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Skip to comments.Time for a Rush Reboot?
Posted on 03/14/2012 7:39:14 AM PDT by Battle of Tours
Time for a Rush Reboot?
While the Fluke fallout may not be as bad as suspected, it's still bad. I cringed when El Rushbo, on Day 2 of the Fluke matter, doubled down on his remarks and reveled in the reaction he was getting - from members of Congress and the press. A complete miscalculation. But ultimately PR war was lost, simply because a gentleman can't call a woman a 'slut,' and if it takes a half-hour to explain what you really meant, you failed in making your point. The whole thing was like watching Lucy trick Charlie Brown into trying to kick the football. But in HD, and super slow-motion. While EIB's ratings may be up, I'm afraid the Fluke fiasco exposes what I see as Rush Limbaugh's problem: declining relevance, and (like many on the Right), reacting to the topic du jour, rather than driving the agenda. The Left chose this whole contraceptive battle ground, and set it up well in advance, starting with George Stephanopolous. But remember when Rush called the shots? Remember the spontaneity and populist feel of Dan's Bake Sale? Or when, in response to critics who said Rush artificially generated calls to Congress, he demonstrated what would happen if he gave out those numbers to call - and melted the DC phone system. That was the heyday of EIB! But on any given day lately, if you want to hear what will be on Rush (or Beck or Hannity), you can simply read the Drudge Report, which is about all Rush seems to do now. Matt Drudge, the Great Aggregator, drives the news cycle, and Rush seems content to merely comment on it. A far cry from the day when Rush drove the issue of the day, like exposing the House Banking scandal? Rush is The Voice on the Right, and to paraphrase him, I hope he succeeds. So I humbly offer some suggestions, and would be interested to read your comments or additions to them.
Bombshell Mondays
When Sarah Palin was named as John McCain's VP pick, an army of Dem investigators headed north to Alaska. We soon found out more (true or not) about her than anyone dared disclose about Barack Obama. Porn king Larry Flynt offered serious cash, and still does, to anyone exposing sexual misdeeds by Republicans. As a result, Congressman Bob Livingston resigned, Bill Clinton was not impeached, God knows what else due to Republicans being sh_t-scared of being embarrassed. When Donald Trump took up the Birther controversy, and backed it up with his resources, he forced Obama to release what he should have released long ago - his long-form birth certificate (or is it? Ask Joe Arpaio). It took a tabloid's digging to prove Johnny Edward's philandering. The point here is, well-funded and well-executed investigating yields results, except most of it is done by the Left. I can see why pre-rehab Rush wouldn't go here, as his own secret problems would have been exposed. Now that the Enquirer broke that (another example), what's to lose? Young Guns on the Right are doing similar work, but with the loss of Andrew Breitbart, some of that has gone, too. I want to see an army of EIB investigators digging into all the Left has to hide, with Rush leading off each week with Bombshell Mondays. Make the other side respond to Rush all week. Offer $100,000 or more for any of Obama's old girlfriends to come forward, then up it each month when it goes unclaimed. Offer money for anyone who can produce a report card, syllabus or class notes from an Obama-taught course. I bet they don't exist, either. Find the two people that the $11 million Business Attire boondoggle serviced, and see if they even got jobs. Look into Sarah Fluke herself. She has advocated so much for gay and lesbian issues, you have to wonder if she even needs birth control. Find the town hall sob story people that Obama promised to help, and see where they are now. Find out who paid for Obama's college tuition. Give a teaser of the bombshell expose on Friday, and make 'em sweat all weekend wondering what will happen Monday. Rush, stop relying on reporters to report, and get back in the driver's seat, please. The Left will never love you, so take a page from Machiavelli: better to be feared than loved.
Audacious, News-Grabbing Acts of Generosity
Any listener to Rush knows he is very generous, probably far more so than he lets on to the public. Countless times I've heard him give things away to callers (except the schmoes that ask for things), not to mention his annual fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. But imagine if, rather than call Sarah Fluke a slut and prostitute, Rush had sent her a Sleep Number bed, some Pro Flowers, and a thousand condoms. Point well made. On a grander scale, this has a lot of potential to show the hypocrisy of the Left, like Dan's Bake Sale showed that taking kids' donated money for deficit reduction was not beneath the Clinton Gang. The contrast to Fluke and her self-centered ilk's representation of womanhood is seen in Stephanie Decker, the 36-year-old Indiana mother that lost her legs trying to protect her children during a tornado. Decker's home was demolished. Buy her a new one, handicap-accessible. Hand her the keys yourself, that woman is a living, breathing example of the best of a woman's virtue, who's actions did more in a minute that Fluke has done in her measly, academic/activist life. Find Obama's half-brother George, who reportedly lives in a hut on next to nothing per year in Africa. Get him a job and a house, and get your picture with him in the process. Imagine how the President, who loves to quote the Bible and 'brother's keeper' language when it means separating taxpayers from their cash, would look in contrast. I would bet most people don't know Obama has an indigent brother. Or pay for Obama's illegal-alien uncle's legal fees in his drunk driving casae. Pay him to wear a Rush tie in court. Why? First, because it's funny. Second, because there's no comeback to that. It again shows Obama does not take care of his own, despite demanding other's money for his political agenda. Once a month, select a servicememberat random returning from war, and send, along with family members, them to Disneyworld for a week. All expenses paid. It's a slap in the face to the commander who never stops apologizing to foreigners for the actions of Americans. Oh, and mention it all during the Armed Forces Radio portion of the show. Pick a Chicago gas station, and offer a Pre-Obama Gas Price day. Get the local affiliate to cover it. Man, can you picture that? The lines that would form, the riot that would likely ensue, to sell gasoline at $2.40 per gallon, and more importantly, what a message it would send about the spike in gasoline prices under Obama. Sponsor a Steven Chu Bicycle Race in DC, with the winner getting a BMW (like Chu's wife drives). Targeted philanthropy coupled with a potent message is hard to criticize.
Push Aside the Haters and Promote your Supporters
It's always been weird how Rush trumpets Apple products, when, as a company, they recoil from him. I admit I enjoyed the report of Carbonite stock falling after they dissed Rush in the wake of Fluke. Now certain musicians are complaining about Rush using their music on his show. I'd like to see Rush pump up those who support him, and ignore the detractors. Trim from the bumper rotation those that have come out and repudiated you. There's a ton of musicians that would love that exposure (but please, no more Robert Davi tracks). Make a contest of it - submit your band's tracks to appear on Rush's bumper music, mention who it is on the website. Then thumb your nose at Peter Gabriel. Same goes for any ex-advertiser.
Rush won.
Stop living in the past please.
Fight the left on the next issue.
Always advance.
Rush won. Fluke is still a slut, and he's still on the air.
LOL! You think Rush "miscalculated"??? Really. We all know the Rats have these operatives scattered everywhere and they are waiting for them to be needed to credate a diversion. Did you ever see a photo of a tank? Did you wonder what all those little cylinders pointing at odd angles were? Those are smoke grenade launchers. When the commander realizes he is in trouble he "pops smoke" and disappears.
The Rats use these operatives like Fluke to create a distraction when they need to control the news cycle. A complicit media knows this and helps out. Rush knows it, too. This time he jumped in and escalated things so that it would get LOTS of attention. We all knew she wuold eventually be outed as the Rat operative she is and the news cycle would "flip" on the Rats. It is "Rush Judo".
Relax. Rush knows what he is doing.
Rush won. Give it up.
The Rats set a trap. Limbaugh fell straight into it.
He's a moron.
Really now... declining relevance? Is that why the left is so doggedly trying to force him off the air?
Rush won this battle... big time. There's no denying it.
Thank goodness we have you to set our heads on right
Produce 1/100th the empire Rush has, and I'll take your comments seriously.
Moron like Bill Gates was a moron.
The American people ARE as gullible as the writer claims.
I submit that if you went down to the street corner and asked passers by what folks thought of Rush Limbaugh, a fair majority would view him negatively.
