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The incoming leader of the National Rifle Association, the largest gun lobby in the US, has told supporters they're at the front line of a 'culture war', fighting for the right to bear arms. The association's annual convention is in it's second day in the southern state of Texas. Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from Houston, where gun control advocates aren't giving up.


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TARZANA, Calif. (March 6, 2012) - The New Mexico State women's golf team concluded play in the Bruin-Wave Invitational at El Caballero Country Club Course on Tuesday finishing 12th out of 15 teams, moving up one spot from their first-day finish.
The Aggies total score of 975 was heavily aided by a strong finish from sophomore Demi Mak who finished the day with a 2-over-par 74, tying her for the overall low score of the round. Mak, who was tied for 25th heading into the final round, finished the tournament tied with three other golfers for 11th with an overall score of 229.
Mak was the only Aggie golfer to post scores in the 70s in all three rounds. She finished with a total of six birdies, which is made more impressive when you consider she had no birdies in the first round. She finished her final round on Tuesday with four birdies, including two on her final nine holes where she shot a 1-under-par 35. Mak's round of 74 was only matched by Ani Gulugian, a top 50 golfer from UCLA, who also finished tied for 11th along with Mak.
Unfortunately, while Mak was moving up the leaderboard her teammate was heading the opposite way. NM State sophomore Mieke Canan finished the first day of play as the Aggie score leader and was tied for 19th overall. Her final round, however, didn't go as planned. Canan finished her final round with an 89, her highest score of the tournament. Her round included nine bogeys and four double bogeys. While Canan had a total of four birdies in the first two rounds, she had none in her final round. Canan finished with a total score 243, placing her in a tie for 46th.
As for the rest of the Aggie golfers, senior Ashley Elias finished tied for 60th with a total score of 251, freshman Laura Barron finished tied for 69th with a total score of 256, sophomore Amelie Buhl finished 78th with a total score of 269 and sophomore Lindsay Reeve, who was playing as an individual, finished 80th with a total score of 281.
Overall, the tournament championship came down to three top 25 teams, co-hosts Pepperdine University and UCLA, and Oklahoma State University. After the first two rounds Pepperdine had an 11-stroke lead over Oklahoma State and a 15-stroke lead over UCLA. The Bruins, however, made a dramatic final-round charge on Tuesday posting a final round score of 302. Although they drastically cut into their 15-stroke deficit, it wasn't enough and their total score of 905 fell two strokes shy of the lead. Pepperdine went on to win the tournament with a total score of 903.
San Diego State's Christine Wong won the individual title while holding off a couple of Pepperdine golfers and a UCLA golfer. Wong's total score of 219 was four strokes better than Pepperdine's Alina Ching and five strokes ahead of UCLA's Erynne Lee and Pepperdine's Grace Na.
NM State now heads to St. George, Utah, to play in the BYU at Entrada Classic hosted by the Brigham Young University women's golf team, who coincidentally finished right behind the Aggies at the Bruin-Wave Invitational in 13th place. The tournament is scheduled for March 19-20. For further information and to keep up with the Aggies women's golf team log on to NMStateSports.com.


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For many years, the hard rock and metal genre was predominantly populated with white male musicians, but from the late '80s on there were more rockers breaking that color barrier. Sevendust frontman Lajon Witherspoon was one such artist who did so, and he spoke about finally meeting one of the musicians who helped break the barrier during an appearance on the 'Talk Is Jericho' podcast with Chris Jericho.
Rock on the Range Lineup Change! Motorhead and Skindred Out; Who's In?
Sad news for some of us heading to Rock on the Range.
Motorhead and Skindred have had to pull out of the festival.
This makes me sad, since I'm a huge Motorhead fan, and I love their live shows.
But two great bands have been added to replace them.
Check Out Living Colour's Rig Rundowns – The Most Complicated Setups EVER
The coolest thing about YouTube is the access we now have to guitar stuff. Rig rundowns, guitar lessons, gear reviews where we can actually hear the stuff...and you can see how your favorite guitar players get the sounds they get!
And, of course, the lovely Rebecca Dirks. Although she seems to have disappeared from all the recent Rig Rundowns. I'm sad.
Check out this RR she did with the guys in Living Colour. Not only are they great players, they perform at such a high level while navigating the most complicated setups I've ever seen!
Living Colour Guitarist Vernon Reid Questions Red Hot Chili Peppers' Super Bowl Performance
In a Super Bowl short on drama, one of the highlights of the event was seeing Red Hot Chili Peppers performing alongside Bruno Mars at the Super Bowl halftime show. But the performance is now garnering some criticism for its apparent lack of authenticity.
Living Colour To Perform Live At Wrestlemania
Living Colour announced on their Facebook page that they will perform their hit "Cult of Personality" live at Wrestlemania 29 this Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey.


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Unknown, likely Germanic – compare Dutch spraak ("speech"), spreek ("speak"),spreuk ("saying").
spruik (third-person singular simple present spruiks, present participle spruiking, simple past and past participle spruiked)
- (transitive, Australia) To promote a thing or idea to another person.
- 1948, Louis Esson, Louis Esson and the Australian Theatre, page 18,
- There was no spruiking or showmanship, no flash shirts or ten-gallon hats.
- 2008 December 30, Lennon spruiks laptop 28 years after his death, The Sydney Morning Herald.
- 2011, Kylie Ofiu, Work as a spruiker, 365 Ways to Make Money, page 120,
- It can be a hard job, constantly on your feet, trying to think of things to say to lure people into the store you are spruiking for.
- 1948, Louis Esson, Louis Esson and the Australian Theatre, page 18,
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You know why it's getting canceled right? Because of ratings. We just need to get enough people to watch the show, and they will be forced to renew it!
