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A .pdf version of my CV can be downloaded here.
2013-present: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.
Junior Research Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford.
2013: PhD in philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
·Dissertation title: Realism and Fundamentality in Ethics and Elsewhere
·Supervisor: Allan Gibbard
2006-2009: University of Southern California, graduate student in philosophy.
2001-2005: BA, Philosophy; California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Summa Cum Laude.
Areas of specialization
Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language
Areas of competence
Bioethics, Philosophical Logic
"Supervenience Arguments and Normative Non-naturalism", forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
"Expressivism and Normative Metaphysics", provisionally forthcoming (pending final review) in Oxford Studies in Metaethics vol. 11, edited by Russ Shafer-Landau.
"Whither Anankastics?" (with Alex Silk), to appear in Philosophical Perspectives 28: Ethics.
"Scepticism" (with John Hawthorne), to appear in The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology and Theology, edited by William J. Abraham and Frederick D. Aquino.
"Realism and Objectivity", to appear in The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics, edited by David Plunkett and Tristram McPherson.
Modal Quantification without Worlds, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, vol. 8, edited by Karen Bennett and Dean Zimmerman, pp. 151-186. Also one of four finalists for the 2011 Younger Scholars Prize for Metaphysics.
The Folk Probably Do Think What You Think They Think (with Anna Edmonds and David Manley), Australasian Journal of Philosophy vol. 91 no. 3, pp. 421-441.
Minimalist Semantics in Meta-ethical Expressivism, Philosophical Studies vol. 151 no. 3, pp. 351-371.
"Realism and Objectivity in Ethics", to be presented at the Seminar in Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford, 13 October 2014.
"Expressivism and Normative Metaphysics", to be presented at the Madison Metaethics Workshop, 12-14 September 2014.
"Perfectly Natural Relative Naturalness", presented at the Open Session of the 2014 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association, Cambridge University, 11-13 July 2014.
"Luck: Evolutionary and Epistemic", presented at University College London, 19 February 2014.
"Ethical Vagueness and Practical Reasoning", Metaphysical Indeterminacy Final Conference, University of Leeds, 7-8 December 2013.
"The Metaphysical Conception of Realism," invited lecture for seminar on Realism, Objectivity and Meta-metaphysics at Dartmouth College, 11 April, 2013.
"Primitive Relative Fundamentality", presented at Arizona State University, 13 February 2013.
"The Metaphysics of Expressivism", presented at the University of Leeds, 7 February 2012.
"Practical Reasoning for Theorists about Vagueness," Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, 4-7 August, 2011.
"The 'Quasi' in 'Quasi-realism'," Indiana Philosophical Assoication, Ball State University, 29-30 April, 2011.
"Minimalist Semantics and the Problem of Creeping Minimalism," Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Alberta, 24-26 October, 2008.
"Minimalist Semantics and the Problem of Creeping Minimalism," British Society for Ethical Theory, University of Edinburgh, 14-16 July, 2008.
"Minimalist Semantics and the Problem of Creeping Minimalism," 11th Southern California Philosophy Conference, 27 October, 2007.
Hilary, Trinity, Michaelmas terms 2014: tutorials in Philosophy of Religion for Somerville College, Oxford.
Spring 2013: Sole instructor for Phil/Rel 232: Intro to Religion.
Spring 2012, Winter 2013: Sole instructor for Phil 160: Moral Principles and Problems. Lectures and discussion covered issues in ethics and bioethics.
Fall 2010: Teaching assistant for Phil 361: Ethics (Daniel Jacobson).
Winter 2010: Teaching assistant for Phil 356: Issues in Bioethics (Brian MacPherson).
Spring 2009: Teaching assistant for Phil 155g: Modern Philosophy and the Meaning of Life (David Manley)
Fall 2008: Teaching assistant for Phil 101: The Philosophical Foundations of Modern Western Culture (James van Cleve)
Spring 2008: Teaching assistant for Phil 155g: Modern Philosophy and the Meaning of Life (David Manley)
Fall 2007: Teaching assistant for Phil 141g: The Professions and Public Interest in American Life (Dallas Willard)
Awards and fellowships
Winter 2013: Rackham Travel Grant
Fall 2012: Departmental One-term Fellowship
Winter 2012: Stevenson Prize (awarded anually to one graduate student for excellence in a dossier)
Winter 2012: Departmental One-term Fellowship
Fall 2011: Departmental One-term Fellowship
Summer 2011: Weinberg Summer Fellowship
August 2011: Rackham Travel Grant
April 2011: Rackham Travel Grant
March 2011: "Modal Quantification without Worlds" selected as finalist for 2011 Younger Scholars Prize for Metaphysics
Winter 2011: Rackham One-term Dissertation Fellowship
Summer 2010: Rackham Research Grant (for the Meta-Survey project; with David Manley and Anna Edmonds)
Fall 2009: Departmental Fellowship
Fall 2008: Nomination for 2009 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
2008: International Conference Travel Award, Summer 2008, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
2006-7: Merit Fellowship, University of Southern California.
Committees and service
2013: Interviewer for undergraduate admissions, Somerville College, Oxford.
2011-12: Editor for 2010, 2011 Philosopher's Annual
Referee for Nous, Candaian Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Ethics, Theoria, Ratio, The Philosophical Quarterly, Res Philosophica.
2006-7: Secretary and Treasurer for Pegasus, Philosophy Graduate Student Committee (USC).
2007-8: Philosophy department representative to Dean of Graduate Students' committee (USC).
Research assistant work
Summer 2009-2012 for David Manley; April-August 2007 and January 2008-March 2008 for Scott Soames; June-July 2007 for Mark Schroeder; August 2007 for Jacob Ross.
Graduate coursework
· Truth, Meaning, Analyticity and Apriority (Soames, Manley)
· Conditionals (King, Higginbotham)*
· Logic and the Theory of Meaning (Schein, Linguistics Department)
· Kit Fine's Semantic Relationism (Soames)
· Semantics (Guerzoni, Linguistics Department)
· Seminar on the philosophy of Language (Nathan Salmon)
· Writing for Publication in Philosophy (Soames and Wilson)
· Presupposition and Information Structure (Craige Roberts)
· Minimal Structure and Rational Behavior: Competence and Performance in (Psycho–)Linguistics (Richard Lewis, Psychology Department and Sam Epstein, Linguistics Department)
· Survey in Metaphysics (Manley and King)
· Independent study on the foundations of metaphysics (Manley)
· Contemporary Research in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language (Moss)*
· Seminar in Epistemology (Lasonen Aarnio)
· Seminar on Skepticism (Weatherson)
· Seminar in Recent Philosophy–Expressivism (Schroeder)
· Reduction and Philosophical Analysis (Schroeder)
· Deontic Logic (Schroeder)*
· Practical Reason (Ross)*
· Ethical Analysis (Gibbard)*
· From Actions and Attitudes to Ethics (Railton)*
· Seminar on Parfit's On what Matters (Gibbard)*
· Philosophy of Law (Marmor)
· Aesthetics (Walton)
· Intermediate Logic (Damnjanovic)
· Seminar in Logic–Philosophy of A.N. Prior (van Cleve)
· Formal Methods for Philosophy (Moss)
· Seminar on the philosophy of Thomas Reid (van Cleve)
· Seminar in Ancient Philosophy (Lewis)
· Introduction to Contemporary Philosophical Literature (Soames, Higginbotham)
· Proseminar (Belot)
*– indicates audited course.


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Ms. Spidle DOES NOT participate in the budget process. The city has a budget offficer that prepares the budget. She handled the General ledger portion. How can she be fired for that weakness when has no say in the process? The budget office reports directly to the finance director and works solely on the budget with the mayors office. No one in city hall other than the mayors iffce knows the initial budget until its presented to the council. BTW the finance director ia an appointed position by the mayor. The finance department of the COB have some the most unqualified, incompete people handling millions of dollars that have ever seen. She did right not just give the folks a promotion without EARNING the position. She has helped and promoted blacks and it wil be proved in court. Just look at who has been promoted since she has been fired within the department and follow the dots.
This treatment is just another example of how incompenent this adminstration has been since they took over. the city is already on the hook for 500K already dealing with ths issue. SHE WILL WIN AND WIN BIG!
jarhaid wait till LSU beats bama, then we will se how many calls to the police occur.
1787.00? That's his game check!! He's good....
Before the county bought new software, The employees association suggested that the county use the excell spreadsheet software already installed on almost every PC in the county.
The employees learned to use it on their own and no consultants would be required.
The commissioners and the county's IT administrators and supervisors rejected this solution.
No drinking and dining paid for by vendors. No trips to resort cities to see their software in action. No consultant KICKBACKS. So the commissioners bought the most expensive software and the highest paid consultants. The employees pointed out system problems to the commissions. They didn't care that the system had problems. Just another excuse to hire more consultants and blame the employees.
Know you know the real story!
