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It might have gone down as just a harmless (if annoying) prank. But unfortunately for Whaley, Park Hills Police Sgt. Richard Webster was working off-duty security detail at the time (must be some high rollers at this bingo hall).
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Provost Mick Smyer joined Bucknell on July 1, 2008. His responsibilities include overseeing academic and student affairs and related programs.
A national expert on aging and its ramifications, Smyer has written and lectured extensively on the topic and before coming to Bucknell was a professor of psychology, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and Associate Vice-President for Research at Boston College.
Most recently co-director of the Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College, Smyer holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in personality and clinical psychology from Duke University.
His research interests include the impact of contexts on individuals' and families' adjustment to aging. His current work focuses on the impact of the workplace and flexible work options for older workers and their family members.
He is co-author of Aging and Mental Health and co-editor of Challenges of an Aging Society: Ethical Dilemmas, Political Issues; Changes in Decision-Making Capacity in Older Adults: Assessment and Intervention; and Aging, Biotechnology and the Future.
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2011 - Redshirt Junior Season
Returned 22 kicks for 17.4 yards per return...Caught 27 passes for 529 yards and five touchdowns...Had a career-long 66-yard return against Jackson State on Sept. 10...Collected 111 return yards in four attempts...Also snagged three passes for 115 yards and one touchdown...Recorded three receptions of 50-plus yards, including a 77-yard snag against UT Martin on Nov. 5...Had four receptions for 152 yards in the victory...Garnered 911 all-purpose yards for the Tigers.
2010 - Redshirt Sophomore Season
Started six-of-nine games for the Big Blue, primarily as a kickoff specialist...Had 16 catches for 211 yards in nine contests...Returned three kickoffs for 72 yards against Jackson State on Sept. 11...Averaged 19.5 yards per kick return in 13 attempts...Returned two punts for 15 yards...Caught one pass for 57 yards against Florida A&M (Sept. 25)...Snagged three passes for 43 yards against Jackson State (Sept. 11)...Recorded a tackle against Southeast Missouri.
2009 - Redshirt Freshman Season
Started 5-of-11 games played...Second on the team in receptions posting 21 catches for 228 yards averaging 10.9 yards per catch...Managed nine carries for 26 yards averaging 2.9 yards per game...Led team in kick return yardage...Registered 15 kick returns for 324 yards averaging 21.6 yards per kick return posting a longest return of 41 yards...Totaled 578 all-purpose yards averaging 52.3 per game...Scored one touchdown...Recorded first career score against UT Martin (11/07/09)...Recorded first career reception against Alabama A&M (John Merritt Classic - 09/05/09) and first career carry against Jackson State (Southern Heritage Classic - 09/12/09) and first career kick return at Southern (09/10/09).
Took a redshirt during the 2008 campaign.
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C4: 1984-1996To The Next Level
Every new Corvette generation, it seems, misses its due date. The arrival of the fourth-generation cars was pushed back so much that GM executives decided to skip the entire '83 model year and launch the C4 as an '84 model. The first Corvette to wear the stamp of Chief Engineer Dave McLellan, the C4 was an immediate hit with buyers and the media, and it achieved several landmark milestones during its 13-model-year run. McLellan and company had, indeed, taken America's favorite sports car to a whole new level.
Evolution vs. Revolution
Motor Trend devoted a big part of its March '83 issue to the brand-new Corvette, and within that special section was an article by Jim Hall describing the car's genesis, a case of evolution versus revolution. Was it finally time to make Zora Arkus-Duntov's revolutionary dream of a mid-engine Corvette a reality, or should the car take an evolutionary approach and retain its front-engine/rear-drive layout?
As far back as 1976, the Corvette engineering group and the Chevy 3 design studio were drafting proposals examining each of those architectures. The designers favored Duntov's dream and worked up a clay model based largely around the Aerovette show car. McLellan and his engineers built a mid-engine mule to study the design using a Porsche 914 platform. They realized packaging constraints would force them to use a V-6 in a mid-engine Vette, and the only engine available at the time was the anemic 2.6-liter six-banger available in the X-cars. It was deemed too expensive to power up that engine with a turbocharger, so the engineering team discarded the mid-engine concept, though the designers held onto the dream for a while longer.
Reportedly it was the introduction of the front-engine/rear-drive Porsche 928 in 1977 that put the final nail in the mid-engine Vette's coffin. At that point the mid-engine concepts became "experimental" vehicles once again, and Chevy 3 was tasked with designing a Corvette with the conventional powertrain layout.
The new car, they were told, had to have more interior room and more cargo capacity, but it had to be shorter overall, have a better firewall-to-axle proportion, and have a lower drag coefficient. Oh, and it had to look like a Corvette. An early rendering, done in October 1978, set down the C4's basic shape, though the car's nose looked a lot like a Firebird's.
It was packaging, in the end, that determined the car's look. To reduce height while not impacting ground clearance, the engineers tucked the exhaust system up into the center tunnel. The windshield pillars were dramatically raked back; and the car's fuel-injected motor was positioned lower in the car, allowing a low hood line. For a while the designers incorporated cooling grilles into the car's nose, but the bottom-feeding radiator didn't need the airflow, so the grilles were replaced with light lenses. A fiberglass model finished in early 1980 was nearly identical to the production version that went on sale in March 1983.
Beneath the skin the C4 was all-new, too. Transverse monoleaf springs were used at both ends of the car, rack-and-pinion steering was fitted, and the independent rear suspension now used five locating links instead of three. The previous year's 350ci Cross-Fire V-8 (now making 205 hp) returned, as did the 700-R4 automatic transmission, though the Vette could now be ordered with a Doug Nash four-speed manual, which earned the "4+3" nickname for the computer-controlled overdrives in the top three gears. A new Z51 performance suspension was available as an option, which helped the car earn near-1g lateral-force figures in skidpad testing.
Inside, the new interior marked the first use of an all-digital display instead of traditional analog gauges. While it looked high-tech at the time, the instrument panel met with decidedly mixed reviews. The '84 Corvette was a big hit. High demand and an extended on-sale period netted sales figures of more than 51,000 units, and the car earned all sorts of media accolades, including Motor Trend's Car of the Year award.
