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Travels with Mini-Me: Prepping and Packing
The key to traveling with kids is the prep-work. Make it fun: booking restaurant reservations and buying tickets to museum exhibits in advance will get everyone excited about the trip before you lift-off.
Travels with Mini-Me: Miami
Not only is this writer's Mini-Me (her 11 year old daughter) a choice airport companion, she does her homework when it comes to what to see and where to eat on their frequent jaunts to Miami.
Travels with Mini-Me: Navigating the Airport
The general consensus on traveling with kids is that it's all headaches and delay-induced boredom. Not for this Fodor's writer. Traveling with her Mini-Me is all delicious treats and airport adventures.
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The Hamptons are all beaches and be-seen, but just in case you packed your weekend bag with too few designer duds or a lackluster hostess gift, here are the area's five chicest boutiques.
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Miami's got sultry beaches, a cool and colorful art scene, and hotels dripping in luxury down. But our favorite spots for winding down in this white hot city are these zen-like, full-service spas.
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Whether you're a carry-on pro or pack half your closet for every trip, Allure's Fashion Director gave us her top tips on how to stay chic on your next European getaway.
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A forum on industrial security opened Tuesday under the auspices of Ahmed bin Ali al Omari, President of Dhofar Municipality. According to ONA, the one-day event was organized by Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) Salalah branch as part of Khareef Festival activities.
It was addressed by Sheikh Naif bin Omar al Rowas, OCCI board member and head of OCCI Salalah branch, who said the purpose of the forum was to explain the concepts of industrial security and vocational health.
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Downing is expected to complete his £18m move to Anfield from Aston Villa later today and his addition to the squad has really pleased Carra.
"It's a terrific signing, there's no doubt about that whatsoever," said the Reds' vice-captain.
"He's been a top player in the Premier League for the last six or seven years and he will definitely make a difference, with his ability to go outside and down the line to get quality crosses in.
"I know him, so does Stevie; he knows Andy Carroll and Johnno (Glen Johnson) from playing for England, so he is not going to be walking into a dressing room and be on his own. He will get a great welcome because he's a good lad and a top player as well.
"He was Aston Villa's player of the year and he will give us something that we have been lacking, genuine quality on the left hand side. Every team looking to compete needs quality players in each position and that is what we are getting back towards."


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Lions Take 4th In Ferris/Palmer Baseball Tournament
Sixteen Teams Participate
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The Teague Lions went 2?2 in the I-45 Classic Baseball Tournament and finished in 4th place in the 16-team invitational tournament. The Lions opened on Friday with an 8-1 win over the Wortham Bulldogs, and later that evening took an 8-7 victory over the state-ranked Palmer Bulldogs. In the first game Kent Bonner notched his fourth win on the young season. In the second game, Austin Skinner got his first victory on the mound while teammate Aaron Mitchell garnered a save over Palmer.
But as Saturday turned cold, so did Lion bats. Teague was only able to generate 4 runs in its next two games as the Lions suffered an 11-3 loss to Crandall and a 3-1 defeat to Ferris. Lane Scruggs and Austin Skinner were selected to the All tournament team.
With the two losses, the Lions? season record moves to 6-3 as district play begins on Tuesday at Lions Field. The Buffalo Bison will come to town on Tuesday with the JV to begin at 4:30 followed by the varsity at 7 p.m. On Friday both the JV and Varsity will be participating in the Franklin Invitational Tournament.


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Short lighting is, as the name implies, the opposite of broad lighting. The main light is positioned at 90 degrees to the camera, pointing at the side of the model's face furthest from the camera, with the secondary light to the other side of the camera pointing at the side of the model's face closest to the camera. Again, the secondary light should be about half the intensity of the main light.
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Even if your ancestors didn't settle in Noodle, Dime Box, Ding Dong or Bugscuffle when they got to the land of the Lone Star, they may have scrawled farewell notes on their doors back east saying "GTT" — Gone to Texas. Enthusiasm for going to Texas was especially strong following the US economic panic of 1837 and after the Civil War. Texas didn't offer the gold panning or fur trapping that lured so many folks farther west, but it had land — lots of land.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Nine America East men's and women's soccer teams earned 2011-12 National Soccer Coaches Association of America Team Academic Awards for having posted cumulative team grade point averages above 3.0.
Seven teams on the women's side included University at Albany (3.14), Binghamton (3.41), Boston University (3.33), UMBC (3.21), Maine (3.42), New Hampshire (3.20) and Vermont (3.30).
Two men's teams in Binghamton (3.16) and UMBC (3.06). The Bearcats and Retrievers are two of only 148 institutions nationwide to have both its men's and women's teams earn the honor.
A total of 717 college soccer teams (220 men, 497 women) posted a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher, thereby earning the NSCAA Team Academic Award for the 2011-12 academic year.


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- 1/3 cup salted roasted pistachios
- 3 medium fennel bulbshalved lengthwise, cored and very thinly sliced
- 3 medium heads radicchioquartered, cored and very thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 2 tablespoons chopped jalapeño
- 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
Preheat the oven to 350°. Spread the pistachios in a pie pan and toast in the oven for 5 minutes, until fragrant. Transfer to a bowl and let cool, then coarsely chop.
In a large bowl, toss the fennel and radicchio. Add the parsley, jalapeño and lemon zest and toss again. In a small bowl, whisk the lemon juice with the honey until the honey is dissolved, then whisk in the oil. Pour the dressing over the salad. Add the pistachios and salt, season with pepper and toss well. Let the slaw stand at room temperature for 15 minutes for the flavors to meld before serving.


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Hamas subdued despite Gaza victory claim-Israeli military
By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's offensive on Gaza has deterred Hamas from new hostilities despite its claims of victory and the front is now at its quietest in 20 years, a senior Israeli military officer said.
Vastly lopsided shelling exchanges over eight days killed 170 Palestinians and 6 Israelis before the November 21 truce brokered by Egypt.
The Islamist militant group Hamas, which for the first time managed to fire rockets towards Tel Aviv and Jerusalem during the conflict, says it won in the absence of an Israeli ground invasion that might have toppled its Gaza administration.
The officer said Hamas should be allowed to save face after failing to inflict more pain on the Jewish state.
"Their jubilation was not from victory, it was from their relief at being able to emerge from shelters," said the officer, who could not be identified by name under military regulations.
"They took a major blow and they have to patch up their honor," he said.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of the Gaza Strip last weekend to welcome the first visit by their previously exiled leader Khaled Meshaal. He declared victory at a rally and vowed to seize all of modern-day Israel one day.
