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Cashner Sails Against the Wind
My wife and I went to the I-Cub game tonight with friends. Free general admission for a donation to an organization that provides those in need with the "basic essentials." We got in for a can of shaving cream, a couple bars of soap, a toothbrush and a disposable razor.
It was a beautiful night with a breeze whipping out of the south @ 20-25 mph. A misty spray from the grounds crew hosing down the infield carried all the way to our seats behind the Iowa bullpen down the third baseline. My buddy and I agreed that a slugfest was in store.
I was surprised when Andrew Cashner came out and started throwing long toss. He was supposed to start tomorrow with an extra day of rest as a result of the team's off day earlier in the week. I didn't have a notebook or a pen or anything to make notes with plus I felt sorry for anybody having to pitch in the hitter-friendly conditions.
Well, Iowa won 1-0 in the Madduxian time of 1:52, the team's 11th win in 12 tries! The game proceeded so briskly that an extended intermission was required before the post-game fireworks show could launch - it wasn't dark enough yet!
Cashner retired the first 13 hitters he faced. He left after seven innings, 95 pitches, no walks, seven strikeouts and one hit batsman. He's now won all three of his Triple A starts and sports a glittering ERA of 0.95.
His fastball was at the knees or lower all night and clocking in the mid-90's.
Why did he pitch tonight? Maybe Oneri Fleita can answer that one. I thought I saw him on the field walking toward the team's clubhouse after the game ended. No doubt he was on his way to filing a glowing report on what he'd just seen in Des Moines.
I've seen headshots of Cashner before and watched him throw a couple of innings on TV in spring training. But in person he reminded me some of Jeff Weaver - blonde and lanky; hard-throwing.
In the managerial department the Iowa skipper ran the team out of a possible insurance run that wasn't needed after all when he wheeled Matt Camp around third with one out in the bottom of the 8th to try and score on Jim Adduci's single to center. Camp was out before he could even consider whether or not to slide. Adduci, by the way, made the play of the game when he leaped at the wall to snag a blast with the tying run on base and two outs in the top of the 7th. He also fielded the first hit off Cashner in the 5th when it came off the wall in left-center and held the hitter to a single. Those were the only two hard hit balls by either team all night.
Now I can go to a couple of graduation parties tomorrow afternoon instead of the ballpark. I may have just come from one tonight.
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Thanks for the notes, Mike W!
Great report, MW.
If Cashner is going to the big leagues then where does he end up? Bullpen is still the biggest need for the team, as they have 6 starters already and Gorzo didn't break anything in his hand. Would Zambrano destroy the city Godzilla style if Cashner took Gorz's spot in the rotation and Z stayed in the pen?
I realize that they are keeping Cashner on the SP track, so I don't know how they could call up their 7th starter when the bullpen is still shit. I thought Jackson was going to come up to the bullpen, but maybe the Howry signing changes that? Is Jackson still working out of the pen in Iowa?
Great news on the game you were able to watch - but I don't see where they can put him now if they call him up.
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Wow - I think at this point it's safe to say Cashner is exceeding every Cubs Fan's expectations.
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Thanks MW for the eye-witness report...
Looking at the box score, Darwin Barney continues to hit and Brian Schiltter has 4 saves. Any thoughts on these two and their progress?
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Fun fact...cubs are 5-0 when Starlin Castro bats 2nd...so if Castro bats 2nd and Silva pitches
Add the 5 mph to Silva's pitches if Koyie Hill catches...
Albert vs. LaRussa
LaRussa calls for a steal with 2 outs and Albert up and Ludwick gets thrown out to end the inning.
Albert flipped his bat and helmet in disgust, then knocked over two trays of gum in the home dugout. La Russa yelled "that's enough," and after a few moments added "I (expletive) know how to manage."
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Am I the only one whose mind reels at the phrase "trays of gum?"
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Thanks Mike!
I am on the fence on what to do with Cashner. In the long-run, he needs to be a starter. At this pace, he should start 2011 in the rotation. He is still relatively new to starting in his career, and I hate to take him out of that groove because of our dire bullpen need in the majors.
I guess is all depends on what direction the big league club is headed: If we are contending, we probably need to bring him up for the 'Pen. If not, we leave him in Iowa for now, and probably start him if we trade away starting pitching ahead of the deadline, which if we are out of it we absolutely should be doing. IF this club can't win the division, Lilly (with permission) and Silva should be on the block, with Cashner filling a rotation slot.
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Look Ma, no ARam...
CarrieMuskat: #cubs sun lineup 2b riot, ss castro, 1b lee, cf byrd, lf sori, rf nady, 3b baker, dh soto, c hill
whats not to hate (Castro in the 2 hole?...obviously in a lineup kind of way)
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I have a bad feeling we're going to have a Homer Howry sighting today. Hope the Koyie 5 mph effect leads to a Silva complete game.
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Is Howry carrying the pink backpack?
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Lima time is officially over.
Jose Lima-Lime dies of a heart attack...37 years old. yow.
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Holy shit. Pretty rare for a 37 year old to have a heart attack...
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yeah...he was in LA last night for an on-field sideshow thing for the dodgers.
hope it wasn't "party-related"...either way, wow...37.
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I feel terrible for Ms. Lima and the twins.
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Grabow in to be a loogy vs Hamilton...
Another failure.
Where's Lou's DOGHOUSE?
And Howry is warming up...
Maybe the threat of Howry will straighten out Grabow?
Not in Chicago, watching on Gamecast
Did Silva get hurt?
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nope...pulled with 0 on to get a lefty in vs. hamilton.
i don't understand why grabes was picked over russell...or why he was pitching to cruz.
...or why he's working the next inning.
Mock Draft
This probably doesn't mean much but here's an 8 round mock draft
1 Dylan Covey RHP, Maranatha HS
2 Marcus Littlewood, SS, Pine View HS
3 Dixon Anderson, RHP, California
4 Tommy Medica, C/OF, Santa Clara
5 Luke Jackson, RHP, Calvary HS
6 Daniel Bibona, LHP, UC Irvine
7 Jordan Cooper, RHP, Wichita St
8 Austin Southall, OF, UC Prep (HS)
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grabow leaves after blooper hit and a walk... Typical.
howdy howry. one can hope but it looks bleak
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welcome to the cubs howry...your new cubs career is 2 minutes old and you've given up a run.
...at least it's not earned...sigh.
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Grabow has appeared in 21 games now with an ERA of almost 9.00, at what point does the cost he is incurring to the team out-weigh any benefit the team gets from a Grabow who has "worked things out" for the remainder of the year?
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the problem is his stuff is still good...he's just getting consistantly crapped on.
like aram, he'll probably right the ship eventually...unlike aram, righting the ship is reverting to a slightly-above-average inning-guy.
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They should just let Marshall and Gorz pitch innings 6-8 on alternate days. Fuck the rest of the bullpen. Fuck em right in the ear.
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CarrieMuskat: X-rays Sunday of #Cubs Aramis Ramirez's left thumb were negative but he will sit for few days to heal mild sprain/bruise
hopefully they dont have to play the retroactive to the DL game and waste roster space
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Almost feels like a trip to the Disgraceful List instead of the Disabled List.
Howry Pic Caption
It's hard to read that without reading "recently deceased".
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I just read that at one point today Howry had gone 36 consecutive pitches without retiring a batter!
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is it just me or was this rangers cubs series some good watchin?
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I kinda like this Castro kid. Seems like whenever the opposing pitcher tries to fool him with breaking stuff down and away -- I guess they all think he's Shawon Dunston -- he just lays off the pitch. And when they don't go out far enough he reaches out and belts it to right field. Lots of times for fouls but that's okay.
