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* American drops out of 200 metres freestyle
* Phelps can now focus more energy on relays - coach
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By Julian Linden
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 2 (Reuters) - Michael Phelps has
dropped the 200 metres freestyle from his schedule for next
month's London Olympics, leaving him with seven events for his
Games swansong.
The American qualified for eight events at the U.S. Trials,
the same number he swam at Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008,
but ditched the freestyle to focus on the relays.
"I looked at all of the events and it really just came down
to the programme," Phelp's coach Bob Bowman told reporters.
"It came down to the 400 IM (individual medley) or the 200
free had to go. I think he'd be good in the in either one but it
just made sense to drop the 200 free."
Phelps triumphed in the 200m freestyle in the Beijing Games
when he won an unprecedented eight gold medals but was beaten in
the four-lap race at the last two world championships.
The 27-year-old won the 200 at the Olympic trials but in a
relatively slow time of one minute of 45.70, well outside the
world record currently held by Germany's Paul Biedermann.
"What he did here was quite good but we realised that the
level he did here will not be acceptable to win gold medals in
London in most of the events," Bowman said.
"This allows him to focus all of his energy to the 4x100
relay on the second night of the meet without having to do two
200m frees the night before."
By dropping the 200m free, Phelps will now swim seven
events; the 100 and 200 butterfly, the 200 and 400 individual
medleys and three relays, and has good chances in all of them
and adding to his Olympic stockpile.
He already holds the record for the most gold medals at a
single Olympics (eight) and overall (14) and needs just three
more medals of any colour in London to surpass the overall mark
of 18 held by former Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina.
Phelps has struggled for motivation after his amazing
performance in Beijing and only got back into serious training
18 months ago.
He had hinted that he would swim a reduced programme in
London, which will be his fourth and final Olympic appearance,
but it was only after he finished all his events at the trials
that the decision to drop the 200m was made.
"As Michael said all along, it wasn't going to be eight.
He's said that for the last four years," Bowman said.
"It makes sense. No-one should be expected to do that twice.
Once was enough."
His withdrawal from the 200 freestyle forced a reshuffle in
the U.S. team and left Ryan Lochte as the favourite to win gold.
Ricky Berens, who finished third in the trials to make the
relay team, will replace Phelps in the individual race.
Davis Tarwater, who finished seventh, was added to the relay
squad, although Phelps remains an automatic choice for all three
Lochte beat Phelps in the 200 freestyle final at last year's
world championships in Shanghai and finished a close second to
his rival at the U.S. trials when he was also swimming a
gruelling programme.
U.S. head coach Gregg Troy, who is also Lochte's regular
coach, said it made sense for Phelps to drop an event.
"That's a tough programme Michael swims, it's really tough,"
Troy said.
"He's a little bit older, and those older guys don't recover
quite as quickly, and it's hard to do."
(Editing by John O'Brien)


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The affordable premium American road car.
Buick's Century offers value and practicality. It comes with a strong but frugal V6 engine, a roomy interior with bench seats that can seat three people and a big trunk. Otherwise, there is little to distinguish this mid-size sedan.
The Century line is composed of the Custom ($19,725), the Limited ($21,860) and the Century 2000 Special Edition, which is essentially an appearance package. The key difference between Custom and Limited is the latter's leather upholstery and a driver's side-impact air bag.
Standard on all Century models are keyless remote entry, power locks, daytime running lights with Twilight Sentinel automatic light control, anti-lock brakes, traction control, tire-inflation monitor and theft-deterrent.
We drove the new Century 2000 Special Edition, which retails for $21,035 (including discounts); it comes with cast aluminum wheels, a blacked-out grille, cruise control, dual-zone climate control, a six-way power driver's seat and an AM/FM cassette player with steering wheel controls. Century 2000 Special Edition is also available in Custom leather trim and goes for $21,833 (including discounts).
In differentiating models in a line like Buick's, the more up-market models can easily be distinguished in the buyer's eye by greater content (features, luxurious trim) and enhanced appearance cues. But while dressing up pricier models, the danger exists that the more affordable models will seem stripped-down. Buick's Century strives to strike that difficult balance. It combines a solid drive train and a reasonable level of deluxe equipment with less glamorous styling cues that might be seen as bordering on blandness. The Buick Century will not appeal to auto enthusiasts enamored of flashy styling and high performance. Instead, it was designed to perform its duties quietly and faithfully, drawing a minimum of attention to itself.
From the traditional grille to its capacious interior, the Century is unmistakably a Buick. It has a smooth, organic form that is inoffensive, but that some might consider excessively generic. But this understated appearance seems to be exactly what Buick is aiming for, and with good reason. Buick knows its market, and in recent years, this division's sales have been growing by small but regular increments.
Century 2000 Special Edition's blacked-out grille is a gesture in the direction of European panache, and its handsome polished aluminum wheels are, for this car, almost startling. These attractive wheels make a bold styling statement against the backdrop of the car's otherwise neutral appearance.
The 2000 Century's understated exterior styling theme continues inside. The dashboard is decidedly on the Spartan side. Instrumentation is limited to a small analog speedometer, a water temperature gauge and a fuel gauge. On the lower left and right of the dash are two circular warning-light complexes, each split three ways in pie-chart fashion. The left three warning lights indicate problems with oil pressure, battery charge or anti-lock brake circuitry. The three indicators on the right warn that the seatbelts are not fastened, the parking brake is on or the air bags are not initialized to function properly. Century comes standard with dual air bags and, oddly, one side air bag on the driver's side only as an option.
The interior is finished in earth tones. At $20,000, we think it would not be out of place to provide a little more excitement inside. The six-way power seats work well and provide a generous range of adjustment; our up-level Century Special Edition offers six-way power seat adjustments for both the driver and the front passenger seats. Both front seatbacks, however, are adjusted manually.
The thin steering wheel has four spokes upon which are mounted remotes for the audio system: Seek, Scan, AM/FM, Source, Mute and Volume. Generally, such remotes are useful, but the Century system had its problems. We constantly tapped Seek by accident while wheeling the Century in and out of parking spaces, losing our selected station. Annoying. Also annoying is that these steering-wheel controls are illuminated whenever the lights are on and after a while the plastic buttons become hot to the touch.
Befitting a Buick, the front and rear seats are roomy and comfortable, and the rear headroom is excellent. Our up-level Century Special Edition featured handsome leather upholstery. The trunk is generous, as is expected of a Buick. A useful cargo net is supplied, but opening the trunk requires using a separate trunk key instead of the ignition key. This is a long-standing GM inconvenience that should have been corrected way back in the 20th century.
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The 3100 V6 provides crisp, authoritative response. That's encouraging: A keynote of Buick heritage is that the big cars from Flint were historically expected to deliver vigorous performance. What is even more impressive about this engine is that, in addition to providing plenty of power, it also produces excellent fuel mileage, including a whopping 30 miles per gallon on the highway.
The 3100 V6's power is delivered through an electronically controlled four-speed automatic. This transmission is smooth and adequate. Its kick down response is slow, however, when compared with the latest automatic transmissions found in high-priced imports. Electronic traction control comes standard and reduces wheel spin for improved control on slippery surfaces. Also standard is an antilock brake system; ABS allows the driver to maintain steering control of the car in a panic braking situation.