The ceasefire brought Palestinians access to border farmland and fishing waters that Israel had previously kept off-limits and truce talks might lead to a further rolling back of Israel's blockade of the coastal strip. Continued...


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Nice work dude .......... don't remember seeing it.
This is a discussion on CZ picture.... within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I can't remember if I've posted this picture before, I don't think I have. It turned out pretty neat so I thought I would share. ...
I can't remember if I've posted this picture before, I don't think I have. It turned out pretty neat so I thought I would share.
I haven't really had time to take pictures like I used too. Having a 5month old around the house puts a hamper on that. :)
Nice work dude .......... don't remember seeing it.
Chris - P95
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is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."
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Nice pictures, when my new baby gets here CZ P-06) I will post a picture of it and its brothers (CZ P-01, CZ RAMI and Taurus PT1911).
Really nice photos. Added to my desktop.
"All war is deception" --Sun Tzu
Great pics! I really love the one of your 1911.
Thanks for sharing.
.40 caliber version of the popular P-01.
They look like this, and are hard to come by right now.
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Nice collection you got going there...
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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As clarkston cz said, it basically a P-01 chambered in .40 cal. I ordered it from a dealer throuogh the CZ forum. Should be here next week. One difference between P-06 and P-01 is the P-06 comes with tru glo night sights.
Interesitng they started making the p-06,b/c the made the cz40p using the p-o1 frame,....wich is what I had :( regret selling her.
Beautiful pic BTW. My fiancee is set on a CZ now
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Archer51, I do not see a CZ75 Compact. Regards, Richard
My CZ75 Compact with Hakan grips:
I had thought about buying a Compact .40. But reading the CZ forum they seem to have had a lot of FTF/FTE problems with it. Supposedly they have a fix on it now, but decided to go with the P-06 with alloy frame, little lighter on the hip. Have trouble keeping my pants up without any extra weight on the belt!! LOL . Might have to go for a Compact 9mm if the right deal comes along though.Archer51, I do not see a CZ75 Compact. Regards, Richard


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Conversations stirred momentarily when the clown walked in, then fell back on themselves, on safety. When was the last time anyone had seen a clown, I heard them asking. Weren't they outlawed? And in a bar, for chrissakes? That was too far, that was pushing on ludicrous. That was dangerous.
Somebody was sure to call the cops, but it wasn't going to be me. I ordered another beer, showing my breathalyzer to the bartender. When you can't joke, when you can't let yourself get too drunk, you make sure there's good beer. Micro-brews being a global market? You tucked that germ of laughter away in savings, hoping your mind didn't go bankrupt before they found a cure. Some day, you said, you'd redeem that joke, and it would be glorious.
The clown took the stool next to me, sad panda to the nines. He nodded slowly, commiserating wordlessly with me and all the things best left unsaid. I wondered what he'd been through. I flashed to all those protesters, just college kids, dressing up as clowns; they thought the whole thing was a joke, absurd. Big brother, they chanted. Most of them laughed themselves to death. That was the highlight of the best-of reel played every April 1st to make sure we didn't forget; as if we could forget living without laughter.
Laughter was too big a thing to miss, of itself; you missed the details, instead. I missed groaning at jokes that were just that end of wrong. I missed playful one-upmanship. I missed…. I took a long draught of my beer, and waited for the big one to hit: I missed love. My marriage, the real reason I was drinking on a Tuesday night. Without humor, we were just a pair of mean, cantankerous busy-bodies who had less and less respect for each other.
The clown tilted forwards to whisper, bouncing the words off the stained bar between us. "It's a lie." His blood-red flower threatened to dip into my nachos, and I batted it away.
"The cake, or tell me another one?" The words scattered, brown and bubbly, in the prism of my beer. I'd never been a fan of clowns; they'd always been, if not a little scary, at least disturbing. And that was before the humor singularity; after, with the vaudeville death cults….
"The joke heard 'round the world." He waited for the words to sink in, waggling his shaved, white eyebrows like a demented Marx brother, and all I could think of was the stench of conspiracy. I'd heard too many conspiracies. I focused on the grease-paint half-filling the crevices of his weather-worn cheeks. Had he snapped? My heart quickened—a clown gone 'round the bend was more dangerous than I'd pegged him. But he didn't seem quirky. It was something else.
I looked at him, nonplussed. "That's not funny."
He smiled. "It is. It really is. Think about it, and see if you don't, under the rage, have to crack a smile—have to let it out?"
"I've seen the footage. I know people that died in the initial wave of reporting. I know people that died in the rush to self-control, before the rules were figured out. It can't be a lie."
He ducked his head lower to the bar, and I realized I'd raised my voice. That's what you get, talking to a wingnut, I could imagine them saying. The clown's whisper was almost a rasp, skimming along the bartop like shuffleboard. His dark eyes pierced upwards into mine as he watched the measure of his words. "The best lie has a grain of truth. What better way to control the masses, all of us at once?"
"All of us—the joke heard 'round the world, the killing meme. That wasn't a lie, and who cared if it was conspiracy? Dead was dead."
"One step further, the twist at the end. Don't you see it? The joke was real, the cure was not. They couldn't target sedition or competition with their thoughtcrime virus, but they could dull the sting. What's worth fighting for, if mere comfort is the apex of achievement? But that's just you and me, chum. Chum in the water. They know the score, and they're laughing in their private clubs."
It was absurd. Patently, beautifully absurd. We, the downtrodden—the proletariat, self-flagellating for fear we'll die, unable to even imagine another life. I imagined them pulling some random Joe off the street, and just laughing at him. His eyes would widen with fear, his breath quicken, and then he'd start to tremble. The laughter would explode inside him as well, all the more torturous for the mandatory conditioning they claimed would save his life; laughing as he collapsed in a puddle of blood, sweat, and feces.
I didn't believe him, couldn't believe him. It was too absurd. All the same, somewhere deep in my guts, a butterfly began to tickle; a giggle tried to burble its way out of my chest. I twisted in my seat, conditioning-cramps working overdrive to keep it in, and that was the last straw—the laugh ripped through the cocoon of my stomach, shredding my resolve. I heard dish-ware breaking, people screaming, stampeding the exits, and it was hilarious. The clown's hand was on my shoulder, his hot breath corkscrewing into my brain. "You don't have to die. Breathe. Let the pain go. Breathe. Let control go. Breathe. Let the hope in. Breathe. Let the madness in. Breathe."
