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Two years ago, Blake Schwarzenbach wasn't being interviewed by writers. He was one, paying the bills by contributing reviews to PC gaming magazines such as GameSpot and writing for a couple of travel guides. After six years as the frontman for Jawbreaker--six years of constant touring and incessant bickering--he had quit the music business and traded in his guitar to pursue the writing career he had planned on having during his college days at New York University. But quitting the music business is like quitting smoking: It takes a few tries before it finally sticks. So here's Schwarzenbach a little more than two years after turning his back on the business, answering questions about his new band, Jets to Brazil, and new album, Orange Rhyming Dictionary, on the eve of its first American tour.
"I got in the band quicker than I had planned to," Schwarzenbach admits, on the phone from his Brooklyn apartment. "I just wanted to move out of San Francisco, come back to New York where I'd been in school before, and try to be normal and non-musical. I was doing freelance writing, just whatever I could get. And it was cool. I loved getting my first check for straight writing. It was so measly that I just wanted to frame it; it wasn't like I could get more than a sandwich out of it. Unfortunately, or quite fortunately, I was playing music all the time too, and that kind of took over again."
His last few years in Jawbreaker had drained him, taken all the fun out of playing music. Since it formed in 1990, the band always seemed on the verge of breaking up, and it didn't help that its debut for Geffen Records, 1995's Dear You, was written off by critics as yet another example of how major labels turn idealistic punk bands into corporate subsidiaries. When Jawbreaker finally did call it quits in the summer of 1996, Schwarzenbach took a chance. He moved to New York looking for a fresh start, an opportunity to do something else, be someone else. He had tired of life as a musician. There would be no more endless tours in a cramped van full of equipment, no more sniping from wounded fans, no more anything.
However, Schwarzenbach found that being a musician was a harder habit to break than he originally figured. He was bitten by the bug again, that nagging urge to create something, anything. He started deejaying, playing around with drum machines and samplers and synthesizers, unfamiliar instruments that were so far removed from Jawbreaker's poppy punk sound. That wasn't enough, though. It wasn't the same as standing onstage with a guitar in his hand, feeling the kick drum push the air into his back, seeing the sweat of a crowd condense on the windows of a tiny club in the middle of nowhere. There was only one thing that could recapture that feeling for him: He had to form a band again.
It wasn't hard for Schwarzenbach to fall into his old ways, like a lifelong drunk taking a sip of beer after a few years on the wagon. Jets to Brazil--"There is a source," he says of the name, "but I'm sworn to secrecy"--came together naturally, just a couple of friends hanging out, making music for only themselves to hear. A brief meeting with bassist Jeremy Chatelain--lead singer of Handsome at the time--at Jawbreaker's last show in Seattle had led to a new friendship when Schwarzenbach moved to New York; before long, the two were jamming in Schwarzenbach's makeshift home studio.
"It turned out that he was living in Brooklyn, pretty close to me," Schwarzenbach says. "We started hanging out and playing around really lightly. We weren't planning on doing a band. We would just get together and fuck around."
The pair soon realized that what they were doing wasn't just a couple of friends having fun; it was something more serious. After Handsome broke up late last year, Jets to Brazil became a full-fledged band, and Schwarzenbach and Chatelain recruited drummer Chris Daly, a friend of Chatelain's and a kindred spirit of sorts. Daly had found himself in the same position as Schwarzenbach when his band, Texas is the Reason, split up after its members realized that playing music was the only way they could be in the same room together without coming to blows. He, too, had considered dropping out of the music business at one point. Daly fell into the fold easily.
"Chris seemed the most laid-back, like definitely into hanging out and making up music," Schwarzenbach says. "I've never auditioned people for a band before, so I didn't want to do that. I don't think any of us knew how, really, to try people out. It was pretty easy to figure out who felt right. Some people, I think, expected there to be songs ready or to be told what to do, and I can't really do that."
The band set to work fleshing out Schwarzenbach's songs, melancholy tales of love lost that bore little resemblance to the songs he had written with his former band. They were a combination of the melodic sensibility he had honed over the course of four albums with Jawbreaker, and the experimental side he had discovered in himself when he began to create music again. They were more complex, more emotional, and more mature, like pages from a diary written by a man with a Liberty Bell for a heart: permanently broken. Most of them were written before there was even a band to play them, just an eight-track recorder and an empty apartment.
"It was a whole different--well, much more solitary--way of writing," Schwarzenbach says. "I could go so far that way, and get a pretty strong skeleton going. And they did change a lot, just with repeated plays and finessing them. I think I did a lot of rewriting on these, more than I'd ever done in Jawbreaker. Just trying to hammer them out. Another big difference in the writing was that I was using piano on some things. I'm a really lousy pianist, but I love it. It's a totally different approach to melody, though, which is great. I'm really determined to get better."
At the beginning of this year, the budding trio played a few low-key shows around the New York area, just a test to see what it had on its hands. The response was good enough that Wilmington, Delaware-based Jade Tree Records--home to Midwest indie-rock heroes The Promise Ring and Joan of Arc--signed the band and sent them to Europe for a five-week tour, based only on that handful of shows and a five-song demo the band had recorded. Schwarzenbach was overwhelmed.
"It was really unprecedented. I mean, I'd been a few times [with Jawbreaker], but this was really different," he says. "I don't know that any band has ever gone over with [just] a demo tape out, which we owe entirely to The Promise Ring. I really liked [Europe], because it seemed like a totally objective audience. People didn't really know what bands we came from, and I don't think there were any expectations. That was kind of nice."
When Jets to Brazil returned from Europe, Jade Tree sent them into Memphis' Easley Studios with former Jawbox guitarist J. Robbins. The result is Orange Rhyming Dictionary, an astonishing album better than anything released by any of its members' former bands. It's a gorgeous mess of roller-coaster rhythms and heartbreaking vocals, a versatile piece of poptopia that shifts from bright bursts of staccato guitar ("Lemon Yellow Black") to delicate acoustic ballads ("Sweet Avenue") without sacrificing anything. "King Medicine" is a dramatic bit of box-of-Kleenex guitar pop, the downhearted lyrics and furious melody seemingly at odds and perfectly in sync at once. And "I Typed For Miles" is one of the best breakup songs written in the last decade, angry and disappointed and sad and everything else. When Schwarzenbach repeatedly screams, "You keep fucking up my life!" at the end of the song, you almost feel as though you're watching a couple splitting up right in front of you. "Sweet Avenue" is the calm after the storm, following the rage of "I Typed For Miles" with a sentimental tale of newfound love, accompanied by softly strummed guitar and a hushed rhythm section.
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Even though Orange Rhyming Dictionary doesn't have much in common with Jawbreaker, Handsome, or Texas is the Reason, Schwarzenbach realizes the members of the band's various backgrounds will lead to expectations. He isn't worried, though. No, he is excited, rejuvenated by his two-year break from the business. He's ready to get back on the road and show off his new band, a band that is only around because three others aren't.
"Well, I hope it doesn't get in the way of people seeing this band as what it is, you know," he says. "I think those bands all broke up for pretty good reasons, so no one that was in them is missing those bands too much. I understand that people really like those bands. I think we're all so psyched on doing something new, and kind of doing things that we felt incapable of doing before.
