spotlight this term.
High court ruling may take luster off judiciary
Analysis Decision may signal turning point the beginning of era in which judges are less special, more exposed to the popularizing glare of the First Amendment.
Supreme Court's voucher ruling dramatic, not surprising
Analysis As foreseeable as outcome might have been, the feeling was inescapable, among dissenters and others, that the Court crossed a new threshold.
Supreme Court backs school vouchers
Justices rule 5-4 that Constitution allows public money to underwrite tuition at religious schools as long as parents have choice among sectarian, secular schools.
High court nixes limits on judicial candidates' speech
Justices say Minnesota's rules, while well-intended, impose an unconstitutional gag order.
Supreme Court gives nod to petition in labor case
Analysis Court doesn't rule on First Amendment grounds, but does note that it views right to sue as form of petitioning government that deserves constitutional protection.
Press advocates applaud high court ruling in student-privacy case
Reporters Committee says journalists' newsgathering ability would have been limited if Supreme Court had allowed university to be sued for divulging student information.
Supreme Court rules against claim of government stonewalling
Justices hold that widow failed to prove her access to the courts was denied when officials withheld information about her husband, a Guatemalan leftist rebel.
Supreme Court again finds itself on side of Jehovah's Witnesses
Analysis Ruling in Ohio case strongly affirms value of anonymous, unregulated and unpopular speech.
High court throws out law barring door-to-door solicitation
Justices vote 8 to 1 in Ohio case brought by Jehovah's Witnesses that First Amendment includes right to take messages directly to someone's door.
High court turns away challenge to Vermont mercury-labeling law
Electrical manufacturers had argued that 1998 statute violated its member companies' First Amendment rights by compelling speech.
Supreme Court turns away challenge to party contribution limits
After nearly four years of battling Missouri law, state GOP concedes that case is over.
High court may clear up lingering confusion about cross-burning
Analysis In the years since its last ruling on subject, state and federal courts have invoked R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul to both uphold, strike down similar laws.
Supreme Court to hear Virginia cross-burning case
State high court had ruled 4-3 that state law was unconstitutional because such acts of bigotry are protected speech.
Supreme Court bypasses political-patronage question
Justices refuse to consider appeal from Pennsylvania politician who fired secretary after disagreement over off-duty political work.
High court agrees to hear challenge to sex-offender list
Connecticut officials appealed after federal judge struck down state's registry.
Free speech on the Internet: Where old freedoms meet new media
Analysis In reviewing constitutionality of Child Online Protection Act, high court issues one of its most fragmented decisions in years.
Supreme Court provides mixed day for First Amendment
Analysis Justices produce pair of messy, mix-and-match rulings that give little guidance to lower courts, much less those directly affected.
High court won't get involved in clergy malpractice case
Meanwhile, justices refuse to consider Massachusetts town's cr�che ban or to hear case involving Nashville, Tenn., adult-entertainment law.
Supreme Court partially upholds COPA
But justices send case back to appeals court to resolve other free-speech issues; 1998 law remains on hold.
High court overturns ruling on L.A. 'sex superstores'
But because there isn't majority fully endorsing ban on multi-use adult businesses, justices send Alameda case back to lower court.
Commercial-speech interest prevails in drug-ads case
Analysis Supreme Court votes 5-4 that Congress should have tried other ways of achieving its goals before barring certain drug advertising.
Supreme Court to hear highway-records case
Justices will decide whether states can keep secret information about traffic accidents collected as part of Federal Highway Act.
High court refuses to review Cincinnati's anti-trespass law
City was seeking to revive ordinance barring drug dealers, other criminals from crime- and drug-plagued neighborhood.
High court nixes drug-mixing ad rules
'If the First Amendment means anything, it means that regulating speech must be a last not first resort,' Sandra Day O'Connor writes for majority.
Supreme Court to bypass First Amendment concerns in abortion-protest case
Analysis Justices turn case into more technical review of whether federal laws on racketeering, extortion can be used as tools to cripple or deter abortion foes.
High court to hear appeal from anti-abortion protesters
Justices will review whether lower courts went too far in applying the federal Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act to anti-abortion activities.
High court rejects child-porn law that 'turns the First Amendment upside down'
Analysis Decision joins court�s 1997 ruling in Reno v. ACLU as major landmark in the development of the Internet as a forum for free expression.
Supreme Court strikes down ban on virtual child porn
Justices rule 6-3 that the First Amendment protects pornography or other sexual images that only appear to depict real children engaged in sex.
High court won't weigh in on vanity-plate debate
Missouri officials had hoped justices would take case to decide if states can keep crude or contentious messages off license tags.
Supreme Court turns away jailed writer's appeal
Vanessa Leggett had asked justices to use her case to give writers, reporters more rights to protect the confidentiality of their sources.
High court turns away college officials' appeal in free-speech case
Lower court found former teacher could sue Kentucky community college leaders, claiming retaliation for his classroom comments.
High court skeptical of restrictions on judicial candidates' speech
Analysis Justices seem to view Minnesota rule alternately as too vague, unclear, restrictive or irrational to withstand challenge under the First Amendment.
Unlikely allies ready to challenge campaign-finance legislation
Analysis From Floyd Abrams to Kenneth Starr to James Bopp, attorneys say measure is vulnerable to First Amendment attack.
High court set to hear challenge to rules on judicial candidates' speech
Minnesota is one of nine states that prohibit such candidates from announcing their views on 'disputed legal or political issues.'
High court hears case accusing government of lying
Analysis Attorneys argue routine communication between officials, public would be chilled if justices allow lawsuit brought by Guatemalan rebel's widow to proceed.
High court won't hear casino's bid to bar sidewalk protests
Lower courts had ruled unions had right to demonstrate on walkway in front of Las Vegas resort.
High court appears ready to topple 2 laws that restrict speech
Analysis Justices hear two free-speech cases: one from Jehovah's Witnesses challenging town's anti-solicitation ordinance, other from druggists seeking to advertise special compounds.
Justices turn down look at Voyeur Dorm dispute
Tampa, Fla., city officials had sought to shut down Web site, saying house where five women are watched via the Internet is an adult business.
Church's door-to-door solicitation case comes calling at high court
Jehovah's Witnesses say they are being targeted and their free-speech rights are being violated by Ohio town's ordinance.
Supreme Court refuses to clear up confusion over Ten Commandments display
Justices turn away appeal from Indiana governor who wanted permission to erect 7-foot monument on state Capitol grounds.
All eyes on O'Connor during voucher arguments
Analysis Justice Sandra Day O�Connor, who is considered the swing vote on the high court, appears likely to approve Cleveland's school-choice program.
High court to sort out tangled web of Mickey Mouse, Congress and copyright
Analysis Individuals, companies who use material that is in the public domain claim law violates their freedom of expression, exceeds Congress' power.
Supreme Court to hear debate over copyright, First Amendment
Groups challenging copyright law say justices should protect public's right to access books, songs, other material.
School voucher case offers test of church-state separation
Supreme Court will hear arguments this week on Cleveland's 6-year-old school-choice program.
Justices avoid appeals-process question in park-permit case
Analysis Free-speech advocates had hoped high court would decide whether permit-seekers are entitled to quick results in appeals or merely prompt access to courts.
