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Johnny Damon
From Wikipedia
- Position(s):
- Nicknames:
- Caveman
- Born:
- November 5, 1973
- Bats:
- Left
- Throws:
- Left
- Height:
- 6' 2"
- Weight:
- 205 lbs
- Major League Debut:
- 8-12-1995 with KCA
"We're just a bunch of crazy idiots!" — on the carefree and flaky Red Sox clubhouse
He made his major league debut in 1995 with the Kansas City Royals. From 2000–2008, he was third among active players in runs (1008) and seventh in hits (2571) and stolen bases (252). He is currently second among active leaders in triples with 100, five behind Carl Crawford. Active Leaders & Records for Triples. He is also sixth among active players in career hits with over 2,500.
Early years
Damon was born in Fort Riley, Kansas, an army base in Kansas. His mother, Yome, is from [[Thailand]] and his father, Jimmy, is American of [[Europe]]an descent. They met while his father, a [[Staff Sergeant]] in the [[United States Army]], was stationed in Thailand. Damon spent much of his early childhood as an "[[Military brat (U.S. subculture)|army brat]]," moving to several bases from Okinawa, Japan, to West Germany before his father left the Army and settled the family in the [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] area while Damon was still a pre-schooler.[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198934/bio Johnny Damon - Biography] [[Internet Movie Database]]
Damon was a quiet child, largely on account of a stuttering problem. "My thoughts just raced ahead of my tongue," says Damon of his problem then. "I'd sing songs as therapy, and I got better, but I just kept quiet most of the time." Damon attended [[Dr. Phillips High School]] in [[Orlando, Florida]] when during his senior year in 1992, he was rated the top high school prospect in the country by ''[[Baseball America]]'', was named to [[USA Today]]'s High School All-America team, and was the Florida [[Gatorade]] Player of the Year. Damon also played football in high school, once getting hit by [[Warren Sapp]] and sustaining the first concussion in his life.
Playing career
Kansas City Royals
Damon was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the first round (35th overall) of the 1992 amateur draft. He made his Major League debut on August 12, 1995. He played for the Royals from 1995 to 2000. He scored 104 runs in 1998 and 101 runs in 1999. His best season came in 2000 when he led the American League in runs with 136 and stolen bases with 46.
Oakland Athletics
Damon spent 2001 with the Oakland Athletics. In a three-way trade involving the A's, Royals, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the A's received Damon along with pitcher Cory Lidle from the Devil Rays and second baseman Mark Ellis from the Royals. He was third in the league in at bats (644) and seventh in runs (108).
Boston Red Sox
Damon signed a four-year, $31 million contract with the [[Boston Red Sox]] on December 21, 2001.
In 2002 Damon led the league in triples (11), and was 3rd in infield hits (25). He became the first player selected by the fans in the inaugural American League All-Star Final Vote.
On June 27, 2003, Damon became only the second major leaguer since 1900 to record three base hits in an inning, when he did so against the Florida Marlins. Also, Damon suffered a head on collision with Damian Jackson. He had a concussion, while Jackson walked off the field fine in the ALDS.
In 2004, he was 2nd in the league in runs (123). Damon began to re-establish himself among the premier lead-off hitters and center fielders in the game. In arguably his best season in the Major Leagues, Damon batted .304 with 20 home runs and 94 RBIs, and showed improved patience at the plate. According to Damon's autobiography, he was only the 4th leadoff batter in the history of Major League Baseball to drive in more than 90 runs in a season. He was also a key player in helping the Boston Red Sox erase their eighty-six year Curse of the Bambino. In game seven of the 2004 ALCS he hit two home runs, one a game-clinching grand slam, to lead the Red Sox to victory over the Yankees. In the World Series he also hit a home run as Boston swept the St. Louis Cardinals.
Through his 4-year career with the Red Sox (2002–2005), Damon appeared in 597 games (590 in center field and seven as a designated hitter) and hit 56 home runs. Of his 2476 at bats, 2259 were as leadoff hitter. Damon batted 2nd in the lineup for 156 at bats in 2002, accounting for nearly all of the rest except for occasional pinch hit. He started two games as the #3 hitter in 2004. In 2005, he had 624 at bats, and all but three leading off. He also earned his 2nd All-Star selection, starting as the American League's center fielder. He led the AL with 35 infield hits, and matched the 35 doubles he'd hit in 2004.
New York Yankees
On December 20, 2005, Damon signed a four-year, $52 million contract with the New York Yankees. The Red Sox stood firm on a three-year contract and chose not to negotiate against a five-year deal proposed by agent Scott Boras. With the Yankees limited time offer and Boston general manager Theo Epstein's sudden resignation, Boras urgently attempted to contact team president Larry Luchino after failing to hear from the new co-general managers, but the Red Sox stood firm on their three-year offer.
Damon's signing with the Yankees led to his being subsequently vilified by many Red Sox fans because of his previously professed loyalty to the city and Red Sox organization, including his now infamous statement in May, 2005, where he claimed, "There's no way I can go play for the Yankees, but I know they're going to come after me hard. It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need."
As the Yankees have a strict dress code for players forbidding both long hair and facial hair beyond neat mustaches, Damon had his shoulder-length "cave man" hair cut and beard shaved on December 22.