"It's weird; I don't know. It's going to be interesting on this tour, because I'm sure there are going to be a lot of Texas and Jawbreaker fans that are probably expecting a continuation of those bands, or maybe some of them will, but I don't know that they're going to get that," he laughs, then continues. "I think most of the people who hear the record will agree."
Jets to Brazil performs with The Promise Ring and Sarge October 23 at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton.


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110 miles, 53 hours: Questions for Diana Nyad
98 miles in 48 hours ????? Where on earth did that come from? Thats 2 miles an hour with no stops. Has any one added up the stop time ? Even 5 minutes rest per hour would equal 98 miles in 44 hours, which equals 2.23 miles per hour. I doubt Diana could swim 2.23 miles in one hour, just once, let alone 48 hours back to back.
Eitherway, I guess in the 48 hours, Diana rested more like 15 minutes an hour, therefore, maybe 7 or 8 hours overall rest. So maybe 98 miles in 40 hours of swimming, which equals 2 & 3/4 miles per hour. Unbelievable.
And there lies the issue with Diana. None of her swims stand up to the simplest scrutiny. And it doesnt help when titled and professional people simply say "she did it". Otherwise those same people would say Diana did a 48 hour swim, and we are supposed to believe them. Sorry, I cannot believe Diana did a 48 hour swim. (maybe she did a 40 hour swim). I cannot believe Diana swam 98 miles, (maybe she covered 56 miles).
What I can't believe the most was why nobody was asked to count the lengths?
Sadly, it came from Reuters, considered a quite reputable news service.Haydn said:
98 miles in 48 hours ????? Where on earth did that come from?
Reading the article again, it actually says 96 miles rather than 98. Either way, it's ludicrous. Also, I can guarantee that if any journalist actually fact-checks this, the Xtreme Dream Team will quickly back-pedal and pass it off as a "misunderstanding."
Don't forget that the 48 hour pool swim was a fundraising stunt. You really can't fault her for not following the rules that DN set for herself beforehand, the long breaks, and her switching into a wetsuit in 85+ degree water because she got cold at night. It was all for a good cause. The 800+K investment raised over 104K for a good cause.
as I wrote on forum discussion A 48 hour swim in Manhattan
I watched more often than described here and her tempo was almost always the same. So her total distance will have been under ~30 nmi ( ~35 miles, ~55 km)Around the 24 hour mark I watched for a few minutes and she was swimming a tempo of
1,094 km/hour = 0 mi 1197.0 yd/hour
in 48 hours that would give 32 mi = 28.36 nmi if she would swim without breaks.
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http://www.diananyad.com/blog/48-Tough-Hours Bonnie had an idea. She remembered from the second night of the Cuba swim, when I was having similar mental problems, Niko the shark diver would swim in front of me for a bit, holding a neon green light and coax me to swim toward him.
Another violation of the rules. You betrayed yourself Diana.http://cspf.co.uk/cs-and-pf-rules (p) During solo swims a swimmer may be accompanied in the water by 1 person only & not accompanied at all until after the first 3 hours. This accompaniment will be for a maximum of 1 hour & cannot be repeated until at least 2 hours have elapsed after the cessation of the accompaniment.
The second swimmer may swim alongside, but not in front, of the solo aspirant & must not impede the solo swimmer.
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A compilation of ABC News coverage of the Diana Nyad swim & controversy:
A compilation of CNN coverage of the Diana Nyad swim & controversy:
A compilation of NBC News coverage of the Diana Nyad swim & controversy:
mjstaples Atlanta, GA, USMemberOver a month later and still no real data but she claims to want "transparency"! C'mon, just ridiculous
AngelYanagihara Temporary Suspension
Dear Forum Members,
It is not my responsibility to provide you my data-videos, images etc. You are not an official body of any sort. I am just a team member, I am not a leader so I am also not willing to act as team liason. I have simply tried to make you globally aware of the inaccuracies you appear to hold tightly. My "reputation" has nothing to do with this swim. I provided expertise to Diana out of goodwill. I was not paid. I do not appreciate the pack attack mentality here. If you need to continue on your "guilty until PROVEN innocent" routine and REFUSE to listen to first hand accounts -then by all means, lads, continue this. I have exhausted any interest I had in providing you with even my general observations recently pejoratively labeled "vague". I have absolutely no intention of providing data to this forum after the goings on here. I do intend to provide these to the Swim Archives that Steve Munatones and others have mentioned exists in Ft Lauderdale. You all are welcomed to go there and peruse my historical records at your own cost. This type of "forum" based cyberbullying and pack mentality of hatred is tiresome and causes me personally to feel upset and discouraged. I realize at this point I should have listened to the wise counsel of others who told me not to engage here. I naively believed that communication would be helpful but it is clear now that despite all the time and efforts expended here there is only an increased level of animosity.
Seriously, we are all devoted to the sport of ocean swimming. I am genuinely worried about loss of life due to jellyfish envenomations. There have been many deaths in this sport. Cardiac arrest during a swim in a healthy adult can clearly be due to the effects of jellyfish venom. My point in responding to Diana's first email to me out of the blue was to be of service to her as I am generally obliged to do if a member of the public requests assistance related to my federally funded research. Spending time on this forum does nothing to advance my research efforts and it seems only to fuel increasing levels of antipathy so I must stop now despite the ongoing taunts and baiting.
Take care out there folks and BE SAFE,
A. Yanagihara
Please clarify on the many deaths you mention in our sport. I am aware of a recent shark attack but that's it. (Thank God!)
Also, do you know if your client or any other of her crew are going to send their data to the archives?
I repeat what I and many have said previously: if she had brought along 2 Observers, this thread wouldn't be approaching 800 comments.
No one is bullying you. That is the realm of DN (I don't remember any of us calling you a troll).
A. Yanagihara,
If others on Ms. Nyad's team advised you not to engage this forum because they knew there are not rational answers to fundamental questions, from a Ms. Nyad team perspective they were right.
(I admit that I don't have enough information to know, but the more I learn about this swim and Ms. Nyad's other activities, the more I believe it is a story.)
Trying to discredit someone by refuting an unstated claim is a tactic. No one claimed this forum was an official body.
(It is however, a world-wide collection of some of the best marathon swimmers in the world. (I am not one of them.))
Referencing "inaccuracies" without identifying them is a tactic.
(This discussion started with questions, not statements. It has only turned to statements when no answers to the questions were forthcoming.)
You are the person making the bold assertion that "she did it" (without the ability to answer basic questions). No one here bullied you into making that statement.
Making a claim of cyberbullying when none is occurring is a tactic.
Referencing "hatred" when none exists is a tactic.
Your use of "lads" is a tactic. Dismissive at the same time implying that this is a male/ female issue.
You publicly offered to provide "data-videos" and you are now stating it is not your responsibility. This is a tactic.
You have been representing the team, yet now (faced with questions you cannot address) you state you are not a liaison or leader. This is a tactic.
Focusing on a single inflammatory word (guilty) instead of addressing the bigger issues is a tactic.
Stating that you are not being listened to when tactics are not working... is a tactic.
Until you accept that Ms. Nyad's team has not provided the normal and customary information provided by marathon swimmers, you will remain frustrated with this forum. Tactics will not change that.
@ ironmike,
Unfortunately Susan Taylor died while attempting the English Channel this year.
I have not heard of any connection to jellies.
@AnthonyMcCarley, yes, I know about her and Paraic (sp?), but I think the good doctor was inferring (wait, implying? I can never get those straight) that there have been many deaths in open water swimming due to ocean creatures.