Supreme Court upholds Chicago park-permit rules
Justices reject pro-marijuana group's arguments, ruling city ordinance 'furthers, rather than constricts, free speech.'
High court won't hear FBI informant's appeal
Justices refuse to hear case of public employee who was fired after secretly helping federal officials investigate anthrax threat.
Three Stooges' heirs get last laugh as high court refuses appeal
Los Angeles artist was seeking First Amendment protection for photographers, artists who specialize in celebrity images.
High court turns away case on teaching evolution
Justices refuse to hear appeal by Minnesota biology instructor who was reassigned amid questions about his views on evolution.
High court to decide if government officials can be punished for lying to public
Analysis Guatemalan guerilla leader's American widow claims misleading information deprived her of right of access to the courts.
Inmates' retaliation claim prevails as high court turns away Idaho appeal
Lower courts found state officials had meted out punishment to deter inmates from filing grievances or lawsuits about prison conditions.
High court turns away question: Is prayer at school events constitutional?
Analysis Refusal to hear Florida graduation-prayer case highlights seemingly mixed message sent by justices in last decade.
Ohio prisoner can sue state over grooming policy
Supreme Court refuses to intervene in case, allowing Jewish inmate to proceed in religious-liberty suit challenging required shaving.
Supreme Court won't weigh in on graduation prayer
Group had sued to block Duval County, Fla., policy allowing senior class to choose student 'chaplains' to give inspirational addresses at high school commencements.
Supreme Court declines to review cases on cable limits, presidential threats, movie tax
Consumer groups sought reinstatement of rules limiting number of subscribers cable companies can have; jailed Navy recruit wanted high court to explain when threats against president are serious enough to break law.
Secondary-effects argument takes center stage before high court
Analysis Business owners contend Los Angeles should have conducted studies on 'multiple use' adult establishments before outlawing them.
Supreme Court to decide if states can restrict judicial candidates' speech
Analysis Case juxtaposes two deeply held values: First Amendment protection for political speech, integrity of judicial process.
High court appears unreceptive to challenge of Chicago park-permit rules
Analysis Several justices criticize attorney's prior-restraint argument, preferring to view permit process as acceptable 'time, place or manner' regulation.
High court tries to picture disputed virtual-porn law in practice
Analysis Despite earlier focus on high tech, justices explore debate in context of popular movies that include sexual scenes involving under-age characters.
Drug-mixing ad rules to get high court test
Analysis Pharmacists say federal law that restricts promotion of compounding violates free speech.
High court refuses to review Virginia moment-of-silence law
Justices also turn away three other appeals, including bid to revive Indianapolis video game statute.
Anonymous speech tough to pull off in trying times
By Douglas Lee We need to resist the temptation to silence those we cannot see and do not know.
Law banning virtual child porn facing real test
Supreme Court to consider whether youthful, though fake, characters in pornographic material should be outlawed like traditional child pornography.
High court to hear Jehovah's Witnesses case
Analysis Challenge to Ohio village�s door-to-door solicitation statute could result in ruling on the extent to which First Amendment protects anonymous speech.
Supreme Court to examine 5 First Amendment cases
Analysis School voucher controversy to take spotlight, but Internet pornography, adult bookstores and protest permits also will share stage.


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Chris McCormack Not Selected For London 2012 Olympics
- By Paul Moore
- Published June 1, 2012
- Updated June 1, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Chris McCormack will not be racing at the London 2012 Olympics. The two-time Ironman World Champion sensationally left long distance triathlon after his win at Kona in 2010 to try to qualify for London on the Australian team.
And despite the fact that no official announcement has yet been made by Triathlon Australia about their Olympic squad, Macca put out the following tweet:
@MaccaNow: Back to my day job! I need an Hawaiian holiday again soon No London for me! Happy for the Team we picked! Solid, deserving athletes.
RELATED VIDEO: Chris McCormack on the Toughness of ITU Racing
If it is the case that McCormack has not been selected, it marks the end of a solid return to short-course racing for the 39-year-old. After a DNF at his first race back in Kitzbuhel, Macca was repeatedly in or around the top 30 in the races that he entered. However, he faced strong competition from Courtney Atkinson and Brendan Sexton to secure one of the two remaining spots on the Australian team, with Brad Kahlefeldt having already secured his ticket to London.
McCormack will begin his journey to Kona at this weekend's Ironman Cairns, where he faces a tough race against a solid pro field.
We'll bring you news once an official announcement from Triathlon Australia has been made, and later today we've got a pretty tasty Macca interview for you (let's just say that he's already gearing up to take down Lance Armstrong).
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This morning, we've got muddy waters on our radar.
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Beyoncé Knowles' self-directed HBO documentary special, Beyoncé: Life Is But A Dream, aired on Saturday, February 16, 2013, and it ended up being a huge draw for the network, attracting 1.8 million viewers during its initial 9pm broadcast.
The network says via press release that it's the largest audience for an HBO documentary since 2004, when Nielsen changed the way it measures viewership for HBO.
And what feature documentary did it kick out of the number 1 spot? Spike Lee's 2006 mini-series When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, which pulled in 1.7 million viewers.
I still haven't watched Beyoncé: Life Is But A Dream, and, as I said previously, it's not exactly high on my to-see list. Maybe I'll watch it some time down the road. Maybe not.
Molly Jay | February 20, 2013 8:14 PM
So more people watched a 2-hour commercial about a self-absorbed pop star than a documentary film about Hurricane Katrina? That is sad.
Nina | February 20, 2013 7:50 PM
people actually watched that crap...
Shelton | February 20, 2013 2:15 PM
Why don't you want to see it??? It's actually a pretty good doc. Even if you're not a beyonce fan....
Curtis | February 19, 2013 8:27 PM
Go Be. I lived When the Leevd broke back when spike was worth anything.
robin | February 19, 2013 5:25 PM
I'm just happy to know that they are both black! and set records! lol #Beyonce #Spike Lee


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President Obama's new health-care law will be his greatest liability as he attempts to once again win the critical swing state of Virginia, Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) warned Wednesday.
"I'll be real frank here," Webb said at a breakfast organized by Bloomberg News. "I think that the manner in which the health-care reform issue was put in front of the Congress, the way that the issue was dealt with by the White House, cost Obama a lot of credibility as a leader."
U.S. Democratic Sen. Jim Webb gestures while talking to journalists during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy Wednesday, April 11, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. (Khin Maung Win - AP)
Webb voted for the law, but also for more than a dozen GOP-offered amendments to it.
"If you were going to do something of this magnitude, you have to do it with some clarity, with a clear set of objectives from the White House," added Webb, who opted not to run for a second term this year. "...It should have been done with better direction from the White House."
He faulted Obama for playing too passive a role in shaping the legislation. Taking a lesson from Bill Clinton's failed 1994 health-care overhaul effort--which was faulted for its micromanagement of the details of the bill--Obama opted to spell out a broad set of goals, and let Congress work out the details.
What happened in the end, Webb said, "was five different congressional committees voted out their version of health-care reform, and so you had 7,000 pages of contradictory information. Everybody got confused. ... From that point forward, Obama's had a difficult time selling himself as a decisive leader."
Webb also said that if Obama had opted for a smaller measure, he would have stood a chance of winning the support of a significant number of Republicans on Capitol Hill.
The White House had no immediate comment on Webb's statement.