This is because the middle American OVERWHELMINGLY receives his worldview from MSM on AM radio, FM radio, television news, television entertainment, print news media, all from local and national outlets pulling content from national and international wire feeds.
Rush is on three hours a day, and the middle American on the street does NOT listen to Rush. He listens to his favorite country music or classic rock station which pushes a liberal, progressive, pro-Obama worldview to our middle American every hour at the top of the hour. 24 hours a day. Seven days a week.
If there were 100 Rush Limbaughs, they would not compete with the worldview push that Middle American Voter receives from the overwhelming push of news to local and regional outlets from national and international sources.
Rush was right to call Fluke a slut and prostitute. She is. (Actually, she is more like a pimp, but....)
But Rush does not win the battle of public opinion in this case.
The Rats set a trap and fell in it themselves.
Rush's ratings are up. Sleep Train and Carbonite are down. Maher has gone as white as a sheet. 'Edgy' left-wing comedians have been cancelled. The buying power of Rush's listeners has been reasserted.
Granted: this didn't seem like a win at the time - but then neither did Agincourt.
Rush won this one. Pure and simple.
It was actually an amazing thing to watch. The last thing the left wants is a vetting of The Slut, or the misdeeds of the left.
—Hes a moron.—
I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you left off the sarcasm tag. ;-)
Seriously? Rush had a GREAT show yesterday analyzing the results of the weeks-long contraception debate and it's KILLING the Democrats. They have an 11-point loss on this subject, and Obama has lost ground with women. Go Rush. Hit Fluke again, harder.
Yeah right already. Tell Hillary to hit her magic reset button. Lesson learned. Even if you take his characterization as false it knocks him down to what? 94.5? .6?
—I submit that if you went down to the street corner and asked passers by what folks thought of Rush Limbaugh, a fair majority would view him negatively.—
I disagree. I think they might SAY they do, but in the way that a lot of people "say" they are atheists. Every one I've ever met - face to face - once queried on the subject admits they are really "agnostic".
Also, Rush is not running for political office.
Rush doesn't need your advice. He has been and continues to be number one in his field and has the millions to prove it.
When you have his success then maybe you can tell him how he should do things.
But Rush went charging after her sex life. He went at her as a slut, "she's asking us to pay for her sex!"
It was very bad
Het there "Battle of Tours", Rush has a Radio Audience of over 20 Million, for 3 hours a day, 5 days a week. How big is YOUR Radio Show? I DO NOT THINK that Rush needs advice from the likes of YOU!
>>>Hes a moron.
Which makes you what exactly???
Dumber than you think Rush is in my book.
Can you provide a reliable source for the 20 million?
More than a week later where is Sandra Fluke? Any idea? Where is Rush? He "suspended" himself for a Pro-Am tournament; there's a one/two week suspension of national sponsors; and, by all accounts, his audience has increased. So, who won?
Where is the issue of women needing to get free birth control? Is the issue still front and center on the media radar? Are Obama's poll numbers still climbing as women flock to support him? I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in mine political talk is about high gas prices, high food prices, Iran, Afghanistan, and why they don't like Barry.
Rush's comments, whether appropriate or not, are a minor blip on the radar. One battle in a larger war.
- Its time for this to cool off and start going away, says one radio operator. He doesnt carry the Rush show, but hes worried about the long-term damage to radio and specifically talk radio. One market manager who does have Rush says If this sort of thing holds from the protests, the only home for political talk will be on Sirius XM a discovery Dr. Laura made before the rest of us did.
What Rush did was calculated from the very beginning, and it worked. Go look at Breitbart's Big websites (start at Breitbart.com), and you will see how the blowback has been entirely against the Rats.
And your point is?? Rush is still on. Your have had your rant. Nothing much is new in the universe.
But Rush does not win the battle of public opinion in this case.
I believe Rush should not have taken the Fluke/Pelosi/MSM bait. I agree that he did not win in the court of public opinion among non-Rush listeners. But as you point out, mainstream listeners don't listen to Rush anyway. His listeners are still listening. So, while he didn't win; he didn't lose either. He proved to be too powerful and the Fluke affair is already a tiny footnote to history.
The Left's Mau-Mauing, threats, and actual violence has worked for decades.
The conservative under attack yields 90+ percent of the "debate" just to get the harassment to stop. The Left has only to yield ten percent or less and advances another notch toward seceding from our Republic to create their "democracy."
(It cannot be a real debate because the Left quit actually debating fifty years ago and instead just screams "Nazi!" "Bigot!" "Hate monger!" "Racist!")
Back then we did not have modern talk radio -- the liberals used the "Fairness Doctrine" to suppress the right -- and there was no Internet. If the city had no conservative newspaper you were SOL vis-a-vis free speech.
I had to search through magazine stores to find the few limited-circulation conservative publications and shop John Birch Society's American Opinion book store to "get the rest of the story."
We were the silenced generation -- that's why we were silent except on election day; e.g., election 1972 when we rejected the MSM's McGovern; to wit,
Richard M. Nixon.. 520 electoral votes 46,740,323 popular votes.
George McGovern.... 17 electoral votes 28,901,598 popular votes.
(The MSM got even with Nixon, what did Nixon do that LBJ and JFK didn't do? Ans: Nothing. IMO.)
The most common caller comment during the early days of modern talk radio (early 1990s) was "This is great! I didn't know other people share my opinions!"
Fluke the fascist Left!
It was a setup to take the focus off of Obama, off of energy, off the economy, and look what happened?
All he did is make it worse.
He should have known better, yet he didn't. Case closed.
Having lived there for a while when I was a kid I can say that it has beautiful countryside, but would not move there now. Way to Lib.
Sleep Train made a big show of cancelling their advertising (rah rah rah) and is one of those advertisers begging to come back and asked Rush to do the voiceover commercials once again.
Rush told them NO.
Wonder if those showrooms were empty over the weekend.
The Democrats really wanted this to be an issue, REALLY wanted it. Unfortunately, we had a boatload of their media figures using words far worse, far more often, and not apologizing for it. Rush did. He was right to apologize.
And as for the poor, traumatized Ms. Fluke - she was so traumatized that she ran from microphone to microphone to relive it - and then hired a PR firm linked to Obama operatives.
The week before all the pressure was on Sebelius to reiterate their policy a hundred times to stop offending Catholics. Since Rush made his comments it has all been about contraception. Contraception is a symptom, but it isn't the whole disease. The disease is Obamacare and its mandates.
Lessons learned:
1. Rush's listener loyalty trumps protester weasels.
2. Rush wins again. No such thing as bad publicity.
3. The realization that the connection between advertiser and endorsement of show content is weak at best as the public becomes educated on the inner workings of this business.
4. By yielding to protesters, the advertisers are taking sides and must weigh risks.
5. Advertisers should explain that they pay for listeners, not for particular content.
Everybody Call in and Tell Rush How to Run His Show Friday.
Could not agree more. Rush sailed through this like a pro and probabbly bumped his listeners by 10%. Rush played them like a fiddle.
Spot on commentary for the young skulls full of mush.
Well I suppose you could argue it was bad.
I heard the whole thing and it Rush's bit was hilarious.
Of course he immediately went from being 'an entertainer' to the 'Speaker of the Truth regarding the Content of Conservatives Hearts and Minds'.
This should have come with a 'Barf Alert' tag.
Why spend so much time thinking about it? Or writing,which of course I didn't bother to read past the first sentence. Rush is like family to me. He's kept my attention for 20 plus years. Takes more than sluts and nuts to bring him down.
Why don't you like hearing the truth and from what I can see it isn't working as well as the dems wanted it to because not all Americans are stupid and realize no one is trying to take away anything we just don't want to pay for it for you.
Are you stupid?
Rush had nothing to apologize for and made himself look like a fool doing so. If any apology is forthcoming it should be Miss Flukes parents for bringing such a stupid and amoral woman into the world.
