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Another one bites the dust! Week 10 is in the books and the energy and excitement level in the Rubin household is on a high.
Let's recap it.
Shannon: Last Saturday we celebrated having completed two months of this journey of ours. Some days it has definitely felt like two months, and then there are days that seem like we just completed our first CrossFit workout.
On Saturday we took our measurements in order to record changes at the two-month mark. While the results were slight, there were results nonetheless.
Heading into CrossFit this week, I felt pretty good. I'm not sure why, but I do still get butterflies-in-the-stomach nervous a lot of days just not knowing what the workout is going to be.
However, this is one of my favorite parts of going to CrossFit. I like not knowing what we are going to be doing because I know I'll never get bored with doing the same thing day in and day out.
I know that no matter what the WOD is, it's going to kick my butt. But overall, I am becoming so much more comfortable and confident walking into the Box.
During my workouts this week I noticed I felt a bit (notice the word "bit") stronger. I still had to take breaks, but I did not have that feeling of "I'm not sure I will be able to finish this."
For each of my workouts this week I set a goal, and for each one of them, I beat my goal. I was extremely pleased with myself.
As for eating, I feel as though I did pretty well sticking to my plan. I was doing really well staying away from coffee until Friday night when, as a way to bless me for painting our newly constructed bookcases in our living room, Mike brought me some coffee as a surprise. Honestly, I was thinking after doing the painting I deserved a treat like coffee, so I graciously accepted!
I resisted the temptation to have some desserts, which I was really excited about, because if you know me, I love dessert! (Except I gave in when we had a date night over the weekend. How can you skip dessert on a date night?)
I noticed this week that I had more energy, which totally excites me because I was beginning to think maybe something was wrong! I did not have that overwhelming feeling of needing a nap, and therefore was able to get a lot of stuff done this week that in the past I've just brushed off with the excuse that I was too tired. This week was a very encouraging week for me in terms of this journey, and I'm really excited to see what happens over the next month.
Mike: So this past Saturday was the official two-month period of our Cross-Fit journey and what a journey it has been. I have to admit, I am not the first one out of bed in the morning leading the CrossFit charge. As a matter of fact, Thursday morning during the storm, I tried to convince Shannon that we should not go. As I write that, I realize how pathetic it is. The truth is, I always struggle getting to CrossFit, but once I am there, I am excited.
Because it was the official mark of two months of CrossFit, that meant measurements. Unfortunately my numbers did not change much, but I did lose two pounds. I went from 199, down to 197. I know for some that may not seem much, but my weight had been fluctuating between 199 and 201.
You have to understand, it is somewhat embarrassing to me and unbelievable to me to write down those numbers. When I graduated high school I weighed 119 pounds. I did everything under the sun to gain weight back then. Now, when I look at a donut, I put on two pounds.
The reason I said it was embarrassing is because I did not just wake up over night and become 201, it has been a slow and steady progression of putting weight on for the past six years.
I have never had the motivation to do anything about it, and my soda addiction did not help. I cannot tell you how many times I said, I'll start working out Monday. I am so thankful for Shannon to help hold me accountable to actually do something about it.
Speaking of soda, I have been doing pretty well. I did have two soda's this week, but have been drinking much more water. I have also been trying to find ways to add flavor to my drinks. Plain water gets very boring to me.
I do not know about you, but I am really good at finding people who have it worse than I do just to make myself feel better, quite often doing this subconsciously.
Just this week I was listening to a sermon by Perry Noble, a pastor from South Carolina. He mentioned in his sermon that at his heaviest weight he was drinking 10 to 15 sodas per day. Immediately I looked at Shannon and said, "See, I wasn't that bad."
I think I proceeded to try to convince myself why it would be alright for me to continue drinking it. I truly think we are often our own worst enemies. Since significantly lowering my soda intake I am having far less stomach issues, so that is a win.
There is some exciting news, though. When I measured myself, I felt a little defeated because the measurements were not showing the results I was hoping to have.
Fortunately, this week we were doing one-rep maxes.
While my measurements might not show improvement, I went from a one-rep max on shoulder press of 115 pounds to 120 pounds. The biggest jump though was on bench, where in the last week of May I did 160 pounds. Thursday, I did 180. I was so excited afterward. I was shocked that I was able to increase my max by 20 pounds in the matter of a few weeks.
To cap it off, I have been sharing my struggles of doing pushups.
Thursday after CrossFit, I came home and told Shannon I was going to do some pushups and proceeded to do 20 in a row with very good form. Man, I am on Cloud Nine and super pumped.
My sister is an avid CrossFitter. She lives in Frederick, Md., and has been doing it for almost a year.
She has always been very committed to exercising, and my lack of doing it has sometimes been a slight point of contention for us because of how much she believes in promoting good health and being physically active.
It has been awesome to see how our relationship has gotten closer because of this common passion we have.
During the early weeks when I was tired and sore, she would send me text messages or call me with words of encouragement, and it really helped me keep pushing through.
She told Shannon and I from the very onset to ignore the scale and worry more about results.
She always says the results that matter are being able to lift more or do more reps, and that the weight and inches will take care of themselves. It pains me to say this but she is right.
Come on Week 11, bring it on!
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Pitt athletics could be having a worse week, I suppose.
Mike Rice could announce he is returning to the basketball program.
Short of that, it's hard to imagine a more depressing scenario than losing your highest-profile basketball and football players in the time it took Rice to crank up a dodgeball game at Rutgers ("The first rule of dodgeball is that you don't talk about dodgeball — at least until the video is released and you're forced to fire the coach").
Emerging star tailback Rushel Shell kicked off the week by filing his transfer papers. Emerging star center Steven Adams then surprisingly declared for the NBA Draft. Unrelated moves, obviously, but those two were supposed to be the faces of Pitt sports moving into the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Both programs now are severely compromised at a critical time. What's to be gleaned from the defections?
Maybe just this: They should serve as a reminder that Pitt is not a first-thought destination spot for the best of the best among high school athletes. As such, maybe it's time for the delusional among fans to adjust their sights.
Shell and Adams remind us that it's rare when either program gets a recruit of that caliber — and thus why it's so potentially devastating to lose one.
Nobody grows up in Florida or Texas dreaming of playing football at Pitt, just as nobody in California or Indiana grows up pretending he is a Pitt basketball player.
That's not a criticism. It's just reality. You'd think it would be obvious, too, but there is an arrogance among some Pitt supporters — a belief that their programs should be national powerhouses.