His voice was manta-ray skating across the folds of my brain, until there was nothing but; he repeated the incantation tirelessly, and it became me. I could breathe. A tension lifted, one I hadn't even known I was carrying. The cramps began to loosen. Hope flooded me past full, until madness began to squeak out my ears like superheated helium. The room warped, and when my vision cleared, the bar was empty.
I could hear sirens in the distance. He didn't have to ask: I was ready to go with him, to learn, and to spread the gospel on my own. Some day, we would all be free…but until that day, I would be a sad panda, proud and strong.
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Dose response relationships between physical activity, walking and health-related quality of life in mid-age and older women
Heesch, Kristiann, van Uffelen, Jannique G.Z., van Gellecum, Yolanda R., & Brown, Wendy J. (2012) Dose response relationships between physical activity, walking and health-related quality of life in mid-age and older women. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 66, pp. 670-677.
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Although physical activity is associated with health-related quality of life (HRQL), the nature of the dose-response relationship remains unclear. This study examined the concurrent and prospective dose-response relationships between total physical activity (TPA) and (only) walking with HRQL in two age cohorts of women.
Participants were 10,698 women born in 1946-1951 and 7,646 born in 1921-1926, who completed three mailed surveys for the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. They reported weekly TPA minutes (sum of walking, moderate, and vigorous minutes). HRQL was measured with the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form 36 Health Status Survey (SF-36). Linear mixed models, adjusted for socio-demographic and health-related variables, were used to examine associations between TPA level (none, very low, low, intermediate, sufficient, high, and very high) and SF-36 scores. For women who reported walking as their only physical activity, associations between walking and SF-36 scores were also examined.
Results Curvilinear trends were observed between TPA and walking with SF-36 scores. Concurrently, HRQL scores increased significantly with increasing TPA and walking, in both cohorts, with increases less marked above sufficient activity levels. Prospectively, associations were attenuated although significant and meaningful improvements in physical functioning and vitality were observed across most TPA and walking categories above the low category.
For women in their 50s-80s without clinical depression, greater amounts of TPA are associated with better current and future HRQL, particularly physical functioning and vitality. Even if walking is their only activity, women, particularly those in their 70s-80s, have better health-related quality of life.
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Dispatched as the 2-1 favorite in a field of seven, Rhythm of
Light was next-to-last early under Garrett Gomez, but rallied strongly
through the stretch to put away runner-up A Jealous Woman and Brice
Blanc late, winning by 1 ½ lengths while getting the distance in
"She did everything like a class filly should, and she proved
she was today," said Gomez. "She was absolutely perfect about
everything and traveled the last six furlongs exactly the way I wanted
her to.
"She was never too keen or too much off the bridle and raced
beautiful the whole time. When I asked her to pick it up, she picked up
great and came home nice. I didn't have to ask her for too much."
Rhythm of Light paid $6.80, $4.60 and $3.40. With the winner's
share of $90,000, the 4-year-old daughter of Beat Hollow boosted her
bankroll to $403,659. Trained by English-based Thomas Dascombe, she is
owned by Deal, Lowe or Silver.
"I told the jockey she's going to be slowly away from the
American horses, so don't ask her after the jump (break)," said
Dascombe. "She's got one run, and he (Gomez) got a nice, clean run at
them, and she won well."
A Jealous Woman, the lone California-bred in the Goldikova
field, sat second to pace-setting Let's Go Cheyenne through splits of
23.14, 47.23, 1:10.42 and 1:22.16. A Jealous Woman opened up a length
and a half at the top of the stretch but could not withstand the late
charge of the winner. Off as the second choice at odds of 7-2, she paid
$5.40 and $3.80.
Vivo Per Lei, with Mike Smith up, rallied from off the pace but never threatened. She paid $4.40 to show.
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Robert Pattinson Talks "Cosmopolis" Confidence
Posted Thursday May 10, 2012 10:37 AM GMT
He's one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, but even Robert Pattinson needs a confidence boost from time to time.
The "Twilight Saga: New Moon" stud credits his role in the forthcoming "Cosmopolis" with giving him the self-assurance he lacked prior to the gig.
In a recent interview with Premiere magazine, Robert shared, "Filming Cosmopolis with David changed something in me. It gave me balls."
Before "Cosmopolis," Pattinson says he "spent time doubting myself. As soon as I read a script that I liked, I was working myself up, asking myself if I was good enough."
And now he's much more bold about pursuing acting jobs. "I tell myself: 'F--- it! If they want to hire you, go!'"
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the start for a track car build? I've been trolling for a while trying to gather as much info as I can about potential, mods etc. I haven't seen much on people using sedans let alone the 323.
I guess my real question, should I start with this car or will I quickly wish I had waited and used a M3 to start with. My concern is that spending the $ on a M3 will essentially use alot towards things I will be tossing or upgrading anyway.
The tricky part...the 323 would be a gift, it is the actual car I first took to Watkins Glen for my first HPDE, where I got a free trip to Skip Barbers school and then approached about truly pursuing a racing career. Needless to say I have a real job now and live about 20min away from VIR.
I don't want to get everything set only to kick myself I didn't start with a better platform.
thanks for all your insight.
Sorry for the late response. I track my 323. I have tracked it on the Nurburgring (Grand Prix and Nordschleife), Arroyo Seco Raceway, and VIR.
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The platform is a great starter platform and you can be plenty fast in the car. The car can even be competitive without a supercharger. I tracked it at the Nurburgring for 2 years without a SC and 1 year at Arroyo Seco.
I enjoy tracking the 323. But in the near future I will be upgrading to a different car.
I would make a list of what parts you will add to your 323 and what parts you would add even if you had an m. A lot of track guys will toss out the m suspension for example to put on coilovers... if that's the case, you won't benefit from that "upgrade" on the m... will you be switching out wheels? If so, likely won't keep the m wheels either.
So figure out what benefits you would get from the m and, if it's only power, consider a supercharger
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The New War Congress: An Obama-Republican War Alliance?
Swanson has just published War Is A Lie. This article originally appeared on TomDispatch.
To understand just how bad the 112th Congress, elected on November 2nd and taking office on January 3rd, is likely to be for peace on Earth, one has to understand how incredibly awful the 110th and 111th Congresses have been during the past four years and then measure the ways in which things are likely to become even worse.
Oddly enough, doing so brings some surprising silver linings into view.