Refinements, Enhancements
Good as the C4 was out of the box, revisions started almost immediately. For the '85 model year, the small-block's Cross-Fire throttle-body injection was replaced by Tuned Port Injection, and the new L98 small-block made 25 more hp, 40 more lb-ft of torque, and got better fuel economy. While the press loved how the new Vette's suspension handled around the skidpad, in the real world customers were complaining about the car's stiff ride. So spring rates were softened for both the stock suspension and the Z51 sport package.
In '86 the Corvette ended its 11-year open-air hiatus with a new convertible model. McLellan had a drop-top in mind when designing the C4, so it didn't take a tremendous amount of extra chassis bracing to make up for the lost roof panel. Antilock brakes became standard equipment aboard the Vette, and aluminum cylinder heads were available as a mid-year addition, adding 5 hp to the L98's output.
For the second time a Corvette paced the Indianapolis 500, and as was the case eight years earlier, the car used for pace duties was essentially bone stock, save for safety gear and strobe lights. In '87 the L98's output rose again, to 240 hp, thanks to a change from traditional hydraulic lifters to roller lifters. New for the year was the Z52 suspension option, a "sport" package that teamed most of the Z51 equipment -- quicker steering, Bilstein shocks, oil cooler, heavy-duty radiator, thicker front sway bar, wider wheels -- with the softer stock springs.
The Corvette celebrated its 35th anniversary in 1988, and Chevrolet marked the occasion with a 35th Anniversary Edition. Some 2,050 coupes got the special treatment, which included white paint, white wheels, white leather upholstery with anniversary embroidery, the Z52 suspension, and other goodies. All '88 Vettes saw improvements to the front suspension and brakes, and some were shod with a new six-slot wheel, which appeared only in this model year.
In '89 the Doug Nash 4+3 manual was replaced by a six-speed ZF gearbox, the infamous "skip shift" transmission. In the interest of fuel economy, this trans was outfitted with what was called Computer-Aided Gear Selection, which forced the driver to shift from First to Fourth if the gear change was made at low speeds or low rpm. Of course, most just revved their Vettes higher before shifting to avoid the annoying First-Fourth change, which didn't help fuel economy at all.
Also in '89 the 17-inch, 12-slot wheels that first appeared on the '88 Z51 and Z52 suspension packages were made standard equipment on all Corvettes, and convertible owners could now order a hardtop option with a glass rear window and fully lined roof.


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I used versions 2.35 and 2.50 with poor results for four years. every now and then the program bugged the DB and it become impossible to register invoices for a specific client. Never had any reaction of their SW team about the issue. Only solution was to fix the DB manually. Since then, I moved over to OpenERP.
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I used versions 2.35 and 2.50 with poor results for four years. every now and then the program bugged the DB and it become impossible to register invoices for a specific client. Never had any reaction of their SW team about the issue. Only solution was to fix the DB manually. Since then, I moved over to OpenERP.
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Our hunger for a weight-loss miracle
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This week: Losing it: Dieting, surgery and pills
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With about two-thirds of American adults overweight or obese, it's no surprise that dieting is our national repast-time.
At any given moment, up to half of all American women (and 25 percent of men) say they are actively attempting to lose weight by changing what and how much they eat.
"The majority of the nation is perpetually dieting, feeling guilty, eating alone, while driving in their cars, etc.," said Andrea Garber, an associate professor of pediatrics and chief nutritionist for UC San Francisco's adolescent eating disorders program and its child obesity clinic. "(Food writer) Michael Pollan calls it 'our national eating disorder.' "
The typical attempt at dieting begins informally and unsupervised: We vow to eat less, to eat better, to cut down on things like sweets and soda. When that doesn't work, we turn to commercial remedies, of which there are many, from Weight Watchers, Atkins and The Zone to South Beach, Dukan and the so-called Paleolithic Diet.
All of these diet regimes operate on the same basic premise: Reduce caloric intake. But simply telling consumers to consume less doesn't sell many books, videos, meal plans, devices and smartphone apps, so commercial diets tend to key upon reducing a particular source of calories — low-fat or low-carbohydrate, say — or how those calories are used by the body.
The Paleo diet, for example, urges practitioners to eat like hominids, though it is quite unlikely that ancestral hunter-gatherers would recognize most modern fare.
Some diets emphasize basic biological aspects or variations in people, such as how food may affect gene activity (nutrigenomics) or differences in individual basal metabolic rates (the amount of energy expended at rest) or blood types.
The science supporting many of these diets is confounding and contradictory. Often, it's dubious. Sometimes, it doesn't exist. Moreover, said Dr. Will Yancy, a professor of medicine and weight-loss researcher at Duke University, no diet works for everyone, every time.
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Yet all commercial diets promise success, despite abundant evidence to suggest most inevitably fall short. They prove unsustainable, for example, or the weight loss is transient. The frequently cited rate of diet failure is 95 percent, though some critics claim it's really higher.
Nature can take some of the blame. While it's relatively easy to lose initial pounds, our bodies eventually push back, adjusting metabolic and cellular activities to resist further weight loss. It's a survival mechanism involving a phenomenon called homeostasis intended to preserve a biological status quo.
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We get inside Ford's overhead cam V-8 engines and show you what to look for when you decide to get Modular with your next project
As vintage Ford enthusiasts, many of us have been slow to embrace Ford's newest engine technology--the 4.6 and 5.4 SOHC and DOHC Modular V-8 engines. We like the familiarity of the small-block Ford, the FE big-blocks, the Cleveland, the 385-series fat-blocks, and even the old Y-block V-8s. We grew up on rocker arms, pushrods, and real iron, and as a result, we've never published much on the Modular V-8 engine family.
But we're into more progressive thinking these days at Mustang & Fords, which is now under the guidance and direction of Editor Mark Houlahan (whose most recent gig was senior technical editor at 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords), so it's time to learn as much as we can about Ford's newest generation of overhead cam V-8 engines. We visited Power Heads/Modular Racing in California for a look at Ford's venerable Modular V-8. We also gave a shout to the Modular fanatics at Ford Racing, Sullivan Performance, and True Blue Performance to answer some of our questions.
