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Tuesday August 6th, 2013 1:07am
Johns Hopkins hosted Georgetown, Temple and Lehigh in a set of round robin scrimmages on Saturday. Each game was a 25-minute running clock with a five minute halftime.
With beautiful sunny skies and that bite of fall crispness in the air, it was a great day to take in some lacrosse. Here are some notes on each team:
Johns Hopkins
The Blue Jays have a lot to feel good about at this point in the season. They played a fast-paced game with a lot of transition opportunities. Their ride in particular looked great and they have some speed and athleticism, particularly in their younger classes. Coach Janine Tucker said they just implemented the ride — which is a high-pressure, 12-man ride — last week and seemed pleased with the way the team has bought into it so far.
The biggest surprise of the day came from Hopkins too, as Jen Cook, IL's No. 4 overall recruit in the 2011-12 class, is playing for the Blue Jays. Cook had committed to Maryland and dropped out of school before even officially playing a game for the Terps. There was some speculation as to where she might end up and after being granted a wavier by the NCAA last week, she will be eligible to play this fall and spring. Cook immediately makes the Hopkins' attack better. She's extremely skilled and has great field vision and was also a hard worker on the ride on Saturday.
The usual suspects certainly had their moments. Taylor D'Amore was excellent and with the graduation of Colleen McCaffrey and Candace Rossi, has clearly stepped up in the midfield and on the attack.
Sophomores Jenna Kasmarik (attack) and Octavia Williams (defense) were the most improved players from last year's roster and both saw increased playing time.
"Both have taken their freshmen year and have come into their sophomore year and they really focued a lot of fitness and confidence with the ball and are standing out," Tucker said. "I'm excited to see how they continue because they've broken in and I think they're going to see some good playing time."
The Hoyas are playing a lot of different players and working with different combinations, particularly on the attack and defensive ends of the field. Georgetown got a lot of their younger players some experience, particularly in the second half against Hopkins and the second half against Lehigh.
"The best word that would come to mind is inconsistent but that's what's to be expected when we're playing a lot of people," said coach Ricky Fried. "The emphasis we have for them is to play with a lot of energy and I think we did that better in the second game."
Because so much of the midfield returns in tact, many of the storylines surrounding the Hoyas this fall center on their attack, close defense and in goal, where Fried says Abby Bisbee, Barb Black and Megan McDonald are all about even in the race for the starting job.
On offense, freshman Corinne Etchison has played extremely well and has been running with the starting group. Even at the increased level of play at the college level, she makes good decisions with the ball and has good vision and makes quick passes.
Sophomore Meg Marinelli started all 17 games at defense last year but appears to have taken on a larger role and is playing with more confidence. She has a fantastic play against Lehigh in which she perfectly anticipated a pass, intercepted it and showcased her blazing speed by running the ball all the way down in transition.
"She's going to be one of our defensive leaders and someone we rely on," Fried said. "We have to make sure she doesn't get down on herself. She expects a lot of herself, which is great, but I think that can hold her back at times."
Overall, Temple looked to have great team size and athleticism. They were able to generate some good fastbreak opportunities and their defense did a good job of collapsing in the middle and not allowing many inside looks. Offensively, they were able to generate looks with dodges from the top of the eight and some draw and dumps as well.
"We showed our aggressiveness and found some nice scoring opportunities and great defensive stops," said coach Bonnie Rosen. "Hopkins did a great job of coming at us hard and that's the first time we've had someone come at us with speed and nonstop cutting and physicality and it was really good to prepare us."
Senior Stephany Parcell and freshman Rachel Schwaab were standouts on the attacking end. Parcell led the team in goals last year so that's not necessarily a surprise, but Schwaab is a player Rosen says is mature beyond her years and with her ability to distribute the ball and finish shots, could make an immediate impact.
"She's had a pretty remarkable fall and has shown she can step in and run the show at times," Rosen said.
The Owls have 13 freshmen on their roster, and Rosen says this fall has been a lot about finding everyone's individual games and learning for the younger players. Another rookie who stood out was Maddie McTigue. She was all over the place on the defensive end, getting in passing lanes and helping move the ball in transition. On numerous occasions, she broke up plays in a settled defense and generally caused the offense stress around the crease.
"From the moment she started playing this fall, she's come out as a really solid defender and keeps getting better and better," Rosen said. "She plays confidently, she covers space, she's a talker. I think she has the potential to be a top defender."
The Mountain Hawks had flashes of solid play on Saturday. They came out a little flat against Temple, forcing the ball to the middle a lot on offense and a general lack of patience that resulted in playing a lot of defense. They picked things up in the second half, showing more poise and control on the offensive end — the first possession of the second half may have been the first time in the game they controlled the ball for any extended period of time.
"We're a very young team so we're looking to make some improvements every time we're out," said coach Jill Redfern. "Hopefully as the day progresses, we gel a little better."
On the offensive end, senior Anna Patterson and sophomore Carli Sukonik had some nice connections. Patterson is a smart player who made some good plays between the 30's and Sukonik also had some success on the draw.
Defensively, sophomore Lauren Wilcox, who played attack in high school but has transitioned to a defensive role, was a workhorse in the midfield in addition to her role in the close defense. Her athleticism will be an asset for Lehigh in transition.
"She's a phenomoneal athlete," said Redfern. "She's coming into her own as a powerful defender and getting confident back there."


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Bad boy businessman Joe Bradshaw has achieved almost everything he's wanted in life, but his strait-laced colleague Victoria Collins is proving an elusive challenge. A steamy encounter in the elevator begins a wild journey of sensual discovery. Joe's determined to break through Vicki's barriers to reveal the red-hot woman hiding inside. But Vicki is stalked by her past—her ex-fiancé will stop at nothing to get her back. Falling in love and keeping Vicki safe could be the biggest challenges of Joe's life.
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After Becca Dalton finds her fiancé in bed with her boss, she ends the ill-fated engagement on the spot and quits her job. She heads to Quick Silver Ranch, looking to regroup before an interview for the job of her dreams–an executive position at a five-star hotel.
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The Washington Redskins spent Wednesday debating whether to offer a contract to free-agent cornerback DeAngelo Hall, who was waived by the Raiders.
And in researching whether Hall would be a good fit in their locker room, the Redskins were encouraged to sign him by the man who coached him for four games in Oakland, Lane Kiffin.
Adam Schefter reported on NFL Network's NFL GameDay Morning that Redskins executive vice president of football operations Vinny Cerrato called Kiffin, who was fired as the Raiders' coach four games into the season, and asked for his opinion on Hall. Per Schefter, Kiffin told Cerrato that he thought Hall had been humbled and would be a good fit.
Hall signed a one-year contract with the Redskins on Thursday. He says he expects to sign a long-term deal with the team after the season.
The Washington Redskins spent Wednesday debating whether to offer a contract to free-agent cornerback DeAngelo Hall, who was waived by the Raiders.
schlicht says: Nov 9, 2008 10:33 AM
He was getting burned like toast every game. Go Raiders!!!
Bill In DC says: Nov 9, 2008 10:41 AM
ROFL, I suppose if he's wiling to sign a long term deal for the veteran minimum, but the Redskins will have almost no cap room to sign anyone in 09. Based on the 'year before an uncapped year' CBA rules it will be hard for anyone to do big deals except for the teams like the Eagles, Packers, Cardinals who have 20-30 million free. The Redskins are already committed to 10-15 mil over the projected 09 cap with several key free agents unsigned. They can't do their usual stunt of redoing existing deals to push massive amounts of money into future years because the 09 cap rules, among other things, treat renegotiated contracts as 'new' contracts, all bonus is treated as signing bonus, and 50% of signing bonus MUST be counted against the 09 cap numbers.
