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TOLEDO, Ohio, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Dei Fratelli, a preferred tomato brand sold throughout the United States, announces its third annual Ripened Recipe Contest. The national cooking competition will take place from October 1 through November 30. The tomato product company is hosting the contest again in celebration of National Tomato Month this October and to encourage at-home chefs to get creative with one of nature's healthiest fruits.
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Christian Care Ministry takes a unique approach to tackling individual and family health care expenses — one that has created some controversy in states like Kentucky. Available exclusively to Christians, the organization is more of a collective support system than a traditional health care company.
Of particular note, the group's Medi-Share program allows participants to assist one another by sharing medical bills. On its web site, Christian Care makes it clear, though, that the program is "not insurance."
While individuals can count on definitive action on behalf of insurance companies to pay their bills, the organization offers health care coverage in what it describes as a "non-guaranteed basis."
"Health insurance comes with a contractual guarantee to pay your medical bills," the group's web site reads. "For over 19 years our members have been faithfully sharing medical bills on a non-guaranteed basis, trusting the Lord to provide in their time of need through the voluntary gifts of other like-minded Christians."
Christian Care ministries describes how the system works in detail:
Medi-Share brings believers together to share each other's healthcare costs. It's a modern-day version of what the church started back in the book of Acts.
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Each month, your share is matched with another's eligible medical bills. Christian Care Ministry facilitates the direct sharing of medical costs between members and provides you with a secure online way to see who you are sharing with so you can pray for and encourage them.
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Then, those enrolled in the Christian Care coverage receive benefits based on the outline presented on the group's web site. Here's a look at how an individual participating in the program would be billed:
In a recent interview with HuffPo Live, Robert Baldwin, national policy director with the program, explained its purpose in detail.
"It's a program that's existed since 1993 and really what it does is it strives to bring together like-minded people in a program that allows them to share their resources with one another in those times of financial challenge," he said.
Baldwin described the effort as working like a co-op. While one is paying insurance premiums to a company in exchange for an obligation that they cover medical bills, as noted, this is different.
"We're an organization that brings people together — very different than insurance because there aren't any guarantees," Baldwin said. "For the last 20 years, we have facilitated the sharing of close to half a billion dollars…of medical bills and so it's a program that works."
While he claims that it functions well, the Medi-Share staffer admits, "It's probably not for everyone."
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According to Baldwin, the insurance co-op system has an exemption from insurance laws in a large portion of U.S. states. Additionally, it has an exemption from the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare). But, as the organization's past battle with Kentucky shows, some states may not be willing to allow the company to operate within their borders.
A Kentucky judge blocked Medi-Share back in Oct. 2011, claiming that it doesn't comply with insurance regulations. At the center of the 10-year battle was the notion that some Christians buying into the plan may have mistakenly believed that they were purchasing insurance that would bring them hospitalization coverage.
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County offers $100 for DUI reports
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A Florida county is offering $100 rewards to motorists who report drunken drivers to the authorities.
Palm Beach County officials said the Mobile Eyes program, which began in 2001, has experienced a drop in participation, with only 17 rewards handed out this year as compared to the usual 30 or 40 per year. So officials are spreading word of the rewards in an attempt to increase participation, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Monday.
The program awards $100 to people who report drunken drivers if the reported motorist is arrested on a driving under the influence charge.
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Investigators said Kenneth Plummer, 26, broke into a Boynton Beach nail salon and made off with $600 cash, but left his cellphone behind at the scene, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Monday.
Plummer was seen counting his money while eating breakfast at the Boynton Diner, next door to the salon.
Police said Plummer was busted later in the day after a homeowner allegedly caught him trying to break into an occupied dwelling.
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CERES, Calif., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Marc Mondavi, a California winery operator, has a new vocation, water-witching, and is called upon to find ground water for local wineries, using copper rods.
"You either have it or you don't," Mondavi, 58, says of the skill that takes him to neighboring vineyards in northern California to find places, without the aid of science, to dig industrial-size wells. "If you have it, you have to take time to develop it."
Although no scientific evidence exists to support the practice of using sticks or metal rods to divine the presence of underground water, dowsing, or water witching, has been used since the 15th century, and is still a common practice in rural America, the San Francisco Chronicle said Monday.
"Some water exists under the Earth's surface almost everywhere. This explains why many dowsers are successful," a statement from the U.S. Geological Survey says.
Mondavi, whose late uncle, Robert, made California wine famous and, with his brother Robert Jr., is responsible for day-to-day operation of the Charles Krug Winery, has become the local industry's go-to person for finding water.
After saying, "Find water," to two copper rods he was holding, Mondavi walked down a row of grape vines, until the rods began to move, then crossed over each other, the newspaper said.
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The Monroe County Sheriff's Office said a deputy visited the home of Michael Csernik, 77, in the Keys RV Park in Marathon Saturday when neighbors complained about a large number of cars coming and going from his home and said they suspected him of selling drugs.
The deputy left when there was no answer at Csernik's door.
However, the deputy returned about an hour later when Csernik called the sheriff's office to complain about his neighbors taking pictures of the cars visiting his home.
When asked about why the cars were stopping at his home, Csernik said he had a lot of friends.
Csernik and his 51-year-old son, who was sitting on the front steps when the deputy arrived, consented to a search of the home and deputies discovered the marijuana in several plastic bags along with a scale.
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inVentiv launches FlightPath commercialisation service
In the decade or more it takes to move a promising candidate from the lab to the clinic it can easy for firms to become focus on the complexities of the development process and push back the creation a commercialisation strategy until launch time looms.
This phenomenon, coupled with the recent trend among pharmaceutical firms to shed in-house sales teams, has created significant demand for specialist marketeers who can work with drug firms earlier in the development process.
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Hi. I am planning my trip to Netherlands in April 2014. If I make Rotterdam as my base, is it possible for me to visit Kinderdijk (windmills) and Keukenhof (tulips) in one day? I intend to take public transport and no bicycle or car. If yes, what are the best routes? Thank you.
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Kinderdijk and Keukenhof in 1 day?
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KInderdijk will take you half a day, then about 2 hours travel all in all to Keukenhof, so say you'd do Kinderdijk in the morning, head back to Rotterdam, take train to Haarlem, then go to Keukenhof, you'd arrive there at about 3 PM. Seems pretty rushed to me.
Kinderdijk: don't do the river cruise, but take the High Speed ferry from the Willemsplein pier, get off at Ridderkerk and take the connecting ferry to Kinderdijk.
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You would not take the train from Rotterdam to Haarlem as that would take you smack right by the Keukenhof (no station there) and then you'd have to backtrack on a bus from Haarlem - far better take a train from Rotterdam to Leiden then hop the special shuttle buses that go constantly from Leiden train station to the gardens - avoid weekends IME if possible for a more relaxed visit.