This comment by JCvic should tell you guys that the employees have no idea what they are doing. I bet half of the accounting employees at the county are not functional in excel ( meaning pivot tables, charts, etc.) The employees have given up because they are not knowledgebale nor do they want to gain anymore knowledge. They know they are protected by the Personnel Board and its a shame. I know the goverment environment is nothing like the private/ corporate environment, but there needs to be some true desire to become professionally compentent. Then you guys complain about raises! Half the time I see you walking around in the park right by the county. Either the learn the software or find another job.
Telll me bhamaubie84 what are the addresses of these so called " took a great risk" attotneys? I know they live in shelby county. ANd say that pay taxes in the county because the don't! The true is that they found a lopphole and used it to their advantage.
All you IDIOTS out here scraeming about $75.00 need to learn how read and think for yourself.
Every person that has contributed to the accumulation of this tax just got hustled!
We are at the BOTTOM of education funding for a reason. The explainantion for rejecting this funding ia another example of the purpose. I have lived in alabama all my life and all we we worry about is food, church, NASCAR and football. The people who form alabama that have left alabama are educated and sucessful. Policitians want to keep us "dummied down" with complex rheotric so that they can do as they please. That goes for both Dems and Repubs. Just because a sheep cries "I'm a chruch goer" does not mean that person is not a wolf.
Santa Claus needs a stimulus check!!!!
Thanks Jefferson County. Now santa claus can't make his christmas deliveries! LOL
Marrice Ford is a corrupt coach with gambling issues. Just post up and at the birmingham race course and see. This started with David Palmer, then Walter Sharpe and now Eric Bledsoe. There are some coaches in the city that has shopped players and their benefit and it is sickening.
The real problem is how BOE athletic department is being ran. The over the mountain schools are allowed to supplement the coaches income thorugh sponsership and fundraisers. If the BOE would allow this, city athletes would be on the smae playing field and could compete for QUALITY coaches and not all these retreds that see to go form school to school. BOE athletic department needs to burned to the ground and started from scratch.
I dont know what you are reading but EVERYBODY at city hall is getting cut whatever the final cut will be expempt and hourly. EXCEPT for the MAYOR and the CITY COUNCIL. That is the only way that the reduction can be LEGALLY administered. That's per Personnel Board Policy. It has been communicated both verbally and in writing.Battalion Chiefs, deputy chiefs and the Fire chief fall under administration classification and DO NOT qualify for overtime per federal wage and board laws. Again the fire department does not want to go down that road... Trust me
Bamacracker June 29, 2010 at 4:39PM
rachelraeann, unfortunately the chiefs and others who are in salaried positions cannot be cut because they are protected under state and federal law. If they were cut, then the city would have to pay them back overtime pay for years past.
This stament is not true. The only people immune is the elected officials... ie the mayor and the city council...
@newbubba I support the firefighters but you have to be honest with yourself. You the rate was wrong, which is no fault of your of own. The errror was known but YOUR top brass.. The erro has been corrected. Im not sure what venom im spewing. Its about person financial responsibility.
stevemcqueen Your post is on point. It was a rate issue tha occured two years ago. This error has been caught and is now being corrected. This correct would have happened regardless. This same issue happened up north ( cant recalled which city and state) the city sued the firefighter and got the funds returned. Which pill do thing will be harder to swallow? If the fire fiighters kept it real, they knew it was an error all along and knew that gravy train would come to an end. Morale of the story: dont budget out money that you knew was wrong in the first place. When you have a battilon chief position that has remained vacant beacuse as a fire captain you made more money is a true indication of how erroneous the pay scale is at this time. Let them fix it and move on....
I have to 18" gold ropes and a nugget ring i will donate. Thats about enough metal needed for G.I. Joe sized statue...
if they gone into greene county it will be a civil war.. Bob Riley is so transparent... juast watch he will be living in MS when its all said and done
As far as the libraries and rec ctrs are concerned, they will be open for the summer, thats three months.
The city can not continue to operate in its current state, these changes have to occur for the long term stability of the city. Half of the people that work for city do not live in the city and are really just there for a paycheck. There are some that were born and raised in the city and have the city in their best interest. City government is too big for the amount of citizens that it currently has right now. Its not fair for the city of BHAM to be a crutch for the surrounding cities.
by reading most of these post, I now understand why we are one of the most uneducated states in the country. In this case, the county got it right. The OWED interest on money borrowed 27 mil then they MADE 48 mil. That means the they 48-27= 21 mil in surplus. Reading and basic math is fundamental. Stop getting your kids to read you the headlines, then start posting.
Who turned in the juke joint!!! LOL
I bet Hoppo is mad!
He probably did not get his stipend for the month

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Last week I spoke with Reza Kahlili, a man who during the 1980s and 1990s worked for the CIA under the code name "Wally" inside the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. He wrote a terrific book about his experience as an American agent called A Time to Betray, and today he's issuing a serious warning about his former Iranian masters: they mean what they say, and the West had better start taking them seriously.
He thinks President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei fully intend to use nuclear weapons if they acquire them, either by exploding them in enemy cities or holding the Middle East and the world's energy resources hostage. It's hard, to be sure, for even a well-placed expert to know this for certain. Perhaps not even the leadership knows exactly what it will do with the bomb once it gets the chance. (Either way, a nuclear-armed Iran won't suddenly play well with others.) What happens in the region over the next couple of years may depend in large part on whether the Israelis are willing to chance it.
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We have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS running on one of our servers. Is it possible to create a bootable and installable iso with its exact configuration? I would then use the created iso to install Ubuntu server on another machine so that I do not have to make any modifications.
Is there any software like remastersys for Ubuntu server, or will remastersys work for LVM partitions?


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Diversity of carers
Adoption and fostering features about different types of adoptive and foster families, including LGBT and single parents or carers
Becoming an adoptive parent will turn your life around!
Brett and his husband Matthew started their family using surrogacy but decided to turn to adoption when they felt ready for their second child.
"Time and energy to give another child a chance"
Margaret, a housewife, and her husband Robert, a self-employed builder, were 47 and 52 when their adoptive son, George, aged three, joined their family. They already had five, mostly grown up, birth children, but realised they had space in their hearts and lives for another child. Margaret talks to Emily Pearce about their adoption journey.
"Don't wait to do it!"
Janusz and Aleksander, a same-sex male couple, found their sons, Alfie and Bradley, in Be My Parent. They tell us their adoption story.
"Are you my new dads?" Scott, 35, and his partner Tris, 41, adopted their sons Frasier and Brandon, then aged eight and seven, back in 2007 after seeing their profile in Be My Parent. Scott tells the story of their journey to becoming adopters, from believing that as a same-sex couple they would always be childless, to being welcomed as adopters, going through the process, and becoming proud dads.
Just one enquiry Valerie, 48, was a single mum to Lilly, 17, and an adoption and fostering social worker herself, when she looked through Be My Parent at work and saw Noah's profile. She had always thought she might like to adopt, but the time had never felt right. She took the paper home and, with encouragement from her daughter, she enquired about him. Although she had been turned down by other agencies, Noah's agency agreed to assess her, and 14 months later he moved in. She speaks to Emily Pearce about her and Noah's story.
Adoption is a wonderful thing There are many children of all ages and backgrounds in the UK care system awaiting adoptive families. Emily Pearce speaks to single adopter Karen about her adoption journey and her impassioned wish for more families to come forward to adopt.
We've learned a lot about ourselves Every family who wants to adopt has to find an adoption agency to assess and approve them. David and Ricardo adopted Maria and Matthew seven years ago, but still clearly recall those early days.
We couldn't do it without them
Kerrigan and Jason are a same-sex couple in their forties who hope to adopt. They gave up their metropolitan lives three years ago for the 'good life' in the middle of nowhere, far from family and friends – and have been busy building a support network ever since.
"They've adopted him as well!"
Penny was a single carer who had just been assessed to adopt. Her family and friends made up a support network that didn't have a clue about adoption! So why does Penny now say that she couldn't have done it without them?
A support group for gay and lesbian adopters
New Family Social is a charity working for lesbian and gay adopters and their children throughout the UK. Founder Andrew Leary-May explains the importance of the group's network of support and social activity.
The pink guide to adoption for lesbians and gay men by Nicola Hill Published this month by BAAF, this book charts the adoption process and contains personal accounts of gay and lesbian adopters. Read extracts from those here…
A positive choice
Julie and her same-sex partner adopted Liam three years ago. She tells their story…
Resilience and self-confidence...
As an assessing and supervising social worker in the Brighton & Hove adoption team, Carol has placed three children with gay or lesbian adopters over the last four years, and is about to take another couple to panel. She talks to Isabelle Rameau about her experience…
"Many lesbians saved my life!" Before I met Mum and Sue, Social Services hadn't talked to me about going to be adopted by lesbians (I was eight years old then). But I had already told them I didn't want a dad...
Come on Social Services...