Webb added that he believes most Virginia voters--outside the staunchest partisans--have not yet begun to focus on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee.
"People are getting ready to pay attention to his message, the average person, rather than the nominating base," Webb said. "Romney has a case to make. He has to make his case."


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Wood Co. Educator Receives Prestigious Presidential Award
Posted: July 20, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Susan Naylor, a math teacher-coach in Wood County, is one of about 100 science, math and engineering teachers and mentors from across the country to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching for 2009. The educators will receive their awards this fall during a ceremony at the White House.
Naylor, a National Board Certified elementary teacher with 30 years of classroom experience, is the only West Virginia educator this year to receive the highest honor. The annual award is given to K-12 math and science teachers for their contributions to education.
"Math and science are critical to preparing today's students for the 21st century," said state Superintendent Steve Paine. "Susan Naylor is an example of how teachers can help other teachers learn research-based teaching strategies that can help students learn math concepts in fun and creative ways."
Presidential award winners are selected by a panel of distinguished scientists, mathematicians and educators following an initial selection process done at the state level. Candidates are chosen based on their teaching performance, background and experience. Each year the award alternates, going either to science and math teachers in grades K through 6 (as it is this year) or to those teaching in grades 7 through 12.
Winners receive $10,000 from the National Science Foundation to be used at their discretion. They also receive an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. for a White House awards ceremony and several days of educational and celebratory events, including visits with members of Congress and science agency leaders.
"There is no higher calling than furthering the educational advancement of our nation's young people and encouraging and inspiring our next generation of leaders," President Barrack Obama said. "These awards represent a heartfelt salute of appreciation to a remarkable group of individuals who have devoted their lives and careers to helping others and in doing so have helped us all."
Established by Congress in 1983, the annual program identifies highly qualified mathematics and science teachers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Territories and the U.S. Department of Defense Schools.
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New Jersey Institute of Technology Trustees Approve Raising Tuition
New Jersey Institute of Technology's (NJIT) Board of Trustees approved today a 7 percent tuition increase for the upcoming 2007-2008 academic year, starting this fall. Due to financial aid awards, the average NJIT undergraduate student will pay an average net tuition increase of 4 percent. More than 75 percent of NJIT's full-time undergraduates have financial need.
Full-time, in-state undergraduate students will pay $4,850 per semester for tuition, an increase of $317 from last fall. Out-of-state, full-time undergraduate students will pay $1,291 more per semester, totaling $9,216.
In-state, full-time graduate student tuition will be $6,365 per semester, an increase of $417, and out-of-state, full-time graduate students will pay a tuition increase of $595 per semester and total $9,045.
Full-time student fees will increase $105 per semester for undergraduate and graduate students.
"NJIT is providing a quality education at an affordable education for the technological professions," said NJIT President Robert A. Altenkirch, PhD. The Princeton Review ranks NJIT among America's top best value colleges based on NJIT's lower tuition rate, aid to students and student academic performance. US News and World Report ranks NJIT in the top tier of national universities and separately ranks NJIT among the nation's top 10 schools for diversity. Other accomplishments include 9 patents awarded this past year, the expansion of programs in the biological sciences and more than $5 million awarded in federal funding to better prepare urban students.


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The Rodeo beat out the paid attendance record set two years ago, with nearly 1.3 million paid visitors. Overall attendance, the number of visitors for all the activities at the Rodeo, didn't set a record but still totaled almost 2.6 million visitors. Livestock Show and Rodeo president Skip Wagner says it's the product that draws visitors.
"We've really upgraded our presentation out here, from the sound and the screens in the stadium to adding Fun on the Farm, our wine garden, AgVenture, a number of horse shows and other shows out here during the day. I think we've really broadened our appeal beyond what would have been a core audience years ago to just the general Houston community."
Wagner says even though things are just now being packed away, plans for next year's three-week run have already started.
"We already began planning for next year really before this year started and we do a lot of research during the show that then helps us finalize those plans over the next couple of months, put budgets in place and get it all going."
Wagner says the Livestock Show and Rodeo expects to hand-out around $20 million dollars in scholarships and grants this year, which would be a record.


text: Finally Online Reputation Management is becoming more mainstream for companies as they realise they can no longer ignore what is being said online. The Heavy Chef talks to Jason Bagley from World Wide Creative and Rob Stokes from Quirk eMarketing to fight through the smoke and mirrors and find out if it is really worthwhile. We also discuss the best approach for companies to take and some of the best practices for undertaking ORM.


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1 month on zoloft - no major differences?
hello, for the last couple years ive had a bad case of anxiety and depression. it had been getting worse and worse for some time, and it wasn't until 1 month ago I decided to get some help. I started seeing a coulselor weekly. around 25 days ago I was prescribed to 25mg zoloft, and just 5 days ago I was upped to 50mg yet Im not seeing much of a difference. My doctor said to wait for up to 4-8 weeks, but I start school again in less than a month and I really want to be be better by then, reason being that my anxiety is so bad that I had alot of trouble at school, concentrating and socializing. Anyways most questions pertaining to zoloft kicking in on the interenet said 1 -2 weeks yet its almost been a month for me. Should I consult my doctor and ask for a different medicine? I really dont have much time to wait for this to kick in, because I really want to be a bit more on track by march 21 (school start)incase you wondering, i have been experiencing some side affects. such as, dirahea, pissing alot more, and i only experienced the "cloudy placebo" effect once for a small amount of time, but when I did experience it I felt great and supieror and hope that it comes back and stay with me.Im turning 17 this april if that helps at all any help would be appreciated.
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Bless your heart. It's a shame when some teens refuse to deal with the effects puberty has on them. You will eventually outgrow your issues once puberty ends - if you live that long. Pills aint the answer.
Hello. You should have noticed some improvement after a month. Maybe you need to try a different one. Many people have to try more then one anti-depressant before finding one that works. A friend of mine tried 9 different ones, before she found one that helped. It's not an easy fix, so you have to give it time. And all of them have unpleasant side effects. That's another problem when trying to find the right one. Doing this by the time you start school may not be possible, but hang in there, you will find one that makes you feel better. Take care.
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Wild Card weekend is entering day two and on Sunday night we'll be seeing the Denver Broncos hosting the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers are huge favorites and should win this game. Our Steelers blog, Behind The Steel Curtain, agrees and says the Steelers are clearly the better team right now.
But will they win? Behind The Steel Curtain told us why the Steelers will win this game, and why they'll lose.
Why the Steelers will win: The Steelers are clearly the superior team on paper, both on offense, defense, and outside of Matt Prater, probably on special teams as well. Pittsburgh is clearly the more experienced team as well. Nearly one third of the Steelers roster was a part of the team's 2005 and 2008 Super Bowl championship runs. That's an incredible figure really in today's salary cap and free agency era. The Steelers are far from invincible, but they're also one of the best No. 5 wild card seeds in playoff history, and without a question a better football team than the Broncos right now.