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PalenQ is right on about starting at the Leiden train station. You want to take Connexxion bus #54 - they offer a combination bus/Keukenhof ticket.
If you have time while in Leiden, you can visit the Molen de Valk, a lovely windmill museum conveniently located within a 5 minute walk from the train station. (Look left while exiting the station - you can't miss the windmill.) You can tour all 7 floors of the Molen de Valk (falcon), starting with the caretakers home/office on the first floor, then on to the outside deck on the 4th(?) floor, which wraps around the entire molen and offers a great view of Leiden.
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Thanks all. After Kinderdijk in the morning, must I head back to Rotterdam for my trip to Keukenhof in the afternoon? Is there another way?
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Cool! I thought there was a faster busservice from Haarlem. (Note: Leiden, 30 minutes by train from Rotterdam, Haarlem 40)
Keukenhof express is now bus 854 from Leiden.
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Your question about heading back to Rotterdam: yes, you must. If it we're me, I'd do them on separate days and combine Keukenhof with Leiden, The Hague or Haarlem and Kinderdijk with Dordrecht (one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands and cradle of Dutch calvinism. It's a beautiful city and the ferry ride up and down river is interesting.
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Thanks menachem, will make a detailed search on this.
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Hi again. After searching, there is another place to see windmills named zaanse schans. Should I pursue going to Kinderdijk which is UNESCO heritage or just go to a tourist area? It may be more convenient to make Amsterdam a base?
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Zaanse Schans is the 2nd largest grouping of behemoth wooden windmills in Holland and is right on Amsterdam's doorstep - short train ride to Koog Zaandijk then short walk to the area - windmills clustered around waterways and there is also a museum of life in the Zuider Zee area - all told not as impressive as Kinderdijk but still awesome and you can tour at least one mill that will be open.
I would make Amsterdam your base and do Zaans Schans and Keukenhof in the same day - this way you could go to Haarlem and take the bus from there to Keukenhof, going smack thru the flower fields to get there (from Leiden the bus does not go thru many flower fields) - return via Leiden to Amsterdam.
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Great! I would love to see the flower fields too! Thanks.
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Kinderdijk and Keukenhof in 1 day?
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Hi. I am planning my trip to Netherlands in April 2014. If I make Rotterdam as my base, is it possible for me to visit Kinderdijk (windmills) and Keukenhof (tulips) in one day? I intend to take public transport and no bicycle or car. If yes, what are the best routes? Thank you.
Looks like Pal has persuaded you to see Zaanse Schans. I agree. You can climb around inside a working windmill there. The best way to see the flower fields is to go Dutch, by bike. Since you don't want to bike, the bus from Haarlem will have to do. Here is my photolog of a bike trip from Haarlem http://tinyurl.com/5nwqzp. It is a very easy ride. You'll also see most of this from a bus window.
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spaarne,your pictures look so real, make me eager to be there.
I am still searching around. I found out today my companion has been to Zaanse Schans last year. Guess I shall skip it and pursue Kinderdijk. I am considering Utrecht my base after the Keukenhof visit.
Thanks all.
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You can take the train via Haarlem to Hillegom then walk a few miles - tiptoe perhaps thru the flower fields - well on back roads along them - I did this en route to the Keukenhof and it was as much of a treat as the gardens and exposition itself.
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Gouda would make a sweet smaller town base for Kinderdijk - just about 10 miles or so to the south.
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I'll second Gouda, if not for a base, definitely for a visit. It's a quaint little town which has a charming Stadhuis on the Marketplein, complete with a mechanical figure carillon on the side of the building, which, every half hour, enacts the town receiving it's charter.
Then there's St. Janskerk, which has over 60 beautiful stained glass windows, dating from the 1500's through the present, depicting bible stories and the history of the Netherlands. The story of how the windows were preserved during WWII is quite interesting.
Utrecht is a much larger university town, but it has a nice old centrum. The Dom is most impressive, and if you dare to climb the 465 steps of the Domtoren you'll have a great view of Utrecht and it's surroundings. The Mechanical Clock Museum is interesting, if you're into that kind of thing, and has much more to offer than just clocks (musical instruments, etc).
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Utrecht's Dom's tour uniquely was built on a foundation of cow hides I read!
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Pal - Can you please elaborate on the "foundation of cow hides"? You have sparked my interest...
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Well in a former life I was a travel writer specializing in European travel and wrote an article on Utrecht - a city with many many neat places - eclectic places - and when researching the cathedral I read in one reliable source that when the church tower was thrown up they put a ton of cow hides under it as a foundation - now would use cement of course and probably has been shored up. Google was not my friend when trying now, years later to, document this!
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Wow! I will definitely look into your suggestions!
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Utrecht - Kinderdijk is "a trip around the world" as we say in Dutch. Your fastest option then is to take the train to Rotterdam (45 minutes), take tram to Willemsplein to take the higsh speed ferry, etc.
Gouda - Kinderdijk, same thing, take train to Rotterdam, etc. (train takes 15 minutes to Rotterdam)
Rotterdam as a base seems the better option - sorry.
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We have two girls Mhairi and Fiona. I am loving the name Evan. My husband likes it too but it's the name of one of his best friends so he's worried it might seem weird. Do you think it's weird to give your child the same name as a close friend? I can't relate since none of my friends have names I like so I'm not sure if I'd feel weird doing it! Does Evan sound good w/ Mhairi and Fiona? I suggested Owen as well but he didn't like. And of these combos which sounds best:
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Casement 'farce' claim after Sinn Fein Sports Minister Ni Chuilin walks out
A Stormont committee chair said the Casement Park inquiry "has been turned into a farce" after the Sports Minister dramatically walked out, accusing him of bias and objecting to being placed under oath.
Caral Ni Chuilin refused to answer committee questions yesterday after making an extensive statement on a safety controversy around the proposed redevelopment of the GAA ground in west Belfast.
Chairman Nelson McCausland said the minister's behaviour was a "stunt" - but he added that it "may well say more about culpability than anything that could have been said in answer to questions".
Ms Ni Chuilin's appearance at the Culture, Arts and Leisure (CAL) committee came after allegations were made in January that she was aware of safety concerns around the stadium plans as far back as 2012.
In an unusual move, the Sinn Fein representative had been asked to give evidence to MLAs under sworn oath.
Ms Ni Chuilin, who swore on the Bible ahead of making her statement, accused Mr McCausland of singling her out.
She also insisted she would not take questions unless all other witnesses to the committee's stadium safety inquiry were also questioned under oath.
Ms Ni Chuilin has long insisted she only became aware of the concerns when safety expert Paul Scott told the committee in April 2015 - a claim reiterated yesterday.
