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When I do listen to games on the radio, I can't take pre-, post-, and intermissions on 97.5. Jason Retitis (sp?) is a certified ass clown. Brian Startate is a good hockey man, but I wouldn't necessarily says that much. And when he tries to say much, he probably shouldn't.
Mikey Miss is a dolt himself. He is undoubtedly anti-hockey and always was at WIP. And then he also says garbage like how Matt Ryan is the 2nd best quarterback in the NFL.
Cataldi is a moron, he plays a moron, and from what I've heard, Chip Kelly plays him like a moron. My favorite thing from him the last year was when he was going to lead a protest against the Eagles because they didn't sign anyone on the first day of free agency and were being cheap. Of course, he's probably never admitted that they did the right things.
If I'm at work Saturday afternoons and I don't feel like changing the station, I don't mind keeping on Angry Bob and Hollis Thomas. I don't mind Gargano either, but he has to have someone with him. I like Ike Reese too, but I can't stand Barkann, he is nothing more than a squawking parrot. Otherwise, sometimes I'll listen to Rob Ellis on the way home or Reuben Frank when he's on.
I don't think the Sixers and Flyers were let go by WIP as much as they wanted to leave. The Flyers were getting playoff games pushed back to 610AM, and the Sixers were on a different station every night it seemed like. They were getting games put on WOGL.
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Compensation for Victims of Terrorism.
What Is Life Worth? The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11 Kenneth R. Feinberg Public Affairs www.publicaffairsbooks.com 256pp., $24
"Right now," Luis Chimbo wrote, "this is a messed-up world. I just say, 'Oh well,' we have to live, whatever the heck life throws at us."
Chimbo was writing to Kenneth Feinberg, the special master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, about his father, who died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. He was right, of course. Any world in which people fly airliners loaded with passengers and fuel into skyscrapers is very messed up, indeed. As we know, thousands of others also died on September 11, 2001; more thousands were injured; buildings fell; and hundreds of businesses and thousands of jobs were interrupted or worse.
What to do to help the innocent victims, and who should do it? America's responses were quick, but they also were fragmented and imbued with politics.
Compensation for losses from terrorism is the subject of two very different but excellent recent books. The first, Compensation for Victims of Terrorism, is the work of Professor Marshall Shapo of Northwestern University School of Law. In it, he shows both where compensation for terrorist acts already fits into the overall scheme of American law and where (and why) it might fit if future governments will address it in a purposeful, coherent, and humane way.
The question of what to do when civilians suffer losses from war has not stumped every policy-maker in the past. Shapo compares the U.S. government's September 11 response with that of the British government to German air raids during World War II.
After observing the economic devastation wrought by Luftwaffe bombs in 1940 in one English city, Winston Churchill immediately exercised what he called "a privilege of power" and decreed that "all damage from the fire of the enemy must be a charge upon the state and compensation paid in full and at once."
The Exchequer was horrified, but within two weeks the government had created an insurance program to cover civilian losses. It eventually paid out some 890 million [pounds sterling], equivalent to about $43 billion in current U.S. dollars.
In comparison to that vigorous action, the U.S. government's response to September 11 losses was far more limited, and it might have been even more parsimonious had it not been for the Air Transport Association's furious--and successful--lobbying for unprecedented limits on the airlines' potential legal liability. To counter Congress's gift to the airlines, ATLA and others engaged in urgent advocacy for the victims.
Shapo demonstrates that compensation for terrorist acts has actually been a part of our law for some time. The common law of torts, several federal statutes (among them the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the Alien Tort Claims Act, and the Torture Victim Protection Act), and the Warsaw Convention have all been used in response to airplane sabotage and hijackings, as well as a variety of human rights abuses and war-related atrocities on the ground. Insurance companies have even used some of these to try to recover their September 11 losses.
Although the problems of obtaining court jurisdiction and enforcing damages are obvious, some of this litigation has succeeded, and compensation has been paid to some victims, like the survivors of the passengers who died when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.
For obvious reasons, Shapo also examines closely the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, which is the sole subject of Kenneth Feinberg's very different book, What Is Life Worth?
Feinberg had an enormous--and enormously difficult-job to do in determining the appropriate amount of compensation for victims like Luis Chimbo. Congress gave Feinberg essentially unlimited money, but he had to distribute it in accordance with a body of law gleaned from the fund statute and the tort and probate laws of 35 states and 59 foreign countries. To those sources, he often had to add his own sense of equity and his mediating skills to translate law and facts into dollars-and-cents action to help bereaved families.