The 2000 Century's front suspension is a MacPherson strut design, while the rear suspension is multi-link independent using a coil-over strut. It offers a smooth and soft ride when cruising on smooth, straight highways at normal speeds. This soft, 'boulevard' ride is traditional for Buick, but results in undistinguished handling in any sort of vigorous maneuvering: The Century leans when driven quickly through corners and it floats and wallows at high speeds over wavy surfaces. This tends to isolate the driver from the road.
Buick Century is modest yet generously equipped. It is a utilitarian four-door sedan. It was designed to provide long, workmanlike service for those who appreciate the traditional Buick values, a premium vehicle at an affordable price.
The Century's engine is very satisfying, and its ample interior space is sure to please traditional Buick buyers. Its soft ride should also please longtime Buick owners, who are extremely loyal to the brand. The Century is one of the best-selling midsize cars sold by General Motors; Buick sold more than 157,000 Century models last year.
However, the over-the-road personality of the Buick Century looks backward to the sensibility expressed in earlier American large sedans, not forward to the more international vision of the fully balanced sedan of the future. For now, Buick is successfully finding car buyers whose values are rooted in the past. But if Buick is to attract new customers, then it must begin producing cars that look enthusiastically to the future.
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The former South Weymouth Naval Air Station represents one of the greatest development opportunities in the state.
But of 24 bases the Navy marked for closure in 1995, South Weymouth is one of only three that have not been completely transferred out of military hands.
Personality clashes, failure to persuade the Navy to give the land for free and an optimistic reliance on the bond market are among the reasons development has been slow to start at the 1,400-acre site.
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By John Ruwitch and Michael Martina
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - New Chinese regulations allowing police to board vessels deemed to be breaking the law off the southern island of Hainan were a provincial-level initiative, but Beijing likely signed off on them, an official said on Wednesday.
China is in an increasingly angry dispute with neighbors including the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei and Malaysia over claims to parts of the potentially oil and gas-rich South China Sea and U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke said the United States was seeking clarification on the new rules.
China lays claim to almost the whole of the sea, which is criss-crossed by crucial shipping lanes.
The rules passed last week by Hainan island's provincial legislature were partly a response to an increase in Vietnamese fishing boats near the Paracel islands, which both countries claim, said Wu Shicun, head of Hainan's foreign affairs office.
Vietnam on Tuesday condemned China's claims as a serious violation of its sovereignty, and planned to set up patrols to protect its fisheries, accusing Chinese boats of sabotage.
Wu, who also heads the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said the regulations were amendments to rules in place since 1999 and had been in the works for over a year.
"It was not (initiated by Beijing). Local law enforcement agencies started this," he told Reuters by telephone. But he added: "They definitely would have reported these upward. They'd definitely have sought opinions from the department in charge."
Tensions between China and the other claimants have flared since late November over these rules as well as China's new passports, which are imprinted with maps claiming sovereignty over the disputed territory.
Nevertheless, Chinese and foreign policy experts have said the two issues were not likely to be connected. And they are skeptical as to whether the new provincial regulations in Hainan represent a tougher stance from the central government, despite a once-a-decade change in the ruling Communist Party's top leadership last month.
"It's not consistent with some sort of new policy, or a policy shift. There's no evidence that way," said Zhu Feng, a professor at Peking University.
The Hainan regulations appear to allow border police to board and search vessels deemed to be operating illegally in what China considers Hainan's waters, but the full text of the regulations has not been made public and questions remain.
"The U.S. government very much wants clarification of what these rules mean, how they will be interpreted by the Hainan government and marine enforcement agencies and the purpose of these rules," Locke told Reuters on the sidelines of an investment forum in Beijing.
"It is really unclear, I think, to most nations," Locke said. "First we need clarification of the extent, the purpose and the reach of these regulations."
Hainan, which likes to style itself as China's answer to Hawaii or Bali with its resorts and beaches, is the province responsible for administering the country's extensive claims to the myriad islets and atolls in the South China Sea.
"This is pointed at neighboring countries whose intrusions mainly around the Paracels are serious... In recent years more and more Vietnamese fishing boats have intruded into Paracel waters, and this is one aspect," Wu said.
"There was no (legal) basis for punishment before."
The rules would not influence the majority of ships passing through the South China Sea, he said.
"China's promises that foreign boats can enjoy freedom of navigation in the South China Sea aren't affected one bit by these new regulations, and they won't be affected by disputes in the South China Sea," he said.
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OK, obviously the money is the biggest question here. How do they intend to pay for all this? If its investors, what's the business case? ...Another option is publicity, free advertising, that sort of thing. ...Who loves publicity more than companies? Congress and the President.
From Chris' latest article:http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/11/exploration-alternatives-propellant-depots-commercial-lunar-base/source information acquired by L2 this week revealed plans for a game-changing announcement as early as December that a new commercial space company intends to send commercial astronauts to the moon by 2020.According to the information, the effort is led by a group of high profile individuals from the aerospace industry and backed by some big money and foreign investors. The company intends to use existing or soon to be existing launch vehicles, spacecraft, upper stages, and technologies to start their commercial manned lunar campaign.The details point to the specific use of US vehicles, with a basic architecture to utilize multiple launches to assemble spacecraft in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The details make direct reference to the potential use of propellant depots and fuel transfer technology.Additional notes include a plan to park elements in lunar orbit, staging a small lunar lander that would transport two commercial astronauts to the surface for short stays.The architecture would then grow into the companys long-term ambitions to establish a man-tended outpost using inflatable modules. It is also understood that the company has already begun the design process for the Lunar Lander.More details ahead of the announcement are expected in the coming days and weeks
Since there is a public thread for this now.
I suppose that now we should start the guessing game of who is involved.I will start with the obvious candidates: Boeing, SpaceX, and ULA (possibly).
My personal guesses for partners for the newly-formed company (I have no insider information on this whatsoever):* ULA: They're at the forefront when it comes to depot development, and of course also have their launchers. If SpaceX is involved I suspect it won't be in a development role (I really don't see development of a lunar architecture on Musk's shortlist of priorities), but simply as a commercial launch provider.* ILC Dover: This might just be me being contrarian, but I actually believe they're a more likely pick for inflatables than Bigelow. This is going to need to be a team effort, and Bigelow isn't exactly known as a team player. While ILC Dover isn't as well-publicised as Bigelow, I was actually pretty surprised to see how much work ILC Dover's done so far on lunar habitats: http://www.ilcdover.com/Habitats-and-Shelters/* Masten as a subcontractor to ULA, based on their ongoing collaboration on the Xeus dual-thrust axis prototype, and Masten's experience with landers in general* XCOR as a subcontractor to ULA, based on their ongoing collaboration on piston-pump generators/engines* Altius as a subcontractor to ULA, based on this collaboration: http://blog.altius-space.com/2010/11/more-about-that-second-contract/
* Altius as a subcontractor to ULA, based on this collaboration: http://blog.altius-space.com/2010/11/more-about-that-second-contract/
Pretty expensive way to kill SLS when if it's such the dinosaur that many seem to imply, it will collapse under its own weight sooner or later. <snip>My guess it'll be a consortium of a few new space companies: I'll bet Diamandis has fingers in the pie somehow. Could be joining forces with MoonEx. Astrobotics is looking good; Caterpillar might be expected to be a sponsor.