In a pivotal 5-game series between the Yankees and Red Sox at Fenway Park, Damon went 3-for-6 in each of the first three games, including a doubleheader on Friday August 18, and a game on Saturday August 19. Damon hit two home runs, drove in eight runs, and scored eight runs in the first three games as the Yankees won by a combined score of 39–20 and dealt a severe blow to the Red Sox 2006 play-off aspirations.
In 2006 Damon finished 3rd in runs (115) and 9th in stolen bases (25) in the AL, while hitting 24 home runs, his career high. He also tied his mark of 35 doubles from the previous two seasons. He was only one of 4 players in the major leagues to hit at least 24 home runs and steal at least 24 bases.
On December 13, 2007, ESPN wrongly accused Damon of being in the Mitchell Report. They had reported hours before the report was released that his name was in the document. When it came out, his name was nowhere to be found.
On June 7, 2008, Damon went 6 for 6 in the Yankees 12–11 win over the Kansas City Royals, including a walk-off ground-rule double, which had bounced over the wall. He is the first Yankee to have six hits in a 9 inning game since Myril Hoag accomplished the feat in 1934. Damon said in a post-game on-field interview that this was his first walk-off as a Yankee.
On July 6, 2008 the Yankees placed Damon on the 15-day disabled list for the first time in his Major League career with a bruised Acromioclavicular joint in his left shoulder. The injury occurred a day earlier when Damon collided with the outfield wall in an attempt to catch a triple. At that time, Damon was one of only three active major league ballplayers who had played at least 10 years in the majors without going on the disabled list. He returned to active duty, and hit 27 doubles for the season. Damon hit 53 home runs in his three complete seasons with the Yankees.
On July 27, 2009, Damon hit his 200th career home run against the Tampa Bay Rays Brian Shouse.
Damon, after winning his second World Series, entered free agency after the 2009 season despite expressing his desire to return to the Yankees. He insisted that the Yankees not even make him an offer, however, unless they pay him at least the $13 million he earned for the past four years. As a result of his contract demands, the Yankees signed 1B/DH Nick Johnson to a one-year/5.5MM deal, despite Damon lowering his salary demands at the last minute. The Yankees then signed outfielder Randy Winn to a one-year/2MM deal which officially closed the door on Damon's return to the Bronx.
Detroit Tigers
On February 22, 2010, Damon agreed to a one year, $8 million deal with the Detroit Tigers.
On April 14, 2010, Damon recorded his 1000th career RBI against the Kansas City Royals. On May 1, 2010, he hit a walk off home run against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim pitcher Scot Shields at Comerica Park to win the game 3-2. On July 6, 2010, Damon recorded his 2500th career hit off Jake Arrieta of the Baltimore Orioles and hit a walk off home run off David Hernandez, giving the Tigers a 7-5 win.
At the end of the 2010 season, Damon became a free agent.
Tampa Bay Rays
On January 21, 2011, Damon agreed to a one year, $5.25 million deal with the Tampa Bay Rays, while the Rays also signed his former Boston Red Sox teammate Manny Ramirez in a package deal suggested by agent Scott Boras.
- 1993 – [[Midwest League]] All-Star OF
- 1994 – [[Carolina League]] All-Star Royals Minor League Player of the Year
- 1995 – [[Baseball America]] 1st team Minor League All-Star, KC Royals Minor League Player of the Year, [[Texas League]] All-Star & Most Valuable Player, AA All-Star, and AA Player of the Year
- 2000 – KC Royals Player of the Year
- 2002 – All-Star (Inaugural American League [[All-Star Final Vote]] winner)
- 2005 – Baseball America 2nd-Team All-Star, American League All-Star
- 2009–2009 TYIB Award: Best Postseason Moment
Other appearances
In 2005, Damon wrote ''Idiot: Beating "The Curse" and Enjoying the Game of Life'' with Peter Golenbock.
Damon married his high school sweetheart, Angela Vannice, in 1992 when he was 19. They had twins together in 1999 before divorcing in 2002. In 2004Damon married Michelle Mangan, who gave birth to their first child in 2007. Johnny and Michelle welcomed their second daughter, Danica Rayne, in 2008.
Damon and his family reside in Windermere, Florida. While with the Yankees, Damon and his wife lived in Cresskill, New Jersey.Staff. New York Post, September 27, 2009. Accessed February 21, 2011. "With a downstairs living section in their Cresskill home, Damon and his wife, Michelle, welcomed the Robertsons in."
He is active with the Wounded Warrior Project, which works to raise awareness and enlist the public's aid for the needs of severely injured service men and women.Damon has appeared on MTV Cribs where he gave a tour of his home near Orlando, Florida.
Damon was one of the victims of the $8 billion dollar fraud allegedly perpetrated by wealth manager Allen Stanford.
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This semester was an interesting one for me.
First off, I didn't accomplish everything I wanted to. But I
don't it let it get me down. What you do is count your losses, figure out what you
did wrong, what you did right, and then re-strategize for the next semester.
My goal was to figure how far I could push myself
academically. In that respect, there was no failure because I learned a lot from
being in class all day, nearly every day of the week.
A quotation that comes to mind is:
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to
go beyond them into the impossible."
What I got out of this experience was that I was in my prime
at the beginning of my college studies and that was partly due to the balance I
found between my engineering studies and investing in my artistic pursuits. This semester I was only focused on the
sciences, and although enjoyable, the way they're taught in current
institutions leaves them very stale and colorless for the most part. Ignoring
my interests outside of science led to my having less motivation and excitement
during my studies. I'm now more aware of how much I'm capable of academically.