The House and Senate have had Democratic majorities for the past four years. In January, the House will be run by Republicans, while the Democratic majority in the Senate will shrink. We still tend to call the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "Bush's wars." Republicans are often the most outspoken supporters of these wars, while many Democrats label themselves "critics" and "opponents."
Such wars, however, can't happen without funding, and the past four years of funding alone amount to a longer period of war-making than U.S. participation in either of the world wars. We tend to think of those past four years as a winding down of "Bush's wars," even though in that period Congress actually appropriated funding to escalate the war in Iraq and then the war in Afghanistan, before the U.S. troop presence in Iraq was reduced.
But here's the curious thing: while the Democrats suffered a net loss of more than 60 seats in the House in the midterm elections just past, only three of the defeated Democrats had voted against funding an escalation in Afghanistan this past July 27th. Three other anti-war Democrats (by which I mean those who have actually voted against war funding) retired this year, as did two anti-war Republicans. Another anti-war Democrat, Carolyn Kilpatrick of Michigan, lost in a primary to Congressman-elect Hansen Clarke, who is also likely to vote against war funding. And one more anti-war Democrat, Dan Maffei from western New York, is in a race that still hasn't been decided. But among the 102 Democrats and 12 Republicans who voted "no" to funding the Afghan War escalation in July, at least 104 will be back in the 112th Congress.
That July vote proved a high point in several years of efforts by the peace movement, efforts not always on the media's radar, to persuade members of Congress to stop funding our wars. Still a long way off from the 218-vote majority needed to succeed, there's no reason to believe that anti-war congress members won't see their numbers continue to climb above 114 -- especially with popular support for the Afghan War sinking fast -- if a bill to fund primarily war is brought to a vote in 2011.
Which President Will Obama Be in 2012?
The July funding vote also marked a transition to the coming Republican House in that more Republicans (160) voted "yes" than Democrats (148). That gap is likely to widen. The Democrats will have fewer than 100 House Members in January who haven't already turned against America's most recent wars. The Republicans will have about 225. Assuming a libertarian influence does not sweep through the Republican caucus, and assuming the Democrats don't regress in their path toward peace-making, we are likely to see wars that will be considered by Americans in the years to come as Republican-Obama (or Obama-Republican) in nature.
The notion of a war alliance between the Republicans and the president they love to hate may sound outlandish, but commentators like Jeff Cohen who have paid attention to the paths charted by Bill Clinton's presidency have been raising this possibility since Barack Obama entered the Oval Office. That doesn't mean it won't be awkward. The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), for example, is aimed at reducing the deployment and potential for proliferation of nuclear weapons. Obama supports it. Last week, we watched the spectacle of Republican senators who previously expressed support for the treaty turning against it, apparently placing opposition to the president ahead of their own views on national security.
That does not, however, mean that they are likely to place opposition to the President ahead of their support for wars that ultimately weaken national security. In fact, it's quite possible that, in 2011, they will try to separate themselves from the president by proposing even more war funding than he asks for and daring him not to sign the bills, or by packaging into war bills measures Obama opposes but not enough to issue a veto.
For Obama's part, while he has always striven to work with the Republicans, a sharp break with the Democrats will not appeal to him. If the polls were to show that liberals had begun identifying him as the leader of Republican wars, the pressure on him to scale back war-making, especially in Afghanistan, might rise.
If the economy, as expected, does not improve significantly, and if people begin to associate the lack of money for jobs programs with the staggering sums put into the wars, the president might find himself with serious fears about his reelection -- or even about getting the Democratic Party's nomination a second time. His fate is now regularly being compared to that of Bill Clinton, who was indeed reelected in 1996 following a Republican midterm trouncing. (In his successful campaign to return to the Oval Office, Clinton got an assist from Ross Perot, a third-party candidate who drew off Republican votes and whose role might be repeated in 2012 by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.)
History, however, has its own surprises; sometimes it's the chapters from the past you're not thinking about that get repeated. Here, for instance, are three presidents who are not Bill Clinton and whose experiences might prove relevant: Lyndon Johnson's war-making in Vietnam led to his decision not to run for reelection in 1968; opposition to abuses of war powers was likely a factor in similar decisions by Harry Truman in 1952 in the midst of an unpopular war in Korea and James Polk in 1848 after a controversial war against Mexico.
The Unkindest Cut
Bills that fund wars along with the rest of the military and what we have, for the past 62 years, so misleadingly called the "Defense" Department, are harder to persuade Congress members to vote against than bills primarily funding wars. "Defense" bills and the overall size of the military have been steadily growing every year, including 2010. Oddly enough, even with a Republican Congress filled with warhawks, the possibility still exists that that trend could be reversed.
After all, right-wing forces in (and out of) Washington, D.C., have managed to turn the federal budget deficit into a Saddam-Hussein-style bogeyman. While the goal of many of those promoting this vision of deficit terror may have been intent on getting Wall Street's fingers into our Social Security savings or defunding public schools, military waste could become collateral damage in the process.
The bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, known on television as "the deficit commission" and on progressive blogs as "the catfood commission" (in honor of what it could leave our senior citizens dining on), has not yet released its proposals for reducing the deficit, but the two chairmen, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, have published their own set of preliminary proposals that include reducing the military budget by $100 billion. The proposal is, in part, vague but -- in a new twist for Washington's elite -- even includes a suggested reduction by one-third in spending on the vast empire of bases the U.S. controls globally.
Commission member and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) has proposed cutting only slightly more -- $110.7 billion -- from the military budget as part of a package of reforms that, unlike the chairmen's proposals, taxes the rich, invests in jobs, and strengthens Social Security. Even if a similar proposal finally makes it out of the full commission, the new Republican House is unlikely to pass anything of the sort unless there is a genuine swell of public pressure.
Far more than $110.7 billion could, in fact, be cut out of the Pentagon budget to the benefit of national security, and even greater savings could, of course, be had by actually ending the Afghan and Iraq wars, a possibility not considered in these proposals. If military cuts are packaged with major cuts to Social Security or just about anything else, progressives will be as likely as Republicans to oppose the package.
While the new Republican House will fund the wars at least as often and as fulsomely as the outgoing Democratic House, namely 100% of the time, the votes will undoubtedly look different. The Democratic leadership has tended to allow progressive Democrats the opportunity to vote for antiwar measures as amendments to war-funding bills. These measures have ranged from bans on all war funding to requests for non-binding exit strategies. They have not passed, but have generated news coverage. They may also, however, have made it easier for some Democrats to establish their antiwar credentials by voting "yes" on these amendments -- before turning around and voting for the war funding. If the funding is the only war vote they are allowed, some of them may be more likely to vote "no."