Why the Steelers will lose: For as confident as most Steeler fans are, there's quite a few factors in Denver's favor. The Broncos are playing at home obviously. We saw what an overmatched Seattle team did to New Orleans last year in a similar wild card matchup. Ben Roethlisberger also tweaked his ankle during Monday practice this week. He'll clearly play, but who knows how effective he'll be, or if he makes an untimely mistake with the football that allows Denver to hang around. Rashard Mendenhall was lost for the year last week, leaving the onus on Isaac Redman, an undrafted free agent rookie making just his second playoff appearance, to carry the load in the running game. Ryan Clark will also not play due to his medical condition that makes playing in the high altitude of Denver risky. Throw in injuries to young cornerbacks Keenan Lewis and Cortez Allen and the Steelers' secondary is suddenly quite thin. We'll see if Tim Tebow can take advantage of that.
SB Nation's NFL bloggers made predictions for Wild Card weekend and here's a look at the updated NFL playoffs schedule for Sunday. Check out Behind The Steel Curtain for more on the Steelers and Mile High Report for more on the Broncos.


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Then There Was You
Few bonds compare with those between us and our devoted pets. Here, Anne Roiphe reflects on her incomparable bond with her beloved cat, Joey.
One night I awoke with a start. Joey was screaming—a high howl, a screech that contained a sob, a banshee sound, a frightening
noise that said pain, pain, pain.
I jumped up and found him pressed against the white door of the kitchen cabinet. His back was arched high, and he dragged himself forward on paralyzed legs. I looked at the clock. It was 2:30 a.m. All right, I thought, I'll take him to the vet in the morning.
I tried to go back to sleep. But I could hear his howls even when I put the pillow over my head. I located an all-night emergency animal hospital, some 40 blocks away. I dressed. I put Joey in his carrying case. His fur was wet. His eyes were wild. His nose dripped fluid. He tried to bite me as I pushed him into the cage.
I went down the elevator, walked to the corner, and waited. At last a cab came by—the lone cab on a deserted avenue. Nowhere could I see even the blue blur of a television screen accompanying an insomniac through the hard hours.
At the animal hospital, the walls were too bright, too harsh. A sleepy receptionist guarded the desk. Joey whimpered and then let out his horrible cry. A few minutes later, a vet came and took Joey. The lighting in the hospital reminded me of an Edward Hopper painting: Something beyond empty lingered in the air. No one else entered through the hospital doors. In such a large city as New York, you wouldn't think it possible that you could be alone with your disaster.
At last the vet asked me to come into the examining room. She was young and gentle, and her green scrubs seemed too large for her small frame. She said Joey had an aneurysm. It was inoperable, and they should put him to sleep immediately to keep him from suffering further. He was 14.
"That's a good cat life," the vet said. She had given Joey a sedative, and he lay limply in my arms. His body seemed to be already losing its integrity—a leg, a tail, an ear were all bent oddly. His small pink tongue reached out of his tilted mouth to lick my finger.
"I'll give you a moment to say good-bye," she said.
"Just do it," I responded.
She injected him in the muscle behind his hip and I waited. He grew still, and then even more still, and as the last of his white hairs stuck to my sweater, his chest stopped heaving and he died.


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Indiana sophomore running back Tevin Coleman earned Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors, the conference announced Monday. The accolade is the first of Coleman's career and the first for a Hoosiers running back since Levron Williams on Nov. 12, 2001.
Coleman finished with a career-high 215 yards on just 15 carries, a 14.3 average, with a career-long 75 yard touchdown, the program's longest rush since 2009, in addition to a 64-yarder in the team's win over Illinois. He posted his second straight 100-yard game and became the first IU running back with back-to-back 100-yarders since BenJarvus Green-Ellis in 2003. Green-Ellis was also the last Hoosier to reach 200 yards.
The Tinley Park, Ill., native leads the B1G with 12 rushing scores (T-7th nationally), is second in all-purpose yards (1,275, 18th), all-purpose yards per game (141.7, 19th), total TDs (12, T-12th), scoring per game (8.0) and yards per carry (7.3, 17th), and is third in rushing yards (958, 20th) and rushing yards per game (106.4, 20th).
His 958 rushing yards are the most for an Indiana running back since Williams (1,401) in 2001, his 12 rushing touchdowns are tied for eighth on IU's single-season list and his nine-game scoring streak is tied for the second-longest in school history (Anthony Thompson 12).
Coleman is tied for second nationally in 60-plus yard rushing plays (3), first in 50-plus yarders (5), first in 40-plus yarders (8), second in 30-plus yarders (9) and tied for third in 20-plus yarders (14) this year.
Stephen Houston joined Coleman with his second 100-yard game in as many weeks. It is the first time in Hoosiers history the same running back duo has recorded back-to-back 100-yard games. Indiana finished the game with 371 rushing yards, its most since 2001 (at Michigan State on Nov. 10).
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Many of our balances are used as hopper balances. The economic platform balances are gaining ground to special hopper balances which are more expensive. Solidity, wide weighing ranges and high accuracy are factors in favour of hopper balances. Both hopper and weight functions help to improve their use in industrial processes. Some models of laboratory balances, accurate balances and tabletop balances have also this hopper function. You will find the hopper balances best suit you depending on the accuracy, weighing range and verification. Other series of balances are TS series package balances. These hopper balances offer a lot of additional specifications and many of them are perfect for weighing mixtures (recipes). If you don't find the hopper balances you are looking for, please contact us by calling our offices. Call us on: UK customers +44(0) 23 809 870 30 / US customers +1-410-387-7703 and we will help you to find the best solution to suit your needs and our technical staff will advise you regarding our balances. Our engineers and technicians will be happy to help you with the hopper balances, and of course, with other products in the field of regulation and control, and measuring instruments. Technical specifications for our Hopper Balances can be found at the following links:
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AAAI Sponsored Conferences
- Eighth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
ICWSM 2014 will be held June 1–4 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI USA.
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AAAI-14 will be held July 27–31 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
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1. How does the cost of a metal roof compare to other roofs?
Metal roofs are a premium product and cost somewhat more than a 25-year warranty asphalt/fiberglass shingle roof and many of the high-end architectural shingles now being sold. Additionally, metal roofs have many other benefits over asphalt/fiberglass shingle roofs, warranty of 50-years being one.
2. Can I walk on a metal roof?
Yes you can; however, like walking on any roof, you should be careful.
3. Is a metal roof noisy when it rains?
No, metal roofs are not noisy when it rains. According to one study, the noise levels of a metal roof are about the same as other roofing products such as asphalt or wood shingles or clay tiles.
4. Is a metal roof damaged by hail?
Metal roofs are very tough and highly resistant to hail damage... much more so than asphalt/fiberglass shingles. In fact, many metal roofing products have the highest impact resistance and hail rating granted by the insurance commissions in the hail belt regions of the U.S. Some insurance companies even provide a reduced rate for metal roofs.
5. How about resistance to wind damage?
All metal roofing products are very wind resistant. Many styles have been tested to withstand hurricane force winds; and wind warranties can be as high as 150mph.
6. Is a metal roof fire safe?
A steel roof is the most fire safe roof. It is classified as a noncombustible roofing material with a Class "A" rating - the highest rating given.
7. How does the weight of a metal roof compare to other types of roofing?
Much to people's surprise, metal roofs are significantly lighter than other types of roofs. Typically they weigh less than one-third the weight of asphalt/fiberglass shingles; and are as much as 75% lighter than clay, concrete or slate.
8. Will a metal roof rust?
Galvalume coated steel roofing panels are protected by layers of metallic and polymer coatings. Galvalume coated steel is what most automobiles are manufactured with. Industry studies have repeatedly shown them to outperform the corrosion resistance of other coated metals. They are available with warranties as long as 50 years.