It's time to let go of your prejudices and recognise that gay adopters have a lot to offer…
Families come in all shapes and sizes
In the last few decades, the family, as we know it, has changed beyond recognition from the traditional two-parent heterosexual family that was once commonly regarded as the norm.
Parenthood is for life!
We were in our forties and had been married for 15 years with three birth children when we decided to adopt. To our friends it seemed an odd decision, when most were thinking about their children leaving the nest...
Commitment and a dose of patience
When Maria and Rob dreamt about the fun they would have together as a family – the birthday parties, the day trips, and much else – they didn't then envisage that the family they would create would be through adoption.
It's not the family you're born into, it's the family you make
Lesbians and gay men can offer a much-needed family for a child, just like any other family. Still, prejudice can often confront them, making it difficult to consider adoption or fostering. Sasha and Jo share their story...
First rate or second best?
Alissa was in her early thirties when she decided to adopt as a single parent. The process was a bit nerve-wracking, but certainly worth it. Today, Alissa is the proud parent of two girls, Shana and Kelisha.
They will always be in our lives
It's a miracle that families are put together this way and that they can work!" says Emma, who, with her husband, adopted two children last year.
My dads are the coolest people ever!
Hi, my name is Sam and I'm ten. I live with my two dads.
Being a man, being a father
A BAAF trainer and social worker, Pete Wrighton runs training days and a support group for male carers, and is himself a single father of two birth children. He talks about the role of men in adoption and permanent fostering.
Knowing where you come from
Nita, who has adopted three girls with her partner, talks about the importance of birth families and support.
Single carers have so much to offer!
Shabana, a single Asian adoptive mother of two girls, talks about caring for her daughters and the family's decision to adopt again.
What makes a dad?
When Paul May was going through the adoption process, he found little to read on being an adoptive father so he set out to fill the gap. His book, Approaching fatherhood, is published by BAAF.
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Steven Gerrard has scored more goals against Aston Villa than any other team throughout his 14-year Anfield career.
The captain's total of 10 goals against the Villains has been bettered only by Robbie Fowler, who netted 12 times against the Midlanders.
And as Villa prepare to visit Anfield on Saturday, Gerrard will be hoping to continue his fine vein of form against them. Here are some more facts from club statistician Ged Rea to get you in the mood for the weekend's clash.
In the Premier League era, Liverpool have won 21 meetings and Villa 10, with the other nine being drawn, while at Anfield the Reds have won 12 and lost four of the 20 clashes.
The Reds have scored 18 goals in the last seven home games against Aston Villa.
Liverpool's biggest win over Saturday's opponents came in October 1953 when they won 6-1.
They have gained 72 points against Villa in the Premier League - more than against any other team. Next come Newcastle (70) and Everton (68).
The Reds are five goals short of recording 200 against Villa in all home league games.
Martin Skrtel nears his 200th game for the Reds. His debut came as a substitute against Villa on this ground in January 2008 in a 2-2 draw.
Jamie Carragher has played against Aston Villa more times than any other Liverpool player - 30 times in total while his first-ever league goal came against today's opponents in January 1997.
Alexander Doni made his Liverpool debut in the Anfield meeting between the sides last April.
Doni's debut came as a result of Pepe Reina's sending off at Newcastle in the previous game. That meant Reina's run of 183 successive league games and 16,463 consecutive minutes of league action came to an end.
Five Liverpool players have scored league hat-tricks against Villa - Bobby Graham (1964), Ian Rush (1984), Robbie Fowler (1998), Michael Owen (2000) and Steven Gerrard (2009).
Only three overseas-born players have scored more Premier League goals for Liverpool than Luis Suarez. Fernando Torres (65), Dirk Kuyt (51) and Patrik Berger (28) have more than the Uruguayan's 25.
A win for Liverpool will see the Reds record a third successive home league victory for the first time since May 2011.
Liverpool have kept successive home clean sheets against Wigan and Southampton. Another one in this game will see them keep three in a row for the first time since May 2011.
Joe Cole has scored two goals in his last three appearances for the Reds.
10 of the 13 goals that Luis Suarez has scored this season have come in the second half.
Brendan Rodgers will manage for the 150th time in the league. His record shows 57 wins, 39 draws and 53 defeats. His teams have scored 198 goals in that time.
Villa have won once in the last 10 visits to Anfield - winning 3-1 in August 2009. Lucas (o.g), Curtis Davies and Ashley Young netted for the Villains.
The last Villa player to score a hat-trick in the fixture was George Brown. He scored four in his side's 6-1 win at Villa Park in January 1932.
Aston Villa have won once in their last 16 Premier League games away from home. Gabriel Agbonlahor scored the only goal at Sunderland last month. Home and away they are unbeaten in the last four games in the league with one win and three draws.
Their total of 12 in the league this season is the lowest of any team in the top four divisions.
Christian Benteke and Darren Bent have played just 90 minutes of football together in the last 14 games in league and cup.
Fancy picking up some FREE Warrior goodies, eating a few mince pies, enjoying a Christmas choir, taking part in a reindeer rodeo and playing footy on an inflatable pitch? Head to Anfield's Family Park pre-match today!
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Chanting erupts on floor of RNC between Ron Paul and Mitt Romney supporters
There was an awkward moment on the convention floor this afternoon, just minutes before the official start of Day 2.
Rep. Ron Paul showed up and the hall erupted in whistles and cheers. But the mood changed when a chant of "President Paul, President Paul" started up from a large number of people on the floor.
Paul responded with a small smile.
Clearly, some Mitt Romney supporters were not pleased with this turn of events. A chant of "Rom-ney, Rom-ney," started up, and the Ron Paul supporters picked up their chant to compensate.
After a few seconds, it was clear that the Paul supporters were winning in the war of words and the Romney supporters quieted down. Later chants included "Let him speak" and "seat him now." Paul was quietly escorted to a seat and the chanting died down.


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iPod & iTunes Tops Prophet's List of 2003 Branding Hits
"The insightful brand strategy behind the iPod, iTunes and the latest part of this digital music package, the iTunes Music Store, wins Apple kudos for one of the clear brand hits of 2003, according to Prophet, a leading management consulting firm specializing in the integration of brand, business and marketing strategy.
'We've identified a short list of three of this year's brand hits and two of its misses,' said Prophet Chief Executive Michael Dunn.'Combined, they provide a very succinct lesson in the importance of understanding brand's value to customers, how well the organization delivers on what the brand stands for, and how to make it stretch (or not) into new space to help the business grow.'"
Apple Launches iPod-a-Day Giveaway
Pyrim Announces i-Track Holiday Special
Pyrim Technologies, Inc. Announces a Special Holiday Offer on the i-Trac: The iPod Travel Case. From now until January 5, 2004, purchase the "Holiday Special" i-Trac and receive a wireless FM transmitter, which is now available in white, at no additional cost—a $19.99 value. Hurry because supplies are limited. While at the site, be sure to also check out the new Ear Buddy and take a look at the new lower price on the i-Caddy (formally called the Ear Buddy).
Will the downloading generation ever pay for online music?
The music industry has prodded, begged, educated and sued. But its message that music isn't free has had only a scant effect on many young music fans who came of age in the era of music downloading.
''You can download 100 songs in a day and not even think about it. ... Everyone knows it's illegal, but people don't think (authorities are) going to come after them,'' said Vanderbilt freshman Elizabeth Dearing.
Top ten signs you're an iPod junkie
To paraphrase an old saying, it's okay to love your iPod…just don't love your iPod. So in the name of helping you determine whether you're addicted to your iPod, here are the top ten signs that you're an iPod junkie: (Click 'Read more')
NYTimes: The Guts of a New Machine
Rob Walker for the New York Times Magazine has written an extensive article (6 web pages) on all things iPod - past and present. The article touches on the cult of iPod, the design - inside and out with Apple's Jonathan Ives, the system, the competition, comments from Steve Jobs and more.
Interview with iPod's Dirty Secret Video Producers
MacDirectory has posted an exclusive interview with the producers of the now infamous iPod's Dirty Secret video.
"'We placed three calls to the Apple customer service line,' says Neistat. "Then we went into the Apple store in Manhattan for help, and then we contacted the Apple executive offices directly. They all confirmed that there was no iPod battery replacement program and they all recommended that we buy a new iPod.' Regarding the Neistat's claim regarding the iPod's 18 month life, Neistat says, 'They [Apple] didn't specify 18 months, but they said that it was understandable.'
But, according to the Neistats, the story gets better. 'We then purchased a third-party battery online. I'm very proficient with electronics, but it's a very difficult thing to change the battery on the iPod, and that's why I think Apple doesn't offer the option… When I put in the new battery, I broke my iPod. So then I had to buy a brand new $400 iPod.' According to Corey Neistat, it's then that the fury that fueled the video truly kicked in."
Update: iPod's Dirty Secret Secret Revealed
Dave Shroeder has emailed us in his own words about the events that took place between the Neistat brothers and himself. Click 'Read more' to read the letter.