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Lea Michele shows off her rockin' bikini body while hanging on the beach with her boyfriend Cory Monteith on Tuesday (January 1) in Hawaii.
The 26-year-old Glee actress was spotted splashing in the water while Cory, 30, took pics and relaxed in the sandy shore line.
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"Happy New Year! So excited for 2013!" Lea tweeted that day after the clock struck midnight.
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NEW YORK (AP) — An Egyptian cleric known for incendiary rhetoric at a London mosque denied supporting terrorism in testimony Wednesday at his Manhattan trial, saying he would give up freedom if the price was his dignity and beliefs.
Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, 56, countered three weeks of government evidence with answers to rapid-fire questions posed by defense lawyer Joshua Dratel.
"No," Mustafa calmly replied repeatedly as Dratel asked him if he participated in a December 1998 kidnapping in Yemen, tried to organize a jihad training camp in Oregon, aided al-Qaida or sent anyone to Afghanistan to engage in jihad training.
An indictment charges him with conspiring to do all those things. If convicted, he could face life in prison, a prospect he said he did not fear.
"If my freedom comes at the expense of my dignity and my beliefs, then I don't want it," Mustafa said, speaking quietly.
When Dratel asked him if he gave material support to terrorists or provided the Taliban in Afghanistan any goods or services after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he said: "Never."
"Did you ever aid or abet anyone committing those offenses?" Dratel asked.
"Never, as far as I know," Mustafa said.
His testimony came three weeks into the trial and minutes after the government finished its case.
Mary Quin, the government's last witness, recounted her dramatic escape in December 1998 from Islamic extremists who thought kidnapping 16 Westerners might enable them to force the release of their friends from Yemeni jails.
Quin said her 24 hours as a hostage included a moment when she thought they were all going to be executed and another when a hostage-taker forced her to walk forward by shoving the barrel of an AK-47 into her back until he was shot and fell to the ground.
Still, she said, she had to shove her foot against his head for leverage so she could rip his assault rifle from his hands. Then she ran to safety.
Nearly two years later, she went to Mustafa's mosque to interview him for a book she was writing.
Jurors followed a transcript as a recording of the interview was played in court. In it, Quin asked Mustafa if he supplied a satellite phone to the kidnappers.
"Yeah, perhaps," Mustafa responded.
Quin said Mustafa never expressed regret over the four hostages who died in the attack.
Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Mustafa told the court he experienced the "wrong side of morality" when he moved to England, becoming a resident in 1982 and a citizen in 1986. He said he worked as a club bouncer before co-managing a strip club for a "very short time."
After getting a civil engineering degree, he said he was a member of the Royal Society of Civil Engineers for five years until he failed to pay his dues.
He said an "English girl" he married encouraged him to embrace Islam after they were exposed to it by Egyptian friends at a restaurant they frequented. He said they both stopped smoking.
"There came a time when I said: 'Enough is enough,'" he recalled. "I took time off from the clubs and I enjoyed it."


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Coach Andy Reid held a news conference this morning and here are some of his comments:
On what makes Nate Allen starting material:
"Nate's very intelligent. He has very good ball skills. Somehow he got labeled as not being a physical guy. I think he's a very physical player off of what he did in college. I'll be curious how he sustains once the veterans get in here and we start cranking it up."
On who impressed from offensive line and defensive line 1-on-1 drills:
"From a defensive standpoint, [Daniel Te'o-Nesheim] looked good. They all had their spots. [Austin] Howard, [Dallas] Reynolds looked well. Fenuki [Tupou] looked like he was moving around pretty good."
On progress of signing Brandon Graham:
"Nothing has taken place so far, and he needs to be here."
On Stacy Andrews:
"It was just a matter of getting confidence in his leg and getting complete strength back because he's a big guy and the big guys, they gotta make sure they can get themselves bent down there low. You're talking about a guy that's 6-foot-7, so I wanna make sure they can bend. You're just talking about a couple inches off there and people can get under your pads and drive you back. So he's back in that position where he'll be very successful this year."
On Todd Herremans' foot:
"He had the soreness in it, and so it's important that we just gradually feed him back in there and see how he does. He missed all of camp last year. I just wanna slow this thing down and make sure we can bring him back gradually and don't do something to affect the foot."
On Kevin Kolb's first three practices:
"He looked good these three practices, but you wanna see it with the rush and the first group both offensively and defensively and see how he does there. I'm expecting he'll do fine. He looks good so far."
On remembering Jim Johnson:
"We all miss him. I think all of us in the tent here miss him. I guess there's a couple lessons you can learn. Time moves on, and it's a crazy thing. Life's a crazy thing. We all need to live each day to the fullest, and I think we all learned that from him. If we didn't know it before, we learned it from him. But we all would love to have him here and coaching."
On trip to Afghanistan:
"It makes you appreciate everything you have, and you get to kind of see the time and effort and lives that are being sacrificed so that we can have what we have. It's pretty impressive. It's harder for all of us, unless we've been there, for words to be able to explain exactly what takes place over there."
On all veterans reporting on time tomorrow:
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — The call from faculty members and politicians to oust top Rutgers University administrators grew louder Thursday, a day after men's basketball coach Mike Rice was fired for mistreating players, shoving them and berating them with gay slurs.
More than 50 faculty members signed a letter calling for the dismissal of Athletic Director Tim Pernetti and an explanation from President Robert Barchi for why he didn't fire Rice last year when he learned of a video showing Rice's behavior during practices.
State Senate President Stephen Sweeney also called for Pernetti to step down or be fired. He said Pernetti deserves credit for getting Rutgers into the Big Ten conference but mishandled this situation.
"This incident will continue to hang over Rutgers like a dark cloud for weeks, months and perhaps years to come," the Democrat said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the number of faculty members calling for Barchi to step down more than doubled Thursday to 28.
The letter calling for Barchi's resignation was sent to the university's governing boards on Wednesday. In it, the faculty members cite Barchi's "inexcusable handling of coach Mike Rice's homophobic and misogynist abuse" of players, his "pattern of insensitivity and arrogance toward issues of diversity" and the "lack of transparency that he has exhibited in his relations" with faculty, staff and students.
It's unclear what effect the calls might have on the president or the athletic director. Neither was willing to be interviewed by The Associated Press. Barchi also skipped a town hall meeting he'd been scheduled to attend Thursday at Rutgers' Newark campus and declined to comment when he left his office. Members of the university's two governing boards have been mum.
Barchi, a neuroscience researcher before he became a university administrator, was hired a year ago and took office Sept. 1 to lead the university, which has 58,000 students and 13,000 faculty members on three campuses. He had been president of Thomas Jefferson University, a Philadelphia health sciences university, and before that was an administrator at the University of Pennsylvania.
He was brought to Rutgers as the university takes over two medical schools that are part of the separate University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The ongoing reconfiguration of the state's higher education system is intended to expand Rutgers' life-science research prowess, and Barchi was chosen largely to oversee that.