The Redskins have been playing fast an loose with contracts for years, much like Wallstreet. Their 'credit crunch' comes next year.
Sociofan says: Nov 9, 2008 11:07 AM
Low risk for the Skins. And as a Washington fan, I hope it works out. Everyone knows we could use some top tier CB depth. But as someone with a distaste for putting turds on the team, I'm still skeptical. I really hope that DeAngelo has finally grown up. The fight challenge story from last week is what is still sitting sore with me right now.
CaptainFantastik says: Nov 9, 2008 11:19 AM
Telling that the skins would call Kiffin for his opinion rather than rely on what the Oakland staff has to say about it.
brianforster says: Nov 9, 2008 11:19 AM
Bill, you do realize every year is supposed to be the year that the contracts catch up to the Skins, and ever year they manage to get under the cap.
dlmcc0505 says: Nov 9, 2008 11:21 AM
Hall is one of the most over rated players in the NFL.
Raiders757 says: Nov 9, 2008 12:24 PM
@ CaptainFantastik
More telling, is that the Skins must not have looked at recent game film.
More telling, is that Hall got cut from a team that is just down right bad. That should say a lot.
I doubt Kiffin talked them into anything they didn't already intend to do.
…and I'm just curious. With that name, are you a Devin Townsend fan?
joetoronto says: Nov 9, 2008 1:17 PM
Al Davis signed Hall, and others, this past season because Kiffin wanted them.
Hall didn't fit in in Oaktown because he can't play bump and run.
Just another mistake by Kiffin, who should be selling hotdogs soon.
CaptainFantastik says: Nov 9, 2008 1:55 PM
"…and I'm just curious. With that name, are you a Devin Townsend fan?"
It's from a line in the 80's film Tango & Cash. Stallone busts down the door because he thinks Kurt Russell's nailing his sister and then a few moments later Russell refers to Stallone as "Captain Fantastic".


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President Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement has not set well with the mayors of many of this nation's towns and cities. That includes the mayors of Tennessee's largest cities — Nashville, Memphis,
Yesterday at 12:00 AM
Rest in peace should mean exactly that. People who vandalize graves or steal items from cemeteries should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Catching them in the act, however, is the difficult part.
We desperately need some type of signal light at the tunnel on Fair Ridge Road and Brandonwood Drive. You cannot see oncoming traffic until you get into the entrance. This is a dangerous one-lane tunnel.
Last week's unveiling of the Senate version of health care reform saw President Trump giving thumbs up to the legislation while noting the plan will need some tweaking. Nonetheless, he promised the final version would be "very good." That's our president — a master of summing up the minute details.
A comic on "The Late Show "offered a brilliant metaphor for the president, "a horse loose in a hospital," and I've no doubt anti-Trump conservatives concur. As long as he is relatively unhobbled by Congressional oversight, there's not much limit to the damage he could do.
The National Marrow Donor Program says there are more than 35,000 children and adults in the United States who develop a life-threatening disease each year that can only be cured with a bone marrow and blood cell transplant. Officials at Vanderbilt University's Bone Marrow Program in Nashville say bone marrow transplants are used to treat acute and chronic leukemias, Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma and aplastic anemia.
Animal welfare officials do have one tool to help them identify people with a history of animal cruelty. Tennessee legislators passed a law in 2015 to post the names of convicted animal abusers on an online registry, similar to the state's existing registry of sexual offenders.
The Johnson City Commission has decided it wants to hire a third assistant city manager so the City Manager Pete Peterson can be relieved of the day-to-day operation of the city and it's 25 departmental heads. Huh? I thought that was the city manager's job description.
Court Appointed Special Advocates is on a statewide campaign to triple the number of trained volunteers assisting abused and neglected children in Tennessee courts.
Public transportation is a key component in economic development. Companies often look to communities with viable public transportation networks as potential sites for relocation. And it is a vital service in terms of helping people move off public assistance programs.
As one of the 13,000 citizens who pay for fluoridated public drinking water in Jonesborough and Washington County, and as the daughter of a highly-educated and renowned local dentist, who endorsed fluoridation and witnessed its benefits for public health care, I want to keep our fluoride.
The Appy League has become an important institution in Johnson City and in the other nine cities of the league. It is truly a reminder of what baseball really should be about.
So why charter schools? Because results count. Publicly-run schools have had well over a century to make their case, and while many succeed, far too many fail, particularly those that serve the poorest communities. The model is flawed, and only true believers who refuse to believe their lying eyes fail to see it.
want county commissioners who will stand up for our agricultural community and who won't sell us out for tax dollars We need commissioners who will keep our little town of Gray like the Mayberry that it is.
Local officials are working to build a walking and biking trail that retraces the steps that patriots from Southwest Virginia took more than 237 years on their way to one of the most pivotal battles of the American Revolution.
The trail would mark the route taken by men from Southwest Virginia in September 1780 from Abingdon, Virginia, to muster at Sycamore Shoals in Tennessee.


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Motivating Through Conflict
Friday, March 7, 2014 from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM (CST)
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When tension in the workplace is dealt with effectively, it can be a positive and motivating force. However tension, like fire, can quickly get out of control if not properly contained or responded to appropriately. As such, conflict management skills have become imperative in today's business environment. In this interactive workshop, you will learn the sources of tension and the fall back behaviors we revert to when stress becomes too great. You will gain insight on how to effectively approach various conflict situations, as well as how to restore and strengthen relationships. You may know the basic sources of conflict within your organization - now gain the skills to solve issues and move forward through conflict in a productive manner.
The presenter for this workshop is Ed Hendricks. He has over 20 years' experience in leadership and performance management, presentation skills, and sales training. He has received national recognition as a subject matter expert and leader in the training community.
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It's really scaring me to tears because it might be too much to afford to fix. She itched at it when she was a baby, she's about 4 weeks now. I pray that it isn't mange. I've already become too attached to her, and don't want anything bad to happen. It doesn't look as bad as when she was about 2-3 weeks, but I'm still worried because I don't think it was bald.
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Feel like you've outgrown your current office and your business is bursting at the seams? Lucky you!
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If you suddenly feel that you've outgrown your existing office and long for the need of more office space. Maybe you feel like your fully-staffed office is getting too over crowded, or your flourishing business has increasing needs and your existing office space no longer meets those demands.
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Your staff need to be physically comfortable and have enough space to carry out their jobs properly, if they're working in a cramped area, or practically on top of each other, it can lower productivity.
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All your meeting rooms are constantly full and the thrill of sharing meeting rooms has simply worn off. Starbucks is your next favourable option and, whilst the coffee tastes great, it's not exactly an ideal place for those confidential meetings.
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Bulldogs Split Second Day of Capital Classic
March 16, 2013
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By Theresa Kurtz
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Fresno State softball team opened the second day of the Capital Classic with a 6-1 win over Texas State and then fell to host Sacramento State 3-0. The Bulldogs (17-12, 0-0 MW) tallied 10 hits on the day, highlighted by freshman Whitney Smith's first career home run.
