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Archbishop John Hughes
PopeWatch: Dagger John
PopeWatch finds the near universal applause that Pope Francis is currently receiving somewhat disturbing. If a Catholic cleric is doing his job, he is likely to receive just as many boos as cheers, if not more so. Case in point, the first Archbishop of New York, John Hughes, known universally to friend and foe alike as "Dagger John". Go here, here, here and here to read prior posts about him. Dagger John was ever a champion of the Faith and his beloved Irish, both held in low esteem by many non-Catholic and non-Irish Americans. One story about Dagger John gives the essence of the man: After the anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia in 1844 he called on the mayor of New York, an anti-Catholic bigot, and informed him that if a single Catholic church were touched in New York, New York would be a second Moscow. (The reference was to the burning of Moscow in 1812 during Napoleon's occupation of the city.) Not a Catholic church was touched. Russell Shaw at Our Sunday Visitor has a story in which he recalls an incident fifteen years after the death of Hughes:
New York's cathedral was dedicated in a splendid, hours-long ceremony on the morning of Sunday, May 25, 1879. Shortly before, the Atlantic Monthly, a mouthpiece of the Northeast's non-Catholic establishment, ran an article trashing the building and Archbishop Hughes, whose great project it was. He'd been dead since 1864. The author, architectural critic Clarence Cook, wrote that the fourth bishop of New York was a "politician" as well as a priest — one of the few Catholic priests "able to win, by their own character and energy, a national reputation."
"We are not saying it was an agreeable reputation," Cook continued. "The archbishop belonged to the church militant … always in the saddle, never weary, and, what was more never desponding … so convincing that, when he called for money, if a widow had but one penny, yet should he have a farthing ere he went."
Someone reading that now may wonder what lay behind this bilious outburst against a long-dead prelate. In his history of the Church in America, "American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church" (Vintage, $18.95), Charles R. Morris says Cook grasped the symbolism of St. Patrick's just as Archbishop Hughes had done. The archbishop cherished it, but Cook, to say the least, did not.
"It enunciated a vision of Catholicism as a new power center, a major moral and political force," Morris writes. "Cook was shouting, Beware! With a man of John Hughes's forcefulness at the head of the Catholic Church in the United States, anything could happen." As for the archbishop, he would probably have replied in kind to Cook's attack. And much enjoyed the verbal tussle that followed.
Here is the full quotation from Cook's attack on Hughes:
First of all, he was a politician, and one of the shrewdest and ablest of his class. And then he was a priest and in this capacity one of the few men in the Catholic Church in this country who have been able to win, by their own character and energy, a national reputation; so that, in his heyday, his name was as well and as widely known as that of Seward, or O'Connor, or Butler. We are not saying it was an agreeable reputation. The archbishop belonged to the church militant, and he was a courageous, adroit general, always in the saddle, never weary, and what was more never desponding. He did not need, for the work he had to do, to be a finely educated man, a man of elegant tastes, and, if we may use the hateful world so much abused in these shoddy days, a man of culture. We say he was none of these, but we say it without the least wish to disparage him. He was a manly man, a gentleman in all his intercourse with gentlemen, and among his people so persuasive, or at least so convincing, that, when he called for money, if a widow had but one penny, yet should he have a farthing ere he went. Continue reading
January 3, 1864: Death of Dagger John
"Bury me in the sunshine", were the last words of the Archbishop of New York, John Hughes, as he departed this Vale of Tears on January 3, 1864. Hughes was looked upon by his contemporaries as a force of nature rather than a man. Overseeing with skill the explosive growth of the Church in New York, and helping lead generations of Catholic immigrants out of poverty, he also found time to take part in the public affairs of his day, and was probably the best known Catholic churchman of his time. He was also a very tough and fearless man. After the anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia in 1844 he called on the mayor of New York, an anti-Catholic bigot, and informed him that if a single Catholic church were touched in New York, New York would be a second Moscow. (The reference was to the burning of Moscow in 1812 during Napoleon's occupation of the city.) Not a Catholic church was touched. On another occasion when a threat was made to burn Saint Patrick's cathedral the Archbishop had it guarded within hours by 4,000 armed Catholics. No wonder his enemies and friends nicknamed him "Dagger John"!
At the beginning of the Civil War he had thrown himself wholeheartedly behind the preservation of the Union, rallying New York's Irish to support the cause and going to Europe at the instigation of the Lincoln administration to garner support for the Union. Small wonder that after his death Lincoln wrote,
"having formed the Archbishop's acquaintance in the earliest days of our country's present troubles, his counsel and advice were gladly sought and continually received by the Government on those points which his position enabled him better than others to consider. At a conjuncture of deep interest to the country, the Archbishop, associated with others, went abroad, and did the nation a service there with all the loyalty, fidelity and practical wisdom which on so many other occasions illustrated his great ability for administration."
His finest moment probably was when, visibly dying, he rose from his death bed to make a speech on July 16, 1863 which helped quell the draft riots. The speech is extremely interesting. It contains a fair amount of humor, Hughes recognizing that the Irish always loved a message if it was leavened with laughter, and the Archbishop's message was an appeal to the New York Irish based upon their love of Ireland and their innate sense of fairness. It is a marvel to me that a dying man could do this, but Dagger John accomplished it. Here is the text of the speech:
MEN OF NEW YORK: They call you rioters and I cannot see a riotous face among you. (Cheers) I call you men of New York, not gentlemen, because gentlemen is so threadbare a term that it means nothing positive. (Applause.) Give me men, and I know of my own knowledge, that if the City were invaded by a British or any other foreign Power, (laughter.) the delicate ladies of New York, with infants at their breasts, would look for their protection to men, rather than to gentlemen. (Applause.) Of course, there is no reason why you should not be gentlemen, for there is no real difference between these terms. (Applause.) I address you of my own choice; and I would do so if I had to go on crutches. No one has prompted me to do it. My lungs are stronger than my limbs. It gratifies me that you have met in peace and good order here at this time. This, however, does not surprise me—it is what I expected. I do not address you as the President. (laughter,) or the Governor, or the Mayor, or a military officer. I address you as your father. (Cheers.) VOICE—You are worth the whole of them. And I am not going to go into the question, what has brought about this unhappy state of things. It is not my business to do so but as far as I am concerned myself, you know that I am a minister of God, and a minister of peace, who in your troubles in years past, as you know, never deserted you. (Cheers, and cries of "No, never.") With my tongue and my pen I have stood by you always, and so shall to the end of my life, so long as you are right, and I sincerely hope that you are not wrong. (Cheers.) I am not a runaway Bishop in times of danger. (A Voice—"No, you're not like BEECHER.") It has been perhaps a calamity, but I do not regret it. That I never was conscious of the sentiment of fear until the danger was over, and then sometimes I might perhaps get a little nervous. (Cheers.) I could not even in the best of cases, as you know, fight for you.
The course of nature has denied me that privilege but I can still stand by you, I can still advise you, and, if necessary, I can die with you. (Great cheering.) As I said before, I will not enter into the question which has provoked all this excitement. No doubt there are some real grievances, but still I think that there are many imaginary ones—because in this world everything is comparative in its nature. There are no people in the world that have not some cause of grievance, and there are few that have not greater cause for complaint than we can complain of, after all. (Cheers.) Everything is comparative, and a change is not always an improvement.
When I cast my thoughts back to the land of my forefathers, and when I think of it's desolation, when I see the fertile west and south of Ireland depopulated and cattle browsing on the ruins of the cottages of the noble race that once lived there, I thank God that I was permitted to be among those who had an opportunity of coming to this country, where at least no such wretched tyranny is practiced (great cheering.) If you are Irishmen, and the papers say the rioters are all Irishmen, then I also am an Irishman, (tremendous applause) but not a rioter, for I am a man of peace. If you are Catholics, as they have said, probably to wound my feelings, then I also am a Catholic (cheers.) Continue reading
John Wayne Catholics Throughout History
This, indeed, is probably one of the Enemy's motives for creating a dangerous world – a world in which moral issues really come to the point. He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Paul has mentioned here the wonderful post by Pat Archbold in which he longs for John Wayne, a death bed Catholic convert, Catholicism as opposed to what he calls the Woody Allen Catholicism adopted by too many Catholics in the past half century:
Oh how I long for a religion with enough boldness to loudly, proudly, and incessantly proclaim uncomfortable truths, even to its own supposed adherents, until they all understand what it means to be Catholic.