The story Feinberg tells of how he and his team did their work makes fascinating reading. He understood from the start that he would never be able to satisfy all parties who had interests in the compensation program, and he was right.
He was criticized for making awards that some considered too generous, and he left some survivors seriously--sometimes vocally--dissatisfied. Much of the anger was prompted by four aspects of the program:
* Congress's exclusion of U.S. victims of earlier terrorist actions--even others carried out by al Qaeda--from the fund
* the method Congress dictated for compensating for economic loss, which required the fund to give victims with already-substantial wealth more money than it could give those victims who had modest incomes
* Feinberg's bold decision to compensate noneconomic losses (mostly for pain and suffering and grief) at a flat rate of $250,000 for every death and $100,000 to each surviving spouse and dependent
* Congress's requirement that he deduct the value of most collateral benefits from awards. This provision turned some claims that would have warranted seven-figure court judgments into fund awards at the minimum $250,000 level.
Despite its imperfections, the victim compensation fund was a model of economy of operation and transparency. Feinberg and his staff haunted the State Department to track down every eligible foreign claimant. They persuaded the Immigration and Naturalization Service not to prosecute any illegal residents who came forward to file claims. And they prodded victims along in negotiations that solved many intra-family disputes (some involving attempted claims by fiances, others involving same-sex partners rejected by decedents' families).
Ultimately they persuaded 97 percent of the eligible claimants to give up their right to sue and enter the compensation program. The fund paid out just over $7 billion in compensation--nearly $6 billion of it for the 2,880 death claims, the rest for 2,680 physical injury claims--and its total expenses were just 1.2 percent of the money it was created to disburse. Feinberg himself worked on the fund full time for free for nearly three years, and his law firm donated over $7 million in unbilled time.
Is future terrorism compensation politically and economically feasible, or even desirable? If the answer is yes, how closely should it resemble the September 11 fund? Shapo and Feinberg have different views on this.
Shapo allows for the possibility of effective court-based compensation, but he considers future programs like the September 11 fund, or even a permanent fund, a feasible alternative. He considers the fund not an aberration of American injury jurisprudence but an addition to it, and an important one at that.
There is evidence that he is right. Despite protests that the fund should create no precedents, it has left a number of footprints on the legal landscape. It has fixed in many minds the figure $250,000 as minimum compensation for death. It has influenced military death benefits and the levels of term life insurance available to service members. It has also led inevitably to calls for government compensation programs for other disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina.
For his part, Feinberg insists that the fund should be viewed solely as a response to a unique situation, and that the creation of either a permanent fund or multiple funds to respond to specific future disasters would be unwise. He adamantly opposes altering our strong civil justice system, which he believes should continue as our principal mechanism for responding to losses caused by others.
Feinberg believes, however, that if Congress does create another fund in response to a future attack, it should not use the award formulas against which many victims railed. He argues for uniform compensation awards with no deductions for collateral sources, to the end that "the family of the stockbroker and that of the dishwasher should receive the same check from the U.S. Treasury."
Trial Lawyers Care
As impressive as Feinberg's account is, What Is Life Worth? suffers from a serious omission: He makes no mention of Trial Lawyers Care (TLC), the ATLA-created program that provided free legal counsel to every fund claimant who requested it. TLC's work for the September 11 survivors was by all accounts the largest pro bono legal aid project in history, with more than 1,100 volunteer lawyers representing over 1,700 families and providing more than $200 million worth of legal services without charge.
Feinberg's omission is especially puzzling considering that he professed to hold TLC in high esteem when he accepted ATLA's Lifetime Achievement Award on July 3, 2004, saying, "Without the support of ATLA and Trial Lawyers Care, there never would have been a victim compensation fund.... I've never, ever been prouder of my profession than [for] what ATLA and Trial Lawyers Care did to make this program a success."
If there are more attacks, will victims be compensated at all, and if so, how? We don't know. We only know that, as Luis Chimbo put it so eloquently, it's a messed-up world, in which "we have to live, whatever the heck life throws at US."
We can hope that life will never again throw at us anything like the terror of September 11--but we always have hopes like that, don't we?
JAMES E. ROOKS JR. is senior counsel for policy research in ATLA's State Affairs Department.
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1st time to join a gym,advise needed
I am joing a gym. I am about 50 pounds overweight. I am healthy eating. I want to lose weight and shape up in general. Where do I start? This gym does not have a trainer. You basically do what you want to do. Can someone tell me a good routine for beginners?
Have you already signed up, or are you just thinking about it?
Here are some tips if you haven't already signed up:
1) Go check out the gym during the time(s) you are most likely to be there, if you like to go after 5 pm on the weekdays (when a lot of people go) you want to make sure that you won't have to wait for a half-hour before you can use your equipment.