I haven't seen him pull the ball at all yet but I have not seen him a lot of his ABs. So I wonder if he's vulnerable to some inside stuff. But even if he is that's harder to pull off as a pitcher and easier to make a mistake on.
The Rangers broadcasters this weekend had this discussion:
playbyplay guy: "He's had 5 strikeouts in 45 at bats. 20 year olds aren't supposed to be able to do that."
color guy: "20 year olds aren't supposed to be in the major leagues."
He's now got 6 strikeouts in 60 at bats. Not sure how many PAs.
Apparently he hasn't received the manual yet on how to be a true Cubs rookie.
It'll be interesting to see where he is two months from now as the scouts and teams try to fish for weaknesses.
In the meantime, I like him in the 2 hole until/if they figure him out.
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He pulled the ball some in Spring Training. He's not Theriot at the plate--he's got much quicker hands and seems to have the ability to adjust with them very easily to pitches up, down, in and out, and he takes a pretty aggressive swing every now and then. At some point pitchers will try busting him up and in with fastballs. I think that if he can lay off the ball out of the zone, he might cash in some of the ones in the zone for a few doubles and maybe a homerun--but probably more top spin liners to left. I'm very encouraged by Castro at the plate as well.
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It's becoming a little more obvious now why the Deter Jeter comparisons started getting thrown around late last year. He's got excellent bat control and a quick bat. Pitchers haven't really tried hammering him with high heat, but I imagine he'll just hit line drives to right when they do.
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Clearly he had some jitters in his first few games, but he's making plays now and making things happen defensively. With the bat, I don't think we'll know what he's really made of until he has a rough patch and we can see what kind of adjustments he makes. I agree with what you all are saying, though... he has a nice swing and fast hands. I think as long as he keeps his head screwed on he'll be alright.
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so...what's chan-yong lim up to these days?
yes, those hamilton WAR numbers are very reasonable. i'm on your side now based on that biting commentary and reasoning of why he's a 3.5-ish WAR player over a 600 PA season.
those numbers are obviously well deserved and worthy of no scrutiny...none at all. no issue.
CF D is rarer than a jon lester pickoff at 2nd...totally irreplaceable...no way in hell there's good D, low/no-hitting CF's in anyone's system that could do what hamilton is doing. guys like this don't exist...you get like, 2-3 at any given time in history.
Please do not discuss War here. I think the Cub Reporter should be politics free.
But yes, whether you support War or Peace...Mike Trout is ridiculously consistent and good.
"According to FOX Sports' Jon Morosi, Tim Tebow's baseball workout Tuesday in Los Angeles will be attended by scouts from "roughly half" of the 30 major league teams."
"One scout told ESPN.com last week that Tebow's swing is so long it might "take out the front row." That's not a good thing."
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The #MBpelicans and @Cubs have extended their PDC through 2020!
Carolina League getting 2 new teams too.
CF WAR is ridiculous...billy hamilton is pulling a 3.0 WAR somehow...and managed a 2.0 WAR last year (even though he missed a month of the season)...and a 3.7 WAR in 2014.
yeah, a lot depends on how one is doing relative to others at a given position, but WAR is common used (right or wrong) as a blanket comparing all kinds of players.
trout's one of the best, and at this point should probably win over donaldson (and should have more MVPs in the past, too), but the defensive aspect of valuing WAR still needs more tweaking...imo.
Mike Trout is ridiculous
Don't know if Cubs will recover from "spanking" Gordo
2nd in defensive WAR, NL.
6th in NL in RBI
Go complain about something else, like, "they never play good against the good teams", or some other shit.
Addy really has trouble breaking through .250 BA -- after his hot streak got him to .251, he has gone 1-for-17.
Thank goodness for Jansen's 2 WP on Friday -- otherwise this would have been a sweep.
There seems to be a direct correlation with overconfidence in the Cubs offense against mediocre/young pitchers and really poor offense against mediocre/young pitchers. So, let's fear the Pirate pitchers!
Rizzo due for a power surge -- one HR in August so far. He truly does hit them in bunches.
Sometimes I'm not as supportive of Cahill as maybe I should be. There, I said it.
Rough 8th inning all around -- HBP, Cahill error, Javy's poor decision.
Oh well - given that the Cubs didn't look like they were going to score, it's better to lose in 9 innings, save the bullpen and get changed for the PJ trip home.


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homage to my hips
by Lucille Clifton
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There are all sorts of organizations out there whose mission statements read something like a summary of this poem. Everybody's body is great. Are you short? Tall? A size 4? A size 14? Lucky you. You're perfect just the way you are. Here's one of the organizations:www.about-face.org.
Clifton passed away in 2010. Here's how she would like to be remembered: "I would like to be seen as a woman whose roots go back to Africa, who tried to honor being human. My inclination is to try to help" (source).

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I've written about my health issues previously, but I never went into detail. That's about to change.
Don't worry, there won't be too much detail … but I want to explain because I need the prayers and support of my friends and family right now.
This morning I went to see Cindy Farquhar, one of the country's top gynaecologists. She suspects that I have endometriosis. I'm sure most of you know what that is, but for those who don't, here is a bit of information on it:
Endometriosis is a condition where tissue similar to the lining of the uterus (the endometrial stroma and glands, which should only be located inside the uterus) is found elsewhere in the body. Endometriosis lesions can be found anywhere in the pelvic cavity. The most common symptom of endometriosis is pelvic pain. The pain often correlates to the menstrual cycle, but a woman with endometriosis may also experience pain that doesn't correlate to her cycle. For many women, the pain of endometriosis is so severe and debilitating that it impacts their lives in significant ways. It is estimated that 30-40% of women with endometriosis are infertile.
I haven't had any issues with infertility (and I'm SO thankful for that) but I have been experiencing severe pelvic pain for the past 6 months. I previously suffered from dysmenorrhoea when I was a teenager, but after I had kids the problem seemed to just disappear (very common, apparently). Then all of a sudden, the pain was back, and worse than ever. So over the past few months I have had exams, blood tests and a pelvic ultrasound to try and find out why. None of these showed anything, so my GP referred me to Dr Farquhar. After doing yet another exam and taking my history, she started talking about endometriosis. She told me that my main option is to have laparoscopic surgery. The main reason is to diagnose endometriosis (in fact it is the only way to properly diagnose it) and, if any is found, it can be cut out or burned off.
She has left it for me to decide whether to go ahead with the surgery or not. There is a chance that they will not find any endometriosis, and then I would have paid $6,500 and undergone general anaesthesia (for the first time in my life!) for nothing. There is a contraceptive device that may help, but that is also expensive and seems a little ridiculous since Rob has just had a vasectomy!! I'm taking very good anti-inflammatory drugs at the moment, which do help, but I would prefer to find a more permanent solution to the problem.
So I've got a lot to think about and I need your prayers and support. I need to make the right decision, and at the moment I have no idea what to do. Hopefully I will choose correctly and whatever that choice may be, I hope it will lead to a better quality of life for me.


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Thousands head back to school in Richmond County today.
But with six schools still under construction--many students are heading down different hallways.
"We are super excited this year!" said Veronica Bolton, principal of Murphy Middle School.
Principal Bolton has run Murphey Middle school for eight years and now, her students are part of the many who are getting displaced.
This school year, her students will be walking a completely different campus.
"We've moved from Milledgeville Road to Bungalow Road," she said. "This school is smaller than where we're coming from, but the move has not been as horrible as I thought."