How long has the author of this piece been listening to Rush? This happened years ago with the musician who recorded the bump he uses to start the show.
Rush can use the music under Fair Use Laws, but I guess the musicians don't want their young fans to think they might support Rush, simply because their music is on his show. Oh, the horror!
" The disease is Obamacare and its mandates." And what we voters need to do is ignore the chattering class and focus on the goal....We need to be united and focussed
Exactly. A "looks like a hearing, not really a hearing" hosted by the democrats is not the goal. It is the chattering.
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FLINT, Michigan -- Mayor Dayne Walling officially announced his two most recent appointments at a news conference today.
In addition to Donna Poplar, who is the city's new personnel director, Walling appointed Tom McCabe as director of public works.
After news of Poplar's appointment was reported here Tuesday, a flurry of comments criticizing her hiring were posted online.
At today's news conference, dozens of Poplar's supporters crowded the mayor's office.
Poplar said people have a right to their opinions, and she's looking forward to bringing a fresh start to the personnel office.
"Where would this world be if we were never given a second chance?" she said.
Walling also responded to criticism of Poplar, a former Genesee County employee who was convicted of a felony but later had her record expunged.
"I know there are a lot of our front line city workers, a lot of people across this city, who can understand a person being given another chance," he said. "Miss Poplar is a person qualified to lead a department... with a fresh start. It's something she embodies and it's what she will continue in her work here now."
Walling said he welcomes comments from the public, but hopes people will judge his administration on its performance.
"We all know this won't be the last time that some of us disagree," he said. "Governing a city is tough and we all have a long road ahead of us.
"The door is open for these comments but give me the opportunity to lead this city."
Walling also appointed McCabe as director of public works and said he would be interim director of neighborhood services.
McCabe was hired by acting Mayor Michael Brown in May to head the infrastructure and development department. He was retired from General Motors and the city of Flint.
Walling said McCabe has critical institutional knowledge. McCabe said he's looking forward to leading the new public works department, which will oversee streets, utilities and water issues.
"It's rejuvenated this older guy," McCabe said with a grin.
Walling said more appointments will come Monday. He said he plans to do a search for a permanent director of neighborhood services and director of planning and development.

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Make It Stop
|Matt Cain, RHP 1-4, 6.27 ERA, 33 IP 26 K, 13 BB, 8 HR
|Carlos Zambrano, RHP 0-2, 4.43 ERA, 40.2 IP
Matt Cain's a pretty high-end prospect who's struggled out of the gate in 2006. I'm sure tonight will be a huge confidence booster for the kid. At least with Z on the mound, the chances of Bonds getting drilled skyrocket. Do something!
9-ish CDT start, no?
9-ish CDT start, no?
Awesome lineup description.
Awesome lineup description.
yeah sorry, I'm on PST.
yeah sorry, I'm on PST.
Plunk Bonds! PLUNK!!!!!! I
Plunk Bonds! PLUNK!!!!!!
I can't stand lookin gup the result of each game evry morning.b Today, I saw a headline on FOX that said "Cubs Outfielder Robs Bonds of #714".
Cubs Outfielder
That's what Pierre is to FOX. I know FOX isn't the authority, but I thought it was funny. Obviously Pierre pales in any sort of comparion to Bonds on any stat, any split, etc. FOX didn't feel it necessary to name Pierre.
Back to important matters, I want Z to plunk Bonds one time too few to get tossed. I hate that prick.
Love the names in the
Love the names in the lineup... what a hoot!
Did anyone think Pierre
Did anyone think Pierre would be this horrible? Did anyone see this coming? I hated him and knew he sucked shit through a straw and was pissed when we traded THREE prospects to get him, but even I didn't think he'd be THIS bad. And through 120 plus AB's!!! This is not a fluke! This is his season!
Good job by Cedeno to get on base leading off teh inning, good job stealing 2nd, good job by pierre bunting him over and Walker put teh ball in play for teh RBI. NICE!!
GOOD BASEBALL by all 3 guys.
Horatio- i didn't think he
i didn't think he would be this bad, but the biggest problem with the trade is not getting him, but giving up 3 pitching prosects for him and basically having to no plan to sign him long term. If we don't resign him, then hendry rented a player for a year and gave away 3 pitching prospects....UGH
Good lineup description.
Good lineup description. Just wanted to let you know your link to Jacque Jones is incorrect. Thanks for thr good work.
good first inning
good first inning fundamental baseball. just wondering what took so long to make a change? guess in the baker book you have to get an officiall letter from the "mendoza line" committee that one of your players is approaching to make adjustments.
Wow...Murton gets on base
Wow...Murton gets on base and then Jones launches a home run...Nice start for the Cubs tonight...up 3-1 in the 2nd inning...we haven't seen this type of momentum in weeks...;-)
Yeah, that was great
Yeah, that was great fundamental baseball- right up until the point that Carlos didn't cover first for that double play. WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!! Then it cost him a run and how many extra pitches. I can't fucking believe this shit. And he still had that stupid smirk on his face. Steve Stone just said on the Score on Monday that over the last three years "you still have pitchers not covering first." Stoney is a god. I blame Carlos first- but they're paying Dusty $4 million a year to have pitchers still not cover first base on a routine double play- what the fuck is he managing exactly?
Nazey- So you think Dusty
So you think Dusty should bench Carlos for not covering the bag? Send a message?? If not, what else do you want him to do? Yell at him?? Derrke Lee teh otehr day said all those kind of mistakes aer addressed in the clubhouse, so again, what else do you want him to do? Rip him in the press or make a scene in the dugout? Pitchers work on covering the bag 1,000 times in ST. This is the big leagues, they know what they need to do. The players we have just aren't very good...
Manny- You're right-
You're right- there's not a whole lot he can do about it. But, all I want is someone, anyone, on the Cubs to mention it. If the Cubs win tonight, it won't matter. Hell, it's not a huge deal at this point. But I wouldn't say they work on those things 1000 times in ST, at least not the Cubs. Otherwise it wouldn't happen as often as it does with this frickin team. And why do those things only get worked on in ST? Do they go into a mental lapse once April 1 hits the calendar? Perhaps Dusty could say something like, "Before batting practice tomorrow I want all the pitchers on the field to practice covering first."
Bill Parcells tells a great story about these types of miscues. When he was starting out as a position coach, he was going over certain fundamentals/execution with one of his players about a particular scheme. When the game came and that same player blew the scheme- despite having worked on it tirelessly with Parcells- Parcells berated him for it. Then the head coach came over (I don't know who it was at the time) and berated Parcells. When Parcells mentioned how it's out of his hands once the player takes the field, the head coach told him that it's the coach's fault for not making sure the player understood how to execute the scheme. Parcells uses that allusion to illustrate the point that winning coaches/managers take accountability for player's mental lapses, even when you have every right to blame the player. Blame Carlos first, yes. But fucking blame Dusty too- not for one isolated instance, but for 3+ years of the same broken record when it comes to fundamentals- or lack there of.
If Big Z keeps walking too
If Big Z keeps walking too many players the Cubs will have trouble staying ahead of the Giants.
Mabry has looked like a gold
Mabry has looked like a gold glover at 1B tonight.
Hey Giants fans (not that
Hey Giants fans (not that there's Giants fans on here)- Bonds just struck out on a fat two seamer down the pipes. Now go back to your cell phones and conversations you suckasses. A bunch of Bonds apologists and wagon jumpers, hope your $85 nosebleeds are worth the 65 seconds you pay attention.
Manny- now that was a nice
Manny- now that was a nice play at first by Z. That's sound fundamental baseball baby. The way I like to see it. Looks like he indeed learned his lesson.
not good baseball by Mabry.
not good baseball by Mabry. 0 outs and guys on 2nd and 3rd and can't get him in...UGH
Holy shit- 6 runs in one
Holy shit- 6 runs in one game? Save 'em guys, save em. We may need them for our next 8 game slide.