Sad though it is (and I wish those swimmers RIP and for their families to find peace), but two EC deaths and the one recently from a shark attack cannot be deemed many.@AngelYanagihara said: I am genuinely worried about loss of life due to jellyfish envenomations. There have been many deaths in this sport.
If you wait long enough it might not be possible any more. source@AngelYanagihara I do intend to provide these to the Swim Archives that Steve Munatones and others have mentioned exists in Ft Lauderdale.
You're welcome to use it as a new excuse.
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Something occurred to me a few week ago and I haven't mentioned it anywhere to now, out of respect for @AngelYanigahara.
In her posts she has frequently cited her concern over the safety of swimmers and even the ethics of allowing a swimmer into dangerous waters (though all water is dangerous as we know better than most). In her second-last post above she did so again and mentioned how she was obliged to help any member of the public who contacted her. She had often mentioned fatalities, (often indirectly implying this was something we here don't care about as much as she).
@Chloemccardeldotcom didn't contact @AngelYanigahara for assistance. Yet we do know that @Angel Yanigahara did contact members of @Chloe's team to make sure they weren't using any of her (Angel's) product. In fact, I've been told by a reputable source, that she threatened legal action if they were using it (they weren't).
So we consequently also know that @AngelYanigahara, apparently confident of her new sting formulation, didn't reach out to ensure that @Chloe, about who she directly expressed concern here, was using her product, which I would imagine you would do if a) you were sure of its efficacy and b) as concerned for all swimmers as espoused.
Maybe unless you were part of a team that saw volunteers for other swims as traitors, and wished other swimmers would fail so you could maximise your financial benefits?
Further, in the realm of pure speculation, could it be that a high profile media swim is the best way of eliciting further research funding or even to transition to a well-marketed end product? Research which btw, we here are all interested in and would all benefit from in an end product, as we would from any other competing but less well advertised product?
These are the kinds of question for which I have the Diana Nyad team to thank, having never asked them before of anyone or even considered them.
As Deep Throat says in All the President's Men, "follow the money".
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You mean the International Swimming Hall of Fame? The same organization whose leader, Richard Mullins, slandered Walter Poenisch in 1978, on behalf of Diana Nyad?AngelYanagihara said:
I do intend to provide these to the Swim Archives that Steve Munatones and others have mentioned exists in Ft Lauderdale.
What is it they say about lying down with dogs?
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This accusation by the Dream Team is quite offensive and has been played by many a DN supporter (just scroll through any comment thread) with zero evidence that this is a motivating factor of any non-believers.AnthonyMcCarley said:
Your use of "lads" is a tactic. Dismissive at the same time implying that this is a male/ female issue.
Pathetic... really, but perhaps an effective way to rally the troops and change the subject.
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
So Dr Angel insists "she did it" and Reuters say she did 96 miles in a pool in 48 hours. So who do we believe? These two worthy sources? Just because they say so? Clearly Diana swam nowhere near 96 miles so how can we ever have any faith in her claims or those made by others in her behalf. UNLESS some of the stuff which Dr Angel says she has, and stuff Dream Team say they have, is divulged. Surely this stuff exists, because they say so. But as we see, just because world class bodies say so, is meaningless when what is said is so obviously inaccurate.
I expect Dream Team have forensically examined their stuff and have found it wanting, otherwise why would they allow this debacle to continue when it could so easily be verified by publishing good data. Maybe the data doesn't exist, maybe the data doesn't answer the questions.
Well, what a silly lady Diana is, to attempt such a fantastic swim and not have the basic documentation and independant evidences. How silly also, to blatantly defy the founding principles of long distance swimming, especially with the dubious claims of previous swims.
We all owe it to our fellow competitors to pay much attention to such evidences when we undertake such world class events. It is such a shame that we cannot all support Diana in such an amazing swim just because she was rubbish at documenting it. That failure has robbed her of much that she deserved, had the evidences supported her swim without question.
I am more upset about such a blatant disregard of documentation. It is not fair to other swimmers coming after her and it is not fair to Diana for (most on this forum) us to feel obliged to disbelieve her, if she really did do this swim.
Now those are notable swims!
firebah Charter MemberI know this is old news but I had a thought yesterday while heading out on my morning swim in the ocean. The water temp has begun to drop a bit and the air is beginning to feel like fall. It dawned on me as I was dreading 'winter ocean swimming' that Diana wore 2 swim suits once she was assisted into her stinger suit. Yet another example of a blatant rule violation. Can anyone think of any marathon swim that allows a swimmer to double up on swim suits? She could have taken off her swim suit prior to being assisted into her stinger suit (Penny did and put on her stinger suit by herself with zero assistance) but chose not to for whatever reason. This is not a discussion about stinger suits but rather a swimmer ignoring fundamental swimsuit rules and wearing 2 suits at once.
Funny, I thought the $850,000 pool to raise a little over $100,000 for charity was the "monument" to all things Nyad. ;)
People can only be canonized after their death. Isn't that supposed to be so? Did I miss something?
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@ danslos You're serious?
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Yeah I am skimming through her movie now....
Her movie does not show any footage of her recent swim this summer, only the finish.
No.@ danslos You're serious?
@Niek, @danslos is serious about the movie playing on Showtime tonight at 8pm EST. He's not serious about "it's your lucky night/month" ;)
Ok, I admit it, I receive AARP , the magazine.
And guess who is "interviewed"...center of magazine. Agh... She has given "all the data to the review organization". And says she will go' Where ever needed to do more fundraising for those in need".. nb-- not an exact quote but generally that's the idea.
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I recorded her movie on Showtime with the intent of sacrificing myself for you all so you don't have to watch it. I will then do a review on my blog, pointing out the most important aspects of the film for you all.
Stay tuned!
OMG! She's the freaking answer to final jeopardy today! They're gonna make her president next. When will she disappear into obscurity?
Here is an email that is being sent around to some members of our community (not me):On Monday, November 11, 2013, Manuel de Seixas Correa wrote:
Dear ******,
My name is Manuel de Seixas Correa and I am an Associate Producer working with Figura Media, a documentary production company based out of New York and with offices in Los Angeles and Brazil.
We are currently working on a short form documentary for Vice Media, which explores the technology and science behind Diana Nyad's swim from Cuba to Florida.
We are looking for marathon swimmers who can give us an interesting perspective on Diana's accomplishments. Our research has led us to you as a potential interview subject. We have come to learn that you are a highly accomplished member of the marathon swimming community and that you may have interesting opinions about Diana's swim. I would love to be able to discuss your thoughts at your earliest convenience.
I am cc'ing Thiago Da Costa, the main producer on the project. We would love to answer any questions you may have. We very much look forward to hearing from you. You can call me directly at 323-***-**** or please send me a number where I can reach you.
Thank you for your time.
Manuel de Seixas Correa
Just published today in the WSJ:
Diana Nyad's Great Regret: Endurance Icon Once Attacked a Record Cuba-to-Florida Swim
gnome4766 MemberSo she's only sorry now that she knows what it feels like to be labelled a cheat. How very insincere.
rlm Member"What goes around comes around." From Beck's Laws #5.
JBirrrd MarylandSenior MemberPerfect. So when I'm 67, I am going to stare up into the sky and tell Diana I'm profusely sorry I questioned her Cuba swim (BUT only if someone says that it wasn't a very nice thing for me to do back when I was young and foolish.)