According to Dave Shroeder, the Neistat brothers (producers of the iPod's Dirty Secret movie) had no intent on letting people know that there were solutions available for replacing the battery in iPods. Dave had provided the Neistat brothers with a mirror (server space) for their website, ipodsdirtysecret.com, to host their now infamous movie. Dave did this with one condition, that they place a link to Apple's iPod Battery Service along with the movie. At first the Neistat brothers agreed, but then never posted a link to Apple's website. Dave has since removed the mirror to the website and has posted a text file containing the email conversations that took place between Dave and Casey Neistat. Dave told us, "Please spread the word on these brothers who'd rather spread lies than the truth."
Apple In-Store Event Offers 10% Off
At today's all-day shopping event Apple Stores nationwide are offering 10% off music related products including the iPod.
Today Only: 10% off iPod and iPod Accessories
Recieve 10% off all iPods and iPod accessories ordered online at Apple.com - today only.
Macworld UK: UK Apple chief's iPod retail push
Macworld UK talks with Apple's UK general manager Mark Rogers on digital media's future and the iPod's push into several UK retail stores, including 165 Virgin music shops.
"'Many interesting things are going to happen in the whole digital media area,' Apple
iPod named Stereophile's Editor's Choice and Budget Product of the Year
In its December 2003 issue, Stereophile magazine has named the iPod as the Editor's Choice and Budget Product of the Year. Our informant, Bill S. notes that the Editor's Choice 'usually goes to $30K CD players and so forth.' Click 'Read more' for an excerpt from Stereophile magazine.
10GB 2nd Gen iPod: $189.99 Shipped
Deals On the Web: MacResQ offers the 10GB 2nd Generation (2002) iPod for $189.99. Use coupon code "GOBBLE" to get Free ground shipping. The iPods are demo models and carry a 90-day reseller warranty. Coupon expires 11/30/03.
Griffin iTrip 2 FM Transmitter for iPods w/Dock: $34.99 Shipped
Deals On The Web: MacResQ has the Griffin iTrip 2 FM Transmitter for iPods with a dock interface for $34.99. MacResQ also has the original Griffin iTrip for iPods with a FireWire port for $29.99. Use coupon code "GOBBLE" to get Free ground shipping through 11/30/03.
Why you can't hear Jet on an iPod
Unfortunately, iPod's in Australia are etchnically in breach of copyright if you copy CD's to them! Plus, iTunes music service is not available in Australia anytime soon.
Refurbished 30GB iPod w/Sennheiser headphones for $390
Dealmac: MacResQ offers the reseller-refurbished Apple 30GB iPod with the Sennheiser MX500 portable headphones for $389.99. (Add both to your shopping cart and apply coupon code "IPODHP" to drop the headphones to $0.) We couldn't price the pair separately for less elsewhere. The iPod is covered by a 90-day MacResQ warranty.
How the iTunes DRM hack works
CNET News has posted information on how the recent iTunes DRM hack works.
A Healthy Way to Win an iPod (and More!)
For all those Aussies and Kiwis that seem to be excluded from any competitions to win an iPod (as they are based in US), we now get a healthy option! Blackmores is offering one of 3 Canon Digital Video Cameras, 5 10GB iPods, and 10 World Music Chill Out CD Packs to winners of a simple and fun quiz. Competition closes 12th Dec 2003. Good Luck!
Macworld UK: US legal music downloads double
"Digital music download services are exploding, with the number of US consumers downloading tracks doubling in the first half of 2003.
Ownership of MP3 players such as Apple's market leading iPod is also climbing: 19 per cent of US music downloaders own such devices - up from 12 per cent in December 2002.
A quarterly digital music behaviour report from research firmIpsos-Insight shows that in late June 2003, "roughly" one out of six (16 per cent) of US music downloaders aged 12 and older had paid to download music online. The company says this is the equivalent of 10 million people."
Refurbished 5GB iPod for $149
Dealmac: ExperCom has stock of the factory-refurbished Apple 5GB iPod for $149 plus $10.50 shipping. It's the cheapest iPod we've seen. A one-year Apple warranty applies.


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MINNEAPOLIS – The Orioles have some major league-quality starters at Norfolk, Jake Arrieta, Zach Britton, Jair Jurrjens and Josh Stinson have all started in the majors. Soon, Tsuyoshi Wada may be joining them for a rehab start.
On Friday, the Japanese left-hander threw seven hitless innings at extended spring training, striking out 10. He didn't walk anyone, but hit two batters.
Manager Buck Showalter said Wada, who underwent Tommy John surgery one year ago Saturday, is eager to get going on a long awaited minor league rehab assignment.
He'll take five days off, and then next Thursday is scheduled for a start. Both Norfolk and Bowie are at home.
"He's got to be pretty excited to get out of Sarasota," Showalter said.
The Orioles can send Wada on a 30-day rehab assignment. He's eligible to make his debut on May 30.
NOTES: Adam Jones had X-rays on his right foot on Thursday night after he fouled a ball of it. He was in the lineup. Nick Markakis was the designated hitter. Showalter doesn't like to DH Jones because his hyperactivity in the dugout annoys him.


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The New York Yankees are finally, in the words of Jeremiah Wright, observing their chickens come home to roost. After decades of doling out huge and lengthy contracts to big name stars, the likes of which other teams couldn't touch for the most part, the Yankees are now discovering the flip side of that coin. They have elderly (in baseball terms of course!) dudes dealing with injury issues. The New Yorker summarizes it beautifully.
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Celebrating Pettitte's Farewell
I've heard it said many times that Andy Pettitte is a swell guy. A good family man they say. And a man of faith to boot! What's not to like?! That answer in a moment…
Andy retired this week after nearly two decades of hurling. A baseball. The Bronx Bombers appear to be really concerned, as this news comes on the heels of their failure to lure coveted Clifford Lee to New York and their hated rivals stocking up on off-season prizes. It's really a delight to behold the Yankees' concern!
While Pettitte's longevity is impressive, what he did while on the mound caused me and many of my baseball brethren a great deal of pain. His pitching prowess in crucial, close games of October of '96 and '99 assured that decade of internet booms would be remembered more for the Evil Empire than my beloved, pitching-rich Braves. And it was his irritatingly clutch performances throughout the 2000s against my other favorite club – the Minnesota Twins – that sealed the deal on three first round defeats at the hand of the evil Yankees.
Andy Pettitte wasn't nearly the pitcher that Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, or Johan Santana were (Santana is the only name there I anticipate being arguable). But somehow he become a far greater version of himself when he faced their (and my) teams in the playoffs. Although! I made an interesting discovery just now that bolsters a suspicion I've always had — Pettitte benefited in the extreme from the stacked Evil Empire offenses with which he was paired. Case in point – Pettittes' career postseason ERA: 3.83. His career postseason wins? A major league record 19. Compare that with Greg Maddux's career postseason ERA of 3.27 and 11 wins. Intriguing! It was an emotionally taxing tendency.
Andy's bosom-buddy-ship with Roger Clemens (I like to calm him Codger Lemmons), one of the great hosers of baseball history, doesn't help on the likability front. Granted, Pettitte is now the star witness in the government's case against Clemens' for "alleged" (hohoho) artificial enhancement. So there's that. But how could you enjoy fellow-shipping with the dude who pulled stunts like this for years upon years?! Andy!
I'm grateful Andy will no longer be looming in October, and feel a great swell of hope that with his exit the curse of Twins' playoff failure against the dreaded Yankees will finally be cloven in twain. Farewell, Andy! You were a cow to us, and I wish you'd left sooner… but, I'm sure that your mother loves you very much. And that's important.
Definitive Proof that Cheering for the Yankees IS Just Like Cheering for the Soviet Union
With baseball's postseason rapidly approaching, it is time once again to bemoan the greatest evil in America's greatest game.
Although squads like the Twins & Rays have had fabulous years, they will enter into the crapshoot quest for a World Series at a distinct disadvantage. That disadvantage takes the form of the number 206 million, 333 thousand, 389. That is the payroll of the New York Yankees. It's more than twice that of the Minnesota Twins, and nearly three times that of the Tampa Bay Rays. New York isn't just using those money bags on staplers and stationary – it's giving them a massive advantage on acquiring big name free agent hurlers and sluggers.
This clear inequity gave rise to the observation that this situation is eerily like another. It was a wise Bostonian who first dubbed these Yankees "The Evil Empire", and he was precisely correct. If you are a Yankee fan, you are essentially cheering for the Soviet Union to win the Cold War.
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! YOU IGNORAMUS!" Well let's just go ahead and look at what the Soviet Union & the Yankees have / had in common shall we?…
1. A Ruthless Leader Who Would Stop at Nothing
Joseph Stalin demanded every red cent from his downtrodden peasants to support his misguided military adventures. He attempted to make friends with Adolf Hitler. George Steinbrenner exacted every penny possible from his fans with outlandish ticket prices, and used their hard earned cash to acquire morally bankrupt mercenaries like Roger Clemens, Jason Giambi & Alex Rodriguez.