Brenna Moss led off with a single and advanced to second on an error to jump start the `Dogs offense. Stesha Brazil reached base after getting hit by a pitch. Moss scored on a fielder's choice plating the first run. Michelle Solomon and Brazil executed a double steal, which allowed Brazil to score and the `Dogs led 2-0.
The Bobcats cut the Bulldogs lead to 2-1 after scoring one run on two hits in the bottom of the first inning. Freshman Hannah Harris ended the inning with a strikeout, she struck out two in her 10th start of the year. Harris threw six innings allowing only one run. She improves to 4-2 in the circle and has a 2.71 ERA.
Solomon added to Fresno State's lead in the bottom of the third inning. She hit an RBI triple to center field as the Bulldogs lead increased 3-1. Solomon has two triples on the season and a total of 12 extra base hits in 2013.
In the fourth inning, Smith crushed a solo home run over the left field wall. Her first home run as a Bulldog extended the `Dogs lead to 4-1 over the Bobcats.
The Bulldogs added two runs in the fifth inning increasing their lead 6-1. Pinch hitter Kelly Megee reached base after a full count walk. Catcher Paige Gumz doubled off the left field wall putting runners on the corners. Megee scored on a wild pitch and Vonnie Martin brought in the final run of the inning with a single through the left side.
The second game of the day began as a pitcher's duel and remained scoreless through three and half innings. Jill Compton struck out the side in the third inning as the pitching duel continued against Sacramento State. Compton has struck out the side three times in her career. She struck out six consecutive batters against then-No. 6 Cal last weekend.
Sacramento State ended the scoreless streak by hitting a solo shot over the right field fence and took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning. The Hornets added two more runs with another home run to left field increasing their lead 3-0 over the `Dogs.
The Bulldogs threatened in the seventh inning, but the Hornets got out of the inning to beat Fresno State 3-0. The `Dogs conclude the Capital Classic on Sunday, March 17 against St. Mary's at 1 p.m.
"Discover Fresno State Athletics!" -- Bulldog softball travels to the Capital Classic hosted by Sacramento State March 15-17. Catch the action on ESPN 790 The Deuce, home Bulldog softball. Stay connected with the Bulldogs on Facebook (fresnostateathletics) and Twitter (@FSAthletics).


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Mostapha Al-Turk talks about his up-coming fight with Mirko Cro Cop.
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good interview, mus is such a modest guy. Good luck Mus!
good luck to al-turk. dont think dana white likes him very much!!
does anyone really believe he can beat cro-cop though? if you do, how do you think he can do it?
I think Mustapha has a good chance but as has already been said he needs to close the distance then take the fight to the floor, Hopefully he will land in a dominant position where he can rain down punches.
Standing I think Cro cop takes this all day.
in my opinion i dont think UK HWs can cut it at the top level.
id expect Cro Cop to knock Mus out pretty quickly, saying that cro cop hasnt been the same since Gonzaga nearly took his head off, if he is as shit as he has been in the UFC then anyone has a chance.
even against overeem cro cop was hesitant and make hong man choi look great so if he comes with the same form as his last few i really think mus has a chance, mus will have to try and land a few strikes of his own push cro cop to the cage and get the takedown and from there i believe he can do it but cro cop is the favorite no doubt.
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Stop the rot
Last year I watered less than any other year I can remember, and now I'm rather out of the habit. But although winter usually demands less watering, certain plants still need it. I prefer to store my dahlias and cannas in just-damp compost rather than leaving them to dry out completely. They are safer this way if frost gets into the shed, and their roots remain plumper until it is time to replant them in the spring. Make sure the compost doesn't dry out completely but never over-wet or the tubers will rot. Check once a month.
Half-hardy perennials, such as pelargonium, which are being over-wintered inside, should be watched over, too. Do not water enough to promote growth – just enough to keep their stems from withering. They can tick over without the need for too much leaf in the winter. Keeping them on the dry side will also make them less prone to rotting.
Check the cold frame regularly. Winter damp and cold is lethal if plants sit too wet. Use fleece to provide extra protection if there's a really cold snap. Bulbs for forcing, and seedlings, will thank you for it, as they are most vulnerable over the next eight weeks.
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Newly planted evergreens may need watering if cold winds and a freeze come in combination. Their leaves will continue to transpire while being unable to draw water from the ground so check them over after the thaw. Protect young evergreens with fleece or wind barriers until they are established. That said, do not panic when established evergreens wilt in the freeze as they are only protecting themselves from evaporation.
Newly planted yew will often colour to an alarming rusty tone in their first couple of winters. More often than not they are just showing you they are not yet established and will return to green come spring, but make sure they never lie wet.
The big freeze
Long periods of ice can deprive fish of oxygen. Float a ball on the surface of ponds to allow breathing holes to be opened up. Never break ice if you can help it, to retain pond-life silence.
Frozen ground provides good opportunity to prune soft fruit and apples. My grandfather, a disciplinarian in the garden, said you should be able to throw your cap through a tree. A good guide but not a necessity if you prefer your trees maintained to a more romantic aesthetic. Remove canker and damaged branches to a healthy new limb on established apple trees and never prune too heavily in one go to avoid a flush of non-productive "water shoots". Prune young trees so there is light and air among the branches with spurs reduced to three buds, leaders to six.
Back to my roots
In periods of thaw, continue to plant bare root trees and shrubs. I have mine heeled in, in a trench where the potatoes were. You should never plant in waterlogged ground. Try to get plants in so that the hair roots are re-establishing before the onset of top growth in March.
What's in store?
Check over potatoes in storage, as one blighted tuber will ruin the lot once it starts to decompose.
Make do and mend
Clean, mend and sharpen tools and clear up the potting shed. I'm taking most of my old seed back to London to scatter at the base of street trees – to help out the guerrilla gardening effort. Order new seed and remember to try something new. I have kept notes over these last couple of years here and they are useful in the selection process. Onion sets, shallots and potatoes will be on the list, as will a few new dahlias from national-dahlia-collection.co.uk to avoid disappointment when stocks sell out closer to spring.


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Actors are a tricky bunch. At best you'll have no idea they're an actor and are pleasantly charmed to find out that they are. At worst they're soul destroying narcissists. The whole notion of an actor protraying an actor is quite meta in and of itself so while I won't be going into notions of performance theory in this post, know that there are entire areas of studies that some academics have built their careers on. For this post we're going to be focussing on the profession of acting in horror films and what that artifice means to the story.
Guy Woodhouse (Rosemary's Baby, 1968)
Guy may be the ultimate example of a actor within the film. His young wife Rosemary dotes on him setting aside her wants for his needs. As the primary breadwinner she is extremely proud of the small successes he's had and puts up with his bad moods and temper tantrums when he faces professional failure. His ego is his tragic flaw. He's easily seduced by the Castevets when they flatter him and promise him fame and fortune. One of the most fascinating things about Guy is his first line in the film where he joke that he and Rosemary are Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. A joke, yes, but it's also a lie. A lot of writers and film scholars are fascinated by a character's first line in a film and Guy's not-very-funny duplicitous remark sets him up as an untrustworthy character.
Upon my many rewatches of this film, what strikes me is that he's not a very good actor. Guy is unable to control the situation or hide his disgust after Rosemary becomes pregnant triggering her paranoia. I guess he needed a lucky break wherever he could get one.
