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Hugo Chavez's referendum has apparently gone down to a narrow defeat. This is a good thing for reasons that Randy Paul explains here.
Hugo Chavez's referendum has apparently gone down to a narrow defeat. This is a good thing for reasons that Randy Paul explains here.
Based on the assurances of an anonymous "expert," K-Lo reassures the world that Thomas Smith is off the hook because Arabs are filthy liars.
[W]e "should have provided readers with more context and caveats" – the context that Smith was operating in an uncertain environment where he couldn't always be sure of what he was witnessing, and the caveats that he filled in the gaps by talking to sources within the Cedar Revolution movement and the Lebanese national-security apparatus, whose claims obviously should have been been treated with the same degree of skepticism as those of anyone with an agenda to advance.
As one of our sources put it: "The Arab tendency to lie and exaggerate about enemies is alive and well among pro-American Lebanese Christians as much as it is with the likes of Hamas." While Smith vouches for his sources, we cannot independently verify what they told him. That's why we're revisiting the posts in question and warning readers to take them with a grain of salt.
Well, I suppose it's something that she didn't refer to them as "sneaky" or "sinister." But as long as she's performing due diligence, Lopez should also be aware of Will Saletan's recent discovery that black people are dumb — something the National Review might want to consider the next time they receive something from Thomas Sowell.
On the brighter side of the ledger, I'm glad to hear Lopez is at last considering the possibility that sources — particularly those connected to various states interested in compliant press coverage — might be able to foist almost anything on journalists and idiot warbloggers alike.
All of our efforts to convince Davida that she really could be doing a lot better having been in vain, it should be noted that Mr. Robert M. Farley is about to become the second married member of our collective. I will have the solemn responsibility of Best Man; I may or may not figure out what that entails in the next two weeks. Information about the pending nuptials in Washington D.C. can be found here.
The guy who filed fictions in the guise of reporting from Lebanon is also the author of the seminal The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design. Of course he is! The title is a little redundant, though.
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I'm pretty sure everything that can be said has been said in re: the suckiness of Day By Day, but good god. Has Chris Muir ever been around real humans?
Joe Sheehan (subscribers only) points out that it would be crazy for the Twins to trade Johan Santana for young pitching that hasn't proven it can handle a major league workload — something it had plenty of — as opposed to major league hitters, which they lack at several positions. (At the very least, if they deal with the Yankees they should hold out for Cano, not Cabrera, who has well-below-average range for a CF and doesn't hit enough to play the corners.) They don't seem to consider that because, as Sheehan correctly points out, "no matter what a team actually needs, its GM always thinks it need pitching. " But, of course, there's the even better option:
Of course, there's another option here, one that hasn't been brought up very often. By virtue of having very few veteran players, the Twins have a low payroll, and one that is unlikely to rise much in the next few years given all of that cost-controlled pitching. They're also moving into a new ballpark in 2009, one that should provide a larger-than usual boost in revenue as they get out from under a brutal lease at the Metrodome. Like all teams, the Twins have seen a jump in central-fund revenue, and even in the new park, they may find themselves the recipient of revenue-sharing money.
Taking that into consideration, the Twins should sign Johan Santana themselves. Even setting a new pitching standard of $20 million a year, or $22 million a year, is more than affordable for a team that will be able to support a payroll approaching $100 million and won't come close to that figure without Santana around. The key thing we know about the free agent market is that the very best players in baseball are the ones on which you should spend your money. It's infinitely better to overpay a bit—if it's even overpaying—for Johan Santana than it is to try and replace his performance in the market, or through development.
Like Alex Rodriguez in 2000, like Barry Bonds in 1992, like Greg Maddux that same winter, Johan Santana is an elite talent irreplaceable through normal means, and as durable as any pitcher can be in modern baseball. If the standard in six years and $140 million, or seven and $155 million, as ridiculous as those figures sound, they may be well worth it if the alternative is spending two-thirds of that over that same period for half the performance.
Trading Santana for 50 cents on the dollar at best isn't just a bad trade; it's an outrage. This isn't a baseball move, like letting Hunter walk (which was smart; he wasn't worth the money.) They're not going to use the money to sign a better player. And remember that the Twins, owned by one of the richest people in the country, are getting a large and absolutely indefensible taxpayer subsidy for the new stadium that will increase their revenues. I'm going to guess that the need to be able to pay their talent came up quite a bit when defending this regressive distribution of state revenues. And yet, when it comes to retaining the best pitcher in the game, Pohlad won't risk any of his mutli-billion dollar fortune; after all, he can just take revenue-sharing money from teams that actually invest in their product along with a nice fat check from the state and make a safe profit instead. It's a disgrace.
The Senussi religious order was founded in 1837 as an antidote to what amounted to the perceived liberalization of Islam. It's founder, Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, was born in Algeria but studied in Cairo, Mecca, and elsewhere in the Arab world. He attempted to return to Algeria around 1840 but was denied entry by the French. In response, he led the construction of a monastery in Cyrenaica, now part of Libya and then part of the Ottoman Empire. Gathering followers from across North Africa, Muhammad carved a de facto independent state out of the Ottoman desert territories.
In 1911, Italy conquered Cyrenaica in the brief Italo-Ottoman War. In 1920, Italy granted Sayyid Muhammad Idris bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Senussi, Sayyid Muhammad Ibn Ali as-Senussi's grandson, the title of Emir of Cyrenaica. Two years later he was named Emir of neighboring Tripolitania. Idris' efforts on behalf of independence were frowned on by the Italians, and he was driven into exile in the late 1920s. After struggling for independence through the 1930s, Idris followed General Bernard Montgomery and his army as they rolled up the German and Italian position in Libya in 1943. After several years of negotiations and protectorates, Libya was unified as an independent state in 1951, and Idris took the title of King Idris I.