Mr Scott said the stadium envisaged in plans could not be emptied safely in an emergency and warned of a similar situation to the Hillsborough tragedy.
The GAA's efforts to develop the old stadium site have been mired in controversy, with initial planning approval for a 38,000-capacity venue quashed by the High Court in 2014 following a challenge by nearby residents.
The CAL committee launched an investigation into the redevelopment plans after Mr Scott informed members of his safety concerns.
Ms Ni Chuilin and the Gaelic Athletic Association have both insisted they acted correctly throughout the design process.
The hearing at Parliament Buildings was suspended for around 10 minutes in the wake of the ministerial walk-out.
When it returned, Mr McCausland claimed the Assembly had never before witnessed such behaviour from a minister.
"While the minister is entitled legally not to answer any questions, everyone else is entitled to draw their own conclusions from that," he said.
"The fact that she wouldn't answer any questions on any matter or on any aspect of this issue will raise further questions in many, many minds as to why she won't.
"In the context of something that has never happened before in this Assembly, of a minister walking out and refusing to answer questions, and thereby thwarting the democratic process and democratic scrutiny by elected representatives, and by treating the committee in the contemptuous way and shameful way we were treated this morning, I think the word stunt is probably an understatement."
Referring to the present inquiry into safety at Casement Park, Mr McCausland added that the process "has been turned into a farce this morning".
William Humphrey of the DUP said it was unprecedented that the minister had left without answering questions and said it was "the latest in a string of discourtesies extended to this committee by the minister and the department".
The GAA wants to build a new stadium on its existing grounds at Casement Park, but the multi-million pound project has been beset with problems and delays. Its planning permission was overturned last year.
The Culture, Arts and Leisure committee is conducting an inquiry into whether "appropriate consideration was given to plans for emergency exiting during the design process".
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Nothing going on, just felt like posting some pictures.
Went to the range on Saturday to swap rear sights on my match rifles.
I seem to have a preference for the Winchester M70 action. The top rifle is a 30-06 Winchester Target I believe was made in the late 1970s. The lower one is a Model 70 action in .223 with a Hart barrel, jewell trigger, and Master Class stock.
I installed this Zelenak rear sight on the newer rifle. It has a Gehman diopter. This rifle shoots sub-moa groups with the ammunition I've tried so far, including surplus 62 grain SS109 and 69 grain match ammo from PRVI and Fiocchi. I'm going to have to put a shorter front sight riser block on this rifle as it is at the topmost limit of it's elevation adjustment but still hitting 6 inches low at 100 yards.
I put this Redfield International sight on the classic Winchester. It just looks "right" there. This rifle was further customized by a riflesmith (though he doesn't really call himself that) named Langley near Ironton, Ohio. He installed a Jewell trigger and tuned it to a lightness of pull I can only categorize as "scary". Langley's sport of choice is rimfire benchrest, so I suspect the hair trigger is a result of his preferences. The rifle is both conventionally bedded and pillar bedded.
Hardly a scratch on it.
The old-timer can still shoot. That is two seperate three shot groups at 100 yards with 1961 Lake City national match ammo. The lower group was 0.77 inches from edge to edge. The upper group was measured more conventionally from outer edge of hole to inner edge of the furthest hole for a center to center group size estimation. It was 0.58 inches.
I'm probably going to retire the 30-06 and switch to just the .223 for quicker shot to shot recovery speed and lighter, less flinch-inducing recoil (hey, even Tubb complained about the .308!). Probably end up selling it so I can get a dishwasher or something for my new house...
Once you've got your sights adjusted to the ammunition you have, step away from the bench. In competition or the field...there are no benches.
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A man after my own heart. I have 4 match rifles that were stocked by Alex Sitman. A true artist. He even took a rimfire prone stock and reworked it into a tiny prone rife for my wife. Howard
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I was in the plumbing department of the hardware store this weekend and put this together. (the can of red spray paint I had at home)
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Love the guns. All I have is your basic service rifle AR. It looks like an AR so no pic.
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All nice pics! I'll try to get a couple pics tomorrow to add to the -CENSORED--CENSORED--CENSORED--CENSORED-. I still have a foot of snow here, so its a nice diversion.
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OK, I'm no photographer so give me a break. I have a couple Palma rifles I'll post. For those that don't know what Palma is... its .308 155gr bullet, shot from a rifle with iron sights, prone, no rifle rest or bi-pod alowed, but a sling is. The match is 3 stages, shot at 800, 900, and 1000 yards. The Midwest Palma adds a 1200 yard stage.
This is a Barnard action, Mastin off-set stock, Krieger 12 twist barrel, put together by Mac Tilton
This is a Sprotco action, McMillen stock, Boots Obemeyer 13 twist barrel, built by Alan Warner.
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Congrats to Grady High School freshman Dhruv Mehra! Dhruv created the winning design for the COUNTRY Financial® reusable bag design contest for Peachtree Road Farmers Market. His artwork, depicting the delicate balance between life and living green encompassed within a peach, perfectly captures the spirit of this year's theme Live, Love, Be Green.
Dhruv Mehra will receive a $1,000 scholarship from COUNTRY Financial. Peggy Pierre and Aydreon Wynn, both students at Mundy Mill's High School, were named runners-up. Each will receive a $500 scholarship.
The winner and runners-up were announced during the opening day of Peachtree Road Farmers Market on April 11. Shoppers can pick up this year's limited edition reusable canvas bags at select markets throughout the season.
"Dhruv's artwork is a beautiful commentary on how our lives are intrinsically intertwined with the earth. It is an elegant reminder for us to lead lives that respect and nurture the environment," says Tim Richardson, COUNTRY Financial agency manager.
This is the third year COUNTRY Financial has sponsored the bag design contest.
"We are thrilled to see shoppers come back each year, and we know it's because they value the hard work and quality products our local farmers bring. They love the reusable canvas bag, especially since it is designed by a local student and a reminder of what the market is all about," says Lauren Carey, Peachtree Road Farmers market manager.
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Cycling: Upholding his family's values
Cycling and the Tour de France have always been part of Dan Martin's destiny
Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve. – Jessica Brody, 'The Karma Club'
Dan Martin is sitting in a hotel room near his home in Girona, Spain with his father, Neil, and his mother, Maria. Two hours of the interview have passed, and we have ticked most of the boxes.
The Tour.
The Alpe.
His team.
That uncle.
But not the karma. We have not addressed the twist in his tale.
The question is directed to his father. "What if I was to suggest that Dan is your revenge on this world?"
Neil Martin laughs and shakes his head. It's a laugh that suggests: 'I know exactly where you're going with this.' It's a laugh that suggests: 'And there's a chance you may be right.' It's a laugh that suggests: 'But you'll be waiting a long time if you expect me to answer that.' So you smile and let it slide. Because anyone who has ever known this 53-year-old mild-mannered Englishman will tell you that he has never done revenge.