The Modular V-8 engine isn't new. It was introduced in the '91 Lincoln Town Car 15 years ago. Then it appeared a year later in the redesigned '92 Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis. In 1994, it was introduced in the Thunderbird and Cougar; in 1996, it debuted in the Mustang GT and SVT Cobra. Early in 1996, the Modular V-8 found its way into the redesigned '97 F-series truck line; after that, the E-series vans, as both a V-8 and a V-10; then, the all-new Super Duty F-250/350, as a V-8 and a V-10.
The Modular V-8 is as deeply entrenched into the Ford psyche' today as our pushrod V-8s were during the '60s and '70s. It is very much at home with Ford performance enthusiasts, and likely here to stay for a long time to come. For 2005, Ford has introduced its newest version of the Mod motor with a three-valve cylinder head and cast-aluminum cam covers. The three-valve head can be found in the all-new '05 Mustang GT on top of the 4.6 short-block, and the '04-'05 5.4 F-150 and Expedition. This head has made a huge difference in low-end torque, making the 4.6 and 5.4 V-8s snappier down low where it counts--at the traffic light.
The Modular V-8 didn't get its name from its design. The name was derived from its manufacturing plant protocol--Modular--because the engine plant can be changed out in a matter of hours to produce different versions of this engine family. That said, the Modular V-8 and V-10 engine family is certainly different from our proven pushrod V-8 engines of yore. for one thing, it is huge, impossible to fit into a classic Mustang or Fairlane without significantly modifying the front end. However, it's a nice fit for the big Fords--the Galaxies and Customs. It's also a comfortable fit for the classic F-series pickups. Sit a 4.6 Mod motor next to a Boss 429, and you will find the 4.6 and 5.4 engines are larger in every respect. They're large, yet small, with displacements of 281 ci and 345 ci, respectively. What makes these engines so large is their wide overhead cam cylinder heads. In this first half of our look into the Modular engine family, we'll get you acquainted with the Modular short-block and its internal nuances. Next month, we'll wrap things up with a look at cylinder heads and induction for the Modular family.
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SOHC Engines
When Ford introduced the 4.6 SOHC V-8 in 1991, it was vastly different than any Ford V-8 we had ever seen; it hardly seemed a Ford powerplant. Yet, like the old FE-series 427, it had block main skirts and cross-bolted main caps for rigidity. And like the 427 SOHC, it had a single overhead cam design and a whole lot of chain, which made it larger. Outside of those two features, the 4.6 SOHC V-8 really was a different engine altogether.
The 4.6 SOHC sports a rigid iron block capable of handling high-rpm operation and channeling a lot of power across its lean looking crankshaft with knife-blade counterweights. From front to rear, the Modular V-8 is shorter than the small-blocks and big-blocks it replaces. From side to side, it's much wider. In full dress, it tends to be heavier, around 600 pounds. It has nothing in common with any of the pushrod V-8s already mentioned. What's more, the Modular V-8 doesn't enjoy the same kind of interchangeability as its predecessors. The Modular engines tend to be different from one plant to another, from one model year to the next, and from one carline to the other. It takes a solid understanding of this engine and its many castings to build it and make power.
When Modular V-8 production began 15 years ago, there was one engine plant: Romeo, Michigan, the old Ford tractor plant outside of Detroit. in 1997, Ford added a second Modular V-8 plant at Windsor, Ontario, to produce 4.6 and 5.4 SOHC engines for primarily trucks. Eventually, the Windsor plant would produce Mod motors for an even greater number of car lines. If may surprise you to know the Windsor engines are considerably different than their Romeo counterparts. Very little interchanges from one plant to the other.
DOHC Engines
In 1993, Ford introduced the 4.6 DOHC engine in the Lincoln Mark VIII. What made the 32-valve Modular V-8 different was its all-aluminum construction. This engine witnessed exclusive use in Lincolns until 1996 when it was then introduced in the SVT Mustang Cobra. The DOHC approach was carried over to the Lincoln Navigator in the late '90s with the 5.4 DOHC V-8 with an iron block and aluminum heads. These DOHC engines make excellent powerhouses for vintage Fords, thanks to their lightweight, cross-bolted main cap design.
This engine is terrific looking for a vintage Ford engine compartment because it is massive, with extra-wide cylinder heads and cam covers. It is right at home in a full-size Galaxie or Marauder, and worthy of engine compartment indigestion in a Mustang or Fairlane.


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This month's story about the fabrication and ergonomics of our Project Unfair's pedals, seat, and steering column takes place back at II Much Fabrication in John Parsons' small shop. --Jim Campisano
With the Coast Chassis Design rollcage installed, Frank Serafine (of Prodigy Customs) and I needed to get the ergonomics of our '69 Camaro in order. Since we've moved the firewall, raised the floor, made a custom transmission tunnel, and installed a rollcage, this is no simple bolt-in deal. Getting all the controls into comfortable reach and incorporating proper safety methods is no easy matter. The relationships between the seat, steering wheel, and pedals are not that obvious and something most of us take for granted when we jump into our factory-built cars. With all the changes to the surfaces in the driver's area, we had to start our positioning of the driver's controls at the beginning.
The pedal/steering wheel/seat arrangement is a bit interdependent, but you have to start somewhere. In general (with an inch or two of tolerance), the most ergonomic performance driving position has the seat back tilted at least 15 degrees, with the steering wheel centered with the seat. The best racing position has the driver's hands at the 9-and-3 position and close enough so that the either arm can be extended over the top of the steering wheel with the wrist resting on the top of the wheel without the shoulders coming away from the seat.
From there, the pedals should be positioned with the brake pedal centered under the column, and the clutch pedal between 4 and 5 inches away (measured from the centers of the pedal pads). It's often more comfortable for the clutch to be an inch or so higher than the brake. We're going to road race this car (a lot!), and that means the throttle needs to be reachable while braking for heel-toe downshifts. That will require the throttle to be within 4 inches of the brake and about midway through the brake pedal's travel. The idea is to be able to blip the throttle with the side of your foot while maintaining threshold braking with the ball of your foot. The brake and clutch pedals should be largely controlled by your legs, while the throttle is controlled by your ankle, which is why the brake and clutch pedals are closer to you than the throttle.
That's a lot of interdependent variables, without even taking driver preferences into play. The chances of getting all this right the first time are pretty slim. Frank and I are about the same height with similar body types, but we still need some adjustability in order for the two of us to be comfortable driving the car. Most factory cars take that into account with adjustable seats, but that's not an option for us since the six-point Schroth Racing harness has very specific mount points. The only solution, since the seat is fixed into place, is to make the pedals adjustable.