On March 10, 2010, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) used a parliamentary maneuver (that will still be available to him as a member of the minority) to force a lengthy floor debate on a resolution to end the war in Afghanistan. Kucinich has said that he will introduce a similar resolution in January 2011 that would require the war to end by December 31, 2012. That will provide an initial opportunity for Congress watchers to assess the lay of the land in the 112th Congress. It will likely also be the first time that war is powerfully labeled as the property of the president and the Republicans.
The other place public discussion of the wars will occur is in committee hearings, and all of the House committees will now have Republican chairs, including Buck McKeon (R-CA) in Armed Services, and Darrell Issa (R-CA) in Oversight and Government Reform. In recent decades, the oversight committee has only been vigorously used when the chairman has not belonged to the president's party. This was the case in 2007-2008 when Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) investigated the Bush administration, even though he did allow high officials and government departments to simply refuse compliance with subpoenas the committee issued. It will be interesting to see how Republican committee chairs respond to a similar defiance of subpoenas during the next two years.
A Hotbed of Military Expansionism
The Armed Services Committee is likely to be a hotbed of military expansionism. Incoming Chairman McKeon wants Afghan War commander General David Petraeus to testify in December (even before he becomes chairman) on the Obama administration's upcoming review of Afghan war policy, while the Pentagon reportedly does not want him to because there is no good news to report. While Chairman McKeon may insist on such newsworthy witnesses next year, his goal will be war expansion, pure and simple.
In fact, McKeon is eager to update the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) to grant the president the ongoing authority to make war on nations never involved in the 9/11 attacks. This will continue to strip Congress of its war-making powers. It will similarly continue to strip Americans of rights like the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures that President Obama has tended to justify more on the basis of the original AUMF than on the alleged inherent powers of the presidency that Bush's lawyers leaned on so heavily.
The president has been making it ever clearer in these post election weeks that he's in no hurry to end the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. The scheduled end date for the occupation of Iraq, December 31, 2011, will now arrive while Republicans control a Congress that might conceivably, under Democrats, have been shamed into insisting on its right to finally end that war. Republicans and their friends at the Washington Post are now arguing avidly for the continuation of existing wars in the way their side always argues, by pushing the envelope and demanding so much more -- such as a war on Iran -- that the existing level of madness comes to seem positively sane.
The most silvery of possible silver linings here may lie in the possibility of a reborn peace movement. George W. Bush's new memoir actually reveals the surprising strength the peace movement had achieved by 2006. In that year, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who was publicly denouncing any opposition to war, privately urged Bush to bring troops out of Iraq before the congressional elections. But that was the last year in which the interests of the peace movement were aligned with those of groups and funders that take their lead from the Democratic Party.
In November 2008, the last of the major funders of the peace movement took their checkbooks and departed. Were they at long last to take this moment to build the opposite of Fox News and the Tea Party, a machine independent of political parties pushing an agenda of peace and justice, anything would be possible.
David Swanson is the author of the just published book War Is A Lie and Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union. He blogs at Let's Try Democracy and War Is a Crime.
Copyright 2010 David Swanson
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From Jason Ditz's Nov. 18th article for "popular support for the Afghan War sinking fast":
For the first several years after the 2001 invasion, the Afghan War found itself largely off the American radar. Mutliple escalations by President Obama have led to a huge spike in death tolls however, putting the conflict more into focus for many Americans. ...
If the death tolls are influencing Americans, or American military families anyway, then it should be helpful for them to know what the real tolls are, because they're surely higher than the stats for troops killed on-the-spot in Afghanistan. If like with the war on Iraq, then I recall having read that plenty of troops wounded in Iraq died after being medically transferred out of Iraq, and if I recall correctly, then these deaths weren't accounted for in the tolls of troops killed in Iraq even if they basically were.
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This is from Tom Engelhardt's preface or intro. for Nick Turse's article on US military bases, globally.
What the hell are they touring US military bases for? By doing this, to "entertain" the troops, they're making themselves basically complicit in the extreme and supreme criminality of the US. They make themselves supporters of this hellbent criminality, imperialism, and treason. Imo, they should be boycotted by anti-war and anti-militarism activists.
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""War Without Borders": NATO Proclaims Itself Global Military Force
Lisbon Summit: Strategic Concept"
by Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO, Nov. 22nd, 2010
The recently concluded North Atlantic Treaty Organization Treaty summit in Portugal gave Washington everything it demanded from its 27 NATO allies, at least 20 NATO partners providing troops for the war in Afghanistan, the European Union and Russia.
The U.S.-controlled North Atlantic Alliance endorsed without reservations and even without deliberations American plans to include all of Europe in the Pentagon's and its Missile Defense Agency's worldwide interceptor missile system. The summit's declaration states: "NATO will maintain an appropriate mix of conventional, nuclear, and missile defence forces. Missile defence will become an integral part of our overall defence posture." [1]
In adopting its new Strategic Concept it also authorized an analogous continent-wide cyber warfare operation to work in conjunction with - and for all practical purposes under the direction of - the Pentagon's new U.S. Cyber Command.
It reaffirmed the bloc's Article 5 commitment to render collective military assistance to any member state under supposed attack and stretched the concept of attack to include non-military categories like computer, energy and terrorist threats. The Strategic Concept "reconfirms the bond between our nations to defend one another against attack, including against new threats to the safety of our citizens." [2]
"NATO members will always assist each other against attack, in accordance with Article 5 of the Washington Treaty. That commitment remains firm and binding. NATO will deter and defend against any threat of aggression, and against emerging security challenges where they threaten the fundamental security of individual Allies or the Alliance as a whole."
While there are no conventional military threats - and no nuclear ones as well - which is to say no military dangers at all confronting NATO's North American and European members, other - contrived - concerns will serve as the basis for the activation of Article 5. They include attacks on or threats to computer networks:
"Cyber attacks...can reach a threshold that threatens national and Euro-Atlantic prosperity, security and stability," NATO claims, so its members are obligated to "develop further [the] ability to prevent, detect, defend against and recover from cyber-attacks, including by using the NATO planning process to enhance and coordinate national cyber-defence capabilities, bringing all NATO bodies under centralized cyber protection...."
Expect false flag cyber attacks.