But if he did . . .
Part 1:
His father's life
In the beginning, there was an electrical engineer from Birmingham, whose only working joy was the eight miles he cycled to the local GEC plant each morning, and the road he travelled home. Vic Martin was passionate about cycling and competed at grass track meetings all over England at weekends, supported by his wife, Joy, and their sons, Paul and Neil.
Paul wasn't fussed about racing but little Neil dreamt of little else and plastered his bedroom wall with posters of the great Belgian, Roger De Vlaeminck. "I started racing at 13 and absolutely lived for it," he says. "I wanted to be a pro. I wanted to be like de Vlaeminck – covered in shit riding Paris-Roubaix."
He wasn't built for racing on cobblestones; small, handsome and impeccably neat, his was the perfect frame for climbing and he achieved his first notable at the ESCA (English Schools Cycling Association) International in Yorkshire in 1976 where the runner-up was another sweet 16-year-old called Stephen Roche. They were two kids shooting for the stars but it didn't stop them being friends and Roche was soon making trips to the Martin home in Birmingham.
Three years later, in February 1979, Martin was invited to join ACBB – the most famous amateur racing club in France and the nursery of the Peugeot professional team. The other signings were Phil Anderson, a highly-rated Australian, and Robert Millar, an enigmatic Scot, but Martin was first to strike with a brilliant win in the Grand Prix Des Issambres on the Cote D'Azur.
"I was still 18 and wasn't supposed to be in the race," he says. "They told me to take it easy, that this was my year to learn. They said, 'Next year you can come back and turn it on and go pro for Peugeot in '81'. I thought, 'Wow, this is it!' Then, (at the end of the year) they asked me if I knew anyone else who might want to come over and I said, 'Yeah, I know this Irish guy.'"
One of his last races that season was the 1979 Tour of Ireland. He was tired and didn't perform but returned home to Birmingham with a spring in his step. "It was the start of my relationship with Maria," he explains. "There used to be a 'do' after the race in the Gresham (hotel) and she invited me back for her 21st that December."
A month later, he was training hard and getting ready to return to France but still hadn't heard from ACBB. "There was no email or anything at that time so I wrote a few letters but it was almost February and I'd heard nothing. I phoned every day for three days and eventually got hold of (Claude) Escalon (the manager). He said: 'We've no place for you. We've taken the Irish guy.' And that was it. I was out and Stephen was in."
Nineteen eighty was Olympic year: he decided to race at home to secure a place at the Games. In June, a month after a great performance (8th) in the Tour of Britain, he started his first Rás Tailteann and won the second stage to Strabane. "I told them (the race organisers) my grandad was Irish and rode for Dublin South," he grins.
"I was the only English rider in the race, and probably one of the first ever to ride it, and I'm standing on the podium in this border town, looking at all this barbed-wire and listening to (the announcer screaming): 'THIS IS THE ONLY ENGLISHMAN IN THE RACE'. We stayed in Derry that night and there was a bombing and a murder. I was shit-scared."
A month later, Maria travelled to Moscow for the Olympic Road race. Her brother finished 45th; her boyfriend was 49th but it was the last time the two would compete on level terms. Roche was bound for Paris and a glittering season at Peugeot: Martin was bound for Eindhoven and a disastrous year in the trenches.
"I got to Holland in '81 and was ill at the start of the season. I was working in a glass factory part-time and trying to race and it just fell apart. Mum and dad came over to visit for a weekend and mum was horrified, 'Look at the state of you' and they dragged me home. Then I was in contact with a team in Luxembourg and they offered me a place to stay. It was damp as hell and horrible – basically a cave with a door – but we went there in August of '81 and just fell in love with the place."
The 'we' was Maria. They married the following January and spent two years in Luxembourg, chasing Neil's dream until December of '84. He had won 12 races that year but it wasn't enough to secure a professional contract. "I contacted 27 (professional) teams by letter or verbal and had answers from two of them and they both said no. The closest I got was Sem-France-Loire with Seán (Kelly) but they were taking on a Dutch co-sponsor, Skil, the following year and took a Dutch guy instead."
"That must have been pretty dispiriting," I suggest.
He pauses to reflect and sighs: "It just . . . we have a mantra in this family that everything is meant for a reason and I look back now and think there probably was a reason in the light of what has come about. The doping thing did occur in those years, and I was very aware of it, and maybe they had seen that I wasn't prepared to do what perhaps you needed to do. But no regrets. We upped shop and went back for the UK and I turned pro with Bilton-Condor (a small British team) in 1985."
There was one regret; whenever people asked 'Have you done the Tour de France?' it always hurt him to say no. I ask about his brother-in-law and 1987.
"Where were you when Stephen won the Tour?"
"I won the Saltburn Classic that day," he smiles.
"You didn't watch it?"
"Where were you, Maria?"
"I was with Neil. We had our agenda, we lived in England."
"You didn't come home for the parade in Dublin?"
"No. A lot of it was the cost factor but at the end of the day, Stephen is only my brother, and I don't ever see him as anything other than that."
"We never really had much to do with him," Neil says. "I never really got to know him."
"But he's the reason you two met?" I suggest.
"Yeah, but even now we are not close," Neil says. "I don't get on with him, basically. There's no bitterness, none whatsoever, but from a family point of view he possibly could have helped my goal, my aim (to turn pro), a little bit more than he did, and that's retrospective as well with what happened to Lawrence. (In 1989, Roche secured a place for his brother, Lawrence with the Italian team, Carrera.) But it's all water under the bridge."
"Does it irritate you," I ask, "that Dan is often referred to as 'Stephen Roche's nephew?'''
"It's not an irritation because it's a reality," he replies.
Dan has been listening quietly in the background. "It's funny," he says, "but I did some radio interviews [recently in Dublin] and it was 'So, I suppose Stephen gave you lots of advice growing up?' But not one word, not once, never."
"He did have a massive, massive influence on Dan's career," Neil says, "because I wouldn't have met Maria without knowing him so . . ."
Dan laughs: "Exactly I wouldn't exist."
"That's a good way of spinning it," Maria smiles.
Part 2:
His mother's blood
Jonathan Vaughters has always thought outside the box when it comes to the business of recruiting for his teams. In the spring of 2007, two Irishmen entered his radar – Nicolas Roche and Daniel Martin. The bloodline was fascinating: Roche (23) was the son of a former world champion and Tour de France winner: Martin (21) was his cousin. For Vaughters, it was an absolute no-brainer – Daniel Martin was destined for greatness. Why? It was in his blood.
This is how he explains it: "Mitochondria, which is the energy factory for the body, is the single biggest genetic factor for determining great endurance athletes. More than heart size, lung size, haematocrit, whatever . . . mitochondrial DNA is only passed via the female.