Ms. Nyad again does a masterful job of manipulation.
Ms. Nyad framed the issue of her swim as only the use of the stinger suit – completely ignoring the bigger issues of how she was able to swim three times her normal speed for extended periods of time and that no publically available information supports her magical current claim. Never mentions that there are photos of her receiving buoyancy support and being touched. No explanation at all regarding her lack of credible Observers.
She even frames EC rules as not credible.
And anyone who challenges her is just jealous.
It is disappointing that the writer allowed this to happen.
Brilliant framing and manipulation. I admire Ms. Nyad's abilities - just not her swimming or lack of integrity.
Lance Armstrong: the analogy that continues to be applicable: After years of bullying and threats and even lawsuits, LA goes on Oprah to explain himself, his apology to Betsy Andreu and Emma O'Reilly, whom he sued and called a prostitute, only comes after he has been caught and is done to the media, not in person but as part of the great story. He insults Betsy Andreu in the process like DN covertly does in that article.
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bobswims OregonCharter MemberSpeaking of Lance:
"Armstrong claims the former head of world cycling knew about his drug abuse and encouraged him to cover up his doping. He says the then president of the UCI, Verbruggen, was complicit in the skulduggery that allowed him to continue in the 1999 Tour de France despite a positive drugs test."
@bobswims In a Dutch paper Verbruggen refutes the allegations:
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Ruminating on this ( yet again) and I guess my question , for myself as well as DN,
" what do you want your legacy to be"?
I try to do things in such a way that will ameliorate any "legacy " I might have.
I doubt that is how DN is acting. I also doubt that is how LA acting.
Life is short, your legacy hopefully is one that will make you proud or at least satisfied.
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I thought that I was over this until the last episode of TV's "Grimm". A race of mer-people, conveniently called "Nyads". The mere mention of the name turned my stomach.
DN high pain tolerance had nothing to do with her last crossingCan someone swim between Cuba and Florida under English Channel rules? Do you think we will see someone swim from Cuba to Florida with only a swimsuit, swim cap and goggles? Within 50 years from now, will the Straits of Florida be crossed?
"No, I do not think the open water swimming community will see someone swim from Cuba to Florida under the rules of the English Channel; with only a porous swimsuit, swim cap, goggles, and earplugs. Besides the financial costs and logistical obstacles that this 103-mile stretch of water presents, the swimmer will also have to face the probability of encountering box jellyfish.
Unless this person has a unique body chemistry that somehow makes them impervious to the venom of the box jellyfish or they get extraordinarily lucky and avoid these types of jellyfish and everything else out there during their swim, then I cannot see how it can be done. Sharks are such a minor concern compared with the pain and paralysis that comes with stings by the box jellyfish that the swimmer will have to face at least for one night, probably two and possibly three nights."
"If they can avoid the box jellyfish, then the right kind of swimmer has a good chance for success. That swimmer will have the psychological toughness and endurance of Penny Penny, the fierce determination and pain tolerance of Diana Nyad and the raw speed and track record of Chloë McCardel, and the survival mentality of Skip Storch.
She had no trouble with jellyfish in her last swim and that was no thanks to her suit.
They simply didn't came into her path.
Steven Munatones is avoiding the main point I think by not mentioning the need of an alleged existing North Current.
Without that current her whole race was impossible in the time she did it.
I still don't believe that current was there that day. Where is the promised proof?
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FYI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naiadstevenc616 said:
I thought that I was over this until the last episode of TV's "Grimm". A race of mer-people, conveniently called "Nyads". The mere mention of the name turned my stomach.
For the record.
3 months have passed and I still haven't seen the promised -by DN herself at the conference- proof.http://bigstory.ap.org/article/nyad-defends-herself-skeptics-cuba-fla-swim-0 After the call, Evan Morrison, co-founder of the online Marathon Swimmers Forum, said Nyad and her team addressed most of the issues that concerned the members of the forum.
He was pleased by Nyad's pledge that all the observations and notes taken by her navigator, John Bartlett, and two official observers of the swim will be made available for public examination.
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All good/bad 'evidence' gone?Welcome to
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No! One can still find some on https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://diananyad.com
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At this point it seems clear the promised documentation is not forthcoming. And if she/they actually released something now, 3 months after the fact, would you believe it?
Diana Nyad utterly lacks credibility. I'm not sure what more there is to discuss.

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Two reasons. Oppo[sition research] has come out of the shadows in recent years, so we felt comfortable speaking openly about what we've learned during 18 years as oppo guys; the process, and the entertaining stories that go along with that. Plus, we've noticed a disturbing trend: political attacks today are often based on undocumented claims, and with so many mechanisms for communicating those attacks, we wanted to explain the importance of relying on documented facts. We hope readers will become more aware of the sources of the information they use to select their leaders, and that as they read the book, they'll be able to tag along on our political road trip.
Assuming you still get surprised, what's the most surprising thing you've seen in the 2012 Presidential campaign?
The biggest surprise lately is how poorly equipped so many of the Republican presidential primary candidates have been to handle attacks. We typically research our own candidates as well as their opponents, so they'll know how they could be attacked. It's essential. So when you see a candidate getting caught flat-footed by an attack, as has happened to so many of these guys, you have to wonder how well they've done their own oppo. It's particularly crucial, post-Citizens United and the advent of SuperPACS, when huge sums of new money are available for negative ads and for the oppo research those ads are based upon. And the truth is, we're not often surprised by candidates' indiscretions, but we are continually amazed.
Is opposition research going away anytime soon? Should it?
Based on what we're seeing right now, the answer is a resounding "no." It's changing, due to the Internet and technology like voice recorders and video cams on phones, but if anything it's becoming more pervasive. If the information is documented, this is a good thing. We're choosing these people as our leaders. They should be held to a higher standard. The danger is that with the spread of technology and social networking, a lot of what passes for oppo is undocumented. As a result, the truth shares equal billing with lies and distortions. We need oppo, and not just to keep people like us employed. We need it to evaluate our leaders. But more than anything, we need it to be absolutely, unassailably true. Therein lies the rub.


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Examining the impact of macro-economic conditions on income inequality
This paper proposes a new approach for analyzing the relationship between macroeconomic factors and the income distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one should first fit a parametric functional form to the income distribution for each year, and then model the time series of model parameters in terms of the macroeconomic factors. Inferences about the relationship between the income distribution and macro-economic factors can be derived from the model estimates. We apply these methods to data from the United Kingdom for 1961-91, and contrast the results with those found using earlier methods.
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Much has changed for Bridget Kelly since we got to know her in 2006. When Jay-Z later added BK to his Roc Nation roster, he was truly in an Empire State of Mind. Bridge the gap down memory lane.
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Bratwurst and the outdoor grill go hand in hand. From July 4 through Labor Day, the ease and great taste of brats appeal to picnickers and back-yard barbecuers alike.
Brats, both fresh and smoked, often are simmered in a mixture of beer and onions before being finished off on the grill, a tradition that reflects their Wisconsin heritage. Big, soft buns are in order, buttered and also placed on the grill to brown. The beverage of choice, of course, ice cold beer.


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Britain is to become the world's newest dictatorship, ending centuries of contentious parliamentary rule and the farce of a purely ornamental monarchy.
