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Home List of Titles Radio and deep Chandra observations of the disturbed cool core cluster Abell 133
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- Radio and deep Chandra observations of the disturbed cool core cluster Abell 133
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- Randall, S. W.; Clarke, T. E.; Nulsen, P. E. J.; Owers, M. S.; Sarazin, C. L.; Forman, W. R.; Murray, S. S.
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- We present results based on new Chandra and multi-frequency radio observations of the disturbed cool core cluster Abell 133. The diffuse gas has a complex bird-like morphology, with a plume of emission extending from two symmetric wing-like features. The plume is capped with a filamentary radio structure that has been previously classified as a radio relic. X-ray spectral fits in the region of the relic indicate the presence of either high-temperature gas or non-thermal emission, although the measured photon index is flatter than would be expected if the non-thermal emission is from inverse Compton scattering of the cosmic microwave background by the radio-emitting particles. We find evidence for a weak elliptical X-ray surface brightness edge surrounding the core, which we show is consistent with a sloshing cold front. The plume is consistent with having formed due to uplift by a buoyantly rising radio bubble, now seen as the radio relic, and has properties consistent with buoyantly lifted plumes seen in other systems (e.g., M87). Alternatively, the plume may be a gas sloshing spiral viewed edge-on. Results from spectral analysis of the wing-like features are inconsistent with the previous suggestion that the wings formed due to the passage of a weak shock through the cool core. We instead conclude that the wings are due to X-ray cavities formed by displacement of X-ray gas by the radio relic. The central cD galaxy contains two small-scale cold gas clumps that are slightly offset from their optical and UV counterparts, suggestive of a galaxy-galaxy merger event. On larger scales, there is evidence for cluster substructure in both optical observations and the X-ray temperature map. We suggest that the Abell 133 cluster has recently undergone a merger event with an interloping subgroup, initialing gas sloshing in the core. The torus of sloshed gas is seen close to edge-on, leading to the somewhat ragged appearance of the elliptical surface brightness edge. We show that the additional buoyant force from a passing subcluster can have a significant effect on the rise trajectories of buoyant bubbles, although this effect alone cannot fully explain the morphology of Abell 133. The radio observations reveal a large-scale double-lobed structure not previously identified in the literature. We conclude that this structure represents a previously unreported background giant radio galaxy at z = 0.293, the northern lobe of which overlies the radio relic in the core of Abell 133. A rough estimate indicates that the contribution of this background lobe to the total radio emission in the region of the relic is modest (<13%).
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- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
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- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 722, no. 1 (Oct 2010), pp. 825-846
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- 2010
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- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
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- Abell 133; Cluster galaxies; Radio galaxies
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On Thursday October 25th, 2013 the Village of Liberty Police Department arrested Christopher Freer, 30, of Liberty at an apartment on Orchard Street. Freer was wanted on a warrant out of the Town of Liberty Court for harassment in the 2nd degree following a domestic incident that had occurred days prior.
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By Joe Palca • Aug 7, 2013
Originally published on August 7, 2013 5:48 pm
Late summer tends to be a slow month for news. But at All Things Considered, we put on a two hour program, no matter what. So — without a trace of irony — one of our science correspondents offered to help fill some holes in the show with a series of stories about holes. In this edition: Black holes.


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PwC provides details and thoughtful insights on the FASB's proposal to change the reporting of discontinued operations. This Dataline outlines the key details of the FASB's proposal and includes PwC's insights about how the proposed changes may impact current practice.
A FASB exposure draft proposes to change the threshold for reporting discontinued operations and add new disclosures that would impact entities across all industries.
What are the key changes proposed?
To be a discontinued operation, a component of an entity must be disposed of or classified as held for sale and be part of a single coordinated plan to dispose of a separate major line of business or a major geographical area of operations. This is expected to result in fewer disposals being reported as discontinued operations.
Having significant continuing involvement with a component after a disposal or failing to eliminate the operations or cash flows of a disposed component from an entity's ongoing operations would no longer preclude presentation as a discontinued operation. However, having significant continuing involvement would trigger new disclosures.
Information about individually material components that have been disposed of or are held for sale that do not meet the definition of a discontinued operation would need to be disclosed.
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jeez, who does he think el BJ is, a thunder god?
It was f'd.
It was not f'd.
It was close enough between him and D12. Whatever.
I can smell virgins from great distances.
(Tyson) Chandler also had kind words for LeBron James, his teammate in London. I have a different appreciation for LeBron, he said of the Miami Heat star. Just watching him, competing against him. The biggest thing I take away is that hes a natural leader. He doesnt get credit for that, but he led us in many ways, demonstrated what winning was all about. We talked about how competitive the East is going to be. Ultimately, they are the champs and are going to be the champions until someone takes the crown away from them.
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1. Support: It's as simple as this: If any of the Knicks' perimeter players get beat, guess who's going to be backing them up? "As long as you have Tyson Chandler or Marcus Camby back there to protect the rim, it's a big help," a veteran NBA advance scout told ESPNNewYork.com. At basically every second of the game, Chandler or Camby should be on the court. While Chandler and Jared Jeffries was solid last season, Camby as a replacement will be better. Enough said.
2. Matchups: It's a given Chandler and Camby improve the Knicks' chances of making a deep playoff run. And if they're to match up with Miami, featuring the always artfully attacking LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, they'll need as many long arms, wits and skills as they can in the paint. That's what Chandler and Camby provide. Chandler alone did a great job of altering James and Wade's interior shots in 2011, which helped Dallas win their first championship. With an extra dosage of Camby, that's a promising sign. Then, if somehow the Knicks move on and face off with either the Lakers or Thunder in the Finals, they'll have to deal with Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard, or Serge Ibaka and Kendrick Perkins, respectively. That's why it's a nice luxury to have both Chandler and Camby, especially when dealing with foul trouble. Just hopefully Camby, who turns 39 in March, will be healthy come May and perhaps even June.
3. Versatility: While Chandler and Camby side-by-side will limit the Knicks' offense some -- Amare Stoudemire would likely be on the bench in that scenario -- defensively, the team will be extra menacing down low. "They're both very mobile and so long," the scout said. "They might be able to play Chandler at center and have Camby guard a certain type of stretch forward, or vice versa." Of course, the opposing team's lineup and how the game is playing out will dictate when and how long Chandler and Camby could share the court together. But that intimidating option will always be in Mike Woodson's back pocket.