Idris maintained close relations with the West in spite of increasing tensions between the US, UK, and the Arab world. In 1969, the King's poor health and failure to produce an heir left his domestic opponents with an opportunity. Because of health concerns, Idris I had decided to abdicate in favor of his nephew on September 2. A coup led by Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi overthrew the King's government on September 1, while the King was receiving medical treatment in Turkey. The King's nephew, Sayyid Hassan As-Senussi, was placed under house arrest, along with most of the rest of the royal family. King Idris would live in exile in Greece and Egypt until his death in 1983.
In 1984 Gaddafi released the royal family from house arrest and tossed them onto the street. The family lived for a period in a cabin on a public beach. Sayyid Hassan, suffering from poor health, was allowed to travel with most of the family to London for medical treatment, where they settled. Hassan died in 1992, and was succeeded as pretender King by his son, Sayyid Muhammad bin Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Senussi. Muhammad has been somewhat active in Libyan exile circles, participating in an anti-Gaddafi rally in London in 2005. Muhammad has made Libyan democracy his public cause, but has not renounced the throne. Prospects for a return to the throne are uncertain. The contours of Libyan politics are difficult to get a firm grasp on, due in no small part to the continuing dominance of Gaddafi. There is no strong evidence that substantial monarchist support exists in Libya, however, and it would seem that the fall of Gaddafi would more likely result in the establishment of a republic rather than a return to the monarchy.
Trivia: Which monarch's last serious bid for the throne ended when his proxy war patron withdrew its support in 1970?
Edroso manages to get No Country For Old Men right in one sentence:
No Country For Old Men is an excellent chase film with twangy talk about the persistence of evil inserted at puzzling intervals.
Although mostly very-good-to-superb, I found the picture a tad disappointing, and there's no question that the windy, portentous monologues the movie inexplicably stops dead in its tracks to give to Tommy Lee Jones's character are the major culprit. Roy goes on to say:
In No Country, Chighur's conversations are a little in that vein, but the pronouncements of Sheriff Bell and Ellis are closer to the tedious lecture Commissioner Hardy gives the reporters near the end of The Asphalt Jungle: an insertion that is supposed to radiate meaning onto the action from the outside. In Jungle this comes off as a quick gloss or a way of getting around the Hays Office, and is followed by a more appropriate, though downbeat, spurt of narrative; in No Country the Hardys just hang around the periphery being premonitory until near the end, when they surge to subsume and kill the story. This is the real "dismal tide": geezers talking about good and evil (and what do they say, exactly, besides good sure is good and evil sure is evil?) till their chatter drowns out a perfectly good action picture.
They didn't detract from the virtues of the film quite as much for me as they did for Roy, but all the tell-don't-show bullshit towards the end is an odd lapse from the Coens (especially since their trademark dueling non-sequiturs worked surprisingly well within the McCarthy story.) I don't know how much of it comes directly from the novel, but that's no excuse in any case.
Counterintuitive news of the day: when fathers pay child support payments ostensibly to their poverty-stricken ex-partners and children, they're only helping deepen the women's poverty.
How? Well, in many states the child support payments made to women on welfare go directly to the state and federal coffers with little to nothing reaching the women themselves. According to the Times, about half the states pass nothing from child support along to the custodial parent (usually a woman), while in most others the custodian gets only $50/month. This counterproductive structure comes thanks to federal law, which requires states to use child support statements to reimburse welfare payments.
To me, the problems with such a system seem blindingly apparent: First, child support payments are, duh, supposed to support children. When the money is going to the government instead of the child, it's unlikely that is happening. Second, though a goal of the country's welfare program is to help people to self-sufficiency (a laughable goal given the program's structure, but still…), refusing them the aid they are due helps ensure that they are unable to do exactly that. As the Times notes:
When Congress set up the current child support system in the 1970s, recovering welfare costs was an explicit goal, with some experts arguing that it was only fair for fathers to repay the government for sustaining their offspring and that giving families the money was a form of "double dipping." But experience and research have suggested to most experts and state and federal officials from both parties that the policy is counterproductive — driving fathers into the underground economy and leaving families more dependent on aid.
Given that this – at this point – just about universally acknowledged, why hasn't anything changed?
Well, it almost did change…until the deficit the Bush administration has created crept back into congress's conscience:
Reflecting a growing, bipartisan sense that diverting child support money to government coffers is counterproductive, Congress, in the Deficit Reduction Act passed in early 2006, took a modest step toward change. Beginning in 2009, states will be permitted to pass along up to $100 for one child and $200 for two or more children, with the state and federal governments giving up a share of welfare repayments they have received in the past.
The Bush administration has set a goal of increasing the share of collections distributed to families and reducing the amount retained by the government. But the drive to reduce the budget deficit has gotten in the way. As part of last-minute budget crunching, the Republican-controlled Congress in that same act reduced by 20 percent the child-support enforcement money it gives to the states, starting this fall. Many states say the effort to force them to pay more of the enforcement costs will impede collections and prevent them from passing more money on to needy families.
So, there's some good movement, but not enough. Recently, a number of governors wrote a letter to Congress requesting that Congress repeal the program that gives child support money to the government to repay welfare in toto. But in the meantime there are still many too many women like Karla Hart (on whom the Times focuses), who can't give their kids the $9 they need for a school activity. Getting rid of this welfare "repayment" won't solve that but those $200/month "extra" would go a long way.