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Firefly was sabotaged, aired in the wrong order, skipped some weeks, barely advertised etc. and i dont watch futurama on air so they cant really use ratings as a basis of whether to cancel a show, and the people that make these decisions are bad at making them and almost always have been, they should hire someone that browses the internet regularly, that actually knows what people talk about, debate and reference.
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We teach people to "Just say NO," but can everyone? Consider the question from two viewpoints: patient and provider.
Can a patient just say NO? Can a patient say NO to care, even if that care that might save his or her life? Why would someone choose death? Some providers conclude that such a person is depressed or crazy. If the former, give Zoloft. If the latter, then the person is incompetent and decision-making authority can be taken away. A Dartmouth Center Study reports that many elderly patients may not want "everything possible" done for/to them. When they try to place limits on their care, they meet great resistance from the medical providers.
Terri Schiavo or Nataline Sarkisyan both made national headlines while in vegetative states. They were unable to say NO to a feeding tube or a liver transplant respectively. Their families spoke for them and emphatically said yes! Suppose the girls had left living wills stating that they did not want to be sustained on life support. There are numerous cases showing where the State sided with families against the expressed wishes of the patient.
There are medical circumstances where the patient cannot "just say NO."
Can a health care provider just say NO? Can a provider say NO to medical care that is desired by the patient?
If a pregnant woman – her circumstances aside – requests an abortion, must the doctor do it? Different hospitals have rules in either direction: requiring the doctor to do the procedure if medically appropriate, or prohibiting the doctor from performing the procedure though medically indicated. In either case, the doctor's personal "right to refuse" is compromised.
Can a soldier say NO to an order that he or she thinks is immoral or illegal? The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials proved that – except on the battlefield in time of war – the soldier can (and should.) Does the same principle apply to a healthcare provider?
Are there any circumstances where a nurse can refuse to implement an attending doctor's orders? How about a pharmacist who has religious objections to providing birth control or moral qualms about anti-HIV drugs? Can that person refuse to fill a legally written prescription? What if he or she is the only pharmacist in town?
The doctors caring for 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan thought that a liver transplant was inappropriate on both medical and moral grounds. They tried to say NO. The insurance company supported the doctors' position and denied authorization. Result: the family called a press conference and sued both claiming that they could not "say NO" to any possible medical care.
Bottom lineThere are circumstances where either patient or health care provider is not allowed to "just say NO."


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It seems like if Pires cannot play, it would make the most sense to play Reyes on the wing in Pires' position and have RvP in the Bergkamp role as withdrawn striker. Isn't that RvP's best position as opposed to putting him on the wing?
Hmm that does make sense. Reyes does seem to work some magic out there on the wing Wenger usually knows whats best so it will be interesting to see what he comes up with.
"Arsene knows" is a much used and worthy mantra around here.
I am curious to see if RvP plays well. Reyes, IMO, will play well no matter where he's played....okay maybe not center-back.
AW has mentioned that he plans to use RvP more centrally than he's been used in the past. Perhaps the writers are thinking about how he was used in Holland.
Okay. I mistakenly thought he had played more centrally for Feyenoord.
When I saw Robin play for Feyenoord, it was usually wide left. I recall reading a few interviews where he noted a preference for the more central role.
IIRC that's what started the arguments with the manager and earned him his "difficult" reputation.
Yup, yup.
I personally want to see him get a few games in the slot behind Henry - I started watching him whenever I could last season after the transfer rumors started, and he's got quality. Good with his head as well (witness the near header in the Community Shield).
Wenger said to Arsenal.com last week that Van Persie would be playing in a central role, as that's what he sees as his best position. Wenger also said when Reyes was bought that that's what his future role would be. Has Wenger realized that Reyes' best position is anywhere on the teamsheat?
I can't wait to see van Persie. I think he'll be a monster. He'll be our version of Alan Smith. Tough, ready to battle and won't quit. For us to be successful we'll need 3 or 4 top class strikers. No way we can compete for CL, PL and domestic cup honors with 2 or 3. That's where van Persie comes in. Reyes, Henry, van Persie and frankly one more, maybe Aliadiere. Bergkamp won't be around in a year or two. We'll need 4 because of injuries as well.
I would actually put van Persie up front with Henry and Reyes on the wing for the Rosenborg game.
Bentley plays just off the main striker and the new guy Lupoli is scoring for fun in the reserves at the moment. That's six!
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Step 1: Charge the Mic
Before you begin recording with the Tegrity (or xTag) mic, connect the USB cord to the base, plug the cord into a USB port on your computer or other USB charger, set the mic into the base unit, and let the mic charge until the light on top of the mic turns green.
This may take up to two hours. In a pinch, you can do a "quick charge" of only 45 minutes, which will get you to 80% of a full charge if the mic isn't already partly charged when you start.
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Your mic is charged. The base is plugged into the computer you will use to record your lecture. You have lifted the mic out of the base and unmuted it so the light on top flashes green.
Now, make sure the sound is getting to the Tegrity recorder.
If it is, you will see a green indicator respond as you talk into the mic. You may want to tap the mic a couple times to make sure the indicator responds to sound coming from the wireless mic, not from another mic, such as the one built into your computer.
If you are not getting sound from the wireless mic, you may need to click the "Settings" button and choose the Revolabs xTag mic to be your audio source. Or on a Mac, choose the xTag mic from the "Microphone" menu.
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SACRAMENTO, CA - Matt Barnes found out early Tuesday morning his deal with the Toronto Raptors had fallen apart, putting the Sacramento native back on the NBA free agent market.
