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The Philadelphia Eagles (4-8) travel to Sun Life Stadium to face the surging Miami Dolphins (4-8) who are looking for there fourth straight victory at home. The Dolphins haven't won four straight at home in the same season since 2002! Sunday's contest marks the 13th meeting between the two teams. Miami holds the advantage in the all-time series 7-5, but has lost the last two meetings to the Eagles. The Dolphins hold a 2-1 advantage in games played in South Florida. Here are some of the keys to watch for on Sunday between two teams that seem to be heading in different directions.
1) Contain Michael Vick And Turn It Over – Anytime your facing an athlete that has the ability and characteristics of quarterback Michael Vick, discipline on defense is paramount! Forcing Vick into poor decisions will be front and center on the minds of players like linebackers Cam Wake and Jason Taylor! Staying in your rushing lanes when you attack the pocket and staying in coverage will be phrases you will hear throughout the week from guys like linebacker Karlos Dansby, safety Yeremiah Bell and defensive end Jared Odrick. Getting hits on Vick is not an easy task, but affecting his timing in the pocket, and disguising coverages to a quarterback that's been out of the starting line-up for three weeks can be accomplished! The Eagles have the dubious distinction of being tied for last in the league in turnover ratio at minus 13, and the Dolphins have created seven turnovers in the last four games! This is the week to keep that vibe going and to win the turnover battle!
2) Keep The Eagles Guessing On Defense – The Miami Dolphins offense has been effective using the talents of everyone over the last four or five football games. We've seen different players emerge as the "go to" players from week to week, and I believe that's going to continue against Philadelphia. Quarterback Matt Moore has spread the football around enough that teams must cover the entire field now when facing this offense. Wide receiver Brandon Marshall still leads the team in receptions (63) and yardage (910), but it's the pressure that Davone Bess and tight ends Anthony Fasano and Charles Clay that can stretch a defense! Bess has been showing up on the stat sheet as of late, moving the chains and getting into the end zone. The combination of Fasano and Clay (36 receptions for 557 and five touchdowns when you combine the two) is a match-up nightmare for opposing linebackers and safeties all over the field, especially in the red-zone! Add in a Brian Hartline circus catch or two on the sidelines and the ability to throw it vertically and sideline-to-sideline is accomplished. Good Luck Philly!
3) Who Will Win The Chunk Plays – Both teams have players that can simply take over any football game. The Eagles have dual threat running back LeSean McCoy, who leads the NFC in rushing with 1,134 yards, and touchdowns with 15! He can break a game wide open and keep the Eagles on the field on third downs either by running it or catching the football. The Dolphins counter with running back Reggie Bush, who rushed for 100 yards on 22 carries last week against the Oakland Raiders! Bush is healthy and it's starting to show, rushing for 667 yards on the season. That total through twelve games is the most rushing yards Bush has run for as a pro in a single season! The Eagles boast one of the most explosive duos at wide receiver in DeSean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin. They are the currently the only two teammates to each have 170 plus yard receiving games in 2011, and can get those yards in big plays. Jackson has 49 catches of 25 yards or more since 2008, and Maclin's four touchdowns leads the team. If Miami can continue to get big play out of their offense (eight plays of over 15 yards and six plays over 25 yards verses Oakland last week) they will be in great shape. Also, the Dolphins are just eleven plus 25 plays away from the franchise record for most in a season.
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UTSA students invited to meeting on fellowships
(Feb. 8, 2005)--UTSA students and faculty members are invited to an information session on fall 2005 and spring 2006 fellowship opportunities with the Archer Center in Washington, D.C. The information session is 1-3 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 9 in the University Center Willow Room (2.02.12), UTSA 1604 Campus.
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Jenifer Sarver, director of the Archer Center, will be available to discuss the program, requirements for participation, costs and available stipends.
The Bill Archer Fellowship Program was established by the University of Texas System and former U.S. Rep. Bill Archer to send highly motivated and accomplished Texas students to Washington to participate in internships and classes on policy, economics and persuasion.
Selected students work with organizations such as the U.N. Information Center, U.S. Department of State, White House and congressional offices, federal agencies and nonprofits.
Students in the program can expect an exhausting, rewarding experience that will expose them to the workings of the federal government and offer contacts for future internships and career opportunities.
To apply for a fellowship, visit the Archer Center Web site and select "Prospective Students."
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Hello,Could anyone help me make a decision. I have a 1992 Ford Probe LX. I love the design of this car and am the first owner. We've been together for almost 14 years and through lots of good times & memories . However, I have already replaced the engine twice, the wiper motors sometimes doesn't work, ac and heater takes longer before both works, and afraid that keeping it will only cost me more maintenance money including insurance. Do you think it'll become a classic car in 10 - 20 years? If so, then I'll keep it. Otherwise, I'll sell it ( so far the blue book value is around $700.00. BTW, I bought a 2005 Honda Accord EX (4 door Sedan) and am using the Probe only to and from work (10 miles round trip) and if its only on a clear or sunny day. Thanks!
Sad to say but no...the Probe will continue to suck money from you. Only keep it if you love it.
Because of its lack of popularity, its really going to be hard to find parts to keep it running. It is still a sore spot with most enthusiats because it was supposed to replace the Mustang.
why not donate it to a charitable organization? Better yet...quietly ask around, find a single parent, or a family in need of a second(even first)car...anonymously give it to them, title already changed to their name. Have a priest,minister,social worker or neighborhood leader present it to them on the condition they never reveal who the giver was. The payback will be extraordinaire
Quote: However, I have already replaced the engine twice, the wiper motors sometimes doesn't work, ac and heater takes longer before both works, and afraid that keeping it will only cost me more maintenance money including insurance.