"If you're a male, you have your mother's mitochondrial DNA, but it ends with you. Your son will not have it. So, Dan Martin has the same mitochondrial DNA as Stephen Roche, via (his mother) Stephen's sister."
He was born five weeks premature in August 1986. "He wasn't particularly healthy in the early years," Maria says.
"He had a persistent wheezy cough and would go grey from these attacks and Neil would take him to the hospital and they would put him on a nebuliser. But his peak-flow (rate) was a lot higher than it should have been for someone with asthma."
A second son, Tom, was born three years later. They bought a home north of Birmingham in the market town Tamworth, and as Neil watched his sons grow taller, he was living a replay of his own boyhood . . . they were kids covered in shit and dreaming of Paris-Roubaix.
Maria: "They dug a trench in the garden and put cobble-blocks down and used to do laps of the garden."
Dan: "I remember doing laps around the block and wondering how many I could do in an hour and feeling very proud that I had a suntan line on my sock line."
Neil: "We had to take it in turns to watch him."
Maria: "His granddad used to come up with a stopwatch and would have to go out and hand him up bottles and things."
Neil: "It was murder. We used to have to swap around so we could sneak in for a cup of tea. I'd think: 'When is he going to stop?'"
And then, at a time when they least expected it, he did.
The month was December, 1998. He was 12 years old and had just been gifted his first proper racing bike. "We got him this bike for Christmas – a bogus 'Pinarello' with clipless pedals that we'd had sprayed up," Neil explains. "He clips into the pedals, wobbles to the gate and falls off. It was Boxing Day, freezing. I looked him in the eye and said, 'You don't really want to do this, do you?' He said 'No'. And so we turned around and put the bike away."
Seven months later, in July 1999, the bike was still gathering dust when they left for a camping holiday to the Pyrenees. It was Dan's first time to watch the Tour de France but the miracle of Lance Armstrong did little to inspire him and the bike stayed in the shed for another 12 months.
"There was never a turning point," he replies, when pressed to explain it. "I always believed I would be a professional cyclist but I just didn't want to do it for those 18 months. We were going to the Alps in 2000 and dad said 'Right, do you want to bring your bike? Well you had better start riding it'."
He had been riding less than a week, when he climbed Alpe d'Huez in 68 minutes – not quite Marco Pantani, but not bad for a 14-year-old. "We had this fantastic photograph taken at the top," Neil recalls. "I'm out of the saddle, grinning at the camera and he's in the seat and you look in his eyes and can tell it's where he wants to be. To me it was the start."
Four years later, he was the British Junior champion. Six months after that, on January 10 2005, he took a flight to Marseille chasing the same dream his father had chased in 1979. "The best and worst day of my life was dropping him off in Gatwick airport," Neil says. "Why?" I ask. "Because you were letting him go?"
"How did you feel, Maria?"
"It was upsetting," she says, "but it was the best thing for what he wanted to do. We'd been there, and knew it was the only choice if he wanted to be a proper professional."
"What about the doping?" I ask. "A lot of kids had followed that same path and died. Was that not a factor?"
Maria: "No."
Neil: "Not at all."
Maria: "Never for one minute."
Neil: "No, honestly."
"I don't mean that he would have to dope, but he was going to be confronted by it?"
Maria: "There is no such thing as 'you have to'."
"No, but you are confronted by it?"
Neil: "Yes you are."
Dan: "I think it's a moral-fibre thing . . . I mean, we were talking about this the other day but in every report now it says, 'They are not doping because the testing is so good'. But the cultural aspect is very much overlooked. I don't dope for the same reason that I don't walk out of a shop with stuff without paying. I've never stolen anything in my life. I've never cheated in an exam. Why would I take drugs?"
Neil: "The improvements in anti-doping has made it so he can win now, the playing field is levelling out, but it's not the reason why he doesn't dope, it's who he is."
Maria: "It's who we are."
Dan: "I think it's also about the need to win. I don't need to win races, I enjoy it, but what's most important to me is to push myself to the limit and just do my best and if that's first or 100th or not finishing, well, that's how it is."
His best has been pretty decent so far. Five seasons have passed since his debut at Garmin-Sharp and he travels to Corsica on Wednesday for his second Tour de France as the world-ranked number 6 and the winner of Liege-Bastogne-Liege. "I think last year was important as a learning experience," he says, "and the biggest thing (I learnt) was the stress involved. The people on the side of the road get so close, and there are so many of them, that you have to really concentrate.
"In Liege this year, I spoke to Nicolas for 20 minutes but I don't think I spoke to him for 20 minutes in the whole Tour last year. You have to be 100 per cent concentrated for three weeks and that's the difference. There isn't one minute when you can relax and psychologically that takes a huge toll. But it also gave me a lot of belief, because I finished it so strongly."
"What are your ambitions this year?" I ask. "I think there's still this big unknown as to what I can do. I can say, 'Yeah, I'd like to finish on the podium' but I don't know if that's possible, and I don't want to set unrealistic targets. I think I can do well, but whether that's a stage win or a top ten or top five (overall) I don't know."
The interview is drawing to a close. I remind Neil of a message he tweeted on the first stage last year: 1999, Val Louran-d'Arzet, a 12-year-old boy sees the TdF in the mountains for the first time. Today he starts his first TdF #dreamscancometrue
And another he tweeted from Paris. I'm hard as nails, tough as old boots, rock hard etc . . . but did I have a bit of a weep when Dan swept onto the Champs Elysees! #ofcourse
"Yeah, it was emotional," he says. "I don't look back, I don't have regrets but I do regret that dad [Vic died from cancer in 2005] didn't get to see Dan doing what he is doing."
"Didn't physically get to see him," his wife corrects.
"Yeah, didn't physically get to see him," he concurs.
And he smiles, because Maria is always right.
He says it like no one else; he writes it like no one else: Paul Kimmage is back and he's on tour. Watch him on Independent.ie and read him in the Sunday Independent.
Starting on Wednesday, see Paul's daily video diary at www.independent.ie/kimmage as he follows every move of the Tour de France, from Corsica to Paris. And finish off your weekend with his unmissable column throughout the Tour, only in the Sunday Independent.
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A 13-year-old Dutch girl's attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the globe has been blocked by a court which placed her under state supervision for two months.
Laura Dekker, an experienced sailor who was born at sea on her parents' boat in New Zealand, had planned to set sail on a two-year voyage in September on her 8.3 metre (27ft) yacht Guppy.
Child protection authorities in Holland argued it would be irresponsible to let her depart, and the court in Utrecht agreed, saying the trip would put Dekker's psychological development at risk. She will remain with her parents, who will share custody with the state.