At a special assembly meeting in the Commons yesterday, MPs overwhelmingly voted to abolish themselves and reestablish the traditional glory and tyranny of the British Crown and Empire.
The proposal has now moved to the House of Lords and a vote is expected by the weekend.
Specially trained Royal guards wearing the Queen's colours across their flak jackets have been reassigned to Westminster in preparation for the upcoming vote to assure that any debate on the floor makes the best use of time and that no misunderstandings occur.
The approved proposal states that Britain and all her dominions, past and present, is hereafter and forever "an independent, indivisible, sovereign, autocratic and essentially neo-fascist nation heading a far-flung regime dedicated to pillaging and the exploitation of indigenous populations."
Only four members of the assembly opposed the change, and have since been reported missing by their families.
Royal privileges "will immediately and automatically become entirely unchecked, reinstating such nostalgic monarchal powers as the right to condemn subjects to execution without trial, random imprisonments in the Tower of London and beheading on the spot for minor infractions such as spitting on the sidewalk or mentioning Dunkirk", the declaration says.
It also states that the houses of parliament must be vacated within a fortnight, the Palace of Westminster to be transformed into a pig farm and gift shop.
Several thousand people began celebrating in the streets when the news was announced last night.
"This is the people's victory," former Czarist supporter and monarchist 'Queen Mudder', 102, told Reuters news agency.
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Darlington Borough Council has proposed to build the 660 space car park on the existing Beaumont Street car park to provide replacement parking when the cinema and leisure development planned for the Feethams car park is built later this year.
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The council held a public consultation session on the multi-storey car park which saw 32 people attend, with seven leaving positive written comments about the scheme.
A letter was also sent to the council from the owners/occupiers of properties in Houndgate, which could be affected by an increase in traffic from vehicles leaving the car park.
The letter said: "We are concerned about the severe negative impact that the proposed development will have on this important entrance to Darlington town centre.
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|Epidemiology of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants in bacterial isolates from animals and foods with co-resistance to several antibiotics
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|Background: The use of (fluoro)quinolones both in humans and animals has contributed to the selection of resistant bacteria, limiting the agents available for treatment. This study aims to search for plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) determinants to give information about these expanding resistance mechanisms, their capacity of dissemination among different bacteria by mobile elements, and the role that they play in facilitating co-resistance to several antimicrobials. Methods: In this work we investigated a collection of Escherichia coli (n=183) and Salmonella spp (n=186) isolates recovered from several types of consumable meat (n=93) and from samples collected from food-producing animals received from diagnostic (n=276). Antibiotic susceptibility testing against different classes of antibiotics was performed by disk diffusion and MICs were determined by E-test for PMQR-positive isolates. Molecular characterization of the isolates included PCR detection of PMQR determinants and of beta-lactamase-encoding genes (for putative producing isolates with diminished susceptibility to beta-lactams); the respective coding proteins were identified through nucleotide sequencing. Class 1 integrons (int1 gene) were searched by PCR. Results: Overall, we detected 19/369 PMQR determinants, namely 11 QnrS1 in E. coli isolates from poultry. Two of these strains also carried TEM-1 beta-lactamase and one of them carried TEM-135 plus SHV-108 (ESBLs). Among the 6 QnrB detected, we identified 3 QnrB19: one in an E. coli (from a pig) and 2 in Salmonella spp isolates (from poultry), and 3 QnrB2 in Salmonella spp isolates (from embryonated eggs). We also have detected 2 Aac-(6')-Ib-cr in E. coli and Salmonella spp isolates, from broiler and bovine origin, respectively. One isolate carrying Aac-(6')-Ib-cr was from consumable meat. Among PMQR-negative isolates, we detected one DHA-type (plasmid-mediated AmpC β-lactamase) Salmonella spp-producing isolate, as well as one SHV-12 and one TEM-135 (ESBLs) E. coli-producing isolates. Class 1 integrons were detected among 8 out of 19 PMQR-positive isolates, but were not always associated to multidrug-resistance (MDR). Conclusions: This investigation has demonstrated that PMQR may act additively with other plasmid-encoded resistance mechanisms in 16% of studied isolates and in 42% may be disseminated by plasmids carrying class 1 integrons, contributing to the scenario of MDR in animal production facilities.
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Dowsing is a form of superstition that's been around for at least 700 years. Claims regarding the capabilities and effectiveness of dowsing have changed little over this time period despite advances in scientific testing.
Besides water, dowsers now claim to be able to locate drugs, explosives, money, missing persons, golf balls and lost dogs. There is even a dowsing Bigfoot detector. They can certainly locate money since people, organizations and governments spend millions of dollars each year on this form of divination. There are about 20,000 dowsers working in the United States and even more in western Europe.
Locally, there are dowsers operating on farms and ranches in the Santa Ynez Valley. A few years ago, the Santa Barbara News-Press published a long article on a dowser who was 100 percent accurate. I was surprised since scientific testing of human abilities rarely produces a perfect success rate. As I continued reading, I finally realized, "Oh! This guy is finding water in the Santa Ynez River Valley." Any 5-year-old with a stick can find an aquifer in a river valley.
Dowsing "ability" is produced by the ideomotor effect: "The influence of suggestion or expectation on involuntary and unconscious motor behavior" (The Skeptic's Dictionary). This is the same effect that produces movement on Ouija boards or facilitated communication boards. The many forms of dowsing rods are not producing any real effect at all and are merely a distraction. The dowser is unconsciously moving the dowsing rod.
For example, a "golf ball detector" is used by golfers who have some idea of where the ball went. They are unconsciously moving the dowsing apparatus to the likely area and are increasing their chance of finding the ball. Dowsing "success" is also influenced by human proclivity to "remember the hits and forget the misses" (Michael Shermer, Skeptic Magazine).
There seem to be three levels of dowsing deception. The first is the water dowser who is probably following a family tradition, truly believes in his craft and has learned to be a fairly good amateur hydrologist. He's fooling himself as much as he's fooling the farmers and ranchers who pay him.
The second level of dowsing deceptors are the small-time scam artists who knowingly sell plastic boxes containing fancy circuit boards and wires as detectors for golf balls, dogs, drugs, etc. In 2006, a school district was taken in ($8,000) by a company that promised remote marijuana detection in the school lockers. The principal diligently walked the halls with a small plastic black box with a projecting piece of wire. They paid hundreds of dollars for a box that supposedly contained circuitry that could feel the "electromagnetic forces" and "oscillating frequencies" of the marijuana.
As the principal walked the halls and opened lockers that his "marijuana detector" pointed at, he opened many lockers with no marijuana — and promptly discarded those failures. By random chance and perhaps by his personal knowledge of the unmotivated, problem students, the principal eventually found a locker that actually contained marijuana. The principal "remembered the hits and forgot the misses" and confirmed his own bias that his $8,000 investment really worked.
The third level of dowsers market expensive detectors that have even gotten some of their users killed. It's difficult to comprehend that our willingness to believe in this seemingly harmless superstition can kill police officers and military personnel.
Over the last few years, the governments of England, Thailand and Iraq spent millions of dollars on the Sniffex explosive detector, which again was nothing more than a very expensive looking plastic box with a protruding wire that sold for $6,000 to $14,000 each.
