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Racism, Root Causes and Robert Spencer
While in the midst of pledge drive, I nearly missed one of the few sources of joy in this business: Watching Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton smoke out suit wearing think tankers who would clearly be more comfortable wearing sheets.
In a two part series at Think Progress, we learn that the American Enterprise Institute hosted professional supplicant and fantasist Ayaan Hirsi Ali who boldly asserted that
one of the justifications for Norwegian anti-Muslim terrorist Anders Breivik's attacks, explaining that Breivik said "he had no other choice but to use violence" because his fringe views were "censored."
G-d bless her. Really. Anyone who can say that with a straight face deserves an AEI field trip with
…The David Horowitz Freedom Center, named for right-wing activist David Horowitz, is organizing a trip to Turkey featuring AEI's Michael Rubin and Robert Spencer, an Islamophobic blogger featured in the Center For American Progress report "Fear, Inc.."
Cost, not including plane fare: 4,650$ (US)
Gharib and Clifton wax a bit earnest with "highlight[ing] AEI's relationship with these extremist views and raises questions about whether bigoted anti-Muslim sentiment should hold even a tangential place in the Washington discourse."
Tangential place? It's the center piece of our foreign policy. Anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, anti-Persian bigotry is mainstream, respectable and frankly necessary to maintain The Empire. One cannot continue public support for brutal occupations, the destruction of entire cultures and flying robots which kill children without a sustained campaign of bigotry, ignorance and dehumanization.
Update: Robert Spencer wrote me via Twitter. You can find the exchange here. While none of his offense addresses the issue of racism or the point of the blog entry, he did pen this essay, Time to Get Out of Afghanistan, in March of this year.
Spencer writes,
In ten years, American troops (through no fault of their own, although the same cannot be said of their superiors) have accomplished little or nothing in terms of establishing a stable and democratic government in Afghanistan. This is true despite the loss of thousands of lives of noble and courageous American military personnel who deserved better from those in command, and the wanton waste of billions of dollars. The Taliban is still a potent force — so strong that both Karzai and Obama have made overtures to it. The Taliban's claim of Islamic authenticity strongly resonates with the Afghan people and provides an ever-renewable wellspring of material, financial, and moral support for these vicious thugs as they bomb girls' schools, music stores, and other outcroppings of jahiliyya — the infidels' society of ignorance.
With the withdrawal of the American troops, there will be many Taliban murders, many more jihads, many more women and non-Muslims victimized. That is an abomination. But we could have never ultimately have prevented it anyway. America's misbegotten Afghan adventure shows the catastrophic human cost of our national unwillingness to face the unpleasant truths about Islam. It costs us lives and money, and makes us even more vulnerable to jihad attacks than we already were. It's time not just to bring the troops home from their foredoomed mission, but to begin a searching and encompassing re-evaluation of all our national policies regarding Islam and Islamic states.
Well, I'm humbled. Robert Spencer: Successor to Dorothy Day. My apologies to Mr. Spencer and the entire peace movement for imputing any bigotry or hysterical monomaniacal hatred or suggesting that there is anything untoward in Mr. Spencer's attitudes toward his brothers and sisters in the middle east and central Asia.
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DIVIDE AND CONQUER: Early on in American history, the establishment created racism so that the black slaves and white indentured servants in the south, who were pretty much treated the same, would not get together against the establishment. Divide and conquer. We continue to be divided, black-white, legal-illegal, liberal-conservative, patriot-non-patriot, and lately we are warned about the horrible evil of the Muslim community who want to take us over and install Sharia Law. It is all evil, and the evil is against the American people. It gets even worse with this talk about Zombies in America, which is a deliberate attempt to dehumanize Americans, saying that some of us will become flesh eating zombies.
That kind of fear and hatred by Americans doesn´t just happen, it doesn´t appear naturally from our souls – it is implanted. The establishment wants us divided and to have a low opinion of each other. What the establishment does not want, and will do anything and everything to prevent, is for Americans to get together in order to solve the country´s ills.
The sad truth is that we have spent trillions of dollars to support Apartheid in Israel…what is there to say? Look…you cant color a spade….no pun intended….there is just no way to justify what the United States has done…now we hear the NETWORKS telling us they are suddenly concerned with poor muslims and arabs in Syria and that we should all consider intervening…SO WHAT IS MY POINT? WHAT IS MY REMEDY? Look…please face reality and understand that if YOU WANT CHANGE IN THIS NATION…if you WANT CHANGE IN THE WORLD….then you must understand…..THE MEDIA IS THE REAL AND PRIMARY BATTLEGROUND!!!! IF YOU CANT CHANGE THE MASS MEDIA YOU CANT STOP ANY OF THIS!!!!…..why do you think people DONT CARE ABOUT AFGHANISTAN, OR IRAQ OR PALESTINE? Because the Media continues to misinform them, under inform them, or just plain egg them on..AS THEY ARE DOING NOW CONCERNING SYRIA AND IRAN!!!….if you all want real change and you are serious about it…YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE WAR ON THE MASS MEDIA and if you dont….NOTHING YOU DO WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE…you might as well stay home and wait for the end of the world….YOU MUST TAKE BACK THE MEDIA…any which way you can…p.s. sorry for the caps…I am not yelling at you, I am just trying to emphasize my point, my apologies.