How I long for a religion with that quiet and gentle resoluteness. A religion that can acknowledge the mistakes of its members while loudly proclaiming the Church One, Holy, Apostolic, and Infallible.
I desire John Wayne Catholicism in a Woody Allen world.
But the thing about John Wayne characters, without fanfare, gratitude, understanding, or appreciation, they just did what needed doing for no other reason than it was the right thing.
So I guess I will just try to do that.
I agree. The Catholicism that Pat longs for is the Catholicism that has existed throughout almost all the history of the Church. Some reminders:
1. John Sobieski- After defeating the Turks at Vienna in 1683 he sent the green flag of Islam to the Pope with this message: "Venimus, Vidimus, Deus vincit"! (We came, we saw, God conquered!)
2. The Martyrs of Otranto-Twelve years before Christopher Columbus discovered a New World, 800 men and boys of Otranto laid down their lives for Christ. The city of Otranto, at the heel of the boot of Italy, was seized by the Turks under Gedik Ahmed Pasha, grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire. Archbishop Stefano Argercolo de Pendinellis was murdered in his cathedral by the Turks and the garrison commander was sawn in half. Following a massacre of most of the population the Turks offered some 800 men and boys the choice between conversion to Islam or death. Led by an elderly tailor, Antonio Pezzulla, the men and boys chose death rather than apostacy, and were beheaded on the hill of Minvera outside the town on August 14, 1480, their families forced by the Turks to help in the executions.
The witness of the martyrs of Otranto was truly remarkable. Not priests or soldiers, they were just plain, ordinary folk. They had every earthly reason to attempt to save their lives, but with supernatural courage they went to their deaths for a love that passes understanding. The old tailor spoke for them all when he addressed them after the Turks had given them their grim choice:
My brothers, until today we have fought in defense of our country, to save our lives, and for our lords; now it is time that we fight to save our souls for our Lord, so that having died on the cross for us, it is good that we should die for him, standing firm and constant in the faith, and with this earthly death we shall win eternal life and the glory of martyrs.
The martyrs in response cried out that they were willing to die a thousand times for Christ.
3. Archbishop John Hughes-After the anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia in 1844 he called on the mayor of New York, an anti-Catholic bigot, and informed him that if a single Catholic church were touched in New York, New York would be a second Moscow. (The reference was to the burning of Moscow in 1812 during Napoleon's occupation of the city.) Not a Catholic church was touched. On another occasion when a threat was made to burn Saint Patrick's cathedral the Archbishop had it guarded within hours by 4,000 armed Catholics. No wonder his enemies and friends nicknamed him "Dagger John"!
4. Father Joe Lacy-On June 6, 1944 at 7:30 AM, LCA 1377 landed the Rangers on Omaha Dog Green Beach, the first landing craft to land on that section of Omaha Beach. Father Lacy was the last man out just before an artillery shell hit the fantail. Everything was chaos with the beach being swept by German artillery and small arms fire. Wounded men were everywhere, both on the beach and in the water feebly trying to get to the beach. Father Lacy did not hesistate. With no thought for his own safety he waded into the water to pull men out of the ocean and onto the beach. He began treating the wounded on the beach and administering the Last Rites to those beyond human assistance. On a day when courage was not in short supply men took notice of this small fat priest who was doing his best under fire to save as many lives as he could. While his battalion led the way off Omaha Beach, Father Lacy continued to tend their wounded and the wounded of other units. For his actions that day Father Lacy was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest decoration for valor, after the Medal of Honor, in the United States Army.
5. Don John of Austria and his Men-Before the battle of Lepanto Don John of Austria went about the ships of his fleet and said this to his crews: 'My children, we are here to conquer or die. In death or in victory, you will win immortality.' The chaplains of the fleet preached sermons on the theme: "No Heaven For Cowards". Many of the men were clutching rosaries just before the battle. Admiral Andrea Doria went into the fight with an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe aboard his ship. Back in Europe countless Catholics were praying rosaries at the request of Saint Pope Pius V for the success of the Christian fleet.
At the hour of the battle, and this fact is very well attested, the Pope was talking to some cardinals in Rome. He abruptly ceased the conversation, opened a window and looked heavenward. He then turned to the cardinals and said: "It is not now a time to talk any more upon business; but to give thanks to God for the victory he has granted to the arms of the Christians." So that Catholics would never forget Lepanto and the intercession of Mary, he instituted the feast of Our Lady of Victory. To aid in this remembrance G. K. Chesterton in 1911 wrote his epic poem Lepanto:
How Dagger John Saved the Irish
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:33
Archbishop John Hughes of New York, universally known to friend and foe as Dagger John, was a very tough and fearless man. After the anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia in 1844 he called on the mayor of New York, an anti-Catholic bigot, and informed him that if a single Catholic church was touched in New York, New York would be a second Moscow. (The reference was to the burning of Moscow in 1812 during Napoleon's occupation of the city.) Not a Catholic church was touched. On another occasion when a threat was made to burn Saint Patrick's cathedral the Archbishop had it guarded within hours by 4,000 armed Catholics. He earned his nickname!
Among his many accomplishments was his success in leading the New York Irish out of poverty. It is a fascinating story and relevant to our time. In 1997 in City Journal, William J. Stern wrote an article on how Dagger John did it:
Hughes once remarked that "the Catholic Church is a church of discipline," and Father Richard Shaw, Hughes's most recent biographer, believes that the comment gives a glimpse into the inner core of his beliefs. Self-control and high personal standards were the key—and Hughes's own disciplined labors to improve himself and all those around him, despite constant ill health, embodied this ethic monumentally. Hughes proclaimed the need to avoid sin. His clergy stated clearly that certain conduct was right and other conduct was wrong. People must not govern their lives according to momentary feelings or the desire for instant gratification: they had to live up to a code of behavior that had been developed over thousands of years. This teaching produced communities where ethical standards mattered and severe stigma attached to those who misbehaved.
The priests stressed the virtue of purity, loudly and unambiguously, to both young and old. Sex was sinful outside marriage, no exceptions. Packed together in apartments with sometimes two or three families in a single room, the Irish lived in conditions that did not encourage chastity or even basic modesty. Women working in the low-paid drudgery of domestic service were tempted to work instead in the saloons of Five Points, which often led to a life of promiscuity or prostitution. The Church's fierce exhortations against promiscuity, with its accompanying evils of out-of-wedlock births and venereal disease, took hold. In time, most Irish began to understand that personal responsibility was an important component of sexual conduct.
Since alcohol was such a major problem for his flock, Hughes—though no teetotaler himself—promoted the formation of a Catholic abstinence society. In 1849 he accompanied the famous Irish Capuchin priest, Father Theobald Mathew, the "apostle of temperance," all around the city as he gave the abstinence pledge to 20,000 New Yorkers.
A religion of discipline, stressing conduct and the avoidance of sin, can be a pinched and gloomy affair, but Hughes's teaching had a very different inflection. His priests mitigated the harshness with the encouraging Doctrine of the Sacred Heart, which declares that if you keep the commandments, God will be your protector, healer, advisor, and perfect personal friend. To a people despised by many, living in desperate circumstances, with narrow economic possibilities, such a teaching was a bulwark against anger, despair, and fear. Hughes's Catholicism was upbeat and encouraging: if God Almighty was your personal friend, you could overcome.