I will say this- I'm not a Jockstrap Jones fan at this point- but that was a nice hustle play with the bases loaded to get to second. That's 3 hits and 4 RBI for JJ. Probably his entire May output, but I'll take it dude.
to second someone's comments
to second someone's comments from on here a few days ago, "i wish i could quit you, cubs"
i just checked the standings and schedule. apparently all it takes is 6 good innings and i get my hopes up again. yikes. i am still of the persuasion that this division really sucks (actually, the whole NL kinda sucks). we shall see.
Jones is FINALLY turning
Jones is FINALLY turning into an RBI machine...Ramirez is getting timely hits...Murton is more patient at the plate...Pierre is getting on base and running well...It's 6-1 lead and the Cubs are starting to build up some serious momentum...The offense is waking up (with a little help from the young Giants pitcher)...Yet, I like this 6-1 lead and I want to see Dempster close out a game...It's time to start to reverse this streak and go for another win with Marshall starting for the Cubs tomorrow.
Jacque Jones bandwagon
Jacque Jones bandwagon accepting applications.
Zambrano has settled down
Zambrano has settled down and I think he has retired at least 7 in a row now...He is very talented but his challenge is focussing and throwing strikes when he really needs to.
Dear RobG: Well done sir.
Dear RobG:
Well done sir. You realize you're going to have to come up with NEW sardonic nicknames for the starting 9 for the rest of the season, right?
I don't know who the Fox SF
I don't know who the Fox SF color man is on the MLB extra innings package, but he made an excellent observation re: Aramis' 2 run double -- very nice to see Aramis FINALLY hit the outside fastball to RF with authority. He's been trying to pull the ball like crazy in just about all rbi situations -- seems he's at his best (see 2004) when he's hitting ropes to RF/RF-CF on outside fastballs.
Cubs win! Cubs win! Oh my
Cubs win! Cubs win! Oh my God, it's over!!! It's really over!!!
I take clain on this win!
I take clain on this win! The reverse net name is now 1-0!!
Go Cubs!!!
It s a miracle.....
Yes Manny...it is a miracle
Yes Manny...it is a miracle that anyone would trust Dusty... :)
The Cubs win in a convincing
The Cubs win in a convincing way...where has this offense been in the last 10 days...? Lets hope the Cubs can build on this momentum and win the series against the Giants -- It's time to start a real winning streak...we're 3 games below .500 and The Cubs have LOTS of ground to make up in a tough division.
I looked down at my turkey
I looked down at my turkey sandwich and swear I saw the shadow of Jesus Christ looking back at me. He was crying with happiness. It's a mircle!!!
Dave: "Yes Manny...it is a
"Yes Manny...it is a miracle that anyone would trust Dusty... :)"
I think the same way about Hendry...:)
Just released by the Chicago
Just released by the Chicago Tribune's Phil Rogers...
Hendry's indecision hurts Cubs
May 11, 2006
Well done sir. You realize
Well done sir. You realize you're going to have to come up with NEW sardonic nicknames for the starting 9 for the rest of the season, right?
Apparently this team was in need of some tough love, it's not always about hugs and kisses, sometimes you have to call them out. :)
I definitely have to keep it up until they lose again. Never f*** with a winning streak.
Good lineup description.
Good lineup description. Just wanted to let you know your link to Jacque Jones is incorrect. Thanks for thr good work.
thanks, damn autolinking, grabbed the wrong jones.
phil rogers hacky ass self
phil rogers hacky ass self mailed that article in...
he makes a "shocking" headline and then doesnt even get to the point about hendry til the last 3-4 paragraphs of his rant.
the hack thing about it is he KNOWS better...he's been at this a long time and he knows what he's trying to do there. maybe he's not getting enough "clicks" compared to other columnists...maybe ESPN isn't giving him enough work...maybe he feels he's the man to put the pressure on hendry, though hendry's not exactly sitting on his ass over the 1st base situation.
You know I just felt better
You know I just felt better seeing this line-up toinight. Putting Mabry at 1B makes more sense than having Hairston (Puke) or Perez (Dry-heave-puke). Although it really is all about the pitching. If we get this type of pitching little bitch offense or not, we can win just like the Asros and Sox did last year. Speaking of the Astros it made me feel a little better knowing they've dropped 6 straight themselves.
You guys can end the
You guys can end the commando rally now. Congratulations! (You don't have to stop if you don't want to...)
Re: Dusty and the covering
Re: Dusty and the covering first thing, consider how Scott Skiles would handle an analogous problem for the Bulls. Even after wins, Skiles always makes sure everyone is clear about his level of satisfaction in the performance.
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Somehow I am sensing alcohol was involved. The highest number of boating accidents by a wide margin...
this season got a whole lot less fun
Reports this morning that Marlins' pitching ace Jose Fernandez died in a boating accident - just horrible news.
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soler + hammel for mike trout is pretty much a sure thing. *nods*
Not an inspired outing by Rondon. Seemingly got ahead of every hitter but had no swing and miss pitch today, slider had no bite.
Somebody give Soler some smelling salts - yeesh
And...now that runner scores on a single...
So where do you think Soler will be traded to this off season?
And right on cue he throws to third with no chance to get runner on 2nd so the batter takes 2nd easily. How long has he been playing baseball??
Man you cannot put Soler out there late in games for Playoffs. Yuch...
Such is the life of a fatted calf...
fowler with a triple in the 4th...he's a HR away from a "natural" cycle
...and contreras takes one off the hand and he's in obvious pain. sigh.
he's staying in the game, though he's wringing his hand out during breaks in the action. aside from that he seems to have no issue giving signs or tossing back to the pitcher.
...and he's batting in the cubs half of the following inning. sweet.
his collapse started on august 21st this season...so it's a slight improvement.
but wow, what a collapse since then...only 2 out of 7 can be considered good/decent.
I'm really going to enjoy watching Hammel watch the playoffs.


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Well, the Yanks picked up Bobby Abreu's $16MM option today. Like we said earlier, it's not a terrible decision, and there weren't many other options anywhere. We tend to think that Abreu is keeping a seat warm until '09, when Jose Tabata will be 21-years-old and perhaps ready for a platoon with Johnny Damon (by the way, it's scary to think of what Damon's going to be like in '09). Tabata will likely start next season at Double-A Trenton, unless he impresses so much in the spring that he starts in Scranton. If you believe the scouts and experts, Tabata is definitely in the mix for '09 though.
Anyway, as with most players not named A-Rod or Bonds, Abreu's numbers are showing a clear, steady decline since he turned 30 in 2004:
2004 (PHI): .301 avg./.428 OBP/.544 SLG% - 30 HRs, 105 RBIs, 40 SBs
2005 (PHI): .285/.405/.484 - 24 HRs, 102 RBIs, 31 SBs
2006 (PHI & NYY): .297/.425/.471 - 15 HRs, 107 RBIs, 30 SBs
2007 (NYY): .283/.369/.445 - 16 HRs, 101 RBIs, 25 SBs.
Steady declines in stolen bases, home runs, and slugging. He's still good for close to a .400 OBP, though this season was a slight disappointment. Pencil him in for something in the ballpark of a .280/15 HR/95RBI/.385 OBP/18 SB season. Not stellar, but still an all-around game.
We liked Abreu a lot in Philly, though Philly fans despised him. We think we sort of understand why now; he has a sweet swing, a great batter's eye, and he's so fluid that you think he should be hitting .330 every season. But, he doesn't...
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well first of all.... three of your pokemon are weak to grass...Originally Posted by toadsage
Screw the sig, I'm a veteran.
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so blasteroise and swampert both have ice atks
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We couldn't tell that because your supposed to post the movesets! [People, please read the rules it's on the first post, it even says post moves/nature/etc.]Originally Posted by toadsage
Anyways, both Swampert and Blastoise have no speed Ev's. Which mean you can only assume the worst. Not only that but your team has no solid special defense wall.