I agree. They have the serfs fight each other and they expand their power, wasting wealth while profiting from their mad fantasies. The global banktatorship (a word I came across recently) is having problems with it's neo-feudalism. A more productive enterprise for the elite is to figure out a sustainable system that pleases everyone and is humane.
The best thing to do with the Islamic states is to get disentangled from them. Stop helping devious countries in their efforts to suppress dissent, spread chaos, or fight their battles for them. I doubt it is possible to implant 2500-2000 year old traditions from the West into another civilization and they will take root immediately.
How can we get disentangled from the Islamic States when
(1) we want their oil,
(2) we force them to accept our fraudulent/corrupt financial system
(3) we have to pacify them in order to maintain the criminal state of Israel in their midst.
(4) we are so arrogant and conceited believe we need to teach the world democracy, even though democracy does not exist at home ???
…The David Horowitz Freedom Center, named for right-wing activist David Horowitz, is organizing a trip to Turkey featuring AEI's Michael Rubin and Robert Spencer, an Islamophobic blogger featured in the Center For American Progress report "Fear, Inc.."
Breivik said "he had no other choice but to use violence" because his fringe views were "censored."
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'Chelsea and t? l? kèo bóng ?á hôm nay Manchester City are Newcastle's league fixtures directly following this weekend, and it is a fallacy to suggest that games as early as mid-September cannot be must-win. Lose at home to a newly promoted side at St James' on Saturday, and the groans around Tyneside will be audible from Darlington' – Football365's Big Weekend.
And so it came to pass. If Newcastle were abject against West Ham on Monday, they managed to scrape further into the bottom of the barrel during the first half against Watford just five days later. They may have moved up a place thanks to Sunderland's 2-0 defeat at Bournemouth, but that is where the tiny flickers of positivity ty so ca cuoc bong da truc tuyen end.
Not according to McClaren though, who used award-winning levels of one-eyed optimism to describe his side's performance. "Our spirit was tremendous in the second half and we nearly got it back," the manager said. "We created chances and got one back through Janmaat, but we didn't have that finishing touch to come back and get what would have been a great result for us."
Two things, Steve:
1) If a home draw with Watford t? l? cá c??c t? s? can be described as a great result after two points from your opening five league matches, Newcastle are in more trouble than we first thought. You sound like John Carver, and there is no greater insult.
2) You didn't score said goal, so focusing on the positives five days after saying a huge improvement was needed will convince nobody.
McClaren's propaganda acts as a weak facade for his performance at the club so far. There were relevant doubts after he mangled Derby's promotion campaign last season, and very few of those questions have been answered in the affirmative. After a significant summer spend, the new manager is already under huge pressure.


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Wrong time, wrong priority with Pence's income tax plan
Gov. Mike Pence has proposed a reduction in the Indiana income tax. Let's consider the following: First, tax funds to public schools were reduced because of reduced state revenues. Then the schools were forced to lay off teachers because of reduced income. Next, state revenues increased, and the governor proposes to reduce income taxes. The thinking in back of this planning is absurd. If state money is available, why not restore, or better yet increase, money to the public schools to replace the reduction of teachers? Educating our youths should be our highest priority.
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It's an interesting season for me as well. As of now my plan is to be in Japan from 3/30-4/11, so while the blog should see a lot of first-hand reports from the trip, it's going to make it a bit challenging to log first impressions (and series reviews from the winter shows) on a timely basis. I'll just have to wing it - and due to the other odd factor about this premiere season, that could be unpredictable. With so many winter shows delayed by anywhere from a few days to week due to the tragedy in Japan, it's still a crapshoot when many of these new shows will actually premiere. Like I said, I'll wing it...
With that, here's a quick look at the new season. I'm not going to do a comprehensive run-down of all 46 shows - there's plenty of excellent wiki out there if you want to check that out. I'll limit this to the shows I'm likely to review or at least watch, though there are always a series or two that sneak onto that list out of nowhere. This blog is strictly a one-man operation, and it occurs to me that covering a dozen or more shows - as I am now - is a bit much. So hopefully we'll settle on eight or nine this time, but if the season turns out that great, I'll find a way to cram a few more onto the roster somehow.
