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Tuesday, February 6, 2001 1:30 p.m. EST
Quigley: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Two quick announcements today.
As a follow-up to kind of police things up, a follow-up to last Thursday's announcement, we had a total of four C-17 aircraft carrying tents, blankets, sleeping bags, forklifts, water trailers and a two and a half ton truck, grand total. And all of those products arrived in Ahmadabad on the third of February. And this equipment has been consigned to the Indian military there in Ahmadabad as well as to the U.S. aid organizations that are coordinating U.S. assistance both in Ahmadabad and in Bhuj as well for further distribution.
Now, today the U.S. Pacific Command still has a total of six people on the ground, and this is an assessment team that they will leave there for the indefinite future to assist the U.S. embassy personnel there in India and any U.S. relief agencies in evaluating any potential for further DoD assistance. As we speak, we have no outstanding requests from the Indian government for any further DoD assistance. But that could change tomorrow. And so we will keep our six people from the Pacific Command there for the future, at least, near future to continue to coordinate any follow-on requests that come. So I just wanted to bring you up to speed on that.
And second, DoD will recognize African American History Month during a ceremony this Thursday at 2:00 in the Pentagon auditorium, room 5A1070. The acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, Charles Cragin, will host the program, and the guest speaker will be the Deputy Commanding General of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Major General Cliff Stanley. The theme for National African American History Month 2001 is Creating and Defining the African American Community: Family, Church, Politics and Culture. And again, that's this Thursday at 2:00 in 5A1070.
And with that I'll take your questions. Charlie.
Q: Craig, is the Pentagon, the secretary, or anybody else doing anything to relieve, reprimand or otherwise punish General Hailston?
Quigley: No, no. There's a knowledge and a variety of folks here in the Pentagon of his remarks. I think he has expressed his regrets for comments in the e-mail that was shared publicly. And there is wide support for the efforts and the hard work he has put into his position over his -- the last year or so since he's been assigned to that position. And while, certainly, I don't think people would think that the words he chose were appropriate, General Hailston among them certainly, he's expressed his regrets and apology for those words and we'll move on from there.
Q: But he said in his message of regret that he apologized if there was any "misunderstanding." He said he wanted to make perfectly clear he had the greatest admiration and respect for the governor and vice governor and he apologized for any -- I mean, how can that term be misunderstood to call these people "nuts and wimps?"
Quigley: Well, I don't think I can characterize General Hailston's words any better than he can. I think I'll just let them stand as they are.
Q: Has the secretary been made aware of this? Have you discussed it with the secretary?
Quigley: I have not.
Q: Craig, Lockheed Martin and the Air Force say that the F-22 has completed all the requirements for the DAB [Defense Acquisition Board] and the additional requirements imposed by the Defense Appropriations Bill last year. And the question is, are we likely to see the release of that $2.1 billion for production or are they -- is that program going to be effected by the president's comments over the weekend that they will not authorize any of the big -- not fund any of the big programs until Secretary Rumsfeld completes his review?
Quigley: Well, I think you've got a little -- quite a bit, actually -- of homework to do here before you schedule the DAB. I mean, the flights and the testing have just been completed. You've now got to collect all that data, put it in an orderly fashion to prepare for the Defense Acquisition Board process. From that board, then there is a decision ultimately as to whether or not to proceed to the next phase in the acquisition of this program.
So, the Defense Acquisition Board has not yet been scheduled, Otto. We still have quite a bit of homework to do. I can't predict for you when that will take place. We're just not there yet, that I do know.
Q: You don't know the impact yet of the president's comments as to that program or any of the other big procurement programs that are coming up for funding decisions?
Quigley: No, Secretary Rumsfeld has simply not stated whether he intends to do the F-22 somehow separate. I would be hard-pressed to see how you could do that. You must do that as part of a comprehensive approach to this because it's a major program with major dollars. And there's -- it's a very one that's been a long time under development. But he has not made a specific reference in any of the remarks that I've heard that he's going to do it this way or that way. That process still has some homework to do.
Q: But does that mean that effectively all of these major programs are on hold until the completion of this review by Secretary Rumsfeld?
Quigley: I think you'd be hard pressed, Jamie, to make any significant acquisition decisions for big dollars absent an understanding of where they fit into the overall picture.
Q: So how long is this review likely to take? And when will some of these decisions likely be made?
Quigley: Some number of months. He's not put any more boundaries on it than that. "Not days and not years," were his words. And it would be some number of months.
Q: And this review is different than the Quadrennial Defense?
Quigley: Yes. The way he described it, John, is they are separate paths. QDR [Quadrennial Defense Review], of course, has a very -- a fairly strict process described by law; this effort does not. This is the president's desire to have this review done. And as the QDR process moves along in the months ahead, the knowledge gained from this different and separate review, the way that he put it, could be dropped into the work ongoing into the Quadrennial Defense Review.
Q: Well then help me understand what this separate review is.
Quigley: The president's charter is to have Secretary Rumsfeld take a look at the defense programs across the board and to take a top-to-bottom look at how we would structure defense as we move into the 21st century; what programs make sense, what quality of life initiatives make sense; how do we structure the American military as we move ahead.
Q: Excuse me for being -- not understanding this, but don't you have to figure out sort of what your strategy is first before you figure out some of the things that you're talking about? Aren't they in reverse order? Isn't that why you do a QDR, to figure out what you need?
Quigley: This review is not just about hardware and equipment, it is more encompassing than that and broader than that. It is more of a description of a proposal to what should the American military be about? What should be our charter in the world of the early 21st century? And then, what sort of equipments do you then buy to make that strategy work.
Q: If this review is going to take a matter of months, what does that mean in terms of, for example, a supplemental request? Does it mean that all budgetary decisions and planning is sort of put on hold for several months, or for as many months as it takes to complete that review, then?
Quigley: Well, the final decisions on the budget will be made by the president.
Q: More immediately, the F-22 program has been on incremental life support funding, and there's contractors, sub-contractors hanging out there, you know, and supposedly the authorization runs out March 31st.
Quigley: Correct.
Q: If this program is not going to have a funding decision until the top-to-bottom review is done, you know, what happens to those contracts?
Quigley: Sure. Yeah, good question. We're aware of the -- March 31st is correct; the funding that's in place right now for the contractors and the sub-contractors, very importantly, runs out at the end of March. We're very much aware of that, and that's an issue that we must address here in the better part of the next two months.
Q: That's only for the F-22 that you're talking about, is this deadline?
Quigley: Correct. Right.
Q: And are there other programs that are affected by this review? And if so, what are those programs?
Quigley: There are no programs that are exempt from this review.
Q: So everything that's in the pipeline is --
Quigley: His charter is very broad from the president.
Q: -- he'll take a hard look at, and nothing's moving forward until this review is completed?
Quigley: There's a lot of things that go forward, Chris, every day. I mean, we have work to do around the world every day. But this is more of a pause, step back, take a look from the day-to- day activities around the world, and where should we be investing our money, to accomplish what, in what systems. That is a broad definition of Secretary Rumsfeld's goals in accomplishing this review.
Q: Is this kind of a -- I'm sorry, is this kind of a speedy, bottom-up review, or top-to-bottom review, I think the secretary --
Quigley: Well, the president had expressed his enthusiasm during the campaign and since in doing a top-to-bottom review of the defense strategy, processes, structure of the department, and that is what Secretary Rumsfeld is setting out to do.