There is no nation or group of nations offering NATO any serious challenge, none posing a threat to the world's only military bloc, and hardly any even standing in the way of its global expansion. "However, no one should doubt NATO's resolve if the security of any of its members were to be threatened....Deterrence, based on an appropriate mix of nuclear and conventional capabilities, remains a core element of our overall strategy....As long as nuclear weapons exist, NATO will remain a nuclear alliance."
Invoking the little-noted catch phrase that since 1989 has been employed in anticipation and later fulfilment of plans to subordinate all of Europe under NATO's military command [4], Alliance heads of state in Lisbon last week also endorsed the completion of expansion plans affecting the Balkans and the former Soviet Union:
"Our goal of a Europe whole and free, and sharing common values, would be best served by the eventual integration of all European countries that so desire into Euro-Atlantic structures.
"The door to NATO membership remains fully open to all European democracies which share the values of our Alliance, which are willing and able to assume the responsibilities and obligations of membership, and whose inclusion can contribute to common security and stability."
In particular, NATO will "continue and develop the partnerships with Ukraine and Georgia within the NATO-Ukraine and NATO-Georgia Commissions, based on the NATO decision at the Bucharest summit [in] 2008" and "facilitate the Euro-Atlantic integration of the Western Balkans." Specific mention was made of Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.
What democracies? They're all phony.
NATO's plans for a further drive east and south of what most people understand to be Europe are not limited to the Caucasus.
The Lisbon summit, in approving the bloc's new doctrine, also for the first time bluntly stated that NATO's reach is as broad as the world itself:
"The promotion of Euro-Atlantic security is best assured through a wide network of partner relationships with countries and organisations around the globe."
President Obama and the other 27 NATO heads of state endorsed the new Strategic Concept which also states:
"We are firmly committed to the development of friendly and cooperative relations with all countries of the Mediterranean, and we intend to further develop the Mediterranean Dialogue in the coming years. We attach great importance to peace and stability in the Gulf region, and we intend to strengthen our cooperation in the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative."
This past weekend NATO vowed to .... That is, to incorporate all of the Middle East and northern Africa into its broader military nexus ....
The summit declaration confirmed the continuation of Operation Active Endeavour, "our Article 5 maritime operation in the Mediterranean," Operation Ocean Shield off the Horn of Africa, the airlifting of Ugandan troops to Somalia for the fighting there and support for the African Standby Force and NATO Training Mission-Iraq.
In addition to detailing expansion plans in Europe, Asia and Africa ad seriatim, NATO has announced that it is now an international military-political formation. ...
The bloc's NATO Response Force (NRF) "provides a mechanism to generate a high readiness and technologically advanced force package made up of land, air, sea and special force components that can be deployed quickly on operations wherever needed." [8]
Alluding in part to the NRF, the new Strategic Concept states:
"Where conflict prevention proves unsuccessful, NATO will be prepared and capable to manage ongoing hostilities. NATO has unique conflict management capacities, including the unparalleled capability to deploy and sustain robust military forces in the field."
In Lisbon, Obama and his fellow heads of state agreed that:
"We, the political leaders of NATO, are determined to continue renewal of our Alliance so that it is fit for purpose in addressing the 21st Century security challenges. We are firmly committed to preserve its effectiveness as the globe's most successful political-military Alliance."
The world's only military bloc does not protect Europe from chimerical missile and nuclear threats or from concerns better addressed by its respective members' judiciary, internal security forces and environmental, immigration, energy, public health and weather ministries and departments.
It rather employs the European continent as a base of operations for military deployments and campaigns most everywhere else.
It's surely fitting to refer to PNAC, Project for a New American Century, which the above sounds a lot like.
And Rick Rozoff ends the article by saying the following.
NATO has also acquired a new partner in Eurasia, one with the world's largest land mass, stretching from the Baltic and the Black Seas to the Pacific Ocean: Russia. The subject of another article.
"NATO summit to embrace indefinite Afghan war"
by James Cogan, WSWS.org, Nov. 20th, 2010
The NATO summit that began yesterday in Lisbon, Portugal has one primary objective in regards to the US-led war in Afghanistan: to shelve all talk of President Barack Obama's July 2011 deadline for beginning the withdrawal of troops.
US special envoy Richard Holbrooke told reporters this week in Pakistan: "From Lisbon on, we will be on a transition strategy with a target date of the end of 2014 for Afghanistan to take over responsibility for leading the security." American forces would still remain after that date, however. "We have a transition strategy. We do not have an exit strategy," Holbrooke stressed.
In other words, Washington plans an indefinite presence of US occupation forces in Afghanistan. ...
This is particularly the case as Afghanistan has no air force. The US military intends to operate indefinitely from the massive air base it has constructed at Bagram, in the very heart of Central Asia.
The repudiation of withdrawal timetables underscores that Obama's rhetoric was always a cynical exercise in deception. (my emphasis added) The truth is that both parties of American imperialism, Democratic and Republican, are equally committed to imposing a permanent US military footprint in two of the key energy-producing regions of the world, Central Asia and the Middle East.
The implications of the Lisbon summit for the people of Afghanistan and North West Pakistan are countless more years of death, destruction and terror.
Already, ..., violence has been massively stepped up, with new offensives launched in Helmand and Kandahar provinces. ...
Heavy M1 Abrams tanks are being deployed to southern Afghanistan for the first time ....
The civilian population is being subjected to indiscriminate collective punishment. A New York Times article on Tuesday reported that American troops are systematically destroying hundreds of civilian houses .... ...
Equally reminiscent of Vietnam, US and NATO special forces units are carrying out an Operation Phoenix-style campaign of mass killing. ...
What is taking place in Afghanistan is a calculated and murderous attempt to drown in blood the legitimate opposition among the population to the US-led occupation. ...
Germany is extending its mission until 2012 and increasing combat operations by its troops. Canada, which was to withdraw its contingent by the end of 2011, has announced it will leave a force of up to 1,000 "trainers" until 2014. France's defense minister, Alain Juppe, stated Wednesday that French troops would not leave until "Afghan authorities have the situation in hand."
The Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, told a parliamentary debate last month that Australian forces would be involved in Afghanistan until "the end of decade at least".
The head of the British armed forces, General Sir David Richards, anticipated an even longer involvement. ...
New terrorism alerts:
I noticed over the past day or two that there are some new articles about European governments, some anyway, now coming out and saying that it has finally been determined that there really are people, "terrorists", planning terrorist strikes against European countries. Around a month or so ago the US, Washington raised a terrorist alert claiming that there were terrorists planning to strike some European countries and European intelligence agencies refuted this, saying that while there might be some "terrorists" planning attacks on European countries, it's very difficult to actually carry through on or with such attacks. They said that there was no justification for the alert from Washington.