We'll be using Cobra Suzuka Pro seats. (The Pro means "middle-aged man" as it is 2 inches wider in the "butt-dyno" area.) The Suzuka is an FIA-approved fixed-back racing seat but uses advanced materials for driver comfort and style. It is also designed for use with a six-point harness. We chose a fixed-back seat since there is no backseat and no need to tilt the seat back forward. It's also smaller and lighter.
The pedal set comes from Wilwood (as do the master cylinders and brakes), though our unique firewall and the need for adjustable pedals means we have to modify their setup somewhat. Only Wilwood has all the various pedal sets and balance bars we needed to get adjustable pedals with perfect ergonomics and their track-proven performance. A balance-bar setup is heavily used for circle track racing because it allows different master cylinders to be used on front and rear brakes with adjustment of the relative pressures between them at each position of the brake pedal. It's a great option for use on the street for the same reason: optimum tuning of master cylinder and caliper piston diameters for each end of the car.


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New science lesson is game changer
In a lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography last week, a crew of multi-eyed monster scientists flew around "Seismic City," helping install sensors to record aftershocks of a big quake.
The cartoon monsters were avatars for real-life Scripps seismologist Debi Kilb and her team of computer programmers and graduate students, who aim to introduce kids to the field of seismology through fun and video games.
"How do we put curiosity back into science?" Kilb, a nationally recognized earthquake expert, asked in a community lecture in December. "I think one way is through video games. Ninety-four percent of 7- to 17-year-olds play video games. If they're that invested in that technology, we need to leverage that."
Kilb is not alone. The National Science Foundation funds educational gaming applications, the White House Office of Science and Technology has tasked a policy analyst with exploring academic gaming, and commercial game manufacturers are tackling markets for academic and corporate training.
"There's a significant amount going on globally, as it relates to using gaming systems or methodologies to improve student achievement," said Shawn Gross, director of technology and innovation for the University of San Diego's Mobile Technology Learning Center.
The catch is creating games exciting enough to capture students' attention, and informative enough to convey academic content.
"If you can get a student to that level, where they're so sucked in and engaged, and their entertainment senses are so tapped, that they don't even realize that their education senses are involved, that's the Holy Grail," Gross said.
Kilb's team took up that quest at Scripps as part of a summer internship program.
With funding including a $234,000, two-year grant from the National Science Foundation, her team of interns, a cartoonist and programmer designed the Quake Catcher Network game, which dispatches seismological assistants to monitor a virtual quake.
Using the hands-free Xbox Kinect device, players complete a series of mini-games in order to install seismic sensors and earn points, while learning about earth science and quake safety.
They're guided by a squad of neon-colored cartoon scientists, sporting three to six eyes, and hands growing from their heads, which Kilb called "zany" although she admitted that "some people think the characters are creepy."
An earlier Scripps game, Deep-sea Extreme Environment Pilot, or DEEP, simulates marine exploration on the Xbox device, with players earning points for the number of research samples they collect, and the exotic undersea creatures they photograph.
The game designers are expanding and fine-tuning the graphics, text and game features in response to testing by local kids. They hope to add footage from director James Cameron's expedition to the Mariana Trench to the DEEP game and enlist teen actors from a local high school for voice-overs.
Guiding a new player through the DEEP game, computer programmer Daniel Rohrlick offered a tour of the virtual environment.
"See that shimmer?" he asked "That's what happens when the cold water hits hot water, and it was really, really hard to program in. So enjoy!"
As the player neared a scorching thermal vent to take rock samples, Rohrlick warned of the hazards.


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MEA and AFT-Michigan form formal partnership to advocate for students and education employees
In an effort to protect and strengthen public education in Michigan, the Michigan Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers-Michigan have formed a formal partnership, leaders of both unions announced Tuesday.
MEA and AFT-Michigan are the state's two largest organizations representing teachers, education support professionals and higher education employees. Combined, the two unions represent about 185,000 preK-16 education employees in all corners of the state.
The partnership is not a merger, but rather an agreement to advocate together on behalf of teachers, education support professionals, higher-education employees, students and families.
"Working together, we can improve learning conditions for students by helping to ensure our schools get the resources they need, as well as making sure education employees are treated as valued professionals," MEA President Steven Cook said.
The partnership comes as funding for Michigan's public schools, colleges and universities is being cut — all for the benefit of big corporations.
"At a time when public preK-16 education is under attack, it's critical that advocates for good public schools stand together and provide a strong voice for students, education employees and parents — and that's why MEA and AFT-Michigan have formed this important partnership," AFT-Michigan President David Hecker said.


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The combinations shown in a sail-plan almost always include three configurations:
A light air sail plan. Over most of the Earth, most of the time, the wind force is Force 1 or less. Thus a sail plan should include a set of huge, lightweight sails that will keep the ship underway in light breezes.
A working sail plan. This is the set of sails that are changed rapidly in variable conditions. They are much stronger than the light air sails, but still lightweight. An economical sail in this set will include several sets of reefing ties, so the area of the sail can be reduced in a stronger wind.
A storm sail plan. This is the set of very small, very rugged sails flown in a gale, to keep the vessel under way and in control.
In all sail plans, the architect attempts to balance the force of the sails against the drag of the underwater keel in such a way that the vessel naturally points into the wind. In this way, if control is lost, the vessel will avoid broaching (turning edge-to-the wind), and being beaten by breaking waves. Broaching always causes uncomfortable motion, and in a storm, the breaking waves can destroy a lightly-built boat.
The architect also tries to balance the wind force on each sail plan against a range of loads and ballast. The calculation assures that the sail will not knock the vessel sideways with its mast in the water, a capsize and possible sinking.
In English, thanks to the British Admiralty, all sail-plans call a sail by the same name, no matter what their sail-plan. Once a sail is named, its lines have standard names according to their use. Once a sailor learns the standard names for the sails, he knows the terms for all the parts on any sail-plan.
A sail plan is made by combining just a few basic types of sails:
Sails were classically made of hemp or cotton. They are now made from polyesters (Dacron and PET film), sometimes reinforced with crystalline hydrocarbons (Kevlar and Spectra). Some large, lightweight sails are made of polyamides (nylon).