Q: So the brakes have been thrown on, or these programs -- that the funding line for these programs are, in effect, on hold until this is completed.
Quigley: Well, I know of no other near-term major acquisition decision other than F-22, and as Otto had mentioned, that goes till the end of March. I know of no other major programs like that that are coming up on near-term decisions in that regard.
Q: So the decision is just pending on continued funding for the program.
Quigley: Right. I mean, we're very much aware of the 31st of March as the date by which we need to either arrange for further additional temporary funding for the F-22 or make a decision in a DAB sort of a setting for an actual decision on procurement. So you have a couple of options. But we've made no decisions on one of those.
Q: Craig, has the secretary issued a formal directive to slow down on F-22 and other programs, or are we --
Quigley: No.
Q: -- sort of reading tea leaves here?
Quigley: He has issued no formal directives to come to all stop or slow down on any particular program. But there is wide understanding, I think, throughout all of the military services that this review will be going on. And you really can't kind of have it both ways, Jim. You need to take a look at where you're going before you make decisions on equipment purchases as to how you're going to get there.
Q: Has he told the acquisition shop, "There will be no decision on this until I can look at the program"?
Quigley: No, he has not yet. He has not yet.
Q: Craig --
Quigley: Again, we're not to that point yet. We just finished the testing. We have not yet compiled the data that is -- we're not ready for a DAB quite yet. There's quite a bit of homework to do before you can have such a detailed sort of a setting. And that has not been done yet. We have not yet scheduled the DAB.
Q: Craig, has he established an internal task force or some group of people to do this, what sounds like a very extensive review, or is he doing it himself, or --
Q: -- given that he doesn't have any appointees in the building yet?
Quigley: Well, yeah, it will ultimately be a group, Bob, but he has not yet decided on who the members of that will be or who will head it.
Q: So it hasn't started, then, or --
Quigley: Not in a substantive way, where you can say, "Here's the office, here's the person in charge." This is something that he's working very hard to get started and set up and proceed in a quick manner. Nobody wants this to go on for a very long period of time. But you need to have an understanding and do it thoroughly, so you want to do it as quickly as you can, but you need to be thorough while you're doing it.
Q: Bob asked my question.
Quigley: Oh. (Laughter.)
Q: At the risk of dragging it out ad infinitum, is he going to revisit such contracts as the $4.3 billion award to the Army for the light armored vehicle that was awarded last November and now is under protest, with GAO supposed to rule on it next month? Is he going to revisit anything that was awarded in the past administration and perhaps is under protest, or is that --
Quigley: Well, I think need to -- in that particular program, I think you need to let that protest play itself out. And the GAO will come to its decision, and he'll factor that into his decision from that point. First things first.
Q: I mean, he's not reviewing the past awards, is he? Or is he?
Quigley: No. No.
Q: New subject?
Q: Hang on.
Quigley: Pam?
Q: If you were writing an article, say today -- (laughter) -- and you needed to explain to your readers, as few as they may be -- (laughter) -- that -- the difference between the QDR and the Rumsfeld review, how would you say it in, say, you know, a lead? (Laughter.)
Write my lead for me! (Laughter.)
Quigley: Let me borrow your pen for a second. Let me see if I can work with this for a second.
I would say that the review of the overall defense programs that the president has tasked the secretary to accomplish will be done probably prior to the Quadrennial Defense Review --
Q: Too many words there! (Laughter.)
Quigley: I know. That's not a good lead. (Laughter.)
But if you're looking for a time line, I would look for that one to be done or essentially done first, so that elements of its findings can literally be dropped into the Quadrennial Defense Review as that process proceeds. Now that won't be done until the fall, as you know.
Q: Compare and contrast: how are they different?
Quigley: Don't have that level of definition yet.
Q: President Bush also spoke of the comprehensive strategic review and immediate review of overseas deployments. Is that the Rumsfeld review?
Quigley: I don't think that there have been any bounds to his charter that he has received from the president in that regard. If he feels that that is an issue that needs to be addressed in his conversations with the president, he has complete freedom to do just that.
Q: But there's not a specific charter for --
Quigley: Correct. Correct.
Q: And just one more on this subject. We talked about the funding line for the V-22. But are we also talking about --
Quigley: F-22.
Q: I'm sorry, F-22. Are we also talking about the V-22, the Osprey, the DD-21, the LAV, the Crusader? Are all of these sort of --
Quigley: Well, again, each of those programs is unique in the truest definition of that word. The V-22 has a whole separate bunch of issues going on simultaneously. There's not going to be any acquisition decisions on the V-22 until the IG completes its work, until the review panel that former Secretary Cohen had put in place completes its work. You just can't make acquisition decisions in isolation of the knowledge that those organizations will give you. So that's again a unique circumstance. And the others, if you're talking about making a decision on a major acquisition program, again, I just don't -- you must complete your vision of where we're going in the early 21st century before you make decisions on the tools that we will buy to get you there.
Q: So all of these programs are essentially under review.
Quigley: Yes. Yes.
Q: Can we assume that -- for example, there's been speculation about different kinds of, different varieties of NMD would be a completely separate thing, even though there's ultimately a resource question that goes completely separate.
Quigley: Sure. Well, the president has been very unambiguous here in his desire to pursue a missile defense system for the United States, and perhaps for our allies. When Secretary Rumsfeld was at the Wehrkunde conference this last weekend in Munich, that was a frequent topic of conversation in his bilateral meetings with his counterparts from other nations, a topic of several speeches in the main conference floor. But the specific description and the parameters of the type of missile defense system that you would put in place is still a work in progress.
Q: Is the current project continuing on the schedule it's been on since before he took office?
Quigley: Yes. And the secretary has had two or three meetings, three, I believe, with General Kadish at the Ballistic Missile Defense Office to make sure that his understanding of the program as it's currently structured is complete and he understands, you know, what the near-term goals are and the near-term test objectives and what have you, funding streams, time frames. And his guidance to General Kadish at this point is to press on.
Q: A leftover question from your report on the Deutch possible compromise of secret information. Is it not true that if a hacker had penetrated his home computer, which was unguarded, that we would never know whether any secrets were obtained? Number one. And number two, the inspector general is on record as saying they weren't able to recover all the computers which Deutch had stored Pentagon secrets on. So the bottom line would seem to be that we'll never know whether special compartmented information or any other secrets were compromised by Deutch's sloppy use of his information on computers. Is that correct?
Quigley: I think the strongest statement that we could leave people with, George, is the very last sentence in the report, that we have no evidence of compromise. But neither can we say absolutely, positively that there was no compromise, because our knowledge is not complete. What we did for the review that took these many months, with a combination of intelligence folks and computer techs and whatnot, is we were not able to uncover specific evidence of compromise. But that's not the same thing as saying there was no compromise.
Q: So we'll really never know; right?
Quigley: Perhaps.
Q: On a different subject. What have you told military personnel of families who have served in Europe about any possible threat of health effects from consuming British beef during the time of this mad cow disease --
Quigley: We have tried to share as much knowledge with them as we could. The philosophy here is to tell them everything you know, try to keep them informed as that knowledge changes over time, working with the Food and Drug Administration and other organizations, health organizations here in the United States, to put out a couple of things that we think are very important.