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Took a while but I hope that helpedOriginally Posted by wario2ooo
heh....my turn......they all know earthquake
Just looking at your team screams sandstorm. If I was you, I'd throw in Hippowdon for good support.
nature: lonely
item: mystic water
ability: torrent
moves: hammer arm, ice beam,waterfall, earthquake
I don't know EV spread, so it's hard to judge. Perhaps Leftovers over Mystic Water since it's only helping waterfall. Otherwise you might as well take out Ice Beam and give it Avalanche, along with either Jolly or Adament nature.
nature: modest
item: razor claw
ability: sand veil
moves: sludge bomb, sandstorm, dark pulse earthquake
I utterly don't know why the nature is modest. Make it at least Adament/Jolly/Impish. Take out Sludge Bomb/Dark Pulse and think about replacing it with something like Night Slash/X-Scissor/U-Turn/Knock Off. Sand Storm is good just in case you need the storm to keep going.
nature: timid
ability: oblivious
moves: ancient power, ice beam, blizzard, earthquake
Timid isn't really helping you neither. But if you really want it to be mixed, Brave/Quiet nature is your best best since it has fair speed anyways, or go with Lonely/Naughty/Rash/Mild to keep your speed. Otherwise make it Adament and give it Ice Shard over Ice Beam, that's really important. Blizzard is a waste, it'll miss too much, maybe Take Down/Roar/Stealth Rock possibly? Leftovers/Life orb over nevermeltice.
nature: modest
item: leftovers
ability: overgrow
moves: frenzy plant, crunch, wood hammer, earthquake
You have Wood Hammer already so ditch Frenzy Plant. Or replace both Wood Hammer/Frenzy Plant for Seed Bomb and give it something like Leech Seed and Amnesia/Swords Dance/Stealth Rock maybe?
nature: hasty
item: quick claw
ability: lightning rod
moves: thunder bolt, focus blast, stone edge, earthquake
Hasty is all wrong. Waaayy too slow to even think about giving it a +speed nature, and breaking away from its awesome defenses. Go Adamant/Impish and give it solid rock. Lightning rod is only to be used in doubles, but even so bleh. You don't need tbolt/focus blast at all. It has access to the elemental fangs if you want and give it Megahorn too though. Not a fan of Quick Claw but whatever works for you is fine.
nature: hasty
item: razor fang
ability: sand veil
moves: dragon rush, flamethrower, crunch, earthquake
I always prefer DClaw over Drush, your choice. Ditch flamethrower and use Fire Fang/Outrage/Swords Dance. And also Jolly nature is much more prefered, otherwise Adament is an alternative. Maybe Life Orb too?
Maybe replace Swampert/Gliscor/Rhypherior for Hippowdon [Hippowdon being your opener to start the Sand Storm?]
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And that has made all the difference.
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also wario2ooo a t-tar wouldn't be bad either. even though it has alot of weakness' it still is good. and as wuddle said. a hippondon would be good to. so a hippodon/t-tar sand storm would be a killer. and teach one of them toxic to do extra damage. and like swager or cofunese ray would be good to!
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I like beans. I even like canned pork and beans — occasionally. Beans with tomato sauce is uncomplicated and comforting. But there has to be some meat to go with them and I'm not talking about the token pieces of fatty pork that come in a can of pork and beans. I mean real, substantial meat like whole sausages or pork hock.
About three weeks ago, I discovered that Sam, who grew up hating beans, has developed an affection for them. How did that happen? I'm not sure exactly but I gather it has something to do with Wendy's. Sam eats her beans now but only if they are very, very well cooked. As in a hairbreadth away from being mushy.
Armed with my new discovery, I decided to make a bean stew with her favorite meat — chicken. But instead of using canned pork and beans, I used canned baked beans in tomato sauce. The difference? A can of baked beans has more beans. A similarly sized can of pork and beans has more sauce than beans. For added depth of flavor, I threw in slices of chorizo de Bilbao. And, as a final garnish, some torn fresh sweet basil.
Recipe: Chicken and bean stew
- 6 chicken thighs, bone-in, each cut through the bone into 4 to 6 pieces
- salt
- pepper
- 4 tbsps. of flour
- 3 tbsps. of olive oil
- 3 tbsps. of butter
- 1 chorizo de Bilbao, sliced thinly
- 1 onion, chopped
- 4 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 can of diced stewed tomatoes
- 1/4 tsp. of dried oregano
- 1 can of baked beans in tomato sauce (or use 2 cans of pork and beans)
- about 10 sweet basil leaves, torn
- Place the chicken in a bowl. Add salt and pepper. Mix well. Sprinkle in the flour, toss to coat each piece well.
- In a thick-bottomed pot, heat the olive oil and butter. Add the chicken pieces and brown, in batches if necessary.
- Add the chorizo slices, onion and garlic. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion starts to turn translucent.
- Pour in the diced stewed tomatoes. Add the oregano. Season with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil, lower the heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until the chicken is done.
- Pour in the baked beans with the sauce. Stir. Taste and adjust the seasonings. Simmer for another 10 minutes.
- Stir in the basil and serve hot.
Preparation time: 10 minute(s)
Cooking time: 30 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 4


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XMas Beta v1.1 - Great fun to play!
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Hello! I've made the beta a bit better. This is what's new: v.1.1 + Player can now die. Makes the game more fun to play + More tiles + After dying you can now restart by pressing F1 * The player doesn't walk when he jumps * Map changed Here are some screenshots from it: And click here to download the game beta: XMasBeta.zip It's system requirements are very low. I only now that it runs fine on a AMD K5 166mhz Hope you enjoy it. And please send feedback. MindWipe Edited by - MindWipe on 7/29/00 10:08:39 AM Edited by - MindWipe on 7/29/00 10:11:27 AM


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Seawolves handle Wolves in Oregon, 73-47
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The Seawolves (15-6, 8-5 GNAC) also got 12 points and eight rebounds from junior wing Alli Madison, plus 11 points, five rebounds and five assists from freshman point guard Kiki Robertson as they moved into fifth place in a tight Great Northwest Athletic Conference race.
The Wolves (6-14, 3-9) were led by 14 points and five rebounds from Dana Goularte in a game that was postponed from Saturday due to inclement weather.
UAA's victory ran its program-record win streak to 21 games against WOU, including the last 11 meetings in Monmouth.
The Seawolves used a dominating performance on the glass, outrebounding the Wolves 54-33, led by senior forward Kylie Burns (11 rebounds) and junior center Emily Craft (9 rebs., 6 pts, career-high 5 assists). Craft scored consecutive baskets during a decisive 15-2 run midway through the first half, and the Seawolves quickly extended a 33-26 halftime lead after the break, holding their hosts without a field goal for nearly 11 minutes.
By the time WOU's Angie Titus sank a jumper the 9:03 mark, UAA had extended to its largest lead at 61-31. The Seawolves outshot the Wolves .408 to .273 and collected 17 steals off 22 turnovers.
UAA got a lift off the bench from reserve guards Alyssa Hutchins (6 points, 2-3 3FG) and Christina Davis (5 assists) as well.
The Seawolves return to the Wells Fargo Sports Complex for a Saturday matinee against rival Alaska Fairbanks, with tip-off set for 2 p.m.
NOTES: WOU's last win in the series came Dec. 6, 2003 in Anchorage (64-58) … UAA last lost in Monmouth on Jan. 16, 2003 (59-50) … now with 237 points on the season, Robertson moved into 10th place on UAA's freshman scoring list … Robertson already ranks 3rd on the rookie lists in steals (79) and assists (108), with both records within striking range … Burns grabbed 11 rebounds for the second straight game and notched double-figures for the fifth time this season … Burns sank her 100th career three-pointer Saturday, becoming the 11th Seawolf to reach that plateau.