"I had a deal, I thought I was going to Toronto yesterday but part of the sign and trade fell through," Barnes told News10's Bryan May.
Barnes who played with Orlando last year was supposed to have a two-year 10 million dollar deal with the Raptors, but the Magic could not afford the contract to the make the trade happen.
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Sharing A Hotel RoomIn college over spring break, my boyfriend at the time and a friend and her boyfriend decided to cut costs by sharing a hotel room. There were two queen beds, so we could split the cost 4 ways and have a very cheap trip. The night in particular was raining and not conducive to going out anywhere, so we had a number of drinks in the room, and had a good time. The booze ended up making us all pretty horny, so rather than kick anyone out, we mutually agreed that we didn't have any issue with having sex in the same room. We both stayed with our own partners, but it was a little thrilling to be having sex with other people in the room within eyesight. This experience kind of turned me on to having sex with an audience.
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My roommate and I would have boyfriends stay over. The one who didn't have a boyfriend visiting that weekend would generally try to stay away from the room enough to allow plenty of time for sexual activity. Still, you know how at night you can want to enjoy the guy in bed with you, so she and her boy friend would have sex and I would be awake and I could always hear them and sometimes there would be enough light (campus lighting, moon light, etc.) coming in the window to allow me to see much of the action. Assuming I was asleep, they didn't try to hide beneath covers. I would ********** while watching them. The same thing would happen when I had a boyfriend stay over. Eventually it was obvious that the one of us having sex was aware that the other was probably awake and watching (and ************) and didn't let it interfere with our fun -- in fact it added a bit of spice. Most of the guys were pretty much clueless (or, perhaps they liked it and figured if they let us know that we might stop it).
That is a lovely story! Thank you for sharing. If I were one of those guys then knowing the roommate was having some fun of her own would have sent me over the moon!
I found it always added to the overall effect and enjoyment to hear, see, smell, feel, the other couple going through it at the same time we did. Sometimes the all got so "involved" we actually slid close together and did some touchy feely hand groping while we were coupling. Needless to say, that was really fun. Anyway, great story, and thanks for sharing. TWOF
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Three members from the Western Michigan University Teaching Assistants Union voiced concerns about low wages to the Board of Trustees at their meeting on Thursday.
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Wish there was a zero star option. Im a huge fan of ramen and this food very mediocre. The prices are high for what you get. I am a vegetarian and wanted an egg in my soup. A single egg cost $1.50! The service was poor even though the place was empty. We left no tip and when we left the employee ran after us demanding a tip. It was extremely rude of her to follow us for several blocks to yell at us. Poor service= little to no tip. Never gong back there.
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I noticed that it is quite easy (I did it twice) when typing in the examples to forget to pop a timeout which leads to confusion.
Would it be worth adding a global sandwich method to make sure that the call is always balanced?
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I think that idea has merit. The problem is that you change the meaning of @this"@in the function you pass to @performWithTimeout()@. I had to make a lot of tradeoffs on how much JavaScript to discuss in the book because a lot of people coming to read this aren't web developers. I think this idea is best left as an exercise for the reader.
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Campus orgs. contribute to Family Day
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This weekend, PSU will celebrate the annual Family Weekend. This year's events begin Friday evening and continue across campus until the Gorilla football team kicks off against Lincoln.
Family Weekend begins with Game Night at Axe Library on Friday. The event is sponsored by the International Programs and Services department, the Campus Activities Center (CAC), the Office of Student Diversity (OSD) and the library. It is an opportunity for students and their families to play board games and enjoy refreshments.
Saturday is packed with events before the football game kicks off. The first is a free 5K fun-run/walk. It is sponsored by the Bryant Student Health Center and starts at 8 a.m.
CAC has changed last year's ice cream social with PSU president Steve Scott into a brunch at the Crimson and Gold Ballroom in the Overman Student Center. During the event he will be available to chat with participants before a more formal question and answer session starts in the Governors Room. There he'll join other university officials to field queries from students and families.
"Dr. Scott wanted to interact with parents and answer any questions they might have about their students' university," said Meagan Smejdir, program coordinator for campus activities.
Smedjir says that CAC will co-sponsor "Dia de la Familia" with OSD from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Cleveland Plaza, which she says will provide fun for the whole family. They're incorporating Hispanic Heritage Month into the event and will provide Hispanic refreshments like horchata and activities like "Loteria," which she compared to "Mexican bingo," and a piñata breaking alongside more tradition tailgate fair.
"We're excited to help students show off their campus and help show their families a little bit of their college experience," Smedjir said.
The Alumni and Constituent Relations Office is sponsoring "Gorilla Family Fun Day," starting at 2 p.m. in the Oval. Meagan Swafford, assistant director for the ACRO, says there are 130 people signed up already. Pre-registration is required, but she
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"We hope everyone will come out to enjoy some fun and educational activities before heading to Gorilla Village to tailgate," Swafford said.
The activities are geared toward children and include 30 minutes doing karate, science experiments, art and technology. Each participant will receive a PSU water bottle before heading to Gorilla Fest where they will be served hot dogs, chips, cookies and a drink. There will also be other food vendors attending.
The band 33 1/3 will play before the Pride of the Plains Marching Band and the PSU spirit squad hold a pep rally prior to kickoff. There will also be two inflatables and face-painting among other activities.
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RENSSELAERVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Investigative reporter Carl Bernstein says the clash over gun control reflects a growing divide in public discourse and New York has unnecessarily limited public information in its gun law.
He decried the conflict as based on clashing views rather than debate and truth.
Bernstein, who helped uncover the Watergate scandal, spoke Sunday at the Carey Center for Global Good near Albany.