One, if you served in Europe -- okay? -- and particularly, I think, was it the United Kingdom? -- between 1980 and 1996, for now you are precluded from donating blood. And that hits, amongst the services, that hits the Air Force particularly hard at this point because they're the service that has the preponderance of personnel that's stationed in the U.K. So that's about 10 percent of the Air Force, Jamie.
And for now, those people cannot donate blood just because our knowledge is not yet complete on this. We have no evidence to date of any adverse health affects on any service member from consuming beef that was possibly tainted with this variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
But we'll continue to work with that. We'll continue to study that and get the information form the Food and Drug Administration and follow their lead on this, quite frankly, both on the donations of blood as well as the actual impacts on human health.
Q: Was any --
Quigley: So it's a heads-up, but it's don't get overly concerned because we have no evidence that says that there's an adverse effect on you.
Q: Was any of this potentially-tainted British beef either served in U.S. dining facilities or sold on U.S. military installations and commissaries or anything?
Quigley: I don't know if our record on that is complete. Yes, it is. Let me take that and we'll post that for you. [Update: No British beef has been served in U.S. military dining facilities in Europe since 1980. No British beef has been sold in U.S. commissaries in Europe since 1996.]
Q: And, I mean, realistically here, I mean, is there a real concern that some servicemen and their families may develop this fatal, you know, brain disease, or was this just a very precautionary thing? How would you characterize the risk?
Quigley: We want to inform our people of the possible impact here, and not have it be a surprise. But by the same token, we have no evidence of any adverse affects on their health, so far. This is something that we continue to watch very carefully, again, working with the FDA and other medical authorities. But it's something you can't dismiss either. And so we want to continue to share as much information with them as we can as quickly as we can as it develops.
Q: Have they been told to stay out of butcher shops or eat fish or --
Quigley: Well, I think since '96 -- and there's been a very, very small number but a lot of publicity on the impact of this and the European population, but the actual numbers of cases have been extremely small. So they are being told -- and make sure that the information that is available through the news media and health authorities in Europe is available to our folks that are stationed overseas as well.
Q: And you said 10 percent of the Air Force is affected by this, hundreds -- in that time period hundreds of thousands of Army troops also went through Europe, though not specifically Great Britain, necessarily. Do you have numbers on the other services, or -- ?
Quigley: I don't have an absolute number on the Air Force either, Chris. But the focus has been those personnel in the U.K., stationed in the U.K. between '80-'96. And within that time frame you are describing a population that is very heavily Air Force as opposed to the other services.
Q: And a lot of that meat went from Great Britain to Germany, for example, didn't it?
Quigley: I -- I don't know.
Q: When was the decision made about no blood donations with that?
Quigley: Late '99, I believe. Late '99.
Q: Are blood stores -- I don't know if they're kept that well in our blood stores that were -- blood deposits that were taken before that being tested?
Quigley: We have tested them. We have found nothing so far. And again, it's precautionary. I mean, go back to Jamie's point before. It is a precaution right now. You can't rule it out. And if you can't rule it out, we're going to need to hedge things on the side of caution here until we know more about it.
Despite the impact of 10 percent of Air Force personnel who are precluded at this point from donating blood, the military blood supply itself is in good shape, both in quality and quantity. I am also not aware of a larger impact, although you -- I would ask you to check with the Red Cross, perhaps. But I don't think nationally it has a significant impact, either.
Q: With those taken questions, could you just also make sure that you provide us with some sort of estimate on total number of people, of personnel and dependents that would be affected by this --
Quigley: Yeah. Do the best we can. I'm not sure how good our numbers will be, but we'll --
Q: Exactly, exactly. If there's some sort of --
Quigley: -- we'll do the best we can.
Q: Has the secretary made any decision on whether to continue with the anthrax vaccination program?
Quigley: No, he has not. I heard him specifically address that question the other day, and he -- the answer was no, he has not gotten around to that topic yet. He is not inclined to make any major changes in that or other programs until he has had a chance to review them and come to an independent decision. So he specifically said that he has not -- just not gotten to that one yet.
Q: The Pentagon IG issued a critical report on the Army-led WMD assist program this week?
Quigley: Right. [On the Web at http://www.dodig.osd.mil/audit/reports/01043sum.htm -- no longer available ]
Q: Could you tell us a couple of things: how much money was spent on that, when teams will be ready to deploy -- they're -- I guess, according to reports they were supposed to be in January 2000 and they're still not ready -- and how that program is now being managed and organized. In November there was that memo that went out dismantling, or starting to dismantle the --
Quigley: COMPIO [Consequence Management Program Integration Office]?
Q: Yeah, the COMPIO. Who is in charge now, and what --
Quigley: Well, the Army is still the executive agent of the program, and with oversight by DoD, and specifically in this case, the assistant secretary for Reserve Affairs. And the goal with the COMPIO organization was always to ultimately disband it and to farm-out its responsibilities to other elements of the Defense Department. But in order --
Q: Yes, but --
Quigley: Well, but in order to get the program started on a fast track, which is what we wanted to do some years ago, you needed to have a focus that could be brought to the program; hence, the creation of a consolidated office to do that. But once you had the program up and moving at least in the right direction, the goal was to then disperse those responsibilities to other elements of DoD.
The question on timetable, the shortcomings that were noted in the IG audit report have been assimilated; a couple of them are actually already done; others are not. And when they are completed and you have the teams that are ready to be recommended for certification to the secretary, then that recommendation will go forward.
I know it's a priority, but I can't put a time frame on it for you.
Q: Do you have confidence that all of those teams that -- I think nine of the 10 were getting ready to be certified. Are they actually qualified?
Quigley: I think it was seven of the 10 where the original recommendation was made, but we still found shortcomings.
Q: Are you going to go back and review their readiness before --
Quigley: Oh, indeed. Absolutely. That's all part of the whole, using what we already knew, what the IG found, of blending the two together and making sure that the teams are in fact ready to be forwarded to the secretary for his consideration to certify them ready for use. They're a long ways down the road of their training, of their equipment, and have had many exercises at the local level with first responders. But are they ready to be certified yet? Clearly, they are not. Progress is being made in that regard, but we're not there yet. We set pretty high standards for these teams, both in equipment and in training, and we're not there yet. I think you just don't want to have anything lower than you absolutely have to in the way of quality of training, type of training, amount of training, equipment that the teams are proficient with. And until all of those criteria are met, they're not ready to be certified.
Q: Is DoD pleased with the way the -- (inaudible) -- program, and so it's just a standard transition?
Quigley: If we could look back, I think, right now, would we do some things differently than we did them initially? Yeah, I'm sure we would have. But there was a great sense of urgency in getting this program going on a fast track. And the Army, as the executive agent, was tasked with a pretty tall order here, in retrospect. And could there have been things done better, in retrospect? Absolutely. But we all learn from that. And the IG report is a very good blueprint on the way ahead, and we're looking at it in that regard.
Q: There was apparently an incident in Kosovo today in which a convoy containing some U.S. officials, including the ambassador, was -- came under fire. Do you have any information on this incident?
Quigley: I had not heard that. I'm sorry. KFOR might.
Q: Thank you.


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But you have to agree that you were pwned
Uh....no. You have an odd obsession with "pwning"........