I'm sorry, but how exactly is that supposed to happen without either having recent championship pedigree or unique selling points? What's more, Pitt doesn't pay coaches like national powerhouses do, and neither program cheats, as far as anyone knows.
Pitt football hasn't won anything of consequence in 30 years and plays in front of paltry crowds at Heinz Field. It's lucky when a blue-chip local kid such as Fox Chapel's Adam Bisnowaty stays put. Coach Paul Chryst has his work cut out just to get the program back to Wannstedt-ian levels.
Pitt basketball is closer to having a brand name people recognize. It has a proven coach and a great game-day atmosphere.
All evidence suggests that both the football and basketball programs are clean. That would separate them from, say, the Connecticut basketball program when it was caught cheating under Jim Calhoun or the Syracuse basketball of the early 1990s when it was caught cheating under Jim Boeheim.
Cheaters tend to prosper in college athletics, but do you want a program that wins that way? Don't answer that.
Jamie Dixon's doing fine. He wins tons of games and goes to the NCAA Tournament just about every year.
If the football program could get to a place where it consistently won nine or 10 games and a periodic conference title here, great. You do that and you hope for the Rich Rodriguez-everything-goes-right-at-West-Virginia type of year where you make a run at a national title.
As for which program was hit harder by the defections, I'll go with the basketball program, for the simple reason that one player can make all the difference in that sport — and Adams was showing signs of being just such a player.
Pitt football, with or without Shell, was going to need some time to get off the ropes after all the body blows it has absorbed of late. Dixon, on the other hand, has created a certain level of expectation even if he has radically underachieved in the NCAA Tournament.
What he has lacked is the transcendent player. We'll never know if Adams could have been one, but he had a chance. So did Khem Birch, who stayed for about five minutes before bolting for UNLV and becoming the Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year.
The master plan was to have Birch and Adams share the frontcourt. Now both are gone. You wonder how many hits Dixon's program can take and still flourish. And by flourish, I mean continue to win about 75 percent of its games and compete for conference titles.
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Beds will again race down Main Street on Saturday, Aug. 8, as part of a fundraiser for the United Way.
It's the return of the annual bed parade and race for the United Way of Lancaster County, according to Melanie Outlaw, executive director.
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After only one full year of operation, Indian Land Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 12136 not only took top honors in South Carolina, but also earned All American recognition from the national VFW.
The Indian Land post, chartered Feb. 22, 2014, began full operations July 1, 2014.
It now boasts a 100 members, along with an active Ladies Auxiliary.
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It looks like people haven't been posting much on Pepperdine for quite some time, so I'm hoping to drum up some renewed interest :)
Obviously it's a beautiful (and expensive) place, but what is the culture like in Malibu? Philadelphia is really all I know, and I have a sneaky suspician that it's a little different out west. Are the people friendly? How competitive do you think the students are? Let's say that you have some free time (crazy, I know). What do you do for fun? I like the beach, but my skin can only take so many UV rays and I would need some other distraction before long. Let's say I'm a bartender part-time. Do you think it's going to be hard to find work?
I know Pepperdine is a religious institution, and I've heard that it can be fairly conservative. Does it really make a difference? Would the atmosphere be welcoming (or at least tolerant) of a gay student? What's the deal with Kevin Starr? I've heard some colorful opinions of the man.
Is there anything else I should know? I really have no idea what else to ask because its all very foreign to me. I know the numbers and all the information on the website. I'm trying to get a feel for what life is actually like for a Pepperdine student. Any and all help is very much appreciated!
I am basically from Malibu and my mom worked at Pepperdine. I lived in New York, which is not exactly not Philly, but I could definitely see a difference between East and West Coast. Different is not bad, but it is noticeable.
Anyways, I actually worked for a couple attorneys than went to Pepperdine and I could give you their e-mails if you wanted. In regards to the area Malibu is pretty yuppie and probably less tolerant of a gay student than the Bay Area would be, but L.A/Malibu is by no means intolerant. Malibu is technically in L.A., but L.A. is unlike any other city I have been in that it is so massive that having grown up there for 18 years I still don't know even know how to get around all of it. It just spreads out FOREVER and Malibu is at the very northern part of L.A. and a long drive to the city Parts of L.A. Westwood, Santa Monica etc where law firms and more tolerant people would live. I think Pepperdine is gorgeous, but a drawback would probably be it's location so far away from everything and it would be pretty hard to get to your internships etc. L.A. Traffic is horrible and you have to drive up this crazy canyon to even get to the freeway that connects to anything in L.A.
Honestly, if you are gay and moving out West I would think San Francisco would be an easier transition because I would say 30 to 40% of the people in the city are gay and it is also easier to get around because they have a public transportation system that L.A. does not have. I go to GGU in San Francisco and I have loved it so far and everything has worked out. If you have any questions about GGU I could answer them, but that is the only law school I know in depth to give any advice about. Honestly, when looking on boards like this a lot of people talk out of their ass about schools they have never been to and do not listen to it. Ask people that actually go to the school and get real insight. I can speak to the culture etc of Malibu, because I grew up around there, but I will not say anything positive or negative about the law school because I don't attend it.
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Dallas Cowboys plan to replace one starting OG with a degenerative knee with another OG with a degenerative knee?
If you listen closely to owner Jerry Jones – and can actually decipher his Arkansas dialect – the Dallas Cowboys plan to replace their starting left guard whom he says has a degenerative right knee with a starting left guard who has a degenerative left knee.
Say what?
Jones said Friday on KRLD-FM 105.3 that Nate Livings, who started every game at left guard for the Cowboys last season, has more problems with his right knee than just recovering from arthroscopic surgery Aug. 2.
Jones has said more than once this preseason that he believes left guard Ron Leary is a starter for the Cowboys. Leary, who has a degenerative disorder in his left knee, is still recovering from arthroscopic right knee surgery Aug. 16.
Livings was expected to be out only two to four weeks after his surgery, with a chance to return for the season opener Sept. 8 against the Giants.
Jones was asked Friday if he could put a percentage on the likelihood that Livings will be back playing at all for the Cowboys this season.
"No, I couldn't even venture a percentage," Jones said.
Livings' agent, Pat Dye Jr., didn't respond Friday to a request for comment.
Livings had surgery on his right knee in early August for the second time in six months. Livings also had surgery on his right knee in February. During organized team activities in May, Livings aggravated his knee injury and hoped that rest would take care of the issue.
But once he started practicing in training camp, Livings' right knee soreness was still there.
Even a little knee problem is a big issue for an NFL offensive lineman, especially when it's reoccurring.