Here's the explanation from Sniffex about how the explosive detector works: "The frequency chip is oscillated by static electricity produced by the body [of the user] inhaling and exhaling gases into and out of the lung cavity. This static electricity is propagated on the surface of the body to the tracker which utilizes the charge to oscillate the chip. ... All matter contains exact molecular frequencies. When a magnetic field is created by a contained electrically charged body moving through space at a perpendicular angle moving to its direction, and that field is brought into alignment with another exact field, resonating at the identical frequency modulation, then both objects attract, just as two bodies are attracted toward each other in a gravitational field."
I've read this explanation 10 times and I still don't know what it means. This is pure mumbo-jumbo, flim-flam and using scientific jargon to deceive. Most unfortunately, several allied police and military bomb disposal experts were killed before this scam was exposed: "The ADE 651 explosive detector was used by Iraqi security forces despite warnings from our government that the devices were useless. In 2008, Iraq purchased 800 detectors from the ATSC Ltd. Company for $32 million. They later spent an additional $53 million on bogus detectors that sold for $60,000 each.
"The Quadro QRS 250G Detector (the Quadro Tracker) is a plastic box with an antenna which was sold by Quadro Corp. of Harleyville, S.C., as a detector of just about anything: drugs, weapons, golf balls, even lost dogs. The device sold for about $1,000 each, although some schools and government agencies spent as much as $8,000 on each worthless unit.
"The British company Global Technical Ltd. has sold a dowsing rod it calls the GT 200 to both the Mexican military and police and to the Thai army. The Mexicans think the rod can detect drugs. The Thais think it can detect bombs. News reports in Thailand have reported the deaths of three police officers and one civilian due to the failure of the GT-200 Detection Device not finding hidden explosives." (The Skeptics' Dictionary)
Why do we continue to get scammed by these pseudoscientific devices, procedures and quackery? We fall for these scams again and again, over hundreds and sometimes thousands of years, because as a social animal we have evolved over millions of years to put significant value on personal stories (i.e. anecdotal testimony) that a certain procedure or cure "works." We trust the storyteller, and the stories are often very dramatic, get us very excited and give us hope.
The only way to make an actual causal connection between events is to do scientific measurement and testing. Unless we experiment and collect evidence, we will always be victims of this type of fraud.
— Victor Dominocielo, a California-credentialed teacher for 36 years, is the human biology and health teacher at a local middle school. The opinions expressed are his own.


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i am about to graduate college and will be playin poker online for my job. this is nice because i can live anywhere... where is the best place to live taking taxes and cost of living into consideration
I'll answer for you.
For my money--if you are going to play for a job=
THE BEST PLACE would be to move to the beach in LAGUNA BEACH CALI (second choices Newport, Manhattan Sch ok also)
and make your millions at the Commerce Casino (and pick a few other dollars up at the Bike Hustler Hollywood Park)--and you will need all you can get living there.
But--you will find the best players (and also the best loosest fish) in Los Angeles and they have endless amounts of cash to part with
You should probably establish residence in a state that doesn't collect state income tax. Nevada and Texas immediately come to mind.
You could live in Vegas and it's but a 45 minute flight to Los Angeles. They depart every 15 minutes like a goddam bus line.
LOL on living in Laguna Beach or Newport and commuting to Commerce to work. You obviously don't understand what a 45 mile drive in los angeles/orange counties is like.
I agree with OMG here, a state without state income tax is key if you want to stay in the US. However, you could always move abroad to Canada, Australia, or the UK were they don't have to report gambling winnings. I'm not sure how that would work since poker will be your primary job...hmmmmm. Welp, done thinking about that, I'm going to get a glazed donut. Good luck on your magic journey.
Well--not to be technical (but I will be)--establishing residency in Nevada or Texas and flying to LA to play big games and tournys at the Commerce--DOES NOT relieve you of California state income tax.
You see--the laws are--you pay tax in the state you EARNED IT--not live in.
A la--if you don't realize it--baseball players pay tax in every home city they appear--sick but true!
OH--and a ride from Laguna or Newport to Commerce everyday--is 1 million percent worth it when you get home everyday--you get used to the commutes there after a while (or kill yourself)
well if i lived in texas or nevada what percentage of the money i make online would have to be taxed? how much does federal and how would state take"obv none of in vegas or texas right?" and moving out of the states is not a concern.. most of my poker income will be made online and not live
or understand what keeping cost of living down means.
i'd say las vegas is a good bet, it's cheap and no state income tax. toronto might be a second choice, though i have no idea how expensive life is there.
Florida.. no state tax... beautiful weather.. hot broads.. and cheaper than Vegas, and obviously much cheaper than LA
I can't believe we're even debating this. If you're a serious poker player, you must move to Las Vegas. No state taxes, relatively affordable housing, and more action than you can handle. It's the reason I moved here.
Besides, once you move here, you'll find the live games are alot easier than the online games. It's the reason I moved here a year ago and has been the best move of my life.
well angel i respect that this is the first post u have ever made on pocketfives so ya vegas must be the place to be if ur gonna play poker for a living
you could always go overseas to a low cost lace. i know several pros who play from thailand. i would do some research before you jump to vegas right away. i know there was a thread about this on 2+2 awhile ago, ill try nd find it
any p5ers that play from thailand that u know that might be able to tell me alittle about that?
My suggestion is that if you have a chance to move to someplace you can play live, that would be best for your whole game.
Los Angeles is the best. There are tons of poker rooms, they don't have vegas style gambling, so you're treated well by staff. It's only a 1 Hr. flight from Las Vegas. Puts you an hour or less away from 80% of the WPT and WSOP events. Also, consistently runs many more middle to big limits games than vegas does (vegas poker rooms cater to highrollers or tourists). Very short waits for the right limit and game. Much bigger variety of games and limits spread. Less "distractions" for your bank roll.... ok they're there, but they're less obvious. Let's not forget the glorious weather. Women aren't the rake (few places can compare with LA for this category), scraping ice off your windshield is. lol.
One consideration for Las Vegas though is that in Vegas, until you get very high up in limits (100-200 or higher), the games are much softer than in Los Angeles. In LA the tourists don't play poker, so you have to beat the regulars. Also, Vegas is much cheaper to live in.
Hope that helps,
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Bollywood Badshah and the undisputed king Shahrukh Khan who has millions of fans spread across the globe, he is all set to play one in his upcoming film 'Fan', to be directed by Maneesh Sharma of 'Band Baaja Baarat' fame for Yash Raj banner.
The 48-year-old actor said the role is a tribute to his admirers. "Most of the characters I do are the ones I create… for the first time I am going to play what has created me…I will be in my next a 'FAN'," Shah Rukh tweeted.
"'FAN' is a 'family film'. It's the family all of you have become for me… the one I didn't have. I want to be as beautiful as you all. Thanx (sic)," he added.
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British and Brazilian companies to install bioethanol demo plant in Guyana
21 November 2012
London-based Whitefox Technologies, together with its Brazil-based partner Green, have secured a bioethanol contract with the Guyanan Government. The two will install the units for a bioethanol demonstration plant at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) Albion Sugar Factory, and will be delivering a turnkey unit early next year.
Completely reliant on imported oil as a key source of energy, the Government of Guyana, through its Agriculture Sector Development Unit (ASDU), is turning to bioethanol as a source of fuel.