The court voiced "serious concerns" about Dekker's mental and physical development on the boat, and ordered a psychologist and child protection authorities to examine how she would cope with loneliness, sea winds, lack of sleep and schooling, as well as her general physical safety.
On Thursday, British 17-year-old Mike Perham became the youngest person to sail around the globe single-handed after spending nine months at sea, eclipsing the record set by American Zac Sunderland last month.
Dekker's lawyer, Peter de Lange, said he was confident the issue could be resolved and that her trip would go ahead.
"She is happy with the ruling, and now we can prepare this (journey) in a mature and responsible way," De Lange said, adding that Dekker was out sailing on Friday. Her father was in court for the verdict, but did not speak to reporters.
Dekker, whose parents support her trip, had warned before the ruling she would emigrate to New Zealand, where she can also claim citizenship, if the court prevented her from attempting the voyage. But Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant reported her New Zealand passport had expired.
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Regarding your story about missed doctors' appointments: If more surgeries had a "walk-in" surgery then appointments would not be missed. If you are feeling unwell you want to see a doctor that day, not in a week's time.
I also fail to see how a doctor not seeing a patient can cost money.
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You have to deduct CPP contributions from an employee's pensionable earnings if that employee:
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- is 18 to 70 years old even if the employee is receiving a CPP or QPP retirement pension. Exception: do not deduct CPP if the employee is 65 to 70 years old, and gives you Form CPT30, Election to Stop Contributing to the Canada Pension Plan, or Revocation of a Prior Election with parts A, B and C completed.
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Reviewer's Bias*
Loves: Animation, good sitcoms
Likes: Anime
Dislikes: gross-out comedy
The Story So Far...
The star of the show is the titular Shin Chan, an odd little 6-year-old with an obsession with his own backside, an aggressive personality, a love for superhero Action Bastard and some weird thoughts about how the world works. His traditional family, with mom Mitzy, Dad Hiro and little sister Hima, is a boiling cauldron of resentment, frustration and oddness, though they still love each other (sorta.) his school life brings more friends and freaks into his life, including uptight conservative Georgie and Penny, whose home life is far from storybook. The first half of Season One was released on DVD in May of 2008. DVDTalk has a review of the set.
The Show
The general concept of the second half of the first season of "Shin Chan" isn't all that different from the first half, with the exception of the resolution of the family's housing storyline. How it wraps up points out a problem with this set of shows: suddenly, money isn't as big a concern for them, but there's no reason given. I realize, this is a nonsensical comedy about a kid who loves to show his butt, but the family's struggles are part of the humor and taking that aspect out of the show doesn't seem necessary.
The financial status of Shin's family isn't the only thing to change in this series in the second half of Season One, as the show has a very different feel, even dipping into oddity and parody episodes, like the ridiculous two-part "Planet of the Dogs." Getting the chance to see Shin's dog Whitey walk around like some waif out of Oliver Twist is rather funny, as is seeing Shin play the part of the pet. Anime fans will especially enjoy the "Lupin the Third" take-off "Pupin the Turd," though its so over the top that you don't need to know a scrap of that show to get laughs out of Shin as a secret agent. Similarly, the "Page One Rewrite!" episode, which recasts the show as a superhero series, and "Whiteface Charcoalpants," where Shin meets a demon who grants his wishes, are both bizarre visions of the show.
Though there were some dark spots in the first set, it's like a comedy eclipse here, with moments that are genuinely shocking, including the disturbing "Girls Just Wanna Have Husbands." Penny and Ai fight for the love of Shin, resulting in fake pregnancy and creepy vendettas. The return of the Happiness Bunny, this time animating in front of Whitey, is equally as creepy. On the lighter side, there seems to be an increased focus on Shin's schoolyard pals, which is fine, because school is the scene of some of the funniest episodes. Whether it's Penny training effeminate Maso to stand up to Ai or Principal Ench teaching the kids kanji, any time you've got the young ones on screen, it's going to be a good time (especially if it's the lovable, snot-nosed Boo.)
The storylines are actually a bit stronger this time around, with shows about the family prepping for a typhoon, Penny's mom running away to become a whore, the introduction of a pair of stakeout cops posing as a gay couple and the kids' war against the second-graders. None of them were as entertaining though as the season finale, which brought Shin's grandparents into the picture. Hiro's dad tags along as they visit Mitzi's parents, and the clash between the Shin-like paternal grandpa and Mitzi's proper dad makes for some very funny moments (while Mitzi's suicidal mom adds in the traditional "Shin Chan" darkness.) After a good run in the first half, this collection show's the series hitting its stride.
Note: unlike last time, this collection has uncensored audio tracks, so all the cursing is audible.
The DVDs
Like the previous set, the 13 episodes of the second half of Season One are spread over two DVDs, with seven episodes on the first disc and six on the other. The discs, which are amusingly (and appropriately) named Number One and Number Two, are packed in a three-panel, two-tray digipak, which is held in a solid slipcase. The discs feature static full-frame menus with options to play all episodes, select shows, and check out the extras. There are no audio options, no subtitles and no closed captioning.
The Quality
Taken from a show that's been on the air since 1992, the full-frame animation can look old in places, so the video is a bit dull color-wise, and there's some obvious dirt in places. Other than that, it's rather solid, with a clean image that has no issues with pixelation or digital artifacts.
The Dolby Digital 2.0 audio track is the standard for a TV comedy, delivering clean dialogue, but there's nothing about it that stands out, as it comes at you right down the middle.
The Extras
The bonus material takes a dip on this set, with just two in total, starting with an audio commentary on episode 17 by ADR director Zach Bolton and writer Jared Hedges. The track is friendly, providing a good deal of info on the production effort on the show, without any dead spots. The guys never get caught just watching the show, which makes for an energetic track. If only they had a few more.
Back from the previous set is "From the Bowels of the Booth," this time offering up over eight minutes of alternate audio, bloopers and outtakes, which are a lot of fun to check out, as some of the cut dialogue is even better (but less socially acceptable) than what made it into the show.
A selection of trailers is also included on Disc Two.
The Bottom Line
The first half of the first season of this version of "Shin Chan" was good, but here is where it all came together, with more out-there episodes and more defined and entertaining stories about the characters and their strange little lives. The DVDs look and sound good, but there's less bonus content to check out, though what's included is good. If you liked the first half of Season One, you should enjoy this even more, and if you didn't like Shin Chan, this is your chance to see if it's more your speed now.
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How to Spend a Productive Summer
Find out how to spend a productive summer in preparation for admissions season.
By ApplyWise.com
March 13, 2009
If you're a serious athlete with the chance of being recruited for your sport in college, you will likely be spending the majority of your summers on the field or in the gym, where coaches will get a chance to watch you play. Sports camps and workshops are great for serious student athletes; this is the path you must pursue to achieve entry into varsity college athletics.