He had never been an administrator, though, at a school with athletic scholarships.
Over the past decade, Rutgers' athletic program has grown increasingly ambitious and expensive, largely as the university's football team transformed from an also-ran to a power in the Big East conference. The school's teams are set next year to join the more prestigious Big Ten, a move engineered largely by Pernetti, a former TV sports executive.
Shortly after Barchi took office, he told reporters that high-profile sports teams are an important way to increase the university's visibility but that he wanted to gradually reduce the university's operating subsidy for sports, currently about $8 million per year, while continuing to pay for scholarships for athletes at a cost of about $10 million annually.
Barchi said in a statement Wednesday that Pernetti told him last year about the video of Rice made by a former basketball program employee, but he said he did not watch the video until Tuesday, the day it was made public. A university spokesman declined to comment on why Barchi didn't watch the video last year.
In December, after the university consulted lawyers and commissioned an independent report on Rice's actions, Barchi said he agreed to suspend the coach for three games, fine him and order him to anger management counseling.
He said that when he saw the video, he realized that Rice needed to be removed.
The faculty members calling for Barchi to step down said in their letter that he knew enough to remove the coach months ago.
"Although President Barchi is now suggesting otherwise, he has known about Coach Rice's homophobic, misogynist and abusive behavior for several months now," the letter said.
Ron Becker, head of special collections and university archives at Rutgers, said he believes the handling of the situation needs to be reviewed.
"The value of sports and the Division I atmosphere often trumps some of the basic needs of the university," he said. "The pressure to win and succeed at athletics seems to trump (academics) around here."
The university's student government association also released a statement saying that Rice deserved to be fired. It said it intended to work with Barchi and Pernetti "to ensure that incidents like this never happen again."
While practically everyone who has spoken publicly about the case says it was right to fire Rice, two players in interviews with The Associated Press on Thursday defended the coach, saying the snippets of video were taken out of context.
"I feel if people had a chance to see the other portions of practice, or had been at practice, their judgment would not be as severe," sophomore forward Austin Johnson said. "I am not saying what he did wasn't wrong, because I do believe it was wrong. But it is also tough because it was a highlight reel of his worst moments."
Junior Wally Judge said Rice, who apologized Wednesday, has treated him well and helped him grow as a person and a basketball player.
There also was a defense of Pernetti. According to Newark's The Star-Ledger, an athletic department fundraiser emailed Rutgers boosters asking them to contact Barchi and the head of the university's board of governors to voice support of him. University spokesman Greg Trevor would not comment on whether the email was sanctioned by the author's superiors.
A Rutgers assistant coach has resigned amid the scandal. According to The Star-Ledger, the assistant, Jimmy Martelli, could be seen on the video shoving a player.
Martelli said in a statement he was "sickened that as an assistant coach I contributed in any way to an unacceptable culture," and he apologized to the players "from the bottom of my heart."
The Associated Press also obtained a letter Thursday from a lawyer for Eric Murdock, the former basketball program employee who gave the video to university officials and later ESPN. The letter to a lawyer for Rutgers, dated Dec. 27, said Murdock was fired for telling school officials about Rice's behavior and would accept $950,000 not to file a lawsuit against the school. The letter also complained that the university did not seem to investigate when Murdock first complained about Rice in July, when an interim president was in office.
Democratic state lawmakers, particularly Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, have been calling for legislative hearings on why Rice was not fired sooner, but none had been scheduled.
Keeping the coach on through the season cost the university a portion of his salary — he was paid $622,500 in 2012 — and a $100,000 bonus for coaching the final game of the year. Athletic department spokesman Jason Baum said the university is contractually obligated to pay the bonus, due this month.
Delli Santi reported from Trenton. Also contributing to this report were AP reporters Geoff Mulvihill in Haddonfield and Katie Zezima in Newark and AP Sports Writer Tom Canavan.


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About Us
College life—two simple words that encompass so much. Lipscomb's Office of Student Life is at the center of how thousands of students live, play, serve and worship each day. From residence halls and organizations to chapel and campus events, our office is at the heart of what student life means at Lipscomb.
We understand, too, that a student's life isn't always easy. There can be a lot of pressure—academically and socially—and it can sometimes be a bit overwhelming. Students have different needs and might want some help along the way, which is why you can feel free to come to us anytime with questions, ideas or suggestions. However we can help you, our doors are always open. We're in the lower level of the Bennett Campus Center (Suite 100) or you can reach us at 615.966.6057.
Our Mission
The mission of Student Life is to provide exceptional, Christ-centered education outside the classroom that equips students to discover their created purpose and embrace their place in the Kingdom.
Our Vision
"Nurture the soul of the University"
"They recognized them as companions of Jesus" (Acts 4:13)
"They were highly regarded by the people" (Acts 5:13)
"The aroma of Christ…the fragrance of life" (2 Cor. 15-16)
One of the historic hallmarks of genuine Christ followers is the often subtle but always noticeable difference in the way they live their lives.
Our vision is of a place so distinctive in atmosphere and character that by merely participating in the community experience at Lipscomb the result will be genuine transformation at the heart and soul level.
Key Values
The Seven Priorities of the Student Life Area
Faith in Jesus--we will live in relationship with God and each other under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We recognize that there will be times when our faith calls us to do some things that seem strange outside of the Kingdom.
God honoring relationships--we believe that relationships matter and that the way we treat our students and each other is a reflection of our relationship and trust in God. The quality of our relationships will set our experience apart.
God honoring excellence--Jesus calls us away from mediocrity and into the life of the second mile. Everything we do should be a reflection of our awareness that His name is associated with this institution.
Service--we will serve our students recognizing that they have paid a premium and people have made sacrifices to allow them to be here. We will join them in serving our community simply because it is the right thing to do and because we follow one who "did not come to be served but to serve and to give."
Stewardship--because we recognize the sacrifices our parents and students make to have a Lipscomb education we will do our best to use our resources well. While we will do things right we will always spend responsibly.
Education--we will embrace the educational mission of the institution and recognize our role as educators outside (and occasionally inside) the classroom. Because we understand that "you cannot lead where you have not been" we will embrace the role of lifelong learners in all that we do.
Evaluation--we understand the importance of regularly assessing how we are doing and whether or not we are living our values and having the desired level of impact. We want to make sure that the juice is always worth the squeeze.


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Bragging About Brunch
We're so happy that Toronto food blogger Deb of Ate by Ate decided to eat our brunch! Check out some of her pics of our homemade Banana Bread French Toast and great review:
Weekend brunch, held in the Gladstone Cafe, is served from 8am-4pm on Saturdays and Sundays with one of the best brunch menus I've seen yet. Their menu, in my opinion, is so fresh and creative. To me, it breathes new life into brunch as a meal.
I have never had banana bread so moist in my life. The insides were soft and so flavourful while the outsides had that beautiful French toast crust to it that prevented the butterscotch, light at air pecan cream, and fruit from sogging the banana bread up.
Thanks for the kind words Deb! We are more than happy to brag about this and our brunch.