Finally, the N.H.L. has altered their awful schedule, under which teams visit those in other conferences only once every three years. Since I was in Calgary for 12 days last year and saw the Canucks twice live and another time on T.V., but of course can almost never see any western team out here, I have to echo the comments of Willie Mitchell:
We're tired of seeing Calgary, Minnesota, Edmonton. For us it would mean more travel, but I'd jump on that in a heartbeat. Guys want to play at M.S.G. [Madison Square Garden]. I want to get to the new arena in New Jersey. Never mind the fans, as a player you want to play against the best.
The strangest misconception that the league has is that playing 8 games a year against a team encouraged rivalries. But of course it's the opposite; intradivisional rivalries just get boring when you see the same team again and again and again. And to pre-empt the same kind of argument you hear in baseball, yes some of the inter-conference games will be lousy ("who wants to see Tampa Bay play the Nationals?") No, Ranger fans probably won't be thrilled to see Columbus (although it may make me more likely to score tickets from the Bean family!) But these arguments seem not to realize that the Devil Rays and Panthers have to play somebody. Who wants to see Tampa Bay play the Royals again? If I still had access to a Flames season ticket I'd rather see Florida once than Minnesota for the fourth time.
Also, I should mention that serious or casual puckheads should note that this comes from the Times' new hockey blog. Among others, it includes Jeff Z. Klein, the former sports editor of the Voice and author of an entertaining Bill Jamesian study of the game. Sounds like it will be useful.
Longtime friend of L, G & M Julia is starting a regular guest posting gig at Firedoglake. And even better, her first post is about Giuliani and his history of promoting corrupt incompetents, so check it out…
Robert Craig Knievel, Jr.
Anyhow, the Axis' namesake passed away today, setting a dark cloud over Clay Aiken's 29th birthday while commemorating the release of a Michael Jackson album titled, appropriately enough, Thriller.


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2 girls suffer rapid heart beat after eating candy from classmate, official says
Published: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 8:16 p.m.
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Daytona Beach parents of students at David C. Hinson Senior Middle School received a note from the principal after two girls were taken to the hospital following their reactions to eating a German candy, an official said.
Volusia school district spokeswoman Nancy Wait said principal Julian Jones notified parents of what occurred Wednesday and wanted parents to remind their children to not bring candy to school and not eat something they couldn't identify.
Wait said a boy brought Nimm2, a Germany candy infused with vitamins, to school and shared it with two of his classmates. Two girls complained their hearts were beating rapidly after eating the candy.
"They were checked out by the nurse, and we did call the paramedics," Wait said.
She said the girls were taken to a local hospital as a precaution, and officials do not believe the boy meant any harm by sharing the candy.
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Jeff Probst Tweets Remaining 3 'Survivor' Castaways
Tuesday morning executive producer and host Jeff Probst tweeted the remaining three competitors of "Survivor: Philippines."
@lisawhelchel, Jeff Kent, Skupin, Russell Swan & Penner – plus awesome newbies! Who knows maybe we'll birth some new "all-stars!"
— Jeff Probst (@JeffProbst) August 20, 2012
The trio of castaways, who were medically evacuated in previous seasons, will have a second (or even third) chance to win the $1 million prize.
Skupin is Michael Skupin, who fell into a campfire, burning his hands on "Survivor: The Australian Outback," the show's second season.
Russell Swan of "Survivor: Samoa" fell into an unconscious state during a challenge on the show's 19th season. It was later determined that he was suffering from dehydration.
Jonathan Penner has had two runs on the reality show, first on "Survivor: Cook Islands" (season 13) then on " Survivor: Micronesia, Fans vs. Favorites," where he was removed for a knee infection.
Host/executive producer Jeff Probst revealed the trio of competitors, who will take another shot at winning $1 million on the CBS reality show's upcoming 25th season, dubbed "Survivor: Philippines."
Other "Survivor: Philippines" participants were announced Monday and include former National League MVP Jeff Kent who played for both the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers, and "The Facts of Life" star Lisa Whelchel. There's also two beauty pageant queens; Katie Hanson, a former Miss Delaware, and Angie Layton, a former Miss Utah Teen.
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1934. The bell jangles and Orwell pops his head up from a stack of books to greet the customer. He nods, as it's difficult to hear over the downpour. The customer, a bus conductor, slops his gamp in the bucket by the door and heads straight for "Murder on the Orient Express".
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Gemma Baker was four the first time she made someone laugh. She decided immediately that was how she wanted to make a living. That said, her father was a therapist and her mother an actress who had become an Episcopal priest, and eventually a Bishop, so truthfully it was probably written in the stars. Her parents were supportive when she said she wanted to be an actor and sent her to Tisch School of the Arts for a degree in theater. At Tisch she took a class on the history of comedy in New York, which boasted as part of the class an optional night of standup.
"I was hooked," she says. "That's when I started writing."
After Tisch she acted in commercials and moved to L.A., where she could afford to live by herself, almost on a whim when an apartment was offered to her. Like many comedy writers, Baker found the Groundlings, which is also where she found her husband. She studied there, writing and performing standup, improv, and even wrote essays as much as she could, while working a job as an office manager.