He says gun control in a divided American has no easy political solution even as politicians rush to enact more laws following the tragedy in Newtown, Conn.
Bernstein criticized New York's new gun control law for allowing gun owners to make their permits exempt from laws that require most government records to be public.
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Maine schools win national awards for healthy lunches
PORTLAND — School lunch is getting healthier in southern Maine, and local schools are winning national awards for it.
Eighteen Maine elementary and middle schools were awarded U.S. Dept. of Agriculture bronze medals last week as part of the nationwide HealthierUS Schools Challenge.
In Portland, East End Community, Hall, Reiche, Longfellow, Nathan Clifford, Peaks Island, Presumpscot and Riverton schools all earned the award. In Falmouth, both Lunt and Plummer-Motz elementary schools earned awards, and in Regional School Unit 5, Freeport's Mast Landing and Morse Street schools earned awards.
Other award-winning schools were in the Boothbay and Windham areas.
"I absolutely think this is a starting point all schools in Maine should meet," said school nutrition manager Heidi Kessler, who works for the greater Portland childhood obesity nonprofit Let's Go!.
To earn a bronze award, schools must prove they offer students a different vegetable each day, and it must be a green or orange vegetable three times a week. Schools must offer dried beans or peas once a week, a different fruit option every day. No whole or 2 percent milk is allowed, only skim or low-fat milk.
Schools must also include nutrition education in their curricula and students must have at least 45 minutes of physical activity every week.
Kessler said Let's Go! brought Cumberland County nutrition directors together once a month for the past few years to discuss menu items, where to get the best deals on fresh foods and general networking, while helping them apply for the USDA awards.
"It was more than an application," she said. "They submitted two-inch thick three-ring binders."
The binders included all the recipes the schools use, menu items and photocopies of product labels, as well as proof the students are getting the proper amount of physical activity.
Portland School Department Nutrition Director Ron Adams said one of the biggest challenges for him is making sure students who may have hunger issues at home get the best meals they can when they're in school, and working with a centralized kitchen system.
"We have eight schools that have no kitchens in them," he said. "Quality is always better when you have a kitchen in every school, but that's not in the cards for Portland."
Portland also has 52 percent of its students on the federal free and reduced lunch program.
The district has moved to serving whole-wheat buns for hot dogs and burgers, and beans and rice with beef tacos. But even small changes like that have been a challenge.
"The middle school students stopped eating hot dogs because we put it on a wheat roll," Adams said.
However, salad bars at every Portland school, including 10 installed this summer, have been very popular with the kids.
"They really enjoy being able to make their own decisions. It slows down the line a bit, but even kindergartners can handle it," Adams said. "They don't really like the broccoli, but a little ranch dressing always helps."
Kessler said only 2 percent of schools across the nation meet the requirements for the HealthierUS School Challenge. She suspects most schools in Maine are close to meeting them, but may not be officially recognized because the application process is so onerous.
"Nutrition directors are what I call 'onesies.' They're working by themselves most of the time," Kessler said.
As a result, it takes help from an outside organization like Let's Go! to bring them together. Kessler said the organization has been working with York County nutrition directors, many of whom recently submitted the same applications. Somerset County is next on the organization's list.
Although the award is a four-year certification, Kessler said Let's Go! is planning to assist Cumberland County nutrition directors in applying for silver or gold status next year.
"We decided as a group it made sense to apply for the bronze level this year," she said.
Silver and gold levels require at least 60 percent of students to participate in the school lunch programs. Schools in Cumberland County typically have far fewer students participating than schools in poorer areas.
"We're encouraging parents to take a second look at school lunch," Kessler said. "It's not what it used to be."
Recently, Maine was named the fattest state in New England by the Trust for America's Health, but Kessler said her group and local schools' nutrition directors are working hard to reverse that trend.
Kessler said a survey of parents in the greater Portland area showed a 27 percent increase in children meeting at least three of the groups four healthy requirements of five fruits and vegetables, two hours or less of recreational screen time, one hour or more of physical activity and zero sugary drinks per day.
"I truly believe nutrition directors in Maine are leading the way," Kessler said. "They're passionate about their jobs, and passionate about their students. They're stepping up to the plate in a big way."


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In the heart of La Recoleta, an upscale and safe neighborhood in central Buenos Aires, close to great shopping and fine dining
The Americas Towers is located smack-dab in the heart of one of the most upscale and safest neighborhoods in central Buenos Aires, La Recoleta. It is one block from 9 de Julio Avenue, the city's main thoroughfare, and a two-minute walk to great shopping and dining on Santa Fe Avenue.
Residential La Recoleta is one of Buenos Aires' grand dames, with marble buildings and top-notch boutiques lining busy streets full of locals and tourists alike. Alvear Avenue is one of the main thoroughfares in the area, and has some of the most beautiful Parisian-style apartment buildings in the neighborhood, including a couple of magnificent palaces.
But it's not all about shopping here -- the neighborhood is home to major attractions like the National Library, a handful of art museums, and some interesting art galleries. However, you'll have to take a cab to move around because there's little to no public transportation available in this area.
This upper-middle-range business hotel has the standard amenities of other hotels of its category, including a tiny rooftop pool and a small fitness center, plus a couple of great freebies (such as Wi-Fi and hot breakfast), but there's no full restaurant or parking on-site. Rooms are spacious, comfortable and clean, and have an elegant but somewhat dated decor, and some bathrooms are a bit cramped. Its central location in the heart of elegant La Racoleta neighborhood is hard to beat.
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Air India will introduce a range of cost-cutting measures in the coming months as it seeks to stem heavy losses, including the adoption of low-cost carrier tactics.