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The City of Bristol Tennessee is accepting applications for the following position:
City Engineer
Under executive direction of the Director of Public Works, the purpose of this position is to oversee the planning, design and inspection of engineering, and construction projects in the City. The position is also responsible for overseeing the City's Geographic Information System. Coordinates assigned activities with other City departments and outside agencies. Has the responsibility of accomplishing department objectives and goals within the guidelines established by the Director of Public Works. This position is responsible for the supervision of Engineering Division personnel including the Engineering Section, GIS Section and an infrastructure Construction Crew. Performs related work as directed.
Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with major work in Civil Engineering or related field; supplemented by five years increasing responsible experience in municipal engineering, two of which are supervisory in nature; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this position. Must be licensed as a Professional Engineer in the State of Tennessee or possess a comparable PE license with the ability to obtain State of Tennessee licensure within one (1 ) year of the date of hire. Must be skilled in the use of civil engineering instruments and equipment including computers, computer aided design, GIS equipment and surveying equipment. Must possess a valid driver's license.
See our website to download an application and review the summary of benefits: www.bristoltn.org. Please submit an application and resume to: City of Bristol Tennessee Human Resources Department, P. O. Box 1189, Bristol, Tennessee 37621-1189 or 801 Anderson Street, Room 204, Bristol, Tennessee 37620. EOE. Position will remain open until filled.


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Durham, NC— Durham Regional Hospital Intensivist Lisa Pickett, MD, has been named one the Triangle's "Top 10 Women in Medicine," and is profiled in Triangle Medical News' May issue.
Selected by a five-member committee composed of healthcare professionals throughout North Carolina, the 2012 class features women who are top in their field for innovative research, groundbreaking methodology and consummate compassion.
A Harvard Medical School graduate, Pickett has practiced medicine in the Triangle for nearly two decades. She has been a practicing general surgeon at Durham Regional Hospital since 2001, and has served in many leadership roles, including chief medical officer, during the last 10 years.
While her practice of medicine and leadership, including teaching and mentoring, are exemplary, it is Pickett's compassion for people—patients, colleagues and family—that makes her one of the "Top 10 Women in Medicine."
Richard Walsh, PhD, chief human resources officer at Durham Regional, recalls walking through the hospital with Pickett and her greeting by name almost every person she encountered. "Lisa cares about connecting with patients, fellow physicians, hospital employees and everyone else around her," says Walsh.
Pickett's colleagues at Durham Regional call her "intelligent, hard-working, tireless, compassionate and then some." They admire her professionalism, integrity, sense of humor and unwavering commitment to compassionate care—all of which extend beyond her medical practice and into her home.
A wife and mother of three, Pickett "works incredibly demanding hours and fills many challenging roles at Durham Regional," explains Katie Galbraith, chief hospital operations and business development officer at Durham Regional. "Yet Lisa always makes time for her family, whether going to her daughter's school or seeing her niece's science presentation. Watching her balance it all has helped me do a better job of finding my own work-life balance."
Pickett was recently appointed chief medical officer at Duke University Hospital.
Triangle Medical News, which reaches approximately 10,000 local physicians and healthcare administrators, is published by Medical News Inc. and is the nation's only local B2B monthly for medical professionals.


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THE OLD. They walk among us like shambling portents of the grisly fate that awaits us all, unattractive, limping, gummy reminders that everything will end in humiliation, disappointment and decay.
Perhaps it's hardly surprising that TV executives steer clear of them. The commercial channels long ago decided that it was futile to address any of their programming at anyone over the age of 45 (or in Channel 4's case recently, anyone with a mental age of above 17).
After all, how many Stannah stairlifts and walk-in baths can you sell a consumer with at best ten years of lucid life ahead of them? The BBC, though, occasionally remembers it has a public service remit, and that the elderly are most likely to be those conscientious and fearful enough to collect the stamps for their licence fee.
Hence their current season of programmes aimed at the mature audience, going out in the quiet doldrums of summer when the younger viewers have all swanned off to the Costas to cop off with each other and regurgitate sangria.
They will miss a delicate and sensitive drama penned by Tony Grounds, one of the few original and thought-provoking dramatists still working in British television. When I'm Sixty-Four is a peculiar love story focusing on two men who have just turned 65 (blame Paul McCartney for the illogical title).
It's about fanning the fading embers of life, seizing a last day, struggling for a little elderly independence amidst the demands of grasping children and ancient parents who refuse to die.
It helps that it features two of the most intelligent performances we are likely to see in any British television production this year.
Alun Armstrong is Jim Bryant, a man who has spent all his life in a boy's school, slipping effortlessly from being a pupil to joining the faculty, without ever having a chance to see life at the end of the long, elegant driveway.
Armstrong is always the first point of call whenever a casting director needs elegiac regret. Armstrong also usually walks away with all the acting laurels from any work he graces.
Not this time. Paul Freeman chisels his name onto any BAFTAs going with his portrayal of the disgruntled Cockney cabbie Ray. It's a brilliant piece of characterisation, perfectly realised by the actor's expressive wearing of the role.
Grounds opens with a comic/pathetic scene where Ray and his lifetime pal Billy are attempting to run with a pack of super-annuated football hooligans. It's a concise glimpse of a generation of Jack-the-lads clinging to a memory of their hoodlum heydays of the sixties and seventies, rheumy-eyed nostalgics for an era when they were noticed rather than disappeared into the half-life of the elderly. "What are we doing here, Billy?" Ray asks, exasperated and gasping for breath, after a rheumatic scuffle. "We're faces, Ray," says Billy, without conviction.
Jim meanwhile, after a life of being called "Beaky", gets a nose-job and writes down his ambitions in his notebook: "See the world. Fall in love."
Ray asks him pretty soon after they meet whether Jim is a "noofter" (a new piece of London vernacular to me, although presumably Grounds has authoritative sources). Jim thinks he rather might be, but the writer's deft plot spine concentrates on Ray gradually coming around to the idea that he might be as well.
A homosexual affair between a couple of geriatrics across the class barrier isn't entirely easy territory for any dramatist. Grounds treats the subject with a grace and wit that is remarkable.
Nothing needs to be too overt. Indeed, the best lines are the most oblique. Ray makes himself a sandwich for breakfast, while on the phone to Jim: "Cheese and jam sound like they shouldn't go together, but they do," he says.
Tamzin Outhwaite turns up as Ray's pushy daughter, but that's the only concession to TV drama's current obsession with casting soap stars.
Grounds's writing delves into areas where popular drama rarely has the courage to venture. It's about love, identity and courage, but in the end, like any story about people over 60, one of the leading characters is death.
"Short little life really," moans Billy, contemplating the unappetising prospect of having his prostate carved out. You can understand how a line like that might have been difficult to follow with a cheery ad break.
When I'm Sixty-Four, BBC2, Wednesday


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Is America's love affair with superpremium ice cream coming to an end? Probably not, but lately the relationship has been getting a bit more frosty. In frozens departments across the country, consumers are increasingly flirting with the premium level of ice cream, and apparently they're going home more often with those brands in place of the pricey superpremiums in which they had been indulging. So is this a temporary fling with premium ice cream, and where does it leave superpremium ...
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Help your kids get money-wise
Experts say we're doing a terrible job teaching children how to handle money. But many groups and companies are stepping forward with solutions aimed at parents, teachers, and youngsters.