Hughes's teaching had a special message for and about women. Women outnumbered men by 20 percent in New York's Irish population partly because of famine-induced emigration patterns and partly because many Irish immigrant men went west from New York to work on building railways and canals. Irish women could find work in New York more easily than men could, and the work they found, usually as domestics, was steadier. Given the demographic facts, along with the high illegitimacy rate and the degree of family disintegration, Hughes clearly saw the need to teach men respect for women, and women self-respect.
He did this by putting Catholicism's Marian Doctrine right at the center of his message. Irish women would hear from the priests and nuns that Mary was Queen of Peace, Queen of Prophets, and Queen of Heaven, and that women were important. The "ladies of New York," Hughes told them, were "the children, the daughters of Mary." The Marian teaching encouraged women to take responsibility for their own lives, to inspire their men and their children to good conduct, to keep their families together, and to become forces for upright behavior in their neighborhoods. The nuns, especially, encouraged women to become community leaders and play major roles in church fund-raising activities—radical notions for a male-dominated society where women did not yet have the right to vote. In addition, Irish men and women saw nuns in major executive positions, managing hospitals, schools, orphanages, and church societies—sending another highly unusual message for the day. Irish women became important allies in Hughes's war for values; by the 1850s they began to be major forces for moral rectitude, stability, and progress in the Irish neighborhoods of the city.
When Hughes went beyond spiritual uplift to the material and institutional needs of New York's Irish, he always focused sharply on self-help and mutual aid. On the simplest level, in all parishes he encouraged the formation of church societies—support groups, like today's women's groups or Alcoholics Anonymous, to help people deal with neighborhood concerns or personal and family problems, such as alcoholism or finding employment. In these groups, people at the local level could exchange information and advice, and offer one another encouragement and constructive criticism. Continue reading
Matthew Brady, Father Thomas H. Mooney, Dagger John and the Fighting 69th
The above photo is one of the archetypal Matthew Brady photographs of the Civil War. Whenever religion in the Civil War is mentioned in a history, odds are you will see this picture. It was taken on June 1, 1861 in the camp of the 69th New York, later to be christened The Fighting 69th by no less an authority on fighting than Robert E. Lee, and it depicts Mass being said by Father Thomas H. Mooney, the first chaplain of The Fighting 69th.
Born in Manchester, England, and ordained in 1853 in New York City, Father Mooney had been pastor of Saint Brigid's in New york City, as well as being the chaplain of the 69th New York. Archbishop Hughes of New York City, known universally by friend and foe as "Dagger John", warned Father Mooney about the large number of Fenians, a precursor of the Irish Republican Army, who had enlisted in the regiment:
"They are incompetent to be admitted to the Sacraments of the Church during life and of Christian burial after death, unless they shall in the meantime renounce such obligations as have been just referred to. In regard to the whole subject, you will please to exercise all the discretion and all the charity that religion affords: but speak to the men and tell each one (not all at one time) that he is jeopardizing his soul if he perseveres in this uncatholic species of combination."
The Church in Ireland and America had a mostly negative view of the Fenians due to an overall opposition to revolutionary movements in Europe by Pope Pius IX and because the Fenians called for a separation of Church and State In Ireland.
The 69th was one of the first Union regiments to go to Washington in 1861 in response to Lincoln's call for volunteers. Father Mooney went with it, and quickly proved extremely popular with the men and officers of the regiment. He founded a temperance society in the regiment, held daily Masses and confessions, and was tireless in reminding wayward soldiers in the regiment that this was a great opportunity for them to return to the Faith. A correspondent for the New York Times reported on the high esteem in which Father Mooney was held:
As for the Sixty-ninth, they turned out more than twelve hundred muskets, leaving yet another hundred — the newly-arrived Zouaves — in their late headquarters at the College. This Regiment has grown into great fever in Washington — not a single one of its members ever having become amenable to the police authorities in any way; and its discipline and efficiency having frequently been made the subject of complimentary notice by Gens SCOTT and MANSFIELD. For very much of the good order and moral restraint existing in the ranks, it is doubtless indebted to the ceaseless and zealous exertions of Father THOMAS MOONEY, an admirable specimen-priest of the true high type, who, if he were not chaplain, would certainly be a candidate for Colonel — fate and a sanguine temper giving him equal adaptation to the sword of the spirit and the "regulation sword" — a veritable son of the church-militant. But this again is a degression.
Father Mooney's career as a chaplain was cut short by "Dagger John". On June 13, 1861 the 69th was helping to emplace a rifled cannon in Fort Corcoran, named after Colonel Corcoran the commander of the 69th, near Washington. Everyone was in high spirits. Father Mooney was called upon to bless the cannon. Instead, he decided to baptize the cannon. Continue reading
Honest Abe and Dagger John
Archbishop John Hughes (1797-1864) of New York, was a titan within the Catholic Church in America in the nineteenth century. Overseeing with skill the explosive growth of the Church in New York, and helping lead generations of Catholic immigrants out of poverty, he also found time to take part in the public affairs of his day, and was probably the best known Catholic churchman of his time. He was also a very tough and fearless man. After the anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia in 1844 he called on the mayor of New York, an anti-Catholic bigot, and informed him that if a single Catholic church were touched in New York, New York would be a second Moscow. (The reference was to the burning of Moscow in 1812 during Napoleon's occupation of the city.) Not a Catholic church was touched. On another occasion when a threat was made to burn Saint Patrick's cathedral the Archbishop had it guarded within hours by 4,000 armed Catholics. No wonder his enemies and friends nicknamed him "Dagger John"!


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By Peter MacArthur 10:55am, July 3, 2014 - Updated 10:44am, July 4, 2014
Have you seen this man?Police now have a sketch of a suspect in connection with the attempted abduction of two young girls in Middletown Monday.
The mant is described as black, 25 to 35, average build with short hair and perhaps a light mustache. He was wearing a red shirt, light blue pants and a baseball cap.
Police say he yelled out to two girls, ages 6 and 8, who were playing in an unfenced yard near West Harvest Lane and Fields Way.
He demanded the girls get into his vehicle, but they did not and he took off.
His vehicle is a dark red, four door sedan with several black stickers and a single blue sticker on the rear window.
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Plank with Dumbbell Rotations 2-3 sets of 10 reps. From a plank position, rotate the trunk in one controlled move to one side, extending the arm and keeping the body in a straight line. You should be able to hold this position and go back to plank position. Alternate. When you dominate the move, you can add dumbbells.Andrew Meade Photography
Roll Outs 2-3 sets of 10-20 reps. In a modified push-up position with the hands on a bar (shown) or the forearms in a ball, extend the arms while letting your hips extend too as low as you can controlling the move. Bring the arms in by using the core and not your arms, legs or hips. You should start with just a tiny extension until you can progress with perform form. Don't let the hips sink at any time.Andrew Meade Photography
Stability Ball Knee in 2-3 sets of 10 reps. Put your hands on the floor as you were doing a push- up while your shins should be on the ball. Bring the ball – knees toward your chest- using the core, hold the contraction and extend the legs while keeping the body in a straight line.Andrew Meade Photography
From yogis, MMA aficionados, personal trainers to everyone in between, the phrase "working the core" has been so overused that people are having a hard time understanding what the core really is. Is it different from "working the abs?" What are the real fitness, sports and health benefits of strengthening the core? How can core work give me a better waist?
Scott Cole and Tom Seabourne, authors of the book Athletes Abs, write that "the core includes muscles that surround the stomach and lower back area. These are the pelvic floor muscles, the external obliques, the internal obliques, the rectus abdomins, the multifidus, the erector spinae and the transverses abdominis."
As you can notice, "the core" implies way more than the abdominal muscles (rectus abdominis, external and internal obliques and transverses abdominis). The experts add that "strengthening the core, stabilizes the pelvis." The pelvis stabilizes the hip and the hip stabilizes the foot.
A strong core will act more to counterbalance all external forces, rather than to initiate a move. And, when the body is capable of managing all these forces that go towards it, the net force is zero, which means that the body is in equilibrium. This is what it makes the core so important if you want to perform better in sports, in the gym and in your daily lives activities.