The project is supported by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). As part of the development of its Climate Change Strategy the IDB has identified sustainable biofuels as a priority area. After detailed studies it was concluded that locally produced biofuels could have a positive impact in Guyana. Whitefox Technologies will provide the dehydration technology for the first small scale bioethanol facility in Guyana.
Guyana is the largest country of the Caribbean Community and is well-suited for bioenergy production given its abundance of sun, water, and available land. The feedstock for bioethanol production in Guyana will initially be molasses (from sugar cane), but other bioenergy feedstock will be explored.
Sugar cane is one of Guyana's main commodities, responsible for approximately 20% of its annual revenue and 40% of all agricultural production.
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Thank you to everyone who helped to make the Friends of the Library book sale a success once again. New this year was a silent auction of an older title. It brought in $22.00. The final count has not yet been tallied, but I think we did even better than last year. A book dealer from Paynesville hauled the left-over books out and then the DAC recycled the rest.
The Summer Reading Program is done! We would like to thank all of the area businesses who helped make it a success: Common Cup, Dairy Queen, Johns Total Entertainment, Morris Friends of the Library, Morris Community Education, Pamida, Pizza Hut, Pizza Ranch, Regional Fitness Center, Thrifty White Drug Store, and Willies Super Valu. What a lot of fun it was. We brought in three special entertainers, plus a story time by Mother Goose.
Lunch Bunch was on Wednesdays and this year, Book Bunch read BFG, by Roald Dahl. We had a nice turn-out for the Mad Scientists Club. Thank you to the many volunteers and instructors who made it possible. During four Fridays we showed movies. There were word scrambles, guessing jars, crafts activities and drawing galore to keep the kids busy. Come see all the stars, moons, and clouds on the library walls. Each image represents a completed log of books read by/to a child. There were 466 kids who participated this year with 40 who won books.
We are taking a break from story time in August...our next story time will be Sept. 6.
Ride 'N Read Day at the State Fair is Wednesday, Aug. 29. Bring your Minnesota library card for discounted admission. But in the meantime, see you at the Stevens County Fair!
The library display case for August features a collection of lighthouses that Irene Hagen has collected. If you have something you would like to display, contact the library at (320) 589-1634 for details.
Our online catalog and circulation system will be down for three days, August 14 - 16 for a system upgrade. The library will remain open and you are able to check-out materials, but no items will be checked-in during this time. We appreciate your understanding and patience during the upgrade.
Thanks to the Viking Library System, the library received a bump up in broadband access to five Mbps. Hopefully our computers will run a little faster now.
Gail Hockert is a new library board member, taking over for Ruth Roquitte, who resigned.
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Heart & Soul, 2008
Circle of Friends, 2008
Nights of Rain and Stars, 2004
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For the third time in his 12-year MLS career, Josh Wolff will be playing for a new team.
After starting his career with the Chicago Fire back in 1998, Wolff's second stop was Kansas City, with a stint in Germany sandwiched in the middle. On Wednesday, he was acquired in the Re-Entry Draft, and will call Washington his home in 2011.
For Wolff, it's a change of scenery and a chance to help turn around D.C. United, a club coming off one of its worst seasons in club history. The 33-year-old is optimistic about his new club — and the new season.
"I look forward to getting there," Wolff told MLSsoccer.com. "It will be a big challenge, but that's every season. As you know, there's a lot of parity, so if you can make some moves and make a team better, obviously you can get off to a decent start and things can kind of fall your way throughout the season."
Bringing in Wolff, an accomplished MLS striker with a decent international pedigree, is one of several moves United have made this offseason. DC also acquired forward Joseph Ngwenya in the first day of the Re-Entry Draft and brought in midfielder Dax McCarty in an Expansion Draft day trade with the Portland Timbers.
After the departure of Jaime Moreno, midfielder Santino Quaranta remains the longest tenured member of the Black-and-Red on the current roster. The addition of Wolff is expected to not only add to the offense but to also help a team with talented young players improve and raise their level of play.
"For me, it's about being part of a team that's growing — certainly putting my stamp on it in the way that I can within the group, but mainly to help everyone get better," Wolff said.
Quaranta showed enthusiasm for the acquisition of not only Wolff, but his other new teammates and the sort of impact they could have in the nation's capital. "Guys have to understand that the culture's going to change a little bit in the locker room," Quaranta told MLSsoccer.com "Accepting losses is not going to be good enough, and I feel like last year if we lost, people weren't affected as much as a guy like Josh, and myself and Dax will be. [Wolff] is a leader and he's somebody that will certainly help us."
Like many other players who have been around the block at a high level, Wolff has a lot of previous experience playing both with and against Ben Olsen. The two played alongside each other for the national team at the youth and senior levels, specifically at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and 2006 World Cup.
Next season, the roles will be a little bit different as Olsen will be Wolff's coach, entrusting his veteran striker to be a vocal leader on a young team.
"I suspect our relationship will work differently," Wolff said. "Obviously, as a player and a coach, most of those relationships take on different paths. But it's something that [Olsen] has the expectation of me coming in and being a voice and a presence in the group, and working with the younger guys and with the older guys."
Now in the later stages of his career, Wolff acknowledged that being the elder statesman is an important intangible for a team to have. Back in 1998, when he came into the league with the Fire, the wealth of experience that club possessed buoyed the rookie.
"When you have a group of guys like we had – it was a number of guys, 28, 30, 35, it makes a big impact on young players," Pontius said. "When I was 20 years old, I had the likes of Chris Armas, Frank Klopas, Peter Nowak and Ante Razov."
Twelve years later, those roles will be reversed, with Wolff now playing the role of mentor and leader to young attacking players like Chris Pontius, and Andy Najar in particular. Pontius, currently rehabbing an injury that plagued his 2010 campaign in California, can't wait to play alongside someone with Wolff's experience.
"He's someone that I can learn a lot from being an attacking player, and in a lot of other areas," he said. "As a young player, you're always looking for guidance and direction, and I think that's what [he] can provide for us."
The holidays are closing in on DC, and the next two weeks will be slow. But Wolff will be in town next week, searching for a place to live. Bringing a large family that is looking forward to be moving to a new place, he hopes to be settled shortly after the New Year.
"DC's a great city with a lot to offer, and my family's excited about it," he said. "I have four kids: three boys and a daughter – so as a group we're very excited about seeing a new part of the country, and obviously continuing to play soccer and enjoying that aspect as well."
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New rules: The eject button becomes a thing
A personal foul on a 'defenseless' player now means 15 yards and goodbye
You already knew the NCAA has player safety engraved on its letterhead.
This is a touchy topic. A lot of folks like the game the way it is and want it to stay as "football" as possible. But the growing evidence of long-term health issues (particularly brain health) is an ongoing story that pins a new headline on the board every year.
Thursday, the NCAA's Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a new rule that requires players who target and contact defenseless players above the shoulders to be ejected. This is effective for the 2013 season. The change increases the on-field penalty for targeting by adding the automatic ejection to the existing 15-yard penalty.
This begs the eternal question, "What is a defenseless player?" Also, what is malicious contact? There is subjectivity here. The "you know it when you see it" makes sense in theory, but you can't write that in a rule book with a straight face.