"You'd ask yourself, 'Is there a degeneration in the knee, as opposed to a fix of an injury that comes back as good as new?' And I think he's having some of that, a degeneration," Jones said, "but that's not uncommon at all at this point in his career, so a combination of those things puts a little guess work into as when he might be back.
"[Marc] Colombo never quit having pain. It's important that we remind ourselves that there's very few of these players on the field that aren't playing with pain. It's your tolerance of it, or more importantly, you are trying to determine yourself as a player, if you're injured or if you're playing through some pain. That's tough. That's tough for trainers to diagnose. That's tough for doctors to diagnose. It's tough for the player himself, so that's why you get these iffy answers sometimes when you say, 'When's he going to be back? When's he not going to be back?' The doctors rely a lot on the level of pain they're having, the players."
Livings started all 32 games forCincinnatiin 2010 and 2011. As a free agent in 2012, the Cowboys signed Livings to a five-year, $18.75 million contract. Livings will count $2.4 million against the salary cap this year, and his $1.7 million base salary is fully guaranteed.
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America No Longer Has a Functioning Judicial System
Posted By Washingtons Blog On July 22, 2013 @ 12:00 am In Legal,Think Tank | Comments Disabled
The Department of Justice told a federal court this week that the NSA's spying "cannot be challenged in a court of law" [1].
(This is especially dramatic given that numerous federal judges and legal scholars – including a former FISA judge – say that the FISA spying "court" is nothing but a kangaroo court [2].)
Also this week, the Department of Justice told a federal court that the courts cannot review the legality of the government's assassination by drone of Americans [3] abroad:
"'Are you saying that a US citizen targeted by the United States in a foreign country has no constitutional rights?' [the judge] asked Brian Hauck, a deputy assistant attorney general. 'How broadly are you asserting the right of the United States to target an American citizen? Where is the limit to this?'
"She provided her own answer: 'The limit is the courthouse door' . . . .
"'Mr. Hauck acknowledged that Americans targeted overseas do have rights, but he said they could not be enforced in court either before or after the Americans were killed.'"
(Indeed, the Obama administration has previously claimed the power to be judge, jury and executioner [4] in both drone and cyber-attacks. This violates Anglo-Saxon laws which have been on the books in England and America for 800 years [4].)
The Executive Branch also presents "secret evidence" in many court cases … sometimes even hiding the evidence from the judge [5] who is deciding the case.
Bush destroyed much of the separation of powers which made our country great. But under Obama, it's gotten worse.
For example, the agency which decides who should be killed by drone is the same agency which spies on all Americans [6].
Daniel Ellsberg notes that even the Founding Fathers didn't have to deal with a government claiming that it could indefinitely detain Americans [7] … even on American soil [8].
After Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, journalist Naomi Wolf, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and others sued the government to enjoin the NDAA's allowance of the indefinite detention of Americans – the judge asked the government attorneys 5 times whether journalists like Hedges could be indefinitely detained simply for interviewing and then writing about bad guys. The government refused to promise [9] that journalists like Hedges won't be thrown in a dungeon for the rest of their lives without any right to talk to a judge
The Department of Justice has also tapped Congressional phones [10], and a high-level NSA whistleblower says that the NSA is spying on – and blackmailing – top government officials and military officers [11] including all 9 Supreme Court justices [12].
It's not just the Executive Branch which has attacked the courts. For example, Congress passed a bill stripping courts of the power to review [13] issues related to genetically modified foods.
The Constitution is mortally mounded [14]. While the "war on terror" is commonly cited as the excuse, most of the attacks on our rights started before 9/11 [15]. Indeed, the Founding Fathers warned 200 years ago that open-ended wars give the Executive an excuse to take away our liberties [16].
Two former U.S. Supreme Court Justices [17] have warned that America is sliding into tyranny. A former U.S. President [18], and many other [19] high-level American officials [17] agree.
In addition to attacks on the judiciary by the White House and Congress, judges are voluntarily gutting the justice system … and laying down in lapdog-obeisance to D.C.
For example, the Supreme Court ruled that if judges don't like plaintiffs' allegations of bad government actions, the judge can simply pre-judge and throw out the lawsuit before even allowing the party to conduct any discovery to prove their claims [20]. This guts 220 years of Constitutional law, and makes it extremely difficult to challenge harmful government action in court.
America has a "dual justice system … one for ordinary people and then one for people with money and enormous wealth and power [21]".
Indeed, most Americans have less access to justice than Botswanans [22]… and are more abused by police than Kazakhstanis [22].
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URL to article: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/07/america-no-longer-has-a-functioning-judicial-system/
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[1] "cannot be challenged in a court of law": http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/spygate-snooping-standing/
[2] is nothing but a kangaroo court: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/even-fisa-court-judge-says-its-a-kangaroo-court.html
[3] the courts cannot review the legality of the government's assassination by drone of Americans: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/us/politics/judge-challenges-white-house-claims-on-authority-in-drone-killings.html
[4] judge, jury and executioner: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/the-white-house-is-judge-jury-and-executioner-of-both-drone-and-cyber-attacks.html
[5] hiding the evidence from the judge: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/did-the-department-of-justice-really-say-that-the-government-would-not-assassinate-americans.html
[6] same agency which spies on all Americans: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/the-same-secret-government-agency-which-spies-on-all-americans-also-decides-who-gets-assassinated-by-drones.html
[7] even the Founding Fathers didn't have to deal with a government claiming that it could indefinitely detain Americans: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/daniel-ellsberg-obama-bush-cheney-rumsfeld-and-senators-voting-for-indefinite-detention-are-enemies-of-the-constitution.html
[8] even on American soil: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/constitutional-expert-president-obama-says-that-he-can-kill-you-on-his-own-discretion-he-can-jail-you-indefinitely-on-his-own-discretion.html
[9] refused to promise: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_victory_for_all_of_us_20120518/
[10] tapped Congressional phones: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/05/department-of-justice-tapped-congressional-rooms-as-well-as-reporters-offices.html
[11] the NSA is spying on – and blackmailing – top government officials and military officers: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/nsa-whistleblower-nsa-spying-on-and-blackmailing-high-level-government-officials-and-military-officers.html
[12] all 9 Supreme Court justices: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/nsa-whistleblower-nsa-spyed-on-to-gain-leverage-general-petraeus-and-other-generals-supreme-court-justice-alito-and-all-of-the-other-supreme-court-justices-and-the-white-house-s.html
[13] stripping courts of the power to review: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/congress-passes-monsanto-rider-pushing-genetically-modified-foods-onto-our-plates.html
[14] mortally mounded: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/constitution.html
[15] before 9/11: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/u-s-government-planned-indefinite-detention-of-citizens-long-before-911.html
[16] give the Executive an excuse to take away our liberties: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/the-founding-fathers-warned-against-standing-armies.html
[17] U.S. Supreme Court Justices: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/2-u-s-supreme-court-justices-and-numerous-other-top-government-officials-warn-of-dictatorship.html
[18] U.S. President: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/former-president-and-commander-in-chief-america-is-no-longer-a-democracy.html
[19] many other: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/top-experts-have-warned-for-50-years-that-mass-surveillance-would-lead-to-tyranny-in-america.html
[20] before even allowing the party to conduct any discovery to prove their claims: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/12/is-america-still-a-nation-of-laws.html
[21] dual justice system … one for ordinary people and then one for people with money and enormous wealth and power: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/america-is-a-failed-state-with-a-dual-justice-system-one-for-ordinary-people-and-then-one-for-people-with-money-and-enormous-wealth-and-power.html
[22] less access to justice than Botswanans : http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/americans-have-less-access-to-justice-than-botswanans-and-are-more-abused-by-police-than-kazakhstanis.html
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THE popular Dingalings Productions are stepping on to cleaner turf with their new show WED-dingalings Night Before which is a 100 percent clean and family affair.