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FLORENCE | As springtime blooms, individuals and groups are sponsoring cleanups to get rid of unwanted trash along roadways. But as crews begin cutting the sides of the county roads, they routinely find items used in methamphetamine labs.
FLORENCE | As springtime blooms, individuals and groups are sponsoring cleanups to get rid of unwanted trash along roadways.
But law enforcement agencies and county officials are warning them to be careful as they collect these unwanted items.
Lauderdale County Engineer Ken Allamel said as crews begin cutting the sides of the county roads, they routinely find items used in methamphetamine labs.
"It happens so frequently now that our guys know what to look for, and when they find them, they immediately call the sheriff's department or the drug task force," Allamel said.
Marion County Commissioner Don Barnwell said that earlier this month, while using county inmates to pick up trash along Marion Highway 106 between Hackleburg and Haleyville, they found more than 50 used meth labs.
"We use the cleanup crews to pick up the trash before the county crews come in and (mow) roadways, and I just couldn't believe people just throw these used up labs out where anyone can pick them up," Barnwell said.
"It's dangerous; you don't know what you're picking up or running over."
Hackleburg Police Chief Kenny Hallmark, a former member of the Marion County Drug Task Force, said the used labs found on roadsides are usually the one-pot or "shake-and-bake" labs. Those are made out of plastic soft drink bottles or water bottles.
"They put everything into the bottle, shake it and then let it work," Hallmark said. "After the cook is finished, they get the meth and throw everything away."
Lauderdale County Drug Task Force Director Tim Glover said officers have found used syringes, batteries, lye containers, lithium strips and other items used in the manufacturing process.
"Most of the stuff they need can be brought at a dollar store, so when they get through, they just wrap everything together in a plastic bag and throw it out the window," Glover said.
Earlier this year, Glover said agents found 20 labs in two days.
Capt. Adam Brewer, of the Lawrence County (Tenn.) Sheriff's Department, said many used labs deputies have found have residue of meth or residue of the fumes inside the bottles.
"And either one can be dangerous," Brewer said.
Colbert County drug agents found 15 of the one-pot labs in early February on Osborn Hill Road in Littleville. Task force Director Curtis Burns said some of the bottles were still "spewing chemicals."
"Anyone could have walked up and picked them up and been exposed to the chemicals spewing out of the bottles," Burns said.
Glover said as a rule of thumb, people should be cautious with plastic bags filled with plastic bottles and other items.
"Leave it alone and call law enforcement. It's likely it will contain a used lab," he said.
Hallmark said it's good to see communities, civic groups and individuals getting involved in cleaning up the area and keeping litter off the roadsides.
"But it can be dangerous, and they need to know to be careful and watch what they pick up," Hallmark said.


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Tough times for Cubs' Castro and Rizzo
It's no secret that things haven't been going swimmingly for Cubs young players Starlin Castro and Anthony Rizzo.
The two entered Tuesday night's 4-2 loss to the Washington Nationals a combined 3-for-43 on the current homestand. Neither lit up the joint Tuesday, as each went 0-for-4.
Castro, who was yanked from a game Saturday for inattentiveness, came to Wrigley Field on Tuesday and found himself batting eighth for the first time this year.
Manager Dale Sveum said eighth was the best fit for Castro at this point, with third baseman Donnie Murphy and right fielder Nate Schierholtz coming off 2-homer games each Monday night.
Sveum also said he likes the way second baseman Darwin Barney and catcher Welington Castillo were swinging the bats.
The term "regressed" has been used a lot concerning Castro and Rizzo. In the parlance of team president Theo Epstein, "progress isn't always going to be linear."
So the way the Cubs are looking at it -- for now at least -- Castro and Rizzo have taken detours and not necessarily steps backward.
"Yeah, that's probably a good way to put it, which happens to most of these guys," Sveum said. "When it happens, you don't know. But like I said, even Castro, they're all going to look back and want to throw one year out of their career.
"Unfortunately, it will probably be this one. You don't want any more of them. That's the nature of the business. Unfortunately, it's a very humbling game."
Castro was contrite about his miscue over the weekend, and although he wasn't thrilled about batting eighth, he accepted it.
Rizzo, who did not play Monday because he was ill, said he's not yet ready to evaluate his year.
"It's honestly something I don't really look at until the end of year," he said. "I'm just going to keep grinding and keep trying to get better and just keep trying to be a good teammate."
Rizzo saw his batting average fall to .228 on Tuesday. He also was 0-for-3 with runners in scoring position, dropping his average .173 in that department. Answers aren't easy to come by.
"If we knew that answer, we'd correct it every day," Sveum said. "It's just a matter of these guys are young and it's their second time around in the big leagues or their second year.
"Sometimes it takes some adjustments and confidence, too. Confidence is obviously the key factor to all of this. It guys lose their confidence, it's always going to show up on the field."
The Cubs got 52⁄3 innings from starting pitcher Chris Rusin (2-3), who gave up 10 hits and 2 runs and escaped several jams. The power again came from two unlikely sources.
Murphy hit his seventh homer in 14 games, and Brian Bogusevic hit his first of the year, one day after coming off the disabled list.
"Bogie, and the Murphy show keeps continuing with a double and a home run," Sveum said. "Hopefully that keeps continuing. We're struggling everywhere else right now."


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CANNES, France (AP) — In Mike Leigh's biopic of J.M.W. Turner, Timothy Spall brings the great British painter of stormy seas and fiery skies to life as a gruff, grunting genius.
Leigh's "Mr. Turner" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday to excellent reviews and raves for Spall, the veteran 57-year-old British actor. Though recognized by many for playing Mr. Pettigrew in the "Harry Potter" films, "Mr. Turner" is a deserved leading man turn for Spall, one that made him the star of Cannes' second day.
"What made us the perfect match, apart from anything, is he was a funny-looking, fat little man, and so am I," said Spall. "But as far as his soul was concerned, that took a lot more research."
As the 19th-century painter, Spall is single-minded in capturing the dramatic light that composed his landscape masterworks. But though his intellect and talent comes through, Spall's Turner is little like the ideal of the great artist. With his fuzzy mutton chops and lumbering stride, he's grubby, randy and curmudgeonly.
"It's about how genius is not in always the most romantic of packages," said Spall. "Most geniuses are strange."
Sony Pictures Classics will release "Mr. Turner" in North America in December, positioning it for an awards season push. Right now, it's in the hunt with 17 other films for Cannes' top award, the Palme d'Or.
Leigh won the award in 1996 for "Secrets & Lies," which co-starred Spall.
Leigh is famous for a filmmaking style that relies on improvisation-heavy rehearsals rather than a script. It's an approach that's often elicited acclaimed performances, including Sally Hawkins in "Happy-Go-Lucky," Imelda Staunton in "Vera Drake" and David Thewlis in "Naked."
The director had long desired to make a movie about Turner, and focused his meticulously researched film on the last 25 years of Turner's life. The painter died in 1851.
Leigh said he was fascinated by "this very mortal and in some ways flawed" individual who was creating such epic works.
"He sees beyond the sea and the sky," said Leigh. "He makes us see an experience that goes beyond the surface."