Right off the bat, here's a series that could be impacted by the quake. The entire plot is set off by a massive earthquake, so I wonder if that might be changed for sensitivity issues. In any case, it's an excellent manga and I like the casting choices. New director, but Koichi Hatsumi did some episode direction on the spectacular Moribito.
This is probably my most anticipated series of the spring and - big surprise - it's NoitaminA. The previews of have been spectacular - great visuals and music. Casting looks excellent and A-1 has been a reliable quality engine for these last couple of years. Director Tatsuyuki Nagai has worked on Toradora and Honey & Clover.
Not a studio whose work I'm intimately familiar with, but it's the other NoiraminA offering and they haven't whiffed in a long time. I love the concept art. It's sci-fi, too, which is always a plus - a futuristic melange of intrigue and violence that sounds as if was written by a cross between Phillip K. Dick and Ashirogi Muto. Direcor Kenji Nakamura has some good cred with darker-themed anime.
Lotte no Omocha! - Diomedea
How many studios can say they have a 1.000 batting average? Diomedea can - Shinryaku Ika Musume being the sum of their work as lead stuido. On that basis I'm giving this odd-sounding comedy a chance. The premise - an alien child princess needs to consume semen in order to survive - probably wouldn't have hooked me otherwise.
A-1's other spring entry, this is a manga adaptation about Satan's 15 year-old illegitimate son and his decision to become an exorcist to avenge his foster father. I like the casting of Fujiwara Keiji and Nobuhiko Okamoto and I hear good things about the manga. Plus, it's A-1. Director Tensau Okamura (Darker than Black, Cowboy Bebop Movie) is a rock-solid veteran.
I haven't seen the OVAs, but I have a morbid curiosity about this supposedly off-the-charts ecchi adaptation of the story of a college sexual perversion seminar (which, regrettably, did not appear on my electives lists). I take no comfort in the behind-the-camera staff, but I'll watch at least a few just to see what all the fuss is about.
My favorite studio has been less active in TV of late, and hasn't hit a home run for a couple of years. This gag manga adaptation about a detective and his demon servant doesn't look like the series that will break that streak, but I.G. always gets a long look from me on principle. Director Tsutomu Mizushima (OoFuri, Hare Guu) has a good track record with comedy and character-driven material.
It's SHAFT, it's Shinbo, and it stars Irinu Miyu - 'nuff said. None of these things are a clincher on their own, but together they make this one of my most anticipated spring series. It's the story of a boy named Makoto and his very weird cousin Erio (Nanoka Ai) who thinks she's an alien. You never know with Shinbo but this sounds like an agreeably insane premise and the casting is golden.
I don't know how this happened, but this series is getting three cours. It's an adaptation of an award-winning manga about a retainer of Oda Nobunaga who becomes a legendary tea master. I can see this on the cover of Newtype real soon... It figures to be reflective, smart, subtle and almost unnoticed.
Tatsunoko, you sure are busy all of a sudden. This a well-known manga, a long-running weekly Shounen Jump series about a high-school club that fixes problems for the other students. There's nothing anywhere in the premise, casting or staff that seems especially exciting but I'll check it out based on the popularity of the manga.
This is another studio I'm not much familiar with, and arguably the most anticipated series of the spring in terms of sheer numbers. From the creators of CHAOS; HEAD. It's another sci-fi with futuristic, big-brother themes and time travel elements. A manga adaptation, it's a two-cour series - rare enough these days - and figures to be one of the most popular shows of the year.
Dogakobo has been around almost 40 years but has almost no record as a lead studio; director Takenori Mihara has never manned the big chair for a series. So this adult dating sim adaptation is definitely a mystery. I'll check it out given the interesting game adaptations we've had lately and the relative lack of romance this series this series, with my expectations fully in check.
NOMAD has done pretty ecchi stuff (Kampfer, Chocotto Sister) along with the masterwork Sola. It's another dating sim adaptation, but with an interesting angle - three protagonists and three heroines, so no harem angle apparently. If I get one keeper between this and "Hoshizora" I'll be quite satisfied.
A couple episodes of this series have leaked out but were never subbed, though it's officially a spring series with a movie to come as well. Marketed as "the first ever anime aimed at seniors" it's the story of a fifth-grader and his family in the era leading up to the Tokyo Olympics. What I've seen looks interesting and this could be a sleeper. I hope someone subs it.
Masahiro Ando (Sword of the Stranger) directs, with heavyweight scripter Mari Okada on-board as screenwriter. It's the story of a 16 year-old girl who leaves the city to live at her grandmother's onsen resort in the mountains, and the odd cast of characters she meets there. It's an original series and two cours, and has the feel of substance to it. I have high hopes.