So next semester, the plan is to stick to the least possible
full time amount of 12 credits, while taking time to get back into painting and
The semester's not over yet, so I still need to give it one
last push.
Finals at UMD started on Thursday, but I have my first
tomorrow evening. (Yes, they have finals on Saturday, even for weekday
I'm hopeful that I was able to provide useful information to
at least some of my readers this semester. If you found anything especially helpful or
confusing/unclear, please don't hesitate in letting me know. I love getting
Thanks for reading! Good Luck! Have a great Winter Break!
Take it easy.
I'm surprisingly calm right now. Or at least I was until I accidentally X'd out of Chrome and inadvertently deleted a fully written entry. But things happen for a reason I guess, so here goes try #2, yes?
Calm. Yes. Very calm. And I can't understand why. I'm uncharacteristically content during a time when I'd typically be tired/stressed/frustrated. But I won't lie. It feels nice. Last year around this time, I certainly didn't feel the way I do now, but this time around everything seems...doable. Manageable.
It almost feels wrong. Like I should be all worried and frantic. But when you've done well on all your previous tests and assignments, something inside you just screams, "I got this!" So I'm confident. And I want you guys to be confident too as we head into next week for what I call "The Big Finale."
The Students vs. the dreaded (or in some cases the not-so-dreaded) final exams.
Speaking of, I think this is the final blog entry of the semester. I just reread my first entry about feeling "Unstoppable" and it gave me a chuckle. There's a joke in there about how we're always determined to stay on top of grades in the beginning of the semester, and by the end we're in more of a survival mode. The I-just-want-to-pass-this-class mode. But here I sit, completely satisfied with how things turned out and possibly looking at a 4.0 GPA this semester. We'll see. In any case, it's been an absolute pleasure sharing my weekly thoughts with you all for the past 15 weeks. Every joy, every fear, every complaint, and every victory. I've put it all out there and treated this blog like a blog. Opening myself up like that on a public site wasn't always easy, but I sincerely thank you, the readers, for staying the course with me and the rest of the bloggers here. Hopefully I'll be doing this again next semester, and if not, then I'll see you guys around I guess. Now go get your study-on, and good luck with your finals!
It's been a pleasure.
~ Jay
That's what my life feels like right now.
Here we are, so so
close to the end, and I can't focus on anything!
It's that time when everything is due, and all of the tests
are around the corner, and all I can think about is my latest fanfiction
ideas! (GRrrrrr)
I mean seriously, last night I was finishing a paper, and I
blinked twice and realized that I had typed "Narnia" every three words for
nearly a full paragraph.
I can't focus on anything, and I really want to start packing for my January trip to France. (Ohmygosh I'm going to FRANCE! I've never even left the East Coast of USA!)
To make things worse, it feels like the radio is out to get
me. I swear, I do enjoy a bit of pop,
but there is only so much of a certain
song that I can deal with before I get the urge to – to do something
insane. Like maybe write a song about
how much I hate it and post it on YouTube.
In other news, I have been informed that, apparently, that "Shades
of Grey" thing is actually a Twilight fanfiction that got published.
But back to schoolwork – so much to do, so little time! And the weather keeps jumping from Indian
Summer to just above freezing, so I can never plan to wear
temperature-appropriate clothing.
Overheating makes it very difficult to concentrate on
anything, especially schoolwork that I am already struggling with.
Hn… the downsides of the end of semester…
Today is my last Psychology class.
(You can't actually see my tears, because
they're virtual, but they're there.)
I'm going to miss that class. I've really, really, really loved it.
Tomorrow is my French Oral Exam. Hopefully, I'll have a heart attack. I mean, I won't
have a heart attack.
I have studied. I
have studied. I shall go to sleep with French
music playing to cement this knowledge into my head. (Cheers to a teenaged Céline Dion!)
Oh god. The semester
is really almost over.
I need to go listen to some Phantom of the Opera. (Cue that awesome
creepy laugh. From the original.)
And now for a lovely, lovely
phoenix-imagery-evoking song (practically half of the song, really.)
"Into the fire – I'm reunited –
Into the fire – I am the spark –
Into the night – I yearn for comfort…
Open the doors that lead on into Eden
Oh, no cheap disguise!
Follow the signs marked 'back to the beginning,'
No more compromise –
And into the fire, I'm reunited –
(Into the fire) I am
the spark
(Into the fire) I yearn for comfort…
I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me –
I will walk unto the fire until its heat doesn't burn me –
And I will feed the fire…"
Into the Fire, Solace (1991) Sarah
Oh, what the
heck. Here's the actual song:
Or just go onto YouTube and search "Into the Fire," and "Sarah McLachlan."
Probably one of the worst things a student can experience is…FINALS!
I would say it's more bitter sweet. It's bitter because of all the studying and the stress that comes with it. The key is not to stress out, so you can actually study and contain the information that was taught. I tend to have hot coco and relax by the fireplace while reading books from sociology and literature class to refresh my memory of all the information I've learned this semester. Toward the end of each semester I spend every moment of free time studying. The anxiety of getting outstanding grades can becoming overwhelming, but if you plan early that anxiety disappears. However I think because of the holiday season, it's quite easy to become overwhelmed. The stress of getting present for everyone, finding the right deals, working enough hours to collect enough money, and then studying for school.