Two years before beginning rehearsals, Leigh urged Spall to train his painting skills in preparation for the role. For Spall, Turner was "a painter of the sublime" who instinctually saw "the beauty and the horror of nature," even if he appeared to be a humble, somewhat brutish working-class man.
More often than not in the 2 ½ hour film, Spall's Turner expresses himself with nothing more than a grunt.
"The grunting grew organically out of this incredibly instinctive, emotional, autodidactic, intellectual man who had a billion — a zillion — things to say but never said it," said Spall. "People who sneeze and can redecorate the room have a wonderful time. People do that (grunting sound) are repressing something."
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Of course, having a few electronics giants behind your proposed new standard doesn't necessarily assure its success. Sometimes it just assures that those companies' closest competitors get behind a competing technology and you get another pointless platform war. But this one doesn't seem like a good candidate for that scenario. Who would be the loser if hdBaseT were to prevail? Perennial villain of the AV world, Monster Cable. Of course, they'd soon be selling $100 gold plated, 15mm thick ethernet cables for idiots to buy, so maybe they wouldn't care so much.
The thing that I find the most interesting, and the most unbelievable is that hdBaseT would allow "a single-connector TV to receive power, video/audio, Internet and control signals from the same cable." It's the power that has me surprised. I suppose that the AC signal from the house would be converted to DC in some appliance before it was then transmitted as DC over the cat5 cable. But what this enables is, for example, a single media server or DVR to be centralized in the home, then inexpensive cable run to any monitor or television in the home. And for personal computers, it would allow a single slender cable to connect the box to the monitor. The hdBaseT documentation doesn't say anything about USB, I would imagine it would not be hard for USB to be one of thsoe "various control signals." It would be very cool if a single PC could support multiple "terminals" in a home or office, using hdBaseT. The software wouldn't be hard.
We'll be keeping an eye on hdBaseT, because it could have a big impact on both AV technology and computing.


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Ok, so I've been working on a few ideas for a newsbox even though I'm not sure how to put one up on the site, but I thought I'd see which one everyone prefers.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Dozens of shack homes have been burned to the ground in recent weeks in Mathare, Nairobi's most dangerous slum. Families are moving into zones controlled by their own clans, fearful of attacks between the tribes of Kenya's top two presidential candidates.
Kenya on Monday holds its first presidential election since the 2007 vote devolved into months of tribal violence that killed more than 1,000 people and displaced 600,000 from their homes. In a hopeful sign, this year's presidential candidates pledged at a weekend prayer rally to accept the outcome of the election and ensure violence doesn't again break out.
But the government-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday released a long list of physical attacks, hate speech and cases of ethnic intimidation Kenya has seen in recent weeks, exposing an undercurrent of tribal tension.
Those strains are on high display in Mathare, where at least seven people have died and 100 shacks burned in the last two months. Officially Mathare suffered 112 deaths during the 2007-08 election violence, though one policeman, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press, says Mathare really suffered over 370 killings.
Lewis Kamau is a Kikuyu but wears the bright orange hat of the Luo candidate, Raila Odinga. Kamau is not crossing party lines; he says the hat protects him from Luo attacks. He says he expects Luos to react negatively if Odinga loses.
"Violence will erupt because of results they don't like," he said. "I know these people. They won't accept the results."
Kamau — who backs the Kikuyu candidate, Uhuru Kenyatta — is standing 20 feet from a dirt lot scorched by fire, one of the shacks burned in Luo-on-Kikuyu attacks that began in late December and carried over into January.
"Just the other day they burned here and we didn't retaliate," he said, motioning to the charred lot. "We kept quiet. On Monday after the (election results) announcement, we will be ready for it."
Odinga or Kenyatta must win at least 50 percent of the vote in Monday's election, or the two will go to a second-round runoff, where attention will be even more focused on the two, heightening tensions further.
Many in Mathare, and across town in Nairobi's biggest slum, Kibera, say that Kenyans have learned from the 2007-08 violence, and won't repeat it. But many of those pronouncements come from people who assume their candidate will win.
"I think given the 2007 experience we will accept the results, even if, God forbid, we Luos lose. But I don't see us losing," said Daniel Omondo, an information technology specialist in Mathare.
The Kikuyu-Luo rift goes back decades, to when Odinga's father was asked by British colonialist to be Kenya's prime minister. The elder Odinga declined, saying that Jomo Kenyatta — Uhuru's father — was the rightful leader. Kenyatta eventually became president, with Odinga as his vice president. But a few years later Kenyatta forced Odinga out of the government, and the tribes' relations began a long slide downward.
In a small tin shack in Kibera where illegal, home-made whisky is served, one Odinga backer who gave his name as Christian Nyambega said the country needs its political leaders to accept the results and for the voters to remain calm. Then one of his drinking colleagues became agitated at the memory of the disputed 2007 election win of current President Mwai Kibaki, a Kikuyu.
"They're going to steal the vote the way they did for Kibaki. The Kikuyus are not the only tribe in Kenya. We have 42 tribes in Kenya," said the man, who gave his name only as Patrick, saying her feared government retribution.
Of the dozens of worrying cases of political tensions described by the human rights commission on Wednesday was one in which Kikuyu landlords in a low-income area of Nairobi ejected Luo tenants from their rental houses. It also said a member of Kenyatta's party has been linked to the use of gangs to threaten opponents. The report also documented cases of residents voluntarily moving to areas controlled by their own tribe.
One Western embassy official watching election developments closely said he expects less violence this election season than in 2007. But he said if 200 people die in violence, it might have to be considered progress compared with the more than 1,000 deaths in 2007-08.
There are other areas of concern in addition to the Luo-Kikuyu rift in Nairobi. A United Nations official who is watching election developments said that Kenya's Rift Valley has seen an influx of imported guns that didn't exist five years ago, and the Tana River area — a region that has seen serious tribal fighting over the last year — is likely to see more deaths.
The official said that violence in Mathare will be the worst in Nairobi, and that members of Amnesty International and Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission have been receiving serious threats. The official said he could not be identified because he was not authorized to share election data.
Since Kenya's last election, the country now has a new constitution, a new judicial system that is lauded as less corrupted, and the police force is being overhauled. Many residents hold out hope that those changes will help ensure that government systems — instead of massive street violence — will be used to settle election disputes.
"The violence (in 2007-08) came because of the stealing of votes. The Odinga supporters thought it was rigged, so there was an outcry. This time we have a credible judicial commission and we have seen many changes in police," said Bernard Titus, a Kibera resident.
In addition, four prominent Kenyans — including Kenyatta and his vice presidential candidate — face charges at the International Criminal Court over allegations that they orchestrated the 2007 election violence. Some Kenyans believe those charges have reduced the chances that power brokers will hire thugs — mostly young men and boys from the slums hired for $5 to $10 a day — and send them into the street.
Grace Kalibo runs a small shop selling basic food goods in Kibera. She attended Sunday's massive peace rally where Odinga and Kenyatta shook hands and pledged peace. She believes Kenya will avoid the massive violence of five years ago. So does her neighbor, Lucas Awol, a 39-year-old bar owner where poor Kibera men gather on Sunday afternoons.