I would donate this car or sell it for scrap. It's costing you more than it's worth.
It's hard to do, but you're going to have to say goodbye. I had to give up my beloved LeBaron this fall. The turbo was toast and there was some body damage to it, but my mother bought it brand new in 88, and it was really tough to let it go. The only difference is that in my case, we live on a farm, so we just parked it in a bush. This way, 5 years from now, if I have the cash I can fix her up again. It's one of the sexiest cars from that era, in my opinion. We would have sold it, or given it to charity, but it's worthless. In your case though, I'd probably donate it to charity. It's not worth a whole lot, and this way you don't feel as guilty if it drops the motor again 2 weeks after you sell it. Plus, you're doing something good. Also, it can be tax deductable. Up here there are a few organizations that will give you a $500 tax deduction for used cars, so look around in your area for something similar. Unfortunately, like your probe and my LeBaron, some cars are just not collector cars. Devan Jones
I would see if you could get a body kit and turn it into a Lambo...
Years ago Car and Driver magazine did an article on rebuild/replacement of older vehicles. Their approach to breathing life into an older vehicle (one that you REALLY like) was to systematically go thru and replace every component that wears and will eventually fail. Note that would would do this to a vehicle that has a good solid body to start with and to one that you would be satisfied keeping for an extended period of time! If you didn't replace it during the rebuild, count on (budget) replacing it in the future when it does fail. I believe they found it to be somewhat cheaper to rebuild rather than replace. How this applies to your Probe is a question - condition of the car and replacement parts availability are issues you would have to deal with.


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Does anyone know if bee stings would help relieve poison ivy?
I have a bad breakout in between my fingers and a little on my palm. Its in the blister stage now so I may be too late to help it.
Does anyone know if bee stings would help relieve poison ivy?
I have a bad breakout in between my fingers and a little on my palm. Its in the blister stage now so I may be too late to help it.
umm, I don't know, but I suspect you'd make a bad situation worse
sorry for your pain, poison ivy sux:mad:
I know a beek that makes beeswax lotion bars that swears they work on lots of things including poison ivy. If you want I can get you his address in Kansas? I was in a bunch of ivy vines today hanging a trap up in a portable deer stand. I'm not itching YET!
I have never tried either. I don't react to poison ivy. I would think propolis would work better than the venom. Heat it with honey until they will mix together.
Thanks, I may try the propolis. I tried honey alone but its such a sticky mess and the relief doesn't last but a few minutes.
I'm extremely allergic to Poison Ivy. Been hospitalized twice for it along with Poison Oak. They told me once I had poison sumac, but I didn't see any around. Still was miseable for three weeks! I did try what one guy called poison ivy honey. Tasted like he got it from the store.
I eat a lot of anti histamines. But no epi-pen or the like.
Oh yeah, I forgot, I also wash the dickens out of myself with soap and water when I know I've gotten into it. Usually within ten minutes.
No but Jewelweed crushed raw and applied dries it up instantly!
There is a horse, dog cure all salve we use called Nustock that will pretty much dry it up in a day or so. www.nustock.com
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I can verify that jewelweed juice works. Gibbons used to crush it out of the plants and then freeze the juice in ice cube trays then just apply a cube when needed.
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In my experience the problem with poison ivy is that the oil is very difficult to get off and that is what perpetuates and even spreads the problem. You need something that will remove oil. There is a poison ivy treatment for sale that will do this (don't remember the name off the top of my head) but it smells like a product I used to buy to clean oil paint off of brushes, called "Cooks Cleaner-upper". I would focus on getting the oil off. Paint thinner, Degreaser such as goop etc. should work. Soap and water never seem to really get it all off.
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Had poison ivy,real bad.Soaked in warm coarse salt,wrappt in a packing of oat meal and soda mixture,let dry for 1 hr.,then scrapt off,then scrubbed real hard the infected area with dish soap,I used polmolive and scrub hard with a lite abrasive scrubber,rinse,and let air dry.GOT OVER IT,TOOK 2 WEEKS.
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I've heard of the jewelweed treatment, but it has never done a darn thing for me, sadly. Getting the oil off is key, if you know you've been in PI. I hiked through a huge patch one, and was nowhere near plumbing. As soon as I made it to a stream, I scrubbed well with river sand, and (knock wood) never got a rash.
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TECNU EXTREME!!! I get exposed to poison Ivy pretty regularly as I love to root around the woods hunting (animals, birds, berries, and mushrooms) and exploring. If I think I've been exposed I scrub with the soap. If I'm within 2 to 3 hours of exposure I'm safe. Those times I don't think I was exposed and don't scrub up I invariably get it. The Tecnu lessens the symptoms by at least a week (maximum two instead of three weeks and then some) and the weeping and raised skin is minimized.
http://www.tecnuextreme.com/ I don't sell the stuff but lord knows I've bought alot of it. It works the best of everything I run across and I've run across all kinds of medicines and folk cures.
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hey man go to your local pharmacy and buy a bottle of poison ivy pills take a pill a day till fall and you won't get poison ivy anymore. The pills taste good to it takes about 25 to30 days to build up in your system but it does work. They are cheap no prescription needed I get mine at gnc or motherearth and start takeing them in march haven't had it in 10 yr it works later
Second vote for Tecnu. Makes a bad situation way better and I swear if you put it on beforehand, it's preventative.