9. Does the color fade?
Metal roofs are painted with high-performance polymers that have exceptional weathering properties. Over time you might notice a slight change in color due to the settling of airborne contamination, but occasional rain or washing the roof with a garden hose (from the ground) will keep the roof looking like new.
10. What about lightning?
Steel roofing is no more susceptible to lightning than any other roofing material. Lightning most frequently strikes the highest point in any terrain; and if your roof is at the highest point of the terrain, you may install lightning rods.
11. If I reroof, do I have to remove the old roof before installing the metal roof?
Usually not if you're installing the metal roof over existing asphalt, fiberglass or composition shingles (maximum of two layers thick). In most situations, the metal roof can be installed directly over the old roof.
12. Will a metal roof make my house hot?
Actually, a metal roof can save you money on your a/c costs because it has a higher heat reflectivity than other roofing products like asphalt/fiberglass shingles, wood, tile, etc. During the summer it makes buildings cooler by efficiently reflecting away sunlight and reducing the amount of heat transmitted into the building. Likewise, it makes buildings warmer in the winter by reflecting inside heat from the underside of the roof back into the building. This good thermal reflectivity translates into energy savings by reducing cooling costs in the summer and heating costs in the winter.
13. What is galvalume?
Galvalume is 55% Al-Zn (aluminum - zinc) coated sheet steel that is ideally suited for most types of roofing applications. An estimated 40 billion square feet of galvalume now covers buildings in all kinds of climates and environments throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico, as well as Europe, Asia and Australia. Galvalume is an ideal material for roofing because of its extraordinary outdoor corrosion resistance and resulting long life. It is extremely popular due to its versatility, ease of use, aesthetics and long-term performance.
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September 27, 2013
I am a 55-year-old New Afrikan man. I came to prison in 1980 for a first degree murder that I did not commit. The prosecutor, judge, victim's family and my family know that I did not commit this murder. How is it that I can say it as a matter of fact? Because the actual killer confessed to the murder during the trial, did the time for the murder and he has since been released in 1986.
January 17, 2013
The CDCR justification for Pelican Bay is rooted in two primary criteria: 1) to isolate the so-called worst of the worst, who have proved too violent to be held at other prisons, and 2) to presumably minimize prison violence. What the CDCR intentionally neglected to tell the public is that it was their policy, both in practice and intent, that was responsible for the rapid increase in prison violence! Pelican Bay State Prison is rooted in deception, exploitation, extortion, violence and murder.


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Why Women Stand By Their Cheating Man. ~ Lori Ann Lothian
As a woman who has readily forgiven a cheating husband, I'm in notable company.
Former first lady Hillary Clinton, pop singer Fergie and Victoria Beckham, wife of British soccer star David, all chose to continue relationships marred by scandalous affairs. But beneath the nobility of forgiveness lurks the shady possibility that each of these women knew, or suspected, the affair(s) all along.
In my marriage, I fooled myself into believing my husband's overnight stays on his office sofa truly were orchestrated so he could meet deadlines, or the extensions to business trips to places like Hawaii were for his alone downtime. Or I'd pretend that the women from his office holiday parties, who would stare at me when they thought I wasn't looking, didn't really know something I didn't about their boss or colleague.
Only when the marriage was over, and I happened to accidentally read in his new girlfriend's diary that he has cheated on every women he has been with, even his wife did I fully admit to myself what I had always known. He had pursued extramarital affairs and I had chosen to not confront him with my suspicions.
Why do women like me sometimes put our head in the sand?
For one, it's easier, especially if kids are involved. My maternal imperative to create a stable nest overrode my female pride and my desire to look under the marital rug where I knew I'd find the dirt of infidelity
And then, there's the sex bit. He was getting elsewhere what I had little desire to provide at home—at least at the frequency he desired. I'd probably have made a great harem wife in another era because at some level, I was only too happy to share the sex load.
And last, getting real about our marital problemss, seeing a therapist, feeling vulnerable, working on the unspoken regrets, resentments and fears I had bottled up, all of that muck held zero appeal. Even had I caught him, lipstick smudged tie in hand, I would not have had the courage to follow through with repair. I would have let the damaged union limp along, albeit with an injunction to "stop seeing her." Whether I would have enforced that is another matter.
Because in a way, I understood why my husband would go sexing elsewhere, when my sexual appetite, not to mention desire for intimacy, was as robust as an anorexic's lust for food.
As hurt as I was, it all made a perverted sort of sense. I understood her attraction to him, a 35-year-old man in a suit and tie with a nice car. And I saw how he would be taken in by an adoring young woman who hung on his every word and read the books he suggested. It was every married man's fantasy, especially a married man who felt unappreciated at home and overwhelmed at work.
That women might not only forgive, but excuse or accept a cheating spouse is not something most men want to hear. Arguably, men prefer to imagine they are getting away with something, that the novel sex partner is a taboo (and probably hotter because of it) and that if their partner discovered the infidelity, they would incur the wrath of a woman scorned.
One man who takes exception to the After the Affair story is gender studies professor Hugo Schwyzer, who sees the piece as an affirmation of the Myth of the Uncontrollable Boner. In his Jezebel column, he writes:
This is what makes the myth of the uncontrollable boner so seductive; it's preferable to think that a painful betrayal was the result of irresistible evolutionary imperatives rather than choice. "My man is so manly that he gets urges that trump his very real love for me" is ever so much prettier than "In the end, he didn't care about me enough to keep it in his pants."
Except that what if the woman doesn't care enough to insist he keep it in his pants? What if she is simply able to hold the contradiction of his love for her and his sexing elsewhere? Or, as in my case, what if instead of an enraged hell-hath-no-fury response to my cheating man, I simply saw the convenience of feigning ignorance. Because instead of a scorned woman, I was a women looking at my husband's choices from a cost-benefit analysis. I was weighing into the equation the well-being of my children, my own psychic status-quo, and even the hope in some fantasy future for renewed intimacy.
In the end, I am drawn to the oft-quoted Rumi wisdom that advocates we look beyond the black and white view of any situation, to the nuanced perspective of grey. "Beyond right doing and wrong doing is a field, I will meet you there."
What if, in marriages, we offered up the possibility of that very field of non-blame becoming the starting point for a whole new game?
In this new game field, the rules of engagement are not about societal mores of monogamy or legalities around adultery. Rather, in this liberated game of real love, we look first and foremost at our own motives, culpability and collusion in marital breakdowns caused by affairs, even when we are the one cheated on.
And what if, in every breakdown, we imagined the possibility a breakthrough is tying to happen? Perhaps then, instead of a catastrophic ending, a discovered or confessed affair could become the springboard for a transformative beginning.
And just maybe, as women we could forgive not as a matter of convenience, safety or compromise, but as matter of love.
(This is the fourth in a seven-part elephant love and relationships series with content partner The Good Men Project on the theme question, Why Do Good People Cheat? Check out , How to Be a Cheater , Forgiving Adultery and When a Marriage Melts Down.)