• Children get little in the way of formal training about money. "It's nuts. We don't let people drive without taking a driving test. Yet we drop young people into a chaotic financial world without the basic survival skills they need," writer Brett Arends says in a MarketWatch article called "What Should You Teach Your Kids About Money?" Teaching youngsters how to save and how to handle the cost of college should be priorities, Arends says. http://yhoo.it/17Fp0Sq
• The Council for Economic Education is a nonprofit aimed at helping educators get this message across: "It is only by acquiring economic and financial literacy that children can learn that there are better options for a life well lived, will be able to see opportunity on their horizon line and, ultimately, can grow into successful and productive adults capable of making informed and responsible decisions." http://bit.ly/11Ke5Wz
• Find some practical steps for learning and teaching personal finance to children. Get help at TheMint.org, a site run by the insurance and financial-services company Northwestern Mutual. The home page has simple tabs labeled: "fun for kids," "tips for tweens," "pointers for parents" and "ideas for teachers." There's good advice -- and the occasional corporate hint that insurance is the grown-up way to prepare for big financial losses. www.themint.org
• Who thinks of the Federal Reserve as a resource for teaching? The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia does. Its site includes downloadable lesson plans for teaching economics and personal finance to elementary, middle and high school students. http://bit.ly/12gTtjy
• So just what do kids need to know? "You need money to buy things" and "You earn money by working" are the first two of "20 things kids need to know to live financially smart lives," according to Money as You Grow, a site developed by the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability. http://bit.ly/15Tpsgd
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You can take it easy and still excel in martial arts. How many times a week do you practice? Not every day, right? Give it your all at practice and then get good rest in the meantime. If you're having problems with speed and breathing, think of it like sprinting training. I don't think a sprinter slows down during practice to get better. But then, I don't know what's involved in a 3-4 minute form in Hung Fot.
Just to give a different perspective, I do Krav Maga 3 times a week which uses a lot of 1-2 minute drills of all-out intensity, and I do it in a fasted state, while consuming less than 50g of carbs a day, and I have just as much if not more energy than my classmates. I think your body will adapt just fine if you keep training hard, rely on fat for most of your energy, and don't worry about "fueling up" your muscles with carbs.


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An Impending Crisis: The Property Room Is Full
By William P. Kiley, Deputy Chief of Police (Retired), Suffolk County, New York; and President, International Association for Property and Evidence, Inc.
any law enforcement agencies are facing the challenge of having no more space to store property and evidence. When property rooms are filled beyond their designed capacity, the results can have a devastating impact on the agency and often on the entire criminal justice system. Agencies lose their ability to properly track, secure, locate, and dispose of property and evidence. Recent headline stories in newspapers and other news media concerning lost evidence in criminal cases have caused embarrassment, having the potential to affect prosecutions and civil litigation adversely. However, the space and storage challenges facing law enforcement agencies today will increase exponentially in the upcoming years because of new state legislation extending the statutes of limitation for the crimes of sexual assault, homicide, and even burglary. In some areas of the United States, police departments now must maintain homicide evidence "forever." Many police executives are now facing the ramifications of these decisions and are attempting to determine where and under what conditions the evidence from these crimes will be stored, for the sake of accountability and the maintenance of the chain of custody. The purpose of this article is to call the attention of police executives to the impending crisis in property and evidence storage.
Existing Space Challenges
Lack of sufficient storage space for evidence and property is becoming a common problem for chiefs. It does not matter if a law enforcement agency is very small or very large; the responsibilities of handling found property, property for safekeeping, and evidentiary property vary only by degree, and every agency has common challenges in this regard. Often, the competing demand for available space within an agency results in spreading the property function throughout several locations within the existing facility or moving it entirely to a satellite location. Many police chiefs find themselves advocating for capital projects to build new property warehouses or seeking funds to rent necessary storage space. Others seek the efficiency of high-density shelving that can double the storage capacity of existing facilities.
Dealing with inadequate storage capacity requires a diagnosis of the underlying cause of the problem. Many law enforcement property rooms are filled with items that either have no evidentiary value or are no longer needed for criminal prosecution. Two examples of items that frequently consume the precious little space available in the property room are recovered or found bicycles and evidence from misdemeanor crimes that have no suspects or leads and are beyond the statute of limitations. Other items of evidence sit on shelves for years awaiting a disposition from the courts, an approval from the prosecutor's office, or action by the investigating officer or detective. Property rooms are commonly filled with enormous quantities of items that agencies could dispose of by implementing well-designed procedural systems that are supported by the agency's senior management, prosecutors, and the courts. It is imperative that agencies begin to focus on methods of reducing the inventory in their property rooms as the new laws mentioned earlier begin to take effect. Among the many reasons behind these new statutes, three are preeminent: advanced DNA technology, a renewed focus on previously unsolved crimes, and postconviction appeals.
Advanced DNA Technology: Advances in forensic sciences, especially in the area of DNA analysis, have resulted in an increased amount of evidence collected and stored. This evidence is not only from interpersonal violent crimes; it also includes property crimes.1 Many agencies throughout the world are seeing significantly more evidence intake than they have in past years. Once the evidence enters the property room, it is kept longer than ever before. Part of this trend is due to the fact that jurors in court cases are expecting more physical evidence than ever before to be introduced in evidence to prove guilt. Some prosecutors refer to this expectation as the "CSI effect" on jurors. That is to say, due to the current popularity of crime scene investigation (CSI) television programs, jury pools now contain many individuals who could be influenced by what they see on such shows.
Renewed Focus on Previously Unsolved Crimes: Today's forensic capabilities are enabling agencies to reexamine evidence containing biological materials that have remained on the property room shelf for years. Again, popular television series such as Cold Case have affected the public's understanding of this capability. Investigative units tasked with the responsibility of reexamining older, unsolved cases are commonplace in police departments and prosecutors' offices. Arrests are now made sometimes decades after crimes have taken place based on DNA and other forensic evidence that has long sat in a property room.
Postconviction Appeals: With an increasing number of convictions reversed due to DNA testing, the law enforcement community can expect to see more legislation that will direct agencies to hold onto evidence for much longer periods of time. The cases that catch the attention of legislators are similar to those taken up by the Innocence Project, where evidence is reexamined with new technology, resulting in the exoneration of the convicted person.2 It would not be surprising to see many states pass laws that require the holding of evidence as long as the convicted individual is in prison.
The trend is clear: state and local law enforcement agencies will see larger quantities of evidence booked into their property rooms, and they will have to maintain that evidence in a professional manner for a longer period.
What Can Chiefs Do?
Recognizing the current space issues with property rooms and noting potential future challenges, law enforcement leaders can take the following steps to deal with this issue:
Strategic planning for the future of an agency's property room will involve making the relevant issues a matter of importance requiring proper examination. Regional and state chiefs associations should ensure that elected state officials understand the implications of the mandatory storage laws. Law enforcement leaders should establish a task force or committee with representation from the entire state criminal justice system to examine the long-term implications of increased evidence retention.
Need for Training
During the past few decades the staffs of property rooms have incrementally shifted from consisting only of sworn law enforcement officers to a blend of officers and civilian staff or, in many cases, to solely civilian staffing. Whether sworn or nonsworn, property room managers need training to run the system and maintain inventories. Property managers must know about packaging and storage, purging systems, evidence tracking, safe firearms handling, biohazards and hazardous materials, safe working conditions, disposition notification systems, proper disposal of property and evidence, and the proper documentation to account for all property on hand and/or destroyed or disposed of. Training, such as the two-day Property and Evidence Management Course offered by the International Association for Property and Evidence (IAPE; www.iape.org), must address agency-wide policy and procedures regarding property and evidence. There are also training needs for any supervisors and/or administrators who have oversight of the property room. The goal of this training is to ensure an effective and efficient property and evidence operation that properly stores, tracks, safeguards, and releases items from the property room.
Executive-Level Support
As a police function, the property room usually falls at the fringes of a chief's administrative radar screen; it cannot compete with crime investigation, traffic fatality reduction, street gang violence, and other pressing concerns. In times of diminished budgets, any staffing and equipment requested for the property room are usually eliminated in the first round of budget discussions. However, chiefs can still provide support to the property room function by ensuring that general orders, evidence packaging/submission, and timely action on disposition requests are priority actions for the agency. Necessary overtime, flex time, and temporary detail of additional personnel are all strategies available to chiefs for consideration. Additionally, to maintain a successful property operation, chiefs must support issues related to property and evidence packaging and submission, property room security and access control, automated tracking systems, and adequate storage capacity.