Another vote for technu. It works GREAT! I react pretty badly to poison ivy, and this is the only stuff that works for me (besides the steroids I was on the year I got it on my face) . I've tried all sorts of things including jewelweed, and for me, technu is the only thing that touched it.
Technu is amazing stuff. Spared me from uncomfortable weeks on many occasions.
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DETROIT (Nov. 19, 2009) – Wayne State University Law School second-year student Deborah Fisch recently earned second place in the State Bar of Michigan Health Care Law Section's annual Law Student Writing Contest.
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Original post made by Diana Diamond, Palo Alto Online blogger, on Oct 17, 2006
On Sept. 6 a "middle management" memo was written complaining about several issues – lack of trust between the middle and upper management, pay and benefit inequities, consistency of practice, etc. Middle managers are principals, assistant principals, program coordinators and directors and school psychologists. That memo was published on the Weekly's Web site. Since then a big debate has emerged in town over who is right, who is wrong, and whether Superintendent Mary Frances Callan, who has been here since 2001, needs to go.
This is what I have learned so far from a number of conversations. The issue for the middle managers is really not about pay scales, vacation time and benefits, it is about a lack of trust between Callan and middle management, and a lack of communication between the senior managers (Callan, Associate Superintendents Marilyn Cook and Jerry Matranga, and Assistant Superintendent Scott Bowers) and middle managers. It's also about a perceived lack of leadership from Callan — leadership is being defined here as a lack of vision and academic inspiration.
The board is apparently divided in its support by Callan, and reportedly split 3-2 — but that could change. Three former board members (JohnBarton, John Tuomy and Cathy Kroymann) wrote a letter to the editor when this first erupted praising Callan and the other three, calling them "superb administrators who deserve our complete confidence," and saying issues like this should not be aired in public. That letter sounded to me like they were saying, "Don't air our dirty linen in public." It may have hurt more than helped Callan.
Ultimately, it is up to the board to decide what to do to solve this problem. No one else can. If the issue is trust, certainly Callan cannot "investigate" whether people trust her; this is clearly a board probe. If the issue is leadership style, ditto.
I sense board members are angry, and worried about the district's reputation and future. The feelings are strong at the board level, and among some middle managers. And probably Callan is angry too.
The board is considering hiring an outside person to objectively analyze this issue, to quantify and qualify who feels what about whom. That may be in order, but if the board authorizes such an analysis, I would suggest that it be completed sooner rather than later. Too many parents/teachers/staff/board members have been involved to let this continue to simmer. And we all should keep in mind that any outside consultant can only tell the board what people think, but that person cannot make a decision.
The board cannot take a lot of time to solve this problem. It needs to be cautious but the problem cannot be tossed aside or forgotten. Callan just entered into another four-year contract, but these issues have been simmering, some say from the time she arrived, while others say they surfaced two years ago.
My sense is that all five board members are concerned; my concern is that they need to be as unbiased and objective in finding out what really is wrong and devote full attention to this issue. No longer can the board simply ask, "Can't we all get along?"
Yes, only the board can solve this problem. Good luck!
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on Oct 18, 2006 at 1:05 am
Yours is a pretty good summary. Can you tell us what direction the current 3-2 PAUSD board split falls - i.e. staying with Callan, or relieveing her of administrative responsibility?
I've been encouraged by Gail Price' courage, and forthrightness. She has been the lone voice on the board daring to simply report what the board is hearing from the public. I trust that Barb Mitchell and Dana Tom understand how important it will be to PAUSD to get this situation under control, and get someone in at 25 Churchill who can LEAD. I'm especially interested in Dana Tom's stance, as he campaigned on "improving district communication".
As for Many Lowell and Camille Townsend, it's hard to say. Will they have the courage to depose someone that they have been working closely with for four years? That won't be easy, because doing so is to admit to some political culpability.
On an entirely different, and somewhat cynical note, any PAUSD board member who votes to keep Callan, and expects to have a clear political future in Palo Alto, should think twice about their decision. People remember these things - or, they are helped to remember them, come election time.
For the record, Callan's ineffective leadership style and bullying tactics did not begin a mere two years ago; they have been a problem from almost the very beginning. Due to the tradition of "behind closed doors" negotiating, Callan's tactics in negotiation between the district and teachers, negotiations that resulted in teacher dissension, were not fully reported to the press. This is a fact. On an earlier thread on this topic, another poster pointred out some of the details during that time.
On the hiring of an analyst: this is something that might be useful for discovery, to find out what went wrong, but it should in no way exonerate the serious breach of leadership and lack of management accountability that has plagued PAUSD since the beginning of Callan's reign.
When a public organization suffers a vote of no confidence in the senior executive, it's virtually impossible to recover and return the environment to one of openness and trust, because the initiating of new behavior has to come from the person whose lack of trustworthy leadership caused the problem in the first place. This is especially true in a school district like PAUSD, whose management demeanor is top-down. [the latter fact is unfortunate, and a serious problem in many public school systems, as they are compelled to labor, legislate and administrate using a system of management better suuited to 1950's industrial America, instead of the dynamic, inclusive system of management that public schools cry out for in today's fast-changing world]
Also, you're right about pursuing this at full speed ahead, and getting it resolved.