With an NBA caliber center behind him, we will see a more aggressive Chandler. He had Brendan Haywood behind him in Dallas and commented that it allows him to be more aggressive, take more gambles. Let drivers know early on that he's there and don't try it in the 4th.
It's going to be a long hard season, Chandler took a beating last year and Camby is at age.
It's just good to have both of them for security. Just wish we had a young big man to learn from them.
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Here's the part that got me excited
He also spoke on Rasheed potentially joiningChandler and many of his teammates have been participating in informal workouts at the teams practice facility. One additional set of eyes there this week has been Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon, who has been working with Chandler, Stoudemire and others on post moves.
Chandler said hes already noticed a difference.
Theyre going great, man, Chandler said. I couldnt ask for a better supporting cast. I couldnt ask for a better big man to be on my side to work with than Hakeem, to work on moves and be supportive and encourage me and practice them.
He said he has noticed a different feeling around the facility, as the players get ready for training camp to kick off Monday.
Its a feeling that you have before you win, he said. Im excited about it.
I hope he [comes], Chandler said. I dont know what the situation is, butHes a great communicator on defense and we know he can knock down the open 3 and jump shot.
To have myself and Amare [Stoudemire] with Marcus Camby and Rasheed as backups ... Thats pretty nice.
lock this up Reloaded put this in the Rasheed thread
I only wish he gave Kurt thomas a shout out but besides that I applaud him and the team for the effort. Hakeem is that dude for helpin us out, im sure hes gettin paid alot though. Cant wait for the season to start, most of the East will be forced to bow down to the Knicks
Go to scorer- Carmelo Anthony
2nd Option- Amar'e Stoudemire
PG rotation- Raymond Felton/Jason Kidd/Pablo Prigioni
Shooters- JR Smith and Steve Novak
Perimeter Defenders- Iman Shumpert and Ronnie Brewer
Interior Defenders- Tyson Chandler and Marcus Camby
Head Coach and Coaching Staff- Woodson and Co.
we're deep, locked and loaded ready for mutha****in war
*sadly exits thread*
*signs on as MSGknickz33*
*Negs KingStarbury*
*Signs out for the night*
................Chandler has been at the Knicks' facility in Greenburgh along with Stoudemire working with Hakeem Olajuwon to implement post moves into his game. Chandler called Olajuwon "a great teacher."
"Obviously, his moves are great, but not everybody can incorporate their moves into teaching," Chandler said.
Chandler acknowledged that he and Stoudemire may struggle initially to implement the moves into their offensive attacks, but he feels confident they'll eventually be able to execute what Olajuwon has taught them.
"Our team is going to need us to have a post presence and we're going to work hard," he said.
On Stoudemire, Chandler said he can't wait to see him take the floor healthy this season. Stoudemire struggled with a back injury in the 2010-2011 offseason and was out of shape for the early portion of the 2011-12 season. He also suffered through the death of his brother. But he's healthy this season and optimistic about turning things around.
"He started this whole thing," Chandler said of Stoudemire, who signed with the Knicks in the summer of 2010. "The reason why we're here is because of him. The reason why I was willing to be a Knick is because of him. The reason why Melo was willing to be traded here was because of him. So I feel like we all have a little thanks to give to Amare.
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Keep the thread up, i always post information whether big or small (pause) in threads that are already open.
It's nice to see some new threads once in awhile, i'm just not a big thread creator.
were going to have a front court full of dream shakers!! i'm sure chandlers just learning the basics and Melo and Stat probably got more in depth with the post moves being taught, but i feel were going to shock alot of people, teams, players and coaches this season. Our guys are working hard this off-season, and thanks to Hakeem our Front court just got a whole lot better.
I think many are underestimating the POWER OF THE POST! these hakeem workout sessions just may have potentially opened up the path to a can of whoop a$$ on the court.


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A little over two years ago, I quit my day job to pursue writing full time. That meant that I, at least for the time being, did not have to wake up in the morning and drag myself to an office anymore. Every working day of my life since then has been spent sitting on a couch or chair in my own home, usually unshowered and pantsless.
At least that was the case up until about a month ago, when I ditched my work-from-home ways and settled into a desk at the Cracked offices. The reasons for the change are several, and every one of them is "I need health insurance" or "If I don't see snow again for another 100 years, it will still be too soon." So I guess I have a day job again, even if it's the kind that asks during the interview process how comfortable you are with using the word "dong."
"Also, what's your stance on laundering money?"
Being back in an office after a few years of working from a room where the History Channel plays constantly in the background and everything smells like smoke is definitely a change of pace, but as you can imagine, it's not exactly like a traditional day job (especially the part where everybody is drunk on hand sanitizer). It's a pretty laid-back environment. I didn't even have to give up working without pants!
Nevertheless, walking through the door each morning never fails to remind me of all those years I spent working in offices of the soul-crushing variety, and all of the petty things that you wouldn't believe can escalate into full-scale wars in any office. For example ...
6The Thermostat
The office thermostat might as well be that comically large red button that sets off a nuclear war in movies. Take a quick survey of the thermostats in your office and you're bound to come across one that has a screaming yellow Post-it note attached to it with the words "DON'T TOUCH!!!" scrawled angrily across the paper.
It usually happens when, through some marvel of shitty heating and cooling installation, the room that holds the thermostat also features a radically different climate from the rest of the building. The thermostat might claim that the temperature is a comfortable 72 degrees, but in that one room, for whatever reason, it's balmy as shit. Meanwhile, the people sitting in the larger part of the office are as comfortable as can be.
"If not for the part where we all hate life, this would be paradise."
This setup works fine, provided that the smaller room is never used, but unfortunately, that's never the case. Instead, it's usually a meeting room or something, meaning a wide variety of people who may or may not be familiar with the atmospheric dynamic present in the room are filtering in and out all day. All it takes is for one of those people to decide that they don't want to conduct their two-hour meeting in the equivalent of a corporate sweat lodge and turn the thermostat down to, say, 68 degrees. It will still be kind of warm in that little room, but that four-degree drop in temperature might as well be the next ice age for everyone else.
Inevitably, the preappointed office badass, usually determined by a combination of tenure and who smokes the most, will kick in that meeting room door like Dog the Bounty Hunter searching for the deadbeat baby daddy of one of his toothless kids and inform everyone willing to listen that the thermostat is to remain at 72 degrees as stated on the note or hellfire will rain down on everyone in the room.
The people in that meeting will then spend the next hour and a half teetering on the brink of heat stroke and vowing to mess with that thermostat every chance they get going forward.