Anyway.....Let's talk about his drummin ing the "golden years". I really thought Lars' drumming on
Kill 'Em All
was not too bad, considering that he really hadn't been drumming too long. However, I noticed several times on the album that he both rushed and lagged on certain cymbal crashes that were meant to match the bass guitar("Whiplash"), and I wasn't too keen on his grooves.
Ride the Lightning
saw a jump not only in Metallica's song structure and style, but aleap in Lars' drumming capabilities. His double bassing got faster and he became a better time keeper. My only complaint is the fills, which were not at the same level as the rest of Lars' drumming.
Master of Puppets
revealed that Lars' drumming could match the aggressive style of the rest of the band. The drum fills were not bad, but didn't improve much from those he used on
Ride the Lightning
...And Justice for All
, which marked then end of Metallica's years as a Thrash and Speed Metal group, had good, complex grooves, and grinding rhythm, but again the fills were sub-par. However, the opening groove for "Harvester of Sorrow" had a very interesting polyrhythm (yes, Lars' used a polyrhythm. He is playing 8th notes with his right hand and quarter notes with his left, while his feet play 16th notes in differentiating patterns).
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In 2013 Butch Jones took over the head coaching job at Tennessee as the fourth coach to fill the position in a span of five seasons.
With a 5-7 finish the Volunteers didn't quite hit their stride in year one of the Jones era, but for a team that has lacked consistency in the coaching department Jones believes the future is bright on rocky top as he returns for a second season. "Well year two is great and our players now understand the standard and the expectations within our football program," Jones said. "Everyone is familiar with everything. You can't put a price tag on experience and the Tennessee football program has a great great tradition obviously. A tradition of winning and a standard and an expectation of excellence".
Jones' debut season at Tennessee was highlighted by a 23-21 victory over number 11 South Carolina, giving Tennessee their first win over a ranked opponent since 2009 but with a 2-6 record in conference play Jones quickly realized winning doesn't come easy in the SEC. "There's a reason why the SEC is the best football conference in the country. Everything is about competing for greatness. This is an unforgiving league there's great coaches there are no weaknesses there are no weak teams. The SEC never stands still."
Tennessee has had no time to stand still this offseason with 3 players vying for the job of starting quarterback. With 6 players gone from the front 7 on defense and only 5 starters coming back the offensive side there are plenty of chances for young players to work hard and rise to the top.
It won't be an easy journey for Tennessee in their second year with Coach Jones. The Volunteers travel to Norman to take on Oklahoma in their first road trip of the season followed by their SEC opener on the road against Georgia on September 27.
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Tue 11th Dec, 2012 in Features
From Noel Gallagher to Ken West we look back at some of FL's most memorable interviews from 2012.
Over the course of 2012, we've spoken to dozens of musicians and "colourful music identities". We've battled it out with Billy Corgan, discussed the fine art of "pulling chicks" with Jason Mewes, sat in the presence of Noel Gallagher's "Godlike Genius," talked smut with Steel Panther and found out what Fat Mike keeps in his sex dungeon. In honour of some of these finer moments we look back at 25 of our favourite interviews from 2012.
Die Antwoord by Katie Cunninghmam
"We were at one of the Rammstein guy's house for a week, and we also stayed at Aphex Twin's house for a week. And they're fucking weirdos, they're both fucking weird. But we don't just collaborate with someone; we have to be friends with someone for a long time before because it's not just like…because it's normally just some fucking record company stupid kind of move. We have to be friends with people first."
Jay and Silent Bob by David Swan
"I would say I spanked at least seven to eight times in one day. It was at the point that my penis wouldn't even get hard, but I'd be so horny that I would jerk off and I couldn't help it. And that's for real. I was sick from the opiate withdrawal and the blood wasn't flowing so I wouldn't get rock hard but the feelings were coming back. Seriously, I was feeling like I was a teenager when I first had sex, and afterwards just wanted more and more and more."
Noel Gallagher by Michael Hartt
"I've got a backlog of songs which would blow your mind. I can go into a studio on any given day – and I've been able to do this for the past 15 years – and do two albums. Any given day. But I don't sit and write in a rush when I've got to write an album. I just write all the time for fun. I was writing this morning. I just sat in a room – and I really haven't been that excited about anything I've written for a while – and three songs started today out of nowhere."
Steel Panther by Tom Mann
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It's a nightmare as ten-man Notts County team crash out of FA Cup
Posted: December 19, 2012|
THIS was an FA Cup nightmare.
Notts County have enjoyed some wonderful moments in the Cup in the past few seasons, beating Sunderland and giving Premier League giants Manchester City an almighty scare.
But there will be no great adventure this season, after they were well and truly dumped out 3-0 by League Two Rotherham United in a second round replay at Meadow Lane last night.
The Magpies were shocking in the first half and pressed the self-destruct button big time in a mad 30 minutes, in which they conceded all three goals and Damion Stewart saw red for an elbow.
Ben Pringle fired the Millers ahead with an early goal and then Mark Bradley and Daniel Nardiello completed the upset before half-time.
Notts put up a fight in the second half, but it was too little, too late.
The big news before kick-off was that the Magpies' No.1 goalkeeper Bartosz Bialkowski suffered an injury in training on Monday and so was out of the tie.
With the giant Pole sidelined for the first time this season, Notts gave a debut to 20-year-old rookie goalkeeper Liam Mitchell.
The Magpies were also forced into making another change at the back because Dean Leacock was ruled out with a hamstring injury. Stewart replaced him at the heart of the back-four.
Despite the loss of two of those two key men, Notts were boosted by the return of Alan Judge from suspension and also their leading scorer Yoann Arquin, who scored a wonder volley in a 1-1 draw in the first game between the two sides.
The young French striker started in attack, after missing their 2-1 home league defeat against Brentford.
Mitchell, a Nottingham lad, quickly showed his ability by making a great save to deny Millers' midfielder Michael O'Connor after just five minutes.
O'Connor smashed a powerful low shot towards the bottom left corner of the net from 25 yards that would have beaten a lot of goalkeepers, but Mitchell dived rapidly to his right and tipped it past a post at full stretch.
Mitchell also punched away two corners that were whipped dangerously into the six-yard box in the opening minutes, but there was nothing he could do to stop the visitors taking a 1-0 lead on ten minutes through Pringle.
It was his goal that cancelled out Arquin's opener at the New York Stadium to force the replay and the ex-Ilkeston Town and Derby County man inflicted more hurt on the Magpies by curling a shot beyond Mitchell and inside his left-hand post from 25 yards.
It got worse for Notts 12 minutes later as Rotherham doubled their lead.
Pringle was involved once again, swinging a corner into the box that fell to Bradley at the far post and he turned the ball past Mitchell from close range.
The Magpies looked completely shell-shocked, but going 2-0 down sparked them into life and Judge fired in a shot from inside the penalty area that was blocked on 24 minutes and captain Neal Bishop forced Millers' goalkeeper Andy Warrington into a save with a close-range header five minutes later.
Their hopes of staging a fightback were dealt a blow soon after though because Stewart was sent off for elbowing Rotherham striker Alex Revell in the face on 30 minutes as they raced to seize onto the ball.
The Jamaica international trudged off down the tunnel, leaving Notts two goals down with ten men.
Mitchell then made a great one-on-save to deny Nardiello on 36 minutes, but he could not stop him piling more misery on the Magpies just five minutes later as he scored to make it 3-0.