I can pretty much assure anyone who takes the time to ask around that Superintendent Mary Frances Callan, and at least two of her senior staff would not be missed by most PAUSD teachers and administrative management staff. On balance, she's been far more unpopular and ineffective on the personnel front that any Superintendent in recent memory, and has clearly failed to properly and successfully lead one of the best teaching and administrative staffs in the country. Political astuteness and negotiating chops should be *part* of a Superintendent's package, along with leadership, motivational, and visionary skills, especially in a school district like this one.
My hope is that the board - especially those who are currently in favor of keeping Callan - will look beyond what appears to be a fear of sullying PAUSD's vaunted reputation by making the hard choice to depose Callan.
Perhaps those on the board - who out of personal favor (it's not easy to fire someone you know well), or the fears mentioned above - need to consider that they, too, are in a learning environment, and that the most effective learning environments permit mistakes, as long as the agents in those environments learn from those mistakes.
Lest the above argument be used to support the maintenence of MFC as Superintendent, one should consider that one of the fundamental parts of any senior executive's job description is "accountability", an essential component of "responsibility".
The responsibility of the executive is to run a successful operation, and not make the *basic* mistakes that Callan has made - mistakes that should have been ironed out of her personal and management repetiore years ago, as she was supposed to be growing towards excellence.
In fact, MFC has had MANY chances to right her management behavior, but has consistently ignored clear signals from her subordinates about fundamental problems. Thus, the Management Team letter; thus, extreme teacher dissatisfaction with Callan; thus, dissension on the PAUSD board; thus, a beginning loss of confidence by the public in one of Palo Alto's most important public institutions.
In this case, it's the PAUSD board that has to give itself permission to either admit that a mistake was made, or that the Superintendent's personal and management style has outlived its usefulness in a district that has come a long way since she began, often in spite of her now-exposed ineffectiveness as a leader.
It's time for a change at the senior executive, and associate senior executive levels.
Last, I want to thank you for blogging this issue, because - given the above-described PAUSD demeanor - district spin might get the people who have to make this difficult decision, a decision to terminate ths Superintendent, off the hook.
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on Oct 18, 2006 at 1:07 pm
I've heard more than once that "two" of the senior cabinet should go. Can you clarify which two, and why? Thanks.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Oct 18, 2006 at 4:14 pm
The two principals in question are Marilyn Cook and Scott Bowers. I don't know enough about the third (Jerry Mantenga), to comment.
All said, Coo, Bowers, and Mantenga have been largely responsible to suggesting and implementing policy and demeanor *that they had a large hand in formulating*.
Here, it's important to note that the buck does stop at the top, and that the current district administrative demeanor is set by the executive; thus, Cook, Mantanga, and Bowers cannot be held to the same level of professional culpability as Callan, but all three (and esoecially Cook, because she's been here longer) seem to have had no problem in forging and carrying out tactical strategies that have contributed to the large problem that staff is currently experiencing. Where's *their* accountability? Should they be viewed as simply "good soldiers"? I don' think so. Their - and Callan's - administrative behavior have *cost* this disrtrict human and dollar efficiencies.
What we've heard from district staff, and more than a few insiders, is that Bowers, and especially Cook has been extraordinarily ineffective as regards the vexing problem of communication, chilling atmosphere, and de-motivational policy making that has been at the heart of the current set of problems.
When Cook was assigned to 25 Churchill, many district administrtive staff were initially enthused, because Cook had been a mostly efficient administrator at Paly. As soon as she took office, she began using and initiating tactics that made people very angry.
Again, senior administrators are well paid, and are supposed to be a "professional's professional" when taking office. Given the current situation, it appears that there has been not only a breakdown in communications - caused by long-standing problems emanating from 25 Churchill - but also a general sense of "them vs.us" as regards the relationship between senior executive staff and the rest of PAUSD's employees.
Is that healthy? Is that professional? And, will someone, anyone, please tell us where such a total failure to effectively manage one of the best teaching/administrative groups in America shouldn't result in termination, in service of bringing in senior people who more closely resonate with staff, as well as having the necessary administrative chops and gravitas. The latter three qualities are what's missing at 25 Churchill.
It's certainly time for a change at the top, and strong consideration of additional changes at the near-top (reassignments and/or dismissal, depending on the Board's pleasure), and an overall look at bringing PAUSD into the 21st century with a leader and executive team that befits the massive challenges and problems current in American culture and education today. PAUSD deserves no less.
This is an *opporuntity* for the PAUSD board to take a necessary, and difficult decision, and at the same time a fantastic and exciting foray into the future. I wish them well
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on Oct 19, 2006 at 8:48 am
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Your comments have been very interesting.
You asked about the 3-2 board split. When I talked to some of the board members, they were trying hard to analyze the problem and sort things out. Since I did not directly ask them if they would personally vote to dismiss Mary Frances, I don't want to say who would do what -- because I sense they have not made up their minds. I do know they care a lot about what is happening in the district.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 21, 2006 at 3:19 am
My guess is that you can characterize the board as follows:
Gail Price - for years the lone voice in the wilderness; trying to get the prior board (including John Barton and Cathy Kroymann) to recognize the Mary Frances issue.
Barb Mitchell - less radical and less frustrated by this mess than Gail but maybe because she hasn't lived for years with this; coming along pretty quickly, though, and anxious to get the evidence and make a decision on MFC.
Dana Tom - some people perceived weakness and vacillation during his run for school board and this perception seems to have been borne out; a nice guy but not someone with the stomach for this battle; my guess is he'd rather be a part of the Cathy Kroymann "don't air our dirty laundry" crowd.