On the other hand, there were some highlights of this semester! These moments are certainly memories I'll remember and cherish:
1. Meeting a new friend- When it comes it meeting new people, I tend to be picky on who I call a friend, but this year I met someone in my literature course who have similar interests as me. We've gotten over public speaking together with two presentations in which we had to overcome. We elaborated on each short story and poem. We both learned each other's past which sometimes can be hard because some people chose to be very private.
2. Overcoming Math- For me personally, this has been an achievement that has been difficult. This is the first time I was able to stay on track and practice the math problems accordingly to pass my math tests!!!
3. Getting to know my Professors- As time passes, I think the most difficult part about the end of the semester is saying goodbye to the professionals who have taught me! That have encourage and pushed me to do well! Thank you Professor Gillian, Professor Hernandez, and of course Professor Duty!
4. Growing into a better person- Each student has their own story, their own journey. Montgomery college has allowed me to reach for the stars even when others did not believe in me. There are so many opportunities that have presented to me. I have never seen myself living this life; a life of a student someone who works towards their goals, better yet someone who can be defined as determined, motivated, and hard working.
I chose to have this optimistic attitude, so that way I can actually overcome these challenges school gives me. It's something to be grateful for, not to whine or complain. I'm sure there are people out there that wish they could be going to school. Fortunately for me I am one of those lucky individuals that get to embrace and take advantage of this wonderful opportunity.
Thanks MC for another great semester!
And finals…I am ready to take you on!
Hi everyone,I hope you all are doing good. I am quite late for this week's post because of some technical difficulties uploading the pictures. I went to DC with some new friends last weekend. I wanted to share high-definition pictures, but for some reason they could not be uploaded. Hence, today I decreased the file size, and I had to comprise picture quality. Even though they might not look as good as they are, I hope you will enjoy them.
Also, good luck on your exams !
In my search to be more efficient and productive earlier in
the year, I came across a book called The
Memory Book by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas.
I was only able to get through chapter 4 (I got distracted)….but from these four chapters, I learned a few really helpful
memory tricks. In the spirit of finals, I wanted to share them with you.
HUNDREDS of BIG,
Basically, our mind thinks best with vivid and stimulating visuals.
When you hear someone's name, you'll probably think of their face instead of
the letters that compose the name. When memorizing, the key is to think of the most
crazy, outrageous visuals you can. The book suggests some guidelines for these
visuals, like thinking of objects in exaggerated scales (really huge or really
small), in large numbers, or have the objects perform actions.
The Memory Palace
In short, the key to this is to think of a building with several
rooms, that you're very familiar with. Let's say you have a list of four groceries
you need to memorize before going to the store: Broccoli, carrots, bread,
apples. It helps if you place these items in different rooms of your "palace"
or building. As you walk through the different rooms of the building, you will see the objects of the
list. Use your home for example. Let's say at the front door, you have millions of tiny broccoli growing
on the edges of the door. Next you walk into the living room which has carrots
growing in the ground and all over the walls. Next you go into the kitchen which
has a huge loaf bread engulfing the interior from wall to wall, floor to
ceiling. You have to squeeze through the side to get to your bedroom, where you
find several red apples bouncing all over the walls. That's how you use the technique.
It is often said that this
technique was used by the ancient Greeks and Romans to memorize speeches and
the sort.
Memory Linking and Word
One task the book suggests is to
memorize the 50 states in alphabetical order. I'll give you the book's visuals to
illustrate the point. We begin with Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, and Arkansas. To
memorize, this I began by imagining an ALBUM (for Alabama) playing a horrible
song which repeats the lyric "I'll ask her" (for Alaska). I imagine this album flying
really high inthe sky maybe in an AIRZONE (for Arizona). Then out of nowhere a
flying Ark with a saw coming out the front (ARKANSAS), saws the album in half. Find words that sound like the words in the list, come up with a visual, and find a way to link them together.
It's amazing that I remember this list, because I associated
these visuals sometime in July and I still see them vividly in my mind.
The more outrageous the images are, the better.
Play around with them and see how to apply them for finals.
Let me know if these are helpful. ;)
Lorayne, Harry and Lucas Jerry. The Memory Book. New York: The Random
House Publishing Group. 1974. Print.
The other day, I had an interesting discussion with
my Astronomy professor. She was giving a lecture on the speed of light, and how
it bends time. (Basically, if you were traveling near the speed of light, you
would age much slower than everything else. Fact.) So one of the students
mentioned that it was almost like a science-fiction novel. And that's when the subject
of Orson Scott Card came up.
For those who aren't familiar with the name, Orson
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him, she said that he had a brilliant mind, and then went on to say he was a "kind
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Uhh, what?
So two thoughts immediately came to mind.
1) What made her say that?
2) That's
actually pretty hilarious.
When asked to clarify, the professor explained that
she has a strong appreciation for Orson Scott Card's work and his intellect,
but she very much disagrees with some of his ideals. That he had some "strong
opinions" which she didn't really like. I later asked her in private what those
ideals were. In short, Orson Scott Card is heavily against gay marriage.
And at that moment, my respect for my Astronomy
teacher soared to new heights.