This one looks very, very odd - corporate salarymen and women who have superhero alter-egos and pick up bonus points by appearing on a superhero TV show. This is a weird choice for Sunrise, one of the titans of the business, but that alone piques my interest. It should look great, anyway - we'll see if the bizarre plot goes anywhere.
The staff - studio, director, writer - from Nanoha is back in this intriguing story of a 13 year-old boy summoned into an alternate world to serve as a hero for the Republic of Biscotti. So much of this sparks interest - is this going to be a real Mahou Shoujo series, a rarity? The female lead is my waifu Horie Yui, and all of the characters of Biscotti are named after pastries. I don't know just what this will be, but I hope it's light-hearted and a satirical look at the mahou shoujo genre. Definitely one of my highlights for spring, going in.
We're definitely not hurting for options here - the sheer volume of series is pretty staggering. To my eye, the tone is shifted more towards drama, action and sci-fi, with romance, comedy and moe a bit less dominant than they have been. In principle I don't have a problem with that trend, though the quality of the individual series is obviously more important in determining the quality of the season. I look forward to sharing a lot of first impressions - please don't hesitate to comment.


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Defense attorneys had filed a motion asking that today's preliminary hearing - where prosecutors must establish probable cause that a crime was committed - be delayed so that they could receive full access to all evidence to be presented by the state, called discovery.
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For nearly 20 years, Tor Gronborg has worked on securities fraud actions and has recovered more than $1 billion for investors.
Tor Gronborg is a member of the Firm's Management Committee. He has served as lead or co-lead counsel in numerous securities fraud cases that have collectively recovered more than $1 billion for investors. Mr. Gronborg's work has included significant recoveries against corporations such as Cardinal Health ($600 million), Motorola($200 million), Prison Realty ($104 million), CIT Group($75 million) and, most recently, Wyeth ($67.5 million).
On three separate occasions, Mr. Gronborg's pleadings have been upheld by the federal Courts of Appeals (Broudo v. Dura Pharms., Inc., 339 F.3d 933 (9th Cir. 2003), rev'd on other grounds, 544 U.S. 336 (2005); In re Daou Sys., 411 F.3d 1006 (9th Cir. 2005); Staehr v. Hartford Fin. Servs. Grp., 547 F.3d 406 (2d Cir. 2008)). He has also been responsible for a number of significant rulings, including Silverman v. Motorola, Inc., 798 F. Supp. 2d 954 (N.D. Ill. 2011); Roth v. Aon Corp., No. 04-C-6835, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18471 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 7, 2008); In re Cardinal Health, Inc. Sec. Litigs., 426 F. Supp. 2d 688 (S.D. Ohio 2006); and In re Dura Pharms., Inc. Sec. Litig., 452 F. Supp. 2d 1005 (S.D. Cal. 2006).
Mr. Gronborg earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board. In addition to his successful securities litigation practice, Mr. Gronborg lectures on topics such as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and electronic discovery.
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Trustees Extend Contract of Eckerd College President Donald R. Eastman III to 2014
The Eckerd College Board of Trustees voted unanimously at a meeting this morning to extend the term of President Donald R. Eastman's contract to June 30, 2014. President Eastman has agreed to serve a longer term.
President Eastman began his tenure on July 1, 2001; in 2006, his contract was renewed for a second five-year term. Annually the board's Presidential Assessment and Compensation Committee reviews the President's performance based upon mutually agreed upon goals. Noting the President's continuing exceptional performance and Board goals over the next five years, the Presidential Assessment and Compensation Committee recommended the Board offer the President an early extension of his contract. The Board agreed enthusiastically.
At Friday evening's celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the College's founding, the public phase of the 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign will be launched. Eckerd will announce that $50 million has been raised toward the campaign goal. The Board commended President Eastman for the momentum the College has gained under his leadership.
In an announcement to the Eckerd campus community, Board Chairman Miles C. Collier stated, "President Eastman frequently reminds us that the achievements of the College are not the results of the efforts of any single individual. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, thank you for all you do that contributes to the continuing success of this College."
About President Eastman
Donald R. Eastman III was appointed the fourth president of Eckerd College in July 2001. Before his appointment, Dr. Eastman served ten years at the University of Georgia, first as Vice President for Development and University Relations and then as Vice President for Strategic Planning and Public Affairs.
President Eastman is a member of the International Student Exchange Program (ISEP) Board and Association of Governing Boards (AGB) Council of Presidents. He serves as an ex officio member of The Florida Council of 100 and was appointed to the Educational Facilities Authority by the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners. He recently completed service as President of the NCAA Division II Sunshine State Conference and as a member of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) Board. He has served on the boards of the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce and Salvador Dal� Museum, and was a member of the Florida Orchestra Board of Advisors. He has published on topics in higher education, international education, and English literature; he also writes poetry.