Mandy Lowell - conscientious and trying to do what she perceives as her best but somehow utterly missing the forest for the trees; she's heard the MFC stories for years and yet discounts them; she takes the fact that people are speaking out as evidence that there is nothing wrong with our communication and no failure of trust - "See?? People are willing to talk! Nothing wrong here. Go back to your lives, people."
Camille Townsend - "Oh my gawd! This is so, so, so awesome! It's so great to talk about these things. What was your name again?" Nuff said.
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On Wednesday the FBI announced that it had arrested Rezwan Ferdaus, a Northeastern University graduate in physics, for allegedly plotting to fly model planes packed with explosives into government buildings in Washington, DC, and elsewhere. As with previous sting operations, the actual plot, reliant on equipment provided by undercover FBI agents, was never going to take place. Unlike previous sting operations, the FBI got the target to outline the entire thing in writing.
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Coal executive Robert Murray is hosting a fundraiser on Thursday night for the climate deniers' favorite GOP presidential candidate, Rick Perry. Murray is the CEO of the Ohio-based Murray Energy Corporation and will be hosting the event at the White Palace Ballroom of Wheeling, West Virginia.
It's not hard to see why Perry and Murray would like each other. Both Murray and Perry are both vocal (and often colorful) climate change deniers. Murray called global warming an "elitists' ill-conceived 'global goofiness' campaigns" in a 2007 speech to the New York Coal Trade Association. Murray also used a horrific collapse at a Utah mine that his company owned as yet another occasion to rail against attempts to regulate global warming.
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Tim MurphySep. 29, 2011 5:48 PM
Rep. Michele Bachmann has plunged in the polls since Texas Gov. Rick Perry entered the GOP presidential race in July. Prior to that, polls had consistently shown the Minnesota congresswoman in the lead in the critical early primary state of Iowa. More recently she received just 40 votes in the Florida straw poll, earning her dead last. All of which made her fundraising pitch this morning all the more off-key:
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OK, so it's not as big a deal as repeating dangerous and debunked claims about vaccines, but it's worth noting that this is sort of the opposite of the current state of play. Bachmann is in second place in Iowa according to one poll released this week. But the overall trend lines are pretty bad. For instance, here's a (somewhat difficult to read) chart from Real Clear Politics averaging the national tracking polls. The black line is Michele Bachmann, and, as you can see, it's plummeting faster than [insert Red Sox joke here]. Rick Perry is in blue; Mitt Romney's purple:
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Tim McDonnellSep. 29, 2011 5:00 PM
Twitter is great for staying up-to-date on, well, pretty much everything: the news, celebrity gossip, your roommate's best-friend's breakfast. But a new paper out today in the journal Science suggests that Twitter can also be used to track peoples' moods. The researchers found that, across the globe, tweets are predictably upbeat or cranky based on the local time of day.
Cornell University sociologists Scott Golder and Michael Macy spent two years collecting 509 million tweets from 2.4 million users in 84 different countries (albeit with a notable dearth of representation from Africa). Using a well-established text analysis tool, they scored tweets based on their use of hundreds of positive words (like "happy" or "enthusiastic") or negative words (like "sad" or "anxious"). When Macy and Golder plotted these scores against the tweet's time stamp, they found what should come as no surprise to anyone who works a nine-to-five: peoples' moods are best early in the morning, slowly deteriorate as the day wears on, then finally pick up in the evening (read: after happy hour). And, cultural differences be damned, the same was true worldwide, suggesting mood is hard-wired in the human psyche.
"Twitter is a goldmine for being able to observe human behavior," Macy said. "We all have basically the same biology, and the pattern we found was very robust."
David CornSep. 29, 2011 4:42 PM
The political divide in Washington is as nasty as I've ever seen it. The tea party-pandering Republican Party has brought the nation's capital to a standstill—and nearly pushed the nation into another financial crisis. With the nation facing a series of challenges—a stalled economy, flat (or falling) incomes for those in the middle or the bottom, a troubled education system, out-of-date infrastructure—there seems little chance the political system can produce policies that address these serious problems. But the tea party types and their conservative corporate backers don't mind. They're rooting for gridlock that gums up and discredits the government.
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On the Daily Show last night, Bill O'Reilly was griping about the great $16 muffin affair and Jon Stewart had no idea what he was talking about. So the whole thing passed without any pushback, and now millions more people think Uncle Sam is paying $16 for hotel muffins.
Once again, then: it's a myth. There were no $16 muffins. It's just an artifact of the way hotels aggregate costs for events and bill them all to a few line items instead of breaking down every charge separately. In fact, for the event in question, DOJ came in exactly on budget. All the details are here.
Now, can we please hear no more about this?
Tim MurphySep. 29, 2011 3:38 PM
Pew Research has a good report up this week on child poverty during the great recession, based on data from the 2010 Census we wrote about previously. The takeaway is that, as you'd expect, poverty rates are increasing among all ethnic groups—but no group's numbers are moving in the wrong direction at a greater clip than Latinos'. Here's a chart:
Latino child poverty has skyrocketed during the recession: Courtesy of Pew ResearchThere are a couple things going on here. One is that Latinos are making up an ever-increasing share of the population, especially among younger generations, so these numbers are bound to rise in the short-term. Another is that the Latino unemployment rate is significantly higher than the natonal average (it's 11.3 percent as of August), and that number correlates to less income.