"Eight years later I was still at it," Baker recalls, "and was starting to wish that my parents hadn't been so encouraging. Around that time, my friend introduced me to his friend, a guy named Chuck. It was only after speaking with him that I found out who he was. If I had realized who I was talking to I might not be where I am today because I wouldn't have been able to form sentences. Anyway, he asked to read my material and saw a couple performances. Ten months later he offered me a job as a staff writer at Two and a Half Men. My parents are very proud of themselves."
Mom, the situation comedy she co-created with über-showrunner Chuck Lorre and Eddie Gorodetsky off a premise the other two were kicking around while working on Two and a Half Men, follows three generations of women and their interconnected dysfunctions. Christy (Anna Faris) plays a newly sober single mom; a waitress in a Napa Valley restaurant who is doing her best to raise a 16-year-old daughter and make better decisions for herself. This effort is made all the more difficult when her estranged and socially inappropriate mother, Bonnie (Allison Janney), also newly in recovery, reappears and inserts herself into her granddaughter Violet's life.
Tell me how the Mom story germinated?
I was working on Two and a Half Men and one day I got called into Chuck's office. I remember walking down the hall to his office wondering why I was getting fired. But when I got there, he told me about this pilot idea that he and Eddie Gorodetsky were working on. It was about a single mother who was extremely flawed, an atypical TV mom with a sordid past, maybe an addiction problem, and did I think that I could make that funny. I said honestly that I didn't think so; that in order for it to be funny I felt like her struggles would have to be in the past. So we talked about what would happen if that same character was in recovery and trying to repair her relationship with her family. We all connected to the story of redemption, of trying to be a better person than the person you are now. We felt like people would want to root for a character like that. So the three of us got together and wrote the pilot fairly quickly. Warner Bros. and CBS were interested. Then Anna [Faris] got the script and wanted to do it, and then it was real. It's been a crazy year, and I'm so grateful to Chuck and Eddie for the opportunity.
Can you describe the collaborative process on the show in the writer's room? What's the room like?
Mom is gang-written like all of Chuck's shows. So it's a very collaborative process because we write the entire script, from "FADE IN" to "FADE OUT," in a group. Chuck runs the room and when he's busy, Eddie Gorodetsky takes over. Writing with them is like taking a master class in comedy. One of the things I've learned from them is that the best stories come from an emotional place. Even if the episode is about something big and silly, at the core there is always something deeper going on. Also, our room is predominately women and that comes in handy when you're writing about mothers and daughters. We spend a lot of time sharing our personal experiences of having and being moms. Comedy rooms can be pretty testosterone-driven places. "Tell me more about this particular experience." I had the most incredible experience on Two and a Half Men. I worked with fantastic, talented, funny men, but I am an only child, and I have never been teased so much in my whole life! I got used to it, and in fact, learned to love it. But I was still careful not to call attention to myself. I mean, I wouldn't wear bold colors let alone reveal my embarrassing moments. Of course, you spend a lot of time together, and they all came out eventually anyway. Now I find myself volunteering a lot of my personal experiences right away. That's also the nature of the show we're writing.
Does the joke-pitching process feel different? Is it a less competitive?
It's definitely still competitive. Maybe we say things like "after you" more frequently. Although, I'm honestly not sure if that's because we're women or just new to each other. The process in the room is actually very similar. But there's less talk about hockey.
The jokes are timed very tightly in the pilot episode, which is entirely a function of delivery. I'm wondering how you think about your actors as partners?
Our cast is so incredible. They all have phenomenal timing and instincts. Whenever we leave a table read or run-through the writers always talk about the unexpected laughs we got on lines that were totally not meant as jokes. For example, "Hello" has killed more than once. Another thing that happens a lot is that the actors will deliver a line in a completely different way than what we intended and their take is absolutely hilarious. And then when we are rewriting, we find that they've opened up an entirely different path for us to explore. So yeah, there's a lot of give-and-take that happens. I remember a few weeks before the pilot we were talking to Anna about the challenging relationship between her character, Christy, and her teenage daughter, Violet. Anna said that she felt like, "Come on, like me!" We all laughed and that line went into the script immediately. Actually, it's one of my favorite moments of the pilot because it's so real. I'm a mom and I know that feeling well. Too well. And my kid's only four so I'm screwed. Anyway, like any new show we are challenged with trying to find the voice of these characters and our cast is making that much easier.
There are a good number of sight gags in the pilot. An actual fire burns on stage, which isn't something you see often in a sitcom setup. There is a great deal of physical comedy. Is that something you saw as the initial voice or did it come out of the experience?
None of the physical comedy was in the original script. That element is something we found as we were rehearsing the pilot. As soon as we discovered how good our cast was at it, we started to look for opportunities for them to fall out of windows and catch on fire. We deal with some serious themes on this show, and the physical comedy lightens it up well.
Can you tell me more about how you tighten and workshop jokes?
We're always working on the script, even when we're shooting. We look for areas that could be made tighter or funnier, or make the story clearer. I'm glad that we don't turn in a script and that's exactly how it ends up on TV. It's a process. I love that we get the opportunity to hear the lines spoken and make changes. We are so lucky that we work with such talented actors who can handle changes on the fly. Show night is my favorite part of working on a multi-cam. Of course, you have to stop working on it eventually. I was in editing the other day and I thought of a joke. Too late.
How does having a studio audience add to the process? How do you use it?
The studio audience is a huge part of the show because they let us know how we're doing. I mean, we can think that something is funny all week, and they will tell us otherwise. It's great to have a chance to make the show better. Plus, they give so much energy to the actors, which brings out the best performances. I know for myself, I enjoy the pressure of coming up with lines when you know the audience is waiting. It's exciting.