2) Check out the cleanliness and condition of the equipment. Are there a lot of "out of order" signs? Are there enough free weights for everyone in a wide range of sizes?
3) Location - is it going to be a pain in the neck to get there? Can you walk from home/work? How about sufficient parking? For many people, if it's too much trouble to go, that is all they need as an excuse NOT to go to the gym.
4) Amenities - is there an adequate locker room/showers? If not, are you willing to go home before cleaning up/changing? If you have children, is there day care on the premises - and if so, is it open at the times you would be there?
5) Staff - you already said there was no personal trainer on the premises. Will they permit you to have an outside trainer come in to work with you? Are there classes (step, Spinning, yoga, kickbox, etc) offered?
Now, as far as a beginner's program, it really depends on the equipment that's available to you. I wholeheartedly recommend the book "Body for Life" by Bill Phillips (you should be able to find it at your local library or pick it up at Barnes & Noble for around $15). Now, I know there are a few BFL "bashers" on this site that say basically it's all a marketing gimmick for EAS. I want to quote a guy on the www.leanandstrong.com forum named George - I couldn't have said this better:
Nobody was a bigger skeptic than I. The first time I logged onto the BFL site and saw the transformations, I said out loud, "There's no way those people did that in 12 weeks!"
What you come to realize is that those are the champions out of thousands of entries. After 8 months, I still don't look like a transformation champion, but I have transformed myself for the better, and I continue to push forward, and that's what the program's really about.
There's no denying that the book serves as an incredible marketing vehicle for EAS. But there's also no denying that it's still a very good book. Don't make the mistake of confusing all the sales bull with the validity of the program.
By the way, I don't use any EAS products as a rule, but the ones I've tried (primarily the Myoplex shakes and various bars) I thought were pretty good. In fact, I think there are a lot of good products on the market by various companies.
Is this the right program for you? I'm convinced anyone--anyone--could get great results with it.
Anyway, hope your gym works out! Take care.
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get to the gym, and do cardio and weight training. trade off every other day if you have to. you should do cardio everyday, for a minimum of 45 minutes. jogging, running, biking, swimming, tae-bo, whatever, just do it. do weight training every other day, do not do every day. when your muscles "heal" from the workout is when they strengthen and get bigger. so there you have it. there are a thousand cardio and weight programs out there if you want, but if you belong to a gym they have cardio/weight classes there, generally for free. and remember to keep it up. they say if you do something for a month it becomes habit, so remember that!!!


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PEARLMAN, LEONARD A Renaissance man whose life's journey was giving plenty of love, laughter and time to family and friends, Leonard Pearlman , a 34-year resident of San Carlos, passed away at age 82 on January 27, 2013. Born in Chicago to Rubin and Esther Pearlman on August 15, 1930, he treasured music, books, puzzles, "Jeopardy," and his beloved Chicago Cubs. Len graduated from Austin High and Herzl College in Chicago. He was a Corporal in the U.S. Army (communications) during the Korean War. Len found his life partner in Natalie Frankel and the couple married in 1955. They had three children, and the family moved to San Diego in 1979. Favorite family vacations were summers at South Haven, Mich. He enjoyed a 35-year career as a salesman at Sears. After retiring, Len delved into community service adventures that would define his life as a loving and tireless volunteer. He logged 17 fulfilling years at The Bookman, a San Diego nonprofit that donates books to schools, shelters and others in need. Len dedicated Friday afternoons to reading books at Soille San Diego Hebrew Day preschoolers. The children called him "Zadie." He entertained hundreds of kids with his charismatic reading style, fun spirit and twinkling hazel eyes. Favorite moments were sitting in his sunroom and reading the U-T and magazines. Sharp-witted with vast knowledge, Len could have been a "Jeopardy" champ. He enjoyed stamp collecting, cutting greenery in the yard, concerts at Balboa Park, and street and music fairs. He also enjoyed puzzles to keep his mind sharp. Len may be most remembered by his unique replacement of "hello" with "0478" when he answered his home phone. He is survived by his daughters Elyse Pearlman of Mountain Home, Idaho; Karen Pearlman of San Diego; and brother-in-law Herb Frankel, of San Diego; 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Natalie; daughter, Sara Leah Overlander; and sister, Helen Pearlman. Services will be held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, January 29th, at Home of Peace in San Diego. Shiva will be sat at the family home following burial.
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Heat oven to 325°F. Combine butter and sugar in large bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Add all remaining cookie ingredients except flour and pecans; continue beating until well mixed. Reduce speed to low; add flour. Beat until well mixed. Stir in pecans .