But the move changes things for the about 600 students starting back here today.
"We are able to house our 7th and 8th graders in the building, and we have modules in the back for our 6th grade and our connections classes," Bolton explained.
The modules, installed by the district, are state of the art and come complete with air conditioning, carpeting, bathrooms and surveillance all in one.
They're also helping with class size.
"Class size has not been effected," said Bolton. "Class size will be the same as always. And, we run about 30 children to a class."
And although the new campus is only temporary, Bolton says that student learning remains the top priority.
"One of our motto's here is a school of love and learning," she said. "We just feel that we want to make sure that we are a family, we are establishing our village and we are just going to have the best time."


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THX From Above!
Polk Audio introduced the $1200/ea. RTS100, "the first in-ceiling speaker to meet THX Ultra2 performance standards." The RTS100 has a 14" diameter enclosure containing dual 5¼" midrange drivers and a 1" Ring Radiator tweeter mounted between them. Polk's exclusive Sound Shape baffle floats the sound waves toward the listening position for "imaging that seems to hover in front of the listener rather than being localized in the ceiling."
Thing is, it works. Playing a Blue Man Group/Dave Matthews performance that was essentially a series of spatial cues connected by a tune, the system had the sound out in the room, not up in the ceiling. Pretty impressive—and perhaps a godsend for space-strapped videophiles.


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Lispix does PCA on small stacks of images, giving principal component images, and the associated eigenvalues. I've used stacks of 20 images. Lispix should work up to about 100 images.
As of 9/1/09, PCA does not work with file based cubes, but only with cube image windows - the older, memory-based cubes stored image by image. Lispix does not do PCA on spectra, only on images.


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Emma the Amish model is the New American pin up who appeared on Howad tv today. She is supposedly an Amish girl who has some racy photos and panties for sale. Get the details along with video here.
Emma the Amish model is the featured model on the New American pin up website and "April girl of the month". The site has a bunch of pictures of her, dressed in pretty much nothing.
There are a few photos of her showing various assets and leaving pretty much nothing to the imagination. There is also one picture where she is dressed in Amish attire, but has her skirt pulled up so people can see her panties – which are for sale for $39. Classy. You can see them pics here.
Amish Emma is also being called the Bubblegum Girl, and the panty pack is called the "Shoo-Fly Pie Panty Pack, and includes "1-Shoo-Fly Pie, Emma's Panties" sealed in Ziplock Bag. I don't know if shoo fly is such a good name. Why would there be flies around panties?
Any way I think it is safe to say that if Emma the Amish girl really was Amish, those days are over. It seems she went a little wild on her rum springa.
Emma was on the Howard Stern Show today, May 11th, from 7:30am-9:30am on Sirius XM Radio. Now the pictures of her are on his website, with more links on how to get to know more about her. You can check it out here.
So, yea. What do you think of Emma the Amish model is the New American pin up? Smart, or skank? I have pictures of a real American pin up, Dita Von Teese below for your enjoyment. I also have Emma's video from Howard TV posted below, so be sure to check them out before commenting.
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50 Cent Looking for Big Change Outta Taco Bell
This afternoon, as we pored over a complaint, filed in New York federal court by rapper 50 Cent, our new editor, Jennifer Forsyth, asked a fair question: What does "50 Cent" mean? Not surprisingly, this exposed a gap in our admittedly shoddy knowledge of things hip-hop. We've seen "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," the 2005 biopic of Curtis Jackson (a/k/a 50 Cent), but this item of trivia still eluded us.
With some research we discovered — and we apologize to those LB readers for whom this is common knowledge — that the young Jackson took his name from Kelvin Martin, a 1980s Brooklyn robber known as "50 Cent". Jackson chose the name, he's said in interviews, because it's a metaphor for change and he is the same kind of person the first 50 cent was — someone who provided for himself by any means.
Now, 50 Cent is trying to provide a little more for himself — through legal means. He's suing Taco Bell, a division of Yum! Brands Inc., for, among other things, trademark infringement, alleging that the restaurant drafted a fake letter (attached at the end of the complaint) purporting to ask Jackson to change his name to "79 Cent," "89 Cent" or "99 Cent" in order to publicize its "79-89-99 Cent Why Pay More Value Menu."
Taco Bell released the letter to the national press in June before sending it to Jackson, the complaint alleges. "Simply put, Taco Bell knew that it would likely have had to pay Jackson a multi-million-dollar fee to get his endorsement, even if he had agreed to do it — which is in doubt," says the suit, which was filed by Reed Smith's Peter D. Raymond and Wallace B. Neel. "Rather than face rejection or pay fair value, Taco Bell chose to steal his endorsement and to enjoy all the publicity of being associated with a mega-star while bearing none of the costs."
A spokesman for Taco Bell said: "We made a good faith, charitable offer to 50 Cent to change his name to either 79, 89 or 99 Cent for one day by rapping his order at a Taco Bell, and we would have been very pleased to make the $10,000 donation to the charity of his choice."
Here's the top of the letter/advertisement that has 50 furious:
- Dear Mr. Jackson:We know that you adopted the name 50 Cent years ago as a metaphor for change. We at Taco Bell are also huge advocates of change. In fact, for just a few spare coins, we're giving consumers more variety for less money with our new 79-89-99 Why Pay More value menu . . . So here's our offer of change to you: For one day this summer, change your name either 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent by showing up to one of our more than 5,600 locations nationwide and rapping your order in the drive thru with your new moniker.


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Helpless Dancer
Music/Lyrics: Pete Townsend
Vocals: Trey
Original Artist: The Who
Original Album: Quadrophenia (1973)
Albums: Live Phish 14
Debut: 1995-10-31
Historian: Craig DeLucia
At Halloween '95, Phish avoided this dark, eerie song about giving up by only playing a few lines from each verse and building them into a crescendo of inaudibility as Trey tried in vain to keep pace with Page's rapidly accelerating chords. Arising out of the horn fanfare that segued out of "The Dirty Jobs" (mimicking the version recorded on Quadrophenia to a note), the band seemed to regard "Helpless Dancer" in an off-kilter, joking manner. Still, the key to the song is a response to the age-old question "What happens to a beaten man," and Trey belted that line out in all its glory: "you stop dancing." This song, like much of Quadrophenia, only "danced" once on stage with Phish.


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Nissan will cut 20,000 jobs as US sales plunged 31%. "Our worst assumptions on the state of the global economy have been met or exceeded," said Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn. [Bloomberg]
Enemy ECONOMY used HEAD BUTT! Attack is SUPER-EFFECTIVE! NISSAN is SCARED for two turns!
(sorry, i just can't help thinking about pokemon every time i see a nissan. can you blame me?)
@mac-phisto: Yikes. Luckily when I think of Nissan I think "xterra"
I wish there were some unscary news about the economy.
I'm watching Pres. Obama right now online as he speaks to a town meeting in Indiana. I want to feel confident in him.
Damn UAW and their overpaid unionist workers. Oh. Wait.


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A commanding seven strokes in front overnight, Reed mixed four bogeys with three birdies in a roller-coaster stretch of eight holes from the fifth but held steady after that to close with a one-under-par 71.
The burly 23-year-old Texan completed a wire-to-wire victory at the pro-am event as he posted a 28-under total of 260, ending up two ahead of fellow American Ryan Palmer (63).
American world number six Zach Johnson, who clinched his 11th PGA Tour title at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Hawaii earlier this month, sensationally birdied the last five holes for a best-of-the-week 10-under 62.