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12 Responses to "Why Women Stand By Their Cheating Man. ~ Lori Ann Lothian"
Interesting take from a "not so typical" POV. I often ponder if marriage is relevant in a modern, fluid, & dynamic society? And I have been married for 23 faithful years. Perhaps what needs to happen is for marriage to change from a "lifelong binding contract" to one of say 5 years, then another, etc? Maybe children should not be conceived unless both parties agree to a 18 year contract? But I digress…
Reasons why people stay in marriages are always curious and somewhat rational. Whether it be cost-benefit, denial, victim status, etc. I am glad you wrote this and am sure it felt good to let your emotions out. Namaste my friend.
[...] oftentimes the woman will first stand by her partner. Demi Moore and Fergie are just a couple that stood by their husbands when mistresses first reported affairs with their high-status [...]
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[...] sister is miserable. She's in a relationship with a man who cheated on her. A man she hates. A man she never forgave. She told me what she told me because she believes it. [...]
I was a Stander. That does not mean I Stood by my cheating man or for him. I Stood for the man he was before and the man I knew he could and would become and I Stood for my marriage—my vows._Your scenario of a (supposedly) secret affair going on while the couple live together is not the only infidelity scenario._What about those who leave. Some start with a secret affair and leave their spouse upon discovery and others leave to have the affair._Mine left to start his affair. Then he came back before it was over. He wanted and intended for it to be over, but I knew he was not ready. He left again. He left (or I kicked him out) multiple times._I have a zero tolerance policy for adultery, but that is not another way of saying I will divorce him; I also have a zero tolerance policy for divorce. It means if he cheats he must stop and have no contact with the alienator, go to marriage counseling, rebuild trust, Mirror-Work to determine why he cheated… do the work to prevent cheating in the future.
It means he is not allowed to be with me (no living together, no friendship, no contact) if he is choosing to be with someone else. When he chooses to be an appropriate spouse—appropriate according to our marital agreement—and meet the conditions (counseling…) we can begin to rebuild, starting from separate residences—no bed-hopping.
That's how we got to where we are now; happily married to each other.
I'd bet the farm he's cheated many times and you only caught him a few times. Leaving a cheater is about self-respect. It's about telling the person who spat in your face and humiliated you that they were wrong, and that you will not tolerate their hedonistic selfishness. It's about loving yourself and choosing to be happy rather than being eternally insecure and paranoid, wondering when they'll do it again. It's about being strong, and not being a doormat. So many women are doormats, it's pathetic.
Ultimately, women stay because on a practical level its easier and more convenient (cf the thought that no one is going to come bugging you for sex which for these women is a chore!) and because we are all afraid to be alone. But what is the price of staying? I believe the price is a life lived less fully because it is always clouded by the fear to stand up for yourself and the belief that you deserved no better. If you lose your self-respect it is much harder for your partner to respect you. Sad thing is hearing these same women lobby for equal opportunity and women's rights…Respect is earned, not freely given. Unless the agreement between partners states otherwise, if he cheats, he leaves.
I tried forgiveness too. I also tried all the logic you write about. Once the STD was verified, I threw in the towel. Now I have moved on to a man I truly love, and sex is wonderful. I truly believe that if there is love, it's not sex, it's making love, which I want to participate in. I was not in love with my husband and kept telling myself it was love. It was just convenience. Love is a feeling, not an action.
I have just found out husband was cheating. I had a rather awful gnawing feeling in my gut for a very long time. My husband got very angry and told me it was anxiety and that I was someone who liked to ruin anything good. We had a vera solid and frequent sexlife, great sex but nada on the intimacy front. He told me she helped him, he needed her, that it was more emotional than sexual….
well how nice how fucking wonderful.
I will not be doing any forgiving and we will divorce because I could not live with someone who was so disloyal, I read their Facebook messages.
Right now I know that he could not find what he needed with me, unlike my husbands mistress and there were so many great messages, in particular "I am drinking wine alone…. why….. because you have a wife" now that I have proof of his philandering I will be making a grand exit stage right,
Its sad but now I feel liberated because I am not the anxious paranoid mess my husband had me believe I was. I am not perfect and sure I am sure I must take some blame as to why he wandered but my goddamed gut was on the ball and I am most angry with the fact that I did not trust it.


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Breaking: Anna Wintour Is Extremely Well Connected
A university scholar has assessed this through careful research.
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Also, Japan Fashion Week was smaller than usual this year.
It happened to her.
Jazz hands!
She was 45 minutes late getting onstage at the Met Gala because she was "communing with God."
What a great reason to stay up late and eat cookies in front of the TV.
That pink shirt he wore last week? Not so much.
The place that used to sell her favorite sunglasses now, "sadly," sells wine.
He also claims he once saw André Leon Talley getting fed grapes and cheese cubes.
She allegedly requested all of the resort shows Robbie finds to be a bit of a nuisance.
And beer, if you feel really bold.
To work in an office!
Even though they're paying to ... be in an office.
And more highlights from the 'Vogue' editor's lecture at Pratt last night.
You'll never guess where she sat.
What does that mean? Whatever you want it to mean, if you can spend at least $1,000 on it.
Milan continues to harp on the 'Vogue' editor's perceived slight.
She's only expected to be in town for four days.
He blogs about what he learned from Anna while filming 'The September Issue.'
Anna and André make Paulo Melim Andersson nervous backstage.


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Reading the recent story of Diego Sanchez blowing through (and being conned out of) his money after the loss to B.J. Penn made me recall sitting on the couch around Christmas a few years ago with a family friend. He was a near seven-foot-tall kid, not far removed from a solid college basketball career that left him as a player some NBA teams took an interest in drafting in the second round. While the call didn't come on draft night, he was still fortunate enough to land a deal to play ball overseas.
The always-popular sports cliche story of long lost relatives showing up along with the professional sports contract came up. It was interesting to hear a first hand account of the numerous strories of "you don't remember me, but I knew you when you were just a little kid" and "I need a loan to get this business off the ground." And this was for a kid who hasn't yet made it to the top of the mountain.
The concept of athletes as walking financial support for family and friends is not just some Hollywood invention.
It's just one of the many issues that lead to a sobering reality for professional athletes. According to Sports Illustrated, 78% of NFL players are bankrupt or under financial stress within two years of retirement. That number sits at 60% for NBA players. And these are athletes who are playing in sports with a comparatively huge minimum salary as compared to mixed martial artists.
The Nightmare
The Sanchez story is sadly common for successful pro athletes. From MMA Weekly:
The person, whose name Sanchez did not mention, embezzled over $170,000 of the money he earned in the UFC Octagon. This was reality giving Sanchez a harsh slap in the face.
"I let some bad influences get into my life and it was a downward spiral. It was like a tornado sucking everything in," he recalled. "I let a person that I thought was a friend, a real close friend, someone that would help me with finances, I had him helping me out with stuff. Turned out I got embezzled for over $170,000. He conned me. I got conned so bad. And in the same time when I got conned, I was just wasting the money that I had earned."
Being taken for significant sums of money is not uncommon. Far too many athletes fall into the trap of letting friends or family run their finances. Any number of things can go wrong, from a person who can barely balance a check book suddenly being put in charge of hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars and not understanding proper fiscal management to the slow bleed of embezzlement.
These athletes didn't get to the pinnacle of the sport by being "numbers guys" so they trust that they're being taken care of, leaving themselves open to the kind of trap that Ryan Sheckler fell into.