Set in Chatsworth a night before the wedding function, the show is said to venture into the world of Tollywood and Bollywood in mirth and song, with all the family politics to go with it.
Producer Kumseela Naidoo said audiences could expect all of the Dingalings fun but without any of the bad language. "For the first time Durban audiences can bring their kids to see a full Dingalings show. But people who are die hard Dingalings fans will not be disappointed, it's everything you would usually get in a Dingalings show, but this time you can bring your whole family."
Commenting on their choice of theme this time around, Naidoo said: "Within the Indian community there's always the little cultural bickering between regions and social status… so we cover all of that but in a very pleasant way. We really deal very funnily with how people still want to hang on to old cultural beliefs that we are different based on religion and language groups, because within the Indian community its Hindi, Tamil, Telegu and Gujarati; so I think we poke fun at that and we do provoke some thought. So hopefully they go away and shed some thought on these stereotypes that we hold dear."
Dingalings shows are also known for the nostalgia and music and this time around Naidoo said the mix is even better.
"It's a traditional Indian wedding, but it's pre-wedding… Satchu Annamalai, an old Dingalings friend who brings to the party the most wonderful compliment of music that covers the full gambit of music in terms of the golden oldie English songs as well as Hindi and Tamil songs.
"Satchu's doctorate is in drama and he is such a wonder- ful character to watch on stage and on the music front as well."
Directed by Yugan Naidoo, the show features Henry Ramkisson, Koobeshen Naidoo, Senzo Mthethwa, Ravi Subramoney and Satchu Annamalai.
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Police showed up at Justin Bieber's door this morning with a warrant, looking for evidence that Bieber & Co. caused $20,000 in damages to his neighbor's mansion by throwing eggs at it. (Not sure how that's possible, exactly—is your mansion made out of sugar cubes? Are you the Nome King? But okay, I will take your word… »


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Big South Announces Women's Soccer Weekly Honors
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BigSouthSports.com) - Longwood forward Kelsey McDonald has been tabbed the Big South Women's Soccer Attacking Player of the Week, while Radford goalkeeper Che' Brown was named the Big South Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for games played Oct. 1-7, the League announced today.
McDonald, a sophomore from Kennett Square, Pa., posted two goals and an assist to lead the Lancers to a pair of Big South wins last week. Against Winthrop on Oct. 4, she put the Lancers on the board in the 21st minute as she found the back of the net off a through ball from Kelsey Pardue. She later assisted on the game-winner as she found Kylie Dyer on the left side in the 93rd minute to give the Lancers the 2-1 win. Three days later against Gardner-Webb, McDonald put in the game-winner the 25th minute to give Longwood the 2-1 win. The award is her first Big South Attacking Player of the Week honor this season.
Brown, a junior from Manassas Park, Va., posted 12 saves in 180 minutes of shutout soccer last week. She got her week started with six saves in the Highlanders' 2-0 win over Coastal Carolina on Oct. 4. Two days later against Charleston Southern, Brown turned away six Buccaneer attacks to help Radford to the 3-0 win. The honor marks her first Big South Attacking Player of the Week nod this season.
Also nominated for Women's Soccer Attacking Player of the Week for Week 8: Kirsty Meyer (Campbell), Toni Lashley (Charleston Southern), Danielle Schepler (High Point) and Julie Ruh'e (Radford).
Also nominated for Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for Week 8: Mackenzie Harrmann (VMI).
Big South Women's Soccer Attacking Player of the Week
Aug. 21 - Ashley Clark, Campbell
Aug. 28 - Lindsey Ottavio, Longwood
Sept. 4 - Lauren Stell, Liberty
Sept. 11 - Kacey Kelley, Coastal Carolina
Sept. 14 - Jaime Bouffard, Liberty
Sept. 25 - Kelsey Pardue, Longwood
Oct. 2 - Becca Hemby, High Point
Oct. 10 - Kelsey McDonald, Longwood
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Aug. 21 - Taylor Brown, Campbell
Aug. 28 - Ryann Torrero, Campbell
Sept. 4 - Sydney Golden, Radford
Sept. 11 - Kyra Byron, Longwood
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Temperatures will be chilly to start the week with highs staying in the 30s. As an upper level disturbance moves in during the afternoon there will be a chance of rain mixed with some sleet or light snow. No accumulation is expected. The rest of the week will be seasonal before another shot of chilly air arrives on Thursday.
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Kudos to Clemson University for seeking limited autonomy to govern some of its non-undergraduate education programs through its Enterprise Authority legislation.
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Holiday Arts Education Tradition Continues
Dasher's Magical Gift will premiere on December 13th.
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Survey Shows Importance of Arts in Central New York
7,222 residents responded through the Engage CNY
Exciting cultural activity is one of the major draws for people deciding whether to move into a new community. Artistic activity encourages creativity and innovation that in turn drive entrepreneurial energy, resulting in new jobs and retaining talent. Arts corridors and heritage sites in cities and rural hamlets across Central New York attract residents and visitors, giving rise to bustling main streets and the hospitality and tourism industries.


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Give government the gift of good grief
December 10, 2013
Budget season ended last month. You missed it. You missed many graphs, many charts, many numbers, many questions and many answers. You also missed the opportunity to take part.