The away fans were chanting 'easy, easy!', after Lee Freckling raced forward down the right, crossed into the box and Nardiello rifled past Mitchell from five yards.
There was a bit of controversy about the goal though because Frecklington had hit a pass forward for Revell and he was flagged offside so the Magpies' players stopped, but Frecklington was then allowed to race onto his own pass before setting up Nardiello.
The tie looked all over at half-time, but Notts made a triple substitution at the start of the second half in an attempt to spark a comeback.
Andre Boucaud, Jeff Hughes and Arquin were all left in the dressing-room and Joss Labadie, Francois Zoko and Enoch Showunmi were all thrown on.
Labadie was quickly in the thick of it, driving a shot at goal from the edge of the penalty area that flew just wide of the top left corner of the net, and Showunmi made his presence felt in the opening minutes as well.
The towering No.9 almost got on the end of a right-wing cross into the box by Judge on 60 minutes as well, but the visitors hit back quickly and almost scored a fourth goal a minute later, Frecklington beating Mitchell to a through ball and stroking a shot just wide of the far post.
Frecklington threatened again on 66 minutes, firing wide from 20 yards, and Mitchell was forced to parry an effort from Pringle past his right-hand post minutes later. The young keeper than tipped over a long-range shot from Revell, before Liddle forced Warrington into a save with a header on 81 minutes.
Zoko then headed a right-wing cross into the penalty from Julian Kelly well wide in injury time and that proved the Magpies' last chance to salvage any pride.
They kept going until the bitter end, but there was no way back for Keith Curle's men and a lot of fans had left their seats long before the end. Those that stayed booed when the final whistle went.
It was a bad, bad night for Notts. The worst for a long time.
NOTTS: Mitchell, Kelly, D Stewart (sent off, 30), Liddle, Sheehan, Campbell-Ryce, Bishop, Boucaud (Labadie, 46), J Hughes (Zoko, 46), Judge, Arquin (Showunmi, 46). Subs: Pilkington, Regan, Bencherif, Mahon.
ROTHERHAM: Warrington, Bradley, Arnason, Mullins, O'Connell (Cameron, 74), Pringle, Taylor (Rose, 86), O'Connor, Frecklington, Nardiello (Walker, 90), Revell. Subs: Shearer, Odejayi, Agard, Denton.
Attendance: 2,990


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The Dodgers came to terms on contracts with both A.J. Ellis (1-year, $2 million) and Ronald Belisario (1-year, $1.45 million) on Friday. Both players avoided arbitration by signing, as Chad covered. —– Austin Gallagher was released by the Dodgers. On Friday, he received a 50-game suspension from baseball for testing positive for methylhexaneamine, a banned substance. The team also released ... Read More »
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The BBC has launched a new version of its Red Button service offering additional media content through select digital platforms.
The BBC has overhauled its Red Button service for connected TV, launching today on Virgin Media's TiVo service, under an agreement with the two companies. The new version of the Red Button will roll out to other internet connected TV platforms in the coming months.
The feature allows viewers to watch BBC children's channels, BBC Three and BBC Four at any time – even if the channel is off-air. They can also use it to catch up on shows they may have missed and browse news and weather headlines and video clips.
The new Red Button will only work on TVs that are connected to the Internet, which is why rolling out the service initially to Virgin's 1.2 million consumers who own a Virgin Media TiVo box makes sense.
"With today's launch of BBC Connected Red Button, the BBC is seamlessly bringing the Internet together with live TV, while making the technology completely invisible," said Daniel Danker, General Manager, BBC Programmes and On-Demand.
This is red button reinvented, and the beginning of the exciting future of television," he added.


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The Sanyo PLV-WF20 projector Offers a true WXGA full (1366 x 800) resolution. So the PLV-WF20 makes it possible to project high-quality HD images from nearly any location. The projector provides an exceptionally bright and high contrast image. Delivering a radiant 6000 ANSI Lumens, the PLV-WF20 delivers first class brightness. The projector boasts a contrast ratio of 2000:1. A wide range of other image adjustment options, including keystone correction, vertical and horizontal lens shift (lens sold separately) and easy power off and start are included.
The Sanyo PLV-WF20 multimedia projector is the ideal solution for large audience venues that require a unique installation solution. Because it offers unmatched connectivity within an attractive case, the projector satisfies the needs of the most challenging installations.
Network Control An optional PJ-Net Organizer network board allows for simple control and management of projectors via a CAT5 network connection. The administrator can use network management software called PJ Master (optional accessory), and be able to centrally control all PJ-Net Organizer-mounted projectors within the network.
Active Maintenance Filter System (AMFS) The cabinet of the PLV-WF20 has an improved air flow system. This sophisticated filter monitor system is efficient at controlling the temperature. An Active Maintenance Filter System automatically replaces the filter and also warns the user of clogged filters, resulting in better projector performance from improved dust resistance and easy maintenance.
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HortiBot - A Plant Nursing Robot
The vision is the Spider mounted with the HortiBot accessory kit, which transforms it into a tool carrier for high-tech plant nursing for e.g. organic grown vegetables. High-tech tools for weeding that at a later stage can be implemented are tools like laser, micro spraying and mechanical devices. The pictures show the commercial Spider and the delivery from this project – A robust and simple tool carrier for the outdoor gardener.
Illustration of the synergy obtained by combining the commercial remote controlled Spider (top left) with the autonomous AgRobot research platform (top left) from The Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agricultural Engineering. The vision is the Spider mounted with the HortiBot accessory kit, which transform it into a tool carrier for high-tech weeding for example of organic grown onions (middle). The bottom picture shows the delivery from this project – a robust and simple tool carrier of e.g. a laser weeding tool for the outdoor gardener.
Organization of the project and key competences
The project ended August 2007. The project was coordinated by The Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agricultural Engineering, with expertise within technologies for precision weeding, robot technology for agricultural purposes, and machinery management. The additional partners in the project were Vitus Bering with competences within hydraulics, electrical control, and software development; Special Maskiner with many years experience within specialized machinery to nurse green areas; Eco-Dan a/s, which is the leading supplier of vision based solutions for automatic tool guidance within row crops; Gartneriet Inge-Marienlund which is the largest producer in Denmark of garden lettuce, china cabbage, and organic onions, which is grown as a part of the approximately 170 hectare farmed according to organic principles.
Project Co-ordinator
Rasmus Nyholm Jørgensen, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Research Centre Bygholm. - Rasmus might now be contacted at University of Southern Denmark.
Further development of the HortiBot
A new research project entitled 'Weeds' continues the development of the Hortibot.
Contact for more information
Michael Nørremark, Aarhus University, Dept. of Agricultural Engineering.
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|2010 AIA Small Project Awards - Architecture in the Public Interest - SplitFrame; Portland, Connecticut North Studio at Wesleyan University
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SplitFrame; Portland, Connecticut
North Studio at Wesleyan University
SplitFrame is a wildlife viewing structure designed and constructed to maximize environmental exposure while minimizing impact, both in construction and over the projected life of the structure. Sited in a publicly accessible wildlife sanctuary, the core of the project consists of two integral pieces - a floating Observation Deck and an elevated Viewing Station - connected via a hinged staircase, allowing the Observation Deck to rise and fall with the seasonal change in water levels.