President Eastman earned his B.A., magna cum laude, in Philosophy and English (with a minor in Art History) from the University of Tennessee. He earned his Ph.D. in English at the University of Florida. He and his wife, Christine, have three sons.


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Thomas ran as a Republican for his Ward 3 post and collected 78 votes to challenger and Democrat Patricia Burgess-Southerland's 19 votes. There were 97 ballots cast on election day and three absentee ballots recorded in Ward 3.
Uhiren also ran as a Republican for his Ward 1 post and tallied 142 votes to Democratic challenger Bobby Mooneyham's 73 votes. There were 205 ballots cast on election day and 15 absentee ballots recorded in Ward 1.
"This will be my third full term and I want to thank my supporters," said Thomas. "I do want people to know, whether they voted for me or not, they can come to me with city concerns."
Burgess-Southerland said she had no comment on Tuesday's election but did tell election officials Tuesday night she wanted a recount.
"I hope I treat people the same whether they voted for me or not," said Uhiren. "I really do appreciate them putting their confidence in me."
Mooneyham said the campaign rekindled many friendships and he also thanked those who supported him at the polls.
"I really enjoyed going to people's homes around town and seeing people I have not seen in a long time," said Mooneyham.
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• Ward 2 Alderman Shenia Jones – 11 votes in one ward.
• Ward 4 Alderman Willie Mae McKinney – 26 votes in one ward.
• Alderman-At-Large Barry Springer – 301 votes in four wards.
• City Marshal Billy Voyles – 302 votes in four wards.
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Well I knew it was really wrong as I typed it, bro. And I never read the book or anything, I had written it as onomatopoeic as possible. :soclose
I suggest you finish everything and get it over and done with though. While you're at it, our hotel is open to trainees... And in much need of staff too if you really want to work.... HARD. >.<
Mind you, this thread is too quiet for moderation. These guys are quite the angelic types. :fan
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she's a bottle fairy, a living trope at that.
and my mantra for today is: DON'T FALL ASLEEP. >.<
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weather is horrible. incoming tropical storm yet all we get is blistering heat.
and yes, that does exist. just passed by the KFC store here in Eastwood. good thing i'm now allergic to chicken.
what exists? The tropical storm in KFC? :o
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@BB- Due to the currently low graduate count, our school is lenient with internship hours...they need to churn out graduates fast, in order to build more credibility. Thanks for the offer, but I've already found a hotel to work in. Out executive chef is a consultant for the hotel, plus my school's just recently closed a partnership deal with them, so it'll make getting a job easy...if I manage to get a commendation from the EC.
@hunt- Under normal circumstances, I love the rain...but now that I have to walk to work...hmhmhmhm...
Lagi nalang akong pagod pag uwi. Frustrated. Want...to...drink...ice cold beer! :shin
I need rock, I need alcohol, I need to party, I need to dance, and I need to fuck, probably. :oh Ito ba ang naidudulot ng stress and overwork?
I don't want to have to reach that point. I've had a lot of experience going from one company to another and I need the maturity, I guess, to just stick to one, for at least a year. :/
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Boston Globe "Jackie Bradley Jr. had himself a major league night and the Red Sox won their first game at Fenway Park in 2014, beating the Texas Rangers 5-1 behind the second solid start by John Lackey. Bradley did it all against the Rangers tonight: driving in two runs and scoring one to go along with three..." April 08
Boston Herald "As he walked off the mound last night, having tossed 6-2/3 strong innings, John Lackey got a standing ovation from a jam-packed crowd at Fenway Park. And this time, he returned the favor by tipping his cap. "It was nice," Lackey said. "It was my appreciation back to them. Thanks for..." October 31
Boston Herald "If this most improbable mission is going to be completed, it is most fitting that it happen tonight with John Lackey on the mound at Fenway Park. No one has been more reviled (sometimes fairly but often unfairly, including by yours truly) since coming to Boston. No one became more a symbol of..." October 30
Boston Herald "Like most folks John Lackey likes to look forward but for at least one night he'd like nothing better than to turn back the clock. It has been 11 years since Lackey then with the Anaheim Angels shut down the San Francisco Giants for five innings on his way to becoming only the second rookie in..." October 24
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ESPN Boston "Boston Red Sox pitcher John Lackey isn't too happy he has to face Alex Rodriguez this weekend in light of the Yankees slugger receiving a 211-game suspension for his role in the Biogenesis performance-enhancing drug scandal. "I've got a problem with it. You bet I do" Lackey told the Boston..." August 16
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Boston Herald "A decade ago, John Lackey and Joe Maddon developed a close relationship as pitcher and bench coach, respectively, with the Angels. Times have changed. Pitching for the Red Sox here Monday night, Lackey touched off a dugouts-clearing dustup in the sixth inning against the Maddon-managed Rays..." June 11