So, if something bombs you all run in and pitch new lines?
Yeah, we huddle up and pitch new lines anytime we feel we can make something better. It's quiet and dark, and I usually feel mildly nauseous. We just keep throwing things out there until something makes us laugh. It's thrilling when someone is able to come up with something funny under that kind of pressure. When I was a kid I always wanted to play a sport but couldn't because I'm painfully uncoordinated – so tape nights are the closest I've gotten to a game day. I love it.
It's like the idea of improv. Back to the Groundlings.
Exactly, that definitely helps!


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X Factor's Ella Henderson To Perform With Beyonce?
Beyonce has been asked to perform with Ella Henderson, should The X Factor hopeful make it to the series final.
According to reports, Simon Cowell is so confident that Ella will make it to the final three that he's already planning the finale - and the big acts he wants to perform with the contestants.
A source told The Sun: "He wants to get in there before Strictly. Ella is the one most likely to sing with Beyonce because hearing their voices together would be just amazing." Alexandra Burke performed with Beyonce on The X Factor series finale back in 2008. Will Ella make it all the way? We hope so! RM
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No Limit mogul Master P, aka Percy Miller, presents The Gift as his fourteenth LP. There are some pleasant moments on this album, whether they are coming from the party jams or the motivational ballads. The messages he sends are revisitations, and even though they are useful, they represent already treaded terrain in rap. One saving grace on the album has to be Master P's improved lyrical skills. He seems to have a wider range of rhyming ability on this album compared to that from earlier albums. For best results, pay more attention to the words than the beats. Plenty of hot guest emcees spruce up the album, especially a grown Romeo, who projects exuberant spunk similar to the likes of a Big Sean or a Cory Gunz type. Excitable and energetic, The Gift has the right stuff for dedicated No Limit fans but certainly isn't Master P's best.
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I am brand new to BibTeX, so I apologize if this question is painfully naive. Up until now, I have been manually creating my bibliography for each paper using the environment
thebibliography. I'm now in the process of creating a master .bib file that holds all of the citations that I will ever use. However, I'm having a problem getting my bibliography to look the way that I'd like.
How can I get the entry
@article {EnoJen95,
author = {Enochs, Edgar E. and Jenda, Overtoun M. G.},
title = {Gorenstein injective and projective modules},
journal = {Math. Z.},
fjournal = {Mathematische Zeitschrift},
volume = {220},
year = {1995},
number = {4},
pages = {611--633},
to be printed in the same way that the following would render:
\bibitem{EnoJen95} E.~E.~Enochs and O.~M.~G.~Jenda,
\emph{Gorenstein injective and projective modules},
Math.~Z. \textbf{220}(4) (1995), 611--633.
So, basically, the output should look like:
[1] E. E. Enochs and O. M. G. Jenda, Gorenstein injective and projective modules, Math. Z. 220(4) (1995), 611-633.
Any help would be appreciated...even if someone could steer me in the direction of a good resource for BibTeX styles.


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Human Growth Hormone - Wondered how you feel re HGH, have a few friends on it who claim great results. Would you see better results over say Deca/Sustanon? Can you combine it in a cycle? Just curious, i do not know much about it. Frank
Hey Frank, Love the stuff – period! It's best to combine with a full mass building cycle. The one that you are now on would be just fine mate! Let us know how you get on. We will be covering the GH question in detail in the next issue hopefully.
Short v Long cycles Mick? Do you oppose short cycles? Let's say cycles of 5-6 weeks as opposed to 8-10. If you do then why? What am I looking for here? I seem to develop acne easy while on the gear even at low dosages so I though that shortening the length of the cycle rather than the dosage was better than lowering the dosage. As you know a lot can be bad BUT so does too little also. I am trying to contemplate this avenue first before moving onto less androgenic/anabolic gear. Watcha think?
Tim, I have done in the past simply because the cycles that people have given WITH those stacks have been horrendous to say the least. Although I do not like to speak ill of the dead, Borrenson's cycles were always like that. No disrespect to his family. The other thing is this. If acne is the problem, short cycles would be the best way and even so I would not go to high as is some peoples present thinking. Go for a six week course but on the FIRST run just make it a tad over what I would call a normal dosage mate – like I said just a tad! OK anti acne drugs are available, but I am not a great lover of them at all.
Equipoise stack – I would like some advice on what would be good to stack with equipoise to become stronger and gain some size. I need to know how much to take and how often to take it. I would also be interested in any suggestions you might have on something different you would recommend.
Hi Mate, I would personally use say sustanon or another longer acting test with EQ. I have never been a great user of the stuff to be honest simply because I find that it is so similar to Deca in its actions, or rather those that it gives. So those are what I would use with it personally. I would also put 1ml in the same syringe as the long acting tests too.
Conditioning? Again, I would use it in place of deca say in a Winstrol, EQ and Primo cycle as an example. However, there are many that have gained pretty well on EQ alone so the 'plan' as it were is not always one to go for. Another good way to stack EQ is with propionate at 1ml every 4 days and the EQ at every three. Again many different plans but I prefer the first.
Deca and Test Cyp? Mick, do you feel that combining Deca with Test Cypionate is overkill? I know it may fix the dreaded deca-dick, but what about effectiveness for muscle mass? I followed your Dianabol cycle with good results (from the Layman's Guide II) I would like to do a cycle of just Test Cyp and Deca, watcha think? How would you stack it?