It's worth noting that poverty rates are still higher overall among black children, at 39.1 percent (compared to 35 percent for Latinos and 12.4 percent for whites). That's about on par with the poverty rate for Latino children with immigrant parents (39 percent). The full report is here.
Adam SerwerSep. 29, 2011 3:07 PM
The Los Angeles Times published an op-ed Thursday from Law Professor Jonathan Turley blasting the Obama administration's record on civil liberties and declaring that "the election of Barack Obama may stand as one of the single most devastating events in our history for civil liberties." Turley's op-ed focuses on the Obama administration's undeniable policy continuity with the Bush administration on national security matters. Issues that might generally fall under the umbrella of "civil liberties" like gay rights or voting rights aren't included. Turley writes:
Obama failed to close Guantanamo Bay as promised. He continued warrantless surveillance and military tribunals that denied defendants basic rights. He asserted the right to kill U.S. citizens he views as terrorists. His administration has fought to block dozens of public-interest lawsuits challenging privacy violations and presidential abuses.
But perhaps the biggest blow to civil liberties is what he has done to the movement itself. It has quieted to a whisper, muted by the power of Obama's personality and his symbolic importance as the first black president as well as the liberal who replaced Bush. Indeed, only a few days after he took office, the Nobel committee awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize without his having a single accomplishment to his credit beyond being elected. Many Democrats were, and remain, enraptured.
Obama failed to close Guantanamo Bay as promised. He continued warrantless surveillance and military tribunals that denied defendants basic rights. He asserted the right to kill U.S. citizens he views as terrorists. His administration has fought to block dozens of public-interest lawsuits challenging privacy violations and presidential abuses.
But perhaps the biggest blow to civil liberties is what he has done to the movement itself. It has quieted to a whisper, muted by the power of Obama's personality and his symbolic importance as the first black president as well as the liberal who replaced Bush. Indeed, only a few days after he took office, the Nobel committee awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize without his having a single accomplishment to his credit beyond being elected. Many Democrats were, and remain, enraptured.
Turley's political analysis is overstated, but his policy analysis is not. There's nothing particularly unusual about Democrats' silence on matters of civil liberties and national security, which is easily attributable to mere partisanship. Declaring it the function of a kind of mental affirmative action is silly. The same civil libertarian groups who were fighting Bush, like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights, are doing so now. What they lack is the support or amplification provided by prominent Democrats in Congress when the president was a Republican. Turley also lets the GOP entirely off the hook, as though there's nothing unusual about a party whose mantra is "small government" offering no opposition whatsoever to the expansion of the national security state. Perhaps it's just that Turley's expectations for Republicans are so low that he doesn't even see the contradiction as worth noting.
Stephanie MencimerSep. 29, 2011 2:55 PM
There's more dismal news on the economic front. Earlier this month, the US Census Bureau released the latest poverty data, revealing that the poverty rate is at a record high and the number of Americans living in deep poverty has been steadily increasing. (The Census Bureau defines deep poverty as living below half the annual federal poverty line, or about $11,000 for a family of four. About 7 percent of the country now falls into this category.)
Now comes the news that as larger numbers of people fall into deep poverty, they're increasingly landing on the streets. The National Alliance to End Homelessness projects that the number of homeless Americans will increase by five percent over the next three years. That would mean an additional 74,000 people homeless people, pushing the national total towards 1.7 million. Homeless numbers tend to lag behind unemployment and poverty indicators, but the Alliance notes that all the warning signs for increased homelessness are there—most notably an 11 percent increase in the number of people who are "doubling up" and living with relatives or other people. That's often just one step from landing in a shelter. Here's the depressing chart of the day:
Chart courtesy of the National Alliance to End Homelessness
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Low risk chance
A name from the past just might wind up surfacing as a potential boost to some club's offense during the pennant race. Free-agent outfielder Grady Sizemore has been working out as he continues to recover from the microfracture knee surgery that caused him to miss last season with the Indians and is hoping to be ready to play after the All-Star break.
Sizemore has appeared in just 104 major-league games since the start of the 2010 season and hasn't stayed healthy for a full year since 2008. However, he is still only 30 years old and averaged 5.0 WARP a season from 2005-08.
"I'd take a shot on him, let him try to work his way up through the minor leagues, see if he has anything left," said an FOT from a contending team. "His talent was undeniable when he was healthy. "
Edd Roush (06-06-2013)
If I were the Reds, I'd give him a shot. Make him go through a try-out and sign him to a deal that requires him to show some spark in AAA first.
I really don't think you can count on Ludwick coming back and being the same player he was after shoulder surgery. It zaps power hitters power.
wolfboy (06-06-2013)
I'm fine with taking a flyer on Sizemore, but my gut tells me he is done.
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
Sizemore is too much of a risk. He hasn't played since 2011 and was never that good. He had some solid years but not enough talent imo to make a comeback.
Code:YEAR TEAM AGE G AB R H 2B 3B HR HR% RBI BB SO SB CS AVG SLG OBA OPS 2005 Indians 22 158 640 111 185 37 11 22 3.44 81 52 132 22 10 .289 .484 .348 .832 2006 Indians 23 162 655 134 190 53 11 28 4.27 76 78 153 22 6 .290 .533 .375 .907 2007 Indians 24 162 628 118 174 34 5 24 3.82 78 101 155 33 10 .277 .462 .390 .852 2008 Indians 25 157 634 101 170 39 5 33 5.21 90 98 130 38 5 .268 .502 .374 .876
I don't foresee Sizemore as outperforming anyone on our bench. The guy peaked at the age of 23 in 2006 then showed steady decline from there. He's 30 and hasn't played a full season since 2008. Why do you think he'll be effective? He only has name recognition.