Moving Beyond the Plank
After many years of overworking the abs through crunches, the fitness experts moved in unison to include exercises such as the planks and its variations to fully engage other muscles that had been overlooked. In addition to this, there has been a move toward incorporating more free weights/ athletic moves in the regular day-to-day gym workouts such as the deadlifts, push-presses and power snatches, which all heavily tax the core to brace the trunk and decelerate the move.
For many people, the image that comes to their mind when advising to work the core is the plank or any other move that means to hold the contraction for a period of time without movement – isometric contractions. Flexion, extension and rotation of the trunks are sometimes not seen as a part of the plan when referring to the core.
Tom Holland, exercise physiologist and author of Beat the Gym "believes that isometric core exercises do have value in an exercise program. Both modalities – isometric and isotonic contractions - are part of the progression process, allowing for the building of strength and neuromuscular connections at the beginning of a training program, and then moving to these more advanced multi-planar movements."
The plank will work a lot more than the six pack muscles, but crunches and other abdominal exercises have a place too, not just for fitness and sports sake, but for health. In the article "To Crunch or Not to Crunch," published by The Strength and Conditioning Journal (2011), the experts explain that the "spinal motion has been shown to facilitate nutrient delivery to the intervertebral discs. This has a particular significance for spinal tissue given that an age-related decrease in disc nutritional status is considered as a primary cause of disc degeneration."
When viewing common headlines like "working the core will make you run faster," take into consideration that you can't just achieve these athletic goals by doing planks and side planks. In the study by Barry University, Florida, the exercises that were used and improved performance in 5000 meter run were: back station on a stability ball, abdominal crunch on stability ball, supine opposite 1-arm/1-leg raise, hip raise on stability ball and Russian twist on stability ball. So, as you can notice working the core implied in this study flexion, rotation and extension of the trunk way beyond of sustaining a contraction for a given time.
Showing Off Your Abs
If you abandoned the healthy movement of the spine in favor of doing all types of planks, Frédéric Delavier in his book Core Training Anatomy says that "static work is not the best form of exercise to improve the appearance of your abdominal muscles. However, this strengthening exercise – plank- is perfect for athletes who want muscular stability."
So there we have it: The best way to get strength, muscle endurance and why not showing off a six pack will be by incorporating isometric (holding the contraction of the muscle) and isotonic contractions (shortening and lengthening the muscle) along with multi-planar moves.
Delavier suggests that when working the core this is what you should follow:
a) Looking for strength: 12-15 reps
b) Looking for muscle endurance and "loosing inches on the abs": 20- 50 reps
c) In general, if you have one month of training do 6 to 7 sets in total when working these muscles while if you're advanced, you can do up to 10 sets total.
d) The speed of the move counts: If you are looking for strength, your goal should be 2 to 3 s to lift up, hold for 2 s and lower it at 2 s, while if endurance is the goal 1 s to lift, no hold and 1 s to come down. When looking to lose inches, 2 s to lift the torso or legs, hold the position for 1 s and lower in 1 or 2 s.
Marta Montenegro is an exercise physiologist, certified strength and conditioning coach and master trainer, who teaches as an adjunct professor at Florida International University. Marta has developed her own system of exercises used by professional athletes. Her personal website, martamontenegro.com, combines fitness, nutrition and health tips, exercise routines, recipes and the latest news to help you change your life but not your lifestyle. She was the founder of nationally awarded SOBeFiT magazine and the fitness DVD series Montenegro Method.
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A year ago, Detroiter Constancio Yanas was a high school dropout with bleak prospects. Today, armed with his GED, work skills and money for college he earned in AmeriCorps, he has a construction job and will be starting community college this winter.
In 2007, college grad Shane Bernardo was laid off from his auto industry job in Detroit. Through AmeriCorps VISTA, Shane found his passion for working with young people, and today he oversees a program that gets students to clear out and beautify blighted city lots.
In tough economic times, Michiganians are using national service to make a difference in their communities and their own lives.
Since 1994, more than 18,000 Michiganians have taken AmeriCorps's pledge to "get things done," serving 25 million hours in the state's hardest-hit cities and rural areas — mentoring at-risk youths, building homes, caring for the elderly and helping struggling students graduate.
They are part of a larger national service family that includes older Americans sharing life skills through Senior Corps and students learning the values of citizenship through service-learning. You don't hear their stories on the nightly news, but every day they head out, quietly and without fanfare, to improve lives and strengthen communities.
Too often the spotlight shines on Michigan's problems.
From Michigan's foundation sector, one of the strongest in the nation, to its pioneering work in youth philanthropy, to its state government leadership for service, Michigan has a strong tradition of giving back and seeing solutions.
That tradition remains strong even in tough economic times. Last year, 2.2 million Michiganians volunteered, providing service valued at more than $6.4 billion — a powerful investment of human capital that is helping address tough community challenges. The state's volunteer rate went up last year, demonstrating that Michiganians are tilting toward problems, not away from them.
Given the many social needs facing our communities — and the growing interest in service by Americans of all ages — this is a critical moment for the voluntary sector. The Obama administration is deeply committed to expanding the role of service in solving community problems. It is our belief that service isn't secondary to or separate from achieving our priorities; it's essential to achieving them.
That belief is increasingly shared by bipartisan elected officials nationwide, including Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, who recently unveiled a comprehensive plan to expand the use of volunteers to support education, neighborhood development and public safety in Detroit.
Last year, we worked with bipartisan leaders in Congress to pass the Serve America Act, ushering in a new era of service in our country. The act expands service opportunities for Americans of all ages and targets service in tackling critical national challenges, including the dropout crisis, poverty, and support for veterans and military families.
I will join Michigan's foundation and national service leaders at their annual meetings to discuss how to build on the momentum to help solve Michigan problems. A key part of that strategy is investing in AmeriCorps — the human capital of the solutions business.
The Serve America Act has set a goal of tripling AmeriCorps by 2017. Achieving this growth will require stepped up support from foundations and the corporate sector to stretch the federal investment. Given its strong philanthropic streak, Michigan can be a model for the nation.
AmeriCorps is a low-cost, high-yield investment. It helps Michigan tackle its most pressing problems, keeps residents in the state, prepares future leaders and strengthens communities. It also gives Michiganians the chance to transform their lives — getting work skills, earning money for college and increasing hope for the future. Just ask Shane or Constancio.
Patrick A. Corvington is CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. This op-ed originally appeared in the Detroit News on November 11, 2010.


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Cable's Five Goals Lead Stony Brook Past Iona
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STONY BROOK, N.Y. - The Stony Brook women's
lacrosse team scored nine unanswered goals in the first half en
route to an 18-7 victory over Iona Saturday afternoon at LaValle
Stadium. Senior Victoria Cable (Oakton, Va.) led all scorers with a
career-high five goals.
In addition to Cable's five points, junior Abby Ford (Baltimore, Md.) also produced five points on a goal and four assists, which matched a career high. Senior Melissa Cook (Bay Shore, N.Y.) had two goals and two assists for four points. The Seawolves improved to 3-4 on the season while Iona dropped to 2-5.
The score was 1-1 early in the match when the Seawolves took over with three goals in less than five minutes as part of nine unanswered goals over the Gaels. Cable got it started with a tally on a free position shot, and freshman Kaila Gottlick (Madison, Conn.) followed with a free position goal of her own, her second score of the game. Cable then took a pass from Ford behind the goal and put it past Iona goalie Maria Ortiz to make it 4-1 before 10 minutes had passed in the game.
Four different Seawolves then scored, including Tara Gerstacker (Manorville, N.Y.), Jackie Gentile (Old Bethpage, N.Y.), Samantha Djaha (East Islip, N.Y.) and Courtney Bertolone (Farmingville, N.Y.), as Stony Brook dominated possession of the ball. Kaitlyn Harrison (West Babylon, N.Y.) finished off the run with a pair of goals late in the half to make it 10-1 in favor of Stony Brook. Iona's Casey Scully scored a pair of goals late to send the teams into halftime with a score of 10-3.