In a media conference in New Delhi, the minister for civil aviation said he had accepted 47 recommendations from an external committee that should help the carrier save Indian rupees (Rs) 5 billion ($91.3 million) in the next six months.
Three senior directors have been named to implement the changes.
"The main recommendation which Air India is going to implement is to evolve a model based on an ideal mix of best practices of the LCC model while retaining the core features of a full service carrier," the ministry of civil aviation said in a statement.
The statement listed 19 key recommendations.
The carrier hopes to shift "from full MRO to preventative maintenance and power by the hour concept" and "idle aircraft will be used on the most profitable routes or surrendered."
In addition, routes that fail to meet variable costs will either be restructured or withdrawn to "eliminate additional losses".
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50 People Who Matter 2010 | 23. Julian Assange
WikiLeaks legend.
WikiLeaks legend.
by John Pilger Published
The arrival of WikiLeaks is one of the most exciting developments in the enduring struggle of ordinary people for the right to call secret power to account. This is what journalism should do.
For all the lip-service paid to Edmund Burke's idea of a fourth estate, the media remain an extension of the established order. The current wars demonstrate this. Instead of exposing the lies that have led to the carnage, journalists, with honourable exceptions, have amplified and echoed them. Scott McClellan, George W Bush's former press secretary, says his administration relied on the media's "complicit enablers".
WikiLeaks, says its founder Julian Assange, has "created a space that permits a form of journalism which lives up to the name that journalism has always tried to establish for itself". This year, WikiLeaks has released tens of thousands of official documents that describe the casual, almost industrial killing of civilians, assassination squads, and attempts at cover-up.
Anyone watching the leaked cockpit video of an Apache helicopter gunning down cameramen and children in Baghdad will not forget the pilot's reaction: "Nice." Having witnessed the brutalising effects of war, I felt like cheering when this was exposed and I read that it was viewed 4.8 million times in one week. This is the new "space" for a truth-telling we need urgently, as great power promotes its "perpetual war" and strives for what it calls "information dominance".
I have got to know Julian Assange, and what strikes me most about him is the unabashed morality he invests in WikiLeaks. It is unusual to hear the words: "The goal is justice, the method is transparency." He reminds me of one of our compatriots, Wilfred Burchett, the courageous reporter who incurred the wrath of the powerful by exposing the "atomic plague" of the Hiroshima bomb. Like Burchett, Assange has made some serious enemies for blowing such a loud whistle; the Pentagon has already threatened to "terminally marginalise" WikiLeaks. And this is his great risk and his honour.
I asked him what he had learned most from his glimpses of rampant power. "In one way or another I've been reading generals' emails since I was 17," he said (he is 39), "and what I see now is a vast, sprawling estate that is becoming more and more secretive and uncontrolled. "This is not a sophisticated conspiracy; it is a movement of self-interest to produce an end result that is [the wars in] Iraq and Afghanistan, which are used to wash money out of the US tax base and back to [arms] companies like Northrop Grumman and Raytheon." Another release of leaked documents is due soon.
I salute such principled audacity.
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Cardinals' 2012 Draft Report, Part Two
Categories: Aaron Schafer, Cardinals
Well, to be honest, I thought they did alright, but could have come away with a better load of talent. I like both of their first round picks well enough, in a Hippocratic sort of way, but I'm not sure either one is exactly a world beater. The supplemental guys I'm even more dubious of, with a pair of college third basemen I'm lukewarm on and a high school catcher I do like, but consider kind of a consolation prize for missing out on a better version of him.
Still, there is definite talent among the five picks the Redbirds made, and while I wasn't at all pleased with the results at first, time and distance have given me more perspective, and the Cardinals did better from a strategic standpoint than perhaps they did from a pure talent one.
We're looking at rounds 2-12 today; the three most intriguing players the Cards picked up are all included in this group. So let us move onward, yes?
Round Two, Pick 86 -- Carson Kelly, 3B/RHP, Westview HS (Oregon)
Plus: Now this is what I'm talking about.
In the second round, the Cards took all those hypothetical savings they banked over the course of their first five picks and shot for the moon. Carson Kelly was the top prospect out of the state of Oregon, a two-way player who would likely have ranked that way as either a pitcher or hitter. He really is that gifted. On the mound he throws 92 and looks like a far more seasoned player. At the plate, though, he shows the kind of promise that gets scouts -- and scouting directors -- salivating like crazy.
He has solid defensive skills, enough that there is no question of him being able to stick at the hot corner long-term. His arm is a major plus (I did mention he was a highly touted pitching prospect too, right?), and his hands and feet both work well in the field. And then there's the bat. Big time raw power. Plus pure bat speed. Balance and intelligence. Yes, he's just out of high school. But this is the kind of hitter you can easily project up the ladder without having to do too much dreaming.
Minus: Honestly, there isn't much minus here, aside from the fact Carson Kelly is only seventeen years old, and there's plenty that can go wrong between seventeen and the big leagues. If I had to pick something, he does a little extra something with his hands in his swing, during the load, that looks a little awkward. I don't mind the leg kick at all; in fact, I like it. But I would probably try to get him to load his hands a little differently. That's it. That's literally the only real negative I can think of here.
When the Cards made this pick, I would have had to put signability under the minus column; Kelly had gobs of leverage and a strong school commitment to Oregon, meaning he was going to cost plenty to sign. And, in fact, he did cost plenty to sign. Nearly three times the recommended bonus for his draft slot. But here's where the Cards' strategy started to really blossom. They had the money to reel him in because of how judiciously they had drafted earlier -- and how they planned to do so after this pick.