Ropes descriptions are:
Ropes were classically made of manila, cotton, hemp, or jute; papyrus (in ancient Egypt) and coir have also been seen. They are now made of stainless steel (301), galvanized steel, polyester (Dacron), polyamides (nylon), and sometimes crystallized hydrocarbons (Kevlar and Spectra).
The standard terminology assumes three masts, from front to back, the fore-mast, main-mast and mizzen-mast. On ships with fewer than three masts, the tallest is the main-mast. Ships with more masts number them. Some barks (see below) have had as many as twelve masts.
The heights of the sails on a square-rigged vessel are named roughly after the bravery of the man needed to work on each, except the skysail ("skys'l"). From bottom to top, the sails of each mast are named by the mast and position on the mast, e.g. for the mainmast, from lowest to highest: main course, main topsail, main topgallant ("t'gallant"), main royal, and main skysail. Since the early twentieth century, the topsails and topgallants are often split into a lower and an upper sail to allow them to be more easily handled.
On many warships, sails above the fighting top (a platform just above the lowest sail on which snipers were positioned) were mounted on separate masts ("topmasts" or "topgallant masts") held in wooden sockets called "tabernacles". These masts and their stays could be rigged or struck as the weather and tactical situation demanded.
In light breezes, the working square sails would be supplemented by studding sails ("stuns'l") out on the ends of the yardarms. These were called as a regular sail, with the addition of "studding". For example, the main top studding sail.
The staysails between the masts are named from the sail immediately below the highest attachment point of the stay holding up the staysail. Thus, the mizzen topgallant staysail can be found dangling from the stay leading from above the mizzen (third) mast's topgallant sail to some place (usually two sails down) on the second (main) mast.
The jibs, staysails between the first mast and the bowsprit, were named (in order of distance along the bowsprit) fore topmast staysail (or foretop stay), inner jib, outer jib and flying jib. All of the jib's stays meet the foremast just above the fore topgallant. Unusually, a fore royal staysail may also be set.
The stays below a bowsprit are martingales, and those above it bracing the bowsprit are bobstays. The martingales are often the strongest stays on a ship, and often constructed of chain. The pole hanging vertically down from the bowsprit is called the "dolphin striker".
The stays on a ship roughly form hoops of tension holding the masts up against the wind. Many ships have been "tuned" by tightening the rigging in one area, and loosening it in others. The tuning can create most of the stress on the stays in some ships. This was a common emergency procedure on sailing warships.
Almost every type of tall ship had a gaff-sail on the mizzenmast, and called it the spanker. This would sometimes be split into lower and upper spankers.
A ship would fly its ensign and anchor light off a drop line from the spanker's gaff.
Sailboat types may be distinguished by:
Every sail-plan has maximum dimensions. These maxima are for the largest sail possible and they are defined by a letter abbreviation.


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Working in Brooklyn: Artists Books
- Dates: February 3, 2000 through May 7, 2000
- Collections: Contemporary Art
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February 2000: Artists Books, part of the Working in Brooklyn exhibition series, will present fifty books made in the 1990s by Brooklyn-based artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Doug Beube, and Janet Zweig. The exhibition, which opens at the Brooklyn Museum of Art on February 4, 2000, provides a rare opportunity to view unlimited and limited editions, unique books, and sculptural bookworks together. The exhibition, the BMA's first to examine the art of the book, will close on April 16.
Book multiples, unlimited or open editions of an artist book, will be featured on a library reading table for the public to hold and enjoy. Such works include Peggy Doody's A Very Famous Artist in a Williamsburg Studio Tour and Janet Zweig's classic flip book Sheherezade. Limited edition works, such as Meg Belichick's Miss Gowanus, and unique books, like Doug Beube's Portrait of a Virus, will be on view in display cases. The exhibition will also feature collaborative works such as I know where I'm going, a velvet-bound work resembling a family album by artists Ruth Lingen and Lois Lane. Other works include Louise Bourgeois's interpretation of Arthur Miller's Homely Girl, A Life and Gazelle in the Donkey Stable, a work inspired by the Persian poet Rumi featuring etchings by Brooklyn artist Aleksandar Duravcevic.
In conjunction with the exhibition, two books have been published and will be available for purchase at the Museum. The first is an exhibition checklist, designed by Stacy Wakefield of Evil Twin Publications in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This book is based on a still innovative 1926 BMA catalogue, which was designed by Katharine Dreier and Constantin Alajalov. The second book, B, was created by nine students in "Art of the Book", a course given in the Communication Design BFA Program at Pratt Institute by Professor Werner Pfeiffer. This limited edition, titled B for both Brooklyn and book, explores the borough through snapshots, samples of ethnic foods, and even soil samples from various neighborhoods.
Artists Books is made possible by a generous grant from AT&T. Deirdre Lawrence, Principal Librarian and Coordinator of Research Services at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, is the curator of this exhibition.
Additional artists books may be viewed at Pratt Institute's Library and the Salena Gallery at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus for the duration of the Artists Books exhibition at the BMA.
In conjunction with the exhibition Artists Books, the Museum will be presenting a series of public programs. All programs are free with Museum admission.
Sunday, February 27, 2000, at 2 p.m.
Artist Talk with Janet Zweig
Lobby Gallery
Sunday, March 5, 2000, at 3 p.m.
Curator Talk
Deirdre Lawrence
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Lobby Gallery
Sunday, March 19, 2000, at 2 p.m.
Gallery Talk
Christopher Wilde of Booklyn, an artists book collective in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Sunday, March 26, 2000, at 3 p.m.
Performance and Talk by Susan Share
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium
April 9, 2000, at 3 p.m.
Gallery Talk
Vincent FitzGerald, publisher, and Alexsandar Duravcevic, artist, will speak about book collaboration.
For more information about public programs at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, call the Education Division, (718) 638-5000, ext. 230.
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Mighty Puundragon wrote:I would say I believe that there are things out there that cannot be explained and ghosts could be the answer. I have never seen one or not seen one myself. But not seeing is still believing. If you believe in the man on the lower case "t", who rose from the dead to spread the message of Zombie love and compassion, you have to believe in ghosts.