5The Coffee Maker
One coffee packet or two? That's a question that has divided offices for decades now. The two-packet crowd likes their coffee strong, like a good espresso or a kick to the face. The one-packet crowd prefers a more civilized brew that tastes a bit less robust and doesn't mimic the effects of methamphetamine in such a pronounced way. One thing both sides can agree on, though, is that the other side is completely wrong.
If this seems like a trivial matter, keep one thing in mind: Caffeine is a drug. Toying with the influx of caffeine into a person's bloodstream is inevitably going to end in the closest approximation of a Breaking Bad episode you'll ever get at the office without literally working at a meth lab.
"Two packs of coffee. That's the deal."
Once a coffee divide arises in your office, it's nearly impossible to stop it from exploding into unbridled chaos. The problem is, neither side knows that the other has struck until they've actually poured a cup of coffee and had a taste. But that's beside the point. Even if it's common knowledge that Jane in accounting shows up 10 minutes before anyone else and makes the "weak" coffee, Rhonda in marketing, who prefers stronger coffee, will pour a cup, go through whatever elaborate Splenda packet and non-dairy creamer ritual is standard and walk all the way back to her desk before trying it out. She knows full well what she's about to taste and that she could have avoided this by just jumping on the next pot of coffee or whatever, but she will complain to her strong-coffee-drinkers-in-arms nevertheless, because petty complaints are the fuel that keep the engine running in any office.


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Anděl - an unique place with modern architecture, restaurants, bars, shopping center and metro is just 3 minutes away with a tram.There are huge stores like a Tesco which is opened till midnight.
The apartment has free Wi-Fi and is fully equipped with a nice private bathroom and kitchenette where you can easily prepare breakfast or a snack. All apartments are quiet, clean and comfortable, perfect for people wanting high standards on a budget. We are also environmentally conscious and we do recycle all plastic waste you might have.
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Very clean and comfortable apartment near the old town. Tomas was nice and gave us a map of Prague. Easy check-in and check-out. We enjoyed our time in this accommodation, thank you :-)
Great and clean apartment. The hosts were very friendly.
If cosy means small and basic, it was certainly cosy. Free parking on the street was a plus, but it is not really too central. It is possible to walk to the metro, but it's a hike. The tram line nearby was under construction, which caused some traffic confusion with finding buses. Prague itself is lovely, but very touristic. If you spend all your time touring, the apartment is fine for just sleeping.
Thank you very much for the great days in Prag!
The flat was very comfortable and there was everthing you need.
It was very close to city, so we walked or took the tram and we only need 30 (by foot) or 10 minutes by tram to come there.
Thomas received us very kindly and gives us lots of tips for our holidays.
Thank you, Thomas!
We stayed in apartment for one week, and I am pleased to say that I have very positive opinion about apartment and the owners of the pace
its a bright large flat , with new and comfortable furniture,well maintained and cleaned regularly. All you need for comfortable stay , was there for us... microwave, fridge, kettle... you can prepare food and keep drinks cool in the fridge
location its perfect as its close to Charles bridge( a walking distance) and many trams going to the centre, at the same time its quiete in the flat, giving a chance to sleep well and relax
large shopping mall nearby with hypermarket Tesco
pleased to notice that Wi-Fi was fast and stable, so easily could watch even films online
a big thanks to the owners, who were realy helpful and friendly, making you feeling welcomed and ready to sort any matter... also they speak well English,
our flight was late in the evening, so they offered to keep our luggage safe after checking out
I would definitey recommend this place for travellers, who looking for privacy, good care and reasonable price... we return again!!!
Nice apartment, everything clean and tidy. It offers not much space, but is perfect to sleep or have a breakfast before exploring the beautiful city. Check-in and out was easy. The tram stop is very close and the city center in 15-20 walking distance.
Nice little clean room with everything you would expect. Quite close to the center and VERY close to a tram. Host was kind and helpful and check-in and out was flexible. Thanks!
comfortable room with a nice balkony:)
cookingplates are missing but anyway nice room,and friendly renter!
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Comedy Night & American roots concert at the Hawley Silk Mill
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HAWLEY, PA — Harmony Presents hosts two events this weekend in the Boiler Room at the Hawley Silk Mill. Comedians Chris Lamberth and Pheobe Robinson perform at Final Friday Comedy Night on March 28 at 7:30 p.m. Their combined experience includes sharing the stage with national headliners including Bill Burr, Louis C.K. and Chris Hardwick; writing for MTV's "Girl Code;" and placing in national comedy festivals.
On Saturday at 7:30 p.m., the Americana Roots duo Red Tail Ring performs traditional Appalachian tunes and original compositions, in their first appearance in the Pocono Mountains.
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Wind projects that begin construction during 2013 are eligible for the credit, which amounts to 2.2 cents per kilowatt hour built. Wind-energy advocates had warned that failure to renew the credit could have cost 37,000 jobs nationwide, including 6,000 in Colorado.
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Six million military health care beneficiaries learned last July that their TRICARE support contractor would be changing on April 1, 2010, because those companies that run TRICARE's North and South Regions had lost in competing for the next generation of contracts.
But what a difference six months makes.
Government auditors concluded last November that the winning bids, for contracts worth a combined $38 billion over five years, were mishandled and the winning bids might have been less competitive than first judged.
By mid-December TRICARE officials had reviewed the audits, accepted the findings and vowed "corrective action." Meanwhile, officials decided the current TRICARE contracts will be extended through at least March 31, 2011.
For the six million beneficiaries impacted, the extension means no contract-driven shift in health care providers, and no need to change telephone numbers or web addresses to make medical appointments.
The TRICARE Management Activity's (TMA) acceptance of all findings by the General Accountability Office is not good news for Aetna Government Health Plans of Hartford, Conn. GAO found six reasons to sustain the protest filed by current North Region contractor, Health Net Federal Services of Rancho Cordova, Calif. The most serious was the appearance of impropriety and unfair advantage gained when Aetna hired a former chief of staff at TMA and used him to help draft their bid package.
The officer had had access to proprietary information on Health Net not only before he left government but while working for Aetna, GAO said, because he was able to view sensitive documents through his old TRICARE e-mail account. Health Net executives hope the corrective action TMA takes for North Region is to award them the contract. Health Net was Aetna's only competitor in the bidding process.
TriWest Healthcare Alliance of Phoenix, Ariz., will remain support contractor for 2.7 million beneficiaries in the West Region. That award was not challenged but TriWest's current contract is being extended until next March too, when presumably new five-year contracts will take effect across the TRICARE system.