You know that saying, "If you don't vote, you don't get to complain?" That should apply to civic action and education in general, especially regarding local government. If you don't recognize the many ways the city tries to cultivate civic interaction, then you lose out on a chance to both learn how your tax dollars are spent and complain about how the council decides to spend them.
From social media alerts, two public hearings and five open work sessions, only one citizen stood up to speak. That's pretty poor representation for Issaquah's 31,000 residents.
December 10, 2013
Events are great; a parade would be better
We have been dismayed that Issaquah has been slow to promote itself during the holidays with a big commercial push the way downtown Bellevue does with its Snowflake Lane. But we are impressed with the number of holiday activities that are sprouting up for family activities and shoppers.
Some of the events are new, others are becoming annual traditions.
To the Editor
December 10, 2013
Klahanie PAA should annex to Issaquah
A recent Issaquah Press editorial opposed annexation of the Klahanie Potential Annexation Area to Issaquah. The editorial states that "taxes are even lower" in Sammamish.
In fact, the opposite is true. Property tax rate tables for Sammamish neighborhoods within the Issaquah School District are approximately 8.6 percent higher than the city of Issaquah.
An owner of a $450,000 home in Sammamish pays about $450 per year more in property taxes than an owner of a similar home in Issaquah. Issaquah's utility tax offsets part of this, but for the typical homeowner, total taxes are lower in Issaquah.
Longtime Issaquah baseball coach inducted into hall of fame
December 10, 2013
Rob Reese knows there are some impressive names that make up the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Heck, he's coached against many of them in his 20 years at the helm of Issaquah High School's program. He just never figured he would join their ranks before he retired.
Reese was inducted into the hallowed halls Nov. 24.
Mail letters to Santa at community center
December 10, 2013
Children of all ages can now send their wish list, or even a wish for good tidings, to the North Pole from the Issaquah Community Center.
The mailbox for letters to Santa is located in the center's lobby, 301 Rainier Blvd. N. The deadline to drop letters into the mailbox is Dec. 19.
Letter templates are also available next to the mailbox. Make sure you include a return mailing address so Santa can respond.
Flyboy folklore
December 10, 2013
B-25 gunner Ed McKee kept the skies clear on WWII European bombing missions
In 1937, Ed McKee was a sophomore in high school, with not enough spending money in his pockets to spread around his hometown of Albany, Ore.
Just seven years later, how he chose to augment his income would eventually take him over the skies of Europe on bombing raids of Axis targets.
Skyline thespians serve up witch's brew with 'The Crucible'
December 10, 2013
People who are well-versed in "The Crucible" might not find a lot of surprises in Skyline High School's adaptation, but the student actors and actresses have been working hard to put their own spin on Arthur Miller's famous 1950's production.
The play includes many real-life elements of the Salem witch trials that occurred in colonial New England during the late 1600s. And the cast at Skyline, under the direction of Hannah Fry, has used a fine-toothed comb to unearth historical nuggets of the story.
The junior and senior cast members have studied "The Crucible" in class, and at the start of fall rehearsals, the entire cast took part in a dramaturgy — research for a dramatic performance — said sophomore Madeline Miller, who has taken on the key role of Betty Parris.
"We kind of learned about the show itself and the time period … and the different relationships that have changed," Miller said. "Now, a father and daughter would probably be pretty casual, but back then it was really strict, and if you did something wrong, you got whipped."
Robert Biegaj leads Spartans past Bears
December 10, 2013
Robert Biegaj didn't join the varsity roster until late last season, but he witnessed some of the reasons why the Skyline Spartans finished with a 7-13 overall record.
"Just from watching from the outside, I feel like people were being selfish and stuff, and we weren't really a team," Biegaj said. "But, this year, I feel like we're really coming together, bonding and being selfless. That's one of our main focuses and covenants. So, I think we can have a really good year as long as we stay together."
Biegaj played a huge part in the Spartans' season opener Dec. 4, as they dominated defensively in a 48-35 win against the Olympia Bears in a nonleague boys basketball game at Skyline High School.
Pete Montson
December 10, 2013
Pete Montson joined this world on Sept. 1, 1953, in Sun Valley, Calif. He departed this world from Palm Springs, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013.
He was stricken down at age 60 by a stroke, while caring for his parents. He leaves behind parents John and Mary Montson, and a sister Marilyn, all at 41972 Humber Drive, Temecula, CA 92591, as well as aunts, uncles and cousins in Southern California, Oklahoma and British Columbia, and a multitude of friends. Pete was a longtime resident of North Bend.
He graduated from Poly High School in Sun Valley, Calif., achieved a Bachelor of Science in natural resource management in 1977, and a master's in teaching in 1978 at Cal Poly State U in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Lasting legacy
December 10, 2013
Children's Garden School founder retires after 36 years
It all started with three $20 travelers checks and a contract written on construction paper.
The year was 1977. That summer, Bonnie Steussy and her husband David Edfeldt traveled from South Carolina to Steussy's home state of Washington. At the behest of her sister, Steussy went to an open house for a small property across the street from where she lived in Issaquah.
Steussy and Edfeldt were both teachers. Steussy said education was a lifelong passion.
"I can remember sitting in my bedroom, dreaming about being a teacher" as a child, she said.


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Gov. Hickenlooper orders flags lowered Friday
Gov. Hickenlooper orders flags lowered Friday in honor of Lance Corporal Christopher Meis DENVER — Thursday, March 24, 2011 — Gov. John Hickenlooper today ordered flags be lowered to half-staff on all public buildings statewide on Friday, March 25, 2011 in honor of Lance Corporal Christopher Meis, 20, of Bennett. Lance Cpl Meis died on March 17, 2011, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. According to Defense Department reports, Meis was fatally shot ... Full Story
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DENVER — Wednesday, March 16, 2011 — Gov. John Hickenlooper will sign several bills into law on Thursday and House Bill 1102 on Friday. Thursday, March 17, 2011 1 p.m. – Gov. Hickenlooper will sign the following bills into law. Location: Governor's Office, Capitol. · HB 1036: Blue Alert For Injured Peace Officers (Gardner/King) · HB 1019: Exempt School-based Health Centers for Copays and Deductibles (Kagan/Boyd) · HB ... Full Story
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Affiliate Professor, Epidemiology
Professional Summary
Dr. Duncan's academic background is in physical education (BS, 1992, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania) and exercise physiology (MS, 1994, Ball State University; PhD, 1997, University of Tennessee). He conducted postdoctoral research training (1998-2002) and subsequently joined the faculty at the University of Florida (2002-2003), both in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. He joined the Core Faculty of the Nutritional Sciences Program, Department of Epidemiology, in July 2003.