Now they have suddenly begun to reverse their words and the timing fits "nicely" with this NATO summit in Lisbon, which caused me to wonder about what proof there really is for terrorists being at all advanced in plans for attacks on European countries; because all we have is more political blablabla, words, without any proof. We have NATO and the US really pumping up their global militarism and efforts for global dominance, so maybe trying to frighten the public about supposed terrorist plots in order to try to get our support for this major and global terrorism being committed by the NATO and US is the real reason for the new fearmongering coming from some European governments.
They realize that most people will be opposed to this global militarism and whenever they want to try to get us to support their activities and plans that we will tend to be oppposed to, they come up with more or new fearmongering; and they never present any proof for their claims.
They're still pushing PNAC without explicitly referring to it; or, rather, PNAC and the plan laid out by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book, "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives", both. Neither of those plans could be achieved by the US acting alone, so of course NATO would have to be part of US-lead and controlled forces. And expanding the "alliance" certainly would be a strategic goal in order to have less opposition and greater co-operation.
They're aiming for global dominance; no doubt about it.
So, good luck with the new Congress, which I will hope will bring good results, but while doubting that there'll be much, if any, real or serious good gained from it.
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* Q4 revenue $112.4 mln misses estimate by $4 mln
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BANGALORE, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Adtran Inc (ADTN.O: Cotización) forecast first-quarter revenue slightly below market estimates, but the network access equipment maker said order rate has been strong so far in January, sending its shares up as much as 8 percent.
"I can't tell you it (order rate) will hang through the rest of January because we are pretty much a book-and-ship business and things are volatile, but at this point in time in January we're feeling pretty good," a company executive said in a conference call with analysts.
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High in the Holy Land, a Biblical view of peace
By Douglas Hamilton
ELI, West Bank (Reuters) - When God ordered Abraham to slaughter a son, the angel of the Lord stepped in at the last minute to stay his hand. Was it a test of faith, or had Abraham's imagination simply run away with him?
Scholars may differ, but to many Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, the story is as real as the airy heights and rocky slopes where Hebrew and Philistine armies clashed in biblical times, and where they live today.
This makes it hard to discuss rationally a resolution of the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel over its occupation of West Bank land since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
"That's Highway 60. It's been there since Abraham," says Eliana Passentin, pointing to the road in the valley beneath her home in Eli on an 850 meter (2,700 foot) mountaintop, where "on a clear day you can see all the way to Tel Aviv."
Passentin, a 34-year-old former Californian with 6 children, did not build her spacious villa here for the stunning geography or the government subsidies. Every view from every window, she says, looks onto a piece of recorded biblical history.
"There's room here in Israel for everyone," she insists. But "I don't believe we're on the way to peace. There's a lot of hatred toward us." She teaches her children to "respect but suspect," she says. "If my children hear Arabic here on the hill, maybe they should be scared."
The 250,000-strong settler community is not monolithic and not all take the bible literally. But those who do believe they are following God's word, and have His blessing for recovering the holy land of Israel for its chosen people.
Settlers deny their towns are an illegal obstacle to peace. On a tour they organized this week to redress a negative image in foreign media, they cited scripture going back 3,500 years to explain why a land-for-peace swap was out of the question. Continued...


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Jacobi was inducted into the Canisius Sports Hall of Fame in 1976 after playing as a two-way tackle for the Golden Griffins' football team. A three-time All-Little Three honoree, Jacobi was the football team captain in 1949 and was a member of the 1948 Canisius squad that played in the Great Lakes Bowl in Cleveland, Ohio.
O'Connor was a three-year letterwinner for the Canisius men's basketball program and he was enshrined into the College's Sports Hall of Fame in 1977. O'Connor led the team in 1952 team with his team-high 18.7 points and 15.0 rebounds per game. During the 1952 season, he scored a career-high 42 points in a win over John Carroll and his 15.0 rebounds per game that year is tied for second on the school's single-season rebounding average chart.


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Written by Caroline Deisley, USC blog contributor
For the approximately 60,000 fans at the Utah State game last Saturday, a 30-yard touchdown pass from Cody Kessler to tight end Xavier Grimble capped the USC offense's best drive of the day featuring a balanced attack with a power running game and an aerial component that had been absent most of the season.
For the approximately 60,000 fans at the Utah State game last Saturday, a 30-yard touchdown pass from Cody Kessler to tight end Xavier Grimble capped the USC offense's best drive of the day featuring a balanced attack with a power running game and an aerial component that had been absent most of the season.
For Grimble, the touchdown was his first time in the end zone in 2013, something he says he's looking forward to experiencing a lot more as the season goes on.
"I broke the huddle, walked up, saw the coverage, saw where the linebackers were placed. I had a good, clean release so I got out fast. I knew that if [Kessler] saw me open I would be able to score a touchdown."
The touchdown off of Grimble's perfectly executed seam route caused the smaller crowd to erupt with excitement due to what looked like a return to USC's dynamic scoring machine as well as a chance for the Trojans to break open the lead against the Utah State Aggies. However, as we all know, the touchdown turned out to be only a glimpse of hope as to what the Trojan offense could become as the offense was stifled in the second half resulting in a close three-point victory over the Aggies.
Grimble attributes the offensive struggles to chemistry and rhythm issues. He believes it is just something they have to keep working on week after week and eventually it will all come together.
"I feel like we've gotten better each game. It's the plays that we miss that are making the big difference in the game...We're pretty much a play or a pass away from cracking some games open, gaining some momentum, and getting things rolling. We're still putting it together but it's going to be exciting once it all comes together."
While the running game has been the strong point of the Trojan offense this season, the tight ends are looking to get involved to help establish the passing game. Sophomore tight end Jalen Cope-Fitzpatrick believes that the use of more tight ends will spread the field wide open.
He said, "A lot of teams know we have great receivers on the outside so they've been playing a lot of cover two. So with both of those guys in your bracket like that it really opens up the middle. Hopefully, you see [numbers] 82, 86, and maybe 88 running down the middle."
The tight end unit as a whole is looking to add more yards and receptions to their overall statistics. So far in 2013, Grimble leads the tight ends with 8 receptions for 88 yards and Randall Telfer has 2 receptions for 17 yards.