Bottom Line: The Cardinals took a calculated risk here, grabbing one of the highest-ceiling talents in the entire draft and funneling enough funds his way to buy him out of a Ducks uniform. Brilliant pick, and perhaps the biggest 'a-ha' moment of the early draft for me.
Round Three, Pick 117 -- Tim Cooney, LHP, Wake Forest
Plus: We go back to the earlier method here; polished college pitcher, reasonable signing bonus, yadda yadda yadda. Not that it's a bad thing.
Cooney throws with his left hand and has a pulse. That makes him at least a reasonable prospect. Moving on to the next pick...
Just kidding. Cooney actually has pretty good stuff for a lefty, starting with a fastball that qualifies as 'firm' and cruises consistently in the 90-91 range. His best pitch is a nasty cutter that saws off right-handers and finds the ends of lefties' bats consistently. He also throws a change and curve, but neither is really all that noteworthy. The velocity, arm slot, and cutter all have a bit of Mark Buerhle in them; Cooney is taller than Buerhle, but I don't mind making the comparison. It's a bit perfect-world, of course, but not completely off the wall for all that.
Minus: I'm always suspicious of the concept of 'high floor' players, particularly when that high floor is accompanied by a limited ceiling. The notion is that a player who's close to a finished product isn't going to face many pitfalls; my own viewpoint would be that a low ceiling leaves you with far fewer viable outcomes. A guy who could be a superstar could still be an average player, too; a guy who should be an average player but will never be a superstar doesn't have nearly so much margin for error. He misses his ceiling by even a little and suddenly isn't a real viable player any more.
That's my beef with a pick like Cooney, though I certainly don't really dislike the selection. I think he's a decent choice, because I like what I see well enough to think he could make it. But notion he, or any other player of his ilk, is quote-unquote safe just doesn't make much sense to me.
Bottom Line: Not the most exciting pick, but he does have that pulse-and-left-handed thing going for him. And a really nice cutter.
Round Four, Pick 150 -- Alejandro (Alex) Mejia, SS, Arizona
Plus: Alex Mejia will almost assuredly be able to play shortstop at the professional level, even as high as the majors. That's a very valuable skillset. He has the hands, range, and arm you like to see from a premium defensive player. He's played college ball at one of the top programs in the country, as well, and faced top-quality competition in the Pac-12/14/16/34.
Minus: Mejia...is not much of a hitter. He's a decent enough college bat, but I don't think it's going to play particularly well in pro ball. He doesn't have great functional strength, and pitchers aren't going to be afraid to challenge him. That being said, he does have solid contact skills and should be able to slap his way to a .280 average if nothing else.
Bottom Line: Mejia reminds me (a lot), of Ryan Jackson, the shortstop the Cards selected out of Miami in the fifth round a couple years ago, and I could see a similar career arc for the U of A product. That's not a bad thing at all, as Jackson is playing at Triple A this season and probably isn't far away from a big league opportunity. In the long run, I don't think Mejia's bat will ever support a full-time spot in a major league lineup, but his ability to pick if in the middle infield should net him plentiful opportunities to at least stick around as a utility man for awhile.
Round Five, Pick 180 -- Cory Jones, RHP, College of the Canyons (Junior College)
Okay, enough with the plus/minus thing. We're getting to the point in the draft where I don't have enough to say about some of these players to justify two separate categories.
This is a pure arm strength pick, as Jones has been clocked as high as 97 mph with his fastball at times. He doesn't throw nearly that hard consistently, at least not as a starter, but he might make a very good bullpen candidate down the road. A commenter over at Future Redbirds mentioned Mitchell Boggs, and I can see some of that. Power arm, inconsistent breaking ball, and a slightly spotty track record of health to this point...it definitely makes some sense.
Speaking of inconsistent breaking balls, Jones features a hard curve that could be good, but isn't yet, at least not very often. He does have the chance for two plus pitches, though, if things break a little right for him, and I could certainly see him as a very useful reliever in a few years. Another cheap pick, but not at all one I mind.
Round Six, Pick 210 -- Kurt Heyer, RHP, Arizona
Heyer throws strikes. Lots of them. He has a funky, deceptive delivery, too, and better stuff than he generally gets credit for. A fastball in the low-90s, a changeup I absolutely love, and a slider that shows good depth and has become a solid weapon for him against right-handed hitters. In short, I think Kurt Heyer is a very good pitcher, a very good prospect, and I'm frankly surprised the Cards managed to pick him up this late in the draft. Particularly considering the way so many other reasonable college signs seemed to move up the boards.
The numbers on Heyer are very good, too. His raw numbers are solid -- a 2.28 ERA and nearly 5-to-1 strikeout to walk ratio -- but when you look at his park factors those stats look even better. Arizona plays in one of the biggest hitter's paradises in the nation, with a PF of 141. (The basics on park factor if you aren't familiar.) In other words, Heyer has been very good in a place that is very, very difficult to be very good as a pitcher. The Cardinals have gone to the park factor well before, particularly in the case of Kolten Wong, whose raw numbers were impressive, until you realized he was putting up those numbers hitting in Yellowstone Park, at which point they shot up into the stratosphere. I think Heyer could be a real find at this spot.
Oh, and speaking of, Arizona is still playing in the College World Series. Bad for the Cardinals, in that they have to hold off signing Heyer (and Mejia, for that matter), but good for us; it gives us a chance to actually see these players on television fairly easily where ordinarily we might not. Check the listings; I think you'll be impressed if you actually see the guy pitch.
God I love super slo-mo with audio.
Round Seven, Pick 240 -- Kyle Barraclough, RHP, St. Mary's
Another college senior, another cheap sign.