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Phoenix, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) - Markieff Morris exploded for 23 points on
9-of-12 shooting off the bench as the Phoenix Suns downed the New Orleans
Pelicans, 101-94, to keep their surprising start going.
Eric Bledsoe scored 24 points, handed out six assists and even recorded a big
block of 6-foot-10 Anthony Davis in the closing seconds of Phoenix's fifth
victory on the young season.
The win made Jeff Hornacek the first coach in Suns history to win his first
four home games.
Jason Smith had a team-high 22 points while Jrue Holiday and Anthony Morrow
added 16 apiece for the Pelicans, who had won two in a row since losing on
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Bringing the case to the supreme court, Mayer says, came with the risk of airing laundry that many officers would prefer remain hidden.
"The potential for abuse of that decision is rampant," Mayer asserts. "It could really, really turn things upside down. The reason we went forward is, any employee -- not just in a police department -- should have access to his own file. The FOP's role in that was simply protecting the cop's rights."
Mayer says officers who are the subject of complaints should be publicly named only if they're actually charged with crimes. There's a difference, he believes, between handing over an internal-affairs file to an accused police officer and giving files to anyone who asks.
"Wrong," counters Jean Maneke, First Amendment attorney for the Missouri Press Association, which lobbies the state legislature on behalf of the media. "Who requests the information has nothing to do with anything."
Nor does the outcome of the investigation. The court ruled that the Guyer file is a public document even though allegations proved unfounded. Maneke also notes that police aren't supposed to withhold entire investigative files when officers are accused of crimes. While state law allows some information to be redacted if it would reveal investigative techniques or pose a "clear and present danger" to an officer, witness or victim, that's a far cry from wholesale refusal to produce files, says Maneke. "The exception [to the Sunshine Law] doesn't talk about withholding the whole record," she notes. "It talks about withholding portions of the record."
Like the state attorney general, Greg Kloeppel, the lawyer retained by the Fraternal Order of Police to argue Guyer's case, says internal-affairs complaints alleging possible criminal conduct are always public records. Accompanying investigative files are also subject to disclosure, he says, with the caveat that information posing a danger to a person or an investigation can be excised. And that's not likely once an investigation has been completed, Kloeppel argued in the Guyer case.
The Guyer decision notwithstanding, local civil-rights attorneys and activists say "trust us" has always been the St. Louis police department's watchword when its officers are accused of wrongdoing.
"I have a difficult time securing these types of reports, even in the context of litigation," says Stephen Ryals, a Clayton lawyer who represented Gregory Bell and who has handled several other police-brutality lawsuits filed in federal court. "I think it's important in a free society that these sorts of matters be aired in a public forum, in the public eye. If it's all done in secrecy, behind closed doors where nothing that they do is subject to open review, it at least creates an atmosphere of possible suspicion and mistrust."
Jamala Rogers, co-chairwoman of the Coalition Against Police Crimes and Repression, says internal-affairs secrecy is one reason her group is calling for a civilian oversight board to hear complaints against police.
"When police officers appear to commit crimes, they shouldn't be treated differently than any other suspect, but they are," Rogers says. "We need to have some measures of accountability, and the only way to do that is to have the information."
Although the Guyer decision opened a door that had previously been closed, members of the media in St. Louis have shown little interest in stepping through it. St. Louis police say they've received just five requests for internal-affairs files since the Guyer decision. All five came from the Riverfront Times.
"Isn't that strange, that a city police department of this size has only had one entity asking for information," Rogers observes. "Either they're lying or, worse, people have stopped asking."
Richard Weil, an assistant managing editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, says the paper has asked St. Louis police for at least two internal-affairs files since the Guyer decision. On the first occasion, in 2001, the paper asked for files involving Maurice Nutt, a police board member who resigned after he was accused of sexually harassing officers. Weil says the paper got the information it wanted through other means and didn't follow up on its Sunshine Law request. "We kind of let it slide," he says. The second request, made about a month ago, is pending, Weil says. State law requires public agencies to respond to such requests within three days. In extraordinary cases, the law says agencies may go beyond the three-day limit, but there must be "reasonable cause" for the delay, which must be explained in detail to the person requesting the record.
Although police departments have historically been insular institutions, Chief Joe Mokwa doesn't duck controversy and knows the importance of public-records laws, remembers Eddie Roth, a former police board commissioner who left St. Louis two years ago to take a job as an editorial writer with the Dayton Daily News in Ohio.
"It's a constant struggle to have the doors and windows opened as widely as you'd like them to be," says Roth, a licensed attorney who is familiar with the Guyer decision. "I think Chief Mokwa is a very open guy who does understand the obvious public interest in this material."
But Roth was surprised to learn that the department won't release names of officers even in physical-abuse complaints that have been sustained. "Gee whiz," Roth exclaimed. "Who are you dealing with over there? Maybe I can help. Let me make some calls."
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Indonesian tycoon Siti Hartati Cakra Murdaya Poo was named as a graft suspect by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Wednesday over allegations that the wealthy associate of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono bribed a Central Sulawesi official to receive a land concession in the Buol district.
A prominent financier of Yudhoyono's race, Hartati was charged in connection with the case on August 6, KPK chairman Abraham Samad said in a press conference on Wednesday. Hartati will not be jailed unless the ongoing investigation, or her actions, warrant her detention, he added.
"The detectives found enough evidence to connect the three suspects that have been named earlier with a new suspect," Abraham said. "The new suspect is SHM."
Hartati's palm oil company, Hardaya Inti Plantation, reportedly paid Rp 2 billion ($212,000) in bribes to Buol's district chief Amran Batalipu to acquire needed land concessions in the district.
KPK investigators busted Amran and two top Hardaya Inti Plantation staff members in a corruption sting on June 26.
Hardaya Inti Plantation manager Yani Anshori and operational director Gondo Sudjono were arrested in the operation.
Amran fled the scene after his security staff slammed their car into the KPK's vehicle. He was caught on July 5.
Hartati was issued a travel ban after the corruption scandal broke.
But Hartati has declared her innocence. She claims that Amran asked her for the money, which she saw as a social donation.
Hartati's lawyer Patra M. Zen had harsher words, alleging that Amran extorted his client, a practice he says is common in the palm oil industry.
Patra said that the company had struggled security problems since 1998 that require regular assistance from the National Police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob). Amran reportedly asked Hartati for a donation to make the problems go away.
But Amran's lawyer Amat said the money was meant as a donation to his re-election campaign. He said that Amran was not the only candidate for district head who received a donation from Hartati.
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- The round table is open to adults with an interest in the American Civil War.
- Future members need two sponsors. (If you don't already know a member, the best way to find sponsors is to attend a meeting or two.)
- Annual dues are $55, due upon joining and each January.
- Members receive invitations to and advance information about our nine meetings each year. The meetings feature an hour of fellowship and interesting conversation among members and guests, an excellent family-style dinner, brief tidbits such as introduction of guests and announcements, and concludes with the featured speaker. Past presentations have featured well-know Civil War experts like Ed Bearss, Robert Krick, and Jim Ogden. Some of the best presentations have been given by our own members who have displayed their knowledge and enthusiasm for Civil War history in very interesting and entertaining ways.