Half the cast of Scream 3 (Scream 3, 2000)
In what was believed to be the third and final installment of the Scream franchise, the Woodsboro gang head to Hollywood where they are making the third film based off Gail Weathers' book Stab. Scream 3 led to a lot of opportunities to make fun of franchises and Hollywood but the most interesting moments for me are when Gail (Courtney Cox) is paired up with the actress playing her in the movie (Parker Posey). While director Wes Craven milks these moments far too much, it allows for Gail to come face to face with herself and not only have a partner in crime but to also recognize that she's a sometimes horrible person.
Heather Langenkamp (Wes Craven's New Nightmare, 1994)
This is possibly the strangest example in the list. Heather Langenkamp as Heather Langenkamp shows us an actress who has essentially retired form acting to raise her young son. It also shows us an actor from a successful horror franchise who is unable to escape it and as her character Nancy triumphed over Freddy a handful of times she is also the target of the evil spirit of Freddy who's like a genie... or something.
Craven and Langenkamp have both talked publicly about how some of the initial ideas for this film came from Langenkamp's own experience with a stalker. In New Nightmare, Langenkamp is a again stalked but this time by Freddy Krueger who appears both as a malevolent demonic figure as the pop culture cult of Freddy. While I think most of us like having a job to earn money and support yourself, New Nightmare explores the notion of fiction and reality and what happens when you give your image and emotion over to the fictional.
Actors are both hero and villain, victim and confidant. What all art attempts to do is hold a mirror up to society and show it its triumphs and failures. The character of the actor attempts to serve this notion but on a much more personal level.
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Professional Terrors: Actors in Horror Films
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What about an actor playing an actor, whose new role is as an actor playing an actor...wait, what was I talking about?ReplyDelete
Would you say the same thing about an author writing about an author? I can think of a few examples of that as well.
It really takes more than a blood curdling scream to sell such tremors in a movie. It should be imprinted in the very actresses' face that takes a bit to mentoring to hone, which is apt as it involves the whole being of a person.ReplyDelete
That is why it's sometimes rather tough to pull off.
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2012 Cargo Area in Hatchback
So OK ... Salesman didn't have a hint on how to set this up. other than to say the seats don't go all the way down flat. duh.... It looks like they do.
and for a hint on the space, only thing i had handy was standard trash barrel. of which 3 would fit easily. two lengthwize and one sideways.
1. getting the three headrests out the first time is not easy as they ship them all the way down. and they don't explain that the release latch is only on the driver side of the headrest. [they don't show you what the release latch looks like, but then you can't see it anyway.]
2. you need to get these headrests out 1st as you probably will store the head rests under the front seats, which are hard to access once the back seats are pulled up into position.
3. you have to explore how to pull up the seats ... there seems to be a handhold between them at the back of the seat. [I am not sure all the hatchs have the 60 40 back seat]
4. you have to remember to unlatch the back seat belts as they come latched for the delivery.
Other than that ... this is something that requires a little practice. If you normally don't carrry more than two people, it probably makes sense to just not have the headrests in the seats. and maybe leave the middle one home as with the tray that sits behind the back seats.
Thanks for the great pictures and explanation!
I take that your focus is either SE trim or SEL trim without SONY sound package? Can you take a picture of transition area where back seats (when folded flat) meet the trunk floor? I want to know if there is a gap in terms of height. Thanks!
Oh, excuse me for my silly trim question, you are driving a 2012 SEL, from words right underneath your avatar. Do you have the SONY sound package?
2012 Cargo area 2
2. area with 4 ft. ladder to show flatness
3. possible position of the cargo tray shelf
Here's a tip if you are picking up a new one ... get them to set it up with the full cargo area before you leave the dealer. Tell them you've got to pick up a bale of hay on the way home.
I was pleasantly surprised that my salesman at Ford had the seats folded down for me to demonstrate the set up and how to return the seats to normal. Very cool set up for increased hauling.
Posted via FF Mobile Lol I was showing people at the autoshow that you can do this. I didnt remove the headrests because I wasnt going to tear apart the show car, but plenty of people were pleasntly surprised. Also had to show my parents anyway.
Awesome, thanks for posting this! I just bought mine yesterday and obviously knew the seats folded down but didn't know the seat bottoms also folded up. Salesman didn't mention it either. It'll come in handy for sure. :)
Thanks for those pics. It is perfect to illustrate the room the hatch has. If anyone has looked at the sedan trunk, it seems you need to crawl up in the trunk to load anything!!
Noticed last night there are two interior lights just under where the cargo shelf hinges for the cargo area.
But I really want the wagon when they decide to build it here. to be same candy Red SEL.
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Castle Defenses
The Attacking Army
Medieval castles often faced a variety
of threats from attacking armies, and Middle Age architecture
was always pushed to adapt new technologies to better defend
the walls. The popular vision of medieval battles on open
battlefields, complete with horses charging and banners flying
were more the exception than the rule. It took large numbers
of soldiers to storm a castle, so rather the attackers would
besiege a castle in hopes of starving out its inhabitants.
The attackers would not have to waste men and ammunition in
vain fights against thick castle walls. Attacking armies used
the following medieval weapons when trying to take a Middle
Age castle by force.
Siege Engines, Medieval "engines"
were often constructed by engineers who traveled with attacking
armies. These heavy weapons used simple physics of tensions
and torsion to launch stones, massive arrows, fire, and other
projectiles at the castle walls and into the bailey. Castles
returned fire with their own engines, but limited ammunition
was sometimes a problem for the defending army.
Catapults are the most well-known
medieval siege engine, and these constructs hurled stones
and other missiles. Some projectiles weighed up to a hundred
pounds, and successive shots would be launched at the same
spot if possible. Blow after blow by heavy rocks could bring
down early stone walls, so heavier walls were incorporated
in castle architecture. Attacking armies might launch other
objects, like a dead, diseased cow over the walls to spread
sickness. This could often be a devastating psychological
blow to starving inhabitants of a besieged castle. They would
be further demoralized with rotten food thrown over castle
walls. Rather nasty projectiles included beehives, and balls
of human or animal excrement were launched to harass castle
armies. A fortress' wooden buildings could be burned by flammable
projectiles. Spies that had the misfortune to be discovered
might also find themselves flung over a castle wall as a message
to the other army.
Trebuchets improved on original
catapult designs and were used during later medieval years,
even after artillery and gunpowder became the most powerful
weapons. These machines would harness the potential energy
of the projectile's suspended weight and boasted a faster
rate-of-fire than earlier catapults.
Ballistas looked like very large
crossbows. This medieval weapon originated in Roman times
but was developed over the centuries to launch up to a half
dozen spear-sized arrows at a time into lines of soldiers
or over the castle walls.
Battering Rams were far more complex
than the simple chopped down tree. They were often protected
with hut-like coverings, tipped with iron or burning pitch,
and mounted on wheels. Defending castle armies used Counter
Rams, a device dropped onto the attacking battering ram to
avoid repetitive blows at the same spot.
Mobile Assault Towers, sometimes
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WebGL Camp in Orlando videos now online
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Videos from the WebGL Camp in Orlando Florida are now online. There are 5 video session in total.
WebGL: Why the Web Will Be More Than Just Pages
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There was no lack of talent at SxSW waiting to talk about the latest developments of WebGL. Industry rock stars like the creator of the most popular WebGL JavaScript libary Mr. Doob, Creative Director from Google Aaron Koblin, Luz Caballero of Opera Software and Nicolas Garcia Belmonte of Sencha there to teach us all about the power and application of WebGL.
Opera Mini 7 stretches to Android
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Opera ports its WebGL hardware acceleration from Opera Mobile to the Android version of Opera Mini 7.