Begin Planning for the Increased Demand
Property room managers and property/evidence custodians must keep abreast of local and/or state legal changes as well as evolving trends that will affect their agencies' property operations. Make no mistake about it: every law enforcement agency will face the requirement to warehouse more and more evidence for longer periods of time. Now is the time to begin planning for future storage needs. As the old adage goes, "If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail." The time has come for chiefs to begin local, regional, and statewide dialogue about this issue. Only through planning as well as adequate budget and administrative support will the law enforcement community be able to address future property room needs. ■
1See Bill Berger, Joe Chimera, and John Blackedge, "LODIS, a New Investigative Tool: DNA Is Not Just Court Evidence Anymore," The Police Chief 75, no. 4 (April 2008): 150–157; Raymond J. Prime and Jonathan Newman, "The Impact of DNA on Policing: Past, Present, and Future," The Police Chief 74, no. 11 (November 2007): 30–35; George Epp and Brian Webster, "Colorado Sheriffs Develop DNA Training," The Police Chief 73, no. 6 (June 2006): 23–25; and Ralph A. Barfield, "Forensic Investigation: It's Not Just for Big Cities," The Police Chief 71, no. 4 (April 2004): 158–161.2The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, New York, to assist prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. To date, 218 people in the United States have been exonerated by DNA testing, including 16 who served time on death row. See http://www.innocenceproject.org/about/Mission-Statement.php (accessed June 5, 2008).William P. Kiley, M.S., is a retired deputy chief of police who served for 30 years with the Suffolk County, New York, Police Department. Currently president of the Board of Directors of the IAPE and president/CEO of Kiley Associates, LLC, an e-learning consulting company, Kiley is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, Police Executive Research Forum Senior Management Institute for Police, and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.Top
William P. Kiley, M.S., is a retired deputy chief of police who served for 30 years with the Suffolk County, New York, Police Department. Currently president of the Board of Directors of the IAPE and president/CEO of Kiley Associates, LLC, an e-learning consulting company, Kiley is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, Police Executive Research Forum Senior Management Institute for Police, and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
From The Police Chief, vol. LXXV, no. 8, August 2008. Copyright held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 515 North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA.


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As we approach Game 3 between Miami and Indiana, is this series a jump-ball at this point?
In another installment of the Heat Index's 3-on-3 series, our writers give their takes on the storylines before the Heat visit the Pacers for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
1. Fact or Fiction: Dwyane Wade should have been suspended.
Tom Haberstroh: Fiction. Although, I've gone both ways on this one. Darren Collison decelerated slightly for the pass, so I'm not sure it was all Wade's fault for the sheer velocity of impact. But I can't shake the feeling that this wasn't a fully objective ruling. I keep asking myself the following three "What Ifs": What if Collison and Wade switched places? What if Chris Bosh wasn't out indefinitely? What if the Heat were up 2-0 instead of split in the series? We'll never know.
Michael Wallace: Fiction. I thought a Flagrant 1 was adequate punishment to fit the crime. As it turned out, that extra possession Indiana got as a result of Wade's message-sending cheap shot ended up costing the Heat in a 3-point loss. I will say this: Had Wade or LeBron been hit from behind like that, my guess is the call would have been more harsh under the same circumstances.
Brian Windhorst: Fiction. It was a cheap shot hit and was properly called a flagrant foul. It would've been interesting had it been called a flagrant-2 foul and they had to review it and decide whether Wade should've stayed in the game. Joey Crawford was all over the play, made the call and the league stood by him. It was proper.
2. Fact or Fiction: Heat need Haslem to step up more than Miller
Haberstroh: Fact. Haslem has played worse than just about anybody left in the playoffs and the Heat don't have anyone who can score underneath. If they can just get Haslem to provide 10 points with some mid-range jumpers and put-backs, it would open up so much in LeBron James and Wade's games, especially in the pick-and-roll.
Wallace: Fact. Only because Shane Battier, Mario Chalmers or James Jones are capable of giving Miami the shooting Mike Miller is supposed to provide. With Chris Bosh out, Miami doesn't have any other bigs who as effective as Haslem could be in the pick-and-roll game with Wade and LeBron. Who else is going to grab 10 rebounds if needed? Haslem must first give Erik Spoelstra a reason to play him more than the 12 minutes he got in Game 2.
Windhorst: Fact. Well, the Heat need somebody to step up, anyone. But Haslem would be a bigger boost because if he was able to get his jumper going he would be a threat in the pick-and-roll game. With Bosh gone, the Heat's favorite play has been gutted because the Pacers do not respect whoever is in the play unless it is Wade and LeBron.
3. Fact or Fiction: This series is a 50/50 toss-up at this point.
Haberstroh: Fact. I would say that a breakout game of the Heat's supporting cast is just around the corner, but I look at Haslem and Miller limping up and down the floor and I can't help but wonder if there's something more that's plaguing this team. The Pacers are healthy, hungry and home for the next two games. This is a toss-up, to me.
Wallace: Fiction. I'd go 55/45 still in favor of the Heat. Miami still has the league MVP in James and a top-5 player in Wade on the roster. Two more baskets from anyone else on the roster the other night would've put the Heat ahead 2-0 right now. You could also look at it another way and say that if the refs didn't hold back Indy in Game 1, the Pacers could also be up 2-0. So in essence, that does mean this thing is essentially anyone's series to win.
Windhorst: Fiction. The Heat have the two-best players and overall more experience. They still have the edge but it is much closer, there's a much smaller margin for error with Bosh out.


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Disciplinary Bodies
Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
Cornell University
A.D. White House
September 17-18, 2004
Keynote speaker:
Lynn Hershman
Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis
Recent developments in political and popular culture offer provocative examples of bodies that form, deform, and reform perception and thought. From the status of bodies in journalistic accounts of the invasion of Iraq to the proliferation of technologically controlled or altered bodies in films like The Matrix and X-men, the body continues to be invoked as subject, structure, and trope in order to redefine and challenge the ways we think about venues and boundaries for perception and thought. The goal of this conference is to generate discussion around the human body's formation and function as a subject, analog, source, and obstacle for thought. How have different communities of discourse emphasized one or another of these functions, and what do their choices reveal about the ways in which they resist and/or appropriate structures of power and authority? Why might different communities emphasize the body as more or less permeable, as more or less autonomous, as more or less distinct or definable?
We are interested in proposals for papers that discuss the body as a locus for rethinking disciplinary boundaries, examining the ways that the body exemplifies theoretical or institutional limits or presents challenges for those limits.
We invite proposals for 15 to 20-minute papers that respond to these questions or raise other questions regarding the status of the body in contemporary thought. Please send a one-page abstract as a Microsoft Word attachment to Lisa Patti and Cristina Dahl via email by May 1, 2004. Please include your name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address, and university affiliation.


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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — BocaNewsNow.com was first to report that the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is investigating an alleged assault on an Florida Atlantic University student that occurred at an area nightclub.
As we reported, the student told investigators that he was punched in the face several times by men he identified as being part of Pi Kappa Alpha. Police say the victim told the fraternity's president earlier in the day that he was not interested in becoming a 'brother.'
Florida Atlantic University has now suspended Pi Kappa Alpha. The school issued this statement to BocaNewsNow.com this morning:
Statement from Dr. Charles Brown, senior vice president of student affairs at FAU:
(Local Police) are currently investigating an alleged off-campus hazing incident involving the Florida Atlantic University chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha. FAU's Division of Student Affairs is conducting its own internal investigation and has temporarily suspended the chapter until further notice. Hazing, or any act related to it, is unacceptable, illegal, and will not be tolerated.
FAU values its student organizations, including its Greek organizations, and the great diversity they bring to all of FAU's campuses and campus life. The university expects all students and student organizations to behave with a high degree of civility, showing a deep respect for each other. FAU does not tolerate hazing by any of its students or student groups. The university provides a number of educational opportunities identifying the harmful effects of such activities. The university will continue to be proactive in its efforts to maintain a safe environment for student life.
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