"It's just hard to imagine a guy with such an
amazing mind can be that much of a bigot," she said. (That's a loose quote. I
don't remember it word for word.) But I agree with her whole heartedly. I'm
bisexual myself, and with that being said, I'm sure you don't need to ask where
I stand on this issue. Last month at the voting polls, question 6 got a big
huge "yes" from me.
After some digging around the internet, I was able
to read about Orson Scott Card's opinion in full.. To sum it up, he feels that
the fight for marriage equality is nothing more than the political "Left"
waging war on the idea of a traditional family and its values. He said some
other interesting stuff too.
"Normalizing a
dysfunction will only make ours into a society that corrodes any loyalty to
(heterosexuality), as parents see that our laws and institutions now work against
the reproductive success, not to mention happiness, of the next generation."
– Card
Oh. So homosexuality is a "dysfunction" that, if
accepted by society, will spawn an entire generation of disillusioned straight
people? Hmm. Sounds like a science fiction novel to me. Maybe that's the storyline
for his next best-seller? Here's another interesting quote.
"Same-sex attraction
is not a strait jacket; people's desires change over time; gay people still
have choices." – Card
Choices. There goes that word. So if you're gay, you
don't have to be gay? You can change? My goodness, why haven't I seen the light
sooner, Mr. Card? Please, enlighten me more.
have plenty of gay friends…" – Card
Ah. Of course you do. Because if there's anything
that can validate bigotry, it's the old "I have plenty of ______ friends"
We as a society have watched discrimination take form
after form here in America. And as history shows, society always eventually
realizes it for what it is. Intolerance and outdated ideals. My professor said
that if she's ever interested in reading more of Card's work, she gets it from
the library. She'd never buy it, because she'd never be okay with putting another
dime in his pocket. I have to say I'll be following her lead with that one. And
I probably won't be going to see that movie either.
You all enjoy your weekend.
It's getting close to the end, here. Semester is almost over. (Minor Panic Attack
inserted here.)
Okay, so maybe that's a little dramatic, but really –
finals. Research papers. Language labs assignments. Finals.
Last minute tests. And did I
mention finals?
I'm freaking out a little.
Just a little.
So, has anyone done the Teacher Evaluations yet? I did it earlier this week. I have to say, the online version is great –
save paper and just easier all-around
to work with than the old paper forms.
I'm having the sort of week that seems to be out to get me,
so I suppose that it's good that the Evals at least worked out.
Last night, I decided to work on an extra-credit assignment
for my Psychology class. It's a
brilliant assignment, really, and I love that freedom involved in it. The problem?
Last night, all of the computers in my house decided that I shouldn't
use them. My desktop froze up. My laptop shut down. And my parents' computer… well, let's just
say that I avoid it if I can. If only
because I have other family members who need /want to use it.
So there I am, at approximately 8pm, panicking over how I'm
supposed to get anything done if I can't
Finally, I ended up writing out my ideas and research on
index cards. You know, the "old-fashioned
At least my laptop is working today.
So, to inspire myself, this time:
"So keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll
make it through, we'll make it through...
Hear me when I say,
when I say I believe
Nothing's gonna
change, nothing's gonna change destiny
Whatever's meant to be
will work out perfectly
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…" – "Keep Holding On," Avril Lavigne (2007)
You boosted my gradeWhen I felt dismayedYou deserve some plauditOh dear extra credit
Got a C on a testAs most answers were guessedBut won't worry for sureSaid she'd drop our lowest scoreWhen life got busyNo question remained easyUpon a sincere requestWe got a take home test
Sat for the final examCouldn't get my mind to calmQuestions got on my nerveHope she'd grade on a curve
Procrastinated all semesterCould have made things betterThe only hope that I've gotIs kindness from my Professor...
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Kristoff vs Hans: Definitions of Love.
Now let's just forget Hans was a douche for once second. Both men in this movies played with the meaning of Love. But apparently, they both played with very different definitions of love.
Hans's (and actually even Anna's) definition of love, was pulling every pick up line in the book, flirting and making the other giggle. It was the man taking the girl and lifting her off into a magical night of dancing in fun. It was singing the romantic duet, it's how you know both characters are in love right? It's setting up a marriage, because isn't that the purest form of love? But it also includes both of them doing their part, convincing the other that they are meant to be. Because how can two people be in love if the other doesn't feel the same way?
Kristoff's was the opposite. He did't need cliches. He didn't need the romance or the dancing. He didn't (unfortunately) even need the romantic duet! It was all in his eyes and actions. He didn't try to get Anna to fall for him, he didn't try to seduce her. For him love is care. Anna has to be okay, Anna has to be safe. Anna has to be happy.He didn't care that Anna didn't feel the same way. That wasn't the important thing to him. Anna just had to be safe.
Kristoff didn't race down the mountain because he could kiss Anna and prove to her that he was her true love and he was meant to kiss her.
He raced down because Anna was in danger, because if she died while he was leaving, he would never be able to live with himself.
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On Wednesday, two days before a blizzard blanketed the region, Rodolico left town on a cruise. In October, during Hurricane Sandy, he was on a Chamber of Commerce trip in China.
"When he gets back, I'm super-gluing his butt to the chair,'' his assistant, Mark Bancroft, said Monday.
"He doesn't go away that often, but when he does ..." said Town Council Chairwoman Linda Davis, who as deputy mayor helped coordinate snow cleanup this past weekend.