RIM Releases Free TunnelTilt WebGL PlayBook Game Demo in App World
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RIM is exemplifying the fact that you can take WebGL browser games and turn them into native apps using WebWorks on the PlayBook with the game feeling like a native game.
WebCL extension for Firefox 11
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The Nokia WebCL prototype is now available for Firefox 11. Click here to download the new add-on for Windows and Linux.
The Linley Group Hosts Second Annual Mobile Conference
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Focusing on the market and technology trends driving the mobile silicon and system markets, The Linley Group announced it will host its second annual Linley Tech Mobile Conference, April 16-17 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California. Linley Gwennap, founder and principal analyst of The Linley Group, will open the conference with an overview of the mobile semiconductor market, discussing the technology trends that will determine which mobile processors will succeed in 2012 and beyond. A second keynote by Neil Trevett, president of the Khronos Group, will describe how the latest graphics standards are impacting mobile design today.
AMD releases beta drivers with a complete beta implementation of OpenCL 1.2
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Last December AMD released preview drivers that contained much of new the functionality defined in OpenCL 1.2. The new APP SDK includes beta drivers that contain a complete, beta level implementation of the OpenCL 1.2 specification for 32 and 64-bit Windows and Linux.
The Wolfe in the Heterogeneous Programming Jungle
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Opera TV Store, now with expanded capabilities including WebGL
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Rachael Ray $100,000 Adoption Challenge Ends, Makes Alachua Co. History
ALACHUA COUNTY---They've gone down Thunder Alley and Lover's Lane, now they've finally hit the end of the road.
The end of the ASPCA sponsored $100,000 Rachael Ray Challenge has come.
As we've been reporting all summer, Alachua County Animal Services has been hard at work on their way to emptying their kennels.
So far, animal services is sitting at just under 1,400 adoptions since the start of the challenge, leaving them at a strong second place in their division.
"We've had better numbers--- Adoption numbers ever, than I've ever seen in our shelter. So, it's history, you know, our community made history," said Hilary Hynes with Alachua County Animal Services.
Hynes says it wasn't just Alachua County residents getting in on the adoption action.
She says many people from other counties in the area came in for events like Woofstock and the Summer Lovin' Adopt-a-thon.
Free adoptions end Sunday at 8 p.m.
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Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 2007
Regarded as one of her country's foremost voices, Irish author Anne Enright makes a fresh mark on a rich literary tradition. The Gathering is a deeply insightful family saga, steeped in secrets and intrigue, unfolding over three generations.
©2007 Anne Enright; (P)2008 Recorded Books
"Enright's hypnotic prose turns...desperation into something fierce and beautiful." (Booklist)
"A melancholic love and rage bubbles just beneath the surface of this Dublin clan, and Enright explores it unflinchingly." (Publishers Weekly)
"Not For Everyone"
This book has received a lot of negative ratings. I agree it is not a book for everyone's tastes. It's not an easy listen, but the narration is perfect. I loved the book. I felt like I was inside Veronica's confused and guilt-ridden head... experiencing all the twists and turns that happen when trying to make sense of things after a tragedy, on top of a lifetime of hurt. I will go back and listen again.
"So Irish, yet Universal"
Family, Irish, Generations
The flow of familial ties from generation to generation - the sense of time and blood ties flowing like a river without beginning or end.
The wake - recognizing Liam's child.
Perfect title.
It appears some listeners are put off by the darkness of the book. As a survivor of family suicide I can say the book is spot on about the aftermath of suicide. It is dark, but charmingly Irish, and relieved by the dark humor so essential to surviving family tragedies. The narrator is a gifted actress and made the story authentic and more enjoyable.
"Get Out the Razor Blades"
This book is so unrelentingly dreary that I can't find one good thing to say about it. Not one character had any appeal to me. I am so sick of reading about drunks and their devestating effects on children. I can't imagine how this book won any prize whatsoever. The only good thing I can say is that the reader successfully intoned, in a monotonic haze of despair, both the tone and content of this book. I hated it so much, it makes me mad.
This story was so depressing I could not finish listening to it. The characters are uniformly sad and grim, without a trace of wit to lighten the mood. The pacing too is agonizingly slow, focusing on minute detail to the exclusion of action. The author appears capable of something better than this book's unrelenting theme of grief and loss.
I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it. - Salinger ^(;,;)^
"You can not libel the dead"
"I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead"
― Anne Enright, The Gathering
I grabbed a couple of my Irish writers to read while traveling back and forth to Ireland for pleasure. Ha. Pleasure. The Irish know how to feck, fight and die. Oh, and write.
Both novels centered around drownings, death, and memory. Both were Man Booker Prize winners (born two years apart). Both were very different looks back. Banville's The Sea was more poetic, more soothing; a search for the correct word, the proper memory. 'The Gathering' was angrier. It was a picked scab, a hot wound, a shout into a dark wet cave; tea without sugar or cream, aged whiskey without the water. Banville's novel was almost elegiac and poetic in its mourning. Enright's was a primal, woman scream. It was less of a memory than an imagined history, a search for meaning in loss, a desperate search for who and why in family.
'The Gathering' was very good, just not great. I'm almost apologetic about making Enright's novel seem an Irish twin to Banville's. It is a bit unfair. She deserves to have her book examined alone. But the themes, the Irishness, the Man Bookered. Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore Man Booker hath joined together, let not man put asunder. I have hung the seabird of the second read, second published, around her book. Oh well, life moves forward and so do reviews and cranky critics.
Hungry Reader
"How could you do this to such a great book?"
Anne Enright is a masterful, funny, nuanced, sly writer who sees what most others miss: the fine details, the incredible range of human emotion. Fabulous book to read with gorgeous language and a somewhat flawed structure. But stellar for the language alone. To listen? This recording kills the story right out of the gate. If I were the author I'd be dismayed. Terry Donnelly rings one note throughout: rage. It sounds like one long rageful rant, in fact, making it unlistenable. There's incredible tension in the book itself, but it comes not from rage but an extraordinary range of emotion. The reader missed it all. The character would have a right to be this enraged throughout, but she feels many things: from amusement and delight to sadness and grief--with humor! As it turns out, the reader missed all this leaving no room for discovery. And rendering this unlistenable. Who wants to listen to someone rage for many hours in a row? (Who wants to listen to someone rage unless it's righteously earned? And even then, for how long?) Enright didn't write an angry diatribe, though you wouldn't know it from trying to listen to this.
The book itself.
I'm sorry to be so dismissive here, but Terry Donnelly missed the point entirely and ruins access to a noteworthy story. There is nothing nuanced in her read.
Was there anyone directing the reader? Anne Enright was a radio journalist in the past. Did she hear how this was read before it was released? Did she get any say in the matter?
"sooooo slooooowwwwww!"
This book was beautifully written. But a real sleeper. I just kept waiting and waiting for the plot to go somewhere. But it NEVER did. Maybe someone with more of an interest in psychotherapy might relate but I found the main character very narcissistic and not even in an interesting way. I would not recommend this book to most readers.
"Story drags on...and on and on!"
After two hours I had to admit defeat--the story still hadn't begun to take off. The narrator within the story (Veronica?) was not one with whom I could empathize. It might eventually have gotten better, but I don't have enough years left in my life to find out.
I hear voices. But maybe that's because there's always an Audible book in my ear.