- Members are also invited to our special events. Chief among them are the spring day trip, summer picnic, and fall field trip. The spring events have introduced the participants to some interesting locations such as Johnson's Island, historic Lakeview Cemetery, and the home of the "Fighting McCooks". The last two summer picnics have been enlivened by the 51st O.V.I. Reenactment Regiment and Band. The multi-day fall field trips center on a Civil War battlefield. A few of the locations visited were Shiloh, Spotsylvania and the Wilderness, Gettysburg, and Chattanooga and Chickamauga. Guides for these trips are very knowledgeable, sometimes well-known Civil War historians, such as Jim Ogden.
- Members receive monthly editions of the Courier newsletter. We may be prejudiced, but we believe it to be one of the best round table newsletters. Most editions include information about upcoming events, a brief review of the last meeting, informative articles written or compiled by our members, and a book review. (You may sample some previous editions on the Newsletter page.)
- Members also have access to the Western Reserve Historical Society (including Hale Farm) through our group
membership. The Society has one of the best collections of Civil War photographs in the country, not to mention shelf after shelf of Civil War books and interesting displays centered on regional history.
- All of the above will be enjoyed in the company of men and women who share an avid interest in the Civil War. The limited size of our group allows new members to travel in familiar company, learning and enjoying. Good fellowship is one of our guiding principles.
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Is there a female counter part to this group?
Ann, we do not have a counterpart to our organization. Other roundtables, Cleveland for example, has an open membership policy. There may be others. The Ohio Historical Society has links to eight other roundtables at http://www.ohiocivilwar150.org/resources/links, where you should be able to get membership information. (There is also a link to a purported list of all Ohio Civil War roundtables, but that list seems to be very old and out of date.)


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Clover School District announced today (7/13/15) administrative staff changes impacting four schools and the district office.
A familiar face will soon be seen on the Clover High School campus when Rod Ruth rejoins the Clover School District family to become the principal of the district's flagship school. He will begin July 1.
Clover School and Upper Palmetto YMCA officials will break ground on the $18 million CSD Aquatics Center at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday morning, June 25.
Grayson Love, 17, a rising senior at Clover High School, recently learned he earned the highest possible score on the ACT test. His perfect composite score places him among the nation's elite students.
With summer now in full swing, district staff is performing maintenance on PowerSchool and as updates to student schedules are prepared for the 2015-2016 school year. While this work is being completed, Parent Portal will be disabled.
Online student registration is now open for all schools and students in grades 1-12. Click for more info...
The Clover High School class of 2015 features 428 students who have met all requirements for graduation. Congratulations Blue Eagles!


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Nathan Goodman Electronic Marching Drum System
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I have nothing against e-drums and have a Roland e-drum kit at home.... but this looks ridiculous on the field, and I am not sure what the reason why anyone would want one. It has to be heavier than acoustic drums, and I doubt it could be as loud. And if it is, is that a 200-watt amp on his back? Ugh!
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It's been kind of a strange season for relationships on Gossip Girl so far. Blair (Leighton Meester) is sort of engaged to Chuck (Ed Westwick), but not like engaged engaged. Serena (Blake Lively) is dating the most baffling person ever. Nate (Chace Crawford)'s girlfriend is like a half-thought out plan in person form. Rufus (Matthew Settle)? Oh lord. Ivy (Kaylee DeFer) isn't even the strangest match for him.
It's all very weird.
But then on Season 6, Episode 5: "Monstrous Ball." Ivy totally went rogue and seems to be scheming with Chuck and Rufus got kind of mad that she's throwing her money around.
Steven (Barry Watson) saw Serena's sex tape (as did everyone at Cotillion) and they seem to be splitsville. We could tell, because he said something like "it's over," which, when Barry Watson says it, we believe.
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Blanchette leads Wildcats with career-high six goals
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DURHAM, N.H. -- In a battle for first place in the America East conference standings, senior captains Kristin Blanchette (Sudbury, Mass.) and Katie Leland (Timonium, Md.) recorded six points apiece to propel the University of New Hampshire women's lacrosse team to Saturday afternoon's 20-9 victory against the University of Maryland-Baltimore County at Memorial Field.
UNH extended its unbeaten streak to six games to improve to 7-4 overall and 3-0 in America East. UMBC, which entered the game with a four-game winning streak, is now 7-5, 2-1.
Blanchette scored a career-high six goals to match her personal best mark of six points while Leland, the reigning America East Player of the Week who became UNH's all-time points leader earlier in the week, netted four goals and assisted on two others. Moira Talbot (Marblehead, Mass.) finished with five points on a personal-best three assists and two goals. Alexa Webster (Aurora, Colo.) had three goals and an assist, and Ashley Durepo (Concord, N.H.) recorded personal bests in both assists (two) and points (four). Beth Sabiston (Bay Shore, N.Y.; two goals) and Sarah Von Bargen (East Setauket, N.Y.) accounted for the team's other goals. UNH goalkeeper Ashley Milley (Sudbury, Mass.) made three saves.
UMBC was led offensively by Ali Levendusky (four goals, one assist) and Kelly Fiorani (two goals, two assists). Starting goalie Susie Sweeney stopped nine shots and was charged with the loss as she exited the game with the Retrievers trailing 13-9 at 45:51. Jen Venter played the final 14:09 and was not credited with a save.
Trailing 9-4 at halftime, UMBC opened the second half with a 4-1 spurt to close within 10-8 at 38:59 and force UNH to call time out. The Retrievers continued their comeback, however, and trimmed the deficit to 10-9 at 40:15 with Levendusky's third goal of the half.
It didn't take long for the Wildcats to respond, as Leland gained possession off the ensuing draw control and passed the ball over the defense to Webster, who scored to reestablish a two-goal cushion, 11-9, at 40:25. Leland netted an unassisted goal 47 seconds later and Webster's third tally of the game gave the Wildcats a 13-9 advantage at 45:51.
UMBC changed goalies at that point, but Blanchette's fourth goal extended the Wildcats' lead to 14-9 at 50:34. Levendusky appeared to end UNH's run of four consecutive goals with seven minutes remaining, but the goal was disallowed by virtue of an illegal stick.
Von Bargen's unassisted goal put New Hampshire in front 15-9 at 53:15. The Retrievers called their second timeout at that point, but the 'Cats won the ensuing draw control and went into a spread offense that yielded a goal by Leland, from Talbot, at 55:19 to push the advantage to 16-9.
Sabiston and Blanchette alternated goals the rest of the way to close the scoring.
UMBC took an early 1-0 lead at 1:55 on a goal by Fiorani but Talbot scored consecutive goals 45 seconds apart - at 3:47 and 4:32 - to give the 'Cats a lead they would not relinquish.
Webster scored on a free position shot at 6:13 and Leland, off Durepo's pass, struck 43 seconds later to create a 4-1 lead and force UMBC to call time out.
The Retrievers pulled within 4-2 on Levendusky's goal at 10:05, but the Wildcats went on a 4-0 spurt with two tallies by Blanchette and Durepo to build an 8-2 advantage at 13:49. Goals by Fiorani (at 14:15) and Levendusky (22:04) surrounded Leland's tally at 19:25 to close the first-half scoring.
Leland extended her UNH career points record to 242 with the six-point effort. She is also No. 2 in assists (82) and No. 3 in goals (160). Blanchette entered the program's top 10 career goals list at No. 10 with 96.