Skateboarding pro Sheckler hired family friend Matthew Mercuro as CFO of two of his business units, only to see Mercuro transfer over $350,000 into several personal accounts.
Mercuro's punishment? A plea for 18 days in jail and an order to pay back $100,000 to have the charges reduced to misdemeanors.
Hype or Die, Inspirational or Sobering?
The threat of post-career financial hardship is, obviously, not limited to those at the championship and title contender level.
Many fans saw the story of Pat Barry's hardships before his win and Fight of the Night/Knockout of the Night performance against Antoni Hardonk as inspirational. Barry said that he was on the verge of being evicted and had been reduced to eating ketchup and rice before scoring the knockout win and $120,000 in fight bonuses.
The story of a disheveled Barry having to convince the bank teller that the check was legit was fun, but it seemed to make people miss the real point: Barry was fighting on the biggest stage in the sport and was barely able to eat and keep a roof over his head.
This was his third fight in under a year and he would only fight once more in the next 14 months, earning a disclosed payday of $11,000 for his loss to Mirko Filipovic. While he may have been able to live with considerably more comfort during that time thanks to the Hardonk fight and the bonuses it provided, Barry is almost certainly not in a position where he'll be able to retire off the money he made from fighting.
That's not to say that the UFC should be paying out huge sums of money up and down the card to set these guys up for life. They shouldn't unless they want to go out of business. But it does show that most guys in this sport will not make enough money to retire on after spending most of their prime earning years fighting. This will lead to guys bouncing around the local circuits for far too long and having to try to find other ways to earn after the career is over.
Even Nature Boys and Pac-Men
No one has made more money over the past few years in combat sports than Manny Pacquiao. A huge box office attraction, politician and pound-for-pound #1, Manny would seem to have the world at his command. Instead, Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach says "He's broke because of that [his political career] and all the people he flies around to his fights. He goes through money like you wouldn't believe. He can't say no."
Scott Christ of Bad Left Hook touches on the reality of the situation:
But greater men than Pacquiao have been undone by poor money handling. For those who aren't wrestling fans, you don't need to be one to appreciate the story of "Nature Boy" Ric Flair, one of the biggest stars in pro wrestling for four decades, considered by many to be the greatest of all-time in his industry, who is now a struggling old man. It has happened, of course, to countless great boxers. It will happen to many of the men we consider great in today's game, and make no mistake, Manny Pacquiao could be one of them.
What's worrisome about all of this is pretty obvious, of course. It's never fun to watch once-great fighters so broke they have to sacrifice their bodies to pay the bills in the twilight years of their professional careers. Remember what Evander Holyfield and Roy Jones Jr used to be? A lot of people have started to forget. Even guys who weren't quite so big in the name brand department, like Joel Casamayor, now continue to fight past their expiration date because they have to do so. There's really no other option. Shane Mosley has looked awful in three straight fights, and yet there's no indication he's going to hang up the gloves. The list could go on and on.
Pacquiao may be one of the biggest victims of the hangers on that sports has ever seen. He has made an incredible amount of money in his career but is broke because he has become the support system for a large group of people who are nothing more than "friends" and in many ways seems to feel like he needs to find ways to support his entire country.
It's this idea that led Dana White to say of Jon Jones' success "It's actually scary. When you get to this point, I worry about guys. There's cling-ons all over, I'm sure, waiting to just [expletive] barnacle right on to him."
Being the best simply doesn't guarantee you a stable financial future.
Gyms Aren't the Answer
For many, the idea of opening their own gym seems to be the idea of a stable financial future. But there are a plethora of risks involved here as well.
- Has the fighter saved up enough money to be able to take the hit when hard times come (and they will come) for the business?
- If the gym is running while the fighter is still active in his career, the risks of leaving a friend or family member in charge exist just like putting them in charge of finances.
- What happens when the UFC opens a "UFC Gym" in your area? Can your business survive in a fully competitive environment?
A few guys may live comfortably owning their gym, and if they built up a big enough name from fighting that can carry them a little ways but being a mid-card guy from the UFC or Strikeforce may simply not be a big enough draw to build up your client base when Larry has been "teaching UFC" since he converted his taekwondo gym three years ago?
And should the gym go under, it's yet another way for a fighter to have lost it all.
No Answers
It's not that the future of all mixed martial artists is doom and gloom. There's simply a sobering reality that many of the men we cheer for will not have the futures that we hope for.
It's easy for fans to laugh at a man like Ken Shamrock and call for his retirement while he trudges around the world and now is lined up to fight James Toney. But Ken has no other choice. As fans we're stuck between not wanting to see him damage his reputation and body any further and knowing that there is no comfortable retirement for him.
Ken's own choices and mistakes in his life led to where he is now. A once huge star in MMA who made larger paydays than almost anyone in the sport plus a turn as a superstar in the WWE should have left Shamrock with a decent post-fighting life. But the same problems that come up for so many athletes came up for Ken.
And other fighters will make their own version of Ken's mistakes, and many more will never make enough money to even be in a position to screw up so badly.
We can just hope that fighters take away just as much from the UFC's financial advice at the Fighter Summit as they take away about twitter bonuses. Dana White had it right:
"Not everybody is going to make millions and millions of dollars," White said Tuesday during his welcoming remarks to the athletes in the first session at the Red Rock Casino Resort in Las Vegas. "Some guys do. Some guys will. Some guys make hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some guys make just enough money to buy a nice house, pay it off, and maybe buy a car and stash some money away. When you move on to that next chapter in your life, you have some pretty cool stuff. You don't want to [mess] that up. You don't want to blow that.
"You don't want someone else running your business. You are your business. You should know everything about it, no matter how much you trust whoever is handling your [money]. You should know 100 percent what is going on with your life and with your business."
If fighters learn to not spend recklessly, acknowledge that their prime earning years in the sport are extremely limited, invest a little money and have a solid career to fall back on after they retire, they'll have a decent life.
All we can do as fans is hope they make the right decisions during their career. But that's sadly too rare for athletes at the pro level.


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Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The European Central Bank resisted calls to cut interest rates at President Jean-Claude Trichet's final policy meeting today and may opt to use other tools to stem the sovereign debt crisis.
ECB officials meeting in Berlin left the benchmark rate at 1.5 percent, as predicted by 41 of 52 economists in a Bloomberg News survey. Five forecast a cut to 1.25 percent and six expected a reduction to 1 percent. With Greece on the brink of default, the ECB is under pressure to step up efforts to stop contagion by shoring up the euro region's bond markets and helping banks weather the storm.
"The earliest the ECB would cut rates would be in December, when it has new economic projections," Tobias Blattner, a former ECB economist now working for Daiwa International in London, said before the decision. "The ECB needs hold back some firepower and at this meeting will focus on helping the banking sector with extra liquidity."
It has fallen to Trichet to lead the battle against the crisis as lawmakers squabble over their response. His push to resume government bond purchases in August split the ECB's 23- member Governing Council and led to the resignation of chief economist Juergen Stark. With Trichet's eight-year term coming to an end on Oct. 31, his final decisions in office may be among the most critical for the future of the euro -- the currency he has championed as a symbol of European unity.
'Colossal Disaster'
"Trichet holds Europe's destiny in his hands at this point in time," said Julian Callow, chief European economist at Barclays Capital in London, who expected a quarter-point rate cut today. "It would be a colossal disaster if we had a prolonged recession in the euro area. Policy makers have to throw the kitchen sink at it to prevent it."