"Make that a negative star"
This book is dreadful. When you're 6 hours into it and you don't care what happens to the characters, there's a problem. The narrator reads at an incredibly slow pace. I just want to get the sound of it out of my ears. This book needs to go on a list called "Waste of a Credit."
"Told well, Narrator is a bit slow"
The narration was a bit slow and the pauses too long for me. I put it at a speed of 1.70X and it was much more natural.
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Tens of thousands expected to get Ebola vaccines from January - WHO
* Clinical trials now under way to yield data on dosage
* Health workers should get GSK, NewLink vaccines in Jan
* Johnson & Johnson, Russia also have candidate vaccines
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people in West Africa are expected to begin getting experimental Ebola vaccines from January, but population-wide immunisation is still far off, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
Initial clinical trials of vaccines from GlaxoSmithKline and NewLink Genetics are already under way. Some 500 volunteers are due to take part in countries including the United States, Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Mali, Gabon and Kenya.
The tests will generate safety and immune-response data in December. The vaccines can then be rolled out early next year to groups including frontline healthcare workers, said Marie-Paule Kieny, the WHO assistant director-general for health systems and innovation.
"These data are absolutely crucial to allow decision-making on what dose level should go into efficacy testing in Africa," Kieny told a news briefing.
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Notes: Hardy happy to be back
Notes: Hardy happy to be back in action
Hardy, who couldn't bear to watch the Brewers over the final week of 2006 while he recovered at home from ankle surgery, hit a solo home run and added a sacrifice fly in the Brewers' 4-1 win over the Brewers at Maryvale Baseball Park on Monday.
"It's been so long," a beaming Hardy said afterward. "It was just nice to get out on the field again and run around."
Hardy turned on a 3-and-1 fastball from left-hander Zach Jackson and sent it over the left-field fence. Utility man Vinny Rottino also hit a solo homer for the victorious "blue" team, and Corey Hart's booming solo homer, which hit the left-field scoreboard on a bounce, accounted for the "gold" team's only run.
Manager Ned Yost said he was pleased with the defensive play in the game, which lasted about two hours and featured all but two of the team's position players. Starters Chris Capuano, Ben Sheets, Jeff Suppan and Claudio Vargas each threw a scoreless inning, catcher Johnny Estrada threw out a pair of would-be basestealers and Gabe Gross, playing right field, made the spring's first diving catch.
It was a symbolic step forward for Hardy, who made his Major League debut on Opening Day 2005 but has yet to live up to the team's high expectations. He scuffled through the first half of his rookie season while building strength and trust in his surgically-repaired left shoulder, and his 2006 season was cut short when he severely sprained his ankle on a play at home plate on May 19. The sprain healed, but Hardy developed trouble with a tendon that "snapped" painfully in and out of place, and he eventually opted for surgery on July 20.
"The time when I was trying to rehab was probably the hardest because you didn't know if it was ever going to get better," he said. "When surgery came along, at least I knew what I needed to do."
Hardy went home to Tempe, Ariz., after the surgery. He kept in touch with Hart, Bill Hall and others, but watching games on television and reading about the team online was too painful.
"It's just too hard when you're away," he said. "That's why it feels so great to be back."
His power on Monday was a good sign. After returning from a dislocated shoulder he suffered midway through 2004, Hardy went through a stint in the Mexican Winter League, all of Spring Training and 125 regular season at-bats before hitting his first home run.
Was Yost encouraged?
"J.J. is going to be fine," he said. "I've got no doubts. I'm not encouraged, I expect it!"
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Mench, Graffanino held out: Outfielder Kevin Mench tweaked an elbow during a weightlifting session Sunday and did not play Monday.
"He pulled down on a weight machine and felt something in his elbow, so we had the doctors check it today," Yost said. "It didn't hurt him to throw, but the doctors wanted to check him. He'll probably play [Tuesday.]"
Infielder Tony Graffanino also sat out. Yost said he wanted to give Graffanino, who reported to camp a day early but was nonetheless one of the final position players to show, more opportunities to hit in the cage before he played a game.
No battles: Yost dropped quite an interesting tidbit on reporters following Monday's workout: He already knows the likely makeup of the Opening Day roster.
"I know what I'm going to do right now," he said with a smile, adding, "It's too early to tell you guys. Plus, I have to see some things."
That was quite a declaration, given that Yost, his coaches and Brewers front office officials have in past seasons deliberated on the roster right up to the close of camp. This year's Brewers are set in the starting rotation, but there are several pitchers vying for the final spot or two in the bullpen, third base is uncertain while Corey Koskie recovers from a concussion, and a slew of experienced outfielders are wondering if they'll have a spot on Opening Day.
One of the players in limbo is Rottino, a Wisconsin native who has been lugging four gloves around Maryvale Baseball Park this spring while working at catcher, first base, third base and the outfield. He arrives at about 6:30 a.m. each day to get loose and to take some early swings in the batting cage, serves mostly as a catcher during practice and has been working each morning and afternoon on his defense at other positions. He is in bed by 9 or 9:30 p.m. every night.
Rottino played third base on Monday and hit his homer off right-hander Yovani Gallardo.
"Your competitiveness comes out, even if it is intrasquad," Rottino said. "I'm just going to play and see what happens, because you can't control anything except the way you play."
Of his heavy workload, he said, "It's not a burden. I love it."
Last call: Third base prospect Ryan Braun made a slick fielding play leading off the game. He fielded a Rickie Weeks bunt and threw to first for the out. "It was a great bunt," Yost said. "I didn't think there was any way he could throw [Weeks] out." ... Weeks, who had a sore wrist last week, is still being told not to swing at live pitching. But he did play second base and either bunted or tracked pitches during his at-bats. Right-hander Mike Jones walked Weeks on four pitches later in the game. ... Brewers director of pro scouting Dick Groch worked the radar gun and said Grant Balfour, Jones, Manny Parra and Claudio Vargas threw with encouraging velocity Monday. ... After Damian Miller lined out Monday, he walked back to the dugout and pronounced, "It's starting already!"
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Re: X(NumLock)=Mod2 (was Re: Profiler for Mathematica)
On Unix and Linux, you can also start mathematica with some options :
mathematica -primaryModifierMask etc
see man mathematica for other (very useful) options
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 09:27, Scott A Centoni wrote:
> > PS: One more quick one: Why does the front end act funny when I have the
> > num lock turned on on Linux? (Linux,Athlon, KDE)
> Your X server is set up so that the NumLock key is mapped to Mod2. I
> learned by accident that Mod2 is actually quite useful. Mod2-click on a
> cell selects all cells of that type in the current notebook. This is an
> easy way to delete all the graphics cells and output cells in a notebook to
> reduce file size. An annoying aspect is that Mod2-click means press
> NumLock, click, then press NumLock again to turn it off. You should be able
> to map a different key to Mod2 using xmodmap. Remapping modifier keys in X
> is awfully annoying, though. I recommend xkeycaps
> (http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/).


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CNN's Costello failed to ask NRA's LaPierre about Nugent's slurs against Obama, Clinton, Feinstein
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During a September 21 interview, CNN's Carol Costello interviewed National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, but she did not ask LaPierre about controversial remarks made by Ted Nugent -- an NRA board member -- during an August concert in which he insulted Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Dianne Feinstein.