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How do we know he's not Mel Torme?
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Maybe it's just be but the gala seemed average if not total crap.
The oh so wonderful "This momentous moment. . . . " () is a perfect example of cheesiness. The choice of music at the end and the general "gloom" topic is just... gah
And no encores!? No encores!!?
As for the performances S/Z, Lambiel, Kavaguti & Smirnov, Rochette and Plushenko are about all I can remember right now.
I'm sorry for our fellow figure skating fans in US. Canada is the best country to live for figure skating fans...........and everyone else I might add. THANK YOU CTV/TSN/SNET for airing every single skater in every event and the exhibition. WE LOVE THEM ALL AND YOU ROCK.
Did NBC show Mao or Dai? Or did they just ignore the Japanese skaters again? :sheesh:
Wanna hear something more? NBC is not really airing the World Championships either. Universal Sports is (live and every skater).
And what was up with the running order?
What the...
Glad I did not reside in US. Look at US national that cover the whole event and now the most precious olympic event they treated the broadcast wrorst than the beauty pageant.
I'm not an Evan fan, but I think his exhibition programme was a wise choice. You can't go wrong with Gershwin!
I loved Yu-Na's dress, by the way. I found it tasteful and beautiful, and utterly befitting.
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Thousands of Twitter users woke up this morning to discover e-mails from the social media service asking them to change their passwords. Why? Yesterday, Twitter announced that they'd experienced an internal breach that compromised more than 250,000 user accounts before they brought a stop to it. The incident, reported on the Twitter blog on Friday, explained that the breach happened earlier this week Twitter "unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data."
After shutting down one such attack during the attempt itself, Twitter moved on to discover that the breach extended to over 250,000 accounts whereas indicated that attackers may have had access "to limited user information – usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords."
As a result, the social media services has reset the passwords of the affected accounts and revoked session tokens. This means that if you were affected, you will not be able to use anything that requires the Twitter API until you authorize it again and you will have to reset your password with Twitter itself in order to regain access to your account once again.
From what we know now, this attack is not related to the recent Twitter outage earlier this week.
Why ask people to disable Java?
In the report, Twitter's Director of Information Security, Bob Lord, warns users about the recent massive flaws discovered in Oracle's implementation of Java and includes the recent warnings about the need to disable Java in browsers.
From a close reading of Lord's report, this was a breach internal to Twitter and not caused by 250,000 users being exploited by a flaw in Java. In fact, Lord mentions that this not an amateur attack at all and the attackers had gained limited access to Twitter-internal information about the users in question.
Still, it's worthwhile to mention recent cybersecurity issues that directly affect user security. That did include mentioning basic password sanity including "choose a long and complex password," even if it's memorable, not based on English words. Looking at previous password dumps from hackers, people are still a bit lax about their password choices.
Not the first massive-scale expert hack to happen in 2013
Twitter has joined the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and now the Washington Post in being hacked this week. All of whom have suffered sophisticated hacks over the past months and most appear to be connected to China—all interestingly announced during the same time period. The attackers in every case appeared to be seeking information related to the accounts used by journalists at these sites and all of them extremely expert in their capabilities.
As Lord explains in his post on the Twitter blog,
This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident. The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked. For that reason we felt that it was important to publicize this attack while we still gather information, and we are helping government and federal law enforcement in their effort to find and prosecute these attackers to make the Internet safer for all users.
Twitter is yet-another-avenue of communication not just for citizens, but journalists as well, passwords and information stored in these accounts could be used to compromise other accounts or may yet be part of a larger, more sinister attempt to gather information.
It's too early to tell if the Twitter hack is at all related to the newspaper hacks this week, but the coincidence is extremely uncanny.


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Just when you thought it was safe to go back out of the water...
"The 7 1/2 -centimetre-long adult insects -- up to five times the size of a typical wasp -- can be lethal, and kill about 40 people every year. They also attack and kill whole hives of bees..." http://salinella.bio.uottawa.ca/BIO3323/Lectures/Assignment%202001/bio3323_lectA ssign_Vesp.htm
"European honeybees are a favorite target of the giant hornets. Commonly used by Japanese farmers, the honeybees are not native to Japan and have no natural defenses against an onslaught of giant hornets. " http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ntHornets.html
[Vespa mandarinia rates of killing ]"Apis mellifera...[range] as high as 40 per minute....If a colony of about 30.000 European honeybees (Apis mellifera) were to be attacked by 30 giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia japonica) they would be wiped out in 3 hours...