Steven Tough, president of Health Net, said the contract extension "should provide a significant amount of comfort to all those we serve in the North Region [and] to personnel at military treatment facilities and the providers who work so closely with us."
In Tough's view, the right thing is to Health Net the contract.
Health Net has been involved in TRICARE since its start in 1995 and before that with its predecessor, the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative. Architects of national health reform, Tough said, could use TRICARE as a model for reform nationwide.
A worry for analysts is TRICARE's steadily rising costs. But Tough said much of that is due to the "ebb and flow" of deployments in wartime and how TRICARE civilian provider networks "flex" to care for beneficiaries when personnel depart from military clinics and hospitals. That's occurring now in North Region, Tough said, for the Haitian tragedy with personnel leaving Bethesda Naval Medical Center, Md., and the naval hospital in Norfolk, Va.


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Politico: Women Are Better Calling 911 Than Having A Gun
The Democrat War On Women continues. Politico's Roger Simon pens an opinion piece which tells women "hey, you're safer just calling 911 than having a gun. Who cares if the criminal breaking in might rape, hurt, and/or kill you."
I learned a lot about biology this week by watching a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that was titled: "What Should America Do About Gun Violence?"
I am not sure biology was supposed to be the point, but an odd witness, who is not an expert on gun violence, let it rear its ugly head.
Gayle Trotter is a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum, a self-described conservative group that believes in "limited government, personal liberty and free markets."
Trotter also believes in guns and ammo. Lots of ammo.
Roger goes on to sneer at Trotter and her testimony. It's always interesting when Liberals, who say they support women's rights and empowering them will immediately attack their opinions
"You are not a woman stuck in her house, not able to defend her children, not able to leave her child, not able to go seek safety on the phone with 911."
This might be understandable if Trotter lived in Syria and needed to defend her family on a daily basis. But she lives in the United States. There is certainly violent crime in the United States, but little of it comes from criminals who kick down the doors of homes and come after women and children with guns blazing.
If that does happen, the safest thing to do is to call 911. The most dangerous thing to do is to keep loaded weapons around the house where children can find them and accidentally kill themselves or others. (And the Newtown shooter killed his mother in her sleep with one of the many guns she kept around the house for self-defense.)
There you go: hyper-liberal Simon says you're better off being assaulted, ladies, because you can't be trusted with a gun. You can surely be trusted with aborting a child willy nilly…perhaps this is why liberals are so insistent on mentioning abortion rights for rape victims, because Democrats prefer women to be raped rather than have the means to protect themselves from men with criminal intentions.
Personally, I believe a 100-round gun magazine is far more likely to be used by a criminal to kill innocent civilians and police than by a homeowner protecting herself.
Personally, I believe liberals who make up this meme about 100 round magazines are idiots. So, pretty much most of them. And they would prefer to disarm women and leave them open to criminals. That's just how they roll.
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Really dropped the ball there, Mom.
But this is not a column about Capezio shoes, Duran Duran and Swatches. This is about the subtle horrors of the decade; the parts of the '80s that sneak back into my consciousness now and then. Not the decade's obvious atrocities, like famine in Ethiopia or the Reagan administration's slow response to the AIDS epidemic, but subtler forms of hell. Things that are so inexplicably awful they don't seem real. Forgotten things that made no damn sense.
Here are the five most forgotten atrocities of the '80s.
5 The Video to Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl"
A couple of months ago, I had to travel to West Virginia for business. After a long day of travel, including a rental car GPS that led me to the set of Deliverance II: The Rapening and some poor directions from an eyebrowless lady at the local Sheetz, I arrived at my hotel. If I tell you the concierge had a massive herpes blister, you won't believe me, but he totally did. Accordingly, when it came time to enjoy the state's nightlife, I made the obvious choice: double-bolting my hotel door, getting drunk and watching YouTube videos.
Somehow, this process lead me to Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" video, which I watched for the first time as a man. Even as a kid I knew the song was kind of an early-'60s-style throwback, but it didn't occur to me how cool that was. It certainly couldn't have been an intuitively obvious decision to sing like Frankie Valli in 1985. So kudos to you, Billy.
But the video? Sweet Jesus.
Billy portrays a garage mechanic in love with supermodel Christie Brinkley. Even though the entire look and feel of the video is retro, it starts with two kids (presumably extras from Breakin') dressed in the height of break-dancing fashion who appear to be trying to steal money from a pay phone. Don't worry, there are other, more positive images of blacks in the video, like Christie Brinkley's limo driver. Oh.
Billy begins combing his hair using a technique prevalent in neither the early '60s nor the mid-'80s involving epileptic neck seizures. Then we get some of the most stilted choreography ever assembled. Then Christie Brinkley comes out of the car being followed by Billy and his army of hunching monkeymen. Not for another 25 years would a moderately heighted man have the courage to stand next to someone so tall when a brave Dan O'Brien paired up with the ginormous little Mikey Swaim.
Not as funny as Agents of Cracked.
The douche-chillingly hilarious solution to this height disparity is found at two minutes in:
I'll have to remember this trick next time I'm cruising for tall ladies.
Then we get the break-dancing kids doing the robot, because what says retro Four Seasons pop song more than break dancing? It was the '80s. Break dancing was everywhere. Ultimately, Billy gets the girl and marries her in real life. However, it will take the director of the video another 30 years to legally marry in the U.S.
4Laverne & Shirley in the Army
In 1982, ABC had the great idea to take the then-flailing Laverne & Shirley show and make it a cartoon -- while the real show was still on the air. Sounds hard to believe, right? What if I told you that Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams actually did the voices? It's true. What if I then said the premise was Laverne and Shirley join the army just like Goldie Hawn did in Private Benjamin -- one of the biggest comedies of 1980?
"Please God, please don't let me inspire Hanna-Barbera's unholiest evil."
And what if I finished it off by explaining that Laverne and Shirley's commanding officer was a talking pig voiced by Horshack of Welcome Back, Kotter? All true.
This cartoon sucks so hard I'm not sure how Seanbaby hasn't written about it already. To this day it is the only major network show to have "Peyote" listed as an executive producer. Just listen to the audio. I'm pretty sure microphones existed in the '80s, but Marshall and Williams seem to be somehow screaming their lines directly at the audiotape. Although Star Trek II wasn't yet in theaters, the opening credits appear designed to replicate the sensation of Khan's mind-control parasites burrowing into your cerebral cortex.