New Hampshire continues its four-game homestand April 12 (4 p.m.) vs. Harvard University and resumes conference play against Binghamton University on April 15 (1 p.m.).


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When you have a good grasp of the basic fundamentals, the next step is learning how to pocket balls. To do this, you must understand how the aiming process works. Aiming helps you become a shotmaker.
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Webster defines "primer" as (1) "a small book for teaching children to read," (2) "a small introductory book on a subject," and (3) "a short informative piece of writing." Jonathan Dimock's book is accordingly well named: the book is small, a little over 220 pages; it is indeed an introduction to what I'll just refer to as QM and QFT, with Dimock stating in his Preface that "the book does help prepare the reader for a journey in any of [a number of further] directions"; finally, "informative" is unquestionably the mot juste for the book. Written in a welcome terse style, Dimock covers both non-relativistic and relativistic QM, statistical QM, and, of course, as the title guarantees, QFT.
Regarding the latter, in the last part of the book, after covering classical and quantum fields on a manifold, Dimock presents three chapters starting with the life's blood of QFT, the Feynman method of path integrals, ending with a discussion of non-linear field theory. The very last section of the book deals with a reformulation of Dimock's foregoing discussion of the 2-dimensional model of a field theory governed by a nonlinear field equation, equipped with Hamiltonian whose potential energy part looks like ∫φ4, where φ is the corresponding scalar field on 2-dimensional spacetime. This final reformulation concerns "a variation which involves constructing the Hilbert space [of the Wightman reconstruction theorem] directly at imaginary spacetime," and Schwinger functions are featured prominently.
It's already abundantly clear from the preceding snippet that in the orbit of a little over 200 pages Dimock deals with a lot of what Feynman used to call "the good stuff," and covers a good deal of serious functional analysis and geometry in the process. Of course, for us mathematicians, this is really the most attractive feature of QM and QFT, isn't it? These aspects of physical reality provide occasions for the application of spectacularly pretty mathematics, including functional analysis, group representation theory, and differential geometry, and the development of machinery and methodology of great mathematical interest.
Thus, this Mathematical Primer presents a decent chunk of functional analysis already in its opening chapter: the focus falls on operators on a Hilbert space of all four flavors, viz. bounded, unbounded, self-adjoint, and compact operators. Later, in the middle part of the book, relativity is presented, with Einstein's formulation heavily favored (well, there is really no competition, of course) and Minkowski spacetime featured, but soon it's on to charged scalar fields and Dirac fields, and all the attendant mathematics. After a discussion of the electromagnetic field and the according reformulation of the Maxwell equations it's on to interaction of (classical) fields and the gauge principle, setting the stage for some real fireworks including probabilistic methods (on steroids) and QFT proper.
Finally, dotting mathematical i's and crossing mathematical t's, the book sports three appendices on, respectively, normed spaces, tensor products, and distributions.
I think this is an excellent book that more than lives up to what its title promises. It is well-written and is a very good introduction to QM and QFT for mathematicians keen on getting quickly off the ground in this direction. There are ca. 100 problems scattered throughout the book, and it's really non-negotiable that in order to get all it offers out of Dimock's presentation, the reader should go at them with guns blazing. Dimock is a mathematician writing for mathematicians about themes that the physicists have crafted using their own patois. To reclaim it as mathematics is quite a task in itself: Dimock deserves a lot of praise for taking it on and doing such a wonderful job.
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One out of six children in developing countries is underweight
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Opposite of Vanity Sizing
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This is a perfect summer outfit! It looks as light and breezy as you describe it, I really like the shirt, especially with your flower pinned to it. You look cute and comfy.ReplyDelete
Sizing is so funny sometimes, I have really learned to not worry too much about what the sizes say either, especially when thrifting! I got an XL white shrug at at thrift store last year and I'm usually a S-M!
Exciting about your Fall Festival! I hope it is successful!!
Oh that is super exciting Megan! I know you will be a smash with your booth! Congrats! Also, love the outfit today--the skirt is super cute. I was commenting about this on Keely's blog the other day too. It is amazing how different the sizes can be. I have several skirts in sizes 10-14 from thrifting and I wear a 4 usually. And a lot of size L shirts when I wear a S! I truly hope you enjoy your weekend friend!ReplyDelete
Such a sweet outfit - I love that skirt! Ha, sizing is so screwed up. Wait till you see my ridiculously silly vanity-sized dress that I'm wearing today. It's a size 2!! WTF? I'm like a 6-8, no way I'm a size 2.ReplyDelete
Congrats on the table! That is so cool. Make sure you have a good amount of stock - those fall fairs are great for people looking for cheap stocking stuffer items and other Christmas gifts. My mom does them every year and totally rakes in the dough.
Great outfit; I adore that All Saints skirt. Hope the Fall Festival goes wonderfully well for you!ReplyDelete
I've given up on figuring out sizing. I have everything from XS (Gap, of course) to XL in my wardrobe. OK, I'm tall, but in a sane world, I shouldn't fit either of those sizes.
I love everything you are wearing but that skirt is especially amazing, great fit, design, and stripes every which 'a way :PReplyDelete
Now I can confess the Maggy L dress I'm wearing in today's post is a 12P. I know, smallest 12P evah, right? :P
Congrats on the table! You should get lots of traffic! Maybe a display of photos re how to style the buttons? I finally put mine in their own big box, but I usually just dump it out on the bed beside what I'm planning to wear and then find the ones to go with. Of course, I only have, like, 35...lol.Replies
Yeah, I've got a few ideas for showing off what can be done with them. It's going to depend on how much space I'll have. We're supposed to help draw customers into the shop, so I assume we'll probably have a smallish table. I've just got them all in a big bag right now. I've got too many to keep track of! Probably a few hundred.Delete
Congrats on getting a table - I think you'll be a big hit there. Great warm-weather look today - I love that AS skirt.ReplyDelete
Maybe it was a child's "Large". I've learned not to trust sizes and have found some of my best stuff -- that fit me -- in sections marked for normal gals, even though I'm a giant. Some of my petite girlfriends have had luck shopping in boy's depts.ReplyDelete
Ooooh! I love that skirt! I agree that "this is how summer should feel"!ReplyDelete
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AWESOME news about the table at the festival!! Cute outfit--but i know what you mean about sizes. i just ignore them and try on anything that looks like it might fit!ReplyDelete
Comfy but chic - love this look. Congrats on your table - how exciting!ReplyDelete
I really feel thesuumer vibe by looking atyou in this crisp, delicate outfit. :)ReplyDelete
Congrats on the opportunity to sell the buttons and the belts. Could it be that the shirts are kids items that were mis-hung in the thrift store? Sometimes I come across situations like that.ReplyDelete
I love that skirt! It's more fun than just regular stripes! Isn't it crazy how much sizes can vary?? I constantly have to remind myself of that when I'm thrifting. I get really excited when I fit into something that's smaller than my usual size, but need to remember not to be hard on myself when it's the opposite and I have to go a size up. :)ReplyDelete
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I love finding a thrifting item! Its like finding your own treasure and for super cheap. Come by and check out my blog, if you like it I would love it if you followed me.ReplyDelete
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You are right: summers shouldn't feel like you can barely breathe. You look fantastic in this simple, casual, girly outfit. Love the tee and the skirt and that button-flower is perfect with it. Also, how great that this is all neutral.ReplyDelete