Davis and Bancroft said the mayor is a hard worker who deserves his vacation. It's just a bit strange that bad weather hits when he takes one.
The day Rodolico came back to town in November after the hurricane, Davis said she asked him when he was going away again.
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Rodolico has been in sporadic email contact, Bancroft said, but has no cellphone service.
"I know when he was in China, he was very frustrated that he couldn't physically be here.'' Bancroft said. "I'm sure he feels the same way now."
Despite the mayor's absence, the town is running smoothly, Bancroft said.
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One month after Laguna Nigel teenager Bryce Laspisa went missing near Castaic Lake, family and friends are holding a candlelight vigil in his honor.
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The Castaic vigil is open to the public, and attendees will receive a glowstick to light in honor of Laspisa. Everyone is also asked to wear orange or white.
Glenn David, Laspisa's uncle, said that the support of the Santa Clarita Valley and Castaic communities has been overwhelming, especially because parents Michael and Karen Laspisa live in Orange County and don't know anyone locally.
"They're like us, they're not giving up," David said of the volunteers who helped search for Laspisa in the areas surrounding Castaic Lake.
Laspisa went missing on Aug. 30, on his way from Sierra College in Rocklin to his home in Laguna Niguel, Orange County. His car was found overturned near Castaic Lake, with his laptop and cellphone still inside, but Laspisa was not there.
Deputies have called off an active search, because of a lack of information, but the family continues to receive information from people in around the country who think they have seen Laspisa.
The latest possible sighting was in Oxnard, according to the "Find Bryce Laspisa" Facebook page.
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Keep your home base outside the inner circle or sweet spot of the rocket launcher.
Keeping the rocket launcher too close let's enemy attacks creep in and the rocket just stares at them as they decimate the base.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell
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JIM LEHRER: Mr. Secretary, welcome.
SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you, Jim.
JIM LEHRER: Former counterterrorism director Richard Clarke told the families and the 9/11 victims the other day that their government failed them, he failed them.
As secretary of State, do you share any feeling of failure about 9/11?
SECRETARY POWELL: I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died. So I was very sad, and I regretted it. And in the years that have gone by since then, I have reviewed what the department was doing during that period, I reviewed what I was doing during that period, and we were responding to the threat information we had.
We were giving warnings to our embassies overseas and our people overseas, which is our responsibility. So we were doing our job. But I wish we had been able to discover that these individuals were in our country and they were planning to conduct such horrible attacks against us.
And so I'm deeply regretful.
I don't know that there is anything we failed on. I can't yet find whether there was information that was there that connected, that we should have seen connected, which would have given us some indication that this was about to happen.
I'm glad that this commission is now working hard to help us understand all of the data points that were out there to see if we should have been able to connect the dots, and I hope the commission will also point the way to improvements in the future. That's what I'm hoping for.
JIM LEHRER: As you probably know, both the chairman and the vice chairman, former Governor Kean and former Congressman Hamilton, have also used the word "failure" in terms of looking back on what happened. You don't, you don't have a problem with that as a premise, right?
SECRETARY POWELL: They can say there was a failure. I mean, we did get attacked on 9/11. There's no doubt about it. Nineteen people got into this country. They got into this country without being stopped. We did not know that they were in this country for that purpose, and so it was — was it a failure that they got in the country? I can't say that because they presented themselves as citizens without any record that would have tripped any of our data bases.
They came into a country that is a welcoming, open country, and I hope we never lose that aspect of our, of our American experience. Nevertheless, they got in, and if there were failures that allowed them to get in and allowed them to do their work undetected, I want to know about those failures, and I want to see what we should do to make sure no such failures ever occur in the future.
But I don't yet know exactly what the connection is between these various data points that were out there that would suggest the government failed in not recognizing this and recognizing it for what it was: an attack that was coming against the United States.
JIM LEHRER: Clarke has said that the Bush administration did not give an urgent priority to fighting al-Qaida. Now, you disagree with that, right?
SECRETARY POWELL: We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against al-Qaida We did not ignore al-Qaida. We spent a lot of our time thinking about terrorism, what should we do about it. A lot of the work in my department had to do with understanding that threat to our interests overseas, which is what my responsibility is.
I have testified that I met with Mr. Clarke four days after I was named to be the secretary of State. I met with him, I met with my counterterrorism experts, I met with my intelligence people, I had the FBI in here all together. And so in response to what I knew the president's priority was, we were working on terrorism and trying to understand it.
Now, Mr. Clarke has said it was important, but not urgent, and I'm not sure what he means by that or what urgency he thinks we should have attributed to it that we didn't. The director of Central Intelligence briefed President Bush on a regular basis, if not every day himself — something quite different than the previous administration. And in a large percentage or a large number of those briefings — I don't know the percentage — the director was presenting terrorist information, and we were assembling it, analyzing it, and trying to see what it meant.
The director of Central Intelligence, through my intelligence operation, called INR here in the department, made me we aware of a heightened level of reporting that something was going to happen throughout the spring and summer. I got that information. I responded to it, I acted on it, my department acted on it, the president acted on it by giving instructions to our embassies and giving warnings, in some cases closing our embassies for periods of time, doing whatever is necessary to give alerts to our traveling public, Americans who are living and traveling abroad.
But we didn't know that the threat really wasn't an overseas threat, that it was an internal threat in the United States. But it's not as if we were ignoring it. We were watching all of these indicators. Director Tenet was telling us daily that something was up, but we never came to the realization that what was up was an attack of the kind that hit us on 9/11.