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As Jeff pointed out yesterday, the signing of Matt Holliday does not mean that the Cardinals have lost sight of Pujols and his impending contract year. If anything, it shows that they are clearing the air and setting up a supporting cast so they can make sure he stays put. However, I'd like to see something else happen.
See, at this moment in time the Tigers are also clearing out contracts. Granderson and Polanco are gone and despite the money they have tied up in some pretty mediocre pitching, the Tigers will have some wiggle room in 2011.
How perfect would it be if on the five year anniversary of the Cardinals beating the Tigers in the World Series, the Tigers could return the favor in pulling off the coup of the (admittedly brand new) decade by landing Pujols?
Now, I'm not saying it's probable. I'm not even really saying it's possible. I just think the idea of Pujols with an old English "D" on his chest is magical. And the thought of Jeff's lurid fantasies about Albert also involving a navy blue hat with a big white "D" on it makes me smile.
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I'll believe it when the proof is in the pudding…okay, I'll believe it when the D trades Miggy to the Red Sox in order to clear some room for Phat Albert's arrival. Then the Sox will have Miggy, the Tigers will have Pujols, and the Cards will get those coveted draft picks because Pujols is a Type A FA….EVERYBODY WINS.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. Dumbest. Thing. Ever.
I don't like Pujols, and I think the only place he should be is in one of the two big rivals of the Diamondbacks (Dodgers/Cards).
-From, the number one Dbacks Fan. haha
I guess maybe Miggy would have to move back to third in this otherworldly scenario? 🙂
Pujols in a Cubbies uniform would be awkward and just plain weird. Not to mention he'd be a part of a 100+ year drought! Yet he could also be this ray of hope. Hmm interesting. Though Jeff is right I think Pujols will stay a Cardinal.
Yeah, I think the Cards will pull out any stop necessary to retain Pujols. I can't imagine why the Cards would set themselves up for a PR nightmare (let alone loss of firepower) and let Alberto go ANYWHERE. (Yeah, yeah, $$. They'll find it).
This would never happen. Ever. Ever. Cards will resign him and even they dont then he is not going to the Tigers. that is the weirdest thing i have ever heard…


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Awesome review and +10 points for referencing the Tri-Force. In a fabulous year of metal this record was my top. Agree too on the length being somewhat of a detriment; the last two songs are my favorites I don't know how many people will have the patience to get there.
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Haha, was gonna do a review for this, but it looks like you beat me to it. Anyways, nicely done. Definitely one of the highlights of 2011 for me.


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- The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: joint measurements of the expansion and growth history at z less than 1
- Author(s)
- Blake, Chris; Brough, Sarah; Colless, Matthew; Contreras, Carlos; Couch, Warrick; Croom, Scott; Croton, Darren; Davis, Tamara M.; Drinkwater, Michael J.; Forster, Karl; Gilbank, David; Gladders, Mike; Glazebrook, Karl; Jelliffe, Ben; Jurek, Russell J.; Li, I-hui; Madore, Barry; Martin, D. Christopher; Pimbblet, Kevin; Poole, Gregory B.; Pracy, Michael; Sharp, Rob; Wisnioski, Emily; Woods, David; Wyder, Ted K.; Yee, H. K. C.
- Abstract
- We perform a joint determination of the distance–redshift relation and cosmic expansion rate at redshifts z = 0.44, 0.6 and 0.73 by combining measurements of the baryon acoustic peak and Alcock–Paczynski distortion from galaxy clustering in the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey, using a large ensemble of mock catalogues to calculate the covariance between the measurements. We find that DA(z) = (1205 ± 114, 1380 ± 95, 1534 ± 107) Mpc and H(z) = (82.6 ± 7.8, 87.9 ± 6.1, 97.3 ± 7.0) km s−1 Mpc−1 at these three redshifts. Further combining our results with other baryon acoustic oscillation and distant supernovae data sets, we use a Monte Carlo Markov Chain technique to determine the evolution of the Hubble parameter H(z) as a stepwise function in nine redshift bins of width & 0916;z = 0.1, also marginalizing over the spatial curvature. Our measurements of H(z), which have precision better than 7 per cent in most redshift bins, are consistent with the expansion history predicted by a cosmological constant dark energy model, in which the expansion rate accelerates at redshift z < 0.7.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 425, no. 1 (Sep 2012), pp. 405-414
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Cosmic expansion; Distance scale; Growth rates; Joint measurements; Large-scale structure of Universe; Surveys
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- 0035-8711
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012 The Authors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society copyright © 2012 RAS.
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- Peer reviewed


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COllege football roundup: Manziel is back with 3 TDsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS | September 01,2013AP PHOTO
Texas A&M star quarterback Johnny Manziel (2) made another big splash after spending the first game of Saturdays game on the sidelines.COLLEGE STATION, Texas Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel served his suspension for No. 7 Texas A&M in the first half on Saturday against Rice.
In the second half he hit the ground running and apparently running his mouth, too as he threw three touchdown passes and scrambled for 19 yards and the Aggies wrapped up a lopsided 52-31 win over the Owls.
He was suspended until halftime for what the school said was an inadvertent violation of NCAA rules involving signing autographs.
His first touchdown of the season came on a 23-yard pass to Mike Evans on A&Ms next drive. Manziel scrambled for eight yards on third-and-7 on the play before the score and appeared to mimic a signing motion while talking to a Rice defender after getting up from the tackle.
He drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after a touchdown throw in the fourth quarter when he was jawing with the defense again and then pointed at the scoreboard. He was replaced by Matt Joeckel on A&Ms last drive.
Joeckel started at quarterback for A&M and threw for 190 yards and a touchdown to help the Aggies lead 28-21 at halftime. Manziel came in on Texas A&Ms first offensive play of the second half and the Aggies capped his first drive with a 44-yard field goal.
Manziel was being investigated for allegedly accepting money for autographs from memorabilia brokers, a violation of NCAA rules that could have led to a much longer suspension.
Notre Dame 28, Temple 6
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Tommy Rees threw a pair of 32-yard touchdown passes to DaVaris Daniels, a 66-yard scoring pass to Troy Niklas and Notre Dame had three quick scoring drives en route to a 28-6 victory over Temple on Saturday.