By the way, here is the NCAA's definition for a "defenseless player":
Defenseless Player
ARTICLE 14. A defenseless player is one who because his physical position and focus of concentration is especially vulnerable to injury. Examples of defenseless players are:
a. A player in the act of or just after throwing a pass.
b. A receiver whose focus is on catching a pass.
c. A kicker in the act of or just after kicking a ball.
d. A kick returner whose focus is on catching or recovering a kick in the
e. A player on the ground at the end of a play.
f. A player obviously out of the play
The kicker with this new rule is this:�If the foul occurs in the first half of a game, the player is ejected for the remainder of the game. If the foul occurs in the second half or overtime of a game, the player is ejected for the remainder of the game and the first half of the next contest.
The ejection portion of this penalty will be reviewable on video replay. The replay official must have conclusive evidence that a player shouldn't be ejected to overturn the call on the field. Also, postgame conference review remains in play, meaning the conference can add to the suspension or reduce it if warranted.
There is another new rule for blocking below the waist. It focuses on the block itself and will allow these blocks by stationary players in typical line play.
So, cut blocks are still cool on the line of scrimmage.
The oversight panel�denied the Football Rules Committee�s proposal to require an institution�s jersey or pant color to be different from the field of play, citing concerns that it did not enhance the image of the game.
Boise State's blue jerseys on its blue turf are A-OK.
The panel denied a proposal to move the down and distance markers to the other side of the field for the second half.
Other approved rules:
--�To add a 10-second runoff with less than a minute remaining in either half when the sole reason for the clock stoppage is because of injury.
If you hit the turf thinking you're saving your team time and a timeout, it's going to cost 10 seconds. Even if you're really hurt.
--�To establish three seconds as the minimum amount of time required to be on the game clock in order to spike the ball to stop the clock. If one or two seconds remain on the clock, there is only time for the offense to run one more play.
I don't get this one. A clock stoppage is a clock stoppage no matter when it comes. The clock doesn't start again until the ball is snap, however much time is left on the clock. Suddenly, the three-second mark carries a much bigger meaning.
EDIT: Ahh, this makes sense now. ESPN.com Big Ten blogger Adam Rittenberg talked to Bill Carollo, the Big Ten director of officials. Carollo said this three-second thing stems from the 2012 Rose Bowl, when UW QB Russell Wilson tried and failed to spike a ball with two seconds left on the clock. So, a spike now has a time limit on it. Has to be at least three seconds. Makes sense now. Sorry for being dense earlier.
Here's the video of it:
--�To require a player that changes numbers during the game to report this to the referee, who will announce it.
This ridiculousness started with USC and Lane Kiffin last season. It remains ridiculous. This should already have been a rule.
--�To preclude multiple players from the same team from wearing the same uniform number (for example, two quarterbacks on the same team are not allowed to have the same number).
There are 105 players. This doesn't add up, unless it's cool for special teamers to have the same number as a QB or anyone else.
EDIT: Defensive coordinators usually sit in the press box and don't know which No. 5 is the No. 5 with the 4.5, so they've complained and this is the result. I agree with this. It's chicanery.
--�To allow the use of electronic communication by the on-field officiating crew (the practice was used successfully on an experimental basis by the Southeastern Conference). This is a permissive rule and not a requirement.
I didn't know the SEC did this last season. Interesting.
--�To allow instant replay to adjust the clock at the end of each quarter. Previously, this provision was in place only for the end of each half.
The big value here is that it gets kind of windy in Big Ten land in the fall.
--�To clarify uniform rules as follows: �Jerseys must have clearly visible, permanent Arabic numerals measuring at least 8 and 10 inches in height front and back, respectively, and be of one solid color that itself is clearly in distinct contrast with the color of the jersey, irrespective of any border around the number.� This rule goes into effect for Football Bowl Subdivision teams in 2013. Football Championship Subdivision, Division II and Division III teams will have until 2014 before the rule becomes effective.Hi, Oregon.
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Astronomers have discovered an object in space that might be a black hole catapulted out of a galaxy. Or, according to an alternative interpretation, it might be a giant star that is exploding over an exceptionally long period of several decades. In any case, one thing is certain: This mysterious object is something quite unique, a source of fascination for physicists the world over because of its potential to provide experimental confirmation of the much-discussed gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein.
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Observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope have revealed alignments over the largest structures ever discovered in the universe. A research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light-years. Also found was that the rotation axes of these quasars tend to be aligned with the structures in the cosmic web in which they reside.
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The everyday use of a GPS device might be to find your way around town or even navigate a hiking trail, but for two physicists, the Global Positioning System might be a tool in directly detecting and measuring dark matter, so far an elusive but ubiquitous form of matter responsible for the formation of galaxies.
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When two detectors are switched on in the US next year, researchers hope their research will help pick up the faint ripples of black hole collisions millions of years ago, known as gravitational waves.
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One of the mysteries of the Universe is the question of how all the galaxies we see around us came to be. Astronomers have now uncovered new insights into the processes that have shaped galaxies, using the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope.
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Astronomers have provided the first direct evidence that an intergalactic 'wind' is stripping galaxies of star-forming gas as they fall into clusters of galaxies. The observations help explain why galaxies found in clusters are known to have relatively little gas and less star formation when compared to non-cluster or 'field' galaxies.
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Chloromethane discovered on the Red Planet possibly comes from the Martian soil - meteorites probably provided its carbon and hydrogen.
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First time laboratory detection of silicon and nitrogen-terminated carbon chain molecules could help astronomers get a more complete picture of interstellar chemistry.
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Astronomers are announcing today the discovery of two unusual objects in comet-like orbits that originate in the Oort cloud but with almost no activity, giving scientists a first look at their surfaces. These results are particularly intriguing because the surfaces are different from what astronomers expected.
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I received an email on 6/11/12 from Ann Mesnikoff of The Sierra Club, the first I have received in a while about the Keystone XL pipeline. It appears that there may be another hostage taking in the works by republicans in Congress to get the pipeline extensions approved. This time, they are seeking to attach the Keystone XL provisions and other anti-environmental regulation provisions to the transportation bill ... all this to please their owners (i.e. donors), the big oil and big coal industry. Here we go again !
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No matter what the climate is like where you live, keeping the temperature comfortable inside your car often means battling foggy windows. If you live in a climate with cold winters, staying warm in your chilly car means turning on the heater — and battling the resultant fog on the inside of your windows. In warm, humid areas, turning on the AC can cause the opposite issue — fog blurring your windows from the outside.
The reason for foggy windows has to do with temperature and the air's moisture content. On a cold day, any moisture in the air inside your car — from passengers exhaling, from snow on your boots, etc. — turns to condensation when it hits air next to the windows that's below a certain temperature, called the dew point. The condensation is what makes your car's windows appear foggy. On a hot, humid day, the opposite happens, when the muggy air outside your car reaches the dew point against your windshield after it's cooled by your AC system.
Whether the fog is on the inside or the outside of your windows, any time you can't see clearly in all directions, it's dangerous. So, it's important to know how to make sure your windows are clear — no matter the weather.
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Chartway's Blum Testifying on Interchange Bill
Chartway Federal Credit Union Vice President of Operations John Blum is scheduled to testify Wednesday in opposition to legislation that would place additional restrictions on interchange fees.
Blum, who is testifying on behalf of NAFCU and the Electronics Payment Coalition, will appear before the House Judiciary Committee to discuss legislation proposed by Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) to allow retailers to join together to negotiate with Visa and MasterCard on interchange rates. To facilitate that, the bill would give the retailers a limited exemption to anti-trust laws.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. and can be viewed at: http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_100428.html