The Bank of England today unexpectedly expanded its bond- purchase program to 275 billion pounds ($421 billion) from 200 billion pounds after keeping its key rate at a record low of 0.5 percent.
Trichet holds a press conference at 2:30 p.m. Economists said he may announce the reintroduction of 12-month loans to banks, a measure the ECB last used at the end of 2009. A discussion about reviving the ECB's covered-bond purchase program to kick-start term funding markets was also on today's agenda, a euro-area central bank official told Bloomberg News on condition of anonymity.
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Trichet, 68, is stepping down just as Europe's sovereign debt crisis spills into the financial sector after governments failed to prevent contagion from Greece to the euro area's core. Market borrowing costs in Italy and Spain, the region's third and fourth-largest economies, have jumped as investors fret about their public finances.
Moody's Investors Service on Oct. 4 cut Italy's credit rating for the first time in almost two decades on concern its economic growth may be too weak to enable the reduction of the region's second-largest debt load.
While Trichet has stepped into the breach with ECB bond purchases, he may baulk at some of the proposals governments are considering to beef up their rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility.
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One idea is to grant the EFSF a banking license so that it can borrow from the ECB to fund purchases of government bonds. Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has said that would amount to printing money to fund distressed euro-area nations, and Trichet told lawmakers in Brussels on Oct. 4 that he's "not in favor" of the plan.
Andrew Bosomworth, executive vice-president and senior portfolio manager at Pacific Investment Management Company in Munich, said the ECB should drop its resistance to a Greek debt restructuring. Trichet has insisted that any private-sector involvement in a restructuring must be voluntary.
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Rumsfeld Trusted Pop-Psychology: Shock & Awe
The Generals' complaints about Rumsfeld:
|"has repeatedly made strategic mistakes."
|"incompetent strategically."
|"gross errors in strategy."
|"a strategic blunder."
|"a flawed strategy in going in."
|"totally underestimated what would be needed for a sustained conflict."
|Van Riper:
|"His idea of transformation turns on empty buzz words. There's none of the scholarship."
Rumsfeld vs. the Generals:
The generals complain of micromanagement, arrogance, and Abu Ghraib, but the most devastating complaint is that his strategic incompetence won the war and lost the peace. The core of his strategy was "shock and awe," but the transformation Van Riper refers to is a change of military doctrine. Rumsfeld switched from the military doctrine of Decisive Force (aka overwhelming force) to the new untested doctrine of Rapid Dominance, of which a key part is Shock and Awe. Many in the military criticized this from the start, and Rumsfeld claims they are just stodgy bureaucrats. But was Rumsfeld's switch to Rapid Dominance (with S&A) a great idea or a strategic blunder? Rumsfeld struck out.
To make matters worse, Rumsfeld could no t admit failure when it set in, and wasted valuable months in denial. In short, the Generals are right to revolt.
- Rumsfeld pushed a war we didn't really need, because he thought shock and awe would make it a cheap six-week war.
- Rapid Dominance worked at the start, but the army concluded it did not necessarily work any better against Saddam than the old doctrine.
- Rumsfeld took no precaution in case of failure, so when the "Dominance" part failed, a disastrous quagmire developed.
Rapid Dominance vs. Decisive Force
Rumsfeld's mistake was to jettison all reliance on the traditional doctrine of Decisive Force and to rely solely on Rapid Dominance and its promise that:
Total mastery achieved at extraordinary speed and across tactical, strategic, and political levels will destroy the will to resist.
When Shock and Awe failed to achieve Dominance, he did not have the Decisive Force available to compensate. At first he simply denied the failure, hoping the insurgents would fade away and democracy emerge. Since then, a patchwork of tactics have been tested in vain attempts to compensate for Rumsfeld's initial blunder.
NotesShock & Awe—The Book
The National Defense University, published Shock & Awein 1996. As an Air Force (review) explains, it advocated a Rapid Dominance doctrine using shock and awe to "replace or complement" the strategy of overwhelming force by exploiting the "revolutionary potential" of existing and emerging technologies. Rumsfeld chose the "replace" option, but as the reviewer warned: "Shock and Awe offers a new strategy built from assertion and speculation" and the authors' warning that it must still confront the fog of war which "casts doubt on the feasibility of the entire concept."
The shock and awe concept relies heavily on amateur psychology as illustrated by "When the video results of these attacks are broadcast in real time worldwide on CNN, the positive impact on coalition support and negative impact on potential threat support can be decisive." (Book's short explanation of its proposal.)
From Book to Battlefield
The shock and awe campaign for the Iraq War was only annouced with this slide on the day the war started, March 19. It barely mentions it, but one reporter asked:
Q: I see on the list of concepts there "shock and awe." What does it represent?
Crowder: That's probably a really good question. ... the effects that we are trying to create is to make it ... so overwhelming at the very outset ... that there is no real alternative here other than to fight and die or to give up. ... But quite frankly, we really have little clear understanding of exactly what will happen. (full answer).
Did Shock and Awe Work?
According to a report (pdf) by Dr. Biddle of the Army War College:
Central finding: synergistic interaction between advanced technology and Iraqi ineptitude was necessary and sufficient for low-cost victory.
As explained in previous slides, this means (1) Iraqi ineptitude was necessary for success, and (2) speed was not necessary. In other words Rapid Dominance worked (initially) but the "Rapid" was not very critical, and it would not have worked very well without Iraqi ineptitude. It was not a bad strategy, but not a great strategy.
But, as everyone now knows it only worked on the easy part—knocking out Saddam. Unfortunately, the assumption, which came primarily from the neocons, was that the Iraqis would take care of the rest. Consequently, Rumsfeld had no plan at all for what came next. And, without Decisive Force, he did not have the resources to stabilize the country.
Rapid Dominance vs Decisive Force in the Shock-&-Awe Book
These structural realities [accelerating technological advances] are exciting and offer a major opportunity for real revolution and change if we are able and daring enough to exploit them. This, in turn, has led us to develop the concept of Rapid Dominance and its attendant focus on "Shock and Awe." Rapid Dominance seeks to integrate these multifaceted realities and facts and apply them to the common defense at a time when uncertainty about the future is perhaps one of the few givens. We believe the principles and ideas underlying this concept are sufficiently compelling and different enough from current American defense doctrine encapsulated by "overwhelming or decisive force," "dominant battlefield awareness," and "dominant maneuver" to warrant closer examination. (p. x)


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A few snow pellets again early this am, AND some sleety mix in our SE counties. That should streak outta here after about 9am. No major problems are expected. We'll head back into the low 40s with sun later on. We may do this all again late tonight/Tue AM with another disturbance. 20% MIX especially SE counties, then sun with low 40s. An upper level LOW will pass overhead Wednesday night. I'm putting in 30% coverage of snow showers (some minor accumulations?) before it's gone by Thursday AM. Thursday we are back into the 50s. Upper 50s Friday and could see 60 return by the weekend.
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I do like the fast forwarding through the blending, I remember when Marlena of Makeup Geek cut out the blending parts in one of her videos a lot of people requested she keep that in (since that's one of the most challenging things for a lot of people, myself included!) I love the orange and purple combo, it's bright and bold bu still wearable. I'll have to try that out!
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