Iona scored four times in the first eight minutes of the second half to cut its deficit to six, 13-7, but Stony Brook buckled down on defense and got five more goals, including a pair more from Cable, who also had four draw controls and a caused turnover.
In net, Mickey Cahill (Bay Shore, N.Y.) faced 16 shots and made five saves to pick up her third victory for Stony Brook.
Stony Brook outshot Iona 25-16 and had three fewer turnovers (17-14). The Seawolves were 14-for-18 on clear attempts, and the Gaels were 9-for-13.
The Seawolves will face a stiff task next Tuesday as they will host defending national champion and No. 1 ranked Maryland at LaValle Stadium at 4 p.m. The game is part of a Stony Brook lacrosse doubleheader with the men's team hosting Cornell at 7 p.m.
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Mathematica is just the most advanced mathematical program, and you can do everything you want.
Is there a fairly comprehensible contemporary programming language out
which would allow one to create curves, lines, or other pictorial images
on the visual screen, and then the program would produce the nearest
possible approximation of an algebraic interpretation to the visually represented
potential graph? Does FORTRAN do this okay? Or is that a feature of
MATHEMATICA? Or is there another more suitable language? Thankx
I would not recommend a commercial package unless you are rolling in money (if you are I can let you have my paypal ID so you can deposit a large sum). I would suggest something like SciLab as a starting point, possibly Octave or FreeMat.
Hmm Im wouldn't have thought FORTRAN to be the easiest language to do any visual display with although a number of engineering packages I use have GUI and graphic commands written using a visual fortran distribution like intel I think. How that works is well above my pay grade as I tend to stick with the more high level languages like MATLAB and Python. MATLAB has the best graphics out of everything I have ever seen. If I am just crunching numbers and doing some simple GUI with some pretty full on plots I'll use MATLAB.
EDIT: MATLAB is a commercial package so you pay at least a couple grand for a license. If your graphics are not too involved, then one of the open source packages that CB suggested will probably suit you better (I have octave on my Linux machine and find it pretty comparable with matlab for quite a variety of tasks).
Dear Captain Black,
Yessir. I have learned some, but not all of C++. I was hoping to attempt
this project myself previously. But I keep coming face to face with a wall
that nobody seems to be able to help me with in even programming forums.
And that problem is that I must first learn, or obtain information on, about
the setup of memory in the CPU or Motherboard of whatever computer I am
using. In the early DOS computers, I was able to find which "POKE" addresses
accesed the screen, or video, memory locations. But nobody I ask, or post
to, is able to direct me to a manual which will let me know this, and the 64-bit
"ASCII's" that will allow me to use Pointers in such a way as you describe.
Is there any way that you can give me assistance here? Otherwise, back to
square one. Much appreciated Jerry.
Several people, including me, have made suggestions of free matlab like systems which you could try.


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Today, my boyfriend and I were getting intimate on the bathroom floor. Somehow my nose managed to start bleeding, so he bent me over the tub and kept going because he didn't want to "ruin the moment". FML
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Today, I woke up in bed with a one-night stand. We got really drunk the night before so I went to make a hangover-cure breakfast. Apparently he was so drunk that he didn't remember me, and when he came to the kitchen, he knocked me out with a pan and called the cops. FML
by paulinapo / 05/29/2013 at 9:53pm / United States (New York) / Miscellaneous
Today, my extremely religious father visited for a family dinner. My daughter had just one job: not to set him off on one of his easily-provoked rants. She nonetheless decided to take a photo in the middle of prayer, because she just HAD to Instagram her food. My father went apeshit. FML
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Today, my girlfriend thought it would be funny to go to the Apple store and log me on to Facebook on every single computer. FML
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Today, on my way home on my motorbike from a great party in the early hours of the morning, I was feeling pretty good about myself. Riding over a hill, I yawned in anticipation of climbing into bed. A huge winged bastard insect thing then flew straight into my throat. FML
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Today, I got to take my 10-year-old son to the junior high school at which I teach. When my students questioned him about what I was like at home, he told the entire class: "Well, she farts all the time." FML
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Today, I was in bed with my fiancé. After a while of quiet cuddling, I said, "Babe, I have cold feet." He replied with, "Me too. Let's call off the wedding." I was talking about the actual temperature of my feet. Our wedding is tomorrow. FML
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Today, a man asked about fishing in the river which flows beside where I work. I said you could, but anything you caught under 5 inches has to be thrown back. His wife then said, "Wish I knew that before I married him." I started to laugh. The man almost cried and complained to my boss. FML
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It's kind of an empty feeling.
With the conclusion of the 2011 NFL draft, football fans now have to go back to the wait-and-see nervousness of whether the newest members of the elite professional football club will be allowed onto the field with current NFL teammates.
But assuming the NFL and its players come to some sort of agreement to get football out of the courts and onto the fields where it belongs, there are a large number of talented former collegiate football stars still waiting for an opportunity to play at the next level.
No one can sign until a new Collective Bargaining Agreement is reached and a lockout is avoided, but when that happens, following is a list of 10 guys who could potentially make a roster and some noise for an NFL team in 2012.


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In 19th-century Scotland, emigration was the result of both force and persuasion. Until about 1855, a number of the emigrants from the Highlands were actually forced to leave the land because of evictions. In the Lowlands, the decision to move abroad was nearly always the outcome of the desire to improve one's living standards. Whatever the reason, Scotland lost between 10% and 47% of the natural population increase every decade.
The scale of the loss was only greater in two other European countries: Ireland and Norway. However, even these countries were dwarfed by emigration from Scotland in the years 1904–1913, and again in 1921–1930, when those leaving (550,000) actually exceeded the entire natural increase and constituted one-fifth of the total working population.
The eviction of Highlanders from their homes reached a peak in the 1840s and early 1850s. The decision by landlords to take this course of action was based on the fact that the Highland economy had collapsed, while at the same time the population was still rising.
As income from kelp production and black cattle dried up, the landlords saw sheep as a more profitable alternative. The introduction of sheep meant the removal of people. The crofting population was already relying on a potato diet and when the crop failed in the late 1830s and again in the late 1840s, emigration seemed the only alternative to mass starvation.
The policy of the landlord was to clear the poorest Highlanders from the land and maintain those crofters who were capable of paying rent. The Dukes of Argyll and Sutherland and other large landowners financed emigration schemes. Offers of funding were linked to eviction, which left little choice to the crofter. However, the Emigration Act of 1851 made emigration more freely available to the poorest.
The Highlands and Islands Emigration Society was set up to oversee the process of resettlement. Under the scheme a landlord could secure a passage to Australia for a nominee at the cost of £1. Between 1846 and 1857, around 16,533 people of the poorest types, mainly young men, were assisted to emigrate. The greatest loss occurred in the islands, particularly Skye, Mull, the Long Island and the mainland parishes of the Inner Sound.
After 1855, mass evictions were rare and emigration became more a matter of choice than compulsion. Between 1855 and 1895 the decline in the Highland population was actually less than in the rural Lowlands and certainly much lower than in Ireland. The Highlands experienced a 9% fall in population between 1851 and 1891, while Ireland in the same period faced a 28% fall. The Crofters' Holding Act of 1886 gave the crofters security of tenure and this also slowed down the process of emigration. Between 1886 and 1950, over 2700 new crofts were created and a further 5160 enlarged.
However, despite the increase in the number of crofts, the exodus from the Highlands continued. In 1831, the population of the Highlands reached a peak of 200,955, or 8.5% of the total population of Scotland. In 1931, the comparable figures were 127,081 and 2.6%. In the west Highlands, for every 100 persons in 1831 there were only 59 in 1951.
In Nova Scotia in the first half of the 19th century, 59% of UK settlers were Scots-born. From 1853, the USA became the main destination for over 50% of emigrating Scots, although in some years New Zealand seemed a better choice and by 1850 Scots made up a quarter of the population there.