His flawless round left him in a tie for third at 25-under with compatriot Justin Leonard (65), and he will now take a four-week break before returning to the U.S. circuit for the Feb. 19-23 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona.
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Kawasaki dealers will be selling an updated family of Ninja sportbikes in 2008, a lineup that'll include the radically redesigned 250R and ZX-10R, and an even stronger ZX-14.
The company increases its domination of the sub-599cc market with the release of the newly designed Ninja 250R, a bike that now comes with more super sport flair — a full fairing was sculpted after those of its larger siblings and the 249cc parallel twin powerplant has been retuned for more low- and midrange power with revisions to its dual overhead camshafts and a new 2-into-1 exhaust system.
While the '08 ZX-10R will again be powered by the company's 998cc inline four, with bore, stroke and compression unchanged, the powerplant has been further refined with secondary fuel injectors, a switch to oval throttle bodies, reshaping of the intake ports, a larger airbox, and an exhaust system designed to flow better but generate less noise and emissions. Still, perhaps the trickest of the updates comes in the form of a new ignition system that assists with torque management by monitoring throttle opening, gear position and rate of rpm change, then retarding ignition timing to reduce torque when sudden unwanted rpm spikes are detected.
Kawasaki's ZX-14 has been in stiff competition with Suzuki's flying Hayabusa since it was introduced in March 2006. Because close competition breeds rabid development, it's no surprise that both companies boosted the performance of their bikes for 2008. However, unlike the physically morphed Hayabusa, you won't actually see many of the changes made to the 2008 ZX-14. Kawasaki just wanted to make sure you'd feel them.
Updates to the engine and exhaust system were needed for the bike to comply with stricter Euro III emissions and tightening noise regulations. However, against expectations, the result wasn't a power loss but higher peak power, a stronger and smoother mid range and an increase in low-end torque. With the frame, Kawasaki switched to die casting instead of gravity casting for the cast aluminum sections, which resulted in lighter parts and an ultimately lighter total package.
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As a ministry of The New Testament Church, The New Testament Christian School's mission is to disciple Christian families who desire to be trained in a Biblical world view. Thus, the entire call of God upon The New Testament Christian School is set within the call of God upon The New Testament Church of Cedarville (see the brochure entitled GOD'S CALL UPON THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH). We want our family and student body to consist of those who desire to be internally governed by Christ so that they can fulfill their calling and destiny in advancing the Kingdom of God on earth.
We take seriously the Christian heritage we have in Plymouth County. We encourage our families and students to take advantage of their local history and to work as volunteers in serving our community. Plymouth, "America's Hometown", is 102 square miles with a population of over 50,000 year-round residents. Located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, it is both a commercial center and summer resort, drawing over a million tourists each year. The village of Cedarville (in the southern part of Plymouth), has grown tremendously over the past ten years. It is our desire to model a philosophy of education based upon Biblical principles so that the lives of our young people can inspire others to seek to follow the Lordship of Christ.
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We are an independent, private, church school that utilizes a Christian curriculum for grades K-12 that applies Biblical principles through the academic disciplines. We do not accept any form of public subsidy, and depend totally on tuition and gifts to carry out our mission. We accept families from all religious backgrounds who desire to have their Biblical values upheld openly in the classroom. Families need to belong to a local evangelical church, but we do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender or initial student achievement levels.
We utilize classical elements in our curriculum where Latin is required for two years in junior high, and logic, elocution, rhetoric and apologetics/debate are taught as part of Composition and Speech in high school. Our courses are designed to be taught at a college preparatory level. Some electives and technical skill classes are offered when possible.
We offer coed soccer, boys and girls basketball, and coed track at a junior varsity level for grades 7-12.
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On a 4 credit scale (215 minutes per week), a minimum of 80 credits are required for graduation, and up to 100 credits for college-prep Commencement (credit requirements are adjusted for incoming students where legitimate):
16 credits in Composition and Speech
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6 credits in English Literature
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Unhinged comedian Tracy Morgan follows "30 Rock" with a 50-city standup tour.
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Tracy Morgan took a break from a phone interview last week to ask fiancée Megan Wollover to name the most annoying thing about him.
"My farts, Boo? Yeah, she gets tired of those Dutch ovens," he said in that booming voice that's most likely the result of swallowing a megaphone during childhood. "I get on her nerves. I'm complicated."
That's an understatement.
The 44-year-old comic generated some of the biggest laughs in "Saturday Night Live" history, yet during eight seasons he never created a landmark character (unless you count dimwitted faux-zoologist Brian Fellow). He's been nominated for an Emmy, but his most memorable moment during the awards ceremonies was pretending to pass out onstage last year, a practical joke that triggered 25,000 tweets. On talk shows, he can be engaging one minute, totally disconnected the next, as if distracted by an invisible Tinkerbell.
And now there's a 50-city tour with a heavy emphasis on midsize cities and the Midwest, including stops in Burnsville (Wed.), Rochester (next Thu.), Des Moines and Bismarck, a strange strategy for someone who honed his craft doing sketch comedy in Harlem and specializing in hard-core material about being black in America. ⊲
"I think it's cool," he said. "Standup allows me to touch other markets that I've never touched before and people who have never seen my act. '30 Rock' was me talking nonsense all the time, but standup is Tracy Morgan, not Tracy Jordan."
Morgan is referring to the NBC series that wrapped up this year after seven seasons and 14 Emmy wins, including two for outstanding comedy. His character — a hyper, dumbed-down version of himself — was instrumental in the show's attempts to tackle issues of race, something most network producers consider as dangerous as giving Lindsay Lohan her own show.
But the bold efforts by creator Tina Fey paid off, most notably in two iconic scenes. The first happened in Season 2, when TV executive Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) "treats" Jordan by impersonating his family members in such a way that it suggests his study of African-American history was limited to repeats of "Good Times." The other occurred in last year's live episode, pairing Morgan with guest star Jon Hamm, who went into blackface for a sketch that evoked the very worst of "Amos 'n' Andy."
"Television needs to get back to that," Morgan said, referencing "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons." "P.C. is killing comedy."
But the censors who triple-checked "30 Rock" scripts won't be anywhere in sight when Morgan hits the road with an act that could very well average 9.2 profanities a minute. During past appearances, he's alienated some audience members who felt he went overboard with material that could be perceived as offensive to gays and the mentally challenged.
"It's hard to say what's going to come out of his mouth," said Lindsay Gjerde, marketing and sales manager for the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. "The tour is called 'Excuse My French,' " so we hope that'll indicate to people that this is a guy who likes to push the lines."
Morgan said he's not worried about how his act will go over in, say, Bismarck, which, according to the 2010 census, has a 0.7 percent black population.
"People are ready to know the truth about me and maybe they can relate," he said. "That's really more important to me than being funny. I want an identification that sticks with you and makes you want to see me again in person. I mean, I could ask you a question about the Mona Lisa and you could give me all the answers by pressing a computer key, but it's not like seeing it and touching it and breathing the air in Italy."
Due to a hectic road schedule ("If it ain't rough, then it can't be right. If it's not black, it's got to be white") Morgan won't have to make a personal visit to the Louvre anytime soon — or do much of anything else.
"I'd love to executive-produce some TV. I'd love to do Broadway or anything God allows me to do, but I can't see that right now," he said. "One thing at a time. In the past, I've tried to do a million things at once, and it didn't work. Hollywood ain't going nowhere. TV is not going anywhere. I've got six cars, but I can only drive one at a time."
Since "30 Rock" premiered in 2006, the busy comedian has appeared in 17 films and released a 2009 autobiography, "I Am the New Black."