Barraclough actually has a very intriguing repertoire, with a fastball that tops out at 95 and a really wicked split-finger pitch that can get some very awkward looking swings. He's another pitcher I would put in the same boat as Cory Jones; both have good enough arms and shaky enough overall games I see them as relievers down the road.
I really hate to keep mentioning the affordability angle on some of these players as a positive; it neither feels like a plus to the fans nor like a compliment to the player. However, in this new world of draft spending limit rules, cheap isn't just what Drayton McLane chants in his head when his rented asian schoolgirl is hauling his ancient ashes around; it's a strategic necessity. What Barraclough saved the Cardinals in signing bonus we'll see come into play here in just a couple more rounds.
Baseball America had an interesting article about the new draft signing rules; Barraclough was quoted on the subject of his signing bonus. Give it a read; it helps to bring into focus the nature of the new rules and what effect they're having on both players and teams.
Round Eight, Pick 270 -- Yoenny Gonzalez, College of Central Florida
A junior college athlete, I've researched Gonzalez some since he was drafted (I had never heard the name before that), and he reminds me a little of Virgil Hill, another pure athlete the Cards took a few years back, only without the interesting family story.
Plus speed is Gonzalez's big calling card, but there's some reason to believe he might develop a bit of pop as he fills out. He can play center field, which gives him positional value. Maybe he makes it one day as a defense-first outfielder who can swipe a base. Maybe not. That's the best I can do on this guy. But, hey, I'm always willing to take a shot on a guy with real athletic ability.
Round Nine, Pick 300 -- Rowan Wick, C, Cypress College
Rowan Wick is a big sumbitch. And yes, it has to be said that way to make sense.
Wick is 6'3", listed at 220 (probably a little bigger than that), and takes one hell of a big hack at the ball. I like that. It isn't an excessively noisy swing, either; he generates his power very efficiently.
As for the defense, I really have no idea. That's a question that only time will answer, whether or not he can stick behind the plate. But he has the potential to hit for power, which gives him at least one tool you don't often see playing backstop.
Round Ten, Pick 330 -- Jacob Wilson, 2B/3B, Memphis
And yet another college senior; fitting, really, considering this tenth round is the last one teams have to worry about losing a pick if they don't sign the player drafted. The tenth round this year brought a ridiculous number of college senior picks, and if you hadn't figured out before this point what teams were trying to do to game the new system a little bit here it was laid out, completely explicitly.
As for Wilson himself, he has good power for a second baseman, but not so much if he ends up at third. Still, much like Rowan Wick, you have to like the power potential at a position you rarely see much of it.
Unfortunately, Wilson's ability to actually play second at any kind of acceptable level in pro ball is very much in question. However, he makes sense as one of those players you pencil in for the bat, then try to figure out exactly where he can play.
Round Eleven, Pick 360 -- Trey Williams, 3B, Valencia HS (California)
Ah, round eleven. Home of players you've never heard of from colleges you don't know where they are and high school kids that stand 6'2" and weight 135 pounds. In other words, round eleven is all about long shots.
And, the Cards took a first-rounder in round eleven. Seriously.
Trey Williams is one of the most talented players in the entire draft. The son of a former major leaguer (Eddie Williams), he has plus tools across the board, with power potential that in years past would have had him go in the top, say, 50 picks at worst.
I covered Williams for Viva El Birdos at the beginning of May; I loved him then and I love him now. Carson Kelly is the most athletically gifted player the Cardinals selected in this year's draft. Trey Williams is breathing down his neck in that particular race. I said at the time I would love to see the Cardinals pop him with one of their early picks and try to mold him into something special; the fact it ended up being an eleventh-round pick just goes to show you how much the new rules altered the draft this year.
Whether the Cards can sign Williams or not is very much in the air, and they likely won't know until they get the final numbers done on their earlier players who are still playing in the CWS. He'll take a big bonus, but if the club can't get it done there's no loss of pick. Or money. Or anything. No harm, no foul.
And this is where I have to give the Cardinals' draft department (and their new chief, Dan Kantrovitz), all the credit in the world. To find a player like Williams at this point in the draft (and the guy in round twelve, as well), is pretty remarkable. What's even more impressive, though, is that you get the feeling they pretty much knew, all along, that they would be able to find some guys like this late. The Cards played the new system perfectly; if they can actually massage the budget enough to sign Williams, all the while avoiding the risk of lost picks in the first ten rounds, then I will stand and applaud.
Round Twelve, Pick 390 -- Max Foody, LHP, The Pendleton School (Florida)
One round after getting Trey Williams, a first- or second-round talent, the Cards pulled another player of high-round ability in Foody, a big left-handed starter out of a Florida high school whose ceiling could be as high as players taken ten rounds earlier.
Foody has everything you could ask for in a big-time pitching prospect: he already throws hard, working his fastball in the 92 mph range with more potentially in the tank, he has a big, strong frame at 6'4" and 220 lbs, and a curveball that already looks like it could be a plus in the future. The changeup isn't much to speak of yet, but what high school pitcher's is?
Much like Trey Williams, the big question on Foody is whether or not the Cards can sign him. He's committed to play college ball at Florida State, and will likely require a significant bonus to buy him out of that. Not Carson Kelly money, or even Williams money, but a pretty solid chunk of change all the same. But, once again, in the twelfth round, you have to stand back and admire the strategy that managed to net the Cardinals this kind of a talent.
I'm going to end this edition of the draft report here. I considered going to round fifteen, but this feels like a better stopping point, largely because of the two players I just talked about. Day Two of the draft was when we saw how intelligent the Cardinals' strategy was this year, and the payoff for that intelligence was largely in picking up Foody and Williams in spots that carry no risk of a lost pick.