ESPN Boston "Through his first three years in Boston, it would have been tough to classify John Lackey as anything other than a disappointment. The right-hander, who signed a five-year, $82.5 million contract with the team before the 2010 season, had a 4.40 ERA in his first season -- which ballooned to 6.01 in..." May 20
Boston Herald "Thunderstorms drowned John Lackey's shot yesterday at completing one of the finest starts as a member of the Red Sox. On the bright side, though, two things did happen. One, the Red Sox won, which meant Lackey doubled his win total to two in his increasingly intriguing and promising..." May 20
CSN New England "John Lackey was activated from 22 days on the disabled list to start the homestand finale against the Astros on Sunday. It would be just his second start of the season, and just his second start since Sept. 25, 2011. The Red Sox were unsure of what they could expect from him. Four, five innings,..." April 29
Boston Globe "Mike Napoli has known John Lackey a long time. They played together in Anaheim from 2006-09, when Napoli caught him 61 times (for a 3.63 ERA). They are now on the Red Sox, and with Napoli now a first baseman, their interaction is a bit different. But Napoli doesn't forget what his old..." April 29
Boston Herald "Will the fourth time be the charm for John Lackey and the Red Sox? Actually, as Take 4 of the Lackey era starts this afternoon, the better question might be is Lackey healthy for the first time since he came to Boston in 2010? The answer just might be yes, which finally could make this..." April 28
Barring a setback Lackey will pitch for the Red Sox on Sunday vs. Astros.
Boston Globe "After leaving his first start with tightness in his right biceps and being placed on the 15-day disabled list earlier this week, Red Sox pitcher John Lackey will begin a throwing program Tuesday, said manager John Farrell. "The symptoms have subsided," Farrell said. "So any kind of range of..." April 15
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LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Health Protection Agency says early genetic analysis shows that the new respiratory virus related to SARS is most closely related to bat viruses. They say sheep or goats might end up being implicated too.
Ralph Baric, a coronavirus expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says biologists now need to go to the region and take samples from animals such as camels and goats. But Baric suggests that bats might be spreading the virus directly to humans since the two confirmed infections happened months apart.
One patient was a Saudi Arabian man who died several months ago while the other is a Qatari national who traveled to Saudi Arabia before falling ill. He's in critical but stable condition in a London hospital.
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There are probably some spooks and operators out therer that hit this site every once in a while to have a good laugh, and they're probably surprised sometimes when they see something that they know to be true.
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This topic keeps popping up over and over, and I will say once again the government could not care less about a bunch of parinoid geeks most of who are not even out of high school.
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Hey all,
I may be spending 2 - 3 days in KL this June, and I had a few questions about the Little India area. It seems like a cool place to hang around/shop/eat, but is it close to transport (especially to/from the airport)? Also, I don't particularly care about fancy accommodation, but how are the hotels/hostels/guest houses there?
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I've not talked to anyone who stayed in little india as most people looking for budget options will stay in China Town - a nice walk up past some of the colonial buildings and city square to little india. Otherwise if you stay in Bukit Bingtang you'll be off the monorail line that connects directly to KL Sentral (there is also a China Town stop that puts you off a little to the south of China Town proper right next to the Guanyin Temple). If you stay in either of those spots you can pick up a 'walking map' of KL and you'll find that everything is really within 20 min walk of everything else. Don't miss Kampung Baru for a great dinner spot if you are in KL, for local Malay food.
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Agree with caseyprich.
I was in KL a couple of weeks ago (and heading back in another week) and while we do list a few Litteindia places, will be removing them I think.
If you're a budget traveller, head to Chinatown, even if it is slightly less convenient to public transport. If you're more at a flashpacker level, Bukit Bintang is excellent and very well placed for public transport - there's also some budget digs on Tengkat Tong Shin that are well worth a link -- see the KL guesthouse listings for more info. If you want something close to KL Sentral (for onwards transport to airport) then the Brickfields area is ok, but really the other areas are better in my opinion.
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Well it looks like I'll check out some places in Chinatown and Bukit Bintang.
Thanks guys!
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I agree with all the above- we stayed in Chinatown and it was brilliant! Lots of markets, street vendors, reasonably good transport links etc. We did walk to little india but didnt find it as exciting as Chinatown (personal opinion obviously). If you're looking for a place to stay, we stayed at a place called Grocer's Inn. It was pretty basic but reasonably cheap and clean, and located right in the heart of chinatown overlooking one of the main streets below. There's a communal balcony as well as a roof top garden, so you can watch at the hustle and bustle of the markets below. Have fun!