The 14th-ranked Irish jumped to a 14-0 lead on a pair of three-play drives on its opening two possessions and appeared headed for a blowout. But when the Notre Dame offense stalled, Temple squandered a pair of scoring chances, with Jim Cooper Jr. missing a pair of field goals. An unsettled feeling settled in at Notre Dame Stadium when Kenny Harper scored on a 1-yard run to cut the lead to 14-6. The Irish regained control, however, with Niklas TD with 43 seconds left in the half.
The victory by the Irish (1-0) was the 200th career win for coach Brian Kelly. The Owls (0-1) fell to 2-76 all-time against ranked opponents.
Florida 24, Toledo 6
GAINESVILLE, Fla. Mack Brown had a career day, Jeff Driskel was efficient and No. 10 Florida opened the season with a 24-6 victory over Toledo on Saturday.
Brown ran 25 times for 112 yards and two touchdowns. Driskel completed 17 of 22 passes for 153 yards and a score. And Floridas defense, which ranked fifth in the country in 2012, looked every bit as good as last years version despite losing eight starters and its coordinator.
The Gators controlled both lines of scrimmage, opening holes for Brown and keeping steady pressure on Toledos experienced spread offense. It was exactly the style of play Florida has become known for under third-year coach Will Muschamp. No flashiness. Few highlight-reel plays. But a win in the end.
It was Floridas 24th consecutive season-opening victory, the second-longest active streak in the country. Only Nebraska (27) has a longer current run.
Ohio State 40, Buffalo 20
COLUMBUS, Ohio Braxton Miller threw two touchdown passes before fighting leg cramps and Jordan Hall ran for two more scores to lead No. 2 Ohio State to a 40-20 victory over Buffalo on Saturday in the season opener for both teams.
The Buckeyes, striving for a crisper start from coach Urban Meyers debut in 2012, led 23-0 after the first quarter before the Bulls made things interesting. Joe Licata threw two TD passes and linebacker Kahlil Mack returned a Miller interception 45 yards to make it 30-20 in the third quarter.
Miller was sidelined a second time with cramps and sub Kenny Guiton promptly tossed a 21-yard TD pass to Chris Fields.
Hall had a career-high 159 yards rushing, scoring on runs of 37 and 49 yards.
Wisconsin 45, UMass 0
MADISON, Wis. New coach, same ol Badgers.
Melvin Gordon ran for 144 yards and a 70-yard touchdown, James White added 143 and a 51-yard score, and No. 23 Wisconsins revamped defense throttled Massachusetts in a 45-0 victory Saturday over Massachusetts in coach Gary Andersens debut.
Newly minted starting quarterback Joel Stave overcame a slow start to connect with receiver with Jared Abbrederis for two long touchdowns in the second half.
It was 31-0 with 10:31 to go in the third quarter by the time White sauntered through the line untouched and into the end zone for a 51-yard score.
The only tradition left to put this Badgers opener in the books was for the Camp Randall Stadium public address system to blare House of Pains Jump Around to get the fans in the stands hopping for the fourth quarter. Many in the student section scattered soon afterward with the game well in hand.
UMass was simply overmatched against the Big Tens three-time defending champion. The Minutemen are only in their second year as a major college program, and they had to play Saturday with two of their top offensive players in running back Jordan Broadnax and tight end Rob Blanchflower out with injuries.
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White House Confident Insurance Website Is Working Better
By Steve Inskeep • Dec 2, 2013
Originally published on December 2, 2013 12:27 pm
In this, the first week of December, the Obama administration says it has met its self-imposed deadline of fixing the troubled healthcare.gov web site. And it says people should be able to sign up for health insurance. So, is it fixed and when will we know for sure?


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Immigration and Community
Working Toward a Biblical Perspective
September 25, 2010
This conference was an opportunity for participants to engage Biblical perspectives on immigration and community, including the specific issues surrounding undocumented immigrants. Participants heard about the impact of immigration at the local level and various philosophies and possibilities of response. The conference assisted participants in exploring how churches, individuals, and community groups can increase understanding and engage in immigration ministry or advocacy.
Conference Materials
- Interview
- Presentation—Rev. Scott Hoezee, Calvin Seminary
- Q&A with Rev. Scott Hoezee
- Presentation—Dr. Mark Grey and Dr. Michelle Devlin, University of Northern Iowa
- Q&A with Dr. Mark Grey and Dr. Michelle Devlin
- Presentation—Dr. Mariano Avila, Calvin Seminary
- Closing Remarks—Rev. Gianni Gracia
Here are some documents that were presented at the conference:
- Scott Hoezee's paper*
- Scott Hoezee's powerpoint*
- Mark Grey and Michele Devlin's powerpoint
*Portions of this address are based on the material Scott Hoezee prepared for the 2010 study committee report on "The Migration of Workers" prepared for the Synod of the Christian Reformed Church in North America. The full report is available in English and in Spanish.
Click here to view the schedule.
Mariano Avila was born in Mexico City, where he served as pastor of six Presbyterian churches. He has also served in the Seminary of the National Presbyterian Church as professor, academic dean, and president, and was professor of Biblical Studies at the Comunidad Teologica de Mexico. He was Academic Dean of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Estudios Teologicos (Miami, Florida), and is a member of the Academic Council of PRODOLA, the doctoral program (Ph.D.) for professors, leaders, and pastors in Latin America. For several years he was coordinator of urban ministries for community transformation and theological adviser for World Vision Mexico, and was also advisor for the Spanish ministry of CRC Publications.
Rev. Scott E. Hoezee is an ordained pastor in the Christian Reformed Church in North America and has served two congregations. He was the pastor of Second Christian Reformed Church in Fremont, Michigan, from 1990-1993. Then from 1993-2005 he was the Minister of Preaching and Administration at Calvin CRC in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In the spring of 2005 Scott accepted the Seminary's offer to become the first Director of the Center for Excellence in Preaching. He has also been a member of the Pastor-Theologian Program sponsored by the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, where he was pastor-in-residence in the fall of 2000. He currently serves as one of three co-editors of Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought.
Mark A. Grey is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Iowa. He is also Director of the Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration. The Center is an award-winning program that provides consultation, training and publications to Iowa communities, churches, organizations, and employers as they deal with the unique challenges and opportunities associated with influxes of immigrant and refugee newcomers. Read More.