JIM LEHRER: Clarke also says in his book that you argued strongly against the pushes by Secretaries Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz to, in addition to attacking Afghanistan, but attacking Iraq almost immediately after the 9/11 attacks; is that true?
SECRETARY POWELL: I recommended to the president that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11.
We all recognized that there was a threat in Iraq, a violation of 12 years' worth of resolutions and all kinds of other problems, but the first thing we had to deal with was Afghanistan, and that's exactly what the president decided to do.
JIM LEHRER: So is it fair and accurate to say you won the argument?
SECRETARY POWELL: It's fair and accurate to say that we both presented, all of us presented our arguments to the president, and he made a decision, which I think was the correct decision.
JIM LEHRER: Is it correct to say that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were pushing for attacks on Iraq?
SECRETARY POWELL: It's correct to say that everybody at Camp David that weekend expressed their views and, as is well-known, Mr. Wolfowitz wanted to make sure that the president considered Iraq as a potential source of trouble that had to be dealt with respect to our interests around the world and with respect to terrorism.
But the president listened to it all. He understood all of the arguments presented to him, and he made a decision that said we would go after al-Qaida, we would give the Taliban an ultimatum that they either turned over al-Qaida or suffer the consequences. He gave the world fair warning. He gave the Taliban fair warning, and when they didn't respond to that warning, the Pentagon prepared plans, and we went in and took out the Taliban and pretty much put al-Qaida on the run — not destroyed it — but destroyed a number of their leaders and put them on the run.
JIM LEHRER: In general terms, Mr. Secretary, what kind of guidance would you give to the American people as to how to judge what Richard Clarke is saying, both in his book, and in his testimony, and in his interviews. It's become a big thing, as you know. What guidance would you give the American people?
SECRETARY POWELL: I would say to the American people that, rather than follow the daily back-and-forth between Mr. Clarke and all of the others who are commenting one way or the other, let's let the commission do its work. I was with Lee Hamilton last night at a dinner, and I thanked him, as the vice chairman of this committee, and through him the other members of the committee, for their willingness to look into all of this.
And I am confident that, under the steady hand of people such as Governor Kean and Mr. Hamilton, the American people will know the full truth. And that's the only thing the president wants to see come out of this commission hearing. It's the only thing I want to see come out of this commission hearing — what actually took place during that period that might have given us a clue as to what was about to strike us and what did we miss. Was there something in there that we should have seen that we missed?
Obviously, something was missed, but could we have anticipated it. Could we have seen it? Could we have connected it? That's what I want this commission to do, and what I want the American people to do is to read all of they wish to, with respect to newspaper articles and with respect to Mr. Clarke's book, but wait until the commission finishes its work.
JIM LEHRER: Do you think the White House should continue to make these attacks on Mr. Clarke's credibility?
SECRETARY POWELL: Mr. Clarke has been attacking the White House and members of the president's administration, and I think that some defense is appropriate.
JIM LEHRER: Do you find him credible?
SECRETARY POWELL: I know Mr. Clarke. I have known him for many, many years. He is a very smart guy. He served his nation very, very well. He's an expert in these matters. He is very aggressive in pursuing his ideas and pursuing his points of view, and the book is the book, and you can read it and make your own judgment as to whether it's accurate or not, but I would say it is not the complete story.
I'd say it is important for the commission to listen to all of the witnesses and not just focus on one witness who has written a book that happened to come out right now. I'm not attributing any bad motives to it. I'm just saying his book and his point of view is one point of view.
JIM LEHRER: Have you been recruited, directly or indirectly, to join in the campaign against Mr. Clarke?
SECRETARY POWELL: I'm not aware of a campaign against Mr. Clarke, and I am not a member. It is essentially people who are being attacked by Mr. Clarke rather directly responding, Dr. Rice most directly by Mr. Clarke. They worked with each other for a period of months. Condi was as committed as the rest of us to pursuing the president's agenda, and that agenda included dealing with terrorism as a major threat against the United States.
When the president gave his overall foreign policy speech during the campaign, it was at the Citadel, and at the Citadel he singled out terrorism as one of the challenges we'd be facing. Now, some have suggested, well, because you were worrying about Iraq or China or Russia, you ignored terrorism. Well, you know, when you come into office in a new administration, there are many things on your agenda. Yes, Russia; yes, China; yes, NATO and our relations with our friends in all parts of the world; and, yes, also terrorism. And it was not put on a back burner, it was not excluded from our consideration because we were so consumed with thinking about Iraq.
You know what we did with Iraq for most of the first eight or so months of the administration, I had the major responsibility to try to do something to fix the sanctions policy that was falling apart. That's what we were focusing on in Iraq.
JIM LEHRER: Let me ask you on Condoleezza Rice. You're a former national security adviser yourself, but as secretary of State, you testified in public, under oath, before this commission. She has refused to do so. Do you think she's right?
SECRETARY POWELL: There is a difference between being a Senate-confirmed official in the government. We are supposed to be answerable to the Congress, as well as working for the president, advice and consent of the Congress. We all understand that.
But the president's personal staff has a unique role. They're his intimate personal advisers, and the tradition and the precedent has been, even when I was national security adviser, that people in that position do not testify before the Congress. They talk to the Congress. They have meetings with the Congress.