2. Apparently Limitless Resources
In 1991, before Ronald Reagan and George Bush the Elder finally brought the Marxists down – the Red Soviets had corralled 8,649,538 square miles of the world's land area and held sway over 293,047,571 people. They were lording it over the Kazakhs, the Ukrainians, the Poles…. Meanwhile, the Evil Empire in New York City has boasted MLB's largest payroll for 17 of the past 25 years. They occupy the nation's largest media market by far at over 7 million households, an advantage that feeds into their ravenous over-spending. The blasted pin-stripes have even been known to convert weak-hearted denizens of Omaha and Rochester into their fans.
3. Hordes of Really Unhappy People Left in Their Wake
Communism sounds like a swell idea until you're told that the socialist utopia is achieved by forcing folks to give the government all their stuff so they bequeath it to the people who need it. And often this often turns into the government big whigs just keeping all the stuff anyway. Add to that situation the fact that the Soviets often invaded other lands wholesale… and had a tendency to kill their own people. There's a lot of displeasure that ensues.
The Yankees claim that they're America's team, and that their success somehow unifies us all into a great circle of Kumbaya chanting joy. But what about the 1996 (and 1999) Braves, huh? What about the the 2009 (and 2003… AND 2004) Twins? AND THEIR FANS? There is no joy in Mudville tonight, my friends.
4. A Sworn Enemy the Rest of the World Cheers for
As point 3 explains, when there's an Evil Empire out there trouncing on people's rights and happiness – they become significantly unpopular. This was the case for the Soviet Union in much of the world during it's reign of terror. And just as evil has good, the Red Empire had the United States and Western Europe. America and the Brits pushed back at the Soviets across the globe. Back in those days, the USA could win popularity polls pretty much everywhere. Except in France. Some things never change.
In perfect symmetry, the Yankees' vile reign has at its opposite pole a sworn enemy. The Boston Red Sox, having many a time felt the particular sting of New York's success, rose up in the last decade. They turned the tables on the barons of the Bronx and captured two world series in the 2000s. A glimmer of hope to those who yearn to breathe the free air of a baseball world devoid of the relentless tentacles of its Evil Empire.
5. Celebrity Adherents
Hollywood's dalliance with the political left is the stuff of legend. There are no quicker brutes to lampoon capitalism, the Right, and all that is good and worthy in our society and history than actors and their kind. This phenomenon is responsible for the shock you feel every time you hear that an actress or director is actually a Republican. The trend continues on the baseball field. The Yankees garner more celebrity lemmings than any other ball club. If Rudy Giuliani can be excused – than surely Jay Z, LeBron, and Christina Aguilera cannot. The Evil Empires collide once more.
So before you make your cheering choice this October, remember, your country needs you. The Western World needs you. Stand against the Evil Empire.
5 Reasons Why the Twins Will Beat the Yankees Again… Eventually
And the horrors continue for the Minnesota Twins in Yankee Stadium!
After another series loss to the lovable A-Rod and friends, TWG reaches for the positives. Here's 5 reasons why the Twins will beat the Yankees again… eventually. Minka Kelly, Barack Obama, good versus evil, Joe Nathan's elbow, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad all make appearances…
Obama & the Yankees
GooseRadio Talks Baseball
GooseRadio's David Gregory, the Emperor of Fargo, joins me to talk MLB baseball in 2010.
Target Field's awesome-ness is praised. Gregory speaks of The Minnesota Twins signing of Joe Mauer and it's necessity. He also takes a gander at Mauer's future production, Francisco Liriano's promise possibly being fulfilled, and what one piece the Twins might need to carry them to a World Series.
General thoughts on the MLB 2010 season are explored. David says this year is just like the Oklahoma Land Grab, with a bit more parity between teams. He doesn't miss the opportunity to knock on the New York Yankees, however, and points out the different outlook teams like the Twins have to have to compete with the Evil Empire.
The Atlanta Braves are touched on. Jason Heyward is really something, and kind of a pleasantly unusual story for baseball. Does Atlanta have what it takes to give the Phillies a run for their money in Bobby Cox's last season?
And lastly, can anyone get past the Yankees for the World Championship?
The Feelings Behind Joe Nathan's Elbow
Well, you can take those Minnesota Twins" "Off-season in review" pieces and add one massive asterisk (what would modern baseball be without one, really?). One of the biggest weapons the team had is now, in all likelihood, out for the year. Joe Nathan, the super door slamming closer the team has relied on at the end of games for six years was diagnosed this morning with a tear in a ligament in his pitching elbow. While the team is saying he"s going to try two weeks of cautious strength training around the injured area and then attempt to throw, the smart guys around the team say to expect the worse.
While the news itself was surprising – as the buzz around the pain he was suffering last week that led to his elbow scan didn"t sound all that serious – I was even more surprised at how I took the news. Shock and grief should have coursed through my very baseball soul in loyalty to this man and in realization of what we"ll be missing this year. After all, in the past 3 years 47, 39, and 37 games respectively. Since becoming the Twins" stopper in "04, he"s never sported an earned run average over 3.00. In fact, he"s had 4 seasons with an ERA under 2.00! That is just uncanny. When you look at how razor thin the Twins" entry into playoff baseball has been these past few trips, Nathan"s brilliance should be appreciated all the more for the role it played getting the team there.
But instead – my honest first thought on hearing the news was an emotion-less "Hmmmmm…". Granted it was early in the morning (for me) and I"ve recently had some form of flu plauge that"s reduced me to attempting to converse with my carpet and wall hangings. But still. WHY?! Why didn"t I weep or yell or something epic? I will be honest. It"s because of the playoffs. It"s because of Nathan"s meltdowns in October against the Yankees this past year and in the mid-2000s when Jo-hizzle Santana still strode to the Metrodome mound. It was because of the hope that was dashed while pumping gasoline into my car and on a brisk October evening as I listened to John Gordon detail Nathan blowing a decisive lead against New York several years ago. It was the crushing feeling in my emotion-producing-region while watching Joe surrender a lead to those disgusting pin-stripe clad miscreants once again this year.
This realization leads to some self-loathing on my part because it comes ever so close to some unfair mentalities I despise. "He"s not a gamer!" and "He"s not clutch!" are the declarations of which I speak, and they"re usually found after a formerly favorite player makes one mistake on a highly publicized stage – like the playoffs. I"ve always found this buffoonish because it often ignores a huge body of work, like a 162 game schedule full of success, in favor of dwelling on a single moment of human frailty. It"s the ultimate manifestation of the "What have you done for me lately" belief system. Yet here I am. I know I shouldn"t feel this senseless way about poor Joe, but by golly I do.
Part of what works against Joe in this scenario is the fact that, as a closer, his moment for success or failure is so short. Win or lose, he"ll probably only face 3 to 5 batters in the entire game. The whole affair can be over in a hop, skip, and a jump (sometimes off a bridge). As an Atlanta Braves fan growing up (don"t stop reading now, you can do this!), I joyfully took in season"s of starting pitching brilliance from Maddux, Glavine, and Smoltz only to be disappointed year after year with playoff defeats. I was 10 in 1995 when they won their world series, so I didn"t get to treasure it as actively as I might have liked. Each year they fell, I was able to ward off suggestions that they weren"t clutch – that they somehow weren"t big game pitchers – by pointing to the sensible train of thought from the paragraphs above. How could you malign some of the all time greats for what happened in a handful of games. Also, the individual pitchers often performed very well over the course of the whole game the team lost. Usually, they"d lose in trademark Atlanta style – 1 to 0 or 2 to 1. It was an emotional time. Joe Nathan didn"t really have that luxury though. When he gave up runs in those playoff games, the game was simply over and the appearance was deemed a failure. For stoppers like Joe, it"s a moment of glee or an instance of misery.
We all wish Joe well if he does have to undergo the dreaded Tommy John surgery. Let"s hope that the year we"ll likely spend without his dominance doesn"t serve to remind fans like me just how good we had it and how silly we were not to weep like babies when we heard of his lugubrious ligament.
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2009 In Review
2009 has been quite a year. Influenza terror, beauty pageant queens becoming national icons, and the day the world stood still while we thought a tiny and curiously named boy was flying hundreds of feet over Colorado in a balloon. In order to really ponder all the political, cultural, and sporting headlines from the year, David Gregory, and Goose Nissley join me to examine the highlights of the year that was.
Well, how can we not start this off by discussing our new Comrade, excuse me, Commander-In-Chief, Barack H. Obama? For me, the best part of his presidency so far is that it's produced this SNL skit…
Goose Nissley – President Obama was definitely the big story this year (however slightly his lead is over balloon boy). How often does a guy buy General Motors, provide an entire nation with health care, win the Nobel Peace Prize, and appear on a promo for George Lopez Tonight… ALL IN ONE YEAR?!
Alex – Plus, he got the approval evangelicals via Rick Warren, Donald Miller and the always um, relevant, Relevant Magazine, all while letting the rest of the world know that we're not a Christian nation. Win!