Dr. Grey received his Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He has published extensively in academic journals on immigration in the Midwest including recent articles in Human Organization and Religion and Education, and for professional audiences as co-author of the book "Health Matters: A Guide for Working with Diverse Cultures and Underserved Populations" by Intercultural Press. He is also the lead author of the new book, entitled "Postville USA: Surviving Diversity in Small Town America." Dr. Grey has also authored numerous pocket guides for lay audiences, including Welcoming New Iowans: A Guide for Citizens and Communities; Welcoming New Iowans: A Guide for Managers and Supervisors; and Welcoming New Iowans: A Guide for Christians and Churches. He recently published A Health Provider's Pocket Guide to Working with Immigrant, Refugee and Minority Populations in Iowa; several pocket guides on providing health services to diverse seniors; and A Health Providers Pocket Guide to Working with Orthodox Jewish Patients in Hospital Settings. Dr. Grey has won numerous awards for his activities, including the Iowa Friends of Civil Rights Award, the University of Northern Iowa Distinguished Service Award, the Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence, and the Richard Remington Award for Outstanding Public Health Service to Iowa.
Dr. Michele Devlin is professor of public health at the University of Northern Iowa, where she is the recipient of the Richard Remington Award, the Governor's Award, the Iowa Civil Rights Award, and other local, state, and national honors for outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service in the health and human rights field. Dr. Devlin is Director of the Iowa Center on Health Disparities, a model organization funded by the National Institutes of Health to improve health equity for underserved populations. She also directs Cultural Connections, a non-profit consulting organization at the University of Northern Iowa that provides training for agencies on cultural competency, tolerance, and diversity issues. Read More.
Dr. Devlin completed her master's and doctorate degrees in international public health at the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Devlin's primary areas of specialty include maternal and child health; refugee, minority, and immigrant care; and cultural competency with underserved populations. She has published multiple scientific reports and books, including "Health Matters: A Guide to Working with Diverse and Underserved Populations" and "Postville: Surviving Diversity in Small Town America." In addition to her academic expertise, Dr. Devlin has more than 25 years of field experience working with public health agencies, non-profits, corporations, and government organizations, conducting programs both domestically and internationally with refugees, women, children, minorities, the elderly, and other at-risk individuals. Dr. Devlin is also the founder and advisor of the award-winning "Global Health Corps," a model service-learning program that has trained more than 500 students in conducting culturally appropriate public health programs with over 40,000 diverse and underserved populations in the United States and abroad. Dr. Devlin has extensive travel experience, and has worked, visited, or studied in 40 nations around the world.


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Celebrating the Extraordinary Life of Rabbi Yechezkel Landau - A Birthday Bash Unlike Any Other - 300 Years Later!
We invite you to participate with us in a two-week celebration of the tricentennial birth of one of the towering rabbinic figures in Jewish life during the middle of the 18th-century. Rabbi Yechezkel Landau (1713-1793) also known by his most famous work, "Noda B'Yehudah", just happens to be the Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather of our congregants, Sue Fleishman and Lorna Tabby.
On October 1, Sue will speak about the remarkable saintly life of, and the extraordinary communal contributions made by her illustrious predecessor, who was also the Chief Rabbi of Prague.
On October 8, Lorna will share with us fascinating excerpts and inspirational lessons from the personal writings of arguably the greatest Rabbi of his day and age.
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The poster normally hangs inside the McCarthy house. As a father of five – one in college, two in their 'tween years and two preschoolers – well, Mike McCarthy occasionally needs the reminder amid the chaos and mayhem his little ones can create.
Keep Calm and Carry On.
So when the Green Bay Packers coach took the poster to work Wednesday to use as an object lesson for his players, his wife, Jessica, had only one stipulation.
"Don't damage the frame," she told him.
Given the way things are going around Lambeau Field these days – particularly in the training room – it's 50/50 that Mrs. McCarthy gets her poster back intact. But this much is certain: Her husband couldn't have picked a better motto entering Sunday's game against the Cleveland Browns at Lambeau Field.
Each week, McCarthy spends his Monday evening researching a theme to present to his players that Wednesday as motivation for the work leading up to the next game. Last week, for example, it was True Grit, a reference to the 1969 John Wayne film (and 2010 Coen brothers remake with Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin).
And this week, with the team's injury problems getting so bad that McCarthy seems to be getting unexpectedly bad news every few hours, he believes Keep Calm and Carry On fits his team to a T. He even had the background for the poster, which was part of a series of propaganda posters the British government … well, let's let McCarthy show off.
"You historians (will) probably appreciate that," McCarthy said during his post-practice press conference after sharing the theme with reporters. "In 1939 (the poster was) issued by the British government right before World War II in anticipation of the bombing of the major cities. So, that's what we're talking about."
When WBAY-TV sports director Chris Roth told McCarthy that his citation was impressive, McCarthy replied with a laugh, "Thank you, I practiced it all night."
While quarterback Aaron Rodgers teased McCarthy for telling the media – "He loves telling you guys his slogans," Rodgers said – the message clearly got through when McCarthy stood up in front of the entire team, had staffer Matt Klein hold up the poster and explained how it applied to their situation in the wake of last Sunday's adversity-laced victory over defending Super Bowl-champion Baltimore and with a host of key players sidelined.
"He was saying (how) you've got to remember that when you go home with some screaming kids and you got to get them to bed," said inside linebacker A.J. Hawk, a father of two toddlers himself. "He got his point across."
Added Rodgers: "It's a good message, very good message. Don't panic. … I don't care what's going on outside the facility; inside the facility we have to stay focused on the things that we can control. I'm excited about the guys that are going to be lining up with us, excited about the young guys and their opportunities, and I can't wait to see how we play on Sunday.
"It's during these tough times that your character is revealed."
And times are tough. The Packers, who are 3-2 after winning back-to-back games for the first time this year, played last Sunday without four-time Pro Bowl outside linebacker Clay Matthews (broken thumb) andstarting inside linebacker Brad Jones (hamstring), then lost wide receiver James Jones (knee) and wide receiver Randall Cobb (broken leg) to injuries that left them unable to line up in a three-receiver set because only two true wideouts (Jordy Nelson and Jarrett Boykin) remained.
While Jones hasn't been ruled out for Sunday, Cobb – the team's leading receiver – was placed on injured reserve Tuesday with the designation to return, meaning he will miss the next eight games and can't play until Dec. 15 at Dallas at the earliest.
At least McCarthy knew about those injuries. When he arrived at work Monday, the medical staff surprised him by informing him that starting outside linebacker Nick Perry had suffered a broken foot. That afternoon, team physician Dr. Pat McKenzie told him tight end Ryan Taylor, a vital special teams player, was complaining of pain in his knee. Taylor underwent arthroscopic knee surgery Wednesday and, like Perry, will be out multiple weeks.