One project Morgan will take time off for: The birth of his baby, due in June.
"I want to spend more time with this one," said Morgan, who has three adult children with his first wife. "I'm now in a position where I can have more time. That's special for me."
Tracy Morgan
Wednesday: 7 p.m. Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Av. S., Burnsville. Next Thursday: Mayo Civic Center, Rochester. May 4: Pantages Theatre, Mpls.
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Reconstructing an International Organization: A Paradigm Shift in the World Trade Organization
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April 26, 2010
This article argues that the old paradigm on international organizations (IOs) (Gesellschaft) characterized by realist political bargain cannot fully capture new social realities around contemporary IOs in which ideational factors, such as ideas, values, culture and norms, have become more salient and influential not only in explaining but also in prescribing state behaviors. In an attempt to address the old paradigm's blind spots, the article offers a new paradigm informed by constructivism that highlights a reflective, intersubjective communication among IO members and consequent norm-building process. Under this new paradigm, one can understand an IO as a "community" (Gemeinschaft), not a mere contractual instrument of its contracting parties. The article applies the new paradigm to the WTO as it describes the WTO's institutional evolution from a power-oriented, tariff-reducing contract to a norm-oriented world trading community. Critically, this article does not attempt to replace the old paradigm (realism) with the new one (constructivism) proposed here. Instead, the article endeavors to highlight the old paradigms' structural weaknesses and offers a complimentary, rather than alternative, paradigm. Thus, an IO's reality embraced jointly by these two paradigms may feature a "double helix" structure under which any single paradigm might not claim its disciplinary monopoly.
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Members of the Harvard Business Club of Michigan have a passion for helping those in the surrounding communities. Over the past dozen years, the HBSMI club has raised significant funds for a scholarship program established to reward exceptional leaders who exemplify dedication, commitment and the pursuit of excellence within the non-profit sector.
These scholarships benefit the CEO's of various Michigan non-profit organizations who, in recognition of their outstanding service, have been selected to attend "Strategic Perspectives for Non-Profit Management," an intensive six-day course presented each summer at the Harvard Business School.
With these scholarships, the Harvard Business School Club of Michigan has now sent 31 non-profit leaders from metropolitan Detroit to this program since 1999 including four non-profit CEO's in July of 2012. These individuals and their organizations provide a wide range of services to more than 300,000 Michiganders. The program presents significant opportunities for these outstanding and committed non-profit community leaders to expand their skills and contributions, a benefit to all Michigan citizens.
In addition, since 2007 these highly motivated leaders have been meeting with Club members on a regular basis to collaborate, to be a resource for each other and to continue their exposure to various HBS concepts such as performance measurement, balanced scorecard, etc.. These meetings and the relationships engendered have been well received and have all participants recognizing that their efforts are "making a difference" in the community.
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2011 Kari Walker – The Guidance Center
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2010 DeWayne Wells - Gleaners Community Food Bank
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2008 Mary Grace McCarter - The Rainbow Connection
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2007 Amy Good - Alternatives for Girls
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2006 Marn Myers - Judson Center
2005 Agostino Fernandes - Gleaners Community Food Bank, now at North Texas Food Bank
2004 Dorothy Deremo - Hospice of Michigan
2003 Eleanor Josaitis - Focus:Hope (past CEO)
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Personal Retail Hell Becomes NOT MY BAG at Image Comics
You might know Sina Grace as artist of Lil' Depressed Boy or perhaps as editor of Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment, but before all that he was a sales clerk for a high-end women's clothing store. And yes, it was hell. Stepping out into the first solo graphic novel, Grace is coming clean with his story of retail hell in Not My Bag.
Mixing morbid humor with office-place comedy, Grace's tour-of-duty behind the retail counter is over and done with and he wants to share the story of his tribulations with Not My Bag..
Newsarama: In a press release, Image Comics describes this story as your own "personal hell." What is Not My Bag about?
Sina Grace: Not My Bag is a graphic novel that follows an "artist" (who looks like if Marjane Satrapi and Craig Thompson did a convention sketch of me) as he dives head first into a job selling women's clothing at a department store. From there, things get all kinds of wacky and dark.
Grace: I've been doodling myself since I was in high school. I suppose I've always been drawing from real life as a resource for storytelling. My friend Justin Hall said I was so smart giving myself "Tin Tin" face, which means making my features as simplified as possible so any reader could posit themselves onto the protagonist... but I really think I was just trying to avoid drawing my stubble and heavy bags under my eyes.
Nrama: The heavy bags come in part from the job you reference in this book. Would you say being a sales associate at this upscale department store is the worst job you've ever had?
Grace: I've been a lucky guy in that my career trajectory has been: comic store, department store, handbag shop, editorial director and now freelance artist. I've wanted to murder clients on some freelance gigs in the past, but they were never malicious or conniving the way sales associates can be... so yes, working in that department store was the absolute worst.
Grace: Working retail was a great invitation into the lives of people one would just normally never encounter. Some people had fallen from grace as designers or buyers and worked at a department store for a paycheck, some were students, others slowly fell into it after doing so many retail gigs. What was more fascinating to me, and may be something I explore later, is what makes people want to spend hundreds of dollars on jeans, or what makes a label whore.
Nrama: This is a straight-up auto-bio of your time here, but there's a tentacle sticking out of your bag on the cover here. Can you talk about incorporating some not-so-real elements in your story?
Grace: I learned a few lessons self-publishing my first comic in college... it was about a young girl working in a comic store... lesson one: winnow your cast down. I had a million people working at this fictional-but-real comic shop because that's how the shop was staffed. That gets confusing and takes away "screen time" from key characters. Lesson two: make things visually more interesting than a bunch of talking head panels. While there are definitely autobiographical elements to Not My Bag, I had to trim things down, tweak events, and delete entire "characters" to make it -what I hope- is a good read. As a fan of the gothic genre, I thought "okay, let's push the drama," which gave me more freedom to play with visuals and storytelling. Hopefully a lot of dudes won't mind reading a book about clothes because there are ghosts and fights and kooky-looking characters. That also allowed for me to push the outfits, because, at the end of the day, no one is selling stretch pants in vintage Balenciaga.interview at CBR you describe this also as an ode to Alexander McQueen. Can you talk about that?
Grace: Alexander McQueen was the first designer I embraced, and was the first one who made me really see an artistic through-line in a designer's work. As a personality, he seemed to suffer greatly for his work. I know that fashion is a grueling industry, because if you actually care about your work, a designer is forced to come up with something new, twice a year, every year, with no breaks. In spite of these grueling demands, the guy delivered and created a remarkable space in that world. He's my Kurt Cobain. The book wouldn't exist without him, and for what it's worth, I was always trying to push myself harder because he was proof that better exists within your grasp.
Nrama: At what point did you realize your experiences as a sales clerk at a women's clothing store would make a good comic?
Grace: The idea definitely came into my head when the events of the "finale" occurred. There was a minute where I thought, "this isn't real." Any time reality is too well-timed to be true is the moment I think about putting it in fiction.
Nrama: Not My Bag is acting as the big coming out for you as an artist. You've been drawing The Li'l Depressed Boy for awhile, but this comes out just after you stepped down from your day job as editor of Skybound to pursue drawing comics full-time. What led to that decision, and how was the impending release of Not My Bag part of it?