David Gregory – Obama ruled 2008, but 2009 is the year of Carrie Prejean. Who else can claim to have represented an entire voter base, committed actions to alienate it, and subsequently kept its support simply because of her heaving platforms? She is the epitome of the media world we live in: one sentence can make you, one sex tape can break you (or as I like to call this, the reverse Paris Hilton).
Alex – Whoa, easy, David. Goose considers Miss Prejean a shining example of moral excellence for her stance against gay marrige in the face of that great mental giant, Perez Hilton.
Goose – SAY IT AIN'T SO CARRIE! You really wanted to cheer for her / date her, especially since she was being lampooned by that unpleasant Hilton dude. There is no joy in Mudville tonight.
Well you know what else was interesting… Swi… Iii mean H1N1 flu. For months, everyone was told that we were all going to do die. Then, suddenly, absolutely nothing happened…
Alex- I actually had it twice and died twice.
David – Yeah, the Swine Flu was so media driven and ultimately unsuccessful, I thought the United States was going to elect it.
Alex – Seriously though, Kathleen Sebelius is the one who really deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for teaching us all how to sneeze correctly. I used to think my farts were sneezes, boy was I confused.
David – That's Alex's Illinois education shining through again. Speaking of an Illinois education, we haven't broached Helmet Hair yet…
Alex – Helmet Hair?
David – I'm sorry Alex, maybe you were unaware of a certain controversy in your home state. Governor Rod Blagojevich was impeached at the beginning of 2009 under the allegation that he sold former Senator Barack Obama's congressional seat.
Goose – AND YET… he still garnered a book deal! Everyone wrote books this year! Helmet Hair, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Carrie Prejean, Andre Agassi…
Does anyone even read books anymore?
Alex – Nope, they're too busy giving their snarky commentary on pseudo-political, pseudo-legitimate blogs.
I actually did read Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper this year and now I feel bad about watching television no matter what I'm watching, even if it's Christian television, like Joel Osteen or Desperate Housewives.
Goose – And who says Conservatives are narrow minded…
Alex – I'm just trying to embrace multiple worldviews, you know, coexist and such…
Then again, that sort of anything goes, Laissez-faire attitude is what caused our current economical woes, thanks a lot Dubya.
David – And now we get to the heart of the matter: Dubya redux. Politically, socially and economically, 2009 was the year of people blaming the previous administration for everything that followed it. Why can't Obama get anything done? He's cleaning up the Bush mess. Why can't Wall Street right itself? Too much free-market legislation in the previous two decades. Why can't Hillary Clinton look like an attractive woman? Aging that occurred DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
And so on.
Goose – Hohohoho… Aging that occurred during… that was good stuff…
Hmmm. President Obama might want to look more northeast to seek the true source of the year's ills. The Evil Empire is on the march once again. The New York Yankees purchased another World Series in 2009. Bleh.
David – Umm… Tiger Woods has been in the news lately. He didn't win a major championship this year. Which makes sense: it's tough to beat the field when you're playing it! (Jay Leno-like head bobble)...
Goose – If I was married to Elin Nordegren I wouldn't have gone on the prowl that way.
I do think it's time for us to declare our favorite happenings of the year…
For me it's a tie between the Minnesota Twins win in Game 163 of the MLB season & Al Gore reading aloud his climate change poem on Harry Smith's CBS program.
Alex – The Blink-182 reunion and subsequent reunion tour. A lot of old bands got back together this year; nostalgia was the new black. It's probably because people really miss the days of Dubya.
David – From a sports perspective, the University of North Carolina men's basketball team winning the national championship made me jump up and down unlike the Baptist that I am. From a cultural perspective, anything R Kelly does is the highlight of my American life.
A Very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! May your holidays be filled with a general sense of well being.
Kutcher, Palin & Prejean
TWG Podcast Volume 36
What's the lesson that Carrie Prejean's recent exploits can teach us in the Christian right? And what do Carrie & Alex Rodriguez have in common?
Should Ashton Kutcher's tweets be treated as a source of political wisdom?
Where do Palin, the Huck, and T-Paw stand as we look toward 2012?
Are the Yankees bad for baseball?
All these questions are answered by 'The Angry Journalist' David Gregory as he joins Goose on the 36th weekly edition of the TWG Podcast.
Pupose Driven Politics – This Week w/Goose Volume 7
Senator Obama and Senator McCain head to Rick Warren's church for a forum on faith next month.
People are sometimes jerks – a South Dakotan attacks my friend and I am anatagonized.
The New York Yankees make me angry, and We Don't Need Wires to Send TV Signals Around Our Houses Now… what is this new devilry?


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Supermodel Elle Macpherson is returning to acting with a recurring role on CW's drama pilot "Beautiful Life."
The CBS Par-produced project revolves around a group of models living together in a co-ed residence in New York.
Macpherson will play Claudia, the owner of Focus Models, the top modeling agency in New York. She is an '80s supermodel who is still in great shape and runs her business with the efficiency and toughness of a dictator.
Like her character, Macpherson was an '80s supermodel. In fact, together with Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Paulina Porizkova and Cindy Crawford, she became part of the first generation of supermodels.
In the 1990s, she segued into acting. But after appearing in a string of movies, including "The Edge," "If Lucy Fell" and "Batman & Robin" and recurring on NBC's "Friends" in the late 1990s, Macpherson left Hollywood to focus on her business empire, whose portfolio of products includes workout videos, calendars, lingerie and beauty products.
Now Macpherson, repped by Fortitude, is making her acting comeback with "Beautiful Life."
In the pilot, she joins Mischa Barton, Ben Hollingsworth, Sara Paxton, Ashley Madekwe and Nico Tortorella.


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By tully | "Boredom at Its Boredest" by Michael Tully July 16, 2005 at 12:41PM
Phase 2
Still waiting on critical feedback from three pairs of eyes, but I'm heading back to Crofton today to do another pass on this thing. Hoping to cut out three or four more minutes. I have some solid ideas. Most importantly, if we're able to fix that one major problem, I'll feel good.
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John Kerry, less than two weeks into his new job, has joined the long list of U.S. secretaries of states who expressed firm resolve to deter North Korea from advancing its nuclear weapons program.
But such determination was expressed before — and after — the Stalinist regime first obtained a nuclear weapon more than six years ago.
Thus, the tyrants who run North Korea have heard it all — and defied it all — many times before.
And while the Kim dynasty, now headed by Kim Jong Un, has provided the outside world some dark amusement over the decades, its comic relief has dwindled as its nuclear arsenal has grown.
And North Korea hasn't only made frightful progress on nuclear weapons. It has advanced its missile program, too.
North Korea recently conducted an underground test of its smallest nuclear weapon yet. The smaller those weapons are, the closer North Korea gets to producing one that could be carried by a missile.
On the missile front, after a series of embarrassing failures, North Korea finally succeeded two months ago in launching a rocket that soared over Okinawa and dropped debris into the East China Sea and waters near the Philippines.
Ponder the chilling combination of a nuclear warhead that would fit on a missile and a missile that can travel long distances. Ponder North Korea's improvement in controlling the course of such a missile.
Ponder the distance from North Korea to South Korea, Japan — and Alaska, or even the West Coast.
At least Secretary Kerry said the right things last week about North Korea's latest nuclear arms test.
He called for international teamwork on a "swift, clear, strong and credible response." He stressed that mere words from the global community would not suffice: "If you are going to say things, they have to mean something. And to mean something you have to be prepared to follow up, and that's exactly what we are prepared to do."
The familiar and intensifying problem, though, is that past talk — and past economic sanctions — haven't dissuaded North Korea from its reckless policies. The regime has long poured considerable resources into weaponry while many of its people starve.
Meanwhile, despite America's repeated appeals for China to bring North Korea into line, it has yet to do so.
At least China did condemn last week's nuclear weapons test. But China has scolded North Korea before, even as that rogue nation keeps striving toward ominous nuclear options.
At this alarming point, however, the U.S. must again try to re-focus not just China but the rest of the world on the increasingly urgent need to deter North Korea's martial — and nuclear — ambitions.
That means stricter sanctions, realistic negotiations and renewed vigilance in forging international unity on this high-priority challenge.
And judging from the long-term futility of numerous secretary of state predecessors on this harrowing menace, Mr. Kerry should know that "to follow up" on tough talk against North Korea remains a daunting task.
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June 8, 2011
DES MOINES, Iowa---Three New Mexico athletes competed at the NCAA Division I Track & Field Championships on Wednesday. The event features 10 Lobo athletes and will continue through Saturday.
Sophomore Richard York is currently in 20th place in the national decathlon race with 3,782 points. Thursday will conclude the decathlon events.
In the women's 10,000-meter run, Ruth Senior finished her time at UNM with a ninth-place spot, crossing the finish line in 35:04.52.