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Research Interests
Dr. Duncan's research interests include: (1) relationships among cardiovascular fitness, body fatness, and metabolic disease (e.g., metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes); (2) lifestyle interventions involving increased habitual physical activity and/or exercise training and dietary modifications in the prevention and treatment of metabolic and cardiovascular disease; and, (3) non-biological determinants of physical activity and obesity (e.g., access, income, and the physical environment).
Teaching Interests
Dr. Duncan teaches Research Design in Autumn Quarter and Physical Activity in Health & Disease in Spring Quarter.
PhD, Education (Concentration in Exercise Science), University of Tennessee 1997
MS, Exercise Physiology, Ball State University 1994
BS, Physical Education, East Stroudsburg University 1992
Selected Publications
For a list of publications, please visit Google Scholar.
Close Up March 2013: Glen Duncan
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Kaleidescape Refuses to 'Cave to DVD CCA' on Movie Servers
Kaleidescape M700 Disc Vault abides by DVD and Blu-ray licensing agreements, according to the manufacturer.
The unit should easily pass muster with the Blu-ray copy protection police, but does not address the concerns of the DVD CCA (Copy Control Association), which licenses decryption software for plain old DVDs.
Kaleidescape has battled the DVD CCA since 2005, when the organization sued the manufacturer for breach of contract, claiming its licensing agreement expressly prohibits the ripping (copying, archiving … whatever you call it) of DVDs.
Kaleidescape has maintained all along that the licensing agreement says no such thing, so the company is treating DVD copying like it always has – in an elegant fashion that is painless for the consumer.
The new M700 Disc Vault (like its predecessors) allows users to copy Blu-ray and DVD discs to a Kaleidescape server, and then stream the content to client devices connected to multiple displays.
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As usual, consumers can remove the physical DVDs from the M700 carousel and still play the stored movies through any Kaleidescape media player on the network. It's the same approach that spawned the DVD CCA lawsuit six years ago, when it held Kaleidescape up as an example of its DRM machismo.
Kaleidescape isn't deterred.
"We don't want to take away any freedoms from consumers any more than we're required to do," says Tom Barnett, senior director of marketing for Kaleidescape.
Blu-rays are a different matter, with copy protection clearly articulated by the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Adminstrator (AACSLA).
Barnett explains that the AACSLA allows licensees to enable Blu-ray copying, as long as there is some authorization mechanism for playback.
Kaleidescape obliges with the M700 (and predecessor Blu-ray streaming products), which requires that a physical disc be present in the carousel to stream a movie stored on the server.
So why not just appease the DVD CCA and take the same approach for DVDs?
"That is a path we considered – to just cave to the DVD CCA," Barnett tells CE Pro, "but we think it's a raw deal for the consumer."
Kaleidescape and the DVD CCA will meet up again on Nov. 14, 2011, in Santa Clara County, Calif. for a second trial.
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Hey, Julie. If your readers are interested, I got an exclusive hands-on look at the M700 prior to release. Here is the link to my full review of the Vault in action:
John "Boys Club Forever!" Sciacca
simply put, Kaleidescape is dead. They have failed to change and adapt and their dinosaur business model is primarily obsolete. How much longer do you think they will be around? It will be like the VHS-C machines or beta max that some of our clients still have in their systems in a few years!
Up until very recently I would have agreed with zubuman. However, some new developments that seem to be bringing us streaming and downloadable content (finally) may keep it a viable option for clients that want ease of use and the best video resolution. If they don't deliver on that then they're dead.
Good review, John.
Geoff, don't you think it is a tad bit too late for them to try to do this. They should have done that 3 years ago. 5 years ago, they had the best interface around. They simply could have become the next apple tv, they refused to budge and change. Look at Vudu, they realized quickly that the custom market was not the way they could reach their audience. Then they went to Best Buy, when that didn't work, they scrapped the hardware and become a software company and then they blew up and got bought out by Wallmart and they are incorporated in every device that you own!
When someone can buy a $100 apple tv or bluray that meets their needs and what they want, why would they want kaleidescape. Have you been able to sell any Kaleidescapes lately?
By the way, I was a former Kaleidescape dealer. So don't think that I am just bashing them for no good reason. They had a really good thing, and because of their stubbornness and inability to get out of their tunnel vision, they blew their opportunity. It's a shame because it WAS a great product!
Actually, I was kind of thinking that with all the mess made by streaming content providers, we just may see a return to the dedicated media server. Go figure.
+1 in agreement with Julie - The streaming options are still in their infancy, and options aren't really all that plentiful or user friendly (ever try interfacing an Apple TV as an "elegant" solution in an integrated system?)
Where Kaleidescape continues to maximize it's niche is as a repository for someone's existing collection that is accessed with regularity. Blu-Ray and the M Series players are a natural and necessary evolution - if there were a streaming solution that was of sufficient quality and *reliable* they would have used it.
1. Kaleidescape is a "best of breed" manufacturer and much like similar manufacturers (Krell, Meridian, and a host of others) it is primarily targeted at clients who are looking for "bit for bit" playback of the original media. You can't in any way infer that the current crop of streaming devices approaches that, they're reasonable facsimiles but they are not close to the performance quality of the Kscape ecosystem
2. Kaleidescape has always positioned itself to be part of a greater whole particularly within the operation umbrella of an Overlay Control System, these are also systems that the goal is reliability over convenience - An Apple TV or Roku or Vudu box has a lower front end cost but as an example, Netflix has issued three "apologies" to me in the past 3 months because of service outages.
From a sales perspective, Kaleidescape has been far from a dead product for me, the Kid's Remote and Kid's Interface is a perfect example of them "getting it" towards creating value for the investment in the ecosystem. I personally have an Escient DVD Jukebox System, Gen 1 Apple TV with 100 Kids Movies and a Kscape System care to guess which one my kids and wife use?
Will Kaleidescpape have to adapt in the future, probably, but only when they can deliver results that work the way people expect. Too often especially in the CE Industry we succumb to fears of having to sell low cost solutions and just "deal with" a sub par experience. I'm not happy about the Vault, I wish we could operate without it but you can't blame Kaleidescape, blame the Studios and their lawyers - the reason why this unit had to be built was to meet legal obligations not technological hurdles.
I don't see my system being obsolete anytime in the near future, unless I plan on settling for low res, non close captioned, intermittent playback of movies I never wanted to watch in the first place.
I do think K'scape goes full circle. The best user interface ever. Nothing even comes close if you want to own the media and play it back with total control. Streaming may never get the details K'scape starts with.