Grace: Moving on from Skybound was incredibly scary, but the decision became clear when I saw an old band play a reunion show at a small venue. I was watching them, thinking "yeesh, there is a time and a place to be jumping around, playing power pop songs at the Troubadour, and it's in your 20s." You can't get me to say a bad thing about working for Robert Kirkman, but the task of juggling two books, a social life, AND a stressful day job? Something had to go. There is a time and a place to be growing as an artist and struggling financially, and that's during your 20s. I can always return to an office job later, but I needed to give this a real shot. Before I made the decision, I just figured I would be pulling all-nighters and asking for maybe a few days off to finish Not My Bag, but in retrospect- the book would never have come out in that world.


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Videos to get you PUMPED. Also, a creepshaming manifesto from the Men's Rights subreddit.
Today I feel an irresistible urge to post music videos. Above, an awesome interpretation of a rock classic that is sure to get you PUMPED for the weekend.
Below, enjoy the silky voice of Phil Collins.
And here's Jim Morrison apparently doing his impersonation of the most insufferable man in the universe.
Ok, ok. Here's that creepshaming manifesto I promised. Or portions of it, anyway. (Like a lot of things written by MRAs, the whole thing is a lot longer than it needs to be.)
The term 'Creep' is used every single day to describe people who have done something creepy. A 'Creep' is, according to a dictionary, a detestable person, but not according to society today. Today 'Creep' is an everyday word that is plastered all over men's foreheads whenever they do something women don't like, there is a thousand ways for me to be creepy as a male that I don't even recognize until it's too late, or until someone else decides I'm a 'Creep'. Here is society's definition of a 'Creep':
A man who shows more attention, platonic, romantic or sexual, to a person then they so desire at that time.
[blah blah blah]
I have a little anecdote here for you all. I had a friend with benefits, a girl I was sleeping with every week or two with no romantic strings attached and it was awesome. I found myself loving this woman, not romantically but as a friend I couldn't have asked for better. Fast forward a few weeks [blah blah blah] The fact that I wasn't aware of the boyfriend, that the message I sent wasn't sexual at all and that I was a close personal friend of [oh just fucking shut up]
'Creep' is a term that gets abused all over this society; it gets pasted on a man's forehead by women and scars them with a disfiguring social mark against their name to everyone who is around to hear them say it. Men, you are not a 'Creep' for showing a woman attention, you are not a 'Creep' for loving kids, or for showing interest in child things. You are a functioning human being. Any women who labels you a 'Creep' has problems, they don't know how to deal with other peoples desires, they don't respect men's desires, they don't realize that men have needs and have wants that don't line up with their own. Any women who labels a man a 'Creep' without a dammed good reason cares only about her own desires, she believes only she can have flexible wants and differing needs and she can't understand that you are just as human as they are, and that's a little bit creepy in my honest opinion.
Woah. J.C.? The J.C.?
Sorry, Jesus, I didn't know it was you.
Honestly, I don't remember you being this whiny the first time around. But whatev. Good to see you.
Naturally, the fellas in the Men's Rights subreddit think JC's Creep-i-festo is pretty creeptastic. One of them even left this rather alarming comment:
Yikes. I would go so far as to say that this comment is a bit creepy,
The "opened a conversation" bit is revealing, too. Hello, wannabe PUA!
(The folks in AgainstMensRights are making fun of the Creep-i-festo and making Jesus jokes too.)
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kitteh, I rarely read the comments. I generally save that for when I want a troll to mock or material to write about.
Hey, who wants to know how Edmonton is doing wrt racism? This week we pulled anti muslim ads (YAY), and when the papers reported on the group who payed for them, they listed all of the other anti muslim things they did including protesting the (entirely fictional and made up by them so they'd have something to protest) mosque on ground zero (it was a community center, people). Pulling ads because they are racist, using racism to do so, it's the Alberta way!
The ads were "calling out" fatwa, and by calling out I mean they were racist bullshit. In the same paper they reported that a man in Charleston had murdered 6 people because of a custody battle. Thing is, when it's white dudes we don't call it an "honour killing" but the base motivation (how dare that women not do what I say) is the same.
People can be shits… Sorry to rant here but I may have to "dump" someone close to me who I care about deeply but just can't take their manipulation any longer. Friday I had to work late because of a really important presentation I am giving next week (which is essentially justifying a $2M program we are undertaking). I ended up getting out of work an hour late (which isn't that bad IMHO). I had had plans with said friend after work. At 40 minutes after I was supposed to get off work I called said friend and said I would be another 20 min. He said he was still working anyway so I figured all was well. I called 25 min later when i finally got out of work and he said it was too late and he had gone home (lives kinda far away so driving back would be a bit impractical) and I made him wait for an hour and he got bored. When I confronted him saying that I had infact called him 25 minuts ago and he said he was still working I was pretty much called a liar (he said he never once said he was still working. Yes you did you ass! Quit gas lighting!). This isn't even taking into account that I have waited well over an hour for him many times before. I'm done with this shit, but also feel like I have no other friends so I just put up with his shit.
Pseudostar: I thought I could be open here without being accused of being a comtemptable person. It seems I cannot. Don't worry, you've shamed me into silenced.
I must bid this cruel world adieu and flounce for Justice!
Wow. Go figure, some people we try and get rid of for YEARS and they keep returning, but Joseph leaves instantaneously without any effort on our parts.
Go us?
Also, yeah, I know a lot of autism-spectrum folks, women and men and otherwise. People generally seem to assume autism is a "male" thing, due to various reasons. WTF. Has anyone ever seen the reverse scenario–man getting creeped on by creepy woman, only to have lots of "BUT WHAT IF AUTISM?" crop up? I've never seen it.
Nope, I've never seen it either. And when women are portrayed as creepers with boundary issues in fiction, they are full-blown, psychotic murderers. Men are just nerds with poor social skills, but somehow always end up dating the head cheerleader. I wonder if there's some underlying cause for that, some pervasive set of attitudes and beliefs that pollute and shape the popular imagination…
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Mental illness and axe-murdering in media tends to slew wildly, depending on the diagnosis and the gender of folks involved. (The old trend in multis is that the women are helpless victims incapable of surviving without their angelic therapist, while the men are all axe-murderers.) So that really depends on other factors than just sexism.
It never seems to occur to some of these guys that it's possible to be socially awkward AND an asshole, and that being called a creep is about the latter rather than the former.
OK that was a bit vague. To expand – there's a geek myth that if a dude is socially awkward he must also be a really sweet, kind, totally harmless person, and that these things go together like scones and jam. They don't. There are awkward people who're lovely, awkward people who're bloody awful, and every possible point in between. "Awkward" and "nice" are not linked traits.
Google Hagia Sophia!
You mean he hasn't?!
Wow, guys, speaking of creeps, I've been getting creeped on myself! On my blog, no less, which is really unusual.
So, random dude joins LJ, and somehow gloms on to me. He asks some questions, and I'm used to drive-bys like that, no big deal. But then, in literally the second message, he starts giving me his feelings about how sad he is that I had to leave my family, and don't I feel conflicted considering they "tried to love [me]?"
I firmly shut him down, telling him that he was in NO position to talk about my family to me, because he was a stranger to me and I was a stranger to him, and this was not appropriate conversation topics to a stranger. He responded that to him, it was, and that true friends call each other on their shit, and started telling me about his nervous breakdowns. He also told me I was being "very defensive."
People? Don't do that. It's creepy as fuck. This guy pushes to talk to me about intimate crap right off the bat, tries to get me to buy it, and then when I enforce my boundaries, he calls me defensive.
What's even weirder is he reminds me a LOT of my rapist, who did a lot of the same tricks. He's even the right age and in the right area of the country! I don't think it is at all, just random chance. Plenty of creepers in Texas, after all.