Senior Alesha Walker leapt to a distance of 20-2.25 (6.15 meters) in the women's long jump to finish 18th.
David Bishop (1,500), Keith Gerrard (10,000) and Django Lovett will be competing on Thursday for the Lobos.


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'Men's Clipper Cuts' to be offered 4 times
HUNTINGTON -- A continuing education workshop titled "Men's Clipper Cuts" will be offered on four upcoming dates.
The workshop, open to all licensed barbers and cosmetologists, will take place from 10 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Feb. 17, April 14, June 9 and Nov. 17. Attendance at one class fulfills the four-hour continuing education requirement for state re-licensure for 2014.
Attendees must bring a live model, clippers, comb and shears. Registration and payment are due one week prior to class date. Space is limited.
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State finals
Where: IUPUI, Indianapolis
When: 6 p.m. today; 9 a.m. diving, semifinals; 1 p.m. finals, Saturday
Admission: $8 per session or $12 both days
FORT WAYNE — Carroll senior swimmer Blaine Nichols is keeping his goals for the state finals pretty simple and somewhat private.
"My goals for the postseason include having a great experience at state, other than that I am going to keep my major goals within my team," he said.
"I am looking to have an unforgettable meet. Whatever happens I have worked my butt off day in and day out and cannot possibly be mad with the outcome at state. I will be going faster than I ever have, setting myself up for times that I have dreamed about since freshman year."
Last year at the state finals, Nichols was fifth in the 100 breaststroke and ninth in the 200 IM.
Nichols, a team captain, won a sectional title last Saturday at the South Side Sectional in the 100-yard breaststroke (58.34) and is seeded 12th at this weekend's state finals at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis. He also finished second in the 200 IM (1:56.51) and is seeded No. 22 at state.
He has been ranked in the top five this season in the 100 breaststroke and top 10 in the 200 IM.
The Indiana University recruit has been named to the All-NHC first team for four years and holds multiple school and conference records.
Nichols' coach, John Gibson, said the four-year state qualifier has done what it takes to steadily improve over the years.
"Blaine pushes himself not only every day, but in every training set, every training repeat we do," Gibson said. "He is one of the most focused, dedicated, hard working, self-motivated athletes I have ever coached and is constantly looking for ways to improve, whether it's through dry-land, weight training or stroke technique. Blaine is very coachable and always open to trying new things."
At swimmer since the age of 4, the four-year letter-winner didn't get serious in the sport until high school.
"I started swimming in order to learn how to swim with some friends of my family," he said. "A year later I decided that I wanted to swim as something more than recreation, and so I joined Three Rivers Aquatic Club.
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My latest attempt at a scarf. The pattern is from Son of Stitch and Bitch but I chose darker, more wintery colours: A dark blue and a lighter three-colour wool to contrast with it. I also added a Welsh Dragon to the centre - just for fun.
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very impressive. Actually scarves are the only thing I can say I knit well, but nothing like yours mate. hats up
Awesome work! Very impressive dragon. I have not yet tackled any kind of color work but this is inspiring.
Thanks guys for your kind comments. I started by drawing a dragon (copied from our local newspaper's heading) by filling in blocks on a piece of squared paper and just copied it using red for the dragon and blue for the spaces - I'm pleased with it and it was fun to see it emerging from the knitting as I progressed. As it is double-sided knitting I should really have used Red and White - that way I could have worn the Red Dragon at home (National Symbol of Wales) and the White Dragon (English National Symbol) when I go back and visit my family in London!
Thanks for explaining the dragon. I am very tempted to work up something for a future project.
Simon, I love your use of color, and I think the pattern is one that people are going stop you and ask you where you got it. Hope you kept that original.
Love the Welsh dragon! ...I'm working on a waistcoat with griphons that look a bit like your dragon...never realized the similarity...
WOW! Stunning. Really stunning. Would love to hear how you did the dragon. Beautiful work.
Amazing work!
Great knitting and that dragon is fantastic. Is there a chart you used, or did you come up with it yourself?
Lovely colours Simon. Your dragon will be popular in Wales.
You are all very kind. And I am definately not better than you chipsir - your scarf is great and I love the colours you chose. Unfortunately Spring has not arrived just yet - the sheep are still shivering in the fields and not willing to give-up their wool just yet!.
I wish I could do the colorwork as easily as you seem to be able to...I'm still getting there!
The scarf is lovely, Simon. Beautiful choice of pattern and colours. Has spring arrived in Wales?
Oh this is nice, you are much better at this than I am.


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Recently I carelessly continued to play music on YouTube on my mobile phone for a long time and have used a packet capacity too far! Now the internet connection is very bad unless I buy more packet!
My Computer :)
I use mobile and laptop.. :)
I use my laptop and my mobile with touchscreen.
I use mobil and laptop.
I usually use telephone and computer
İ use mobil and computer.
I use a computer.
I would like this telephone,computer,game
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I would like this game. advise
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The game was to easy but I like it ! :)
I use the word email and mobile
The things that we use most are the mobile and the laptop
I use touchscreen(ipad), email and mobile more.
I use laptop, email and mobile I send many mails daily and I can't imagine the life without laptop, it provides us with many informations.
i use most computer and websites.Also the mouse.
I use change thing but most computer and website !!!!!!
I use mobile a lot.
I use most website and laptop...
I use mobile a lot.
these games are very good and taught me so much fun and learned new words. is very important to increase your English vocabulary for use at all times and to have good English language ayudaraá me to work and succeed in life.
i like this game because it`s interesting and fun but we need things which are more hard than this
i would like this game but I think that was very easy and also very fun
i like this game because only with the images and the words you can learn a lot
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in the second image,is the object called "the game" or do u mean the game itself,because i think we call the object "joystick"
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You're right - the image we're using to represent 'game' is a joystick. Your vocabulary is excellent! :)
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704216740379817173.post8462311688685962206..comments2015-07-19T13:10:18.495-07:00Comments on Stories of my Ancestors: LOUIS PINARDLori Ehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704216740379817173.post-67003214202697613592013-03-10T11:56:38.446-07:002013-03-10T11:56:38.446-07:00This tree is confusing as heck I need help lol...s...This tree is confusing as heck I need help lol...someone email me at email@example.com....Dr. Louis Pinard is my 8th great grandfather....Heeelp i won't be able to sleep again until i have finished this treeMichael Dello Iaconohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704216740379817173.post-61324362695043646382013-01-13T12:18:38.402-08:002013-01-13T12:18:38.402-08:00Lil I tried to contact you through your profile. N...Lil I tried to contact you through your profile. Not sure if I have the right person as the name doesn't match. Lori Ehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704216740379817173.post-34916320616950821312013-01-13T12:16:34.387-08:002013-01-13T12:16:34.387-08:00Hi I too am nuts on genealogy and descend from two...Hi I too am nuts on genealogy and descend from two sons of Louis Pinard. My 5G Antoine and Guillaume. Guillaume through Jean BAptiste and Antoine through Marie Francoise From your list of ancestors I assume we may have a lot closer link.
I too ahve a ton of information. Lil Auntie Lilhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704216740379817173.post-42044509461905647252013-01-13T12:12:08.808-08:002013-01-13T12:12:08.808-08:00Hi I too am nuts on genealogy and descend from two...Hi I too am nuts on genealogy and descend from two sons of Louis Pinard. My 5G Antoine and Guillaume. Guillaume through Jean BAptiste and Antoine through Marie Francoise From your list of ancestors I assume we may have a lot closer link.
I too ahve a ton of information. Lil Auntie Lilhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704216740379817173.post-64902516854233293242010-06-11T11:10:22.893-07:002010-06-11T11:10:22.893-07:00oops, I mean Antoine through 1st wife HERTEL! any...oops, I mean Antoine through 1st wife HERTEL! anyway, I e-mailed you the docsVicky firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704216740379817173.post-3087806881943776862010-06-11T10:59:49.531-07:002010-06-11T10:59:49.531-07:00I am also a descendant of Louis Pinard and Antoine...I am also a descendant of Louis Pinard and Antoine Pinard (first wife Marie-Madeleine Pepin. All 12 children are listed on pg 918 of the Jeté and I have them listed on my anscestory.com pg if you would like to crib the info; also some Drouin docs my grandfather had done in 1952 privately. I will e-mail you the links.Vicky firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704216740379817173.post-24709929164555530532010-01-05T17:44:19.143-08:002010-01-05T17:44:19.143-08:00lw, I have no way of contacting you? My tree show...lw, I have no way of contacting you?
My tree shows Marguerite Pinard, a daughter of Louis Pinard and Madeleine Hertel, being married to Francois Reiche in 1693.
Spelling is often slightly different. Do you think this is your line?