For good measure, outside linebacker/defensive end Mike Neal couldn't practice Wednesday because of a bruised shoulder, leaving the Packers with only two outside linebackers for practice.
"I was in a meeting Monday, there were two players (injured) I didn't even see it coming based on the information on the plane," said McCarthy, whose team now has a league-high 14 rookies on its 53-man roster after promoting tight end Jake Stoneburner and wide receiver Myles White from the practice squad Tuesday. "In our staff meeting on Monday, I think 43 players on the board to get started playing again. Obviously, there's been some adjustments – and we've made plenty of them. I think it's clear-cut where we stand.
"It's been a busy 48 hours. Clearly, I know in my time in the league, just as far as the number of roster moves that we've had to go through the last two days, it's a lot of adjustment, a lot of planning for different scenarios and things like that. (But) we feel like we have a good plan and we'll be ready to go."
While McCarthy made it clear that it will take more than a historic motto to beat the Browns, who are a surprising 3-3, his players clearly felt the speech was a good start.
"I think it's great," Hawk said. "I think great coaches find ways to motivate your team and 'Coach' is always finding creative ways for that. I think we all know how fiery he is and how he doesn't seem like he wants to be calm very often. So we respect that and we love it. I love all of his messages. I eat those things up, man. I love it.
"It's true, too. I think it has a little undertone of, just don't ever panic. This league is crazy. Things happen week in and week out. You can't ever panic. You just got to keep doing your thing."
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Kenichi meets a mysterious master living within the forest, and the point of Elder's training comes into focus: Kenichi is at a crossroads and the path he chooses will change his life.
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Holiday from hell
Sierra Madre woman spends terror-filled Thanksgiving in Mumbai hotel
By André Coleman , John Seeley 12/11/2008
By the time Indian soldiers finally rescued Nancy Walsh from her room in Mumbai's Oberoi Hotel, the 65-year-old Sierra Madre resident and member of the city's Senior Commission had spent 36 hours amidst one of the worst terror attacks since Sept. 11. Throughout the ordeal, Walsh managed to keep cool, partially through her professional training and also because she was largely unaware of the bloodshed downstairs.
Walsh, a retired LA County Health Department executive, told reporters at LAX that she just went into a survival mode as she sat in her hotel room. "I managed several disaster preparedness training sessions," she told the Weekly, "so I just tried to assess the situation and come up with options." For several hours, Walsh was under the mistaken impression from confused local television coverage that the fire in another wing of the Oberoi was happening at a different hotel. "Within a certain number of hours you just get used to the gunfire and the bombs," Walsh said. "There is a point you become impervious to it and you are just waiting to get out. I can see how people in war zones become accustomed to it."
Thirty Oberoi Hotel guests died in the attacks that began Nov. 27, after armed men with Laskhar-e-Taiba, a group pledged to establishing Muslim domination of Russia, China and South Asia, stormed the hotel. The group's name, according to a Los Angeles Times report, translates as "Army of the Pure." Under pressure by the US and Indian governments, Pakistan security forces captured Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, one of the plot's alleged masterminds, the Times reported.
The terrorists entered Mumbai in small boats and attacked multiple locations around the city. Throwing grenades and firing their weapons at bystanders, they entered the Oberoi Hotel and several other buildings searching for American and British citizens, killing 185 people from 11 countries, according to the British Broadcasting Corp.
After the siege, soldiers escorted Walsh and other guests at the five-star Oberoi Hotel through the lobby, trying in vain to prevent them from seeing the bloody carnage left by the attackers.
"On the floor there was this huge dry puddle of blood," said Walsh, who was met by family and friends after arriving last Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport. "It led to streaks of blood like someone had been dragged on the floor. Then it became drops of blood, and then there was crushed glass on the floor from a shattered window. It was like walking through a timeline in reverse of the last moments of someone's life."
Walsh arrived in India on Nov. 10 and toured the northern and southern parts of the country. She returned to her room at the Oberoi the night before the attack, dining with people she had met on the plane. She had plans to depart the next day for Dubai, but was awakened by explosions and knew immediately that something was terribly wrong.
"I grabbed my passport and got dressed. Usually, there was always someone in the hallway. I opened the door and I did not see anyone. I ran down the hallway and turned the corner and still didn't see anyone," she recalled.
Realizing that the elevators weren't working and that she might be trapped in the stairwell, Walsh decided to run to the other side of the hotel, where she had seen a service entrance. When she got there, she saw a tray of food sitting on the floor and realized the hotel staff had abandoned the building.
Using the service stairs, Walsh ran down from the 33rd floor to the 27th and joined several Canadians she had met on the tour. At that point, no one had much idea what was really going on. It was several hours before Walsh returned to her room and discovered what was happening from television reports, some of them confused.
"I hid my passport and started developing a story and a Canadian accent," Walsh said. "If I encountered the terrorists, my story was going to be I was Canadian and that hotel management had taken my passport to review it."
Walsh stayed huddled in her hotel room, watching CNN and talking on her cell phone to her daughters, Jennifer Dyer of Sierra Madre and Melissa Studenroth of Pasadena, and with other hotel guests. On Thanksgiving, while people back home were eating turkey and pie, Walsh nibbled cashew nuts and drank a bottle of Merlot while taking pictures of herself to memorialize the moment and keep herself occupied.
"We got a call from her saying that there were bombs going off," said Jennifer. "There was nothing on TV when I turned to CNN. It was terrifying. We didn't know if her building was on fire, how many terrorists there were or if the terrorists were going from room-to-room. After a few hours, we realized that the terrorists had their hands full with the hostages they had and fighting the army and that she would probably be safe if she stayed put on the 33rd floor … until we saw on CNN that the hotel was on fire and then we realized she could still die."
The fire, set on the ground floor by terrorists holed up in the hotel, swept through that floor but was quickly brought under control. Minutes later, Walsh was hustled to safety under tight security.
Despite the terrifying experience, Walsh, who visited Vietnam and Egypt last year, continued to Dubai as previously planned, rather than rushing home, and said she plans to travel again soon.
While other siege victims complain of sleeplessness, nightmares and smoke-induced respiratory problems, Walsh has been luckier. She has had some "captivity dreams — being moved on a boat — but they're not really that disturbing." While not sleeping well yet, "I think it's just jet lag," she said.
"If you are going to be a hostage, have a good mini-bar," she said with a chuckle. "I plan to get right back on a plane as soon as I can. We can't let terrorism hold us back or hurt the travel industry."
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