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This event has passed. View upcoming events.Join us for a screening of "The Lumberjack" (1914), the oldest film shot in Wisconsin that still exists in its original, complete form. Cast with Wausau locals, this 16-minute silent film tells a romantic story set against the backdrop of the city's lumber mills. Musician Dan Larson will provide accompaniment and the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research staff will discuss its restoration.
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As the young, star quarterback of the Super Bowl-winning Seattle Seahawks, Russell Wilson could probably have any woman he wants—but he's been with his wife, Ashton Meem, since high school. She even followed Wilson when he transferred to the University of Wisconsin in 2011 after briefly playing second base—yes, baseball—for the Class A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.
Most importantly, the Wilsons are dog people. They own three pups, including the daschund you can see Meem clutching in this video of her and Wilson celebrating his 2012 draft selection. Just last year, the American Heart Association confirmed the numerous benefits of owning a canine, including lower cholesterol and triglycerides, lower risk of diabetes, and lower blood pressure. What's more, owners of either dogs or cats experience less strain on their hearts when stressed and recover better when the stress is over—surely handy when you're pitted against a Hall-of-Fame QB like Peyton Manning.
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Just when you think Tiger's best days are behind him, he powers his way back on top. A little more than 4 years ago, the world's highest-paid athlete crashed his Escalade after a spat with then-wife Elin Nordegren. Over the next few weeks, as it became clear that Woods had maintained either an embarrassing or impressive—depending on how you want to look at it—amount of extracurricular affairs, the golfer's big-money corporate sponsors like General Motors, AT&T, and Gatorade cut ties. His performance on the green also suffered, then grew even worse, and his ranking plummeted to 58th place by August 2011.
Today, Woods is again the world's top golfer. He's dating 29-year-old skier Lindsey Vonn, who would have been arguably the hottest woman at the 2014 Winter Olympics if a knee injury she suffered last year hadn't kept her out of the competition. And—it almost goes without saying—Woods is still the biggest earner in sports. Marital indiscretions aside, if Woods' raw talent wasn't an inspiration to you before, his comeback should give heart to any man who has faced career or personal setbacks.
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You know those cool Internet services you love like Spotify, Skype, Foursquare, and Airbnb? You have Ashton Kutcher to thank for all of them. The 35-year-old star of Two and a Half Men was an early investor in each of those companies. Although Kutcher won't give specifics on how much he's earned turning his paychecks from one of TV's highest-rated sitcoms into venture capital, some financial sector observers think he made a killing off Skype's $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft in 2011. How does he decide which of the myriad of Silicon Valley startups will prove a sound investment? By following his curiosity. "Things that work on the Internet do a little bit of a magic trick—where you go, 'I don't know how it did that, but I like it.' That's my obsession in life," he told Men's Health last year.
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10. Aaron Paul and Lauren Parsekian
Aaron Paul isn't afraid to publicly gush about Lauren Parsekian, his wife of 9 months. The two-time Emmy award winner for his role on Breaking Bad tweeted that "she is the most incredible person I have ever known," and told People magazine that "All our future children will be lucky to have her as a mother." Take note, guys: That's the kind of endorsement that lets women know you're for real.
9. Robin Thicke and Paula Patton
Singer Robin Thicke has been with his wife Paula Patton for over 2 decades—Thicke was just 16 when he started dating the future star of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Precious. In fact, the "good girl" in his bouncy, sexy breakout hit "Blurred Lines" is actually Patton, Thicke told a British radio program. While "Blurred Lines" is certainly a fun tune, would the song have exploded last summer without its aggressively hashtagged music video featuring Thicke surrounded by hot women? As it turns out, hanging out with platonic, good-looking ladies makes you appear more attractive to other women, according to a study at the University of California. (But we don't suggest asking your female friends to take their tops off to help you meet women.)
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How can you not love a busty, Disney-eyed woman who is as frank about her sexual exploits as Alison Brie? In an essay for Nerve, she listed some of her hookups as "the girl-on-girl action, the crazy threesome with the afros and whips, and the surreal 'shrooms experience where I thought the tree was fondling me but it turned out to be my creepy male roommate with calluses on his hands." Actor Dave Franco—brother of James—would appear to be one lucky guy.
Contrast her open-minded attitude with the buttoned-up characters Brie plays on both Community and Mad Men, and it might get you wondering if your wife or girlfriend is nurturing some secret kinks. Write down every sexual fantasy you can think of, then both of you can go through the list together and mark each one as "yes, no, or maybe" based on your willingness to try the act. Her answers might surprise you.