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IF you happen to be Indian or of indian descent yourself it may look nice- no other choice re eats and shopping and hardly any budgettraveller as backpacker. Otherwise most likely not. It is very close to Brickfields=around the Sentral stesyen-so optimal for airportbuses and trains. Among the Malays it has the rep of a very seedy and ''dangerous'' area later in the eve and at night- dont know how much that is fairytale or stories from very long ago.
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"IF you happen to be Indian or of indian descent yourself it may look nice- "
What earth is that supposed to mean?! Good grief...
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So I booked for 3 nights at Sunshine Bedz in Bukit Bintang. Thanks for the help guys!
RE: The Indian or Indian descent thing...I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean at all. Actually, I'm an Arab Jew...but I don't think any of this has any relevance :p.
Now it looks like I just have to figure out transport from the airport, and some good street food joints to check out. Wooh!
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I stayed at Grocer's Inn on Jalan Sultan.........that was a couple of years ago, though. I found it to be inexpensive and convenient.
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Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan is reportedly giving marriage another shot, this time with his girlfriend of more than three years, Yvette Prieto.
A publicist for the six-time NBA champion and current owner of the Bobcats confirmed the news to WCNC in Charlotte on Thursday. Jordan proposed over the Christmas holiday and the couple has yet to set an official wedding date.
Jordan was married for 17 years to Juanita Vanoy. They have two sons, Jeffrey Michael and Marcus James, and a daughter, Jasmine. Vanoy filed for divorce in 2002, citing irreconcilable differences, but the two soon worked it out. In 2006, however, Jordan and Vanoy again filed for divorce in what was documented as a mutual and amicable split. Vanoy is rumored to have received an estimated $168 million in the settlement.
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New lasers will be key to making fusion energy and proton therapy practical.
This March, researchers at the National Ignition Facility demonstrated a 1.1 megajoule laser designed to ignite nuclear fusion reactions by 2010. But the facility's technology, which is housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, cannot yet generate enough energy to drive a practical power plant. So, even as physicists look forward to next year's demonstration, they're working on even more powerful lasers that could make possible a method for a kind of laser-induced fusion called fast ignition.
This week, at the annual meeting of the Optics Society of America in San Jose, CA, researchers from the University of Texas presented plans to build an exawatt laser that would be three orders of magnitude more powerful than anything that exists today. Today's most powerful lasers operate on the order of about a petawatt, or 10 to the power 15 (one quadrillion) watts. An exawatt is 10 to a power of 18 watts. Exawatt lasers will be able to concentrate that power in areas measuring micrometers, creating tremendous intensities.
One way to increase the power of a laser is to decrease the duration of the laser pulse. But working with laser pulses on the order of picoseconds or even femtoseconds is difficult because such pulses are made up of a wide bandwidth of light frequencies that damage optical glass, including the phosphate glass often used to amplify laser light, for example at the National Ignition Facility.
Todd Ditmire, director of the High Intensity Laser Science Group at the University of Texas at Austin, reported at this week's meeting that a new type of glass should be able to handle the intense pulses of light needed to create an exawatt laser. The glass would be doped and used to create devices called amplifiers–when light from a laser shines on the glass amplifier, ions in the glass absorb the light and re-emit it at higher energy. "The glass is just a host–it's a transparent material that holds the ions," says Ditmire.
The advantage of sticking with glass instead of another material is that manufacturers can readily make it into large devices, which increases the power of the resulting beam. In contrast, titanium sapphire can act as an amplifier for high-power lasers, but it's difficult to make in big pieces, says Ditmire. Working with German manufacturer Schott, the Texas group has begun characterizing the properties of their new type of glass, which combines silicate, the material that makes up everyday glass objects, with the metal element tantalum. Ditmire says his group is now working with Schott to create larger pieces of the material that will be assembled to make a prototype laser.
Ditmire expects that the first application of exawatt lasers will be as energy sources for medical particle accelerators. Bombarding tumors with protons causes fewer side effects than x-ray therapy because the protons release their energy all at once, sparing surrounding tissues. However, proton therapy hasn't come into wide use because it requires large particle accelerators. Compact exawatt lasers should be powerful enough to accelerate protons for medical therapy.


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Lift Like A Girl! Oly lifting Class
Lift Like a Girl – Beginning November 16th (Sunday), Cactus will be offering an Olympic Lifting technique class only for women called "Lift like a girl." With an overemphasis on skill and proper mechanics, students will work in a comfortable setting with Coach Ryan twice per week over the course of six weeks. Each class will be an hour and a half in duration, and include a specific daily warmup along with drills for each individual athlete in attendance. "Homework" assignments will be given to address specific flexibility and movement pattern issues. Students will be expected to attend regular classes as well, as the weights used in "Lift Like a Girl" will not be maximal. Class size is limited to 6, so be sure to sign up today!