On the September 21 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, contributor and guest host Carol Costello interviewed National Rifle Association (NRA) executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, but she did not ask LaPierre about controversial remarks made by musician Ted Nugent -- an NRA board member -- during an August concert at Anaheim's House of Blues. As Media Matters for America noted, in video footage from the concert, Nugent held what appeared to be two assault rifles and boasted that he told Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "to suck on my machine gun" and said that he told Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) "you might want to ride one of these into the sunset." Also during the concert, Nugent called Obama a "piece of shit," referred to Clinton as a "worthless bitch," and called Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) a "worthless whore." Portions of Nugent's remarks were aired on the August 28 and 30 editions of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck.
LaPierre and Costello discussed live remarks by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) and taped remarks by Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) to the NRA's "Celebration of American Values" conference.
The National Rifle Association listed Nugent as a member of its board of directors whose term would expire in 2007. As Media Matters noted, according to Nugent's biography on his personal website, he has been a member of the National Rifle Association's board of directors from "1995-present." In addition, Nugent frequently performs at the NRA's annual convention. The AP quoted Nugent speaking at the NRA's annual convention in 2005, urging National Rifle Association members to be "hardcore, radical extremists demanding the right to self defense."
From the August 28 edition of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck:
BECK: So what happens when a rock legend decides to exercise his free speech and use assault rifles to help make a point? Take a look.
NUGENT [video clip]: Obama, he's a piece of [expletive], and I told him to suck on my machine gun! Let's hear it for them. And then I was in New York and I said -- I said -- "Hey Hillary, you might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless [expletive]." Freedom!
BECK: All right. Look, I am no stranger to getting criticized when my words have been taken out of context and also being criticized when I deserve it because I stink sometimes. But that clip from the Nuge just seems a little hard to understand. You know? I -- you know, I'm not necessarily clear on his intent here. I know what he said. But why did he say it?
Joining me now is musician and activist Ted Nugent. Hello, Ted. You're still mad at me from this morning, aren't you, Ted?
NUGENT: Bottom line is, I think your representation on the radio this morning -- which, by the way, I'm not mad at you at all. I love you madly. You just don't seem to grasp what literally tens of millions of Americans do grasp, in that good rock 'n' roll, the best rock 'n' roll, especially Ted Nugent rock 'n' roll, is over the top! It's intense. It's scary! It's uninhibited; it's even irreverent.
And I'm not going to try to get a list from anybody of what they authorize me to say, because I draw the line at law. I'm not going to break the law. I'm not going to incite any illegal activities and I'm not going to hurt anybody.
BECK: Hey, look --
NUGENT: Other than that, nothing is sacred.
From the September 21 edition of CNN's The Situation Room:
COSTELLO: So, Rudy Giuliani stood up there and he said: "I know you're not going to agree with some of what I have to say, but you can believe this, that I will put into place the plan that I have." How did that go over with the NRA?
LaPIERRE: Well, a lot of what he said, I mean, I liked. He said that he was in favor of overturning the D.C. gun law, which prohibits people from owning a firearm in their home for protection. He thought the Second Amendment was an individual right. He thought we didn't need more gun laws. He thought they just ought to enforce what was on the books.
But this whole forum today was the first step in a process of our involvement in the presidential race. I mean, we're going to send this out to our members. We're going to listen to what they have to say about all the candidates. And then, eventually, we are going to do what's right to defend the Second Amendment.
COSTELLO: Do you think with his words, though, he changed minds?
LaPIERRE: Well, I -- I -- if you look at history, I mean, there are legions of people in this country in political office that have attempted to square themself away with the Second Amendment, after listening to the majority of the American public on this issue, that want their freedom to own a firearm defended. So, I mean, I don't think there's that much unique about someone that looks at the public opinion in this country, the majority of the Americans, where they are on the issue, and, you know, changes -- evolves to that point.
COSTELLO: But how can you marry what -- how can you marry what Rudy Giuliani said today and what he has said in the past? I'm going to read you something that he said in 1995 to Charlie Rose.
He said: "The NRA is, in essence, defense of assault weapons and their willingness to deal with some of the realities here that we face in our cities is a terrible, terrible mistake."
And, by that, he's talking about gun control. And he says the NRA is making a mistake by not -- not touting gun control for big cities with crime problems.
LaPIERRE: Well, I don't have to. I mean, he has to sell that to the American public and justify it.
I mean, I remember when Bill Clinton came out of the '94 elections and when he said, hey, I listened to the public and I have changed. It -- if you look at the '90s, I mean, the whole Democratic Party at that point was following Clinton and Gore, basically trying to ride destruction of the Second Amendment to victory. It backfired on them.
And, since then, most of the center of the Democratic Party has been much more, we support the Second Amendment and we favor individual rights on firearms.
COSTELLO: So, do you see the NRA supporting Rudy Giuliani's candidacy over other GOP candidates?
LaPIERRE: You know, we're not even to that point. This was a first step in a long process. We are going to defend the freedom of Americans to own firearms, like we always have, and do what's right to achieve that.
COSTELLO: Is there anyone you like best right now, though?
LaPIERRE: We're really not at that point. This was about listening to the candidates. This is about opening up a process. It was about listening to what these candidates have to say, so these type of judgments you're talking about can be made down the road.
But -- but any candidate that wants to come before us and say, hey, look, I've seen the light on the Second Amendment, we're going to hear what they have to --
COSTELLO: Like Bill Richardson, who believes in -- in gun rights, and he's a Democrat?
LaPIERRE: Bill Richardson was very strong. Hey, I mean, he helped pass right-to-carry out in New Mexico. He's been a strong defender of the Second Amendment. And he, by video today, had a very strong Second Amendment rights message.
COSTELLO: So, would you like Bill Richardson, a Democrat, over, let's say, Rudy Giuliani, a Republican?
LaPIERRE: I think Bill Richardson is great. I mean, he's been a strong defender of freedom. We aren't even to that point yet, but I'm happy that Bill Richardson supports the freedom.
I'm happy that any American out there, whether in political office or not, supports the Constitution and supports the right of Americans to own firearms, supports the right of self-defense, and is on our side.
I have to ask you about the cell phone, because, right in the middle of Rudy Giuliani's speech to the NRA, his cell phone goes off. So, I'm going to play that for our audience right now --
LaPIERRE: OK.
COSTELLO: --so they can see it.
GIULIANI [video clip]: This is my wife calling, I think. Hello, dear. I'm talking -- I'm talking to the members of the NRA right now. Would you like to say hello? I love you. And I'll give you a call as soon as I'm finished, OK?
OK. Have a safe trip. Bye-bye.
Talk to you later, dear. I love you.
COSTELLO: What did you make of that?
LaPIERRE: I figured his wife called him. I don't know. That -- that was my take on it.
COSTELLO: How did it go over with the audience?
LaPIERRE: I think it was a lighthearted moment, and they were amused by it. And --
COSTELLO: Would you take a phone call from your wife in the middle of an important speech?
LaPIERRE: Hey, I -- I think we -- I think we've all taken a lot of phone calls from our wives.
COSTELLO: So, you would keep it in your pocket, on --
LaPIERRE: Well --
COSTELLO: -- during an important speech --
LaPIERRE: -- I don't know that I would have a cell phone in my pocket on during a speech. But I -- I -- I agree with you on that.
COSTELLO: All right. Wayne LaPierre, thanks so much for joining us today.
LaPIERRE: Thanks, Carol. Thanks for having me.
COSTELLO: Appreciate it.