SE part of Asian Russia: southern regions of Primorskii Krai, Korea, China, Japan (In Japanese: Ohsuzumebati), Indochina, Nepal, India (Kurzenko, 1995),..."[Note: some of these are quite cold; the Primorskii is home to the Russian bees first introduced for Varroa resistance" http://www.muenster.org/hornissenschutz/manda.htm
Vespa mandarinica "....with bodies
no bigger than 5cm, can fly 50 miles in a single day at 20 miles per hour.." www.vaam-power.com/vaam_info.html
"The Japanese honey bee, Apis cerana japonica Rad. (Acj), is known to perform a unique thermal defense against hornets such as Vespa mandarina (Vm) and V. simillima xanthoptera. The other interesting defensive behaviors of Acj are 1) cessation of foraging and hiding inside the hive and 2) shriving off [with mandibles] the [hornet's[ forage-site marking pheromone deposited from sternite gland (van der Vecht gland)...": http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~insects/...m_defense.html
"When attacked by white-faced hornets (Vespa mandarina japonica F. Smith), honeybees (Apis cerana japonica (Fabricius)form defensive balls around them, each ball consisting of about 400 tightly aggregated individuals. The interiors of these balls quickly rise to 47°C, killing the hornets but not the bees whose upper lethal temperature is 48Â50°C. If the honeybees fail to kill the first hornet attackers, however, the latter, by releasing phermones, recruit their nestmates and these overpower the bee colony with sheer numbers: 30,000bees can be killed in their hive by a group of only 30Â40 hornets" http://184.108.40.206/search?q=cacheOokWN6O1DEJ est.cabweb.org/PDF/BER/BER87-5/551.pdf+vespa+mandarina&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
"...They extracted a number of volatile chemicals from a pheromone of the worlds largest hornet, Vespa mandarina and found that this extract caused intense alarm and defensive behaviour amongst the hornets. The chemicals triggering the behaviour (2-pentanol, 3-methyle1-1-butanol and 1-methylbuti1 3-methylbutanoate) are found in some cosmetics and fragrances as well as some manufactured foods." http://www.beedata.com/apis-uk/newsl...-uk101103.htm.
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Whats the latest on Dr Rodriguez method. Is there a formula?
Whats the latest on Dr Rodriguez method. Is there a formula?
My understanding is that most people observed no effect on mite counts from fogging.
I've heard nothing from Pedro for years.
Regards, Barry
Does anyone use mineral oil fogging? Reading Pedro's threads from years ago it seemed that he did extensive studies on the subject that proved to be effective. Was he just blowing smoke?
I fog with FGMO and wintergreen.
It gives a good knockdown and seems to stimulate hygenic behaviour.
I've watched them in my top bar observation hives; pretty neat.
It was the Thymol mixture in his later treatments that proved to be effective, in his cords or something
Ian Steppler >> Canadian Beekeeper's Blog
How often do you fog...and under what conditions?
I do it when the counts are high.
As long as the bees are flying, you can fog.
I last did it in September...once weekly for a month.
I used ~ 1.5 drops of wintergreen per ounce of FGMO.
FatBeeMan has a good video on YouTube.
I find it well worth doing.
I see FatBeeMan using a Burgess fogger. HD and Lowes have another make...$70...What kind are you using?
Mine is a "Black Flag".
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Carpathians > Malá Fatra > Veľký Rozsutec > Climber's Log
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|Konrad Sus
Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2005
|With excursion of orgasnization PTTK
|Posted May 17, 2011 4:02 pm
Date Climbed: May 22, 2008
|Amazing place.
Route from Parnica, following blue marks to Medziholie Sedlo and further on, to the top. Descent by the same way to the pass and then straight to the Chata pod Chlebom.
A part of our 3-day trip with Igi, all along Mala Fatra.
|Posted Aug 16, 2010 4:00 am
|Looks much much harder than it is
|I can't write, that i've climbed it, because there is nothing to climb. But i've been there many many times. Very relaxing mountian, especially in winter.
|Posted Nov 27, 2008 11:35 pm
|The best mountain outside Tatras
Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2006
|Posted Aug 29, 2008 7:23 am
|late September
|seems the right time
|Posted Aug 27, 2008 6:32 pm
|From Medzirozsutec
|Nice trip in autumn.
|Posted Dec 3, 2007 1:48 pm
|way from Lucivna via V.Rozsutec to Stefanova
Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2005
|beautiful views..Mala Fatra is good area for ski
|Posted Aug 27, 2007 1:40 pm
|From Stefanowa
|Nice walk :)
|Posted May 12, 2007 1:02 pm
|Many, many times
|I was there many times - from Medziholie, Medzirozsutce, during the ridge trail of Krivanska Mala Fatra, in the snow, in the fog, in the hot summer.
|Posted Jan 30, 2007 1:17 pm
|from Stefanova...
|I love this mountain :) it's wonderfull!
|Posted Oct 4, 2006 3:58 pm
|On skis from Stefanova via Janosikove diery to the summit, descent to pass Medziholie, January 1999
|For a pity, terrible wind, icy snowing and dark during the ski descendt
|Posted Mar 31, 2006 7:25 pm
|Route Climbed: from Kralovany, past Meziholie up to the summit Date Climbed: summers 1999-2003 - 4x
|This is one of my favorite mountains - it is not so easy to climb and offers wonderful views - almost everything that is needed.
|Posted Jan 13, 2006 11:47 am
|Tomas Kristofory
|Route Climbed: during hike of the whole ridge of Krivanska Fatra from sedlo Medziholie Date Climbed: august 2003
|Simply fantastic:) Everything was perfect: weather, mates, not many people.
|Posted Jan 12, 2006 10:37 pm
|Route Climbed: from Medziholie Date Climbed: May 1, 2005
|Very interesting mount.
|Posted Nov 30, 2005 8:41 pm
|Route Climbed: from Medzirosutce Date Climbed: may 1998
|wow! the one of my most favourite summits :)
|Posted Nov 3, 2005 1:32 pm
|Diery - Medzirozsutce
|1996 and 2014.
Nice trip, love the Diery Gorge.
|Posted Aug 29, 2005 12:16 pm