Cost – $120 for 12 classes over six weeks
Duration – 90 minutes
Class Times – Thursday Evenings at 6 PM, Sunday Mornings at 9 AM
Class Size limited to 6 students.
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Monday, November 3rd
Workout of the Day
Four sets of:
Power Clean x 18.104.22.168
(rest 10 seconds between singles)
Rest 2 minutes
Weighted Pull-ups x 2-3 reps @ 21X0
Rest 2 minutes
Three rounds for time of:
24″/20″ Box Jumps x 20 reps
Burpees x 15 reps
31 Oct 2014
Friday, October 31st
Four sets of:
Overhead Squat x 2-4 reps
Rest 2-3 minutes between sets
Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 10 minutes of:
10 Pull-Ups
10 Dumbbell Ground to Overhead
10 Box Jump Overs
30 Oct 2014
Thursday, October 30th
Workout of the Day
Three sets, not for time, of:
Turkish Get-Up x 1 rep each arm
Alternating Pistols x 3-5 reps each leg
Box Jumps x 12-15 reps
Five sets of:
Against a two-minute running clock, complete:
Hang Cleans x 3 reps
Shoulder to Overhead x 6 reps
Front Squats x 9 reps
Burpees x Max Reps
Rest 2 minutes between sets. Recommended Loads – 135/95 lbs.
29 Oct 2014
Wednesday, October 29th
Workout of the Day
Take 12-15 minutes and build to a heavy, but not necessarily 3RM Deadlift
In teams of two, alternate rounds and complete 7 each of:
5 Deadlift*
5 Chest to Bar Pull-Ups
*load with 65-70% of today's heavy triple from part A.
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Tuesday, October 28th
Workout of the Day
Four sets of:
Push Press x 3-5 reps
Rest 90 seconds
Weighted Supinated-Grip Pull-Ups x 3-5 reps @ 2110
Rest 90 seconds
For time:
Wall Ball Shots x 10 reps
Ring Dip x 1 rep
Wall Ball Shots x 9 reps
Ring Dips x 2 reps
Wall Ball Shots x 8 reps
Ring Dips x 3 reps
Wall Ball Shots x 1 rep
Ring Dips x 10 reps
27 Oct 2014
Monday, October 27th
Workout of the Day
Four sets of:
Bulgarian Split Squat x 6-8 reps each leg @ 30X0
Rest 60 seconds
Plank Hold x 60 seconds
Rest 60 seconds
Five rounds for time of:
Dumbbell Complex* x 5 reps
Toes to Bar x 10 reps
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Start from the plank with dumbbells in hands
Right Arm Row
Left Arm Row
Jump to standing
Dumbbell Clean
Front Squat x 2 reps
Push Press x 2 reps
25 Oct 2014
Saturday, October 25th
Workout of the Day
In teams of two, with only one teammate working at a time, complete the following as quickly as possible:
1200 Meter Run or Row
100 Dumbbell Ground to Overhead
200 Squats
100 Burpees
1200 Meter Run or Row
(The above tasks are totals for the team of two. Partition reps as you see fit, but only one partner can be working at any given time.)
24 Oct 2014
Friday, October 24th
Workout of the Day
Five sets of:
Snatch x 1.1.1
(rest 5-7 seconds between singles)
Rest 2 minutes
Four rounds for time of:
115/75 lb. Hang Power Snatch x 10 reps
24″/20″ Box Jumps x 20 reps
23 Oct 2014
Thursday, October 23rd
Workout of the Day
Five sets of:
Dumbbell Shoulder Press x 4-6 reps @ 2011
Rest 60-90 seconds
Farmer's Carry x 100 Meters
Rest 60-90 seconds
Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 4 minutes of:
95/65 lb. Push Press x 10 reps
Pull-ups x 10 reps
Rest 4 minutes, and then . . .
Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 4 minutes of:
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Frank J. Frank of Philadelphia passed away on February 9, 2014. He was 82. Frank was the beloved husband of the late Elizabeth H. Frank with whom he had shared over 52 years of Marriage. He is survived by six nieces and nephews and a sister Helen Cave. Relatives and friends are invited to attend his viewing on Thursday, Feb. 20th after 9:30 a.m. in St. John Bosco Church, 235 East County Line Road, Hatboro, PA 19040 followed by his Funeral Mass at 10:30 a.m. His interment will follow in Our Lady of Grace Cemetery, Langhorne. In lieu of flowers memorials in Frank's memory may be made to his church named above.
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