"This time they won't react at all. They are tired of war," said Awol. "This time it will be peaceful. People say so."
Associated Press reporter Tom Odula contributed to this report.


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Magnesium Isotope Fractionation during Hydrothermal Alteration of the Oceanic Crust
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Mg2+ is the second most abundant cation in seawater. Analyses of high-temperature hydrothermal vent fluids indicate that Mg is quantitatively lost from seawater to the hydrothermally-altered wall rock. It is less clear how effectively Mg is removed from seawater in low- or moderate-temperature hydrothermal systems. This uncertainty arises from the difficulty of distinguishing late-stage admixture of un-reacted seawater into Mg-free hydrothermal fluids from low-temperature hydrothermal fluids that still contain some Mg. As low-temperature hydrothermal fluids dominate the fluid flux through oceanic crust, variations in the Mg isotope composition may serve as a tracer of low-temperature fluid flow if 1) Mg isotopes are fractionated during low-temperature reactions with the wall rock and 2) Mg is not quantitatively stripped from the fluids. Our proposed research includes two different, but intellectually coherent parts: 1) a Mg isotope study of hydrothermal fluids and minerals, and 2) an experimental determination of equilibrium Mg isotope fractionation between Mg-rich hydrothermal minerals (caminite and brucite) and seawater at controlled conditions in Jeff Seewald's experimental hydrothermal fluid laboratory. We will combine our excellent analytical facilities (clean laboratories and multicollector ICP-MS) with expertise in conducting hydrothermal cell experiments. The primary objective of this work is to determine whether formation of caminite and brucite under hydrothermal conditions is accompanied by measurable fractionation of Mg isotopes. If so, we will experimentally establish a quantitative relationship of Mg isotopic and elemental fractionation between seawater and Mg-rich hydrothermal minerals (caminite and brucite) at various conditions to further understand mechanisms of water-rock interaction and mechanisms of fluid transport and mixing. More generally, this study will be a prototype project for constraining Mg isotopic and elemental distribution among different hydrothermal minerals, fluids and rocks in oceanic crust.


text: Shooting: News News Posted 01-17-2014 Being A Fan Of The Fans Pat and Nicole Reeve meet fans at the outdoor Channel booth. (Mike Suchan photo) By: Mike Suchan, OutdoorChannel.com LAS VEGAS – Alas, hunting season is all but over most places, but for Outdoor Channel personalities like Pat and Nicole Reeve, the next season is just as rewarding. "Trade show season is one of my favorite times of the year," Nicole said. "It's one of the better parts of our jobs." "I like coming because I get to see all the photos of the big bucks that everybody shoots," said Pat, who likes hearing the hunting exploits of others. The "Driven" husband and wife team were among the long list of Outdoor Channel personalities greeting people and signing autographs at the network's booth at the SHOT Show. Click image to see Celebrity Shots at SHOT Having fans within the industry says a lot, and it has benefits. Pat says sometimes they get invited on hunts. Nicole said she looks forward to the inspiration she gets from meeting children who like their show. "I love meeting all the children I see at the different trade shows who come up and express their interest and love in the outdoors," she said, "and tell you you're one of the reasons that help foster their love for the outdoors." It's usually a quick encounter, and they do make a point to connect with the fans. "You only have like a minute to make a good impression," Pat said. "We're just average people meeting other average people. I feel honored that they watch our stuff and I need to give them the time of day. "It's neat to see the fans who recognize your efforts out there. Sometimes they know more about you than you do about yourselves." Terry Drury has been coming to SHOT for 25 years and also enjoys interacting with fans. A common encounter has him asking people where they are from, what they hunt and how their season went. "All the stories are good," he said. "Sometimes the stories get bigger and bigger and bigger. Sometimes we hear stories from 1970 all the way up to 2014. We want to hear what they're doing, why they enjoy the sport." Drury said many ask what it would take to get on one of their shows. "They all want to compete. They want to be on the show," he said. "How do I get on Dream Season? How do I get on Bow Madness." In the end, it's connecting within the hunting brotherhood. "We live vicariously through them. They live vicariously through us. It's a two-way street," Drury said. "It's a big deal for them to come meet us; it's even a bigger deal for us to meet them." Go to SHOT Show 2014 Share This Story Next From News Down Range Radio #465: Michael's BBQ Gun Related Hunting : Posted 01-16-2014 The Professionals Score Four View Shooting : Posted 01-16-2014 Show Stopper Revives MRA View Hunting : Posted 01-15-2014 Bone Collectors Live View Comments Categories News Stories Tips Gear Videos Photo Galleries Viewer Photo Galleries Features Concealed Carry & Personal Defense Down Range TV Short Stories by Larry Potterfield AllOutdoor.com Outdoor Blog Sponsored Content Streamlight Shooting Check Out All The Photos Explore the United States. Find information about and activities within your state. Get Started


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Effortlessly cool is not really a phrase you want to bandy about recklessly but Tim Hamilton's show had cool in spades.
Featuring everything a man could want from a wardrobe, neat tailoring teamed up with quirks like harem jogging bottoms (better than they sound!), jackets with layered panels and zip up ankle boots resulting in a collection that was by no means unadventurous but eminently wearable.
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didas said it was "incredibly sorry" after the company sent a tone-deaf email to Boston Marathon participants on Tuesday, one day after the 2017 Marathon.
The email's subject line read: "Congrats, you survived the Boston Marathon!" This comes four years after bombs exploded at the finish line at the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260.
"We are incredibly sorry," Adidas said in a statement to USA TODAY Sports. "Clearly, there was no thought given to the insensitive email subject line we sent Tuesday. We deeply apologize for our mistake. The Boston Marathon is one of the most inspirational sporting events in the world. Every year we're reminded of the hope and resiliency of the running community at this event."
What was the purpose of the email? Selling adidas apparel.
Twitter reaction to the email was swift:
.@adidas newletter for today is titled "Congrats, you survived the Boston Marathon!" Seems a little inappropriate— Nick (@nicklisterman) April 18, 2017
My friend received this email from Adidas after the Boston Marathon... I don't know how an advertising team doesn't catch this. pic.twitter.com/Fe16Z4Hnvq— Robin Dich (@RobinDich) April 18, 2017
Adidas would like to sell you some stuff now. h/t @anthonymadrigal #copywriting #rethinkthis @universalhub pic.twitter.com/v2TLXs7Bf7— Dan McCarthy (@acutalproof) April 18, 2017
Adidas sent out an email saying "congrats you 'survived' the Boston Marathon" wtf... pic.twitter.com/oLe1tgjKEF— Brandin Cooks (@FauxCooks) April 18, 2017


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Hawkeye: Way Back When
"Determination and perseverance move the world: thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail."
It is a fine Saturday morning in Hooterville! We have managed to slop the Hawgs, and pluck the chickens for the 4th of July Celebration, which of course is in celebration of the Colonies weaning themselves from the British rules and disgusting taxation. We are still fighting many wars: The American Revolution, {Tea Party} The Civil War: {Rebel Flag} Afghanistan, and soon to be Syria & Iran. The Iraqis are busy fighting their own wars within.