Grimble describes the unit as a "group of tough, talented guys." He described them further saying, "It's cool how this group has come together...[Rhett Ellison] motivated us to be tough guys so we want to take that role on for the team this year...We're just trying to be versatile, well rounded, and being the best tight ends that we can be."
Grimble and the rest of the Trojan offense will have to prove just how tough and talented they are as they face an experienced Arizona State defensive line led by reigning Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year, senior defensive tackle Will Sutton.
Grimble praised the ASU defense saying, "They've got some big, strong guys up front, some talented guys in the secondary, and they always have a good linebacker corps. Their defense is always pretty solid so I think it's gonna be an exciting game for us to really take our preparation seriously. We just have to keep doing that and just be ready to play."
The Trojans must come ready to play on Saturday as neither team wants to be 0-2 in conference play. USC will face the difficult task of playing in a packed Sun Devil Stadium that is eager to defeat the Trojans for only the second time in the last 13 years.
Grimble confidently stated, "There's nothing that I don't think we can't handle physically. From a preparation standpoint, we gotta be ready for what they have for us. They're very skilled, very athletic, and they can move. As long as we stay on our keys and execute them, it will be fine."
The Trojans consistently need more plays like Xavier Grimble's 30-yard touchdown if they want to beat the Sun Devils and more Pac-12 opponents as the season goes on. Hopefully, the offense will finally start to click and piece itself together as the Trojans take on the Sun Devils in Tempe this Saturday at 7:30 PST.


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He has played with relative anonymity for the Florida Gators over the last four seasons, this despite probably being the best linebacker on the field in 2009. A.J. Jones is a versatile athlete with a penchant for the hard hit and the athleticism to cover very skilled offensive players. You won't hear him talk about it much, he just brings his lunch pail and lines up for the next play every game.
"It hasn't ever bothered me," Jones told the media Thursday when asked if he has felt slighted by not having his name mentioned with the great players on Florida's squad the last few years. "I am just one of those guys that goes out there and does my job and doesn't say too much. Now everyone's attention is centered on me and (fellow senior linebacker) Brandon Hicks, but I am the one with the most playing time."
Jones is the most experienced and on his last hoorah with his team. This is something he doesn't take lightly and is determined to make a difference with this team he is ready to put on his back.
"It is a whole different feeling I have," he said. "I have to leave it out on the field. I need to go out (to practice) every day and bring every one else along with me."
"(My last season as a Gator) didn't hit me until I left the practice field today. I just wondered if I did anything to get better, did I do anything to try to bring my teammates along with me. I want to leave out of here a winner. All the rest of those boys left out of here a winner, my class left out of here a winner. So, I want to bring this team along with me."
His teammates are seeing a side of Jones they haven't seen before. He isn't the guy usually barking out orders to his teammates, but as a leader he understands he is going to have to be that guy now.
"They don't really look for me to get vocal so when I do it is taken serious," Jones said. "This morning everyone was tired and I said 'come on everybody we have to go grind and get better.' Everyone was like 'oh shoot'…everyone got up and headed over to the sled. I don't say much but when I do it is taken serious."
The 2009 season was one full of pressure. The Gators were the preseason favorite and the whole season was marred with distraction after distraction, taking away from the goal of winning the games directly in front of them. Jones is ready to welcome a new year, one with less pressure on the team. The pressure comes within each practice, where the competition is fierce every day.
"It felt real good (today) because it is the start of a new season," he said. "We are going out there as the 2010 season and not the 2009 season. There is a whole bunch of competition and everyone is just battling and everyone is hungrier…it's a whole different feeling.
Besides his hard hitting, if you had to pick a trait of Jones that stands out it is his speed on the field. Jones can cover the swiftest of backs and fly to the quarterback on a blitz, but he says that this group of linebackers is all about speed.
"No sir," he answered when asked if he thought there was a faster group of linebackers in the country. "That's why I have to get myself together, because the people I am playing along side, I swear they are the fastest group in the world."
Linebacker coach D.J. Durkin is going to work the backers hard. He also is in the middle of testing his guys. Jones and the rest of the group are currently playing different positions on the field than where they have been assigned on the depth chart. There are two logical reasons for this. The first is to get the best three players on the field at the linebacker position. The second is to allow the players at each position to understand the roles of the others.
"Sometimes I play the Will, Mike, Sam, everything," Jones said when asked where he was lined up on day one. "It is all across the board. D.J. Durkin, our coach is very good and he is trying to bring out the very best out of people through competition and coaching hard. He says until we get later on down the line, he will (eventually) put the best three on the field."
The plan is another part in making this group of individual players accountable to the group itself.
"This year it is all about being accountable for the team," he said. "Everyone is on the same playing field. It will help everyone out because everyone is trying to get better every day."
The defense is missing two coaches and hand full of its stars from a season ago. Teryl Austin has replaced Charlie Strong as the defensive coordinator and Durkin replaced strong as the linebacker coach. Jones believes the group is focused and the plan is there for this to be another big year for the Gators.
"We are going to ride and battle," he said. "We are going to be ready. Coach Austin is going to have a good scheme for us this year and we are just going to be ready to go."
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Now, there are 7" LCDs with RCA input in ebay for around $100. I think I'm gonna need to go with VGA input, but it'd be nice if one of you could tell me I'm wrong and RCA input from a PC on a 7" LCD would be fine. I'm not too concerned with image quality, it just needs to be good enough to read fonts. If TurboXS can do it on a Gameboy, a 7" LCD is plenty. The other issue is fitment. I haven't measured the bay yet, but I'm guessing the wider housings might be a bit much.
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The politics of confusion reigns, not only in the Middle East, but in the halls of Congress and the White House. President Ali Abdullah Saleh promises he will fight to the last soldier under his command in order to prevent opponents from taking over the government. He was shaken when a top level military officer resigned in protest at refusal of the government to resign and allow free elections. Senior Army commander, General Ali-Moshen who commands the 1st armored division in the capital is now confronting the Republican Guards who protect the president. Saleh has warned generals who are defecting that "the fatherland will be made unstable, there will be war, a bloody civil war." Many Yemen diplomats have resigned in protest at his refusal to step down and in various parts of the nation, people are burning his picture and would love to burn him.
Back in America, the politics of confusion is rampant. Some Republicans praise President Obama for taking action in Libya, others condemn him for ordering an attack when the budget is the number one item on their list. Initially, Obama did not wish to intervene, then he decided to intervene, and right now no one knows what he wants to do tomorrow.