You can email me directly if you like by clicking on the email button on the top of the side bar of this page.Lori Ehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704216740379817173.post-25992787574087066862010-01-05T17:20:48.307-08:002010-01-05T17:20:48.307-08:00My mother's maiden name is Raiche, and I am al...My mother's maiden name is Raiche, and I am also a descendant of Louis Pinard. My cousin, Brian Riley, found some of Pinard's papers in my Grandmother's attic (a story about a statue of the Virgin that cried real tears, and lists of household items involved in a marriage contract) and sent copies to the library at Three Rivers for assistance in translating them from 17th century French. My Grandmother was Macel Raiche, she was married to Clement Raiche, and my great-grandfather was Denis Raiche. The wonderful librarian turned out to be a Raiche cousin. I sometimes think about visiting Canada just to see if everyone looks like my Raiche relatives. It would make me feel right at home.lwhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704216740379817173.post-87871456814607481482009-07-30T17:32:56.723-07:002009-07-30T17:32:56.723-07:00Louis Pinard is also my 6th Great Grandfather. My ...Louis Pinard is also my 6th Great Grandfather. My great grandfather Abraham (John) Raiche, moved to Maple Lake, Minnesota from Canada. My grandfather left Maple Lake and moved back to Canada where my tree has been planted and my twigs and twiglettes have grown.

I got hooked on genealogy in 1999 when I went on a Homecoming tour to Orkney in Northern Scotland. The tour was for the descendents of the Hudson Bay Co. employees. It was supposedly for my husband's ancestors but I caught the geni bug and have been swinging on many trees ever since.

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Chef Joe Wagner elevates fare from generic to fine at The Hornet's Nest
Wagner says his secret is that he loves his job
Those who know Chef Joe Wagner know him as the chef at The Hornet's Nest, where he has worked, except for a short hiatus, since 1991, or as the drummer behind The Relics, a popular local retro-rock cover band.
Wagner, with his laid-back attitude and pervasive sense of dry humor, embraces his persona as an old hippie; but he also is proud of the culinary persona he's given The Hornet's Nest, transforming it from the generic neighborhood tavern he found over 20 years ago to a well-recognized steakhouse.
Wagner was born in Florida and got into the restaurant business early. Too early, really.
"My dad died when I was 12 and I started working in restaurants when I was 14," he said. "I had to do something and who else was going to hire a kid? But I was a big kid; I started at a place called Pegleg's. I did dishes for a couple months, then did some bussing, but that didn't last long. Then I did prep and I was cooking within a few months. So, man, I've got like 37 years in this racket."
When Wagner's mother passed away when he was only 16, he moved to Evansville, where his oldest brother was living.
"That was in 1979," he said. "My brother worked for ITT, and I took courses for electronic engineering, but then he got relocated to Boise, Idaho, just a few months later. He said, 'you coming with us?' and I was, like, 'you want me to move from Florida to a place where there's snow half the year? I don't think so.'"
So Wagner stayed in Evansville and stayed in the restaurant business. He opened with Mattingly's 23 and was there for five years, among other cooking jobs.
He came to the Hornet's Nest in 1991, when it was a tavern similar to the Frontier Tavern in Daylight and the Darmstadt Inn. "All the places up here had the same everything," he said. "The same menus, same prices.
"The first day I went into the walk-in refrigerator and there was like 20 buckets of fiddlers in there, and I asked which ones were new and which were old. And everybody was like, 'Uh, I dunno.' So I go sticking my nose in the buckets, like 'this one ain't gonna work,' and 'this one ain't gonna go.'
"I remember buying our first two skillets at Brocken's," he said. "Before that it was just fried chicken and fried fiddlers, no sauteed dishes at all. The owner was like 'what you doing, you just went and spent $40.' I did a chicken picatta that night and we charged I think seven bucks for it, and by the end of the night the skillets had paid for themselves. They were freakin' when I went and bought two skillets, and now we have about 30 skillets back there and I'll go through them two or three times a night. At 6 p.m. you won't find a table in here. There's a lot of ball parks up here, soccer, softball and the golf course."
In 2007, Wagner left the Hornet's Nest for an opportunity to become part-owner of the Hollywood Grill restaurants associated with Showplace Cinemas. "I wanted a nice little steak and seafood house on the North Side," he said, "But the ideas just changed."
Eventually, Wagner moved on, working as a Sous Chef at Evansville Country Club and at Doc's Stringtown Inn. In the meantime, The Hornet's Nest was acquired by Derek and Amber Ungethein, who, in their first year of ownership, heard tales from both employees and customers about the legendary Joe Wagner.
"The customers liked things a certain way," he said. "Derek and Amber heard 'back when Joe was here' a lot. I heard about it through the grapevine, and I made a call and we had some negotiations."
Wagner has been back nearly a year. When he returned, "the customers' love was the biggest rush. I felt like a politician, I'm hugging people and kissing babies and old ladies.
"Now we're getting things back to where it used to be as a really premier steakhouse."
The menu contains steaks and prime rib, tenderloins, chicken, pasta and seafood. The meat and seafood is hand-cut and hand-breaded, if fried; even the fabulous onion rings are homemade. The recipes are almost all Wagner's. A new specialty of his is chicken Rockefeller — chicken breast topped with a creamy spinach sauce. He also recommends the stuffed orange roughy and said they go through 120 pounds of hand-breaded chicken tenders a week.
Something brand new for the restaurant is a bustling events catering business.
Like Wagner, The Hornet's Nest building has a long history. "This place was a stagecoach stop years ago," he said. "It's been here forever. The backroom was living quarters back in the day, and this dining room was the dining area. I still have the iron skillets that they used way back then. Then these cats from the Discovery Channel were here and spent the night in the basement trying to find a ghost. Seriously, you can see it on YouTube. com. I been here a long time and seen some weird stuff, but I've never seen a ghost."
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If caught, they are imprisoned, taken to court and expelled. Yet, since they often come from countries where they may experience violence for their odyssey, their expulsion is forbidden even by Israeli government regulations. Yet, the Population Authority of the latter had recently started to break governmental directives with the silent approval of Israel's Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs. Judge Eliahu Bitan not only knew that, but he became a willingly cooperator in this deadly policy. Requesting refuge due to evils caused by an oppressive government is a basic human right, it was recognized by the UN as international law in 1994; nobody can be jailed for that. Yet, on March 7, 2013, the Army Radio reported that the judge had decided to leave Simon Waldo, an Eritrean refugee, in Saharonim Prison, where he had been for the last six months. The judge said that Mr. Waldo's torture in the Sinai cannot justify his being released. Instead, he decided to add a chapter of Israeli torture to Mr. Waldo's life; being imprisoned with no reason is torture. "Let them learn not to violate the Zionist State!" was the judge's bestial message. He rejected article 30 of Israel's Law for the Prevention of Infiltration, which instruct judges to release infiltrators for humanitarian reasons. The inhuman judge claimed that since almost all infiltrators via the Sinai experience violence, the article cannot be sanctioned. He failed to mention the threshold number. Honorable Israeli Judge Bitan, would you have ruled the same for Jewish refugees escaping Auschwitz?
On March 4, the illegitimate expulsion of Africans via Egypt by Israel (initially deduced here) was proven after an Eritrean refused to leave Cairo for his country. He was threatened by Israel with three years in prison if he didn't leave willingly; this is called extortion. States are not supposed to engage in it. The following day Israel's Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein ordered the country's courts to stop expelling Eritreans, recognizing that the "willing deportation" document that the refugees were forced to sign was illegal. Two days later, Judge Bitan understood the message and left Mr. Waldo illegally in prison. He is a proud Israeli judge, he can decide whatever he wants. No law will restrict him. Judge of Israel, perpetrator of crimes against humanity. The United Nations requested from Israel explanations on related criminal behaviors already on February 27. As of now, Israel has not complied. Why should they? They are Holocaust survivors; hence, they can commit any crime their cold hearts wish.
Yet, the judge is correct on principle. Oppressive laws designed to benefit the few while violating the many cannot be accepted as legitimate. They are legal in the same way that the Nazi laws were legal, but they are not legitimate. Israel crossed the threshold from legal laws to illegitimate laws many years ago. They remember Hitler only when it is profitable.
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Midfielder Almen Abdi insists Watford's resolute defence were at the heart of their 2-1 win at promotion rivals Middlesbrough on Saturday.
The Hornets put in a disappointing first-half display at the Riverside but remained in the contest thanks to a staunch rearguard action.
And the visitors took full advantage thanks to Matej Vydra's brace, the first coming just before half-time before a second seven minutes from the end.
Scott McDonald grabbed a consolation for Boro with virtually the last touch of the game, but it was Watford who headed back to Hertfordshire with all three points to strengthen their grip on sixth place in the Championship table.
"We showed our quality after half-time, but before that we had to rely on our defenders to make sure we still had a chance to win the game," Abdi told the club's official website.
"The first half was very tough. Our manager told us about how Middlesbrough like to play at home and that he believed the match to be a six points type game because of the teams' placings in the division.
"Our defenders won it for us. We couldn't have scored the goals to make it matter if they hadn't played as well as they did.
"In the second half we did very much better and I thought we deserved the win when you take the whole game into consideration."
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