But let's all remember those who have laid it all on the line for the "Red, White, & Blue" throughout the years, past and present. May old glory forever continue to wave over the "Home Of The Brave", and in doing so continue as a beacon of freedom for the entire world to see! Over!
Will there ever be peace in the Halls of Congress? It certainly doesn't look like it to listen to the news.
As President Carter said in his Gettysburg address: "Let the word go forth, to friend and foe alike, to this Nation, and to future generations, that the Torch has been passed!" It is too bad that he was assassinated in the Roxy Theatre in Alabama! It has been many years fans, but that is a fairly close assessment of the situation. Humm..
President Romley has sworn to uphold the Immigration Laws and get rid of every undocumented citizen by giving them a Limo Ride back to their Homes of Origin!
It is quite possible that this could happen in Wonderland with the right Kovana. First of all, we would need to locate the Gubernatorial Limo of AP Lutali Vintage. This one was complete with a Pedi Ramp. As Hawkeye recalls, a $60.000 + wonder Vehicle which has not been seen on the streets of Hooterville since way back when. Could it be that this was a gift complete with the Motorcycle Escort Machines that happened to go towards the West during one of the past administrations? Over. We might just nevah Knows fans. Humm..
The fourth of July is one Holiday that Hawkeye is careful to respect. He thinks of the many lives that have been lost towards the defense of our freedom. This is something that every American should be aware of and respect for future generations up to and including our present Presidential Administration. The Book, {THE AMATURE} is now visiting its sixth week on the New York Times Best Sellers List which sort of makes it a Must Read. Hawkeye did! Try it, and ya just might like it! {No political Pun intended.}
There is one Gubernatorial Candidate who is going about this Campaign in a totally different manner. This is our one and only Palagi Contender who on July 4th is going from Village to Village doing a Video of himself called {"THE ROAD TO CHANGE".} There is supposedly a $500.00 prize for the Person, or group with the best non political sign. {Like why do we vote?} Hawkeye votes because it is the political thing to do on Election Day. This is the only time we have a chance to make a difference in our government by voting for the candidate of choice. This is how we expect to make a difference. Hawkeye will remind all Fans and Loyal readers that you only have a say in what happens by voting. Hawkeye is delighted to learn that the Gasoline prices will be dropping by .23 sene per gallon. {Cents} This certainly enhances the bottom line when we are pinching pennies to survive like Hawkeye is. Unfortunately, Hawkeye doesn't believe that this drop in fuel prices will be long lived. Iran is rattling its Sabers again by test firing missiles that are said to be capable of reaching offshore targets such as {"The would be State of Israel."} {And unspoken other parts of the Globe.} And our Secretary of Estete, {State} has now more or less apologized to Pakistan for eliminating terrorist of the Al-Qaida Gang and in doing so taking out a few Innocent Women & Chillren! This is partly where that age old saying: "War's Hell" came from! The scary part of all of this is that we have now been made aware by CBS News that Any Kid sitting in front of his Mammas Flat Screen TV. With a Computer Game can often take control of an un manned Drone, Take off, turn left to right, and land it! {This is not his drone to be maneuvering.} Some professor has successfully performed this operation, making it rather scary! If Hawkeye sees any un-manned Drones cruising the skies over his neighborhood, he gwinna Duck! {He will also warn Sweet Leanor.}
Whatever we do fans, let's do it safe and kleen on this holiday season. If we play our cards right, we can extend the 4th of July Holiday right in to the weekend. Depending of course if our Tupe, {Getis} {Money} {Scratch} holds out! Shop til you drop is the order of the day on July Fourth, or at least until the Money runs out!
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A cheque presentation for $7,500 was made to Swift Current United Way, Aug. 10.
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Like his late friend Johnny Cash did, 73-year-old Kris has found his late-career groove by stripping down his sound to its acoustic basics with the tasteful assistance of a big-name rock producer (Johnny had Rick Rubin; Kris has Don Was). And like the final entries in Johnny's "American Recordings" series, Closer to the Bone draws much of its power from the unflinching way it addresses the finite nature of life and the urgent need to make each moment count. The message is driven home throughout by the very presence of guitarist, mandolinist and vocalist Stephen Bruton, who passed away just after the album's completion.
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It doesn't seem that long ago that we were all in Washington D.C., coming together for the 2012 Symposium. After such a successful and inspirational event, what does the Meso Foundation plan for next?
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On September 28, 2012, on the heels of Mesothelioma Awareness Day, the Meso Foundation (with a generous educational grant from Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP) will proudly present "Malignant Mesothelioma: Knowledge Is Hope." This is a one-day conference in New York City, NY, focusing on patients, families, doctors, and anyone wanting to understand more about malignant mesothelioma. It's a jam-packed day-long agenda includes:
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MARS HILL, N.C. – Taylor Willis knocked down a match high 13 kills, and Mindy Morris had a match high 21 digs in Coker's 3-0 loss to Mars Hill in South Atlantic Conference women's volleyball action on Friday (Oct. 11) night.
The Lions defeated the Cobras 25-22, 25-21 and 25-16.
In addition to her 13 kills, Willis had five digs and a block. Amanda Harris added 10 kills and eight digs, while Celia Duggan had six kills and Loren Hill had five kills and eight digs. Samantha Celek and Kelly Stine split the setting duties, with Celek handing out 22 assists and Stine dishing out 15.
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"Hitting the Ground Running": ninth annual workshop for newly elected members of the Security Council
The Government of Finland, in cooperation with Dr. Edward C. Luck and the Security Council Affairs Division of the United Nations Secretariat, convened the ninth annual workshop for the newly elected members of the Security Council on 17 and 18 November 2011.
Each November, the workshops have served to help familiarize the newly elected members with the practice, procedure, and working methods of the Security Council so that they are in a position to "hit the ground running" when they join the Council the following January. The series has also provided current members of the Council with an opportunity to reflect on their work in an informal setting.
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BERLIN (AP) — German authorities are posting online another 101 works from the huge trove of art found at a reclusive collector's apartment in Munich, bringing the total so far to 219.
The task force looking into the find said Thursday that prosecutors in Augsburg have cleared drawings and watercolors by artists including Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Eugene Delacroix, Honore Daumier and Albrecht Duerer for posting on the official "Lost Art" website. They're among the works officials believe may have been seized under the Nazis.
Authorities found more than 1,400 works of art at Cornelius Gurlitt's Munich apartment last year while investigating a tax case. Prosecutors are checking whether up to 590 pieces were seized by the Nazis.
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State Police To Escort Large Oilfield Equipment Tuesday May 7th- Traffic Delays Expected
Here's a heads-up on traffic for today. State Police will be escorting two large pieces of oilfield equipment. They escorting process has started.
Police will begin their escort going from I-49 southbound frontage road near Highway 182, then Highway 182 to Highway 723 (Renaud Drive), from Highway 723 to Ambassador Caffery and then it will be at the intersection of Ambassador Caffery Parkway and I-10. The escort will travel down Ambassador Caffery to Johnston Street and then travel south on Johnston Street to West Broussard Road.
Lafayette Police says the escort will be moving at slow speeds and intersections will be shutdown as the equipment maneuvers past them. Drivers should expect delays as the move is expected to take several hours.