Before you leave for summer break, we also recommend asking your school for next year's reading list for English and history. Beginning your reading early is a great way to get a jump start on next year's homework. Also, starting your reading list during the summer will help you gain a deeper understanding of the assigned material: When you revisit your summer reading during the school year, you will be familiar with the basic story and will therefore be equipped to conduct a better analysis of the text. Also, if you choose to remain in your hometown during the summer, colleges will love to see you continuing your school year community service activities through the summer months.
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#1: CAMP. Unless you are a focused athlete and you are attending a sports camp, sleepaway camp and camping trips should end before the summer before ninth grade. The only exception to this rule is if a student has the opportunity to take on a leadership role such as a CIT, and even then, the summer before ninth grade should be the last year at camp. Colleges are not looking for experts in the arts of s'more-making and Spin the Bottle!
#2: TEEN TOURS. It may sound great to travel around the country with a busload of other kids in your age group for a couple of weeks, and while it's true that you would get to sample the cuisine of many different McDonald's locations across the country, this will not help you get into college. On a teen tour, students can never get to know one place well, and it's likely that they will be with students like themselves and will therefore not get the opportunity to stretch. Teen tours are so organized and scheduled that it's nearly impossible for any one student to make an impact in his or her community. Students should make sure that whatever they do over the summer, they are somehow making an impact, whether it be on an organization, a favorite cause, or a foreign or local community.
#3: "IMMERSION" TRIPS. Any so-called cultural immersion trip that lasts three weeks or less, particularly those of the Putney or ASA brand, is not a wise use of summer time. These trips break up a student's summer and take the place of an in-depth program; they are vacations rather than commitments and are not something to add to a college brag sheet. Again, students should choose a program off the beaten track that lasts for a minimum of six weeks so they have the opportunity to grow and to make an impact.
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#4: SUMMER SAT PREP. If you're a rising junior, the summer is not the best time to start preparing for your standardized tests. Sure, working on vocabulary a few hours a week can never hurt, but devoting chunks of your day to SAT tutoring or a class will only take the place of an activity that you can put on your brag sheet. Furthermore, you are likely to forget a lot of what you learn during the summer; you will absorb far more during the year, when you are in "school mode." On a final note, when you are setting aside your personal time, make sure you allow yourself time to have fun! As high school progresses, the courses inevitably get harder and your workload will increases-it's important to use your summer break to unwind and reflect. While there are always weekends during the school year, there's nothing like a sunny Wednesday on the beach, so please, make the most of your freedom while you can! Have a great summer, and we're looking forward to hearing your stories in the fall!
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Dow but Not Out
Louise may fight on, but this week saw the end for Shirley Allen of �Roby Ridge� standoff fame. Shirley, it seems, lost the protection of the gods when she shot a police dog through the nose (thus committing two great American sins in one: attempting to assassinate an authority figure, and injuring an anthropomorphic animal).
It was not, however, the end for the stock market. In what turned out to be the biggest non-story of all time, the Dow went down, up, sideways � basically spending the week going more places than Jiang Zemin. The Dow probably managed to scare more Americans, too.


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Following up on yesterday's post that something fishy was going on, Jason Mayhem Miller is now officially a free agent. I would like to think he's gonna sign on with ProElite pretty quickly, but considering Team Quest is doing the negotiations, I'd be prepared for a long and painful wait like with Sokoudjou.
Seems to me like the WEC is considered to be Zuffa's #2 promotion at the moment, and I don't doubt Mayhem left because he didn't want to spend his prime years fighting to be the #1 fighter in a #2 league. It'll be interesting to see if anyone can manage to get a straight answer out of him on the issue.
Of course, it blows my mind that the UFC is letting skilled and marketable middleweight fighters walk considering the state of the UFC MW division. But hey, what do I know about anything???


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Revision Strategy: Replacing
Lesson 2 of 8
Objective: SWBAT: create meaning and effect by using the strategy of replacing when they revise.
Big Idea: By going back to an anchor text and practicing revising, students apply the replacement strategy before they apply it on their own writing.
This lesson is the second of a series in teaching my students how to revise. I've said it before, but I think that 6th graders need specific strategies before they can revise. For this lesson from SpringBoard, students use the Applying Revision Strategies: Replacing activity from their books to revise the same passage they revised for the strategy of "Adding."
Students read the passage, circle words they could replace with better ones, then replace. They also go back to the sample student text and circle three words to replace, and use their resources (a thesaurus, a friend, or the omnipotent teacher) to select two replacement words for each.
During this time, I circulate and make sure they are choosing better words than already exist in the text. Sometimes the words they choose aren't even viable replacements, so it's important to have instructional support at this time.
When individual students are ready to be released, they can apply this strategy to the text they are working to revise.


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Big West Lifts Membership Moratorium – Expansion Coming?
Matt Peloquin
It wasn't the biggest news yesterday, but the Big West officially lifted their membership moratorium. The conference originally put it's membership on hold in 2005, a move that took some pressure off the idea of adding then soon-to-be Divison 1, Cal-Bakersfield.
The Big West, a conference that over the past decade has transformed itself into an all-California group, currently has 9 members. Cal St. Bakersfield has long hoped for an invitation to join it's California brethren in the Big West. But recent developments in the WAC might complicate that picture.
Since the departure of Boise St., the retreat by BYU to join for non-football sports, and the future losses of Fresno St. and Nevada, Hawaii has been looking to potentially leave the WAC for football independence. The largest problem was not having a home for it's non-football sports. The Big West has been a top conference that Hawaii has targeted. And it makes sense. Hawaii currently has to transport all their sports athletes to such locations as Logan, UT, Las Cruses, NM, Moscow, ID, Ruston, LA, etc. A move to the Big West would mean having to fly to one of the 4 Los Angeles airports or 3 San Francisco airports. Hawaii would also likely have to offer the Big West schools some travel subsidies to travel to Hawaii. But that amount might be more tolerable as schools would only need to fly from SFO or LAX.
The Big West has set no timetable or set an official expansion plan. Hawaii remains an option, as does Cal St. Bakersfield. Bringing in both members might be less likely as it would mean 11 schools. The longshot would seem to be if Sacramento St. agreed to move to the Big West to bring the membership to 12, a move that would bring the Big Sky to a more manageable 10 all-sports members with 13 for football.
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Sharon: Criminal or Victim?
The accusation that Ariel Sharon is a war criminal — back on the public agenda with two court cases in Belgium and a damning BBC documentary — is the latest step in a campaign to discredit and delegitimize Israel, supporters of the Jewish state say.