However after watching the first four seasons of Ghost Hunters I would write that orb off as a bug or some other particle that caught the light of the flash on the camera. The scale compared to the tower, it appears to be really close to the camera. You may not have noticed a bug but many are very reflective.
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Dana White confirms UFC is developing universal uniforms for all fighters to wear
It may soon be time to say goodbye to fighters in Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) wearing different brands of gear when entering the Octagon, as UFC President Dana White confirmed on Thursday that the promotion is developing a standard uniform that all fighters will wear.
I cannot imagine an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event without Affliction shirts or Dynamic Fastener logos, but according to UFC President Dana White, the promotion is currently developing an official UFC uniform that all fighters would have to wear during an event.
Yes, really.
Sources speaking anonymously told Bleacher Report that the proposed plan -- while not yet a done deal -- would be carried out by a major sports apparel company and would feature a full get-up that includes universal fight shorts, walkout shirts, and hats.
On the UFC-approved garments, spots would be available for a fighter's camp to go out and earn their own sponsorships, but the most visible logos would be from UFC and the chosen brand producer.
White has promised in the past to rectify the mixed martial arts (MMA) sponsorship problem, highlighted in recent events by instances of Cody McKenzie and Mac Danzig's infamous plain white shorts that were worn at UFC on FOX 9.


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Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) - The San Diego Padres recalled pitcher Jesse Hahn from Triple-A El Paso to start Friday's game against the Atlanta Braves.
Hahn made his MLB debut on June 3 against the Pirates, giving up four runs in 3 2/3 innings.
The 24-year-old righty is 5-2 with a 2.21 ERA in seven starts for the Padres this season.
The Padres optioned infielder Jace Peterson to El Paso after Thursday's game against the Chicago Cubs to open a roster spot for Hahn.


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About 170 properties on block for county's annual sale March 13
Unpaid taxes, penalties, fees owed on homes up for auction
After his Wildcat Canyon home 2,000 feet above sea level was destroyed in the 2003 wildfires, Joe Law hoped to rebuild and continue relishing the sweeping view that stretched all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
But a series of other misfortunes befell him, and the nearly 30-acre property is set to be sold during the county's annual tax-default auction on March 13.
"It's become like a black hole," Law said of the property, which once housed a workshop and an outbuilding that was the headquarters of a home-based business. "But after this amount of time, the only way I could keep it is if I won the lottery or something. As much as I would love to get back up there, trying to keep it would be just throwing money at property that I can't afford and I'm not living on."
The minimum bid for Law's property is $101,700, about half of its assessed value.
That site is one of nearly 170 properties set to go to the highest bidder, providing full payment is made within a month. Altogether, they account for more than $4 million in unpaid taxes, penalties and fees. State law gives counties the authority to sell any or portions of properties that have been in tax default for at least five years.
Sixty-five of this year's properties have a home or structure of some kind. The standout example, and the property with the highest minimum bid, is an unoccupied manse at 17452 Highlander Drive in Ramona that starts at $526,000 but is assessed at twice that amount.
"It's a single-family home and we have tried and tried to reach the people," said county Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister. "It looks like an elegant, regal building and there must be a contractor involved, but no one has stepped forward."
The lowest starting bid for a property with a building of some kind is $4,400 — at 2428 Bass Road in Campo.
The remaining properties have no structures, including a parcel on Broadway in Borrego Springs that has this year's lowest minimum bid at $1,000.
Owners still have time to get their properties off the list. The deadline is 5 p.m. March 12.
"We go to great extents to mail notices, post the property and have face-to-face visits," McAllister said. "We bend over backward to try and work with people. If someone has fallen on difficult times, we can work out a payment plan."
The process starts each May, when mail notices go out. Notices about the delinquency list are published in newspapers before the county Board of Supervisors grants approval for each year's sale.
The auction has drawn 500 or more bidders in recent years, including people who form partnerships with the goal of picking up property at a decent price, making some improvements and turning it for a healthy profit.
McAllister urges prospective buyers to exercise caution. Bidders should do their homework, he said, including checking with title companies and the assessor's office. There could be liens or outstanding claims.


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A super moist zucchini bread loaded with chocolate chips in every bite. I used a whole wheat blend and lots of apple sauce and the results were moist and delicious.
It took a few tries to get this one perfect, but it was so worth it in the end. Everyone loved this from my one year old to my husband who couldn't get enough of it. Give this a try, I'm sure you'll agree, a perfect way to get your kids to eat zucchini!
Low-Fat Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 16 • Serving Size: 1 slice • Old Points: 3 pts • Points+: 4 pts
Calories: 147.5 • Fat: 4.1 g • Protein: 2.2 g • Carb: 29.9 g • Fiber: 1.7 g Sugar: 17 g Sodium: 186.5 mg
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Servings: 12 • Size: 1 muffin • Old Points: 3 pts • Points+: 5 pts
Calories: 175.6 • Fat: 5.7 g • Protein: 3.4 g • Carb: 31.9 g • Fiber: 3.2 g • Sugar: 15.5 g
Sodium: 248.4 mg
- 1 cup all purpose flour (I used unbleached)
- 1 cup white whole wheat flour (regular whole wheat flour would work)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar (not packed)
- 1-1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 2 tbsp melted butter
- 1 cup apple sauce
- 1-1/2 cups shredded zucchini (not packed)
Preheat oven to 325°.
Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Mix well.
Add chocolate chips and gently mix to combine.
In a medium bowl, mix egg, vanilla, melted butter, apple sauce and zucchini. Add to the flour mixture and stir until just blended.
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Dr. Christopher Leskiw
Associate Professor of Political Science
Dr. Christopher Leskiw attended Niagara University and earned a B.A. in Political Science, Summa Cum Laude, in 1997. He attended Vanderbilt University where he was awarded an M.A. in Political Science, followed by a Ph.D. in Political Science in 2002.
Since joining the UC faculty in 2004, he was awarded the Faculty Excellence Award in 2008, The William T. Miles Community Service Award in 2008, and was the "Honored Professor 2007-2008" as selected by the Student Government Organization.
His research interests focus on American Foreign policy as well as the role of culture in politics and decision making.