In what way is some random who you've spoken to a few times on LJ a "true friend"? He really is waving his creep flag all over the place. Boundaries, what are those?
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In what way is some random who you've spoken to a few times on LJ a "true friend"? He really is waving his creep flag all over the place. Boundaries, what are those?
I KNOW RIGHT. Also, turns out LJ hid a 'suspicious' message to me from him. Literally before I ever spoke to him, he sent me an article on 'the 6 Creepiest Sexual Encounters in Comic Book History.' And in the previous article, he tried to offer his parents' place to stay on my trip.
On the plus side, I'm finding this guy entertainingly creepy, and am now using him for a blog entry on how creeping, gaslighting, and boundary-pushing works. I'm a bit curious how long he'll follow me with me shutting him down.


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XML JSON Data Format (camel-xmljson)
Available as of Camel 2.10
Camel already supports a number of data formats to perform XML and JSON-related conversions, but all of them require a POJO either as an input (for marshalling) or produce a POJO as output (for unmarshalling). This data format provides the capability to convert from XML to JSON and viceversa directly, without stepping through intermediate POJOs.
This data format leverages the Json-lib library to achieve direct conversion. In this context, XML is considered the high-level format, while JSON is the low-level format. Hence, the marshal/unmarshal semantics are assigned as follows:
- marshalling => converting from XML to JSON
- unmarshalling => converting from JSON to XML.
This data format supports the following options. You can set them via all DSLs. The defaults marked with (*) are determined by json-lib, rather than the code of the data format itself. They are reflected here for convenience so that you don't have to dot back and forth with the json-lib docs.
Used when unmarshalling (JSON to XML conversion). Sets the encoding for the call to
'e' (*)
Used when unmarshalling (JSON to XML conversion). Specifies the name of the XML elements representing each array element. See json-lib doc.
'a' (*)
Used when unmarshalling (JSON to XML conversion). Specifies the name of the top-level XML element.
none (*)
Used when unmarshalling (JSON to XML conversion). When converting any JSON construct (object, array, null) to XML (unmarshalling), it specifies the name of the top-level element.
false (*)
Used when unmarshalling (JSON to XML conversion). According to the json-lib docs: "Flag to be tolerant to incomplete namespace prefixes." In most cases, json-lib automatically changes this flag at runtime to match the processing.
Used when unmarshalling (JSON to XML conversion). Binds namespace prefixes and URIs to specific JSON elements.
Used when unmarshalling (JSON to XML conversion). With expandable properties, JSON array elements are converted to XML as a sequence of repetitive XML elements with the local name equal to the JSON key, for example: { number: 1,2,3 }, normally converted to:
Used when unmarshalling (JSON to XML conversion). Adds type hints to the resulting XML to aid conversion back to JSON. See documentation here for an explanation.
false (*)
Used when marshalling (XML to JSON conversion). Determines whether the resulting JSON will start off with a top-most element whose name matches the XML root element. If disabled, XML string
false (*)
Used when marshalling (XML to JSON conversion). Determines whether white spaces between XML elements will be regarded as text values or disregarded.
false (*)
Used when marshalling (XML to JSON conversion). Determines whether leading and trailing white spaces will be omitted from String values.
false (*)
Used when marshalling (XML to JSON conversion). Signals whether namespaces should be ignored. By default they will be added to the JSON output using @xmlns elements.
false (*)
Used when marshalling (XML to JSON conversion). Removes the namespace prefixes from XML qualified elements, so that the resulting JSON string does not contain them.
Basic Usage with Java DSL
Explicitly instantiating the data format
Just instantiate the XmlJsonDataFormat from package org.apache.camel.dataformat.xmljson. Make sure you have installed the
camel-xmljson feature (if running on OSGi) or that you've included camel-xmljson-{version}.jar and its transitive dependencies in your classpath. Example initialization with a default configuration:
To tune the behaviour of the data format as per the options above, use the appropriate setters:
Once you've instantiated the data format, the next step is to actually use the it from within the
marshal() and
unmarshal() DSL elements:
Defining the data format in-line
Alternatively, you can define the data format inline by using the
xmljson() DSL element.
If you wish, you can even pass in a Map<String, String> to the inline methods to provide custom options:
Basic usage with Spring or Blueprint DSL
Within the
<dataFormats> block, simply configure an
xmljson element with unique IDs:
Then you simply refer to the data format object within your
<marshal /> and {<unmarshal />}} DSLs:
Enabling XML DSL autocompletion for this component is easy: just refer to the appropriate Schema locations, depending on whether you're using Spring or Blueprint DSL. Remember that this data format is available from Camel 2.10 onwards, so only schemas from that version onwards will include these new XML elements and attributes.
The syntax with Blueprint is identical to that of the Spring DSL. Just ensure the correct namespaces and schemaLocations are in use.
Namespace mappings
XML has namespaces to fully qualify elements and attributes; JSON doesn't. You need to take this into account when performing XML-JSON conversions.
To bridge the gap, Json-lib has an option to bind namespace declarations in the form of prefixes and namespace URIs to XML output elements while unmarshalling (i.e. converting from JSON to XML). For example, provided the following JSON string:
you can ask Json-lib to output namespace declarations on elements "pref1:a" and "pref2:b" to bind the prefixes "pref1" and "pref2" to specific namespace URIs.
To use this feature, simply create
XmlJsonDataFormat.NamespacesPerElementMapping objects and add them to the
namespaceMappings option (which is a
XmlJsonDataFormat.NamespacesPerElementMapping holds an element name and a Map of [prefix => namespace URI]. To facilitate mapping multiple prefixes and namespace URIs, the
NamespacesPerElementMapping(String element, String pipeSeparatedMappings) constructor takes a String-based pipe-separated sequence of [prefix, namespaceURI] pairs in the following way:
In order to define a default namespace, just leave the corresponding key field empty:
Binding namespace declarations to an element name = empty string will attach those namespaces to the root element.
The full code would look like that:
And you can achieve the same in Spring DSL.
Using the namespace bindings in the Java snippet above on the following JSON string:
Would yield the following XML:
Remember that the JSON spec defines a JSON object as follows:
An object is an unordered set of name/value pairs. [...].
That's why the elements are in a different order in the output XML.
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Just Another Cat Trying to Make It in New York
When a cat named Willow turned up in Manhattan this week, five years after disappearing from her owners' home near the Rocky Mountains, Mayor Michael Bloomberg had only question: What took ya so long to get here?
"I think what it does show is that everybody, in the end, wants to come and live in New York," Bloomberg said. "Now, cats reputedly have nine lives, and he clearly wanted to spend at least one of them here in New York City. I just don't know what he was waiting for."
The mayor of the of the most populous city in the U.S. found himself answering questions about the traveling cat during a news conference about the city's smoking statistics. Bloomberg apparently didn't realize that Willow is female and, like the rest of us, seemed curious about how the Colorado cat made it to Manhattan.
"Is there speculation as to how he got here? Did he go north? South? How did he get across the Mississippi?" the mayor asked, as reporters began to titter.
A microchip implanted in Willow when she was a kitten paved the way for her to be reunited with her owners. Jamie Squires, Willow's owner, told reporters that she and her husband were shocked when they received a call from the city's animal-rescue system about Willow, who they had long ago given up hope of finding.
Speaking on behalf of his 8 million-plus human constituents, many of whom also traveled great distances to live in New York, Bloomberg declared: "We wish him all the best."


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I took one of my disintegration clips and modified it with nodes. I also doubled the particle amount from 50.000 up to 100.000 and the camera slightly follows the particle movement now.