I didn't much care for the first day of the draft when the Cards completed it. On day two, however, I felt much, much different. They took three calculated risks; they picked an enormous talent in round two, then allocated the resources to sign him. They took two other big-time talents after the tenth round; we'll have to see if they can finagle the financials to bring those two into the fold.
If the Cards can get just one of the two of Max Foody and Trey Williams signed, I think this goes from a solid draft class to a very good one. If they somehow pull off signing Williams, Foody, and Carson Kelly, this draft gets an outright 'Wow' from me.
I'll have the final edition of this review early next week, covering some of the more intriguing names taken the rest of the way, from rounds 13 to 50. See you then.


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In the latest and perhaps most tastelessly sweet Internet meme, people are wrapping their faces in sticky tape and snapping the results. Perfect for your 3-year-old this weekend.
Your 3-year-old nephew loves to pull faces, doesn't he?
And he loves it when you pull faces too? In fact, you can spend whole hours just pulling faces at each other and laughing.
You're familiar, by now, with the fact that the Web is largely populated by 3-year-olds. It was only a matter of time and brain-sparking, therefore, before pulling faces captured the virtual world.
New, bright, spark-filled hashtags such as #sellotapeselfie or simply #sellotape don't merely contain faces pulled by natural means. No, they involve wrapping sticky tape around your head and seeing just how close to a Picasso you look.
The #sellofie (yes, another hashtag for the craze) is rooted in the sticky tape brand name Sellotape, which is familiar in many parts of the world.
It's also rooted in that particular part of the brain which houses tears of wonderment.
There's something so very uplifting about people going through such pain in order to make others feel, well, something.
Personally, I am unspeakably bathed in admiration. These are, at heart, the most selfless selfies every taken.
For once, people somewhere out there in Webworld are going through personal and physical pain, just to tell everyone else: "I did this just for you."
Now that is art of the most exalted kind.


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The "over-under" for last season's Clemson-South Carolina football game was 58½.
The final score was Gamecocks 31, Tigers 17.
For you non-math majors, that's a total of 48 points.
That means if you bet the "under," you won.
So what's the over-under on how much the College of Charleston will have to ante up to Doug Wojcik after firing him as its men's basketball coach Tuesday?
Following extensive consultation with experts, this longtime sports fan sets that over-under line at $800,000 - and makes an out-of-court settlement a 10-to-1 favorite.
But regardless of how much the C of C ultimately pays to make Wojcik go away, lots of non-sports fans must be wondering why he - like most college coaches - had a long-term contract in the first place.
And he had only three years left on his five-year deal at $400,000 a year, meaning a full payout would garner him $1.2 million (see editorial, Page A8). Many coaches, including those at South Carolina and Clemson, have many more years than that.
The standard long-term justification is that coaches must be able to tell recruits that they are at their schools for the long haul.
But when coaches win enough, they routinely bolt for better jobs, even when it costs them and/or their new employers hefty buyouts.
And when coaches lose too much, schools routinely cut their losses by canning them and paying them off.
So now the College is cutting its losses. It dumped Wojcik not for losing games, though he suffered 18 defeats while winning only 14 last season, but for so often losing his cool.
The school calls that "just cause."
Just don't count on that being the final score.
Oh yeah? Says who?
Unfortunately, Wojcik's not the only coach - or person - who has stooped to mean-mouthing brow-beating in this traumatizing era of rampant verbal bullying.
So the College of Charleston and other schools at all levels should offer classes teaching proven methods of self-esteem defense. Among the time-tested comebacks to tormentors who aim hurtful words your way:
"Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never harm me."
"I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks on you."
"I know you are, but what am I?"
And my old-school favorite:
"So's your old man."
Sure, those retorts sound juvenile.
Yet so do plenty of the cruel comments persuasively attributed to Wojcik in a 50-page independent report that makes a powerful case against him.
Meanwhile, the annual farce of finally learning in August which recruits will and won't academically "qualify" for admission for the start of preseason football practice at USC, Clemson and other big-time football schools makes a strong case against the term "student-athlete."
Yes, student-athletes generally graduate at a higher rate than regular students.
Then again, schools generally have much more at stake in the academic standings of student-athletes than in those of regular students - especially since the NCAA started docking scholarships from teams if their grad rates fall too low.
And the College of Charleston isn't the only local non-big-time sports school making athletic calls with serious bottom-line implications.
The Citadel, as of Wednesday, has a new athletic director in Jim Senter. One of his assignments will be booking "money" dates against major football powers.
Indeed, the Bulldogs' second game of the upcoming season under new coach Mike Houston will be a particularly glaring mismatch of that kind on Sept. 6 at defending national champion Florida State.
Senter was on the other end of that financial formula last season as senior associate AD at the University of Colorado, which paid Charleston Southern $400,000 to take a 43-10 drubbing way out in Boulder.
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Back to The Citadel:
The Military College of South Carolina announced Tuesday that on Nov. 14 it will induct Pat Conroy and Joe Riley as honorary members of the school's Athletic Hall of Fame.
Some of us who grew up as Bulldog fans first noticed Conroy (Class of 1967) when he was a pretty good guard on pretty lousy Citadel basketball teams.
However, Conroy is going into that Citadel Athletic Hall of Fame because of his renown as an author.
Among his books - "The Lords of Discipline," a gripping novel about a military school where abuse of cadets goes far beyond the verbal, and "My Losing Season," an aptly titled memoir about the 8-17 Bulldog squad of his senior year.
And though Riley (Class of 1964) was - and still is - too short to be much of a threat on the basketball court, he is a major baseball fan. He even has a ballpark named for him.
But now that Riley's in his 10th and final term as Charleston's mayor, he no longer has a long-term contract.
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