Keeping in touch with the land was not a consideration for the urban emigrant from the Scottish Lowlands. The decision to emigrate from this part of Scotland was purely voluntary. Indeed, emigration was seen by trades unions and other voluntary groups as a practical solution to unemployment and economic depression.
Lowlanders were moved to leave their birthplace by a combination of low wages, poor housing conditions and unemployment. The high points in emigration statistics corresponded with years of severe economic depression. These occurred in the late 1840s and early 1850s, the mid-1880s, and the period 1906–13.
Emigration was so heavy in the period 1871–1931 that it more than offset the increase in the population due to new births. This trend was brought to a halt in the 1930s as the world trade depression saw emigrants returning home. Indeed, the numbers leaving Scotland in the 1930s were at their lowest for a century.
Many emigrants of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were from middle-class backgrounds. Historians have commented on the 'high quality' of early Scottish settlers, among them doctors, merchants, farmers and a host of other occupations. But as concerns grew at home over the 'surplus population', the social status of emigrants underwent a significant transformation: from the Highlands it was landless peasants; from the Lowlands it was unemployed craftsmen, labourers and small farmers. The country of settlement tended to be Canada. In fact, in the period 1825–1835, over 70% of emigrants from Scotland settled there.
By the 20th century, things had changed substantially. The skilled worker was the largest category of all those social groups who emigrated from Scotland. Indeed, in 1912 and 1913, 47% of adult male emigrants from Scotland described themselves as skilled, compared with 36% of those from England and Wales. Only 29% classed themselves as labourers.
It seems also that, as the 19th century wore on and emigration became more of an urban phenomenon, with one's social standing determining the country in which one settled. Unskilled labourers tended to opt for Canada and Australia, while skilled workers preferred South Africa and the USA. The middle classes strongly preferred South Africa.
Of course, many Scottish emigrants found a place nearer home, in England, particularly after the 1920s. In the period 1841–1931, around 749,000 Scots moved to other parts of the UK compared with over two million who emigrated abroad. It was during the economic depression of the inter-war years that there was a shift from emigration overseas to migration to other parts of the UK, mainly to England. By 1931, the number of Scots in England equalled those from Ireland, whereas 60 years earlier, the Irish outnumbered the Scots by a margin of two to one.
However, for the best part of the period 1830–1939, the opportunities were seen as being greater abroad, particularly in North America and Australia. The outflow of people was made easier by the revolution in transport. The steamship did not dramatically alter the cost of passage from Scotland to the USA, but it did reduce greatly the travelling time.
In the 1850s it took around six weeks to cross the Atlantic; in 1914 it took only a week. The reduction in travelling time allowed for temporary migration as well as permanent - something unthinkable in the days of sailing ships. Also, if things did not work out in the New World then the price of a steamship ticket brought you back to your native land in a week; indeed, by 1900, a third of those who had left had returned. Emigration seemed less risky in the age of the steamship.
During the 1920s and 1930s the principal aim of the emigrants was to find work and wages and escape mass unemployment at home. This mostly affected the age group 16–29, skilled rather than unskilled workers and men rather than women.
Although most of the emigrants were able to make a better life for themselves and their families abroad, the impact on Scotland has been less favourable. Many of the most productive and talented Scots have left their birthplace to enrich, both economically and culturally, other countries at the expense of their own.


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As Secretary Duncan highlighted earlier this month at the Grad Nation Summit, we are now starting to get preliminary achievement data on the first year of state and local efforts to turn around the nation's lowest-performing schools. The results, while preliminary, are encouraging: A significant share of persistently low-performing schools are seeing substantial gains in student learning in just the first year of the "SIG" program, the shorthand label for the groundbreaking School Improvement Grants initiative.
SIG seeks to accelerate achievement in our nation's lowest-performing schools through rigorous, comprehensive interventions. Each school gets a three-year grant of up to two million dollars per year. The grants support school leaders, teachers, parents, and community partners to undertake the difficult, demanding, and rewarding work of turning around a chronically low-performing school.
For the first time, the Administration has put serious resources into supporting state and local school turnaround efforts—more than four billion dollars to date. For the first time, federal grants require states and districts to undertake rigorous interventions in chronically low-performing schools. And for the first time, so-called high school "dropout factories"—high schools where graduation is not the norm—are a major target of school turnaround efforts.
Nationwide, about 830 schools were in the first SIG cohort, and roughly 45 percent were high schools. We now have preliminary achievement data from 43 states, covering about 700 of the 830 schools.
Many observers predicted that SIG would be a flop, with little positive impact on student outcomes. But our preliminary data suggest that great teachers, gifted school leaders, and committed community partners and parents—and, most importantly, students themselves—didn't listen to the skeptics.
In the first year of the program, initial data show that roughly one in four schools had double-digit increases in math proficiency, and one in five schools had double-digit increases in reading proficiency.
Just as encouraging, many more schools reported substantial, double-digit gains in proficiency in year one than reported double-digit declines in proficiency.
In math, more than 25 percent of SIG schools reported double-digit gains in proficiency, compared to 7 percent of schools that reported double-digit losses.
The picture is similar in reading. Close to 20 percent of schools made double-digit gains, more than double the 8.5 percent of schools that had double-digit declines.
Given the difficulty of school turnaround efforts, few anticipated that a substantial number of schools would in fact make advances in achievement in the first year. But for the vast majority of SIG schools, gains in proficiency in math or reading in the first year of the program are far more common than not. The preliminary data indicate:
- In 63 percent of SIG schools, math proficiency increased, compared to 33 percent of schools where math proficiency declined—meaning that increases in math proficiency were almost twice as common as declines.
- In 58 percent of SIG schools, reading proficiency increased, compared to 35 percent of schools where reading proficiency declined.
What are the ingredients of successful SIG schools? Schools that boost student achievement tend to share at least two common elements.
First, they have a dynamic leader who is deeply committed to the students and the surrounding community. I recently visited Hammond High School in northwest Indiana where Principal Leslie Yanders has helped lead a dramatic turnaround in the school's performance, including increases in student achievement and graduation rates.
Second, successful turnaround schools also have teachers and other school professionals who share a relentless focus on improving instruction, both through expanded collaboration and the use of data. The SIG program is providing those professionals with the resources and tools to be ambitious with their teaching.
At the heart of successful turnarounds are teachers and school leaders who are excited about the prospect for change. These leaders recognize how demanding the work is but they also see the potential for fundamentally transforming the life chances of their students. They believe they are part of "something big."
As encouraging as these preliminary achievement data are for the first year of the SIG program, they are still preliminary. Our goal is to publish this achievement data in the early summer once we receive complete data from all 50 states. We are continuing to gather data from states on other critical outcomes like graduation rates and "leading indicators" that forecast progress in student achievement, including changes in dropout rates and discipline incidents.
Moreover, the preliminary achievement data are just the first year of data. Everyone recognizes that we will need several years of data to confirm a lasting improvement in student learning. None of these schools are where they need to be to provide a world-class education just yet. But the progress and sense of momentum in the field is real.
And don't take my word for it alone. Listen to the students who report that they are "more engaged," "being pushed more", and "now given a chance to succeed."
Like Secretary Duncan, I approach the work of turning around low-performing schools with an abiding humility, coupled with a sense of urgency.
We know that this work cannot be done alone—and that it is incumbent upon all of us to learn from one another about what's working and what's not.
As a former teacher in a high-poverty school, I know that improving outcomes in a struggling school is some of the toughest, most controversial work that an educator will ever face. But I also know that we can no longer turn a blind eye to schools that persistently fail to educate their students.
I know that, as educators, we cannot accept the proposition that some schools, some students, and some communities are destined to fail. And I know that successfully improving teaching and learning in an underperforming school is not only enormously demanding but enormously rewarding work.
In year one of the SIG program, schools and communities across the country are taking that first, tentative step toward making the promise of equal educational opportunity a reality for all of our students. Now, it's time to learn from their experiences in the field—and to build on their momentum.