A trailer about a fictional ego shooter game. It was made by two fellow students known as 'achti' and 'piPPin' for a visual effects course. My only participation in that was acting, so full credits go to them.
Different attempts to realise disintegration effects in Blender. Some of them are very experimental, others already look very nice.
This Animation was made for the elective course '3D Computer Animation' at my university.


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And then there were 3:
But first the drama.....turns out that the Talented Mr. Ripley (aka Frank) actually does have a secret life. Unfortunately it wasn't what I predicted (cutting human beings up in small pieces) but instead he has a.....girlfriend. OOOOOOOOO. He decides to visit her in Chicago to see if he still loves her (in other words, he used the show and Ali to get the girl jealous and now that she sees she beat out Ali, she falls head over heels for the guy with no job, no prospects, and no dowry--win, win).
ABC saves an hour for Frank and his drama with Ali....but first, they needed to rush through the other dates. ABC is actually pretty stoked that this worked out...they had been planning for weeks on how to fill air time with Rainbow Ice and Ali (how many times can a guy say, "This reminds me of my mom.")....anyway, they found a savior with Frank and his drama.
First up Roberto:
The lovely couple is in Tahiti and these two lovebirds roll around on the sand for awhile....Ali hurries into the water so millions of people don't judge her by her hips and ABC gives us a few gratuitous shots of her best feature (her breasts). Roberto seems to be "falling in love" with her but that is because she is the only girl around. Ali pulls out the Fantasy Suite card and Roberto asks Ali what she wants to do....she of course says, "Yes." (what she really meant to say is: There is no way I could pull you in real life even if your name is Roberto. So I might as well get some action with a real man before I have to go on a date with Rainbow Ice and Mr. Ripley).
Next up Chris L:
Did ABC show this date? I'm not sure. I'm trying to remember seeing just a few minutes of them together....let's see....hmmmm....I think I remember them on a boat but ABC just showed the boat. I think I remember them at dinner but ABC just showed what they ate. Was there a fantasy suite card? I think I remember Chris L. reading the card and being stoked because he finally had some cue cards to read and therefore they had something to talk about....not sure.
Last up Frank:
This was good TV just because we all knew what was going to happen and the tears that were bound to follow. That's what makes this show great: Emotional breakdowns when someone loses that special girl or guy after falling madly in love with them after only 3 dates.
Ali is no different. Frank so "eloquently" breaks the news that he's in love with some chick with an extremely large nose and Ali calls him a coward. (not sure that word applies here...I mean what is he a coward about? Maybe he's a coward because he didn't go through with what he had planned...the fantasy suite where he gets her alone and chops her up into little pieces). Not sure. Anyway, Chris Harrison gets into the act and swoops down to save the day (he's always the shoulder someone cries on whether it be Ali or Jillian or Jake).
ABC still has 10 minutes to fill so they do the "most dramatic rose ceremony ever" with the two remaining bachelors and a cut-up lifesize cardboard image of Frank. No one knows who's going home? Could it be Roberto because of his name? Could it be Chris L. because he was born without a tongue? Or could it be the cut-up cardboard image of Frank?
Turns out to be the latter. Chris L. can't believe his luck. For weeks he was supposed to get cut by Ali but he has become the quiet assassin. He doesn't outrun the bear, he just keeps outrunning the slowest dude. He is so stoked that he decides to run to Walgreens to buy more hair product and make his fo-hawk even bigger.
ABC puts the cardboard cut-out in the limo and rubs some onions on the cardboard so it looks like Frank is crying.
Next week: Roberto tells Ali that he will not change his name for her and therefore Chris L. is the last man standing...of course it is Ali who has to go down on a knee and ask him to marry her (unless of course ABC gives him a cue card).
The Bachelorette: Oh The Drama!!!
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Missy Franklin had a busy night at the FINA World Championships, but the first race didn't go as she hoped.
The Cal freshman-to-be placed fourth in the women's 100-meter freestyle, ending a run of four straight victories in Barcelona, Spain.
"I'm a little bummed," said Franklin, who finished in 53.47 seconds. Cate Campbell won in 52.34.
Franklin shook off the loss, though, coming back 25 minutes later to post the top qualifying time in the semifinals of the 200 backstroke (2 minutes, 6.46 seconds). Cal's Liz Pelton (2:08.20) had the third best time.
Also, former Cal sprinters Anthony Ervin and Nathan Adrian qualified for the men's 50 freestyle final. Cal alum Dana Vollmer and incoming freshman Farida Osman of Egypt qualified for the women's 50 butterfly final.
Ryan Lochte was the star of the night, taking the men's 200 backstroke and putting the Americans ahead to stay with a strong leg in the 800 freestyle relay.
College football
Cal is still in the hunt for five-star running back Joe Mixon of Freedom High-Oakley, according to the recruiting websites Scout.com and Rivals.com. Mixon said he'll also consider Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Tennessee, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Ohio State and Wisconsin. Mixon said they were in no particular order.
Stanford's Patrick Rodgers topped the 16 match-play qualifiers in the 111th Western Amateur, shooting a 3-under 69 at The Alotian Club for an 18-under 270 in Roland, Ark. USF's Cory McElyea (71-282) also advanced, while Cal's Michael Weaver (76-284) and Brandon Hagy (71-285) missed the cut.
Indiana waived Jasmine Hassell to clear a roster spot so former Stanford star Jeanette Pohlen can make her season debut Saturday against Chicago. She hasn't played since tearing a knee ligament during the 2012 WNBA Finals.
Youth baseball
Pleasanton National will need to win an extra game if it hopes to reach the U.S. title game after a 6-5 loss to Port Oak-Houston at the Intermediate Little League World Series in Livermore. Pleasanton plays Collier Township (Pa.) on Saturday at 4 p.m. The winner will advance to Sunday's final against Port Oak.
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Maplesville (Perry/Chilton) EF-2 Tornado
January 23rd, 2012
National Weather Service meteorologists have surveyed the damage in eastern Perry County and Chilton County and determined it was the result of an EF-2 tornado. The supercell which produced the County Road 7 EF-1 tornado in central Perry County quickly generated a second tornado just south of the first tornado path. This tornado continued into Chilton County, causing damage in Maplesville and lifting near Lomax, north of Clanton. The tornado touched down along County Road 16, east of Alabama Road 175 in Perry County and moved northeast into the Talladega National Forest. Along County Road 9, the Sanctuary of Historic Ephesus Church was destroyed as the roof and steeple were partially blown away. Hundreds of trees were snapped or uprooted in this area of widespread damage. The tornado moved along Alabama Highway 183 for approximately 6 miles causing extensive tree damage. The tornado crossed Mat Moore Road and entered Chilton County south of Alabama Highway 183, causing extensive tree damage in the Talladega National Forest. Along US Highway 82 to the west of Maplesville, 16 homes received significant roof damage, either partially or completely removed. The tornado tracked just north of downtown Maplesville, damaging homes and businesses. In Maplesville, 150 citizens took shelter in a community shelter, which had trees fall on it but caused no significant damage or injuries. As the tornado tracked along Alabama Highway 22, numerous trees were knocked down and a radio tower collapsed. The tornado took a noticeable turn to the left and moved just south of Lomax. Widespread and intense tree damage resulted in damage to several homes. However, one well-designed and well-built home less than 50 yards from the track escaped with only superficial damage. The tornado weakened rapidly as it crossed US Highway 31 and dissipated before crossing Alabama Highway 145 and Interstate 65.
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All Sorts of Weird Stuff offers news and information about George R.R. Martin, in particular about his A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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