Another thing – I keep reading everywhere that the Deca/Dianabol stack is one of the world old wonders @ 400ml Deca/week and 5 to 8 dianabol per day for 6-8 weeks, TRUE or BOGUS?
Hi mate Most certainly not an over kill mate. Most cycles are developed over years after trying and testing the best basic methods that gain BASIC size and strength – test and deca will always be a main stay for me simply because they work so well together. The addition of dianabol is a major boost without a doubt. I would always fit them together. The results and successes from such a fine basic cycle are far to many to be proven wrong. To answer your last question? Definitely true!
Dosages I have 34 100mg vials of primobolan depot and 350 Andriol tablets also 150 dianabol tabs what kind of a cycle can I make of this and for how long and what doses of each do I take all of them at once or spread them out through the day. Thanks.
Hey mate, With what you have, I would go on an 8 week cycle run Primobolan 1 shot every four days Dianabol 3, 5, 7, 9, 9, 7, 5, 3 Nolvadex at 20mg per day EVERY day and for a week after too. You could use Andriol with this cycle from the start, but see how you go with the dianabol for the first 3-4 weeks and if your gains are starting to show, finish with the dianabol all the way.
That way you can see just how you do on a dianabol oral which is a good base to run all other cycles from IF you use dbol again. But if things are slow, try the last 4 weeks with Andriol also on 3 a day for the first week, then 5, 5 again, to taper down to 3 again. Split the orals into two lots.
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I have been reading a book on the history of woman healers - Woman As Healer: A panoramic survey of the healing activities of women from prehistoric times to the present by Jeanne Achterberg. It is a very interesting book as well very surprising in some ways. Did you know that there were women healers in the prehistoric civilization of Sumer as well as in Ancient Greece and during Ancient Rome? I thought that maybe there were some, but not on the scale that Ms. Achterberg describes in her book. Did you know that in the early days of Christianity, women had opportunities to be healers? I did not know that either. As I said, I thought there were some women healers, but I also thought that most of them were men back then.
There were changes in the order and hierarchy of civilizations as well as with religions. Women slowly but surely were prohibited from practicing the healing arts; or they were just not taught them anymore. This does have much to do with the fact that men were making these decisions. However, I also believe that it had much to do with women also holding their fellow women back and not standing up to the men and also the other women that were stating that women were not intelligent enough or just were not permitted to practice these arts.
Maybe cures to certain diseases or other ailments would have been found a lot faster if women had been allowed to continue to practice the healing arts. There were centuries and centuries during which they were not allowed to do so. If they did, they were often underground for fear of being labeled witches, agents of Satan, crazy, or just improper as women.
There were also many men that supported women being healers. These men were ridiculed for their beliefs. All of these ridiculous actions caused medicine to be behind for a long time. Something works best and moves forward when you allow everyone to learn, participate, and contribute ideas. While there are still struggles at times, women are now permitted once again to be medically and holistically educated, and to share their ideas and findings on how to treat and cure diseases. Both men and women working together on the fights against and treatments of diseases is the best medicine.
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Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland on draft's 2nd day
Dolphins General Manager Jeff Ireland didn't sing the tune of "everything is great….things went according to plan…..we had an awesome draft….. and it somewhat surprised me.
He didn't paint a pretty picture of what happened the past two days. What he did was stress that the team got better, and they leaned on big school programs to create that upgrade.
Improvements were made to the roster, especially at two key positions (cornerback and receiver). But Ireland admitted the Miami Dolphins missed on a couple of players they really would have liked, and could have used. And by the time the seventh round was here the Dolphins' draft board was empty so they traded the pick to Kansas City for a 2010 seventh-rounder.
You know how I like to do it, so here's your opportunity hear from Ireland yourself so you can draw your own conclusions.
"I really feel like we got better today. As you well know, the draft is a process, and throughout the process what you try to do is add good football players to your roster who want to compete and who can help you win. Sometimes they fall the way you want them to fall, sometimes they don't. Today we got some good players who fell to us in the right places. I feel real good about the guys we got. As you well know, building a team doesn't start with the draft, it doesn't end with the draft. This whole thing started when we were signing payers off of the practice squad, reserve futures, and signing our own players like Channing Crowder, Vernon Carey, Yeremiah Bell, etc. It didn't stop when we signed Jake Grove, Gibril (Wilson), and Eric Green. It doesn't stop here either. We got some good players today, we feel very good about it, but it's a whole process, and we have a plan for that process. We are trying to get good college free agents that are going to help us compete, and it won't stop there either. There are going to be some acorns that fall off the tree, and there are acorns on the ground right now that we may pick up. This is just another part of the process, and the process will continue.
As far as today, I'm going to go through the roster. We got Patrick Turner in the third round. We feel real good about this young man. He is a big, tall receiver; I think he runs excellent routes. He scored ten touchdowns last year, he's a playmaker, he's played inside, he's played outside, he's smart. I think he's got some versatility and some very good hands. A highly recruited player coming out of high school, played at a very successful program. They know how to develop receivers there (USC), who usually go on to get drafted. I feel really good about this young man.
(Brian) Hartline, another successful program there [Ohio State], they know how to coach them up there too. Very articulate, very smart, very versatile. Plays on special teams, is a good sized kid, plays inside, plays outside with some flexibility at the wide receiver position that is very important to us. Both these guys have played inside, played outside, and both real good players.
(John) Nalbone, small college kid from Monmouth, about 6-5, about 257, runs real good. Three year starter there at Monmouth. This kid has tremendous skills. He's going to have to learn to play at NFL speed, there's no doubt about it. He kind of dominated that league, and he's going to be a good player for us I hope.