—Jason Snyder, a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, oversees the implementation of the SIG program.


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Those of you who thought our culture couldn't sink any lower, brace yourselves for today's story. At the website for Cosmopolitan, the women's magazine, you'll find this headline: "Why I Filmed My Abortion."
Schumer Gets Big Yogurt Pals Perk of Being NY's Official Snack ... Dingy Harry Blames Koch Brothers for Bad Weather ... US Economy Downgraded, China Rising ... Single Obamacare Tax Could Cost Up to 286,000 Jobs ...
RUSH: The news media is on its way to succeeding in rewriting the Lewinsky affair. They've tried to make it sound cute. They've tried to make it sound puppy love cute. ... This was serious stuff. It was about suborning perjury in a sexual harassment case. It was also about Bill Clinton. When I say suborning perjury, he asked Monica to lie.
RUSH: The reason they said they don't want Dr. Rice is 'cause she is a war criminal. She voted for it, she prosecuted it, she ran the Iraq War. Every Democrat in the Senate voted for it, too, with maybe two or three exceptions.
RUSH: There is NO evidence -- capital N, capital O; zilch, zero, nada, none, doesn't exist, evidence -- that high-fat diets or high-fat anything leads to heart disease. NO evidence.
RUSH: In 1970, Nixon was told we gotta act now or by 30 years from now, in 2000, New York City's gone, Washington's gone, and we're gonna have temperature raise of seven degrees! There's nothing that has changed. There's nothing new. The predictions are the same. They never come true.
RUSH: Why doesn't somebody go back to 1985 and examine what these same people were saying it was gonna be today, and then learn that they didn't know what they were talking about then? Because what they're saying is gonna happen in 2100, it was gonna have started by now and it hasn't. There hasn't been any warming. Sea level isn't rising or lowering.
RUSH: Here you have Islamists who terrorize and kidnap 300 girls. And John Kerry, in hopes of explaining what rotten scum they are, the first thing he points out is, "They don't offer a health care plan!"


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Grilled Sweet Potato Rounds
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 20 mins
This is a good summer potato recipe--grilling the potato pieces vs. cooking them in the oven. The heat of the grill caramelizes the potato nicely and since they're already mostly cooked, burning them is less likely. Th seasonings could be varied to whatever suits you.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 large sweet potato, uniform in shape
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- salt and pepper
- Place a steamer tray in a saucepan, add water, cover, and bring to a boil.
- Once water is boiling, peel sweet potato and slice crosswise into 1 1/2 inch rounds. Add potatos to pan and steam 11 minutes.
- After potatos are cool enough to handle, coat them with olive oil, salt, and pepper.
- Grill over medium heat until nicely browned, turning once.
- ****Don't peel the potatos until they're ready to go in the boiling water or they will turn brown on you.*******.
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Delicious! I microwaved the potato rounds for about 2 and 1/2 minutes prior to coating them in oil, salt and pepper instead of steaming. They grilled up wonderfully and were a super easy side dish to go with burgers. The grill marks on each round made for a lovely table presentation.


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To reach cemetery from Pullman, drive east on 109th Ave, turn right or south onto 53rd Street. Continue to 105th Street. Cemetery will be on the right or west side of the road.
This cemetery is owned and maintained by a board under the Lee Township. The current Sexton is Martin M Curley (269)-236-5785, although this office could change. This Cemetery has also been called Johnson Cemetery as well as Gingerbread Cemetery, previous to the current name.
I compared my work with previous work done on Jul 13, 1955 by by Cornelia Peck & (Mrs. C. A.) Ruth Robbins Monteith.
I walked and read this cemetery in the summer of 2007. This includes all existing and legible headstone readings, plus some additions for unmarked graves.
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Silence can be reached by moving slowly
When we move so slowly that we don't have to continually anticipate the step or movement coming up, then we can luxuriate in relatively large gaps in the turbulent stream of consciousness. During long, slow transitions between full frames in the form the mind takes breaks, and during these moments chi can be drawn out of the deep and brought to the forefront of awareness. The mind eventually learns to balance the senses and expand the silence. It begins to take longer breaks from discursive thoughts, and then, during these interruptions in confusion, the chi radiates freely in the silence.
Slow motion balances
Beside the meditative and energetic advantages of ultra slow training, the body's balancing mechanism gets a real workout and our empty steps become sure. Slow motion form practice defines the postural alignment from which steps originate and finish.
Long ago, a martial master (maybe Cheng San Feng) slowed parts of his martial forms down to create Tai Chi. He must have known that fast and chaotic training is counter- productive.
"Fast action when learning is strenuous, leads to confusion, and makes the learning unpleasant and unnecessarily tiring… " "Slowness is necessary for the discovery of the parasitic, superfluous execution and its partial elimination…" --Moshe Feldenkrais.
Slow form practice, if done correctly, is the best way to find and eliminate the impurities in a movement. "Parasitic execution" refers to the extra, unnecessary add- on movements that suck the life out of our martial forms. Add-on parasites such as hitches, leanings, and wind-ups that attach themselves to a movement, leech power, speed, and efficiency from its intended use, and seriously compromise a movement's efficiency, drastically wasting chi.
If Cheng San Feng hadn't had the prophetic, revolutionary realization about the benefits of slow training, there wouldn't be tai chi, and although many modern practitioners go slowly they've missed a very important lesson. The purpose of slow training is to learn to move with near- miraculous speed.
When moving quickly, we can plunge into a movement without balancing on one foot, but not when moving slowly. When stepping very slowly, balance must be impeccable to keep the foot flat, the ankle stable, and the posture upright. The slow, empty step reaches out in such a way that it can be easily retracted if the floor falls away. The best way to judge the empty step is by monitoring how much the ankle of the weighted foot wobbles while slowly stepping. The purpose of perfecting balance is to learn how to move quickly between fixed, balanced points.


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Who could be the new raw GM?????????
A Satire List Of Possible Suspects For The New Anonymous Raw GM
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Well of course HBK after being retired by the Undertaker at Wrestlemania 26. He wants to be with his kids. Well he could sit at home being a couch potato while watching raw and be with his kids. He could send emails to Michale cole easily. But there is one dilema with this suspect. Hbk is so dang old he probably dont know email but maybe shawn tells his kids what to type. He wants to remain anonymous because he wants to build suspense for now than come out and tell people later. Also Hbk probably kille the Undertaker after wrestlemania 26!
Hornswoggle such an obvious person for the job. Hornswoggle wanted to make the matches that the wrestlers wrestle. We all know for real life hornswoggle can talk and read and type and everything. Infact Hornswoggle is very smart and wants to remain anonymous so know one can know he can actually talk and they'll still think he's to harmless to steal his pot of gold. Sneaky little leprcuan!!!
Daniel Bryan is the new gm of raw vince recognized he was to good of a wrestler to be in the wrestler ranks so fired him and called him up and made him gm. Vince made him stay anonymous because he doesn't want to get all the brian haters all rowed up.
Yep WWE Hall Of Famer Mr.Fuji has a great chance of being the new gm. he wants to be the Gm so he can go throw salt around just like the old days. Although just like shawn im not sure about the email part as he is very elderly. He wants to remain anonymous so that no one is scared of him throwing salt in there eyes!!!
lady Gaga was playin strip poker with Mr.McMahon when her pokerface wasn't good enough so she had to strip for vince or become new GM belive it or not she did both.
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|The 27th Alaska State Legislature, 2011 - 2012
House Acts to Install Performance Reviews of State Depts
|Speaker's HB 166 Sets Schedule, Team and Assures State Funds are Well-Spent
Posted: March 23, 2011
(Juneau) - The Alaska State House of Representatives today passed legislation to push for better accountability and review the performance and operations of state agencies. House Bill 166, sponsored by House Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, re-institutes performance reviews for state departments and agencies, a practice ceased in the early 1980s.
I'd rather be in a position to make better, more informed decisions on doling out the people's money and HB 166 is a good start at getting us there.