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it depends on what you mean by warm ups. were i train, a grappling warm ups is maybe 5-10 mins of jogging (forward backwards sideways whilst lowering your level, rotating the arms ect) and then 5-10 mins of drills (sprinting down the matt, duck walking, sprawls shoots, forward rolles backward rolles, shrimping ect) and then maybe 5 more mins of pummelling and fighting for underhooks then finnish with bridging before moving onto drilling techniques. everything in the warm up i mentioned directly improve your grappling so i tend not to think of it as a boring chore that needs to be gotten over with. i try and improve my technique everytime i warm up.
i can see your point if your just doing endless press ups and crunches but even then in a fight your not only fighting your opponent, your also fighting against your own body. condition is just as important as no one wants to be a looser because he ran out of steam.
theres a philosophy with alot of coaches that techniques should be learned when your warn out as your going to be fighting warn out so if you can do it right when your nackerd in training you will dothe same in a fight.
I would consider drilling to be entirely different to a warm-up, although drilling can be used as a warm-up!
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i think fatties should only do warm ups until they are fit enough to roll for 30 mins without gassing. (6x 5 mins rounds)
I rolled with this fat sweaty bastard the other week who was sweating and breathing like a snuffling pig. its disgusting, No Gi would have killed him. Fat fucks dont realise BJJ is a sport !
this shit happens in Boxing, if your fat , lose it !
I HATE warming up. Only because I smoke and so by the time it comes to drill techniques I'm gassed and cant take in the subtleties of the techniques properly. Not that I expect owt to change in the classes tho - it's my problem and if it was that important to me I'd stop smoking.
The other point about having no gas tank is that I always want to spar with someone of similar skill, weight and size first because after that first roll I'm so fcuked that I just try to lay & pray my other sparring partners.
Warm-ups are fine but classes designed to improve cardio shud be billed as that - a warm-up in my eyes isnt designed to improve cardio (although it might help) - it is designed to warm your muscles - 1O minutes shud be sufficient or with a very large class 20 mins but no longer. just my uneducated opinion tho....
" if your fat , lose it !" Being fat worked pretty well for this guy...
Also BJJ is NOT just a sport, it is also self defense. You should have techniques that work against all oponents even fatties. (too many whiny midgets in BJJ these days who cry if ya just sit on them for a bit)
Training just so you can train doesn't make sense to me.
I admire fat people who enter the gym/dojo. It takes guts to do it. I lose respect for them if they don't stick with it and just disappear though.


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Slightly off topic I know so appologies, but im sure someone here can offer me some advice:
I went to Carcraft, West Midlands branch today to buy a new car. I found a nice 52 plate new shape Vaxhaull Vectra and after taking it for a test drive agreed to a deal of cash + my wifes 2000 W plate Punto as a part exchange.
All was dandy and we waited around for 1hr 30 mins while the car was checked, valeted and brought round to us.
So After collecting said new car me and the family decided to pop 1 mile down the road to IKEA to do some shopping. The car drove perfectly and we were happy.
After leaving IKEA and hitting the M6 I noticed the engine warning light come on, on the dash so my wife checked it out and it was the warning light for excessive emmissions from the engine, becuase this doesnt carry iminent danger to the engine I wasnt too worried about it so i carried on home and planned to call Carcraft to have a little moan as this is meant to be covered on the MOT check which they did 12 days previous. BUT........As I dropped my family off I went back out to buy the road tax and the car started to make really loud tapping noise which really worried me so I knew there was a problem. I retunred home and called Carcraft quite miffed to say the least.
They told me the car needed to be recovered and I was asked to return the car back to their base which I was fuming at. Afterall you dont expect to buy a £6500 car and have it go wrong 3 hours after taking ownership of it. But after loads of objections I finally agreed and got back in the car to drive it back .
I reversed it off my drive and heard a massive bang and noticed some sheered metal lying on my driveway, this had obviously come from my engine somewhere and was very worried about my new investment. After inspecting it and having yet more heated discussions over the phone with car craft I agreed to try and drive the car 40 miles back the the Wendsbury branch to try and sort things out with the promise of a hire car, luckily I made it ok. They made me wait 1hr 30 mins in their branch while they 'tried' to find me a courtesy car and then when it came round it had less that 1/4 of a tank of fuel in it!
I basically was fobbed off and told 'these kind of things always happen' and have now found out that the part was a brackett that holds the brake calipers together!!
Now Carcraft MOT'd the vehcile 12 days ago AND they tell me each car is checked prior to the buyer driving it away. Now I spend £6500 on this car only to have 2 major problems happen to it within 4 hours of me owning it, problems which are part of ALL MOT checks plus I had my 20 month old daughter in the car while I was driving along the motorway with obviously a damaged car in my control. Can anyone tell me if I have any sort of case for a claim of compensation and what the best course of action to take is?
I was going to write a letter of complaint to their head office...any other adicve as I am very angry right now!!!
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Not sure about compensation, although, you should report the incident to trading standards, as it is an offence under Section 75 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to sell an unroadworthy vehicle.
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Thanks for the link, I have filled out their complaint form so hopefully they will offer me some advice
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if i recall back in september last year or maybe the year before the law regarding the sale of second hand cars changed, which basically put the onus on the seller to prove that any faults within 6 months of purchase went there at the time of purchase, i'll try and dig up the proper wording later.
theres a bit here http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/...ghtfromadealer
Nice one Luke, exactly what I needed and from reading that it seems I do have a case for a complaint seeing as though the major problems I experienced happened within hours of me buying the car.
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Very unfortunate mate, I had a similar, although not as bad experience, when I got my car...
Three weeks after purchase, the baffle box on the exhaust sheared off the exhaust pipe, dislodging the bumper on the way out.
Luckily I wasn't going very fast otherwise it would have ripped the bumper clean off.
Even though it had had an MOT and the exhaust isn't covered by their warranty (which I knew), the dealer fixed a new exhaust at no charge to me at all within 24 hours.
It seems that the level of service you get from dealers varies tremendously and in this case the MD and the salesman got a letter praising the service!
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February added another month of strong job growth to the recovery, with 227,000 net new jobs. It marked the third month in a row where nonfarm payrolls increased by more than 200,000—the first time that's happened since, well … since this time last year. Reminds you just how big of a wall the recovery hit last spring after such a promising start. The same could happen in 2012, but with Europe seeming to tighten up its debt crisis and the U.S. debt-ceiling debate behind us (for now), the potential headwinds appear less daunting this year.
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It also appears we're getting closer to staunching the bleeding of public jobs. The federal government, however, still lost 7,000 jobs last month. Seasonally adjusted, federal payrolls have shed 56,000 jobs in the past 12 months. But a bright spot is the local government education sector, which added 5,200 jobs in February after cutting 3,100 jobs from December 2011 to January 2012.
Now, demographics. Let's start with the kids. Teenagers are still having a hard time finding jobs, as the unemployment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds rose from 23.2 percent to 23.8 percent last month. That number has barely budged since February 2011, when it was 23.9 percent.
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Barcelona are aiming to have Ludovic Giuly back in action to face Valencia.Barcelona are aiming to have Ludovic Giuly back in action for next week's clash with reigning champions Valencia.
The French playmaker is currently recuperating after aggravating a thigh injury during a friendly fixture last week.
Giuly had only just returned to fitness after missing a few weeks with the same complaint and was absent for Tuesday's UEFA Champions League defeat to Shakhtar Donetsk.
He will also miss Saturday's Liga fixture against Albacete but Barca doctors predict Giuly will be ready to face Valencia.
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