Here's how it goes-
The Studios renegotiate their fees because DVD sales are down and NetFlix is making too much money. They (studios) hold back titles / catalogues. The Cable Companies throttle back bandwidth and raise rates, giving preferential treatment to their new streaming services. The cloud is a mess for another 5 years and those of you who drank the KoolAid (sorry- Julie included) get to back pedal because they didn't remember how things really work and were all to happy to jump on the bandwagon of early adopters- BTW, Stop listening to what the teens and young crowd have to say- they are clueless and believe everything just works immediately, all nice and buttery smooth.
Dangerous to bad-talk Julie. Dangerous indeed….
What do you use for a collection of 1K~3K DVDs?? Right- It's Just Kaleidescape and ReQuest. In the mean time, those of you who agreed with your clients instead of educating them can ask them to get their disks out unless you told them to get rid of them to save space…
The teens and the young crowd are the next generation of technology consumers. As you say "they believe that everything works immediately" and things are moving in that direction. They can get netflix from anywhere on any device and it just works. No programming or complicated setup required. THAT IS WHAT MAKES NETFLIX AND OTHERS SUCCESSFUL.
A repeatable model that addresses the needs and wants of the consumer.
The cloud is the way and is the future. I do agree that it will get better and services will consolidate but there is no going back. The # of subscribers that netflix, pandora and other streaming services have speaks to how mainstream these services have gotten.
Also you guys speak of quality. This is the same discussion when CDs were around and MP3s came out. Yes there are the select few that want to have the better resolution, but convenience is the key as we have seen from the trends that are set from itunes, pandora and other. Majority of consumers, I am not talking about the few "geeky" clients and other people that we know are satisfied with the service and quality delivered with MP3s, netflix and other.
We have to stop pushing our goals on to the consumer.
Why the need for an either/or scenario?
What every generation wants is choice. Kaleidescape will continue to succeed for simple reasons: subtlety and nuance are traits that develop once you're first exposed to anything.
Just because I found cheap beer as I entered legal drinking age doesn't mean I enjoy it 20 years later - my tastes developed and changed over time as did my appreciation.
When I first bought a car I bought the cheapest one I could afford to get from point A to Point B, not because I wanted to enjoy the simple act of driving.
These are pretty rudimentary analogies to push across my point, entertainment systems and the CE Industry in the fact that they provide no inherent social value we provide entertainment, tech is not entertainment it's just the delivery device.
I'm based out of the Silicon Valley, tech-head Mecca and I personally enjoy the educaction process of showing the "kids" the visceral and emotional enjoyment of music and cinema systems not because I'm set in my ways or they don't know any better - often they just never had someone provide a value proposition.
Netflix and Hulu and Apple TV may cure my quick fix cravings and I think they should be sold into systems and presented for those needs. The Kscape experience is a completely different animal
Faster and cheaper are great options - but the short term thinking route is to fixate on that. Thats the recipe for a one time sale, not a lifetime client.
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This is a tasty little number that flows down the gullet with the facility of fruit punch. The bartender shakes the simple concoction with ice in a mixer and pours it in a Martini glass. It's comprised of black currant vodka, cranberry juice and a British-produced blackberry juice known as Ribena. An uncarbonated soft drink, Ribena features real black currant juice, none of that fake corn syrup shit.
Certain cocktails induce involuntary facial twitching; these are the drinks we sip. The Blackbeard Martini on the other hand, is incredibly easy to gulp. Were it not for the warm, fuzzy feeling that possessed my soul as I emptied the final dregs of the Martini glass, I wouldn't have known it had alcohol in it.
At the risk of sounding sexist, I'd say this is a drink more in touch with alcohol's feminine side. But no matter what your gender, drinker beware: it would be incredibly easy to indulge in too many of these, stumble outside the establishment and tumble face first into the alley. Perhaps the $9 price tag will keep you in check. Enjoy.
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Stockholm – A 29-year-old Swedish soccer player collapsed and died of a suspected cardiac arrest, minutes after giving his team the lead in a league match on Sunday.
Pitea player Victor Brannstrom had scored after just four minutes against Umedalen in their Division Two North clash on Sunday when he suddenly sat down and slumped over, according to local newspaper Norrlandska Socialdemokraten.
A kit man and nurse immediately administered CPR to the player until three ambulances arrived and Brannstrom was taken to Pitea hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 4pm.
"It is completely incomprehensible. It is so tragic. This is the hardest thing I have experienced," Pitea vice-chariman Christer Berglund is quoted as saying.
Brannstrom, who had previously played for Helsingborg in Sweden's top flight, had retired from the sport in January following a similar collapse but returned to action when tests indicated he had no serious heart problems.
"That also feels so damn tough but we didn't persuade him to make a comeback – Victor wanted to play himself. He trained and it went well for him," Berglund added.
Pitea hospital said that the player's heart had stopped and that there would be a post-mortem to establish the exact cause of death. – Reuters
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The Ugly American is alive and well and working for peace.
Aug 30, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 47 • By LAUREN WEINER
Naturally enough, his hobby attracted FBI surveillance, and Egan does not hide the fact that he enjoyed the attention. He checked in with U.S. authorities regularly, and if they couldn't stop him from taking his North Korean friends on hunting and fishing trips, or serving them free meals in his restaurant, they could at least debrief him about what these mysterious men were like. Once, one of the North Koreans posted to U.N. headquarters, a military man named Han, needed dental care. Egan, who had grown close to Han, found a good oral surgeon to treat him. Afterward, Egan delivered the extracted molar to FBI counterintelligence for DNA sampling. Han headed home when his tour of duty ended; it was awful, Egan writes, to have to say goodbye to "my best friend."
He also liked his second FBI handler. This spelled trouble for the handler, of course: When the young agent, succumbing to the Egan charm, tried to advance one of the Egan schemes—to have the United States purchase North Korea's nuclear program—the FBI demoted him. Any reader will pity those who cross the path of this "goombah" (his word) diplomat, from the National Security Council experts sent up from Washington to rein him in to the Pennsylvania state senator Egan took with him to Pyongyang to retrieve the rusting U.S.S. Pueblo. (The ship stayed firmly docked on the Taedong River. The North Koreans were only toying with Egan on that one. On most of the other stuff, too.)
Bobby Egan is an ingenuous man—perhaps not as ingenuous as he would like to seem—and his cockeyed-optimist act seems mostly intended to keep us off balance and wondering if he's kidding. His fighting-Stalinism-with-steaks approach did enable him to talk Pyongyang into sending a women's soccer team to a competition here. It was a mixed accomplishment, though: Try as he might, he was unable to land the players a commercial endorsement. Gatorade declined after mulling over Egan's idea for a TV commercial, which would have had a North Korean woman kicking a soccer ball and—to suggest how empowered she is by drinking Gatorade—making the kick look like a nuclear explosion.