Speaker Chenault says the bill fits within the Majority Caucus's foremost Guiding Principle for the 27th Alaska Legislature, promoting fiscal responsibility, because it forces the legislature to refocus on each agency to decide which expenditures are necessary and required state services. "We'll end up having a base we can look at to evaluate departments instead of looking at incremental increases," Speaker Chenault said. "It will give us an area and schedule we can look at when evaluating state spending on programs and projects - not only in the good times, when the price of oil is high - but also the when and how of addressing issues when revenues decline and we'd have to look at making cuts. I'd rather be in a position to make better, more informed decisions on doling out the people's money and HB 166 is a good start at getting us there."
Goal-setting is a key to establishing successful fiscal systems, and that's what HB 166 does.
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They'd been together for "a while."
The Crown City News spotted the couple at the L.A. County Registrar's Office last week, where they "kissed passionately at least 3 times in line," and the reporter asked Giovanni "and the blond woman if they were getting married today and they quietly said yes." (HuffPo confirmed the news.) Oh, and by the way, Giovanni and Agyness were apparently dating for some time, telling the reporter they'd been together for "a while."


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Federal agencies have been working to reduce burdensome regulations under a presidential order in recent months, and the results are trickling in.
Most of the savings outlined in the recent updates published to date appear to be going to industry or the public, not to government agencies.
President Obama last year ordered agencies to begin reviewing their regulations. The initial plans came out last fall, and agencies began posting updates several weeks ago.
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HHS updating regulations to fit new tech
In the most recent plans, while the Homeland Security Department found ways to save money for taxpayers, the Health and Human Services Department's proposal mostly aim at saving money for industry. Some agencies have not yet published the updates, while others apparently faced difficulties in assessing savings.
For example, the General Services Administration directly measured savings for only two proposals in its January 2012 update. For several proposals, it said that burden reductions had been estimated and published in other documents.
At DHS, the greatest savings proposed from the retrospective review effort is for Customs and Border Protection to save $8.2 million by shutting down the underutilized White Tail, Montana, border crossing, according to a January 2012 progress report recently published on its website. That would be for the first year, with $396,000 savings each subsequent year.
CBP also expects to save $700,000 a year by publishing its seizure records online rather than by purchasing print media advertising.
Other proposals include changes to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's Student and Exchange Visitor Information System expected to reduce burdens on those visitors by 11,000 hours and $220,000 a year. The Coast Guard, meanwhile, proposed to remove ID card requirements for 18,000 mariners, and changes to US Citizenship & Immigration Services' H-1b visa application program are expected to reduce burdens to applicants by 13,750 hours a year.
HHS's January 2012 update shows that the retrospective review and subsequent modifications in rules are likely to generate more than $5 billion in savings over five years. The beneficiaries are primarily hospitals and providers.
In one example of the proposed savings, HHS said that by allowing hospitals to decide for themselves how many outpatient directors to hire, the hospitals would generate $300 million a year in savings.
In another proposed change, by allowing hospitals to set their own policies for certain types of nurses and clinicians, while following state laws, HHS said it would save hospitals another $330 million a year.
"HHS has made significant progress in its retrospective review activities," the department said in its update. "Two of the proposed rules we published are expected to result in significant savings to the health industry."
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Sounds more like election year politics to me. Last I heard was that this administration has already generated over 40,000 new regulations since coming into power. The savings, if they really go through with this, will be miniscule compared to the obvious added costs they created with all the regulations they already created. With $1 TRILLION in deficeit spending in a year, that $5 Billion (assuming this figure in not exagerated) is a wopping 1/2 of 1 percent of what is needed to balance the budget. Forget about doing anything to pay off that debt. My children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren will still be struggling with that with no hope of ever seeing this country coming close to being debt free.
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Citibank First to Implement Card 2.0
Bank Accounts
Last month I stumbled across a very interesting article, which revealed what may very be the future of credit cards. The future of credit cards is Card 2.0, which is a half credit card and half futuristic gadget that allows your every day credit card to become more versatile and secure. I came across another article, which relates to Card 2.0 in an exciting way.
Starting next month, Citibank will begin testing Card 2.0. Card 2.0 is a ground breaking new credit and debit card that allows the user to securely link multiple accounts on one card.
How will Citibank use Card 2.0?
Citibank's version of Card 2.0 will allow users to select between two buttons on the card at the register. One button will allow the user to pay with their reward points, while the other button allows the user to pay with credit. Cardholders are allowed to pay with their reward points anywhere their Citibank credit card is accepted.
Rather than being called Card 2.0, Citibank will be calling these new credit cards 2G, which stands for second generation. This type of naming is similar to mobile phones have done over the years, which makes it possible for 3G, and even 4G to become a reality.
Each Citibank 2G credit card will contain a chip and a battery – the batter will have about 4 years of life on it. These 2G credit cards are no thicker and just as flexible as regular plastic credit cards.
Has will Citibank Implement the 2G Cards?
The 2G card will be available on two of Citibank's existing reward cards, which includes the Citibank Dividend Platinum Select MasterCard – cardholders earn a 1% cash back on all purchases, and 2% cash back on categories that change seasonally. The second rewards card is the Citibank PremierPass Elite – cardholders generally earn 1 point for every dollar spent and mile flown.
When would we see the 2G Card on the Market?
According to the article, Citibank employees have been testing the 2G Card since May, and the bank plans on pushing the cards to its customer base in mid – late 2011. Apparently, some cardholders will be selected to start using the 2G Card now.
I love the idea of Card 2.0, I love the fact that they are playing with the name in a similar manner to mobile phones. The only issue I have with Citibank's 2G card is the fact that one of the two buttons allows users to pay with their reward points.
If it was me, I would have preferred to eliminate a card in my wallet, which means making one of the two buttons my debit card. I feel that Citibank would get a huge increase in clients this way. I for one, and many of my friends hate having a thick wallet, eliminating a card or two is always a great thing.
Despite this, it is great to see this technology coming to North America; it is definitely coming a lot faster than I expected. I am excited to see how the public reacts to this revolutionary credit card, hopefully it goes well, because if it does it will only be a matter of time before other banks start implementing Card 2.0.


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Empanadas with Sweet Corn Filling
- Prep Time: 45 min
- Cook Time: 15 min
- Ready Time: 60 min
- Yield: 10 empanadas
- 2 tablespoons Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil, plus additional for frying
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen and thawed corn kernels
- 2 tablespoons Pillsbury BEST™ All Purpose Flour
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 cup whipping cream
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup part skim ricotta cheese
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 (14 oz.) package frozen pastry dough disks for empanadas (10 disks)
Preparation Directions
- HEAT 2 tablespoons vegetable oil in large skillet over medium heat. Add onion; cook 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add corn and cook 2 minutes. Stir in flour and sugar. Cook 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Gradually add milk and cream; stir in salt and nutmeg. Cook 3 minutes or until sauce is very thick. Let cool 15 minutes. Stir in ricotta cheese and cilantro.
- ROLL each pastry disk to a 5-inch circle on lightly floured surface. Brush edges with water. Spoon 2 tablespoons corn filling onto each circle. Fold dough in half to cover filling. Completely seal edges with tines of fork.
- HEAT 1-inch vegetable oil in large heavy skillet over medium heat. Fry empanadas in hot oil 4 to 5 minutes or until golden brown, turning halfway through cooking time. Drain on paper towels. Cool 10 minutes before serving.
Nutritional Information Per Serving
Serving Size (1 empanada), Calories 230 (Calories from Fat 120), Total Fat 13g (Saturated Fat 5g, Trans Fat 2g), Cholesterol 15mg, Sodium 470mg, Total Carbohydrate 24g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 6g), Protein 6g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 4%, Vitamin C 4%, Calcium 8%, Iron 4%.
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
* Ensure all recipe ingredients are gluten free by referencing the ingredient labels, as products may vary. If uncertain, contact the ingredient manufacturer.