Courses Taught
• American Foreign Policy
• Introduction to International Relations
• Introduction to Political Science
• International Law
• International Organizations
• Law and Legal Education
• Model United Nations
• Developing Democracies
• Comparative Government
• Modern Political Ideologies
• American National Government (online)
• Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
• Foreign Policy Decision Making (grad. online)
• Methods and Materials of Social Studies
Conference Presentations
Panel Discussant: Comparative Paper Panel at the Kentucky Political Science Association 48th Annual Meeting March 6th & 7th 2009. University of Louisville
"When Friends are Foes: Alliance Behavior and Interstate War," (with John Vasquez and Paul Senese), presented at the Annual International Studies Association Convention, March 17-22, 2004, Montreal, Canada.
"Building Bridges: Intergovernmental Organizations and the Development of Interstate Rivalry," (with Brandon Valeriano) presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 27-September 1, 2003, Philadelphia, PA.
"International Organizations and Interstate Conflict," presented at the Annual International Studies Association Convention, March 24-27, 2002, New Orleans, LA
"The Weight of Issues: Revisionist Claims and International Conflict," presented at the annual Peace Science Society (International) Meeting, October 26-28, 2001. Emory University, Georgia
"Shadows of the Past: Construction of an Index that Measures Escalation of Intensity Between Recurrent Disputes," Presented at the International Studies Association 2000 Convention, March 14-18, Los Angeles, California
"IGO Membership as an Element of System Structure," (with Meredith Reid Sarkees) Presented at the annual Peace Science Society (International) Meeting, November 1997, Indianapolis, Indiana
Television and Print Media
"The Status of the Surge in Iraq" A roundtable discussion on Kentucky Tonight; an. Emmy-award winning statewide public affairs program on Kentucky's PBS affiliate, KET 1. May 28, 2007
"Greater U.N. Presence Would Help U.S. in Iraq" Op-Ed article in the Lexington Herald-Leader on October 16, 2006
"The War in Iraq" A roundtable discussion and call in show. Kentucky Tonight; an Emmy-award winning statewide public affairs program on Kentucky's PBS affiliate, KET 1. July 3, 2006
Campus Presentations
"My walk with Mountain Outreach" Campus Ministries Upperclassman Convocation, January 26, 2009. Gatliff Chapel, University of the Cumberlands.
"Health Care Reform" Debate with Dr. Michael Dickman, sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, Convocation Make-up Lecture. October 27, 2009, University of the Cumberlands.
"The Politics of Food Distribution" a discussion. Critical Thinking Series: Center for Teaching and Learning. February, 2009, University of the Cumberlands.
"Mountain Outreach Semester Projects" Campus Ministries Upperclassman Convocation, January, 2009. Gatliff Chapel, University of the Cumberlands.
"Iraq: A discussion of American Foreign Policy" Debate with Dr. Bruce Hicks, sponsored by the College Republicans, March 11, 2008. Gatliff Chapel, University of the Cumberlands
"Is Mountain Outreach for me?" Campus Ministries Upperclassman Convocation, January 23, 2008. Gatliff Chapel, University of the Cumberlands.
"US Foreign Policy Toward Cuba" The 2007 Claude Pepper Oratory Competition, judge and commentator. February 22, 2007. University of the Cumberlands.
"Improving Student Involvement Using Debates in Class", presentation and discussion. Center for Teaching and Learning. October 4, 2006. University of the Cumberlands.
"Stolen Childhoods" Film and faculty discussion. Center for Teaching and Learning. March 1, 2006. University of the Cumberlands.
"Over the Falls Without A Barrel? The Bush Doctrine and the Post 9/11 World" Phi Alpha Theta, Convocation Lecture. April 12, 2005. Cumberland College.
Faculty Research Fellowship from the Appalachian College Association (ACA) 2010-2011 (with Eric Stephens).
Faculty Excellence Award 2008
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Oh ho ho boy did Mitt Romney step in it now!
Oh man! Did you get that? He wants to hang Barack Obama....from a tree....while wearing starched bed sheets. Yup, that's what he said!
Orwell.....I mean....Or, well, what I mean is I saw this Huffington Post story, and then I saw these tweets posted at Legal Insurrection, then I put 2 and 2 together and kept coming up with 5....which is how it felt...and 4 out of 5 public school teachers can't be wrong!
I'm not surprised by this at all, he hails from Massachusetts a state that gave us Barney Frank. That guy is so racist that when picking a minority status he decided he'd rather be gay.
So here's my modest proposal, lets just completely destroy the word "hang." By "lets" I mean "me." You don't even have to do anything. I plan on doing it singlehandedly by taking the following:
In There
Don't Leave Me
By my count that is 12 terms or parts of words/terms that use "hang" or "hanging" in it. I'm going to adopt 12 black children from Africa, and each of them are going to be named one of these 12 terms. Then, anytime anyone uses the "harmless" (but WE know better) slang they are associated with I'm going to make them regret they were ever born...because I'm going to tweet about it.
Am I overreacting to this? Um, no! I think Mitt Romney is under-reacting to his racist tendencies. Remember people, denial is the first sign you have a problem, and Mitt has only admitted (clearly) that he is sensitive to how people might perceive his problem.
Oh, by the way, don't worry about me actually getting 12 African kids, I've been searching for a long time for an excuse to wear take this shirt there...
See Mitt? There's a silver lining in every cloud!
Man, this post would give me Greek philosopher status, if only this were a liberal blog. Alas, I'm not a card carrying member of the Pee Wee Herman "I know you are but what am I" wing of American politics.
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Half black, half white, his heart is in Europe and everything about him stinks.....
If you don't see it click the image for the reveal :-)
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So THIS is how he was going to get out of it...
Real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump unleashed an f-bomb-laced attack on President Obama and Washington politics Thursday night during a speech that likely won't help him win the family-values vote should he decide to run for president.
More at Fox News
Remember the fit we had when Biden dropped one? I repeat...ONE f-bomb! And he's just the punch in the face that's supposed to make us forget how crappy Obama is.
This display of asshattery is a clear sign that he is trying to whip people up and suddenly look infinitely (and intentionally) undesirable to even the most glassy eyed Trump stumpers out there.
This is the exit stage left he needs to quell the cynics who always see through the fact that this man never does anything that doesn't promote something that's tattooed Trump. He made waves about Obama to help himself.