As innocents abroad go, the author of Gringo Nightmare is, perhaps, less odd than Bobby Egan. Eric Volz is one of those Americans—our classic literature is full of them—who rub non-Americans the wrong way but don't realize this until it's too late. Being of partly Mexican ancestry and speaking excellent Spanish persuaded him that he was appealing to the villagers of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. To them, however, this Jeep-driving Californian was part of a growing foreign contingent that, amid the post-Sandinista development boom in Nicaragua, had intruded on their quiet life on the Pacific coast.
Volz had found San Juan del Sur in his student days, traveling the hemisphere in search of exotic places to go surfing. A Latin American studies major, he emerged from college with the pro-guerrilla biases one picks up in the academy. But he later came to believe that the best way to make a revolution in Central America was not through Marxism but the advancement of business. So he returned to San Juan del Sur in 2004, launching a bilingual magazine to promote "positive social change" while signing on with the local Century 21 office to sell real-estate to retirees from the United States. He had a romance with a local beauty named Doris Jiménez, a budding entrepreneur in her own right. Some in the town looked upon Volz "as too slick or ambitious," but then again, he writes, "the kind of work ethic that many Americans tend to admire is seen as extreme in other cultures."
Doris Jiménez was brutally raped and murdered in 2006. When tragedy struck, Volz prodded the police to get moving and track down her killer, but such treatment at the hands of an American surfer-turned-yuppie who had, until recently, been the victim's lover did not go over well. Before the sun had set on her funeral, Eric Volz was in handcuffs. His alibi—witnesses and phone records proving that he was far away in Managua when the crime took place—was ignored, and during his arraignment, while being walked from the jail to the courthouse, Volz was chased by a crowd screaming "Asesino!"
Anti-gringo sentiment in these parts of the world is nothing surprising, but putting a gringo in the dock came in especially handy for those arch anti-yanquis, the Sandinistas, who were just then staging a political comeback. Doris Jiménez's mother, a Sandinista loyalist, had the party's help in trucking in anti-Volz mobs to the various court proceedings, and from inside La Modelo, Nicaragua's maximum security prison, Volz watched on television as President Daniel Ortega was inaugurated.
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Atlanta Falcons running back Michael Turner has heard the critics say that he's too slow and too old to convert short-yardage downs.
He couldn't disagree more.
"Everybody's going to nitpick," Turner said Thursday. "We're a different team this year, obviously, with philosophies and things like that, but I mean we're 8-1. That's the bottom line. To get Ws. We're not worried about it."
Coming off their first loss of the season, Turner and the Falcons were punchless in short-yardage situations last week at New Orleans.
The two-time Pro Bowl running back was held to his least productive day in five seasons with Atlanta, running 13 times for 15 yards.
But Turner said that the Falcons have done far more right offensively this season than they've done wrong.
Atlanta ranks fourth in passing and seventh in scoring, but just 26th in rushing. Turner insists that the Falcons only need to make a few corrections against Arizona (4-5) on Sunday to get the running game operating efficiently.
Last week was ugly. On eight plays, New Orleans stuffed Turner either for no gain or lost yardage. The worst came on third-and-goal at the 1 in the game's final 2 minutes.
The Falcons lined up in a seven-man front, sent tight end Michael Palmer in motion and had fullback Mike Cox ready to take on a defender to spring Turner.
Instead, a blocking breakdown by left tackle Sam Baker trigged a collapse that allowed three Saints to tackle Turner in the backfield. On the next snap, Matt Ryan's go-ahead touchdown pass to Roddy White was knocked down.
Turner gave the Saints credit instead of blaming his teammates.
"Sometimes defenses are going to have good schemes against us and be able to get good penetration and things like that," Turner said. "It's just something we have to handle and run different types of plays sometimes and just clean it up."
It wasn't the first game in which Atlanta and Turner had struggles. In 40 attempts inside the opponents' 10-yard line last season, Turner averaged a paltry 1.1 yards. The year before, he had just 1.3 yards on 41 attempts.
"We don't take anything for granted," Turner said.
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Seattle update: Locals, who normally reserve their scorn for anyone who moved to Seattle after they did, were recently treated to a cornucopia of World Trade Organization protesters ranging from union members to environmentalists to Gray Panthers to Unitarians to the topless "Lesbian Avengers," the last being really funny, except to themselves. There were a couple of dorks who looted the Radio Shack, causing Seattle police to react with slightly less force than the Romans in Carthage. Of course, mainstream broadcast and print news reports read like their government licenses were up for renewal, lauding police for showing "remarkable restraint" when they weren't displaying "maximum restraint." Restraint? As compared to what—anal probes? God knows how the cops kept their cool, outfitted in Robocop body armor, staring down an angry passel of Unitarians intent on flagrantly discussing the issues in a thoughtful manner and perhaps running amok for refreshments. These news reports were usually followed by the other big story of the day: "ALL WILL BOW! OBEY! OBEY!"
San Diego update: Tensions in this city have hit a fever pitch over modern science's failure to come up with an effective sunblock that won't give you skin blemishes. Most of them are so oily.
Smash mouth: Some of that police restraint was in using rubber bullets instead of real ones. Actually, rubber bullets are real bullets covered with a rubber sheath. This ensures that even if you are shot and killed with one, at least you won't get pregnant.
Boiling point: Further fueling San Diego's civil unrest is how hard it is to find a good crab Louie salad dressing. And they hate the Mexicans.
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Consensus: We'll root for Seattle because, overall, it's good to see people taking to the streets again—even if some of them are two-bit hoods who sprayed such ridiculous messages as "Eugene [Oregon] punks kick more ass," since everyone knows that Gig Harbor punks totally rock! Fugazi rules!
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Hello. I recently traded a grade grey trail horse for two reg. AQHA mares. They are both bred pretty well. Im thinking about keeping the Race bred mare, she has Streakin Six as a grandsire, and Easy Six, Dash for Cash, Top Moon, and Triple Chick on her papers. She just turned 10 years old. She has also been accepted into the Texas Racehorse Breeders Assoc. Or something like that, that has been stamped on her papers.
The other mare is an Impressive bred mare that is out of a son of Diversified. She also has Skipa Star, Te n Te, Leo, and Mr Bar None. Here is the link to her pedigree: http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/a+bit+devious
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