Dr. Rice has spent hours with the commission. They know what she knows. She has been forthcoming. She has indicated the willingness to spend more time with the commission. But in terms of going up in a public hearing, that is not the precedent.
JIM LEHRER: But the precedents aside, do you think she should do it?
SECRETARY POWELL: I think that she would like to do it. I know she would like to do it. She wants to tell the story, but she has to consider the precedent that would be created by this, and that is where we are.
JIM LEHRER: One more question on accountability and responsibility post-9/11. Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The president, you and many other people said there were weapons of mass destruction. None have been found, and yet none of you seem to be terribly upset about that. Nobody's been fired. There hasn't been any, you know, outrage from you or anybody else. Why not? Why has that been? Why is that?
SECRETARY POWELL: We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience of the U.N. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that Saddam Hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which I still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past.
Second, he had the capability to have such weapons. He had the intellectual infrastructure. He had the dual-use facilities that could be used to develop these kinds of weapons. We also believed, because the intelligence community thought it was a sound belief, that he had stockpiles of these weapons.
Well, we have not found the stockpiles of these weapons. I'm surprised, Dr. Kay was surprised, Director Tenet is surprised, the United Kingdom and the Australians are surprised. We thought they were there. We're still looking. Charlie Duelfer now heads our effort up there.
But I don't think that takes away from the reality that this was an individual who had used them in the past, had the intention, had an intention, if ever relieved from sanctions, to rebuild his, his stockpiles, if they were no longer there at the time of the war, and he kept the capability to do so, and he is now gone, and we don't have to worry about this possibility any more.
JIM LEHRER: So you're not the least bit upset —
SECRETARY POWELL: I am —
JIM LEHRER: — that you, say, made public statements — and it turned out not to be the case?
SECRETARY POWELL: Well, what turned out to be the case is that he was what we said he was. What has turned out not to be the case is we haven't found the stockpiles, and that was a great surprise to me. It's a surprise to all of us. But it's not as if we invented the information that he had these stockpiles.
We had solid reason to believe, and when I sat out at the CIA for four days getting ready for the presentation that I was to make at the United Nations, I didn't just take what was shoved at me. We had an intense debate for all of those days to make sure that I was comfortable, and the director was again comfortable with the holdings, if I can put it that way, of the intelligence community. It was the same information that was presented to the Congress in a National Intelligence Estimate earlier. That was the belief of the intelligence community, and they had a sound basis for that belief.
And it was also the belief of Dr. Kay, who subsequently said there are no stockpiles. He went in there thinking there were stockpiles. He also believed that because of Saddam Hussein's intention, and the inherent capability in that regime, that he thinks we did the right thing, and I think we did the right thing.
JIM LEHRER: So nobody in government, in other words, made a mistake. Nobody did — made a bad judgment or said anything —
SECRETARY POWELL: Well, obviously there is, there is something that is amiss, when our intelligence community tells us we're going to find these stockpiles, and we do not find these stockpiles.
Now, what we have to do is take another look at what information we had, what gaps we had in that information, what flaws were there in the analysis. And Director Tenet has launched an investigation to look at this, committees of Congress are looking at it, and we've got to see if we missed something or what happened that we were so sure about this, and it turned out, so far, not to be the case.
JIM LEHRER: My point I guess is do you personally feel this is an important thing to find out?
SECRETARY POWELL: Absolutely.
JIM LEHRER: In other words, you want to know why —
SECRETARY POWELL: I want to know. Look, we base almost all of our policy decisions, in matters of economics, matters of war and peace, on information and intelligence. That's what we live on.
And when you have an intelligence gap with respect to an issue such as stockpiles, then you want to find out why was that, why was there that gap? What was faulty in our collection or in our analysis.
But at the same time, while we're trying to analyze why we haven't found stockpiles yet — and maybe they weren't there at all, maybe they were destroyed. I don't know the answer — let's not use that gap to, in any way, suggest that we were dealing with an individual who did not have the intention or the willingness to use such weapons.
And I assure you, and I assure your audience, that if the sanctions had broken down, if the United States had not acted, if he had escaped international pressure, once again, anybody who thinks that he wouldn't have smiled, wiped his brow clean and gone back to developing weapons of mass destruction that we might have seen in stockpiles later, I think that is an incorrect conclusion.
JIM LEHRER: Mr. Secretary, thank you very much.
SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you, Jim.


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Cardiac Rehabilitation and Activities of Daily Living in Women After Myocardial Infarction
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SubjectMyocardial infarction--Patients--Rehabilitation; Heart--Diseases--Patients--Rehabilitation; Exercise therapy
This work was a replication of a study in which the level of physical activity in women following myocardial infarction (MI) was compared to their level of activity before MI. An extension of the initial work included an investigation of an association between activity levels in women post-MI and participation in a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program. A sample of 52 post-MI women responded to a mailed survey. The women were categorized according to age (45-64 years and 65-90 years) and whether they had participated in a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program post-MI. According to t-test analysis, there were no significant differences in 14 activities of daily living (ADL) when comparing women who had participated in CR with the women who had not participated in CR. An examination of the two age groups and their 14 ADLs, using a t-test analysis, revealed that the older women spent significantly less time doing housework and dusting, compared to the younger women. A chi-square concluded there was no difference in participation in CR programs between younger women compared to older women.
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