(Chris) Clemons, another three year starter, hadn't missed a game in his career. Big, strong, tough, aggressive safety. Good cover skills as well. We feel real good that he was there for us and I think he's going to contribute on the roster very well.
(Andrew) Gardner – had a shoulder injury late in the season, but he's a four year starter, really. Played at a good program, he's got left tackle feet. He's big, he runs good, he's a good athlete, he's got real good test scores, he's very smart. He brings some much needed depth at the left tackle position, so we feel real good about getting him.
J.D. Folsom from Weber state. He is a developmental candidate. He's got real good size, he's about 6-2 1/2, almost 240, runs really good. Smart kid, older kid, he's more mature, will be about 25 soon. Real good core special teams player. Has some sub-down value as well, so we got a good plan for him. That pretty much wraps up the day.
(On if the run on wide receivers and the Giants trading up before the third round pick influenced the selection of WR Patrick Turner) – "The run on receivers didn't have much impact on that pick at all, to be honest. We had Patrick in that round and feel real good about it. We were going to take that player regardless. We dint have to go up, we stayed right there and made the pick. We feel real good about it."
(On if he can quantify how much this draft helped the teams' needs at receiver and what the state of that position is currently) – "It's going to be a competitive position, no doubt about it. We have a couple guys here on this team that did very well for us this last year. We felt like we had a couple guys on the board that could help us be more competitive at that position. To be able to quantify that position right now we have to go into training camp and OTA's, and figure out what we got. I feel like we have helped ourselves there. We got some size there, we got some physicality there, and we got some flexibility with these two guys (Turner and Hartline)."
(On if there were any pre-draft expectations that were not fulfilled) – "Not necessarily. The way you stack the board, you don't really stack it by need, you try to stack it by value. Sometimes things don fall the way you want them to, but we try not to reach for guys, so I wouldn't say we are disappointed in how the draft played out. I would say we hit some needs, and again, the process isn't over. We will still try to get some players that will help us here throughout the process."
(On what he saw in Turner this year and why the team selected him) – "I think its confidence. I think his confidence, and his production really grew this year. His touchdown production and some of his catches. I think he became a more confident player and learned. From an offensive perspective, they keyed in on him to be a bit more of a playmaker. What he did this year at USC I think is very respectable. I think he is a very good player. I don't think 13 touchdowns in two years is anything to be ashamed of. I like the player; we had him up there from day one, so we feel real good about him."
(On if he envisions Folsom as an inside or outside linebacker, and if he knew Folsom planned on going to veterinary school) – "We see him more as an inside player. I didn't know he was going to vet school. I know our area scout probably did. But we see him as an inside player probably the 'moe' position I'm assuming. He really can play 'mike' or 'moe.' I envision him more right now as a sub-linebacker. He probably can line up as 'mike' or 'moe.' Excellent motor, great kid, very smart.
(On if he feels the team has enough 3-4 linebackers and hybrid pass rushers on the roster) – "I would say we feel real good about (Erik) Walden, Tearrius George, obviously (Cameron) Wake, and obviously the players that were here before we signed those guys. As you said we always look for pass rushers regardless of where they fall in the draft, it just didn't happen that we liked some of the payers that fell to us. We paid close attention to positions that we call 'core positions,' and pass rush is obviously one of those core positions, but they didn't fall to us the right way, so we went ahead and went for value."
(On what the teams' level of interest is in free-agent and ex-Dolphin Jason Taylor) – "We haven't really talked about it too much to be honest with you. He's one of those acorns sitting on the ground right now. We have got to make a decision here right now, I'm sure pretty quickly, on whether we are going to do that or not. But we have not made a decision."
(On if he agrees with Gardner calling himself 'one of the best deals in the draft') – "Well, in think the shoulder surgery probably didn't help him in the draft. But I do feel like he's got left tackle feet, I think that's rare to find. He was a four year starter, a captain at a major university (Georgia Tech). I think that's a good value, absolutely."
(On if there are rookie free agents that will be successful like Davone Bess was last year)– "We hope so. We felt great about Davone (Bess) last year, but you never know about the college free agent business. The make-up is most important in that regard. Trying to get the right kind of guy that will be successful in this program and that want to be good and want to be coached and developed. That is what we try to instill in those guys when we sign them. You are coming here to get coached and you are coming here to try and help us win."
(On what he likes about Chris Clemons) – "I like the fact that he is a three-year starter. I like the fact that he is big and he is fast. I like the fact that he can cover. Whenever you watch him in a tape and whether or not he is in the slot or in the zone he has a pretty good awareness on coverage and I like that. He is big, strong and aggressive. He is a core special teams player. Those are hard to find."
(On how many college free agents the team plans to bring in) – "It could be 8-10. Somewhere around there."
(On the reasoning behind trading a seventh-round pick with Kansas City) – "We didn't have a whole left on the board. As you probably know, it gets picked pretty good and we really didn't have much left."
(On if Bill Parcells called Scott Pioli Kansas City to make the trade)– "Actually it was Scott (Pioli) calling me and basically it was what the heck."
(On if it was a family call with Bill Parcells and Scott Pioli, his son-in-law) – "No. It was actually me doing that deal."
(On if Chris Clemons has the same hitting intensity as Dolphins safety Yeremiah Bell) – "I would say they have the same type of intensity. They will strike you. They are tough guys and they are good tacklers. There are some similarities for sure."