Could I be wrong about all of this, you betcha! But do you think McDonald's employees get hired dropping f-bombs in their interviews?
The only mitigating factor in this is that he called our leaders "stupid." Yeah, he might as well have said water is wet. But that does help keep his potential street team tethered to him.
Also, I'm no English major, but if he includes Biden in that statement then I'm pretty sure that's a double negative, and he should be thrown in grammar jail. Maybe even solitary confinement, so he and that hair of his can think about the ridiculousness of what they've done.
And if there's any time left after that he can dwell on the double negative stuff too.Add a comment
I haven't done any Haikus in a while, so why not pick a topic I couldn't care less about?
The Royal Wedding
Obama didn't go 'cuz
Tee time, not tea time
FLOTUS couldn't go
She didn't care to because
It wasn't in Spain
Is it just me or
The Queen makes Barney Frank's best
Halloween costume
William has his bride!
Yeah yeah so when does Prince Charles
Get to be the King?
Will and Catherine
The only Royals I care for?
Try Kansas City
This is a real gem of a find....econstories.tv
It's a rappers duel over economic theory...and it's sort of awesome/genius.
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Now that the birth certificate has been lifted from his shoulders what can the president tackle next?
10. Even though it has been shown to all, he still needs to read it out loud to the last remaining skeptic, Vice President Biden.
9. Now that he's convinced most people birth certificate is real, and his citizenship is real, he can devote his energy exclusively to faking his patriotism.
8. Establish a Facebook "Can Obama's birth certificate score more points than his jump shot?" page.
7. Work on damage control with despondent liberals who thought birth certificates can't be given to divinity.
6. "Ok , Israel, I showed you mine, now you show me your right to be here, or so help me All......ahhhhhhhhhhahahaha.....ha.......oopsie!"
5. Prove Michelle is qualified to combat childhood obesity by disclosing her artificial butt implants to the right-wing Girther movement.
4. Conduct a scientific study to determine to what degree did birthers cause global warming.
3. It doesn't matter how much Trump asks, the only proof of a college education Obama will be willing to show anyone is his handling of the economy.
2. Send a "thank you" gift basket to Adobe.
1. Direct his staffers to start Photoshopping his budget.Add a comment
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Here's another fantastic video from Oliver Darcy, the man behind the video shared here showing students refusing to allow their higher GPA's to be redistributed to student who need them.
Now he poses the question if GOP spending cuts are out of the question would they be willing to simply pay their share of the national debt and be done with it?
The reactions are typical of liberals, but when he asks them what we should do to bring down the debt the answers are astounding.
"It's not my debt"
Wow. It actually kind of is. Their side created the entitlements that have led us not only to this point, but also to tens of trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities. It's their side that is doing the same thing at the state level promising the world to public employee unions.
These liberals are voting for the politicians who are making those dominos fall, and its not their f**king debt?!? Public debt belongs to ALL OF US!
I apologize for using profanity this post, I know I've used it a lot in other posts too, yet I rarely seek forgivness for saying "liberal."
I know their response to this...we saw it with that one goony looking kid who said we should "fix" the debt by gutting military spending and then transfer it to "social welfare." How THAT fixes the debt will be something I leave to science fiction, but it belies the point that they think the tens of trillions we owe in social welfare can simply be offset by taxing the rich (whose net worth can't even cover the deficit), and eliminating the military (which doesn't make sense if they just want to put that money in to social programs that will be disbanded with the rest of the nation the second the world figures out we no longer have a way to defend ourselves).
Remember, these people think THEY are the smart ones.Add a comment
I kind of didn't want to get into the issue because the rest of the world has been going on and on about it, but people really do care about Obama's birth certificate.
It ceased being a fringe issue because even people like Donald Trump were starting to wonder, three years later, why Obama had this keep-away-like-a-school-yard-bully attitude about it. Now everyone wants to know why it took him so long to release it.
Is that really a mystery? The man is a narcissistic a-hole who thought the birthers could be made into kooks who would only get crazier the longer he ignored them.
He finally had to blink because the honeymoon for him was over, and he finally figured it out. Even his own reflection doesn't approve of the job he's doing. Just like in any relationship, familiarity with someone brings a heightened sense of awareness of their flaws. Yet, he wants us to think that he released it because we're being distracted by "sideshows."
Sideshows? SIDESHOWS?!? This man's entire presidency has been a big circus of political freakishness, his birth certificate was just the opening act...
The insistance to add a trillion dollar entitlement to our fiscal house of cards when people wanted a focus on the economy.
The vacations and golfing during times of crisis.
The constant humiliation of Israel, our ONLY real friend in the middle east.
The hypocritical lectures on shared sacrifice while his wife vacations on our dime.
The insistance on a civilian trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City.
His support for a mosque called Cordoba House (until people caught on and they had to change the name to Park 51), a word symbolic of Muslim conquest, blocks away from Ground Zero.
After two years of seeing this guy be aloof to the things Americans actually care about, the royal "we" (conservatives knew all along) have started to wonder whose side this real American idiot is really on.
People see the crap he's done and the idiotic positions that he takes, and they see how nothing in the country has improved. They're not even seeing a hint that it might improve. In fact, they see tangible evidence that the age of America is over, and the doubt planted 3 years ago begins to understandibly take root.
Our narcissist-in-chief lived in a bubble of media love for so long he began to overestimate the patience the American people have for even the leaders they like.
While I sincerely hope this ends the issue for birthers it must be pointed out that it didn't have to come to this. Then again, President Obama's hubris couldn't really allow him to handle this debacle any differently.Add a comment
Hmmm...what does the "C" stand for?
Unlike other golf leagues, the handicap system in the CGA is really simple:
Other rules include:
Use of the term "mulligan" is prohibited because President Obama has called dibs on it as his official 2012 campaign slogan
The CPA is a green-friendly league that is constantly making efforts to have as minimal a carbon footprint as possible. As such, all golf carts are fueled by pedal power.
For transportation from hole to hole the president gets to use a special golf cart popularly known as Air Force One
Per the first lady's instructions, all grass captured from the lawnmowers is recycled so it can be served in the nation's school cafeterias
Because "sand trap" may be offensive to middle east Muslims, they will be referred to as an "oasis of jihad"
Membership includes an iPod filled with recordings of pep talks the President has gives to his golf clubs