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As magazine editors, we can't help but feel proud for former ed Romain Dauriac getting hitched to a singular beauty like Scarlett Johansson. The Frenchman, who now runs a creative agency, reportedly met Johansson through a mutual tattoo artist. Despite the fact that Johansson is based out of Los Angeles and Dauriac lives in Paris, the pair made it work and got engaged less than a year after their first date. Maybe we shouldn't be so surprised, since a recent Canadian study found that couples in a long-distance relationship were actually more satisfied than pairs who lived in close proximity, and also experienced both better communication and closer intimacy.
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We were happy to see Jennifer Aniston get engaged to actor and writer Justin Theroux last year. It's not just because they make a gorgeous Hollywood power couple—in addition to appearing in everything from American Psycho to Parks and Recreation, Theroux scripted Tropic Thunder and is reportedly working on Zoolander 2. For too long it seemed like the We're the Millers star—and Hottest Woman of All Time—was known to the entertainment press mainly as the jilted wife that Brad Pitt left for Angelina Jolie. But Jen was hardly alone in taking extra time to find her second spouse. In fact, the number of divorced 25- to 34-year-olds who remarried dropped by 40 percent since 1990, according to a USA Today analysis of census data.
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Meanwhile, Decker has said that he's not bothered by all the guys who message him on Twitter saying, "I want to f--- your wife." "If they said something about her character, I would get mad. But a lot of time, it's something sexual, so it's flattering," Decker told Sports Illustrated. We can't imagine what would possess any man to say that to a 6' 3", 214-pound professional football player. But just think of how many bar fights could be avoided if every guy was that cool about the attention their partner gets.
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4. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have a big brood, including four adopted kids and a pair of twins that arrived in 2008. It's easy to forget that eight is a huge family—less than 3 percent of American households have seven or more people, according to the most recent U.S. Census. But the twice-divorced Jolie and the once-divorced Pitt may be helping their kids maintain stable marriages as adults. A 2013 study from the American Socialogical Association reported that for every sibling a child has, their chances of divorcing a future spouse drop by 2 percent. The researchers believe that growing up with more siblings helps improve your social skills and ability to handle conflict.
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Justin Timberlake is the kind of guy who makes it all look easy: Crafting No. 1 pop hits, clowning around with Jimmy Fallon, being the kind of consistently great SNL host we haven't seen since Steve Martin, and oh yeah, starring in Oscar-nominated flicks like The Social Network and Inside Llewyn Davis. His wife Jessica Biel, meanwhile, has consistently appeared to not age since her breakout role on 7th Heaven in the mid-1990s.
JT recently offered Men's Health some advice on how to recreate his effortless style: Don't be afraid to dress in the latest trends, but always wear one classic item like straight-leg jeans or an oxford shirt to keep you look grounded.
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The reigning royal family of hip hop, music cemented their place as entertainment icons when Beyoncé's new, self-titled album suddenly appeared on iTunes in December. There was no prior warning, no advertising—only a social media buzz that spread like wildfire. It sold 617,000 downloads in the first 3 days, and still ended up 2013's eighth-best selling album after only being on sale for 2 weeks. Husband Jay-Z's album Magna Carta ... Holy Grail, which debuted in July and was backed by a world tour, ended the year two spots behind.
Not every artist can pull off the same kind of sneak attack Beyonce did. But chalk some of that success up to the power of surprise in enhancing pleasure Psychologists have found that people are happier if you surprise them with a small amount of cash than if you give them a bigger chunk of change they were expecting. Which is why even though your wife or girlfriend will be happy if you bring her a bouquet of flowers on Valentine's Day, she'll be absolutely thrilled if you spring them on her literally any other day of the year and say they're "just because."
1. Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde
Before hooking up with former Saturday Night Live star Jason Sudeikis, Olivia Wilde was married for 8 years to an Italian prince. So how does a journeyman comedian from Kansas win out over actual blue-blooded royalty? Probably by using the same wit that won him fame as a standout performer on SNL. "He was so cool, so funny—I was such a fan of his and had always fancied his speed and his intelligence," Wilde told Marie Clarie last year. (It probably doesn't hurt that Sudeikis is a sharp dresser.)
While you probably already know that making a girl laugh can help you appear more attractive in her eyes, a recent study found that the converse is true as well. When Scottish researchers played comedic clips featuring people who varied on the hotness scale, they discovered that the better-looking you are, the funnier you're perceived as by the viewer. Come to think of it, if Olivia Wilde told us a joke, we're pretty sure we'd give her a smile whether it was funny or not.
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