(On if in his mind there is a clear cut number one receiver of the nine players at that position) – "You have to let that play out. You can't really try to say yes to do that yet. I've got my thoughts, but I have to see that play out on the field to be honest with you. I've got some guys I would say yes to, but I would rather keep that to myself for right now."
(On if his draft board was shorter than usual this year compared to years past) – "Again, I don't want to get into numbers, but it was picked clean. I can tell you that. We put guys on there that we felt had a chance to make our team and make us better. The way we do it is that we try not to have any window dressing up there. By the end of the draft, we know it is going to be picked pretty clean and it was."
(On if Andrew Gardner benefited from being in a pro style offense and then switching to a option style offense) – "Yes. I think he benefited a lot from being in a pro-style offense and being a left tackle there for three years. I think it has benefited him greatly. I don't think it benefited him a whole lot last year when he was cutting and on the ground and trying to reach block."
(On the extensive research that went into evaluating Brian Hartline) -"He was a junior coming out early and he really didn't have great production. We saw some things in 2007 with him that we wanted to verify not only from an interview standpoint on why he came out early because he wasn't this elite junior in terms of publicity. So we did spend a little bit more time with Brian. We had dinner with him and worked him out. It just so happens that we try and travel around we try to not only do it with one player, but a multitude. We try to kill a lot of birds with one stone. That happened to be in that group too. It wasn't just Brian we were trying to visit with. It was (Brian) Robiskie and (James) Laurinaitis and (Marcus) Freeman. We were trying to kill a lot of birds with one stone in that particular workout."
(On if Brian Hartline is in the same mold as the Colts Anthony Gonzales) – "I think that it's a little bit of the Ohio State system, they develop receivers and they are pretty successful in doing that. They are usually always very good route runners, usually have a very good knowledge of coverage's and they usually all play a multitude of positions. That seems to be kind of what we are looking for too, so that is obviously a school that I have a high regard for when it comes to developing prospect for the National Football League."
(On if the system at Ohio State accounted for Hartline's perceived lack of production) – "I think it was and I think that he would say that as well. They went to more of a 'Wildcat' offense to say the least, they had a four-year starter at quarterback that was more of a thrower, that really didn't play a lot and so I think that was probably part of it."
(On if he is more comfortable drafting players from the bigger schools and conferences) –"I would say that not only me but the other 31 teams feel that comfortable as well. I think that during the last five years 90 percent of the draft comes from those Division I schools, so I think that me and the rest of the league feel that comfortable with it as well. I like big school players, there is no doubt about it, to answer your question. I like them, Bill (Parcells) likes them, we like guys that start a lot of games, guys that you don't have to guess about. When you try to evaluate the tape and you don't have to guess on what he can do in the league, and you can see it, that makes you feel a lot better. Most of the time these big school programs they develop their players in a way that you see the things that you are looking for."
(On the draft critics scrutinizing some of the selections that are made during the draft) – "I would say that the one that are projecting them and are not in the draft room and aren't in the business, really don't know what we go through. We keep it highly secretive, its highly confidential information, our scouts don't talk and so I don't know where some people would get their information. Unless they have been on the road scouting, like myself and our other scouts who do a tremendous job, they would not know the needs of the teams are, sometimes they don't know the character of the player, they are just kind of going out there and I don't know where they are getting their information. So I don't pay much attention to it to be honest with you and don't really care to be honest with you."
(On the situation at nose tackle and if he is comfortable with the position as it is currently) – "Well we got a player that we like a lot in Jason (Ferguson), now I know that he is getting up there in years, it was a position that you would certainly like to address, but it just didn't fall in the draft the way you wanted to. We weren't going to reach and there are only so many big nose tackles walking on this earth and we just didn't get our hands on one this year."
(On the signing of Jy Bond a punter from Australia) – "He is a big leg Australian punter who is a little bit old right now. But he has a big leg I can tell you that, he walked up and wanted a tryout and we accommodated the tryout and he is a nice young man and he can hit it five seconds I do know that, so we feel real good about him."
I'm interested to hear what The Mob thinks.
I've honestly got to sleep on it for a night, allowing my head to clear, and hear from some of my friends in the scouting community before I draw any hard-and-firm conclusions.
But truth is, who cares what anyone things because we'll know exactly how good this draft class is three years from now by seeing how many are stars, starters, contributors on the roster, or even still in the league?
I remember Zach Thomas telling me the 2007 draft class was the best he'd ever seen in his career as a Dolphins, how most of the picks were studs, and wouldn't you know all but four – Ted Ginn Jr., John Beck, Brandon Fields and Paul Soliai – are already off the team. And even some of those guys aren't on solid footing.


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Hooked on Fishing Not on Drugs
Written by Your 5News Team
Last updated on March 26, 2012 @ 4:58PM
Created on March 24, 2012 @ 8:23PM
The weather wasn't ideal for an outdoor event but that didn't keep people away from the annual Hooked on Fishing Not on Drugs Expo.
Saturday and Sunday, Elkins High School hosted this event for the 18th year. Organizers say it's become a spring tradition and gives local families a chance to get involved in outdoor activities and keep their kids away from drugs. Saturday, the high school was packed as people took part in hands on activities and listened to music.
"The whole communities involved. Most everybody's bringing their family so it's real family oriented and so forth," said Tom Oldham, committee member.
"Everybody involved in it really puts their heart and soul into making this a real good event for the children," said Danny Chenoweth, Izaak Walton League.
If you missed out on Saturday, you're in luck! The event continues Sunday from noon until five at Elkins High School.