A quick Internet search reveals a plethora of Arab and Muslim Web sites demanding that Sharon be "brought to justice" for the 1982 massacre of Palestinians by Lebanese Christians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
However, the Israeli premier also seems to be caught in the cross hairs of advocates of an international criminal court and a "universal justice" that knows no borders.
Sharon's Arab antagonists may indeed be motivated by enmity toward Israel, but the international court proponents seem intent primarily on winning symbolic victories that they hope might deter future atrocities.
It's highly unlikely that Sharon ever will wind up in the dock. But the Belgian cases and the BBC film have focused hostile attention on Israel and its leader precisely when the Jewish State is fighting what many see as an uphill battle for world opinion in the ninth month of the intifada.
The second half of the 1990s saw major strides toward prosecuting war crimes and gross violations of human rights.
It also emboldened those who have long wanted to go after polarizing figures such as Sharon, Henry Kissinger, Idi Amin, Muammar Gadhafi, Saddam Hussein, or the now-deceased Pol Pot and Hafez Assad.
No one was ever prosecuted for the Sabra and Shatila massacres, when Lebanese Christian militiamen killed some 800 Palestinian men, women and children. Several of the planners and leaders of the attack are prominent figures in Lebanon today.
In 1983, Israel established the quasi-judicial Kahan Commission to investigate the massacres. The commission found then-Defense Minister Sharon "indirectly responsible" because he had not foreseen the possibility that the Christians — who had entered the camps to root out Palestinian terrorists hiding there — would seek to avenge the recent assassination of their leader, Bashir Gemayel.
Sharon received what some saw as a slap on the wrist: He was pressured to resign as defense minister, but remained in the Cabinet as a minister without portfolio.
When Time later sought to assign Sharon a greater share of blame, he sued the magazine for libel. An American court ruled that the article was erroneous but lacked malicious intent.
On June 18, a group of 28 Palestinians filed suit under the 1993 Belgian law, charging Sharon with ultimate responsibility for the massacre.
The suit came on the heels of a similar suit filed in Brussels earlier in the month by a private group, reportedly on behalf of Palestinian victims of the current intifada.
In response, an Israeli Knesset member from Sharon's Likud Party, Avraham Herschson, has threatened to file suit in Brussels against Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat for alleged war crimes committed in the current intifada.
A lawyer for the Palestinian victims said similar suits against Sharon will soon be filed in Britain, France and Denmark, according to the Jewish Chronicle of London.
Perhaps even more influential in blackening Israel's image was the recent broadcast of "The Accused" by the state-run British Broadcasting Corporation.
In the documentary, journalist Fergal Keane painted a picture that placed ultimate blame for the massacres on Sharon.
The documentary relied on interviews with Palestinian victims, international law experts and a former U.S. envoy to the Middle East under President Reagan.
The film was punctuated by the assertion of Princeton international law Professor Richard Falk that Sharon is "indictable" for war crimes.
Israeli officials immediately protested to the BBC, denouncing the program as "unfair, distorted and intentionally hostile" — with a whiff of the BBC's "well-known anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias."
The BBC and Keane stood by the broadcast.
In an interview with JTA, Falk clarified his comments.
"All the evidence I saw would make him indictable to those crimes, but not necessarily convictable," Falk said of Sharon. "That's an important distinction. Everyone's entitled to a fair trial."
Falk, who is himself Jewish, already was familiar to Israeli officials: he was one of three members of a fact-finding team dispatched in February by the Geneva-based U.N. Commission on Human Rights to document Israel's "excessive" use of force against Palestinian attackers — a conclusion it reached even before the investigation began.
The resulting U.N. report, said Michael Colson, executive director of the Geneva-based U.N. Watch, was "one of the most frightening things I've ever seen come out of the U.N., with Israel guilty of every sin imaginable."
All of which leads Alan Baker, legal adviser to Israel's Foreign Ministry, to conclude that "when things were going well last year, everyone was happy with Israel. But as soon as problems arose, and the Palestinians decided they didn't want to negotiate anymore, we revert back to 15 years ago, where the name of the game is delegitimization of Israel and its basis for existence."


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If it's three years old, I'd opt for a softmod. There are plus and minus points for either school of thought (soft/hard). Softmod = free. Hardmod = $$$. You wouldn't be able to use a USB HD via hardmod (the ones that do/can support it would be the Sundriver or WODE; I'm not sure if they come with a drive or not --- no experience in them; others may be able to elaborate).
Softmod if done via wiihacks guides (you got the links in your intro post) are pretty robust and should keep you playing without issue. The important things to remember: Priiloader isn't an "option" but rather necessity. If your Wii is 3 years old, there's a fair chance you can get BootMii installed as boot2. Making a NAND backup is also imperative. With these things mentioned, you'd be pretty bulletproof.
Hardmods cost money. You generally have to accept updates. 4.2 Wiis and up (yours for example) can't play out of region games (softmods can). Hardmods you can accept updates for the most part without issue or certainly with less issues. Discs for most hardmods spin @ 3X on both soft and hard mods (a few of the latter will support the full 6X but they are the exceptions). USB HD in conjunction with softmod will load faster than any disc-based game, whether hard or softmodded.


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PSU administrators want charges nixed in Sandusky case
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Penn State administrators charged with lying to the grand jury investigating Jerry Sandusky filed court documents Friday that argued prosecutors have not produced enough evidence to support the perjury charges against them.
Athletic director Tim Curley, now on leave, and retired vice president for business Gary Schultz outlined the reasons they believe charges should be thrown out.
Curley's filing cited what he called "a shifting sand approach" by prosecutors and said the court record so far did not include the basic elements needed for a perjury case to proceed.
Schultz's reply called the case "unprovable, unfounded and untimely" and said prosecutors acted prematurely with an exaggerated grand jury presentment to tarnish them with the child sexual abuse allegations against Sandusky.
Both men argued that prosecutors are not specific enough in the allegations they have made.
A spokesman for the state attorney general's office declined to comment, saying prosecutors will respond in court.
Also Friday, lawyers for the Clinton County Department of Children and Youth Services and the Bald Eagle School District asked the judge in Sandusky's criminal case to throw out subpoenas issued by Sandusky's lawyers.
The Clinton County motion said that neither agency director Gerald Rosamilia nor psychologist Michael Gillum should have to produce records, arguing the material is confidential and protected by law.
The Bald Eagle district said it received four subpoenas for records that pertain to former students identified in court records as Victims 3, 4, 7 and 10.
Similar motions in opposition to defense subpoenas have been filed by the Keystone Central School District, Mifflin County School District and Juniata College. A court hearing on the matter is scheduled for Wednesday in Bellefonte.
Sandusky, a retired Penn State assistant football coach, faces charges he abused 10 boys over 15 years, some of them on the Penn State campus. He has denied the charges and faces a June trial.
By MARK SCOLFORO
Source: AP
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